The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 24, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRIK “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” /OL. LX.. NO. 9223. SECTION ONE 30 PAGES JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBE 1942 MEMBE] R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT} R 24, MORE JAPS FALL ON NEW GUINEA FRONT FIGHTING IS BRISKTODAY IN TUNISIA French A||l es Strike at! Sousse—Capture Germans (By Associated Press) | On the second front in North | Africa, fighting is becoming more | brisk in Tunisia althpugh it is sml{ local in character. But it appeared to be going in favor of the Allies. Allied headquarters announced | that the French who have been | | thrusting toward the coastal Tun- isian city of Sousse from the vicinity of the town of Kairouan, have forced an Axis detachment to withdraw from the northern part of this| sector, capturing many prisoners and much equipment. In Libya, meanwhile, Field Mar- shal Erwin Romupel's forces still are | fleeing west toward distant Tunisia, | and it appeared more and more that he is urgently seeking to reach Tun- isia to aid German Gen. Nehring. It seemed positive to observers that to reach Tunisia was Rommel's concern, rather than to defend that part of Libya which still is#n Axis hands. PRESIDENT SIGNS PAY RAISE BILL WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. — Presi- dent Roosevelt today signed the bill granting pay raises to a half million employees of the Federal government. But at the same time, it was announced that with the increase in pay, Saturday afternoon holidays are abolished. The Washlngtun Merry Go-Round DREW PEARSON bert 5. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—Here is the in-| side story of what happened at the famous banquet tendered Wen- } dell Willkie in Moscow, at which Stalin criticized the British in the presence of the British Ambassa- ‘ dor. Like most Moscow banquets ior foreign dignitaries, the dinner was followed by a long series of toasts.| The speakers were introduced by | Foreign Minister Molotoff, four interpreters scribbled in notebooks, | later transiated into Russian or| English. | The thirtieth toast that evening| fell to Joe Barnes, former news- paper correspondent in Russia, now with the Office of War Informa- 1 tion, and one of Willkie’s advisers| on the trip. The toasts had been long and were dragging. Barnes de- cided it was time to wake people up. So he spoke in Russian. It was the first time in the history of| these formal banquets that a vis- iting American or Englishman re- plied in Russian and it brought down the house. Stalin himself led | the applause. | Then Bamés turned to the in-| terpreters and signaled for them to interpret in English. They were confused. So Stalin suggested that Blmu translate his own speech into ' his native tongue, which was naturally easy for him, and he die. & mnor | | | | ) GBI!A’I'E&T MAN IN THE \ WORLD Next speaker introduced by For- " Minisier Molotoif was Gard- | “u e” Cowles, associate pub- J’kthe Des Moines Register- | Tri and Look Magazine. Barnes had Set the pacéfand Cowles faced the problem of outdoing him. He began nobly. “I propose a toast,” the greatest man living world today.” The interpreters translated into Russian. The whole table held its breath., Was Cowles going to toast he said, “to in the| (Continued on Page Four) ‘day and Tuesday, | airect hits on tracks, siding and |Fire Hall | Volunteering for navy duty a few|is reported today. Police said | jacket and will be assigned to a Hall Douglas, and vicinity, the very Merriest Christmas, and a New Year of Hope, and Prosperity. s | The Officers and Men | under my command, and | I, desire to wish all the ; ¥ people of Juneau and | rolling stock. The American fliers encountered | { | Workmg Out Besf Way to and Po L.C.BERGAPTS. DAKAR West Africa, Dec. 24— IN S"’KA ARE special Army and Navy mission | Classford is at work determining BURNED TODAY how the city’s airports, harbor facil- | | ities and French ships best can m-‘ These plans include ferrying op-|ial to the Empire)—Third seriou: erations, fhipment of men dudlurt within the last’ two months | material to the North African front, |occurred this morning in Sitka African coast. vere burned to the ground. The | The Americans here are members ipartment building was located to | of the air force, services of supply | he rear of the Pioneer Home al\(l! | Breat numbers. Cause of the blaze which mr‘ There is little doubt in the minds ,pproximately 16 families homeless | of American soldiers here that 90}Lhe- day before Christmas is nm.‘ with them in spm%. EV'(:‘PY sqldxgr Among those who were humodl on the street is received with friend-| . "o o gie today was Bm" i mailen |Darlin, who was also burned out |the Sitka Inn early this month | | Mr. and Mrs. Berg, owners of | |the building, left recently for a| { vacation in the States. H'I BURMA | the newest and most modern in| { the cnmm\miw } ; i | Cry 00 S St MEN WAITING ing Aftacks in Last { | oo FOR HUNTING 9 | motored American bombers have ‘ raided Rangoon, smashing at the| 3 Burmese city in daylight attacks, BI” D'es "1 Senate com | smashed dockyards in flames, a U. 8. Air Force communigue an-| ASkSChange | nounces. it medium WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. — Sol- against important enemy railroad 4 yards in central Burma on Mon- ?e;rs “"l‘: Olth:rerblinffiméo:J:es': scoring many | (6% Weeks long 3re The méasure proposing reorgani- jouly two Jup iguter during the| Sy B UL R T 0 raids. One of these Jap planes was | : | |last week. The bill was amended in the WHIIE xM As |House so that - soldiers in Alaska {on the same basis as residents, but put them in the same class with Eskimos and children under Military secret or not, everyonu]‘mmond and the Fish and Wildlife | here knows Juneau is going to!Service opposed the bill's amend- ! have 3 White Christmas. There are | men\s in the House, declaring that ord, to three feet. the Territory. Incidentally, there is likely to be| Dimond said he would reintro- temperature ranging from 10above |duce in the next session a bill . Use French Airfields | pid | headed by Vice-Admiral William ! fitted to Allied plans! | SITKA, Alaska, Dec. 24.—(Spec- fighting off Axis submarines off the ' when the L. C. Berg Apartments ! ,and techuical personnel, but not in | was constructed just a year ago. percent of the Dakar people are’ . ynoumn | o /in the tragic fire which destroved} The apartment house was one of NEW DELHI, Dec. 24. Four- twice on Sunday and once Tues- | ml"ee R DImOfld P { Masawnlleg, Amerioan o |diers in Alaska are going to have| |zets around to passing the ireported probably downed. No the Senate Committee on Terri- |were not only granted the n[,ht‘ |12, requiring no licenss. varying dep\‘.hs of snow on the the proposals would soon bring to maybe 16 degrees above. ‘w permit members of the armed | day, leaving airfield hangars aud{ 51 k bombers made precision attacl {40 keep- on " gvtiiting:*tib. Kodisk vamped Alaska Game Law Bill. | Danthass were Toat | tories when Congress adjourned | jto hunt and fish in the Territory | | Alaska Delegate Anthony J. ground from 16 inchs, official rec-|nbour. an end for the big game in Out at Auk Bay this morning [forces to be eligible for hunting the thermometers registered zero,|and fishing licenses for $3 a ynrl ’mth three feet of snow on the after having resided in the Terr: level in places, while in Juneau at tory for a year, and hoped forf 9 o'clock the thermometer at chelspeedy enactment of the legisla- | registered 10 degrees | tion. above zero with a brisk wind blow- | ing at times, in gusts. ‘ARMY”—GEI*D*S—TZR | Juneau Boy Now in " RED CAGE, DEAD Navy as Volunfeer ..w voux o se—me censs jof Christian Keener “Red” Cagle, silliant former Army football star, it An au- FARRAGUT, Idaho, Dec. 24. days ago, Clarence V. Foster has|was probably accidental, Training Station here. He is the a fracture of the skull and a brain | son of J. T. Foster, of Juneau,‘l.emmurhage Police. said ,he was Alaska. dazed in a fall. For the next several weeks he| ~ BRI a5y will receive his recruit training, | OPEN HOUSE TOMORROW learning the fundamentals of sea- Members of the Juneau Volun- marniship and undergoing intensive teer Fire Department will hold physical hardening. After gradua- open house tomorrow, 2 to 5 o'- tion he will be a full-fledged blue- | clock, in the club rooms in the City ! building. The chairman of i Navy service school for training affairs is Joe Johnston and he in a technical field or transferred will be assisted by Herman Porter to duty with the fleet. (and Ken Junge, R R BUY DEFENBB DONDB | BUY DEFENSE BONDS jof wartime Christmas {of thousands at home t ZND WARTIME CHRISTMAS = FOR AMERICA Troops Abroad Are Cele-| brating in Own Way in Many Lands (By Associated Press) Yuletide greetings from Pre: dent Roosevelt will launch the na- tion on another somber observance s wlm ghts millions of boys in their fighting posts of the United States As is the case with many a home, the four sons of the President are ilso away at war. But at the same time lin the American style will be cele- brated in many strange the fighting men of the States. Celebrate in Ireland In Northern Ireland, the States Army will entertain | youngsters of Great Britain to- night in a style which the soldiers learned in their youth in America. There also are 50 invitations to at- | tend Christmas dinners out each soldier who can be sparea | trom war work in England The story is the same in Aus- tralia and New Zealand with pri- vate families and public agencies sharing the meake the American home. In India, Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stil- | well sent Christmas greeting: tol the men in the Far Eagp Comynaid with the hope that next year “you will all be back where Christmas really be merry.” As American troops pounded at the Japanese in the mud of the Pacific jungles and thrust at the Axis across the sands of North Af- rica, the men in the war plants at home looked toward their first holiday of the year, complying with the wish of WPB Chairman Donald Nelson that work on tanks guns, and ships will cease tomor- row in most plants. Work Harder Nelson said, “after .thé holiday we must drive ahead with a re- newal of energy.” boys feel at The Army and Navy, meanwhile, | have promised spreads of turkey, ham, nuts, candy, ice cream and other trimmings for their men ‘There was turkey, too, for the 1,- 500 Americans imprisoned by the Japs at Camp Woosung near Shang- hai, and the Red Cross reported supplies of food, clothing and medi- cines are en route to other Amer- ican prisoners in the Philippines. R Army Privafe Shows 51 Operalions in Year DENVER—Anny doctors told Pvt Notre Riddick, 22, he “must be kid- ding” when he said he had been operated upon 52 times in one year. Riddick whipped off his shirt and showed the scars, some of them two inches long. All the operations were performed when he was between three and four years old, to cure a blood disease. They Gel a Skunk To Catch an Odor NYACK, N. Y.—Here’s man-bites- dog news: A skunk was used here to trace the origin of an odor so bad it made work at the Bear Mountaln Trailside Museum impos- | sible. Officials of the museum brought the skunk into the museum, then followed it as it tracked down the | odor. Source of the scent was found | [reported at the new U.*S. Naval|topsy showed death resulted Irom to be rotting meat, stored by rats' in the walls of a nearby building. | > e e cceceses s ® NO EMPIRE ON . CHRISTMAS DAY There will bgno issue of the e Empire tomorrow, Christmas Day, but any important world developments willy be bulle- tined on the windows, Today’s issue, the annual Christmas edition, is five sec tions, 30 pages. - e00 0000000 Christmas for | pleasure of trying to, . . ° . . . ol . . . . . . | | | |stations abroad and in the service lands by| United | United | 40,000 | Irene Shafer, of Glendale, | Station, - Turned Ouf BGanking heav:iv onGun FOR ACTION GIRAUD Ii STATEMENT | ON BATTLE - Says French Must Wlpe Boche Out in French Empire ALLIED HEADQU!/ NORTH AFRICA, Dec Tall, thin Gen. Giraud, who made drs matic - escapes from the Germa two wars, part crted emphatically knew but one duty now w the soche out of the Empire nd dellver my count The hero of rench soidiers in i ¥ of his first outwitted the to France ted to Paul News wo generations spok he i ed he interview wa Bringuier, French Age correspondent Giraud exvlained his pc French affairs thus “I'lt not mix in French patriots there but _ one form of politics, and that is to gather behind the army. I leave | palitics for those who are prepared Ifor it.” It was announced November that Giraud had stepped aside Admiral Darlan to devote all his attention to military matters | Said Giraud: “Only or |!left to French patriots. That is {join the struggle by the side our traditional Allies until the feat of the Axis results in liberation of F — e RESTRICTIONS ON GERMAN ALIENS iN WEST REMOVED SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec ,~The Army has lifted the curfew nnd also travel restrictions on Ger ‘man aliens in the eight-State area of the Western Defense Command The restrictions were imposed last March. The restrictions as regards Jap- anese are no longer applicable t them as they have becn removed from the affected zones. African politics. For is 10 for of is to of de- the hope A Mother and Her Warfime "Sons’ alif., chosen as the nation’s “Iypieal Navy guard of sailors s she arrives' at the Chicago municipal airport to be guest of the Great Lakes Training Navy Fireman John Faucette (extreme left), Portland, Ore,, New War Weapon Being Kow: Brilish By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 military e rts here are enthus astic about a new weapon they a turning out by hundreds of thousands, not n the ous: but al- a “secret lalitie re c as great as if it were the Sten gun, designed by itish lieutenant colonel and a man, sive you the gasper first b-machine gun that fires ,At.‘ of 500 rounds a min- osts only a bit more than dered Le it v) ute 188, you don't think the British convinced they have something there, : a thought to the: fac hat already have manufa ed more than a million and are still turning them out at top speed The Ministry of Supply “the most revolutionary gun ever preduced in such a short time.” Pirst impressions, say the Brit- ish experts, are that it looks like an ugly piece of drain-pipe dis- carded by the plumber. But, they claim, mzn who never held a gun ofore have been able to rip target to shreds with one at yards nd make effective hits at much greater distances. It fires from a elip, carrying 32 rounds of 9 MM. round-nose, rim- less ammunition; cools while the clip is being ehanged (about. the same length of time it would take to reload an Army automatic); weighs about six and a half pounds and is only 80 inches long It' is cheaper than the tommy- gun (which costs around $200); and 15 a possible replacement for that and the automatic pistol The Sten gun is already bein sued to the British Home Guard. It's simplicity (it has only 59 parts less than half the number of the ommy-gun) makes it perfect weapon for civilian or guard in close-fighting. There i5 one even more impor- ant possibility for the Sten gun han equipping the Home Guard and tank crews. Dozens of them an be dropped in' parachutes, with ammunition attached. With the United- Nations knock- ing on the doors of occupied Eu- rope with its millions of potentia! but unarmed allied, the Sten gu may some day prove to be worth weight in gold D FOLEY QUITS DAWSON Poley, former champion box- e big time, but more resident of Dawson, has left the interior for the outside Foley “hoofed” into Dawson, when the fall was at its worst, in 1932. It are w a home use Vi re- cently presents roses to Mrs. Shafer. British | 30 | AUSTRALIA, | many Mother,” is greeted by an hogor | ALASKA MEN GET AWARDS <(_11!J“‘\(.L_‘ /\mskn Dec.” 24— , Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, { annotinces the award of me five of them posthumously, to 1wn missing in at on two Jay lestroyers off Kiska last Octobe A Jr, als, | ? ) 16 The awards {mous decoration { guished Flying Cr Pebworth, pilot ccived a burst ¢ Junged into the ing de |level attacks which sent two enemy destroyers to the bottom about 50 miles northeast of Kiskn The air medal was awarded to| Lieut. James D. Maithews, oF Wiah ‘QUade 8¢ wounas - paseivad |in the same flight, and to Lieut. ean Mendenhall and two ser seants, all missing in the same ight, The air d to five offic | Asted men for t¥ ing the destroye | Lester O. Gardner, Anchorage. included a of the 5 to Lieut plan tire, and posthi Distin Jack whost re 50 was award and nine en re in sink includ bombardier medal of | - o ‘ope Gives Christmas Broadcas! Gives Blessmg to All Who| Carry Fight for Christians | | | Cru- | for| who the will fight for this and a better Christian world.” Although he the would not ta he said in{ a world broadcast from Vatican Ciiy that “a new danger has arisen | the subordination of everything solitics and heresy of the na- tional state which subordinates 0 the human law.” { He specifically recalled the Church’s condemnation of Marxist reaffirms said chureh sides, ! to ialism and said it that tement, - ENJOWING THEM Vith Street Supel dent; reck, assisted by Mayvor Harry acting as entertaining hosts, reet Department force is en- themselv in the ground rocms of the City Hall this with a few hours off. ELVES Bort 1 L Luc the Joying floor afternoon | Arthur | Enaiadere ta Bay ti M'ARTHUR'S KILLERS IN HARD FIGHT Allies Bury Nipponese Dead as Drive Con- finues Today HE»\I)QUARTERS IN Dec. 24-—Jap forti- fications 'have been reached in places in the Buna area on New Guinea the day before Christ- mas, as Allied troops under the command of Gen. Douglas Mac- continue their wiping up sweeps against the remaining en- cmy forces. “Many hundreds of Jap -dead are being piled up and buried by our own troops,” MacArthur an- nounces, adding, “The situation of the enemy now must be desperate.” The location of the Jap beach fortifications which are being smashed at today is not mentioned in the gatest communique, but a recent report told of heavy fight- ing between Buna village and Cape the 'east. Both of places are now in Allied ALLIED these | hands. Still more fighting is reported oday to the west of Buna, with Japs pocketed in the Cape Sanan- nda sector. Meanwhile, the bombing and inking of an Australlan corvette, he Armidale, In recent Jap action iear Portuguese Timor, has been disclosed. But at the same time, MacAr- hur announced that Allied bomb- rs smashed AL an enemy airdrome - Cape Gloucester, New Britain land, and also at Jaequinto Bay tha ss seetor. In recon- issance flight in the same sec- , Allled planes shot down one \quisitive Jap fighter and dam- ged two others. a RUSSIANS ARE STILL ADVANCING Red Army Roils Another 120 18 Miles Near- er Rostov By Associated Press) Russian armies driving down the |area of the middle Don River fo- ird Rostov are officially report= d today to have advanced another 12 to 18 miles. In an unbroken march of eight days, the Reds have rolled their 1ecapturing drive between 72 and 103 miles, claiming a great cumu- | lative victory which overshadowed {4l else in the war, The Soviet command in a special ommunique declared that the Germans lost 8,000 men in a re- cent operation. This number would put the grand total of Germans dead or cnpmred at around 80,000, JAP FIELD RAIDED IN SOLOMONS MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- ERS, Dec. 24-—American bombers slashed out again in the Solomons area today, raiding the Jap airfield 1t Munda on New Georgia Island. Fast wummng Il Chrisimas