The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1940, Page 8

Youw’re Invited to THE YEAR®S BEST DANCE ELKS CLUB ANNUAL PURPLE BUBBLE BALL OPEN TO PUBLIC! MUSIC BY Wes Barret and His Royal Alaskans ELKS HALL-Saturday, Oct. 19 SPECIAL EVENT! PRIZE BALLOONS WILL DROP FROM THE CEILING AT 12:30 EACH BALLOON WILL CARRY $1.00 OR MORE OF PAPER MONEY! ) ! { - \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | \ O e S 2 z § z i E 2 i | { E i z | E z b MRS. ROOSEVELT | Meeting Dates DOESN'T TALK Are Changed by ON ELECTION' Ladies Auxiliary President’s Wife Has “"No | surcar Lo usiiary. neld at Idea” Whether He ’lM | the newly remodeled Union Hall, | the meeting date was changed from | the first and third Fridays of each ' . Wl” wln ! month, to the second and fourth Thursdays. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 19. — Eleanor | The next session will be held Roosevelt said here today that she | November 14, at which time elec- has “no idea” whether or not her | tion of local officers will be held. husband will win reelection. At last night’s social, hostess “As far as polls go they mean |Wwere Mesdames Ethel Westall, Ves very little. They are so often too | Herlzig and Fay Webber. much one way or the other” ST — GLAMOROUS HAIB for more beautiful, more-lasi- ing permanents . . . For love- lier hair styles . . . and artistic hair shaping and cutting . . . CHARLES BLANCHE FREEMAN | live in the White House another | | politician long enough, you learn aof ‘ | Blanche Freeman has been elected she visited her daughter and hfl"Auxmury. Anchorage. ! - 1940-41 will be Eletta Belgard as| Helen Clifford, who recently trans- | ferred from the Ketchikan Unit, as | With eleven candidates to initiate, | Mabel Vaara, Chaplain; Rhea Deav- | Advisor Maydelle George, | el will call the lodge room of the Scottish Rite | A tolo dance will follow the init- | N, Y Old Committee chairmen in charge of | e up; Dorothy Beaudin, entertainment, !given between 2 and 4 o'clock this ! rison, in the Radio Apartments. A casion. ‘lish, Patricia and Caroline Carson, —————————— guaranteed circulation, !Second Vice-Commander; " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, OCT. 19, 1940. AMUNDSEN JOINS PAA Popular Juneau Flier Wil Be Pilot on Electra Run Out of Fairbanks Local Flier John Amundsen is joining the ranks of Pacific Alaska Airways airmen, it was revealed here today Amundsen, a veteran Alaskan pilot who for the past 2'2 years has been flying out of Juneau, received an offer this morning from Fair- banks and accepted it immediately, | according to PAA officials here. It is expected Amundsen will fly | on the Electra run from Fairbanks to Nome and from Fairbanks to Juneau, probably moving to the Golden Heart City with Mrs. Amundsen and their two children in the nmear future. NEGLERSPLAN SUNDAY MATCH Commercm Loop WiI|‘ Open Play Monday Night for Season Another match contest will be| rolled on the Brunswick alleys to-| morrow night between the Elks and| the Brunswick squads, beginning at 7:30, while Monday evening, the| Commercial Tourney opens play. Monday night Juneau Florists meet the Islanders at 7 o'clock| and then at 8 o'clock North Trans- fer rolls The Brunswick. e e | ZEBALLOS HAS SCARE, FL0OD VANCOUVER, B. C, Oct. 19— Radio communications have been resumed with Zeballos with reports indicating that mining town is cdr-| rying on as usual despite heavyi rain: | 3oth the Ginger Coot Airways| and the Canadian Airways said flocds apparently are no worse than in previous years. The river there leaped its banks and residents in the lowlands moved out. ————e—— OFFICERS OF JACK HENRY POST NAMED New officers, as follows, have been installed for Jack Henry Post No. 1 at Anchorage: Robert M. Mills, Commander; L. I. Patterson, First Vice-Commander; Joseph Freeman, Lon French, Adjutant and Finance Of- ficer; Clifford Howard, Historian; Sergeant Ellingson, Chaplain; Rob- ert Annly, Sergeant-at-Arms. Deborah Pentz Gives Luncheon Miss Deborah Pentz entertained with an informal luncheon today at her apartment in the Evergreen. Ten guests were invited for the | afternoon. NOTICE AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showmg air route from Seatile to Nome, on sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. ————.———— she " | aid ! | When asked if she would like to | four years, she laughted and said: “AMED pREleE"I “When you've been the wife of a I_EG‘O“ AUX“_MRY to express yourself on anything, one 5%, way or the other.” Mrs. Roosevelt was here today on | 3 g | & | unanimously President of the Jack her way home from Seattle where Henry Unit No. 1, American Legion son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Boet- 4 i y . | Her colleagues who will assist in tiger, andthrée grandcluld.ron. carrying out the Unit program for 'I' l D ' F " | Pirst Vice-President; Margaret| o 0 an(e 0 0 OW | strand as Second Vice-President; Rainbow Initiation | al ow nl I Io | Secretary; Jean Kennedy as Treas | urer; Georginia Smiley as historial Worthy | r as Sergeant-at-Arms. tonight's Rainbow Girl | meeting to order at 7:30 o'clock in | . . R Gail Morrison Is iation service, with members play- | ing hostesses to their male guests. | the affair include Patty Clark, re-i Nine-year-old Gail Morrison was freshments; Ruth Talmage, clean |the incentive for a birthday party and Demaris Davis, music. | afternoon at the home of her par- ‘ents. Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Mor- hallowe’en motif was carried out in decorations and favors for the oc- | Those invited to attend were | Misses Joanne Sabin, Lorraine Eng- Joan Molyneaux, Zelma and Sonja Gross and Sharon Hagerty. Subscripe to ‘Ime Daiy Aiaska Em- pire — the paper with the largest s Empire Classifieds Pay! Sigrid’s Beauty Salon ' PHONE 318 L + The vauy Alaska cmpire has the largest paid circulation of any Al- aska newspaper e——CE—— Cleanup € No, this is not a direct hit by a German warplane. The Nazi bomber paid a visit and shattered the " classes as usual after a night raid, Raxd Sheiie;'s Time in London After Nazi Air Raid " School Closed by Nazi Bombs PflBllC WELFARE Undismayed by German bombs, these London children showed up for had been damaged and that they were to get an unscheduled vacation. A few days later the wreckage was cleared away and classes were resained. Note broken and twisted door and shattered windows. building. London officials condemned it as unsafe for passersby. A demolition squad goes into actiong I T CONFERENCE IS CONCLUDED HERE Deparfment Representa- tives Leaving Juneau | for Headquarters | | 1 Winding up a three-day confer- ence on activities of the Depart- ment of Public Welfare, represen- tatives of the Department are pre- ! paring to return to their various headquarters throughout Alaska. | In the first conference of its kind held under the Department of Public Welfare in Alaska, rep- resentatives brought to the meeting many of the jurisdictional prob- lems and subjects common to their respective localities. | Those participating in the con- ference with Director Russell G. Maynard and Supervisor of Child Welfare, Miss Deborah Pentz, in- cluded George W. Louden Jr. of o A8 Fairbanks, Miss Eleanor Oman of ’ o : " Anchorage, Miss Adelheid Guenth- ner, Juneau-Douglas, and John S. Cewgill, Ketchikan. | Joint Problems only to learn that the school itself pertaining to joint interest of the Office of Indian Affairs, the Crip- pled Children's Division of the De- partment of Health and other So- cial Security offices. Clarification of the programsad- ministered under Territorial De- partment of Public Welfare was effected and agreements arrived at for carrying on certain general Pfoye Worth : » Old Age and Survivors Insurance, contacts for the Division of Crip- | pled Children of the Health partment ,and in general an under- | standing of the social service ac- | tivities of the . administration, it | was disclosed. Simplification Plans for the simplification of current procedure necessary in sub- ’mmmg applications for Old Age | Assistance came in for much dis- cussion and rapid progress evident in the work now being carried on in this field, since its inception three years ago, was evidenced. | The success of the present con- | ference, at which representatives of other departments were present at various times, will lead, said Director Maynard, to the inaugu- |ration of a regular yearly meet- ing. > Jump g 50 Of unusual interest were subjects 1 had to remind myself to open my parachute. When the first jerk was over I swung like a pendulum, but I soon settled down and I was able But the ripples on the water became bigger. came nearer. field contacts for the Bureau of As I floated down one of the Mes- PHOTO-ELECTRIC RADIO-PHONOGRAPH Now, enjoy making your own fine-toned recordings right at home on the new Philco Photo-Electric Ra- dio-Phonograph. Amazing new invention plays any record on a Beam of Light! No needles to change. Record wear and surface noise reduced by 10 to 1. New Tilt-Front Cabinet, no lid; makes record plac- ing casy! See, Hea Tryit! Month W. P. JOHNSON JUNEAU, ALASKA—PHONE 17 by Parachute Described Royal Air F;r;t; Flying Of- ficer Tells of His Experience AP FEATURE SERVICE LONDON, Oct. 19.—This is how an RAF flying officer described his first parachute jump in action: “I was in midair—floating down | peacefully in the cool breeze, | serschmitts appeared. The pilot | circled round me and T was just a | little alarmed but he behaved quite He opened his hocd, vaved to me and then dived tow he sea and made off towards “The wind w carrying tewards the bea cigarets and lit ope difficulty. As I car: coast I could hear ( rens—and pas on the sea front I coukl pecple coming out of their —npeople looking up at me. “The soldiers’ faces were quite clear and I must have locked Eng- lish even at 1,000 feet—which was comforting. | “For the first time since the pilot | circled around me I became anxious. Was I to end my escapade by being banged against a seaside villa? The journey ended in a cucumber frame —after I had pushed myself free of a house with my fool —————— BUILDING PARK CABIN Recent arrivals in Anchorage from McKinley Park report that a ranger cabin is under construction a short distance out the highway from the station. The structure is an unusual one in that each log-is grooved on the under side to make it fit tightly over the log below. ———— Subseribe fo1 The Lmpire. 1 me in out my any to the I took wit! a Al 1 3 ovor the see the helters to enjoy a full view of the beach| some miles. “There was no sensation of speed. The soldiers on the beach “I had one minute of anxiety. T T Did You Know that YouCan LEARNTO FLY Right Here in JUNEAU? with the ALASKA SCHOOL OF AERONAUTICS, INC. “A Working Man’s Engine> “CATERPILLAR”’ « REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. Made in a South London street, this photo illustrates the value of Britain’s air raid shelters. Houses on either side of these public bomb- proofs have been smashed (note pictures still on wall, upper right), but the shelters came through the Nazi raid unscathed. SWIM BATILE; BEAR IS LOSER, MOOSE WINNER A running, swimming and flying fight in which a cow moose, brown bear and two wildlife agents took | ly, striking out wi 1 both paws and | wide open mouth. He would cink | in the water like so - 4, water pouring from his mc when he came up bellowing and strangling. He returned to the opposite shore from the moose and galloped off, while the moose stood with heaving | flanks in shallow water near the shoreline. 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