The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 16, 1941, Page 1

ve THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8906. IUEAU' ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER, 156, 194 ~ MEMBER JAPS SLACKEN DRIVE ON PHILIPPINES SOVIHS MAY Guns for U. S. Merchant"'SfiiiSs | SOON HIT AT JAP EMPIRE| British, Australia Hint Rus- sia Is Going fo Enfer Baffle of Pacific | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Two new developments today in- dicated that Russia, her armies| now throwing the Germans back | in the west, soon may take an ac- | tive role in the battle of the Pacific. | FILIPINO TRAITORS | ARRESTED Leader of Fifth Column Im- | plicates Others z in Plot * MANILA, Dec. 15—The Philip-| pines Secret Service announced to-| day that the leader of an Anti- American organization called “Ganap,” has confessed he plotted to help the Japanese conquer the' Grim War Realflily‘ iq figl denGateCity DRIVEON ISLES HAS EASED OFF Nippons App?enfly Stung on Attempfs at In- vasion on Pacific NO NEW LANDINGS REPORTED TODAY Offensive Respite May In London, Major Attlee, Lord Philippines. Privy Seal, told Parliament that The announcement said the con- | 1 “all necessary steps” are being tak- fession of the leader, Ramemn | Mean Prepara"ons for en to coordinate the military plans Mantile, implicated many of his New Assau“ of Britain, Russia and the United | States. | In Canberra, Australia's Foreign Minister Evatt disclosed that his| country is working “for a full al-| liance with Russia as an enemy | of Japan. If and when the military | situation becomes stabilized to Rus- | sia’s advantage, we can reasonably | look forward to her aid agmnst} Japan. j “Japan’s ultimate design against Russia hardly can be concealed. In the long run it will be to Russia's advantage to dispose once and for all of the Japanese threat to Vladi- vostok and Eastern Siberia.” | This imposing array of four inch guns, a small fraction of the armament | that will go on American merchant vessels to uphold America’s right followers. Twenty-seven members of Ganap, including Mantile, were arrested shortly after the Japanese attack began, They were charged with| membership in an illegal associa- tion which borders on treason. FDR Wants | Draft Age More grim reality of war came to San Francisco in this startling picture showing high ramparts of sand MANILA, Dec. 16.—Badly stung in attempts to invade the Ameri- can defended Philippines, Japan apparently has slackened her drive against the Luzon Islands. The official war communique says Japan's assault on the Philippines has slacked off to an air attack on Olongapo, the naval base north- east of Manila Bay but the defense forces regard this “slack” as only a temporary respite, although there is no official &planation. Most of the observers here said the letup probably meant the Jap- |anese are moving additional- forces |and supplies to a position off the island coast, resting pilots, over- hauling planes, marshalling gaso- line, bombs and ammunition for {new and powerful attacls, The statement made by “Secre- {tary of Navy Knox that the Unit- T |ed States Fléet was out seeking the . |enemy on the Puéfic when ' the ™ |attack was made on Hawall creat~ led an enthusiastic furore among ' Manila's clvillans but members of the armed forces here took the l«tement calmly and the general RO g filled bags hastily constructed in ‘ront of a Grant Avenue building of the Pacific Telephone and Tele- graph Company. In all, it required 3,000 stacked bags of sand to protect the first two floors against bomb damage. Throughout the city ail neon signs, theatre marquees, lighted street addresses, avenue archway lights and display windows were darkened permanently, Department stores revised hours to 8:45 am. to 4:45 pm. so that employees could reach home before darkness set i A single wailing siren will call for instant blackout, without any previous “alert.” Street car power will be shut off and automo- biles must come to a standstill at curbs. Steps werc taken to make infractions of blackout regulations punishable by law. [ to the freedom of the seas, is housed in a shop of the supply department _of the Brooklyn. N. Y.. Navy Yard. HOUSE OKAYS \\yy SECRETARY MAKES ADDED SHIPS * /¢ pepORT ON SUDDEN ~ FORU.S.NAVY ;xpAN ATTACK ON HAWANI WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. — The President UTg;s Establish- | ment of Large Pool | of Soldiers L | | | o | WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.— Ree- ommending that the minimum age | | for induction into military service be lowered from 21 to 19 years, First Jap Warship Sunic by U. 5. Bombers House has unanimously passed and | President Roosevelt today said the | s e A 5 a sent to the Senate today legisla- No Surrender WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. — Late nation should have a sufficiently s ri’nv‘vdk;;:m::e :’p "1: ‘:‘m‘; tion to authorize the construction yesterday afternoon, Secretary of large pool of men in its armed | vords: y'd 3 Navy Frank Knox reported the bat-| wilen in time” L] L tleship Arizona and five other war g e 0' llberhes craft were sunk in the surprise Navajo Indians usually occupy | A | Japanese air raid on Pearl Har-| two homes during the year, a| bor on Sunday, December 7. He summer hogan and a winter hogan. | also said 91 officers and 2,638 en- of an additional 150,000 tons of | forces “to meet all contingencies | naval fighting ships. | now foreseeable.” The Senate Military Affairs | Committee now is considering leg-f islation to make all men from age | 121 to 44 liable for military service | WASHINGTON STATEMENT WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. — The Army communique here, reporting the Philippine situation up to 6:30 no commercial value. l out water, ] B FDR De‘lares listed men are known to be dead. |and require all persons 18 to 64, a.m., Pacific Coast time, said in | The known Japanese losses, Sec- | inclusive, to register. | Js?anese transport has been seri- \:n'e ke | retary Knox said, included three| FL IR S TS | }oufly damaged in an air attack off 1 . k N | submarines and 41 aircraft. | | |Luzon Island, port 01‘133“9‘1 ) " . N |President Speaks to Na- Aiasionn SNIY Lomos | | |, The snnounement did not ma {4 | : : .| After making his report to Pres- Mo |it clear whether this was a re- fion on '50“1 B ” Of 38 | [ lvision or an addition to the re- fon 0 | | ident Roosevelt, on his return from | i ot ‘PON Dt s adasusd s L | iaht iv | 8 huErled. fye-ddy-Retiito ke a | its first major victory of the war December 11—the total destruction of rans | = | The United States announced its first majo ry |were sunk yesterday as reported v Daseice ngh s Anni ersary |survey irst hand on the effect of | SINGAPORE | the 29,000-ton Japanese battleship Haruna, pictured a boye. The big warboat was dispatched by Army bomb- | o0 B R PR el O TR -d i i oo i | the Japanese air raid, Secretary | ers off mortheastern Luzon, in the Philippines, while the battleship was bombarding the shore to cover }mw e s He: 5 | WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—Presi- | gnox told the newsmen at a con-| t : Blindanty w1 q , and another Japa Hfifism |dent Roosevelt told his countrymen ference that aside from the Ari- | the landing of the invading Japanese, Few details were available, but Secretary of War mso! S“I |nese transport was heavily dam- {1ast night, on the 150th anniversary | ,o o "tpo american ships destroyed | | mouncement of the initial victory followed receipt by him of confirmatory reports from Lieutenant Gen- | 004 1y United States bombers. |of the adopting of the “Bill Of i the air raid iOGudaH the old| | eral Douglas MacArthur at Manila. Later came officlal word of the sinking off Wake Island of & Jap | “The war Department's commu- ~GO.‘ |Rights" into the Constitution, that| oo i tan, threg gestroyers, | | cruiser and destroyer. ____|plaue also said Japan's concentra- v g o) e e e % 80" | the Cassin, Downes and: Shaw, also| o 1. s | S e ' ton in. the slagof Hengiuws it WASHING TON—The storm of [surge in human liberty” embodied | the mine layer Oglala; 1Bf|f|$|'l Source Dedares i | ’ criticisth over the Navy's tragic|in that document and to impose ) Damaged Vegsel N IS fita H | ea er o | (Continued on Page Two) failure 'at Hawail broke privately,|again on Americans the “absolute! The damaged vessels included the ava UpeI'IOI'Ify as | o and before the public knew any |authority of despotic rule” \ |old battleship Oklahoma, which| Now B Ch d I 1 [ detalls, at the President's Sunday| “We will not under any threat or |capsized but can be repaired. | OW been Lhange | | night session with Cabinet and|in the face of any danger surrender ; “The entire balance of the fleet| e ua’ e | congressional chiefs. our guarantees of liberty our fore- with its aircraft carriers, heavy‘ LONDON, Dec. 16.—An informed Senatar Tom Connally of Texas, fathers framed for us in our Bill of | cruisers, light cruisers, destroyers| British source declares tonight that ¢ ' | dintnait ot the Fordeh Reatins Rights,” the President declared. and submarines was not injured Singapore is under a serious threat, H ' BY A l Committee, was particularly insis-| , Americans, he said, are solemnly |qas all were at sea seeking to con-|developing from land fighting on | Z | Y . thntin ask‘xn blunt questions as to determined that “no power or cOM- | ¢a0¢ the epemy,” said Knox. the Malay Peninsula. | < i . bination of powers on this earth”| mpne Nayy Secretary, quickly an-| This source decl the “Brit- —_ e | Why olir forces were caught URPIE- | shali shake their hold upon funda- | ot Nt e e e maval muperiarity and i T % ‘S b | Land in swering a questioner, at the ack naval supei y and this m e s P . and i P"As“me g, s el e Loty fleet included battleships as well. |has changed the entire situation BIIfiSh Troops Are Dnvmg‘ It Isn IRammg Rain Today eBa Omes I OOII:SM | v advisers filed into the large red Japs Fail in Purpese in northern Malaya. Both the Brit- . f - alaya | room r:n It;: second floor of the | The Navy Secretary said: “The ish and United States fleets have Agams' Hean 0' Ge!- or " " Is' " wo"t | orneo-mas, y | %ok TR White Hol the President greeted Japanese failed in their purpose to suffered some hard blows and this d " " ns Be Told Ba"le, Hongkong B”“Sh May Eva(ua'o them grimly, saying he supposed {kmock out the United. States be-|has allowed the Japanese to de-| mans and lialia ! StronaholdUnder P they had 'all ning to the fore the war began.” velop an offensive on a large scale | e i rongno: naer Pres- L T e | “Secretary Knox said flatly the|and there is definitely a danger of (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) WASHINGTON, Dec, 16, — The| (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) g happened; that there was little to | “United States Service was not onla real threat on Singapore.” ‘ Great Britain's desert armies in| United States Weather Bureau to-| The Japanese Expeditionary sure of Jap A"a(ks ’ add e’“"l;t to say, of course, that thé alert against a surprise air at- |North Africa today swept 70 miles day discontinued publication cf | forces have struck the British at! . i e tack.” He stated a formal investi-| |west of Tobruk and slashed at the weather maps, long range forecasts Borneo, Hongkong and Malaya. L he would ask Congress to declare jeee . X i d i o s AR Ry The Imperial Hearquarters in LONDON, Dec. 16.—An informed war. gation will be _msmuted by the ‘Ilo“ ‘henrt. of the strongly held Axis and most wm_ - 1@, and clou a-;T b sl o B British source said tonight that s » President immediately and in the |positiens in a great new battle of ta, some rain information and Tokyo % But Mr. President,” spoke up ; d th il be |tanks and men, Cairo headquarters 54 tistics which might |anese troops, buffeted by a gale, Hongkong may have to be evacuat- Connally, “what in the world was mieantime, Knox said, theve wi ing | R ™ q ® iother: .0s0p = stptistien whio Bh | cceeded in gaining & foothold at ed in face of the Japanese attack- wrong with our forces at Hawaii? {no changes in the command. NEW YORK, Dec. 16. — Closing reported as the decisive phase of | pe useful to the nation’s enemies auttt’fmday mi]f i iom o T e i Tk e i E i ot |r S otatis ine o e £ ¢ awn h Apparently they weren't on the| NEW YORK, Dec. 16—The Unit-| Taking part in the Japanese at-|quotation of Ah.,s,ks’ dunesu mine, the ‘suyggle appeared (o be under| Ohief Relohelderfer, head of the|°GFn SERLAR UL bombing range, This source declares that stud- i [tack, Secretary Knox said it was Stock today is 1%, American Can way. weather bureau, said that gener- > job. How did they get caught like|ed States today took over the $60,- g ¥ ¢ : ! % from Manila. born resistance is being made to X revealed two-man submarines were|68 3/4, Anaconda 26, Bethlehem| British armored forces now have .1y {he only weather information P Pzt 000000 Mrench luxury liner Nor- |t ! |Steel 59 3/4, Commonwealth and brought to battle all the remaining | o pe of ¢ oublicly will be lim. | The Tondon feport says “very all attacks, reported o be on three The President replied he was un-|mandy,” which has lain in Newin operatjon. Southern %, Curtiss Wright 8%, German tenk units in Libys, 1t Was | oo o e e o xtremmos | H€aViDg - fighting” is taking place sides, able to ansver, as complete reports|York harbor since the outbreak of Further Casualtes |, @ ernational Harvester 40% Ken- |reported, threatening to cut off | oo 10, the temperaiure BXWHNeS hetween British and Japanese » had not been received, but on the|the European war. Secret_ary Knox said that besides i YorkHCen".;;aI 7%, | GeMMSY’ Rommel's army emirely,:cx])guw every 26-hour ])t*rl |forces in the jungles of Malaya basis of reports which had come| The State Department announced |those kilied in thie air raid, 20 of-} 0 b *B Fll 4% United States| London military quarters said | NI |where the Japanese mechanized Sju}fuuh—? BW in, the damiage to manpower and the Maritime Commission will take ficers and 6036 enlisted men were) SOVENCED Pacific 4%, Uni ” | Rommel probably in an attempt to |forces are said to have smashed NN ANSOEI it equipment_was pretty heavy. the liner under the existing law |Wounded. The radio went dead, SIS OIM. L ecipe has withdrawn “‘"‘“‘ywmind o' Hongkong | forward some 40 or 50 miles on the 2ill Clnisdmad Pressed by Connally for details,|which provides for adequate com-|Knox explained, because some of The f ].l s Dow, toward the northern coastal road, . 400-mile road to Singapore. the President said thay on the basis | pensation to be made to the|the ships rolled over, % e o "‘"nfl are deFYf 045, 1one. “escape route” still open to| On the Hongkong report, the Jap- of information received up to then,|owner. Secretary Knox said he believed |Jones averages: industrials 11086,y " goce | n'a e s epor anese fhis morning claimed ad- at Jeast one battleship and one de- SRS SO e between 150 and 300 planes took |Tails 2490, utilities 1392 | The British: command said - im-| Tanony on xnu—elu; lsig:s whil: the troyer had been sunk and about part in the attack, to0 many to FRE - |perial troops outflanking an Axis| . 16— ap €arly morning Brit report says ;sog killed, BERTHA M. TIBER LEAVES |come from a single afrcraft car- KEGEL IN ARMY |division haye driven 30 miles be-|yq, GI:OENM?‘?& gf:m;am:mz“: om the defending forces, aided by the " uqps that Bertha M. Tiber, formerly at-|pjor Paul Kegel, oldtimer of Gas- y,ng Gogata and 40 miles west of . Chinese units are ably defending Ti/s .amasing (o .me that our| i, o . 5 tineau ~ Channel d wellknown g Tokyo saying the Japanese forces y.."moich ironghold Army and Navy forces wegen't pre- to the Office of Indian Af- single Motored Attackers nel an Tobruk. p bave invided peshigl Hongkong e ¥ 5 % pared for an attack,” said Con-|[AirS here, has left for Seattle en-| ye gitacks, Knox said, were ap-|MATTiner, in Christmas carus ie-| s VUSSR i —————— nally. “I ¢an't understand how that route to Washington where she w“”parenuy made by single engined ceived in Juneau says: “I am in Many species of sponge are found AN e £ Kangaroo rats of the American X be stationed with the Public Health i1’ the Army now—Army Transport in fresh water although they have | Southwest can live for months with- (Continued on Page Four) Service, (Continued on Page Two) Service.” BUY DEFENSE STAMPS