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VOL. 44. No. 4. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JAN. 9, 4Mtr Per Copy i»
Philippines Prepare for Big Attack
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Tokyo Paper Asserts Jap Army Will Invade U.S.
* Combat Operations In Philippines '
Dwindle As Japanese Mass Troops
In Preparation For Heavy Attack
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 UP> —'
The War Department said that
combat operations have dwindl
ed to minor skirmishes on the1
Philippine battlefront, with the
Japanese continuing to move
troops up in apparent prepara
tion for a heavy attack. The De
partment communique said air
activity by the Japanese yester
day was limited to reconnais
sance.
l.S. Asiatic Fleet
Sumarine Sinks
Four Jap Ships
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (/P> —
The Navy announced that an As
iatic fleet submarine sank a Jao
anese transport and three cargo
vessels, each of about 10,000 tons,
and simultaneously revised up
ward the Wake Island Japanese
♦ losses, earlier reported sunken.
The new Wak-a communique was
based on a report flown from the
island two days before its fall.
Island Defenders
Brace Selves for
Heavy Jap Attack
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (fP) —
The War Department said the de
fenders of the Philippines are
bracing themselves for a “large
scale general attack" by the Jap
anese invaders. With General
MacArthur personally d meeting I
the fighting, the men have drawn
together north and west of Man
ila Bay. It was reported that the
morale and determination of the
U. S. and Filipino troops was
♦ high, and it was declared they
“will continue their resistance
with skill and courage.”
The War Department said
there was fighting of “varying
intensity” in all sections of the
Luzon front, but the lack of en
emy bombing and aerial machine
gunning recently indicated that
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the Japanese probably ere draw-1
ing up strength for a vital blew'.
Assistant Secretary of War ;
John McClcy to d reporters that
American losses in the Phil p
pines have not been “unduly
heavy." He said that Gen. Mac
Arthur reported that the Japan
ese losses were far higher.
Pacific Coast Ship
ping Back Normal
But On Alert
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SEATTLE, Jan. 8 (fP) — Indic
ators cf at least a temporary
subsidence of the submarine men
ace off the Pacific coast w'as seen
in an offical 13th Naval Dis'rict
statement which pointed out.
however, that America and Can
adian patrols will remain vigil
ant and active. Merchant vessels
and traffic time are being return
ed to normal, the statement said,
after 'a rather ineffective sub
marine campaign off the Pacific
Coast by enemy undersea craft
in Puget Sound areas, British
Columbia water- and off the Col
umbia River. A continuous pat
rol inshore and off-hore by sur
face craft and aircraft was and
is being maintained by the
Navy.”
The presence of enemy surface
craft in the vicinity of the Aleu
tions on December 31 was indic
ated. “Merchant vesels in Alaska
waters wrnre warned into the
nearest ports on December 29.
lue to the suspected presence of
Jap vessels," the statement said.
Civilian reports that bodies of
Japanese fliers washed up on the
Oregon coast proved unfounded
the bul etin sa d.
The statement also disclosed
that the Federal Communications
Commission has reported the pos
sibility of unknown radio sta
tions are sending mesages to the
enemy. A strict monitor system
is being maintained in A'aska &
the United States. “The locations
of such possible stations are be
ing withheld from publication”
the statement added.
Allied Submarine
Operating Vi itliin
10!) Mi. of Tokyo
m
TOKYO. J?n. 9 (/Pi — Pene
tration by an enemy sub within
a hundred mi'es of Tokyo was
d'sclosed by Imperial Headquar
ters when it announced the tor
A
pedo ng and damage to a 2,200
ton Japanese freight, the Unkai
Maru. The number one sub at
tack occurred early yesterday off
the coast of Japan near the Izu
Shichito Island group which lies
south of the entrance to Yoko
hama and Tokyo. All the crew
was '3ved. The nationa ity of the
attacking sub was not given. The
ship was stated as severely dam
aged.
Warns Russia
Against Allies
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UNDATED, Jan. 9 f/P) — The
Berlin radio said a frank warn
ing addressed to Russia was con
tained in a leading article in the
Toky; newspaper Hochi Shim
bun a’d advised Russia to ignore
a 1 the allurement of the Ango
American side. The article also
was quoted to have advised Rus
sia to live strictly*, up to the
spirit of the Japanese-Russian
neutrality pact concluded last
Easter.
Penetrate De
fenses of 2 Jap
Held Cities China
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CHUNGKINB, Jen. 9 //Pi—The
Chinese reported that their forc
es penetrated the outer defense
of the two most important Japan
ese-held cities in south China.
Canton and Ynghang, capitals of
Kwantung and Kiangsi provinces
The Chinese claimed successes
in half a dozen other fronts in
central China and announced
that while fresh expeditionary
forces awaited only the word to
enter British Burma, troops al
ready massed there are taking up
“designated positions,” mostly in
north Burma.
f RINIDAD BUILD-U P—On land so recently thick virgin forest in central Trinidad, living
quarters for American civilians building a U.S. army base at Fort Read take shape in record time.
41 *ol! Kead which will soon be ready for full occupation by U.S. troops, is one of five sites in Trinidad
selected for bases, as part of Uncle Sara’s plan for better western hemispheric defense.
Russians Break
Seiges Leningrad
And Sevastopol
UNDATED, Jan. 9 <JP) — Rus
sia's armies are declared to have
virtually broken the long-drawn
sieges of Leningrad and Sevasto
pol. Soviet dispatches reported
that "East of Leningrad, the Ger
man now have lost everything
they were ab'e to capture in the
past three months.” This would
indicate that the invaders have
been thrown back and the east
ern arc of the siege ring of the
defenders of the old Czarist cap
ital is once more in direct com- j
mim cation with the rest of Rus
sia At one stage of the siege, the;
G rman command asserted that
L ningrad was “completely iso
lated” from the south, the only
outlet being a precarious passage
across Lake Ladoga.
Advices reaching London re
ported that Red Army storm
troops are now battering the Ger
mans in wave after wave of san
guinary four-day battle at Pov
ensta, at the mouth of the Stalin1
Canal. While maps failed to show
Poventsa, presumably it is a vil
lage in the vicinity of Schuesel
berg. 25 mi’es east of Leningrad,
where the Neva River flows into
the Stalin Canal. The Canal it
self links Russia with the Baltic1
and Arctic waterways system
and extends a hundred miles
westward from Lake Ladoga.
Nazis In Africa
Start New Retreat
UNDATED. Jan. 8 1/P) — Hit
ler’s tattered North African arm
ies started a new retreat on the
west-bound road to Tripoli, the
British announced. British spear
heads are now operating 600
miles from the starting point of
their drive in Libya.
A bulletin from the British
headquarters said the Axis forc
es, which failed to give battle
at Agedabia, 00 miles south of;
Bengasi, are falling back under
cover of a blinding sand storm.
The communique said that Brit-1
ish mobile columns are in pur-1
suit, slashing at the Axis flanks
and rear.
More good news came from the
Soviet battlefront as Russia’s
armies were officially reported to
have advanced to within 40 miles1
of the Vyazma-Bryansk line, at
which the Germans had been ex
pected to dig in for the winter, i
Soviet dispatches said that Rus
sian troops have driven a wedge
more than half way through the
Nazi defenses on the central
front, ranging to four and one
half miles deep, and including a
system of camouflaged dugouts,
heated by stoves and covered by
six and seven tiers of logs.
British in Malaya
Fall Back Under
Heavy Pressure
SINGAPORE, Jan. 8 OP) —The
British acknowledged tonight
that they have withdrawn from
Perak province on the west coast
of Malaya, falling bake under
heavy Japanese pressure, to a
new line in northern Selangor
province, guarding Kuala Lum
BLOOD PLASMA—From Georgianna Hazzard (left) and
Anne Rowland. Flight Supervisor Hank Hansen takes a package of
processed blood plasma, for a demonstration of parachute deliv
ery of plasma under wartime conditions. It was at Philadelphia.
Louis Picked To
Beat Buddy Baer j
In Fidit Tonight
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NEW YORK. Jan. 9 <VP'» —
Buddy Baer, having been guilty
of knocking champion Joe Lou:>
clear out of the ring in Washing
ton last spring, probably will pay
for his sins with interest tonight j
in Madison Square Garden. This
time the towering Californian
faces a perfectly conditioned and
fight-keen Louis, impatient to
wipe out any stigma which might
have attended his victory over
Baer last May, when Buddy was
disqualified by refusing to come
out in the 7th round. The fight is
set for 7 p.m. PST.
So impressive were the negro's
workouts, that bookmakers are
offering only one to six odds that
he will be successful in the 20th
defense of his world title; and
1 to 2 that he stops Baer inside
of 15 rounds.
A crowd of about 20,000 is ex
pected to contribute more than
$100,000 to the Naval Relief So
ciety.
pur, capital of the Federated
Malay States and second city nfi
British Malaya. The communique
announced the withdrawal and
said it was made necessary by
Japanese penetration at the low
er Perak, defense line and added
“We suffered some losses in guns
and transport.”
The new defense line is south
of the Slim River, a Bernam trib
utary dividing Perak and Selan-;
gor Province. Slim River is 50
miles north of Kuala Lumpur;
and 290 miles north of Singapore ;
Even this state, the communique
indicated, might be imperiled by
Japanese forces which infiltratexi
earlier, down the coast to the
Kuala Selangor area, 35 miles
northwest of Kuala Lumpur.
iper Asserts
Japanese ill
Invade l. S.
TOKYO, Jan. 8 <-P — The Jap
an Advertiser, government organ
declared that once a Japanese
landing is made on the Ameri
can continent, “It i’ 1 be a simple
matter for a well trr- ned and
courageous army to sweep every
thing before it. The contention
that the United States cannot be
invaded is as much a myth as
that the Maginot Lines culd be
taken or that Singapore and
Pearl Harbor are impregnable.”
The paper said the Navy al
ready has taken the war to the
shadow of San Francisco and
it air attack alarms sounded
in many coast c ties “bringing1
panic among the frightened cit
izenry."
It wras pointed cut that the
United States was invaded in
1812, and added that new “with
the American Navv badly crip
p i d as a result of t! Japanese
victory at Pearl Harbor, it is
within the realm, not alone of
possibility. but of probability,
that the armed forces of this
country will land on the Ameri
can continent.”
Use : Tin
Is Restricted
By New Law
WASHINGTON, Jan. — The
government prohibited the use
'ter March 31 of tin in 20 differ
ent products, including musical
instruments, tinfoil, toys, house
ho'd furnishings, jewelry, buck
les and various novelties.
Also ordered was an immed
iate 50 percent reduction of tin
used for such purposes.