The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 26, 1942, Page 6

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA FOREST SERVICE MEN GO ON TRIP Kn Forest today SEVENHERE CHURCHILL LASTNIGHT | GIVES TALK FROMSOUTH ABOUTWAR Arrivals in Juneau last night were Mrs Dudley, Miss Lee Hannact Ness, Oscar Mosbeck and Guebelle Mrs. R. Rouse H. Forward, and field men for the left Juneau by boat to Prince of Wales Charles Marshal Service to travel land They expect to be gone at least a month and will be engaged timber cruising and mapping the west coast of the island in sy from Seatle George T Albert Emil Prime Minisl—;r_Say's Allies Can't Lose Except by Own Fault —British Prime D Total construction in the United States will approximate 11.5 billion dollars this compared 108 billion in arrived from Ket- chikan and M. L. Miles came from | Wrangell | Outgoing passengers were Carl R.|Minister Winston Churchill today Gustafson, Mvs. M. Guerrio, Rob-|declared that the Allies “cannot ert German, Allyn Brown, George|lose this war except through our Metcalf, Theodore Klire, George own fault or our own failure to use Presnall, Avondale Mower, John F.|the combined overwhelming Carroll, Vernon Brown and Harmon |strength, to use our multiplying op- Abbott. portunities as they present them- selves to us.” The Prime Minister made the statement in addressing the annual | eting of the Central Council of | National Union of (‘on.wn‘niwl year with 19 LONDON, HEADQUARTERS TYPHOON SUITS Ideal for Hunters and Fishermen >oo LL ELKS ELECT WRANG At a recent meeting of the Elks at | Wrangell .the following were elected | ™ officers J. Dar Smith, Exalted Ruler; | the Lew Williams, Esteémed Leading | UDionist Knight; Roland Curtis, Esteeemed |PaTty Loyal Knight; Carl Bradley, Es-| 1 cannot offer any guarantee| teemed Lec Knight; Fred C-m-‘”“” we are at the end of our ningham, Secretary: Hubert Wel- |misfortunes,” said Churchill. “It| lons, Treasurer; Frank Webb, Tiler; | Would be foolish for us not to be, 0. C. Bjorge, Trustee; F. G. Hanford, | prepared for further heavy blows,| Alternate Representative to the [Put, Just as last year, I warned you Grand Lodge |we could not have successes un- |checkered by reverses so up to No- 1942, we need not expvm reverses unrelieved by suc- | Associations, his political | Sizes Small, Medium, Large Extra Large All in Stock H. S. Graves The Clothing Man 30 KILLED DYNAMITE EXPLOSION r BUY .. DEFENSE STAMPS ' JUDGE 0. D. COCHRAN ARRIVES HERE ON | | In these trying times relaxation is all- important. You'll find it is a pleasant relief to eat in the aimosphere of charm and friendliness so prevalent at The Baranof. The Baranof Coffee Sheop LES TEAGLE, Catering Manager at | i b BUY DEFENSE STAMPS GEORGE BROTHERS | Largest Super Food Market in Southern Alaska | WAY T0 SEATILE Judge O. D. Cochran, promin:‘m‘ |attorney of Nome and Senator in| — |the Territorial Legislature from the econd Division, arrived in Jun-‘Premamre Blast Heafd fo |eau yesterday and will continue! H i il. from here to Seattle. He will leave| Mlles S(hOOI Chl' here tonight for the Puget Sound city and plans to be away from dren InJured Alaska for about two months. | Judge Cochran is a member of EASTON, Pa, March 26—A dis- the Territorial Bar Examining, astrous premature dynamite ex-| |Board from the Second Division and Pplosion killed at least 30 men at |while he was in Juneau acted with the limestone quarry plant of the |other members in passing on exam- |Lehigh-Portland Cement Company |inations of three applicants for|today. mu.mce to the bar. Rescuers expressed the belief that I i |the total dead will reach at least [ SNOW COLLECTOR |40 persons. | LUBBOCK, Tex.—Collecting snow| Fourteen school children, from is the hobby of Dr. Julian Paul|one mile north of the quarry, haye Blitz, head of the music department | peen brought to the Easton Hos- ? at Texas Tech. He has 800 bottles|pita). The entire front of the | of snow collected in Siberia, New- | .} 601 builging was ripped away foundland, Little America and other | Investigators said one of the two | §:;—e§lel:lngqnp;nc;:su.fiz‘;wze:re iseale}i‘l school teachers was also injyred.| ~ i P‘Aboul 60 pupils were in the .\;chooli ground. | — the time. 1 The blast was heard for miles| jaround and was so severe that jdoors were jarrgd open at Allm~‘ \lown. 18 miles \ . THREATENS - CALCUTTA (Contnued from rage One) | | {ences with Indian leaders in an at- | Itempt to iron out India’s long- |smoldering internal friction, to !weld the dominion’s vast unmits of | fmn.npower into a united figmingl |force for the Allies. | Cripp's efforts bore fruit when |Kalan Azad, president of the Con-| {gress Party, summoned the Party’s | Executive Committee to consider | | the British Government’s plans for | self-rule for India, Observers said| this was a sign ‘of definite pro-| gress. THREE LAWYERS ADMITTED 10 BAR FOR TERRITORY | ‘Three barristers this afternoon passed their final examinations and were’ admitted to the bar to ;pracuce law in the courts of the| Territory.. They are J. L. McCar- sy, from Salt Lake City; Edward | N. Arnell, Juneau, and J. Gerald Williams, also of Juneau. All three had already passed written examinations given by the Board .of Territorial Law Examin- ers, and took their oral examina- tion this afternoon from Attorney General Henry Roden, ex-officio chairman. of the Board. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 26—Closing juotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 1%, American Can 30%, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem ‘Steel 59't, Commonwealth and Southern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 7%, international Harvester 42%, Ken- wecott 32%, New York Central 8%, Northern Pacific 57%, United States steel 50%, Pound $4.04, Where Service, Price and Quality Meet! SUGAR - 69c 10-POUND CLOTH BAG——C. & H. PURE CANE 100 Pounds $6.39 Alwcyl Bigger and Better Values ——— COFFEE-65¢ 2 POUNDS — M. J. B., Crescent, Gold Shield GEORGE BROTHERS JUNEAU'S FINEST FOOD STORE! POTATOES 251bs. 1.19-501bs. 2.35- 100 Ibs. 4.65 YAKIMA NETTED GEMS — U. S. NO. 1 QUALITY THE BEST ONLY! GEORGE BROTHERS PHONE 92 WE DELIVER PHONE 85 At George Brothers! DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Tones .averages: industrials 1025, | Fort Picture above shows a section of the massive moving assembly line in San' Diego’s Comsolidated plant Assembly line is four-motored C onsolidated B-24 bom bcn now being turned out in ever increasing numbers. The British have named this type of plane the “Liberator.” JOEE.BOWN, MOVIE STAR, IS IN JUNEAU (Continued from Page One) ! ported in a dispatch today that the JOE E. BROWN activities and has sponsored sev- eral events and teams. Joe E. Brown was invited to Richardson by Major M. R. Marston, Commanding Officer of | athletic and recreation division, air base headquarters, Fort Richardson some months ago and had prompt- ly accepted the invitation. .H spent from February 27 until March 5 in Anchorage and whil there acted as master of cere: monies at one Golden Glove ama- {teur boxing match and was widely entertained by the officers men of Fort Richardson. Since leaving Anchorage, gaging comedian has visited other army and navy Alaska. He is accompanied by Major Marston and Capt. Natzel, Brown is one of many motion pic- ture stars who are visiting military bases throughout the United States | for morale and entertainment of | the men, and the first to come to | Alaska. AIR BATILE IS FOUGHTOVER and MALTA FORT [ Thirty German Dive Bomb- ers Destroyed or Dam- aged in Encounter LONDON, March 26—Thirty Ger- man dive bombers were destroyed or damaged yesterday in one of the greatest air battles ever fought | the British Air Min-:| |istry reported today. over Malta, Royal Air Force hurricanes worked among the attacking force, Ministry said, that at least half of , the raiders were unable to re- turn home or else landed and were riddled with machine gun or shells, PAN AMERICAN OFFICIAL HERE N. H. McDowell, Pan American Airways official has arrived from spitfires and such havoc his - Seattle headquarters on busi- | rails 25.15, utilities 11.62, ness with the company office here. the en- | posts throughout | the | bullets | NEW ORDER IS ISSUED Japs Can't Leave Military Zone Unless Army Directs It | | | | The Western Defense Command has announced that Lieut. Gen. John \LA DeWitt was to sign an order | today, prohibiting Japanese aliens ;and Japanese-Americans to leave | | Military Area No. 1, which includes the western parts of Washington, H | Oregon, California and Arizona. The order will become effective | March 29. Japanese affected must | wait for an army supervised evacua- tion which is expected soon. A S i TEST BLACKOUT IS PULLED OFF INMANHATTAN Five Square Mile Area of | New York City Affected for Twenty Minutes NEW YORK, March 26. — Lower Manhattan had the first 20-minute test blackout last night that af- fected five squase miles of an in- habitated quarter of a million per- sons. H Mayor LaGuardia called the test blackout a great success. Nine thousand raid wardens and 1500 police participated. Surface traffic was halted during the 20 minutes and subways con- tinued to operate. CAUCASUS OIL SEIZE INTIMATED - taly Says Von Papen, Home fo Confer on Turkey Relations ROME, March 26—The Roman | newspaper Lgiornale Dltalia re-| AI.ERT WIll BE HELD INJUNEAU | THIS EVENING | Juneau residents are asked not to | be alarmed when the air raid warn- | !ing signal sounds sometime this| Some means of nullifying the|evening between 6 and 7:30 o'clock | prospects of a clash between Ger- |for another practice “alert” to furth- | 'many and Turkey while at the er perfect the organization of the‘ same time the Nazis press efforts|Civilian Defense Unit, for an offensive to gain the rich| Immediately after the drill, all| oil lands in the Caucasus are said |members of the unit are asked to to have been the subject of mexr"‘” to the' Girade Bohool Audijbrium | discussion, where motion pictures on how to‘ | ENVOYS HOME BERN, March 26—Turkey has re-: called its ambassadors from Mos-! cow, and Axis nations to discuss' important political problems.” This |is according to'dispatches received ere, Istanbul problem presumably g the cause of the trips made to Ger- | many by King Boris of Bulgaria | |and Franz Von Papen, Nazi Am-| bassador to Turkey. | Von Papen recently left a sick-| bed to hurry off to Berlin, osten- sibly in answer to Hitler's call for | a gathering of all his leaders. Thexe will be a meeting of the| ‘civxhan Defense Board immediately ; fuklowmg the “alert.” All Juneauites not participating 1 in the drill are asked to stay off the | streetts. The same procedure which ‘apphed to last Thursday’s drill will | be carried out tonight. i —— - RUMMAGE SALE. ‘ i i i | By Am. Legion Aux. Friday | the Dugout, starting 10 a.m. e — . Wild pigs in China produce the | best bristles for paint brushes. ON ALIENS | SAN FRANCISCO, March 26— | THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1942 LINDBERGH TAKES JOB ~ WITHFORD \Flier Will Be—Employed at | Willow Run Air- plane Plant DETROIT, March 26. — Harry Bennett, Ford Motor Company per- sonnel director, has announced that | Charles A. Lindbergh will go to work |at Ford's new Willow Run airplane plant, l .He said the War Department ap- | proved the move but did not specify | what Lindbergh’s duties would be. Ifenry Ford offered the flier the job yesterday after Lindbergh had in- spected the plant. > RUMMAGE SALE By Am. Legion Aux. 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