Baseball
t Men See
Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Dec. 6.—(AP)—
The first group of major league
baseball stars to visit one of the
nation’s war fronts arrived here
via air, to bring to the service
men a bit of second-hand world
i series atmosphere.
The five-fan USO baseball unit
headed by Frankie Frisch, man
. ager of the Pittsburgh Pirates,
boyhood playing idol, of many
men now in the uniform include
Stan Muesel, national league bat
ting champ and Danny Litwhiler,
both of the St. Louis Cardinals;
Hank Borowy, the New York
Yankee pitcher; Fred Dixie
Walker, the Brooklyn outfielder.
The equipment is expected to
be taken to the distant Aleutian
bases, where the ‘‘Willawa”
might carry the fly ball to the
next island.
Army officers said the big
leaguers might get a bit of out
door hitting and fly chasing if
the weather and ground condi
tions permit.
The principal entertainment is
expected to be indoor appearances
and film shown, then the soldiers
could fire questions to the base
ballers, having a regular bull
fest of sports headliners. The
'*■' fast-quipping and hard-hitting
crew-boys “will be crazy about
them.”
Army officers said that Boro
w’y, the only American leaguer
remarked:
“The sports writers have one
point. I guess they figured that
one American leaguer could hold
down four nationals.”
LABOR BILL
OUTLINED
Enterprises Affected
1. A1 l'est a b fisKm eh fs employ
ing more than eight persons
since October, 1942.
2. All establishments employ
ing one and up to eight persons
since September, 1943.
Employers
If any changes are made in
wages or salary payments for
( the legal rates (rates paid for
the same jobs in October, 1942,
or subsequently approved by the
War Labor Board) without first
securing War Labor Board ap
proval, the entire amount of
such changed payments, legal as
well as illigal, shall be disallow
ed as deductible expense under
the revenue laws of the United
States (income tax).
Employee and or Employer
Any individual wilfully mak
ing or accepting wage or salary
payments which differ from the
legal rates (rates in effect in
October, 1942 or subsequently
approved by the War Labor
Board) shall, upon conviction,
be subject to a fine of $1,000, or
to imprisonment for not more
than one year or both.
War Labor Board Approval
To obtain War Labor Board
approval of any change in wage
or salary rates, already made or
to be made, from those paid in
October, 1942, application should
be made on Form 10 to War La
bor Board, Federal Building,
Juneau, Alaska. Form 10’s may
be secured from Wage and Hour
Division, U. S. Department of
Labor, Federal Building, P. O.
Box 1030, Juneau, Alaska.
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Russians
Smash
F orwardj
LONDON, Dec. 6.—|AP)—
Smashing ahead northwest of
Propoisk, the Red Army is
threatening Mogilev, one of the
last important German rail cen
tqr^iin White Russia.
As other Russian units squeezed
Nazi defense lines near Zhlobin,
Rogachev and the Gomel area, the
Red Army hurled back German
counter attacks and swept for
ward northwest of Proposik to
capture heavily fortified strong
holds of Varodol, Bahki. Zab
luka.
Front line dispatches told of
deep Russian penetrations from
one end of the White Russian
front to ^the other, and said the
Germans were beginning to show
signs of lack of reserves, using
engineers in the first line troops
and sofe of the second.
Snow swept the front to the
south in the Kremenchug area, as
Soviet units Captured several
strong points after fierce engage
ments. The Nazis were continuing
to attack in the Cherkasy area
between Kremenchug and Kiev, j
but all were repulsed.
The German radio said the
Russians had broken through the |
Nazi lines south of Cherkasy butj
‘‘the greater part of the penetrat- ;
ing force was wiped out.”
BYPASSING
GERMANS
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
ALGIERS. Dec. 6.—(AP)—The
American Fifth Army bypassing
German strongpoints, captured
new heights commanding the
road to Rome, west of Mignano,
while the British Eighth Army
drive carried to the Moro river.
10 miles beyond the Sangro.
The Nazis launched strong
counterattacks all along the j
front, against allied infantry in
bitter hand to hand batlles, and
threw in mechanized grenadiers
against the Tommies, in desper
ate attempts to halt the smash
ing allied drives. A flame throw
ing tank was captured by the
British.
The counterattack west of
Venafro was hurled back by the
Fifth Army with severe losses,
the enemy fighting stubbornly
over every inch of ground, but
were driven from three more
commanding elevations, by the
Americans, who smashed fortifi
cations areas on the slopes of Mt.
Maggiore.
The British were driving out
Nazis in equally rough sectors on
Mt. Gamino.
From the newly won positions
the Allies could look down and
across the valley to Cassino, be
yond which the valley leads
northwest to Rome.
The Eighth Army advance to
the Moro river is a gain of 2 1-2
miles from San Vito, which was
announced in yesterday’s cap
tured towns, and carried the
Adriatic offensive to within 14
miles of Pescara.
LEND-LEASE WAREHOU SE—Two hundred by 835 feet, this giant warehouse U one of
13 being constructed by Army engineers at Auburn. Wash., to handle lend tease supplies.
Leaders In Harmony
In Tripartite Conference
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CAIRO, Dec 6 —(AP)—Roose
velt, Churchill and Stal.n agreed
completely upon “the jcope and
timing of operations to slash the
Gerfan army from three 3ides.”
An announcement signed by
the three statesmen after an epic
four-day meeting at Teheran, in
Iran, released here today, dis
closed that the Allied leaders also
charted the peace era in which all
nations will be incited, to join “the
World Family of Democratic Na
tions,” based upon Me reaffirm
ed principles of he Atlantic
charter.
The history maki .g conference
of the heads of the world’s most
powerful military and. political
combine held in ’ ’eheran from
November 28 to D eemfoer 1, was
attended also by scores of top
flight military <;hieftams and
diplomats of the United States
Britain and Riusti i.
Heavily under: coring the ur
gency of the mi itary phase, the
combined British and American
general staffs, subsequently re
turned to Cairo, the scene of the
November 22 to 26th meeting,
where Chiang Kai Shek, Roose
velt and Churchill staged a con
centrated planning session.
From last Friday through to
day they j ' ed these other ses
sions, leading to the probability
of other disclosures of para
mount international importance
still to come.
I^ie whereabouts of President
Roosevelt since the Teheran con
ference has not been disclosed, so
the Teheran declarations werq
signed simply, “Roosevelt, Stalin,
Churchill,” dated December l, and
announced these results
Our military staffs joined our
round-fable discussions. We have
concerted our plans for destruc
tion of the German forces, We
have reached complete agree
ment as to the scope and timing
of operations which will be un
dertaken from east, west and
south. We have reached guaran
tees that victory will be ours, and
no other power on earth can pre
vent our destroying the German
armies by land, their U-boats by
r
sea, their war plants from the
air. Our attacks will be relent
less and increasing
AIRWAYS
Alaska Airlines
Saturday Captain MacKenzie
left for Anchorage with a load of
freight and Alvin Polet, the loca i |
manager for the company as pas
senger
'-Monday' Norman Weaver left!
on the Unalakleet mail run with;
Mrs J. J. O'Leary for White
Mountain and Eva Ivanoff for
Golovin
Wien Alaska .Airlines
Herb Hager came in from Fair
bank.; via Galena Saturday with
the following passengers for
Sommers’ Construction Co.: M.
B Davis, Luke Galvin, Wilbur
Smith and Lester P. Reed. He re
turned to Fairbanks this morning
with L. Wharton and freight.
Frank Whaley made a trip
Saturday to Kotzebue via Rain
bow with express and Guy Prin
gle of the CAA and H. K. Car
lisle of the General Land office
for Kotzebue.
Pilot Whaley made a trip to
Council, Solomon and Golovin
this morning with express and
John Dufresne, a passenger for
Council.
Whaiey is scheduled to make
the mail run to Teller, Cobble
stone and Igloo this afternoon.
Pan .American Airways
Captain Robbins arrived this
afternoon about 2:00 o’clock with
the following passengers for the
Sommers Construction Co.: Wal
ter Zienath, F. C. Miller and
Charles Sanderson, and Postal
Inspector Arthur J Tonsing from
Seattle The balance of the load
was mail.
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Coming Events
IN THE HIGH SCHOOL GYM
Dec. 11.—Service Squadron
Dance.
Dec. 22. — "Alias Santa
Claus.”
Dec 23.—Community Xmas
Tree.
DROPS 63
TONS BOMBS
CAPE GLOUCESTER. New
3r:tiain, Dec. 5.—(AP)—This city
took a 83-ton bombing which
started fires and silenced its guns,
it wras reported today.
United Nations heavy bombers
damaged an 3,000-ton transport
and a 1,500-ton cargo ship out
of control in the Sismark Sea.
Wareo is the strategic junction
of jungle trails on the plateau
like Huon Peninsula, overlooking
the channel betw-een New Guinea
and New Britain.
United Nations' uniots are now
one mile north of Nongora, push
ing west of the recently captured
Bonga.
Bombers, with ground forces,
pounded the enemy positions with
38 tons of explosives.
SENTENCES
EVADER
_
KETCHIKAN, Dec. 8 —(AP)—
Federal Judge George F. Alexan
der sentenced Eric Jonas Ern
quist, 35, to four years in the
penitentiary for failure to report
for physical examination on the
Selective Service Act. Ernquist
pleaded guilty
The jurist castigated Ernquist,
“You’re one of those smart boys,
who think they can beat the
act,” and cited testimony that the
defendant had boasted he had
beaten the conscription act of
Sweden and would beat the
United States act.
Harry Richey, a seaman, was
sentenced to six years in prison,
When he pleaded giiulty to the
charge of fatally stabbing Thom
as Rouen, a fellow crewman on
a freighter Both were from Port
land, Oregon.
Tracy Giles of Ketchikan was
sentenced to five years for fatal
ly shooting his wife.
11 Men
Lost in
Storm
SEATTLE. Dec. 6.—A Liberty
ship which broke up in the
North Pacific 100 miles off the
coast of Alaska, November 25th,
with the loss of 11 men, had 100
persons aboard, it was disclosed
by John P. Gaifs. The ship, built
in the Kaiser shipyards at Port
land. Ore., was bound for Se
attle.
70 survivors were landed here
on two army transports which af
fected the rescue.
It was learned the names of
the missing persons were with
held since they were still sought.
They were lost when the line of
their boat to the rescue ship,
parted, and they were believed
washed under the stern of the
ship in the inky darkness.
The fost complete story wa3
told by Able Seaman Paul Tat
man, one of the last men to leave
the ship, 33 hours after she had
snapped in two like “a stick of
kindling”.
Gaining and heading into strong
wind, two points off the bow,
Tatman’s log read, she was
] pounding heavily, taking green
| ones over the fo'csle now and
i then.
“At 2:41 a. m. there was a loud
pop and a tremendous tearing and
groaning sound. The ship just
seemed to bend in the middle %
couple of times as she rode the
i seas, and then parted a third of
the way back from the bow. The
bow end, fortunately clear of
personnel, floated away in the
darkness.
After the ship broke in two,
Tatman continued, four boats
were launched. Captain A. W.
Nickerson of Seattlie, who high
ly praised the conduct through
out of Eugene Butts, the first
mate, remained aboard while 70
others were taken off, and was
picked up later by the rescue
ship.
Both the Navy and the Coast
Guard held out some hope for the
safety of the eleven men in the
missing lifeboat. The accident oc
curred off Shumagin Island
southeast of Kodiak, November,
24th.
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JAPANESE
REPULSED
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Dec. 6.—(AP)—Japanese coun
terattacked three times in de
fense of the jungle strong point
of Wareo in northwestern Neup
Guinea, but were repulsed each
time, General MacArthur’s com
munique said today. The Aussieg
used artillery to repel the at
tacks.
Bombers supported our contin
uing advances. Allied bombers
cascaded 95 tons of bombs, des
troying a bridge and 40 build
ings at Japanese positions south
of Empress of Augusta Bay on
Bougainville island. The Jap sea
plane base of Kieta, on the east
coast of Bougainville, was also
raided.
25 enemy torpedo planes and
five bombers raided shipping in,
Empress of Augusta Bay.