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CONQUEST OF CRIMEANOW BEING WAGED Germans Blasting High- ways, Railroads-No Nazi Forces on Peninsula Yet 1.C Advice German air- blasting rail- mea rol to the Black troops are little if any progress in at- to cross the four mile wide f Isthmus mpt NAZIS ARE NOT IN CRIME MOSCOW, Sept. 20 — German diers have not set foot on Crim-| 1 scil the official Russian spokes- | n Logovsky said and “all fight- ing in Orimea has taken place oufside of Crimea.” Lozovsky also said the German Lesiegers at Leningrad have already lost tens of thousands of lives but will not capture the city no matter how many more tens of thousands of lives are lost COMMUNISTIC AFFILIATION CHARGED T0 LABOR CHIEF “mntnNea Trom eage Oned Sailors Union of the Pacific, testified at the trial that he w urged to join the Communist Party while visiting at Bridges' home James O'Neil, former pub- man for Bridges' office, on the stand repudiated a statement in which the F.B.I. quoted him as saying he saw Bridges pasting dues stamps in a Communist Party book. (3) The inconsistence of Bridg- es himself in detailing his connec- tion with the publication of “The Waterfront Worker.” . The denial of the mofion to re- open the case was based on S decision that there was no evi- dence of wiretapping regarding the deportation hearing itself. There might have been subsequent wire- tapping, however, the decision add- ed the @) licity ———————— FOUR CITIES ON MAINLAND ARE BOMBED Island of Sicilly Also At- tacked by Both Incend iary, Explosive Shells (Continuea from Page One) | journey. THE DAILY AUASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, SEPT 29, 1941, ° Destruction of an Italian Bomber Released by the British censors, this photo shows a burning Italian seaplane sinking in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Tripoli after an encounter with an RAF fighter patrol. Arrow shows the body of the pilot, apparently floated by life preserver, At bottom of the picture is the camera sight, which forms an appropriate black cross for the scene of death and destruction. ‘Picture Tops of This War’ Among Art Classics News photogiaphs of the present European war are given recognition as modern art classics as the Arden Gallery, New York, presents an exhibition of “Picture Tops of This War,” assembled from work of Inter- ‘process of organizing.” He would make no statement concerning the eport that R. E. Hardcastle, of Ketchikan, is in Juneau for the meeting. A member of the committee whose term expired thig year, Hardcastle was not recommended «| for reappointment by Gov. Ernest Gruening. In his place, the Gov- ernor appointed the Rev. Johny L Cauble, of Juneau, naming Cauble after adjournment of the Legisla- ture, which had refused to approve any appointment to the board pro- posed by Gov. Gruening during 1 by antiaircraft | accidents | were a, Cas- in the bombed believed is by the t here, national News Photos cameramen. Shown viewing the photographs are Mrs. John C. McCauley, Jr., director of the gallery, J. V. Connolly (left), president of King Features Syndicate, of which the photo service is a part, and Ensign William C. Deering, of the U. S. Navy. shells and traffic UNEMplovMENI Attack on Sicilly Palmero, Trapanu, Marsa tel and Ve 10. The island of Rhodes, MEET UNDER WAY eastern Mediterranean, was and many casualties are > been caused " : " S ik \"No Importan Business One RAF plane reported to| Firsi Day Says Dr. have been downed antiaircraft = . fire at Turin and five oceu- | Dick, Chairman pants killed | Reports from Bern said a large number of planes passed over| Meeting through the morninzthe session. Switzerland early last night, indi-|and early afternoon in the office( The annual meeting of the com- cating the RAF raiders flew over;of Director Walter Sharpe, the|mission will get in full swing to- the Alps on a 1,200-mile round trip Territorial Unemployment Com-;mormw‘ Dr. Dick declared, | pensation Commission transacted| “It took us a week to The Italian High Command, like “no important business” it was re-iso why be in a hurry to gel the High Command at Berlin, tells | ported 'this afternoon by Dr. Noble|he grinned. the public very little of what actu- Dick, chairman of the commission.| ally takes place following raids. The annual meeting of the com- SOUE T DR P | mission got under way here today HAIDA REIUR“S RETURNING FROM TRIp following a week's delay in the Mrs. Arthur Bringdale 1s a pass- Scheduled start of the session, due enger on the North Sea. which left t0 bad weather which prevented FROM onAGEIO Seattle this morning, returning to Dr. Dick, of Fairbanks, and Ro- her home after a visit of several bert Bragaw, of Anchorage, from away,”| Dancer Vanishes ITALY'S SEA LOSS HEAVY IN SEPTEMBER | 200,000 Tons Are Sunk At- tempting to Crash Brit- ish African Blockade ALEXANDRIA, Sept. 29—Italy is | eported to have lost 29 ships total- | ing 200,000 tons while trying tol| send reinforcements to Libya so| far during September. This marks her blackest sea loss{ month since the defeat of her war- | ships by the British at Matapan | Informatidn here indicated today that Italian efforts to crash the| British sea and air blockade be-| ween Italy and the North African| coast have resulted in the sinking| Jf one and damaging of two out orj every five of her convoyed troop| supply ships. | A compilation of losses listed in| British communiques since Sep-| tember 1 showed 23 ships, 3,000 to 2,000 tons each, sunk, besides four liners of more than 20,000 tons each. Locationof 1.B. Hospital "Not Cerfain’ {Indian Office Not Definife- ly Decided on Ketchi- kan for Building { “We haven't definitely decided yet whether the new tubercular hospital for natives will be located (at Ketchikan,” it was announced | today by Dr, L. R. White, medical | officer for the Office of Indian IN ORIENT 1 Affairs. | | Dr. White and Earl McGinty, su-| perintendent for construction for | |the Indian office in Alaska, re- Important Diplomatic De- turned here yesterday on the Al- eutian after spending about a week velopments Expected, Tokyo Circles Surmise 'in Ketchikan with Delegate An- thony J. Dimond and Claude Hirst,| superintendent in Alaska for the TOKYO, Sept. 29.—A conference between American Am- |bassador Grew and several high Office of Indian Affairs. Hirst is| due to return here on the Yukon. | Japanese officials last Saturday is today in authoritati | \ | 4 Florabelle Clements Disappearance of Florabelle Cle- ments, 18-year-old Lynn, Mass., dancer and high school athletic star, is being investigated by East- ern Seaboard police. She vanished while en route home from a Lynn store, where she worked, in the sutomobile of an unidentified man. | | | i | White declared that the new hos- | 'pital, for which Congress recently! appropriated $$8250,000, will be con- structed “somewhere in Southeast- ern Alaska.” He said that while; ‘" in Ketchikan the party had gone|disclosed over a proposed hospital site at|dUarters. Saxman, on the edge of the First| It is said that matters of high Ciyt. He added that the decision ! importance were undoubtedly di: regarding the location of the hos-|Cussed but there is no official dis- pital will be made soon. |closure or nature of the confer- | | ence. ! { The announcement of the con- DEPT of I"TERIOR |ference came on the heels of the s ] | Embassy’s announcement that the [departure of British Ambassador !Craigie has been postponed. He |planned his departure immediately lon a three months’ vacation. | The beliet is expressed in in- —_— | formed quarters that a new turn . . . Assistant Chief of Admin- isirative Division to Make Check- C e(k up | It is intimated here that i inext development is expected S. C. Moore, assistant chief of the division of administration in| M€ from Washington. the Department of | the Interior, T Washington, D. C., is headed here| = GLOVERS ON ALASKA on the Algska, which " left seamel Mr. and Mrs, A. E. Glover are yesterday, it was learned today. (returning to their home in Juneau 1 d | situation between Japan, Great |Britain and the United States iwhich has been at a standstill for some weeks. the to lengthy 0X BELIEVES U. 5. NEARING WORLD WAR 2 WASHINGTON, Sept. 29—Secre- { | ‘ tary of Navy Frank Knox and Sen- | ator Elmer Thomas are urging i separate declarations on the Ney- | | trality Act restrictions to be lifted to give the United States a free |hand in protecting its world inter- | ests. | Secretary Knox asserts, in |article in Foreign Commerce, 3 weekly, that the “United States After almost a week of delays|Stands today on the threshold of because of poor flying weather, the | World War Number 2. plane of James J. Ryan, Assistant | Civilian Defense Administrator in | Alaska, winged south down Gas-| | tineau Channel at 2 p. m. yester- | day. | Passengers aboard the plane were ! Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska’s Dele- | gate in Congress, returning to Wash- ington, D. C., after about three weeks in the Territory, and Julius |- Edelstein, correspondent from Wash- | ington, D. C. The Ryan plane will first proceed | to the San Francisco Presidio, where Ryan and Dimond will make ar-| rangements for shipment of 2,000 ; irifles to Alaska for home guard use. From there, Ryan will speed east to | the nation’s capital, to return Di- | mond to his duties as Delegate. ;Movie Maker | Going South | | Joseph Yolo, motion picture pho-| tographer from Yakima who has been making a series of natural color movies in Southeast Alaska for the Forest Service, is slated to leave here tonight on the south-| bound Aleutian. Yolo’s pictures, showing recrea-| tional areas in National Forests,| !totem poles, fishing and wildlife, will be released for public showing through the Forest Service some-; time this winter, it is understood. | Much of the film was taken in and around Juneau. Last night Yolo bid farewell to| 14 Forest Service members and |- Federation of Labor their families, serving them one of bis famous Mexican dxnnerso :t Du H EAR \ gathering 4in the home of Harry o 2ot g CuearyZ Y/ - LEARLYY & with SONOTONE Sperling, senior administrative as-| Do you hear but have AS ADYERTISED Heading First for San Fran- cisco fo Speed Ship- ment of Rifles | | an | Relieve misery as most wise mothers do. Rub throat, chest, back with VAPORUB CARA NOME NASQUE Give yourself*a party- pick-up or a day's end facial with this cream-like mask that helps, by stim- ulating facial circula- alow.GET IT TODAY AT Butler-Mauro Drug Co. The Rexall Store We Do NOT Patronize Montgomery Ward Co. Procter & Gamble Products Gatner & Mattern Knit Goods Carnation Milk Co. Spruce Market, of Juneau TUNEAU CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL Affiliated with American | | sistant. trouble understand- SEATTLE WOMAN IN SEARCH OF MISSING | ixoiecieo HUSBAND IN ALASKA : The U. S. Marshal’s office here iwas today in receipt of a letter 'from Mrs, Edward Quinn, of Seattle, !seeking information about her hus- band, Edward Quinn, who also igces by the names of Curly Ryan or | Curly Quinn, about 60 years old and {last heard from in 1927, Believed to be in Alaska, Quinn has worked at Cordova, Ketchkan, | Wrangell, Kennicott, Sitka, Nome and smaller towns in the Territory. He may be working as blacksmith, miner, cannery worker, cement mixer or road builder, the letter said. Anyone knowing the where- abouts of Quinn is requested to pass their information on to the Marshal’s office. sudicle which is help- ing thousands. DR. RAE LILLIAN CARLSON Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636 Frenchmen Caught With Firearms Are Executed in Paris PARIS, Sept. 290 —The German ccupation authorities announces the Made to Order ASK FOR PRICES SEE OUR CATALOG (is imminent in the diplomatic Moore, along with Mrs. Moore, is ‘on_the steamer Alaska which leftishooting of two more Frenchmen. The Empire LDS - - NORTHERN OCEAN, casualties are reported from Milan weeks with relatives and friends in arriving by plane, but the Italian Command says Fullerton, California and other lo-| Dr. Dick said the first day's many of the casualties were caused calities. session was concerned with the ~ As Fire Swept Jersey Resort Hotel ‘zcm‘ing here for a stay of several;seame Sunday afternoon. They It is said they were executed after ays on official business concern- have been traveling in the States'being convicted of illegal possession ing the Fish and Wildlife Service, it | is reported. :iu.rmg th‘e_v_ncauo;} "‘P; of firearms. FORMER JUNEAU RESIDENT WEDS | SEATILE GIRL - i In the Seattic Sunday Times of September 21 is » story telling of the marriage of 1'i Valentine and Oli the week before, Go1iis a former Juneau resident, -Li.ing attended | Juneau High School for two years starting in 1931. The couple was married in the bride’s home in - Seattle, and the bride- wore a white satin gown. A | reception followed the ceremony. | Both Mr. and Mrs. Glson attended | the University -of - Washington. | They will live ih‘Seattle. He is! [§ the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver| Olson, i i Subscribe for The Empire. Home from the Arctic with a new master picked up ab Dutch | Harbor, the Coast Guard cutter | Haida berthed at the Government Dock early this morning for a ishort visit to Juneau. & 1 Now in command is Comdr. N. H. Leslie, who joined the ship| | when it came south to Duteh Har- | bor, replacing Lieut. H. W. Stifch- | comb, acting commander. * ! After replenishing supplies here, | the cutter is scheduled to sail for Bremerton, Wash, where’ it wiil ! undergo annual overhaul ‘andjre-, pairs in the 13th Naval District vard. b The vessel left Juneau July' 23 lam‘l since has visited Point Bar- irow, Wainwright, Nome, King Is- {land and many intermediate points. | During the summer numerous. stu- i dents from the Office of Indian Affairs school at FEklutpa. weré | transported to their homesion King | 1sland and others were taken from | the island to Nome to attend an- other school there. { e { | KICKED IN WITH A ' o GIANT.ORDER! " Hiram Walkers O Lure ‘gives you MORE than ‘Yyou'expect! in- down- right_smoothness! ’ - .- NATIVES MARRIED | ON CHARTER FLIGHT Lie yours straight? Tall# mi.d"Mv;‘ ‘way You pour i, you'enjoy realsats: (faction when you taste Hiram Walker's) De Luxel Smooth, rich, and fAavorful . if's the kind of bourbon your friends’ ‘will go for. Ask for it tonight, Two Kasko families, claimed not to be related, were united in mar- riage this morning in the office! of U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray.' ‘They were Edwin Kasko, of Ten-' akee, and Elsie Kasko, Douglas Island native girl from the Fish Creek settlement. Witnesses were oio lfnao and Mrs. Mifinle Albert. BUY DEFEY!SE STAMPS > 1 for The Empire. | on a charter trip to Kulu Is- land today, Pilot Dean Goodwin of ! Alaska Coastal Airlines tlew Ken- !neth Dorland on the round -trip. | Pilot Shell Simmons hopped = to Sitka with S. Jobery and L. Chase as passengeis and was to return this afternoon with five other pas-J | sengers. —— e Subscribe for The Empire Flames sweep the 260-room Scarboro Hotel on the Long Branch, N. J., waterfront, causing an estimated $260,000 darage. Authorities declared that had the blaze occurred at the height of the summer season, when the hotel is filled, many lives would have been endangered. Subscribe

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