The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 3, 1942, Page 1

» K] THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8922. “ALL THE NEWS LL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U.S.FORCES BEAT OFF JAPANESE ATTACK BRITISH REPELLING JAPANESE Three Nippon Affacks on| Malayan Front Reported ' Beaten - Barges Sunk (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) On the Malayan front, British forces are reported officially to have beaten off three new Japa- nese attacks by land and one by| sea. Four troop-laden Japanese barges were sunk and a small steamer set afire by artillerymen, frustrating, a landing attempt at Lower Perak. “The remainder of the enemy craft withdrew,” the Malayan' com- munique declares. It is admitted, however, that the Japs made some progress at Kuan- tan, 190 miles north of Stngapore.‘; and filtered into the outskirts of | the town in an attempt to seize an airport. Training for Defense Is Away Head of "17 WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. — The! Unijted States is now way ahead, of its Pirst World War training for industrial work, according to Edu- catipn Commissioner John W. Stu- debaker. He reports as of November 30, 1,-| 776,000 trained for industry or 29| times as many as were trained in the Pirst World War “when only| 61,000 persons were prepared fori war industries. —e——— the purpose of finding the ideal | The Fish and Wildlife Service in Washington has the world’s largest collection of data on where| and when wild birds occur inj North America. | - —— | | FBI Was Ready When War " Broke Ouf; Hundreds of Aliens Taken Info _guslody CThe AUTOSMAY BE NEEDED FOR FORCES Bicbest AN | 60" Cars May Be Pressed Info # is! Army - Also for Essen- — Johi . 43 wis | . » efs . o A O e o manase-| Hial Civilian Service ment conference in Zisplaying his| bitter persqnal grudge against Mod-| WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Auto- erator Will Davis. Also, ne dem-Imobile owners who have no vital| onstrated that he and not Philineeds for a' car have received a Murray. was the real boss of the warning they may have to surren- CIO delegation. der their machines to the Govern- At the first meeting of the con-|ment for use of the armed forces ference—which organized methods|, y; esgential civillan service. ik o gl e redues:| There is a direct caution thst ov tep = ¥y PO” the cars so surrendered will not be Dosed (hs 1o besu'horin:"mg;;‘":used for any “joy riding of offi- Gie (pbeks. & dally. SRl 41i0. |cers or men” but only for actual Shaking his wavy mane, Levis, e without even a glance at Mun“'trflnsp‘?rtauon of men or supp" s, or the other CIO delegates, immec-| BY “essential civilian service it iately objected. is meant transportation ol evacuees “I dom’t think,” rnmbled Jmn L. sonorously, “that extemporancous|for routine service. observations and effusions by cer- - eee tain individuals who like to hear| themselves talk will add tc the suc- ANA cess of this undertaking.” | “I second that,” piped up George Meany, AFL Mnhry—'l‘rea.surrr,[ who also hatbors a perscnal pique l AN D IS at Davis. Meany has se~ret ambi- tions to be a big shor in the de- fense labor set-up, i1s "-:/ed be- TAKEN ovER dent. shook hands wit" each of H them, including Lew:s, who, with a| Japanese CIa'm 0((llpa- cause he . hasn’'t been given an deadpan expression, sald, “How do| 4 you do, Mr. President” To which fion of Second lfll’geS' important ' position. ! NOTE: At his White House ses- Ropsevelt, also ‘deadpan, replied. | e . S youdo s s | Philippine Possession sion with the delegates, the Presi- WILLKIE AND FI'R | TOKYO, Jan, 3—The Japanese Seldom in political huistory has|Times-Advertiser, afternoon news- a President of the United States major foreign policy from a de-|of Mindanao, second largest is- or supplies for evacuees but not: paper, reports today that Japanese | received such wholesome support on|forces have completed occupation ' feated candidate as Prankiin Roose- |jand of the Philippines, where land- velt has received frors Wendell Willkie. Few people know how ac- tive Willkie has been behind the scenes. For instance, Willkle has even done some missionary work on Joe Martin, Chairman of the Rezmbu-, (Continued on Page Four) ings were made at Davao. The newspaper declares that the |successes on the Luzon and Min- |danao islands will now release {large forces to increase the pres- |sure on Singapore. {w —————— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS “Sneater Girl of 1941” Margaret Landry Selected from over 5,000 entries in a nation-wide contest as the “Sweater Girl of 1941,” Margaret Landry, 19, of Baton Rouge, La., wins as her gward $500 in cash and a trip to New York. The com- petition was sponsored by a leading knitwear association with American girl dressed in the most typical American garb--a tissue-knit sweater and skirt. k By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Jan 3—In recent | weeks you have heard much about | various divisions of government that were not*ready for this war, “und in weeks to come you are going {to hear about more. I want to tell \you about one (there are others) |that was. It is the Department of Justice, specifically the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I was in the company ot a num- {ber of FBI men when the first news of the bombing of Pearl | Harber broke. had I stayed where I was, I would (have been alone. i Two hours later, hundreds of | undesirable or questionable | aliens were behind bars con- fincd to . hotel rooms under guard, or under orders to re- main in their homes with 24- | hour patrols on duty to see that they cbeyed those orders. Within a week, more than 3,000 |Japanese, German, Italian and {other non-citizens under suspicion as pessible fifth cclumnists had |been interned without arousing jmore than occasional scattered 'squawks from nearly 5,000,000 aliens who have been living within our |borders without taking out even first citizenship papers. Behind all this is more than a year-old story. It goes back to the days when Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Jackson was attorney general, but it's a story that doesn't belong to any one man. The pres- jent Attorney General, Francis Eiddle, was under the guns when the war broke oui, and FBI Di- Irector J. Edgar Hoover was on deck long before Jackson. For nearly 11 months, the FBI and its parent Department of Justice have been wrestling those files of 5,000,000 aliens plus a few thousand more from the citizen- | <hip list that had a question mark on the line that should have noted “good intentions.” ! Out of this formless mass, about itwo months ago, ‘began to come dossiers that had some meaning. {The FBI worked out its plan. At- itorney, General Biddle approved. Before the last words were writ- ;ten on the initigl story of the blasting of Pearl Harbor, Biddle was signing warrants for detention and the FBI, with the aid of police, was making wholesale arrests from ‘New York to San Francisco. This deesn’t mean that every fifth cclumnist, spy, or saboteur in the (Continued on Page Three) 3 U-BOATS SENT DOWN ON ATLANTIC German Moforship. s Cap- tured, then Torpedoed- British Admit Losses LONDON, Jan3—The British Ad- miralty today acknowledged the loss of four naval vessels, but breaking the long-standing rule of silence, told the British people the price Germany is paying for at- tacking Atlantic convoys is very heavy, showing the Navy's success in guarding the vital bridge of ships. The Admiralty said two war craft, the 7100 ton cruiser Neptune and destroyer Handhaw hit mines and were sunk in the Mediterranean Sea. The other two craft that have been lost are the destroyer Stanley, formerly an American auxiliary ship and the warship | _ "~ Audacity. The Admiralty reports that the 5600 ton German motorship Han- over was captured and then sunk by torpedoes in a four day running battle. In the battle against German subs attacking convoys on the .At- {lantic, three large U-boats have | been sunk. i Nazi submarines and large, far-i, |cruising German bombers, have succeeded in sinking only two mer~ chant ships totalling 6100 tons out of more than 30 freighters, the statement declares. 1 PRICEBILL § READY FOR * SENATEMON. jMeasure fo Keep Living Beach Fighting in the Philippines Soldiers of the Philippine Army are shown manning a 75-mm. gun during maneuvers at a beach north of Manila. This is the same beach where some eight; |+ yellow warriors, The Jap invaders are meeting fierce resistance from American and Philippi transports are attempting to land an estimated 80,000 RAF Reinforcements Arrive in Singapore | Costs Down May Arouse | Newly arrived men of the Royal Air Force arrive at a transit camp near Singapore. They are shown in a grove of rubber trees which still show signs of old mppipg cuts, These same the Japanese, who Mave invaded the Malay Peninsula in an attempt to crus men are now probably fighting h the great British naval base Five minutes later, | i Heated Confroversy | WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—A flexi- ble wartime price control measure, Idesigned to save the government {billions of dollars and protect the ! public from soaring living costs, is | {ready today for Senate consider: ; tion. | Affecting virtually every phase of | the nation’s commercial life, the bill seems likely to arouse as heat- | ed a controversy as any measure | |which has been passed to the House. since November. | Last night 28 members of the |Senate banking committee worked juntil dark to complete the draft |of the bill. Although the 77th Con- 15,000 Nippons gress adjourned at noon yesterday, o it will reconvene Monday and de- CHUNGKING, Jan. 3. Fifteen bate on the price control measure tpoysand Japanese soldiers |tal city of .the Hunan province, : : PART, BRITISH Manila for Holding The Brisbane Herald sazid: “His peaes Fusk ;wmch is slated to start Wednesday. yi1ieq or wounded yos | e terrific Chinese counter MacARTHUR scene of two of Japan’s most hu- miliating defeats in the Chinese | LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3, — The { Melbourne radio broadcast, picked LONDON, Jan, 3—Af Exchange stand at” least occupied a consid- s erable part of Japan’s efforts for e FAREN, BOPIN the out: £ | war. up here, commenting on the fall Telegraph quotes a Berlin radio three weeks. This was of tremen-| i HUGE JAP sha Oufskirts Claim \Radio, Newspaper Pay Tribute fo Defender of irts of Changsha. | AUSIR All A The majority of the Japanese | of Manila, today said there “is progqeast saying Tokyo reports A’ special Clhinese communique said the battle is still raging fierce- casualties were said to be due to | artillery fire, nothing but praise in Australia for! s " i G |two-thirds of the British forces in SE cmy Sl MupAritily h"'""unlaym have been wiped out in |1y today for possession of the capi= 1 s oo fighting at Kuantan. i that lies astride the crossroads of the far Pacific. LOSSES IN CHINA WAR Counter Affacks on Chang-?German Maj? General Is RUSSIANS CONTINUE OFFENSIVE Fifteen Thousand Germans Killed, 16 Villages Recaptured MOSCOW, Jan. 3—It is offici- ally announced today that Maloya- (rative Staff officer of the Nazi|roslavets has been added to the Fanzer troops in Africa, and more |lengthening list of Central front than 5006 other Axis soldiers, have|cities restored to the Russians as been taken prisoner in the capture | the Red Army offensive against the of Bardia, the official British com-|Germans progresses, munique announces. The official statement declares British losses, the statement|that more than 15,000 German of- adds, is 60 killed and 300 wounded. | ficers and men have been killed in —— e |six days and 16 villages have been SUNK OFF PAC.COAST, M e | air base, James T. Braafladt, prin- |cipal of the air base school there, dio broadcast declares that a large | Was in Juneau today, conferring with Dutch tanker in the Briuah-Amer-!J::)‘;';‘:: flzl‘:vw”tfi(e’;ntorlBl Commis- ican s i sunk 60 miles ® o . :fi?‘l:;n:?;;::n:egu::l_k | Braafladt’s school was closed by 45 |navy order shortly after the out- |break of war, and in any event 'would have few pupils today if it 4th Thursday fo Nazi Warrior Is Prisoner Of British Captured with 5,000 Other Axis Soldiers CAIRO, Jan, 3.—German Major General Schmidt, Chief Adminis- - — KODIAK AIR BASE " SCHOOLPRINCIPAL BERLIN, Jan. 3.—A German ra- fwenc open, he said, most of the |wives and children of service men {and civilian workers having now dous value, as everything depends! upon gaining time.” ! IR S Experts estimate wovernment | purchases of office machines this| year will total about $100,000,000, or one-third of all office machine sales, | gineer on James Davis, second sssistant en- the steamer Baranof, who was stricken ill vessel was in port here recently and taken to St. Ann’s Hospital, has been taken to Seattle on the Mount McKinley. D BUY DEFENSE BONDS Be I@ksgivingL while the | WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—A hill‘w“ jn each November shall be Thanks- giving day has become a law with President Roosevelt attaching his signature to the legislation, Lauritz Melchior, the tenor, a hobby of collecting antlers. been evacuated from the base. | Braafladt will leave Juneau on the first available boat, he said, and | head for Seattle, there to enlist declaring that the fourth Thursday g . "hova) reserve. PRy . has 'FORTRESS AT MANILA - HoLDS ouT Nippon Planes Frusirated After Violent Five- Hour Assault WARSHIPS SHELLING, | CORREGIDOR BATTLE Gen. MacArthur's Forces { Continue fo Fight Invad- ers on Peninsula (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) United States anti - aircraft batteries beat off a violent five-hour attack by Jap planes today upon the Corregidor Is- land fortress at the entrance to Manila harbor, the War De- partment announced, while on nearby Batan Peninsula, Gen- eral MacArthur’s “last stand” army of American and Filipino troops still battled invasion forces. The communique said at least three Japanese planes were shot down in the Corregidor be intensified,” partment communique stated. Desperate Resistance The Imperial Headquarters at Tokyo acknowledges the United States defense forces are putting up “desperate” resistance in the Batan | Mountains, northwest of Manila, but asserted they are doomed to an- | nihiliation in a short time. | The Tokyo broadcast pictured the :anlnese troops as capturing Man- ila by storm and “braving furious fire” and giving a melodramatic | portrayal of the city's fall in con- (trast to the United States com- munique that “all American and Philippine troops were withdrawn from the city several days ago.” The German radlo broadcast quot- !ing Tokyo dispatches, said the at- | tack on Corregidor was intended to 5preven£ the arrival of reinforce-_ ments for Gen. MacArthur's troops that are departing from the United States on transports and which will | be bombed. Busy Beavers. Work Busily CHARLESTON, W. Va; Jan. 8.— A colony of beavers planted in the rugged Canaan Valley of Tucker |County grew up to be a bit too in- dustrious, ‘“bad - mannered” and threatened to dispossess & land owner, the conservation commis~ sion reports. George B. Thompson wrote Game Technician C. B. Pierle that, the animals refused to halt their dam- building activities and then flood- ed land where Christmas trees thrive, “They are flooding the balsam swamp where we obtained our supply of Christmas trees, They build dams in places where our drainage ditches are rendered use- less and gladly accept as a chal- enge the removal of them,” he GOES WESTERN CHICAGO, Jan. 3. — Modern nethods of crime detection were almost thrown for a loss by this me. Morris Udisky, a junk dealer, eported that horse thieves drove away with his faithful black mare while he was making a business call,