The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 9, 1942, Page 6

NAZIS CLAIM BREAK MADE RUSS LINES Hard Fight for Several Days Results in New Thrust Near Orel BERLIN, Aprii 9 — A break through the massed Russian in- fantry and tank lines northeast of Orel is reported today by the Ger- man Headquarters The communique says that hard fighting of the past several days has restored the German line and “powerful attacks of the enemy on the central and northern sectors of the eastern front have heen re pulsed.” Orel is about 200 miles of Moscow and slightly west. e south Purchasers of used, retreaded, re- capped or repaired rubber tires or tubes in Canada must turn in the casing or tube to be replaced. FILs up TONIGHT Do this—Try 3-purpose Va-tro-nol. It (1) shrinks swollen membranes, (2) soothes irritation, (3) relieves transient nasal congestion . . . And bflnww breathing /. ~; MFOMY:\:’“ like “"s < it. irections * in folder. VA-TRO-NOL YOUR VOTE WILL BE APPRECIATED (Paid Advertisement) SEATTLE KEEPS IN TOP PLACE, COAST LEAGUE Wins Three Straight, Tak- | ing Two Games from San Diego Nine The Seattle R:\I)(lvl'» remain at the top of the Pacific Coast Base- ball League pack by taking anoth- Wednesday, the second from the San Diego er game straight Padres Sacramento comes up and ties for second spot with Oakland with Portand in the next groove. GAMES WEDNESDAY ! The following are final scores of | games played Wednesday Portland 1; Los Angeles 3 Hollywood Sacramento 4 Seattle 5 n Diego 1 San Fra 2; Oakland 3 STANDING OF CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost Seattle & on Oakland 47 1 Sacramento 2 Portland San Francisco Hollywood Los Angeles san Diego - - Pct 1.060 667 667 571 333 333 333 286 SONOTONE hearing aids for the hard of hear- ing. Audiometer readings. Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson, Blomgren Bldg Phone 636. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 2 CRUISERS OF BRITISH SENT DOWN (Continued from Page One) ton Italian cruiser to the bottom of the central Mediterranean The sinking of the cruisers Corn- wall and Dorsetshire has struck a blow at the British naval strength immediately available to cope with the Japanese aircraft carriers and warships which are reported in- creasing activities astride the lanes to Calcutta in the bay be- tween the bombed coast of India and invaded Burma Broadcasts picked don from the up in Lon- Japanese Imperial headquarters claim that in addi- tion to the two British sunk, Japanese forces sunk 21 Al- lied merchant ships in the Bay of Bengal up to Tuesday and badly damaged 23 other ships. P, L I FUR FARMER VISITS HERE ON WAY SOUTH Ed Haracich, former school teacher for the Alaska Office of Indian Affairs, now in the fur busi- ness in Alaska, was visiting in Jun- eau today on his way to the States Haracich has just spent 18 months managing a fox farm on Kiska Island in the Aleutians, and reports an excellent son, ENSE STAMPS BUY DE! WALTER P. SHARPE Candidate for COMMISSIONER OF LABOR BORN IN NOME, ALASKA Resident of Territory 36 Years “Committed to Efficient Administration in Public Office.” 'PROVEN RECORD AS COMPETENT ADMINISTRATOR UNITED STATES Democratic Primary—April 28, 1942 Sea.. sea | cruisers | Mrs. Romig - Chosen for ~ (ity Coundil Anchorage_AI—so Reelects Mayor William Stolt as Chief Executive ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 9— William Stolt was reelected Mayor at Tuesday's city election over Keith Capper, write-in candidate. Councilmen elected are Tom Cul- |hane, Mrs. Howard Romig and Ray |Wolfe. This is the first time a woman has been elected to the city council. Casper O. Bjore was unopposed for the school board. William Wagner failed for re- election. He was the only incum- bent councilman who was a candi- date. Councilwoman-elect Romig is well known in Anchorage as a social |civic worker, a club leader and sponsor of the Girl Scout move- ment. She has served with dis- | tinction on the Park Board. PRI AP e 1 JOHN HAGMEIRS DOUBLE FAMILY WITH TWIN SONS Mr. and Mrs. John Hagmeir be- came the parents early this morn- ing of twin sons in St. Ann's Hos- pital. The babies were born at 2 a. m. and 2:08 a. m, the older boy weighing 5 pounds 4 ounces and the younger 5 pounds, 11 ounces Taken aback § the advent of two sons when i{.€y had been cer- tain the offspring would be fem- inine, Mr. and Mrs. Hagmeir had not chosen names for both up until nocn today, but thought the older son would be suited with the name of John Charles. The Hagmeirs have no other children. - U AND I, FORMERLY THE BRUNSWICK CAFE, OPENED AGAIN BY GEORGE SKENNES George Skennes, oldtimer of Ju- neau, has announced the reopening of the former Brunswick Cafe un- der his management. d The name of the restaurant has been changed to the U and I. Cartoon by (ZO/O=py RocrHz= etz T’LL TAKE MY CHANGE IN DEFENSE SAVINGS STAMPS, Courtesy , of Buffalo Courier-Expren Buffalo, N. Y. . MAKE YOUR MONEY COUNT FOR VICTORY The one fast, sure way that you and everyone can help to win this war is by buying bonds, bonds, and more bonds. Your money will help give our fighting forces the guns and tanks and planes they need and must have to heap destruction on the Axis terrorists. Your Dollars Will Fight for You! But time is short—there is not a moment to lose. Our enemies wre striking fast and hard. So dig deep! Start buying U. S. Defense Bonds and Stamps today—and keep it up. The full faith and credit of the United States Government is pledged for pay- ment of both principal and interest on these bonds. ACT NOW! Get YOUR SHARE of e You Get a $25 Bond for Only $18.75 Facts About Defense Bonds (Series E) How Much do They Cost? Upon Maturity You You Lend Uncle Sum Get Back $18.75 . . $37.50 $75.00 $375.00 . . . ¢ & $75000 . . . . « s « o« o $1,000.00 When is maturity? Ten years, but you can cash the bonds at any time after 60 days from their issue date. Naturally, the longer you hold the Bond, up to 10 years, the more money you'll get back. But you'll never get less than you put in. What's the interest rate? When held to matu- rity, the bonds yield 2.9% per year on your investment, compounded semiannually—you get $4 back for every $3. S. Defense BONDS x STAMPS This advertisement is a contribution to Victory by the Northern Commercial Company | WE make our whisky by the same WPB PUTS FOOT ON | FASHIONS| JOE FLAKNE AND WILLIAM WREDE BACK FROM TRIP | | Joe Flakne, Director of the | United States Employment Service land William Wrede of the Unem- | ployment Compensation Commis- | | here last night after O ones el nern| Dresses Cannot Be Fuller P e ana e wrede mace| OF Longer, But Present Styles Not Frozen the trip to Ketchikan for the pur-| pose of working out a procedure| for the handling of unemployment | ! compensation through the offices; WASHINGTON, April 9 — The |of the United States Employment|War Production Board is turning Service under the new set-up thatlinto a stern stylist for American {was put into effect in February. women, decreeing that for the dur-| | On the trip from Ketchikan, Mr.|ation of the war, dresses can be| | Flakne and Mr. Wrede stopped off|shorter and shorter or tighter and| {in Wrangell where they consulted|ighter as fashion dictates, but! 1\Uln Joel Wing, Claims Agent forinejther Jonger nor fuller than those' g procedure,| - puhhasizing that it has no in-| (and in Petersburg where they took . , | ciche it~ e, garma - Bosiness with tem.xon of freezing present stylesor Claire A. Wilder, Claims Agent in\Fendering present wardrobes Sbws={ that city lete, WPB established a complete | They recently completed an cx-|lst of specifications covering the future manufacture of women’s clothes. It ordered among other things that frills, French cuffs on sleeves, [tensive trip through the Interior| where they took up the procedure balloon sleeves and patch pockets on wool be eliminated entirely. {of handling Unemployment Com- pensation Claims with agents in | Fairbanks and Anchorage, and ex- pi A i pect to leave within a few days for Sitka to complete the work in that city. Business conditions in Ketchikan, Wrangell and Petersburg looked {eid FROM DIOMEDE Soviet Reports Total Get of s ‘ o | Diomede Istana Eskimos carved| 545 Axis Aircraft SUD' Ithe attractive ivory bracelets, watch | i }hnnds. necklaces, animals which p|Y|flg No”hwest ware veceined 1ts wsk vy the astal LSS L , April 9 — Sovie fliers and ground gunners are re- > long | Here's a Bottled-in-Bond Whisky that’s Extra Rich and Mellow Its made the old Sour-Mash Way good and very little unemployment appeared to exist, Mr. Flakne said today. and Crafts Dejartment of the Of-| fice of Indian Affairs by air ex- press. ported to have destroyed 139 Nazi The ivory of which the artistic|transport planes assigned to sup- articles are carved is of three ply the isolated Northwestern front types, walrus, the ordin: white units in three days of a 10 day ivory; mastoden and fossil. M period todon is ivory from pre-historic| They have cost the Germans a unimals that formerly inhabited|total of 545 aircraft, according to ‘fhc retic and fossil ivory is walrus!the Soviet information bureau. |ivory that has been buried Axis efforts to get fresh troops |cnough to give it a dark hue. and munitions to the Arctic Mur- | Among the pieces sent down in|mansk sector have sufferd another the recent shipment, are a number setback with the sinking of two |of sets of matching ivory, consist- n,am‘m_h e re“mted Yoibe e ing of necklace, bracelet and watch| g0 Pe : band. One of the most attractive| 00 ‘0P ship and the other 10.- is carved of ivory nearly black iniUOO tons by units in the Barents |color and. of interesting design. Sea, Practically all of the ivory re-| Rt celved has already been packed ror'o shipment to curio dealers through- lDRovD SPEAKS out Alaska and the post exchange | 1and ship s ce stores at various AT CHAMBER OF | | military bases, H. W. Starling, sup- ! E(rvlaor of this department said. | Very little additional ivory is (OMMER(E MEEI ‘};xrpcc;ed by the department until| - ol ate June or July. . T | TR Agricultural Expert Says | ACCOUNTANTS AND Alaska Can Produce STENOGRAPHERS ‘ Positions open for one Junior MU(h FOOd iAccountanl and two Clerk-Sten- — ographers subject to the Alaska| Lorin T. Oldroyd, Director of Merit System requirements and|the Agricultural Experiment Sta- |qualifications. Phone 695, or call{tions of the University of Al-! {at Room 201, Territorial Building,|aska, told members of Juneau {Juneau, Alaska. Chamber of Commerce today that: | — ., if the Americans didn't go back | 2 it to the practice of having a real | BUYV DEFENSE STAMPS | American home, raising large fam- | ilies, and mobilizing enough man- power to produce more food, the United States is doomed. But he predicted that this will come about and said that the future should |see a large trek of people back to the farms. He said that Alaska can produce much of its own food, that Al- askan farmers already can pro- hidie | duce all of the potatoes needed in ; / | the Territory. He urged the de- . velopment of gardens in Alaska in = 7 the event that a food shortage may arise in the United States and consequently in Alaska. He said it was possible that Alaska might face such a shortage. i The Chamber of Commerce held their noon meeting in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. Mem- bers endorsed a letter which will be sent to Postmaster Albert Wile, pointing out certain which have arisen against the handling of mail here. i Allen Shattuck reported *»af he ! had met with retailers and othevs who are using delivery trucks and; explained the need for curtailing | some deliveries to conserve tiresf and rubber and insure that Ju-| neau residents will get this ser-| vice for a longer period. He said complaints in the “FIDDLE" BOTTLE methods which gave Kentucky | Bourbon its famous character. We make| that the merchants have agreed ! it tight where there has been a distillery| to hold a meeting to work out a| for 120 years —at Bourbon Springs which plan of conservation. H supplies one of the finest limestone| A letter from Alaska Delegate | waters for whisky making. { Anthony J. Dimond was read rela- These old, sour mash methods are tive to suspension of the annual stow, but we want to make whisky to @ssessment on undeveloped mining » i " properties. Mr. Dimond reported Wllwp:?ll:h )l":u‘;P:;:::r:h:E“Bnd'l that a hearing §hould be held | Towa with others and sec what these next week on a bill he has intro- | 4 ' dy this sit jon.. | aethels bl ' fivor aad mellowness, ' Sooed 6L emiedy, this’ siiuation | BARDSTOWN DISTILLERY, INC. Bourbon Springs, Bardstown, Kentucky | Disteibuted by 1 NATIONAL GROCERY COMPANY, Sesttle, Wash, Uand ICAFE | | Open for Business || 1 | (Formerly the Brunswick Cafe) n where Stephen Foster was imapired 1o write **My Old Kentucky Hos THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1942 LIGHT MEAT TUNA FLAKES 35¢ Value—Special 2 for 65¢ LIMIT—4 CANS TO CUSTOMER CHOW MEIN DINNER-Complete CHINA BEAUTY BRAND 69¢ (omplefe Directions in Preparing with Ecch Carton FANCY DILL PICKLES Full Quart Jar 39¢ GECRGE BROS. Two Phones ——— 92 and 95 There's lots of work to be done these days. both in Civilian Defense and the Services. You'll need energy and the Baranof Coffee Shop is the place to find it . . . Meals are delicious. The Baranof Coffee Shop LES TEAGLE, Catering Manager ~ Uncle Sam Demands Leather To give his boys and girls in the Army, Navy, Marine apd Nurses Corps dependable shoes, Uncle Sam specifies leather counters, insoles, and heel bases. Look Ahead as Uncle Sam Does DEMAND LEATHER Terrific is the strain on the shoes of running, jumping children. Fortify their feet naturally and economically . . . with leather. Accept no substitutes! Get the best! Try Star Brand shoes for style, correct fit and economy. See how much more wear and protection you getfromall leather counters, insoles and heel bases. STAR BRAND SHOES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS ALL-LEATHER IN VITAL PARTS $2.50 to $4.50 Family Shoe Store Seward Street