The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 20, 1941, Page 8

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JAN. 20, 1941. * _(asualties ‘ - Cpynaidsls | Clearance Sale muss ' Y veceaino) Linolenm and Rugs New Successes Reporled: English Give Out Official in Blistering War to | Statement Regarding Rip Roman Africa | . : December Siege s . | Mrs. Eden Serves [ Basket Ball BRI;TLI:?lING | TONIGHT Juneavl: High Here is the opportunity that you have been waiting for. Have your floors covered NOW with GENUINE ARMSTRONG INLAID LIN- OLEUM AT A TREMENDOUS SAVING. An excellent variety of lovely patterns to select from. Regular Price, per square yard . . $1.80 SALE PRICE §$1.45 During January ELKS Douglas Eagles (BY (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) While ers conferred to-| ualties resulting from the Nazi day, the British reported still an-| !air siege of England for December | oth success in the drive to “tea are officially announced today Ttaly’s African empire to tatters and 3793 killed and 5044 wounded. shreds,” as promised by Prime Min-' This is a drop from November ister Churchill when 4588 were killed and 6620 were British troops are reported to have wounded driven into TItalian Eritrea at, two The December casualties bring the points after routing two Fascist di- toll since last June 18 to 23,081 kill- visions of about 24,000 men, inflict- ed and 32,296 persons injured. ing 2,000 casualties in fierce actions > oo —— llxl.nx;ms(llnrt’fi:‘;:’id?: g Kt S GASBOAT gx]z noom’ covered “Ie ABMSTRONG WAY___ WRECKED: Cemented Over Felt— & 2 SAVED NOW §23.40 Increase In U.S. Women | AXMINSTER RUGS——27 x 54 10 9 x 12 Sizes DISCOUNTED 20% . Now at Work Juneau-Young Hardware Co. L - - { National i ; Guard DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL GYM 7:30P. M. Giving ’Em Professional Help 4 P Troller Nymph Founders- Haida Launch Picks Up } Crew at Retreat !Census Report on Employ- | . ment Discloses Some Startling Figures (Continued from Page Ore) Mrs. Beatrice Eden A motor launch from the cutter Haida left port at o'clock this| morning for Point Retreat to bring| iwo men shipwrecked near there | “I'm determined to show my hus- 5 band I can do my bit,” was the comment made by Mrs. Beatrice something to be alarmed or pleased or worried about, according to your own ideas of what women | should do in life. It means among other things that | women in cities are working in far | greater numbers than women in small towns and rural areas. For instance, more than 31 percent of the women in South Bend, Ind, are working for wages. When men lost their jobs, daugh- | ters and wives went out to hunt Some of them were steno- graphers who had given up their jobs to marry. Others were young women who entered the labor mar- ket for the first time. ‘The at increase in the service, trade and clerical occupations had | t lot to do with it. Women are good at detail in such clerks, good comptometer operators rood stenographers and secretaries Machines a Factor The greatl incre in machines | requiring only semi-skilled work- |ers is another cause for thi There are many machines to teach a new woman Pretty Eleanor Counts, showgirl appearing in a current Boston pro- duction, makes a hit with the boys in khaki as she and other girls from the show visit Boston Army Base to give the lads a few pointers on the latest dance routines. They volunteered to coach the soldiers, who are planning to produce a musical show. David Robinson is givig out on the clarinat. nge fairly casy perator. ‘The increasing to add to the of women income or desire family ANNOUNCEMENT OF EXAMINATIONS THE ALASKA MERIT SYSTEM i announces that OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS for classes of positions listed below will be held throughout the Territory for the purpose of establishing registers of eligibles from which appointments may be made to the staifs of the 2 TERRITORIAL DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TERRITORIAL DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE ALASKA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION COMMISSION APPLICATIONS ARE NOW BEING RECEIVED FOR Monthly Salary Monthly Salary Position Position Range earch and Information Representative $245-$290 $245-5290 $290-$335 $185-$215 $155-5185 $195-8225 nation you wish to take. APPLICATIONS MUST BE FILED WITH THE MERIT SYSTEM SUPERVISOR OR POSTMARKED BEFORE MIDNIGHT OF (LOSING DATE—FEBRUARY 25, 1941 wherever in Alaska applications from qualified applicants will be notified of time and place of examinations. osition, or copies GEORGE SUNDBORG., ALASKA MERIT SYSTEM SUPERVISOR, POST OFFICE BOX 2661, JUNEAU, ALASEA. 201 Territorial Building—Phone 736 who have for had residence the Territory » year preceding the date of exam- ination are eligible to apply Eden, wife of British Foreign Se retary Anthony Eden when she departed from London at the wheel of a mobile tea canteen to serve the army. lieve independence financial that require intense detailed watch- ing, but 1 listed by the important cause ecial Cen of skill u the Bureau It’s also is as an shift. Peo- ple buying homes, or women want- ing fur their supply at work The So causing limit minor have many ferred more age work been years to coat husband: exampl to the can untrained women Have (and Finally ome invest portant men little gad electric other thin; in ator on and salaries More e ir is duc around irons, vacuum tric sewing machines which make other luxuri will not thi people W de often shoulder T the rease wtly the and a host job I Lrans- young be of opinion o most in in wo o th house aners, elec of easier it for married women to keep house “They have work Add companies products can and women markets. S0 are that to more are that be prepared you've got flecking the processing time fact palat in a ven reasons why revolver, in the square fronting the to for outside food their able twinkling: the laber e BAUER RE Dr. sultant for Try a cla H. A. Bauer the Planning Alask: JRNING Con- Planning | council, is returning on the steamer | o | Alaska from a month's vacation i qgents he helped guard the Pr ssified ad in The Empire this year, meals when their 30-foot troller Nymvh struck a reef and foundered | Aboard the vessel, which is owned| 5y wac. and Mrs. Richard Bean of Hoonah, were Richard Bean wmid Victor Sheakley, Both were to be picked up at the Point Retreat light tion and brought to town by abo even this evening Further details of the accident were lacking The Nymph is 30 feet long, has v beam of eight feet and is pov ered with horse power gas engine. + - Gun Tc;ler Arrested; Inaugural Man in Legidn Uniform Said He Was Senf Down | to Help Guard FDR WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The Se- cret Service reported today their agents and lecal police arrested a man, unidentified, carrying a loaded Roosevelt «Conunuca rrom rage One) arms shipments to bel- | ligerents. WPA work reliel created. . Senate rejects adher- ence to world court, 19: Supreme Court Congress les | soldier bonus veto ervation-domestic places AAA. Act bans a kills AAA. . $2,009,000,000 Soil con- allotment re- Roosevelt de- nounces “cconomic royalists” in wceepting renomination . Con- gress passes Rural Electrification act. Roosevelt-Garner miss only Mame and Vermont in rec smashing election triumph. 1937 Bonneville | project authorized, Congress makes farm tenant loans. S, Housing Authority created to make loans for low cost homes. o Giant dam power | bor Relations Act and Social Se- | curity Act. . . dent's proposal to enlarge Supreme Court. | 1938 Crop “insurance act” passed. . . . | Wage-hour law goes into effect. .. U. 8. naval tonnage increased after Munich conference. . . . Civil Aeronautics Authority set up. . . White House just before the Presi-| dent returned from taking his oath at the Capitol. The man was sent to a hospital | COngress approves soil conserva- | tion and parity price program. . . . for observation after being question-| A {ed by Secret Service officials. | Roosevelt “purge” of anti-New Deal . Republicans It was deciared the man was a|Democrats fails, |\V/\\h'" ton rber wearing an Am-| Win congressional elections, see Lesal mif-rm. He told | hope of 1940 victory. 1939 House kills $3.000,000,000 spend- Hatch Act forbids activity by government dent four years ago and that his! jcommander sent him to help again lend bill. | political Boy, 13, Who Killed Efiiploy;:r | employees. Neutrality Act | amended to repeal arms embargo and provide cash and carry plan. \- .. Army Air Corps expanded. . . . Congress passes government reor- | ganization measure. 1940 Roosevelt on cruise inspects Panama Canal defenses. . . . Silent on third term. . . . Europe’s “all- out” war brings Roosevelt request for huge defense program .. . . Big Business Men Knudsen and Stet- tinius on defense commission. . . | Republicans Knox and Stimson made cabiet members. . . . Con- gress warns U. S. will fight to up- hold Monroe Doctrine. New defense appropriations $10,- e near . Su-| | preme Court upholds National La- . Senate kills Presi-| . more years' as President of the Chronology Given Present Bad Weather Administration Over Channel 000,000,000 mark. Plan two- ocean navy, 25,000 new warplanes, ops a’ds in two years, . . . Congress passes $918,000,000 farm bill. —— Roosevelt, with — overwneiming RAF Grounded but Nazi Bombers fo Fly when Republican Henry A. Wallace, Sec- co"dmons Be"er retary of Agriculture, as his 1949/ i Flynn of New York selected by Hish Cemmand reperts that committee as national chairman.|f@ids will be made on London to ask for legislature for greatest| Toledo collected $10,809 in July peacetime training service. Cong in gambling fines alone. convention delegate support, ac- running mate. ., . Famed political| _(BY ASSOCIATED PR Wallace resigns as Secretary | Southampton and other ports on the passes selective draft system.Cam-! T T BOWLING | cepts third-term nomination be- cause of “overriding public dan-| ger.” FDR picks one-time maestro James A. Farley quits as| Thick weather over the Engli chairman of the Democratic Na-jChannel kept Royal Air Force bomb- tional Commiltee. . Edward J.|¢rs grounded tonight but Hitler of Agriculture to campaign for Vi .| Scutheast, English coast when the Presidency. European war and Far|Weather clea Eastern situation causes Roosevelt e paign begins, Roosevelt elected for| | third term, breaking traditional precedent. Will be inaugurated | January 20, 1941, for another four| | years, President delivers broadcast| firesige chat intimating strongly | that United States must give war| supplies to Great Britain, 1941 Congress convenes in Sevcnty-l .!'seventh session. President delivers | | message, in person, to joint session.| | Advances his lease-lend measure | to Democracies now fighting ag-| & ! gressors. Roosevelt demands swm‘l Brunswick Bowling Alleys drive to increase our Armaments, | SEEEECE——_—————— | declaring nation is faced with nn‘ i unprecedented “foreign peril.” . . .| President names Supreme Direc- torate for United States Defense program. In special message ! Roosevelt asks for $17,425,528,049, unprecedented peace time budgot‘: for defense. Roosevelt asks ' for extraordinary powers in defense, | matters, . . . Secretary of State Cor- | del Hull, before House Foreign Af- fairs Committee, now hearing dis- cussions on the Roosevelt lease-| lend measure, says “that control| of the high seas by law-abiding nations is the key to security to| the Western Hemipshere.” Roosevelt inaugurated for ’ EAT MORE Little girl, it's GOOD for you! four United States. Subscribe to DaI}y Ala.sk-ni Empire—the paper with the larges paid circulation. 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