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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
Columbia Is
 Juneau Bound

SEATTLE, May l7-Steamer Co., lumbia sailed at II o'clock this morning for Southeast and South west Alaska ports with 339 passea- gers including 96 steerage.
 Passengers aboard the Columoia booked for Juneau include the fol- | lowing:
 The Rev. A. M. Knudson, The Rev. Mother Mary, Laurence J. Garrett, L. w. Roehm, Harry Hood. R. B. Houser, Mrs. Marie Nester.
 George Melbo Mrs. R. c. Paxton and infant. Charles Waynor, Mrs. Ned Albright Mrs. Bill Smith, Mrs. H. G. Nordling, Betty Nordling.
 Emmett Donckers Sure Denson, Guy Garfield, Bon Dunnington, J.. E. Ellson, MT. and Mrs. zalmain Gross and two children.
 G. L. Usher, Virginia Morley, Lillian Maher. Pauline Teeter, C.. D. Geer, Jack Mayer, Eugene Cra- mer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
NORTH COAST
 SoUTHB0UND

Returning southbound from Sit ka. the steamer North Coast, Capt A. J. Borkland and purser Paul E. Richers. docked in Juneau at 5:3o o'clock this morning with 20 pas sengers for this port, and sailed two hours later with 30 passengers from Juneau for Seattle and South east Alaska ports.
 Passengers arriving here were Howard Brenner, Julia Milkin, Miss T. Sarakoadoff, Red Donnelly, Iil- lian Martin, G. Turner, Maggie Kadnaha, Winona Jones, Martha Takenda, Edward Brenner, Tom McNulty, Richard Wyckoff, George Matsen, Mrs. Lloyd E. Goodrich, Donald Hagerty. Peter Valentine, E. w. Buttke, Oscar Olsen, Robert D. Johnson and Midge Webb
 Passengers sailing from Juneau for Seattle were Mrs. J. c. West, Frank Gilchrist, M. w. Harrison, Herbert Lee, A. H. Cohn, Mrs. J. c. Michaelson, Harold Michaelson, David Michaelson, MT. and Mrs. William E. Colleen, MT. and Ms Ralph Holmes, Mrs. Grant Bald win, Donald Mogseth, Arnold Mog- seth Jr., Mrs. Arnold Mogseth, Mrs J. B. Thompson, Dellyle Ruth Ire loar, Mrs. Gertrude Treloar, Albert Hammer, Fred Algren, Ed Burke George Christensen and Jack Kiln genberg.
 For Ketchikan-Ben Bellamy and Joe Michaelson.
 For Petersburg-Tommy Lynch Bonnie Jo Lynch and Mrs. Joe Lynch.
 For Wrangell-L. G. Taylor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
RAF PLIERS
 HOLD EDGE
 OVER NAzI5

LONDON, May 17.-The Royal Air Force holds the initial edge m expanding hostilities in the Mldole East and intends to use the advan- taoe to destroy the Syrian ar dromes which the Germans mleh' use as a springboard for a drive on Suez. informed Britons said here today
 They predicted sharp intensi- fication Of activity following yester- oav's official announcement that German planes have already bomb ed Damascus, Ryaak and Palmyra in the French Mandate.
 It is believed that the number oi German planes there at present number about 30 bombers and troop carriers flown from Greece a thou sand miles away, an impossible dis tanoe for fighters, or from the Do- decanese Islands, 400 miles away.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
HOSPITAL NOTES

Mrs. Elmer Tveter and baby son will be dismissed from St. Ann's Hospital this afternoon.
 Mrs. George Loveless and infant daughter are to be dismissed today from St. Ann's.
 Admitted for surgical care, Helen DuPree is a patient at St. Anns.
 J. Christianson was medical dis missal from St. Anns last night.
 The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any Al. aska newspaper.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
Installation to Be Held Tuesday Night
 By B. P. w. Club

Business and Professional Wom- ems Club officers will be installed be held at o'clock at the hope of Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne.
 Miss Anita Garnick, retiring pres ident. will be installing officer and Mrs. Lillian Uggen will be installed as the new President.
 All Business and Professional Women's Club members as well as Juneau and Douglas Woman's Club members are invited to attend the reception following the ceremony. Tuesday evening at a ceremony U
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
wEATHFR SYNOPSIS

Moderately prevailed most of Alaska this during the previous "A hours over scattered points from Kodiak Island Aleuian Islands, and over the Panama Valley Clear or partly cloudy reported generally Alaska this morning amount precipitation during nrevios hours which ported colder over the northern DOT ion o Alaska where Barrow reported II degrees ceilings prevailed the Juneau this morning
 chart Indicated center o
 51 north and 128 de- ees west northeastward second low
 degrees north and TIT de- trough extended rom h center t) north thence southward 300 miles eastward during hig pressure center ol 'o'z meS at north ant 0 degrees vest Wl ish crest extending no1hward the Alaska Peninsula
 r,neau May l8-Sunrise sunset 9:23 May l9 Sunrise m,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
5ALUk l5 RETAkEN BY
 AxISF0R(E5
CBY ASSOCIATED PRESS,

The seesaw struggle for contro of Salum as the point for the Axis drive into Egypt again swayed tr the Axis advantage as German and Italian forces are reported to haze recaptured the town today after the British had taken it yesterday
 It is also said the Axis forces have retaken Fort Caputzzo, Lib van frontier stronghold near Sa- lum.
 It is unofficially reported that both German and Italian forces have now joined the Iraq forces and plan an intensive campaign against the British, probably start ing over Sunday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
MIR. GIBSON TO SPEAK

Many of his Douglas friends will be interested in knowing that MT. Harold Gibson will spend a few days on Gastineau channel, arriving on the Baranof today from the Westward, It is anticipated he will be the speaker at the regular Gospel Service in the Council Chambers on Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock, .ac- cording to Evangelists Paul Blake and Thomas Roberts who are con- ducting the services.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
PLANE NEWS

Late word from Pdn-American Airways this afternoon cancelled the, northbound flights of tw1 Lodestars bound for Juneau and Fairbanks until tomorrow. Tn. flight of the Douglas OC-3 was also cancelled on it's trip to Seattle for A hours.
 One Electra is scheduled to land from Fairbanks at o'clock this afternoon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
Rainbow Girls 10
 Initiate Tonight

Miss Doris McEachran and her group of officers will exemplify inl- liatory work this evening at 7:30 o'clock meeting of the Rainbow Girls in the Scottish Rite Temple. All members are urged to be pres ent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
MISS HELLENTHAL E MARRIED 10
 FRED W. AVER

At a quiet ceremony performed last evening by the Rev. G. Edward Knight, Miss Mary Claire Helen thai became the bride of MT. Fred erick w. Aver. The VOWS were ex- changed in the presence of a few intimate friends.
 The bride is the daughter of Judge and Mrs. Simon Hellenthal of this city and Mir. Aver is the son of MT. and Mrs. Frederick A. Aver of Bangor, Maine, and Bos- ton, Mass.
 Mrs. Aver is well known in Ju- neau and the groom is a local newspaper advertising man.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
FIVE SENIORS GRADUATE

Next Thursday evening in the school gymnasium commencement exercises for the 1941 graduating class, Douglas high school, will be held. A student program of music and speeches will be held and di- plomas awarded
 The students to graduate are. Rob- ert Fleek, Glen Kronquist, Francis Doogan. George Wahto and Dan Krsul .4.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
DIVORCE CASE

Suit for divorce has been filed in District Court by Jesta Timmer- man against H. c. Zimmerman on grounds of non-support. Mrs Tim merman asks restoration of the name of Jesta Young.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
SNYDER TO HAYNES

Francis Snyder sailed for Haines this morning to lend hand in get ting the cannery tender Sea Par rot7 ready to bring to the channel for the Juneau Packing Co.,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17

After receiving medical care, sharon Jenson, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Enoch Jenson, was dismissed today from St. Ann's.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17

uating class of the Douglas high school will be held in the assembly room of the school. The Rev. John L. Cauble will be the speaker and Mrs. George F. Alexander will sing with piano accompaniment by Ernst Oberg. There will also be songs by the school glee club. The public is cordially invited to attend.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
MRS. LOVELESS AND BABY
 ARE HOME FROM HOSPITAL

Arriving home this morning from St. Ann's was Mrs. George Lovalcss and infant daughter Katherine Eliz- abeth. The mother and child are re-
 ported feeling fine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
ARRIVES WITH RHINEHART

A. P. Breuger of Wrangell ar rived here early this morning with pilot Jimmy Rhinehart and planned to leave today on the southbound PAA Douglas.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
THE WEATHER
tBy the U. S. Weather Bureau U. DEPARTMENT COMMERCE WEATHER BUREAU

Juneau vicinity, May +;
 
 tonight temporal Sunday SO degrees; gentle variable winds
 for ing codines Sunday mostly souheasterly 
 of Moderate south outerly to soheastery Sunday and inas Sunday afenoon partly cloudy tonight ca Spencer Cape Hnchbrook: Moderate westerly Friday; cloudness with local Sunday; Cape Resurrection Moderate outery osouh eaery fresh east ry to southeay sudnay in Resurrection Bay to Ko southeast becoming fresh to strong Sunday; tonight and Sunday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
BACCALAUREA2E
 SUNDAY AFTERNOON

At o'clock tomorrow afternoon, Baccalaureate services for the grad
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17

Try classified ad in The Empire
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
Boy Scout Heads to
 Meet Monday Night

At 7.30 o'clock Monday night in the Scottish Rite Temple, meeting of the district committee for the Boy Scouts will be held, it was announc- ed today.
 All troop committeeman and scout masters are asked to attend as sum- mer camp plans will be discussed.
 A medical dismissal, F. Norton left St. Ann's today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-17
LOCAL DATA

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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-04-25
Praise From NAACP
April 81, 1941.

April Il, 194l.
Editor: The Minneapolis N. A.
A. c. P. wishes to express its APP
probation for the way in which the
Spokesman and Recorder handled
the news stories on the recent So
called "Jitterbug Heaven" case.
Although this expression reaches
you a trifle late, we individually
and collectively felt that from the
beginning your alert coverage did
much to show how the daily press
was exaggerating the case out of
all proportion. We feel that you
did much to convince the thinking
white people of the truth in the
case and how unfair the dailies
were in using racial designations
and how foolish it was to believe
that the women involved were inno-
cent victims.
Matters of this kind require han
ding which are at once both care
full and courageous. You achieved
this by printing the real truth in
your news columns and expressing
the papers opinions in your edi-
torial columns, where they rightly
should be expressed.
Had the dailies done this instead
of using innuendos and malicious
distortions, there would not have
been so many unpleasant conse-
quences. We are grateful that our
paper, as always, was in the fore
front on the action for justice.
Yours very truly,
The Minneapolis Branch of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
Carlyle F. Stewart,
President.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-04-25
Who's Paying for Defense

1t might be possible get ordinary
Negro regarding the vicious and caou policy discrimination
defense industry clearly
where the coming from preparation
The money coming from income taxes which single
earning $500 and married earning $4,000
has to pay. 1t is coming also from corporation
The coming internal
liquor smoking tobacco cigars other products
which of buy every day.
public but increasing the cost of commodities the
Members of the Senate finance committee suggesting
increase the income tax rate from
boost of 100 cent in order this years $25
billion burden.
In addition 100 increase govern
ments fiscal officials considering with forced
which will something directly every person
earns anything.
The plan is foOws From worker earning $50 week. the
would take $40 Of his envelope Half of this
would be forever For the other IS the worker would
S. government bond u which he would
if the government did not repudiate it in the meantime.
This plan of taxation destined to yield
the meantime considerable money being
from workers pockets through wide boosting of the of essentials
such foods textile and building materials though
surpuses of these commodities
The Negro could have little complaint
against in getting the these
exactons.
Since he virtually barred from the Navy Corps
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-04-25

the Twin Cities. Plans are already
under way to care for this great
Association. Sunday, May 10, is
designated as Mems Day at Mt.
olivet. Mr.. Ivy r. Hagan is in
charge. All men of the church are
asked to cooperate in making this
day the greatest gathering of men
ever held at Mt. 0livet. Word
comes to us that Mrs. Hopkins is
confined at the N. P. Hospital.
Worship service at II a. m. and 8
p. m. each Sunday. If you are
without a church home, attend one
of these services. Visitors are al
ways welcome at the Mt. Olivet
Baptist Church.
Maxfeld P. T. A. held election
of officers at its regular meeting
April 81. Elected to offices were:
Mrs. Robert R. Mitchell, president;
Mrs. Rosa Lee Maher, vice-presi-
dent; Mrs. Harvey Fulwiler, Sec
rotary; Mrs. Clarence Duke, as
sistant secretary; Mrs. James Cor
deli, treasurer; Mrs. Arthur
Hedge, auditor.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-04-25
WELCOME HALL NEWS
The Variety Hour

The Variety Hour
The Wide Awake Girls and Girl
Reserve Clubs are featuring "The
Variety Hour" Tuesday, May q,
at 8 p. M, at ODER Boys Club. This
delightful program will consist of
Drama, and special music. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
The Adult Pageantry Group to
Present ''The Mansion"
On Friday evening, May 2, "The
Mansion" a pageant in four scenes,
will be presented by the Adult
Pageantry Group under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Eva Taylor at ODER
Club. Admission Csc.
Much time and effort has been
spent in making this production
worth while. The story centers
about a man who had spent the bet
ter part of his life believing that
earthly treasures were all that
counted toward making life worth
while. The part is very ably played
by 1. R. Hagan, with Miss Helen
Smith playing opposite him. Other
members of the cast are: Marion
Brown, Mrs. H. Edgar and Mrs. ].
Kemp.
Sundays Assembly
Sunday, April 81, there will be
no 800 o'clock service at the Hall
for Adults, but will go to Camphor
Methodist Church at 800 P. M.
Parent Workers Council
Thursday, April "a, the Parent
Workers Council will meet at the
Hall at 8 P. M. Please come early
as a grand surprise is in store for
everyone.
Willing Workers
Attention everyone! The Willing
Workers Girl Reserves of Welcome
Hall are now selling flowers for
Mothers Day. We are asking for
your help, please purchase your
flowers from the girls.
Cosmopolitan Girls
The Cosmopolitan Girls are now
making plans for their Mothers
Day Banquet" to be held at ODER
Boys Club Saturday, May 10.
The public is urged to make res
ervations by purchasing tickets
now!
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-04-25

better than never. Too late is an
indictment on ones brains and in
tentions. We will have difficulty in
getting work and earning advance
ment so long as we do not appre-
ciate the value of time.
Even Though Doors of opportu-
nifty are today in many places, and
in the National Defense of all
places, closed against us we should
not thwart our ambitions or dis
courage our work of preparation.
Let us prepare ourselves and be
ready for the opportunity when it
comes.
The Signs of the Time indicate
all too clearly that the Negro must
compete on the basis of actual
merit for a chance to help do the
work of the world. This is exactly
as we would have it. So far his
opportunities have been limited to
sub-standard training which places
upon him serious handicap. His
backwardness in technical skills is
the normal result of his sub-stand-
ard training. Fair play demands
that our government recognize this
handicap and give its Negro citi-
zens an opportunity to acquire
training under the National De-
Tense set-ups.
Governments Derive their just
powers from the consent of the
governed. The essence of democ-
racy is the effort it makes to give
the many a voice. This does not
imply that democracy is necessari-
ly tolerant form of government,
for the majority can be quite as
despotic as any monocracy. In
fact, democracies have a manifest
tendency to submerge the minori-
ties.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-04-25
Pilgrim Baptist,
"The HOme-Like
Church" News
By Miss RevOida Smith
1868 St. Anthony Ave.

Behold, l make all things new"
from Rev. 21:5, was the text
chosen by the Rev. Mr.. S. E. Ware
for his sermon of last Sunday,
April 20. We were led into the
spirit of his very timely and very
inspiring message by a congrega-
tiOnal song led by him: "When the
Storms of Life Are Raging, Stand
by Me-" This song, a sermon in it.
self, and the desire to experience
new heaven and new earth"
while we live should surely serve
as stepping. stones to our goal.
There was a record crowd, in
GLIDING many of the older Chris
tians, out to enjoy the service and
also a number of visitors who wor-
shipped with US.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-04-25
This World
National Scene:

4NdtLOILdl OCCACs
Americas first and only Negro
woman Judge, Jean BOlin, is ex-
pecting the stOrk. A Negro
soldier in uniform, Pvt. Felix Hall
was lynched near Fort Benning,
Ga, according to a release from
the Southern Negro Youth Con-
gress. The Congress said the
lynching was ''the logical cOnse-
quence of your president ROOse-
veIt's) official endorsement Of the
Jim Crow policy in the armed
forces" in a letter to the chief ex-
ecutive. Emmett Scott, G. o.
P. publicity chief, says, "the Jim
Crow unit in government employ
ment is a device invented by New
Dealism." The Marian Ander-
son mural has been commissioned
to 25-year-Old Washington artist,
Mitchell Jamiesen. The d. C. youth
won in competition with I'll other
artists the coveted commission and
the LOO dollars that go with it.
Ruth Taylor now conducts the
syndicated column, formerly writ
ten by the late Chas. Sickle,
which goes to Negro and labor pa
pers preaching the gospel of de-
mOcracy and racial understanding.
More National Chaff: The sixth
edition of Who's Who In Colored
America will be off the press on
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-04-25
A Lesson in Accom-
pliShment

The signal success of the United
Bus Committee, composed of three
principal Negro organizations,
should be cheering to every one of
the 100000 Negroes in America.
This victory consisted of forcing
the New York bus companies
which in 1887 had frankly ad-
mitted to practicing a lily-white
policy of employment, to hiring
Negroes as bus drivers, mechanics,
and as maintenance of way men.
To the Transport Workers Union
(CIO) which aided the Bus Com
mittee, every Negro should be
thankful for without this aid such
a victory would have been unlikely.
More than anything else this
should be an inspiration as well as
a lesson to Negroes in other cities.
An inspiration in the sense that
this victory was won after four
weeks of picketing and boycotting
the bus companies, and that it is
Indicative of what can be achieved
through mass organization which
is willing to fight with the legal
weapons that they can in all fair
ness employ.
A lesson in the sense that it
points out to the Negroes of
America that a real democracy,
political and economic, can be
achieved through the trade union
movement
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-04-25

September Is. Only three Mime
sofa Negroes were listed in the
1910 book. Malcolm Mclean,
president of Hampton, told the
American Committee for Democ-
racy and Intellectual Freedom in
New York last week, nearly the
whole American process of han
ding its Negro problem is a viola
ton of both tenets of this commit
tee." Maxine Sullivan, song
stress, will divorce husband John
Kirby, whose band plays the
smoothest rhythm that comes over
the ether. Tuskegee Institute
is preparing for its annual relays.
>. NAACP attorneys are in Hous-
ton, Texas, to begin court fight
against white primaries. For
ty-seven branches of the NAACP
plan to picket industries with de-
tense contracts who refuse to give
Negroes employment on April 26.
The mother of Odell Waller,
condemned Virginia sharecropper,
is making a nationwide tour.
When Mrs. Waller came to Mime
apolis, she spoke to an audience
of four Negroes and 128 whites at
a meeting sponsored jointly by the
NAACP and the Workers Defense
League!
Last Lines: Native Son" is still
playing on Broadway and Burns
Mantle, veteran critic, thinks it the
best play, now on the N. Y. The
atre RialtO. HOrtense Love,
little publicized soprano, made her
debut at Town Hall last Sunday
at 8 p. m. Several couples of st.
Paulites purchased tickets to see
Count Basic at the new Prom Ball
room in st. Paul. Inside, they were
told presumably by the manager
that it was against the house poll
cy to admit Negroes. The Prom
management probably never heard
of the Minnesota Civil Rights law,
and maybe the folks who were en-
barrassed and Inundated, never
have either-at least their resent
ment, has not yet resulted in ac-
ton against the Out-Of-the-state
firm which operates the dance
hall!!! The National Urban
League, 1133 Broadway, New York
City, is making a nationwide ap-
peal for funds to carry on its
fight ito secure a place for the Ne
gro worker in our National De-
fense." The organization will ap-
preciate anything you send from
quarter on up.
Important Trivia: The popular
tune, Walking By The River" was
authOred by Una Mae Carlisle. Of
course you know the revived
'"There'n Be Some Changes Made"
was composed by sepia Benton
Overstreet, pianist, and Billy Hig-
gins, Old-time comedian, who died
five years ago. Folks from down
around X. C. remember Billy Hig-
gins.