The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 20, 1942, Page 6

DAY LETTER SERVICE IS BACK AGAIN January Effective today 20, the Alaska Communicaticn System is restoring the Day Letter Service oa its communication channels. This | service was discontinued when war was declared with the Axis The day letters will be “supject to delay ority of Government Operator - in - Charge Stevenson MIKE FILLO, 54, KILLED IN FALL accepted caused by traffic Roger H ATISLAND MINE Hirst-Chichagof Worker| Plunges from Ladder in Sfope Raise Mike Fillo, 54-) employed by the Mining Company morning when he der while climbing in a the Territorial Department of bor was informed by telegram day. The tragedy the second mining accident in Alaska in 194; Only one person was killed in Al- aska mines last year Labor Commissioner Michael Haas has requested all (Ulll]hllll(_w to notify the Department of a- ear-old mine Hll\( Chichagof killed this was fell from a lad- stope raise La- to- is bor of all industrial accidents and fatalities immediately. - The Daily Alaska ¥mpire nas the largest paid circulation of any Al- aska newspaper. day THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE (orregldor Men Bag Manya Jap Plane United States troops are pictured operating an aerial height finder on the island fortress of Corregidor at the entrance to Mgnila Bay. Pounded with bombs and strafed with machine gun fire, the courageous men of Cerrezidor have accounted for more than two score Japanese planes. And the island’s great ar- tillery rifies, aided by those of adjacent forts, have kept Manila Bay clear of the enemy while American and no land ferces under General Douglas MacArthur braced themsclves shoreside for a large scale BIRIHDAY BAI.l 'HARRY PHILLIPS MaSka GO" IS RECOVERING Ballroom on January 31, are Im\ ollowing an operation he reccmly Tickets for the President’s L”H--‘ Harry Phllllp< Chairman of lhe Ball, to be held in the Elks| ea e ove Unemployment Compensation Com-| | mission, is making a good recover sale in several downtown lu(duon\‘ including the Baranof Hotel, the| SEATTLE, Jan. 20 — The Navy|underwent for the removal of a Juneau Hotel and the Gastineau|won its first major engagement |cataract on one eye, according to R — Hotel, it was announced today by here last week when it took over|word received here by R. E. Shel-| |Mrs. W. 8. Ramsey, chairman of offices in the Federal Office Build-|don, Executive Director of the Un- | ticket sales ling which have previously been| employment Compensation Com- 24P, elieves Mrs. Joe Bird is handling the|occupied by Alaska governmental|mission. ticket sale in the Baranof Hotel and jagencies in the Department of the| Mr. Phillips, who intended to go Mrs. Clarence Wise has charge of Ingerior. | to Rochester, Minn., for the opera- sales in the Juneau Hotel. A "“m}‘ J. R. Ummel, head of the m\pm,_‘-nun when he left Juneau recently, | mittee member to take charge off,,0 "here ana 60 cmployees, to- | decided to have the operation per- sales. in the Gastineau Hote gether with records, files and other | formed in Seattle when he reached be announced soon, Mrs. Ramsey s e e DISCOMFORTS @ You can easily change the gasping misery of a head cold into relaxing comfort, if you use Mentholatum. | Stmply insert Menthiolatum n your d massage your forehead and ten:glaumh 1t. This will quickly relieve the aniffiing, stufness, sneez- ing, running. Mentholatum will also soothe the irritated nostrils, allay the Sorenees, swelling, liobing, redness, and reduce the feeling of fullness in your head—also the necessity for con= tinuous blowing. Jars or tubes, 30c. MENTHDLATUM Headquarters Hardeman WATER-PROOFED Hais H. S. Graves The Clothing Man every day. This is a good time to investina that not only safeguards value as well. Only a limited number of G-E’s available, so see us NOW. GENERAL @ ELECTRIC Alaska Eleetrie Light and Power Co. Juneau | impedimenta, gave way gracefuily!that city. He has sufficiently re- lto the Navy and shifted over to covered to leave Providence Hos- sixth Avenue and Virginia Streot|Ppital for the New Washington Ho- said Other committeemen to assist in| the sale of tickets for the annual|S dance and card party as announced | to the top floor of the building lo- | tel. according to his letter, but will| tadny Care: {cated at that address. remain in Seattle for another few | kes. Satks Haas, Waynor Tract;| It was more than the moving of | Weeks for observation and further Mys: . Pete.. Clemen Mrs. Doris|a single department and really ap- | treatment. Sweeney and Miss Housel, Territor- | proximated the Exodus from Egypt| Mr. Phillips wrote that the doc-| |ial Health Department; Miss Edna considering the various branches of |tor was well pleased with his re- Almquist, Game Commission; Miss | governmental activity involved. covery and added that, though Ruth Kunnas, Weather Bureau;, Besides the Office of Indian Af- Slightly impaired, he has vision in| Paul Pelerson, Forest Service; MIs.|fairs, Alaska Railroad and Alaska the eye affected. Aleta Paul, Bureau of Public Roads Mrs. Ruth Blake, Bureau of Public Survey; Mrs. Keith Wildes, Ala Road Commission; M Marie | Road Commission there were repre-| It is expected that upon his re-| sented some 13 other distinct of-|turn to Alaska, Mr. Phillips will fices and 57 separate cooperative Fémain for a short time in Juneau stores owned by various native {before continuing to his home in ‘1’3;;1.)(0&' LL:-Q:‘u‘me‘;x?t of P_:;xufulm.m, tribes T MAe | Fairbanks, |Mrs. Catherine Gregory, Territorial| gy,56) s purchasing agent for! :Trc.x,)urpr‘.\ office and ground floor of Federal building; Miss Mary |Jean McNaughton, F.B.I. and Mrs. most of the more than 70 sepam(x-? | units besides handling many other | | Jesta Young, government offices in| 24" ""’» He and his staff also, | Assembly Apartment building. | lake care of sales of the mative| Other committees appointed = by | products shipped dewn by the the various chairman and details of|Stores in the North. |the dance and card party will be, There is never an idle movement. announced within a short time, When Ummel gets caught up 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 i And with all this he goes with-| Basketball Champs, to I-IVER BII-E_ lof increased duties brought by tbe p 4 out sleep long enough nearly every Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out of | emergency but he expects to take Con"nue Pradl(e |Mrs. Charles G. Burdick, Juneau With all the above he has to get | Chairman for the President’s Ball|busy with the payrolls of several | year to step out and win a car ‘nj |a salmon derby. The past season | Bed in the M R b Woar sh:"hl‘"g:: o:t'“t'““’c“" £ PATY in the coming fishing evenis! with no word from Skagway as io pints o | by cutting down even more on his|to the outcome of the Lynn Canal 'bureau.s of the forest service. | : n Hoop ales |was the only exception on account| liquid bile into your bowels daily. 17 this | Jiot, fowing I{rtt:;llv‘a yfl’;‘"‘hfgtl';lmnuxz: | slumber. high school basketball ; S g - !tween Haines and Skagway, Jun- Jated. You fecl sour, sunk and the world | BASKETBALL AT SITKA |eaws Crimson Bears today laid rter’s | Sitka has started the basketball plans to keep in shape until a date effective C: o ‘ season with the following teams en-|is set for the northern division " those good, r Pills to get these two p & freely to make you feel “up and Amazing making bile flow fre tered in the league: Silver Foam, championship meet. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by nan | Siems Drake, Holt's, Mission, Tigers| Winner of the Douglas-Juneau iseries, the Crimson Bears will go —— |to Ketchikan to play for the South- east Alaska High School title—if |Juneau wins the northern confer- ence title first. A. B. Phillips, superintendent of schools, wired Skagway officials |Saturday inquiring about the out- {come of the Haines-Skagway series, but has as yet received no reply. | Both Lynn Canal teams were strong Stubbornly refuse anything else. Price: a . and High School. |local boys a tough series. Meanwhile, Coach Fred Linden- meyer plans to continue daily prac- tice ns and may slate practice games with town teams to keep the battling Bears in condition. ——— - BLACKO! SIT T RULES Partial blackout at Sitka is from 6 pm. to 4 am, then complete blackout from 4 am. to 9 a.m. Dur- |ing partial blackout hours no un- necessary lights, porch lights, ete., showing at any time. Blinds drawn | wherever lights are in use. During complete blackout, absolutely no lights showing uality refrigerator food but assures lasting HOME NURSING CLA WILL MEET TONIGHT There will be a meeting of the i Home Nursing class this at 7:30 o'clock in the Health Cen- ter of the Territorial Department 20% Down Crimson Bears, Channel| last year and either will give the | evening | 1 Douglas 2 Months to Pay of Health in the Territorials Bnild- ing, it was anncunced today by Miss Jane Hibbard, who instruets the class, CHURCHILL IS ON SPOT INENGLAND ?Displayi Confidence in Personal Strength Dur- | ing Three-Day Debate LONDON, Jan. 20—Prime Min- | ister Winston Churchill, confronting ]u restive House of Commons, in- formed the members that he shared their anxiety about operations in the . but told them that he has confidence” in eventual | Th(-n announcing a three-day de- | bate to be held soon on the war situation, Churchill showed evidence of equal confidence in his own per- sonal strength. | Addressing Parliament for the | first time since his return from conferences in Washington and Ot- tawa, Churchill offered to call for a vote of confidence if the debate | should disclose any challenge to his | government. BEALE MADE AMBASSADOR Governmenf SHRNEDANGE =i Due to the fact that the Decem- | w'll BE HEI.D ber Shrine Dance was called off | E | because of blackouts and the war, 4, e d | m p oyees ! SA]‘URDAY EvE | the dance Saturday will be the first f s | | of the popular dances for Shriners Rofarians Present Comic, i |ana their triends to be hed. The ; [ : ! " laffair is strictly invitational, Credentials to Depa”_ i ls rlces On saturday evening, January s 5 | 24, the Southgast Alaska Shrine ing Theatre Man | Club will hold its scheduled Janu-| ATTENTION MASONS ; gty % iary dance at the Scottish Ri-‘.e\ Called communication Mount Ju- Juneau Rotarians this noon sup-| De(lare cos' 0' |_|V|]'|g n Temple, it is announced by Lance neau Lodge at 1:15 tomorrow after- Hendrickson, dance chairman. noon, for the funeral of Bro. Ed- plied Charles Beale, thieatre man- Juneau U 15 Per(en' S 4 | 3 B Mottt by ond th |ager soon to leave for a position ' p Music for the occasion will be|Ward G. W. Morris, by order of the i in Los Angeles, with complete cre-| Above lasi Year furnished by Lillian Uggen’s or-:WO"Shll)ml Master. < | dentials to represent them as min- |chestra and refreshments will, as J. W. LEIVERS, |ister extraordinary wherever he| The amount of money required | usual, be under the charge of Mrs. adv. Secretary. |may travel. |each year for adequate food by a| —— e — _— | Beale was presented with a typical family of four persons liv-| lengthy testimonial of his sterling ing in Juneau has increased by | | character, crowned by a cartoon, slightly over 15 per cent since last ‘pnrtuxe of him and signed by every March, according to estimates com- {member of the club. Couched in piled today by the Juneau Branch | bumorous language, yet sincere in of the National Federation of Fed-| 4 | praise of the civic and club leader- eral Employees. | «..when goodfriends galher ship Beale brought to Juneau, the| At March 29, 1941 prices, the total S e A s s P ertificate” charged him with the annual cost for this typical family | Lot duty of spreading the gospel of Al- eme to $616.75, while January 14 Togusact Mgl bk everlngg aska and Juneau wherever he goes. 1942 prices, it had risen, to $700.41, around the fire climaxed by rich, Responding to the presentation, the Federation said. full-flavored Schilling Coffee. Beale declared that “America comes| This increase has been due to ) | first with me and you know I'm a 'the general rise in prices of most i dyed in the wool Republican,” a|foods in the States and to the .’.1: b < ] remark which cost him a ten-cer growing military and civilian de-| ! ] |fine for mentioning politics. In mands placed on the limited am- leaving, Beale hailed the good fe]. ount of Alaska shipping space, it {lowship and hospitality to be fOllnd was declared. According to local everywhere at Juneau and in Al- grocers the recent 45 per cent sur-| {aska and declared that if there charge on freight rates announccd \ were more of this spirit everywhere,| by the steamship companies has “the world wouldn’t be in the mess| NOt vet exerted any substantial ef-! ‘lls in today.” fect of Juneau food prices. What,‘ —— T — - —a | Principal speaker at the m(\em,g‘addltlonal price raise will be saused | peeeeeereererereeeeeoee was Herbert Hilscher, magaz]nglby this steep increase of shipping/ editor, who spoke of Japanese pollit- | COSts remains to be seen. | i e e 1 ok 1y The Alaska Federal Savings and Loan | remarks on observations in Tokyo|esentative foods were reported as: iati i i on pmervations in” Tokso e Toods were reported ¢ Association of Juneau has again detleared as correspondent for the Christian|Pe cent, fresh milk—11 per cent, | ivi i 2 e | e St o et ARDUR] dividend of four per cent for its | Visitors at the meeting were Bob|CeNl, Potatoes—67 per cent, oranges 1 Jernberg, Sitka attorney and past —29 Per cent, carrots—30 per cent,| deposnors' ¢ president of the Rotary club there,|C@0Ned evaporated milk—10 per and Erick Ness, of Pete/nburg fm:_‘(,em apples—19. per cent, carined | Start Your Account Tomorrow with $1 or More P man of the grand jury now in CO'N—33 per cent, lettuce—50 per| | session. |cent, lard—47 per cent, eggs—43 e S |per cent, plate beef—25 per cent.! iOn the average, meats, dairy prod-! o I K ’ur‘ts and fresh vegetables have yshown the sharpest increases. The price of bread remained unchanged. | (APIURE ! Tlhe National Federation of Fed- | eral Employees, an organizati 5 D Feder: 1 yGovernme:t :,f,fifi,“ye‘;f‘ Accounts Goverament Insured Money Available at with a large membership in Juneau, Up to $5.000.00 Any Time 3 . ISREPORT BULLETIN—London, Jan. 20 —The Russian Command to- night announced the capture of Mozhaisk. This is the first word re- garding Mozhaisk, 57 miles west of Moscow, since the | Army newspaper, Red Star, an- | nolln.ctd on Monday that Red Army troops were fighting the Germans in the streets and the city was in flames. Some 100,000 crack German trocps are reported in the Mozhaisk saliant and three divisions have been defending HOME GROCERY------ AMERICAN MEAT Phone 146 Phone 38 BUTTER EGGS Darigold Large Grade A 2 pounds 89¢ 2 dozen 99 CORN—PEAS STRING BEANS 2 fins 25¢ e Crisco or Snowdrift 25¢ 3 Ib.1in 7 3¢ A COMPLETE SELECTION OF FRESH AND SMOKED MEATS Fresh Home-Made Pure Link Pork Sausage JELL-A-TEEN 1 Ib., 9 oz—The Large Saving Size BcPackage Assorted Flavors RINSO Mr. Hendrick- Katherine Hooker, has for some time followed prlce‘ trends in Juneau and in other Al- | aska cities. BISHOP CRIMONT IS | WRITING BIOGRAPHY, | ARCHBISHOP SEGHERS | The Rt. Rev. J. R. Crimont, 8. J.0 Catholic Bishop of Alaska, who left Juneau a short time ago for Vie- toria, B. C,, is actively engaged on a biography of Archbishop Charles J. Seghers who had Jjurisdiction over Alaska and the Northwest dur- ing the 1870's and 80's according to word received here. Bishop Crimont is making his home at St. Joseph’s Hospital in| Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Association of Juneau CLEAN ECONOMICAL HEAT e Victoria while c: t i 1 arrym oul 1S he city itself. g 4 Union Heating Oils provide the right kind of heat, MANY wo"‘ E’N“T-'UR" oxlz\;:::fhfrf Seghers. while on an| because they are scientifically refined and carefully Ay rip rough Alaska in ‘ ou' Fok RED BH0 e Bt b handled... free from non-combustible materials and 1 (ROSS | wfr:cn a short distance from Nulato, | dirt that cause clogging, smoke, trouble or waste. 1 atler many years of splendid mis- | WORK IN ELKS HALL| stonary el Furthermore, they aré not only made ¢lean, but Over 30 women of Juneau and ‘ deliver, ¥ other Gastineau Channel communi- GOOD IE" A"T th e, t.o T 'fme' ol .o yo“n i ties turned out yesterday to help ! ey flow freely in any kind of weather. with Red Cross work in the Elks | i Hall under the program announced| NEW YORK. Jan. _The vo. | Start today to keep your home warm in any weather last week, it was announced today| AR actor, David Warfield, is the | by using Union Heating Oils. . , ¥ ¢ by Mrs. J. C. Thomas, Production|Perfect tenant—he has't moved Chairman for the American Red|f™ the apartment he rented 35 UNION O1IL Cross here. vears ago. and has no intention of | e S This morning a like number|908 50 in the future. He likes it | ki 1 R : made their appearance and work| "De'® he is and is sure he {hummed in the busy headquarters ;“lfn; find a better view of| . [set up in the Elks Hall. Cutting,| “enral Park. 1t has a sentimental | /t | knitting, sewing, both by han,|'8lUe, t00, because in that apart-| u “ lo " / °I L s !and machine, was progressing men.t. he memorized the lines ot‘ Ismoothly and rapidly under the|tBe “Alctioneer” “The Music Mas- | supervision” of those in churge ¥ nnd “The C”‘"“ Army Mag. : . » e e L S A NI R o it