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VOL. 44. No. 3. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 1942. p*‘ c°py 15*
US Bombers Smash Jap Base Davao
Dutch East Indies Next Goal of Japanese Invasion
1 Tokyo Communique Indicates That
Little Progress Is Made Against
MacArthur’s Forces on Batan Pen.
UNDATED, Jan. 6 <VP> — Im
perial Tokyo headquarters let
slip what seemed an admission
that Japanese treops mad? little
' progress in attempting to d-ive
, MacArthur’s forces back on Bat
an Peninsula.
More good news came with the
reported arrival of American
aeral reinforcements in the Phil
ippines.
(let Seven Jap Planes
U. S. anti-aircraft gunners
were officially reported to haw,
- hit at least seven T panose
planes during a f.;ur-hcur atrial
assault yesterday on C rregidor
island fortress and Marivales.
The latter lies on the southern
tip of Batan Peninsula nerr Cor
regidor, the entrance to Mar.:la
Bay.
A War Department commun
ique said 50 Japanese p anes
took part in the attacks but “mat
erial damage and casualties were
light.” The W’ar Department add
- ed “While ground activity is con
siderably less than on the pre
vious day. enemy pressure is con
tinuing on all the American and
Philippine outposts.”
Tokyo itse f claimed no fresh i
ga ns. "Japanese military air
craft are cootierating with land
forces on Batan Peninsula, an 1
bombed enemv concentrations a‘ ■
i
Rimai, Balanga and Subic," th
Tokyo communique said. The
key to the Japanese acknowledge!
k ment lay in reference to Subic, j
which lies in Zambales Province.;
6 miles north of the Batan Prov-1
ince border, at the head of Subic
Bay.
MacArthur Still Holding Subic
With MacArthur’s troops still;
holding Subic, it appeared to fol
low that the Japanese iailed to
achieve any deep thrust in Batan
since their major advance to out
flunk Sub e’s def. nders. presum
ably to force them to withdraw
: ujthward in. Brtan.
British Admit Yielding in Malay
On the Malayan front, grave
new reverses marked the British
stand against the Japanese inva
-ion columns driving on Singa
pore. The British admitted that
her hard pressed troops yielded
further ground at b th ends of
t, under J t ■ at-f
racks by lard and sea. On the
eastern side of the Peninsu’a, a
cm: mun'que said, the British
were forced to retreat to Musn
tan, only 190 miles north of
Sing-tpcvo, while on the west
coast. Bid' sh troops made a sec
ond withdrawal in three days, to
meet a threat to their left flank.
T ondon mil:.ary quarters said
the Japanese capture of Kuan
an airdrome will permit the in
vaders to send fighter escorts
with their bombers for more ef
fective raids on Singapore itself.
British Forced
Withdraw For 3d
Successive Day
SINGAPORE, Jan. 7 OP) —
Japanese forces, fighting their
way down the Malayan Penin
sula. inched closer to Singapore
as the British acknowledged on
‘he third successive day that
their forces completed a with
drawal southward under the
steady battering of the invaders.
Buy them Pv th*- oundle. Use
them for startmc fires For Stale
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MAIN BRITISH OFFENSIVE IN LIBYA
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Arrows mark major British drives in the Libyan offensive, high
lighted by the reported juncture of troops from Tobuk with the
main dive near Rezegh, which was said to have been captured
♦ by New Zealand troops moving in from Gambut. Shaded wedge
^ jjndicates Axis thrust across the border into Egypt and Sidi
Omar. Black arrow from Giarabus is British drive across desert.
FDR Promises
War Will End
!n \ ictory for U. S.
WASHINGTON, Jan. C </P> —
Pres:dent Roosevelt promised
i Congress and the nation that the
I war will end in victory and out
lined tremendous production
plans embracing the output of
125.09D planes. 75.000 tanks,
! 35,000 anti-aircraft guns and
10 090.0 0 tons of shipping for
1943. For 1942, he d-clared, “We
: will n: luce 60,000 planes, 10,
! 000 more than the goal s t a year
and ? ha f ago"; 45.0'>0 tanks,
90 000 anti-aircraft guns, and
3,000.909 gross tons of merchant
vessels.
War Program of, 56 Billion
In a grimly worded message
j del’vered in person to the joint
session of the Senate and House.
Roosevelt declared the task is
: hard f such an unprecedented
;hort- time. He spoke of the sac
rifices to com" and said it will
app nr in his budget message to
rn -row that “our war program
for tite coming fiscal year is close
j to $56,999,000,000, or in other
i words more than one half the es
i tima ed annual income.” He as
serted "This means taxes, bonds,
I bonds, and taxes, and means cut
! ting luxuries and other non-es
1 sentials. In a word it means an
alls-out war by the individual
effort, the family effort, of a unit
ed country.”
American Reverses At the Outset
The President mentioned the
• American reverses at the outset
of the conflict but declared “Pow
erful offensive actions must and
wi 1 be taken at the proper time"
! and a consolidation of a united
' nat on’s total war effort against
the common enemies is being
1 achieved. The President explain
ed that was the purpose of the
j conferences held for the past two
! weeks here, in Moscow and in
i Chungking, with the primary ob
jective, a declaration of solidar
ity which was signed in Washing
ton ai the start of the New Year
I with 26 nations united against
the Axis forces. The President
j charged sternly that the “mili
: tarists of Berlin and Tokyo start
| ed this war but the massed and
! angered forces of common human
| ity wi 1 finish it.”
.
tuy Defense Bonds and Stamps,
Russsian Sea-Borne Armies Are
Reported Tightening Trap Around
German Armies At Sevastopol
UNDATED, Jan. 7 <Jf) — Sea-1
borne Russian troops, striking
back in the Crimea at many j
points, were reported tightening
: a trap around Hitler’s siege arm
es at Sevastopol, while on the
: central front, retreating Nazi
forces were said to have left
10,000 dead on the battlefield an
i yielded 572 towns in five days,
i At the same time the Germans
I acknowledged that a heavy So
viet push is being made in the
Donets River valley in the Uk
raine against the industrial city
I of Kharkov, Russia’s Pittsburgh.
A bulletin from Hitler’s field
| headquarters asserted that Rus
sian troops which landed in
I barges at Yevpatroyia on the
west Crimean coast. 40 miles
north of Sevastopol, were wiped
out and there was “brisk house
to-house fightng.” Countering the
German version, a London broad
cast reported that the Russians
established a beachhead and
“heavy fighting is going on along
the shore.” At Yevpatroyia, Ger
man forces are moving north to
ward Sevastopol to combat a
threat to their rear.
The German command also as
sorted that Rumanian soldiers
smashed a small Soviet landing
party southwest of Feodosiya in
central Crimea and declared that
Nazi dive bombers effectively at
tacked other Russian troops land
ing on the Peninsula.
Army Bombers Successfully Raid
Davao, Which Japs Use As Base
to Attack the Dutch East Indies
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 UP) —
The War Department said the
defenders of the Philippines are
withstanding continuous bomb
ing and machine gunning on the
tight front east of Manila and the
fortifications of Corregidor Island
and the defenses on nearby Bat
on Peninsula were bombed again
for several hours yesterday. The
War Department said the extent
of the damage and casualties had
not yet been determined. At least
45 bombes rained explosives on
the fortifications and several hits
on the invader's planes were re
ceded on the entire front. With
the American and Philippine de
fend rs drawing their forces to
gether on the Peninsula and west
4 Manila, there is heavy fight
ing and increasing pressure, but
.M ('Arthur's soldiers are making
a va iant resistance, and a sys
tematic allied bombing campaign
is believed imminent. to balk
Japan's attempt to make the Phil
ip.no port of Davao a major base
for a naval thrust at the Nether
land East Indies. Davao's role in
the enemy’s grand strategy was
clarified arid amplified in a re
port of a successful raid by U.
S. Army bombers, carried out
against Japanese naval units
there Monday. The initial War
Department communique credit
ec! the bombers with sinking one
destroyer, scoring three direct
hits on a battleship, and inflict
ing damage to other vessels. A
.supplementary report indicated
that the bombers had taken an
even heavier toll. It was simul
taneously disclosed that import
ant Japanese naval strength is
concentrated at Davao Bay. The
War Department said "It now
seems probable that more than
one destroyer was sunk and nu
merous hits on other vessel are
believed to have caused exten
vc damage." The Japanese
fi et there, the Department re
vealed. consisted of one battle
ship. five cruisers, six destroy
ers, 12 submarine and 12 tran
pnrts.
Tokyo Admits
Losing Sul) And
( miser Damaged
t
TOKYO, Jan. 7 i.T’i — Internal
headquarters acknowledged in a
communique that another Japan
esc submarine was sunk in the
Pacific and a cruiser slightly
damaged.
Jap Aerial Activity And Massing
Of Powerful Forces Indicates
Dutch Fast Indies Are Aext Goal
UNDATED, Jan. 7 t/P) — Jap
an's next goal is the Dutch East
Indies. This appeared evident as
a U. S. War Department commun
ique, reported that the Mikado’s
sea-borne invasion armies in the
Philippines were massed in a
powerful striking force at Davao
Bay, only 600 miles from Dutch
Borneo and 400 miles from Dutch
Celebes.
A Rome radio report heard in
London indicated that a thrust
may already have started, declai
ms that strong forces of Japan
ese parachute troops have land
ed on the east coast of Dutch
Borneo.
Simultaneously the Dutch East
Indies headquarters at Batavia
reported a formation of eight
Japanese flying boats had attack
ed military objectives during the
night on the island of Ambon,
site of a major Dutch naval base
800 miles south of Davao. The
communique said the enemy
dropped 20 bombs and machine
gunned the island, killing 3 civ
ilians and wounding 4. The bul
letin also noted lively aerial re
connaissance over the far-flung
archiledago, often a tip-off of im
pending invasion. The announce
ment said “Enemy planes were
observed over various parts of
other possessions.”
Tokyo headquarters aid Japan
esc troops landed several days
ago at Brunei, in British North
Borneo, adjoining Dutch Borneo,
"extending their field of opera
tions.’'
No details were given on the
smashing of Ambon, the Japan
ese seeking to knock out one of
the Indies bases which from U.
S. Army bombers may have been
flying to attack Japanese war
ships in the Philippines.
President’s Aid
Heads Annapolis
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 t/P> —
The Navy Department announc
ed the appointment of Captain
John B. Reardall, President
Roosevelt's naval aide, to be su
perintendent of the Naval Acad
emy at Annapolis. Captain John
L. McCrea succeeds him is naval
aide to the president.
CENSOR CHIEF
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Byron Price (above), executive
new editor of the the Associated
Press, lias been granted leave of
absence to become the nation's
director of censorship, it was an
nounoed by President Roosevelt.
15% Rise In S. S.
Rates To Alaska
Is Authorized
SEATTLE, Jan, 7 .,-P, — The
Martime Commission authorized
the Alaska Steamship Company
to assess, mediately, an emer
gency surcharge of 45 percent an
all freight rates and phssenger
fares between Seattle and ports
which it.s ships call at in Al
aska. Company officials said the
higher rates were the result of
wartime costs of operation.
The N -rthland and Alaska
Transpor'-.iton companies are ex
pecting similar authorizations.
Small U. S. \ esse!
Fijrhl Heavv Odds
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In Saira Heroism
c
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 i.Pt —
A new tale of navy heroism by
the few men of a small Amer can
vessel, fighting courageously ag
ainst great odds and bagg ng at
least one of the attacking swarm
of great flvng boa's, before be
ing wounded i?=e’f, then made
port saft lv, came t< day from the
Far East where United States
warships are fighting with the
Dutch and British. The U. S. S.
Heron, a small seaplane tender,
j suffered a direct bomb hit during
a seven-hour pounding by Jap
1 anese plane,but by fighting back
! as hard as his too few guns
! would permit, then running his
i ship into haven, Lieut. William
Leverette Kabler of Virginia,
won the cheers of his men and
the Navy Cross and immediate
! promotion to Lieutenant Com
mander,
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