The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL /OL. LVIIL, VIIL, NO. 8935. __“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, w4z MI-JVIBLR ASSOClATED PRFbS PRICE TEN CENTS BATTLE FOR SINGAPORE NOW RAGING Submarines Are Active On _A tlantic Coast $.0. TANKER TORPEODED | BY U-BOAT Thirteen Su?fihrs of 35- man Crew Reported Landed, Norfolk (RAFT UNARMED BUT ALL DETAILS WITHHELD Panamaniafireighier Is| Sent Down Off Canadian Coast-7 Survivors Dead (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Battle of the Atlantic phase of the European war reached | out toward the shores of the Unit- ed States over the weekend in the | U-boat sinking of the Standard ] Oil tanker Allan Jackson, the third | such victim in less than one week. Thirteen survivors of the 6,500~ ton vessel's 35-man crew were land- | ed at Norfolk, Va. yesterday. of them were hospital cases and the others were uninjured. The rescue vessel also brought in four bodies. The public relations office of the Fifth Naval District at Norfolk an- nounced the Allan Jackson was ern- route to New York unarmed, but further details were withheld for reasons of security. The first two ships in the r- !Connnued on-Page Thxee) Cn'. RIO DE JANEIRO — The Pan American Conference here is the first in history ever held during a major war. It also is going to be the toughest and the most import- ant. Pan American conferences were postponed during the first World ‘War, also during the depressionl The diplomats figured that they! might be embarrassed by too many complicated problems. So they side- stepped them, and continued their safe and insipid Pan American pol- jcy of distributing stereopticon slides of the Andes to women's clubs and sending red and green parrots| to adorn the patio of the Pan/ American Union in Washington. This was about as far as anyone wanted to go with Pan American- ism. But this time, the Pan American| nations have jumped into the mid- dle of a question never faced before —namely, is the Western Hemis- phere going to stick together as bonafide Good Neighbors against Hitler and Hirohito? The man will have a great deal of responsibility for the success of this conference is Undersecretsry} Sumner Welles, a straight-talking hombre who has lived with and ’’ bled for Latin Americans ever since he was out of college. But even more responsible is the man who is host at this conference, Foreign Minister Aranha of Brazil, a mix- ture of toughness, charm, and gra- ciousness, who is as hard a rooter for U. 8. A. friendship as anyone below the Rio Grande. | Private William Anson (above), U S. Sub Sinks 3 Enemy Ships i OUTWITTED b 3 i 5 Six | § of Selinas, Calif., American soldiers, members of a crack tank company who escaped encirclement by Japanese invaders in southern Luzon, Philippine Islands. Three of the men “played dead” for 28 hours, Hand-fo-Hand Battle Rages At Mozhaisk Best Germ;n—Troops Re- porfed Locked in Strug- gle with Russians MOSCOW, Jan. sian soldiers and Nazi troops, com- prising “the cream of the Ge man forces” are fighting a desper ate hand-to-hand battle for blazing city of Mozhaisk, the Rus- sian army newspaper Red Star de- clared today, as Russia’s great winter tum along the entire front from the Arctic to the Black Sea. Red Star also reported stubborn street fighting is taking place in another town on the Moscow sec- tor. The name of the town was not given. . Britishers Driven Ouf 0f Seaport " Superior fimv Forces Bring Withdrawal from Southern Enemy City RANGOON, Jan. 19 southern Burma port just across . | Tokyo Bay and also that Admiral ' | Thomas C. Hart has assumed con- . number was one of five ' | ToHard Labor 19—Grim Rus-| the | offensive gained momen-| British | forces have withdrawn from Tavoy,' in Bay of Tokyo WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 — The Navy, late Saturday, announced that a submarine sunk three enemy merchant ships at the mouth of trol of the Allied Naval Forces in the Far Eastern waters. The sinking of the three mer- chant ships right in Japan’s front yard brings to a total of 29 the of enemy craft destroyed in the Pacific. PRESIDENT REQUESTS 28 BILLION Army, Navy—,F_Bl and Infer- American Highway Ap- propriations Asked WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—Presi- dent Roosévelt today asked Con- igrebs for $28,500,000,000 in supple-| imental appropriations and contract |authorimunns for 1942-43 fiscal {years for the War Department, |Navy Department and two other defense activities including the FBI. | It was estimated the supple- mental appropriation needed.by the Navy in 1942 fiscal year will be $8,768,000,000. Roosevelt also asked $7,193,000,000 net additional for the Navy program. The Army asked for an emer- gency appropriation totaling $12.- 525,000,000 for the 1942 fiscal year. Requested for the Inter-American Highway was $7,000,000 and $5.-| 950,000 for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Marines Put ! As Prisoners CHUNGKING, Jan. 19—Chinese 'reports today said that United' )Smtes Marines captured by the Japanese in Peiping have been put| Ito hard labor in an internment camp. All foreign and Chinese mem-| Ibers of the staff of the Rocke- feller-endowed Peiping Union Med- ical College are said to have been| forced to continue their work un-| der Japanese control. ——————— BIG BLAZE INTACOMA TACOMA, Wash Jan. 19 — A’ three-hour early morning fire de- stroyed the huge dryer plant of | Wheeler-Osgood mill, forcing a shutdown of the big industry. | Fire Chief Emory Whitaker said |the loss is as large as the $600,000 |fire seven years ago. | STOCK QUOTATIONS i ! I | | I NEW YORK, Jan, 19'— Closiag They are being supported by a 10t ifrom Japanese-occupied Thailand duotation of Alaska Juneau mine of other able foreign ministers, ardently for action against the Axis—especially those representing the Caribbean countries and Cen- tral American. AFTERMATH OF PEARL HARBOR But just the same, the job of getting a united front even against the very real threat of invasion lsf not going to be easy. Reason for a communique announced today. ‘The communique said the with- drawal was made in the face of superior forces but put Burma's de- fenders in a more favorable posi- tion. — e —— The Census Bureau reports that 247 sets of triplets and three sets | of quadruplets were born in the United States during 1940. - e - (Coptinued on Page Four) BUY DEFENSE STAMPS stock today is 2%, American Can 63%, Anaconda 28, Bethlehem Steel 64'%, Commonwealth and Southern 9/30, Curtiss Wright, 8! Interna-' tional Harvester 50%, Kennecott 35%, New York Central 9%, North-| 'ern Pacific 6', United States Steel: 53%, Pound $4.04. ‘ DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 110.81. |rails 2244, utilities 14.50, | NAZIS HINT ‘rrom time to time since the Rus-| | strategic position of Malta, | against NEW DRIVE IN MAKING Axis Nations Sign Military Convention Allocating Troop Distribution TURKEY MAY BE ATTACKED NEXT Attention Iurns on Malta- Enemy Assault May Cen- fer on British Bastion (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hints and actual circumstantial evidence that Hitler is plotting #® new move, which have appeared sian offensive was thrown into re=| verse, were given an official Axis stamp today, although what Hitler has in mind is still obscure. | The German radio declared that| ™ | | the military convention signed yes- terday by Genmany, Italy and Ja- pan provided for “proper and ap- | propriate distribution of the mili- | tary forces in preparation for op-l erations of great striking pomr‘ which will be outstanding in sig-! nificance.” { Speculation now, as before, naturally turns to the Mediterran- | ean zone, Hitler's naval chieftai Admiral Raeder, and Mussolini’s | chief of naval staff, Admiral Ric- | cardi talked high strategy at a| Bavarian rendezvous last week. | Mediterranean Move A big Axis move in the Medi- terranean might be against Turkey with the idea of winning control jof the entire eastern Mediterran- ean zone, including the Suez Can- al, or through Spain with the aim of reducing Gibraltar or carrying the war to West Africa, or finally use the indicated objective of turn- ing the British offensive in Libya. In all these possibilities, the the little British island just south of Italy and Sicily, figures promin-| ently, A recently stepped-up aerial pounding offensive by the Axis Malta underscored the likelihood that an offensive there, perhaps in the style of the Battle of Crete, stands high on the Axis order of huslness ‘Nazl Field Chief Dies BERLIN, Jan. 18It is an- nounced officially that Fleld Mar- Ish.al Gen. Walter von Reichenau, 57, Director of the German army’s drive in Northern France, has died as the result of “apoplexy.” At the start of the present war he was Colonel General command- ling the German army on the southern front in Polnnd Hollywood And War ¢ What’s Hollywood been do- ing about the war? And what has the war done to Hollywood? Well, things haven’t been the same in Glamourland since the Pear] Harbor fracas. Rob- bin Coons, AP Feature Ser- vice writer, tells what changes have been made, what may happen to your pet film star, in a series of four articles on War Comes To Hollywood. They start today in The Empire. | | i Workmen tackle the job of clearing wreckage in a bomb-damaged street in Singapore, prime objective of the Japanese thrust into Mllay This view, cabled to New York from London, h from a British news reel. | TEST FIGHT PROGRESSES ONMALAYA Jungle lin;Tieing Pene- trated by Forces of In- vading Japanese BRITISH ADMIT 15-MILE RHREAT Nipponese Ihrusi Must Be Stopped at Johare Strait or Base Will Be Lost (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) ‘With the Japanese still advanc- |ing in Malaya's steaming jungle ‘land, which the British looked upon . | as a sort of Maginot Line protecting ! Singapore but which has proven to be another outworn defensive con- cept, the Battle of Singapore has | developed purely into test fighting of men and their weapons. Some T of the fiervest hand to hand com- Where Aussies Lead Atfack on Japs ROADS 7= RAILROADS ~™ Singapore reports said Australian troops peuring north (arrow 1) through Johore from the direction of Singapore (3) had struck hard at Japanese forces in eastern Negri Sembilan Province of Malaya, and that British Imperial troops, following the Aussies’ success, had inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese in an The dotted line shows positions the Japs claimed they held in western Atack (arrow 2) farther west. _ Malaya. FOUR ENEMY Ameman Moforists Now Know that a War Is On; SHIPS SUNK, | ~ JAPS (lAIM‘ LONDON, Jan. 19—Reuters, Brit- ish news agency, today heard a| Tokyo broadcast reporting a Jap-| anese Imperial claim that Japanese | naval aircraft yesterday scored direct hits on “four enemy ships | totaling 5,500 tons” off the Philip- pine island of Cebu ’ SSTHBRITISH DESTROYER SUNK LONDON, Jan. 19—The Admir- alty today announced the 900-ton PBritish destroyer Vimiera has been sunk, The Vimiera is the 58th destroy- "er ‘Britain has reported lost since the war began. e BUY DEFENSE BONDS horse in 20 yeal Average Citizen Gels Hit red| (This is the first of two ar- ticles on what World War II means to the American motor- ist.) By JACK STINNETT 19. are com- WASHINGTON, Jan “horse and buggy days” ing back. For the first time since the ond World War began, Mr. Average American is g to get a jolt | where it hurts—in the neck that | bends over tfie steering wheel If “the durBtion” lasts as long as some experts (including Mr Winston Churchill, who says we'il be ready to take the initiative in 1943) predict, or traffic will dwindle to a trickle and that story labout the man who hadn't seen a — The | will be as out- dated as a bird cage bustle, | bat of the present war is scheduled to take place, if not already in progress, especially along the nar- rowing fluid line of defense in Ja- hore State and well within 100 miiles of the pivotal naval base the Brit ish call the Gibraltar of the Ors e fent. o British lotm‘ The' British acknowledge & 15« ' ,mile retreat in the central sector and further infiltration of Japanese along the western coast, tacitly admitting the offensive is between 190 to 95 miles of Singapore. The Japanese claim they have made a thrust down the west coast to within 25 miles of their goal. No one seems to know when and where the British Imperials must make their final stand. To Halt Threat If the Japanese thrust is halted | it must be short of Johnre Strait | which, in the final analysis shields Singapore Island and its invaluable naval installations. Whoever holds Singapore may well control the course of war in the southwest Pacific. | Official silence of the Dutch land action indicates the Japan- ese offensive has gained some foot- holds in the Netherlands East ndies but the Dutch are apparent- ly just marking time pending the outcome of the Battle for Singa- pore. However the Dutch have made the report that Japanese have made air raids on the Borneo oil port of Balik, southern tip of Sum- atra, JAP PATROLS ARE ACTIVE, BATANFRONT MacArlhur’s—Fortes Shoot Down Three Dive Bombers WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—Japan- {flannel underwear and a two-rat ese patrols have been active against hair-do. the American and Filipino forces in the Philippines for the past 24 hours but the results are indecisive There is an average of one au-'the War Department reports. tomobile t every ramily in United States. According to the the Ground operations of a desultory nature have only been reported since the American forces smashed American Automobile Association, the heavy Japanese attack, the War three-fourths of all the driving home, is the driving Department communique states. |done in these 30-odd million vehi- i cles is necessary to maintenance of fined to frequent office or factory. drastically curtailed--' Arthur’s sharp shooters are said Enemy activities have been con- reconnaissance If flights although Gen. Douglas Mac- and it's going to be unless present to have brought down three dive orders are rescinded—that that the United States means bombers on Saturday in charges on in for one Batan Peninsula. of the greatest domestic upheavals There is nothing to the report it has known. Modern living is geared to the rapid transportation of the (Continued on Page Three) from Tok$o that the defenders are |or have been retreating in the |direction of Manila Bay. ——— P BUY DEFENSE STAMPS