The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 9, 1943, Page 3

ik ‘THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1943 TONIGHT! “SILVER It's a bang-up musical with every girl in town after Johnny! § QUEEN" Cioncr srint starring " ALLAN JONES . FRIDAY s and SATURDAY SWELL FEATURES Evangelis! ~From China = IsinJuneau Mrss Wong,'F;ur Years in Cinton Under Jap Rule, Ao Give Talks Here . R. B. Wong, Pentecostal mis- siol and evangelist, who was in | China. for five years, four years in | Canton under the brutal rule of the | Japnese, and who returned home as @i repatriate on the former trip of the exchange ship Gripsholm, has: ‘arrived in Juneau and the evamigelist will be heard three times w! here at the Bethel Tabernacle, A ly of God, Fourth and Frank- lin ets, according to the Rev. R. E. er. Wong will be heard at 8 tomorrow (Friday) night and make addresses at 11 o'clock #8y morning ‘and again at 8 DONALD JANE FRAZEE PEGGY and PHIL SPITALNY 2 and his HOUR OF CHARM ALL GIRL ORCHESTRA A Universal Picture Tonight STARTS 2:30 A, M. o'clock in the evening at the Bethel Tabernacle. Mrs. Wong will give her ex- periences during the four years she was under Japanese rule in Canton, relate the horrors witnessed, the tortures administered especially on | the Chinese by the Japs, and the frightful, almost unbelievable con- ditions existing. Wofld Service Ci-rcle Will Meet Tomorrow The regular meeting of the World | Service Circle will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the par- lors of the Northern Light Presby- terian Churth. Hostesses for the occasion will be Mrs. George Almquist and Mrs. Mayme Cassell. | During the afternoon Mrs. Robert \ Sanford will review the popular | Lloyd C. Douglas book, “The Robe.” —————————— ‘ FROM WHITEHORSE Joy R. Bickler, of Whitehorse, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. FROM ANCHORAGE S L L FROM TACOMA Barbara Lyman ,of Tacoma, Wash., |is registered at the Baranof Hotel. *FRESH EASTERN OYSTERS (Unlimited Supply) FRESH SHRIMP MEAT - (Can be bought in any amount) AHuIchings’Economy Markel ’ 'PHONE 553 EDISON MAZDA LAMPS New Shipment Just Arrived! oy * b ectric Light and Power Company .. Juneau Phone 616 Douglas Phone 18 AEGAMBliiIG FILM /Sullivan and Jake Kilrain many| rounds. ~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE — ENDS TONIGHT, CAPITOL SHOW People still talk of the longest recorded fight—between John L. PROGRAM THURSDAY, December 9, 9 pm.! But “Silver Queen,” society dra-|-—Dance. in the USO (Broadeast 's ago. Their bout went 75 'ma of 1870 which ends tonight at over KINY, between 10:15 and| we often ask the fellows if they and Richard Whorf—Sheridan and| |the. Capitol Theatre has in it love,|10:45). [can name the six agencies consti- Reagan as a couple who s(rl\lfillllt ving high stake gambling, lavish settings| FRIDAY, December 10, 6:45 p.m. and a fisticuffer that can outdo —Meeting of Servicemen's Qouncil even the Sullivan fight. lin USO; 7:30 p.m.—Movies in uso| George Brent, hero of the film, Lobby; 8:00--Meeting of Committee and Bruce Cabot, villian, pounded'ol’ Management in USO; 9:00 pm.— UNEAU, ALASKA |ANN SHERIDAN, USO NEWS |“ponaipreacan | AT 20TH CENTURY. A lusty action drama that conv! bines breezy dialogue and torrid| at least some assurance of that nf-lrommwe. is at the 20th Century| fection. | Theatre, where Warner Bros.' “Juke Girl” is shown. In the top roles| lare Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan| | { 1 \ SUNDAY NIGHTS AT 9:30 tuting the national USO. It is in-|along trying to make a | teresting that when they list them|where-ever they can find it; and | the first one named, almost invar- | Whorf ‘as the fellow who is going | fably, is The Salvation Army. Maybe t0 g0 places by throwing his seru- this a coincidence. But we like to|ples to the wind. Also featured are WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAYI 20" [ENTURY each other for several days before the cameras. They were battling for the love of blonde heroine who plays the title role. Brent won not only the fight but the Silver Queen, but not be- fore he and Cabot exchanged some high-power he-man socks. DR. HAYES TALKS ON TB PROBLEM AT CHAMBER HERE 2,000 Active Cases in Ter- ritory and Only - 100 Beds With 2,000 active known cases of tuberculosis in the Territory today, there are only 100 beds available | for tuberculosis patients in all of | Alaska, Dr. George Hays of the United States Public Health Ser- lvice told members of the Junenu‘sm this year more people through-| | Chamber of Commerce today. Dr. Hays asserted that there is no problem as important in Alaska | today as this, both economically land otherwise, because the disease away from home for all the fel- lows will experience a deeply-felt o strikes mainly those persons in the prime of their productive life, causing economic disaster not only to individual families but also to the community and Territory. There is 15 times as much tuber- Priscilla Lane,| Making candy and pop-corn, fol-/think that it is due rather to the|George Tobias, Alan Hale, Gene| \lowed by Game Party, at USO. !fact that around the Juneau USOiLockhnn. Betty Brewer and many | SATURDAY, December 11, 8:30|Club the personal contribution of [others | p.m.—Movies in the US Lobby, fol-|The Salvation Army is definitely| “Juke Girl" has an exciting story ‘lowed by evening of dancing to more than its one-sixth share quo-to tell, and tells it well, making] | Juke Box. [ta, thanks to Capt. T J. (“Ted") jevery line of dialogue, every bit | | SUNDAY, December 12, 1:30 p.m.!Dyck. Officially Capt. Dyck is the of action contribute directly to the | | tor later at convenience of SEI'VIC(‘:C]ubh Treasurer and & member of stark plot. Briefly, it tells how men)—Trip to Mendenhall Glacier; its Committee of Management; un- |simple, hard-working people refuse | 15:00 p.an.—Music, coffee and cookies |officially Ted is a warm personal to be brow-beaten by a man who | in USO Lobby; 9:30 p.m.—Vespers|friend to each of us on the staff|thinks his position gives him the in USO Lobby; 10:00 p.m.—Singing and to all the fellows who know |right to rule other people's lives.| around piano. him. | The stirring climax makes one; MONDAY, December 13, 8:00 pm.| The Club is happy ‘to announce of the most exciting sequences to i—Forum Club meeting at private that on Sunday nights during De- have flashed across the 20th Cen-| home. Get your reservation at USO |cember, and indefinitely theren!wl',;(ury screen this season |desk. 8:30 p.m.—Movies in USO/Capt. Dyck will conduct the USO| i o | Lobby. vespers. These services formerly | " | “ g 4 | National USO prevent clubs in cit- | TUESDAY, December 14, 9:00 have been in the charge of one O vug thoghs ‘corripeting - with 166l ex- | (broadeast over KINY); 9:45 pm.—!to time were assigned to Juneau;'e, .., Byt recently our picture: TR R [but recently Chaplain Vogel left have eithér been very fine shows | WEDNESDAY, December 15, 7 |and it seems unlikely that he will of @ few years ago, s\[ch as “Henry | {pm.—Movies in USO Lobby: 8:45/be succeeded by anyone, at least VIIL" or. at least good, fairly u))-! | pm.—Card party on second floor./for the present. (Incidentally, We ¢ qi¢n B films Clinteasted with | % | 19:00 p.m—Old-fashioned Dances in acknowledge our deep indebtedness .. pictures of six months ago,! | USO Lobby {to Herbert Vogel for many fine ynis gmoutts to no less than a tri- A LONG. WAY FROM HOME services conducted here. Both per- mph, In those days some of us who Home is the place, the one-and-!sonally and in his official capacity occasionally lamented the fact that ! |only-place, for an ideal Christmns.gu%(l),wm mls:m:im flbol\oxt)'me o lJunenu was so comfortable and| R, 988 g a = ‘modern a place as to be quite un-| {out the world will find themselves pers has been dissappointing: the like the pprimmvo Alaska of our, |away from home than ever before attendance has generally been q“‘“"jimngmlng. had only to attend °"8i in history. In Juneau the USO wlll.sman. As Christmas draws near, oc ,u- USO movie shows and sud- do its best to serve as a home we believe that more of the re}'\dunly we found ourselves back in“ re-world-war-I amusement lows here on Christmas Day. ‘need for the vital spiritual blessings arq if :ov. quite among the Klondike | For the hundreds of our men'inherent in these services. Catholics,'hiohts, enduring here at least some ' who will be in Atfu or in Nome or Protestants and Jews, all men will|5¢ the entertainment rigors that| one of the other remote, desolate find much of great value here, We (he early Alaskans were obliged to! spots, the Club proposes to send are certain, in Capt. Dyck's COM-|gyfer. We never actually saw in| along as much Good Cheer as pos-ipact, brief message every Sunday|ine USO an episode of “The Perils| p.m. —Quiz contest in USO Lobby!the Army chaplains who from ume‘mmer in respect to first-run! Py = She's a good girl. . .70 let alone! Kl RD WHORF - GEO.TOBIAS « GENE LOCKHART + ALAN HALE - BETTY BREWER o . oot » s S s o+ o i G Directed by CURTIS BERNHARDT 30 — MINUTES WORLD NEWS — 30 NOwW PLAYING < She's a nickel-a'» dance darling, whe B — thought she was ~~ tough... till the right guy taught ~ her love! 1] ""Wranglers Roost” culosis right here than in any other;sible. By this Saturday we hope to place in the world, he said, further /have on the way to them a separ- night at 9:30. Another thing con- cerning our friend that we can't (at or near Nome, Anchorage and | taken tat today’s meeting. 2 | HEATING i J. R. Clark, Red 750 i| BATAAN CAFE emphasizing the problem. Three hospitals which would help solve the problem have been pro- posed, he pointed out, and Alaska is not expected to pay for these all by itself. Federal funds will be made available, it is believed, if | the present proposed program is ap- proved. | The hospitals would probably be} Juneau—the one at Anchorage to be turned over for this use by mili- tary authorities as soon as the Army has no further use for it. The other two would have to be| built and would cost several mil- lion dollars each. Dr. Hays commented on action | by other cities, especially| Ketchikan, in urging that TB hos- | pitals be erected near these cities and noted a lack of such activity in Juneau even though this would be the site of one of the proposed hospitals. President Homer Garvin appoint- | ed a committee of three to look into | the matter for the Chamber of| Commerce and Juneau — Harry Sperling, Mayor Harry Lucas and Charles W. Carter. Members of the Chamber’s Exe- cutive Board for 1944 were elected, | the six being Harold Foss, K. G.| Merritt, Horace Adams, Herbert, Waugh, Jack Fletcher and Dr. J.| O. Rude. Homer Garvin automati-| cally becomes a member of ',he‘ Board after his term expires. The new term begins January 1.; Dr. E. W. Norris, also of the Public Health Service, was a guest: ———————— BRINGS PATIENTS TO | JUNEAU FOR X-RAYS, Dr. John O. Taylor arrived here| last night on the Fisheries vessel Bluewing, bringing three patients from the Funter Evacuation Col-! ony in for x-ray treatment. i | JUNEAU PLUMBING & | HEATING CO. PLUMBING . OIL BURNERS SHEET METAL PHONE 787 Third and Franklin NIGHT: B. E. Feero, Green 585 Genuine Chow Mein Chop Suey COME ONE ———COME ALL! late gift and some cigarettes for/let go unmentioned—his excellent| each man, together with addluonnlf group gifts of lots of playing cards and books and many jars of jams!| and jellies. Some of you ever-generous people | have already responded to our ap- peal of Monday; but several hun-| dred more gifts are still needed. Each should cost only a modest| sum (25 or 35 cents, or perhaps a/ little more). Please be sure to wran| the gift in bright paper, or Alida| or Mary will do it for you. It ought to be no secret to anybody that| men generally are a sentimental| lot and that they are hungry for, attention; and it is our guess that many a lonely fellow on Attu after unwrapping his gift is just going to happen not to throw away that| bit of gay Christmas paper wmchi some unknown girl back in Juneau took time out to wrap around his present, and that months from | now he'll still be hanging onto that | paper and those memories! “—Merry Gentlemen, Let Noth- ing You Dismay,’—not even your loneliness or the endless monotony singing voice, and perhaps most of all that contageous emhuslnsm“ with which he does his singine. Once Carl Sandburg wrote of people who practically can't keepE from singing, people “with song| voices connected with song hearts.” Ted perfectly. He surely possesses That description _fits our friend a “song volge's and its connected directly with a wonderful “song heart.” Do come and enjoy his leadership every Sunday evening of this Christmas season. usd MOVIES Among the awards often made at school graduation exercises is one for the student who has shown the greatest degree of improvement of one kind or another. Personally we've not always been sure whether such an award involved an unmixed compliment; we've wondered just how bad the winner’s status may have been at the point from which the upward climb originally started. However that may be, there could of your daily lives, you men of Attu and Nome. Soon we will be: singing that carol. And it will not | be a mockery so far as you are| concerned. We are not indifferent; | we have not forgotten you. We re- | member you with warm affection,— and these gifts from us carry to you be no room for doubt as to the certain winner if such a prize were to be awarded in thé USO right of Pauline” or one of the first of | and the Mary Pickford films; but what | " - "o we did see convinced us that we| Thl’ll nlflel’m E’“ { had not missed those gems by many | =" B ; N R PR T4 SO - months! that the rest of us owe grateful ed advertisement: COME THe Club is on a regular film |thanks and lots of them. GRACE'S TO ENJOY NON-P circuit now. Furthermore, thanks | - ULAR MUSIC AND VERY, to our friends of the Coast Guard MUSIC (AND FOOD) POPULAR FOOD! and to Ed Levin, we have enjoyed APPRECIATION EERETORE I - | the use of a number of other fea-| “FE=%, 06 oniy & briel paragraph e o o o o o ol WEATHER REPORT ;-' " tures; and we have been furnished . ¥ left - for today's column. What to with OWI and other shorts from writé about? That's easy. Here's a (U, 8. !',“.)‘ time to time. Most of all, the Club|y,. watch this space for ~eatly is very deeply indebted to MTIS. g, of the date of the next “Music Laura Ordway for her generosity apnieciation Evening” at the home over many months in lending us her | of Grace Berg. Last week a few of projector. |us were so lucky as to be there, This part of the USO program enjoying fine music and absolutely FROM SAN FRANOISCO* # is entirely under Alida Matheson's | wonderful' food. Only “high-brow”| John M. Ward and W. supervision, so it is to her (and to|music, none of the other kind, is|both of San Francisco, are guests Russ Scovill as her invaluable aid) |tolerated at these parties. Suggest- |at the Baranof Hotel. o | Temp. for Wed. Dec. 8 ‘i Maximum 41; Minimum 37 b P Rain .26 e o o o o o o o Is Your Calendar Getting 1943 DECEMBER 1943 TN MON TUE Wi PRI now: it would surely be:the Movie Programs. Not that we can lay claim to any World premieres even now. 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