The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 6, 1944, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA the more conservative of our read- lof men who have told us of theirr lers (if any) we are pleased to note cxperiences during battles at sea or r THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1944 The Sewing Basket BABY HEADQUARTERS Infant and Children’s Wear 139 S. Franklin Juneau, Alaska that two registrants each from the their experiences in flying over the | widely separated States of Oregon Aleutians, or in participating in and Pennsy}vmlm list “Home” or the attack on Attu (as recently as| “Home Man.” (Of course a scep- only yesterday) in landing on; tic might point out that it is not Kiska, waiting from minute to| ‘|mpos:1ble that these are wily gents agonizing minute for the enemy'’s BATAAN CAFE Genuine Chow Mein Chop Suey . FOR NOW THROUGH SPRING— to begin, waiting to start Sp.orts Jflckgis— Inferesting ltems for Everybody who are taking no chances that ‘firing : some day this register may be ex- paying the ghastly price in death amined by interested parties from and wounds that was certain to be COME ONE COME ALL! . 289 So. Franklin Street Open All Night back there) Candor compels us exacted, waiting and waiting and now. This present register has been to inform you that a considerable waiting, only to find after many THURSDAY, January 6, 9 p.M.— j; yge since the last week in Aug- number of the men designate hours that the nightmare was only Dance in_the USO, |ust; before that we had simply a *Drinking” as their favorite of all a dream after all and the whole FRIDAY, January 7, 6:45 p. m—!p ok in which the mien signed hobbies. However, we are relieved icland abandoned by the enemy s Council in| (1 onologically as they happened to be able to state that only a and sounds of the voices of 7:30 p.m—Movies in USO i jryespective of states. We single soldier goes one regrettable our own girls heard over and over, | Lobby; 9:00 r, m.—Candy-making guent counted them all, but we Step further with “Hard drinking” in friendly greeting as they are in- and pop-corn on second floor of ectimate that tnis volume contains #s his hobby—it may well be no troduced to new servicemen, call- | USO, followed by Game Party. at least some eleven hundred coincidence that this particular G. ing by their first names these men SATURDAY, January 8, 8:30 D.inames. Every State of the U. 8! A, L hails from a place boasting the who .were strangers a moment be-| |m.—Movies in the USO Lobby, fol- the District of Columbia, Alaska, hard name of Ironton, Minnesota! doing much in ‘lhx.\ simple {lowed by informal evening. the Philippines, Canada, China and' We don’t know what if anything manner to make them feel at home SUNDAY, January 9, 1:30 p. m. | Bermuda are represented, although it proves; but among the States and genuinely welcome here at the | (or later at convenience of Service!iwo of the States, Nevada and North | With as many as ten or more reg- USO. ‘mew—‘lnp to Mendenhall Glacier; | Dakota, have only’ one registrant istrants only in Utah is no men- i 5:00 p. m.—Mausic, coffee and cwk—\m(.h California is leading by @ tion made of either “Women” ot MARY McCORMACK lies in USO Lobby; 9:30 p. m—Ves-| | considerable margin with 93, Wash- “Liquor” or anything synonymous,| Our charming hostess, Mary Mc- {pers in USO Lobby; 10:00 p. m.—-|ington and Illinois following 'in a Such. As you must have guessed, Cormack, does not need the assur- | Singing around piano. |virtual tie with 78 and 76 respect- State loyalty appears most fre- ance of this paragraph that we all| MONDAY, January 10, 8:00 p. m.|jvely. !quently from the fellows out of greatly missing her during these| —Forum Club meeting at private| 1t always proves of great inter- & iin far-western jurisdiction, early days of her convalescence | | home. Get your reservation at USO |est for newcomers {0 Juneau among With “ThinXing of California” as a from her injury, suffered on Sunday | !desk; 8:30 p. m.—Movies in USO/| {the servicemen to look the registry typical example. while skiing. She will be eagerly Lobby. Lovar @0 the hope of finding some- Our favorite of them all? It Welcomed back at the earliest pos- TUESDAY, January 11, 7:30 D.|cne from back home. Within the isn't hard to select. It is by a man sible mozaent. In the meantime, m.—Meeting of GSO Council ast several weeks interesting dis- Who seem¢d to like the USO al- We hope she will have little pain 'US0; 9:00 p. m—Quiz contest m\covenea were made in two such most as much as we all grew to and not too' much inconvenience; | USO Lobby (broadcast over KINY);|cases; the last two registrants_ip love him—that Gentleman from and we trust that she will get very| 9:45 p. m.—Bingo games. |Kentucky were a former scHool Virginia, the farhed Squire of great satisfaction from her aware- WEDNESDAY, January 12, 7:15 teacher and a pupil from the same Abington, Virginia, old Massa 1ess of what a big place she occu- p. m—Movies in USO Lobby; 8:45 small community, neither knowing Robert Porterfield himself, who Ples in the affections of all of us. p. m—Card Party on second floor | |the other was up here, and the graciously inscribed as his i(lth e TR of Club; 9:00 p. m~Old-: tasmoneu {two latest registrants for Alahama hobbies “The ‘Theatre and You!" ( ongress Took Recess Dances in USO Lobby. [ (both since Christmas) turned out { B ie (’F e |to be from the same little home- VOICES By le"infl "afion Go M.wfll Apartment 9 g Bump;Action Deiayed PROGRAM Hotel Juneau . For Comfort Ai Lowest Rates ROOMS WITH BATH or WITHOUT BATH ORDER YOUR RABBIT SKINS NOwW Tanned, cleaned and all ready to make up. VALCAUDA FUR COMPANY SBEATTLE, WASHINGTON Most Convenient Location —THIRD AND MAIN— Owner-Mgr., All $14.95 For Dad Too— fore, Clarence Wise SEATTLE ® Perrect comfort ® Centrally located o Splendid food and service e Large Rooms— all with Bath ALASKEANS LIKE THE boa mt of lounging to be worn THE ATCO LINE Alaska Tramsportaties €Company SAILINGS FROM PIER ¢ SEATTLE From $14.95 B Behrends Ca QGALITY SINCE /887 NEW YEAR'S EVE PHONE CALL town. 1| We can't recall ever having writ- Perhaps we're too much inclined As was to be expected, Lhe hob- ten a paragraph in any of the col- on the sentimental side. However bies listed reveal a very wide range umns about , the sounds of the ‘LhaL may be, here is a brief lepor'.‘cr choices indeed. Many are de- Voices we've heard here, the voices |on something that happened on|cidedly general in character: Not of men from every part of the * EVERY ROOM WITH TUB PASSENGERE FREIGHT |New Year's Eve that seemed to usia few men list as their favorites |quite the pleasantest and most “Living,” “Loafing,” “Sleeping” or ! heart-warming thing occurring that “Complaining.” Others - Set' out (night. The hour was 11:45. The | | “Everything” or “Anything” or (a telephone at the Club rang. The bit more conservatively) ‘“Most any- | One man from a State, |voice was that of the mother or‘thmg {one of the younger GSO girls. (For which shall be nameless, narrows | the purpose of this paragraph the his selection slightly to “Anything name is Lorna, though that mean” Another fellow leaves us RESISTANCE FIFTH ARMY T0 SOVIETS FIGHTING IN rC'mtinued from Page One) Several members of both c}nmbms have introduced legislation to over- | haul the antiquated Congressional | machine. but they frankly admit| that they are swimming against a | strong current that is too strong for | them and that their proposed United States and Canada, sing- ing voices and speaking voices. No, we've not written any such para- graph; /but we well might - have. For we have heard many .such voices that we remember and will not forget. Just to mention a few, there was the beautiful baritone of Cleveland Ashley, a negro soldier ond SHOWER !.oa-onafln Rates Phone 800 BUY WAR BONDS RIFRIGERATION k3 D. B. FEMMER—AGENT ! PHONE 114 WIGHT 112 ~ u" s is a slight veriation of the real'in some uncertainty with his “I'I headed home on an emergency fur- Seamlinings probably will never| STIFFENED Field Marshal von Mann- stein Takes Up Position to Stop Russians (Continued from Page One) making a dslermmed stand west of Olevsk along the railway leading to Kowel, a city 130 miles inside the | former Polish border, also in the| region southward between Gorod-' nitz and Novogorod-Polynski. The capture of the latter town, less| than 20 miles from the prewar bor- der was announced on Tuesday in/ a German communique broadcast, from Berlin, which said that heavy battles were in full swing northwest of Berdichev where the Soviets at- tacked with “unabated violence.” The Gerans also said the Rus- sians resumed their attacks north of Krivoi Rog and east of Kirovo- grad and renewed their attempts w} break through east and northwest of Vitebsk. Dispatches said little about Lhe} Baltic Army’s operation north of Nevel beyond the fact that its large | scale operations are assuming more importance daily. D MONEY IN THE AR PARKSTON, S. D.—Mrs. Minnie Grey Ritchie, cafe proprietor, lit- erally threw her money around. When she stumbled and fell, the wind scattered a bundle of $400 in; the checks and cash. Most of checks—$80 worth—have been re-| turned, Mrs. Ritchie said, but “only some of the money.” —— e IMPORTANT NOTICE !!! The Alaska Laundry office and plant will remain closed for re- mainder of this week to finish work now in plant. No personal laundry or dry cleaning will be called for or ACCEPTED IN THE PLANT dur- ing this period. adv. KUY WAR BONDS SAN VITTORE 'Long Awaited Offenswe of | Clark’s Men Starts in Driving Storm (Continued from Page One) |name.) The voice said: “This is Lorna’s mother. Her father and I are won- la favor?” be a pleasure. |you would go across the room nnd {say to Lorna that we are thinking | of her and sending her our love and wishing her a Happy New Year. ‘We hope this won't be too much Rocca while the Americans swept trouble.” Then with a New Year's wish for | down from the heights around San Vittore on the north side of the|US Personally the sweet voice said |good night. That was all. We re- |road west of Venafro. Gen. Mark Clark’s peat: Maybe ours is a heart made offensive 4 '{of overly-impressionable stuff. Per- which broke weeks of minor actis, haps it sets too high a value on |vity along the Italian front, started | goneimento) under dripping and windswept skies‘sfin el o | I amy cvant | Tuesday night. |been accumulating in our heart San Vittore, six miles from Cas-|quite a lot of additional reasons for sino, was converted into a fortress jcoking upon a good many local | with every house a pilbox. The Ger- people with much affection and }mms dug into wine cellars, where respect. According to our stand-| | the. terrific battering of Allied ar-lards that telephone call of Lorna's tillery could.not reach them. The mother happens to rate well up on ‘euure town was a system of forti- that list. |fications and tank traps, but by, noon on Wednesday the Americans had driven through the outer de-! fenses and taken half the town. STATE REGISTRY BOOK Recently we've been asked a number of times when this column |would be making another report upen the Club’s Registry Book by States. The answer is: Here and - TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY | | |during recent weeks there have| give you three guesses”; other passes the | “What have you?” while an- buck with his derlng if you would mind doing us| We haven't had time to count up the rest of us We assured her it would (to find out which hobby has the nothingness in his presence * * % “Well, just at mld-'most adherents. But we are sure and the voice of Cpl. Mel. Smith, Inight we'd like it ever so much if it is either “Sports” or (in one of singing “The Lord's Prayer” its variety of phenomena) that ever-popular hobby “Women.” It is our guess that the number in, this latter category would be found 'to top all the others. This on€ hst.ed generally as “Women” | “Girls” or “Gals,” “More Girls,” or less generally as “Blondes” or “Red heads,” or even more spemllc;lly by the listing of a particular girl's name. (We note that two soldiers have specifiedas | their favorite simply “Mary.” Far be it from us to leap to any con- clusions, we are a reporter, not a detective, gor an interpreter—but we point out that it may be no co- Occasionally one man will succeed {in making good use of what the! man just above him has written,| Thus a gentleman from Arkansas, | upon finding the next precedmg registrant reporting as his hobby “Romancing,” inserted immediate- ly afterwards as his own hobby “Ditto & Plus.” In the interests of | FOR SALE DUTCH SAYS—The Ice Capades is a great show, you will be glad you went, good value for your money and so are our Autolite; and Exide batteries, HD. 8 Cyl car size, $8.50 while the shipment lasts, fully charged and ready to go. Dutch’s Garage and Wrecking | Yards. TROLLING ‘boat, 26 ft.; 8 ft. beam, fully equipped $400 cash. Phone Blue 520. Head Cold 9 TUBE Stromberg Carlson table model radio $100. See North Transfer Office. 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The soldiers’ vote bill is going to be revived and it is believed now that the pressure from boys and girls in uniform will force some action The poll-tax scrap is in the offinz So is the fight over a new social security program. ———e—— CARD OF THANKS wish to thank everyone lough, singing some of the stirring Salvation Army songs at a recent Vesper Service, singing along with vho faded into ALASKA ATRLINES JUNEAU 1o ANCHORAGE VIA YAKUTAT and CORDOVA CONNECTIONS TO Valdez Nome in the Presbyterian Church last summer, in a manner that to us seemed lit- crally inspired and always to be | gratefully remembered * and ! the lovely suprano of Louise Head- land, former Club hostess, who used to sing nearly every day here to add immeasurably to the happiness - of the fellows and the su-| We perbly trained voice of USO Camp Were so kind and thoughtful dur- Show singer, Ben Deloache, per-|ing the illness and passing of our haps the finest heard in Juneau in beloved husband and father: also recent years, doing “Mandalay” and |for the many beautiful floral of- {for the first time in our experience ferings and donors of cars making a magnificent love song of MRS. 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