The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 17, 1942, Page 1

VOL. LX., NO. 9192. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1942 !_VIEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS JAPS LICKED IN SOLOMONS SAYS NIMITZ Allies Making Two Sweeps On Tunis Border U.S. Second Front Forces Land in Vichy North Africa REPORTS OF COLUMNS IN SOUTH AREA Germans- Report Mobile | Units Near Lower Tun- isia Coast Border MAY BE SHORTCUT T0 REACH TRIPOLI| No Report ;Io Whether |} Americans, Enemy in Battle Yet LONDON, Nov. h and American advance forces are reported to- night to have driven back the Axis forward units in the first clash of the battle of Tunisia. German reports picked up here suggested the Allies were engaged in an enveloping move- ment aimed at-cutting off Biz- erte and Tunis in a short cut dash to Tripoli. A Reuters dispatch quoting an Algiers broadcast, describes the opening engagement in | Tunisia as a eclash of récon- ! naissance forces but the location | | (VICHY),# p——— 4 is reported at Toulon (2) REDS SLAY 3,000NAZI SOLDIERS of the set-to is not disclosed. LONDON, Nov. 17.—A German | report that British and American (Continued on Page Five) The Wéréihingtun; Merry - Go- Round Germans Waste More Men, py brew pearson | in Futile Efforts fo Re- (Major Robert 8. Allen ov sctive duty.) | 'ake leningfad POim 4 MOSCOW, Nov. 17. — The Red | talking to @ friend some time ag0.|Army has killed more than 3,000 | remarked that she didn’t mind cri- | Germans in fresh fighting, while ticism of herself, regarding Muyris | holding solidly all along the wintry Chaney, the dancing girl, or any- {front, today’s communique reports. thing else. But she sgid she did| The Reds are taking the initiative get depressed over the flood of [at some points, the communique re- anonymous letters she had received | ported. about Franklin Jr, being “a| The dispatch said that the Ger- slacker.” |mans for the last two days spent | Franklin Jr., had had an appen- | 1,500 lives in futile efforts to retake dicitis operation and was laid up |the important town of Volkhov, on | for a while, but apparently the |the front in the Leningrad sector, public did not realize what had | where the Russians have seized the happened. | initiative and advanced after a long Mrs. Roosevelt went on to say Period of relative calm. that her eldest son Jimmy had| VRIBEE o R seen some very dangerous service | with the Marine Corps comman-!ADM S(oTT L] dos in England, and that Elliott had taken 18,000 photos flying low over the Libyan desert at great iy | Unit Commander Killed by ! Japs with Capfain of WASHINGTON— Mrs. Roosevelt, | risk. Actually she could have gone | much further with justifiable pride in reviewing the war record of | her sons, for Franklin Jr., has seen | more service in the field of danger than most men. He has been on a | destroyer in the north Atlantic| for a total of 18 months convoyinz | ships to England and Iceland.| Franklin is now a gunnery officer, lieutenant junior grade, age 28. John Roosevelt, the youngest son, age 26, is an ensign with a divis- | ion of d.eslroyers at San Diego, WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. — Rear sometimes at sea, sometimes ashore. | oqmiral Norman Scott, 53, and Cap- | Jimmy, age 34, is & major in|iain Casin Young, 48, were killed in the Marine Corps, having served tne furious night naval battle in with great bravery in the Sofomon |the Solomons November 13, the Islands, and had he not beeh the|yavy Department announced today. son of the President, undoubtedly| Scott was in command of a naval would have been decorated. Unfor-}un“ in the engagement, tunately his stomach ulcers have' Young was the holder of a Medal returned, he has lost 15 pounds—is|of Honor for heroism at Pearl Har- as thin as Mahatma Gandhi and|bor December 7 and was commander is confined to a West Coast hos-iof the flagship of Rear Admiral pital, Daniel Callaghan, whose death was reported by the Navy yesterday. | DON'T TELL THE ENEMY | Admiral Callagahan was serving | Washington newspapers the other |88 commander of a cruiser force in | he Solomons battle in which the | day carri about the death | N | ¥iearrind s sty three high-ranking officers 1ot | bl ol i s e, Ah AL their lives. The unit of which Ad- e L | miral Scott was in command was not duty” while cleaning a 45 C”’b"‘\idenureid by the Navy. _ automatic. However, here is the| 4 | real story behind Col. Bush's death. | Col. Bush was in the Yale Club| The oldest Greek Letter Frater- in New York where he had a drink |nity in American colleges is Phi at the bar with one or two cusual‘Be'-! Kappa, which was organized /in 1775 at William and Mary Col- lege, Williamsburg, Va. | (Continued on Page Two) [ | CASABLANCA Cd Adm. Callaghan's Ship \ \ ) / ALGERIA “" (VICHY) / Carrying full packs, American troops board a transport at an em- barkation point somewhere in Great Britain, their destination French North Africa. transmitted by radio from London WOODLEY PLANE N FROM WEST LATE MONDAY With eight passengers for Ju- neau, a Woodley Airways plane piloted by Don Glass, arrived here late yesterday afternoon from An- chorage. The plane left this morn- ing on the return flight to the Westward. Passengers arriving with the plane were D. W. Metzdorf, Thom- as Winn, Harold Goecke, H. N. Baker, Mrs. H. N. Baker, Charles. Fitzgerald, Howard Miller and Tom Dyer. . Outgoing passengers are Gust Brunsilis, Dudley Reynolds, Tom Mayer, Ruth Carison, Don Hayes, and Major Marston for Anchor- This AP photo from U. S, Army Signal Corps, was to New York. . | MRS. ROOSEVELT 15 BACK FROM TRIP T ENGLAND WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. — Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has returned | from her wartime trip to England. The President’s wife left New York for England on October 21 and arsived at a nearby airport by plane this morning. She was mei by the President o HIRSTS REACH SEATTLE Word has been received here that Mr. Mrs. Claude C. Hirst reached Seattle this morning and are leaving tonight for Chicago. | Mr. Hirst is on his way to Wash- and Ship-borne troops of the U. S. Army have landed in Vichy North Africa and have established bridgeheads (solid black arrows), along the coast. | The landing operations were aimed at both sides of Casablanca in Morocco, Oran and Algiers on the Mediterrancan. provides a jumping off spot for an Allied invasion of southern Europe (datted arrows). Axis forces in Libya (dotted arrows), where they are retreating between Matruh and the Egyptian-Libyan border pursued by the British (solid black arrows). The Italian port of Genoa (1), was hombed by the British in what was called the “heaviest raid of the war.” The French fleet | [ | with his statement “We mean | hold our own.” 1 ing The successful invasion It also provided bases for a pincers movement against WILLKIEIN DEFENSE OF CRITICISM : | Raps Churchillfor Defend- ing Old Imperialistic Policy on Forum NEW YORK, Nov. 17. — Wendel | Willkie, speaking on the Herald- Tribune forum last night, sharpl; criticized British Premier Winstor Churchill as shocking the world te Willkie charged the Premicr with defending theé “old Imperialistic or- der.” All peoples must agree on why we are fighting, Willkie said, add- ing that a war without a purpos is a war without victory. He de fended his criticism of leaders, sav “If -we fight in silence as those same experts would have us, in the, end even winning the wa. will win nothing but blood ane ashes.” President s Going on Air 6:30Tonight Roosev elTMay Discuss American Victories for About Five Minutes WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. President Roosevelt will address the Nation tonight (6:30 o'- clock Juneau time) the broad- cast scheduled in connection with the New York Herald-Tri- bune’s annual Forum. The President will be given an opportunity, if he so choos- es, to discuss the recent Ameri- can victories in the Pacific and Mediterranean. It is announced the topic will be “The United Nations, and their creed for a free world.” The President ‘will speak about five minutes, it is said. ., About 12,000 ships pass through age and A. B. Rieder and S. K.l ington to confer on Office of In-|the Cape Cod Canal in a normal Sharpless for Homer. dian Affairs business, year, — O TWO BASES ~ ARETAKEN ~ BYBRITISH {Port Dernaj?dakili Occu- pied-No Report of Rommel’s Army CAIRO, Nov. 17.—British troops | occupled Port Derna, 150 miles short of Bengasli, and Makili yes- terday and other units of the 3ritish Eighth Army swept by in pursuit of the broken army of darshal Erwin Rommel along the Jbyan coastal road. The position of Rommel's shat- ! tered forces Is not given in to- lay's communique but they were ast reported stretched out along he road to Bengasi and El Aghella, a2 mass of battered trucks and quipment. The El Agheila area is ome 400 miles from the main Axis t Tripoli. Neither is the whereabouts of Rommel's remaining planes given in today's communique. Perhaps he aad no “remaining planes.” The United States Middle East Headquarters announce that fight- r planes have scouted the desert kies without finding any signs of nemy craft. ARMY MEN MAY HAVE FREE HUNT Jouse Passes Measure fo Provide for Alaska Serv- ice Men’s Game Law WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. — The House acted today to provide free fishing and hunting for Alaska ( | | | pased a bill revising the Alaska Game Laws. The provision added was that service men now stationed in the Territory could hunt and fish with- out a license. The measure originally provided ‘hat service men could obtain huni- ing and fishing licenses on the same basis as residents after being In Alaska a year. Under the present law they are required to pay $50 non-resident li- ense fees. Alaska Delegate to Congress An- thony J. Dimond opposed the amendment, contending that the | riginal revision was fair. ‘The measure provides that the Alaska Game Commission admin- ister the revised law. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 17. Closing wuotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 70%, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel 56, Commonwealth and Southern 5/16, Curtiss Wright 8', International Harvester 53'¢, Ken necott 29'%, New York Central 11', Northern Pacific 7%, United States Steel 48%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials rails 27.75, utilities 14.04. ICE SKATING 600D MENDENHALL LAKE Ice skating is good now at Men- denhall Lake, |in the Admiralty Division reports | Boundaries for safe skating havc been marked with red flags e,—— A thousand ships are estimated to have been wrecked off Cape Cod during the first twenty years of this century. | | the Forest Service! i Wants a Divorce [ Pretty Jean Parker, film actress, has started action in Los Angeles to divorce her second hushand, H. Dawson Sanders, former radio announcer now a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary. She is charging him with cruelty. They are shown together before the die vorce action was filed. REJOI - ON VICTORY - TEMPERED Spokesmen—%m Agains | Overconfidence Follow- | (By Associated Press) Widespread rejoicing among the United Nations over the United | Btates Navy's smashing victory over |the Japs in the Solomons carried !a note of caution against over- confidence today, however In Chungking, where excited newsboys cried the “Extra” news of vietory, a Government spokes- | man sald: “The news satisfles us | completely. Victory can come only |in installments.” | In Melbourne, | Minister Curtis said he is “grateful Australia, Prime | nificent forces is used. In this most | important theater of the war, the | battle isn’t over, but the enemy | knews he has been fighting." | Australlan Navy Minister Nor- | man Makin said that the Solomons action will give Australia much | needed relief from the possibility of invasion, but he termed it “only l'a round in the fight" to free the Western Pacific, London papers headlined the battle “the greatest sea battle of the war” gnd the Dally Express | said: “It 1s likely to prove the de- | cisive action of the whole cam- paign.” CITY BITES TAXES . | SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The pressure on the taxpayer's pocket- book has been lightened in one place. Santa Barbara County now enjoys the lowest tax rate in 6 years. 115, Forces Win SHOWDOWN 1S PAS‘;@?? SAYS CHI Pacific Coast Commander Declares Island Victory Best in History | ARE OFF TO FRONT American and Australian | Troops in Drive on Nippons at Buna (By Associated Press) For the first time since his ar- rival in Australla, Gen. Douglas | MacArthur himself, together with his senfor aldes, have taken fleld, | as Australian and American troops drove to within thirty miles of the Japs’ stronghold at Buna, it is re- ported today. The communique from MacAr- Jthur‘u Headquarters, now on New | Guinea, reported “The enemy Is steadily retreating.” The Allies are closing in on both flanks. American bombers and | Aussie fighters are strafing the Japs as they attempt to flee across the Kumusi River, northwest of Buna. | Admiral Chester Nimitz, mean- | while, reported in Pearl Harbor that the real showdown between |the American and Jap fleets has | come to pass in the Solomons and that the Japs are licked. The communique from the Com- mander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet ranked the Solomons victory as one of the greatest of history. i “We think they brought down everything they had,” Nimitz sald. “As a result, all the major enemy forces were either destroyed or driven back by our gallant forces. There was nothing like it in the ;Wm‘ld War.” | members of the armed forces and |, the United States and the mag- i ATIA(K su B l ' BASEAGAIN, - ST. NAZAIRE 'U. S. Plam;siMake Heavy Rain from England- Return Safely LONDON, Nov. 17.—United States Flying Fortresses and Consolidated Liberators today attacked the Ger- man submarine base at St. Nazaire. All planes returned safely, the communique said. The reports indicated that bursts 5Were seen on targets, and that six enemy aircraft were destroyed. | Second Round, Solomon Battle, Against Invading Flee! 114.53, | WASHINGTON, Nov. 17—Becre- tary of Navy PFrank Knox today said the United States forces have clearly won Round Two in the Battle of the Solomons but “it must not be forgotten” there may be a Round Three. The Navy Secretary called last week’s American naval engagement a great victory that cost the Japs 11 warships and 12 other vessels sunk with their crews and seven ships damaged “in a major action but not a decisive one.” | Secretary Knox saild: “At the ,‘present moment we have naval su- premacy around Guadalcanal.” Knox said the recent engagement was more against the Japs than the Japs against the American forces. “We must remember that while we suffered losses, we are building faster with greater resources than they and we must also remember the Japs operate pretty much in home waters and adjacent waters while our Navy is spread all over the seven seas. While "the Jap fleet has suffered severely to date, it is still operating in compara- tively narrow waters.” ¥ - 5