The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 2, 1943, Page 5

FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1943 = Copy must be in the office by 1 o'clock in the afternoon to in- wre insertion on same day. ‘We accept ads over telephone from persons listed in telephone firectory. Count five average words to the Dally rate per line for consecu- Mlve insertions: HONE A CLASSIFIED ICE GUESSING CONTEST NOW DRAWSTOEND The ice guessing contest, Alas-| ka's sporting classic, is drawing to| an end for tomorrow night at ml(l»g night all registered guesses are off The guesses are on the question | as to when the ice’at Nenana is| 1gomg out—day, hour and minute 1 Somebody is going to get a bunch | of lucre for the reward in former years has been up in the thousands of dollars. Last year those who guessed the ice movement split $85,000, the year | previous, $95,000; in 1940, $48,000 and in 1939, $100,000. | There is no monkeying with the |time clock on the Nenana. When |the ice moves by Nature, FOR RENT FOR SALE LOST—FOUND that | | FOR RENT WANTED OTR. apts., easy kept warm. Win- ter rates $15 a mo. Lights, water, dishes. Beaview Apts. FOR SALE FOR SALE — 36-foot troller, equipped, excellent condition. interested wire Clovis Bull, Seims Drake Co., Sitka, Alaska. fully It FOR SALE — Baby's bathinette. Phone red 370. LARGE modern ai’:x’s}’u’r{éni house, completely furnished. Cash ot terms. Inquire J. C. Cooper. APARTMENT house, completely furnished, going for less than half of actual value. 431 So.| Franklin. | SAFEGUARD instant check writ- | er, practicplly new, $25; Ward's| standard duplicator, never used, $10. Phone Douglas 48. | c/o} |WANTED TO BUY—Baby buggy Write P.O. Box 2404. | | WANTED—Sleeping room by pro- | fessional woman in private home, or small apt. Write Empire P 2127. | A L SR N |WANTED TO RENT—Radio for 2| or 3 weeks. Write P.O. Box 17, Juneau. clock is going to register the exact play and tied the score 46-all minute and somebody is going to[when the Cowboys ran away in get some part of this world's|the overtime period. where-with-all. | Detroit Defeats Boston Redwings I—aig First Game! in Hockey Playoffs | ‘rIun;\' of points to take the half dehoys Winners, 52 to 41 Wyoming Defeats St.Johns in Basketball Game in Overtime Period NEW YORK, April 2—The bas- keteers of the University of Wyo- ming, National Collegiate Basket- ball champs, last night defeated St. Johns, invitational tournament |winners, by a score of 52 to 47 in an overtime battle before a Red Cross benefit crowd of 18,000 spectators. St. Johns rang up five points in the last minute of regular time | The two champ fives were even- ly matched as the score indicates, They battled evenly for 15 min- utes before Wyoming ran up a time with a 30 to 23 lead. In the preliminary game, twoi tournament runnerups took the | floor. Georgetown defeated Tolcdo; 54 to 40. "DICKS" JARRED BY STORY OF BABES DROWNED THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA ALLEY CAT | (LAWSWAY 0 VICTORY (Continued from Page One) shell holes, but the doughty green- horns who manned her had fought off two separate attacks by German warplanes, destroyed two Messer- { schmitt 109s and scored a direct hit on an enemy vessel. a Bags One Nazi | !The plane, with Lieut. John P. |Burns of Berkeley, Calif,, at the controls and Lieut. McKinley B. Cbhagan of Hatrison, O., as co-pilot, was approaching the enemy convoy when she was jumped by two Mes- serschmitts. \ MUSKRAT IS FAST |, BECOMING POPULAR | FOOD IN NEW YORK Guests at the Biltmore Hotel in| New York City were skeptical at| first, but soon asked for second | helpings of “marsh hare,” as musk-‘ rat is called on menus. “TIt is like | a jackrabbit in texture and flavor,”| said Walter Kuck, quartermaster, | Market Center, United States Army, | after his first taste of the new dish at a luncheon at the Biltmore. i The luncheon was one more step | in the program to popularize (hpf muskrat as food. Joseph L. Mc-! Hugh, Louisiana’s Conservation | Commissioner, pointed out lhnli trappers in his state alone take| six million muskrats annually. Measured in poundage, that is suf-| ficient to equal the meat of 7,000 head of steers | Fur buyers interested in promot- Staff Sergeant Joseph G. Perpich, ing muskrat as food may obtain | of Cmfsun Lake, Minn,, Bagged one, a folder of recipes prepared by the but his gun was destroyed at the New York Herald Tribune's Home | same time. The Alley Cat went on. Flak from a convoy of two large merchant ships and four destroyers shot out one of her engines, but she con- tinued and Bombardier Lieut. Paul W. Lingrel of Kenton, Ohio, dropped bombs squarely on one ship from low level, leaving the victim burn- ing. By then the plane was losing her gasoline and oil. Burns headed for the nearest landing spot, ducking into the clouds to avoid six German | fighters who were peppering them {with bullets. | brush, Staff Sergt. James Woody of In the ten-minute Philadelphia, Tenn,, shot down one of the pursuers, but his gun also ‘was put out of action. Like Swiss Cheese By that time at least twenty can- non shells as well as many explosive | WANTED—2- or 3-room furnished, heated apartment. Permanent. Box 1.G.D., Empire, or phone 374.] DETROIT, April 2—The ram- paging Detroit Redwings streaked wANTE’D:Filripm'd' Vcannery ‘work- ers for Douglas Cannery. Willpay |6 to 2 win in the first game of the top union wages and provide|Stanley Cup hockey playoffs. hoard and lodging. Apply J. C.| The Bruins seemed tired and Cooper, Cooper Bldg, 4th and|were unable to match or stop the| Main St. speed of the Redwings. | AR Tt s Bl iy e WANTED TO BUY—Electric iron. mone ko | GLORIA TOPPING WANTED—Two % bedsteads an SEEKS DIVOR(E WANTED AT ONCE—Ironers and | from Bruins- ; through the Boston Bruins for a' | DENVER, Colo., April 2—Denver |detectives were jarred from placid- |ity by the detailed recital of James |Childers and attractive Bernice Williams, 23, of how she drowned |thfee babies immediately after giv- ing birth without aid. Childers re- {ported the bodies were found |stored in a gold and old rose hope chest belonging to the buyer in a department store. Childers added (that the girl stated that she was junmarried and drowned the babies because she was unable to support them. .- - ELECTRIC wash. machine, slightly | used. Sun lamp. Write Empire| shirt finishers. Alaska Laundry. springs. Call red 578. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Aprilj Alaska Packers 2114. { i ‘\ NWANTED—WIill pay cash for good LARGE modern beauty shop, Sit-| used piano. 2.—Mrs. Gloria Baker Topping, so-| ciety’s former glamor girl, filed suit | ka, Alaska. Good income. Owner forced to sell quickly. Write P.O. Box 493, Sitka. 5~R061;/;7h0u§e. also incon&e prop- erty. If interested, P.O. Box 1615. 3 THOROUGHBRED Togeburg Seddan goats, 1 nanny goat. $75 cash if taken right away. P.O. Box 1947. FOR SALE—25,000 watt, 115 volt, | DC light and power plant (gaso- line), good condition. Price $1,000. Does not require batteries. Write Richard R. Perry, Box 391, Sitka, Alaska, c/o Boat Tidings. 32-FT. CABIN cruiser, $700. Stall “2”, Boat Harbor. MODERN 5 room furnished log house, Mile 3% Gilacier Highway. Montgomerys. FOR SALE—30 brake hp. Covic| diesel stationary engine. BB Em- pire. BED springs, ironing board, rocker, book shelves, pictures, shoe skates, ski poles, electric oven, electric Phone red 206,| Alaska Music Supply. NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE 1S HEREBY .. GIVEN, that the undersigned was, on the 19th day of March, 1943, duly ap- pointed administrator of the estate |of RENE D. STRAGIER, deceased, | land that letters testamentary there- [for on said day were duly issued ito the undersigned. E All persons having claims against| said estate are hereby required to present said claims with proper vouchers, and duly verified, within {six (6) months from the date of thic Notice, to the undersigned ad-| ministrator at the office of his at- | torneys, R. E. Robertson and M.E. Monagle, at 200 Seward Building, ! Juneau, Alaska, or to the under-| |signed at Douglas, Alaska. | Dated at Juneau, Alaska, 19th day of March, 1943. HENRY STRAGIER, Administrator. First publication, March 26, 1943. Last publication, April 16, 1943. adv. | SRR I this 'Hem'y J. Topping, Jr., of the Navy| | DOUGLAS FISHERIES for divorce today against Lieut.| Air Force. Topping, heir to a large tin-plate fortune, was charged with mental| cruelty. DOUGLAS | NEWS | ANNOUNCE PLANS FOR COMING CAN SEASON Joe Ellson, bookkeeper for the Douglas Fisheries Company, has in- formed Douglas city officials in a recent communication that his| company is making all prepara- tions to operate their cannéry here during the summer and further- more the operations planned are on | 2 larger scale than ever before. They are preparing to go ahead with enlargement of the plant as decided upon last year and expect to bring up a piledriver to carry out the plans without interruption. The plans call for building of a Elect A, W. Eames, who was elected vice chairman. President A. K. Tichenor said all other officers were reelected. Wil- liam gTimson, former vice chair- retained his board membership. e - ALASKA TRACTS | NOW EXPLAINED No Infention to Close Per- manently fo Private | Development WASHINGTON, April 2. — The| Interior Department has no inten- | tion, Secretary Chapman informed | chine - tools, A propellers is a little less spectacu- man, retired from that post, but|jar, but no less convincing, than ther “Liberty ship” tale. lamps, broad ax, shovels, rakes,| logging chains and jacks, salmon gill net, propellers, coils, 5 h.p.| Vulcan engine. Walter H. Robin- son, 1044 W. 10th. Phone green | 475. NEW HOOP RULEASKED NEW YORK, April 2—The exec- THE MAGAZINE ‘“Technocracy” | is now for sale at all leading newsstands. All Americans should | i read Technocracy's program for |utive committee of the National; Total Conscription. A few numbers |Association of College Basketball of the Technocrat left at Race’s|Coaches went on record recently Drug Store. fas favoring the curbing of tall - . |men on the defense, a limit of five CIRCULATING oil heater with |personal fouls instead of four and coil; galvanized tank and cop-|the standarization of equipment per oil line. Phone blue 615. including a transparent backboard, ———— |rectangular in shape. | The coaches were a step farther Lm ..d rmn than the experiment suggested by LOST—Package containing cur-|the national rules committee on Sunday. They would make it a tains. Reward. Please phone black | technical foul for a player reaching 634, | iabove the rim of the basket to tap the ball away from the goal. The rules committee favored call- ing it a violation and giving the ball out of bounds to the offend- ed team. The court mentors’ executive body 1so opposed the rules committee’s suggested experiment of unlimited | substitutions. As to the backboard |the coaches would rule out all LOST—Wallet containing personal papers and approximately $55. Reward. Return to Charles L.| Pratt, A.B. Hall. | LOST—GOI; cros; in a loop from an ear ring along Seward St.| Reward. Return to Empire. MISCELLANEOUS | wooden boards. WILL care for children durmg; The officers were continued for days. Phone 621. |another year with Ed Kelleher of RELIABLE party proving ability |Fordham remaining as president. ’ — - can secure operating lease ori| profit sharing Gold Mining, 0p-(e e e ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ 0 0 0 © o o erating large ore reserve. Actual“. WEATHER REPORT mill recovery last 2 years average | ¢ (U. 8. Bureau) more than $20 per. ton. See Peko- o Temp. Thursday, April 1: vich, Baranof Hotel. |® Maximum 45, minimum 32. GUARANTEED Realiti Perm- |3 Decipitation 25 nent, $5.50. Paper Curls, $1 up.| ¥ ae P ¢4 S | Lola Beauty Shop. Phone 201., ¢ D - g o Wey; | The Brenner Pass, between Italy TURN your old gold into value, and Germany, has been called the cash or trade at Nugget Shop. i"Thermopylne of the Tyrol.” Senator Mon C. Wallgren, of | closing permanently to private de-| velopment the Tanana River or| the Matanuska River mineral areas. | Areas withdrawn, said Chapman, were at the request of the War Department for further construc- tion of the Alaska-Canadian High- way and he described the action as a provisional device to meetX an emergency and it is not intend- | ed to reserve lands indefinitely or | stifle private enterprise. The de-| sire is to prevent wasteful and de structive, exploitation. The views of Chapman are ex- pressed in a letter to Sen. Wall- gren and probably refers also to withdrawal of lands along the years Frank Cashel is back on the |l8hway, temporarily. “to atford a channel again, having returned yes [Study of the problem Yor proper | terday from Sitka where he has|Use to provide townsites, airport, been working during that time. His|Park, power and' ‘othér " develop- plans for the immediate future are |ments. more or less indefinite as yet, he TR id ! LUTHERAN LADIES PLAN e GQODIE SALE FOR MAY 1 NOTICE At a business mfl?}' of the Registration books for the muni-|Lutheran Ladies’ Aid held yester- cipal election in. Douglas on April|48y afternoon plans were made for 6 will close at 4 pm. Saturday,|2 8oodie sale, to he held’ fn‘ the April 3. and no one will be entitled |church parlors the afternoon of to vote unless registered. Filing of |May 1. candidates will close at 4 pm,| A committee headed by Mrs. Pete Wednesday, March 31. Hildre will have charge of the L. W. KILBURN, sale, and Mrs. John Lowell's com- City Clerk. |Mittee will provide coffee. Noled Prospedor | s poo Succumbs in B. C. VANCOUVER, B. C, April 2. — Herbert (Whitewater) Taylor, vet- eran Bridge River prospector, died | Australia, through reciprocal aid, here after a long illness. A native|has furnished American forces with ~¢ Oregon, he went to Lillocet in{more than 26 million pounds of 1898. He discovered the Taylor|fresh meats, 20 million pounds. of Windfall gold mine in the White-|potatoes, 25 million pounds of | water country and had made and fruit, and almost 5% mfllhm' lost several fortunes. quarts of milk. warehouse for added packing and storage convenience, and making some repairs. | Don Robinson, who was foreman of the plant last year, is expected to arrive at an early date with other employees to follow, to get things started. The company will] have the same boats again as last year, Mr. Ellson stated. It is his| desire also that all local people, who wish to work for the company during the summer, sign up.as soon as possible. City Clerk Kilburn is prepared to take applications of Jjobs. CASHEL, JR., RETURNS After an absence of a couple of adv. BERGMANN DINING ROOM | Now open under new management: board $12.50 weekly, starting March 29; office workers’ hot lunch 65 cents at 12 noon sharp. adv. e | Ibullets had left Alley Cat looking ' |like a Swiss cheese. Her hydraulics | | were shot away, but Burns brought her in to a safe belly landing. | | In the same fight, Sergt. A. E.! Jéhsen of Bellflower, Calif., gunner | {m another plane, shot down two German planes — a Messerschmitt 109 and Focke Wulf 180. | “One of those planes was for the United States, the other for Den- mark,” cracked Jensen, a native Dane who was naturalized in 1937. British Helped Put { Democracy’s Arsenal On Buy;!uy Footing (Continued from Page One) 2 1 A R R G S SAN FRANCISCO, April 2—Al- jang Ore, and president of the! aska Packers Association elected Al- | somnany to whom they let the fred W. Eames chairman of the Righmond contract was Henry board, succeeding R. M. Barthold, |gqjser, ‘The BPC's story about the ini- tial impetus given wartime ma- airplane motors and There's no doubt that we are WIIHDR A oF ‘holmg up the heavy end of Lease- AT A iLend in dollars and cents now. But, it. doesn’t hurt to be reminded that, the arsenal of Democracy really started on a buy-buy basis. TIDES TOMORROW _ | suffering “some losses” themselves, |Institute by writing to Retail Ser- | vice Department, Hollander, 163 West 20th Street, N.Y.C. PROGRESS IS REPORTED BY CHINA FORCES Southern FTo«nt Situation | Good - Jap Gunboals | Hit Mines, Sink | (Continued from Page One) | Kwangtung territory that juts out“ toward Hainan Island. Three hun-‘| dred Japanese casualties were re-! ported in this engagement. | The drive apparently was in- tended to cut Chinese communica- tions in Southern Kwangtung Pro- vince. It was launched at a center of Chinese highway radiating east, north and west. In the Burma-Yunnan border re- gion, the Chinese were said to have held in check several attacks by reinforced Japanese | Across the nation, near Tung- shan in Kiangsu Province, the Chi- |nese took the offensive, inflicting {600 casualties on the enemy and the war bulletin added. Two Japanese gunboats struck mines Tecently” and sank in the southern province of Kwantung, the Central News Agency reported to- day. Japanese losses in personnel were more than 200 and among the drowned was Vice Admiral San Fuchou, Japanese-appointed puppet commander of Canton forts, the agency rgported, " INCOMPLETE JOB MERIDIEN, Conn., Apil 2—When ! three wheels and tires were stolen from Charles J. Molitor’s automo- bile, he apologized to the thieves in a newspaper notice, expressing sor- High tide—0:52 a.m, 177 feet. |row that he had parked the car in Low tide—6:54 a.m., -06 feet. his garage in such a way they could High tide—1:04 pm., 179 feet. |not work on the fourth wheel . Low tide—7:13 p.m., -1.7 feet. If they would return, he added, he - would give them the fourth because “they have more need for it than I BUY WAR BONDS now have.” JOHN McCORMICK as » paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE resent this coupon this evening box office of the-— CAPITOL THEATRE is invited toK at the and receive TWO "TOUGH AS THEY COME” Federal Tax—b6¢ per Person WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name First National Bank dnnu .01'.”, 5 ERAL DEPOSIT JMS ] TICKETS to see: y Appear! pne PIGGLY WIGGLY 24 16 " quaury anppeenpasiry Phone KINDELSTYX An Important lfem for the Emergency Kit Starts a Fire Without Paper or Kindling MANY USES: for camping, fishing, starting Deisel motors, emergency flares, singeing fowl, skiing, for the furnace, oil heater, heating stove, wood or coal and the fireplace. Non-explosive . . Safe . . Odorless Moisture-proof and Clean PIGGLY WIGGLY Orders must be in before 1 o’clock Minimum Delivery—$2.00 There Is No Substitute for Newspaper Advertising! Soothing Organ Music and John Marin, Prop. CALL FEMMER'S TRANSFER Chas. G. Warner Co. Marine Engines and Supplies E. O. DAVIS® COWLING-DAVLIN Bert's Cash Grocery Pree Delivery Every comfort made for our guests HOME GROCERY Home Liquor Store—Tel 600 American Meat — Phone 38 EVERY NIGHT DOUGLAS INN Phone 68 FORD AGENCY (Authorised Dealers) GREASES—GAS—OIL Foot of Main Btreet Juneau Molors 114 OIL — FEED — HAULING Nite Phone 554 Sanitary Meat Co. FOR QUALITY MEATS AND POULTRY FREE DELIVERY Call Phones 13 and 48 Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE ' MACHINE S8HOP Ropes and Paints Utah Nut and Lump COAL" Alaska Dock & Storage Ca.| TELEPHONE 4 Leota’s WOMEN’S APPAREL Baranof Hotel E. W. DAVIB 81 PHO! COMPANY DODGE snd PLYMOUTR Juneau Transfer Phene 48—Night Phone 481 PHONE 104 or 106 Juneau GASTINEAU HOTEL Alr Service Informalion PHONE 10 or 39 Phone 146 G. E. ALMQUIST CUSTOM TAILOR Across from Elks' Club PHONE 576