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HITLER NEW | YEAR SPEECH IS DEFIANT Says Germans Face Threal- ened Allied Invasion with Confidence LONDON, Dec. 31. Adolf Hitler grim and defiant in his New Year’s message to the German home front he face of the gathering threat )f an Allied invasion, deglared “We face the New Year with the | fullest confidence. Wherever they land, the Allies will receive an ap- | propriate welcome,” and he gave a | warning that “in this war there will | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, N Lanelli Wins Slugfest from Fritzie Zivic ALASKA HaidMan To Suit Is AP Features WITH THE U. S. ARMY IN | ITALY—Keeping Pvt. Donald Mc-| |Niff fully equipped has cost the| Army hundreds of dollars, countless | | supply sergeants and a lot of xrier.‘l | Pvt. McNiff is an engineer from| | Boston, Mass., who tries and. tries| | to keep what's rightly his, but who !is consistently the most poverty | | stricken soldier in the division, vith a future as dark as his pasx.' It all began back in Fort Devens | § | when he lost several shirts in as| |many dry cleaning establlshmems! {and the post laundry never bothered | }to return his underwear. Because | P, McNift & Y v L4 ¥ EW YEAR'S DAY DE LUXE DINNER Saturday, January 1, 1944 Served from 11 A. M. to 10 P. M. $2.00 Dinner be no victors and losers but merely ‘that was the beginning of the whole | &1 ““"’“’“"‘f“d ‘;"f“‘h“(‘“;dl; 3 ' | thing, he could afford to be brodd | &¥ i apatho BB {minded about it & . I Hitler said that capitulation cost “Accidents will :lntppen." s:td c- the Germans victgry in the last war NI he iy e Pme| and added: “T} (time we will not 3 iCamp, Bub the ‘asciaants Kept’ right ! fal! victim to figiren songs such 4 k. € H as Wilson sangy//j@r this time our A ‘:;:rgafize:fiédfis::su:o;x;zfl::{_flI enemies announced their war aims . | 3 o gty hlb o prematurely with GrAVAL frankness 4 $ |age reports. For a while he hobbled | It was childish and the British and around n substitutes, till his supply; American press will discover now i sergeant was able to get some Bh; that it would have been better pro- EE's. When the shoes arrived, the | &/, | division moved to Camp Pickett. | & Fresh Shrimp Fresh Crabmeat Tomato Juice Chilled Fruit Consomme Princess Baranof Fresh Clam Chowder Molded Orange and Grapefruit Salad Iced Celery Hearts Ripe Olives Plate Broiled Steer Beef Tenderloin Dinner Steak, Bordelaise Sauce .yRoast Young Tom T say: Oyster Stuffifii@;bl g Sauted Fresh Critb Legs én Butter on fox dast Prime’ Ribs' of Stéer-Beet gy jus, f.ébin 'Spring Lamb Chops off Todsh Friec xicke? @ la King served or Hot Tafi Biscuit en Casserole Baked Potato 113 Nippon Planes Shot i Buttered Fresh Peas Candled Sweet Potato Hot Rolls and Butter Hot Apple Pie Hot Mince Pie Pumpkin Pie Red Cherry Pie Old Fashioned English Plum Pudding, Hard and Brandy Sauce American Cheese and Ritz Chocolate Sundae Fresh Strawberry Sundae Fresh Peach Sundae Fresh Strawberry Parfait Home-made Layer Cake Coffee Milk v PHONE RESERVATIONS EARLY Make It a Real Holiday- Tea year six who are | to be | BAR paganda to have proclaimed differ- = 3 : ent terms, Fritzie Zi (left), Pittsburgh fighter, and Ralph Zanelli, Providence, R. I., welterweight, exchanged wild | From here on, McNiff's story 15 | To Be or Not punches in their 10-round slugging match at Boston, Mass. Zanelli, on the short end of the betting, won the ; downright tragic. He was immed- “We realize that in this m!‘fl'“"fi“{ decl from the former world’s welterweight champion in a hard fought contest. (AP Wirephoto) | ately placed on special’ diity ‘when struggle the question is to be or not | B — — - - (he arrived in Virginla, and after a to be, and therefore must, and un- | | | prolonged ‘absence, he returned to fortunately will be countered by us | pARollEE IS ihis compéany, ‘gnly to 'find that in the same merociless manner.” H | someone had made off with all his Hymn of Hate ! clothing he'd left on the macks, and Hitler's greeting began wiih the | | left in its place & few shirts, all familiar charge of Germany that too large, and a couple of suits of the war was thrust upon her, then | SAME (HARGE TR unARURE turned his hymn of hate against In Sicily, the McNiff frame was & ] England. This new twist is that v | freely punctured by mosquitos, due Britain has lost the balance of power Tim Paul, out on parole from % 4 and position she once held, and is Go To (Ells MecNeil I.;,xd Prison w'm,‘.(, Y own a au |to the fact that he'd misplaced his . He sdld Sk s : | [ mosquito netting on the trip across. | at the mercy of the Allies. He said been serving a sentence for larceny, In the Sicilian rest, areas other en- the British are forgotten and that) ~ and released on account of good be- — i only Bolshevism can profit by the | Hoivicr ® hefore ik soRer e Gaivad| ‘af‘:'i:'gzed;h: ‘“’:““HP:: ':;“’ 7 | \ P I i acl s, but not so Pvt. Mc- war. Remnants of Capone Mob, | cume <o uneau to siart an over | Paratroopers Used Clean- | arrcks bass. but not so v | again I= =k i i He was sent to the hospital short- CATHOLIC SERVICES . One Labor Leader, Sen- | *“Paui aia, tnat is resumea mis 1r-| NG Up Jap Strong Point | se was sent to the hospital short- . |ceny traits and commited a robbery 1 H tore up the ward tents and just 'l'omem' TOMORROW tenced to Prison | here. He was quickly rounded up by on BOUgBIflVI"G Isle {about everything in them. McNitf ] A | Chief of Police John Monagle and S managed to rescue one shoe, the e R R the force and was| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN 4 EW Y sc. 31. — Seven | members of th | |other is a half-size too-large, but At 7:30 oclock tonight at the NEW YORK, Dec. 8L — Seven |y, ;"0 t5 Federal authorities| THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Dec. 31— ; J 4 " en, six described as remnants of z 3 o he wears it. It's either that, or go hurch of the Nativity, a'Mmen SIX i 1a hatn . Admiral Halsey's headquarters re- 0 Catholic Churc y he old Al “Scarface” Capone mob, and is being held on a $25,000 bond % = native, and no McNiff will go na- solemn benediction and “Te Deum" ‘N ¢ ; ke pols B i AP |ports that Solomons-based fighters | oo will be sung by Bishop J. R. Cri- were today sentenced to long terms | have downed 113 Japanese flghter‘ N‘;)t ok By ey e Lowb-HiE bl § o s .lin prison following conviction of| planes over Rabaul in the past| » . He los! n- | 3 mont in hanksewving to Goa fox 1t bibon oiowins soieien o) FUNERAL FOR JOHN ket secenly, and has been bunk. 2 lu"'““::"m.‘. ’“n: ety “l,\md million dollar shakedown of mo- (os"‘[llo TUESDAY troopers have been used in |ing with a sympathetic. buddy. So, o et iy ot cece Al citi. |tion picture magnates helping to clean up the Japanese |he's getting along quite well, any- i M ) el Federal Judge Bright imposed 10 = strong point at the upper end of |way. That is, until it rains, He lost zens are asked to attend imprisonment _sentences on| Thé funeral services for John|ghe Bougainville beachhead. his raincoat, too. Services will be held tomorrow id by the Govern. | Joseph Costello, who passed away R : (Saturday, New Year's Day) at § A e ) yesterday morning at St. Ann's Hos- am. Holy mass; 8:30 am., Holy Men! former Capone hench-| 1yo0) il be held Tuesday afternoon pAA pM"ES IN mass and instruction; 10:30 am.|™¢" at 2 o'clock in the chapel of the High mass and sermon followed by | The seventh man, Louis Kaufman | chapjes w. Carter Mortuary. The ON YESTERDAY Benediction of the Most Blessed ©f Newark, N.J l(ubm’ leader, drew gpey Edward Budde will conduct | S a seven.year sentence he rites and interment will be ir = e A In addition to the prison sen- :;:T,::“ ety "| James C. Cooper, Juneau public| tences, the defendants were each BESADE 5 accountant, returned yesterday by fined $10,000 which if not paid will PAA plane from trip to thej WATCH NIGHT SERVICE |, 7" e ALASKA COASTAL ON staes on busine: | - = Going north by Pan American | - 3 | TOMGHI, (I" MISSIO" KET(H'KA“ H.IGHI were James MacKinnon, back to| | DREAMLAND €OC! L ; i : ; K : = DREAML : COCKTAIL An Alaska Coastal Airlines plane | hool ?l, Falrban.ka after vacation | Following the regular meeting to-! . returned yesterday from Ketchikan | '8 here; »Bob Livesey, PAA rwo night at the City Mission on South| New Year's Grand Opening, Jan. | with Donald R. Neal, Joseph Aleki- cperator from Burwash Landing; Franklin street, a watchnight ser- |1, Brunswick Bldg. So. Franklin. All | wic; and Frank Dufresne. Corrinne Jenne, back to Fairbanks vice will be started and continuing | friends invited to drop in and have Tom Payne and H. B. Peterson |after spending the holidays in Ju- until the old year has passed out|free drinks from 5 to 6 p.m. Music were passengers on a return flight | neau. from Gustavus and William Grohs| Marko Dapcevich left for Seattle ‘came in from Excursion Inlet. for medical attention by PAA. and the New Year comes bustling|and Dancing. adv. Have a “Coke”=Come, be blessed and be happy TONIGHT DOORS OPEN AT 9 0°’CLOCK ; v b AL U “ DANCING STARTS AT 10 0°CLOCK I¢s"natural for popular names to acquire frjendly abbreviations. That’s why you' hear Coca-Cola called “Coke”. SR, ‘U _ ® e oo 01 how to break the ice in Iceland “Come, be blessed and be happy”, says the hospitable Icelander when he meets a stranger. That's a warm way of putting it, but no more frizndly :han the way Ameri- can soldiers say it. Have 2 “Coke”, says the Doughboy, and it works in Reykjavic as it does in Rochester. The pause that refreshes is the friendly way to say “Hi, pal” in any language. All over the globe Coca-Cola has become the gracious ice-breaker between kindly-minded strangers, Musie by All-Girl Orchestra ~the global ===== This Is for Elks and Their Ladies My o high-sign ; ; : : : ' R ¥ 1943 The CC Co, BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY Juneau Cold Storage Co.