The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 23, 1943, Page 3

TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1943 THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! THEATRE Show Place of Juneau TONORROW! "TWIN BEDS" A THOUSAND LAUGHS! e - | m— MEET THE DOUBLE-TROUBLE BRYANT WHAT A MIX-UP WHAT A FAMILY! S ANN RUTHERFORD - ROBERT STERLING VIRGINIA WEIDLER - GUY KIBBEE ANDY CLYI VARIETY VIE SINKING OF JUNEAUTOLD BY SURY ‘The Hartford (C: C ur- ant in a recent issue gives a gra- phic account of the sinking of the USS. Juneau, a story by one of the survivors, as follows “The Japs are deadly, fanatic fighters and it'll take at least two more years to crush them.” So says Seaman Victor J. Fitzgerald, and he ought to know, for the Man- cnester youth recently returned frem the Pacific one afte participating in major sea battles. The fighting sailor gives here one of the {first eye-witness accounts of the sinking of the USS. Ju- neau, a valiant American ship which went to the bottom off Gua- dalcanal with a loss of nearly 809 men, One of only 10 survivors of the ill-fated cruiser, he now tells his story. A tale of violent death, seven days adrift in a tiny raft, his eventual rescue and the long voyage home. All hell broke loose. On every side our ack-ack batteries caused a terrific din as we pumped hun- dreds of shells into the Jap aerial | armada overhead Twenty-seven | enemy planes were dive bombing | the cruiser simultaneously. We'd keen in seven bad clashes up until that day (November 13, 1942) but this one was plenty hot. “Our boys accounted for 26 of the bombers, and guns on shore knocked down the other one. It was another example of Japanese ‘culture.” They kept dropping bombs till every last pilot met his ‘hon- orable’ death. “We got ours the next day—after the battle was apparently over. A sneaky Jap submarine discharged four torpedoes at the Juneau at closg range. I was in’ an aft gun ALSO n R ALY eight . COMEDY NEWS { o b form slid by me and when I gratped his collar 1 found it was Don and that he was beyond aid Releasing his body I slithered out "THIS TIME FOR KEEPS” IS GAY FUN Capitol Theatre Brings Ann Rutherford in New Comic Role This Time for Keeps youthful marriage t almost recks itself on the rocky road of ve, bings Ann Rutherford and 0bert Sterling to the screen in a ilarious comedy opening tomorrow light at the Capitol Theatre In the beginning the young couple tarts with minor love spats, then, with well intentioned in-laws add- ing to the complications, become eal battles amid a series of hil- wrious episodes punctuated by dra- yma and tender human interest. In the end all ends well, thanks to a slever twist. Charles F. Reisner, veteran at shewed experienced skill s handling of delicate comedy s and the human interest epi- | Good supporting work is done v Henry O'Neill and Dorothy Mor- a story based on characters [ reated Herman Mankiewicz, | was produced by Samuel Marx | Charles Lawton highlighted it with | skillful photography, and Lennie | Hayton provided a lilting musical score. The story, by | | e : . Jersecy was the hero of our net. He was a slight fellow, the subject of all our jibes and practical jokes |while on the Juneau. A shark made |off with another victim and Moore THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—]JUNEAU ALASKA ETETET——— [ Pastor, Mrs. Wood - | Return Here from | Trip to Westward Pastor and Mrs. H. L. Wood re- wurned to Juneau today after spend- | ing a month at Anchorage and, Palmer. Most of the time was spent at Palmer where Mrs. Wood in-| stalled a system of bookkeeping for the Matanuska Valley Hospital which has been operated by the! Alaska Mission of Seventh-Day} Adventists since last September. | Pastor Wood called the first busi- | ness meeting of the hospital board jof which he is chairman. The hospi- |tal is progressing very well in spite | of the shortage of nurses. Miss| ®Maude Mooers R. N. of Portland,| passed through Juneau last week | |enroute to the hospital and Miss | Florence Foster R. N. and Miss Em- and down the deck where I dove |grabbed a knife and dove afwr;i]y Williams R. N both of Wash-| cverboard from the stern.” (Seamon Denald T. Madden lived with his wife at 21 Knox Street, Man until he enlisted in Ly i has been officially in action.”) m my dive the 5. sinking ship start- { heading toward sur- to be pulled deeper unde bove me I saw the twin pror of the Juneau gra- dually dropping down to crush me. I had been ied down about 50 feet and was sure I was a goner wheh the powder magazine ex- ploded face I began I was tossed up through the oily | water like a toothpick, shooting 10 feet into the air and landing many yards with a stunning thud. That's n I got this head in- Here the sailor hestitated and rubbed his scarred forehead. Mem- bers of the Fitzzerald family in the living room of the youth's home at 156 Bissell Street, shuddered a bit, stole glances at his now-healed wound and sat back awaiting his | next words. “I swam about for with three hours fuel oil clinging to my face, and legs. Just when I was to quit, believing I was the only swrvivor, I spotted a large life net with about 50 men clinging to it. T secured a hold beside Lieuten- ant Charles Wang of Philadelphia, Signalman Joseph Hartney and Sea- man Roger ‘Spike’ Donnelly, both of New Britain, and the oldest of the five Sullivan brothers who all lost their lives in the torpedoing. arms ready |it. He lost the fight and died from i exhaustion. “Our hopes rallied briefly when a |PBY plane circled overhead and | dropped a rubber life raft. Hartney jand I had strength enough to |reach it. Thank God for my high | school swimming course! It was de- |cided to take the only surviving of- |ficer, Lieutenant Wang, aboard and | make a try for land. | “Seven days of uncertain, aim- |less paddling apparently got us no- |where. We were very weak, especi- |ally Lieutenant Wang who was suf- ]rrrmg from a badly injured leg received in the torpedoing. We had food of any kind. Once | whacked a sea gull with a paddle. it fell in the raft, only to get up «;ain and fly away. One night a h rain storm gave us a little inking water, but that's all we had for a week, “By a stroke of luck on the eighth day we sighted an island. The lieutenant was unable to stand alone, so Hartney and I tried to build a stretcher. Our attempt failed and in the end I carried |Wang across the beach to safety.” (Among the injuries Fitzgerald received during his ordeal are deep |lacerations on both feet, acquired in beaching the raft and carrying the Philadelphia officer across ‘_mgged coral reefs.) |" “We found we had reached San | Cristobal, an island in the Solomon group. Native head-hunters cared for us and one of them sailed to Santa Ana Island for aid. A for- mer German sailor, Henry Cooper, jwok us to Santa Ana to recover “Two hideous days and nights, at his home. We were later housed | spent thrashing around in the icy [in the beautiful residence of the water, followed. So severe was the |native governor. We learned our powder explosion, flying fragments {host was once photographed by of the Juneau injured men aboard ;Martin and Osa Johnson, noted ex- the U.S.S. San Francisco a mile |plorers. away. The tgrrific blast made them | “There was no means of com- believe we were all killed outright,‘[mumcatlon to the mainland from so our armada sailed away, leaving {the tiny isle, so we sent up fre- us alone. quent distress signals. A Navy pa- | With little hope of rescue we trol plane spotted one, landed and hung on, tortured by blistering |transférred us to the New Hebrides !ington D. C., are in Seattle waiting | | transportation to Palmer. On their |arrival at the hospital the institu- |tion will be fully staffed. | While in Anchorage, Pastor Wood | |assisted by Pastors Merle Smith ! jand Paul Bartholomew conducted | ‘thc spring church convention. A short business trip was made to| | Fairbanks. ! | Beginning April 2, the spring| |gathering will convene in Juneau., | This will be followed by like meet- ings at Sitka, Wrangell and Ketch- ikan, which will close April 30. i e | JUNEAU MEN ON WAY SOUTH T0 OFFICERS" SCHOOL | On his way to Fort Benning, Georgia, to attend Officers’ Candid- | date School, Corporal George F.| | Alexander, Jr. left this morning for the south. Corp. Alexander, son ! of Judge and Mrs. G. F. Alexander, has been on duty at Chilkoot Bar- | racks and Juneau since entering| the armed forces last year. | Other Juneau men who left this morning for the south to attend) Officers’ Candidate Schools in the States were Sergeant Owen J.i Jones and Sergeant E. Diener‘ Creighton. 1 A number of other men were in| the group that leIt today for om-‘ cers' Candidate Schools in the sfhtes, but their names and the exact number were not released by) military ‘authorities. i B ea e . i o i MRS. McCUTCHEON HERE T0 ATTEND MEETING | OF WELFARE BOARD Mrs. H. H. McCutcheon, member of the Territorial Board 'of Public| elfare from the Third Division| CAR OF TOMORROW?_ body, clear plastic roof, enginc in rear. A suggested design for the car of tomorrow, this auto has plastio Driver would sit in front seat by himself. AN OFFICER IN THE NAVY has to know the wigs anld wags of signaling so pretty Ensign Emma Denton Shelton practices up in the WAVES “bachelor quarters” of the Sixth Naval District®in Charleston. S. C, “Dee” (that’s her nickname) is 22, and comes‘from Columbia. Tenn. | Macdonald LOVERS MEET DR. BROADWAY 'f ON HIGH LEDGE 20th Century Film Has Unique Boy-Meets-Girl Slant-Is on Tonight One of the most novel of the boy-girl meetings in filhs turns up n Paramount’s “Dr. Broadway,” which is providing excitement and aughs to movie audiences at the | 20th Century Theatre for the last \‘umv tonight i Carey (he's that mooth, good-looking fellow, who |made you ask where he’s been all your cinema-viewing days when you |saw “Take a Letter, Darling"”) and | |Jean Phillips (she's a beautiful new- |comer),” are the boy and girl in-| volved in the story. | In “Dr. Broadway,” Jean and ! Macdonald meet on a narrow hotel ‘Iu!go twenty stories above Broad- | way! At the start of the action,| |Jean is all alone on this hotel| ledge, shoutihy to the crowds be- low, “Out of this world, Out of| this world.” | Macdonald, a smart young phy- | sician who's known to practically jeverybody on Broadway, climbs out jon the ledge with her, telling her {he's a lost pigeon looking for his | misplaced nest. When he gets close (enough to her, he hands her a |swilt clout on the chin and rescues | | her. Then developments take place. - e | ALASKA COASTAL MAKE FLIGHTS T0 | SITKA, EXCURSION With four round trip flights to Sitka today and one to Excursion Inlet, Alaska Coastal Airlines car- i ried many passengers in addition to air mail and express. Leaving here for Sitka with ACA' were Dave Fenton, Lt. M. H. McGill, | Lt. Beatrice Lynch, W. J. Garvey, George Orren, John G. Cozad, Paul H. Mituzum, Vande Albers, C. A.| Williams, Mrs. C. A. Williams, Jnck‘ Garrett. Arriving from - Sitka were Kelly M. Westfall, Otis E. Long, Jr., Richard Olson, W. T. Smith. ‘Taking passage for Excursion In-| let were A. T. Westwood, Carl Stop- | ;r\rd. Phil Cummings. Arrivals | rom Excursion Inlet were Walter Hellan and Orville Ricky. ORVILLEC. RUDY IS ARRESTED MONDAY AT EXCURSION INLET' Orville Clayton Rudy, arrested yesterday at Excursion Inlet on a| charge of being a fugitive from | justice, by an FBI Agent and De- puty U. S. Marchal Walter G. Hel- lan, was brought to Juneau by the officers on an Alaska Coastal Air- lines plane and is to be arraigned in the U. S. Commissioner’s Court this afternoon. | The local complaint was issued | on the basis of a complaint issued | in Bellingham, Washington, which | charged Rudy with being delm-‘ quent from the local draft board | for failure to report for induction. STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, March 23.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 78, Bethlehem Steel 64, Common- | wealth and Southern %, Curtiss | Wright 8%, International Harves- | "~ PAGE THREE ere the Better BIG Pictures Play TIDMENTURY — W GPECIALIST IN A Paramount Picturs with Macdonald Carey Jean Phillips ). Carrol Naish - Richard Lane Edward Ciannelli Directed by ANTHONY MANN Screen )y Art Arthar byl THEATRE] "INVISIBLE GHOST" - "FUGITIVE VALLEY" ;. Policyls Crificized o d WASHINGTON, March 23.—] jor. General Lewis B. Hershey ito- day told members of the House that he doesn’t think some goverfi~ ment agencies are setting & pro- per example in the matter of occupational draft . deferment ;of employees. y 3 Testifying on the general subjec of deferments before the Military Subcommittee investigating, he flate 1y replied, “No,” when Rep. Harnesé asked with respect to the furnish. ing of 'all’ available men to the armed service, “Do you think some of these agencies’ are setting &R example?” i Rebekah Inifiation for 12 Tomorrow Night A colorful and particularly im- pressive initiation ceremony wits planned for the business meeting of the Rebekahs to be held tomor- row night at 8 o'clock in the Oda Fellows Hall, when twelve new members will be accepted the order. i All members are urged to fbe present at the evening ceremony. Refreshments will be served a special committee consisting, ‘of Mrs. Dan Ross, chairman; 8- ter 63%, Kennecott 32%, New York dames Goldie Gustafson, Hatry turret when they hit. One crashed a Central 13 17/8, Northern Pacific Sperling, Elmer Benedict, Andf¢w into the bow and another struck squarely near a funnel a little aft of amidships. We didn't have a chance. The boat just split in two. Someone timed it. The whoie ship went completely under in 17 sec-| onds. “Suddenly the stern was envel- BEHIND CAMERA FOR CHANGE —Ken Keltner (right) focuses on Lou Boudreau, youthful manager of the In dians. Keltner was named Cleveland's best bail player and re- - ceived the camera as a trophy. ‘TIDES TOMORROW High tide—3:12 am. 178 feet. Low, tide—9:3¢ am., -09 feet. noonday sun and bitter cold nights. Islands. Next we were flown to the Gradually the 50 men were reduced{U. S. Hospital Ship, Solace and to 20. It was horrible! Sometimes |taken to Auckland, New Zealand, a shark would haul a victim from |for specialized treatment for ex- beneath the net and the pitch|posure. black darkness would resound with| “Then we were placed aboard a his terrible screams. Exhausted, Dutch vessel for a 16-day voyage some of the men cracked under the {to San Francisco. After being hos- strain, let loose and swam out to|pitalized for some time at Mare oped in heavy, choking smoke and |sea. Donnelly said he was going to |Island, Calif., I was released and slippery fuel oil was pouring all swim home. He struck out, went a!crossed the country by train to over the place. Though I could few yards and was hauled under |Manchester. Howard Lyng, member of the| hardly see, somehow I got onto by a waiting tiger shark. “Besides Hartney, Lieutenant ‘Welfare Board from the Second Di- 1 e ihouzes from 3 to 5 a. m, according fleck. Then I remembered my pal| “Aboard ship I had’ played cards|Wang and I, seven sallors were |Vision, has been in Juneau for some ~ According to a Navy custom, mub- | to the Office of War Information. Don' Madden was back inside. Mov- | with Sullivan. He just lgt go and |picked up by a plane from a lie | time and the First Division member marines never cross W supniueibat dRentcd Juke haxes supply music for ing fast I got back inside again. A |went under. W. E. Moore of New |float in another .part of the Pa- is John' H. Walmer, of Juneau. alvigs d}v{‘,‘“d” i ARSOG s/ =3 -lcific. The ten. of us, to. our = knowledge, are the only survivors of the Juneau crew.' I'm a very lucky guy!” You can bet the Fitzgeralds had 2 warm welcome for their fighting son. They found him in good health, despite his adventures. His head and feet scars are augmented Ly livid gashes on his back — a back burned black by sun and oil. ’.\h and Mrs. Fitzgerald now have a boy in ehch branch of the serv- 2 ice: Victor, who is 22, in the Navy, 'th LOOKIN FER ANENE FLOWN | Lawrence, 24, in the Army and Don- o ROSEWART! S0 MR B\G SHATS ald, 19, fighting on Guadalcanal s N - ¥R, (RCRQSS T DRANK WE'S GONNA KETCH #ith the Marines. ) RTEWN SOLDIER, man Fitzgerald was given 30 " CLIPPER AN FIN V('S KINDA HARD lays in Connecticut. The: what? N TO AFRACKY - - T \.‘:‘E\Y‘S‘;\S\E‘; Yet him tell you in his own words: TURT S \F 8&5‘&‘5 b On arrival in America all 10 of %‘&“&&2& o \\\\09'1\\ 15 survivors were offered honorable TRRL T8 Betcy discharges by the Navy Depart- ment. I turned mine down for rea- sons like Sullivan, Donnelly and Modre. I'm going back!” e, YOUR BROKEN LENSES Replaced in our own shop. Eyes Examined. Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson. Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636. adv. and wife of Senator McCutcheon, | of Anchorage, arrived here this morning from the Westward ac-| companied by their son Jerry. | Mrs. McCutcheon came to Ju- neau to attend the regular meeting of the Board of Public Welfare which will be held here upon the |arrival from Fairbanks of J. G.' Rivers, member of the Board from the Fourth Division. 11’4, United States Steel 53%, Rosness, Robert Duckworth, Jai Pound $4.04. {Barragar and Miss Jennie Johh- The following are today's Dow, son Jones averages: industrials 129.98, | rails 32.19, utilities 17.31. WASHINGTON - arly morning | g hours have lost some of their grim- | ness for swing shift workers in| P]ANo TUNING High tide—3:38 p.m., 16.1 feet. | Dallas war plants. The Park Board H. J. BAKER 05 feet. |has approved the use of community GASTINEAU HOTEL or ALASKA MUSIC SHOP i S BUY WAR PONDS SWING SHIFT SWINGS & 63 Calls An OWL CAB “Coming fo Capifol BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH oM, o1 WS S THINKIN AB0NT MSS BETTN MDD - SUE'S ONER &T TAE \NFORMBTION BOOTH WARL - WHAR'S T PURTIEST FEMALE THAT \WORKS BROWND THS \WWFUNNEL QARPORY 2 OME LEETLE PBLLET \ci’\\? ROSEN JANS &N SERRN SQUEEZ\WNWS ON HER L\PS Robere Sterling and Ann Rutherford in 3 story of a typical American hmily. “This Time For Keeys," iuyyoned by an excellent cast,