The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 30, 1945, Page 5

TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, (OLD WAVE 3 HITS MANY | U.S. AREAS! (By Associated Press) Cold winds of moderate intensity swept a wide expanse of the nation today bringing subzero temperatures to the Great Plain States and heavy snow fail around the Great Lakes, Ohio River Valley and Northeastern |3 areas. The Chicago Weather Bureau re- | ported minimum temperatures rang- | ed from 17 below in North Dakota to two to five degrees below in Ne- braska, Minnesota and Wisconsin. | Denver’s reading today is three degrees below zero, the winter’s cold- est day. i R GIRL SCOUTS SELL ' fICKETS FOR DANCE T0 BE HELD TONIGHT Hundreds of tickets for the Presi- dent’s “Birthday Ball have been sold for the gala event and the card| party tonight by Girl Scouts, whc‘ have assisted the committee by performing this community sel'vic(‘.‘ Peggy Lesher repotts for Troop | No. 10, saying: “We' called roll, ‘answering with out new mames. We | ‘had a lessen in dathing today.” Proop No. 9 met at the American | Legion dugout. Capt. Likens gave| out part of the costumes for the # festival to all the members, Mr 1945 officers. Those elected were: Sonia Shecper; Vice- President, Donna Olds; Secretary, Katherine Bavard; Treasurer, Car- men Mantyla; Reporter, Muriel Milhes; Flag Bearers, Jean Body and Donna Carver; Musician, Jo- ann Sabin. Miss Holbrook, teacher of the venth and eighth grades, taught the troop a Dutch dance, which is one of the activities that the troop is preparing for the spring program. They are also learning a song Last meeting, the entertainment committee had an imitation of a radio script. Those who participated had poems, sto! songs, etc. One s Donna Olds, who told a clever that ended with the Soap. new President, story Ivory “ad.” Troop No. 3 met at the Northern Light Presbyterian Church on Thursday ternoon. After some discussion it was decided to appoint * and elect extra officers as the membership had doubled arcl Karnes was surer, and Patricia ssistant Reporter. Margaret Atkinson is Sergeant-at-Arms. The 3irl Scouts e selling tickets to the sident’s Birthday Ball. Cos- re decided on for the In- ternational frien dship activ Troop No. 3 will have a Russian number. The girls had many block prints on exnibition at the Hobly Show, which they attended in g body. e DIMES, DOLLARS GIVE GREETINGS T0 PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Jan, 30 — With dimes and dollars in America say- ing “Happy, Birthday" to Pr ent “Nevin taught us two dances and |Roosevelt, Basil O'Connor, in New a song. Troop No. 9 has as its re- porter, Aileen Konquist. Troop No. 4 held its election of | | York, President of the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis, s been said the March of Dimes ha |§én}in’ls | (oming fo THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE- JUN I Terrifory |Is Named Agronomist, Ex- perimental Station, Alaska Univ. WASHINGTON, Basil M. Bensin I Agrcnomist perimental St |of Alaska and ex Fairbanks in March. Bensin is a citizen of the States but was born in F gricultural United with the Foreign Economic Admin- istration on Balkan problems. Delegate E. L. Bartlett said Ben- |sin’s work will include supervision | of the field and crop experimental | work and will study subarctic agri- culture of the Scandinavian coun- tries and Eurouean Russia and Si- beria for possible adaption to Al-| aska conditions extended to February 15. O'Connor said although receipts | so far :howed this year’s March of Dimes will break previous rec- | ords, many drive events have been extended, snowed out, frozen out | or postponed because of fuel. The March of Dimes drive was | | scheduled to end. tomorrow. R | | i | Victory garaeners can e a first-rate kneeling pad out of an| U, ALASKA AS SMOKE BILLOWS SKYWARD, Jap planes burn aiong the runways of Nichols Field on the outskirts of Manila following a heavy attack on the enemy airport by carrier-based U. S. bombers and fighters. During this raid, one of a geries carried out by our forces, 440 enemy planes were destroyed. Manila Bay is in backgr ue o Daducers Deduce; Crooks @e! Away OKLARUMA CITY Detectives old soft cushion covered with oil-|Tom Guest and T. T. Hutchison cloth. - - Empire Want-ads bring results! ~school robbery e can't all go...but we can all help! BUY W EMEMBER this touching picture of a little girl’s farewell to her war-bound daddy‘? Appearing shortly after Pearl Harbor, it touched the hearts of millions of Americans and helped to launch the greatest voluntary savings program AR BONDS TORY -/ | didn't catch a crook with their de- ductions when sent to investigate a but they amused - But Her Daddy’s Still in the Fight, and the War Bonds You Bought Back in the Days of Pearl Harbor are in the Fight, Too - for Victory! \D FOR YOU. For just as that little girl has grown, so have the War Bonds you bought three years ago. The $100 Bond you paid $75 for then is already worth more than you paid—and how swiftly the round. Navy photo. (International) | themse .N0 enda. Here's what they deduced: Muddy footprints showed a prowl- er had climbed, in a basement win- dow. It was raining so he pulled a rocking chair close to a hot water heater, turned the gas up to drive the chill from his bones and settled down for a nap. Just so he wouldn't oversleep he set an alarm clock on a nearhy table for 2 a. m. Still Needed For the March of Dimes CARD PARTY TIME: 8§ P. M. Room Awards to Be | DBDANCE “TIME: 9 P. M. fo Midnight | PLACE: Baranof Gold | py 5. Fyies' Ballroom - ADMISSION: $1 plus tax per time has passed! In an- other yearit will be worth $80—at maturity, $100. Here’s money you’ll need later—for education, re- pairs, replacements, re- tirement — just as your country. needs it today. in all history. That girl is three years older today. In that time, our ‘enemies have heen pushed steadily back toward their own frontiers. . . thanks in.no small measure to the overwhelming flood of tanks, ships, planes and guns that more than 85 million Americans have poured into the fight through their purchases of War Bonds. But her daddy is still at war—the fight goes on—the money you’ve put into Bonds is still needed, just as it was after Pearl Harbor. KEPT IN THE FIGHT—KEPT IN WAR BONDS— 'T WILL CONTINUE TO WORK FOR VIC- KEEP M"‘“ WIT“ 0Ull F“}HTERS"Buy War Bonds For‘Keellw PACIFIC AMERICAN FISHERIES 7 Your WAR BOND is the best investment e in the world So let this picture re- ~k61f’/] it mind you—-HOLD , TIGHT TO YOUR BONDS!