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--4 REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR! Help the Tucson Red Cross An Independent NEWSpaper Printing the News Impartially 8 VOL 100 NO. 357 TWENTY PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS Port Office. Tucson. AHzcm matt a. TUCSON, ARIZONA, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1941 i i nnnn iv a 12? mm Winston Churchill Arrives in U.S.

Capital Hong Kong Defenders Drive Some Japs Off Island, China Reports CHUXGKIXG, China, Tuesday. Dec. 23. Chinese cen-tral headquarters on the Canton front reported today part of the Japanese troops which landed on Hong Kong Inland have been driven off by the Hritlsu They Meet Again to Plan Unified Action DISORGANIZED IS USSR PICTURE OF NAZI RETREAT rj. MacArtliur States Lingayen Defense Is 'Well in Hand' Heavy Force of Japanese Sea-Borne Troops Is Landed Northwest of Manila; Reports Say At Least Three Enemy Transports Sunk MANILA, Tuesday, Dec.

23. J) A heavy force of Japanese sea-borne troops supported by airplanes landed yesterday at Santo Tomas on the Gulf of Lingayen northwest of here, but Gen. Douglas McArthur's headquarters announced that American defenders had the situation "well in American tanks and artillery immediately went into action between Santo Tomas and Damortis, a town several miles south of the landing place. (Washington already had announced that the fighting centered in the 20-mile "coastal stretch along the gulf north- I ward to A poo. which is Just north 6 0 lets'" President Roisevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, whose meeting in the Atlantic was one of the Important events of last summer, have again met, this time at Washington, I.C where their conference is expected to be the first step In a unified plan of action by the nations who are battling Hitlerism.

LONDON, Tuesday. Dec. 23. Hong Kong's beleaguered defenders were reported early today to still be maintaining communication twice a day with London and Chungking by means of hidden radio stations. Resides the island's defenders M.

dial, chief secretary of the Chinese embassy said there were 3,000 white women and children who stayed and are now living In caves burrowed deep in the sides of Victoria peak. All. he said, are well supplied with food and water. CHANGE DUE TO HEART TROUBLE So Says Ousted German General in Message To Nazi Armies Dec. 22.

(Official Broadcast Recorded by AP) Field Mar shal Gen. Walt her von Brauch-itsch, who has been relieved of his command of the Nazi armies by Adolf Hitler, issued an order of the flay tonight saying he asked for his dismissal "on account of heart trouble." "The order furthermore expressed the conviction that Der Fuehrer would lead the German soldiers to victory," a broadcast said. When Hitler announced Sunday that he was taking personal command of the armies as of last Friday he made no mention of the deposed field marshall's "heart trouble," but said his act was dictated by inward call," and that be (Hitler) was "following his Intuitions." He also spoke of the interdependence of military, political, and economic factors as a reason for assuming supreme command. Hitler beseeched the German soldiers on the Russian front to hold on fanatically through the winter and hinted of a new Nazi military operation with new arms and troops in the spring. "The introduction of other de risive war measures is impending," he said.

He asked for the army's loyalty and obedience and declared "my heart belongs entirely to you." NEW DRIVE SEEN IN 1UTI.KIC ACTION BERN. Switzerland, Dec. 22. Suggestions that Adolf Hitler was planning to lunge out soon in new fir currently inactive theatres, perhaps in the Near Fast or in the West, now that he has grasped personal supreme control of the German armed forces, were strong today in official Berlin broadcasts. What was really in view remained, of course, in doubt.

Following up Hitler's ouster of Field Marshal General Walther von Brauchitsth and his appeal to his soldiers and Nazi troops in Russia to hTld fast during the winter in a mere war of defense, the official German news agency DNB declared that the war was "now approaching its decisive stage." Familiar Phraseology This, the familiar phraseology employed by Hitler or in his behalf when he is contemplating (Continued to Page 11, Column 5) RAF Downs Jap Planes As Malaya Line Holds Heavy Casualties Inflicted on Nippon Forces in Jungle Fighting as British Take Up New Positions; Dutch Aircraft Aids SINGAPORE, Dec. 22. (TP) British Malayan troops inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese in another sharp jungle fight about 330 miles above Singapore, and the RAF smashed nine Japanese planes in two air actions, it was announced officially tonight. VISIT SEEN AS FORERUNNER TO UNIFIEDACTION Premier, Beaverbrook and Technical Staff Are White House Guests PARLEYS ARE HELD Other Nations Expected Xo Join in Drafting Program of Unity WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.

(jj prime Minister Winston Churchill, after a secret and history-making journey, arrived in Washington today, and tonight was closeted with President Roosevelt in the White House discussing unified war plans to encompass "the defeat of Hitlerism throughout the world." The daring trip by Britain's rotund li'Me fighting premier was announce! by the White House, which ii that Lord Beaverbrook, jr.ini.ittr of supply, and a tech-jjical staff accompanied him. Just how he made the journey was a miliary secret, although it was revealed that the last leg, at jca-, was by air. He was met "at i nparr)y airport oy I'rcsiuem Roosevelt, and in full wartime sec- roc was conducted to the White House hy the chief executive there to be the guest of Roose velt. The prime minister, it was said, via wearing a reefer presumably his familiar pea jacket and a cap. (Questions Covered There was widespread specula tion that the conference would cover such questions as: Establishment of a supreme command for the fighting forces of all ef Hi tier's opponents.

E-uhlishment of a joint min-b'ryot supply for all the armies. In a statement. President Roose-xtlt said there was one primary elective, the defeat of Hitlerism throughout the world, in conversions to be held during the next frw days between President Roose-Tit and Prime Minister Churchill nd fii" respective staffs of the two countries. The stjtoment said these conferences should be regarded as preliminary to further parleys which 'ill officiary include Russia. China, the Netherlands "and the British dominions.

Over-All Unity "It Is expected," the President "that there will thus be fvn'verl an overall unity in the mndurt of the war. Other nations ill hn n.L n.l in t-i 1 it ii, 1 1: nit iuv.i ciuiiiiv in me over-au cbtrrtive. "It is probable that no further will made until the end of present conferences but it in ir bo assumed that other nations will be kept in close touch with this preliminary plannipc." Text Revealed Here f3 the text of the White House announcement: 'There is. of course, one primary objective in the conversations to held during the next few days the Pre ident and the F-itis prime minister and the re- staffs of tho two roiintrips. "ha; purpose is the defeat of Hit-wKti throughout the world.

should be remembered that tr.ani otht'r nations are encaged in this common task. present conferences in 'cton shouUI le regarded as lr.arv to further conferences will officiallv include Rus- rorp. i prelim which ma. the Xetherlands and Un'. It is expected that i be evolved an over- 84 in the conduct of the ar- tv-her nations will be asked participate to the best of their in the over-all objective.

"It is probable that no further announcements will be made until sj-e cn of the present conferences. may be assumed that the J'Cr interested nations will be in close touch with this pre-'unary planning." Terse Statement separate announcement, of Churchill's arrival, was terse: "The British Prime Minister has jmved in the United States to feeuss with the President all quests relevant to the concerteii war continued to rage 11, Column 1) Shopping ms till Christmas Russian Forces Press on, Keoccupying Formerly Held Red Towns BIG LOSSES TALLIED "Mow 'em Down" Is Cry Of Guerrilla Force Aiding Armies MOSCOW, Tuesday, Dec. 23. (VP) Reoccuoation of a number of populated points by Red army forces steadily advancing in fierce fighting was announced by the Soviet information bureau today. The communique said the gains were registered all the way from Leningrad in the north to the Sea of Azov in the south.

It mentioned specifically heavy fighting in the sectors before Leningrad, Moscow and Kalinin. The accounts of continued Soviet gains were accompanied by the exultant declaration that after six months of war Russia "has begun to win, and will continue to win." As town after town littered with frozen Nazi dead and abandoned vsar equipment came under the Red flag, the Moscow committee of the Communist party began plans for restoration of industries in the re-occupied area and mapped a spring planting program for fields now rutted from battle. On the northern front, the Russians reported clearing a 50-mile stretch of highway between Tikh-vin and Volkhov, southeast of Leningrad, by wading knee-deep in snow through a swampy forest and encircling the 21st German infantry division. Thousands of Germans were killed and 12 villages wore recaptured in the encirclement, dispatches from the front said. On the Moscow front the Germans were reporter! being hurled back eight to 12 miles a flay west of Klin and beyond Volokolamsk.

Tass declared that the Red army was encountering stubborn German resistance near Maloyaroslavets. C5 miles southwest (4 the capital, where it said "the enemy has gathered all his forces in order to repel our attacks and is holding strongly fortified positions." Tass said, however, Russian at-! tacks had pierced the German de- fenses, driving from two and a half to four miles into the German lines. Pravda reported that on the bitterly-contested Moscow front alone the Germans lost more than dead from Nov. 10 to Dec. 20.

In addition, the Communist party newspaper said, the Russians captured 2.112 tanks. 12.204 automobiles and trucks. 1.57S field guns and vast quantities of other war material there. "We are winning, and will continue to win." Pravda asserted, attributing the Red army's victories in large measure to its vast trained reserves. PIMA JOINING IN BANK SUIT APPEAL PHOENIX.

Dec. 22. An appeal from a judgment by Federal Judge Dave W. Ling of Phoenix forbidding collection rf taxes as sessed against preferred capital stock which the Vallev National I bank has sold the Reconstruction Finance corporation was filed to day by Maricopa and Pima coun ties. The case, on which an appeal was filed with the U.

S. circuit court in San Francisco, involves taxes for the years 1035 and 10.10. The amounts were, respectively, for Maricopa county, S.T1.S72 and 20.02 and for Pima county and S15.14S. The counties, which have consolidated their appeals, contend that the stock is taxable as the result of a supreme court ruling. Although Congress has passed a law invalidating such taxation, thev assert the action was subsequent to the levvine of th tax.

Judge Ling's judgment wa3 entered October S. FLIER TELLS OF LUZON ESCAPADE NEW YORK. Dec. 22 On Lieut Walter Cross, a U. S.

Army pilot, said tonight on a CBS broadcast frpm Manila that Japanese airmen, after crippling his pursuit plane over northern Luzon, continued to machine-gun him as he took to his parachute ar.d even after he had landed in the middle of a river and was swimming ashore. The aim of his assailants, however, was poor, said the pilot and his onlv injury was a pair of blistered feet in an eight -day hike back to Manila through mountainous terrain inhabited only by tribesmen a aisiance ne niu covered in little more than an hour by air, BRITISH FORCE NEARS BENGASI Desert Patrol Plunges 150 Miles Westward Into Tripolitania CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 22 (JP) A Rritish desert patrol plunging 150 miles westward into Tripolitania was reported officially tonight to have wiped out an Axis garrison and air base in a brilliant move to trap the main German and Italian forces in flight near Bengasi, far to the east. Cen. Erwin von Rommel's main Panzer troops were reported beating a hasty retreat toward Age-dabia south of with Rritish troops at their heels, while Italian rear guards' tried to check the Rritish only 2- miles east of Ilengasi at EI Abiar.

These rear guards were being pressed back, the Rritish said. The brief Rritish account of the daring thrust into Tripolitania said: "A few days ago one of our mechanized patrols operating over miles into Tripolitania carried out a brilliant surprise against an enemy airdrome which had just been taken into use. "No less than 2t German and Italian aircraft were destroyed on the ground, dumps of petrol (gasoline! and bombs were demolished, and the entire garrison which outnumbered the raiders by six-to-one, was accounted for." This action put the Rritish 430 miles beyond the I.gyptian frontier and almost half way to Tripoli, the main Axis Libyan base whose capture would be a death blow to Premier Musoslini's shattered empire, and would place Allied forces in contact with French North Africa. The British did not name the site of the demolished base, but the distance suggested that it was at Sirte or nearby on the Bengasi-Tripoli coastal highway. This advance force apparently was the one which early in this offensive cut straight across the Libyan desert to the Gulf of Sirte.

The British have not mentioned it for weeks. of Santo Tomas). The army communique said: "The engagement yesterday occurred in the vicinity of Santo Tom.is, l.a Union Province. Latest reports indicate our troops are holding a position north of Damortis. The enemy was very active in the air yesterday.

Numerous planes were bombed and the ground attack was supported by aircraft, Three Sunk One unconfirmed report from Dagupan on the gulf said that at least three Japanese transports out of the SO which had Iwcn sighted outside wire sunk in the gdf Itself. Reliable sources said It was possible that many more had leen destroyed by the American forces, who were using artillery and tanks against the landing parties. It still was not known whether the Japanese had able to bring any considerable amount of equipment ashore. Although American tanks al ready had gone into action. It also was not clear whether the Japanese intcndd to unload all of the SO transports in Lingayen Gulf, or try to shove shock forces ashor elsewhere during the night.

An Army spokesman said no reports had been received from Da-vao on Mindanao Island about th progress of the hard fighting there. The prolonged silence about the far southern theater Indicated that communications may have been cut Trainees KlHed A score or more of ilipino army recruits tinder training at Camp Murphy were reported to have leen killed by Japanese air I tombs. Several scor were Injured, newspaper dispatches said. General MacArthur's communique late yesterday said that the ground fortes In the Lingayen area "more than held their own." and the general added "our troops are behaving well." The struggle was Joined In an area which MacArthur long had anticipated as the focal point of the major Japanese effort; for unofficially, the battle was reported as centered In th 20-mllo coastal stretch along th Gulf of Lingayen extending' northward from the port or Lingayen to the town of Agoo. Lingayen Itself is 110 miles north west of Manila.

The Lingavf-n roaMal area commands two approaches to Manila: one. a flat interior corridor averaging some 40 mils in width over which railroad Bnd road communication runs down to Manila; the other an indirect highway from Lingayen which loops around the northern end cf the mountains of western Luzon, then turns southward toward Manila. WASHINGTON REPORTS INTENSE FIGHTING WASHINGTON. Dec. 22 V-The war department, reporting Intense fighting with the Japanese Invaders along the west coast of Luzon about 150 miles north of Manila, said tonight American and Philippine trfops were using tanks and artillery against one thrust toward the capital.

A communique said attempted landings by the enemy were frustrated at two points on Lingayen gulf, at San Fabian and Damortis. Japanese destroyers, trying to cover the attempted landing at Damortis, were driven off by artillery. The successful Japanese landing was near Agoo. In the same general vicinity, and enemy troops were engaged south of there with artlWy and tanks. The war department reported also that 273 Japanese aliens In Hawaii were now Interned, adding that "for" the most part, the Japanese population of Hawaii has given no evidence of disloyalty." Stating there were no fifth columnists among members of he armed services In Hawaii, the communique added: "However, as was reported by Secretary Knox on his return from his recent trip to Hawaii, there Is strong evidence to support the belief that some Japanese were engaged In 'fifth column' activity and provided the enemy with valuable military Information prior to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor." XEW COMMANDER AT SIBERIA IS NAMED NEW YORK.

Dec. 22. V-NBCs Manila representative re-(CoatiBacd to Fagtt IS Column 1) i JAPAN A TTE3IPTS PINCERS ATTACK MacArthur Invasion Cost Recalled; Heavy Price For Jap Attackers WASHINGTON. Dec. 22 The Japanese attack in force on the gulf of Lingayen.

110 miles north of Manila, was regarded in military circles here as possibly the first prong of a powerful pincers attack on General Douglas Mac-Arthur's main defense army. Defense plans for the Philippines, as revealed in practice maneuvers, were drafted in anticipation that the main enemy thrust would come at Lingayen. Likewise, it was anticipated that an enemy might attempt a landing on the coast of Zambales province, northwest of Manila, and attempt to drive across the rugged Zambales peninsula in the direction of the town of Tarlac about 70 miles north of Manila. Second Jaw Such a force would serve as the other jaw of a pincers movement against MacArthur's forces defending the valley north of Manila which forms the main avenue of approach to the capital. Soon fter hostilities started.

It was noted here, a large Japanese naval force appeared off the Zambales coast in the vicinity of the town of Kba. but withdrew without attempting to put troops ashore. Kba i about R0 miles northwest of Manila. Hoad to Rase From the Eba vicinity, no main roads lead across rugged hill jungles to Tarlac but an improved highway extends southward to Su-bic bay, on which is situated Olon-gapo, a secondary base for Admiral Thomas C. Harts Asiatic fleet.

With the Japanese apparently following closely preconceived American notions of what strategy an enemy would employ, the developing attack may be expected to test not only the mettle of the Philippine-American defender but also well-prepared strategic plans for dealing with such assaults. These plans are, naturally, secret as are the military resources available to General MacArthur. Invasion Cost The Japanese attack came before MacArthur had been able to complete long-range plans for defense of the islands, but it may not be amiss to recall an estimate he once marie of what price an (Continued to Page II, Column 3) Harry F. Norton. Industrial relations counsel for the plant said cards had been taken away from 100 welders for failure to pay AFL dues and the men's names turned over to draft boards.

Insistence of Todd-California that the men pay dues to AFL unions In accordance with the closed shop contract precipitated the strike call. The union wants United Weldors cards recognized Troops and armored cars also ap peared at the Richmond shipyard rorty-slx of 400 welders failed to report here. Other soldiers guarded the Pacific Bridge Company's yard In Alameda and the Western Pipe and Steel plant In South San Francisco. The Permanente magnesium plant near San Jose was the only non-shipbuilding industry affected. All 50 pipe welders failed to report but welders in other categories went to work.

Other affected plants were Bethlehem Steel Company yards In Oakland and Alameda, General En gineering and United Engineering, AH reported operations at or near normal. 0 Similar reports" came from the California Shipbuilding Corporation and the Consolidated Steel Company In Long Eeach. United Weldors In Seattle, third shipbuilding center on the Pacific coast postponed any action at least until JuesSay. Yi i fri rVT1f 1111 1 I A Kl I I i I I ul1 11IU11U1 TiT iTilTniT 'PrvI7rriJ Kl (ill hit Kll Enemy Submarines Miss Three Merchantmen Off California WASHINGTON'. Dec.

22 UP) The fact that enemy submarines have missed three merchant ships off California in the last three days, while hitting one. led to unofficial speculation tndav that the Japanese underscas skippers have "buck fever." Some navy officers said the Japanese, far from their home bases, apparently were too fearful of prowling U.S. destroyers to take enough time to aim carefullv. The latest of the ineffectual attacks occurred this morning when, a 'Coast Guard announcement said, a submarine fired a torpedo at the Standard Oil tanker H. M.

Stnrv off Point Arguello, 45 miles north of Santa Barbara. Calif. Skillfully zig-zaggmg, the tanker made the sub skipper miss then it laid down a smoke serf-en, and the submersible, apparently giving the thing up as a bad disappeared beneath the sea. The encounter was witnessed by onlookers on the shore. The navy disclosed that a submarine, presumably Japanese, fired shells and a torpedo at the steamship Samoa off California Saturday, but "all shots missed tneir mark.

On the same dav the tanker Agwiworld was attacked off Cypress Point at Monterey, on her way from Los Angeles to San Fran cisco, but escaped by expert ma-' r.euvering. i However, five sailors are missing i as a result of the torpedoing and shelling of the tanker Emidio. off! Cape Mendocino, Saturday. The tanker was abandoned h- its crew. I Thirty-one survivors, five of them' I injured, were brought to Eureka, loaay.

The navy announced fodav that the S.S. Lahaina was -unk by shell tire in tne vicinity of Hawaii De-! cember 11. with a loss of two dead and two missing. Thirty sur- BUENOS AIRES. Dec Argentina delegation to the Rio De Janeiro conference will be instructed at a cabinet meeting tomorrow to lend complete support to the United States and other warring American republics in corr.nli- ance witn previous Pan-American I agreements, informed persons said 1 tonight.

ine isrmsn were said to be bold- ing firmly in new positions an- chored aparentlv in the west of Kuaia Kangsar, JO miles north of the tin mining center of Ipoh, and 45 miles south of Kota Bharu where the' Japanese made their first landing on the peninsula December 8. The new'--engagement occurred yesterday on the Grik-Kuala Kangsar highway in an area where the British said the Japanese were using rafts to ferry reinforcements down the Terak river from the north. British defenses apparently ran irregularly through the swamps south of the Perak river and over the mountains to the east. While Ipoh is only about '20 air miles from Kuaia Kangsar. the road and rail route between the two points is 50 miles.

Aircraft Iowned Rritish planes attacking a Japanese airfield -in the north were said to have put six enemy aircraft out of commission. Three other planes were shot down in a Japanese attack on Kuala Lumpur, a railway point between Ipoh and Singapore. The British lost three planes In this second fight, the communique said. Singapore had a short alert tonight with some searchlight activity and a few anti-aircraft bursts but no bombs were dropped. Dutch Planes Help Batavia dispatches said that Dutch army planes were supporting the RAF in Malaya, and Hein ter Poorten.

commander (Continued to Tagr 15, Column 1) against Japanese aggression for more than four years, forcing Japan to use up vital military supplies, taking a fearful toll of Japanese dead and wounded, and making it impossible for substantial numbers of Japanese troops to be withdrawn from the China front. The Xetherlands. fighting to rro-i 1 Soldiers Confront Welders In Coast Shipyard Strikes Two Chiefs to Discuss Many Questions of Great Import SAN" FRANCISCO, Dec. 22 Soldiers, armored cars, olier, and counter-picket lines confronted independent welders todav as nearly 5O0 of them walked out of eight San Francisco Ray shipyards and a magnesium plant in an inter-union dispute. Picket lines here were the only response to a call for a nationwide strike by the United Weldors Cutters, and Helpers, to force recognition of their independent organization.

The 415 strikers about a fifth of the 2.57S employed in the nine plant, reported Dean Jennings of the Office of Emergency Management's division of information. 300 Fall to Report Three hundred failed to report at the Todd-California shipyard in Richmond, where armored cars and trucks mounted with machine guns flanked 300 soldiers carrying fixed bayonets. "The army Is here for one purpose to see that any man who wants to go to work will be given the opportunity." said Major Gen- eral Charles H. White, In command of the troops. The right to picket will not be infringed." Counter-pickets from AFL unions which the welders recently deserted, appeared on the scene.

Welders carried signs reading "we want to work." while AFL pja-cards read. "This is not a picket line; it is a fiXtli coluxan." I tect the rich East Indies, are a i vivors hav landed at Kahului on major factor in beating off Japa-j tne island of Maui, south of Hono-nese attacks throughout the South uIu- Pacific. Australia. India, New Zealand U.S. ASSURED OF and Canada hav all contributed liberally to the joint British cm- AKLiLN TINA'S AID pire war effort.

i WASHINGTON. Dec. 22 (JPs Many questions of tremendous import! including the creation of a Supreme War Council representing nations battling the Axis, are believed certain to be discussed by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Discussions designed to convene a conference of the anti-Axis pow- ers nere to iafve finnnc si to smash Axis aggression and provide "a better future for the world" have been under way since the dav of Japan treacherous attacks on American outposts in the Pacific. While the United States, Great Britain and Soviet Russia are bearing the brunt of Axis attacks and must provide most of the defensive power now and in the future, all anti-Axis nations with independent fighting forces are expected to play important roles in the discussions.

China Included China has valiantly battled An urgent decision before the anti-Axis powers is coordination of their military, naval and economic strength particularly in the Pacific to achieve the greatest possible striking power to smash Japanese aggression. World-Wide Strategy While the world-wide scale of (Continued to rage 11, Column 5).