The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 31, 1944, Page 3

MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1944 e Aeron/ THE FIRST REAL EPIC OF OUR NAVY v [/ IN ACTION IN THE PACIFIC! " 7 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE "STAND BY FOR |ALASKA COASTAL [HAZELFORDE IS NEW ACTION" NOWON | ON SITKA TRIPS | CHILD WELFARE WORK ( IR | | | | M. Forde has taken over (Ap"0l S(REE“‘ DUR'NG WEEKEND {ner duties as Child Welfare Service ‘ {worker for the Juneau and Douglas i {area, according to announcement | Linking three brilliant Hollywood| On Saturday a plane of the Alaska‘w‘od,,y by Department of Public | |stars, Robert Taylor, Charles Laugh- | Coastal Airlines returned from'wfl;,m‘ Director Russell G. May- lvon and Brian Donlevy, M-G-M's! Ketchikan with Louis Salazar, C. C. |narqd. “Stand By For Action,” which' Carnegie, Virgniia Schnelle, and| Miss Forde was formerly employ- opened last night at the Capitol Bert Seaton. led b Children's Service Bur- | Theatre, brings to the screen the| A flight was made to Sitka with |.qy I most spectacular and exciting drama i Mrs. Betty Johnson, Jenny Hometh- canacity of welfare worker. |of the sea since “Mutiny on the ko, and Dave Fenton. On the re-| s Delphine Morris, who has | Bounty.” |turn flight the plane brought back |yeen acting as worker for the Ju- The picture tefls the story of al|James Cooper, George Worth, M‘s-ineau-l)nuglas area, will return to gallant old destroyer, recommis-|R. D. Peterman, and John Vertree. 'her quties as itinerant Workby for |sioned and assigned to convoy duty| Other passengers to Sitka on Sa8t- | southeast Alaska, lon the Pacific, and its heroic crew. ! urday were Mrs. J. DeGanahl, Mrs. Taylor plays a young lieutenant| Oji, Mrs. Dave Fenton, Arne Dorum, | and Domlevy his superior officer. and Mrs. Baleum. Robert carison| PUBLIC WELFARE BOARD {With thei they fight off Jap|was a return passenger. With their men they fig: P { '[0 MEET HERE FEB. 1 |aircraft, ‘stage a successful attack| R According to announcement to- jon a battleship, under a smoke| |screen, and bring a convoy safely| I |day, the semi-annual meeting of NAZ' (APITAth(‘ Board of Public Welfare will t Pittsburgh, Penn, in the > linto port. Charles Laughton, as| an American admiral, has an ad-| |dress that for patriotism and in- be held here Monday, February 7. The only member of the board unable to attend will be J. G. Riv- spiration recalls his famous read-| ing of Lincoln's Gettysburg address.| Com 5 contributed by Walter ers of Fairbanks. Due to arrive here for the meeting are Mrs. H. H. Mc- Brennan a veteran yeoman and; |oninl wills petty officer FURIOUS Blow ; Cutcheon of Anchorage and Howard | Especially exciting is the head-on, {Lyng of Nome. |attack of the destroyer, hidden be-| | Governor FErnest Gruening is hind a smoke screen, that sinks a| large battleship in the dramatic termination of a sea attack. | -ee jRev. Nilz Coming o ' Alaska as Missionary | SEATTLE, Jan. 31. —The Rev. Chairman and John Walmer is the Juneau member of the board. ————— FROM SOUTHEAST TOWN From Ketchikan, Virginia Schm- olle is registered at the Baranof. INTERIOR MAN HERE A guest at the Baranof, Earl Speadling is here from Fairbanks. — .- American Bombers Sei; Fire in Three Cities— Leave Mass of Ruins (Continued from Page One) and were not restored until midday today. i o Rl ~ A | Gerhardt E. Nitz, formerly of Po- | cattello, Idaho, in special service | here, has been commissioned mis- The first dispatch reaching Stock- | helm said last night's attack caused ‘“great damage.” Thus Germany began the twelfth | year under Nazi rule today with the homeland strewn with debris| and untold dead. The entire night’s operations cost the RAF 33 planes, the smallest lost MRS. HOUSEL RETURNS Mrs. Florine Housel has l‘e!ul‘nedl home to Juneau after a visit of several months in the States. — - TOM DYER HOME Tom Dyer, Standard Oil agent, who has been attending a meeting of Standard Oil officials in the LATENEWS Feature Starts 7:40—9:45 THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! GRAVESIDE RITES ARE HELD TODAY, TENAKEE RESIDENT The remains of Brown Benson, is thought to have started from an cil stove, and for a time threatened other buildings of the town. with | sionary-at-large to Alaska. He will WALTER be in charge of the Missouri Luth- BRENNAN leran Church in Alaska. i R Marilyn Maxwell NOTE—From time to time, in this space, 4 there will appear an article which we hope ek will be of interest to our fellow Americans. s This is number ten of a series. —PLUS— SCHENLEY INTERNATIONAL CORP., old. The fire which took his life |in four attacks on Berlin. States, has returned to his Juneau | headquarters after being absent since January 2. TERRIFIC BOMB DROPPAGE LONDON, Jan. 31—The United R ke NS States Army headquarters an- MRS. MacKINNON HOME nounces heavy bombers of the Am-' Mrs. Hazel MacKinnon has re- erican strategic air force based in turned to Juneau after a short trip England and Italy have dropped to the States, extending to south- more than 3900 tons of bombs on ‘€rn California. the German war machine in 49 gL gy o g hours ending Sunday. IKE WEATHERS HERE NEW YORK | “Cocktails” for the Axis Every time an 8-inch howitzer barks, a gallon of war alcohol is con- sumed. Every two shots from a 155 S it Sl millimeter howitzer, aimed and fired on today, striking out toward nor- gyl gnin“wo i ort. in the direction of our enemies, tktern_m!?‘;ance. r‘esult:nuf in a lm.;e to Sitka require a gallon of war alcohol in the VT OUTS - G COMTIIONS: POUNICS - srenthers, i der. And the.8-inch sxifi- ing of German and occupied terri- it . tory. ::nc\?:rei?:mnt::: ;cgl:glo?o:i::; Six heavy assaults and several i four shots. But we are used to bigger jn; the more than 70 hours. figures nowadays, and here they are: | The German controlled telegraph American beverage distillers pro- bureau has made ,no mention of duced in 1943 about 230,000,000 'the attack on Berlin last night, in- gallons of alcohol for war purposes. dicating they admit the city was Montana, is at the Gastinéau Hotel. | And since about a quarter of a pound hard hit. The Nazi radio did claim ban g s vl ‘ofnal:lholis li: making a xund that at least 44 British bombers OUT 'ON VACATION He is bound accompanied by - Mrs. ——— NO RUSSIAN CLASSES There will be no Russian classes off is still LIl at his home. FROM TROY, MONTANA ghter sweeps have been made dur- tonight, as the fiev. M. A. Baran- | Walter Swanson, here from 'n'oy.fi Chester Zimmerman, on the staff | - oo | of smokeless powder, simple arith- | "DES IoMoRRow metic informs us that this amount is | e sufficient tomakeapproximately three | Low tide—p:54 a. m., 26 feet. billion two hundred eighty-fivemillion H ide~7:20 a. m., 15.4 feet. pounds of smokeless powder. | Lo wiide—1:54 p. m, 25 feet. | To make one 16 x 600 tire of | High tide—8:04 p. m, 12.3 feet. | gynthetic rubber, 5!¢ gallons of alco- | oo Ry hol are required. So the amount of | | alcohol the beverage distilleries pro- duced in 1943 could make more than | Marie Tenfjord was granted a P 17 { divorce from Olaf Tenfjord in the 41,000,000 synthetic . District Court Saturday afternoon. The couple is from Petershurg. DIVORCE GRANTED Now you will understand why the | \ Distilling Industry discontinued mak- ing beverages when the emergency arose, and is now wholeheartedly de- were shot down. e e Mrs. Sanborn Is ; Hos_tgs_s at Party A combined birthday and bo: voyage party was held Friday after- | neon by Mrs. T. S. Sandborn at the family home on Erwin Street. | The affair honored the fifth birthday celebration of their daugh- | ter, Grace, and also complimented | Mr. Sandborn's mother, Mrs. F‘ran-“ ces Schoonover, who is returning to of the First National Bank, is on his | way South on a vacation trip. I AN ADIA [COREIIC Tenakee old timer, who was buyned to death last Wednesday when his home was destroyed, were brought here Saturday night by his son on | a gasboat, and graveside services were held this afternoon at Ever- | green Cemetery, with the Rev. Wal- ter A, Soboleff reading the service. 1 The deceased was born in Sweden and came to Alaska 65 years ago on a whaling ship. He was 86 years!| Y Juneau Plumbing & e Heating Co. PLUMBING HEATING : OIL BURNERS SHEET METAL WELDING PHONE 787 Third and Franklin NIGHT: B. E. FEERO J. R. CLARK New Stoek Just Received . . . FLOOR STAND LAMPS Moderdtely Priced Alaska Electric Light and Power Company Juneau Phone 616 Douglas Phone 18 voting all of its distilling facilities 24 | her home in Los Angeles. hoursa day, 7 days a week....to hasten SRR €AY the day when we can resume our FROM MT. VERNON T A normal peacetime pursuits. Registered from Mt. Vernon, | Wash., John Van Wieringen is at AVEL SYSTE How fortunate the nation is that this industry was on hand, because of Contact any local airlines office or the Baranof Hotel Canadian Pacific Alr Lines, Fairbanks —————— PAGE THREE ITHRILLER ENDS A " 20TH CENTURY SHOW TONIGHT enemies, | Ichased by the police for killing a | imnn he'd never even heard about, loved by a gorgeous blonde he'd| |never seen before—these are only| a few of the exciting things that| happen to Burgess Meredith, a be- | 'puzzled amnesia victim in Para- | mount’s suspenseful mystery thriller. | “Street of Chance.” The picture; ends tonight at the 20th Century! | Theatre . | | One of the very best thrill films| |to hit local screens in ages, “The| |Street of Chance” is a fast, nxcu-‘l ‘mg story, acted out by an excellent| ‘Cnsl. In supporting roles are such| imenace experts as Sheldon Leon fm'd. Jerome Cowan and Frieda Ine: cort. Adeline De Walt Reynolds, |80-year-old character actress, does an amazing job with a part in 1»\'mch she doesn't speak a single, word. She's positively scarifying. | WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAYI Shot at by unknown LAST TIME TONIGHT "THEY TELL ME | KI TWO WOMEN SAY i HERE FROM SEATTLE { From Seattle, John Likness ar- v‘rived over the weekend and is reg- | | istered at the Baranof Hotel. 1‘ - | JOY TURNER HERE ; An arrival from Fairbanks, Joy | | Turner is at the Baranof. ' | | | e, SKAGWAY MEN HERE ; Willlam Ross and Harvard Peter- | | son, both from Skagway, are Bar- | | anof guests. - e MRS. STENSLEND HERE Here from Anchorage, Mrs. Nels Stenslend is at the Gastineau Hotel. | She is owner of the Star Bakery in | | the Westward city. Syt SR TRAVELING MAN IN ‘The well known traveling man, Hal Fairhurst, is in Juneau. He is| at the Gastineau. DOROTHY TWOMEY HERE At the Hotel Juneau, Miss Dorothy | — 1 Twomey arrived here from Detroit. Charles Carroll of Carroliton, B Md., was the last of the signers FROM KALAMAZOO |of the Declaration of Independence Frank Collins, here from Kala-|to die, succumbing in 1832. mazoo, Mich, is a guest at the| = e Hotel Juneau. | LOWISE PLATT - SHELDON LEONARD FRIEDA INESCORT - JEROME COWAN Directed by JACK MVELY Seroen Play by Gaeott Fort g Plus the Tops in Short Subjects 30 Minutes Latest News NE FOOT IN HEAVEN" Ashenbrenner's NEW AND USED ot Baranof| Beauty Salon Under New Management N/ FURNITURE Phone 788—306 Willoughby Ave. EVERY NIGHT ; ]’ A N C l N —Except MONDAY DREAMLAND COCKTAIL BAR STARTING AT 8 O'CLOCK Music by JOE, AL and MERV 229 South Franklin Street Skilled Operators Complete Line Of Beauty Culture MEN WANTED SHOP HOURS 9A. M. TO 6 P. M. OPEN EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT PHONE 538 MARIE HAMMARLEY Manager Two Millwriyhis and 3 | Repeal, 8o that its facilities could be | converted, literally overnight, to mak- | ing alcohol for war purposes. Had the | present world catastrophe occurred | during thelate, lamentable prohibition period, the plaintive cry of “too little and too late” would have been plainly audible over the length and breadth AT LOCAL HOTEL A. R. Eskfeldt, here from Fair- banks, is registered at the Baranof. CITY CAFE l MOTORSHIP PATRICIA LEAVES for HAINES and SKAGWAY TwoM a¢hinists trade—the retailers. “Cocktails” for the Axis come first these days —and no rationing. So, make what you do get last | longer, and please remember it was | made in peacetime. And no compro- | mise has been made with quality. Qualitatively, the product of a good | distillery is the same. Quantitatively, | it is less. A much simpler way of say- ' ing this is: it’s just as good, but there | isn’t so much of it. Greater apprecia- i tion always—when it's hard to get. ' BARNEY 't SERVUS, SNUFFY-- -\F NQ DON'T EXCERCSE RO NECK | Agree? g FREE—Wouldyoulikeahandsome book- let containing the first ten articleg in this series? 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