The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1941, Page 8

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Joe Louis, is in ‘the Army hospitel here with a myster- HERE'S TO Wake up, world, your Schilling’s ready . . . delicious, full-flavored, Two 104 ious ailment that has caused him to lose approximately 25 pounds in the last two weeks. “I'll be fighting here in camp as soon as the doctors find out what's wrong with me,” said the Chicago boxer who is a member of -ee — Supscrine for The Emplie y's SUNSHINE! %\\\\\\,\\ bracing . . . wings of the morning! YOUR CHOICE — DRIP OR PERCOLATOR Schllllng WINGS 0" Tn! MORNING PHONES the 131st Field Artillery from Chi-| | cago. i BUY NOW FOR OVER THE WEEK-END. Stock up on CANNED and PACKAGED GOODS you’ll be using throughout the weeks. SAVE ON THESE! Peaches—Pears—Apricots—Pineapple 23 size cans4|or79c PRUNES Zlh l_:ox . 13c Whole Kernel Corn No. 2 small . . 13¢ 3 bunches I GREEN ONIONS 5¢ hunch IVORY SOAP Large . § bars 53¢ Medium 5 bars 35¢ JOHNSON'S GLO-COAT 1 quarf can and applier - - $1.10 Oven Treat Soda Crackers21bs. 31c Oven Treat Grahams - - 21bs. 33¢ T ll RIFT CO- 0 P NEXT TO CITY HALL i ; Phone 767 -CAN 25c 105 Fast 12 KILLED BY BLAST, HORTA ISLE NmeSoIdlers Injured-Bar- | racks Reported Enfire- ly Destroyed HORTA, April 24—Twelve soldiers and civilians were killed and nine | soldiers injured in a munitions ex- | plosion which destroyed the barracks | of this mid-Atlantic stopping place | for trans-Atlantic air liners. The blast occurred only 10 minutes | after most of the garrison had left for morning drill. The Pan American Airways base | | was not damaged by the explosion. e PEACE PRAYERS ARE REQUESTED | MADE BY POP Asks Cathollcs Throughout World to Devote May fo Special Cause | Pius has asked Catholics throughout the world to pray for peace. This is the third such appeal | |and was made in the form of a | letter addressed to the Papal Sec- | retary ‘of State. It is asked that | Catholics devote the month of May | to peace prayers. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY APRIL 24 l94l' LAST OF 'MUCKRAKERS, " CHARLES E Brifish in DaringRaid In Daylight Northwest German y Is| Bombed, Also Dufch | Island LONDON, Apxll 24—The British Air Ministry announces that direct hits were scored on the important power station at Ibbenburen in northwest Germany, in a daring daylight raid and Royal Air Force planes also bombed the Dutch Island of Terschelling and machine gun- | ned occupying Nazi troops. Several ships were hit and three are known to have been sunk in the harbor. FEARGIREN . - - T COY IS NAMED T0 NEW POST BY PRESIDENT Will Be Roosevelt’s Spec-| ial Liason Officer at White House \VASHINGTON Aprl] 24—Wayne Coy, of Indiana, assistant to Fed- eral Security Administrator Me- Nutt, was today appointed by Roose- velt as his special assistant liaison | officer between the White House and the Office of the Emergency | Management $9,000 a year. The President has also placed Henry* L. Hopkins on the White | House payroll at $10,000.a year as supervisor gram. DEBACLE OF GREEKS GETS EXPLANATION High Command Issues Sev- . en Word Statement Re- t garding Cause Defeat } (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The High Command of Greece. explamu‘g the collapse of the Greek |armies in the northwest after being 'cut off by the German Panzer col- umns summed up the debacle in seven words: “These forces didn’t | possess anti-tank guns.” * PASSES AWAY INEAST His salary will be| of the lend-lease pro-| D. RUSSELL, (Continuea from Page One) sky and other revolutionary leaders. In 1918 the President sent him to London as commissioner to Great Britain on the committee on pub- lic information. And in 1919 he was a member of the President’s indus- trial commission. Barred By 2 Nations H The British government by 1926 had found him objectionable. In that year he was forbidden to land. at Plymouth unless he agreed not to go to Ireland; he chose to pass Eng- land without landing. This was be- cause of his espousal of the cause of the Irish republic. Ttaly previously had denied him admittance on account of his attacks on Mussolini. ‘ Russell was born in Davenport, Iowa, September 25, 1860, the son of Edward Russell, publisher of the | Davenport Gazette. He was gradu- ‘aled from the St. Johnsbury (Vt.) \Academy in 1881. He was married twice. His first| | wedding was in 1884 to Abby O.| Rust of St. Johnsbury. They had a | son, John Russell, a playwright, and | short story writer of Santa Monica, | Calif. Mrs. Russell died in 1901, and | in July, 1909, he married Theresa Hirschl of 'Chicago. Started at Bottom In hi; boyhood Russell spent all| his spare time in his father's news- | paper office; learning to set type and | do chores, He got into editorial wark - and in 1881 became telegrapl’ edi- | tor of the Gazette. In 1884 he he- | came night editor of the Minneapolis | | Tribune and later managing editor of the Minneapolis Evening Journal. After a brief period in 1836 as| managing editor of the Detroit Trib- une, he joined the reportorial staff |of the New York Commercial Ad- | vertiser, next to the New York Times, World and Herald. He was citv edi- | tor of the World, 1894-97, and one of the managing editors of the New | York American until §900. When he left the newspaper field after his | health broke in 1902, he was pub- | lisher of the two Hearst papers in ,Clncagr:. the America nand the Ex- | aminer. A year later he entered the | magazine field. Crusader in Wide Fields Besides his campaign against the corporations, his crusades stretched over the whole field covered by the other “muckrakers” and then some. Among the subjects he dealt with were women's suffrage, Trinity Church’s tenements, southern pris- on camps, prison conditions in the north, the strike il the Michigan copper regions and the old New York | election laws. After a trip around the world for Everybody’'s Magazine, he wrote a famous series of articles on sociolo- gical studies in various countries en- titled “Soldiers of the Common Good.” This was published in book form in 1907 under the title of “Up- rising of the Many.” Russell ‘won the Pulitzer prize for hiography in 1927 for his book, “The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas.” Music was a life-long hob- by of Russell and Thomas was his hero from boyhood. In 1924 he pub- lished a biography of Julia Marlowe. He wrote in all thirty-four books, including two volumes of poetry, and scores of articles. He was one of the last survivors of the “muckrakers,” who included, besides Steffens and Miss Tarbell, | RED SHIELD BUTTER 2 Ibs. 79 "CHASE & SANBORN CALIFORNIA GROCERY Phone and COFFEE m_ wmer w |20 39 SPECIALS for FRIDAY, SATURDAY, MONDAY-April 25, 26, 28 ROLLED OATS - - 39« FIGBARS 2 b pkg. 25¢ 0Z. CAN % TOMATO JUICE 3 CANS--25 MOTHER’S—Large Package ROYAL GELATIV PUDDIN AND DESSERTS ALL FLAVORS Package 5 AR - ™ Ffl FRESH, BROWN LOCAL EGGS FRESH DAILY! NO. 1 ! YAKIMA GEMS POTATOES 25" 75¢ Monarch Strawberry Preserves - - 21b. jar 3¢ Lbs. For NOW READY FOR YOU——Haines Seed Potatocs ONION SETS—AIlso many other GARDEN SETS for your farm or local garden. Plant all you can this year. We can help you select the correct sets and sceds. Fresh Fruits and Vegetahles ——— On Every Beai! Also Many Kinds of Fresh Frozen Foods! { CALIFORNIA MEAT DEPARTMENT HENRY BAMAN—In Charge gHT!dCKENS ib. 28¢ e e e £ P B CHOICE BEEF POT ROAST: . . Ib.35¢ GROUND BEEF,Choice . . . . Ih.30¢ We have a complete selection of OTHER FANCY MEATS cut to your order from the CHOICEST OF SELECTED GRADES! VATICAN CITY, April 24—Pope | Henry Demarest Lloyd, Ray Stan-' nard Baker, David Graham Phillips, Thomas W. Lawson and John L, Matthews. Steffens, in his autobi mg- raphy, wrote of Russell: “He was one of the most earnest, emotional, and gified of the “muck- rakers.” Steffens regarded Russell's social- ism in its early stages as “a form' of rest, a conviction,” a respite from | thinking. 'Moose Lodge to Install Friday | The Loyal Order of Moose will install their officers for the year ‘comorrow night at the I.0.O.F. Hall beginning at 8 o'clock. | A luncheon will follow and all members are requested to be pres- ent. “IRRIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY—90 noof " SCHENLEY DISTILLERS CORP, N.Y. € Short Wave Boss 8. P. Richardson America’s most powerful shortwave broadcasting stations are being mo- bilized for national defense and pro- motion of international good will with Stanley P. Richardson, veteran foreign comlpondent, serving as coordinator for the six companies in . the field. Nine stations from coasy Bgs A0 ited purtmpau. ey fer # 3% I Try a classified ad in The g # by } %ok MEETING OF JUNEAUC.C. IS PASSIVE Members Dgp;se of Reg- ular Business and then Hear Reporls Island of Lemnos Is (By ASSOCIATED PRESS). ) An unofficial German report is- sued late today in Berlin says the Germans have seized the Island of | Lemnos which is near the Darda- | nelles, t e | Taken Over Comparatively passive, the mem-; bers of the Juneau Chamber of| Empire Classifieds Pay! Pie crust which has been made up at least a day in advance, wrap- ped in waxed paper and stored in | the refrigerator, rolls out better than crust freshly made. This suggestion also applies to rolled cooky doughs, . ———aee Try a classified ad in Tne Empire, Rl LGl ) FOR RENT ~Juneau Liquor Store Space Wlll Remodel to Suit Tenant, See Percy’s Cafe Commerce held their weekly lunch-| — ——— |eon meeting in the Gold Room of | the Baranof Hotel today, discussing| regular routine business and hear- ing reports from standing commlt- tees. . Norman-Banfield = told Chamber members.of the progress of Juneau | protests against the threatening making | o&.admlmlty Island. into a Natiorial” Monument, giving a resu- me of work dohe, and briefly ten- tioning , the. action of the Cham- ber in thé eampaign. The radio committee reported re- ceptidh from Outside had improved during the last week, and it was noted that the DeMolay drive lor funds to send a degree team to Ketchikan huad been very success- ful, four instead of three Juneag boys being able to make the trip. It was announced that the ex- ecutive board will invite ten boys entered in the Rotary-Empire Soap Box Derby to be the guests of the Chamber at its next meeting so that they may solicite sponsors ,;or ANNUAL DANCE Douglas Volunteer Fire Department DOUGLAS NAT Saturday, April 26 MUSIC BY Lillian Uggen's Orchestra Everybody Welc_ome