The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —gp— VoLtV NO.O932. . LVIIL, NO. 8932. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY ]/\NUARY 15 1942 MEMBER | Asfimfl) PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BIG JAPANESE LINER IS SUNK BY U.5. SUB 100,000 NAZI TROOPS FACE SOVIET TRAP Greatest Battle of War? Raging as Nazis Defend - Lines at Mozhaisk SEVEN-MILE STRIP LEFT FOR ESCAPE| Russia nsflempting to Close Napoleonic Route in Pincers Movement (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) 1 Russian shock troops ‘oday were | reported smashing a divect frontal assault against 100,000 Germans massed at Mozhaisk in what ap-, peared to be one of the greatest and perhaps most decisive bames of the war. Mozhaisk is the keystone of I.he dwindling Germa defense corridor on the Napoleonic road hetween Moscow and Smolensk. The British radio said a savage battle is raging at the gates of Mozhaisk, where “one key position has changed hands several times.” Red forces, slowly closing a giant trap around Mozhaisk, - officially were reported to have recaptured the town of Meeyn, 35 nules south- west. This meant the Nazi troops now have only a seven-mile wide route on which to escaps from Mozhaisk. Soviet troops are press- — ing down from Volokolamnsk in the north and Medyn in the south. Vol- okolamsk is 35 miles from Mozhai: A bulletin. from Hitler's com- | mander tersely noting -“defense battles” on the Moscow und Lenin- grad fronts, acknowledged the Rus- sians are making a new drive along the Sea of Azov toward Taganrog, 40 miles west of Rostiv. PR Bl 5T e The forthcoming garlic crop of | Mexico is expected to be 25 per-| cent greater than last year. READY AND WAITIN they want me to,” says Mrs, sootter of Bucks county, Pennsy after surorise Japanese attacl Honeymooning WASHINGTON — The American public already has had a tough blow in regard to the use of auto-| mobile tires.* But the inside figures | tougher in the future. The production of synthetic rub- ber for tires, begun by Germany several years before the war, in| this country now totals only be-| tween 7865 and 10000 tons !or; an entire year. | Moreover, the new synthetic rub- |y and Mrs, Pasquale De Cicco are | her factories, financed hy the Re-|shown as they stopped at El Paso, construction Finance Corporation, | Tex., on their honeymoon. She is will not get into production until the former Gloria Vanderbilt, 17- | April, at the earliest, and most of year-old heiress to a $4,000,000 for- them not until August. And when|tune. De Cicco’s late father was finished, their total production will known in New York as the Arti- be only 48,000 to 50000 tons yearly,, Cchoke King. Thus, a year from today, we G AR may possibly have a total of 60,000 Japanese Will Adopt Nazi Tadics on Filipinos Who Violate Established Codes ~ | | | | Island to the mainland. | Jahore State, | singapore, Domei, Jap news agency, | back on B| mnn 's Asiatic Glhmlmr v G I can carry a gun any time Paul Titus, 77-year-old air raid Ivania, who signed up the day k c¢n Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. WASHINGTON, Jap. 15 — The War Departiment has fssued a state- | ment that the Japanese have warned Filipinos that hursh treat- ments are up-coming for various breaches and said that one is the | death pumlny for inuring anmmv seldiers or Japanese llmm Ancther penalty is that if the Japanese authorities are unable to find an offender, they will hold 10 prominent hostages ffom the neigh- borhood in which an injury has been received. It is also announced that Fili- pinos ould understand our real intentions and should woik together with us to maintain public peace and order.” The War Department also says the statement by the Japanese | authorities says the death penalty | will also be inflicted foi concealing ' requisitioned articles and circulat- ing rumors that disturb the peace and for violation of military (\ldth | e ALIENS IN 8 WEST STATES * GIVEN ORDER | WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 — At- OFFENSIVE | Submarine aflérafes With- UNDER WAY, JAPS (LAIM Domei Reb?rls 31,000 British Troops Battling in Last-Ditch Stand (By Associated Press) An official Tokyo broadcast today asserted British authorities at Sing- apore have begun to mine the cause- way and bridge connecting Singapore As Japan’s invasion armies drove through rain whipped jungles in 100 miles north of said the Nipponese forces “now are conducting a terrific offensive against 31,000 British troops guard- ing the last defense in Malaya.” Domei previously declared 30, O(m' British were trapped in the “green hell” wilderness north of Singapore. | The agency also quoted mreign} reports saying the British forces de= | fending the Pownall line, stretching for 125 miles across the extreme lower peninsula, are rushing up re- inforcements from Singapore “in a last desperate defense before falling TANKERIS SENTDOWN, | EAST COAST in 110 Miles of Harbor of New York City NEW YORK, Jan. 15—The Third‘ Naval District announces that the Panamanian tanker Ncrness has been torpedoed by a suomarine 60 miles south of Montauk Point, Long Island, and 110 miles due east of | New York Harbor The announcemeni further says| a naval rescue craft was dispatched to the scene and later 14 survivors were landed at Newport, Rhode Island, but are not allowed to talk. | The Navy announcement did not| state whether the tanker, which, was first spotted by patrol pl.mps\ finally snnk BBITISHMOP UP HOLDOUT AXIS POSTS erial, Artillery Bombard- ment Covers Infaniry Border Advance CAIRQ, Jan. 15—British infan- try moved forward today to new positions against Axis holdout fore-| es at Halfaya in the border region of Egypt facing Libya under cover of a destructive aerial and artillery bombardment, the British an- cruiser Prinz Evgen (C). A By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 — The first days of the war, saw record after record fall in the District of {Columbia marriage license bureau. 'One day, 119 licenses were taken out, 31 more than ever before re- tons of synthetic rubber—if we are lucky; if the plants are finished RAIDERS IN torney General Francis Biddle to- nounced. corded. The one that attracted most attention was that of Baron ahead of schedule; and if they pro- duce a little faster than is ex- | pected. Compare this 60,000 tons to the| 720000 tons of rubber consumed | by the United States during the past year, and you get some idea why Leon Henderson was S0 abrum| FORT ATTACK fhiennte: SHOT DOWN down on tire consumptnn. | Philippine Fortifications Withstand Assault by Large Bombers WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. 2 | War Department, in an official com- ta e inn!::;? 12; ‘l’;‘z"“" 0&?‘&"‘& oft;o‘mumcanon announced the defend- tons; DuPont ( !‘ te fi ‘ers of the Philippine fortifications r private financing),|aye shot down two large Japanese | late 1942, 10,000 tons. | In addition, the anfounced | bombers and hit others when nine d RFC ced | planes made an attack on Corregidor that plans capable of producing ].slnnd in Manila Bay. 80,000 more tons would be spomored (Continued on Page Four) RUBBER FACTS Here are the new synthetic plants under construction and their sched- | ule of completion: 1 Goodyear, April-May, 10,000 tons; | Goodrich, late August, 10,000 tons; Firestone, August, 10,000 tons; U. S. Rubber, August, 10,000 tons; J day ordered all German, Italian Reduction of the German-Italian y;jp prjeherr von Gienanth to rnhorst War Causes Increase in Mairiages; AuloLicense Plaies Are Being Saved the runs still were goinz strong. Listening attentively to an air raid warden cutlining in- structions at a meeting in a schoolhouse on Kalorama Road the other night were Justice of the United and Mrs. Harlan Fiske S At the was Mrs, raid same air 5 Wiuson, who Woodrow Blasled OuI ol Sky al Pearl Harbor U. 8. Navy seamen examine the wreckage of a Japanese torpedo plane shot down at Pearl Harbor during the Japs' a\lrprlw rald on that big naval base. (omri.u U. S. Navy phetograph). RAF DAYLIGHT RAID ON BREST This photcxmph made from a British w.:.rplane. is deseribed as a daylight raid by heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force ¢n the German naval base at Brest in occupicd France. area while clouds of smoke roll from the Nazi battleships S Between the latter two are two four- Pllxmed Halifax bombers, | | MacARTHUR, 17,000-TON VESSEL IS SENT DOWN Navy Ma kes Announce- | ment-Indicates May Be Converted Carrier SIMILAR SHIPS HAVE VISITED COAST PORTS Menace of fil:my Submar- ines on East Coast Re- mains "' Substantial” WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. — The Navy Department announced this afternoon that a 17,000-ton Japanese merchant liner has been sunk by an American submarine, The Japanese liner sent down is of the fast Yawata class, owned by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha lines and probably was a converitable aircraft carrier. No other detalls of the sinking as to location or number of planes car= ried, is supplied by the Navy spokes- man, The authority, however, sald the vessel was one of the three Yawata class ships that have been frequent visitors to West Coast ports and recently converted into aircraft carriers. The Navy statement also said the “menace of enemy submarines off the East Coast of the United States remains gubstantial.” |Army Starls Expansion fo Double Unifs | Further Increases Call for | Many More Air, Motor- | ized, Ground Troops ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 15— Secre- tary of War Henry L. Stimson an- nounced today at o conference with newsmen that the Army has started expanding approximately to 3,600~ 000 officers and men, more than doubling the present strength of ithe ground and air forces. Secretary Stimson said the in- |crease has been authorized by the | President for this year and the first of three new divisions will be ______ |organized by March 15 and looking 'to further increases shortly after. Secretary Stimson did mnot: dis- clnse the size of next year's camp ‘(ncfllueu He did say the extension f the Army forces calls for more Lhan double the number of air com- |bat units and creation of 32 motor- vlzed or triangular divisions, in ad- dition to 27 conventional ground troop divisions. A proportionate increase in anti- aircraft, engineers and similar special units for the formation of {50 or more military police battalions |to replace troops now guarding crit- |ical facilities in the continental {United States and a large increase |in the number of men in training | centers will provide replacement of iall organized units' personnel “for a‘dditional units to be created in TOKYO, Jan. 15. — ‘'he Japanese the spring of 1943.” Bomb bursts dot the target (A) and Gneiseau (B) and the FORCES ARE HOLDING OUT Japanese Claim Forty Cur- iss Combat Planes Deslroyed Imperial Headquarters claims thn'.\ As a part of the vast expansion, 40 Curtiss combat planes were de- | | Stimson said, 75,000 officers will be ;and Japanese aliens in eight west- porder positions, a thorn in tie! in the White House in stroyed by Japanese aerial attacks ! commissioned — The! ates to apply for special iden- ion certificates between Feb- 2 and P\*hruury 1 CLOCKS TO SOON BE SHOVED AHEAD, " DAYLIGHT SAVING WASHINGTON, Jan, 15— Con- gressional action has been com-| Ipleted on the House legislation for universal daylight saving’time, the edvancing of all clocks one hour. The measure will be effective 20 days after the President signs the legislation. 4 .- | A campaign 1s being conducted | lin the Paja district of Brazil to' 1 ruary Only minor damage was done to purchase planes for civilian pilot Jones averages: the fortress and casualties were few. | ‘trai ining. 4 | t |wed Austrian Baroness Karin von flank of the British offensive, now | Veitinghoff-Riesch. more than 300 miles inside Libya.| Maryland started it around here would release sizeable British (or('(-.s‘d“d the District and olher states, for the drive westward from Flu“-wu is predicted, won't he far be- heila to Tripoli. hind—using those 1941 automobile o R TR plates from now on until there no longer is any need fo conserve Maryland issued little NEW YORK, Jan. 15. — Closing| " 'P% Sing: 1942 quotation of Alaska Juneau mine! stock today is 2%, American Can' The war has caused 2l sorts of %, Anaconda 28, Bethlehem Stecl little panics. The District 64% , -Commonwealth and Sou"m“‘dufenw director, Col. Lemuel Bolles 9/30, Curtiss Wright 8% lnlernu-‘had Lo jump into the ml:idle of two AL Tincvibater | A8l 'Kc"mm“ the other day. Capitalites had start- 36%, New York Ct‘nln;i 9% North-| od runs on black cloth for use in fod i blackouts, and adhesive tape o ern Pacific 57, United States Steel jnterlace house and shop windows | 5414, Pound $4.04. to prevent breakage in air raids, IThe director made appeals to stop DOW, JONES AVERAGES {buying, saying both products were The following -are today’s Dow, needed badly “for defense.” That industrials 11259, must have been what Washington- ‘rails 28.15, utilities 14.68. lock-over | civilian | 1imu; thought, too. At last report, presided another war when death from the sky on cities far behind the lines was only something the ppelin boys dreamed up to scare the folk at home, Comment at the National Pre {club: “Well, times do change. T've only been here a few years but I |can remember when of the | most soughtafter invitaticns around here were to those bierabends at Kurt Sell's (German newspaper- | man) where every one sat around |and drank beer and kummel and sang ‘Schnitzelbank’; and to Kato's (Japanese correspondent) where you got real suki yaki” Local police, Better Bu Bureau and defense officials are scampering all over trying to catech the racketeers who are picking up dollars in s0me at town (Continued on >Png..- Five) yesterday at “Denarpian airfield” on | the west part of Luzon Island. This may be “Dinalupian,” 12 miles northeast of Olongapo, where Jthe Batan Peninsula widens into the Luzon mainland. This indicates that the Mac- rthur forces have not been dis- ndged from the defense lines guard- | ing virtually the entire peninsula. | e —— INSTRUCTORS OF FIRST AID MEET TONIGHT AT 7:30 Tonight there mll be a meeting of Red Cross first aid instructors in the Cousicil Chambers of the City Hall at 7:30 o'clock for the purpose | of discussing and making plans for defense work in connection with the L various first aid posts being estab- | lished throughout the city. l in special officer candidate schools this year. Requirements for Air Force pilots, bembardiers and navigators' have been lowered from 20 to 18 years and married men also may train as fliers. Intelligence tests have been substituted for educational reéquire- | ments. ?They Should Know Their Way Around FRENCH LICK Ind. Jan. 15— the caddies at French Lick Springs golf course, that fellow who said life begins at 40 was a piker. Most of them are over 50 and the oldest, Bob Jennings, who has a zrandmn caddying ‘in Louisville, is - BUY DEFENSE BONDS