The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 29, 1943, Page 2

WCTU Movie To Be Shown Here Ionighl W. C. T. U. mo- the Brain That > shown tonig a Council Chamber of wsored by the Temperance 1 by Mrs. Ruth President s invited to attend D e COL. CASTNER GETSAWARD HEADQUARTERS, ALASKAN RTMENT—Col. L. V. Castner, | r gencer officer for the Alaska Defense Command, has been award- d the Legion of Merit for “excep- tionally meritorious conduct in the rformance of outstanding serv- " it was announced by Lt Simon Boliver Buckner, Jr Col. Castner, of Oakland, Calif. helped plan the operations which irove the Japanese out of the Aleu- | " | Through his untiring efforts, in- ! itiative and knowledge of the Ter- ritory of ‘Alaska, he directed the development -of and is largely re- sponsible for the military intelli-| gence system in the Alaska theatre| of operations,” his citation said. i ““Throughout the - organizational | period prior to December 17, 1941, | 1d throughout the operational! period on the Alaska mainland andl in the Aleutians between December 7. 1941, and September 3, 1943, Col. | Castner demonstrated outstanding ! leadership and devotion to duty.” An Alaska enthusist and sports- man, Col. Castner organized the famed Alaska Scouts, an intelli- gence platoon including many Al- aska oldtimers sometimes referred to as “Castner’s Cut Throats.” He led a party of the Scouts on a reconnaissance mission on Adak, just r to its occupation by American ces, to determine whether the island was clear of hostile troops | and to select portions of the beaches suitable for landing operations. | They approached the island in two submarines and cast off for shore in small rubber boats at night, in weather that smashed and swamped one of the small craft against the side of one of the submarines. His Alaska Scouts also played a prominent part in other Aleutian operations, including the Battle of Attu and the occupation of Kiska. A graduate of the United States Military Academy. at West Point, Colonel Castner also graduated from the Infantry School, advanced course, and the Command and Gen- eral Staff School Recognized as an authority on Alaska, Col. Castner served at Chil- koot Barracks before the war when that was the largest Army garrison in Alaska. He has property chorage and maintains a home there. He is married and has two daughters, who attend the public schools at Anchorage. — - — CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our gratitude to those who were so helpful to us last week after the accident in which we were involved on the Glacier Highway, MR. and MRS. VICTOR JOHNSON and Family. adv. N 'Will Churchill Kidnap Hitler! That's Question of | Watch out, Adolf—Winnie’s got his eye on you. BY JAMES F. KING LONDON Commons laughed ALASKA AIRLINES Gen. ! when Prime Minister Churchill in I | “It certainly shows that there are | pASSENGERS HERE But the next day many a mem- | | wonder, could it be'. . . | Flahart and Cliff Everts, and | explaining how German parachut- many possibilities of this kind open oer of Commons was scratching his| An Alaska Airlines plane arrived Britons expect the spectacular | brought the following passengers in modern warfare.” head and muttering in hisfl beer "Ijherc on Saturday, piloted by Larry from their “Winnie” and !'s. Gamble, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. | Washburn and infant, Mrs. Lew mith, and Bert Carr. The plane returned to Anchorage kidnap Hitler. Winston Churchill delights in tantalizing predictions,. And they|S usually ring true—if you can read . them correctly. On June 30 he wm‘gllimsb:{‘k?fl);‘e]‘;::: :’eltxt‘;"z:enno:r}“" Commons that it was “very pmb‘;John PenRe R C. Lindley, Drj hully thiere " WAL -e~ Relvy flgh!ing}L 0. Risen.’And Howard S. Hen- in the Mediterranean and elsewhere | .. before the leaves of autumn fall.”| o s i Less than a month later—July 10/ = —a great Allied force invaded Si-| NEWS cily. ! So when Churchill says Musso- | lini's rescue “certainly shows that| there are many possibilities of this, k_ind open in modern war” Britons’ PRIVATE FIRST CLASS NOW 5“5:9- 4 : & N | In a recent letter from their son me members of Commons Who Glenard, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Kirk- laughed loudest at the time of the ham were informed that their son remark swear they saw a twinkle js now wearing a private first class Overnight this kind—but next time backfiring | Creek. He has been in the service on Hitler like so many other things |for the past eight months. have. ! “BACK TO WORK” } “Why not descend on Hitler's| winjam (Joe) Pikeé returned to | headquarters on the Eastern front?” ipjs duties with the United States| they from the Westward: Ralph Bloom, ! { wouldn't put it past him to try to Marta Ranglie, Harry Bowman, W. in Churchill's eye as he spoke. stripe on his sleeve. Glenard, who they began to conjure is stationed to the Westward now, | up pictures of further exploits of jreceived his training at Montana | some asked | “Why not on his crow's nest at | Engineering Department this morn- | | ing after a forced vacation for near- Joe underwent a south of An- | Berchtesgaden?” |ly three months. There is plenty of reason to be- major operation and has been rest- | lieve that Allied intelligence keeps ing until now he is again in good track of the fuehrer’s whereabouts.|condition and able to return to his| Some months ago Hitler's arrival work. ! at Munich was followed by a spec-‘ ial air raid on the Brown House.| It just missed him. It well could be that Commando LUNCHEON TODAY Mrs. Guy L. Smith, long-time Douglas resident who recently mov- | ed to Juneau, is entertaiing several | headquarters here are exploring of her Douglas friends at a luncheon | possibilities of kidnapping the feuh- today. Those invited to drop in are rer. And if you told a Briton that,|Mrs J. B. Carlyle, Mrs. A, E. Goetz {he'd only smile: and Mrs. Glen Kirkham. | vight.” ANGELO BERTILLI IS OUTSTANDING | | | FOR D. L W. C. MEMBERS | collEGE pl‘vm | The Douglas Island ‘Wonten's Club | | members are reminded that tomor- | NEW YORK, Nov. 29. — Angelo'mw (Tuesday) is the day set for | Bertilli, former Notre Dame star the repairing of old toys which will now pitching for Uncle Sam, hns‘be used for Christmas distribution. won the Heisman trophy for the Members are to meet at the 436 | outstanding college football player West Twelfth Street home of Mrs. |of the year by a vote of the sports |John McCormick in Juneau, either 1,\\'riter\ and broadcasters in the afternoon or evening. OTICE ill for several weeks, is leaving on | the first transportation for medical | treatment in Seattle. Mr. Havdahl !is an Alaska Juneau Gold Mining | Company employee. Raft of 400,000 ft.saw logs broken Parties up near Sumdum. wishing te salvage logs eontact JUNEAU LUMBER MILLS “Blimey, that's our Winnie all| pavnapr ENROUTE SOUTH | B. O. Havdahl, who has been quite |} 126 ARRIVE FROM SKAGWAY AND 46 ' ARE SOUTHBOUND | A southbound steamer arrived in port yesterday morning discharging the following passengers from Skag- way: Robert Fisher, David A. Hoff- man, Fred W. Harris, David Howard, Mrs, Katherine Matthews, James Malone, N. A. McEachran, Mrs. C.!| MaclIsaac, Mary Ogle, R. Randle- man, B. F. Pafenrath, Jim Sofoulis, Mrs. Elsie D. Soufoulis, Erick Sul- hein, L. F. Taylor, and Eloise Vali. | Taking passage for the south last evening were, for Seattle—Verna B, LaValle, Peter Kesovia, James E. Boyle, Beulah I. Boyle, Doris B.| Graham, Jessie 1. Epstein, Dean W. Knowles, James P. Lovett, Rose M.| O’Connor, John A, Damafos. 1 Mike Korussos, Beatrice R. Par-| sons, Isabel C. Parsons, John J.| Fargher, James W. Leivers, William | J. Bucknell, Edward W. Bultke,| Helen E. Zamjahn, Donald L. Zam- jahn, Homer W. Robinson, Isabelle | T. Robinson and Ellara A. Johnson. | For Vancouver—Lula A. Gulbran-l sen. | For Prince Rupert—Col. William | | A. Boyle. ! For Ketchikan—Henry Wankee,| Stephen D. McCutcheon, Margaret | A. Yount, George Lingazo, Chester E Shockey, Glen E. Good, Ina M. Mills, Lucius N. Wills, Irene M.! Johnson, Elmer R. Johnson, H. B.j Crewson, Robert Hubbard, Albert G.| Hammer, Charles E. Lane, W. V.| Mulvihill, and William S. McCun'y.l For Wrangell—Louise J. Joseph, william Paul, Jr., Frances S. Green, Nell E. Couch, and Nancy M. Poole. | ———d RANDOLPH FIELD 10 MEET TEXAS DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 29—Ran- 'colph Field has been selected to ‘oppose Texas in the Cotton Bowl I'here on January 1. | Randolph Field, with All-Ameri- |can Glenn Dobbs, formerly, of Tulsa | | University, played a ten-game sched- | lule, losing only one, a 6-0 score last Saturday to Southwestern Louisiana Institute. —————— BUY WAR BO! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU ALASKA ‘Koshelevskam on the Gomel | Zhlobin-Minsk Railroad nearly 30 | | miles northwest of Gomel. In a { |single day’s advance, the Russians | |Plunged ten miles from Uvarovichi, l one of the captured towns. | I | e | RAIL CITY DucK SEASON ENDS TODAY AT SUNDOWN Duck and goose season closes this | afternoon at 4:17 o'clock (sundown) |and the waterfowl may be held for el |45 additional ys in cold storage, in three Ukrainian sectors, at Kor-|according to Frank Dufresne, Ex- osten, Chernkiakhov and Brusilov, |ecutive Officer of the Alaska Game but still had no major gain to show | Commission since taking Zhitomir. The Berlin| The only game season now open radio yesterday claimed the rvcap-i s that of grouse and ptarmigan, ture of Korosten, 75 miles north-‘w‘n!ch eloses January 31. west of Kiev. The open season on fur animals, Gen. Rokossovsky's White Rus-iwnh the exception of marten and sian armies plunged ahead toward |beaver, will be from January 6 to Zhlobin after recapturing Buda'February 5, announces Dufresne. Soviets Ad;;cing Along| Escape Route Affer | Fleeing Germans (Continued trom rage One) We Appreciate Pan American Airways appreciates the patience and' understanding of our friends in Alaska at this time when every passenger and every ounce of cargo is subject to military priority. Afrer Victory, Pan American will pioneer new standards of service for Alaska. AN AWERICAN 17 63 While traveling is difficult . . . we'll be thinking of our friends in Alaska . . . Even if we don't see them . . . We Suggest £a s As the perfect Christmas Gift this year—UNITED STATES WAR BONDS. Patriotic . . . long-remembered. New Washington Hotel, Seattle FRANK B. McCLURE, Manager BRINGING UP FATHER | 4 OF BUYING A TOOLISH TH & ; SLIGHT AW ) rEAD] I} WHY-MOTHER! THS IS WONDERFUL ! \LOT OF | il OF ¥OU-BUT LOOK- I-TOO-HAD A NGS -1I'VE | || GOOD IDEA -1 BOUGHT A BOND | || BOND FOR YOU AND ONE ‘OH-YOL DARLING/ NOW THS | WE' | HAVE TWO BONDS” TSRV GIVEN EACH OTHER GIFTS AND HAVE TWO BONDS EACH! 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FEMMER—AGENT PHONE 114 FLY WITH ALASKA AIRLINES (formerly Alaska Star Airlines) NEW 14-PASSENGER Lockheed Lodestar JUNEAU t ANCHORAGE CONNECTIONS TO FAIRBANKS YUKON POINTS CORDOVA VALDEZ BRISTOL BAY KODIAK NOME KUSKOKWIM Leaves Juneau 12:30 P. M. DAILY PHONE 667 YAKUTAT Office Baranof Hotel Woodley Airways JUNEAU— ANCHORAGE Via YAKUTAT and CORDOVA Connections to ALL INTERIOR Alaska Points Loclkheed Arrives Juneau 2:00 P.M. Electra Leaves Juneau 2:30 P.M. Tuesday-Friday FOR RESERVATIONS ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES Phone 612 Agents . Juneau SLASEA COASTAL AIRLINES Serving Southeast Alaska——Passengers, Mail, Express SITKA TRIP—Scheduled Daily at 9:30 A. M Hawk An- Pel- Kim- Chicha- Inlet Hoonah goon jcan shan gof $10 $18 $18 818 818 18 Tenakee Todd Sitka s10 - a8 » 1 18 18 10 10 Sitka 5 at 9:30 A. M. y—Scheduled Daily Skagway $20.00 Haines Juneau .. $18.00 10.00 Skagwa! o Eipreis Rate: 10 cents per pound—Minimum Charge 60c Round Trip Fare: Twice One-Way Fare, less 10% Excursion Inlet—Scheduled Daily at 9 A. M. Juneau Excursion Inlet . $10.00 o Express Rate: 10 cents per pound—Minimum Charge 60c SCHEDULED TUESDAY and THURSDAY Ketchikan Wrangell Pef $45.00 $35.00 $30.00 Juneau ... 30.00 10.00 Petersburg ‘Wrangell .. 20.00 Express Rate: 25¢ per pound—Minimum of $1.00 to Ketchikan Express Rate: 10c per pound—Minimum of 60c to Petersburg and Wrangell Above rates applicable when passenger traffic warrants. Schedules and Rates Subject to Change Without Notice.