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FLLEN REPP IS HERE FOR 2 (ONCERTS Well Known Confralto Ar-' rives-Appears Tomorrow and Wednesday Evenings ] ELLEN REPP M's Ellen Repp, star on known con- arrived in Ju- the - Aleutian, give concerts in w tomorrow evening and the ing evening at 8 o'clock at Northern Light Preshyterian under the auspices of the Ser- ) concert yesterday singer will neau The Chu American Women's Voluntary vices. Miss Repp has thrilled audiences in many cities in various parts of the United States and the Seattle limes of her last concert which was at Meany Hall in Se- attle: “Miss Repp revealed the bril- liance of her amazing range in a group of Brahms, a group of Grieg says and especially in the Air de L from “L’Enfant Prodigue,” by bussy. Her deep tones were tense and moving when she sang rles Manney's Negro spiritual, Steal Away.” Of the same appearance the Se- attle Post-Intelligencer comments Her voice is richer and fuller than it has ever been. She sings with a surety based on excellent r ici- anship. And there is a sympathetic interpretation of everything she ! by sweep and tonal grandeur of her | voice.” | The first number on Miss Repp's program tomorrow night will be | Tu Lo Sai by Torelli. She will sing several selections from Schu- |bert and an Aria from Verdi’s {opera, “Don Carlos.” And, of course | Miss Repp will sing a group of Grieg’s songs. She studied in Nor- way under David Monrad Johanne- sen, coneidered the greatest author- ity on Grieg, and she is famous throughout the country for her in terpretations of the beloved Nor wegian composer The committee of the AWVS ir charge of the Norwegian singer's concerts is as follows: Mrs. Erhes Gruening, General Chairman; Mrs assistant, Mrs Russell G Harold Smith, her Fred Geeslin and Mris, Maynard; tickets, Mrs. James C | Ryman; . publicity, Mrs. John L McCormick; programs and ushers Mrs. Ellis Graham, and Mrs H. H. Bond, decorations. Miss Repp will be accompanie Carol Beery Davis during he concerts in Juneau. -oo LEGION T0 CHOOSE DELEGATES GOING TO SEWARD MEET| Election of delegates and alter-| nates to attend the Department of Alaska American Legion convention in Seward, August 27-29, will be the principal order of business tonight when Juneau Legion post meets. Nominees for the delegate and alternate delegate jobs are John H.| Newman, Royal Shepard, Wayne| and 1 Pots and pans in a Cleveland smelting plant Have you wondered what is being done with all those pots and pans the government is collecting in the aluminum drive? Wall, this wiit help you understand. The pots and pans are melted down and then cast into molds. The ingots then are shipped to other BRITISH POUND GERMAN-FRANCE IN BOMB RAIDS O. Hendrickson, Steve Vukovich, Bert A. Lybeck, Frank A Metcalf, c C. Carnegie, Fred Cameron, John | McCormick, and Jack Davis. | Three resolutions will also be up| for consideration by the Legion-l naires. Two will deal with giving| Alaskan boys the same opportun-| ity enjoyed by lads in the States to! eniist in the navy and merchant marine. They ask the establishment | recruiting stations in the Ter- ritory. A third resolution will deal with approval of the proposed \endment to the Alaskan organic which would re. ribute rep- entation of Alaskans in the Ter- ritorial legislature | .- WERNER'S HAVE DAUGHTER A baby daughter, Karen Sue, was korn to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Werner, Inst week in § rd, according to word received hy friends in Juneau Led Werner, form in the For- est Service office here, is now with t rvice in Seward. Karen Sue was seven pounds, seven aunces at cf res does that is only matched by thebiith Pictured is the vitally strategic South Indo-China, where Japan bases by the French government in Vichy. The Bay of Camranh, just up the coast is an excellent natural Occupation would place the Philippines, harbor. Fall of Saigon to port of Saigon in has been granted e Singapore and the Dutch East Indies in grave peril, FROZE Clients crowded the lobby of the Japanese-American Sumitoma Bank at Seattle after Japanese funds in the United States were frozen under orders of President Roosevelt. They questioned tellers about the N FUNDS WORRY JAPANESE executive order and on how they could withdraw funds, a Threat to U. S. As Dayllighifia—nes Return, Night Fliers Set Out on Mission (Continued from Page One) 1 | the government in the indictment LONDON, Aug. 4—British heavyénamed Nazi Germany, as recipient bombers pounded German-occupied | of this information, a party to ¢ France day and night over the| 'riminal conspiracy. That, hov weekend, carrying the heavy of-|ever, is not really significant. What is important is that sucl 1 spy ring existed and that a vit sart of it has been smashed. fensive to a peak Saturday night with a mass attack on Berlin and new forays over Western Germany despite unfavorable weather condi- tions. The raids carried to Hanover and Frangfort where industries and communications were objectives as well as the locks of Calais. TRETCHES TO FAR-OFF | LANDS | More revealing still is that the | PFBI, which Kennedy says can’t be praised too much for its handling As British daylight planes re- = L i turned from attacks yesterday of this investigation, is stretching squadrons of night hombers set off its long arms across two oceans and i the ‘dilsk @cross ‘the Channel, |td-continents of Europs ang sia. ThdugHout tie miaht the noise jof| 2 ‘the ihdloge of SU8 PEpart- bombs and HEgkta of fives: 1n Branee | BeRt- of *Juskice: Bulldngail , ene were ‘audible ‘and 'visible even from | °f ¥he corfidars, is-a big 1llufinat- England's | SHores, |ed map of the world. It not only € | shows the 54 bureaus of the FBI |in the United States and posses- sions, but also the cities of Eu- rope, Asia, South America and Africa where the bureau ‘has “contacts.” Since World War II broke out the map has not been changed. It still shows that jthe FBI has ‘“connections” in London, Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, Helsinki, Rome, Shanghai, Madrid and a score of other cities in both hem- ispheres. The exhibit has drawn a good ! many snickers in recent months. But if the FBI's investigations add only a handful of convicted per- |sons to those eight who already have pleaded guilty in the case, | there won't be much snickering in that corridor from now on. TOMORROW: How a spy ring works. S —— BUY DEFENSE BONDS Termed by the Nazi press a THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUG. 4, 1941 Here’s What Happens to All Those Old Aluminum Pots and Pans | Modern Espionage Was af Its Best in Spy Ring as ON RUSSIANS FBI Unearths Big Doings AT SMOLENSK Ingots piled high | plants where they are remelted, turned into thin sheets and used domestically to release pure aluminum for plane construction. Aluminum is the most abundant metallic element in tht earth’s crust. It is very malleable, ductile and noted for its lightness. | TRAP SPRUNG "~ Ten Thousand Defenders Surrender During TRIPS TO COAST Leningrad Drive | Fifteen passengers to Sitka in | three flights to the Coast will have (Confinpea trom Page One) been made by dusk today as Al- | 3 | aska Coastal Airlines pilots wing | n™and out of the Chay]me] prisoners west of Lake Peipus in ... | Estonia. Further dispatches said .Pflm I:Iex :ofll((vlen flsr;w It'? Ss"k"' many tanks, cannon and supplies vith Betty Baggen, Stanley Sul-| gere gestroyed on the northern on and Mrs. H. Hooker, carried|pony pelow Leningrad. Richard Olson to Chichagof and, goyiet reports countered with Lhei sicked yp Victor Kallendar in Todd ¢laim that a Soviet tank column | to take him to Sitka. He returned hag smashed through German forces | with Orrin Kimball, Bill Windsor, pnear “N” town on the northwest Kay Windsor, W. De Haas anl front, killing at least 1000 Nazi Elsie Pratt. soldiers and littering the batile- | Shell Simmons carried Hal Fair- field with the wreckage of more | hurst, J. R. Gibson. Lea Brown, A. than a hundred shell-torn tanks, ar- B. Holt and A. B. Holt Jr., to Sit- mored cars and quantities of field ka and is scheduled to return with artillery. FIFTEEN FLY IN 1 | 2 Worlds Lining Up For Clash Mussolini Says It Is Now War Between Groups Talks fo Soldiers (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Italian Premier Benito Musso- lini told Italian troops leaving for the Russo-German war theatre that the “line-up is now complete for a clash between two worlds,” Rome, | Berlin and Tokyo on one side, against London, Washington and Moscow, on the other side” Mussolini made the speech as he reviewed Italian legions at Man- tua, previous to the departure of the soldiers to the new front. | .- T U T O R—Patricia Thomas, 22 (above), works a six-day, 72- | hour week teaching flying tr | civilians at Gardenia. Calif, NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS | The Common Council of the City | of Juneau will sit as an Equalization | Board in the Council Chambers of | the City Hall from 8 P. M. to 10 P. | M., August 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th.| The board will consider complaints from taxpayers regarding their as- sessments, and make whatever ad- justments and corrections to the tax roll that are found necessary. After final meeting of the board no further adjustments can be made. } ROBERT G. RICE, | | City Clerk. First publication, July 31, 1941. Last publication, August 6, 1941. At your favorite tavern and package store. NOTICE “ Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson, Opto- metrist, has returned to her Ju- neau practice, adv. BUY DEFENSE BONDS CARA NOME FOUNDATION CREAM A smoothing, protecting cream that provides need- ed lubrication for dry skin and at the same time holds face powder on for hours without retouching | Try itl LARGE JAR s] [ ASK FOR IT TODAY Butler-Mauro Drug Co. The Rexall Drug Store five passengers. iH}[:lLd:: (])i{‘ c:::l: = < B o e Seattle Travelers | Are Juneau Guests| with Mr. and Mrs. Orville Paxton, Mrs. Margaret Brown and Miss B. Benson and two other passen- gers for the Coast, Benson bound | for Tenakee and the remaining! passengers for Sitka. He will re- * :,urn with three passengers. Nell Brown arrived from Seattle on| Pilot Dean Goodwin carried J. ‘:; A}“;fi‘g"e‘f::d*‘;:rf“w A‘"};"O‘l';:! P. Dodds to Elfin Cove, Gustavus U g (& s | d Pelican. Tom Dyer was a pas- helines :,m Py P. m ; 5 ‘The visitors, who have been BERGRI 0 St friends of the Holzeimers for many |vears, are making their first trip ., | BOUND FOR SOUTH { Mrs. H. J. Goodman and daugh- ter Betty are passengers from Ju- | neau aboard the Alaska for Seat- \llc. REGISTERS 81 t — | .- | ' Nazis’ ‘Sensational Scoop’—'FDRwak MaAst;h';fi i [ | “gensational exposure” of President Roosevelt’s Freemasonry connections, | - this “secret photo” shows FDR as he attended initiation of sons James and Franklin, Jr. L { - right, behind him) into the Masons in 1935 in New York. Second from left (.hndinfi)‘u Justice Ferdi- nand Pecora of the New York Supreme Court and (next to him) Mayor Fiorello H. l York. Seated left front is the late Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper. Biographies bave listed FDR's | | i ELLEN REPP- IN CONCERT CAROL BEERY DAVIS, Accompanist TUESDAY, August 5 — WEDNESDAY, August 6 * NORTHER The warmest day of the year in| TO KETCHIKAN 'Juneau was registered yester J. W. Gucker, traveling man who when the mercury here late in the| makes his headquarters in Juneau, afternoon climbed to 81 degrees, left for Ketchikan aboard the Al- according to the Weather Bureau. 'aska. (standing, left to Guardia of New nic membership for years. f = Contralto at 8:15 P. M. We Do NOT Paironize Montgomery Ward Co. Procter & Gamble Products Gatner & Mattern Knit Goods ‘Walt Disney Productions TUNEAU CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL Affiliated with American Federation of Labor .%m BOTTLED wM ¥ DISTILLERS / Smew vonrw’ Straight Bourbon Whiskey, 100 proo.. 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