The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 2, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. 1.VIL, NO. 8894. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1941 ME.MBE.R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ' ROOSEVELT MAKES DEMAND ON JAPAN | | Alaska Army Flier Is Killed in Plane Crash SHIP BREAKS DURING HIGH WIND, REPORT First Lieutenant William A. Anderson Is Victim During Power Dive ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 2. —First Lieutenant William A. Anderson, of Denver, Colorado, wris killed when his Army plane broke up in a power dive at the south end of Kenai Peninsula. Elmendorf Field cfficials said Anderson’s death is the first since Army fliers have been sta- tioned in Alaska. Bombers searched the area around Portlock but found no signs but a small boat found the plane wreckage. Cannery watchmen are re- ported seeing the plane falling in three pieces during a high wind. CONFIDENCE VOTED GAME COMMISSION Hunting Licenses for Serv- ice Men Subject fo Hot Argumentat Banquet Sportsmen of the Gastineau Channel area fired case after case of verbal ammunition last night on the subject of whether or not to allow service men stationed in Alaska to hunt under resident li- censes. When the empty shells of oratory lay scattered, but smoking, on the floor of the Elks lodge hall, a resolution had been scrapped which urged that “army and navy demands for resident hunting licenses be denied without | compromise,” and in its stead the 150 sportsmen who gathered for an annual post-season banquet had | unanimously voted confidence in the Alaska Game Commission to settle the dispute involving hunt- ing privileges for service men, while at the same time protecting Al-| aska game from slgughter whicn would permanently injure the good | hunting Alaskans now enjoy. Certain types of food, it is claimed by nutritionists, are pro- ductive of various types of energy. If the discussion on army and navy huntings licenses last night is any indication, hunters’ stew may be claimed to be a potent source of argument, Both the stew and the calibre of the argument were of the highest type. Out of Order ‘When the pro and con talk about army and navy licenses had been finally throttled, up rose Wellman (Continued on Page Four) STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 2. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 74%, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Steel 59%, Commonwealth and; Southern %, Curtiss Wright 8%, International Harvester 46%, Ken- necott 32%, New York Central 97%, Northern Pacific 5 7/8, United States Steel 52'%, Pound $4.04. their still DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 115.56, rails 28.01, utilities 15.78. ——————— The belief in vampires, which may be traced back as far as the 11th century, is still widely cur- rent among the Slavic people. —————— RAIDER SINK U.S. Troops Will ProlecIBeauxlleMmes P * - ““ A contingent of American troops will move into Dutch Guiana to protect bauxite mines which furnish the United States with supplies for raw aluminum. in Dutch Guiana WARSHIP AND EACH OTHER Australian m iser Goes Down with 645 Men After Baftling German Vessel 2.—The 6,000-ton : LONDON, Dec. | Australian cruiser Sydney has sunk one of Germany’s most dreaded sea raiders of this war but the official announcement today said she ap- parently paid for the triumph with | her own life and the lives of the 645 men aboard her. The Sydney fought her last fight | against the heavily armed 9,400-ton German raider Steiermark, some- where off Australia and probably not far from Cocos Island, where her predecessor and namesake sank the Kaiser's famous raider, the Emden, in the last war. The Stelermark, known to British | naval men as Raider 41, sail ng |under the name of “Kormoran,” sank nine British, allied or neutral | ships in at least three oceans be(orel the Sydney came to mortal grips with her. The story of the battle was un- folded by rescued survivors of the | German vessel. None of the Sydney’s ‘ men were found. After scouring the battle area with 1 planes and ships the Australian gov- ernment announced: “It .must be presumed the Sydney ‘ is lost.” The date of the battle was not| announced e GARAGE OPERAIORS ARE SUED FOR $2,700 Lewis Dyrdahl is seeking $2,700 from John and Anna Bourne, op-‘ erators of the Gastineau Motors Company, in a court action filed here today. | Accerding to the suit, Dyrdahl, owner of the building housing the| motor company, turned over auto accessories, parts and other equip- ment valued at $3000 to the Bournes on October 1, 1939. An agreement at that time stipulated that the Bournes would sell the goods and turn the $3,000 back to Dyrdahl, the suit alleges. Dyrdahl claims in the action that all these parts and accessories have now been sold, but that he has re- ceived only $300. E——— There are about 4500 native reindeer owners in Alaska. can Republic. Woodes Rogers, first royal gov- ernor of the Bahamas, had as his chief mission the elimination of piracy from the islands, {be exhausted for appeal purposes,” Joyce Saturday. |date for sentencing on the convic- A view of a bauxite min Dealh Claims Scofty Allanin San Frandsco Former I.;E;Elaior, Dog Racer, Miner Will Be Buried Wednesday | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2.—Alex- ander “Scotty’ Allan, former Alaska Legislator, famous dogteam driver and oldtime Alaskan gold miner, died here yesterday. In recent years, Allan has been in the dog food business here. Allan made fortunes and lost them during the Klondike and Nome gold rushes. His dogteams won Alaskan dog sweepstakes three times. He took 400 dogs to France in 1915, where the animals, under his super- vision, served faithfully with the allied armies of his native Scot- land. - Allan first crossed the Atlantic in | 1887, when he was sent to Canada by the Hudson's Bay Company. | Funeral services for the Alaska | pioneer will be held wednesday 18 FOUND GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY Federal Pnson Terms m* Offing for. Members of | Socialist Workers MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 2— Possible Federal prison terms of up to 10 years each loomed today for 18 persons, members of or associated with the Socialist Workers League, who were convicted by a jury here on charges of conspiracy to create insuborination in the armed forces of the government. Albert Godman, New York attor- ney, one of those convicted last night, announced today, “every legal | step and every other resource will and immediately made plans for fil- ing an appeal before Federal Judge Judge Joyce set Monday as the tion of one of the two counts of the indictment, which was returned last July after a raid on the Socialist l (Continued on Page Two) HITLER'S lor night.” DRAFT BOARD SUMMONS 39 T0 ARMY DUTY City's Second Selective Service Call Includes 13 { *Juneau, Douglas Men Thirty-nine Selective Service reg- istrants, including 10 Juneau and| three Douglas men, today were ordered by the Juneau Local Draft Board to report for induction into the Army on December 10. | The new draftees, summoned to| fill the local board’s second quota | for service in the Alaska Defense | Command, will be taken to Chil-, koot Barracks for final physical ex- aminations after they report here| December 10. Registrants not in {Juneau may report to the draft !board closest to their homes. | i Juneau youths summoned to the |colors are John.Kubek, Paul Obert |Martin, Raymond °Hill, Willlam |Themas Johnson, Steve Cheha, Thomas Harris, John Williams, {Roy Roger Sandbank, Robert Jo-| seph Geyer, Kaare Peder Nelson,| Dick Lawrence Paul, Billy Duncan {and Herbert Wesley Cuff. | Douglas—Fred Harris, Ambrose Savikko and Frank Stra- | gler. 1 Among the drafted who regiszer-‘ £d here and since have sent changea adriress to the local board are' |James L. Gray, Jr, Corvallis, Ore.; |John Popovich, Portland, Ore.;| {Raymend W. Zell, Shelby, Mont.; Oiva Andrew Linna, Winlock Wash. and Claude Roy Woolman, Seattle. Answering the draft call from {other places in Alaska will' be Clifford Henry O'Shea, Sitka; Richard Unkle, Hood Bay; William. Ernest Smith, Klawock; Jones Joe |Milten, Yakutat; John Joseph Adams, Kakutat; Emil Paul Taug, | Tenakee; Granville Carl Burton, Dutch Harbor. Victor Sheakley, Hoonah; George V. Martin, Sitka; Joseph E. Lautz, Kimshan Cove; David Andrews, Tenakee; Harry Russell See, Hoo- nah; Solomon Henry Karki, Sitka; William Russell Osborne, Hoonah; Eugene Fawcett, Hoonah; Peter Jchn Dietrichs, Yakutat; David Charles Newman, Angoon; Ernest Gecrge Francis. (By Associated Press) Great Britain’s new 35,000-ton bat- tleship Prince of Wales steamed into the great Singapore Naval Base this | afternoon at the head of a flotilla |of powerful naval reinforcements \ At the same time, Japanese dis- | patches, late today, asserted Brit- lish imperial troops are massing along the Thailand frontier for an invasion. The Prince of Wales and other | unspecified heavy units are the first i ing project on the Surinam River Hjalmer ARMY IS ON ROUT German Ukraine Armies Fleeing Westward from Rostov Is Report (By Associated Press) | Soviet dispatches today declared that the retreat of Hitler’s Ukraine armies from Rostov-on-Don has be- come a rout. The Nazis are fleeing westward along the shores of the Sea of Azov after a bitter defeat that “puts an end to the tales about the invincibility of the German Army.” A British broadcast quoted Soviet Vice Commissar Lofovsky as saying the “latest attempt of the Germans to take Moscow has cost them so far 500,000 men.” Soviet dispatches besides report- ing the German defeat at Rostov also claim the Red Army troops have also put the Germans to flignt ! through deep snow drifts around Salinogrorsk, 120 miles southeast of Moscow. BRITISHIN SETBACK IN LIBYANAREA (h““hl" Gcermans Break Through orridor to Join Panzers Wams 0' ‘ —Rezagh Recaptured Attacks LONDON, Dec. 2.—Prime Minis- | ter Winston Churchill today told the fifth time. wards, who was “Miss Florida” in began with a blind date via (By Assocated Press) By JACK STINNETT On the Libyan desert front today | WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—I¢ isn't) the British acknowledged a dam- |discussed publicly but I can as- aging setback in Gen. Sir Alan Cun- | | sure you that the government 1s ningham's drive to knock the Asis|out to build some buildings 5o they out of North Africa. WON'T last. | Parliament that “any. time Hitler|Disbtches from Calro' said the| These are the temporary build- Germans slashed through the Brit- | ke care of the may recognize his defeat by the ings, designed to take care of the f " ish corridor from Rezagh to Tobruk | ent K- Russian armies and to recover from vast overflow of government work-| 4 and joined the trapped Panm” ee. th he the disaster he may visit us With forces northeast. ers now here to see that the na- all of his fury.” Rezagh has been recaptured also, uond; d;:iense program moves con- | Churchill added grimly: “We are said the Nazi spokesman. *Aam.y 'orward- all ready for him and We shall re- | Unofficial advices claim the newly| This idea of ceive him when he comes, by day German Panzer divisions are nowwpomxy buildings so they will be| hemmed in aléng the coast and | temporary and nothing more 1s Declaring that Great Britain's could probably break through thc pot the whim of any contractor | “equipment crisis” is largely over, British encirclement west of Tobruk |out to make a pot of dough off the Churchill told the House of Com- if they wished to do so. However, Government. It comes right down mons that the “erisis of manpower the British spokesman said, '-hfl"‘rlom Mr. Roosevelt himself. As a and womanpower” will dominate| While the Nazi success “may delay |matter of fact, the plan of build- in 1942, He declared the proposed MBULersa few days longer it does not |jng “temporary” office buildings so| mititary . conscription age limits| MPREBEEL “’“‘“‘9"“’ 4 | they will fall down about the time| to bring more than 3,000,000 men thought up for the present emer- Chuschill explained that only Wo- | i on 20N, Dec. 2. — Women of| |der ‘the nation’s cooperative fruit|ary”. buildings in Washington are| will be lowered to 18'% and raised T |the emergency is over isn't some- to 50, thus expanding conscription SOME jAM | thing that the President has just and women under the call for ! gency, either, He has had that idea armed service. | for nearly a quarter of a wmuxv m Mstaiie’ w a0 Northamptonshire have made 10,- men volunteers will be assigned L% 999 pounds of fresh fruit jam un- | The two most famous “tempor- | lethal or combat services. \hreservmg scheme to built up win-|the Navy and Munitions buildings "ter food supplies, (housing a generous portion of the | constructing tem- BUY DEFENSE STAMPS |network of roads leads from |end of the Mall to the other and New Brifish Battleship IsRushed fo Singapore; Troops Mass on Frontier mmml ships of Great Britain to ever be sent to the Far East ready for action the section but only for ceremonial visits, In the late afternoon Japanese dispatches no mention is made of Nippon’s vast preparations for trouble in the French Indo-China area although it is known that perhaps 60,000 Japanese troops and navy vessels are massed ready for action. Manville and His Fifth Bride Tommy Maanville and bride Playboy Tommy Manville, heir to the ashestos fortune, weds ag‘ln- Manville'’s bride is the blonde actress, Bonita Ed- 1937. Manville, 47, and Miss Ed- wards, 22, were wed at Ridgefield, Conn., after a courtship that the telephone a week ago, Some of the New (apllal Buildings Would Collapse Within the Next 10 Years War Department). Ugly, three- story, gray, twin structures, they | stretch for blocks along Constitu- tion Avenue and are an eye-sore to the Mall. The Mall could be the most beautifully landscaped gridiron of roadways in the world. At its east end is Capitol Hill. At its west, a couple of miles away are the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial and between them the long Reflecting Pool. A one flanking these streets are the vast departmental and other govern- mental buildings. Some are old, some are ugly, some are new and beautiful, but all are impressive—all save those squat little “temporary” buildings that ' were flung up during World War I and have remained ever since. They are as conspicuous as an out-of- step West Pointer in a news- reel review. When they were being planned 24 years ago, young Assistant Sec- retary of the Navy Franklin D, (Continued on Page Six) i Other craft have visited | \QUESTIONS ~ AREPUTUP TO NIPPONS President KS_I;;for Explan- ation of Military Moves in French Indo-China UNITED STATES STILL FIRM ON "NEW ORDER"” __|Envoys Called fo State De- partment - Tojo's Cab- inet in Long Session BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—President Roosevelt, at a conference this afternoon with the newsmen, disclosed the Am- erican government had inquired from Japan what the purpose is of increasing her armed forces in French Indo-China and he indicated clearly that a satis- factory answer is essential to the successful conclusion of nego- tiations between the United States and Japan in looking for peace in the whole Pacific area. The President indicated teo that some progress was made in Adiscussions with the Japanese envoys up to the point when he learned Japan was augmenting her land, air and naval forces stationed in French Indo-China. (By Asscciated Press) It was disclosed this morning that President Roosevelt is asking the Japanese questions which are said. to include a quick request for an explanation of the Japanese military moves in French Indo-China toward Thailand. At the same time, Japan's envoys, Ambassador Nomura and Special Representative Saburo Kurusu were again called to the State Depart- ment. Kurusu told the reporters he thought there was still a “fighting chance” of success being reached in a settlement of the American-Jap- anese problems and: “I do not give up so easily.” Tension Increases With the tension in the Far East at the explosion point, it is positively sald the United States is standing firm in refusing to accede to Japan’s demands for a “new order” in Asia as the price of peace on the Pacific. On top of this situation, the Brit- ish Admiralty is reported to have ordered all British-China coast ship~ ping to proceed immediately to the British port of Hongkong where British warships and marines are concentrated. Delay of Three Days Premier Tojo's Japanese Cabinet today devoted a long extraordinary session to going thoroughly into and studying Washington’s note on the Pacific problems and demands made on the Nippon Government through the negotiations now conducted in Washington. Sources close to the Japanese Government said any crisis in the: ‘Washington talks will probably be delayed three days or more since the Japanese are seeking “clarification” of various points in Secretary Hull's note giving the American position on Pacific problems. State of Emergency Today, Tokyo newspapers splashed dispatches all over the first pages describing the gathering of forces of America and Great Britain in the Dutch East Indies and the South Pacific. Domei, the Japanese news agency, gives a report from Manila stating (Conunupd m Plce N) Lll Christmad