News-Pilot from San Pedro, California • 1

Three ew Sub Attacks Matson Ship Lahaina Sunk Tanker Escapes Torpedo Storey Attacked Off Pt Arguello Lahaina Loses 4 Men LO TIDE SCHEDULE Hieh tides et this port tomorrow ac eordinc to tables of the 6 Coast and Oeodetie Survey are scheduled to be 4 3 feet at 1 27 a and 4 5 feet at 12 31 and low tides 2 4 feet at 6-52 a Bi and 0 4 feet at 735 a Pears Dally Established San Pedro Dally Established 1ot Shipbuilding and Defense Contract at Th Port Exceed $401500000 New Series: Vol 14 No 250 San Pedro California Monday Evening December 22 1941 Sixteen Pages Per Week 15c Single Copy 3c zon ssau jTROOPS PATROL jj SHIPYARDS IN BAY DISTRICT FDR SIGNS BILL ENLARGING BRITISH PLANE CARRIER SUNK SANTA BARBARA CP) An enemy submarine this morning fired torpedo at the Standard Oil tanker Storey oft Point Argurllo 43 miles north of Santa Barbara the coast guard announced The tanker was not hit however The tanker was attacked shortly before 8 a From the shore onlookers could see the Storey zig-zagging its course to avoid being struck The tanker after being fired upon Immediately laid down a smoke screen on the water After several minutes of maneuvering the enemy craft submerged The Storey Is a 10763-ton tanker built in 1931 at Alameda Calif She normally carries a crew of 43 men DRAFTPROGRAM CLAIM NAZIS Sen Pepper Demands Build Army of at Least Six Million British Africa Forces Penetrate 150 Miles Into Tripolitania roops Hand-to-Hand Fighting and Tank Combat on Lingayan Gulf Beaches By The Associated Press Six to eight Japanese 80000 to 100000 strove today for a real foothold on the island of Luzon 150 miles from Manila and were met by a valiant defense in which American and Filipino troops than held their An estimate from the war department at Washington doubled previous estimates of the Japanese invasion strength carried toward the Philippine I beaches by 80 troopships under Explosions Snake Maryland Homes strong naval and air escort The motherships put a host of 150-man barges Into the water and these swarmed toward the shore through the shallows and surf under a hail of defense fire and WASHINGTON UP) President Roosevelt signed today the bill enlarging the selective service plan while the senate hoard demands BERLIN (Official broadcast recorded by AP) The German high command announced in a special communique today that a British carrier has been sunk In the Atlantic submarine operating in the Atlantic under the command of Capt the announcement said a British aircraft carrier The ship Authoritative Berlin quarters said that the aircraft carrier was one of the formidable class of 23000 tons (Britain has lost the 22500-ton aircraft carriers Ark Royal Courageous and Glorious) German sources said only the class not the name of the carrier could be given They said the ship was of most modem class capable of a speed of 307 knots and carrying 40 planes and a complement of 1600 officers and men WASHINGTON The navy announced today the Samoa was attacked by a submarine off the coast of California during the night of Dec 20 and that the steamship Lahaina was shelled and sunk Dec 11 by an enemy submarine while the Matson ship was on the Way to San Francisco i A torpedo exploded In the trinity of the Samoa but there were no casualties and the ship was not damaged Two of the crew of the Lahaina ere dead and two are missing Thirty survivors have landed at Kahulul on the Hawaiian island of Maui 1 These attacks announced in a hew navy communique followed the shelling of two American tankers by submarines Saturday off the California coast and announcement by Secretary of the Navy Knox that at least 14 undersea marauders had been sunk or damaged In the Atlantic and several Japanese submarines dealt with in the Pacific The communique Number 15 covering the situation up to noon EST) today said there were hew in the Far East or the Atlanti and that there had been' ho cnemj activity (Continued on Page Fourteen) that all recruiting be halted and that the nation rely entirely upon the draft to build up a war machine of 6000000 men or more Under the new law all men of IS through 64 must register and all from 20 through 44 are liable for active military service Senator Hill (D Ala) the democratic whip argued that the draft was the most efficient method of doing the job and in support of his contention he cited the case of "a doctor who had enlisted as a private when the army was crying for more Secretary of War Stimson already has announced that the army will stop accepting volunteers as soon as there is a falling off in the patriotic rush prompted by declarations of war against the axis powers The navy already has asked and received from congress the right to draft 50000 for the fleet and 10000 for the marines Senator Pepper (D Fla) asserted "We must build our army up to at Welders Picket in North Calship Says Dozen Men Out Here SAN FRANICSOO CP) Soldiers with fixed bayonets flanked by armored cars mounting machine guns today guarded two Richmond shipyards as independent welders threw picket lines around eight bay area yards in an inter-union dispute Soldiers guarded two other plants while pickets alone patrolled the remaining plants Yards reported operation imperceptibly affected Heaviest show of armed force was at Todd-California shipyard in Richmond where 300 soldiers under Major General Charles White and six armored cars each mounting two machine guns faced a quiet line of 50 pickets Three more armored cars were at the adjacent Richmond yard "The army is here for one General White said see that any man who wants to go to work will be given the opportunity The right to picket will not be infringed" Troops were less conspicuous at the Pacific Bridge yard in Alameda where 120 were Inside the gates and at Western Pips and Steel in South San Francisco where 160 were stationed Effectiveness of the picket lines was disputed by employers and the United Welders Cutters and Helpers an independent union whose members recently broke away from half a dozen different AFL unions A Todd-Califomia spokesman where the picket lines originated in the bay area when cards were taken away from welders for failure to pay AFL dues said the only absentees were 100 welders whose cards had been taken up Several pickets at carried banners reading want to OCEAN CITY Md Loud ex plosions offshore rattled windows and slightly shook houses in this resort city today and were heard in Berlin Md eight miles inland Henry Burbage a garage owner said the explosions began between 9:30 a and 10 a and continued at intervals fca: more than an hour and a half Burbage and other residents said there would be three or four quick explosions then silence followed Ly other outbreaks Henry who lives at Berlin said the explosions shook his house slightly and rattled windows Coast guard officials here would not comment LONDON UP) There was no comment here today on a German claim to have sunk a British aircraft carrier in the Atlantio DEATH HAS SEPARATED THESE William and Paul Nepp who enlisted in the navy last spring Paul (right) is missing in action the navy department says William is training at Corpus Christ! to be a navy flier This picture was taken when the 19-year-old boys graduated last February from San Pedro high school just a few months before they joined the navy At the naval training station the boys had almost identical records each heading his class of recruits before they went different ways Paul to become a seaman second class William to become a flying cadet San Pedran Missing Navy Tells Parents son is nfissing following action in the performance of his duty in the service of his These words in a telegram from the navy department Informed Mr and Mrs 'William Neipp of £58 Twenty-fifth st their son Paul 19 one of their twin boys was lost In the fearful raid Dec 7 on Pearl Harbor The telegram was delayed by the navy until all possibilities he might have escaped and been unreported were By THE ASSOCIATED FRESS Adolf Hitler's firing of his army chieftain Field Marshal least 6000000 men as soon as pos- General Walther von Brauchitsch 11 Fiveof Tanker Emidio Crew Lost to Christen Plane with the fuehrer himself taking personal command invoked a flood of speculation today on what Germany might do next The least will be a straining effort to check the headlong retreat in Russia and the most may be a new German stab in another sector of battle-tom perhaps a drive through Spain against Gibraltar with a view to establishing German power in French north or west Africa or a smash at the British in the middle east via Turkey An attempt at invasion of Britain also was a possibility The Germans declared that two Russian destroyers were sunk in battle last night with German destroyers but where was not stated (Continued on Page Fourteen) Dwight to Head Red Cross Drive sible we are in a two-ocean war with enemies on many fronts It is a fight to the finish and we must be prepared to the Several members of the senate military committee including Hill and Senator Gurney (R SD) agreed that the army must expand beyond recent plans for a force of 2000000 Most senators who heard confidential testimony by military authorities on the measure broadening the selective service act favored halting voluntary enlistments and obtaining men by means of the draft The senate later approved legislation to increase the authorized enlisted strength of the navy from 300000 to 500000 and to raise the limit on the marine corps from 60000 to 104000 men The measure now goes to the house KANSAS CITY Kas UP) The wife of a factory employe tomorrow will break a bottle of champagne over the sleek nose of the first twin-engined bomber to roll off the assembly line of the government-owned North American Aviation Inc Completion of the plane took slightly more than nine months from the time first construction work at the Fairfax plant was be gun II Kindelberger president of North American will talk from his office in Inglewood Calif his message by telephone being amplified by a public address system into a maelstrom of hand-to-hand and tank combat on the beaches of them succeeded in getting ashore" said the war department communique attempted invasion is being met with fierce resistance by American and Filipino The Washington statement placed the point of assault in the vicinity of Agoo on the innermost shore of Lingayen gulf Agoo itself is but 130 airline miles from Manila 100-SHIP FLEET Whether United States air or naval forces had gone into action against the invasion armada was not stated either at Manila or Washington Counting its naval escort and supply ships the Japanese invasion fleet numbered perhaps 100 vessels Manila's oificial report said that heavy guns shattered one landing spearhead 'At one point -Japanese destroyers and transports were driven off by our heavy guns and that landing was it was announced The afternoon communique from the Manila headquarters carried this accolade for the mixed forces now bathed in battle where the China sea foams into Lingayen Gulf: troops are behaving The Japanese armada was shielded from aloft by swarms of Japanese planes It was announced officially that tank combat figured in the new struggle but whether these included barge-landed Japanese tanks was not clear HONGKONG HOLDING The latest word from London Indicated that Britain's Hongkong garrison still held out under Japanese siege and direct attack by land and air on Hongkong Island In British Malaya defense forces 300 miles north of Singapore were reported to have smashed heavily at Japanese gathering for a push toward the important tin mining center of ipoh troops engaged the enemy and inflicted heavy said the Singapore communique A Manila headquarters spokesman said there were unverified reports of the sinking of Japanese transports in Lingayen Gulf The Japanese side of the story was that large numbers of Japanese soldiers with naval support had been landing since early morning on Luzon Island and attacking in co-operation with troops advancing from the north and south apparently forces from beach heads established at Vigan 200 miles northwest of Manila and in the Legaspi region some 200 miles to the southeast of the Philippine capital The Japanese also declared that Guam had been pacified and that a general offensive had been launched against the main Chinese forces in Chekiang Anhwei Kiangsi and Fukien provinces Dome! Japanese news agency totalled up naval c'aims again and produced a figure of 47 warships sunk damaged or seized by the Japanese since the start of the Pacific war SLTREME TEST There was little doubt that the supreme test for the defense of the Philippines was at hand General MacArthur's army 'Continued on Page Fourteen) SAN FRANCISCO All but five men of a crew of 36 survived the enemy submarine attack on the tanker Emidio the captain of the ship said today as he and his men were landed at Eureka by a coastguard cutter i He described the Saturday torpedoing and shelling of the tanker as the ruthless thing I've heard Three of the ship's lifeboats were shelled Captain Clark A Farrow of Long Beach said five of his men were injured but no one was in serious condition The Emidio still was afloat Eureka is about 275 miles north of San Francisco The navy said gunfire from the submarine destroyed three of the lifeboats Several hours before the Emidio was fired upon another American tanker the Agwiworld escaped from a submarine off Cypress Point 100 miles south of San Francisco Although eight shells were hurled at the Agwiworld from the deck gun the tanker maneuvered by a submarine-wise skipper zigzagged its way to safety In a 30- (Continued on Page Fourteen) Postmaster Leon Dwight today accepted the chairmanship of a Red Cross drive for funds to relieve American citizens whose families and homes have been broken by Japanese bombs and said a campaign will be held in San Pedro after the holidays No port quota has yet been assigned although the entire Los Angeles area has been asked to raise $2500000 Opening date for the drive here has not yet been set but Dwight said it will be concluded at least by Jan 15 Noble 5 Others Freed by California shipyard on Terminal Island said this noon only dozen or welders were absent today in addition to those fired Saturday when some men put down their tools in ft protest called by the independent union to a requirement the men pay dues to the AFL A spokesman for the United Welders Cutters and Helpers however declared more than 400 men walked out this morning and signed a register in the independent union hall Some of the men the union said were from the Consolidated Steel Co shipyard at Long Beach There was no evidence of troops on Terminal Island this morning and police reported no violence The independent welders did not picket checked twin brother William is at the navy flying school at Corpus Christ! Tex Both boys enlisted in the navy soon after their graduation last February from San Pedro high school They were following in the footsteps of their dad who served 15 years in the navy of which a year and a half was overseas duty in the World war Another San Pedran Byron Thea-dore Vickery 34 first class machinist may be missing the navy department says but Mrs Vickery of 540 Sepulveda is holding to the belief her husband is safe She received a telegram Friday night her husband a veteran of 15 years in the navy was missing Saturday she received a letter written by him the previous Tuesday and postmarked Thursday Mrs Vickery says that from the contents of the letter she believes her husband is safe and the local Red Cross office today is checking with the navy to determine if it has later informa' tion Young Paul Neipp last wrote his mother on Nov 15 from Pearl Harbor sending his snapshot and the last of many souvenirs of Hawaii In addition to his parents and twin brother Paul leaves a sister Caroline and uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Beckham of 1415 Patton ave and his grandmother for whose Too Many Dogs Offered M'Arthur Two 9-Hour Shifts at Bethlehem Yard A'dcption of an 18-hour working day with two nine-hour shifts effective today was announced today by Bethlehem shipyard The company's yard here had been working a one nine-hour shift day following blackout shutdowns The yard had been operating on three eight-hour shifts prior to the blackouts JAP CROWN PRINCE EIGHT TOKYO Tuesday (Official Broadcast Recorded By AP) Crown Prince Akihito is eight years old today Scoff Named Air Raid Warden off your This In substance was the request of Fort MacArthur army authorities today after receiving what was termed response to a published request for donations of dogs suitable for army work Only three dogs were delivered directly to Lt Dave Bramson directed by Col Hicks to recruit some dogs But a landslide of response came by telephone telegraph and mail The army asked donors to hold off until an army truck can be sent to pick up the dogs Sub Seen Off Point Fermln LOS ANGELES UP) Charges of uttering seditious speech filed against six persons following a meeting held here Dec 11 under auspices of the of were dismissed today on Instructions from the United States attorney office Named in the charges were Robert Noble alleged head of the organization Mrs Gretta Robins Ellis Jones George Friend Mrs Agnes Norman and secretary Lecne Menier A telegram from the attorney office requesting dismissal of the complaints declared that "speech as such ought not be restricted by punishment unless it appears that such speech will cause direct and dangerous interference with the conduct of the Speeches allegedly were made at the meeting denouncing the war and agitating the "impeachment" of President Roosevelt according to United States Commissioner David Head husband he was named Mrs Paul Neipp of Buffalo Ranger Slayer Gets I -10 Years LOS ANGELES UP) Sentence of from one to 10 years in San Quentin prison was imposed today upon Howard McMillan Long Beach oil worker convicted of manslaughter in the killing of Forest Ranger Harmon Schwoob who attempted to arrest him for alleged illegal deer hunting Superior Judge A A Scott denied a plea for probation for McMillan and also a new trial motion Notice of appeal was given by the defendant Naval officials today declined a comment on a report watchers on shore at 8:30 last night saw a submarine break surface briefly off Point Fermin and re-submerge There was nothing to indicate whether or not it was an enemy vessel Beginning Tomorrow Thera Are Only Civilians Register For Defense Duty Mrs William Day Moore today began registering at the library Tenth and Gaffey sts volunteers for all types of civilian defense activities Persons desiring to volunteer may register between 10 a and noon and 1 to 3 dailv Mrs Moore is assisting Jeanette Lindemuth enrollment division chairman The three communities over which the three wardens will have authority are divided into zones with each zone in charge of a zone warden appointed by the community warden The zones are divided into sectors also with senior wardens In order to make the air raid service function efficiently Draper said a great number of men are needed but after the organization is completed it will probably not be necessary for each to serve more than six hours a week San Pedro alone has had its air raid warden quota raised from a share of initial 1500 men recruited to 1864 wardens for the port city alone Others must be found to handle posts in Wilmington Harbor City and the Shoestring area Men over 21 years of age are urged to Scott department store manager today was appointed community air raid warden for San Pedro Henry Olson for Wilmington and Richard Scden for Harbor City area will embrace Terminal island until further arrangements are made according to Police Sgt Draper who announced new plans for the air raid warden and auxiliary police set-up after two weeks of organization The air raid warden service will function as a unit independent of the auxiliary police Those who have Joined the auxiliary are requested to state their preference between general police duty and air raid warden service While the air raid wardens will be under police supervision it was found best Draper said to appoint leading citiz-ns as community air raid wardens Day of Prayer Sef Olson Rallies Legislators SACRAMENTO UP) Governor Olson today rallied his forces in opposition to the proposed recessing of the legislature for the purpose of making a comprehensive study of state guard and defense needs am tremendously disappointed in net receiving the co-operation I had hoped he said at a press conference The assembly passed a bill already approved by the senate giving authority to cities counties and other governmental subdivisions to ic-al funds without regaid to WASHINGTON UP) President Roosevelt today proclaimed New Year's Day as day of prayer are confident in our devotion to country in our love of freedom in our inheritance of he said our strength as is of greater avail as God upholds Therefore he said he was setring aside the first day of 1942 a day of prayer of asking forgiveness for our shortcomings of the past of consecration to the tasks of the present of asking God's help in MRS A GIANNI NI DIES SAN MATEO A heart attack caused the death yesterday of Mrs A Giannmi 72 wife of the nationally known California banker Funeral services will be held Wednesday budgetary restrictions for local and serve in their home zones I fense purposes the strength of all men everywhere days to come:.