The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 30, 1941, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8918. J UNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1941 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAP LANDING FORCES ARE MOWED DOWN idsGrealOIlensive WAR IN PACIFIC HAS CANNERYMEN JITTERY; NAVY WILL PROTECT SEATTLE, Dec. 30.—War in the Pacific has cast a fog of uncer- tainty over the Alaskan food flsh-‘ ing industry, one of the northern BLASTING problem for the industry in the| Moscow months, to have augmented pres- tanglements and block houses along | of Ifalian Empire | piece of Mussolini's African em- the American public will hear a to Elagheila, 80 miles beyond Age- ing as the arsenal for Russia and|ed the British sweep to the west-| of | territory’s greatest sources of wealth and a prolific food producer for the nation’s armed forces. Representatives of cannery oper- | ators and workers have agreed, fol- by a naval source, that the opera- tion of enemy submarines off the| Pacific coast and the state of war Make Break ImO Defense in the Pacific has raised a serious lines pE Para(hufe transportation to the north of supplies for fishermen and can- Troops Used | neries, which normally starts with- lin the next few weeks. MOSCOW, Dec. 30.—Military dis-| Union officials are working in patches received today credit the | cooperation with packers in efforts Red Army soldiers with Dblasting to obtain protection for this year’s the Germans' important defenses | OPerations, a naval source stated on the Oka River, apparently in|today. The Navy, it was declared, the Orel-Kaluga sector south ofis expected, within the next three Russian parachute troops nrel'P-}C“" operations with sufficient air ported dropping behind the Ger- |and surface craft .to provide the man lines to hamper the Nazi re- needed safeguards. treat and shoot them down. | e Dispatches from the front re- agn . ceived by the newspaper Pravda sald the Russian forces have brok- B r I ' I s h w ' n en through the elaborately fortified zone where the Germans built trenches, dugouts, barbed wire en- Two-Day Tank River. { ; The Soviet forces scored a break L [ through four other populated zones, a" e In I a the dispatches said. G e | Alaska’s flag is eight gold stars 5 A onn fied of blue. - Imperial Troops Driving Into Western Libya, Last | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Britain’s desert armies in a vio- lent two-day tank battle have |smashed an Axis attempt to make |@ new stand after the 420-mile re- |treat from the Egyptian border, front line dispatches said today. | British vanguards were reported | pushing on Tripolitania in the| | western part of Libya, the last WASHINGTON — The big basic pire. i question which has absorbed the British headquarters said 42 Axis Churchill - Roosevelt conversations, tanks were knocked out of action and which gets down to the roots in a battle south of Agedabia, aoj of the entire war, is whether the miles below captured Bengasi, and| Allies should concentrate on knock- declared “our pressure on the ene- | out Hitler or whether they should my js being maintained.” | twin their major efforts against ijth eastern Libya conquered, the Japanese. British troops were said to be ad-| This is a question about which yaneing somewhere along the road! E:::‘ad:‘:; ;‘i‘mf‘;:‘“:h::":::'p:;p;; dabia on the coastal highway skirt-| not only of the United States, but| % the Gulf of Sirte ‘ of Britain and Russia have a vital| AXis versions o# the Agedabla stake. tank battle said 74 British tanks Very early in the Churchill dis- and armored cars were destroyed,| cussions the obvious fact arose that/Put neither German nor Italian the United States had been sery-'communiques claimed to have halt-f’ Britain. But now, with war of its|ward. ! own, it needs the planes, ammuni-| 8 >’ | tion, anti-aircraft guns—and es-| | pecially the ships to carry them—il | in the Pacifie. (Incidentally, it was| ! probably Hitler's realization of this| fact that precipitated the Japan- | ese attck.) | l TEER | Also, very early in the Churchill 3 | ] [] . o | Offers Services o Chief of| Nazi armies. SACRIFICE SINGAPORE?? |qicates g definite change in his iso- do much damage outside of the Petter bacon If fed certain amounts discussions it became apparent that Russia and the British were lined| Air Corps - Changes e ans, 8 s well kown|_IS0I81i0NSt Stand have lost tremendous amounts of| : R In fact the British and Russians|jationist stand and Lindbergh ex- seemed inclined to sacrifice both|presseq a deep desire to help out e of high protein feeds along with (Continued on Page Fowr) their corn or cereal rations. up together, and both felt that| Eurcpe and North Africa were the war arenas upon which the Allies thould concentrate. They argued that Hitler was the main menace| and could be knocked out of Brit-| ain, Russia and the U.S.A. chan- war material and have been count- WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. — The ing on our shipments. So their|Army Air Corps today said Charles | ability to pursue and cut up the|A. Lindbergh has volunteered his Nazis will depend somewhat on our|services to Lieut. Gen. Henry H. ability to deliver. Therefore, both Arnold, Chief of the Army Air the Russians and Churchill wanted | Forces. this flow of goods to continue. The Deputy Chief of Staff of | Singapore and the Philippines if| ¢ e necessary and let the Japanese have‘:ffine?u:.uy l?lofng she .llne::rsh.»\ free'7ein in the Pacific, on the| ' q, o0 TAmSelt [or many years theory that the Japanese would bei“"o ‘e is no indication how soon starved out eventually for lack of| n might be taken on Lind- raw materials. Also they nrgued‘b"ghs offer. that the Pacific was such a big T neled their energies against the| the Army said “Lindbergh’s act in- ccean, that the Japanese couldny/ PSS get big faster and make INVADERS General Demands Revenge MacArthur U:;es Retailat- r ory Measures Be Taken | Against Japanese | WASHINGTON, Dec. 30— Ge“-i eral MacArthur today urged retal- | jatory measures be taken against | the Japanese for the recent bomb- | ings of Manila, which he cnaracter- ized as “completely violating all |civilized processes of international | law.” A War Department commungiue said a survey “of the damage to the undefended Filipino capital by repeated, senseless and savage| bombings by Japanese aircraft, in- dicates churches and other centers | of Christain worship and culture deliberately were selected as special targets for the enemy targets.” The damage was said by the War Department to have extended to the great Cathedral of the Immac- ulate Conception, the historic Col- lege of San Juan Latern, two con- vents and at least five other| churches and three colleges which supported religious institutions. MacArth message to the War Department said “The enemy mercilessly bcmbed the open city of Manila, using 63 bombers.” Standing befere a joint s said the Allied powers we the left in the first sem! retary of Agriculture C Minister; Sir Charles P 45 MILES FROMCITY Japs CIosini;Tn on Manila from Southeasi-Northern Line Is 120 Miles Away MANILA, Dec. 30. — Japanese forces, landed last week southeast of Manila, have fought their way to Luisiana and Dolores, each about 45 airline miles from the city, and apparently are attempting fo ef- fect a junction to further their advance, reliable dispatches from the front said today. In tke north, the new American Churdhill Addrefiss torney General Francis Biddle; Postmaster General Frank C. de Wickard; Secretary of Commerce Jess ertal, British Air Chief Marshal, and Pavl V. McNutt, Security Administrator (right). I 43 line, shortened and consolidated by General MacArthur, was said {o run east and west through Zara- goza, some 120 miles above Manila. The exact position of the Jap- anese in this theatre is unknown, but is believed to be a few miles north of the American line with patrols active in between. Kasaan Iron Deposifs May Be Mined Now WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. — The Geological Survey suggests that ex- tensive iron ore deposits on Ka- saan Perinsula might be utilized for National Defense. The ore from Kasaan could be freighted. under favorable rates, to the Pacific Northwest, where it could be turned into steel through the use of cheap electric power. The Geological Survey says more than one dozen ore bodies with 60 percent iron have been located by the field forces. FREIGHTER 15 SENT DOWN BY AXIS TORPEDO NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—The Am- erican freighter Sagadahoc was many news agency) is in “protec~ lesson for the Axis Powers “th By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. Greeks had a word for what |happened to Washington in | They called it metamorphosis A year ago, Kurt Sell Kato and I could walk into the White House and the President’s press conference with than a grin of recognition from !the men who manned the door. - The has 1941, | torpedoed by an Axis submarine on |tive custody” in a Baltimore hotel December 3 while enroute from room; Kato (Domei, official Japa- South Africa, nese news agency), likewise, after This was disclosed here upon the!spending his day in jail for being arrival of 19 survivors. One man is|a little recalcitrant; and I have (o believed to have been killed when'say “friend” and prove it before the torpedo struck the ship and|I can get past a couple of bayo- exploded, 'pets inty that outer White House ) { | Here is a close-up of British Prime Minister Winston world will never forget.” William P. Cole, Jr., Speaker pro-tem (left), and Vice-President Henry A, Wallace (right). sits Senator Alben W. Barkley (D.-Ky.), Majority Leader. port Masuo | White " Behind him National Capifal Has Had Most Stupendous Year; Isn't Over Yei only the where nod service. netum is your from pass- a knowing cret A the casury Army, Nay and Bu and Printing year ago, House Engraving au of !‘;‘m] Service and a half dozer no more cther places were on every touri zuide’s | taxpayers Now Sell (D.N.B. official Ger- without a handful of credentials. lis! the near Today, can't get visiting them Tweve months since, could get a hotel roum in Washington on 24 hours' no- tice and a plane or train in or cut in less than that. Now, no matter what your red tape here is, most of it will be meas- you lConanwd’ on Page Two) es (ongress; Prec sion of the Congress of the United States Friday in the Senate Chamber, Winston ¢ Id be ready to take the initiative on an “ample scale” by 1943. reular row; Cabinet members in the center section, left to right, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.; At- Walker; Secrctary of Navy Frank Knox; Secrétary of Interior Harold Ickes; Sec- Jones. PRIMEMINISTERTALKS Churchiit addressing Cengress and _ tional 4 i kurchill, British Prime Minister, Members of the U. 8. Supreme Court were seated on Right section of first row, Lord Beaverbrook (left), British Supply NATIS RAID N. E. ENGLAND Heavy Assault Is Made at Night - Casualties Few, Other Damage Slight LONDON, Dec. 30. — German bombers last night launched th: heaviest assault in many weeks on Great Britain. The attack came on BOMBERS OF SLAUGHTER 'NIPPONS IN BIG BATCHES American a;d—FiIipino De- fenders Open Fire with Machine Guns INVADERS FAIL T0 TAKE CAPITAL CITY Spokesman Extends Dead- line for Capture of Manila to Jan. 10 (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) A three-word bulletin from the United States Army Headquarters indicated that Japan's invasion armies have been fought to a | standstill and this within 36 hours of the deadline of their boast they would capture Manila “before New Year’s Day.” From the nearest point, the in- vaders have still more than 50 miles to go to reach the Capital City of the Philippines. | Battle of Luzon | The Tokyo military spokesman asserted, like the German com- munications in the past have done, |“that operations are moving ac- !cording to schedule.” This asser- | tion is regarding the Battle of the Luzon. The military spokesman has, | however, changed the date of the apture of Manila and tiiis time he predioted the Capital's fall “be- fore January 10." More Assertions Simultaneously, the Japanese na- val communique said Japanese air- craft have sunk one United States | destroyer, two submarines and damaged 76 merchant ships, no size given, in the Luzon Island waters between December 22 and Decem- ber 28. Bloody Jap Losses Bloody Japanese troop losses in land fighting at Mauban, 60 miles airline, southeast of Manila, is re- ported in dispatches from Manila. American and Filipino defenders at Mauban are said to have slaugh- tered with machine gun fire the Japanese in great batches as they | swarmed ashore in unending waves. |Japanese reinforcements ultimate- ly compelled the defenders to fall | the anniversary of the great fire back to new lines. | mnd bomb rald made on London. | “Everything Is Quiet” Government statements said the' “Everything is Quiet,” said Gew. attacks last night were apparently MacArthur’s headquarters today in | aimed mainly at the northeast coast the briefest war communigue to land caused only a few casualties and no serious damage. . Five persons are reported tohave ! been killed and several others seri- ously injured at a northeast town. | In another section, several persons were trapped in a landslide | sumably caused by bomb repercus- sions. Three German raiders were shot down, it is officially stated. - % NAVY GIVEN ACTIONON POWEROVER PACIFICTO SHIP RADIO sooN pop WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. — The Defense Communications Board to- day authorized the Navy Depart- Blicet ment to use, control, supervise, Ausiralians Are Advised of New Striking Power Against Japan inspect or close all ship radio sta- YDNEY, Dec. 30. — Australian tions facilities. newspapers report today that Brit- 4 ish Prinie Minister Churchill has advised Australian p Premier Curtin that Great Britain 9% Commonwealth . and her allies have decided on a ™0 /30, Curtiss Wright 8% L. 'ternational Harvester 47% deunnf‘ plan for action on the Pa- necott 37%, New York Central cific that will enormously improve Northern Pacific 4%, United Stat the striking power against Japal. gieel 54 Pound $4.04. - e ST DOW, JONI S The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 11131, rails 25.60, utilities 14.10, ) predic Senate rostrum sat Rep. Lower left a on the - STOCK QUOTATION NEW YORK, Dec. 30 votathon of Alaska Juneau 4. An: 8 More than 45,000 campers made { public camp-grounds in na- parks in western Canada during July and August, pre- | — Closing mine Corregidor was made yesterday and Winston | stock today is 1%, American Can four 5 conda 28, Bethlehem Steel and South- In- attack yesterday Ken- salvo attempt to reduce the forte | date. - e LAND, SE DRIVEIS ~ IMMINENT Military Ofivels Expect Synchronized Move Against Manila (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Summing up the Battle of the Philippines today, and especially the attempt to capture the Philip- pine Capital City of Manila, some observers expect a synchronized land and sea drive on Manila is ! imminent Japanese naval forces will a%- tempt to silence the big guns of Corregidor Island fort, entrance to Manila Harbor, and then sail di- rectly up the bay to the Capital City, the observers believe. A iwo-hour aerial assault on Japanese bombers downed. 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