The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1942, Page 6

PAGE SIX BURMA CHIE F WOMAN GIVES ARRESTED FOR "“i';"ué&fi?u"m MP plOI"NGShe Dies, However, With- Fay out Knowing Joy, Nor Plansto Deliver Countryto. of Awful Tragedy Enemy Revealed by SEATTLE, Jan. 19—Mrs. Kasper H Peter Melland, 26, died without Arrest of Premier iowing sne had given birth to =—— son after her husband had car- LONDON, Jan. 19 — Premier U ried her from their blazing White saw of Burma, who quit London|Center home. last November in a huff after fail-| Also, she was not told that her ing to obtain Dominion status for|phushand, 38, and their two-year- his country, was arrested by thelolq son James perished in the British today for plotting with the f146c when her husband went Japanese {back to attempt to save the boy. An official announcement indi- by S, cated the seizure of the round | s faced, skirt- ring, little Oriental o oiiracy to manct over| THREE MEN ARRAIGNED | to the Japanese the British Asiatic possession which holds a vital role in the defense of Singapore. The statement said U Saw had been in contact with the Japanese since the outbreak of war on the Pacific ON GRAND JURY COUNTS| Three men indicted Saturday by the grand jury were arraigned in Federal District Court here today and will enter pleas tomorrow afternoon at 2 pm The three were James B. Sulli- -oe The Daily Alaska Empwe nas the largest paid circulation of any Al-| o of sitka, charged with incest aska newspaper. and rape; Benjamin Busenius, | | Canadian who represented himself ates citizen while “ as a United State [ T"AT "ATE To working on the Sitka naval base; | Dimond Seeks Re-election As Delegate Veteran Alé_sl:a Statesman Files as Candidate in April Primaries | With the filing this morning of | Anthony J. (Tony) Dimond as a candidate in the April 28 primaries to succeed himself as “Delegate {from Alaska in the House of Rep- resentatives of the Congress of the United States,” all incumbents for the three territorial posts open this year had thrown their hats into the political ring. Dimond’s declaration of candi- dacy was received here yesterday by airmail from Washington, D.C,, and was entered officially this morning in the office of Territor- ial Auditor Frank A. Boyle, where all such candidacies must be filed. Only previous filings of candidacy have been made by Territorial Commissioner of Labor Michael J. Haas and Territorial Treasurer Oscar Olson, both of whom have declared their intentions of enter-( ing the race to succeed themselves in those offices. First elected to represent Alaska as Delegate in Congress in 1932, WORK?” FEELING :v¢ Tim Pau, Juncau native Does your wotk ".“"“ mn,. oa |Charged with burglary in a dwell- | ea's fosl lik ing house ive :‘ ge! Sullivan was represented by Mil-| lvu mA'm.nxnm ‘your druggim | Gred Hermann, local attorney. Bu- senius, asked regarding an atto:-| ney, stated he wanted none. The! | court will appoint a counsel to rep- resent Paul. ELKS TO HAVE ANOTHER NIGHT NEXT WEDNESDA The local Elks are going to have another big night. It is Oldtimers’ night and is scheduled. for next Wednesday and the fun will start right after the short business ses- | sions. There will be a special feed and | the committee promises other hap- penings, including an oldtimers bowling game. Butler-Mauro Drug Co. Guy's Drugs in Douglas BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. “The Rexall Store” Phone 146 BUTTER | Darigold 2 pounds 89¢ Happy Home Quart—25¢ Pint— 1 5¢ MATCHES A COMPLETE SELECTION OF FRESH AN THIS NEW GENERAL ELECTRIC KEEPS FOOD BETTER LONGER Saves You Money Through The Years! Old-fashioned refrigeration is too uncertain, too costly today! Get a new G-E that keeps perishable foods better and longer, cuts waste, saves you money every day. This is a good time to invest ina that not only safeguards food value as well. Only a limited number of G-E’s available, so see us NOW. GENERAL @ ELECTRIC Alaska Electrie Light and Power Co. Juneau Douglas uality refrigerator Lu assures Jasting HOME GROUERY----- AMERICAN MEAT EGGS Large Grade A 2 dozen 99« SALAD DRESSING | TOMATO SAUCE Happy Home 5 cenis § FRENCH DRESSING Full Pint —27 ¢ Fresh Home-Made Pure Link Pork Sausage 12 Months to' Pay Dimond has been re-elected to that post every two years since then. At the polls this year he will, be seeking his sixth consecutive term at the national capital. Di-| |mond filed on the Democratic | |ticket and gave his home as Val- | | dez | 11913-14. Later he was U. S. Attor-| ney in the Third Division and ror\ many years mayor of Valdez. Rep- resenting the Third Division, he served four terms in the Territor- | ial- Senate. .. — There are one-half million more woemen than men in urban areas in the age group 20 to 24 years, as shown by the 1940 census. Phone 38 Each Durkee D SMOKED MEATS 20% Down THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-—JUNEAU ALASKA ,Torpedoed Tanker Crew Ouench Thlrs Members of the crew of the torpedoed tanker Norness quenched their thirst with beer in a hotel lobby at Providence, R. L, after their release at Newport where they were taken by naval ships which rescued them after their bhlp was sunk off Long lshnd N. Y, last 'I'lllll'sday. {Imperials Repulse Repeat- ed Assaults - Hold | Everywhere | Long a prominent figure in the | {affairs of the Territory and thor-| {oughly conversant with the needs, |of Alaska through actual conmci {with its problems, Dimond held | his first Territorial position as U.i | S. Commissioner at Chisana in| MELBOURNE, Jan. 19—Australi- an Imperial forces rushed to the ,aid of hard-pressed Indian troops in the Muar River battle zone |northwest of Singapore, today were declared to have stopped the Jap-| anese onrush, beating off almusl ‘cenwh‘ss attacks. “The Australians are holding |ll\e1r ground everywhere,” Maj. \(;en Gordon Bennett, comm'\nd- |ing the Australian Imperials, |ported to War Minister Forde. SURVIVORS OF TORPEDOED SHI ARE PICKED NEW YORK, Jan. 19—Breaking silence, the Navy announces that jan unknown number of \uwims from the 6,700-ton tanker Coumbra | re- | | | |were picked up after the vessel was “found in a sinking condi- tion, it being assumed the craft had been torpedoed by an enemy | submarine.” The attack was 100 miles east of New York harbor, about 0 am. last Thursday and appr mately 32 hours after the tanker Norness had been torpedoed in the| same area. .Hllscher fo Tel! About Jap Fieet, Members of the Rotary Club are| being promised a real low-down on the Japanese navy at their lunch- eon meeting tomorrow noon in Percy’'s Cafe. The man slated to dish out the bert Hilscher, magazine editor; Hii- | scher, while never a member of the Jap navy, spent considerabie time studying the nautical power 'of the Emperor in collecting data ifor .some of his writing, it was { announced. 1 R EAURRR Former Alaskan Is Now in U. 5. Navy SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 19—Con- rad “Pop” Estes, former City Clenx and police judge at Seward, Al- aska, for many years a successful merchandising executive, enlisted in the Navy at Springfield, IIl, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and has been sent to the training station here. Officials announce he |is in excellent physxcal condition. HEADQUARTERS TYPHOON SUITS Ideal for Hunters and Fishermen Sizes Small, Mediwn, Large Extra Large All in Stock H. S. Graves The Clothing Man I dirt on the Nipponese fleet is Her-- AUSSIES HAlT Knudsen Is Appomled as JAP ADVAN(EE TO SINGAPORE WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—Presi- dent Roosevelt made a surprise announcement late last Saturday. The President announced the ap- pointment of William S. Knudsen as a Lieutenant General in the %8 The appointment is regarded as finally solving of putting the entire auto industiy to work cn war production. Commendation of the appoint- ment rolled in from high officials. Gen. George Marshall, Chief of the Army Staff, said: “His experi- ence will expedite the delivery O‘i |guns and equipment.” e ‘BIRIHDAY BALL RADIO CAMPAIGN President’s Birthday Ball ad- dresses over the radio station KINY will be given this week be- ginning tonight at 7:30 o'clock| when Gov. Ernest Gruening is' scheduled to open the campaign to | raise funds for the National Foun- | dation for Infantile Paralysis, with ja five-minute talk. On Wednesday evening W. Council, Territorial Health| Commissioner, will give a fiv -] minute talk over KINY at 6: o'clock, while on Friday evening| at 7 o'clock Dr, W. S. Ramsey of | the Territorial Department of Health will speak for 15 minutes. | Mrs. Charles G. Burdick, Ju-| neau Chairman of the President’s, Diamond Jubilee Birthday Ball, will| speak over KINY on Saturday eve- ning at 7 o'clock for five minutes jand on Monday evening Mayor Harry I. Lucas will give a 15-min- ute talk, from 7:30 o'clock to 7:45. it was announced today by Dr. Courtney Smith, Radio Chairman on the President’s Birthday Ball Commmee Lecal Functions Funds for this nationally ob- Iserved charitable cause will be raised in Juneau with a dance to !be given on January 31 at the Elks |Hall and a card party with botn contract and pinochle tables to be held the same evening in the Gold' Room of the Baranof Hotel. Reser-, vations for tables may be made with Mrs. Ruth N. Noble, Chair- man for bridge and pinochle, cr Mrs. C. C. Rulaford or Mrs. Doris Guilian, members of the card com- mittee, Mrs. Burdick said today. Rainbows, Scouts Help Members of the Rainbow Girls, |are assisting in the drive to raise funds for the Birthday Ball fund by distributing clever ¢ mord- ishaped envelopes, representing the | diamond jubilee of President Roo-| sevelt, with slits for the insertion |of dimes. This is for the “March | of Dimes” campaign held nation-! ally in conjunction with the Blrth-J day balls to raise money for the same purpose. On Thursday Mrs. Burdick will speak to the Juneau Girl Scouts to enlist their assistance in the local drive. She will ask them to help in the distribution of leaf- lets thoroughly explaining 'the pur- pose of the well known drive and the .use to which all funds raised are put. | Dr. wW.! | Funds Divided ! All funds raised on this annual “mive are divided, with part of | them - remaining in the Territory (to be used for the care of crip- {med children, while the remainder “ sent to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. All funds |placed in the territorial fund are | matched by the Federal Govern- ment, { — ———— } BROKEN LENSES | Are promptly replaced in our own {shop. Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson, | Blomgren Building. adv.l the grave problem | BEGINS TONIGHT | nounce |Kundsen for the rank of Lieutenant j R. F. POSTON MAKING jcontinue to Sitka on routine in- |FIRST AID CLASS T0 |instead of Monday as | | Lieut. Gen., Regular Army EX-SECRETARY OF WAR NAMED Patrick Hurley Assignment Not Announced But He Is Nof Line Officer WASHINGTON, Jan. Patrick Hurley, formet Secretary of War under President Hoover and World War veteran, today was| Inominated by President Roosevelt to be a Brigadier General. Hurley’s office disclosed he al- ready has left the country under secret orders. The White House declined to an- Hurley's assignment but; said he would not be a line officer.| Roosevelt also sent ate the nomination of William General. He was chosen to take care of the Army’s war production and pru(urnmn'm program. Labor Unity Is Advocated WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 — John L. Lewis, in open letters to William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, and Philip Murray, President of the CIO, sug- gests “unified and competent lead- ership” and joining of the AFL and CIO. President Green said: “Our peace committee stands ready at any time to meet with a committee from the CIO.” INSPECTION TRIP FOR HEALTH DEPARTMENT R. F. Poston, Acting Director of the Division of Public Health En-| 'gineering and Sanitation, is making a special inspectional visit to Hoo- nah where he will inspect the water system which is now under construction. From Hoonah Mr. Poston will{ spection and consultative work.. He 'expects to be away about a weex. MEET TUESDAY NIGHT The Red Cross first aid class be- ing instructed by Helgar Larson, Mrs. M. Monagle and Miss Elma Qlson will meet in the grade school on Tuesday -evening at 7:30 o'clock previously announced. Those taking this class are requested to take bandages and the women students are asked to wear slacks, according to the an- nouncement. ———————— MRS. GERTRUDE NAYLOR IS LUNCHEON HOSTESS Mrs. Gertrude Naylor was hostess on Saturday with: a luncheon in the Iris Room of the Baranof Ho- tel. Guests- who enjoyed the occa- sion were Mrs. Eugene Nelson, Mrs. Alf N. Monsen, Mrs. Dwight Brown, | Mrs. George A. Lingo, and Miss Jane. Alexander. Y MORGANS GO SOUTH Mr. and Mrs, Thomas A. Morgan‘ and son Thomas junior, have left| for the south but expect to return| BRIG. GENERAL| 19 — Col.| to the Sen- | |Court Orders Mine fo Pay Legal Wages Labor Depa?n;em Obtains Judgment Against Tin City Placer Co. 19—Walter T. manager of the' Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division, announced today that a judgement against the Am-| erican Tinfields, Inc., restraining| the company from violating the Wage and Hour Law and ordering restitution of back wages to its employes, has been approved by} Federal Judge Lloyd L. Black in United States District Court. The entry of the decree was con- sented to by the company, the first SEATTLE, Jan. | Neubert, Seattle Alaska placer mining operator. The company operates at Tin City, Al- Seattle. The judgment requires the pay- ment of $4,056.83 for violations in 1939 and 1940. The company al- ready has made other corrections in its 1941 payroll as the result of | an inspection conducted last sum-| mer by Neubert and his assistants rat Tin City. The complaint filed against the company alleged it had employed certain employes in excess of the| maximum hours provided by law! without the payment of time and | one-half their regular rates of pay las overtime compensation. The | concentrates produced in violation of the act had been shipped in in- | terstate commerce and that the company failed to keep adequate records of the wages and hours of its employes. | | If all of the 35000000 homes in the United States were situated on | 30-foot lots on both sides of one | Main street, the thoroughfare |would have to be about 100,000 miles long—sufficient to girdle the earth four times around the equa- such action to be filed against an| aska, but has its home office in| | complaint stated that tin ore and| MONDAY JANUARY 19, 1942 Plane(rash Vicims Are Brought Out Bodies of Actress Lombard and Mother Arrive from Scene-Now in Morgue LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Jan. 19— | The shattered bodies of actress Car- ole Lombard and eight others among the 22 killed in the mount- ain top plane crash last Friday night, lay in the Las Vegas morgue | today while men toiled in the snow |to bring the remaining 13 victims |from the crash scene. The dead included Miss Lombard, her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Peters, |and two other women, one the |actress’ press representative and |15 Army ferry fliers in addition to the pilot and copilot. Actor Clark Gable flew here upon receiving word his wife died in the |crash and remains in seclusion in |a hotel. Friends said he is numbed by the shock of the death of his wife and will not talk to anyone. Miss Lombard was returning westward from Indianapolis where she sold $2,500,000 of defense bonds. NOTICE AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing air route from Seattle to Nome, on sale at J. B. 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