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

Super Market PHONES 92—-95 2 FREE DELIVERIES DAILY ALMONDS, Best Quality - - 1h. 75¢ WALNUTS, Best Quality - - 1b. 60c FILBERTS, Best Quality - - Ib. 65¢ PEANUTS, Best Quality - - - Ih. 3%¢ MIXEDNUTS - - - - - - 1b. 5% FINEST QUALITY THAT MONEY CAN BUY! Pressed Pitted Dates - 40c, 50c, 60c >ackage MIXERS Ginger Ale, Sparkling Water, Tom Collins Mix—35¢ [ CANDY BARS 6 VARIETIES 9 8 Carfon EORGE BROTHER NO 50 all Alaska cities are also making up small gifts for soldiers. Special Christmas music record- decora- - SR A A 3ot fo ks 1 President Roosevelt pre Merit medal for his recent mili ry services. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Roosevelf Honors Eisenhower enhower with the Legion of The presentation was |der as approximately 50,000 workers made during the President’s trip to Cairo and Teheran, but scene of the ceremony was not disclosed by the Army. AP Wirephoto from 12th Air Force.) {Will End 40-—Y;ar (areer in : January 31. LDIERS ings, sheet music of carols, | tions and other Christmas supplies TEN and gifts are being distributed through the American Red Cross. Armed Forces radio stations in Alaska will broadcast three hours of Special Service Christmas pro- grams, including what probably will | represent the greatest gathering of talent in radio’s history. Colonel Carlton announced that | 36,000 new books and 200 sets of musical instruments will reach Al- aska soldiers during the period HEADQUARTERS, ALASKAN DEPARTMENT—There will be no forgotten soldiers in Alaska this Christmas—not even in the most | molated outposts above the Arctic For b circle. i "Tons of fruit cakes, turkey, candy, ‘S E( u RITY IAX cigarettes, games and individual gift boxes destined for distant posts al- ready are on the way by ship and airplane, and there will be plenty ‘RATE REMAINS‘ of supplies for the Christmas cele- | | brations that are planned. i | Three special Christmas planes, | [/ ! laden with Christmas supplies and the latest mail from home, will make | stops at the smaller outposts on the | mainland of Alaska, ! The Army posts at Seward and | SWASHINGTON, Dec. 14. — The| Kodiak are furnishing thousands of | Senate Finance Committee has vot- small Christmas trees for the soldiers | ed to freeze the Social Security taxes on the barren Aleutians and the through 1944 at the present rate of treeless areas of the far North. |one percent each for employers and Maj. Joseph M. Appelgate, Alas- employees. | kan Department chaplain, will Laur[ Senator A, H. Vanderberg, who the Arctic outposts as far north as | twice before succeeded in blocking | Point Barrow in a commercial plane | the automatic doubling rate, led | piloted by Gene Jack of Anchorage, [the movement. Present reserves, he | who has five years' experieuce as a |declared, are far larger than re-| pilot above the Arctic circle. The [quired by law. | plane will be fitted with skis when| The Senate committee also rati- | it reaches Kotzebue. Sgt. William V. ihed the House decision to requlre\ Myers of the department chaplain’s labor unions and other non-profit office also will make the trip lorganizations to file informational Maj. William M. Frost, assistant |financial returns and approved the department chaplain, and Tech. |increase on excess profits tax rate Sgt. Gordon DuChene of the office, |of corporations from 90 to 95 per- will be on the Army plane touring |cent. Southeastern Alaska. | Retained, at present, is the 80 per- In the third Christmas plane, |cent overall ceiling in respect to touring the Bristol Bay area, will be | corporate normal surtax and excess During conferences of three Allied nations at the Russian Embassy at Teheran, some of the members met informally in the driveway outside the embassy for a chat. They are, left to right: Harry Hopkins, adviser to President Roosevelt; Marshal Stalin’s interpreter; Marshal Joseph Stalin; Russian Foreign Secretary Molotov and Marshal Klem- enti E. Vorosl . (AP Wirephoto from 12th Air Force. BELOW ZERO WEATHER IN MANY AREAS Du‘”'h |S COldes' CIty m‘ CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—Newest i note in the manpower shortage here Nation TOday_” T e h o 1s 22 There Manager Burton Meyer of a local (By Associated Press) shoe repair store has hired several The cold wave drove temperatures Ewday far below zero in the north- lern states and adyancing tempera- tures in Misouri, Kansas and Ne- braska. Forecasters issued warnings to those three states that tempera- tures would go as low as five de- grees above zero. Dulufh, Minn,, is reported as the Nation's lowest today. It is 22 be- low zero in the metropolis on Lake Superior e SHOE SHINERES:! ES do @ better job because they “take | girls to shine shoes and says they more pride in their work.” Capt. Charles A. Sias, post chaplain | profits tax at Fort Richardson. | Plans for the Christmas activities were announced by Lt. Gen. simon | Bolivar Buckner, Jr., Alaskan De- partment Commander, whose entire | staff has cooperated in making the | arrangements. In direct charge of | the arrangements. are Lt. Col. John T. Carlton, Department Special Service Officer, and Chaplain Ap- pelgate. Included in the Christimas sup- plies going to Alaska soldiers” are | 7,000 one-pound fruit cakes, furnish- ed by Seattle women through the Seattle War Commission, 3,000 pounds of chocolate-covered candies, Santa Claus suits for every post in AVE TIRES.. the Territory, some of them made by the women of Anchorage and some furnished by the Chaplains’ Service Corps of Los Angeles, and 20,000 lithographed Christmas bul- letins, with space in which local programs can be mimcographed, pro- vided by the Figuero Boulevard STUDEBAKER Now building large Christian Church of Los Angeles. Chaplain Appelgate served at this chureh before he entered the Army. Army Special Service and Quarter- master personnel are working over- time to assure that all Christmas supplies will arrive at the scattered Army posts on time. Seven or eight USO camp shows and Special Service entertainment troups will be touring Alaska and | the Aleutian chain during the holi- day period. USO organizations in quantities of Cyclone engines for the Boeing Flying Fortress. . big, mul drive military trucks i CHANGES IN DRAFT BOARD REGULATIONS Otcupaiion;rDefermenls Now fo Come from Appeal Boards WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Selec-| tive Service officials have issued in- structions requiring a review of oc- cupational deferments for every registrant whose principal place of employment_by the local board in different appeal board areas. | ‘The appeal boards, which have Jjurisdiction over registrants prin- cipal place employment make “ne- cessary a review as comemplnted‘ by the recently adopted amend-| ments to the selective training ser- | vice law.” ‘The national capital will be es-| pecially affected by the new or- | here are deferred by local boards elsewhere. ARCTIC CAPTAIN CRAWFORD IS T0 Far North-To Locate 1 | | ! ITALI AN NURSE AIDS WOUNDED YANK IN A CHURCH converted into a hospital near Chiunzi Pass, Italy, an TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1943 - COASTAL PLANE FLIES PASSENGERS T0 SITKA 4 An’ ka Coastal Airlines plane flew the following to Sitka today: Charles Whittrhore, Capt. Charles M. Beach, Eugene E. Havens, John |L. Cutrell, Glenn Hagen and Paul Lasco. ! Mr. and Mrs, L. C. Nevius were ‘passengers to Gustavus. | Yesterday the following flew from | Juneau to Gustavus: W. L. Seeley, | Mrs. B. L. Schoettler and Byron L. | Schoettler. Wallace Jones was a passenger to Hoonah. Incoming passengers from Gus- tavus to Juneau were William E. | Powers, Charles W. Bonard and D. Robert Ralston. | Italian nurse changes the dressing on a wounded American soldier's | A | head. The pass is the gateway to the plains of Naples from which * | *Shorlagé of the Allies swept German defensive forces last month. {International) | Stockpiles in bins of industrial | users and retail dealers will haye/ declined from 86,000,000 tons last | the end of the year. on His Farm WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. — Capt.| James R. Crawford, Arctic Sea| Captain, explorer and skipper of me; Fish and Wildlife Service vessel |Brant ends a 40-year career in the | far north with his retirement on Capt. Crawford returned south after one of his exploration trips in the Arctic to find the world war | I had been won while he was away | and of which he was unaware that | it was in progress. | Capt. Crawford plans to retire to! his farm near Seattle and will take an auto tour “to see the south”| when the present war is over. —— - FRIENDLY ANTELOPE WALSENBURG, Colo.—Antelope | | have become so tame-and so num- |aren't digging as much coal as we | | erous in eastern Huerfano County that they now graze with cattle herds. ‘That amount is only a little more | than a month's supply. By March 31, stocks will be considerably less CoalMayBe than a month’s supply and will ver A(u' reach a “dangerous low level,” the | OWT said. e SITKA MAN HERE John Cushing of Sitka, 1s a guest at the Baranof Hotel. Supplies Progressively HARLEQUIN ICE BOX CAKE Line oiled loaf pan with oiled waxed parer. Then cover with buttered va- ni:I wnfu-Acrumh-.w hi“ center with whipped Avoset ipping — into which you have folded your choice of chopped nuts, sliced dates, raisins, candied pineapple, etc.. Cover with January 1 to about 60,000,000 tons at |-more vanilla wafer crumbs. Chill Slice when firm. FRUIT SURPRISE: Arrange canned fruit halves on dessert plates. Fill with cubed mint jelly. Cover with whipped Avoset, sweetened and flavored to taste. Garnish with walnuts. COOKIE TOWERS: Whip one cup Avo- set Whipping. Sweeten and flavor. Spread &tween 4 to 6 thin cookies or graham crackers. Chill. Serve with chacolate sauce. Diminish Throughout Yea r of 1943 Ask for Skrip instead of ink . . . the modem writing fuid that makes all pens write better, last longer, require less TKEEPS A o ionra WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. — The rvicing! Skrip drie: Offiée of War Infofmation Said, (0 it me” batter b | 50 fast no blotter is day the coal shortage is so acute necessaryl that if stocks canmot be replenished | o by next summer the situation will S"EAFFEKS “approach a catastrophe.” The OWI said the plain fact is we are using. Therefore, there was a progressive shortage throughout t 1943. 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