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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-02
NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Joe White has applied or IS about to apply for appointment, under the provisions of Chapter 56. Alaska Session Laws 194l, as administrator of the estate ot Archie White, deceased, wherein the gas screw or vessel Jericho Official No. 231980, nine net tons, is involved in accordance with his petition heretofore or about to De filed in the United States Con- missioner's and eX-officio probate court for the Sitka, Alaska, Com- missioner's Precinct, and that all heirs, creditors, lienors, and other interested parties are required to file in said court and make their objections to his said appointment within thirty (30) days after the termination of the posting and publication of this notice, namely: within thirty (30) days after June 6, 1941.
 Dated at Hoonah, Alaska, May 26, 1941.
 JOE WHITE. First publication, May 26, 194l. Last publication, June 4, l941.
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SS ALEUTlAN
 MAKES FIRST
 IRIpofyEAR

Carving 19 round trip passengers and on its first trip of the season, the Alaska Steamship vessel Aleu- tian, Capt. Carl Nilsen and Purser Larry J. McNamee, docked in Jul neau at 7:30 o'clock Sunday morning with B passengers for Juneau and sailed at noon after taking on board 75 passengers from Juneau for the Westward.
 Passengers arriving from Seattle were Mrs. Julia Bacho, Major George II. Baker, Leonard M. Berlin Betty Bessee. Mrs. Art Conlev. Donald Conley, Gladys Conley. Estella Drap- CT. Mrs. O. Engelsvald, Emily Gold ammer, Ross A. Gridley Mrs. Lee Harper. Bee Hockstadter. James < Hudson. Gerda Johnson, Loretta Lottish. Jessie Macklin. Harrv C. Maxwell, Madge c. Maxwell, Frank OLeary, John H Payne, Mrs. James Ramsay, Mrs. Lydia Tilson,- Else Man Van Humbeck and Bob Web Der.
 From Southeast Alaska ports-Mr. and Mrs. Lee D. Hubbard, Ellen Jenne Waltrip, Mrs Julia rerhune Kai Louring, Sylvia Ann 1verson, Sandar Ann Waltrip and Charles V. Thompson.
 Passengers sailing from Juneau fer Seward were Joseph Johnson, Billy James, Herbert Willard. Thom- as Long, Albert Jack. Chancey Jacobs, Day Hansen, John Perrin, R. P. Hoist, Edwin Lamb, George Kolaf, Nick Kolaf, Arnold Witmer, Sydney Witner, James w Brown. William Rystad. Basil Yonko, Fly man Pashal. Andrew Sobal. Nils Rokkum, Tom Sawyer, William Klaney, Gus Adams, V. V. Smith, Claude Morse, M. Akmakjean, Matt Gahek, E. Turner, Gordon Wahto,
 Elwell Krause. Carmen Wardel, Mrs. H. l.. Case, Olaf Eikland, J. w. Jenkins. Earl Jenkins, Mrs. s. B. Buckner, Mrs. H. Sterling. David Davis, Stanley Sutton, Joe Shrews- bury. Kenneth Martin. William Paul, Jr,. Ray Paddack, Joe Green, David Stewart, F. H. Hansen, Larry Fort ney. Emil Waldel, Leota Robinson, M Baker, MT, and Mrs. Burton Holmes, Karl T. Soule, Jr,. Edward Ayola, H. c, Asler, Jr, and Dr. Ruth Gruber
 Passengers sailing for V Id z- Mrs, Alice Tomoff, Mrs. Maurice Johnson. M. Johnson. B. JohNsor
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-02
MARINE NEWS
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
NORTHBOUND

. North Sea scheduled to arrive . at 8 o'clock tomorrow morn . ing and sails at o'clock Ill . the afternoon for Sitka. . SCHEDULED SAILINGS . Yukon scheduled to sail from . Seattle 9 am. tomorrow. . Princess Louise scheduled to . sail from Vancouver June . at 9 pm. -,t . Baranof scheduled to sail from . Seattle am. June 5. 6 Tyee scheduled to sail from Se- . attle June 5. . North Coast scheduled to sail . from Seattle 10 am. June G. . Alaska scheduled to sail from . Seattle June 2 at Q am. . Princess Charlotte scheduled to . sail from Vancouver June ' . at 9 pm.
 [, SOUTHBOUND SAILINGS . Northland scheduled to arrive . at 10 o'clock tonight south . bound. . Taku scheduled to arrive and . sail southbound Wednesday . afternoon. . Denali southbound Friday. . Aleutian southbound next Mon- . day. . LOCAL SAILINGS . Estebeth scheduled to sail . every Wednesday at 6 pm. . for Sitka and wayports. . Naha leaves every Wednesday . at pm. for Petersburg, Port . Alexander, Rake and way . ports.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-02
NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on. the 29th day of May, 1941, A. F. BIXBY, aexecutor of the Last Will and Testament of GEORGIA M. BIXBY, deceased, made and fil- ed in the ,above-entitled Court at Juneau, Alaska, his Final Account, Report and Petition for Final Award and Distribution, and that on said day this Court made and entered it's order directing that hearing be had upon said Final Account, Report and Petition for Final Award and Distribution, before it on July 31, 1941, at 1000 o'clock A. M in the office of the said United States Commissioner, in the Federal Terri torial Building, in Juneau Precinct, Territory of Alaska, and that. all persons then and there appear and make their objections, if any, thereto or to the settlement thereof, and to the distribution of the assets of this estate to the persons mentioned in executors Petition for Distribution.
 FELIX GRAY,
 United States Commissioner and Ex- Officio Probate Judge for Juneau Commissioners Precinct, Territory of Alaska. s
 First publication, June ?, l94l.
 Last publication, June B, 1s4l.
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Isaac puranen Dies
 l5aEally Thls Morning

zff fll ti v
 Isaac, .Pilraneil fjassedh away early this morning at the family home at. 530 Park Street. MT. Puranen was born in Pornio Finland, in 1868 and was a resident of the Territory for over 30 years.
 Until recent years he was en- gagged in mining.
 He is survived by his widow in Juneau; daughter, Mrs. Miriam Maple of Reseta, Cal, and broth CT and sister in Michigan. The remains are at the Charles w. Car ter Mortuary. Funeral arrange ments are pending until word has been received from the daughter.
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HOSPITAL NOTES


 Jack MolyneuX was a brief sur- gical patient at the Juneau clinic Saturday for a tonsilectomy.
 Mrs. V. w. Mulvihill entered St. Ann's Hospital last evening for medical treatment.
 After receiving medical care, August Colvey returned this morn ing to his home from St. Ann's.
 Mrs. Howard Day was admitted to St. Ann's Hospital last evening for surgical treatment today.
 Mrs. Winifred Charles and her new baby boy were dismissed from the Government Hospital this af- ternoon.
 Mrs. Jessie Gray. of Hoonah, was a surgical patient this forenoon at the Government Hospital.
 William Sheakley, of Hoonah, is recuperating at the Government Hospital from a major operation performed today.
 Miss Ann Blam, of Sitka, was a medical admission at St. Ann's Sat- nrday, s ne
 Mrs. Eli Maxi was admitted to St. Ann's this forenoon for ton- silectomy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-02
Indian Affairs Requests Bids on BuriaIs

Inc Office of Indian Affairs here has posted a call for bids on complete decent burial in the Ju- neau cemetery of destitute natives of Alaska, consisting of casket, out side box, embalming, funeral coach and one auto to the cemetery, grave lot, opening and closing grave, bur- ial permit, transfer charges and
 Gofessional services" for the next fiscal year.
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ident and Rosemary Doogan, Sec letary-T reasuIer.
 The installation ceremony and the banquet were in candlelight inc Rev. w. J. LeVasseur was guest of honor. The banquet was served by the two councillors of the troops, Mrs. Vern Hoke and Mrs. A. M. Geyer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-02

. North Sea scheduled to arrlVe . at 8 o'clock tomorrow morn
 . ing and sails at l o'clock Ill a thn q nffnrn0nn for Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-02
MRS. SHEPARD JOINS HUSBAND IN SKAGWAY

Mrs. J. G. Shepard was a pas seneer aboard the Aleutian yester- day, for Skagway where. her hus- band is employed with the AlasKa Road Commission. She will be away from Juneau for about two weeks.
Evening star., 1941-11-13

weather or terrain conditions might
reduce the tanks travelling range
so much that fuel would run out in
the midst of an attack.
Push button radios. enabling COM
manders to direct tanks in battle,
will also be tested in the climatic
field exercises.
Radio communication has been
one of the most bothersome weak
nesses turned up by the summer
long maneuvers, but in a demon
stration yesterday platoon of four
tanks was put through intricate ma
neuvers swiftly by only vocal COM
mands over the radio system.
Eighty-four of the new sets have
been installed in the tanks of two
battalions of the second armored
division. With them it is possible
for the commander of q platoon OF
four tanks to talk directly to the
crew of each and receive orders
from the company commander on
the same set.
Evening star., 1941-11-13

still behind us for they couldn't be
examined with the dispatch Of
windowed station wagons AS far
as We could discern the Arnstein
report probably still held good. He
said that, owing 10 the limited time
the tax Offices are open, some 200
operating truck days are lost daily
at this point.
The report recommended the
transfer of customs examination.
clearance papers and other forms
of control from Wanting 10 a less
congeSted site somewhere further
along the Burma Road. But as
yet the reorganization has barely
begun. You see the need of il. even
in few minutes of crawling
through the single street of Wan
ting
This, in the first day on a lease
lend transport caravan over the
Burma Road. it becomes strikingly
clear that the amount OF aid the
United States can give to China
cannot be determined by huge ap-
preparations made in Washington.
Just as in the case of war mate
rlalS for Great Britain. the effec-
tlveneSs of American aid to China
will be determined chiefly by the
amount Of guns, explosives trucks.
aircraft and other supplies that
actually arrive in China.
Difficulties Still Ahead.
In this respect the organization
of the Burma Road represents quite
as important problem as that
Of shipping war materials across
the Atlantic. Suddenly, through
| leaSe-lend, this tortuous. incredible
| Burma-Yunnan highway has be-
come matter of personal interest
TO almost every American taxpsye
There can be no doubt that much
more traffic must go over this
/ mountain highway before many
/ months. But the difficulties yet
to be mastered may be judged from
a report by A. T. Steele. veteran
Far Eastern correspondent of the
| Chicago Daily News. when he trav-
! SiNu biiC oui ma Ilodb IdSJ Spl lllE.
Mr. Steele reported that in the
month of April more than $4,000
tons of goods crossed the Burma
border. of which only 1000 tons
arrived in Running at the road s
end. In the month of this June
this percentage remained about the
same.
The Arnstein Committee stated
that the amount of cargo reach
ing Running ought to be Increased
to $4,000 tons a month at least
otherwise a tripling of the present
amount. This is the task which
has just been tackled by Gen. Yu
Fel-peng, associate director gen.
eral of Chinas Board of Transport
Control. Those who know the
Burma Road most Intimately say
it can only be achieved by DRAGON
ian measures, some of which ap-
pear to be in process of formula
ton and some of which will prove
very difficult to impose
tCopyrieht. 1941, Chicago Daily News. Incl
Evening star., 1941-11-13
Leave Starts December 13
For 18th Division Men

CHERAW, S. c., Nov. l3 R.-
While tens of thousands of 1st
Army troops moved into secret posi-
tions for the final big push" Of the
Carolina fall maneuvers, soldiers of
the 29th Division awaited orders
today.
Second Army Corps directors re-
fused to disclose the scheduled time
of departure or destination but 1t
was known at division headquarters
that 5000 men, most of them re-
stricted to the base camp area, were
ready to pull out on a moments
notice.
With temperatures ranging around
the freezing point, the coming
G. II. @. exercise promised to test
the stamina of the Virginia, Mary
land and District of Columbia men
to an extent never encountered in
previous maneuvers.
An official announcement said the
division would return to Fort George
Evening star., 1941-11-13

here at the Chinese border and
delays of "a hours were not infre-
quent.
Nightmare of Traffic.
At Wanting the handling of clear
ance papers. customs inspection and
other forms of control have always
consumed time TO a costly extent.
The piling up of trucks in the bottle
necked little valley often makes it
a traffic directors nightmare-only
there seem to be none such in
Wanting
But our caravan is supervised by
China's semi-official Southwest
Transportation Co and perhaps our
station wagons for the Chinese air
force are classified as urgent. ANY,
way, the scores of trucks remain
begged down for an apparently long
delay but We are on our way in the
amazing matter of 20 minutes. In
fact. our high-geared CONVOY leader
WhiskS US out OF town so fast that
something happens TO me which has
never happened in Is years Of travel
over four continents.
had been waiting for the leader
to show us where our passports
should be examined. The next thing
I knew We were off in a cloud of
dust and I had entered a foreign
country for the first time in my
life without so much as getting my
passport stamped. Since then, along
the road. We showed our passport
several times but my own still shows
no mark to indicate that I am ac-
tually, body and soul, inside China
Fine Kettle of Fish.
This is a fine kettle of fish, I
though. as we were whisked away
on a spirited dash for Mangshi be-
fore nightfall. but what's happened
to the traditional bottleneck slow
down at Wanting? No. it seemed
this was all an accident of some
kind and Mr. Rowlands, DR.. Hu and
myself had been accidentally cata-
pulled into China.
The scores of hooded trucks were
Evening star., 1941-11-13
Conservative Opens Drive
For Canadian Conscription

ey the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Nov. 13. - Senator
Arthur Meighen last night accepted
the leadership of the Conservative
topposition party and Immediately
declared for compulsory selective
service over the whole field of war"
thus reopening the moot question OF
conscription for Canada.
He also came out for a non-party
government, charging powers grant,
ed bv Parliament were being abused
by the present Liberal government.
Prime Minister w. l.. Mackenzie
King told the Canadian House OF
Commons yesterday, however, that
Il do not intend to take the re-
sponsibility of supporting any policy
of conscription for service overseas"
The Dominlon's ban on conscrlp-
tion for service in Europe Was made
bv the Canadian people at the last
general election, Mr.. King COM
nented.
Evening star., 1941-11-13

have seldom, if ever penetrated. In
all its beauty, its primitiveness and
its humble poverty-stricken living
conditions it is the real China. Now
it is slightly CLOSED over with the
wartime boom and hustle of the
Burma road. yet never CLOSED suf-
ficiently to efface what has for so
many centuries made China what
it is.
Most Serious Bottleneck.
So We are off on the road which
keeps China in the war, climbing
for five hours through the Burmese
hills and penetrating the Shan
Mountains. A green-turbaned. black
bearded Sikh, who has driven for
the British Army in Northern In
dia for six years, guides our car
eXpertly. In five hours our cara
van reaches Kyuhkok on the Bur-
meSe frontier with its police out
post and checking station.
Here all Burmese drivers have to
leave their licenses. to be held un-
til their return from Mangshi
twhere Chinese drivers take over .
Only 10 minutes and We slide down
into cramped valley, its road
side fanked with scores of bamboo
sheds and rough wooden buildings
The place is jammed with loaded
lorries, perhaps hundred of them
packed in wherever there is any
space. A red flag with a blue field,
embossed with a. sunfoWer-like
white circle, hangs from the towns
only oficial-looking structure This
is Wanting pronounced wan-ding)
and We are in China.
Wanting is the most serious bottle
neck on the Burma road. both
physically and from the aspect of
control formalities The so-called
Arnstein Committee of American
transportation experts, Whi C h
drafted a detailed prospectus for
Burma -Yunnan highway reforms
last August, found that truck con-
voys averaged delay Of IL hours
Evening star., 1941-11-13
Army Experiments
In Dropping Fuel
To Tanks From Air
Gasoline in Rubber Bags
Porochuted to Isolated
Squodrons by Planes
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WITH THE ARMY IN THE
FIELD. Nov. 13-Experiments in
refueling tanks from the alr-by
dropping by parachute gasoline or
Diesel oil in sausagelike rubber
bags-are being conducted by Army
experts, it was learned today.
Armored vehicles are most vul-
nerable when they are surrounded.
there is chance of fighting
way out or making run for it, but
a stalled tank is artillerys most op-
perfume target.
If the tanks we're held within an
enemy ring it is most likely that
only other tanks would be strong
enough to carry gasoline or oil to
them, and that would be too great a
risk of men and material.
Dropped 1000 Feet.
Hence the sWiftest and at the
same time the most economical
means are supplies from the air.
The Armored Force Board, research
group for the mechanical fighting
forces, has been experimenting for
weeks with various types of con-
tainers. They have found that tough
rubber tubes-each holding about 10
gallons of gasoline-are the most
suitable.
Transport planes have dropped
| the containers, attached to mex
pensive burlap parachutes. from al
| titudes of almost 1000 feet with
out bursting them.
1t is possible that some such
means of refueling might be triec
if a group of tanks should be cut
off during the lst Army's genera
headquarters maneuvers in the
Carolinas November IS to 80.
Fueled for 800 Miles.
Tanks usually carry enough fue
to keep them going, under ordinary
conditions. for 300 miles. The mer
have sufficient water and emergency
rations for three days. But at tn
new speed Of war, unfavoraoi'
Evening star., 1941-11-13

us go 10 war with Japan Senator
Nye declared. because she needs
our energies for the production of
lend lease materials. War with Japan
would require shifting to the Pacific
E:any ships which Britain says she
needs in the Atlantic.
IF there is any desire on our part
for peace with Japan I think it can
be accomplished without delay. We
might even be able to end Japan's
war against China"
Evening star., 1941-11-13
British Attack Besieged
Italians in Ethiopia

ROME, Nov. l3 (P).-British land
and air forces on the Gondar front
in Ethiopia have launched an assault
on the beleaguered Italian Garrison,
which is resisting tenaciously and
has inflicted considerable losses on
the British. the high command re-
ported today.
A supplemental war bulletin said
the British had occupied a small
italian outpost at Gianda. on the
west shore of Lake Tana in the
Gondar area of Northwestern Ethi-
opia. (The British said yesterday
Gianda was captured in a four-hour
ASSAULT The Italians described II
as a minor outpost garrisoned by
natives.
For the first time in 10 days, no
new air raids on Southern Italy or
Sicily we're mentioned in the daily
communique, although British planes
we're said to have bombed Bengasi,
the Axis advance port in Libya
Derna and several villages of Italian
colonists on the Jebel plateau
Axis planes attacked the besieged
British-held port of Tobruk and a
British airport, the communique
said.
The war bulletin listed six British
planes as destroyed yesterday-five
on the ground in a German raid on
the North African air base and one
In air combat between an Italian
reconnaissance plane and four
British Hurricanes.
In revised estimate of casualties
In the British air assault on Naples
Tuesday night. the high command
listed Is persons-instead of pre-
viously-killed and "a wounded.
One R A F. bomber was shot
down into the sea off Naples by
anti aircraft defenses, it said, and
another off Sicily. The communique
said six officers from British planes
doVned in the raids on Sicily now
Evening star., 1941-11-13
Murray Sees Danger
OF War With Japan;
Wheeler Disagrees
IsoIotionist Senator Soys
Kurusu Visit Reel Chance
For Pacific Agreement
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senator Murray. Democrat. of
Montana said TODAY there is a
definite possibility" that the United
States may go to war with Japan,
but his colleat lie. Senator Wheeler,
Democrat. of Montana declared that
I'VE now have q real chance :, ad-
just our differences with the Jap
anese."
Senator Murray, member OF the
Foreign Relations Committee, told
reporters that forthcoming CONVEX
sations between State Department
officials and Saburo Kurusu, Japan's
special envoy. appear pretty fu-
tile"
I'VE cannot afford to agree TO any
Far Eastern settlement which would
sanction the oppression of the Chi
nese.' Senator Murray declared.
Il have little hope that anything
will come of the Kurusu conversa-
tions. because the war party is in
control in Japan and it is unlikely
that 1t will back down now"
Says People Don't Want War.
Senator Wheeler thought differ
emily. The people of Japan. like
the people of the United States, do
not want war in the Pacific" he
said. There is no reason why diff
ferences between the two countries
cannot be worked out in a peaceful
way"
/ Senator Wheeler said he had
known for some time that the Chi
nese and some of the British want us
TO send an expeditionary force tc
! protect the Burma road" He eX-
/ pressed confidence, however. tha'
"the President will take counsel OF
the matter with the Army rather
| than our hot-headed Secretary o.
the Navy Frank Knox. If he does
I am sure he will not send an ex.
peditionary force"
Senator Johnson, Republican. o
California. ranking minority mem
/ Der of the foreign relations group
commented that there are som
people in the Government wht
would like to fight Japan wheneve
it is commemorative would like Il
fight the whole world"
Nye Doubts War.
Senator Nye, Republican, of Nortf
Dakota. like johnson and Wheele
an opponent of administration
foreign policy. shared Wheeler
view that changes were good for {
settlement in the Pacific.
Great Britain can't afford to le