The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 21, 1941, Page 1

e e R THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1941 e PRICE TEN CENTS (COAL MINE STRIKES SPREADING BRITISH MAKE SURPRISE ATTACK ON AXIS Proviow of 42 Baach s | (ONFERENCE X o OFKURUSU VOL. LVIL, NO. 8885. 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS QUICK MOVE IS MADE IN Rescued at Last! But It Was a Long, Long Wait |WALXOQUT ' OF MINERS ~ CONTINUE I | i | | j 1 : | IS STOPPED | NO. AFRICA PPED - (0N < hl s H 5 | | . . . Spearhead Driven for Dis- | Roosevelt Says No New, iMe?i::_;Elgisi': ran'FfiLfi“(?ufl fance of Fighty Miles, | Developments-Awaif | i ing Rate Sudden Campaign | Word from Japan | l S0 OFFENLS(;\'I‘% rll)almgm‘ g e e ——— e f OFF FOR ACTION | cpments in the current Japan- | Perilous predicamen n rafts . . . tosse sea ! A R | | imeen Sepancss Emvey Sabure | TS : T |Federal Move Is Held in For First Time English and meat Jooking toward & batter | = G o R = | Abeyance Unfil Policy Germans Meet in Equal- | by ' Committee Reports ly Well Armed Forces “ ik ;vdar_:“.":;;(r-";:::xl:;el:\l:. briush: ! } WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. — With ) (BY 'mj ATED PRESS) | ::::‘:‘;ul:;‘sq::::-t.h;;:'a‘:,:e‘r'::r ‘:::lk?xxemhl::"mm:‘:l: 1C:B : ':em \l'l“rn;mn‘ lmillli‘tatr{h advices | son to be optimistic by sa i ralnrmh\gwrnt,:, sp‘:-;sidem it o from Cairo state that the armor- | hat an inquiry of that type was | | ind a; bt N ¢d British spearhead is knifing | | | ::m:l:n' 5o qu:stillmt.} ] i:(;l,m&::, 'fsgry, :,"m. 4 ;:3‘:,:1 ‘éi > 14 5 ” 1 g%- kg the A siege lines around To- bruk and other columns have | passed the stronghold to the south after an advance of eighty miles in the surprise offensive. The British spokesman also announces that the main battle has not gotten underway yet and wili wait until desert forces are to make the big strike against German General Rom- melle, Chief of the North African | you stopped beating your wi Today the conversations be- | tween Kurusu and Secretary of State Cordell Hull were reported to be at a standstill as the Japanese envoy awaited further instructions he was to receive from Japan. \ -oe FIGHTING IS |action in the captive coal mine | dispute before he rccives the reply |of President John L. Lewls tomor- | row stating the position of the Unit- L ed Mine Workers Policy Committee, | Prestaent, Rooseveit also suid there | are no developments, when asked if | any couise of action has been deeld- led on in thie matter of labor legisla~ tion. The reply was there is “no news” in that direction. The comments came after com- IR Judith Woodbury and Helena Brinton Like these bathing suits? Well, you can look for them to become popular on northern beaches next summer. Previewed at a Beverly Hills, Cal, show, Judith Woodbury at the left wears a one-piece satin lastex suit with matching crepe jacket with broadleaf pattern and Helena Brinton at right wears a one-piece flouncette in crepe Jaton taggeta. Survivors in whaleboat waiting rescue These graphic pictures, released by the British, show the survivors of a British ship that fell victim to a Nazi submarine somewhere at sea, iting rescue as they are tossed®about on rafts, a whale- boat and on an overturned lifeboat. A British destroyer rescued the men. It was from the rescue ! Axis Corps. (Continued on Page Six) ~ihe | | WASHINGTON—Though he has 1 stayed out of the limelight, few men have played a more important role in the recent war effort than Maj.- Gen. James Burns, the man Roose- | { velt is picking as our new Ambassa- | dor to Russia. For about a year Gen. Burns has been attached to the White House to expedite Lend-Lease goods to Fritain and Russia. He has done a hard-driving, efficient job. More recently, when he accom- panied Averell Harriman to Russia, Gen. Burns was the one man in the mission who got out of Moscow and had a look-see at the long Russian frent extending south to the Cau- casus, One story he brought back from that trip was how the Russians had picked up an entire airdrome from in front of the Nazi attack, trans- ported it well behind the lines, and set it up with underground machine shops and hangars in thirty days. The man who really discovered 3urns was Louis Johnson, ex-Assist- ant Secretary of War. Burns was a low-ranking colonel buried in the War Department when Johnson rec- ognized his ability and put him in charge of industrial mobilization. As Johnson was about to retire as ssistant Secretary, Gen. Marshall asked if he had any final requests to make. “There is just one thing you can do for me,” Johnson replied. “Pro- mote Colonel Burns to the rank of | Major-General.” Jurns got the promotion, and also was assigned to the White House where he has been almost ever since. NOTE: National Defense would be far better off today if the War De- | pa ent had followed the industrial mobrlization plan worked out by Burns and Louis Johnson. CONGRESSIONAL LUBRICANT! Capitol newsmen were joshing Representative Henry Steagall Alabama, Chairman of the House Bank Committee, about a published SUnk an Italian tanker and also a skaters today. ——— German supply ship in the Medi- the glacier lake today and found (Continued “on Pns; Four) i Thousands Are Killed and BLOODY NEAR Thousands Imprisoned by MOSCOW NOW Axis in Occupied Countries Moscow Defender Marshal Shaposhnikov ‘Marshal Boris N. Shaposhnikov, above, is the new chief of the Soviet general staff, succeeding General Zhukov, now in command of the Russian armies on the cen- tral front. Marshal Shaposhni- kov is responsible for the defense of Moscow. { Sent Down By Brifish LONDON, Nov. 21.—The British submarines have torpedoed and terranean, LONDON, Nov. 21, — The ! Inter-Allied Information Com- mittee asserts that 100,000 per- sons, men, women and chil- dren, have been killed and many thousands imprisoned, whole villages have been de- prived of meat or burned in a | “hostage terror” campaign sweeping nine of the Axis oc- cupied countries. Terrific Battling Is Taking Place on Soviet 211- Mile Defense Arc | LONDON, Nov. 21.—A Soviet radio broadcast picked up here reports “bloody fighting is now in progress” in three sectors along Moscow’s 211- mile defense arc The Red Armies, according to the broadcast, have beaten off violent new offensives which were launched At least 82,000 Poles have been killed, the committee says, giving special data to sustain the facts. NAVYMAKES SENT DOWN BIG ATTACK, BY SOWIETS NEw F R 0 NT | Reinforcements Enroute fo Light Brifish Craft Shells, N%:alcll??:le:::ldée\;l:gt Axis Forces in Salum ; Halfaya Campaign MOSCOW, Nov. 21.—It is officially announced this afternoon that the Russian Red Navy has sunk a /5,000~ By LARRY ALLEN Asseciated Press Correspondent —ee ton German tanker and three Axis | transports in the Barents Sea. | Apparently the fleet was enroute g With units to reinforce the Axis forces in the Far Arctic North, ABOARD A FLAGSHIP OF TH BRITISH MEDITERRANEAN FLEET OF LIBYA, Nov. 21—Brit- — ish cruisers and destroyers and other light naval forces pumperliwein Aiflines 'o hundreds of shells into the center of the German and Italian resis-' i ] Y |tance, Salum Halfraya, a few BHYM!row Se"l(el hours before the British Army . started the offensive. A“'horl'y Gramed The naval forces pounded the 3 .‘.\'xxxbumn concentrations and sup- | WASHINGTO_N. Nov. 21. — The e onace, | Civil Aeronautics Authority has e % |authorized the Wein Alaska Air- NO SKATING YET lines, Inc., to purchase the Mirow Mendenhall Lake ice is not thick Ajr Service, The price is said to be of | Admiralty announces that Britisn enough for safe skating, the Forest|$65,000. Service Admiralty Division warned The Mirow Air Service operates Rangers inspected |mostly on Seward Peninsula and the Wein Alaska Airlines, Inc., cen- the ice less than one inch thick. jters at Fairbanks. ship that the pictures were taken. U. S. General in Egypt Il | 4 i Maj. Gen. J. H. Burns (right) of the U. S. Army, chats with two officers of the British RAF on his arrival in Egypt. Gen. Burns is with Britain’s imperial army of the Middle East on lease-lend business and as an observer. British Gef Revenge on Nazi Sub that Sunk Ark Royal, Aircraff (arrier LONDON, Nov. 21.—The Brit- ish Admiralty announces that the German submarine which it 24 AXIS PLANES is that sunk the aircraft carrier Ark | Royal, has been destroyed in mu’ NEw BAI"".E AREA Mediterranean The British subs Corvette and | e : g Marigold destroyed the German X_C"m(" Kot 31,08 Ry Al : | Force announces the destruction undergei. joont | yesterday of 24 Axis planes in opera- rhirty-four of the crew of the | tions in the new North African cam- German sub who leaped off the'| pajgn. craft when depth bombs forced it The official communique admits to the surface, were picked up by | that nine British plar e missing the British subs. i v o’ r'he Nazi craft was then bombed | Changsha, China, is the home of the shattered hulk sank be- a college for Chinese maintained neath the waves, by Yale University. and GOING TO BE TOUGH WITH VICHY GOVT. ' United Siat.e?to Restudy | Relations Because of Nazi Inclinations WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. — The United States has notified the |mittcemen had been notified that | ten more mex, three of them pickets, | were shot and wounced in a new |clash today between pickets and |non-striking miners in Fayette | County, Pennsylvania, where three | were previously wounded. | The new disorders came after 50 or 75 carloads of United Mine Work- ‘ers pickets were driven from nearby ! Washingten County, ! Sympathy strikes, not covered by ! the strike call, have already spread |to 75 pits, employing 46,000 miners. | More than 25,000 mivers are out at captive mines nreviously affected ‘va the strike cal . —— LEWIS IS - OBSTINATE, !Vluny Government that this Na-! | plete restudy of the relations wn,:n: | France because of renewed signsf (the French regime is moving l,u-I ward closer collaboration with Ger-| i comeyd H 1 . %) | . Gnier secrtary o siate wanes) Will Nof Even Budge from | stated the case directly to Caston | HH ! S | - e e e o ouviow | Position of Mo Comprom : SRR i RN | WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Hopes | |of a settlement in the captive coal |mine strike without Government "‘ |action, reached the vanishing point | IERMS FDR |fused to budec from his no com- | | promise position. This was in view [] g |of the fresh atterupts of President pooR Fool | Roosevelt late last Wednesday af- Lewis flatly rejected any new | e Ipeace formula saying he spoke solely for himself but no formal ‘European Laborers Hear ;¥ policy commitiee meets on Sat- f ' { barians’ of U. §. | R TR ST | 14 BERLIN, Nov. 21.--Calling Amer- | o o o s (icans “cultureless barbarians,” and | | President Roosevelt a “poor fool,” | ers from 14 European countries that | . |unless Europe “finds herself,” she M y Ley did not say, however, that | prlsoner | many or any Nazi-occupied countries | d “ and laboring men are getting a bare | |living wage and very little to eat. |rqqdio broadeast picked up here re- Re-opening of public .schools heen identified as the son of Rus- |shows sharp declines in registra-'gjan Foreign Commissar Molotof. * tion of pupils in many sections|The man was taken prisoner on the tion is compelled to make a com- ! | many | during & conference } ise for Seftlement i | |yesterday as John L. Lewis re- | ternoon. reply is possible until the Union's ’ ) About Cultureless Bar- |21r Dr. Robert Ley, head of the German | will be crushed by Americans, there are no unions now in Ger- NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—A German | ST ports that a Russian prisoner has of the country. mem Front.