The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 11, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9212. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALLIES REPULSE TWQ AXIS TANK UNITS ONE MILLION MEN SOONTO BE OVERSEAS Roosevelt Tfiis Congress| We Must Prevent Axis Regaining Initiative WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. — The controversy over the interception {of Territorial mail appears likel {to stall action on the Administra- Ition’s bill to censor communics | tions between the United States land its Possessions and Territories, {Presenl Hearings Stall Action on Another Bill : Authorizing Censorship NEWS POlI(YQJ s Van Nuys challenged the thority of Director Byron Price to ¢ munications except foreign countri operations of wholly illegal.” au- of Censorship 1sor any com- those goivg to asserting that this nature are ARMY TRIES | TODICTATE ;Effon in Seatflé Brings Re- | i buke from War De- | partment | Yank Tank Destroyer RollsTh T rough Algeria NAZIS MEET SHELL FIRE, NO. AFRICA German Thrusts by Armor- ed Divisions Shift Battlefront WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.— Presi- | dent Roosevelt has informed Con- gress that by the end of month American forces overseas | will number more than 1,000,000 men. The President said the Axis! powers “temporarily, at least, have| lost the initiative and we must do! all we can to keep them from re- gaining it.” | Lend lease aid during the past three months, up to December 11, has totaled $2,367,000,000, he re- ported. This is more than a third | higher than the figure for the| previous quarter and four times| the total for the three months im- this | and between Territories and Pos- sessions themselves. Senator George W. Norris Nebraska, expressing opposition to the censorship of mail to and from Alaska, told reporters that he didn't believe the Senate Judiciary Committee would act on the bill in time for final consideration be- fore Congress adjourns January 2 Bill Recalled Committee Chairman Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana said that he would “hesitate for a long time"” before voting for the bill which already has passed both Houses of Cengress in slightly varied form, of Price, on the other hand, re-i SEATTLE, Dec. 11—A news- plies that he is acting under the|Paper’s agreement with regional | authority of the President, who as|military authorities regarding the | Commander-in-Chief, he said, had|limited use of a story it had un-| the power to enforce the security |covered has brought from both the | of communications in any combat | Office of Censorship and the War | | Departments, statements that no| ‘res(ncnons of any kind can, be| | required. | The story concerned the arrest of a young Army officer of Fort z S ,Lewis in connection with allegedly Navy Intelligence services to test-|cogipious activities. The Suumel tify on Monday | Post-Intelligencer said that in ob- | Both Gov. Ernest Gruening and|taining clearance on the story foi Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Ui"pubucauon. it had to enter an| mond, who prodded the Committee |agreement that the story should | zone. Resume on Monday The Committee has called rep- ntatives of the Justice Depart- ment, the FBI, the Army and mediately preceding the United States entry into the war. President Roosevelt said that but was recalled for further study by the Committee into action on the question, have testified ady. since his last report the war has entered a new phase with the United Nations’ forces attacking from Egypt in North Africa, con- testing the Axis “for control of the African coastline of the Medi- terranean.” The total value of lend Ilease goods delivered and transferred for | services rendered since the begin- ning of the program, March 11, 1941, to November 30, 1942, is $7,- 496,000,000, the report stated. - NEW VIOLENT FIGHTING ON RUSS FRONT Reds Repori; to Be Gain- ing in All New Campaign MOSCOW, Dec. 11. — Violent fighting flamed along a broad area of the Central Front during! a break in a blizzard which swept the Muscovite plains for several | cdays. At the same time, on the Stalin- grad Front, the Red Army made fresh progress in three sectors. The Russians reported a resump- tion of big-scale operations in the snow-crusted = Velikie Luki and Rzhev area west of Moscow where the Germans have started heavy | but ineffective counter-attacks. Wedges were driven into the enemy lines in recent Red Army offensives. These clashes are de- | British newsreel films, ~ Our Flag inNorth Africa /% - i A An Americsan Flag is set up on the beach at a point west of Oran, Algeria, as U. 8. troops bring ashore supplies from transports during their successful occupation of French North Africa. This picture, one of the first received in U. S. by (‘ahlc.from London was taken from veloping all along the 140-mile strip where Soviet forces now stand | only 90 miles from the Latvian| border. | On the Stalingrad Front, dis- patches said there are three active areas of fighting and the Reds are scoring gains in each. The big- | gest clash near Stalingrad is re-| ported southwest of the city where a battle is reported in progress | for a large populated center. PFighting is presumably progress- ihg along the Stalingrad-Tikhoret- | skaya railroad where the Ru&siansi are advancing toward Kotelnikov- | ski. | e Does Same UNSHACKLE NAZIS HELD IN CANADA Hoped fhaifirmany Will Follow Suit-Britain SEARCH ENDS FOR MISSING CORDOVA MEN \ | CORDOVA, Dec. 11.—The re- turn to port of the Government- ‘chart,ered motor vessel Trion and | the motor vessel Commander, char- : | | | | | | tered by a Cordova organization, | |ended an intensive ten-day search for the missing boat of A. G. |Clark with lumber camp operator | George Roberts and six crew mem- bers aboard. inot carry more than a one-column | headline. | AP Relayed Protests When the Associated Press re- | layed the story, it also relayed this | agreement as an advisory note to | editors. This brought immediate | | protests from newspapers in many | sections of the country, and, sub- quently, to the Office of Cen-| rship and the War Department | Washington, to whom AP re the protests. | These officcs stated that Lhe‘ (Army has no authority or inten-! [tion of telling the newspapers how | }Lney should handle news. The P-I,| tin_its account of the Fort Lewis | | incident, said there had been re- | |ports from there which linked a| WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 | young Army officer in an attempt survey of the proposed !to “vilify President Roosevelt” with |Canadian railroad to Alaska, sup- 13 form of subversive element with- |plementing the Alcan Highway, has in the Army. been completed, the War Depart- The paper said: “It is understood | ment announces, but the line will |that the officer mailed seditious not be built at present. |literature and was at one time a| The survey was made by UE member of the America First Com-|Army Engineers with the coopera mittee and Pelley’s Silvershirts.” |tion of the Canadian governmen Was Radical The War Department said tha | It also was reported that he it “does not consider that a mili African Coast. U. 8. Army Signal Corps film. |in forred -~ ‘The trans- An American tank destroyer rolls across the Algerian countryside after the Allied landings on the North This tank destroyer also is known as a self-propelied 105-mm artillery piece. Coast Railroad Survey To Alaska Is Finished Bul Won't Be Built Now necessity exists for its con- uction at the present time, but letails of the survey have been filed for future possible wartime 1se.” The proposed line would connect 7ith the Canadian National Rail- vay at Prince George and follow 1,300-mile route in a natural rench between ‘the coastal moun- ain range and the Rockies Fairbanks. @ to |had attempted to organize a sub- | versive group within the Army | The P-I described the officer as a | “young man not long out of col- lege with a radical political back- ! ground.” He faces charges of sedition, | punishable with from 10 to 20 | years in the Army’s disciplinary barracks. e ULARWAR | BATIERED .. — CRUISER IN " slogaTiewe HOMEPORT _ FoRUSODANC “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition,” with the Duck Creek Swingsters at the Saturday evening USO dance, to be held at the Cath- olic Parish Hall from 9 to 12:30 o'clock, is their plea The Swingsters themselves will pass the musical ammunition for the dancing feet of service men and the girls of the USO, when special dance §San Francisco Played Epic Part in Big Solomons i Naval Battle A WEST COAST PORT, Dec.1l.| AWOL on War Jobs Is Playing HavocinU.$ Just What This Means By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Over at the War Production Baard and in a thousand war plants, officials, labor-management committees, per- sonnel directors and foremen are battling against one of production’s greatest headaches. Officially, .it is referred to as “absenteeism.” Actually, it consists of taking “French leave,” playing hookey, or going AWOL from a war job—for reasons other than illness or injury Joe (War-Worker) Jones wakes | up in the morning. It's the kind of a day when the fish are biting or the ducks are flying. Or maybe it's just the morning after the night before. “To heck with it,” says Joe ALLIED PLANES IN THICK OF BATTLE \French Forces, Including Infantry, Afillery, Take Part By WES GALLAGHER (Associated Press Correspondent) ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Dec. 11. — Allied forces have beaten back two enemy tank columns, inflicting much 35 i § § Photo from CHINESE, ~ JAPANESE, BATTLING Recently Raf_orced Nip- pon Forces in Burma | Making Attack ‘ Dec. 11—Strong recently rein- | attacked the in western CHUNGKING, Japanese forces, forced in Burma, Chinese defense lines Yunnan area, which the Chinese High Command has been expect- ing as a major enemy offensive, the Chinese communique said to- night, The communique reported two days of heavy fighting in the area north of Tergyueh, west of the| Upper Salween River. The Chinese are resisting bitterly and have held the lines and at the last re- port fighting still continues. The Japs are said to_have be-! gun the assault on December 6, throwing three columns, totaling some 6,000 men, against the de- tenders, — - EXPECTNEW THRUSTAT BUNA BASE ool Jap Counfer-atfack Fails- heavier losses on the Axis than they suffered themselves in a bat- tle fought yesterday almost at the edge of Medjez El Bab, 35 miles southwest of Tunis An Allied communique said that one arm of the Axis tank and in- fantry forces drove within 2,000 yards of a vital communications center, but was forced to withdraw under bomb and shell fire from Allied artillery and planes. Medjez El Bab has been occu- pied by the Allies since November 26. The sudden shift back from the Tebourba-Djeida-Mateur tri- angle where the British and Am- erican forces have been holding horseshoe lines dominating the battlefield indicates that the weight of’ the Tunisian battle Is shifting southwest. The enemy apparently aimed the new blow at the right flank of the main Allied front. One German force struck from the north along the west bank of the Medjerda River and was counter-attacked immediately by Allied forces who destroyed some tanks. The other column hit from the east, barely more than a mile from \Medju El Bab, “but when it was engaged by our artillery and fighter aircraft it withdrew,” an Allied communique said, adding that “French forces, including in- fantry and artillery, participated in this action.” - AIR -BORNE AMERICANS HIT AXIS HiIIerRush;séiiderTroops fo Central Tunisian Front LLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Dec. 11.—Big Ger- ~—The battered cruiser San Fran- cisco, which fought and whipped a Jap battleship in an epic engage- |ment off the Solomons 4ast month, plowed into this port under its |own power today. The ship survived one of the most amazing chapters of modern naval history and came in here for repairs. The San Francisco is the first | numbers and specialties will be fea- “I got plenty of dough. I been | tured. | working hard. I need a day off.” He | There will be a jitterbug contest, | takes it. " | prize waltzes, broom danc and oS |many other novelties to make the | nuitinly Joe by several thousand j evening a pleasant one for all. Light-' syery day and it means approxi- ing and decorative effects will be in | ;ately 6,000000 man days lost a | accord with the popular theme, and | month, In the shipbuilding industry | refreshments will be served by the | 41one absenteeism is costing the war | USO patronesses, under the guid- ; effort two cargo ships a month ance of Mrs. Fred Geeslin. /man Junkers troop carriers, tow- ling gliders full of additional Axis soldiers, were reported Thursday |to be flying into central Tunisia . |in an effort to halt the advance ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN|of United States parachute troops AUSTRALIA, Dec. 11—The col-|who threaten to sever Axis com- lapse of a counter-attack by Jap-|munications between Tunisia and trapped at|Libya. and-to-hand; It remains to be seen whether today's |these air-borne troops, supported New (by Axis ground forces pushing in- Gona Area in Allied Hands anese ground Buna after fighting is Allied communique troops bitter confirmed in from Four boats and private planes | In Butte, Mont., copper mining land from the eastern coast, can S'I'O(K ouo"A'"o"S | orTawA, Canada, Dec. 11— | Prime Minister MacKenzie King an- NEW YORK, Dec. 11. — Closing | hounces that the use of shackles on quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |German war prisoners will be abol- stock today is 3, American Can 72%, | ished tomorrow, ending a policy Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 54, | adopted early in October as a re- have been employed in the search of all likely areas of Prince Wil- liam Sound. A cupboard door and a few boards, all unidentified were American combat vessel of this war1 This will mark the first dance at- to which a decoration for gallan-|tended by the Girls’ Service Organi- | try in action has been desnznawd.[mtlon of the USO, and girls must After taking it easy at anchor!wear their USO emblems and show | officials estimated that absenteeism resulted in the lost of 63,000 pounds of copper a day. Apply those same percentages to prisal against simiar treatment of i i g be | A Rl sl this morning, civic and military membership cards in order to b Commonwealth and Southern 14, C Curtiss Wright 6%, International |British and Canadian prisoners in Harvester 56%, Kennecott 27':, New Germany. York Central 10, Northern Pacific| A similar announcement has been 6%, United States Steel 46’2, Pound | made by the British government in $4.04. |London. The move followed a pro- ok {posal by Switzerland to Britain, DOW, JONES AVERAGES Canada and Germany. It is hoped The following are today's Dow,|that Germany will follow suit. Jones averages: Industrials, 115.69; e Clark, the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Clark of 1329 East 63nd Street, Seattle, was one of the best fishermen in this area where he had fished for the last nine years. e | PHILLIPS FUNERAL TOMORROW AFTERNOON Friends of Samuel E. authorities boarded the ship this admitted. practically every war industry and | wonder no longer why the WPB, Guinea. The communique also contained|stop the American central Tunisian further confirmation that the Al-|forces under.parachute leader Col. lies have occupied all of the Gona Edson Raff who also has French area on the northeast shore of the Regular Colonial troops under his island. command. (Dick) | jafternoon for brief welcoming cere- | monies. Stories concerning her exploits | were broadcast at 2 o'clock this afternoon. | The ship is under the command of Capt. Albert France, Jr. It was on this cruiser that task force com- mander Rear Admiral Daniel Cal- | Any girl not receiving her card is | 1apor-management committees, and |urged to call red 413, as all sub-| personnel directors are so concerned | mitting their names who have quali- Remedies there are and they are |fied have been mailed cards and pumerous. In one western mining | emblems. | town, closing the bars on Sunday Chaperones for the evening will | ¢yt Monday absenteeism more than be Mrs. John Klein, Mrs. H. L. g9 per cent. | Faulkner, Mrs, W. H. Matthews, Jr.| 1n many plants, there are various Mrs. E. L. Keithahn, Mrs. Thomas | forms of personal interview. Work- Parke, and Mrs. Harold Smith. All with sons or brothers in the It is expected that a new assault, The Germans used glider troops will be made on Buna, because effectively in the invasion of Crete Gen. Douglas MacArthur's noon re- in 1941 port stated that the Allies now are in a position to use their strength which beforé has been divided be- Buna and Gona D tween M. D. WILLIAMS BACK ———— RETURNS TO SITKA Phillips, who will be unable to|laghan, and Capt. Cassin Young | rails, 26.20; utilities, 13.74. |RED CROSS OFFICIAL | DR. WHITE BACK AT'DESK | F. M. Buchanan, Field Director | Dr. Langdon White, Medical Di- for the American Red Cross, left rector, United States Office of In-‘(oday with Alaska Coastal Airlines dian Affairs, who has been con-|to return to his headquarters in fined to his home this week with|Sitka. Mr. Buchanan was in Ju- a cold, is back at work this aft,cr~]neau for several days on Red noon, lCrnst business, i attend the funeral services tomor- row at 2 pm. in the chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, may pay their respects at the Chape! this evening, where the remains may be viewed between the hours of 7 and 9 o'clock, girls between the ages of 17 and 18 will be chaperoned to their re- | spective homes in taxis after the | dance by these ladies. “This is a USO responsibility to the parents of J the community which will be rigidly fufilled,” Mrs. Harold Smith, USO | President, promised, went to their deaths during the early stages of the November 13- 15 battle in which 28 Jap ships |were sunk and 10 more badly damaged | i i et ; BUY DEFENSE STAMPS | i service call on the absentees at one plant and give them a friendly talk- ing-to. In another plant, absentees without an excuse of illness are greeted with a vari-colored “AWOL time card” which instructs them to (Continued on Page Four) FROM TRIP TO SITKA M. D. Williams, District Engineer for the Public Roads Administra- tion in Alaska, returned today with | |Alaska Coastal Airlines from al short trip to Sitka on official ) business, l Shopping Bays %Jll (Ihrish%as