The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 12, 1942, Page 1

- » THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8929. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY ARTILLERY BATTLE RAGES IN PHILIPPINES BATTLEWITH | JAPNAVYTO WAIT--KNOX More Important for Fleet 1o Keep Atlantic Open, | Says Secrefary ‘ WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Secre- tary of Navy Col. Frank Knox today | said that while the American fleet | is not idle, no early conclusive show- down could be expected with the Japanese fleet. The Battle of the Atlantic still is the war's most important struggle and the Navy's No. 1 job, he said in | a speech at the annual American Conference of Mayors. Keeping the sea lanes open be- | tween America and Britain will bring about the defeat of Hitler's | Germany—“our great enemy,” Knox said. “I wouldn’t be frank with you if I led you to believe you could expect favorable and dramatic de- velopments in triumphant, American full scale naval engagements on the Pacific in the near future.” | The elements of distance, time and necessarily wide distribution of our naval forces, he said, “preclude what I know you all wish me to suggest — an early and conclusive showdown with the Japanese navy. ! But you know by this that I don’t mean to imply that the Pacific Fleet | is idle. It is not idle. You will hear from it again and again, when and where careful and strategic con- siderations dictate.” JAPSMOVE NEARERT0 SINGAPORE Dutch Put Wfierce Re- sistance in East Indies Aided by Allies | (By Associated Press) Japan’s all-out gamble for a quick sweeping victory, before the United Nations take the offensive, has car- ried her troops dangerously closer to Singapore and stirred up a hornet’s nest of resistance in-the Netherlands | East Indies. The Dutch fighters, land and air, struckt the invasion strongholds gained by the Japanese over the weekend and also claimed, that with Allied aid, they showered two Jap- anese cruisers, destroyers and two transports with bombs. B The outcome of the land and air battles on the vital outposts of the Dutch archipelago is still in the balance but mounting in bloody de- structive fury. It is said that Dutch and United States warships and American and Australian planes are involved. [ String of Bad Luck for Enemy s1’502,660 | A | Members of a ground crew at a U. S. army airport are shown loading a bi lane with a lethal cargo of 600-pound bombs. U. S. Army bbomomble'll'f l}n’lve ‘already demonstrated their ability to drop these deadly i eggs where they do the most good. "Decentralizafion” of Government Now Causes Many Agencies fo Move Hero of Manila By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, an. > 12—Being head over heels in a world war doesn’'t keep Washington from hav- ing its teapot tempests. The latest is over the President’s order moving 12 government agen- cies, with approximately 10,000 em- pleyees, to other cities. This “decentralization” of gov- ernment has been talked for'a long time and a few small agencieshave | been transferred. These, however, were mostly regional offices which |have been transferred to other . |cities nearby. Although it was known that the budget bureau, 'under Director Harold D. Smith, lone of the President’s close ac- visers, had been studying the pos. sibilities of booting some agencies ‘out of Washington to make way for the defense hordes pouring in, “insiders” cently that nothing ever would be done about it. Then pop out of the box, the President issues his order, moving Rural Electrification and Farm Security to St. Louis, the Patent Office to New York; the Securities and Exchange Commission, Alien Registration and several others to Philadelphia, the Wage and Hour had predicted just re-! The official communique of the smerican war hero, Major Emmett Dutch says: “Our Allies are ener- | 0'Donnell, Jr., of New York, is getically taking part in the fight|shown beside his plane. A com- against the invaders.. Allied planes ' munique from Manila credits him yesterday shot down four Japanese | with having shot down four Japa- planes over Minahassa and further | nese fighting planes without iniury scored two direct hits on a Japanese to himself. cruiser and destroyer lying off Tara- kan. “Our Glenn Martin bombers also division and one other agency to Pittsburgh; and several, including the Office of Indian Affairs, to Chicago. After that came the storm. Members of Congress, as usual, were in the thick of it. Some of them called it “silly” and PRICE CONTROL scored two direct hits on two Jap- “ridiculous.” Others hailed it anese transports there.” lEGlSlAI'O“ IS | as a wise move and the only ‘The Dutch, surprisingly, also | | soclution teward stemming the found it possible to help the defense | of Singapore. Their fighters down- | ed three Japanees raiders attacking the British naval' Jase. - NEW OFFENSIVE MALAYAFRONT 1S INDICATED (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) As the Japanese move fresh troops to front line positions in- dications are that a new Ilananes? offensive is at hand on the Malaya| The vote was 83 to 1, Senator moving expenses of the workers, as battlefront. Gerald P. Nye, Republican of| well as for office equipment and Despite a succession of Brlnsh}Nonh Dakota, voting against thelflles. and make allowances for “re- withdrawals, the Japanese are still|legislation. \ settlement” costs) and the in- more than 150 miles from 8inga-| Tpe measure is intended to curb|creased expense of doing business pore on the western side of the|ying living expenses. The bill now! With agencies some distance from Malaya Peninsula and probably|goes pack to the House which|their departmental bosses; the up- no closer on the eastern side al-!pgqceq a weaker price control meas-|T00ting of personnel that has es- though there has been little exact re on November 28. {tablished homes here; and the word. of locations on that’front. < o igreat turnover in personnel re- ——eo—— BUY DEFENSE su;gs BUY DEFENSE BONDS ] 1A% tide of government workers that threatens to ‘make the capital a modern Donnybrook PASSED, SENATE 'Broad Wartime Legislafionj on the mmr‘ side i5 the Civil | Service Comi sion's ma At Appfoved 83 to 1- ;i).m)u addmlr;?"tl:l ox:ve::ienttew:?h Goes Back fo House ers will be employed here by July; the frantic search for office space !mem staffs; to take care of the present govern- and the already criti- WASHINGTON, Jan, 12. — The|cal lack of suitable housing ac- Senate has approved of a broad|commodations. wartime price control measure{ after the powerful farm bloc forced| The chief anti-decentralization a higher ceiling on the limit of|arguments are the expense of the farm prices. (Continued on Page Five) the Railroad Retirement Board and | move (the government has to pay, ~ ASKEDBYFR ~ FOR ALASKA Alaska Railro—ad,However, Gets Total Budget of s $4,750,000 WASHINGTON, Jan. dent Roosevelt's 1943 budget sub- mitted to Congress last week asked $1,502,660 for the government of Alaska, compared with $1,626,965 this year. | Asked for the Alaska Railroad was $4,750,000. Included in the budget wers 1 $708,000 for construction and main tenance of roads, trails and bridg- les; $300,000 for the Palmer-Rich- ardson Highway; $50,000 for pub- lic schools; $209,080 for care and custody of insane persons; $152,100 for wagon roads, trails and bridg- es; $76,235 for investigation of min- eral resources; $10,000 for Gov. Ernest Gruening's salary; $5,600 for the Secretary of Alaska's salary; $17,380 for contingent expenses. $8,000 for mileage for legislato! $5,200 for legislative employees; $15,200 for incidental legislature expenses. The Interior Department appro- priation included $95870 for the| Alaska Reindeer Service, an in-| crease of $5000 over the present year; and $553,180 as the cost of medical relief to natives. The Roosevelt budget contained ;no provision to continue the life of the Alaska International High- ! the same as appropriated way Commission but, last year, Congress $4,000 for the group. PINCERS SET ' FOR 150,000 ' NAIITROOPS Russian Armies Drive Sal- ! ients Almost Around German Spearhead (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Advices from Moscow said the Russian armies have reached the new German winter defense line on the central front, putting them- selves in good position to close their pincers on perhaps 150,000 Germans in the Mozhaisk sector. The Russian recapture of Lyudi- novo tightened the vise on the Germans at Mozhaisk, 57 miles west of Moscow and the closest po- sition to the capital still. held by the Nazis. ents westward both below and above Mozhaisk. ° CHINESE MAKE NEW GAINS ON FOUR FRONTS Communiqtfi ays 8,000 More Casualties Inflict- ed, Changsha Invaders CHUNGKING, Jan. 12.—The new found offensive power of Chiang Kai Shek’s forces has smashed new | drives against the Japanese on four widely separated fronts, a Chinese communique announced today. On one front, the announcement said, two villages were recapatured. The new offensive apparently en- dangered the entire position of the Japanese forces along the Lunhai Railroad, south of the Yellow River. | Chinese attention continued to 'center on a third great xictory in Changsha, Hunan Province, where, the communique said, the Japanese are fleeing northward “in great con- \fusion” after suffering 8,000 more r¢asualties and losing 1,000 prisoners. 12.—Presi- $21,000 for salaries to leglslamrs;; ! | hastened to comply with the orders to surrender equipment, ; took fifteen policemen to handle the flood of yielded apparatus. stock in full. | man George Flesher with some of hundreds of radio sets given up, other West Coast communities, EVAUCATION 'Lef Me At ' ORDERS ARE | Them Japs,’ "ROUTINE” fFamiIies of Service Men Heavywe_igfihamp Pass- | Leave for Stafes-Men | es Physical, fo Become on 24-hour Duty Private Wednesday | NEW YORK, Jan, 12—Joe Louls Official orders for the evacuation passed his final physical examina- of families of men in the service tion today for induction into the from Alaska were accepted as a Morale Division of the Army and matter cf routine when they were will take the last step Wednesday issued recently, according to ad- at Camp Upton, Long Island, which vice from Anchorage, will change him to plain Private Joe | One of the prime purposes for Loyts Haxtow, | taking families away from posts is _The heavyweight champion went through the ninkty-minute test at to relieve officers and men cf fam- i 2 L . .re Fort Jay along with some 400 other Spens s while they are U gesponsibilitls - whil Y ATC electees. He weighed 220 pounds Aliens Rush fo Surrender Cameras, Radios | Louis Says A veritable deluge of cameras and short-wave sets, as well as firearms, swept into police headquarters in 211 communities throughout the Pacific Coast before the deadline of 11 p.m., December 29, as enemy aliens In San Francisco’s large Japanese colony it a In that city more 4han. 3,000 pieces of contraband were received. One alien Japanese camera déaler went out of business as he gave up his Photo shows Patroiman H. Brandt (lefi) of the bay city’s Northern police station and Patrol- Similar scenes occurred in countless NATIVES MAKEHUGE BOND BUY 'Indian Villages, Corpora- tions, Reindeer Funds Subscribe $110,645 In a demonstration of loyalty to the Government of the United 'States and to the Territory, Al- |askan natives over the - week-end |made arrangements for the largest isingle purchase of Defense Savings [Bonds in the northland to date {when, on Saturday afternoon, the Office of Indian Affairs turned over to Gov. Ernest Gruening, Ter- |ritorial Administrator, two checks Soviet troops have driven sah~l { to scme other Army post. jon 24-hour duty, it was clothed. | totaling $110,645.72 for the purchase when the general order for i ) tof Series ¥ and G bonds. The sale tion of army wives and child fi”k"d his occupation, he said: |was consumated after week-long was issued by Major-General “Fighting! And let me at them negotiations between the Defense| Japs! |©avings Staff and the Indian bur- mon B. Buckner, chief cf the Al- aska Defense Command. Two exceptions have been made in the order, under which certain families will be allowed to remain ————— ? eau, | Thirty-one native stores, seven| corporations, five reindeer revoly-| [Ing fund accounts, 61 individual ac- i counts in Alaska. } nis, the Native Arts & Crafts One exception pertains to (hose [] ) and the Nome Skin Sellers' Asso- dependents of officers or enlisted le I ~ers j"'v'l“"l are represented in the pur- men whose homges are in Alaska [} jchase : and who have resided in the Ter- | Those in Deal | ritory prior to their marriage witi : : Stores participating in the deal | such officers or enlisted mén os I n lre e Atka Native Village, Barrow | Native Store, Chanega Native Store, The -other exception o dependents who are pertains employed & | Diomede Cooperative, Elim Coop- | |erative, Buckland Eskimo Coopera- must be willing to sign an em- Tragic Inferno at Que- mi M e e on Reindeer Ca., Mekoryuk Native| greeme remain a s agreen |Store, Native Village of Nikolski, their position in the event the bec Labor Barracks | Noatak Native Store, Noorvik Co-| heads‘of their families are order>d | cperative, Nunapitchuk Trading 3 SHIPSHAW, Quebec, Jan. 12 At | Post, Point Hope Trading Co. and Transportation to the States will joo0 figteen workmen were known |Point Lay Branch store, Perry Na- |tive Village of Tetlin and Tana- houseHold goods in Alaska. Last Survivors of the construction |cross Branch, Unalakleet Native | to go will be all others. camp, which houses 2000 of the Reindeer Association, Unalakleet| It was noted by the ADC that 5000 workers on a $35,000,000 power | Native Store, Venetie Trading Co.,| these priorities are subject (o development, suggested the fire was | Wiales Village Store, Wainwright change to fit certain conditions touched off intentionally and pexuvRelndL‘cx‘ and de".'g Co., and that may arise. haps fed by gasoline. | White Mountain Native Coopera-| Officials began an immediate m-l i vestigation, ! families that do not have their in a one-story wooden barracks. (Continued on Page $ix) (Continyed on Page Two) o FRONT LINES UNDER ATTACK WIDE SECTION Air Attacks Are Also Re- newed - Internment Orders Issued (By Associated Press) | An artillery battle along the en- tire Philippine front is reported rag- | ing today. | Washington announces in a War | Department @ommunique that a | heavy artillery battle flames the | entire front in ground activities and air attacks have also been renewed. It is indicated that the Japanese are landing troops at various points on the islands. | MAON | INTERNMENT LOOMS NOW IN PHILIPPINES TOKYO, Jan. 12.—Domei reports that the Japanese Commander in the Philippines has ordered all Unit- ed Statés and British nationals to report to the Japanese Army im- mediately for internment and for “their own protection.” ‘Those falling to comply with the order December 16 will be “dealt with appropriately under the pre- sumption they are engaged in anti- Japanese activities. IRISH WON'T GIVE ALLIES BASES ASKED Eire Sympamc—tic tol.S., But People Don’t Wel- | come Thought of.6.B. (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Renewed American and British diplomatic efforts to win war bases in neutral Eire were reported to-4 day. Envisioned effects of air and sea bases in Eire are far-reaching but most immediate of all would be their potential effect upon Ger- many's already dwindling battle for the Atlantic sealanes. That Germany still holds great striking power in the Atlantic, de- spite the curtailing effects of Uni‘~ ed States naval participation in | patrolling and convoy protection, | was emphasized in a German com- {munique announcing another Brit- i“h destroyer has been sunk by sub- marine action in the Atlantic. The Hitler command said still ianother destroyer was torpedoed in the Mediterranean, but presuma- bly was only damaged. The new overtures to Eire were combined with a British press campaign which was mainly infor- mal but nevertheless official. Irish Sympathy Thus far, it was reliably report- ed, London's chances of success have improved since the United States entered the war. Eiro's Prime Minister Eamon DeValera said Irish sympathies lie with the United States but he Insisted the involvement of Eire would promote disunity among the Irish people, who believe Eire should keep i distance from Great Britain. Bases Wanted It is said American representa - tives in Dublin are putting on so much pressure their old popularity I a government project in a posi- 2 i o M e bcossiary for. the Sabofage Is Suagested in!\e Gamble Native Store, ¥ing is waning. It s no secret they are natiteal ' defense ',”"N’\ o g Qg Island Cooperative, Kivalina Rein-|looking wishfully on such poten- = g |deer and Trading Co. Kuskokwim | yial bases as Berehaven, Coby, Lough and Swilly. The Irish bases would permit longer range air protection of Brit- ish shipping and serve well in countering . any German moves be by government and commercial gead and many more were unac-|!ive Store, Reindeer Commercial 1“““““‘“ West Africa or possibly steamships. counted for today after the worst|Co. Of Sevoonga, Native Village of{Britain herself. A system of priorities in depar- fire in the history of northern:Shaktoolik, Shishmaref Native! I ture has been set up by the Alaska' Quebec. |Store, Stebbins Commercial Asso- LEAVES FOR ebec. STATES Defense Command. First to go wi A pre-dawn inferno of flames clation, Association of Teller Unit be volunteers. Second will be those trapped a sleeping construction crew | Herds, Tanunak Native Store, Na-| gyjott Robertson, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Robertson, has left for the States to visit his brother, Dun- can Robertson, in Washington, D. C. Elliott Robertson recently return- ed to Juneau after a summer’s stay in the Interior and Westward. i oatiudiasdig BUY DEFENSE STAMPS