The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 30, 1942, Page 6

Air Base !Big Mystery At Istres Of Fafe of 8 Occupied Missing Men | Search Parties,Private and Coast Guard, Reveal No Clues fo Westward CORDOVA, Alaska, Nov. 28— (De- French Told to Evacuate by Nazi Authorities- Germans in Jayed)—Mystery still veils the fate BERN. Nov. 30.—A Havas diS-|,¢ oignt men aboard Arthur C patch says the French Army Alrlgiape fishing boat, missing since Lase at Istres, near the Mediter- |y v 0 ranean coast and about 25 miles| goi e wednesday of the northwest of Marseilles, has been | g3 waters and shorelines by cvacuated by orders of the Naziliy, yogts employed by the Coast et |Guard failed to reveal a clue. | German troops, the dispatch said,| A brief aerial search by a private have taken possesion of all ‘services |plane was equally in vain | in all occupied sections of Istres The C Guard, starting Sun- | |day, planned an extensive search | |of the shorelines and islands and | may use a plane as well as boats. } Several boatmen, of many years'| experience in the waters of this section still maintain the men are | still alive and holed-up at some‘ Holiday Gifts obscure spot, unable to reach a| communication center, and await- | ing rescue Missing Men The missing men were bound for the Roberts Lumber Company. camp | on Fidalgo Bay, 50 miles from here. | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—]JUNEAU, ALASKA Scene of Historic Air Batile This graphic photo shows anti-aircraft batteries of a United States task force during the historic battle of the Santa Cruz Islands October 26. Repelling the fourth attack on an American garrier (center) by Jap dive bombers and torpedo planes, the scene depicts one enemy dive bomber (barely discernible above the They are Geor owner owner; Skipper and Jack Koski, Harry Wilson Frenchy Tommy Oscar Hill, new camp. Theories advanced by *way from serious the possibility - Q) breakdown with here last Tuesday where waters. storms stir up PURSES — Genuine Leather, Fabric and Corde. GLOVES to match. COSTUME JEWELRY — Pins, Vecklaces, Clips, Beads. S—Sizes 32 to 4 SCARFS—Wool, silk. MBRELLAS— $3.95—$5.95 HANDKERCHIEFS — Gay Prints and White. SILK UNDERWEAR Slips, Gowns, Panties, Pajamas. ROBES—Quilted Satin, Chen- ille, Seersucker. - H. W. STARLING place Loss in Fire Open Evenings Until SRS Christmas Jones - Stevens Seward Street CANADIAN PACIFIC SOUTHERN ROUTE > Roberts, the mill | Arthur G. Clark, the bDBt‘ Gordon, Moore, Martin Munsen and | workers for the | local and experienced boatmen range all the catastrophe that the men have | put in at an out of the way cove | o ceived by-the OIA from the Libby, to avoid a storm or to repair a nronein and Libby cannery, ANB, The first definite knowledge that ‘ity and tentative arrangements were the men were missing was revealed the arrival of Mrs. Roberts from the camp saying that the men were | overdue. The route of the missing would lead around Knowles Head, treacherous RETURNS FROM YAKUTAT TRIP Population Generously Helped Teachers Re- H. W. Starling, Director of the |possible in order that class work Arts and Crafts Department of the imay be Department of Education for the |can be. office of Indian Affairs, returned | £ Saturday from Yakutat where he | spent ten days in connection with reestablishing the OIA school fol- |carriers goes back to euncing a New smoke from an enemy plane which crashed close aboard to stern. drenched with seawater from the explosion so close 2 destroyer. board was the crash. other Jap planes shot down are barely visible down horizon. This remarkable photo was taken from a lowing the recent fire which com- pletely destroyed the school building {and teachers’ quarters in Yakutat. Numerous offers of quarters were to {and other agencies in the commun- made by Mr. Starling to use the ANB Hall and possibly a room in the Salvation Army quarters for class work Nothing was saved from the build- ing; from which Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dimler, teachers, and their children, Caroline and Lionel, barely escaped with their lives. In addition to the loss of the building, and all school records and supplies, the Dimlers lost all of their personal possessions. “The only satisfactory thing about the whole accident was the splendid long LONDON, Nov. 30.—Reuters News | Agency said tod that the Algiers | radio reported a French sub reached Algiers this evening from Toulon This is the second French sub reported to have escaped from the German-occupied naval base.’Span- ish authorities at Barcelona have interned the other, identifiedias the boat ing Powers carrier’s stern) and a torpedo plane starting its dive (right center). A third enemy plane has just been exploded, white smoke (left center), leaving a trail behind him. The carrier itself is almost obscured by Personnel topside afterboard were Funeral pyres of several SECONDFR. [PRESIDENT'S SUB IS IN REQUEST IS SAFE PORT TURNED DOWN House Grofip Balks Grant-! Over Im- migration Laws WASHINGTON, compromise move, Nov. 30.—In the House Ways spirit of helpfulness, thoughtfulness 597-ton Iris and Means Subcommittee and cooperation shown by the In- A Y to strip from the President the dians and whites, both civilians and requested new wartime power and army inh assisting the Dimlers,” Mr authority to suspend the present Starling said. DE(EMBER QUOTA immigration regulations and re- Gifts of money, exceeding $300 SEAREnE were collected by both the Indians G s o ok et tar ha Lsub FORTIRES, TUBES, AUTOS IS LARGER December quotas for tires, tubes and automobiles for Alaska are considerably larger than they have been in the past, according to word received by Mrs. M. O. Jghnson, | The use of pigeons as message- Ratiori Administrator for Alaska,, from the Washington, D.C., head- 3500 BC. ! | 5 ™ |quarters. i | Quotas for the month for the 172 passenger car: and white population in addition to clothes, bedding, food, dishes and even furniture to aid Mr. and Mrs Dimler following their loss. Supplies for the school will be sent to ‘Yakutat by OIA as soon as resumed as quickly as o i | Territory " are, tires; 142 truck or bus automobiles. tubes; |6 truck or bus tires and 2 truck or bus tubes Oxfords Brown elk, moccasin type, welt oxford. Black corded sole and heel. Sizes 210 6. "Family Shoe Store Seward St. meaeure sional with Navy, | Quotas for Juneau for the month'the R. J of December are 22 passenger car|Company since last spring. He was s tubes: 5 Joined several months,ago by Mrs. | 2 tires; 50 truck or bus| Hagerup, the former Mary Metcalf.] make their home in | {Juneau during the winter months | . tires; 10 passenger car grade No. 2 |tires; 20 truck or bus tubes and 1| | automobile. Douglas is alloted 6 passenger b i jcar tires; 2 passenger ReIUD's into action this representative: Justice and the committee, attempting to whip the shape for congres: year, conferred s of the War, and State Depart-| ments, and the Board of Economic Welfare sion. Tariff Commis- g pieteibd RAY HAGERUP AND MRS. HAGERUP HERE TO SPEND WINTER Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hagerup arrived | myst attack FROM here’'—his fin- tires; 76 passenger car tubes; 39 here Saturday from the Westward, grade No. 2 tires; 425 truck or bus having made the trip from Nome to 10| Anchorage by plane. | has been in Nome associated with Sommers Construction They will parents, car tubes: ‘pank A, Metcalf. Mr. Hagerup {and are living in the home of Mrs. | Mr. and Mrs. These are the hot blast stoves and blast furnaces at the new steel by Henry J. Kaiser, West Coast shipbuilder, at a cost of $50,000,000. It is the first complete new steel plant in the war construction program and will go into production about January 1. -1 Juneau Boy Scouts ! PROGRAM OF GIRL | SCOUTS CAVALCADE ENDINGTOMORROW \Quiz Game Be Held Be- | tween Douglas Girls, Closing a series of radio programs | sponsored by - the Juneau-Douglas | Girl Scouts in the dramatic Caval- !cade of America series, which has| been heard locally for the past six weeks, Tuesday night’s program will {enlist local Scouts in a quiz pro-| |gram following the dramatic tran-| seription, to be heard at 7:30 o’clock. Raymond Massey, famed portrayer of Abraham Lincoln on the stage| |and screen, has the leading role in‘, the “Undefended Border,” the last/ in the series of Girl Scout programs‘l The play was written by Stephen| | Vincent Benet, editor on the staff | | of the “Saturday Review of Litera- | ture” It deals with the historic| friendliness between the United‘ | States and Canada, whose mutual | border has been undefended for more than a hundred years. Following the radio drama a quizg |game will be heard between Girl | Andrews and Phyllis Andrews, all | | Scouts Patsy Ann Balog, Noreen of Douglas, and their guest com- petitors for the evening, Juneau Boy | Scouts Dick Wingerson, Jimmy ‘Klem and Buddy Hunter. All com- peting youngsters, both boys and MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, Buy 1 XMAS CANDIES and NUTS—Now! While Stocks Are Complele. We Have a Large Selection of MIXED and FANCY CANDIES SALTED NUTS in jars and packages. FRESH ALMONDS, BRAZIL NUTS, WALNUTS. Large paper shell PECANS. EORGE BROTHER 2 DELIVERIES DAILY 10:30 A. M. 2:30 P. M. PHONE 95 1942 . | ‘girls. are second class Scouts. |” Miss Ruby McNeil is leader of the | Douglas intermediate troop furnish- |ing girls for the quiz, while W. C. Kennell is acting Scoutmaster for| i Troop 613, from which the boys were taken. Miss Shirley Davis, Senior Service | Girl Scout, will play two cello solos | during the program. Programs and quizzes have been directed by Mrs. | Robert Coughlin of the Girl Scout | Council. | G S 'ALASKA VIEWED FROM MILITARY " POINT BY CHINA Even in . China military people |are evidently as keenly alive to the strategic importance of Alaska as are our own citizer In his book, “Action in the East,” the au- a thor, Dowd O'Gallagher, tells of a law, and these went into effect No-| meeting with a lieutenant-general decided |Of the Chinese Army in which the | berths was increased from five per- general told of the method in which, in his judgment, the war would be won. The following is quoted from pages 291-292 of the | book : | “He pulled a large map, roughly | drawn on rice paper, from his small tin trunk, and laid it on the floor. We all knelt around it, and through | Sar-Jin the general explained | *“‘Japan and Germany have | rendezvous here,’ his finger stabbed | India. ‘If they meet they will cut the world in half; he lifted the round lid off a cigarette tin and | swept one hand between the lid and the tin itself—like this.’ * ... ‘We must all attack Japan here’'—he laid a slim, tapering fin- ger over Japan itself . . . ‘And we ger traversed the North Pacific| and stopped in Alaska. ‘Attack Ja- pan itself, and all Japanese soldiers | will want to run home’ said the general. ‘England must attack Ger- many from the west; Russia must attack Germany from the north and east; China and her friends out here must attack Japan. It| would all be over. The British, Am- ericans, Russians, Dutch, Chinese, | from five cents for each 50 cents NEW TAXATION 10 COME 500N Taxation of freight and express shipments becomes effective to-! | | Revenue Act. | This new Federal tax applies to| amounts paid for transporting o property by rail, motor vehicle, | PeF water or air from one point to another in the United States, Com- missioner Guy T. Helvering points out in a communication to Inter- nal Revenue collectors. The rate is three percent of the| amount paid, except that in the case of coal the tax is four cents per short ton Excise taxes on passenger trans- portation are increased by the new vember 1. The tax on fares and cent to ten percent. | On November 1 the tax rate on! telegraph, cable or radio dispatches or messages (except international dispatches or messages) was in-| creased from ten percent to fifteen percent, and the rate on telephone and radio telephone toll charges of 25 cents or more was advanced f the charge to a straight 20 per- cent rate. On November 2 the rate on local telephone service was increased from six percent to ten percent, and the rate on leased wire, tele-| typewriter and talking circuit spec- | ial service was increased from ten' percent to fifteen percent. ' range for the East and the West to live peacefully at home for-| ever. ., | “That was the general’s master plan to end the war. He said it would end in 1942 | ——————— | EYES EXAMINED and BROKEN LENSES replaced in | our own shop. Dr. Rae Lilllan| Carlson, Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636. | 'and all our friends could then ar- - NewKaiser Steel Plant Is Near Complefion 1 mill being built near Fontana, Calif., | BUY DEFENSE STAMPS | SYIvia Davis Piays | An announcement received today fromr the Cincinnati Conservatory of morrow, December 1, under provi- | Music brought word that Sylvia , sions of the recently enacted 1942|Audrey Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Davis, appeared in a recital in Concert Hall at the con- | servatory the evening of Novem- Miss Davis, who is a violin pupil of Howard Colf, played the Saint Seans’ | LUTHERAN JUNIOR CHOIR The regular weekly practice of the Lutheran Junior Choir will be held Luesaay evening usual this week. Copyright 1942, Nations] Distillers *. Products Corporation, New York Distributed by National Grocery Company, Seattle, Wash, 4 A T T RO Cincinnati Recital 17, “Havanaise.” TO PRACTICE TUESDAY A at 7 o'clock as Two facts you can see and one you can taste recommend 0ld Taylor to you. 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