The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 14, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO. 9214. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DLCEMBLR 14, ALL THE TIME” 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS B PRICE TEN CENTS NEW U.S. SEA VICTORY OFF SOLOMONS Axis Forces Are In Full Retreat In Libya CLAIM ALLIES ATTACKINGAXIS ON WIDE FRONT Berlin Radio _Broad(asis} Maneuvers of British Eighth Army BULLETIN—CAIRO, Dec. 14.. —The British Eighth Army has resumed the western offensive and driven Marshal Erwin Rom- mel from the strong held bastion at El Agheila and the Axis forces | in Libya are in full flight. This makes twice the Axis have been halted by the British and put to headlong flight. The British are now smashing toward Trip- oli and Tunisia. The retreat of the Axis forc- es is the result of steady bomb- er and fighter attacks and land pressure. Rommel late this afternoon is reported flee- ing toward Zautaen Nofilia, relentlessly pursued. The Axis line is broken. This has been anchored at El Brega, on the Gulf of Sirte. EI Brega is ex- pected to fall. NEW YORK, Dec. 14—Last Sat- urday night Britain's Eighth Army was reported by the German radio to have struck anew at the Axis on a wide front in Libya by great lnnd‘ and air power. The Berlin radio made the broad- cast of a DNB dispatch that Gen. Mnntcomery had. thrust forward again east of El Agheila with two tank divisions and two infantry di-| visions supported by aircraft. ‘There was no confirmation of this ‘ % report by the Allies, A dispatch from Cairo, however, sald the Allies attacked both Mersa and El Brega, on the gulf, and also[ further inland toward the short,! but heavily defended line, of Mar- | shal Rommel, which he holds on the Mediterranean coast at El Ageheila | and the impassable salt marshes to | the south. | DR. HUBERT WORK | DIES SUDDENLY AT | HIS DENVER HOME — Dr.| Post- | DENVER, Colo.,, Dec. 14. Hubert Work, 82, former master General and Secretary of Interior, died suddenly today at his home as the result of a sud- den attack of the heart. | i The Washington, Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON | | Malor Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) | e | WASHINGTON — This is the | story of two boys from Houston, Texas, who came to Washington| to occupy two vital positions in the Government. It is also ' the| story of a David and Goliath feud between them which has influenced armies and the question of whether 130,000,000 Americans walk or ride. “Goliath” Jesse Jones—banker, newspaper publisher — came to Washington, eventually to lend| more money to more companiesx than any other man in the history | of the world. “David” Milo Perkins, a young| bag salesman—came to Washing-| ton, eventually to challenge the| lending authority of Jesse. The battle between them came to a head last week when Secre-| tary of Commerce Jones testified | secretly before the Senate Bank- ing and Currency Committee ask- ing for a Senate amendment which would override a White House or- der giving his rival from Houston final power to buy rubber, qulmne,{ tin, and other strategic war ma-| terials. Eight months earlier, the Presi-| dent had arbitrated the first bat- | tle between David and Goliath| and ruled in favor of David’s Board of Economic Warfare. So now Jesse is trying to get Congress, pamculnrly Senate Republicans, to| J (Continued on. PIBG Four) U. §. Has Some Secref AirWeaponsUpSleeve Gen. Arnold Declares HEADS SOUTH RANDOLPH FIELD, Texas, Dec. 14.—Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Forces, dis- closed today that “we have a secret weapon or two up our aerial sleeves | which will deal paralyzing blows at | our enemies.” Then he added: “Entirely battle wagons are on the way.” Gen. Arnold made these remarks |in addressing the graduating class- es of four Army flying schools He new BIDDLEIN TESTIMONY, CENSORSHIP ‘Attorney General Says There Is No Doubt on Legality WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Attor- |ney General Francis Biddle says that he has no doubt but what the present censorship of commu- nications between Alaska and the United States is entirely legal, but 'we would feel much better if Con- gress underlined the President's authority.” Declaring that the enemy has “invaded Alaska,” Biddle told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the censorship of communications to and from Alaska came unde: the President’s authority as mili- tary Commander-in-Chief. In expressing the opinion that the opening of mail is legal, Bid- dle differed sharply with Chair- man Frederick Van Nuys of the committee who earlier stated that the censoring had been carried out without legal authority, and stated that Congress specifically insisted in the first War Powers Act that the President sheuld have control over communications only between the United States and for- |eign countries. A second bill, which would have given this legal power to the President, has been recalled by the Senate. Why this second bill was proposed, when Biddle stated that there was no doubt about the legality of the censorship, he did inot explain. Senator Harold Burton of Ohio, who recently visited Alaskan de- fense outposts, objected to the pro- posal that all of Alaska -be in- cluded in the censorship areas while the Japs, are still hundreds |of miles away. Biddle replied that it might be relatively easy for persons in Alaska proper to communicate with the Japanese, adding, “we have no reason to believe that the Japs will not attack at any moment, further jup than they are now.” - e V. W. MULVIHILL BACK FROM SIX-WEEK TRI V. W. Mulvihill, Chief of the Ju- neau Volunteer Fire Department, returned to Juneau Saturday from a trip of about six weeks to the States. | Mrs. Mulvihill, who accompanied her husband south, will return to Juneau in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. relatives and friends in Washington and Oregon while they were away. Until his resignation two months ago, Mr. Mulvihill was Juneau agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway with which company he had been associated for many years both here and in Skagway. B e o S TELLS ALL ABOUT IT CLEVELAND--Double-duty dept.: Bob Kelly, the Cleveland Rams’ new | secretary, also will describe the pro football club’s games this fall for |the radio station which formerly | employed him, Mulvihill visited | FIRSTRAFTOF ALASKA LOGS epitomized the disclosures with llus‘ statement: “We will soon put on a| special demonstration for Hitler and | Higohito, and we don’t think they | are going to like it either.” The General did not amplify his reference to the secret weapons, but it was made in connection with a | discussion of new bombers with “steadily increasing range, speed, fire power and bomb loads.” PRACTICE ALERT SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY NIGHT A practice alert will be held to- ‘ Regional Forester Heintz-| leman Returns from Seattle The first million board feet of | | Alaska spruce, heading for Seattle | | mills and airplane production, will | leave Alaska within the next two| days, Regional Forester B. Frank | Heintzleman announced today upon his return to the Territory after a | six months’ absence. Thus the first goal of the new | Alaska Spruce Log Program which was pushed into operation this fall | by the U. S. Forest Service in Alaska | !is being realized. The Regional | Forester and his associates had promised to deliver the first raft of | |logs to Seattle mills by January 1, | morrow, Tuesday evening, at o'clock, R. E. Robertson, Director of | 1943. This delivery will probably be | e time for the Seattle mills Juneau Civilian Defense, announced | Made in today. According to present Defense | ;0 rec;l]vey:‘:\ as a Christmas present Council plans, no further alerts will | [O™ Alas : be held until after the holidays. | Fine Quality All members are urged to turn out| The timber in the first raft, and report at their respective sta- | Heintzleman said, has been graded tions tomorrow evening. by an expert from the States who | The problem for the First Aid says that the first million feet lot Corps will be announced tomoirow, |18 of an exceptionally high quality. and Air Raid Wardens will act as, The Alaska Spruce Log Program patients. No ambulances will be|is a governmental agency, operat- used. ling under the Commodity Credit Tomorrow evening’s alert will not | Corporation, under the Department | be a dimout or a blackout. of Agriculture. The object in mind | Guards Cooperate is to satisfy the increasing demand | Capt. George F. Freeburger also for high quality spruce for airplane | announced the Alaska Territorial |Production in the war effort. Heintz- |incredible speed, killed at least 104 Mrs. Lynn Gemmill arrived in | Program is operating — a govern- | TUESDAY NOON as specializing in spruce, hemlock | business session will visit the new |o, 35 usual during winter, | dinner in the Gold Room of the | TenSPortation. All transportation To Increase Output ‘v Since the Gemmills left Juneau ;aska. He believes that a strenuous | taken ‘an APREIARY! ab. thi Al (EauPment o SIRaEY torease out- Guard will turn out for the alort|leman is the Director, Assistant tomorrow evening, and after the |Regional Forester Charles G. Bur- members of the Second Plfltom\‘ The Regional Forester has spent should promptly convene at the ‘Lhe last few months in Seattle, op- FESIERDEAPTs T - | Log Program’s office there and the | Northwest, in addition to several trips to Washington, D. C. | The last four months have been . | spent mainly in getting the work 0“ TONIGH | West Coast of Prince of Wales i nd equipment to the north. ! Now Operating tonight in the High School gym |ing basis, employing between 125 and ball League. | gram is to produce 100 million board The games scheduled are Hill- | feet of the strategic timber a year. chakos vs. the Beavers. | production which will satisfy that jed by next April. By that time, HIGHwAY GUARDS | three or four times as many men MEET IOMORRO | One of the great difficulties, he | |lem. But according to recent news dispatches from Washington, South- | aska Territorial Guard will meet wity the West Coast States as a at 7:30 oclock tomorrow 9ve““‘g‘cl‘ltica1 area as far as the lumber tion Camp at Auk Lake, Captain|workmen will be found and furnish- J. G. Osborn announced today.Ali|ed through the U. s. Emplu\n)p“l T ‘ Furnished Money | The Commodity Credit Corpora- |tion has set up a revolving fund | | agency. The logs are towed south | {under contract and sold to mills| Percy’s Cafe tomorrow noon as i g Since the war wdn't wait for usual, President Don Skuse a""spring the program will be carried | that the establishing of camps and On Thursday night of this week, is the Rotary Club and the Chamber building of logging roads is extreme. meef barge, no other form being available | mok t af noon on Thuraday. Only one scow-load of equipment | Juneau Saturday to join her hus-|Vvarious military groups and con-| band, counsel for the OPA in the |tractors are especially interested in n visiting her parents i _|in the coming year and that local B In Wen- | o wmills will be assisted by the gov- crest. ——————— | ——eee— ! | BUY DEFENSE BONDS | alert all new members as well as the | dick s General Manager. Elks' Hall. | erating between the Alaska Spruce | !larger supply centers of the Pacific started, establishing camps on the ‘[sland transporting men, matmlals Two games are scheduled for| The project is now on an opflr'\t» in the Gastineau Channel Basket- | 150 men. The objective of the pro- crest vs. the Malamutes and Chee- | Heintzleman, said that a rate of PRI R 2% | requirement is expected to be reach- ‘ will be employed on the project | pointed out, is the manpower prob- The cHlighywiy: Sl 8 4he ) A1 }east Alaska is to be included along | in the Public Roads Administra- |industry goes. It is expected that | members are urged to Qe present.|Service. nder which the Alaska Log Spruce | VIS" uso (lUB |mental fund for a governmental | designated by government officials | Juneau Rotary Club will meet in |, Nople fir Sroduction |nounced today, and after a short |\ e | Heintz | USO Club here, | Heintzleman said. He pointed out | of Commerce will have & joint ‘stag ly difficult during winter, as well as Baranof Hotel. The Chamber will (5 BY small chattered boat and MRS, GEMMILL RETURNs |28 been lost to date. ! Heintzleman also pointed out that Territory. increasing lumber production in Al- | last summer, Mrs. Gemmill has ©ffort will be made along this line i 7 Mr. and Mrs; ‘Cemmill have| STRMment in getiing enough men and put. I BUY DEFENSE STAMPS | terday toted the ski tow from the | Civilians Invitedfo | FIRE RAGES, Kodiak Has $35, Which Endangered Entire BARN DANCE; SCORES DIE Scenes of Frenzy, Panic Result-Many Trampled | to Death at Exits Bl'LLLTlN S Johns. 14—The death toll at noon foday was announced at 110 as the result of last Saturday night’s holocaust. Business PRTRA L AE DEADlO(K NOW SEEN, - RED FRONT Observers I;r;&id German Difficulties Will Increase “ MOSCOW, Dec. 14—The double- barrelled Russian offensive on the Stalingrad and Central fronts ap- peared to be approaching a deadlock Dec. ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Dec. 14.—A roaring fire, spreading with persons and injured 130 or more at a barn dance given in the Knights of Columbus Hotel last Saturday night. i ‘The scene of frenzy and panic were like those at the Boston night club holocaust exactly two weeks aga. today with the Germans unable to Dogens of persons were trampled get a sustained counter-offensive | to. death 'in the panicky rush to | rolling, but slowing the Red Army's b < | progress just the same with vicious Bodies were found piled up near and repeated counter-attacks. | the exits. Since the Russian offensive start- Among the many victims of the ed November 19 on the Stalingrad 500 dancers were Canadian service- From and six days later on the men, some Americans. A large | Central Front, no important Ger- proportion were women. man progress has been reported in Anguished relatives and friends|the effort to restore Nazi positions. | were crowded in the roped off Military observers, however, ex- Members of Juneau Ski Club yes- | upper cabin down to the slalom hill, | President Curt Shattuck reported today, and it is expected that the tow will be ready for use soon. Skiing was good on the slalom hill after skiers had concentrated in| tamping down the crust which re-! sulted from a light freeze. avea and awaited results of at- bressed belief that any deadlock will | was established during Sunday. | Will increase. biken ‘ahil’ .no. dvfoPrEation. 'wa & and it will deal heavy new blows Don and Volga rivers, west of Stal- | alties. | tions south and west of Stalingrad, Henri Petain has agreed to Hitler's ning at 8 o’clock in the grade school ordered 400,000 French workers con- | given out, Dr. James C. Ryan an- H. W. Robison, from Anchorage on his way south Mr. Robinson plans to continue Itempts to identify the charred be short lived, asserting that as the | There was no immediate official | _ These observers predicted that the | avatlable Sunday on the possible before the German command can ingrad and around Rzhev. N A l | S w | l l artillery along the newly-won lines keeping up a protective fire north- ' consolldat,e positions. proposal to raise a new French The Boy Scouts monthly Court of nnounced. Meanwhile, the Fight- gym, shortly after individual troops scripted for war work in Germany. o'clock. SKI Iow BROUGHT nounces, All Scouts are urged to and general manager of Alaska in the interest of company busi- {south on the first available trans- |bodies. The identity of only a few Winter deepens, German difficulties explanation of the ceuse of the Fed Army's opportunity will come extracate its forces now between the American Army or Naval casu- ‘The Red Army now has massed and are battering enemy concentra- ‘west of the city while the Russians LONDON, Dec. 14. Marshal WED"ESDAYP M Al army, the Vichy and Berlin radios Honor will be held Wednesday eve- ing French report that Hitler has hold their regular meetings at 7:30 > Many awards are scheduled to be be present. DOWN T0 SlAI.OM ST Star Airlines, arrived yesterday ness. | portation. STOCK OUOIAIIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 14. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 2%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 54%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 6% Dance Sponsored By Officers’ Club On Saturday night, December 19, members of the Officers’ Clun In Juneau will sponsor an infor- International Harvester 56%, New mal dance to be given at the ycck Central, 10, Northern Pacific Elks Club ballroom from 10 0-|g7,, United States Steel 46%, clock until 1, it was announced | pound $4.04 today by Capt. J. D. Smith, chair- | |man of the.committee in charge. Civilians are cordially invited to attend the affair for which no reservations need be made and no special invitations are being is- sued. Bob Satre and his orchestra wili furnish music for the dance and there will be a small admission charge to cover expenses. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 115.83, rails 26.03, utilities 13.93. D —blue, white and orange-—are the same which floated over Manhattan Island under Dutch rule, more than | 300 years ago. vice-president g The colors of New York City’s flag ' 000 Fire Section of City A en- 14 time KODIAK, Alaska, Dec. $35,000 fire that for a dangered the business section of this | city, totally destroyed the Brown Bear Cafe, owned by W. R. Dickey, and completely gutted the adjacent Pierce’s Fountain, owned by Mrs. Vera Pierce Water had to be pumped from the | bay to fight the fire and also to keep the flames from spreading. Army assistance is credited with | averting further loss. The fire started in the ventilator hood of the range of the cafe at 7:15 o'clock last Saturday morning, | prior to the day’'s opening The place was one of the oldest in this section of the country. Both losses, it is said, are partially covered by insurance. .. CONGRESS ADJOURNS THIS WEEK Sevenly-eiéfil Session Starts January 6-FDR Message on Jan. 7 WASHINGTON, Dec, 14.—Speak- er gressional leaders convene the gress on January 6. President Roosevelt will deliver | his message at a joint session of the Senate and House on Janu- ary 7. Speaker Rayburn said the Presi-| dent told him the Seventy-Seventh | Congress will adjourn Wednesday | of this week or certainly not later | than Thursday. This will give the majority of the members of Con- gress opportunity to return their homes for the Christmas and New Year holidays and return in time for the opening of the new, Congress. e i HARRY SNELL HERE ON HIS WAY SOUTH After spendmg me last supervising the storage of emer- gency food supplies for the Civil- ian Emergency food supply depart- ment of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, Harold Snell, Assistant General Manage: of the Alaska Railroad, arrived in Jureau Sunday on his way south. Mr. Snell was loaned from the Alaska Railroad to head theemer- ritory and is now on a brief trip south in connection with this work. He plans to return to Alaska to complete the project as soon as is possible. During the last three months Mr. Snell has covered thousands of miles in the Interior, Yukon River, Arctic and rallroad belt districts in the country on his present as- signment of establishing food cach- es in various strategic parts Alaska. Food for the district from St. Michael and Wade Hampton up to Noatak-Kobuk was stored Nome to be distributed as soon| as conditions permit, while other caches were established at most of the communities in the lower Yukon River country. plies were brought into the coun- try on the last boats to ply lhe river this fall. . Additional food supplies for lhls department are stored in large | warehouses in Seattle, Mr stated. During his wait in Juneau for | transportation, Mr. Snell ing at the Baranof Hotel. .- BUY DEFENSE BONDS to | three, months travelling through the In-| terior and Yukon River country food distribution in the Ter- | of | is stayw JAP VESSEL ONKISKA IS ALSO BOMBED Enemy Deslroyer Sunk, Four Damaged in 1 Latest Action BALK NIPPON TRY { T0 BOLSTER BASE Americans, Aussies Mop- ping Up Invaders on New Guinea WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—Amer- lican dive-bombers and warships, in a combined action, have sunk one |Jap destroyer and damaged at least four others, presumably kill- ing 100 enemy troops, the Navy announces. This new victory was scored last Iwe:ek when the enemy- undertook another desperate sally to strength- en their forces on Guadalcanal. One United States torpedo boat was lost in the action, the only American loss reported. At the same time, there was a Ibrief flurry of action in the winter-locked , North Pacific. A INavy communigue reports that three Army medium bombers {bombed an already-damaged enemy |ship, aground at Kiska Island. | The bombers also strafed enemy Ishore installations. Sam Rayburn today said’ Con-| have agreed to| Seventy-Eighth Con- | NEW GUINEA ACTION ALLIED HEA[_)QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Dec. 14—Allied forces todny poured a continuous torrent lof artillery and mortar shells into enemy positions in the Buna area ‘on New Guinea, Meanwhile, the High Command |reports, American and Australian patrols are busy mopping up strag- glers in the area west of Gona. The Allies occupled Gona several |days ago. At the same time, fighting planes bombed and strafed enemy posi- tions throughout all of yesterday, the High Command reports, shoot- ling down two Jap planes which |attempted to intercept. e ee— — NEW JAP ~ BASEIS BOMBED WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. — The American Air Forces in the South Pacific are reported by the Navy today as continuing heavy bom- bardment on the new Japanese air base at Munda, New Georgia Is- land, making the fourth general |assault since the base was dis- |covered late last week. The air base was constructed as |a buffer offensive threat against the Americans at Guadalcanal. The latest attack followed the assault on December 9. Army flying fortresses again at- tacked on December 11 when 150 bombs of 100 pounds each were dropped. On December 12 the fort- | resses returned, scoring four 1,000 pound bomb hits. - - . Amber has been used as orna- {ments for more than 2,000 years. |1t once was highly regarded as a charm against witcheraft and disease. in| ‘These sup- | Snell | in iaa 5 G?irushgms Bt