The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 8, 1940, Page 8

;UDDEN FREEZE SLITHERS CARS FROM HIGHWAY Dozens of Moforists Find Themselves in Ditch ~One Injury from dside sudden night A ing rain laid sheet » the right of way Seve serious wrecks were ob- vec motorists,* though the rted was a badly forea suffered by Jack automobile in which Gar- 1 over Hill passenger turr near Vander to stop to had gone in the ditch. Luckily for Garrett, a CCC car with six enrollees.who had just attended a first aid lesson at Mon- tana Creek was already stopped the scene and Garrett's cut was bandaged immediately Ditched Cars Flank Road Two automobiles slithered from the road into tidewat on the Lemon Creek flats. Others were off the road all along the highway Wreckers still labored today re- covering the ditched cars Rain which fell yesterday after- noon started freezing over the road at about 8 o'clock last r t. Crews of the Public Roads Administra- tion went to work immediately and sanded the highway all night, but many motorists, unaw of the condition of the road and caught without chains, went into the ditch The condition was reported much improved today, though there are still some slick spots on the Loop Road was & the ditch e - THOUSANDS OF REDS IN BATTLE NOW Quarter of Million Fighters Hurled Against Defenders (Continued from Page Onz) in the manner of air fighting. It is also declared that Russians, disguised in Finnish Army uniforms, are operating behind the battle lines but as fast as discovered are sent before a firing squad. Mass Fighting Force It is claimed that the Russians, fighting along the line between Summa and Lake Hatjalahti, a dis- tance of 1 miles, massed 100 tanks and 3,000 pieces of artillery, and also an air force of more than 100 planes. Mass formation, however, is providing an excellent target for the Finnish defenders who are said to be machine gunning the invaders with disastrous results. The battle on this one front has raged with great intensity since last 1M GOING WHERE TS BRITAIN'S TRAFFIC CASUALTIES DURING BLACKOUTS HAVE FAR EXCEEDED HER TOTAL WAR CASUALTIES. GOT YOUR RATION CARD? THE WORLD'S GREATEST MECHANIZED ARMY WAS DEVELOPED BY GERMANY WITHOUT CERTAINTY OF A SUFFICIENT OIL SUPPLY-/ w THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 8, 1940. HM-M-:3999 MORE. SHIPMENTS COMING /. = A SWISS CUSTOMS GUARD FOUND A HALF POUND OF METAL DESTINED FOR GERMANY. A NOTE ON THE S5 BACK OF THE STAMP SAID, “5LOW 'WORK, BUT | HOPE TO PELIVER THE WHOLE TON WITHIN A YEAR " Third Force 0f Canadians Land, England Khaki-clad Men Cross Af- antic Safely Under Heavy Convoy LONDON. Feb, Great Britain, un wing of Great Britain's Navy, the third con- tingent of Canadian Active Service Forces have I; ed in England Like two pr us contin new wave of khaki-clad arrived unheralded and of darkness. Somewhere in the r zents. the nadians r cover und Gray trcopships moved silently up a British river and when the sun came up this morr the troop ships were lying at chor sur- rounded by naval vessels and fish- ing smacks. No official announcement has been made as to the size of the contingent and nothing is given out regarding the units comprising the contingent 1t is officially stated, however, that troop shi left a Canadian port under heavy convoy, on January 30. ~ Services Friday ~ For Andrew Aasen Funeral services for Andrew Aas- en, who dropped dead early Mon night as the result of a heart at- tack, will be held tomorrow after- noon at 1:30 o'clock from the chapel ,of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. iTh(‘ Rev. John L. Cauble will deliver the eulogy and interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Aasen was 66 years of age and was a native of Norway. He came to the United States in 1900, and had been in Alaska for 15 years, most of which time wa< spent in the vicinity of Hoonah, He came to Juneau about a month ago. He is survived by Swan Aasen, a brother, who arrived here by plane last night from Hoonah, two other brothers, Halvor Aasen and Gun- Clearing Way to White House So heavy was the fall of snow in ton, D. the nation’s capital at Washing- that workmen had to get out shovels to clear a path to ‘he White House door. Washington witnessed a fall of nine and one- 1alf inches. Several southern cities had unprecedented snow blankets. SHOTS RING OUT ON CITY'S QUIET WEATHER FRONT Radio-Sonde Balloon, In- strument Casualties in Rifle Fire An expert job of sniping was per- formed here in Juneau iast night when when Theodore Kleinsasser of the U. S. Weather Bureau punc- tured a radio-sonde balloon and si- len¢ed its broadcasting instrument Thursday, a week ago, but the Red nar Aasen, both in Washington, with two well-placed shots. Army has made practically no ad- vancement and have lost thousands. - Emphe Want Ads Bring Resnlts. ‘:)u’ll agree with sands the world over like about Teacher’s... TEACHER'S {0 n of Blende SCOTC Te cc ic Su Manicuring . . . 0il Shampooing and Set H WHISKY Be aLovely Valentine heart beat faster, sure to look your best. Royal Beauty Salon’s ‘The ROYAL Beauty Salon and a sister, Mrs. Carey Michaelsen, living in Minnesota. - Empire ciassifieds bring results. what thou- d ) make that certain be ymplete beauty serv- ¢ is the way to be ire of that. The rifle fire was necessitated by | the balloon’s becoming entangled in light wires between the High School and Grade School soon after it was released from the roof of the | Federal Building at 8:45 o'clock last Inight. Efforts to release it were of |no avail. Another instrument to ! make the nightly upper air weather | observations “could not be released | because the radio broadcasting unit attached to the entangled balloon ontinued to send out loud and clear signals to the receiving equipment, drowning out the record of -the as- cending unit. Police Help So the Weather Bureau obtained permission of the Juneau police and |a police searchlight to illuminate the balloon. Kleinsasser, who used to be a member of the University of South Dakota rifle team, fired a .22 bullet first at the balloon. It collapsed but | still the instrument did not fall. So | he shot at the small waving instru- ment box and put it out of com- mission. Another balloon was released from the Federal Building Today an electrician recovered the damaged instrument and balloon. S ik SKATING RUINED Last nights rain BY RAIN WATER Mendenhall and Auk covered both Lakes with water and spoiled skating at least for “the present, it was reported | today by the U. S. Forest Service Unless a sudden and severe freeze should occur, there will be no skat- ing tonight. * has been acclaimed the outstan YANKEE TO THE CORE.—Ch. Meadow Lark Drafis- man, beagle owned by Mr. and Mrs. William duPont, Jr., (above) ding American-bred specimen of ,mm AVERS SOVIET NOT BEING FAIR| Admits Moscow Not Play- ing Ball on Diplomatic Agreements WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull wrote the | Senate Foreign Relations Committee today that the State Department @id not consider continuance of dip- | lomatic relations with Russia to be | “wlolly contingerg” upon fulfill- {mem by the Soviet Government of pledges made by Litvinoff and agreements which preceeded offic- |ial recoghition in 1933. The information was given in reply to a committee request for Hull's comment on a resolution ten- dered by Senator Arthur Vanden- berg asking the State Department to say whether or not the Litvinoff agreements had been kept. Vandenberg contends that Russia violated her pledges to the United States and urged diplomatic rela- ions be broken off with the So- viet Government. Hull said his cepartment on sev- eral occasions “had grounds to be- lieve that the Soviet Government is not fully living up to its obliga uons undertaken at the time of es tablishment of dpilomatic relatis ~ -~ Fortunefor Young Wife, WPAWorker OAKLAND, Cal, Feb. 8. — The young wife of a WPA worker, Mrs. | Airleen Franco, has found herself the unexpected heir to a iortune of | more than $100,000 For the past several years Mrs. Franco had to watch every penny | to make her husband’s earniugs as 'a WPA manual laborer cover the expenses needed for themselves and their two small sons. Monday night, Mrs. Franco's fa- ther, John Drake, died and his will left everything nhe owned to his daughter and directed her t oa safe- ty deposit box of an Oakland bank. Drake for many years operated a small beach concession that was popular in season. | Mrs. Franco knew that her father was able to get by, living modestly, but she believed his savings were small. | The young mother nearly collaps- ed from surprise when she opened the safety deposit box. It contained 'a bank book showing a balance of {more than $100,000 in Drake's name, | SEEPRe Se i FINNISH RELIEF ALASKA TOTAL NEARLY $5,00 Many Confribufions Also Go from Territory Direct fo N. Y. Headquarters Total receipts to date in the Fin- nish Relief Pund drive in Alaska amount to $4,656, it was announced today by Territorial Chairman Frank Boyle. | In addition to this sum, Ketchi- kan sent its contributions directly to national headquarters and the Sons of Norway and Finnish Bene- volent Society anticipated the drive in Alaska and made collections in | almost every city in advance of the jofficial drive. Funds so collected | have been sent directly to the na- | tional organization of these so- cieties. | 'SOMMERS RECOVERS | AFTER EMERGENCY OPERATION N EAST derwent an emergency operation in Chicago a week ago when he was, suddenly stricken with appendicitis, | tomorrow, according to word receiv- ed here by Mrs. Sommers. The Juneau contractor had just jarrived in Chicago by plane to at-| tend an annual “road show” of high- way construction equipment when he suffered the attack. He plans to leave Chicago for the Coast on Saturday. e — 'Plan Card Party | Forjnn Relief i At a short business meeting held last night by the Women of the Moose, it was planned to postpone { 7 éopsmH;l't a “Crime Wave” Specializing only on drug stores for their holdups, two youths were arrested by Philadelphia detectives who abruptly cut short their brief erime career. Detective Charles Stienberg counts the loot, $250. Joseph Case, one of the accused lads, is at right. AMERICAN| SHOT, CLAIM PARIS, Feb. 8—A Polish Gov- ernment announcement s that an American citizen and his 19- year-old American citizen son, were among 127 Poles executed by Ger- man troops at the town of Wawer near Warsaw. The victims were executed reprisal for the murder of German Poles. The statement charged that after the murder a battalion of Germans reached the town and announced that in reprisal one in every ten persons at Wawer and the nearby resort town would be shot. - Overfime ark;rs Ofdergq Arrested SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 8. — Warrants for the arrest of 15000 San Franciscans who ignored over- time parking citations have beeg ordered issued by Municipal Judge Alden Ames in an effort to c an estimated 50,000 such cases from police files. The mammoth task put the police department in a dither and brought cries for help from District Attor: Mat Brady who said: “I will pro. in two _ ecute, but somebody better give me 500 more deputies.” D MiHiungier Strike Alaska Replaces Finland for Reindeer G[e:ltis A world-famed clinic at Geneva, rland, which had been ob- taining reindeer glands from Fin- land for medical purposes, has ap- pealed to Alaska to replace the supply cut off suddenly by the Fin- nish war. This week a letter was received by the Juneau Rotary Club from Dr. H. Koechlin, whose address is Acien-Chesde Clinque, AB.J., A I'Hopital Contonal de Geneva. Dr. Koechlin, a Rotarian, wrote that he needed a supply of reindeer |glands and asked that the Club cable him immediately the name jof a veterinarian in the reindeer | country | The letter has been referred to | the Office of Indian Affairs, whizn plans to take care of Dr. Koech- lin'’s request through the Reindeer | Service headquarters at Nome. 'Contributions for Finnish Relief at ‘Held by Columbus, O., police on a complaint she stole a pistol | from her employer, Kay Lue, 22- year-old maid is staging a hunger strike. Miss Lue came to Colum- bus from her Billings, Mont. home to be near her boy friend whom she met at a CCC camp % four months ago. | S e | Two girls, dressed in Scandinavian % % costumes, will be at both theatres benefit of the Finnish Relief F‘l‘nfll;mmght to accept contributions for Following the lodge work, a cardy, oy pi Relief Drive in this party was held with twelve "abl%‘city. The proceeds will be turned in play during the evening |over to the Finnish Relief Commit- Prizes for briage went to MIS. |tee, John Torvinen and William Gaddl.; There will be absolutely no solicit- high, Mrs. A. Rodenberg and Jnhn‘mg. a gifts being of free-will offer- Newman, low. Whist honors were won by Mrs. Bd Kirchoffer and| ™ vy yinjan Hendrickson will be Robert Light, high; and Mrs. Pete ;,,"op0000 of the contributions at Hammer, low. In pinochle winuers| .. coliceum, and gifts will be ac- were Miss Hilda I'weit and Lee Cor- 5cepted at the Capitol by Miss Mavis kle, high; Mrs. Anna Jackson ‘md‘Nikula, Grant Baldwin, low. % Announcement was made that the sewing club would meet Tuesday night at 8 o'clock at the residenge of Mrs. Fay Corkle in the Perelle Apartments. Try an Empire ad. 15% Canadian Discount B. M. Behrends Bank. D HOONAH PRISONER wv Theatgrgs Tonight | | FOOD SPECIALS! } THRIFT C0-OP STANDBY l 2" 2. 2" 25¢ GILYONE PURE EGG pkgs. for NOODLES Z ch Heinz TOMATO cans NUBORA WASHING POWDER CORN STANDBY T STRINGLESS CHILI NS, CREAM STYLE HORMEL CHICKEN BROTH WITH 3 cans for 4zc RICE z No. 2 cans zsc STANDBY Med. WHITE BEETS. ... FANCY STEAMED WILLAPOINT OY: Large cans for PUREX TOILET TISSUE. THRIFT co-0P We Deliver PHONE 767 BROUGHT IN; ONE MORE INDICTMENT Mark Wilhams of Hoonah was brought to Juneau yesterday in cus- today of Deputy Marshal William } Markle after his arrest on a bench warrant issued as a result of a se- cret Grand Jury indictment. He is charged with assault with a dan- gerous weapon and bond is set at] $2,500. . i One more secret indictment was returned by the Grand Jury this morning. AND WHAT CAN 1 BANK ON FOR FLAVOR? il SCHILLING COFFEE OF COURSE/ IS 4 rolls for 25c ) e R. J. Sommers of Juneau, who un- ; is recovering nicely and plans to| | leave Passivant Memorial Hospital | NO CAA FLYING SCHOOL PLANNED FOR THIS CITY. There is no chance of a non-col- leze school under the civilian pilot training program being set up in Juneau, as all training centers have already been chosen for this year, | the Chamber of Commerce has been informed by Grove Webster, Chief of the Private Flying Development Division of the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Webster said the program is in an experimental stage and is being carried on on a limited scale. Such a school, for 10 pupils, is to be established at Anchorage. B SHINGLE FIRE A roof fire at the Ashenbrenner residence on Willoughby Avenue| near Ellen’s Grocery called fire- !!oipoinl Appliances Redfice;l CLOSING OUT 1939 MODELS REFRIGERATORS—3, 5 and 6-foot models $120.00 to $139.00 RANGES—with two-unit ovens, cooker pot $114.50 to $127.50 ‘WASHERS—DeLuxe with Pump, 7-pound capacity ... $68.50 ALL CARRY THE USUAL WARRANTY -You can draw on Schilling for valimited “coffee cnjoyment! The reason? It's a matchless blend of the world’s choice coffees, skilfully roasted to bring out deli- cious full flavor and strength. Dy, C A"//r(' ";1/,.’, ... $77.50 ~ RICE & AHLERS CO. PHONE 34 Third and Franklin ANN EARLY SMITH, Owner-Operator all breeds of pure-bred dogs shown in 1939, The American Kennel club announced selection of the beagle who collected 407 points in hound groups at 35 member- club shows. U T— the scheduled dinner for February men out yesterday afternoon to 21, to be replaced by a public card|the 2-1 box, but damage was lim- party that same evening for the ited to a few shingles, l