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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VO. Lvn., no. 8892.
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JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1941
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
BITTER
NIPPON
ATTACKS
Newspapers, Also Radio
Broadcasts Keep Up
Slams at America
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS)
The newspapers of Japan today
assailed the United States and the
Japanese radio stations picked up
the cry, the keynote of the articles
and broadcasts declaring that Am
erica will “alone be responsible in
what seems almost inevitable con
flict on the Pacific."
In other words, war is in the
atmosphere between Japan and the
United States. There is however,
gloom mingled with the bristling
action for "near hostilities” almost
certain to come.
Premier Tojo's new war cabinet
met anew today to deliberate Ja
pan's final stand in negotiations
between Japan and the United
States. It is apparent here that
the conferences in Washington are
breaking down, not stalemated,
lu/wever.
Reports from Shanghai said 70
or more Japanese troop transports
have been seen moving recently in
.the direction of Hainan Island or
French Indo-China. It is estimated
the transports could carry at least
22,000 soldiers with complete cam
paign equipment.
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WASHINGTON — The British
barring of Russian Ambassador Lit
vinoff from an airplane en route
to the U. S. A. has increased Wash
ington whispers that it is about
time the British did something to
clean up their moribund diplomatic
service and cut out snubs to people
who are trying to help them.
It has long been the belief of
Americans, too polite to mention
it, that the British Embassy in
Washington can make more mis
takes to the square inch even than
Mr. Hull’s State Department—and
many of the State Department’s
mistakes come from trying so ar
dently to ape the British.
For years the British Embassy
has sat on its hilltop, well re
moved from the bustle of Washing
ton, and looked with slightly dis
dainful amusement upon hoi polloi
of Congress. An invitation to the i
British Embassy in those good old
days was considered by the dow
agers as better than an invitation
to the White House.
But those good old days, unfor
tunately both for the dowagers and
the Embassy, are gone, never to
return. However, the Embassy ap
pears completely unaware of that
iact. And its charming young menj
go their charming way, saying
sometimes too audibly: “We must I
be nice to Americans”; while the
real work of defending Britain takes j
place in the British Purchasing j
Commission, largely under the di
rection of hardboiled Canadians
and Australians.
Viscount Halifax is one of the
most delightful and genteel per
sons ever to grace the Embassy. He
tries hard. But hard as he tries,
he cannot overcome the bubbling;
Charles Peake, who minces around1
him as if his Lordship still were!
Viceroy of India with white and;
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F. D. R. Launches Seal Drive
President Roosevelt and Stevan Dohanos
President Roosevelt purchases tb'v fiijit heieh ><C Christinas seals
printed by the National Tuberculosis Association. Stevan Dohanos,
artist who drew this year's design, is at the right in this picture
taken in the White House.
Germans Sowing Mines
To Catch Vessels from
U. S. Bound to England
LEA D S—After 20 years of the
movies—in and out of them—
attractive Fay McKenzie, 21, has
graduated to the rank of leading
lady for the . screen's cowboy
singer, Gene Autry.
NICE BRUINIE!
HICKORY, N. *C., Nov. 29 —Im
mediately after Worth Whitener
had his picture snapped with a
big black bear in the Great Smokv
Mountains National Park the
bruin took a piece out of White
ner's leb. No, the photographer
didn't get the action shot.
BUY DEFENSE BONDS
LONDON. Nov. 29.—The German
Air Force is sowing "considerable”
mines along the sea lanes off the
west coast of England through
which some of the U. S. ships com
ing directly to Britain must sail.
This is according to an authorita
tive source made public today.
NAZI AIMS
SEEN NOW
IN ORIENT
German Agents Trying to
Bring Peace Between
Japanese, Chinese
MANILA. Nov. 29.—Nazi agents j
in the Par East are making a de
termined effort to bring about a 1
negotiated peace between Japan '
and China, quarters closely con- j
nected with Japan's puppet regime
in Nanking disclose, according to
advices received here.
The movement would release Jap- j
anese forces in thrusts in other di- !
rections in the Orient.
Authorized Chinese sources said
any lessening of United States aid
to China might force the Chung- i
king Government of China to ac-1
cept peace terms.
NATIVE WOMAN |
FOUND DROWNED;
Mary J. Nelson, Ketchikan native I
woman, was found drowned under 1
! the old city warehouse at the First
■ City yesterday noon, according to
a*telegram received at the U. S.
j Marshal’s office here today.
The. message said there had not
been any foul play connected with
the woman's death, the examination
| of the body revealed.
ANTI-STRIKE !
BILLS GIVEN!
OFFICIAL O.K.
—
i House and Senate Commit
tees Approve Seizing
Strikebound Plants
WASHINGTON, Nov, 29—Senate
and House committees gave ap
proval today to separate bills to
I empower the government to take
over defense plants when strikes
impede production.
The Senate judiciary committee
voted 12 to two in recommending
the bill of Senator Tom Connally, of
Texas, authorizing the taking over
of such plants and freezing any
\ open or clpsed shop status which
may exist in them.
The House labor committee ap
j proved legislation which, besides
feizure of plants would create
| machinery for voluntary arbitration
I of all labor disputes.
REDS DRIVE
NAZIS BACK
NEAR MOSCOW
Counter-Attacks on Three
Sectors of Central Front
Force Invaders to Retreat
(By Associated Press)
| Russia's armies today were re
ported to have recaptured part of
Rostov-On-Don and smashed back
the German assault forces in three
key sectors on the central front
before Moscow and killed more
than 9,000 Nazis in bloody fight
ing.
A British broadcast said Red
, counterattacks on the north flank
! of the Moscow have recaptured ten
I villages Klin and Kalinin, 50 and
■90 miles northwest of the capital.
The German radio, however, de
clared General Von Bock’s central
front armies had captured the city
of Volokolamsk, 65 miles northwest
of Moscow.
STORM FORCES
COAST GUARD
CUTTER HERE
Sheathed with ice, the Coast
| Guard cutter Nemaha reached Ju
neau at 10 o’clock last night and
, reported gale force winds had forced !
| it to abandon attempts to land at j
Point Retreat Lighthouse, where a
Ketchikan fisherman, suffering fro:n !
; frostbite, was to have been picked
j up and brought here for hospital
' ization.
The Nemaha, en route from the
Westward, sought shelter behind
Shelter Island Wednesday night
The same night Raymond Bond of
; Ketchikan ran his 30-foot gasboat
ashore and made his way three miles
! to the lighthouse. With the storm
I increasing in velocity, the cutter was
] forced to come into Juneau.
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WHAT MADE HfM MAD
| JACKSONVILLE, N. C. <AP> —
I Guv Lockamy’s automobile «as
'stolen ten minutes after he had
parked it. But what made Guy
jumping mad was that the fellow
who swiped the car drove right
past him—and he didn't recognize
his own car.
BUY DEFENSE STAMPS
Gun Carriers for Defense of the Burma Road
Clad only in breechclout, a Burmese longshoreman aids .n unloading Bren gun camera from a British
freighter at Rangoon. The defenses in this vital area have been greatly strengthened since Japan began
making threatening gestures in the South Pacific, for Burma is the gateway through which pass suDuliea
masing to keep China fighting against Nipponese aggression.
Senator Norris Wont Run Again
Senator George W. Norris
'I couldn’t do my work properly and I would be ashamed to take
my salary.” So says Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, for 28
years a member of the upper house, in announcing in Washington
he doesn’t plan to run for re-election. Norris, 80, was elected to
congress in 1603 and served in the house for 10 years before going
to the senate. He is shown in his Washington office looking at a
picture of a rye field back home in Nebraska.
Public Willing fo Pay
Defense Taxes But Not
For Any Boondoggling
BV JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON. Nov. 29 — This
talk about economy in non-defense
governmental agencies isn’t all
hooey, by any means.
In the first place, the govern-'
ment has got to make a stentorian
effort to offset the squawk that is
going up over the land when all
the new taxes start taking the
hide off John Q Public's pocket
book.
In high government circles, the
theory is that John Q. won’t
.scream over sacrifices for national
defense but that he won't stand
for any boondoggling now. If he
has to shave his last copper to
pay taxes and keep corned beef
and cabbage on the table, he’s
going to be sure no federal agency
is wasting its time with cream
puffs.
That kind of reasoning is driv
ir.g some federal officials to settle
down to some head-thumping and
although little has been done so
far. the pressure is increasing to
streamline the mechanics of gov
ernment and elijninate all the frills
that have nothing to do with na
tional defense.
For example, that trial balloon
about lengthening the government
work-week is something more than
a teaser. A number of agencies
have Hundreds of employees who
have been working overtime for
months, but these are almost en
tirely defense; and—although in
very few of them is there any
pay for overtime—most do get ac
cumulative leave for those hours
spent burning the evening oil. As
for the others, it’s still a 39-hour
week, and the quitting bell means
dropping work, as suddenly as a
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AFRICAN
FIGHTING
INTENSE
Germans Trying to Break
Out of Encirclement of
British Forces
LONDON, Nov, 29. — A bulletin
this morning from the British Mid
dle East headouarters said large
British and Axis forces are locked
in a great battle southeast of Re
zegh, 10 miles from Tobruk.
The battle began yesterday and is
raging furiously today.
The Germans are apparently des
perately trying to fight their way
out of the British encirclement.
The official communique also said
tire British and New Zealand troops
are "widening their corridor con
tact” leading to Tobruk.
TROOP
LEAVES
ARE OFF
Stronghold at Singapore Is
Taking "Normal Pre
cautionary Move" j
SINGAPORE. Nov. 29 —All trooo !
leaves at this big British Par East
ern stronghold have been cancelled
as a “normal precautionary move
in view of the Pacific situation.”
Tills announcement was made
here officially late this after- j
noon.
CARS ON STREETS
BLOCK SNOW PLOW
Juneau auto owners were warned
today by Police Chief Ken Junge to
keep their machines off streets j
throughout the city, to enable snow
plow work in clearing the residen
tial section of snow.
Junge added that all machines
in downtown areas should also be.
off the street by 11:30 p m., so the
plow can celar traffic lanes in the
heart of the Capital City.
BUY DEFENSE STAMPS
8 VESSELS
SENT DOWN
BY BRITISH
Submarines Successfully
Attack Transport Fleet
Enroute to Petsamo
LONDON, Nor. 2»-Two Brit
ish submarines have torpedoed
and sunk at least eight Axis
transports and supply ships
carrying reinforcements and
materials to the German-Fln
nish forces on the Murmansk
Front in the Arctic.
The British Admiralty stated
that two ships sunk are known
to have had many soldiers
aboard eliminating any doubt
that they were transports.
Some survivors picked up wore
German and Italian uniforms
plainly showing the transports
were Axis ships.
Five other vessels in the fleet
were also torpedoed and gun
ftred and four of them damaged
so seriously they probably sunk
later.
Apparently the ships were en
route to Petsamo, Finnish port
west of Murmansk.
Murmansk is still ice free, It
is reported, and strongly de
fended by the Russians.
FINLAND
IS ALLY
OF NAZIS
State Department Says Na
tion Cooperating with
Hitler's Forces
WASHINGTON. Nov. 29. — The
State Department said Finland's
latest actions "confirm our appre
hensions that Finland Is fully co
operating with the Hitler forces."
The Department said “every act
of the Finnish Government” since
the delivery of the Finnish Gov
ernment's note rejecting the plea
of the United States to cease hos
tilities against Russia, has made
Finland's position absolutely clear.
AUSTRALIA
SEES DANGER
IN FAR EAST
CANBERRA, Nov. 29.—Australia’s
Advisory Council is meeting in a
special session to discuss the grave
Par Eastern situation in the light
of the latest reports from Wash
ington. London and Tokyo.
Normally, Italy is one of the
principal wheat - growing nations,
the third largest producer in Eu
rope, with a crop about one-third
that of the United States.
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