The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 23, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRIE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8861. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1941, MEMBER ASSOCIATED ' TEN CEN AZIS BREAK MOSCOW DEFENSE ATTEMPTS TO KILL AMERICAN, SHANGHAI GRENADE IS | THROWN AT J.B. POWELL Editor of China Weekly Re- view Is Near Victim of | Assassin Tonight BULLETIN — Shanghai, Oct. i 3.—J. B. Powell, American, | tor of the China Weekly Re- view and consistent critic of | Japan's program in China, nar- rowly escaped injury or even death tonight. | A hand grenade was thrown | by an unidentified assailant. | The grenade hit Powell on | the shoulder but failed to ex- | plode. Powell was walking from his oifice to the American Club in the International Settlement followed by his Chinese body- guard, when the attempt on his life was made. ., 27 JUNEAU MENREPORT FOR DRAFT Archie York and Gunnar Blomgren Appoinfed | to Lead Group In brief but colorful ceremonies at Territorial Selective Service Head- quarters this morning 25 young Juneau men answered the flrst‘ draft call issued to Alaskans. | Similarly, throughout the Ter- ritory local draft boards assembled their quotas. At -some places, such as Sitka and Unalaska, draftees underwent final physical examina- tions and were sworn into the Army, but the induction station for Jun- eau, Petersburg, Wrangell and sev- eral smaller communities is Chil- koot Barracks, so the local draftees will be taken by ship to the induc- | tion post next week. Meanwhile,| they are under orders to report to| the Selective Service every day,, their first meeting to be at 2 o'clock | tomorrow afternoon. The total of Juneau men answer- ing the call jumped to 27 late this| morning when another rugged but| sleepier individual woke up and remembered he, too, had an ap-| pointment with Uncle Sam. He| embarrassedly explained to local| Versity of California’s Vice-Presi- 1o Viadivostok. draft board officials that he had, overslept. Another arrived by small boat and reported. Procedure Explained ‘Territorial Service Director John| McCormick explained the proced- ure to follow after the group re- ported, called the roll and appointed a “group leader” and an assistant leader to take charge of the men.' During their stay in Juneau, the draftees will be subject to the orders: of the two nppointees,‘ Archie Wayne York, whose Order| Number 16 made him the first to' answer the call, and Gunnar Allen Blomgren. | Living expenses incurred by the group will be defrayed by the Fed-s erzl Government until induction, McCormick announced. Any dl'a[t-i ees rejected at Chilkoot Barracks! will be returned to Juneau at the| government’s expense, | Many Called—Few Chosen | Many were called but few were| chosen, a glance at the order num- kers of Juneau’s first draft quom[ The first reveals. fifteen men| the first to be accepted. From there on, the local board ranged! ik ~ BLOW FRACTURES JAW In making a scene in a film at Hollywood, Barbara Stanwyck (left), miscalculated and landed a hard right to the chin of her film op- cnent, Kathleen Howard. Miss Stanwyck into hysterics. Miss Howard went to the hospital and Dr. Geoffrey Grace, studio physician, reported Miss Howard, former magazine editor, suffered a fractured jaw. RREEPRESS HELD VITAL 10 LIBERT On a ringing note—‘“destroy free- dom of the press and you destroy all freedom” — sounded by Dr. Mcnroe E. Deutsch (above), Uni- dent and Provost, at a San Fran- cisco Advertising Club Iuncheon, | National Newspaper Week ended. Dr. 'Deutsch said that freedom of the press, guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, enables the other rights set forth in the bill to flourish, including such rights as freedom of religion, of free speech and as- sembly. “These freedoms form the several threads making of the glorious garment of liberty in which our nation is clad.” 'BOSTON PORT TO BE CENTER OF RUSS AID American Afi?o Soviets to Move Across Atlantic Ocean at Once WASHINGTON, Oct. 23—Boston will become the shipping point for American aid to Russia supplies effective Tuesday, according to a Maritime Commission order des- ignating the New England port as the focus of such activities. The announcement of Boston’s selection was taken as an indica- U-BOATS IN ACTION, SAYS NAZIREPORT BERLIN, Oct. 23.—The German classified were rejected for reasons Command announces tonight that ranging from physical disability to, U-boats have sunk four merchant dependents, making York, No. 16, Ships, totalling 32,000 tons, including the 14,000-ton troop ship Aurana. The Command deelares the ships were sunk out of a well defined convoy on the Atlantic. tion that most of the shipments of }mdustrial and military material will move over the North Atlantic, | probably to the White Sea port of | Archangel. | In the past, some shipments have been sent to Vladivostok, thence :to Russia on the Trans-Siberian |railroad. It was understood that the Boston designation will not \apply to oil shipments, which pre- \viously have been taken by Ameri- can tankers from West Coast ports ICKES HAS - PLENTYOF 6AS, OIL Pefroleum Administrafor Says Danger of Short- age Now Passed WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Secre- tary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes today said the prospect of a severe petroleum shortage in the east, dbout which he has often warned in recent weeks, is now virtually erased. The supply of gasoline was at- tributed by Ickes to the program of his Petroleum Coordinator’s of- fice, coupled with the continued widespread warm weather which has held down consumption of +heating oils, JAPANHINT | FOR PEACE 1S OFFERED Nipponese Blusfer - Now‘j | Pointing fo Japanas | ‘ "Pacifier” ‘ U.S. ISACCUSED OF SEEKING NEW BASES Landing of American Arm- | amenfs in Siberials | | Given Hit {‘ TOKYO, Oct, 23. — The Japan Times-Advertiser, controlled by the! Foreign- Office, loosed a trial bal- loon for peace today by offering|, the anti-Axis powers “a last| chance” to use Japan as mediator in the European war. i As Germany's AXxis partner fn the Par East, Japan holds “para-| {mount status as a pacifier,” the {newspaper. said; but warned that {Japan will ‘fiét hestitate to fight | | the United States to safeguard her | interests, “awful though even the thought of such a holocaust might be.” The Times-Advertiser declared in | an editorial: “It is the last chance | to use the only vehicle for explor: tion of the ways to world har- i mony. Japan is the balancing power whose decision could plunge the only pacific ocean into a chaos not of Japan’s own making.” | | Other Japanese newspapers bit- terly accused the United States of seeking Siberian bases to use against Japan and warned, “Siberia belongs to the Axis,” in other words, within Japan's ‘“co-prosper- ity sphere.” | The newspaper Hochi asserted | the United States is pushing her | military bases toward Japan step; by step and asserted that Ameri-| can war supplies which have been unloaded at Vladivostok could not possibly be transported to Russia’s armies on the European front. Suggesis US. Join Allies fo Form Peace ] | i ] WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Mem- i bers of the Senate Foreign Relations | Committee reported that John Cud- |ahy, former Ambassador to Belgium |from the United States, suggested iLhm the United States join with i Great Britain and France in work- (ing out a peace agreement with Ger- | many. ! | Cudahy himself, after testifying before a closed committee meeting \for opposition to the Administra- | tion's legislation authorizing arming {of American merchant ships, told i reporters he believed that Germany | wants “some central control of Eur- "ope.” | Under any peace arrangement, he added, his belief is that Hitler has | “no ambitions to the West.” { PN P S SNOW FALLS - ON SOLDIERS | | Heavy winter clothing was handed out to the troops at Chilkoot Bar- racks none too soon, according to weather reports today. | The middle of the morning, re- ports showed that snow is falling around the upper Lynn Canal dis- ll.rict, especially at Haines. | | | ey o s Nazis to Hurl These at Allied Shipping S B S0t . .4 _=1I. I. N. Radiophotos Berlin releases these pictures of a new Heinkel 115 torpedo plane which carries torpedoes similar to those carried by U-boats. The torpedoes, when launched, strike under the waterline of the ships. The pictures show a ground crew loading one of the two torpedoes into the bay of the plane and the plane Air Raid FBiShow WouldScare Man Even from Mars By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 It bombs ever fall on the United States, our police won’t be caught short n knowledze of the best methods of meeting such emer- gencies. Over at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover's boys have set up an exhibition straight from England, showing all of the equipment used by police during black-outs and air raids. There are a couple of Oscars (ghoulish dummies used by the FBI in demonstrating murder in- vestigations) togged out in cos- tumes that would make Men from Mars look like & bunch of sissies. In snouted gas masks, rubber suits and boots, steel helmets, walkie-talkie radios strapped to their backs, and ‘“blackout lights,” which look like cowbells at their belts, these two fellows are enough to finish off a good night- mare even if never a bomb was dropped. To anyone who ever has battled the traffic of American cities, probably even more impressive will be the display of street lights, traffic lights, and auto headlamps. with bumpers painted white, strips of whife paint around fenders,and a single headlight that shows three slits of down-cast light, the sample of an authorized car for black-out driving eam be dimly seen at 20|yning that had to do with police| paces. pa The street lamps, “20 feet above "Osars”in ~ WARDEPT. | bies to protect the public during in flight. T0 TRIPLE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON, Oct. 23— Secretary of War Stimson to- day anncunced War Depart- ment preparations to expand Army air forces to 400,000 fly- ing cadets and enlisted men by next June 30, nearly tripling the the kerb,” toss out the illumination of .02 of power—about the same as a lishied | cigarette held a of awsy from | the object you wish to see | The traffic lights are the cus- tomary green-yellow-red, but thPl |light is emitted from little four-| Present strength. Stimson said “subsequent ex- pansion to possibly the half million level will be possible beyond that date.” The present organization of the air force is based on 54 combat groups, whereas the en- larged program calls for 84 such groups, each composed of sev- eral squadrons. Congress was told that the original program provided a ferce of 25,000 planes but Stim- sen declined to state how miany cf these are in service or how many are contemplated under the new program. inch crosses, with bars an eighth of an inch wide, There’s a lot more to the ex-| hibition —bomb shelters, various | methods of combatting incendia:y bombs, air raid sirens, first aid in air raids, and a dozen other hor- rendous things that any good po-| lice force in a bembed city would have to know. The exhibition is semi-public—| that is, available to visitors to the Justice Department Building,| when it is not being used to in- struet ‘“re-training courses” in the FBI's national police school,| where 400 men from police de-] partments all over the country are getting concentrated instruction in methods employed by London bob-| e e air raids, | NEW YORK, Oct. 23. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine 0 There is one story in connect‘mn“ ;:n’fk mAnmy x::n,z fiwf ,megec::le:e‘x: with the exhibition that never has| steel ' 62%, Commonwealth and been told. Early last winter, Hoo- Southern 5/16, Curtiss Wright 8%, ver sent two of his ablest assis-|Infernational Harvester 50%, Ken- tants to London at the height nrlnecon 33%, New York Central 11, the air-raid season. Northern Pacific 6%, United States He told them to take their time, Steel 53, Pound $4.03%. to make a thorough study of every~} DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 120.47; rails, 28 60; utilities, 17.40. n Page Five) RED ARMY NOW HARD ~ PRESSED 1 Soviet Forcéfieing Forced | Back by German Spear | heads in Lines ' BRITISH CLAMOR T0 GIVE RUSS MORE AID Parachufe Troops Taken | Into Battle-Tanks Are | landed from Planes BULLETIN—Berlin, Oct. 23. —German spearheads are to- night about 35 niles from Moscew and almost to the su- | burbs, the German spokesman anncunces, It is claimed the | city's westerm and south- | western defenses are under ai- tack and <rumbling on a broad | front although ne -definite | word of an cncirclement is ex- | pressed. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Great Britain’'s Parliament re- | sounded today with demands upon | Prime Minister Winston Churchill | that attacks be made on Italy and !also for night landings on the con- | tinent by raiding parties and dis- patch of British Imperial troops to bolster Russia's battered armies, especially in the Ukralne. “The people of this country are |ready to fight and take grave risks and the Russian Army wants to fight,” declared Laborite Noel | Baker at the opening of the oppo- !sition’s full dress debate on the conduct of the war. Simultaneously, Minister of Sup- ply Lord Beaverbrook told the House of Lords that the United | States and Russian missions to ' Russia promised Josef Stalin L0 make up Russias losses of tanks and planes. | Russians Pressed Back | Amid this clamor for definite | British action to help the Russian troops, the Soviet forces defend- !ing Moscow were reported being steadily pressed back upon Mos- cow. | Hitler's command asserts tha Nazi columns have smashed through om—l-n:ed«og Pqe_ ght) COMMAND -~ OF SOVIETS ~ SHAKENUP ! il |General Zhukov, Chief of Staff, Replaces Mar- shal Timoshenko | (BY ASSOCI D PRESS) | Just as the Nazi claim was ! being broadcast of a double break through the Moscow defense lines, came the announcement today from the battle arca that a shake- up in the Supreme Soviet Com- mand has taken place on the Cen- tral front. Gen. Zhukov, Chief of Staff, re- places veteran Marshal® Timoshen- ko. Under the new sel-up, Zhukov takes command of entire wesicin zone. Gen. Zhukov is cited a3 a “fight- ing experienced leader” and a sol- dier of immeuse energy. | Marshal Timoshenko is reported |to have been transferred to another lxrt:s: of command. Gen. the