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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-02
u. 5. Confers With Boisson
About Dakar, Eden SAYS
p, the Associated Press

p, The Associated Press
LONDON, Dec 2-Foreign Secre-
tary Anthony Eden told the House
OF Commons today that United
States authorities in Algiers are con-
ferring with Pierre Boisson. Cover
nor General of French West Africa
on the use to be made of port and
other facilities in West Africa, in
Guiding Dakar
Mr.. Eden said nothing beyond the
fact that the discussions are now
in progress.
Later an authoritative informant
said the United Nations undoubtedly
would obtain use of Dakar but it was
not yet disclosed to what extent or
for what purposes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-02
Lehman, Hoover 10 Confer
On Foreign Relief Problem
Earlier Story on Page A.

By the Associated Press
ALBANY, N. Y. Dec. 2.-Herbert
H. Lehman, relinquishing the New
York governorship today to become
director of Foreign Relief and Re-
Mobilization, announced he will dis
cuss his new duties tomorrow with
Herbert Hoover, who administered
relief to European nations after the
World War.
Gov. Lehman and the former Pres
ident will confer at a luncheon
meeting in New York City.
Democratic 1t. Gov. Charles Po-
letti succeeds Mr.. Lehman as Gov
ernor with the latter's assurance the
State is. financially and otherwise,
sin excellent condition" In vale
dictory accounting of his l0-vear
governorship last night Gov. Leh-
man said the State surplus may eX-
coed s75,0O0,000 by the fiscal year
end June 30
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-02
35Survivors Of Fire
Battle Pneumonia
In Boston Hospital
Night Club Entertainers
Banned in ! ,16l Places
As Grond Jury Convenes

BY the Associated Press
BOSTON. Dec. 2.-Thirty- five
survivors of the Cocoanut Grove
holocaust battled pneumonia, in
addition to burns, today as de-
mands were heard for an over
hauling of night club safety
precautions along the lines of
theater regulations prompted by
the Iroquois Theater fire in Chi
cago in 1908.
DR. Charles Lund said at City
Hospital that every survivor was
X-rayed for pneumonia and treated
with the finest known sulfa prepare =
ton. but that the pneumonia was
induced by smoke and heat inhaled
during the inferno.
The IS cases developed Yesterday
and other cases may appear, he
added, as the Boston Committee on
Public Safety set the disaster deaths
ut 400. with all but two bodies
identified.
Twin investigations of the fire
proceeded apace. one by the city
and one by the State, as the Suffolk
County grand jury convened in
regular session today. State investi-
eating officials emphasized they
would follow through the evidence
to the last grain of sand after
District Attorney William J. Foley
declared that any evidence of crime
disclosed by the investigation will
be presented to the grand jury"
which will continue in session for
about fortnight
The most sweeping move toward
tighter control over night club safety
conditions was taken in Boston
where police last night closed 81
night clubs and other dine dance
drink places pending a complete
re-check of the premises by building
inspectors.
Their action came shortly after
the Boston License Commission had
banned all entertainment and dane
ing in the city's 1,161 licensed night
clubs, hotels and restaurants at the
behest of Gov. Leverett Ssltonstall,
for similar re-checkS.
Act first and let some one oues-
ton your authority later" the Gov
ernor told the board. The board
earlier had pointed out that it had
no inspectors and was dependent
on fire, police and other city de-
partments for information on which
to act.
Other Cities Act.
While scores of funerals were be-
ing held for the victims of Satur-
day nights disaster officials in a
number of cities studied their
building codes and the possible fire
hazard of night spots Work was
speeded on a revised building code
for Boston.
In Providence. r l.. the Bureau of
Police and Fire prohibited the sale
of alcoholic beverages in any room
below street level.
Gov Robert O. Blood of New
(See FIRE, Page A-6.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-02
Outlook Best Since 80, KnoxSays;
Jap Casualties Five Times U.S.To||;
Axis Cut Off From Tripo|i by Land
Secretary Asserts
NovyNow Exceeds
Pre- War Peak
By the Associated Press.

SS the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Viewing
the war outlook as the brightest
in three years, Secretary of the
Navy Knox disclosed today that
japanese casualties are believed
five times greater than America S
and that the United States Navy
is larger and more powerful
than-"the day before Pearl
Harbor."
Balancing the Nations books of
war near the end of year of fight
ing, Secretary Knox told the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
convention:
we have expended a lot of prec-
ious ships and material, but we have
exacted a toll the enemy can i'll
afford"
The Navy Secretary asserted that
while japanese casualty figures
could not be trusted even IF they
were published" United States in
telligence officers estimate that
since December 7, 1941, to Novem-
Der Is, the japanese in all thea
ters have lost in killed or perma =
nently injured roughly 100000 men. "
Jap Navy Loss 10 Per Cent.
Approximately $1,000 he said, are
naval casualties or about 10 per
cent of the estimated japanese ma
val personnel. United States naval
losses, he said, are about l per cent
Of the personnel strength, and esti-
mates of comparative loss and dam
age of ships and planes is equally
encouraging
I'VE have larger and more
powerful Navy. measured in ton
mage, air power or anything else"
he added, than the day before
Pearl Harbor. Production records
have been broken on almost every
type of craft, and l might add that
the Navy uses more than $50 diff
ferent types.
L think you would like to know
that the private companies and
Government yards which are build
ing combat ships are setting rec
ordS equal to anything now being
achieved in the production of mer-
chant ships"
Turning to criticism of the war
effort, Secretary Knox commented
in a departure from his prepared
text.
The typewriter strategists reached
an all-time high for inaccuracy
when one columnist charged the
Navy with having prevented sec
ond front in Europe by taking the
offensive in the Solomons, on the
very day our great armada was in
midocean on the way to North
Africa. And that was after months
OF careful, patient preparation.
Lists Virtues and Faults.
Acknowledging that in the war
effort America had displayed "timid-
ity, heSitancy. inefficiency. confu-
sion, waste and all the other things
the critics say" Secretary Knox de-
clared that in contrast:
We have converted the greatest
peaceful industrial plant into the
greatest arsenal of all time.
We have maintained our free
dom and our solvency at home.
we have an Army in the South
Pacific; an Army in Britain and an
See KNOX. Page A-6D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-02
StaIingrad Defenders
Roll Back Weakening
German Siege Lines
Two Soviet Offensives
Are Aided by New
Aerial Activity
BY HENRY c. CASSIDY.
Associated Press war Correspono.nt

a
MOSCOW, Dec. 2.-Stalingrad's
defenders, rolling back the Nazis'
weakening siege lines, have re-
captured Yuzhnaya Hill, domi-
mating the southern side of the
city, and have pushed out from
two to five miles farther from
Stallngrad. the Army newspaper
Red Star reported today.
An enemy division was beaten in
a tWo-day battle for the hill. Red
Star reported.
Ihls gain, further undermining
the siege to which the Germans laid
the Volga River port just 100 days
ago. came as the Nazi high COM
mand was reported pulling some of
the besiegers back to meet the
threats OF Red Army offensives driv-
ing successfully west of Stalingrad
and on the central front with the
help of new Soviet air activity.
Hill Dominated Part Of City.
Yuzhnava is one of q famous pair
of hills which rise from the banks
OF the Volga and look down on
Stalingrad. Kurgan Hill to the
north was recaptured previously by
the crack guard troops of Mai.
Gen. AleXei Rodintzev
The recapture of Yuzhnaya, Red
Star said, thrust the Germans back
INTO the SteppeS on the southern
side of Stalingrad
The enemy had held the hill since
early in the battle of Stalingrad and
its heights had given him a clear
view east to the Volga. stronghold
dominating part of the city and
cover for troop movements inside.
The army newspaper said the hill
was recaptured by artillery, tank
and infantry attacks from several
sides Bad weather prevented the
air force from supporting the up
hill charge
Seven Colmterattacks were made
by the NaziS, who threw as many
as 70 tanks and regiments of
infantry into the struggle in a oes-
perate effort to regain the hill, Red
Star said.
Nazis Fail Despite Air Support.
Sometimes holding a 3-to-1 nu-
/ merical advantage. the Germans
were able to give their forces air
support in the last stages of tire
fight, but still failed to retake The
hill
Russian forces were reported to
have sailed beyond their rewon
positions 70 disperse 1000 enemy M
! fanLrTmen moving toward the bill
| and thus to have secured the posi-
ton.
Pravda. the Communist party
organ, reported that full Nazi
division made up of units moved
out of Stalingrad and supported by
fleet of rs tanks counterattacked
at hill occupied by the Russians
| Despite a local superiority in
numbers, the Germans were re-
pulsed, Pravda said.
The Russian position on the 1orti-
fed hill covered railroad station
and a village, and it was reported
that it gave the Russians access to
the rear of the German forces i'm
mediately before Stalingra6.
The exact location of the hill vas
not specified
Russian Drive Continuing.
The Russians were reported deep
inside the original German lines
northwest of the city, however,
Pravda said. holding newly won
positions and pressing fresh as
saultS.
Red Army forces battling their
way down the east bank OF the Don
were reported to have reached
strong German defenses.
The Russian campaign was moving
| (see RUSSIA. Page Aid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-02
Librory PorIey Postponed

CHICAGO, Dec. 2 (P,. - The
American Library Association has
postponed an experimental institute
scheduled for Chicago December %
and 20 as result of a Washington
request directed at all groups plan
ming meetings which would involve
travel during the Christmas holi-
days. The institute, delayed tenta-
lively to January 80 and 81, is the
first of series of about 20 to be
held under association sponsorship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-02
Five More Jap Ships
Sunk as u. ). Subs
Increase Toll 10 %
Destroyer, Tanker ond
Three Cargo Vessels
Are Latest Victims

United States naval pressure
on Japans vital supply lines
squeezed tighter today with at
least five more enemy ships sent
to the bottom of the Pacific by
American submarines.
Two additional japanese vessels
were struck by torpedoes and one
probably destroyed. the Navy an
nounced late yesterday, bringing the
toll of American undersea craft to
date to SO japanese ships sunk, %
probably sunk and % damaged.
The total, representing enemy
vessels of all types, reached the new
figure by the sinking of an enemy
destroyer, 9,000-ton tanker and
three cargo ships of 5000, $500 and
1000 tons. A 6.000-ton cargo ship
was damaged and another of twice
that displacement was believed
sunk.
Naval officials in Washington OBJ
served that the results obtained by
American submarines since the start
of the war represented one OF the
greatest contributions toward pune
turing Japan's naval pipe lines to
her stolen and inundated bases in
the Western Pacific and the China
Sea.
In the southwestern Pacific. Amer
lean forces in the Solomon Islands
were proceeding with the job of
cleaning the unwilling japanese out
Of Guadalcanal with what was de-
scribed as routine patrol activity.
This activity, the Navy said, in
cluded giving the japanese outpost
on the island heavy dose of artil-
lery fire accompanied by strafing
and bombing from American planes.
The artillery bombardments and
aerial action supported Army and
marine ground patrols in the vicin-
ity OF the held airbase.
No accounting was given of enemy
troops slain or supplies captured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-02
Chesapeake City Ferry
Dredging Near Completion

BY the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 2.-Drede-
ing operations for construction of q
free ferry service across the Chesa-
peake and Delaware Canal at Ches-
apeake City, Md, will be completed
IN about two weeks, Army engineers
announced today.
The 100000 service will replace a
bridge wrecked by an oil tanker last
July %. One man was killed in the
accident.
E. NJ Taylor, senior engineer in
the Philadelphia Office, said dredging
operations were begun two weeks
ago. He said he did not know when
actual construction would get under
way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-02
ChurchiII's Daughter
Wins ATS Commission

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. MARY Churchill,
20. youngest daughter of Prime Min
lister Churchill, was commissioned q
second subaltern in the Auxiliary
Transport Service today on compile
ton OF her ofIlcer cadets training.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-02

(See FIRE, Page A-6.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-02

(See RUSSIA, Page Aid
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-07
First Attempt 10 Land on
Fortified Island Re-
ported Frustrated
TRAP OF FLAMING Oil
SET ON J0H0RE STRAIT
Nippon Long Range Guns
She'll Residential Sec
tions-Some Damage
(By Associated Press

The defense guns of Singapore
have blasted a small invasion type
of Japanese boats on the Strait OF
Johore on the eight critical day of
the siege of the island fortress. The
boats quickly returned to the shore.
For the first time, Japanese long
range guns from the Malaga main
land batteries lobbed shells into the
residential sections of Singapore and
some damage was done.
1t is believed the small boat sortie
attempted on the Strait Of Johore
was feint to test out the pur-
ported death trap of flaming oil the
British devised.
A vichy broadcast, quoting Tokyo
dispatches. said the British poured
thousands Of gallons of oil on the
mile-wide stretch and apparently in
tend to set 1t afire If the Japanese
forces attempt to cross.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-07
BIG WAR
COUNCIL
IS SET UP
Washington Becomes Of
fetal Center Of Proseeu-
tion Of Present Conflict

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 This
city became the official war CAPT
tai Of the United Nations last night
when the combined Chiefs of
Staff Board was set up to take
charge Of an all-point and about
Anglo American action in prosecu-
ton of the struggle that is in
tended to assure coordination of
war effort. The jurisdiction will in
clude production and distribution
of war supplies and will work in
collaboration with representatives
of other United Nations as follows
For the United States. members
are Admiral Harold r. Stark, Chief
Of Naval Operations; Gen. George
C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff;
Admiral E. j. King, Commander
in-Chief of the United States, and
Lieut. Gen H H. Arnold, Chief
of the United States Army Air Corps
For the British, members al Q
Field Marshal Sir John Dill, for
mer Chief of the Imperial Gen.
eral Staff Admiral Sir Charles
Little and Lieut.. Gen. Sir Colvilie
Wemyss, Air Marshal
The new agency is similar in
many respects to the Inter allied
Command of the first World War
but apparently possesses more ac-
tual power to act.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-07
Civilian Defense Program
Is SpOiiy In Some Sections
But Going Strong Elsewhere

civilian defense in Podunk is
engrossing the best efforts OF
the people, you can bet your
shirt that the Podunk Clarion
is full Of the d0ings of its peo-
pie in behalf of civilian de
Tense.
To get the real lowdown on
this civilian defense business, Its
success or failure, l grabbed ar
armful of papers that come into
my office from all over the country
The verdict OF Americas repre-
sentative newspapers seems to IN
dictate the success Of the civilian
defense program is spotty. It's 8
question of geography in some
places. a question of failure tc
self" the program to the people
in others.
Out on the Pacific Coast,
where ships have been sunk in
sight of shore and hostile
planes have flown oyer U. ).
soil, there's no fo0ling about
civilian defense. It's hot stuff
in daily newspapers there. Edi-
tors know what their commu-
tContinued on Page Three
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-07
SPECIAL PHYSICIAN
De LIEN IN JUNEAU

DR.. Horace De Lien, special phv-
sician for tuberculosis with the In
dian Service. returned to Juneau
this week from an extensive trip
through towns of Southeast Alaska
on a general study of the tuber-
cular situation. and reading and
taking x-rays for the service.
DIR. De Lien. who has been abb
sent from Juneau since the first
of the year, is staying at the Bar
anof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-07
Voters N usf
Register in
Coming Weeks
Date Yet 10 Be Set : New
Ordinance Adopted
by City Council

All Juneau vo,erS must register
at the City Hall before the next
municipal election in April. ac-
cording to a new ordinance passed
by the City Council at its regular
meeting last night.
Dates for the registration will be
announced as soon as registration
forms are printed, Mayor H. I.
Lucas said.
The purpose of the new ordi-
nance is to bring the citys voting
register up to date. At present,
there are hundreds of persons
listed on the register, some of
whom are dead and some of whom
have moved away
After registering, the voter will
be given a registration certificate
stating that he is legal resi-
dent of the city This will provide
ready means of Identification for
persons travelling to the States,
as well as assist the city clerk in
making cut the rolls.
The ordinance provides that fail
ure to vote at municipal election
will result in the removal of the
non-voter's name from the regis
ter. To regain the voting privilege,
the negligent voter will have to
re-register
The ordinance also provides for
absentee ballots to be used by resi-
dents called from Juneau at cleo
ton time.
In addition to routine business,
the council ordered an inyestiga-
ton to determine how much WORK
must be done at the City Wharf,
where Street Superintendent Bert
Bybeck reported pilings and CAT
in poor condition in several places.
Jake Cropley, Juneau piledriyer
operator was asked to make q
thorough investigation with City
Engineer Frank Metcalf.
The council also approved mo
ton authorizing Grover VIM. city
attorney, to codify and revise the
municipal traffic ordinance. which
first was adopted in 1929 and since
has been altered by amendments
to several sections. Adapted from
the City of Seattle traffic code, the
Juneau ordinance needs a general
revision to bring it up to date with
changes in traffic and street con-
ditions, the council decided.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-07

WASHINGTON = John L. Lewis
has returned to the brooding silence
from which he suddenly poppe4
his boomeranging AFL-CIO peace
scheme, but while saying nothing
publicly, the power-hungry miner
boss is not idle.
Under cover, he is busy organiz-
ing dairy farmers as members OF the
United Mine Workers.
The farmers are in Michigan and
they are being signed up as mem
bers of Local SO, a sort of catch
all UNIV branch, made up of units
of munitions, chemical coke, cos
metics and gas workers. Head of
Local so are two Lewis appointees-
Ora Gassaway, old tim UNIV
henchman, and Lewis daughter
and former confidential secretary,
Kathryn. Gassaway gets $4,000 a
year; Miss Lewis, $500.
Local SO was recently in the
news as result of a purge of a
number of crack organizers who
didn't see eve to eye with Lewis
isolationist views.
Directly in charge of the farmer
drive are two other Lewis hench-
men--Ray Thomson, another old
time UNIV official, who attracted
attention at the recent CIO con-
ventionvention when he slugged
two assistants of CLIO president
Phil Murray. and Ralph Marlatt,
labor publicity agent.
According to Thomson and Mar
latt over 5000 Michigan dairy
farmers have joined the United
Dairy Farmers of America, a new
Local so union. The farmers, say
Thomson and Marlett, could get
nowhere with their demands for
better prices from the bit dairy
corporations, SO they asked Lewis
to take them under his wing.
Thomson and Marlatt also boat
that the Michigan drive is only the
start of a nationwide caunpa,en
Lewis to unionize 5000 900 farmers.
Already activities are under way
to branch out into Minnesota, Wis
consin, Iowa, Illinois and Ohio.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-07
Say
British Plan
NorwaYMove
Berlin Newspapers Garry
Stockholm Report
Of Attack

BERLIN, Fep. German news
papers today carried lengthy
Stockholm report that Prime Min
ister Winston Churchill is laying
plans for large scale landing
operation on the Norwegian coast
md hopes 10 save the support OF
he United States Fleet.
The dispatch, circulated by a
semi official German news agency
aid Churchill is expected to in
form the House of Commons OF the
plan soon in a secret session when
he will request approval OF the
hazardous undertaking.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-07
Tragedy Hits
U. ). U-Boat
NearPanan1a
$40 Founders in 3O1 Feet
of Water Two Officers
Thrown Clear of Deck

WASHINGTON, Feb. : - The
Navy announced today the sub
marine S26 collided with another
naval vessel on the night OF jan
uary "a and sank off Panama with
the loss of all except three OF the
crew during surface operations.
The survivors were standing on
the bridge and were thrown clear.
They are Lieut.. Comdr, Earle G.
Hawk, commanding officer; Lieut..
Robert Ward, and Joe Hurst, sea-
man, first class.
The Navy said the next OF kin
have been notified, but did not dis
close the number aboard.
Six Navy divers, sent from Wash
ington, established contact with
the ship in 301 feet of water five
days after the craft sank. No one
was alive.
The submarine was OF the old
type built after the last war.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-07
GOOD SKATING AT
TWOLAKES SUNDAY

Skating conditions at AUX Lake
and Mendenhall Lake will be good
over the weekend, the Forest Serv-
ice reported today.
The skating areas have been test
ed directly in front of the Menden-
hall Skaters Cabin and at the
Juneau end of AUX Lake.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-07
DUTCH CLAIM
JAP CRUISER
sunk BY SUB
East Indies Fleet Intact al
Sea and Ready for
Action
Ruth Hussey
tBY ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Dutch bulletin today said the
Netherlands East Indies forces sunk
a Jap cruiser and transport and hit
another cruiser in submarine opera
lions off Amboina.
The Dutch acknowledged that the
Jap invasion forces have won con-
troll of most of the island, site of
the islands second biggest naval
base.
Countering Tokyo's assertion that
the Dutch fleet has been annihil-
ated, the bulletin said the fleet is
absolutely intact and at sea ready
for action.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-07
JAP CANNON
THUNDER AT
THREE FORTS
Artillery Bdrrdge Lasts for
Three Hours-Infliets
No Damage

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. - A War
Department bulletin today reported
Jap heavy artillery concealed on the
southeast shore of Manila Bay vio-
lently shelled three American forts
for three hours, inflicting no dam
age.
The American guns answered in
blasting volleys with undetermined
results
Over Batan Peninsula, the bulle-
tin added, two American fighter
planes battled four Jap bombers and
shot down one of them.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-07
THOMAS LONG GIVEN
SIX MONTHS SENTENCE

Thomas Long, Of Sitka, was
sentenced to serve term of six
months in Jail on a charge of as
sault and battery, by United States
Commissioner W. w. Knight, OF
that city, according to word re-
ceived by the United States Ma
shal's office here today.