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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS A LL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 9532. THIRTY PAGES SE! JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1943 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS “PRICE TEN CENTS CTION ONE CHRISTMAS EVE RAID HITS NAZI COAST errific Air Poundings Launched WEWAK GIVEN BOMBING BY YANK AIRMEN Cape Gloucester Hit by 2,- 200 Tons of Bombs Dumg December ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-| QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA Dec. 24.—Allied Liberator bombers have dropped 153 more tons of| bombs on oft-battered Cape Glou-! cester, key Japanese airdrome and| supply base at the western end ot - New Britain Island in the lates raid of a succession which have NAZIS plAN hammered the area with around 2,200 tons of explosives since De-| cember 1. The raid was staged on ‘Wednesday, setting fires visible lor 40 miles. Gen. MacArthur's cummumq\u also said the Japs attacked again | by air at Arawe, New Britain, where | American troops are consolidating| their positions. The enemy dropped | 150 tons of bombs which (,Au\Ld‘ little damage. Low flying Mitchell medium bom- bers had a field day WPdn(‘,Sd;\m with their assault on the Japanese| airdrome and shipping at Wewak on | the northeast coast of New Guinea.| The bombers scored two direct hits| on each of two 6,000 ton trans-| NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—The ports and a 3,000 ton freighter..man radio said that British Lightning fighters flying as escort American airmen held prisoner peeled into 30 enemy interceptors, war in Germany will be put to t Captured British, American Pilot to Be Tried as "War Criminals’ Ger- and ol SKATER — Young Canadian skating star Norah McCarthy (above) is clu'rencly appelrhu in New York City. RUSS TRIAlS, EIGHTH ARMY MAKES DRIVE ON VEIZAN: |Canadians Bayonet Last - Germans Out of Ortona —~Entire Front Wet ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| ALGIERS, Dec. 24—Fighting ial snow and rain, the Eighth Army has driven northward and cap-| tured the village of Vezzani, three | miles southwest of Ortona. | The Canadians today are diggiv gl o !the last Germans out of Ortona with bayonets The whole Italian front is blan- keted in wet wintry weather which handicaps operations both aground | and in the air. The American Pifth Army plodded through snow Allies fo Hit Japan | Infantry of the| l‘ to take one high point but wers| ! pushed off another, | | F Marauder bombers of the Fif-| ro m Ir teenth Air Force pounded the rail-| |road along the French-Ttalian® Ri- ; nwm in three places (Terrific B|ow Io Be Struck | After Germany Is Down in Defeat CHUNGKING, Dec. 24—Lt Gel\v Adrian Carton De Wiart, Briti | Prime Minister Winston Chmcm'x, | special military representative here, e NAZI ATTACK NOW STOPPED knocking down 14 and probably de- as “war criminals.” | predicted the war in Europe \nll stroying two more. Two of our, The statement was made in a|definitely end in 1944. fighters were shot down, and one special commentary by Edward| He declined to say when he be- Sov'ef lme Holds Agamst Mitchell was badly damaged. ! Roderick Dietze A headquarters spokesman the enemy air strength at Wewak Russia's “mock tri: in Kharkov and Rabaul is now less than it was where three Germans and a Rus- several months ago. Both bases ar n traitor were executed after a vital to Japan's defenses in the trial on charges of committing atro- southwest Pacific. Rabaul has becn cities “cooly and objectively.” described by the Tokyo radio as a| “German judges will examine wit- place the Japanese must hold |nesses, both the British and Am- DR e Rl erican pilots and the mothers and TERRITORIAL AND st R e tate at the public trials wha' their FEDERAL STAFFS ENJOY HOLIDAY orders were and in what ma they were carried out,” the repo: | said. All of the Federal and Territorial | offices will observe Christmas by remaining closed tomorrow, with most of the offices taking off early this afternoon. Many of the staffs planned informal office parties and an exchange of gifts during the| noon hour or later in the day. | The City Clerk's office is closed | 26, this afternoon, remaining so until Monday marning. The post office is doing a vushing business as usual today, however the staff will also observe a holiday tomorrow. who said Germany LUTHERAN SUNDAY SCHOOL WILL HAVE On Sunday afternoon, December the children of the Lutheran |Sunday School will hold their an- inual Christmas Program in the church at 4 p.m. This will be an ‘old fashioned’ celebration with re- citations and songs by the children and the singing of the Christmas carols by the congregation. The program is under the direc- tion of the Children’s superintend- ent, Mrs. H. Stonehouse, and the LOCAL BOARD GIVES “Ew DRAFT l'SI|“Gs[foHuwing teachcrs: Mrs. Amy Rude, The following list was released a1q 1y Luise Nielsen and Ms today by the local Draft Board: |gnma Nielsen. The Senior Divi- 1-A—Albert Endres, Tom JesSOP, g0 of the School will assist by George F. Kenney, Benjamin Ao vihi0 the ushers and some Wright. | special music. 1-A (H)—Swen S. Olson. 1-C—Joseph M. Snow, John W., ‘Wilson. e 2-A—John D. Ballard, F'l.mk E ’ Cashel, James J. Connors, | M. Mann, Jr., Peter J. Manng. Kcn 1 neth G. Nelson, John D. Noble, Jr. 2-B—Eugene E. Eakin, Robert M. XMAS DANCE 5 EVENT | i A said would thus reply to what he termed CHRISTMAS SUNDAY lieved the war with Japan would wind up, but said that the Allies Fierce Counferattacks— air supremacy in the Far East [ would be terrific after Germany is Vitebsk Threamed | defeated. He pledged everything possible is i« “China’s part in the war is very heing done to help China and added LONDON, Df‘L 24, Gen. Tvan Bagramian's Baltic are storming the outer defense Troops of Arm; of near our hearts.” § Vitebsk as Moscow dispatches re- Despite almost inconceivable dif-|ported that the powerful two-day ticulties, he said, methods are be-fold German tank offensive along| ing found to bring much needed » 400-mile front to the south is equipment to the Chinese.” | stopped in its tracks. : - | Berlin admitted new breaches n the German lines north and south-| |east of Vitebsk after “heavy fluc- tuating battles.” Front reports from plANE (RASH | Moscow said Red Army units are {less than 12 miles north of Vitebsk, lafter forcing another fater barrvier ‘and Kkilling 800 Germans. Other Russian columns are BURBANK, Cal)t Dec. 24—Lt. pighting in the Kiev bulge is in- Col. William Dyess, 21, Who gained | tense as Marshal von Mannstein | caped from a Jap prison camp, was killed yesterday when his fighter I streaking south and west to threa- {ten the Vitebsk-Polotsk rail line, | capturing several villages and ad- ditional advantageous positions en- route. | fame as a “one-man scourge” 8gainst | jaynched two strong tank and in- the Japs in the Philippines when l‘e‘ranlry attacks against the Russitn blew up a 12,000-ton ‘“"4‘;“ ““': Z‘poamom, but was forced to with- bomb attached to his P; beached | 4 raw after losin, another, was captured and later es- 'men e 1ogig celeaaies and SOU‘ | | A campaign fm increased mem- bership will be’launched commenc- ling the first of the year, and souv'l activities will be continued with the strom, $25, drunk; Glenn Murl(n, $25, drunk. Swarming fo INRUSSIALS | war | burst into candlelight shinging from | person in England is not much con- Solomons BERLIN IS RAIDED BY BIG PLANES Rocket Gun Coast Receives One of Heaviest Assaults BULLETIN—A great fleet of American Flying Fortresses and Liberators, guarded by soaring swarms of fighters, joined today in possibly the Allies’ greatest daylight assault of the war over the Continent in a smashing Christmas Eve attack on the Pas de Calais rocket gun coast today, hard on the heels of the RAF’s smashing seventh night blow on Berlin. As the caravans of Allied bombers roared out toward the French coast, Christmas shop- pers in London stopped in their tracks to stare skyward because the bombing was so violent that it created the effect that an in- vasion was underway. All day the huge planes roar- ed across the channel in an al- most endless procession. A Christmas ~ Carol 1943 ! POPE MAKES APPEAL FOR - REAL PEACE {Hopes This W|I| Be Last| Christmas During Present War LONDON, Dec. Peace Shrine In Jerusalem | 'Americans of All Ranks, from Everywhere, Join Humbled Pilgrims | (By Associated Press) The German its naval and. shore batteries havc been shelling targets in Dover, Deal and Polkestone; across the channcl from Nazi-controlled France. The first account of the an- nouncement, translated from the | Berlin radio, led to the belief that | the Germans had announced the use {of their “rocket shells,” but a close check showed that the phrases em- ployed by the German aanouucer, JERUBAEGN, " Deor itk 5 il | 24.—Pope Pius, i Ly o ony Granate,” meant “flara cans of all ranks, converging from a4 Christmas message to l.hul wu]r]d, Bonnr o lmccrn' pattle stations in Persia, yria, 4 |prayed t “this will be the last 175 ¥ Egypt and Africa, thronged with | ! Christmas of the present war,” He lm‘;‘: ""i“"el:f"l" ;‘;‘:{;z“‘“t;d :l_:: other humbled pilgrims to this |appealed to mankind to begin plan- ‘;‘m‘ch okak S ol ke shrine of Christianity to pay hom- |ning for world reconstruction and| 4 £, 1 peace for “justice and honesty.” {known as the “rocket gun coas age to the Prince of Peace. The drama lived 2000 years ago, was reborn again in intense real’ty. Generals and doughboys alike, walked with visitors of all ages, dress and tongue. | Bethlehem, blacked out during the for the last three Christmases, from the Vatican, in-|because of the supposition that the sar the war zone wlme‘.vmplacemcnu of such guns may be in a sense he is a prisoner, for mulocated and the guns destroyed. Ishadow of Nazi bayonets fell across! Last night's shelling caused no ,.mv ancient seat of the quthoncldnmnge the British announce, say- ith, the Pope appealed for peace jing that their long range guns also but “not imposed at the point of |opened up in the Dover area short- the sword” He spoke in Italian|ly after 8 o'clock last night and by radio. hurled shells at the enemy for an | hour and a quarter. At the same time, a British re- |port said that a great fleet of |Royal Air Force night hombers | completely fooled Berlin’s weary de- ‘renders early today, sweeping in ver the cloud covered Nazi capital ;w give it the seventh major bom- hardmem in five weeks and likeiy roundlng out the destruction of wishes to the army of pin-up fans. | ayy epor s [ \about three-quarters of the city. | While Juneau is enjoying peuecl More than 1,120 U. 8. tons of | winter weather with a green rather four-ton blockbusters and other ex- ;; o! U s than a white Christmas, the holi- ploslven turned sections of the city | Speaking | creasingly ne 10,000 windows, as authorities lift- ed the restrictions this year. Maj. Gen. Royce, commander of the American forces in the Middle East, and others came to hear the worldwide broadcasts from the Church of Nativity temorrow night They brought with them an en- listed men's choir of 60 voices. - NO FEAR ABOUT ROCKET BOMBS AMONG BRITISH LONDON, Dec. - NO WHITE XMAS BUT YULETIDE GREETINGS — Gale Rob- bins, shapely Hollywood star- let, sends her year-end holiday' u v spirit prevails on every hand,|into solid masses of flames as once Arun\m" last-minute shoppers more the German fighters were ta- thronging the streets, and children|ken by surprise. bright-eyed with expectancy. For| The British pilots said the over- a few days the scourge of war will cast also hampered German search- Ibe forgotten, as well as the hum- | jjghts and anti-aircraft fire. Not 24.--The avers lL,l“ | crashed in flames between two | - ' "ares svary-ds > Elo";fi: 16. E. ALMQUIST IS [cerned with the possibility of & Ger-| wASHINGTON, Dec. 24, — The| o Cares of ever ‘db‘b__““vl \uje| more than 17 RAF bombers were { A, | {man rocket bomb crashing down on | i Y 1/ Prominent on the city's schedule|joq; out of the total force of many o e G | REE[E“ED pRESlDENI nig {loss of the submarine Grayling 15 of holiday events, besides the at-| pundreds. F ced today by the Navy. The , > p; e P p i o ematinond bole b e MavE Tomitrnctions A £ ‘thedtres, will be| " Moanwitle; i & switt duyliuiif UR AR OF IOWNSEND (!.UB S en e ey mwndm‘““fi is long overdue, therefore pln- the services and program of the| gonoc Ll U te o inded” milh as proba sumed lost, and is the 16th sub 108b: churches. At 11:30 tonigl < 3 ) ¥ CITY POLICE (ou'“’ to console the Germans as much 0 |ence the start of the present i o st R ,‘,(:lld“:,,::i’_ltflrv objectives in the Pas de Ca- el G. E. A]mqulst, loug active in the|WOITY the Allies hasn't succeeded =~ Where the Grayling operated last mas services, and midnight pm-‘l’f‘“ ares. 'l ‘France—the: Aleeite : : | Townsend Club was re-clected for| ! SUPPlanting such prime topicsfon its war patrol was not disclosed, grams are to be held at the Lu- | Whieh-has.deme-to. he. knoWn a6 Hh The following ~were fined this (oWPHEnd T WAS 1e-¢ERlel TOfof consideration as when the war|but the 1475-ton Sub Was presum- theran Church and the Catholic0Ke! BUIl CORSL because of thoiig- morning in cny, Police Court: Eva ing ot iibsotiarsetion 1o the Cl0|18 80ing to be over, the shortage ably one of those shattering the ' Church of the Nativity. |lief in neutral countries that the Mesenzdahl, $25, drunk; "e“ejm" Thiates tevaning |of Christmas toys, and where one|Jap supply lines in the Pacific] Tonight also the Yule dance ay|Germans have established there, Gardner, $25, drunk; Carl E. Lind- fcan buy a bottle of whisky. where undersea attacks resulted in|the Baranof Hotel Gold Room Mu,suns which will soon be shooting affair, ockets toward Britain. will be a day of family| Allied fighters accompanied the in scores of homes, and Mas deluge which emphasized the the sinking of 374 enemy vessels, The loss of the Grayling brought to 133 the number of American war- be a colorful Tomort gathering: > > 'NO RECOGNITION E:’i‘;‘-&;‘:\l:u;dhemieux. | REGISTER AT BARANOF {uskat Maica toliowing: the o ;‘:'lln;»“:.«fka :inc('.Ptnlrl H;llr;ml" Tlhlf-l(,pe., houses dre planned by many | Marauders in the day before Chrisi- b " S Guests at the Baranof Hotel last|in which old time square dances| 'l‘o NEw BOUV|A srayling was commanded by Lt residents in the traditional Christ- | Allies are not going to allow sea- The Gold Room ¢« ik night included the following: Olive are featured. | Comdr. Robert Brinker, of Park-|mas manner sonal sentiment to interfere with Hotel will be crowds Spencer, Mary Erceg, D. Mergl.h. A Weplile] | ridge. Illinois. An open house for the children|good bombing weather in paving the | Christmas celebrants Floron Marshall, Mabel Weber, 1 GOVT YEI MADE e oL the communiiy ab. the UBO laj WAy foC SEEel I e, papular ' Holiday | Haines; Adolph Nelson of i KI“G 'I'o BROAD(ASII s 8 8im ks o'e v oftliichecled for fomortod atien R Mt L sibe o kan; William E. Poole, of Anchor- WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—Secre-|® NO EMPIRE ON o o e (o | CHRISTMAS PROGRAM L o e age, C. Starkel of Tacoma. ‘ n.u; of State Cordell Hull said the, ® CHRISTMAS DAY ®| pidc will me asked to serve as| TONIGHT, ANB HALL And da Kingsley E. Genham, L 8. Tran- (HR'STMAS MESSAGE | ihited. ‘States. is ‘oo exchanging|® | Thers will B no ssue of . ® | vists for the youngaters i . it for low, B J. Hinsvank of Skagway, i information with other American ® the Empire tomorrow, Christ- @ | Tgnjght a group of carolers spon- The Juneau-Douglas Government obtained at the hote [James K. Hudeom, B 0. Decker,;. pounan Dec a6 = The qum,oovemmmns on the question of|® mMas Day, but any fmportant ®|sored by the Northern Light Pres-|School closed for the holiday sea- iwill be a service (|0 M. Besuchamp, Marvin Bisen-| o 0P s o liing il be heard | FECOBMIDS the hew regime in Bol-|$ World developments will be e |byterian Church, but representing] 00 yesterday 804 Wil Foonei e [Room for the conv {hour and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mathi-\ oo o o F o n g o orrow, | V18 bt there have been no sys-|® bulletined on the windows. all denominations, will visit the |43t 3. A Christmas program will attending. son, who gave their address asideme“m his sixth Christmas|tematic conversations as yet. He ® ‘Today's issue, (he annual e hospitals and other areas. bringing be given tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Shopping Duy Either formal or 3 Juneau. | broadcast to the empire The|$aid he has no further comment to . (:hnsrmas edition, is five sec- @ the Christmas mess ;,U to anfthe ANB Hall on Willoughby A may be worn by - TR {broadcast starts at 7 a. m., Pacific|Make concerning recognition of the ® Uons. 30 pages. ® through the medium of the beloved|enue, tree and program, a com- Till CHRISTMAS . | nin: to attend the 1 BUY WAR RONDS iwar time. government of Mayor Villarroel, -|® ® © ® @ ¢ e ® e e @ holiday songs. munity affair, 2 .