The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 29, 1942, Page 6

THURSDAY ANUAR‘Y 29 l942 DOUGLAS FIRST AID vessels at an estimated cost of | I 1,799 SMALL ey Three Mayors FIRE CHIEF . |VITAL LIBYAN "%t owiton |46 NIPPON VESSELS TO ==t Tell Chamber LISTSBOMB |CITY RETAKEN Fhiva vewie SHIpS SUNK All men and women who are in- terested In joining the Red Cross ¢ First Aid class being started in the Island city are requested to g | meet on Friday evening at 8 o'-| clock, at which time the class will | be organized and the future time| | mittee said the new ships will be | | | | used in convoy and patrol work. | o o | eienses DOUGLAS HOOP SFRle TO BEGIN TOMORROW | BY AXIS ARMY Germany a—nd_ltaly Claim FRANK RGE WILSON 60 T0 NAVY - === The| rank Georse wiion was grant-| Wilbur Wester Appointed Eagles will start their annual series| for hoop championship of the | 3 RT3 5 o games 0 [Devices for Control of In- land, best two games out of three, LONDON, Jan. 29 — A radio WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 4 land ownership of the regular Pkt . o e . i meeting place decided upon,|broadcast f ey, Australia, Se: day passed and ed | ed d J the U L | and g , | broadcast from Sydney, Au: y St Howe. adtion o auitin }i.\.Iu-l"é’fi.‘..'n”,'.( ,’.fw,,.".'.'x‘(lvs}?f,f.i Secrefary fo Succeed |Pukewan wopty awing we oo cendiaries May Be | Bengasi Again in AXis |ss eima Brown. of the Teri: | picked up here this atternoon de- ments to h’.”,‘ lation to authc Agnes Viola Wilson on a charge. .;‘:mu hyv;;l: tomorrow evening in| S' k d 'H m P . torial Public Health Service said |clares that 46 Japanese vessels, war= construction of 1,799 minor navallof desertion | Adjufanf Jackson ;“pre“mz“m AR -y ot ocked al nome 0ssession |today. ::xlllf ¢;:: ::z:onla:ifia h:e:e b:ael: | Howard Dilg will be instructor of | BERLIN, Jan. 29 — An official this class, Mrs. Brown said. announcement was made by Ber- - e —————— lin military officials today that‘ BUY DEFENSE STAMPS PIONEERS MEET TONIGHT Axis eolumns made a dawn entry —- into Bengasi. RN DD PEOTRTRTS L e e e LD DN been decided but will probably be in Macassar Strait. - {arranged ’ to make the With three mayors present, um}douhlehe:\dvr Chamber of Commerce luncheon in the Baranof Hotel today turned into a ' symposium on municipal home defense. Guests were Mayor| M. C. Godfrey of Alameda, Cal event a' A list of recommended home | equipment for use “against bombs | 5 E: PPN T . |wes issued today by Fire Chief V. SCHOOL BOARD MEETING |w Mulvihill at the suggestion of Regular business meeting of| the International Association of |Douglas School Board is scheduled | pjre Chiefs, which sent Mulvihill| to be held this evening at 7:30| jotails on high explosives and ir.- Hutchings’ Economy Market l« or Victory Today's British communique ad- é mitted the Axis forces were closing and Mayor G. A. Benedict of 3 |o'clock in the school. _lin on the city, which has changed Skagway, who shared the speaker’s St lfl:;"e‘“““‘ used-in war, And “ekbos [ 4 Gt oone Uik i (16 DRRE 18 " Chamber business tncluded the| | TO WORK AT siTEA “We don't expect bombings in| ™MD announcement of the appointment|, Loun Nieml is preparing to|juneau,” Mulvihill explained, “hut ZIS MAKE COMEBACK . of ‘Willur ‘Wester, Gastinisati “Hotel leave by plane next Sunday for|the country is at war and we must| NAZIS | Sitka where he will be employed. | 4o CAIRO, Jan. 29 — The Germnn >ee - our ‘ strengthening our share in defense by manager, to be secretary of the or-| safeguards at war machine appeared to be exe-| ganization in 1942. Wester succeeds | | SEWING CLUB TO MEET " cuting something of a comeback in! C U T Adjt. Stanley Jackson, Who sub-| Tp. Monday night Sewing Club ’:";"(“g Suc?e;;‘thh“" to bfl Pre-| Nerth Africa, British headquarters LI ) mitted his resignation to the ex-|mempers will be guests of Mrs. ‘:unmended {a. ala edfqm;':e" s 4 acknowledging that General Rom- ecutive board this week Charles Tuckett at her home to-|g o househofii i i :gm:‘s mel's Libyan counter - offensiva, * Membership Drive {morrow night -for the regular bi-|, ' b0 TPUROCErs W be "} which has driven the British back | ..a halrslyle you can Don Skuse, chairman of the|monthly sewing meeting. (;“ ";.“'” m:; "j pwle.c“o“,, } 1150 miles, today scored a new ad- Membership Drive Committee, an-| Hiria [they follow these nstructions” | vance to within 16 miles of British- | brush and brush ";“"‘/‘ . “mll e 'Lhe "W;Pm “.:‘d‘ HOME FROM TRIP | The f-quipr;\qe':nw?-:omnmnded k"held BEE fin (s QULtiof, Siree. of new membership continues, the - t re s | P € = p | Reported to be feeling some- las follows: | The British said Rommel’s armies Brush like mad and watch your finy hair Chamber will have no difficulty in what better in health, Joe Riedi is filling its set goal of 200 new mem-|home again having returned Tues- members introduced ot suddenly veered west and nortn- 1. Two or three ver| ee buckets of water the past 24 houm j curls spring into place! . It's no trigk to man- i distributed in various parts of the west durin ¥ age hairstyles with a smart Contour haircut. bers. New |day from a visit to Seattle where after being stalled two days SO SRS k building. At least ten gallons of ¥ the luncheon were Peter Warner |he was under medical treatment of | 9| their eastward thrust. The new and Tom Hutchins. Other guesis | specialists water s considered necesary o) heIf eestward wrusw The new ¢ gk for your contour hair stylist 7 ; g | ot ______|control a single bomb. included Capt. William Redling| —_— i Regima, inland and just east of | E 3 e N f T | 2. An emergency supply of water | y 3 A and Lieut, Evan Hill, former |way blacked out on' only one oc-| 14 be. Kent 1o tane parrel Bengasi, | t aska National Guard officers now |casion, when ordered to do 50 by|syprer Jarse containers 1o umenis| CAPTURED, SAYS ROME | eaun y stationed at Chilkoot Barracks. Sitka authorities. An abandoned o s ROME, Jan. 29—The the buckets. 3. A water pump can or stirrup pump. This type of double-action| The executive board reported Lu|concrete basement has been cleared | Liston, member of the Nauonallmd timbered for use as an air Publicity Committee, had made fl;raid shelter and will accommodate | At Your special bulletin that German and e Italian forces have entered Ben-| report of material sent to national | press services during the past Lhrec‘ all the women and children in the city, he said. No practice blackouts | | the length of the hose attached. pump be employed, over an area of 10 to 15 feet, according o gast, chief port and capital of Cirenaica. Fingertips months. Fergus Hoffman wa S|are planned for Skagway, to avoid| named to continue as special press|confusien when the real thing agent for the committee. comes along. Home Defenses Mayor Lucas announced that no| In discussing home defense ac-|word has as yet been received from| Pumps should be equipped with nozzles which can provide both a fine spray and a solid stream. Garden Hose Ready 4. A garden hose with an 8-10- Italian Command today announced in a; ; . faturing lovely manicures What power lies at the end of your fingertips! § Reach out your beautiful nails and get your H.J. THOMPSON BACK TUESDAY Have ; / 5 : t his I ty, Mayor g e of success, romance, happiness! WITH EAC}$2 " H PURCHASE WE WILL GIVE }(l";“::f’y l-:“d :hel(g:‘];‘lm? é?flw ai’fl{?;l;:gte L::t::x;lytgfié l:;:::ngd 1:;:: o 1 wwi‘enwpme ;tta«:ea i the i/?l%rs ESTE GILLESPIE, our exggn manicurist, y 3 .00 CASH PURCHASE WE L GIV | has experienced five “actual”|lation rece A | Tionslp_ ey enable the operator F OM SEA lE ils with Revlon or Chen-Yu has exp |Iation recently passed by Congress| o girect the stream or Spray with. II lacquer your nails R | blackouts since December 7. ONE 10-CENT VICTORY STAMP—EFFECTIVE TODAY AND UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE HUTCHINGS’ ECONOMY MARKET Located in George Bros. Store Nail Lacquer. . 'Be Ready for the President’s Birthday Ball—Saturday Night! | GRILIS to advance the nation’s clocks one “In every instance, Army listen-| hour. Until word comes from Di- | ing posts detected unidentified air-imond, Juneau will take no action| | planes over the area,” Mayor God-|on the time situation, Lucas de-| | frey said. “No one saw the planes,|clared. no one but the Army heard them.| Lucas also announced that the Z ;\{ mug,ha:,‘mm ,shov.d' But we blacked out and stayed|National Tire Rationing Board al- 7 Ar;\::\; ;{8 patleis blacked out.” |loted Juneau a quota'of only two| g ‘A gn,vun;efi pall ‘or - bucket, Godfrey said 1,800 block wardens|tires and two inner tubes for Feb- i have been trained by the Alameda SEOT PR VN Rorpinicy Jo b out getting too close to the bomb.| A similar extension pole should be used with any pump can or stirrup | pump. Howard ‘J. Thompson, Senior| Meteorologist of the Weather Bu-| reau for Alaska, returned by plane’ {yesterday from a ten-day trip to, Seattle where he conferred with of- | ficials of the Civilian Aeronautics Authority concerning weather data é i PHONES 553-92-95 Phone 318 in Alaska. Mr. Thompson's headquarters . ™ ruary, with physicians and ambn-| N K used f ing N b= nualuy Meals Only at All Times Defense Council, of Which e is|lances having. pririty. The quota| o i B R i e ] o ey LA R S SRR e chairman, and also auxiliary fire-|for the entire Territory was set at| . .. £ $ ] % GEORGE BROS. CASH COUPONS ACCEPTED men and police have been enlisted. |26 tires and tubes. covered with three or four inches | eral weeks in Juneau before leav-| BEAUTY sALON IN HUTCHINGS' ECONOMY MARKET ! One Skagway Blackout Sl g it A r‘Ym-SZ'; S s ing to establish his offices in the Mayor Benedict reported Skag-| Subscribe %o The Empire. ¢ ighits Br lm?qt,e‘::]se supply of flash-|Third Division City. S ?. 10. At least 100 pounds of sand, ashes or other fire-resistant ma- FINAL DAYS P COMMANDS ALL Everything Further Reduced fo Make Room for Qur New Spring Stock HAWAII UNITS| Collaboralimrogressing Despite Disaster, War / | " Secrefary Says WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 — The {new commander of the American | Pacific Fleet is in charge of all | Hawaiian defense, Secretary of War Stimson disclosed today in telling of speeded-up processes to {unify the commands of important outposts. The task of the American forces, although expedited by the Pearl Harbor disaster, where Army and Navy commanders were found not to be collaborating to attain unity between the land and sea forces, has been in progress, however, since Britain's loss of Crete dramatized the necessity, Secretary Stimson told his press conference. — e,——— The 40 hour week of the Fed- eral Wage and Hour Law does not apply to rairoad workers. e B, PIONEERS MEET TONIGHT RESIDENT" BIRTHDAY BALL Elks’ Hall SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 * ’ DANCE-- That Others May Walk Formal and Afternoon DRESSES $1.95 $3.95 $6.95 $8.95 These Dresses at the Prices Quoted Are Excellent Buys!? COATS 20% OFF Many Other Bargains . . . SEE THEM! JONES-STEVENS Co. No Refunds, Exchanges or Approvals $12.95 14.935 16.95 Skirts * Here's Easy Time-Tested Way To Get Relief 051 after those dlatnahu spells ease misery of m the 'ldely used Vlck! 'l’ . Boil some water. Pour if | into s bowl. Add & n!ul ] of Vicks VapoRub. hen the in the st DANCING at the Elks’ llall CARDS at the Baranof Hotel 'medicinal vapors. With evflr! bu::;h Ylp‘gktlilh'l ic: onm esirritation, Dea helps clear head A