The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 25, 1942, Page 6

pace s : 25 SURVIVORS |BORNEO ACTION | DED FROM TAKES LIFE OF | M:Mmuu SHIp - JAPAN ADMIRAL | e Navy | ; N TOKYO Feb. 25 — The in action yesterday in Borneo. Boat 30 Miles from : He was identified as a former Puerto Rico commander of a special service vessel PONCE, Puerto Rico, Feb. 25— e Y { Twenty-five survivors of a United fu"ERAl SERVI(ES i States freighter sunk by a sub- ; marine 30 miles off Puerto Rico FOR GERM.D ODOM were landed at Guanica today 8 A.M. TOMORROW Funeral services for Gerald Od- Their ship was attacked from 8 o'clock last night until 2 o'clock this morning before it sank, P! vivors are believed "dfi"x‘l?‘lrn Til[rwm“_: ! om, who died a week ago after a ;i LN Lrief illness, will be held tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock at the Catho- . . lic Church of the Nativity, instead Baltimore Gains of 9 olelock as previously anounced Burial will take place in the American Legion plot of Evergreen 250,000 'n Year Cemetery, according to C. W Carter who has charge of arrange- P : 26 curvey Ments. BALTIMORE, Feb. 25—A survey gL A by postal authorities indicated that the influx of war indusitry wo . [ J . o e etiowtrom: erovaca BrIfQIN'S WiveS Washington had brought nearly a o a il R quarter of a million people into B h dc ' s meétropolitan Baltimore since the e ln oun er 1840 census o great leap to victory at the Snogualmie The survey placed the present LONDON, Feb. 25—Thousands of ~ year—the onc he is 1 population of Baltimore and the wives and home-tied women soon last year. metropolitan area at 1,097.810 per- will be doing part-time work as sons. The 1940 census gave the shop assistants to relieve girls for city a population of 859,100—sev- war work. One store in Birming- (RIMSON BEARS enth largest in the country ham has already freed 200 guls " o v 4 * in this way, offering women be- BOB YAW VISITS EMPIRE |tween thifty-five and sixty any one FIREMEN TAKE Bob Yaw, one of the Sitka bas- of three categories: (1) Afternoons ketball players and also on the only, (2) Thursdays and Satur- Hoop (ON'I'ES'I'S mechanical staff of the Sitka Sen- days only, or (3) five full days a week. Some of the stores are tak- ing back ex-employes who have married and brought up families tinel, 3-times a week newspaper at Sitka, visited the Empire office to- day and became acquainted with DICK CLITHERO HERE Dick Clithero, former Juneau boy. ' now at Sitka, is renewing friend- ships with the local boys. Dick is with the Sitka basketball team now on the channel. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Clithero. Lilsp“;?;'i'."“’ B ey I ey High Defeated by - N THE SWiM Local Quintets VENICE, Calif., Feb. 24—Femin- ine aquatic lovelies are being re- cruited for life guard duty on the beaches this summer in face of an PO anticipated shortage of manpower. Bear: g reported second successive Two powerful Juneau basketball teams last night crushed their op- nents, the Juneau High Crimso) s whipping Sitka High for th | time, 44-27, and SRR B s A | Four candidates have 4 K th BUY DEFENSE STAMPS for training Yhff Juneau Firemen taking e’ S R L Haida Coast Guardsmen, 48-26 Sitka didn't have a chance af- the first quarter ended with the locals ahead, 9-8. Coach Fred Lindenmeyer kept some of his sharpshooters under wraps with or- ter AFTER PUTTING OVER THAT BIG DEAL... the basket instead of looping in . the long, fancy shots, but the Bear: )!still pierced the Sitka without much trouble. defen: In this great ski jump picture by Seattle Photographer G. Beaudin, Champion Torger Tokle is seen in a ured executing—was 263 feet, a trifle short of his great record-breaking leap of Haida Guardsmen, Siika; THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Mighly 263-Fool Leap __ DFRE BOWR T FOR TERRITORY Halfway Mark Almost Reached to Pur- chase Bomber The Territory’s campaign for a i heavy bomber.to be named “Spirit | of Alaska” last week neaity reached |the halfway mark toward the $350,000 goal of Defense Bond pur- chases in fourteen participating Alaskan communities when a total of $159,417.25 was recorded for the campaign's first two weeks. This total, however, still is incomplete, the Defense Savings Staff office in Juneau reported today, with Val- dez as yet unreported for either of these two weeks, and the returns from Seward for last week still not available. In addition, Metlakatla, which is included in the first week’s report, has not Been heard from. March 9 is the deadline set for| the one-month campaign through! |which Alaskans will express in i tangible terms—through their pur- |chases of defense bonds—their| wholehearted support of American }::irmen all over the world, provid- {ing, at the same time, a long-| {range war weapon which will heap| 1dcstruc£ion upon our enemies, | A revised total of the tirst week's mpaign sales was made known| i by the Defense Savings office here! this morning, with the fourteen communities chalking up a score of $96,365.50 during the six days be- | tween February 9 and 16, and not including the town of Valdez. ! Last week’s sales—not including| Valdez, Seward and Metlakatla— amounted to $63,051.75, it was saig. The, current week’s sales are ex-! pected to take a rise to a point! where they may exceed those of ithe campaign’s initial week, due} i to the fact that many places which | ran out of bonds last week are| now in receipt of additional sup-} plies. I A breakdown of sales for the| first two weeks of the “Spirit of Alaska” campaign follows: i Bowl, in the State of Washington. Tokle’s longest jump this FRANK DUFRESNE RETURNS AFTER | TRIP TO CAPITAL Game Commission Head Reports on New Wildlife Bill Frank Dufresne, Executive Offi- cer of the Alaska Game Commis-| sion, returned to Juneau last night| after spending six weeks in Wash- ington in connection with the| drafting of a game bill which was| TABLE TENNIS CHAMP IS WITH ST.L CARDINALS ST. LOUIS, Feb. 25—The St |Louis Cardinals will have a form- ler international champion table tennis player trying out for sec- ond base down in St. Petersburg, | Fla., training camp this spring. His name is Buddy Blattner. Heps |21 and when he was 16 he won tne |table tennis crown in Prague and |retained his title the next year. He played baseball last year for epper Martin in Sacramento, eral days. {Puts Franklin Away at Johnson led the Bears with 14!|He is awaiting a call to report as; points, while Johnny | ll | dumped in 8 and Fukuyama looked | i [sharp with 7. All but one of the Juneau boys bucketed at least two|up to a 15-15 tie at the half, but | passed within 30 days. |where he stole 25 bases, batted iniroquced ‘to the House yesterday Week of February 9th through 14th.! 295, knocked in 95 runs and hit by Alaska Delegate Anthony J.}Anchgrgge ..$31,900.00 {0 Do Dimond. | Fairbanks 10,050.00 | TN The bill would liberalize Alaska|Juneau 8,831.00| |game laws to permit service men NOME ... > 7,612.50 | MAY BE MISSING to hunt and fish in the Territory| Kodiak 7,225.00 | under resident privileges and wid-| Seward 7,000.00 ens the power of the Alaska Game|Petersburg 4,762.50 NEW YORK, Feb. 25—Don Mec-|Commission in regulating fish and | Sitka o 453150 1, former national tennis singles!wildlife in Alaska. Ketchikan (post office) 4,350.00 ampion and ranked fourth last| Mr. Dufresne said the bill was|Skagway 3,012,50 ear, likely won't be around to drafted with approval of army and | Haines 2.88'!,50i {compete in this year's tournament. navy officials, the Alaska Game| Palmer 2,776.00 | Commission, the Office of Indign|Metlakatla 860.001 Bavard |an ensign in the naval reserve. |Affairs and other interested agen- Wrangell 562.00" | R 3 = * "cies. He said that Delegate Dim- i | the quarter and then Juneau moved |ond predicted the bill would be| Total $96,365.50 Week of February 16th through 21st GEORGE MILLERS | JUNEAU - SITKA SENDWORDFROM | AIRMAIL ROUTE PHILIPPINE CITY STARTS MARCH 1 iAIaska Coastal Airlines Is Authorized by P. 0. fo Carry Seattle Mail Regular airmail service to Sitka by Alaska Coastal Airlines, to con- The letter was dated November |nect with Pan American planes 24, and indicated, Stewart said, |from Seattle, Wwill be effective that Mrs. Miller was very active |March 1, it was announced today in Red Cross work there. Mr. by Postmaster Albert Wile and Miller was Senior Safety lnstruc-‘shfll Simmons and \Alex Holden, tor for the Bureau of Mines in Ju- ACA officials. neau and both he and his wife Authorization from the Post Of- B. D. Stewart, Territorial Com- missioner of the Department of | Mines, said today he received a| letter this morning from Mr. and Mrs. George H. Miller from the Philippine Islands where Miller went in 1937 to assume the post ofi Inspector of Mines at Manila. ‘ were well known here. fice Department establishes the Ju- il i | neau-Sitka service as Route No. 178233 and provides for five round lou“E (Ropliv D'ED | trips weekly, carrying up to 500 pounds of mail each way, to con- A"‘ Gov" “osp"Al\nect with Pan American airmail . | from Seattle and to carry first ¥ | class steamer mail. Louise- Cropley, 1l1-year-old The new service, Holden and Sim- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry mons explained, will be in addition Cropley, died at 11:45 o'lock last | to the airway’s Juneau-Sitka sched- night at the Government Hospital. ule with its daily departure from Acute peritonitis was given as the Juneau at 10 a.m’ cause of her death. She had been ' Direct connection with Seattle a patient in the hospital for sev- planes for mail and for Sitka- ! !bound air passengers from Seattle The remains are at the C. W. will be provided by the new air- Carter Mortuary and funeral ar- mail schedule. rangements will be announced later. Extra service for local passenger - > — | traffic will also result from the $427 TO FIGHT POLIO |new airmail schedule, the ACA A total of $427.33 was made in Managers announced. KetcMikan in connection with the| The present contract between the President’s Birthday ball. This is Post Office Department and Alas- less than last year. ka Coastal - Airlines - is . effective e | March 1, 1942 through February 28, BUY DEFENSE BONDS | 1943 ATTENTION REBEKAHS pASToR 'N ‘ Regular meeting Rebekah Lodge | Wednesdgy, Feb. 25, 8 p.m. Re- | freshments. EDITH TUCKER, Secretary. COMEBACK - FOR CROWN TABLETS - HYPERACID Cleveland in Eighth STOMAC f§ Round CLEVELAND, Feb. 25—Bob Pas- tor turned slugger last night, stop- ped Lem Franklin, famed Cleveland STOMACHS | 1 | | ! | Butler-Mauro Drug Co. The Rexall Store negro, in the eighth round and earned another chance al voe TERS Louis’ * heavyweight crown. - HEADQUAR' atter weathering all of the fistic | "YW IPHIQOON dynamite Franklin could dish out in the first three rounds, the form- SUITS er New York collegian gave the | dark boy a sound boxing lesson for the next few rounds and put Franklin away in the eighth after Ideal for Hunters and Fishermen SR ARH) points. The Sitka lads displayea|one Louie Taylor, a gent Who\"y"p,o heen approved by Secre-| Fairbanks $17,456.75 |two minutes and eight seconds had A ! plenty of skill in working the leath-|doesn’t like to get bopped on thel,. .. or the Interior Harold L. Ketchikan (P. 0. 15,243.75 gone by. b S AlG er dow . 7o »¢ | head when he’s shooting, ran into a > 6,281.25 astor weighed in al unds, KENTUCKY STRAIGH1 down the floor, but they couldn't|head when he's shootd b Sitk : Past ighed in at 181 pounds, | BOURBON WHISKEY ring the bell in the pinches. Coach|a couple of Sailor elbows i the “mpe 4oy would include game fish! Kodiak 577500 Franklin at 197 1-4. The bout was| Slzes | E. H. Stich used up all his rc_?t)urd quarter and flnrtgd F(‘IN’I‘IIE under the game commission’s regu- Skagway 3,775.00 scheduled for 10 rounds. More | Small, Medfum, Large | |serves trying to find a combination| mad. Aided by Georgé SUraglerij,ioy powers and gives the com- Anchorage $.000.00, thap 13,000 : ApeckaiOLe, & BEW xe0- Extra Large J/ to stop the Bears, but he might as &0d Johnny Krugness, Taylor YA mgon power to close or open any Nome. .. 2715.09:, ord,. pakd more, than 332,000, to .see All in Stock ; well have looked for a needle in a|the Guards weary. X lland area to hunting within 24 Petersburg 2,681.25 ; the match. For Generations—A Great haystack | The Haida lads co;:ldxrn lm:oi;‘ihoum_ Tt would!/igive - tha com-"’w“m“ (P. 0) 2,587.50 TG T R 4 % |the Juneau pace in the final half, . . R rangell 1,443.75 LEGION AUXILIARY SHOW Kentucky Whishey Second Game t Y mission power to prescribe seasons| A43.75 . 4 Y I s hkoi}‘m _havhv)fz found their lal’?vlegiimr game fishing and also includc}Palmer 768.75 20th Century, Feb. 25-26. ndv.‘ n s. Gl‘aves after their long sea duty. TWO Of'gou otter under its regulation, since COlege { 73875 1 . | The Clothing Man Wetonal Distilicrs Prod. Corp., N.Y. o 93 Proof basketball for the first half, when | ne P Wb he cifc war has brought about HIRES ... 52500 BUY DEFENSE STAMPS the others|yne ‘gprogation of the Japanese- - Sailors crumpled the Sailors grabbed a 9-4 lead at rr:rm?wd ankles and | Distributed by NATIONAL GROCERY COMPANY | | couldn’t “attack hard enough. DOR|pritich Treaty, the Game Commis-| Yotal ... $63,051.75 Seattle, Washington ‘,\,im.p:y‘ ex_}mnfia"k-mghmmrs' f:;‘:.sianer S e | Grand Total $159,417.25 his share of checking e Sail ; e | r..m.m..m“m..---,,,,-.,--mp forwards but couldn’t find the bas«nax;g sl L S | |ket often enough. He finally left| # R PR G = < | 0 give more privileges to sailors The Alaska Federal Savings and Loan | |the game atter o tmble on the|ana”soldiers s in line with poli S 4 | floor pi e or-a ‘|cies that have been adopted b; | { Association of Juneau has again declared | Scoring: : | practically every state Outside. an annual dividend of four per cent for its e e i AR St ! ) 1 o | Haida 9 15 20 26} . i deposnors. | FIREMEN FG FT TP G. 0. p. (Ommlflee | e b | Stragier e W " . |EAGLES vs. HAIDA AND | { Start Your Account Tomorrow with $1 or More Mm'lph&' AL To Mee' in (hl(ago | DHS. VS. SITKA HS. : gi go;w e IN DOUGLAS TONIGHT ! S8 — A doubleheader of baske! z | Nielsen 1 0 2] WASHINGTON, Feb. 25—Crowd- | scheduled for this evenmnsmt!;:: El.dr.c w-sh.r 1 Ndzon 2 ;) ’ls\;ed out of the capital by the na- | Douglas High gym has been ar: Lindenmeyer 3 {tional- . ! } indenmey. 3 sy hmn ; ?lvfens(. rush and congested ranged between the Eagles and ! Save Your En.r'y, ‘ ! ; : {hotel conditions. a meeting of the | coast Guard quintet from the Hai- | | } JUST TWO Totals 20 8 48/Republican National ~Committee | ga for the o B ! HAIDA FG FT TP |will be held in Chicago ADril'20. | puies nsatnct . ¢ g e (DL, Time, and Money ! MOMENTS! |V 1 1 (3| Chalrman Joseph “W. Martin,|co°tod SEsinst the Sitka High Accounts Government Insured Money Available at . Culver 3 0 6Jr, who made known plans for| B::ol as the second game. "LL be pleased with the i Up to $5,000.00 ‘Any Time | Brady 1 0’ 2/the session in the midwest, an- ¢ Both contests should be close | amasing efficiency of this | T . | Tymitz 0 0. DOinounced at the same time that|oP€S and offer much interest for new Hotpoint Electric Washer - ‘ OW MUCH of your |Lansdale 1 2 4 |Harvey Jewett. Jr, national com- |tDe season’s near wind-up of bas- with 3-gone Thriftivator wash- | A r d ls ¥ monek s invasted ‘s::::xme : 10 % i % ::ueheman from South Dakota, will | ketball. Thriftivator will safely laska Federal Savingsand Loan || i vroperty that may e | R b Gy g ‘ EopeLh b on young Republican - activities, DOUGLAS RESIDENTS yet is positive enough to o | destroyed and what will | Parrot 1 0 2fsucceeding Samuel F. Pryor, Jr,| Mr. and Mrs. Joe Romberg have thoroughly wash play suits Amclallon ol Juneau | you have left it that hap- Braun 2 0 4|of Connecticut, who has resigned {moved to Douglas from Juneau and work clothes. Come in DRne? Stiond 4t ypomli Lawson 0 0, Offrom the committee. and are located in the William and seo these features today: R, T 5 D D e 18] Three zon Thriftivate! | figuring this out and an- Totals 11 4 26 o rw o .mflill fld:,*u; other in calling us to score sy quartens | FORMER PIONEER HOME | »~o rimst am ronigar positive, NSEND CLUB check up. We will make |sitka 8 14 21 20 PA"ENT There will be no First Aid Class *No olling, no beits te bresk, sure that you have insur- | Juneau 9 23 30 44 DIES HERE in Douglas tonight but the session silentvibrationiass operaticn. MEETS TONIGHT : SITKA ¥G FF TP | will be held on Priday night. + Gear-ehift Thriftivator contrel. x ance to reimburse you |gothero 170 2: Thomas Shaughnessey, old time -~ IN UNION HALL AT 8:15 if your property is de- |Buchanan 0 0 0] resident of Alaska, died at St. Ann's| D. WAHTO LEAVING .mmfllun- - stroyed. Eliason 4 0 8| Hospital at 10:50 o'clock last night| Douglas Wahto is awaiting pas- . safer wringer by Lovell. Berg 0 0 0jfollowing a heart attack that oc-|Sage south on first sailing avail- £ heat sealed McGraw 2 [] 4| curred shortly after 9 pm. He|able, to effect his entrance into "m-":",mm“: s P E C l A L s P E C l A * EY“W 0 0 0jwas taken to the hospital in an/Uncle Sam's service for preferred “'Mhm o e L Troutman 1 1 3| ambulance but failed to rally. duty if possible. His brother, Gor- ’ Herman 2 4 8| Little information concerning don, preceded h for the The PiLGRIM o Longer skirt conceals all pi him south for AT mg on“ cz“T“nY THEATRE i Johpon 1 0 2|Mr Shaughnessey could be ob-|same purpose carly in the month. Wiaahes clothas beautidly mechanism, provents spiash- 4 — — —|tained in Juneau, other than that| e clean with a minimum of ing of water on mechanism. ® Feature—*“NIGHT TRAIN.” Sh tt'l k Totals 11 5 27|he was born in Ireland 69 years| A JOHNSON IS VISITOR weas on the fabrio. It's the ® Flag of Humanity—In Technicolor. a c jg:ni’u‘: :'G 1‘;1‘ 1;1: z:; :ec‘l::“i“‘?ms- ‘:W:;elr{ s?id Alfthd - bt adrivsd hand: st m:t’::‘::‘:fln ® Musical Numbers—By Juneau High School | Pasquan 2 1 5|some years and had been asp:tieg: night from Seattle and is . guest Band and Others. Agency | Nuckolls 1 0 2(at the Pioneers Home but left :;hthe homel“ Rle. seofher: & 4 $7 4 9 =4 ELECTRIC WASHERS WEIL SDAY—FEBRUARY 25 | Bavard 3 2 8|there last summer for a more ac- nson, while awaiting passage to ® D J THURSDAY. FEBRUARY -;( et z | Fukuyama ] 1 7|tive life. During his residence in Anchorage, wherg the piank. (o lo- SD A 26 | INSURANCE—BONDS Newmarker 2 0 4|Juneau he had been hospnalimdif:;e; and have his wife join him - - i 2 & { Kendler 0 0 0 |several times because of ill : laskamm & P c" SPONSORED b | : ioag 5 PONSO! y | Juneau, Alaska | Oswald .1 . ' /2| Puneral arrangements will be an.| A mechanic by trade, the visitor 4 c ower AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY D0 oouncea er e LR Y T e : . ‘ | 5 g o ne Termary et g, | S —— S ——p— | Totals 20 4 44 ‘ Empire Classifieds Pay: to the Territory, his first one, o ——— -