The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 22, 1944, Page 3

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 , 1944 ENDS TONIGHT! y RHYTHM... ROMANCE ... FUN! AMECHE JANET BLAIR JACK OAKIE EFHING TV, YUTABOVIS William GAXTON, CobinaWRIGHT, Jr ‘ . Dick Foran-Irene Hervey Joan Davis HEATRE M Show Place of Junean DRAFT AGE QUESTION WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Flatly rejecting suggestions that the draft age be lowered from 18 to 17 years, members of the House Military Committee called for better utili- zation of existing manpower re- sources before considering any changes in the Selective Service Act. As an alternative io dropping the age to 17 should some new action become necessary, Chairman May said he believed it would be better to raise it, and “take in some of | the non-fathers between 30 and 45 now classed as ove - CABINETS MUSICAL FitM ENDS TONIGHT, CAPITOL SHOW Something to Shout alittering new Gregory Ratol! isical with Don Ameche, Janet Blair and Jack Oakie, ends its tuneful engagement at the Cap- itol Theatre tonight. William Gaxton, Cobina Wright, Jr,, and Hazel Scott, three of Broad- way's most popular entertainers, are featured in the film. Cole Por- ter penned the hummable music, in- cluding such hit tunes as “Some- thing to Shout About,” “Youd Be So Nice to Come Home To,” “I Always Knew,” “Lotus Bloom,” “Hasta Luego,” and “Through Thick and Thin.” — e LENT TO BEGIN WED., WILL END EASTER SUNDAY Lent begins tomorrow, Ash Wed- nesday, and will continue to April 9, Easter Sunday. The Reswrrection Lutheran Church will hold a midweek Lenten service tomorrow night at 7 o'clock. The holy ashes will be blessed and distributed tomorrow at the Cath- olic Church of the Nativity at an CHURCHILL ~ CONFIDENT ~ INSPEECH Tells Commons Allied Bombing Will Increase | Preceding Invasion | (Continued from Page One) ! ing at all evidences of these pr(u‘ parations,” said the British Prime| Minister. y ‘ Talks On Invasion | Regarding the invasion, Churchill {said the British and American Iforces will be relatively equal at the |outset but if prolonged a “contin- jucus flow of Americans will make their force greater.” | Churchill id the forces at the bridgehead in Italy is well matched but “we are definitely artillery and air power. The Prime Minister s million Italians are given an portunity not to fight the and we have reinforcements | Africa at our disposal. Regarding Japan | Regarding Japan, Churchill said’ op- Nazis in THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA PAGE THRFE WHERE THE BETTER BIG GOING 10 ~mernm HIT TOKYO | 5hkeeyrypy - HARD BlowiL———m e l \ \ | “WURDER T8 Great Assault fo Be Made| ~MURDER TRE} on Nippons’ Capital in Short Time i | | LONDON, Feb. 22-—Maj. ('u'n.‘ James Doolittle, who led the Am-| erican radio on Tokyo in 1942, pre-, 'dicts a greater assault on the Nn‘m_v‘ capital in the “shortest time pos- cible,” but he agreed with the Allied | High Command “Hitler will be lm-i ished first.” i “We are going back to Tokyo and we will go in a mighty array,” said the man who led the formation of Mitchells from the carrier Hornet in the historic flight that bombed Tekyo and other Jap cities \ -+ . ALASKA CAA GETS PRAISE PHIL SILVERS JANIS CARTER ’ Executive Producer Sol M. Wurtzel Directed by 8 o'clock Mass tomorrow morning. the Japanese also are being over- There will be no services in Ju»"matched and worn down, and Jap- neau or Douglas at the Episcopaljan’s production is “comparatively churches as was previously planned.{smnll compared with the Great according to an announcement' Pawers that Japan has assailed.” today by the Rev. William Forbes,| Churchill said Yugoslavia Mar- who is leaving for a brief visit in shall Tito and his partisans, more @ Ginger Rogers Marlene Dietrich 'SPEAKING AS AN AUTHORITY—he's designed stockings for all the Hollywood beauties for 13 years— s list of 10 film stars who fill their stockings best. Ann Sheridan His selections are | WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.--Repre- sentative Karl Stefan, Nebraska| Republican, paid high tribute to the ICAA Administration in developing lairfields for the United States in Alaska during a debate in the Herbert |. Leeds LATEST WORLD NEWS The Tops in Short Subjects WORLD DAY OF PRAYER T0 BE OBSERVED HERE | The National World Day of ! Prayer will be held in the Seventh | Day Adventist Church Friday, Feb- ruary .25, afternoon and evening, and all persons interested are in- vited to attend. For several years observances have been held here, last time in the Lutheran Church and in Holy Trinity Cathedral the previous year. As its name indicates, it is world- wide and has grown from a small circle of women praying for national issions to 2,000 observances in 1943. It is participated in by all denominations and all races. S The carnation, one of the oldest still under cultivation, was cribed in 300 B. C. by the ilcsopner Theocrastus. FIXTURES Fulton & Kruse Building Contractors |than 250,000 strong, have engaged at least 14 of 20 German divisions in the Balkans. | eSS herrilo;ial Bastion | In Mid-Pacific Ready For Any, All Assaults (Continued from rage One) The civilian population has been mmunized against diseases; finger- printed; furnished gas masks and trained for fire-fighting; first aid; gas defense, and block patrolling to in extent that would make the ef- Il‘ons of our coastal cities most vig- orously active in civilian defense seem trival. | According to Mr. Ickes, the whole territory is now honey-combed with bomb shelters and all vital civilian installations protected against dam- age. Emergency hospitals, first aid stations, evacuation camps, Kit- jchens. food storage places, etc., dot !the entire territory. | | These are manned by civilian vol- | unteers and nurses by the hundreds land many have completed courses | that qualify them as experts. | | In the matter of food, Hawali is more nearly self-sustaining today than ever before.. Many of the big sugar and pineapple plantations have bheen converted to crops for domestic consumption. The local | vegetable supply has been doubled | Willys De Mond brings out hi Ginger Rogers, Marlene Dietrich, Martha Raye, Constance Dowling. Betty Grable and Alice Faye. ever designed were for Alice Faye in “In Old Chicago™; $2,500 a pair.. (International) lyn Keyes, stockings he minimum. Business has been good and in- flation far better controlled than | even the most optimistic thought it could be. The restoration of civil affairs to civilian authorities early last year has, Mr. Ickes says, been one of the great morale factors. Hawail, put to the test, has not been found wanting. e LIBERTY SHIP 10 BE NAMED FOR PAA TRAIL BLAZE The name of Edwin C. Musick was chosen for a new Liberty ship, recently launched at Richmond, California. Thus, the Maritime Commission and ship builder Henry Kaiser have selected for one of the famous Liberty ships the name of the most famous pilot-pioneer of the ocean air lanes, and the man who blazed the trail for Pan Am- erican Airways over many of the air routes which now are so vitally important to the War Effort. It is even conceivable that the {in the last year and enough feed Liberty ship, Edwin C. Musick, may {grown to maintain the meat supply ply surface lanes corresponding to Pioneers New Routes | As new routes were extended in the Caribbean area and around South America, Musick pioneered them, in many cases teaming up with Col. Charles A. Lindberg, then technical consultant for Pan Am- erican. In 1930 Musick became Chief Pilot of the Caribbean Divi- sion, and it was then his real work jon overwater flying began. The | Caribbean operation, an important service in its own right, was also the flying laboratory for develop- ment of the special techniques of over ocean flying for perfection of | the departmentalized flight crew, further development of multi-en- !gine aircraft, meteorological ser- | vice, communications, {light control Ennd equipment maintenance. Sets World Records When the first of the ocean-go- ing” aircraft, the Sikorsky S-42, was ready for Pan American's accep- tance tests, Musick was assigned as, the pilot for the trial flights. In the course of those tests he set ten world records for seaplane perform- ance, wresting all these irom holders in Europe. was proud of the fact that he never participated in a “stunt” flight like those that were popular in the early days of flying, but at one time he held more officially recog- nized world records than any other Ann Sheridan, Anne Shirley, Dorothy Lamour, Eve- De Mond claims the most expensive records Musick | House Commerce Department on an appropriation bill. | He said that the CAA official who ibuflt the airfield at Dutch Harbor Zealand. The round trip was con- before money was available prob- cluded in routine fashion over this ably saved Alaska from the Japs. route and the surveys pronounced Stefan recalled that Congress ap- satisfactory. The shift later to a propriated approximately $400,000,- route farther west via Carton Is- 000: for national defense airport land and Noumea was based upon development and said that con- the capabilities of newer equipment struction in Alaska, for one thing, and other technical considerations. had “accomplished wonders.” A later survey over the Kingman “If Alaska were not strictly on Reef-Samoa route proved to be the hush-hush list by the War De-| myadition places the castle of Captain Musick’s final flight, for it partment, I could tell you some|.Q)d King Cole” of the nursery was on that occasion that the MOst engrossing stories that hap-|rhymes in Colchester, Essex, Eng- Samoan Clipper was lost off Samoa Pened up there,” Stefan sald. land. with her entire crew. T Captain Musick's flying career began in 1913 when he learned nis pilot’s craft at a commercial flying school in Los Angeles. He engaged {in commereial flying until 1017 when he became a civilian flight instructor for the Army at San | Diego serving alterward at air bases |at Wichita Falls, Texas and Miami, | Florida. Prior to joining Pan Am- erican Airways he operated a char- ter service with flying boats in the Caribbean area. [ THEATRE] "YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW" St. Ar;n s School Hold Program to Precede Holiday CARRY TRAVELERS CHEQUES ‘War-time travelers and the men and women of our armed forces always have a'feeling of confident assurance when their funds are protected by American Express Travelers | Cheques. St. Ann's Parochial School paid Repairing and Remodeling PHONE 433 So. Seward at Willoughby Juneau Plumbing & Heating Co. PLUMBING HEATING OIL BURNERS SHEET METAL PHONE 787 NIGHT: B. E. FEERO J. R. 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The ship will be christened by Musick’s widow, Mrs. Cleo Musick of New York City. Notable Flight The late Captain Edwin C. Mu- sick was Pan American Airways' first pilot and first ocean flying Captain. Of many “firsts” standing to his credit, one of the most wide- ly known is his flight from San Francisco November 22, 1835 with the first Transpacifi¢ air mail. Musick's career in flying extend- ed over a quarter of a century. One of the first pilots to accumu- pilot in the world. |homage to the memory of Geofge The Sikorsky was accepted, and|Washington by helding patriotic christened the Pan American Clip: ;exerciues in his honor yestcrt_iay per, and Musick went to the Pacific |afternoon and by closing the clas- Coast to begin, in April 1936, the!ses as a precedent to the full holi- flight surveys Pacific service.|day today. 4 First to Honolt then to Midway,i The program consisted of a short Wake and Guam, Musick and talk on the outstanding qualities others pushed the new route. Fin-|of our national hero, the salute to ally in November of the same year the Stars and Stripes was given, Captain Musick and a Pan Amer- and the students sang “God Bless ican crew departed from San Fran-| Americ ciseo in another famous plane, the| Cl s will be -resumed Martin built China Clipper, with row at the usual hour. the first Pacific air mail. The first) D mail flight terminated at Manila, | “FOOLISH OPTIMISM” |but later the route was extended| WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. — Navy| for tomor- These Cheques are recognizable everywhere, and you can spend them as you do cash by just countersigning for identification. Further, if your Cheques are lost, stolen or destroyed uncountersigned, American Express will re- fund promptly. Yes, protect your money by changing our cash into safe American Express Travelers Cheques z:firc you leave. ‘American Express Travelers Cheques are blue—ths size of a dollar bill—and are issued jn denominations of $10, $20, $50 and $100. The cost is 3 of 1% (75¢ on each $100 purchased), minimum 40¢. Obtainableat banks. AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELERS CHEQUES * late 10,000 hours of flying, he pilot- | & ed aircraft more than a million |0 Hong Kong and Singapore. Then miles, equivalent to forty times | With Pacific service under way Mu- around the earth. isick turned to another pioneering Ed Musick joined Pan American | 25signment—the route to the South Airways staff in October 1937 when |S¢éas: the company had just been organ- ized to tackle the first U. 8. in-| ternational air transport vgnture.| American Clipper, Makes Survey Again in the Sikorsky-built Pan an excellent | That was a 90-mile air mail route|craft for the survey flying but not from Key West to Havana. It was so suitable for long range flying the beginning of the Pan Ameri-!with pay loads as the larger China !cn,n network which now is global Clipper and the still larger Boeing in extent with operations on more craff”introduced later, Musick set than 100,000 miles of routes. Mu- forth from San Francisco March sick was Chief Pilot of that ori-{17, 1937 for Honolulu, Kingman ginal line. |Reef, American Samoa and New MOTORSHIP PATRICIA Leaves for Haines, Skagway, 7 A. M. Sunday \Secretary Frank Knox reported the | destruction of 92 Jap vessels in the lpa.st three weeks, but warned “there is nothing to justify any estimates of an early end to the war in the Pacific, and nothing gained by fool- ish optimism in a war of this kind.” Knox said at a press conference that he observed a tendency in comment on the Truk attack fo go wild with optimism, but he con- tinued: “We haven't yet tested the strength of the Japanese. 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