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ONDAY, MARCH 27, 1944 in her greatest HIT YET! I Deanna DURBIN Show Place of Juneau Women's Cfirislvian” Temperance Union Meet This Evening The Women's Christian Temper- | regular 2 s at g terment was ir ance Union will hold its monthly meeting this evening o'clock. The meeting will be held at home of Mrs. Mae Kilroy at West Twelfth Street. Anyone terested is invited to attend. " To Make Your Clothes FRESH FOR EASTER TRIANGLE CLEANERS READY TO DO A REAL JOB FOR YOU! Phone the 332 in- 'NO FORCING INDUCTEES, IS RULING WASHINGTON. March 27.—The Because she's who she is, Deanna | ‘Suprcme Court ruled that a Selec- \recently was given a complete tour ous as the American, are both mam\tlveb §crvk‘e l‘egisqnn( cannot be (of a Flying Fortress, from the powerful than the entire German | forcibiy mdugtod into the Army glassed-in bombardier's seat in the|Air Force. !against his will, but if he refuses |nose, clear to the tail gunner’s spot.| The U-boat menace is the great- to submit to induction he violates { It all happened when scenes were est danger the Allies have over-|the Selective Service Act “as clear- being filmed at the last Vega Air- come, Churchill stated. |ly as one who refuses to report” |craft factory at Burbank, California,| The Italian campaign is slowerifor the Army. {for the new Universal production, | than hoped, but will be won and| The eight to one decision revers- |“Hers to Hold.” Deanna is co-'meanwhile 25 German divisions are|ed the ruling of the Tenth Circuit starred with Joseph Cotten in the held in Italy when needed elise- Court of Appeals in the case of new romantic drama which is cur- where. |Arthur Goodwin Billings, former rently showing at the Capital The-| The weakness of the Japanese is| University of Texas instructor who atre. In the picture the singing shown in the heavy losses in ship-|was inducted into the Army after ar portrays an aircraft worker, ping and air forces, the Prime Ml"-;nm Army oath, which he refused jand it was necessary to shoot some ster stated. to take was read to him. scenes in Lk‘\‘otr a(:‘tusl surroundings.| 1n Burma, the Allies will gam; Roberts dissented from the court’s Between “takes” two guards took superiority and the powerful Brit- gpinjon given by Douglas which FD‘Ocan‘na over to a nearly-completed ish battle fleet in the Indian Oceancaid that unless a registrant re- 'h:l::? n:md SROPNL ouar, olast | pan catch the Japanese Navy, andiports to the induction station he 8 o \f it dcch.nes to fight, it will b""mny not challenge the legality of the Americans turn to the west- s gelective Service classification ward, Churchill said. lin court. The only reference made to the| | projected invasion of western Eur- ope was in commenting on the| German forces tied up in Italy | {“while other more important events might require their presence else- where.” "HERS TO HOLD' " CURRENTLY AT CAPITOL SHOW | Deanna Durbin now is convinced }lhal it sometimes pays to be aj |movie star—and any star will tell {you that a little convincing is oc- casionally necessary. CHURCHILL ~ GIVES OUT HIS VIEWS (Continued trom Page One) FINAL SERVICES HELD FRIDAY FOR ' WILLIAM WAGKE Final rites for Williath WagNer, | \ore _ From time to time, in this space, | (Douglas resident who lost his life ihere will appear an article which we hope |in a mine acicdent last week, were ' will be of interest to our fellow Americans. | iheld on Friday afternoon under the This is number cighteen of a series. | auspices of Silver Bow Lodge of the | SCHENLEY INTERNATIONAL CORP., |LO.O.F. at the Chapel of the NEW YORK |Charles W. Carter Mortuary. N Simple—Isn’t It? | Two numbers were sung by Ernest | Ehler, “No Night There” and “God | Be With You Till We Meet Again.” lor more fighters engaged in | The Rev. Willis R. Booth of the| If you were to make whiskey, You | gtrixe on Nazi air bases. | Northern Light Presbyterian Church | would need a few simple ingredients. | This was the twenty-first Amer- {deliveced the eulogy, and a commit- | To begin with, you would need grain; | jcan attack this month, three over ;lul service at the graveside was con- | corn, or rye, or barley, or wheat, ora | the record set in February. {ducted by Silver Bow Lodge. | mixture of all of them. You would TS Serving as pallbearers were John | grind the grain to a meal; then you | A. McLaughiin, James MacDonald, | would mix the meal with water and GERMANS Mow ygve Hagerup. Eugene Stout, H.' cook it. Next, you would take some ' Callow, and C. K. Tisdale. In-| malt (grain that has been germinated 1 Evergreen Cemetery. | by moisture and heat), because the 3 o R ! malt will convert the grain starchesin DUDLY FROM SEATTLE | your mash into fermentable sugars. A guest at the Baranof Hotel, | yo, would then add some distiller’s |H. A, Dudly is registered from Se- | o7 of the fermentable o ! attle. iyeast Yo transform. ¥ h ON THE SWISS-ITALIAN | sugars into alcohol and carbon diox- | pp ey March 27.—The Ger- ide, P"“C‘Fauy"rn'e "'"rb,““ dioxide ' o have shot 320 Italian hostages would pass out into the air, and the | i, " gorne and arrested thousands more as reprisal for the slaying of 32 Nazi Troopers during a celebra- tion of the 25th anniversary of Fascism on March 25, the Swiss | Telegraph agency dispatch Rome said. | alcohol would remain. At this stage of the proceedings you The son of Badoglio is among those slain and several Senators are would have what is termed “distiller’s beer”” which you would then heat toa point where it becomes vapor, thereby among those seized > - I FROM ANCHORAGE separating the alcohol and other Registered from Anchorage, W. e TWENTY-FIRST AMERICAN AIR ATTACK MADE LONDON, March 27. — Strong | forces of American Liberators and Fortresses today blasted Nazi air- {dromes in southwest and central | France, according to a communique. It was indicated that more than the '2 desirable ingredients from the spent | grain. This vapor would then pass on through pipes or coils which cools it and makes it a liquid. And, now, you would have raw or young whiskey. You would now take the raw whis- key and store it for aging, in new, | charred oak casks, where it will draw certain “extractives” from the wood. The whiskey, which you have just made, has developed certain flavor elements as a result of the fermenta- tion and distillation processes. These, | in addition to the flavor elements drawn from the wood over a period of | years, impart to whiskey its well- | known taste, so that you can recog- nize it just as you can recognize coffee by its flavor. Simple—isn’t it? Of course, you are not going to make your own whiskey. We just | wanted to remind you that man has really very little to do in whiskey making; nature does most of the work. And now we want to tell you some- thing that is very important. While | anybody can make whiskey, as such, | there is a vast difference in the quality of distilled alcoholic beverages. For | instance, there is the quality of the | grain selected. See what happenstoa | carload of corn that has just come in on a side-track at the back door of a | modern distillery. A man of science examines it carefully; he tests it for bacteria count, for protein, starch Baranof Beauty Salon WHERE SATISFACTION and SERVICE are SYNONYMOUS EASTER ISN'T FAR AWAY Make an appointment early for a COLD WAVE and new HAIR STYLE for that new General Electrice MAZDA LAMPS Standard Sizes Alaska Electric Light and Power Company JUNEAU Phone No. 616 } and moisture content. He examines it EASTER BON.NET' carefully to see that the flinty pro- | tective outer skin of the corn is not broken, because, when the skin is | | broken, infection can set in. He smells | it for mustiness, because musty grain | will do something to whiskey that you will never get rid of,’even if you aged i SHOP HOURS 9A.M.TO6P M. OPEN EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT PHONE 538 ( Danielson is at the Baranof Hotel. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—-JUNEAU, ALASKA IAIR STRENGTH " ON COAST TO | BE INCREASED SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, March | 27--Fighter and bomber strength | on the Pacific Coast will be in-| creased under the reorganization of | the Fourth Air Force to meet the! expanded requirements, Maj. Gen. William Lynd, commanding general announces The reorganization is effective April 1 and will give additional bases and fields in California, Ore-| gon, Washington and Nevada. The new Command will absorb the personnel of the Fourth Bom- ber and Fourth Fighter' Commands. e JOINS OFFICE STAFF ! OF INDIAN AFFAIRS May Zichal has joined the Office of Indian Affairs staff as a clerk- stenographer in the medical division and Elizabeth Cramer has accepted a position in the property section.| Both are recent arrivals here from | Dawson, B. C. [ ) i 1 | i > CALIFOR| HERE | Arlis Bailey, a guest at the Bar-‘l janof Hotel, is registered from Los ! Angeles CORDOVA ARRIVAL val from Cordova, L. Burk- | the Baranof Hotel | B i | MRS. HODGES VISITS HERE | Mrs. Mildred Hodges arrived from Whitehorse by plane last Saturday and will visit here with her sister, Mrs. T. J. Jacobsen. | - - | RETURNS HERE | | Returning to Juneau, Norman Eb- | Hotel - -ee i . = . . . . . WEATHER REPORT (U. S. Bureau) . . .‘ . Temp. Saturday, March Maximum 39; Minimum ‘Temp. Sunday, March 26 . Maximum 41; Minimum 26 e/ e o 0 0 0 e o o o 2 e 2 e | e 1 BALDWINS LEAVE | | Wallace D. Baldwin, Fairbanks {photographer, accompanied by hi wife, was a passenger to the Inter- ior City via Pan American plane today. LEWIS TAYLOR HERE H FOR SHORT VISIT! . Lewis Taylor, well known young | Seattle'to spend a week visiting with | 'his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ike Taylor. Young Taylor is with Pan American Airways at Seattle. e . NOSPRING-TIME CAMP ROBERTS, Calif—~Private Franklin 8. Riley has one of those self-winding wrist watches. It stopped. A jeweler took a spring out of the watch, advised the | soldier to return it to the dealer for repairs. “Whatever you do, don't lose this isprlng," the jeweler cautioned. | Riley slipped the watch on his farm. It started running—has been | e | A freight train now performs| |twice as much work per hour as {il did 20 years ago. (1921—May 11 11922—May 12 11925—May 7 . from Junesd man, arrived Saturday from 1926—April 26 | 1928—May 6 | 1040—April 20 PAGE THREE CHINESE WAR IS |~ LOCALE OF FILM | . " AT 207H CENTURY, /TOMCENTURY R i The seething Chinese war front |is the locale for one of the best ro- mantic adventure pictures of the |season, Paramount’s thrill-filled {“Night Plane from Chungking."| rails, | Starring Robert Preston and Elh-n} | Drew, the film is at the 20th Cen-| tury Theatre. It's top flight en-| STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 27.-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 5%, American Can 86%, Anaconda 26':, Beech Aircraft 912, Bethlehem Steel 59%, Curtiss Wright 5%, International Harvester 70%, Kennecott 31'z, North Amer- ican Aviation 87, New York Central 19%, Northern Pacific 15%, United States Steel 52', Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 139.12; 39.99; utilities, 23.35, — - AT BARANOF HOTEL | tertainment. | Here from Seattle, Willlam Hoel- | Preston, an American officer m; scher Is & guest at the Baranof. |the Chinese Air Force, meets the DA AR lovely Miss Drew, a Red Cross NOONAN AT BARANOF jnurse, after Japanese planes have J. E. Noonan, with the Morrison- 510t up an India-bound bus carry- | Knudsen Company, is registered at /I8 a strangely assorted group of the Baranof from Seattle. | passengers, including Otto Kruger, > Sen Yung, Soo Yong, Stephen Ge- BETHEL MAN HERE |ray, Tamara Geva, and Ernest Dor- | Al Jones, here from Bethel, is at [1A0. Two of the pagsengers twn the Baranof Hotel. jout to be Axis spies, a factor that o adds a “whodunit” character to the | LEAVES FOR SOUTH picture. As if sples and bombing | AFTER VISIT HE‘.RE}‘""" not enough, Direstor Ralph | {Murphy carries his characters Anabel Simpson, daughter of Dr. | through a hair-raising series of ad- and Mrs. Robert Simpson, was a|'entures by air as well and then passenger South on Saturday, after | Das them captured by Japs for good* a visit of several weeks here, she:measummnll this as part of a swell has accepted a position on the staff ‘;lovc story. of the San Francisco Chronicle. Y ——————— MULLEN ON ANNUAL BUSINES: TRIP TO STATES > Capifal’s Big Storm g ) Now Blowing Over BEST SHOWS Rocky Road Ahead| LOWEST PRICES | Congr Few - - ever succeeded in that. Even Presis the war and is willing to go to great dent Roosevelt couldn't succeed iy e < VI O lengths right now to do it; (2) that 1938, when his Congressional backs GRASS FIRE SUNDAY {for political reasons this is no time ers were much more numerous than A grass fire on the hill above (o have Congress on a rampage; (3) | today Second and Main streets called out |that he realizes now that in any| There still are rocky days ahead J. F. J. F. Mullen, President of the B.! M. Behrends Bank, left by steamer Saturday .afternoon on his annual business trip Outside. He will visit Seattle and San Francisco, and may possibly go East. ‘ o (Continued from Page one) if any, have 500 big bombers and perhaps 700 bley is a guest at the Gastineau the Juneau Volunteer Fire Depart-|continuing altercation with Con- in the differences between Con- ment Sunday afternoon at 3:10 gyecs, o'clock from box 2-6. A chemical 'yipe. extinguished the blaze. ress and the President, but if the ndling of the Daniels case 18 That's because Congress is a per- | really an lndicuu:m_ the breach is manent governmental institution, | NArrowing. while the Presidency is a succession by lof individuals. Regardless of his | ke “as MOVEd powers, even in wartime, a President | is helpless in the face of an almost |I'| formel’ Year! ‘lomlly rebellious Congress. ’l‘hel to a baby boy at St. Ann's Hospital |only alternative for a President is|nt 4:50 o'clock Saturday afterngon. {to go to the polls, demanding a | The infant tipped the hospital scales The ice at Nenana has moved out mandate from the voters to keep'at five pounds and nine ounces, in former years on the following| '~ dates: | 1917—April 30 11:30 am. | 1918—May 11 9:33 “»m'; l. A. mcms“ Meeis 2nd & 4th 1919—May 3 2:33 p.m. LOCAL 514 Mondays 8 p.m. 1920 —May 11 10:46 am. IN THE A, F. OF L. HALL it's always Congress that - - BOY FOR BENSONS Here Are Dates Mrs, Kenneth Benson gave birth 6:42 am. | 1:20 p.m. 2:00 p.m. | 3:10 pm. 6:32 p.m. 4:03 pm. 6:42 am. 4:25 pm. 3:41 pm. 7:03 p.m. 9:23 am. 10:15 am. 7:30 p.m. 1923-—-May 9 1924—May 11 1927--May 13 1929—-May 5 1930--May 8 1931—May 1 1932—May 1 1933—May 8 1834—April 30 1935—May 15 1936—April 30 1937—May 12 1938—Mey 6 1939-——April 20 A.N.B. and A.N.S. Meeis Each Monday-7:30 P. M.-A.N.B. Hall oo o v ! i JUNEAU CAMPS NO. 2 1941—May 3 . 1942—April 30 1943—April 28 : - e EASTERN STAR Tuesday, March 28 gt 8 o'clock. Initiation. Refreshments. ALICE BROWN, Secretary. . 94% More Passengers to Alaska adv., Governor Ernest GRUENING Will Speak at the TOWNSEND CLUB MEETING In C. I. 0. Union Hall TOMORROW—TUESDAY At§P.M. Public Invited That is the 1942 record of Pan Amer- ican Airways’ Alaska Service. But every passenger is now priorited by the Armed Forces, selected for his importance to the war effort. When Victory is won, we will pio- neer new standards of service for our friends in Alaska. the whiskey for tWenty years. 1 The water used is subjected to the same careful tests. A pure culture of yeast, which is literally kept in a safe, is used for fermentation. All down the line there are scientific control steps from the time the grain enters a dis- tillery until the young whiskey goes | to its repose in the charred barrels. But, we cannot tell all of it in one short article. We will tell you more | later. So, please don’t go away; and | keep on reading these little sketches. o . | . l FREE —Would you like a booklet contain- | ing the first ten articles in this series? Just | write your name and address on the back | of a penny postal and send it to me, care of International Corporation, 350 | Fifth Avenue, New York 1, N. Y. It's yours for the asking. 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