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VOL. 44. No. 9. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 1942.
Japs 6 Miles from Singapore Island
Jap Invasion Troops, Applying
Heavy Pressure In Malaya Are
Six Miles North Singapore Is.
UNDATED. Jan. 20 iJP) — Jap
an’s invasion troops, attacking
only G miles north of S ngapore
Island,are officially reported ex
erting “heavy pressure on the on
tire front" in western Ma'aya.
A crisis, in the defense of Brit
ain’s four hundred million dollar
stronghold, apparently is immin
ent as sea-borne Japanese fnrc
< s cut in below the main battle
line.
In the Phi ipp ne war theater,
A War Department bulletin re
ported that six American bomb
ers sank a Japanese cruiser and
scored direct hits on a tanker,
leaving it in flames 100 miles oil
Join.
The War Department said 3
J pane.se bomb rs were shot
d iwn in renewed attacks on Gen.
MacArthur’s valiant American
and Filipino defense forces bat
tling on Batan Peninsu’a, north
west of Manila.
Mindanao Still Resisting
The communique also disclos
ed the first word in days that
American forces are still resist
ing the Japanese on Mindanao
Island fiOO miles south of Man-'
i
i a.
Sharp fighting was reported in
progress 35 miles north of Davao
no the southern end of Mindanao
which the* Japanese have been
using as a base for attacks on the
Dutch East Indies.
Official dispatches said Japan
ese patroLs and landing parties
are swarming along the 30-mile
coastal belt of western Malaya:
ao.i the Muar River, 90 miles
north of S ngapore, to Batu Pa
hat, barely 60 miles away. On
the Malayan east coast, Japan
ese forces are reported to have
reach d the Eeodau area, 75 mil
es north of Johore Strait -
Would Require
Special Interests
To Report to Govt.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 21 UPi
Far-reaching legislation, to com
pel “special interest” groups to
snhroit accountings of their funds
and to limit profits from defense
work, was prepared, to meet the
House Nival Committee’s blunt
criticism < f the practices, which
it declared were current. Cha r
man Vinson said ho will intro
dice immediately a bill to re
quire “big chambers of com
ma ice and abor unions and all
s; da! interest groups,” to re
port t( a federal agency their as
sets, liabilities, contributions,
and expend lures.
Well informed Congressional
quarters su'd that such a pro
gram was discussed by the Presi
dent wi'h the conferees on the
labor egislation two months ago.
At the same time Vinson said he
w as working on a second bill de
Reds Announce
Capture Mozhaisk
S7mi. from Moscow
LONDON. Jan. 20 l/Pi — The
Russian command tonight an
nounced the capture of Mozhaisk
This is the first word of the sit
uation at Mozhaisk, 57 miles west
of Moscow since the Army paper
R d Star announced Monday
that Red Troops were fighting
the Germans in the streets of
the city which was in flames.
Some hundred thousand crack
German troops were reported in
the Mozhaisk salient with three,
divisions defending the city it
self.
fou can ave 2 00 by paving si 1
nnnths ii advance f<»r vnur au>
'•nrition Thp- Nim*- Nose**1
s gned to prevent “excessive un-:
conscionable profits” which the
committee declared some corpor
ation made on naval contracts.
The above map shows the Mozhaisk salient of the Moscow front.!
'i\>da.v the Russians reported the capture of Mozhaisk, where art*
reported to be lOO.bOO German soldiers.
Philippine Forces Continue Hold
Japanese On Batan Peninsula
FDR Discloses ‘Yanks Are Coming
UNDATED, Jan 21 UP) — Al
lied warships are reported shell
ing Japan’s invasion armies,
swarming down the Malay jun
gle coast, f>0 miles north of Singa
pore. Tho united nations were
further heartened by President
Roosevelt's disclosure that ''The
Yanks are coming,” that AEF
vanguards are already in action
or enroute to the f ir-flung battle
zones.
In the Philippines, a War De
partment bu letin said Gen. Mac
Arthur's valiant American and
Filipino defense forces had driv
en back the Japanese invaders
with heavy losses "in particular
ly savage fighting '*on Baton Pen
insula. The communique said the
Japanese troops gained "some in
itial successes” by infiltrations
and a frontal attack near the
center of the line, before counter
attacking U. S. Army forces hurl
od them back and recaptured all
lust ground.
The communique said “enemy
losses were very heavy while
our casualties wi re relatively
moderate.”
Far North of the main battle
sector, in upper Luzon island,
the War Department said a guer
ilia band of MacArthur’s forces
staged a surprise raid on the
Japanese airfield at Tugeugaro,
•killing 110 enemy troops and
putting 300 others to flight.
C ne'denta lv, the Russian news
P'pet Red Star estimated that
about 6,000 American and 32,000
Filipino and native troops are
ounos.ng lO'l.OOO Japanese on Lu
zon.
An official Tokyo broadcast as
s' rtf d that Allied warships enter
ed the critical battle of Singa
p >ro, even as Japan's navy min
ister Vice Admiral Shimada
b as!id that the Japanese ‘vir
tual y command the Pacific from
the Malaya Indies to the west
s' of the United States." On
Hie me exultant note. Premier
T jo asserted that Japan plan
n I “increasingly vigorous oper
ations" in the Pacific and to con
t.uue the fighting until the Unit
ed States and Britain are “brut
tu their knees."
J panese dispatches said the
battle flags of the Rising Sun are
advancing southward a'ong the
Malayan west coast “in spite of
gunfire from enemy ships" in the
Strait of Malacca which lies bo
twen the Malay Peninsula and
the Dutch East Indies island of
Sumatra.
To Allot $15 Per
Mo. Dependents
of Enlisted Men
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (/!*>
The War and Navy Department
support “in principle” claimed to'
have interested 'egislators in the
proposed legislation requiring on
I sted men in the armed services
to allot $15 month to dependent]
wives and children, with the gov
ernment matching or bettering!
that, with an additoinal allow i
ance for familes. Such a system
l
I
Food Supplies
Now Arriving
In Leningrad
Berne, Switzerland, Jan. The
3,000,000 residents of Leningrad
feel the war is about over for
food trains are starting to arrive
in the city from eastern Russia.
The movement of food trains in
dicates the Nazi threat to Lenin
grad has been broken.
Leningrad has been under
seige for about seven months.
The Russians claim continued
successes from the Crimea to the
Arctic and the most important
development is the driving of a
wedge on the Moscow front
wh’ch is expected to trap thou
sands of shivering German sol
diers.
The Russians say that their an
iwer to Hitler’s taking over the
command of the Nazi armies was
n the retaking of Kaluga but i
that their victories are not stop
ping at that point.
Trying To Replace Generals
Hitler is said by the Russians
to be “up a tree” in trying to re
place the 25 generals who assert !
2dly resigned from the Nazi j
army in protest to Hitler’s tactics,
:>f expellng General Walther von
Brauchitsch. The Soviets even
go so far as to declare that Hitler
has ordered General von Book,
for a long time in charge of the
Former Gov. of
S.C. Vi ho Pardoned
3.000 Passes On
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 </P> —
Coleman B'ease, aged 73. who as
governor of South Carolina is- ■
sued nearly 3,000 pardons, and as
U. S. Senator opposed the League
of Nations, died last night. He
underwent an operation Satur
day.
was adopted ti months after the
United States entered the World
War in 1!H7.
Nazi operations against Moscow
itself, to be placed under "house
arrest”at his villa near Berlin.
Smashing At Orel
Soviet ski troops were smash
ing at Orel where 200,000 Nazi
'•oldiers are making a stand.
British said their reports indicat
ed that the Soviet have taken
Orel.
Difficult To Follow
The tactics of the Nazis are be
coming more difficult to follow.
As an indication it is declared
that a Nazi reporter was quoted
over a radio broadcast as saying
that German reinforcements!
were “too little and more often
too late." The reporter as speak
ing of the Rusian campaign
The Nazi war reporter was
also permitted to broadcast an
account which told how the Ger
mans were bested in an attack
by the Russians.
Account of Fight
The account of the fight said
the German soldiers first noticed
white polar dogs approaching.1
Next they saw that the dogs
were pulling sleds and finally |
that in the sleds were white clad
Russian soldiers.
The report added that the Rus-1
sians opened fire on the Germans :
wth machine guns and kept com |
ing at such a pace that the Ger
mans were given no rest. The at- j
tacking Russians were finally!
driven off but only after rein-!
forcements came for the Ger
mans.
LITVINOV TELLS THE PRESS
Maxim Litvinoff, the new Russian Ambassador to the United Stat
es, was seated before a statue of Nicolai Lenin at Washington
when he called Japan "the common enemy” and the ‘Axis gang
sters” as he held his first press conference at tire embassy.
t. S. Contributing
r
To War Against
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 20 UP) —
President Roosevelt assured a
press conference that the United
States is contributing to the war
against the Axis in almost every
part of the globe. He said he
couldn't be specific, but told re
porters to look at a map of the
world and they could assume we
are doing something there. His
remarks were of a type to give
reassurance to China and Aus
tralia, where there was some un
easiness reported over the pos
sibility that American supplies
might go, more to the battle ag
against Hitler than to the fight
against Japan.
■“IT
Effective Feb. 9
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 UP> —
Prseident Roosevelt signed the
daylight saving bill which be
comes effective at 2 a. m. on Feb
ruary 9th in all interstate com
merce and Federal Government
activities. During the congres
sional debate, it said il was as
sumed that observance of day
light time will be made by mov
ing all clocks ahead one hour
and will become general through
out the nati >n. The measure will
become inoperative six months
after the war ends, uncss Con
gress votes to terminate it before
then.
Exonerated By
Court Martial
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan 21 UP)
—Colonel Kress Muhlenberg was
found innocent by a general
court martial that he wrongly
criticized the distribution of com
bat planes outside the United
States and its insular possessions.
After 4!) minutes of deliberation
*VV innie* Oilers
Undergo Vote
of Confidence
LONDON, Jan. 20 ift’> Prune
Minister Churchill, confronting a
I restive Commons, informed the
members that he shared their
anxiety about operations in the
Pacific, but told them he has
“growing confidence" in the ev
entual victory there.
Announcing that a three-day
debate will be held soon on the
war situation. Churchill also
shewed evidence of equal confi
dence in his personal strength.
Adressng Parliament for the first
j time since his return from con
I ferences in Washington and Otta
wa, he offered to call for a vote
of confidence, if the debate
should disclose any challenge to
his government.
If Perish In
Apartment Fire
LYNN, Mass.. Jai 2') W*>
Flames swept through a 5-story
apartment and rooming house,
sending fire from the basement
to the roof as if it were a buge
brick furnace, leaving 14 dead
and 21 in hospitals while firemen
worked through the smoking em
bers in search for 8 persons still
missing. The fire started in the
basement and swept upward so
quickly that dozens of the ten
ants, many of them aged and in
firm were trapped on the top
floors of the structure, Melvin
Hall,in the center of the city.
Mayor Cole said he will de
mand a state investigation to de
termine why fire escaped were
not available to the tenants.
the court martial called in Muh
lenberg, retiring Air Corps of
ficer. The Court president, Col.
Edgar Fry announced “The court
finds you not guilty of any of the
charges’ specifications.”
The grav-haired officer, aged
55, was charged with violating
two articles of war, after a pub
lic speech here on December 17.