The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 5, 1941, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8872. JUNI /\U Al ASKA WEDNESDM ’\J()V MBI R 0% JAPAN NEARS WAR r)4| ON PACIFIC LY ALASKA EMPIRE Ve . i —— PRICE TEN CENTS CRIMEAN ARMIES SPLIT INTO 3 PARTS NAZIS DRIVE ACROSS RANGE T0 BLACK SEA Reds Claimed Fleeing fo, Balaclava Where "Light Brigade’ Rode RETREAT LIKENED T0 FRENCH FIASCO | Russians Have Befter Luck | on Central Front Re- (apiure Kalinen Hitler’s @ ed to have stormed across the rug- ged Yaila Mountains and reached the Black Sea, thus apparently splitting Russia’s Crimean defense forces info three parts after a 100- mile advance in eight days. The Berlin radio compared the Red armies’ retreat to the British- | French withdrawal from the bloody | fields of Flanders to Dunkerque last year, tered with smashed trucks and ar- tillery while snow drifted across corpses heaped in roadside ditches. Pursuing Russians The German troops were pictured (Continued on Page Eight) WASHINGTON — The President was putting it mildly when he an- nounced that the present $212.000,- 000 tank program will be doubled. Real inside is: plans for a two to three billion dollar program that will boost output from 800 to 3,000 light, medium and heavy (60-ton) tanks a month. So far none of the 60-tonners is in production. The fact that a big chunk of the new money will go for heavy tanks is highly significant. These mam- moths are primarily an offensive weapon, and lack of them by the British is a chief reason for their failure to attempt an invasion of | Nazi-occupied Europe. One thing the war has proved con- clusively is that without adequate tank equipment an offensive is im- possible. That's why the British have been pinned down for months to position warfare in North Africa. During the summer they twice at- tempted to dislodge the Nazis and | both times were beaten back by superior tafik forces. The exact number of heavy tanks contemplated in the new program is a military secret. But it will be sev- eral times more than what the Nazis are believed to have. Also the new monsters will be heavier armured and gunned. They will be equipped with anti- aircraft guns as well as 37 mm. ma- chine guns and will be impervious to the fire of light tanks and even self-propelled anti-tank weapons. FROM AUTO PLANTS T'he bulk of the proposed new tank program will be concentrated in Michigan Illinois Indiana and Ohio automobile centers. Farm machinery plants also will be fitted into the scheme. Motors will come from a number of factories in various parts of the country. One, the $4,000,000 Guiberson-Diesel plant under con- struction at Dallas, Tex., will turn out oil-burning motors. Concentration of the new program in auto plants will have the double (Continued on Page Four) mies today were report- | declaring the foads were lit- | | rendezvous of gayety. Other artists Handshake for Duchess A cordial greetirg was extended to the Duchess of Windsor (left) by Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt when the Duchess visited the First Lady in her office at Ci n Defense headquarters where Mrs. Roose- vell is tant director. The meeting was arranged when the First ady announced she was leaving Washingten and would be unable to ]il‘('\l(ll at a White House luncheon for the Windsors, | UFFDANCER GAME BOARD ISTO MEET IN 'WASHINGTON 'Alaska Commissioners May Seek Resident Li- | censesfor Army, Navy The current controversy over is- isuing resident Alaska hunting li- censes to Army and Navy per- | sonnel and other transient work- jers in the Territory is due to be |aired in Washington, D. C., during | January, when the four-man Al- |aska Game Commission holds its jannual meeting at the national | capital, it was revealed today by | Frank Dufresne, executive officer of the commission. | The meeting will be the first sessicn of the Alaska Game Com- 2 e j mission held outside of the Terri- Rivaling fan dancers may soon he |tory,in the history of the game the muff dancers, whose graccful |bcard, Dufresne said. The meeting exponent, is Claudette Hanley of | Will get under way January 11 and Evansville, Ind, who performs |iS expected to last 15 days. The “The Dance of the Muff” at San | commission = ordinarily. meets in Francisco’s swanky Melody Lane, 4Jm}cau on years whey the Terri- ;lOl‘Xfll Legislature is in session he.e and ¢2 other cities throughout the Territory on other years. | The Washington, D. C., session is being called because of many prob- |lems which have been presented in {game law enforcement due toe the " {influx of newcomers brought to [ | Alaska by national defense work, BEAVERBROOK S | Dufresne said. There is a need for ‘u:vamx)lna of the present Alaska HEA[]‘H ls BAD- |game law structure, he declared. Draft Amendments OSI\ At the national capital the game MAY OUII p commissioners will work closely ‘.\uh Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, | Dufresne said. Aided by Dimond, they are expected to prepare of the terpsichorean muft are Yvette Melrose of San Diego and Sherrye Hurley of Sacramento, both of whom starred at King Howard's \rl('lmlv Lane. LONDON, Nov. 5—Lord Beaver- brook may resign from the Mini try of Supply, according to well informed quarters close to the gov- ernment. The move will be made because of ill health and will not neces- sarily mean that he will give up public life. For the past week he has been suffering from asthma. = D laws and present them to Con- sion will also testify before budget and other congressional committees with a view toward increasing th: scope of game operations in the Territory, it is understood. In regard to the issuance of BUY DEFENSE STAMPS i (Continued on Page Two) ,'amendments to the Alaska game! ss for approval. The commis- | NAZI SUBS OPERATING NEARLAND 'U-Boafs Declared Active Within Sight of New- foundland Shore | TORONTO, Nov. 5—Navy Min- ister Angus MacDonald today said submarines are operating “off the| coast of Newfoundland within sight of shore” in a statement made when | reporters asked him to give further | details of his report to the House | of Commons last night that Can- adian ships have sunk more than one German U-boat Rear Admiral Neeles, Chief of Staff of the Canadian Navy, was present and gave his approval to the stament, saying that “the Ger- mans certainly know where they | are.” | > STRIKEOVER; WELDERS 10 60 T0 WORK Washington Agreement Ends Walkout-1,700 Men Back on Job SEATTLE, Nov. 5—By telephone and radio strike headquarters of the Seattle Welders and Burners Council began summoning the weld- ers to return to work immediately upon receipt of word from Wash- ington this morning of the settle- ment and end of the 15-day welders strike which crippled millions of dollars worth of national defense work in this area. Jack O'Brien, Council President, said he was notified of the settle- ment in Washington by Dave Basor, Council Executive Secretary, at 7:53 aun. Within 10 minutes O'Brien and his aides were busy broadcasting the word to 1700 strikers here and in Tacoma to go back to work. CONFERENCE TO BE CALLED WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. — Asso- ciate Director Sidney Hillman of the Office of Production Management said Keerl Morris, President of the United Welders, has been designated to call an open meeting as soon as the men return to work in the Pa- cific Northwest. Hillman said the O. P. M. will call a conference of the welders and O. P. M. labor officials, representatiyes and other labor organizations inter- ested in the dispute in an effort to find a permanent solution to the welders’ troubles. Boxer Here Southbound The Office of Indian Affairs boal Boxer is due to arrive in Junea sometime this afternoon, accordit o Claude Hirst, Alaska superir tendent of the Indian service. Headed for Seattle when a broker suxiliary engine turned her bac from a trip to the Westward, th Boxer is returning from her Iu trip of the year, Hirst said Due to board the Boxer here {7 vacation in the States is Ce Everetts, Signal Corps, Unite« States Army. - - | JUST CONSCIENTIOUS | MANHATTAN, Kas—Police, in formed that a drunken truck drive was “weaving all over the street found he merely was trying to mis Joverhtmging tree branches so thal they wouldn't scratch the finish of \the new cars he was delivering. U.S. Patrol Over Greenland’s Icy Mountains in solitary splendor a U. S, Navy PBY air patrol plane wings its way on a flight over our far northern outpost in Greenland. Far be Brothers Under Two F]ags These brothers are both doing their bit to help st serving under different flag home of their mother, Ris dian Air Force flier, and l‘ldhk ¢ Meliogh, U, S, Army m;, ant. Uncle Sam Is Now Warring on Sabofage; Incidents and Methods (In the World War, ¢ sahotage were reported two and half years the United States entered the | plies conflict and the 1914-17 list of such cases would fill more than a column of small type. At present, with the United States far outstripping its arms production effort of 25 years ago, there has not been dis- covered a single case of for- rizn-directed sabotage. In two articles, Jack Stinnett, Wash- ington columnist for The Em- pire, explains why and how sabotage has changed in the quarter century.) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. — On‘ january 1, 1915, ‘a $1.500,000 in-1 . manufacturing e most amazing el » cases in world defense efforts with staggering rep- suspicious origin plant and another occurred in the three weeks That summer unsuccessful effort planting his bomb in | the Capxml, | the room juat off tm Senate chamber, low is nothmz but lcy wastes as winter begins slowly to close in. This is an LAGUARDIA 'WINS THIRD MAYOR TERM 'Maurice Tobin Re-elected ' Mayor of Boston, De- feating Curley Fiorella LaGuardia won his third term as New York's short, bustling Mayor as he came from behind in yesterdays balloting to defeat Will- iam O'Dwyer, Democratic candidate, and assure himself of another four- vear tenure. Although he controls the nation’s largest city, LaGuardia’s plurality of some 133,000 votes was the smallest in his three successful campaigns. In Virginia the Democrats rolled up a landslide majority to elect their gubernatorial nominee, former Con- gressman Darden Boston's election saw Maurice Tobin win re-election as Mayor, thwarting the comeback campaign of his arch rival, James Curley. New Jersey’s Governor Charles Edisons attempt to wrest control of the New Jersey Legislature from the Republicans failed, despite the Gov- ernor’s statewide stumping tour - JOINT DEFENSE BOARD SET UP BY KING, FDR. Allied Group to Coordinate Production Capacity of U. S. and Canada WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 The White House announced today that President Roosevell and Prime Min- ister MacKenzie King of Canada ° have created a l12-member Joint Defense Production Committee to coordinate the capacities of the two countries in the production of defense materials The new board was set up on the . recommendation of the Joint Eco- nomic Committee of the two coun- tries. Milo Perkins, executive di-' rector of the Economic Defense Board of the United States, was named chairman of the American group. CONFLICT IS BEING URGED NOW Newspaper;ACIamor for Showdown by United States on lssues SPECIAL EMISSARY T0 BE SENT, WASHINGTON Seven-Point Pfogram Be- ing Submitted for Ap- proval of U. §. TOKYO, Nov. 5--The Japanese government announced today that it is sending Saburue Kurusu, former Ambassador to Germany, to Wash- ington by a trans-pacific clipper in a new attempt to reach an accord with the United States “in view nf the very serious situation prevail= mg.” The Tokyo spokesman said ar- rangements for Kurusu’s trans-paci- tic flight were made by radiophone talks last night bétween American Ambassador Grew and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. As a resut of the arrangements, he sald, the clip- per's departure from Hongkong will be delayed two days Lo enable the emissary to cateh it Javan Alarmed On the surface, the urgency of Kurusu's journey appears to be an indication that Japan is now thor- oughly alarmed over the possible eruption in the Pacific. There are indications too, that Germany, Japans Axis partuer, may be putting heavier pressure on Tokyo to assume an active role in the Euro- pean conflict, perhaps attacking Russia from the east or hampering United States aid to Great Britain by hostilities with the United States. Newspapers Attack U. S. For several days past, the Jap- anese newspapers nave renev d their attacks on the United States and openly demanded & “final show- down” thus reversing the previous week'’s agitation of overtures to tue United States and Great Britain to accept Japan as a mediator in the European war. Domei, Japanese news agency, says today, that Kurusu will second the efforts of Ambassador Nomura to “explain the Japanese situation to the United States leaders, including President Roosevelt himself.” Seven-Point Program This development coincided with a bold declaration of the Japan Times- Advertiser, daily newspaper, of a seven-point program it is said, whereby the United States should “make effective her own initiative” in the tense Pacific situation. The program outlined called for the halting of all military and econ- omic aid to China, stopping the al- leged encirclement of Japan, ac- knowledgment. of Japan's co-pros- perity sphere, recognition of Man- choukuo, lifting the freezing meas- ures and the restoration of trade treaties. JUST A COURS WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 C tary of State Cordell Hull said the State Department has cooperated with Japan in faciitating arrange- ments for a trans-pacific flight of Saburue Kurusu, as special emis- sary, to come to Washington and assist Japanese Ambasador Nomura in efforts to reach an understand- ing with the United States in the serious situation on the Pacific Secretary Hull explained at a con- ference of newsmen that such col- laboration is merely in the nature usually extended between countries to a foreign emissary traveling. He said he knew of no new proposals for the Far Eastern settlement be- ing brought here by Kurusu. - The fish rescue crew of the Mis- souri conservation commission has saved approximately 500,000 fish from drying streams, sloughs and Y l ponds this summer.