The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO Over 1500 as Julliard, geous arra fabrics. oolen vi Sew Your Own Dresses and Save! This supe price stoek was purchased before increases, many of these (ine fab- ries are now 15 to 209, highe . Not only is thore economy m ~l\ln\;r your own clothes bul great savings on the woolens. We highly recommend yvour weing these splendid woolens and values at once, "o 54" Wide % All New Wool ® Gaberdine ® Black ® el @ R. A F. Blue ® Tweeds @ Timberline Green ® Worsteds ® Rose . © Brown ® Dress W ‘:hl.~ € Biege ® Coatings @ Rust ® Suitings ® Turf Tan ® Phids @ Shepherd Checks L :’/M ,Bzfzsm/i ea QUALITY SINCE /8587 Wonderful New Woolens woolens from such outstanding mills vards of America’s finest Jotany, Kapeo in a gor- v of colorful weaves and re's everything in new | goods you could wish for. | P BPO. ELKS special meeting,| TRINITY CHOIR REHEARSAL Monday, October 1941, § pm.' 15 SCHEDULED FOR TONIGHT\S(OUIS SEEK'"G Ballot. | 2 ! BIPES. | A choir rehearsal has been called | ODD jOBS EAR" ad¥ etI¥. | for § o'clock tonight for membe T it of the Holy Trinity Cathedra!| UNIFORM MONEY choir, "Thie members will meet in| Subscribe for The Empire. the Cathedral Parlors. —————— AVIATION ARE YOU PREPARED? NOW, as never before, op- portunities in AVIATION await trained pilot Men, properly traiucd, can gain higher rating and pay in armed forees of the United States and in Com- niercial Aviation. 5 o The first post office in the U. of Richard Fairbanks in Boston. H_eadgurlers i Applications for a number of students are being ac- cepted today for flight training. Prepare Today Hardeman CONSULT : Alaska School of || WATER-PROOFED 4 Hats Aeronaulics, Inc. ii. S. Graves The Clothing Man P. 0. Box 2187 Phone Black 769 JUNEAU r——— | was established in 1639 at the homs | e te—= | §13 If you have a basement to he s | cleaned, a garden that needs spad- ing or an auto that could stand | polishing, there's a willing bunch |of youngsters in Boy Scout Troop looking for odd jobs after school and on Saturday. “Unitorms tor every Scout in the troop by Christmas!” is the slo- gan of the lads, who decided at their meeting in the - Northemn Light Presbyterian Church last :mgm to spend their spare time (earning the necessary funds. Scoutmaster George Fitz, whose telephone number is Green 225, will send one of his odd-jobbers immediately upon receiving re- que Attending the meeting were Jack Buiford, Robert Goldstein, William ! Boman, Beverly Lane, George Shaw, Charles Linehan, Robect |Vernon, Jack Everett, Arthur | {Lowell, Keith Weiss, Severin Swan-| son, David Sperling, Eugene An-| derson, Roy Gray, Harold F‘ossum,) |and Virgil Anderson. ————— | '(lIY COUNCIL T0 MEET TOMORROW | With Councilman Ernest Pnrsons is: feswwesa P S S S S A NOTICE TO TELEPHONE SUBSCRIBERS The Revenue Act of 1941, which was placed in effect on October 5, imposes a tax of 6 per cent en amounts paid by subseribers for local telephone service. The Juncau & Douglas Telephone Company is required to colleci tlLis tax and therefore the proper amount will be added to the resular charge made by the company on all bills paid AFTER OCTOBER 10TH Regular Rate Less Discount Total with Tax Added $2.50 $2.25 §2.38 . 3.00 2.5 2.91 3.50 325 344 4.00 3.5 3.97 4.50 4.25 4.50 5.00 475 5.03 Subseribers u-ing in excess of §5.00 per month will be notified of the udjusted amount. JUNEAU & DOUGLAS TELEPHONE COMPANY Iretmnecl from his business trip w’ snka. the City Council will hnvel | four voting members in the city w‘ hold the scheduled meeting tomor- row night, it was announced today | | at the City Hall. Due to come up at the meeting }hls chest | Dale V. Gaffney, Ladd Field com- | manding officer. !merly Alaska agent for the Burean THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JONEAU, ALASKA Ladd Field Corporal Is ~ Given Award | Stocky Corporal Walter B. Blake- ly was the toast of Ladd Field at iI-‘nirbanks on a recent morning, as |the entire personnel of the Air 1Corps Cold Weather Experiment | Btation marched in review duri ceremonies for presentation of the | United States Army medal for heroism, Called from the ranks of the military review, Corporal Blake:y |stood at attention while the em- of courage was by blem pinned on Lieutenant-Colane! Plane Crash Rescue Post Adjutant Lieutenant Mar- vin E. Walseth read to the as- sembled troops the citation grant- ing the medal for heroism in as- sisting 'in the rescue of two offi- cers and five enlisted men from a burning airplane at Muroc Bomb- ing Field, Muroc Lake, Cal. May 127, 1040. Decoration orders told the story: “Upon completion of a night bombhing mission, an Army @ air- plane, while endeavoring to land, suddenly went out of control crashed to the ground and burst into flames, resulting in the death |of all but one of the occupants. | Endangered Life | “Rushing to the scene of the ac- cident, Private Blakely, seeing the predicament of the imprisoned of- ficers and enlisted men, with utter | Gisregard for his personal safety and despite the intense heat and flying debris, assisted in carrying the injured personel from ‘tne burning wreckage. “The heroism displayed by Pri- vate Blakely on this oceasion re- flects great credit on himself and the military service.” Bince promoted to corporal, Blakely was transferred to Ladd Field shortly after the tragic ac- cident. ~ BRITISHTO GET2 L. S. NAVY SUBS ‘WASHINGTON, Oct. lS—Se('re» tary of Navy Frank Knox this af- ternoon announced that two recom- missioned Navy submarines will be transferred to Great Britain under the provisions of act. Both ships are now being oper- ated by the Navy in the Atlantic. They will be manned by British officers and crews before leaving American waters. TONDELEOHERE the Lend-Lease " FROM BRISTOL BAY FISHERIES’ After spending the fishing sea- | son in Bristol Bay and the Uga- | shik River on the Alaska Peninsu- | la, the motorship Tondeleo arrived | in port this morning following 2 rough trip across the Gulf. Owner of the vessel is L. G. Wingard, for- of Fisherjes. ‘Wingard is registered at the Bar+ anof Hotel. c e - | ALASKA DEFENSE ON AIR TONIGHT A mighty interesting broadcast ywill be a proposed revision of the|will be made over KINY tonight at city’s boat harbor ordinance, allow- | 6 o'clock. The broadeast is writ- | ing the tieing up of smaller craft in | ten by Delegate Anthony J. Di- {more sheltered moorage during the | mond and is entitled “Alaska De- { winter. Other business may 8150 be | fense” and will be read by Betiy | introdced at the session, it is under- | procormick. The article is most ;stood. timely for two reasons, appropriate | lto Alaska Day and showing the } NOTICE Ineeds for defense of the territory | AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing which are culminating now. air route from Seattle to Nome, on ————r——— sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. BUY DEFENSE S’I‘AMPS BY GOLL\/. LOW MAGL»E CAN'T_THiINK OF WHAT IT NHAT ? AT WAS SHE TOLD ME - SO LAST YOU SHE HAS NO KICK COM= | KEMEMBER ING NOW-IF T HAVE WHAT YOU FORGOT TEN | IT — TOLD ME- T ALL COMES EAiK TO ME- THAT'S RIGHT/ ACTIVITIES OF )NIGHTRAIDS 0% At et ARE STAGED Different Divisions Find Work Progressing Rap- idly for Civil Defense Reports from various d sions and activities were read last night at the regular monthly m: Craft Coasts on Channel Are Bombed by RAF the Wms Bet. Gunlty of Murder I. 1. N. Phonephoto Winning his bet that he would be found guilty of the mucder of Police- mau Charles Speaker, Bernard (Knifey) Sawicki is shown in Chicago court receiving the pay-off, a package of cigarettes, from Deputy Bailiff Lelevelt, who \m;_vmml Sawicki would * beat the rap.” _B_y_GEOR!iE McMANUS AS THE PARTY TOOK PLACE |, LAST NIGHT/ IT'S TOO BAD YOU FORGOT IT-DEAR- Copr. 1941, Ring Features Syndicate, Inc., World rights reserved 10~ BY BRITISH on French, Dutch, "“‘ NEW YORK, Oct. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, I94I THE WEATHER (By the ‘U, S. Weather Burean) U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU FORECASTS: | Juncau and vicinity: Rain tonight and Friday with showers Friday afternoon; not much chan e in-temperature, lowest tempera- | ture tonight about 41 degrees, highest Friday 43 degrees; modera‘c southeasterly winds. 5 Southeast Alaska: Rain tonight, showers Friday; not change in temperature; southeasterly to soltherly winds, 15 miles per hour but 20 to 40 miles per hour in open ghannels, | Wind and weather along the Gulf of Alaska tonight and Fri.: Dixon Entrance to Cape. Spencer: southeasterly :winds 35 to 50 miles per hour becoming southwest:rly 30 to 45 miles per hour F: day, rajn today and tonight, showers Friday; Cape Spencer {o Ca» Hinchinbrook: easterly to northeaswith slowly decreasing northeaster terly winds 30 to 50 miles per hourly winds much to 25 * Y Vomen's Vol- < | Friday, rain toni S| ior theigay P W T AR e RAFqt-| Partly. cloudy Friday;’ Cape Hinchinbrook to.Resurrection By ning, president of the group, pres- | tacked antiaircr ships, gascline| northeasterly winds 30 to 50 miles per hour tonight, decreasing to ided. ys and oi] tanks in the chan-| 15 to 25 miles per hour Friday, partly. cloudy; Resurrection Bay to The Garden OClub, of which Mrs. nel off rench ~ and Duten| Kodiak: northeasterly to northerly winds 30 to 50 miles per hour B. D. Stewart is chairman, repor on \s authoritatively re-| becoming northwesterly 15 to 25 miles per hour Friday, parti that during the last month { ported follo the return of| cloudy. has been brought in from the wbers from night raids; | LOCAL DATA den on the Eagle River Highway gne and Boulogne docks were| Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 3335 pounas of potatoes and 10563 aided early this merning. 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.49 41 88 $SE 5 12 Lt. Rain ipounds of carrots, parsnips and 4:30 am. today .. 20.42 P 9 A 8 ey Hllil:,dg;( s e o is Woody Barnett | Noon teday 29.48 45 9% SE 14, Light Drizzie warded the AWVS at the S Xmas fox "Alasks Bays | RADIO REPORTS E east Alaska Fair, and they alsc A er from the , New, York & e 1 & TODAY won first prize for peas and seconc wdouarters was read asking for Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30a.my - Precip. 4:30a.m. for lettuce. general address to which: mem- Station last 24 hours temp. tempt. 24hours Weather A Home Garden group has be bers might st a flow of lette Barrow 3 -4 1 0 Cloudy formed which will affiliate with in time for Christmas to the boys| Fairbanks 22 | 1 2 0 Cle: the Garden Clubs in the States 1 the armed forces in Alaska.| Nome 28 | 15 16 0 Clear Mrs. Burr Jehnson, chairman of word was also received that Wran-| Anchorage 33 | 23 24 0 Cloudy the First Aid and Home Nursing, c¢)) and Ketchikan are desirous of‘ Bethel . 23 | 15 15 0 4 reported three cla were meeting | forming AWVS units, st. »Paul 41 i 31 34 12 a week in Home Nursing, 37 mem-| pifteen (eers! were received| Dutch Harbor .. 44 3 31 31 Rain bers in Juneau and 18 in Doucl answer to the appeal published| Wosnesenski ... 48 42 43 .18 HvyRain Mrs. C. C. Carter is in char ently, it was reported by M Kodiak 46 43 % 08 Cloudy a Refresher Firs: course to be given ... gammer and the skins have| Cordova i 4 31 32 0 Clear the nurses and taught by u been given to needy Indians to| Juneau " 10 1 22 Ditiais L0, Blik Lpraple WiE feach o na nake moccasins. She reported that| Sitka 52 [ 46 ¥ 16 Cloudy 945 ia F;ff‘*ft‘“‘(fi s hunters expressed themselves glad| Ketchikan 52 a7 48 63 HvyRain It was voted o start another, (o find some use for the skins and| Prince Rupert .. 53 | 5 4 66 Rain First Aid class for those who were it is hoped that skins will con-| Prince George .. 58 | 38 42 18 Cloudy unable to take the cours tinue to come in. Seattle 64 | 46 52 0 Cloucy spring when about 100 earned Nutrition Class | San Franciseo . ¥ 58 60 0 Claudy First Aid certificates. Mrs. R. B. Lesher has invited| WEATHER SYNOPSIS It was reported by Mrs. D members of the AWVS to join the Due to the influence of another of a series of low pressure cen- Sweeney that the Comr tions Nutrition Class, it was announced| ters which have passed over Southeast Alaska, rain had fallen over class had eight memt ngat the meeting. The ¢ is to be| that area during the past 24 hours. Still another storm center in the 8ignal Corps off onee 4 conducted under the auspices of moving rapidly eastward south of the Alaska Peninsula had causcd week and that their instruc the Woman’s Club. | rain and gale to hurricane easterly winds along the coast from PN ap iy ety wull vty | The Motor Corps class, of whith| Kodiak Island to Dutch Harbor. Clear or partly cloudy skies pre- l\‘;}‘.lfld Ay “}?;XY ,'"l“'”‘m’ *0 Mrs. I Goldstein is rman, re-| yajled generally over the interior and the western and northern al[‘fl:::)\n i\]‘“lll‘zl- M‘_' A ported ey have had three /lym‘f‘l— portions of Alaska this morning. The greatest amout of rainfail ham . has already secured six mem.| 85 S0 far, and the original at-| was 78 hundredths of an inch which was recorded at Sand Point. bare tags it endance of' 40 has '1"@\“'“ al-| The highest temperature yesterday afternoon was 52 degrees Howiaiy Coveia ne lf. Meetings are held every = Ketchikan and the lowest last night minus four degrees at Barro The Red Cross sewing groups Monday night. - “Overcast skies, light rain, moderately low . ceilings and fair togood under the direction of Mrs. J. ¢.| Other business included the de-| visibilities prevailed over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway this morn- Thomas have been meeting almost on to send a box of books,| ing every afterncon except Sunday in zines and goodies on the Co- The Thursday morning weather chart indicated a center of low the AWVS headquarters under the lumbia Sunday to the boys at Chil-| pressure of 20.20 inches was located near Sitka this morning and auspices of different Church groups. koot Barracks., It was also decid-; was expected to move inland du-ing today. A second low pr¢ re Knitting classes under the direction ed to hold a food sale on Octo-! center of 2820 inches was locat>d at 53 degrees north and 162 de- of Mrs. D, L. Wallace have been ber the building recently grees west and was expected to move inland over Southeast Alaska | meeting one afternoon and one geecu s, Roebuck Com-| tonight and Friday morning with the low center remaining in the evening each week at different is from this sale Will Gulf of Alaska but slowly filling. A high pressure center of 3025 homes. Since the Red Cross has pe used (o swell the funds for re-| inches was located at 24 degrees north and 142 degrees west. e date for finishing their quota,|creational facilities at Chilkoot. | Juneau, October 17—Sunrise 7:37 a.m., sunset 5:49 pun. i thas been sed to finish the FESR S L Ly e b Red Cross knitting first and the 3 7 s LT BT | British War Relief work later. The to] Katmai, an Alaske o s, g Mrs. Josephine Wright report-| mountain had no fore "Ew pAMleH u“-'"E New York Central 11, Northern ed that the class in aeronau shown evi of voleanic gc- AMSKA FMGS HlSTORY’Pacmc 6, United States Steel 50%, has 16 members attending the tion, was blown off in 1912. PRV, ipflund $4.04. “ground” school every Thursduy - ? / | gy ¢ i g o f s et i . chief Appropriately, today, almost on tend to take actual flying lesson the pe .co Observance in the Ternmry,. there| The fellowing are Lo_days Dow, latér at the Air School. 000 mile (were delivered to the office of|Jones averages: industrials 11852, | Gov. Ernest Gruening a stock of |down 2 points; rails 27.80, down .54; i pamphlets on the history of Al-| utilities 14.40, down 3.35. |aska's flag, to be distributéd| - throughout the country with = |book on Alaskan facts and for| use by school classes in the Ter- ' ritory. { In the history of boxing, | five contests have attracted m | lion-dollar gates (exclusive of .ra- | "on the front cover of the pamp- dio and motion picture rights), llet is a brilliant replica of the and Jack Dempsey was a partici- | Alaska flag printed in blue and|P8nt in all of them. gold, withy the poem “Alaska’s Flag” by Marie Drake appearing below the outspread folds of the flag. The text of the pamphlet tells | 'the story of the Alaska flag, which | was adopted by the Territorial | Legislature in 1927 from a design |drawn by Benny Benson, seventh-| IN<UhED§ gr:del ;:u;:é hz‘x the territorial !r:‘.V s E WSHatopirs || SAY For Food Sale | October 25 is the date set by the | Anferican Women’s Voluntary Ser- | vices for a food sale in the building tformerly occupied by Sears Roe- buck Cc. Funds from the sale will 1 be used to augment the recreational facilities for the Juneau boys at | Chilkoot Barracks. Contributions for the sale will be| solicited, and anyone wishing to: | donate is asked to call Mrs. Ellis | Graham, Mrs. W. S. Ramsey Or | Mrs. Ray Day h STOCK QUOTATIONS 16 — Closing ! quetation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 3, American Can 81%, Anaconda 247/8, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Commonwealth and Southern 15/16, Curtiss Wright 8%, Interna-: The Alaskan Hotel at Reasonable Rates g nmo Insured Safety EARNINGS G £ On SIvilgs Accounis ® Accounts’ Government In- sured up to §5,000. ® Money available at any time. @ Start an account with §1 or more, Current 4% Rate Nuh Federal le\o 3 Hm & Mleu C! I Piunbhq Ofl Burhéss Heating | Phone 34 Sheet Metal 12