The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 15, 1943, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1943 THE THRILLING ACADEMY AWARD PICTURE OF THE SUPERB COURAGE AND MATCHLESS DEFENSES WITH WHICH ENGLAND DEFIED INVASION. LATEST NEWS Show Place of Juneau W NEW OFFICE NOW PLANNEDFORUS. HEALTH SERVICE New quarters for the recently or- ganized District No. 11 of the Unit- ed States Public Health Service, are now being prepared in the Shattuck Building on Seward Street. Since the arrival in Juneau on November 18 of Dr. Edgar W. Nor- ris, Director, the headquarters have been in the Old First National Bank Building. The new site, which will probably be ready for occupancy on New Year's Day, will have four rooms— | one for the director: one for the administrative assistant, a position now filled by David A. Dodson, and one for the clerical assistants who recently arrived in Jumeau from Washington, D. C. The other room will be used as a file room and for storing of supplies. ———————— Pioneer and Aux. Postpone Meeting Until 7J_arn uary 7 Due to numerous Christmas ac- tivities, the meeting of thé Pioneers of Alaska and Auxiliary, originally scheduled for December 17 has been postponed until January 7, accord- ing to an announcement made today. | registered at the Baranof Hotel. FRESH E OLD FRIENDS & NEW! OLD DOC GILLESPIE 1S IN HIS GLORY LIONEL R BARRYMORE - ,Mk‘higan. on May 10, 1870, and was ASTERN OYSTERS (Unlimited Supply) FRESH SHRIMP MEAT (Can be bought in any amount) Hulchings' EconomyMarket PHONE 553 | | | | | | | { | | | i | i | CHRISTINE HALVORSEN | AT MAGNIN'S, SEATTLE| Of interest to Juneau women lsi that Miss Christine Halvorsen is now ’ in Seattle with I. Magnin’s, exclusive | women's apparel store in that city. | She writes that she is on the second floor and would be more than happy to greet her former Juneau cus tomers and assist them with pur- chasers while they are in the States. Well known here, Miss Halvorsen was for years in business locally as owner of one of Juneau's leading | dress shops. ->-oe | BODY OF IVEEMAN = | BE SHIPPED SOUTH | The body of John Knight, who| died at St. Ann’s Hospital Monday | morning, will be shipped south for | burial, complying with the wishes| of relatives in Seattle. The deceased was born in Saginaw, an employee of the Sebastian-Stuart fish cannery at Tyee. He was ad- mitted to the local hospital last| Saturday. The remains are at theJ‘ Charles W. Carter Mortuary pend- | ing shipment south. 3 ol { FROM ANCHORAGE | S. R. Duke, of Anchorage, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. - D | AT BARANOF HOTEL | C. E. Wolf and C. J. Baker are EDISON LAMPS e | New Shipment Just | Arrived! 5 - * Alaska Electric Light and Power ' Company Juneau Phone 616 MAZDA | Douglas Phone 18 |atre. ‘,ph_\' cian's search for an assisiant "DR. GILLESPIE"” | | . PLAYS TONIGHT, CAPITOL THEATRE| Lionel Barrymore, at his best as| grumpy, overworked Dr. Gill:-.\)\in,l head¢ the gast in “Dr. Gillespie's| New Assistant,” opening tonight for | a two-day run at the Capigol The- | The story is woven around the The parts of the candidates, all internes, are ably played by Van| Johnson, Richard Quine and Keve| Luke Susan Peters portrays the female lead and creates sympathy for al character which otherwis: would create resentment. Alma Kruger and | Walter Kingsford live up to their| well-earned reputations as actors. | “Dr. Gillespie’s New Assictant’ 15‘ |sprinkled with humor anc is the; kind of picture the whole family| enjoys seeing together. | ALASKA COASTAL TRIPS ARE MADE | 10/ INLET, SITKA Returning from Excursion Inlet terday with the Alaska Coastal ines were Mrs. John Steel, Irene | Cropley, Anita H. Duncan and Her- man Russell. A flight was made to Gustavus with Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Nevins, the plane returning to Ju- neau with W. L. Seeley | Today a trip was made to Sitka with Glen Hagen and Paul Lasco. Returning passengers on this flight were James F. Twohy and Earl Roach. A trip to Haines took Mrs E. Galli C. Holmes and W. L Seeley. ing . to Sitka today were Charles Whittemore, Clinton Rhodes, Jack Davis and Mr. Mc- Donald. A trip to Excursion Inlet was made today with one passenger, M. Baggs. S gge A L TUBERCULOSIS IS SUBJECT OF MEETING HERE At a meeting of the Health Coun- cil Monday evening in the Terri-| torial Health offices, Mrs. R. R.| Hermann, a member of the Alaska Tuberculosis Association since inception, gave an interesting talk | on the work of the Association dur- ! ing the 12 years in which it has functioned. [ “We are frequently asked,” said Mrs. Hermann, “why we don't build hospitals or why we don't send people outside with the money we | collect on the sale of seals. Actual-| ly.” she continued, “We could never | expect to finance matters of such’ o magnitude by the sale of seals appeared the figure might rise THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Glamour from an Ink Well AP Features Glamour is moving in on the movie cartoon field, once the almost exclu: dark-haired shapely Walter Lantz’s new Siam.” Lantz added the sheer pa , created preserve of mice, bunnies, ducks, dogs, ete. The G-girl is a ung artist ‘Pat Matthews for called “The Greatest Man in ntaloons (second and third poses) by before submitting her to the Hays office. his activities brought in. Mrs. Her- against tuberculosis is a year round job and so the Seals should be used as daily reminders throughout the year. Mrs. Herann's talk followed the topic of the evening presented by Mrs. Emma Frey, Public Health Nurse, whose subject, “How Much Tuberculosis in Juneau?” was based on a study of available records for the period from 1939 to 1943. “Dur- | ing this period,” Mrs. Frey said, | “there were 71 deaths from tubercu- | losis in Juneau and an average of | 14 year | An interesting discussion period followed the two talks and this | brought out definitely the need of a | Sanitoria in Alaska. It was reit- erated -that the tuberculosis pro-| blem is one for the entire Territory | to face with no racial restrictions imposed and a program planned that would be of benefit to all. - OVER MILLION CASES OF FLU ARE REPORTED | | AbsenleeismAih(reases in Schools, Officesand | War Plants (By Associated Press) | More than 1,000,000 sufferers of‘ respirator ailments are reported throughout the Nation today and it [py s mann pointed out that the fight l Rallroade's | Will Strike December 30 Members of Five Brother- hoods Announce Walk- out for More Pay CLEVELAND, Dec. 15—The Na- tion’s five railway operating Broth- erhoods today announced a strike is set to start December 30 to enforce demands for wage increases, saying that 97.7 percent of the Brother- | hoods' members voted to strike. The Unions anounced “In protest against the frozen wages and the !rising cost of living, 350,000 mem- bers of five railroad yards, road and service Brotherhoods will leave Itheir jobs in a nation-wide strike beginning at six am. Thursday, December 30. Bche o Finance Com. Rejeds Tax ExeAm_ plions alone. It costs a tremendous amount | Health officialls generally ngrerdi WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. — The to keep even one patient in a hos- that colder weather would not abate pital Outside. It would certainly the spread of the illnesses. | take many times the amount avail-| talize even one case for as little as| |a single year.” Absenteeism in schools, offices, | able from Seal Sale funds to hospi- land war plants continued to mount Deaths are few. | The hardest hit sections average The speaker went on to describe apout one in every ten persons ill. | the work of the Association saying Illnesses are generally mild and that it largely devotes its efforts jast about five days and are var- to the information and education| iously described as grippe, influ-| of the public to the need of tu-jenza, “cat fever,” and common cold, bercular Sanatoria; education in the j,, the head. care of those afflicted and the im-| portance of early diagnosis had! also been stresed; cooperating with} the Office of Indian Affairs and Territorial agencies, including the Department of Health and the Pub- lic Schools, a wealth of information had been spread throughout the Territory. The speaker told of early strug-| gles, saying that first all work had been done by volunteers, but that | they soon found the work beyond them and realized the need of a paid secretary. In the first year thereafter, he more than trebled his salary on the increased revenue "JUNEAU PLUMBING & e | HOSPITAL NOTES | Mrs. James Paddock and baby girl were discharged from St. Ann’s Hospital on Tuesday. 1 Mabel Stultz, a medical patient,) was discharged from St. Ann’s Hos- pital yesterday. | Harry Hall was admitted to St. Ann'’s Hospital on Tuesday for medi- | cal care. ! John Pentilla, a medical patient, entered St. Ann'd Hospital yes- terday. Raarmmenc o0 o0 _compmannd PIONEERS AND AUXILIARY Meeting scheduled for Dec. 17 has| HEATING CO. PLUMBING HEATING OIL BURNERS SHEET METAL PHONE 787 Third and Franklin NIGHT: B. E. Feero, Green 585 J. R. Clark, Red 750 BATAAN CAFE Genuine Chow Mein Chop Suey COME ONE ———COME ALL! L] 289 So. 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Movie-goers aiv assured -‘or a tremendous emotional exper- | ience. Eric/|| stirring & Senate Finance Committee over- | whelmingly rejected the Treasury | Department’s propgsal to lower further the individual income tax | exemptions. Only “two or three” of the 21 committee members, uoing‘ over the new tax bill item by item |are reported to have backed the| | Treasury’s request, which was pre- sented by Randolph Paul, General Counsel of the department, and afterwards considered at a closed | | session. | BREWSTER (ORP. GETS ~ CRITICISM WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. — The House Naval Sub-Committee, which has been investigating the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, today re- leased a preliminary report, sharply |eriticising both labor and manage- (ment for production failures, and' | recommending the continuance of :(he cmpany’s naval plane contraets. 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