The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 15, 1941, Page 1

y < r THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8905. TROOP LADEN JAP S President Roosevelt Delivers War Message fo Congress ‘ " PHILIPPINE | ISLESTILL UNDER RAID Japanese Planes Confinu- ing Operations Against Island of luzon | TROOPS BATTLING IN THREE SECTIONS Invaders La;d Unopposed: Late Last Week at Legaspi - | WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 — The| ‘War Department today said enemy | air operations continued over Lu-} zon, of the Philippines, and ground | operations were in progress on| sections of the island but the brief | communique said there was nothing | to report from other areas, omit-| ting mention of Hawaii and the United States Pacific Coast for the first time in several days. | Outlining the military auuallon' as of 6:30 oclock this morning,| Pacific Standard Time, the com-| munique said: “In the Philippine theatre enemy | air operations over the island of | Luzon continue. Operations on the| ground are continuing in the north and northwest sections and in the vicinity of Legaspi on southeastern ' Luzon.” The tioned cinity shore troops ground operations men- ! presumably were in the vi-, of Aparri on the northern of Luzon where Japanese made a landihg early in the " (Continued on Page Two) i \i\r’fc@ . Drev Pearsoe ! WASHINGTON—The U. 8. armed forces might have had a valuab'e tip regarding Special Envoy Sa-| buro Kurusu's actual “peace” in- tentions if they had interviewed! employees of the fashionable Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu. Kurusu made a one-night stop- over in Honolulu during his clipper flight from Tokyo to Washington, and the first thing he did after being shown to his suite was to pick up the telephone and ask for “Room Service.” “Please have several pairs of pa- Jamas from one of the shops down- stairs sent to my room at once,” he ordered. A few minutes later a bellhop/ brought up six pairs of pajamas of assorted hues, Kurusu examined them briefly, chose a bright-colored silk pair. The bellhop took the others away, but had hardly stepped out of the elevator when the desk clerk hailed him. ! “Go right back up to Mr. Ku- rusu’s, ropm,” the clerk directed. “Something's happened. He sound-| ed very excited.” [ The bellboy rushed back to find| the eminent Japanese visitor boil-| ing mad. Holding up the pajamas,! he pointed to a rcd-whuc.and-bluc} insignia woven on the pocket.| Flinging the pajamas at.the hen-l hop, he commanded: ‘ “Take them back! Take them| back at once and tell that store| I've decided I don't want any Ofi their merchandise.” WHO WAS ASLEEP? | Alibis cannot very well nxpluin' away how both Army and Nnvy; Intelligence had their guard dowa| 50 carelessly when Japanese plunes; swooped down out' of the early| morning sky at Hawall on Sun-| day. Their only explanatien so far is that the Pacific is avery wide| ocean. However, U. 8. Naval In- telligence at least is supposed to keep a careful eye on when Jap-| anese warships leave port and no-| (Continved on Page Four) J\ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” S e PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1941, " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRESIDENT IS TO SPEAK 7-8 TONIGHT WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. President Roosevelt will speak at the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the Bill of Rights between 7 and 8 o'clock tonight, Pacific coast time e o 0 0 0 0 o 0 D Russ Attack ToWipeOut Nazis Starls Newspaper Claims Com- munists Have Destroyed Generation of Germans (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Russian Army today was re- | ported pressing an offensive for the'" extermination of all German arm- ies on Russian soil. Pravda, Moscow newspaper, Soviet troops already troyed Nazis.” The Red army’s general offensive northwest of Moscow was concen- trated in an effort to restore the main Moscow-Leningrad connec- tion through Klin. Pravda said the Russians recaptured Solnet- schnogorski, 31 miles northwest of |Moscow and east of Klin having taken 42 communities and 75 Ger- man tanks in one day and the | Tikhvin Volkhoz railway. Leningrad has been cleared the enemy, Pravda said. As the Russians took the offen- sive they claimed Hitler has lost since the invasion. began June 22, 6,000,000 men, mere than of tanks, 13,000 planes and 19,000 can- authoritics for the first time since Holise Mdvés To Approve Natl. Guar’d; WASHINGTON, Dec. 15— Legis- lation to establish a military code: of an Alaska | approved by the House Military Af- fairs Committee today. Delegate Anthony E. Dimend sald the guard force is being or- ganized in legal authority for it does not exist. | said American - Japanese have des- | and also the history prior to Japan's “an entire generation of onslaught in the Pacific eight days ago. 15,000 order |for Alaska and ratify the formation g, National Guard was| ayiq soldiers were reported tied up the territory although| ,yis givisions of about 360,000 men DUPLICITY OFNIPPON SHOWN UP I Roosevelt Sénds Message to Congress with War | Details to Date WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—Presi-| dent Roosevelt today told Congress | how Japan's course of aggression | in the Pacific, climaxed by the| attack on the United States at Hawali, was done at the very time| the Nippon Nation was voicing a | desire for peace. The President declared “that this is a record for all time history and will be read with amazement, sorrow, horror and disgust “We are now at war. We are fighting in self-defense for our na- tional existence, ou rright to be secure, our right to enjoy the bless- | ngs of peace.” In his message to Congress, the President gave a chronology of the negotiations FRENCH FINALLY PROTEST (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Coming out openly against of the German occupation triumph—so help us God.” Where War Has Spread» in Pacific an OUTCH Hqp Foh < the armistice, France last night ¥ Op g7 KODIAK IS. "9 ccndemned the German order for ROPAVLOVSK /‘ ‘ the executicn of 100 alleged Jewish et cd communists and anarchists in Oc- R ALegmia® cupied France, o The French acknowledged the 100 Fiak persons are “delinquents,” instead of hostages such as the Germans SAN executed in groups this fall, but said FRANCISCO the very high number provoked LOS : “profound uneasiness among ANGELES \7\ Frenchmen.” MIDWAY k‘% The Germans said the 100 will be shot in reprisal fcr “recent attacks against occupation troops.” The invaders also fined Jews in the cccupied zone $20,000,000. In partitioned Yugoslavia and reece several hundred thousand . © @mwmuu 1s. HONOLULU ¢ JPHILIPPINE (6] 7] JOHNSTON *GUAM : .. "MARSHALL IS. _ PALMYRA +CHRISTMAS WAKE B s ag e CAROLINE IS. ~ . by steady strong resistance by Serbs HOWLAND | 3 and Greeks in a small scale war. _cl'j‘mvéA O.NAURU % 0,.CANYON A spckesman for the Greek gov- \ ZJ;.~ ernment-in-exile declared that 24 9, ~SAMOA are engaged in the ‘vest pocket % pra | war" in Greece, which is growing t Fio despite near starvation of the N lac kof arms. NEW The Libyan campaign seemed to CALEDONIA | have resolved itself into a British | race to force a decisive fight with YDNEY ISNAMEDFO PROMOTION WASHINGTON, Dec. 15— Presi- Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air forces, for temporary promotion to the rank of Lieuten- ant General, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, former Governor -General of the Philip- pines, was aproved for prommion[ to Brigadier-General. He com- i | | | mands the 26th Infantry Regiment. it o Lands af San Diego, then INIO TRAP, NEW YEAR'S 1‘ | GRID GAMES TOBEMOVED SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15—The cl homes today as war refugees. | Military expediency demanded a| blackout of the games and the| Army stood firm. fully cancelled all local arrange-! ments at Pasadena and San PFran-| cisco. Other quarters for the or-| Sponsors agreed. to cooperate and !a1Y Knox arrived here Sunday, de- Chinese armies operating in the |phaned grid spectacles may be an-|laved enroute, and had a brief con- nounced later, | German General Von Rommel be- |fore he establishes his retreating | Axis remnant in the few remaining West’s famous New Year's football regarding the Japanese attack on wflsflk& the Rose Bowl and East-| Honolulu or other areas of Hawaii, est games, hunted temporary new nor the damage done until & con- 4 | ference with President Roosevelt. ' them." igur d in war news drom the Far East as the United States Japancse objectives thousands of miles apart st Japan. Map notes 10 arcas involved, —jcined by Britain and many ether nations—dec! red war aga |dent Roosevelt today nominated from left to right: (1), Singapore where bombs dropped and RAF was attacking Japanese transports at- able positions. | temting to land troops in northern Malaye; (2), Thuiland, scene of Japanese invasion; (31, North Borneo, £ < | where Japanese troops were reported to have made wnsuccessful attempts to land; (5), the Philippines, | where numerous areas were hit in bombing attacks; (6), Guam and (7), Wake, both reported by Tokyo as under the Japanese flag; (8), tiny island of Nauru, former German possession whose mandale has becn shared by Australia, New Zealand and’Britain, an attack on which prompted Australian Cabinet to R Secy. of Navy declare war on Japan; (9), Midway. also attacked, and (10), the Hawaiian Islands, where the White House Knox Re'urns | announcea heavy damage and casualties had resulted from the surprise Japanese attack. | ® o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 From Hawaii LEAD JAPS "5 - SETBACK N | oY rom awall i Airival and departure of teamers al Juneau is now censored and the same is true of the movements of planes these items are among the many the Empire is not per- mitted to print as this news is considered valuable to ene- mies. The Empire can print that Mr, Smith has left for ‘some place” but no mention of the steamer aboard which he is traveling is permitted The same is (rue of those Hurries East for Confer- | HONGKONG ence with President | ; SAN DIEGO, él;.l.. Dec. f5.flSL'E-‘ The British Crown Colony at retary of Navy Frank Knox arrived |Hongkong, on the south China here by plane from Hawail last|coast, where the number two naval Saturday afternoon and left for|base of the Fast is situated, is ap- Washington immediately, the Elev- parently under great pressufe to- Reported Taking Place in Kedah Area {enth Naval District announced. day. leaving and arriving on planes. “I have no statement to release| It is acknowledged the British Perhaps you hear of new it ” b LONDO! Dec —The sk have withdrawn from Kowloon, ® and wonder why it does not BROMNE P o Tpe. QHis statement acknowledges clty of the colony, which permitted ® appear in type. Well. there o | = 0" "o 0o ind in the Japanese fo advance within| ® Are reasons, and incidentally o . o\ "0 T o nen T Malaya ference with President Roosevelt,”|rifle shot of the island, just off ® The Empire has more news 4 e the Navy Chief gave qat, accord- ing to the District annpuncement. gathered and not printed than you can conceive. ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 Kowloon Peninsula. This retreat may be a strategic imove, allowing the Japanese forc- IN WASHINGTON es to plunge into the extremity of | i WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—Secre- Kowloon Peninsula in hope the free en root in the jungle fastnesses. . . . . ° . . ° . . . " . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 e . . . . . . . ° . . . . . ° . . . . . . . . . . . ° MONAGLE LEAV M. E. Monagle is now in - Forty thousand rivets are used in a modern fighter plane; 500,000 in a bomber; and about 3,000,000 Im the latest super-bombers, :rur may cut them off, trapping days, | Tense faces of Congressmen, Cabinet members, Supreme Court Justices, crowded galleries looked to a grim President Roosevelt as he asked war against Japan, said: “With confidence in our armed forces—with the unbeunding determination of our pecple—we will gain the inevitable ~ ADMITTED Confused Jafigle Warfare Japanese where “confused” warfare has tak- Pet- ersburg on profressional business| qamage. and expects to return within a few IPS ARE SENT DOWN AIR FORCES COF U S. IN ACTIONNOW | Dutch Submarines Credited with Also Doing Their Part in War AIR RAID ALARM 1§ SOUNDED IN EMPIRE "Army and Navy Statement Tells Nippons War Ap- proaching Islands (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Japan today officially took wor- {ried cognizance of the Allied Aerial land submarine cbunter offensive |that had taken a toll of uncounted | thousands of Japanese troops en- |route to the Oriental battleground. A joint Japanese War and Navy ’4'(‘n|n|lllliqm‘ warned the Japanese people “against the lurking danger of enemy submarines” off the coast !r( Japan and Japanese islands and |urged them to “prepare for a pro- |tracted war wherein hostile sub- |marines and aircraft bombing will (play a big role.” Thus far, between them, the .|United Stateg Air Force and the ! Dutch submarines operating over |and under the China Sea, have lsunk one Japanese battleship, |eight troop laden vessels headed, for | the Philippines or Malaya for land- |ings, along with two supply ships. The Air Force is credited with idamaging five additional transports |off Formosa, Japanese island off the southeast China Coast. Tokyo received the first air raid alarm last Saturday night when 12 planes, apparently on a recon- naissance, were sighted off Takao. |In fact, the air raid alarm sounded throughout Japan, | An official statement was soon s~ sued in which it was said that it is “indicated the war on the sea and in the air is drawing closer to the Island Empire.” g 1 The Japanese statement declared WASHINGTON, Dec. the struggle in the Philippines has Fbyiaoy; . RUSR1 a0 resolved itself into a contest for air characterized Japan as a “COMMNOD | . enacy and that the United enemy and called the Japanese giqioc Army Bombers are “most Axis gangsters.” |efficient and daring.” The Ambassador, soon after m-«} T i it rival here, told the newsmen at a conference a “complete understand- | | ing exists or will be arrived at be-‘WHISIlE '0 tween various powers opposing the| > Axis a ssion, We are all in the| game boat and must crash or m-: umph together over the greatest| Practice Darkening fo Be Staged When New Air Raid Alarm Ready menace of our times. We will tri-| umph.” | When asked whether Russia| would permit Allied forces to fight |in Russian territory or permit the | United States the use of Siberian | bases for attacks on Japan, Juneau will hold another practice blackout this week, as soon as the ‘ncw' air raid alarm whistle is in | readiness atop the city hall, it was {announced teday by Mayor Harry |I. Lucas and Defense Chief Frank Metcalf. the Ambassador said | If emergency alarms are re- ‘the Soviet Union | welcomes .help on any front in the | common cause.”’ | | e B!G MARKET . |quired to warn the city of danger before the whistle is ready to be |blown, the usual 1-2 signal on the I N SEAII I. E | fire horn will be used | When the time is ready for the Litvinov said he would give no answer to the public regarding air alarm with the new whistle, how- - |ever, the practice will be in the bases H ‘wav of being a real test for the DEIense VOIun'ee.rS JOI ?rll,‘\".‘» lbh:ckmn. et;llx;:m:nl.: [Mch:lr Regular Firemen in Bat- fling Conflagration - ¥ R . 2."’ . - > g R e 4 ¢ - @ A - Lifvinov Talks Out in Washington Russian Ambassador fo U. S. Calls Japanese "Axis Gangsters” 15.—Maxim Ambassador, | declared When the whistle is blown, residents are instructed net | to Just turn out lights, but to dark- len their windows with blackout urlains, carrying out all precau- TTLE, Dec. 15— Fire depart- < 5 Rk ment inspectors today sought to (Continued on Page Two) S Dayd Lll Christmai origin of a three- night which gave Defense organiza- | workout of the termine the m fire last Seatthe Civilian tions their first national emergency | Auxiliary firemen, many of whom| only a few hours before passed! physical examinations, joined reg- ular firemen in controlling the blaze which destroyed the three- story Sanitary Public Market at First Avenue and Pike Street Officials this afternoon were rot ready to make an estimate of the 8 ST LG R Empire Classifieds Pay!