The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 7, 1942, Page 1

THE VOL. LX., NO. 9208. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 1942 MEMB[‘ZR ASSOC]ATH) PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'ALLIES PLAN FINAL DASH FOR TUNISIA " PLANE CRASH Navy Gives Full VICTIMS ARE OnPearlHar BROUGHT OUT Bodies of Three CAA Em-‘ ployees Are Taken to Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. T.— Searching parties have returned here, after an arduous wilderne trip into unmapped mountain ar with the bodies of Dan Victor, Henry A. Weir and Nobel T. Bass, CAA employees killed in a crash of their plane near Moses Point on Norton Sound three weeks ago., The body of Victor, ill-fated plane, will be sent to Tacoma, Wash., for burial His widow and two children now are in Bellingham. " Sv-n;sice.x for Weir, who was Assist- (By Associated Press) ant Airways Engineer for the CAA, A Tokyo broadcast declared to- will be held in Fairbanks. Bass, |day on the first anniversary of the CAA Maintenance Inspector, in Anchorage where his widow and ship and three aircraft carriers son survive ere among the Jap warships sunk The plane apparently hit a moun- |during the first 12 months of the tainside, caught fire and exploded war on November 19, Walter Plett, Superintendent of Airways for CAA said today. e, — NEW YORK, Dec. 7. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | | vegeber stock today is 3, American Can 72%, sent down by the United States and Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel }Pb‘“'" Alltes. . 54'4. Commonwealth and Southern | Earlier Version 1;, Curtiss Wright 6%, International | But on December 1, the Jap ra- Harvester 55%, Kennecott 271, New {dio issued higher figures for both York Central 11%, Northern Pamm ships and planes, saying that 40/ 674, Pound $4.04, United States Steel | Jap warships and 65 merchant 467%. {ships were 556 aircraft DOW, JONES AVERAGES ts and failed to return.” The following are Lodq_ s Dow,| In addition, 22 warships were Jones averages: Industrials, 115 |reported by the Japs to have been TRUE, 2680 litles 100, |damaged, among them one battle- jship and two aircraft carriers. The W as h ing Iun it it 1 T b e Merry - Go-Round | less than half of their ship losses. By DREW PEARSON In Washington, Secretary of the (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) JAPS GIVE RESUME OF 'WAR LOSSES But Tokyo Version Has Only Half of Real Sinkings pilot of the es in manpower, merchant shipping and aircraft. The communique said ipan’'s losses, excluding {the fight in China, killed, 42,577 wounded that Ja- those of were 21,166 up to No- Navy Frank Knox asserted that Japan’s loss of warships, cargo carriers and transports are ap- | proaching a point of desperation, imperiling the security of Japan's far-flung Pacific Island bases. | Japs Desperate WASHINGTON — It brought no| The enemy's 'time strength,” headlines, but Chief of Staff Gen.|said Knox in an article written for Marshall made the first step wward(the Army-Navy Journal, has been better cooperation between Capitolicut in one year “to a few thou- | Hill and the Executive Branch of [sand tons short of desperately im- the Government by holding a quiet‘ pairing the Nippons' lines of com- ;u;)f::::]c; n\:']:tsh r:s:'ng;mw“ and | mynication and supply.” He gave them an intimate, and mFor A Blonation. enoR RSN uch credit to a war of attrition on the whole optimistic, Progress i . oed for the st 12 } report on the war, which left a =0 B 28 months by good impression with Congressional | i an- submarines in' the: Pa- leaders. Both Republicans and ¢ Democrats were present, miost of | them from the military affairs com- | mitees, and also the Vice-President, the Speakers and other leaders. | Gen. Marshall gave the actual fig- ures on American losses in North‘ Africa, These must remain con-‘ fidential, but they were encourag-| ingly small. He explained that one reason for the light casualties was Gen. Eisenhower's peace arrange- ment with Admiral Darlan. Gen, Marshall attached great im-{ portance to this, since the army,, navy and civilian population inj| North Africa were under the influ-| 6, 64 l D ead Nippo"ese ence of Admiral Darlan. Therefore Have Been Counted he suggested to Congress that it would be very helpful if there were | on Ground no critical speeches of the Admlrali WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. — The despite his Vichy connections. Admiral Darlan had come to visit oumber of Japs killed by U.S soldiers and Marines on Guadal- WASHINGTON—One of the most (Continued on Page Five) | = - SOLOMONS his son who was stricken with in- fantile paralysis, Gen. Marshall said, then had returned to France. But when his son suffered a relapse, Darlan came back to North Africe. Thus it was pure accident, but a very fortunate one that he was in Algiers at the time. Darlan had given the order immediately which resulted in the saving of many Am- erican lives. Gen. Marshall also paid high tri- bute to Robert Murphy, the State Department’s charge d'affairs in France, who spent most of his time in North Africa. It was Murphy who mapped out most of the ad- vance political plans of the U. S Army. not counting the thousands of Nipponese estimated to have been | destroyed in sea action, by artil- lery fire and air bombings, the Yavy announces. These figures are based on the actual count of bodies, the Navy said, indicating in the report that the Japs have received no appre- clable reinforcements or there since a huge armada was blasted by U.S. forces in a great aaval battle thrée weeks ago American Marines, trained as ‘Jungle raiders” have volunteered for one of the most dangerous fighting jobs of the war. ‘They have | wiped out 400 Jap soldiers at fiv bases while losing only 17 of their own men, the Navy said, adding that the action took place mainly in the jungles of Guadalcanal and occurred over a number of weeks DIVERTING NAZI PLANES Gen. Marshall was also optimistic regarding the amount of Naz strength being diverted from the Russian front, especially airpower. He felt that Hitler would have to tske more and more planes away "(Continued on Page Four) lived war in the Pacific that one battle- | The report also listed other lossw 1; 394 planes and 62 ships | ent to the bottom, while | “dived into enemy tar- | ' |enemy waters is very favorable. canal Island stood at 6,641 today, | supplies | © | said emphatically, “Yes. Report | hor Damage | For Dec. 7Ann|versary | WASHINGTON, : Dec. 7. The | Navy, in its first full report on the | Pearl Harbor losses, revealed to- day that the surprise Japanese blow sank or- damaged all eight Ameri- can battlé¢hips in the Hawaiian | area, along with 10 other ships an 1 floating drydock. | But the job of raising and re- pairing the ships has been rushed | uch a furious pace that more mm half of the damaged ships | have already rejoined the fleet Only the torpedoed, bombed and burned battleship Arizona has been iccounted a total le The Pearl Harbor anniver: mmary of the damage was vided into two classes. The were damaged but soon re- r and joined the fleet “some, months " This class included “hr battleships Pennsylvania, Mary- | and Tennessee; the cruisers Helena, Honolulu and Raleigh, and the seaplane tender Cirtuss and hh.- repair ship Vestal. Badly Damaged | The other class included ships {sunk or damaged so severely that ;xhoy would serve no military pur- poses “for some time.” This group includes the battleships Arizona, | Oklahoma, California, Nevada and West Virginia; the destroyers Shaw, ‘C n and Downes; the minelayer |Okiala, the target ship Utah, and one large floating drydock. These eight battleships repre- sented almost half of the Navy's ‘sLX‘enfllh in that category | Besides the losses of v ed also as destroyed wer and 97 Army airplanes A total of 2,117 officers listed men of the Navy Ma- rines were Kkilled, 960 were listed ias missing and 876 were listed as wounded survivors. i Army officers and enlisted men killed numbered 226, 396 were wounded, “most of whom have re- covered and returned to duty.” 105 Jap Planes | It estimated that 105 |planes took part in the raid. The Navy said that a number of the crippled ships “now are in full service, but certain others which | required extensive machinery and |intricate electrical overhauling - ary | di- first cl p: | land sels, list- 80 Navy and en- ! | and is Jap «conuflued on Pagfi Six) HAWAIL NAVY HEADS NOTE ANNIVERSARY Nimitz Says—J;ps Will Be Hit - Driven from Aleutians PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, Dec. 7. —This American sea base, a year after the infamous Jap sneak at- tack, stands today as a monument | to American engineering skill and | plain hard work as the greatest naval base in the world, Rear Ad- | miral Furlong, Commandant of the Navy Yard at Pearl Harbor, said | today. | Admiral Chester Nimitz, Com mander of the Pacific Fleet, said | the “outlook of our advance in It requires ships and planes with : superiority. Our ships will force the | | war into areas now controlled by | the enemy.” ; Furlong said simply, “What Gib- | raltar and Malta are to the Medi- terranean, Pearl Harbor is to thel Pacific on a large scale. What Singapore should have been, we are.” In a press conference, Admiral Nimitz declared in a war blast, “un- | til we have completely smashed the |Jap power in the Pacific, we will ,carry the fight to the enemy in his | {own waters. From now on we can | expect more and more surface ac- tions because the enemy’s carrier strength is becoming depleted.” | When asked if the Japs would be \driven out of the Aleutians, Nimitz But as to | the time, I make no comment. I !don't want to disclose anything we have in mind. But they will be driv- |en out before they can do any | harm.” SEA FLEET | declared today that a “certain num- | of the outbreak of the war that O Sunday morning in ene of the most peaceful spots spots in the world—Japanese gangsters launched the most treacherous attack in history against the . United States of America. Without warning, Jap bombers struck American ships . . . destroyed Am- erican planes . . . and mercilessly machine-gunned unprotected men, women and children. We Am- ericans have accepted the challenge . . . 130,000,000 of us pledge to fight every hour and every minute until we wipe out the shame of Jap treachery for- ever . . . and give Hirohito and his boys something to MMFMNR PEARL HARBOR! year ago today—on a calm, sunny Indudtion of Men 380 Older, Suspended;Many Now in Army Are fo Quif Dec. 7 ‘am]l'n- all men the army artment WASHINGTON, ion from inducgjon of of age or older ered by the War De enlisted men in the new years of age or older, perform military torily, may be honoral from the Army The War Department action is taken because of sult of experience gained in the past three years which indicat that a man 38 or over is generally physically less able to withstand | the rigors of the present day (nm-‘ bat activities and many of these men released can make a more( effective contribution to the w: effort of industry rather than the Army. ' o OF JAPAN ENLARGED. TOKYO, Dec. 7. — The official spokesman for -the Japanese Navy atisfac arged servic said the the “r ber of powerful battleships have been placed in commission” by the navy since the war began in the Pacific. The spokesman, Capt. Hideo Hi- raide, further said in a broadcast to the nation on the anniversary “air- ELLIS TRANSPORT PLANE IN TODAY FROM KETCHIKAN Passengers leaving Juneau Ellis Air Transport for Ketchikan today were Frank P. Smith, William P. Terry, E. H. King, Eldon Daly and William A: Raybell. Incoming passengers from Ket- chikan were Holger Larsen and Wil- liam L. Bock. - SMALL SHINGLE FIRE IN NATIVE VILLAGE IN JUNEAU A minor shingle fire in the native village on Willoughby Ave. brought out members of the Juneau Volun- teer Fire Department early this afternoon. Little damage was done St RS WS M. D. WILLIAMS MAKES SITKA TRIP TODAY M. D. Williams, District Engince for the Public Roads Administra- tion, left today for a trip to Sitka on official business. craft carriers” constructed embody- ing experience gained since the out- set of the war, additional cruisers and warships of other categories have been completed one after an- other and have been commissioned.” | e BASKETBALL SET TONIGHT The Officers’ Ciub will trot out tonight to take on the Hillcrest on the fleor of the Juneau High School gym at 7:30 o'clock as play is resumed in the Gastineau Chan- nel Basketball League. Second game of tonight's double bill will find the Moose tangling with the Bruins. -, - The population of New Zealand mostly of Biitish and Irish descent, about equals that of Detroit with * E———————— CANDLELIGHT ()I)AV on December 7th, with Bombs for Tokyo! 1942, we have already had stirring proof that our fighting men can hold their own against the Japs . . . facteries can turn out planes in overwhelming enemy . . . and that the tha bombs and tanks and numbers to crush the American people can more than meet this threat to their country and their way of life. Tha Harbor, Hirohito! bombed Tokyo . . . want this war. But now 's oug answer to Pearl u got a taste of it when we and we'll be back! We didn’t that we're in it, we're going to win—not for conquest, not for vengeance —but for the glorious future of a free America. VOLUNTARY ENLISTING SUSPENDED s President Pu?s Selective Service Under War Manpower WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 President has suspended voluntary | enlistments in the Army and Navy and has transferred the Selective ‘rvice System to the War Man- power Commission along with au- therizing priorities over civilian emn- ployment. Under an executive order, the President forbade the armed ser- vices to accept voluntary enlist- ments from men in the 18 to 38 age group, forcing the services to take .all future men through the | Selective Service System. The order is effective immedi- ately. It also expands the powers of Chairman Paul V. McNutt of the 50 that he will have au- to determine not only who soes into the armed services, but what jobs civilians can - take In transferring the administra- ion. of the Selective Service Act to McNutt, the President has con- tinued the office of “director of the Selective Service System But Maj. Gen. Lewis Hershey will be subject to McNutt's authority All local draft boards, however, will continue to function as in the except they will get future directives from the War Manpower Commission past, TO RETAIN HERSHEY WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. — War Manpower Commissioner Paul V McNutt plans to retain Maj. Gen Lewis B. Hershey as director of Se- lective Servige under the new setup McNutt over-all charge |of the assignment of the nation’: armed and civilian manpower, well informed sources said today Inductions of single men as we as married ones have been sus- | pended and this obviously will mak« necessary the drafting of more mar ried men under 38 years of ag: than would have been called other- wise, following the exhaustion ol the pool of single men available and 18- and 19-year-olds who be- me eligible for registration thi month, ,--— ALLIES 6O T0 BEACHES, NEW GUINEA ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Dec. 7—The hard- fighting Allied troops in New Guinea have penetrated to the Beach east of Buna and thus isolated an enemy pocket of resistance, the High Com- mand announces. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's troop: have now driven three prong through to the sea on the north- east shore, splitting the Japs' hold on the coast. A steady pressure is maintainec against the enemy in other sectors. - >eo——o FIGHTING STIFFENS IN AFRICA WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The War Department reported this afternoon that heavy fighting, involving arm- ored forces, that began yesterday, is continuing in the vicinity of Te- | bourba where the Allied forces are attempting to hold the advanced Tunisian positions against strong Axis counter-attacks. CONFERENCE NEAR FRONT Allied Comrr’r‘lyanders Meel in Farmhouse Above Tebourba BRITISH COMMANDOS LAND BEHIND LINES American - EnAinsh Planes Lash at Axis Com- munications LONDON, Deec. 7.—Allied com- manders reported today that “plans have been laid for the final phase i the Tunisian campaign” in a andlelight conference held in a .rmhouse kitchen late yesterday hile heavy fighting raged in the ebourba and Mateur sectors. A Reuters dispatch from the bat- lefront told of the conference hich was held on the heights iominating Tebourba, strategie cmmunications center 20 miles vest of Tunis, now securely held Allied troops. Land Paratroops Another Reuters correspondent ith the British First Army report- { in a frontline dispatch that 'ritish commandos and parachut- 5 landed three days ago behind he German lines and fought their vay inland for seven miles to the outh to cut a strategic enemy sup- 1y road. The exact locale of this ctlon is not given. \lied fighter planes, still handi- apped by the lack of wholly pre- wred advance air fields, are de- wred to be nevertheless attacking rman and Italfan positions con- inuously. Hit Axis Bases At the same time, bombers are pounding at Tunis, Bizerte and I'ripoli, main Axis bases. British and American bombers nd fighters lashed Axis communi- ations between Italy and North iirica in weekend raids. Reggio, irdrome in extreme south Italy, vas hit Saturday night. The docks of Bizerte, and the oilway line between Sousse and sfax along the coast of the French otectorate also were shot up, a airo, communique said. MAY BAN PLEASURE DRIVING 90-Day Sufifision Is Pro- : posed for 17 Eastern Seaboard States WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—A 90- day suspension of all automobile pleasure driving in 17 eastern sea- hoard states is proposed by Joseph WVhite, of Boston, New England nember of the Oil Advisory Com- littee. White, appearing before a group f New England congressmen, said e was disturbed by the fuel oil ituation in their area. He first alled for a 90-day driving ban in New England states alone, and later old reporters he believed the ban wuld apply to all eastern states. ONLY 15 MORE DAYS for Shopping Before Christmas. HURRY!