The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 5, 1943, Page 3

TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1943 e —————— AND SO WERE HER ARMS...when o dashing RAF Yanl falls out of the sk $7 “What About Daddy” s Community Sing Latest News A. M. BENNETT, TONE ROMP THROUGH DUTCH COMEDY |Capitol Opt;I?Ro mance L] onight in "The Wife Takes a flyer” Joan Bennett and-laugh hit, “She Knew All the Answers,” again join forces with director Richard Wallace in Co- Jumbla’s hectic new funfest, “The wife Takes a Filyer,” which opens tonight at the Capitol Theatre Miss Bennett is the “wife” of the title; Tone the flyer. “The Wife Takes a Flyer” is re-| orted by Hollywood to be an in- trigue-laden, action-filled romantic omedy, with emphasis upen the latter, Comedy and romance are said to dominate this story of the vankee daredevil in the RA.F.who lands in Holland it is occu- pied territory and so are the arms of the little Dutch girl with whom he falls in love! In order to escape the Gestapo, in order to delude the rather dim- witted Nazi Major who also is pay- ing court to Miss Bennett, Tone poses as her soon-to-be-divorced husband—and complications result. OPA ANNOUNCES WSA INSURANCE IS AVAILABLE Alaska Merchants Should Contact Wholesalers by January 15 All West Coast wholesalers are now prepared to ship to the Alaskan and Franchot | |Tone, comedy co-stars of the love- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA 'JAPARMADA [l CINPACIFIC Australian Official Disclos-| | es Big Action Is | Looming ; MELBOURNE, Australia, Juns-‘ Newspapers here displayed promi-| nently a statement of a guwm-‘i ment official that the Japs are re: {ported to be massing the larg armada they have yet sent into the | outhwest Pacific. | Jap aireraft, apparently launched | from submarines, are scouting the | Australian and New Guinea areas. The Australian government thus | suggested that a large-scale am- phibious operation in the zone | northeast of Australia is imminent. The official who gave the stories I'to the newspapers and who told of the reported new Jap activity didn't | permit his identity to be known. It is suggested that these re- ports probably prompted Prime ' Minister Curtin to make his recent appeal for more Allied aid. | Raid Nazi - (refe Base; Virtually unknown a year ago, Alexis Smith, above, has made a rapid ascent up the ladder of screen success. Already she has ‘ three starring roles to her credit, each calling for a different char- acterization. | CAIRO, Jan. 5—A Reuters cor-| - DropBombs, | | oo | i Irespondent reports that raiding) : | American Liberator bombers Sat- | | P i i | | |of Candia Island on Crete Island | Riding in the first flight of a |daylight attack on Crete, the cor- dropped |urday rained thousand - pounders respondent saw bombs jmount completed Pacific Blackout” | zamble | through the cutting rooms NEW WAR FILM BRINGS HOME RAID THREATS “Pacific Blackout” at 20th Century Shows Coast in Full Dress Alert Paramount Pictures has stepped | out far ahead of the field with its current thrill film at the 20th Century Theatre. It's an opus called “Pacific Blackout” with Robert Preston and Martha O'Driscoll in the leading roles With curious WHERE THE BETTER foresight, Para- st as the Japanese loosed their b on P r and before (he other Axis powers decided to everything by tackling Unele Sam. The picture was rushed and to the screens throughout country Set in the a large Pacific Co thre of a full-di air vaid alert, “Pacific Blackout” con- tains every thrill of that decidedly novel experience. To this is added a whale of a story, swift action, superlative acting on the part of a truly magnificent cast st city AP Writer's SIS mpression AMERICANS Of N. Africa I N A F R l(A Bases Conclusion on Land, AIR RA'DS Air Trip Along All : o5 Fronts Hit Several Targefs in|. Southern Tunisia- North Quiet ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN' NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 5. — The (Continued from Page One) of communication, the great con- centration of artillery and aerial protection from Sardinia and Sicily could easily halt any infantry as- sault with murderous losses. Third—In the north, land warfare TOOMCENTURY THEATRE trade under War Shipping Adminis-| (rom perfect formation and said tration war risk coverage, it was |that more than 1,150 hit the enem: announced today by Mrs. Mildred| . ¥ J Hermann, Alaska Director of Price| Administration. She has contacted |on the German fighter and bomber |base of Kastelli Pediadi, southwest Armies in Caucasus Given' Hitler’s Command-Aid TRAP LINES b y HENRY PEARSON If you've followed the construc- tion camps you've rubbed elbows with the world. Nowhere does one find a greater cross-section of hu- manity. From the wide-eyed youngster to the old toughened, epithet-hurling drifter; from the habitual drunk- ard to the wide-awake, quick-think- ing head man: from the sc rawiy, | underfed derelict of the city slums to the husky college athlete; from the always-something wrong griper to the carefree pranks —they're all there. When you look over this con- glomerate gathering, you wonder how anything gets done. Men seem to be gettinz in each other’'s way, newly-built buildings are torn down and put up somewhere else, head men lose their jobs as quickly as the common laborer. Yet out of all the seeming clum- siness, buildings, docks, warehouses, power plants and what all seem to magically grow out of the ground. This is Democracy at work. Some- times top-heavy—sometimes out of balance—but once it gets rolling, nothing seems to stop it and when the net results are added up we| see the reason why it has wtth—L stocd all these years. [ | Hitlerism and Democracy have but one thing ir common—dxstaswl for one another. | It happened the other night in | the Juneau High School building. A basketball game was in progress | on the gym floor. In the auditor- | jum adjoining the gym balcony, ci- | vilian defense workers were to| meet to hear a lecture on bomb | reconnaissance work. | The admission t6 the basketball | game was 50 cents. The admission | to the lecture was simply enough patriotism to attend. | Through some mixup, the civilian defense workers assembled in the | Grade School auditorium. Civilian | defense officials had the problem | of getting those who wished to at- | tend the lecture past the cashier for the basketball game. The cashier agreed to pass them through and into the auditorium. | ‘The men came through in groups, nodded at the cashier and 1.)&"0(:eed~i ed into the lecture hall. At the| tail end came a pleasant-looking, middle-aged man. He didn’t look | like a millionaire. He just looked | like any American who's wonderingi man in Seattle wholesalers who do business with Alaska retail merchants, and assured by them that they are now prepared to act as agents for the Alaska firm with whom they deal in securing war risk insurance with War Shipping Administration policies. Prior to January 15, 1943, the wholesaler is permitted = through a provision in the War Shipping Administration regulations to give this coverage without direct auth- orization from ‘the retailer. Pre- viously the time allowed wes un- til December 15, 1942, but at the request of various wholesalers and insurance companies handling the business, the Alaska Office of Price Administration secured an ex- tension of this time. Contact Agents Afeter January 15 no wholesaler may act as agent for an Alaska re- tailer in this capacity, unless he has been specifically authorized in writing to do so. It that all Alaska merchants who de- ales who are interested enough |SITe coverage under War Shipping n winning the war to make us win | Administration policies s hould t | write or wire all wholesalers with Eaenes & % whom they are at present doing HONO :busme s, authorizing them to act A | | wire specifically authorizing the as their agent in securing this cov- erage. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. — Sam | Z'“’_‘e;".lefi" :o ;}C]‘ fthia ”"p”:;y Rayburn, of Texas, has been nom-| o Suivent. The Insurafiee Hes if he can catch up on this month's grocery bills. He spotted the hier, hestitated, then asked, “How much?” Then he pulled out a worn purse, fished around until he found a half- dollar, planked it down, got his ticket, and without a look at the basketball game, proceeded through the door and into the lecture on bomb reconnaissance. We watched all this and we felt a little ad about it. But then, | the more we thought, the better we | felt. Because if there is just one| Juneau who believes that | a lecture on civilian defense is| worth spending 50 cents on—prob- | ably an hour's wages for this man -we know that there are enough en in Alaska and the United Suggested forms for this author- ization are available at the Office of Price Administration in the Val- entine Building. However, no spec- ial form is necessary. Any letter or inated _by the Democratic caucus tion coverage are much lower than ;‘u BEB"‘ rs'i’:e Hano.ther term as| the commercial rates. Inasmuch as DERRRU- 0L B8 FOLNe. | the merchant is allowed only the Representative ~McCormack = of | rate provided by War Administra- Massachusetts was again reelected | tion in figuring his direct cost, it is| as Demccratic floor leader. D ARE PROMOTED j essential that merchants make pro- | per authorization to their whole- | salers immediately. Lieutenants T. B. McKinstry and | Rates Given H. F. Brennan, of the Coast Guard,| War Shipping Administration have been promoted to Lieutenant | rates as previously pointed out by Commanders. ! the Office of Price Administration - "The Wife TakesaFlyer” | Joan Bennett and Franchot Tone (above) are co-starred in the feature at the Capitol. She is in the role of a lovely saboteur and he as an RAF ace, respectively. Others in the cast are AHyn Joslyn, Cecil Cun- ningham and Roger Clark. . is essential | | under War Shipping Administra-| air hase, catching the Germans by ‘tivc blows in support of French surprise. H |and American ground forces in All bombs were dropped he said, | Is Promlsed ! southern Tunisia, it is announced | gunners opened fire. LONDON, Jan. 5.—Reports reach- | ed London tonight that the German armies in the Caucasus have been } ordered to hold their positions at all | — e, MINI“G COURSE {costs even to a last ditch stand in SIARIS TONIGHI event the Russians cut the corridor escape threugh Rostov. | Mineral identification and geo- | This informaton said the Germans logy, two utilitarian sciences es-| plan to supply the Caucasus army | I by sea if the before the enemy anti-aircraft | land communications | Ipecially popular for Alaskan resi- failed, i jaskss, Wil bo taught in the Min-1"" 4y caqy the Germans are said to ! ling and Prospecting Short Course |y, gecempling a fleet of all available | beginning tonight at 7:30 o'clock | ghips on the Black Sea, 200 tons or | |in the Juneau High School. | more, to carry supplies to Novoros- | Conducted by C. R. Burley, under ; gjsk | |the direction of the University of Alaska Mining Extension School, ! Ithe class will take three and a half weeks to complete. | Instructor Burley speaks |the experience of over 40 | BABY FOR EVACUEES " A boy baby was recently born [XOM Jiom Berikoff, of the Burnett Inlet | YSRrS' | Aleut colony, evacuated from the U. 8. Army Air Force struck effec- today, bombing the railroad yards |at Kairouan and targets at Cheri- | chera, six miles northeast of Fon- douk. ‘The Americari” bembers and their escorting fighters downed four German planes in the day's fight- ing and suffered the loss of one Boston bomber and one fighter. In the north, bad weather con- tinued to keep oppesing armies in- active. e Ll PROTECTOR CALEXICO, Calif —Mrs, Alden C. Naud thinks her nephew, Leon D. iat Wrangell to Mr. and Mrs. Wil- | Carver, will come through this war | unharmed. She has sent him a family bible, {1s stagnated with neither side able to take a definite initiative. ; Fourth—Despite the advantage of established bases on Sicily and Sar- . PAGE: THREE BIG PICTURES PLAY! LAST TIME TONIGHT "RIDERS from NOWHERE' "HIGHWAY WEST" FRESH NAII ATTACKS ARE BEATEN BACK Soviets Homg 25-Mile - Corridor Between ‘ Enemy Troops tContinued from Page One) in about 30 miles of closing the jaws of their trap on the second force of Germans some 100 miles west of Stalingrad. The Reds are reported holding & corridor 25 miles wide at its nare rowest place between this second force and the remnants of the 22 Nazi divisions pocketed in between the Don and Volga. German counter-attacks launched dinia, the German air force is losing /its punch in the face of Allied op- position and is only a shadow of the terrible weapon it was in Greece and France. B S by reserves gained some ground in the initial stages of the fight, the Russian said, but their own tanks broke up the thrusts and threw the Nazis into retreat. Catholic Daughters ~ FUNERAL OF RAMSEY Will Meet Tonight HERRINGTON THURSDAY | Under the auspices of Alford John The Catholic Daughters of Am- 'Bradford Post No. 4, American Le- erica will meet tonight at the home gion, funeral services will be held of Mary Thibodeau, 724 Sixth Street, | Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at at 7:30 o'clock, it is announced. | the Charles W. Carter Mortuary for Members are requested to bring | Ramsey J. Herrington. their -scissors for an evening of Juneau Post Legionnaires will act pleasant industry. as_pallbearers at the funeral serv- - e - ices and burial will be in the Amer- IS SUICIDE ican Legion plot. Herrington was a Alexander Martin Lund, 50, slash- | member of the Sitka Post, No. 13, ed his throat twice with a kitchen [ American Legion. prospecting and mining in the Ter-| s au¢iang printed in 1710, which was carried | knife in his cabin at Petersburg, |ritory, and is unusually well | 3 SALSIR A & by Carvers through the French and | folded his hands and waited for| Subscrive w une wUaily Alaska equipped to give the work covered. | | Indian, Revolutionary, Civil, Span- |death. He was found dead by|Empire—the paper with the larges ‘ ish-American and first World wars. ; friends. The course has been recently completed by two sections of Army ' men in the vicinity, and it is ex- pected that more will turn out for | tonight’s enrollment. A smallj icharge for text and materials is made. | lare as follows for Southeastern Al-t aska. ¢ BUY DEFENSE BONDS From U. S. Puget Sound port§ to and from Alaska, | ! not beyond Cape Spencer, | passenger, cargo, and tank- | | ers, % of 1%. | | (2 Other U. 8. Pacific ports to| | and from Alaska and not| | beyond Cape Spencer, pas- senger, cargo, and tanker, % of 1%. | In addition to contacting indivi- | dual wholesalers during her visit to| | Seattle, Mrs. Hermann also prasid-‘; {ed at a public meeting sponsored; by the Alaska Division of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.} Glen Carrington, Chairman. This; meeting was held for the purpose of discussing with Seattle whole- salers various matters in regard to their merchandising methods with the Alaska retailer. { Present at all the conferences in addition to Mrs. Hermann were Dr. W. J. Eiteman, Price Executive of the Alaska Office of Price Ad- [ ministration, Robert A. Nelson, Al- | eska Representative of the Office of | Administration located in Seattle, |and Jerome B. Coehn, Assistant | Administrator and Price Executive "or the Ninth Region who came out | from Washington, D. C., to assist with the Seattle program. ‘With 23 Jap ships, including one lasses since Pearl Harbor stahd sunk. The total is believed to be higher, but this figure is based ' Japan’s Sea Power—Reduced Agam in Great U. S. Naval Victory battleship, sunk by U. 8. forces in the great naval victory in the Solomon islands, Japan's ship at 365 vessels in all categories paid circulation. 2 2 on official announcements by the Navy and Allied headquarters in battle zones throughout the Far Eastern areas. Among the ships sunk were two battleships, illustrated above, six aircraft carriers, 29 cruisers, 46 destroyers, 28 submarines and 86 transports. NEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH BARNEY GOOGLE AND NES - 'th JUST GOWG WWUT'S THROWGH & \LOT OF O\D PHOTOS OF NNSELF -- AND SONE ARE TERR\BLE V. WIN T WEY i By BILLY DeBECK PICTHUR T POKED N NN SHIRT i [ ' i i e