The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1943, Page 6

PAGE SIX USO FOR THE USA Wednesday, January 27—This is the one night you do as yuh durn well please. Write @ letter home, play a stiff game of pinochle or dance with the GSO femininity to the querulous notes of that great Am- erican phenomenon the Juke Box Remember, nobody rides hard on you tonight. Thursday, January 28—8 p. m Barn Dance night with Fiddler Mc- Intyre and maestro Cain dishing out the promemades in real hep style. After the dance the GSO will be on hand to decorate the place for the Dblow-out Friday so come on down mrlads and lean against & thumb tack or two. Friday, January 29—This is the Night; At 6:30 p. m. sharp all those men who worked on the USO build- ing renovation and all the GSO SLACKS and SLACK SUITS oy girls who have worked so valiantly at the canteen to date will be the guests of the USO for dinner. The Duck Creek band will be on hand for dancing after the eats. Special entertainment. Guests of honor; Governor and Mrs. Gruening; Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. E. Ehlers, Colonel Riegle, Col- onel Nichols, Lt. Murphy and Lt. Kiez, Captain Poser, Mr. and Mrs C. L. Popejoy. The dance will be open to all service men and GSO girls after the dinner Saturday, January 30 — Because of the President’s Ball there will be no regular USO dance. The USO lobby will be available for your pleasure if need be. Sunday, January 31—Community cing around the piano 10-12 p. m. Movies 8 p. m. Art Hook’s movies of Alaska plus other sport shorts. Monday February 1-8:30 p. m.| Double or Nothing quiz program. ! Tuesday February 2—8 p. m. For- um Club meet in the USO lobby. Topic deals with the transition from civilian life to Army life and vice versa hoping to gain some in- sight into our own adjustment. The next meeting will be started off by Herb Hillarman; 9 p. m. in the game room=—Bingo NOTES The Forum Club got off to a good start Tuesday night with about ten fellows present. This promises to become & top notch event on the USO calendar. The USO is badly in need of skates for the use of servicemen. Any skates loaned or donated will! be well taken care of by us. Call! us if you can be of any stance. Thanks to the Ski Club for the donation of sandwiches and cake last week. They went the way of all flesh | USO dance for the officers of these parts The boys rate Mrs. Fred Geeslin as one of the best dancers on the floor Not having had the pleasure we can't speak with authority but your Informer notes that she's lucky if she gets a rest once in every ten dances. At this juncture we desire to call your attention to a very strange | phenomenon by the name of Paul Harlow. This man my friends sits himself down at the canteen at least thrice a week and orders himself a THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR |$hey have not heen invited™o this | dinner. CRASH OF ARMY SHIP KILLS 10 | { | | building are asked to call the USO hf they have any reason to believe UNEAU ALASKA NO ALERT THURSDAY | | There will be no practice alert | tomorrow evening, it was announced {today by R.E. Robertson, Director of | Civilian Defense. ‘l Next Monday evening, February 1, all members of the Auxiliary {Police and Air Raid Wardens will i patrol the city to insure observance FLAKNE GETS WAR MANPOWER APPOINTMENT Joseph T. Flakne, was this morn- |ing appointed as Acting Area Di- {rector for the War Manpower Com- mission for Alaska by H. G. Huxley, Executive Officer of the War Man- power Commission for the Twelfth Region who has been conducting raw hamburg with onions. Just about this time his fellow service- men at the canteen begin to look around for the dog who is to be/ the recipient of this luscious thick| bamburg in the nude. But no—| S of the dimout which goes into|Meetings in Jumeau for the last . 3 | Brig. Gen. Carlyle H. Wash | av |three days on special assignment effect that day in accordance with ; orders from Major General Simon |from Paul V. McNutt, c)]d:(xfl?n of H !B, Buckner, Command officer or;lhe War Manpower Commission. Among Dead in | Aoc | "I addition to the appointment of . . & P il {Mr. Flakne as Acting Director, Mr. there is no dog. There is only a| Ho"da | KA COASIAL {Huxley appointed a permanent /ery calm, nonchalant private who| R, | immediately munches away gaz-|TAMPA, Florida, Jan. 27 — Brig. | representatives of ojganized labor ing dreamily into space looking for |Gen. Carlyle H. Wash, former com- plA NES Ito agt with the Acting Director in all the world as though he were manding officer of the Third Air, isolvmg manpower problems of Al- about to break out into a Weissmul- 'Force at Tampa, and nine others,| M A NY FuG""S”"“ = i | Representing Management. on | . Morgan, |transport plane on a flight from | the committee are T. A. Morgan, We think the boys sparking the‘Drvve :‘iefld here. &m‘m'd off Arrfly _radxo hour at allstordasPiel?x m:zlfl)r c;;ncr:‘::dedwfll\:;'iwim mail, express and passengers,|R. Shinn, Vice-President of ‘the ?‘»( i Mondfq e A ington, am‘i also comman;ied the |Alaska Coastal Airlines planes Were%Morrison-Knudsen Contracting b v | second Interceptor Command with‘k'?l)t busy today. Company, Anchorage; Laurence | headquarters in Seattle. When the| Passengers leaving here today for|Freeburn, President of the Pyra- | 4 { | committee consisting of four repre- sentatives of management and four ler Tarzan yell at any moment. You|seven of them officers, were killed have now met Hamburger Harlow.|Vesterday in the crash of an Army With three round trip flights to|President of the Columbia Lumber |sitka and two to Excursion Inlet,|Company, residence in Juneau; C. Man but that Gerry Boyd can | # Sitka were Maud Anderson, Lue | mid Salmon Company, Sitka; and seally dance—und who is the Medic nation entered the war, he wuper- | DU 0 P MO C Lo vt Y e oy who always seems to ere when- | - - { TOW . i & 1 | Among the other officers killeq Hahan, J .D. Morrow, William | tendent of the Alaska Juneau Gold ever she turns around? Simms, W. Adams, J. R. Wilson, | Mining Company, Juneau. | Mrs. Verne Soley and George Lane.| Representatives of. organized la- Incoming passengers from Sitka |por serving on the committee are:, on the early afternoon plane today | Chris Hennings, C. I. O., Chairman | were Donald MacKinnon, William|of the Juneau Industrial Union Renfrew, Margaret Tessien and Council, Juneau; J. A. Martin, C.| l‘was Lieut. Col. J. H. Cunningham, | By the way—the Medics—do you]32~ of Colorado springs, son of Brig.| know their daily schedule friends Gen. James Cunningham, Com-! and fellow people??? We print it|manding General of Puget Sound| and prepare to dodge the iodine Harbor defenses, Fort Worden. bottle coming our way: AT Mary Fasnacht. One round trip was|[. o, representing the Internation-| 9 a. m. wake up - - -o-h-h-h-h| made to Sitka with a full load of |a] Miners and Mill Workers, Local 9:05 coffee at the canteen. express and mail | 203, Juneau; Joseph Krause, A. F. 9:05—12 exercise diligently at Leaving here with ACA for EX-of I, representing the Central La-| ancient game of billiards in USO. 12:30-5 More of same after quick | lunch at same canteen, cursion Inlet were A. S. Baptist, por Council, Ketchikan; Glenn' | Howard Grohs, Henry Pearson, RoY | Robinson, A. F. of L., representing WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1943 ; Enchiladas FOR QUICK MEALS — Ravioli Spanish Style Dinner . . . Twisted Noodle Dinner . . . Egg Noodles and Chicken Egg Noodles and Turkey . . . Chicken a la King . . . Chicken Fricassee . . . Chicken Minced or Sliced All Brands of Tamales Shoe String Potatoes Salmon Tidbits Gallon Chili Sauce Gallon Cider WE DELIVER TO DOUGLAS EACH TUESDAY AND FRIDAY GEORGE BROTHERS PHONE 92 10:30 A. M. 2 DELIVERIES DAILY PHONE 95 2:30 P. M. IN BUSINESS SINCE 1908 and still doing the largest grocery business in Juneau. GLASS PLANE IS LOCATED AND LINE PLACED BY DRAGGING ENGLISH CHANNEL ISLANDERS ROUNDED UP FOR NAZI CAMPS CHARGED IN immediately and pronto! ] Exact location of the Don Glass | 'Higgins, R. E. Haines, C. M. Cor-|¢he Teamsters Local 500, Kodiak | iplane was determined this morn- /puz and W. H. Peterson. Purpose of Meetings | 5-:15 Brief breathing spell for, coffee. Newspapers reaching Juneau It's positively amazing how those { Passengers airiving In Juneau| rpe purpose of the meetings/ing and, by dragging, a line Was|from Engand relate more German beautiful GSO girls become abso-| 5:15-11 p. m. Still more of same. | from Excursion Inlet were 8. W.|yhich have been attended by re- placed on the plane which sank raids, a kind in which explosives lutely fascinating in their formal| But seriously these lads get in| | Trelaweny, Roy Sherill, Clement | ecentatives of the principal gov-|in Gastineau Channel last week and incendiary bombs are not gowns—and do those privates grin plenty of hard licks. They combed | {Banth, R. L. Custis and D. V.|ernment agencies, industries and following a forced landing. | used however.. These raids are be- when a second loole looks in the the beach last week in bitter cold| Tyson. | |labor organizations has been to ar-| Weather continued to prevent | ing made on the English Channel |a month at least door longingly! All of which brings us to the announcement that once | there will be a weather for our flier friend. | {assuring that the maximum utili- | INVITATIONS EXTENDED The following girls are hereby m-‘ vited to attend the USO dinner| Friday night at 6:30 p. m. If there, is anyone around who has been left Federal Grand Jury Indicts| New Jersey { Company ? out it is because our lists are In-| WASHINGTON, Jan. 2T—Attor-| Gabardine an Part Wool SLACKS some with leather belts NAVY—GREEN TEAL BLUE BROWN—BEIGE Priced $4.95 1o $11.75 SLACK SUITS beautifully tailored GREEN—NAVY BROWN Sizes 12 to 20 Priced $9.95 10 $14.95 Jones-Stevens Seward Street Commimity Gathering-Elks Hall 10 o’°clock Baranof Hotel 9 P. M. H.S. GRAVES The Clothing Man Exclusive Represen- tative in Juneau for Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits and Overcoats FLORSHEIM ,canteen are eligible. complete so get in touch with us.| All girls who have worked at the| Marjorie Snell,, Pat 0u11uioen.1 Emma Nielsen, Shirley Davis, Mar- | ion Cass, Pauline Petrich, Colleen Hellan, Eileen Hellan. Jane English, Ardys Stiles, Kath- | erine Torkelson, Kathefine Pinson, Lila Sinclair, Betty Kfmmer, Kay McAlister, Elizabeth Terbune, Bev- erly Leivers. Esther George, Doreen Wood, Vir- einia Grover, Pat Brown, Adrienne Glass, Edna Almquist, Jennie John- son, Dorothy Fors. | Jersey, former Treasurer of the Mrs. Helen Webster, Alice Bran- | concern denbury, Marylin Jackson, Caroline Proceedings already have been | McAlister, Marjorie Wukich, Peg begun to recover the money. O'Neill, Winona Monroe. | Jane Alexander, Alice Powers,| Charlotte Stevenson, Leila Sturgis,| ney General Francis D. Biddle an- nounced today that a Federal Grand Jury has indicted the Marine Main- tenance Corporation of Bayonne,| New Jersey, and two persons on!' accusations that the company col- lected more than $600,000 as over- | charges and fraudulent fees for/ the conversion and repair of ships | used to service North Africa and| Russia. 4 i The individuals were named as Gregory Ferend of New York, Pre- sident of the company, and Rus-| sell Michener, of Dumund, New ————— Leftover bits of chaese, felly, candled fruits and nuts dress up| RESULTS OF CONFERENCE - ARE AWAITED WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—Assur- ance today from the White House that new chaptars ‘“undoubtedly will be written,” in sequel to the story of Roosevelt's war conferences in North Africa, left the Capitol expectantly awaiting great events. Presidential Secretary Steve Early said: “So far as it can be told at the present time, the story is com- plete. Subsequent chapters un- doubtedly will be written as events unfold.” A |zation of the manpower of Alas- (ka will occur in essential indus- |rive at conclusions and procedures |tries of the Alaska Area, Mr. Hux- |ley said toady. | Local Alaska labor will be com- divers operating at the scene cr3 ‘the accident today, but salvage op- | lerations will proceed as rapidly | as s possible. ‘ il i o Islands whereby residents are be- ing rounded up and at the point of bayonets are herded aboard sea- craft and taken to Nazi concentra- tion camps, where they are put to hard labor of various sorts. 'BRIDES WITHOUT | pletely utilized and to the greatest |extent possible be given an oppor- | tunity to participate in the war ef- fort, Mr. Huxley declared. The Alaska Area, through the, Acting Director and the committee, | will ke responsible for the solution of Alaska problems which will be decided on a local basis in accord- ance with the broad basic policies established by Paul V. McNutt, Chairman ' of the War Manpower Commission, Mr. Huxley stated. | Meetings Continue The meetings were continued at| RINGS IS WORRY, ENGLISH CIRCLES LONDON-—Brides without rings and babies without carriages have been added to the wartime worries of the British. So far, there are no bare-fingered brides and babies haven't had to walk or use taxis, but W. F. Higes of Birmingham views the near fu- 3:30 o'clock this afternoon in the|ture witis concern and wants the Gold Room of the Baranof and hoard of trade to do something were expected to be concluded to-|about it. day.. Several of the delegates in| Higgs is an M.P. from Birming- |attendance were scheduled to leave | ham West and it is natural for the city to return to their various him to be among the early wor- TYPHOON SUITS For Defense Workers and Others with Priorities. ALL SIZES Great Lakes Quinfet Has Many Games Will Play in Eleven States ~To Meet Stanford, Jean Shaw, M; ite | g o, Shaw, Mary Shaw, Marguerite | pigin “muftins, Add the tidbits to the top of muffin batter just before | |it goes in the oven. This increases | All men from A. B. Hall and | the nutrition and also puts extra in- | Duck Creek who worked on the USO ' terest in the muffins, | | ! : i | | | | GREAT LAKES, Ill. Jan. 27—One| lof the most ambitious basketball | | schedules ever attempted by a na-! itional hoop quintet is on tap this season for the Great Lakes Blue- jackets. The boys started off here December 1 with Milwaukee Teach- | ers and they will conclude the sea- son, March 8, entertaining Notre| Dame. During the next three months,| the Bluejackets' will meet Stanford, | the national champions, all members | of the Big Ten, leading college rim- | sters in 11 States throughout the nation. -t | A generous number of games will | be played at the station for the entertainment of recruits. S e AL Dance! THAT OTHERS MAY WALK | | Empire Classifieds Pay: GENERAL HARDWOOD [O. Domestic and Imported HARDWOODS. But even if yvou don’t dance, buy a ticket this week for sure for Juneau’s fund to take care of crippled children in this area. There will be entertain- ment furnished in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel for those who don’t wish to dance. Daneing will be in the Elks’ Ballroom. Tickets sell for $1.65 per couple. Buy them from a solicitor or at the newsstand in the Baranof Complete Stock Hotel. The date is next Saturday night The time is Ship Industrial 10 P. M. Cabinet Woods Kiln Dried—Air Dried HARDWOODS INDIANA BENDING OAK | headquarters. |riers on this problem because the AT | _Mr. Flakne has been Director of Birmingham region produces a {U. S. Employment in Alaska since|large share of Britain’s wedding ihis appointment on December 7, bands and perambulators. H s GBAVES 1937 and will be transferred from e . o that departmeént to the War Man- | power Commission. G Ve BUY DEFENSE BONDS The Best Food at the trally located . . . Y PERCY’S Dinners at Percy’s Are the BEST inTown Step inside, and before you know it you have a tempting dish before you! STOP IN TODAY! : - S WHAT YOU P E R C Y WANT FOR it e Restaurant BREAKFAST —AND YOU GET PERCY REYNOLDS IT QUICKLY! Early attempts by Europeans to settle on the Solomon Islands were balked by cannibalism of the na- tives. The Clothing Man Lowest Prices in Juneau — PERCY'S is cen- ou get QUICK Service . . . Fine Foods .. . Proprietor