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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8919. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1941 _MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY MANILA HOLDS OUT UNDER BOMBER FIRE | GERMANS IN RETREAT ON ALL FRONTS Year's End Sees Hitler Far from 'Greatest Victory’ Promised for 1941 ROME NEWSPAPER (ITES NAPOLEON Nazi Refreat Is| Example of Russian Guerilla War- fare, Italians Told (By Associated Press) Adolf Hitler, standing at the cross- roads of a new year, today acknowl- eged the sharp reverse of his Cri- mean armies as the once conquering German legions were reported in‘ retreat on all fronts. | Just a year ago today in his New Year's message to his troops, Hitler | boasted, “The year of 1941 will bring the completion of the greatest vic- tory in our history.” i Hurled Back | By contrast to this picture today, the Nazi invaders have been hurled | back as much as 100 miles before | Moscow and driven 67 miles in| retreat from their deepest pene- | tration on the Leningrad front, A new threat was developing f the south with the Russian armies | storming back to the Crimea to blur Hitler's dream of capturing the great Caucasus oil fields across the Strait of Kerch. Rome Gloomy The melancholy outlogk eonfront- | ing Hitler and Mussolini on the eve | of 1942 was reflected in the Rome | newspaper, Iltevere, which cited Nn- poleon’s disastrous march into Rus- | sia, declaring Napoleon was beaten by Russian guerillas, not on the battlefield of Waterloo. The Fascist orgnn commented gloomily that (Continued on Page siv WASHINGTON — Following the outbreak of war, the U. S. Army and Navy were in the unenviable position of sitting by, powerless to help the little band of Marines gal- lantly defending Wake and Mid- way Islands. Even more important, | the Army and Navy also were un-; able to send any real reinforce-| ments to the Philippines. ! Reason for this was not only that the Pacific fleet was handicapped by the Pearl Harbor attack, but also because the Army and Navy\ lacked long-range pursuit planes.| And the greatest need at Wake, Midway and the Philippines were planes able to ward off Jap bomb- | ers. We have thousands of pursuit planes in the United States, but the only present way to get them across the Pacific, is to take off their wings, crate them and put them on slow cargo boats. Thus they would be subjected to the grave risk of Jap submarines. And the amazing fact is that the Army Air Corps three years ago was begged, urged and cajoled to build long-range pursuit planes\ able to fly to the islands of the Pacific. The man who hammered at the Air Corps on this point until he! was black and blue in the face was Major Alexander P. de Seversky, | famous Russo-American plane de- signer, who wanted the Army to double the fire power of pursuit planes and also double their !lylnv\ rgnge, at an additional cost of $1,- 800 per plane. “FANTASTIC” IN 1938 However, General “Hap” Arnold,| chief of the Air Corps, vetoed the idea because, he said, “the r.acncn,l advantage is not worth the extra cost.” In January, 1938, Seversky had | rulers [tion to country, | dom, |of all men everywhere, lout of Russia and score a | victory.” PROCLAMATION BY PRESIDENT ON NEW YEAR| A proclamation has been issued Presidens Roosevelt appointing s a Day of Prayer. in full by tomorrow The proclamation, follows: The year 1941 has brought u)mn our nation a war of agression powers dominated by arroga n( whose selfish purpose is to | destroy free institutions. They weuld thereby take from the free- dom loving peoples of the earth the hard won liberties gained over many centuries The new year the courage and the is of 1942 calls for resolution of lold and young to help to win a world struggle in order that we may preserve all we hold dear. We are confident in our devo- in our inheritance of courage our strength, as the strength is or greater avail as God upholds us Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roose- But |velt of the United States of Am- erica, do hereby appoint the first day of the year 1942 as a day of prayer, of asking forgiveness for our shortcomings of the past, of consecration to the tasks of the present, of g Gods help in | days to come. We need His guidance that His pecple may be humble in spirit but strong in the conviction of the vight; steadfast to endure cacrifices and brave to achieve a victory of Liberty and Peace. In witness whereof, I have here- unto set my hand and caused the to |seal of the United States of Am- jerica to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this twenty-second day of Decem- ber in the year of our Lord nine- |teen hundred and forty-one, and of the Independence of the United Stales of America the one hundred |and sixty-sixth, (Signed) Franklin D. By the Hull, Secretary D GIVE SWAT TO HITLER LONDON, Dec. 31.—While Hitler was telling Germany in his broad- cast that the New Year will see the Russian power smashed, the Russian station at Kuibyshev broadcast to the Germans that in “1942 we will chase every German final Roosevelt President Cordell of State. Company Abandons Service fo Manila SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 31. —Globe Wireless today anncunced it will accept no more radiograms for Manila, while other radio and cable companies accepted messages “at senders’ risk only.” Most companies reported they had not been working Manila at all at night. Last Rifes for Mrs. lda Green Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 2 p. m. in the chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary for Mrs. Ida Green who passed away at 11:55 o'clock last night at St Ann’s Hospital. The service will be under the auspices of the Sev- enth Day Adventist Church and will be conducted by E. L. Hopper. The deceased is survived by a sis- ter, Mrs. D. Walker of Serttle, and an adopted daughter, Mrs. Tom Bareksten now in Seattle and lately residing on the Auk Bay Highway. Interment will be in the Ever- green Cemetery. Girl Charged with Deserfion of Child Anna Oullette, 17 year old Nen- ana girl, was in the Federal Jail here today on the charge of desert- ing her year-old child. _Arraigned before U. S. Commis- sioner Felix Gray, the girl de- !terred making her plea uatil PFri- day. She was arrested on a com- plaint signed by Kenneth Fores- man, child welfare official of the " (Continued on Page Four) Territory. in our love of free-| JUNEAUBOYS CHURCHILL 'CALLED INTO LAUDSU.S., ACTIVEDUTY FILIPINOS Naval Reserve Members.ane Minister Is Emphatic| Sail for Sitka for Alaska | About British Ability Patrol Assmnmenfs to Hold Singapore Called to active duty \\ith the| OTTAWA, Dec. 31.—Prime Min- Alaska patrol of the United States |ister Winston Churchill today pra! Navy, several Juneau members of |ed the defense of the Philippines by the Naval Reserve left Jor Sitka American and Filipino forces and | last night, the Navy Recruiting |said he thought the Japanese would | Office here said today. |get some surprises before the figm; The reserve members re‘icnded, leruited last summer and be| Asked by a London reporter at| {ordered to duty in Alaska I his press conference if he thought | Among those going were Sam |the British would hold Singapore, | | Paul, Jr., George Gullufsen, Jr.Churchill responded: | | Gilbert Bixby, David Reischl, Leon| “I sure do!” { | Considine, Raymond Mansfield and| The Japanese “have Elmer Lindstrom coming to them one of these day: he asserted in answer to a question as to when the Allies would bomb | Ithe Japanese. that Allied strategy calls for the | Churchill said he is continuing | dr|nse of Singapare to discuss the grand strategy of the ‘ means at our disposal,” so that the war with President Roosevelt, and | | great fortified city might serve as added that he hoped their decisions '@ base for a mighty Allied offensive will be expressed “in deeds, not 8gainst Japan. words.” These British sources also declared I Of the Battle that Great Britain is depending on casting Corporation and the Co-| oo caid: | the United States Navy “until our lumbia Broadcasting Company and | .y, February we were concerned forces are built up to regain con- eight executives with monopolistic | witn the high rate of losses of ships | trol.” practices were filed in Federal court |pyy we now have managed to keep| These same sources added that today by the Justice Department|the U-boats farther out and break ~in the Far East we see what ap- Anti-Trust Division |their link with Nazi planes. We parently the unopposed Japanese sea The N.B.C. suit sought an ln-}hnv(- armed our merchantmen, and, power can de' junction to break up the corpora- |allowing for new British building, 8 tion’s two networks, N.B.C. to rv-‘hqve managed to reduce our losses tain either the red or blue network |one-fifth fxom the former mu- 43 and sell the assets of the other. PRoosevelt, in Hi DEPEND ON U, DEFEND SINGAPORE Allied Strategy Must Be Exerted fo Limif, Says British Sources LONDON, Dec. 31.—Official Brit- ish military headquarters declare were will something | Radio (omp.ar es Hit by U. 3. Suifs CHICAGO, Dec. 31. Two civil suits charging the National Broad- | of the Atlantic, 'HAGERUP RACKS HIGH SCORE IN | WEEKLY CONTEST Eight teams in the BP.O.E. Clas- sic 540 League bowled on the Elks |drives last night, Erv Hagerup leading the individual scoring with 5175, Match results were Golden Age 1561. Budweiser 1520; Rainiers 1514 Aduial Nimitz Takes (1 TY READY Over U. S_Pf_(lflt Fleel‘ I:OR WEI.(OME ;TO NEW YEAR HONOLULU, Dec. 31.- Chester Nimitz took cmnmund Lu- day of the Pacific fleet in a simple ceremony. “I have just assumed a great re- sponsibility and an obligation which | I will do my utmost to discharge,”| Although many Federal offices Olympia 1501; Hamm’s 1556, Blue he told interviewers. will remain open tomorrow, most Ribbons 1506; and Rheinlanders - of Juneau will relax and spend the 1526, Schlitz 1582. day welcoming 1942 to town in n“ Individual scores: |variety of ways. Budweiser Watch services tonight and morn- | Stevenson 163 145 ing services tomorrow will be held|Senescue 192 167 in several churches. Lockridge 161 168 ' Ading Chief of Air Corps Named : Many residents will hold open e el house during the afternoon and 516 480 WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. — As- signment of Major-General Walter evening, with callers paying their Golden Age Weaver, 56, as acting chief of the|traditional New Year's Day visi‘s. Ugrin 170 169 air corps with headquarters at|Scottish Rite Masons will hoid J. Barragar 154 221 Washington was announced by the open house in their Temple from Mansfield ‘144 144 War Department today. ‘2 to 5 o'clock tomorrow after- (Spot) ) | As acting chief, he will direct all| | noon. —— supply and training operations of| The Empire will be published 480 546 the Army Air Corps usual. Grade Students No Holiday for Practice Drili ~ Customs Servie ... The grade school children were Members of the Customs Ser- Metcalf given an air raid drill today at 11 vice here will work tomorrow, New Harter o'clock. The purpose of this drill Year's Day, it was announced today F. Barragar was to perfect the routine to be|following receipt of a wire from (Spot) carried out in case of emergency. |Secretary of the Treasury Morgan- At the sound of the siren, the!thau, indicating that all offices in 204— 512 151— 510 169— 498 524—1520 Totals 192— 531 187— 562 144— 432 12— 36 as, Totals 535—1561 211— 561 166— 494 153 459 5301514 | Carnegie Holmquist Koski 153 153 485 Olympia °186 "139 148 12 485 519 498 o 186 186— 558 139 182 12 160— 490 12— 36 Totals 4971501 Hamm's 182 174 229 160 159 181 570 515 Blue Ribbons 204 187 150 129 174 173 528 489 4891506 162— 518 170— 559 139— 479 471—1556 | Stewart. | Duckworth Tubbs 184— 575 147— 426 158— 505 Rhtlnhndfls 8 8 8— 24 { 84.(14 Tolals | ‘Average 11096, | COMMUNITY PROGRAM | ! The Shrine band and high school chorus recently gave an open air program at Ketchikan under the children were sent to their homes the Treasury department will re- was hoped that this practice drill, Thus Customs Service men will lined. esters received word yesterday that ruary 23, the day when Washing- Hagerup STO(I( QUOTATIONS ™ The Governor’s office here today | . 1 5 in this vicinity. quotation of Alaska Juneau mine 161 161 161—483 | Halm no Rodriguez Varela, has died, 2conda 27%, Bethlehem Steel 65,| ST R TX Harvester 46 %, Kennecott 37, New Lavenik 197 171 178— 546 s - heavily loaded carrier by British Jones averages: industrials ————————— | BRIGHT! were sent from Ketchikan to the!was recently “cut out” but this|auspices of the Chamber of Com- under the direction of the squad- main open on the traditional holi- ron leaders among themselves. Tt day. would bring to light any weakness- j0in members of the Forest Service, es or flaws in the procedure out- Dours here tomorrow. The for-| Forest Service offices will not close PR on either New Year's Day or Feb-| Flllp“lo Sough' by ‘wns Bn—mdny will be ecelebrated Cleveland Office of Governor ™ ™ was attempting to locate Andres | (spot) Rodriguez Varela, reported to lw‘ NEW YORK, Dec 31 — Closing | g qcon According to word received this|stock at the closing session of the :Z'j }:: i?’;— ig; morning, Varela’s brother, Maria- |Year is 1%, American Can 60, An- leaving property of considerable | Commonwealth and Southern 7/30, Totals 481 504 5411526 value in the Phlllppn\v Isls ullls |Curtiss Wright 8%, International| s ‘York Ceniral 8, Northern Pacific| V. W. Metcalfe 155 165 191— 511 United States Steel 53, Pound ! Parks 146 180 199— 525 | 498 516 50681582 LONDON, Dec. 31—The sinking DOW, JONES AVERAG score. Did not bowl of five Axis schooners including a| The following are toda subs in the Mediterranean was an- rails 2543, utilities 14.02. nounced by the Admiralty tonight. e e e GIFTS ARE SENT Ketchikan is brightening up Hundreds of Christmas packages again. Every other street light regulars and coast guarders at An- policy has been discontinued and nette Island. }all' lights are glowing again, holiday seasorn. Year of Offi Upin All Eventsof 1941 “with all | 139— 417, merce as a community event at the is Ninth ce, Eals ‘tm By JACK WASHINGTON, Presi- | dent Roosevelt's ninth year in of- | tice eclipses all that went before. I'we dark days of national recov- [erv; the battle for labor legisla- tion; the bitter court fight and the | unsuccessful political purge that | followed; even the third term nom- ination and election seem insigni- ficant in the light of events of 1941 So far as the cerned, the year bitter cold day in when he took office for the third successive time; and watched Washington’s biggest military pa- rade which was no more than | hint of the gr mechanized war | machine that would be rolling |and soaring into world conflict a |little more than 10 months later President is con- began on that late January There followed the great lend- |lease appropriations; the mammoth | tax bills; the Congressional battle for extension of the draft; the sad death of the President’s mother; that dramatic and unprecedented secret meeting of the Presidentand | Winston Churchill on the high seas; and at last a great nation double-crossed at its own peace table and plunged into the holo- caust that now rages in every part of the world, Friends and foes alike have watched the President at every turn and even some of the bit- terest of the latter have ex- pressed amazed admiration at the quiet fortitude; the physical stamina; and the unflagging opiimism which the President has brought to bear in every crisis and especially in the last and greatest. 1 was at the President’; press conference after b third term nomination. I was present at those which followed the declara- tions of war. | Physically, the President has changed little in this strenuous year, only twice has he had the colds and sinus which irritate him. There have been gray days when he looked older and wearied from the strain but oddly enough, these almost in- variably have been in the lulls between major events. A crisis seems to challenge him physi- cally as well as mentally and from that seemingly inexhaus- tible well of energy, he draws what is necessary to rise to fresh buoyancy and see it through in the pink. Remarkably few have been the times in press conferences this year when the President has been sharp or irritable. More often hhl z00d humor, a little quieter than | it used to be but no less present, has risen unfailingly to llghten‘ che load in hand. Even when the Congressional | lelegation came lo the White' Jouse offices to discuss the decla- first (Conunued on PBEL P‘our) Many Injured in Ecuadorean Quake GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Dec. 31. —Many persons were injured to- __|day when several old buildings were shaken by a strong earthquake | shortly after noon. The main shock was felt for almost a min- ute. Guild Members Postpone Mee The meeting of the Senior Guild scheduled for Friday, January 2, has been postponed until January 9 when the group will meet in the Trinity Hall. Mrs. Charles Burdick will be hostess at the meeting at that time. TRINITY CATHEDRAL WILL HAVE SERVIC At 11 o'clock tomorrow forenoon, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, the feast of Circumcision and Holy Communion will be celebrated. 'WAR ZONE FIERCE BLAZE Roosevelt IiEes Possibil- ity of Sending Equip- ~ EVACUEES ARRIVING Juneau Women Urged fo Take Advantage of Service Offered SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 31. -A large group of evacuees from |the Pacific war zone has arrived safely in San Francisco. | By prior agreements between the | Navy Department and the news- | papers, the number of evacuees ar nnng and the names of vessels brlnging Lhem are withheld. | | REDS TOLOSE | [ | Germany Can't Affor d fo Amencans. Filipinos Bat- Fight New Wars Every | fling Aqainst Heavy \ 25 YLH[S,SBYS Fuehrer 0dds, But Resisting BERLIN, Dec. 31.—Hitler's New Year's order o his troops today de- | JADANESE EXERTING clared the Russian winter counter | aftack “must and will be frustratea”| PRESSURE, ALL FRONTS and the year of 1942 will see the Soviet power broken completely, . Addressing troops on the Eastern [(On@ Report Says Invasion Front, Hitler asserted: 2 4 | “Germany does not want and can- Un['s 20 M'Ies ffom |not afford to be involved in battle Ph I C f l again every 25 years or engage in | Poe e w e koA | TP “Also, Europe cannot eternally continue to lacerate itself merely so| BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) that a gang of Anglo-American| American and Filipino troops, Jewish conspirators may satisfy it~ | pattling against apparently hope- self by its selfish machinations. |jees odds, are reported still offer- 5 ?;h‘; h"’“dl \plllod‘ "‘l this ‘:“;‘mx “strong resistance and inflict- shal e, we hope, the last spilles " in Europe for genernnom 2 ‘:;‘urhi\z{he:%:flju:: m:':: o:ne ::i‘ —— | | | lines. It is admitted that the fall of a rans orl Manila appears to be imminent. The Army is attempting to evac- uate 300 seriously wounded from |the Capital City. ar Supp |es s it A The War Department’s commun- ’lqne on the Luzon situation said it To Kam h k indicated the struggle there is c a a not ended and the “enemy con- |tinues to exert heavy pressure on lall fronts with the extensive use of dive bombers and armored units.” Ihe U. 8. Headquarters in the 3 Philippines reported early today 1 | that Gen. MacArthur’s forces, des- mem '0 S'bena perately fighting but outnumbered, 3 are falling back north and south dpx“g‘:;ggfl?%ogmyaxk;y"wrn;“‘;; of Manila under the ?ssamt of striking a blow at Japan's nerves, Japanese infaniry, tanks and dive raised the possibility today of send. | Pebers. ing American war materials to Kam- "““‘“9"' Statement chatka, on the Siberian peninsula,| A Domel dispatch from Shang- which lies 800 miles west of the hal. broadcast by official consent American owned Aleutian Islands from Tokyo, asserted Japan’s in- and 1,400 miles north of Tokyo. |vasion forces are only 20 miles The President explained that this | | from Manila, striking northwest is the most practical, available piece from Lamon Bay. of land west of the Aleutians, | The broadcast says the dispatch e o lalso claims that Japanese dive bombers are blasting a path through the American and Phil- ippine tank and infantry lines. “Fear” Propaganda Axis reports broadcast from Ber- lin, perhaps endeavoring to spread “fear” among the nations fighting the Hitler-Mussolini-Hirohito war machine, asserted this morning the Japaneseé forces had advanced to between 4 and 6% miles from Ma- inila, SUBMARINES MAY BE OFF OUR COAST Navy Depar?n;ni Makes Announcement in Of- KLAWOCK HAS el Communique WASHIN(:TON D?c 31. — The Navy Department announces that Japanese vessels are suspected of being in the vicinity of Kodiak Island, Alaska All merchant vessels have been Kl:,r(,Hu(AN Alaska, Dec. 31— warned of the presence of Japanese The Post Office of Klawock, a | war craft, presumably submarines, West Coast town, and the house of | in Alaska waters, the Navy com- Roy Peratrovich, were completely munique said. destroyed by fire yesterday, accord- | ing to a radiogram received here | requesting the loan of 300 feet of | Further advices stated the entire | community fought the blaze for two hours but it raged out of control. LONDON, Dec. 31.—On the Ma- layan front, the British today,report “offensive actions with good results” have been taken against the Japan- ese invasion forces striking down the jungle-choked peninsula toward Singapore, | PERATROVICH IN JUNEAU | Roy Peratrovich’s Klawock resi- | dence and all its contents razed (by fire Monday, Peratrovich said {today. He lived in Klawock, where | | he was Postmaster, for five years. | Peratrovich said there was no | insurance on the building. The fire is believed to have started from a | smouldering cigarette. President of | the Alaska Native Brotherhood, Per- atrovich came to Juneau recently (to accept a clerkship in the Terri- | torial treasurer’s office,