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MONDAY, JULY 6, 1942 'I'ONIGI'IT— FUNNIER than ever...but more DRAMAYI( foa! MICKEY ROONEY Fay HOLDEN Ann Rutherford Fight Pictures Joe Louis vs. Abe Simon Latest News Show Place of Juneau Eighteen Spend Weekend Visifing At Ta_k_u Lodge eig Ipersons enjoyed the two-day Fourth of July holiday at the Taku Lodge, lowned by Mary Joyce, on the Taku River. The perfect weather and beautitul setting of the lodge gave everyone lample opportunity to take advant- age of the fishing, hiking, river boating and other activities that jmake a vacation at Taku so popular [with Juneauites. Those who spent at the Lodge were Miss Lillian A. [Kersten, Miss Ruby McNeal, Clark Bassett, Dr. William Blanton, Mr. land Mrs. Wes Overby, Miss Alice [Johnson, Miss Jeanette Ringstad, [Miss Geraldine Ringstad, E. W. (Whitehead, Mr. and Mis. E. F Clements, Mr. and Mrs. Don Abel land young Don and Joe Abel, the Rev. Bernard J. Hubbard and Ed [Leven. Some of the guests made the trip to Taku with Miss Joyce in her river boat Friday night returning 0 Juneau last night. Dr. Blanton ook several to the River in his boat early Saturday morning la party of six flew down in laska Coastal plane, All returned last night [Mrs. Abel and her two children ho will remain at the Lodge until nteen the weekend an and | 'ANDY HARDY IS " OUT OF SCHOOL IN NEW STORY "Life Begin's,Tnith Mickey Rooney, Now Show- ing at Capitol Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gins for Andy Hardy,” now showing at the Capitol, had frantic script writers working overtime to discover all the latest phases of our modern youth. Judging from these bits of dialogue, they discovered the Eng- lish language undergoing one of its wildest expansions. When Mickey Rooney calls him- self a “disappointed drizzle-dip,” it’s slight wonder that Lewis Stone doesn’t get it. And it doesn’t help him much when Mickey ,explains himself by terming it a “wolf with- out a frill.” Mickey really means he's a boy without a girl. This is nothing, however, com- pared with Stone’s confusion when he calls on Judy Garland, making her third guest appearance in a Hardy picture. His consternation is caused when Judy tells him Mickey has “gotten the poison pan from his own dilly.” Tt takes considerable explanation to reveal that she means Mickey has lost his girl. Likewise, there is little doubt as to her meaning when Judy calls her rival for Mickey’ affections a “gun- g1r1 ‘“zombie,” ‘“goon” and | “wolfes: They won't be found in any Eng- lish grammar books, bnt good, up-to-the-minute American words. MRS. MGINTY FETES TWO AT PARTY FRIDAY! Earl McGinty entertained on | Friday at luncheon honoring Mrs Ruth Noble, who is planning to leave Juneau some time this week for the south, and Mrs. Ernest Gruening, wife of Gov. Gruening, on her re- turn to Juneau after an extended visit in Washington, D. C. Fourteen guests enjoyed the luncheon and bridge following. Mrs Langdon White won first honors at bridge and Mrs. Willlam A. Holz- heimer won second. Garden flowers including peonies, carnations, fox gloves and globe flowers made an attractive setting for the party. R e MRS. V. W. MULVIHILL RETURNS FROM SOUTH | Mrs. V. W. Mulvihill, whose hus- band is Canadian Pacific agent in ! Juneau, returned Saturday night a month. \ While she was awav Mrs. Mul- i i Life Be- they're | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Grand Parade EnjoyedHere On 4th of July Morning Event Leads Off Scheduled Activities of Holiday Saturday, July 4, dawned with a sky of Independence blue and Ju- neau residents turned out in full force to take part in the big pro- gram planned to celebrate the na- tional holiday. Shortly before 10 o'clock in the morning. the streets began to have a smattering of tra fie, with participants in the parade lining up at that time by the City Dock. The parade began at 10:30 promptly and came smartly up low- er Franklin Street, paced by the beat of the drum and bugle corps from the U. S. camp. Leading off the parade was a group of marching soldiers, following the drum and | bugle corps. fits. The Juneau Volunteer Fire Department, with all three trucks | shining with polish followed, Chief V. W. Mulvihill seated in the first | truck, with Holger Larson driving Firemen threw candy kisses to the hildren on the streets. | March in Parade | The Elks' Drill Team, clad white, marched next and were fol- |lowed by the Elks float, with Mary Jukich as queen and the majorettes in costume sitting on the float. Then | the Boy Scouts marched, followed by |a contingent of Girl Scouts, and then the Fisheries Maider with | their fish poles, nets, and a small motor boat. Children i garb, ranging | Liberty | wounded soldier wars, were next in the parade. The 'ROMH Club float and the float of | |the Juneau Mine and Mill Workers Local 203, finished up the line The Elks' float was named the | winner of the $15 prizg for the best |decorated and the Rotary float took |the second prize, with the Miners third. | |cl costumed in patriotic from a Win Costume Prizes For the most appropriate Fourth lof July costume among the boys, Jimmy Tripp won $2 and Robert | Rhodes won $1. | Girls’ costumes winners were Jean- | ette Rhodes and Patsy Jones. For the best sustained character in cos- tume, winners were Bill Vernon | and Bill Johnson for boys and Joan Rhodes and Carol Ann Peterson for | gill: Vickie Johnson had the best decorated bicycle and Donny Krane | was second. | The best decorated doll buggy except | from the south after an absence of | was deemed that of Lorraine Ar lowe, who took a Charlie McCarthy |doll for a ride. Thursday. Miss Joyce expects to| vihill visited her family in Gresham, |and Duane Arlowe had the best return to the camp this evening Oregon. We're Celebrating the Payment of Our 10th 49 dividend Wednesday, July 1, 1942 Please present your pass books so that dividends may be entered. Buy Your War Bonds Here Accounts Government Insured Up to $5,000.00 Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Association of Juneaun JUST THE THING [ Shorien Wash Day by Hours with a General Electric Clothes Dryer Ten minutes from the time the clothes are put into this dryer direct from your washing machine, you can remove them fluffy and thoroughly dry, only possible through the tumbling action in pure electrically heated air. SEE THISDRYER TODAY and be convinced of the TIME and LABOR it can save you. The Alaska Electric Light and Power Company | decorated wagons . The Boy Scouts were the best marching turnout for boys and the Fisheries Girl the best among the girls marching turnouts Judges for the parade were James V. Cole, Harry J. Hood and A. J Forrest. Grant Baldwin was parade pay- master, appointed by Glenn Allen, of the Loyal Order of Moose, in charge of the parade. Work on Committee On the American Legion Fourth then mechanized out- | o in Goddess of | and Red Cross Nurse to a | returned from the | Ronald Peterson | | of ,July Committee, working under | Bert Lybeck, Chairman, of the entire huhdm activities, were Al Zenger, Homer Nordling, Ralph Martin, John Newman, Claude Car- negie and Waino Hendrickson On the sports program committee were Ralph Martin, Homer Nord- ling, Claude Carnegie, Al Zenger. Dance committee members were John McCormick, J. T. Petrich, George Gullufsen. Ball game com- mittee members were Bert Lybeck, | John McCormick and Al Zenger. John Newman was to be in charge | of horse shoe pitching contests. On the ball ground work crew were Al Mook, Harry Stonehouse and Lester Rink. Bill Franks and Bill Garster were race starters, and in charge of the hot dog stand were | Frank Metcalf, Fred Cameron and Al Mook. - Finn Horse contest committee- |men were Waino Hendrickson, Ralph Martin and Fred Cameron. Homer Nordling and John Newman | were in charge of the Muckers’ Con- test. M. H. Sides acted as paymaster for all the races held at the Ball Park. | Assisting with the parade were | the Juneau Chief of Police Manery and his patrolmen, and Lieut. Don- | nell, in charge of the Military Po- MRS. R. SIMPSON " BRINGS MEDICAL ~KIT T0 JUNEAU Mrs. Robert Simpson returned to Juneau on Saturday after an ab- sence of five months, two of which she spent in New York City with her dsughter, Mrs, Annabel Simp- | son Melezer and travelling in the st. A month ago Mrs. Simpson | returned to the West Coast and !was joined there by Dr. Simpson |several weeks ago. He will return [north next week, she said. | Presents Kit Tod Mrs. Simpson, who was appointed Alasl agent for the Medical and Sul cal Relief Committee of Amer- ica, brought north with her the emercency kit recently presented |by the committee for St. .Ann’ Hospital in Juneau. She will make the presentation today in the name | of the committee, The emergency Kkits are to l)l“ used by the city in case of t-mm’-\ gency,, and contain complete ma- terial for field work, Mrs. snnmmr said. i Attend Graduation In San Francisco the Simpsons | attended the graduation of their son, Robert Simpson, Jr., who re- y(‘(‘lH’(A his degree in medicine hom‘ Stanford University. Following his | graduation, Dr. Simpson was com- missioned as a Lieutenant jg. in| the U. S. Navy and will enter ac- tive duty on July 15, Mrs. Simpson said. Melczer is working in the | editorial office of Time Magazine | and is aiso taking a post graduate | course in chemistry at Columbia University in New York City. She expects to retain her position until fall when she will enter Yale Uni- versity to take a three-year course in executive nursing, Mrs. Simpson said. e, — NINNIS RETURNS Elroy Ninnis, of the Juneau Motor Company, has returned to Juneau after a brief tnp to Seattle. Now af (apilol Lewis Stone, Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, three of the Hardy Family cast, are shown in a scene from “Life Begins for Andy Hardy,” their latest screen hid | town, wt {came to Juneau from nearby com- ! for Excursion Inlet; Lert MANY TRAVEL 1 WITHACAOVER LAST WEEKEND Over ninety passengers travelled to points in Southeast Alaska with Alaska Coastal Airlines from Fri- day afternoon to Sunday night. Many of the flights were made to nearby vacation spots with fisher- men and others who took advantage of the double holiday to get out of le many of the passengers {munities to spend the Fourth of | y, and ordinary traffic went on al engers to Sitka from here Fri- | | day afternoon were Grace E. Knud- | ison and Mary Foster. Returning to | Juneau frem Sitka on Friday eve- Janet Nelson, D. J. Wes- tones, Mrs. L. O. Johnson, Dean R. Johnson, Nick Shelb, Phil Johnson and R. M. Douglas. Arriving in Juneau from Haines | Friday afternoon were W. G. Roy- ela, Johnny B. Ragndos, F. A. Rien- |deau, H. A. Cooper, John La Haie, and Virgin O. Mount. From Taku Harbor Juneau arrivals were Larry . Miller, Arthur Skinner, Robert Scog- gins, R. C. Moser, A. L. Lindborg and Swen Olson. Fligths on Fourth Coming to Juneau from Yakutat | with ACA Saturday were Oscar O. Salmi, J. A. Rasmussen, Raymond Nixon, Rowell L. Garman, and Leonard C. Whitaker. Leaving here for Taku Lodge on Taku River Saturday were E. W. Whitehead, Lillian Clements, Jean- \ette Ringstad, E. F. Clements, Ger- laldine Ringstad, and Alice E. John- son. J. W. Houston was a passenger Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. Neill Moore Rollins for Tenakee; carl Veitenhaus and Mrs. E. W. Glassburn for Hoonah. On the re- turn flight incoming passenges were, from Excursion Inlet, J. W. Hous- ton; from Tenakee, Edith M. Bone- steel, and H. J. Florence and from Hoonah, R. A. Welsh. Passengers from Juneau to Sitka ' were A. P. Bowen, H. B. Houson, Sam Asp, Mr and Austin Virginia Lechelt, A. Smith, T. Mat- | on and P. M. Villagana, while those 'arriving here from Sitka Saturday were L. M. Ritter, Edwin J. Soberg, Lm W. Moran, Paul Terell, J. S. Payne, Jack M. Spickard, W. F. Raymond, Mrs. W. F. Faymond and | Jewell Johnson. Sunday Flights Arriving in Juneau from hnumh | Sunday were Jack Dunhaven, Fred- | erick Williams and Evans Gunyah and from Youngs Bay, Bob Dupree, Magnus Hansen, E. B. Onsoian and Mrs. E. B. Onsoian. Passengers from Juneau to Sitka were Ted Corn, Vera Lonergan, A. Hale, M. Whyte, Norman Parr, C |R. Guiffin, Paul OLoughlin, Carl | | Main and Charles Tumblin, Arriv- ing here from Sitka were ‘Charles O. Johnston, G. P. Nygaard, F. F. Hay E. O. McCoffin and I F. Bowen. | On a round trip charter flight to I WI““ERS uS'I'ED Lake Florence were the following | passengers, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Stevenson and Mrs. D. H. Good- | win. W. E. Wikstrom, Sam Stanaway and M. Einstoss were passengers -o Kpl(l\ikan from Juneau. From KM-‘ | chikan to Haines via Juneau the following were ACA passengers, Roh- | J. Tomlinson, P. W. Hanson, Howard P. Peery, Theodore R. Daily, E. R. Hansen and Robert C. Wik- strom. WORKERS FOR RED (ROSS ENGAGED IN CUTTING MATERIAL Red Cross workers are busy this week working on Chapter to complete. Work began fhis morning at 10 o'clock in the Elks' Club and will continde each Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 10 o'clock until 4 o'clock until the quota is completed, it was an- nounced. |to propel | This week time on cutting garments direction of Mrs. I. under P. Taylor, Chairman of the cutting division | of the Red Cross and when vol- unteers are desired for the finish- ing of the various garments, a cail| for assistance will be issued. Material for many types of gar- ments were included in the con- signment which arrived reccnuy zmong which are children’s clothes, | and hospital gowns. The principle of shot was known in the fourteenth century. EVACUATE ALEUTIAN RESIDENTS Jap Occupation, However,i Prevented Taking Those from Atfu WASHINGTON, July 6—All of the natives and few white residents have been evacuated from the West- ern Aleutians and the Pribilof Islands, William Zimmerman, Jr., Assistant Indian Commissioner, re- ported today Zimmerman said that evacuees numbering somewhat less than a thousand were taken by the Navy to Southeast Alaska near Juneau where the Office of Indian Affair provided housing for them. The Jap landing at Attu Island, however, according to Alaska Dele- gate Anthony J. Dimond, prevented the evacuation of the few residents | of that island, and there were no| natives at Kiska Island where the Japs also have landed. Zimmerman said that the evac- uees included one or two white accommodations ! 'NEW PURCHASING OFFICE IS SET UP FOR WAR METALS B. D. Slev;ar't‘ Is Named Agent for Mefals Re- serve Board According to an agreement signed (July 1, it was learned today, the, Metals Reserve Company of the Federal government has, at the in- stance of Jonathan Garst of the War Production Board, accepted a proposal made by Territorial Com- missioner of Mines B .D. Stewart, yWherehy strategic metals may purchssed outright by Stewart for the government. Through this plan, Territorial as- say cffices at Ketchikan, Fair- | banks, Anchorage and Nome will be designated as purchase depots for ‘H\(‘ acquisition in lots of one flask jor more |of antimony, tungsten |lots of one ton or more. The Metals Reserve Company has namerd Stewart their purchasing m;,vm and will provide at Juneau replenishable fund payment will be made for delivered concentrate and \1|rk.~|\\‘ |a | ores, oe| ™ from which new material | which recently arrived for the local | is being spent | the | using powder | teachers, three nurses and a few metal based on weights and grades white traders. Other natives were |determined by the Territorial evacuated from Atka and a small | | say and according to a price group from Umnak, he said. schedule that substantially absorbs Dimond said that he recommend- | freight charges to the States and ed to the Navy Department that |,..jjeves Alaskan operators of ship- e nopves 930”;‘::;{':“;";‘""""::*’(‘(“.pmk and marketing problems st 7 | Detailed schedules of grade re- safeguard them from injury. H safeguard them iroh YRJUR |quireraents and prices will be an- | ‘Dea“' To_" PASTORWOODIS ~ OnHoliday | sack n juneay | FROM ANCHORAGE Is Reduced ... H. L. Wood, Superintend- | ent of the Alaska Mission of Sev- ehth-day Adventists, has returned to Juneau via Star Airways after Palmer on mission business. While Only 370 Lives Lost During TWO-DBY ce'eb[a- | in ‘l\m‘,hul'agc Pastor Wood arranged | tion in Nation e ot irtet Job ADRseA e | from the City of Anchorage. The (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Mission Superintendent expects to | Violent death took the lowest |be in Juneau about three weeks. holiday toll in years this year. Rl ST Over the two day fourth week-| end only 370 lives are reported to| SIO(K OUOTATIONS have been lost as against a total " ¥ 3 of 628 in a 3-day celebration of the| NEW YORK, July 6. — Closing fourth last year. quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Gas rationing on the eastern sea- | Stock today is 2!, American Can board, war plants operating every- 64, Anaconda 26'%, Bethlehem | where over the holiday and fire- | Steel 53%, Commonwealth and works restrictions combined to les- | Southern 3/16, Curtiss Wright 6%, sen Accld antal deathq International Harvester 48, Ken- | necott 30%, New York Central 9, Northern Pacific 5%, United States Steel 47%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 106.10; rails, 25.24; utilities, 1180 ~ FOR PATRIOTIC FLOWER DISPLAYS spending ten days in Anchorage and PAGE THREE Where the Better BIG Pictures Pla. TI0"CENTURY Paramount Prasents WOoRLD \PREM/ERE| ‘ JOHN BARRYMORE FRANCES FARMER EUGENE PALLETTE N o NOW PLAYING __COLISEUM —& | “A NIGHT IN LISBON” 'HOLLYWOOD IS " JOKED IN FILM AT TWENTIETH ‘Late John Barrymore Is Star of "'World Pre- miere” Comedy and ores and concentrates | and tin in! The movie capital has turned the tables on itself and come up with something delightfully refreshing for the magic lanterns, Paramount's “World Premiere” which is now at | the 20th Century For years, there was movie eles | ment that resented the pointed | cra and ribs directed at Holly- |wood. They claimed that the rib- Jnng, was injurious to the dignity of the great industry and its art. Bub those who miade these claims were not in Hollywood, and anyone who ever imagined the film colony to be without a sense of humor had best i | see “World Premiere.” Paramount Producer Sol Siegel | contended that it was high time fo w put an end to such groundless gossip and he did it up brown. Choosing | the bull’s eye of the gossipers’ tar- | get, the picture burlesques the lav- | ish world premieres staged by mov- jeland, such as the premiere in At~ lanta, Ga., of “Gone With the Wwind,” “Union Pacific” in Omaha, | “Northwest Mounted Police™ in Chi- | cago and the like. With premieres— the sky has been the limit, both in novelty and exploitation. R 'PRIBILOF NATIVE ; DIES IN JUNEAU Erena Lakanof, 14, of St. George Island in the Pribilof Group, died !last Priday in the Government Ho#- .plL.Al in Juneau. ) She was one of a group of Prib- ilof Island natives evacuated re- cently to Southeast Alaska, and was brought to the Government Hospital on her arrival here, suf- fering from a chronic disease. Funeral arrangements will be an- nounced later by the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. 4 Winner of the Juneau Rotary | Club sponsored John W. Jones Memorial Prize for an outdoor dec- oration with a patriotic motif is Earle Hunter, the judges announced | today. Hunter,who lives at 428 Twelfth Street, won the $25 War Bond with a Victory V display in flowers on his lawn. Second prize went to Charles Forward, and Olaf Westby came in third. Honorable mention was given to Edwin Sutton and Bill Garster. Special mention was awarded the Charles W. Carter Mortuary for a | business house decoration made by Don Skuse, an American flag done |. |in flowers. i e NATURALIZATION | SESSION IS SET FOR THURSDAY The U. 8. District Court here will | hold a naturalization session at 10 oclock Thursday morning, it wud | announced today. All petitioners who wish to apply for naturalization must report to the Clerk of the Court’s Office on the fifth floor of the Federal Build- !mg for their examinations, some- | time between now and Wednesday. i Bl SRy | Mrs. Anna Cropley has been dis- | | missed from the Government Hos- pital after being under medical treatment. " BRINGING UP FATHER [ JIGGS! wHere ARE T_AgAINI LT ASANUTE -DONT HELP FIND THEM- “WWeite’bm a Be“fl!" 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