The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 21, 1941, Page 1

1941 - Christmas Edition - 1941 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8911. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1941 SECTION ONE PAGES 1 TO 8 APANESE TRANSPORT SUNK BY U.S. SUB FOURSITKA NAVY MEN DROWNED .Small Boat Off Naval Base Dec. 13 WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 Department said here today men who dis- boat off the Sitka, Als are — The enlisted L small ion at LS December 13 believed Taylor, | Dooley, | The men were Arthur 45: Roger Hill, 27; Martin Jr ind Orval Stewart, 25. All were members of of the regular| 2% wart the reserve na - e NAZIS FIGHTING SUPERIOR ARMY SAYS GOEBBELS Propaganda Minister Ap- peals fo German People for Warm Clothing LONDON, Dec paganda nister G people for warm. clothing for Witler's soldiers in Russia. Goebbels told his Reich au- dience bluntly that “we are up against an enemy of superior numbers and personnel” on the eastern front. In a transcript of the Goeb- bels proclamation picked up by the National Broadcasting Company listening post at New York, he attributed the remark to Hitler, himself. Goebbels said the Fuehrer had commissioned him to read the message to the German people. ———————— IMPERIALS ORGANIZE NEW STAND Japanese Tfiusi Is Halted 300 Miles North of Singapore SINGAPORE, Dec. 20—The Brit- | ish High Command today said Im-| perial forces in northern Malaya are reorganizing for a new sLand after bringing the Japanese invad- ers to a halt along the Krian River, 300 mne; north of here. | 1,100 POUNDS OF FRUIT AND CANDY AWARDED Throngs of Juneau children crowded into the Capitol 'I'heatre; €aturday afternoon for the annual | Christmas party sponsored by B' Lodge 420, | > than 1,100 pounds of candy,: fruit and nuts, wrapped in generous | sized packages, were distributed to| the guests, who in turn came bear- | ing gifts of canned goods for the| Elks Christmas baskets to be dis-| tributed to needy families. During the motion picture show, Old St. Nicholas himself appeared in the aisles and was greeted with| cheers by the less sophisticated members of the audience. The theatre was Manager Beale. | before his former | radio announced {a Russian submarine has justsunk cents in cost, will be exchanged. /JOINT FRONT. AGAINST AXIS BEING FRAMED Plans for U_filTy of Action’ by All Allied Govern- ments Under Way WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. — The White House disclosed to- night that “joint planning for unity of actien” soon would embiace all governments “en- gaged in the common cause of defeating the Axis.” Steps toward the formation cf a common front against the totalitarian powers are now being taken, the news release from President Roosevelt de- clared. YANKS, JAPS BATTLE FOR ISLAND CITY Dw 600 Miles South of - | Manila on Mindanao, Vesta Kelling (tcp), 40, a feature writer Jor Wide World, a news service of The Associated Press, was killed in an accidental gas ex- plosion in her New York apart- ment. By coincidence, her former husband, Lieut. Charles M. Cum- mings (bclow), an Air Corps at- tache at the U. S. Embassy in Lon- don, died in Lisbon a few hours n Berkeley, Stanley H. ling's parents live Calif. A sister, Mrs. Kirkland of Berkeley said Lieut. | Col. Cummings was on his way to New York for a reconciliation with Miss Kell' RUSS SUB SINKS 3 - NAZI BOATS Sea Encounter Takes Place| in Arctic Waters-Trans- porfs Are Guarded Dec. 20.—The Russian here MOSCOW, tl ree German transports, 00 tons of shipping. The ships were encountered in | Arctic waters, the report said.They were fully loaded and escorted by | destroyers and patrol boats at the time of the submarine attack. --- Stevensons 1o lee Breakfast| Mr. and Mrs. Roger Stevenson | will be hosts to a group of friends| at a breakfast in their home Sun- day at 12 o'clock noon. Guests will include Mr. and Mrs. Keith Wildes, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Chipperfield, Mr, and Mrs. Jack| Shepard, Mr. and Mrs. Howard| totfllmg donated by|Simmons and Mr. and Mrs. Russ?lllon game commission boats Monday, G. Maynard. . Miss Kel- | today that Scene of Fighting (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The United States Army at Ma- nila reports heavy fighting has de- veloped in the predominantly Japanese city of Dayao on Min- danao Island, 600 miles south of | Manila. Four enemy transports landed swarms of troops at dawn Satur- day, the official Tokyo broadcast id, claiming the invaders smashed LLlw resistance of American Army forces at Davao. — Junior Auxiliary And Legion Sons | Have Joint Party - | A joint Christmas party for the | Junior members of the American Legion Auxiliary and the Sons of |the Legionnaires will be held in |the Dugout on Monday, December i22 at 1 p.m. | Members of the Junior Auxiliary lon the entertainment committee |are Connie Davis, Pat Davis and | |Harriet Stonehouse, Those on the | lcommmee in charge of decorations |are willane Roff, Colleen Hellan, | | Winona Monroe, Carol Olson and | |Eiletn Hellan. The refreshment | commmee members are Florence | Dobson. Clara Olson and Dorothea | \ Hendrickson. | The Sons of the Legionnaires who are acting on the joint com-; | mittees with the Junior Auxiliary | are: entertainment, Fred ' Sorri,! Jr.; decorations, Minard Mill, Jr.; |refreshments, Leslie Hogins and | | Jackie Gucker. #l i Gifts, not to have exceeded 10 'Sporismen Ald ' Snowbound Deer | A fine response has been given |by hunters to the call for aid to ‘deer stranded glong the beaches by heavy snows, it is announced by | |Frank Dufresne, executive officer| |of the Alaska Game Commission. | A number of hunters have al-| {ready taken lo their boats on trips {of mercy, to break down snow walls |along the beaches, allowing the |little animals to come to the beach |for feeding and then retrace their |steps back into the woods when the |tide comes in, Dufresne said. Sportsmen who have volunteered‘ |to help with this work but who have |no transportation will be taken out lDul’resne declared, Navy § Flymg Warship "Mars’ Fire seriously damaged the Navy's fl taxied it out for a water test. m’mflur lmke £ rllv(-r plfulug the cabin. A‘le motor musm nrl-. dro p])ln[ in the wam, READY FOR TEST FLIGHT Moye W. Stephens, test pilot and secretary of Northrop Aviation Company of Hawthorne, Calif., sits in the cockpit of the company's “flying wing,” before a test flight over the Mojave desert. Two submerged engines with pusher-type propellors power the radically diiferent plane, which gets along without the conventional fuselage anll tail. As U S Sexzed mesh Shlps oo § - IN N ows U. S. Coast Guardsmen boarding the Finnish ship Saimaa at anchor off Brooklyn in Upper New York Bay. The armed guard was placed on all Finnish ships in U. S, ports under an order which was timed at the hour when Great Britain formally declared herself at war with Fin- land. Rumania and Huneary. This dramatic picture sh LUNCHEON IS GIVEN Mrs. Jechn Senescue, Jr., WILDES RETURNS | With over 100,000 registered Japa- \HO‘.VER. |nese nationals, Peiping has the largest Japanese colony in occu- pied China. l - 1 Gordon Wildes, su- perintendent fos the R. J. Sommers Construction Company of Junea, returned here yesterday to spend| Kurdistan is an area the holidays. He was recently In|across the boundaries of charge of work at the new C.A.A. west TIran, northeast Iraq, airport at Nome, southeast Turkey. construction |feted by her co-workers - of and Baranof Hotel. Approximately persons were in attendance. Damaged by Flames warship “Mars” at Baltimor e, Md., when the Glenn L. Martin Company's Chief Test Pilot Ken Edel Edel said one motor went dead. He tur ncd on a reversibie pitch propellor on a second motor and he said the Edel grounded the “Marl S s FOR BRIDE employee of the Office of Indian Affairs, was that cutting | office at a combination shower and north- | Juncheon in the Iris Room of the SCORE IS NOW '3 DOWNED BY SUBMARINES Few Deaths as Result of Bombing Raid Over Cavite, Navy States SPOT WHERE SHIP SUNK UNANNOUNCED Undersea Craft Prove Ac- tive During Second Week of War WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. — The Department of the Navy reported today that a U, 8. submarine has sunk “an additional enemy trans- port.” No details regarding this latest reported action of American under« sea craft were released. Location of the marine encounter was also withheld, The report came through Ad- miral Hart, commander of the Asiatic fleet, who earlier this week announced that an American sub- marine had sunk a Japanese trans- port and probably destroyed a sec~ ond in the first engagement of the |war in which the submersibles of U.S.PILOTS SHOOT FOUR JAP PLANES . First Heavy y Resistance fo ‘ Raids on Burma Road Made by Yankees CHUNGKIN’G. De(-‘ 20.—Japa- nese warplanes which attempted a |raid on Kunming on the Burma Road today were heavily engaged for the first time by an interna- tional air force and four of them shot down without loss to the de- fenders, high Chinese quarters re- ported today. | The forces were composed ex- clusively of American volunteers who resigned from the United States armed forces to serve China. Mother Nafure's Blackout Slated For Monday Night Mother Nature’s most total black-’ out, with the exception of a total| | eclipse, will be visited upon Juneau jand the rest of the northern hem- ! ‘hphere Monday. Known in official meteorological circles and by almanac authors as the beginning of winter, Monday will also see the fewest hours of | | daylight north of the equator dur-| {ing the year. | According to the Weather Bureau, |winter will officially start here at 9:45 p. m. Monday, when the sun wnll have reached 23 degrees, 2’1 | minutes south, its most dhtmt |point from us in its annual joumey |into southern climes. For a few! |days, then, Old Sol will apparently |pause for a southern vacation be- |fore traveling north, a trip he will| | continue until 5:17 p. m. June 21,/ 11942, when he will have reached the |height of his northern trip. | The sun is slated to rise at 9:45 a. m. and set again at 4:07 a. m.| here Monday, giving us a total of 6.4 hours of sunlight. In Fairbanks __ 'Monday the blackout will be more complete, with the sun poking its noggin above the horizon at 9:58 a. m. and sinking to rest at 1:38| p. m., for a total of three hours and 40 minutes of daylight in the Inter- for city. In Australia there is an earth- worm that attains a length of near- ]ly 12 feet. 20 tris country participated. Today's lieport 18 believed to bring the nurnber of Japanese ships sent to Liecbottom by U. 8. subs to three in the first two weeks of the war. A Navy communique also report- today that the Cavite naval base in the Philippines, which sus- tained a heavy bombing raid at noon Friday, suffered “some dam- age to property” but only “light casualties” among American forces and civilian personnel. The Navy communique also saids of the eastern and central Pacific areas and the Atlantic theater of !war that “there are no new de- velopments.” DUTCH BOMB (CRUISERS AND JAP CARRIER .Neiherland;_Pi-lols, Flying American Warplanes, Score Direct Hits (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Dutch pilots flying American- built warplanes scored direct hits on two more Japanese cruisers, & troop transport and another war- ship helieved to be an aircraft carrier in fierce attacks off Miri, Borneo, the Netherlands govern- ment announced today. Also reported was a surprise at- tack by Dutch troops in North Bor- neo. Japanese invaders, who land- 'ed earlier in the week in British- controlled Sarawak were captured lin the assault. e ee—— MOOSE TURKEY GOBBLE DRAWS BIG ATTENDANCE- The Turkey Gobble given by the Moose Lodge in the Odd Fellows Hall Priday night was attended by a large, enthusiastic crowd. ‘The members of the Moose Lodge will meet at the New York Tavern Monday night to make arrange- ments for the children's Christ- mas party to be Meld at the Colis~ eum theatre Wednesday afternoon | December 24. eSS, EUY DEFENSE BONDS