The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 31, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8868. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DESTROYER TORF WORKERS JOIN RED TROOPS IN BATTLE AMERICAN NAZIS MOVE FORWARD, TWO FRONTS Germans and Rumanians Pursuing Russians on Southern Flank SOVIETS ASSERT | GAINS IN WEST| Defenders Declare Somex Positions Improved | Despite Attacks (By Associated Press) Germany’s invasion armies step- ped up the fury of their momh old, drive toward Moscow in fwo direc- | tions today while Soviet workers | rallied from the factories to fight | alongside Red Troops in a bloody | series of battles around Tula, 100 miles south of the capital. | Tass Russian news agency, said | ank-led - Nazi forces were driving | hard on Moscow’s northwest flank, apparently in the Kalinin sector, 95 miles northwest of the eity, but | heavy artillery fire and repeated Red counterattacks were checking | the German advance. | To the west and southwest of Mos- cow, Tass reported Soviet troops were not only holding their defense | positions but improving them on some salients. | On the southern front, Hitler's command asserted the Russians were in full flight under the assault byj German and Rumanian troops smashing across the Crimean Pen- insula. ——,,—— The average soldier uses 18 times more wool than the rank and file of civilians, the Department of; Commerce reports. ———,———— > ihe { WG, Sy Y DIVORCED AT16 WASHINGTON — One of the! Merry-Go Rounders has spent the | past two weeks taking a quick turn| through the Middle West from Ohio | to Missouri, generally considered | the cradle of isolation and the area | which Roosevelt has to swing if hej| wants a unified nation behind his foreign policies. For years that area has been| much more interested in Mississippi | barges than battleships and felt| just as, safe from invasion as the, Russian’ peasants along the volga‘ River. Foreign policy was some- thing they remembered only from | the days when they recited in| school George Washington's Fare-! well Message on entangling alli-| ances. | But today, as far as this observe can ascertain, the Middle West i not isolationist. Nor is sold on Roosevelt’s policies. It is in a con-| fused condition, fumbling betwixt and between. For this first time in the history | of the Midwest, its people are| awakening to the fact that they| cannot remain isolationist, that the airplane and modern science have narrowed the Atlantic to the 1914/ 1914 width of the English Channel. They know that the chain of new, defense arsenals and factories from St. Paul to Tulsa and Houston, down the backbone of America in- stead of along the Atlantic sea- board, mean a revolutionary change in the defense of the country. And they are about ready to belieye (Continued on Page Four) Hallowe’en Bewitcher Ida Lupino, of Hellywoed, puts on a bold front and scares away Hal- lewe’en spooks with her mystic pumpkin. As if a spook would look at the pumpkm with such beauty to caich the eye. fiFDR Orders Army fo Tal(e Over Operation of Bendix 7 | Mrs. Bernice Paynter, 16, mother of a 14-menth-old son, Larry, won a_ divoree at Indianapolis, Ind., after she testified she began hav- ing dates at 13, was married at 14 ’nnd beeame a mother at 15, Plane Plantin New Jersey WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Presi- dent Roosevelt early this morning srdered the Army to take over oper- ——— ation of the plant of Air Associates, Inc., at Bendix, New Jersey, declar- | ing that a labor dispute had made a | stoppage in vital defense production. It was imminent also that the company had “failed to carry out its part” of recommendations by the National Defense Mediation Board, | according to the President. The dramatic move climaxed weeks of controversy in which the ! CIO struck amidst violence, while the company continued to operate. Soldiers wete dispatched today from | nearby forts. Last night, John L. Lewis officially | announced that CIO miners in cap- tive coal mines owned by steel com- panies would return to work under a 17-day truce to allow further | mediation of the dispute which threatens to close down the nation’s | largest’ steel mills. | ‘The Army took over the plant of | Air Associates, Inc., at Bendix, N.| J., today and announced it would | hire workers as rapidly as possible fter inventories have been made so the work on vital airplane parts may e resumed. . More than 2,000 troops were nn‘ Tuard duty around the plant, scene of labor disputes since September, but both factions in the bitter fight cheered the announcement by Col. Roy Jones, in command, that men will be hired despite past difficul-' ties. .. FORMER GOVERNOR IS SEVENTY-THREE TODAY | John W. Troy celebrated his73:1d| birthday in his room at St. Ann's Hospital today. Friends. who called during the day to wish him a happy birthday shared two blrth—‘om big explosion followed by }MODEl PLANES TO TAKE-OFF| TOMORROW Boys Check-in Aircraft for Meet - Thrills, Some Crashes Expected | Close to 50 model airships taxied into show cases at the Red Shield | Reading Room in the Decker | Building last night as Juneau's jus | venile aeronautical experts checked | their entries in for the big model | meet to be held by the Rotary Club | tomorraw afternoon in the South- east Alaska Fair Building. | A few of the plane builders pre- sented good excuses and were given 'rain checks allowing them to enter| | their planes tonight at the read= {ing room, according to Harold | Roth, chairman in charge of the| event. When all the airships have t been checked, there may be eclose to 75 planes ready for competitive take-offs tomorrow, he declared. | Meantime, a surprise announce- ment by Rotarian Don Skuse last | night revealed that a handful of | planes built by Rectary members will alsp be entered in the meen;' in answer to a counter-challenge issued by the boys who are com peting in the contest. “Such as they are,” the Rotary-made planes ;will be on display starting at 12, noon, tomorrow, when the boys’ planes first go on review, Skuse declared. Real Competition With the ships to be on dis- play from noon to 1:30 p.m. to- morrow, actual flights to compete for the 15 big prizes offered will begin at the latter time, Roth stated. Looking over the planes en- tered last night, he predicted that the contest will be a. ding-dong battle for the sweepstakes award of a modern, stream-lined bi- cycle. “The planes may be small,” Roth pointed out, “but the public is |going to get a real thrill watching |those models make their flights. Many of the planes have never been tried out, while others have been flown several times so the <Conunued on Pago Exglm 20 PERSONS KILLED IN AIR CRASH |Second Trady Marks Worst Day in Com- mercial Aviation ST THOMAS, Ont. Oct. 31.—An ! American Airlines passenger plane | flying through light, drizzling rains | from Buffalo to Detroit, this morn- |ing crashed and burned on a farm ‘nenr here, killing three crew mem- |bers and 17 passengers. The tragedy occurred less than 24 hours after 14 others were killed in the crash of a Northwest Airlines plane near Fargo, N. D. With less serious accidents mu iking at aviation, the two crashes made it the worst day in the history | of United States commercial airlines ! The 20 persons killed were all [from the United States. ! Mary Blackley, 2T, stewarde: iwas the only woman victim. There is no immediate explana- tion of the disaster. Visibility was poor plane, on its course, a farm. When the plane struck, there was | | also when the crashed on day cakes with him, one a gift series of smaller ones and flamin from the Sisters of St. Ann. {gasoline gushed out. RAF Fliers Retum From Actlon in Russna This is one of the first photos to reach the United States showing Britis front. A Hurricane attached to the at the edge of a Red flying " Bundled for Britain ** RAF wing whic] h ‘wag-gent L Bundled up in heavy flying suits and sheep skin mukluks, Canadian army leaders are pictured beside the bomber which recently flew them to England. Left to right: Col. defense; Lieut. Col. George S J.E. Currie. Ralston, mi nister of national his executive assistant; and Muj Gen. H. D. G. Crerar, chief of the general staff, Congress Packs Drama Punch When Roll (all |s Taken on Vifal Bill By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. of real Congress come when chambers, and particularly House of Representatives, votes on some momentous bill on which the destiny of the nation may hang or at least as a result of which millions of lives may be affected I think perhaps the drama in the House is more tense, more stirring because of the cumber- ome size of that body. With its 130-odd members (there always wre vacancies because of deaths nd resignations); with its many shades of thought which often cut through party lines; with its limited debate, which makes it impessible for more than a small proportion of the members to ex- press themselves; the House vole the moments drama in one of 31L—To me| the | the| tothe Soviet's aid is park field as its Bnmh aw n\nrnl trou uld on the Nazis, on the Russian h fighting ai unfirm trees STRI KE A 1 GUN FA(IORY; [Dlredor Calls Off Pickels- | Hindered Defense | i Program | The CIO United Auto Workers resumed production today at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Company’s ma- chine gun plant near Detroit in| response to an appeal by the union’s ' regional director, who said the walk- | out was hindering the defense pro- | gram. About 1,000 union members among | 1,500 employees at the plant struck ‘Wednesday, charging the company ' had violated its agreement not to hire women for machine work until the policy of the matter had been negotiated. Wage differentials also were an issue. In Washington, Senator Herring announced he would sponsor legis- lation providing that union mem- bership will not be required “as a condition for employment on de- fense wcrk Y, | SIXBILLION BERAISED ~ INNEWTAX | Bill Now in n Preparation never is certain until the last clerk’s tally sheet. i Taxes th(lals Say i The recent vote on the change WASH!NGTON Oct. 31. Hl'h in the Neutrality Act to permit administration officials disclosed |the arming of merchant vessels is today they are in preparation of a an example. The “scientific sam- huge new tax program designed to plers” of House opinion had been|collect approximately six billion predicting for weeks thatthe meas- dollars in “excess purchasing ure would pass by a substantial power” frem the nation)s collective majority. Still, no one could say pocketbook. for sure just how large that ma-| The money will be raised by jority would be. The two days of debate were, €ial security taxes and other meth- gtate Coast Artillery, and widely over. Rep. Cliffon A, Woodrum of ods, officials said. istiffer regular taxes, increased so- |known club man, SHIP SENT T0BOTTOM Reuben Jafie? Hit, Sunk 0ff lceland - Navy An- nounces This Morning CRAFT WAS CONVOYING AT TIME OF DISASTER Full Parficulars Not Dis- closed, Nor Loss of Life Announced Today WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—The Navy Depariment early this morning announced the loss of its first warship in the European war, the destroyer Reuben James, a viclim of (orpedoing last night west of Iceland. First reports bronght no word of the po -\ilm loss of life, Until r which s iwni‘ a blow amidships October 17 but lost 11 men and ten wounded, the older Reuben James went to the bot- tom, WAS CONVOYING The Navy said she was convoy- ing on the North Atantic. The destroyer was the third American warship fired at and the second hit since President Roosevelt ordered the Navy last month to “shoot on sight” any Axis warcraf{ encountered. Whether the Reuben James or any accompanying ships were able to wreak any damage was undisclosed. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said any damage to enemy craft in the action probably A s A SRR S (R NI (Continued on Page Six) (GEN. BLETHEN PASSES AWAY AT SEATTLE Publisher of Daily Times, Well Known Club Man Dies af Age of 62 CLARANCE b. BLETHEN SEATTLE, Oct. 31—Cen. Clar- ance B. Bleticn, publisher of the Seattle Dally Times, officer in the died last night Virginia was in the chair, but as| The plan may be ready for pre-igt the ape of 62. His widow and the vote came up, moved out to sentation to Congress before Christ- roup sop. survive. let Speaker Sam Rayburn take Mas. | Clarance Hretiun Blethen fn- the reins. | Officials asserted that the neW porited o (radition of newspaper Even . before, tne bell, rings Program ls needed both to prevent gapyice to: hls city and state, and throughout, the House side of the Dflation, and to help finance the corried it on by editing & paper (Continued on Page Three) country’s ever expanding defense effort. L <Cununued on Pusl Five) | | | J