The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL, LVIIL, NO. 8898. JUNLAU ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1941 Vll;MBH? AbSOClATLD PRESS PR]CETENCE.NTS FAR EAST CRISIS NEAR BREAKING POINT ynamite Barge Is On Fire In Sitka Harbor MOSCOW THREATENED FLAMES ARE SHOOTINGUP HIGH IN AIR Al Persons in Native Vil- lage Evacualed - Fire Breaks Out Early Today SITKA, Alaska, Dec. 6— (Special to the Empire)—The drill barge of the Puget Sound Dredge Company caught fire this morning at 4 e'clock and at 9:30 o’clock this forenoon was still burning in the Sitka Har- bor between the town and the Navy Air Base. The Sitka Fire Department has evacuated all persons from the Native Village because of dynamite on the barge. Oil and smoke and occasional flames, maybe dynamite burn- ing, is going one hundred feet into the air . No injuries or loss of life is known at this hour. The barge has been engaged in deepening the channel. The steamer North Coast has left her dock and anchored away from the luwn Greal Brifain Lists Three More Enemies - War Dedlaration on Fin-| land, Rumania, Hungary Effective at Midnight |* LONDON, Dec. 6—Great Britain today announced it will be at war with Finland, Hungary and Ru- mania at one minute past midnight | tonight (4:01PST) because those countries refused to stop fighting | I Britain’s Soviet ally. The declaration of war ence at the ultimate peace con- | ferences. Scotland Yard has been assigned to round up more than 200 “enemy aliens,” most of who are Finns. JAPS HARDEN ATTITUDE OF HOSTILITY Attaches frt;m_ Washingfon | and Steamship Officials | Recalled fo Home TOKYO, Dec. 6—Amid ominous new developments in the Pacific, the Japanese newspapers today hardened their hostile attitude toward the United States, although not completely abandoning hope for a settlement short of armed con- flict. | In hope of reaching a final set- | tlement, Count Kentaro Kaneko Harvard educated Privy Councillor, | proposed the appointment of a special Japanese American com- | mission to examine the whole Pa- cific program. Certain attaches of the Jap em- bassy in Washington have been* recalled to their home country, as| well as chiefs of the Nippon Yusen | Kaisha, a big steamship company operating Singapore offices. Newspapers Nichi Nichi and Asahi took the position today that | the United States is playnig to, “gain time.” - — According to current estimates, one pound of plastic will replace ' more than three pounds of metal. will not change the present situation much ; although it will make a big differ- BRYANSK'® & OREL KHARKOV PETROVSK MELITOPOL Shaded circles indicate main battle areas on the Russian front, arrows mark German drives; white arrows Russian thrusts. Black Russians were reported attacking north of Moscow (1), but a delayed Russian dispatch acknowledged 4° German push“to within 36 miles of the capital from the Mozhaisk region. claimed an advance toward Skopin, South of Moescow (2), Germans and were reported trying to encircle Tula. Russians were reported counter-attacking in the Donets area near Rostov (3). Enllslmenls in (oasl NEW ENVOY " | cpen Guard Reserves for 3 Years' Duty Announced jpg WALLS KETCHIKAN. Alaska, Dec. 6. The Coast Guard enlistments are to three-year enlistments in Alaska for immediate duty, ac- cording to an announcement made by the Coast Guard headquarters ¢ | here. George S. Messersmith (above), at present United States Am- bassador to Cuba, has been nom- inated by President Roosevelt to be Ambassador to Mexico. B GERMANS CLAIM ADVANCES MADE, RUSSIAN SECTOR| BERLIN, Dec. 6. — Military dis- | patches tonight report new gains by |the Germans in the thrust east of | Relkursk, midway between the Mos- cow front and the Soviet drive in j the Donets Basin, i i | radio today The Coast Guard announcement | also states that Draft Boards have| agxeed to release men for the Coast " | Guard Reserves, provided they ap- | ply before receiving final induc- tion notice. BIG MOVE ON MOSCOW ~ IS REPORTE NEW YORK, Dec. 6—The Italian declared that “1,500,- 000 men, 8,000 tanks and 1,000 guns most terrific offensive of all times. The National Broadcasting Comp- i’my recorded the announcement, N CLIPPER TURNED BACK BY STORMS Stormy weather between Prince | Gsorge and Juneau this forenoon | forced the Pan American Douglas | Clipper to turn back to the British | Célumbia town after a two-| hour flight toward Juneau. The Clipper was to attempt Lhe trip again late $oday if the weather | cleared up. Also at Prince George | is a Lodestar which arrived there from Seattle this morning. Both planes will come here tomorrow if weather cancels further operations { this afternoon. At press time today the local Pan are moving toward Moscow in the| ARMY (OMING MAYOR TELLS QTY COUNCIL Lucas Says He Does Not Know Extent of Forces ‘ Due Here | Indication that a detachment of | Army men may soon be guarted in | Juneau was voiced last night by| Mayor Harry 1. Lucas at o session of the city council { | The Mayor’s remark regarding ‘lh(' possibility of the appearance lof an Army force here was made |in connection with his report, made | earlier this week, to the effect that |a small Navy base soon be con- structed near the small boat harbor, | “I understand the army is com- |ing here, too,” Lucas told the coun- |cilmen. “I don't know to what ex- Itent.” | Need Reading Room | Lucas was at the time commeut-| |ing on the need for maintaining | a reading room and recreation cen-| |ter of some sort in the city. The| discussion was started by the ap- pearance of H. L. Faulkner and B. F. Heintzlemen, trustees of the Red | | Shield Reading Room in the Deck- |er Building, along with Adj. Stanls Jackson, of the Salvation who has charge of the room. | The three urged that the | | t city | Arm# L |continue to appropriate $50 per |month to cover rental of the read- |ing room. Kaulkner pointed ont {that the city has a real need for a |rcom where men can go and read books and magazines, piay table |games and write letlers. Average jexpenses ¢f running the room the Ipast five months has been $70.14 per month, he said, and an average of 14 men every night have visited lthe room. During recent months, | Faulkner declared, 110 men from ‘\mung navy 1ip.s have spent time (Conummd on Page Two) INJUNEAU PROPOSED {Concrete Barracades fo Prevent Spread of Fire Needed It was a fireproof, cement buiid- |ing which stopped the spread of the Seward fire last week, accord- |ing to reports, and Frank Metcall |city engineer, was emphatic in his ‘x'ecommendaflon to the city council |last night that fire walls of con- |crete be built in sections of down- ‘town Juneau as a protection against the spread of some future fire hich might wipe out the entire busme<s section of the city. From the Juneau-Young hard- |ware stere, down Frankiin street to the waterfront is a mass of vooden buijdings, constructed <o close together that If one of them ugainst “scare buying” and to the ably run interference for post-warhelr rear bases, dispathes from the sy ire and the blaze was gme time hammer home the nec- ' depression. northern front said today. wlzllpped Pv la light wind, the entire essity of conservation of certain % L Red troops were reported moving | secticn would go, Metcalf declarcd. | gefense materials and products| on two major fronts (and a gradually into the approaches of e proposed that the city budset pat contain them Sood ARy TTcH ok OPA 15 ! cheity itself, which is 110 miles | next year include a fation 4800 ARy A ) " | southeas 2 4 8 H G 85 as merchandising itself. It’s the | ing” and at the same time trying( TcPOrts § i i raves clothing store and at p: 4 " fighting is being carried on in Sh old “get-’em-while-they-last” game to convince that greatest waster of . hattuck Way, on one side of ¥ temperatures of 30 below zero. | Pranklin, and near the KINY stu- Piayed with all the subtleties of all time, the American Public, that G medern salesmanship. It's the raw'it has to mend its wasting ways if P |dio cn the other side of the street | materials producer manufacturer: I the big problems the Office of Price Administration now is how to educate the public “Tank Destroyer’ Tested by the Army ” jg shown to Army ordnance officials at N. J., the machine is built to carry a 756 mm. is powered by an airplane motor. NAZI RAIDER 7 1S SENT DOWN A streamlined monster on iron treads, called the “tank destroyer, Designed by William Bigley of Hoboken, cannon at 75 miles an hour and PROCLAIMS DAY Arlington, Va. Destroyed-Survivors | Left to Their Fate Deec. 6—The Brit- Admirally announced to- it that the cruiser Dorset- shire caught and sunk a Ger- man commerce raider in the - F 'inffi"‘ . South Atlantic. The anncuncement said the PE ine i e raider was about 10,000 tons. A . Because of the feared pres- : ence o fsubmarines, suppose dto be guarding the raider, the Dersetshire was unable to re- main on the scene and pick up . | any survivors. | In trying to escape, the raider left behind five boats laden | with oil and provisions which | were alongside the raider when the Dorsetshire approached and opened fire, RED TROOPS SEVER NAZI LOND( ish, ni FHES President Roosevelt signed a proclamation at the White House desig- natiing December 15 as “Bill of Rights Day” in observance of the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the bill of rights. Loo Mayor F. H. LaGuardia whose Civilian Defense Organization will sponsor the celebration. Howard Chandler Christy drew the poster. "Scare Buying” of Public Is Big Probiemof 0.P.A,; Battle in Moscow A Conservation, Necessity il aHoson KUIBYSHEV, Russia, Soviet troops have cut which connects In some that kind the evils that are born of it high prices, hoarding, inflati the business triplets that in just and | is cyele STINNETT instances, it Dec, 6—One By JACK WASHINGTON, 6 of eof a vicious Dec. are to solve \— | Way is trying saying to the wouldn't do this we are going to come even close to satisfying the appetite of defense STOCK QUOTATIONS IN 5. ATLANTIC Ten Thousa?\aclon Craft Is| Opposing Armies Continue the high- the German ri- | forces in the city of Tikhvin with ALL LEAVES CANCELLED ~ INORIENT British Order Personnel of Army, Navy, Air Forces to Report for Duty DEFENSE OF ""GIBRALTAR OF ORIENT" INDICATED %Tokyo New;f);pers Renew | Hostilities Against | U. §. Today | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Great Britain today suddenly re- | called all fighting men to their | posts in Singapore as the Far East crisis hung by a delicate balance. The British broadcast reports that Australia has arranged to send tanks and troops to help defend |the Dutch East Indies in event of war. Officers and men of all services of the fleet, army and air, have been instructed to report immedi- ately at Singapore for a comple'e state of readiness at the “Gibral- |tar of the Orient.” No explanation was made as to whether the sudden new emergency the order issued: simuitaneously is- meqult: from the order issued simul- taneously forbidding non-Britons from leaving British Malaya with- lout special Government permis- si0 The Japanese waiting to sail for | Thailand have been forced to dis- nbark with their baggage and | remain ashore. | At Manila, the Government has asked immediate evacuation of all “nonessential” civilians there and in other areas of the Common- | wealth, It is indicated that com- pulsory evacuation might follow. The newspapers of Tokyo today |sharpened their hostility toward |the United States. The newspaper | Kokumin declares that in event of “American aggression, one bil- lion people in East Asia would be- | come bombs against Great Britain snd the Umted States.” HOUSE OKAYS 8 BILLIONS suppLYRoAD FOR DEFENSE 'U S. Armament Expendi- | tures Twice Spent for World War | WASHINGTON, Deg¢. 6—The new $8,224,000,000 appropriation bill re- signed to double the nation’s arm- | ament production passed the House late yesterday by a vote of 309 to If finally enacted, the Bill would |set up $1,556,000,000 for Lend-Lease aid. The” law will bring defense ex- penditures under contractural au- thority up to $67,990,000,600 —twice |the amount of money the United States spent in the World War. | - D | A freak variety of cotton that is green instead of white is now be- ing used to make floor wax. for my own brother, but T can let industries for raw materials. Rl 3 er S re you have ten tons and you betler 1, the first place, OPA Dircc- NEW YORK Du 6. — Closing i buy all of that because there prob- |5 Leon Henderson called 10! quotation of Alaska Juneau mine S/mafl"“) EW & ably wom't be another ounce in|washington Edgar J. Kaufmann, stock today s 2'%, American Can IS WL 1942.” the Pittsburgh department sto Anacorids’ 27%. Bethlehem Ll Christmad i I e y It's the wholesale salesman|tycoon. He put him behind an!gieel 59, Commonwealth and South- | ' whispering to the retaller over a OPA desk, gave him the title of|o. 7/30 Gurtiss Wright 8%, Inter- | | FA @ \ --‘ . bideaway luncheon table “Joe, | consultant on distribution. prob- national Harvester 46'%. Kennecott | 1 b you better take the who'e 10000 lems—and ordered routed throuzh g4, Now york Central 9%, North- | all er S ¢ross. You know there are priori- him all questions relating Lo pricing m_n' Pacific 5%, United sm('“ Sv.eel: | ties now and they'll hit this stuff and distribution of finished goods .o, X | | BERLIN, Dec. 6—~A DNB Bei-|any day—maybe tomorrow.” ~“with special reference to ‘scare s | grade dispatch guotes newspaper re- It's the retailer telling his cus- buying’.” | Am office had received no word or‘pofis that lfl)q&nb guerillas have tomers that he has been able to Mr. Kaufmann's field of oper-| DOW.l JONES AVI:OI;A(. | |been killed in a battle with Serb|lay in a small supply of these or tions is the 1700,000 distributors' Lo¢ fOUOWIng are loday's Dow, southbound planes from Fairbanks. ———e———— BUY DEFENSE BONDS ‘forces fighting fm the Axis in the these and when they are gone, there won't be any more, i mountains, Jones averages: (Continued on Page Six) | rails 27.16, utilities 16.05. industrials uueo}