The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 30, 1943, Page 6

PAGE SIX 'GEORGE BROTHERS Super Market ESTABLISHED SINCE 1908 2 FREE DELIVERIES DAILY 10:30 A. M. and 3 P. M. PHONE 92—95 NUTS IN SllELLS PEANUTS FILBERTS WALNUTS ALMONDS Also large assortment of NUT MEATS GEORGE BROTHERS PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIAL TALKS TO ROTARIANS Dr. Edgar Norris, Director of the Public Health Service District 11, including Alaska, was guest speaker at the Rotary Club meeting this noon, tracing the history of the Public Health Service since it was created by Congress in 1798, Dr. Norris told of how the Se: ts the spread of disease | | vice com! | from foreign countries into the United States and also between states and territories of the Unit- 4/ ed States, touching briefly on Alas- {'ka's problem in this line in the { coming age of international air 4 transport Dr. Nomis was taken into the Rotary Club as an Honorary Mem- ber . John Doyle Bishop, chairman of % the Rotary’'s Committee for the % Entertainment of Rotarians and | their families and friends on New Year's Eve, announced that a gala New Year's Eve Ball will be held in the Gold Room of the Baranof ‘Hatcl on that evening with dancing jand refreshments from 10 p.n. un- |til 2 am. All reservations should be made through the committee by December 15 and the admission fee | lof $10 per couple should be paid at| i the time the reservation is made Bishop announced. | Visiting Rotarians were Dr. Mar- | - tin Carlson of Ketchikan and Glenn :A Mexican bull figher's cape pro- | gyper, glso of Ketchikan vided the inspiration for this bath- | Guests included Dr. George Hays ing suit ensemble designed by lof the Public Health Service, Rus- | Irene for Esther Williams (above), |sell Clithero of Sitka. | {M-G-M actress and swimmer. The ] Major William FPisher was wel- wcape is made of terry cloth and comed as an Honorary 'Member. | ‘appliqued with a floral design, | PreSident Harold Foss and ’I‘om{ while the suit is of shocking pink /Morgan were welcomed back. | satin lastex. It is called the 4 | Si” (Spanish for yes-yes). (AP |into effect tomorrow. wytphnloj The Defense Supplies Cerpora- | EE ———1'tion announces a ‘series of subsidy PRI(E of BREAD | payment rates for ¥arious grades of lieve the price squeezed millers so the latter may continue to sell flour |for bread at the prevailing price 'WLB OKEHS " PAY RAISE, A.J.LABOR Retroactive to May 1, 1943 SEATTLE, Nov. 30.—A horizontal wage Increase of 14 cents an hour in all job classifications of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- pany at Juneau, Alaska, has been ordered by the Regional War Labor Board The wage adjustment has been ordered retroactive to May 1. i However, the Board's action has been submitted to the national board for review at the request of the minority section of the regional body whose dissenting opinion w: written by Dr. George Noble, Chairman 5 | Bernard | ‘ MCenis Per Hour Increase , THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU ALASKA ALL'S WELL--IT'S WEDDING BELLS! 1 | to the board from Alaska. The A. J. employees had asked for an! increase of 30 cents an hour. YANKS NOW | USETARAWA ? AIRFIELD No Figures Received on! American Losses- i Will Be Heavy WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Within four days after the initial attack on the Japs at Tarawa in the Gilberts, | the Americans had the air field in use. This was disclosed at a press |conference with Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. The figures on American losses were not received here, he said, but he repeated that “the fighting was y bitter,” fore that heavy expected. When asked about the reason for the heavy losses, Knox called atten- tion to the reports on one assault, wheh waves of Marines ran into trouble when wind and sea condi- itions changed unexpectedly. They became hung on a reef while ex- posed to heavy fire from the Jap- |anese on the shore. JAPS MAKE MOONSHINE, TULE LAKE Four Stills Are Operatedf by Internees, Offic- ials State REDDING, - Calif., Nov. 30.—Tule losses shouid be | | Lake Camp Japs operated a large | moonshine still is the announce- ment made today by Dewet Eagan, | Liquor Enforcement Officer of the Board of Equalization, Eagan declared the Jap intemecs sold liquor to civilians working out- | side the camp. He safd he learned | of “this several months ago. Four | stills were in operation. Eagan also declared. that Ken- | neth Blair, of the Federal Alcohol | wheat effective December 1 to re= | levels. Tt e | . WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. — The | S . } [ Administration’s bread subsidy pro-| A" Armenian translation of | “Hiawatha” has gram, intended to prevent the retail | Longfellow’s “". p*xce per loaf mmensmg will be put (entl) been complcv.ed | Retailers RICE & AHLERS CO. Plumbing and Heating Supplies Unit, attempted to launch an in- vestigation but was unable to gain | admittance to the camp. Eagan said Blair told him the Army has now found one still and | much mash. This was the first dispute to come | § implylng as he did be- | ¢ |sent at the meeting. {all the trimmings, Ibv held in Fairbanks on January 4 |20 to 26, and also notified divisional ! DEMO PRECINCT PARTY CAUCUS jon Hall Thursday Evening A Democratic Party caucus of the three Juneau precincts and Salmon Creek precincts has been called by Acting Chairman Crystal Snow ' Jenne for this Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the Union Hall on Gastineau Avenue. Purpose of the meeting is to elect delegates to the Divisional Demo- cratic Convention of December 17. Delegates will be elected on the basis of one for each 50 registered Democrats in each precinct at the last primary election. Chairman Howard Lyng of Nome of the Territorial Democratic Cen- tral Committee announced recently that the Territorial Convention will | committees to issue calls for pre- cinct caucuses and divisional con- ventions. Mrs. Betty McCormick is Acting Divisional Chairman for this divi- | sion R TR Y i THOUGH HE CARRIED her picture, reproduced above, on 15 flights over Nazi-occupied Europe and though he came home a war hero, his chest glittering with American and British medals for heroism and daring, Miss Bess Levine of South Fallsburg, N. Y., couldn't | | quite make up her mind to becoming Mrs, Lieut. Malcolm A. Hor- mats of Troy, N Y So Lieutenant Hormats, inset, invited Mis Levine to a dinner-dance date in New York City and began repeal edly to pop “the question” from'the moment they met at the railroad station. At 1:45 a. m. Miss Levine said she \\'nuld flip a coin and if it landed heads up her answer would be “yes.” Heads, Lieutenant Hormats and Mr. Dan Cupid became winners. {International) Rides Buoy Rl(E AND AHLERS " QUITS PLUMBING, - HEATING SERVICE Firm Is Orgamzed by Clark and Feero | The Juneau Plumbing and Heat- ing Company has taken over the plumbing, heating, oil burner and sheet metal work of Rice .and !Anlers Co. and, in the future, all | services performed by Rice :and Ahlers Co. will be taken care of by the new company which is owned and operated by Jack R. Clark and B, E. “Bill” Feero, for- mer employees of Rice and Ahlers Co. Both men are well known and competent and deserving of the new undertaking. J. R. Clark has been foreman on jall large contracts for Rice and : [Ahlers Co., including the Baranof | Hotel, 20th Century Theatre Build- {ing, Cooper Building and Hillerest Apartments at Juneau; Sitka Hotel, |Lutheran Church, Sitka ngh School and USO Building at Sltk(\- | Westward Hotel, Anchorage, and is capable of handling contracts of ONE OF A GROUP of ten Spats, Su- sie Barnes, gets the thrill of her life when she rides the breeches buoy at the Coast Guard life boat station, Rockport, Mass. Susie, who hails from Boston, was also given a ride in a surf boat. (International) CLITHERO SPEAKS AT LEGION MEET Territorial ~ Department Com- mander Russell Clithero upoke be- {fore American Legion members last night in the Dugout, his subject being “Principles of the American Legion.” Mr. Clithero came here from his home in Sitka to be pre- again allowed B. E. Feero, ,known as “Bil jling and servicing burn more commonly s of all past five years. Last May he start- ed in business for himself under the name of Juneau Heating Ser- vice but he soon outgrew his small quarters on Second between Frank- lin and Seward and, to better take care of his customers, he has join- ed Mr. Clark in a new company so that a well rounded service of all plumbing, heating and sheet metal needs may be properly taken care of. Rice and Ahlers Co. will devote| its time to the retail selling of plumbing and heating supplies, oil ranges, oil heaters, oil burners, elc.‘ This change in operation was made necessary due to the fact that the business of Rice and Ahlers Co. grew to such proportions that it became impossible for it to take It was announced that repairs to|care of the retail business and give the foundation of the Dugout are|proper attention to necessary repair underway, the work being donme by|and service work. Plans were completed last night for the first Jiggs dinner of 'the season, corn beef and cabbage with which will be held on December 6. Tickets for the affair will be available from any Legionnaire. In charge jof ar- rangements are Bert Lybeck, Claude Carnegie, Fred Cameron, Fred Hungerford and Alfred Zenger. {Union. ! | support of the community in their | any size when new construction is| , has been instal- | kinds in Juneau and vicinity for the | | When vanadium, the mineral ithat toughens steel, was first dis- |covered in 1801, itiwas calldd uyth«l {ronium. s e ! Arizona passed 96 laws last yenr.[ fewer than any other state in the' B e S The iron dome of the U. S. Cap- itol weighs nearly 4,500 tons and | i idates from 1863. —————— BUY WAR BONDS a just cause. Ppen to us. | i Glenn Hyners Are SET FOR JUNEAU, .. * |Will Have Meefing in Un-, |here from Ketchikan for a brief vacation and during their stay are guests at the Gastineau Hotel. Mr. Hyner, formerly Assistant Visiting in Juneau , , gent with the Alaska Steamship . Co. here, is now General Agent at Glenn Hyner are| Krtcmkan and Mrs. BASKETBALL TONIGHT T7:30P. M. J. K. §. vs. BANKERS COPPERS vs. SPARKS ADMISSION Service Men and Students.25¢ Tax Se¢ 30¢ Adults Tax TOTAL TOTAL HIGH SCHOOL GYM o Use Sixth Street Entrance WERE IN A WAR. We didn’t ask for it; we didn’t want it. We simply could not avoid it. But . . . now that we’re in . we are going to win! No power in history has ever licked America. No power on earth can success- fully resist an America aroysed to ‘And no one will lick us now . . . but ourselves! Our own indiffer- ence to our individual responsibili- ties . . . our own apathy toward our national needs . . . the attitude of too many of us not to care what happens, 5o long as it doesn’t hap- As the late President Wilson, so aptly said: “America is not any- thing if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists | of all of us.” And just as America " NORTHLAND mmmmlor' ¢0. SERVING' In War 'ATTENTION!! TEAMSTERS UNION Important Meeting Wednesday Nighi——8 o'Clock A. F. OF L. HALL ALL DRIVERS PLEASE ATTEND NO ONE CAN LICK US « « » but Ourselves! uallofus...sonllouthe)ob of preserving America the )ob of all of us. It’s right smack in the lap of every single citizen of the United States. The job calls for men . . . and it calls for money. We have the men . . . brave marines, gallant soldiers, courageous sailors, intre- pid airmen . . . fighting, and bleed- ing, and dying on the battlefronts of the world. But our government needs money and that’s the least any of us can contribute to the struggle baing waged for our very existence. Especially, when the gov- ernment does not take our money « « « it merely borrows it! And it not only pays it back to us . .. but pays us interest for,its use. While men give their lives we are asked only to lend our money. What American could do less? B!PENDAH’Y In Peace WE HAVE TAKEN OVER plumbing heatiny sheet metul 0il Heaters 0il Burners Corner Third and Franklin service and repair work of Rice & Ahlers Co. and will endeavor to give all their customers the same cars oand attention to which they have become accustomed. We have been .in Junequ for many years working for Rice & g Ahlers Co. and are families with their installations. Juneau Plumbing & Heating Company Comrade Fulton. ' John Ahlers says: “I am happy - to recommend Messrs. Clark and| STOCK QUOTATIONS Feero and want to assure all my customers that I carried on the service work to the best of my NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Closingability during these trying times quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today, the last day of the until I felt sure that this branch of the business could be turned over Imonth and final session before the |start of melon cutting December, PHONE 34 to reliable parties.” The Juneau Plumbing and Heat- o) ervice’ Department has been turned over to Jack R. is 5!, American Can 81%, Ana-ling Co. will conduct its business Clark and B. E. “Bill” Feero, owners of lUlNEAU PLUMBING conda 25, Bethlehem Steel, 54%,|in the shop formerly operated by Owned and Operated by E & HEATXNG COMPANY and we iake pleasure in recom- Curtiss Wright 6%, International|Rice and Ahlers Co. and can be ; them to you when in need of repairs to your |Harvester 65'., Kennecott 20%,|found in the same location on chx l. cu“ B, E, "Biu" rmo 3 I g and heating equipment. They are old timers at New York Central 14%, Northern{Franklin Street near Third. Rice PHONE 787 have worked for us for years and are thoroughly Pacific 12, United States Steel 497%,|and Ahlers Co. will conduct its re- Night Calls: LOCATED AT nd reliable. Pound $4.04. L tail store at the corner of Third J. R. Clark Red 750 i Rice & Ahlers old H Dow, Jones averages today areland Franklin as usual. B. E. Feero ... _Green 585 Franklin near 4 as follows: industrials 12957, rails — e 31.50, utilities 20.80. BUY WAR BONDS