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D BRINGING UP FATHER ARGUIN' LAST FRIENDS- AFTER NIGHT WITH JIGES-{ii 1] ALL-THEIR AR- I'KNOW HE 1S Hi UMENTS ARE ASHAMED OF JUST INNOCENT HIMSELF- PASTIMES- I'LL JUST GO BACK HOME AND COOK NER WHILE_THEY'RE SITTING _THERE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, 1938. By GEORGE McMANUS TUESDAY, OCT. AN' THEY WERE ARGUING ON HEM A NICE DIN- Y| WORLD PEACE- CHATTING - DON'T LET HIM GET UR-OR HE WiLL STAR ANOTHER FIGHT- “THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD DOESN'T SEEM TH' SAME - L | DON'T SEEM TO CARE TO CALL ON ANY OF THE FAMILIES- q NOW AREN'T YOU ASHAMED OF YOURSELF FOR TALKING S0 MEAN ABOUT MY BROTHER DINNY-? HE JUST PHONED THAT HE IS A CONDUCTOR FOR; THE STREET RAILWAY- S THE COMPA \( KNOW | 4L Copr. 1938, (9\1@1@ 1 WANT AD. Kipg Featnres Syndicate, Tnc., World es by January 1. For Premier way ‘to. the Ebro river, 12 miles to [T AMERICAN CASH . sgin has just announced that 'I‘"‘ "“L" memh "(‘)r“;;‘l‘.“;- ‘;(‘,‘;E" GROCERY and MARKET . —& the Loyalist government is ARNALG e 1 Te . WANT AD | WANTED | withdrawing its foreign volun- Rl e i INFORMATION || 550KkzrrreR, experienced, wants| ‘oo :h‘fe‘_:fi,‘;“;tfic'::f,',’i‘s,?c: moon was coming up. When T went i full or part time position. Take| . e . e | directi I b i into ene-| | SATISFACTION IN g a ! €| in this country last summer, one direction T bumped into ene-| | Count five average Words t the| complete charge. Phone Blue 690 o "% Gt o Ly Imy troops and so turned and went FOOD QUALIYY AT "’S'fll.y it in e st v {7 ive Aenadten a ke v v o) | northeast for three days. I had UNIT usertions: ANTED TO BUY—Good used| others have been killed or nol%:’::é;) h;n ::g l:i:::(l)\::;:&l(l(:}; : NTEEP FOQD CO. > = | washing machine. Phone 364. wounded. From 500 to 1,000 still ce I Was surr LEPHONE—16 | | In case of error or if an ad —— | remain. This story tells Figh- cavalry patrol. They spotted me on | | nas, been stopped before ex- WANTED—Small acreage near Ju-\ Jights of the Americans’ ex- la hill and opened machine gun i3 o Ll : ] piration, advertiser please noti- neau. H. Hamsom, Fanshaw, Al-| periences. fire. T pulled the pin.on one of the h . (Phone 374) at aska. e grenades and waited for them to G s fldm::me will be given | |~ i W | By HE “n CASSIDY |come closer, but they wouldn't Eoorsdrii MISCELLANEOUS } Map shows principal fronts on which American volunteers have | .ono | c o A L fl'kzgoriw ALASKA EMPIRE L SR | BARCELONA, Vct. 1l — O fougnt in Spain. Arrows indicate their approximate movements from | “\when T reached a fown called | Learn WELDING. Largest, best|Christmas day, 1'“]" “"“d‘) -siXAm- | e (ime they joined International Brigade in defense of Madrid. Asco on the Ebo river I was freat-| o o g equipped school in west. Pree cata- |cricans secretly boarded ship A"“ Territory now held by Loyalists is shown in black on inset map. ed swell by the people there. They PHONE 412 One day ... log. DUNN WELDING SCHOOL, New York. They crossed the At Yo s ekt A fed me but urged me not to otick | Additional days .. 2033 N.E. Union, Portland, Ore. |lantic, entered Spain through the pretliar PACIFIC CQAST 50¢c Minimum charge ... Copy must be in the office by 2| ¥UARANTEED Realistic Perma- ‘Mfld“d and Kosciusko fought to help our felock in the afternoun to insure| nents, $450. Finger wave, 65¢.| They were the first organized |forefathers win liberty.” nsertion on same day. Lola’s Beauty Shop, WlePhonE‘gzoup of American volunteers—the | First big job for the Americans We accept ads over telephone 201, 315 Decker Way. lr;:mwpersons listed in telephone r———————URN‘ ol kol ol T “lm‘pm’mno; Ll(ulg the Lincoln-Wash- |gent drive on the capital, on the | el O O s auE SeIRaL Bhon m‘/’\wn»m:k s W or O g I‘I'gn! '«-lThipinu"r i Phone 274—Ask for Ad-taker. i3 2 it s on “Suicide Hill” overloo LOST AND FOUND LOF!I‘»—-Pmr lwhh slmlnxl—nmmed glasses. Kmdty return to Fmpn’e FOK SALE FOR SALE CHEAP—An exception- _ al buy in an 8-tube General Elec- Los’r,m l‘oot gr'xy skiff ,,L Auk tric console radio for only $57.50. Bay. Finder notify P.O. Box 1931, This set brings in the outside sta- Juneau. tions in good order. Alaska Elec- —. tric Light & Power Company. FOR RENT | graphed President Roosevelt, “for|withering fire, they were forced to e L A e (Tetire. While their attack failed to FOR SALE—35 Remington auto- FOR RENTPeterson House, 3rd| ™ |break through, it showed the in- matic rifle; 12-guage double- barrelled shotgun; 5-tube dry battery radio. Phone Blue 302. 522 West 10th St and Dixon, P.O. Box 1852. EXPERIENCED office woman. | Capable of managing office, ex- 1 operator, desires permanent posi- tion. Salary reasonable. Box 48, c¢/o Empire. | tric range for sale cheap at $20 cash. Terms if desired. Alaska Electric Light & Power Company. FRONT OFFICE in Blomgren Bldg. | FOR SALE—5-room house in DO“"- Two rooms. Phone Blue 510, Roy las. Apply Warners Grocery. Allen. 6-ROOM house in Douglas. Phone APARTMENTS, phone Blue 200. L. W. Kilburn, Douglas 48. FOR RENT—Two office rooms First National Bank Bldg. Inguire at bank. 1930 FORD Sedan, good condition, $120. Write P.O. Box 601. FOR’ SAI:H:—AMDb&[é for gx;uer; kraut, 3 cents per 1b. Inquire Rudy Ranck, Glacier Highway. FOR SALE—Canaries. 202 6th St. T e - JOHN GEYER, FORMER fi F?x?a:r‘:.m:lnq?urs gunenu ]P(;inz JUNEAU SCHOOL BOY OPENS DENI'ALOFFICE Store. | Dr. John Geyer graduate oi‘ Ju- neau schools and of the Pacific| Dental College at Portland, Ore., is opening offices in the Goldstein Building in Juneau today. Geyer, born and reared in Ju- neau, looked the States over and decided “the home pastures are bet- | ter.” His office is on the third Iloor.i e | ALASKANA, By Marte Drake, 50c. | : COZY, warm, furn. apts. Light,| water, dishes, cooking utensils and bath. Reasonable at Seaview. FOR SALE-—-U & I Lunch. Owner’ quitting business. Write P.O. Box 2274 or phone 334. FOR SALC—New 4-burner electric range, won at fair. Call Red 267 after 6 p.m. FOR SALE--City Float Beer Parlor. Phone 541 after 4 p.m. Lode and placer location notices for sale at The Empire Office. YOU GO RIGHT DOWN TO THE CAR-BARN-— AND WAIT UNTIL HE THEN BRING HELLO-MR BEN LOAPHEN - BEIN' NEIGHBORS- | JUST THOUGHT 'D DROP OVER AN’ SAY HELLO® o R ¥ OH-THAT'S OKAY- FINE - COME OH-IF | HAD Il I WANT YOu TO IN-IM GLAD KNOWN-YOU STAY- WE'RE HAV- TO SEE YOU- WUZ GOIN’ ING CORNED - TO HAVE FEEF AND ([ LUNCH= ; Bl WOULDN' T HAVE _COME HELLO -TIMOTHY- I'M LOOKIN' FOR 1S THROUGH WORK-= MAGOIES BROTHER | | CONCERNED HE DINNY = HAS HE 1S - WE CAN'T FINISHED. WORI FIND _HIN- AN YET® 5 FAR AS THE COMPANY RNED HE MAGGIE-THEY CAN'T FIND_YOUR BROTHER- WHAT ? NO --- THEY CAN'T _FIND THE CAR ElffHER~— THAT ISNT HINA HOME WITH YOU- ] U. S. Volunteers, Soon to Leave S ‘ Hm'v Borne the Brunt W \ Most Americans fighting in \‘ Spain, some of them for two may be out of the trench- | | Pyrences—and joined the defense of the liberty of Spain as Lafayette ‘nuc]eus of the Abraham Lincoln was to try to stave off the insur- fought as part of the XV Interna-pboth governmeént and insurzent tional Brigade in most of the major lines southeast of Madrid. For five | government actions of the first two g in mid-February they l.'lung‘ years of war — Jarama, Brunete, |there under a heavy insurgent | Beichite, Teruel, the retreat from|pombardment, And on February,| | Aragon and the offensive lmck |27 they went over the top. |across the Ebro. | Across a 250-yard No Man’s Tand, | | Helped Save Madrid |they charged—to within 30 yards of “We are fighting,” they once tele- the enemy ternches. Then, under | |surgents that the government |they struggled against snipers in .were on the way. He said the Iolc-sg {coming up were for the Loyal |army. He cried that the leaders of cellent typist and mimeograph | _ 1 Somewhere In Spaln this pic- ture was snapped of an Am- erican volunteer with the Loy- | alist Army, [symbol of governmental resistance.|day of cleaning up and Belchite | owner of Marble Créek, a stream in |their first major offensive. . |problem. Zaragoza was an insur-| strength had not collapsed. The insurgent offensive was stop-| ped, the Madrid-Valencia high\vayi s saved — and now after two ears the capital still slands as a| The American volunteers didn't| celebrate the Fourth of July, 1937 —they marched up that day for It was in the Guadarrama river sector, northwest of Madrid. The Loyal- smashed through the insurgent , but in the week-long battle for “Mosquito Crest” the Americans, outnumbered three to one, losLI heavily. So the Lincoln and W&sh- ington battalions were merged. After that offensive, in which the government gained some ground,| the Americans were in the thick of fighting on many fronts. The Zaragoza drive was a tough gent stronghold, and the two fort- land foreigners. | ress-towns of Quinto and Belchite ! had to be taken first. Captured Quinto and Belchite | On the morning of August 23 each | yman in the Lincoln - Washington up, charged the lines—and with a vember 12, Donations will be re-| |battalion—with bayonets fixed and bearing three grenades—entered Quinto. House by house, they worked their way to the insurgent strr'ng-1 hold at the center of the city. After | | dropped to the sea this spring, the Am- I)(“«'t ericans suddenly found themselves a “lost battalion.” 0[ lh(,’ 14 i ”h'l" | On a hill, surrounded by insur- bt o nt lines during the night. e by one they attacking with machine guns a hand grenades, they fired the b ing with burning bundles of ‘The garrison surren “Since T couldn't swim I yelled oss the river and soon troops heard me and sent lacross. I got back after seven days wandering.” Although most of the Americans escaped the trap successfully, come were killed and others captured. The tide was turned by the ))fl-[ This summer the battalion, litical director of the lnu-nm"\mnl;crossing the river, led the Brigade, known as Dave Doran of |offensive that stopped the Albany, N. Y. He commandered a |gent (lrivc to mop up Spain, loud-speaker truck and brought n >+ - to within a half block of the insur- gent street barricades. He told insurgents their radio " erlur acer lied when it said reinforcements Then the american: 12 miles to Belchite. wung west For six days fortified houses. Ebro insur- the insurgent side were Fsscl S | Gus Wilson, former placer oper- “Come over with us and save|ator and leaseholder on Marble your lives,” he pleaded. | Creek, has transferred his lease to Over the barricades they came, Henry Durand and Fritze Awe. one by one, without arms. Another | [uther C. Hess of Fairbanks is the| was taken. the Aniak watershed in the Kusko- ‘The Americans arrived at a point | gwim. 12 miles from Zaragoza before the| Mr, Durand and Mr. Awe have Loyalist army became stalemated. had a dragline and a tractor with Led Surprise Attack | "dozer shipped to the mouth of the At Teruel, one night, the men|Aniak, and they will take the ma- crawled forward—with the Cr'na.-rchmery and other supplies over the dian battalion — over frozen snow ice after freezeup to the placer and rocky earth to inch their line camp on Marble Creek. up about a mile. Just before dawn | Plenty of Water the Lincoln-Washington battalion, Mr. Hess owns five miles of attacked one of the hills, a virtual |claims on Matble Creek, a short insurgent fort | stream. The water supply is plenti- Big guns put down a heavy bar-|ful, and the ground is all thawed rage as the Americans took advan-|The average depth to bedrock is tage of every stone, brush, tree!12 feet, although it ranges from trunk and hollow to escape the an- | 10 to 20 feet. Most of the pay is in |swering fire. For an hour and a the gravel and on bedrock, and half they edged forward. Then, the gold recovered is flaky, medium braving machine gun fire, volun-‘Loarse teers dashed into the open and cat | - >-ese the insurgents’ barbed wire. | JUNEAU WOMAN'S CLUB An assault wave of troops rolled | Will hold a Rummage Sale No- Hermann’s | shout of victory the Amencans ceived at Mrs. R. R. | into the trenches and loffice in the Valentine Building. forced the insurgents to surrender | —adv. | at_bayonet point. - e Battalion Became “Lost” Lode and placer location notices | When Generalissimo Franco d.rovelbr sale at The Empire Office. “ gent machine gun nests, they man- - laged to hold out until dark. Then | split up to filter through the worked their a hoat ve- | Mine Is Leased | Phone 723—————115-2nd St. TH E ROYAL BEAUTY SALON OPEN EVENINGS “It your r is not becominy to you — You should be | | coming to us.” | ] GARBAGE HAULED Reasonable Monthly Rates | | EO.DAWES, . | TELEPHONE 212 Fhone 4753 @ — -] | Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR yNear Third | | Seviard Street Thritt Co-0p BUY FOR CASH and SAVE the PROFITS on your own spending. PHONE 767 ED A. ZINCK, Manager PETER PAN BEAUTY SHOP—Triangle Bldg. 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