The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 5, 1942, Page 1

_strain. -between .Germany..and.. the. VOL. LVIII., NO. 8923. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAP ATTACKS AT MANILA ARE REPULSED MANILA'S WALLED CITY IS BOMBED CHINA SENDS HITLER NOW | FACING MORE ANTAGONISM .. Finland May Break from, Undeclared Alliance with Nazi Regime i GERMANY, VICHY IN SEVERE TENSION NOW Russian Drive More Pro-i nounced as Reich Forces | Are Being Encircled \[ (By Asseciated Press) Adolf Hitler'’s forces are steadily losing their Russian loot- holds for which they paid so dearly and are now harrassed in the rear by conquered people. H Hitler is also confronted with a hint of Finnish deflection. ! Officially the Finns have never professed a partnership in the‘ and insisted they are fighting only to recover lost territory and for vital protection and for their Na- tional life. Break Is Near Today, according to a Reuters dispatch, the influential Helsinki’ newspaper Suomen Sosial Idem- | okraati, says the present time | “seems a suitable opportunity to| bréak off military operations.” | Bharing the importance of the| possibility of the Finnish with- drawal from the war, is the growing (Continued on P Page Two) L’“‘e ! | | \ WASHINGTON — Senator Burt | Wheeler doesn’t know it, but he! was paid a high tribute by Win- ston Churchill. I After his speech at the joint ses- | sion of Congress, the British Prime | Minister shook hands with Con- gressmen as they filed past him. | To Senators Clark, Nye and LaFol- lette, Churchill was courteous but| - made no special comment. But when Wheeler was present- ed, Churchill stopped him, shoo‘;‘ his hand warmly and said, “This/ is a genuine pleasure to me, sir.| I've long wanted to meet you. This | is one of the pleasantest moments‘ of this very happy occasion.” Smiling broadly, Wheeler thanked | Churchill cordially and moved on. | Later during the Congressional' luncheon at which Wheeler was not | present, the Prime Minister again | referred to his delight in meeting the Meontana Senator. { “1 liked him,” Churchill said.“He is a fighting man. I have been in 14 political fights, won eight and lost six. Once I was beaten three| times in 18 months. I respect and admire fighting men even if they| are against me. “In these troubled times we should welcome good fighters, re- gardless of the differences of the past, After the war broke out some | of my friends wanted to go after Chamberlain and his group, who had tried to appease the Nazis. They called them Municheners. I| had opposed this group as violently ! as anyone in Britain, but I was| against any reprisals. I told my friends that the Chamberlain group | had tried to do their duty in the | best light they saw it and that] now there was a job to be done fighting the Nazis, not one an-| other. “I told them that when the pres- ent fights with the past, the future is- hopeless.” CHURCHILLANIA Churchill ate heartily of turkey,| stuffing, cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes at his luncheon| with - congressional leaders, re-{ marked on the excellence of the| __ (Continued on Page Four) B Japanese planes bombed the famous old walled city in Manila (above) after Manila had been declared an open city by American officials. In the foreground is the legislative building. Many old religious institu- tions were destroyed by the fire that raged lollowln[ the bomhhlg European “crusade” against Russia | Jap Two-Man Sub ngh and Dry This is the stern view of a Japanese two-man submarine showing the portion rammed by a destroyer and “washboard” effect «f a depth charge. Harbor. The submersible participated in the JYapanese raid on Pearl Mineral Production from | Alaska Mines During '41 Valued at §26,193,000 ATCHANGSHA The minerals produced from Al- |aska mines in 1941 had an estimat- ied value of $26,193,000, according to a preliminary statement of the Geological Survey, United States Ueparument of the Interior. This amount, which has been exceeded lin only three years during the en- tire period since 1918, raises the |total value of the minerals pro- |duced in the Territory since 1880 |to about $860,000,000. Noteworthy Features The large production recorded for 1941 was reached in spite of many adverse factors, including la- bor difficulties, which were caused either by strikes or through in- aplity w0 secure and maintain adequate staffs of workers at the high rates paid for services on many emergency and defense pro- Jjects, and unfavorable weather con- ditions, which caused a shortage of waler in many of the camps that are dependent on adequate supplies of water for most of their mining. Gold Production The value of the gold produced from Alaska mines in 1941 has been exceeded in only one other year-! 1940—since mining was begun in! Alaska. Although gold continues to| accouni for much the largest part| of the value of the mineral pro- duction of the year, about eight| percent of the value of the total| | | were continued, an mineral production was contribut- | ed by coal, platinum metals, sil- ver, ' lead, limerock, tungsten, mercury, and copper, in the relative order’in which their output during the year was valued. 1ne quanuity and value of the coal produced in 1941 reached highs that surpassed ' all previous pro- duction records for coal in the Ter- ritory. New Production Significant efforts were made both by the Goyernment and by private enterprise, to find and de- velop those minerals that. ordin- arily are not produced from domes- tic deposits in sufficient amounts to meet national needs. Investiga- uons were especially directed to the potential ore deposits of tung- sten, chrome, antimeny, mercury, nickel, and tin. As a result of thes2 efforts,, increased proeduction of some of these minerals is to be ex- pected. General Conditions Mining in Alaska in 1941 con- tinued at a high rate of prmluu-‘ tion. Most of the enterprises that had been under way in the past several new tin, antimony, JAP DEATH TOLL MOUNTS Tofal of 52, 2,000 Invaders Killed or Wounded in Past Three Days CHUNGKING, Jan. 5. — The Chinese High Command announced today that 30,000 Japanese were killed or wounded Sunday in battle at Changsha in which the Japanese offensive against the Hu- nan province capital turned into a catastrophic debacle. This makes a total of 52,000 casualties declared inflicted on the Japanese invaders during days before Changsha, The slaugh- ter eclipses anything witnessed in nearly four and a half years of bloody fighting in China. Several high Japanese officers are wporh-d to have been killed. s g g 2 MISS HALVORSEN ON BUYING TRIP soum‘ Miss Christine Halvorsen left by |PAA last week on a buying trip enterprises were started. The un-; settled conditions that throughout the world necessarily affected Alaskan mlnmg though \Continued on Page Three) prevailed that will take her to Seattle and San Franeisco. During her absence Mrs. May Godfrey is in charge of Halvor- sen’s. » Miss Halvorsen will return about February 15. | INVADERS' FLANK i of Great Anglo-Am- af three | VETERANS TO AID BRITISH Apparen}-ul—ransfer of Chiang Kai-Shek's Arm- ies fo Malaya Battle STRUCK BY ALLIES Burma Expected Be Scene erican Offensive (By Asscciated Press) The Chinese Expeditionary Force that has drawn on -its reservoir of manpower in fighting a give-and- take war with the Japanese for the past four and one-half years, may now be on the British Malayan front to help save Singapore. British sources in London ex- pressed the belief that veterans of Chiang Kai Shek’s army are being transferred to bolster the Malayan Fline until Great Britain and the [United States put reinforcements there. The British censorship Sunday passed dispatches from Rangoon to | London stating that the Allied| forces in Burma are gathering and a mounting offensive is indicated ‘The Japanese previously struck overland but now their flank has| been attcked on the Malayan Pen- insula and Chinese troops, said to | have been transferred there, are iding - the: other Aillled forces as well asguarding the Burma road. i Tt is officially stated that the| previous retreat of the British on! the Malayan front was because of superior numbers of the Japanese | ‘in attacking them and the British | forces were spread out too thin on | the front to make much of a resist- | ance. Now that Chinese forces arrived, the offensive is to be tak- en up immediately, Chinese infantry, supported by Eritish artillery and other mechan- | ized forces are now putting up a |new offensive to defend Singapore, | { It ¢ significant that notwith- | standing the great onslaught of the ‘ Japanese forces, only about miles c¢f the Malay Peninsula has been lost in less than one month’s i fighting. | THREE HIGH NAZIS SPLIT WITHHITLER Army Chieffains Rumored Feuding with Command- | er-in- Chlewver Policy LONDON, Jan. S-A reliable for- |eign source today reported a widen- ! |ing of the split between Hitler and | |his generals over the backfiring of- | fensive against Russia. | This source said Field Marshal| (von Brauchitsch, third high Nun‘ army leader, will either resign oxj be fired by Hitler. | Others disagreeing with Der Fue-| |hrer are Field Marshal von Bock,| commander of the Central Front in| Russia, and Col. Gen. Blaskowitz, | {who asked for his discharge I'mn‘ |the army even before the campaign | |began. | ——————e— | | RAFPOUNDS GREAT PASS; STRIKE AXIS | CAIRO, Jan. 5—The RAF to- day pounded the Halfaya Pass |area mnear the Egyptian-Libyan frontier to open the heavy British ! drive aimed at clearing out thelast |of the remaining Axis opposition |in the Libyan frontier zone. The final assault opened yesterday. l GUNS AT CORREGIDOR Top, member of a gun crew gets firing data. Bottom, one of the heavy mortars in emplacement on Corregidor Island, at entrance to Manila Bay. These protegraphs were made before the outhreak of war with Japan by Paramount News. New faces wiil be pushed toward screen promiftence in the coming year by movie makers, hopeful they'Hl find new stars on their hands. Prominent among those the public will ¥ee a lot more of during 1942 will be Janet Blair (above) STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 5 quotation of Alaska Juneau 4 Closing min DEPORTATION IS OPPOSED Board of Immigration Ap- peals Says Longshore Head Not Communist | WASHINGTON, Jan 5 The % board of immigration appeals here | recommended today the cancella-| tion of deportation proceedings gainst Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast |lengshore czar, 4| The decision was reached unan- infously by the four board members |and reverses the recommendation of Judge Charles Sears, who heard| eral Francis Biddle, The board of immigration appeals cfficially found that Bridges, since scming to the United States, has nct been a member of, nor affiliated with the Communist party, S KS CITIZENSHIP SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5—Harry | Bridges will seek American citizen- chip immediately, his office here said today, after the national board of immigration appeals in Wash- ington hd recommended cancella- tien of deportation proceedings against bhim, | >-e LABOR DEPY. AIDE ‘ GOES TO KETCHIKAN Steve McCutcheon, Chief Clerk of the Territorial Department of Labor, has gone to Ketchikan where he will consult with fishermen and buy- |ers concerning 1942 price agree- ments. The two groups failed to reach an understanding in their e meetings here last week. stock today is 2, American Can; McCutcheon also will investigate 61%, / Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem other routine labor matters while in Steel 66, Commonwealth and | the First City . Soutlhern 5/16, Curtiss Wright 8%, International Harvester 48%, Steel 55, Pound $4.04 DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are toda Jones averages: industrials rails 27.44, utilities 14.92 e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Ken- necott 37%, New 'York Central 9% Northern Pacific 5%, United State: Dow, NIGHT SCHOOL TO RESUME TOMORROW | Supt. A. B. Phillips announced this afternoon that the night school Ul resume sessions tomorrow (Tuesday) night. - - BUY DEFENSE BONDS s 2 } [ i OF BRIDGES | will DEFERDERS ' MAKEGOOD, ' PHILIPPINES Enemy Assault Results in Heavy Losses to Their Ranks of Soldiers FORTRESS BEATS OFF | THIRD RAID BY AIR ' General MacArthur Forces Crush Nippons—Escape from Many Traps WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, — The | War Department announces that Gen Douglas MacArthur’s Philip- pine Army has repulsed an attack |with heavy enemy losses estimated at least 700 enemy killed and with American and Pilipino losses des- cribed in the communique as rela- tively small. | The War Department said “this |1s one of the most serious reverses suffered by the Japanese invaders since the war began.” | The Japanese attack occured |northwest of Manila. At the same time, the War De- partment announces that the Am- |erican garrison at Corregidor Fort- |ress has shot down four more Jap- | anese bombers beating off the third |successive air attack on the fortress. The plane losses now by the enemy \1s officially put at 15 bombers. | Fifty -two Japanese bombers took part in the third attack. | Gen.” MabArthur officiaily states his forces crushed the Japanese attack, presumably in the Pam- panga Province northwest of Man- ial. Various units of the defend- ers are officially as escaping from many enemy traps. . AMERICANE ‘IN MANILA ARE HARSHLY TREATED WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 — The Japanese invaders in the Philip- pines are according “harsh. treat- ment” to American civilians inMan- ila and’ are discriminating “against all white residents” the War De- partment reports. | Immediately speculation arose as to whether the State Department seek through Swiss diplomatic channels better conditions for the | United States citizens in the is- lands. Switzerland is looking after | U. 8. interests in the Philippines by agreement with Japan. A Domei broadcast from Tokyo land heard in London, according to advices received here, said a high ,authority of the Imperial command acknowledged that all white civil- ians in Manila have been ordered testimony in the case for. three! e Ito remain indoors but said this was ?pmnh, at San Francisco early ms"‘done “principally to protect the whites and enable the Japanese to Final decision in the case restsr now in the hands of Attorney Gen- | cch. Out possible American Mifth Columnlsts % FDR ADDRESS 0 CONGRESS TOMORROW President fo Deliver An- nual Message on State of Nation | WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 — Presi- dent will deliver his annual mes- sage on the state of the union in person before Congress at 9:30 a. m., Pacific Standard Time, tomorrow, it was announced here today. Congressional leaders this morn- ing conferred with the President, |shortly before (the 77th Congress began its second session, amid re- ports that Roosevelt will ask be- tween 15 and 18 billion dollars as 2 special appropriation for the war- time operation of the Army and Navy. e ZIEGLERS VISIT Eustace Ziegler, well known Alaska artist, and Mrsi Ziegler visited friends in Juneau yesterday. The Anchorage artist and his wife are |on their way Outside to spend their iunnun vacation in Seattle and Cali~ fornia.