The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 24, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9198. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUES DAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED LRESS —_PRICE TEN CENTS AIR BATTLES RAGE QVER AFRICAN COAST RSN V— Allies Capture Gona; Japs Are Shoved On NIPPONS TRAPPED AT BUNA American Pincer Drive Is Effective-Water Ap- proaches Watched ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Nov. 24—Aussie jun- gle fighters moved into Gona, the - Thanksgiving Proclamation Acting Governor E. L. Bartlett issued a proclamation today t- ting Thursday, November 26, our Day of Thanksgiving.” | The proclamation says further | “On this day, so set apart, I call upon the people of Alaska to gather | their families about them in their {homes and in their churches to give thanks to an all-wise Provi- dence for the blessings of freedom, lof liberty, and of conscience which |we here enjoy. ‘Let us also give thanks to Al- mighty God for the valor and de- votion of our fighting men who have in these perilous times, as in the days of old, defended their country with their lives and have protected us from invaders from across the seas. “On Thanksgiving Day let us pray that our arms will be crowned |with success during the coming year and that the next Thanks- | giving Day will be one of peace.” POISONED Dan Vidor, | | BRITISH 8TH, \DOUBLE RED ARMY ENTERS NEW SECTOR Agedabia Occupied-Forces Continue on Heels of Re- treating Rommel Units TORPEDO AIRCRAFT IN OFFENSIVE HITS NAZIS iSlaIingrad Salient Moving| Out of City to Close in on Desperate Enemy 'RUSSIANS’ WINTER LONDON, Nov. 24-—The Polish Government in Exile has information asserting that Heinrich Himmler, Chief of the Nazi Gestapo, half received has ordered the execution of of the Jewish population in Po- land by the end of this year. It is known that 250,000 Jews have | Half of Jew Population In Poland fo Be Executed been killed up to the latter part ol September under the pogrom According to information leaking out of the German Labor Office, there are only about 40,000 Jews remaining in the Warsaw Ghetto and “only the most thoroughly killed workers will be employed in the German war industry.” PRACTICEALERT | JAP DRIVE ALLIES MEET NAZI FORCES, AIR COMBAT Mighty Sirafile for Su- premacy Taking Place in North Africa GERMAN TRANSPORT " PLANES SHOT DOWN | IN YUNNAN Americans,fi'fiish Advanc- ACTION; VESSEL SUNK| DRIESU((ESSFU[ Axis Aircraft at Palermo Averaging 12 Miles Daily, AND DIMOUT TONIGHT AT 7 Buna, as the Americans drove in| a pincers move from the south Jap base twelve miles northeast of | yesterday. The sea offers its old escape hope for the Japs on the dwindling beachhead and MacArthur's air forces are keeping a close watch over the water approaches to New Guinea. The Japs are offering heavy re- sistance at Buna, but Cape Enaia- dere, nearby, has been captured. Allied air fighters have been ac- tive from New Guinea to Timor, downing one Jap interceptor on a reconnaissance patrol. e JAPS CUT OFF FROM Pilot, Killed Dan Victor, well known Alaska pilot, lost his life when a CAA plane which he was flying crashed several days ago near the Shakto- luk River which empties into Nor- {ton Sound, according to word re- ceived in Juneau. OUT, BAIL SALEM, Ore, Nov. 24. State Insane Hospital cooks, ar-| (rested in connection with the roach powder poisonings that took the lives of 47 inmates last week | re free on bail A. B. McKillop, assistant cook, | Are Strafed by Al- lied Planes CAIRO, Nov. 24, — The British | Two | Eighth Army entered Agedabia, 100 |a double Russian offensive miles south of Bengasi, yesterday, and continued pursuit of the broken Axis army toward El Agheila, 70 miles southwest. The British communique also an- nounces that Rommel’s forces have Gains Northwest and ' Southwets of Volga { | MOSBCOW, Nov. 24—The jaws of have bit deeply Into the%cold steppes west of the Don River Bend, to |day's battlefront dispatches say. | Already the new drive ha the Germans 50,000 dead and cap- tured. Other passengers in the plane, has been released on $10,000 bail |evacuated Gialo oasis and are re- | ppo whole Stalingrad salient is reported missing for after Circuit Judge Page granted several da were also killed, but|the requested preliminary hearing | no information has yet been re-lun the charge of manslaughter un-“ ceived as to their number or iden- |der the culpable negligence law. tity. Mrs. Mary O'Hare, head cook,| Victor formerly flew for Star jis charged with being an acc Airlines but has been with Civil|after the fact, because she with- Aeronauties Authority for the last|held information. She waived a several years ond was known preliminary hearing today so her which wa ported withdrawing toward EI Agheila, where a stand may be made. Gialo oasis has now been occu- ed by British units, The communique today says the pi SO | British advance forces are main- | taimifig éontact with the rear guards of the retreating Axis forces. ‘There is alr activity over the closing steadily in on the Nazis, |despite desperate German resis- |tance, in an effort to keep open a corridor for reinforcement and es- lcape back® from Stalingrad. i Report New ins which maintain an average of (from 6 to 12 miles a day toward | | At 7 o'clock tonight a practice jnl(‘rl and dimout will be held, it| was announced today by R. E. Rob- | jertson, Director of Civilian Defense. | e l | As this is the first practice dimout CHUNGKING, Nov. 24-Increas- {held, Mr. Robertson emphasized ing signs of a major Jap drive hat it would be a dimout, not a in the Yunna Province area,sand- blackout. | wiched in between enemy-held Bur- Dimout Requirements !ma and French Indo-China in | Window shades or blinds should southwestern-most China, are re- | be pulled down and kept down dur- ported by Army spokesmen today. |ing the alert in residences, hotels,| The spokesman said that Jap apartment houses and other build- |preparations included a concentra- ARGH. tion of amphibian tanks along the Front window lights should be gqiyeen River «in a slice of the {turned off in stores and business yyunnan already held by the en- | houses. BREWING emy. and exterior q ing fo Strategic Points Along Coast (By Associated Press) A violently erupting struggle for air supremacy is being fought over Tunisia along the Axis-Mediterra- nean shuttle route, with the Gers mans drawing airpower off all other fronts to concentrate against the mightily advancing forces of the Allies in that vital coastal area. Meanwhile, British and Ameri- can forces on the ground are get- ting set for an all-out assault on Tunis and Bizerte. | Porch, The Russians reported new gains-t— entrance, lights should be extinguished. ~Jrterior—lights—fided “not be ex- tinguished in any building. Street lights will remain on. A stream of reinforcements is arriving in Indo-China. The spokes- man estimated that the Japs have two divisions in Thailand and one Once the enemy is driven into the North African cflx there is every'sign that the aemal eohflict w‘ll be a hard one. throughout the Westward and Tn- | case will go directly to the grand ' pinyan desert but on a small scale. |the northwest from Stalingrad and | Air Rald Wardens and Auxiliaty * Indo~China, -as’ well as.fix in terior districts as one of the best}jury, She is free on $5,000 bail. Torpedo aircraft are active over|9 to 12 miles a day southwest of Policemen will not make arrests for Burmay which with' = Auxiliaries and most conservative fliers in the| McKillop sent a patient to the the Mediterranean. the city. | violations of the dimout, 'beeaise could mear a total ‘of 150 to 200,000 country. | basement to ‘get some powdered| One enemy merchant vessel is| The deepest reported penetration this is the first dimout held and the' men. All railroad traffic into Indo- The crash was located yesterday, milk for scrambled eggs but the |reported to have been hit amidships | is at Chernyshevskaya on the Chir Defense Council desires to ascertain | China: 1s being devoted to Jap troop after a search had been conducted patient brought back nk southeast of Sardina. River, 125 miles west of Stalingrad | the publics voluntary observance of movements, he said, and Jap au- |it, Mr. Roertson said. However, Air |thorities there ‘are exerting pres- “@ren ts lanes a !lgh et g"fl\‘ the i rrznem theatre and the “Axis is going to be tough lpnger than might be ex: poted’ | ‘3ald b pokesman _ f MORE HELP Secrefary Knox Believes | roach pow= | and s in U. S. Patrol Has Bot- tled Up Nippons WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Secre- tary of Navy Frank Knox today said it is “very unlikely” the Japs are getting reinforcements to troops opposing the American force on Guadalcanal. Reinforcements are “possible but not probable because of the rigid U.S. patrols working day and night.” Secretary Knox said the Japs are not reported as having landed any more troops since the great unsuccessful drive of almost two weeks ago in which an attempt was made to land huge forces to overwhelm the American defenders of the airfield at Guadalcanal and augment the Jap force there. Jap Methods Told since late last week, according o |der and this was not noticed the report. A plane was' to h-nvel Ancorage CAA headquarters wda_vyllouon MAY "ow USE FOUR PERCENT to recover the bodies and take! them to Unalakleet for transporta- tion to Anchorage., ! No information concerning the h obtainable from local | CAA officials though passengersar- | oF (ARGO SPA(E riving by plane from Anchorage | yesterday said that an extensive g search by a number of planes had It is probable that from now on, been carried on since the plane hguor shipments reaching Alaska was first reported missing and the |Will be held to four percent of ’Wrecknge was finally discovered. mrgo.space. providing not enough Mr. Victor is survived by his €SSential cargo is on hand to fill |widow, the former Alice Moran, Al cargo space. a son, Dan Jr., and infant daugh-| According to advices reaching ter, Mary Constance, who are now |11e Empire from official| sources, in Bellingham, Wash., with Mrs, |this is the agreement reached by \Victor's family, and his parenls.’”‘e War Shipping Administration who reside in Tacoma, Wash. and the U.S. Navy after confer- Mrs. Victor is the former Alice [°0C6S: It is understood that ,the {Moran, who was on the nursing eW Policy will go into effect im- |Staff of St. Ann's Hospital for a Mmediately. Formerly, 10 percent of each Secretary Knox said it is known | number. of years and fs a sister of | vessel's cargo space could be used the Japs had a method of feeding | MrS. Ted Keaton of this city. She {ik an axGnie) ot ‘ahout 900 men | joined the Territorial Health De- for non-essential cargo, providing | Axis aircraft at Palermo have been | strafed by other Allied planes. g BODY FOUND OF CREWMEN, ~ MISSING TUG 'Believed V;s;l Wrecked on Way to Ketchikan from South KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 24 The finding of the body of Charles F, Swanson five miles north of e Point near the Alaskan-Brit- gave the first clue to the fate of and 75 miles wést of Kalach, the railroad town on the Don River| Bend which the Russians sei: ove tha weekena. | keep a record of them, so they may b ¥ be reported to the control station Chernyshevskaya is some 40 Traffic to Cease Diles soithwest of Kletskaya, m"! Pedestrian and automobile travel |Don River citadel 100 miles north- | the streets should cease during | west of Stalingrad, which’ the Nazis |the alert, and violations should be overran in the fall in their drive reported to the control station so |to the Volga. "proper action may be taken against Threaten Positions offenders. Now the German holding posi- All members of the Civilian De- tions at Kletskaya are menaced fense Corps and the Alaska Terri- from two sides, since the Russians |torial Guard are to meet at their are also on the offensive in the |regular stations to participate in Serafimoyich region 30 miles mr-;the alert ther up' the Don. | WD i R s e ‘s i e Mis§ Rae Stevens, rail line which leads, from 5’.\11“)‘\‘ - Robert Hoopes to Wed Wednesday grad across the bleak Kalmyck | steppes into the northern Caucasus. ‘They are reported driving on |after taking ‘Aksai in a ten-milé ladvance from Abfanerova, 40| | milés southwest® of Stalingrad | | | | | | | Raid Wardens and Auxiliary Police- |sure on the %rench to yleld their zed | Men will check all violations and | policing rights, -~ - U.S.PLANE CARRY OUT NAZI RAIDS Allied Parachulists in No. Africa Repulse Mechan- ized Column, Tunisia WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.--Allied parachute troops have repulsed an Axis mechanized column and cap- |ish" Columbia boundary last night | INAZI LINES PENETRATED; Miss Rae Stevens, daughter of Allied Headquanters North Africa. ' 3 Bearing him out, reports from both sides tell of the mounting fury of the struggle. The British announced that at least three more large enemy planes, which are said to be troop transports, have been sent plung- /ing into the sea off the Tunisian , coast. | Broadcasting what it called an Allled communique, the Morocco radio said that Allied air activity. has grown “very intense” and an- other violent bombing raid was ! made on ‘Tripoli and Algiers: The radio said that nine Axis planes were destroyed in an Al- |lied raid on the enemy-held air- | field at Tunisia. i Axis Prepares Attac! | A Vichy broadeast told of heavy air raids during the night by the Germans and Italians on ' Algiers, Bone and Bougie, Allied held ports in Algeria. Mr. and Mrs. R, H. Stevens of ! Juneau, and Robert Hoopes, son of tured prisoners in southern Tuni- sia, the War Department has an-| The Berlin radio broadcast § every second night, landing from cruiser and destroyer groups. The Navy Secretary said it is his belief that the landing of Jap forces has stopped, for the time being, and also that Jap troops on the island, principally to the west- ward of the Americans positions, have been virtually cut off from i (Continued on Page Six) The Washington Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—Economic Stabi- lizer Jimmy Byrnes isn't advertis- ing it, but there was a wild-and- woolly wrangle over farm wages| when his board met behind closed doors at the White House recently. Manpower Chief Paul McNutt pounced all over American Farm Bureau chieftain Ed O'Neal for opposing higher farm wages. And after McNutt finished with O'Neal, | Secretary of Agriculture Wickard picked up the cudgels and gave him an even more vigorous verbal spanking. “When you say that farm prices aren't high enough to warrant higher wages on the farm,” Mc- Nutt told the Farm Bureau chief, “you simply are not stating facts. The real fact is that farm wages _(Continued on Page Four) |partment as public health nurse essentials were not ready to be the towboat Edward Shenck, which | BERLIN ADMITS PRESSURE nounced DNB account of the situation in |and moved to Anchorage where she loaded. 'met Mr. Victor. They were married | there over five years ago and have made their home there since. Mrs. - , ‘OFFICES, STORES e i, o s | 10 CLOSE DOORS — ON THANKSGIVING > Practically all offices, Federal jand Territorial and City, as well Iclose their doors day after tomor- row to celebrate Thanksgiving. In the Federal and Territorial Building, the Office of Indian Af- fairs and the U.S. Customs Office both will remain open on orders from their headquarters to observe o 1 on -Christmas as a holiday this They are Lieut. E. L. Commons, '¥*2! % Jr. U.ys. Army; Harold A. Peterson | Shoppers are warned to fill their abd George Sinsel, U.S. Coast Guard, | 1arders by tomorrow afternoon at and Edward Arnell, Wildlife Agent |7 0'clock with enough to last over | for the Alaska Game Commission. [the holiday. The Empire also will observe the | SHORTLAND PUPILS holiddy and no issue will be pub- lished. ! TOUR EMPIRE TODAY |\ o rpaan - | Juneau High School smdms,‘MER(HANT M‘RI“ | members of the senior shorthand | |class of Miss Evelyn Ohlson, pmf (Au's OSWM'D Bov a visit to the office of The Daily| Another Juneau boy who will | Alaska Empire this morning, on a tour to learn terms used in news-,mates in service is Erleng Oswald, paper work for their shorthand ex-|son of Pete Oswald, and a 1942 perience. They examined the com- | graduate of Juneap High School. posing office, advertising depun-: ment, but the reportorial office 'for San Francisco where his appli- force was too busy beating down cation for training in the American “MS” reports to be very communi- Merchant Marine service school has cative. | been accepted. 'ELKS INITIATE " FOUR AT SPECIAL ' MEETING MONDAY At a special initiation meeting | held last night by Juneau Elks | Lodge, four candidates became |soon join the ranks of his class-| | | disappeared October 10 northbound from Prince Rupert. Swanson, who was the cook, was one of four or five men to be aboard the ill-fated craft His body was found by the U.S. Coast Guard huddled under a fallen tree on the beach. Swanson had been wearing a life preserver, indicating that he had made the shore safely, crawled under a tree for protection from the storm, and died from exposure. A few miles farther north, search- ers found the door,and part of the cabin housing, believed to be | parts of the Shenck. A Canadian unemployment in- surance card was found on Swan- son's body. NS e SKIING CONDITIO FINE AT DOUGLAS UPPER CABIN BOWL The Admn'fll.;.;'il)»w:‘siun of the U.S. Forest Service reports that at present, - skiing comnditions are fine above the upper cabin at the Douglas Ski Bowl. The trail is broken through to the upper cabin and the cabin is being prepared so that it will be ready for use this weekend provid- Erleng plans to leave tomorrow |ing conditions hold good. There is\ynowheu else. | about three feet of snow at the upper cabin, - ee—— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS believed | Mrs. C. W. Hoopes, of San Diego, California, will be married at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Wallis George in the Baranof Hotel The Rev. W. H. Matthews; Jr., will ;omcmw at the ceremony at which jonly intimate friends of the family !will be present. The wedding will !b(- followed by an informal recep- | LONDON, Nov. 24.--A most ex- tracrdinary announcement | made tonight by the Berlin broad- | cast. This broadcast was picked up here and said the Russian forces | attacking south of Stalingrad on |the great loop of the river Don, without regard to losses, have penetrated the German defensive | lines. tion. | The broadcast, which was an of-| Miss Stevens and Mr. Hoopes ar- ficlal communique, then saig |Tived in Juneau by plane late yes- “, | terday afternoon from Fairbanks ‘counter 'S ' I'OC 1 || i e s e n'-’;r;“k:i?":;- Mise: fovensiias et employed. by {missions of an adversary's mccesfi!::;zkl‘;"fi &’:’{a‘g";:;‘?‘:q;":::l; on record ‘of the Nazi High Com- and Mr. Hoopes is Senior Master N aIins Sheconesent war Mechanic at Ladd Field for the U. | S. Army Engineers. Mr. Hoopes has S! ( | associated with the Army Engineers, owned a garage in the Interior city. Th of this month and will make their future home in that city. , lived in Fairbanks for the last fif- ON THANKSGIVING 1 couple expect to return to - was |teen years and before becoming Salvation Army and Memorial Fairbanks by plane the latter part Presbyterian Church members are | | uniting in Thanksgiving Day ser- | |vices to be held in the Memorial | |Church on Thursday, November 26,/ SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 24 |at 10:30 am. |President Juna Antonio Rios to- | Special music will be presented!day made his first statement ad- | by the choir and Capt. C. J. Dyck |mitting the possibility that Chile | will deliver the sermon. might break with the Axis. | R g et gon tvw i He declared he would break re- The New Zealand Tuatara is the | lations “If the interests of the | sole survivor.of a prehistoric rep-|country and the American conti- }mflan order of animal. It is found nent make it advisable.” | President Rios’ move leaves Ar- ————— |gentina the lone American country | The United States produced an dealing with the Axis. The others estimated apple crop of 126,000,000 broke in the first weeks after the ybushels in 1941, |United States’ entry into the war. | | | | | The communique that U.S. fighter planes attacked enemy troop trains near Gabes. Four Axis planes were shot down by our fighters in this engage- ment. The communique also reported that bombers carried out more night raids over Bizerte and Tunis. None of the American planes were re- ported missing or lost in either the bomber raid or fighter attack near Gabes. TEAMS MUST SUPPLY THEIR OWN OFFICIALS Beginning with tomorrow night's double-barreled basketball games, each team playing must furnish one official for refereeing, it is mnounced today The regular official list of refer- eces was junked last night when it was decided that poor sportsman- hip among players, disagreement with volunteer officials’ decisions ind other reasons for discourage- nent of service by volunteer offi- ials, led the regular officials to vash their hands of the league. As one official said: “We do not care which teams win but we do want ‘0 see the games played according to rules.” also reported | Tunisia, saying “activity of the Axis forces in Tunisia is limited to se- ‘(:unng the district occupied unti' now and to bringing up further troops and war materials so as to | fortify this bridgehead on the |North African coast. It is the strongest by nature of a railway line leading along the Tunisian coast in a southern direction. Roads leading into the interior are in | Axis hands, making it possible to distribute all supplies quickly! Allies Bomb Bizerte Advices from Caire say % lied 'bombers early today, dt! Bizerte where fresh German and Italian troops have been landing despite intense aerial battering of | their convoys, and the Axis is, can~ lcentrating te oppose the Allied | forces it The results of today's bombings were not given in the early com- munique from Cairo, however. - eee—— tden Forty-five Or More Not to :Be Inducled , Men 45 years old, or over this (age, are not subject to induction, according to information received {today by John McCormick. Direetor of Selective Service in Alaska from the Washingten, D. C., headquart~ ers, Regardless of their age at. the lume of registration, men 45 years + or more, are effected by this ruling.. ¥