The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 26, 1944, Page 1

~ " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE GERMA 'S ' AKE NEW PLUNGE IN BELGIUM "e X v P8 Leyte C::mpuign Ends In Decisi CHRISTMAS 1.5, Ah-- ofWorld n BLOWSEAlS?E Soil . 1er ENEMY FATE i ONBRIT, Nipponese “Destruction in Philippines Seldom Par- alleled in War History vation; Aid by OtherNations' TOMORROW. ETT tinnett, By CHARLES C. H (Substituting for Jack Who is 1IL) WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 The Inited States is ahead of the world ‘hen it comes to soil conservation, iculture Department’s Soil Con- SPECIAL ELECTION | Dropped ‘ Division 1' 10 M"_Es Lonely Outposisin Bering Sea Gef Christmas Mail GERMANS ARE TRAPPED IN BUDAPEST by Arlpy Plane HEADQUARTERS, ALASKAN | DEPARTMENT, Dec. 26.Four aots | BUE One Narrow Corridor o "Matton und ninivak sannas,| Left Now by Which Enemy May Escape had their Christmas right on the day because of a special flight made through bitter weather by Lieut. J. J. Trevisani, of San Francisco. MOSCOW, Dec. 26—Eight to 10 ve Jap Defeat NAZISFIFTY MILES DEEP INBELGIUM American Salient at St. Vith Is Wiped Out by Latest Push BULLETIN — LONDON, Dec¢. six armored vehicles, 237 motor By C. YATES McDANIEL 4 t ETHE | A general lack of interest is the (A." P. War Correspondent) mr(i'_'hz:w'i?‘,u‘::: l‘;;i,t;lll";;(‘;gi.‘:,‘;;bnsls for a forecast of a light vote % Lrevisani and‘his crew of six made |divisions of Germans and Hun-| 26.:-Allied planes again hit Ger- GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- 5 good earth }in tomorrow's special election to!| l M A E a flight to deliver 2400 pounds of |garians are reported to be trapped | man columns and up to moon QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP- l . H. H. Bennett, chief of the name a Senator to fill the Fi Christmas mail and packages. today as Budapest wes cut off and| today, the Ninth Tactical Air PINES, Dec. 26 — Gen. Douglas z -~ ° | Division’s vacant seat in the Ter: The Christmas mail and packages, escape, except by air or possibly Force alone destroyed six tanks, MacArthur today declared that the | Leyte-Samar campaign, “closed ex- | Dynamite Is Placed unaer | ation Service, is just back from a two months’ visit to South Africa, torial Legislature, which convenes | —— here in less than a month. |canadians in "aly cap'ure in 100-pound lots, were placed inlpy one road, usable only by night, boxes on parachutes and strapped is impossible. to the plane and then released over As the Red Army drove to the vehicles besides downing 22 en- emy planes. cept for mopping up,” yesterday s i 53 While a fairly large vote is ex-| Be. b . where he taught officials and farm- ? 1 destinations. % 2 after American Doughboys captured | i 4 vt pected in Juneau, where two of the . ;s western city limits in a 15-mile o | ers the U. S. way of saving the F h | ratures aver- 2 Palompon in a water-borne assault Street Car Tracks in L ! Ving Hhe hree candidates make their homes, Rossetta, Repo"tEd ,x;l::1‘;";‘;1"0:“,“?“":;:‘0‘5‘:“:;:‘:;:!‘5; " ladvance the encirclement of the|, s s (;“‘:““ WBIL SR U Jalaliee T f Hotel " Dr. Bennett estimates it will re-(3nd in Sitka where the other re-| Nea A" i eV las, Hungarian capital is virtually com.|Amored columns were, by Sunday and closed their last escape port on ront ot riote v Bennett estimates b N enrs |sides. Lack of local interest is ex-| ear Alionsine bt e pleted. Front dispatches said Bo.|miébt, plunged 50 iniles inig el 3 S quire from 15 to 20 more years Sides. Lack ol foc ol i SR The crewmen worked for 24 hours | x . 5 ium, reaching to within four miles northwestern Leyte Island. ATHENS, Dec. 26.—British Prime for this country to accomplish the pecied to account for sparse bal-| Southeast Alaska| ROME, Dec. 26—Canadian troops, |viet guns began a systematic shell- without food or water as the water £ ng of the two airports stiil held! of the Meuse River. The enemy rting that Gen. Yamashita 5 b AP . |loting in other g e “hne sustained perhaps the great-|Minister Winston Churchill today|major part of lts own soll conser~| = ec nowever striking out from the bridgehead | taken along froze solid. lby the enemy, while Stormoviks,(WiPed out the American St. Vith i A | sought to end the bloody Greek |vation work through gully-filling, i A4 jover the Canale Navigllo on the Tt was necessary to circle Ninivak '™ * Y, ' sallent and formed a solid front est defeat in milita: annals of | SOug! 3 Gotanioy. th nisnfine and Eohi- Anncunced candidates are Allen| e Cans avig, Island three times before we could medium bombers, flew in incessant |, the Japanese Army,” Gem Mac-(civil war as a British patrol re-|IOWazng wee b OnUnE ain- | ttuck of Juneau, F. F. “Dick” /Adriatic flank of the Italian front, | 4o our Ghristmas cargo on the spot Sorties over the strifo-torn capital. 36 lls Mo Arthur’s communlque said _the|Ported it discovered a ton of dyna- 1882 BF (ATT 0 Dot Juneau, and Frank Price [(oday captured Rossetta, 10 miles | qociunated as the target which was The greatest panic was reported| SPreme Hobdgusrterh okl ot mite under the street car lines op-| Seventy million acres of U. S ¢ 5 |nor . -held Ravenna. | ... ih . Ithat two, and possibly three, Nazi Japanese lost an estimated 112,728 | ™ O it bt [TuR" nkve Shasti gt imds:” sil]f SURR, {porthwest of Allied-held Ravenna. | gyerflowing with a shouting mob all inside the city, in full view of the| ¥ POREND. ¢ killed, and 493 captured in the 67- |Posite the main doors of the Foe -5 i : s Shattuck has served four sessions| Headquarters said the Canadians | with their hands upstretched wait- |Russian Units which Jesterday | ATiCs were flung into the batter- day campaign | Qi profigne, £ QufiElals of e |caneirition - pEaEHeRe mnoe | e Legislatur s ot |Were Teported to have pushed |ing for the mail from the sky,” said drove to the lofty hills of Buda- | counter-offensive which is be- E 1 | Greek Government and Lt. Gen.|program began under Dr. Bennety's It the Legislature DEeHCrRy lghort distance beyond Rossetta to i RV | Boaiv 4 f % |lieved by Supreme Headquarters to The completeness of this de-|c 1o jive i the hotel. The dis- | direction in 1934, but he estimates the other two candidates have had | stance bey 58 {one of the crewmen. * |kesz, adjoining the city limits of i ¥ ¥ g s Within two miles of Alfonsine on| The soldiers manning the lonely Buda on the western half of the|DaYe been planned by Hitler. lum- bl.ruc?ion has .seldom‘ been pam“'}pawh from Athens didn’t say wheth- eled in the history of modern War- e Churchill was staying at the fare,” MacArthur said. | hotel. | Magnitude Of Victory | The dynamite, which was in boxes The magnitude of the American | pearing German markings, was ap- | victory in the first phase of the parently Jaid duping the uight as campaign “to liberate the PRilid- the areh was’ carefully searched | pines was further borne out by !yesterday evening. MacArthur’s assertion that 2.’14)3‘~ Churchill arrived here yesterday, ( enemy planes were destroyed in the accompanied by Foreign Secretary | 700,000,000 acres need attention to preserve the rich top soil which grows the nation’s food. The most difficult part of the SCS' mork is over—education of land vwiers-and TG Dy, nett says the program gains mo- mentum each year. 1945 call for soil con- Plans for 12,000,000 acres and Bennett ex- vious legislative experience. said to have the support{ of various labor groups, and Price| e is being supported by the Alaska & Native Brotherhood. ; The. polls will open.at. 8 a. m. to-} ps b morrow and will clese at 7 p. m.| Many Ships the Ravenna-Ferrara Highway. Precinct One will vote in the Fire Hall; Precinct Three at the Juneau Dairies, Inc., building, and Precinct | loulpo did not expect their Christ- Danube straddling the city. | mas mail before next May or June,| The Germans arc reported to self in an effort to shatter the Allied forces in the west. Twin Tank Pushes Headquarters reported. |have grabbed all available auto- l B AR B T SEAe |mobiles and buses and have put i } il Backed up by infantry, twin German tank pushes careened 11 last previous headquarters report. | B U RE S - (hem under. strict military, com-.. ;. ank pi our ; WA R N '" G IS Tinand, ordering Hungarlan® drivers TOTE MIES Yo" Bielphim “slsbe” the to stand b; th bl . stand by with blankets and nm‘l‘hey D |warm clothing possible. This led to speculation that large enemy units| might try to make a break. The SENT OUT ON stand west of St. Vith. The jutting salient was split by the German islands since the Leyte landing on'Anthony Eden, as Athens echoed to| .. Two in the Pan American Air- October 28 by Third and Seventh | the sound of street fighting between |Seve Ot OF s 15;009"1‘30“50 2‘3,-;] Heiih ivioe | last narrow escape corridor that|Olfensive and the prongs foimed a Fleet carrier planes, the Army's the left' wing ELAS partisans and | 00000 8cTes. as oo e No official ballots have been fur- open extended 19|fingle bulge 35 miles wide and now T M 50 miles or more deep. Fifth Air Force, Marine units, and | Greek Government forces supported American shore and ship antiair- by British troops. { craft batteries. | Churchill conferred immediately | A total of 27 warships and 41|With Field Marshal Alexander, Al- ipects this year's acreage to be much larger than last. “We are trying to use every acre nished, since the law does not re- quire these and neither do candi- !dates file for the office. The can- didate’s name, written on a piece| LONDON, Dec. 26—Japanese sub- | miles northwest from the capital | to Erstergrom on the southern! bank of the big Danube bend. ! Today’s communique disclosed a| } appeared still | ROBOT BOMBS Punching due west, one Nazi tank column neared Celles, only four miles from Meaetat and Dinant, which is just eight miles north of DR gt 5 ,|lied Mediterranean Commander, |of farmland,” he explains. fics cik ik afioit o) » { gav‘:?potl“ “"; S;lc:‘k Ld:,ltulioul:;‘flemld McMillan, British Resident| He estimates that 122,000,000 {08 DADek o8 ballais suppiied by lhu‘:fi:“‘:}::;flf 'Sat:?::‘ “g'w]c‘xlrl)‘:gc‘:nm’w WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—The cyorx.dex)ufxxg fled ik gt we“'uhe French border. e it b e Minister in the Central Mediter- |acres of farm land still should be ndidates, are legal. i st ot |- Oftias ol CERIINR Dndouss today | | i o oo moI 10 Mile Gain’ Japanese convoys. This does mob| oo "o Greek Premier Papan- ? This is the first time a special @ broadcast from Japan states. | .00 0 o & and also along the Hron River in! i include enemy losses in nam”dreou —t_“‘ G T 77'“ ~— election has been called to fill a; This broadcast was picked up| "““:' ""s 'k'"i ':"sb“ d' e:“ the vicinity of Leva in a drive Another column, hitting west an: pattles in Leyte Gulf, October 25. TR i | (continuea on Page Tnree) |80 B O tate, The here by BEC and Domei, Japancse| 3fainst rocket bomb and robol | jong the routes to Vienna and|2Or™ rebshied. Giney. & st American casualties are 2623 i BBy % |vacancy was created by the death news agency, said further that subs| PCRb AHESI. L Bratislava. They are now' less thap | E8in. Clney: lies rioe piles {rom killed, 8422 wounded, and 172‘WH"‘E (HR.S"’MAS tDA'I'E or RIZAL ot Sermtor Atthur P. Walker, |were “striking in force” after a| o 1i® InFelons werk St 19 " log miles and 65 miles distant, re-|ie Metse anit 14. from fhe Jutling missing. This covered only Ameri-| | S SR e Ao o two-year period, behind the scenes.! |spectively. northeast corner of France. Clney can grourid force losses. The coupe de grace was given the | Nipponese on Leyte Christmas morning, Philippine time, when the | IS ENJOYED HERE DAY BANQUETIS T0 BE FRIDAY | | ‘The broadcast said four Jupanexc‘ | |under-sea vessels which returned g |from an offes had sunk two | destroyers, four transports and air- i passed on to the public. OCD pointed out that liftle or no ad- o e, | vance warning was possible, ad- | ding “the public should realize | | the danger and be constantly | and Celles are six miles apart. A security news cloak covered eny further progress of these thiusts, made since Saturday night. Latest reports of the battle raging i Juneau had a white Christmas 77th Division forces entered Pal-: 5 g @l r |cran carriers. alert, especially along the ompon Bay and stormed ashore |21 e‘ehl’yonew:eemedh Loh t:jHJOy xz‘ wou T H AlT | Summarizing submarine activity| coastal areas.” in this general area is that the while escorting U. S. Seventh Fleet | X°€Pt the au sts—who had to Puti ppe pilipino Community Club |since Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Germans are bullding up their PT boats beat a tatoo against the o0 CHains: |hours, snow again fell for a short announced today that the date for imposgible to reserve .the Baranof broadeast. claimed “15 aircraft definitely confirmed as sunk. cowwaviacim | PRISONERS forces west of Rochefort. 48-Hour Standstill B heart of this bulge, a surrounded beach and divisions of their own | SnoW, Which began falling Sun-|ypeir jnyitational Rizal Day Cele-! |carriers, three battleships, five artillery laid down a heavy bom.|03Y afternoon about 4 o'clock|pgyion has been changed from| YANK plA“ |cruisers, three destroyers, two sub-| South of Marche the deep Sun- bardment from advanced positions|Continued until early . yesterday.|s,yyraay, December 30, to Friday,| |marines and 200 transports, total- H"’S “ AT'O" AS day gains were made after the inland against' Palompon. | Then, after an interval of several|y, omper 29, because it was found | 1ing 2,000,000 tons of shipbing,”| |invaders were held almost to a | |standstill for 48 hours. In the time, alternating with light rain iwhich rendered walking and driv- {ing slippery and hazardous. STREET GANGS OUT Hotel Gold Room on Saturday. Mayor A. B. Hayes is to be guest speaker, and following the banquet | | There is no allied confirmation |at this time and no comment. — ee - {Damage Done fo American ! Ships Fails to Spoil Sched- - MERCURY PLUNGES (By Associated Press) A new cold wave with bitter below PHOENIX, Arizona, Dec. 26—A| Nazi celebration of western front SHOVELING SUNDAY | Street crews were out early| Christmas morning shoveling snow | from stairways in various sections | of the city in order to expedite pedestrian traffic on Juneaw’s cleeper thoroughfares. 60 AHEAD, SEWARD WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed the bill| authorizing Seward to purchase the private utilities now supplying the| city with its power and telephone service. Youngsters enjoyed sliding on Gold and Indian Streets and many snow-fights were staged, the soft, damp snow being just right for| snow-balling and the building of | snow men, many of which were seen at various points in the city. i Total snowfall covered the land- scape to a depth of from four to six inches MANY CHRISTMAS TREES NEVER USED) Albert Peterson, Juneau's ex- clusive refuse collector, estimates cut for decorative purposes in Ju- 'Lhe rounds of the city last Friday and program, a public dance will be held afterward. | ule for U. S. Offensives WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—Secre- DE(OR‘“O"S 0f | tary of the Navy James V. Forrestal "o'l'[ APPEAR HERE | said today that Jap air attacks have | failed to disrupt American plans for X | continued heavy offensives, while Among the more attractive out- acknowledging that naval forces in door Yuletide decorations appear-|the Philippines have suffered some ing since Empire reporters made damage. ‘ He said the announcements w.re night are the string of colored delayed because “we don’t wish the lights on the sides and front of Japs to know what ships they hit Sgt. and Mrs. Bob Davlin’s home nor to what extent the vessels were zero temperatures hit the Midwest | | 4 ; S OCK QUOTAHONS and the mercury plunged far below | NEW YORK, Dec. 26. — Closing | ,oro | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | 3 . !:mck today is 6':, American Can | Readings in the Dakotas, upper 91%, Anaconda 26, Beech Aircraft | Michisan, portians of Ohip and {13%. Bethlohem Steel 63%, Curtiss- | Rockford; ‘Tllinols (75 miles north- Iiwrlght 5%, International Harvester ;lzes;clo;wchicago), were reported at ) i b = : ‘;lco:r‘\’ :fi:&zfin?‘, ,'i o ;vleso;{torkAg:;- The coldest recorded on the Chi- |tral 22%, Northern Pacific 21%,|Ca80 Weather Burcaus map . for i U.8s. Swe’l 5814, Pound $4.04 Chicago was seven below, the mini- { ‘Dow Jones’bavoragcs today are|Mum coldest for the season, at 8 | B 1n {als, 149.66; rails, |® M ' as follows: industrials, 149.66; rails, Sleiit continuad 15 e Mo inan tion’s balmy spot, the maximum 143.04; utilities, 25.95 on Sixth street, between Main and Seward, and the display of colored lights at the Basin Road site of the Hugh J. Wade home. !that scores of Christmas trees were | MIDNIGHT SERVICES - - - SITKA COUPLE CONVICTED Dick and Annie Johnson of Sitka statement, “left the field clear for |were convicted on a charge of | the Japs to make fantastic claims family desertion Saturday and sen- | while perhaps fishing for informa- 'tenced to serve six months in Fed- | injured nor how soon they may be back in -action.” This “necessary {silence,” Forrestal continued in his | Jack Fletcher, Baranof being 66. San Diego was 47 and Los | Angeles, 40. e — CALLED HOME BY ILLNESS Mrs. Abbie Jane Wells was called home by the illness of her mother. J. B. Burford was host at a steak |victories was broken up by clubs in the Papago Park war prisoner camp near here, shortly before 25 ,Germans escaped, Col. Willlam |Holden, Commandant, disclosed to- |day. Holden said that Army guards; had to resort to force in ending the | demonstration Saturday by “a icouple of hundred” prisoners in one lof the camp's compounds. Only six escapees, all submarine group was Lt. Col. Jurgen Watten- berg, 43. Many of those at large speak several languages. The escape served to make public la rumor long current in Pheonix that Gunther Prien, famed Ger- officers and men, were apprehend-i ed. The ranking member of me| American force of several thous- and fought doggedly to hold the important Belgian road hub - of Bastogne after rejecting a surren- der ultimatum. The force was under incessant Nazi -armor and infantry attacks. The whole hope of this isolated - force was focused to the south where Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's counter-assault had beaten back up the Arlon Roed to within five miles of Bastogne. It is still gaining ground. (iU BT R YEP, AND GUM, TOO! Many little gifts handed out on | Christmas Eve and @hristmas Day, daintily wrapped in Christmas paper, contained packages of gum, of which there is a shortage in this neck of | the nation. Th w h- i neau and were never used. On| | tion. eral jail, according to the Ofl‘ce;shr: left this morning via PAA r“r"mun S I levery load his trucks took out | “Perhaps the best way to assess of the U. S. Marshal | Texas. RO S nder, is & pris- e washingion ey b o e ARE WELL ATTENDED | the resuits of the Jap air attacks | e ; 2L fouer here. Prien was decoraied by PRINTED BALLOTS LEGAL consisted of trees never put to use. | against our fleet since the second | FLETCHER IS HOST | STEAK DINNER (Hitler for the sinking of the 3 GO -B.Ollnd L battle of the Philippines Sea,” he | Hotel | British battleship, Royal Ark, in| Answering a question which has Peterson places the crop of trees Many Juneauites went devotional Scapa Flow in '39. “He didn't es- arisen in the minds of many voters, Merry- said, “is to ask whether those attacks | manager, was host to a group of|dinner in the Baranof Gold Room which v stnally erected and as the clock struck the hour of 12/ " o in | Att 1 H Roden said By DREW PEARSON decorate hundred and|Sunday midnight, and sttended| D2Ve disrupted our plans for fUWIe |friends and employees at & cock-|last evening at 7 o'clock. Places CO said Major Eugene Tays, in wdg;"fifuf:::?m&"am“ s G oL nolert 8, A o MEHT | estimaty will have their services in three of the city's| a?i&"w Th;y hnvle ’c’l‘l’" ’I‘heM!xall |tail party Friday evening, from 6|were laid for eleven. answering an inquiry. b gy o] s el k § “ s " | of yte and our landings on n- D ’ P AT A NS >--e ] (final ‘salad-wagon” | churches. to 7 o'clock in the Baranof Bubble| ENTERTAINED AT DINNER | TOW'S special election have distribut- WASHINGTON—It is no secret someti fow BB St ittt mids wis el Soa] SO0 (A peputte demonatration | o gl | USO PARTIES fed will be “legal” ballots if turned that they have not.” | | Over two dozen children had a| Twelve were guests of Mr. and { in by qualified voters. that both sides on the Western after ¢ uhe year. Church of the Nativity, where | —————— | g 2 Forrestal denied what he described P 2 i S, - Front know pretty much what the o —— worshippers gathered in such 1arge’ as “rumors” that the Navy has not WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—Former|good time at the party at the USO .xr; l(':rhe& tfi:l;nl:sm:; -hefgm:1¥t Voters nead b mark s “¥" % other side is doing behind each L0 ViR ALARMS | numbers many were unable to gain| gnnounced all the losses in the bat-+Y S. Senator Blair Lee of Mary-;::unday afternoon between 4 anc style ‘ 'H " st ront of the candidate's name print- other’s lines. Observation planes fly| r 2 E oo e r‘ad:nmance. tle of the Philippines last October | 1and died last night at the age otifibo'clock. when they made friends night u‘t ul: ;:lock‘ln Lrlxe Gold | 4 on the ballot to make it legal, just back and forth, the Nazis having| Y e tho holiday| Standing room only was to be|when the Jap flect was routed. (7 |with the servicemen, gave a pro- Room of the Baranof Hotel. so the ballot contains only one jet-propelled planes which go weul| o - o Chrivtant Day found at Resurrection Lutheran ——————— | He served in the Senate in 1913 gram of songs and recitations and S’ i w,.fl il name, Roden stated. over 400 miles an hour. Ot mdat v Sunday momln;""c"““h' where a special musical | FISHERS TOWN land was a delegate io eight Demo- had refreshments. Sunday evening, b TREETS SANDED Voters who do not have the print= i |cratic National Conventions. At the 'from 10 to midnight, the USO pa- ppery streets and sidewalks'eq ballots may vote simply by writ- U. S. observation planes, while not so fast, undoubtedly must have | b been good enough to note !hegz_ wa w.'s which caught fire et. The other alarm, ey burning out at th suilding, opposite the (Continued on Page Four) Rl - F 4 | Yuletide worshippers, service was given; and at the| Mr. and Mrs. Emil B. Fisher Church of Holy Trinity, where a|have arrived from Hoonah for a Choral Eucharist with special|short stay. He is a Government music was the offering for the|teacher with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Baltimore convention in was the leader of the movement of turkey resulting in the nomination of cakes and cookies for the service- Wilson, friend of his college days. men. 1912 he|tronesses served a buffet luncheon!were sanded this morning by the ing the name of their cholce on a sandwiches, homemade City Street Department, greatly plank piece of paper and turning |aiding both vehicular and pedes- | this in to be dropped in the ballot trian traffic. hox.