The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 14, 1942, Page 6

- fiany Will Attend Shrine Dance Set For This Evening} Lovely formal gowns will ma the last dance of a Winter series held to- of three which will be night by members of the Junea Shrine Club in the Scottish Ril Temple. The last Winter series traditionally formal party of the. season Many before-the-dance are being planned to precede tt affair, which will begin at o'clock when Lillian Uggen’s chestra will begin to play. The dance will last until 1 a Shrine Club, is general for the series. e The British government rescind-| The Japanese.force consisted of | ed the closing order of movie hous-|at least nine cruisers, had | were 10,000 ton ships armed with | of efght inch guns and accompanied es within a month after it gone into effect as a means strengthening civilian morale. e SHRINE DANCE L4 (Invitational) s Masonie Temple 4 Tonight 4 dance of the|early reports were one cruiser hit is the parties|a cruiser of the Mogani class on or- m Lance Hendrickson, president of the| chairman DETAILS OF ! NAVAL BATTLE | MADE PUBLIC (Continued rrom Page One) rk which was listed as lost, is reported | | beached. | Japanese Losses Japanese losses according au te to ‘nnd burning, one cruiser sunk, al cruiser damaged, a destroyer sunk; €| fire and possibly sinking and three | 1 | destroyers afire and sinking : Great Naval Engagement The battle off Java late in Feb- |ruary, announced as the greatest| |naval encounter of the war, was| !fought in a screen of smoke put| lup by both Japanese and Allied | warships. two of which !by two flotillas of destroyers. After *a night encounter the| cruisers Perth and Houston, which Fmd received some damage, reachm‘ dnition; were itot disolosed, Tanjong prior to 7 a.m. February | 28. With them were | five U. S.| destroyers. i Attempted Escape { That night the cruisers attempted |to escape through Sunda Strait. | The Perth sent out a report in- dicating that they had contacted a force of Japanese ships off St. Nicholas Point, but nothing was heard of either the Perth or the| Houston after that, the communique said and added “the next of kin are being informed accordingly.” Capt. Albert Rooks, Seattle, who was awarded the Mexican Service | Medal in 1914, was commander of |Herald, Boston Traveler, New York Ithe U. 8. S. Houston | Tribune, and the Nation (maga- | The same night, the Exeter, cap- |zine) able of only half speed, and the Once Raised Rumpus Pope left Soerabaja In 1924 he fought the publicity Sunday, March 1, the Exeter re- fight for Senator Robert M. La- ported that three enemy cruisers ' Follette's presidential campaign. In | were steering toward her. 11827 he founded the Portland, Me., No further word has been heard|Evening News. He says he did | from these ships. his best day’s work when the News, | - — !the only paper in Maine then op- (posed to the Insull utility inter- | ests, stopped the siphoning of hy- dro-electric power out of that state. Dr. Gruening raised a rumpus un- tii U. S. Marines were withdrawn |from Haiti and lambasted this y‘counuy's pre-Roosevelt policy of | military and financial activity in | (Continued from Page One) - \ \ \ \ ) \ N N \ \ N ) \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ ) ) N 4\ ) s N ) N ) \ \ \ | Jury Service Is Bottleneck Alaska's Governor Wanfs Offensive on JapanfoBe Launched from Terriiqry {waters before breakfast. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Identity of the units is tastefully tailored in subdued break-at-the-ankle suits, but most Washington folk remember him when they made his pants too short. He is a fierce exerciser (he won't tell the score) at both ten- nis and bridge and, of all things, he likes to swim in Alaska’s cold . But he says he does not spring out of bed whistling in the sunrise One-Man C. of C. Gruening would make a one-man Chamber of Commerce for Alaska. He tells about readin: Fairbanks newspapers by the mi night sun and says fine soil and! almost continuous daylight during May, June and July grow pro- swell British Tommies an’dvDouinvbcy A doughboy of the U. S. Army hoists a mug with British Tommies in New York. The Tommies are mem- bers of a small detachment which the War Department Bureau of Public Relations announced has been quartered in New York metropolitan area. the duration of their stay, or their des- Raid Alarm Fizzles Ouf BALTIMORE, March, 14—Maybe they need a new needle—or a loud- recording—but Baltimore’s air er .raid alarm whistle atop City Hall hardly scared the pigeons in its first test. The widely-heralded alarm—a re- corded whistle stepped up by a bat- |tery of loud-speakers—came at noon Wisely in Alaska in anticipation of | and: Workmen in City Hall basement said they couldn’t hear it. Persons a block away said they 1 something that sounded like “the whistle from a tea-kettle.” Hundreds of persons telephoned, jamming switchboards, to inquire If the test had been called off. Civilian Defense officials said the wind was blowing too hard. They're planning further research into noise-making apparatus. A O ONLY TWO DAYS 'person from buying any reasonable | amount of sugar,” he said. | He said that if at some later| date, a rationing program for sugar‘ |sbould be established in the Ter-| URGED To ritory which would | |turning ih of all sugar over and labove a certain amount, no harm Buv FooD sald “a good will have been accom- plished since the sugar turned in " will have to be shipped north.” Acting Governor Says OPA, Office Understands require the | will have been done, “In fact,” he {will. mean that just that much less | . . | Sifuation Acting Governor E. L. Bartlett today issued a statement urging Alaskans to ‘“accumulate surplus stocks of food to the limit of their {ability to do so,” and said that the |statement was made after an ex- change of correspondence with the Office of Price Administration. | VEGETABLES He said that the OPA is fully' Spinach aware of the fact that situations | o ‘in Alaska are peculiar and bear no é\:‘l:fifi:)g‘:,l:r“pb exact comparison to those existing P and C S in the States. The OPA, he said, eas and Carrots | desires Alaska to proceed in accord- ! (:.r een Beans |ance with “good, sound common Lima Beans |sence to work out a problem which Broccoli {has no analogy at all with that Peas existing in a crowded urban sec-| Jtion," | | Mr. Bartlett said that there has| been considerable rnlsunderstand-:‘ ing in Alaska about storage by in-, dividuals and families of food sup- Brussel Sprouts SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1942 J. E. BOYLES HERE James E. Boyle, Alaska represen- tative of the Union Oil Company, with headquarters in Juneau, and Mrs. Boyle returned to this city on the Princess Norah yesterday from |a combined business and vacation trip in the states. s ———,— Subscribe to the Daily Alaska Empire—the paper with the largest pbaid circulation. . BIRDS EYE . Frosted Foods FRUITS Peaches—Strawberries—Raspberries—Youngberries FISH Scallops Crab Meat \ Fillet of Haddock Fillet of Red Perch Swordfish Lobster Meat Fillet of Sole GEORGE BROS. plies over and above their current' needs. He gave as natural reasons !for this misunderstanding, the large quantity of articles printed in the States against hoarding, and caid that much of this material has found its way to Alaska. | “To hoard food in the States| iwhere transportation facilities are 'ample is to create an unbalanced situation,” he said. “To stock up ELKS' future needs is quite another mat- ter. . “From the transportation stand- point, we are on an island . All of our foodstuffs must come to us| by vessel, and these vessels are | going to be tremendously busy, es- pecially during the summer months. Everything we can order now will | represent that much gain later yon.” Mr. Bartlett said that no food is being rationed in Alaska yet, and |that he has been informed that the |sugar rationing program which will | |be instituted soon in the contin- | 'ental United States will not be ap- | Dancing at 10P. M. Hotel and Restaurant Employees Third Annual Dance HALL * TONIGHT Mareh 14 Bob Saire’s Orchesira * Refreshmenis Gentlemen $1.00 Public Invited | plied to Alaska at this time. “Thus, l E FT ' o F l l E ‘{ll:cre is n‘f'ih‘"c to preient ¥a4ny digious vegetables. “If you see a farmer lifting some thing as big as his head,” he says, {Latin America. He says the Roose- TACOMA, Wash, Mar. 14 — It{yelt-Hull “Good Neighbor” policy " Is Hard Hi; | ; Music by | |looks as i priorities might be re-iis a monumental achievement of '™ bt Al i ] Lllhan Uggen | production because—there’s a bot-| Gruening is a stickler for ac- 1® & Very small brussel sp 4 i tleneck in jurymen in Tacoma. | curacy. He is gravely proud amd con-; | 1 | Forty-five jurors were summoned| v, gherve: cerned, however, for his 72,524 Al-} Only two move days remsin in and Orchestra i for d\;:.y. The first group WS T0-| 1y was purchased a haif- | 25Kans. their 586,000 square MIES|yhich Junewu residents may file |dled by discharges—for such rea-| ., ry 4g0 for $7,000,000 and since |Of YTHIORy twice as big as TEX35, | their income tax returns without D 5 ‘5?:&"_":nj"':“;o”;:V::‘:;w“;fuddet’:nl‘:wmen has paid off more than 'moi“A_“fc"r"‘""‘“‘“d] fi“"‘?'r“‘: L::]’R having them stamped “delinquent.” ancing 10101 i times in fish, gold, furs, metals |Mercial flying fields, Infant avmy,| March 15, tomorrow, ordinarily is !u\}l{(‘d‘.‘m‘S e s nex | lumber and o on.” navy and air bases and Alaska’s|the deadline, but since the date stor; > A it A .. |developing waterways, highways falls on a Sunday, day. Federal Judge Lloyd L. Black| He ureplies: “Secretary Seward| =—. 1':“1‘:1 ys. | be exlendedsuux‘:t‘:ly I;h;d::dll\:ll;;;:;{ | o A P i S g e S i e il bought Alaska fr ssia i 7 |had to make four jury calls before|Pought Alaska from Russia in 1867|™p, "o 40" Alaskans, he says, can| Wes Overby, Deputy Collector of |enough men and women could be for $7,200,000 and Americans have | 5 £ : It a wh i, ! taken out $2,565,724,883.19 of n“_mhoot down an eagle at 300 yards| Internal Revenue, will open his 'w?i‘::oulw 1low:;ou d"?“* or;( B ":"‘"r,” x'vw\u‘cc:“ g = land will fight to a man to pro-|office in the Federal and Territor- | | AOWE CoWnEWOTK- IR Ges iRt T 0 {tect their, $100,000,000 of wildlife re- ial Building from 2 to 5 p. m. to- Famous ‘msw e e el .Ukcfh"_“ R, | sources, ' 85,000,000 board feet of /morrow for the purpose of filing 0 if you know good men and | e has another trait distracting | 10,000,000 tons of Kasaan returns, and it will be open from | true— |to men of lesser learning. fHmber, 8 a. m. until 10 p. m. on Monday. [ i - e i BUY DEFENSE BONDS | Peninsular ir ., the great fish- “Prime Minister Churchill” he|Ecninsular iron ore, the grea |The office closes at 6 p.n.today. ., “will go down in history as —————— { éries which produced $36,440,660 of | i iwvalm in 1940 and the minerals| a male Cassandra.” Well, this Cas- s L B o c K lsandra turns out to have been a|90d metals including -unhl ‘\orth‘wl"‘: OF PAA FLIER i HEADQUARTERS | mythological Greck prophetess who | $28:470:000 in that year. | AND DAUGHTER HERE | f { {2 i | 1 {was fated to tell the truth and| ,never have anyone believe her. | TYPHOON Lincoln BEER WEEK at all Mrs. Herman Joslyn, whose hus- band is with Pan American Airways Alaska Division, and her small daughter, Shirley, are in Juneau on their wdy south from their home in Fairbanks. They will spend a vaca- TOUGHBIRTH | 14—| “whenever the world ha {time to look back on his re(‘ol'd! WEST FALS, N. Y., Mar Here is the story Earl Wheeler can Ideal for Hunters |t in peace and war.” 1 \ . itell his twins some day: “Back on|fion in the south visiting. | LICENSED and Fishermen The Governor, like many GOVEr-|junuare 7. 1042, the weather was| e , DISPENSERS nors, s sort of fat around the serg cold, That's the day you were| BROTHERS OF WILLIAM | : \ middle, stands 5 feet 8 inches and |porn, 1 put your mother into the WREDE HERE WESTBOUND | starting Sizes weighs 180 pounds. Right now, helcar and we started for the hospital | Smaui,:xht/ledlll:lam. Large * |15 miles away. A mile from home| 4 Wl, Arnold Wrede and Ray Wrede, R SOLR0 we went into a ditch and couldn't| brothers of William Wrede, Chief of TneSdaY' March 17 All in Stock get out. The next motorist picked | Benefits of the Department of Un- ON TAP and IN BOTTLES SPECIAL! ‘yuur mother up but I had to break |trail on foot through the snowdrifts | gmplo’ymem Compensation, arrived in Juneau from the south on the Princess Norah. They plan to con- H. S.—(;aves |to guide the, car 14 miles to Lacka- | OLYMPIA BREWING COMPANY Roast Turkey and All the Trimmings The Clothing Man Olympla, Wash,, U.S.A. LA MACHINISTS Meesaisy | e $P.M. |l BUS DEPOT IN THE A. F, OF L. HALL Sunday, March 15 AT THE Try Our Home-Made PIES — ROLLS — CAKES BAKED FRESH DAILY! Cover“ge Electric Cooking gives more WITH higher costs for replacement you will be wise to look over your insurance policies to make certain they cover as fully as possible any loss that may occur. JLEISURE Ask this Hartford agency to check your policies to make sure you have ADEQUATE insurance. Shattuck Agency INSURANCE — BONDS l Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. Phone 616 JUNEAU PHONE 249 wanna where you were born. R Head at West Point ~ Maj. Gen. Francis B. Wilby New superintendent of the U. S. Military academy at West Point, N. Y., Maj. Gen. Francis B. Wil- | by, above, succeeds Maj Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, who has joined a combat division. tinue from here by plane to An-! chorage. - Bubscribe to the Dafly Alaska ll.‘tnplrc»~tl\e paper with the largest |aska newspaper. | LISTEN to the 13 KINY SUNDAY MATINEE SUNDAY AFTERNOON—March | 15th—from 2 to 3 o’Clock SUPPE—DIE SCHONE GA- { LATHEE OVERTURE— | Howard Barlow conducting the ] Columbia Broadcasting Sym- || phony. Columbia Masterworks *No. 71191-D. |9 WALTZES FROM ROSEN- i KAVALIER — R. STRAUSS. The Cleveland Orchestra with Artur Rodzinski conducting. Col. M. W. No. 11542-D. i BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO. 2 in D MAJOR. Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Col. set MM-265. DANSE MACABRE--SAINT- SAENS, Op. 40. Chicago Sym- phony Orchestra, Frederick Stock, Conductor. Columbia Masterworks No. 11251-D. Higher than High —— in America! AMERICA—wh-re a hundred and thirty million pecple are meeting the test proving that there is no ceiling on the oppor- tunities of this nation, on its ability to fight for the principles upon which it was built, on its hope and {aith in the future. We are still in the Winter of the War. But we know that Spring will retun—to America . . . toJuneau . . . and mostof all, to our hearts. THE time will come when you can shake off the ice and grime and dirt of that Winter. Once again Spring will come and you'll throw back your shoulders and feel how good it is tobe alive . . . you'll smile a greeting to the bus driver on your way to work . . . you'll buy yourlolt'Gitl the first violets of the season . . . all because the sky is 'M.uhl'lhm high” in America! ly Alaska Empire