The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 9, 1941, Page 2

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B ASTER HAMS 33¢ Lb, SWIFT PBEMIUM—GIBSON WHOLE or HALF CHICKENS - Poiind Young—Plump—Tender SHOULDER LAMB, ib. 30 SHOULDER PORK; 1b. 32t | o LEGS SPRINGLAMB; 1b. 38t | LEGS YOUNG PORK; Ib. 38t COCKTAIL and RAW SHRIMPS Kristofferson’s COTTAGE CHEESE PINT----200¢ OVEN-READY ROASTERS FRYERS— TURKEYS —— RABBITS GRADE A FRESH MILK— The Best Milk in Town! ELarge Selection of FASTER CANDIES George Bro S. Super Market PHONE 92-95 4 Deliveries Daily DOUGLAS DELIVERY DAILY—1 P. M. SAVE 5% — Buy Coupon Books"' Ve $20.50 Book $19.06 — $10.00 Book $9.50 1 AXIS PLAN ATTACK ON SUEZ CANAL ROME, April 9—The British con- | clled Suez Canal is the goal of the Axis after Yugoslavia and Greece e officially controlled. This is the tatement made today in the Ital- an newspaper Popolo di Roma. To reach the canal, the Axis forces vill have to drive through Turkey, which is reported watching the Bal- an situation; calml'y viewing it as ct “dangerous y FEDERAL AND TERRITORIAL OFFICES MOVE Treasurer Goes Back fo House Chamber - FHA Moves Tomorrow Federal and Territorial offices are on the move .again.in the Fedecal Building following adjournment of} the . Legislature. Today Territorial Treasurer Os- car.G. Olson.and staff were moved back 'into room 218 and the House Tomorrow the ; Federal Housing Administration; will: be moved into the' Road ~Commission - suite. Next:.week the National Guard office will' be moved into the Sen- ate . chamber, after which:"the branch office:.of the 13th Naval District ‘will :take the room: vacat- ed by the.Guard, after which the Public “Roads - Administration . will move:back {nto -quarters recently oteupied by the Navy. The :Alaska Planning Council is vacumg its office’ which will be !returned to the Fish and Wild- life Service - et = FLY TO SITKA Regional Engineer; Arthur E. Glov- er and Distriet: Supervisor. A. W, Chipperfield: flew to ‘Angoon this afternoon to direet work on ‘the |. Angoon road ' construction. . They ; planned to return, tRis eevning. e AUK 'BAY MEETING The Auk Bay Improvement Club | will meet: at. 7:80 o'clock tonight at | the PAA office at the Auk Bay dock. lbe in charge of Mesdames Don:Han- A S 'BOB’ IOIISSA]N‘ TAKEN BY DEATH HERE LAST NIGHT Well Known Juneati Man Passes Away at t. Ann’s Hospital J. G, K. Toussaint, known to hun dreds ‘Bob” and who will remem ber him for his familiar and cheer- ful greeting of “What do you say?’ passed away in St. Ann's Hospita last night where he was taken from his apartment in the Seaview last Saturday evening when found by friends in an unconscious condition He never regainediconsciousness gnc | died as the result of high blood pres- sure and uremic poisoning. Toussaint:was born.on the Island of Ceylon, ‘April-1l, 1882, He was ip Africa’ during the Boer War, and |came to Aldska in April, 1908. He resided at. Fairbanks for about (10 years and at Nome for approximate- ly-11 years. He was purser ‘aboard river poats on the Yukon in:1918,and was for a time Deputy Marshal at Nome and also at Fairbanks. On December, 10, 1930, he came to Ju- neau to make his home and for the past six years has been a clerk in | the office of the Territorial Treas- urer, Toussaint was a member of ‘the Masonic blue lodge here, joining . July 10; 1039, and“was 'also. a. member of the Sobttish Rite, Thirty-SecondDe- gree ‘Masons. On'January: 3;i1939, Mr.,: Poussaint joined Igloo:iNow .6, Pioneers of Alaska in Juneau,i.and ‘He was-ialsoa member of the local ‘Blks lodge. He was affiliated with Nome: lodge Noi 5, 1. O. O. Fi and also: was @ member of the Mopse lodge at Nome. ' There; are no-relatives kWWn to be. fiving: in this. country. THe. ‘re~ mains are at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. WAL Puneral services have been: ar- ranged for. Friday: aiternoon, at: 2 o'clock from the Carter:chapel.' The | ritual of the Masonic lodge will be wsed. and interment will ‘be''in the Masonic Plot of Evergreen Cemetery. Juiior Guild Wil Give Food Sale The Junior; Trinity Guild willgive # food:-sele Saturdey at/Hollmann's Pharmacy beginning at 10:30 o'clock insthe morning. Home baked “goodies”: for llmch- #on, and dinner will be on hand"for Baturday ishoppers and the sale'will Inebury, H. W. Stinchcomb and N. Lester Troest. Ib I'n 60‘ Empire Classifieds Payl AlY H tiful new G-E models at lowest prices and easiest terms in history. THIS “BIG 7" ponml Electric now only $204.93 6 Cu. Ft. Models From $119.95 up pnced within reach ALASKA ELE “IT'S §-E FOR MEI" More ':eople ‘prefer 4 General' Ffectric —see the many new: features: vou can own the G-E of your choice, i than any d now G-E: Refrigerators are ‘of every: “Conte in 1eday “learn how easily § B R i i }pioneer, who passed away Monday \Business Meefing | 87%, Anaconda 23, Bethlehem Steel Is Placed I Service battleship ~commissioned by the seremonies aboard the 35,000-ton North Carolina at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The the new craft, attended by 1,500 specially invited guests headed by Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, and vith special police, Marines and ailors on guard. Secretary Knox said: “We are foreshadowing with this ship, the sreatest navy the world has ever seen.” The normal complement of the North Carolina will be 75 officers ind 1000 men 4 Hallb" Sell, Seattle SEATTLE, April 9~Four Imubut- s arrived in port and have sold as follows: From the Western banks—Arthur H., 40,000 pounds, 15% nn(l 15 cents 1 pound, From the local banks — Aurora, 7,000 pounds, 4% and 14 cents; Ci Hergert, 12,000 pounds, 14% and 12% cents; 31-A9, 4,000 pounds, 14% and 13 cents. PRICES ELSEWHERE At Prince Rupert today, 73,000 pounds of halibut: were sold at 11 and 7 cents a pound. halibut is 7.50 nnd 5 cents a pound. INCREASE REASE IN NAVY POWER WASHINGTON, April 9—Author- ized increase of 100,000 to the pres- ent manpower of the Navy today won unanimous approval of the Sen- ate Naval Affairs Committee. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, said by 1947 the Navy will- have 532,000 men | |to man the two ocean navy and the shore stations, LAST RIIES HEI.D | THIS MORNING FOR | MARY BERNHOFER | Last rites were conducted this| morning at the Catholic Church of | the Nativity by the Rev. W. G. Le- Vasseur for Mrs. Mary Bernhofer, morning at St. Ann’s Hospital. In- terment was in the Catholic plot of Evergreen Cemetery. Pallbearers were E, M. Polley, J. K. McAlister, William Markle, Hec- tor McLean, George Simpkins and V. W. Mulvihill, TIPS, %, - St T A | Jail After Verdictin - NEW YORK, Aprili 9—The first United States Navy in 18 years took | place today with sober and colorful; commissioning ' ceremonies| ook 'place on the quarter deck of, was held under wartime restrictions| F. afternoon and, at her request, had At Ketchikan today the price of | A((IDENTA[ SHOT FROM OWN HAND BLAMED INDEATH John Grado Released from| Hazel Wheat Case | John Grado, held in Federal jail| i here since the fatal shooting of Mrs. Hazel Wheat Monday evening, was released last night following 'return of a Coroner's jury verdict which declared the 28-year-old In-| dian woman came to her death “by {a bullet wound in the head from 2 gun accidentally discharged by | her own hands.” 1 Testimony at the inquest w that Mrs. Wheat was reclining be- tween Grado's legs and firing the 12-inch barreled .22 calibre “game getter” at a target near Grado’s| cabin eight miles out the highway.| After each shot, she would pass| fhe weapon back over her shoulder !for Grado to reload. keeping her| ihand on the pistol grip all the time, however. Both had been drink- | ing, witnesses testified. | 4 The fatal shot penetrated Mrs. Wheat's. head two inches above her right ear. Husband Testifies A dramatic moment at the in- quest came when Orville Wheat, husband of the dead woman, con- fronted. Grado and three other men {who had taken Mrs, Wheat and| another woman to Grado’s cabin. | Wheat aid his wife had no rea- | son whatever to end her life, He| said he had accompanied her and her :-woman friend to town Monday taken them into a tavern to buy {a drink. At the bar, the women | met several of the men who later! ! accompanied them to the cabin.| Wheat said he finally went home| alone after Mrs. Wheat told him| she wanted to stay a while and| dance. | Mrs. Wheat told him she would) be home in a few minutes to pre-| | pare dinner from groceries which Wheat had bought downtown. When ishe did not appear, he cooked his own meal and went to bed. He learned of his wife’s death at 7:30 o'clock the_ following morning. Serving on the Coroner’s jury in| the court of U. 8. Commishioner | Felix Gray were Lockie MacKin-| non, Alfred Lundstrom, John G.| Morrison, Benjamin Leaming, Thomas J. Ryan and Walter E. Bathe. | MEXI(O AXIS | MIGHT SEVER RELATIONSHIP f MEXICO CITY. April 9.—Official | with Mexico as the result of Mexico's bored at Vera Cruz and Tampico. I sources said Berlin and Rome Willlrested in Ketchikan on charges of | probably sever diplomatic relations vagrancy. expropriation of 12 Axis ships har- Marshal’s office here, the women were “disorganizing the Army.” THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., April 9: Partly cloudy, and not much change in temperature tonight and Thursday, with possibly occasional light rain. showers tonig Tow- est temperature tonight about 40 degrees, highest Thursd: de- grees; - gentle - variable winds, Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy tonight with very light showers in morth portion; partly cloudy in north portion and occasional’ light rain in south portion:Thursday; not much change in temperature; gentle to moderate southerly to southeasterly 1n north portion and moderate to fresh easterly to northeasterly in south portion ‘Thursday. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaskoss Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Moderate to fresh southerly to southeasterly winds, becoming east rly Thursday; local showers; Cgvoe Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: M)derate to fresh easterly to south- easterly ‘winds; partly cloudy; Caje Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: Moderate northeasterly winds; partly cloudy;. Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: Moderate to fresh east:rly winds. g northerly Thursday; occasional ligat showers, becoming partly cloudy Thursday. 49 LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ~ Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 20.51 4 8 SE 13 Rain 4:30 am, today 2057 42 85 SE 11 Rain 11:30 a.m. today ... 29.53 4“4 73, SE 9 *Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max, tempt, Lowest 4:30am. Precip. 4:30a.m Station last 24 hours temp. temp. 24 hours Weathet Barrow 5 -9 -9 0 Clear Fajrbanks 52 37 ki T Cloudy Nome .. 38 | 24 % 0 Cloudy Dawson ... 65 38 41 k 4 Rain Anchorage ... 5t 32 3 0t Pt. Cldy Bethel 26 | 20 20 02 Snow St. Paul 38 28 32 03 Cloudy Atka s B9 34 85 02 Clear Dutch Harbor .. 37 217 38 01 Clear Wosnesenski 38 31 31 0 Pt. Cldy Cordova 40 34 37 115 Cloudy Juneau 50 | 10 ? a5 Rain Sitka 54 40 51 g Ciloudy Ketchikan 48 | 44 47 42 Pt. Cldy Prince Rupert .. 49 | 40 41 43 Clear Prinece George .. 64 | 34 34 0 Pt. Cldy Seattle 64 48 49 i Rain Portland . 63 50 51 z Cloudy San Francisco .. 59 N 50 52 0 Pt. Cldy WEATHER SYNOPSIS Relatively warm, moist maritime air continued this morning over most of Alaska, except over the northern and northwestern portions Rain was falling this morning at some points in Southeast Alas and along the coast to Cordova, Partly cloudy to cloudy skies pre- vailed generally elsewheré over Aliska. Rain'or snow had fallen during the prveious 24 hours alon? the coast from Southeast Alaska to the Alasta Peninsula, and at s)me scattered points from the Tan- ana Valley to the Kuskokwim Vall®y and the Alaska Range, and over the Bering Sea and the Aleutian Iilands. = The gredtest amount of precipitation was 1.15 inches whic1 was recorded at ordova. Gener- ally overcast skies with local light rain showers, moderately low ceil- ings, and fair to good visibilities p evailed over the Juneau-Kelchi- kan airway this morning. The Wednesday morning weath v chart indicated a center of low pressure of 985 millibars (29.09 inches) was located at 57 degrees north and 152 degrees west, and the frontal portion of this storm extended northward and thence eastward into the interior of Alaska. It was expected that this low would slowly fill during the next 2% hours. A second low, center of 982 millibars (29.00 inches) was lo- cated at 48 degrees north and 157 degrees west, and this storm was expected to move about 600 miles to the eastward during the next 24 hours. Indications were that a third low center was located o the southwest of Atka. A high pressure center of 1028 millibars (30.35 inches) was located at 30 degrees north and 158 degrees west. Juneau, April 10—Sunrise 6:02 a.m., sunset 7:58 p.m. FOUR NATIVE WOMEN | By ar. Trinity Guid st Holimann's jA“.ED " KE"(HIKA Pharmacy, Sat., April 12, beginning at 10:30 a.m. adv. Four Native. women have been ar- Srr i S Subscribe to the Daily Alaska Empire—the paper with the larges. paid circulation s = Try a crassiniea aa in ‘t’ne gmpire According to word received by the Is Held by C.D.A. A short business session’ was held | last night by the €atholic Daughters of America at Parish Hall with Mrs. A, ‘M. Geyer, Grand Regent, pre- siding. Regular business was discussed and plans. were made for the April 22 meeting, at which time a class of candidates will be initiated. EASTERN STAR. . PLANS DINNER Plans “were mnde lut eyenhl at a 'meeting of the Order of Eastern Star at the Scottish Rite Temple for a ‘dimnier.on the evening of April 22, preceding. the regular meeting. The affair will honor Past Matrens and Past Patrons and will be in charge of Mrs. O; 8. Sullivan. Last night's meeting was high- lighted by the annual obligation cer- emony and Easter program. Mrs. Sam Feldon arranged for refresh- ments and Mrs. Howard Stabler was in charge of entertainment. NEW YORK, April 9. — Closing quetation: of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 13%, Commenwealth. and Southern 1/16,. «Curtiss 'Wright.-8,, General Moters, 41%, International - Harves- ter-46%, Kenneeott 32%, New York CTRiE HIGHT AND. POWER €0. PHONE 616 Central 12, Northern - Pacific « 8, United States Steel 52%, Pound $4.03%. BT e AL 0 DOW, :JONES. /AVERAGES The following are.today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 118.85, rails 28,33, utilitios -1898. Chevrolet ¢n ay the o low-priced car that brinas y . Why Pay ore people than buy any other make >f Ly CONNO HEVROTET A e 'sa $IX—the only one u 1'y biggest sumnns save you monay on gas, oil upke Mo buy Chevre of ¢ oi pri RS MOTOR €. PHONE 411

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