The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 13, 1941, Page 5

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 3, 1941 NEW BRITISH National Bowling Champ Begins Tifle Defense FRONTURGED AS RED AID laborleaderDemandsOf-% fensive in Libya fo | Distract Nazis LONDON, Nov. 13. — Renewed ands that Greaf Britain form ! econd fighting front to aid| Russia, with emy is on the pos- | ibilities of Libya was sounded in| the Parliamentary debate by La- bor Leader Manuel Shinwell, who | among crities is mentioned as possible recruit for the British cab- | ine Why has an offensive in Lik been delayed when it has been| expected for many months?” said | Shinwell, “it would in effect cre-: ate a second front, distracting to| the Nazis and creating difficulties | them.” | - - HIGH SCHOOL HONORROLLIS ANNOUNCED The Ponor Roll of the students in the Juneau High School for the first quarter of the year 1941-42 was announced today by Superin- | tendent of Schools A. B. Phillips To be eligible for the Honor Roll,| a student must have better than a “B" average for the 10-week per-| jod; he must have 13 or more| points; and he must not have more | than one C grade. Points are fig-l‘ ured on a basis of 4 for an A, 3 for a B, and so on | The honor roll and the points | earned are as follows: | Mary Atkinson 15, Grace Berg, 18. Doris Cahill 20, Zaida Carlson 18, Connie Davis 14, Anna Lois| Davis 20, Shirley Davis 19 Margaret Femmer 20, Adrienne Gl 13, Mary Gregory 14, Gene Hanna 14, Marie Hanna 14, Robert Helgeson 16, Maudie Kunz 14, Skip MacKinnon 15, Erma Meier 15, Betty Nelson 13. Betty Nordling 15, Pat Olson 19, Jack Pasquan 14, Bob Phillips 20, Audrey Rude 14, Bob Satre 19, Dessa Schneider 13, Mary Sper- ling 15, John Tanaka 16, Suzy Winn 14 High for se students * in the school for the last quarter, each with 20 points, have the highest possible score and a perfect rec- ord four who attained this | are Doris Cahill, Davis, Margaret Femmer and Bob riainps. Runners up, with 19 points each, are Shirley Davis, Pat Olson and Bob Satre. - STONEHOUSE HOME BOUND Harry Stonehouse is a passenger g for Juneau aboard the Yukon after g a trip to the States ranking record - e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS oo 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. Start Preparing for Your Private License TODAY! It'sEasy At Alaska School of Aeronautics, Inc. P. 0. Box 2187 Phone Black 769 JUNEAU Anna Lois Ned Day (right) of West Allis, Wis., holder of the national match play bowling championship, prepared to begin a defense of his title at Santa Monica, Cal ., against the challenge of Lowell Jackson (left), of St. Louis. After rolling a three-block series, they were to perform at Indianapolis, West Alllis, St. Louis and Chicago, rolling 160 games in all, PoOSTAL ODDITIES =) e AVERAGE LETTER IS HANDLED 14 TIMES BEFORE IT 1S DELIVERED “\JRNNWAT[/‘\ POSTMASTER Centuries Aco, GREEIKS TATTOOED LETTERS ON THE HEADS OF SLAVES / Reg. U. 5. Pal, Office 334-566, May 5, 1936, by National Federation o Pust Office Clerks 88 Centuries ago whenever a Greek ruler desired to send. a letter he would order the head of a sla the bald pate. After the slav was dispatched to a distant was necessary to have the head shaven again. ed, the letter being tattooed on s hair had grown out, the human letter ty, where, in order to read the letter it If the message was of confidential importance the slave was ordered destroyed. HARMON SIGNS - 3 rom Harmen, Michigan’s All-America football star in 1940, applied in Detroit for enlistment in the United States Army Air Corps. Harmon (left) turns his application over to Captain R. L. Gillespie (right), recruiting officer. The €ootball star faced induction in the army under the selective service act, Nov. 19, RED CROSS OFFICIALIS IN JUNEAU Dr. Frank E. Hull Comes | Here on Mission-Affair | atGovernor's House (Continued from Page One) ested may hear Dr. Hull speak, will |take place tomorrow afternoon at 12:30 o'clock in the Governor’s Man- sion, it was announced today by Mrs. Ernest Gruening, General Chairman of the organization. | All women of Gastineau Channel lare invited to the tea, and Dr. Hull will address the group, tell- ing of his work and outlining his instruction here plans for Holds Confeiences Hull is today conferring with ters of Red Cross work nging his program of His aim, he said today, is teachers to teach.” He | br |10cal d and classes, “to teach will give an instructor's course for) have already, |those persons who completed the advanced course in First Aid work, so that they may future be qualified to instruct courses. He will also give advanced ! training to those persons who have completed the standard course. Many Juneau and Douglas w0<j {men have already completed standard course, and are for - the advanced work. The ad- | vance course is a ten-hour course, and those who have completed it the lare eligible for instructor’s train-, ling, which is a 15-hour course. | Is Staff Physician | A native of Kansas, Dr. Hull is |Staff Physician of the American | National Red Cross. He was edu- jcated in California, and received |his medical education at the Uni- lver.sh.y of Southern California. During the San Francisco fire he was a member of the staff of |the Clara Barton Hospital, and a |short time later was the physician for the company building the West Coast Railroad from Guaymas to { Mazatlan, Mexico. Later he be- {came medical officer of a British | mining syndicate in the mountains of Durango, Mexico, until his re- turn to serve as an officer in the United States Army Medical Corps. Dr. Hull began his work in First !Aid and Accident Prevention at the time he was medical officer of the Paraffine Company in Los Angeles. He has been active in the Los Angeles YM.C.A. as Medical Examiner and as instructor of handball and swimming. At vari- ous times in recent years he has been instructor in First Aid and Accident Prevention in .the. CCC Camps of the Pacific Northwest. Following "his stay " in Juneau, Dr. Hull will go directly to Fair- banks for similar work in instruc- tor training there, and then will visit Anchorage, Seward and Cor- dova. On his way south he will carry on his work in Sitka, Wran- gell, Ketchikan, and other coast towns. ,Wanted: Drivers who like to take a eligible ' g THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA * in hc Y Wanted: Drunk Drivers; Tests Are fo Be Mad KANSAS CITY, Nov. 12 — dangerous a drunk driver is. snort or two before taking the old bus out, in the American Royal Pavillion. | The police department is going Spectators — selectéd safety engi- to give them all the whiskey they neers, physicians, judges, .highway | want and start them out in auto- patrolmen and' police officers—will Say II'WIh Flowers 5 | “The Americas in Flowers” will be the theme of the 1942 Pm; Tournament of Roses. With two beauties symbolizing hemispherie , solidarity, revealing a big floral map of North and South America, preparations for the famous New Year’s Day fete, dedicated to the “good neighbors” were under way. Selected as “Miss Latin America” by southern California’s Spanish colony, Juanita Estela Lopez repre- sented the countries below the border, while Ruth Gifford represented | the North as “Miss Liberty.” 4 AN' TOLD HIM TO GIT STAY OLIT OF THIS OFFICE- BUT HE COMES BACK EVERY DAY AN SAYS HE FORGOT WHAT ITOLD HM TO DO — . BRINGING UP FATHER IWE FIRED SIR VON PLATTER IT'S ABOUT TIME YOU GOT HERE - DONIT YOU EVER THINK ABOUT YOUR WORK?2 AN/ Copr_1941, Ki Features Syndicace, Inc. World rights rserved. . YOU! HEARD ME~ | WANT AB gl2~ WHAT ? HeY/ THAT'S THIS 'PHONE “MY NAME IS 'TIFFANY.' brought overseas to be ‘educated’ by tailors. time fussing over me with their cutting, shaping and hand stitching. Which is as it should be since my fabric is so. stout-hearted it would outwear all but the very finest tailoring. career in the face. suit B. PR, mobiles to determine just - how A synthetic road, complete with | curves and markers, will be set.-up | | | will follow at 30-minuge inter- | vals, Idevice used by police to determine i whether a driver is intoxicated, {fornia cities, cost $220,000,000. | ' PAGE FIVE N My fabric was ‘born’ Britain of a long line of illustrous woolens and MICHAELS-STERN Those craftsmen spent an amazingly long Well, right now here I am, maing on a rack .and staring a long, pleasant I don't like to be forward, but if u happen to have an opening for a really superior Why not drop in and look me over?” 39.75 \ Other Michaels-Stern Suits 35.00 to 47.50 . ’ - v Another Men's Shop Exclusive -~. BERREN %fl«p At least 30 will be tested in a R E S E R v ES i | two-day demonstration Nov. 18 and | 119, Police Chief Harold Anderson | |sald. They will include some who rarely drink, some who drink ocea- | | sionally and habitual drinkers. | ' i Candidates first will drive the | course sober. After a dinner each | will receive two ounces of his {Both - Germans, -Russian: Massing for Possible . Climactic Battle * favorite whiskey. Twenty minutes later each must drive 200 feet | S€ s 8 bosxd “of )udgt‘s to grade the drivers. O forward, keeping the left wheels between two lines 12 inches apart, then reverse back to the start- ing peint. H | Half an hour later they will re- | celve - another two ounces of whiskey and each driver must fol- low a figure eight outlined by 16 | poles, each bearing a standard highway marker. The course will be 50 feet wide at its widest point. Time limit to cover the course it three minutes. More whiskey and more driving (Uontinued from Page One) now open to attack from both wet‘ and south. 3 Scouting Operations J On the Moscow front, Soviet r ports said the Germans are intens sifying scouting operations, testing the Red Army lines along the 200% mile defense arc, apparently as prelude to a new grand offensive. » Germans Driven Back ¥ On the north flank, in the Kalined sector, the Russians claim they have driven the German invaders Tests with the drunkometer, a will be interspersed with the driv- ing. toward the Volga River despite a £ E o humc::e of Naz} mortar, muhlnf | The new Colorado River Aque- Bu;,:ghw:f:e::n.x.ltmn the M ‘tduct, which carries water 292 Army group is said to have c {miles to several Southern Cali-|the Volga in a successful raid m German rear. 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