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

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1941 * VOL. LVIL, U.S.-JAPAN ARE NEARING BREAK NO. 8893. 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS BRITISH CLAIN AXIS ARE DRIVEN BACK | ADMIT NAII . SUCCESS IN REZEGHIONE Imperial Mobile Column Thrusts Against lfalians, Put Tanks to Flight BATTLE MOVES WEST OF HUMP OF LIBYA Allied Troofieponed to Have Reached Gulf of Sirte Yesterday CAIRO, Dec. 1.—British forces have driven westward beyond the hump of Libya and are continuing | their operations, British headquart- ers said today but acknowledged Ger- man infantry and tanks have broken through the defense of Rezagh in| the main sector of the desert strug- ! gle. | A communique said one Axis tank thrust from the west was repulsed.; South of Rezegh British armored | units turned on Italy’s spearhead’ division and “destroyed about half the remaining tanks in this division, | which then fled northward pursued | by British mobile columns.” 1 The British yesterday reported reaching the Mediterranean coast along the Gulf of Sirte between Bengasi and Agedabia, more than 300 miles west of the Egyptian| frontier and directly across from the Axis’ one supply road to Tripoli. | ( 1 1 | | i | ! WASHINGTON — Five United States Senators recently arrived in Memphis, Tenn., and began asking | i embarrassing quetsions. They asked | why the government should have to | pay $15.66 for repairing an automo- bile tire, $18.64 for rebuilding a $5.00 carburetor, and $1.50 for labor to| change the motor ofl of a truck. i The answers, if any, will be given by officials of Ferguson-Oman, the | contracting company which is build- ing a giant ordnance plant near Memphis to be operated by so0a] makers Proctor and Gamble. | The Senators expect to uncover many other extraordinary things about this defense project. Their sense of smell for making such dis- coveries has been well developed. They have been asking embarrassing questions since last spring, when the special committee to investigate the national defense porgram was set up. From the very start the commit- tee’s disclosures have been a series of headline sensations. But one of the most remarkable developments of the committee is its chairman, Senator Harry S. Truman of Mis- souri. Slightly built, bespectacled, a lover of Chopin and a shunner of the limelight, Truman is one of the last men in Congress who would be con- sidered a hard-boiled prober. In manner and appearance he is any- | deight makes no difference to { oretty Marion Morgan, dancing No Money in Strip-Teasing —Murray Korman photo Kay Fears ‘While working as a church editor on a Tulsa, Okla., newspaper, Kay Fears joined Sally Rand's troupe of strip-teasers, went to New York and became famous. But Miss Fears plans to retire from show business now and go into work she thinks will be more profitable— women’s hats. Anli-lnllalidn Price Plane Hang; and Supply NAVY WiLl LOCATE BASE INJUNEAU Depot fo Be Built on Local Waterfront A small air base is soon to be located here by the 13th Naval District, it was an- > TAN nounced today by Mayor Harry I. Lucas. The base will include a plane hangar te be built in the small boat harbor, a four-car garage and supply depot, and quarters in the second story of the supply building for several men, Mayor Lucas declared. To accomodate the base, two lots on the nertheast corner of 10th Street and Harbor Way have been purchased by the city, the Mayor revealed. The property was formerly owned by W. H. Rebinson and J. J. Smith. Mayor Lucas, who returned last night on the Yukon after an extended trip through tl,e States, said he had a glimpse of the plans for the Juneau base, now being drawn up in the 13th Naval District head- quarters in Seattle. He said he could not divulge the size cf the hangar and buildings or the amount of money to be spent in construction here. The Control Bill Is Given fo Senate for Man-Handling | WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. — The | badly battered version of the Ad- | ministration’s anti-inflation price control bill rests on the Senate’s doorsteps after a wearing trip | through the House and with little | indication it will become a law before next year. Senate leaders said the bill will be given to the committee and hearings will start soon but doubt- Some Tall Dancing the present session. The bill was passed by the House 1224 to 161 but only at the cost of major concessions and several de- feats of the Administration forces. As approved by the House, the legislation will authorize a Price Control Administrator to establish -|ceilings over commodity prices which get out of line with the rest of the price structure, but it will also set up p Board of Review with power to set aside the Administra- tor’s rulings upon appeal. | HAMBURG IS " AIR RAIDED, ' FIRES SET with Master Sgt. H. C. Dabbert of ‘he 124th Field Artillery at a party given members of the U, S, Army | Night A"a(k o Nonh- in Chicago. | ern Germany thing but the crusader, But in the eight months he has! been operating he has made inves- tigation history — and he has a long way yet to go. PENDERGAST MAN Truman came to the Senate in shipyards at Hamburg were blasted by tons of bombs dropped in a bright moonlight last night and great fires were set, the flames being visible for | miles. g i Royal Air Force planes showered vy 8 | Emden, Bremershaven, Wilhelshav- 1935 in the same freshman class with Minton of Indiana, Schwellen- bach of Washington and Burke of Nebraska. Each one of them quick- ly made a name for himself, but (Continued on Page Four) WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. — Man- o, gie] and Lubeck, all in north- | agement of railroads and various gegtern Germany ni the first night railway brotherhoods, late last Sat- 5iq since early in November. urday, agreed to a final mediation The British Air Ministry admitted effort to avert a nationwide strike this afternoon that 20 British planes set for December 7. jengaged in the raid have been lost. ed whether action will be taken at i {Royal Air Force Makes| LONDON, Dec. 1. — Docks and Mayer said, however, that he i believed a call for local bids on the work will be made soon. e ROSTOV IS 'EVACUATED " BYGERMANS ?Berlin Admits Withdrawal | from Area Which They | Recently Captured BERLIN, Dec. 1. — The German High Command, last Saturday night, acknowledged a ‘“partial” withdrawal from Rostov-on-Don, |but on the Moscow front, accord- |ing to DNB, German news agency, | three strong points of Moscow's |defense line, at Klin, 50 miles away; at Solnetschnogorski, 31 miles away, and at "Volokalamsx, 65 miles away, were threatened. The announcement of the with- drawal from Rostov is a rarity in modern German military action. Only a week ago, the Germans | boasted of the capture of Rostov |and announced that Restov had | been singled out for severe repri- (Continued on Page Three) STRANGEST STORY AND MOST DELIGHT- FUL FOR CHILDREN we’ve run in a long time is the new Christmas serial by Sigrid Arne be- ginning today in The Em- pire. Start it along with a‘scrapbook for the full 21 installments. You owe it to your children to read | SANTA and the WHITE ROSE Six whippet tanks, sheathed in canvas, sat on railroad cars on sidings near the Army base at Boston, Mass., awaiting transfer to a boat for shipment to R ussia as part of the lend-lease aid. They were the be shipped by those channels. first of many tanl ¥ ." " Ttalian Torpédo on the Wa; ] GERMANS ARE 4 Released by the British admiraity, this picture shows a torpedo, arrow, striking the water after being dropped from an Italian plane during an attack on a British supply convoy somewher The torpedo struck the British battl Nelson, damaging its bow but not impairing its fighti The Italian plane, shown in the midst of a rain of anti- fire, was shot down a few mome terranean sea in the Medi- H. M. S. ; efliciency. :raft shell nts after the picture was takem. Ominous Dedaration Made by Rooseveli on SENATOR ADAMS DIES SUDDENLY IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. — Heart ailment caused the death of United States Senator Alva Blanchard Adams, Demccrat, of Colorado, aged 66, shortly before 4 o'clock this morning. He had been confined to his bed since attack of the heart last Tuesday night. Senator Adams was elected on November 8, 1932, and reelected on November 8, 1938. ——————— MRS. ELKINS VISITING Mrs. Lester E. Elkins arrived in Juneau on the Mt. McKinley from ! Petersburg and will visit in Juneau with her sister, Mrs. %. W. Coun- cil and brother Don Apland. Mrs. Elkins is the former Mildred Apland. Figh[i_ng for I_)flense WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Dec. 1 President Roosevelt asserted last Saturday night that it always is | possible that at next Thanksgiving time “our boys in the military and naval academies may be fighting for defense of our American insti- tutions.” The Chief Executive made that ominous declaration in an infor- mal address at a dinner of the Warm Springs Foundation for in- fantile paralysis victims. The President spoke of people of other lands now overrun or at- tacked and of those even in coun- tries which are attacking. A. P. Walker, former Territorial KS FOR RUSSIA READY FOR TRANSFER FAREASTERN SITUATION IS - MOST GRAVE Nippon Envoys Hold Con- ference with Secrefary of State C. Hull ROOSEVELT HURRIES BACK TO WASHINGTON Wide Gap Exisits Befween Positions of Two Na- tions, Is Report WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—Japan’s envoys, Ambassador Nomura and Saburo Kurusu, talked for more |than an hour this forenoon with Secretary of State Cordell Hull but they took no reply from their gov- |ernment for the document handed (to them last week restating and _ !clarifying the American position in the Far Eastern crisis. It is learned that this forenoon’s conversation concerned only sub- ordinate phases of the situation and no further discussions have been ar- ranged so far. Ambassador Nomura looked grave when he and Japan’s Special Envoy Kurusu entered Secretary Hull's of- fice. Leaving the office, one newsman asked Nomura whether there was Shopping Day. “I believe it must be wise state- | tary Hull again, said: BERLIN, De units battling I.oward‘ While the Japanese envoys and | the aid of good field glasses,” a Ger- | C 1 | The spokesman did not say what but previous reports indicated the | the north and northwest. | PURGE IS TALKFESIS | | | —_— Down U. S. Views | o | Japanese news agency, today said Premier Tojo Says Explan- ed States despite the great differ- I made after a special Cabinet meet- meetings in Manchoukuo and Oc- ington. | geance” |and America.” the Columbia Broadcasting System. the Pacific problem by “contin | Of Porfuguese in [ASPIRASIS 'still a wide gap between the Am- /i i g erican and Japanese position and Nazi Troopers in Adv manship to save the situation.” Un“s can See c“y w“h | Kurusu, when asked whether he : ; | “Yes, we have been instructed to -German soldiers ' that effect by our government.” |in advance Moscow now “can see Moscow with | o . (Continued on Page Two) man military spokesman said to- | night. | part of the curving Moscow front jApA“ESE this approach is being made against | German forces are nearest the capi- tal on roads running to Moscow from . 'I'HRE A‘I’ or Nippon Government Mak- 1 ing Efforts fo Break | TOKYO, Dec. 1. — Domel, the ! the Japanese Cabinet has decided to continue negotiations with the Unit- Premler TOJO Says Explo" |ences in the view points of the two H Hal over ts. | fation of U.S., Brifain [*’permmen NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—A British ing in which Premier and Foreign radio reports that Premier General Minister Tojo outlined progress cupied China, declared that Japan K Tojo's statement, Domei said, “purge East Asia with ven- made it clear there are “great dif- | British exploitation. | pamat hisiore:-addes that s . ' Briti » & g v apan | The ritish broadcasting an oIl prohabily’ Tednuble -otforte: 't | | negotiations.” | i bt | Africals "Traitor", | s | NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—A German an(e Nomura replied: Glassesl Berlln Says !and Nomura planned to see Secre- Domei reports this decision was Tojo, addressing simultaneously made in talks underway in Wash- must of the United States and ferences in views between Japan |nouncement was recorded here. by make the United States reconsider | | Governor General {radio broadcast picked up here said Senator from Pelican City, planned |the Governor General of Fortu- to leave Juneau for his home to-|guese in West Africa has been re-| day if weather permitted him io lieved of his duties and will be| take his gasboat out of Auk Bay. |tried on charges of cooperating with B England and the Free French Dov-‘I BUY DEFENSE STAMPS |erament. |