The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 16, 1942, Page 1

o L " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8933. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, |‘)4’ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MLMBER AbeClATED PRESS e PRICE TEN CENTY SHOCK TROOPS STRIKE AT AMERICANS Japanese Are Checked In Singapore Battle FRESH FORCE HAS ARRIVED FRONT LINES Hungry, Ju;gR-wise Aus- fralian Fighters Thrown | Into New Offensive INVADERS SMASHED BY LAND, ALSO AII! Reserve Unils Revive‘, Hopes that Most Effect- | ive Thrust Expected | SINGAPORE, Jan ls—Rallying around a fresh force of battle-| hungry, jungle-wise Australians, the British Imperial defenders of Sin- gapore appear to have checked the Japanese in their offensive toward this great base. Two Japanese armored units are reported to have been shattered. The defense lines have been stiffened all along the shortened front in lower Malaya and with considerable aerial support, defense is most pronounced. The Air Force has smashed Jan- | anese concentrations near Tampin'| 120 miles northwest of smgapore.! Truck units are among those said | to have been smashed. | British Impernl.s are now repo - (cununued on Pll Twu) 1 Broadcastsin Japanese 9 Senator Elbert D. Thomas (D.-Utah), a former Morman missionary to Japan, works in -Washinglon on the translation of a soript for a short wave broadcast in Japanese beamed from the Pacific Coast to Japan, Before him on the desk is an English-Japanese dictionary and some reference books. DUT(H BASES AIR RA'D BUS'I‘ 51h @olumnis{s" Upse ATTACKED BY JAPBOMBERS Two EnemyFe;troyers Are Sunk Before Tarakan Captured BATAVIA, Jan. 16— Japanese bombers today attacked Medan military airbase at Sumatra again and bombed Amboina naval air base in raids near the extremities of the far flung Netherlands East Indies chain of islands. The raids were announced by Aneta, Dutch news service, which’ also reported Dutch coastal bat- teries sank two enemy destroyers during the battle of Tarakan, which ended Monday in Japanese occupation of the oil rich island off Northeast Borneo. Deadlock i Hits Work On Prices Joint Congressional Com- . mittee af Loggerheads— Compromise Awaited WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—Mem-/ bers of the joint Congressional! committee on price control today| announced they were deadlocked! over controversial provisions of price legislation and could not hope to effect a compromise be-| fore next week. However, a wartime ceiling on rents in ‘defense areas was agreed i | | i | | | | upon, the ceiling to apply to the on Pearl Harbor, emblem pins came District of Columbia and any other' designated areas where activities have resulted in in rents for housing accommoda- tions which are inconsistent with the purpose of this act.” “defense Pearl Harbor.” orl‘design threaten to result in an increase by American flags. The pin is made i ename] Capital City Moves By JACK STINNETT Death a Mystery o WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. — The early efforts at organization of civillan defense against air raids . on the nation's capital have been L 5 an awful bust—and mostly because |of the activities of “fifth column- |ists.” I put that fifth columnists in | quotation marks because there is | no evidence yet that it was an or- ganized effort inspired by any cov- cials consider it more likely that they. are cranks, pranksters, and bution to the fifth cclumn has been so serious here that officials have asked the FBI to investigate. For example, all those tuned in on the District of Columbia police radio the other night were set back on their heels to hear the words: “Air raid alarm—air raid alarm” come blaring out of the . more stunned than any one else. According to the local Office of Civilian Defense that isn’t the first time such things have happened. 'The times police, OCD, and newspaper telephone switchboards have been jammed by queries on rumors already are so numerous that I've lost count of them. These rumors act like incendiary bombs tossed into the haystack of capital humanity. They seem to come from nowhere and set whole sections on fire all at once. Some of them are so l"ldlCu]O‘h | that they could only come from! )pracucal jokers with a misguided | Alma Frances Willeford Arcadia, Calif., police are investi- | sense of humor; others are so sub- gating the mysterious death of tle that they must be considered Alma Frances Willeford, attractive (he work of persons seeking o 16-year-old Pasadena student. whose nude body was found in a motor lspmzd alarm and confusion and eourt. The girl is shown with some ' 9€l8y the effective organization of of her pets in a recent picture. |clvman defense. That, at any race, — jis how the FBI classifies them and REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR |it's on that basis that they arej Within two weeks of the attack Mmaking their investigations. out with the slogan “Remember in one copyrighted the' slogan is surrounded set up to break into the capital’s radio broadcasts, commercial as well as police, is considered a combination of in a d gold-tone pretty serious matter. metal and red, white and blue (Continued on Page Five) [tact with the enemy. Police, civil-| !ian defense and government offi-| ignorant or misinformed individu- als. But in any event, their contri-| ether. The dispatcher was probably The fact that some persons are} ‘REDS PRESS |NEW YORKPIER SWEPT BY SPECTACULAR FIRE OFFENSIVE INUKRAINE \Trap Draws—CI—oser Around | 100,000 Germans Re- maining in Crimea RUSSIAN TANKS ATTACK TAGANROG Simferopol, Capital and[ Railroad City, Threaten- i ed by Soviet Armies | | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Masses of Russian tanks today - | are reported assaulting the gates of | German-held Taganrog, 50 miles | west of Rostov, as Marshal Timo- shenkos Red armies pressed a gen- | eral gcounter-offensive throughout | | the Ukraine and tightened a trap, on 100,000 Germans in the Crimea. “Soviet forces now are battering | fiercely at the gates of Taganrog,”| a British radio broadcast said. % Russian troops were rcpquedl fighting the invaders a few miles from Simferopol, the Crlmmi‘n cap~- | !ital 40 miles north of Sebastopol on the railroad to the Russian main- land. The direction of the Soviet! | thrust against Simferopol was not! i given. | However, whether the thrust was |executed by troops driving west- | ward across the peninsula from Kerch and Feodosiay, from beach-| ‘heads at Evpatoriya on the west, coast or from Sebastopol itself, in| any case the threat against the ! main north-south rail line from Simferopol sharply endangered the |Germans’ chances of escaping. | On the basis of previous Soviet | reports, the German forces at Tag- anrog long since have been isolated by Russian columns which bypassed the city in pursuit of the main Axis armies retreating along the Sea of Azov toward Mariupol. | Soviet dispatches today chron- icled unbroken series of Russian triumphs along the entire 1,200- mile battleline from Leningrad to the Black Sea. Nazis Order Curtailment On Railroads Announcement May Indi- cate German Movement | of Troops Sunday | | LONDON, Jan. 16 — Exchange Telegraph today heard a Berlin |radio annovncement that further curtailment of railroad passenger itraffic has been ordered, starting Sunday night, because “of an in- !crease in important traffic.” | In the past, one of the indicatdrs w——— of pending important German ac- tion has been the suspensior or abbreviation of rail traffic to clear IN IDAHO‘ LONDON, Jan. 16—The Duke of | the roads for military Durpose; Connaught, 91, last surviving son of SIO(K OUOTAIIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 16 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock ‘today is 2%, American Can %, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Steel 63, Commonwealth and an iliness of several months. The Duke’s death left the Princ- ess Beatrice, 84, the last survivor of the Queen’s nine childr The title of Duke of Connaught e’ ! | | i | hoke rises from the wreckage of a midtown Hudson River pier in New York after a spectacular five- alarm fire that swept the structure. Firemen were hampered by ice and cold. PUPILS WATCH THEIR SCHOOL BURN city limits, sit quietly at Work of a bucket brigade was futile nnd as the school was just outside the cuy no organized fire fighting .-qu.pment was nvlllzble Same of the 65 pupils of the Wolcott School, just outside the Kansas City, Kas., their salvaged desks and witch the two-room frame building go up in flames. 'DUKE CONNAUGHT ~ (OSTA RICA PASSES AWAY IN s tonpon Home GETS FUNDS WAHHXN(;'ION Jan SPOKANE, Wash,, Jan. 16—Two Rica, now building Southern 9/30, Curtiss Wright 8%, ofpigers and seven enlisted men Ini 5 "er:';‘:n“;e:{‘;?;‘“c ‘? IK;" were killed in the crash of an Army i rk Central 9%, pomper near Bolse, Idaho, at 2:20 | Northern Pacific 5%, United States Lease funds to buy arms. pam. yesterday afternoon. PO s y ‘Steel 53%, Pound $4.04. The dead include Second Licut. vill ;ww e tn’"Eflrl h:la‘(n;‘ll:r.uZl-'\' ‘}‘;:,‘I’M:Il)::(:ve;llkalr:;(‘l‘goomal::a':“v;u | DOW, JONES AVERAGES Elmer Munn, junior pilot, and ;:‘l:“:;’]nn‘:‘"‘m:m"" of a Iamous g galvador and Costa Rica to help The following are today's Dow, sfi""“" Lieut. Darrell Wing, co- Scoltish Heg ? X build the vital Pan American high- |Jones averages: industrials 11125, © % s ldown 134; rails 27.99, down .16; T Almost twice as many people di> - ) ik TR | utilities 14.62, down .06. Some of the hats now being Who are not insured compared with| Washington ranks first, and LA W PR | manufactured® are 25 per cent those who are, Census figures dis- ) BUY DEFENSE STAMPS skimmed milk. close, : in apple production, FOR TROOPS The Public Works Administration NEW ATTACK “ BYNIPPONS, LUZON ISLE Japanese Mders Using Air, Land Forces in Philippine Battle LOOTING REPORTED ALONG COUNTRYSIDE Rome Radio_D—édares Jap- anese Fleet in Action, Batan Peninsula WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 — Jap- anese attack planes and dive bombers are being used incessantly | against the front line artillery posi- tions of the American and Filipino defense forces on the Island of | Luzon according to advices received by the War Department. Ground fighting with varying in- tensity also continues all along the front line. Japanese shock troops are at- tempting penetration but none of the movements are reported suc- cessful. Looting Reported The War Department also re< | ports that Gen. Douglas MacArthur is recelving advices that indicate {the Japanese are looting and deve |astating the Philippine countryside | systematically. Infiltration of re« ports also indicate that the oc- cupation forces in Manila are “dis- criminating” against the American and British whites, asserting that Japanese have always been “har- assed” in the Philippines. FLEET IN ACTION LONDON, Jan. 16—A Reuters dispatch says the Rome radio makes an announcement that the Japan- ese fleet is In action off Batan Peninsula where the American and Filipino forces are waging a stub- born fight against the Japanese troops. The Rothe broadcast also stated night landings have been effected with success but gave no further details. BERLIN'S VERSION BERLIN, Jan. 16—Part of the United States forces defending Batan Peninsula in the Philippine Islands have apparently fled to the Gibraltar like Corregidor Island in Manila Bay, the German radio asserted this afternoon. Since the broadcast did not nn- nounce the authority for the report, presumably it emanated from un- official Japanese sources. The broadcast said the rear guards are ‘“left behind in dis- | guise, supposedly to check the Jap- anese advances but the occupation |of the Batan peninsula is proceed- ing swiftly. FIVE ENEMY VESSELS ARE SENT DOWN Three Japafi;e Transporis | and Two Large Cargo Boats Sunk by Navy WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 — The | Asiatic Fleet has sunk three enemy transports and two large Japanese 16 — Costa cargo vessels in the Far East. its first urmy‘ today was allotted $55,000 in und- | nounced by the Navy Department The sinkings were officially an- |this afternoon. The sinkings have brought to a total of 24 the number of Japanese warships and noncombatant vessels the United States Navy and Marine forces sent down since the Battle of the Pacific started. The Navy gave no names nor | identifications of the five addi- New York second, among the states| tional Japanese ships sent to the | bottom,