The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 9, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL.-LX., NO. 9185. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U.S. TROOPS LAND IN FRENCH COLONIES Fully Equippe OMMEL'S UNITS CUT 1020,000 ~ AIR-BORNE R TROOPS IN NEW GUINEA a Brief R . Ab, Infantry Unifs with JeepsE Brifish Confinue Pursuit-| | 80,000 Ifalian Surren- der-Matruh Falls CAIRO, Nov. 9.—British Flown Over from Australia (By Associated Press) \ | troops Japan’s last hold on the teeming | continue to pursue Marshal Erwin | green jungles of southeastern New | Rommel’s retreating Axis forces to! Guinea, stepping stone to Australia, | Libya where the enemy has beeén shaken by American sol- troops ‘have been holding out near Matruh | diers who hacked their way to within | which, according to early morning striking distance of the invaders’|aqvices, has capitulated. base at Buna after probably the ' Tne British headquarters an- — greatest air-borne infantry move- |, ce that Allied air squadrons | '“fm'?"e“‘;r‘r'l:';“‘ghs have caught the| CoRtinued to blast the line’ of the enemy in retreat, shooting up the Japs flat-footed on Guadalcanal, to0. The indomitable American fight- | ing men are on the advance, rolling | | fleeing columns of trucks | without aerial protection. The communique said left fighters the Japs back of east of Henderson | and bombers shot up 50 enemy Pleld. The latest thrust was good | trucks in one raid alone. for four miles and may have served | Commander Taken to shut off one Jap landing force. | Among the prisoners taken at Meanwhile, green-clad, jungle- Matruh is the Commander of the trained American doughboys who|Italian Pavia Division. moved up yesterday to grips with| The communique did not give the Japs near Buna are reported t0 the number of captives taken, have been ferried along with Aus- merely reporting that many more tralian troops by airplane from Aus- | brisoners have been “collected.” tralia to a natural landing strip In- | ga o) British reports, however, side of the Jap territory on New |4 gix entire Italian divisions of Guinea. | Supplies and even jeeps were flown | Perhaps 80,000 men-had been cap- (tured up to late Sunday night along to ‘the field' which was discovered by chance by an Allied airman who | With complete equipment. This in- dicates Rommel's fighting strength landed there after engine trouble. The whole operation was “carrledihas been cut down to about 20,000 out under the nose of the Jap army | fighting men which gave no evidence of knowing - - what was going on,” one inlormaml told an Associated Press correspond- ent in New Guinea. ’RoMMEl IS ————————— JACK GARRETT LEAVES i ovER l I B Y A The Washinat ‘Remnants of Axis Force e Washingion (chased Through Hell- Merry-Go-Round fire Pass by British i L R R o s | _OATRO,: o Jack Garrett, who has been visit-| ing here from Sitka for several days, left Sunday to return to; Sitka where he is employed at the | Silver Foam Cocktail lounge owned by Harry Hagen. 9—The remnants |of Marshal Erwin Rommel’s fleeing A { African Corps shook loose from the WASHINGTON—It hasn't made | 2dvancing British and plunged headlines, but Major Alexander de across the Egyptian border to Libya Seversky, famous Russian-American | in the vicinity of Hellfire Pass. air expert, has just received a $75-| The escape was made despite 000 cash settlement from the Re- |heavy American and British air public Aviation Corp. for his part in | bombardments which made the designing certain airplanes now used | route nearly impassable. by the Army. British advance forces which have Behind this is a story of the petty | been making a desperate effort to intrigue and jealousy by Army brass- | catch the back-peddling enemy, haés which'ts boawtipiawn the war.|Pruneed into Libys anly a few hours Major de Seversky is one of the | behind the Teay Axls. tepops. foremost aviation specialists in the The situation at Hellfire Pafs at United States, but has never mh‘mat moment was described as “con- {fusing” as the British hurried in ]‘;‘Z‘;‘l:; i:‘n:gt m A;;dco;ll::mz:f close pursuit of the tattered Ger- e e persistent. Ho has defin. | Mans and Italians and the American itely got on the nerves of certain | pilots kept up a relentless pounding high Army airmen. This war has {of the etoms proved a lot of his ideas to be far | A e ahead of the Army, but that seems The tomb of Ulysses S. Grant in only to have deepened the jealousy. New York was built by popular sub- Until 1940, Seversky was a director | scription at a cost of $600,000. of Republic Aviation. But in that| ™ year certain alrmen made such strong representations to Republic about Seversky that he was dropped. Since ‘Republic had taken over the old Seversky Aircraft Corporation, | Seversky sued, and hired as attorney | Alfons Landa of the prominent law | firm headed by Ex-Ambassador Jos- | eph E. Davies. Davies has a distinguished list of | clients, including some of the big- gest firms in the United States. Shortly after Landa took Seversky's | case, Davies received a call from; EDMONTON, Nov. 9.—A. Wilfred Paul Moore, of Republic Aviation,|Carriviau, 49, of Seattle, globe expressing the hope that no member [trotter who says he has visited 28 of the Ddvies law firm would handle | foreign countries, has passed the Seversky case. It was also indi- |through here, claiming to be the cated that two important clientsifirst civilian to make the which the Davies firm represented jover the Alcan Highway. would withdraw their business if| w1y was the most unique experi- the Davies firm also represented Seversky Davies, however, stood his ground. “I can't see that there is any con- flict between their interests and PO o First Civilian H OverNewA riviau. Carriviau has been employed as a chef as a civilian corstruction camp on Deadman’s Creek, a “one truck” stopping place on the new ! i ence I have ever had,” said Car- - University of Chicago's freshman queen, @ancer on the side. Miss Truax dances nig! espite From Those War Pictures ! | | AMERICANS DISPATCHED, NEW FRONT Official Announcement of Strategic Act Given by White House 'BIG CONCENTRATION MADE, NORTH AFRICA People of Occupied Areas Are Asked by FDR to Cooperate Carolyn Truax, 19, & strawberry blonde, is a professional htly in a Chicago hotel as well as taking a full course of studies at the university during the daytime. LEND-LEASE NAZIS ARE SUPPLIESTO ' STALLED IN ~ EGYPTBIG CAUCASUS Preside ntSays Bulk of Fighting Dies Down in Rus- e 000000000 NOTICE GIVEN TO HOUSEWIVE Stores will be closed all day Wednesday, Armistice Day. snd housewives must place their orders tomorrow for tt holiday e 00000000 00 GIRL KILLS SOLDIER AT ANCHORAGE IZ-Year-Ofloots Serv- i ice Man as He Tries to Force Door ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 9.— Pvt. Robert H. McNulty, 21, of Kearney, Neb., was shot dead Sat- urday night by 12-year-old Jane Bergman when he attempted to force his way into the home where the girl was staying alone with her 18-month-old nephew. Said the girl: “He was forcing the door open and I told him to go away or I would shoot. “He continued to try to get in and I fired once to scare him. Shot Again “I had to shoot again, and after the second shot, he quit trying to get in. “I didn’t know I had hit him, but I could hear him breathing hard on the front porch.” Both shots, fired from a .22rifle, (Continued on Page Two) ikes lcanRoad; Highway Excellent On highway. He is on his way to Se- attle for treatment of frost bite. Carriviau said he travelled by truck and other motor vehicles ond was the last to ferry the | | rrurs after he ‘ferried across the river, engineers completed con- struction of a wooden bridge. Carrivian sald the highway is in excellent condition, almost com- plete, only two bridges needed to make a complete link between St. Johns and Fairbanks. Tanks, Trucks, Artil- | lery Went Recently WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. The President reported today that the total of lend-lease shipments for the Egyptian fighting zone has reached $636,000,000. The bulk of shipments has been in the last nine months, during which this country shipped to Egypt more than a thousand planes and “many ‘h\m(lrd'ds of tanks, of which more than 500 were of medium type, 20,000 trucks and a hundred pleces of ar- tillery.” AR, S _ House Yofes Down Teen Age Rider Representafie‘s Against | One Year Training : Befere Combat WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. — The House refused to go on record in favor of the Senate proposal that teen age drafted soldiers be given one year of training before being sent into combat. Representatives veted down motion of Rep. Rankin to instruct House conferees to accept the com- | pulsory training amendment written in by the Senate in the legislation (lowering the draft age from 20 to 18, and left the House conferees free to work out any compromse. - - ‘SERVICES FOR " FRED POESSEL SET TOMORROW trip treacherous Liard River. Just a few | Funeral services for Fred Poessel of Tenakee, who died at his home there last week, will be held at 2 pm. tomorrow in the chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary The Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman the | will give the eulogy and interment | will be in Evergreen Cemetery | sia as Wintry Weather Grips Southern Region MOSCOW, Nov. 4. -German forces have been stalled in a drive toward the Georgian military highway over the Causian Mountains. They at- tempted to resume their march near Nalchik yesterday, but Russian tank crews smashed up every attack. The Soviet communique said that a battalion of German infantry was wiped out in three days of fighting in one sector of the Nalchik region. Earlier in the day, the communi- que reported 1,700 Nazi soldiers paid with their lives in this Caucasian region, which is now gripped in cold, wintry weather. Fighting in the Stalingrad arza is on a small scale in the northwest part of the city and the action is confined largely to military duels. e Vicfiy-French Ships Seized WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull disclosed this forenoon that all of the Vichy- French ships in American ports have been taken under “protective cus- tody.” ecretary Hull also disclosed that passports will be handed to Vichy's Ambassador Gaston Henri Haye in due time. e e WOODLEY PLANE ARRIVES SUNDAY FROM WESTWARD With seven passengers from An- chorage, a Woodley Airways plane, piloted by Don Glass, arrived here late yesterday afternoon. Those arriving here were Al Corey, J. Lynch, L. Lovett, W. H. Stout, Harold Miller, Glen Nietzert and C. B. Linehan. .o FENSE BONDS BUY DE WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. The White House announced late Sat- urday night that powerful Ameri- can forces were landing on the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of the French Colonies in North Africa in order to “forestall an in- vasion” of Africa by Germany and Ttaly. The surprise announcement was timed to coincide with the actual landing of troops at 9 o'clock p.m., Eastern War Time and 3 am. West African time. The statement said the American force is under command of Lieut Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chief of American-European land forces and is equipped with “adequate weapons of modern warfare.” Second Front The statement further said the landing was being assisted by the British Navy and Ailr Forces and will be reinforced in the immediate future by a considerable number of (Continued on Page Six) PARIS RIOTS REPORTED IN BROADCASTS (lashes FolflvMeefing of French People’s Party Today LONDON, Nov. 9.—The British News Agency, Reuters, has recorded a Paris radio announcement that clashes have broken eut between demonstrators and police in the Ger- man-occupied French capital. ; The demonstrations were described as “a few small incidents.” The clashes followed a meeting of the French People’s Party at which collaborationist Jacques Doriot de- manded an “immediate declaration of war aaginst Britain and America as an immediate conclusion of the alliance with Axis powers.” .. LEAVES FOR SITKA Stanley V. Grummett, Juneau in- surance man, left Sunday with Al- aska Coastal Airlines for Sitka to spend some time on business. HiIIe‘r“ to Strike at U.S.Forces Promises Arican Viclory- Squirms Out of Stal- ingrad Failure LONDON, Nov. 9.-—Adolf Hitler promised the German people last night “ that he will strike back at Ame n forces in North Africa He sured them that he would e flee Germany if the situa- ion became difficult. The German leader was speaking to his oldest Nazi Party associates in Munich on the anniversary of | the Munich Putsch of 1923. He brushed aside the smashing of his army in Egypt by the Brit- ish as “an advance of a few kilo- meters” and declared, “those who deal out the last blow will win the war--and the Germans will *do that.” Hitler referred only fleetingly to American landings in Algeria and Morocco, asserting that the “last decisive world will not be spoken by Roosevelt. We will prepare all our counterblows as thoroughly as asways and they will come in due |time,” he said. Hitler admitted the war had become difficult, and explained his failure to take Stalingrad with the declaration “It Is not worth being a second Verdun. The im- portant thing is that no ship can come up the Volga River.” - AIRFIELDS SEIZED BY U.5. FORCES More landi;:, North Afri- @-Vichy Government Breaks with U. S. (By Associated Press) The United States troops seized important airfields of the French i1 North Africa and other landings con- tinue, the War Department an- nounced in a special communique late Sunday. The communique indi- cated that most of the Vichy-Frencth opposition came from the light nav- al units and coast artillery. French Capitulate A Sunday night radio broadcast from Vichy said the French troops at Alglers had capitulated. Associated Press dispatches direct from the scene sald two light Allied vessels were sunk In the operations, thus far. Troopship Disabled The Washington communique con- firmed these losses and also said A troopship had been disabled when torpedoed but the American soldiers | aboard took to light landing craft| their ob-| and continued toward jective, 120 miles away and even- tually landed safely. (Continue¢ on Page Six) Drastic Reduction, Liquor Purchasing, | State of Washinglon SEATTLE, Nov. 9.—Drastic re- ductions in the amount of liquor individuals may purchase is an- nounced in a temporary ban in the issuance of new permits whk-h‘ went into effect as the State/ Liquor Board to conserve the rap-\ |idly dwindling supply of intoxicants. | . .4 will last only 15 or 20 days ' m ¢\ Chairman of the dented sales. Washington gtate Liquor Board Evro Beckett, . | d Force Makes Surprise Move U.S. FORCES CLOSE UPON NO. AFRICA | Strike withiév‘erwhelming Might-Powerful Chal- lenge to Hitler LANDING OPERATIONS ARE SWIFTLY MADE 'mportant Sections Quickly Captured-Resistance Is Reported — (By Associated Press) Forces of the United States, strik- ing with overwhelming might and exquisite perfection, have closed oo vy Gusvases i Freuch muieh Africa after inflicting serious losses on the Vichy Navy at Casablanca aind capturing Algiers. This powerful American challenge to Hitler, still only at the start, was wchieved with but slight U. S. losses, the Allied headquarters’ spokesman In London said late this afternoon. The spokesman said that most of .. .« the resistance thus far has naval but no doubt the combined might of the United States and Brit- ish naval strength backing up the anding operations can cope swiftly with any Vichy forces seekfhg to battle. Air Offensive Both Axls enemies are said to have entered into the defense -of North Africa in air action against the Allied fleet off Algiers but the 1eadquarters spokesman declared here is no truth in reports the* French fleet has steamed out from Toulon to enter the battle. The German communique, early this morning, saild German and Ital- an planes have scored bomb hits on " ix Allled warships and four mer- chantmen since Friday night against the British and American vessels off Algiers. Counter Air Attack The Vichy radio reports that Ttal- fan planes attacked Gibraltar today but gave no account of results, neither was there any mention of the North African warfare except that Algiers capitulated under a land, sea and air attack last night, at the end of the first day on the new battlefront. New Area Occupied The Vichy radio admits the Am- ericans have occupied Safi on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, 140 miles from Casablanca. The Vichy radio also announced the official communique acknow- ledges the Algerian port of Oran on the Mediterranean is virtually encircled. French broadcasts said the Am- ericans are closing around Oran and have reached the railway line east- (Continued on Page Three) FIGHTING IN PROGRESS IN CASABLANCA French Broadcast Says Three American Bat- talions Attacked LORDON, Nov. 9.—Fighting is in progress inside Casablanca, the | Vichy radio said in a broadcast heard here late this afternoon The town was reported attacked said the new permit holders will be py three columns of Americans, each limited to one quart or two pints at least a battalion, strongly sup- each week compared to the former ported by tanks. limit of three quarts or five pints a day. Beckett said the state's supply The broadeast said they came di- | rectly from Fedhala, northeast of | Casablanca. It also said that some American otor torpedo boats were sunk with |at the current rate of unprece- French shore batteries.