The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 13, 1942, Page 1

% “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9189. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1942 M MBER ASSOCIATE D PRESS .S. TROOPS ARE SMASHING ON TO TUNIS obruk Is Abandoned; Nazis "SPIRIT OF ALASKA™ GERMANS IN RETREAT: GO OFFINAIR Defenders Make Escape‘in' italian Planes-Allies Shoot 'Em Down | CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. 13.—Tobruk, Axis stronghold in North Libya, has been abandoned by the Nazis, now in flight, and reoccupied by the British armed forces. The Axis desert troops are.con- tinuing their headlong flight to stay ahead of their pursuers. This is one of the first indica- tions that the Axfs may yield to| the Allies in North Africa without | a struggle. Planes Shot Down Meanwhile, the British announce | that Royal Air Force fighters have | shot down six big Italian troop- carrying planes “flying north, pro-| bably from Tunisia,” filled with| German_ troops. ! The direction of the flight indi- | cated that the Germans are hastily | pulling out of Tunisia, last buffer between the Allies in the west and SOUTH AMERICAN in a tropical setting at Cypress MOTIF — wearing a South American costume, Kathleen Turner holds some roses as she sitc Gardens, Fla. It’s part of the cur- STRIKE NEW BLOWS, JAPS " INSOLOMONS U. S. Bombs Troop-laden i Enemy Ships in Dawn Raid Yesterday | MacARTHUR'S HEADQUAR- | TERS IN AUSTRALIA, Nov. 13.— ! Sharpshooting American fliers ! banged bombs into four troop-laden enemy ships in a dawn raid on the Buin Faisi base in the north- | ern Solomons yesterday, inflicting heavy damage on the enemy The high command reported this high spot in a heartening commu- nique at noon today. Fresh advances meanwhile are| strongly rolling in a drive to pusb | the Japanese out of New Guinea. Renewed aerial blows are being made on the enemy on Portuguese Timor. The Jap ships hit are of the cargo type, being used for trans-| port work, their total tonnage es- timated at 37,000 tons. >-——— | | —— o early thix y n a fiv rent emphasis on Latin American ways. Tripoli, capital and final citadel - of Italian Libya. At the same time, British head- querters announce that the Eighth | Army has occupied Bardia. | Hammer Air Blows | Allied planes were hammering at | Rommel's transport near Tobruk shortly before a special communi- que flashed the news that “Tobruk is reported to be in our hands this morning.” | A more detailed report told of} waves of RAF planes sweeping low over the retreating Axis truck and troop columns fleeting Tobruk to- ward Gazala, 30 miles further to the west. The British mobile columns are in hot pursuit. PILOT OF LOSTPLANE AXIS FORCES MAULED | CAIRO, Nov. 13.—The Germans | are rushing supplies westward out of Tobruk, indicating that they! ndon S CO! -“ e H B Siomamaa, aecoraing o s e Member of Crew of Rick- e gt trontier ‘eums e €nbacker Ship Picked Up | ~Hope to Find Others Libyan-Egyptian frontier early this WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 The morning. ‘The dispatch said that the ap- War Department has announced the rescue of the pilot of Captain parent decision of Marshal Erwin, Rommel to pass up Tobruk con- Eddie Rickenbacker’s missing plane lin the Pacific. firms estimates on how badly his legions have been mauled by Brit- ish and American land, sky and sea power. i pure | In its communique it added, “It |is believed possible that other sur- ! vivors may be on life rafts in the same general vicinity.” The rescued man is Captain Wil- |liam T. Cherry, Jr, of Abilene, A |Texas. He was picked up by the Navy yesterday and is in “good | condition although weak.” H ¥ Overwhelming Llarge; Exe(l"ed Forces Making New At- | facks, Beleagured City B N a1 i s MOSCOW, Nov. 13. — Repeated y German attacks which the Red| & Star, Soviet Army ~newspaper, a1 ‘New Mass Killings Report- offensive, were Hurled at the de-| fenders of Stalingrad yesterday. { The Russians, however, declared | of September 29 with heavy Nazi losses. | i The Germans were reported ml LONDON, Nov. 13—A thousand be throwing overwhelmingly su- Serbs, including many women and The midday communique from ;. the town of Vul kovar on the the Soviet information bureau de-| panube River, northeast of Bel- scribed fighting as fierce. | grade, the Yugoslav Information MRS. JACOBSEN LEAVES | Gt P A Mrs. J. T. Jacobsen left this| LEAVES FOR TENAKEE week for a trip to Skagway, where| called the beginning of a new Nazi| ed by Yugoslavia as that all the assaults were repelled | perior forces into the battle. 17, were executed on September 29 Froeriigr Bureau reported. she will join her husband for sev-| Juneau, is Second Vice-President a mercantile establishment. of the Business and Professional e Women's Club, : BUY DEFENSE BONDS 30 JAPS ARE and where it Capifal Stage Door Canfeen Far Ahead of New York, Hollywoo 1S RESCUED, | children between thg ages of 12 and | By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Lafay- ette Square is more than 45 min- utes from Broadway and (travel being what it is these days) good- ! ness knows how far from Sunset ;Boulevard, but Washington's Stage !Door Canteen can take its bows Iright along with those in New York and Hollywood. The service men who nightly { sile into the old Belasco Theatre don’t have to kowtow to buddies who have visited the canteens in New York or the movie city. May- be they can't match autograph for autograph if you stick strictly to |stage and screen’ entertainment, but they can tie them or maybe op them if it's just a matter of collecting who's who. Helen Hayes, a native Washing- tonian, has been around so often, she’s almost as well known to the ooys who visit the Capital Stage Door Canteen, as Mrs. Lawrence Langner, who is in charge. Ina | Claire, also a native, has been {around too, not fto mention Dor- othy Lamour, Lily Damita, the Lunts, John Boles, a couple of | guys in uniform named Ezra Stone and Burgess Meredith, etcetera. Alfred Lunt, who was around for a couple of weeks with his pre-Broadway appearance in “The Pirate,” did just as good a job as menu adviser in Washington as he did in New York. I don't that story that he examined the garbage to find out “what the boys didn’t eat,” but no buck pri- vate on KP ever did a better job of cleaning up. (Continued on Page Four) Axis Claims Ships Sunk; " Unconfirmed BERLIN, Nov. 12. — The High |Command has reported the sink- !ing of a British cruiser, destroyer Mrs. Mary Snyder left by Alaska|and five transports and damage to| ~From an inspection trip to Skag-| eral months. Mrs. Jacobsen, who Coastal Airlines plane today for 18 other Allied ships in Axis U- way and Haines, J. B. Burford and | formerly operated a tea shop in Tenakee where she is proprietor of boat and plane attacks off North Dr. Wilford Eiteman and Robert Africa. | There is no Allied confirmation istration staff, returned to Junreau |to such a report from any source, really believe there's any truth in SHOT DOWN | INATTACK U.SIs Crui;e‘r Damaged When Burning Enemy Plane Lands on Deck The forir-motored Flying Fortress pictured above was purchased by Alaskans week War Bond campaign im February and March, during which Alaskans subseribed te christened are listed as “unknown.” But it is being used. | iy Will Clip Patriofic Red, destruction of 30 enemy planes | which attacked a formation of Am- | “ bon November 20 the Jap short positions on Guad- alcanal Island November 12 was| wHITEHORSE, Y.T., Nov. 13.— partment. i A J he i T d St 1ed, white and blue ribbon at tl he United States heavy cruiser|,), ., vukon boundary when the a burning and disabled Jap plane crashed on her deck, killing 30 of|tary highway from Dawson Creek g | to Fairbanks is held November 20. The destroyer Buchanan was hit | by a five-inch shell from a Jap|work of a Juneau craftsman, will killed. | west Territories Commissioner rep- S R | resenting Canada, and E. L. Bart- |ing Governor, representing the United States. |the ceremony will be enlisted men who will hold the ribbon. They P ! work during the highway construc- WIIH A E F "o L] 1 ] L 000 worth of bonds. The plane cost $350,000. Where the plane is being used foday WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, — The . . White and Blue Rib- erican surface ships bombarding | l announced today by the Navy De- |y, 'wi take six men to clip the San Francisco was damaged when vy, i official opening of the new mili- the cre Specially engraved shears, the shore battery ‘and five of her crew ! be used by Charles Camsell, North- DAR[AN H ! s |lett, Secretary of Alaska and Act- | The other four participating in | will be selected for meritorious Brig. Gen. James A. O'Connor (will speak. U.5. GUNBOAT 1S DAMAGED “In the name of the Marshal and | |in agreement with him I give my powers into the hands of Admiral | Jean Darlan and place myself under | his orders.” | Darlan, with Nogues in Allied- | occupied Algiers, said: | “I assume full responsibility for‘. | the Prench interests in Africa,” and | asserted that he had “full approval | of the American authorities with | whom I count on in assuring the! | defense of North Africa. | | - - - OPA (FFICIALS BACK { FRO MINSPECTION TO | SKAGWAY AND HAIN Says He Co;m—Is onU.S. in Assuring North Africa Defense VICHY, Nov. 13.—The radio here broadcast a statement tonight that August Nogues was sent to North | Africa three days ago as Marshal WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—A Navy Department communique reports that the 2,000-ton gunboat Erie, damaged yesterday by enemy sub- marine attack off the southern coast of Curacao, Dutch colony in South America, has been beached. There was no report of any casualties. .- - T2 b d [ ] (By Associated Press) Up to this afternoon there is still no news of the exact whereabouts of the French Fleet, supposed to be based at Toulon. The Vichy radio insists the fleet is still in the harbor at Toulon and in command of the French. e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Rice, of the Office of Price Admin- yesterday. MlaskanBase SOUTHERI: {s Named for FRANCE IN ~ Heroof Army NAZI HANDS Marks Fiela—fionors Pilot Who Lost Life in Raid on Kiska ELSINORE, Calif,, Nov. 13. — An Alaskan air base has been named “Marks Army Airfield” after Ma-| jor Jack Marks, who was killed while piloting a plane over Jap-‘v held Kiska in July, the War De- coast. partment has advised his widow,| No mention is made of occupy- Mrs. Catherine Marks. | ing Toulon, where the French Fleet Mrs. Marks learned of the honor|is reported to be based. Yesterday in a letter from Lieut. Gen. Hap|it was announced that Hitler would Arnold, Army Air Forces com-|not occupy Toulon as the French mander. | commanders stated they would ‘re- The letter said “He served his|sist any aggressor.” country with distinction” His - 'TWO CHARGED - West Coast | wiTH KiLLiNG Yard Sels | (Itinerant Farm Workers Mew Record el in Deat of Cal- sl ‘ fornia Woman Ship Is Launched 80 Hours| orr 1 A"er Keel l.flld— |FBI Agent Jay Newman has filed SALT LAKE OITY, Nov. a complaint charging two itiner- Beats Kaiser |ant middle west farm workers with {the killing of Mrs. Abigale Wil- W liams, 48, of San Leandro, Calif., SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13.— |per pody, with skull crushed, was Another unbelievably fast ship |(,ynq on an Indian reservation construction record was set here | today when a West Coast yard launched an 8,000-ton freighter, the Samuel Very, just 80 hours | after the keel was laid. | This shattered Henry Kaiser's records yesterday—I11!¢ hours for a larger cargo carrier, the Robert E. Perry. - E K. SHARPLESS ON WAY SOUTH TO SPEND LEAVE IN SEATTL: Eske K. Sharpless, for many = years with the Alaska Rallroad, is| Francis McHale and Frank Pet- spending a few days in Juneau on |erson. both of Sitka, have been his way south from Anchorage to sentenced to serve 175 days each spend his annual leave in Seat-| ¥ jail on charges of being drunk tle. He is staying at the Baranof #hd disorderly. Both were arraigned |Hotel while waiting further trans- in Us. Commissioner W. W. portation south, ijghts court, | Germans R(;;rted toHave Occupied Entire Coast Line Now BERLIN, Nov. 13.—The German radio, in a broadcast this forenoon, announces that the German Army has completed occupation of the whole of the French southern - |Her car and about $6 were miss- | ing. of Towa and James Roedl, 26, of Oklahoma City, are being held. in | Bremerton, Wash., pending their |return to Utah. Newman said Roedl |had confessed the woman picked {up the two as hitchhikers on their [way to California. - o | SITKA RESIDENTS SENTENCED E BY FBI AGENT near Vernal, Utah, on October 13.| | Newman said LeRoy Ritchey, 25, Are In Flight AMERICANS " AREMAKING QUICK MOVE lAssauIt Troops Leading | British First Army Over Tunisia Border BULLETIN—LONDON, New 13.—The Americans and British have extended the zone of occu- pation in North Africa as far east as Bona, 60 miles from the Tunisian border. This is an of- ficial Allied Headquarters com- munique issued tonight. BULLETIN—London, Nov. 13. —The broadcast from the Vichy radio, picked up here, reports without any elabora- tion,-that United States planes * have attacked Tunis. AMERICANS LEAD BRITISH LONDON, Nov. 13 —American as- sault troops, leading the new Brit- ish First Army, are expected to cross the Tunisian frontier today, ming within 400 airline miles ftom the great Libyan port of Tripoll. The move is a quick one. cve is little prospect of any sistance In Tunisia which can- t be easily and quickly handled. The Allled spokesman said the which landed yester- { Bone, 60 miles from the Tunisign border, should cross the 1 on Page Six) s&kl.v‘t J il @ ABANDONED, IS REPORT Another AESfronghold Deserted as Route Confinues LONDON, Nov. 13.—Reuters News Agency said it has recorded & broadcast from Rabat reporting “Axis ships left Bengasi, probably after evacuating the port.” | If this report is true, it means that only the little stretch from Tunis on east to the Gulf of Sidra is in Axis hands. Bengasi is 230 miles west of Tobruk which the | British occupled this morning, and is 350 miles across the Gulf of Sidra from Tripoli, toward which American troops are heading. Rabat is in American hands. —— ——— PRESIDENT GETS REPLY FROM FRANCO Roosevelt Refuses fo Re- veal Defails of Answer fo Assurance fo Spain WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. — Presi- dent Franklin Roosevelt said today he had received a very satisfactory reply from General Francisco Franco, head of the Cpanish State, |in response to a message assuring Spain that the American expedi- tion to North Africa in no way is directed against Spanish Territory. He told newsmen there are no details on Franco's reply. He also said he had no information as fo whether the Bey of Tunis had an- swered the message requesting per- mission to send troops across French Tunisia,