The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 29, 1943, Page 6

PAGE SIX ALLOWED JO LEAVE BOAT AthoritiesWPérmit Youth to Visit Folks in Juneau : MINERS SAFE ' AFTERFLOOD ~ TRAPS THEM and Finds Men Above Water Line BRIDGEVILLE, Pa., July 29 | ,v Dean Allen, son of Mr. and Mis.| Tom Allen of Juneau, was permit-| Six miners trapped in the Ollet coal mine flash flood were found safe ted to get off the boat in Juneau to visit with his folks today by travel authorities after losing two days of his leave going to Skagway | and back | Allen, member of the Army| Transport Service, should have had | a travel permit the same as any civilian to enter Alaska, according to local travel control authorities. Members of the regular Army,| however, do not need such per-| mits. The Seattle office reported to the Associated Press that Allen | did not need to have a permit be-| cause he was a soldier, evidently| classing him in the same category. | Members of the Army Transport | Service are civil servants and not members of the regular Army, al-| though wearing a similar uniform with a different insignia. Allen | has been serving as a machine- | gunner on an ATS vessel and spent the latter part of his service in |the Aleutians at Attu. | Both Alaska Delegate Anthony |J. Dimond and Gov. Ernest Gruen- | ing used their efforts to have the Iyouth released. | > CRISIS IS NOTED FOR BULGARIA We are having a colossal showing of our new stock of gay, perky in our window . . to finish out your summer needs and for the early fall wardrobe. Choose bags from var- ious styles of classic drawstrings, envelope, underarms and top handles. Jewel colors and pastels, | moderatly priced. Stevens Seward Street | sald that the conduct of the war effort is constantly improving. He spoke very highly of the War Pro- duction Board but said the Office of DIMOND [N and well after 43 hours under- ground. After hearing their shouts, E. E. Quenon, U. S. Bureau of Mines en- gineer, swam 500 feet to reach the men and found them sitting calmly on an upward slope above the water level. “Because there is only six inches of clearance between the water and the mine roof the men won't come out yet,” Quenon said. SISTERS HAUL HOGS—_Now that their brother is in - ! the army, Betty Schwandt, 18 (left), and her sister Bernice, 20, OF JAPA N E SE drive their big Macks, filled with hogs, from their Markesang Wis., home to the Milwaukee livestock market, i NoT (HANGED i 3 | PER————— i Downfall of Mussolini Cuts No Figure in Aims | of Nippons (By Associated Press) A broadcast by the Japanese news agency Domei over the Tokyo ra- dio said Foreign "Minister Shige- mitsu has told the Japanese Cab- inet that Japan's war policy will remain completely unchanged de- spite any new developments that may follow the resignation of Mus- solini. Meanwhile, according to the Do- mei broadcast, political quarters in Price Administration “gives us most acute anxiety at this time.” He said that a great fault with the OPA was that when regulations | made the officials refuse to | change them no matter how wrong they may be FAVOR OF STATEHOOD (Continued from Page One) are Fish Problem Dimond also touched on the prob- lem of Alaska fishermen in the new fishing regulations which class sable fish according to size even though this has never been the practice in Alaska Washington officials, he said, made this regulation without consulting anyone in Alaska. Need Special Session He also sald that the system could not be revised in one s on of the legislature but should be done in a special session devoted entirely to this question. Collapse of Italy Might Cause Balkan Nation to Break ISTANBUL, Turke July 29.—A serious Bulgarian crisis appears to| be developing as a result of Mus- solini’s downfall and indications are that Bulgaria may be the first Balkan satellite to break away from the Axis if Italy surrenders.| Bulgaria’s position and that of other Balkan powers to a lesser | Tokyo expr °d belief that devel- opments in Italy will in no way |effect Japan's situation and that Japan is determined to continue her efforts and accomplish hen great aims for construction of a Greater East Asia. | | i | i | d \ i JEEP RIDE — After she had sung for the soldiers at Camp Roberts, Calif., Lotte Lehmann went for a ride in the personal Jjeep of Brig. Gen. E. W.'Fales, commander of the infantry re- placement frainirg center. - MERCHANT FLEET OF GEORGE BROTHERS Super Market NEW POTATOES U. S. No. 1 Shafters Special This Week 15 pounds 98¢ 50 1bs. $3.15 100 1bs. 5.98 EORGE BROTHER PHONE92 Free Delivery PHONE 95 Where Service, Price and Quality Meet LARGEST SHIPPERS IN ALASKA! — If planning meals Has got you flustered, Give them more zest With Schilling Mustard! Schilling BUY ANOTHER BOND TODAY 1 ounces | Mary Bill, and Dorothy Bill. To Ketchikan—Michael J. Kelley, Agnes Mills, Albert L. Florence, Nancy D. Oaksmith, Maxine C. Stef> | fensen, M. D. Williams, Lawrence | H. Dixon, Adolf G. Olofson, Pio D. | DeCano, Walter Funrer, Col. B. W. Arnold, and Mabel L. Morgan. 8 ARRIVE | 57 LEAVE FORSOUTH But before that, he said, he has hopes that Alaska will be a state The Indian question he said would be the same as now with, the Fed- eral government maintaining its of- fices just the same as in the states, except with representagives in Con- gress more help could be obtained. Dimond also condemned the new extent is reported changing rapid- rule by which exporters in the 1y since the Italian upheaval. The States must take shipments sent to | immediate collapse of Germany's Alaska out of their ration quotas.|Partners was considered only a He said this was worse than ra- |remote possibility before this week. tioning. Prentiss Brown, OPA Ad-| Bulgaria now holds all of Yugo- ministrator, he said, wrote him a/slav Macedonia, part of Grecian letter before he left Washington Macedonia, and the Italian collapse saying that there was no thought will affect her more directly than | | of rationing Alaska. Other officials, |any other of the southeastern na- | he pointed out, told him there were |tions of the German camp. no changes—yet this regulation had | .- already been written. | Dimond will be in Juneau until | olD FAS(I | tomorrow when he plans to leave for Haines and Skagway. DISBANDED Speaking of public lands in state- hood, Dimond said he believed only a part of the public domain would be turned over to the state. Yesterday the Delegate said he would introduce a new statehood bill as soon as Congress reconvenes. | Speaking of Washington, Dimond MOTORSHIP PATRICIA PLYING BETWEEN JUNEAU, HAINES and SKAGWAY LEAVES JUNEAU Tuesdays and Saturdays at 8:00 P. M. | Badoglio Ofiers It Dis-| solved-Anti-Fascist Prisoners Out | TICKETS and INFORMATION at | lily at Munda airbase, dropping 47, o = " TWOVESSELS 20 KILLED IN - OF JAPANESE ' PLANECRASH SETABLAZE IN KENTUCKY * Jap Destroyer, Transport American Airliner Burns-| Afire-Munda Struck 2 Survivors, Injured, by Dive Bombers Sumrfi)fi Help ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN' BOWLING GREEN, Ky. July 29. THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July —Twenty of twenty-two persons 29— One Japanese destroyer and a 8board an American Airlines pas-| So far agreements have been made Japaness transport iwere set ‘afive SeDEer plane were killed last: night charfering Abips - Qreat Britln, off Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Wherl the transport ran into unfa- |Norwey, Holland and Greece and and near misses' were scored on" g Ya§able weather. The plane crashed | the door stands open ‘for other argo ship off Dutch New Guinea 800°-burned near Trammel, Ky, United Nations to come in for then-‘ f:y ALl Beihibrs {about twenty miles southeast of Sh;re- R i) . ! here. ear Admiral Emory S. Land, of | Toleda dive boibels, sGTke hiave Two survivors, the War Shipping Administration, allas, tons of bombs. No report is made Hoffman, ;‘ i of jungle fighting around the Jap~ g2t ~ U. §. HUGE nding Boafs fo All Unit- ed Nations, Admiral Land Says ; WASHINGTON, July 29. — The merchant fleet of the United States has grown into the world’s largest | by a 250 percent gain since Pearl Harbor and the U. S. has begun to| | share its ships in the maritime pro- | gram with the Allies. 1st Lt. Glenn Fel-| Texas and S. K.| of Williamsport, P: are in the hospital suffering injur-} ¢ | anese airbase. lies. | plication that Britain, long the roomed, gave no indication of its, disclosing how the fleet had mush- To Wrangell-Matthew E. Hock, Mr. and Mrs, Steve A. Casey and four children, Edna Torgramsen, Emma Torgramsen, Paul Torgram- sen, Sigrid Torgramsen, Chas. Tor- grapsen, and Doris M. Bainer. .ol 1 Ameg \g,;,egion Sponsors Dance on Saturday Arriving by steamer from Skagway at noon today were the following passengers: Joanne Ash, M. Drane, Lynn Gemmill, Howard Henretta, Mrs. B. Holmquist, John Holmquist, | H. T. Valentine, and J. Marin. Taking passage for the South were, for Seattle—Margaret Morris, Jack G. Fuhrman, Elmer T. Houson, | Raymond C. Youngren, Constance | M. Watson, Mrs. Gladys Tenneson, | James R. Tenneson, Martha Ras- | mussen, Charlotte I. Rasmussen, | Mjr. J. H. Bannick, Clayton J. Kose, Thos. H. Starling,_ Arthur L. Kirk, | Sponsored by the American Le- Patrlck B | gion Auxiliary and with Bob Tew's Robt. E. Ridgeway, Jas W. Ridge- | orchestra providing musie for the way, Carl P. Jorgensen, Alexander | evening, a dance will be held Sat- R. Keller, Noah J. Aleshire, Ross T. | wrday at the Elks" ballroom. i Evans, Wm. E. Brucehart, Howard The affair is open to the public W. Barnard, Ed. J. Andersen, Arnold | and dancing will o from 10 until H. Marti, Aleece J. Morgan, and i g'clock. Chas. P. Hald, Jr. | Arrangements for the dance are To Vancouver—Agron Finbert. in charge of Mesdames W. J. To Victoria—C. Hornsby Smith. ‘iMazhews. Bert Lybeck .flnj-,.l;ck To Prince Rupert — Daniel Bill, | Mutch, gy - present, size but left clear the im- | PERCY'S CAFE Where all small packages may be left. | off New Britain, nine 385 tan-|"A coroncrs jury, after an investi-| Worlds No. 1 merchantman, had |#led with fifteen Zeros and shot|gation, returned the verdict “acct.|9ropped far behind the U. 8. down six. Nine Jap barges were dental death.” January 1, 1841, last date on which (By Associated Press) The Italian Chamber Fasci and its corporations has been dissolved glio, the Rome radio reports. by order of Premier Pietro Bado-“ | Port Witnesses testified that parts of the plane were found over a half | official figures were given, showed the American fleet at 1,150 seagoing GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. EDISON MAZDA - LAMPS The Standard of Comparison * Alaska Electric Light and Power Company Juneau Phone 616 Douglas Phone 18 Broiled Steak an Fried Chicken * SERVED ANY TIME | from Badoglio or he might be com- | MRS. HOLMQUIST, vessels aggregating 10,000,000 dead- weight tons. A 250 percent increase would bring the total to more than 26,000,000 deadweight tons. e MUSSOLINI OBSERVING BIRTHDAY MADRID, July 29.—Benito Mus- solini‘spent his 60th birthday under guard in an Italian seacoast town not far from the Isle of Elba. is not a happy birthday. ‘The Chamber took the place of | the Chamber of Deputies after that 90-year-old agency was dis- solved in' December, 1938. Under were | the the | wrested | pelled to sue for immed iate peace. S R not with him., The Count is one of the Fascist leaders who brought about Benito's downfall. It is re- ported he sought safety at the | Vatican with his wife. —— BUY WAR BONDS D — Boela, Dutch New Guinea was bombed, seven fires were start-|mile radius. One of the plane’s ed on oil tanks and supply dumps.|engines found a hundred and Benite ‘Munshltnt." - the . Ohamber The survivors apparently escaped Wwas nado i bt 150 members of from the plane through a window | the National Fascist Council, or were thrown clear. Lt. Fellows, for ‘the 'dubstion ‘of the war ’“‘“‘FA“.S SAYS IoKvorrcm Howell and summoned aid. prohibited the display of any po- ] { P ST litical insignia. 1 ; » . American Snipers who were rounded up under Mus- i ol | Four American Planes | At the same time, reports Downed, Hankow conitrol. ab NIRRETRET: Do LONDON, July 29.—The Tokyo | Pt il quoting advices | Tuesday but were blocked by the |from Manila, | city’s anti-aircraft defense .| caused the planes to jettison their |ing in the Luzon jungles and the | : SON BACK TODAY | yons in the water. | American leader was killed in the | Mrs. Leonard Holmquist and| pater, a Berlin broadcast, relaying | fighting. her sister, Mrs, Harry Ask at kow Sunday and four American | Skagway. planes were downed. There are 639 muscles in the body. It His son-in-law, Count Ciano, is | r73 .%ru .%ab{flu Buy it...s0kve ... drink &... you /4 fim/ i as smooth as silh/- THREE FEATHERS “VSR" Blended Whiskey,86 Proof,60% Grain Neutral Spirite | OLDETYME DISTILLERS CORPORATION Empire State Building w York HREE FEATHERS VSR (VERY SPECIAL RESERVE) T -> > twenty-five yards from the trans- 'RAID ON HONGKONG | Badogiit's brder slso banned the lalthough injured, walked three ‘The new Premier announced the ' Reported Still in spread that revolts were in radio says an attempt was made by| LONDON says Jap troops son John, returned to Juneau to-| Tokyo dispatches, said about 20| also destroyed and the oil field at port | 'BY ALLIED PLANES formation of any political party |quarters of a mile to the heme of release of thousands of prisoners Berlm Rad|0 AISO Ua”“s making and suggested that gles o' lulon six Allied planes to raii Hongkong |vadio that | clashed with American snipers hid- | day after visiting for a week with| American bombers also raided Han- | DINE AND DANCE OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT Electric Hammond an Music DINE AND- DANCE Org