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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-03
Ndgwdy Visitors
 Feted by Family
 Birthday Dinner

In honor of the birthdays of her parents, MT, and Mrs. Gene smith, who are here from Skagway visiting, Miss Alice Smith entertained Tues day night with a family dinner party at her home in the Splckett Apartments.
 MT. Smiths birthday occurred Tuesday and Mrs. Smiths was yes- terday.
 In addition to the honor guests and hostess those who enjoyed the celebration were MT. and Mrs. Ever ett Smith and their daughter, Gail.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-03
HaIIie Rice Tells Them
 While Easi

Hallie Rice, Juneau's representa- tive at the Naval Academy at An napolis, when travelling in the east before taking his final examina- tions, visited Frederick, Maryland, and gave out the following inter esting review to the daily news paper there.
 Declaring Alaska is most serious but not at all jittery over it's future in the World War II scene, Hallie Rice. Juneau, Alaska, yesterday toured Frederick in company with his host, Carroll H. Hendrickson, Jr., and remarked the city is all his college-mate had claimed for it, but not quite equal to his native Jun eau. Rice leaves here today for final entrance examination at the United States Naval Academy.
 The embryo naval officer claims Alaskan boys are more physically fit for military service than their continental United States cousins. He also maintans Alaska is more air-minded than the parent States, by reason of climate and distances. He pointed out that Kiska, scene Of Japanese invasion in the Aleu- tians, is more than 2,000 air-miles from Juneau although Dutch Har- bor. where an abortive invasion was attempted, is somewhat nearer.
 Travel By Plane
 From fifty to sixty percent of the American boys of the territory of Alaska have averaged as many airplane miles of travel as United States boys average in railroad transportation, Rice asserted. High school teams travel entirely by plane for basketball games, he said. Preachers, priests, profession al men and a number of defense workers travel in the territory al- most exclusively by plane
 The emergency has brought a considerable number of outsiders" to Juneau, Rice continued. These outsiders, who expect to remain for the duration, are finding it hard to acclimate themselves to either the climate or the isolation. Many of the newcomers from States of the east and south also complain of the high cost of living in AL aska. Some of them avow their entire paycheck goes for laundry
 Nostalgia is the main disease among the 'outlanders," whom Rice describes as provincial They can not realize Alaska is a mans coun- try, where even in normal times there are not enough girls to go around" Rice said. But at that, they maintain they are going to get their job over as soon as they can, so they can go back" the Alaskan approvingly added.
 Some Rationing.
 When he left Juneau, there was no sugar rationing in effect, but tire rationing was, Rice said. And tires are something to worry about in normal times in Alaska, when a set wears out in less than six
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-03
Some Rationing

When he left Juneau, there was no sugar rationing in effect, but tire rationing was, Rice said. And tires are something to worry about in normal times in Alaska, when a set wears out in less than six
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-03
HOGINS GOES SOUTH

John Hogins, who has been en- ployed in Sitka, left this morning for the south to locate permanent ly. While he was in Juneau he visited his brother-in-la and sister, MT. and Mrs. Tom A. Morgan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-03
ELLISON TO RETURN SOUTH

Joe M EllSon, general manager of the Douglas Fisheries Co.,, has been busy the past few days wind ing up the business affairs of his company before sailing. He expects to leave in the morning for his home in Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-03
FIVE LEAVE WITH ELLIS IRAN5p0RT
 FOR kET(HIKAN

Passengers leaving Juneau yes terday afternoon with the Ellis Air Transport company plane piloted by Hugh Ramsdahl for Ketchikan were R. L. Musser, Frances Paul. Olga Jannsen, Tenny Allain and Grace Murphy.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
D. {. Real Estate Man
Dies After Car Crashes
0nPennsy|vania Road
Maryland Mon Loses
Life Near Annapolis
When Auto Turns Over
kAfFlss sRAs sAsJlA
HOTEL ROAD

Samuel Tyrol Wheeler, 60. Wash
ington real estate broker, died last
night after an automobile accident
near Norristown, Pa, while he was
returning to this city from New
York.
Mr.. Wheeler, who had been in
Washington for about two years and
who had negotiated several large
deals here, including the Statler
Hotel site purchase, was driving
along the De Kalb pike, near Nor
ristown, when he was injured.
The Associated Press reported that
his car skidded of the road and
smashed into row Of guard rails.
He was brought to Norristown by
a motorist and was preparing to
telephone to Washington for an
other car when he collapsed. He
died a short time later.
Mr.. Wheeler had his Office in the
Colorado Building and maintained
q home at 1860 Peabody street NV.
He had been in the real estate busi-
ness In New York for many years
before coming to Washington and
had a home in Crawford, N. j.
Henry Boley, Al, of Bristol, Md,
died in Casualty Hospital early to-
day as the result of an automobile
accident on the Defense Highway
near Annapolis, Md.
Members of the Glenn Dale Res
cue Squad, who took him to the hos
pital, said they found him lying on
the road with his car in flames
nearby. They added that the car
apparently had turned over two or
three times, hurting the man out
on the road.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Defense Probe
(Continued From First Page }

much concerned with their own in
terests and too little concerned with
the national welfare. Larger wages
and profits will be OF no use to
either labor or industry II the war
Is lost"
Plea for Small Manufaturers.
In urging greater use Of the facili-
ties Of small manufacturers, the
committee reported an "ingrained
distrust OF the small manufacturer"
on the part Of some procurement
officials.
Discussing the current efforts Of
the Government to convert the bulk
OF the automobile industry to de-
fense production, tho committee
said the competitive position OF the
industry had been vastly improved
by the war" and that in plain Ian
guage the conversion job was not
even started we'll"
After the program of conversion
Of such plants has had sufncient
time to get under way" the report
said, ''the committee will insist upon
receiving an explanation from the
parties involved, particularly rs to
the factual basis. If any, upon which
they contended that they should be
given millions of dollars to spend
over months of time to create en-
tirely new plant facilities instead OF
being required to convert a substan-
tial part of their existing facilities
to defense production.
Instead of converting the auto
mobile industry or substantial por-
ton thereof to the production Of de-
fense articles, automobile production
In 1941 was allowed to attain q peak
nearly IS great as the total Of S.
62l,040 passenger cars and trucks
manufactured in 1929. Production
In 1880 exceeded that In 1889 by a.
per cent and the production of f.
7S0, 400 cars In 194l exceeded that
Of 1910 by Z per cent"
Evening star., 1942-01-15

being consolidated IN faoe Of in
creased enemy patrol ana artillery
activity"
Reduction Of the German and
italian border positions, . thorn In
the flank Of the British offensive
now more than 800 miles inside
Libya, would release sixable British
imperial and Allied forces for the
drive toward Fl AgheilA and Tripoh.
The British said the advance In
the coastal sector toward II Agheila
was delayed I'm dimcult country by
strong resistance from defended To-
calities" In the 0asr Fl Bresa sector,
but that farther south the forward
movement continued.
Gasr II Bresa Is about 70 miles
southwest Of Asedabia and 30 miles
northeast Of II Agheila.
"As on the previous day, enemy
air activity against our columns
wxs on considerable scale" the COM
munique acknowledged.
Throughout the day our air
forces carried out protective sweeps
over the area Of operations, together
with successful attacks on enemy
concentrations Of mechanical trans
port in the rear"
Evening star., 1942-01-15
BY HELEN LOMBARD.

When the Axis diplomats were
packed of to an elegant concentra-
ton camp in Hot Springs, Washing
ton assumed that the Capital was
cleared Of the representatives of
Hitler and his cooperating nations.
The town breathed a sigh of relief.
Citizens who knew that the As
sistant Military Attache for Air,
Capt. Peter Riedel of the German
Embassy, was taking his Americana
born bride on glider tours around
the Capital and photographing the
beautiful scenery of the Potomac
basin and surrounding countryside
thought it just as we'll that these
honeymoon trips should end.
When Capt. Riedel needed a spe-
cial camera for detailed pictures he
hired it for the day, according to
his bride, who cited admiringly this
example Of German efficiency and
thoroughness.
The doors have slammed on the
Axis embassies and their former oc-
cupants are doing nothing more
dangerous than swimming and play
ing table tennis in luxurious hotels.
But the Axis is adept at using other.
entrances than the front door. Some
of the smaller nations who are CO..
operating effectively with Hitler
may. through their legations in
Washington, provide side exits for.
Nazi propaganda.
Many Of those who are fighting
with the Axis are undoubtedly doing
1t as much through the force of,
necessity as through desire. Several.
Of these unwilling victims" have
just had a bright idea. Take Bull
garia, for instance. Mr.. Dimitri
Naoumoff, the Bulgarian repre-
sentative in Washington, thinks it
would be a good idea if there were
two Bulgarias, one which would CO.
operate with Herr Hitler in Europe,
the other which would benefit by
the affection and goodwill Of Amer
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Bulgarian Envoy Permitted to Stoy Here
After Axis Custer; G-Men Shadow Him

being King Boris representative and
to lead the Free Bulgarians instead
will be accepted, but diplomats of
governments in exile which are
really putting up . fight against
the Axis, putting ships, men and
everything they can control into
the struggle, are somewhat alarmed
at the prospect Of being joined by
men who up to date have collabo-
rated with Herr Hitler.
The advantage of having a free"
representative in Washington In
addition to an exiled envoy In Hot
Springs has dawned upon the Hun
garian government also.
A Mr.. Thor Eckart arrived in
America several months ago. He
came in on a diplomatic passport
issued by the present Hungarian
government. His pockets were full
of American notes which could not
be frozen Mr. Eckart would like to
organize the "free Hungarians" In
the United States. The charming,
WCA.OlCSSCO yOull6 AloAA 10 oOAAA8
all he can to prevail upon the State
Department to let him do his use
full" work.
Representatives Of che smaller
nations which are actually fighting
the Axis are concerned at the pros
pect Of the establishment Of possible
new diplomatic fronts for Hitler in
Warrington.
They are wondering just when
Ambassador Nomura and Special
Envoy Kurusu will suggest that they
are not in sympathy with the mill.
tary caste In Japan and will indi-
cate that they would like to lead
the free japanese In the United
States Of America.
Or maybe the Norwegian-born
Herr Thomson, Nazt charge
d'af1aires, will decide that he would
like to lead the new organization
of free Germans to combat Hitler
ism.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1942-01-15

native defense force in Malaga Of
even better quality than that which
Gen. Douglas Macarthur raised In
the Philippines.
"Bu7 pack Of wf1isky-swilling
planters and military birds Of pass
age hzve forgotten this side Of the
Malayln population. They have
handel 1t over to the japanese, to-
sethel with the radio station and
stores of Penang"
Evening star., 1942-01-15

PaAs ARA, where Q remnant Of Axis
troops = holding out against the
British.
Che British have announced
that Salum fell to them January
IL and operations are proceeding
against Axis forces ct Halfaya
Pass.)
Intensified artillery and naval
oombardment Of the Salum zone has
allowed the enemy to occupy the
coastal strip" the communique said.
THE tenacious resistance Of our
troops continues along the coastal
stronghold"
The Italians said Italian and Ger
man formations carried out recon-
rfaissance flights and bombed forti-
tications and communications behind
he British lines with good success"
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Georgia Preachers See
Circuit Riders Return

Fy the Associated Press.
ATLANTA. Jan. 15.-Remember
the circuit-riding preacher who
used to come by in a buggy and
stay while attending to his duties
In the community?
Some Georgia preachers think
that rationing of automobile tires
is going to bring him back.
State Ration Officer T. M. Forbes
said he had received numerous let
ters from ministers, one of which
said:
TT seems to me that a mans
soul might be regarded as being as
valuable as his shoat. Regulations
provide means of transportation for
Q pig, but not for a preacher"
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Skipper Of Tonker
Surprised by Attack

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Jan. Is.
B.-The enemy submarine which
attacked the 'Panamanian tanker
Norness yesterday OF Montauk
Point stayed on the surface while
firing three torpedoes at regular in
tervals into the ship, her captain,
Harold Hansen, said today.
Magnus Isaksen, skipper Of the
fisherman Malvina B., which res
cued Capt. Hansen and seven OF
the tanker's crew, quoted the Nor
ness master Is saying that mot
until we were hit by the second
torpedo did We realize we were being
attacked by q submarine"
Capt. Isaksen declared that the
submarine commander apparently
WAS quite casual about the affair.
The tanker'G master told me that
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Malaga
Continued From First Page

rail junction Of Gemas. Gemas
lies on the border between Johore
state and Malacca Straits settle
ment.
Domei said 10000 British troops
defending the approaches to Singa-
pore had been completely encir-
cled" and that Japanese forces had
captured Tampin, another rail point
southwest Of Gemas, only 20 miles
north of the port of Malacca.
Japanese forces were credited
with an airline advance of 155
miles between January 2 and Janu-
ary IA, dating from the break
through British defense lines near
Kampar, % miles south of 1poh in
Perak state.
All nine of the federated and un-
federated Malay states have now
been penetrated or overrun by
Japanese troops. Domei said.
Declared Pekan Reached.
On the Malay east coast, Toxic
communique said, Japanese columns
had reached Pekan, 80 miles south
of Kuantan and 100 miles airline
from Johore Strait, which separates
Singapore island from the mainland
japanese front-line dispatches
asserted that British resistance had
also been virtually crushed to the
northeast border of Johore, 80 miles
above Singapore.
Dispatches from Singapore told of
relays Of Dutch and British fighter
planes clashing with Japanese raid
ers In an extended battle over Brit
AIMS $A00, 900 900 island stronghold
this morning.
The use Of the word "'relays" In
dicated two' things
THAT Japanese planes were now
apparently smashing at Singapore
In heavy force, preparing the way
tor { direct assault by land troops.
2. That Allied short-ranse planes
Are stin available to defend Sfnga-
Evening star., 1942-01-15

pore, despite the incessant ham
mering of its airports, and that
aerial reinforcements may have ar
rived.
Sobered by the fact that only
one-fifth of British Malaga remains
In British control after five weeks
Of the Japanese offensive, imperial
armed forces and civilians knuckled
down today for the major test
which all believe to be in the offmg:
the battle of Singapore.
New positions were consolidated
in the dripping green jungles of
Southern Malaga. While rain
squalls and stiffened defense tactics
gave the naval base-metropolis OF
Singapore comparative respite from
Japanese air attacks.
The people of Singapore and
Johore-the only one of the nine
Malay states not occupied or pene-
trated on any considerable scale by
the Japanese-have been brought
face to face with the full Japanese
threat by the simple ofdcial notifi-
cation that delivery Of Malayan
mail could be assured only for des-
tinations in Singapore or Johore.
London Press Lashes Out.
With the Japanese peril to Singa-
pore increasing, the London press
lashed out at the Great Tragedy of
Malaga" and called for the immedi-
ate expulsion of cabinet duds" and
Singapore blimps."
Make Singapore q Tobruk' was
the London cry In many quarters,
while the authorized British spokes-
man withheld comment on japanese
claims Of fresh gains in rainy Ma
laya.
A military commentator in Lon
don said, In answer to q question
why Far Eastern news was scarce
in London, that there is q battle
going on and the commander
doesn't want to give his dispositions
to the enemy"
He explained that by battle" he
did not mean the British had
stopped withdrawing and were
uGnIluH = plCCNeQ DACCIe. ouG nc
declined to give details Of the
Malayan fighting.
WaveIl Heartens British.
The English public, q large part
of which virtually has abandoned
hope that the japanese can be
stopped short Of Singapore's en-
vironS, has taken some heart from
the arrival of British Gen. Sir
Archibald P. Wavell, supreme COM
mander of the United Nations
forces in the Far East, at Allied
general headquarters in the Neither
lands Indies and implications that
he might soon come boldly to grips
with the enemy.
Leading the press criticism, the
Daily Express asserted the British
public was sickened by the extent
Of unprepareduess and apathy In
Malaga"
Here Is .ths great tragedy of
Malaya: We could have had .
Evening star., 1942-01-15

sensus was that it was one of the
larger Nazi subs which attacked the
tanker.
While the smaller undersea craft
boast six 21-inch torpedo tubes as
against only two carried by the
l,060-ton vessels, the latter are
equipped for mine-laying and can
carry . crew of about IS for a dis
tance Of from 1000 to 5000 miles
at least IS more men and 1000 more
miles for . cruising range.
In addition to the torpedo tubes,
both types. as well as third and
still smaller 7l2-ton class OF
U-boats, carry one 41-inch deck gun
and two 1-pound anti-aircraft guns.
Many Raids in Last War.
The incident recalled the spec
tacular similar event which took
place on the warm Sunday Of June
81, 1918.
On that day, in full view of
bathers and picnickers at Orleans,
Mass, on Cape Cod, a U-boat rose to
the surface through q torrent Of
foam and methodically shelled a
tugboat, sank three barges and as q
parting gesture, fred three shells at
the cottage-lined shore.
During that summer of 1918, from
May through September, more than
. score Of steamers and sailing craft,
mainly Of American registry, went
to the bottom of the North Atlantic
Coast with German torpedo wounds.
The four-masted schooner Edward
H. Cole was sunk on June 2, 1918,
Just so miles southeast Of Barnegat,
N. j., and during that one day, OH
the New Jersey coast, the Germans
bagged total Of six vessels of vary
ing sizes.
Before the last war, October II,
1916, the German submarine, U-53,
gave Newport, r. l., residents their
greatest thrill by slipping into New
port harbor, entertaining visitors on
deck and negotiating for the mail
ing Of . letter to the German Am
baSSador At WASHINGTON.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
unlker
Continued From First Page0

would be released from the hospital
at Newport, he predicted. 49,.
The rescuers reported, he said,
that they left the tanker still afloat,
its podtion almost vertical, and its
bow resting from the water almost
so fee' in the air.
The 9,577-ton tanker was built in
Hamburg in 1899, and flew the Nor
wegiaa flag in plying between Liver
pool, Key West and Trinidad before
transferring to Panamanian registry.
She vas bound from Panama City
for al undisclosed port when At
tackex.
Aground In November.
Las November 20, when arriving
from Curacao, Netherlands West In
dies, with . cargo of oil, she ran
aground on the mud fats Of upper
New FORK Bay, but was taken OF
safely
Tht closest blow at the Atlantic
Coast by enemy warcraft since
Uniter States entry into the present
war csme on the heels Of a Navy an
nounc.ment that hostile submarines
were -anging pretty well up and
down The East Coast"
It Was the second attack in nearby
North Atlantic waters In as many
days. A large steamship, presumably
British, was torpedoed 100 miles of
Nova Scotia Tuesday with . reported
loss q some 90 lives.
The brazenness of enemy craft in
ventu'tng 50 close to the mainland
was & striking reminder Of similar
tactics in the last World War, when
U-bosts sank more than Q score Of
merchantmen in offshore waters.
Maritime experts assumed that
yesterdays raider was . U-boat,
since there has been no publicly
known instance Of any italian un-
derses6 activity north Of the Spanish
coast .egion.
o Believed Large Type Sub.
The expressed belief the sub
mersille. was either Of the 740-ton
class or perhaps one Of the few
1000 -acnners which Germany was
listed IS having IN the latest omcial
compilations.
p Sine the crew Of q 74o-tonner
would take 8 terrific beating physi-
eA1ly Snd have only the narTowest
Of safsty margins ta fuel the con-
Evening star., 1942-01-15

the sub stayed on top while firing
three torpedoes 1t regular intervals
into the tanker.
I'VE on the Malvina B were fish
ing about 2:30 yesterday afternoon" !"
Capt. 1saksen continued. I'VE no
ticed there was something floating
in the distance. As We got nearer
we saw 1t was a Hfeboat in which
were Capt. Hansen and his men.
One man had a broken kneecap.
We took them aboard and brought
them to port. The way it was de-
scribed to me, the sub circled the
boat before firing the second tor
pedo, which struck In the after
side"
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Army
Continued From First Page.)

dating 10000 men, will be estab-
lished. All existing training centers
will be expanded to provide for an
increase of 10000 men. In addition,
he said, the Army is now setting up
flve new tent camps. similar to
those established in the South at
the outset of the mobilization.
He expressed confidence that
housing for all men will be COM
pleted in the continental United
States by the time the last ones
are inducted In the service. No
doubt some men will have been sent
out of the United States by that
time, Mr.. StimSon said, in an In
direct reference to possibilities Of
expeditionary forces. When these
men leave the country, they will
provide vacancies and accommoda-
tions that can be filled by the new
recruits.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
British Closing In
On Axis Troops in
HaIfaya Region
Destructive Bombordmeni
By PIones and Artillery
Is Covering Advances
N the AssoeiAtsd Preae.

~ the Associated Press.
CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. l5.-Britiah
imperial and Allied infantry have
moved forward to new positions
against Axis holdout forces in the
Halfaya border region Of Egypt,
facing lbya, under cover Of de-
structive aerial and artillery bonn
bardment, British Near East head
quarters announced today.
I'm the Halfaya area, in co-opera-
ton with our air force, British
South African and Polish artillery
continued their bombardment Of
enemy defenses as. = result Of which
an important enemy ammunition
dump was destroyed and . number
Of direct hits registered on gun
emplAcements," . communique of
the Near East Command said.
Under cover Of this lombard
ment, our infantry moved forward
to new positions which are now
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Freight Troins Crash
Head On; Five Dead
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHAPLEAU, Ontario, Jan. 15.-
Two Canadian Pacific freight trains
crashed head on yesterday and
killed i've members of their crews
on the main line So miles west Of
this Northern Ontario railway town.
The engineers and firemen Of both
and q brakeman were Killed.
The impact derailed both engines
and 80 cars, hurting their cargoes
over hundreds of yards and now
ing down numerous poles.