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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-24
Week old Offensive Acainst Axis Forces Co.,
 ing Extremely We'll
INVADERS APPROACH
 CLOSER TO MOSCOW
Russians Admit Retreafing Ineh by Inch in One
 Northern Sector
fBy 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 point about 3l miles from the capital city, the closest yet while the British, veering somewhat from their past optimism over the North African of fensiye, acknowledged they have a tremendous fight on their hands.
 The German High Command said that among the new gains on the Central Russian 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- 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 phase of the North Afri-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-24
WAR REPORTER K VISITING IN
 CAPITAL CITY
Chicago Daily News Cor respondent 10 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 government.
 Casey, who returned to the United States last winter after two years spent covering the war from Lon don 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 go to Anchorage and other Vest 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 1900 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- cred 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 5acks on Tobruk and Benghazi and was only forced home after he was injured by mob of panicky Egyp- tians who rushed from train att tackled by enemy bombers.
 T didn't get shot," he smiled. tCOntinued on Page Three)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-24

 QUITTING
 YANGTzE
Wake Leaves HankoW for Shanghai : Guardian
 Ships Leave Orient

SHANGHAI, Nov. 24.-The United States gunboat Wake has left Han kow for Shanghai, beginning the withdrawal of the American Navy S Yangtze River patrol between Shanghai and Hankow.
 The 370-ton Wake is the last Oc- cidental guardship left in the inner Oriental waters.
 Naval authorities at Hankow nave closed the warehouse and liquidatea the stock there.
 There are two other gunboats soa- toned on the Yangtze below Hall kow and presumaly they will move down the river shortly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-24
NEW M0vE, U.S.-JApAN
 RELATIONS
Special Instructions Sent by Nippon Government
 10 5. Kurusu

TOKYO, Nov. 24.-The Japanese Foreign Office has sent new com munication to it's 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 indica- tion as to the nature of the com munication but warned that optim- ism is not warranted
 Donei also stated the Foreign Office regards the message to the Japanese delegate as urgent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-24
 TROOPS TO
 MAKE MOVE
Contingent Will Be Dis patched 10 Dutch Guinea
 to Protect Mines There

WASHINGTON Nov 24. = The White Houes announced this after noon that contingent of American troops win move to Dutch Guiana to protect the vallRble bauxite mines there which supply the United States with large quantities of the raw aluminium
 Arrangements for the nloNcment were made between the United States and The Netherlands Government with the government of Brazil giving approval.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-24

WASHINGTON-T inner mo- euls 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, Iowa. General Robert Wood, America First boss, presided. The plans deliberated covered a four-point program:
 l. A move to impeach Secre-
 tary of the Navy Frank
 Knox
 3. 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 new po-
 litical party to back isola-
 tionist Congressional and
 State candidates in next
 years crucial elections, as
 prelude to a Presidential
 ticket in 1944, headed by
 Lindbergh and Wheeler. President Roosevelt was originally considered for an impeachment at tack. but this was dropped as likely (Continued on Page Four)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-24
FERGUSON SERVICES
 TO BE WEDNESDAY

Wednesday afternoon at ? O. clock the Rev. C. H. Hillerman will officiate at the funeral serv- Ices of John Verguson, oldtimer who passed away at St. Ann's Hos pital Friday. Services will be in the Charles w. Carter Chapel, and interment will follow in the Ever green Cemetery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-24
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Nov. "A. - Rus sian politics is as turbulent as a waterspout and no better proof Of it is to be found than how Maxim Litvinov, sucked down into obscur- ity two years ago, now has been hoisted again to the saddle and handed that all-important port folio, Ambassador to the Uni te d States.
 The life of this round, jovial bolshevik, for many years de- scribed as the only great diplomat that the Soviet has produced, has moved in strangely overlapping circles.
 His revolutionary activity start ed in 1898. when he was 22 years i'd and he never deviated from
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-24
CONSULATE OF U. S. K
 DYNAMITED
No Member of Staff at Sdi- gon Injured, Depart
 ment Adviees State

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. - The 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.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-24
Litvinov Bountes from StaIin's Doq-House 10
 Washington Embassy

that line. A year later, he was sem fenced to five years in Siberia, but escaped after Is months. and from then on spent more time out of Russia than in it. When the pres ent Soviet state emerged in 1918 he was an exile in England, bring ing the wraCh of that nation down on his head by speeches advocating peace.
 When Bruce Loekhart. the
 British diplomat in Moscow,
 was arrested and charged with
 being an agent provocateur, it
 was Litvin0v who was seized
 in England as hostage and
 the exchange of those two
 prisoners brought Litvinoy
 home and started him on
 (Continued on Page Seyen)'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-24

Argentina is one o1 the largest import markets for iron and steel products.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-24
Fire Started Before Mid- night Not Under Control
 Until Late This Morning
WAFER MAIN BREAKS
 AS HIGH WIND ARISES
Dynamite, Bulldozers Also Used 10 Fight Flames
 and Stop Progress

Officers ol the signal Corps, United States Army in . special dispatch say fire of an unde- tertained origin last night and early today wiped out half of the business section of Seward and at noon toGas tsss.-. .d.sfslsl4ze yYas not officially estisnated.
 The fire broke oai at 1i:30 o'clock last night and vas not under control until S:30 o'clock this morning.
 All buildings on the east side of Fourth Avenue for distance of two blocks were destroyed. Soldiers from Fort Raymond helped the Seward fire fighters to battle the blaze.
 The fire lighters were handi- capped when the big water main broke and high wind sprang up early this morning.
 The firemen pumped water from Resurrection Bay and used dynamite and buIldozers 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 Publishing Company.
 Northern Bar, with lodging house above.
 Cameron's Cafe.
 Overland Hotel.
 Terminal Hotel.
 Terminal Cafe.
 Hoiiingsworth's cleaning es- tablishment and n u m erOus apartment and other business buildings.
 No Army supplies are reported to have been lost.
 
 MORE PARTICULARS Late this afternoon the Empire sceived a special dispatch iron he Gateway, published at Seward wing further particulars of thu Ire, as follows: Half the business section of Sew. ((sp,,t ir,Itad ntn pooa Eiohtl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-24
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17
Sling and Swing
ALL Organizer Faces Charges of Shooting Rocks
at WindotU Wrestling Woman Picket

Floyd Locw IS. Of 3i19 lIilger
avenue, an AL organizer. is in
VOWED in considerable legal trou-
bic today.
In case No. 7 he was held for
trial on a charge OF carrying con-
cealed weapons following exam
nation before Recorders Judge
Christopher r. Stein.
Sergt. Sidney Girardin Of the
drivers license bureau testified
that while on his way home at
1925 a m. on the morning of
June % ne saw Loew sitting in his
auto At. Cratic, and Arndt shoot
ing rocks through a bakery win
dow with a sling shot He was
released on personal bond.
In case No , ne was charged
with assault and battery on the
complaint Of Mrs. Elvira ISaacson,
Is. OF 1914 Trumbull avenue.
She said that on May 70 she
and two other girls were about 10
get in a picket line at the T.. &
NJ. Lunch at Woodward and jeff
erSon when he took their signs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17

took the law into their own hands.
that they had never seen foreign
crS before and that they diStrusted
them.
Their release was affected be-
cause the boat owner was a Greek
navy captain. whose destroyer had
been sunk and who left Athens a
few hours after has mother was
killed in a bombed hospital. to join
the Greek fleet IN Egypt
Patten praised the captains skill
as navigator.
HE took III $50 miles across
the Mediterranean without "A
scNtant or thermometer" Patten
SAID.
His only instrument was n
compass. We ran into two severe
storms. one which lasted two
days and kept us busy hating
out. The second was Sahara
cyclone.
THOU SAND TIMES GONE"
"My wife Law in the one bunk
which was not broken, bracing
herself against a broken door 10
our child was held against the
wall. We thought a thousand
times We were gone"
About 100 miles outside the
mouth Of the Nile they encountered
the British fleet. A destroyer crew
directed them and offered food
we proudly refused food"
Patten said.
Cooking on their boat had been
since the second day
when their kerosene stove was
washed overheard
Once they heated food for their
crying child in a Turkish coffee
maker over a Swedish candle. but
the rest OF the time they were
upon timed supplies.
When we arrived In Cairo
we were beautifully slim. but I
ate like n starving woman for
a week." Mrs. Patten laughed.
From SucZ TO Bombay they
Travelled for IS days aboard a
British troop ship and, finally,
sailed from Bombay aboard the
President Garfield on its maiden
voyage, touching al Capetown and
Trinidad ,before landing in New
York Sunday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17

Mrs. Mary Williams, 81, of 355
Leicester avenue. was put on four
months probation today and her
companion, Mrs. Christine Hughes,
"a, of sos Alexandrine, was &C
quilted in Recorders Judge George
Murphy's court on charges of hav-
ing stolen s. from the purse of
Mrs. Dorothy Nichols. q, Of 472
Harding.
Mrs. Nichols charged that while
she was swinging her 4-year-old
daughter, Joan, on the playground
at Belle Isle, Mrs. Williams and
Mrs. Hughes walked bY and Mrs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17
CopJrisht By Detroit Timss. Al rishi, reserved
AT. 00MEIFI Hills

away from them. tore them up
and tusslcd with her.
Loew said that she swung first
and so he took the sign away. He
denied hitting her. She admitted
that no blows were landed be
cause l was too fast for him"
The picketing was a result Of a
iuriSdictional dispute between AFL
and Go unionIstS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17
5000 at Dedication
OF Park for Sailors

Dedication Of recreation facili.
ties at the Gabriel Richard Park
between the Armory and Belle
Isle Bridge. for United States
sailors last night drew throne
of 5000 persons.
The Department Of Parks and
Recreation installed baseball dia.
volley ball and tennis
courts. boxing rings and other
facilities for sailors CHARTERED a.
the Naval Arnnrv.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17
State Workers
Sounded on Ties

Heads Of state government de-
partments today were obtaining
'affidavits from state employees that
they do not belong 10 a political
party or organization advocating
overthrow OF the government.
Senator James Burns introduced
"a resolution in the State Senate
the various depart
ment heads 10 obtain the affidavits.
Upon Senate adoption. state Off
cials started contracting all their
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17
Browe Gets NEA Office

DR.. Herman J. Browe. first as
Sistant superintendent of Detroit
schools, today was elected vice
president of the National Educa-
ton Association, a professional
organization of 100000 teachers
and school administrators.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17
Motor Production
To Remain Steady

Automobile and truck produc-
ton will remain steady this week
with approximately 1890 units
rolling off assembly lines. Auto
motive News, trade newspaper
declared today in its weekly sur
vey of the industry. Last week,
11l.3S7 cars and trucks were pro-
duced and a year ago the total
was 49. 1877.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17
Detroiters, Home From Greece,
Tell Terror of l4-Day Flight
DSailed to Egypt
From Piraeus in
Loaned Boat
BY DOROTHY WILLIAMS

Fourteen days at sea in a So
foot racing cutter under frequent
Nazi machine-gunning and bomb
ing, threatened by storms which
swept their food supply away
this is the story today of three
visitors TO Detroit.
They are Peter Patten, former
Detroiter who represented Bel
gian oil firm in Athens, Greece:
his wife, Inga, and their 4-year-old
daughter. Marilene.
Patten and his family are stay
ing with his brother, Marc Patten,
in Bloomfield HIS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17
w. U. Employees Pick Clio

Employees of the Detroit Western
Union today selected the American
Communications Association. CIO
as their sole collective bargaining
agency in an NLRB election, union
Officials said. The vote was Alt for
the Go to 165 for Commercial
photographers Union, AFL.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17
Coroner S Jury
.Ponders Deaths
In Fume Case

The two guards posted during
the fumigation Of an apartment
building at 474 Peterboro street
in which two newsboys were killed
by fumigating gas were sufficient
for that type of building, Clarence
Dempsey, principal Inspector OF
the Board OF Health, testified to-
day at a cor0ner's inquest into the
deaths.
The case was given 10 the jury
of six technical experts after
charge to them by Coroner Albert
c. Hughes.
Dempsey was called to the stand
after William G. Straub of 1921
.Woodingham drive. owner of the
Peerless EXterminator Company,
testified today that Dempsey had
told him that two guards were
sufficient and that it was not
necessary to have a man at the
side door of the apartment. The
boys, James a. Cabaniss. 10. and
Richard Powers, 9, entered through
the side door.
BOARD HAS SAY-SO
as the Board OF Health the
governing body i'm these cases."
Straub was asked.
EYES," he answered. 1--WE do
as they say and recommend"
Don't YOU think you should
have had a man at that side
door,"
"Well, the boys wouldn't he
dead today If a man had been
there" said Straub.
Dempsey testified that two
guards were sufficient If they were
alert and knew their business.
THOUGHT 1T LOCKED
Straub previously testified:
II had a hammer and nails In
my hands and could have nailed
IL up had L thought necessary.
But I'm my own heart 1 thought
the door was securely locked"
Cornelius j. Conway, board 1T
health Inspector suspended pend
/ ing results of the inquest. admitted
there was no guard at the side
door. but insisted il was locked
when he left. City ordinances
require a guard at each door.
TOLD TO KEEP LOOKOUT
He said he told the guards al
the front and back doors TO keep
a lookout for children and added:
II figured II would be impos-
sible for any one to get past
without one of the guards seeing
him"
AT the front door was Erwood
Foulke, 50, and infirm; at the
back. John King, a new employee
of the company. Samuel c.. Bro
die, chief guard at the fumigation,
was sought by police with a sub
pena to bring him before the
Jury but was reported missing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17
Mckay Juror
Gets Opportunity
To Tell Plenty

George s. Campbell, one of the
conviction" jurors in the Frank
Mckay trial. who had threatened
TO tell plenty today was called
before the federal grand jury in
'vestigating the Mckay jury
He was the first witness in TO-
days session OF the investigation
growing out of the jury's failure
TO agree on a verdict in the trial
.ci Mckay and IL others on liquor
graft charges.
Also scheduled TO be witness
is Anton MaSlan. the first Juror
10 make charges in the case.
DESCRIBED PARTY
Two other jurors who took the
stand yesterday. it was learned.
described a party given by the
Jurors while hearing the case. but
denied reports there were attor-
.neys present and denied there had
been extensive drinking.
The five who voted for acquittal
of Mckay and the other defen-
dantS are TO testify during the in
vestigation. The split jury brought
an order of mistrial by Federal
Judge Arthur F. Lederle after 81
hours Of deliberauon on mir @
weeks testimony.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17

For the Inside News" of
Washington, Follow Paul NAL
Ions Column I'm the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17

BY
MRS DOROTHY NICHOLS 81, AND DAUGHTER, JOAN
Mrs. Nichols of 472 Harding shortly after she
told Recorders Judge George Murphy how she traed two
who had taken So from her purse Belle Isle
for nearly mile while her husband, Leo summoned
policeman who arrested the pair One Of the accused
placed months probation the other acquitted
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17
PurSe.LOOter Freed
Woman Wins Probation on Charge of Filching SIS
at Playground; Companion Acquitted

Williams picked up her purse and
took S..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17
LEAyE on SAIL BOAT

At dawn April 23-three days
before the Germans marched into
Athens -PatteH and his family
sailed from PiraeuS, The port of
Athens, aboard the cnglnclcSS sail
boat of friend
Fourteen days later, famiShed
and ncrve-wTackcd. they landed in
Alexandria. Egypt. their supplies
exhausted except for one tin of
peas. some week old bread and
honey.
During those days they twice
escaped direct bonn hing and
IN C hin e. cunning while they
crouched in the boat. Pattcn was
arrested at knlfc-pOint by a cTe-
tan hlllsman, their two sailors
were imprisoned. their craft was
SWamped by two storms and their
child had nearly fallen overheard
countless times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17
KNIFE At STOMACH
NEVER SAW FOREIGNERS

Later these Cretan hillsmen ex-
planned TO the Pattens that they
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17
COMPLAIN or LIPSTICK

NumcrQuS times they were be-
Gained. Finally the sailors went
10 The captain and complained.
THE wind has left because
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-07-17

hoped that the United States
could keep out Of the war, but
he did not express confidence
that we would keep out. He re-
fused to comment on a speech
by Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox, who said: '"The time to
use our navy to clear the Allan
tic of the German menace is at
hand"
It is believed here that the war
like speeches of several of the
presidents cabinet are made part
ly to test public sentiment for
war and also to make us realize
the closeness of possible war and
arouse us to become more united
in our defense efforts.
The general attitude of the
President is that predictions are
impossible about our participa-
ton in the war, but there is a
good chance we will get into it
and it is all-important to us now
to make greater effort than we
are making to prepare for any
eventuality.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-07-17
STRIKES HAVE GIVEN
LA. TOWNS 'BLACKOUTS'

Baton Rouge, La. Ten Louis
lana communities were without
electric power at varying periods
Saturday night and early Sun
day and. the Gulf States Utilities
Company charged some of its
equipment had been sabotaged.
A strike against the company's
Louisiana division was called
four days ago by the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers (A.F.L.) but o. A. Wal
ker, international representative,
declared that all union men,
bers had remained in the city
and "could not possibly" be res
ponsible for the power Interrupt
tons.