The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 1, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA K “ALL THE, NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8869. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVI;MBLR 1, 1941, PIRE o Mb\'lBLR Abe(,lATI-D PREBS PRICE IEN CENTY MANY MEN KILLED, TORPEDO NG RUSSIANS EVACUATE ROSTOV CITIZENS KEY CITY TO BEDYNAMITED | BY DEFENDERS éateway fo Rich Cascasus Oil Fields Threat- ened by Germans UPPER DONETS RIVER FORDED, SAYS NAZIS Reds Deny Hitler's Claim | of Victory on Crimean Y Peninsula (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Russia today was reported ex- ecuting another massive “leap frog” withdrawal, evacuating most of the civilian population and machinery ' from Rostov on the Don River as the Germans smashed deeper into Upper Donets River industrial asin. Rostov, with a population of 500,- 000, is the gateway to the vital Caucosus oil fields and the squth- ern auchor of the 1,200-mile baltle- front. Engineers were reported to have already mined the port and were preparing to dynamite it. A bulletin from Hitler's the ced the Upper Donet at several points, apparently in a wide rlank— g movement nterMed to engulf ' the city. In the Crimea, mans are driving to capture the Black Sea naval base of Sebastapol, the Nazi high command said Ger- man and Rumanmn troops are ‘Ou: lCnnunued on PJgP Two) ~ihe 0 Crev Pearscs -d Robert . Alles "GO~ WASHINGTON — That sweeping housecleaning of officers now under | way in the Army Is going right up to the top. Nothing is being said about it, but three of the commanding gen-| erals of our four field armies are slated for other assignments. They are Lt~Gen, Hugh Drum, | 62, CO of the Pirst Army, with readquarters in 'New York City; Lt.-Gen. Ben Lear, 62, CO of the Second Army, with headquarters in Memphis; and Lt.-Gen. John L. DeWitt, 61, CO of the Fourth Army, on the West Coast. No_ immediate change is con- templated in the command of the Third Army, headed by tough- jawed Lt. 60, with headquarters in San An- tonio. As in the case of the hundreds of other officers ousted or shifted, the three lieutenant-generals will be replaced chiefly on the basis of | their showing in the ficld maneu- vers this year. Those directed by Drum are still in progress, but there has been a lot wanting in the caliber of leadership so far dis- played. The three army commanders will be succeeded by younger men with' ereater tactical ability. Drum, Lear and DeWitt are able' organizers and trainers. Generally they have done a good job in whip- ping their new armies of citizen coldiers into shape. The troops are far more fit and better trained than the AEF was when it went to France. But the need now is for com- manders with outstanding tactical skill who can lead large armies in (Continued on Page Four) field | headquarters said Axis forces cros-; where the Ger-' Gen. Walter Krueger,| Italian Plane Downed at Sea | ') hese drlmntm pictures show an Italian plane being downed by | British fighters during an attack on a British convoy in the Mediter- ranean. At the top, an Italian bombing plane dives down during the ‘attack through a hail of anti-aircraft fire. In the middle pic- ! ture a hit is scored and the plane is downed. At the right in this picture is the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal, whose planes drove off the attack. Bottom picture shows floating wreckage of ‘he Ital- | ian plane. British sources say 11 enemy bombers ' e med in this attack. “HUNS HURL MORE THAN AGGRESSION 200 NOW IN GHARGE, U. S. (IVICGUARD | o | {Germany Says U. S. De-|Next Drill of Ju Juneau Min-| ute-Men fo Be Held | stroyers Attacked Ger- | manNaval Vessels During Coming Week More than 200 Juneau men nrc\ BERLIN, Nov. 1—The German it lgweEmmen[ in a statement today|now enrolled in the Civic Defense! | his | charged the United States with ag-| Unit here, it was announced t ,g"isgmn morning by Frank Metcalf, chief| of the minute-men, following anj | The statement declared that the | United States destroyers Greer and |Kearny had attacked German naval | vessels. (President Roosevelt charged that Germany had started 1a “shooting war” with the torpedo organizational meeting last night at the city hall, attended by about 40 squad sergeants and mt,etesledu citizens. | The second drill of the defense‘r squads will be held sometime next| \attack September 4 in whichr1 the week, Metcalf , said, but declared| Greer escaped unscathed and M| yp,¢”the members of the defense| |2 second torpedo attuck October 17/ ¢ woulq not bé notified regard- when ‘the Kearny was damaged but . ¢pe qrinl before they hear the| ‘rewhed port.) | alarm sounded by the Alaska Jun-! | The German government also de-| equ mine siren and the old city! Inied the existence of the map which | fire pell. Men will be expected to| President Roosevelt “said in his| take their posts immediately, he Navy Day speech revealed a Ger-!gaid, in an attempt to clock just| man plan of the conquest of South how fast the 200 guardsmen can| | America. | be placed on duty inggase of a gen- | Earlier authorized sources in Ber- | uine emergency alarm. | {lin commenting on the Roosevelt| A meeting of the board of di-| |statement yesterday that the Amer- rectors of the defiense unit will be/ ican policy is unchanged said the| held tomorrow afternoon at the| President “is suffering from an up-|city hall, Metcalf announced. Be- that it is|sides Metcalf, members of the board include Tom Dyer, Harold Knight, Dan Ralston, V. W. Mulvihill, Wal- | set political stomach, ;noteworbhy how cautious he has| become and that apparently he is |feeling that he has bit off more in|ter P. Scott, Robert Schoettler, R. |recent days than he could digest.” E. Robertson,” H. B. Vandereest, | The official statement also char- 2nd Harry I. Lucas, now out of thej acterized as utterly false the state- | ¢ity- ments by President Roosevelt that Changes Districts the Reich intends to outlaw all re-| At the meeting tomorrow, bound- ligion and replace the bible w“h\aries of the 32 defense districts in | Hitler's Mein Kampf. the city may be rearranged, Met-' The statement says the Reich is| CAlf said, as the first drill last| {votifying all South American Coun- | Tuesday night revealed that some {tries through the diplomatic chan- |Of the districts are too large for| | nels of Germany repudiating Roose- | efficient patrol work while others| velt's charges | are too small to afford territory for |good sized patrol. : | Soap is added to most automo-| I connection with the Civic De-| bile grenses £o give them the oii- |fense Unit, pIans are now under el e el o) way for organization of a Home!| ness and staying power which they | ' ] do mot possess naturally. lCununued on Pnzz 'I‘wo) e 126 NIGHT RAIDS BYRAFMADE WIDEREGION i Ships at Sea Bo Bombed, Sent | Down—Key German Occu- pied French Towns Hit NEW ATTACKS MADE THREE ITALIAN CITIES Casualties Not Announced| But Immense Property Damage Conceded (BY ASSOCIATED PREES) Stepping up the battle on the west battlefront, Royal Air { | | Forces bembers hurled a mile Ieng fermation against the in- vasion ccast on evernight raids. The raiders bombed and hit ten ships at sea and key cities of German - cccupied France, alse Italy. Vessels hit and sent down include a'tanker, supply vessel and:elort ship' off the Nor- wegian cecast. The Italian High Command admits new' raids were made during the night and Naples, Licata and Palmere were hit. The Communique does not state the number of casulties but admits heflvy damage was dene. “KING ARRIVES AT HYDE PARK T0 SEEF. D.R. Says "All Phases of Situa- tion” May Be Dis- cussed Today HYDE PARK, N. Y, Nov. 1. Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada, arriving for a two-day conference with President Roose- velt, today told reporters “it would inot surprise me if all phases of the situation concerning the two na- tions should come up in the course of our conversations.” Asked if he expected to return to Canada with a complete under- standing, King responded that therc has been a complete understanding for a long time. Two previous meetings between |the Canadian and American lead- ers brought agreements to create a permanent joint defense board and also arranged for economic collaboration, STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 1, — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today's short session 2%, American Can 80, Anaconda %, Bethlehem Steel 61%, Com- monwealth and Southern 5/16, Cur- tiss Wright 8%, International Har- vester 49, Kennecott 337, New York Central 10 3/4, Northern Pa- cific 6%, United States Steel 52': Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow. (Jones averages: _industrials 118.11. |rails 28.32, utilities 16.58. B BRANT TO GO SOUTII The fisheries boat Brant is wiil bound for Seattle, it was learned today. Aboard.will be a number of fisheries officials, it is understood | |leave Juneau a week from today | | Victors of Vyazma Push Deeper Into Russia German tanks are shown moving eastward, deeper into Russia, following the Battle of Vyazma, according to the official German caption with this photo, which was flashed by radio from Berlin to New Moscow, liowever, claims that the Red army has thrown back a series unks in the vicinity of the capital. A British freighter, according to the Nazi caption with this photo from Berlin, is going to the bottom of the Atlantic, stern first, "Diplomaf's Diplomaf™ Does Duly in Solidarity 0f Westen Hemisphere By JACK STINETT WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Sleuth- ing for the birth of an uncopy- righted idea is no easy task. Our “good - neighbor policy” may be the macy. About the only men sent ithere were State Department Peck’s bad boys who spanking or political misfits who had to be taken care of in some orphan of .some administration | Way. which couldn’t develop it — bul Welles* new bosses sent him fo if that is so, then the man who|Tokyo. adopted it and nursed it to the| 1t was two years before he could lusty maturity now approaching is|get out of that land and away none other than Undersecretary of State Sumner Welle;.fi For more than years, this “diplomat’s diplomat,” as he has often been called, has worked for Western Hemispheric solidarity. from those sons of the Rising Sun| for whom he never has had any| affection, Then he was sent to Buenos Aires and happily plunged into the task of understanding our neighbors to the south and of es- tablishing a friendly economic and cultural relationship. By 1921, he was chief of the Latin American division in Wash- ington and, being only 28, was tne youngest man ever to hold that post. Coming from a New York fam- ily whose wealth would have made it simple for young Benjamin Sum- ner to spin out a life ‘of cultured ease, he chose the career of diplo- macy when he was in college. Then he chose Latin America as his “"‘;‘h:: o the State De.| EVen in that period, after he had broken with President Coolidge in varfment in 1915, he startled the|,o); o4 apparently, abandoned the bigwigs by asking for a post in| . : Sodlle it ¢ iregion wn,_“‘""" he had chosen in college, the 'Siberia of American diplo- (Continued on Page Ligm) Davy Jones Clatms a British Frexghter as the result of a German aerial atuek on s ¢oRvoy, | needed | | Pirst Lord of the Admiralty A. V.| T6MISSING INSINKING, DESTROYER Repofled Resmed NAVY DEPARTMENT HAS HOPES OTHERS SAVED ‘Berlin Aufhoritiess Admit | that U-Boat Probably | Made Sea Raid | WASI TON, Now. 1—A | heavy less of lilc in the torpe- I doing and siuking of the United ; States destroyer Reuhonm Jomes | off the ecoast' of Iceland by = German submarin: is feared today after the Navy announced that 41 enlisted men have been morning disaster... IN - Firstga rescucd sinee the Friday morn- disaster. This leaves some 76 men of Tna lvy De)-rlllm is tak- ing & “view as # is pos- sible survivors might have been picked up by other ships in the convoy. | It is admitted however that it will be several days before a | complete check will be pessible i because ships In the combat zenes rarely use radios in mak- | ing anncuncements of any kind | or even giving their positions. Spiri declarations in Con- gress are made as the result of the torpedoing and sinking of | the Reuben James. Senator Tom Connally said: | “This attack is unjustified and | .the dastardly sinking of the { Rcuben James must be av- | enged.” Senator George D. Aiken, Re- publican said: ‘‘President Reosevelt is personally respon- sible for any lives lost.” e BERLIN ADMITS IT BERLIN, Nov. 1—Berlin author- {ttles admit there is ‘a great pos- |sibility a German U-Boat sunk the \Reuben James. It is stated that \since President Roosevelt issued the lorder to shoct. the German Navy officers have been given thé same command. It is also admitted both German and Italian submarines afe AXIS LAYING =555 MINES, MANY CHANGES IN SECTIONS Nowi CABINET DUE British First Lord of Admir ', BEFORH_ONG alty Admits Increase in Adtion \Brifish Parliameni Mem- DEWSBURY. England, Nov. 1—| ber Claims SWDTISBS Coming in Govt. ing their work in removhn! mines, «chfl"m nvoly especially around the ocean side 10 the British of the British xsles minant . See Radiophoto York. of savage attacks led by massed Alexander said Axis U-Boats have increased mining uctlvmes since the | Noy i L Cabinet several big names vernmnet are im- to Edgar Louis o Grenville, Liberal National member lof Parliament. The changes may m-'ct Lord Bu., rbrook, the Min- o[pm THEBETTER @i’ 5 o i | Ambassador o Wa ton and a | member of the War Cabinet. BECKLEY, W. V., Nov, 1.—~When! Granville made the statements at W. E. King went to work back in a business man’s luuchoen, assert- 1907 for a lumber company, he found ing that “there will be surprises; an old comptometer in the office. Churchill mn't be given a ‘win the He has used it ever since, and can war’ Cabinet. make it do almost anything but talk | Beave:brook is known to be suf- back. “I wouldn’t think of trading fering with asthma and Halifax has my old comptometer for a new one,” peen the main target of the House says King. “Not even even-steven.” ;01 Commons minority, e BUY DEFENSE BONDS ing ng BUY DEFENSE s rAMPS