The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 22, 1941, Page 8

olitical - Predicion Made Now Senator la_FolIefle Says Foreign Policy of FDR fo Be Battle Cry WASHINGTON, Sept QZ—VVm(»: Algska's Delegate in Congress, ed States Senator Robert’ M..La- Anthony J. Dimond, winged = out te, Jr., Progressive, has served of Gastineau Channel this morn- notico that the forelgn policy of|ing enroute to Ketchikan, travel- Presillent Roosevelt, espoused also ing by Alaska Coastal: Airlines and by Wendell L. Willkie, will face alpiloted by Shell Simmons. igorcus attack in next year'sccn- Accompanying Dimond were gressional elections |'Claud Hirst, Alaska Superintendent Sen. LaFollette charges thelfor the Office of Indian Affairs; President has broken his pledges Dr. L. R. White, Alaska medical by ‘“ordering the Navy into 4 ‘director for the Indian office; and shooting ‘war." (Earl McGinty, . supervising con- The Wisconsin Progressive calls struction engineer for the Office upon ‘all “who opposed entering'of Indian Affairs. the var to mobilize for politicaliof Indian "Affairs. The party battles just abead.” stopped at Craig and Klawock en- - D {Toute to Ketchikan. | Dimond will remain in the First D[F NDI ICity until tomorrow or Wednes- day, wheni he will board the plane (Continuea 1oy Fage One) D DIMOND FLIES TOKETCHIKAN WITH HIRST Delegate—w—ill Go South from First City on Ryan’s Plane of James J. Ryan, Alaska Civilian | was announced here by Ryan. The | civillan ‘Defense representative said he was uncertain whether he would leave here tomorrow or lowing day, his departure depend- ing largely on weather conditions and the completion of repair work on his ship. Unofficially, it was reported here forees the trip of Dimond and the Of- tW fice of Indian Affairs men to Ket- Russian said. are supporting ashore, dispatches In days naval fliers were reported to chjkan might be in connection with | have destroyod nine tanks, 30 the construction of a tuberculosis trucks, four anti-aircraft guns and pogpital for - Alaska natives, T scveral grounded planes and wiped which $250,000 was recently Bp:j propriated by Congress. Location of out three infanfry companies. the tuberculosis hospital been -announced as yet. FOREST SERVICE SENDS | o bR RANGER VI T0 SITKA puygs wARSHIPS Headed for Sitka, the Ranger VII, IUR"ED B A(K BY Forest Service patrol . boav,. left Juneau this-morning. The Ranger| Defense coordinator, for a rlymgI |trip back to Washington, D. C,, it| the fol-| has not THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, SEPT. 22, 1941. KILLED El}' dl]‘ fi' :fi: fi}' AUTOMOBILES fii; v:fi; :i KILLED IN AIR RAIDS WOUNDED IN AIR RAIDS LT 'SEASONAL™ KILLER . . o - o I Vi L NAZI ALL-OUT AIR BLITZ MAR Note that the figures are not comparable on a death rate basis three times as many people as the APRIL F% % T % RUSSO- GERMAN WAR MAY JUNE JULY because the United States has | British Isles. About .09 per cent of Britain’s population was | killed - in the 12-month period. _The_automobile death rate in the U. S. was .028 per cent. FISHING BOAT | " STRIKES REEF Floods Hit CbA 7Meets Tfi;norrow Night for Reqular | group of bonfires lighted to burn '|was burned, to death in front of | FIRES TAKE TWO LIVES 75 Homeless, $250,000 Damage from Weekend Flames in South (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) i More than a dozen fires, widely| scattered through sections of Nor- thern California, killed two men, | left 75 persons homeless and caused | an estimated $250,000 damage dur-| g the weekend. Pires which endangered the ""’si of scores of vacationists and burned over a thousand acres of brush and timberland sent authorities in search of three possible incendiar- ies A $100,000 fire destroyed a series of loaded freight sheds near Stocktén and damaged the Rich-! mond Chase cannery. | Seventy-five persons were left homeless when flames destroyed 25 homes near Broderick. | Both the fatalities were the re-| | sult of small grass fires. Will Robe- |son, 59, Richmond, Cal., attorney, died from burns inflicted by =a rash at San Pablo. Lee Jacobsen, | woodchopper and handyman, | his cabin near Boomfield as the; |result of a grass fire which was !started when his own pipe fell off | !the cabin steps. | i Many Injured " In Explosion, ~ N.W.England Blast Also Wrecks Factory | in Middlesex — Fire Is | | | | } [ VII, captained by -Oter. Johnson,'! Mll AR"I.I.ERY will be based ‘permantly at Sitka, where John Brillnart recently was transierred as ranger-in-charge. Also aboard, the vessel were two trau workerd, who will be employed on Forest Service projects near Sitka. Subscribe for The Emipire. We Do NOT hltoiize Montgomery Ward Co, Procter & Gamble Products Gatner & Mattern Knit Gosds Carnation Milk Co. mnu% LABOR Afflioted with American Federation of ‘Germans Claim Soviet Fleet Attempting-fo Flee from Baltic BERLIN, Sept. 22.—Russian war- Iships. have been. beaten ingrad, authorized German sources said tonight. Although the action was not mentioned by the German High Command, it reported heavy air I blows against the Russian sea |forces on both the Baitic and Black Bea, including damage to battle- ships and seven other warships which apparently are still standing ‘by the besieged defenders of Len- | ingrad. back byl German shore guns In an attempt | |to flee from Baltic waters off Len- | NEAR TENAKEE ENavy FIierSi_ng Dorothy D. Lying on Side~Coast Guard Is Called | In immediate danger of sinking, the seine hoat Dorothy D. this| afternoon was ‘reported lying un! a reef near Tenakee while a Coast| Guard cutter from Ketchikan sped | {to the stricken vessel's assistance. | The Dorothy D., captained by Al-| bert Frank of Tenakee, was sight-! ed at 1° o'clock this afternoon by | ! Lieut. Bob Ellis, Navy pilot en-| route- from Japonski Island Navy landing and inspecting the vessel, Ellis flew here and relayed the! message for -assistance to Coast| OneSection New Mexico Torrential Rains Thréaten Many Localities-13 Persons Missing | ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. ygSept. 22—Torfential Yains raging fin the entire section of eastern New Mex- ico has left 15 persons listed as missing and also threatened the city of Roswell. The major flood shattered the Base. at Sitka to Juneau. After|gas lines in Albuquerque andsent yection of Mrs. Frank Hennessey, | walls of water roaring on Carlsbad where a dozen persons are miss- ing. Social Gathering| Started-Staff Escapes | LONDON, - 8ept. 22.—The Brit-| Members of the Catholic Daugh- ish Press Assoctation reported this| ters of America are urged to attend fafternoon that “many people” the sewing meeting of the group were injured in an explosion at a tomorrow afternoon by Mrs. V. L. factory in' Northwestern England Hoke, Chairman of the sewing ac- |this forenoon and also reported | tivities. They will meet in the AWVS another explosion which caused a | headquarters to work on Red Cross jarge fire in a factory in Middle- |dresses. A quota is to be filled, anl | oy |it is hoped to finish the dresses in | mpo lurgé staff in the Middlesex I8 s . | factory - escaped - without injury. E IOETEAN | SFOUIRE e ox'ganlu:-l The blast in the northwest is| {tion will hold a regular social meet- | . d to have shaken many build- ing at' 8 o'clock in the Parish Hall. P : ings “and “sent. debris flying for Mrs. Herb Redm: 11 preside. i g i e s : considerable distances. | During the evening refreshment: will be served by a committee com- ! and a large group is expected to| . - Ships Leave posed of Mrs. William Franks, Mrs. Mary Dugan, and Mrs. Delia Dull. Entertainment will be under the di- icaught. but few fish after the 27th You Must See Our built in our cleaners ® Dustproot Bag ® Spollight Motor-Driven Brush High Speed Motor Requires No Oiling | to meet your houschold needs. today and try these superior vacuum cleaners. Power Company Phone 616 ’ We Stake Qur Reputation on G. E. CLEANERS 'MODERNE' Model Cleaner These features offer many values No matter how large or how small your home, we know there is a G. E. cleaner Stop in Alaska Electric Light and Subs Sink Axis Ships LONDON, Sept. 22—Britisl: sub- marines, attacking a Mediterranean convoy carrving Axis reinforce- ments to Libya, are reported by the British Admiralty to have sunk two Italian liners and damaged a third, possibly all of the 24.900 ton Vulcania type, The attack was made Mediterranean. No estimate is given as to the number of lives lost, e FALL HERRING RUN LIGHT IN PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND in mid- ing for Little Port Walter Station The expected fall run of herring in Prince William Sound district failed to materialize this year and herring packers of the section of August, it was declared here today by Edwin Dahlgren, heading berring investigational work under the Fish and Wildlife Service. Dahlgren arrived here yesterday on the Yukon, after several weeks of work at the herring plants at the Westward. He will leave here on the Heron, doing herring in- vestigation work at Little Port Walter until after the end of the commercial herring fishing season, then proceeding south on the fish- erles boat. The Prince Williams Sound her-| ring catch in early June and July| was made up principally of immu-; ture fish, about 75 percent cf them being three-year-old herring.: Herring " reach maturity in their| Hear 2§ CLEAhL@’/ trouble understand- wLIFE ing thousands. ? Then call for full DR. RAE LILLIAN CARLSON vits SONOTONE information on new Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636 hat D iota anacestand | AS ADVERTISED sudicle which is help- Subscribe to the Daily Alaska impire—the paper with the largest aid circulation. 3 67 7// . SPEED)Y, SURE RELIEF FOR AC/D INDIGESTION | ' PROTECT | Your Health! ® DRINK PASTEURIZED MILK JUNEAU Phone 638 DAIRIES “ L) i BIG GAME HUNTER 10 | " JOURNEY TO ADMIRALTY | fourth year, when they first SPAw]), J} e ——— Dahlgren pointed out. It took tre- mendous numbers of these smaller ) Guard headquarters at Ketchi-| A 22-foot wall of water came kan. ? |down the canyon on the outskir's of Carlsbad late Saturday night. FLY! trip on Admiralty Island, Dr. W. ' Planning a week's bear hunt!ng‘ Ellis ‘said’ the Dorothy D. struck {at hdlf tide this morning on rocks| Authorities believe the fate of one mile west of South Passaseisome of the missing will never be U. S_ Poris fish to make up the large tonnage (275,000 barrels) processed in her- Fly for Pleasure T. Laszlo will arrive here on the|Point, near .Tenakee. “known. ring reduction plants of the dis- = Hunt or fish, neay and far, in your ewn plane or in one which you have rented. Learn the Modern Sport! Aviation is not ‘expensive. [here's more pleasure per doliar in flying. Start Preparing for Your Private License TODAY! It's Easy At Alaska School of Aeronautics, Inc. P. O. Box 2187 - Phone Black 769 JUNEAU Alaska tomorrow, it was announced today. Dr. Laszlo, who has been doing big game hunting at the Westward, wired Frank Dufresne, executive |ofticer of the Alaska Game Com- mission, today, asking that prepar- ations be made for him to leave Juneau on September 24 for a week's bear hunting on Admiralty. Dufresne said a guide and hunting party is being planned, so Dr. Laszlo may leave on his hunt at any time after his arrival here. . FREIGHTER TANAN BRINGS COAL HERE ‘With coal for Juneau and con- she Westward, the freighter Tanana of the Alaska Steamship Company docked here at 11 o'clock this mern- ing: after dischargihg explosives at DuPont earlier in the day. Much of the Tahana's freight is destined for Whittier, where the new términus of the Alaska Railroad is being constructed. NOT ICE! RETAIL CLERKS MEETING Wednesday, Sepiember 24 7:30P. M. Compulsory Aitendance! struction equipment and supplies for { Battered hy heavy running seas and a wind of near gale force, the| vessel was in danger of slipping| from the rocks and sinking, Ellis | said. | The vessel struck at full speed land turned on its side, flooding the holds, Ellis reported. The bow| was tilted skyward by the im-| pact. Albert told Ellis the vessel” i bottom was undamaged, however. | | Ellis returned to Sitka this af-| ternoon with Lieut. Comdr. S. J.| MacKinnon, US.N.R, as passen-| ger. WEATHER HOLDS ‘ LODESTARS DOWN, Pan Ameyican Lodestars at Tan- | |ana, Juneau, and Vancouver, B. C., |today awaited better flying condi- | tions before continuing scheduled | trips. . “The planes at Tanana leftFair-! banks yesterddy, while the plans | in Vancouver is northbound from | Seattle, The Juneau . Lodestar 'is southbound. Listed as Juneau passengers -on | the northbound plane are Mrs. Aq~; drey Phillips, €arl Van Sant, Steve Chena, Mrs. Eva Vaughn and Don- ald Dunn. Geing to Fairbanks on the plane are Mrs. Alma Chatnnet, Mrs. L. M. Brennan and C. R. Walther.. % - —— ENCOURAGING BUDAPEST, = Sept. 18. — Hair-| dressers. and barbers of Szeged held a shaving and haircutting contest in which the winner set a speed| (record of 30 seconds. It is expect- e OBERT DIVORCE FILED Frances Obert filed suit for di- vorce from George Obert today |in District Court here. The «couple were married in Juneau in Sep- tember, 1930. —.— Mr. and Mr. Morris Field became the parents of a baby girl ¥érn at 4:30 o'clock this morning in St. Ann’s Hospital. The child weighed eight pounds and eleven ounces. Mrs. Lilly Compo is the mother of a baby boy born in St. Ann's Hospital at 5:45 o’'clock this morning. The baby’s weight was eight pounds and seven ounces. Mrs. Rudolph Peterson was ad- mitted to St. Ann’s Hospital yester- day to receive medical attention. i 3 Sylvia Anderson, a surgical pa- tient at St. Ann’s Hospital, was dis- charged yesterday and returned home. Mrs. Reid was dismissed from St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday following | surgical treatment. Mrs. Bacon was discharged yester- day after receiving surgical atten- tion at St. Ann's Hospital. L. C. Peters was admitte Ann’s Hospital last night as'a med- ical patient. ! Douglas Wahto was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital early this morn- ing for an emergency operation. Ray Switzer was dismissed foday from St. Ann’'s Hospital after re- ceiving surgical attention, |ed, that the “winner's: subject will .. 3 s M. Bowling was agmit! B to Ste Ann's a&p%i#qv BULLETIN, WASHINGTON, fept. 22 — The State Depart- ment tonight announced the sinking of the United States government - owned steamship Pinkstar in waters near Icz'and September 19, $ The Pinkstar, ex-Danish ves- sel of 6800 deadweight tons which was reguisitioned by the U. 8. Maritime Commission | July 12. was flyng the Panam- | anian flag when she was sunk. A message received by the Navy Deportinent and com- municated to the State Depart- ment did nct say whether the ship w~: torpe” »d, struck by a bamb o mined. The vessel sailed from New York September 3 with general cargo. ——e— 2, Wite Leave ">~ jiates| Dr. and Mrs, G. H. Quillian are passengers for Seattle aboard the steamer Yukon, which left Juneau yesterday. They are on_their way to Virginia where Dr. Quilian’s father is ill. i Dr. Quillian is ‘the new head of the Government Hospital, and he recently arrived to take the place of Dr. E. F. Vollert, who was called to Anchoraze with the Narional Guard, GAMES TODAY The following are final scores of games played this afternoon in the two major leagues: National League Brooklyn 5; Philadelphia 9. Boston 2, 3; New York 1, 5, i Dr. Quillia {ing three battleships, 1going to Sitka. ¢ Passengers . with Simmons were| Dimond, |’ ! |Kake and Klawock enroute to the WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. — The Navy Department announced today that 12 British war vessels, includ- that have| been in American ports, in addi-| tion to 12 whose visits to Ameri-| can ports were disclosed last week, have departed for “unknown des- tinations.” THREE A. C. A, PILOTS ON HOPS TO ISLANDS All three Alaska Coastal Airlines pilots were busy today, with Shell Simmons flying to Ketchikan and Alex Holden and Dean Goodwin Delegate = Anthony J. Claude Hirst, Earl McGinty and Dr. L. R. White. They were to stop at First City. Ken ' Edwards ' and - Bill Niemi were . outbound ‘' passengers with Holden, who also took 30 cans of motion" pigture film. He was to return with {five passengers and then make & freight flight to Tul-! sequah, B. C. late this afternoon. | Goodwin’s = passéngers included Mrs. Jack Goudie and Army' per- sonnel’ from Fort Ray at Sitka. Anderson Remains To Be Sent South The body of Fred Anderson, 59, who died here Beptember 15 of pneumonia, is to be shipped south tomorrow abpard the Alaska Steam- trict, he said, the immature fish having comparatively little oil. Purposes of the special herring investigational work now being ear- ried on by the Fish and Wildlife Service is to get a complete record of the life history of the herring, study the fluctuations in abun- dance of runs and the causes for this fluctuation, Dahigren stated. Out of eight spawnings in recent years, only three have been suc- cessful in producing offspring, Dahlgren declared. . RALPH FERRANDINI, MARY R. TURNBULL MARRIED AT KODIAK Friends of Ralph- A. Ferrandini U. 8. Fish and Wildlife Service warden, who is well known here, learned today of hs marriage Aug- ust 27 to Miss: Mary R, Turnbull, formerly secretary to Rep, Warren Magnuson, Washngton _State con-~ gressman and member of the Inter- national Highway Commission. The marriage was performed by the Rev. Thomas E. Hayes, Tnited States chaplain, at Kedisk. The couple will reside in Washington, D. C. Eastern Star Plans Business Meeting A regular thly business meet- ing of the local chapter of the Order of Eastern Star is scheduled for tomorrow: night at 8 o'clock in ship Company's Alaska for. burial Arrangements were made by the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, where the remains have been, with Ander- son’s son, Dr: Herbert Anderson, of : i . d via 3l Fun- AL e the Masonic Temple. r meeting will be presided over by the Worthy Matron, Mrs. Helen ‘Webster. . 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