The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 12, 1941, Page 8

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MAY :12, 1941 CORCORAN'S | BRITISH TROOPS EVACUATED FROM GREECE ALASKA 0L ' IDEAPROBED Sought Ickes Aid for Gov-j HITLER'S BIGSHOT MISSING Rudolph Hess Believed fo JONES-STEVENS OFFER Mid-Month Specials ally fine Women’s Wearing Apparel is offered i STEVENS, Inc. You must g(')’mc il‘: to :er;dlil\?' Another timely sale of l-x(‘epiign this TWO-DAY SALE at JO many lovely things on display. All Prices Below Good Tuesday and Wednesday ernment Drilling of Iniskin Well WASHINGTON, May House Appropriations [has made public testimony Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes that Thomas Corcoran dis- cussed with him the possibility of a Government loan for a Rrivate oil prospecting venture in Alaska. Secretary Ickes asserted he ma no recommendations on the sub- ject because it was outside of jurisdiction Secretary Ickes took offense at questions from Representative Ro- bert F. Jones, Republican of Ohio, concerning a conference with Cor- {coran on the oil venture intimat- ing that it concerned a proposal by R. E. Havenstrite that the Gov- ernment finance drilling of a new test well in the Iniskin Peninsula area on which Havenstrite and as- sociates hold oil and gas leases is- sued by the Interior Department. PAA CANCELS Have Crashed Pilot- ing Own Plane (Continued from Page One) 12 — The Committee from any proposed flights were under : Hitler his personal in- of by nts have been order- ested although it is said they are of Hitlers orders announcement by the Nazi said it is believed that Hess fallen a “victim of hallucina- * before he left, vanishing com- in his own plane. It is said ted by the wording of a left behind and it is feared he either crashed “or met with tome other accident The wording in the letter showed | traces of mental derange-| | The Party had | his th clearly ment Hess was Number 2 man to succeed | Hitler in event of the Fuei death. Hitler's first cheice was Goer- ing Hess was 47 and was often called Hitler's shadow because of his ai- mest constant association with the Fuehrer. - British soldiers, evacuated from Greece, rest at an unidentified seaport transports which removed them from the German-conquered country. to New York. e R TR SR This picture cabled from London NEW SPRING HATS NEW SPRING RUTH HEBERLING Formerly $7.95 Formerly $6.95 TAFFETA WERE $2.50 ol e -, after their disembarkation from | | | { “Betty Baxley and Nelly Don_ | HOUSE DRESSES ‘NOW $4.95 NOW §3.95 Q KICKERNICK SLIPS (Black, Navy, White and Pink) NOW §$1.95 One Group of KAYSER and One Group JONES-STEVERS Were Former- | League prexy Dolly Gray said that ly $2.25 NOW $1.45 { HOSE ! ™" T3¢ $1.25 2.25 roREGN P | FLIGHT FROM QUESTION NOW UP, COMMITTEE Would Bar T aki ng Over Ships Owned by Other Governments Although scheduled to leave Se- attle this morning for a flight to Ju- {neau, a PAA Lodestar canceiled its {trip to Juneau late this afiernoon {because of bad weather in the in- Uierior vegions of British Columbia. | {The plane will leave for Juneau to- | morrow morning and make a round trip One PAA Electra left Fairbanks| |this morning and. is scheduled to land here this afterncon with six| | passengers aboard. They are Hm‘cvldv Gillam and L, E. Everson booked to Juneau, and Helen Carlson, C. E.| k- | Rhoades, G. A. Hindmarsh and Ann ' q | Walsh booked through to Seattle. | e i SEWARD DO/ WASHINGTON, May 12.--Leg lation authorizing the Government to take over foreign ships lying idle in American harbors has been given approval by the Senate Commerce Committee by a vote of 11 to 4. The committee wrote an amend- ment to the House approved legisl tion to forbid the Government ta ing over any vessel actually owne by a foreign country except through } purchase | Chairman Bailey said none of the | —_— foreign ships now lying idle in Am-| Dr, Ray Banister of Seward ar- erican harbors are actually owned by !rived in juneau from Seattle oen the any foreign government all prop- | steamer Barancf Sunday and is erty being held by nationals of for- :staying in Juneau while waiting for eien countr the ne: rthbound PAA plane. Dr ————— | Banister is registered at the B: BANKER ON BARANOI {anof Hotel. Fowler Martin, of the First Na- —————— tional Bank of Seattle, making an SALESMAN ARRIV annual visit to Alaska, is a passenger —_ on board the Baranof bound for Cor- | Traveling man E. 0. Goodmason dova. Martin is making an annual arrived from the South on the Bar- business trip to the banks of the |anof Sunday and is stopping at the Territery. \’Baranox Hotel LeXk o > -—-——— Subscribe for The Empire Sybscrive ror The Emptre A GENERAL ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR LIKE THIS ouly $124.95 DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR this is the refrigerator buy of the year! All- Slefl Cabinet with Porcelain In- terior Famous Sealed-in-Steel G-E Thrift Unit ¢ 6.2 cu. ft. Capacity ® 11.7 sq. ft. Shelf Area o \S(»amless Steel Super Freezer » 80 Big Ice Cubes. And a host of fea- " $15 DELIVERS tures you'll want. ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER (O. PHONE 618 R D SR A S e S S S N SEATTLE HERE {Local Ball Cmeaves Bot- | Moose ENDS SKI TREK | ] %f] | ar- | ! 1 f e | 4 ARSI Ed Borders, formerly of Hot Springs, Mont., and his husky, “Butch” reached Seattle, Wash., after an adventurous 91-day 1,600-mile ski hike on the International Highway route from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Hazelton, B. C. “Outside the silence it wasn't bad,” he ISLAND NINE | TAKES L0SS FROMMOOSE he burned one into his glove. In the third canto Rustad made up for the bobble when he made the tour to bring the Dov in the score keepers book, but Orme | singled and made the hit g a run to tie the score minutes later. | The Mcose & ed pulling aw: from the Islanders in the fourth; when Redenberg singled and made it good. Then came the finishing, | fifth when Moose rolled the local| boys over for four runs and Stan Grummett came up to the plate to knock one over the center field fence. Grummett In a Pinch If ever a batter was in a pickle with a critical audience, first base- man Stan Grummett was that man vhen he stepped up to the plate with two away and two on the bases. He swung, He connected. And he brought in Snow and Sturrock o make four runs for.the inning, in-| cluding Slagle’s run which he took | on a single. Mark Jensen fanned nine men during the game, but he gave 11 hits and the Moose were taking ad- vantage of his temporary lapse for the chance they wanted, amd . the core stood 8 to 3 when the inning fom of League Cellar as Douglas Falls Scere Last Night Moose 9, Douglas 4 Douglas Pulling themselves out of League cellar to tie the other twoj teams with a .500 per cent average, the Moose last night whipped the visiting Douglas nine by a score of 910 4 in one of the most showman- |like and lively games seen in any/| inning fray in the Territory, | r none, { It looked like another walloping on the seat of the white trouser .'d‘ Moose at the beginning of the first| frame as Willey and Erskine of the' Island nitie pulled the teeth of tue| | visitors by ~taking a single each| |from Lefty Joe Snow and furning | them into runs. | Moose Take' Toll, Too | The cat-galling, pop-drinking|period. crowd that packed the grandstand| Snow gave six hits in six innlngsl and booed, hissed and picked on|and fanned six men; Smith gave| everycne but the bat boy, sat up and|three hits in three innings and | looked in the second half of the first|fanned one man. The Mopse, made as Guy and Ofme brought in two five errors, Jensen of the Douglas runs to_tie the score two all. Guy |pine gave 11 hits in niné innings |took a walk as Jensen threw four balls, and then beth- he and Orme|{made three errors. came in as Snow stepped up to the| Ribbed about the brand ney bl ed three men, and then with thé| bases loaded, walked in Sturrock as Kelly Blake was given the “to first” | sign by the umpire. i A miniature rally was attempted; in the first of the ninth as Erskine zot to first on Schmitz' error, and then came into home when Jensen tcok a single from Smith, who re- placed pitcher Joe Snow in the sixth. But that was the last score of the game and the Mcose didn't bother to finish the last of the as nine ahead | {heme run, Grummet -nded. In the seventh Jensen walk: and fanned nine men. The Is)anAersJ the girls in Douglas bought the ap- parel forshim for assigning catcher George Willey to Douglas . . . Pend- ing participation in the League as a team, which is now definitely a mere dream that fafled, the Coah',‘ Guardsmen cbligec. Juneau and the! League by supplying Sund i fray | with sailor Al Mahoney as umpire behind the plate; and a cooler, more imperturbable person you never saw | In the last of the fifth frame, catcher Kelly Blake was s0 mad that | he actually couldn't get mad "Twas | a mere state of saturation The| crowd jamming the grand stand was | the liveliest in many a day . John- ny Slagle walked away f[rom the plate, thinking that he struck out, | then, finding out that he had one! left, came back to hit out a single Orme, playing his first game of | .u the season, gct ere applause from | the crowd each time he came up to the plate PHONE 193 CANYON IS SEARCHED FOR MICHEK & Wy Coat, Hat o? fiissing Man Found Today at Head of High Falls A party of eight men, equipped 1 with ropes, dynamite and moun- Olmineermg gear, were working this 1 afternoon on the upper reaches of 0 Gold Creek searching for the body 0| of Joseph Micek, whose coat and 0 hat were found this morning at the 1ihead of the falls in Gold Creek Canyon. Micek, a newcomer —lhad been missing for exactly 3, week. | 'The hat and coat, which' con- | tained a wallet with Micek's social ! security card and $31 in currency, were found this morning at about 9 o'clock by Chris Jorgonsen, Al- ,dska Juneau Gold Mining Company G}employee, who was walking in the | basin on his day off. | Jorgonsen reported the find to city Police and the Marshal’s of-| | fice. The hat and coat were found | 1 in Tth, atn | @bout two and one-half miles from Juneau. They lay at the foot of Summary ia tree at the edge of the top of Ormo 2, Rodenberg, |8 60-foot waterfall. It is believed acrifice hit, BErskine; hit | that Micek either jumped or fell| pitched ball, Stewart by Snow; | down into the gorge below. | two-base hits,| HUugo0 Vander . Spak, Micek’s| bases on|reommate - at the Scandinavian Rooms, said the missing man was| # Next Game The next game on the schedule will be played tocmorrow evening on the Dougl: nd lot at 6:39 o'clock as the Elks meet the Islanders on their cwn grounds. The box score: Moose 1 E| 1 > w CO MM Ny = Guy If Schmitz 2b Orme cf Slagle ss Snow p Sturrock 3b Rodenberg rf Grummett 1b Blake ¢ Smith p to Junean, a R R ol covmmmmom=g @ & ~ Te Douglas w cocoococormmo o Willey Culbertson Erskine 1b Rustad ss Jensen p Roller 2b Niemi of Slowar I tf 3bh O ccoormwmmmg Batted for Culberts Rodenberg; Grummett, balls, off Snow 4, off Jensen 7;| struck out, by Snow 6, by Spith 1, by Jensen 9; <ix hits off Snew in six jnnings; thrae hits off Smith in} three invings; pacod balls, Blake 3, Willey 4: w’'' pitches, Snow 2, Smith 1, Jerson 7; double play, Rus- | tad to Erskine to Willey to Stragier; | umpires, Mohoney at the plate,} Shepard on bases; scorer, Gaffney; time of game, to hours, 25 minutes. S s GUARDSM. N T0 START L JBLE DRILLS TODAY Starting their first week of m-‘ tensified drill, which has been dou- bled by orders from the National Guard Bureau, Company A of .the Juneau National Guard will meet at the Armory tonight at 8 o'cleck for the first of the two weekly drill periods. | The company will be given ad- vanced lectures on the use of in-; fantry weapons and will be in- structed in bayonet practice. ., — The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any Al «ska mewspaper + e \ SANITARY PLUMBING and ,HEATING. COMPANY;, | .. right, first row, General Wilhelm ; Joachim ven Ribbentrop, an plate to make Rusty Rustad err when suit he was wearing at the game, ‘Walther Funk, Count Lutz Schwerin-K: Jones- |0l P Digwigs'sat on the Relchstig Keitel; Stevens Inc. SEWARD ST. 990 scene dick left on the Ba three weeks' official business Lrip to Cordova and Seward. - OVERBY TO SITKA Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue Wesley C. Overby will leave for Sitka on the North Coast }mmormw to remain until Satur- day. despondent at not finding work. Mar R He had arrived here about ten 0 il H days before from California and % (us USS\, as last seen at the City Library e st e wt e oy Loy Birthday-Beach Party Led by Chief of Police Dan Ral- ston, Deputy Marshal Sid Thomp- Treadwell bea was the son and Street Foreman Bert Ly- yesterday of the birthday party of beck, the searching party was eleven year-old Marcus Russell, son dragging the creck, searching along of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Russell the canyon walls and preparing to Picnic refreshments were enjoyed blast a log jam in the pool below by the young group as well as the the falls, in an effort to find roverbial birthday cake. ody. Those invited were Jimmie and — et — Dickie Troast, Sonny George, Robert Swanson, Harold Michaelson, Bud- Goonwm MAKES 'l’mp dy Reid, Torleif Snaring, Jim Tripp. Bill Evans, Stanford Clark, Colleen ]’o HOO“AH wn'H ONE and Aileen Hellan and Leota Russell. — .- Pilot Dean Goodwin of the local | AT GASTINEAU airways carried Jack Molyneaux to Arriving from Anchorage on the Hoonah this morning and is ex- southbound steamer Columbia, M pected to return from the coast with A. Turner is in Jureau today for a three passengers. short time, She is registered at the Shell Simmons winged out of the | Gastineau Hotel. Channel this afternoon with Her- | o e ca maR bert Arlowe for Canyon Island and | VOICE RETURNS Capt. A. J. Curry for Mary Joyce's| Miss Addie McKinnon, Federal Taku Lodge. Building telephone operator, 4 . Gy I e | back on the job today after a U DUFRESNE RETURNING EWCEKS' absence due to illness. Executive Officer Frank Du-| S B AR fresne of the Alaska Game Com-| IN FROM SENTINEL ISLAND mission plans to leave Seattle May{ Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Scriver of the 91 on the vessel Brown Bear ‘o, Sentinel Island lighthouse, arrived return to Juneau after a business in Juneau yesterday on a small boat and pleasure trip to Washington and are staying at the Gastineau and Florida. The Brown Bear will Hotel for a short vi proceed to the Aleutians . GOES TO HOSPITAL John W. Troy was taken to St. Ann’s Hospital this-afternoon for a medical check-up. - ATTENTION MASONS Stated Communication of Mt. Juneau Lodge this evening at 7:30. Work in the M. M. Degree. J. W. LEIVERS, Secretary. adv. R ADDRESSES REICHSTAG rostrum i B eriin as Sdolf ' Nitler (right, standing) spoke. Left to General Wa lther von Brauchitsch; Baron Kronstantin von Neu- d Rudolf Ness. Second row: Nanns Kerrel, ‘Bernard Rust, Walfer Darre, rosigk, Paul J oseph. Goebbels, and Wilhelm Frick, .