The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 17, 1941, Page 8

Basket Bal & 2 GAMES FOR GASTINEAU CHANNEL CHAMPIONSHIP DOUGLAS HI JUNBAU HI Also: Douglas Reserves vs. Juneau Reserves Juneau High School Gym TONIGHT - Admission: Cahill Named First Assistant To FHA Chief Biirfon C. Bovard Appoint- ed General Counse! at Same Time {INGTON. Jen. 1T Ray- m 1 T. Cahill has been appointed Firct Aesistant Administrator of the Fed ral Housing Administration, ac- ccrding to an announcement made by Federal Housing Administrator Abner H. Ferguson. At the same time, Mr. Ferguson incunced the appointment of B C. Bovard to the office of Gen- ral Counsel Mr minist in charge of Mutual Mortgaze Insurance. In his new copacity Mr. Cahill will continue te carry o1 the duties of that office. He has been associated with the Fedcral Housing Administration 1935, Mc:lgage Transactions Mr. Cahill's duties as Assistant Administrator in charge of Mutual Mcrigage Insurance involve the sup- @vision and direction of the hand- ling of FHA mortgage transactions. The latest FHA report shows more than 650,000 mortgages accepted for with a value which ex- 2,600,000,000 niire business career of Mr. Cahill has been devoted to the field «f mortguze banking business in b¢ City with the firm of Reilly Co., real estate the Emigrant Industrial . Ten years later, when 3 Owners Loan Corporation was ectablished, Mr. Cahill was call- ed to Washington Bovard Promoted After follewing the general prac- tice of law in Indianapolis, Ind., Mr. Bevard served as title attorney in the mortgage lecan department of the Fletcher Trust Co., of that city and for ten years was associated wtor since New riz J for Theina Jent w.S1 the New York Title and Mort- | gage Co., as Assistant Secretary. Mr. Bovard assumed the duties A S L A P AT ¥ R AR N VT TR BEN EFIT DANCE ANTON LARSON AND FAMILY SATURDAY, Jan. 18, 9:30 P. M. AT JUNEAU MINF. & MILL ! | | | Cahill has been Assistant Ad-| UNION HALL ADMISSION: $1.00—LADIES FREE 7:15 40c and 25c of Senior Administrative Assistant in the Mortgage Insurance Division of the Federal Housing Adminstra- tion in 1935. Shortly & rward he joined the legal staff of the FHA and served successively as Counsel, Principal Attorney, and Assis General Counsel. TAHITI IS GOING BACK: WAR, CAUSE "Europeans7 Eiving South Sea Islands Right Back fo Indians By ALFRED C. ROWLAND | AP Feature Service | o PAPEETE Tahiti—The war of |1914-18 changed the South Sea islands from a Polynesian to a European pattern of life. The pres- ent war bids fair to restore them to their primitive state The Americon colony in Tahiti fis thinning out rapidly. One party chartered a special ship to take it to Honolulu British and French families returned to their home lands in large numbers when their sons entered military service As an American would put it, they're “giving the country back | to the Indians.” Books Brought Them The whites who settled here long ago because they loved the natural charm and quiet tempo of the island do not regret the de- parture of the post - war “es- capees.” This hard-drinking was attracted largely by tional books. The new arrivals had money, and the whole west coast from Papeete to Taravao became a city of bungalows. Now that ocean com- merce is irregular—censorship for- bids any enlargement on this point —the white colony finds its for- eign food and liquor supply cut off, and the expatriates are going | home The sensa- natives are getting along ! ‘ ) ! \ ! \ \ THE ! \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ WORKERS UNION 203 e e et i i | You Can Cook This Complete Meal for Five on a New General Electric Range For Only 3 Cents* Choose a General Electric uad get ALL che advan- ages of electric cooking ! Clffent cost now averages Iess than = pesay per pér- soa per meal. New ls have more time-saving and -saviag features than ever before. Improved 3- Heat CLEAN-SPEED “n: ‘Cooking Units heat €1, Wbo Jose curseat, Present Terms Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. PHONE 616 | littler | Despite THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JAN. 17, 1941 HORSE DOES HIS BIT Proving the horse i and his Saddle horse Duke, jogged plant in Seattle after Collision, a: “hoofing” it about the 42-acre project on foot. | | | fast, | Pen JUST ADAY IN LIFE OF NEW YOKER - |Wakes at Noon, Has Break- fast, then Carries on in lazy Manner By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK. Jan, 17.—A day in the life of a New Yorker at large: Waked at noon and so had break- and then to the office and there found notes from Ferde Grofe, Grauer, and W. Somerset Gitbeed % G FOR 1941...THE MORE - BEAUTTFUL CHRYSLE | | | | | | {Maugham. And Maugham had made; | Avenue ill useful ever. in plane building, H. W. Colli: about the expanding Boeing plane tant construction head, tired of Makmg Bad Boys Good Men 3 Inmates of the New York City Reformatory for Boys at New Hampton shown making a vigorous charge with wooden guns during field tically to the militury training sug- ar drill. They have taken enthusi | | \ | £louched jof fello ! dinmer | chestra ‘f:ll| | weight | nuts and drinking coffee, | him | persisted gested by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. Those who join the army when freed will have their pa diet of mountain pig. There is only food they re: crave—bread. The Chinese baker is fixture in nearly every Poly- nesian village Fcllows DeGaulle is a French colony but has decided by plebiscite to ad- here to General DeGaulle's “Free France.” Two plots to seize control for the Vichy government have been quietly put down. The plot- ters were deported Hand-in-hand with &he rever- sion to primitive economics is a cultural revolution. The native language journal, Te Vea Maohi, continually -urges a return to the simple life. Even before the the French government fostered this movement, forbidding white {men to land on _certain “un spoiled” islands. Two Cash Crops The {uture Lahiti jup with its two cash crops- and vanilla i In the years following the 101i- 118 war these brought high prices, |and- the many natives who served in the French army this income for automobiles, | dios, cigarettes, etc. Now tariff walls keep cop vanilla out of the United States, and the war.has cut off the pr ternallstic French market. Tahitian now can look forward but the existence of his | cestors fish, plan- all right on their breadtruit, thro, tain and wild one European Tahiti bound -copra of is used ra- 1 to an- .- BELLANCA IV FROM ISLANDS °1l Simmons, returning from the ay, brought in five pas- Bellanca These coming in were S. J. Thomp- cn, Joseph Konoch, Willie Jack, M W. Hayes and Sgm Pek -o - the war n 1,000 new the Finnish with Russia homes frontier more were ole suspended. war, Their average age is 19, | i | Dempsey vaudeville meaning CLOTHIER IS HIGH KEGLER, ELKS CONTEST Fred Henning kegled out with high_ total at the EIlks alleys last night with a 584, although his sec- ond game was a low 154. Henning’s team won three of four | points from Home Grocers while Juneau Drug took three from Tri- angle Inn and Alaska Laundry took three from Dodge Dealers. Scores were as follows: Home Grocery 108 161 191 139 150 Benedict Hermie ... Koski 172— 441 179— 509 209— 511 Totals 560—1461 | Henning's 232 154 138 146 198 584 131 458 145—"438 30— 90 anning Mrs. Dufresne Dufresne Suot 546 Triangle L. Holmquist 17 Mrs. Holmquist . 130 1. Blowers 121 18 446 Juneau Drug Co. Mrs. Faulkner . 187 155 Hermann 143 119 Mrs. Stewart 159 163 489 437 Dedgs Dealers 170 167 235 137 138 140 6 Totals 418--1351 157— 499 119— 381 152— 474 -1354 ! Totals L. Tverson R. Davlin Mrs. Davlin Spot Totals 48"—1481 | Alaska' Laundry A. R. Duncan 164 147 rup 180 180 Duncan 156 187 500 514 ; did not bowl | 145— 456 180 Totals Average 5001514 | friend |at | color | cursions | thought a most interesting mistake in sign- ing & copy of his book, “The Sum- ming Up.” for me, for he had written the wrong name on the flyleaf and then under it penned, “I am so sorry to have written the wrong name, when it for George Tucker that I glady sign this book.” . Which made it even more interesting than if he had given it the plain signature. So from the office to 673 Fifth which is the ters in NY for the Canadian Na- ticnal Reilways Co, and with o Brooks to a projez- rcom on the second floor we looked with fascination any wild life films some m all in sound, of fishing ex- into the Canadian wilds, and goose shooting in Nova Scotia, and pack trains crossing the Great Divide. And seeing them I re- lved to go to Canada some day 1d catch some of those pike my- the chance e comes, self if a gallery in E. 5T7th e a wide assortment of watercclors and sketches by Mil- ton Caniff, an ex-Dayton, Ohio, boy and an old Columbus Dispatch colleague of mine, were on view, and mu iaken with the study of a young lad with tousled air in a chair. Much im- mrw‘d too, with the throng that e to see, and with Milton also. though usually the calmest was plainly fussed, And a note to chide him about 3 to the Wood calle at e new th Woody rder, who and bade ial “blue Later to Street whe: where Har- and we to New Yorker and show, and talked Herman, the or- join: us at his boys p! num for office rison me ice also W table some spe: s us. Later dis- Craw- there,' theater and and Joun Hopkins to the appointing play ford and Miriam though not together, and I left -t | the second act. So to browse on Broadway and watch the crowds and the windows. At 45th I saw Jim Braddock, the former heav. champion, eating dough-, and with| him a tighter unknown to me, but with the marks of the ring unmi takably upon him. And seeing marked thus, the thought that whatever pugilists Ale paid, they are underpaid 'vlcuey cannot compensate for the tmngs they endure. And I be- me of somolhmg Jack said to me during his da, “This,” he said, the theater, “is like aven When you get into ring, you've got to sicp ever thing they throw at you with your face.” On to Rockefeller Center and to a mb-\unnm where I kought a nC" 6 ar—a long-shank and murh for the sl‘ ort stem, a sta th 2 plemud Then is really| headquar- my NEew AIRFLOW bodies . . wider . . . beautifully flared at the window line. New interiors . . m!fi,/ THEBEST BUY lower, . tailored to your taste! Never before, except at a cus- tom coach builder’s, have you seen such an array of fabrics and colors! 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COWLING-DAVLIN Cée. late pap and home to bed, where 1 solved the crossword puzzle in the News without a hitch and read from the short stories of Stephen Vincent Benet. who as a craftsman has no And cne of the stories was about Cue, an ancient slave. and I remembered another old slave, Cujo, in “John Brown's Body,” and it set me to wendering whether Stephen Vincent Beret has all of the names of his slaves be- gin ‘with “C." - FRANK CASHEN SUCCUMBS T0 HEART AILMENT Frank Cashen, 58, passed away carly this morning at St. Ann’s Hos- pital where he had been a patient for the past three years. Death was or Ithe result of a lingering heart ail- . ment. Bern at Ishpeming, Michigan, Mr. Cashen came to Juneau about five years ago. He is survived by two sters, Mrs. William Franks of Ju- neau, and Mrs. Clark Ardary of Hollywood, Cal. Funeral services have been ten- tatively arranged for Tuesday. The remains are at the Charles W. Cart- er Mortuary. Because of air raid alarms, the British Broadeasting Company finds that the peak time for listening to its programs is between 6:30 and 8:30 pm. | PHONE 57 Alaska s Third in Airporis Official Report Is Issued by Administrator Civil Aeronautics WASHINGTON, Jjan. 17.—Donald H. Connolly, Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, says that on January 1 there were 2,656 airports, landing fields and scaplane bases in the United States and Alas an in- crease of 205 in the year, Included were 788 municipal and 496 commercial airports, 289 Civil Aeronautics Administration inter- mediate fields, 507 auxiliary fields, 21 naval air stations, 69 Army fields and 161 miscellaneous government, private and State airports and landing areas. Of the total, 776 were either fully or partly lighted for night flying. Seaplane mooring floats, built un- der a joint program of the C.AA. and the N.Y.A, account for a large percentage of the increase in landing facilities. On Januars W This picture, (f a German air force soldier motorcycling through an unnamed Italian city, is the first photo to reach the Usited States of Nazi aviation forcs sent to Italy to join in the battle against Britain in the Mediterrancan area. from Berlin. This picture was telephoted to Berlin Jrom Rome and radioed to New York lm 1940, there were' ! | and anchal uding those ol Coast Guard Corps, and now there cluding 15 equipped aft dark. Six States and the Alaska have more than and airports, as follow 174; Texas, 146; Pennsylvania, Florida, 122; Michigan, 116; 105; Alaska, 129 -——— Entertains Tonight For Mrs. Phillips Mrs. A. B. Phillips, the former Myrtle Moe, will be complimented at an informal party this evening given by Mrs. Kaarlo Nasi at her apartment in the Fosbee, Eight guests have been asked for dessert at 7:30 o'clock and bridge will be played durinz the evening. Daffodils have been selected by the hostess to center the two small tables. Las able, in the Navy, wine 325, in- operation and are for Territory of 100 fields California 107; Ohto, e An Englishman sought as as 1804 to induce the British n: to build submarines. He wanteq to use them against Napoleon, EAT MORE Little girl, it's GOOD for you! Of course if it's made from rich cream, it's good for you and if you insist on JUNEAU DAIRIES ICE CREAM it's the best on the market. JUNEAU DAIRIES Ine. and DEALERS .