The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 7, 1943, Page 6

[£] DFESSES 25% REDUCTION se include: ELLY DO L’AIGLO BETTY BAXLEY’S and many other standard makes. One and two piece in both sport and dressy styles in wool and crepe. Plain colors and rayon prints. Original Prices from $6.50 to $15.75 Sale Starts Friday Morning January 8 No Refunds, Approvals or Exchanges Jones-Stevens Seward Street TIDES TOMORROW | OPEN CUSTOMS STATION NOW IN ANCHORAGE High tide—3:16 a.m., Low tide—9:03 am., High tide—3:04 p.m. 19.2 feet. Low tide—9:39 p.m, -3.4 feet. ————— | LIS SR Y B WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Temp. Wednesday, Jan. 6 Maximum 44, minimum 35 Rain—1.25, inch s e e 00000000 ——e In the days of Queen Elizabeth, Englishmen were required by law to eat fish 55 days of the ye:u 17.1 feet 1.1 feet. nors today announced the open- ing of a customs station at Anch- age, effective January 1, and also the appointment of E. R. Tarwater| as the station. The new station has been opened for the purpose of better serving- the needs of airplane companies flying from Anchorage to Juneau | via Whitehorse, Y. T. Tarwater is well-known in Alas- ka, having served in the Territor- ial House of Representatives from the Third Division in the 1929 Legislature. Deputy collector J. J. Hillard of Eagle has been in Anch- orage for two months while oper- ating the new station on a trial | basis, and will return to the Juneau headquarters soon. Connors also announced th transfer of Edgar L. Dale, effec-| tive January 5, from the customs offce at Hyder, Alaska, to the cus- . . ! . . . tome station at Prince Rupert, B. C.! Dale will serve Feero, deputy Sidney Anderson of Hyder will succeed Dale as part-time deputy |at Hyder. | - TRIAL DATE SET under Frank E. The case of the Electrical Pro- | ducts, Imc. vs W. D. Gross, has | been set for trial beginning March 15 on the U. S. District Court cal- | endar. H. S. 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Con- | part-time deputy-in-charge DI- collector-in- rge. | Chasyge |the Chamber for service men at| | Compensation Commission, afternoon on & visit to the States. RUNNING T0 ' FIRES MUST BE STOPPED ;Pedeslrian; Autoists Are Given Warning - Co- operation Asked v | Fire Chief W. Mulvihill, THE DAlLY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA On Waferfront | backed by Police Chicf B. H. Man- | le 1pedosmam to stop running to | fire when an alarm is sounded, 1peci:n]_v now since the streets are in a slippery condition, but also at all other times. Late yesterday afternoon, an alarm was sounded, collisions were narrowly averted be- |tween the fire truck and autos when the truck was | Main Street. | “Autoists, according to the |ordinance, are required to pull up to the curb and remain there when an alarm is sounded in order to give the fire truck right-of-way. said Chief Mulvihill. *“Yesterd: several autoists kept right on their way at intersections and elsewhere | when the truck was going to the| |fire on Gold Belt Avenue, and only by the care and alertness of the| |truck driver were several accidents |avoided. The streets are slippery | |and full right-of-way must be igiven the truck. Pedestrians also, racing to the scene of an alarm, get in the way and they, like the autoists, should get to the curb| when several | speeding up | | city today called upon autoists and | es- { Loraine Healh rheeker. and Mrs. 'lhe]ma Blmnrhzrd lnghl]. dock worker, handled supplies on a Navy pier in San Francisco. Mrs. Blanchard’s husband was lost with the U .S. S. Shark, a submarine. They said they found pushing a hand truck around as easy as and remain there until all danger | {IS removed. There are only two or |three autos licensed to rush to a| fire with the truck. These autos arc‘ |carrying firemen or those s\ho ‘have charge of certain duties when |an alarm is sounded. This warn-, |ing to be careful and restrain from | ;gemng in the way of fire trucks| "applles not only to the present but to all times.” } “There are going to be some ar- rests if conditions are not changed,” said Chief Manery, backing up ‘Chlei 'Vlulvlhlll CHAMBER URGES MANPOWER HEAD ~ FOR NORTHLAND 'Vofes fo Donafe Money to .‘ Red Shield Read- | ing Room It was announced at the Cham- ber of Commerce meeting this noon lin the Baranof Hotel, the first of the year, that the Executive Board | has 'wired Alaska Delegate Anthony ;J. Dimond urging appointment of !a war manpower commissioner for |Alaska and asking the Delegate to report to the Chamber on the |duties of tfe WMC as affecting | Alaska President Charles W. Carter, re- elected to serve during 1943, an- nounced that a piano and some an isolated outpost. Carter an- nounced that committee appoint-) {ments will be announced at the! next meeting' and a financial re- port for 1942 will also be given. The Chamber voted to donate | $20 monthly for the Salvation| Army Red Shield Reading Room | providing the city and others keep | up contributions' made last year.| H. L. Faulkner gave a report on |the reading room and read a peti- tion from service men asking that this service be continued along with the USO, stating that a need for the room still exists. Faulkner also pointed out that many civil- ian workers have used the room’s facilities which include a fine li- brary of books, many magazines, games, places to wash and shave and even to sleep. The city contributed $60 a month toward the support of the room last - year. Guests included Lieut. Col. Ho- bart A. Murphy of the ADC, Pro- vost Marshal for Alaska and Army liaison officer for the Alaska War Council; Frank Ploof, of the Cen- tral Travel Bureau of Wash.; Lieut. Philip Allen on the staff of Lieut. Col. Roy W. Riegle here, and Assistant U. S. Attorney Robert Jernberg of Ketchikan, As sistant to U. 8. Attorney William Holzheimer. Women of Moose Committee Meets ‘The Executive and Mempership Committees of the Women of the Moose are scheduled to meet to- morrow evening at 8 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. Birdie Olsen, West 12th and B streets. All committee — MRS. SHELDON GOES SOUTH Mrs. Robert Sheldon, wife of Director of Unemployment sheet music has been purchased by | Tacoma, | members are requested to attend. | left this PLEASURE U.S.Rubber Program Is MOTORING Far Behind Delay in Obfaining Official Eastern Seaboard Autoists - Sanction IsHeld | Told fo Restrict Responsible Driving WASHINGITGI, (I8h. o WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. — The| delay in obtaining official sanc-| tion for the conversion of 1efln—‘opA yegterday .onplaved all. pless: | M jure driving for holders of gas ra- eries to produce butadiene for the‘“un Sards - on the s Atlantio.: sea~ manufacture of synthetic rubber| HipE A R n | board, effective at noon today and| anwe l;):o\:n Adalstant ’; p:;:g”;: "pxcscrlbed the cancellation of gas| trcleiim ‘A dinihixtratar ssyesp 4 rations as the penalty for failure g o SN to comply. He told Senators investigafing the | “'ry 0 Gpa a1so declared fuel oil situation that “if the plant con-!| . (for heating buildings to be ra- versions had started at the time! . f1di refiners, of natural gas first :pro- tioned except for buildings used for posed them, the plants would have | Reslqeniil pysposes, \ The East will be been in operation by this time,! F tially within the many months prior to the best = with a drastic completion date that can be pre- Sdeniied motobng dicted for a wholly new plant” =B E WO O A Brown told a Senate Agricultur- 7 T T ; i al Sub-Committee that long delays pared “to be ready for immediate have been caused by arguments use if the current situation over the desirability of bullding O™ the OPA said. i e new plants which would produce butadiene faster but at a greater cost in new critical materials. The | “cut substan- next 24 hours” prohibition in and “even more COAST GUARDSMAN'S BILLFOLD IS FOUND! 1 - | Roy Thomas, of the staff, Department |told,, identification card, etc., City Street| Nazis (laim thls The billfold the Empire’ and the owner calling and identifying city float Soviels Are .. ha\e AL b\ In Selback German HigT‘C ommand Asserts Russian Attacks | Repulsed, Two Areas BERLIN, Jan. 7. — The High Comgnand says the German infan- try and tank divisions, in coopera- tion with strong luftwaffe forma- | tions of Rumanian bombers, have repulsed all Soviet attacks and are continuing fighting in the Don and Kalylmk sectors. LAST RITES HELD FOR J. HERRINGTON Funeral services for Ramsey J. Herrington, Sitka Legionnaire and World War veteran, were held this |afternoon at 2 o'clock in the cha- | pel of the Charles W. Carter Mor- | tuary, with interment in the Am- erican Legion plot of Evergreen Jemetery. Under the auspices of the Am- orican Legion Post No. 4, services were conducted by Alfred Zenger, Commander, with pallbearers G. Gullufsen, S. Vukovich, C. C. Carne- gie, and Trevor Davis, all of the Juneau Post, and Russell Clithero of Sitka Legion Post No. 13, of which Herrington was a member. Mr. Herrington died from natu- ral causes December 27, and was 53 years of age. | ——————— | A new type of propeller. for| American military planes has six| blades, two sets of three egch ro-)' B LD | GENERAL 3 ELECTRIC SUNLAMPS is on a office, ARDLY any foods have any Vitamin D at all! Yet this is one of the very vitamins babies need most for the making of strong, straight bones. That's why éon healréclt much ahtml( the eneral Electric Sunlam, fortified foods and undmel:] milk. The G-E Sunlamp gives your baby the same ultra- violet benefits that the sun itself providel. It's especially valuable in n- ter when the sun's are so weak. Doctors ucommend this largest-selling lamp of its kind. Come in and see the G-B Sunlamp today. $37.50 Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. G-E Sunlamps_are .:u;ul by the Council of Physical Therapy of the American Medical Association, BUY DEFENSE BONDS ISBANNED . are being pre-| gets | found a blll- i afternoon in the snow on the lower may | Alert Drill To Be Held AtTo (Iock The 1-2 alarm will sound at 7 o'clock this evening, setting off an- other practice alert for Juneau ci- vilian defense workers, Director R. E. Robertson announces. All members should report to | their stations and First Aid work- ers should also man stations, he said. Each sergeant should appoint a warden to report to the First | Aid station in each district to act as a patient. The problem will be | caring for a fractured right shoul- |der and a sprained left ankle. | Sergeants should also report to the Control Station as soon as pos- sible after the alert sounds. The Defense Council will meet in the City Hall after the all-clear sounds. Capt. George F. Freeburger of | the Alaska .Territorial Guard unit here said that all members must 1eport for customary patrol duty during the alert. Guardsmen will meet for continuance of instruc- j | tions at 7:30 o'clock in the Grade School auditorium, Froohurgersam. B HERO FLIER ;I(IllED IN - PLANE (RASH ‘C‘rushedmy of Buzz Wagner, Missing for Weeks, Is Found EGLIN FIELD, Florida—A farm- er looking for his cows today in n isolated Florida pasture, ended y!hc five week search for Lieut. Col. | Boyd (Buzz) Wagner, destroyer of an unhold number of Jap planes and | of America’s first aces of World War II. The crushed body of the flier, | missing since November 29, was |found in the wreckage of a P-40 pursuit plane 25 miles east of here. Wagner had won the Distin- | guished Service Cross, and his com- rades said he had destroyed over fifty Jap planes. R \Dr. George Crile Is Stricken, Dies CLEVELAND, OhioJan. 7 — vr. | George Crile, 78, renowned surgeon | Cleveland Clinic at 9 o'clock this morning as the result of a heart ailment. | TYPHOON | SUITS For Defense Workers i| and Others with Priorities. ALL SIZES AT H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man FRI and scientist, died suddenly at the| AR R R R R R A RS SRR AR R RERE, 2 AR R R R R R R R R R AR AR R R RN R NIRRT C RN RRRRR TR, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1943 FRESH TODAY! 15U yAMS and SWEET POTATOES Celery 2 pounds 25¢ Lettuce Cauliflower CRANBERRIES 5¢pound Turnips Apples Pears Grapes Florida Tangerines Oranges Lemons Limes & You'll Find It At GEORGE BROS. If It's in JUNEAU! GEORGE BROTHER PHONE 92 ;o0 i 5e0p s PHONE 95 10:30 A.M. 2:30 P.M. CHAPLAIN'S PAST COMES IN HANDY AN ALASKAN OUTPOST.—Sol- diers at this post walk and talk a little more carefully now around the chaplain. They're not just sure what his background might be. Not since “a ship docked here needed an emergency longshore crew. Soldiers stepped forward for most of the jobs, but Chap- lain Joseph M. Applegate, once pastor of the Figeuroa Boulevard Christian Church in Los Angeles, grabbed the winch driver's seat. He moved the cargo, too, without dropping a slingload. The secret, he admitted, was learned when he was busy working his way through the University of Oregon several years ago and did a little long- shoring on the side to 'help pay! expenses. | —_———— | | I'm Playing SAFE . . . with My WAR BONDS! I'm saving with safety by invest- ing in U. 8. War Bonds every pay day. And I'm keeping my Bonds where they’re safe from fire, theft, loss and enemy bombers — in a Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Assn. Safety Deposit Vault! 4% PAID ON SAVINGS Deposits insured up to $5,000 Alaska Federal Savings & Loan Assn. of Juneau Member Federal Reserve System A century ago American sheep| yielded an everage of only two| pounds of fleece; now the average | is eight pounds. BUY DBFFNSE STAMPS - AR Due to the Shortage of Special Cuts of Meat, We Are Serving SPECIAL HOT MEALS EVERY EVENING After Dinner & GASTINEAU CAFE | | | i BASKETBALL DAY NIGHT DOUGLAS High School vs. JUNEAU High School AT7P. M. SECOND TEAMS MOOSE vs. MALAMUTES 7:30 P. M. DOUGLAS High School vs. JUNEAU High School If Juneau High School wx:ns this game the High School Series are ended’ USE THE SIXTH STREET ENTRANCE Admission 50 Cenis Students 25 Cents TAX INCLUDED