The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1942, Page 6

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1942 PRACTICE ALERT 10 BE HELD AT 7P.M. THURSDAY Civilian Defense Members Given Instructions by Director Tomorrow evening at 7 o'clo there will be a practice alert held in Juneau, according to R. E. Rob- ertson, Director of Civilian De- fense. All air raid wardens, first aid auxiliary firemen, and auxiliary police are urged to respond promp- tly to the alarm. The sergeant district should detail one air warden, for each first aid station in his district, to immediately visit after first reporting to the ser geant, the first aid station and list the personnel and number of first aiders present This infor- mation should be reported back to the sergeant who in tuin should report it to the Central Control Station. raid raid of each air First Aid Problem The problem for first aiders at each first aid station will be to properly bandage a simulated hand injury. Instead of using a Scout as the victim, the air warden visiting the first aid tion will act as the injured person The solution of the problem wiu require about five minutes Mrs, Jessie McCrary and Miss Alma Olson, who are in charge of the First Aid Section during the absence of Holger Larson, wil! fur- nish instructions to each first aid Boy raid sta- o Report Violations raid sergeants, through their and report | Air wardens, should collect | the number of observed \l()hfl)nu.\,‘Thv Home Guard or the American | of the alert in their respective dis-|Red Cross the | full observation of the alert by all|opportunity for aple bodied women | tricts. Wardens should urge persons. They should also imber of dogs and othe: durine 402 and report the nt running at la In actual raids nimals, running loose, are a ser- ious menace to human beings. Owners should keep their dogs and confined during ulerts. Need Volunteers Director Robertson stressid urgency of the need for volunteers for civilian The present personne] of other animals fense ciliary dropped to eleven. Fire Chief Mul- vihill, who is Chairman of the Fire Fighting Section of the Defense Council volunteers for his section More auxiliary police are needed to fill the vacancies caused by fo mer members joining The Home Guard. The Guard and the Civ- ilian Defense are two separate or- ganizations, each created by Act of Qongress. Both are important, but a member of fense cannot the duties of « Director Robertson stated auxiliary police force will promptly brought back to its nec- ry numbel Insufficient Wardens A number of air raid districts do not have a sufficient quota of wardens. Sergeants and wardens a needs the the Civilian De- | y well also perform | the American Red Cra Home Guardsman. | Service, Council and her aids are making to serve|fleet, has been engaged since last | evening animals | cach alert 'Hlf Civilian the | | {in | firemen has | | (pointed as assistants to Ben Stew- |art, Chairman of the Evacuation | Section, who will make a report on | his | in be| @ { the community. | are urged to solicit new members among their neighbors anc dents of their respective Names of *persons who would be competent for civilian defense work should be turned in to the Di- rector who will personally solicit aistrivs $8.00 WILLBUY TWO STEEL NELMETS . . . Here’s how your savings put into War Bonds and Stamps help our armed forces get the fighting equipment they need. Buy War Savings Bonds » Stamps |- 5. o Germany Dies Civilian Defense a place for very able bodied man who 's not Iready performing duties either in And in either the Red Cross or the Civilian Defense lies to help. ‘ To Take Oath of Office In the near future each member Defense will be re- quested to take the formal oath of office which. has been prescribed | accordance with the Act of Congress creating Civilian Defense. Following the alert tomorrcw night, a meeting of the Defense Council will be held in the City Hall Appointments Made Tom Dyer and John Kennedy, Defense Councilmen, have been ap- plans. Defense Leest and Walter een appointed to P. Scott report have | the saved. ouncement Councilmen H. Vander| Admiralty A German broadcast, heard here, a suit-|indicated, the Eagle went down at 22,000-TON BRIT. SHIP TORPEDOED Aircraft Car?i; Eagle Sent Down by Axis Sub in Merditerranean LONDON, Aug. aircraft the result of U-boat Mediterranean but a large part of craft’s the carrier 22,000-ton This is made 12.—The British Eagle was sunk as action in the crew was official an- by the British able plan of warning, in case of|the start of a battle that may be theatres, churches, and public places Mrs. Florine Housel, Chairman of | Canteen e Defense preparations she il of inform the by Form;r Official of U. | for day NEW YORK, Aug. 12. — Jacob Gould Schurman, 88, former United States Ambassador to Germany former President of Cornell Uni- versity, died today in the Memorial | Hospital after an illness of several months. on ~ $15,000 WILL BUY | British aid ascertained the and command claimed the convoy a large one and “heavily protected.” Axis and ‘actual raid, to citizens congregated |continuing today between a British other, convoy : | planes. The broadcast, quoting the DNB, | German news agency, said that a “Capital Convoy” subs and w: escorted the bulk of the Mediterranean with Axis sea and Aair ‘The action is in the western | Mediterrane | The original German broadeast | Eagle was sunk at mid- , adding that mand two torpedo hits the said one of a “large wa the Italian Com- its subs scored at dawn yesterday hip” but had not type. The Italian was - BUY DEFENSE ONE PONTQON BRIDGE REMEMBER, YOU CAN START 'BUYING WAR BONDS BY BUYING WAR STAMPS FOR AS LITTLE AS 10 CENTS, AND THAT YOU GET A $25 BOND (MATURITY VALUE) FOR ONLY $18.75. This message for Victory is sponsored by ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY TAMPS S0¢ WILL BUY ENOUGH FUEL OIL Y0 RUN A DESTROYER ONE MILE! 'Two Members of " Holmquist Family Feted_ at Parties Mrs. Leonard Holmquist was host- i sss ‘twite yestiday for (s celbbihz] s OACe . OF, Prith - S NS SHon tions of two birthdays in her family, |Tegulations for Alaska have been In the afternoon, a party honored |simplified by an amendment pro- John, three-year-old son of Mr. and | viding for even nickel pricing on a Mis. Leonard Holmquist. Ice cream,|give and take basis, which will cake and games were enjoyed by the | eliminate using a split nickel in little guests. {pricing in Alaska, according to Those who attended are Bonnie |James Harper, OPA official from MacLean, Ann Richey, Margaret|the Washington office, who is now Ann Pyle, Charmaine Yakopatz, (in Juneau. Beverly Hall, Marjorie Williams,| Amendment No. 1 to Maximum' Shirley Westby, Joe Abel, Jake| ppjce Regulation No. 194, which is| Ramsay, David Hamlin, Bill Baker, |, .+ auolicable to Alaska, also pro- | Mike Blackwell, Mike Grummett|,es that the markup which the| suidiie youge oy, | seller may add in his sale to pur- In the evening, Mrs. Holmquist La A e entertained at a party which was a | hasers,is the ne whica he ey | birthday surprise for her mother- [during the period from November, in-law, Mrs. Mary Holmquist. Cards |7 to December 6 in sales to 8 were played and refreshments sery- | burchaser of the same class. i ed. Those attending this affair in- | The amendment providing for the cluded Mrs. Al Bloomquist, Mrs.|even nickel pricing was received| John Torvinen, Mrs. Alma Hen- |today by wire from Rupert kmer- drickson, Mrs. Emil Samuelson, Mrs. [son, Territorial Administrator in' George Osborne, Mrs. Ted Schindler | the Washington OPA office by Murs. | and Mrs. Mary Holmquist, the honor | Mildred Hermann, Alaska Director guest. of OPA. | . ——r——— GREEN BACK FROM N AVY ARMY TRIP T0 WRANGELL ' Richard S. Efiem. Sanitary En- (H ARGE oN gineer for the Territorial Depart- | ment of Health, arrived back in { Juneau last night after a trip to I N v A D E RS recently installed in the Juneau‘,one Nippon cargo Ship IS system. . . Mr, Heiss has now returned to the | Sunk n Klska Hal’bOI’— South after completing his work in Oihers Damaged Wrangell and Ketchikan, where he the Territory. | assisted E. A. Heiss in the instal- | f tComlnuec{ from Page One) OPARULESFOR | TERRITORY ARE SIMPLIFIED Jation of a chlorinator system in the water supplies, similar to that | bor area with unobserved results. | On August 4, Army pursnit planes shot down two Kawanishi-97 Seaplane bombers and on August 8, a Pacific Fleet task force, pro- tected by Naval Patrol planes, hea- vily bombarded the group of enemy ships, camp facilities and shore in- stallations at Kiska. The attack was a complete sur- prise to the enemy, who, mistaking the first salvos of shells for bombs opened fire with anti-aircraft bat- teries on what they imagined to be planes. | Sight Sunken Ship The intensive bombardment from the cruiser and destroyer guns soon silenced shore batteries and started fires, inflicting severe dam- age on the camp area. (" In the only enemy resistance | from aircraft our loss was one ob- servation plane. On August 9, Naval patrol planes $|50 w‘LL BUYi followed up the bombardment by ONE PARACHUTE !an attack on two cargo ships in | Kiska Harbor. Two bomb hits were |scored on each ship, resulting in |severe damage. Observers sighted a sunken cargo ship believed to 'have been sunk near the beach ! during the previous day's bom- | bardment by surface forces. e U.S.MARINES ENGAGED IN NEW FIGHTS | Trained in Lafest Twists of Dealing Out Death- Mahing Progress 5 (Contlnuea from Page One) other shock troops” have apparent- ly firmly established themselves in the counter invasion footholds. The Tokyo broadcast, quoting Capt. Kamada, Japanese Naval spokesman in Shanghai, persisted the invasion is only a fiction battle and termed the engagement as al one night encounter. | ‘The broadcast pictured the sea| battle off the islands as mughtl at such close quarters that the | United States and Japanese wtu'-I ships actually collided. 75 SAWMILL WANTED at JUNEAU LUMBER MILL IS PASSED | HOSPITAL NOTES BY (ENS OR Mrs. Evelyn Hollmann underwent an operation Monday in St. Ann's Hospital and is now convalescing. Censors in the States, especially Seattle, get busy and clip out items Alaskans are not “entitled” to read| frora mailed newspapers but allow | propazanda postcards to through the mails. ¢ | One postecard “Passed by Censor” | as indicated by the stamp, has been| The Rev. W. G. LeVasseur of the received from Birmingham, Ala—}cmhouc Church of the Nativity bama. 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