The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 7, 1941, Page 8

R Livesof 628 | Persons Taken Past 3 Days IniependerEADay Week- end Death Toll Higher than Usual for July Associated Press) (By Violent death overtook 628 persons in the nation over the long Inde- pendence weekend. Counted among the dead are 384 traffic fatalities, 14 more an the average ordinary Friday, Saturday and Sunday in July. While auto fatalities only slight- ly topped the National Safety Coun- cil's estimate of a normal weekend, they were far below the Council's prediction for the holiday weekend Four hundred seventy-five persons died in traffic accidents during the past three days. Rain in some parts of the coun- | try, keeping the people at home, is beiieved to be the chief reason the total is not higher. - ON LEAVES DENALI Teaving on the Denali Saturday, M's Pauline Petrich went to Ket- chikan where she will visit friends. She expects to remain for about two weeks. " v If You're Looking for a Better Buy . . . See This New General Eleciric RANGE Prices Start at $99.95 Terms! This beautiful GENERAL ELECTRIC RANGE gives you the advantages of modern electric cooking at new low cost. It's faster, uses less current, is built to last for years. SEE IT TODAY! Compare it ... You'll find it has- more @ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1941. - © *° i Conscientious Objectors Leave for Work Camp Seven of the first group of conscientious objectors are pictured just before leaving New York for the Friends’ Work Camp at Cooperstown, N. Y. Having signified their unwillingness to perform military duty, Eucharistic Congress In St. Paul Is af End Near Million, CORDOVA FLIER FORCED DOWN NEAR KLUTINA Pilot Bob Claypool H|kes to Copper Center—Pas- sengers Are Safe CORDOVA, Alaska, July 7.—Co- pilot Bob Claypool walked into Cop- per Center, 200 miles from Cordova, last night to give the first hand word of a forced landing on a flight from Cordova to Anchorage last Saturday. The passengers included Mrs. Bar- bara Nafsted and two or three others, and are apparently still stranded in the Klutina Lake wilds. - BUY DEFENSE STAMPS TO HUNDREDS OF SAVERS We Say:— HERE'S YOUR 4% money - saving, time - sav- they will do reforestation and road building. They are (left to right) Richard Crane, Hugh Rockwell, Robert Hulteen, Robert Brill. Abram Goldstein, Carl Jellinghouse and David Meyers. e.‘ With a procession over a two-mile course in which Catholic officials estimated 80,000 marched under a blazing sun at St. Paul, Minn., most of the marchers were soaked by a sudden downpour of rain as fhey crowded the fair xmlmda for the congress final benediction. NAVY UNITS NOWOCCUPY | northern portion of the North Am- | erican continent, including the | islands that lie off the coast. the North Atlantic, said the Presi- dent, and a steady flow of munitions ‘Nazi Losses Occupation of the area by Ger- | many would imperil all shipping on' " Moscow Says Terrific Toll AIready Taken ;; LARGE SUM ** IS SOUGHT, NAVY SHIPS Facilities Will Be Exfended Under New Allotment of Funds Requested WASHINGTON, July 7. — The Navy Department today asked Con- gress for an additional $585,000,000 to augment the shipbuilding pro- gram. James V. Forrestal, Acting Secre— tary of the Navy, said most of ti half-billion previously authorized ror shipbuilding facilities has been ob- ligated . The new ‘sum, he said, will allow the allotment of $300,000,000 for ad- ditional shipbuilding facilities of naval and private establshments and sxso 000,000 for repairs racumes Anne Call, Shirley Call, John Clark Jr., Marshall Clark. For Ketchikan—Albert Johansen Pauline Petrich, Myron May, Berth , | Liber, Ellen McKechnie. | For Petersburg—Mrs. A. B. Gray, Fred Velasco. MOI GOES SOUTH Enroute to Seattle, Gilbert Moi left on the Denali Saturday night. Moi will later go to California to at- tend a radio school. ' s s Try a classified ad in The Empire, $T0CK QUOYATIONS {5'Halibuters NEW YORK, July 7 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 86%, Anaconda 28'%, Bethlehem Steel 74 3/44, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss: Wright 9%, General Motors 38, International Harvester 52%, Kennecott 38%, New York Central 12%, Northern Pa- cific 67, United States Steel 584, Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The followjng are today's Dow, Jones ayerages: industrials 126.16, rails 2898, utilities 18.14. Sell, Seattle SEATTLE, July 7 — Halibuters arriving, catches and selling prices today are as follows: From the western banks—Re- public 40,000 pounds, Arthur H 40.- 000 pounds, both receiving 13% and 11 3/4 cents a pound; Susan 36,- 000 pounds, Tongass 36,000 pounds, both at 13% and 12% cents; Oce- anus 22,000 pounds, 13% and 12 3/4 cents. of I(entuckys finest Bourbons this is the THE 'lllllllf-lltll;’ BOURBO CREAM THIS WHISKEY IS 4 YEARS OLD. SCHENLEY DISTILLERS CORPORATION, N.Y.C. in Conflict with Fight- ing Russians 3 MOSCOW, July 7 — Vice Com- missar of Foreign Affairs S. A. Lovovsky today declared that Ger-| many has lost nearly a million men | dead or wounded in its attack onj| Russia | The spokesman for the Soviet| Union said he estimated German| casualties for the first 12 days of | the attack at 700,000 and said the| average daily loss of the Nazis !sJ 60,000. | He said he is unable to give the ratio of Russian losses, but added the battles are growing in fierce- ness, and that Russia feels no lack | of manpower, having in that re-| spect, thrce Yimes the Germans' re-| sources. >ee DENAlI BRINGS 15 FROM WEST; 39 LEAVE HERE Decking in Juneau Saturday a!-1 ternoon at 5 o'clock the Denali, scuthbound, had aboard 15 passen- gers for Juneau, as follows: From Seward—Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Clarean, E. G. Easterly, M. C. James, William Harvey, Peter Jor- | donoff, John McCay. 4 | | ing- features than you have ever seen on any rangel More Than a Million Women Now Cook Electrically! 'See This Range at the Alaska Electrie Light and PowerCo. Phone 616 EARNINGS July st several hundred thrifty savers recnlvr‘d an- other Alaska Federal Sav- ings & Loan Association earnings of 4% per year Many have been receiving these earnings ever since our organization in 1937. OCEAN BASE Will Replace British Troops -Adequate Defense to Be Given Area ‘Continued 1rom Page One) This Association has never missed an earnings, and has never paid less than 4% annually. will not occupy Greenland. The President, in his message, said that occupation of Iceland by Germany would constitute a serious threat to the United States, and also a threat against this nation if Ger- many uccupled Greenland and the to GixebRritatp. From Skagway—Elinor Dusenbury, The President did not indicate pynn Gemmill, Lucille Gemill, Mrs. whether the Navy forces would be \E. V. Jenny, George Lockman, Mrs. augmented later by Army units m‘,(-,e‘.n.,,e A. Lockman. any action on other “stepping off | prom Haines—Roy Brendible, Miss points” that might be used by Ger- 1 "B Horner. many for attack on the Western —rpe Denali sailed south at 6 o'clock Hemiephere. with 39 Juneau passengers for Se- Along with his message, the Presi- {attle, Ketchikan, and Petersburg dent sent the text of letters €X- a5 follo 2 changed between himself and the Prime Minister of Iceland. For Seattle— Doris McEachran, {Mrs. V. J. Newell, Virgil Newell, | Gerold McLaughlin, Gilbert Mofi,‘ | Billy McCann, George Milbo, H. J. Armrnonv Peggy A. Dick, Mrs. F. ;C Huebl ar, A\IA Corrine Call, Henry‘ MRS. DAVIS BACK FROM SOUTH;RESUMES STUDIO & 20> . o e Clflrk BL Kerns, Harold Becker, | Mrs. Trevor Davis has returned |Dorothy Heil, Orah Dee Clark, Wil- | from a trip to the south and will {liam McLaren, Mr. and Mrs. William | | resume her summer music classes 'J. 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