The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 15, 1940, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, NOV. 15, 1940. e eee——— e GREEKS IN BIG ADVANCE ON ITALIANS Defenders (;lining Ground as Invaders Retreat- RAF Helping Out nConUnued rrom Page One) p(rvd nml in maw entir severed a result of British on Taran‘c, which is the center of the Ttalian communications sysiem British planes also destroyed the great electric plant at Durazzo which the Albanians, under their King Zog, completed in 1934 at great expense. Docks and other shipping ' facili- ties were also severely bombed on the same raid by the RAF. Reliable reports figure the Italian strength massed against the Greek forces approximately 300,000 men. ATHENS, Nov. 15—The text of the official army communiqué says: “The entire front has been the scene of intense activity by infan- try, artillery and aviation. We have, during the past 12 hours, captured as more than 300 prisoners and large| quantities of various war materials Our aviation has successfully bombed the enemy airdromes at Koritza and Argyracastro where! many Itallan planes were destroyed on the ground. We also bombed enemy marching columns, causing them to break ranks and seek shel- ter. “In an air battle yesterday af- ternoon 11 Italian planes were shot down and ten more were believed to have Héen severely damaged. One of our planes failed to return to its base. Enemy aviation bombed indiscriminately some interior towns.” ————eo—— ~ APPENDIX OUT Miss Virginia Berry, sophomore at the University of Alaska and| editor of the Collegian, recently had her appendix taken out at the Fairbanks hospital. I WAV Subscribe t Ire Dafly Alasks Empirée—the paper witr the larges paid circulation. 14 - YEAR - OLD TROLLER SEES BOAT GO DOWN Melvin Randle of Tenakee Loses All When Boat Sinks Melvin E. Randle, 74, lost all his carthly pessessions except the cloth- ing cn his back when his trolling beat, American motorship 30K347 sank Monday in ifman Cove Prince of Wales Island, the elderly roller has reported to the Collect or of Customs here. Randle said his boat was rammec by an unidentified seiner at Ket chikan three weeks ago. After set- ting out on a ftrip to Tenakee his boat began to leak and his contin- ued calking eemed to make the seams open wider After his boat went down, Randl |was brought to Juneau by Br Berry. .- Father-Daughter Banquet Will Be Tomorrow Night At 6 oclock tomorrow evening the |Rainbow Girls will hold their fa- |ther-Daughter banquet at the Scot- |tish Rite Temple. Miss Maydelle George, Worthy Advisor, will tcastmistrese and following the din- | ner a 7:30 o'clock meeting and in- itiation will be held in the lodge | room. in charge of Elizabeth Tucker, Grace Berg, Zaida Carlson, Pat Shaffer and Joan Hudon. A program has been planned by Dorothy Fors and Betty Nordling and decorations will be in charge of Violet Paul, Beverly Lievers and Erna Meier. {HAROLD SMITHS T0 | VISIT IN STATES | Harold Smith of the Forest Ser- vice office here and Mrs. Smith |are to leave on the North Star to-| |night for a vacation of two months | lon the West Coast. | SPECIAL OF THE Carpenters Local Neo. 2247 FRIDAY,NOV.15 - 8:00P. M. All Members Urged to | Be Present S | MEETINQ; . (4 w_-,-----,,,-'_,»-,-,,--,-,”--,----—¢—------.. MORE FREE TIME Westinghouse AI'E'LIF\ GET THIS game. We game. . .al utelyfree Parsons 140 So. Sfluud EXCITING GAME The whole town’s talking about this fascinating e inandgetyours FREE. You purchase ng, promise nothing. Just look at the new use Appliances and take home your NCLS indicators oa tell whea to ‘bake to adults. Supply limited Arrangements for the dinner are! BIG SPLIT ISLOOMING IN EUROPE Franco - German Relations! Near Definite Break on Expulsion Order VICHY, France, Nov. 15.—Pre- | mier Laval was today reported enrcute to Paris in an attempt te stave eff a definite break with Germany. | Franco-German relaticns have | rcached u critical staze as the result of expulsion of mere than 100,500 French speaking resi- dents of Alsace-Lorraine, ! Dispatches from Paris said DO YOU SMOKE THE CIGARETTE. THAT Z’fflA? TS THE SMOKER'S CIGARETTE Smokers like yourself find CHESTERFIELDS very refreshing with their German authgerities added to the friction by cutting cff pas es fer travelers from occul to the unorruplcd zone. .- ANKEE COVEGOLD | MINING COMPANY IS | ! INCORPORATED HERE The Yankee Cove Mining Cox Inc. was incorporated with the Territor-| ial Auditor today by Harry L. Stan- | ton, L. P. Dawes and Sam Puul‘; all of Juneau. | The firm is capitalized at $150,- be [ 000. HOLDEN MAKES ISLAND FLIGHT | | Alex Holden tlew out to the coast| | today with Herman Keno and Earl | Smith for Hirst and Sam Duker for | Sitka, returning with John Wolf, Gene Lundstrom and ‘A. R. Miller/| from Hirst and Noel Manley from | the Historic City. | Coming in yesterday from Hirst| werz Mrs. Dan Ludington, Bill | Mills and Keith Wildes. i 'KVARNSTROM T0 BUILD ROCK FILL _E E. A. Karnstrom' of Juneau has |applied to the War Department | ! | "or permission to construct a rock fill on Gastineau Channel just nerth of the Public Roads Admin- | istration equipment depot. { Action on his request will be | withheld until December 2 to allow any possible objections from the |standpoint of navigation to be | heard. i . 'NO TRACE FOUND OF ESKIMO BOYS. Faflure in an effort to find trace f two Eskimo boys who left Aku- [lurak Mission several weeks ago for ‘Mnmwln Village, was reported yes- terday by a searching party which returned to Mountain Village. | The Akularak Mission end of the feot trail had already been searched /by a separate party. 4 'DEFENSE GROUP - Careful Inspm.en of COOLER BETTER TASTE Every time you light up a Chesterfield you know why it is called the Smoker’s Cigarette. It’s because Chesterfield’s right combination of the finest to- baccos grown gives you every- el a be ry step in of Chesterfields assures cooler, definitely (As seen in the new film “TOBACCO- LAND, U.S. A.") thing a smoker could ask cooler, better taste that is definitely milder. Youcan’t bu_y tter cigarette. é / ELLEN DREW Paramount Star Veteran of Foreign Wars, J/p]f}./ ):* 51940 Choie for soon fo appear in “Texas Rangers Ride Again* MAKE YOUR NEXT PACK Copyright 1940, Licarrr & Myens Tosacco Co. UNABLE T0 VISIT ALASKA AT PRESENT The Canadian - American Joint Defense Commission will not visit 'Alaska immediately, due to “immed- jate pressing mati Chairman Fiorelle LaGuardia uplud today to a telegram of invitation from Gov. Ernest Gruening. The reply said, howeyer, that the Commission hoped to hold a hearing soon on the International nghwas —>-o— BRIllHARTS LEAVING FOR STAY IN STATES Junior Forester John Brillhart of the Forest Service is to leave this evening on the North Star with his wife and twin daughters to spend three months on leave in the States Brillhart will attend the Society of American Foresters meeting Washington from December 19 to 21. The balance of the vacation will be spent in Pennsylvania. CAE e R N Quiheeribe tor The Bmpire. Electrie Co. Telephone 161 in| tc THREATENER OF FDR WilL SERVE IN JAIL WASHINGTON, Nov, 15. — Jus- tice Dickinson Letts today sen- tenced Edward Blount, 30, ex-Cen- sus Bureau clerk, to two to six years in prison for,threatening the life of the President. The sentence was given with the announcement the p shment sheuld serve ‘“as an example 1o others.” Blount’s attorney pleaded that the young man was found by ychiatrist as emotionally unstable -ee PARKS ON ANMUAL VISIT TO STATES District Cadastral Engineer George A. Parks left cn the steamer Denali report to his Public Survey Office headqauarters in Washington and spend the holidays in Denver with hic mother. to esterfie Mrs. Laverty, Son Enroute to Eugene Mrs. G. W. Lmer\) and son Michael sailed south on the steam- er North Sea enroute Ore. Mrs. Laverty, Hospital, nurse at St. Eugene. sister, Miss Ada Giovanetti, on the nurs -—— Sophomore Party to Eugene Ann’s has accepted a position with the Sacred Heart Hospital at| She will join her younger| who is s staff at Sacred Heart, Is Event Tonight Highlight of High School activi- ers following refusal of the Ameri- this evening will be the cans to permit the official Spanish Sophomore party scheduled for 9 News Agency to file and operate all e Juneau dispatches sent out from Spain. ties for tonight in the Grade School gymnasium. Sport clothes are the order the evening and a surprise inter- and Chicago Tribune. mission event has been planned for | the occasion. B 5 of A totem pole carved by Indian CCC workers in the Ketchikan ‘cinity was erected today at vi- the He plans to return to Juneau about Governor’s mansion. The colorful -]m first of the Jeur GENTLEMEN $1.00 pole is 40 feet high. SENIOR FLING 600D MUSIC—GO0OD FLOOR—GOOD TIME DOUGLAS NAT Saturday, Nov. Music by ROYAL ALASKANS 16 i THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureaun) U. S. DEPARTMENT D)F COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU | Forecast for Juneam and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Nov. 15: Occasional showers tonizht and Saturday; not much change in tem- | perature, lowest temperature tonight about 39, highest Saturday 45; gentle to moderate southeasterly winds. | Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Showers tonight, partly cloudy | south portion and showers north portion Saturday; not much change | in temperature; gentle to moderate southwesterly to southeasterly | winds. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer, 1ycal showers tonight, partly cloudy Saturday, moderate southwesterly winds; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook, local showers tonigh:, partly cloudy Saturday, moderate southerly to southeasterly winds; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay, partly cloudy except showers tonight, moderate southeasterly winds, becoming moderate southwesterly to westerly Saturday; Res urrection Bay to Kodiak, local showers tonight, partly cloudy Satu day, moderate southeasterly winds ifting to southwesterly to west- | erly tonight. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer ‘T1emp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.60 439 94 S 5 Lt. Rain 4:30 am. today 29.73 429 86 E 15 Lt. Rain Noon today 29.83 434 83 SE 14 Lt. Rain RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. tempt. | Lovest 3:30am Precip. 3:30am Staticn last 24 hours | te np temp, 24 hours Weather Barrow 19 i 3 7 Yl Fairbanks 28 | 8 9 0 Pt. Cldy Nome 24 | 20 21 0 Cloudy Dawson 15 8 1 0 Cloudy Anchorage 31 29 30 ] Cloudy Bethel 24 21 23 T Cloudy St. Paul 34 30 32 0 Cloudy Dutch Harbor .. 42 37 37 31 Cloudy Wosnesenski 44 37 384 05 Cloudy | Kodiak 42 | 38 38 59 Cloudy Cordova 42 5 39 41 19 Rain Juncau 17 | a1 43 87 Rain Sitka 49 | 42 44 1.65 Cloudy Ketchikan 50 | 45 48 1.88 Rain Prince Rupert .. 50 | 44 48 62 PL.Cldy Prince George . 33 | 31 35 0 PtL.Cldy Seattle 55 | 31 32 0 Clear Portland 47 ‘ 29 32 0 Clear San Francisco .. 76 46 49 0 Clear WEATHER SYNOPSIS Local showprs were falling this morning over Southeast Alaska to Cordova and partly cloudy to cloudy skies were reported elsewhere over Alaska. Rain had fallen durini the previous 24 hours over the | coastal area from Southeast Alaska to the Aleutian Islands and th> Bering Sea and scattered smow fluries were reported over the Al- aska Range. The greatest amount of precipitation was 1.88 inches which was recorded at Ketchikan. Overcast skies and local showers, moderately low ceilings and fair to good visibilities were reported this morning over the Juneau to Ketchikan airway. The Friday morning weather ciart indicated a low center of 981 millibars (2897 inches) was locat .d at Kodiak with an occluded front extending northeastward ove ' the Alaska interior and then~e south southeastward in connection with a trough of low pressure along the coast from Southeast Aaska t) northwestern Washington. A high pressure center of 1028 millibars (3051 inches) was located at 40 degrees north and 138 degrees we t and with a high crest extending westward to a second high cente ' of about 1030 millibars (3041 inches) located at about 40 de rees north latitude and 180 de- | grees longitude. 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