The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 27, 1941, Page 1

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8864. PLANE HITS TREE, CRASHES MILLBANK SD. One Accident Results in‘ Another-Both Happen- | ed last Tuesday | BODIES OF VICTIMS TAKEN TO PR, RUPERT | Ketchikan Fliir, Passenger 1 | Hurt - Plane Com- plete Wreck 1 Livingston Wernecke and his pilot | Charles Gtopstis were Kkilled last Tuesday when their plane crashed | in Millbank Sound enroute from | Hyder, Alaska, to Albert Bay, Brit- | ish Columbia. Pilot Bud Bodding and his pas-‘ senger, Harry Sherman, of Portland, | also missing since last Tuesday en- } route from Alert Bay to Ketchikan, | were found alive’ but their plane al complete wreek, also ‘fu Millbank | Sound, | This was the brief announcement | received late last’ Saturday after- | noon by The Empire from the As- | sociated Press which quoted Provin- | cial Inspector Ernest’ Graham, of | Prince Rupert, with giving out the | meagre particulars. | Subsequent dispatches, reported by | the Canadian Royal Air Force, based | at Prince Rupert, indicated that Wernecke and Gropstis, fying to | Alert Bay, picked up a message from | Bodding that he was enroute to | Ketchikan. Wernecke and Gropstis | were looking for the plane and sighted the Bodding craft on -the | water and in attempting to make a landing, hit a tree and crashed about (Continued to Page TWO) Chhe | | kGO' WASHINGTON — White House advisers have noticed a significant change in the President during the present period of tenseness with Japan. It may be the natural eau-t tiousness of any man upon whose! shoulders rests the major desicion of war. Or equally important, it| may be the very cautious advice oli Admiral Stark, Chief of Naval Op-! erations. . ! At any rate, the President, dur- ing recent days, appears to be put- ting the brakes on any bellicose talk about the Far East. A year or so ago, he was”just the opposite, completely confident the Japanese were boxed in, coeksure his Navy would have 'em on the run in any showdown. But last week Admiral Stark painted a much more pessimistic picture, and the State Depart- ment, always a bit appeasement- | minded, chimed in with him. However, by no means everyone | in the Navy agrees with Admiral | Stark. Younger naval officers coun- ' ter Stark’s argument that the U.S.| Fleet is scattered all over two oceans by pointing out that the| British now have seven big war units (many of them battleships) on the west coast which could be rushed into any battle of the Pa- cific. ' And to the State Department's argument that every month of; R e (Continued on Page Poun | “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1941. LL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS T0J0 TAKES REINS e Licutenant General Eiki Tojo, War Minister e in the Cabinet which fell October 16, was entrusted with the task of forming a new govenment in Japan the following day. Tojo was recommended by elder states- men, headed by Marquis Koichi Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, who conferred for nearly three hours before coming to a decision. Emperor Hirohito summoned General Tojo as Premier Designate. He is 56, was formerly Director General of Mi itary Aviation, a one-time Vice Minister of War, and in 1919, when only four years out of military college, served as military attache in Berlin. In Washington, D. C., the developments in Tokyo were believed hurtling both countries to- ward an early “showdown.” The adamant in its stand. United States apparently remains Appeals fo Frenchmen To Stage Demonsiration - 0f Shooting of ‘Martyrs MEN DIEIN BLASTIN COAL MINE Fifteen Mis;n_g, 16 Res- cued, 29 Others Are Reported fo Be Safe MADISONVILLE, Kentucky, Oct. 21. — Sixteen miners were rescued and 29 others are reported safe after an explosion in a mine of the Sterling Coal Company at Daniel Boone, a small mining community eleven miles from here. Fifteen miners are reported miss- ing. The mine was badly wrecked by a blast, the cause of which has not been immediately determined. — e — FLY TO SITKA Robert Poston and Earl Neuru, sanitary engineers in the Terri- torial Department of Health, flew today to sSitka with pilot Dean | made a broadcast appealing to all of France to stage a five-minute standstill demonstration next Fri- day as a protest to German shoot- {mg of “French martyrs.” | Advices received in London state |that three more Frenchmen were shot‘, last Saturday night by order of Gen. Otto Von Stuelpnagel, | German Commander of occupied | France for possession of arms and ammunition. A broadcast picked up here says ‘the Petain Government has voted heavy handed measures to repress further attacks on German soldiers and also announced urgent appeals are being made to the Germans to | stop reprisals and execution of in- nocent hostages. THREE PILOTS ON FIFTEEN FLIGHTS ule today for Alaska Coastal Air- lines pilots, with Shell Simmons and Alex Holden spending the day ferrying meat and vegetables 1o |the Polaris Taku Company at Tulsequah, B. C. They made a total of ten trips Dean Goodwin made two trips |to Sitka, taking J. C. Molyneaux, _ | American merchant vessels “are be- Fifteen trips were on the sched-| By P_rfsidenl of U. §. KETCHIKAN GIVENREAL | 'BLACKOUT' Town Thrown Info Dark- ness by Short Circuit | in Power House | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 27.— Apparently caused by a short circuit in the power house, Ketchikan was “blacked out” at 7:30 o'clock Satur- day night. About one-third of the town was relighted two hours later by power from the New England Fish Com- pany’s plant but the remainder of | the town was without power for cooking, heating water, operating oil furnaces and lights until 9 o'clock | Sunday morning and then only half enough power was being generated | to supply the normal needs. As a | result some furnaces and compres- sors failed to operate. ! The utility company expects to | restore normal service sometime to- | day. . Dance by Gas Lights The Elks Lodge gave a Hard Times (Contnued, on. page Sx) ,l e | ! 4 SENATE URGED BY CONNALLY T0 ARM SHIPS Foreign Relations Commit- | fee Chief Hits at | Submarines | WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Saying | ing sunk by a brutal and murderous | | doctrine of unrestricted submarine | | warfare,” Senator Tom Connally 'DANGER SEEN, RUSS-JAP CLASH WERNECKE KILLED GOING T0 AID BODDING GUARD IS . ATTACKED AT FRONT . B Aprese Ex-Liner s Hospital Sp for Ptilic Fleet Insignificance "Incident” | May Flare Into Great t Conflagration 'NEW PREMIER MAKES " PLEA TO NATIONALS \"No Refreal”" Is Keynote | of Fulure Japanese | Policy as Outlined I (By Associated Press) | With Hitler’s armies pounding at | the gates of Moscow and Rostov in : western Russla, it was announced d Vo ' - i " : 4 | today that a small Japanese patrol i i o 2 | attacked a guard post on Russia’s | eastern frontier. This clash, like many in the past, may have heen merely an isolated Manchoukuo &nd the growing ques- tion of Japan's intentions as a pact | partner of Germany, it bulked larger |in its implications. | Only yesterday the new soldier ! Premier, General Tojo, pleading for internal solidarity to enable Japan |to meet her destiny declared for | “ever expanding progression” for the lempire’s course in which “no inter- | national pressure can disturb me.” | Tojo told public officials at Osaka “there will be no retreat.” | The Russo-Sino frontier skirmish 'occurred Thursday, according to & |Tass dispateh from Vladivostok, | which said 20 Japanese soldiers at- | tacked frontier guards near the vil- | lage of Raskino. Tass said some were wounded on |each side and the Japanese aband- |oned some of their arms and am- LaunchingofU.S.5. Juneau 'NORETREAT =22 The United States Navy believed its new hospital ship Solace (top), which was converted from the liner Ircquois, formerly on the New York-Miami run, to be the most completely equipped such vessel in the world. One of the wards (bottom) on the ship, which is capable of caring for 432 patients with the most modern faciities is shown, The Solace recently arrived at Long Beach, Calif., to join the Pacific fleet. | (D.-Texas), today told the Senate: | “As a proud nation the United | | States must claim its rights to the | seas.” | | The Chairman of the Foreign Re- | | lations Committee, Connally opened | | debate on legislation granting Am- | ‘;erican merchant vessels the right | | to carry arms and sail to any port | |in the world. ! | Testimony was made public which LONDON, Oct. 27.—Free P‘rexlt:h!secrebary of State Cordell Hull, Ad- ; U.S.S. Junesu., the $13.000.000 leader Gen. Charles DeGaulle hasmiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of the ' yhousand-ten light cruiser last Sa‘- ! Navy Bureau of Operations, and |others gave before closed sessions {of the committee last week. Hull | testified “the United States some- iwhere may get into the real war,” | but meanwhile is pursuing a course | dictated by the law of self defense. Stark expressed the view that more than half of the successful | attacks against merchantmen in the |current war have been aimed at | unarmed ships. | - Democratic leaders discussed the |measure with thg President this | morning and were reported to have told him the bill probaby will be passed in less than two weeks. | | iReprisaI; of Ge . Bitferly Co | Gold Mining| WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. — Last “depths of frightfulness whichcvvn\, | Saturday, President Roosevelt as- sailed the Nazi reprisals and exe- cutions in Europe, declaring them most revolting to the world, th: Goodwin for a routine inspection.|R. H. Hermann, Earl Neuru and “acts of desperate men who know They will month, return later in A— e Subseribe for The Empire, |several passengers. He had three more island trips to make to com- | plete his schedule, | the Robert Boston and returning with'in their hearts they cannot win.” In a formal statement the Presi- dent further said the Nazis are ]dfv'lnnlnx a “new order” by the | i is Another Nail in Hitler's ORDERGIVEN FDR WILL . b | - TALK OVER Coffin, Says Official of Navy T0 RUSSIANS AIR, 7P.M. Nais Credit ltalian Troops, KEARNY, N. J, Oct, 21 end na fifth' eo'namnists in the TS LA e Territory of Alaska.” % a —_— the successful launching of Delegate Dimond at a confer- with Replllsmg President s Expfided fo S ence with later the newsmen Reds d nerafterncon srid that he was s W L urday & Badtioon R ars by Mrs, ok SR pa. kg it tress national Af Harry I. Lucss, wife of the mayor tarpaticnal e, it would . . of Juneau, Alaska, Rear Admital come to the Pacific Coast. KUIBYSHEV, Russia, Oct. 27— ffllfs, Na'!o"al Defe“se Andrews in an address said: ‘ The Delegate further said tne|Fighting under “no retreat” orders, | —_— “Each launching is another nail; Government understood Alaska’s the Red Army today is reported to| WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Presi- problems and “this launching is a|have driven across the Mara River |dent Roosevelt made no engage- in Hitler’s coffin. This vessel will be manned by fighting Americans|symbol of the great efforts to pro- 2 b who believe there is nosecond place | tect the Territory,” and retaken a village. {ference with Unkisfetive 1saduts. W9 i P ¥ i A | The heaviest action was concen- he could give the finishing touches in anything. The U.S.S. Juneau, sister ship of trated on the Russian left wing and }w his speech to be broadcast tonight The large crowd attending the|the U.SS. Atlanta, earries 12- and | oo approaches to the capital ‘at 7 o'clock, Pacific Coast Time, on launching also heard Alaska Deh:—‘f"mch guns and is expected to do|, o the Battle for Moscow became | all major networks. |43 knots an hour, increasingly violent. | The speech will be delivered at the gate’ Anthony J. Dimond assert B oot T OB General Zhukov, commander of |Navy Day dinner and is expected | Fascists. Do not let them. reach |international affairs that have aris- ol continued to be the twin German | rmans ndemned that Alaska is proud of the hopor | | 2 and also of the “fact that there | | Russia’s Central Front armies qe- ‘m be of paramount significance in are no Communists, no saboteuis : | fending Moscow, issued an order to | view of the present international af- eln l eman troops which said: fairs and National Defense. ! “Do not step back! Halt the, The President will first talk on | ! | Moscow. Every man must fight like | en during the past six weeks and e urns ere | ten.” | is expected to stress not only how | Russia’s immediate vital concern |the situation in Europe currently g | | affects America and then also in- Returning here Saturcay on | Pan American §rways Lodestar, B, | 7. Heintzleman, regional forcsl.ol‘.“ way to the Caucasus in the sout [told of some six weeks in the Pa- | The harried Red Army was reported | | cific Northwest and as far east as‘mfh”e Y"i“:"‘;fl“’::"‘; b“fi‘ strong | Ithe Rocky Mountain section, dur- |defenses still barred the Germans, |ing which time he interviewed n‘f"‘?r’: t}glr 3“"20"‘” AR }tthi. T"‘:zw:l'l‘hmc‘“nm‘;‘::e "; number of agricultural specialists | 8 SISETRAN s hgre -ithe ~Ter partmi o | ! | sian counterattacks to halt the Ger- Health is leaving tomorrow on the d government farm officials re- | fogew i i o | man advance on Rostov, industrially | Aleutian for a routine field inspec- | drives on Moscow and Rostov, gate- | terrelated domestic problems such h. |as detense strikes. .- LEAVES ON FIELD TRIP rding i 1 ent, of agri-| they have never approached be-]:g:m"f ‘;]:1::?:: lopment - of ' agr rich center of .the Donets Ba.sln.}uon in citles of the Westward and fores | "Of particular interest, Heintale- | falled completely. < The Germans|ihe - Interior. She expects to be The statement was released {rom .., reported, were severai confer- the White House without any ex-%mwb with stockmen, whom he in-| planation of its purpose. . |terviewed at- Ogden, Utah; Foet | SOWEk pCAgReER BT The United States will manu- The President did not mention|jand, Oregon; and Spokane and! facture more food products- this any specific country but spoke of | Seattle, Washington, regaruing pos-| There are 21 islapds in, the year than any nation has produced the German practice of executing sibilities of livestock ranches in the | Hawaiian archipelago, of whlqhiln history, according to a report ‘ | gave Italian troops major credit for |oone for over a month. counter action against the struggling l b iliac, Mk Y scores of innoeent hostages. Interior. eight are inhabited, from groecery manufacturers, i |in a counterattack south of Moscow |ments except his usual Monday con-