The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1942, Page 1

VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8927. BROKEN BY RUSS ARMIES Sebastopol, Leningrad En-| circlements Blasted as Nazis Thrown Back (By Associated Press) | ; | HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRICE TEN CENIN Ships Taking Aid fo Nazis efreating ‘Axis Armies in Libya May Make Stand on Gulf of Sirte CAIRO, Jan. 9.—With land sup-| R Russia’s armies today were de-|ply routes under almost incessant| clared to have virtually broken the|assault from the air, the Axis to- | | ESTABLISHES OFFICE HERE Fright (a " | p New Unit to Issue Waier-;TTom-cL, . 0—The Japan| . {1 Times an vertiser, officia ap- | front Identity Cards,New |unese covernment organ, deciarea| Licenses for Boats |here today that once a Japanese landing has been made on the Am- erican contineut, “it will be a simple Identification matter for our well trained and| cards for all per- courageous army to sweep every- nard Is Issued this country will land on the Am- erican continent. IT IS TOO LAUGH WASHINGTON, Jan. 9-—Various officials of Departments were shown the Associated Press dis- patch from Tokyo and deep grins - KAMCHATKA | Senator Wafig?en Suggests | Soviet Peninsula as 3 Air Base |Mons C. Wallgren (D-Wash.) today | Against Japs Advances in South, Central [ China Announced- 1 Troops Ready | WASHINGTON, Jan. 9—-Senator| CHUNGKING, Jan. 9 — The today reported their forces| i Chine: U.S. SUB SINKS FOUR SHIPS NEAR TOKY0 TWO SIEGES |R.A.F. Blasts | COAST GUARD Well, Well! Just Read This U.S.URGED (Chinese Army BLOW STRUCK ~ Japanese Propagandal Big TO FORTIFY Reporfs Gain NEAR CAPITAL OF JAPANESE | American Underseas Craft Penetrates Within 100 Miles, Imperial City BULLETIN WASHING- INGTON, Jan. 9—The Navy sons with regular business on any section of Juneau's waterfront will| thing before it.” spread over countenances gested that the United States have penetrated the outer defenses| egyviy today announced that a of two of the most important Jap- anese-held cities in South China,| Canton and Nanchang, capitals of | Kwantung and Kiangsi Provinces. | | | One high official declared: “The| Russia by fortifying Kam- Tokyo newspaper is trying to spread |chatka Peninsula for use as an propaganda to appease a populace|ultimate airbase against Japan and that is suddenly realizing what real (to prevent Japanese seizure of the war is and that all the reported|strategic point as a base against| The Chinese claimed succe: gains by the Japanese Military|Alaska. fon half a dozen other fronts in headquarters are camouflaged, no| Wallgren said Russian neutrality Central China and announced that |losses of men or war craft being|towards Japan made the use of meanwhile fresh expeditionary noted.” | Kamchatka presently impossible for forces awaited only the word to| Another official declared: “Evid-|the United States, but added that enter British Burma. ence from all sources shows that money, equipment and planes could | ® Troops already have been massed the invasion of the Philippines is|be furnished to Russia immediately there and are taking up “designated being made by youths, poorly out-|for the fortification. | positions,” mostly in north Burma,| |fitted and they are being mowed| He pointed out the Soviet already | the announcement said. ! down. What, therefore, is the real|ls fortifying Petropavlovsk and pre-| G “The contention that the Umwd} States can not be invaded is. as| sabimaring of WA Asisvie. SE has torpedoed and sunk a Jap- anese transport and also three cargo vessels, each about 10,- 000 tons. Several days ago a broadeast from Tokyo indicated the Jap- anese Government was con- cerned about the whereabouts of the American fleet in the Pacific. This indicates the fleet is “somewhere” in the Pacific. be issued at a Coast Guard office! to be established here tOMOITOW.| ., ;0 4 myth as that the Maginot Lieut. Matt Ryan, newly appointed | yine conld not be taken or that Captain of the Port of Juneau,an-|ginoapore and Pearl Harbor are nounced today. ‘lmprl*gnal)l(-_' the paper continued. The Coast Guard office will be| The article said the Japanese in Room 11 on the ground floor of [navy has already taken the war | the Federal Building, Lieutenant|into the shadow of San Francisco Ryan said. nd that air attack alarms have Ryan and a staff of Coast sounded in many cost cities, “brinx-‘ long-drawn sieges of Leningrad and day attempted to provision the re- Sebastopol. treating Libyan corps of General Soviet dispatches reported that Rommel by sea, the British an- “east of Leningrad the Germans nounced, but coastwise ships drew now have lost everything they werel; gtorm of direct hits from the able to capture in the past three|pap i mon(hs," L ¥ ¥ | “Our air forces, operating in This would indicate the invaders support of our mobile columns over have been thrown back ir_om lhe;n wide area, were particularly suc- eastern arc of the seige ring and R '*ce.ssrul today in destroying a num- ¢ ZZ;(:I““;?;“ ity g Caarlst| per of enemy aircraft in aerial|Guardsmen arrived here this Week|ing panic among freightened cits | once A combat,” the communique said. to set up the port office under or-|izenry.” ;Lr:gaumcamn with the rest of The provisioning effort by meiders from Ketchikan Coast Guard| The newspaper pointed out that Ak one stete of the #ibe, the Ger- Axis indicated Rommel is falling | headquarters. The Lieutenant is the United States was invaded in | BULLETIN-—-TOKYO, Jan. 9 Penetraticn of an enemy sub- man command asserted that Len- ingrad was ‘completely isolated,” its only outlet being the précarious| passage across Lake Ladoga. Advices reaching London report-| ed Red Army storm troops now are battering the Germans in wave after wave of a sanguinary four-day | battle at Proventsa, presumably it! is a village in the vicinity of Schuesselburg, 25 miles east of Len-| ingrad, where the Neva River flows into the Stalin Canal. | The canal itself links Russia‘s] Baltic-Arctic waterways system and ‘extends 100 miles westward from Lake Ladoga. — e BOY SCOUTS STUDY COMPASS, FIRST AID American Legion Boy Scout! Troop 613 met Wednesday at the| Legion Dugout. A good turnout of scouts studied compass and first aid under the| direction of Scoutmaster Bill Cooper. | | e CThe [ Drew Peersos. -l Robert . Alles 60 WASHINGTON — Certain gentle- men who would like to shift re- sponsibility for Pearl Harbor have been spreading the yarn that J.| Edgar Hoover and . the FBI were to blame for the Navy being caught asleep on the memorable and tragic day of December 7. Real inside story on this, how- ever, can now be told, namely that as early as last spring, Head G- Man Hoover urged that he be per- mitted to arrest, or at least oust| from the Hawalian Islands, the 250 Japanese consular agents oper- ating there. Hoover argued that Japan didn’t need 250 consular agents in a little place like Hawaii in the first place. In the second place he produced concrete evidence that at least one of them had tried to get informa- tion on U. S. fleet movements. General Short, in command at Hawaii, since removed, objected o Hoover's plan. He said it would cause too much commotion. Never- theless, Hoover persisted, took the matter over General Short’s head to Washington. Secretary of War Stimson supported General Short and nothing was done. After Pearl Harbor, the Japa- nese consulate was taken over and its papers searched. Among them was found a code of signals by lights; so many lights would show that the U. S. destroyers had left Pearl Harbor; so many lights would indicate that the battleships had left; another light arrangement would signal that the destroyers ‘had returned, and so on. This code completely corroborated Hoover’s contention that the Japanese con- sular agents were the mainspring’ of Japanese espionage. NOTE: Hoover actually caught two Japanese spies red-handed in the United States, but was forced by the State Department to seni imost curve of the Gulf of Sirte, Was Only Indian Episcopal! | not be required to obtain cards, but | {Miss Gertrude Mather, teacher in back onto Elagheila on the inner- where he might try to make a stand if supplies are assured. S e Rev. Mather Succumbs af Ketchikan | | Priest in Terrifory- Father Duncan Student KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 9. Rev. Paul Mather, aged 63, a na- tive Alaskan, believed to be the first person ever to broadcast a radio program in the Indian lan- guage, died here late yesterday as the result of a heart attack. Father Mather was the oniy| Episcopal minister who studied un- der Father Duncan, founder of the first Indian town, Metlakatla, near Ketchikan. As a boy, Father Ma- ther moved from the Fort Simp- son, Canada, area with Fathek Duncan, when Metlakatla was founded in 1878. Ordained in Ketchikan in 1930, Father Mather became the only In-| dian Episcopalian priest in Alaska.| He was minister at St. Elizabeth’s| Church in Ketchikan and a mem- | ber of the Bishop’s Council of Ad- vice for Alaska, which is headed by Dean C. E. Rice, of Juneau. Father Mather was a member of the Tsimpshean Indian group at Metlakatla. Surviving him are three daughters, Mrs. Clarisa Ur- sich, teacher at Wrangell Institute; the Government School at Ket- chikan; and Mrs. Bob Milonich, also of Ketchikan; and three sons, George and Howard, both of Ket-| chikan; and Conrad, a student now at Wrangell Institute. Demurrer in Picketing (as_g Heard The contested divorce suit of Annie Johnson, Kake native wo- man, versus Charles S. Johnson, was continued for three months after lengthy argument before the Federal District Court here yester- day afternoon. Principal busine's before the court session this afternoon was the argument of a demurrer filed by members of the Juneau Retail Clerks' Union in the picketing case brought against them by Albert S. Glover and Margaret Whiteley, op- erators of the Spruce Delicatessen store here, - e — | In the West Indies, are a native delicacy. fish eyes ?lm(-d the following procedure for| | posted, |identification forms from 1 o'clock|the Volunteer Fire Department last | ter. them back to Tokyo instead of placing them on trial. One was a et e AT (Continued on Page Four) - ————— Scales of a tarpon may measurc|to the Japanese-RuSsian neutral- more than four inches across. one of several “assistant captains|181% and added that now, “with of the port” appointed by Capt. F.|the American navy badly crippled A. Zeusler to be port captains|as a result of the Japanese victory throughout the Territory. at Pear! Harbor, it is within the Lioenicd for " Vakasls |realm not alone of possibility but Also o be issued immediately|Of Probability that armed forces of strength of the land armed forces? dicted the area will be an eventual | It must be remembered hundreds of | battleground. thousands of older, experienced | Japanese fighters have been lost BATILE RAGES (Continued on Page Three) from the port captain’s office here! | are licenses to all operators of ves- | sels operating in Alaskan wnlers.‘F|REMEN vo“ Applicaticn forms and licenses may be obtained at the office. The Coast Guard officer Unanimous Action Brings n Largest Financial Con- vt roque s, | . Niomin Gty (2) Employers must submit com- | plete lists of all employees they Making the largest financial con- desire to be given cards. tribution so far to national de- (3) Card applicants may obtain|fense by any Juneau organization, out- obtaining Identification Cards S (1) Any person regularly visit- ing the waterfront must have an identification card. Casual visitors —persons purchasing steamship tickets -or on cimilar errands--wiil identification cards: may be refused entrance to any place where company guards or to 4 oclock at the Coast Guard Dight appropriated $500 for the office any afternoon except Sun-|Purchase of a United States De- starting tomorrow aft,erno(m.if’-’“Se Bond. These forms are to be filled out,| Unanimous action on the bond witnessed by a reliable p,.rsm,.‘purchuse was taken at the month- preferably the applicant’s employer,|ly meeting of the department ai and returned to the Coast Guard|the Fire Hall, office, accompanied by three full| The department also joined in face passport photographs of the Red Cross first aid activities in applicant. The applicant then will the city with the announcement of be fingerprinted and a card bear-.23 firemen’s training course to be ing identification details, with one|started at the Fire Hall at 7:3( fingerprint and one portrait at-|c¢'clock tonight. Firemen Holga: tached, will be issued. | Larson and Arnot Hendrickson wili No Refusals |instruct the departmental first aid “No person applying for a card|squad. will be refused,” Ryan said, “but| Plans for dispersing equipment it is necessary that all persons vis-|and laying hose during air raid iting such strategic areas as the emergencies also were announced waterfront have ready identifica-|Fire fighting units will be sta- tion, if they are challenged. The|tioned at pre-designated points Coast Guard is making this prac- throughout the city as soon as an tice available to the public for the air raid occurs. convenience of all waterfront visi-| Also announced was the relin- tors.” quishing of the 1-2 emergency signal, which now will be confined strictly to air raid warning. The lows: emergency signal, which summons (1) No vessel will be granted|all firemen to the Fire Hall, will be clearance from a port unless ([siz-v. This will be used when moun- Coast Guard license is shown. The tain rescue parties are needed, for Coast Guard will cooperate with meilsndslides and other general emer- Collector of Customs in this mat- [gency calls, as well as for fires in the 2-9 vicinity. Arne Shudshift, member of the 'Douglas Fire Department was a fguest of the Juneau Department last night and discussed coopera- tive measures to be taken by the two organizations in case of emergency. France Reads Leaflets On F.D.R. Talks WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. The White House today disclosed thel RAF carried out successfully its first day, Licensing Rules Vessel licensing rules are as fol- (2) Licenses will be issued to all Japs Warn Russia fo Be Neutral Berlin Radio Quotes Omin- ous Arficle Published by Tokyo Newspaper No Tourists IN JUNGLE AS NextSummer, JAPS ATTACK Company Says sritsh imperials Fight Al s Day in Defense of Alaska Line Breaks Off Ar- Singapore rangements with Amer- ican President Lines Suspension of the Alaska Steam- ship Company’s arrangements with the American President Lines as general agent, due to concentration of the Alaska company’s efforts on defense traffic, is announced in a bulletin from K. A. Cross, general passenger agent. Signalling the curtailment and probable suspension of Alasken tourist trade for the duration, the tatement said: “It is apparent that, under pres- :nt war conditions, no tourists, ither as individuals or in parties,! SINGAPORE, Jan, 9. — Waves of Japanese infantry and tanks at- tacking the main Singapore road {less than 300 miles north of this British stronghold fought a severe all-day battle with British Imperial troops in the Slim River area yes- terday, the British announced to- day. Casualties on both sides were heavy and the decision was not given in the communique, but earlier reports said the British “are holding fast” in their newly formed lines. The Slim River is about 50 miles north of Kuala Lumpur, crude rub- ber capital of the world, and Japan's immediate objective. I Travel agents are requested 1ake all reservations for £ o5 5 REFLECT GROWTH INPOPULATION The steady increase of births, deaths and marriages in Alaska dur- |ing the past three years, reflecting !the growing population of the Ter- ritory, was shown graphically today in the following chart from the of- fice of Territorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle. House Vofes New Daylight Savi_ng Bill Nation’s Clocks fo Be Sefii 1939 1,963 1940 2.118 1941 2,675 Births Deaths 1246 12376 1383 Marriage 860 943 1,268 Principal causes of death and the Ahead One Hour When |Bumber of deaths from these causes ry 'as follows: Legislation Signed WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 — The| House of Representatives by a vote of 67 to 20 today passed a daylight saving bill, ordering a uniform one- hour advance of the nation’s clocks. The Senate previously approved the bill giving the President the| discretion to move clocks ahead as much as two hcurs, Time differences are expected to require the appointment of a con- ference committee to shape .the leg- islation in its final form. 1941 50 61 153 34 141 304 23 19 1940 Drowning 39 Cancer 53 Heart Disease 125 Measles ki Pneumonia 127 Tuberculosis .. 282, Stillbirth , 14 Alcoholism 12 BofiEBiESI LONDON, Jan. 9.— Numerous — .- SIo(K fires were left burning in Brest after a strong RAF bombardment QUOTATIONS p— |last night. The attack was made on NEW YORK, Jan. 9. — Closing | the fourth consecutive night quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| S s stock today is 2%, American Can | BERLIN, Jan. 9 — The Berlin radio said today that a frank warn- ing addressed to Russia was today contained in a leading article in the Tokyo newspaper Hochi Shimbun. The article advised Russia to ignore all allurement to the Anglo- American side and also was quoted as advising Russia to live up strictly | 61, Anaconda 27, Bethlehem Steel mission for the United States GOV- g3 3/4 Commonwealth and South- ernment in the distribution over o, . otiee Wright 8%, Inter- Occupied France of more than two millon French language leaflets | Boponal Harvester 46%, Kennecott containing excerpts from speeches | and statements made by President |FoURd $404. Roosevelt. Presidential Secretary Stephen| DOW, JONES AVERAGES Early said additional leaflets prob- | The following are today’s Dow, ably will be distributed in other oc- | Jones averages: industrials 111.02, cupled portions of Europe later. |rails 27,74, utilities 14.60. ity pact concluded last Easter. Reported Torpedoed United States Steel 53 3/4, LONDON, Jan. 9—The British cruiser Galatea, 5,700 tons, has been torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat. This is the brief announcement made late this afternoon by the | British Admiralty. \ Price Ehiel - Doesn’t Want Privgle Cars Henderson Corrects Im- pression Given in Prev- ious Press Conference | WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.~Price Administrator Leon Henderson today issued a statement assur- ing the nation that the govern- ment has no plans to com- mandeer private automobiles, explaining that fears of com- mandeering undoubtedly arose from his own answers to ques- tions at a press conference Jan- uary 2. Henderson then said the com- mandeering of autos was “one gloomy possibility” which a pro- longed war might bring about. Today, however, Henderson declared the government “is well supplied with autos” and added there is no occasion for citizens to offer their cars for public use. ARMY SPEEDS UP RATE OF INDUCTIONS Million Memready (las- sified A-1 to Become Soldiers Soon | WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—An offic- ial today disclosed that inductions into the Army are being stepped up to double or triple the peace time te. Indications are of an immediate goal of a hard hitting land force of about 4,000,000 men with the Army accelerating induction of present registrants to include about 1,000,- 000 men already classified 1-A, with- out waiting to draw on the 9,000,000 between 20 and 44 inclusive, who are expected to register February 16. No limit has been set on the war- time size of the Army, which may be sent to Britain or anywhere else the command may deem advisable. s i b i) 2Nt ‘Blackouts Even - Give Cais Trouble | | | | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9.— The | Society for the Prevention of Cru- |elty to Animals warned household- | ers yesterday not to let their cats Secretary Freidrich said there is no danger of enemy planes being attracted by gleaming cat eyes, since cat eyes don't shine in the dark unless there is other light to reflect. that the cats are likely to become confused and suffer considerable distress in the unaccustomed total darkness. Brnlsh (mlser Is }mn during blackouts. | Freidrich said, however, marine within 100 miles of ‘Tokyo is disclosed today by the Imperial Headquarters. The brief announcement is made thus: “An enemy submarine has Unkai Maru Number 1. The submarine attack ocurred early yesterday off the coast of Japan near the Izu Islands, a group that lies south of the entrance to Yokchama and Tokyo. All the crew was saved. The na- tionality of the attacking sub- marine is not given. The ship was severely damaged.” Navy that other sinkings were made by the enemy submarine. e PHILIPPINE FRONT QUIET ALL SECTORS Only Minor Skirmishes Re- ported in Official Communique WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. — The War Department said combat opera- tions have dwindled to minor skirm- ishes in the Battle for the Philip- pines on all battle fronts. The Japanese are continuing to move troops up, apparently in prep- aration for a heavy attack. The official communique of the War Department said air activity of the Japanese is limited to recon= naissance. DEAN LANDIS T0 AID LAGUARDIA WITH DEFENSES Harvard Law School Head Appointed to Executive Position in 0. C. D. - WASHINCTON, Jan. 9. — Dean Howard Landis, of Harvard Law School, today was assigned the task of executing civilian defense activi- ties, with Office of Civil Defense - | Director Fiorella LaGuardia turn- |ihg his talents toward “perfecting ithe organization throughout the | country.” Presidential Secretary Stephen Early announced the Landis ap- | pointment, saying the educator’s title | will be “executive.” | Landis and LaGuardia together will fashion broad matters of policy, Early said. In reply to questions as to whether Mrs. Roosevelt will continue as as~ sistant director of the O. C. D., Early said he had heard nothing about the matter. AR T ORI, America leads the world in steel capacity. e BUY OEFENSE STAMPS | |