The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1943, Page 6

bursements, has been received by 4 I submit herewith an accounting of the receipts and disbursements of Christmas Fund as the Pioneers’ »f December 25, 1942, The many liberal donations this year is added proof that the men in the Home will not be forgotten at Christmas time. On behalf of the residents of the Alaska Pioneers’ Home Ithank ANNOUNCED & LANDLORDS HERE SHOULD SIGN UP AT OPA OFFICE Tt OFFICER TELLS .OF C. ABOUT DIMOUTRULES Lieut. Col. Hobart Murphy, Pro- vost Marshal for the Alaska De- |fense Command on the staff of |Maj. Gen. Simon B. Buckner, Jr., | Registration for Accommo- | dations Rented or | | DAILY ALASKA EMPIR JUNEAU ALASKA FRED LEFTON |DARK DAYS PASSESAWAY AHEAD FOR After a long and painful illness, | | Fred Lefton, 64, died this morning ! | at 8:10 o'clock in St. Ann’s Hospital, | where he had been a patient for | MINORB.B. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1943 NO SHORTAGE OF Rk every organization and individual that contributed to this worthy | | Superintendent Eiler Han- purvose , Offered Asked h L Collections through W. D. Gross: | 4 sen lees A([OUn'mg Ketchikan $ 37800 ANl landlords, or their agents, in f c b . Juneau 500.00 | Juneau, must register accommoda- 0 ontributions Sitka 26985 tions rented or offered for rent 777777 avu-rsm]xlrg 158.85 | for living or dwelling purposes, be- yrange. 8250 | sinni each of the 173 Ploneers at the| mota] _“389_201;‘{“";‘e”r‘r‘;fnm"R“:m”i)"ezz;r S Pioneers’ . Home in Sitka as & Nenana Igloo No. 17 $ 10.00:(,}me of Price Administration. All Christfas gift resulting from the|Nome Tgloo No. 1 408.25 | Registration Forms F TP iy Christmas Fund collected by W. D.|gordova Igloo No. 19 25.00 | pleted and returned to the OPA Gross #ind donations made by other | craje Tgioo No. 30 50.00| Office by February 1, 1943 ofganizations, including the fund|anchorage Igloo No. 15 25.00| The t:rm Iundlird‘ {alaAks - 4n raised by the Alaska Weekly in Se- getchikan Igloo No. 16 10.00 4 3 23 " attle Anchorage Tgloo No. 4 e e e o ment, made by Eiler Hansen, Sup- getchikan Local 1375 of | ap erintendent of the Pioneers’ Home,' A 10.00 :)ll;gocc:::t:::! oolru?e::lnogro:‘fivtzel; showing that the contributions to- |gitka Carpenters Local No. the foreusli . Y % | jonding L_«lled $2,724.45 »md glving the dis 2067 100-00: Registration forms and instruc-! |Alaska Weekly 622.00 | tions may be obtained in the Val-|"eo" J uar nress Painters Union, Local 1229 |entine Building, room 3. an Sitka Y ———— |required in order that there may Total $1,33525 pe an adequate understanding! Total Contributions $2,724.45 throughout the area by landlords Sale Continues Large Group of Better Dresses at 20% OFF These dresses are mostly afternoon styles . . . many with jackets. ORIGINAL PRICES 16.75—19.75—24.75 [ B ALSO0—A Rack of Inexpensive Dresses 25% OFF Included in these are Nelly Dons and L'aiglons. No Approvals, Exchanges or Refunds Jones-Stevens Seward Street . Announcing PARCEL DELIVERY SERVICE Trunks - Baggage - Parcels Deliveries A or Night CITY RATE—S50c Scheduled pick-up service at 10:30 a. m. and 2:30 p. m. at SPECIAL 25¢ RATE within city. PHONE 492 NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR Important matters pertain- ing to the formation of a Territorial Federation for Alaska. Attend Your . Mee spoke this noon at the Juneau|pearly a year. Cause of death was Chamber of Commerce, meeting, |the result of a blood condition and answering questions regarding the | high blood pressure, Dr. L. P. Dawes, | | | PHOENIX, Ariz—A gloomy fut- ure is forecast for minor league| baseball by Bill DeLancy who hasj FRESH 173 Pioneers at $14 each .. $2,422.00 Balance $ 30245 The amount left over has been deposited to the credit of the Per- manent Pioneers’ Home Christmas Fund REBEKAHS WILL INSTALL JAN. 21 Installations of new officers for the Juneau chapter of Rebekahs will be held the evening of Janu- ary 27, under the direction of an installing team composed of Past Noble Grands and headed by Mrs. President. The installing team will practice|Area Rent Office. The regulations | | next Wednesday night in the Odd|further provide that any services | Fellows Hall, it was announced |at last night's business meeting of the chapter. Noble Grand. Business conducted last night in- cluded a report on the activities P. J. Gilmore. e ANCHORAGE VISITORS HERE SOON LEAVING FOR SOUTH Mrs. SuBelle La Rue and two small sons, who have been visit- ing the Tom Dyers for weeks, are leaving soon on a va- cation trip to California. The. La Rues make their home in Anchorage, where Mr. La Rue is assistant general foreman of the Alaska Railroad. .- More than 20,000 Chinese chil- dren have been aided in the past five years by the China Aid Coun- lcil working with Mme. Chiang Kai-shek. nytime - Day DUANE MARTIN and tenants of the provisions of the rent regulations and in order |that effective enforcement may be; achieved. Registration creates a record available for the landlord, the tenant, and the | possible misunderstandings Federal rent control means that |effective November 1, 1942, ali |rents for housing accommodations |are frozen or reduced (for houses {and apartments) to the March 1, 11942 level, or (hotels and rooming | houses) to the 30-day period end- ling March 1, 1942. Under the rent regulations |landlord cannot evict a ®enant be |cause the tenant refuses to pay a | higher rent than the legal rent. In a s |E. J. Blake as pistrict Deputy | most cases a landlord wishing to ‘cvicl a tenant must notify the i provided with a dwelling unit, such |as heat, light, water, or services of lany other kind, including repairs |has permission from the Rent Di- |rector for decreased service. | dimout regulations which will go |into effect on February 1. | He explained that the purpose of |the regulations is not to interfere lin any way with the business life of Alaskan communities or to clamp 'down on any necessary lighting. |{The aim is to do away with all unnecessary lighting, following the policy established in the States for | practically all of the coastline.« | Lights which are necessary to | maintain and safeguard the In- | dustrial activities of a community ot be shut off. For instance, he explained, in answering a ques- ‘nm. longshoremen working in un-/ a boat will have just as imuch light as ever. But the fancy blazes and other pleasant but | unnecessary lighting will be dim- | med. Street lights in Juneau will 25.00 | g s poi | Registration, it is pointed out, is}y ;¢ t5 pe worked over so no light |880, |is pointed toward the sky, he said. Here are a few "don'ts” con- tained in a pamphlet which will soon be distributed to all Juneau| l‘householders and property owners 1. Don't forget to draw your win- | dow blinds down to the level of the {lowest light within the room at i Area Rent|night. Venetian blinds should have| Director and thus tends to x\\'oid“hflr vanes pointed downward to| | the outside. | 2 Don't forget to shield your |porch, garage and other outside |lights. All light must shine down- ward. 3. Don't permit any light to shine outside your home or business great- er than one foot candle on the {eround or sidewalk. One foot candle | is about the same as the light from ordinary street lights. 4. Don't forget, all outdoor light- ed signs are barred. Interior signs must be shielded level with the | bottom light bulb or neon or flor- escent tube. 5. Don't forget that skylights must be covered. No lights must |shine upward. 6. Don't forget« that there. are kspech] restrictions. for. areas/visible |tion No. 6 affects all lights within Provision is made whereby land-!the Miitary lighting Zone. If you & |of the Girl Scout troop sponsored lords may petition for the right t0 have no Proclamation No. 6, get [by the Rebekahs and led by Mrs.|teduce services or to increaserents|one now from your Air-Raid War-|which will b | attending physician, stated, and said further that it was a continuation of the same trouble that had made it necessary to amputate his left leg la year ago. | One of Juneau’s well known char- acters, Fred Lefton came to the city thirty or more years ago, and had | held a variety of jobs here. Variously | employed as a cigarmaker, cook, | caretaker, and most recently, res- | taurant worker, he was for the longest period a watchman at the Alaska Juneau mine, where he worked for many years. i Early Years Little is known of the years prior Ito his arrival in Juneau, but it is known that at one time he was a blackface comedian, and that he once followed the circus as a clown. { It was also recalled that many years he acted as professional make- up man for a “Follies” show ar- { ranged here. | Born in Bismarck, North Dakota, | Mr. Lefton had never been married so far as is known. He is survived by a brother, William, believed to be | 1iving in Los Angeles. | - (CARS SKID ON ~ NEW SNOW HERE | | Autoists were having a hard |time this morning as the result |lof the new snow fall which aver-| |aged from three to four inches. |cars, even with chains and going ’:\( a slow speed, skidded around. One truck skidded into an auto jon Willoughby Avenue this morn- ‘mg and Mrs. Grant Logan is said to have suffered slight bruises. -———— 'TO HAVE BENEFIT " DANCE IN JUNEAU The incoming officials will also and maintenance, that were Sup'|(rom the sea, requiring dimme:ui 0" JA“UARY 30 meet at the hall the same evening, | plied on the legal rent date, must|yasqiights on cars. No exposéd lghts | with Mrs. Peggy Mclvor, incoming be continued unless the landlord yye permitted seaward. | | 7. Don’t forget that Proclnmu»{ Mayor Harry I. Lucas today an- nounced the appointment of Re- ‘;mm\l Forester B. Frank Heintzle- !man as chairman of a benefit dance e held January 30 in |under special circumstances. Ten-|den or Defense Council. Ignorance |Juneau for the benefit of crippled lants may also apply for reduction {in rents in certain cases. | The same penalties for violation |are provided for violating the Fed- |eral Rent Regulation, that are pro- several | vided in the Emergency Price Con- trol Act. Landlords violating are |subject to suit for triple damages on illegal rent charges. Criminal penalties include maximum fines of 1$5,000, or one year's imprisonment, jor both. 'DISCUSSION ON " DAY NURSERIES MADE LAST NIGHT Day nursery care for children |when the mother is employed as a {result’ of the war. effort, provided (the principal discussion at the ifleanh Council meeting held last |night in the Public Health Center. | In order to learn the extent of |the need for day nursery care, it | was suggested that all parents who | have placed their children in other {homes for day care or who need | such service, register by telephoning |the Juneau Public Welfare office ;m the City Hall—phone 771—or call {the Juneau Public Health Center in the Territorial Building, 218 or 466. | @ ‘ " SABOTAGE | gor’s patriots are doing a good job of collecting scrap for salvage— but they can't keep it. Every night, the collection com- the scrap pile and made off with “useable” articles. mittee explained, somebody visited is no excuse. 8. Don't wait for a police officer to inform you of your dim-out vio- lation. You may be fined if you do. e —— i COMMITTEES ARE ' ANNOUNCED FOR JUNEAU CHAMBER | President Charles W. Carter to- day announced committees for the | Chamber of Commerce for 1943 and issued a report on the Chamber’s activities for the last year, during noon meeting today. Committee members are as fol- lows, the first name denoting the chairman for each committee: Aviation: O. F. Benecks, Stan Grummett; Civic Affairs: Harry Sperling, Walter Carl, Ernest Par- sons; Forum and Policy: Curtis Shattuck and other Past Presidents; Legislative: Allen Shattuck, H. L. Faulkner, Harold Foss; Reception: Horace Adams, others to be select- ed by chairman as occation de- mands. Local Industries: B. Frank Heint- zleman, Tom Morgan, Tom Dyer; Membership and Finance: Charles W. Carter, John Reck; Attendance and Program: Dave Patterson, Ho- mer Garvin; Transportation: Henry Green; Retail Trade: R. E. Robert- son, Roald Copstead, Charles E. Naghel. Guests at the meeting today in- cluded Lieut. Commdr. Simpson MacKinnon, Chaplain Howard Wi- ant of the U. 8. Army, Frank Orn- ellas, Field Director of the Ameri- can Red Cross, and Lieut. Col. Hobart Murphy of the ADC. Pastor H. I. Wood spoke on his trip to Washington and the effort by himself and Alaska Delegate An- thony J. Dimond to secure pay- a children. The dance will be held in the Elks Ballroom, and for those who don’t dance, entertainment is being planned in the Baranof Ho- tel. Heintzleman said committees for the benefit which is purely local will be announced shortly. GOOD MOVE, NO. AFRICA ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 14-—Direct contact has been established be- tween Giraud's headquarters and Fighting French Brig. Gen. Le- clerc, the first such liaison in the new phase of the African War. Just how the liaison officer made the trip to Giraud's headquarters, is not disclosed. Giraud cleaned up the Fezzan desert area in cen- tral Libya yesterday. —— e San Francisco is the second largest port of entry in the United States. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES AT EORGE BROTHER D 2 DELIVERIES DAILY IN BUSINESS SINCE 1908 and still doing the largest grocery business in Juneau. spent the last few seasons manag-, ing teams in the lesser loops after illness ended his career as a cateher | with the St. Louis Cardinals | | First of all it takes money to| |run a minor league club, the man |wWho caught Dizzy Dean declares. | | Big league front offices won't be| interested in financing farm teams| (if there arem’t any young players| |to be developed in return for the investment. And most of the young| players are going into the armed | services. i | And even if a Class C or D or- !ganization can raise money and gather together two or three pitch- ers and eight other players with two arms and two legs each, trans-| portation problems must still be| | faced. Moving a ball club from one town to another and from a hotel to a ball park takes more than the wish-| ful thinking of an ambitious man- MARTHA SOCIETY IS ager, DeLancey sadly remembers. | MEETING TOMORROW Last year he was piloting the! pe Martha Society of the Nor- Cards’ Asheville, N. C. farm team ... Ljght Presbyterian Church in.tHe, Fidmons league, |will meet tomorrow aftern t | “At Richmond,” DeLancey said, . . o 3 DR 7R “the ball park is some dislunce"l'ao o'clock in the church parlors. g o § A from town and 20 blocks from the| All members and their guests are | AL R nearest trolley line. We finished a|cordially Invited. Mrs. George Bag- |0 her home at 620 W. Twelfth game about 11:30 one night when gen and Mrs. Tom Morgan will be Street. All members of the group it was raining pitchforks and there |hostesses for the meeting. lare invited to attend. were no taxis around. We hoofed it 20 blocks in our uniforms and spik-! ed shoes, then rode the street cars to our hotel.” | On top of that, DeLancey re- called, “only about 150 people were ' in the ball park.” | | You get the idea when DeLancey says his Arizona chicken farm looks like a pretty good place to be—for the duration STANDARD OILMAN | " DYER GOING SOUTH | Leaving today for a general meeting of Standard Oil operators, Tom Dyer, manager of the local | Standard Oil concern, plans to be away for about two weeks. | | SENIOR GUILD, HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL TO MEET AT LEA HOME Mrs, Harry Lea will entertain the Senior Guild of Holy Trinity Ca- ANNOUNCEMENT OF REOPENING DATE MIEE'S PLACE Douglas e TYPHOON SUITS Th meeting, scheduled for Dyer said. Newly Decorated and Freshly Painted, Popular Resort January 18, will be held in Seattle, | Scotty Denard came to Juneau‘ Alaska Coastal Airlines. ‘ ! 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