The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 3, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8895. “ALL LL THE I NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNLAU ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1941 VlI:.MBbR R ASSOCIATED PRESS | EXPLOSION ON PACIFIC BELIEVED NEAR ALEUTIAN MAILBAGS SOAKED SOVIETS REPULSE GERMANS, Nazis Forces Are Shoved | Back from Battlefront Near Moscow INVADERS IN COMPLETE ROUT, UKRAINE SECTOR | Frozen Bodies Found on | Roads-Troopers Hud- dle Up in Cold BULLETIN — MOSCOW, Dec. 3.—The Soviet radio broadcast tonight announced “bloody bat- tles” are being fought in the suburbs of Tagarog and 40 ad- ditional villages have been re- captured from the Germans on the Moscow front. The broadcast also says Ger- man efforts to halt the German rout and stem the Russian ad- vance in the Rostov area have been futile. GERMANS HURLED BACK MOSCOW, Dec. 3.—Russia’s Red | Armies have hurled the Germans back from 12 to 24 miles on the blizzard-swept Moscow front while in the Ukraine sector, the Russians declare the “panic stricken enemy” is still in headlong flight from Ros- tov. Military advices direct from.the front declare the Russians have sent the Panzer forces under Col. Gen. Heinz Guderian spinning in reverse. Violent Tank Baitles The Russian .communigue. says that despite fresh and violent tank and infantry battle before Moscow, the Red Army has thrown the Ger- mans back in two key sectors. Generally, the Russians paint a brighter picture of the two months’ old struggle in the attempt of the Germans to capture the Soviet cap- (Continued on Page Three) BURMAROAD BIG FACTOR IN FAR EAST Has Been fir—eamlined by Americans, Now Great Military Highway Some competent military ob- servers, taking note of the new Japanese threat to the Burma Road, believe it has been pro- voked by the four-fold increase in freight since three Ameri- cans streamlined the highway. Here, for\the first time, is a detailed story of the measures taken to do it. By JOE MORTON Back of the Chinese lines, deep in high Asia, new hope rolls toward the beleaguered armies of Chiang Kai-Shek. It rides in Am- erican trucks, driven American fashion, over a highway run by Americans. The Burma Road is receiving a Yankee overhauling. The transportation experts at work on the one remaining Chi- nese lifeline are thankful today they have the job well under way.| There has been a Japanese-voiced threat to attack the Burma Road from the south, “to put an end to large-scale American intervention in China.” Stores of lend-lease munitions, gasoline, and machin- ery rolling over the streamlined highway will help head off such danger. F % The road today is a far cry from that of a year ago. Its transfor- mation stems from a telephone call last spring—a call made by Harry Hopkins, in the White House, to Daniel Arnstein, vacationing in Florida. 3 “We've got a trucking prob- lem,” said Hopkins, “and need a man to work it out. We thought (G;mflnued on_i’fi: Fioiu;f STOCK QUOTATIONS |6: 30 CURFEW RETREAT NEW YORK, Dec. 3. — Closing stock today is 2's, American Can 5%, Anaconda 27 3/4, Bethlehem Steel 59%. Commonwealth and Southern ', Curtiss Wright 8%, Internatiopal Harvester 48, Ken- necott 337%, New York Central 97/8, Northern Pacific 5 7/8, United States Steel 52%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 116.65, rails 2749, utilities 15.98. FIVE PAN AM PLANES COME HERE TODAY Lodesfars, Electras Brin g Many Passengers-One Plane Goes fo Seattle Five Pan American planes ar- rived in Juneau today, one of them returning to Fairbanks, while the others were ior, bringing mail from the States| and Alaskan points. The first Lodestar to arrive| brought Harry Phillips, J. R. Wal- mer and Howard Lyng to Juneau, picked up Carl Whitham here and departed for Seattle. Passengers ‘rom the Interior making the Se- sttle trip were Oscar Schlickeiser, Dertler Schlickeiser, Donald, Ray Shinn, Robert Liver- more, Dolly Thompson. Next plane to land at Menden- | hall Field was an Electra, which | brought G. R. Watkins, G. Butler,| Al Anderson, Vella Lomen, Jack; Acker, Mary Pero and Mildred Pero Tt returned to Fairbanks this after- noon with Ed Johnson and Webster | Ransome. other planes were Cecil Driscoll, son, Margaret Nelson, George Ram- stad, Betty Ramstad, Janet Ram- stad, and Jim Connolly. Through passengers who will jleave for Seattle on the first planes are Glen Day, Toiva Highill, Ethel Day, Thomas Meeker, Patricia ton, James Parry, Beth Dodge, Fred Jones, Mort Powell, Mrs. Carrie Powell and George Koos, Gov. HoldsFoIWow On Native Village There was a lot of discussion re- carding alleged unsanitary condi- lions in the Juneau native village when 15 territorial and municipal officials met yesterday in the office |of Gov. Ernest Gruening, but little action other than the determina- tion to make a more complete sur- nounced today by several who at- tended the session. Representing public health Indian Affairs, the group attending the session consisted of Dr. W. W. Council, Dr. Cotirtney Smith, Ralph W. Mize, Ernest Parsons, E. L. Bart- ‘ett, Frank A. Metcalf, Rev. W. H Matthews, E. M. Polley, Dr. W. S. Ramsey, Fred R. Geeslin, Jake Cropley, Rev. Walter Soboleff, Earl D. McGinty, H. I. Lucas and Ber- tha M. Tiber. If no city action can be enlisted {to clean up the claimed unsanitary | conditions in the village, Gov. Gruening may contact Delegate Anthony J. Dimond in Washington next month and seek aproval of a service office here to take care of the work, it was reported by Mayor Lucas, s - OIL TANKER EEEE The Standard Oil Company tan- ker Dispatch and the Barge 100 discharged oil and gasoline at the | company pier today after arriving| here late last evening. The Barge 100 was towed here by the sea- going tug Evelyn of the Foss Tug and Barge Company of Seattle. 5 ot A HELLENTHALS ON ALASKA Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hellenthal are passengers for their Juneau home aboard the Alaska after an absence of several weeks, visiting in the States, | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | | | | continuing to Seattle and the other’ scheduled sto depart | | again tomorrow. | All planes came from the Inter- W. P. Mc-| Juneau passengers on the three| Mathison B. D. Stewart, John Nel-| Meeker, Charles Salmo, Frank Hat-| vey of conditions there, it was an-| 2roups, the city and the Office of| SUFFERED BY PARISIENNES German Command Clamps on New Restraint Be- cause of Shooting PARIS, Dec. 3. — The German Command in Paris announces that a German Medical Corps officer was ' shot last night on Boulevard Ma- genta and immediately the 6:30 cur- few was imposed for the entire Tenth District The announcement said the cur- | tew will continue indefinitely and ‘spe(l'il’\ that the German author- ities “reserve the right to take grav- el measures.” The Tenth District is the work- | | ing class district, including the East ‘S(‘mon where a German soldier shot by terrorist some time ago. --e Legion Auxnllary ‘Members Plan Work For Holiday Season The regular monthly | meeting of the American Legion \Auxllmn was held last night in \the Dugout, with President Marion | Hendrickson presiding. Plans for | holiday projects were the main ‘husmcss The group’s Red Cross quota of ]37 hospital gowns was reported | completed by Ann Day, and Dolly Stewart, chairman of the child | welfare committee, reported that | four Alaskan children at the Se- attle Orthopedic Hospital and two \nL Morningside Hospital in Port- {land, Oregon, had been assigned ito the Juneau Unit for remem- |brance at Christmas. Discussion nf {local child welfare work was also held. It was announced to the mem- bers that Christmas boxes will be sent to all sons of Legionnaires who are now in service, Mrs. Hendrickson announced that the Sitka unit is holding weekly |open houses for service men, and the local group voted to lend a {helping hand in the work by send- {ing boxes of cookies to the Sitka junit. This work will be handled oy three committees of the Auxiliary, | the Rehabilitation, the Defense and the Americanism committees. These groups are as follows: Re- habilitation, Mrs. Wanda Martin, chairman, Mrs. Ida Carnegie and ! Mrs. Alba Newman; Americanism, Mrs. Myrtle Neate, chairman and Sylvia Zenger; Defense, Mrs. Lu- cille Stonehouse, chairman and Mrs. Marie Burdick. For the Christmas party which ithe Auxiliary will have jointly with |the American Legion, a committee {was appointed to be in charge of arrangements. It is composed of Edith Sheelor, Dolly Stewart and Lucille Stonehouse. | ~Next meeting of the Auxiliary |will be a social event on Tuesday, December 16, and at that time in- itiation of new candidates will take place. As the month of December is assigned as Rehabilitation month, that committee will be in charge business | | be under the direction of Carol Davis, Myrtle Neate and Idabelie Bryson. MINING MEN WILL " ADDRESS CHAMBER Mining and ballots will share honors at the weekly luncheon of | \kel it was indicated today. ‘The mining aspect of the meetmg wul come with introduction of two| ikey mining men of the Territory.| |They are Car! Whitham, manager of the Nabesna Mining Corpora- |tion, and Al Anderson, former Jun- {éau newspaper man and now ex- iecutive secretary of the Alaska Mining Association, with head- quarters at Pairbanks. The ballots will be cast in the election of six pew members of the Chamber board of trustees for 1942. Ten candidates for the posts | are Harold Foss, Henry Green, Charles Burdick, Robert Schoettler, |Jack Burford, Ludwig Nelson. Dr |W. M. Whitehead, Tom Dyer, John Jones and Robert Cowling. | AROUSES " HITLER Dispatches All Available . Forces to Stop Rout of - Nazis in Ukraine LONDON, Dec. 3.—A broadcast picked up here this afternoon from Berlin gave out the information that Hitler has ordered rushed to Fleld‘ Marshal von Brauchitsch, Com- | mander-in-Chief of the Army m< the Ukraine, all available forces pos- { sible to attempt to stop the rout of the Germans at all costs and lopulse | the Russians. | German armored reinforcements | are reported in the radio broadeasi | to be hurrying along the Mariupul | |road to combat the Russian sweep- ! ing the Nazis in a counter offensive that so far has appeared to have hurled the Germans back more than 75 miles in the fastest of Russian eastward thrusts beyond Rostov. ———————— Strikes Are Ridiculed by | | Mailbags scaked with oil and water were taken from the holds of the steamship Aleutian on its return to Seattle after hitting Ripple Rock, November 26, on a northbound trip. ciated Press letn in Seymour Narrows off the British Columbia coast. extensive bottom damage but pumps kept the water down while it raced back to Seattle. The mail and 1,000 tons of cargo were unloaded on its return.—Asso- OPM Co-Chief Day Is (ommg WhenOne William Knudsen Shows How Industry, in Nation- al Emergency Restrained NEW YORK, Dec. 3. Knudsen, Co-Director of OPM as-| serted this afternoon before the | Congress of American Industry that | “I can't for the life of me under- stand, how in a declared National | Emergency such foolishness as strikes go on.” The wildly applauding audience | also heard Knudsen declare that “as ' to labor, we have heen through an- other rather difficult period of pro- duction, generally on the upgrade but we have been subject to a test of strikes that culminated in the coal strike of November. These strikes are not in most cases for increased wages and better work- ing conditions, but as usual, for de- mands of closed shops, union shops. preferential shops or what not. We have all kinds of work to do and then we have to stop and argue about jurisdictional disputes, organ- izational disputes and God knows what.” FLAKNE RETURNS FROM VACATION TOUR IN STATES Joseph T. Flakne, director of the Territorial Employment Service, re- turned to Juneau last night on the steamer Baranof after a vaca- tion trip which took him and Mrs Flakne to many parts of the Unit- ed States.. Mrs. Flakne remained in Los An- | gelea and will come to Juneau later of entertainment. Refreshments will, Arter visiting relatives in Spo- | kane, the Juneau couple jour- med to Winnipeg, traveling from Medicine Hat to Winnipeg on the |Canadian Pacific Railway. War activity in Canada is exemplified by innumerable training camps stretched across the country and |by the hordes of military planes |circling over each camp, Flakne |said. The bluegrey uniform of the rehabilitation fund for the Indian|ihe Juneau Chamber of Commerce pova) Canadian Air Force is much | tomorrow noon at the Baranof Ho-|; ‘m evidence throughout the coun- try. l"‘rom Canada the Flaknes went I'to Minneapolis to visit relatives and |see the Northwestern - Minnesota !football game, which Minnesota {won, 8-7. They then visited in Louis and Kansas City, spent sev- {eral days in New Orleans, visited |the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mex- {ico and crossed the Mexican bor- Ider for a look at' Juarez. On the way home, Flakne flew from Los Angeles to Seattle. - | LEAS RETURN 1 Councilman Harry Lea and M:s Lea returned to Juneau last night Ion the Baranof after a trip to the States, Million Americans Will The liner received It hit the rock NORTH AFRICA DESERT FIGHT Be Pilots, Expert Belleves KEEPS RAGING Williain | - PRIORITIES TROUBLING OPERATORS Mining Assodation Secre- fary Says Shortages fo Force Curfailment Faced with such extensive short- ages of both labor and equipment that many operations prcbably will be curtailed next season,members of the Alaska Mining Association will meet in Seattle December 10 to discuss methods of alleviating the distress caused by the national defense priority system, Al Ander- on, Executive Secretary of the Association, said today upon his arrival from Fairbanks. Anderson, former Juneau man, will leave for Seattle week to attend the meeting, Shertages of such tools as weld- inz rcds equipmeznt such tractor parts and difficulty in ob- toining experienced s are among the prebiems which m be solved if Alaska mining oper: ters are to maintain full produc- tion, Anderson declared. The Office of Production Management even has worked a handicap 4n the mat- ter of obtaining oil for tractors, trucks and other mobile equipment, he pointed out, by refusing to al- locate any more steel for the man- vfacture of oil barrels. This means that empty barrels must be re- turned to the distributors, in most cases invelving tremendous extra expense in aerial transpormmn at the miners’ expense. The lode mine and placer op tion priority ratings—A-8 and A-10 —are two of the lowest ratings given, Anderson said, and have been of little material aid. “It's the little operator—the men who work with a bulldozer on a small cla‘un—yvho is going to be hurt the most. can't get replacements for his machinery, he’ll just have to fold up. Of course, the big will manage to get through next season and some of the smaller mines which had sufficient money to buy spare parts early in the year will be able to run, but it’s going to be hard on the nan who operates on a shoestring.” S The 1940 census showed that near- ly- 10 per cent of farm dwellings in New York State were lighted by electricity. news this as - this operators| By JA(K S’I'ith,Tl WASHINGTON, | though much has been written | | about the training of Army and | Navy pllots, few persons realize | the enormity of the growth inf | civilian flying | The other day, I heard a ro;p’ sonably conservative aviation as- sociation official estimate that lMlelln the next few years one out lof every 100 persons certainly —|; possibly one out of every 50 | the United States would hold a| | pilot's of some kind | Dec. 3 Al- | license would mean a considerable in the rate at which the country now is turning out civillan pilots (about 100,000 a year), but when everything is con- | sidered, it is not an impossibility. | For instance: That acceleration 1.—Under the inspiration and guidance of the National Ar-xou.m— tic Association, the number of model airplane buiiders in the U | has crept up to 2,000,000 Tth(“ youngsters learn clements of| «erodynamics and § e construc- | tien, Although ycuthful hobbies| 3 ken as an indi- that s will choose a profession in that direction, uvl-‘ is different in that the re-! ich it holds cut as a pro-| fession are likely to sppeal to the| young man or woman as much as| model building did to the juvenile. cation ster aticen wards 2 Pilot age. Thou- | The Civilian Program has come of sands of youngsters every momhl are rolling out of the cockpits in| hundreds of college and contract schools to earn wings for their| solos and start the long | trek| through the airways toward be- coming aces of private, commercial | or wartime aviation. The Army and | Navy has recognized the value of program and now is giving credit for flying time when gradu- ates enroll in the armed services. As an example of what this pro-| gram is accomplishing, I want to pass on a report from little Doane College at Crete, Neb., which I Training | R npvram; saw the other day. Out of 40 grad- uates of the elementary CPTP course there in the last year and a half, six are in the Army avia- tion corps; another six in the Navy; three more are awaiting call; two are teking advanced training to become flight instruc- tors; six olhers have completed secondary 4light training in the) CPTP course. Out of 20 CPTP stu- dents there now, 12 have applied for the advanced course which opens in January. Multiply Doane - |J. A. Talbot, jacute 4Co;ximued on Page Two) Brmsh Statement Not Re- assuring-Italians Hold Seaport of Bardia (By Associated Press) On the North African front the British military headquarters said the desert conflict continued to rage over a wide area but the tempo of the battle has decreased for the ‘time being.” The British statement acknowl- edges that the British troops are still in possession of El Duda, south- east of the terminal on the 10-mile corridor around Tobruk while the Axis forces have occupied Sidi Rezegh und Bir El Hamed. > §.J.Swanson Is Promofed ByS S.Line December 1, 8. J. the duties of Effective on Swanson took over managing the Alaska Transporta- tion. Company, replacing Winston J. Jones, who was called to active duty in the United States Navy on October 20. This is according to a letter re- | ceived today by D. B. Femmer, Ju- Ineau agent for the company, from President. Mr. Talbot’s letter to Mr. mer says: “Defense demands and other conditions make it very difficult to give Alaska shippers the service Feru- |they have been aceustomed to in i{the past and it is possible that th conditions may become more as time goes on. However, we know that Mr. Swanson will do everything possible to take care of the varied demands of Alaska ship- ping.” Mr. Swanson was, formerly one of the efficient first mates on the steamers of the Alaska Transporta. tion Company. Then Mr. Jones as- signed him as steamer loader at Seattle. Now Swanson has suc- ceeded Jones as manager of the company Swanson has scores ef friends in Southeast Alaska shipping circles who will be especially gratified at his promotion, GOLDSTEIN RETURNING Charles Goldstein, who has been south on a business trip, is a pas- senger homebound on the steamer Alaska. SITUATION EXTREME[Y BADTODAY Eastern Quarter of Globe May Be Plunged Info Severe Conflict WARNING SOUNDED BY ASST. SECRETARY NAVY Japanese Continue fo Con- centrate Troops-Ten- sion Increased BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—~Secretary of State Cor- dell Hull reiterated late this afternoon that the general set- tlement of problems on the Pa- cific still depended on the Jap- anese acceptance of non-aggres- sion policies oullined in the American note handed to the Japanese envoys here last week. No reply has yet been received. WASHXNGTON Dec. S—Ofllchl circles viewed today with undimin- ished gravity the situation on the Pacific as so characterized by As- sistant Secretary of Navy Ralph Bard as a “tinderbox, waiting for the spark to explode all over the eastern quarter of the globe.” Bard, who spoke last night Norfolk, Va. warned that trouble came on the Pacific, will not be a minor one. Bard also said the United States Navy is not making any mistake in underestimating the Japanese power. " ¥ Climax Within a Week Informed diplomatic circles in Washington expressed the belief today that the Pacific crisis might be brought to a head within a week by the President’s action yes- terday in asking Japan, point blank, why she is sending fresh troops to French Indo-China. Disquieting Reports Reports from the Far East main disquieting. A Advices from Shanghal state Japanese (roops are continuing ‘o concentrate in that area, appar- ently awaiting transports to take them south. All British and Duteh shipping meanwhile is withdrawing south- ward along the China Coast. More Japanese Charges In Tokyo, sections of the Japa- nese daily newspapers today ac- cused Great Britain anew of plan- ning to invade Thailand and also charged the United States with strengthening the anti-Japanese front by delaying talks at Wash- ington. at it it re= Howard Lyng Arrives Here Territorial Representative How- ard Lyng, of Nome, who also is chairman of the Alaska Democrat- ‘¢ Committee, arrived in Juneau tuday on a Pan American plane to confer with Territorial officials and fellow Democrats before going to California on vacation. Lyng, Sewafd Peninsula mining operator, is staying at the Bar- anof Hotel. .o VISITING GARRETS Tremel, who is from Bremerton, Wash., arrived on the Baranof for a visit of several months with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. Garret. Joseph