The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 29, 1941, Page 1

JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER LANT DEATH TRAPS JAPANESE TAKE SHOTS AT U.S. MARINE Shipping Point for U. S. Aid fo Soviels SENTRYIN | PEIPING!S ATTACKED Four Pistol Shofs Are Fired -United States Em- bassy Protests PEIPING, Oct. 29.—The Japa- nese police are today cooperating with the United States Embassy | in the search for an unidentified Oriental who fired four pistol shots | at Private Douglas Bunn of Ti-| gard, Ore, United States Marine sentry on duty at the Embassy. Bunn was wounded in one foot and is recovering. The United States Embassy of- fic protested to the Japanese | Embassy and charged the assailant was a Japanese on the basis of a statement made by Marine Bunn, Is —————— WEATHERISMILD; SNOW IN INTERIOR Degpite rain ‘and wind © along | much of the coast, the weather was | comparitively mild in most of Al-| aska 'today, according to the| Weather Bureau. At Pairbanks this morning there was six inches of snow, reports| showed, while three inches lay at Dawson and it was still snowing lightly. Coldest Alaske points this morn-| ing were Point Barrow, where the temperature was eight degrees be- iow zero and Pcint Lay, where the mwercury stood at four below. TG ) A5 INSURANCE CO. QUALIFIED The Rhode Island Insurance Company of Providence, Rhode Is- land, was today officially qualified; = by Territorial Auditor Frank A.| Boyle to do business in Alaska. E2 L S 4 GIVE A CHEER !—Those Rouge are probably due to the WEARS PRIZ i v e \\\NG@ Drew Pearsce e & Robert $. Alles 60 WASHINGTON.—Biggest baci- stage decision the Administration has had to make—next to appease- ment of Japan—has been the re- solve to put all its supply eggs in| one basket and concentrate thou- sands of tons of tanks, airplanes, trucks and aviation gasoline at the| Arctic port of Archangel. | This was a very hazardous de-' cision, and was made only after| considerable debate inside the Army | and Navy, where some officers ar- gued that Archangel could not be| kept free of ice all winter; that | | i ] loud, enthusiastic sounds you hear coming from Louisiana State University stadium at Baton pert girl cheer leaders, such as June Kerlin, The girls spin, dance, kick—and lead the cheering. PICKETLINE | (HARGEDBY Bl SHIP MEN {Most of LaEWashingion Shipyard Employees Back on Job SEATTLE, Oct. 29.—A mild out- break of violence flared today at the Lake Washington Shipyards, Inc., plant as workers protected ali Seattle Metal Trades Council mem- bers who crashed a picket line of striking welders to enter the plant. ! Deputy Sheriff Paul Bell, caught in the melee of massed pickets and rushing workers, was knocked down but unhurt. Fifteen deputies led by Undersheriff Louis Forbes and Capt. Edward Storgard restored order. | The company management report- ed nearly 90 per cent of the workers were on the job. Mayor Earl Millikin offered the services of his offices to both dis- | F.B.1.NABS YOUTH, 22 ASSABOTEUR | Admits Planes Damagedg - atGlenn Martin Bal- g timore Factory B | | BALTIMORE, Oct. 29. — E. A. | Soucy, Special Agent in charge of | the Baltimore bureau of the Fed- | | eral Bureau of Investization today announced the arrest of Michael William Etzel, 22, for what Soucy said was an admitted sabotage plot against airplanes in the Glenn Mar- | tin Airplane Company plant where | | Etzel has been empoyed since Aug- ust, 1939. Soucy said Etzel made a statement to the FBI and company cn‘iclnls.i | saying: i “I feel the German people are all | right and everything is the fault of the German government, not the | people themselves. I didn't want | | these planes we are making at the | | Martin plant to be used against the | German people, so I damaged the ships.” | Saucy declared Etzel's is the first such case in (s vital defense area and said his implication was the “outgrowth” of a check being made | to determine the identity of the |~ | individual responsible for a card- | board, bearing blue and red penciled i lettering reading “Heil Hitler!” which was found in a B-26 bomber. CONFERON 6 STRIKE, COAL MINES Attempt lsfig Made to§ Settle Dispute-53,000 | Men Involved ‘ WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—John L. Lewis and Myron Taylor conferred | for three hours today on an effort | | to settle the captive coal mine strike | | involving 53,000 workers. f | At the end of the conference Lewis told the reporters that any | | announcement would not be made | for at least an hour and a half. | Lunch was ordered sent at 1| o'clock at the meeting place in Tay- lor's room in the Mayflower Hotel. RUSSIANS Under a Maritime Commission order, effective October 28, it was indic: .'wlng,’dl_\l lor American aid-to-Russia supplies moying over as indica by top route. Previously lafd out shipping and East are also indicated. Shells Play No Favorites 3 ‘hir routes A German soldier and his Russian prisoner hug the earth as Red army | shells crash all around them on the eastern front. The Nazi at least has a steel helmet for protection. Washingfon Is Having | Epidemic of Chuckles Abculli!e in the Army the North Atlantie, probably to Archangel, | Soviet dispatches said the iJuneau Minute-Men Stage | city’s SOVIETSIN ~ NEW MOVE ~ ATROSTOV ;Plan fo Set Indusirial Cen- | fer Afire fo Leave Ruins ; for German Troops 'MOSCOW REPORTED " IN"GREATDANGER" ‘Newspaper Pravda Says | Hitlers Capture of Russia . Before Winter Failed (By Associated Press) German troops are reported to have scored a break through the Crimean Peninsula, site of Russia's Black Sea naval base at Sebastopol and other Nazi columns have storm- ed the gate of Rostov in the Donet River industrial basin in what ap- pears to be the climactic phase of | the battle in the Ukraine. ated Boston will become the ship- Red Army engineers are already plant- ing death trap mines in Rostov and preparing to leave the city of half a million people in smoking ruins. The main attacking column of the German forces 1s reported as being only 10 milés from the big industrial ,center which guards the northern approach to the Caucasus oll fields. | In Berlin the Nazi military com- | mentators sald once Rostov has fall- en the way was open for swift armored division to strike south to- ward the nerve center in the region NINE MINUTES of Maikop, 170 miles below Rostov. ! The Russian newspaper Pravda acknowledges “great danger” in the Moscow section and also in the Donet River but declares Hitler’s predicticn of a victory over Russia | before winter starts has collapsed. | The Pravda also says the Nael . . Successful First Drill- No Bla(kou' command has thrown almost the en- 'tire German land army, artillery, Juneau's 150 Civic Defense tanks and nine-tenths of the alr watchful against acts of sabotage ——— within nine minutes after the Al- sounded its shrill signal of the first R E DS (lA ' M drill of the home guard unit. { the line,” was the way Frank Met- calf, chief of Juneau defense plans, successful drill of the local minute-| Tt : AI KAl'"I" After the last sergeant in the 32 defense districts had ported everything in readiness for his district, Metcalf allowed five |S’ " D I beats, then gave the signal for tha1 an alion Declar “all clear” blast from the mine Guardsmen were at their posts and force in the Russian campaign. aska Juneau mine siren last night “Splendid cooperation all dowu’ ADv ANI A GES this morning summed up the first called central last night and re- minutes for the men to walk thelr; siren, just 14 minutes after ~the| ed Hal'Bd to England, Africa and the Middle HOMEGUARD Nazi Drive Toward Impor- By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Coul in Senators, Representatives, | _neuvers. 1t was pouring rain !“d‘cmergency call had been sounded. : LONDON, Oct. 20.—The Moscow nt-| the boys were standing ankle-" Expected Black-Out 'radlo said today that the Germans deep in mud. As the order was| Some misunderstandings werere- have been put on the defensive in ported in a few sections of the the Kalinen sector about 95 miles |putants in settling the strike ard | said he hoped for a settlement within a few days. ATTACK ON ———e——— |news men, and observers, I some- given, one . soldier piped up.| ” | WID |times think there have been more | “Swell, now let's all sing ‘Ond‘my- despite the fact that the tm’"“""m"“ of Moscow. | | capitalites than soldiers on Army | Bless America'—and leave ouf and nature of the first drill had| The Moscow announcement de- | | maneuvess this year. Louisiana.” been publicized for the past week, clared the Nazis lost 5,000 men, 40 1 | Although no mention was ever guns and 32 trench mortars in’'new Louisiana came in for another| As a result of all the inspections, made of a practice “black out” in fighting on the approaches to Kal- ] WS | | eighborhoods lights were - extin-: Moscow-Leningrad Railroad. Other advices received in London sald the Germans lost 60 per cent of their effectives sent into action in the past few days against the | | the Nazis would be able to take | ‘ H s i i the railroad leading to Archnngel:f ! ‘Sowe's Say " Now Appa.r.lmw of Washington s favorite pas-|one in a story about the h“m”m"mnnecnon with the drill, in some inin, an important station on the and that pelesleas U, 8. suppu-zs' | | i # Itimes mnow is telling maneuvcr"l‘he 135'_,h Medical Corps might be captured 10/ ss- seiE wayl { i enl NalIS Won t Take | storfes. °‘?"‘pedhm ":W]:n,ds b]"eara ;;::‘:fxmsmd by citizens who apparenis' (e, B NS SIS e | | Cityof MOSCOW |animms e o™y “ieaginers o the. cams. 4 conseientious| 1, believed they ‘should cooperaie equipment at Dunkerque. | | ¥ about the use of imaginar N e Ay “O"Slin this way. ! | ey |weapons—like the one about the|lieutenant, eager to be positivel “yoyo) Tene giren first sounded, Major reason for finally decid- ing on the Archangel route was | KUIBYSHEV, Oct. 20. — General | private who verbally bang-banged | that all his men had gotten out,| | Zhukov's defenders of Moscow today until he was out of breath at an|Went wading knee deep down the, ' Moscow lines. several persons called “the tele-; S0 phone office asking if there was a not fear of the Japanese at Via-| divostok, but two other factors: (1) The long, long haml, pot only 5,000 miles across tHe Pacific, but 5,000 more miles across th e Trans-Siberian. 4 (2) The fact that the Russians| were determined to put up an all- out, ‘last-ditch stand at the Volga River, and convinced Averell Har- | riman’s military advisers they could do it. One hundred dollars worth of De- fense Savings Stamps will be awarded to the member traveling the farthest to attend the Western States Sciot convention at Santa Cruz, Calif. Miss Betty Eaton, 17, wears the stamps as a costume, ZAVODSKY GOES SOUTH WORLD WATCHES ARCHANGE]:, So, the eyes of the world will{ be focused this winter on Arch-! (Continued on Page Pour) Jack Zavodsky, oldtimer and relief merchant patrolman, left on tne to. Seattle and_other p. s south He expects to be away for several months,, Tongass on his annual pilgrimage | reported attacking on nearly all cnemy private walking down the | company street, poking his head . sectors of the curving Moscow front. |oad, When the enemy” still re-|into every tert. In one, he discov- femo Wl'h DOOfwaYS | Dispatches declared it has become | rysed to drop dead, the irate pri- ered a grinning private, sitting BI k df Es ‘apparem that the Germans are un- | ,ute shouted at him: “What's mu}cross-legged on hh. cot, holding a 0CKed 1or £Scape {able to take the capital but ad-|,atier with you soldier, T shot Stick in his hand from which dan- | MONTOLAIR, N.J, Oct, 2 12:::%: (::rr’:;:s a::r.t::l!e;no‘r’nt‘:; you with a rifle, a pistol and a Sle(; a vcvo’:xplle t;i ydard‘.si of st;)‘;nl:. » Nody . 29.—An | y * | ma " cord. “Wha e devil are !ojl stove exploded after being drop- | City, has complicated the situation :::‘nc:::m:ur;:!‘“ fi:m::e:; :::(: doing?” the lieutenant shouted, |ped and turned a two and one-half |for the defenders. to vell back, “Whats the matter |The soldier eyed his officer in dis-| big fire at Douglas, and saying | that they had not heard of the scheduled civic defense drill. ;Building Turned Info In- Fahy Is Nominated The fact that the time for the SOMO[ Gellel'il drill had been set in advance for' WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Presi- 6:45 p.m. defeated the purpose of dent Roosevelt today nominated the maneuver in some cases, ac- Charles Pahy as Solicitor General cording to Metcalf. In one district, of the Department of Justice, filling he reported, the squad members the place left vacant by the eleva- | |story frame building . into a raging | Red Army counterattacks on the | > " | gust. “Can’t you see, sir? I'm fish- |inferno during the.night, killing lg}sauthwelt front around Maloyaro-| *ih you, cam't you see I'm a :‘nl; The ten{'s 2ull ot ‘6. had anticipated the siren blast and tion of Francis Biddle to be At- members of a negro family and |Slavets were declared to be growing tank? o | were at their posts awaiting the torney General, e b OSSN 4 | |start of the drill. One district ser-| I3 T But these aren’t the only stories pyom virginia comes the story of[geant reported everything in UND TRI being.told and some of them have yow o scouting party ambushed an|readiness at his district before the! Miss Edna Langlois of Seattle { ) is king the round .trip. aboard trailers. They last wail of the mine siren had 1S ma ¢ vrabundis - bt e -y! 34 1the steamer W and enjoying ‘l-he voyage. |seriously burning or injuring seven ! in intensity and scope. others. Tttt ! Ten of the victims were children. McCANNS GO SOUTH . The flames blocked the doarways| Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McCann, from litile more basis in fact. leaving only the windows as avenues | Tulsequah, sajled south today| For instance, word came to one of escape. lnboard the Tongass for Seattle. ll,.nlallon in Louisiana to end ma- (Continued on' Page Stx) (Continued nn page St |