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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1945 PAGE TWO MONTH - ENP CLEARANCE Ready-to-Wear It starts tomotrow . . . Ready-fo-wear and millinery for immediate clearance . . . Drastic reductions . . . . Unkelievable values. 50 Hats, valuest01295 - - - - 1 JJ 7 Reversibl 3 Fur-trimmed Coats, reg. 98.50 S30.00 1 Fur-trimmed Coat, reg. 150.00 s 4 pefter Loa Wool Skirts, valuesto 11.95 - 60 Dresses, req. 19.95and 22.95 - e Coats, reg. 19.95 - 4 Better Coats, reg. 98.90 - - 11 Wool Suiis, valvesto sosse | HELLO! QAUICY HULL TELLS WHY FLEET KEPT, HAWAIl Continued from Page One) an Army board of inquiry once call ed it the spark which ignited the Pacific war. But the veteran states- man said today t his message to Je ad been ignorantly mis- Tef nted — that actually it con- tained nothing to which a peace- ful nation could object. Hull received valuable help from the next witness, former Ambassador Joseph Grew, who declaiad flatly that the note was in no respect an ultimatum, either in tone or in sub- stance. Grew recalled that he had once been quoted by an Army in- quiry board as having said that Hull's note touched the button which started the war with Japan. But today the one-time American am- oassador to Tokyo denied ever hav- ing made that statement -oe EXPANSION PLAN FOR ALASKA VET PROGRAM HINTED Liens Club Complimented on National War Fund Accomplishment tration, addressed the Lions as a special representative of Ge Omar Bradley. The ad- ministration, he id, is planning a somewhat expanded program in Alaska, but added that he was not now in a position to say just what that would mean Lion Fred Geeslin, just back from the Aleutians, and a trip on the North Star, reported especially on his work in helping reestablish the Aleuts in Unalaska. He said the natives were splendid workers, and added that they merely needed a good start—something like the Juneau men who built the Boy Scout building last spring. Lion Geeslin said that Unalaska was pretty much a new town now. Charles Burdick, chairman in the First Division for the National War Fund drive, just completed in Juneau by the Lions Club, spoke a word of appreciation to the club for its splendid work. The drive in the States, he said, was only 56 per cemt successful, and they are faced with the possibility of having to do the work over again Ketchikan, he added, had so far secured only about 50 per cent of its quota. The Juneau quota was over 90 per cent attained Lion Mike Monagle announced that the ladies night banquet would be held this Thursday evening at the Baranof at 7 o'clock. Lion Ed Lewis was made chief in charge of entertainment. Guests at today’s luncheon, in addition to lcng-absent Lions Earle Hunter and Fred Geeslin, were Anthony Karn Juneau; Elmer Savikko, retu d veteran, Douglas; Charles Burdis and Roland Baur- rows, Jun - - (ome Out with Gun and Fight; They Do; 3 Killed ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Nov. 26.—Two men and a woman were dead today follewing a shooting which Buchan- an County Prosecutor Joseph Sher- man attributed to a neighborhood quarre! Sherman said first degree murder cha Charles Tiedt, 51-yearold machin- ist, who he said made a written statement about the slaying. The dead are Lem:crt Matchett, 44. his wife, Edna, 37, and his brother, Fred, 29, a Chief Petty Of- ficer in the Navy home on leave. Sherman quoted Tiedt as saying in his statement that “my children had been haying some trouble with the Matchett children.” Sherman said the shooting oc- S/INCE /887 ges would be filed today againsta the outside of the curve, 15 inches; BULLETINS ! broadcast from Shanghai said today at least nine American fliers lost their lives and at least 12 planes were lost out of a flight ‘of 22 Mustangs when they encountered bad weather on a routine flight to EShnnghni. Columbia grand jury has indicted Ezra Pound for treason. The Am- crican poet is accused of broadcast- | ing from Fascist Italy during the | war. Attorney General Tom Clark, that Pound is charged with overt j acts of ireason. 2.00 | WASHINGTON — The Navy has jset next March as the tentativ {date for closing its convalescent ® { hospital at Sun Valley, Idaho. The 15.00 ePo 9.00 institution would then be turned back to its owner, the Union Pacific | Railroad. Before the war the Union | Pacific operated the place as a resort. N LONDON—The British Commun- i ist Party’s 18th convention un- | animously demanded the removal "of Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin on the ground that he had con- tinued th2 froeign policy of the “Tory" government and “endanger- cd peace and economic cooperation.” METZ, France—Gen. George S. 30.00 G060 $3.00 : 15.00 American Museaum, Rowland Ward and practically all other organiza- | tions in judging trophy heads, Col. | Williams stated today. Following are the measurements of deer antlers which rated first, second and third in the com- petition:, ! First Prize—Extreme spread, 18 inches; right antler, length on the cutside of the curve, 16 7-8 inches; length of points, 1 7-8, 4 1-4, 4 9-16, 6 15-16; circumference of the beam, 3 5-8 inches; circumference of the Eurr, 6 1-8 inches; left antler, length on the outside of the curve, 16 3-8 inches; length of points, 1 3-4, 6 5-8, 3 3-4, 3, circumference of the beam, 3 3-4; circumference of the burr,! 6 1-8. Total points scored, 103.59. | Second Prize—Extreme spread, 16 5-8 inches; right antler, length on sage length of points, 3 7-8, 6 3-8, 2 1-2, 4 3-4; circumference of the beam, 3 3-4; circumferance of the burr, 5 5-8; left antler, length on the out- | side of the curve, 14 3-4; length of cumference of the feam, 3; circum- cumstances of the beam, 3; circum- ference of the burr, 5 1-2. Total points scored, 96.60. ! Third Prize—Extreme spread, 18 | 3-8 inches; right antler on the out- side of the curve, 16 1-4; length of | SAN FRANCISCO — NBC in a| WASHINGTON—The District of in anouncing the indictment said | Does an AMERICAN Live Here? : We are neighbors of yours who have been asked to call on you . .. to offer you a grand opportunity. We aren’t making any money out of this. We simply want to deliver a mes- patton, former U. S. Third Army Commander, reecived the Medal of | Admiral, Katsugi Masaki, 60, as- Verdun yesterday, an honor aceord- | sarted that wartime Premier Hideki ed to only one other American, | Tojo “and his desperate supporters” General of the Armies John J.|started the Pacific war primarily “to Pershing | save themselves from punishment for their failure in China.” | ATHENS—Archbishop Damaskinos withdrew his resignation at Regen{| NOME, Alaska — Word reached of Greece last night after both the | here said that an Army plane, bear- United States and British ambas-| ing two pilots and six passengers, sadors urgently requested him to| proke through the ice while taxiing remain in office. ! at Point Hope, about 300 i g 1 ncrth of Nome, several days ago WASHINGTON — State Depari- { The plane wings weare torn off, but mont officials said that of 9,000 ! no one was injured. Germans now living in Spain, at, L eeoe— Jeast 1,000 are known to have been H;w SERUM FOR | Nazi agents. Aides at the State De- | partment also disclosed that German documents found in the Reich are being scrutinized in an attempt to find out to what extent the Franco jovernment played ball with the The Departiisht; ol Healit une mmces the establishment of three at Ketchikan, at An- nd in Juneau, for the ; of immune serum gamma ilin, a newly-released serum for Xis. ment of mea: The serum is a by-p: American Red Cross Plisma Banks and is being supplied free to the Territorial Department of Health by the Civilian Blood Donor Service of DACHAU—Riva Levy, pretty 29- the American Red Cross. The cost vear-cld Lithuanian, testified at of processing, testing and packaging the Dachau Concentration Camp | was paid by the organizatio; atrocity trial that SS Guards used depots, located in the Anchor: iron rods to beat women who were BEranch Laboratory, the Ketchikan | too weak to carry the heavy stones Branch Laborary and the Juneau they were required to move. Central Laboratory i r | WASHINGTON — President Tru- | man has congratulated King Haakon on the fortieth anniversary of the coronation. In his | message, the President said that the Amcrican people admired the cour- age and fortitude shown by Norway during the war in the darkest period of her history. from your government. curred on the front porch of the points, 2 1-2, 6 3-4, 5 7-8; circum- Matchett home after Tiedt said he ference of the beam, 3 5-8; circum- phoned Matchett to “come out with ference of the burr, 6 1-4; left antler, | your gun and we will shoot this out length on the outside of the curve, in the front yard.’ e THREE PRIZES AWARDED HERE iN DEER DERBY Trophy Bagged by Bill J:,,Rafed‘Top The first annual Deer Hunters Derby, sponsored here by Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Erwin of the Case Lot reached its climax yester- day afternoon with the awarding of cash prizes to the baggers of the three best sets of deer antlers. Winners a: First prize—Bill Jones, Jr. Second prize—Howard Kresage. Third prize—John Harris, Jr. The three winning sets were sel- ected from among approximately 50 entries after almost three hours of close appraisal and measuring by tke trio of judges: Lt. Col. J. P. Williams, Adjutant General of the Alaska Territorial Guard; Jack O’Connor, Game Management Sup- ervisor for the Fish and Wildlife Service, and Mila Clouse, President of the Territorial Sportsmen’s Asso- ciation. The judging, which was held at the Case Lot Grocery and was followed by considerable numbers of interést- ed spectators, finally narrowed down to consideration of eight sets of horns which stood out above the Gther entries in size and conforma- tion. The set finally winning out was outstapding, the judges report- d, but the fight for the second prize was very close, the set that was awarded that prize winning be- cause of superior number of points and general appearance. The system used in scoring is the cne which has become standard all over the world, and is used by the {14 15-16; length of points, 3 3-8, 4 3-4, 3 1-2, 4 3-8; circumference of the beam, 3 5-8, circumference of the burr, 6 1-8. Total points scor- er, 96.33. | - >~ee Seattle Is Still - Without Papers | 26—A shutdown papers entered £ v with no agree- iuent in sight upon the wage dispute | *tween the publishers and the striking AFL Typographical Union. Scattle's three newspapers of gen- eral circulation—the Post-Intelli- gencer, Times and Star—have not published since last Monday when 250 compositors walked out in sup- port of their demand for a daily 70 ! wage increase of $2.95. Management BE TH] W offered a $1.65 daily raise. The 1y INTO 0 present scale is $1035 for a seven- you T hour day. WE A TH | sttt - WAR BOND not» ¥ THE LONG HOLE waR 10N LOS ANGELES, Calif. — “You don’t know how long it takes to play the nineteenth hole,” Superior Judge ! Frank G. Swain observed when Dora Louella Schuler testified she couldn't figure how her husband was able to play golf as late at 9 p. m.’ But he granted her a divorce from William Robert Schuler, a salesman. ——,,o——— LONDON—The London Midland and Scottish Railway has an- nounced a plan whereby its re-! search staff will interchange with university teachers who would have an opportunity to see the dny-by-‘ day working of industry. - | The use of gloves, it is believed, | was known even to the pre-historic cave dwellers . filasiiee. Sl . Sl About one-seventh of Bolivia's population is engaged in mining. let'’s They Finished Their Job ... Finish Ours! miles > Wa , will serve as dis- Mrs. J. C. Ryan, cha TOKYO--A retired Japanese Rea ’uibu!mn stations making the serum available to physiclans, hospitals and clinics throughout the Territory. Plans are now in progress to e taklish other depots along the Arctic Coast of Alaska, w c measles is now an cutstanding disease among the Eskimos TWO SONS OF ELKS OFFICERS IN (LASS FOR INITIATICN WED. At the initiation of the Elks on Wednesday night, two sons of offi- cers of the Lodge will be initiated. The two are sons of Herman Porter and Ellis Reynolds. There are oth- ers in the class to be given the ¢ lers. -~ NEEDLECRAFT DOLL WINDOW ATTRA(CTS MOTHERS' ATTENTION Small mothers are gathering at the Needlecraft window on Seward Street these da mentally deciding on certain articles of wearing ap- parel for a favorite doll that really needs new clothes now that the S RSP > for the display is the committee in ¢ e of the Annual Trinity Parish Hall, man, and jude- Col! Bazaar at T PICKk THE BEST FOR ing by the interest shown in both the doll clothes and the doll house which a group of St. Margaret's Guild workers has completely furn- ished, the bazaar will be a busy place Wednesday morning when the bazadr opens. Killed Nayging Wite; 'Negro Minister Dies MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Nov. 26.— Cleveland Greathouse, 62, self-or- dained Negro minister of Gary, Ind., died in the electric chair at Indiana State prison this morning for the murder of his common law wife. He was convicted last July of °r for stabbing his common wife, Rebecca, 41 times in a Hammond, Ind., park for “nagging. - >oo ANCHORAGE VISITORS Guests registering at the Bar- from Anchorage over the included: Mr. and F. Brislawn, Mr. and Mrs. F. Bacon, Mrs. Mayo V. Mrs. A. D. Gemez and John and Ed W. 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