The Daily Alaska Empire, daily edition, front page (Juneau, Alaska Territory, June 23, 1941)
A Juneau front page on 23 June 1941 leads with Russia and watches Japan
The Daily Alaska Empire, Juneau, 23 June 1941: banners "Axis Declares War on Russia" and "Japan Cautious on Making War Move" over AP war reports.
Techniques named on the archive record
Card stacking
Date
June 23, 1941
Made by
The Daily Alaska Empire (Empire Printing Company, Juneau, Alaska Territory), a member of the Associated Press
Medium
Newspaper pages
Country
United States
Regime
Roosevelt Administration
Source
Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source
Library of Congress, Chronicling America (Alaska State Library Historical Collections, NDNP awardee) , retrieved October 2, 2026
Source
LOC Chronicling America: no known restrictions; no copyright notice on page 1 The Daily Alaska Empire (Juneau, Alaska), 23 June 1941, p. 1. Alaska State Library Historical Collections, via Library of Congress, Chronicling America (LCCN sn83045499).
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The Daily Alaska Empire of Juneau, Alaska Territory, for Monday 23 June 1941 runs two full-width banners, "Axis Declares War on Russia" and "Japan Cautious on Making War Move," over an Associated Press report headed "Nazi Blitz Rolls Over Russ Border." The page is in Chronicling America.
The page
This is a privately printed daily, a member of the Associated Press, priced at ten cents. The archive's transcription covers the masthead, both banners, and the main stories in the left and right columns. It notes that the remaining columns are not transcribed.
THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
AXIS DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA
JAPAN CAUTIOUS ON MAKING WAR MOVE
[...] JAPAN NOW WATCHED BY OBSERVERS; Nippon Might Attempt to Seize Eastern Siberia While War Rages [...]
NAZI BLITZ ROLLS OVER RUSS BORDER; Italy Follows German Example—Finland Claims State of Neutrality; TROOPS ALREADY TEN MILES INTO SOVIET [...]
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Germany declared war on Russia early Sunday morning. The declaration was made by Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop. [...]
BRITISH BOMBING GERMANY; FRENCH FORCES LOSING; ATTACK ON RUSSIA IS CONDEMNED; United States Official Talks Out—Assistance May Be Given
What the editors chose
The archive calls the invasion itself a documented event. Its technique tag, card stacking, is about the arrangement. The first banner says "Axis," though the Associated Press copy below it names Germany and reports Italy following. The second banner goes to Japan, which the archive reads as a choice made for readers in the Pacific Northwest, and the left column is given to Tokyo's situation and its leaders' conferences. In the archive's reading, the Soviet side gets a single AP column.
That is ordinary news judgment, and it is worth seeing as a choice. A local paper decided its readers would care, right after the invasion itself, about what Japan did next. The page also carries an American story with a government angle, "U. S. TAKES SHIP," with a photo caption about Coast Guardsmen guarding a Danish freighter that the government had put on its service list.
In December
The same paper's front page for 8 December 1941 has its own entry: A Juneau front page the day after Pearl Harbor. Read together, the two pages show a paper watching Japan in June and reporting war with Japan in December. The Roosevelt administration essay describes the voluntary press code that newspapers worked under after Pearl Harbor; this June page predates it.
Sources
FRAME object record, The Daily Alaska Empire, daily edition, front page (Juneau, Alaska Territory, June 23, 1941). The Daily Alaska Empire (Empire Printing Company, Juneau, Alaska Territory), a member of the Associated Press. Rights as recorded: LOC Chronicling America, no known restrictions; no copyright notice on page 1.
Library of Congress, Chronicling America (Alaska State Library Historical Collections, NDNP awardee), page 1, 23 June 1941, retrieved by the archive 2 October 2026.
