The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 30, 1944, Page 1

VOL. LXIV., NO. 9821 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — YANK FLIERS DESTROY HUGE JAP CONVOY ALLIED PUSH CRACKSROER 'RIVER LINE Defenses Before Cologne | Splitting as Offensive Rolls Forward LONDON, Nov. 30.—Ninth Army Americans today captured Lindern and fought street by street through burning Breeck up the railroad to Munchen Gladbach, in a great Al- lied offensive which is cracking the Roer River Line before Cologne and Dusseldorf. Survivors of the Elite Guard gar- rison at strategic Lindern were cap- tured with the town, 14 and one- half miles from the Prussian arsenal and rail city of Munchen Gladbach. Most of the Breeck garrison were killed and stragglers fled toward the nearby Wurm River. The First Army, at the southern end of the critical 25-mile front on the Cologne plain, captured Lam- ersdorf Grosshau and emerged from the Hurtgen Forest pinelands. PREMIER KING GETS SUPPORT Former: Canadian Defense Minister Ralston Fav- ors Overseas Duty | OTTAWA, Nov. 30—Prime Min- ister Mackenzie King, with the life of his government at stake in the conscription crisis, today won im- portant support when Former De- fense Minister Col. J. L. Ralston, |announced' in Parliament he would | vote with the Government on a confidence motion now pending. Ralston declared he favored over- seas duty conscription of the en- tire home army originally drafted Ifor service only in the Western| Hemisphere, but said he would | support King's new policy of partial | conseription for service abroad be- cause to do otherwise, would cause further delay in dispatching urg-| lently needed reinforcements to the | | Western Front. TROOP TRAIN MOVES TERRACE, B. C., Nov. 30—A! troop train, carrying an English-‘ - IN BIG FIGHT 'COLD WEATHER IN UPPER HALF OF U. 5. TODAY (By Associated Press) Snow and cold weather spread deep into the South. The Chicago office of the Weather Bureau said snow varying from a trace to three to four inches has hit the upper lakes region and fell in the States north of a line ex- tending from Pennsylvania through the Ohio Valley, southern Nebraska to the Rockies. Alaska Miners Assn. Elect Officers; Want Haines Road Finished SEATTLE, Nov, 30—The Alaska Miners Association has elected the following officers and directors at across the upper half of the nation | today while a cold wave penetrated | $500,000 IN BONDS PURCHASED BY PAF Archie Shi President of the Pacific Alaska Fisheries, reports that his company has purchased | $500,000 in war bonds for the Sixth | War Loan Drive, now being con- ducted. | The money, which is one-half of |the Territory’s corporation quota, will be divided among the various | Alaska towns. - HERE 'TIS | | ROME—Uncorking the strongest counter-offensive in recent weeks, German troops have recaptured three of the Fifth Army strong points in the sector southeast and southwest of ~ Bologna. LONDON-British Prime Minis- ter Winston Churchill, who is 70 |today, revealed far-reaching Brit- |ish-American trade agreements | whereby Britain will regain her ex- IThrre remains some talk of a Sen-| - NORMAN LITTELL IN GREAT ROW WASHINGTON, - Nov. 30.—Presi- _dml Roosevelt, stepping into the red jhot Justice Department row, today fired Assistant Attorney General| Norman Littell for “insubordina- tion.” ] Littell has been warring with his chief, Attorney General Francis! | Biddle, in exchanges which followed | Biddle's demand of Littell's resigna- | tion. Littell is accused by Biddle with having interferred in the Jus- tice Department’s case in favor of Thomas Corcoran, former Presi- dential intimate and now in law practice. Whether this Biddle knockout, | scored with White House help, endsi the battle, is entirely problematical. ate investigation. In a statement given out by the Justice Department, the President said: “When statements made by Norman Littell first appeared in the newspapers I wrote to him. It is |port trade, paying cash for Am- | See-Saw Battle ;speaking home defense regiment Hodges' troops fought a see-saw |from Sasketchewan, left Terrace| battle for the Inde River bridge at |today, carrying the troops to an-| Inden, winning it, losing it and then [iner station in British Columbia. regnlllnlng the western end of thej Departure of the train had beeh‘ STALLEPA. delayed by pickets of other units hm Umf ?“éfrt:i g‘mfiifi h:’;; |protesting the Federal Govern-| ;’. o nt,ei t " sseries of cmymter- ment's authorization last week for n'tmégfins da from the Siegfried |sending up to 16,000 home deferxseI oad: 'trecops overseas. | :;:_1:“;;: ::: rfi:‘h‘tm‘lu:nr:msxml ref’ There was no disturbance as the gion to Karlsruhe, Coblenz and train left here and military camps Frankfurt. are quiet today. -‘Pc;lish Government ogne, 23 miles from the nearest American guns. | The capture of Lindern brought | Dusseldorf within 28 miles of the | American lines. & Army Team Wedges On Slowly and inexorably the team of First and Third armies are wedging in between the flooded Roer River, just across from the northwest tip of Julich Duren, a three-mile field gun range. Frost is hardening the ground for Patton, whose Third Army consoli- dated its wide gains and moved up for a flank movement. Intermittent rains and snow and great patches of fog hampered operations on thé Alastian plain be- | fore the Rhine. ————————— 'ROM GUSTAVUS Mrs. J. J. Shideler is here from Gustavus and is registered at the Hotel Juneau. The Washingion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Rebert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON — More inside | facts in the tangled skein of Chi- . Gets Russ Warning, | MOSCOW, Nov. 30—Russia has | served notice through the columns | of the newspaper Pravda the Polish Government-in-Exile as composed of a meeting here, according to ‘Al“e“m" commodities. Anderson, of Fairbanks, Executive i ST | WASHINGTON—Alexander Kirk, President, Charles J. Johnston of | American Charge d'Affaires in Platinum; Vice Presidents, L. Rome at the time Italy went to McGee, Anchorage; J. A. Willlams, |war in June, 1940, has been nomi- Juneau; Frank Whaley, Nome; pated Ambassador to Italy. Alex Mathieson, Flat; E. N. Patty, | Fairbanks, and Glen Carrington,| WASHINGTON — The House Seattle. A | Military Committee reports Ameri- Executive Committee — Roy E. can prisoners in Germany, in the Darlington, Capt. A. E. Lathrop,imain, are humanly treated, and and Luther Hess, all of Pairbanks. | prisoners in Japan seem faring The association went on record petter than those in Jap-occupled in favor of completing the Haines territories. Highway cutoff | ————————— | WASHINGTON — PLANE CRASH FATAL during the 1. TO. ONE. PASSENGER | Justice Edwa. fently ended An airplane crash at the Bethel mass sedition Death whict | city field last week resulted in the ants, which m: death of Oscar Hill, 70, employee |Over again. | of the Northern Commercial Com- | | pany for many years. LONDON—Russian and Yugoslav ways operator, and pilot of the |Partisan forces have tarust for- plane, suffered cuts and a fractured |ward 25 miles west of the Danube | jaw. Two other passengers, Mrs. in southwestern Hungary in a huge Al Jones, air- | Committee to investigate the cir- primarily an executive matter and I hoped for his own career he would resign. Since then he volunteered a long statement, thus substantiat- ing what the Attorney General said about his insubordination, This is inexcusable and under these cir- cumstances, my only alternative is to remove him from office which I have done today.” INVESTIGATION—MAYBE WASHINGTON, Nov. 30—Repre- sentative Jerry Voorhis, Democrat of California, introduced a resolution today calling on the House Judiciary 1g the Presi- ssistant At- who_earlier sberting * the the. appoint- . ~orcoran hench- man” as his successor. RECORD NUMBER OF ROOSEVELT FIRES : ~ LIBERATORS |air war revolving around B-29 raids NO SUPERFORTS WO, JIME X TR BLASTED BY But Two Reported Downed in Three Flights Over Japan Capital By LEIF ERICKSON (A. P. War Correspondent) UNITED STATSS PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL | (By Associated Press) HARBOR, Nov. 30—In a see-saw| All Superforts that participated in the third B-20 strie on Tokyo on Tokyo, Lightning-escorted Liber- | Wednesday returned to base, a ators have struck heavy blows on| Twentieth Air Force communique enemy airfields at Iwo Jime in the Said. Volcano Islands. In three on Tokyo The Navy announced that the Supers were lost, but the crew of big bombers lashed with 112 tons One of these was rescued by a de- of bombs at the Iwo Jime airstrips Stroyer. Returning airmen reported Sunday. only a few hours after|the anti-aircraft fire was meager However, results raids two enemy fighters, believed based 80d inaccurate. there, strafed Superfortress bases Were not observed because of the at Saipan. (cloud cover. Plainly indicating their intent to| Fire-scarred Tokyo defenses were, knock out the Iwo and Jime fields, | Admittedly, twice penetrated in five hours on Wednesday (United States RAID ON TOKYO 13 VESSELS SENT DOWN BY FIGHTERS 'Four Thousand Nipponese i‘ Drown at Sea in Rein- | forcement Attempt - By MERLIN SPENCER (A. P. War Correspondent) GEN DOUGLAS MacARTHUR'Y HEADQUARTERS IN THE PHIL- IPPINE ISLANDS, Nov, 30-Dive bombing American fighter planes wiped out a thirteen-ship Japa- !nese reinforcement convoy Tuesday ‘nmd Wednesday, spilling an esti- mated 4,000 enemy troops to death in the sea and sinking 10 trans- ports and three destroyers. Piling into the sixth large con- Long-range Lightnings, making z\‘L round trip of more than 1,400 miles from Saipan to Iwo and Jime, to the Liberators returned Monday, » - unloading 53 more tons of bombs. | time) by Superforts, getting a fore- :u) ;_{lm,: mfii l;ntpponc.?? lm[vc M‘:I: There is no mention of raiding taste of the campaign “to destroy|f0 VI CEE o i losses but one Liberator was dam.|the beart and nerve centers o[‘(;‘f"”"’"“ e ‘;‘“" kg"“qw'(" aged by auti-plroratt fine. | Japan’s war machine.” rmoc, accounting for the 4,000, but other enemy soldiers got Gen. H. H. (Hap) Arnold placed | that Interpretation, last night in| Kansas City, on the gathering drive | which put the bombers over Tokyo ashore from two docked transports at Ormoc which later were sunk, Headquarters announced. bagged two out of from five seven enemy interceptors Sunday|three days this week and Monday. Only one enemy in- | Air War On Japan terceptor was seen aloft. i The air war on Japan had these | WAR POWERS ACT |nesday raged for a considerable (time; Tokyo was incensed. Tokyo !radio announcers said that {any Yank fller who parachuted EXIEWED 1 YEAR;u[Ler “plindly” bombing Tokyo would be “killed on the spot by the angry Japanese people.” WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. — The| pPremier Koiso held a cabinet House passed a ope year .extension.| il :henwrr Pzwer;em:t today and ! opyo said, “in due course various :f:eudmen‘z 'glevlng nattlfc w:’::,e:;:]}hutllenecks are pxpagled fo. Anpear, Courts jurisdiction over some of the '3:::"‘petZLC(T:::Q“:::ydzzxfi 44 war agency rulings. Th gency ngs. e bill passcdi Waves Of Supers Fires .started Wed- | moeting. yesterday " because - Reflio | There was no estimate on how | many troops reached shore to boi- ster Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yama- shita’s veterans, now engaged with the 32nd and 37th American Divi- slons. Well over 35,000 have been brought to Leyte since October 25. Probably an entire reinforcing ;dlvlalun was aboard the convoy. | The belief that the convoy sought {to bring in a reinforcing division |was based on statements taken 1rom. cogmy. Y OF . Witk 54y~ ing a second Japanese infantry | division was expected. This was | the sixth enemy convoy so far de- | stroyed. e The War Powers Act has a leg- islative basis and covers rationing, priorities and many other emer- gency functions. It was set up as a with a voice vote. | A Jap communique today, broad- | ‘cust from Tokyo and recorded by | |FCC, gave this unconfirmed ver-| Ision: Twenty Superforts attacked/ Germans Surrender Baschlier, Eek school teacher, and her infant, were uninjured. hostile political force with which any future negotiations are obvious- | ly impossible. | The notice accuses the Polish | Governmentin-Exile as composed of | reactionaries with a scheme to split | the Allies and foster a new war. Pravda says the Government of | Russia looks upon the withdrawal of | Stanislaw Mikolajczyk as Premier as ‘ destroying the last hope of rap- | proachment to the exiled regime. POLE PRESIDENT T0 FORM CABINET LONDON, Nov. 30 ‘Tomasz Arciszewski, President-Designate of the Polish Government-in-Exile, to- night was given the assignment of forming a new Cabinet, after Pre- mier-Designate Kwapinski admitted his mission was a failure and re- —_——————— ELROY NINNIS BACK FROM BUSINESS TRIP Elroy Ninnis, of Juneau Motors, returned by plane yesterday from Seattle from a business trip for his firm. Ninnis said automobile deal- ers in Seattle were doing a booming business and had “high prospects” | for a post-war business in new cars. At present, he sald, most of the work was repair, replacement of parts and buying used government trucks to rehabilitate. Ninnis said spare parts were get- | ting scarce and most of the dealers do not have much of a stock. As yet, Ninnis said, plans for | meeting Councilman Keith Wildes in Ketchikan for a study of the tax survey system now being con- | ducted in that city are, as yet, in- | definite. PLANES HIT NAZIS MOSCOW—Stalin, in an Order| LONDON, Nov. 30.—In the sixth and seventh blows in the 48-hour lof the Day, announced capture of | A {50 communities in southern Hun- | @ir offensive probably 11,000 bomb- gary and northern Yugoslavia. | ers struck against German fuel i |plants and the Saarbrucken rail- | WASHINGTON The House | 08d yards. 4 ! Almost 12300 Fortresses and Lib- {Ways and Means Committee voted f i 117 to 7 to “freeze” the Social Se- erators accompanied by 1,000 fight- | er- s smashed syn- curity tax, otherwise it would SN pisiies smashed four ST thetic oil refineries in the Leipzi automatically double on January 1.|arag The Saarbrucken yards parg | eight miles ahead of the United States Third Army offensive. | LONDON-—Russian troops have captured Eger, 60 miles northeast of Budapest, Stalin announced to- | night. Eger is an important rail! | A | center. i ! ange In { | e WASHINGTON—The Senate has (ommands | confirmed by 67 to 1 President| | Roosevelt's nomination of Edward | R. Stettinius to be Secretary of| | State. Senator Langer opposed. | ! | LONDON, Nov. 30—Elevation of | LONDON — A German radio| yjeytenant General Mark Clark,| | broadcast says Eisenhower has | from the command of the United | thrown 70 divisions in the great States Fifth Army, to Commander= channel from the nation’s economy | in “several waves” from about to the war effort. The Act would‘mmnix;ht to 4:30 a. m. Thursday | have expired at the close of the (Tokyo time). Fires were put under| year. icontml by 5:30 a. m. Thursday, e (Tokyo time). EIGHTEEN BABY ELKS {the B-20's being shot down. In-| |cendiary bombs were dropped in (above the clouds.” They touched 'off fires in several places, but! No claim was made of any INITIATED LAST NIGHT the new rata “trom great heights “most of them were put out im- - — of | The Elks Lodge had a big night of it last night with an official visit from District Deputy Grand Exalted | Ruler John H. Walmer, initiation | the of 17 baby Elks, all topped off by a| 2 big feed, prepared under the lead of district.” metropolitan area and its vicinity and also the Lartsunyen | prenchy, With } Jo 1 Odds WITH THE AEF IN FRANCE— Pfc, Armand J. “Frencfiy” Boudreau, an easy-going infantryman was serving as a guide up front the other day when three Germans hopped out from behind a bush. Armed with two machineguns and one rifle, they had the drop on Frenchy but instead of shooting they yelled “kamerad” and surrend- mediately.” The attacs spread over ered themselves. can't figure it out” ' said “If they wanted to sur- render, why didn’t they leave their “1 Russell Maynard and the trustees. /| Members reported it was the big- | gest and best feed given in a long time. It included chicken salad,’ cracked crab and liquid refresh-| ments. Those initiated were: William H.' O'Shugeney, Victor V. Lein, Dono- | van C. McGee, Herbert A. Wendling, | Lloyd W. King, John S. Jeffery,!| Evan F. Wruck, Lyle E. Kelsey, Le | A domestic broadcast previously | guns in the bush aifd jump out with told of simultaneous attacks on the ' their hands up?” Shizuoka Prefecture, below Tokyo. | ., The Sunyen district embraces | Suruga, Shizuoka and HammawujNoMmAIm“s mR |in Shizuoka Prefecture on jthe coast, centered roughly at 15 miles southwest of Tokyo. | R LR % 55 S NEW OFFICERS OF CHAMBER (LOSED Nominations were closed at to- MOUNTED NIPPONS Roy West, Robert V. Killewich, The City Council voted several | weeks ago to send the two Coun- cilmen to Ketchikan to study the signed. He was named President-Desig- offensive on the Western Front. |in-Chief of the Allied Fifteenth Adam J. Balog, August B. Black, IR i« | Army Group in Italy was announced | Theodore Lammers, Sidney S. Stev- | nese politics leading to the recent shake-up of Chiang Kai-shek’s |ing. for directors for 1945 to be |elected at next week's meeting. |day’s Chamber of Commerce meet- Cabinet and the ousting of Gen. Stilwell from his Far East com- mand can now be revealed. A show-down with China as to whether she was really going to fight Japan has been in the cards for a long time. Last July, this column reported that many Chinese war lords around Chiang would rather fight Britain and the United States than Japan. Since then, a comprehensive report has reached the White House giving details regarding the whole Chinese picture and certain suspicious re- lationships between the Japanese and some of those around the Generalissimo. For example, Wu Te-chen, Secre- tary General of the Kouminmng' (a position similar to that of Bob Hannegan, chairman of the Demo- cratic National Committee), still owns a large home on Avenue Hague in Shanghai, still collects rent for it through his own agent in the Jap-cccupied areas, while his wife lives openly under the Japanese in Shanghai. Also, the wife of Chu Chia-hua, Kuomintang Minister of Organiza- tion, has travelled freely between Jap-occupiéd and unocclpied China, apparently with the consent and cooperation of the Japs. Final- ly, her goings and comings at- tracted so much attention that she was asked not to return to Chung- (Continued on Page Four) nate in May after escaping from Poland where he was prominent in the underground movement. British diplomatic sources made it plain-today that Britain is growing | tired of wrangling among the Poles. JUNEAU 15 LAGGING INE BOND SALES FOR 6TH WAR LOAN DRIVE Total bond sales for the Terri- tory to date is $802,349.75, accord- ing to the War Finance Office. Of |this amount, $577997.75 is in E bond sales, and $224,352 is in other securities, E bond sales for Juneau and Douglas are $22,131.25 and other securities $118,200; a total of $140,- 331.25. Juneau’s quota in E bond sales has been set at $125,000. The sale of E bonds in Fair- banks now totals $296,350; in An- chorage, $126,993.75; in Ketchikan. 1$45,494.25. ———————— PIONEERS TO HOME Four qldtime Alaskans from the Interior left on an Alaska Coastal | Airlines plane this morning for the | Pioneers’ Home in Sitka. They | were George Miller, George Mc- Shane, M. Johnson, and James White. ——o—— E. W. Elliott, H. R. Smith and Thomas W. Myall are registered at the Baranof Hotel from Seattle. system now being conducted by H. S. Henretta, with an eye to the pos- sibility of having such a survey made here in Juneau so as to equalize tax assessments. R | McCREARYS IN TOWN | Mr. and Mrs. C. P. McCreary,: former Juneau residents, have ar- rived here from Wrangell for an indefinite stay. Phyliss McCreary, daughter of the couple, is now at- tending the University of Wash- mg;on. ———————— TERRITORIAL GUARDS TO GET SHOOTING AWARDS Tonight at 8 o'clock awards for the winners in the rifle matches held last year of the Alaska ‘Territorial Guard are to be presented, Capt. Henry Harmon announced today. Guardsmen _are requested to ap- pear at the AB Hall dressed in dress uniforms, leggings, wool trousers, blouse, cartridge belt and rifle. —a——— ANCHORAGE PIONEERS PLAN ANNUAL PARTY Entertainment of the days of 98 is to be re-enacted in Anchorage on December 16 when the Pioneers of Alaska and Auxiliary hold their an- nual celebration. The community hall is to be turned into an enter- tainment hall typical of those of the gold rush days, according to plans made at a recent meeting. MARRIAGE APPLICATIONS |here last night as part of a general | Sofia Zacharof, nurse, who arrived |shift in Allied leadership in the | here Tuesday on the Penguin from | Mediterranean. St. George Island, and Howard Phil- | In other changes General Sir ip Furlong, USCG, have applied to | Harold Alexander, who has been U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray for a | Allied Commander in Italy, becomes marriage license. Supreme Commander in the Medi- An application has also been re- | terranean, succeeding Gen. Sir Hen- ceived from Virgil Anderson and |ry Matiland Wilson, who, in turn, | Doreen Frances Heinke, both of | takes the place of the late Field | Juneau. | Marshal Sir John Dill, as Chief of | the British Joint Staff Mission to ens, Willilam N. Weaver, Raymond | K. Kruse, Grove Kunz. Also fnitiated for Seattle Lodge No. 92 was Stanley Singer. e, BIG POST-WAR PROJECT IS PROPOSED; TURNAGAIN ARM MAY BE BRIDGED | The long-talked-of project to7| build a crossing consisting of a rock fill and bridging across Tur- CHINESE LINES KUNMING, China, Nov. 30—Ad- vanced Japanese elements made startling penetrations toward Kwei- yang, junction point on the highway network linking Chungkinfg, Kun- | ming and other sections of South- { west. China, it was disclosed today. The United States Fourteenth Air | | Names proposed are the following: Dr. William Whitehead, Dave Hoffman, Ernie Parsons, Harold Foss, A. W. Blackerby, Jack Flet- cher, Henry ‘M. Hogue, Bruce Ken- ldall, Paul Monroe and Peter Warner. It was announced that the {Chamber will give a $25 war bond |as a prize for the best home out- STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Nov. 30. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | | stock today is 67, American Can 90, | Beech Aircraft 139, Bethlehem Steel | | 62, Curtiss-Wright 6%, Interna- | tional Harvester 77, Kennecott 34%, | North American Aviation 8%, New | York Central 18%, Northern Pacific 17, U. S. Steel 57%. | Dow, Jones averages today are | as follows: industrials, 147.34; rails, | 42.88; utilities, 25.45. — { PRICES WEDNESDAY Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock Wednesday was §, | American Can 90%, Anaconda 27%, | Beech Aircraft 13%, Bethlehem Steel 62, Curtiss-Wright 67%, International Harvester 77, Kennecott 34, North American Aviation 9%, New York Central 187%, Northern Pacific 17%, U. S, Steel 57%, Pound $4.04. |nagain Ara, in western Alaska,| ihas gained increased momentum | as a post-war development as the result of actionn: taken by the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce. The cost is estimated at $1,770,000. {The rock-fill would be from both| shores, with a 900-foot span in| the center. | The crossing would -connect the| |Kenai Peninsula road system, which | £ |reaches Seward, to the arterial sys- | FROM BOSTON |tem of western and interior Al-| W. F. Kinahan is in Juneau and |aska. This would serve commerclal is registered at the Gastineau Hotel |purposes as well as opening the from Boston, Massachusetts. |scenic hunting and fishing areas! i of the Peninsula for motor trans- FROM WHITEHORSE portation. John H. Chepeha and Robert T.| —————— Rutenberg, from Whitehorse, are | CORNING IN TOWN g staying at the Baranof. William H. Corning, from Ket-| - e chikan, is staying at the Gastineau | SEASON ON SABLEFISH Hotel. i TO CLOSE TOMORROW | Fishing for sablefish in South- east Alaska waters closes tomorvow ‘Washington. ———.,——— FROM SKAGWAY Martin Mahla is registered at the Gastineau Hotel from Skagway. ——————— BURTONS IN TOWN Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Burton of Portland are registered at the Gas- tineau Hotel. —————— —————————— THOMPSON IN TOWN Harold Thompson is in town and | Dow, Jones averages Wednesday were as follows: industrials, 147.81; rails, 43.08; utilities, 25.57. is registered at the Baranof Hotel' from Seaside, Oregon. and remains so until March 15, 1945, caught halibut. Force announced its fighter planes | 497 Christmas display this year. had strafed enemy cavalry along the | Charles Naghel was appointed Pachai-Tukiang road yesterday Thig Chamber chairman for the Sixth route roughly parallels the main War Loan, with Allen Shattuck and highway from Japanese-held Lui- |K. G. Merritt as members of his chow to Kweiyang. Pachai lies 65 committee. Homer Garvin also miles south and southwest of Kwei- | drew attention to the War Bond yang. Premiere, tickets to which may be There was no indications as to the |secured by purchasing a war bond strength of this cavalry penetration | before December 7, when the show but it evidently cut through, or out- |will take place In the Capitol flanked some of the Chinese forces Theatre, expected to defend Kweiyang, cap-| Gliests included D. C. Langdon, ital of Kwelchow Province. lowner and manager of Alaska g 0 | Electronics, radio repair shop; C. COUNCIL TO MEET |R. Burley of the University of A regular meeting of the City |Alaska School of Mines, and Earl Council is to be held at 8 o'clock |Fosse, mining engineer. tomorrow night in the City Conncut A proposed Alaska development Chambers. plan was distributed to all members BRI 5 and a discussion on this will be HALIBUT SEASON TO held next week. CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT —_——————— Halibut fishing in areas v.hreel SKAGWAY PEOPLE HERE and four closes tonight at mid-| Pat Fritz, Mr. and Mrs. Don night. Permits also become in-|Baldwin and Memesio C. Navarro, valid for landing Incidentally- from Skagway, are registered al the Baranof Hotel, -