The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 13, 1940, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, DEC. 13, 1940. 2 ] -Southampton, British Shipping Port, Bombed [} war essential objects were hit by bombs, according to the German news agency, D. N. B Here is a view of Southampton, well-known trans- 1 industrial plants and other atlantic shipping port, which has been heavily bombed by German air raiders. Harbor facilities, , | Bomb Fell with Bomber | LAST TRIP OF NORTH w the North Sea the last for this season The steamer is in port this after- noon headed south and will not re- turn to the run until possibly in | February or later. i - e pregent trip of Present as Usaal Salvage worker removes an aerial bomb which British sources say was found in the shatfered rack of a German bomber that crashed at Bromley, Kent, demolishing two houses. The bombs in the rack did not explode and were removed from the wreckage along with the bedy of one German airman, of season the Metropolitan in New York ! Opening Dpera souldn’t be a success without the presence of Mrs. Cornelius Van- derbilt, one of the leaders of New York society. Here she is arriw | ing at the Opera House. MEX1CO, TOO —Like her neighbor to the north, Mexico Is interested in greater air power, these two being from the Bal. buena section of air force. Lt. Carlos de Lara (left) and Lt. Marco Quiroz eheck navigation problem before flight. e T s b | WELCOME ARM troubles over, Else Riddervold, Grytness (right), 29, They came al dodged mine fields and was ,f0 take off for a raid upon England, has his para; ber of the ground crew while his observer awaits has eapture of hundreds of Nazi fliers who para- ‘ebuted 10 safety when their planes were shot down g SEA foR '"-“s YEAR templated making a weckend stay at 'joe S'erling | Nazi Gestapo Chief in Spain ~ IsMarriedfo Seattle Girl Joe Sterling, son of Mr, and Mrs. Hawley Sterling of Juneau, was married last Saturday at Seattle to Miss Carolyn Taylor, daughter of and Mrs, John R. Taylor of tle. Mr. Taylor is a civill Following the quiet wedding cere- mony, Mr. and Mrs, Sterling greet- ed at a wedding reception. Sterlings honeymooned The Victoria Both Mr. in and Mrs. Sterling were graduated recently from the Uni- versity of Washington. He attend- ed Juneau High School - WORKING ON UPPERCABIN ON SKI TRAIL heinrich Himmler (left), chief of the dreaded Nazi gestapo, is shown wit: Generalissimo Francisco Franco (center), leader of New Spain, and Ramon Serrano Suner, Spanish foreign minister, during Himmler’s visit to Franco’s hore in Madrid. There has been much speculation as te the reason for Himmler’s visit. As repair work is now being done on the upper ski cabin and much material scattered around it is advisable that those who con- the cabin, postpone this until later. In fact the cabin cannot se oceupied by ‘“sléepérs” over the | weekend .. HOLBROOK GOING . OUT FOR HOLIDAYS Wellman Holbrook, Assigtant Re- . gional Forester, will leave on the steamer North Sea tonight to join | his wife at Hatfield, Minnesota, for | the Christmas season. Mrs. Hol- | brook is visiting sisters at Hat- field, Holbrook expects to return in | about six weeks - POSTOFFICE T0 ~ STAY OPEM ALL | SAT. AFTERNOON Here is a picture by News of the Day Newsreel of the actual bomling of the Burma Road in China by Japanese warplanes. Note i e “J‘”l‘f’?“L Postoffice will be g B0 g going down. The Burma Road, vital supply route to the open all day tomorrow to accom- epinege capitul of Chungking in the interior, was recently reopened modate Christmas mailers, Post- hy the British. master Albert Wile announced to- e R e 7 RS day. Instead of closing at noon as is D' R 14 p usual on Saturday, the office will 1savows Kumanian rurge remain open until 5:30 o'clock. ) (GOVERMOR WILL RETURN TOMORROW Gov. Ernest Gruening, who has been at Ketchikan for ‘several day will return to Juneau on the steam- er Mount McKinley tomorrow e (EAT THOSE DUCKS " BEFORE THURSDAY Next Thursday is the last day| {on. which migratory waterfowl —| and geese—may remain in possession, ‘the Alaska Game Commission warned hunt- | ers teday. This year's regulation is more len- ient than that of 1939 which allow- ed possession for only 15 days af- ter the close of the season. Subscribe for The Empire. Vice-Premier Horia Sima, leader of the pro-Nazi Iron Guard, shown saluting his followers in Bucharest, has disavowed responsibility for the] blood purge in which at least 64 leading Rumanians met violent death. | {The killings were in retaliation for the slaying of Iron Guard Leader Corneliu Z, Codreanu two years ago. % 4 Business as Usual in Londoss DESPITE COLD_Their 25, of Oslo, Norway, and Hildur from Trondheim, Norway, greet New York. board the Mathilda Thorden, Finnish vessel that halted by Germans and by Britons. it Sl sk 1 oair S T SN The staff of a London shop are hard at work salvaging the store’s stoek m trade from the sidewalk, where it was hurled by exploding bombs dur- g & Nazi air raid. As soon as the girls get the merchandise back o the shelves, up will go the business as usual sign, _~ g { Valley. | THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT F COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Dec. 13: warmer; gentle Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:39 pan Oceasicnal light snow or rain tonight and Saturday; slightly lowest temperature tonight about 32, highest Saturday 39; southeasterly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Snow in mountains; licht rain or snow in north portion, and rain ia central and south portions to- night and Saturday; warmer; mod:rate southeasterly winds. becom- ing fresh in sounds and straits and Lynn Canal Saturday Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Dixon Entranceé to Cape Spencer: occasional rain, fresh soutl winds; Cape Spencer to Cape Hin:hinbrook: occasional rain eastérly to southeasterly winds, becoming fresh to strong Saturday Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: occasional rain, fresh, be- coming fresh to strong northeasterly winds; Resurrection Bay to Ko- < diak: occasional rain, fresh to strong southeasterly winds. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity p.m. yesterday 30.25 29.6 96 NW am. today 30.25 320 90 NW today 30.13 349 91 SE rly fresh Weather Cloudy Lt.Sno.Show's Cloudy Time 4:30 4:30 Noon 5 6 9 RADIO REPORTS TODAY | 4:30am Precip. 4:30a.m, ] temp. 24 hours Weatl 11 0 23 0 Lo vest te ap. =13 Max. tempt last 24 hours -4 28 12 | Station Clear Cloudy Cloudy Nome Dawson Anchorage Bethel Paul Dutch Harbor Wosn nski. Wanatak Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert, Prince eorge Seattle Portland &an Francisco . 32 42 | 30 WEATHER SYNOPSIS Light rain or snow was falli this morning a to Cordova, and at King and over the ley. Mostly cloudy skies prevalled el whei r Alaska except clear skies from the Seward Peninsula to Barrow. Rain or snow had fallen during the previous 24 hours along the coast from Alaska to the Alaska Peninsula, and from the Lower Kusko ley to the Alaska Range, and at come points oéver the Centr 1 Yuken The greatést amount of precipitation was 190 inches, which was recordéd at Cordova. Temperatures above normal continued in thé Intérior in' the Fairbanks are1, bul temperatures continued to laska, Barrow having reportedfall over the western portion of A minus 11 degrees this morning. Qv t . skies with light rain or cnow flurries, foderately low ceilings and good visibilities were repori- ed this morning over the Juneau-<{etchikan a s 7The Friday morning weather chart indicatéd a weak low pressurc area over extreme northeast Alaska, and a low trough extended south- ward into lower latitudes from th: eastern Gulf of Ala and a Southe Lower Kusk | deep low center of 984 millibars (20.05 inches) was located at 45 de- grees north and 156 degrees west. High pressure center was located over extreme northeastern Washington and second high center to the northwest of Alaska. Juneau, December 9:38 am sunset 4:06 p.m 14.~Sunris he will ' Alaska Electric Light & Power Co, — TROLLERS AGAIN SALVATION ARMY URGE CLOSUREOF | AUCTION TONIGHT | e | Salvation Army broadcast by which | donations are received for the an- H | nual Christmas cheer basket fund i H | results are most gratifying and i be received tonight Down During 1941 > et Lt v voes 1o £ weil-filled baskets and articles United Trollers of Alaska, CIO.| poeded by those whom the Salva- | have gone on record again in oppo-| tion Army has on the “want” list. sition to herring reduction plants| The broadcast starts at 6:15 o'- and demand in a recently passed!clock tonight. ! resolution that the “Bureau of s Fisheries not violate the 1940 regu-| Subscribe for The Empire. lations” again. s The resolution holds that the Bureau violated ‘1940 seasonal regu-' lations prohibiting reduction herr-| ing fishing in Southeast Alaska, “py permitting one herring reduc-| tion plant and five herring seine | boats to operate in the Southeasti Alaska - District.” | Trollers state “it has been def-| | initely shown by the troll and herr-| ing fishermen” that Southeast Al-| aska has been depleted of herring| ‘and troll salmon no longer enter| the districts and that trollers and, halibuters have suffered a shori- Motor-Driven Brush ‘;Efpoxsesbecuring herring for bait| Cleaner Complete Complete shutdown of herringt with Attachments reduction plants in 1941 in South-| Save Yourself your time. | east Alaska is requested by the res—j your rugs and your | clution, which is signed by J.| momey. BUY NOW. Pentilla, W. Otis, A. Rosness, G. j‘:-“ Harju, H. Jones, C. Helsing and, C. Hellonen. A - Ladies’ Auxiliary Install Officers r Plan Xmas Party - Installation of officers took place | last night at the Juneau Ladies’ Auxiliary meeting in Union Hall. JPresident Emily Stender was in-| stalling officer and those installed, include Leona Sebenico, president; | Emily Stender, vice-president; Dagny Rasmussen, financial secre- | tary; Mabel Battello, recording sec- | retary; Katherine DelSanto, con-| ductress, Asta Holm, warden; and| trustees Mattie Davis, Ethel West-| fall and Mae Reed. ! A Christmas party for children of the members was planned and set for December 27 at 7 o'clock at Union Hall. The affair is being sponsored by the unity council, assisted by the Ladies’ Auxiliary. ¥ntertainment and the distribu- tion of gifts will feature the event. The committee in charge of jecorating the tree for the party urge all members to assist Monday cvening, December 23, when final work will be done. 3 . JULIUS WILE SONS & O, ING., NEW YORK