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

) NOW? LSIENTO {OLUMBIA PROGRAMS Tune in KIRO—now the most powerful station serving Al- aska! Enjoy the great pro- grams of the Columbia Broad- casting System. You can get them easily: over KIRO. (e T10° SEATTLE Subscrive 0 the Dally Aluska Empire—the paper with the largest paid circulation. If You're Looking for a Better Buy . . . See This New General Electric Prices Start at $99.95 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 money - saving, time - sav- ing features than you have ever seen on any rangel More Than a Million Women Now Cook Electrically! See This Range at the Alaska Electric Light and PowerCo. Phone 616 ; & |J0BS ARE LISTED FOR SKILLED MECHANICS, GOVERNMENT WORK Many Posifions Are Open’ for Employment in "“De- mocracy’s Arsenal” . | ‘ A Job-Opportunity List is cur-| rently published by the U. S. Civil Service Commission at semi- monthly intervals showing the| skilled workers needed by Govern- ment agencies for national defense positions. This list, which contains’ (‘uncise} information about those positions for which qualified applicants have | been especially difficult to locate, carries the titles of over 50 differ- ent positions, and is eagerly con- sulted at post offices and local of- fices of the U. S. Employment Ser- vice by machinists, tool - makers, and other skilled workers who want to go to work for Uncle Sam The latest issue of this “United States Civil Service Commission Consolidated List'—as it is offici-| ally and completely called—shows that shore establishments of the Navy, and arsenals, armories, and air depots of the War Department _ need workers for such varied em- ployments as aircraft engine test| operators, instrument makers, lens | grinders, gage makers, gage check-‘ ers, aircraft electricians, parachute mechanies, ordnancemen, procure-| ment inspectors, harness-machine operators, ironworkers, tool-grind- ing machine operators, and bomb- sight mechanics Positions are now open at yards and arsenals throughout the United States at such varied locations as Bremerton, Washington; Pensacola, Florida; San Antonio, Texas;| Springfield, Massachusetts; and Dayton, Ohio. Over 100 qualified machinists are needed at Water-| town Arsenal, Massachusetts; al- most 200 lens grinders could be em- | ployed immediately at Frankford Arsenal, Pennsylvania; 200 shipfit- ters are being sought for the yard at Bremerton, Washington; and TO HUNDREDS OF SAVERS We Say:— HERE'S YOUR 4% | EARNINGS July 1st several hundred thrifty savers received 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. This Association has never {| missed an earnings, and has never paid less than 4% annually. ALASKA FEDERAL | SAVINGS and LOAN | ASSN. OF JUNEAU | PHONE 3 | Percy Has Thrown the Key Away!? Look Here, Folks! OPEN ALL NIGHT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE; TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1941. POWDER FOR ARMY 'Alaska Is Now iy e={ ~ JuneauBound From these buildings on the Illinois prairie, south of Joliet, will seon come powerful 'I‘N'l‘.m feed the Army’s guns. At top is one of the many TNT processing buildings at nearly-completed ordnance palnt. Note chutes for quick exit of workers in emergency. Below, covered conveyor from processing buildings (in distance) is to carry TNT to nailing house to be boxed for shipment. over 150 aircraft sheet-metal work- ers are needed at San Antonio, ‘rexas. Through the U. 8. Civil Commission and its local “rating examiners,” qualified workers for civilian defense jobs in the skilled trades of the War and Navy De- partments are being picked from unemployment, part-time employ- ment, and employment in which no use is made of basic skills. In lo- cating applicants, close coopera- tion is maintained with the Unit- ed States Employment Service, and interested persons may obtain as- sistance at the Employment ice offices in filing applications. Written examinations are not given for any Federal positions in skilled trades included in fhe Con- solidated List, but applicants are “passed” “on qualifying experience and training as shown in their notarized applications. Application forms are available at any post of- fice. The forms, when properly filled out and sworn to, are sent to the Yard or Arsenal at which employment is desired. The appli- cations are rated by boards of civil service examiners at the establish- ment concerned, the applicants re- ceive direct notification of their ratings and, if appointed, a tele- gram from the appointing officer telling them when and where to appear for their first day's work in “Democracy’s Arsenal.” —————— Luncheon Honors Mrs. R. Dusenbur Mrs. W. W. Council was hostess at her apartment today at a 1 o'- clock luncheon. The party was given for a few friends of Mrs. Ralph Dusenbury who is visiting in Juneau. Service Serv- DOUGLAS NEWS MISS BOYD RESIGNS FROM TEACHING STAFF | in The Douglas School Board is receipt of a letter from Miss Esther Boyd, who taught here for her first term during the past school year,| in which she has tendered her res-| ignation to accept a similar place in the Juneau school faculty. Miss Boyd rated highly with the local Board for her work with the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, of | which she had charge. She was also leader of the Girl Scouts of Douglas. —— e — BOARD MEETING A meeting of Douglas Sehool Board has been scheduled foy this evening at 7:30 o'clock for censid- eration of applications on file for the faculty position recently vacat- ed by Miss Esther Boyd. The mee#- ing will be held in the school. B | SIXTH BIRTHDA Treadwell beach was the scene {of a children’s party yesterday af- ternoon given by Mrs. Dale Fleek in celebration of her 'son, Dale, who was six years old. Among 20 chil- dren invited for the event, Gary | Bach, Jorene Savikko and Eleanor | Havdahl received the games prizes. e . NORTH COAST DOCKS | Due to arrive in port sometime | tomorrow morning, the North Coast will have about 100 tons of freight to unload and load and one pas- senger for tthe south, Mrs: Ronald Wakeman. The latter is going {0 | California to bring her young son, | who has been in a hospital for | some time, home. oo — iy - SEATTLE, July 8. — Steamer Alaska sailed for Alsska ports at 9 o'clock this morning with 214 first class and 128 steerage passengers aboard. The following are first class pas- sengers booked for Juneau who are aboard the Alaska: Kurl Aschenbrenner, E. Hiltz and | wife, Mrs. Lyle Johnson, Mrs. J. Portre, Mrs. C. A. Brooks, Mrs. J. O. Wedding, Mrs. H. Taylor. Miss Viclenne Hamilton, Mrs. M. | Merritt, Mrs E. C. Sandall, Mrs. E. Jensen, Nell Gibbs, Betty DeCamp. 2 lodt;ii;rs Cancel Qut With both Northbound and South- d Lodestars cancelling out be- of weather, the only plane to Jeave Juneau today was the north-| d Electra for Fairbanks. e Electra left the airport at 10 o'clock with the following pas- sengers: J J. Meherin, Grace Hol- land, David Thore, Harold Hodges, and Merle Wittmeyer. The Lodestar from Seattle will| tly from Prince George northbound | tomorrow, while the southbound plane will leave the Juneau airport for Seattle, weather permitting. 0 T U.5. CALLS ALL RESERVE FLIERS FOR AIR CORPS Ony Ten Percent Reserve Officers Left in Civ- ilian Life WASHINGTON, July 8—The War Department disclosed today that all Air Corps Reserve officers not al- ready in active duty and whose civ- ilian cccupations are not of primary importance to the National Defense Program, are beifig ordered into ex- |tended active duty. The actual number summoned is not made public, but indications |give the number as running into sev- eral hundred, with possibly less’gpan ten percent of the air officers left in civilian life. STEPHEN BOLLES, CONGRESSMAN OF WISCONSIN, DIES {Was Well Known News- paperman, Editor of One | PublicatioLZO Years WASHINGTON, July 8—Repre- sentative Stephen Bolles, 75, Re-| publican congressman from Wis- jconsin and veteran newspaper edi- tor, died here today as the resuit of an ailment of the heart. He was elected to Congress for the 76th and 77th sessions. Bolles was editor of the Zanes- ville, Wis, Gezetie for 20 years and had been managing editor of| various other newspapers. He was a member of many clubs. His widow and three sons, by a pre- vious marriage, survive. — - SIMMONS MAKES TRIP SOUTH WITH ENGINEER After flying a hurried trip to Tul- sequah to pick up ergineer E. Kun- nesh of the Taku Chief last night, Shell Simmons wirged out on a flight to Ketchikan early this morn- ing to take the river boatman to the Southeast Alaska town. Pilot Alex ¥olden, later today, COUSINS IN T HEY MAKE UP RUSSIA'S BIG FIVE” Here are the members of the “Big Five” committee set up by Soviet Russia to direct her wfi- effort. Into the hands of these men went “the whole power of the state.” Left to right: Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov; Premier Joseph Stalin, head of the new committee; Klementi Voroshilov, former Defense Commis- sar; G. M. Malenkov, Secretary of the Central Committee for the Communist Party; and L. P. Beria, Commissar for Internal Affairs as they attended this year’s May Day e elebration in Moscow. NAZIS UNLOAD EQUIPMENT IN LITHUANIA Grodno. German troops arriving by boat at Kaunas, Lithuania, this photo radioed from Berlin to New York. Kaunas o R it unload their equ ipment and prepare to go ashore in is on the Nemunas River which flows north from WILL FIGHT AP Feature Service WASHINGTON, July 8.—Previous family fights over estates will look like a peace society picnic before they settle one in the courts here —2,006 cousins are contesting for the $570,000 estate of Mary Frances ‘White. Miss White, 75-year-old heiress, started the outsize disagreement when she specified that $1,000 was to go to “each of my cousins living at the time of my death, irrespective of the remoteness of the relation- ship.” Did she have cousins! From al- most every State, plus Ireland and New Zealand, people popped up who claimed ‘“cousinship.” Six first cousins brought suit to break the will, District Justice Jennings Bailey held with the sextet but 40 claim- ants notified the court of intention to appeal. R L Playwright, M.A. carried John-Howk, Dick Clithero! and Henry Moy to Sitka and Don’ Robinson to Hocr-h. He is sched- uled to return with four passen- gers from the Coast. Another trip to the Coast is slated for t' . after- noon, as are several {1 _...s to Pol- aris-Taku mine. - | Late yesterday pilot Dean Good- win made a trip to Yakutat to re- turn with H. B. Hodges, and Sim- mons flew to Peril Straits to pick! up Mrs. Andy Gunderson. LAWYERS ISSUE | ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 8—The St. ,u.mls Lawyers’ Association, asserting | FEE SCHEDULES! 'Grandma is a Champ | Mrs. Sally Twyford | | Mrs. Sally Twyford, 41, all events winner at the Women’s Internas: B " HOSPITAL NOTES | Sammy Simonarson has been nd-f mitted to St. Ann’s Hospital to re-| ceive surgical attention, ! L. W. Haynes entered St. Ann’s Hospital last night for surgery. Pete Tullintseff was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital this forenoon for treatment of an old mine accident, Mrs. G. Boggan was admitted: to St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday for surgical treatment. s Pete Hildre underwent a tonsil- ectomy at St. Ann's Hospital this forendon. RAF ACCUSED OF BOMBING AREAS OF RESIDENCES German Report Claims British Raids Killed Many Civilians BERLIN, July 8—Britain’s RAF raided several places in Western Germany last night killing and wounding civilians and causing considerable damage to Colozne and Muenster, “primarily residential sec- tors,” the German Command re- ported teday in its daily war bulle- tin. The release said, however, that the night raids together with yes- terday’s daylight attacks on Nazi- held Channel coasts cost the British a total of 28 planes. Two German losses were reported. BUY DEFENSE BONDS Mark of American Distilling Co YOUR GUIDE TO QUALITY Whiskies-Gins Eyerclear Grain Alcohol 190 Proof Always Reasonably Priced ™ ICAN DISTILLING CO. 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