The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 29, 1941, Page 1

VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8917. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1941 MI-_MBER Assocmu) Pthb PRICE TEN CENTS U.S.FORCES FIGHTING JAPS TOSTANDSTILL EDEN, STALIN SIGN PACT TO 1942 ‘Swim for Health’ Girl DEFEATNAZIS Discussions in Moscow Are | Carried on Simultaneous- | ly with F.D.R.-Churchill (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) England’s Foreign Minister thony Eden today reached agreement at Moscow With Josef Stalin, looking toward ‘“the utter defeat of Hitlerite Germany.” London and Moscow disclosed simultaneously that the talks dipped into post war reor- ganization and went on simultane- ously with those in Washington be- tween Churchill and President Roosevelt. The four men were said to have kept constantly in touch with one another throughoul the discussions. CHURCHILL WELC(OMED T0 OTTAWA Brifish Prime Minister Is fo Broadcast Important Address Tomorrow OTTAWA, Dec. 29.—Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill reached Ot- tawa on a special train from Wash- ington today to receive an enthu- siastic welcome from Canadians on his history-making visit to North America. The Prime Minister is scheduled to broadcast an important address to the Canadian people at 4:45 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time) tomorrow ———————— WASHINGTON—The chief points of discussion by Roosevelt and| Churchill in their historic confer- ences were, in order of their im- portance: One, a hard and fast Anglo-Am- | erican alliance by which each coun- try would agree to operate its army and navy in complete cooperauon\ with the other. Two, the defense of Singapore. In this connection there is one group of U. S. military advisers who want to concentrate on the protection of the Philippines. However, it ls‘ understood that they have not been able to sell this strategy to the Commander-in-Chief. Three, bases in Africa. This in- cludes what the two countries will do to head off a Hitler reach rox Dakar, with its vital naval base jusu opposite the bulge of Brazil Also under discus#ion have been the manner of using Spanish and} Portuguese island bases off the coast of Africa, plus other colonies along the African Gold Coast, which al- ready have been semi-developed as airplane and submarine bases by the United States and Great Britain. | THE PACIFIC FLEET It is no secret that when Winston Churchill came to Washington, the prospects facing the Allies in the Pacific arena looked none too bright. Pear]l Harbor in the long run may | have done more good than military | harm by uniting the American peo- | ple and electrifying them into ac- tion. But for the moment, its conse- quences have obviously handicapped our naval power. Here is the situation as it looked | to our military and naval experts during the Churchill - Roosevelt meeting — and as it undoubtedly looked to the Japanese, now fully aware of our Pearl Harbor losses. First, the powerful striking force of the U. S. Fleet originally was intended to keep the Japanese wor- e (Continued on Page Four) | An- an | Moscow | 22 Bee Stewart, Week girl by a committee of manufacturers and newspapermen in New York City. ,Geography of Pacific PuzzlingMa TWO ENEMY (RAFT ARE SENT DOWN U. 5. Submarines Sink | Transport, Also Supply Vessel of Japanese | WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. — The| Navy reports that United Statnsi submarines sunk two move| enemy ships in Far East | One of the ships sunk was a transport with what is believed to | have had 1,000 soldiers and equip- | ment aboard and the other craft| was a supply ship ! One United tes destroyer suf- fered slight damage and minor casualties when attacked by Jap- anese plunc:, | | have the D has been selected 1942 National Swim for Health | ~ 1 AMERICAN FREIGHTERS ny;Read Up SENT DOWN Now |0 Keep |nf0rmed Axis Subs Adive on Pa- ATHLET E—An outdoors girl for the moment, Priscilla Lane of the films wears a short- skirted powder biue wool skat- ing suit with a spongy finish. Embroidered daisies brighten the front. THRUST IN LIBYA NOW SLACKENING British Keemssing Flee- | ing Axis-Berlin, Rome Issue Bulletins CAIRO, Dec. 29—In Libya, the advancing British pressed the flee- 'ing Axis forces still farther west ‘but the pace seems to be slacken- !ing, the omglal communique states. REPULSE CLAIMED | BERLIN, Dec. 29.—For the first |time in recent days, official bulle- tins issued from both Berlin and Rome headquarters claimed the Axis forces have scored telling counter blows in Libya. Both bulletins assert that 58 Brit- ish planes, tanks and armored cars have been destroyed and the Brit- ish thrust repulsed. e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS - cific-9 Dead, 33 Miss- By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 The |ng, SurVIVOrS Rela'e new theatre of war is opening| P 7 whole pages of geography that the| HONOLULU, Dec. 20—Two Am- United States has hardly scanned |ercan freighters were sunk in the i before. Pacific on the night of December 17 So vast is it that simply out-iwith a toll of nine dead and 33 lining its borders strains the im- | missing, it was announced today. lagination. There’s nearly 10000/ The vessels were the 6,000-ton {miles of ocean between Sn!.}MzmmL owned by the Matson Navi- Francisco and Singapore. Its gation Company, and the 7,000-ton southern limits include New Zea- | Prusa of the Lykes Brothers Lines. iland, which is as far south of the| Two lifeboats, one containing 12 equator as Seattle, Wash., is north | survivors of the Manini’s crew, of of it. Northern limits include the|33 and the other with 13 survivors Aleutian Islands and Alaska |of the Prusa’s crew of 34, were In between are countless islands Picked up Saturday after nine and the shores of four continent: D"”IO"“ days adrift the small Strange names and strange places [POAtS: will come into the news mnslanll.\" The survivors were | brought 3 Pear] Harbor. and only those who are informed Beatswain r can understand the significance of M‘””m"'a:J "C:“,”h"fl‘:‘l"’:“m of ;hl‘ as they develop. ght the other |21 crewmen of the Manini got away yoyy | in another lifeboat but they | safely There’s hardly a school boy that|,ye ag yet unaccounted for. doesn’'t know that Manila is the capital of the Philippine Islands,| but few persons realize that there| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 20 are 7083 of those islands; thatl| _Nineteen more survivors of the 2,441 of them are large enough “"lorpeduod freighter Manini have have names; that 466 of them are been picked up, the Twelfth Naval more than a square mile in area. |district announces. This accounts Only a tiny fraction of Ma- ifor all but two men of the ship, nila’s 623,000 people are Am- the Navy discloses. but it is probably more ‘ No details of the rescue are given. an than any other city A in the Orient. Onmly its old carabao carts, its two-wheeled, ?jAps NEAR | | herse-drawn carromatas, and its mixture of races keep it from looking like any other Nippon Forces Within 40 Miles of Changsha, Capital of Hunan necn-lighted, billboarded, auto- filled, movie-cluttered city in the United States. | Its defenses form a lnangle:i with Nichols Field, the great U. S. Army airbase at Manila, in one corner; the big naval stations of | Cavite and Olongapo, to the west, | forming a second point; and heav- ily bastioned island of Corregidor at the mouth of Manila Bay hold- | ing down the third —_ | One may be shocked to hear that | the Japanese have landed on the CHUNGKING, ec. 20—The main Malay Peninsula, but it is well to| | spearhead of the broad central China Japanese offensive was re- |ported today to have pierced with- in 40 miles of North Changsha mountain peaks. Through these .gpiia) of the Hunan province and jungles and over those peaks the|,,u (o the third time, objective Japanese will have to go berorem[ a major Japanese drive they can get to the rail line thal; Civilians were said to be runs north from Singapore and t0|¢ne city as the Japanese, rein- the great rubber plantations and|go..eq by several thousand fresh vast open dredge-mines that sup- troops, drew near, after forcing ply :vfihhdb:f hthe worlds ‘;"I'un a crossing of the Milo River under en bombs rain on Japan, et the nemns of Pakyo and Yoko- :bh::;;y. artillery barrage, dispatch- bama will be in the news, but | miles apart, form one of Ja- pan’s greatest industrial and shipping centers. Osaka, 20 miles inland, has the great in- dustries. Kobe, on the Inland Sea, is second only to Yokohama in for-|Palm Beach High School. Williams, eign shipping and probably sec- !8 and a senior, was granted special ond to none in shipbuilding. Iul""m‘“"’" by superior officers ————— BUY DEFENSE BONDS in to events MORE SURVIVORS LANDED fleeing | E—— 1ST CLASS PRIVATE PRENTISS, Miss., Dec. 29—When |Priv. Pirst Class John T. Williams of the 49th Pursuit Group based | here, studies readin’, writin' and | rithmatic as a regular student at take into consideration that three-| fourths of Malay is steaming, trackless jungle and 7,000-foot likely you will find there more often the cities of Kobe and Osaka. These cities, only 20 @ontinued on Page Three) Defense Bond Demand Speeds Up Busmess The treasury reported that the demand dor U. S. Defense Savings Bonds had been so great since the out- break of war that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing had been forced to a 24-hour shift. the bureau, where the presses roll out a million bonds a day, is shown. fi]ipino Aid Pledge Made By Roosevelt Navy JoinsTwith Assur- ance that Positive As- sistance Planned WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. dent Roosevelt Sunday night sel to the embaitled people of the Philippines his “solemn pledge that their freedom will be their independence established and protected.” And the y added its assurance it “foilowing tensive and well planned ¢ against the Japanese forces whici will result in positive assistance o the defense of the Philippines. The Pr dent said he counted on every Philippine man, woman and child to do his duty and he cluded: “We will do ours.” - - Reds Destroy Division of Nazi Youths German Arhiy Fledglings, 17 and 18 Years Old, Are Annihilated (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) On the Russian war front today Red Army troops were reported fo bave shattered division of Ger- man fledglings 17 and 18 years old and to have ripped through the German lines south of Moscow to Likhvin, 50 miles west of Tula Be- lev and 50 miles southeast of Ka- luga, menacing the German re- treat. Smolensk was captured and visil, 100 miles south of Tula, in the drive on Orel, 40 miles to the west. Reports reached Moscow of captures by the Russians of more than 450 towns and villages, while ans ground the German FAMILY TREE PALM BEACH Pla Mrs. Sallie Graves, 87 a confederate soldier, died here she left: Three sons, four daughters, 70 gxandclnldreu 153 great-grand- 'children, cne great-great grand child Presi- Na is an in- mpaign con- re- Dec daughter > BUY WEFENSE STAMPS redeemed and No- ‘ HEROIC 14 - DAY DEFENSE OF WAKE ISLAND RELATED; MARINES SHOWED UP JAPS Slronghold 0f Nazis Hit By British Joint Raid Is Made by Air| Forces on Norway Base | Used by Germans The British | the British | LONDON, Army Alr Dec Force 29 and Navy Air Force joined hands in a; successful lightning invasion thru against the Nazi stronghold German-occupied Norway and in- flicted much damage, mainly against shipping in the Stavanger. CONCERTED STAB LONDON, Dec. 2 — Reminiscent of the previous raids on the Lofoten Islands and Epitzbergen, the British Army and Navy forces made a con- certed stab on the small Norwegian island Vaagso, Bergen The British late today, 15,600 tons, oil tanks, ammunition stores and the Quisling-owned fac- tory, were desteoyed and the entire German garrison either killed or | captured. communique, - Japs Advance Past Ipoh in Malaya Drive Capital City of Sarawak on Island of Borneo Falls to Oriental Hordes SINGAPORE, Dec. 29—The Brit- teday acknowledged Japanese troops have swept south of Ipoh, Malay tin mine city and communi- cations center, 290 miles north of singapore, and announced the fall of Kuching, capital of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. A headquarters communique said thé' Brtish Perak Front in Malaya “is in close contact with the enemy south of Ipoh,” but gave no further detalls. ish of | vieinity of | 100 miles north of | issued | says eight ships totalling | 'AMERICANS, FILIPINOS HOLD LINES l‘Grime Resist Steadily .Growing Nippon Strength on Island of Luzon ENEMY KEEPS POURING ' REINFORCEMENTS ASHORE 'Heavy losses—lieported on Both Sides-Defenders Are in High Spirit (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Grimly resisting American and | Filipino forces held their lines on | the island of Luzon today and even | bettered them at ‘one point against |the steadily growing Japanese | strength, | Time apparently is becoming a | vital factor in the fierce Battle of | the Philippines as the Japanese |thus far have been unable to build lup a crushing force, despite their ‘a]readv overwhelming numbers of |ships which poured men ashore. | The United States gave the be- leagured islanders hope that help is on the way. A War Department communique |said General MacArthur shortened |his lines on the Luzon front north |of Manila and consolidated most of his troops in Pampanga Province to !face heavily augmented enemy in- | fantry, cavalry and tank regiments “composed of veteran soldiers with modern equipment.” Elsewhere, the war bulletin said “there is nothing to report.” The communique acknowledged heavy losses on both sides but de- A section of HONOLULU, Dec. 20.—A moving narrative of the heroic 14-day de- |fense of tiny Wake Island has been |released by the Navy. clared the island’s defense “despite The narrative tells how the de-|ccnstant fighting against heavy | fending Marines, with only four odds are in high spirits and offer- |planes in action, shot down at|ing stubborn resistance. |least one dozen Japanese planes,| The announcement about the knocked out of action five enemy|shortened Luzon lines meant the warships, three destroyers, n|defenders in the main force have ibstarine fallen back or are prepared to fall The official report indicates that z?fi:ay:;"w"::mfi:mw;z; fi“;;o‘:‘t’ | probably no military force in Am-| 4 4 |55 miles south of the northern erican history, not even the de~|, o 0. of Pampanga Province and |fenders of the Alamo, ever fought|,njy 25 miles from the southern against greated odds nor with|porder, wumm effect | No fewer than 200 Ju]mnosu plan('.s bombed and machine gunned | the defenders in the closing day of the siege, The defenders had planes left and finally this was re-| duced to one plane. This was! | against the raiders mowving in with| 50 airplanes at one time, pulveriz- | ing the beaches in the first raid when 25 defenders were killed and {more than that number wounded, -s Navy Warns —————————— TIRE SALES IN ALASKA STOPPED {Governor Appoints Mayors | of All Cities as Tire | Rationing Officers only two, The sale of new automobile tires was ordered stopped in Alaska last week-end, as Gov. Ernest Gruening issued a blanket appointment to Listeners - 0f Jap Fake |all Alaska mayors as tire ration- ing officers during the war emer- gency. False Report of BOMBING 5%, s s 1 s % announced v.odny that oxdere were . 0f San Francisco Broad- - |Ghebrist 0 vy g all, tire sales until rurlhc: notice. ‘\ (as‘ by Enemy S'ahon } According to a letter to Mayor | o Lucas from Gov. Gruening, no new SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 20.|tire purchases are to be made until The Navy Department, in dis-|January 5, then only to persons en- closing the Japanese broke in on an gaged in defense work or those American shortwave broadcast to whose services are indespensible to the Philippines with false reports the health and welfare of the com- {of a bombing attack on San Fran- | munity, cisco, today asked radio listeners| Persons allowed to purchase tires to be watchful for such enemy ac- | after January 5, under this order tivities. must secure certificates from Lucas, The certifying that they are eligible to lclared, “This is the first evidence| Make the purchases, he said |of an apparent new propaganda EAOUBAR o e T ‘mhn:qu(- in th' Juxmu.-u. effort to e e o0 mean o e o BARANOF BRINGS | rect lie.” J e 14 PASSENGERS | NUNANS COME HERE Harry C. Nunan Fourteen persons arrived in Ju- New England Fish Company in|Nau on the steamer Baranof Sat- | Ketchikan, and Mrs. Nunan ar- Urday evening. They were Bennie {rived from the First City Satur-| Borsvold, Ann Giberson, Dorothy | day to visit friends here. They are Johnson, Archie Brunson, John |staying at the Baranof Hotel. Carl, Tony Kezele, Einer Lavold, S |H. €. Nunan, Mrs. H. Nunan, J. W. The temperature of outer space|Mendenhall, Mrs. J. Mendenhall, {15 459 degrees below zero, Fahren- Harry Evenson, C. Holum, and C. Jheit, ‘K Carillo. i Tweltvh Naval District de- manager of the