The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 24, 1943, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLII., NO. 9507. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTE US. FORCES CONTROL GILBERT ISLANDS Berlin Hit by Terrific Raid for Second Time NAZICAPITAL ALASKA FISH | BLASTED BY BILLHEARING HARD BLOWS ANNOUNCED i WASHINGTOTI‘;OV. 24.—Chair- Flames Rage over City man, Bailey, Democrat of North Blocks - Industrial Centers Smashed . | Carolina, of the Senate Commerce | Committee, has appointed a sub- committee to hold hearings on the bill of Wallgren, Democrat of Wash- ington, to conserve the fishing re- sources of Alaska and also to ex- LONDON, Nov. 24—The Royal|tend the Alaska fishing grounds to Air Force hurled tons of destruction down on Berlin again last night,! seeking a second night success to knock out the capital city of Ger- | many, much of it already de- vastated. The. force of the weight of the|mittee, with Wallgren, Mead, Demo- bombs dropped last night probably | crat of New York; McNary, Re- approached but did not exceed the | publican of Oregon, and Robertson, record of Monday night when over | Republican of Wyoming, as mem- 2,300 tons were delivered by approxi- | bers. mately 1,000 bombers, nearly all of them four-engined giants in a “concentrated and effective” air at- tack. { In the second attack, last night, on the world’s most-bombed capital, despite more favorable weather for défense, only 20 planes failed to return to bases. Twenty-six planes were lost in the first attack. Simultaneously with the second night attack on Berlin, Mosquito boundary line with Russia. Hearings will probably start in January. Bilbo, .Democrat of Mississippi, will be chairman of the subcom- R e | MICHIGAN FURNITURE COMPANY BUILDINGS DESTROYED BY FIRE | i f GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 24, |~—A half million dollar fire, with !towering flames rising 300 feet into the night sky swept the war idle plane attacks were made on western | properties of Berkey and Gay Germany. Furniture Company here early Chaotic Conditions | today. Berlin, already. suffering .chaotic {- One fireman lost his life. The all waters east of the international | conditions of the first night’s raid. the greatest attack in aerial history, was for the second time in 24 hours lbulldmgs contained machinery and |materials valued at $300,000. The firm’s war work was done plastered with all ‘kinds of bombs last night, ‘a new deluge. } Dispatches received in London from Stockholm, sent by correspond- | ents in Berlin, said new fires creat- ing “walls of flames” for more than | one mile long, swept Berlin after the second attack. | Fires started by incendiary bombs last night linked up with the flames | still burning from the Monday at- tack. (at the main plant a mile away. ! e — - The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) 25,000 Killed | One dispatch from Stockholm | gmt;r?ufil::d h:h:‘toxxz;a:;sn;r};w repert on his mission to Moscow tack and added that the “center ;Was unanimously considered help- of Berlin” was again the main target [ful, especially by a group of Sena- last night, railway stations, gas and | tors who long ago urged Hull to be water mains suffering heavily and!mnre cooperative with the Senate. that Berlin is isolated by telephone !They believe some of the mistakes and telegraph communication. {of the war might have been avoid- The telegrams received in London jed had there been more. coopera- from Stockholm are apparently be- |tion in'the past. 3 ing sent from Hamburg but it is| Leader of this group is far-sight- not known how they are being re- led Senator Wiley of Wisconsin, layed from the capital as Berlin's \who, nearly three years ago, saw communication systems are dom-|what might be coming and intro- WASHINGTON — Secretary Hull's | historic appearance before Congress| inated by Hitler as are virtually all continental centers, ° It is said that representatives of legations bombed out in Berlin are still trying to contact their col- leagues and the impact of paralyzing attacks indicate that not only the large war industrial suburbs have been bombed in the new aerial drive but legation buildings are also gone. Bombs Rock City - Dispatches from the Stockholm Afton Tidningen assert that explo- sions from ‘blockbusters rocked all sections of Berlin but fires provided the worst horrors as storms of clouds of ashes swept through streets often in. terrific gusts of flames caused by a peeuliar effect of bomb blasts and explosions which seemed to create a vacuum, followed by a cyclonic:wave. Pire fighters were unable to cope with their tasks and entire areas of ten to 12 blocks long were en- veloped in flames this morning. Thousands of residents came out from their shelters this morning only to be met by flames of fire. ‘There is little if any water. U. S. EMBASSY GONE STOCKHOLM, Nov. 2¢. — The newspaper Allehanda, quoting a Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau dis- patch from Berlin says the United States Embassy, located on the Pariser Platz Brandenburger 1s “in ruins” o NO EMPIRE 10 BE ISSUED TOMORROW In accordance with the annual custom, there will be no issue of the Empire tomorrow but import- ant world news, if there is a break, will be bulletined in the windows, |duced a resolution—February, 1841 |—calling upon Secretary Hull to |give the Senate the true picture of the international situation, espec- ially in the Far East. But Wiley’s resolution was frown- ‘ed up on by the State Department, |got nowhere. Could Hull have been persuaded to report to the Senate then presumably he would have in- jcluded the warning of U. S. Am- |bassador Grew, who had told Hull, in January, 1941, that the Japs were ready for war and that an attack could be expected anytime. | Senate leaders are confident that, if they had had close cooperation with Secretary Hull, they could ihave persuaded Congress—even Sen- ate isolationists—to vote more mon- ley for planes, and could have kept the nation much more on the alert. Thus, Pearl Harbor might not have happened. “With knowledge of Grew's re- port,” says Senator Wiley, “we would not have been caught with our suspenders off. With more co- operation between Hull and ' the Senate, we might now be one year |ahead in the Pacific. Hull is mak- ing a good beginning, but it is three years late. Let's hope such cooperation will be our constant practice in the future.” KITCHEN QUEENS ABDICATE Henry Wallace is beginning to wonder if women war workers will ever go back to their kitchens. His doubts came like a flash during a talk he was giving to a group of war workers at the White Motors plant in Cleveland. He thought the women in over- (Gontinyed op Page Four) | CITY CHURCHES WILL OBSERVE THANKSGIVING Many of the churches in Juneau will hold Thanksgiving Day services tomorrow forenoon and the public is invited to attend. At 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at Holy Trinity Cathedral, there wili be Morning Prayer, the Rev, William Forbes officiating. At 10:30 o'clock tomorrow fore- noon the ~ Memorial Presbyterian Church and the Salvation Army will unite in services in the former church, the Rev. Walter A, Soboleff being the speaker. At 11 o'clock services will be held at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Fifth and Main, the sub- Ject being “Thanksgiving.” At 11 o'clock, the Northern Light Presbyterian Church will unite in holding Thanksgiving services with the Methodist Church in the Metho- dist Church, the Rev. Willis R. Booth delivering the sermon, his subject being, “The Thanksgiving Sacrifice” Carol Beery Davis will play for the service and also ac- company the Ladies’ Trio of the Methodist Church, Mrs. R. R. Lister, Miss Ruth Brooks and Mrs. W. H. Matthews. Also at 11 o'clock, the Resurrec- tion Lutheran Church will hold a special service as part of the na- tional observance of the day of prayer and Thanksgiving and the Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman's topic | THANKSGIVING T0 BE MARKED BY FESTIVITES Thanksgiving festivities in Juneau will be marked by family celebra- tions and the re-uniting of friends as Gastineau Channel homes aré |opened for traditional turkey dinm- ners. Highlighting the holiday will of course be the Baranof Hotel Thanks- \ \ | | giving Dance this evening in the| \ Gold Room with almost 150 reserva- |tions having been made for the { colorful affair. | Tomorrow night, thirty-six mem- bers of the staff of the Office of | Indian Affairs, will gather together | for dimnner at the Government School | in Douglas. The R. J. Sommers will entertain |a group of twelve at their home on | Distin Avenue for Thanksgiving | dinner. . | Mrs. Edna Lowman will have five | guests from the Office of Price Ad-| ministration at her apartment in | the Hillerest for dinner Thursday. ! Twelve friends of the J. G. Shep- |ards will assemble at their dinner ! table for Thanksgiving festivities. | The Wellman Holbrooks will be ‘hosts to a group of friends for |dinner tomorrow at their summer | home at Point Louisa. | Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Bodding, en- | tertaining at their home on B Street, will have twelve guests for | dinner. Numerous other informal dinners will be, “Give Thanks Unto Him.” : have been planned by almost every There will also be administration 'family on Gastineau Channel, of the sacrament of baptism to| e > | Brusiolov, several babies. At 8 o'clock tomorrow night, there | will be a special Thanksgiving ser- DOUGL 'HOLD UNDER { BIG ATTACK | ‘ | | H H H WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. — The | n llne Of Sowe' De' !exlstcnce of an established busy an-;‘ | 3 ferry route through Alaska, over fense Infact Despite L, Tiniveas of combat pianes | !have been delivered to Russia, was | cou'“er Blows | disclosed today for the first time | | by Under Secretary of War Robert | | IMOSCOW, Nov. 24.—Strong Ger- Patterson when relating the history /man forces pushing toward Kiev iz of the Canol oil project in North- | ajviolent tank and air attack fail-|west Canada. ed to break the Russian army pn." Patterson cited the fueling and| sitions in depth, the army newspa- | servicing of planes being flown to pér Red Star reported. 'Russia as one of the factors in- "The three successive retreats! fluencing the decision to undertake | {which the Russians made since the | the development. ; start of major German counter~| The statement said: “In addition RUSS LINES [Ferrying of Planes to Russia, Over Alaska, fo Fight Germans Disclosed SU to defending Alaska, it being then early in 1942, our plan, since con- summated, was to ferry combat planes to Fairbanks, there to be delivered to the Russians for use | against Germany on the Russian front. This short Arctic route to Russia is the best available route from this country to Alaska by the line of airfields through White- horse to Fairbanks. A large number of planes have been delivered to the Russians along this route and are still being de- | perior enemy numbers, but the Red Star indicated that the main Rus- slan line is intact for the decisive stage. Strong new Soviet attacks along! the lower Dnieper River north of | |:L'z:iksmh:hethlieal\{tn:)‘xl;s:rl: oarms‘::j MISS AI_MOUIST ANNOUNCES HER Nikopol and near Cherkassy were | WEDDING PI.ANS repulsed after temporary break| Miss Edna Almquist, daughter of throughs, according to a German Mr, and Mrs. G. E. Almquist of this communique, and the Nazis claim|city, has chosen Saturday evening that strong Russlan forges were|for her marriage to Sergeant Dean encircled west of Kiev when that| g, Williams, son of Lieut. Colonel city was captured on November 6. 1‘]. P. Williams and Mrs. Williams, | Today the Nazis are within 45 a1s0 of Juneau. The ceremuny,’ miles of Kiev in the environs of ]whlch will take place in the North-] after covering nearly|ern Light Presbyterian Church at| 8 o'clock, will be followed by a re- | | ! 4Aalf of the distance back. from. Zhttomir, Red Star reports, and the ception in the Gold Room of the German offensive is in the triangle| Baranof Hotel, NIPPON BASE AT GASMATA IS BOMBED Great Fires VRE;;orled Start- INVASIO SSFUL Admiral Wimitz Declares - Road Open fo Tokyo- Start Soon Be Made PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 24. - The . Gilbert Islands are now securely i | way of Edrhonton and then along ' In the hands of United States land and sea forces, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz asserted in a press confer- ence today. | The invasion opens “another road | to Tokyo. In due time we will have !livered in undiminishing numbers.” enough equipment and material to travel all the roads, and we surely ' will not neglect any approach when !we have all the material available," | stated the Admiral, The interview followed an earlier ,announcement of the capture of ,Makin Island and progress toward the capture of Tarawa and Abe- ' mama. | “My bellef is that Japan will eventually be defeated from China,” said Nimitz, and added, when asked if the United States should attempt to rid the seas of the Jap fleet befors attempting a knockout blow against Japan, “You may expeet some action In the Pacific.” He ed-Direct His Scored !sald he thought the Jap fleet was scattered from the Kuriles clear | down to the Solomons in the South- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN vice at the Bethel Tabernacle, 4th! NEWS and Franklin. A program is ar- between the Pripet and Dnieper rivers and the border between | THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Nov | Mrs. Paul Winkleman will beisy on Wednesday morning more |matron of honor. The other attend- | than 100 American bombers and ranged for the occasion and the Sunshine Girls will give a special number. — o - ACES, JOKERS WINNERS LAST NIGHT AT ELKS The Four Bit League bowled last |mgm at the Elks, resulting in the Aces defeating the Royals and the| ., \ion the large collection of Jokers winning from the Deuces. : Stewart and Iversen were high bowl- Spmes a"‘? ,my 8 Teowived, | Warry ers for the night's play. need vnotA rely too much on Santa Following ave the individual |this vear. g | scores: | i i Aces TERR. GUARD MEETS | Spot 21 21 21— 63, As announced by Capt. W. E Senescu 212 210 144— 566 Cahill, the Douglas Unit of Terri- Duckworth 241 <178 147— 566 | torial Guards will meet on Friday | Barringer 171 157 192— 520[nighl. at 7:30 o'clock in the Nata-| Hulberg 146 137 126— 409 torium. Further instrucions in bay- | Sundsten 143 169 170— 482 |onet practice will be given by Lieut. | ' —— — — ——|Issacs, U. S. Army, instructor. Dress Total 934 872 800—2606 | for the evening is ordered as cover- | Royals {alls, leggings, rifle and ammunition | Blum 168 162 137— 467 pejys Al guards are requested (o] Harrison 181 159 153— 49314, out, as the hall must be clean- g“}‘t’e oA :;; :;g i:g: ::; ed in preparation for the coming| H:h:m...m 158 196 153— tso':!,g“'“ul Dease, Saliges: Novemberf Total ... 91 747—2391 BASKETBALL NEWS | A double-header game was played Henning 150 150— 450=ln the Douglas Gym last evening Iversen 223 192— 567|With a good crowd attending. The Jaceko 157 202— 545 |first game was between the J. H. Schvellter .. 145 150 130— 425|team and the Sparks, with the | Sterling .. 191 183 178— 552 |Sparks winning 24 to 21. Two local — — — ——|boys, Frank and Harry Cashen Total 852—2539 | played with the Sparks and showed outstanding skill. Spot 16 16 16— 48| The second game was played be- Carnegie . - 161 171 204— 536 |tween the Bankers and the Dol- Waugh .......... 139 141 125— 405|phins with the score of 42 to 28| Matheny . 150 150 150 450 |in favor of the Bankers. Mark Jen- Simmons 165 168 173— 506|sen, basketball enthusiast and for- Stewart ... 180 205 187— 572\ mer coach, was in charge of the| 1 me1 mre o-i-lgames in the asence of regular, Total . 811 851 855—2517coqen ‘Graber, who was coaching the game held in the Juneau gym NO CHAMBER COMMERCE last night. MEETING ON TOMORROW ——————— | ! NURSE UHL LEAVING | Owing to the regular weekly| Miss Catherine V. Uhl, field nurse meeting of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce falling tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, there will be no session this week. This is accord- Booth. —_— o —— FROM INTERNATIONAL FALLS A. D. Johnson and Claude J. Baranof Hotel, jFUl'lt DAY HOLIDAY FOR SCHOOL STUDENTS Douglas pupils will begin a four day holiday, beginning tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day. School starts |again as usual on Monday. | | HARRY WOROBEC IS NINE Harry, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. | Worobec, celebrated his ninth birth- jday at his home yesterday. All of his neighborhood friends were in- | vited to share the ice cream cones 1and birthday cake, which was serv- of the Office of Indian Affairs, re- ;cen'.ly assigned for duty at Kake,| will leave tomorrow evening on a! small boat for routine work at| ing to an announcement made by :Hoonah and Angoon en route to her the secretary, the Rev. Willis R.|station. et e PAA MAN LEAVES Clif Goodman, radio operator Ior; American Airways, left Juneau | Lakoskey, both of ‘International|today for Whitehorse from where he | Falls, Minnesota, ate guests at the | will fly to Seattle where he has been | transferred, White Russia and the Ukraine. Bragin, a town 65 miles south- {west of Gomel was captured by forces which penetrated deep into| i the enemy defenses through swlmpsiquist‘ and Sergeant Norman Bucy | |at midnight, according to the Rus- will be best man for the | |Slan army newspaper, summing up The ushers will include Sergeants |a violent day of combat in which|Jjohn Hozen, Bill Lawrence, Sidney| nearly 8,000 Germans and 108 tanks Carter and James Jacobsen. i | were destroyed on all fronts. | Mr. Ernest Ehler will sing before the service and Mrs. Carol Beery | GERMAN REPORT Davis will be organ for the wed- | LONDON, Nov. 24. — German |ding | broadcasts picked up here tonight| An open church service will be lasserted that Brusilov, 45 miles|observed and all friends of the west of Kiev, and Chernyakhoy, 20|couple and extended an invitation {miles north of Zhiromir were re-|to both the wedding ceremony and| |captured by a violent Nazi counter- | the reéception to follow, attack against the Ukrainian bulge,| Miss Almquist, a graduate of The midnight communique from ! West Seattle High School, attended |Moscow said that the German at-|business school in Seattle and for |tacks were carried tants will include Miss Elspeth| | Douglas and Miss Ruth Kunnas. | | “into the area the past two and one-half years | of” both'towns. Chernyaghov is on [has been an employee of the Alaska |the Odessa-Leningrad Railway Game Commission here. Sergeant south of Russian-held Korosten. | Williams was graduated from Ju- > Gary Danielson Has First Bi‘rnihday Party Although his birthday is not until Thanksgiving Day, young Gary Danfelson, son of Pvt. and Mrs, Carl | Danielson, didn’t think it was quite | fair to share honors with the annual | holiday festivities, so yesterday afternoon he celebrated with a par- ty in anticipation of becoming a year old in a day or so. The affair was given at the fam- ily home in the Waynor Addition between 2 and 4 o'clock. Cake and ice cream was thosoughly enjoyed by the young guests and games were played during the party hours with prizes going to Katherine Toner, John Wester, Harold Clements and Charles Lowe. Those present for the occasion included Mrs. Pelix Toner and daughter Katherine, Mrs. Wilber Wester and son John, Mrs. Pete Clements and son Harold, Mrs. Vin- cent Yakopatz and young Jay, and Mrs. Harvey Lowe and son Charles. Gary's daddy, on duty at Anchor- age, sent birthday greetings to his young son. TIDES TOMORROW High tide— 0:13 a. m., 14.4 feet. ‘Low tide— 6:00.a. m., 2.7 feet, High tide—12:08 p. m., 174 feet. Low tide— 6:41 p. m., -04 feet, TIDES FRIDAY High tide— 0:54 a. m., 15.1 feet. Low tide— 6:39 a .m., 24 feet. High tide—12:44 p. m., 18.1 feet. Low tide— 7:20 p. m,, -1.4 feet, neau High School and attended ra- dio school in Seattle. He is with |the U. S. Army Signal Corps. i , 5 DAVE RAMSAY | IS ELIGIBLE FOR POSTMASTER JOB David M. Ramsay, former purser! on the Estabeth and former em-! ployee in the Juneau Postoffice, disclosed today that the Civil Ser- vice Commission has informed him that he has been deemed eligible for the post of Postmaster of Ju- neau and that his relative rating in the recent competitive examina- tion was number one. Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- {mond reported in Washington yes- |terday that Alice Coughlin and | Crystal Snow Jenne, also of Ju- neau, are now declared eligible for the post. Ramsay said he was informed of! his standing some time ago. i i MR s REV. FORBES GOES ON AIR FOR JUNEAU CLUB The Rev. Willjam Forbes, of Wran- gell, now preaching at Holy Trinity | Cathedral in . the absence of Dean | C. E. Rice, will go on the air at 9:15| o'clock tomorrow morning on the Juneau Woman'’s Club time. He is expected to tell why thanks should be given by all people especially of this section of the world. e Mr, and Mrs. R. O. Miller, Jr, and child, are guests at the Baranof Hotel, fighters loosed 142 tons of bombs and fired 35,000 rounds of am- The bride will be given in mar-| munition on the Japanese base at | age by her father, Mr. G. E. Alm-thsnan, New Britain, setting great | fires. This was one in a series of groom.|raids on Jap Southwest Pacific | bases. The MacArthur communique an- nouncing the raids said one Mitchell | was lost by anti-aircraft bomber fire. An American Liberator scored a direct hit on a 7,000-ton freighter transport and seven Jap fighters were shot down over Empress: Augusta Bay on Bougainville Island. .- — ALASKA COASTAL | BRINGS SIX FROM HOONAH TUESDAY An Alaska Coastal Airlines plane returned yesterday from Hoonah with William Sheakely, T. J. Dyck, Fred A. Donn, Mrs, Edna Dick, John Fawcett ,and Lilly Fawcett. Today a flight was made to Ex- cursion Inlet with F. H. Johnson, Sybil Maxwell, and Earl Allard. Re- turn passengers were Ray Sherrill, L. Risem, H. H. Smith, E. D. Smith, and Cliff Larson. i SCHOOLS DISMISSED UNTIL NEXT MONDAY The Juneau grade and high schools were dismissed at 2 o'clock this afternoon, and the students can forget all about classes until next Monday morning Tomorrow they can enjo their Thanksgiving dinner with the full knowledge that they will have three whole days in which to recuperate. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 24. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5':2, American Can 82'%, Anaconda 25'%, Bethlehem Steel 55%, Curtiss Wright 6%, In- ternational Harvester 67':, Kenne- cott 317, New York Central 15%, [ west Pacitie: ! . 8TH ARMY IS ACROSS BIG RIVER ' Another Barrier Passed by | Allied Forces on Road tfo Rome ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Nov. 24. — The British Eighth Army surged forward six miles to enemy positions In the central portion of the Italian front to capture the village of Sanagelo, only half a mile from the upper Sangro River, and occupied the de- serted devastated mountain town lof Alfedena. The capture of Alfedena, approx- imately 79 airline miles southwest of Rome on the road to the capital, will result in a gain of more than five miles beyond Rionero from which ‘in recent days Gen. Mont~ gomery's troops pushed the Ger- mans in a series of brisk clashes. The Nazis were driven from '‘the high ground dominaiing the town from the southeast. gt The Cairo radio meanwhile re- ports that Eighth Army units have crossed the Sangro River| and the Germans asknowledgedr the cross- ing yesterday. - e COURT TERM OPENS HERE JANUARY 18 The next term of the U. S. Dis- trict Court in Juneau will open January 1B, according to advices S eee - Northern Pacific 12'z, United States [ received here today. Steel 50%:. W. J. Leivers also announces the Dow, Jones averages today are as|grand jury will meet the same day follows: Industrials, 3282; utilities, 20.93. - eee GEMMILL LEAVES Lynn Gemmill, attorney for the Alaska Office of Price Administra- 132.10; rails,|and the petit jury will meet on February 1. ——————— FORMER JUNEAUITE HERE Mrs. Joy R. Beckler, of White- tion, left by Pan American Airways | horse, the former Miss Joy Thorne, today for Fairbanks. ER BUY WAR BONDS 4 waitress in the Baranof Coffee Shop, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel,