The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 24, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8887. ]UMAU. .\l ASKA M()l\l)\\ NOVEMBE R 24, I‘)4l VthBhR ASSOLIATl' D PRESS n\l* E TEN (L;fl'& SEWARD HIT BY FIERCE BLAZE GlGANTlC BATTLES RAGING ON 2 FRONTS BRITISHIN HARD FIGHT, NO. AFRICA Week - oId—OHensive‘ Aqainst Axis Forces Go- ing ""Extremely Well” INVADERS APPROACH CLOSER TO MOSCOW Russians Admit Retreating Inch by Inch in One Northern Sector (By Associated Press) Two of the greatest battles of the present war are being fought today in Europe and in Africa. The Germans claim their Moscow offensive has carried them to a point about 31 miles from the capital city the closest yet while the British, veering somewhat from their past optimism over the North African of- fensive, acknowledged they have a tremendous fight on their hands. The German High Command said | that among the new gains on the Central Russiain Front, they have captured Solnetsch Nogorski, about 31 miles northwest of Moscow. “Enemy” Encircled In London, authoritative sources said the battle of Libya, now round- Burbara Britton, golden haired Long Beach, Cal., girl, who re~ cently was chosen “Sun God- dess” of the All-Winter Sun Festival, {o rule over the 300 events of the Southland’s winter tourist season and serve as host- ¢ss to an expected 650,000 winter guests. ing out the first week, has entered ~ the second stages of “defeat to the! encircled enemy,” but that fighting is so confused it is not possible to say how the struggle between men and machines on the desert is pro- ceeding. The first pha_se o! the North Afri- ‘Con(mued on Pa°e Eight) ~the N N G@ WASHINGTON—The inner mo- guls of the America First Committee have some secret and highly signi- ficant plans up their sleeve. These plans touch the realms of politics and propaganda. They were lengthily discussed last week at a secret Washington meet- ing of the ruling members of the America First Executive Board. Also. present were Senators Burt Wheeler and Gerald Nye, Representative Karl Mundt, South Dakota Republican, and Archbishop Francis Beckman of Dubuque, Towa. General Robert Wood, America First boss, presided. The plans deliberated covered a four-point program: 1. A move to impeach Secre- tary of the Navy Frank Knox. An anti-war drive among the clergy of the country on the basis that Communism will sweep over the United States if it becomes involved » in war. 3. Redoubling of isolationist agitation, with scores of Lindbergh, Wheeler, Nye, and other rallies in every section of the country, coupled with an intensified radio barrage. 4. Organization of a new po- litical party to back isola- tionist Congressional and State candidates in next year’s crucial elections, as a prelude to a Presidential ticket in 1944, headed by Lindbergh and Wheeler. President Roosevelt was originally considered for an impeachment at- 1’\(& but this was drnpped as likely (Com.mued on PAae Four) WAR REPORTER 15 VISITING N | CAPITAL CITY Chicago Daily News Cor- respondent to Visit Sit- ka, Kodiak, Anchorage If Canada were to devote as much effort to the construction of the International Highway as she |has to the building of the Calgary- Whitehorse radio beam system, a passable road could be in use with- in six months, according to Robert J. Casey, veteran Chicago Daily news reporter in Juneau today after a flying trip along the wilderness network as a guest of the Canadian | 1government. | Casey, who returned to the United | States last winter after two years spent covering the war from Lon-/ den to Crete, flew from Calgary along the entire route to White- horse, then came to Juneau on a Pan American plane. He plans to| visit Sitka and Kodiak and then g0 to Anchorage and other West- ward towns. Canadian Network “The new Canadian network will} be in operation soon and planes| will be able to fly on the beam all the way to Whitehorse,” he said.| ‘The tremendous task of building | stations hundreds of miles in the| wilderness has been overcome and\ the route will become more and| more important. When you real-‘ ize that plane flying from Chicago| to Shanghai can save 1,500 miles by | taking the Great Circle route, the| significance of -the Calgary-White- horse beam system is obvious.” Goes To War A staff member of The News for| 23 years, Casey was assigned to! London when the war broke out.| He underwent the terrific German /| raids on the English capital, cov—i ered the first Libyan campaign, went to Crete on the H. M. S. Val-| iant, at that time the best armed‘ warship afloat, witnessed the at—‘ acks on Tobruk and Benghazi and! was only forced home after he was, injured by a mob of panicky Egyp-| tians who rushed from a train qt-\ tacked by eremy bombers. “I didn't get shot,” he smiled. ‘Conunrue'd on Page Three) US JAPAN RELATIONS |Special Instructions Sent by Nippon Government fo S. Kurusu TOKYO, Nov. Foreign Office has sent a new com. munication to its Special Envoy Sa- buro Kurusu, now in Washington, negotiating on Japanese-United States problems, and new develop- | ments are.expected “very shortly.” Domei, the Japanese news agency, | said there is no immediate indic: tion as to the nature of the com- munication but warned that optim- ism is not warranted. Domei al stated the Foreign Office regards the message to the Japanese delegate as urgent Dr. Braafladt Passes Away At Fairbanks Colorful Fialr_e of North- land, Dog Team Dentist, Dies - Long HIness FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nn\' 24.-- Dr. Ole A Braafladi, famed throughout Alaska as Dog Team Dentist, practicing in every town and village in Alaska and also most of the remote localities, died in the hospital here last Sat- urday after a prolonged illness. Dr. Braafladt was one of Al- aska's most colorful figures and he often entered his fast dog teams in Alaska dog derbies In recent years, Dr. Braafladt covered the Territory in airplanes. Dr. Braafladt was born in Min- nesota. He was graduated from the the Luther College in Deborah, Iowa. He is survived in Fairbanks by his widow, married daughter and a son. e ACTION ON HIGHWAY IS DUE, SPRING . \Congressman Magnuson Looks for Appropriation Early Next Year SPOKANE, Wash, Nov. 24. Congressman Warren G. Magnuson, member of the American section of the International Highway Com- mission, said here: “We hope to| get definite action by next spring.” 24—The Japanese | Congressman Magnuson is travel- ing to Seattle with Senator M C. Wallgren. He further said: expect our appropriation will be about $32,000,000 to $35,000,000 snd (will match similar Canadian funds.” Magnuson said the congressional committee hearings on the appro- priation will come up within “two | or three weeks.” He further said the project is stalemated at the present pecause of Canadian refusal to go ahead until the route is given a high priority rating by the United States. >oo W I The Battle of the Atlantic is now in full blast with repe: trality Act, which allows American merchant ships to be sent to belligerent ports. through gumhn zones. Berlin has announced | munmuns UMSTEAD ATC ONIROLS OFB-19 Lieut. Col. Stanley Umstead, in ccmmand of the B-19, sits at the o plane was in the air three heurs ¢ arrying 20 persons o ern California. The B-19, rated by the Army Air Co ps Army zcceptance tests GUNBOATS QUITTING YANGTIE Wake Leaves Hankow for: Shanghai - Guardian Ships leave Orient SHANGHALI, Nov. 24.—The United | States gunboat Wake has left Han- kow for Shanghai, beginning 'he¢ withdrawal of the American Nav Yangtze River patrol between Shanghai and Hankow. The 370-ton Wake is the las cidental guardship left in the Ul Oriental waters. Naval authorities at Hankow have |closed the warehouse and liquidated {the stock there, There are two other gunboals st Oc- Argentina is one of the, Iargest (joneq on the Yangtze below Huil- import markets for iron and stel kow and presumaly they will move J products, down the river shortly. ARG CARRIER | BRITAIN + a eambined oot and nhotigraphic as the world’s largest plane, recently completed its BOUND TCONVOYS oz wh trois ¢f the giant bomber after the flizht over South- Litvinov Bounces from Stalin’s Dog-House fo Washmglon Embassy By JACK &'I'IN‘\I'T'I' WASHINGTON, Nov sian polities is as turbulent waterspout and no better p it is'to be found than how Litvinov, sucked down into ity two years ago, now hoisted again the sadd handed that folio, Ambassador States. The life of bolshevik, for scribed as the that moved circles, to to the this many in strangely His reyolutionary ed in 1898, wheén he was old and he never deviated 24, — has all-important United round, years only great diplomat the Soviet has produced over activity | Rus- t Bs af proof of | Maxim obscur- been dle port- de- has lapping stal 29 from ! Russia than in it and | jovial | lh.n! Ilnl‘ A year later, he was sen~ tenced to five years in Siberia, but escaped after 18 months, and from then on Spent more time out of When the pres- 1918, bring emerged In in England ent Soviet state he was an exile { | The Battle of the Atlantic Goes Into Full Swing NAZE SUBS QN BLOCKADE PATROL, al of the Neu- | this will plunge the U, S. into a “sea of incidents” because German armed and | warships “obviously will be obliged” to fire on American ships carrying This picture map \\huws whgre enwuntezs mny be expectes COFU.S.IS DYNAMITED 'No Member o Staff af Sal- | gon Injured, Depart- ment Advices State WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. State Department announced this morning that it has been informed | that the United States Consulate | at Saigon, French Indo-China, was wrecked by a dynamite bomb last night. No member of the staff was in- jured, the advices stated, - ! MAJOR GEN. - WHITE DIES LAST NIGHT Commander of 41t Divi- sion,Fiction Writer, News- paperman, Passes Away PORTLAND, Oregon, Nov. 24— Major General George White, 60, nationally known fiction writer and Commander of the Forty-first Divi- ston, died last night at his Camp Clackamas home. He remained on | duty at Fort Lewis until a few weeks ago when a stomach ailment, which had afflicted him since last summer, caused him to go to his home. A former Salt Lake City and Port- |land newspapeérman, he was a pro- ing the wrach of that nation down | on his head by speeches peace. When Bruce Lockhart, the British diplomat in Moscow, was arrested and charged with being an agent provocateur, it was Litvinov who was seized in England as a hostage and the exchange of those two “prisoners” brought Litvinoy home and started him on a (Continued on Page Seven)” advocating | lifie fiction writer, his articles ap= pearing under the name of Fred White in a number of-magazines, During the first World War he " was a Colonel on the staff of Gen- eral John J. Pershing. The widow, a daughter and a son, survive. - VERGUSON SERVICES T0O BE WEDNESDAY Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'- clock the Rev. G. H. Hillerman lwill officiate at the funeral serv- | pital ices of John Verguson, old-timer who passed away at St. Ann's Hos- Friday. Services will be in the Charles W. Carter Chapel, and interment will follow in the Ever- green Cemetery. +~The! BUSINESS DISTRICT ISPARTLY DESTROYED Fire Siartefiefore Mid- night Not Under Control Until Late This Morning WATER MAIN BREAKS AS HIGH WIND ARISES | | | l ( ‘Dynamite, Bulidozers Also i Used to Fight Flames | and Stop Progress i Officers oi the igmal Corps, United States Army, in a special dispatch say fire of an unde- tertained origin last night and early today wiped oul half of the business section of Seward and L toduy L diniage was not officially estisnated. The fire broke ou! at 11:30 o'clock last night and was not under control until 8:30 o'clock this morning, | All butldings on the east side ¢+ of Fourlth Avenue for a disiance of twe blocks were destroyed. Soldiers from Fort Raymond helped the Seward fire i{ighters to battle the blaze. The fire fighters were handi- capped when the big water main broke and a high wind sprang ! up early this morning. | The firemen pumped water from Resurrection Bay and used dynamite and bulldozers to halt the blaze. Included in the destruction by fire are the following: | Alaska Steamship Company's office. Arcade Building, apartments and containing the plant of the Gateway Fublishing Company, \ Northern Bar, with lodging | house above, | Cameron's Cafe. | Overland Hotel, ! Terminal Hotel. Terminral Cafe. Hoilingsworth's cleaning es- tablishment and numerous l apariment and other business | buildings, No Army supplies are reported | to have been lost. L MORE l"AR’HCIJLARS | Late this afternoon the Empire 'received o special dispatch from ‘the Gateway, published at Seward, giving further particulars of the fire, as follows: Half the business section of Sew- 'Coutn ued on Pue Eight) AMERICAN TROGPS TO MAKE MOVE Conlinge’niml | Be Dis- paiched to Dutch Guinea fo Protect Mines There WAbHKNGTUN No 4. — The White Houes announced lhis after- noon that a contin of American troops will move to Duich Guiana to protect the valmble bauxite mines Lhere which supply the United States with largc raw aluminum | Arrangements for the nu were made between the ('nited and The Netherlands Governmant with the government of Brazil giving approval. quantities of the