The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 29, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE __ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ; DAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1941 SHIPS TORPEDOED WAR, ASSAILS U. 5. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VO, LVIT., NO. 8892. AXIS ARCTIC S JAPAN PREPAR i E BITTER NIPPON Newspapers, Also Radio Broadcasts Keep Up Slams at America (BY AlsSDCIA'l'ED PRESS) f | | | | The newspapers of Japan today" assailed the United States and the ' Japanese radio stations picked up the cry, the keynote of the articles and broadcasts declaring that Am- erica will “alone be responsible in what seems almost inevitable con- flict on the Pacific.” In other words, war is in the atmosphere between Japan and the United States. There. is however, gloom mingled with the bristling action for ‘“near hgstilities” almost certain to come. " Premier Tojo's new war cabinet met anew today to deliberate Ja- pan’s final stand in negotiations between Japan and the United ' States. It is apparent here that the conferences in Washington are breaking down, not . stalemated,' huwever. Reports from Shanghai said 70 or more Japanese troop transpcrts have been seen moving recently in .the direction of Hainan Island or French Indo-China. It is estimated the transports could carry at least 22,000 soldiers with complete cam- paign equipment. - — t-ine WASHINGTON — The British barring of Russian Ambassador Lit- vinoff from an airplane en route to the U. S. A. has increased Wash- ington whispers that it is about time the British did something to clean up their moribund diplomatic service and cut out snubs to people whe are trying to help them. It has long been the belief of Americans, too polite to mention it, that the British Embassy in Washington can make more mis- takes to the square inch even than Mr. Hull's State Department—and many of the State Department’s mistakes come from -trying so ar- déntly to ape the British. | For years the British Embassy has sat on its hilltop, well re- moved from the bastle of Washing-| ton, and looked with slightly dis- dainful amusement upon hoi polloi of Congress. An invitation to the| % British Embassy in those good old | days was considered by the dow- agers as better than an invitation to the White House. But those good old days, unfor- tunately both for the dowagers and | the Embassy, are gone, never to| return. However, the Embassy ap-| pears completely unaware of that/ fact. And its charming young men go their charming way, saying' sometimes too audibly: “We must be nice to Americans while the real work of defending Britain takes | place in the British Purchasing | Commission, largely under the di- rection of hardboiled Canadians and Australians. Viscount Halifax is one of the most delightful and genteel per sons ever to grace the Embassy. Hi tries hard. But hard as he tries, he cannot overcome the bubbling| Charles Peake, who minces around| him as if his Lordship still were| viceroy of India with white and| e (Continued on Page Four) { | F. D. R. Launches Seal Drive President Roosevelt and Stevan Dohanes President Roozevelt p}x% the _figt batch ol Christinas- scals printed by the National Tuberculosis Association. Stevan Dohanos, artist 'who drew this year's design, is at the right in this picture taken in the White House. bétmans SowihgiMifi; - To Caich Vessels from U. 5. Bound fo England LONDON, Nov. 29.—The German Air Force is sowing “considerable” mines along the sea lanes off the west coast of England through which some of the U. 8. ships com- ing directly to Britain must sail This is according to an authorita- tive source made public today. —ai— NAZI AIMS - SEEN NOW IN ORIENT ,German Agents Trying fo Bring Peace Between Japanese, Chinese MANILA, Nov, 29.—Nazi agents |in the Far East are making a de- termined effort to bring about a negotiated peace between Japan and China, quarters closely con- nected with Japan’s puppet regime |in Nanking disclose, according to advices received here. The movement would release Jap- | | | L L EA DS—After 20 years of the movies—in and out of them— attractive Fay McKenzie, 21, has graduated to the rank of leading lady for the.screen’s cowboy- singer, Gene Autry. NICE BRUINIE! HICKORY, N. 'C., Nov. 20—Im- | mediately after Worth Whitener Mary J. Nelson, Ketchikan native ad his picture snapped with a| Woman, was found drowned under big black bear in the Great Smoky |the old city warehouse at the Pirst Mountains National Park the |City yesterday moon, according to bruin took a piece out of White- a stelegram recejved at the U. 8. ner’'s leb. No, the photographer Marshal's office hgle today. didn’t get the action shot. | The. Ineemse, B4 s shad. slob % | been any foul play connected with AT s | the woman’s death, the examination BUY DEFENSE BONDS | of the body revealed. i rections in the Orient. Authorized Chinese sources said any lessening of United States aid to China might force the Chung- king Government of China to ac- cept peace terms. LG T SR R NATIVE WOMAN anese forces in thrusts in other di- - FOUND DROWNED ANTI - STRIKE BILLS GIVEN OFFICIALO.K House and Senafe Commit- tees Approve Seizing Strikebound Plants WASHINGTON, Nov. 29—Senate and House committees gave ap- proval today to separate bills to empower the government to take, over defense plants when strikes impede production, The Senate judiciary committee voted 12 to two in recommending the bill of Senator Tom Connally, of Texas, authorizing the taking over ! of such plants and freezing any open or clpgsed shop status which may exist in them. | The House labor committee ap- proved legislation which, besides' selzure of plants would create) machinery for voluntary arbitration of all labor disputes. > REDS DRIVE NAZIS BACK NEAR MOSCOW TCoumer-AnaTks on Three Sectors.of Central Front | Force Invaders fo Refreat (By Associated Press) | Russia’s armies today were re- ported to have recaptured part of Rostov-On-Don and smashed back the German assault forces in three {key sectors on the central front before Moscow and killed more |than 9,000 Nazis in bloody fight- | ing. A British broadcast said Red counterattacks on the north flank of the Moscow have recaptured ten' | villages Klin and Kalinin, 50 and 190 miles northwest of the capital | The German radio, however, de-| |clared General Von Bock's central | front armies had captured the city of Volokolamsk, 65 miles northwest of Moscow. STORM FORCES (OAST GUARD CUTTER HERE | Sheathed with ice, the Coast Guard cutter Nemaha reached Ju- neau at 10 o'clock last night and | reported gale force winds had forced | {it to abandon attempts to land at | Point Retreat Lighthouse, where a | Ketchikan fisherman, suffering | frostbite, was to have been picked up and brought here for hospital- | ization. The Nemaha, en route from the | Westward, sought shelter behind | Shelter Island Wednesday night | The same night Raymond Bond of ixef.cmkan ran his 30-foot gasboat ashore and made his way three miles | to the lighthouse. With the storm \[mcressing in velocity, the cutter was | forced to come into_Juneau. ————— | WHAT MADE H™™M MAD JACKSONVILLE, N. C. (AP) |Guy Lockamy’s automobile was Istolen ten minutes after he had |parked it. But what made Guy jumping mad was that the fellow who swiped the car drove right his own car. G BUY DEFENSE STAMPS .i ‘,« | | } past him—and he didn't recogniz . Clad only in breechclont, a Burmese longshoreman aids in unloading freighter at Rangoon. T ta mnlfing threatening gestures in the South Pacifie, Sena tor Norris Won't Run Again Senator George W. Norris *I couldn’t do my work properly and I would be ashamed to take my salary.” So says Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, for 28 years a member of the upper house, in announcing in Washington he doesn’t plan to run for re-election. Norris, 80, was elected to congress in 1903 and served in the house for 10 years before going to the senate. He is shown in his Washington office looking at a picture of a rye field back home in Nebraska. Public Willing fo Pay - Defense Taxes But No For Any Boondoggling ing seme federal officials to settle down to some head-thumping and although little has been done so far, the pressure is increasing to streamline the mechanics of gov- ernment and eliminate all the frills that have nothing to do with na- tional defense. For example, that about lengthening the government work-week is something more than a teaser. A number of agencies have Huypdreds of employees who have been working overtime for months, but these are almost en- tirely defense; and-—although in very few of them is there any pay for overtime—most do get ac- cumulative leave for. those hours spent burning for the others, it's still a 39-hour BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Nov, 29 — This talk about economy in non-defense governmental agencies isn't all hooey, by any means. | In the first place, the govern-! ment has got to make a stentorian effort to offset the squawk that is going up over the land when all the new taxes start taking the hide off John Q. Public's pocket- book. In high government circles, the theory ' is that John Q. won't scream over sacrifices for national defense but that he won't stand for any boondoggling now. If he has to shave his last copper to pay taxes and keep corned beef and cabbage on the table, he'’s going to be sure no federal agency wasting its time with cream pufts. That kind of reasoning is driv- trial balloon dropping work as suddenly as a (Continued on Page Six) e Gun Catriers for Defense of the Burma Road Bren gun carriers from a British he defenses in this vital area have been greatly strengthened since Japan began for Burma is the gateway through which pass supolies to keep China fighting against Nipponese aggression, AFRICAN FIGHTING INTENSE Germans Iryfflg to Break Out of Encirclement of British Forces LONDON, Nov. 29. — A bulletin this morning from the British Mid- dle East headouarters said large | British and Axis forces are locked in a great battle southeast of Re- zegh, 10 miles from Tobruk i | | | The battle began yesterday and is | raging furiously today. | The Germans are apparently des- perately trying to fight their way out of the British encirclement. The official communique also said | the British and New Zealand troops |are “widening their corridor con- tact” leading to Tobruk. >-es - TROOP LEAVES ARE OFF ‘-Stronghold;t?ingapore Is Taking ““Normal Pre- caufionary Move” SINGAPORE, Nov. 29.—All troop leaves at this big British Far East- ern stronghold have been cancelled as a “normal precautionary move in view of the Pacific situation.” This announcement was made here late this after- noon. | - - CARS ON STREETS officially BLOCKSNOWPLOW Juneau auto owners were warned | teday by Police Chief Ken Junge to keéep their machines off streets throughout the city, to enable snow plow work in clearing the residen- tial section of snow. Junge added that all machines off the street by 11:30 p.m. so the Capital City. >ee BUY DEFENSE ET heart of the | ? AMPS 8 VESSELS SENT DOWN BY BRITISH Submarines_STmessfully Attack Transport Fleet Enroute fo Petsamo LONDON, Nov. 20—Two Brit- ish submarines have torpedoed and sunk at least eight Axis transperts and supply ships carrying reinforcements and materials to the German-Fin- nish forces on the Murmansk Front in the Arctic. The British Admiralty stated that two ships sunk are known to have had many soldiers aboard eliminating any doubt that they were transports. | Some survivers picked up wore | German and Italian uniforms | plainly showing the transports were Axis ships. Five other vessels in the fleet were also’ torpedoed and gun- fired and four of them damaged 5o seriously they probably sunk later. Apparently the ships were en- route to Petsame, Fiuvisk port west of Murmansk. Murmansk is still ice free, it is reported, and strongly de- fended by the Russians. FINLAND IS ALLY ~ OFNALS State Depart?ent Says Na- tion Cooperating with Hitler's Forces WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. — The State Department said Finland's latest actions “confirm our appre- hensions that PFinland is fully co- operating with the Hitler forces.” The Department said “every act lof the Pinnish Government” since |the delivery of the Finnish Gov- |ernment’s note rejecting the plea |of the United States to cease hos- | tilities against Russia, has made | Finland's position absolutely clear, AUSTRALIA SEES DANGER ~ IN FAR EAST } CANBERRA, Nov. 29.—Australia’s Advisory Council is meeting in a special session to discuss the grave Far Eastern situation in the light |of the latest reports from Wash- {ington, London and Tokyo. | S e Normally, Italy is one of the | principal wheat - growing nations, ‘me third largest producer in Eu- rope, with a crop about one-third "lhnL of the United States. Shopping Days the evening oil. A5 in downtown areas should also be, week, and the quitting bell means Plow can celar traffic lanes in the |