The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 20, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO. 9195. -NAZIS TRAPPED BY AMERICANS, BRITISH “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1942 = — ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS - Another Jap Crusier Sent Down By Allies BOMBERS OF |BIG VICTORY Oregon Asylum Deaths Termed 'Mass Murder’; ALLIES GET IN SMASHES Nippons Fo@ Back Until Backs Are Against Sea ALLIED HEADQUARTERS AUSTRALIA, Nov. 20.—Allied land forces have the retreating Japa- nese in northeastern New Guinea with their backs against the sea. Headquarters announces that an- other Japanese cruiser has been sunk and another Japanese de- stroyer, attempting to rescue the besieged Japanese, has been dam- aged by Allied bombers but escaped from the scene. Japanese air units, seeking to cover the Jap naval forces, have been driven off with a loss of 30. TIMOR HARBORS JAPIZED CANBERRA, Australia, Nov. 20.— Japanese have completed occupa- tion of all nine anchorages on the north coast of Portuguese Timor, less than 400 miles northwest of | Australia. This is officially stated by Prime Minister Curtin who| INCAUCASUS l - BYRED ARMY | ;Ma jor Nazi—F;r(e. Routed| | in Battle Near Grozny FEm r fi» oil Figlds Road | EMPI-OYEES | MOSCOW, Nov. 20.—Red Army | | units pressed after fleeing Germans | | deep in the Caucasus, following up | | a major victory which has eased | Nazi pressure on the great Grozny oil fields district near the Caspian Sea on the military road leading to | the rich Trans-Caucasus. | The latest front line reports bore:| |out the earlier impression that a | | Since August for Sub- aivstons or about 45006 men, were| Versive Activities routed in the battle of the last sev- | | | eral days. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Attor- | Fighting centered around the ap- |ney General Francis Biddle re- ipronchvs to Ordzhonikidze. A spec- | ported to Congress today that since [ !ial communique brought the first|August 2, 26 Federal employees |news of the triumph last night, re- | have been discharged and one dis- | porting that 5000 of the enemy were | ciplined for membership in sub- |killed and several times that num- | versive organizations. | ber wounded and vast military booty | This brings to 56 the total of | captured. ; Federal employees thus dealt with The German Command admitted | ;ince that type of investigation | that strongk cnunl}f:;f’fensive b::w*fwm begun under the House Com- | | were struck in ti ussian Alagir | & g 4 Sl ABSOOL sadtohs i ths Oaficasis mittee on Un-American Activities. Poison Twenly-sifDTsch arged e further said he believed a battle|a,q porthwest and north of Ordz- will have to be fought at Timor|ponikidze, but claimed they had and adjacent islands to protect|gailed. Australia. The fight may be as long drawn out as that waged at New Guinea and the Solomons to prevent in- vasion of Australia from the northeast. Increased Jap activity at Timor was anticipated since the Japs have | | S met reverses in New Guinea. } I'OAN ASKED Motor trucks are being assembled by the Japs at Timor, it is re-| lN DE(EMBER | ported. DIVORCE SOUGHT | — e WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—To buy Lelyon Ester Krongstad has filed |guns and pass ammunition to his divorce suit against Arnold Odin|fighting men around the world, Krogstad in the District Court on | Uncle Sam will undertake during the grounds of incompatibility. | Th; Wéshingtun! Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Rohert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — It was never publicized, but when Wendell Will- kie talked with Gen. DeGaulle in the Near East, the Fighting French leader spent a good part of his time complaining about his treat- ment at the hands of the British and Americans. He also said that he would not be surprised if the American and British governments gave the plums to Vichy after the war, ignoring the Free French. DeGaulle was more prophetic than he knew. That issue has al-| ready arisen. It is the issue of standing by the exile governments who stood with the British and December to raise $9,000,000,000, the biggest single amount ever bor- rowed by any government in the history of the world, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau announced last night. ENSIGN GLASCOCK IS NOW ACTING AS CAPTAIN OF PORT Ensign J. 8. Glascock, acting Cap- tain of the Port, who has been in Alaska several months but who |arrived in Juneau five days ago, came to Alaska from Berkeley, Calif. A student at University of Cali- fornia at Berkeley, Ensign Glascock majored in natural history and; game management and took his B. A. degree in December, 1940. For some time he was employed | with the Regional Biologist of the Federal Soil Conservation Service, in the Wildlife Division. His parents are living in Ontario, a town in southern California. Robert Scoff Given Cadef Officer Appt. WASHINGTON STATE COL- | LEGE, Pullman, Nov. 20. — Robert |M. Scott, Juneau, received an ap- American Governments when the going, was tough, or of switching to more prominent leaders now that the break has come. Gen. DeGaulle, for instance, is reported to be irked over the fact that Gen. Giraud has suddenly emerged as the French comman- der in North Africa. DeGaulle bore the brunt of the work when the job of organizing Frenchmen was dif- ficult, and he expected to be their military leader. Now when the task is easier, Gen. Giraud steps into the picture. However, it remains a fact that DeGaulle has no great prestige in France, is only a'brigadler general, | while Giraud is a full, four-star general, and very popular with French troops. Also the British have never liked DeGaulle, found him very difficult to work with, don't consider him a real leader. But meanwhile, Gen. Giraud may also be irked at the way Admiral Darlan has emerged and begun is- suing orders to the French in North Africa. Thus the bandwagon rush to ride the American tide of victory may hurt some feelings; nevertheless, the prestige of Ad- (Continued on Page Four) pointment as a non-commissioned cadet officer, announced Lieuten- ant Colonel William L. Morrison. Scott is a corporal in the infan- Pioneer Groups - Name Candidates For New Officers Nominatiens were plentiful last night when members of the Aux-| iliary to the Pioneers of Alaska met in the Odd Fellows Hall for a business meeting. The nomina- | before the elections are held. | | Named as candidates for the job of President are Helen Rice, Josephine Spickett, {Anna Keeny, Alaska Norwicka,! | Dora Sweeney and Irene McKinley. | Others To Run ! vanetti, Delia Dull. Named to run for Secretary were | Silvia Zenger. and Della -Clark. | Treasurer .will, be chosen . from | among Mary Bevagd, @ordelia’ Carl- | son, Delia Dull and Bertha Os- borne. Candidates for, Chaplain are Lu- du Hunter, Helén ‘Rice, Josephine | Green, Fannie Connors; Historian, | Lily Hooker, Silyia Zenger, Kather- | ine Hooker, Lulu Hunter, Alma Hendricksoly; Sergeant-at-Arms, Jo- sephine Green, Josephine Goddard, Dora Sweeney; Trustee for a three- year-term, Delia Dull, May Lind-| strom, Josephine Spickett, Jose- | phine Green. i Mrs. Ted Laughlin was initiated as a member last evening. Pioneers Nominate i Meanwhile, the Pioneers Igloo| got together and nominated as‘, candidate for President, Henry Ro-' den; First Vice-President, William ‘CA Carlson; Second Vice-President, {Samuel J. Paul and R. M. Keeny; | Secretary, Al Zenger; Treasurer, John Reck; Historian, John Lang- seth; Chaplain, C. E. Rice; Ser- eant-at-Arms, Walter E. Bathe; | Trustee for a three-year term, Edi McIntyre and Al Lundstrom. During the business meeting of | the Pioneers, three members, Bert| Stevens, John R. MacDonald and Frank Furman, were reinstated. New members initiated are Wal- ter C. Barron, Simon P. Kirby, Wil- Lieut. General J | BALTIMORE; Lieut. Gz?l { liam Litchfield, Thomas A. Thom- | son and Ted Laughlin. Following the respective business meetings, the two groups got to- gether for a social evening, enjoy- ing cards and games. 'AH, ANOTHER! . o| WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.— Presi- o |dent Roosevelt told the newsmen o |today that something may develop | very soon on the subject of ap-| pointing another bureau or azency, that of Food Coordinator, try. - — STORM WARNING Advisory storm warnings were issued this morning by the United States Weather Bureau, that winds of from 30 to 40 miles per hour were ex- pected in the channels of Southeast Alaska this after- | ® noon and tonight, decreasing |® on Saturday. ® 0 0.0 05 0 0 00 000 ——— BUY DEFENSE BONDS Added_ fo Eggs SALEM, Ore, Nov 20.—Gov. Charles A. Sprague termed the death of 47 Oregon State Insane Asylum inmates, from eating pois~ oned eggs ‘“mass murder” but stressed that the eggs as they were obtained from the Federal Gov-| ernment were not responsible Sprague’s statement was issued after Dr. J. C. Evans, Hospital superintendent, announced that death was due to a powerful min- eral poison put into the scrambled eggs that were served at dinner Wednesday night. The Governor directed the State Police to take charge of the inves- | tigation on discovery that the | poison was one commonly used in insecticides. | This “points in the general di-| rection of roach powder mnlmned! in an ash barrel in the fruit cel- lar under the kitchen.” Evans said that only regular em- | ployees of the hospital had keys to the fruit cellar. | Poison Discovered { Dr. Joseph Bemans, director of | the Oregon State Police, discovered | |the poison in bits of eggs served | |the 467 inmates, who all became:! ill. Several died a few minutes| aftey the Wednesday night dinner,| With the death of the 47th vic- tim Thursday morning and the dis- covery that the poisoning seemed | JAPSBACK Road from Hain ON ATTU, IS REPORT Reconnaissance Flights| Find Renewed Activity | e o at End of Aleutians | —rhe tong awaitea construction | of a read from Haines, extend- ! ing 140 miles toward Fairbanks | with the new | on HEADQUARTERS, ALASKA DE- FENSE COMMAND, Nov. 20.—Army adrial reconnaissance over Attu Is- land now indicates renewed Japa- nese aerial activity from that once taken—once abandoned end of the | Aleutian Island chain. The first indications that Japanese are again visiting the| ruins of burned Attu village and| the adjacent headlands came about two weeks ago when Lieut.- Major H. McWilliams of Memphis, | Tenn,, on a routine weather obser- > vation flight in a heavy bomber, came through the overcast at a low altitude above Holtzt Bay on and connecting | Alcan Highway, appeared to be | set for this winter as Brig. Gen. | James O'Connor announced that f in spite of snow drifts and other | handicaps he is going to try it. | Forty miles have already been constructed from Haines to the border at Pleasant Camp. The Public Roads Administra- tion now has three survey par- ties working on the route. The new route would provide the Fairbanks, Connect with Alcan Highway, Is Plan of Brig.Gen. James 0'Connor disarray on the Island beach. Some of these planes apparently | Were Attacked | a s e s McWilliams, together with his| ‘as fast as possible out of the bay, | while machine guns on the beach, | Franco Informs Both Sidesi to come from the scrambled eggs, State and Federal bacteriologists | pressed an almost nationwide search | motor of- the plane ‘without injur- for its cause. Extensive Investigation The eggs were obtained from the Federal Surplus Commodities Cor- poration and similar - shipments, tions are to remain open until the 'possibly of the same consignment, low hanging clouds next meeting, to be closed just|were known to have reached other tween the island hills. institutions in Oregon and Wasl ington. Food and Drug admin Mabel Nance, tration food experts were immedi- scattéred in the plane area ately. ordered to investigate all these eggs. . Dr. Frank Menne of the Univer- sity of Oregon Medical School have been eooking. F) MEXICANS, SOVIETS T0 BE FRIENDS MOSCOW, Nov. 20. — The Soviet Government has accepted a pro- posal of the Mexican Government to reestablish diplomatic relations and exchange representatives with | Moscow, it was broadcast over the radio today. introduced in their LeJeune Is Dead iy T o Mi.. ‘Noy 0. 5 {Gliedeune, former| Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, }mssed away here during’ the, fiight. The well kttown | Marine man was 75 years old. e i Women's Army | Auxiliary Corps To Be Increased ' WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—Presi- dent Roosevelt today released an Executive Order authorizing in- crease of the ultimate strength of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps from 25,000 to 150,000. The President said it will be a long time before the figure of 150,- 000 is reached © Jpain wi | Attu, almost on top of eight Japa- were damaged and others were in copilot, Lieut. N. H. Drake of New | apparently ~dismantled from the | nese float planes which were in/ R efuselUse good condition but ashore. York City, firing rapidly, circled planes, fired bullets through one He Will Jump fo Other's | . Aid If Bases Taken = ing it | | Later MeWilliams returned and i dropped a number of fire pombs| NEW YORK, Nov. 20.- General- | on the grounded planes without |lssimo Franco of Spain has in- obserying the results because of formed both Axis and United Na- clutched be- ' tions that Spain will immem.uelvl accept aid from the other side if] However, co-pilot Drake noticed |any of her sea or air bases are | Japanese on the ground, someseized | and| Informed European diplomatic the |sources reporfed that the Ger-| | mans are rumored already to have |asked the use of the Mediterranean some seeking shelter among ruins. Make Fighter Raid [read at the highway's opening cere- | esToward ALLIES ARE - CLOSING IN, ALL SIDES | First Day of Heavy Fighting in North Africa Finds Am- erican Fire Accurate U, 5. ARTILLERY DRUBS NAZI TANK COLUMNS Axis Colum—t; Fleeing on Libya Side Have Aban- doned Bengasi,Report (By Associated Press) Allied Headquarters in North Africa announced today that Amer- lican and British troops, locked in the first heavy fighting in Tunisia, have driven back every German attempt to thrust out from the newly formed lines around Tunis and Bizerte. Pro-Allied French soldiers, mean- while captured small Axis forces in astern Tunisia. At the same time, Hitler's com- mand acknowledged that the flee- Libya have a straight water lane route to Fairbanks all year round since officials believe they could keep the road open from Haines. The road would link both ends of Alaska together, also after the war would bring more busi- ness (o Southeast Alaska ports as water transportation is still cheaper, even if tourists bring cars by steamer and drive them off at Haines. The new road would also make a cheaper haul possible to take freight by the water and land route to the interior instead of over the Al- can Highway which makes it of mainly military importance. DeWITTSAYS NOME ROAD | 15 NEXT STEP ing Axis columns in P T | abandoned Bengasi, the last escape iport in North Africa east of “Tri- Pacific Coast (lcgfilmnm{‘mu. i pe Sends Stafement on Uhited Nations headquarters said, . oo g o |that Allied troops, including Am-~y Highway Opening’; | e e W HDENT erican miobile artillery units, |drubbed Axis forces in three sharp, : 3 clashes yeésterday, destroying about ,I.IKLUANE;“I‘;;(% Y;‘;va;‘y 20';,ox)e-mird of a German armored 44 L : "fi' 5| column and driving two others in= ramflnnom‘fimafiimhflh, 1 fio-ftg TetEot . tod cution of our efforts against Ja- Marshel Henrl Petain meanwhile pan and in assisting Russia” Lieut. iu])peal?d to Frenchmen in Noith Gen. John DeWitt said in a letter | JBHEE "0 i Ty oo Suxon ag- les tod | gression.” iy s | But PFrench colonial troops are .Tl::‘ :le'.dter ’ngh’ wf‘ mv". ;;Dw'ofrlcinlly reported to have bagged established an ave in operal 0“,[3 group of Nazis ntumplinu to an airway and highway from "he‘push sOuth along the Gulf of Two days after this, Capt. R. E. Vice presidential timber includes traced the poison to the scram- (Pappy) Spear of Eugene, Ore., in/ly with an Italian request for use Cordelia Carlson, Katherine Hook- | bled eggs, but said the eggs them- 'a heavy bomber, led a flight of of the Balearic and coastal sub- er, Alma Hendrickson, Mary Gio- |selves might not have been respon- fighting | sible, as a foreign. element might fighters were over Attu. The ‘piloted by Capt. Franeis J. Poke of Oakland, Cal, Lieut. James D. Stevens of Fayette- ville, Tenn., Capt. Arthur P. Hu- stead, of Los Angeles, Capt. Ralph D. Matthews of North Dakota, and they strafed the grounded planes, while the bomber loosed more fire bombs. This ffle at least one of the grounde (planes was back on the water, apparently ready to take off, but the -eombination attack ruined it before it could do so0. The attackers reported more machine gun fire. Stevens' plane suffered a damaged motor, but re- turned safety, as did the others ‘The Japanese -planes were near the installations which the original planes invaders built in the summer and | then abandoned about two months United States through Canada to Fairbanks, a waterway via the in- land passage to Juneau and Skag- coast and Baléaric air bases, joint- |marine bases. |to Whitehorse. ! Sea Route Additions “These are all in addition to the |sea route$ on the West Coast of |the United States and Canada to : >oe s |all Alaskan ports in the Guif of hd | Alaska to the Bering Sea. 3 “Considering the question of a |need for additional means of com- p R o GRAM‘m‘mmuon within Alaska from a ' "military standpoint alone, the next |steps should be a directed con- |struction of a distribution network President Says Draft De- ferment of Essential Workers Set Soon |within Alaska of airways, jways and railways, following which | WASHINGTON, Nov. | we need a railroad from «he Unit- |ed States to Alaska through Can- |ada to supplement the Alaska |Highway and augment such capa- |city as this highway may develop. Next Important Step 20— Presi-| “If I am asked my opinion on |what is the next most important way and a railway from Skagway . high- | | Gabes in Eastern Tunisia. | Allied Losses Minor 1 Dispatches said that the open- |ing strateglc North Africarl buffer state ? of a battle for comtrol of '-”,_fl |has developed between 30 and 40 ‘miles from- Bizerte. | The Germans are using their | best medium tanks and dive bomb-" ers. | Allied losses so far are deseribed as “minor.”" | American and British mechanized troops have now driven 50 miles eastward from the Algerian fron- tier and are reported moving to- BENGASI I ~ VACATED IN ago, when they apparently decid- |dent Franklin D. Roosevelt said to- ed that a reinforcement on Kiska day that a manpower program will was more necessary than the At-|be announced soon to provide ma- tu emplacements. |chinery for draft deferment of es- U TSNS sential workers in munitions plants | The President told newsmen to- |day that he didn't know whether |the manpower problem could be handled through administrative ac- Ition, but said that probably little |legislation would be required in |any event. He said also that he has written Abandoned {w the Secretaries of War and Navy directing them to accept no enlist- |ments and grant no commissions, | effective as of last Monday, for| Government employees. SEATTLE, Nov. 20.—Plans for a PR o AE proposed blackout of the Pacific! | Coast on December 7 to commem- | orate the Japanese attack on Pearl HAUEY Io BE 1 Harbor have been abandoned, W. C. | Mainwaring, chairman of the ad- Full ADMIRA[ visory council of the provincial civijlan protection committee has announced in Vancouver, B. C WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.— Vice| Mainwaring said, the Associated | Admiral Halsey who led the Amer- Press reported, that the proposal ican fleet in the spectacular victory has been found to be “impracti-! over the Jap naval forces in the | cable for many reasons.” | southwest Pacific, was today nom- He made the announcement fol- inated by President Roosevelt to| lowing conferences with 1cde,‘a]{l)e o full Admiral. He will be the| authoritiés in- Seattle. ‘Nzn'w fifth full Admiral. necessary communication need, I unhesitatingly recommend con- struction of a rallroad westward from Fairbanks toward the coast of the Bering Sea; conversion ' of the Skagwaysto Whitehorse line to standard gauge double tracking; development of the port of Skag- way; extension of the Skagway to| Whitehorse . Railway from White- horse to Fairbanks to connect with the Alaska Railroad and construc- tion of a standard gauge line from Prince George to Whitehorse Fairbanks.” - THOMPSON, SPAIN BACK TO JUNEAU FROM KETCHIKAN o-cuc. Sid Thompson, Deputy U.S. Mar- American airmen hammered at al, and Mary Ellen Spain, Sec- the airfield south of Agheila to District Attorney William while Gen. Bernard Montgomery's returned to Juneau last army drove upon Bengasi from night from Ketchikan the north and south Criminal cases are finished for Stores of war material are being: the session, it is reported, and civil added to. the British booty as the' cases should be cleaned up by to- northern column advances AW day. ' the coast. " o AXIS FLIGHT Allies Begin Aerial Ham- . mering at El Agheila, Next Possible Stop already begun aerial hammering at © the EI Agheila bottleneck, which 'is the next possible stopping place 'in the retreat of Rommel. Meanwhile, the Allies- are closing in on Bengasi, determined that there will be no stopping this time in the 30-mile wide corridor where the Axis on two previous occasions brought their disastrous retreat to zheimer, b CAIRO, Nov. 20.—The Allies have °