The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 21, 1941, Page 2

]HL DAlLY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 21, 1941. 5,’”;"&% “AUSSIES’ AID _m the floppy-brimmed hats that identify \lian soldiers signal with a heliograph in African jike these travelled 7,000 miles to share Britain's “4t in Egypt and capture of lhldm. Lnbya. PABLO DEL ROSA SENTENCED TO PEN Pablo Del Rosa was sentenced this aiternoon in District Court to a year 1d a day in the Federal peniten- ult with a deadly wea- pon, to wit an axe Axel Johnson got 30 days for burg- lax Barbara Enestvedt was arraign- °d on a charge of polygamy, Mrs. na Arm on a charge of embezzle- ent by bailee and David Bailey on ge of burglar: T A that are CLEANED Wear YTHE OFTEN Longer! NT S to Phone 507 PAA C S I Jouglas airliner was cancel- cd out today for its scheduled flight to Seattle. got a break in the heavy fog and got through while the other was held here with the Douglas. Hollywood Sighrs And Sourds | e B RODDIR A s e LLYWOOD, Cal, Jan. 21—It inside and Merle Oberon was bouncing Your fun not hers, procedure for a lady who not long ago was ully in a picture called “Muthering Heights,” ofore had been raining and herself principal claim to movie fame her Her tumbling that it's dramatic roles act which might be called a fall from higher drammy except also a rise to Irnst as for impish Lubitsch’s movie, “That discovered she for his rival, she fainted. le had had mistaken Burgess Mere- And the sound would be in a just he husband, Melvyn Douglas young woman, just as hard in a rehearsal as it acting out scenes for nstrated the all the principals, was look of horror she should assume and then indicated how she should Messrs. Douglas and collapsing but no if she observed the ab- y silent about it. ized her er o, C 1e didn't do the fall himself. helpful, hints on Miss Oberon 1lso with were tions. ruction, was swee fainted for the camera gain and aga set was edy man just outside the among rle’s tumbling faint more than faintly amus- fCY’S CAFE SsTOP AT PERCY'S CAFE Breakfast, Dinner or Light Lunches ® DELICIOUS FOOD © FOUNTAIN SERVICE © REFRESHMENTS ’I @ i % Alexander Korda, the producer and Merle's hus- ) ( visiting from his own sets, tseh was satisfied, Merle limped off the set I ainting on my mor T faint only on my left side to balance the bruises. If right side today,” she explained. “To- rong in this picture, they'd have to give me 10 days about comedienne? She v did she feel She knocked being a word crossed her fingers, not about comedy, but about Korda's It looked as if they had discussed the breakfast. rvation to fly back She didn’t want him She g back to t a sort and Korda went his own ewhat warily she admitted that her role had good com- referred to situations, scenes, bits of dia- but she wouldn’t commit herself on being a commedienne uppose I doesn't agree ilities. She I wa when it sees the pic thought * she demurred, re?” “and the public ve to leave it at tf rm ture, however, no Oberon report, Miss matter in the rest of the pi faint funny. Of two Electras here, one | REPULSED DUE HERE FOR HARD JOB, SOFT SAND_slow is the going for British soldiers engnged in the batfle with Italians in the deserts of Egypt and Libya. Wearing less than the regulation nniform, t\\o . Bntons lend supply donkms through soft smd\, TWOMURDER "CASES UP 10 | COURT HERE | Willie Horfon Is Indicted —Petit Jurors Will | ReportTomorrow | will be tried Two murder | the present Court Term, for wh | petit jurors will report to District Court tomorrow afternoon 2 o'clock. | Willie Horton was indicted by the Grand Jury teday on a charge of | first degree murder, in connection h the sheoting at Excursion Inlet sptember 16 of Willie Mills. ¢ of Yakutat already faces ler charge for and- he mother. - oo ITALIANS ~ BYGREEXS Counter Mack Is Beater | Back in Tepelin Sector- ’ Gains on Klisura Front \ ATHENS, Jan. 21—The Greek | gigh Command reports their forces |have repulsed what is described as | the largest and most carefully plan- attack yet at- sector on |ned Ttallan counter | tempted in the Tepelini | he Albanian front | Ast | fempt 1t of this desperat, halt the Greek advance ians are declared to have:lost r original positicns alonz | reat numbers of their attacking |force, On the front narth of Klisura, the | Greeks are reported to have also . Attacks have blindingz snow scored important ¢ | oeen launched in { storms. 15 - - o - BASE OFFICER HIRING TALKS | <35 C. “Dyer, {tendent of the Siems-Drake-Puget |Sound Navy base contractors, will tarrive in Juneau Thursday to spend {two days here at the office of the | Territorfal Employment Service in- Iterviewing men for jobs at Sitka, Kodiak and Dutch Harbor Thursday and Friday, men inter- ested in applying for base jobs r talk to Dyer at the employment of- fices in the Sommers Building. Job seekers must bé American cit- izens and prove their citizenship with birth certificates or ci | papers e Pt‘l ~onm'l izenship FOREST AUDIT Regional Fiscal Officer Ray Ward 1 Roy Sebern of the Fiscal Office of t Forest Service will leave on the Baranof to make an annual audit in the Ketchikan office, - Vexico City will inaugurate s winter on Mount Popocat- with | Superin- ¢ | 1535 as “The British Truck Hifs Road in Deser! War | Throwing clouds cf dust as it roars down a deser difficulties encountered by mechanized equipment in the L¥ HOPPIN HERE ON AIRPORT | To Discussmding Field Program with Air- ways Engineer Flying in from Anchorage for a conference on Civil Aercnat jeets in Alas includ the pend- nz Juneau airport development, hall Hepj CAA Direcior in a, was at the Baranof F the a 1 on the evening will meet w . Chief of the Ai Hoppin Lamp! Divisicn, due cn the Al- asl cuss with him the air- building pregram under the 000 defense appropriation for aska in the giant CAA airp bill. Under this bill, Juneau will get $500,000 for airpert developme Hoppin flew in with Senior ways Inspecter Jack Gifferd engined Cessna last nizt w flight from CAA men spent Satu in a af- Su , B. C. landed be- where they cause of weather Saturday Hoppin two or three tyrning expects to spend about days here before re- R - OLDTIMER ENTERS HOME; ANOTHER DIES Admission of one pioneer and death of another is reported in a message received by the Governoriz office today from Superintendent Eiler Hansen at the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka. Euclid E. Provost, 73, of Juneau, was admitted. A steel sharpener. he has been in Alaska since 1903 Charles Wilson, 82, died. He came to Dawson in 1893 and was admitted to the Home in 1937, - - Peru founded in King: Lima, was City of Air- | of Wasilla, g luuu in an \fuun desert mmp to x.mrd Aunnm-s ln«nhl 1 g #nformation. “Free French” soldiers aided British drive into Libya, <« London source said after capture of Bardia, vy truck, illustrates one of the wa To (arry Deiense Malenal The Alcoa Pilgrim, second of a fleet ¢ seven ships being built for the Alcoa Steamship Company at a cost of $17,000,000 slides down the ways of the Union Iron Werks at San Francisco. The ship will operate | in the Caribbean trade and will carry vital materials for the U.-S. defense prog; The ship has a carry ¢ of 8,047 tons. | ) Japanese Diet that he hoped for | continued good relations with the| | United States but “establishment of common prosperity throughout JAPAN HOPING PEACEWING Y. 600D CITIZEN WINCHESTER, Va., Jan. real conservationist is C. E. Grim of Pittsburgh, who hunts in Shenan- deoah county each winter. He sends back enough live quail to replace ° | those killed in the field aen- i am, TOKYO, Jan uoka hope” Foreign Minis- expressed an that the United seriously in her s ambi - the e on the Pacific sake of peace in the world in eral.” | The Foreign Minister told the Empire Classifieds Pay! LDIERS SHED CLOTHES, 'DODGE THE SUN, A;‘» WAR &(ENE SHIFTS TO AFRICAN DESERT... FRENCH SOLDIERS_Allied with Britain in the war against Italy ox Libyan soil are soldiers of the de Gaulle-directed “Free French” forces, to which these men marching at an Afri- can desert camp belong. Flag bears Brittany coat of arms. THE WEATHER (By the U. S. YWeather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT NF CON¥ MERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Junean and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Jan, 21: tonight and Wednesday, but with fog tonight and in mornir colder, with lowest temp rature. tonight about 28 degre Wednesday 35 degrees; it to ger able winds gentle to moderate northeisterly Wednes F 1ight ehtly colder ton me ccming Forecast for Southeast Atask with local fog tonight and in moraing and Wedn able winds except increasing no>:therly to northeasterly wir n north portion Wednesday afternoon, becoming fresh to strong nort erly in Lynn Canal. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alasko: Di Entrance to Cape Spence Partly cloudy; gentle to mod- e southeasterly winds; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinb: cloudy; gentle to moderat: easterly to northeasterly cloudy; mo Partiy clou Hinchinbrook to Resurrection rly winds; Resurrection B Bay: Pa Cape northea; gentle to mederate northerly to o LOCAL DATA winds. asterly Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ¢:30 pm. yesterday 3017 37 89 4:30 am. t 30.16 32 98 11:20 a.m. today 30.14 30 10 | Max. tempt. | 4:30 a.m. | temp. -17 -16 Nome -2 Dawscn 1 1 0 18 ) 0 6 i 0 St. Paul 35 32 ¥ Dutch Harbor .. 42 | 41 3 Wosnesenski 42 41 Kediak 39 | 39 Cordova 35 36 Juneau 3 32 Sitka 43 3 t X 45 3 [ 44 ¥3 0 24 2 0 Scattle 43 | 30 [¥ Fo! Portland 48 38 0 Cloudy San Francisco .. 57 53 04 Rain WENTHER SYNOPSIE Jan, 22.—Sunrise 9:2! am, sunset or partly cloudy skies were reported gen Juneau, aily Cie over previcus this morning, and rain or sncw had fallen during the 24 hours in the northern portion of *uxlhcnt Alaska, and alc the coast from Cape Spencer to toc lflut The great- est amount of precipitation we .38 in \nm_h was reported ot Ccrdova. Temperatures were 3lithtly colder this morning over Southeast Alaska, but little change was experienced elsewhere. Bar- row reported min 17 d a1d Fairbanks minus 16 de thi morning. Clear s s except for patches of low stratus cl 1 fog with gener: good visibility, but ceilings and visibilities cally zero to very low prevailed over the Juneau-Ketchikan airw this morning. The Tuesday morning weathe: chart indicated a low S area of 972 milliba (2870 inc was centered at 41 degre nerth and 161 degrces west, and a cecond low center of about 996 millibars (2941 inches) was centerad at 43 degrees north and 133 degrees west. 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