The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8867. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1941. “ALL THE, NEWS ALL THE TIME” . PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS GERMANS ARE THROWN BACK 'LABOR DISPUTE ENDS; 53,000 RETURN Thfle U S fiavy on Patrol in Icela@d Waters ;GA'NS MADE MINE STRIKE OVER:F.D.R. LETTER WINS President's_A;;peaI Brings Action from U. M. W. Union CAPTIVE MINES RESUME OUTPUT lewis Makes Announce- ment from Hotel Room of Steel Tycoon WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — John L. Lewis today announced the United Mine Workers have accept- ed President Roosevelt’s proposal for reopening the strikebound cap- tive coal mines and added miners will return to work as fast as arrangements can be made locally. In some areas, Lewis said, night shifts may return tonight with other mines to reopen . tOomorrow. Lewis made the announcement from the Mayflower Hotel room of Myron Taylor, former board chair- man of the United States Steel Corporation, which owns some of the captive mines. Taylor, standing beside the mine union president when the an- nouncement was made, said he was “very much gratified because of the cooperative attitude Mr. Lewis displayed in a difficult situation and time of great national ptril.” x | (Continued to ~lhe WASHINGTON—An ironic twist of fate makes it likely that when the Nazis sank the U. S. owned Lehigh, they bit the hand which had fed them—via Spain. The Le- high had just unloaded a cargo at Bilboa, Spain. It may be officially denied, but there is excellent intelligence evi- dence that a large proportion of the oil, grain and other important raw materials landed at Bilbao are ship- ped immediately to Germany. NOTE: The State Department, despite inner Cabinet opposition, has insisted on sending a certain amount of supplies to Spain contending this was the only way to keep the Franco Fascist government from going over to Hitler. Other Cabinet officers have maintained Franco was alréady with Hitler and that these supplies were merely circumventing the Brit- ish blockade. GLOOMY WASHINGTON SOCIETY Socially speaking, Washington has never had so much money to spend, but something has happened to take the merry out of the merry-go- round. Not only at the White House, but all over town, “the season” starts under a cloud. The florists, the engravers, and the champagne salesmen will have a lean year. Even before the White House made its announcement suspending state dinners and formal receptions, the ladies who make a business of plan- ning the Capital's social life had hung their heads and agreed that defense was more important than debutantes. Mrs. W. Laird Dunlop, who can- celled her annual Black and White Ball, put it this way: “I'm sorry to say, since its my livelihood, that the (Continued on Page PFour) . Battle for the Ardic " Wastes Being Waged;ls (hapler in War af Sea Greenland Sea Cape Bismarck N ICELANDIC weather low region causes European storms. Greenland weather stations :| get first warning. JULIANAHAAB AREA I * is best for permanent U. S. naval, which treaty rights were | | 3cquired ‘this year. GREENLAND CUR- RENT freezes east coast from December to May, but region is ideal for caching supplies. N | Cape Desolatiol * \lut ianehaab 43788 [ [GoLe sTReaM and me | || Creentand join. give \\ B Farewell " | {{ west coast comfort V7 sble living tempera- ‘ v tures most of year 7 Q SETTLEMENTS 0 500 oY Efi By MORGAN M. BEATTY | AP Feature Service Writer | | | | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — The | capture of a German “weather” | ship by the U. 8. Navy in Green- land waters adds another chapter % |to an amazing epi¢ of modern se2 warfare that began in 1930—ten years before the war began in Eu- rope. It’s the German scheme to base raider fleets of air, sea, and under- sea craft on Arctic and Antarctic lands, and British and American efforts to prevent the strategy from bearing fruit. In that, the world’s two big navies have been largely success- much evidence to indicate the Germans have large caches cf fuel and food in the polar regions. Some of them were planted prob- ably 10 years ago. And they prob- ably have radio stations there, too. | - | ¢ A | ISPARKLE_Elegant jewels | to set off debutantes are ex- at Diamond Ball and Debutante Cotillion in Waldorf- !Astoria, N. Y., and social Laurie Hutchinson (above) is all set. She has chiffon dress, matching sapphire, diamond jewel pieces. The Arctic is a vast hiding place in both winter and summer. Storms rage and fog is frequent. Fjords can hide the largest ships in the world, unless a chance voyage leads another vessel to the spot. Naval and weather observers began to suspect German inten- e tions in 1930 when the Weggene: i { scientific expedition left a north ! u on s ow German port for Greenland. Later on, German. scientific ex- | peditions visited many areas in | Juneau Bound both thé Arctic and Antarctic. | What they were doing is not en- tirely clear, but it is probable v | they spotted fuel and food gener- { * SEATTLE, Oct. 30. | Yukon sailed for the north at 4 ful—but not entirely so. There is; AIRLINER - CRASHES; ~ 14KILLED| éTerrific Impact Throws, § | Pilot Clear of Flam- 1 ing Wreckage TRAGEDY STRIKES | " NEAR FARGO BASE 'Captain Suffers Only Shock| | ~All Others Trapped ‘ in Debris MOOREHEAD, Minn.,, Oct. 80.— | Trapped by fog and mist, a North~ west Airlines plane crashed this morning within two miles of its | objective. Fourteen persons died in the im- pact and flames which immediately engulfed the wreckage. , | The only survivor is Capt. Clar- lence Bates, of Minneapolis, pilot, ‘who was thrown clear as the bigig liner struck he garth @ gancing™ {blow and bounced 100 yards, the) | piled up. Bates suffered only shock but | | physicians would permit no one to i talk to him. Last Heard From The St. Paul airlines dispatcher said he last heard from the plane, westbound from Chicago to Seattle, |at 1:54 o'clock this morning, Central | | Standard Time. The plane then was | over the Fargo (N. D.) airport and | | descending at 2,700 feet altitude to | | make a routine instrument approach | |to the field. | Ground weather at the time was | {described as “thick and freezing.” | The pilot next should have reported |when he sighted land, but the dis- | ! patcher was still trying vainly to | contact the ship at 2 o'clock. Ten | minutes later police telephoned that | | the plane crashed about two miles | from the Fargo airport. | Mystery in Escape | | How Bates got out alive from the | ;blaz\nc inferno mystified inves- i | tigators at first. | It was noticed by airline and| Civil Aeronautics Authority inspect- | ‘ors that thick coating of ice hadi formed along one edge of one wing. | This presumably was formed in the | {air and not by water poured on by This official U. 8. Navy photo shows units of the flect on actual patrol | | ‘ ! ports and merchantmen en route to Iceland. | firemen who rushed to the scene. L o Meet Alma Carrall, selected as “Miss America of National Del at the Venice, Cal, boauty contest, who will soon bezin a tour of army, havy cad marne corrs b Miss Careoll will begin her tour at Quantjco, Va., whose colois she wore in Lhe contest. NEW TAXES 'PROPOSED BY *i: 'MORGENTHAU Those Concrefe Boats Steep Increases in Social Are Far 'mm d ]Oke; Shipping Is Relieved Security Rates Com- no need to go into any great de- i [ ing Up_ShorIIy WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Secre- In the foreground is a sailor on watch aboard a warship. In the background is a cruiser and a transport. It was in these sea lanes that the Kearny was torpedoed. _ TWOSECTORS - FRONT LINES Invaders Are Forced Back Across Nara River, 50 Miles from Moscow STRATEGIC HEIGHTS " OFROSTOV DEFENDED iPIanes Make Exfensive Raid on Russian Capital -Reported Unsu«es_sful | | | | \ (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) } Russia’s armies today are credit- jed, in front line dispatches, with |throwing the Germans back across the Nara River, southwest of Moscow, while on the isouthcm front, Soviet troops weve | declared to have won' strategic ‘hqums guarding. Rostoy. | Tass, Russian flews’ said | duty, guarding a convoy of trans- the Germahs tried repeatedly to ‘PM the Nara but -were beaten w3 O ERS I " ! back by waves of counter-attacking Soviet troops which then stormed across the river. Tass said the Red river fighters | entrenched themselves on the south /bank under heavy fire and slowed idown the land offensive against Moscow. Planes Rald Moscow The Germans sent more than 300 planes on a mass assault over ~Others Badly Dam- | aged by RAF | Moscow yesterday, the Soviet ra- dio said, describing it as “the big- LONDON, Oct. 30.—~The British| gest attack ‘carried out so far, but Air Ministry sald United States it was exactly at unsuccessful as ’bum Hudson bombers sank two all previous raids.” | Axis ships and damaged fiveothers| A record number of 39 Nazi in low level attacks on the Norwe-! planes have beer downed in big |gian port of Aalesund. | scale aerial attacks on Moscow in | One of the Axis ships sent down | the past severs! days it was re- 'was a supply vessel. ported. ' PG Two Axis Ships Sent Down | Another supply ship was hit o(ti Hitler Silent | Stadlandet Peninsula south of| Hitler's command was silent on Aalesund, | operations around Moscow but as- The official statement also says serted German Lroops now are ‘flxh oil factory and docks at Ber-/gwarming toward tic upper Donet |gen were also heavily bombed and River industrial basin on a broad believed to have been destroyed. !front starting at (he lower reach- | The British say the Germans 8I¢ es of the river, However, the Rus- massed around Rostov “have been the Germans advanced northward. using fish oil in war industries. |gjang elaimed they :topped the marking time for seveial days.” | | Supreme Stand | In the Kharkov sector it was ap- i | parent that Marshal Timoshenko is { detachments of Hitler'e elite guards !boinu uscd as stationary fortress- es in attempts to hold gains while A R Nazi onslaught and said that picked German tanks were reported (Contimued on Page Eight) “Special Mountain Troop e dmion Il ON ' NIGHTRAIDS, WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — The |Army has. ordered the formation lof a regiment of special mountain | | troops, such as used in the Ger-| some 50 miles — Steamer |ously in safe spots. They also o'clock Wednesday afternoon with! i sengers aboard. Passengers aboard the Yukon booked for Juneau are as follows: Mrs. Florence Powell, Judy Evans, June Kenayn, Mrs. G. C. North and !son, Mrs. W. E. White, Mrs. Anna | Webster, Karl Theile, Jr., John Griffin, | Gertrude Buchanan, Alice Cough- |lin, Allagn McCoy, M. E. Nuckolls, | Ray Nuckolls, Shirley Surick, Mrs. Paul Surick. 141 first class and 14 steerage pas- | led German and Japanese “investi- 1 gative” expeditions were both pres- made plans to tap the rich coal| deposits of Spitzbergen, the Arc-| tic island off Norway. They had their .eyes on a big Norwegian whaler repair base on Deception Island in the Antarctic, too. And| the recent Byrd expedition for the United States government report- | ent in that region. i The German scheme did NOT go! unnoticed by the British and Am- tary of Treasury Henry Morgenthal announced today that the program By JACK STINNETT, bate on it. {man invasion of Norway, also by the Italians. | iple.” for steep increases in Soclal Security _WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Behind taxes will be ready for Congressional the major efforts of national de- consideration within the next two iense, which got most of the pub- months. licity, is a minor one which al- Morgenthau declined to give the | most invariably causes a roar of new rates proposed but disclosed layman laughter and & disgusting the size of the increase will be gear- snort about “What the heck are ed definitely to “mop up extra those guys in Washington up to; money in the pockets of the peo- anyway?” It's the comstruction of | concrete ships to relieve the ship- | In some quarters it is reported ing shortage. ¥ the Secretary of Treasury{avors in- | pye ynited States Maritime| uid e creasing the employees old age PN~ | o ninicgion now has bids on hand | | tween 300 and 400 feet long, with} oy In the fust place, the 100 shids| e firgt pattalion unit, the first now proposed are oil tankers uri.e o kind in American_ history, barges—without motors. But they iy pe formed on November 15 at| are ships, neverthel A rlcming‘];.on Lewls, Wash., sccording 10 freighter of 6,000 to 8,000 tons, be- Secretary of War Henry L. snm_i a 40-odd fool beam is no rowboat,| he new unit will serve as a nu-| ITALY AREAS {Ten Persons Are Reporfed Killed, Many Injured in even if it does have to have a tug| jays for expansion as needed. | or so alongside to get it places. The men will be trained in moun-! tain climbing by ski and snow | An official of one shipbuilding shoes and will travel, living on the firm (the Newport Concrete Ship-|snow. Swoop of Planes ! ROME, Oct. 30.—Ten persons were killed and 42 injured, amonz them a number of women harvest- {ing in the flelds, when British | K. Ratikainan, C. C. Wynn, George gtates sent the Byrd expedition to | H. Roberts, R. E. Whitaker. " s - |back talking about . the Palmer MRS. WEBSTER RETURNING |Peninsula as a base for a United Mrs. Anna Webster, who has been | States fleet in case the Panama south on a pleasure and business Canal should be blown up. trip, is returning to Juneau aboard , —— . the Yukon, (Continued on Page Five) e e 7 Miss S. Bogdon, Rose Guralnich, | erican governments. The United' |the Antarctic. Admiral Byrd came| sion tax from one percent to five percent of his paycheck. .. GRAF BACK ON JOB Ray Graf has returned to the counter at Bert's Grocery to replace Bud Henson who recently left for the States, for 100 such ships and before you building Company) who built con- join the “snorters” let me present|crete ships in the World War the case for concrete ships. Since | claims these barges will cost only |nobody contends that concrete!about half what steel ones would. The first regiment has been des- {ignated as the Eighty-Seventh In- { fantry Mountain Regiment. —— ——— planes bombed several places in southern Italian Provinces last night, especially Calabria and Cat- |anzara. |ships ever will replace steel ones,'He also told me he had put into Measured from base to summif,’ The Italian Command said the lor that & fleet of concrete freight-|his bid an agreement to deliver rather than by elevation above sea property damage was slight but ers would ever be more than sup- | . plemental in an emergency, there’s | i (Continued to Page Two) }me highest peak on earth, L _!level, Mount McKinley, Alaska, is'the bombings brought home the lact Italy is still at war.