The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 28, 1942, Page 3

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1942 “Cavalcade of Aviation” LATEST stiu WAR BONDS BUY A BOND AS A SALUTE TC YOUR HERO IN SERVICE Show Place o1 Juneau THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! CREDITWAR VOLUNTARY FORADDED = CENSORSHIP POPULATION IS WORKING | s Byron Price Compliments Newspapers; Explains Reasons for Secrecy - WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. — The! HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Sept. 28 war was given the major credit by Ccmplimenting American the Census Bureau today for a papers on “striking a balance in population increase of 1327041, handling war news within the lim- boosting the nation's estimated |itations of the nsorship code,” population for January to 133,- Byron Price, Director of Censorship, 965,000. |today urged them to explain to the Births in 1941 rose to public why some information has about 408,000 more than been withheld. year average. | “The American people cannot be Deaths were about a million and|expected to fight the war in a a half, which is about average vacuum,” he said in an address to a convention of the Southern News- paper Publishers’ Association. “Neither should they — nor will they when properly advised see in print any disclosure which would endanger the life of a son or brother.” Summarizing nine months of ex- perience in voluntary censorship, Price said that some Americans felt the system “is a feeble and futile method” while the large body of Increase of More Than a Million Persons Estimated | For January Last Year 1 o, 728,000, the ten- 9 GRAND JURY WILLSTUDY TRANSPORTS Invesligaticfi Railroads, | formation, not less, should appear in print. He pointed out that the basic . | consideration behind censorship is Motor Carriers, Wafer- |tnat “none of us shan provide the .o g enemy, by design or inadvertence, ways, Alrlmes information to help him kill Am- ericans.” : WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. — ’I'ho; Justice Department is preparing w‘ launch a grand jury investigation TAY[OR (o“FERS WITH POPE; WILL 7 Plans are understood to call for; Q@rand Jury investigations in New| be prompted by reports that trans- from Rome after a conference with portation congestion is causing de- the Pope. He is on his way to the centering in nine cities to cover the York, Washington, Atlanta. New | lays involving the war effort. ‘Umled States. entire transportation indusf in- Orleans, Denver, Kansas City, St., BARCELONA, Sept. 28.—Myron .- — ———-e news-| ~. | chiefly to claims that three transs public opinion held that more in-| cluding railroads, motor waterways and airlines. | Louis and San Francisco. Taylor, the President’s special en- The investigation is reported to voy to the Vatican, has arrived here Benjamin Franklin in 1762 de-| veloped the glass harmonica. One out of every five persons in the world is an East Indian. IN WAR AS IN PEACE DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSU RED CONSERVATN! management and strict Governmens supervision work constantly for the protection of our bank’s membership in Federal Deposit Insurance Corpors- tion, 8 United States Government agency which insures esch depositor against low to & maximum of ‘5,000, First National Bank of JUNEAU, ALASKA $IT INSURANCE CORPORATI : THE DAILY ALASKA EMPH;E—][{NEAU, ALASKA' ‘OPERETTA SHOW ~ NOW ONCAPITOL BILLINJUNEAU, | ' Nelson Eddy_,k_ise Stevens Stars of "'Chocolate Soldier” A brilliant singing star made her | debut as a motjon picture star yes-| ‘Ilw‘duy at the Capitol Theatre in | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “The Cho- colate Soldier,” and the result is | something to talk about. She is Rise Stevens, Metropolitan opera star, who appears opposite Nelson Eddy Glamorous, and blessed with a| voice seldom heard on the screen. Miss Stevens merges as a. captivat- ing personality who not only can| sing but can act as well. The story casts Eddy and Miss Stevens as the musical comedy toasts of Vienna, whose harum- scarum marital life is caused. by Eddy’s pathological jealousy of his| wife. Reaching an unbearable point in their lives together, Eddy mas- querades as a Russian singer and sets out to make love to his own wife as his own rival | Miss Stevens’ rich voice is heard in such selections as “Gypsy Café,”| “The Trout” and an aria from the| original French version of “Car-| men.” Eddy’s solos include “While| My Lady Sleeps” and “Song of the | Flea,” while the stars together sing |“My Hero,” “Evening Star,” “Seek the Spy,” “The Presentation,” “Cho- | colate Soldier” and the finale. ENEMY CALLS " BEST TROOPS ~ INTOBATIE (Continued from Page One) | | | | | | | | corners. Barricades have been| |thrown up on many of the corners. | | Dispatches from Russia said the Reds are holding their own against |the ax JUNEAU MAN IN APPARENT SUICIDE HERE (Continued from Page One) tight around the neck. Officers at first believed someone had locked the door by reaching through the broken window, and left a trail of blood on the railing in leaving Cause of Death Dr. W. W. Council, who exam- ined the body, found numerous cuts and bruises on the héad, made by But the skull.had not been fractured Death, he found, was caused by strangulation The broken window was explained along with the blood on the rail- |ing outside when Sam Spencer, Kar] Johansen and Tony Slavon- iav reported seeing Siermala break that |the window out with the heel of! his hand on Saturday, early in the morning, and cut his hand. He then went outside and talked to the men, getting blood on the hand rail wpencer said he asked Siermala why he broke the window and he replied that the door was locked. Spencer said he tried the door and it was open. Siermala had climbed out through the window then, clad in his underwear. Believe Suicide Officers are still investigating bui are inclined to believe that Sier- mala took his own life by tying the fish line to the foot of the bed and strangling himself after efforts to kill himself with the ax failed, Coroner Felix Gray said-that an inquest will be held tomorrow morning. 4 The body has been taken to the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. Sier- mala is survived by a sister Mrs. Viktor Laine, of Oakville, Wash- ington. He was born in Kalajoki, Finland. Until recently he had been an employee of the Taku Cannery and had earned more than $500 during the season. He had a little air-borne forces which are trying| | to swamp defense positions. | | The Pravda correspondent caught | the picture of Stalingrad in one | dramatic sentence. He wrotc: “The whole city is in convulsions | | from incessant explosions of bombs | and shells.” Importance Grows Meanwhile, the defense of thv} river city is becoming more than| ever a pivot in Allied strategy, and | |offers a heroic parallel to the de- fense of Leningrad where for more | than a year the German siege |forces were held off and actually |rolled back from time to time in ;»;anom places by the northern Red my. | | It is significant also today that |German propaganda is restrained| about Stalingrad and is keyed| ports were destroyed and sunk by | | U-boats in attacks on a troop and| | supply convoy enroute from the | | United States to England. | There is no confirmation of such | |a claim. Nazi boasts of this sort| have been shown repeatedly as| | exaggerated. But it is Germany's first claim ‘of success against - troop-bearing | | convoys. { Claim Three Sunk | The Nazis said that the ships’ destroyed include a 19,000-ton ves- |sel, one of 17,000 tons, and a third: of 11,000 tons. Two other ships in/| ‘the convoy were damaged by tor-“ pedoes, the communique said, re-!| porting at the same time that sub-| | marine sinkings in other parts of {the Atlantic numbered 11. | | The Allies are waiting to hear| what the Nazi High Command has to say about Stalingrad—and so are the German people. \HUNTER'S MISTAKE MEANS MEAT TURNED OVER TO CHARITY| | Because a Juneau hunter also was a good sportsman, a local char- itable institution has venison on the table today. The hunter, whose name is omit- ted for obvious reasons, thought he saw a fine%buck in the fog on a hunting trip yesterday. He dropped a doe. He packed the animal down and brought it to Juneau where he turned it over to the Alaska Game Commission. Executive Director Frank Du- fresne urges all hunters who shoot does by mistake not to leave the animals in the brush but to bring| them in so that the meat may be put to a good purpose. The game commission will not prosecute in the case of an honest mistake. MR., MRS. TOM GEORGE BACK FROM VACATION AT BARANOF ISLAND RESORT For a real vacation, Mr, and Mrs. Tom George recommend Warm Springs Bay. The Georges refurned Sunday from a month at the beautiful Bar- anof Island resort spot. They found plenty of fish, ducks and geese and had a good rest, On their trip to Warm Springs they were acocmpanied by their son, Tom, Jr.,, who returned in time to enter school. l more than a dollar in change on his person when found and was reported to have deposited $40 macie with a friend. B CURTAINS MADE FOR ARMY POST Curtains for 21 windows in the mess hall at the Army Post were completed Friday as a group of women met in the Governor's House to sew. | The curtains were sent out that| afternoon to the Army Post to be put up in the windows of the mess hall. The American Women's Voluntary Services, with the coop- eration of the Red Shield sewing group, sponsored the making of the curtains and donated the materials. The sewing began Friday morn- ing and the curtains were finished by about 3 o'clock that afternoon, Mrs. Ernest Gruening said. e A. E. GENTHNER RETURNS FROM JOB AT KODIAK After seven months at Kodiak, A. E. Genthner returned on a re- cent steamer to his home in Ju- neau. Genthner, who was an electrician on construction work at Kodiak, joins here his wife and small son, Richard, who is happy to see his father back in Juneau. ALASKA COASTAL MAKES FLIGHTS T0 SITKA TODAY . Passengers for Sitka with Alaska Coastal Airlines today were William Armstrong, Sue Armstrong, E. W. Littlefield, Mrs. E. W. Littlefield, N. A. McEachran, Gladys Knight, Harvey R. Swan, F. M. Buchanan and J. W. Gerwels. On the first return flight those arriving here from Sitka were Grant Logan, H. R. Blood, James E. Brooke and Stanley Zuern. 3 | murdered Siermala, | in| (OMPROMISE REJECTED ON FARM PRICES {Senators Hold Qut for Ad- ministration Wishes on Anti-Inflation WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Farm State senators have offered a com- promise in their demands for high- jer farm prices in the anti-inflation Ibill, but administration leaders flatly rejected it, Senator P. M Brown of Michigan said today. He said he and other adminis- tration leaders turned down the proposal offered by the Senate Ag- ricultural sub-committee. Brown contended it “cost of production” factors into the fixing of agricultural prices. Brown announces that the admin- istration planned to permit the original proposal by Senators Elmey Thomas and Carl Hatch to come to a vote, then attempt to substi- tute an administration compromise at the offer of administration lead- er Alben Barkley. e — BOMBED CAIRO, Sept. 28.—Heavy bombers of the American Air Forces raided {shipping in Bengasi Harbor last |nlgh(‘ dropping bombs on damage& converted wrecks being used by the Axis as landing stages. e S LUMBERMEN OF S.E ALASKA CONFER FRIDAY Unanimous action was taken to have Alaska included as a “critical area” under the Man Power Sta- bilization act, together with twelve Western States, as the result of a conference held here by Elden Daly, President of the Ketchikan Lumber Company, Thomas A. Morgan, President of the Columbia Lumber Company and George Schmidt, sales manager of the Juneau Lum- ber Company last Friday. This act is administered by the War Manpower Commission of which Paut V.'MecNutt is Chairman and is for the purpose of checking manpower losses which have re- duced production on necessary ma- terials. In addition to step, other matters of interest to the lumber industry in Southeast Alaska were discussed by the lum- bermen. introduced | this important & T SR HEAVY RAIDS | MADEBY U.S. INSOLOMONS WASHINNGTON, Sept. 28—The Navy announced late today that | American Navy and Marine Corps| fliers in the Solomon Islands have destroyed 42 enemy aircraft and damaged three others without los- | ing a single plane. | They also damaged four enemy ships, one of which was probably | sunk, the communique says. These | scores are for actions from Sep- tember 25 to date. Last Saturday’s third communi- que said: “Heavy American bomb- | ers in force are attacking enemy| ships near Shortland Islands. ’x‘heyl have set fire to Jap cruisexs and |sion of Skagway, has entered St. EASTSIDEKIDS | IN PICTURE NOW | AT 20TH CENTURY "Bowery Blifzkrieq” Stars| Leo Gorcey, Bobby Leo Goreey, Bobby Jordan and Huntz Hall are featured with the “East Side Kids" in Monogram’s “Bowery Blitzkrieg,” which Is now showing at the 20th Century The- atre. Others in the cast include Warren Hull, Charlotte Henry, Jack Mulhall and Boby Stone. Wallace Fox directed for producer Sam | Katzman. Because Monk Martin, small-time | gangster, knows that Muggs Me-| Ginnis, his hated enemy, will be| sent to reform school if he is u\~1 volved in another fight, he deliber-| ately provokes a battle between| Muggs and another east side kid,| Danny Breslin. During the fight,| Monk calls the police, who calch Muggs. Danny makes his escape| and starts a series of petty hold-| ups with Monk as his partner. Po-| liceman Tom Brady, engaged to Danny's sister, takes an interest in Muggs because of his boxing prow- ess and has him paroled. somebody had shown some faith in him, Muggs determines to l!\;4k>" good and trains hard for the Gold- en Gloves bouts in which he is to represent the police department ties in with some gamblers and offers Muggs $1,000 to lose the fight | —but Muggs refuses. H MEN WANTED, (OAST GUARD Announcement was made boday: by Lieut. Warren M. Caro, United States Coast Guard, Captain of Port of Juneau, that able-bodied men are being sought for active service with the rapidly .expanding | Coast Guard organization. Males between the ages of 17 and 35 are eligible for enlistment. Lieut. Caro states that all inter- | ested applicants should write dl-‘ rectly to the United States Coast | Guard Recruiting Officer at Kpt-\l chikan, Alaska, stating their edu- | cational background and previous experience. Applicants may be giv-1 en their physical examination in Juneau and if they meet the phy- sical requirements, may proceed to Ketchikan at their own expense for | enrollment. HOSPITAL NOTES Prvt. Raborne Price, surgical pa- lient of St. Ann’s Hospital, has seen discharged. Mrs. Jack Frazier and infant son have gone home from St. Ann’s Hospital. Sgt. Frank Wilson is under medi- cal care at St. Ann’s Hospital. Mrs. Charles Swan has entered St. Ann’s Hospital for medical treat- ment. Baby Dennis Gray of Hoonah has entered St. Ann's Hospital for medical care. | Master Michael Wade has entered St. Ann’s Hospital for an appen- | dectomy. Placido Martinez of Pius X Mis- Ann's Hospital for treatment, Charles Metz has entered St. Ann’s Hospital for surgery. Mrs. Ed Brekkus became the mother of a son yesterday in St Anf’s Hospital. The baby boy weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces. Isadore Madredio has entered the Because |granted G, Billy Slats, fly-by-night fight promoter,|Lorena PAGE THRE! NOW PLAYING THOMENTUR v ::\ Leo GORCEY-Bobby JORDAN-Huntz HALL AND: Vot Ay 20 Minutes News — Cartoon,— The Quiz Kids THEATRE “THE GREAT AMERICAN BROADCAST” DIVORCES GRANTED | LN I I I B B WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Temp. Saturduy, Sept. 26 Maximum 61, Minimum 42 The following divorces have been in U. 8. District Court here: Temp. Sunday, Sept. 27 Maximum 52, Minimum 44 e e e 00000000 Arline O. Rembusch from Edgar Rembusch, Minnie James from James, Gibson Young from Young, ‘Earldean Marks Larry Marks. England had a bachelgy's t: from 1695 to 1706. Lend-Lease Report from s WHERE LEND-LEASE GOODS ARE GOING VALUE OF EXPORTS BY QUARTERS Million S Quarterly 80 AND N FAR EAST N anD OTHER » UNITED Feb 1942 1942 Nov 1941 May 1941 Aug 1941 1942 QUARTER ENDED This chart, from the President’s report to Congress on Lease-Lend Act operations, shows “where lease-lend goods are going.” Steady in- crease in exports is portrayed, reaching a peak of nearly $1,200,000,000 in August. o e 20 SAWMILL MEN WANTED at JUNEAU LUMBER MILLS JUNEAU ® a large transport, the latter nswdiaovernment. Hospital for medical are probably sunk. Six enemy sea-|care, from Funter Bay. planes were shot down and a sev-| enth damaged in operation. | Marie Peters became the mother —————————s |of a daughter in the Government | Empire Classifieds Pay! Hospital Saturday night. 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