The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1941, Page 5

THURSDAY, OCTOBER |6 1941 BEAUTY AIDS-—— ot tlwkward Squad Homework Make a game of exercising by trying to pick up tennis balls. By BETTY CLARKE AP Feature Service Writer Indoor games are too popular to you sit on the spectator line much longer. But before you take yours turn in a game of badminton, table tennis or shuffle board, may- be you'll want to do some stretch- | ing and bending in privacy. Catharine Van Rennsselaer, di- rector of a centour corner for the | Ami an Woman’s Association, | New York, suggests these for your| homew FOR STRETCH: Place bulls on the floor in of you. Stand erect, then first to the right, keeping your legs straight while you twist. Pick up a ball if you can, and stand erect again. Bend left, pick up the ball on that side. Stand straight and bend over to get the ball directly in® ffont ‘of you:” Don't be discouraged if you can't touch the tennis balls at first. 2. FOR WAISTLINE: let ork three front bend 1. tennis Stand arms upward to the left side, then to the right. Keep knees and back straight. Do not twist your body. Do this exercise five times to each’ side. 3. FOR BALANCE: Use the well-tried but effective knee-bend- er. Stand erect, hands on hips with back straight, Bend your kneesand lift the heels from the floor. turn to starting position. Repeat 15 times. 4. FOR LIMBERING: Lie on Jdnk Heap Hides Officers’ Tent at War Games Re- | | your back with legs straight | stomach ailment, with your feet apart. Swing both! and body and toes. arms overhead. Swing the forward to a sitting position touch your hands to your L Sim ol M probably | )ive through the winter on buds and | can’t do at first.) Start with five natural forage to be found in Alaska. times and increase it gradually to 20 times, but rest after each five. ————————— Myer Is | Released WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—Buddy Myer, 1935 American League bat- ting champion, has been given unconditional release by President Clark Griffith of the Washington Nationals after 17 seasons in ma- jor league baseball, Myer, now 37 years old, hit 349 six years ago to win the league championship but, plagued by a tobogganed in 1936 to .269. Appearing only occasionally ai his former regular post, second base, Myer batted .252 for the 1941 ! Poynette, Wisconsin, is due to arrive | the Kenai Peninsula, where former | | best THE DAILY ALASKA' EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA WISCONSIN PHEASANTS SENT NORTH A shipment of 80 Reeves phea- | sants, from the State Game Farm at at Petersburg next Monday, it was announced today by Frank Du- fresne, Executive Officer of the Al- aska Game Commission. The birds will "be kept through the winter at the Territorial game farm at Petersburg and young birds | will be reared. Then, next summer, these little fellows will be sent to experiments have indicated that they may be the type of pheasnms dapted to that section. During the coming winter and earl pring, the game COmmlsslon | expects three more shipments of 80 | to 100 birds each of other types of | | pheasants. It is expected that from | ! these shipments there will be trans- | |ferred from the Petersburg farm | within the next year not less than |from 3,000 to 4,000 young game Ibirds. Dufresne said. These birds, he said, will beé liberated in Alaska, |all the way from Prince of wmes, ‘Island to the Fairbanks region. | All this work is being handled {under a special fund made available | |to the game commission on a Fed- | ernl aid grant, under a five-year Pm)gmm to determine which birds {are best fitted to Alaska and what \p'm.s of the Territory will best ac- |commodate them. If the experiments | prove a success, it is planned to set | up one or t%o game farms in Alaska {on a permanent basis, Dufresne de- clared. Birds in which the Alaska mm- | missicn are interested must be mde- |pendent of grain fields for feed, Dufresne pointed out, and able to SCHOLARSHIP BALL WILL BE | NOVEMBER 1 | JBPW Club Plans Annual Event in New Elks Ball- room for Fund ‘ 1Ali birds for the experimental work, | | he said, are being secured by trading | |animals such as wolverine, blue fox, martin and white fox with game farms in the States. Ratio of ex-, The annual Scholarship Ball |change in these trades means a given by the Juneau Business and | better deal for the Territory than | Professional Women’s Club has cculd be obtained in a cash pur-|peen scheduled for November 1, it chase of the birds, Dufresne de-|was announced today. The affair clared. | will be given in the Elks Ballroom, S o e |the first public dance to take plaze | in Lhe new building following the Party Celebrafes ~ |cvemine coremonie | Echool Days” will be the theme Ffih B nhd |of “the occasion and members of | ' ay the club are planning clever dec- orations’ in line with the classroom Joan Moiyneux flebrated her‘mom‘ Music will be furnished by !tifth birthday yesterday afternoon |Lillian Uggan and her orchestra. with a party given in the home of Another feature of the evening her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 'J. C.|will be the silver chest award, Molyneux, in the Jenne Apartments., which is being made to swell the She received many lovely gifts from ! scholarship fund. her friends, who enjoyed the re-| The JBPW club gives a dance freshments and decorations carried every year about Hallowe’en time, out with a hallowe’en theme. and funds from this and from Guests for the occasion WeTe |giner activities of the group are |Nancy Lagergren, Kay and Alice ,eq for the education of Junepu Threes VNo szad Here Dick Merrill, his wife and child Here is a new plcture of Dick Merrill, veteran airline pilot, his wife, the former Toby Wing of the movies, and their child, Richard Wing Merflll mken in their M\lml Beach Fln home. CHAMBER-ROTARY COMMAITTEE IS TO AID IN FUND DRIVE Miners and _aerks Union Groups May Be Asked fo Help Campaign Plans for a -joint Chamber of Commerce-Rotary Club committee to canvass Juneau for donations. to The Empire’s fund to purchase needed recreational -equipment - for Juneau men at Chilkoot Barracks were discussed today when the étvic organization met for luncheon at the Baranof Hotel. “The, fund we raise now will be enjoyed not only by the men already at the barracks but also by the draftees soon to be sent there from Juneau,” Curtis Shattuck, Chamber Président, pointed out. “When you considér that many of these men.are giving ip jobs which paid them $250 arid $300 a month to enter the.army’ at'$21 a month, contributing a few dollars apiece to such a fund is a small sacrifice for the men who are remaining at home to make.” It, was suggested that the joint Chamber-Rotary committee contact heads of miners and clerks unions TWO SOVIET TOWNS TAKEN BY INVADERS Kalinin and Kal Kaluga Fall asi Hitler's Troops Sweep | Toward Capital (Continued from Page One) on the Moscow-Bryansk rail line 90| miles southwest of " the capital “have been in German hands for| several days,” according to the; communique, | RESISTANCE NOT BROKEN 3 MOSCOW, Oct. 16.—Despite “de- terioration” of Russian defenses west of Moscow, Russian dispatch- | es today declared the Red Army rs-} sistance has not been broken and cannot be broken. Germany, the dispatches said,| now is exerting her fullest offen-| sive power. The official midday communique, announcing that the& defenders “continue to fight the| snemy along the whole front,” said| action is particularly intense in me; western direction in the area where | deterioration was reported on the night of October 14-15. This might indicate that the breach opened by the German jug- sernaut has been closed. During the past 24 hours, the communique added, the Germans continued to throw units into the battle. A belated communique covering last night's action acknowledged that German tank crews and mo- torized infantrymen had' bludg- eoned a path through the Russian 'ines in & night ‘attack on thé Len- | ngrad front, but the latest report said that the Russians captured a number - of prlsonerx as a result of the action. | ———— IUNGSIEN MINING INHYDER REGION Much Strategic Mineral Is Fund in:Section Near Canadian-Line 1If the demand for tungsten and other strategic ' minerals for de- fense work continues,’ the Hyder mining district of Southeast Al-| aska may develop 'into the most in, Juneau in an attempt to enlist the aid of committees from these union * groups in building up the fund. season. \Holm. Patty and Carolyn Carson, S 3 ST | Gail ‘Morrison, Audie. Feero, Nancy |61 School graduates. At the i McDowell, and Ann ‘and Sheenagh Bremnt: e, Shel are, Stving o BP.O. ELKS special meeting, Wi |nie Caldwell, a graduate of 1940, Monday, October 20, 1941, 8 p.m.| Wallace. s |nurse’s training at Providence Hos- Ballot. | i pital in Seattle. She is the eighth M. H. SIDES, The last shots of the War Be-|student to receive this award. adv. Secretary. tween the States were fired by 2| The public is invited to attend Confederate cruiser in Alaskan|the dance in the new ballroom. Speakers at the meeting- included Ernest Parsons, recently retumed from "Sitka, and Don Skuse,” who reported on'the national Soap-Box Derby, at Akron, Ohio, to.which he recently ‘escorted Jerry Chapman, BUY DEFENSE BONDS From a distance, this hodge-podge of empty cncker boxes, soap cartons more than an ordinary refuse heap. In reality, un | waters. und t.he officers’ tent of Army G-4 at Bossier City, La., where strategy was mlpp‘d RECKON WE-WNS ORTER WUNT P & NEW NELGHBORHOOD, £ NOW AN ME SCREPPW S W TALK OF | T TOWN & \WE-UNS COLKBLRTE oN CQ\\T\NNER W Q QALE & MILON der the wire netting lflmml& NE B&\T“.ESR\? (LE OF T T &gam CHROLING AEANS MORE'N OF MO GWNS™ \ COCKY T Comd SWOOP DOWN ON T ANORTA COROLWY by BF'(ER TWO MNIKTES - |on the project. i Juneau soap-box champ. * Parsons reported that a .drive in Sitka led by the Rotary Club there is aimed. at extensive Christmas decorations on down-town streets of the defense city. Plans foclude the placing of a huge decorated tree at a city intersection and . stringin of colored lights alohg all main streets, he declared. Mrs. Redlingtlks_l_ : Luncheon Hostess R S WATER SYSTEM FOR AUK BAY NEARS START i With many Auk Bay residents already pledged themselves to fi- nancial support of the Auk Bay Water Users Association’s efforts, to obtain a water system for the! area, officers and members of the group now are planning to enlist! the support of everyone in the area, Mrs. William Redling, wife of J. B. Caro, president, said today. | Capt. Redling now stationed ' af A. E. Glover, Porest Service en-)Chilkoot Barracks, was hostess: to- gineer, last night outlined the pro-'day at a luncheon party in the Iri gram to be followed by the Forest Room of the Baranof Hotel. Hel Service in construction of the guests were Mrs. Ernest Greuning system as soon as the assoclation Mrs. Hamilton H. Bond, Mrs. J. E provides the necessary funds for Graham and Mrs. Elmer B. Bene- malerials and supplies. ~Speaking dict. at a meeting of the group last night,| Mrs. Redling is leaving Sunday Glover explained that Civilian Con- aboard the Columbia to join' her servation enrollees will be employed husband at the Barracks, Several other wives of men now there @ also leaving at that time, . “Many members siguified their | interest in the project last night,”, Caro said, “and we’re confident th: L7 with the cooperation of all ttewn‘oth::l A panirafobe o, il Auk Bay residents” we'll be in a Son Francisco in 1776, has bee position to start work on the system remodeled for an Army officers’ in the yery near future, Everyone ¢!V cohcerned will be contacted by c)ub members soon.” ———————— Subscribe for The Empire. ‘mportant mining district. in the! Territory, it ‘'was declared here to- day by J. C. Roelim, associate nining engineer in the Territorial epartment of Mines, who has just returned from a check-up tripinto he region, Roehm also looked info | strategic -mineral development pos- ! sibilities in the Ketchikan region and - on Prince of Wales Island. The -first carload - of tungsten concentrates is due to be ' shipped ut within the next few days from he J.. H. Scoft Company opera- ions at the Riverside Mine, RmhmI ¥ aid. A crew of 27 men are now vorking in the mill | and mine here. The tungsten will be shipped oy mail boat: to Prince Rupert and thence by. rail- to mid-west pro- 'esslng plants, Several old. prospects ln l:h- Hyder region have been 'found ‘to contain -tungsten, Roehm said.Sev-~ eral miles -of--a -contact -zone exists n the région,” Ne said, where ungsten minerals are found - in ontact between grano-diorite and| | sreenstone ' schist “formations. Placer mining ‘activity is also leveloping on the Salmon River, :xtending 10" miles down stream 1om the Canadian border. One of he major placer. operators .in the | | Jerritory has staked claims along ‘he river and is. testing them, From the head of Pottland Janal, the Hyder district extends ome 15 milés into the headwaters ) Texas Creek and has often in ‘he. past attracted much interest ‘or its mineral possibilitiés. It is just across the Canadian line from | this 'section where the well-known Premjer Mine in British Oolumh'll is" Jocated. 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