The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 27, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8916. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DEC EMBI~:R_Z7, !‘)4I M}:MBER AbeUAThl) PRtbS PRICE TEN CENTS MANILA BOMBED BY JAPANESE & 4 EIGHT MAJOR CONFERENCES SETBYF.D.R. American R-e_;;lblics Send Military Chiefs to Confer | with President, Chur(hlll WASHINGTON Dt‘(‘ 21~Pre<1- dent Roosevelt scheduled eight major war strategy conferences (u- day and invited Prime Mlmslel Churchill to sit in on six of them, | starting off with a gathering of American army chiefs. The meetings embraced engage- ments with representatives of all ‘the American republics and all nations arrayed against the Axis, even some German-occupied coun- tries, icnluding Norway, Belgium, and Denmark. A conference at 1 p. m. (EST) was slated with Soviet Ambassador Litvinoff and Harry Hopkins, Lend- Lease head Official circles believed the United States and Great Britain have reached preliminary agreements al- readv as to the broad stralegy which will start the Allies roiling toward victory in 1943. HOONAH WATER SYSTEM UNDER CONSTRUCTION Censtruction of a municipal water system at Hoonah has been begun by a crew of 5 Civilian Conservation Corps workers, the Forest Service Admiralty Division said today. Horace ‘Blood, of Juneau, is fore- man in charge of the work which is expected to take all winter. ——l CThe cbert S.Alles 60" WASHINGTON — The action of the House Naval Affairs Committee in slashing the proposed expansion of our two-ocean navy was due chiefly to shortages of materials and construction equipment. However, Rear Admiral Samuel Robinson, Chief of the Bureau of | Ships, ran into a blunt barrage of questions about the worth of the battleship under modern combat conditions. Committee members sharply suggested that in view of the battleship's record in this war, the Navy might be wise to build no more. Robinson contended would be impractical, States needed battleships enemies continue to use them for combat purposes.” “What is your honest private opinion of the battleship?”’ he was asked. “Do you think this type of ship is worth all the money it costs and the time and labor re- quired to build them?” “I'm sorry, gentlemen, but it's not my function to answer that question,” sidestepped Robinson with a smile. “I'm not a policy mdn. My job is to build ships after it is decided they are needed. However, I have my own ideas about the battleship.” ‘This drew laughter, and the g miral was pressed no further. Robinson also was quizzed closely about the high cost of certain ves- sels which the Navy proposed in the expansion program, chiefly an aircraft carrier at an estimated $85,000,000. “Higher are the biggest factors,” explained. “For instance, we have that this labor and material costs a new type of armor plate for our Marshal Sir Robert Brooke Pop-| ships which is far stronger than that used by any other nation. It (Continued on Page Four) since United | “if our| S 4 & (4 CITY SET ON FIRE: HUNDREDS Women Keep Sky V|g|l men at llighl on two-hour shifts. JAP NAVY SUCCESSES ARE LISTED Report Is Made o Diet on Ships and Planes Lost by British, U. §. TOKYO, D 27—Minister Shig- ctaro Shimada told the Japanese Dict tcday that the Japanese navy sunk nine British destroyers and damaged four in the Hongkong area. Shimada asserted the Jap pavy now has air, and sea control over “four oceans” and declared that British and American naval losses included seven battleships sunk and three heavily damaged, one less seriously damaged; two cruisers sunk and six damaged, one des- troyer sunk and four damaged, nine submarines, nine gunboats, seven torpedoboats and 16 merchantmen sunk, and 50 merchantmen tured. Shimada added that Japanese naval aireraft in the Philippines have destroyed 338 American planes |This brings the total British American plane losses so far dur-! ing the war to 803, he told the Jap- anese representatives. - 'NEW BRITISH CHIEF NAMED iN FAR EAST -'Sir Henry Pownall Takes | Over Command from | Brooke Popham | LONDON, Dec. 27 — Licut.-Gen |Sir Henry Pownall has assumed!Duteh planes now have accounted |students to spend their time trap- Robinson | ‘ommand of British forces in the MU] 16 ships sunk and five dam.u.,vmpmg during the winter, the Stan- Far East, succeeding Air Chief I..ln_) is was announced here today Sir Henry » Who has just arrived in Singapore, is 53 years old, one of Britain’s youngest generals, watch as air raid observers at Point Ferm Women keep the lookout during the day on three-hour shifts and cap-! | has been jada in Art King (right), maintained a near San Pedro, Calif. * WALLED AREA IS MASS OF ROARING FIRE Bomis Makevlil;red Hits on Ancient Religious Institutions BY R. P. CRONIN, JR. Associated Press Correspondent MANILA, Dec. 27—Much of Man- ila’s ancient walled city is a roar- ing mass of flames tonight after waves of glistening Jap bombers' methodically ed over head send- ing down fire bombs These fire bombs set fire that quickly destroyed many of the city’'s ancient religious institutiors. By sundown tonight seemed to be confined to flames lof about six blocks. The dead in this section is lowly placed at about 50 with scores wounded The bombers scored direct hits on many buildings. Direct hits were scored on two 3,000 ton freighters in the harbor during the night and | 5 - DUTCH PILOTS SINK ANOTHER ENEMY VESSEL BATAVIA, Dec. 27 A communique toddly said the largest !ship in the Japanese concentration off Kuching, capital of Sarawak, | sunk by direct hits from Indies bombing planes. lighter also was sunk. East A The since the war started. D - Some rowed from public libravies in Can- 1939, S an area | Duteh | 20,700,000 books were bor-; (4 S 4 & 4 L S 4 L4 Instructions For Blackout | Are Outlined Blolhng Out of Lights To- night Is “Dress Rehears- | al” for "Real Thing” Juneau's blackout tonight will be in the form of a “dress rehearsal” |for a real war emergency and |should be treated by residents as though it was the “real thing" iDL'IPI»L’ Chief Prank Metcalf de~ {clared today. | | When the 1-2 signal on the city | fire horn signals the blackout at 7 pm. tonight, it will not be an in- | vitation to merely turn off all lights and sit in a dark room for the 15 or more minutes while the {mam\uwr lasts, Metcalf warned. | When the blackout signal | heard, the defense chief instructed, blackout shades should immediate- |1y be lowered on windows and other | | provisions made so no light can [be seen outside dwellings or busi- ness houses. Then the home owner | should go outside and check to se that his blackout equipment i completely preventing the escape ment of light. That done, he should return to the house, get a news- paper and an easy chair and tle himself in his blacked-out room, as though the blackout might last ali night. Wait For “All Clear” No light must be allowed to es- cape from buildings wuntil after the “all-clear” signal is given by the fire horn, Metcalf further warned. “We never know when we may be ordered to black out and stay blacked out,” Metcalf pointed oul “We never know when a real 15 Assembly lines such as these at a Curtiss-Wright plaut at Buffalo, N. Y. are rushing fast, hard-hitting pursuil plaues for (he war effort. Two of the company's plants now operate a total of 13 assembly lines ‘nd are near peak producticn. House Hears Declaralion of Waron Germany ‘Conunued on Page Two) No New Tires For Nafion's Auto Drivers .Government Rubber Con- servation Program May Popularize Horses WASHINGTON, Dec, 27—All the Members of the House sat tense and quiet as the reading clerk, Irving W. Swanson, read the declaration |nation's average motorists, includ- of war zgainst German The vote was 393 for and one voting “press Swanson stands at rostrum just ing even traveling salesmen, taxi below pl-aker Sam Rayburn. drivers and residents of rural areas, —— ———— lacking other transportation, will be prohibited from buying new SNow DRIVES | tomobile tires under the eligib- Nall Bombers ! ility requirements established for | the government’s new tire rationing . . DEER BEA(HES ! Sink Russian NIPPON FOR Heavy along the shores i |of Cross and Idaho Inlet| | ltread ‘down. Ofly- thien in their - have driven hundreds of deer to | ‘sldl’ is the worry that iron for roop Ips tide shoes may also be placed on ‘tlu- list of n(ted commodities. AL - | BERLIN, Dec. 27.—An attempt WASHINGTON, Dec tary of State Corgdell rted that Japan ‘ Winter Vacafion o i wds i o cerimon o L ihigh command bulletin, reporting In Juneau today were Mr. and ! Nazi bombers sunk four Soviet Mrs. Stanley R. Stanbery. teachers | troop transports and damaged five |at the Office of Indian Affairs others in the rarrow Straits of outer defenses of the big Sea naval base. ———.————— 800,000.000,000,000 the eye in one program. level, Harold Smith, Forest Service by Russia’s Red armies to storm ifla is practicing school at Tanunak, on the Bering Kerch at a vwlvl—u»lnrt’d Smith said deer were particular _\ numerous on the northwest side of Point Adolphus when he visited the area recently. They apparently |, were in fair condition, although hew Yong they can last if more| evere weather sets in is problem- | atical | Around Flynn Cove deer were | numerous but the snow was lighter | there and more forage available M AL 27--Seel Hull Lod&v in bombing the came bar- and in- using in! Teachers Go On baric of humanity Furope. Hull said Japan has onsistent in its of such rfare in recent years, especially the invasion of China | Senator Burton K. Wheeler, one the administration’s chief critics in recent yea declared “My only regret is that we do not jave the bombs and bombers to bomb hell out of Tokyo, Kobe and | |other Jap ecities. The time will American | |come when we will retaliate by | making a shambles out of their cities. I'd certainly show them no mercy.” in been entirely record Horse breeding farms lcok for business to brisk during the coming| ‘\mr as the gas buggies wear their Admiralty Division super- visor, said today |back into the east Crimean city of Kerch and ultimately lift the mun week-old siege of Sebastopol methods cruelty which Hitler is ‘bmv A said yes=- ‘dufl;:-‘m:‘ they hold terday 20,006 Germans have ring the summer, killed in a six-day battle been Soviet cominunique school the their allowing Only 11 per cent of Argentina | the is actually under cultivation Black | over 95 per cent of its exports are | comprised of agriculture and pas- | toral products, according to a book- let issued by the Pan Union at berys are on their way south on a| |lhl(-'(‘ -month vacation leave. | ———.———— | | Arthur Pryor, the band master, lwnducted his first band when he when was 21 years old at Denver. About waves enter looking | | e BUY ULEFENSE STAMPS J object, | 4 4 S ARE KILLED ASSEMBLY LINESRUSH COMBATPLANES RAID MADE BY NIPPONS, NIGHT TIME Undefended Philippine | Capital, Heavily Atfack- ed Under Moonlight PLANES HIT SHIPS THEN MOVE CLOSER |Hordes of Invasion Forces Poured Info Various Island Sections (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Japanese two-motored bomb- ers heavily attacked Manila teday, leaving untold numbers of dead and great fires rag- ing only 24 hours after the Philippine Capital officially was declared an open and un- defended city. First dispatches trickling out pictured the city in flames. The War Department report- ed the Japs' seaborne invasion hordes pouring reinforcements north and southeast of the city and fleets of enemy transports landing fresh troops in the Lingayen Guif area and also at Atimonan, where “very heavy fighting” was reported in pro- gress. STAB IN BACK Bert Silen, NBC broadcaster, declared: “Our cry is for help, help from America! If this does not come soon, all of us are re- signed to the inevitable.” Rivalling, if not surpassing the stab-in-the-back assault on Pearl Harbor, the raiders visit- ed terror on the helpless metro- polis and its 625,000 populace for two and one-half hours. The raiders are said to be in such great numbers they could not be counted, striking first at ships in the harbor and then at the silent city. FIRES EVERYWHERE “There is little need for a blackout tonight,” a commen- tator declared. “A bright moon is shining, its color tinged with red. All around us great fires are burning. Hundreds are be- lieved ' killed.” The broadcast said the 350- year-old Santo Domingo Church was set afire, its flames threatening the entire walled city area. Direct hits were scored on ‘bonim\;éd ;n Page —l'-;;){m JAPS WITHIN 83 MILES OF - MANILA CITY Telephone Report Says In- vaders, Landed af Da- mortis, Advancing WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—A Ma- nila telephone report late this af- ternoon said that a Manila bulle~ tin said Japs driving 33 miles from their landing place at Damortis, have reached points approximately 83 miles north of Manila and {have reached the town of Mon- cada. Other advices said the invaders already have captured Paniqui, five miles further south.