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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
Army Starts
Expansion 70
Double Units
Further Increases Call for
Many More Air, MOTOR
lied, Ground Troops

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is - Secre-
tary Of War Henry L. Stimson an
nounced today at 0 conference with
newsmen that the Army has started
expanding approximately to 5000
900 officers and men, more than
doubling the present strength of
the ground and air forces.
Secretary Stimson said the in
crease has been authorized by the
President for this year and the
first of three new divisions will be
organized by March is and looking
to further increases shortly after.
Secretary Stimson did not dis
close the size of next years camp
facilities. He did say the extension
of the Army forces calls for more
than double the number of air COM
bat units and creation OF 80 motor
lied or triangular divisions, in adj
dition to 81 conventional ground
troop divisions.
A proportionate increase in anti
uiCidit, CAlSlAlCCiS anu III q !
special units for the formation Of
30 or more military police battalions
to replace troops now guarding crit
ical facilities in the continental
United States and large increase
in the number of men in training
centers will provide replacement Of
all organized units personnel for
additional units to be created in
the spring Of 1943."
AS part of the vast expansion.
Stimson said, $4,000 officers will be
commissioned in special officer
candidate schools this year.
Requirements for Air Force pilots.
bcmbardiers and navigators have
been lowered from 20 to IS years
and married men also may train as
filters. Intelligence tests have been
substituted for educational require
mentS.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
OFFENSIVE
UNDER WAY,
JAp5 CLAIM
Domei Reports $1,000
British Troops Battling
in Last Ditch Stand
tBy Associated Press

An official Tokyo broadcast today
asserted British authorities at Sing
apore have begun to mine the cause
way and bridge connecting Singapore
Island to the mainland.
AS Japan's invasion armies drove
through rain whipped jungles in
lahore State, 100 miles north of
Singapore, Domei, Jap news agency,
said the Nipponese forces now are
conducting terrific offensive
against 81 900 British troops guard
ing the last defense in Malaga
Domei previously declared 10000
British were trapped in the green
hell" wilderness north of Singapore.
The agency also quoted foreign
reports saying the British forces de-
Tending the Pownall line, stretching
for 1875 miles across the extreme
lower peninsula, are rushing up re-
Inducements from Singapore lin a
last desperate defense before falling
back on Britain's Asiatic Gibraltar
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
BRITISH MOP
UP H0LD0UT
AXIS POSTS
Aerial, Artillery Bombdrd-
ment Covers Infantry
Border Advance

CAIRO, Jan. 15-British infan-
try moved forward today to new
positions against Axis holdout Fore
es at Halfaya in the border region
of Egypt facing Libya under cover
of destructive aerial and artillery
bombardment, the British an
nounced.
Reduction of the German Italian
border positions, thorn in the
flank of the British offensive. now
more than 300 miles inside Libya,
would release sizeable British forces
for the drive westward from Flag
heila to Tripoli.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
Navy Makes Announce
ment-lnditdfes May Be
Converted Carrier
SIMILAR SHIPS HAVE
VISITED COAST PORTS
Menace Of Enemy Submdr-
ines on East Coast Re-
mains Substantial"

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is. The
Navy Department announced this
afternoon that 17,000-ton Japanese
merchant liner has been sunk by an
American submarine.
The japanese liner sent down is Of
the fast Yawata class, owned by the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha lines and
probably was convertible aircraft
carrier.
No other details Of the sinking as
to location or number Of planes car
ried, is supplied by the Navy spokes-
man. The authority. however. said
the vessel was one of the three
Yawata class ships that have been
frequent visitors to West Coast ports
and recently converted into aircraft
carriers.
The Navy statement also said the
menace Of enemy submarines off
the East Coast Of the United States
remains substantial"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
TANKER IS
5ENTD0WN,
EAST COAST
Submarine Operates With
in ITO Miles Of Harbor
Of New York City

NEW YORK, Jan. 15-The Third
Naval District announces that the
Panamanian tanker Ncrness has
been torpedoed by a submarine go
miles south of Montauk Point, Long
Island. and ITO miles due east of
New York Harbor.
The announcement further says
a naval rescue craft was dispatched
to the scene and later IA survivors
were landed at Newport, Rhode
Island, but are not allowed to talk
The Navy announcement did not
state whether the tanker, which
was first spotted by patrol planes,
finally sank.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15

FORCES ARE
HOLDING OUT
japanese Claim Forty Cur
tiss Combat Planes
Destroyed

TOKYO. Jan. 10. - The Japanese
Imperial Headquarters claims that
40 Curtiss combat planes were de-
stroyed by Japanese aerial attacks
yesterday at "Denarpian airfield" on
the west part of Luzon Island.
This may be "Dinalupian," IL
miles northeast of Olongapo, where
the Batan Peninsula widens into the
Luzon mainland.
This indicates that the Mac
Arthur forces have not been dis
lodged from the defense lines guard
ing virtually the entire peninsula.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
INSTRUCTORS OF
FIRST AID MEET
TONIGHT AT 7::30

Tonight there will be a meeting
of Red Cross first aid instructors
in the Council Chambers of the City
Hall at 7:30 o'clock for the purpose
of discussing and making plans for
defense work in connection with the
various first aid posts being estab-
lished throughout the city.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
ALIENS In 8
West STATES
GIVEN ORDERS

WASHINGTON, Jan. is - At
torney General Francis Biddle to-
day ordered all German, Italian
and japanese aliens in eight west
ern states to apply for special iden-
tification certificates between Feb
ruary 2 and February T.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
CLOCKS TO SOON
Be SHOWED AHEAD,
DAYLIGHT SAVING

WASHINGTON. Jan, IS Con-
gressional action has been COM
pleted on the House legislation for
universal daylight saving time. the
advancing of all clocks one hour.
The measure will be effective 20
days after the President signs the
legislation.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
RAIDERS In
FORT ATTACK
SHOT DOWN
Philippine Fortifiiaiions
Withstand Assault by
Large Bombers

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is. = The
War Department, in an official COM
munication, announced the Defend
ers of the Philippine Notifications
have shot down two large Japanese
bombers and hit others when nine
planes made an attack on Corregidor
Island in Manila Bay.
Only minor damage was done to
the fortress and casualties were few
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
They Should Know
Their Way Around

FRENCH LICK, Ind. Jan. 49,
To the caddies at French Lick
Springs golf course, that fellow who
said life begins at 40 was piker.
Most of them are over so and the
oldest. Bob Jennings, who has q
grandson caddying in Louisville. Is
rs.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
Greatest Battle OF War
Raging as Nazis Defend
Lines at Mozhdisk
SEVEN-MILE Strip
LEFT FOR ESCAPE
Russians Attempting TO
Close NdpoIeonie Route
in Pincers Movement
,By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Russian shock troops Today were
reported smashing direct frontal
assault against 100000 Germans
massed at Mozhaisk in what APP
reared to be one of the greatest
and perhaps most decisive battles
of the war.
Mozhaisk is the keystone of the
dwindling Germa defense corridor
on the Napoleonic road between
Moscow and Smolensk.
The British radio said savage
battle is raging at the gates of
Mozhaisk, where lone key position
has changed hands several times
Red forces, slowly closing a giant
trap around Mozhaisk, officially
were reported TO have recaptured
the town of Meeyn, 35 miles south
west. This meant the Nazi troops
now have only seven-mile wide
route on which to ESCAPE from
Mozhaisk Soviet troops are press
ing down from Volokolainsk in the
north and Medyn in the south. Vol
okolamsk is IS miles from Mozhaisk.
A bulletin from Hitler's COM
mander tersely noting defense
battles" ON the Moscow and Lenin-
grad fronts, acknowledged the Rus
SLAMS are making a new drive along
the Sea of Azov toward Taganrog,
40 miles west of Rostiv.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15

WASHINGTON - The American
public already has had a tough
blow in regard to the use OF auto
mobile tires. But the inside figures
indicate that the blow will be even
tougher in the future.
The production of synthetic rub
Der for tires. begun by Germany
several years before the war, in
this country now totals only be-
tween 1855 and 10000 tons for
an entire year.
Moreover, the new synthetic rub
Der factories, financed by the Re-
construction Finance Corporation,
will not get into production until
April, at the earliest, and most of
them not until August. And when
finished, their total production will
be only $4,000 to $4,000 tons yearly.
Thus, a year from today, we
may possibly have total of $4,000
tons of synthetic rubber-if we are
lucky; if the plants are finished
ahead of schedule; and if they pro-
duce a little faster than is ex-
pected.
Compare this 10000 tons to the
10000 tons Of rubber consumed
by the United States during the
past year, and you get some idea
why Leon Henderson was so abrupt
and tight-lipped about clamping
down on tire consumption.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15

A campaign is being conducted
in the Para district of Brazil 70
purchase planes for civilian pilot
training.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
BY JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is - TIL e
first days of the war; saw record
after record fall in the District OF
Columbia marriage license bureau.
One day, 119 licenses were taken
out, 81 more than ever before re-
corded. The one that attracted
most attention was that of Baron
Ulrich Frieherr Won Gienanth to
wed Austrian Baroness Karin Won
Veitinghoff- Riesch.
Maryland started it around here
and the District and other states,
it is predicted. won't be far be-
hind-using those l94l automobile
plates from now on until there
no longer is any need TO conserve
metals. Instead of new plates,
Maryland issued little lock-over
strips saying: 1912.
The war has caused Ill sorts of
little panics. The District civilian
defense director, Col Lemuel BolleS,
bad To jump into the middle of two
the other day. CAPABILITIES had start
ed runs on black cloth for use in
blackouts, and adhesive tape TO
interlace house and shop windows
to prevent breakage in air raids.
The director made appeals to stop
buying. saying both products were
needed badly for defense That
must have been what Washington
ians thought, too. At last report,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
War Causes Increase in
Marriages; Auto License
Plates Are Being Saved

the runs still were going strong.
Listening attentiyely to an
air raid warden outlining in
structi0ns at meeting in a
schOOIhouse on KaIorama Road
the other night were Chief
Justice Of the United States
and Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone.
At the same air raid sessions
was Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, who
presided in the White House in
another war when death from the
sky on cities far behind the lines
was only something the Zeppelin
boys dreamed up to scare the folks
at home.
Comment at the National Press
club: We'll, times do change. I've
only been here a few years but
can remember when some OF the
most soughtafter invitations around
here were to those bierabends at
Kurt Sells German newspaper
mani where every one sat around
and drank beer and kummel and
sang 'Schnitzelbank' and to Katos
Japanese correspondent where
you got real suki yaki.
Local police, Better Business
Bureau and defense officials
are scampering all over town
trying to catch the racketeers
who are picking up dollars in
Continued on Page Fiye)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
DOW. JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow.
Jones averages: industrials 1929,
rails 28l5, utilities 1853.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, JAM Is. - Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is az, American Can
$685.. Anaconda %, Bethlehem Steel
64A, Commonwealth and Southern
$3.50. Curtiss Wright 85s, Interna-
tional Harvester 49,. Kennecott
$685., New York Central 9as, North
ern Pacific SIS, United States Steel
54%. Pound $404.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
RUBBER FACTS

Here are the new synthetic plants
under construction and their sched-
ule of completion:
Goodyear, April-May. 10000 tons;
Goodrich, late August, 10000 tons;
Firestone. August, 10000 tons; U.
s. Rubber, August. 10000 tons !;
Standard Oil of La (private fl
nancing) late 1912. 5000 to 10000
tons; DUPONT (private financing)
late 1912. 10000 tons.
In addition, the RFC announced
that plans capable of producing
10000 more tons would be sponsored
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15

The forthcoming garlic crop Of
Mexico is expected to be rs per-
cent greater than last year.
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Evening star., 1942-06-05
S46 Army Pay
Proposed as
Compromise
Senate Conferees
Ask House to Agree
To New Rates
BULLETIN.


A Senate House conference
committee today compromised
and agreed on a basic mini
mum pay of $46 a month for
men in the armed services.
Earlier Story on Page A-6.)
By the Associated Press.
Senate conferees on the mill
tary pay increase bill proposed a
compromise to the House repre-
sentatives today calling for SAC a
month for buck privates and $50
for first-class privates.
The House group took the pro-
posal under advisement and another
conference may be held later in the
day.
The compromise offer compares
with Senate-approved figures of $42
for buck privates and $48 for first
class privates and House-approved
figures of $50 and $54, respectively
Neither conference group had all
of its members present, but a ma
jority was on hand for each FIVE
man side seeking to adjust House
and Senate differences.
The two groups reached one
agreement today-to make the pay
increase retroactive to June /. Pri-
Yates now get s21 month for four
months. when they are raised to $50.
There appeared a likelihood that
soldiers, sailors and marines having
dependents would be required to
contribute about $40 a month
toward the support of their families.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
81 Are.KiI|ed
Or Missing in
Illinois Blast
Casualties Appear
Greater Than in Any
Other Arms Explosion
(Picture on Page 2-X.|
Earlier Story on Page A-1.)
By the Associated Press,

Earlier Story on Page AID
B, the Associated Press.
JOLIET, ILL.,, June 5.-Fifty-
seven persons were killed or
missing today in a terrific explo-
sion which destroyed one build
ing of the huge Elwood Ordnance
Plant south of here. The cas-
ualties appeared to have been
greater than in any other NUM-
tions plant accident.
Capt. David P Tunstall, Army
public relations officer, said there
were 81 known dead. of whom four
were identified and So missing. In
addition go persons were injured.
Many of the victims were blown
to bits and authorities attempted
the tragically slow process of identi-
fication by fingerprints.
Coroner E. A. Kingston of Will
County said parts of "a bodies were
in a Joliet undertaking establish
ment, with more bodies at the ord
nance plant grounds in southern
Will County.
The Army said 81 persons were
treated for injuries at the post hos
pital. Of these, 30 were soon dis
charged. Many of the injured had
been working on ramps outside the
shipping building or had been
struck by debris some distance away.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
$4,000 Suit Against Louis
Waived for the Duration
By tie Associated Press.

By TIE Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 5.ACircuit Judge
John Prystalski ruled today that
Corpl Joe Louis Barrow, heavy
weight champion boxer now sta
toned at Camp Upton, N. Y, need
not defend an attorneys suit for
s10,500 fees until after the war.
The ruling was based on a re-
Gently enacted Federal law provid-
ing relief from legal controversies
for men in the armed forces. Attor-
ney Bindley Cyrus brought the suit
to collect payment for handling a
divorce action brought against Bar
row by his wife, Mrs. Marva Trotter
Barrow, year ago. The suit was
dropped after the couple was recon-
ciled
Evening star., 1942-06-05
By the Associated Press.


Chairman Somers reported
that Shocking revelations" laid
before the House Coinage Com
mittee today indicated the Big
Four rubber companies were
impeding the Presidents war
program.
The charges are of such a serious
character that our committee au-
thorized the appointment of a spe-
cial seven-member subcommittee to
investigate the whole rubber situa-
tion," Representative Somers said in
a statement which did not name
the companies.
The shocking revelations pre-
sented to the committee today in
executive session proved conclusively
that the Big Four rubber companies
had gained control of the rubber
program"
Meanwhile, a committee of the
Petroleum Industry War Council
contended that by organized conser-
vation and use of a small tonnage
OF reclaimed and natural rubber
virtually all of the Nations millions
of mechanically usable automobiles
could be kept rolling.
1t told the War Production Board
that unless gasoline and tires could
be provided for motorists for IAN
irreducible minimum" of travel lit
is inevitable that the functions of
our war industries will be seriously
impaired"
Moreover, its report said that if
no additional rubber were provided
for tires, and motorists continued
driving at normal speed and mile
age, the number of passenger cars
in use, now about 27000,0 600, prob
ably would drop to 23.700, 900 by the
end of this year, 100000 in 1943,
100000 by 1874, and there would
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Circus Lion Tumer
Held as Enemy Alien

B! the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, June 5.-Fritz
Schulz. 35-year-old lion tanner with
the Ringing Bros s-Barnum & Bailey
Circus, was arrested as an enemy
alien and sent to the Gloucester
IN. j. detention station of the I'M
migration Service, the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation disclosed today.
Schulz, F. B. I. agents said, came
to the United States from Stuttgart.
Germany 21a years ago. He was
arrested yesterday on a presidential
warrant after an investigation of
several months.
The circus came to Philadelphia
early this week.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Big Four Rubber Companies
Impeding War, Somers Says
House Member Charges Firms Have
Coined Control Of Production Program

be no passenger cars left on the
road in 1945, should the war and
restrictions last that long.
But by a combined program of
conservation and the providing of
rubber for tire recapping, the COM
mittee estimated 25, 400. 900 cars
would remain in use through this
year, 22,800,0OO through 1943, 49,
100000 in 1914 and 13.500,0 900 in 1945.
The report suggested an immedi-
ate Nation wide concerted rubber
collection and salvage program, in
cluding a requirement that a car
owner must turn in worn tire to
obtain recapped tire.
Defense Transportation Director
Joseph B. Eastman, however, held
forth no hope that new tires would
be available to the public for "sev-
eral years." and described gasoline
rationing as the most practicable
way" to conserve rubber.
In a letter made public by Repre-
sentative White, Democrat, of Ida
no the transportation director de-
clared that if there were no gaSo-
line curtailment - voluntary or
compulsory-andn none in the use of
motor vehicles, only "a relatively
short time" would elapse before au-
tomobiles would disappear from the
streets and highways because their
tires had worn out.
I'VE have on the average about
one year of tire left in our private
cars" he said.
At the Capitol, Senator Wheeler,
Democrat, of Montana, member of
a Senate Agriculture Subcommitt-
ee investigating possibilities of US.
ing alcohol in making synthetic rub
ber, asserted that the War Produc-
ton Board was absolutely derelict"
in planning for greater alcohol pro-
duction to supply the needed COM
modify.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
AZ Axis Ships Blasted
By RAF in Month
> the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 5.-Forty-seven
Axis freighters and warships were
sunk or damaged by the RAF in
the North Sea, the Atlantic and
Mediterranean during May, the Air
Ministry said today.
An official review of operations
last month said the RAF de-
stroyed 283 Axis airplanes over Eu-
rope and the Near East and lost 301
aircraft. The total included 64
planes lost in offensive action
against Germany and occupied ter
ritory in daylight and 100 lost over
Europe at night, it added.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Mississippi Hits Crest
Of 12.9Ft. in Wisconsin

BY the Associated Press.
LA CROSSE, Wis, June 5.-A
crest of 1873 feet was reached here
today by flood waters on the Mis-
sissippi River, which was sent to it's
highest stage in 20 years by recent
rains upstream.
Although the water rose into
dwellings in lowland areas, forcing
residents to eeacuate, damage was
reported to be relatively small. Truck
gardens suffered most.
Most houses invaded by the flood
are on Pettibone and Green Islands.
The river was falling north of La
Crosse. The crest was expected to
pass this point by tomorrow morn
ing.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Markets at q Glance

NEW YORK, June 5 (P).-
Stocks firm; war stocks recover.
Bonds higher; rails and utilities
rally. Cotton mixed; trade buy
ing, New Orleans selling.
CHICAGO.-Wheat rallied to
close steady; Kansas crop COM
plants. Corn steady; fair ship
ping business. Hogs weak TO
lower; top s14.30; fairly large
Friday supply. Cattle very dull
trade; steers weak to 25 lower.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
House Refuses Funds
For CCC by Vote
OF 158 10 121
Roosevelt Reported
Likely to Combine
Corps With NYA
Earlier Story on Page A-2)
h. Anrncantnd

Earlier Story on Page A-2)
By the Associated Press.
Supporting a recommendation
from its Appropriations Commit
tee, the House refused this aft
ernoon to vote funds to keep the
depression born Civilian Conser-
vation Corps going on a reduced
basis during the war.
BY teller vote of l58 to 121 the
House rejected an amendment by
Representative Tarver, Democrat,
Of Georgia to add s75,S18,000 for the
CCC to the s1,058,45l, $50 supply
bill for the Labor Department, So
cial Security Board and kindred
Federal agencies.
The Appropriations Committee by
a three-vote margin had recon-
mended the elimination of CCC
funds.
Liquidation Fund Voted.
After voting out the CCC, the
house turned down, ll8 20 g. a
motion by Representative Dirksen,
Republican. of Illinois. to cut all
but $8,320,000 from the s56,049 900
in the bill for the National Youth
Administration. Mr.. Dirksen con-
tended the NYA program was large
ly duplicating work of the Office of
Education.
Mr.. Tarver, fighting for con-
tinuance of the CCC, told the House
lSee CCC- Page 2-Xl
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Admiral Rockwell
Awarded D. S. M.
By President

President Roosevelt today award
ed the Distinguished Service Medal
to Rear Admiral Francis Warren
Rockwell of Annapolis for "excep-
tionally meritorious service in a
duty of great responsibility"
Rear Admiral Rockwell removed
his forces from Cavite when the
navy yard there fell to the Japanese
and his forces later fought on Ba-