The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 29, 1943, Page 3

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1943 =1 JON HALL AND ' | MARIAMONTEZ AT CAPITOL Tapped more often than any other work of literature, “The Arabian Nights” has once again been made the basis of a motion picture, this time by Producer Wal- ter Wanger. From the earliest era in screen annals down to the present the movic makers have been drawing jupon this apparently inexhaustible |storehouse of entertainment The Wanger version, a Universal picture, now at the 20th Century Theatre, is an elaborate Technicolor production co-starring Jon Hall, Maria Montez and Sabu. It is first to use the original tag. “Arabian Nights,” and first to go all out for realism in background and charac- terization T — DESERT RAIDERS HAREM THIEVES! Slavers and Reckless Rogues! D DIRECTOR RETURNS FROM ROUTINE BUSINESS TRIP Dr. Berneta Block, Director of the Bureau of Child Health and Crip- pled Children’s Service, returned to Juneau yesterday from a five weeks’ routine inspection trip in the Inter- ior and to the Westward. She conferred with public health nurses in outlying areas. LA Religi(;us Botile. /i \\%\\N i -t Leif Erikson Billy Gilbert Barrier Howard Boftle-neck Or Army [s Caused by Shoriage of Chaplains Cormen D'Antonio (Continued from Page One) S ] e ® PLUS e MARCH OF TIME NVASION™ ST NEWS ligious bottleneck. The Army al- ready has built more than 1200 cantonment type chapels, equipped 1or use by Protestants, Catholics and Jews. Even in the field, there is no dearth of hymn baoks, books of scripture, portable organs, etc. In the last month for which fig- ures were available, nearly 122,000 serv were held, with an attend- ance total of 7.600,000. In addition, the chaplains reported more than 7.400,000 instances of personal con- tact, mostly private sessions with lads who have problems they wish to talk over. Not all these prob- lems are strictly spiritual, of course, (but they are of such importance in maintaining morale both at the front and at home that it becomes a major Army problem if there's shortage of chaplains. Under a recently adopted policy, the Army is now giving certification of award to churches, schools and LATE Show Place of Juneau IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, DIVISION NUMBER ONE, AT JUNEAU CHARLES S. PHILLIPS, Plaintiff, -y MARGARET M. PHILLIPS dant defen- ~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA INEW SECRET _ 'WEAPONS ARE "AMALING" Some Have Been in Use for | Several Months - Im- prove Fire Control WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. — The Navy’s number one Ordnance ex- pert has assured the country that| we wili have new secret weapons some of which are “fully comparable to the German radio controlled bomb acoustic torpedoes.” Others are even more amazing and more- | over, these weapons have been in use for “many months” said Rear «Admiral Blandy, Chief of the Bu- reau of Ordnance. At a press conference Blandy said that he asked for Sea Duty leave from his Ordnance post during the, next few months. The new weapons, he asserted, are truly secret. They are known neither to the American public nor the enemy. He further said that {“we have one development that cer- tain foreign scientists labeled im- possible, but I can't even disclose its nature.” Among the big secrets, he said, ere improvements in fire control. D Totem Club Officers | Meet This Evening The Rev. Walter A. Soboleff of |the Memorial Presbyterian Church, announces that a meeting of all |officers of the Totem Club will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the ! Government School. -, SEATTLE WOMAN HERE Veronica Horihan, of Seattle, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel - FROM INLET Ray Giileland and George F.| Wright, both of Excursion Inlet, are ; guests at the Baranof Hotel. -> HERE FROM SKAGWAY | Raymond Rendelman, of Sk:u.zwn_v.‘ is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. | we No. 5147-A SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. The President of the United States of America. To the above named defendant, GREETING: ‘You are hereby required to appear in the District Court for the Terri- tory of Alaska, First Division, at Juneau, Alaska, within thirty (30} days after the last publication of this summons, in case this sum- mans is published, or within forty (40) days after the date of its service upon you, in case this sum- mons is served upon you personally, and answer the plaintiff's complaint on file in the said court and in the above entitled cause. The plaintiff in said action de- mands the following relief: Disso- lution of the marriage now exist- ing between plaintiff and defend- ant on the grounds of incompatibil- ity, And in the event you fail so to appear and answer, the plainuff will take judgement against you for want thereof, and will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said complaint, and as herein | religious organizations who “lend- | lease” their pastors or other offic- NOTE—From time to time, in this space, ials for the duration. Any member there will appear an article which we hope lof the ministry under 45 years of Will be of interest to our fellow Americans. { 3 ‘This is number one of a series. ‘age is eligible for enlistment, but only those who are physically fit BCHENLEY INTERNATIONAL COR it NEW YORK to stand the gruelling conditions of | made my friend, the judge, so irate. | | What really riled him was the con- | stant reference to all alcoholic bev- | erages as “intoxicating liquors,” or | battle are assigned to combat units. e h ed in this country and at advanced A/ y s | but not front-line bases. one in any branch of the services: e — | which doesn't obtain its quotas from| Thig writer was dining at the club | ministry are exempt from the draft. friends; one a judge, and the other | —— O i . s . the president of an important busi- | 8TH ARMY dent on a well-known radio forum... | | right in the middle of an animated | | tablishing prohibition for the dura- | tion. Two of the debaters were for, ON FRON But.the debate itself was not what | There are hundreds of others need- The Chaplain Corps is the only “Intoxicants 4 4 | selective service. Members of the! g, o time ago with two very dear | ness. We had tuned in quite by acci- | | debate on the advisability of re-es- | IN SMASH and two were against it. | (Continued from Page One) Sv Ky SHE’S, FLYER JINX FALKENBURG, above, photog- rapher's model and screen actress, has been selected by cadets at Merced, Cal., Army Flying school as their “rivet-up” girl. Since it is impossible to stick pins into the steel of planes, the flyers have started riveting-up pictures of their favorites. @ (International) r Chinese Now Have Nippons Beafen Back Defenders m th angsha Area Hurl Terrific | Force Againt Japs 29. CHUNGKING, Nov Japanese | _ i forces, attempting to seize the vital Changteh, gateway to Chan were beaten back and are retiring in disorder, according to fragmentary reports which reach-| ed here today. The dispatch said the Japanese hurled waves of infangry which were supported continuously by ar- tillery fire and air bombardment The Chinese defenders fought back stubbornly The Chinese Command said more | than 2,000 invaders were wiped out Friday after being charged from, behind. Two thousand Japanese are re-| ported to have been Kkilled yester- day northwest of Changteh at| Tzeli, when they advanced preced- ed by clouds of poison gas. The enemy is reported to be evacuating the town of Taoyuan, southwest besieged city. Chinese headquarters acknow- ledged however, that Chinese forces were surrounded by the Japanese between Taoyuan and the Tungting Lake. ->-e city of RIVET-UP”’, GIRL' "WRECKING CREW' IS NOW FEATURED | AT 20TH CENTURY| | Real life happenings make the I best movie incidents,” declares Max- well Shane and Richard Murphy. who collabgrated on the screenpla; {of Paramount’s “Wrecking Crew, starring Richard Arlen, Chester| |Morris and Jean Parker, which is {now playing at the 20th Century) Theatre. Several dramatic incidents were |worked out after long, careful and note-filled discussions and observa- tions on demolition sites with hard- ! bitten wrecking men A spine-! tingling rescue sequence is credited ) to no man’s imagination, but is ac-| tually a narrow escape lived through | by a well-known steeplejack. * ALASKA COASTAL ' TRIPS ARE MADE DURINGWEEKEND | On Saturday the Alaska Coastal | Airlines made a trip to Excursion Inlet with Ben Bird, returning with | Floyd Dougherty, Ben Summerville, {M. M. Duderstet and Walter R. Shield. Erik Oslund was a passenger on a flight to Haines, and the return trip brought in Earl Sperling, Nick Alters, O. B. Godfrey, Florence | Sommers, Emma Smith and Henry | Seaberg. | A flight to Excursion Inlet yes-| terday took Mr. Trelawney to that| lcity, and coming back to Juneau jwere Olaf Tontinsen, Ole Brandt, Calvin Morrison, Roy Gilleland x\ndi George F. Wright. Charles B. Haegele and Ernest Plohn were passengers to the Inlet |today, the plane bringing back | Philip D. Kavanaugh, Kenneth L.| Kiger,” James A. Watson, Donald | Hansen, Daniel Phelan, and Tom | W. Olsen., | A trip to Sitka today had the following passengers: Stanley Yasis, Charlotte Roach, Howard Button,' and Edna Weast. The return flight brought Ed Donly, Lucille Cefferty, Robert, D. Burns, Joseph W. Alek- semicz and Russell Clithero. ->> UPHEAVAL AFTER | SALE OF ARMY 1944 QUOTA OF DRAFTEES IS RAISE 300,000 Men Will Be In- ducted First Month of New Year WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. Some 300,000 men, far more than the War Manpower Commission expected alled, T be tapped by Uncle Sam’s mili y service in January e, WMC had indicated that the A "Zmit\ requirements would drop sharply after the first of the year, but the War Department certified that the January call would be twice as large As a result of the combined Army and Navy demands the monthly quota will remain at its present level of about 300,000 men for the first month of 1944, The War Department has increas- ed the January call by more than 50,000 above replacement require- ments, because of lagging enlist- ments in the WACS and due to failure of draft board to meet in October. Quotas of draft boards are below | the standard induction figures which is attributed to uncertainty over the father draft legislation and the con- sequent reluctance to order pre- Pearl Harbor parents to report. | - e COCA COLA REPRESENTATIVE IN JUNEAU ON BUSINESS Paul Lesko, Alaska representative | | OBSOLETE TOOLS, WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. The War Department has announced | the investigation of the sale of Army-owned tools in Detroit to pri- vate sources resulted in the resigna- tion of one officer and others will| be “subject to reclassification pro- | ceedings” or sever adminstrative ad- monitions. | Changes will also be made in the procedure of handling the sale of obsolete surplus material. | The sale, which set off the in-| vestigation included 110 tons of cutting tools for approximately $76,- The original cost was approxi- mately one and three quarter mil- lion dollars, but the majority of them had become obsolete. e LONDON, Nov. 29. — Maj. Gen William E. Kepner, Eighth Air Force Fighter Commander, asserted in a broadcast to the United States: “I think I can say the Germans already know they cannot win but the enemy can fight back cleverly with limited resources but can't win vice clerk for Pan American Air- | ways, now is in Juneau while await- | ing transportation to Seattle*where | " PAGE THREE UOORLENTURY WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAYI LAST TIME TONIGHT For Thrills! | * “WRECKING CREW" A Paromount P RICHARD CHEST \cture starring R JEAN ARLEN ~ MORRIS PARKER wn Joe Sawyer - Esther Scraen Play by Mawell S| CART Mcl Dale - piectes hane and Richard Mu 30 — MINUTES WORLD NEWS — 30 - v CONSTRUCTION MAN HERE | H. A. Bowman, of Anchorage, em- | ployee of the Morrison-Knudsen | Construction Company, is a guest at | the Baranof Hotel. S e ANCHORAGE MEN HERE L. E. Flahart and C. Everets, both of Anchorage, are guests at the Baranof Hote! RS SEaTe s FROM EXCURSION R. O. Decker, of Excursion Inlet, is registered at the Baranof Hotel. e HERE FROM HAINES Emma Smith and Florence Lam- mers, both of Haines, widely known in Juneau, are guests at the Gas- tineau Hotel - FROM PORT ANGELES Carl Morrison, of Port Angeles, Wash,, is registered at the Baranof Hotel. O SRS PAA EMPLOYEE HERE Miss Janet Swart, passenger ser- she has beeQ assigned after duty | in Fairbanks, T—— INDIAN 'AFFAIRS WORKER ENROUTE TO NEW POST | Mrs. Elizabeth Fellers, Special Assistant with the Office of Indian | Affairs, is in Juneau from the States, enroute to her new post at Newhalen, e SITKA BOUND Robert J. Claire of Sitka, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel until he secures passage to return to his | NOW PLAYING— "INTERNATIONAL . SQUADRON" DOLL HOUSE AWARD WILL BE MADE ON WEDNESDAY Announcement was made today by the Junior Trinity Guild that the awarding of the doll house will be Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'cloel PSRN SKGAWAY WOMAN HERE - Carolyn Maclsaac, of sngw-y'. registered at the Baranof Hotel. D TWO FROM ANCHORAGE Edwin D. Blain and Lloyd Cleaves, both of Anchorage, are guests at the Baranof Hotel. $ i S Sy 4 Canadlan Pacific Alr Lines, Fairb CHRISTIAN ROUSTS “intoxicants.” My business friend ' { hastily concurred with the judge, and, of course, so did this writer,; THE WINGS OF THE WORLD'S CREATEST TRAVEL SYSVEM for the Coca Cola Export Co., ar-against the hammer blows of the rived in Juneau from Whitehorse lajr force which will continue to today by PAA on a business trip. |grow. The morale of our pilots is - . !getting higher but the German’s TOM MORGAN OF NOME ANNOUNCE | ARRIVAI- OF BABE.l BACK (morale has no where to go but - | Tom Morgan of the Columbia {down hill.” Juneau friends of Mr. and Mrs.|Lumber Co., returned from Seattle | - BATAAN CAFE been intoxicated in our lives. And | Christian A. Roust, of Nome, Al- today by PAA after an official busi- | have never been total abstainers. | aska, received announcements this pess trip south. { 3 5 @ i <11 | week heralding the arrival of infant W Said the judge, “Why in Sam Hill { o 0 Py oo Roust, born No-| - [ : : do the Drys constantly refer to what DICK CONGDON IN enuine oW Meln Chop Suey L] COME ONE ——————COME ALL! . stated. Witness the Honorable Geo. F. communique said “valuable infor- Alexander, judge of said Court, and mation” was gathered by small pa- the seal of said court hereunto af-|trols penetrating into enemy ter- although he doesn’t count in this fixed this 8th day of November, | ritory. discussion because he is, naturally, 1943. Before the Eighth Army’s wheels hiaged. The fact is (and we weren't | (Seal of Court) | were set churning westward from|pragging), not one of us had ever | ROBERT E. COUGHLIN | the Sangro bridgehead into the en- Clerk of the above entitled court. emy's hill positions toward Rom By: J. W. LEIVERS, | British destroyers laid down a bom- Deputy Clerk | bardment on the enemy port of Ci- First Publication November 8, 1943.| vitaova, 20 miles south of Ancona Last Publication November 29, 1943. on the Adriatic coast. It Is Important at This Time i ~ fohave your Eleectric Refrigerator checked for that minor defect which might cause a complete breakdown for the duration. * Alaska Eleciric Light and Power Company Juneau Phone 616 - Douglas Phone 18 Broiled Steak and Fried Chicken BERVED ANY TIME home. He has been visiting in Seattle. MOTORSHIP PATRICIA. Is temporarily laid up while new motors are installed and other improvemenis made. Watch this space for announce- ment of resumption of schedule between Juneau, Haines and Skagway. we are now drinking, right here, as vember 5. The youngster weighed 7 WHITEHORSE TRIP| : 2 . ¥ 1% | pounds, 8 ounces. [ g . g an intoxicant? We’re not taking this |~ m o' rother served in the last| Dick Congdon, meteorologist for Pan American Airways here, left to-| friendly drink to become intoxicated, | Territorial Legislature as Repre- ) and Iresent theimplidation that 1am ) gentative from the Second Division, day for Whitehorse on company a partaker of intoxicating liquors. land Mrs. Roust served as Assistant |Pusiness. | i | “Listen,” said the judge, 'you can | Clerk in the House. ‘ drown yourself by taking too much | { i BRI Rt TWO. FROM KANSAS CITY Dr{W. M. Dudenstadt and Walter Ry Shuitd, both of Kansas City, Mo., ¢ guests at the Baranof Hotel. FROM KODIAK Mrs. Ruth du Bos, of Kodiak, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. 289 So. Franklin Street Open All Night w water aboard; you can put yourself | in the hospital by exposing yourself | immoderately to the blessed sun- shine; and it is nothing new that a | man can dig his grave with his teeth; | he can eat himself to death. One of | | the most prominent men in America, | a generation ago, was a teetotaler, | |and over-eating undoubtedly has- tened his end. I have seen him take three helpings of mashed potatoes in a railroad dining car at one sit- ting! This thing just burns me up,” concluded the judge. So, we had a second highball, and drank a toast to our boys (we each | have one) who aren’t here to get into | any wet and dry debates; they’re | overseas, helping to lick Hitler | and Hirohito. (They’ve already done | a job on Mussolini). And that means | one out—and two to go! MARK MERIT THE DOUGLAS INN * DINE AND DANCE OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT hau i e —rs - - ' - BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH NE CANTANKEROWS SKONKY NE QWT WUTH MORE By BILLY DeBECK CONME TO PAPPM F WOWLD NE LIKE SOME WOG CRACKLIN'G AN CORN PONE \EET\E ONE 2 ectric Hammond Organ Music DINE AND DANCE