The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 24, 1941, Page 5

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1941 Headguarters Hardeman WATER-PROOFED Hats ii. S. Graves The Clothing Man HUTCHING'S ECONOMY MARKET Be Wise—Economize THREE PHONES 553—92—95 by SRR I e Bon Voyage Shower GRID GAMES Honors Mrs. MBride and Mrs. J. Westfall A bon voyage shower was given last night by Mrs. Raymond Haydon and Mrs. Stanley Rekosh in the Haydon home on 11th Stree. honor- ing Mrs. Arthur McBride and Mrs. |Jack Westfall, who are leaving soon to make their homes in Calif- ,ornia, A biue and white color schome was used for the party, and the guests played games during ‘he evening ot guests present were Mr mother of Mrs. McBri Westfall, Mrs. Robert Wallen Forrest, Mr: and Mrs Dupree, Mrs Edward Roller, Mrs. Leonard Jo! son and Mrs. E Vicklund. Winning first prize in the pcetry contest was Mrs. Johnson. and ond prize was taken by Mrs. W fall. In the word cont M Vicklund - won first and Mrs. Sey took second. ., RAYBAN goggles cut haze ard eliminate giare from sun, SsNow water. — Dr. Carlson, Blomgren Building. adv. — .. AMPS BUY DEFENSE S COWLING-DA * | Looking for Kentucky’s B4 finest bourbon? Then { Disttiers, P.0. Box [ 5 12, Wall St Station, The prize bourben of a master distiller, the late Colonel E. H. Taylor, Jr.,and by him proudly sigoed. SATURDAY The following are important foothball games to be played throughout the nation on Satur- day, according to the Associated Press schedule: ! Far West d University of Washington vs, Stanford. Washington State vs. Oregon State. | California vs. US.C. Gon: a vs. Portland U. U.CL.A. vs. Oregon. Oklahoma vs. Santa Clara. San Francisco U. vs. Brighary Young East Ambherst vs, Wesleyan. Army vs. Columbia. Doston College vs, Georgetown. Posten U. vs. West Maryland. Lafayette vs. Brown, Temple vs. Bucknell, Geneva vs. Carnegie Tech. | Comell vs. Colgate. | Yale vs. Dartmouth, | Marquette vs. Duquesne. | PFordha mvs. Texas Christian U Harvard vs. Navy. Holy Cross vs, New York U. | Manhattan vs. Cillanova. Pennsylvania U. vs. Maryland. Pennsylvania State vs. Lehigh. | Pittsburgh vs. Duke. Vanderbilt vs. Princeton Syracuse Rutgers. Kentucky vs. West Virginia. Mid-West Creighton vs, Drake. Detroit U. vs. Arkansas. Notre Dame vs. Illinois U. Wiscensin vs. Indiana U Purdue Towa U, Kansas vs. lowa State. Michigan vs. Minnesota Michigan State vs. Wayne, Missouri vs. Nebraska. Ohio State vs. Northwestern, Oklahoma A. & M. vs. Tulsa. Centenary vs, Washington U, South | Alabama U. vs. Georgia. | Georgia Tech. vs. Alabama Poly | Tech. | Transylvania vs. Centre. | South Carolina vs. Clemson. Davidson vs. Furman. | Louisiana State U. vs. Florida. Georgia Tech. vs. Auburn. George Washington vs. William and Mary. Tulane vs. Mississippi U. Mississippi State vs. Union. Wake Forest vs. North Carolina. North Carolina State vs. New- berry. Richmond vs. Virginia Military Institute, ’ i Sewance vs. Tennessee Poly In- stitute. Tennessee vs. Cincinnati, Virginia Poly Institute vs. Wash- ington and Lee. Southwest Detroit vs. Arkansas. Texas A. & M. vs. Baylor Texas vs.' Rice. Rocky Mountain Colorado vs. Wyoring. Utah State vs. Colorado State. Denver vs. Utah. Western State vs. Greeley State. Idaho U. vs. Willamette. Montana U. vs, Montana State. Moose fo Inifiaté, Tonight's Meeting The regular meeting of the Loyal Order of Moose will take place onight at 8 o'clock, and . initiation of new members is one of the leatures. — e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Hwm — SOMETHING SMELLS ANFUL GOOD, SR — WELL=WITH M. = TOWN AN/ GIVIN' A C L] SHORTENN BREAD — oath AGGIE OUT Cl wwmpa— CLL SBN W GOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN= L WP 8 CHRR, g NAJOR THIS S I1MUST L HIN-D‘G%ER - ALASKAN-ICE IS ELUSIVE, SAYS GIRL SKATER World Traveller Is Disap- pointed in Too-Warm Northland Supposed to be a land of ice and | snow, Alaska isn't what it’s cracked " to be. according te Juanita Wood, tall, brunette ice dancer (who has travelled around the world looking for on which to try her skates, Miss Wood, who is not a profes< sional skater but follows the sport as a hobby, found life too dull in Kansas City ofter she returned | home followine three years of Eu- rope, so she turned to the North- ‘and, expectine to find plenty of ice and plenty of skating, she ex- plained. Juneau offers no ice at this time of the year, she soon learned, and very little during the winter. So Miss Wood thinks she'll go to Anchorage. If there isn't any skat- ing there, she may fly to Nome; there must be ice somewhere in Alaska, she thinks, Saw Bombs Fall Miss Wood was in Engiand when the war started and witnessed the sarly air raids of the Nazi fliers. She was in Norway the day the Sermans invaded that country. On the train she had taken from Swe- den to Norway that day were also many Norwegian volunteers who had been fighting in Finland. rain crossed the border into Nor- vay, the Norwegian troops fired n their own brothers, because they houglit the strange uniforms were hose of Nazis. Many of those boys were killed in that skirmish.” Miss Wood’s first real war ex- | perience was the German occypa- tion of Czechoslovakia. The Amer- ican consul advised her to leave Prague immediately, so she went to Sweden where she spent several peaceful months skating, skiing and cycling. By April 8, 1940, she was ready to go to Norway, leav- ing Stockholm for Bergen. Alrport Bombed “I had no idea Germany was going to invade Norway across the border in time to see lan airport bombed; it was early in the morning and we dashed from ~the train in nightclothes to buy newspapers. Just after that, the Norwegians fired on the Fin- nish volunteers.” | Turned back to Stockholm, Wood flew from there to Moscow on the first leg of a trip which was to take her around the world. “I have seen a lot of different 150 many people bustling about the streets as they do in Moscow. An !auto never stops for pedestrians. |his hard luck. It’s nothing to see get up and limp away. I saw one woman struck. She lay where she had fallen and no one seemed to | care.” for Miss Wood to reach Viadivos- led into a compartment with three men, “all galiant and courteous, all dirty and lice-ridden.” Copied By Japs Japan, Miss Wood found In hours making friends with Japa- new ice rinks| “They were still wearing their Finnish army uniforms,” Miss Wood recalled, “and when the| that! | same morning,” she said. “We got| Miss | | cities but never before have I seen | |If a pedestrian gets hit, that's just | people knocked over by cars, Some | time to skate again and spent "™ PAGE FIVE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA HOPPINAND GRUENING PLAN TALKS 'Need Seen for Alaska Air | ' Route Along Coast- New Airfields Need of reestablishing a coastal |air route to Alaska was discussed this morning when Marshall Hop- pin, Alaska chief of the Civil Aero- nautics Administration, called on Gov. Gruening, according to an announcement by the Governor. “We discussed the need of ad- iitional through air routes to Al- iska,” the Governor declared, “since the present service does not take care of the present needs, owing | to the shortage of planes and heavy volume of traffic. We talked of the need of reestablishing a coastal air route into the Territory, so Ket- chikan would not be left out in a system of through air travel, In line with this, we talked of the need for building more airfields in Alaska in the immediate future. All these plans were considered desirable. | Gov. Gruening did not say that |any definite plans to put new air !routes into operation were con- sidered. Hoppin was in Juneau today with 'his pilot Jack Jefford enreute from | Seattle to the CAA headquarters at Anchorage. | nese hoys and girls at a rink. “They're the greatest ‘copy-cats’ I ever saw,” she laughed. “They'd watch me for a while; the next thing I knew, they'd be doing the rumba, tango and any other step I happened to reveal.” From Japan, Miss Wood reached |the United States via Honoluly {last May, remaining home long lenough to win skating prizes at |Sun Valley, Idaho, before she set ‘out for Alaska’s ice, which isn't |what it's cracked up to be. ! e Tokyo [AWVS TO KNIT AT STEWARTS ‘The regular Friday night knit- |ting meeting of the American Women's Voluntary Service mem- {bers' will take place tonight at 8 o'cleck at the home of Mrs. B. D. Stewart on Calhoun Avenue. It is hoped that work may be nearly finished at tonight’s meeting, and (all members are urged to be pres- |ent. As those present work on Red Cross and British War Relief gar- {ments, a book on impressions of Amerijca written by English chil- dren will be read to them. The book is entitled ‘“I'hank You Twice” or “How We Like America,” and was started at the last meeting. BRI R AIRGOLFERS LOSE { NORTH PLATTE, Neb., Oct. 24. From Moscow it look 14 d“ys!—stan Hall and W. J. O'Connor P the Base that he must be pre- dropped golf balls, one each for tok, travelling on the grimy Trans-|nine holes, from an airplane at duarters for board and room, as Siberian. Railroad. She was crowd- |, neight of 500 feet. Then they CRMP facilities at the base are ‘came down and played the balls jonto the greens. But C. A. Bradley |and Charley Koontz, playing their ‘regular game, won 5-3. { R e BUY DEFENSE BONDS for 75 Years WHEN your turn comes to bring down big game, have your rifle ready for success— loaded with Winchester Cartridges. 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EPEATI ARMS N comrp (with your name and address clearly printed). Put it ANY LABORERS WANTED SITKA NAVAL BASE IF HAVE HOUSING Employment Service Makes Announcement- Coal Miners Needed ‘ The Alaska Territorial Employ- ment Service announces that it is in receipt of an order for such laborers as can furnish their own housing quarters at Sitka for work on the Sitka Naval Base. The Employment Service sug- gests that any idle fishermen hav- ing their own boats to live on| stand an excellent chance at this time of obtaining work for the; winter as laborers on the basu.! ,Others seeking work on the base istand a good chance of finding| employment providing they can! | furnish their own housing quar- I ters, | An especial warning is given any 'person contemplating seeking work pared to furnish his own housing i filled to capacity. The Employment Service invites |anyone interested to drop in at |its office in the Sommers Bufld- ing in Juneau for further detailed information concerning work at the ) Sitka base, and such persons are| TRY & HONK OF Tuer CORN PONE, (R OVE % L HONENT TRETED MNTHING! LWKE TS SWCE T LEET (ENNESSEE! LOOK ME BEST- PARDON-SI OPERATOR WANTS TO STAND BY-AS IR-BUT THE \_o».ne-ots‘rmgggw%ue YOUR WIFE IS GONG TO CALL UP SOMETIME TODAY - By BILLY DeBECK BEG PARDON, S\R - TUAT BASKET S FOR. MARD BIRD SNUFEY Sty - T - UK - LEFT (T WERE BY WSTAKE, SR . U Sty DTS I'M GONNA MISS THIS CHOWDER PARTY- == again reminded that it is abso- lutely essential to have birth cer- titicates if American born or na- turalization papers if foreign born in order to obtain work on this project. Also announced is an opening with the Alaska Raiiroad for ex- perienced coal miners, SCOWS PUT ON WAYS, WRIGHT GOES SOUTH Ship ways at the Icy Straits Salmon Company plant at Hoonah have been completed and the com- pany's scows and boats racked for the winter, Frank Wright, Jr., sup- erintendent, reported today. ‘Wright, accompanied by several members of the cannery construc- tion crew. was to leave Juneau today on the steamer Alaska, Wright will stop off in Ketchikan before dontinuing to Seattle. e ——— BUY DEFENSE BONDS COWLING-DAVLIN ~ COMPANY DODGE and PLYMOUTH DEALERS | | FLY! Fly for Pleasure Hunt or fish, near and far, in your own plane or in one which you have rented. Learn the Modern Sport! Aviation is not expensive, There’s more pleasure per dollar in flying. Yst:'::tl'l;ir:a?taerillfl’ce?;e TODAY! It'sEasy At Alaska School of Aeronautics, Inc. P. O. Box 2187 Phone Black 769 JUNEAU | There is no substitute for newspaper adveriising! Delivery Service Out the Highway Every Day! 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