The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 25, 1942, Page 1

VOL. LX., NO. 9199. ALLIES SMASHING JAPS CAUGHT IN TRA Russians Kill Or Capture 100,000 Ge FDRSAYSNO | RAF Fighters Destroy - Mammoth 80-Passenger Nati Transport Plane RED FORCES GAININGON ALL FRONTS Soviet Nu tgc'ria'(ker Jaws Trap Invaders in Nar- HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Gen. 0'Connor’ s (rew Has Made Roughing It In Yukon Impossible Brig. Gen. James O'Connor | his men have just about made the old idea of roughing it in the Yu- kon an impossibility. The men of and | in tents—even more than a hun- dred miles from Whitehorse at Lake Kluane. O'Connor’s men didn't | have any lumber there so they cut | 1 EDEN IN SUPPORT OF 'DEAL’ \British Foreign Secretary Declines fo Discuss Vichy JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1942 - SINGLE MAN - 10 CONTROL President Refuses toName ! Head of Production ___ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS — s PRICE TEN CENTS | : | LONDON, Nov. 25.—A squadron | of long range Royal Air Force fight- | er planes hit the jackpot on a sweep | off the eastern coast of Tunisia | yesterday, and the Axis paid off ning into the sea A report from*Malta said that the German craft was a Blohm Voss 222, apparently a huge new type of plane built by the makers of the P rmans FIGHTING IS BITTER AT BUNA, GONA Battle Rabiinrg at Close Quarters - Enemy Raided, Strafed . the Northwest Service Command (and milled their own and built i | i i row CO"ldor really know how to do things. enough barracks to accommodate Fren(h Relations n cu"em F'gh' A Reuters dispatch said that the flying boats which the Naxis used — | Mél'c than 200 dignitaries, cor- | everyone. Sp—— — British airmen bagged a mammoth experimentally in flight across the et (By Associated Press) respondents, photographers and y o LONDON, Nov. 25.—British For-| WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Argu- German transport plane, capable of Atlantic before the war. ALLIED HI_ZADQUARTERS, Aus- § Fhip . e eign Secretary Anthony Eden told |ments among some government of- \ carrying up to 80 fully equipped No Nazis soldier were seen to es- |tralia, Nov. 25 —Bitter close-quarter fighting rages throughout the Buna The number of German losses sther guests from the United States The food was the kind that you | the House of Commons today that ficials over who are the bosses of | soldiers. The RAF pilots pounced cape as the burning Leviathan of the air crashed into the waves. and Gona district today as the in dead and captured, alone, rock- | ind Canada swarmed last week bY | didn't expect—just like Thanks- |, pagtio of North Africa “is in|the nation's War Production have | on the huge craft and sent it spin- eted close to the 100,000 mark to- | olane, rail and road to attend the|giving dinner every day and three |, . abisal tonl Dhase” and |been stilled at least temporarily by | — bige 4. PR pmrione vt L0 SRR trapped Japs struggle desperately to day as the astounding Russian |opening ceremonies of the Alean|times a day :l(l di’zhfix;ie :,o 3{;!61::\ Lg:uatnmdnd et Prosidant’s’ wssextion that 4 ! defend a steadily narrowing area. éounter-offensive gained momen- | Highway and were almost as as-| p wqq southern hospitality in|ment which Lieut Qat “D‘w:gfn individual is in high command Nearly every type of Allied plane tim and the Red Army squeezed | tounded by the way the NorthWest| o' yyion Acting Governor E. L.|Eisenhower has made with P ¢l ' lamong the present administrators. ’ strafed and bombed the enemy posi- the invaders, trying to escape in|3ervice Command set up housc- | po et and his party were taven |guthorities, P b o He toid newsmen yesterday at a | [ tions yesterdayin support of ground a narrow corridor from Stalingrad | <eeping for them as they were bY | core of in the best of style 'An“"“E‘;or ; e | press conference that they must | x | | troops which are closing with the down, confining the Nazis to a 30- [<he new overland supply route|oyoeyent US. Coast Guard crew | en did not elaborate on this|g,n together to solve the problems | | Nippons on a 12-mile strip of battle- o Hoii 4 WY:)K‘(‘; il hflg ‘Come 'vOHSE:- “ihuulvd the party up Lynn Canal “i\tsm?l:;ed spokesman, however, S od S A -iotetion of ! “e::x.'men with Gen. Douglas Mac: 4 'Connor ar his e nt st & 8 > h [ " % i - Battlefront dispatches from Sta ant xcelle: ta [in some plenty rough weather s0|has repeatedly pointed out the ?:;:fnals and scheduling of produc i AtaS Sarinan ] Tisds irops B lingrad said that the Soviets are { aad expected hardly more than a ;lhm the Alaskan dignitaries could| | relatively light resistance of the Further, he declared, all the of- | HEAVY 0DDS - CAA WRECK 100 trips across the battle area, and others made raids as far off as the 7 \ rolling back the Nazi wedge to the | hundred guests. And when the mob| ... e | < Volga and are clearing another | Urived, you should have seen the | 1 e Ll?”.mc‘??s o A | French, as only the first phase of | ficials concerned with these prob- | ¢ 3 al’ S Fwaers e 8. Army-operated | {he showdown for domination of Jap plane bases at Timor and Lae, avenue of supply. Seneral's men building barracks. |\white Pass and Yukon Route met i lems are supposed to agree. | In the city, itself, a Russian re- They Really Move el m;)"" . At sn;u N Ithe Mediterranean’s African shore| If they don’t, he added, he will| . | el Ne: Irclnnd.‘ gl f f ; ; . P , stoves at |js ¢ under test. ut them in a room and tell them " . . communique says that “heavy inforcement garrison, fighting with | If vyou thought that his men g s A |15 now un . P ¢ S prson, g | st the mighway 18 Short, nder s, ey, FUDSERY T ok |, 10 28 BN W WY evebentay 'Small British Minesweep- Dan Victor, Noble T. Bass, |rigncins by lana and air rages ahn treated the party to lunch|petween the Allies and the strong| Commenting on the current con- | & i throughout the positions” near Buna Henry T. Weir Believed |and Gona. qut from its defensive position and i8 beating the enemy back, street by street. Drive Northwest Northwest of the city, the Rus- sian offensive has penetrated 80 miles into the depth of the Ger- man defenses within the great Don ~And in the southwest, the fight- ing Rissians stabbed for 65 miles it the invaders' lines. sou should have been one of those who saw the barracks go up. The ;uests moved into one end of a >uilding right on the heels of car- at Lake Bennett. | At Whitehorse they were taken | |to headquarters of the NWSC in| defenses of the Axis. Free for Job The spokesmen stressed that po- senters, plumbers and electricions. | fancy vehicles in which they also|litical arrangements in North Afri- 3y the time you'd been taken to made the trek to Lake Kluane and ca are intended to free the Allied our room, had turned around | back. The only casualty of the military commanders there for the hree times, lit a cigarette and de- | trip was when former Gov. George main job and in that sense, the sided to go out and watch the|A. Parks dropped thc oniy pipe |political and military considerations' work, you'd find that the hammer- | he had with him, busting it. He are closely dovetailed. ng had ceased, you were living in had to go without the stoker dur-| Eden was evidently referring to . completed barracks -— complete | ing the entire trip, but the unex-/the fact that the North African flicting reports over who has the final word in production allocations, | [the President observed that those | who say there is a single man in control over all War Production | factors are doodle drawing. Watson, as top man over alrcraft | production might lead to a show- ! down in the conflict between the | er, with Motor Tanker, Get War Wagon LONDON, Nov. 25.—The Admir- |alty has disclosed that a heavily ‘A dog leam rescue party has been Government sources have predict- | aymed Jap raider was engaged and |organized to make the tortuous trip led that Donald Nelson's appoint- | gegtroved in the Indian Ocean on into the mountains where a plane ment of his Vice-Chairman, Charles | November 11 by a mine sweeper of |crash the Royal Indian Navy, and a Netherlands motor tanker. The minesweeper, the HMS Ben- | to Have Lost Lives | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 25.— on Thursday of last week is | belleved to have killed three promi- ‘nent Clvil Aeronautics employees. | The wing section of the plane was The Allied airmen came in to strike unchallenged after the severe mauling which they gave the Japs last Saturday. The Allies found 100 Jap bodies when they entered the village of Gona, and many more wounded and dead Nippons were scatf along the beach. . ——— WPB and military services over the control of munitions production. As matters are going, they said,' | gal, was escorting the 6,3800-ton slg'ht,ed Sunday on a mountain near |tanker Ondina, about a thousand the Shaktolik River which empties miles southwest of Java ‘mw Norton Sound. electric | pected comforts furnished by the |expedition is cooperating with the Army made him forget all about|French Admiral Darlan, who is a | Vichy man and opposed to Fighting with oil heat, showers, v ights and room service. None of the guests had to cleep it. AERIAL HITS .Thé Soviet forces, working to- .qhfl like the jaws of a nutcrack- er; are still closing on the Ger- There was no sign of life. mans, One communique said that 3,400 more German deéad were added to the ‘overnight toll of battle for Stalingrad and the Don River; bend, alone. This raised the official count of Nazis killed to 44,400 in just six days of fighting. Dispatch- es predicted that when all reports are in, the tally will add up to 50,000 dead. 50,000 Prisoners A communique from Moscow, meanwhile, gave no specific figure for the number of Germans cap- (Continued on Page Two) ® & o o o o 0 o oo ¢ EMPIRE NOT TO PUBLISH . ON THURSDAY . e The Empire will observe the ® Thanksgiving Day holiday to- ® morrow and there will be no ® edition issued. Important news, ® if any, will be bulletined, how- ® ever, and displayed on The ® Empire windows. e & o o 0o 0 The Washing;un Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON dator Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) ‘WASHINGTON — In addition to | tluA mfl!iunt resistance of the marines in the Solomons, they have another little-known achievement to their credit. They have won over the natives to such an extent that the local head-hunters proudly pat their chests and say: “Me American!” Technically, the Solomon natives still are British. But not if they have anything to say about it. This winning over of the natives has been a definite asset to the marines. Almost every night, the local head-hunters come back with the head of a Jap who has strayed too far into the jungle. When the Japs first landed in the Solomons they immediately com- /| mandeered the natives’ food and then put them in forced labor gangs, making them level off the airfield, build locks and warehouses. So when the marines landed the natives were on the beach ready to welcome them. Somehow, the na- tives seemed to have got wind of the fact that the marines were coming. The first words they uttered were, “Americans! Me American too!” Though marine supplies have been | (Continued on Page Four) NAIZI| RED GAINS TEMPORARY Assert Volgg and Don Riv- er Atfacks Are Re- pulsed Today BERLIN, Nov. radio today said the Germans have succeeded in “temporarily pene- ting” German positions on the Rzhev front west of Moscow. The broadcast said that the Rus- sians broke through after three as- saults on the German lines, but the radio asserted that all attacks be- tween the Volga and Don rivers were “repulsed after violent fighting and heavy losses to the enemy.” - Wafiiing Is Given Motorists Chief of Police B. H. Manery to- day issued a sharp and last warn- ing to motorists to keep off Gold Street during the present Kkid’s sliding weather. Chief Manery said: “Gold Street is set aside for sliding purposes. I have received many reports thal both private and public cars con- tinue operating on Gold Street from Seventh Street to First as well as other sections. This must stop as it endangers the lives of the children enjoying the sliding sport. Motorists are permitted to cross Gold Street after due cau- tion that no sliders are on the street coming down, but operating on Gold Street, up and down, is off pronto.” ——————— Donald O'Leary has been dis- charged from St. Ann's Hospital. Clifford Wiediger, a medical pa- tient in St. Ann's Hospital, has been discharged. 25.—The German | ~ AIDEDNAZI ~ ARETODIE Chicago Court Hands in Treason Conviction- Women fo Prison CHICAGO, Nov. 25.—Three men | were convicted of treason and sen- tenced to death, while their wives | were each sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment and fined $10,000 | here today, having been convicted |of aiding and sheltering Herbert ;’Hans Haupt, Nazi saboteur execut- ed in September. | The men were sentenced to die by electrocution on January 22 “at a place in northern Illinois.” Each of the defendants stared fixedly at the judge as sentence was pronounced, displaying emotion. There was no demonstration in the courtroom. This was the second treason con- viction in 148 years of history. | The defendants are Hans and Erna Haupt, parents of the sabo- teur who was landed with seven others by sub last summer; Wal- ter and Lucille Froehling, the youth’s aunt and uncle, and Otto i | | Haupt family. - e — BRITISH KEEPING ON HEELS, FLEEING FORCES OF ROMMEL| CAIRO, Nov. 25.—Advance Brit- ish units maintained pressure on Rommel’s retreating army between Agedabia and El Agheila yesterday 1but poor weather conditions again held aerial activity over the desert battle area to a small scale, the | British Headquarters announces. P Alexander the Great forbade his soldiers to wear beards, to avoid an advantage to the enemy in hand- to-hand fighting. no' and Kate Wergin, friends of the| !French Commander DeGaulle. He said “This is not the time to discuss arrangements made in North Africa between Eisenhower {and the local French authorities. The battle is in an extremely cri- | itical phase. There will be time to |go into all these measures when it is won.” Cancelled Broadcast Meanwhile, he said, nothing should be done to give the Ameri- \cans cause for complaint. The statement was made while \Eden was commenting on the can- cellation by Churchill of a broad- |cast by DeGaulle, scheduled last Saturday “The Prime Minister and I didn't !think its delivery at this particu- lar time was helpful to the ex tremely tense and serious opera- tions now proceeding in Tunisia Eden said that all Britons in- terned in North Africa and almost | internees | all the Fighting French are now released. e IMMUNIZATIONS 10 BE GIVEN FRIDAY ATP. H. CENTER | An immunization clinic will be |offered to Juneau children on Fri- |day morning through the Juneau Public Health Center, it was an- nounced today by Miss Stephenie Bogdon, Public Health Nurse. | {from 9:30 to 10:30 am. and all parents with children of 6 to 9 |months of age who have not been |immunized against = smallpox or |diphtheria are urged to bring them it,o the clinic at this time. | SERVICES FOR | RADE KAPP ARE SET FOR FRIDAY Funeral services for Rade Kapp, {60, who died Sunday in St. Ann’s | Hospital, will be held on Friday at 12 pm. in the Russian Orthodox Church, it was announced today. 3 Mr. Kapp, who is well known in Juneau, was born in Montenegro. He has lived in Juneau for the last twelve years. The Rev. M. A. Baranoff will conduct the Russian Orthodox ser- | vice. Burial will be in the Serbian Plot of the Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Kapp is survived by his widow and a son, Milo, in Seward | The immunizations will be given| the clash might be expected to de- termine whether Nelson or the mili- the war economy. | Nelson had arranged an appoint- ment with President Roosevelt for | today. ALERT, DIMOUT 'ON TUESDAY At last night's practice dimout- |alert, 20 air raid stations reported an attendance of 129 air raid war- |dens, with an attendance of 39 | first aiders at the 14 first aid sta- .| tions. Sixteen auxiliary policéen were on duty, it was announced of Civilian Defense In addition, the Alaska Terri- orial Guard, under ,command of | Capt. George F. Freeburger, Wwas | ut in force. The practice dimout as a whole was very successful, said Mr sertson. Nearly all residences and business houses complied with the -egulations. The observance of the fimout by the leading hotels and wpartment houses was particularly 2xcellent. A few residences and business houses did not cooperate, and those aot cooperating were reported to the Oivilian Defense Council stop pedestrian and automobile traffic was generally good, although there was at least one violation. At its meeting, following the practice alert, the Defense Coun- cil authorized publication of a statement relative to conduct dur- ing practice alerts and actual alerts or enemy raids. At the Civilian Defense meeting it was also decided to turn six incendiary bombs purchased last summer over to the Juneau Vol- unteer PFire Department to be used ‘or practice. An announcement was made that 200 gallon tin cans have been given o the Civilian Defense Corps l):u‘ the Army for use as containers for |dry sand. Announcement as to vhen these will be available for use is to be made later, Mr. Ro- ‘ueru»on said | > Norns, female divinities of Nor- thern mythology, were said to ap- of children. SUCCESSFUL today by R. E. Robertson, Director | Ro- | Observation of the regulation to | pear as prophetesses at the birth | They encountered the Jap ship, 2 é ‘beheved to be the 10,000-ton Kikoku’ tary authorities have final say on|maru or the 6800-ton Kunikawa Victor was the pilot of the plane Maru, both of which are armed with six H-inch guns and equipped with | torpedo tubes and catapult aircraft. | The Bengal and the Ondina each had only single four-inch guns. LT. McNEIL HAS SHORT STORY IN POST OF NOV. 14 |Army Officer on Duty Here | Is Writer of Western | Fiction Steve McNeil, author of “Jimmy Buys Some Toms,"” short story which | appears in the November 14 issue of the Saturday Evening Post, is none other than Lieutenant McNeil, now |on active duty with the U. S. Army, serving in Juneau. The story which immediately fol- |lows the lead article in this issue of the Post, deals with the fruit and produce business in the Yakima Valley and the problems Jimmy 'faces in bucking the wealthy Con- soidated Company during an émer- gency. {and Anne provides heart interest |and the story has charm and flu- ency. Lieut., McNeil picked up the idea for the yarn when on CCC duty in |the Yakima Valley, which accounts for the authenticity of the back- | ground atmosphere. Lieutenant McNeil started writing | fiction in 1939, four years after his | graduation from Washington State | College and first sold to pulp maga- zines. After a year of this, he pick- led up an agent, August Lenniger | and from 1940 on has sold to “slicks” and secondary “slicks” as the smooth | paper magazines are termed. Among |the peroidicals that have published {his fiction are True Story, House- | hold Magazine, Toronto Star Week- ly, Outdoor -Life, Cosmopolitan and Saturday Evening Post. Hailing from Lake Quinault Washington, Lieutenant McNeil at- tended the University of Washing- ton for two years before transfer- on CCC duty and has held a re- | serve commission in the army since this year Just prior to going into |active duty and coming north he | was with the State Forestry Depart- ment in Olympia, Wuhmg‘on. PGS SN S R BUY DEFENSE BONDS The love affair of Jimmy | ring to Pullman. He spent two years: Veteran Anchorage airman Dan and with him were Noble T. Bass, Anchorage CAA Maintenance In- !spector and Henry T. Weir, Fair- banks, Assistant Airways Engineer. | The wreckage, which was appar- ently burned, was sighted by Jack Jefford, Chief Pilot, and Walter Plett, Superintendent of Airways. 1t is estimated that the dog team trek will take from four to six days. | The CAA office in Juneau has no | information regarding the wreck. ! — e el 'WINTER WEATHER " HALTS WORK ON " GLACIER HIGHWAY | District Engineer M. D. Williams |of the Public Roads Administration lin Alaska announced today that ‘work on the highway improvement | project from Juneau to Duck Creek lon the Glacier Highway has been | | suspended for the winter, due to| | weather conditions. Work on the road will be re- sumed as soon as the weather per- mits next year and the project wul{ finished. | | be R BABY GIRL IS BORN TO FRENCHES IN EAST Lieut. B. M. French and wife |are the parents of a six-pound girl Ibaby born in Washington, D.C.| | yesterday, according to a radio-| |gram received here. Licut. French, | | formerly with the Bureau of Pub- lic Roads headquartered in Juneau, | is with the USNR. in Washing- ton, and Mrs. French is the for- mer Mildred Morrison of Juneau. Grandfather Morrison, of the, first French arrival, lives in Ju-| neau, also two uncles, equally as| well known, Jimmy Morrison of | | the Signal Corps staff, who inci- dentally was inducted into the armed forces today, and John Mor- | {rison, on the staff of the B. M.| | Behrends Bank. Malcolm Morrison, inother uncle, is Operator-In- | Charge of the Signal Corps at Pet- | ersburg SR | Prevailing westerly winds large- ly account for the differences in temperature on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, ARE CLAIMED BY GERMANS BERLIN, Nov. 25. — Heavy air blows against the British in Libya and the Allles in French North Africa are reported today by the Ger- man High Command but the com- munique further states there has been “no fighting or actions of im- portance on either battlefront.” In Libya, the communigue said, low flying German planes attacked the British desert strongholds and flying fields. B The Berlin radio, in a broadcast, said “the British First Army has suffered a severe setback in its at- tempt to gain ground in the Tunis- ian-Algerian frontier area” and as- serted that in the difficult moun- tainous ground fairly strong British_ tank spearheads, closely followed, by several motorized columns, were caught in an ambush prepared by the German and Italian tank troops. e THANKSGIVING SERVICE MEN'S DANCE AT EIKS For entertainment of service men, there will be a dance in the Elks Ballroom tomorrow night from ‘9 to 12 o'clock under the combined auspices of USO and AWVS, it was announced today by J. S. (8id) |Cowgill, USO representative here. Music for the occasion will ‘be furnished by the Duck Creek or- chestra which has become increas- ingly popular with local dancers. Junior hostesses are urged to be }mesem to contribute to the suc- cess of the occasion. PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE OUT UNTIL MONDAY Juneau public school pupils leave the doors of the school this after- noon at 3:30 o'clock, not to return until Monday, as they have Friday off to recover from their Thanks- giving Day ‘celebrations. No special assembly was being held today in the school, as the students caught up on their extra work to make up for the two-day vacation ¥