The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1943, Page 6

PAGE SIX =~ " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1943 * SITIQIWI\"_EWS_* SITKA, Alaska, Dec. 16.—(Special | the serving of refreshments and the Correspondence)—Plans are being | entertainment of the service men made for the celebration of the|at the Lutheran Service center Sun- fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr.|day evening with Mrs. James Hall and Mrs. J. H. Gilpatrick who will|acting as chairman of the gommit- reach the half-century mark on tee on arrangements, assisted by Monday. December 27. The lugl\-"Mrs. J. C. Culbert, Mrs. Earl Fred- light of the days festivities is tolerickson, Mrs. John Rhodes and be an open house at the club rooms| Mrs. Claude Rhoades. On Wednes- of the Sitka Bills Club from 6 p.n.|day, December 29, the group will until 11 pan., at which time it is|take over the USO building from expected that the greater part of {noon until closing time and will Sitka's population will call to pay |serve sandwiches, homemade cakes their respects to the highly esteem- | and pies and other goodies free-of ed honored couple. An added rea-|charge to all service men who visit son for celebration on this occa-|the building on that day. Members sion is Mr. Gilpatrick’s birthday of the executive board will make which arrives simultaneously with|the sandwiches for this occasion his wedding anniversary |and will pe assisted by other dona- - - | tions and services from all mem- SON IS BORN |bers of the Lodge Word has been received here f| the arrival of an infant son to, TO BE MARRIED Lieut. John Case, U. S. Army and| My and Mrs. Ralph Young, Sr., Mrs. Case at the home of Mrs.|have issued invitations to the wed-| Case’s parents in Marshfield Ore-|ding ceremony of their granddaugh- | gon on November 21. Before her|ter Charlotte Edna Huber, and Wil- marriage Mrs. Case will bé re-ljiam Clinton Lantz, U. S. Army,| membered as Miss Peggy Dick, for-! which will take place at the First merly of Sitka and before his trans- | preshyterian Church here Thurs- fer to Officer's Candidate School, day, December 23 at 7:30 p.m. The| Lieut. Case was a Staff Sergeant|marriage service will be read by at a local army post. the Rev. Arthur Bily, after which! (Rev. and Mrs. Bily will open their| ROTARY CLUB EVENT The Rotary Club held its regular |home for a reception in honor of the newly married couple. COUNCIL PROCEEDIN A joint meeting of the Sitka Town Council and the Public Util- ities Board was held Tuesday even- ing at which time the utilities offi- cials offered a financial report, the discussion of which was the most important business of the session. Due to the heavy expenditures made by the Utilities Board during the past year, for the purpose of re- building the power plant at Saw Mill Creek which was destroyed in a storm last year, and for the pur- | pose of purchasing and installing a diesel plant, a shortage of funds was announced and council mem- bers agreed to loan the Utilities Board the sum of $5000 to see them through this emergency. At this meeting ordinances were intro- duced and passed to prohibit smok- |ing in the local moving picture | theatre and to establish regular taxi stands on Lincoln Street, for which the taxi companies will pay a year- Yl_\' fee to the ci NEW ORGANIZATION The Stocking Fillers, an organi- zation of representative business men of Sitka whose purpose it is to raise funds for Christmas cheer and comforts for the needy at the holiday season, started its campaign for funds this week, with which to carry on its usual work. During the {past few years there has been small need for the functioning of this |group and the funds have been CAMPBELLS HONORED For the pleasure of Comander H. B. Campbell, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Mrs. Campbell who arrived here recently from the south for an extended visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Neill Ander- sen, Mrs. J. J. Conway and Mrs. P. S. Ganty entertained informally Saturday evening. The guests ens joyed cocktails at the Conway resi- dence, after which a buffet supper was served at Mrs. Ganty's home for the following gue: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hennessy, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Calvin, Mr. and Mrs. Jack| Calvin, Lieut. Comdr. Charles Har-| nett, US.N., Lieut. Nelson Howard, ! U.S.N, Major John Moorcroft, U. S.A., Capt. Willilam Whitesides, U.SA., First Lieut. James Bushnell,| MOSCOW, Dec. |US.A, Mr. and Mrs. Neill Ander- police corporal, who upon his own sen and Mr. and Mrs. Campbell TORTURES BY GERMANS ARE BEING BARED Horrors Inflicted on Khar- kov Population Re- vealed at Trial German lin the practice of torture, and an |allegd Russian traitor, who worked The domestic sclence class of the|With the Nazi police, piled up de- Seventh and Eighth grates of the | tails of horrors inflictgd on the Sitka Territorial School served tea | Kharkov population during the Nazi to their mothers and friends at the |0cCUpation, at a court hearing of | Russia’s first war criminal case. High School Tuesday afternoon. ™~ 4 d Members of the school faculty pre-| The case at Kharkov conclude xamination of Reinhardt | sided over the tea tables and the|the direct e 5 { girls were assisted by their instruc-/ Ratxlaw, 36, Nazi police corporal, and Mikhail Bulanov, 26, Russian | tor, Miss Bernice Rudnick and Miss | Bernadine McGraw in an advisory | chauffeur, and questioning of the witnesses was ordered to begin. | capacity. | i g g Trained In Torture Moscow papers continue to de- IMPORIANI WAR vote a great amount of space to TEA SERVED ithe trial, and are following the tes- | timony. Excerpts taken from the | testimony, achieved near perfection | | were put to death by carbon mon- oxide gas. | Another German witness, Hans Ritz was quoted as saying: “Hitler is the man responsible for this reign of cruelty in the Soviet Un- jon.” He then added that Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo chief, issued or- ders “to execute according to one’s own Aryan feelings.” 4 FOUND GUILTY—HANGED MOSCOW, Dec. 20.—The bodies of three German soldiers and one Russian, who confessed he helped the Germans to commit atrocities on Russian people, swung from a| public gallows in the icy wind of | Kharkov's main square. They were/ strung up at 11 a.m. yesterday, one day after their convictions by =@ military tribunal in the first war criminal trial. A crowd of 40,000 saw the con- demned men strung up and since that gime hundreds flocked to the ! city from faraway sections in the’ Kharkov Province to see visible: proof that the verdict was carried | out. The men hanged were Wilhelm | Langheld, Gestapo Captain; Hans Ritzi, Vice-Auxiliary Police, and Corporal Mikhail Bulanov, Russian who served as Chauffeur for the! Gestapo. i Warning To Germans ! An editorial in the Pravda wnrns[ Germany that Hitler and his; henchmen await the same fate and “all of them, from Sergeant Bandit meeting at the Bayview Hotel Tues- day noon at which time Tom Tilson, Winn Goddard and Jack Calvin BILLS CLUB ANNIVERSARY Members of the Elks Lodge who were named as a committee to make are grouped together to form the plans for the third anniversary of | sitka Bills Club enjoyed the first the founding of the local gr°“l’<ianniversary of the founding of| which i to take place on or about their organization with an informal| January 8. Chaplain Kuykendall | party at the club rooms p“day! and Chaplain Miller both of thelevening, with their ladies and in-| United States Navy were guests t|yjted friends as guests. The even-| the meeting and gave short talks t0|jng's entertainment consisted of the assemblage. Dr. Louis Schar-|games and refreshments, planned by | penberg was chosen to head a com- |5 committee composed of John mittee sponsoring a Christmas de-|pglenc, chairman, Wallace McDon- corations contest and prizes are t0|gq1q and Harold Veatch. be offered for the most outstanding | exterior holiday adornment. ‘ DINNER PARTY Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hagen enter- tained at their home last Saturday evening, their guests including Mr.| and Mrs. Sarvela, Mr. and Mrs.| Charles Wortman, Mrs. Martha! HONORED AT BIRTHDAY Miss Marie Trierschild was the honored guest at a birthday dinner given at the home of her aunt, |used for worthy emergency cases | which have arisen during the year, |1eported this year showing the| necessity for the Stocking Fillers to resume their original project. IN ANCHORAGE BANK Word has been received here from Mrs. Al Seeliger who was formerly employed at the First Bank of Sitka and who departed recently to make her home in Anchorage, of her safe |arrival in the westward city and| that she has accepted employment |with the First National Bank of Anchorage BOATING TO SEATTLE Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mosher of the Vita Food Products Company but a number of cases have been | to General Bandit will pay Ior] their deeds in full.” Pravda declared in the editorial | that the question of whether a war| press accounts, tell that Ratzlew | | NEws GOING To ‘rcsmiod he received 12 months training in police procedure, which | included cou in how to interrg- and how to make BE RELEASED—F | WASHINGTON, gate prisoners them talk. Ratzlaw said: “In our training we Dec. 20.—Presi- | | dent Roosevelt, taking stern mea-| were told that the Russians belong Eaures to prevent leaks of important!to a lower race than the Germans {war information, s directed the|and ought to be exterminaed.” ;‘,Secremrles of War and Navy and| “You also were taught ‘how to | Director of the OWI to refuse to is-|accomplish this extermination?” sue in advance for release to the asked President Jurist Maj. Gen. public at any future hour, any news ' Missanikof of the Fourth Ukrain- having security value. {lan Military Tribunal. The President in a memorandum| “Yes,” answered Ratzlew. said the “American people will| Stick Pins In Women promptly be given all news which| Ratzlew then went into a detailed |can be told safely and they are en- account of how he participated in 1titled to have it without interposi-|beatings and other tortures of the tion of artificial barriers.” | Russians. He told of pulling hair out of beards, sticking pins in women criminal is a person who gives the/ order, or the one who actually car-| ries the orders out, receives but one | answer. i In the Kharkov trials, all four| men pleaded guilty but each said | they only carried out orders. The man who gives the order (and those who carry them out—| | they are all guilty. NGRS MARRIED AT FAIRBANKS | Lila May Johnson, of the PAA " staff at Fairbanks, and Sgt. Allan H. \ng of the Signal Corps there, were | recently married at Fairbanks. Dor- othy Mabel Lee of Skagway and S/Sgt. Francis McLean were also :marned recently at Fairbanks. Mrs. Charles M. Peterson, Sunday afternoon, December 12 at which covers were laid for Miss Kay Her- man, the Misses Gladys and Betty Ward and Miss Celeste Holtem. FIFTH BIRTHDAY Little Norma Jean Lurz who cele- brated her fifth birthday Wednes- day was honor guest at a party at the home of Mrs. Clyde Jollison. | Other young guests present were Annie and Vonnie Melby, Wesley Stoft, Lynn Johnson and Joy and Gay Jollison. The little tots en-| joyed making Christmas tree orna- ments during the afternoon, n{v.eri which a huge birthday cake and ice | cream were served. DINNER' PARTY Mr. and Mrs. Earl Shennett en- tértained ‘'with a dinner party at their home Friday evening. Their Kostrometinoff, Mrs. William Char- teris, Mrs, Charles M. Peterson and Arthur Hicks. ANNUAL ELECTION The annual election of officers of St. Peter's Guild was held at the home of Mrs. P. S. Ganty, Mrs. Marie C. Brightman as host- ess. Mrs. Neill Andersen succeeded Mrs. John Smithmeyer as pre: |dent of the group, with Mrs. E. W. Van Horn named as vice president, Mrs. Frank Cashel, secretary and Mrs. Ole Sunde, treasurer. The group will assist Mrs. Thomas, wife of Rev. William A. Thomas when with | here left last week on their boat | the “Council D" which they recent- lly purchased from the Pyramid Salmon Co., for a trip to Seattle. Richard Becker who was formerly employed by the Northland Trans- engineer. LUNCHEON FOR SEVEN Mrs. Neill Andersen was hostess at her home last Saturday after- noon with a luncheon for seven little girls, the occasion celebrating the fifth birthday of her daughter, Louella Margaret. Covers were ar- ranged for Kay Fletcher, Maribeth portation Co., accompanied them ns‘ & and added he helped operate thci - eee — e —— PARSON%U%%WC CO. ||death automobiles where Russians | BUY WAR BONDS Solicits the business of friends in Sitka Electric Service and Repairs ‘Westinghouse Representative Conway Dock | » = Fm.e | Company - L T Service |she entertains the children of the | Sunday School of St. Peter’s Church {at their annual Christmas party ut |the See House Thursday afternoon, !December 23. Conway, Natasha Calvin, Lois Ann | Calvin, Maryjane Ganty, Maureen ! | Bradshaw and Louella Margaret | | Andersen. Mrs. Andersen was assis- ited by her sister, Mrs. H. B. Camp- bell. guests included Mrs. Irene Rey-i MCNAMARAS ENTERTAIN nolds, Mrs. William C. Charteris,l Mr. and Mrs. Tal Guppy and Mrs. Charles M. Peterson, Lieut. Ed! Mr. and Mrs. Frank Calvin were Ryan, USN. Lieut. Frank c;wan—}dlnner guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. gugh, USN. and Lieut. Walter McNamara at their apartment in Miller, US.N. FIREMEN'S EVENT i - The Sitka Firemen will hold their BACK TO USO | annual ball at the High School| Mrs. Elizabeth De Armand has, gymnasium on New Year's Eve with|returned to her duties at the UsO| Trygve Strom, William Rands mld]h!‘adqum'ters after an absence *of Fred Nelson, chairman, forming the | several days during which time she ber 11 i committee making all arangements. was recuperating from injuries to,own boat for a trip to Petersburg, | |her ankle when she fell on a wet|planning to return here within a, SURPRISE BIRTHDAY | board near her home. | } FIRST BIRTHDAY | Little Mary Newcomb celebrated | {her first birthday at the home of | her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William ! the Rands Courts, Sunday, Decem—]Newcnmb, Tuesday, December 14. A} of family friends -called ‘during the afternoon to offer their congratulations. number GO ON TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Rottluff left here Thursday afternoon on their week. (A group of eighteen ladies met; at the home of Mrs. Earl Freder- ickson Monday evening as a sur-| prise birthday compliment to Ms.| Bernard Westover. Bingo was played during the evening and refresh-| ments enjoyed. The honored guest[ was presented with a lovely gift| by the ladies present. * MIDNIGHT SERVICE l s l T K A A midnight church service will| begin at 11:30 pm. on Chrislmas} eve at St. Peters By The Sea, with| the Rev. William A. Thomas con- ducting the impressive Christmas service. As this is to be the only WHEN IN SITKA Make Your Headquarlers af the HOTEL "'The Home of Hospitality” RUSS CLITHERO Manager midnight service to be held in this community it is expected that a| large congregation will be made up| of civilian population and military | personnel. { OLD-FASHIONED PARTY Mr. and Mrs, Harold Veatch have | issued invitations to eighteen ser-| vice men to come to their home on Sunday, December 26 for an old- fashioned Christmas celebration, complete with the filling of stock-| ings, receiving of gifts and partak- | ing of all kinds of holiday refresh- | ments, This is the third holiday event of this kind to be sponsored | by the Veatches. MOOSE WOMEN, The Women of the Moose held its annual Christmas party at the Club Rooms Wednesday evening,| December 15. Following the regular| PARTY ! { et | COLUMBIA COCKTAIL BAR ed and bingo was played, after| which refreshments were enjoyed, each member having brought an in- dividual box lunch. At the business meeting the following local charity, committee was named: Mrs. Charles M. Peterson, chairman, Mrs. Claude| Rhoades and-Mrs. Ray D. Peterman. The Moose Ladies will sponsor Service. .. Al REMEMBER . . . Our Wines, Liquors, ways the Best! 0Oil --= Coal Gasoline Inswrance MO Phone 78 A COMPLETE BANKING SERVICE Money Transmitied to All Poinis Do Your Part- Put 10% of Your Income in War Bonds Santa Drops InEarly! The mails will be loaded with gifts again this year. START YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING EARLY! Shop at NEILL ANDERSEN’S Sitka Take a TIP from SANTA DINE OUT AT Y’S Open 5 P. M. to Midnight New Washington Hotel, Seattle The Early Bird Gets the BEST Selection of GIFTS - Shop At Alaska Drug and Jewelry Company SERVING SITKA FOR OVER 20 YEARS Jewelry -:- Fountain -:- News Stand * * ; : o - ifiee | * You'll Find That This Is Something We Specializein . . . . 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