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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
SHIP ASHORE,
MAN REACHES
LIGHTHOUSE
Coast Guard Standing Off
Point Retreat 10 Bring
Survivor Here

Reports from the Point Retreat
lighthouse, 20 miles west of Juneau
in Lynn Canal, today said the Anna
b.. 30-foot Ketchikan vessel, struck
shore some time yesterday at False
Retreat, three miles from the light
house
Raymond Bond, owner Of the YES
sci, reached the lighthouse suffering
from third degree frostbite on his
feet
The Coast Guard cutter Nemaha
reported it was impossible to land
this morning at Point Retreat to
bring Bond to Juneau for treatment
because of a 50-mile wind.
The cutter advised the lighthouse
keepers to give Bond emergency
treatment. The injured man will be
brought here as soon as the gov
eminent ship can effect landing.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27

Comintern Pact. but in the same
breath the government, speaking
through Anthony Eden, served new
notice that the German move has
not affected "by one jot" the de-
termination of Great Britain and
her allies to carry the war to vic
toriouS conclusion.
The House of Commons, by a vote
Of 1862 too two overwhelmingly
squelched the move of the four -man
Independent Labor Party to unseat
the Churchill government this fore
noon. The Independent Laborites
moved to amend the Houses ira
ditional reply to the message with
which King George opened Parlia-
ment by inserting note of regret
that the Kings speech contained
no definite proposal to change the
economic system.
Although the motion was fore
doomed to failure, the ensuing de-
bate afforded an opportunity for
John McGovern, one of the motion S
sponsors, to charge the United States
is prepared to use British bodies to
blast her way into the markets of
the continent
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
M0RRI50NT0
BE HEARD BY
COMMISSION
Unemployment Compen-
sdiion Commissioner Says,
Federal Man Be Invited

Stuart Morrison, special repre-
sentative of the Social Security
Board, "unquestionably" will be Inv
vited to consult with the Alaska
Unemployment Compensation Com
mission. Mrs Mildred Hermann,
only board member in town, said
today
Morrison, who arrived from
Washington, d. c., yesterday, said
he would offer his aid to the board
if requested.
Wen ask Mr. Morrison to con-
suit with us just as we'll ask any,
one else who has anything to say,''
Mrs. Hermann said However,
haven't the faintest idea why he is
in town l haven't met him.
Morrison yesterday refused to
confirm reports that he advocated
changes in commission policy which
two former commissioners, Dr. No
BILE Dick and r. S. Bragaw, re-
fused to uphold.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
FIRST(0UpLE
IS MARRIED
AT SHRINE
Miss Helen Hawkins, Wal
Ter {. Sebesta Wed
ded This Morning

The first couple TO be married
in the Shrine of st. Terese since
its dedication recently was welded
this morning at 10 o'clock cere-
mony. The bride the former Miss
Helen Emily Hawkins, arrived on
the North Sea yesterday, and her
wedding to Walter E. Sebesta took
place today.
The couple was attended by Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Watkins, and the
bride was given away by Mr.. Clar-
ence Wise. The Rev. W. G. Lee
Vasseur officiated at the ceremony
For her marriage, Mrs. Sebesta
wore white grecian style jersey
dress and white veil. She carried
bouquet of sweetheart roses. Her
attendant was dressed in powder
blue and her flowers were white
chrysanthemums.
Altar boys were Frances Smith
and Albert Shaw.
Following the ceremony, a we'd
ding breakfast was served the party
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Wat
kins, and. this afternoon at 4
o'clock a reception for the rewly-
weds will take place in the Hotel
Juneau.
Mrs. Sebesta comes from Bur-
lington. Iowa, as does her hus-
band, who has been clerk at the
Hotel Juneau since last January
The Sebestas will make their home
at the Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
Unemployment
Board Meeting
Is Still Itymied

This weeks schedule RESUMPTION
of the annual meeting of the Ter
ritorial Unemployment Compensa-
ton Commission was again st irnied
by snow today.
Once again this morning, Mrs.
Mildred Hermann, Juneau attorney
and recently appointed co-'mis-
sioner, appeared at the commits
sioner's office and once again no
business could be transacted be-
cause two members must be present
to constitute quorum of the
board.
Harry Phillips, Fairbanks bust
nessman and chairman of the
board, was not listed among pass
engers on the Juneau-bound Pan
American Always plane which left
the Interior city today.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
Navy Device
Can Lotate
Ships, Planes
Secret Weapon Revealed
by Radio Telhnieian
Enlistment Campaign
Il. /. N. Phonephoto

WASHINGTON. Nov. 81. - The
existence of Navy Department
weapon for use in detecting both
ships and planes at great distances
is disclosed by authoritative quarters
as the Navy called for increased
enlistments in the training of radio
maintenance men.
The device has been in use for
sometime, according to the best
available information but it has
been a carefully guarded secret.
Existence of the device leaked out
in connection with the campaign in
recruiting radio technicians but even
SO Navy officials all declined any
official discussion regarding it.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
YkkUTAT NATIVES
MUST PAY fines

Virginia and Charles Brown
Yakutat native couple, drew fines
and the demand that they return
to their home community on the
next available boat when they were
arraigned this morning before U
S. Commissioner Felix Gray.
The two were arrested in Doug
las yesterday as the result of an
alleged street fight and were
charged with drunken and disof-
derby conduct Mrs. Brown was
fined $50 on the full charge, while
Brown drew a $25 fine when 1t
was declared that he was drum;
but not disorderly.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
Red Cross Courses
Completed Here;
Instructors Read,

Ending his work III Juneau, Dr.
Frank E. Hull last night gave his
last class in instructors work in
Red Cross Aid courses. Twenty
one persons were graduated as
qualified instructors of First Aid
in Juneau and Douglass and they
will begin to teach as soon as
classes are formed.
Anyone wishing to take part in
the courses, which will consist OF
standard and advanced work, may
contact either Dr. Courtney Smith,
chairman of the First Aid for the
Red Gross, or any of the qualified
instructors listed below.
With the completion of work in
Juneau, Dr. Hull will leave on the
first available transportation to
carry on similar work in other Al
aska towns. From here he will go
directly to Fairbanks, and then
stop at other towns on his way
south. He states that the local
group was che of the most oromiS-
ing of the First Aid groups he has
taught anywhere.
The graduated instructors have
completed 80 hours of work. and
have taken the standard, advanced
and instructors courses. They have
also been examined in all phases
of the work, and have had actual
experiences in them.
Those who have been graduated
as qualified instructors in Red Cross
first aid work are Rose Schneider
Mrs. Ella Smith, Mrs. Luella E
Rehfuss A. L. Dahl, Flora Kirkham
George H. Gombert. Howard H
Dilge, Emma 0. Olsen. Mrs. Mary
c. Gregory, Mrs Myrtle F. Turner
Alan Wicks, Anita Garnick, Ruth
Metcalf, Mrs. Mary Carter. Holgel
S. Larsen, Mary E. Stewart, Jane
Hubbard. Mary X. Monagle, Mrs
Isabel knight, Mrs Dorothy Gruen-
ing, and Mrs Marie F. Thomas.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
ARMY,NAvY
CONFER In
PHILIPPINES
High Commissioner Urges
Newsmen Not 10 Draw
Inf|ammdtory Items

MANILA, Nov. 27-Two separate
conferences ION general matters"
were held today by ranking mill
tary and civil authorities, which
we're declared afterward by High
Commissioner Francis Sayre to be
entirely coincidental with devel-
opments in Washington in connec-
ton with the Far Eastern situation. >
Sayre urged neWscen to avoid
drawing what he termed "inflam-
matory differences" from the con-
ferences, which were the first held
in several weeks.
Other conferees included Presi-
dent Manuel Quezon. Lieut.. Gen.
F.. w. Macarthur, commander of
the United States Far Eastern
army. and Rear Admiral Thomas
Hart, commander of the Asiatic
Fleet
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
ANTI-5TRIkE
RESOLUTION
IS PASSED
Chamber of Com m cree
Calls for No 'Intimida-
lion OF Worker"

Calling on the government TO
guarantee the rights Of workers to
hold their jobs without "intimida-
ton from any source the Juneau
Chamber of Commerce this noon
unanimously passed a resolution
aimed at strikes and jurisdictional
disputes of labor groups which have
caused stoppage of work on defense
projects.
Copies of the resolution will be
sent to President Roosevelt, Secre-
tary of Labor Frances Perkins, AL
aska's Delegate Anthony J. Dimond
and chairmen of House and Senate
committees on labor relations, it was
announced
Four new candidates for the six
positions soon to be open on the
Chamber of Commerce Board of Di-
rectors were named at the luncheon
today at the Baranof Hotel. They
were DR.. w. M. Whitehead, Tom
Dyer, John w. Jones and Robert
Cowling A. B. Phillips, Superin-
tendent of Schools, who was NOM
mated for the board two weeks ago.
withdrew his candidacy and named
Cowling as a candidate. Others prev
iously nominated are Harold Foss,
Henry Green. J. B. Burford, Robert
Scl}oettler, Charles Burdick and
Ludwig Nelson.
Election of trustees for the 1912
year will take place at the next
Chamber luncheon.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
WHITE MOUNTAIN
FIRE VICTIMS ARE
IN NOME HOSPITAL

John E. Paden, principal of the
White Mountain school and two
students, all of whom were badly
burned in the fire which destroyed
the Office of Indian Affairs board
ing school there Sunday, are now
in Nome for medical treatment, it
was declared today by Fred G.
Geeslin, Chief Clerk of the Indian
Service office here.
Most severely burned was Joseph
Akiluna, King Island Eskimo stu
dent at the school, who was said
to have received second degree
burns about the face and hands
fighting the flames.
The school will continue on a
time basis, Geeslin said, with
the dining hall, recreation hall and
gymnasium being used as class
rooms.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
932 WORKERS
FOUND JOBS
in OCTOBER

Jobs for 932 workers were filled
by the Employment Service Divis-
ion of the Unemployment Compen-
Sation Commission in October,
Walter P Tharpe, executive direc-
tor, said today.
Of the total, 40 percent were jobs
on ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS defense
projects.
October showed IL percent de-
crease in job placements as COM
pared with September, however
and was accompanied by "a per-
cent increase in benefit payments.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
KEEP TRASH OUT
OF STREETS, IS
LOCAL WARNING

Residential jewellers in Juneau
were warned today by Street Super
intendent Bert Lybeck to be sure
their street sare free of piled debris.
Piles of gravel and brush in city
streets are hampering the operation
of street grading equipment in made'
cases, Lybeck pointed out. If such
debris is not removed, it will be the
cause for action by the city against
property owners responsible for Its
presence in the streets, he declared,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
LIBYA FIGHT
NOW FAV0R5
ALLIED FORCE
New zedIanders Re1apture
Rezegh, then Join To-
bruk Garrison dtDudd
CONTINUED from Page One)

cording to a British communicate
Thus, in the most critical battle
of the offensive, Rezegh was taken,
lost and retaken in the maelstrom
of desert combat.
The British acknowledged, how
ever. that the Axis force which
thrust across the Egyptian frontier
in the vicinity of Sidi Omar still
was operating on Egyptian soil and
had broken into seven raiding par
ties behind the British lines for the
purpose of harassing the defenders.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
G0EBBELS
G0BBLES
GIBBERI5H
Nazi Propaganda Chief
Blasts al President in
Newspaper Article

BERLIN, Nov. 27.-Pursuing his
sharp anti-American campaign, Pro-
paganda Minister Hermann Goeb-
bells today wrote in a special article
appearing in the weekly, "Das
Reich that I'VE don't underesti-
mate the United States but we don't
overestimate them, either.
Roosevelt should take over the
war. Then he would not be running
behind the war any more, but the
war would be behind him. The Sit
uation would be decidedly more I'M
pleasant for him and for that
reason we are looking forward to
his further intrigues with stole
calm"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
Robber Is Fooled
By Jelly Doughnuts

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. o. -
Jelly filled doughnuts were the
downfall of a man attempting to
rob bakery at pistol point.
First Mrs. Pauline Kessler, So,
and spry for grandmother, swung
bag of doughnuts and knocked
the gun from his hand. Then her
screams brought her husband from
rear room.
The bandit turned to flee, but
stepped on jelly-centered bunker
and skidded feet-first into a wo-
man customer entering the front
door. He was captured,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
Appendix" Dog
Dies al Age Of 70

PORTLAND, Nov. 81. - Nippy,
blue blooded Boston terrier who
gained fame by having her appen-
dix removed is dead at the age
of 20 years seven months.
She succumbed to senility ana
heart trouble, said her owner, Mrs.
Rex Grant, lat an age equivalent
to l40 years of human life. She
had been i'll for several months.
News of her operation made front
pages OF newspapers 18 years ago.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
FDR Signs 3
Alaska Bills

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has signed HR 5374,
authorizing the Alaska Road Com
mission to transport employees 70
the scene of their work and also
adjusting salaries of supervisors.
The President has also signed
HR 1904. authorizing the Army
Transport Service to transport free
employees living in Alaska when
room is available, and Senate bill
1862, authorizing payment of $64d
to Alta LedgerWood for personal
effects destroyed in a school house
fire at Fort Yukon in 1889.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
Local Man Held
Al ketthikan

Kenneth Martin, Juneau man.
was arrested this morning in Ket-
chikan on a Geographic warrant
from here which charged him with
desertion and non-support of his
wife and family, it was announced
at the office of U. S. Marshal Will
liam Mahoney.
Martin was being held on $500
bond at the First City today, it
was said, and was due to be ar
raigned before a U. S. Commits
sioner there sometime this after
noon.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Nov. 81 - Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 214, American Can
TIE, Anaconda 27ls, Bethlehem
Steel 58ia, Commonwealth an d
Southern a, Curtiss Wright 81
International Harvester 46, Kenne-
colt 327s, New York Central 91s,
Northern Pacific SIS, United States
Steel 81, Pound $4.04.
DOW, JONES AVERAGES
The, following are today's Dow,
Jones averages: industrials 1854,
rails 2733, utilities 1859.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
WRANGELL MAN FREE

Enoch Hansen, of Wrangel' was
released from custody there today
after he had been arraiened before
the U. S. Commissioner OH a charge
OF drunken and disorderly conduct.
Hanson drew 30-day suspended
sentence.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27

AFL .machinists in the st. Louis
area has ended.
Another special Presidential Fact
Finding Board held preliminary
meetings today with the President
before opening new hearings in
Washington in the threatened
Nationwide strike of railroad en-
ployees.
There is another threat on the
west coast, in the shipyards, of d
welders' strike. There was a meet
ing last night of $500 welders who
threatened to strike in the Los
Angeles yards, but normal day
shifts showed up this morning.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
sHAFFER TO sITKA

Ed Shaffer of the Sanitary meat
market, left on the North Sea for
Sitka, where he has branch store,
on a business trip.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
MORGAN ON TRIP

Thomas A. Morgan, of the Co.
.lumbia Lumber Company went to
Sitka ON a business trip, on the
North Sea.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
BROUELETTEs TO sITKA

Hank Brouelette and wife. who
arrived recently from the West
ward, left for Sitka ON the North
Sea-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27

The first extended over water
flight was in 1910 when Glenn l..
Martin piloted his seaplane from the
California mainland to Catalina
Island and return.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27

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REGIME TO
STAND FIRM
House Of Commons Turns
Down Labor Move-Votes
Government Confidence

Continued from Page One)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-11-27
Steel men
STILL FIGHT
STRIKE CASE
Two Concerns Notify Board
Will Not Agree 10 Find
ings 10 Be Made

Continued from Page One)
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Essays by MacLeish Are
Marked by Beauty and
Independent Thinking
Poetic Skill Is Demonstrated
By Librarian of Congress
In Collection of Prose
By Mary-C Carfer Roberts.
A Time to Speak
BY Marp.Carfer Roberts.

By Archibald MacLeish. Boston: Houghton, Mifin Co.
the by for A o h one s s~
t I Of & Re writing m The other is the independence of the authors
time The gG nper hae m eav m 004na0n M a ss @ era Lying
tine pon doo o n M M nar @
brief papers Chile the Argentine the
appeared finally there some excerpts from Mr
ad THE @ short pas ages Of critical phO
ment.
he say ss
on aDd PoH os its o = flor
in our day nor at any earlier time has the
world world beer been able S to depend upon Itself for its essential
destiny that has
He believes that modern poetry has not yet taken its traditional
forward We have had poetic revouion
BUT M M M @ W h W em ys5se haTs m 1esn s
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change-no however for the
recognition be brought
poetic n the shock of the poetic socon he eomon tine the
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transition
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Of get language and these into
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faith serving their politics p'ANN
papers subject approaching it in diff
fent Among these Public and Private Speech Poetry
Poetry OF Karl Marx and Poetry and the Public World seemed the
writing librarians profession
hopes is somewhat unnecessarily heroic point view He that
the custodian
which,
schoarshp-the
scholarship
from publicly
Maeih will be called mbatd the
steps Library Capitol danger repeng
American burners of print But is heanng to know that he
determined
independence
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vital society.
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feicitous feeling about them
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for beautiful handling of the English language.
Evening star., 1941-04-06
By WiIiiam T. Weifsel,
Readers Advisor Public library

lNtdOcIS huNiScI' LlDIdIN.
For bird lovers in and around
Washington, the coming of spring
means the return of many feathered
friends from the Southland. The
Public Library, Eighth and K streets
NV, and its II branches, has made
many books of bird life and lore
awaiting the serious student and
the interested layman alike. Here
are some of the newer titles
Ada C. Covan's Wings at MY
window is the challenging story of
a woman who, crippled with arthri-
tis and embittered by the loss of
two of her babies, found new life
through friendship with the birds
in the backyard of her Massachu-
settS home. This is a book to lift
ones spirit and to rekindle enthusi-
asm for the world of nature.
The most comprehensive single
volume available is Edward Howe
Forbush's Natural History of the
Birds of Eastern and Central North
America" Over 100 species have
been added to these very readable
life histories. revised and abridged
by John B. May. At the end of the
text there are 81 color plates illus
trating the birds. by the late Louis
Agassiz Fuertes, Maj. Allan Brooks
and Roger T. Peterson
A guidebook which should at
tract all readers Is Margaret Nc
Kenny's Birds in the Garden and
How to Attract Them" Well
stocked with information, it is beau
tifully illustrated with paintings in
color and many charming photo
graphs of bird life in halftone. An
other good handbook. addressed to
Evening star., 1941-04-06
They'll Never Quit



this will that has
been
author attache
what he has down is his observation He wrote his book
controlled of English
Most notable his descriptions OF the nadeqacy OF the bomb
of admitted EnglandS
magnificent defense they been
explicit that the remeded
Mr. Klemmer enough shelters he
conditions discrepancies the provisions
made the
he genuinely bombproof shelter has far been
vulnerable
ordinary buildings They protection from bomb
flying fragments but the reader has only through
hambles left after
uforgettab that the
the chldrenare living in dire peril
nothing perpetual discomfort and risk OF contagious disease
discrimination between ne
general lack preparedness which the
government inherited from its predecessors
American assistance the text of the
author with his of the beeagud couns plight
sharply for its failure to speed
claims that
planes plant alone All is
production of England
population and industrial plant is as yet
obviously that this
to the bitzkrieg requirements
told before
magnificent humo OF
written style and OF the most readable
works O the reviewer holds yet to appear
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Library Adds to Collection
OF Books on Bird Life
ARCHIBALD MacLEISH.

the youthful student but useful to
any amateur, is Maitland A Edeys
American Songbirds." Wild Bird
Neighbors," by Alvin M. Peterson,
presents informal sketches of the
home and social life of 35 of eur
more common winged wild folk
along with a number of excellent
photos from life.
For the benefit of those who may
want to entice Jenny Wren or john
ny Bluebird into their yards this
year, Paul v. Champion, an indus
trial arts teacher from Wendell
WILKES home town, gives detailed
instructions in "BirdhouseS' for
the building of shelters for many
varieties, supplying specifications
and diagrams for each.
Frederick C. Lincoln has written
an excellent popular treatise on
bird migration and bird banding
The Migration of American Birds,
we'll illustrated with color plates. In
Modern Wilderness" William A.
Babson, an amateur naturalist since
boyhood, has set down the fascinat-
ing record of his observations in
a New Jersey woodland sanctuary.
The latest contribution to Audu-
bon literature is an oversize volume
edited by Donald c. Peattie. "Au-
dubon's America: The Narratives
and Experiences of John James Au-
dubon," contains II of his paint
ings in beautiful colored reproduc-
tions.
Two splendid anthologies round
out our list, Frances E. Clarke's
Great Wings and Small: Bird
Stories of Our Day" and Mr.. Peat
ties "A Gathering of Birds: An An
thology of the Best Ornithological
Prose"