The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 27, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LX., NO. 9200. ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1942 IYIEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS —_ | PRICE TEN CENTS FRENCH FLEET SEIZED TODAY BY HITLER Grand Offensive On Tunis Went Right fo His Head ALLIES 15 MILES FROM AXIS PORT United Nations Lance Spearhead Between Bizerte, Capital City CARRY ON GREAT BOMBING CAMPAIGN Heavy Unifed States Aerial Assaults Reported Over North Africa (By Associated Press) An Allied spearhead is reported to have lanced to a point 15 miles from Tunis, having clashed with Axis forces at Mateur, a junction 25 miles south of Bizerte in an effort to drive a wedge between the fortified capital and naval base of Tunisia. Both these developments were announced in a Berlin radio broad- cast. The position of the task force striking at Tunis is not stated, but an Allied communique earlier announced that British First Army troops are striking northeastward and have captured Mejez el Bab, 30 miles southwest of Tunis “over stiff resistance and are advancing Silver Shirt " Leader Now " Under Arrest WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. — The Department of Justice announced this afternoon the arrest of William Dudley Pelly, Silver Shirt leader, and four others, on charges of conspiring to harbor Howard Vic- Actress Gail Patrick’s autograph went right to Sailor Abe Goodman’s head when she dutographed his cap in a Hollywood cafe, where he went to catch a glimpse of movietown's personalities. WILLKIE IN SPEECHFOR gAmerican Urges Commo { Agreement on Post War Goals Before War Ends - CANADIANS RUSSIAIS ~ CLEANING ~ UPNAZIS \Great Offensive Rolls Out| from Stalingrad-Other Fronts Are Active 250,000 GERMANS " CALLED CASUALTIES ‘Berlin Radi; Reports Red Offense Starting at Mos- cow, Rzhev Torpets | (By Associated Press) | Danger deepens hourly for Hit- |ler's battered spearhead in Stalin- |grad, the latest battle dispatches |indicate, as fresh strength is poured | by the aggressive Red Army uar-“ |rison over the newly won land route. | Fast wheeling field columns cut |across the besiegers’ lifelines to the | west | Confused war movement swirled across the broad steppes west of | Stalingrad until it is impossible to define the battle lines clearly. | Overnight - dispatches, however, | "sam that in some places, the Red | offensive had gained such momen- | tum that the fleeing Germans have |been frustrated in their efforts to JAPSLAND FRESHMEN, BUNA BASE Allied P|afies Take Heavy Toll of Enemy Ves- sels in Move MARINES KILL 70 ON GUADALCANAL Ground Fighting on New Guinea Slacking, Is Report ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA, Nov. 27.—The Japa- nese defenders of the Buna beach- head in northwest New Guinea have received reinforcements de- spite naval losses suffered in the undertaking, the High Command announces, and are holding against attacking Americans and Austra- lians. “The insignia and markings on the enemy dead,” a dispatch says, “indicate that the Japs sent in special landing troops in new uni- forms and in excellent physical condition in recent landings of strong reinforcements.” Ground Fighting Slow Meanwhile, fighting on the ground Now Beginning Solemn Thanksgiving Day (eremony Is Held By FDR in White House KING, QUEEN GIVE SPREAD, ARMY, NAVY Officers Enferfained in Pal- ace — Unique Services, Westminster Abbey LONDON, Nov. 27—British King George and Queen Elizabeth yes- terday entertained 200 officers of the United States Army and Navy at the first Thanksgiving Day party ever given in Buckingham Palace. The khaki of the United States rmy, one thousand strong, filled the ancient Westminster Abbey to overflowing yesterday at a solemn Thanksgiving Day service. The gray old walls looked down on a congregation unique in event- ful history. It was the first time in 900 years the cathedral of the Church of England has been turned over to outsiders. ! Seated in one section were Am- erican soldiers representing all of the 48 States of the United States. In another section were scores of WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Presi- dent Roosevelt and more than 200 leaders of the armed and civilian se! es led the nation yesterday in a special Thanksgiving ceremony in the White House. Joining in a prayer for peace that will unite the world in a “firmer fellowship” and good will for all mankind, the solemn ceremony was held in the historic East Room, the | first of its kind, in the Executive Mansion. Surrounded by members of the Cabinet, Justice of the Supreme Court, Congressional and other civ- ilian and military chiefs and their families, the President opened the services, reading from an improvised | rostrum, his Thanksgiving Day pro- clamation, giving thanks to the greatest harvest in the nation's history and urging all to turn again to the “work that confronts us” at this time of national emergency. DARE DEVIL RAID MADE, - U.S.FLIERS Nine Heavyfi_mbers Make TOULON IS 'TAKEN OVER BY GERMANS |Last of UrE;(ilpied Free | France Falls by Order | of Axis Dictator 'MANY WARSHIPS ARE | REPORTED SCUTTLED 'French Admiral lssues "Sink Them’ Command | -Move Sudden One (By Associated Press) Germany has occupied the French seaport of Toulon, in former un- occupied or (‘Free France,” in vio- lation of another Hitler promise, overcoming the resistance of the Vichy forces, and taking over part of the French fleet in the Medi- terranean Sea harbor, So suddenly | was the move made that the crews |of the French Fleet had only time to scuttle a few of the battle craft, early advices state. The sudden stroke erased the last vestiges of France's liberties, blotting out the only remaining spot of unoccupied French home- land and turning the whole couri- |try over to Nazi military rule. | Joint Order tor Broenstrup during the four [eas Sa0 ¢ > SR = 5 in the Buna and Rea areas slack- . The German communique frank- successfully. ; ; : months the latter was a fugitive] TORONTO, Canada, Nov. 27. —|burn warplanes on the fields and = X i American Red Cross workers and F' h' A"a(k Ja q k- Mateur lies athwart & railway|iom n charge of seditious con-|The people of the United Nationsibave been overwhelmed too swiftly B s el s e Army nurses. | ong Ig J. p ‘ly AGIIGG. Ahe wtep. AR PV lir vay: S e £ g o 4 ¢ % | continued intensely in the air 5 . A it was jointly ordered by Hitler tv;:e:r}:unoi:eas; ;’;’:erl:g::zicsflbnt i o i’“m warned, Wendell L. Willkie de- |0 permit tflkeoff& G ! The Japs’ Laeyairdrom(- was ' The Btars $1id Hiclpes vere borlnc REfIflel’leS BaflgkOk {mmsfl( ind I{alian Premlil' Bex: 4 a - > | clare . ! Casualties Great | g | the cathedral aisles 4 ; i ler hs concentraisd- the. majorlty | ‘MALS) 11%‘( l-“mnéum»mftae" “i,fr\ German hnspitaf trains, jammed |St7UCk With 1,000-pound bombs and :fi:lsl;:;‘:‘;ihme ;x;: altar to up;n to Mussolini in fear of ;the. grow- of German and Ttalian troops in L e o o 1is “6.m. | With ‘the TAATSA AR dying, ave|Aliod: JRNEE | Buwned alx | JED ‘ongGeriivas NEW DELHI, Nov. 27.“Crews of |ing might of the Allies in North Tunisia. i [T T Puf] xicd , i 1:>'!u C‘; Kv‘rolhnu back from the bloody |fiBhters over Buna, losing three of e i nine American heavy bombers ob- |Africa. mon '’ understgnding -of. what they| ¥ |their own planes. served the advent of Thanksgiving | The refusal of the French armed Bomb Tripoli Today's communique from Cairo reports that United States heavy bombers ranging ahead of the British Eighth Army, made a punching attack on Tripoli, the main Axis base in Africa, and also 'OFFICIALS raided Houes, 100 miles east. EXPENSIVE The big four-motored bombers | flew despite bad weather to plunge bombs into the shipping of the Tripoli harbor and Spanish mole. The announcement said that (Continued on Page Two) STIMSON IN REVIEW OF WAR FRONTS WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. — Re- viewing the Allied offensives on the fronts around the world, Sec- retary of War Henry Stimson said today that the Russian counter- attack against the German siege forces is “particularly remarkable.” He said there is every indication that the Germans have suffered a major reverse in North Africa. British, French and American forces in Tunisia, he said, are gath- ering strength for a final smash at the strongly held Axis positions, while Marshal Erwin Rommel's fleeing Africa Corps is expected to make a determined stand at El Agheila. Australian and American troops “have cornered” a considerable number of Japs on the northern coast of New Guinea, the War Secretary said. He claimed the feat of MacArthur's troops in fighting their way through the dense jungle is “one of the outstanding opera- tions of the war.” Winter weather has interferred to a large degree with operations in the Aleutians, he said, but the American fliers are “taking advan- | tage of every good day to make the Japs at Kiska as uncomfortable as possible.” ———— Eighteen per cent of the cacoa produced in the world comes from Brazil, Dimond Rép?rts Salaries, | Alone, Go Over $125,- | 000 Per Year WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has been informed by the Office of Price Administration that it is cost- ing more than $100,000 annually for the salaries to administer the OPA to the 80,000 persons in Al- aska. Dimond said that he received this information from Rupert Em- erson, head of the OPA for Terri- tories and Possessions who sent {him a list of the salaries. The Alaska Delegate said further that each salary is subject to a 25 percent cost of living allowance, which would make the total cost of administering the OPA’s laws and regulations in Alaska more than $125,000 a year. The list of salaries is headed by |Mrs. Mildred Hermann, who receives $5,600, and Wilford Eiteman, chief price executive, who | receives the same pay. The 25 per- {cent allowance would be added to these figures. B STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Nov. 27. — Closing price of Alaska Juneau mine stock |today is 3%, American Can 72%, Bethlehem Steel 54'. Common- | wealth and Southern 9/30, Curtiss Wright 6%, International Harves- ter 53'%, Kennecott 27%, New York { }Unll.ed States Steel | s4.04. | pow, 47%, JONES AVERAGES rails 27.16, utilities 14.01. SR ST | U. S. Marshal illiam Mahoney | has left for Sitka% to bring seven | sentences in the Federal jail. | fight for, what they hope for ter the war is over.” |mon war of liberation, or it { nothing,” {‘a rally for | sia. The crowd quickly dispelled any |doubt about its attitude toward Willkie when the Canadians |cheered him wildly and loudly se "m'ul minutes before he started his |speech and interrupted him fre- {quently with applause. They gave !him another ovation when he fin- hed Offering no specific program, himself, Willkie declared “I'm de- liberately trying to provoke dis- cussion” between the peoples of the world, and added that he lived in “constant dread” that the war will end before these peoples are agreed as to the war objective R GASOLINE ~ RATIONING President [3iTed§ Cut to i Start Despife Objec- ‘; tions of Oil States WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Presi-| |dent Franklin D. Roosevelt today | directed that | scheduled, saying that the nation's rubber needs are growing more crit- jcal and “victory must not be de- layed” through any failure. In support, the Army and Navy Central 11%, Northern Pacific 7,'sent identical letters to rubber and Congressional pleas from oil produc- ing and western states for delay. Congressman L. H. Boren, of Ok- Tme following are today’s Dow, lahoma, Democrat, called the Presi- |giounen Early was asked about the Jones averages: industrials ~ll4.86,‘ t dent’s order “a dangerous error.” e HOLLIS EVANS RETURNS TO SITKA THIS MORNING Hollis Evans returned to Sitka | prisoners here where they wili serve by steamer, leaving here early this forthcoming, | morning. “This struggle is either a grand | man loss | coalition of peoples fighting a com- | Willkie said, speaking at Canadian aid to Rus-|are still held by thé Germans are - DECEMBER1 director, | _ |slaughter pens before Stalingrad It has been estimated that Ger s have mounted to nearly | On Guadalcanal, a Marine patrol killed 70 Japs and captured five machine guns in a raid on an en- EIGHT ME 250,000 killed, wounded, or cap- is | tured y emy encampment southwest of the 0 erican- i The roads from Stalingrad that|American-held Henderson Field. Earlier, communiques from Gen jclogged with Nazis fleeing in dis order to avoid entrapment. | On Other Fronts The Berlin radio has also re- ported a heavy offensive action |west of Moscow and Soviet troops jare said to be attacking German- |held sectors at Rzhev and Torpets. | PRESIDENT MAY REVISE - CABINET Would Make Ickes Labor Secrefary, McNutt | | Interior Head (Continued on Page Three) | ; . | WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—A plan |to solve the manpower situation is | | being advanced, a competent source | |changes in the President’s Cabinet, | land it is predicted by this source that the plan will go through. | Under the scheme, the functions {of the War Manpower Commission | would be transferred to the De-| partment of Labor, and Harold L. ecte nationwide gasoline | reges would become Secretary of |Jackson, Robert Hawkins, Thomas rationing start on December 1 8S!yapnor jnstead of the Interior De- |Brudzik and Rex Hansen. | partment. | Paul V. McNutt, now manpower |chief and Federal Security Admin- | istrator, would succeed Ickes as Sec- retary of the Interior | Prances Perkins, now Secretary Pound price administrators, thus rejecting | o¢ 1 apor would head the Federal \Securlty Department if the plan is |adopted. i | When Presidential Secretary| | Cabinet shift reports, he replied: |“The President.told me yesterday |that the whole thing is under study, but he has reached no decision.” Asked when a decision might be Early said that he didn’t know. Douglas MacArthir’s headquarters told of heavy and medium bombers Day by making a large scale attack |forces to submit to the Axis will on the Japanese controlled oil re- |was revealed in an official letter fineries at Bangkok,” the Allied com- | to Marshal Petain which informed munigue says. }him that Field Marshal von Rund- All planes with fliers rezumed‘smdt will “be in charge of all uninjured after the long flight to | ,,.a6res deemed necessary to make the capital city of Japanese-held .1 Gecisions regarding the French |said, in a way which will involve ' under MacArthur's command smashing a Jap attempt to land reinforcements at Buna. Today's report, however, says that some Jap reinforcements got through. Jap. Ship Losses The Allied planes sank two enemy destroyers in the attack, probably sank two more, all heavily loaded with troops. A Jap cruiser and an- other destroyer also in the action retreated hastily from the northern New Guinea shore under heavy aerial barrage by Allied planes There were no figures in today’s communiques concerning the num- ber of the newly-landed Jap rein- forcements. a > - THIRTY ARRIVE AND EIGHTEEN LEAVE THURSDAY Arrivals here from Seward yes- terday were George Anderson, George Erwine, Albert Pasquan, Carl H. Keil, John T. Foster, Mrs Ward Kelly, H. L. Case, Samuel Swerz, John Dawson, Mrs. Nettie Zook, Ward Kelly, J. D. Pettigrew, A. W. Westerberg, Gunnar Bags- | lund, O. B. VanSickle, Russell Har- FEARED DEAD Roberfs Lumber Company Group Unreported Since Nov. 13 CORDOVA, Alaska, Nov. 27 Grave concern is felt here regarding the fate of eight men aboard a fishing boat which left Cordova on November 13 and has been unre- ported since. The missing men were bound for the Roberts Lumber Company camp on Fidalgo Bay, 50 miles from here They are George Roberts, the mill owner; Arthur G. Clark,.the boat owner; Skipper Frenchy Gordon, and Jack Koski, Tommy Moore, Harry Wilson, Martin Munsen and Oscar Hill, new workers for the camp. Theories advanced by local and experienced boatmen range all the way from serious catastrophe to the possibility that the men have put in at an out of the way cove to avoid a storm or to repair a break- down. The first definite knowledge that the men were missing was revealed here Tuesday with the arrival of Mrs. Roberts from the camp saying that the men were long overdue The Coast Guard used two boats nish, Thomas Lambert, Thomas Hambrie, Barney Dampley, James all day Wednesday searching the probable route of the missing boat the shoreline, but have nothing to report as yet. The route of the missing boat would lead around Knowles Head Arriving from Valdez were Lu- cius Nunamaker, Charles Boyer. Edward Isaacsen, Mark Fuller; from Cordova, Mae Abdil, O. E. Abdill and K. J. MacCormac. Taking passage from Juneau were, for Ketchikan, Lieut. Bert Green, Harry Williams and Ma) H. T. Gentle; for Seattle, James| Doyle, F. E. Doyle, Mrs. Hulda M.| Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Morgan, of Nikula, Frank M. Doplan, Mrs.{Longmont, Colorado, arrived here Belva V. Bayless, Mary I. Bayless,| by steamer last night on their way M. R. McRoberts, Lois S, Mc-|to White Mt, near Nome, where wate The search is continuing. - - INDIAN OFFICE TEACHERS HERE ON WAY NORTH and occupied Thailand. The flight means that the bomb- | ers crossed either the Bay of Bengal | or the enemy-held bases in India’s back, The refineries are believed to have been heavily damaged. They are the only ones of the kind in Thailand. NAZIS CLAIM RULE OF AIR IN TUNISIA BERLIN, Nov. 27.—The German radio declares that the German Air Force has gained air superior- ity sover Tunisia with “lightning | speed,” but the report offered no statistics to support the state- | ment. | ——————— SMALL SCALE ENGAGEMENTS INMOROCCO | LONDON, Nov. 27.—Amid the| |in Morocco, ground engagements the radio reports here. French forces under General ward in cooperation with the Brit- ish and American program MRS CITY SNOW PLOW BUSY The heavy fall of snow Wednes- day night and early yesterday | morning cut into the Thanksgiving day observance of the city em- |are being fought on a small scale,|* | territory.” French Demobilized All French naval and military | forces are demobilized by Hitler's | (Continued on Page ; Two) ACCOUNT OF . "HOW FRENCH SUNK SHIPS \ i Toulon Harbor Graveyard . for Once Proud Fleet | Says Vichy LONDON, Nov. 57 ~ The great naval harbor of Toulon, where, ac- cording to Vichy reports the French fleet was scuttled, today is a “scene of utter desolation with all of the magnificent ships of the French Navy lying on their sides and dense clouds of smoke rising from them,” |a Vichy account stated. | The Vichy broadcast, recorded by Reuters, further describig the ac- tion, says the “maritime prefecture, the post office and towr hall fell quickly into the hands of German troops who swarmed in through the and also the coves and inlets along | first showers of the rainy season|windows from ladders placed against the walls Dash to Docks “A column of Germay lanks and armored cars,” the report continues, where storms stir up treacherous | iy,ud are advancing rapidly east- “entered the arsenal by the Cas- tigneau Gate and dashed full speed to the Milhaud docks, where the battleship Strasbourg was moored. “Another German motorized col- umn brought soldiers armed with® tommy guns to the Vauban Basin where the battleship Dunkerque was undergoing repairs, in front, of which the cruisers Foch, Algerie, Duguesne Roberts, C. B, Michael, Dorothy Mi- | they will be teachers for the Alas- |ployecs. The snow plow WAS OUllgng jean de Vienne were together | ¢ Indian Affairs. They | for several hours and shovel crews wi "o number of light cruisers, chael, W. S. Sullivan, Lane Pitts, ka Office o Herbert Norling, D. Joelson and plan to leave here as soon as trans- H. N. Gofthadt. portation is available, were busy on the street steps around the city. (Continued on Page Two)