The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1942, Page 3

- MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1942 The CAPITOL has the BIG Pictures and News that Is News NOW! SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU L. A.MACHINISTS Meceis Monday LOCAL 514 IN THE A. F. OF L. HALL American Moferisfs Now Know that a War Is On; Average (Continued from Page One) automobile and delivery truck. svburbanites, farmers, factory workers who live miles from Cifizen Gefs Hit E.G. W. MORRIS FOUND DEAD IN THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ™™™ ROBERT TAYLOR MAKES HIT AS | "BILLY THE KID" Capitol Theatre Feature Shows Natural Beauty of West in Technicolor | All the natural beauty of the learly West, breath-taking in its | |scenic wonder, came to the Capitol | {Theatre screen Sunday with the |opening of Melro-Goldwyn-Mayer'h‘ | Technicolor production of “Billy | the Kid,” with Robert Taylor star- ring in the title role. The story deals with a youthful adventuror who first joins up with an unscrupulous gang in an early- day cattle war, then gwings to the | cide of the persecuted ranchers. The picture is a series of exciting high- lights leading up to Billy’'s dra- | matic sacrifice of his own life to save that of the sweetheart of the | |girl he loves. | Taylor is brilliant in his hard-| riding, fast-shooting portrayal of |the title role, while Brian Donlevy | |is a dominant figure as the ranch | |foreman who turns the tide of |Billy's fate. Mary Howard is the girl in the story, and Ian Hunter,| Gene Lockhart and Lon Chaney.| \Jr,, head an outstanding supporting | | cast. X [ David Miller directed the picture, immed almost entirely on pictur-| iesque locations of the Old West,!' |and Leonard Smith and William V. |Skall are deserving of credit for | their fascinating photography. ————— (OFFICEWOMEN - MAKEDEBUTIN | | | | Sally Weds Her Buckaroo With nary a ki-yi-yippy or an ostrich plume, Sally Rand, the fan dancer, became the bride of Thurkel James (“Turk”) Greenough, rodeo rider, in the Parish House of Grace Episcopal Church in Glendora, Cal. Buckaroos from Hollywood and the wide open spaces crowded the hall as Sally and her bronco-bustin’ bridegroom, having bucked off a process server on the way to the ceremony, recited their vows. (Above) The bride and bridegroom are shown cutting their wedding cake. FOUR MOVETO GOES TO PETERSBURG Lance Hendrickson, senior ministrative assis « Woman’s Club, ant for the Al- 20TH CENTURY " FILM FEATURES CESARROMERO |Virginia Gilmore Takes Feminine Lead in ‘Tall, | Dark and Handsome’ That’s a perfect word description for “Tall, Dark ond Handsome,” gay new film from 20th Century-Fox which is {at the 20th Century Theatre. It's a picture that has laughs, excite- {ment, romance, grand music and & | top-notch featured cast headed by Cesar Romero, Virginia Gilmore, | Milton Berle and Charlotte Green- {wood. Things start happening with the {rapidity of Tommy-gun fire when |the dapper, big-shot gangster, Ce- sar Romero (who hasn't the heart |to kill), is attracted to comely Vir- iamm Gilnmiore, a department store nursemaid. Posing as a “father,” |Cesar induces Virginia to take a |job as nursemaid in his palatial | home. | | Wow! one- Cesar is taken for a “ride” . . . but lives to watch his own funeral! All the men he has “rubber out” come to life and in a madcap finish | he gets his adversary put behind | bars. | The entire cast, which also| features Stanley ‘“Stash” clem-‘ {c-m.s. Sheldon Leonard, Frank Jenks\‘ |and Barnett Farker, turns in effec- tive, convincing performances un- der H. Bruce Humberstone's expert direction. IS BN 1 Social Meeting, | PAGE THREE' WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY! TOOCENTURY iy PLAYING TALL DARK ... HANDSOME with Cesar Romero—Virginia Gilmore—Milton Berle LATE WORLD NEWS COLISEUM “BRIGHAM Youug':' GOVERNOR - WILLFLY TOHEARING Gruening E;;eds fo Be Gone Three Weeks NOVEL PARTY IS GIVEN HERE; BIG SUCCESS Many Enjoy “Telephone Card” Affair Held by Legion Auxiliary ‘With eight different groups par—‘ ticipating, a novel “telephone card party” given by the American Le-| gion Auxiliary on Saturday evening on Trip to Capital f was pronounced a tremendous suc- 5 P cess by all taking part. Gov. Ernest Gruening will fly Those winning grand prizes for south tomorrow, weather permi¢= the evening were, at bridge, Mrg_}tlns enroute to Washington, D. q, C. B. Holland and B. D. Stewartto attend the U, S. Maritime Com-~ and at pinochle, Mrs. C. C. Carn- | mission hearing on ll,\creulgl egie and Casey Hildre. |freight and passenger rates of Al- their places of business, and scores of other groups will have to rearrange their lives com- ' SHop IHIS A. M- pletely if they are to meet the | p o w wnors 54-year-old boat SHRIgULIEy S VN wlll_ B anind | builder and house contractor who by a vast lack in private trans- port. The first blow felt is the result of the ban on tire sales and sub- sequently the rationing on such a restricted basis that only cars, trucks and buses deemed vitaily necessary to the health and safety of the nation will be able to get rubber on which to roll. the last 25 years, was found dead in his boat house and shop on 9th Street this morning at 6 o'clock by |'Jack Warner, a neighbor. Warner, who had last seen Mor- ris on Saturday evening and feit surprised at not seeing him at any time Sunday, broke a window in The second curtailment will NOT the shop eqiip this Siudeping L and be felt’ unti). later but if this war|O2c0veed ;his neighbor Heady 15 1 _|ing on his bed completely clothed. does drag out for a couple of years performed this af- An autopsy or more, it will put the Kiss of | o dath on kmotor. transportation -as |\ oo, by, Dr. W. B Biptog Loy ... |termined that death came some we think of it today. That is tha| = |time Sunday from blood poison- slashi SRpid Dol g compllew:ms caused by an infection in his blackout of new car production.| Thot B AgHer <ot chracoming ; off The well known Juneau resident the assembly lines has been de- | rvfiod by Die: e va Mo 3 i he | 1 3 - t'llmng ::t::;l’ly.sm;e b':ug:;;;n’nz‘;ns, who resides in Seattle. Funer- SR e al arrangements are awaiting re- percent of normal output-—one newisponse to word sent to her. Mr. car for each four buyers. Later | Morris was a member of the Ma- quotas are yet to be set, but the sonic Lodge, AAA and other organizations al-| B ready are warning their members| that a complete halt in new car| production is NOT to be unex- SERV'(ES HELD 3 pected. | However, because of the re- I" SEAT"'E FOR '"E serve of used cars and because | many a family bus could be MRS' (HR'S urse f Imost an, :onu:,-:::n‘..d“':;“:n ..m t hlz Funeral services for Mrs. Flossie possibility is not considered as |S: Christie, wife of Harvey Chris- seriously as the strict rationing tie, well known Juneau fisherman, arder on tives: were held at the Johnson & Ham- Tire stocks. consist of between | liton Funeral Parlors in Seattle seven and eight million new tires. F':z:sy' g}l}e:x:; h;“d 1“:"‘5" n';“d?y' On a basis of annual production | s o ad been or ¢ . |Some time and died January 13. of 48,000,000 in this country, that's about two months’ supply. The She had been residing in Seattle stock of retreads and rebuilt tires|{F the past several ‘months. is an unknown quantity, but gov- Christie, owner of the salmon ernment guessers think it can’t ilr:llirt\g ;b;::nTerry C. is in Seat- possibly be greater than the new A <IN : tire stock pile. It is thought cer- tain here that when rationing really gets under way, the re- "MMY (LMRE wn“ treads and the use of rubber for retreading also will come under R- (- A- F- I" (AMDA the government bans. This doesn’t mean that under| Jimmy Claire, formerly of Ju- rationing, anyone can get tires in|neau and Sitka, is now studying the next few months. This possi-|aviation with the RCAF at Man- ning Depot in Edmonton, Alberta, according to word received by friends here. : ble four months’ supply may have t~ do for a year or more. John Q. Public may learn what it means to do without his full quota of transportation even before he feels | Aeronautics here for a time before the pinch of that staggering new |leaving Alaska to get into active income tax. And that is hnrdly‘llying He is a grandson of G. H. more than weeks away. | Kirkpatrick, of Sitka. At the end (Tomorrow: Federal tax revenues |of his letter Claire added the slo- get a flat tire too.) gan of the present Pacific war, “Remember Pearl Harbor.” NOTICE | ————— AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing, The Daily Alaska Empire nas the air route from Seattle to Nome, on |largest paid circulation of any Al- sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv.)aska newspaper. had made his home in Juneau for Claire worked at the School of| ~ SLACK OUTFITS Slacks of brown, slacks of green,| slacks of corduroy and slacks of! S gabardine, in fact slacks of many|admitted to the Alaska Pioneers’ PIONEERS' HOME ing this morning when the women, They are John Alfred Benson, employees of the Unemployment Petersburg fisherman; Walter G. Compensation Commission, the De-|Dygert, Sitka - canneryman; Tom partment of Public Welfare and the sampson' and ' John Saari, both Social Security offices appearedis“k“ laborers. for the first time jn the prncucal} costume recently approved by v.he‘ Deparmtent heads. | While the change from dresses to, slacks was not quite 100 per cent,| James Meece, Anchorage miner, it was made by the majority of the died last week at the Alaska Pio- young women In the offices and| neers’ Home in Sitka, it was an- some of those who did not comply, nounced here today. Meece was an apologetically said they would as early stampeeder into the 40-Mile soon as suitable slacks could be|gistrict when ‘he first came to Al- oiined. {aska in 1898. He was 85 years old Permission to wear the practicall B H S 1 s 23 costume was granted last week after | the women employees had signed al petition” asking -that in the name| e of economy on silk stockings they| Raymond Wolfe, credit agent for be allowed to discard dresses forithe Office of Indian Affairs in working hours in: favor of tailored | Alaska, returned here today from slack suits. | sitka. HOSPITAL NOTES | Don Willlams was admitted toj St. Ann’s Hospita) Saturday night| for surgical treatiient. > — PIONEER DI WOLFE BACK e : Mrs. J. W. Chard entered St. Ann’s Hospital Saturday evening for surgical treatment. | On Sunday Mrs. Ligzie Peterson entered St. Ann's Hospital for med- {ical care. John Maurstad is a patient at St. Ann’s Hospital receiving treat- ment for a fractured ankle. He entered the hospital Saturday. Jack Regan entered St. Annf Hospital on Sunday to receive med- ical treatment. Oscar Vienola, who has been a surgical patient at St. Ann’s Hospi- tal was dismissed today. He is an employee of the Alaska Juneau Mine. ‘Warner Kumi, an employee of the Alaska Juneau Mine, who has been | a surgical patient at St. Ann’s Hos- pital, left the hospital today. Salma Marks entered the Govern- |ment Hospital today to receive medical care. ———-—— STROMBERGS SOUTH | Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stromberg has left for the south and expect {to be gone for several weeks. He is | ‘ia well knpwn carpenter. | il | Subscribe to The Empire. .. BRINGING UP FATHER WELL-IT'S ABOUT TIME YOU GOT UP-MY FATHER HAD TO GET UP AND BUILD THE FIRE IN THE GRATE THIS MORNING~ Four Alaska pioneers have been| colors and materials made their|Home in Sitka since the first of | | appearance at the Territorial Build- the year, it was announced today. | WOlVCI‘ifle Grid Star EnliStS :shlp service, at which these men Davey Nelson and Lieut. Ray W. Brown Football star at the University of Michigan, Davey Nelson, speedy halfback, has enlisted in the navy flying corps. Nelson is shown left, in Detroit, talking with Lieut. Ray W. Brown, aska Game Commission, left Juneau | by steamer today for a business trip | lo Petersburg - -o - Is On Tomorrow Tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock, KIRMSES SOUTHBOUND the Juneau Woman's Club will Mrs. Hazel Kirmse, proprietor of meet in the Methodist Church the Russian Bell giil shop in Sitka, |Parlors for their monthly social has passed through Juneau on her meeting, a luncheon given by the way to Seattle. She is accompanied Department of Legislation. George by her son and daughter-in-law, Folta will give an address on the Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kirmse. |subject, “Laws of Alaska as They e (Pertain to Women and Children.” ‘ CLAUDIE KEARNEY LEAVES | A playet called - “Better City Claudie Kearney of the telephone Campaign” will be presented by | office, is southbound for a vlsitlmembers of the club, and com- ‘in the States. ymunity singing will complete the | - - |progrnm. { MRS. BENSON HERE | - Mrs. George Benson was an ar- > i, e v e ytheran Coundil e v s Elects Officers at Sitka for the Office of Indian | Affairs, arrived in Juneau today. | Miss Sorrill will remain here dur- ing the court term, acting as wit- ness in a Sitka case, it was under- ! stood. ‘The following men were installed yesterday as the Church Council members for Resurrection Lutheran Church for this year: Bert Alstead, Roald Copstead, E. {O. Jacobson, J. A. Krugness, I. |Martin, Bert McDowell, John Reck, Dr. J. O. Rude and A, M. Uggen. Immediately following the wor- were installed, a council meeting was held and the following officers were elected: President, the Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman, the pastor, ex-officio; Vice-President, Dr. J. O. Rude; Secretary, Bert McDowell; Treasur- er, John Reck; Pinancial Secretary, A. M. Uggen. Ralph Savorys Are Paremsif Girl Baby Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Savory are the parents of a baby girl named |Diane Lillian, who was born in | Seattle on January 13, according {to announcements received by friends in Juneau. The younglady weighed seven pounds. Mr. ‘Savory, a pilot for Pan Am- erican Airways, was based in Al- aska for a number of years beforc being transferred to Seattle. e R. L. JERNBERG ARRIVES To attend the present term of Court, R. L, Jernberg, City attorney of Sitka, arrived in Juneau Sun- day. Mr. Jernberg, who opened his law office in the defense city over 4 year ago, was for many years a resident of Juneau. He expects to |remain here for about a week. el e HOWARD LYNG GOES SOUTH Howard Lyng has left for the south after visiting here for sev- eral weeks. I'D LIKE TO SIT By GEORGE McMANUS Tables were played at various | homes with the results being tele- phoned at the end of the games. Mrs. Tom Morgan was hostess xori three tables of bridge at her resi-| dence where prize winners were Inez Hogins and Ralph Voght. Mrs. Martin Lavenik was assisted in the| party at her home by Mrs. T, J. Petrich, Mrs. Frank Metcalf and Mrs. A. W. Stewart. Lance Hend- rickson was the prize winner. At the Trevor Davis- home, Mrs, Davis was assisted in a combined | bridge, pinochle and Chinese| checker party by Mrs. Olof Bodding, Mrs. C. C. Carnegie and Mrs. Waino Hendrickson. In bridge the women's prizes were won by Mrs. Courtney | Smith, first and Mrs. Alma Hend- | rickson, second. Men winning in bridge were, Ernest Oberg and G. B. Schmidt. Pinochle winners were Mrs. C. C. Carnegie and Billy Carl- son. Dr. and Mrs. J. O. Rude won'| the award in Chinese checkers. Mrs. Ray G. Day was nsstswd' in the bridge party given at her| nome by Mrs. Edith Sheelor and Mrs. Albert Tucker. Those winning awards were Mrs. C. B. Holland and B. D. Stewart. | At the J. E. Neate residence, Mrs. Neate and Mrs. Al Zenger were; hostesses. Pinochle was the game' of the evening at this party and prizes were won by Mr. and Mus.| C. C. Rulaford. MORE PARTIES | Both bridge and pinochle were played at the Harry Stonehouse residence with Mrs. Stonehouse and Mrs. E. L. Gruber as hostesses. Mrs. Leo Jewett and James Déhis held high scores at bridge while the high scores in pinochle were held by Fern Lammers and George Mes- | serschmidt. Mrs. Homer Nordling was assisted | by Mrs. E. M. Polly in the party held at the Nordling residence and bridge prizes were won, K by Mrs. John Newman and Alex Sey. Those winning at pinochle were Anna Winn and George Gullerfson. At the W. J. Manthey residence, Mrs. Manthey was assisted by Mrs. Bert Lybeck and Mrs. Bert Keifer. ! Prizes were won by Mrs. Nora Tis- dale and Casey Hildre. | Novelty added to the fun of the evening which was thoroughly en- Joyed by those atlending. Mrs. Marion Hendrickson, President of the American Legion Auxiliary, ex- pressed her great appreciation to all those who so generously con- tributed to the success of the party. TWO DIVORCES ARE GRANTED; TWO DISMISSED Two divorces were granted and two other divorce actions dismissed in Federal District Court here Sat- urday. Myra Gertrude Miller was granted a divorce from Dale V. Miller and Arline G. Edwards was granted a divorce from Glenn A. Edwards. | . Divorce suits dismissed by the! court were those or Alvina Peterson versus Albert Peterson and Eleanor DeRoux versus Norman DeRoux. X € G A 3 FIREMEN TO MEET Members of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department will hold a first aid meeting at the PFire Hall here tonight, starting at 7:30 p. m. e WITH WEATHER BUREAU A new member of the office staff at the Weather Bureau office here today is Mrs. Corine Greenhow, who is doing special work for the | bureau, llflfl. . aska ship lines and also to nwnq to a number of other matters = taining to the Territory, he clared today. A The hearing on the ship rates h‘l been postponed until Friday, Jafs uary 23, the Governor sald. hearing was orginally set for Wi nesday, January 21. Gov. and Mrs. Ernest G were aboard a plane. this ing which headed south out of Juneau but was forced tq turn because of weather difficulties, having reached Taku River. Gruenings expect to bé away al three weeks on their trip to capital. “ o 5.0.TANKER TORPEODED BY U-BOAT ) (Continued from Page One) i Fe Fe¥Es rent wave of U-boat activity along the Atlantic Coast also were - ers. The first was sunk Wednesday and the second Thursday. e Another submarine victim was"'s Panamanian freighter, which disclosed upon the arrival at eastern Canadian port of se members ‘of the crew of 37, One. the seven survivors died lhl“g after reaching the Canadian Survivors of the freighter enemy submarines “are almost ‘Ns thick as catfish” in western Ab- lantic waters. " e y 4 North Dakota had the death rate in the nation in X according to the census, with deaths per thousand population, | compared with 108 for the natigp, NATIONAL FOREST TIMBE! FOR SALE Sealed bids will be received the Regional Forester, Juneau, Al aska, up to and including ary 17, 1942, for all the able dead timber, standing or and all the live timber marked designated for cutting, on an ‘arga totaling approximately 65 acres, on the southwest shore of Hoonah Sound south of Pick Cove, Chichia~ gof Island, Tongass National For- est, Alaska, estimated to be 1375, 000 feet B.M., more or less, of Sitka spruce and western hemlock saw- timber, and 5000 linear feet, move or less, of piling. No bid of less than $150 per M feet BM. for spruce sawtimber, $1.00 hemlock sawtimber, and 1lc¢ linear foot for piling up to including 95 feet in length, , 1%c per linear fopt for piling over 95 feet in length, will be |- ered. $500.00 must be deposited each bid, to be applied on purchase price, refunded, or tained in part as liquidated ages, according to the of sale. Primary manufacture side of the Territory of Alaska any part of the timber is subje to the consent of the Regional ester. The right is reserved to - Ject any or all bids received. fore bids dre submitted, full ip- formation concerning the timbér, the conditions of sale, and the mission of bids, should be from the Regional Forester, Alaska. Publication dates, Jan. 19, T