The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1944, Page 3

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1944 v THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— LIFE STORY OF Betty Satko, Eight; 'ALASKA WAGE - AKDREW JOHNSON Has Birthday Party NOW AT CAPITOL' ey sutxo o eent sears o SCALES T0.BE age Sunday and she celebrated the event with a birthday party at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Satko at the family home — NOW PLAYING — A MAN'S COURAGE AND A WOMAN'S FAITHAGAINSTALL! The period following the close of the war betw the North end JOHNSGN South has hitherto been neglected by movie producers as material for screen play Now M-G-M oversig in drama, “Tenn: e has remedied new Johnson."” why this fruitfull page of history has be so long overlooked. son, illiterate runaway tailor’s ap- | prentice, who becemes President of | |the United States, following Lin-| in one of the most | turbulent political periods in our coln's death, history. The stars are Van Heflin, Lionel Barrymore and Ruth Hussey, a trio this historical The result leads to the question as to > picture, seen at the Capitol gatko tre, tells, in a sound, impres-| sive and powerfully dramatic story | based on the life of Andrew John- on Main street. Grace Satko was hostess and the following children atténded the af- fair which also included attend- ance at a movie matinee: Virginia Whitehead, Page Whitehead, Lu- rene Schmitz, Mary Pinkley, Lynn Peterson, Virginia Nealson, Mollie iJo MacSpadden and North Sea e, — ALASKA AIRLINES PLANE BRINGS 10 . FROM ANCHORAGE Arriving Saturdey from Anchor- TAKENUPNOW (Continued from Page One) ter 'to Mr. Noble, chairman of the Twelfth Regional War Labor Board,! who is presiding at the hearing in| Seattle: “Please extend my cordial greet- ings to the representatives of labor, management and government agen- cies assembled at the wage confer- ence which you have called. I re-| gret that the pressure of official duties in Alaska makes it impos- sible for me to attend the confer- ence much as I would like to have been with you, for the conference deals with matters of vital import- ance to Alaska. i “I desire, however, im this mes-| { sage to stress the fact that Alaska | (& little t of top-drawer screen artists chariled‘agc. the Alask: Airlines plane : | King Midas, Jr. with the responsibility of making brought the following passengers— conditions are entirely —dirferent A color ph: 1 three historical characters true-to-|Sgt, Paul Mekurath, E. J. Johnson, from those ix} the states, and lhm,; gs; Johnson as the' Mrs nd inf - e: conditions in turn differ an who became J, Anderso 3 ely in different parts of Alaska. President; Miss Hussey as his R. Bueh Henry ., Alice It should be constantly borne in faithful wife, and Barrymore as his| Yeagle, Mrs. E. Helekel, and L. E, mind by those dealing with our) ipolitical enemy, Thaddeus Stevens, Hammerly. s Alaska wage scale, that the cost of - 'Primary Dept. of Sunday School Is Show Place of Juneau POLICE COURT FINE Zenofant Hanson was fined $25 in City Police Court this morning on a charge of being drunk and dis- orderly. - -ee FROM STRAWBERRY PT. From Strawberry Point, Mr. and /Northern Approximately were entertained at a {who sought to have him impeached. Enlertiiifled Friday 30 pupils of th2 Light Presbyterian A Mrs. Ralph L. Roberts are at the Church Sunday school, primary de- The plane left Saturday, piloted living is substantially higher in| by Bill Lavery and Cliff Everts,'Alaska than anywhere in the 48} and carrying the following persons States and that'a fair wage policy to the Westward—J. Skidmore, Rey. Should and must fully recognize E. Knight, O. Addleman, M.|that differential. E. Christiansen, Ed Wiley, “Up to the minute figures on| tlett and J. Fisher. what those differentials are are not 22t B available. But we may assume that the differentials disclosed in an NOTE—-From time to time, in this space, authoritative survey made by the 80 are ours.” Mary Ann was Asst. State Di- rector of Recreation for the State of Indiana before she joined the Red | Cross. With so many thousands o(; males about, it seems incredible that | romance should not be knocking at ! her door, but Mary Ann claims she | is 50 busy that there is hardly time | for concentrating on one man, Ruggedness of Work ! Margaret Becker, staff assistant at the service club, who formerly | tary of a psychiatric hos- v York City, emphasizes | dness of the life as Red| ess | in Alaska several months | ago, Margaret was pitched headlong into the whirl of activities. The first | week she attended an underground dance in a messhall. Wishing to please the men, she removed her ! rather plain uniform and put on | something fluffier. “I didn't count | the number of soldiers I danced with, but later I found this averaged ' 56 cut-ins during any given eve- | ning!” | '/ Fluffy Dress—Trouble Another Red Cross girl, Nancy | Meister Sacramento, Calif., made the mistake of wearing something » fluffy to the same dance cut-in on 43 times during or! wet found it a little difficult ollowing her first three or four G.I. dances, but now she is hardened. “I can dance all evening with innumerable scldiers and never | tire,” she claims. “Not only that, I | have learned all the little steps and | pecularities of dancing from the var- | fous sections of the country. I know | all the different types of. ‘small talk,’ 00 The men from Oklahoma and ! Texas are the funniest. They flat- | ter the very devil out of you, but they are charming about it.” Even the girls who do strictly | and wa to v fl-_elr‘vb-:-'l/l -}Zprwrt::uflfi';;::fifn ff.-c':.p: Alaska Federation of Federal Em- | intercs 5 ! ?3;.,-3 ‘.;”mmbw_ Toirieck oF & Seibh ployees three years ago are still| & - H g | reasonably accurate, If anything the bepiniit s IR\'*;;{}(ONA" CORP-. | cost of living in Alaska as compared |with the United States has risen Gastineau. - - O Empire Classifieds Pav! q | partment, | party the —~ home of Mrs. R. E. Robertson. Var- ioys given Friday afternoon by Sunday school staff at the, games were enjoyed by the “AnOld American Custom” |since that survey was made, guests, and refreshments were serv-, due to the substantial freight and pas- senger rate increases established by | the steamship companies immed- ‘mtely after the outbreak of the! war. ed later in the afternoon. A friend of mine, the head of a | “However, that study showed that prominent advertising agency, has a as compared with Washington, D. most interesting hobby. For many C., the cost of living was 35 per- years he has been collecting topical cent higher in Ketehikan, approxi- advertisements so that he can look mately 50 per cent higher in Ju- back at the thinking and the planning neau, 75 per cent higher in Cordova, of periods that have passed. 88 per cent higher in Anchorage The other day I had the good reaching a maximum of 116 per fortune to take a peek at one of my °°nt in Fairbanks, St “Wage rates established for Al- scrapbooks. What wealth I fr.wndv: " i i = aska ought therefore to take these " differentials into consideration and Here was a full-page advertisement ghoulq vary with the region in Al- of a local committee of a nationally agra where employment is offered. known relief organization,ina New 0f course, if the conditions of em- York newspaper on September6,1923 ployment include food and lodging, .1.just alittle over twenty years ago. naturally the cost to the employce Here is the first paragraph:— is thereby diminished and this can | “TO THE CITIZENS OF be taken into consideration. ! GREATER NEW YORK” “In conclusion, T wish the con- “One of the greatest disasters * ference every success and trust that history has fallen swiftly on a next year's conference, should one large “section of the Japanese Prove necessary, will be held at the Baranof } || Beauty Salon| sperican |egion at . Anchorage Denaled . Building, Post Lot WASITINGTON, Feb. 28—Presi- | ¥ 1t has signed the bill | donatin ) the Jack Henry Post ican Legion, at Anchor- the frame building on Post owns. ] Feather Haircut || Cold Wave .[)ermanenl Re’ief At I'ast | COMPLETE LINE OF clerical work for Red Cross head- quarters here get out to social events |—on their own time. Margaret's sister, Roberta Becker, who was | formerly executive secretary for | George Abbott Productions, New ! York, spends many of her evenings going to G.I. mess halls at the out- \ posts, dances and other activities. | Work Interesting | Donna Ann Buttner, of Mill Val- | ley, Calif., who was technical file! clerk for Shell Development Com- | pany before joining the Red Cross, finds her work in Alaska a means of continuing the work she has al- | ways been most interested in,—so- clal and group work activities. “The men, for the most part, have 1 girl or a wife at home, and they like to tell me about them. During the course of a day I talk informally and scmetimes rather intimately with dozens of soldiers. I am im- pressed with their fidelity to that> girl at home, although they may not have seen her for two or three years.” | Donna Ann is now a qualified expert on the likes and dislikes of the far north soldier. Before com- ing to this post, she spent several‘ months along the rugged Alaska Military Highway. Sue Easton, medical secreury! from San Francisco, finds the sold- | PAGE THREE Flect Marine Mayor of So. Pac.'s ‘Boomfown” N Jow ; B T ¥ SKILLED OPERATORS | For Your COUg “BOOMTOWN,” a Marine Corps air base in the South Pacific is regarded as a model base and to some Marines, who have not been there, as unbelievable. “Boemtcwn” features hamburger stands, steam laun- dries, running water, screened-in living quarters and even a “Good Humor” man. Top—Major Joseph T. Cain of Texas City, Texas, stands beside an electioncering sign at “Boomtown.” He was not only re- elected but kept his election promises. Bottom—One day laundry service within the range of Jap bomb- ers is one of the features of “Boomtown.” This portable laundry, operated by the Marines, was brought overseas by them and its fame has spread until bundles of dirty laundry are sent to the base from all over the South Pacific combat zone. Onme day service is featured, that is, if there are no air raids that day. ]That njght it rained six inches in amateur and professional dram- atics. All of the girls are excellent dancers and game players, and ac- cording to the soldeirs themselves, “darn good sports!” ————— —— SIOCK ouo"nous INDEPENDENCE, Kas. — I'You | little?” (might pray for rain,” said Lieut.| NEW YORK, Feb. 28. — Closing Col. Richard Montgomery to Miss, quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Olveta F. Brumley when she re-| One auto. manufacturer turned stock today is 6, American Can 83, Ported to the officers’ club at the out heavy bomber engines total- Anaconda 26%, Beech Afrcraft 10, Independence air base as hostess ing nearly 30,000,000 horsepower Bethlchem Steel 59, Curtiss Wright 8nd asked for her first assignment. in 1943, deep. The next day the colonel met the DOES GOOD JOB OF RAIN MAKING = w2 St | sponse to orders but don't you think youre overdoing it just a —————— BEAUTY CULTURE nation. Earthquake and firehave | Place * where a meeting dealing ters who come up from the Aleu- é | Creomulsion relieves promptly be- destroyed their homes and stores, | wholly with Alaska matters pro-|tians most fascinating. “The news- | 5%, International Harvester 71, | = 2 e AT, cause it goes right to the seat of the | obliterated their communication |perly should be, held, namely, in'papers give a lot of publicity to what | Kennecott 31, North American SHOP HOURS | trouble to help loosen and expel and transportation, and'haveleft |the Territorys capital, Juneau.” the Aleutian soldier has gone|Aviation 9, New York Central 18%, | grm laden phlegm, and aid nature soothe and heal raw, tender, in- i flamed bronchial mucous mem-= branes. Tell your druggist to sell you the living helpless in a scarred and seared land. They are in stark need, and unless relief in 9A. M. TO 6 P. M. | OPEN EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT 8 bottle of Creomulsion with the un- tremendous volume is hurried to dlennltc.i;'ldllxllg yo?hmust u}l&evthe way it them they must perish by thou- quickly allays the cough or you are | i PHONE 538 to have your money blg:ck. 4 | ::":‘ f ”?h:":::;’ i f"""“ “t"n: LEY oarsd KON MARIEMI-:fixl;AR CREOMULSION them is so tremendous that it becomes the world’s task in which the United States, en- dowed with plenty, quickly should do her full share.” Needless to remind you that millions of dollars were raised and sent to Japan to assist in relieving her distress. | for Coughs, Chest Colds, Fronchitis JuneauPlumbing & | Heating Co. | PLUMBING j HEATING | tardly acts of depredation was com- mitted by Japan at Pearl Harbor meeting with our State Department in Washington. For this she will be punished as no nation has ever been punished before . . . the punishment | will fit the crime! In other words— | plain English words—we are going to | | lick the tar out of her in a manner she will never forget! And while doing it | her skies will be emblazoned by her | own fires with the one livid word— REMEMBER! The years will go on. Time, the | great healer, will do his work; towns and cities and nations will be rebuilt because progress can be retarded, but it cannot be stopped. New genera- tions, we hope, will have new, whole- ' some - philosophies; ‘but hurricanes and earthquakes and holocausts will come again. And when they come, SHEET METAL WELDING PHONE 787 Third and Franklin NIGHT: B. E. FEERO . Green 585 J. R. CLARK . .Red %50 General Electrie MAZDA LAMPS Standard Almost twenty yvears later, to show’ i her gratitude, one of the most das- | olll Bun“zns ; while her grinning ambassadors were ' 4! | (filled with excitement and a bit | rugged, too, but not as romantic as RED CROSS GIRLS IN ALASKA DARN 60D SPORTS 700 Work Is Bit Rugged, They Like It-Read What They Say_Aboui It By CPL. TOM LOVE (Army Correspondent) HEADQUARTERS, ALASKAN DEPARTMENT—The life of a Red Cross girl in Alaska is a busy one, some would like to believe. ‘This was the judgment of four { veteran Red Cross hostesses who | have served at various posts on the | Alaska mainland and also along the Alaska Military Highway. “We have a job to do—same as the soldiers,” said Mary Ann Madigan, | director of the service club at one of the largest posts in Alaska where the four girls now work, “The soldiers’ lives are filled with monotony and a natural yearning for affection and companionship, and, as it turns out, *hrough, but they tell little of what | he 18 like,” Sue claims. Aleutian Boys Think “Every so often one of the Aleu- |follows: industrials 136.79, rails ‘ian boys comes into our little office | 38.88, utilities 23.40. n the service club. He is very shy. | NGEEO T O 4e stangs around timidly until the ! ice 18 broken, then he is the best alker of all. The soldiers in the | Aleutians are doing a lot of think- | ing.” | CABINETS Fulton & Kruse Building Contractors . Repairing and Remodeling So. Seward at Willoughby PHONE 433 Northern Pacific 16%, United States | Steel 62%, Pound $4.04. JUNEAU CAMPS NO. 2 A.N.B. and A.N.S. Meels Each Mgnday-7:30 P.M.-A.N.B. Hall Dow, Jones averages today are as' At the Baranof Hotel, P. T. Grif~ feth is here from Lansing, Mich. e e I AT BARANOF. HOTEL } | i 2 AT s ARRIVES HERE | of the girls at the service club | 1 SEE RS are hand picked by the Red Cross |, M7ival from Skog s ] Meels 2nd & 4th : |Hammey is at the Baranof. ) e L] o for their all around abilities, per- | ok S 14 & sonality and intelligence. Tn addi- SR A H LOCAL 514 Mondays 8 p.m tion, each has a specialty. Mary : TYTBAN,. T { IN THE A. F. OF L. HALL 0z Ann Madigan is a capable executive i Arrlying from Sitka, Mrs. Harry| ) Sue Easton is a qualified bridge |agen is atythe Baranof { it it~ e expert. Donna Ann Butiner is a | RSON HERE recreational expert ayd Margaret | son, here from S is | Becker has had years of experience (at the Baranof M“T(B ifiSll [l) PAT“!C[A Pttt e 5 et S i e --2'1 Leaves for Haines, Skagway, 7 A. M. Sunday ) - parcels be delivered to boat Saturday © ¥ FIXTURES 50 All freight and For TICKETS ¥ e and INFORM- ATION call at between noon iz fos m PERCY'S 4 and 5 P, M. i {(y{( CAFE BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH WHAT TW-1 vy euoto .OF BETTN GRABLE \S GONEW GN\E T K Sizes Alaska Electric Light and Power Company JUNEAU DOUGLAS Phone No. 616 Phone No. 18 TO NE.AN T\ LET MO WOLO HEDM LANMARRY TUE NOTICED TUAT & BN TAWMGS HRNE DISAPPEARED AROWND WEREY 4 -\& T GET NN WANDS = %/, AND X \NAS PERSONGAN QASTOGRAPHED & . appeal for help, because that’s . . . | AN OLD AMERICAN CUSTOM. ! P.S. But, let's lick Japan first— Now! Back the Attack—Buy War Bonds! | FREE—Would you like a handsome book- | let containing the first ten articles in this series? 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