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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9528. MAP PLAN TO INVADE HITLER'S FORTRESS “ALL THE NEWS LL THE TIME” JUNE/_\U, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1943 _MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = - New Gains Hammered Out on Italian Front - ka1 1 J: : | . 1 | | Allies Are Gainin | | | ) | | | I [] . . . upremacy, So. Pacific; j . | | g { . NAZIDEFENSE Neeping Uup | Is Pro-Nazi Fighters Make Sweep ON INVASION hed | | — 1 L ‘ Bt el o i g A A A s | & syl Forfified City Is Caplured—‘s'x Lero Fighters Destroy- ‘DTayhght Raid Being Made Penaranda, President, and | 1remendous Supplies of | apvance auuien weapquan-| Adm, Stark fo Play Major Elghth Army AT""E[Y i Ed-POSSIbly Two Small | Oday Innsbruck, AUQS- 1} Others Under Arrest- Material Capmred De- !";n?bmll:‘dmbfi (1'::1%:'se;;é.;;?.cy Role in Hl“lng Contin H . ' ~ 4 ' 1 Knocks 0 Japanese Transports burg Raided Sunday | Leader in Palace stroved by Soviet {1 Naw Bty bas BECHER RS 8 ! nocks Out Tanks Bk bk yed by Soviets of new successes, nciuaing the wars| eni-Other Reporfs %l PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 20Army | UONDON. Dec. 20. — American | LAPAZ. Bolivia, Dec. 20—The — ! | e Benies plans e e , . iy . A » ¥ 4 M | au rom 3 r rics '~ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN |and Navy planes, continuing air at- heavy bombers struck from the west pro - Allied Bolivian government, (By Associated Press) | field, 250 |T il o LONDON, Dec. 20.—Admiral H, R : {the much-battered northwest Ger- | headed by President PRenaranda, | | {fleld, 20 milés southemst, an Hous . ALGIERS, Dec. 20. — Gen. Mark | tacks on the Japanese-held Marshall 5 a | The Russians of the First Baltic gainville, So ;. Stark, who, as Commander of the * Clark" . : ke oo " : {many at daylight today in a quick |has been overthrown by coup d'etat | |#ataville, - Balomons, ¢ s ark’s Fifth "Army, which captured |Islands, destroyed six Zero fighters | : 3 Front Army cracked German posi-| | Tt i rs United States Naval forces in Euro- the heavily fortified village of San and possibly sank two small tran |follow-up of Mediterranean based |leaders today in a nationalist revo- & f y e Stiters. Weot otk Jate T pean waters, is likely to play ¢ Pietro after three days of furious rts, Admira VO small trans- {4)jieq heavy bomber assault on Inns- | lutionary movement by an organiza- tions along a 50-mile front to a | day morning and tangled with 40 5 i 0 play & mas after three days of furious |ports, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz [, S o el Ty Y " g e o | depth of nearly 20 miles, Kkilling enemy planes, downed s |Jor role in any seaborne invasion of fighting, has hammered out new |announced at a conference with f DEUCK U5 CUMIUERS &0 iy TR ) Ussutilied ax. SIS CUbERE 20,000 Germans . |enemy plunes, downed six and 108t the continent, Has returned otk Taihia! Ban évifinee." next | newsmen west of Munich, on the Brenner |to the policies of the United States, 20000 Germans in & powertl Wve| ()partinn (G, According| "™ Wadhfighia for -Satititnsse; Wil strong defense base on the road to| Army fliers encountered no air | Pass route. | President Penaranda, Gen. Candia, | 48y surge onward toward Polotsk,| per 1on Loes Accor Ing! The Japanese still meet no success |, .~ . or Sonstinces WS b ophmy fliers encountered o aff | "pig American planes, escarted by |Bolivi's Minister of War, Gen. key rail junction near the old Po-| o plan T 6 Mil lin trying to break through the| e, cxPected to cenieraround final In the mountains to the northeast |suffered minor damage from anti- |a fleet of fighters, again renewea Ralichazo, Chief of Staff, Minister | lish-Latvian frontier, Moscow has 0 Flan- roops 11€S |screen of Thunderbolts guarding I'm 2 f?l & fyand we or B e - TesttaroH etn 1o Yo two |albératt tire |the assault on the favorite recent of the Government Zilvetti andjannounced | Fastof Beachhead |t Aruue oren last Thursday night A A e miles, Allied Headquarters an- | S« | targets of Hitler's U-boat nests and |other leaders of the Penaranda gov-| Red Army troops are believed asi of beachnea |and Friday. Two enemy craft were| ‘o0 PArasTaph censored here). R 1 [ship building ports on the North |erment were reported to have been Within 40 miles of Polotsk. Five - { downed and Pighters drove off the| A¢ the same (time i was an < Montgomery’s Eighth Army, sup- AlASKA COASTAL {Sea. Specific targets are not nam- |arrested. |hundred villages and hamlets fell ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-|oOthers of numerically suiperiofi oinced thst. Gen. 8k Alan Brooks, SAEAhY v s, oWk axemy pogl | {ed_immediately. ; | The Nationalist organization,|to the Russians, who inflicted stag- QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA,|numbers ghist g8 the Inperial, Cleneral BIgH tions in the sector along the Adriatic .I,RIPS ARE MADE | Yuste"rdnys hmlw wnsGLhc first in ‘Whgth mm;lmcredr t]he successful | gering losses on the enemy m:\n-\Dm‘. 20.—A steady advance up Cape | The communique confirms the ;‘:‘fimmu,"ned e o A 4 4 a one-two punch on German in- |coup, is made up of elements of the | 8 ipme! e & rkus i a cari srican | g g alian front. coast, inflicting severe losses, wm]e.; ;dustry o s wadt oo sonth o | Boliviast army -and otEh oremike: ::):;ex;;:d equipment, the commun 1x;;:;:hnlptll)‘:I:‘i“:;‘nit;l;?dA:;::l‘;inrn S:n;unr:mem of the capture of the| This suggests to top British mili- (Continued on Page Two) Io M A“Y po "I | they were made through fierce fight- | tions. (IS i ohid Bibin o | G el ot Rt g e Lo T trmane 8% S oy T S5 | ler opposition. The Germans threw | The Nationalist leaders succeeded |gjo said, “The German command|Britain beachhead the Heve i e YT ST |conferences” are beginning. | & {up more than 100 planes in a futile in overthrowing the Penarandd gov- proceede;i Kol gl | pn i 1“, i rey won less| Two airfields, possible menace to Giraud To London - .. lattempt to halt the Liberator and ernment after a gun battle which i hdraw 1t forces|than a week ago. Arawe, took heavy poundings when| paralleli e as lng QN | Today an Aluska Constal Airiines | (i poriress formations winging broke out at 3 o'lock in the mom 'and ‘take new positions in order to| The operation has gone almost'nearly 200 bombers flew northeast|Bragsavitle. fks I pgdan, toe | plane fl i T o ging | i ' saps.” is broad- | ; " og ¢ S| Brazzaville radio sai ab O p ‘?N?lrt‘:lee (t;:otroxtle(iéd:fi:: vgt{‘lcg:;l?;m from the south. Seven attackers |ing. Both machine guns and fitioag R v the gapa’ AR AXT HiDad- according fo plan” since the main of Arawe to Cape Gloucester on|Girsud Commm:)de:fl:: 1;h-“4«.(mf\" ’ Merr - GO'Round and George Mather. Flying to Sil.;' were downed and 22 others probably | were heard. {cast from Berlin and Rome showed force, drawn by Lt. Gen. Krueger's Saturday and pounded one airfield io e sl o he. French Y i e Cx;aig yangd - ; destroyed to the loss of 16 Mediter- | Victor Paz Estenssoro, former Fi- {9é German concern over the new|Sixth army, went ashore on the|with 120 tons of explosives and ('fl"umdnn £6r ;t'“f‘um;x"),'..n'“""" . s e e aehon Al - J: ranean based Allied planes during 'nhance Minister, who was avzested in | % ment. . nr Southwest coast of the Japanese stroyed a grounded bomber. said he would ‘e £ The repgr e By DREW PEARSON Il e et MkFassioh | 2% 027’8 aperatfoni. Some of tha|18f1 17 Sonnechiort Wi allegedly | B astins” afitounad the tonl| HEIA - istand ~ an-rlust" "Wednesday | The-bombers aivo went to Capt| Aaimirar Tommoniol g L (Major Bobert 8. Alien on active duty.) [rnjet the passengers were Serge missing Allied fliers are believed to attempting a Nazi putsch in Bolivia, Of enemy equipment destroyed as| morning. Hoskins airdrome, a refueling base|French N: 'f PRI, DIt OT e s I e e ot and oty | Nave landed in friendly territory. _|appealed to the population o assist (69 tanks, 164 guns, 123 motrars,| Even the enemy reaction to the for the enemy midway between Ra-|miral PRttt il ) S | Armstrong, the plane returning with “The Innsbruck railway yards in “consolidating” the revolution. |586 machine guns, and 76 trucks.|American landing, followed closely baul and Cape Gloucester, and a R e WASHINGTON — Some extremely | ¢ rrorkelson, Ernest H. Plohn, subjected to a great and ac- | He is reported to have set him- They captured 194 guns, 75 mor-|expectations of ,Allied strategists. ‘purked plane was set afire 'and the ” Selay S SApttint donteberioes” have: been Sorus, Torkeleon. Eraset H. Pl curate bombardment,” siys the Al-|selt up in the presidentis phlace. . iats, 735 acainie. guns, more tha Teeporta™ trots. AYaWS tefit (5! intire aIRAR.. nres’ was, given &l LU CRaEAE S SO taking place bet:een the State :)e}-‘ il Litmenca e 7 lied communique. | - 15,000 rifles, 37 tanks and 110 trucks. |slackening of Japanese dive bomb-|“good coverage.” ;l;eh:es::‘:w:;u: be (j“""‘“"‘l'd Severio partment and the Treasury which = joce padaco and Jack Dennard e | | —————— ing and strafing attacks. After the 3 ester EITRIIn D pe: the public doesn’t know about but|flew to Sitka, and returning were MRS KAR[ THHLE COMMUNIW SI"G OF | ‘I T e ing, a for:‘la(t:l:l: o?kl"ll;;;.:filng”:‘x:; A Vighy Notapss M. M) which may influence our whole pol-|B j. Pyce, Dr. Evelyn Butler, Fran- ” | XMAS (Anou HElD | ugn into 40 Zeroes, and though out- swin REGRE chih.. pelid [RGB icy on the South American contin-|cis Riendeau and James H. Ferry. 'I"KES ovER Du“Es | numbere@ .46 1, gave bastle, THA beadguaribe af Marshal *Von Russ ent for years to come. | A Sunday flight was made to . ! SUNDAY AFTER"OO"} i on I Ion o Zilncas, wate aheit ';uvw"” :tza:fist"t‘wflz f;,em, German commander in the Briefly summarized, these con-|Gustavus with Mrs. Robert Brem- | o i i se igas ik ferences involve the question of imer and three children. On the Mrs. Karl Theile, wife of the lam! | | " t 1:.152(:“"“;5' B o ol The Paris radio sald the Nazi he whether the United States should|return flight the passengers were Karl Theile, former Secretary of| Approximately 60 sl Juncal's elt-| : ap > filttary " chiBlialas Wets piapping ek down on Argentina. Specifi-|Mr. and Mrs. W. B, Hewett, Mr. Alaska, has taken over her duties|izens gathered at the community| | ‘ | s - wané fo- Wiftes Hpleheeh. 0k 00 cally, they involve the question ot‘;nnd Mrs. Harold W. Taylor, Martin 'in the Adjutant General's office Christmas tree yesterday afternoon i German Atlantic wall, whether we should permit Argen-|Sorte, and Willlam E. Wagner here, having arrived recently from for the traditional sing sponsored | [] Great Surprise tina to sneak her gold out of this - Wrangell, where she has made her|by the Juneau Woman's Club. Mis. i Sa"s' | Reports from Washington that country and continue to use her}woonliv MRVIAYS home for the past several years. |Ray Nevins conducted the singing Gen. George Marshall wouldn't crédit in U. S. banks to pay off| Mrs. Theile, who has been clerk of a group of well-known carols e . head the Allied invasion of west- Nazi ts in the U. S. A ! of the Wrangell Selective Service and the portable organ layed ern Europe, caused great azi agents in . 8. A | rang ice! an was playe . . 2 ul , caused great surprise in Actually, they also involve the! puNE IAKES FIVE Board since its inception, is now sec- | by Katherine Torkelson. ‘SOVle'S Liberate 500 Towns|, LONDON, Dec. 20—The tempera- | London where the United States broader question of whether a gang fOR wfsmARD retary to Lieut. Col. J.P. Williams,| | 3 l:ne ?[l Ih.l:l-‘xh ”P_n'lmc Mimsm' Win- | chief of staff long, has been ac- of pro-Nazi Argentine Army Offi-| Adjutant General of the Alaska in Nevel Area—Near Ben onuenit Y normal and | cepted unofficially as the logical « cers, educated in Germany, should | Territorial Gua¥td. JolD COASI lINER | I h ‘H: :‘ ;“:‘l;;:j{_“"'."*f"‘f‘o‘l"yl P‘_OK;".“S- | K selection, by British officers, al- be permitted to continue to thumb| Sunday a plane of the Woodley | Well known here, Mrs. Theile is| | PO IS Border ¥ % Biitols L ARl though he is reluctant to accept their noses at the U. 8. A, while| AlrWays ;‘"{i‘éf“ e West- | being welcomed back by her many | YAlE plY|"G SEA: — famhi e | Reports seemed to feel even if ver _|ward, and left with ti ollowing | i i r i 9 | H re B, . every other Latin American coun B b e Joh;B],Junenu .fnPnds. With her is her ; | LONDON, Dec. 20. — The Rea| i 5 VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 20— |" .""““‘?f" Ware:made, 1t would nog try anxious to be friendly with this| 0 0o " p 1 Thn s, W, Seeley. daughter Rosemary. i | Atmy smashed the southern anchor | LU(I”G Kmne Weds Defenses along the British Columbia | ecessarily be done to put a Briton country is amazed that we let them! John Cus;hing m;d Rlsher.t Hen-‘ ———————— | SEATTLE, Dec. 20.—The veteran 'of Hitler’s Russian front, forcing y and Washington State coasts were [ command. et way it 1 | ning ETOLIN COULTER TO | coastal liner Yale is sailing the Pa- the Germans to retreat from their alerted Saturday night when an| Yesterdays London papers dis- During these State Department; = WRANGELL FOR CHRISTMAS | ¢ific in the second war. | Kherson® bridgehead at the lower| ian eY . YaSSGS armed coastal steamer “engaged in |closed more American forces are .y conferences, a battery of Treasury | After being beached as & bunk- | exiremity o fthe Dnieper River, the it (target practice” and dropped several |Pouring steadily into Briton. Mang officials has argued vigorously that | Miss Etolin Coulter, on the staff | house for Alaskan construction | gays ‘% g g » 4o X shells near an important military | newspapers said, “The United States a | » t Berlin radio acknowledged, while to| Mrs. Lucille May Kinney and Mr.! 4 Bates we must crack doWn on Argentine {in the Governor's Office, left Sat- workers, the Twelfth Naval District | - s g by -'installation on Vancouver Island's|troops are strap hanging-—acros 3 o | X the north powerful Soviet units|Stanley Thomas Yasses, both of P-MRLEing - asross (e 0 finances. A coterie of diplomats has, To MEE' 'uBDAv{urday night for Wrangell, where | discloses that the steamship has been | ug pouring through the collapsed | Juneau, were married “last Tues bl 0 i Atantic o nogssiop. pins: by £eh sat around Mr. Hull's desk, most of | |she will spend the holidays with |Fecommissioned and is in the con-\n.,i gefenses of the Nevel ‘Z‘Lorfdny at a cen-m:ny epn rr‘::'m d““l:' mThe Yitael s AP nob IIipdiaielY [ Tieeta Al ARHARTERE " hem arguing to the contrary. The 3 her family and friends. | Voy-eekvios, | s s 0 % ed by lidentify itself, leading to the belief ' The L Shronicle reportes ;emm:‘: Mfl e himse"”;wms A meeting of the Coast Guard sty B | “The Navy Department explains| i @ new offensive which surged to[the Rev. W. H. Matthews, Jr, inlit might have been a hit and run l,lmt‘ --G:e';‘ir’"mfif.'ff.""?f -‘Jmm"l I Diack-Fibboned pinceries glasses | oiny Yo ke held 2k Botlock| oo FRANCISCo | e Yale weathered two winters 1S | yithin 57 miles of the Latvian boi- the parsonage of the Methodist raider like the one that struck the beccme a mighty il 5 5 . > omorrow night in the council {outer Alaska storms serving . Church. British Columbi | by B gboard for hi v 3 L A g as a| | mbia coast on June 30 . o aa e theae 2 far, nOthing BS|chambers of the City Hall. Subject| oo o o O S8 HoDOlaton | stationery hotel and “she is too gal-| = Whe loss of the Khorson bridge.| . Witnesses for (he mastiage wire| when s enemy ¥ib sHolo the Bu- |1 Toiaat N D BPPENOd. Ifor the session will be “Special Bfmmr Hotel ' !lant a ship to die that way.” | head left the Germans without a|Mrs. Marian H. Matthews and Mr.| tevan lighthouse. g il R AMAZING ARGENTINE Lights and Aid to Navigation.” £ i | ——————— good defense short of the Bug Ri-|John L. Hodson. o 60,5 ' It is advisable for boat men to | TO VISIT RELATIVES ver 30 miles to the rear on the way | i T { A i S Id' INTRIGUE |attend these meetings, as the regu- FROM INLET | Jesta Young has lefe for Ketch-|'@ Odessa. The German broadcast| CHRISTMAS PARTY merican Joigiers Meanwhile, the story of what iSijations for boat operators are going A. C. Steele, of Excursion Inlet, jyan to spend the Christmas holx-i”“’ the crossing of the Dnieper DRAF' BOARD | FOR (H".D Y happening in Argentina ‘colx:nnues to be more and more restricted in ;ss a gfue}slt ::]el the weekend at the | jaus with her parents and son in|Wa$ achieved “without any loss de- | i RE“ OF A Io Have Iurkey a' to be the most amazing of the War.|the future. aranof Hotel. | the First City. |spite the drift of heavy ice.” } Few people realize that the most i P D G ST el e i s . Sixth Day Of Drive SDAY (hris mas i“ners pro-Nazi nation outside of occupied | POLICE COURT FINES | i 7 The big Rus iy 4 s l Europe has developed right _under‘ RoBER‘ FRA"K D'ES Matt W. Wilson was ‘fined $25 in Brigcl‘::l‘:??r"‘gzl AEAVES | north lsm:ow :fsiz;,: ;j,‘rlllv“ da‘;'] ::; llsll"fi TODAY Juneau Rotarians will devote to- gty the wing of our Good Neighbor HERE m's Mok"'"fi City Police Court this MOMINg On &g yunvion e oo ;25‘:::‘1"'; z‘;»!hfly have alfeads. overrun 500 vil- morrow noon’s meeting in the Gold| 'CHICAGO, Dec. 20, — Amerlcan policy. Ll charge of reckless driving while|w op ooy eqdquarters after a brief, 868 and hamlets, Russian tanks, 2 Y Room of the Baranof Hotel to their | Soldiers both in camps and the There is a strong censorship in —_ under the influence of liquor, w“'ivisit ] e |cavalry and white robed ski troops| Feleased by the local Draft Board | kids when they stage the annual [battlefronts, will. have 35,000,000 Argentina. Any newsman who writes| Robert Frank, 18-year-old Native |liam L. Stoddard was fined $25 on ¢ lare smashing forward toward Po-|8Fe the following names in the new Christmas Party for children of [pounds of turkey for Christmas, Col. what is really happening is kicked boy from Y_akumt. passed away early [a charge of drunkenness. ~ S lotsk, key rail junction near the listing: Rotarians Henry R. McKenzie, director of the out of the country, sometimes beat- | this morning at the Government —eto—— e FROM GLENDALE ol Pollsh 4hd Tatvian frontiars. 1-A—Leo F. Cochrane, Robert M.| The kids will provide the Christ- |Army, Quartermaster Depot saidl. ¢ ©n up by gangsters. But pieced to- Hospital after an illness of 14!ppENATAL CLINIC AT | Ann K. Seruthoff of Glendale,| ™ poiyn’ octimated that 250,000 Rus- | Lo, John O. Floburg, Bert M. mas program The master menu calls for a @ & gether from diplomatic dispatches, months.'}!e is survived by his Inther.‘ GOVERNMENT hosr“‘““cglflomxg, is a guest at the Baran- g . troops are engaged m‘ thisee. Flotre, David A. Howard, Kenneth| The Rotarians will have their own | Christmas diuner of turkey and. all Es from reports of returned diplomats | Peter anqls}.1 who is at present in| p. yecular monthly pre-natal of Hotel. tevistve, |W. James. Albert J. Jones, John |Christmas Party during their meet-|the fixings and for supper there and from the underground, here is Yakl.nat.w é remains are at the | . .0" e Government Hospital| ———— | Seviet's Drive D. Noble, Jr., Kenneth K. Nordberg, | ing next week. will be creamed turkey on toast. a close-up picture of what is hap-|Chatles W. Carter Mortuary and| o e tomorrow, beginning at 1| BELLAMYS RETURN Fred Starsser, Wesley A. Sullivan,| Sttt e R pening. funeral arrangements have not yet | % €. O F ol on | Ben Bellamy, well known travel-| The Soviets drove up to the Irwin G. Wakefield, Albert A. Wil- STO[K ouo’ I The former government of aged been made. | e, {ing man, has returned to Juneau mouth of the Dnieper early in No- liams. A wNS President Castillo was eonservative,| | | -——‘*'"—‘. O e {from a trip to Skagway. He was vember during the height of the| ;: “g’ 4};—-*’“';1? Ti{ Wllei- e some’ Am | accompanied by hi; offensive whic N )—Howard Erickson, Arn- ) v - oo R AT |o WEATHER REPORT | Ray Renshaw of Kelehikan, pilot pories Mo [ northern outlets to.the Crimea anaUl{ Johnson, Peter T. Kochergin, ion, X sen, 7504 g . 9 . 4 | a e ward the United States as it be-|® (U. S. Bureau) o|for the “l“”n": mmcgmm“"°" PAIR FROM SKAGWAY |t one time claimed to be holding| 1o B, Alvert V POWer, | giock today is 6, American Can { came apparent that the war was|® o|was a weekend guest in Juneau. | My and Mrs Hemry G. Demp-|the entire eastern bank of the| 50 (LN 83%, Anaconda 2%, Bethlehem | ] . sure to go in our favor. 4 * Tem_p. Satuxfin}, _Dec‘ 18 o sl sey of Skagway were weekend Dnieper. o. Ludtk: Jom‘fm;;.‘"" “'Z.vn“'crlsteel 56%, Curtiss Wright 5%, In- Then suddenly, & olifue of |Ar- (% Maximum & Minimum bkl MR HERE o o, |EHEStS at the Baranof Hotel The Germans, however, asserted|gathe Alnert C. Schramen. . |ternational Harvester 72%, Kenne- gentine Army officers selzed power. 188 . AqEpagp-qIued ot po —.———— they still hold the bridgehead on! 2B Wallace ; cott 30'c, New York Central 10 4 J 4, nh|® Snow 2 inches o |lice and also patrolman in Juneau, AT INDL the allace A. Doe, William L. » g This was .on June 4, one mont o ok gl iy O AN AFFAIRS eastern bank across from the! Pitzpatrick, Lester K, Kolander, Northern Pacific 14%, United States 1 after we had triumphed in Tunisia,(® TemP. Sunday, Dec. 19. e but now Alaska Game| Mrs Maxine Davlin has accepted|toWn of Kherson on the west side|Kenneth W. Stevenson, Alfred G.|Steel 511, i s several months after the tide of| J ;‘:fim“m 39; Minimum 32 e |Commission an: residing in _Ke'»Ch' the position as clérk in the voucher |of the stream. The Nazis also hold |Swap, ' ‘| Dow, Jones averages today arc o : =R : i e R A g:nn ;P::r:ty the weekend in thelsection of the Bureau of Indian|® bridgehead farther up the stream| 3-D—Lester Roberts. as follows: industrials 136.10, rafls Shopping Days (Contin Page Four p 5 ) Attairs, near Nikopol. 4-A—Raymond McCormick. 3325, utilities 2183, Till CHRISTMAS H