The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1943, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” YOLXUIENO.9S16. ¢ toel o o = 10 SMASH GERMAN ‘ JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1943 ME MBhR ASSOUATI l) PRPSS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS HEY S %" & ¥ Three Great Powers FIFTH ARMY THROWBACK NAZI UNITS Severe Losses on Enemy | Sustained-Allied Drives Are Successful Draff Ad Evade Senfenced fo 4 Years | InPrison by Alexander KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 6.—In the first prosecution of . the kind in Alaska, Eric Jonas Ernquist, 35, has been sentenced to four years m the penitentiary when he pleaded wguxlty to failure to report for physi- | by Judge Alexander cal examination under the Draft ALLIED HEADQUAR.TERS IN Act. rls ISEXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD! :Son - in - Law of Mussolini, Former Foreign Minister Is Shot as “Traitor” | LONDON, Dec. 6.—Count Galeaz- ‘and also using an assumed nnmcj for falsification to a travel permit affidavit. Harry Ritchey, formerly of Port-| land, Oregon, has been sentenced to six years following his pleading of guilty o/ la manslaughter charge in connec- (COUNT CIANO! t } | r‘ P 4 ARMY ON 3 SIDES 4 "Make Definite Plans THE BIG THREE ALGIERS, Dec. 6—The American | Fifth Army, by-passing German | strongpoints, captured new heights, commanding the roads to Rome| west of Mignano, while the British Eighth Army’s drive carried it t the Moro River, ten miles beyond| the Sangro River. Allied headquarters said the/ Nasis launched strong counterat- | tacks against the American and| Byitish infantry, storming the| heights in bitter hand to hand | battles. ! The Nazis threw in new reinforce- | ments, including mechanized Gren-| adiers, against the British Army in a desperate attempt to halt the smashing Allied drives. i A flame throwing tank was cap- | , turéd by the British in a counterat- | tack west of Venafro. Hurled back by the Fifth Army. there were se- vere losses. Gen. Mark Clark’s headquarters said the enemy, who fought stub- botnly for every inch of ground, was driven behind three more com- manding elevations by the Ameri- e e T (conunued on me Three) The Washmgion Merry - Go- Round| ByDREWPEABSON (Masor Robert 8. Allen on setive dutv.) | | WASHINGTON~One of the great| jobs of this war is the Air Trans- port ‘Command flying thousands of bombers, tramsports, cargo planes| across ‘the big, black ocean which separates the U. S .A. from the many theatres of war. But while re- cognition of this great job is uni- versal, most people do not rennzei that there are two parts o the Air Transport Command. One is the Army. The other is civilian and is let’ out by contract to the big air| companies. Today when you .go down the street, you may ‘see a man in a flying officer’s uniform. If you no- tice that his wings are bronze with A. T. C. in the center, you will know that he is a civlian employee working for United Air Lines, T. W. A., American Airlines, Pan-Ameri- can,’ Eastern -Air Lines or some other - company which flies on contract for the Army. Unfortunately, a bitter feeling exists on the part of regular Army air officers toward this division in- side the Air Transports Command. The reason for the bitterness is the fact that these civilian pilots get all the advantages of the Army, | but -with salaries two and three; times as great. For instance, thou- sands of Second and First Lieu- tenants, with a sprinkling of Cap- tains, are pushing planes back and forth across the ocean every week for the regular Army pay of around} €300 a month or less. Meanwhile| avilian carriers, because they fly under contract to the Army, get from $650 to $1,150 for Captains on trans-Atlantic runs, plus $8 per day expense money for- every day that they are away from their home’ base. Army airmen . have against these civilian pilots per- sonally, but they do vigorously re- sent the system. They pay tribute to the fact that, in the early days béfore Pearl Harbor, the commer- cial companies jumped in and help- ed the Army do a speedy, miracu-; lous- job. But now, with the Army well trained and with excellent transport pilots on hand, the young Army pilots wonder why this cost- {Wu?_l.!bw) nothing Federal Judge George F. Alexan—xuon with the fatal stabbing of a der castigated Ernquist, born in | fellow crew member, Thomas Rouen, | izo Ciano, 40, son-in-law of Benito| Mussolini, was executed this morn- planes Sweden, as “one of these smart boys who try to beat the Act.” Judge Alexander cited the boast- of ing of Ernquist that he had beate'll |the conscription Act in Sweden and would beat the United States Act Liberty Ship Breaks in Two Off Alas Men Rescued 11 Missing. SHORTAGE OF GERMANS AT RUSS FRONT Nazis Are Usmg Engineers| for Frant Line Troops in Some Areas LONDON, Dec. 6. — Smashing ahead northwest of Propoisk, the Red Army is threatening Mogilve, one of the last important German held rail genters in White Russia, as other Russian units squeezed the Nazi defense lines Zhlobin and Rogachev in the Gomel area. The Soviet commuiiique said the Red Army hurled back German counterattacks and swept forward northwest of Propoisk to capture |the heavily fortified storngholds at Varodol, Bahki and Zabluka. Frontline dispatches telling of deep Russian penetrations from virtually one end of White Russia to the other, said the Germans are beginning to show signs of lack of reserves and are using engineers for front line troops in some sectors iof the'snow-swept front. To the south in the Kremenchug area, Soviet units have captured several strong points after fierce engagements. The Russian com- muniqu said the Nazis are continu- ing the attack in the Cherkasy area between Kremnchug and Kiev, but all assaults wer repulsed. The German radio admitted the both formerly of Portland |ing, shot in the back by a firing| Tracy Giles of Ketchikan has! {squad. been sentenced to five years follow- | This is according to unconfirmed | ing conviction of negligent homicis reports reaching here from lhe1 in fatally shooting his wife in their|ss horder. home witha 30,08 rifle. This is the latest ironic twist of | i the Italian upheaval reported bo\h‘ by Reuters and the Swiss Tele-| graph agency. The dispatches said the former Italian Foreign Minister, whose I meteoric career was upset when he had a falling out with his father- in-law, was sentenced to death by ia special court of Mussolini's Re- 'p\lblicnn Fascist Government, si(»‘ ting in Italy to try “traitors.” i —————- | ‘RED lEADER ka Coast; 70 SEATTLE, Dec. 6—The Liberty ship which broke up in the North STON CHURCHILL JOSEF V. Washmglon sSense 0f Humor Shown Up On Various Occasions STALIN | Pacific, 100 miles off the comst of | k- E BY JACK STINN Alaska, on_Noyember 25 with the ] | ME mue .. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 6~In spite {loss of 11 men of the 100 men! { of the grim’realitiés’ of war, Wash- | aboard, is dlsclo;ed to }_mve been | ington’s sense of humor trundles |the John P. Gaines, built at the imvrrily along. There's a lift from | Kaiser Shipyards in Portland, Ore- gon, and was bound for Sem.lle\ from Alaska. Seventy survivors have been land- ed here on two Army lnmspolt% [wnien ettectea the rescue, 1t 1 Unexpected Gesiure Draws |learned. The names of the missin, persons are withheld since they uri‘( Ie" |"( Response a’ still being sought on the last life g { boat that left the ship. The boat| Formal Dinner | {was washed under the stern of the| TEHERAN, Dec. 6.—Premier Sta- ship in the inky darkness and dis- lin solemnly got to his feet one |appeared in the gale and rescue night at a dinner he attended with ships were unable to find it when President Roosevelt and Prime {daylight came the next morning. |Minister Churchill, looked soberly The most complete story comes about himat the assembled military from seaman Paul Tatman, one of and diplomatic leaders of the the last to leave the Liberty ship United States, Britain and Russia, 33 hours after it had “snapped in and lifted his glass to American two like a stick of kindling.” | war production. Tatman's log says the “Gaines| “Without American production was heading into a strong wmd,‘lhe United Nations could never two points off the bow. She w.\s‘hnve won the war,” the Soviet lead- pounding heavily. Green ones were er 1s reported to have declared. breaking over the foc'sle, now and The response to Stalin's unexpected then. At 2:41 in the morning, there gesture was terrific. was a loud pop, then a tremendou:‘ Ay tearing and groaning sound. The CONFERENCE MOST CORDIAL ship just seemed to bend in the| CAIRO, Dec. 6—Dispatches from |middle a couple of times as it rode| Teheran said the conference at- the seas, then parted one m,m}mosphere was one of extreme cor- back of the bow. The bow end was|diality. The main declaration of the fortunately clear of personpel. The |three leaders concluded with the bow end floated away in.the dérk- | Statement: ness after the ship broke in two.”| “We came here with hope and Tatman’s log continued, stating| determiation. We leave here friends that four boats were launched inin fact, in spirit and in purpose.” the gale, with waves rolling 50 feet| FDR-Stalin Meet { high. It was the first time that Presi- Capt. A. W. Nicherson, well.known;dem Roosev.elt and Premier Stalin mariner of the North Pacific, for/had met. On the first day of the years on boats of the Northland |conference Stalin, accompanied only Transportation Company especially|by his foreign minister, Molotov, |announcement made today by Dis- .. | heimer. on the Southeast Alaska run, was highly praised for his conduct dur-! ing the sea tragedy. Eugene Butt,s‘ first mate, remained aboard. Sev- enty others were taken off later by a rescue boat. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 6. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 5%, American Can | 80!, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 55'%, Curtis Wright 5%, In- ternational Harvester 88%, New York | Central 15%, Northern Pacific 13%, | United States Steel 50%, Pound 4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as Russians broke through the Nazi lines south of Cherkasy, but said, “the greater part of the penetrating force was wiped out.” NEW ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTY. ARRIVES HERE Robert L. Tollefson has been ap- pointed as the new Assistant Dis- trict Attorney for Alaska’s First Judicial Division, according to trict Attorney, William A. Holz- Mr. Tollefson arrived here Satur- # day from Washington, D. C. follows: Industrials, 132.45; rails, T Tathor T PINEEEE 32.27; utilities, 21.45. —— LT. COMDR, BERLIN IS BONNIE RAMSAY RETURNS o“ n” vls" HERE Bonnie Ramsay, who has been south for several weeks, returned to Lt. Comdr. *Leonard Berlin, well- |her Juneau home last evening on known resident of Juneau, arrived | the northbound steamer. here yestrday for a brief visit. He ——————— will return to his station, probably; Jane E. Brant off{Pertland, Ore., leaving tomorrow, lis a guest at the ranof Hotel. | |since the Communist revelution in walked up the steps of the Russian | Embassy of the compound, which was the President’s residence dur- ing his stay. He left Molotov talk- ing in the ante-room with Harry Hopkins, the President’s official ad- visor and strode on alone till he camé face to face with the Ameri- can leader, who had flown thou- sands of miles across the ocean and | desert to the rendezvous. It is believed to be the first time Premier Stalin has left Russia 1017. Everybody On Guard .The Russian Embassy, the confer- ence area and Teheran itsell swarmed with Russian tommy gun- ner guards. Even the Embassy ser-| vants were packing pistols. The security measures were heightened because it was learned that a num- ber of German saboteurs werc: dropped by parachute in Iran a rew weeks_before the “Big Three” ar-| rived. Most of the parachutists| were ‘reported captured. A number of Iranians whose loyalty was ques- |féturned to Juneau aft (Continued on Page Five) .enza cases by the hundreds v j honeymoon, |some of the stories now going the BEING ATTACKED - i vorite and proof that the general |chief of WPB learned a lot abouf the literalness of the Russian mind {“If you don’t want the Russians to take you at your word, don't say it,” says Nelson. On his recent trip to the USSR, it | Nelson attended one of those huge ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN|panquets of which the Russians THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Dec.|are 5o fond. There were toasts and 6—The Japanese counter- “"Mk?d;tmm\ far into the night. As the three times in defense of the jungle party was breaking up, Nelson was strong point at Waro in northeast-, yoying premier Stalin how much Auslrallans Use Artillery fo Repel Japs-Guns Are Silenced ern New Guinea but were repulsed |, : r'% he had enjoyed the evening. Smil- ;‘:t‘t:ur,‘s‘";‘;}‘ “fil‘;:“'qupn‘:;f:l’;‘: &‘: ingly, he rubbed the back of his tralians used artillery to repel the Ak “Tve diunk S0 BHRNY. R he said, “I have a stiff neck.” attacks, Bombers also supported | “our continuous advance.” ! Allied. bombers have cascaded 95 tons of bombs on Japanese positions The next morning, he was aroused at an early hour by a knock at the door. He shouted “Come in” A Rus- south of the beachhead at Empress|sian husky entered and explained: Augusta Bay, Bougainville Island, ‘“T'm the masseur. I've come to fix and three attackers were shot down. |your neck.” At Cape Gloucester, New Britain, it took 63 tons of bombing to silence | the guns. United States bombers | damaged an 8,000-ton Jap lrf\llhpol'L; In a recent debate (the senators call it colloquy), Sen. “Cotton Ed” Smith of South Carolina, the dean and left a 1,500-ton cargo ship out |of hamber humorists, of contrel in Bismarck Sea. | bot! ad service, arose to Waro is a stratetgic junction of prc © couldn’t under- jungle trails on the plateau over- looking the channel between New ! Guinea and New Britain. | Units of the United Nations are ., now one mile north of Num;ura_and‘u g are pushing west of recently cap- tured Bonga. S P R FLU EPIDEMIC |- LONDON, Dec. 6. — Influenza claimed 376 lives in London and other large cities in Britain for the week ending November 27, mor¢ than tripling the number of fatal ities recorded the previous week b health authorities. The number” jcases are reported to be risit steadily. sta matter in hand was all cause I'm an valrous majority lead< kley was on his h-,ev. sike that out,” he said. | 's of this body are all our beloved colleague Carolina is no lz,noru- |€ smith was on his fvc-t it stand,” he roared,| its of company.” nued on fage Two) > DINNER BY LEGION IS TONIGHT ‘ FLU IN KANSAS CITY KANSAS CITY, Dec. 6—Inf reported- over the city, causin sharp decline in school att anc and resulting in scores of cant desks in business offices. the American Legion. |sicians said, however, the di ESN e erved at appeared to be of a mild nat ed by entertainment P, . 3 things. SITKA MAN HERE Mg i L SO L. T. Petersen of Sitka is ¢ ELL-BABY CONFERENCE at the Baranof Hotel. el - RSP i CONNORS RETUR ' Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Co sk in the Douglas Public School, yrding to Mrs. Emma Frey, Pub- ¢ Health Nurse. pol = AR weeks spent in the State BUY WAR BONDS This one is Donald Nelson’s fa-| | | ! | | age, D. ROOSEVELT FRANKLIN TIMEFIXED NOW FOR 2ND FRONT Secondary Assault fo Be ‘Made on Hitler's Eur- ope from Soulh WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. ~— Presi- dent Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Premier Josef Stalin fixed the time of the Anglo-Amer- ican invasion of western Europe at the conference at Teheran, and also apparently agreed upon a secondary assault on the continent from the south. This “Blg Three” agreement for final victory strategy, calling for coordinated attacks from three sides on Hitler's vaunted European fort- ress may make it possible to try now for knockout blows against Germany this winter. The United States and Britain have been massing troops and muni~ tions for many months for such grand scale attacks, and it seems likely that plans made at this con~ ference can be put in operation in less than the six months that Roose- velt and Churchill usually had al- lowed. The high strategy of the decisions on those main points of a military implication were noted by Washing- ton observers of the Teheran de- claration which was announceéd to- dey. Further disclosures about the accomplishments are considered pos- sible. It has been the custom of {Roosevelt and Churchill on some past occasions to. enlarge in. sub- he added, “maybe |sequent_speeches upon the initial ignor- | statemetits of conference achieve- mems HULL PLEASED WITH PACT AT TEHERAN TALK| WAleN(:TON Dec. .ASecxe— tary of State Cordell Hull's trip to| Moscow paved the way for the| epochal tri-power Teheran confer- |ence, hailed by Roosevelt, Churchill | rst Jiggs dinner of the sea- and Stalin in a joint statement on| be given tonight by mem- 'Allied War aims as the signal l“r\ the John Alford Bradford concerted action. “These concerted plans umluub!- 6:30 edly will result in the making effec- | in the Dugout and will be Uve to the fullest extent of the and fighting strength of all the United | Nations,” Hull said. Senator Guy M. Gillette, Iown Democrat said a statement on post fe Douglas Well-Baby Confer- War cooperation to keep the peace, will be held tomorrow at 1:30 |“could have been somewhat more specific.” e — J. Hazel Zimmerman, of Anchor- is registered at the Baranof ¥ EPIC 4-DAY CONFERENCE IS THRILLER Roosevelt gl;hn Churchill Are Now in Complete Agreement NO MERCY BE SHOWN NAZIS; FOR PEACE ERA All Countries Are lnvned to Join World Family of Democratic Nations CARO, Dec. 6—American Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier and Chairman of the State Committee of Defense of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Josef V. Stalin, have agreed com- pletely on the “scope of timing operations” to smash the German Army on three sides. ‘The announcement, signed by. the three statemen at the epie four-day meeting in Teheran, Iran, released here today, discloses the Allied lead- ers also chs ggdppcmeulpw “lan na s Wil e invited " to in a world family. of democratic nations” based on the reaffirmed Atlantic Charter, The history-making conference of the heads of the world’s most pow- erful military and political combine; . was held at Teheran on November 28 to December 1 and was also at-" tended by. scores of top flight mili- tary chieftains and diplomats of the United States, Great Britain and Russia. ? Military Staffs Present Heavily underscoring the urgency in the military phase, the combined, American and British General Staffs subsequently retwrned to Cairo, the scene of the November 22-26 meet- ing of Chiang Kai Shek, Roosevelt and Churchill, and staged concen- trated planning sessions from last Friday through today. - Churchill joined these and other sessions leading to the possibility of other disclosures of paramount international importance still to come. The whereabouts of President Roosevelt is not disclosed since the Teheran conference. Declaration Signed The Teheran declarations, signed simply, “Roosevelt, Stalin and Chur- chill,” dated December 1, announced these results: “Our military staffs have joined “our round-table discussions. “We have concerted our plans for destruction of the German forces. “We have reached a complete iagreerment as to the scope of timing operations which will be undertaken from the East, West and South. “The common understanding which we have reached guarantees that . victory will be ours and no power on earth can prevent our destroying the German armies by land, their | U-boats by sea and their war plants from the air. “Our attacks will be relentless and increasing. For Enduring ruee + “We are sure our accord will mnka u an enduring peace, “We recognize fully the supreme responsibility resting upon us and all the United Nations to make peace which will command the good will of the overwhelming masses of the (Continued on P-ge Two) Shopping Days | Hotel. 16 Till CHRISTMAS