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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-12-30
u. French
UNITS GAIN
in TUNlSIA
Advancing on Road Be.
teen Tunis and Trip
oIitania

LONDON, Dec. 30 - French
troops in Central Tunisia an d
American forces in the south are
reported advancing slowly in a
threat to cut the coastal road link
ing Tunisia with Tripolitania. But
mud still begged down the main
Allied forces near Tunis.
French forces, supported by Al
lied tanks and planes, are reported
to have cut an important 70 a d
south of Point Du Fahs, 80 miles
south of Tunis yesterday, and also
to have beaten off violent German
counter attacks except in one sec
tor where the Nazis advanced
slightly at the cost of heavy losses.
Advance on S0usse
At the same time. British patrols
operating against Field Marshal
Erwin Rommels troops west of
Wadi Beiel Chebir on the Libyan
Gulch, 1870 miles east of Tripoli,
destroyed some enemy vehicles yes
terday.
A Cairo communique reported
that naval torpedo planes sank a
southbound Axis merchant vessel
eff Pantellaria Island while other
bombers successfully attacked the
deck areas of Tunis and Bizerte.
Italian Claims
The italian High Command coun-
tered this report by saying that
italian aerial detachments inflict-
ed heavy losses on enemy columns
in the coast region of Libya, route
of the British westward advance.
And the German radio announc-
ed that American troops have taken
Gafsa, 200 miles southeast of
Tunis and only 80 miles from
Gabes on the Eastern Tunisia
coast
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FLOUR GOING
UP In PRICE,
TEN PERCENT
Raise Takes Place at Mills
Bread Price 10 Re-
main Same

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. = The
Government has ordered an average
of 10 percent increase III the price
of flour at the mill but acted to
prevent any higher prices for bread
by disseminating slicing and other
services tending to increase the
costs.
simultaneously action was taken
by the Office of Price Administra-
ton on flour prices
Secretary OF Agriculture Clau d G
Wiekard said the action sets UP a
uniform schedule of flour prices
throughout the country, replacing
the temporary price ceilings which
were frozen at individual mills at
price prevailing at the late Septem-
Der levels.
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REDS TAKE
IMPORTANT
RAIL CITY
Smash German Hopes 10
Relieve Trapped eau
Casus Forces

MOSCOW, Dec. 80. = Russian
troops have captured Kotelnikov-
ski 80 miles southwest of Stain
grad, in an onrushing effort to
reach Rostov on the Sea of Azov
to trap a million-man army in the
Caucasus and before Stalingrad.
A special communique announced
this as one of the great goals OF
the Russians winter strategy. The
capture of Kotelnikoyski was a
further blow to the Nazis hope
of rescuing the % divisions which
the Russians say are trapped be-
tween the Don and Volga rivers.
North of Stalingrad, other Red
Army units hammered at these
100000 Nazis from all sides. For
weeks the Russians have steadily
been driving wedges into the Ger
man positions in this area cutting
virtually all supply routes except
air transport
Meanwhile, in London, high mill
tary sources said the capture OF
the key railroad center of Kotelni-
kovski meant determination OF
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Bloody triangle" in New
Guinea, Heavily For
fitted, Seized
HEAVY CASUALTIES
INFLICTED ON ENEMY
Fierceness Of Defense Is
Shown in One Par
tieuIar Incident
tBy Associated Press

Hard fighting American troops IN
New Guinea are officially credited
with the capture of the bloody tri-
angle q series of thirteen fortified
bunkers bitterly defended by the
Japs.
Other Allied forces slowly closed
the trap around the enemys mar
row beach corridor at Buna.
Front line dispatches said that
the Americans drove out the Japs
piecemeal, then inflicted heavy cas-
ualties, beating off the enemy in
counter-attacks
The fierceness OF the Jap defense
was illustrated when the Americans.
hopping up one sector, found a
single Jap operating eight machine
guns, operated by means OF strings
of wire rugged in series.
MacArthur's headquarters an
nounces: The hopping up of cap
tured positions is in progress, and
our troops have expanded their in
itial wedge still farther west"
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SMASH JAP
CARGO UNIT,
S0L0M0NS
Nippons Are Weakening
Attack Carried Out
by Planes

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-Amer-
can aircraft operating from Hen
derson Field on Guadalcanal Island
strafed and bombed an enemy fleet
of cargo ships off the island and
sank two Jap vessels, the Navy re-
ported late today.
The communique added that Army
and Marine troops killed more than
$50 Japs with the loss of only four
men killed and one wounded in a
land action in the Solomons.
The air attack on the cargo YES
sells occurred at Wickham anchor
age, southeast of Vangunu Island in
the New Georgia group, approx
mately 100 miles northwest of Hen
derson Field
Fighting in which Marines ex-
changed artillery and mortar fire
and destroyed an enemy mortar
and machinegun position also was
disclosed.
The fleet of Jap cargo vessels at
Wickham apparently were attempt
ing to bring supplies to the har-
raised Jap forces in the Solomons.
Report of the attack came the day
after Commdr Dwight Dexter, al,
U. S. Coast Guard officer just back
from the SoIomons. told press con-
ference here that the Jap forces in
the Solomons are weakening and
said, Judging from my experience
there, I believe the Japs now have
all they can do to combat starvation
and disease as well as to worry
about the little bit of hell the
Marines are giving them. too"
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AERIAL F0RAyS,
ARTILLERY FIRE,
TUNlSIAN FRONT

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Dec. 30.-Allied
patrols have inflicted casualties
and captured some prisoners on the
Tunisian front in encounters with
small enemy detachments.
The Allied communique tonight
also said aerial forays and artil-
lery fire made up today the activi-
ties on the African front.
Enemy positions were shelled il
the Heidous area about six miles
north of Mediea FL Bah and plane
to the east bombed and machine
gunned the roads leading to Tunis
Important communication lines
and enemy troop centers have been
bombed by Allied planes tn IA I
braved violent storms and severe
icing.
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OF
BRITISH IN
BURMA RAGE
Japanese Airdrome Blast
ed as Ground Troops
Continue Advance
(By Associated Press

Royal Air Force Blenheim bomb
ers, escorted by fighter planes.
have blasted anew at the Japanese
airdrome at Monywa, on the Chind-
win River, northwest Burma and
also pounded the air base at
Toungoo, Central Burma.
British fighter planes have also
carried out offensives on patrols
in the Mayu River district an d
along the Bay of Bengal where
Gen. Wavell's British troops have
been driving toward the big Jap
base at Akyab.
No further word has been re-
ceived on the progress of the
British overland thrust OF yester-
day where the forces are reported
TO have reached Rathedaung, rs
miles from Akyab
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The W ashingtUn
Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON
tMajor Robert s. Allen on active dutyo

WASHINGTON United Sea-
mems Service, a welfare organiza-
ton for merchant seamen supported
by Mrs. Roosevelt, Henry Kaiser,
and other prominent individuals,
appears headed for trouble.
The organization has received a
tremendous amount of favorable
publicity in it's drive to solicit S.
100000 for the maintenance of rest
homes for merchant seamen whose
ships have been sunk.
However, an undercover investiga-
ton by the War Shipping Admin
istration indicates that most OF the
funds donated to the United Sea-
mems Service, including money sup
piled by the Federal government
have gone to civilian promoters and
iobholders, rather than to disabled
merchant seamen.
War Shipping Administration IN
vestigators have reported the fol-
lowing:
% That less than 10 per cent OF
the funds provided by the govern
ment and by private donors to the
United Seamen's Service have been
expended for the care OF torpedoeo
merchant seamen.
CD That in addition to lush sal
aries to top officials, the United
Seamen's Service is paying $4,000 a
year for a three--floor layout OF
offices on Broadway, New York, plus
salaries for 154 workers in those
offices, though only a relatively few
merchant seamen from torpedoed
supply vessels have been aided in
the New York area.
go That convalescent home fol
torpedoed merchant seamen at Oys-
ter Bay, Long Island, donated by
Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, had % en-
ployees on the payroll as of last
report, compared with IA rescued
seamen from torpedoed merchant
vessels resting up at the home. Mrs
Franklin D. Roosevelt figured prom
inentlv in the dedication of this
convalescent home.
AS a result of these disclosures
the U. S. SIS Board of Directors
including Admiral Land, Chairman
Henry Kaiser, Harry Lundoerg
President of the AFL Seafarers' In
ternational Union, and Joseph Cur
ran, President of the CLIO Nationa
Maritime Union, are embarrassed.
Kaiser actually submitted his res
ignation last week but later with
drew it temporarily at the request Of
Capt. Edward Macauley, Deputy
War Shipping Administrator. How
ever, AFL leader Harry Lundberg, 9
member of the board Of directors
also plans to resign in the neal
future.
",
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RAID NAzI
SUB PORT

LONDON, Dec. 30.-Heavy bomb
ers OF the U. S. Army Air Force
attacked submarine pens at the
Nazi-held port Of Porient in France
late this afternoon and three bomb
ers are missing.
But the communique says 81 num-
Der Of enemy fighters" were de-
stroyed when they attempted to
intercept the American raiders over
the target area
Another late bulletin said Allied
fighters made sweeps over enemy
territory without encountering any
opposition.
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LONDON. - Raj bomber n q
fighter planes flew through snow
squalls yesterday to attack Nazi
railway detectives in France. Fight
err attacks were also made in pa
troll action over France and the
Low Countries.
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IIlslndaIIon OF llass
OF Oueslionnaires Is
Front Noise al Home
BY JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 - Since
no government agency, official, or
even off-the-record observer can
come close to answering this ques-
ton, it might be worth stating
Why, in the name of common sense,
hasn't the Census Bureau been given
the responsibility for handling the
deluge of questionnaires which have,
as a result of the war effort, flooded
big business. little business and
individuals?
The biggest home front noise in
Washington today is being made
about this QUESTIONABLE inundation.
The Baltimore Sun recently uncov-
cred a new high in the questionnaire
tide when it reported that a Wash
inton department store had on hand
a 13,4b0-page pile of OPA regula-
tions, directives and questions, in
volving more than 100000 words
of legalistic language.
One case illustrates my original
question. Several agencies (OPA,
The Rubber Administration, and
ODT) had to know something about
the tire situation in the country
Questionnaires were printed.
Then some bright clerk in the
Budget Bureau asked why this in
formation wasn't available at the
rubber division of the Department
of Commerce. A check proved that
it was. Where did the facts and
figures come from? The Census
Bureau
When the Census Bureau was
steaming up for the 1910 census, /
spent many hours hob-nobbing with
the men who were to make analyses
of that check-up. They had facts"
on everything under the sun; birth
rate. employment. machine tools,
farm labor, car ownership, factory
production, food consumption and o
thousand other things.
Now. they Said, on basis of
trends. the 1910 census should show
thus and so. The margin of error
lin spite Of depressons, the outbreak
of World War II in Europe ,etc)
was never more than a scant few per
cent-in most instances less than
one percent On most important
facts. the Census Bureau would have
no greater margin Of error today.
The Census Bureau, as a fact
finding organization, has no political
axe to grind A full-time bureau
organization Git still would number
thousands Of employees less than
during census years. could gather
all the facts that have to be known
in prosecuting the war effort in one
tenth the time used by the question
naire method and. having the con-
facts constantly at their finger tips,
could also discriminate regulations.
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NORWEGIAN
QUISLING
IS KILLED

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 3O-Reports
from Oslo, Norway, received here
today said Jonas Lie, Minister of
Police for the Quisling Norwegian
government, has been killed by
Russian guerillas on the eastern
front.
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AT Duisburg- Ruhrport- Hamborn,
the Rhine flows past the worlds
busiest inland harbor--22 million
tons of shipping year.
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DOW. JONES AVERAGES
METCALFE RETURNS

C. H. Metcalfe, with Rice n d
Ahlers, has returned to his Juneau
headquarters after a visit of several
weeks
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east of Hedjez FL Bah have given
ground slightly but in another area
the French were reported to have
increased their advance.
MacARTHUR'S HEADQUA
TIERS. - Allied troops in New
Guinea have expanded the wedge
driven into the Jap positions south
east of Buna Mission and also have
captured a Jap strongpoint and
repulsed a Jap counter attack.
ISLANDS.-Allied aircraft have
bombed the Japanese runway at
Gasmata, New Britain, n the
airdrome at Kaviend, New Ireland
AUS RALIA. Macarthur
Headquarters announced today that
Allied heavy units have bombed the
airdrome at Lac, north of Buna
causing fires in the dispersal area
NEW DELHI. British raiders
have damaged runways, buildings
and grounded Jap planes at Mag
we and also severely damaged a
medium sized Jap river steamer
One British fighter is missing.
NORTH AFRICA.-Allied sea and
air successes in the North African
area are reported and in ground
fighting the Axis forces recaptured
height in the northern Tunisian
area but at great cost to them
selves.
CAIRO.-British submarines OPP
Grating off Northern Tunisia have
sank two Axis supply ships, forced
another to be beached and prob
ably sank a fourth vessel.
NEW DELHI. - British forces
driving into Burma are within II
miles of Akyab, important Japa-
nese supply port on the Bay OF
Bengal and Raj airmen have made
three successful attacks in two
days on the Jap-held airdrome at
Magwe.
! MOSCOW. The Soviet Army
has taken Kotelnikovski, important
city 80 miles southwest OF Stain
grad and large trophies were taken
including II planes and convo.
OF tanks.
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Ell Salvador ranks fourth in
world production of coffee.
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NORTH AFRICA.-America p
80 fighters attacked Axis forces in
Tunisia and also in Libya where
the British are pursuing the Nazi
forces of Marshal Rommel Allied
bomber formations attacked Axis
bases and communication systems
including Sousse and Tunis.
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STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Dec. 80. = Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 39s, American Can
70as, Anaconda 24as, Bethlehem
Steel 565s, Commonwealth and
Southern H. Curtiss Wright 65s In
ternational Harvester 60A, Kenne-
colt 1915, New York Central 10ss
Northern Pacific 81, United States
Steel 477s, Pound s404.
DOW, JONES AVERAGES
The following are today's Dow
Jones averages. Industrials, 1896;
rails, 1913; utilities, 14.35
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ThumbnaiI OF War;
FrontIine Briefs
BY the Office OF Wdr Information
Direct to The Empire


MURMANSK.-A Nazi attempt
to raid this arctic supply port
has been repulsed by Soviet fight
ers. The defenders met the enemy
at a distant approch to the town
and chased them back. Russian
planes engaged in the repulse and
shot down one Nazi fighter and
two bombers.
MOSCOW. = The Russians have
repulsed three German counter
attacks on the middle Don front
and occupied a town. Six hundred
Germans were killed at one point
and in another area the Soviets
dispersed an entire regiment of
Nazi infantry
MOSCOW. - On the Central
Front the Red Army has occupied
several Nazi centers of resistance
and captured blockhouses near We
LIKE Luki. Bitter fighting is re-
ported in the entire Stalingrad
area and the Russians advanced
several hundred yards within the
city. The Soviets have taken sew
eral towns, killed 100 Germans and
taken nearly 400 prisoners in an
other area In another sector an
entire unit of $500 officers and
German troopers surrendered.
Twelve Nazi planes and $50 trucks
have been captured.
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Continued on Page Three)
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ARMY MOVES FAST
r. r. Rice of Rockport, Tex, came
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L MOROCCO. Radio broadcasts
said French troops fighting south
east of Hedjez Ell Bah have given
ground slightly but in another area
the French were reported to have
increased their advance.
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BUY DEFENSE BONDS
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Demand This
Maritime" Woshing Efficiency

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Clothes Come
White Without Bleaching!

Why risk the dangers of harsh
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ton, brings clothes gloriously,
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Tive. Minute Cabbage

cup milk ! guard shredded cab
baee I tablespoons butter OF bacon
tat 2 tablespoons -four. cooked
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ruEsE AM rnf rraurs

The arr never sf8ane or q cause
e greater saffi8l OF ye fhat lose
mankinui " that aase oppose not
afls tins Tyranny buf tlie tFFan'
stand fnrihi EVERY ssgo5 ~ the Old
World h oqeff9H with oppression
Freedom hath been hlAstee round
itle Elfbg Asia ard Africa have
sauH expelled hgFi Europe regards
i1eE like q stranger On receive
tfse fugitive aisa nfef4Yp IN tilBe an
asfian for manklndt
We have If IN odT ns1gaeF 10 begin
uae world ali oVef aaaini 4 stu
afiou similar 10 the present hath not
faUAued sinaa the days ef Noah.
III now The birthday oi a uea
world 81 at hand ana . race Of men
perhaps aa numerous a. an Europe
contains are 10 receive their portion
d freedom from tire events Of a
feW months, The reflection s ~
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1nlfnna hga ridiculous DO tte lstie
f8ttf9 eagllliuea of b few weak or
sera ted men aptle4f WtIeIa weighed
against the business o. a worldi
THESE are the times that frs
Blens aoHlsl Tire summer soldier
and the sunal1ine patriot will III
fIii crhia shrink from the service
of his country hul he ihat stands Il
row deserves the love and tfie
tiianka o. man and woman Tyranns
Ikr he'll MOI easily conquered.
yet We have thia consolation. tie
harder The conflict the mora glorious
fiie triumph Il Is deafnegs only that
ai4fa everything ~ value Il would
Be- strange intieed If ~ celestial al
aftiele nj Freedom should not be
highly rated
! i4aYe aa little superstition IN
me Is any man living but ms ae.
erei opinion has eFef been that God
Ami hfF will mt give MP a people
e military destruction who have 81
earnestly sought q avoid the eaI4m-
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tie world and Given ts up la the
care Of the deqils1
Up and help u.s. Lay Your eiielil-
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great IA object Is at stakel Let it
b. told 10 the world tnat when moth
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wee The eifg and the country,
alarmed at ane common danger
eme forth 10 mfet and Ia repIllse
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evil On the blessings viii reach you
al The heart that feels not nov
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viii etlrae his euwardiee Of the man
he shfinkS back at a time when
a little might have saved the whole
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business Of little minds 10 shrink