The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 11, 1940, Page 8

ALL COATS 23% OFF Jones-Stevens “fighting is of exceptional violence.” The British attack in the Sidi | Barrani sector started December 9 at dawn. Small Bottles SAUTERNE WINE, each 20 ¢ WHITE LABEL SCOTCH - Fitth§3.15 % BOTTLES WESTERNBER - §1.00 (ream of Kentucky, pts. 9Q¢ 3 pis. 45¢ ROYALPIPERSCOTCH - - Pints§1.25 1 PINS -85 PROOFGIN - - 30¢ STORE JUNEAYU FIOUOGR ' ADJOINING PERCY'S PLANE, BOATS PATROL GAME| | patrolling against JIGGS DINNER " Rav Renshaw and Gerald Banta. | The new Alaska Game Commis- iom nlane and three boats are out out of T | teer qunting and irapping. A plane and boat patrol of game | A and iur areas of Southeast Alusku‘ has been begun by Wildlife Agents season | Alford John Bradford Post of the | American Legion on Saturday night | for Legionnaires and their friends. Dave Davenport and Frank Metcalf are making the arrangements. Empire Classifieds Pay! READY NOW FOR YOU TO TRY... THRILLING NEW 4-WAY STEP-UP IN PERFORMANCE! The New Plymouth is a beauty! 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The American General acomplished the feat with his cavalry riding cl around the Union Army just before | seven days' battle in Virginia Two Divisions Cut Off London military forces declare the | British forays were highly success- ful but said nothing immediately confirms the reports that two com- plete Fascist divisions of 24,000 to 30,000 men have been cut off. The | authorities, however, said this is the Mussolini’s High Command ac- knowledges Italian reverses in the African campaign but, in order to appease the “home folks,” declares According to late afternoon ad- ! vices from the African front, the | battle is still raging in the Sidi | Barrani sector, the main base of Gen. | Graziani following the British 70- ! mile invasion and thrust in western | Egypt. Fridson Promofed ~ Alaska U. Everett R. Erickson, assistant professor of Education at the Uni- versity of Alaska, will be head of the Department of Education at (the beginning of the second: se- | mester to replace Professor James yan, who will go to Juneau me office as Territorial ioner of Education, accord- ing to the Farthest North Colle- gian, Professor Erickson has | been the affairs of pthe | National Education Association for several years. He was Alaskan del- e to several meetings of «the ssociation, and at the San Fran-| cisco meeting, in 1939, he was guest | tpeaker. At the World Federation |of Education Associations, held *in Tokyo in 1937, he was an official voting delegate from the United | States and a guest speaker. Since | 1935, he has been a member of numercus committees of the asso-| ciation, | Teaching Expericnce Varied | | After being graduated from the Univer:ity of Idezho in 1925 with a n.ajor in English and a minor in history, he taught at Malad High School, Malad, Idaho, and at Ida-| he Fal's High School. In 1932 he came to Juneau, whcre he was head of the Department of English until 1937, In 1933 he was granted neau Rifle and Pistol Club In Bed for Short Rest ‘Dental Surgjerriy Was Ser- ious-Duke Abandons Return Trip Plans MIAMI, Florida, Dec. 11. — The Duchess of Windsor, who arrived | here yesterdav on the yacht South- ern Cross, rested comfortably in a hospital here today after a major dental surgery that proved so serious the Duke abandoned his plans for an early return to Nassau Hospital attendants said the Duch- ess is in good spirits and is feeling much better after a night's rest - ->o- 12 Aboard | McKinley For Juneau SEATTLE, Dec. 11. — Steamer Mount McKinlev sailed at 9 o'clock this morning for Alaska ports car- rying 104 passengers, including 19 steer Passengers aboard the Yukon hooked for Juneau include the fol- lowing: | Mrs. Harold Campen, W. J. Groh- | mert, Andrew Johnson, Magnus | Hanson and wife, Harold, Bunny | and Margaret Hanson, Mrs. W. H. Cameorn, Carl Russo, Mrs. G. Baird, | i IN CARIBBEAN HITTING SNAG Trinidad Bosses Trying fo! TellU. S. Wherefo | . | Build Defenses | WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The U. S. Gevernment is reported ir ing upon placing its new air and naval | bases at Trindad where it wants’ them, although local authorities on the strategic Caribbean have ob- jected to some locaticns, ! Autherities disclosing this infer- mation expresscd confidence, how-‘ ever, the controversy will be settled | & satisfactorily with construcgion. NEW OFFICERS FOR GUN CLUB Riflemen Go on Record Against National Gun Licensing Plan Officers were elected to the Ju- | last | little delay in a master’s degree in education and Dight in the club’s indoor gallery | Engbsh at the University of Ida- urder the Alaska Meat Company | ho. Since 1957 he has taught at When members got together for | the Unuversity of Alaska, where,' their annual meeting. in addition to teaching courses in Jay Williams was named Presi educaticnal methods and English dent. V. F. Williams, Vice Pre ' MAILDUEON EXTRA SHIPS | Through the efforts of Postmaster Albert Wile, Juneau will have two | extra Christmas mails. Wile radioed to Seattle asking |'f mail could not be dispatched on :;m‘xt Tuesday, and also on the Fri- day steamer, : Right back came the word: “Au- thorized.” | 'FCG STOPS AIR . TRAFFICTODAY | Weather held PAA planes to- day, two Electras at Juneau wait- ing for weather to make the Fair- banks hcp, an Electra at White- { horse headed for Juneau, and the | big Douglas airliner, bound for Ju- neau or Whitehorsé and held at | Prince George. | A local fog condition alsoj para- |lyzed local air traffic and pilots | Shell Simmons and Alex Holden sition, he has been active in dent; John Osborne, Exccutive Of | ficer, J. W. Le vers, Secretary, and Allen Fortncy, Tresaurer. The club went on record as en-[ dorsing the stand of the National| Rifle Asscciation, oppising the rez- istration of firearms, and further | decided to contact Alaska Delegate | Dimond in an effort to enlist his support. Plans wrre aler had for holding matches with other clubs in Alas- ka and the Staies. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Clos'ng quotations of Alacka Junean nine stock today is 5%, Am ‘~un Can 87%, ' Anaconda 27! Bethlehem Steel 88, Commonwealth and South- ern 3%, Curtiss Wright 9, General Motors 49%. Internatienal .Har- vester 55, Kennecott 34%, New York Central 14, Northern Pacific 6%, United State Steel 70%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones average Industrials 131.76, rails 27.67, utilities 20.02. Whew! Gosh! There are three new ones at the Juneau Radio office, U: 8. Army— yes—three new.typewriters for the first time in 40 vears. 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