The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 10, 1943, Page 6

PAGESIX ~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ~ — SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1943 % SITKA NEWS % LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE HOLDS INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS APRIL 26 Installation ceremonies will be held the last Monday night of this month when members of the Loyal Order of Moose will install their new officers for the ensuing year Those who will take office are E. M. Goddard, Governor; Ben Miller, Junfor Governor; Earl Shen- nett, Treasurer; Vern McGraw, Pre- late; Art Franklin, Secretary angd Harry Hagen, Delegate-at-Large Bill Sarvela will be installing of- ficer and James Brightman, Ser- geant-at-Arms FACULTY MEMBERS OF SITKA SCHOOLS WILL GATHER AT DI} At All faculty members of the Sitka schools will attend a faculty din- ner to-be given om Tuesday, April 13, in the Sheldon Jackson School dining room. An interesting program has been planned for the evening. FORREST KNAPP LEAVES AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS AS USQ HEAD IN SITKA Forrest Knapp, former head of the USO in Sitka, left on Thurs- day fer Juneau on his way south after having been in charge here for the last number of months His fine work with the USO was much appreciated by the people of Sitka and it was with regret that they bid him goodbye. Before coming to Sitka, Mr. Knapp headed the USO in Anchor- age where he started the USO work, and has spent the last forty years in similar work with young men and boys. He plans to join Mrs. Knapp in California where she preceded him several months ago, but may re- turn at a later date to settle in Alaska SHOWER IS GIVEN FOR MRS. JACK C. LOKKE Mrs. Jack C. Lokke was compli- |mented at a blessed event showor last Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Thomas Young. Host- |esses for the affair were Mrs. | Young and Mrs. Ed Littlefield. They |were assisted during the afternoon by Mrs. John Littlefield | Mrs. Lokke received many lovely |gifts from her friends. i | ST. PETER'S GUILD MEETS Mrs. Ole Sunde was hostess to MRS. HELEN J. STOFT, ley, left Sitka recently for to the States. | CHARLES M. PETERSONS der, Mrs. Fern Musser, Weaver, Miss Helen Elleston, He does not expect to retire from | Tuesday afternoon at the Guild’'sMr. Baldwin. war work, but is, at present, un- decided as to whether he will pur- sue farming or further work in the recreation program for soldiers and sailors The new USO Director, in Sitka, Everett Craven, is carrying on the| work splerididly. | MISS ALMA FAULK AND JOSEPH PETERSON wu,}wns the review of “The Robe,” a new book written by Lloyd Douglas which was presented by Mrs. John | H Miss Alma Faulk, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Puget Faulk, was married to Mr. Joseph Peterson, son of Mrs. Frances Peterson, of| Oak Park, Illinois, last Monday afternoon at a quiet ceremony. Present at the wedding were Mrs. Faulk, the bride’s mother, Miss Ber- nadine McGraw, Mr. Frank Gar- rett and Mr. Andy Lorentzen. 1 An informal reception was held later in the afternoon at the home of the bride's parents. The bride |/ is a member of the Senior Class at, Sitka High School. Easter Greeting Cards for the MEN IN THE SERVICE and for THE FOLKS AT HOME Photo Shop Studio For Qutdoor Wear Come in and Look Over Our Fine Stock of Black Bear Coals and Cruisers Utica All-Wool Sox McGregor's Fine Shirts and Leather Jackets Tilson and Sons PHONE 72 Sitka's New Men's Store EASTER is the time for CLOTHES! You'll find everything for your SPRING WARDROBE at Connie’s Dress Shop | A SURE CURE FOR THOSE &Z s 4 PRODUCTION BLUES " == COME 70 | THE SILVER FOAM For your Hours of Relaxation for Good Fun and Good Fellowship w SILVER FOAM iment of the Sitka Woman's Club I‘regular bi-monthly meeting. 'LITERARY DEPARTMENT OF WOMAN'S CLUB MEET | Members of the Literary Depart- met on Thursday evening of last week at the home of Mrs. hostess. | |STANLEY D. BASKIN IS The Bayview Hotel the ® scene of the was | Rotary Club last Tuesday noon AND SON LEAVE HERE making the bourdan stop for the Mrs. Helen J. Stoft and son, Wes- | pedal clavier. a trip| ARE HOSTS AT SUPPER |6ty to seek out his own ebony Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Peter- son entertained last Saturday eve- ning at a buffet supper for eight of their friends. The guest list in- cluded Mr. and Mrs. James Krue- Miss Ila Mr. members of St. Peter's Guild last|Ted Harris, Mr. John Donenc and gperate the old organ, Mr. Baker Ito the church as permanent relics, ROTARY CLUB SPEAI(EKVmstrumeril had no pedal keyboard. again | regular weckly |the original luncheon for members of the Sitka |built ing 12 to the lower stop diapason, LIBRARY SUMMER HOURS A full pedal keyboard is bcing" |added and the organ is also being | completely electrified. In capping |the keys, Mr. Baker found it nec- lows: 7 to 8 o'clock Tuesday and blocks and is making the sharp saturday evenings. caps himself out of the ehoicest |sections. All usable parts of the ]’original instrument are being re- tained and the rest will be returned |NEW COUNCIL TO TAKE | OFFICE ON NEXT MONDAY | A meeting of the old City Coun- cil of Douglas is scheduled for Mr. Baker said. Monday night, April 12, at which An extra man was necessary to| nd the new, explained, since the pressure was ing will be made @ a obtained by placing one foot on the projecting rod or pedal. The Following the disintegration of church, which was by Governor Etholan, the Protestant governor i Rus-|themselves, only meeting of the Board is scheduled.la proviso that they shoot the scene twice, once minus the slap, letting him merely fling her away from Announcement of a change injhim. The producer, studio execu- the open hours for Douglas public tives and the Hays office will have library during the summer months to decide which is used. Garfield was received this morning as fol- | Was hopeful. “I even hate to slug |a man in a scene,” said tough boy | Garfield, a former Golden Gloves| Io BE SEEN | ! champ. | Glamour-hating writers have Ipitched heartily I Colbert, |ette Goddard. In “So Proudly We'have a special treat in store for the |1 | Hail” Itime a canvass of the recent vot-! o . i rmy nurses on Bataan, they wear /Council sworn in. |mostly one type of costume—flap- | If so disposed, the new Council | ping, *baggy, oversized khaki cov- {will proceed with their first meet-'eralls, | : ing, election of regular officials,| The writers have it in for An- embarkation. committee appointments and . any |nabella too. In “Bomber's Moon" other matters which may present and “Tonight We Raid Calais” they the Post, the latchstring is always | have ANTARCTICA - COLOR FILMS i | { i i : Members of the American Legion |} into Claudette Veronica Lake and Paul- they're dirty, tattered and Monday evening meeting to be held | y for much of the picture. Asiat 8 o'clock in the Dugout, when . 11,600 feet of color movies of Little | America will be shown by Major R. | W. Freeman of the local sub-port of In addition to regular members of her constantly fleeing thelout to all members of the armed C. G. |Stuart with Miss Sara Fernald as iting from Juneau, was the guest|preserved in the Sheldon Jackson | speaker for the club. Mr. Baskin|school museum where it was a Highlight of ‘the evening program |gave a very interesting talk and loaned exhibit. Cushing. LYNN JOHNSON ENJOYS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION | Little Lynn Johnson, daughter of | |Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Johnson, cele- brated her second birthday anni- versary last Monday. BOB DUNSMOOR ENTERS Word has been Bob Dunsmoor, received the Carnegie Institute of Techno- logy, Pittsburgh, Pa. Bob, who was graduated from the Sitka High School last January, was president of the Student Governing Associa- tion. His fornder classmates and teach- ers were pleased to hear the news and wish him the best of luck in his college career. W. LESLIE YAW WAS CHOSEN MODERATOR W. Leslie Yaw, superintendent of | the Sheldon Jackson School, was unanimously elected Moderator of {he Presbytery of Alaska, when the meeting was held recently in Ju- neau. SITKA WOMAN'S CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS The general meeting of the Sitka Woman’s Club was held on Friday April 2, in the club rooms with election of officers as the main business for the evening. On the program for the evening was an interesting book review of “Son of the Smoky Sea,” by Si- meon Oliver, which was given by Miss Virginia Drugg. Hostesses for the evening were Mrs. Elliot Fletcher, Miss Helen Hatch, Mrs. Clarence Rands, Mrs. C. B. Hedges, Miss Helen Roan, and Mrs. Mamie Wesley. CARNEGIE INSTITUTE | that| : son of Mr. and| ___\Mrs. Robert Dunsmoor, of Sitka, | has been admitted to the Depart- | New Sitka Lutheran Church ment of Chemical Engineering at The organ has been in Mr. Bak- ‘m 's Seattle shop for the last seven months. It will be some time before it can be finished, he said, since all materials have not yet been obtained. Mr. Baker has been building and tuning pianos and organs exclusive. |ly since 1903, and has operated hi: Seattle shop for the past 34 years. He has been coming to Alaska for the last seven years to tune and re- pair instruments throughout the Territor |Earl Shennett spoke briefly about Ithe Cold Storage Company. ! MAKES JUNEAU TRIP Ralph Wilcoxin left by plane on Friday for a trip to Juneau. 'HISTORIC PIPE " ORGAN RETURNS 10 USEFULNESS DOUGLAS NEWS [ To Utilize Electrified ! Instrument SCHOOL BOARD REEBLECTS A fine ninety-nine year dld pipé ALL DOUGLAS TEACHERS !organ, its tones mellowed and en- All members of the present teach- [riched by the passing years—a his- ing staff of the Douglas Public Itorical relic of early Sitka—will be Schools were reelected by the |installed in the new LutheraniSchool Board at a meeting held !Church of Sitka. At present it is Thursday evening. It was decided being rebuilt in the Seattle shop;w engage one additional teacher of H. J. Baker, now in Juneau onto the regular full time staff for fifteenth trip to the Territory. |next term and applications of sev- The hlstorich;rgan v‘v‘t;stb t by;eru possibilities are on hand to E. Kessler in rpat, Wesf ussia, select from. in 1844, and was installed in the| It was also decided, as before, Finnish Lutheran Church at Sitka 'put’ this time definitely, that all |two years later. | public school faculty members must | A plaque attached to the O1gan reside in Douglas next term. Ac- 3x‘eads “The first organ in the West, cording to recent legislation their ;:sl_?;];:g:‘hf”;:‘e‘rhegma‘?‘“'Ch» NeW |salaries will total $450 annually The organ is in many ways @iffer- |ent from those of today, Mr. Baker | says, and has but one keyboard of | g 54 notes instead of the 6l-note|With 8 communication from Com- standard manual of today. |missioner of Education Ryan and | iRaverding vt ktundhrd nn'ang-lread at the meeting. Another item | |in particular, in addition to the {ment of the present, the ‘white”| 3 E | keys were capped with black ebony, salary increase, is that all chil- | while the black, or sharps,’ were d_ren beginning school for the first | capped with white ivory. time must be six years old on the | The organ also originally had oPening date of school. |but five ranks of pipes with 54 Closing date for the school this pipes in each rank. Ini rebuilding,|Yyear was set for May 28. |Mr. Baker is now making ‘it a| One basketball award was made | double manual, adding 19 pipes to by the Board, Kenneth Shudshift jeach row to fill them out to the|receiving his letter. standard ‘73-pipe rank, and also ad-; Next week the {more than the present term. A summary of all the new laws af- fecting the schools was received reorganization Stanley D. Baskin, who was vis- |sian-America, the pipe organ was| | Nazis—“Bomber’s Moon” being one GOING SOUTH !long chase. She wears men’s clothes Mrs. Arvo Wahto and baby were except in one or two sequences. arrivals here from Tenakee yester-| While Tyrone Power, the Ma- day. She is planning a trip south rine, was in training on the rain- for a couple of months' visit with|soaked desert, he made the mis- ot kil take of writing Annabella how glad | he was to think of her on the |warm sound stages or beside their |cozy fireplace at home. Gleefully | Annabella did some counting: “T've |only three scenes in which I'm com- |pletely dry,” she says. “Two in which I'm both dry and clean, and 'one in which I'm dry, clean AND |warm—and that ends with my jumping, fully clothed, into a mud- idy river! Besides which, our cozy !fireplace has been out of order for & week, and I don't know when I lcan get it fixed!” e -———— | 'GLAMOR GIRLS - TAKE BEATING, . MOVIE FILMS fAdors Take Exceptions fo | Having o Hit Women in Features i THEY'LL MISS HIM | CINCINNATI.—No other right- By ROBBIN COONS !handed pitcher ever won as many HOLLYWOOD—Ever since Jim-‘Nauonal League games for the |my Cagney squashed a grapefruit Reds as Paul Derringer, who was !in Mae Clarke's face in “Public recently sold to the Chicago Cubs. ‘Enemy" a dozen years ago, there |forces who care to come, it is an- nounced, and they should find the {Little America pictures of special interest. ! The films were obtained through the offices of Major Freeman, whose friend, R. G. Fraser, took them on |one of Admiral Richard Byrd’s trips to the frozen southland. | Fraser, who is a competent movie |man, is,jn ember of the Explorers Club andiik associated with the Na- tional Geographic Society, and with the Royal Geographical Society of London. PARSONS ELECTRIC CO. JUNEAU Solicits the business of friends in Sitka | Electric Service and Repairs Westinghouse Representative {have been recurring cycles of movie violence against women. | Cagney, who doesn't go around squashing grapefruit in anybody's face and is about as chivalrous a |gent as youll ever meet, heard plenty from his one venture into | movie squashbuckling. Indignant fans wrote in, especially from the South, just as jf Cagney himself had thought up the scene, with no help at all from a screen writ- er. 1 Conway Dock Company Oil === Coal Gasoline Sometimes I think screen writ- |ers must hate glamour and like ;lo see it take a beating, either | from the hero or the plot. ) | There was John Garfield on the |set of “The Fallen, Sparrow” the | other day—shying from a scene in Insurance | which he had to strike Patricia Eey Phone 78 | “I don't think a man should hit| S ee—————— |a woman, on the screen or any-| where else,” said Johnny. “I never| ‘hit a dame in my whole life. | | “Another thing, I don’t know {how to pull a punch. I can't act |that way. If I have to hit Pac! I'll have to hit her hard. 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