The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 24, 1941, Page 1

[ 4 : 4 1 ] THE DAILY ALASKA _ VOL. LVIL, NO. 8862. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1941. MLMB@R_IPRESS WERNECKE MISSING IN PLA NE WAR WITH JAPAN IS INEVITABLE, KNOX BREAK IN | 24 HOURS POSSIBLE Secrefary EfflNavy Says Japan Won't Halt Expansion JAP COURSE WL | BRING "COLLISION" War Tidings Prompted by Discussion of Rus- | sian Aid WASHINGTON, Qct. 24—Secre- tary of the Navy Col. Frank Knox today declared a “collision” in the Far East is virtually inevitable and could occur on 24 hours notice. Knox told a group of Naval mu- pition manufacturers that “the sit- uation in the Far East is extremel; strained. We are satisfied in our| own minds that the Japanese have| no intention of giving up their plans of expansion and if they pursue| that course, a collision there is inevitable and can occur on 24 hours notice.” This description of the condition involving the United States and n, coming from a eabinet nem- after a week of efforts by ber Washington to find a formula for settlement of the trouble, was prompted by a discussion today of ways by which munitions can be ~_ delivered ships. Knox said he “just hurried away from a conference,” but did not say with whem the conference was held. ‘The conference stressed British and Russian needs for war materials as matters of great urgency, he added. —_————————— ORIENTAL WARISUP | T0 AMERICA Japanese News Agency Quofes Observers” | on Present Sifuation TOKYO, Oct. 24—Domei, Japan- ese news agency, quotes “observers” today as saying the success of ne- potiations between Japan and'the| United States “now entirely de-| pends on the sincere attitude of| the United States” and Japan doubts the sincerity of the United States. In a radio broadeast, Domei quo- ted its sources as saying the situa- tion is now worse as the result of economic pressure inculding the! freezing of Japanese assets and !he1 United States must realize there| is a limit to concessions Japan cah| make.” Domei also says that the United States should accept Premier Tojo’s | policy of ending the war in China| and establishing a “prosperity| sphere in East Asia.” { Domei declares: “These two im- portant factors, if accepted by the | United States, will sweep away the| dark clouds now hovering over! American-Japanese relations,” FORMER RESIDENT OF JUNEAU IS DEAD Mrs. Alice M. Loomis, former well | known and well liked resident of | Juneau and Douglas, passed away in| the home of her daughter, Mrs.| Almira Bower, in Anacortes, Wash- | to Russia by American i | | | { i | ington, on October 16, it was learned ‘\ been identified as’ Karsten Wang from reliable sources here today. Singing Way to Fame Phyllis Wilcox, 18, Indiana University co-ed and first student winner to sing to a national audience in a contest for $1,000 cash and a $4,000 endowment fund, is greeted by Mayor LaGuardia of New York at LaGuardia Airport. She sang on the “Hour of Charm” program, the rst of ten girls from ten colleges, competing for the awards and the title of the country’s most popular student singer. One of ‘Original Americans' First Alaskan Seledee fo Be Inducied, Chilkoof Barracks CHILKOOT BARRACKS, Alaska, ,Oct. 24.—One of the “original Am- ericans” was the first Alaskan se- lectee to report to & post in the Ruby Keeler to Wed i Territory as Archie Klaney, 23- year-old native Thlinget from Klukwan was inducted into the i Federal service at noon yesterday. living fishing in the Chilkat River IHe was born in Haines and wen! through the eighth grade of the | school. He joined the CCC. Klaney never married. © Selectees are arriving from Haines and Skagway and arrange- ments are being made to start raining Alaskans for defense of Alaska. Amendment To Organic Ad Is Passed House Sendfil fo Change { Ruby Keeler /The swarthy Indian had made a, FQUAL WORLD WAR TOTALS Four-MonIhilaosses Great | asKaiser's 1914-18 | Casualjies GERMANS STILL 60 - MILES FROM MOSCOW Populace Warned to Be: Prepared for Street Battles (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Russia declared officially today that several hundred thousand Ger- mans already have been killed in| the drive on Moscow, declaring that | in the four-month-old war the | Nazis have lost as many men as |the total casualties suffered by the Kaiser’s armies in the four years| lof the World War. | According to United - States State | | Department figures, the Germans . have lost 1,773,000 killed, and 4,- 1216,000 wounded. The World War | German losses totaled nearly G6,- 000,000. { | German Comeback | | DNB, German news _ agency, | quickly followed the Russian | charges with the reported destruc- tion of more than 260 Soviet divis- ions, approximately 3,900,000 to 4,- 680,000, in the bloody campaign, up to September 1 The Soviet newspaper Pravdare- ported a new German thrust south !of Leningrad has been thrown back end at least 2,500 men killed or wounded. Villages Retaken Red army troops have retaken |the villages of Velya and Kholmy, | i the newspaper said. Russian front line dispatches said | | the Germans also were repulsed in | assdults west and south of Moscow but acknowledged a new German | penetration in the zone of the Donets River where a battle s, raging. i | “They will not take Moscow!" !said the official Soviet spokesman, | | Mischa Lozovsky, but nevertheless | Only a test, but the picture is a beauty. It The navy marksmen scored hits on a buoy-like target no larger than a lamp post The torpedoes are equipped with dummy warheads and filled with air to prevent torpedo practice. during the tests. 166-mm. gun for test firing into a billside. As the projectile roars through the tunnel, it breaks elepu-icd wires strung at intervals and automatically records its velocity. | | Stalin delegated two of his key ~— PRODUCTION OFTANKS T0 Food Is First Talk of ~ Americans as They Come Back from 'NAZI I_OSSES " Navy’s Deadliest Weapon on Its Way—in Practice was taken at Piney Point, Md., as the navy engaged in their sinking. rTesting Big Gufi’s Velocity HFIY AX'S . RUMANIANS GET THEIRS Time Boml;—Pl anted by ‘ Russians, Does Trick BUCHAREST, Oct. 24, — Fifty Axis officers and men, including | the Rumanian General Glogojeanu, 4 | were killed today in the explosion of a time bomb in captured Odes- a, Rumanian military dispatches said, Other dispatches identified the dant of Odessa. Two German na- val officers were listed among the ¢ | victims, with the others believed o [to be Rumanians. [l | The bomb was planted near the former secret police headquarters by the retreating Russians before the city was captured, it was an- 450-foot tunnel dug into a Virginia | "0Unced: Phonephoto Bruce Wall, of the staff of the Radford, Va., Ordnance Works, loads & ——— —— LA GUARDIA 15 ENDORSED NOW BY FOR . Over Atlantic {President Says Adminis- general as the Rumanian comman-! PROMINENT - MINE MAN DOWNNOW Disappearsfiween Hyd- er, Alaska, and Alert Bay, British Columbia 'COAST GUARD, PLANES OF CRAF MAKE SEARCH {No Report Received Since | Craft Left for South ‘ Last Tuesday | | /A plane carrying Livingston Wernecke, one of the foremost min- |ing men in Alaska, consulting ge- ologist. for the Alaska Juneau mine |and General Manager of the | Treadwell-Yukon property in the | Mavo district of Yukon Territory, is reported missing somewhere be- tween Hyder, Alaska, and Alert | Bay, British Columbia, according | to word sent The Empire from The | Ketchikan Chronicle late last night. The Const Guard cutter Cyane was preparing to leave Ketchikan |early this morning to searchalong | the coast between the two points, where the plane, piloted by Charles Gropstis, may be down, | The two men, in Wernecke's own ! private plane, left Hyder at 9 am. Tuesday, expecting to retwrn from | Alert Bay, B. C., the next day, but Mrs. Wanccke, at Hyder, had not heard from the plane by yesterday afternoon and the plane was not reported by any boats, according to !the Collector of Customs at Hyder. Wernecke flew to Alert Bay to gas | up. Hyder ls on the mainland, about 85 miles southeast of Ketehikan. The Cyeme was not starting to look for the lost plane earlier than dawn today, it was said, because it would be unable to spot the ship in the dark. Governor Orders Search | Today the search for the missing | : e e (Continueda on Fage Four) BOMBERIS ~ MISSING ON | TRIP SOUTH ‘Army Aircraft from Yaku- | fat Nof Reporied Since | Engagement of Ruby Keeler, stage 'BE I“(REASED By JACK STINNETT never know the world was at war.| H e | . . | y E E | ‘ . 2?17”;’3&’3&“253’;‘;5,"3‘3;’;2;’:. '\ Size of Alaska I.eng- | WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—Capi-|I've seen Kurt Sell (D.N.B., Ger- ‘rauon of :ew York Leavmg on Tuesday adena, Cal., broker, has been an- Ia'ure '0 Senaie L |tal talk: many), Sol Hirsch (Reuters, Eng- ayof OneS' | H KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 24— rolpel ARG R, | Presidenf ANnOUNCes| o ms veeks in Bgand. Poul|lan). Masuo Kato omel, Japa, Tl e, Co, GUATA MY Do s e, o ! . it ) e a ' Larry Todd (Tass, Russia), Henii WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. — Presi- | to search for a third plane now . | | a 1 WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. — The, DOllb|e capa(l'y, NO‘ l.e" | Asrloulure: cBepattment;: lost Y0 4o Longner (wrance), Dave Lu dent Roosevelt has endorsed the missing in Alaska or Canada. House . of Representatives today pounds each, and what they are (China), and a half dozen others|candidacy of Mayor LaGuardia, Re-| An Army bomber left Yakutat, passed and sent to the Senate a| {eating these days to make it up publican and American Labor between Cordova and Juneau, at from countries at war enjoying themselves at the same party. That same sort of thing some- times shocks visitors to the con- gressional galleries. Sitting with bill to amend the Organic 4ct in| Alaska and permit reapportionment |of the Territorial Legislature. The bill would increase the Sen- ting Axis Know Tofal el Bty |aren’t rations. Of all the hundreds WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—With-| who have come back to Washing- 1holding all figures, President ton from the war countries, I Roosevelt today announced that haven't found one who doesn’t talk |nominee for a third term as May- or of New York City. President Roosevelt declares La- Guardia’s administration has been the “most honest and most effici- 10:30 o'clock last Tuesday morning, bound for Edmonton, Alberta. The bomber has not been re- ported. The route may have beon over Keichikan. ate membership to 16, four mem- bers to be elected from each judi- cial district. The House of. Repre- Firing Squad g q sentatives in Alaska would be in- St icreased to 24 members, chosen on Two Convicted by GErmans | s s, somes st mthorize the on Espionage Charges Territorial Legislature to create Are Shot Down election districts. Under the pres- ent system, the Federal govern- ment pays all expenses of special f8ll \the American program for produc- | about food * first. ing tanks for the United States Jesse Jones is the slowest mov- armed forces will be approximately|ing of any of the top officials T doubled at once. 4 | know in Washington, which prob- The President, at a conferencé ;ply explains how he can hold with newsmen, said the pro]ecv.r-d:down so many jobs and get so |expansion is a part of the overalll;puch dope. The human tornadoes {rfivt‘smbo: z:.he N?mrn:: ::f:;f; tir things up a lot but they blow | | plcture. ba thelgess: of 1t 581G out in a seven-hour day. Secretary will not be ready until later in the .~ oon o oe Jones goes on for- or perhaps when Congress a fellow in the Senate gallery who was making his first trip to the Capitol, I once was asked: “Who are those two men in the middle of the floor, laughing and joking?" I told him the men were Demo- cratic Majority Leader Barkley and Senator Wheeler, isolationist leader. The fellow was shocked. “I didn’t, know they would even l A Col. Gill was pilot of the bomber but it is not stated according to Coast Guard advices, whether any Rain Rain w Away' others were aboard the plane. The i (] " ® bomber was from the Army Airbase i v, ! being built at Yakutat. “vou re Holdlng pAA The other two planes missing are All commercial airline activity ;;S('Bz;dtll‘:mswn Waernecke - and was at a standstill in Juneau to- day, neither Pan American or Al- {ent” within his recollection. ever. The Secretary, by the way,| A & sessions. |speak to each other,” he ex OSLO, Oct. 24—Two Norwegians firing squads after conviction on Octo- have been executed by i'meets at the new session in Jan- e r— . The President would not say fnust be a little superstitious. On| 1o\ 0q probably Washington he generous expanse of his vesi-|yo, neq long years ago that thel aska Coastal Airways planes at- tempting flights in the squally weather, BOMBER LOCATED KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 24— ‘The Army Bomber from Yakutat which left for Edmonton, Alberta, Cooper Union, a seven-story what the present tank program is front, at the end of his wakhi ber 5 by a German court martial gtructure, was the highest building nor what the increase will provide, on charges of espionage. in New York City in 1859, that information, he asserted, is The executed Norwegians B — what the Axis would like to know, Years:" | but the program docs call for many ~To lodz over the foreign pre: |thousand more tanks. |corps in Washington, you wou! has carried “for at least 12 or 15 have and- Ivar Dueland. Subscribe for The Empire. chain, is a rabbit's foot, which he ! ..o we t around taking a poke lace Woul mlivable if ene-| b ' Bl Pan American has an Electra last Tuesday morning, landed in- northbound and a Lodestar south- stead at Whitehorse and left there |bound here, with another Electra at 1:30 o'clack yesterday afternoori |at Fairbanks and two Lodestars for another station and is believed | northbound at Prince George, B.C. safe, the Coast Guard here learns. at each other every time they met.