The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 8, 1944, Page 2

IT WAS A YEAR OF & f {been a time in this war By WILLIAM GLOVER AP Features Writer Listen, '43, you may think you | a pretty sad, dreary set of | days — but you had \nur ; e of dippy, { sus, funny and pla ments. Perk up, pop, membeg how: Ogneerning LOVE: a young man in Portland, Ore.. got angry at his a chunk from a beer glass | put his neck on a street him pay | 3 ree hundred 1 . school children stage r-all in which 12 cops 3ot scratched after two lads decided to fight it dut over a winsome Jass of 12. . ... Pvt. Marvin Rubin, Brook- Jyn, N. Y. _telephoned Beatrice Brown 140 times in succession be- fore she finally accepted his pro- posal. ANIMALS livened things *up: wililam Kreutzzer's cow at Hays, | Kas., gave birth to quintuplets. A fox terrier fell 800 feet from a cliff | at Medford, Ore., got up and walked | away unhurt. Mrs. Willilam P. | Rosenbach’s cat awakened the, fam- | when their home in Chicago ht fire, but the watchdog had | ned At Beaufort, N.C, tment of Interior and the | recorded the conversation of | found the toadfish to be the | gest prattler. . . . An Idaho sheep ' wcher said the WPB suggested he se his lambing season to save vas needed fi arhbing sheds. | The MILITARY came up with odd ones. The Army bought 75000 pairs of dice as “morale builders.” | An Army transpoft that was abandoned ‘over the Florida coast | when 4t developed trouble, turned around &nd flew 2,000 miles by itself into Mexico. . Hollywood actresses in a survey said they preferred en- listed men to officers for dates and sergeants above all In the realm of POLITICS one | vote was cast on election day at | Stockton, Mo., as six nel ary of- | ficials sat around The Progres- | sive Party at Bridgeport, Conn., ran a classified newspaper ad, seeking | candidates for municipal office. Mark Woods, a candidate for the state legislature at Water Valley, | Miss., advertised recommending the election of his opponent. . The custodian askéd the New Jersey legislature what to do about the | Fourth Criminal Judicial District Court, after its personnel was com- | pletely taken by military inductions | nvd political shifts. | The WOMEN, bless 'em, did plenty : Mrs. Dennis Mullane, Staten Island, N. Y., garnered 301,464 pen- nies when the announcer on a net- | work radjo program suggested list- | eners send her a penny each becau: ‘ she m..ed a question. At Co- lumbus, O., Mrs. Clara Whitehead, ‘ 32, qund she had a twin sister she | had never known about. . Movie | | starlet Julie Bishop msu)ed her mpa( for $25000 against gaining four | inches during her seven-year con»‘ tract The War Manpower Com- mission made Veronica Lake stop | wearing her peeka-boo hairdo ror‘ the duration, because it set a poor style for war workers. | The MALE of the species was up | and at ‘em, also: Alex Smith, Kan- sas City watchman, fractured both | and re- cops made arms when he fell into a 30-foot- |those seals were broken, | spilled over t- ! were more than three or four days deep hole he was hired to guard A Scotchman mailed his 1943 Chr mas cards cn April 1 to beat a postnll rate increase in Canada. Pat Branigan, Logansport, cided to charge §1 for shaves, ex-| plaining “I just don't like to shave people. . . . The shirt which the late John Barrymore were in “Hamlet” sold for $7 at an auction. . , . Crooner Frank Sinatra’s shorts brought $1,- 000 at a New York war bond sale and from Potsdam, Germany, in 1+ world that everyone else thought vas getting smaller all the time, Geodetic Institute scientists an- nounced North and South America were drifting away from Europe and Africa at the rate of about one foot a year, Now, '44, what have you got up vour sleeve? CUY WAR BONDS where signed and vetoed bills, penned mes- sages to his executive staff, wrote his looping FDR on letters | which might make history. |time than it takes mail to go from |here to Denver, tions were back in the U. S. A. | have changed Lhat |Nazis Now on Road fo Bombing Ruin;Warfare Has Smashed Faclories kcoufir\ued trom Page One) Through aerial reconnaissance and ! a marvelous system of espionage the RAF is able to watch the Ger- mans’ dwindling war potential and thus drop its bombs where they will do the most harm. Only a certain |amount of damage to a factory is necessary to stop the flow of supplies to the home front and the armies in the field, they have fouhd. Enemy Civilians Vulnerable For years before the war the Ger- man domestic economy was based on | guns instead of butter. The Reich | went to war with a superbly equip- ped army and a civilian population that was getting by on bare neces- sities. As the war spread there was less and less to spare for the home front. Now the RAF is in position to know that German civilians need I not only food and clothing but many other simple things without which life is very hard—pots and pans to cook with, beds to sleep upon. Houses are limited to two or three electric light bulbs. The time has come when part of Germany’s industry must be devoted to civilian need. 'That's why the RAF believes the leveling of a pot |and pan factory can shorten: the war. Its loss means another war factory somewhere else must make | prosaic thinks like cooking vessels. On the military side the RAF knew, of course; that the German Air Force had a great reserve of planes when it flew to war in 1939. It lost little in the Polish and French campaigns. The only big bite in its equipment was taken during the | Battle of Britain. Great losses were sustained in Russia and later in the Mediterranean fighting. Plane Factories Smashed Planes were not only burned up in aerial combat and blasted to pleces on the ground. American pre- cision bombers went directly to the | factories where German planes, par- ticularly fighter planes, were made {and destroyed them at the source. | These were the raids on Marien- burg, Regensburg, Wiener Neustadt, and on the vital bearing plants at | Schweinfurt In the opinion of the RAF, the Luftwaffe now has no central re- serve and is therefore one of the most vulnerable points in the Nazi military machine. Its sources of supply have an exceedingly high place on the emasculation program. “The day will come,” one highly placed RAF staff officer told me, “when your aircraft and ours will be able to go over Germany with- out opposition from fighters in the air. And then the war will be won.” - When Roosevelt Goes Anywhere White House IsTaken Along Also (Continued from Page One) was sealed and stamped and once contents the desk that never older than when they had been - Barber | scanned by secretaries in the White Ind,, de- | House Teheran, Cairo, and in the Mediterranean” In be and In less those communica- The original contention that a Aviation and President Roosevelt There hasn’t | | | sage. | | “some- | President couldn’t function outside | the boundaries of the United States | probably was based on the specifi- | cation that he must sign or veto all bills within ten days, otherwise they become laws. |Congress within ten days of pas- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA when the o President couldn't carry out all of his executive duties—even to sign- 30 VESSElS ing bills and getting them back to| S el 'KLAWAK MAN DIES HERE LAST NIGHT S s it a1 | Widespread Attacks Being at St. Ann's Hospital, following a | Made m Soufh and Southwest Pacific lengthy illness. He was a fisherman ' and boat builder by trade, and had been an elder of the Memorial Pres- byterian Church for 20 years. He :;;::mp in church and commnmtv (Continued Irom Fage One) Sicvivors afe Mrd. Hoberts, the ! i A e widow; a son Lester Roberts, em- | ployed by the USED; and a daugh- § g i P 2 ! | hitting the Japanese shipping at :;;r';én;l'I::;lis‘:;?;zyea by me[xavleng. tip of New Ireland and Nérorial sbrvices Wil be held at |80 Enemy cargo ship, SHE B de 10 o'clock Monday morning in the stroyer have been bombed in that chapel of the Charles W. Carter 272 Mothuaw. The remains will be| Other Allied fliers have strafed shipped to Kawak for burial. gun positions, docks and installa- PRI R !tiom at Rabaul. Visits by bombing DANCING CLASSES NOW crews have been almost daily this ENROLLING month by American and Austr'\lnl Baton twirling, tap, acrobatic, toe |fliers at Rabaul. ballet, moderne, eccentric, toe-tap, A - S, character, chorus, specialties, social YOUR BROKEN LENSES dancing for beginners. Body toning Replaced in our own shop. Eyes and tap classes for stenographers.|Examined. Dr. Rae Lillian-Carlson Studio 411 Tth. Phone Red 575. Blomgren Bldg. Phone 638. adv. RCA PRESENTS sides. The Allied air power econtinues ORDAMAGED OF NORWAY NTION MASONS - Communication Monday Regular meeting and installation evening, 10th, with work in the Saturday, Jan. 8 at 8 pm. 1.O.O.F. F. C. Degree. Hall. Refreshments-and entertain- ment. adv. SONS J. W. LEIVERS, adv. Secretary. l. A.MACHINISTS Meels Znd & 4ih 4lh¥ LOCAL 514 Mondiys 8 p.m. IN THE A. F. OF L. HALL Announcing NEW HAIRCUTTING PRICE $1.00 Starting Monday, January 10 Brownie's Barber Shop Heller's Barber Shop Sportsman’s Barber Shop Gastineau Barber Shop Outwitting the enemy. Because the average radio “re-broadcasts” signals 100 miles or more, betraying location to the enemy, RCA has perfected the AR-88 receiver with little or no radiation . . . now used by the armies and navies of the United Nations. When peace comes, the same skill applied to this receiver, and to the many other RCA achievements in the field of com- munications, will be used to give better radio to the home and to industry. The secret of invisible glass. Special RCA coating for glass allows more light o through instead of be- ing reflected. Already usef on projector lenses, air- craft instruments and other products of both war and peace, its practical post-war use is limitless. What's new in music... is always on Victor records! For over 40 years such famous Victor artists as Rose Bampton (above), Toscanini, Menuhin . . . and scores of others have brought enjoyment to millions of music lovers. When Peace comes, new Victor recordings will continue to bring you the voices and music of the world’s greatest artists. RADIO CORPORATION OF AMER/ICA RCA Victor Division, Camden, N. J., U.S. A. BRIN GING UP FATHER THERE'S A SOLDIER - HE SURE LOOKS LONESOME! JUNEAU'S NEWEST ESTABLISHMENT SMAILY—ANDY FONG Proprietors Copr 1943, King Features Syndicate, Inc., World rights reserved. ONLY WHEN I'M HOME - | LIKE THE ARMY-BUT- BAI TLEFIELD TO SEE A FIGHT! jpr A REAL BATTLE- | WANT TO GIT IN ACTION/ W LONG TO GIT ON THE | WANT By GEORGE McMANUS WELL-| SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME TWO HOURS { AGO-COME WITH ME- YOoU'LL SEE A REAL FIGHT % EATING ‘“TROPICS’’ DINE AND DANCE OPEN ALL NIGHT LOCATED OPPOSITE JUNEAU COLD STORAGE Serving Both Chinese and American DISHES SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1944 The Sewing Basket BABY HEADQUARTERS Infant and Children’s Wear 139 S. Franklin Juneau, Alaska Hotel Juneau For Comfort At Lowest Rates ROOMS WITH BATH or WITHOUT BATH Most Convenient Location —THIRD AND MAIN— Owner-Mgr., Clarence Wise ® Perrect comfort ® Centrally located ® Splendid food and service e Large Rooms— all with Bath ™ BARANOF Alaska’s Largest Apartment Hotel * EVERY ROOM WITH TUB » Reasonable Rates - BUY WAR BONDS BATAAN CAFE Genuine Chow Mein Chop Suey COME ONE .COME ALL! e 289 So. Franklin Street Open All Night ORDER YOUR RABBIT SKINS NOwW Tanned, cleaned and all ready to make up. VALCAUDA FUR COMPANY SEATTLE, WASHINGTON THE ATCO LINE Alaska Tramsportation €Company GAILINGS FROM PIER ¢ SEATTLR PASSENGERE FREIGHT REFRIGERATION L d D. B. FEMMER—AGENT PHONE 114 NIGHT 13 ALASKA ATRLINES JUNEAU 1o ANCHORAGE VIA YAKUTAT and CORDOVA CONNECTIONS TO Fairbanks Kodiak Valdez Nomie Kuskokwim Bristol Bay and Yukon Poinis Office Baranof Hotel PHONE 667 Woodley Airways JUNEAU— ANCHORAGE Via YAKUTAT and CORDOVA Connections fo ALL INTERIOR Alaska Points Lockheed Arrives Juneau 2:00 P.M. Electra Leaves Juneau 2:30 P.M. Tuesday-Friday FOR RESERVATIONS ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES Phone 612 Agents Juneau ALASEA COASTAL AIBLINES Serving Southeast Passengers, Mail, Express SITKA TRIP—Scheduled Daily at 9:30 A. M. Hawk An- Tenakee .. 10 Angoon .. 18 Hoonah .. m‘m Hoonah goon Tenakee Todd ican $1 Pel- Kim- Chicha- shan gof $18 $18 $18 8 10 10 10 5 10 Sitka $18 $18 18 18 18 Haines and Skagway—%cheduled Daily at 9:30 A. M. Haines Juneau .. < Skagway Skagway ‘smm $20.00 Express Rate: 10 cents per pound—MMlmIm Charge 60 Round Trip Fare: Twice One-Way Fare, less 10% Excursion Inlet—Scheduled Daily at 9 A. M. Excursion Inlet Juneau $15.00 Hoonah $10.00 Express Rate: 10 cents per pound—Minimum Charge 60c SCHEDULED TUESDAY and THURSDAY Ketchikan Juneau ... Petersburg ‘Wrangell .. ‘Wrangell Petersburg $35.00 $30.00 per pound—Minimum of sl.u to Ketchikan Express Rate: 10c per 'lllld—mnlfll- to Petersburg and Wrangell Above rates applicable when warrants. passenger traffic Schedules and Rates Subject to Chaluc ‘Without Notice. PHONE 612