The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 19, 1941, Page 8

18 e e ———— FINNISH RESERVES CALLED UP Great Miiiiiia;y Prepara- tions Being Made- Mobilization HELSINKI, June 19. — Finnish reserves were called into active service at midnight last night and the Government sharply curtailed civilian train traffic soon afterward 1o facilitate military preparations. A Presidential decree made all reserve officers into regular army officers, and stated that all army and navy cadets are to be graduated immediately and will become lieu- tenants. It was announced previous- ly that a year's active service was a requisite for new officers The Finnish people are calm, quietly obeying measures to safe- guard their independence as thev dil in 1939 when the war with Rus- = Despondent, Takes Life Woman Takes' Poison in Her Hotel Room at Ket- KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 19— Mrs. Evelyne E. Leoni, about 27! was found dead in her late yesterday afternoon. Officers believe she tooX ponson sometime ! ‘Tuesday night ; Deputy U. S. Marshal John Cash- en said that from what he learned,' the woman, formerly of Reno, Nev, was despondent on account of ill| health | An inquest will be held some time today .- —— Friends Give Stag Dinner for Former chikan-Inquest Held i. hotel room | } " LEND-LEASE VOYAGE: — Adion Safio MUSICTAX | (OMING UP The Alaska Music Supply Com- | pany has received word from various companies that in conjunction with | the new tax program <= articles of |luxury throughout the country, | there will be a ten percent excise | on all musical instruments including | pianos. Various objections raised by op- | ponents of this new measure point | out that instruments, such as those which are used in school orchestras, | are in reality not luxuries and should | 5¢ civil Defense J. J. Ryan. not be taxed as such. They also | contend that this will make it more | | difficult for students, who are lim- | ited financially, to make musical purchases. Phonograph records are also to be taxed according to the plans. R | HAGERTY TO LEAVE ON TRIP; TO VISIT | INDIAN VILLAGES | D. W. Hagerty, Senior Field agent | GOVERNOR FLIES * * {WVSBenefit Bridge TO SKAGWAY ON | Nets Large Refurns DEFENSE visIT |Ernest Gruening members and friends of the Women's Voluntary | Service enjoyed a delightfully in- fcrmal afternoon of contract bridge yesterday and at the same time help- |ed to swell the treasury of the or- Community Is Organizing Civil Defense Plan for Lynn Canal Area [ed to sve i Twenty-four tables were in play Steps to organize Clvilian Defense|,ng gonations by those who were machmery in Skagway were made | naple to attend were equivalent to yesterday during . visit to the com- |ganother six tables. Punch was sery- munity by Gov. Ernest Gruening,|eq during the afternoon. Secretary of Alaska E. L. (Bob) Bart-| e w. M. Whitehead, Mrs. O. S. lett and Assistant Alaska Director|gynivan, Mrs. Ralph Mize, Mrs, W. | A. Chipperfield, Mrs. M. E. Monagle, ' . N\ Mrs. J. W. Lievers, Mrs. J. 8. Cul-| Ryan’s plane and returned late in|pertson, Mrs. Dean Hamlin, Mrs. H. | the afternoon. |McLean, Mrs. E. S. Evans and Mrs. | —_—ateo——— | C. C. Rulaford received high honors.' Jane vi(kery Wi" F‘rfil‘”s&}e}:’:!r\eiexn{::r:nr::dorh:;iZ Be Married Next Saturday Evening| affair and expressed the appreciation | of the organization to those contrib- | Saturday evening at 8 o'clock is| the time chosen by Miss Jane Vick- The party flew to Skagway in uting to its success. Prizes were do-} nated by Mrs. Gruening, Mrs. C.| Stillman, Miss Mary Gruening, the | Nugget Shop and Mrs. Pete Hnm-‘ mer. Chairs loaned by the Presby- terian Church and card tables loan- ed by the Eastern Star, were hauled | BATTELLO SEES DEER HERD IN PERIL STRAITS Recently returned from Sitka where the motorship Dart, Capt. Einar Haugen, had made a char- ter trip with staff and equipment for the new Sitka Cafe, Gildo Bat- tello, passenger on the trip, re- ported a large herd of approxi- mately 20 deer feeding along the shores of Peril Straits. Battello said the deer were seen in the same vicinity on both trips to and from Sitka, and looked in fine condition. Other passengers on the trip were Mr. and Mrs. Mitch Dabo and M. I. Smith. Ll Dr. Fred Lansam To Address First Aid (;Ia_sses Here Dr. Fred Lansam will give lectures to each of the first aid classes spon- sored by the Women’s Voluntary Service beginning with the class sia was started. Finnish newspapers discussed what was called a Russian- Govem-or T. Riggs In honor of former Gov. Thomas the Office of Indian Affairs, tor | ‘(,ompleu‘d plans today for a ten! ery for her marriage to Mr. Dar- rold Wilson. The wedding will be with | to the Governor’s Home by Califor- | which meéts to “ | night at, the A. B. | nia Grocery trucks and returned by | a1 Monday evg\mg he will ad- | trucks loaned by the Case Lot Gro- |dress hoth classes and. Friday he German crisis. The Helsinki Sano- mat observed that *“causes, inde- pendent of our control, may give evonts a turn and can jeopardize our sovereignty, peace and liberty To this extent we are forced to de- fend them with everything in our power.” “FRANTIC MOBILIZATION” 123 Riggs a stag dinner was given at 7 o'clock last night in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. The affair was no-host and was arranged by friends who were here when Riggs was governor 20 years ago.| Several other friends, who had hop- | ed to attend, were unable to do so. Those present in addition to thej FAST WORK: The British crew tries ouz an american 50-calibre machine gun designed to fight low-flying airplanes. “The lend- lease ships bristle with these guns,” Beatty writes. “The officer spent 10 minutes with the crew, and the sailors mannde the guns day trip to the West Coast villages. Accompanied by R. L. Wolfe, also iof the Indian Affairs Office, Mr.| Hagerty will leave on the North Sea | | bound for Ketchikan. The itinerary! will include Hydaburg and Kasaan |among other Indian village: our English crew let go with an in Holy Trinity Cathedral Dean C. E. Rice performing ceremony. Miss Deborah Vickery, sister nl‘ the bride-elect who arrived yester-| day on the Narth Sea from Seattle, will be bridesmaid. Mr. Vern Dick| AT will be best man. | Superintendent of the Icy Straits ' Miss Vickery is the daughter of|Ganning Company at s O ey Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Vickery, for-|yright, Jr., arrived in Juneau on !cery. Especial appreciation was ex- pressed to Mrs. Gruening for the| use of her home for the party. | — e ————— the FRANK WRIGHT HERE will lecture to the ‘Douglas group. Dr. Lansam, who is assistant at the Government Hospital, has stud- ied widely both in this country and abroad and his discourse is expected to be highly profitable. His subject will be “Injuries to bones, joints and muscles.” ———————— as if they had been usued to it all their lives.” guests of honor, were: - | American big gun they had never; .. yesidents of Juneau, who now LONDON, June 19.—An Exchange Telegram dispatch from Gothen- bhurg, Sweden, quoted a message from Stockholm saying travellers | from Russia and Finland have re- ported “frantic mobilization” along the railway line from Moscow to 1 eningrad The line is reported Liocked by troops and material. - “INTERMEZZO"” LEADING IN MUSIC POPULARITY According to reports from the usic shops in town, “Intermezzo,” the song that is sweeping the na- tion in popularity at present, has exceeded all other records in sales during the last month. The selec- tion which was used as the theme song in the motion picture of the same name, is an old song which has been revived. George A. Parks, R. J. Sommers, W. S. Pullen, R. E. Robertson, Grov- er C. Winn, William A. Holzheimer, George W. Folta, James J. Connors, Frank A. Boyle, J. A. Williams, P. R. Bradley, Allen Shattuck, H. L. Faulkner, R. L. Bernard, Harry I Lucas, Jack A. Helienthal, Fr ank Heintzleman, George E. Cleveland, John Newmarker, Wallis S. George. Dr. W. W. Council, I. Goldstein, and Henry Roden. Because of war-time trade dislo- cations the United States has in- creased sales of watches and clocks in South Africa by about 50 per- cent, —— .- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Meets Friday th adv, V's for pure VANILLA Schilling’s delicate bouquet Won't cook or freeze out you'll say it's okay . . . Make homemade ice cream and try it today! SPEICALS FOR FRIDAY and SATURDAY SHURFINE—SOLID PACK TOMATOES, No. 1 cans - - 2 for 25¢ THRIFT PRUNES, 2 Ib. pkg. 2 pkgs.for 25¢ Tastewell Whole Kernel Corn 2 cans 23¢ Broken Slice 4 cans l'lNEA.PI’LE 79 4 cans PEACHES 73(‘ 4 cans APRICOTS 73( 4 cans PEARS “iNo, 2% cans OVEN TREAT .| ABOARD HMS. - Here is the second and ex- | clusive eye-witness story of the | entry into the battle cf the At- | lantic of an American Lend- | Lease war vessel, now a fight- ing unit of the British navy. ' A writer for the AP Feature | Service ana The Empire rode to Canada to give |y graphic account. One | more article follows. By MORGAN M.. BEATTY AP Feature Serviee Writer , AT SEA— | A British sailor in dripping oil | skins thrust open the door of my | cabin, snapped on the light. i i “Four am. sir. ACTION STA- | TIONS!” | And he was gone. In a few moments I heard the | clatter of running feet on deck; | muffled orders. | When I reached the bridge, 1 | saw nothing unusual in the murky | darkness. It had been raining, but |now it was clear and . No- body excited. No orders flying | about. Just tense silence, as if we were waiting for something. In a few moments a sun still invisible |cast a pale white light over the | water to the east. It happened quickly as if a giant curtain had |been raised.. Before us, I could |see clearly to the eastward. Back of us to the west, it was still black blacker than night by contrast. On the decks below, I now could see the crew of our ship. | Every man -aboard was on duty, at attention, ready for immediate | action, I was to learn soon what this what I saw how the Hood and | the Bismarck: could have hit each | other in a five-minute action at sea in the murky light of June 20 and 21 Soda Crackers - - - 21bs. 33c Oven Treat Grahams 2 lbs. 36¢ Elbo Macaroni - - - 3lbs. 17c Fels Naptha Soap - - 3 bars 19 NEXT TO CITY HALL PHONE 767 all meant, and to understand from the seen before, and quickly as if they! had been doing the job all their lives .Then they cleaned her up again, oiled her some more, with all the care that Mrs. Smith would give her pet pekinese. | An officer patted one of our 3- mch anti-aircraft weapons. “Nice gun,” he volunteered. “I want to be there when she cracks a Jerry bomber on the nose.” | Gelting Acquainted Our senior officer present put the squadron through all the paces he could think of. Within 24 hours, our engineer knew what his power would do, and how it would do it. Gun crews, depth bomber: cooks, signalmen, elec- tricians knew what all their new gadgets would do, where every wire led, every speaking tube. The engineer, for one, amazed at the speed he could get out of a single engine, The commanding officer was en-| | thusiastic, too. “Top line, me. these ships,” he told TOMORROW: Death! EVEN THE WHISTLE is taken apart, and its tone changed to prevent recognition, dawn. As soon as it became light, and| the sun climbed to the horigon, the .crew retired, some to dutjes, some to sleep. The tension less- ened, except on the watehful| bridge. All seemed to be normal/ once more, \¢ What It Means “What," I asked our commgn- der, “is this action stationsbusi- ness?” “Dawn,” he replied, “is the most damgerous moment in every 24! hours at sea. It lights the eastern !side of you in a matter of seconds. | Objects at sea suddenly become visible. Our ship and the enemy might be cruising within a_few hundred yards of each other all night, without spotting each other. The crew with their hands on the trigger is the crew that survives, much as your wild westerners sur- vived because they were fast ‘on the draw. It's a common practice in all navies in wartime.” I was learning things -about navies '~ aboard this lend -lease craft I had boarded the night: he- fore in New York. I had learned that warships not only have auto- matic blackout systems, but; use canvas to double their protection against a chance peep of jight. And soon I was to understand how they were ever alert, yes, even when they were observing the Eng- lisH ritual of tea. ; Hoy To See New York Below in the ward room we were soon comparing notes and customs. A reserve officer with a hand- some chiselled face, and keen blue eyes was bubbling over with en- thusiasm for American women, for Philadelphia and New York. “Ah, your women,” he said. “And New York. Clean. Beautiful. Cn my last day in the States, I had a last long look from one of your tall buildings with a tall eool glass in my hand.” Above decks, all was business, Constant oiling, cleaning, inyesti- gating. One day I ran across the executive officer with a big ring of seamen around him. “We've never fired these Amerl can guns,” he was saying, “so ‘I explain.” t After 10 or 15 minutes demons stration and discussion he asked if there were any questions. There were none. A gun crew stepped for= ward, Ammunition passed. “Ready! Fire!” Several times in quick succession You’ll lov- “2 | Ash Cans of ] live at Richmond Beach, Washing- ton. She is a member of the staff of thg Unemployment Compens: tion Commission. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Meets Friday this week. adv., a private boat last night. He is staying at the Gastineau Hotel. Mr. Wilson is the son of Mr, and Mrs. Peter Wilson of Everelt, Wwash. He is associated with the Civil Aeronautics Board and has resided in Alaska for five years and in Juneau since February. MEDICAL DIRECTOR FLIES T0 BETHEL Dr. Langdon White, Medical Di-| rector for the Officc of Indian Af-! fairs in Alaska, is enroute by plane to Bethel to visit the hospital there. He plans tc stop at Mountain Vil- was‘age and Tanana before returning| to Juneau headquarters, S e R AR SCHNEE BUYS TRUCK Paul Schnee received delivery of| a Dodge “pickup” light truck this! | week for private use from the Cow- |ling and Davlin Schnee is connected with the Al- aska Juneau Gold Mine. COME AND SEE V|TAM|on”COQK|NG demonstrated LEARN HOW it protects vitamins, minerals, s and rich, natural FIND OUT WHY it's simple and easy Westinghouse Sleciic Range \is new “RECIPE” for more deli: cious a.d healthful meals for your family. Discover the LOW CO Motor Company. WINDSOR STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY A NATIONAL FAVORITE FOR THE PAST 7 YEARS! 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