The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 22, 1941, Page 1

» , ] : p " FORCES ARE - Reinforcements Dispatch- VOL. LVIL, NO. 8860. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRI “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1941. ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HITLER'S OFFENSIVE BOGS DOWN INVASION BY BRITISH FEARED BY ITALY 3 BEINGSENT, COASTLINE | | | i ed fo Many Localitics | ~Precaution Taken BULLETIN—ROME, Oct. 22. — According to an official statement issued tonight, Ital- ian reinforcements are being sent to Italy’s coastline to guard against a possible Brit- ish invasion and are not to be sent to Russia as reports are | current, The double attack on Naples by British bembers, is given as the reason for the coastline defense as an invasion may be contemplated. Authoritative sources also deny emphatically and vigor- ously that Germany has de- | manded Italy raise huge new Italian contingents for the Russian front. It is also officially stated | that the Textile Products Guild is considering rationing of clothing for the “growing needs of the armed forces.” i —_————— ¥ August was the thirty-third con- secutive months in which retail sales exceeded the corresponding month of the previous year, the Decpartment of Commerce says. } — e - “hle N i oW | WASHINGTON — The crumbling Russian front has caused some very cogent questions to be asked in high places regarding the efficiency of both the United States and the} British. ) Uppermost question is transporta- | tion, without which supplies cannoe' reach Russia. Most desperate area in which Rus- sia needs supplies is in the south. There the Hitler drive has progress- | ed disastrously near the oil fields of the Caucasus. However, the only route to the Caucasus is via the Gulf of Persia to the port of Basra, thence by a shaky railroad through Iran to South Russia. This railroad is in such bad shape that almost no sup- plies of any consequence can be transported. To bolster it, American railway experts are being sent to Basra. However, the stark tragedy—com- pletely unexplained — is why the British did not begin long ago to whip this road into shape. ; The Russian war has been in prog- ress for three months. The British knew even last June that this route would be all-important. Two or three thousand men could have revamped the rairoad in quick time. But nothing was done. Meanwhile the French and Ger- mans have been working feverishly to build a railroad from Casablanca, in Morocco, to Dakar, the Prench naval base opposite Brazil, And in about the same length of time, they have almost finished it. But in Iran the British did nothing, 300 U. S. LOCOMOTIVES H Meanwhile, also, the Nazis fever- ishy have been relaying one rail on all the Russian railroads. This is| because the Russians built their' tracks the widest in the world to prevent an invading nation from Chichagof Island mines are in|schedule of activities. using their railroads. However, Hitler has had labor gangs relaying the rail line so rapidly that today nar- (Continued on Page Four) PINCH ON L.limen Arrows represent approximate areas of reported German semi-circle about Moscow. The Russians acknowledged a German drive on the ap- London reported German forces had rolled half way from Vyazma toward the capital. Berlin claimed Tula had proaches of Kalinin. fallen. MOSCOW 44 SURVIVORS OF TORPEDOED SHIP RESCUED Lehigh Creflnmbered 39 —Others Stowed Away PRESIDENT CALLS SINKING PIRACY Wounded - Landed at Bathurst, Freetown WASHINGTON. Oct. 22, — The United States Maritime Commis- sion said today it has been advised of the rescue of all 39 American: from the torpedoed American freighter Lehigh. Twenty-two men from the craft were landed at Bethurst by the Brit- ish ship Vimy and 22 others at Freetown. Since the crew included only 39, officers expressed the belief that the others were stowaways. | The news gave a measure of relief to Washington, although it was still perturbed over the loss of two more American-owned ships to Atlantic raiders. The sea war toll of American shipping now stands at 10. President Roosevelt made plain that he considered the Lehigh's Truck Loads of Freight & Blocked at Big Delfaas Slush Ice Runs, Tanana BRITISHHIT 50 HOSTAGES - EXECUTED BY NAZI TROOPS Another 50 Die Tomorrow If Assassins Are sinking a particularly flagrant act of piracy. None of the Lehigh's survivors at Bathurst were injured, according to the Maritime Commission’s informa- tion, while two of those landed at Freetown were wounded. | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 22.-—; . REI(H lAND | Twelve trucks with freight from | Valdez for Fairbanks via Richard-! ovER NIGHI !son Highway are blocked at Big Delta where the road crosses the {German Bombers Refal-| iate-Reported English Section Is Raided 300-foot wide Tanana River. Government and private ferries ceased operations recently when | slush ice started running. Trucks now waiting at Big Del- ta roadhouse hope to get across, soon with aid of power _boat and | barge owned by the truckers. The Fairbanks Chamber of | Commerce last week adopted a t By Associated Press) resolution recommending building | ( & of a Government road ac the | British bombers blasted heavily | during the night at the big north- Uncaptured Tanana for military and other pur- | | west Germany port of Bremen and | |~ VICHY, Unoccupied France, Oct. 22—Marshal Petain announced to: the French nation today that 50 of its citizens were shot this morning by German authorities in retalia- | tion for the assassination of Ger- man officers. I Petain’s broadcast followed news | jof the second German officer as- | sassinated within 48 hours. He met | death yesterday at Bordeaux. Admiral Darlin, Vice-Premier, fol- | lowed Petain on the radio in a series of emotional appeals to the popu- | |lace by France’s highest author- | "jties. Both the Marshal and the | Admiral accused “foreign powers” | of having caused the recent series | of assassinations. ! | No details of how the first host- poses the year round. ' st Thirty trucks are reported s““vxarll?ixlx};es :’:nu:o::t 'i:::;:::falw;:g operating out of Valdez carrying | town on the northeast coast of | supplies for new airfields south|pnglando was hit hard in turn by | of the crossing from Valdez. German raiders. Government tractors are said tc| The bombed English town, prob- be plowing through the snow to ably Newcastle, was battered over-‘ keep Thompson Pass open. night by stronger bomber forma- | e tions, the Germans declared. The | DUKE, DU(HESS mayor, vice-chairman of the local An air view of ruined buildings in Kiev is shown her: aceciding to Berlin sources. Germans annouhced capture of Kiev, Russia’s third largest city, September 19. Picture radiced from Berlin to New York. ;. Held in Kiss Shootmg | | i | | | Shown being quizzed by investigator William Foley in the Brooklyn | district nt!o%nZy's office, Mary Clinton, 24, was held in the shooting of Gus Sealetta, 27. Police charge Mary, replaced in Scaletta’s affections, | gave him a farewell kiss then shot him, inflicting two serious wounds. ! Millicn, Eight Hundred Thousand Men Still Geal ForU.S. Army;!)i;missals‘ WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. — An-:um,dsmp cast swering the mai' orders: | released by Christmas will be re- P. L. R, Savannah, Ga.—MY pjaced by inductions from information is that, in spite of | draft lists. who are to be defense committee and other promi- | nent townspeople were feared to be ARE G'VEN BIG {among the casualties. | WElcoME I" N.v. bomb which smashed a prominent | said to be a former chairman of the NEW YORK, Oct. 22.— Ticker|British Press Association. talk to the contrary, there is nm; Q. D., Duluth, Minn.—The office plan now to reduce the size of| ¢ export control is headed by the Army. In fact, 1,800,000 men is \fjlo Perkins, formerly director still the goal. The Army today!or the agriculture department’s club uilding. One of the victims was has 200,000 fewer men than thal.|qrplus ‘marketing division. He is, | The 200,000 or more over-age sol-|,¢ course, under Vice President diers, those with dependents, and Henry A, Wallace. The export | The officials were trapped and| believed to have been killed by a | tape and torn paper were showered on the Duke and Duchess of Wind- {of the Nazi field gendarerie at ages were shot were announced. }sor today, a scene reminiscent of At Nantes, another fifty are sched- ' the welcomes given famous visi~ uled to die if the two assassins who 'tors by the city in decades ago shot Lieut. Col. Paul Holtz, chief and today's welcome was the same ‘kmd of a greeting the Duke was Nantes, are not captured by mid-!given when he visited New York night tomorrow. in 1919 as Prince of Wales. ——— | MINE MEN HERE when the Royal visitors rode from lower Manhattan in a whirlwind Two mining officials from two|attempt to carry out a crowded The demonstration was started| Rush of Miners, From Inferior Starfed Juneau on business today. They _are J{wk Littlepage, superintendent of the Chicagof Mine, ad Paul Sor- ensen, manager of the Hirst-Chi- chagof Mine, at Kimshan Cove. J FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 22— The big annual rush of Interior Alaska miners and others soutn-| ward is now in full swing. Two hundred and seventy pe e The Weather Bureau, Depnt-' ment of Commerce, is mow mak- ing four complete major weather broadcasts daily, s control office, by the way, is con- |sidered a keystone in our good I ' neighbor policy and the recent! ichanges which put No. 1 Good Neighbor Wallace in charge, with Perkins as his first lieutenant, are for some real action in trading with South America. Mrs. L. R., Helly, Colo.—It is believed here that the expanded . social security recommendations sons left here during the last two win involve the government’s tak- days by train for Seward enroute jng gver all state unemployment to Scattle py steamer. compensation systems and incor- All planes are also booked tfo : i on Page Eight) FORCESOF NAIIS ARE KILLED OFF {Every Meier of Ground on | Moscow Front Reported i Covered with Dead ICY GALE SWEEEPIKG | OVER RUSSIAN STEPPES \Germaii Assault Appears fo Have Halted When Offensive at Peak (By Associated Press) Soviet dispatches this morning |pictured Hitler's invasion armies as ;xuflerlng enormous losses on the Moscow front and “literally every meter of the ground is covered by bodies of Fascist soldiers and of- | ficers” as the Germans drove toward —wu~ the Russian capital from the Moz~ . ; haisk sector, 57 miles away. Proclamation | Military reports reaching London Tees offensive Is Issued (said the German has been bogged down by the icy gale. Roads ’ are impassable on immediate ap- By Preflden' proaches to Moscow. Hitler Strength Reached | High ranking neutral military WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 — |Aauthorities In London said reliable President Roosevelt today pro- |information from Russia indicated claimed the period between ;Lhe German assault on Moscow and Armistice Day, November 11 |in the south has been definitely and November 16 as a time for |halted and the peak of the Nazi of- the American people to think ’(enslve invasion has passed. abcut their duties and respon- | This same source said: “Undoubt- cibilities for “defense of this |°dly Hitler has ordered a carrying country” and become better ac- | ©Out of new attacks but he will not quainted and informed for the |DP¢ able to again muster anything civilian defense program. s i IDED The fiercest action is centering jaround the Mozhaisk Pass, where it BY BRITISH ‘15 sald the Germans have hurled | 'like the strength he has used during tanks, motorized infantry and avia- | developing into hand-to-hand fight- L | Other London advices, however, | said the Germans are concentrating great new forces ut Smolensk for an | all-out frontal attack on Moscow. | Josef Stalin remains in the Krem- |lin to direct the Red citadel’s de- ’fenxea. ‘ Fierce Action |the past two weeks.” tion assaults which are sald to be {ing. | 'The Tass news agency sald Mar- |shal Timoshenko’s Red troops have ifallen back to new lines but from where the Germans were able to concentrate in numérically superior- {ity. The depth of the withdrawal is | not disclosed. The first snow has fallen in the Mozhaisk sector and a bitter wind is howling over the steppes, piling | high snow drifts on roads and in the Wave Affer Wave Sweeps Over Industrial Center for Five Hours ROME, Oct. 22.—British bombers, attacking Naples in wave after wave for five hours, caused huge damage last. night. The attack was the heaviest as- the ;sault on Italy’s big west coastal {maritime and industrial section of | ;tlle present war. | The Italian High Command, in an | official statement, said bombs were |dropped by the hundreds and killed |14 and injured 27 in the second raid | lon the city in less than one week. | In the first raid, last Thursday | night, 12 persons were killed and | | injured. Property damage was large. Heintzlemanfo Leave Seattle B. F. Heintzleman, regional for- ester of the Forest Service here, | was planning to leave Seattle, Ju-| the Denali today. Planning to fly nofth since last| |Sunday and blocked by bad flying | weather, Heintzleman wired the forests. Hitler Silent Hitler's field headguarters were (Continued on Page Eight) 5,000 NAZIS ARE KiLLED, SMALL AREA Invaders, Defenders Lock- ed in Heavy Fighting, Orel-Myensk Road believed to have cleared the Way | neau-bound, either by plane or cm{ MOSCOW, Oct. 22—The Germans have lost more than 5,000 men in a narrow sector under a tank attack led by the Reds south of Moscow. Presumably the slaughter took place in the Malaoyaroslavets sector | Forest Service here this morning !that if no planes flew morth today | he would leave the Puget Sound | metropolis by steamer. | Heintzleman has been at Pacific | Coast cities on business since a month ago. | | where the Nazi spearheads are re- ported 50 miles west. The Kremlin also reports a re- newed attack by Germans has been made in an effort to advance east from Orel and heavy fighting is rag- ing along the Orel-Mtensk highway.