The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 28, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. | LX., NO. 9201. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, N()\IMPLR 28, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS “FRicE TEN N ALLIES IN VIOLENT NORTH AFRICA Hope Some French Ships | | MAY STILL BE VESSELS SURVIVING Admiral Darlan Ask Any Who Escaped to Join United Nations' Fleet LONDON, Nov. 28.—Allied ports today held out the hand of wel- come to any surviving units of the martyred French Fleet, which defiantly chose mass suicide at Toulon rather than the clutch of Hitler. Even as great explosions | | | | | | were | RED FORCES AREDRIVING " NATIS BACK |. |Clear Last German Soldier | Out of Area Near | Don River Bend MOSCOW, Nov. 28. — The Red Army has cleared the last German soldier out of the Don River elbow west of Stalingrad and the re- | maining enemy forces are being coralled in a rapidly closing ring of | Russian guns and bayonets, it is reported from the front lines today. The Nazis are being hurled back llies AXIS ADMIT NEW BATTLE IN TUNISIA ' Americans - British Hit af Tunis-Bizerte Forti- fications FIGHT RAGES HARD AT MEJEL EL BAB Ifalians CIaETRaid on Our Airfield af Bone, still tearing out the vitals of the| men-of-war, Admiral Jean Darlan‘: B went on the air in the night to| appeal to what surviving units there | might be to make their haven au United Nations’ bases. ‘cnsxly upon the bayonets, the gar- rison communique said. This will | close an important gap in the Red Army’s curving line. Dispatches also report the recap- ture of Ketsyaka, a Cossack city Algeria LONDON, Nov. 28.—The enemy | has acknowledged that the reinforc- ed Allies have launched violent Whether any ships got away 15 problematical. Conflicting reports reaching Lon- don said that some smaller units,| possibly including submarines and | destroyers, put to sea before Hit- ler had sent his armored columns racing toward the base. Regardless of whether or all’ the Toulon fleet is lost to the Allies, its scuttling of itself is re- garded in United Nations' capitals 8s the most hopeful symbol yet of French resurgence. As the Russian newspaper Pravda | put it, the incident “is probably one | of those cleansing from France the | shame of capitulation at home.” Observers have interpreted the Toulon incident as vouchsafing Ad- miral Darlan’s sincerity. But pend- ing ' General DeGaulle’s forthcom- ing visit to Washington, the Ad-| miral's status still remained in question. The News Chronicle said that not | DISACREEMENT _Three illustrators, Varga, Howard | Baers and Barbara Shermund, Jooked at Natalie Draper (above) but disagrced as to her chief beauly asset. One said she | had mosi phologenic hips; other | two rated her llp.s as filsL French fo | the decision that DeGaulle should | visit reached at a meeting of the French national committee. in ¢ Washington had been | Appeal On Darlan Deal jon the west bank of the Don River, 80 miles northwest of Stalingrad. ! This strong point had been | enemy hands since last August. | The Russians had by-passed | Tskaya in a new offensive while one | force was taking this town The Russian offficial newspaper, Pravda, said that there has been | another swing east after the arching | thrust above Stalingrad had closed the Russian trap about the Nazi | force on the west bank of the Don River. | A military correspondent of Reu- | ters news agency reported to London that Russian pincers have closed on the Don River below Kalach, a rail town 40 miles west of Stalin- grad, thus completing the encircle- ment of a large Nazi force in a pocket southwest of Stalingrad. J. WILLIAMS IS COMMISSIONED BY SEC. OF WAR Gets Rank of Lieut. Col.- Is Adjutant General in ON THE LO OKOUT FOR JA PS IN ALAS KA—nnnl Canadian Air Force fliers speed high over snow-covered Alas- kan mountains on the lookout for Jap invaders. Canadian and U. 8. airmen dnily patml this rnuod area. WAR LABOR, FARMERS T0 GET RUBBER But Situation Is in Terrible: Mess, Jeffers Tells Floral Gift for an Axns Suo | | ENEMY ON DEFENSIVE AT TUNISIA Allied Forces Repulse * Counterattack at attacks before the Axis Tunis and Bizerte fortified zone in an area {which will probably be the decisive battleground for Tunisia. | This report from the Nazi-con- | trolled Paris radlo supported Amer- |ican reports that a climactic Allied | push to sweep the enemy from his |last stronghold in French North | Africa already was under way under ithe sheltering wings of the British | Air Force. | The Paris broadcast admitted the |infiltration of the Axis lines along | with violent fighting in the Mejez el Bab region, tactically important | communications hub outside of the | Tunis Bizerte fortifications arc |which Allled dispatches have re- ported already taken. | Axis communiques, however, men- tioned only limited local fighting on the two North African fronts—Tun- isia and Libya. The Itallans reported a raid on the Allied airfield at Bone, Algeria, where they said the runways and grounded planes were hit. The Germans claimed that 20 !Allied planes were downed in an attempt to strike deep at the roots of the reinforcement supply bases of the enemy in North Africa. At the same time, an Italian dis- patch reported that the Royal Air FRENCH HAD SHORT TIME Tebouraba Force struck home in raids on the | big Sicilian air base of Syracuse WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—Allied |and at Dodencanese, Leros Island, forces in Tunisia have repulsed an | CAUSING dlrmn at both places. enemy counter-attack at Tebouraba, | destroying ten Axis tanks a War | Department communique reported‘ el ‘ for Alaska Senate Com. j DeGaullist Group Angered | Lo S | J. P. Williams, w! as been act- Over Status of Pro- |ins agsutanc Sy tor Alssca | since the Alaska Territorial Guard units have been in a process of WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 —Farm- | ers and war workers will be allowed | the necessary gas to meet their| needs, Rubber Administrator Jeffers | T0D0 JOB, Scuttling of Fleet Solves| Problem of Disposi- tion, Allied Navies LONDON, Nov. 28—The London | Daily Mail quoted authoritative quarters today as saying that Hit- ler marched into Toulon because he was forced to acquire the new base to replace the bombed and immobilized Genoa as a supply base for Tunisia and Africa. The reported scuttling of the| French Fleet as a result of his ac- tion at the same time solved the naval problem, for Allied naval staffs havé pointed out, as long as the Toulon fleet existed there was a threat that it might some day sail against the Allies. Therefore, the Allied navies have been forced into a disposition of their warships which was often dis- advantageous. Had Short Notice London sources report that the scuttling of the fleet was accom- plished on very short notice. It was believed that the navy men aboard their vessels knew nothing of the coming of Germans until about five hours be- fore their arrival to take over. Their action was quickly timed and carried out, but resulted in a heavy loss of life. Many of the captains are said to have gone down Witk their ships. Gen. DeGaulle, Fighting French leader, is said to have broadcast a message of congratulation to his French compatriots on their brave action. Admiral Darlan in North Africa, however, stated that the (Cnntlnued on Page Three) £ the | | Hitlerite in Africa [ LONDON, Nov.- 28. Politidal | sources here said today that Gen. DeGaulle is expected to direct a | strong personal appeal to the Unit- ed States Governmeént for a change in the miral Jean | rica. The Fightirg French military |spokesman skipped his customary | broadcast yesterday to France. | In his explanation, he declared, “So long as Darlan is retained as head of' North Africa, we feel we cannot conscientiously con- | tinue.” He added that it is impossible to make the appointment of Dar- llan clear to the French people. S ee—— Darlanls Disowned By Vichy Marshal and General Gir- aud Deprived of Nation- ality for Allied Help VICHY, Nov. 28. Darlan in North Af- their French nationality, as a re- sult of their cooperation with the Allies, it was announced today. The action was taken in the first cabinet session ‘presided over by Pierre Laval since he was given full powers by Marshal Henri Pe- tain, influential status of Ad-| | organization, today was appointed | by Secretary of War Henry Stimson, at the directive of President Roose- velt, an Adjutant General for Al- aska. He has been awarded the rank and | grade of Lieutenant Colonel and will administer the affairs of the 60- |odd units of the Alaska Territorial | Guard already formed and more units that will be organized later throughout all of Alaska. Lieut. Col. Williams formerly was employed by the U. S. Forest Service here for many years and had been in retirement when the war broke out. Working with Lieut. Col. Williams {on ATG matters are Major Carl F. | Scheibner, aide to the Governor of Alaska, and Major M. R. Marston, on detached duty with the ATG | from the Alaska Deleme Command. TULSA WILL 'PLAY JAN. 1, | SUGAR BOWL | | | NEW ORLEANS, La., ‘Nov. 28—/ | Sugar Bowl officials announced to- | |day that Tulsa University, unbeat- | len in football during the 1942 grid | | season, will play in the Ninth An-| — The Vichy nual Sugar Bowl football game on |killed in the cabinet has deprived Armiral Jean!January 1. The opponent for Tulsa'sued and six commandos were taken Darland and General Giraud oflwxll be selected after today's final'prisoner | contests -—ee | A dozen summits of the Owen Slanley Range, are more than 10,000 feet high. | AP 4TI i | About 55 percent of Cuba’s sugar|® ymills are owned by Americans. in New Guinea, ® told a Senate investigating commit- | tee today, reiterating that immediate | nationwide rationing is an *“abso- lute necessity.” . With no new rubber available Jeffers testified, “we face the abso- lute necessity of*a rationing pro- gram to enable us to continue essential driving through the fall of 1943 and the spring of 1944.” Jeffers said that the production of synthetic rubber is clouded by “ifs” including the big “if in regard to the success of processes and th size and continuity of output 14 COMMANDOS OF BRITISHERS IN DARING RAID LONDON, Nov. British Commandos made a dar- ing raid on the Norwegian coast, wrecked a power station and blew jup a dam at Glomfjord, according to advices received here from bLOLkv holm. Glomfjord is in northern Nor- way about 257 miles south of Nar- vik. Details chkhmm reached Norwegian of the raid through a underground newspaper account. The Commandos also smashed other vital installations before de- tected by the Germans Eight of the Commandos were fierce fight that en- by the Germans. - s e ee e o s e ve e WEATHER REPORT (U. S. Bureau) Temp. Friday, Nov. 27 Maximum 34, minimum 27 Snow—3 inches v 90000000000 28. — Fourteen i This tremendous fountain of water thrown up by a U. S. Navy depth charge blast looks like a gigantic flower opui.ing up its petals, It’s very pretty to watch, but generally means the doom of an Axis sub caught in the explosion radius. The photo was taken in one of the ocean ship~ ving lanes guarded by the U. S. fleet, It is an official U, S. Navy phom MADAMEKAI FRENCH SUB SHEK HERE IN SPANISH FOR INJURY PORTTODAY BERN, Switzerland, Nov. 28.— A French submarine has succeeded in escaping from Toulon and hasi arrived at Barcelona, it is reliably reported here. The sub was said to have put ir B: elona at 1:30 p.m. today | Spanish authorities gave the com- | mander 48 hours to leave or to be! | interned. Late this afternoon, the | commander was reported to be un- decided as to what to do. - HOTEL'S BELLES WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Madame Chiang Kai Shek, wife of the Chinese generalissimo, has arrived in the United States and has en- tered a hospital for medical treat- | ment for an injury received in an auto accident five years ago. The White House announces that upon completion of the treatment, she will be the guest of President Roo- sevelt, at ———— CAMPHOR REPELS BUGS PUEBLO, Colo, — A Pueblo wo- | man plants camphor balls with her nasturtiums each year and never has any trouble with bugs or in- sects, She believes the smell of the camphor keeps 'em away. Hotel pondered what to call girls who are replacing bellboys. It de-| cided on “bellwaacs.” | - BUY DEFENSE BONDS | | The this afternoon. The commuique said “The enemy is generally on the defensive in the | Tunisian area.” In an effort to delay the progress of our troops, the enemy is attempt- ing to blow up bridges on roads and railway lines. Although weather conditions and muddy airfields have recently hamp- ered air activities, Allied night fighters shot down four planes last night which attempted to raid Alglers. gL DOUBLE FEATURES MAY BE DROPPED NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—The movie industry’s National Board of Re- view has adopted a resolution urg- ing abandonment of the doubler teature movie for the duration’ a saving of time, the war.” Shortly before, Lowell Mellett, chief of the Office of War Infoi mation’s bureau of motion pictures, bad appealed for such action in a| speech which declared: “The habit of sitting three or four or even more hours, with one's fictional world, hardly equips the American popu- | mind afloat in a lation for the serious job of deal- ing with real life.” - - NATURAL . BROWNWOOD, Texas, Oct. 28.— troops at Camp Bowie is 711. - Pineapples weighing are common in the New Hebrides family Islands. telephone number in the en- ° PORTLAND, Ore—The Imperial )isted men's service club for negro KEEPAFTER * ROMMELIN ~ LIBYAAREA enemy | | LONDON, Nov. 28.—For the sce- jond day in succession, British | Headquarters announced this af- ternoon there is “nothing to re- port” regarding Montgomery's | Eighth British Army pursuing Mar- shal Erwin Reommel’s battered forc- ‘cs within Libya. NIPPONS ARE -REPULSED ON - NEW GUINEA “as | critical materials | and manpower needed for winning | ] R | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Nov. 28. — Japanese ground troops, entrapped along New Guinea's north shore between Gona and Buna, have been re- pulsed with heavy losses after at- tempts to counter-attack against the Americans and Australians, the High Command reports today. | S SR A MRS. E. J. COWLING ON TRIP TO SEATTLE Mrs. E. J. Cowling left yesterday for Seattle, where she will spend 20 pounds several months visiting with her Mrs. Cowling is the mother of Robert Cowling.