The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME® VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8908. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1941 MLMBE.R AbSOClATEl) PRESS APANESE INVADERS ARE SHOVED BACK ALLIES WIN VICTORY ON | TWO FRONTS Axis Forces Shaftered in| Libya-Invaders Report- | ed Full Retreat, Russia | NORTH AFRICAN ROUT REPORTED Reds Say Italians and Ru-‘ manians Join in Fighting Against German Allies (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) A great and perhaps decisive turning point marked Europe’s war today on two fronts as Britain an- nounced officially that the Axis front in North Africa has been completely shattered and Russia declared Hitlar's invasion armies are fleeing in chaos. The Soviet broadcast reported bitter hatred is flaring among the Axis forces, asserting Russian cav-| alry in the Donets Basin captured - retreating German, Italian and Ru- manian soldiers when they fell to fighting one another. The broadcast said the Rumanian | soldiers joined the Italians against | the Germans exactly a month and a | day after Britain's armies struck back in Libya in the second North) African offensive. | British headquarters announced | that “Axis forces in Eastern Libya now are in full retreat. The enemy front everywhere was broken yes- terday and olr troops relentlessly pursued the enemy a distance of nearly 30 miles.” Premier Stalin described “m-clad | fleeing Germans” as resembling the forces of Napoleon in the bloody retreat from Moscow in 1812. Havas, French news agency, . re- " (Conthued on Page Two) WASHINGTON—It is now pos-| sible to tell the tragic inside story of the diplomatic negotiations which | Secretary Hull was conducting while the Japanese were preparing | their secret attack on Pearl Har- bor and the United States. | The real story goes back to early | August when Prince Konoye sent | a cable to the President asking that | they meet at a conference to dis-| cuss Pacific problems. When th:s‘ was received in the State Depart-, ment, Maxwell Hamilton, chief of | the Department’s Far Eastern Di-| vision, proposed that the United | States negotiate. However, a group of his advisers in the Far Eastern Division,- who had been in Japan recently, were‘ convinced that everything Japan| was doing pointed to war against| the United States. They were con- vinced that any Japanese diplo-, matic negotiations were mere bluff | for the purpose of consuming.time while Japan finished preparat This group of non-appeasers, however, was not consulted regard- ing appeasement conversations. So finally they drafted a two-page meémorandum warning that diplo- matic negotiations would lead to djsaster. For the sake of their own récords, they wanted it made clear that they were opposed to appeaser ment. Also they wanted to go o Max Hamilton’s head to Becretar(y Hull, Those' who signed this warning were * Cabot Coville, Joseph N. Jones, Frank A. Schuler, John R. Davies, Herbert Fales and E. Paul Tenney. U. S. CLIVEDEN SET Immediately they were sum- moned before Hamilton, the chief of the Far Eastern Division. Ham- ilton and his wife both are Buch- RGN A Uik e (Continued on Page Four) They Want to Fight the Japs DRAFT WILL 'FILL ARMY'S | NEW QUOTAS |Voluntary Enlistments fo | Cease, New Soldiers to Come from Selectees | WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—Secre- tary of War Stimson anounced to- | | | |ning to expand the army to | greatest strength needed and will clnpeud for the increase entirely on | |the Selective Service system. | All voluntary enlistments will be | halted as the “present rush” | sides, Stimson said | An immediate increase of more | | than 150,000 men already has been | He announced commanders of the Iom air force interceptor commands | |in the United States have been charged with ordering blackouts, lair raid alarms, all clear signals | ‘and anvncmg radio \lgxmlh This group of young Americans responding to the call for volunteers in the crisis caused by Japan’s de shown, at the break of day, lined New York Cxty, waiting for a chs\nce to enhlt‘ (ommands al Hawaii, Both Navy claration of war an the U. 8. are up outside the Army Building in SINGAPORE ENDANGERED and Army, Al'e Shlned in Shakeup Island Forfress Threalened DIES IN BATTLE WITH JAP SHIP Captain Colin P. Kelly of the United States Army Air Corps, who died in his successful con- test with the Japanese battle- ship Haruna, which, single hand- ed, Captain Kelly sank with bombs off Luzon. The Florida born West Pointer, 26 years old, planted three bombs on the main deck of the Nipponese warship and then paid with his life. A brief but profound verbal salute to Captain Kelly was contained in dispatches from Lieutenant General Douglas MacArthur at Manila, © o o 0 0 0 00 0 o . JAPS ON HONGKONG . 2y s.(® HONGKONG, Dec. 18.—The . . . . e Imperial headquarters an- e e nounced tonight that Japan- e ® ese forces have landed on e e 'Hongkong Island in the face @ e of tremendous resistance. . o o o 0 0 0 0 0 — ., COMMONS TOLD ALLIES PLAN WAR STRATEGY LONDON, Dec. 18—Clement Att- lee, Lord Privy Seal, today told the House of Commons that discussions now are under way concerning Al- lied war plans and that arrange- ments with the Chinese high com- mand are “well advanced.” ———— BUY DEFENSE BONDS | by Possession of Ma- WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 — The Nty Doparblgl Ko téilaba A< layan Railroad |miral Husband E. Kimmel as Com-| mander-In-Chief of the Pacific SINGAPORE, Dec. 18— Japan’s Fleet and ordered Rear Admiral cffensive by land, sea and air, Chester W. Nimitz, now Chief of smashing at many points along a |the Bureau of Navigation here, to|vast arc from Burma on the Malay | replace him as Vice Admiral in Peninsula to the jagged coast of !charge of the fleet. !Dutch New Guinea, developed to- | Until Nimitz arrives in Hawaii, day as a direct threat to the road Kimmel will be on temporary duty.'te Singapore. The Army relieved Lieut. Gen.| { Walter C. Short of command of the ish Malaya seemed to have all but iHuwumn Department and replaced sealed the fate of the island port {him with Lieut. Gen. Delos K. The state of Penang Penang and! Emmons. Also relieved was Maj. ancther Straits Settlement State, |Gen. Frederick L. Martin, com-|the province of Pellesley, have been § mander of the Hawaiian Air Forces,|cut off from direct connection with 'who was replaced with Brig. Gen. the rest of Malaya by the British {C. L. Tinker. | withdrawal fro mKedah Province. | The Navy made no additional| Official communications indi- lannouncement but Secretary of|cated of the 115-mile long state of \War Stimson said‘ “these changes‘KEdflh yielded this month and the {were made in view of the prelimin- Japanese are able to advance the ry report of the Secretary of the|full length of Kedah on the north- avy, with whose views as to the‘western side of Malaya along the lunprepdredneks of the situation on coastal railway terminating at | December 7 in Hawaii the Secre-|Singapore, bastion of British naval Itary of War concurs, and to expedite and air power in the Far East. | reorganization of the air defenses BT 5 20 'ENEMY U-BOAT 500DrownAs ATIACKED BY ‘Manila Boal PLANE PACH Commander i Second Air Strikes Mi I]e< Force at Spokane Re- s \ veals Action by Pilot MANILA, Dec. 18—Approximately SR 500 were apparently lost in the, SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 18—An sinking of the inter-island passen- | attack on an enemy submarine by an airplane based in the contin- ger steamer Corregidor in the deep shark infested waters near Manila ental United -States was revealed Bay yesterday, after hitting a mine.|today by Maj. Gen. Harmon, Com- The ship was carrying about mander of the Second Air Force 800 passengers. Many survivors| The time and place of the attack| were in the water five hours or and the nationality of the enemy more. The 18-ton vessel, once the|vessel was not disclosed by the Gen- Tagadine, was the first seaplane eral, who told of the attack by a| carrier in history and took part in|Second Air Force plane in a letter the Battle of Jutland. |of commendation to the officers. of City Council to Meet Iomorrowg STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Dec. 1 |day the War Department is plan-| the | sub-' | recommended in a bill which Stim- | son said is on the President's desk.| BYJAP Movfl That threat to northwestern Brit-| meeting of the city council, it was believed today. Paramount issues to come before the city fathers may be authorizing the building of a tunnel from the and of Seward Street through the hill into Evergreen Bowl, and plans for remeval of surplus food suplies frcm warehouses on the waterfront. | The meeting is scheduled to get {underway at 8 p. m. in the council JL'humbers, fense, as they affect municipal quotation of Alask: & & Juneau mme government, will probably steal the|gtoox today is 1%, American Can spotlight tomorrow night at the g 65, Anaconda 26'%, Bethlehem Steel 59, Commonwealth and Southern! 5/30, Curtiss Wright 8'4, Interna- tional Harvester 45%, Kennecott 347%, New York Central 7%, Nor- thern Pacific 4%, United States Steel 50%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 108.41, rails 2459, utilities 13.60. { Threatened by Attempted Jp Invasin Air view of Manila, Luzon, the Philippines. Principal city of the islands, Manila has a population in ISLAND OF TIMOR IS TAKEN OVER ‘Allied TroopTHave Occu- pied Porfuguese Loca- tion to Halt Jap Subs : LONDON, Dec. IB—ThE N(’U](l- lands government today announced allied troops have occupied the Portugese part of the island of Ti-| |mor between Java and Australia. | Timor is a strategic station on a |Japanese air line but Timor's im- pcxtunw to Japam submarine ‘v/umue was emphasized in the Dutch announcement, which said| “in view of Japanese submarine| activities off Portugese Timor it became an unavoidable necessity to take steps to safeguard this terri- tory WARBOARD SELECTION UNDER WAY LONDON, De 18.—Discussions are under way for the C\tdblh}h' ment of a supreme allied war au- thority to direct high strategy | against the Axis, the British Press Association announced today. i The association said some quar- ters here believe Washington should | be headquarters for the war author- ity. 8 Huge Air Raid | - Alarms installed ~ Frisco Bay Area| SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.,, Dec. 18—Eight. huge air raid alarms |have been installed, with a six- |mile range, and will be sounded ’XsOOn so residents may become ac-| Iquaxmed with r.he blasts. 1GH "EM! GET 'EM! - PACKAGES ATP. 0. against Japanese aggression.”| There are scores of Chrl.stm;: packages at the Post Office that are waiting to be delivered. Post- | master Albert Wile urgently asks| that when box holders or others| receive notice of packages, to call| |at the window and get them now.| {Space is limited and the next re-| |ceipt of mail will “jam” the limit- \ed Post Office space unless pack- ages now ther: are called for. |of the Germans on the Moscow and | other STEEL, TIN Jlm for defense purpos |a tragic, effect on Alaska, excess of 600,000, AdvanceOn ‘MAJ. GENERAL Berlin Now MISSING ON Underway ARMY PLANE “Home by Christmas” War Depl. Announces First Seems fo Be Cry of Nazi | Air Force Commander Soldiers at Front | Believed Crashed STOCKHOLM, Dec. 18—Uncen-| wasHINGTON, Dec. 18. — The sored reports received by Taeblatt, +|War Department today announced| Vance o Ml heo begun and| ™ AT el owiviad Mas oo H g Dargue, Commander of the | Home by Christmas " appears to| lerbert Darg st Air Force, has been missing be the Nazi cry following the rout! fronts | continental flight. There is no denial from Bemu‘ Seven others were aboard the to Moscow of reports the Germans|Plane, including five' officers and are n-uutlng in disorder. 1o enlisted men. —-ro— Secretary of War Stimson said the ship last reported near Palm | Springs, Cal., and is believed to have crashed or been forced down in that viecinity. A i S RATIONING " AUTO TIRES ANNOUNCED SHORTAGE IS SERIOUS May Force Closing of Al-| aska’s Canneries, Mines, | Says Hellenthal | WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—Price | Administrator Leon Henderson an- nounces that rationing of automo- may have|bile tires will begin January 4, it was|When the present sales ban on the pointed ‘out to the Juneau Cnam-i”"’fi ends. ber of Commerce this noon by| After that date. only sales al- Jack Hellenthal, local attorney re-|lowed will be to holders of ration cently returned from a trip to the| cards or to fill military orders. States. 1Ration cards for tires will be issued “We can't operate our canneries| Py local boards, only to those who without tin or our mines without|Show the purchases are necessary to steel,” Hellenthal reminded cham-|’ ‘maintain industrial efficiency and ber members gathgred for a lunch- Civilian health” Henderson de- eon meeting at the Baranof Hotel. clared. Speaking Of preference ratings| % e for the obtaining of mine machin- ery, Hellentha] declared that ship- builders, with the highest rating, are having difficulty obtaining steel and predicted that it is like- ‘“HNGTON Dec. The serious shortage of steel and ly there will nbt be enough steel to supply intustries under the A-8 rating placed on mining. Would Doom Alaska “If our canneries and mines close up, our whole Territory will fold up,” Hellenthal declared. On Hellenthal's recommendation | | 18. since December 12 on a trans-| — The| it was decided that a Chamber of Commerce commiltee will be ap- pointed jto work with Federal and Territorial officials, placing before them the predicament of the Ter- ritory and attempting to work out a plan under which enough ma- | terial can be supplied to keep the anncries and mines of Alaska op- erating during the war, (Continued on Page Six) U(J:.s? of Representatives late yes- terday pasced a bill requiring all men between the ages of 18 and 65 to register for the draft and extended the maximum age for military service from 35 to 44. The House declined to lower the military service age either to 19, as President Roosevelt asked, or to 20, as a compromise proposed. - BUY DEFENSE STAMPS ?A(TI(TN IN VIGAN AREA " IS REPORTED ' Indefinite Number of Nip- pons Said fo Have Been Killed and Wounded AIR RAID ALARMS | SOUNDED AT MANILA Bombs Fall on Two Fields with Only Slight Dam- age, No Casualties MANILA, Dec. 18—The Japanese invaders have been shoved back many miles in the Vigan areo of Northwestern Luzon, the United States Far Eastern Command an- nounced today, saying an indefinite tumber of Japdnese dead and wounded were left on the field of battle. The battle took place south .of Vigan Monday afternoon, the an- nouncement said, and no further word of what has developed since hen has been received. In Manila, the first air raid 1larm in three days came at 1:55 p. m, followed 35 minutes later by the all-clear. Twelve Japanese bombers preceded by a small num- ber of fighters flew across the city but they were so high they could hardly be seen. A communique issued after the rald said bombs which fell on Nicols and Zablan fields caused ight. damage and no casualties, in ano‘her communique, the mal- amatlon of the entire Philippine Army with the United States Army |of the Far East was announced. JAPS LOSE 5 SPECIAL SUB BOATS Naval Command Admits Destruction by U. S. Forces in Hawaii TOKYO, Dec. 18—The Japanese Naval Command toddy admitted five of its “special type” submarines falled to return from the Decem- ber 7 attack on Pearl Harbor. Apparently the craft referred to are Japan’s 41-foot, two-man sub- mersibles, one of which was cap- tured by American forces during the attack on Hawaii, while another was destroyed. The pocket subs are electrically powered and have a range of 200 miles. The Japanese also admitted the loss of 29 planes in the attack. They said a United States aircraft car- rier, which they reported sunk en December 8, “now is believed to have escaped to a certain port.” In revision of claims of damage 'o Hawail by the Nayal section, it was asserted aerial observation showed five United States war ves- sels and the U. 8. air force there were destroyed. FIREMEN CALLED SPECIAL MEETING Members of the Juneau Volun- teer Fire Department are called to v special meeting tonight in the Fire Hall. Chief V. W. Mulvihill has issued the call for the meet- ing at 8 o'clock tonight and all members are urged to be there. S/wflfunx, :balfi Z ¢// C)/M ddmad | | l 5