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25 George Bros. LARGEST Liquor Store IN JUNEAU SCOTCH : 'Americans ~ Under Fire Home of FiJSecretary of U. 5. Legation Used as Fort Two Times BUCHAREST, Jan. 24. reign of ferror was at its height ast night and during today, the bloody conflict between the An- | tonescu Government and Iron o) | Guardists, the home of J Webb Benton, First Secretary of the United States Legation in Ruma- [ ] as twice commandeered by Guardi and civilians who used it as a fort from which to shoot Antonescu’s soldiers he TEACHER'S — JOHNNY WALKER RED LABEL HAIG & HAIG 5STAR — VAT 69 — DEWAR'S Antonescu Army forces were stationed with tanks and men WHITE LABEL — KING GEORGE IV — PETER arm with D‘d.“cn;’L& hlfi lpl'ouct the premises from further forays. DAWSON — BLACK KNIGHT — ROYAL All Americans, including Benton MAC GREGOR—15 YEARS OLD and his mother, are tonight report- ed to have reached safety in the American Legation which has re- mained untouched during the reign of . terror, | WINES—5 Years to 200 Years Old COGNAC BRANDY——FRANCE 15 YEAR OLD—CARVEL FFTH - $4.95 FOR TOM AND JERRY BRANDY RUM FIFTH -- §2.50 67 BRANDY —————33% RUM d EXCELLENT QUALITY! CHAMPAGNE—CALIFORNIA GOLDEN STATE PINT —$1.95 QUART--$2.95 EXTRA DRY—EXTRA GOOD! >oo — INCOME TAX OFFICE WILL CLOSE SOON Annual Field Trips Next Week Deputy Collectors of Internal Rev- |enue O. 8. Sullivan and Wes Overby will set out next week on their an- Inual income tax collection tours of | Alaska. The local office of the Bur- eau of Internal Revenue, as a con- tire month of February, and those who wish to file their income tax {returns early should do so at once. Tuesday ler just to spend the weekend, after which he will go to Petersburg, Wrangell and Ketchikan. He will re- RABE oLD SHEBRY turn March 1. Returns must be filed Sullivan will leave next Thursday for the Westward and Interior, not to return to Juneau until November. WINES: FRENCH, SPANISH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, CHINESE COMPLETE SELECTION OF CALIFORNIA e WINES ALL FLAVORS COURT CALENDAR WILL BE CALLED HERE TOMORROW | Come Down and See the Largest and | o cowiwmen no mest o Finest Selection of Liquors and Liqueurs in Territory! Al will convene at 10 o'clock to- morrcw morning for the calendar. The jury cnday morning, when its first suit, the setting of | that of Pat Hussey against Pete 2 Hammer over Carpenters’ Union funds, will begin. The United States’ 1941-1942 GREENS GO SOUTH b Y budget fills a 1,071-page book ¥ | . . el tone 250 bhg - halt Mrs. Henry Green, wife. of the home"es VK” Juneau Agent of the Northland pounds. ! Transportation Company, accom- . Bl b e | ey her aon Daony, ' ith Stangrooms Tunlrlr co uP | | passenger south to Seattle aboard | | the N and. 4 A . Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Harris are! i ., Member National Retailer ; s h frcm Nome, arriving yesterday | Owned Grocers The demand fo spider webs as cn the PAA Electra. hair-lines in gun sights has stimu- lated development of several spider “ranches” in England Mr. Harris is-with the U. S. Smelt- ing Co., and while in Juneau he and Mrs, Harris are guests of Represen- tative and Mrs, Stuart L. Stangroom at their apartment in the Hillcrest. Enroute to Florida for a vacation of several weeks, Mr. and Mrs. Har- ris plan to sail on the steamer Al- aska. HERBERT BOUND FOR THIS CITY | Representative Charles Herbert, | University of Alaska graduate el- |ected to the | Fourth Division, is due north on the | Mount McKinley. | Herbert, who is mining in the Fortymile, has been in the States [on business for the past few months. His wife and child will come north later. INEILL IS DUE " WITH ELECTRA K. N. Neill, well known former Ju- neau PWA auditor is due by Electra this afternoon from Fairbanks. Friends say Neili, who is now lo- cated in private business in Fair- banks, will make a brief trip to the States. i NEXT TO CITY HALL PHONE 767 e Lease-Lend Bill Rivals - >-oe MRS, L. F. KANN ENROUTE TO STATES Despite their rivalry over the lease-lend bill for aiding Britain, Rep- resentatives Andrew J. May of Kentucky, left, and Sol Bloom of New York, prove they are still friends by shaking hands for the cameraman in Washington. May, chairman of the house military affairs committee, led a fight to have the bill assigned to the house military committee, but the house voted to refer the measure to the foreign affairs commlttee, headed by Bloom- Mrs. L. F. Kann of the Kann's Variety Store, sailed for the states last night cn the Motorship North- land. She will be away for about two months, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY JAN 24, I94I — When| 'Collectors Sefling Out on' sequence, will be closed for the en-| Overby will leave for Sitka next | returning here 10 days lat- has been excused untik| Legislature for the| RELATIVEOF LEGISLATURE ‘ " OPENS MONDAY REITAAMOS 41 10 o'cock (AI.I.S (HlEF‘Se(refary Bartlett Will Con- vene House - Sen- ate Hour Lafer LABOR W HOLD FORTH NEXT WEE Annual Convention Slated for Juneau Anain in i Eu fRaIston Talks to Lyle Por-. ' fer - Suicide Note The 15th Alaska Territoral Leg- islature will ym under way offici- Reaches Dallg - |5 05 ooy e n Hall when Secretary of Alaska E Death by downing seemed today| (Bob) Bartlett will convenc legislators will - not | a more conclusive surmise as to|House. Convening of the Senate the end met by Reita Amos the 28-|been set for an hc later, year-old Texas miss who left a sui- Both houses are expected to ad- |cide note in her hotel room Monday | journ after electing temporary of- in t |night and has not been seen since. ficers, about | Chief of Police Dan Ralston this| The Governor's message proba- The convention, k |morning received a radiophone call|bly will not be delivered until the eathering of the - from the missing girl’s brother-in- > has been in session for held i law, Lyle Porter, in Dallas, Texas ind is completely or- pices of Mn zed. Porter said they received a letter ration this morning from Reita declaring ate and House, caucuses are Officers declared s |she was going to end it all by leap- y arranged for Sunday have been invited to ing into the waters of Gastineau t e ¥ as well as CIO unios o Channel. The letter also contained ticipated the conve the keys to her lugzaze, which had Ge Bernard Shaw’s fihst job ber approxim: n been locked before she disappeared Ralston meanwhile has urged all boat owners and frequenters of the waterfront to watch for the body which should rise to the surface any iime. Senafors On PAAPlanes Two Senators from the Fourth Divisicn are to arrive by PAA Ei-| ectra this afterncon, Hjalmar Nor dale and C. H. “Alabam” LaBo) teaux. Nordale, from Fairbanks, ing his wife and son Tony. e, DR. BAUER WILL SHAPE DEFENSE PLAN FOR NORTH Dr. H. A Baum Planmng Con- sultant for the Alaska Planning Council, has received a new as- | signment from the National Re- ! sources Planning Board to coordin- ate defense planning for Alaska abeut 800 a w is bring- By the slim margin of eleven days, the biennial contest to determine the baby member of Congres! been settled. Honor of being the youngest solon in the 77th go ar-old Representative William G. Stratton Dr. Bauer was notifed of his (left) 1-at-large from Illinois.” Born Feb. 26, 1914, new task when he visited the Port- . i P tive T. Hale Boggs (right), New Orleans Demoerat, who was born Feb. 15, 1914, land office of the Board during = recent trip Outside. s Such coordinating plans are being G d N worked out for all the strategic 00 elghbors on VISlt areas of the nation, of which Al- aska is one. Bauer will work with Gordon Wildes, Senior Planning Tethni- cian, who will handle the munici- pal end of the work while Dr Bauer deals more particularly with the regional aspects. The aim of the work., which Dr.| Bauer describes as both “difficult” ! and “delicate,” will be to make de- ‘Iense planning fit into long, range 'developmem of Alaska. The work will be paid for | defense appropriations. DYER SEEING - WORKMEN FOR - NAVAL BASES R. L. Dyer, personnel superinten- dent for the Navy base contrac- tors, Sems, Drake, Puget Sound, |came in from Sitka on the North- land last night and is interviewinz a crowd of hopeful workers today at the Tegritorial Employment Service offices in the Sommers Building. Dyer will interview men here to- day and tomorrow for work on the Sitka, Kodiak, and Dutch Harbor Navy bases. WHALEY ABOARD l MOUNT McKINLEY Representacive rrank O. Whaley. 8econd ‘ Division legislator, is c= ing to Juneau from Seattle abeard {“he steamer Mount McKinley, due Monday. Accempanyinz Whaley is! nis wiferand child Brownie. - | BONDS TO BE SOLD Ten thousand dollars worth of first| mertgage ‘honds issued by the Ju- |neau Lumbet Company will be sold | at the front door of the Federal| Building here February 3 at 10 2'elock by Norman Banfield, admin- | istrator of the estate of Carl (Charl- | ) Biernoth. The bonds are in six lots. from Pictured as they arrived aboard the Uruguay and enjoyed their first glimpse of New York are Pablo Jose Arias South American comadian, and hls wnfe. a well-known gancer, They are on vacation. Film “Blondie,” New Husband ————— DIVORCE CAfE Suit for divorce has been filed in | District Court here by Claudia Kear- | ney Harper against John Vincent . Harper on grounds of non-support and incompatibility. - MISSING MEN The U. 8. Marshal's office here has received inquiries from relatives and business associates in the states a to the whereabouts of Ray Elgar Snyder, gillnetter, and Middleton Crawford, miner. MARRIED BY COM SSIONER Albert S. Burrell i Daisy Brown | were married by U. 8 Commissione: Felix Gray iast nigh'. Witr were Mr. and Mrs. Eli Maki, nown on the screen for her portrayal of 'Blondie” in tne series under that name, Penny Singleton is shown with her new and, Producer Robert Sparks, as they departed from Los Angeles by plane on a honeymoon. THE WEATHER | (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) S. DEPARTMENT AF COV¥ MERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, ®cginning at 4:30 pm., Jan. 24 (,uw ral light' 'shoW’ tonight' snd Saturday: slightly warmer, w vest témperaturé tonight about 12 degrees, highest Satur I¢ asing northeasterly st for Southe: Alask: tly overcast with o < It snc slightly warmer ature tonight and Saturda ger o moderate easterly to northeasterly winds except fresh fo trong northerly in Lynn Canal, Taku Inlet and Chatham Straits Forecast of winas along the cuast of the Gulf of Alaska; m Entrance to Cape Spencer: Mostly cloudy with oceasior ight snow, moderate to fresh east:rly to northeasterly winds; Ca Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Increasing cloudine ¥ ight snow; moderate easterly to northe winds in- brook to Resurrection Bay Increas t casterly winds; Resurrection Bay t» Mostl 1 al snow or rain; moderate to easterly erly winds. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 0 p.an. yesterday 30.06 10 37 NE 20gusty’ P 4:30 a.m. today 20.78 9 61 NE 182 o 11:30 am. today 2971 8 41 NF 18 gust C RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. tempt. | 4:30 a.m. Precip. 418 Station last 24 hours temp. 24 hours Weaticr Barrow -8 -20 ( c Fairbanks 0 ! 0 Nome 20 “ 0 Dawson i 0 Anchorage Paul Dutch Harbor Wosnesenski Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sit Ketchikan Prince Rupert Prince George Sl"\L le WEATHER es prevailed generalls cloudy over the coastal ar d Bering na over fallen during southern portion of A Aleutian Islands. The greatest amc ed at Dutch Harbor, where abou: 1 ing the.previous 24 hours. Low t°m cast Alaska, Juneau having - repor ed morning. Mostly overcast s cies ceilings and good visibilities, wit1 northeasterly surface winds in t north portion, prevailed over the Jnea ing SYNOPSIS Alaska from Ko Southes hou Clear mostly Islands, 10w had the' g Southea had fa continued ov rain u-Eete The of 995 127 Friday morning millibars west, weather ct inehes center of 985 mil north and 147 degree inches) ost and second degr and vas centered third low cent about ea at 50 degr of about 972 44 rees north and was centered to the southeas. of ure extended as far north as Barr deg; Alaska A igh rea of 1021 millibars (30.15 inches) was centered ai 27 degrees 1o and 138 degr: west, Juneau, Jan, 25. — Sunrise 9:19 a.m unset 4:03 p.m. SEW WHAT! SOLDIERS CRY—_Even in the army that rule about a “stitch in time"” holds. At Fort Dix, N. J.,, Senior Hostess Ethel Logan directs sewing repairs. The soldiers are Sam Bonderinko of Schenectady. N. Y., Homer Miller of Hilton, N X GMC TRUCKS ] Compare Them With Al! Others! 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