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(. MCARTHY, BERGEN HERE 10 DO SHOW Vemriloquis_l—,Famed Dum- my in Juneau on Army Entertainment Tour (Continued irom rage One) entertaining the soldiers immensely, he says. The entertainers have been us far west as Dutch Harbor. Neither Bergen nor his dummies saw any Japs, although they watched care fully from their plane for sub marines, They plan to go back (o Seattle after tonight. Thé tour i§ being made by Bergen through an ar-| rangement with the Navy and the Victory entertainment committee. When Mr, Bergen appeared for| his interview, he tumed out to be| a collegiate-looking affable fellow without any of young Charlie’s bad graces, McCarthy, hé says, is go- ing to have 10 be dealt with firmly after his tour of Alaskan posts and his many stag shows. He has picked up a good deal of Army lingo and 1s petting a little out of hand. Started in School Edgar Bergen says Chariic Mc- Carthy has not got the uppcr Land over the Bergen-McCarthy team, as many fan-magazine writers like to intimate. Charlic MoOarthy, how- ever, did take Fecr lege, having star boss when in Higl a3 so impressed Bergen teacher that he was passc course without doing any Charlie McCarthy is a definite personality. For that reason, Ber- with his 1 he ry gen cannot let gag whiters take over entirely on his nan bows, | If they do, Charlie is lik¢ o get “inexcusably fr Mr. Beigen likes the whimsev ahd the devil- ishness that moakés Charlle the nation’s bad boy, but he says his dummy must be punhishcd when he gets out of hand. Althouch it Scems it would be unnecessa:ry, Mr. Bergen uses his ventirioguism on the 1adio. Ventrilognism 1is not throwin~ cof the voice, he says, but rather a ‘girecting and diffusion of the voice.” “It is & sort of culfivated grunt,” en plaining ‘the _tech- ol.shoving the voice out hroat o that it seems to come fioi sofie -othér Airecion Because bad weather has sonie- what delayed his trip, the enter- talner will v op in Ketchikan on his way back. ITe must return by September 6 to start broadcasts and is anvious for the cpcuing of always through col- | exacly a NEW BATTLE IS FLAMING INSOLOMONS | SR 1 Tokyo Admils for First Time | Sea Units Have Suf- = fered Damage (Continued {rom Page One) |1s according t6 a communique from | Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters. | It was announced that Japanese msines Have latided from a small at Milne Bay, 180 miles e New Guinea coast from Buug, where the Japs were revealed sterday to have established an air base, in their attempt to conquer all of New Guinea. “Allied ground troops immediately went into action against the Jap- anese and are still fighting them. |Ohe of 6ur bombers has been shot down,” sald the communique. Strafing Japs Milne Bay is about 10 miles wide at the mouth and 20 miles long at the tip of Papua Peninsula, some 225 miles from the Allied held Port Moresby, which apparently was the first alm. Basides pounding ships and land- ing barges, Allied fliers caused the Japs heayy losses of fuel. The Allied planes were hampered by thick clouds which cut the ceil- ing to 1,000 feet, also by heavy downpours. One of the Kittyhawk pilots was asked if aid was needed and he flashed back: “We are having a great time strafing Japs.” - e e CHAMBER HEARS TALKS BY PORT CAPTAINS HERE Speakers at the Chamber of Com- merce meeting today at noon in the Baranof Hotel included Lt. Warren B. McKinstry, retiring port captain, M. Caro, new port captain, Lt. T. and Curtis Shattuck, who spoke on | marine insurance. the precautions necessary both in war and peace, and said that re- strietions may have to be tightened here in order to keep the docks as -ee of people as possible. | L. McKinstry expressed his ap- i preciation for the fine cooperation 1 gl him by Juneauites. Lt. Mc- + Lt. Caro spoke briefly on the{ | duties of a port captain, explainingioff Washington, Oregon and Cal- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA PACIFICWAR COUNCIL IN ~ MEET TODAY ‘Report of New Zealand? \ War Effort Given in | 5 Washington | WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 — The| Pacific War Council, with Prime| Minister Peter Fraser of New Zea- |land attending for the first time,| met with President Roosevelt today | and received a general report on| New Zealand's war effort, plus a| report on the operations in the| {Solomon Islands. Fraser arrived ihere yesterday. Walter Nash, Min-| ister to the United States, said Fraser's report was ‘‘encouraging and real.” SENATEOKEH IS GIVEN ON | FISHBILLS Would Regulafe Offshore| Salmon Fishing on | Pacific Coast | WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—The {Senate has approved legislation | | drastically regulating offshore sal- mon fishing on the Pacific Coast | {and to provide for a study of other {marine life to determine causes of | |depletion and to plan for conser- | § vation legislation. é Senator Charles L. McNary of h One would prohibit offshore sai- 114-Year-0ld Aleut Girl Is Mother Now KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 29.—A 14-year-old Aledt refu- gee girl, Seducia Falanoff, be- came the mother of a 7-pound daughter this mbrnihg at the Ketchikan General Hospital, The mother is one of 163 Aleuts evacuated in July from balf a dozen Aleutian Islands and now building duration homes at the former CCC Camp at Ward Lake, eight miles north of Ketchikan. This is the first baby born to evacuees here but others have been born in other South- east Alaska refugee centers, the Indian service says. MANY CREWS FINED FOR ILLEGAL HAULS IN WRANGELL COUR The U. 8. Commissioner’s Court | Nicola, Joe McNallen and Laurence in Wrangell has been busy this|Freeburn. | week with illegal fishing cases and | the following crews have ailed into court on charges: Crew of the Wesley, fined a total | Tapley, on Fourth Street, Cordova, of $468, including the price of .con- Was recently gutted by a fire start-| fiscated fish; crew of the Matilda,|ing in the early morning hours. fined $125; crew of the Chatham,| The Tapleys and a guest, Henry fined $250; crews of the Star anrl'WiCS“~ escaped from the flames. Phoenix, fined total of $800; crew of the Christine, fined $226 plus| $430 in confiscated fish; the Sanco, fined $959 including con- | kan and Sitka, left Wednesday for fiscated fish, and part of the crew Nis home in the.First City after| |of the Kati, fined $100 and $343 in confiscated fish. crew o P 2 o S SEEEE PIONEER DIES Warren Wishard, resident Gec o0 vso0eoe WEATHER REPORT . (U. S. Bureau) Oregon introduced the two bills Temp. Wednesday, Aug. 26 which were passed and sent 10|e Maximum 58, Minimum 51 the House for ratification. R A ) heen | of Ketchikan since 1910, died recently at the First City following an ex- tended illness. MANY TRAVEL | | WITH ALASKA | COASTAL LINE { Arrivals here with Alaska Coastal | Airlines yesterday afternoon {rom‘ | sitka were Emma Peterson, Ralph {H. Wise, Mrs, James Reed, Laur-| ence Freeburn and Bob Hansen. . _ Arriving here this morning from QUARTERS, Great Britain, Aug. Hawk Inlet with ACA were Hans|2/—Lieut. Gen Andrew McNaugh- Floe, John D. Collins and Bert | ton, Commander-in-Chief of»chcl Lashua; from Sitka, Dr. Ruth Gru- | Canadian forces, today predicted| ber, I. G. Kaufman, J. A. Wester the opening of a Western European and G. L, Beach and frof Exeur- |Front today, declaring that bower:| a | sion Inlet, Peter F. Sofie, Jr. |ful Allied armies “havd crossed | Passengers who left with ACA"‘he channel” to win the war. He| ug ? said the Allies can progress from ;mlayM\:'(-re[,)af::r sm;:(:“?;“cirg:; commando operations to “larger”| |Rand and Mrs, Clarence Rand; for LgEs. o v G | Ketchikan, Elmer Knight, H. N. | Newkirk, Jr, H. B. Foss, Major G.‘ARMY w‘ll IAKE | L. Beach, I. L. Kaufman and John INTERIOR DEPT. | SPACE IN NORTH' |A. Wester; for Wrangell, Dr. H.| |9 Weber and Martha Tutinkun:i | for Excursion Inlet, Richard Bolins | F\ and Richard Henry; and for Sitka, | Ernie Carter, Robert Hansen, James Executive Officer Frank Dufresne of the Alaska Game Commission HOME IS BURNED received word today from the Chi-: | The home of Mr. and Mrs. R. v. |cago orflge of the Fish andl Wild- | life Service that yesterday's dis- patch which was sent to Juneau regarding vacating Interior Depart- ment offices to make way for the| | Army should have been worded | SRR {to apply only to the Anchorage| BANKER RETURNS HOME Federal Building, and not to Ju- W. A. Bates, banker of Ketchi- |N€au: CANADIAN PREDICTS NEW FRONT CANADIAN MILITARY HEAD- New PLANE SERVICE JUNEAU to Anchorage Kodiak Fairbanks Yakutat . Valdez Nome Cordova Seward Bristol Bay Kuskokwim and Yukon Points * ALASKA STAR AIRLINES BARANOF HOTEL VERA CLIFFORD Juneau Agent Phone 667 RTH ANSPO RTATION COMPANY — ee-—— - of | The Dally Alaska Empire nas the | largest paid circulation of any Al-| aska newspaper. | making a business trip to Sitka. He returned a week ago from a ;‘hurried trip to Seattle cn busin | il Bleall "N i Walter Stoll, General Manugm~I and part owner of the Independ- | ence Mine in the Willow Creek dis-‘ trict out of Anchorage, left Wed-| nesday for Seattle after spending| the last two months at the mine. I 5 AN Frank White, Juneau, arrested by Territorial Highway Patrolman Em- mett Botelho for speeding on the Douglas Highway yesterday was |fined $10 when arraigned in U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray’s Court. ymon fishing in the south latitude| 50 degrees north except under Ii-| censes from the Fish and Wildlife! Service. This would cover all waters ifornia. The legislation carries 'heavy penalties for violations and |enables the Fish and Wildlife Ser- vice to coordinate offshore fishing with inshore fishing, now controlled by the three states. A BSenate special committee on conservation and wildlife resources follows: , HELP WANTED JUNEAU HIGH SCHOOL High §chool Teachers Needed at Once as ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES Serving Southeast Alaska: Passengers, Mail, Express SCHEDULED DAILY AT 9:30 A. M. Hawk An- Pel- Kim- Chicha- Inlet Hoonah goon Tenakee Todd ican shan gof Sitka Juneau ...§ 8 $10 $18 $10 $18 $18 $18 $18 $18 . 18 18 18 10 18 18 10 10 f 18 10 18 10 18 10 5 18 16 18 10 18 1c Pelican .. 18 10 18 18 Todd ....... 18 18 10 10 Tenakee .. 10 10 10 Angoon .. 18 18 |} Hoonah .. 10 Kinsiry will go to Ketchikan for ,dutics with the port. has reported that offshore fishing | "Mr. Shattuck told the Chamber 1§ not now regulated and abuses that he believes the War shippmg‘“'h“h tend to deplete saimon runs Administration s making a true have resulted. effort to make available to the| The second measure would auin- |pubile 2 low rate marine insurance | Orize $100,000 for a complete study | on goods coming to and from the of shrimp, crabs, lobsters and oys- Territory, but said that the bene- | ters and commercia]l clams. Engish, Algehfa, Bookkeeping, Commercial, Band WHISKEY Kentucky straight bourbon — 100 proof National Distillers Products Corporation,N.Y. All are full time positions and will continue until June first, 1943. Express Rate: 10 cens per pound—Minimum Charge 60c Round Trip Fare: Twice One-Way Fare, less 10% SCHEDULED MONDAY and THURSDAY " Distributed by National Grocery | Ketchikan Wrangell Petersburg Company, Seattle, Wash. Juneau .. I $35.00 $30.00 |——————————————1| ] Petersburg X 10.00 e P ‘Wrangell . 20.00 Wt Express Rate: 25¢ per pound—Minimum of $1.00 to Ketchikan Express Rate: 10¢ per pound—Minimum of 60c to Petersburg the new picture he Charlie | t have just completed with Fibber 1TS A1 ot yet being realized. McGee and Molly, caMed Here | B. pPhlliips, -Syperintendent of {Juneau Schools, also spoke briefly explaining that although schools {will open next Tuesday, many teachers still are needed. Visitors included Bob Sheldon of | Fairbanks, Norris K. Porter, form- { pal of Kodiak High School, We Go Again.” Burafion - How Long! Off - ihe - Record Talk Is Given by Sificial i, Tst s gen. | | L FREEBURNSAYS SALMON SEASON | IN SITKA GOOD | | “While the season was unusually | late this year, causing the salmon | ELLIOTT ROBERTSON IS IN ARMY TODAY Elliott Robertson, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Robertson, is being in- ducted into the Army at Camp Lee, Virginia, today. He has been in Washingion, D. | C., employed in the Maritime Com- mission, for the last year and had had his draft registration trans- (Continded from Page One) million men and all their equip ment, he thought it might ke wo: it; but for the very reason th the Nazis have the manpower au possibly the machine power, they might be able to combat a second | front to a stalemiate without being diverted. As for the thousand-plane rnidsfpack in the Sitka area to fall below on German cities, this observer that of last year, it has been an sald very emphatically and from excellent season on the whole,” tirst-hand ~ khowledge that they Lawrence Freeburn, President, Gen- were far more spectacular than eral Manager and part owner of the effectual. To raze a city is one | Pyramid Salmon Company said to- thing; to raze enough camouflaged day. and well-hidden war factorles to| Mr. Freeburn arrived in Juneau wreck the war effort or even halt |1ast night with Alaska Coastal Air- it for any length of tifne ts &n- |Jines and expects to return to Sitka other. | today or tomorrow. During his stay These are just . oy omnm’“ ‘e;‘::;s:; ";; per |BPO. Hlks, No. 420 at last Hght's man—but that man f= in a poai-‘mee"ng' 3 | tion to be in the know. He may be | The escapement this year should} Wrong, bitt 30 tay be Obhers ‘be u_nusually large as the fish run 7 *lis still heavy in the Sitka area, he MAKES BUSINFSS TRIP |said. The Pyramid Salmon Com- | pany packed a total of 57,000 cases {during the present season. Lisle Hebert, wcll known mer- | ————— chandise hroker Wednesdav, The Daily Alaska Empir for Ketchikan ou a short | of L i v iness largest paid circulation of any Al- trip. aska newspaper. |in Juneau, he was initiated into the | {ferred from Anchorage to Wash- Any Juneau resident who once by mail to Supt. of 1271, Juneau, Alaska. your letter of application, NAZI U-BOATS . ENCOUNTERING | State your qualifications in PERSONAL INTERVIEW DESIRED—Phone 424 for appointment. and Wrangell FOR INFORMATION ON TRIPS TO HAINES, HASSELBORG, SKAGWAY, TAKU LODGE: Pno"z slz An additional charge will be made for single passengers to flag stops can qualify should apply at Schools, A. B. Phillips, Box THE . ATCO ’ LINE - VICISSITUDES NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—A German radio broadecast picked up here this afternoon, acknowledges U-boats are encountering ‘“vicissitudes” in the campaign against shipping off the American coast but contend the troubles are due to a reduction in shipping rather than improved anti-submarine defenses. J. E. Boyle, Union Oil Company | representative, left Wednesday for a business trip to Southeast Alaska ports. He was accompanied by his \son, J. E. Boyle, Jr, who will con- | tinue south to attend school. I IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED CONQIVATIVEMMMMW | supervision work constantly foe the protection of our | ington. depositors. Additional security is provided through this Petersburg, Port ander ; SHEVORREE m-.mapurmmmfln::mm- o Way Ports LEAVES FOR SOUTH She; & Uniced Ssees Gouerliins Sty which inkiw EVERY WEDNESDAY esch depositor against loss to 8 maximum of $5,000, AT 6 A. M. First National Bank of rt_flmw. ALASEA 10 Weekly — Seattle - Fairbanks Alaska Transportation | o 5 Weekly — Fairbanks - Nome BAILINGS FROM PIER 7 BEATTLE DEPOSITS BEER | oo, o= i § RS R 9:00am Lv 10:20am Ar 11:25am Ar Fairbanks, Alaska 160 MWT Ruby, Alaska 150 M Nome, Alaska 165 M D. B. FEMMER—AGENT PHONE 114 Ta. 5:00am LV FRlrbAnks, Alaska _150 MWT F 150 MWT 150 M s 'WT Bethel, Alaska 185 m NIGHT 312 2:10am e | THE M. V. BEILBY will leave Juneau for Please have all freight on i)ilt)y BIOCk Tuesday, before ]. H. SAWYER BRINGING UP FATHER BY GOLLY=I'D LIKE TO TAKE A CHABICE AN’ GO QUT. TODAY -BUT I'M AFRAID SOME - ONE MIGHT HIT ME SORE _FOCOT- IT 1S STILL PRETTY Capt, 15 - _— - Inc., World rights resérved. .~ ¢ Lo 8 42, King Features Syndicate, JUNEAU — ANCHORAGE YAKUTAT — CORDOVA With Connecting Service to KODIAK — KENAI PENINSULA and BRISTOL BAY Woodley AirWays | GLESS THIS IS JUST ABOUT THE SAFEST PLACE IN TH' HQLISE.’ ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES AGENTS ¢ PHONE 612

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