--- title: The Daily Alaska Empire, daily edition, front page (Juneau, Alaska Territory, December 8, 1941) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/daily-alaska-empire-declare-war-1941/ description: 'Front page of a Juneau daily the day after Pearl Harbor: banner ''DECLARE WAR / UNITED STATES, JAPAN IN FIGHT'' over columns headed ''HEAVY TOLL TAKEN BY…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** Ethnic slur ('Jap') in two front-page headlines. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![The Daily Alaska Empire, daily edition, front page (Juneau, Alaska Territory, 1941-12-08)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/daily-alaska-empire-declare-war-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/daily-alaska-empire-declare-war-1941.jpg) # The Daily Alaska Empire, daily edition, front page (Juneau, Alaska Territory, December 8, 1941) Front page of a Juneau daily the day after Pearl Harbor: banner 'DECLARE WAR / UNITED STATES, JAPAN IN FIGHT' over columns headed 'HEAVY TOLL TAKEN BY JAP PLANES', 'WHITE HOUSE GIVES FACTS ON NEW WAR', '2 BATTLESHIPS OF U. S. SUNK, JAPAN CLAIMS' and 'Censorship Instituted by Army, Navy'. The events are documented; the tags are for the clipped label 'JAP' in headlines (the AP text says 'Japanese') and for the Tokyo claim given its own headline. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE "ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. LVIII., NO. 8899. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS DECLARE WAR UNITED STATES, JAPAN IN FIGHT BLACKOUT TONIGHT; PROCLAMATIONS ISSUED HEAVY TOLL TAKEN BY JAP PLANES Invaders Began Machine-gunning and Bombing Without Preliminaries WHITE HOUSE GIVES FACTS ON NEW WAR Damage by Japanese Raiders on Hawaii Is Officially Announced ACTIVE RESISTANCE IS QUICKLY MADE President Asks Congress For Declaration of War; Historic Appeal Is Made QUICK ACT MADE BY CONGRESS Vote for Declaration Is Unanimous in Senate—383 to 1 in House LOSS OF WARSHIPS, LIVES, GETS ACTION Great Britain Also Declares War on Nippon Nation—Takes 2 Allies MINUTE-MEN TO ENFORCE "BLACKOUT" Attack on United States Is Made by Japan; War Is Declared; Early Acts Told 2 BATTLESHIPS OF U. S. SUNK, JAPAN CLAIMS Censorship Instituted by Army, Navy Strict Travel Rules Issued [the remaining columns are not transcribed] ``` Masthead, banners and headlines were read from the committed 1280-px image; body text is not transcribed. The House vote is printed in the headline as '383 to 1' and in the side text as '388 to 1' as read from the image; FRAME does not resolve the difference. The year in the masthead is correct on this issue. [← The Daily Alaska Empire, 'JAPS ATTACK HONOLULU AND MANILA' war extra, 7 December 1941](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/daily-alaska-empire-war-extra-1941/) [Komsomolskaya Pravda, daily edition, front page (Moscow, December 9, 1941) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/komsomolskaya-pravda-front-page-1941-12-09/) ## Using the same techniques - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The North Briton, No. XLV, 23 April 1763 (John Wilkes), opening page](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/north-briton-no-45-wilkes-1763/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Apr 23, 1763 · Name-calling) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)