The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1941, Page 7

FOR SALE FOR RENT PR i st/ VBT S B RS FOR SALE—Glasses: reading, dis- tance or bifocal le $1 to $3 each, Frames reqsonnble Aty Orpheum Rooms until June 7. Day Optical Company. 36-1t. SEINE boat, long, 11-ft. s old. 20 hp. Hallen gas ne, medium duty; also seine. . H. H, Bates, attorney-at-law. I EASTERN dory, A-1 condi- tion, Phone Red 462. FOR STAI.E ;15};:16; good condition. $50, Phone 366. BABY bed, mattres ARCHWAY Rooms, Cash or terms.| . See owner or phone 774. DIAMOND ring at sacrifice. In-| quire Orpheum Rooms. CLASSIF ABVERTISING 4 ft. draft, flat bottom,}| | FOR RENT—4-room flat with bath. | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE THURSDAY MAY 29, 1941. Count five average words to the line. Daily rate per line for consecutive insertions: One day .. Additional dnys - Minimum charge ......50c Copy must be in the office by 2 oclock in the afternoon to insure 10c insertion on same day. i e We accept ads over telephone FOR QUICK from . persons llsted in telephone RESULTS! directory.. VACANCV—EmmehApu. June 1. |WanTED_ 10 RENT—5-_or _ 6- | room, unfurnished or partly fug- | nished miodern house. Call Mr.| Taylor, Connors Garafie IIEHLS wanted -of PETEB JOH FOR RENT—Furnished_apartment, | two bedrooms. Inquire Empire. oe.| | LOVELY room in private 618 E. Sixth. | SON, born Denmark, 1868, re-| sided Douglas Is. 19832 Estme} 3-ROOM furnished heated apt.| matter. Write c/o Box 1991, Dnuy\ Alaska Empire. MISCELLANEOUS GUARANTEED Realistic Pernu- nents, $4.50. Finger wave, 65c. | Lolas’ Beauty Shop. Telephone | 201, 315 Decker Way. . ! TURN your old gold inta yalue, cash or trade at Nugget Shop, > | Erwm Apts. Phone Red 559. | FOR RENT—Small house; also steam heated apt. Phone 452. STEAM HEATED apt, available June 1. J. B. Burford. Phone 79. Phone 323. | FOR RENT — 3-room apt. and|~ o bath. Oil cook stove. $20. 13| SwEDISH massa ge and cabinet | ;2& 63;5 on Starr Hill th‘ baths. Mrs. L. Skele, 410 West 12th St. Phone Green 662. HOUSE and corner lot, easy terms. 916 E. St. VACANCY at Phone the Mead ADIS. 3y GENTS EACH PAID for used Red 614. 1 sound gunny sacks at Coal Bunk- EASY automatic ironer, late model. Phone 697. WURLITZER pimos Expc t t.un- ing. Alaska agent. Phone 143.— Geo. Anderson Music Sh(yppe CORNER LOT Mth conage 'I'hh’d and Dixon. Phone Red 550. FOR SALE—Restaurant and apart- ment house: 8 bargain. Phone Douglas 28. RESIDENCE for sale—825 Gold Belt Ave. $1,900. Bill Norton. MIDGET Lunch, cheap to right party. Ownper leaving town. PRICED for quick sale: Philips place, Auk Lake at Fritz Covelm_R-RENT_————Apt 3 rooms,, nicely| corner, Call at house. WATKINS Products. Phne. BK. 634. SEE MIELKE & COLLEN Painting—Paper Hanging Decorating Service 407—PHONES—Red 233 PR e RADIO MART CONSOLES 9-tube Sparton ... TABLE MODELS Crosley Lay Down - Sparton §-tube Sparton 6 tube Crosley Push Batfon AC-DC 6 tube BC & W Arvin Midgets, 4-tabe s RECORD PLA! Stromberg Catlsen . Erwood Record Change Arvin Radie and ecord Piaver 31, CAR RADIOS. be, low drain, mew Philco 6~ Suppressers, Anteanas, ctc., in tor all ears. TABLES Sparton BC, & BW White ___$31.50 Detrola Traveller . 3150 Detrols Brown onn o 200 Crosley_8-tube o mate record chfi;u R cmlu 7-tube, with automatic d éhanger 1 ( rull!Y Fiver . Table model Crosley, with :rcl Hn"r. Recerder 7 tube. .. .._...___._—flm COMMERC] RME 69, new tubes __“4' USED silverton 8-Tube, New Batteries, BC and SW. RCA Table Model BC k?' —$35.00 Silvertone T-tube, new batteries $24.50 Crostey Contiio cambiuls wia batteries . Emerson 6-vol ps— Y All radios sold on casy terms, small down paymeni, G ver cent finance | charge — Six months to. pay—Liberal trade-ins. ELECTRIC SERVICE SHOP income property ati _zmmsm-mnmm 800, - '| VACANCY — Francis Apartments. | FOR RENT—2-rm, and 3-rm..api.| 217 Seward STREET EVERYTHING IN RADIO ELECTRICAL LINES PSS i [6-ROOM furnished house, good lo- | UNFURNISHED modern house.| ©rs- Automatic oil heat, full concrete basement, hardwood floors, chan- ne] view, two bedrooms. Availahle‘l (Al GUARD VACANCY — Marine Bldg. Phone | li.(r)rol\idfiin prh;ate home, stm. h{, by June 1. G. E. Krause. Phone attractive, reasonable. Blue 165. 439. SMALL furnished apartment at th Knight Apts. Phone Red 700. | 2-RM. cottage for rent. Oil heat. In | Juneau. Suitable for man nndisep'ember 15 lnduc"(m IS‘ wite, Phone Thene 2. | Announced for Alaska National Guard | (Continyed from Page One) furnished, Steinbeck Apts. steam heated, | i oGRy Bl TWO large, clean, including water, | garbage, $35. Phone 143. front room apt., ago, -it was stated that the Alaska National Guard would not be moved out of the Territory. Selectees will be drawn from draft | lists of Alaska men between the ages of 21 and 35 under direction.of Selective Service Director John Me- | Cormick. Local Boards to implement the draft are now in process of for- mation, he addition of selectees will in- a.se the strength of the First cation. Rent $35. Phone 488. VACANCY at Posbee Apts. ‘-EOOI‘ FURNISHED apartment; also S-room strictly modern un- turnished house. Phone 484. v.wm—mw White Apk. Phone 200 or Green 355 after 6 pm. it gt ONE OFFICE room far rent, Firat| National Bank Bldg. FOR _RENT_Aparunents,.. inquire| at office 20th Century Bldg: P A S AT LT VACANCY Perelle mrtnlm. Present 17 officers and 300 men to men. 68 From Juneau Six officers and 80 men from Ju- neau are affected by the call. ,The Headquarters and Medical Detachments here will be separated, from their Company A buddies and sent to Fort Richardson, under Phone Blue B75. -|present plans, the Adjutant Gen- HeT g eral’s office announced. "F'. The induction will place Guards- 3 Takls ab Seavion: men in a year’s active service in the _________________w Army. It is considered likely they VACANCY Shabaldak Apts. Phone|will remain beyond the year if the national emergency persists. —_———— Gibraltar is a Roman Catholic| bishopric, independent of the Span- ish hierarchy and subject directly to the Vatican. —— 642. Inquire ‘Snap Shoppe. Hot and cold water. Steamheat. Elec. range. Phone 569. | 3-ROOM nicely was. stm. helud apts. and houses, Windsor Apts | VACANCY Nugget Apartments. Re-| duced rates. ONE FURNISHED TMENT AND ONE UNFURNISHED APARTMENT. HILLCREST. PHONE . 439, APARTMENT for rent. today. Call 478 ! VANCANCY — MicKingon Apart- ments. Phnne 671 or 304. Ao ke AR 2. {I got | through the ages. Battalion, 297th Infantry, from its war strength of 28 officers and 904! A out. Wails brought help. Firemen pry and saw at an oil drum to release weeping Eddie Russell, Island. Eddie was playing hide-and-seek and thought the can was a swell plau- to hid 6, of West Brizhton, Staten e. He couldn’t get "Sleppmg the Mainmast” Gets Liftle Aftention af Christening ol Navy Shlp |- S R (Com.lnued from Page One} hs one half-dollar, quarter, dime, N | nickel and penny run out of the tue| mint this year. And these were I\s leaving sprung-seams in slups plates. | separagely packaged. Don't ask Aside from the Chinese and Brit- \me why. That's what I asked the lish coins (I couldn’t find a soul| Navy and all I got was a half- Who could explain why these par-|Penny,look of disgust. ticular coins were selected), the R R S T T "treqsure" of the North Carolind| ppere are about 75,000 Chinese in consists of a half-dollar, 18 quar-|yne prjlippines, 30000 Japanese, ters, 11 dimes, 23 nickels and 46‘and 9000 Americans and Euro- pennies. | peans, Although I knockea on a lot of| —— e | doors at the Navy Department, all‘ ' to| The Boulder Dam recreational Was vague answers as where this strange rite originated area drew 655 visitors in the 12 and why it has been carried do\vn‘ months ending last September 30. Ancient Roman dug-out canoes and old Spanish wrecks have been' found with coins hidden in mvir} keels. Pomeranian seamen, a long,| |long time ago, were known to | have buried silver coins and "“a | bit of stolen wood” under the heei| |of the mast. These are long-ago things. But a few years back when Lhe US.S. New Orleans was commi: sfoned, it was recorded that t officers - to - be placed 10 pennies under the foremast — and two ,dlmes three nickels and 28 pen- COST! nies under the heel of the maii mast all coins laid “heads up.” “KEEP SOULS SAFL" Seafaring men will telt you thut coins under the mainmast not only | bring good luck but “keep their souls safe.” Commander Beckett, oL the British Royal Navy, who has made a study of the custom, sa it arises from the old Roman habit of placing coins in the mouths of the dead to pay Charon for trans- portation across the River Styx. Should a ship meet disaster, says the commander, there would be/ coiris there to pay the ferryman' of the Styx for a s:le crossing for all. aboard. | Whatever the explanation behind it, there i5 one amazing thing: No. shipbuilder today would think of building a ship without planning for . the superstitution — althougn wooden masts have given way to' Hollow _steel masts and in ofder to make -a receptacle for - the - coins, modern shipbuilders - have to con- struct the “covered. pie-plate” inside the' hollow base of ‘the mainmasts of our time. Oh yes, I forgot to ‘tell you. In the base of the North Carolina’s mast, the coins include one com- considerable care is 1 ““&c‘@‘é% FOR \ARD. B\RD ! 'BARNEY GOOGLE AND'SNUFFY SMITH TELLS Yob NOURE GORNA QE TRANSEERRED TO ANGTHER CANP DONT GINE W\ QNN OF NO'N, GO TO NOUR QUAR’ R ue s T SWOW Y SOME O Trew CRITTERS W oN THEWR WUZ-BEHIND-THW. DOOR. WHEN TH' BRENS WWZ PRSSED OWY plete set.of 1041 imprints: That \PES No Swords For Naval Reservisls ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 20—Lit- tle more than half the 500 naval reservists graduated from the U, 8. Naval Academy this year were able to obtatn swords, for foreign Sup- plies have been cut off. To save embarrassment, the Navy waived a rule requiring all officers to wear swords when reporting for duty. -~ Ancient Mayans of Central and South America used to decorate their teeth. ,ee The machine tool industry cx- pects to produce $450,000 worth of teols in 1941 ! mlllIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIillIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIh. You Save When You Have Your Newspaper Handling Your Job Printing Because the actual printing of a news- paper is one of its most important jobs, given to the selec- tion of newspaper printing equipment and' to the men who man it. This care assures you of excellence when you have your printing done by your newspaper. 1t also assures you of rock-bottom prices because of the volume of prmtmg done by the newspaper. You can’t go wrong by letting us do your printing. iy PHONE 374 The Daily Alaska Empire B By BILLY DeBECK BY JEEPERS!'! WHEN I JVINED TH' NEWNITED STATES ARMY I AIMED TO GET PERMOTED— HERE IT IS—NIGH ON SIX MONTHSAN' I'M STILL WEARIN' CACKY BRITCHES STIDDER CARRYIN' A SWORD WIF TOSSELS AN' STRADDLIN’ A BIG WHITE HOSS | | | | Front and Second Streets TIMELY u.om:s NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality w«u Clothing Clln'leh Outfitter tor Men P e T aand SYSTEM CLEANING PHONE 15 Alaska Laundry, |Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager | Utah Nut and Lump | COAL Alaska Dock & Storage Co. TELEPHONE 4 [ HOME GROCERY | Phone 146 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 American Meat——Phone 38 —— “SMILING SERVICE” Bert's Cash Grocery PHONE 104 or 105 Free Delivery Juneau —_—mm The Juneau Laundry FRANKLIN STREET between PHONE 359 AL 11 ‘Every house needs PARSONS utmm 140 So. Seward 8& Junesu, Alaska Business Phone 161 Residence Phone Black $80 [ ZENTTH RADIOS 1941 Models Now on REPAIRS ond SERVIC JUNEAU RADIO SERVICE i Phone 464 Bill Hixson _Phone—Single 0 Bmpire Classitinds Payl 1891=Hall & l — Shelf and Heavy Hardware TheB.M:Behrends - Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska Btember National Retatler- NEXT TO CHY RALL ONE PH 767 ‘ .' . R . 3 “ Electric Sef¥ice Shop RADIOS — APPLIANCES lleflrlc Servicing Jerry Mcl(lnlgy | Phone 166 | st SANITARY PLUMBING and HEATING COMPANY - W, J. NIEMI, Owner “Let your plumbing worry be our worry.” PHONE 788 e FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GAB — OIL Moflhln % LIGIIOIS | Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Bullders’ and Sheit HARDWARE JUNEAU-YOUNG Hardware Company PAINTS—OIL—QLASS Guns and Ammunition GENERAL MOTORS, DELCO and MAYTAG PRODUCTS W P. JOHNSON Man” Lamber and nuiw-. iuums PHONES 587 of 747—JUNEAU SECURE YOUR LOAN THROUGH US To Improve and Modernize Your Home Under Title I, F. H. A. SAVINGS e e