The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 19, 1941, Page 1

S e VIL, VOL. 1 NO. 8884. == e AU, ALASKA, WhDNLSl_)/\j N()V l‘)4l EMBE R I‘) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JAPAN THREATENED BY BRITAIN SYMPATHY STRIKES NOW BREAKING OUT FLOOD HITS CITY IN OREGON 50,000 ARMY TROOPS HELD IN READINESS Roosevelt May Withhold Action in Coal Fields Un- il CI0 Convention Ends EFFORTS MADE T0 AVERT RAIL TIE- UP President Summons Labor, Company, Government Men fo Negofiations WASHINGTON, Nov., 19.—Sym- pathy strikes spread to the nation's commercial coal mines today and more were threatened as President Roosevell again conferred with gov- | | | | ernment officials and mine man- agement, and labor representatives i an effort to avert a looming strike | of railway workers. 1t was learned that 50,000 troops were in readiness to take over the mines if the President decided use them to back up his assertion that coal for the steel mills “must' be mined. Authoritative sources said the| President 1o would probably withhold | action on the captive coal mine dis- | pute, which affect 53,000 miners producing fuel vital to the steel mills, until after the Committee for Indust Organi tion concludes al (Cunlmued on Page Seven) 'f’ho WASHINGTON — To get the proper perspective on Representa- tive Ham Fish and his hiding be- hind the skirts of congressionalim- munity, it is necessary to know something about his background and recent activities. Hamilton Fish comes from an old aristocratic New York family which can trace its ancestry back as far as that of his Hudson Val- ley neighbor's, Franklin D. Roo- sevelt. Fish’s grandfather was Sec- re ministration and ‘in gemeral his family has not been the kind to hide behind the skirts of anyone. Fish, however, has Assuhed a thin-skinned attitude of late when- ever anyone practiced the right of comment regarding his multitu- dinous and interesting activities. Last year when these columnists exposed the fact that Mr. reiited his New York mansion, herited from his father, to the Nazi Consul General, the Con- gressman exercised his congression- al privilege of castigating the au- in- thors on the floor of the House, where he is immune from prosecu- tion More recently, the congressman proclaimed to the world that he| would be delighted fore the Nazi propaganda which discovered ary of State in the Grant ad-| Fish | | | | | to appear b(‘-! grand jury mvc.sugnung' TO KEEP FIGHTING NEW ATTA(KS’ SUCCCESSFUL, % ‘SAY GERMANS (Nazi Headquarters Claim | Capture of 10,000 Rus- | sians and 171 Tanks DEFENDERS ASSERT ; THRUSTS REPELLED Moscow, leningrad, Se- bastopol Subjected to Heavy Bombings (By Associated Press) Hitler’s Command today pictured German armies as lunging forward once more on the eastern front by |executing “new successful attacks,” while the Russians declared they had crushed Nazi attempts to pierce the Soviet battlelines on the north and south fronts of the Moscow de- fense setup. A Nazi military spokesman said German bombers raked both Mos- cow and Leningrad during the night | ,and left spreading fires in the cap- ital. A bulletin from Hitler's head- quarters reported 10,000 Russian prisoners captured and 171 tanks destroyed in the past three days but gave no other details of the new push. | NOVGORODP o ALININ VOLOKOLAMSK® ° MOSCOW. Finland rejected a U. S. she still was waging a defensive war. Map shows Finnish territorial losses (dotted areas), in the 1939-40 war with Russia. Finns said they had regained most of the territory except two vital areas, the Fisher and Hango peninsulas (circled), which still are in Russian hands. Black arrows indicate directions of Axis drives on Leningrad and Bloody Losses Soviet front line dispatches said ——— two German infantry regiments, ‘Columbia Now supported by tanks and armored cars, were driven off with bloody losses from repeated attempts to storm across the Upper Volga River in the Kalinin sector, 95 miles north of Moscow. S HITS MINE, | BLOWNUP; | SIXKILLED In Crimea In the Crimea campaign, accord- ing to the Germans, Nazi bombers violently attacked Russia’s naval base at Sebastopol, blasting docks, munition dumps and the ship har- bor, but there was no indication of a direct land assault against the stronghold. Meanwhile, England’s Foreign Sec- retary Anthony Eden briefly and cryptically disclosed that Britain is taking “military and naval action” | against Finland, Rumania and Hun- gary. WEYGAND RUMORED RESIGNED Aged Marshal May Step Down from Post in Vichy After Conferences VICHY, Nov. 19—General Maxim | Weygand, who commanded France’ (last wartime at arms, walked alony {the banks of the Allier River al |dusk today, slowly and alone, after a conference with Marshal Petain |which may determine France's fat¢ |and perhaps his own. Even as he walked with hand: |clasped behind his back, accom panied by not even his faithful aide, Major Gasser, rumors spread ‘m Vichy that he would step down rom his post as Petain’s proconsul 1m Africa. his rumor was followed swiftly Filipino Yacht Enters For- bidden Area, Manila Harbor-Is Wrecked s | MANILA, Nov. 19.—Mines pro- | tecting the entrance to Manila Bay took the first toll today when the Philippine sailing launch El Ipido was blown to bits off Corregidor Island with a loss of six members of | the crew. | Naval officers said six men were | rescued by patrol boats that braved | | the mine field. The six missing members of the crew were probably instantly killed or fallen prey to sharks. The yacht sailed into the pro- hibited area before it could be stop- ped by patrol boats. All aboard the yacht were Fili-| pinos. ‘[ King George IT King George II of Greece, now living in London since the Nazis took over his country, plans a visit to the U. 8. with a large entour- age. No date has been announced for the visit, > —— OUTBREAK ONBORDER REPORTED Clash Between Russians, Japanese Occurs Along Juneau Bound SEATTLE, Nov. 18 that Fish’s franked mail wasbem,,: used by a Nazi-financed commit- | CC tec. But later, when the grand jury|yn;o"moming with 122 first class issued the invitation, Mr. Fish did|, 4 19 steerage passengers aboard, not accept. And when finally the he fo)1owing booked for Juneau: jury issued a subpoena, he rushed| wiss Dixie McCoy, Mary Karlus, to his colleagues with the cry of|Allan Franz and wife, Rudolph Pu- congressional immunity. |sich, Mrs. J. V. Hickey, Louise Congress is like a big club. The Scruggs, Minnie Doyle, George O. Senate is now engaged in looking Gates and wife, Harold Morris, R. into the affairs of Senator Langer M. Keeny nnd wife. A BUY DEFENSE BONDS olumbia of the Alaksa Steamship Company sailed north at 10 o'clock Manchoukuo Frontier TOKYO, Nov. 19.—Another border | ioutbxeak is reported from Man- choukuo. Domei, Japanees news agency, said and two captured. The clash took place on the border when it is alleged Soviet guards | crossed the frontier about 24 miles (Continued on Plge Four) | west of Manchuli. one Russian soldier has been kflledI |y another that after the three ays of conference the aged mar- {shal Weygand had already yslgned but reconsidered and mig |accept a compromise, | - | HAWKINS GOING SOlJ'l H . W. Hawkins, pioneer merchant |of Sewerd accompanied by Mrs |Hawkins, is aboard the Aleutian [Ior the south, to spend several jmonths in California, [ | i | | Residential districts went underwater in Eugene, Or Sunday when sent the Willamette River over its banks, Intérnational Hiustrated News photo airmailed to READ FDR'S LETTER Th ¢ Empire. Speaker Sam Rayburn (leit) (D.-Tex.) and Rep. John W. McCormack (D.-Mass.), House majority lcader, read the letter President Roosevelt | them urging repeal of Neutrality Act restrictions on U. S. ship- ping. The letter was received just hefore the House dramatically | voted 212 to 194 to uphold the President’s request. ! Nafional Capifal Goes | In for Sports in a Way ; That's Really ‘Al Quf’ :: - By JACK STINN !a fellow .as Secretary of Commerce WASHINGTGN, Nov. 18— When |Jesse Jones heaye out the first ball i ¢ |to start its season? What other washingten goes for sports, it goes | eleven could boast a telegram from J1 out. Proof is the phenomenal | Sen. Carter € s that reads: “Sin- | way official and unofficial Wash- cerely hope Sammy Baugh will| ngton packs Griffith Stadium and | slam his way to victory in every| junkets to Pittsburgh, Philadelphi Now ol o | Chicags |#3me of the season and lead his| oY B";’ g oeas? | team to signal triumphs over his| bo. 9 hl“:“ A90tpa 5 gy [‘“” | |adversaries IS SE SN ”"””f"‘y :‘“'" Chi.|Who, on his elevation to head of| ,‘\.md!v(.nl in New York g M ithe New York Stock Exchange,| a0 :)h the fans Imm out. l(mv.v Crole:. "Ploase’ Faft {Rainda - that| better than in Washington, where| " iio ionce 1o the Redskins will| the Redskins play to an average |, .. of more than 30,000 persons Per| ywiore else Six years as the same|yionict gen. Gerald P. Nye, OPM (but not of course With the| oo pirector William 8. Knudsen players) was a Boston team.|,ng jesse Jones all sitting in the ing 50 percent or more of its| . poy and bellowing in unison | ames every season and drawing|r,. the same cause—victory of the a weekly gate of between two and Redskins? , in any way, be diminished.” { could you find isola-! three' thousands. | I bave been through some of| wrat ether pro or even college n could boast of having such (Continued on Page Six) i | foremost. the worst flood in fourteen years Above is a view of Nineteenth Avenue, East Side thoroughfare. STRIKE VOTE T0 BE TAKEN, - NORTHWEST Fmeen Thousand Lumber, Sawmull Workers fo De- mand Wage Increase SEATTLE, Nov. 19.—The member- ship of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union of the Puget Sound area, have been notified the North- western District Council has approv- led of taking a strike vote. Fifteen thousand members of the union will now take action on en- forcing demands for an increase in | wages. No date is set for the vote taking. iGENERAlS - SHIFTED ON STAFF ;High Command Change Is Announced by War Of- fice of Great Britain LONDON, Nov. 19, !lu' Army Command of Greal Brit- in VH-N h L»\v Allan Brooke, 58, of the Imperial eneral HMH and younger general nIHul were given key positions, is announced by the War Office today He is one of the youngest generals in Britain known to become Vice- Chief of the General Staff Brooke will assume his new posi- tion December 25 when the present | Ghief General Sir John Dill, reaches | | the irement age of sixty. Dill was | made a Field Marshal and will be- come Governor of Bombay when the |term of Sir Roger Lumley expires. - 'WALTER ERNEST DIES, GERMANY MUSKAU, (.mnmnv Nov. 19. Walter Ernest, 77, one of Germany" inventors and ientists, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize for | chemistry development, died yester- day. Ernest and others created a new | science of physical chemistry which bridges physics and chemistry. EDEN TELLS NIPPONSTO WATCH OUT Any Move fo Cut Burma Road, China’s Lifeline, Means Trouble GENERAL ACTIVITY SEEN, SOUTH PACIFIC | Member of Dlel Resigns When “Hot” Speech Refused Publication (By Awlllfll Press) Great Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden solemnly warned Japan today that any attack on the Burma Road, lifeline of China’s war supplies will “create a grave situa- tion” amid the Far East crisis al- |ready verging at an explosive point. Authoritative London quarters also cited Japanese naval activity in the | South Pacific as indicating that Japan is exerting “increased pres- sure on Thailand” which adjeins British Burma. Eden’s warning was voiced in the House of Commons and followed re- ports of massing of Japanese troops in northern French Indo-China, stirring conjecture that Japan may be planning to invade Yunnan Prov- incr- in an attempt to cut the Burma | Road. Trouble in Diet Shakeup of | | In Tokyo, a Japanese Diet mem- ber's speech has been banned from lipubhcauon, The speech is described |as “improper at this session and led the member making it to resign. | This created a sensation in the ex- lraordinnry “crisis session” of Jap- |an’s Parliament and 19 other mem- bers of the House also resigned, apparently in sympathy. ‘The Tokyo dispatch to the Unit- ed States telling of the incident was delayed and partly censored without any explanation as to what the Diet member said that was deemed im- | proper. Japan’s Tense Situation All other speeches of the current “crisis session” have been published. The speeches have strongly advo- cated the government’s military stand against the United States and Great Britain and in support of the alliance with the Axis Japan tensely awaits the result of the talks in Washington between Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu and the United States officials. LITVINOFF IS MIFFED, AIR SERVICE BAD Russian Diplfllat Insulfed When Minor British Of- ficial Bars Passage TEHERAN, Nov, 19.—Cold should- ered by minor British officials who barred his passage for Cairo on the British overseas airway transport, Maxim Litvinov, Russian Ambassa. |dor to the United States, and his |wife prepared to take a Russian plane tomorrow. British Minister Tran profusely apologized for the action of the | British plane leaving the Russian diplomat at the airport. Litvinov called it an insult, but appeared to have recovered his tem- per in the afternoon, however, as he boarded the. Soviet plane which brought him from Kuibyshev The Soviet plane was unable to leave when a thirty-mile wind and dust storm limited Vi.slbllfly S eee- Mrs. G. E. Krause returned to Juneau this morning on the Aleu- tian after a trip to Anchorage where Mr. Krause is operating a concrete products business,