The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 23, 1942, Page 3

MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1942 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - JUNEAU, ALASKA SHOW PLACE OF JUM LAST CALL FOR \ LAUGHS! More fun then ever before... wult's their lost ...and BESTI " M,/_D)V mtbers “‘irva MARTIN The BIG March of Time “Sailors with Wings” LATE NEWS 50 Moose Members Celebrate Opening Of New Clubrooms Men and women of the Loyal Order of Moose met in the new quarters in the Seward Building last Saturday night for an evening of fun, enjoyed by 50 members. Lively games were played, the feature being “Taking a Trip, where members teamed up on a relay consisting of adding to their costumes wearing apparel from a suitcase and after taking a trip to the other end of the room, pack- ing the suitcase again for the next traveler. The women won. Honors were given for the other games| played and salad formed the evening’s refresh- ment. God Bless America and America were sung and the Governor of the Men's Lodge and Senicr Re- gent of the Women’s Lodge gave short “talks. Next Saturday night, the Women of the Moose will entertain ser- vice men in the Dugout. Lively games will be played and honors will be given. Picnic refreshments will be served. — e - Catholic Daughters ToMeet Tomorrow Catholic Daughters of America will hold its monthly social meet- ing tomorrow night in the Parish Hall beginning at 8 o'clock, ac- cording to Mrs. Walter Hellan. A reception for new members will be held during the evening. Miss Betty Goodman, who has been chosen to fill out the unexpired term of Grand Regent vacated by Mrs. H. C. Redman, who recently left for Portland, Oregon, will pre- side. Refreshments will be served fol- lowing the meeting. . PIONEER PASSES IN SITKA HOME Word has been received by the Governor's Office here of the death of Richmond Dodge, 79, at the Al- aska Pioneer’s Home in Sitka. Mr. Dodge entered the home in 1940 and prior to that time had been engaged in mining and pros- pecting in Southeast Alaska since 1898. He had lived at Ketchikan prior to 1940. - e DR. RAE LILLIAN CARLSON Local optometrist has returned to Juneau. Eyes examined, broken lenses replaced. Blomgren Bldg., Phone 636. ———————— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS hot dogs and pomtol 'MARX BROS. ARE | FUNNIER THAN } | Crammed with Laughs and Music | L + |yesterday at the Capitol Theatre, | with the Marx Brothers cavorting in what was hailed as {in both |the finest effort of their eleven- The picture |year screen careers. is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “The Big Store,” and it was given an en- thusiastic reception by the open- ing day audiences. A dozen tanks of couldn’t have put the fans closer to a state of hysteria than did the series of comedy scenes Groucho Chico and Harpo run through as private detectives trying to protect Tony Martin's life in a department | |store. Their efforts to guard him against a ruthless killer provide the |story, along with Groucho’s woo- |ing of rich Margaret Dumont his perennijal foil, Chico's effort to endow a music conservatory, and | |the romance between Martin aml |Virginia Grey. | Aside from its hit as a comed\. l ‘The Big Store” rates as one of out of Hollywood in recent years. Five numbers are featured, with mantic “If It's You,” that should jclimb high on the nation’s hit | parade. | - - eee—— | Kitty Takes New {Job as Confacl {Womean for Lab Kitty, a fluffy calico cat, latest {staff member of the Division of Laboratories of the Territorial De- sartment of Health, has made pro- | motions for sounds. Kitty was taken on recently by { ‘he Director of Laboratories as a | "ul-time mouser, working 40 hours a veek, with board and room pro- /ided. She was relegated to the basement quarters of the laboratory |md shown her offices, In no time at all, no mice were o be seen about the premices, vhether as a direct result of Kitty's Ictivities or as a credit to her nredecessor, Cat, a slightly jealous ‘eline who has been on the staff ‘or sometime. At any rate, Kitty began to look ‘or new fields to conquer and has 1ow decided that her forte is in “eing a contact man. Not content with the basement, she has taken over an outside job and spends as much of her time as possible in the “alls of the Territorial Building, recuring subjects for the blood type file now being compiled in the “aboratories. Kitty's technique is to sidle up to any unsuspecting person wand- ring down the hall on business or sleasure, rub lovingly against and round his ankles, let out a large nd effective purr and swishing “er tail, seduce him into the labor- itories ‘where she turns him over ‘0 the laboratory workers in their vhite gowns and his blood sample i's taken for the file. During the hours when the halls we comparatively quiet, Kitty ucks herself up into a neat pack- 1ge on the floor of the Laboratory 'nd oversees the technical process of typing the blood, although she 's careful never to go-near any of | he antiseptic equipment or dis- nfected utensils. Sometimes she can't resist the mpulses to assist in some tech- nical process being carried on in he basement laboratories and leaps p on the workbench beside the echnician to give a quiet bit of dvice. When asked about what her next Jromotion will be, Kitty’s only an- swer is a throaty “merroauw.” e T MRS. DRAKE ON TRIP Mrs. Marie Drake, Deputy Com- nissioner of Education for the Ter- ritory, left this morning for Sitka o a routine schools there. She expects to be gone several days. e — — There are 155 botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States. ——-e—— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS EVER IN FILM The Big Store”" at Capiloll Fun and music had a fleld dny‘ laughing gas | the most lavish musicals to come | Martin singing two—the impressive “Tenement Symphony” and the ro-! herself by leaps and| inspection trip of | oy . __the rovies lounges—and 1 BIG BATTLE - REPORTED - NEARITALY {British, Axis in Struggle| for Mediterranean | Positions (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) ‘ A tangle of war planes, submar- {ines and surface craft on the inter- | secting supply lines of Britain, Ger- many and Italy is marking the ;spnnglime maneuvering for strat- | egic positions in the Mediterran-! ean. | Broadly, this battle for sealanes complemented the battle in Russia jas well as in Libya because the (possibility of a tangent stroke at the Axis through Southeastern | | Europe toward the Caucasian cil | wells was evident for spring. Claims in the Medlterraneanl fighting today include: British—Two Italian subs, two| supply ships and six large schoon- ers sunk by British shell and tor- pedo attacks, some of them with-| in sight of watchers on the coasts | of Italy and her Albanian puppet | | state. Axis—“Repeated” hits scored by Italian torpedo planes on trans- ports and warships in the Malta- bound British convoy. The battle is reported still going on in the Gulf of Sirte, southeast of Malia. The Rome command sald that Ital- ian warships overtook the British convoy there today, Inflicting “fur- ther heavy damage.” The Italians promised more de- tails later. | e ———— ). L. FREEBURN DIED SUNDAY IN SEATTLE| James L. Freeburn, for many! years general manager of the Chi-| chagof Mining Company, and well known throughout the West as an outstanding mining engineer, died yesterday at his home in Seattle. Word received here from Lau- rence Freeburn, nephew of the de- contained no details but in fail- | Sitka, Mr. Freeburn has been ing health for some time. With his first job as a mining engineer with the Drumlummon Mine in Montana in 1886, Mr. Free- burn followed his professional stead- ily for more than fifty years in many states in the West, British Columbia and Alaska. Mr. Freeburn first came to Al- aska in the early 1900's and was associated with his brother, William, in a mine on Prince of Wales Island for several years before taking over |the management of the Chichagof |Mine in 1910. He remained in| |charge of the Chichagof most of |the time since then until four years ago when he retired follow- ing a change in the ownership. He is survived by his widow who lives in Seattle, and a daughter, Mrs. Norman Searle. s TS LA, Bubscribe to the Dally Alaska Empire—the paper with the largest aska newspaper. BRINGING UP FATHER \rr:S -MRS. JIGGS-WE HAVE A LOCAL NUIZSES’ MED CDEPS TO CAl SICK SOLDIERS WHE‘I‘HEQ OF THIS WAR OR PREVIOUS WARS -WE WISH THAT YOUR DAUGEIZ WOULD JOIN=— B=—=xi g | itiatory work. | fast, | ceased, who operates a cannery in|| SOM ETHINC TO TAKE YOUR MIND OFF WAR—In some of Californi: ight prellily. too. She wears a two-piece swlm suit of white sharkskm a patriotic emblem appears on trunks. 12 THOUSAND RAINBOW GIRLS s choicest sunshine Marie McDonald of U.S.PLANES SRLBA Sinbay GERMANS ARE 7O BE USED | The Order of Rainbow for Girls met Saturday night in the Scottish | Rite Temple, holding their annual Junior Officer’s Night. Miss Betty Rice, Worthy Advisor, was charge of the meeting, with th(' Junior Officers taking over the in- The following Junior Officers ex-! | emplified this work: Mary Sperling, Worthy Advisor; Shirley Olds, Worthy Associate Advisor: Gloria Gudbranson, Charity; Lois Stand-| afer, Hope; Jean Winther, Faitl Katherine Holm, Drill Leader; Mil- lie Miller, Chaplain; Love, Betty Lou Hared; Religion, Nadine Met- calfe; Nature, Alice Sherwood; Im- mortality, Harriet Williams; FPidel- ity, Lucille Goetz; Patriotism, Irene Shirk; Service, Claire Dore; Con- fidential Observer, Ada Burns; Outer Observer, Agnes - Tubbs; Standard Bearer, Doris Grave: Flag Bearer, Doris Clark, Musician, Mary Jukich; Choir Leader, Jac-! | queline Schmitz; Secret Work, Betty Nordling. The girls completed plans for their Defense Breakfast to be held this next Sunday, March 29 in the Scottish Rite Temple. The girls | |are planning to purchase a Defense Bond in the name of their Assem- ly, and extend an invitation to all their friends to attend this break- to help them attain their goal. The breakfast will be from 12 noon until 2 p. m. Immediately following the meet- ing, a dance was held in the ball- room of the Temple for Rainbow girls and their invited guests. It was pronounced a great success and the committee in charge of the af- fair was: Courlyne Smith, Chair- man, with Lois Allen, Mona Ever- | ’eu.s. Margaret Clark, Mary Mar- garet Wendling, Doris Cahill. Janet Carl and > - | Judy Comes Seven, Seven JOHNSON CI’I’Y Tenn.,, March | 25—If there's the magic ir f! number seven that sages and dice | shooters prolaim, then newly- -born | J;J?lth Elaine Lyle is a lucky little girl. Arriving in the seventh year of her parents’ marriage, she weighed seven pounds seven ounces. And her | folks paid the physician and hospital | off in silver dollars they'd saved for | seven years. ————— GILLESPIE TO GO SOUTH FOR HEALTH | Mrs. Roy Gillespie is planning to1 leave Juneau by boat this week! to go to Seattle, where she will| enter the Virginia Mason Hospital for medical treatment. She will reAJ turn to her home here as soon as | | her health is improved. | >, An air taxi service is operated | from Wichita, Kans., to Winnipeg with free rides to young Arneri- cans who want to join the Royu Canadian Air Force. | B s — | Most of the car-owning families ' in the United States have never purchased a new car. They de-| pend upon second, third or fourti- | hand cars for their transportation. MRS. BY GOLLY-I'M A VETE‘ZAN OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR- SLAUGHTERED o Officers and Soldlers Kill- ed by Russians in Kalinin Sector MOSCOW, MAI(]) 23--The slaugh- ter soldiers in the Kalinin sector is reported by the Russians as the war on the entire rushed at a faster tempo, both Russian and Germans taking ad- vantage of the spring for crucial engagements The Soviet announcement said the Germans were Killed between March 11 and March 21 and fur- ther detailed the capture or de- struction of a vast quantity of planes, guns and other war material in the Kalinin area. --e 190 NATIVE CHILDREN alone today GET IMMUNIZATIONS In Government Hospital this forenoon, 190 native children took advantage of the immunization clinic sponsored by the Territorial Department of Health, with in- oculafions given by Dr. Maurice Corthell. Among those taking immuniza- ticns were 56 preschool and infant children and 134 school children. Smallpox vaccinations were given to 25, the first of three whooping | cough shots was given to 47 and 118 received the first, of three ty-| phoid inoculations. One diphtherla 1mmunlmuon was glven. May Be InvasionChart of 12,000 German officers and | front | INRUSSIA Sides Readfior Spring Fighting - Germans Claim Success MOSCOW, March 23—The Rus-| sian army paper, Red Star, has | disclosed that United States builu Airacobra fighter planes to be used in spring combats against German planes have been assembled and tested at a training center in Rus- sia. Red Star said a few days ago that an air regiment has arnvcd! at the center and will be equipped with the American machines. The German command is drop- ping the term “defensive,” and m its Sunday report on the Russian war with the coming of spring claimed “offensive operations” were successful in a number of segtors. e | STOCK QUOCTATIONS NEW YORK, March 23—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 17, American Can 60%, Anaconda 26'z, Bethlehem | Steel 60%, Commonwealth and | Southern 17/30, Curtiss Wright 7%, | International Harvester 42%, Ken- necott 32%, New York Central 8%, United States Steel 50%, Pound [$4.034. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow,' [Jnnes averages: .industrials 101.20,, |rails 26.04, utilities 11.99. Rep. Martin Dies (D.-Tex.) insp ects a map taken, he said, from a Jap arrested in Arizona. Alaska and Canada. Dies turned It is supposed to show invasion routes through the material over to his committee investigating un-American activity. By GEORGE McMANUS > Copr 1942, King Features Syndscate, Tnc., World righss reiarved DS PAGE THREE ADVENTURE AND . ROMANCE TOLD IN TALE OF SEA “The Sea Wolf" af 20th Century Stars Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupmo Edward G. Robinson has one of the strongest roles of his screen | {career in “The Sea Wolf," Jack | Lendon's powerful story of the sea, | now playing at the 20th Century | Theatre | Sharing stellar honors with him | in this unusual feature are Ida | Lupino and John Garfield, As the ‘ruthless captain ship “Ghost,” on which the action takes place, Robinson | Zives a splendid performance. Tht‘ hard-bitten leader of a ruffian| crew, shanghaied from the dives of | the Barbary Coast in San Fran-| cisco, Robinson rules with an iron | hand. His leadership is tested when Garfield, a cultured writer who inadvertently joins the strange crowd aboard the “Ghost,” heads| a rebellion of the crew. | Situation after situation contains lplemy of hair raising action and a romance is woven into the story !thnt forms an important part of the picture. Junior CDA Troops Have Parties Here Saturday Affernoon | Troop 1 of Junior Catholic| |Daughters of America chose last Saturday afternoon for a social meeting and St. Patrick’s Day par- ty, held in the home of Mrs, J. jK. McAlister. . Troop 2 also had | a St. Patrick's day party that after- | noon, in the home of Mrs. V. L. Hoke. | Games and refreshments Dccup'ed‘ the afternoon for the girls of Troopi 1, with Rosemary Dugan and Mary- !lin McAlister on the food commit- tee. Also assisting were Theresa | Dugan and Pat McAlister, decora- ! |tion and Colleen and Eileen Hellan, |game committee. ] ——® American Legion | Meet Set Tonight of the most of Tonight will be Bond Night inj |the American Legion Dugout as| members of Alford John Bradford Post No. 4 gather for their regular| weekly meeting. All members are urged to be there as nominations will be made to fill two vacancles on the Post Executive Committee and discus- sion of several important issues will come up. |GUS GELLES OUTSIDE | FOR MEDICAL (ARE Gus Gelles, prominent bualntss; man -of Anchorage, who formerly lived in Juneau and is well known throughout the Territory, is receiv- {ing treatment in the Laurel Beach Sanatorium in Seattle, according | to word received here. Mr. Gelles, who has been ill for nearly a year, went south on a business trip early last month and remained for medical care. His three children, Wanda, Robert and Kathryn are living in Anchorage. e ART GLOVER BACK | | Art Glover, Regional Engineer for the Forest Service, returned to the Juneau office yesterday after spend- ing six weeks in field engineering on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island. THAT “HATE TO WORK"” FEELING r—mmu'flm A e B ERter w-—m jeau of Aeronautics, Where the Better BIG Pictures Play! (20 eNTuRY. TONlGllT et MCAAEL URTIZ WARNER BRES ot s e COLISEUM “XMAS IN JULY" AlASI(A SCHOOLS ‘ BUILDING MODELS . PLANES FOR NAVY At the request of the Navy Buf- Dr. James C. Ryan, Territorial Commissioner ‘of Education, has authorized six Als aska schools to participate in a pro- gram to build part of 500,000 mogel airplanes to be used for tnimflg . purposes. Schools participating are Juneau High School, Ketchikan, Peters- burg, Fairbanks, Anchorage and tHe Sheldon Jackson School at Sil Each school will make one comp'a set of aproximately 50 diffel models. The schools are working on the “|first 20 plans now. The second lof 20 will be received March Dr. Ryan said, and the remal 10 in April. CHANGE NAME OF ' FEDERAL Aeim The Defense. Public Works vision of the Federal Works has been abolished in name, it announced today, and will known only as the Federal Wop Agency. a2 John G. Shepard is the m Engineer for the agency in and has his office in the Junest | Hotel building. B e ZIMMERMAN RETURNS ./ Chester Zimmerman, who 'has been south, has returned to Ju- neau and is back agaln at the First National Bank. A » Electric Ranges Are ' See them today of Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. Phone 616 ? WHY WAIT ? Call STAR Cabs Go Where You Please Your Mind at Ease J FOY | Ride STAR Cabs Autler-Mauro Drug Co. In Douglas by Guy’s Drug Store DON LOZZIE—Owner YOU in yourself . . . . about being beautiful. A lovely girl is an accident; a beautiful woman is an achievement. There isn't a woman in the world who can afford to be OVER- WEIGHT or too old or too plain or too busy or too pretty to bother The proper care of face and hair and FIGURE will transform you into the vital person that is yourself. Make your headquarters at SIGRID’S BEAUTY SALON, Phone 318 1891—Half a Century of Banking—1941 The B.M.Behrends ]‘ Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska | | '~ COMMERCIAL SAVINGS