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

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23 , 1943 LAST TIMES TONITE! i‘;}'ncu NAVY, N COME »% tHROUGH Vo oo O'BRIEN - MURPHY - WYATT Wednesday—Thursday MURDER solved by | a sightless sleuth! PRI, | | | | o EYE IN THE NIGHT Eivard An o ARNOLD . HARDING - REED PREVUE TONIGHT | battles against U-boats and the| sel, provide dramatic highlights | 'High Court Refuses to NAVY DRAMA T0 END TONIGHT ON CAPITOL SCREEN A service romance laid against the grim background of the Battle of the Atlantic, and a gripping feud between two navy men, form the’ dual theme of “The Navy Comes Through,” showing tonight for the last times at the Capitol Theatre for our Pt. Louisa garden the follow- Yum, Yum! and It Is Said with Flowers, Too! Talk about Alaska, and especially Juneau, being in the frozen north, just glimpse this temperature zone article received this morning by the Empire from Wellman Helbrook: “On November 21, 1943, we had dinner freshly gathered from "Bri ,{Ing vegetables and green stuff: Pat O'Brien and George Murphy|!D8 Vege | & i Carrots, turnips, brussel sprouts, co-featured in the picture, and | vt e broccoli, radishes, celery, lettuce, \ Jane Wyatt is the heroine of the offering. O'Brien is in command of the navy gun crew on the freighter and is disgusted when he finds that Murphy, a disgraced former navy officer who has enlisted as a sea- man, is a member of the crew. Be- lieving O'Brien to be responsible for his original difficulties, Murphy resents the situation — especially since O'Brien’s sister, a navy nurse, is in love with him despite her brother’s advice. After the freighter goes to sea the veiled hostility between the two men breaks into open warfare when in an attack by Nazi planes Murphy suspected of cowardice. Thrilling | | | i | capture of the German supply ves-| the setting for the personal rela-| tionships o fthe three principals, | ntil a stirring climax brings mat-| ters to a satisfactory conclusion. KRG Chief Justice of U. S. Suzanne Wade Has | Seventh Birthday' | | and Mrs. | | Twenty-two friends of Suzanne ‘Wade, daughter of Mr. Hugh J. Wade, gathered at the| family home on the Basin Roa yesterday afternoon in celebration | of her seventh birthday. Games were played during the| party hours and birthday refresh- ments highlighted the festivities. Pllie i Gl | ® © o & o & o o o @ L] WEATHER REPORT . ‘ . (U. S. Bureau) .| e Temp. for Monday, Nov. 22 ® e Maximum 43; Minimum 39 ® Rain 31 .| ® & 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 e, BUY WAR BONDS | day, in a letter read to the Senate ;Jusnce would be requested by the | ‘TCircuit Court Judge to serve as um- | Name Ballot Umpire WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.— Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone said to- by Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, he would decline to take part in the | appointing of any member to the proposed War Ballot Commission, | which would administer absentee voting by the armed forces. Under the terms in the pending Servicemen's Vote Bill, the Chief | President to appoint an Associate | Justice of the Supreme Court or a | pire and to cast a deciding vote in case of a deadlock on the proposed four member bi-partisan commis- sion, Vandenberg said the letter made it necessary to rewrite the bill. - e — PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY Have a portralt artist take your picture. Hamersley Studio. Opposite | Federal Buuding. Phone 284. adv checked for that m for the duration. Juneau Phone 616 THE management of this bank is pledged to conserva- tive operstion. The safecy of depositors’ funds @ eur primary considerstion. In addition, the bank is 2 mem- ber of Federal Deposit Insur- ance Corporation,which is- sures each of our depositors against los e & mazimum of $5,000. - First National Bank of JUNEAU, fMeMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE™COR? It Is Important at This Time to have your . Eleetrie Refrigerator might cause a complete breakdown * Alaska Electric Light and Power Company IN THIS BANK inor defect which Douglas Phone 18 ARE INSURED ATIOR ered chrysanthemums, calendula, yellow- | anof, having registered from Sea'- | white-Michaelmas and Shasta dai- | tle. pansies, Virginia stock, lupine, ane- Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636. cabbage, lima beans, beets, parsley | and horse radish. This, with some | venison killed a week before, made real Al Freshly gath-1{ table were aska dinner. flowers on the violas, pansies, Shakesperian |mone, clover, nasturtiums, wall flower, hollyhock and arabis.” And here is the postscript: “All| of above growing in the open and 8: athered on 11-21-43." - e, YOUR BROKEN LENSES Replaced in our own shop. Eyes SALTED PEANUTS FRESH F ASSORTED SALT NUTS FIGS! The Very Finest! == THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA } ANCHORAGE MEN HERE | Joseph Broadhurst and Juck E.| Howe, both of Anchorage, are reg- | istered at the Baranof Hotel | > AT BARANOF HOTEL Leonard R. Schwartz is registered as a guest at the Baranof. e F. A. HANSEN HERE Here from Cordova, F. A. Hansen is at the Baranof Hotel. | E B S CARLISLE AT BARANOF Registered from Anchorage, H. K. Carlisle is at the Baranof. D HERE FROM SITKA James Munden, here from Sitka, is at the Baranof Hotel. B HERE FROM STATES | Edward C. Johnston is at the Bar-l - e - WITH BUREAU OF MINES | B. S. Webber, with the Bureau of | Mines, is at the Gastineau Hotel - MINING ENGINEER HERE Robert. Thorne, engineer for the| EU. S. Bureau of Mines at Fairbanks | arrived here by PAA yesterday on | an official business trip. The reservoir at Zaghouan, Tu-| SWEET POTATOES - 2 Ibs, 35 TEXAS GRAPEFRUIT SWEET CIDER, Bring Your Jug - - - - ROZEN FR | been turned on our troops in Mas- PICKLES Hero of Attu Battle Gets Silver Star By NORMAN BELL (Associated Press War Correspondent) ALASKAN DEPARTMENT, Nov. 23 —Lt. Col. James Bush, officer ot the fighting engineers, who stopped | the last frantic suicidal charge of} the Japs at Attu, has been decorated | with the Silver Star for gallantry in action The engineers’ stand broke up the | screaming Japanese on the morning | of May 29 after they had swarmed | up the Chichagof Valley and over- | run the American infantry positions. | He prevented the enemy from seiz- ing the artillery which could have sacre Valley. ““It was a question or kill or die,” recalled the Mobile Alabama, of- | children. 1 The action took place in darkness | Examined. Dr. Rae Lilllan Carlson |nisia, has been supplying drinking|and Bush, with other officers, finally | adv, | water for more than ‘18 centuries. succeeded in rallying the engineers’ in India. COCKTAIL SAUCE PITTED DATES CRAB ALMONDS RAISINS WALNUTS OLIVES DEL MONTE—Large Tins UIT--=-Co DOES - Pl INDIGESTION *~ WALLOP YOU - gElOW THE BELT? 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An | estimated 800 to 1,000 Japs attacked about 5 a. m ! “It was pitch black and snowing. | We didn’t have more than five min- | utes’ warning before they came into our tents, shooting, slashing and screaming something that sounded | like ‘Kitsui’.” \ | Bush said he Kkilled four Japs himself and took one prisoner, and |a that not until around 11 a. m. did | the Japs start to retreat. The Silver Star was recommended by Maj. Gen. Landrum, and one other officer, Col. James Green, received his previously. el mous milady’s costume jewelry. can learn from Paramount's dra- matic new film, lThe\abre {borah Kerr, Hugh Williams, Ralph 'THE AVENGERS" CLOSES TONIGHT AT 20TH CENTURY In Nazi-occupied Europe that fa- “V” signal is much more than mystic symbol invented for use on That's only one of the things we “The Avengers,” nding tonight at the 20th Century The picture, starring De- —— e FROM FAIRBANK Carl Kiel, gene at Fairbanks, arrived in yesterday by PAA. SOM s 1 superintendent for the Sommers Construction Co.| Juneau| e — BURGLARY In Ketchikan recently, a burglar entered the cabin of Elmer Oker- lund and cleaned it out, taking evrything but the kitchen sink, In- | cluded in the haul was the bath- tub, chest of drawers, sideboards,| Vi |Richardson and Griffith Jones, is a powerful romance, told against a backdrop of war—the Battle of the Atlantic, the courage of the Com- mandos and the unceasing struggle {of the Norwegian “underground.” In Nazi-occupied Eumpv‘i‘x Nor- way and a dozen other sullen, seeth- (ing, desperate lands—the “V" signal stands for “Victory” * * * and for engeance. NEWS dishes, - cooking utensils, even the light fixture: - s a clarified b Ghee i Bert’s CashGrocery This Thanksgiving Shop at BERT’S for Everything the Market Affords at Prices Consistently Lower!! CRANBERRIES, Fancy (ape Cod - - 2 pounds 89 OYSTERS CLAMS TUNA === SEE THESE! 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LATEN ER-R-COLLONT WE HUMOR W) A LXTILE B\T-- T MIEGMT GWVE [ W\ O NEW \EASE ON used DOUGLAS HUGH COCHRANE RETURNS H. L. Coechrane, former Douglas | city Councilman and Director of 'iclvmnn Defense, returned to his home and family here on Sunday | evening from Seattle. He had been i in the States since early in May, | taking treatments for rheumatism. | Stating that Seattle is too big a place for him, he is happy to be back in Alaska where he can walk of his own accord and not be push- ed. { CITY COUNCIL .SESSION At last evening's City Council meeting many important issues were disposed of, Mayor E. E. Engstrom | presided. Stating that a vacancy had arisen in the Council, Mayor Engstrom appointed Lewis Wagner to fill that vacancy caused by the resignation of Frank B. Campbell, The appointment received unanim- ous consent of the Councilmen and Mr. Wagner was immediately sworn in and seated as a member. Mr. | , Wagner has been a resident of , Douglas for a number of years,| being well known and a property | | owner, | It was brought out at the meeting | | that the city-owned Natatorium, | now being used as an Armory for | the Territorial Guards, was not cov- | ered by any insurance, also that the | Insurance on the school gymnasium was not covered in a sufficient | amount. The Council ordered that a $5,000 insurance policy be taken | out on the Natatorium and an ad- | ditional $5,000 policy be taken out on the gymnasium, so that the cit will be amply insured on the public property. ( | Much discussion took place upon | the reading, by City Clerk Kilburn, | of a letter from the Douglas Pish- ! eries, asking for an additional five- | year lease on the city-owned Doug- | las cannery. The present lease ex- i pires next November, 1944. The | letter of request is to be taken | under advisement and a thorough investigation is to be made in the hope the city can realize better | terms in a new lease. Councilmen | present at the meeting were Hol. lingsworth, Cashen, Cuthbert, Wag- ner and Poor. Mrs. Dave Fenton, of Sitka, is registered at the Gastineau Hotel, — SITKA MAN HERE G. A. Colette, of Sitka, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel during his stay of a few days in Juneau, B i . e BUY WAR BONDS ENDS TONIGHT! The thrilling story of the men and women who risk their homes, their loves, even their. lives to battle the Nazi invaders! il United States Air Corps Band " Cartoon 2t 30 Minutes Latest World Newa i, ——PLUS— VICE-PRESIDENT ALASKA AIRLINES, ENROUTE H. W. Robinsdn, Vice President’ the Alaska Airlines, flew to Jun yesterday afternoon from his chorage office and is enroute on company business. % He is accompanied by Mrs. inson. SOCIETY NOT T0 The Missionary Society of Memorial Presbyterian Church not meet Thursday, according announcement, but will meet following Thursday, December % The session next Thursday willile held at the home of Mrs. JuM Cropley. b oo e MOTORBOAT “ETOLIN" i Leaves for . Haines, Satun morning at six. Phone Red AWAJ adv. i MOTORSHIP Juneau, Haines and STOP TW SR Fried SERVE Broiled Steak and Chicken D ANY TIME DINE AND DANCE THE DOUGLAS I OPEN UNT IL MIDNIGHT Electric Hammond Organ Music DINE AND DANCE Is femporarily laid up while new motors are installed and other improvements made. Waich this space for announce- ment of resumption of schedule between By BILLY DeBECK \TTER-BOGGINY € GOT TO SMELL SNEET S CATALDG BRIDE WHEN ME PATRICIA ; Skagway. &Y \NFUNNEL