The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1940, Page 2

Z BRITISH CONVOY ATTACKED ON ATLANTIC THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18, 1940. 2 TANKERS | TORPEDOED [talian Sea Base in Libya Blasted by RAF WARNING Many Aboard INDICATED Baranof for P ——————————— THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Buréau) U. S. DEPARTMENT NF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Junean and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 pam, Dec. 18: Occasional light rain tonight andi Thursday; not much change in temperature; lowest temperature tonight about 36 degrees, highast Wednesday 43 degrees; gentle variible winds. 2 Bv u.BoATS mp oymen Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Cccasional light rain tonight f, and Thursday; not much change i1 temperature; gentle to moderate = | | | | & easterly to southeasterly winds eccept moderate to fresh northerly in Lynn Canal. - % { ' . H Nearly 70 men, the majority of [ A Send Out Radio Calls of [ [ Laval's Appointee IS GIven o miined immarers sre sociersers| Forecast o winas along he coast of the Gulf of Alasks | . aboard the Baranof for transfer at Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: occasional rain; fresh easterly fo Distress Then Ask Im- Reinforced POWErs Soward to the steamer Gordova for| SOutheasterly winds; Cape Spence' to Cape Hinchinbrook: partly Kodiak and Dutch Harbor air or| cloudy; local rain; fresh easterly to northeasterly winds; Cape Hin- mediafe Assistance | by Nazi Regime naval bases. chnbrook to Resurrection Bay: pa tly clotidy; fresh northeasterly winds; Resurrection Bay to Kodia:: local rain; fresh, becoming fresh ,,,,,, > T 2 . VICHY, France, Dec. 18--Mem- to strong easterly to northeasterl winds, - ““:B':;::Kfi:‘,):';_z::;‘; el bers of Premier Petain's entourage E"GINEERS AI_I_ LOCAL DATA Hbve Ll S ntad a ariketans /] today said that Ferninand de Brin- { Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ~ Weather Kiave. Kok} Suokeditn Mbmmess. ) on. whom Vice Premier Pierre La- TALKING BRIDGE | 4:30 pm. yesterday 20.27 38 90 s 7 PtRain the Hebrides. | val named as “Ambassador of F | 4:30 am. today .. 2018 37 93 NE 5 Cloudy ‘ This indicates another British IFInm-e- to Paris, will maintain 12:30 today 29.25 38 88 w 4 Lt. Rain convoy is under fire. | contact between the Germans and SAY SI | The 10,000-ton Dutch tanker | | Free France. Brinon has emerged RADIO REPORTS | Pendrecht was the first to report | | with reinforced powers, it is stat- o T | TODAY in a message heard by the Mac- 1 |ed, as the result of the ’““""“'”’iPRA Head Predlds Fa" of; Max. tempt. | Lowest 4:30am. Precip. 4:30a.n g i was be-~ | events of the past several days fol-| Station last 24 hours temp. temp. 24 hours Weathes kay Radio and that she wa [ 2 Shedy T ot Tavats N 0 S i P & | & a0 ing torpedoed. Later the vessel | ‘!AOV‘v“\G etain’s rfl_“mfl o aval,y rr w v arrow -17 | =22 - 01 Cloudy sl immediate assistance. | which displeased Hitler, | a S pan 0 rove Fairbanks 0 -6 -6 06 Cloudy asked for im { ; g Two hours later the 9,800-ton | Nasi Ambassador Betz is still n| Boon to Builders Nome -1 | -3 -10 0 Clbér Norwegian tanker Dalfohn rad- - . g |ParL< and very probably he and Dawson -4 | =15 -15 .10 Clear foded she was being atiacked by This photo, says London, was brought back by one of the British bombers which raided Benghazi, Italian | ?:P_:”e_xi YPH’a"j ‘:]’“ hav:: ?‘CT‘J“" Everywhere he went on the West ArPacage il | 22 21 0 Cloudy 1§ a submarine and torpedoed, The port in eastern Libya. The British caption identifies the lettered points as follows: (A) large ship on five | ence regarding the present sfbua-i Zie ™0 ir i were discussing| Dethel -10 | -16 -16 T Snow % Dalfohn declared that a suspic- | gfter a bomb hit, (B) a sunken barge, (C) another large vessel on fire and sinking, (D) a sunk@ | tion. e : the fall of the Tacoma Narrows| S Paul 13 | 7 9 04 Pt.Cldy # ious tanker flying the Dutch flag | troyer, (E) a pavtly submerged ship, (F) another damaged ship. | Anyway, it is said Free France| o A" f0 ot oo e M, D Dutch Harbor . 21 i 17 19 20 Cloudy was in the vicinity. Tt is believed ‘ - & i o o . |must watch her step or Germany wm’ga' i f the P’ bgl_ Roa;l ' Ad.| Wosnesenski 31 | 21 22 02 Snow the Dalfohn might have sighted ‘ | will take over the Vichy Govern-|' i.ams of the Public S AG= onatak 31 | 26 27 06 Pt. Cldy | irel ministration said today on his re- : % by T Tepeahit. i ibatein it |turn to Juneau after a visit of Kodiak 42 | ! 41 15 Drizzle It is not known how many . | Placing of Laval in some posi- b ]" ths in the Southweat| Soidova 43 | 36 38 60 Cloudy other vessels are in the conovy. | tion is not disclosed |inv:r?m T);): (‘:‘on:l. d g qtl Janeau 16 | Er 5 05 Cloudy -5 > | i 2 —————n % SR ! Sitka 52 | 42 52 0 Cloudy | Williams said the fall of the Ketehi e | a1 13 12 R | . bridge will prove to be one of thej etchikan | 33 P 3 il pull[“s E v best things that ever happened! ij!nce Rupert :g ! o 3 'Og PC](():‘;‘P | troin the siandpoiht of engineering| Frifce Geore - 1 | b S po! ol nd FROM VISII I“ i 5 i | information. When he attended a| Seattle 4 & o % ‘;""V ‘ .The Pan Ar_nencan Dou_glas Airlin- convention of State Highway En- I?nrtl;r;d oy I 56 62 "3 . Cl “,l.,? o jer left Whitehorse this morning | gineers in Seattle on his way south, | San Francisco 4 oudy wESI R“ STATES}W)U] a la_rge dispatch.of mail and | | [rhe défects in the bridge's con-| WEATHER SYNOITS[S ; was due in Seattle this afternoon. | | struction were discussed and several Light rain was falling at a few stations in Southeast Alaska —_— The airliner may come north to- | | methods of cotrection just devei-| and at Kodiak, and snow was failing from King Cove northward to li h' company Manager‘mfln‘ow and return south on Friday. |oped in wind tunnels were men-| the lower Kuskokwim and Yukon Valleys. Partly cloudy to cloudy g o8 iy ‘noned. Material to make these skies prevailed elsewhere generally over Alaska. Rain or snow had corrections had already been or-! fallen during the previous 24 hours over most of Alaska except the Reports‘,uneau LOOkS ‘pO“MA“ER w“j | of precipitation was .50 inch Good fo Him |~ PROUDLY SHOWING Reporting great activity in the dv-i G'n FRoM s“fi fense industries in the States, but| noting that nowhere he went did| A Christmas present from the Ju- he seen anything nicer than Ju-|neau Postoffice staft arrived in the neauw's Baranof Hotel or the offices majl today for Postmaster Albert of the Alaska Electric Light and|wile, who is showing it proudly to- Power Company, W. S. Pullen, Gen- | gay, ergl Manager of the light company, | returned on the steamer Baranof. Mr. and Mrs, Pullen visited their children, Winfield, a General Elec- tric Company engineer, and Mrs. ‘The gift is a walnut desk set bear- ing an engraved plate with pictures of President Roosevelt and Post- master General James A. Farley. The set, which contains two pens, |dered when the bridge twisted| apart in a freak wind. Williams spent three weeks in | Office of Indian Affairs| | Embelllemem !('umpanied him on the trip, | | EARLINGS THROUGH Roy B. Earling, General Manager; of Untied States Smelting, Refining | Vincent Beauchamp, 29, was ar- | raigned today before U. S. Com- | missioner Felix Gray on a charge of der $1,000 bond. | The Office of Indian Affairs clerk | is being held in the Federal jail herel to answer to a charge filed by Chief | | embezzlement and bound over un-|majrbanks, went south on the Prin- and Mining Company operations at |cess Norah with his family today after coming in by Electra. . —— - Stocks of soap in Finland have Seward Canal. The greatest amoun’ which was recorded at Cordova. T:mperatures continued low over Western Alaska, Point Barrow having reported minus 20 degrees, and Nome minus 10 degrees this morninz. Mostly overcast skies with local rain, moderately low ceilings and gyod visibilities were reported morning over the Juneau-Ketchizan airway, The Wednesday morning weather chart indicated a deep low of 954 millibars (28.17 inches) was located at 45 degrees north, 155 de- grees west, and the pressure was r:latively low over the interior of Alaska, with a low frough ext nding southeastward into the state of Washington. Juneau, December 19.—Sunris> 9:44 am, sunset 4:06 p.m. There is no substitute for { | this Elizabeth S. Ellett, in Denver. In California they saw a num-| ber of old friends, including Dr. and | Mrs, H. C. DeVighne, Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCafferty and Mr. and Mrs, P. R. Bradley | The Pullens attended two good football games, Washington versus Stanford and Utah versus Colorado e, i was made to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the pony express CHRISTMAS EVE | 10 BE HOLDAY | | Clerk Fred Geeslin of the Office, | peen confiscated as a Step toward |{who accuses Beauchamp (pro- N esent supplies. |nounced Beecham) of misappm—lranomng_‘ ) - ,.‘jp ¢ ting $99.90 in Federal funds. Beau- Empire Classifieds Pay! N Advertisii ewspaper Advertising chanip actually embezzled a much /| SRS - SRS ¥eih D21 |larger sum, authorities said, but| |the $99.90 embezzlement is the only | jone with which he is formally | | charged, | He was arrested yesterday after returning from the States on the steamer Baranof. Beauchamp hnsj been an employee of the Office of Indian Affairs here since March, | 1636, having been transferred here | | from the Seattle purchasing office. | & He has a wife in Seattle. Arrangements are peing made for a preliminary hearing. AR | | By executive order of the Presi-| ent, all Federal employees will ALBRECHTS HOME o EE o St WITH ONE MORE o.corowiox o @ di recei ffices her MATANUSKA MAID 15m, et ™ It is not known whether Terri- torial offices will also be closed. HOLDEN ON FLIGHT e Officials are shown examining bits of wreckage uricovered in the big | crater made when a Douglas dive bomber (SBD-2) for the Navy plunged to earth in a test power dive, killing the pilot, Rudy Lechner. He was putting the plane through dive flap tests at Los Angeles. | POSTOFFICE ALIEN Dr. and Mrs. Earl C. Albrecht, returning to Palmer after a visit; in the Sthtes, were guests of honor | forms, which were requested sever- al weeks ago. at an informal dinner party at the | Ketchikan an rsbur; 0 | o W REGISTRATIOMHELD |, ccnien and reterwu o | AST CHANCE | steamer Baranof was in port. | Io s“‘KA IODAV S Ve thalae o L . ; DAl b etk | UPFORNEWBLANKS i Ui tinsion2 & 70 GET MAIL graduate work in the East in pedia-| Ajox Holden flew to Sitka today | S missing forms. o ! trics and obstetrics. for the Alaska Air Transport, taking | e | Returning with the Albrechts %\cmrm Sundholm to the Historic| With more than 600 aliens hav- Two University of Cincinnati OUI THURSDAY‘ the new “head of the family” is City. |ing registered in Juneau, the Post- scientists announce that experi-| | a six weeks old baby girl they adopt- He was scheduled to return this ed in Chicago. Guests nt' the dinner party in- luded Dr. and Mrs, W, W. Coun- afternoon with five passengers. office today used its last registra- tion blank and will have to ask | remaining unregistered aliens to ments show the depressing effects| by doubling the daily intake cf of tropical heat can be overcome Postoffice fo Take Pa(k.j’ wait until the arrival of additional thiamin (vitamin B). ages, Letters Up fo | | (Closing Tomorrow Mail going south on the steamer| ‘North Coast tomorrow evening will| | be the last delivered in the States| | before Christmas. Postmaster Albert | Wile reminded mailers today. | that, the North Coast mafl i§! | guaranteéd for delivery only in the City of Seattle, though it is ex- | pected some will reach other State | of Washington points in time for gdelgvery before Christmas day. | The Postoffice will accept mail| for the North Coast up until 5:30 {o'clock tomorrow evening, closing the windows at that time in order. NEW DODGE SOLD 10 H. NORDLING| Cameraman Is “Shot Down” +il, Miss Catherine Gillespie of Fairbanks, Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Ram- sey, Dr. and Mrs. Courtney Smith, | Mrs. Mary Keith Cauthorne and| Miss Magnhild Oygard. ——————— MISS GILLESPIE SOUTH Miss Catherine Gillespie, daugh- ter of Dr. and Mrs. F. B. Gillespie of Fairbanks, went south on the Princess Norah today to join her parents in the States for Christmas. During her stay in Juneau between the arrival of the Electra and de- parture of the Norah, Miss Gilles- pie was a guest of Dr. and Mrs. W. ‘W. Council A new 1941 Dodge Custom 4- |door sedan was sold today 1o | Homer G. Nordling by the Cowling- Davlin Company, local Plymouth,| Chrysler and Dodge dealers. The new automobile is in a two-toned! blue design. 1 Third Revision Seventh Printing Mail It to Your Friends The Book ‘“ALASKA” By Lester D. Henderson ; -, REALTY FIRM The Kodidk Realty and Invest- ment, Company has filed papers of incorporation with Territorial Au-| ditor Frank A. Boyle. Incorporators are O. A. Torgerson, J. N. Steffgen, | Herman Felder, R. F. Snyder and | | | | - Subscribe for The Empire. NOTICE! T0 OUR CUSTOMERS: LAUNDRY and DRY CLEANING to be returned before Christmas ould be in before THURSDAY, Warren A. Taylor. - : L e e tal e cameraman by surprise a! iscovers what it feels’ da f haye his plane “shot down” in aerial combat. The fighters are k {hY. . omionr S ey | « gver, ready. to rake their victim with imaginary bullets, * banking ) to get out the accumulating stacks of incoming mail and packages. | Mail leaying on _the steamer | Mount Mc?%’lflley, now scheduled to| sail south Saturday afternoon, will! | be delivered in the City of Seattle| &k | Christmas day only if it carries g | special delivery stamps. ! | A huge mail is expected here Sun- |day on the Tongass from the| States, with last minute mail fol- FEATURES: Geography - History - Government and Scenic Wonders of the Territory! . | lowing .on the Northland Tuesday and YZon Tuesday. That arriv- ing Tuesday probably cannot be! | distributed in time for Christmas,| Wile said. | AT 1 An old proverb says the num-| ber of snowstorms in any winter will be the same as the date upon which the first occurs. Thus if | the month there will be six storms | during that winter. THE EMPIRE PRINTING CO0. an ALL NEW ON SALE AT i : ssTANDS