The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1944, Page 3

B, T AU TUESDAY MAY 16 1944 | s ——— l.lhlI TIMES TODAY! WEDNESDAY—THURSDAY You'll Give a ! .Hearty Welcome to * /A STRANGER IN TOWN" » with £ FRANK MORGAN < §pecial-Attraction - JLL TO THE MIGHT F THE U. S. NAVY! COMMENTATION by CHARLES W00D ‘and ED HERLIHY SEAS WITH OF THE NAVY! RIDE 1 HERCE / Show Place of Juneau 'TOXYO HINTS BIG U. §. SE, CHINA JopBroadeast Tells of Raid «Made on May 12-No o Confirmation NEW YORK; May 16.—Establish- ‘mentsof a powerful United States pA base at Shichwan, Kiangsi in .China — from which bombers might: make attacks on Forniga, Philippines and parts of Japan's home island—is indicated in a ¢Tokyo: announcement of a Japanese raid on the field on May 12. v, The Tokyo' announcement, with- out Allled confirmation, is in the rform ot an Imperial Headquarters ue. Wokyo radio said: “A main forcein a base has been out.” broadeast further reported of r Chenault’s fighters ed, “three of which are ,” and 38 planes were % on the ground. Five Jap- es were “self-blasted or bl Shichwan 87700 miles east of the _United States:Fourteenth Air #Forcels' pioneer base at Kunming. o BUY WAR BONDS *¥. TABLE LAMPS, JUNEAU “Phone No. 616 B "HIT THE ICE" FEATURED NOW, CAPITOL SHOW Charles Lamont, who directed Abbott and Costello in their cur- rent Universal comedy, “Hit the Ice,” now at the Capitol Theatre, declares that the comedians have unusual appeal which reaches out {to people of every age. “Old ladies. want to mother Cos- tellc,” Lamont explains. “Young women want to take him aside, and {reform him. Men like him because he blunders and makes them feel superior in comparison, and little boys see in him one of their kind.”| Bud and Lou themselves have no 'explnnauon for their popularity. “We just ad lib our pictures,” says Lou. “Bud and me get the| gist of the scene from the director, and then we're off on whatever comes into our minds.” ' Neither of the actors ever read a seript of their picture before it |goes before the camera. Frequently the boys go so unre- hearsed into their comedy routines that they cannot repeat for a sec- ond “take.” This has been solved by training three cameras on them as they work. In the supporting cast of “Hit the Ice” are Ginny Simms, Patric Knowles, Elyse Knox, Marc Law-| rence and Johnny Long and his or- chestra. 'ROTARIANS HEAR ' ANCHORAGE MAN Robert Atwood, Anchorage news- paperman, talked to Rotarians this noon, giving . details of proposed post-war projects that city is con- ‘|sidering. George Troychak enter- tained the Rotarians with several accordian solos. Atwoad, member of the Anchor- age Rotary Club, listed as propos- ed Anchorage porjects for the post- war transition period the following: Paving of streets, airport improve- ment, library, more schools, a com- munity gymnasium. Present school facilities are inad-| equate, he said, and some classes are held in the basements of private residences. | The city is in good shape finan-! cially, he pointed out, making a| yearly profit of $75,000 on its elec- tric power service alone. Atwood said this money may be used later to finance a large bond iissue for other improvements. Regional Forester B. Frank Heint- zleman was welcomed back after three months in Washington, and Brooks Hanford also was welcomed back after a trip to Seattle. Another visiting Rotarian was C. E. Swanson of Petersburg. Guests included Leonard Holm- quist, Ray Curtis of Ketchikan, Frank” Molitor of Seattle. President Harold Foss appointed Brooks Hanford to head the Rotary Fifth War Loan Committee. Stan Grummett repo: the Ro- tary Picnic will be held rain or shine on Sunday, June 4, at Auk Beach. Serving on the picnic com- mittee are Tom Morgan, Harold Foss, Don Skuse, Waino Hendrick- son and Roald Copstead. ALASKA COASTAL ON THREE TRIPS TODAY Alaska Coastal Airlines today made three flights, the first being to Hoonah with Mrs, C. V. Uhl as passenger. Returning, the plane brought R. Istirus, Ruby Istirius, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Morris Scott back to Juneau. Mr. and Mrs. Scott embarked at Excursion Inlet. A second flight was made to Sitka with the following persons aboard: Mr. and Mrs. Martin Tengs, Leslie Grove, John Picco, H. Monty and Gaby Lampkey. L. C. Allen was flown to Kake late What to Give j Wedding Present? of the nice-FLOOR, or ## Two or three friends could get to- e gether and make one, nice gift. ¢! o o ® A" Alaska Electric Light and ; Power Company this afternoon, in our display? DOUGLAS Phone No. 18 ITALIANS IN WILD FLIGHT FROMSOUTH Push Into G—uslav Line- Bombings, Sabofage Causing Confusion | BERN, May 16.—The Allied push into the Gustav line, coupled with bombings and partisan sabotage has disrupted food deliveries and thrown Italy into the greatest confusion; since the days following the Mus- solini ouster. Dispatches from the border said at least half a million Italians are fleeing the southern war zone and have pushed into Rome, already short of housing, and crowded with| 100,000 people bombed out of their homes. There are virtually no rail com- miications from Florence south- ward, and impossible to shunt the refugees north. C. G. FLOTILLA T0 OPEN SPORT | FISHING SEASON Boats fo Leave Port in For- mation Sunday for Trip fo Admiralty Cove With their Coast Guard Auxiliary flags flying and boats traveling in formation, members of Flotilla No. 2100 will leave port Sunday morn- ing for Admiralty Cove in Youngs Bay to officially open the season’s sport fishing activities in this area. The boats will gather at the Small Boat Harbor, ready to gei underway at 9 o'clock and accord- {ing to Commander J. B. Burford, it will not be necessary to call at the Control Tower for papers, but each member must report aboard tween 8 and 8:45 o'clock. Lt. Earle Watterworth, District Director of the Coast Guard Aux-' iliary, is in port for the special oc- casion and pictures will be taken during the day by an official Unit- ed States Coast Guard photogra- | pher, who is making the trip With gg; niago bar six months after the | him. Fishing, games on the beach and | a picnic lunch will highlight the! day’s outing, with each member re- minded to pack his own “grub.” | Guests may be invited and all plan- | ning to attend are requested to no- tify Commander Burford in order that there will be some knowledge as to how many boats will be tak- ing part. Dr. W. P. Blanton is chairman in charge of activities at the picnic grounds. NATIONAL RED (ROSS FUND PASSES MINIMUM GOAL SET THIS YEAR The local Red Cross chapter has received word from national head- quarters that the Red Cross War Fund had reached $211,200,000 up to April 30. ‘The minimum goal set was $200,- 000,000 and of the 3,749 chapters reporting, some 3,180 have already nueined or passed their goals. - Baranof Beauty Salon WHERE SATISFACTION and SERVICE are SYNONYMOUS SMART HAIRDOS Reap Compliments A full staff of experienced operators to satisfy your every wish in hair styling. . o SHOP HOURS FIRST WASP WINS AWARD General Henry H. Arnold, com- manding general of the United State Army Air Forces, recently presented the Air Medal to Bar- bara Erickson (above) of Seattle, first Women's Air Force Service pilot to receive the distinction. Presentation was made at Aveng- er Field, Tex. In five days WASP Erickson flew more than 8,000 miles ferrying three different types of planes. Alrmen Say Marine Ace Still Alive Boyington Promlsed foSee Friends at San Diego Bar After War ADVANCED.. SOUTH.. ' PACIFIC AIRBASE, May 16. — Almost five months have passed since Major Boyington vanished over Rabaul, /but insistent rumor from Finschaf- |his boat for final instructions be-| s o en to Sydney has it that the 26- iplane Marine ace is still alive. Wherever airmen gather, they, talk of “Greg” as if temporarily missing, and they recall one of his last comments. “I may disappear with 30 Zeros on my tall, but re- | member, T'll meet "you guys at the, war. A week or so after his disappear- | ance in January, three scout pilots thought they saw the stocky fi- |gure trying to signal from a beach of a Japanese held island, but they searched to no avail for the pic- turesque Okanogan, Washingtoi, |flyer, who has been the object of many searches in the Bismarck Archipelago and northern Solomons. The Pacific war holds no great- er secrets than the fate of the downed aviators on Rabaul. —— .. Two Missing KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 16— After divers made a futile search for the body of Fred Martinsen, a fisherman missing since April 26, his wife has offered a $500 reward for the finding of the body or whereabouts. Meanwhile no trace has been found of Grover Foster, Wrangell trap operator who disappeared last Saturday night. He was’last seen by cab driver Leonard Horn who o'clock. Foster's hat was found on a float an hour later. Divers have been unable to locate his body m the vicinity of the float. ———.——— FIELDER IN TOWN Harry PFielder arrived here re- cently from Anchorage and is reg- istered at the Juneau Hotel. o JAP THRUST At Kelchikar drove Foster to the dock at 11| THREATENS New Attack 11 Miles from | Border Is Reported Stopped by Allies SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR- {TERS IN KANDY, Ceylon, May 16, “—»A new Jap thrust close to the borders of India and 220 miles Isouthwest of Imphal is reported by Teveal a scandal which has hung ,the Southeast Asia Command, which said it was repulsed. } The action took place 10 miles ,west of Daletme, a town only 11 .miles from the east Indian frontier lin the Kaladan River Valley, about the highwater point of the British spring advance against Akyab Bay on the Biscal coast. JOINING OF " ARMY, NAVY WASHINGTON, May 16. — The Navy has reitecated its position that the consolidation of the Army and Navy should not be undertaken Iuntll after the war end even then the proposal “is open. to serious question” Vice Admiral Frederick Horne, Vice-Chief of Naval opera- tions, testified before a special House Committee on postwar mili- . tary policy 'WAR PRISONERS INU.S. WILL WASHINGTON, May 16. — The United States holds 183,618 prison- ers of war, the Army reported, and discussed the denazifying of the captured soldiers of the Axis, the total of which is far the largest nuimber. There are 133,135 Gérmans, 50,136 Ttalians \d 347 Japanese. The statement said it is “believed the best indoctrination of demo- |cracy would be observations made |by enemy prisovers at work in var- ious American communities where Ithey will absorb the material of newspapers, books, motion pictures, radio and the correspondence cours- es they acquire in the camps.” i i S WASHINGTON, May 16.—Secre- tary of State Hull said the United ‘Stalea has received a Japanese note ‘giving certain conditions for pick- ing up American | relief which 'are waiting at Vladivostok for distribution to American priscn- ers in the Orient. The note is now being studied to determine the true significance Russian cooperation. The United States has been unable to make sat- isfactory arrangements with Japan. The note came through the Swiss government. e - RUTLEGE IN TOWN F. A. Rutlege, of the Bureau of Mines, is in Juneau and a guest at the Gastineau. : - HERE FROM HOONAH Henry Moses is in town from Hoonah and is registered at the Juneau Hotel., e MRS. CHASE HERE Mrs. Archie Chase is in town from Gustavus, registered at the Gas- tineau. . EASTINDIA 50 miles northwest of Buthedaung,|ryen she tried: to buy him off with | o IS OPPOSED BE DENAZIFIED supplies! about the 1,500 tons sent througu: INTRIGUE SEEN IN- PICTURE AT 20TH CENTURY Warner Bros. have once again| achieved a grand picturization of[ a best-selling novel in their excell-| ent adaptation of Stephen Long- street’s “The Gay Sisters,” to the screen. The film, which is now showing at the 20th Century The- atre, has everything that makes for fine screen entertainment—a swift-moving story—a fine cast—/| romance — intrigue and brilliant dialogue. ! Starring in the film is Barbara Stanwyck as the fiery, imperious Fiona, Gaylord, who is forced to like a cloud over the Gaylord fam- ily for years. At one time, in| order to secure one hundred thou- sand dollars left to her by an aunt, provided that she was married, | Fiona met Charles Barclay and tricked him into marrying her.i $25,000. He took the money, but| never lost sight of the fact thatz he was tricked. After many years he finds an opportunity for re- venge and his method in taking ad- vantage of it is so unique and has such startling results that it would | be unfair to reveal the consequences in advnace. i OIL EXPERTS OF | NAVY FLOWNTO | NORTH ALASKA Explorahon of Supposedly i Limitless Reserves § Undertaken NEW YORK, May 16.—Possibly the greatest oil field in the world, | and the Arctic’s greatest “gold mine,” the supposedly limitless oil reserves around Point Barrow,| ! Alaska, are now to be explored by |the U. s. Navy. | Four Navy petroleum experts ar- irived last month in Point Barrow, {nestling on the cold Arctic Ocean (under the rim of the Arctic Circle, \by Pan American World Airways plane, there to remain, isolated, {from the reést of the world, until, jthey had explored the potentiali-| jties of the 11,000,000-acre Navy‘ | petroleum reserve. Point Barrow Fields 1 With the world’s attention focused | on oil, vital to any successful war| ‘effort, and with the interest in Arabian oil deals and development of the Norman wells in Canada, the importance of the Point Barrow | fields is apparent. There, during' the warm summer months, thick ! black ‘oll traces can'be seen oozing | from the earth in many places. | However, due to their remoteness | and inaccessibility, this oil area has | Iremained largely unexplored. Just | how the ol fields would be develop- {ed, how the oil would be refined |and where, and how it would be! transported to places where needed | are questions still largely in the| fleld of conjecture. To Determine Extent It will be the responsibility. of the| Navy experts during their stay to find out the extent of the fields and | discover if possible whether de-| velopment of the oil will be justified at this time. Flown by Pan American Lodestar to Fairbanks, the party transferred at that point to a Douglas DC-3 plane, piloted by Pan American Alaska sector Chief Pilot 8. E. Rob- bins, one of the few men evet to fly a plane to Point Barrow. On the morning of March 25 the plane was within thirty miles of its des- tination when unexpected storm clouds forced a return to Pairbanks. Fly in Cold Weather With a month’s ‘supply of survey equipment, bedding, tents and food, the plane resumed its northward flight, only to fly through the cold- est temperature ever recorded over MANURE ==-== NEW or OLD Any Amount Delivered JACK CROWLEY——PHONE 219 DONALD CRISP+NANCY COLEMAN- LARRY SIMMS * DGNALD W00DS « Directed by IRVING RAPPER Serean Pioy by Lonore Colles + ased Uoon Ihe Novel by Stephed Longsireet + Music by Max Sieiner LATEST WORLD NEWS Tops in Shorts GENE LOCKHART erssANng—excest i noman be wanted .. BEST SHOWS LOWEST PRICES Alaska by a Pan Amer(can plane~1 167 degrees below zero. With a new hot air heating system installed on its planeg flying the Alaskan routes by Pan American Airways, those aboard suffered no discomfort. After landing on an improvised snowcovered runway packed hard by tractor, the crew unloaded its | cargo and made a round-trip to Fairbanks to return with the Navy pcrsonnel, Welcomed By Eskimps The whole town of ‘150 Eskimos, their hair and eyebrows caked with ice from the cold, turned out to welcome the visitors. It was Rob- blns first flight to the Point in | six years. Air transportation serviges, as | typified by the extensive and well- | established operations of Pan Am- erican Airways to and within the Territory, is practically the only means of uniting many sections of Alasku with dependable communi- Latlon.s and - transportation. Today, in addition to maintain- ing regularly-scheduled commercial ‘services to many points in Alaska, Pan American is serving the air transport services of the armed | forces with contrnct operauons, e TEACHER IS OFF TODAY ENROUTE TO DIOMEDE Albert Heinrlch, Government teacher for the Alaska Indian Serv- ice, left Juneau today for Fairbanks. From there he will proceed to Nome and then to his post on Diomede, the tiny island'lying between Alaska and Russia. Mr. Heinrich is from Columbia, Illinois, and this is his first assignment with the Indian Service. ————.——.—— CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank everyone for their kindness and assistance’'shown, fispechlly the Elks Lodge in the loss of Oscar Harri; also for the many | beautiful floral offerings. HARRI MACHINE SHOP. adv. MAX BRAND IS KILLED IN ITALY Harpers Magzine Corres- pondent Is 17th fo Lose Life in This War | ALLIED HEADQUARTEESAT | NAPLES, May 16.—Frederick Faust, 58, Harpers Magazine war corres spondent, better known by his pen |name of Max Brand, fiction and | movie writer, author of Dr. Kildare | stories and 85 books, was killed in | action op Thursday in the Garigliang sector on the Italian front. Faust_is the seventeenth corres spondent killed in the war. He was the author of many westerns, in= cluding the popular “Destry Rides Again,” and was a native of Seattle, where he is survived by his widow and a son and daughter. § e i ARRIVALS FROM GUSTAVUS ‘Mrs. C. D. Casperson and c arrived recently from Gustavus registered at the Baranof Hotel. e — H HERE FROM YAKUTAT Mrs, ‘Tesa F. Banks, of Yakutat, is a guest at the Baranof. e ———— VIRGINIAN HERE @ H. B. Swain, a guest at the Bar- | anof, arrived yesterday and regist= ered from Norfolk, Virginia. ———p——— KELVIES HERE Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kelvie, of Flondreau, South Dakota, are reg- istered at the Baranof, AVAILABLE WE NOW HAVE A GOOD STOCK OF ELECTRIC HEATER UNITS SUITABLE FOR MOST RANGES WESTINGHOUSE — HOTPOINT — HUGHES GENERAL ELECTRIC — MONARCH — MARION WRINGER ROLLS EASY — WESTING] GENERAL OUSE — THOR — SEARS CTRIC - MAYTAG AB 82 POWER PACK 90 Volt B 1):A PARSONS ELECTRIC (0. SAMTOSP. 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