The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1942, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 2, 1942 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA A Sweeping, Surging Epic of the Lone Star State! Show Place of Juneau WILLIAM HOLDEN GLENN FORD CLAIRE TREVOR —ALSO— Information Please Cartoon—News SHOWS START: 7:15—9:30 FEATURE 8:00—10:10 THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! NEW METHODS OF HANDLING FIRE BOMBS Procedure of Attacking In- cendiaries Revised, Director States New instructions for dealing with fire bombs have been issued by the U. 8. Office of Civilian Defense, ac- cording to R. E. Robertson, Director of Civilian Defense in Juneau “These revised instructions,” he explained today, “are the results of extensive research by technicians of | OCD and the Chemical Warfare Service of the U S. Army. The major change in procedure calls for the use of a direct stream of water on the homb instead of the spray hitherto recommended. Also the need for speed is emphasized, in attacking the bomb with a jet of water as soon as it falls rather than waiting for the thermit reaction to be completed or for a ‘burster’ charge to go off.” Mr. Robertson stated that, “Our own experiments and recent experi- ence in Great Britain have shown it to be absolutely necessary to change our procedure in attacking incend- | iary bombs. The jet method is quick- er and more effective. Actually the fire it starts is more dangerous than the bomb, and the quickest and surest.way to reduce that.danger is to strike the bomb with a jet of water. This puts the bomb out of action in less than one minute so | that, if necessary, other fire bombs can be attacked before they can start serious fires. With the new method we will save more lives and more property in the event of a raid. That is the only sound criterion for ‘ judging the matter.” The new instructions, reduced to essentials, are as follows: 1. Bring your f ire fighting equip- | ment to the scene at once. ! 2. Shoot a jet of water directly | at the bomb without delay, to put it | out of action quickly. 3. Then use the jet, quickly, to| quench fragments and the remains | of the bomb, and any fires that | might have been started . | 4. Be absolutely sure the fire is out before you leave the scene. 5. Use a coarse spray only where scattering of metal must be avoided. 6. Use sand only if a bomb falls | where it is not likely to start a fire or if water is not available NINETEEN ARRIVE " HERE FROM SOUTH Incoming passengers from the South last night were as follows: From Vancouver—John Bishop, | Grant L. Bullock, Dee Herron, Mrs, Granella Hollingsworth, Master Harold Hollingsworth, Mrs. Kather- ine Jones, Max Pierce and Mrs. Leota M. Russell. From Ketchikan—Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Erickson, W. H. Chadwick, J. L. Covich, N. A. McEachran, A. Van Mavern, R. J. Bartlett and D.| L. Knight. From - Wrangell Mrs Alfred Nauling and infant and G. D. Friz- | zell. Taking” passage for Skagway we» ! L. Hevel and R. Krause. - — | " STOCK GUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 12. — Closing | | quotation of . American Can stock | today is 65, Anaconda 25%, Bethle- | hem Steel 53%, Commonwealth and | Southern 3/16, Curtiss Wright 5%, | International Harvester 47':, Ken- necott 287%, 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, 105.47; | rails, 25.64; utilities, 11.48. When the mercury rises— KENTUCKY STRAICHT Bt N WHISKREY . For Generations—A Great Kentucky Whiskey 90.4 Proof « National Distillers Prod. Corp., N. Y. Distributed by NATIONAL GROCERY COMPANY Seattle. Washington IN WAR AS IN PEACE DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED CONSERVATIVE management and strict Governmens supervision work constantly for the protection of our depositors. Additional security is provided through this bank’s membership in Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora- tion, a United States Government agency which insures each depositor against loss to & maximum of $5,000. First National Bank of JUNEAU, ALASKA MEM | doing when they tried to bomb| | Aleutian points of interest. | perintendent Claude M. Hirst for | Indian Office. | delphia, Mississippi, is going to | tine formerly served with the Pub- COLORFUL FILM ON 'TEXAS’ NOW AT CAPITOL HERE Claire Trevor, William| Holden Starred in Thrilling Western A thundering epic of heroic ad-| venture, Columbia’s “Texas” has| been enthusiastically hailed by Hol- | lywood preview audiences as “all the great action pictures you've| ever dream of rolled into one!” William Holden, Claire Tre- vor and Glenn Ford are starred in| the suspense-crammed new film, said to be compounded of hair- trigger gun fights, flaming passions and the many other vivid and col- | orful features of the great South- west. The picture will open tonight at the Capitol Theatre. The new film was directed hy| George Marshall, maker of such| action-fast hits as “When The Dal- tons Rode” and “Destry Rides Again,” from a screen play by Hor- ace McCoy, Lewis Meltzer and Mi- chael Blankfort. 8am Bischoff pro- duced “Texas,” which was photo- graphed by George Meehan. 1n| the cast, supporting the star trium- virate, are George Bancroft, Edgar Buchanan, Don Beddoe and Willard Robertson, “Texas” is the story of the early West, of Texas shortly after the Civil War, when the Kansas Pac- ific Railroad had been pushed through as far as Abilene, Kansas, and was intended to serve as the shipping point for range-bred cat- tle to feed the beef-hungry mar- kets of the North and the East. But Indian raids and outlaw depre- dations combined to keep Texas longhorns out of Kansas. — .- NURSE TELLS OF BOMBING OF HOSPITAL Juneau Visitor Narrowly Missed Death at | Duich Harbor 3 (Continued from Page One) was injured, ,but one child died | several weeks afterwards. | Miss Quinn said that officers at | Dutch Harbor were of the opimoni that the Japs knew what tlrey were the hospital. The building had | been standing for 12 years and was there two years ago when a party of curious “Jap tourists” vis- | ited Unalaska as they visited other | | Like Juneau Hospital The building was of the same | type as the Juneau Indian Office hospital. Both Miss Quinn and Miss Harris | were complimented by General Su their actions during the raid. The experience of being in the raid hasn't phased their ambition to continue in the service of the In- dian Office in Alaska. Also in Juneau now are Miss Jessie L, Mills and Miss Ethel M. Hasseltine, other nurses with the Miss Mills, of Phila- Bethel, as is Miss Hasseltine, of Blue Ridge, Georgia. Miss Hassel- lic Health Service in the Panama Canal zone. MRS, LEOTA RUSSELL RETURNS TODAY FROM BUYING TRIP Mrs. Leota Russell, proprietor of Leota’s Shop, returned today from the fouth where she has been for the last six weeks purchasing mer- chandise for her store. During her stay in the South, Mrs. Russell visited the fashion centers of the Pacific Coast in Los Angeles and San Francisco, where she pur- chased fall stock. | Pelican Cifl-flative Con.-: CHARGE WIFEA. P. MAN WITH MURDER MISSING OF HUSBAND IN SOUTH ' PR Correspondent Aboard Plane Which Disappear- ed During Storm fesses Fatal Shooting, Say Officers Mary Watson, 4 of Pelican City, as formally | charged this morning with the first degree murder of Willilam J. Watson, 41, her husband. The com- plaint was filed in U. S. Commis sioner Felix Gray's Court and was sworn to by a special agent of the! Federal Bureau of Investigation after being authorized by the Unit- ear-old native | GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS, Aug. 12. — Vern Hau- land, 34, Associated Press staff man, is listed as missing for five days |after a plane on which he was a passenger disappeared in a storm. The plane was enroute from northeast Australia to the New | Guinea front. ed States Attorney's office. “1 xhere i:l still hope the pl“;‘e g}“y 5 ho i ol R have made an emergency landing iMre. Watson 18 aocused Gf SR0OVE J¢ ' o tnabossinis .spoe. in New i s e ™\ Guinea or on one of the islets off front of their home at Pelican City ' aytralia. on August 3. The affair climaxed, Hauland is a well known news- a wild drinking party. Mrs, Wflt-‘pnp.xr man. At one time he attend- son heard the charge and waived ! ed the University of Washington at the customary preliminary hearing.'Seattle. She is being held in the Ft‘dera]} bound over to await the action ot ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES MAKES SITKA, KETCHIKAN the grand jury. | The charge was filed after an| FBI agent had made a trip to! Pelican City for a further inVesti-| Arrivals here yesterday afternoon with Alaska Coastal Alrlines from Sitka were H. J. Wilcox, Robert Haines, E. L. Rushton, Bill Spauld- gation in the case. When ques- tioned last night, officers said, ing, Helen Brown and Harry A. Savage. Mrs. Watson admitted the shooting, giving as a reason the claim that her husband abused her continu- ally. She told officers that if there had been another shell in the rifie, she would have used it on herself. (Ia}kabie morning were, for Petersburg, H. J. Wwilcox; for Wrangell, A. R. Fraser and for Ketchikan, Alfred C. Mc- Call, John A. Davis and R. L. Sand- berg. v Leaving here today for Sitka with | ACA were Mrs. Malcolm Miller, | Calvin A. Pool and Vic Reeder. | Passengers for Juneau today from | Sitka were William F. Randall, John | W. Wadley, Robert W. Trollope and Melvin E. Lucas. Also on today’s schedule Is a charter flight to the Polaris-Taku Army Private Movie Actor Will Be Aerial | Gunner-Won't Pour | COL. THEO. WIEHE, Tea, Sell Bonds { ). W.GUCKER, BACK LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12. — An | FROM INTERIOR TRIP Army recruiting official announced | today that screen actor Clark Gable, Completing a six weeks’ trip 41, was enlisted in the Army forces | through the Interior and Westward this afternoon as a private, aerial | districts of Alaska, Col. Theo Wiehe, gunner. | Vice-President of Schenley Distil- “He doesn’t want to sell bonds or | leries, and J. W. Gucker, Alaska pour pink tea. He wants to be a representative of the company, ar- regular soldier,’ said the officer. rived here today from the Interior. P AR )0 SR | Col. Wiehe will remain in Juneau FLIESTONORTH FOR MARRIAGE: Miss Kathryn M. Mitchell, ac- companied by Miss Alice Johnson, left yesterday by plane for Fair- banks, where Miss Mitchell will be' married this week to Leo Lorenz, pilot with Pan American Airways, Alaska Division. Miss Mitchell, formerly commer- cial teacher in the Juneau Public Schools and secretary to A. B. Phil- | lips, Superintendent, has been visit- ing her family in Nyssa, Oregon, since the end of May. Her engage- ment to Mr. Lorenz was announced here shortly before the close of school. e | bl TO TEACH AT ANGOON Mr. and Mrs. Oberlin Arnold, who have been teaching for the Office of Indian Affairs in Ouzinkie, have here soon for their new station. Mr .and Mrs. Arnold are to be transferred to the Office of Indian Affairs School at Angoon. MANY TURN OUT FOR BOY SCOUTS COURT OF HONOR A large number of Juneau Boy Scouts turned out for the regular o, The couple wlILEGRRe their Bome | ity Coust of Honor 1ast Hight, Miss Johnson will act -: the bride"'Js. holding the affair around a camp- attihdsnt atd i3 SAking kaniat eave | 170 68 i1, Basin: Reed. - Tho {0l of absence from the office of the lowing awards and promotions were Unemployment Compensation Com.- ; Made: ; mission to accompany the bride- J. Chapman, Willlam Baman, J. elect to Fairbanks. Harrington and W. Cleweno were Miss Johnson plans to make sev- |promoted to the rank of Tender- eral short trips during her stay in|foot Air Scout. Dale Roff was Fairbanks as an opportunity to see jnamed a Second Class Scout. the Interior of the Territory. mund Kennell received merit bad- ges in handicraft, seamanship, fire- JOHN BISHOP BACK o i N o FROM EXTENSIVE PURCHASING TRIP Edmund Kennell also was pro- moted to the rank of Star Scout, John Bishop, of B. M. Behrends Store, returned today from a six- and W. C. Kennell was awarded week buying trip to Lus Angeles and Triop 613 and Dudley Reynolds, Bishop purchased stocks of mer- chi an of the Advancement BUY DEFENSE STAMPS store. the honor of the Bronze Palm. “W."C. Kennell, Scoutmaster of Scoutmaster of Troop 612 attended San Francisco. W During his stay in the South, M. |i¢Bddition to Dr. James C. Ryan, chandise for all departments of the COmmittee, and the Rev. Willis R. > Boeth, member of the committee. Leaving Juneau with ACA lm.s" arrived in Juneau and will leave | Ed- | 'WRIGHT CLASSIC | " NOW ON SCREEN | ~ OF 20TH CENTURY “Shepherd of the Hills” s Given Fine Technicol- ‘ or Production When a great cast, great story and great dictator are assembled | | for a motion picture, it's inevitable | that moviegoers are in for a treat. | That treat ought to be forthcom- |ing in Paramount’s Technicolor film i rsion of the famous novel by | Harold Bell Wright, “The Shepherd {of the Hills,” which arrives tonight at the 20th Century Theatre, star- ring John Wayne, Betty Field and Harry Carey. Henry Hathaway, |the masterful director who gave us “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” handled the megaphone on this romantic drama of the Ozarks. As most people know, even if they haven't read the book, the story of “The Shepherd of the Hills” has been read by millions of people, and has become what can fairly be called a classic in Ameri- can fiction. Literally millions cf Harold Bell Wright fans must have been wondering when this great story would be transferred to the screen. Who will be Young Matt, who Sammy Lane, who Old Matt, they must have wondered. Who will be The Shepherd? | Don't crowd now, and we'll give| you the answers in short order. John Wayne is Young Matt, and a splendid portrayal of the hot- blooded, reckless character this handsome, young over-six footer ought to give; Betty Field is seen as Sammy Lane; the half-wild, lov- abe little mountain girl who could | fight and love with the ferocity of a wildcat; Harry Carey, that vet-| eran of a hundred perfect screen characterizations, is The Shepherd | himself, and Old Matf will be seen | enacted by James Barton, famous| as the Jeeter Lester of the Broad- way stage play, “Tobacco Raoad."‘ Other major characters in the story | are acted out by a brilliant feat-| ured cast including Beulah Bondi, | Marjorie Main, Samuel S. Hinds and Marc Lawrence. S U PO N |OPA OFFICIALS T0 BE SPEAKERS AT C. OF C. MEET James Harpér; of the Washing-| ton office of the Office of Price Administration, and Robert Nelson, | of the OPA’s San Francisco office, | {will be guest speakers tomorrow | when the Juneau Chamber of Com- | | merce meets at noon in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. Other guests will include Lieut.! Col. Frederic Nichols, Capt. Victor Brown and Lieut. Robert Taylor, Army embarkation officers. Important committee reports also will be heard. | | | | WOODLEY AIRWAYS PLANE ARRIVES FROM WESTWARD Bringing eight passengers from the Westward, a Woodley Alrways Stinson plane, piloted by Dor. Glass, arrived here yesterday afternoon | and took off this morning for the ! return flight to Anchorage. Arriving here on the plane were | M. C. Mundt, M. E. Freidman, K.| | R. Froseman, T. Kerr, J. Cooper, L. | Lombard, H. R. Butler and K. Mina. | Those leaving for the Westward today were Miss Katherine Ken- . nedy, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Brown, | Mr. and Mrs. Vance Hawley, Pearl F. Clark, Lloyd Wilson, for An- chorage, and Frank Priddy ror} | Yakutat. ——————— ONE WAY TO SITKA Dan Noonan, merchandise broker, { | ) | was in Juneau for a short time this| ! morning on his way to Sitka. Mr. Noonan has been in the south end| of the Division on business. e — DIVORCE ASKED ’ i Suit ha# been filed in U. 8. District Court in which Harold S. Morin asks a divorce from Alice| May Morin on the grounds of de- | sertion. WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY TO0"CENTURY STARTS TONIGHT E o & tove, NS BEST-READ...BEg). . ‘\AE““_,.ON THE SCREEN 47 o LATEST NEWS.EVENTS . SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION OFFICJAL HERE . Dewey L. Knight, Divisional Di- rector of the Immigration and Na- turalization Service with headquar- | ters at .Ketchlkan. arrived in Ju-| oo own merchandise brokers; neau this morning to spend a short‘ left today for 8‘&3 to.spend & time here on routine immigration| ime on business, They made the and naturalization business. headquarters at the Gastineau Hote! During his stay in the city, M..| while in Juneau. Knight will make his local head- el e e quarters at the Baranof Hotel. N. A. McEACHRAN BACK PLATOON MEETINGS booker, reburmed 96 deams OF ALASKA GUARDS TONIGHT, THURSDAY | morning from a short business Platoon No. 2, of the Alaska as far south as Ketchikan, ——————— SONOTONE Territorial Guard will hold its first meeting this evening at 7:30 o'clock at City Hall, it was announced. TIME | A. VAN MAVERN RETURNS | FROM BUSINESS T A. Van Mavern, merchandise brok. er, returned to his Juneau heagd quarters from a business trip to southern end of the First Divisions, PRSI P R LEAVE FOR SITKA Irl Thatcher and Les Flor hearing aids for the hard of ing. Audiometer readings. Dr. Ra Lillian Carlson, Blol PN e Bt} | All members of this platoon, which includes all those living between Gold Creek and Seward Street, are urged to be on hand promptly. The other three platoons witt hold their first meetings tomorrow night. Platoon No. 1 meets at 7:30 o'clock Thursday at the residence of Ed Shaffer on 12th and Willoughby; Platoon No. 3 is to meet at 7:30 p. m. at the United States Em- ployment Office and Platoon No. 4 is to meet Thursday at 8 p. m. at Elks' Temple. e — MARVIN KRISTAN ON WAY TO CALIFORNIA Marvin Kristan, son of Jack Kristan, proprietor of the Alaskan | Hotel, left today for the south to attend the University of California at Los Angeles. Mr, Kristan has spent the summer in’ Juneau and was honor guest at several social affairs before his departure for the south. We are anxious to help you make your electri- cal kitchen-wares _last for the duration, Bring them in for a check-up. * Alaska Electric Light & Power e———— e 00 0 000 00 00 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Temp. Tuesday, Aug, 1T . Maximum 61, Minimum a1 Rain—.32 inch ® 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0> .- Empire Classifieds Pay! WELL- THIS SURE 1S A SWELL Al COLONEL N 1B GIVING TONIGHT/ R FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION BRINGING UPFATHER AN' THAT'S THE PRETTIEST GIRL HERE-AN' 36‘1%5 AH- MR. JIGGS! ARE YOU HAVING A GOOD TIME ? B oMRsSes || = TO SING? wi SAY-TELL ME WHO IS THAT TIEUL, L AT THAT INDOW ? By GEORGE McMANUS OH! HER ? SHE'S AN INVESTIGATOR FROM THE F.B.I. SHE'S ON THE AL LOOK -OUT FOR ENEMY SPIES™ i 5 8 mgren Bldg.,