The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 10, 1941, Page 1

VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8901 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE AMERICANS VICTORIOUS IN PHILIPPINES JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1941 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS "CRAFT OF Metropolifan New York ENEMY ARE " HUNTED OUT : Second "A_l;rf" Alarm Sends Coast Fleet Info Air for Second Day (By Associated Press) Enemy warplanes reported recon- noitering over California and Pan- ama sections and reports that other Japanese forces are off the Aleu- tians and Bering Strait, between Alaska and Siberia, stirred new alarms today for the second day, in the battle of the Pacific. Early this morning, for the sec- ond time in 36 hours, “on the alert” and “listen” was flashed to all Army anl Navy stations along the entire Pacific Coast, from the south to the farthest points in Alaska. No official explanation was given as to the actual reports, and perhaps none will be given, as this is ware time now and extra precautions sud- | denly arise. The Army and Navy along the Pacific Coast is not to be caught off guard. ! Early yesterday morning, when | enemy planes were reported to be over the San Francisco area, both Army and Navy observation planes and bombers took to the air on orders from the Interceptor Com- | mand. | Planes Hop Off Planes 'from the Portland Air Base, andiaccording to reports, from Fort Lewis, hopped off over the Pacifie ‘as two or three Japanese aircraft carriers were reported off | the coast. Observation plans made | criss-cross_flights 600 miles out to sea and | h visibility was re- ported no enemy ships were reported. ted. These planes con- | tinued all flay and then resumed night signal wak given early this morning, planes along the coast, from all sec- & tions, hopped off again, following ings be instituted against the high |€d A (Continued on Page Six) i Chhe | manding the Hawaiian Department; | Zealand, Panama, Union of South » 11 Orew Pearsos | -l { WASHINGTON—John L. Lewis, defied the government, shut down an limportant segment of a vital| defense industry, and brought down | on the head of all labor the dras-| tic bill passed last week by the| House—all in order to enforce his| demand for the closed shop, whigh | he contends is essential to insure job security for workers, Yet, today, Lewis is firing vet- | eran union employees of an or-| ganization he controls because they | don’t see eye to eye with him on his torrid isolationism. |So far 22 have been axed and mere are slated to go. They are/ organizers, regional directors, and| the general counsel, for a num-| ber of years, of District 50 of the United Mine Workers. District 50| is the chemical, coke, munitions d cosmetics division of the| . While a branch of UMW, actually District 50 is a separate unign—completely under the one- man! domination of Lewis. Las; summer he suddenly re-| moved the veteran top officers of the union and replaced them with Ora ‘Gassaway, one of his close| henchmen, and Kathryn Lewis, his| daughtet Gassaway, a one-time! miner, &ts $10,000 a year and| Kathryn, who has never worked in a mine or factory, $7,500. The insife story of the whole- sale firings now under way is a honey. A After clindqing control of Dis- trict 50 throegh the appolntment; of his daugher and Gassaway, Lewis launched a big-scale unioni- | zation drive L the rapidly ex- panding coke, Giemical and muni- tions industries, For this purpose| mere than 100 ¢ the ablest CIO organizers were lired. Shortly thereaftr, these organ- izers and the cleri@l staff of Dis- triet 50 were notified, by Kathryn City Given Two Alarms Of Air Raid at Mid-day NEW YORK, Dec. 10. — The great metropolitan area of New York City was put on air raid alert twice within an hour yesterday, shortly after noon, amid varying un- | confirmed reports of imminent at- tack by hostile planes. The first air raid alarm was sounded at 1:25 o'clock in the afternoon and the “all clear” fol- lowed 20 minutes later. At 2:05 o'clock, wailing police and fire sirens sounded another warning over the vast stretch of |outs should be rehearsed first.The|p Long Island from the city to Mon- tauk Point and the metropolitan center also braced itself for pos- sible air attacks. One million school children of New York and thousands on Long Island were sent home. The New York Defense Infor- mation Center officials said that as far as they knew, there was ab- Wants Adioni‘Many lands | siderable loss of life as a result of | Over Hawaiian Defense Flare Courtmartial Is fo Be De- manded of Four Officers ~Rebuff Is Given WASHINGTON, Dac. 10 — Rep- As the second “alert” |resentative John Dingell of Texas told the House he will propose a demand for court martial proceed- ranking Officers in ccmmand of the Pacific Defenses for ‘“what | happened in the Hawaiian Islands.”| Canada, Haiti, El Salvador, Hon-| named Com- Congressman specifically Lieut. Gen. Walter Short, Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, Deputy Chief of Staff of Air Corps and Admiral Husband Kimmell, Com- mander of the Pacific Fleet. Representative Alfred L. Bul- winkle of North Carolina immed- iately arose and said: “It behooves | | members of the House to keep their | GOI-DEN GATE feet on the ground and not act without having full fact JAP ATTACKS HALTED BUT AIRBASE LOST Punjabi Motorized Unit in Kedah Traps, Destroys 7 Nipponese Tanks SINGAPORE, Dec. 10.—The Brit- ish apparently have lost Kota Bharu, northern Malaya air base, where the Japanese landed their strongest force just inside the Thailand frontier, but a commu- nique indicated tonight the Im- perial forces have balked Japanese drives in both that area and near| Kuantan, only 200 miles north of | here. The communique mentioned Jap-| anese tanks for the first time, say-| ing seven were trapped and de- stroyed yesterday by a British Pun- jabi motorized unit in the Kedah area along the Thailand border. e, SKAGWAY GOES ON FIRST BLACKOUT SKAGWAY, Alaska, Dec. 10.—At the request of the Sitka Naval authorities, Skagway had its first blackout from 10:i5 o'clock Mon- day night until 8 o'clock yesterday morning and it was fully 100 per- cent observed. The Skagway Home Guards, un- solutely no reason for the second alarm in the metropolitan area as it had been “all clear” since the| previous “all clear sirens.” ‘R.EHEARSALS NOT NECESSARY; | NEW YORK, Dec. 10. — Major General Herbert Dargue, Comman- | der of the First Air Force, said in| TWOBRITISH | SHIPS SUNK | OFF MALAY Prince of Wales and Re- pulse Sent to Bottom by Japanese Bombers (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Loss of two key ships of the British navy in an action some- where off the Malay coast was ad- |a statement: “I don't think a| series of air raid alarms in this section of the United States is a| rehearsal for public safety. Black-| reports of approaching enemy | planes was absolutely false. Re-| member the number of alarms ove | London without any bombs being | , dropped.” The statement followed the sounding of two air raid alarms| in New York City for the first| time in the history of the metro-| polis, Joining . §., ~ Waron Japan | 'Sixteen Alraiy on Side of 1 America - Two Break Off Nippon Relations WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — The list of Nations who have rallied to| | ‘ | the side of the United States in the declared war on Japan mount- to 16 late yesterday as follows: | England, Holland, Free France, Dutch East Indies, Costa Rica, |duras, Domipican Republic, Nicar- agua, Guatemala, Australia, New !A(ricn and in addition, Mexico and | Colombia have broken off diplo- ;matic relations with Japan. AREATWICE GETSALARMS ‘Blackout Almost 100 Per| | Cent Effective as 5. F. | Hears Rumors SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 10. —Two air raid alarms early today | plunged San Francisco into a black- |out which was almost 100 percent | effective. The alarms were accompanied by reports that half a dozen flares| 'had been dropped over the city,| | presumably by enemy' planes, but| "the Army Interceptor Commmd} |was silent as to the cause of the |alerts and said no information was | available regarding the flares. The first warning in the alert; ,was taken as an indication of the‘! | | | | presence of unidentified planes m the area, about 1:45 a.m. Five min- utes later the all-clear sounded. Again at 2:15 am. gn alert |sounded. This time it was believed |the signal indicated the approach of enemy planes. The'alarm con- ‘Linued more than an hour before| |sirens sounded the all-clear. STOCK QUOTATIONS | | Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- |neau mine stock Tuesday was 2,| | American Can 71, Anaconda 23%:,| Bethlehem Steel 54%, Common- wealth and Southern 5/30, Curtiss Wright 7%, International - Har- | vester 431 Kennecott 31, New | York 17° Northern Pacific 4%,| | United States Steel 48 §/4, Pound | 184.04. | | DOW, JONES AVERAGES Tuesday’s 'nalionwide celebration Netherlands Bom bers,| mitted in London this morning by the British Admiralty. One of the ships was the HM.S. rince of Wales, 35,000 ton battle- ship aboard which President Roose- velt and Prime Minister Winston | Churchill held their memorable meeting last summer. The second was the HM.S. Repulse, 32,000-ton cruiser. Both ships were sunk, the brief announcement said. In Japan there was said to be a of crushing blows dealt Britain's Asiatic fleet. At Singapore, British Minister Alfred Duff Cooper announced in a | broadcast that there has been con- the sinking of the Prince of Wales | and the Repulse. The two ships carried a normal complement, total- | ing more than 3,000 officers and men. Tokyo war bulletins said the two ships were sunk within 21 minutes! of each other in a battle with Jap- | anese bombers north of Singapore. The loss was declared the most| disastrous single blow at the Brit- ish navy during the entire war. DUTCH JOIN AUSSIES AND ANZACARMY Fighting Planes, War- ships Go Into Action | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) ‘With the Japanese striking sav- agely in a drive down the Malay Peninsula against Singapore, dis- patches from the Far East Lodayi said Dutch bombers and fighting | planes already have joined British,| Australian and New Zealand air-| men in pounding Japanese trans-| - L34 P ally captured. [} HOWLAND IS.* ship had been sending distress signals about 400 miles farther east. orts and land bases in southern | Thailand since dawn Monday. | Dutch warships also have gone into action against the invaders, dispatches said, battling on to check Japan’s sharpest new threat to Singapore, at Kuatan on the Ma- £ {lay east coast, 200 miles north of Singapore. Most of the Netherlands fleet was stationed in the East Indies when Holland capitulated to Hit- ler's invasion armies and presum- ably these forces nmow are aiding the British, | DNB, German news service, quoted Japanese naval authorities as the reason they believe the new 35,000-ton British battleship King George V also has been sunk by air attacks off Malay. There was no confirmation of this elsewhere. ———e—— Enemy Plane Over Panama | ol B | NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—A Pana- manian radio broadcast heard by, the New York NBC said a Japa-| nese plane was reported flying over the Panama coast but no bombs were dropped. ——-— OPM Starting Plans For Requisitioning WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — The Office of Production Management has established machinery for prompt requisitioning of war ma- — s e ~ Tiny Island of Guam Attacked This is a view of the harbor at Guam, tiny island in the Pacific, reported under Japanese attack and fin- In the foreground is part of the native village of Sumay. Japanese Planes Atfack Pearl Harbor MIDWAY (S ? s 'WAKE[S, PHILIPPINE . JOHNSTON IS. , IS.. @, CANTON IS., Al ,S,MOA Japanese airplanes attacked United States defense bases in the Philippine Islands (1) and Hawaii (2), the White House reported. Later word was received from The Associated Press in Manila that the Philippines had not been attacked, but was on the alert. The Whtie House also reported an army ship carrying lumber was torpedoed 1,300 miles west (3) of the United States Pacific Coast, and said a cargo ‘Hawaiian Air Base Barracks e YANKS BEAT - OFFATTACK; SINK SHIP U S Bom@ Score Hits on Six Jap Transports, War Dept. Says JAP CHUTISTS MAKE LANDING ON ISLAND Manila Bombed as Troops Drive Invaders from Landing (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) United States Army and Navy forces defeated a Japanese attack against the west coast of Luzon Island, chief island of the Phil- ippines, the War Department an- nounced late today in the first of- ficial communique of the war. The communique indicated that only U. 8. Army and Navy forces | were engaged in the battle. Previously, a German broadcast had reported without confirmation ‘that a great sea battle was raging between U, 8. and Japanese navies off Manila and on Luzon Island. The War Department said, “Our first bombing attacks were against six transport ships at Port Vigan, and resulted in direct hits on three hostile ships and damage to the remaining three. One ship cap- sized, sinking immedintely.” The communique was the first report of an American victory in (Continued on Page Three) o HAWAIIAN IS ‘o EFFORT MUST BE MADE NOW Plenty of Food, No More | Work Stoppages, Con- | serve Mefals, SaysFDR - | WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — The ’Unibed States is in for a long war }nnd one which will require the co- operation of every person in the | nation to win, not only the war, but | “the peace which will follow it,” President Roosevelt told the nation last night in his first radio address since Congress declared war against Japan. “We shall not have to curtail nor- mal use of food,” he declared. “There is plenty of food on hand for everyone, but it must be purchased in normal quantities. { “We are faced with a scarcity of |a number of strategic metals,” he | warned. “Metals which have been used for household products and | non-defense uses in the past year, ‘mu.st now be used entirely for de- | fense products.” No More Strikes Regarding work stoppages caused by labor disputes and other reasons, President Roosevelt remarked that during the past few months there | have been a number of “misunder~ Here is a view of the new Air Corps barracks at Hickman Field, Hawaii. Reports from Hawaii where Jap- lstandings and disputes which have anese planes attacked Pearl Harbor and Honolulu said a bomb had sccred a direct hit at Hickman Field, acted to slow up our defense pro=- | gram. These things are now a thing killing more than 300 men. 31 Amy 0fii£ers Killed in Action, Jap A@k, Hawaii WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — The war Department has published the Army's first- official casualty list of the war, making public the names of 37 Army officers killed in action in the Japanese attack on Hawaii. U. §. Embassy Staff At Berlin Is Moving WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — 'l'hf'i FIFTH COLUMN ASSISTS JAPS IN AIR RAIDS MANILA, Dec. 10. — Japanese warplanes raiding the Manila area nave been aided by light signals from the ground, marking out cer- tain sections, an Army spokesman :id today after the city under- went its second night of air raid darms -ee American Embassy staff in Ber-| John the Baptist is the patron |of the past. This I know.” The President declared that he did | not know of a certainty the exact |dmount of damage to the navy caused by the Sunday morning bombing of Pearl Harbor. He warn- GIVE" WARNI" . ed against accepting rumors of mili- tary engagements as facts until they KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 10— have been announced officially. The The Coast Guard cautions mariners | ‘Conunuéd 7(!) Page Three) that navigation aids are liable to be moved, changed or discontinued without notice and warns them to use extreme caution when attempt- ing navigation in Alaskan waters. The order is effective immedi- ately until further notice. Of224 ng _%1;4;.4 Chrisdmad 4 A significant development in merchandising is the stocking of canned foods and groceries by hard- ware retailers, the Department ol Commerce reports. der the captaincy of J. Hoyt were' Dow Jones averages)terials from private owners. all at their respective stations the were as follows: industrials 109.28, e entire night. rails 2445, utilities 14.37. BUY DEFENSE BONDS . ] BUY DEFENSE STAMPS that they were beifg organized (Continued on Pagk Four) Jin has already removed, according|saint of Macao, tiny Portuguese Jto unofficial advices received here, | island off the coast of South China,