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PAGE SIX ALERTON [ THURSDAY B NIGHT AT 7 Inslruclions]gfified ~Terri-| torial Guards Also fo Participate A practice Alert will be held to- morrow, Thursday evening, at 7 o'clock, the Juneau Civilian De- fense Council announced today The alert will not include a black- out All members of the Civilian De- fense are urged to report The problem of the First Aid| Corps will be to render first aid| to a patient suffering from a| shrapnel wound in the upper right| arm, resulting in a compound fract- ure. Alr raid wardens will serve as| patients at the 14 first aid stations.| No ambulances will be used. | Air raid warden sergeants will| report the number of personnel of | wardens and first aiders in at- tendance in their respective dis-| tricts. 7 = FR |the Gity Hall tonight at 7 o'clock to I Guards To Patrol | re " oir PSR o “hicl Squads of Territorial Guards will|receive their night sticks which also patrol the streets. They will{Dave been completed by the manual| not perform any of the duties of training students of the Juneflui either auxiliary policemen or of air|High Schools raid wardens. A meeting of the Defense Council will be held tomorrow evening at A number of the air raid helmets have been distributed; but, the De- fense Council said today, air raid *1€Tt: -3 | Guard Noticy 7:30 in the City Hall following the| sergeants who have not received v i their alloted quota should call at| On Thursday all members of the the (City. Hall g8d oistain ey, | Alasks Territorial Guard qre. ¥ee Durniu the alert all persons, _|quested to be at their usual meeting cept those authorized to do so, must | P 8 few minutes before 30} A e | clock, with equipment, in order to except those bearing authorized' COOPerate with the Civilian Defense insignia, must halt and remain|bY patrolling during the practice }‘dl(‘l'(, All members who possibly can |are urged to turn out for the meet- |ing before 7 o'clock parked next to the curb Scout Cooperation he Defense Counci ipates ; T fense. Oouncll paj Following the alert there will be through cooperation with the Boy < a meeting tor all memb of the Scouts in the near future, to tak ea T Alaska Territorial Guards in the into membership as messengers o ¢ grade scihool auditorium where a number of Boy Scouts in accord i : : ture of instruct ill be given, ance with the agreement entered . p.s0 oieloek into between the National Organ -eo tion of the Boy Scouts the Of- fice of Civilian Defe! c Get Night Sticks Auxiliary policemen have been asked by Walter P. Scott, Director, Auxiliary Police Corps, to call at and ( RL SCOUTS 70 HAVE BIG WEEK OCTOBER 25-31 Many Adivities Planned- Including Style Show, Movies and Radio Girl Scout Week, October 25 to 31, will embrace a whirl of activi- ties for troops of the Gastineau Channel area, Mrs. H. L. Faulk- ner, Scout Commissioner, an- nounced this week, with every Girl Scout taking part in some way. Selected members of the Brownie troops of Juneau and Douglas will appear on a Brownie Quiz between 7:30 and 8 p.m. over radio sta- \tion KINY the evening of Octobex A\ 27, as a special event for Girl o/ (%) Scout Week. It will be part of % ' |the Girl Scout Hour during which A WONDERFUL the Cavalcade of America series will be presented in a series of SELECTION OF |weekly broadcasts at the same time. Court of Awaras Opening the special week will be the Girl Scout Court of Awards, to be held Sunday, October 25, at 2 pm. in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church. Girls who have completed requirements for badges and special certificates and | whose credentials have been sub- mitted previously, will be honored at this time. Next special activity will be the BRASSIERES and FOUNDATION GARMENTS in the following nationally advertised makes: l‘lexees radio broadcast, previously men- A tioned, on Tuesday, October 27, Maiden Form followed by the two big events of the series, a movie showing at the Vassareites Capitol Theatre the evening of Pri- day, October 30, Fields in featuring W. C. Never Give a Sucker an Van Raalte Even Break, and a second pic- P]aylex ture, “Moonlight in Hawaii,” with ¢ ; 2 Jane Frazee and Johnny Downs. Full length Foundations Proceeds of the two evening show- and Girdles and Panty ings will be turned over to the Girdles . . sizes 32 to 44. Girl Scouts, Tickets are now on sale by members of the Rotary Club, Elks, Moose, the Chamber Jones.stevens of Commerce and other city clubs and organizations as well as the Seward Street girls themselves, . . | The style show and tea to be YOUR PAL SINCE THE FIRST DAY YOU SOLD HIM HIS ALL LEATHER SHOES. Family Shoe Store Seward Street MADAGASCAR’S CAPITAL NOW IN BRITISH capital of the strategic French island of Madagascar. British troops occupied the city as part of a campaign to keep the Axis out. e e ANDS_ shop Madagascar: Axis Barrier FORT ~ - DAUPHIN Madagascar, recently occupied by the British to nip potential ‘Axis threats to India and shippirg routes, is a mountainous, 1.200-mile- long strip flanking the southern peint of Afr Fourth largest is- land in the world, it is as large as most of the eastern United States. The island is roughly three times the size of Great Britain. given Saturday afternoon, October of the Scottish Rite Temple and will be held from 2 to 5 pm. Girls pROGRAM 'I‘o BE working for their Personal Health badges will be models for the show, HEARD TONIGHT Mrs. Harold Foss, chairman, said Tea will be served cafeteria st under the direction of Mrs. E: Ao olbatiin. thB serids ofiindal: McGinty while the show is Inpro- naj gramatic radio presentations, eSS, sponsored by the U.S. Treasury De- Tickets are to be had from the partment’s War Savings Staff in civic clubs given above or from pjska, will be heard tonight over the Girl Scouts. Cookies will be gation KINY at 8:30 o'clock. sold all during Girl Scout Week past week's production, “The and are now on their way, MIs. yojce of America,’ is reported to E. L. Keithahn, program chair- paye met with an enthusiastic au- man, announced dience response. It was written and — directed by Deputy War Savings Administrator Frederick Ayer, as is tonight’s program e PIONEER DIES m Patterson, 88, who locat- in 1896, mined and vas connected with TO RESCIND .- MANACLING prospected and the Alaska Railroad Commission for a number of years, died re- |cently at L, s the Pioneers’ Brifain Will Cancel Re- orve prisal Measures If Nazis | Unbind Prisoners | Sitka. He had been at Home for a number LONDON, Oct. 14—Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill announced that Germany has been requested to rescind her action of shackling British and Canadian prisoners. If the Nazis agreed, Britain would immediately cance] her reprisal measures. -+ C. OF ( MEMBERS T0 HEAR OF NAZI FRANCE OCCUPATION Karl S. Cate, American business man A in France for six mont r the German occupa- tion, and left Paris in December, 1940, will address members of Ju- neau Chamber of Commerce {o- morrow noon on his experiences in an Axis-occupied nation. Mr. Cate is an old friend of Gov. Ernest Gruening Arthur Hedges, of the U. S. Em- ployment Office in Juneau, also will be a guest when the Chamber meets in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel >, — BUY DEFENSE BONDS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA * pers crowd the market place of Tananarive, ‘ HOUSE GRoup JUNEAU MAN IS APPOINTED U 5. J. Gerald Williams fo L J. Gerald Williams, former Ju-| neau resign sistan the Third Division with headquar- WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1942 RENTS WILL BE FROZEN, SAYS BYRNES \Director of Economic Stab- ilization Moves fo Control Property | WASHINGTON, Oct. 14—James | Byrnes, new Director of Economic | Stabilization, has moved to control rents of all real property, commer- | cial as well as residential, and has | had a bill introduced in the House | for this purpose. RENT FREEZE IS APPROVED BY {New Bill Wm Give Pres- ident Wide Control Powers WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—At thr request of Economic Director Byrnes, quick action by the House Banking Committee has paved the |way for House action tomorrow on legislation giving the President au- thority to “freeze’ residential and commercial real property rentals { throughout the country. The committee tentatively agreed ASST. ATTORNEY eave for Third Divi- sion Post s sacher who recently ! ; ol v acher 048 Y to strike from the measure the ed, has been appointed As- : / e UL miates Atiothey Srop v an that in as far as prac- S : & ticable rents should be stabilized |on the basis of September 15, 1942, ters nchorage, to assist U.S. s A‘~ in A‘l\‘c e z!x( . )nvl' : O; ve to the President the ; “’;"” ‘1“1' ki e e of naming a date to icial motification of the apr which to roll back charges for the ment was ived last night by _ % e use of real property. ‘-w“‘ s o The committee also decided ten- 2l nd - SeVeN- | tatively on a stipulation that the s : e W president could regulate charges by plane this week for Anchorage.|gn yooms and hotel —rooming Williams is a graduate of the |, ... Tniversity Washington Schoolof | o University of Washington S e g Law, receiving his degree in June, 1941, He was admitted to practice in Alaska last March 0 en -oo ] W THEY CALL Women's Auxiliary to U.S. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 — A meast ilia Guard, a counterpart of the Army's| WAA! and Bland also stated plans are to| call f the e HAT WILL ' Housing for THEM NOW? May Be Taken Over fo Relieve Shorfage WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. The | Government announced today it | would lease privately owned homes Coast Guard Is fo Be Set Up house war workers, e setting up a Women'’s Aux- | © to the United States Coast|if necessary. Navy’s WAVES, | Chairman Cs and d the the House, time by new construction. | e e - FAMILY RECORD > said women will fill shore jobs‘ or a for nd of ne of 10,000 women by | t year. | B | lieve their family has set LEAVES SITKA to live with her son George who naval air service. is as: | of Agriculture Natives Help.Build Air Bases for U.S. S R BUY DEFENSE STAMPS ciated with the Department | Native labor is being employed by Uncle Sam to build bases on the supply route across Africa to the Middle East under the supervision of Pah-American Airways engineers. They use their own tools and desert animals to erect buildings. A native worker (left) is shown patting together mud re-enforced with camel and goat hair which will be baked into brick. He makes 120 bricks in eight hours. Camels (right) carry the loads from the baking oven to the various air base building projects. War Workers Privately Omd Buildings and buildings in various States to requisitioning 1the structures for billeting workers Officials explained that housing accommodations can’t be supplied in WALLA WALLA, Wash,, Oct. 14. | —Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carey be- some sort of a record. Three sons were commissioned in the armed serv- Mrs. Elizabeth Molineaux, after |ices within a week. One became a 18 years as missionary in charge major in the army engineers, an- |of the Bishop Rowe Mission in Sit- |other a captain in the air force| ka, has left for Washington, D.C.,fand the third an ensign in me;Seaman, ot lass Bonte 1 Jonik) Always the NEWEST and BEST in FOODS at GEORGE BROTHERS! Imperial, McLaren's, Chedder l 4 5 VERY SHARP CHEESE, 2 1b. box . I¥PORTED ROQUEFORT, pound . ... .95¢ GJETOST GOAT CHEESE, pound . . .. .75¢ (Norwegian Goat Cheese) .59 GENUINE LIMBURGER CHEESE, 1b. CHEEZHAM, half pound package . . . . .35c IT IT'S NEW — IT IT’S GOOD — YOU’LL ALWAYS FIND IT AT || GEORGE BROTHER TWO DELIVERIES DAILY—10:30 and 2:30 'PHONES 92 and 35 ]More Awal'ds ok (IllaasssAte in Hole To Aleutian i 1 | | | | | HUGO, Okla., Oct. 14.—At one of these war-time first aid classes, | | Mike Hughes stuck his hand in ] the electric fan, lacerating three Fliers Told | Excitement was high, since no {one had a bandage. Somebody T |suggested an emergency bandage ADC Gives A"’ Medals 'O‘Imm a petticoat, but there were g i no petticoats. F]Ve F||ers Who Af- Finally, even as you, ,the first aiders called a doctor. e facked Japanese | |Gas Rationing Keeps Auto Accidents Down (Continued from Page One) medals were awarded five fliers for operating aircraft over the Aleutians and braving heavy anti-| VICTORIA, BC,, Oct. 14. — Autc aircraft fire and cruiser-basedaccidents are running about 2 fighters to attack the Japanese. { percent below those of 1941 and Maj. Gen. Simon B. Buckner an- officials attribute the drop to ra- nounced the awards were given to|tioning of gasoline and tires and Maj. Kenneth H. Gibson, pilot,|imposition of a 40-mile speed March Fleld, Cal, formerly of lmit. The number of personal Texas; 2nd Lieut. Murry E. Weeks, injuries and the amount of prop- first pilot, Greenwood, Mi: War- | erty damage show even greater rant Officer Lester R. Dowell, declines, dio opehator, Riverside, Calif.; Sgt. Harvey W. Gipple, radio operator, | 7104 Wilcox St., Bell, Cal.; Pfc Eu- gene Burchard, engineer, Union, Texas. Navy Men Honored Recognizing unusual Navy co- operation with the Army in the Aleutian war, Buckner announced | the award of the Army Air Medal to three Navy officers and a radio | cperator. Lieut. Clark A. Hood, Jr., Nacona, Texas, received a medal | for his act in volunteering as navi- gator for an Army bomber when | unsatisfied with his regular oppor- tunities to get at the Japanese.| He was lost when his Liberator bomber, attacking Japanese ves- ! cels near Kiska in heavy anti-air- craft fire was shot down on its first run. Lieut. Robert L. Donley of Clin- tonville, Wis, was honored for bravery in bringing his PBY down at sea near life rafts holding mem- bers of the crew of an Army Lib- erator which had been forced down the crew aboard, giving first aid and bringing all safely ashore. 50 miles off shore. | | Answering a “Very” signal, Don- | M ley landed in heavy seas and took | 5 \ ¥/ Get Army Award | Ensign Reuben N, Smith, obscrv-“ er, of Gfrden City, Kansas, was honored for going as an observer M"DB on a day and night flight during | ffl‘r olls icing conditions in the Western R FAM | Aleutians, to attack the Japanese.| Radio operator William F. Boyce, | | licothe, Ohio, was a member of the ‘crew of a bomber which directed | bombing and photographing of |enemy ground installations and {naval concentrations near Kiska. He made his last radio contact | | with the base while near Kiska,! | but the plane failed to return. ! { - BUY DEFENSE BONDS Cope 1943, . Bk Borwng oy Midmasier, ¥ Retail Clerks Union MEETING Local 1392 i WEDNESDAY October 14 7:30 P. M. W A.F.of L. Hall | i [ | |

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