The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 2, 1943, Page 3

. CRIME THRILLER NOW SHOWING, = THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA 631 GERMAN KURSK AREA ENDS TONIGHT! ‘THE GAY FALCON' WENDY ‘ Show Place of Juneau BARRIE (Ap“o‘_ SCREE“ pI.ANES A R E IS lIBERATED TOMORROW? . JIPN0 « w | e o e acein, who finds himself involved with a sinister robbery and murder ring as well as with three charming wo- men, “The Gay Falcon,” now show- ing at the Capitol Theatre, feat- HAVING BLONDE . TROUBLE AGAIN! ures a clever cast headed by George £ nders and Wendy Barrie § e Sanders plays the title-role, that of Gay Laurence, a well-to-do broker whose chief interests in life are solving crimes and pursuing the opposite sex, even though he is engaged to a soc girl, Elinor Benford. His promises to Elinor to give up both pastimes are shat- pretty secretary in- duces him to investigate a threat- ened jewel theft. The drama in- augurates a new adventure series Ibased upon a character fictionized Michael Arlen Allen Jenkins as his loyal aide, Gladys Cooper as a famous party- and Arthur Shields as a de- have the principal with Edward S. Brophy, Damian O'Flynn, Turhan Bey, Eddie Dunn, Lucille Gleason and Willie Fung in important parts - - DOUGLAS LEAMING RITES NEWS AT ELKS' HALL DOWNED, US FROM NALZIS LONDON, Sept. 2.—Hard driving Red Army forces are pushing the | Germans back all along the far- | flung Russian front in one of the most successful weeks of the war, and have captured the important Ukrainian town of Sumy and the middle Donets Basin town of Lisi- chiansk. They also drove the Nazis out of the entire Kursk region north of Kharkov, Moscow has an- nounced. A special communique broadcast from Moscow recorded by the Soviet office of the Christian Science Mon- itor announced the capture of Lisi- chiansk and many other populated points in the Donets Basin. Earlier Premier Stalin issued a special order of the day telling of the liberation of Sumy, vital rain center | A MERRY MEDLEY THE BOYS ARE OF MUSIC...and LONDON, Sept. 2.—United States Eighth Air Force pulverizing Ger- man airfields one by one and wrecking vital war factories, a monthly record of destruction on Nazi aircraft in combat by shooting down 631 Fighters and Thunder- bolt Fighters. This proved by actual experience that they could break fighting attacks suffi- to cut down bomber Flying Fortresses and Marau- set up enemy ciently and ders. he total Nazis dowmed previous as 506. These were downed in July Fortresses alone which were shot down totaled 541 last month. Bomb- ers lost in enemy action during August was slightly above 4 per- cent of that announced in July Onée hundred Fortresses were lost in August and 16 United ates fighter planes were lost in the air The sea service rescued 96 crew- men from downed Fortresses and one fighter pilot was saved losses tered when a by seRT Dorothy LAHR * LOVETT June Buddy HAVOC - EBSEN Patsy given tective captain supporting roles, insk, the communi- | que said, the Russians captured over 130 populated places in addition to the cente K the Sumy district. In of the line, Grushkovo in the Kui region fell to the advancing Ru GET READY FOR LAFFS! WIPE QUT EATING,DRINKING sians completely freed from the German Fascist invaders” said the war bul- letin The capture of Sumy carried the Red Army within 185 miles of Kiev ESIABUSHME“IS HOME TO ATTEND SCHOOL | FRIDAY p. M. in its westward drive across the v ARE INSPE(IED Richard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dick | p i’nurlhrm Ukraine. McCormick of Douglas, has come| ynder the auspices of the Eiks e home to remain for the comingiygdge funeral services for Ben| For the past several months the school term. For the past “‘”‘"\Lemmng will be held tomorrow af-! Territorial Department of Health, months Richard, 14 years old, has|terngon at 2 o'clock in the Elks| POSITIONS s ritualistic service ‘Thus the Kursk region is 'MUSICAL FILM NOW PLAYING, 20TH CENTURY | Full of gals, gags and g ,.»ous\ sets. “Navy Blues,” is an eye-flling filmusical which is now showing at the 20th Century Theatre. Con- cerned with .sailors on leave .in Honolulu, it has an all-fun cast headed by Ann Sheridan and in- cluding Jack Oakie, Martha Raye Jack Haley, Herbert Anderson, Jack Carson, Jackie C. Gleason and the Navy Blues Sextet, six of the love- liest girls Warner Bros, could find anywhere Working with an all-out budget, Art Director Robert Haas shot the works in concocting 10 huge sets on the Burbank lot and two more on locations at na Beach, Cal, and San Diego Jerry Wald and Richard Mac- auley, two of Warner Bros.' brighter boys, have cooked up a script for the picture which is designed ex- clusively for laughs. Seript is based R OPA SAYS SABLE FISH REGULATION ON GRADING OUT The lengthy struggle of the Al- aska Office of Price Administration | to secure the elimination of the grading provision in MPR 418, per- taining to sable fish, culminated in | victory today when the office was formally notified that Amendment 7 to MPR 418 had been issued, elim- | inating such grading. As originally written, MPR 418 TI0MCENTUR Where the Better Big Pictures Play " PAGE THREE: IT'S JOY WEEK AT OUR HOUSE Come on Over and Enjoy Yourself! NOW PLAYING! 4 welligant Days IT°'S SEXSATIONAL in cooperation with the Army and been employed by Tony Relss &t[pai The TO FINE SLUMP, established prices for sable fish | Coast Guard, has been carrying on, the George Brothers dairy farm on| will take pl , and interment will Sal D tined 4o Fall|an intensive program of inspections |the Glacier Highway. According 10 pe in the Elks plot in Evergreen according to their size. This was a alamaua ves @ll | cating and drinking establish- | Tony, Richard is a died-in-the-wool | cemetery 4 drastic cut a the established ments in Juncau farmer now and an excellent farm| active pallbearers will be Fred| business custom in Alaska, where McCormick, chairman one price for all sizes of sable fish as Arfillery:Com- mands Area (Continued from Page One) destroyer was attacked Monday planes. Tues Allied planes ck at an enemy destroyer-and freighter and barges supplying’ the * 10,000 isolated Japs at a village on Kol- ombangara Island i the Solomons, sinking one barge! and damaging iwo, ] The Jap air forces of New Guinea have been forced to retire from Wewak to bases 500 'miles from Salamaua. Japanese - plane losse amounted to 360 in that area. - - American Plane Is Reds’ Secref Weapon; Orders AreiPiled Up (Continued from Page One) X of vernment stgfiographers -and jecertaries that haye been added in the last two ynafl;‘here's a short- age e One of the ways,of circumventing the shortage is th@‘widspread use of dictating machines. This provides sume complication’s because there are thousands of sses in the gov- ernment now whoihever have used the machines and;get stage fright the minute they start trying to talk into them. 25 Maury Maverick®s WPB division recently held a staff meeting to try | to increase use of machine dictation. “T know from personal experience what a lot of you are up against,” , said Waverick, who,comes from the deep south of Texds. “The first time I used the“machine, I sent about 20 discs over tobe transcribed. They sent them back, with the simple explanatiofi that the secre- tary who receivefii them couldn’t understand me. I didn’t mind that s0 much until T found out that the ! secretary was a gif} from my home town. . “From that time on T just talked natural and I baven't. had any trouble since.” S, — MOOSE SEASON NOT OPENHERE UNTIL NOV. 16 Put that gun back in the rack, mister. The moose season is not open in Alaska and won't ‘be -open November 16. ‘When The Empire/reported a few and Life magazines, is here from with the party days ago that Dr.J. O. Rude and New York. He is registered at the | - George Folta were :going up the Taku River moose hunting, it neg- | lected to point out that all hunting would be done on' the Canadian side after special licenses had been purchased by Rude and Folta. The Alaska Game Commission is cooper- ating with Canadian officials in checking the moose when the hunt- ers return. Dr. C. C. Carter and Dr. W. W. Council also have 'the Canadian licenses. until’ According to reports, many places a sincere effort to co- Others, however, have jilfully lax in their responsi- bilities to the public health Among the most serious of infractions noted by the Departmen is the lure of some establish- ments to observe the proper dish- washing procedure. Notification has . given all proprietors of food and drink handling establishments ard to sanitation require- d, according to announce- nt all places which hereafter are found to be using improper or in- adequate methods of washing and sterilizing dishes may be prosecuted law. Infractions of sanitary rules and regula- tions may also result in the of- fending establishments being put off limits for members of the mili- tary forces, according to Health Department officials. - - TRINITY GUILD ~ MEETS FRIDAY Opening the fall meeting session, members of the Senior Trinity Guild will gather tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock at the Calhoun Ave- nue residence of Mrs. Sam Feldon. Matters for the coming year will be brought up and all members and friends interested in the guild are invited to be present. | STOCK QUOTATIONS have made ot the according to these | NEW YORK, Sept. 2. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6', American Can 84'i, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 58%, Commonwealth and Southern 11/16, Curtiss Wright 7'%, International Harvester 68'%, Ken- necott 31, New York Central 16, Northern Pacific 141, United States | Steel 52, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 137.11; rails, | 34.55; utilities, 21.33. | PRICES WEDNESDAY | Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- |neau mine stock Wednesday was 1 6%, American Can 82%, Anaconda | 26%, Bethlehem Steel 59%, Com- ' monwealth and Southern 11/16, | Curtiss Wright 7%, International Harvester 687, Kennecott 37%, New . | York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 14%, United States Steel 52%. | Dow, Jones averages yesterday , were as follows: Industrials, 137.12; i rails, 34.65; utilities, 21.34. | - | W. S. HOWLAND HERE | Wwilliam S. Howland, with Time Baranof D | PRACTICE FOR GUARDSMEN I Tomorrow evening, Thursday, all Douglas Territorial Guards are re- | quested to turn out for the final range practice before the Sharp- shooting Contest which takes place |at he rifle range next Monday eve- ining. All are urged to be on hand by 6:30 o'clock for an early start, wearing usual range uniforms. 'at the Baranof. hand. While at the farm this .xmnv“",.,,,mw_ Bert Loomis, Warren H.| |mer he enjoyed many experiences,|wilson, W. L. Grisham, George A shooting his first black bear being|Getchell and J. L. Gray : i the most exciting. Richard will be| Honorary pallbearers are W. R | this year. |rison, Lockie MacKinnon, John | Reck and John K. Marshall | | Leaving early this morning onjjng the rites at the Elks Hall, but | the Princess steamer were Douglas|ihose wishing to pay their respects | and company bookkeeper Dan charles W. Carter Mortuary Chapel Hitchman. The cannery WOrkers tomorrow morning between 11 and| ception of Fireman Emil Guelbell, LI~ A | who will remain at the cannery! - Good Chance 10 SITKA, INLET 4 f | | am * | ! on S'alehood Flights made by the Alaska | lincluded a trip to Sitka with the | following passengers: H. C. Foss | |turn passengers were Thelma Long, | William Tierney, Amy Jackson and |Francis Jackson. | " " iJohn Morrison, Carl Hatt, William | Good Shape | Hamilton and M. Siesvogel, with J.| Senator William Langer of North ing in from the Inlet were Anilee | would grant statehood to Alaska,|Garetson, Dowd Bergman, Max said today in Juneau that he thinks| Rogers and Robert Blake. ‘ bill will pass and that if Alaska ) 5 5 jand Mrs. M. N. Miller and J. C. Delegate Anthony J. Dimond is m\Gilker. and N. C. Navarro flew to mediate hearings. . Shrey, Arne Boe, Mrs. Torum, Mrs. | Here with a post-roads committee 2 RoSLoFY !Joe Paddock and Vivian Paddock. | | Senator Langer said that the road | " | |to Alaska is in “good shape” except |f/€W in from Hawk Inlet. i { | Another flight to Excursion Inlet| is still being built. He said that i 9 | on the Canadian side, new farms are | 2ard, Billy Gaines, Charles Carl-| the farmers growing everything but The return flight brought in Floyd | i |Snider, T. W. Roberts, George| {are Senators James Scrugham of |Galland and Charles Jackson. Nevada and Douglass Buck of Dela- | Coming to Juneau from Hawk | of the new Peace River bridge, then | Villabos, D. Digo, and Alfredo Fe- ' traveled north to Whitehorse and |jando. | | Accompanying the party are Maj. | Coastal were cancelled. ! Gen. Philip F. Fleming, Adminis- | S5 A | i a sophomore in the Douglas class|Garster, M. H. Truesdel, J. G. Mor- | | CANNERY OFFICIALS LEAVE The casket will not be open dur-| Fisheries superintendent Joe Elson,!may view the remains at the all left a week ago, with the ex-(12 geclock i property, acting as watchman until TRIPS ARE MADE | |Coastal Airlines yesterday afternoon | | | Agnes Peratrovick, Helen Evart, Joe . Andres Julaton, Charles B. Daniels, Senator in Juneau Says, Alaska nghway I | A nignt to Excursion Inlet took | {J. Meherin going to Hoonah. Com- | Dakota, co-author of a bill which|wooten, Ernie Burnett, William F. | there is a very good chance that the | pagsangers to Pelican were Mr. ! - favor of it the bill will get im-|p,uy et Returning were Fred |investigating the Alaska Highway, ¢ | gating s { Benedicto Viloria and F. S, Conpu/,’ {for 90 miles near Fairbanks which lhad as passengers George L. Bar-, | reaching out toward the north with |son, Ed Alygana and E. B. Skuls. Other members of the committee | Shauson, Edward Lincoln, George | ware. They attended the opening |Inlet were Johnny Abass, Sherman ' i made the trip down to Juneau. Today's flights of the Alnskn: trator of the Federal Works Agency, | BATES RETURN and Commissioner Thomas H. Mac- | garold Bages, lawyer, has returned l Donald, head of the Public Roads | rom Seattle and is at the Bar. | Administration. e it sieid "a“"m' The party will fly to Fairbanks| | as soon as weather permits. Ben- | { jamin W. Thoron, head of the Divi- | | sion of Territories and Island Pos- | sessions of the Department of the| ! Interior, who arrived in Juneau by | plane yesterday, will go to Fairbanks | D { | ! SUZY WINN LEAVES | Elizabeth Winn, daughter of Mrs.| Bess Winn, left this morning by“ steamer for the south where she| will enter the University of British| Columbia at Vancouver for her| sophomore year. Miss Winn attend- | ed Reed College last year. ‘ 2 - B HERE FROM SITKA | H. 8. Finch, of Sitka, is registered 35 Fried Broiled Steak and Chicken . SERVED 'ANY TIME DINE AND DANCE D — BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH WHO 2 T DEPRRTAMENTO NACIONAL DO CREE’ 2 NARD BIRD SNIIFEY SMITH 2 VK - VL SEE \F ol had been paid for several years. The of the Gastineau Channel War pionemen protested vigorously, and Savings Committee, reported a t0- |, many instances refused to fish al to date of $2,446 in war bonds' ;i the regulations were amended sold during the first two days of| o yestore normal business practices. the Third War Loan Drive. Generally speaking, they had no If sales continue at that rate the protest against the price: people of Juneau and Douglas won't e chalk up a tenth of their $250000 quota before the drive ends Sep-! HA MAN DIES George Peterson, native of tember 15. died yesterday at the Govern- Operating the booths this even-| ment Hospital. The remains ave at ing will be the American Legion'the Charles W. Carter Mortuary and the Catholic Daughters. Am-'and arrangements for the funeral erican Legionaires selling will he!are pending receipt of word frcm C. C. Carnegie, George Gullufsen,'a son, Joe Peterson, at Haines - 'BRITISH PLANE si:w&kli — LONDON, Sept. 2—British Mrs. Harold Roth, accompanied by | craft production for the second her young son, flew to the West- | quarter of 1943 exceeded by 40 per- Waino Hendrickson, James Sofouli: Alfred Zenger, Fred Cameron, J5& Thibodeau, L. A. Sturm and Ed- ward Keithahn - - MRS. HAROLD ROTH, |ward yesterday enroute to Sew-h-mu the output during the same ard where they will join Mr. Roth, newly elected Superintendent of Schools for that place. ¥ i])mifld in 1940, Capt. Oliver Lyttle- ton, Production Minister, announced today. DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED KFirst National Bank of JUNEAU, ALKSKA INSURANCS €O 017 SOME CAFE' 22 MANBE THEY WANT 0 FRNOR ME W\F Q FREE MEAL NO-N0 - THE DOUGLAS INN * OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT air- \S COFFEE N BRAZIL SNOFFY- \T'S TdE | MANY GUESTS AT " CHAMBER TODAY It was announced at the Cham- ber of Commerce meeting this noon |that Herb Waugh has replaced Rp- {bert Davlin, resigned, as member of the Executive Board. Tom Allen was named chairman jof the Special War Activities Com-~ jmilLE('. Jack Fletcher chairman of the - Attehdance Committee, and Trevor Davis chairman of a new committee on post-war planning, Guests included Mrs. Betty Mo- | Cormick, who spoke on the cur- Ru~ rent Third War Loan Drive; Juneau Phone 616 COFE’ GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. EDISON MAZDA LAMPS The Standard of Comparison * Alaska Eleciric Light and Power Company TTELL T VARMINTS T DONT KANOW B BLESSET THWNG ABOUT THAT SHRT FulL Q' COFFEE BEANS WHAT e ccscece e IN PARAMOUNT NEWS— e MOP UP OF ATTU TOTAL VICTORY PREVUE OF AND MORE! dolph Halley, assistant chief coune sel of the Truman Committee, U, S. Senate; Herb Carbray, manag of the Alaska department of Seattle Hardware Co.; Pvt. Frank Kasalgd, Special ervices, U. S. Army, assignett to KINY; Capt. F. A. Zeusler, chiéf of the U. S. Coast Guard in Alaskag; Chaplain Herbert P. Vogel of ti U. S. Army, and Capt. Cecil Mont- gomery of the U. S. Army. t .- - ® o 00 0 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT Ld (U. 8. Bureau) . Temperature for Wednes- , @ day, September 1, - Maximum 52; minimum 48. e Rain, .03 inch . o o ® Douglas Phone 18 SHOWED UP N\SS\NY il r’(/// 7% / ectric Hammond Organ Music DINE AND DANCE 8% Wawt