The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 17, 1940, Page 6

_THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, DEC 1940 By CLIFF STERRETT YEAH.. ER --TH’ SEEMS LIKE AS 1 PASSED MISSUS WLUS. SHE WAS YER PLACE COLDINTKITTY PURTY HARD LAS’ NIGHT, FER ANNOVYIN” ON POOR SAM. y i HER : #Horth Coast |sTEAMER MOVEMENTSI § . NORTHBOUND o L4 fternoon. ® [] . . AILINGS e Thls Morn!ng ° reduled to sail from e o o ° attle December 20 . The steamer North Coast passad © o thre ea tl mornin em- @ cheduled to sail from e rou Sitka, bringing 15 pas- © \itle December 21 ge sengers in and taking five passen- © 4. m © ers to Sitka o Tyce scheduled to sail . Arrivals were Orrin Kin e Sealtle December 2 a. e Fred McElhany, Mi A ® o Elhany Baby Juan . SOUTHBROUND RATLINGS . Sise Drsuln . Ncrah scheduled to © Eost, M ° in port tomoirow @ Mahaney . wil lleave ot e Julia Moi, Arnte Haugerud, Mis. ® thossauth. o o4 Eestweth, George Wilmer, Arthur : i '1‘ ~“x 5 s ’ idabi ; m;"“';,':f“ ll",('zll?l,’“”\:.:“. Max Mum- ® Mount McKinley is scheduled o fodt et -Searn. il F. Dennis® uthBonnd ‘riday o n 8 iy | ® LOCAL SAILINGS . Russell Clithero and 8. W. Tag- o poaneih scheduled o safl every i) ; e Wednesday at 6 p. . for Sit- & Capt, A, J. Borkland is in com- A ka angd wayports. 3 mand of ‘the ship and Paul F|g nupa jeaves every Wednesday ® e e at7a. m.for Petersburg, Port ® e Alexander, Kake and way- ® o ports. ®| This 16-inch gun is o DA Sl LISTFROM [Tices Tomomnow [FAMOUS STEAMER " VICTORIA COMING (Sun Time) AlR RAIDS High tide—3:15 am., 156 feet BACK ‘I‘o AI-ASKA Low tide—9:01 am. 3.7 feet High tide pm., 187 feet LIS Low tide—9:31 pm. 08 feet {Alaska Line Announces| Conversion of Old Ship Info Freighter ; The famous old steamship Vic-|| Official Sialemeni Is Made ; : Regarding Deaths, In- BIG THRUS]’ juries from Bombers LONDON, Dec. 17.—Civilia P oN TowARD - | helped to make history over many dom during November totalled 4,588 decades of sailing to Alaska, is dead and 6,202 injured. This is Ah"‘ | E Steamship Company has announced ing. ‘lln' Vic ia will be converted into raid casualties on the United K sail . north gain. The Alaska official statement issued this morn- |a freighter the West Seattle The official total for the three- e of the defenses the United S 'z It's being inspected here by a party tha! month period, September, October yards of the company, with work and November, is 15522 dead and | Brifish InVaS|0n Troops to start at once 21,620 injured Juilt 70 years ago at Dumbar- e f i ian Strongho[d the luxuricus liner Parthia of the BACK T0 S(“ool | Cunard Line. The trade grew until (Continued from Page One) ships of her size were not large : PR e e p enough to handle it so she was | Ramsey, well known baseball g who joined the diamond| The British armored units are re- Rié ke m' ANy ShRAA, AR last summer, will sail south|ported sweeping over 't be- | S ;i ¥ ez Bl e R °““‘(‘(‘:Tn?)“'”‘:‘()l be” |cluding the Australian and _from t 1 x OLES! yond ardia 1 a a el = |the U. S 2 i 1080 % e Ramsey, who has heen working | siedls the fowh whioh, when eap- | ¢ U- 5. West Coast. to.the Orieut, She later entered the Alaska serv. ice and had been a familiar figure lin Alaskan ports until laid up for at the Northland Wh studies in mathematic: f, will further and trans- {ured, will provide an important base for the British offensive aimed at pertaticn, probably at the Univer-|gnocking Italy out of the war. i x sity of Washington | Pressure Increasing | more than three years, -~ Cairo dispatches said pressure on Many famous Alaskan navigators Sugar and wheat provide about|Bardia is “steadily increasing.” |trod her bridge, among them 50 percent of the energy value! New forces are arriving o support | ‘Dynamite” Johnny O'Brien, col- , of the average American’s da the vanguard of the British. orful sper who brought her into f food The British communique says | Nome through all kinds of weather | until she acquired fame th | ship that always made port Speedy, Streng Hull - as government forces have captured 15 damaged The of Brazil is|planes at bases near Salum and the ‘ : ; | ’ seeking to encourage gold mining. | Royal Air Force shot down 10 other | l Whale oil was used to light|Italian planes in engagements yes- She will be a handy ship again | headlights on locomotives in 1840.! terday. {in her new role as a freighter, for ; : kel o - ———————|she does ‘13% knots and her lx e e W | ey tron Tl i ready for many more 1t sea ‘ “r | Because of her thick iron plates, z | she was particula suited for the | northern run and proved herself a SCHEDULE and FABES ix(‘ul ice breaker when | arose ."""':A" To snr-".n TUESDAY | The Victoria was built in 1870 g FRIDAY | She measures 3606 feet over all i (Airmail and Express Only) {has a beam of 40.4 feet, depth of ] ; MONDAY. THURS- 343 feet and is of 3914 tons gross FMRBANKS Tfl MEAU DAY, SATURDAY land 2355 net tons. The social hall and ofher public (Passengers—Airmail and Express) | rooms which once housed miners JUNEAU TO FAIRBANKS ;%EISDDAlz {coming home with pokes full of gold dust will be torn out to make (Passenqers—hrmuil and Express) L het bixaats ks o e iaxt <af ¢ 2 ! wee ; a la 2 Jun- Fair- Mec- the superstructure which furnished eau lanks Nome Ruby Bethel Flat Ohpir Grath §|comfortable trayveling for the many Juneau 82,00 14900 11500 *151.00 *132.00 *125.00 *120.00 thousands - of passengers in years Fairbanks . 82.00 7400 3900 7600 5600 4800 4400 § cone by will be taken off o make jia Fairhanks. arzo handling casy 2 —— e - Cold storage spd of which she b LESS 10 F’)R ROUND TR“’ has a large amount, wiill be re- i #—Via Fairbanks. tained, ¥ . » . 3 rendy. f ¥ She is to be ready for scrvice in Passengers — Airmail — Air Express ol le } -gu = - t Pacific Alaska Airways, Inc. l ac c a “wa s' 1 One of the smallest newspapers i 2 3 is published on tiny Thursday Pan Amerlcan Alrwavs SY‘1em 1 Island off the coast of Australia g TRAFFIC OFFICE It is a single sheet, 16 inches by L. A. DELEBECQUE 9 inches, printed on one side only i District Sales Manager | e g | % \ X1 PAN AMERICAN ATRWAYS Subscribe to the Daily Alas 135 So. oS8, | Empire—the paper with the lar; PHONE 106 - 1324—4TH AVE.—SEATTLE J paid circulation, intains near the Pacific entrance to the Pan- Sam Houston Jones of Leuisiana, There is no substitute for included Gov. Newspaper Advertising HO”YWOOd Sights And Saurdx r By Robbin Comm___. Dec. 17—This town f\mn} enough a wow if the people in it lived up to the HOLLYWOOD, Cal., is illusions vject on the screen. Le roll down Hollywood boulevard and ogle a few of the pa The gogli: will have to be imaginary, be- it you ‘stroll down actually the self-styled most famous treet in the world yeu probably wouldn't see a celebrity of any you did. Youde see a lot of strange elad “hermit” perhaps, women'm slacks, along with the ordinary, every-day ple who just happen to-live here and aren’t trying to attract attention Our bouley eruvse, the pr or , he mocks — rd of the screen-fostered immagination is not, of uality. It is rtaher a bright, bizarre, exciting “strect set” right out of a Bushy Berkeley musicdl nightmare, The shops are tltra, except for blocks of darkness and sinister alleys and ‘dives. of c street Here we go. 'Who's that feathered, ing along the street with no place to go, closely folowed by a watehful cop? Well, she’s turning into a dive. In a minute now she's sitting on a table, singing a husky, off-key ballad, and the sailors arc pep-eyed — all except the sterling young guy who sees through the tawdry finery into heér heart of gold. You know, don’t you? Sure, it's Dietrich - and the guy is honest John Wayne. (But actualy Dietrieh is a mamma, and daughter Maria I’ERCY’S CAFE ‘sTop AT PERCY’S CAFE Brealfast,‘Dintier or Light . Lunches ® DELICIOUS FOOD ® FOUNTAIN 'SERVICE © REFRESHMENTS emaciated dame swing- is taller than she is, and actually Wayne-is just'a family man, a gooc guy making his dough in the flickers.) There's a stocky, leering ‘chap, ‘with a gat under his coaf, a stubby cigar in his mouth. He’s up to no good, with is tough trailing behind him into the alley. You know? Eddie Robinson who actually is at home, and probably looking over his art collection Here's another slinker — a fancy dame plast ered with jewelry, fine feathers, gaudy gowns. She’s a-looking’ fer a buddy but actually Mae West has gone to bed early some because she's getting up in the a.'m.’to go to gang man, for church. rest Ha, ha The funny men — Harold Lloyd, Bob Hope et al. Aren’t they cards? Sure they are — but Lloyd Ls home with Mildred and the s and Bob is working over a program seript, Shivers, scares, shudders — Lugosi, Lorre, ‘Karloff. * Look out. pass that dark alley. (But what for? Bela and Peter ha! when we and Boris are home with their ‘wives, just plain domestic critters.) “ Lookee, lookee! Glammer gals! ‘Joan Benneft and Hedy Lamarr and Dorothy Lamour and Irene Dunne and Claudette Colbert and Joan Crawford and all the rest. Sure, theyre glam- mer girls — and maybe.some of “ém are night-clubbing tonight, or having dinner parties at home, and living up to our ideas of all-cut glamming. ‘But the charices are most of them are at home with their beauty sleeps. TO CUT OUT TH’ .- THREATENIN' CRITTER'S BOWLIN/ CLUB N6HTS/ Mrs. Norma Auer Mrs. Norma Auer, wife of the film comediar Mischa Auer, is shown in court in Los Angeles where she won a divorce and $1,000 a montis support for herself and their two children. YOUNG MUMFORD GOES TO SITKA Mt Mumford, who has been in Juneau for the past year staging with Mr. and Mrs. Wallis George, sailed for Sitka on the North Coast. Mumford, who has been working at B. M. Behrends Bank, will go, to work on the Navy airbase pro- ATCo. ALASKA TRANSPORTATION COMPANY Bailings from Pier 7 Seattle Leaves Seattle S. S. TONGASS Dee. 17 { S. S. TYEE . ...Dec. 24 PASSENGERS FREIGHT REFRIGERATION D. B. FEMMER | AGENT Phone 114 Night 312 PSSR — Travel ANADIAN o o PACIFIC ql'onm OR SEATTLE SBUTHB Prineess Norah December §—18 o.nnamom at Vancouver with ic Services: e e L. J. 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