The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1942, Page 1

v THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “4LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9218. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRID ———— AY, DECEMBER 18, 1942 i MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 ALLIES SMASH AXIS PORTS WITH FLAME 1 TALIANS HITOUT AT NATIS REDS PUSH NALZIS BACK INADVANCE Claim Germans Are Now Back fo Lines of Last Winter | Against Germans in Parts of Nation MOSCOW, Dec. 18—Red Al‘m_\’} LONDON, Deec. 18 —The Russian shock troops smashed another vil- News Agency Tass, in a Geneva lage on the vital Rzhev-Vyazma |dispatch, says Italian demonstrators railway line west of Mdscow dur-|in Naples have smashed windows | ing last night's fighting, beating|in the German Consulate and other | off German dive-bomber attacks | anti-German outbreaks have occur- | and destroying a battalion of Ger- red in various parts of the Ttalian man infantry. | nation during the past 10 days. The Italians are tired of the “los Soviet anti-aircraft fire brought| 3 down three planes in the battle, |ing War" and are most bitter against The news of the engagement fol- German domination. It is claimed lowelt zeports. that the counter- | theré 18 now one Germar t every attacking Nazis had suffered an- 10 ITtalians in Italy and the Germans " are a sort of gestapo, hated ex- 3:::1' :g;/:reu. i‘b:;k we;t o R‘]'h‘ \“ tremely because of their inhuman munications base, losing ,,.q.tices, duplicity and treachery. more than a company. | e The Reds issued a strong de- | nial today to Nazi claims that they had trapped a Russian force a HEARING IN fi‘Washingiun Merry - Go-Round short distance northeast of Velikie | . force is moving southward toward chor points on the German line ing columns about 40 miles west sians were trapped yesterday. assault with a dangerous weapon clared the Nazis have been hurled of her husband, Juneau non-com- s Commissioner’s Court and bail set Confirm Conviction Robertson and M. E. Monagle. has been set for next Monday af-| United States Circuit Court of Ap- pys. Scott claims that the shom.-‘ of William Dudley Pelley, former |recovering in St. Ann's Hospital, is| sedition. | Luki. In their denial, the Russians hinted strongly that a Red Army Smolensk, which is one of the an- ey b BE MONDAY They placed the Russian advanc- and 60 miles south of Toropets where the Nazis had claimed Rus-| Mrs. T. J. Scott, charged Wwith A Russian official statement de- in connection with the wounding back as far as in the “winter of missioned naval officer last Mon- 1941-42." day, has been arraigned in U. S. >-ee at $2,600. She is being represented by R o' Silver Shirl Hea A preliminary hedring in the case ternoon at 1 o'clock, Commissioner | CHICAGO, IIl, Dec. 18. — The pelix Gray said. | peals has affirmed the conviction jng was an accident. Her husband legder of the Silver Shirts of Am- yeported to be past the danger | erica, on a charge of criminal’ poin Pelley was sentenced to 15 years. ‘ | i GREATDEFENSE | HIGHWAYTOBE | PROPOSED NOW Would Link Alaska Road| fo Inter-American High- | g R | WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Con- struction, after the war, of a de-| fense highway circling the coun-: try and linking the Alaska High~ way with the Inter-American high=" way at the Mexican border, is en- visioned by Representative Butler B. Hare, Democrat of South Caro- lina Hare said he is drafting a bill to introduce the opening of the Congress to authorize the retary of War to construct Such a super-road. The cost is not esti- mated JAP THRUSTS BEATEN BACK, | Navy Issues NEW GUINEA Kill 20 Nipgns, Capture One Along Allied Buna Line SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Dec. 18. — Allied troops in New Guinea beat off local Japanese counter-attacks at two points along their line at Buna yesterday. The hard-working Southwest Pa- cific Command’s air force helped the ground troops tighen their ring around the enemy’s shallow beach- hold. Twenty Japs were killed and one captured in the counter-thrusts. Correction WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. — The Navy Department today issued the following statement: “Navy Department communique announced that 12 Jap Zero fight- HENDERSON QUITS AS OPA CHIEF Stage Demonstrations way at Mexican Border Resignation Is Effective as Soon as Successor Is Appointed WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. — Presi- dent Roosevelt has accepted the resignation of Price Administrator Leon Henderson to be effective upon the appointment of an unannounced successor. Henderson resigned on the grounds of a “recurrent physical difficulty and rather bad impairment of my JAPS STILL 'DIGGING IN | I | l | | érs Bring Report Affer Attack on Kiska By WILLIAM L. WORDEN (Associated P War Correspondent) HEADQUARTERS OF ALASKA COMMAND, Dec. 17—(Delayed)— lArmy Air Corps officers revealed today that the latest raids on Kis- ka showed the Japanese still try- ON KISKA Army Bombers and Fight-| 'ROBERT STROUD, JUNEAU SLAYER, IS TRANSFERRED Man Now Pést 60, Has Spent 23 Years in Soli- fary Confinement | LEAVENWORTH, Kausas, Dec | 18 —Robert ¥. Stroud, who has spent | the past 26 years in solitary con- OPA ISSUES U.5. AIRMEN NEW ORDER, IN BIGGEST ~ GASRATION AFRICA RAID Regulation Bewildering Launch Double Atack on fo Motorists in East- | Both Tunis and Bizerfe, ern States Held. by Germans finement in Leavenworth Peniten-) | tiary, has been transferred to an- | WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Gaso- | other undisclosed prison. He is now | line sales in the East Coast area of past 60 years. the United States where a critical Stroud was first convicted of kill- | shortage exists were limited today ing a man at Juneau, Alaska, in|to generally the amount obtainable from the ration | 11910, in a jealous rage over a dance [for one coupon hall gir] | books. In prison he killed a guard and | No restriction has been placed on ALLIED HFADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Dec. 18. — United States bombers and fighters, spear- heading the growing Allied offensive by air in Tunisia, spread fiame and destruction today in the Axis-held ports of Tunis and Bizerte. The American pilot sank one ship vas sentenced to hang but sentence | the sales to commercial vehicles, g4 shot down five enemy planes, eyesight.” e : g to dig In on the unfriendly to Senator Prentiss Brown sa( plement t.he'ir slender food supply Michigan, & Democrat, defeated for | Wit fish. 3 ; reelection in November. | Bombers and fighters going over December 11, attacked a refloated e | ship in Kiska harbor again, hitting the vessel which previously had |been grounded by American air at- |tacks on Gertrude Cove. Returning pilots also reported they saw and strafed two Japs apparently try- | iing to fish from a rowboat. They lalso strafed a few dozen troops WASHINGTON- [;e 1 o | Harley S. Tawlks, Everett, Wash., v C. — The & i L) Y who also figured in the Thanks- President offered no clue today 85 | oiving Day raid toward Attu; Lieu- to when Leon Henderson might be |ienants belynu Andersot, fO;‘nxlallly' succeeded as Price Ad-|gtearns, Ky.; Frederick Moore, ministrator i % 11920 vail Ave, Charlotte, N.C; He told a questioner that the piin,:q B, Gardner, 330 N.E. Wil- rationing machinery is being over- | 4o, aye Portland, Ore. hauled and revised. It is believed qwo ‘pombers piloted by Capt. C. that e next Price Administrator | pompeter, 562 Forty-first St Oak- will replace the drastic mnomngimm ORlie - Were Listenants M- rules with more vr.)x?nmry fionlrols. | chael Peinovich, Kinney, Ari: nd At first the President said he F. Neglon, 764 Vermont. St parties. Pilots ‘taking part in the attack |included fighter fliers 1st Lieut. John visible ashore, apparently working | | of | didn’t know what was coming in the way of changes in rationing, then went on to note that it is time there were revisions. He cited as an example the new curtailment of gas in the East. Asked about the possibility that Prentiss Brown, Senator ~defeated in the recent election, might get the job which Henderson has sur- rendered, the President said there was nothing on that at the present time. Asked whether ‘there was further possibility that Henderson's price fixing and rationing duties might be divided and given to two separate individuals, Roosevelt re- By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) nation| |ers were shot down in the vicinity |of New Georgia Island on Decem- ber 16. A correction has been re- iceived from the South Pacific an- plied that he hadn’t the faintest | idea OFFENSIVEL Gary, Ind. - e, PLANE CRASH SURVIVORS RECOVERING FAIRFIELD, Utah, Dec. 18— There is increased hope for the recovery of both survivors of Tues- day’s Western Airlines plane crash which killed 17. Robert V. Mallett, of Springfield, was reduced to solitary confinement by President Wilson. - FIRST ALCAN TRAVELERON ~ VISIT HERE A. Wilfrid Carriviau, of Seattle, globe-trotting chef who was the first civilian to have the honor of traveling out over the new Alcan Highway, was a Juneau visitor to- | day. Carriviau, who is a chef because he likes' to travel, has been | Pearl Harbor twice since the Jap {attack and also has served at Mid- {way and other Pacific bases. At present he is employed on a mili- !tary vessel serving fin Alaskan waters. He has visited 28 different for- eign countries on his tours, came to Alaska last August where he was employed as chef at a civil- ian construction camp at Dead- out over the new road last month, arriving in Edmonton on Novem- ber 7, on his way to Seattle for a treatment for frost bite. THIRTY - SIX to | | the Office of Price Administration said. Motorists can use only one | coupon out of their ration boods for | fuel for “emergency” use, but th Eom gave no definition of “emer- | gency.” Neither did the OPA re |how it would keep the motorists }rrom using single coupons at dif- | ferent filling stations. i At the time the OPA order was | issued, the President was telling re- | porters that he had not yet seen the regulation. He said that a pros- | pective suspension of all cards for a | temporary time was possible. | The OPA made no mention of the | suspension of A cards which move was reported to be under considera- tion in @ tense night session of the OPA and War Petroleum Adminis- tration officials. Roosevelt said the reason for a curtailment of gasoline for less es- sential uses in the East is the demand for shipments to North Africa, that while “we are using all available means of transporta- of embarkation along the eastern seaboard for transportation to Afri- ca necessitates curtailing consump- tion there. tion to get gas to the East Coast,” | the immediate need of gas at ports | damaging three others. According to official dispatches, Maj. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle’s air force in North Africa has sent aloft one of the strongest forces yet em- ployed on that front. Axis efforts to block the slashing air armada have failed dismally. e ———— EIGHTH ARMY CLEANING UP ROMMEL RATS British Forces Slash at Re- treating Enemy . Rearguards i e % LONDON, Dec. 18.—Vanguards of the British Eighth Army are report- led to be elashing at the retreating Germans more than 100 miles west man’s Creek, “one-truck” stopping | place on the Alcan road. He went | - SEE GREAT of El Aghella, Meanwhile, other heavy units of the British force are staying behind to attempt to wipe out the trapped force of perhaps 10,000 of Field Mar- |shal Erwin Rommel’s best desert | fighters and half of his tanks. At the same time, the plight of other Axis troops in French North | Africa was serious . American air |units lashed out at Axis bases in | Tunisia in one of the biggest aerial | assaults seen there. Also announced }\vas the probable sinking of three more Axis supply ships by British Forelqn POII(y Assoflahon]‘undersca raiders policing the en- Repofls on Post. diterranean supply lines, |emy’s Me ARRIVE HERE As measured by the road winding around the Gulf of Sirte, Gen. | Montgomery’s Eighth Army prob- Drive 125 Miles War Chances WASHINGTON. — The may face a shortage of manpower, | | but here is some of the Army and CHICAGO, Dec. 18—Gen. Wla- | Navy wastage which seems to in- dyslaw Sikorski, Premier and Com- dicate that they have manpower mander-in-Chief of the Polish gov- | to burn. |ernment in exile, stated “as far| Guards are kept on duty, day 'as offensive warfare goes, Hitler and night, in front of the dormi- now is finished. For Hitler to tories in the Harvard Yard, Cam- continue the war now means that bridge, Mass., to protect the young 'he must use up all of his materi- ' men now taking courses in naval als, all of the slaves of conquered science. These guards are trained countries, all available supplies.; fighting men, equipped with arms Then he will have nothing left. supposedly needed at the fronf. For the first time he is forced on | The students inside the dormitoriés |the defensive.” presumably are in no greater dan-} Sikorski regarded the American' ger than their predecessors during invasion of North Africa. as the| more than a century of Harvard turning point of the war. o FINEPROGRAM IS Parking lots for officers around l FI"E | | Army-Navy buildings are guarded by young M.P. soldiers. Non-mili- ling house in Jualpa Basin. | isets of directions and traveled over {hunt by the winning team was 36 nouncing that the number downed was three instead of 12.” - r——— BOY SCOUTS ENJOY TREASURE SCRAMBLE Fourteen Boy Scouts of Juneau Troop 612 participated. in an ex- | citing mystery treasure humt, held | last Wednesday evening and end- ing up at the Alaska-Juneau board- | Divided up into two teams of seven each, the boys followed eight | a mile at night, following the | “mystery trail” by Morse code di- | rections. | Time required to complete the Ark., is reported somewhat improv- RAF LOSES 18 BOMBERS LAST NIGHT LONDON, Dec. 18.—The Royal Air Force bombed targets in north- west Germany last night and 18 bombers failed to return, it is stat- ed authoritatively. The Germans reported that they shot down 21 bombers. Low clouds were encoun- tered over objectives and the re- sults of the bombings were not seen. tary departments of the govern- ment use older guards, veterans of |minutes, Joe Werner, Scoutmaster, ed. He is a clerk with the United States Engineers and has been serv- ing in Ketchikan for the past two years. P L P < American Legion And Auxiliary Will A combined American Legion and Legion Auxiliary Christmas party will be held Monday, December 21, at 8 o'clock in the Odd Fellows Hall, with all Legionnaires and their wives and all Auxiliary mem- bers and their husbands, invited |to attend. Any veterans of World War I FROM SITKA here from Sitka this were Elmer Osborn, Mrs E. Osbor Mrs. Viola Bskesen, Bodile E n, John Mrs. J. Klingbeil, Marjorie beil, George Collins. Minnie Knizht, John Mutch, Mrs J. Mutch, Malcolm Miller, Mrs. M Miller, Leo Sclomon, Amby Fred- erick, Mrs. Audre Porlier, Lieut. V W. Porlier, Pvt. McManus, Pvt Coldicutt, Pvt. Clemens, Ivan Re- zek, Mrs. 1. Rezek. A. Van Mavern, Jack Garrett, Ernest Sellman, James Larson, John Scott, Mrs J. Scott, J. Lester, F. Bello, B. C. Gomez, L. Lopez, J. Fulgencia, |Emile Brabander. Arrivals morning Tom Morgan, WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—An im- ably has advanced about 125 miles Klingbel, | Kling- portant place for Alaska in the na- ¢ o0\ the former Nazi line at El tion’s post-war reconstruction i The advance was set at visualized by the Foreign Polic iles. Association which declared 1A ro communique said that the such a place will go to the Territory | prypigly forges were fighting the provided the development and s°t-| . e rearguards throughout yes- tlement can proceed simultaneously. . .4,y peyond Zauta en Nfilua. The assoclation sald a survey it gpion until recently has been a has made showed Alaska could no! . nan air base site. longer be considered a “remote 8D- | pyyther hehind the lines, Rommel rendage to the United States, useful | 1.4 pack his remaininz forces omly for its enormous wealth that ... wider grew the gap which sep- :an be pumped out of it. |arates his force. The British bit “The long established domination iinto his fleeing column Wednesday of steamship, mining and fishing Wadi Matratin Gulch with a’ (1 industries over the political ji“di'{ll]t»mldnz sweep across the desert economic life of the Territory can- | o, nqs" pocketing the forces off. ::,:1 be overstressed,” the association Abandon Trapped Men W ) ntly has aband- The report advocated a5 DOSL-WST | tnase Tores, leaving U 10 5’10-'“‘;“ 'h;' r':m:;“: ar;a:hbe de- | ¢ignt their way out if they can eloped and extended and the nor- | 4¢her than to risk any more ' ENJOYED BY C. OF -ee RGAN RETURNS mal population growth be encour-|giyangth which he is attempting to aged by new industries. It advocates i ¥ 108 | save by flight. a reyalurmon of the Hshnjng lndlh.l Y| Presumably, he is attemvting to in view of finding new uses for fish | s, the western armies of the Axis |said. At the A-J boarding house, Mrs. Tex Lovett helped entertain the Scouts at the party which ter- | |who may be in town, and any T.A. MO |Spanish-American War veterans | |and their wives, will be particularly | the last war. The fall planting of grass seed | around Bolling Field, Air Corps 'COLONEL W. A. SWIFT IS HERE TO INSPECT FROM TRIP TO SITKA } (.. ROTARY (LUB base for the capital, was done by | uniformed enlisted men, who! The Juneau Rotarians and mem-| At the skiing instruction minated the hunt. held welcome. Entertainment, eats and | T. A. Morgan, President of the Co- | products with an effort to extend |, iyeir 1ast stand in Tunisia. lumbia Lumber Company, has re- | tuened to Juneau by steamer from the fishing season over the entire | - - year. | COL. AND MRS. C. F. BAISH thought, when they joined the Air! Corps, they might have some con- nection with airplanes. They were | disappointed and disillusioned by | this experience. | At the same air field, a trainea | bers of the Chamber of Com-|last Sunday, eight Scouts were| merce celebrated their annual get- !present. Mr. Werner said. The; together with a fine dinner pro- group will meet again at the same| COl. W. A. Swift, from the In- gram last night in the Gold Roflm;p]ace this coming Sunday to con- |Spector General's department at of the Baranof Hotel, about 80 per- | tinue work on fundamentals. Scouts /ADC headquarters at Fort Rich-| sons attending. Many guests were interested should be at the slalom ardson, arrived in Juneau thi |cabin on the Douglas ski trail at Week. MILITARY ACTIVITIES v o s sneic REGISTRATION FOR YOUTHS 10 “Wasteful and obstructive dual- | ism. between Federal and Territorial | ‘nfllv(rials exls'.s in 1h"' h‘ra?')chvs orj Col. and Mrs. Charles F. Baish government, some of which shouldbe[,]_? the parents of a baby girl | eliminated by consolidation,” the re- | born two weeks ago in Tacoma car- | port stated. | ; - The assoclation added that o tax | Wast. acogrding. to, word seceiyeg |a business trip to his branch in | ARE PARENTS OF GIRL Sitka. | i 4 Sl a0 v U T MAKES TRIP TO SITKA | James Larsen, wellknown pharmacist, who has an advanced |Present at the stag. college degree in science, is being The High School orchestra played employed as an ambulance driver, |{0fe¢ numbers: to start the pro- gram off and then unless the weather is! Mr. Werner an-| 10:30 a.m,, too severe, Biologist | nounced. ! | Col. Swift will be in the city| for several days inspecting all mili-| tary activities in the city. During | CONTINUE HERE Registration for youths born on | penter contractor, returned to Ju- neau this morning after making the round trip on the steamer to |reform and a road program also I should be brought about. .- |in Juneau. i Col. Baish, who was formerly |stationed in Juneau, is on short leave of absence from his head- Sitka. ; T e | A taxi driver could do the job just [Ch s 9 . |Charles E. Gillham of the Alaska jhis stay here he is a guest at the | LIS e as well. | {Game Commission gave a talk on Naval yeomen carrying radio Ibird life and showed motion pic- messages from one officer to an- | | other inside the Navy Depart. |/ many of them taken in the! ment must wait thirty minutes to|Canadian Arctic. an hour, or even more, while eact| DOUD President Charles W. Car- of the Chamber, and Gillham, officer reads the message, con(ers{ter 4 no amateur in the line, really cut loose and slugged it out with tall with his associates and acts. The yeoman cannot come back later, i he has to wait, Able-bodied and Hoxies: (.jarter: Who: Relds © &n intelligent, sometimes they are able 2¥ard, given jointly to him and to deliver only three or four mes- sages in a day. ' The former president of an ord- nance plant, now a private in the petition pretty tough last night, ~according to Rotary Club President |Don Skuse. (Continued on Page Four) | BASKETBALL ON TONIGHT i In Douglas tonight, according to go against the Malamutes. | —e—— EFENSE BONDS # BUY DI Baranof Hotel > Game Commission Party Tomorrow Employees of the Alaska Game Commission will have their annual Executive Officer Frank Dufresne schedule, there will be a basketball Christmas party tomorrow evening of the Game Commission in a game. The Bruins will meet the starting at 7 o'clock in Percy’s Liars’ Club match, found the com- St. Louis Blues and the Cheechakos Cafe. After a dinner, a program will proker, has returned to his Juneau be carried out by members of the headquarters from a business trip ® take it to the Uso. Commission. or after September 1, 1924, but not | | after October 31, 1924, began at the | local Draft Board office in the Krafft Building and the Selective Service Headquarters in the Marine Building this morning at 8 o’clock Registration for this group will continue between the hours of 8 am. and 5 pm. through the week ending December 24. ——————— RETURNS FROM SITKA A. Van Mavern, merchandise | to Sitka. | STOCK oggmldus |quarters at ADC, Fort Richard- o000 0000000 |son. e DISH TOWELS . ARE WANTED . RRANSH e Listen women, dish towels e are wanted at the USO and e if you are going to the open e house Sunday afternoon, just e take one along. You know you e e can't get a flour sack for love ® e or money now, e have a spare one or anything o that will answer the purpose, e e s 00000000 00 and if you e o . . | NEW YORK, Dec. 18. — Closing | | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | | stock today is 3%, American Can | 741, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem ' teel 56 Commonwealth and South-’ | ern 9/30, Curtiss Wright 6%, Inter- | national Harvester 59'c, Kennecott | 28%, New York Central 10%, North- ern Pacific 7', United Statés Steel | 48% shopping Days - till Christmag JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 118.97; rails, 27.29; utilities, 14.35. now,