The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 11, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8877. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1941 RO BER PRICE TEN CENTS SSOCIATED PRESS GERMAN FORCES ARE TRAPPED 'HUNDREDS OF NAZI SOLDIERS BLOWN UP BIG BLUNDER IS MADE BY NAVY FORCES Two German Transports Sent Down by Lone British Submarine DEPTH BOMBS ARE %~ DROPPED ON VICTIMS Fewer than 200 of 3,000 Reichland Forces Said fo Be Rescued LONDON, Nov. 11.—The Norweg- fan Telegraph Agency reported here 1y that hundreds of German iers were blown to pieces when Nazi torpedo boats made a fatal Screen Beauties in News Ve | | | blunder while hunting down a lone ' British submarine which had sunk two German transports off the coast of Norway. Through some mistake in orders, the Nazi ships dropped depth charges among the troops in the water. The Norwegian agency said that fewer than 200 of the 3,000 Germans aboard the transports were rescued by a Norwegian ship which reached the scene shortly after the torpedo attack. WASHINGTON — Shortly before the Duke and Duchess of Windsor their last visit to Washing- Mrs. Roosevelt was talking to close friends about the im- visit, and also remarked Princess Juliana was coming the President a second time. Mr Roosevelt’s friends asked how she liked receiving so much royalty. In reply the first lady told in detail her husband’s views on the subject. She said the Pres- ident was talking recently to May Craig, correspondent for several New England newspapers, who told him she thought it was bad public relations to have so many kings, queens and princesses being enter- tained by the head of a Democratic nation. To this the President replied that aside from his delight in en- tertaining such charming guests, he welcomed them as representa- tives of truly democratic peoples. And many Americans, he added, sometimes forgot that these nation were of vital importance to the United States. Holland, for instance, he said, was a little country, but it had islands in the Pacific on which the United States was completely dependent for its tin and rubber. And explained how Queen Wilhelmina still held sessions with her cabinet: in London, and still had a great deal to say about the fate of these islands. “And just this week,” the Pres- made ton some pending that to Madeleine Carroll Romance of Madeleine Carroll, sc ferry pilot flying planes from Can been disclosed. Miss Carroll freqg see the pilot, Count de la Roziere, who had served as a flyer in the French Air Force before it was de: brought divoree proceedings again: Astley, in 1939. The other actress pictured, Ann Sheridan, has been invited by both Harvard and Princeton to attend football games and to be honorary editor of the undergraduate newspapers for a | day, She already has acce At the Armistice Day observance (held this afternoon at the Capitol {Theatre, Gov, Gruening imade a stirring, cloquent address, leliciting all to work for National iDefense in this peace-seeking world, in an all-out total war ans Istating that there can be no pass- {ive bystanders, and “we must crush Hitlerism.” Gov. Gruening said: President Roosevelt has called upon the people of the United States on this Armistice Day, No- | vember 11, 1941. “to show gratitude | for the past, to rededicate the na- jtion to the fundamentals of human (liberty, and to defend our future.” It is interesting to note how in- |separable are these phrases, part |of one sentence in the President's Armistice Day Proclamation, and {how they blend into a single ! thought. For surely “to show grat- itude for our past”, the first of the President’s three injunctions to the American people, is not to in- dulge in mere words of praise for the great blessings that we Am- Ernest | s!erican.s have enjoyed and continue |strengthened it by our participation, |to enjoy. We are clearly aware of | those 'blessings. To rehearse them (would, in the scriptural phrase, be |“painting the lily.” We are more than ever grateful for those bles- sings when we contrast our peace, [our” freedom, our security, our in- |numerable opportunities, rights and | privileges, our personal and our ;national independence, with the |absence of all these among the | cictator-ruled peoples and among the other, recently, free nations, that have now fallen prey to the enf Armistice Day . Address Made Today by Governor Ernest Gruening /AMERICANSTO WIN FREEDOM Duty to Those Who Died in| Last War Is Stressed by President WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Presi- dent Roosevelt said in an Armistice is morning that we | have a duty to ourselves and to those who died to gain our freedom to “make the world a place where free- dom can live and grow into the ages.” | | | The President declared that the | American people believe liberty is worth fighting for. “If they are ob- liged to fight, they will fight etern- ally to hold it,” he added President Roosevelt spoke in the circular marble amphitheatre of | | Arlington National Cemetery at | services conducted by the American | Legion. A few moments before his address, he had stood solemnly at | attention while an aide placed a wreath againts the tomb of the un- known soldier of the last World | War. SEPARATE AIRFORCE OPPOSED Ann Sheridan reen actress, and a French homber | ada across the North Atlantic, has | uently makes trips to Montreal to | ! stroyed by the Nazis. Miss Carroll st her first husband, Captain Philip pted the Harvard invitation. Undersecrefary of War, Says Army’s Planes Com- | bine Best Features | | WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 secretary of War Patterson, \article written for the Chamber of Commerce “Futur today rated air fore “the finest in the world,” adding they combined the most successful features of Bri-| tain’s R.AF. and the Nazi Luft- walfe, Palterson gave the appraisal in restating the War Department'’s opposition to Congressional agitu-‘ tion for the creation of a wholly independent air force as the third! division of the armed services. | - PIONEER ALASKAN IS DEAD Charles E. Taylor, Veteran: on Inferior, Passes Away in East FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov, 11.— Charles E. Taylor, 73, pioneer Al- aska lawyer, President of the Tan- |ana Valley Bar Association and | Fairbanks City Attorney, died at Mayos, Rochester, Minnesota, yes- terday morning, according to ad- vices received here. | Taylor stampeded from Tacoma, Under- in an Junior | magazine | the Army der, and which makes a virtue of sych crimes. Indeed is may be stated without tear of contradiction that this is the crisis of the ages. We have | had one other world war. We believed then that the issue of autocracy versus democracy was involved. In the years subsequent to the Armistice, not a few Am- Jericans began to wonder whether the first World War had not really | been a traditional conflict between | Old-world powers, long potentially | hostile, into which we finally en- | tered because our interest lay in preserving the freedom of the seas' and in striking down the menace of | Prussian militarism. As we H look | back we can have the satisfaction of feeling more strongly than ever! that we fought for the right and that the principles for which we battled were sound. Our great re- gret must be reserved for the tragic fact that our associates in that war could not maintain the peace that we helped win for them: and there! |are those who believe that had we | joined the League of Nations and | the present conflict might not have arisen. No one can assert postively | what might or might not have been. Certain it is that the United States entered the First World War without thought of aggrandizement, for territorial or other material | gains. ! Issues Given | But this we do know: That the issues and potential consequences | in that last World War pale into| insignificance beside the issues and | !asked to investigate en epidem German caption accompanying snow-covered wooden shelter on the eastern fr: pering th According to the official Russian action in the “naval theatre of war. have been harassing Naz shippin| Al Sza Hay Spedial In By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. Tt hasn’t been made public yet but the Department of Justice has been of the most amazing little reports to come out of ocean flying There have been about ten cases recently in which radio operators of the flying clippers report they have been denied bearings or any information as to their whereabouts by American ships at sea—and all of these completely outside the war zones. Here is the general pattern FDR (Alls ON' Gcnéral Wiu.tcr in Command on Eastern Front‘ ribes the scene as a oming of winter as this picture des e Nazi war machine in the Red Twins of Death—Set to Blast Nazis aption with this photo, these wicked looking torpedo tgbeu are ready for i It does not reveal whether this theatre is the Baltic, where the Reds g, or the Black Sea, where the Soviet drive toward the Dardane!les. Radio Operalors on Ships B Copbhamal i ge Sunjst 0 vestigationNow OF BRITISH not belodg to any union. “The operator then re- nlied: ‘Sol we can't help you' Any further efforts to raise the ship’s radio were unavailing.” One or two such reports by { trans-ocean fliers probably would have received no attention .at the Department of Justice but th number has caused some concern and it known now that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been asked to check on the reports, Just what action would be taken il these reports are found to be true has not been de- termined. ship’s is sault on Moscow NAIISARE CAUGHT IN RUSS NET Large Unitswl?eported fo ' Have Fallen Into Hands of Soviet Defenders PRISONERS CAPTURED ARE NEAR EXHAUSTION Hitler'sField Headquarters (laim Advances Are Made in Crimea (By Associated Press) Official Soviet dispatches today reported large German forces have been trapped near Volokolamsk, 65 miles northwest of Moscow. Nauzi prisoners captured in the bat- tle of the central front appeared ocompletely exhausted from this in- tensive phase of the Russo-German struggle, it is declared. In Crimea, a bulletin from Hit ler’s field headquarters said German | and Rumanian troops are continuing | to advance against the Black Sea naval bases of Sebastopol and Port Kerch, at the gateway to the Cau. casus. Details of the new gains were not given. Previous reports placed the Germans about 20 miles from Sebas- . topol and slightly farther away from Port Kerch. Russians were sald to be fiercely defending both points. GUERILLAS IN ATTACK - ONITALIANS Soldiers and Civilians In- jured in Surprise Bombing ROME, Nov. 11-—More than 24 Italian soldiers were wounded, one fatally, and 25 civilians were injured in sudden bomb and machine gun attacks by guerillas yesterday in the ! Spalato Dalmatia area of conquered Yugoslavia. Over 150 hostages were arrested after the incident, a Rome an. nouncement said today. Three bombs, which were hurled into the midst of a column of mili- tary bandmen in the Alpine Divi- sion while the soldiers were prepar- ing for the ceremony of ldwering the Yugoslavian colors, were said to have caused the casualties. SOVIET SUPPLY LINE IN ARCTIC REPORTED CUT Berlin Spokesman Claims German Troops Are a4 —1I. 1. N. Radiophoto German sentry on duty before a has played a major role in ham- navy has helped block the German 'BOMBROME" IS DEMAND Churchill Accused of Sup- " plying Hideout for "that Rat Mussolini’ LONDON, Noy. 11.—Prime Min- ister Winston Churchil today shied away from new demands raised in the House of Commons that the Royal Air Force bomb Rome. “Do you really think it wise to provide a hideout for that rat, Mus- solini?” asked Commander Sir Archi- bald Southby. But Churchill declined to go be- vond his previous statement that the RAF will bomb Rome “if the course Pressing On potentialities of the present second World War. Although the first :Vash..ttohthe Klondike in the early World War was fought on a scale 4ays of the gold rush. He practiced | " p reros i i without precedent, ;‘L was still on law in the Iditarod and Fairbanks Flyl;ng‘ e 1‘” d’x‘ v:)l‘)terr:e‘:“ v‘/: the whole fought as other previous and held numerous high official " it es: fiying the Is this an overstatement? Let the | wars have been fought. |fraternal positions. For a time, sishigERne B S. Rk, yu:fi, 1 facts speak: Shooting hundreds of | Then as previously war between Laylor was District Attorney at Am’evrlcan gt oo < m,m;‘,e m,eky the Princess Martha of Norway and|innocent people as hostages, suD-| nations was declared. Then as Nome in the early days. A it her children around so much, she:pression of every basic freedom, the | previously, the fighting was done| Mrs. Taylor was with her L A e o replied: “Oh, we really like them!” death penalty inflicted for merely‘by the armed forces. The casual-|band when he passed on &y piper, Infermatian e ident was quoted by his wife as ving, “I wrote to Queen Wil- helmina and told her that her daughter was going to visit us again.” When Mrs. asked her how she liked having which all of the complaints have of - taken: i \most ruthless, the most unscru- pulous, and the most bestial tyranny |in history. However, one ficial who has heard of the re- ports expressed the opinion they might have direct bearing on a| little known bill which already has passed the House of Represen- tatives and now is being stud- ied for report Lo the Senate by the Senate Commerce Committee. Boyernment of the war should render such action convenient and helpful.” BERLIN, Nov, 11.—German forces are advancing in the Karelian sec- tor east of Leningrad, cutting off the Arctic route of the Russian sup- ply of American and British goods, the military spokesman said today. Although the Arctic is more dif- ficult to block because of the great distance involved in active batile Facts Stated MONS TO SITKA Roosevelt’s friends! Pilot Shell Simmons made the only Alaska Coastal Airlines pas- sehger trip today, taking four pas- ing s and [ | listening to a foreign broadcast, the ties were almost wholly among the An unwritten law In nip might have which would aid 15 in making our destination. | sengers to Sitka and scheduled to The bill, sponsored in the House zcnes, strategists claimed German HOW WE GOT ALASKA hounding of people to death because Army and Navy strategists who stay up late studying the | lby Rep. Schuyler Otis Bland, of Teturn late this afternoon with five Virginia, others |inlets are progressing steadily to- Merchant Outbound passengers were Bob ward their objectives. i Jernberg, William van Kluck, Jul- e - |ius Fritsen and A. Havalla, BUY DEFENSE STAM! armed forces. Civillans were only! Jasper armies over hundreds of miles of ic; of their beliefs—these are the hall incidentally and accidentally mi Park, Alberta, is that a mountain “The ship's radio operator, in- 4 marks of a proposed “new order” yictims. When armies had march- | Pears the, name of the first person sicad: of supplying the informa- whose establishment is sought by ____ ito scale it and is recorded as such tion, asked what union we be- trickery, wholesale theft and mur- | (Continued on Page Eigl{t) on the government maps, longed to. We replied that we did J chairman of the House Marine and Fisheries | Page F —- —— (Confinuer on-ERMMPNR (Continued on Page Two)