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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ~ PAGE FIVE JUNEAU'S USO NEWS o JEANIES CAFE 326 SECOND STREET e ' r T5¢ 0ld Fashion Home Cooked Meals Interesting liems for Everybody Just Like Mother Used 1o Cook less the last person he expected to night at one of the most enjoyable run into was anyone named “Glenlof recent Forum Club meetings u; Ph"ne 359 " Nor was S M er, | § al 1 t the 1ight of | p Consdering bt this was hic ownthe seric ot parvuany pessans § THE ONLY HOME CAFE IN JUNEAU name: levenings which have been made| You never know, thougn. When!possible through the generosity of | the Club director came over to in- S0 many of the townspeople) * * *| troduce himself and to learn this'and to Alida Matheson, the Club's| foceeeeceeeeee CABINETS FIXTURES pong cnly to receive his travel orders!new soldier’'s name, both men ,,g.}Asaislinxufi Director, the thanks Hnd“ { FULTON & KRUSE matches, Skagway USO Club versus the next day. ticed the sudden startled look on'the congratulations of all of us Juneau USO Club; 8:30 p. m—“The| Time was when the outfit WaS|the faces of two Navy men (also Who heard her give that exceeding - | BUILDING CONTRACTORS REPAIRING and REMODELING Male Animal” radio broadcast by all-male, also all-Army. Now it'Ss|gpparently newcomers in town) Iy skilful performance as the lead-| So. Seward and Willoughby D e e e e § seemed unanimously to be impress-| Emma Nielsen as the Club's Mfly| ed (“delighted” is really the word |Queen at last month’s formal dance} for it) with the large number fo|® and to Shirley McCormack,) girls here and their high degree of [one of the four charming sisters of | attractiveness our own charming Mary, for the| But other surprises may be in pleasure she has been giving us dur- store for them, as well. There was'ing her present visit in town * * *! Saturday night, for instance. When|and to Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Williams | a soldier from Detroit stopped inland Irene, a member of the GSO, at our dance that evening doubi-|for their hospitality on Monday THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1944 Phone a CLASSIFIED Copy must be in the office by 2 g’clock in the afternoon to insure insertion on same day. We accept ads over telephone from persons listea in telephone directory. Count five average worgs to the line. Daily rate per line for consecutive inser- tions: One day, 10c; Additional days, 5¢; Minimum charge, 50¢ PROGRAM fmusic’ thé Junea SO has ever THURSDAY, June 1, 7:30 p. m./had, with (for the sake of accur- —Dancing class on second floor of acy) a single possible exception. |USO: 9:00 p. m.—Regular Thurs- That previous occasion was the day night dance in USO. |long<to-be-remembered night last FRIDAR, June 2, 7:00 p. m.—|winter when Lt “Woody” Dough~ Meeting of Servicemen’s Council in man led the orchestra so brilliantly, USO; T7:30 p. m—Ping |USO Players from KINY studio;|cg-ed, and = practically all-Coast-isganding right next to them. One ing lady of last Friday's USO radio {9:30 p. m.—Illinois State night at!guard. It is all-giil so far as the|of the sailors turned to the Director: |show. {uso. piano is concerned: GSO memberi{«pjd you say that.fellow’s name PHONE 433 JuneauPlumbing & | 1 Heating Co. PLUMBING HEATING OIL BURNERS SHEET METAL WELDING PHONE 787 Third and Franklin NIGHT: B. E. FEERO . .Green 585 J. R. CLARK . 193¢ PONTIAC Coach $175; 1932 Hupmobile' sedan $125. G.L. Ward, acr from Jim Ellen Store | KA !WANTED — 765 mm, luger cart- ridges, C. A. West, ATS, Juneau.| Alaska Coastal WANTED — Woman for general housework for private family, good wages. P. O. Box 904. Phone 21. THRIFT C0-0P Member National Retailer- Owned Grocers 211 SEWARD STREET PHONE 767 s TWO NSON outboard motors, i 3 and ten h.p. Just overhauled. Dean Goodwin, Airlines. “WHAT'S THE USE OF WORRYING?—" Not infrequently people say to| us: How does it happen you al-| ways seem so chgerful? There must | 5 be a 16t to worry about when you're‘ RUBASE ORe Sl S la USO director. | Last summer the ecfiizenry of WANTED — Chambermaids and| Well, there is a lot to worry Chicago were to be given the op- maintenance man at Baranof Ho-|about. Then, too, there is a lot FOrtunity to learn all about Juneau, S8l {NOT to worry about; there are So:Alaskn‘ thanks to the initiative of —— Imany things that have a way of |2 certain famed newspaper in plan- wash-| NOT happening — a fact we've iNg to send one of its reporters work, | jearned from experience, This O the-up-to-that-time-almost-my- |wasn't always so. Last summer, mr}:hical ;;ty )““ this far-away Terri- _ | cxample. . | tory. hanks to one or another, or WANTED—Enfield rifle or acuon.iwe usl:d lzeg:)gq?:;; ;Ol;x?kofc:vu:r:-‘;%f‘“ combination, of the various fac- 237 Front Street. ling over'several things. There were1'°"5 playing a part in the eventual GIRLS bicycle in good condition, tWO in particular. One of them wasi:;‘;‘i;go:f pé:;:e zént::lw‘:d;e%m. " 5 |the weather. Yes, for a while we| | good tires. P. O. Box 3015. were presented with a picture of an indulged in not a little worryingi . chester Curbine, good condition WANTED — Woman for grocery|about how long it was going to be:€Ven-more-mythical 'Juneau than with shells.-30-40 Kragg rifle. 12| clerk. State qualifications and age. |before the good weather would set|anV they could readily have imag- gauge doukie barrel hammerless| Write Empire C3777. jin. Finally, after many weeks we ined. , (It was, roughly speaking, shot -gun, - full choke and semi- |stopped worrying — and, sure YOU might say, about as accurate choke with shells. 214-2nd St. VANTED—Used furniturc. 308 Wi- | enough, it (that is, the good wea-|21d complete a municipal portrait CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, PAPERS REMINISCENCES OF A SOURDOUGH On. Friday night, June 9th (Fri- day of NEXT WEEK) the USO will present its servicemen with the chance. to enjoy one of the most/ interesting evenings of their whole stay in Alaska. The subject of the| oceasion is to be “Reminiscences of a Sourdough,” and the speaker| is Charles W. Carter, a real sour- dough who has known the Terri- itory well since 1898. We are not going to try to set out here in this'column a list, either complete or partial, covering even just the highlights of Charley Car- ter's "cAteer. - We understand that not even ‘his close friends' could — = | DAVENPORT, pre-war, new uphol- stery. Phone 318. FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES—GAS—OIL Foot of Main Street Juneau Motors UPRIGHT Piano. Phone 716, s L FOR SALE — 24 ft. cabin cruiser, 6'2 ft. beam, round bottom, 120 hp. Pontiac 8 motor. A-1 condi- iton. Call Al Lubcke 612. WANTED—Woman for pan ing and general cleaning Sully's Baker: » FOR SALE—TmYlmg Boat 33% 7&, the Barnie Gail at float No. 2, 2:00 p. m—Bicycle party (weather very effective trombone of his. both men seeming to feel that np—? war. The two names turned _out‘ Rain Wednesday forced a post- lounge. in his own right, all together have ences, age, experience. Write Box m.—Old fashioned dances in USO. |&round and PREPARED, the USO(And, so as suddenly as they had'charging back after'a twin defeat was touched for eight hits but. his Seattlé-Portland, postponed. Small Boat Harbor. - eee - SATURDAY, June 3, 9:15 p. m— Maxine Nostrand has played in WSithere is Glen Elder?” “Yes,’ was . FOB RENT i USO June formal dance at Scot- latest appearances, with Pat{the answer. “Well," he exclaimed,| tish Rite Temple. Shaffer ready to step in whenever that sure is funny because the| FUB SALE | 'SUNDAY, June 4, 1:30 p. m. (or needed. Signalcorpsman Dick Gar~|name of my friend, the Chief here,| & ’ . |later at convenience of servicemen) |rison, of ,Seattle, we're happy t0|is also Glen Elder!" | B A i LOST—FOUND ANGELS 6-4; | | permitting) ; 5:00 p. m—Coffee and From there on the aggregation|parently the name was in satisfac-| . .' |cookies with music; 9:30 p. m.— is all-U.S.C.G., with Hi Shumwdy, tory hands all around, they px'nbed‘, | Vesper Service in USO lounge; of Springfield, Ill, playing the ac-ia bit into respective family histor-| \ w N\ 10:00 p. m.—Singing around piano, (crdian; Jess Fallis, of Indianapolis,|jes. However, so far as they could| MONDAY, June 5, 8:15 p. m— Ind, the guitar; Warren Weaver,|determine they weren't related at! DEADLINE FOR DISPLAY ADS |Forum -Club meeting at private of San Diego, California, the bass;|all. The Navy G.E. has been a| o % IS 11 A. M. ON DATE |home (group leaves USO at 8:10/and Ernie Henry, of Seattle, the 2 OF INSERTION { 16 be exactly the same except that ponement of half of the Pacific| Fon SALE WA“‘TED | TUESDAY, June 6, 7:15 p. m.— molded themselves with remarkable|one of the fellows (we forgot which Coast League scheduled games in-| E | Meeting of GSO Council; 8:30 p. rapidity into an excellent combina-|pne) confessed to have been guilty cluding the feud between the first 5 - B AR “!lm.—Quiz contest, broadcast over!t:on of putting on airs by adding an place Seattle Rainiers and Portland BEACH Cabin 18 mules, Glacier WANTED — About July 1, compe-|KINY: 9:30 p. m.—Customary Tues-| That Coast Guard SEMPER/|extra “n" to his first name. |Beavers. Hollywood and Oakland Highway. Bedroom dresser, kitch-| tent, experiencéd' “stenographer,|day .night games in USO, PARATUS business, it appears, #8{ A moment later the Ketchikan also were prevented from playing| en cabinet. Call 525. | law office, salary $160 or more de-| WEDNESDAY, June 7, 7:30 p. m,fno idle boast. ' So long as those|Glen Elder got an emergency call by bad weather. 949 c/o Empire. jis PREPARED TO KEEP ON NOT/|met, these two said good-bye, pre- Tuesday, ‘made ‘a three-run rally | WORRYING about a servicemen’sisymably as unlikely ever to meet 148t night to defeat the Los An- |band.' At the present ‘moment {t|up again as it had been unlikely gales Angels 6 to 4. | {certainly has one to be proud of! ' ||they'd ever meet at all. Sacramento’s cellar-dwelling So- Y| Add one more to the leng list of lons hung up the second win' in I Life's strange coincidences! |three recent starts by defeating the San Diego Padres last night 6 to 3. mates collected nine hits from three Padre pitchers, Brillheart, Bauer and Valenzuela. GAMES WEDNESDAY Pacific Coast League Hollywood-Odkland, ‘postponed. San Francisco 6; Los Angeles 4. National League New York 8; Chicago 5. Boston 5; St, Louis 1. Philadelphia '5; Cihcindati 4. Brooklyn 8; Pittsburgh 4. American League {—Trip to Mendenhall Glacier; report, continues to handle that! The introductions over, and with! MISCELLANEQUS resident of Ketchikan before the| (By Associated Press) {p. m.); 8:30 p. m—Movies in USO drums. Each one a good musician pending on ability. Give refer-|—Movies in USO lounge; 9:00 p.|l4ds in blue (or summer whites) are|to report immediately to his ship.! San Francisco's battling Seals, Guy Fletcher, Solon righthander, Sacramento 6; San Diego 3. Cleveland 7; Bostén 4. Sanitary Meat Co. FOR QUALITY MEATS AND POULTRY FREE DELIVERY Lall Phones 13 and 49 FOR SALE—Small Nat. Cash re- gister rings up ta $1. 30-30 Win- next to Sears, Rocbuck. ALASKA Seed Potatoes, L. F. Morris, P. O. Box 103, Juneau. Brood sows and youni ;igs,’ P. O. Box 1024, Juneau, or mile 7 on Glacier Highway. | TWO 8 ft. (' Bakery. show cases. Sully’s ¥ BOAT “Beilby,” $3,500 cash. Mrs. W. C. Walers, Wrangell, Alaska. : ¢ ROOM, completely furnished house, with basement, ofl furnace, bathroom, hot and cold running water, on beach, Fritz Cove Road, Larry Trambitas. 3% ft. TROLLER, 306 Willoughl ONE LARGE oil heater. Phoue » Green 483. THREE room furnished house, 3 acres patented ground, 9 mile * post by Airport. $1,800 cash, $2,000 terms. Phone Green 410. CHOICE ONE acre lots, 3% miles out Glacier Highway. Inquir Snap Shoppe. fOR SALE—2 room House, 3% acre Patented land, Auk Bay. Call at DeHart’s Grocery, or write P. O. 4 Box 574. FOR RENT ROOM for rent, 315 3rd St. Phone Black 119. FOR RENT — 3 room furn. cabin. Oil heat.and bath. 513A Willough- v by Ave. FOR RENT—Unfurnished flat. In- quire Snap Shoppe. THREE room heated apt. $30 mon- thly, Kilburn Apts. Douglas. VACANCY Nugget Apartments. , STEAMHEATED room for rent. ' Green 675. NEIANOS FOR RENT. —Phone 143, STEAM heated sleeping room, El-| lingen Apts. FURNISHED apartment. Snap Shoppa. Inquire 4 ROOM partly furatshed house, P. O. Box 1615. t ROOM furnished apt. steamheat- ed, hot and cold water at all times. Phone 569. b ot SR e AR L OFFICE room for rent. C at First National Bank. 7OR RENT—Fur. Apts. Easily kept warm. Winter rates $16 8 month. Lights, water, Dishes. Also bath aad use of Electric Wusher and Wringer in Laundry room. Sea- view Apts. 4 rubies get their same substance Emeralds and + color from the " chromium oxide, |ther) NEVER happened! loughby. Phone 788. e | - It's the second of our personal VANTED—Washer; also dry. clean- | cquses for worry, however, that we | fi;',.";" at ?hoo' Vz.hf" Laundry. | started to write about today. i pay. wne . ‘That was the possibility that | |we'd wake up some morning to dis- | MISCELLA"EOUS |cover that, overnight, the Club had ‘lost its entire servicemen’s orches- GUARANTEED Realistic Perma-|tra. What an oft-recurring pos- nent, $6.50. Paper Curls, $1 up. sibility (more accurately, probabil- , Lola Beauty Shop. | 315 Decker Way. Phone 201.ity) it seemed, too, during much |of last year! Every few weeks, as Jstfm'ua Airmy outfit was on the verge | (0of moving out of this area, or as H NOTICE |the rumors of wholesale re-: - May 16, 1944, on and after this|menes pacame more lnslsten?s:::n date I will not be responsible fOr avar our friends would.sadly shake |any bills unless contracted for by their heads, at the' same time try- myself. ing to cheer us up with the con- adv. solation that after all we'd been “very lucky to have had an orches- tra for so long” and that we had a juke-box, and there were many places in Alaska that “didn’t have even a juke-box.” (You can well imagine we got just lots and lots of dandy consolation from such rea- soning!) Then when the wholesale removal of troops ceased momentarily from. being imminent, it was pointed out that a big percentage of the band were in the Signal Corps and that its rotation system was certain to HOWARD E. MOSHER. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE District Land Office i Anchorage, Alaska | April 29, 1944 Notice is hereby given that Alfred F. Bucher has made application for 12 homesite under the Act of May 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 809) Anchorage erial 010372, for a tract of land described as Lot U of the Triangle Group of Homeosites situated on ;Glscier Highway approximately 12 | miles Northwest of Juncau, Alaska, Plat of U. S. Survey No. 2391, Sheet | 2, containing 343 acres, and {it: is | now in the files of the U.'S. Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska. Any and all persons claiming ad- | versely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse claim | in the district land office within the | period of publication or thirty days thereafter, or they will be barred by the provisions of the statutes. DORIS F. ROBINSON, Acting Register. First publication, May 18, 1944, Last publication, July 13 ,1944. R YOUR punchate of lows one by one, and soon. And Jjust a month ago we were remind- ed that shortly after the middle of May the High School students who. were helping out as bas én would| have left Juneau, simultaneously with the permanent departure of three long-time soldier-members of the band and the start of the fur- lough of a fourth member. It was at this point, friends, that even a confirmed optimist might have been pardoned for at last sensing the Beginning of the Eng. . AND YET, last Saturday night at the USO"dance a large crowd en- joyed an outstandingly fine eve- - |ning of music—and 1t wasn't ground out of any juke-box, either. It was played by a very-live, flesh-and- blood orchestra; and it was really good. fer 31 This coming Saturday at the June formal dance we confidently expect result in the removal of ‘the fel-| O Ne Will give a sports interview, | 'as that amazing painting of so- |called “Juneau” appearing recently | 1in a widely-circulatéd magazine.) | Well, anyway, whatever the odd notions that the folks back home in the States may have been lndulgmgi in concerning Juneau, tomorrow at| the USO all of us are to be treat- led to the chance to learn what a grand place the State of Illinois (in general) and the city of Chicago (in particular) really are, And the Job of doing justice to them'ls not v(o be consigned to one reporter and one artist, either—we're hoping that there will be a chorus of no less | than several score of voices, GI and clvilian, raised in loud acclaim over the multitudinous virtues of their old home town and State. A number of interesting features,| musical and otherwise, are on the| program for tomorrow night. Just| to mention one of them: Among the many Chicago fellows in the local Port Company is likeable John Castiglioue. You wouldn't guess it to look at hjm, but John. is a vet- eran of ten years of prize-fighting. As o @ of'the best lightweights in! the " fhole' ‘mid-west, John has| fought most of the country’s top- ranking’ lightweights aiid has made | a fine record for himself. Tomor- telling us, about, his ring experiences. This !is/ sure ito be among the eve- . ning's most interesting features. It is o'p:; ému'n at the YSO to- oW Friday) for all péo- ;e m flmeulrvof‘ Douglas who fige | lived in Illinois, whether or not they | still regard it as home, All of you, together with the Tllinols service. men, will act as the hosts of the| rest of us. The affair Wwill run from ::o:}?ii um;l r:’k‘xm are ready to quit’ ng foi on all thos | that are Illinois. T ) * WHAT'S IN A NAME? Whenever a fellow drops into a Juneau USQ dance he ought to be Prepared for some surprises, usually pleasant ones. At least, that is what we've found to have been the experience of a.lot of transient servicemen who have been in town lideafof the scope of this remark- 2 to 0 after three innings when a | numbef ‘of servicemen and others for only a few hours, or a day or Detrolt 6; New Yark 2. Philadelphia was leading Chicago hope to accomplish this. But just to e you new men in town an| ably® interesting man’s fascinating heavy thunder storm drowned out background: Among his earliest the game and’ sent players and jobs up here was his operation of spectators seurrying. a dog-team mail route running from| st Louis 4; Washington 3. a point on the coast near the pres-! ent town of Anchorage so far up, into the interior that it covered| about 1500 niiles! | Needless to state, one of our Seattle friend’s most attractive qualities is Portland his sense of humor. When we ex-'g.) prancisco tended him our invitation to the Hollywood Club, he recalled that he was talk- San Diego ing with a fellow who had been a Los Angeles practicing attorney-at-law. He ask- . “ ed us if we were bargaining for Dpkland . e AT Sacramento pesi s 33 -340 reminiscences that were to be “the, National League truth, the whole truth, and nothing | Won but the truth?” 5 25 After solemn deliberation it ‘was ‘ agreed between us that a comprom- ise would be in order, involving the | Pittaiggh lopping off of the requirement that | va"kly". would have been imposed by the NeW York last five words. With this added |Boston ... 48 latitude, and with the whole truth Philadelphia ... _ 441 about those early -Alaskan = days|Chicago . o A4 being what it is, we are sure the| American { evening: of:.June 9th at our USO Pat.i! will prove to be one long and grate- | New York fully to be remembered by every-|St. Louis one who loves to listen to adventure | Detroit i ctories told by a born story-teller.| Philadelphia You seryicemen, short of having to Washington be AWOL to do it, be sure not to|Cleveland miss Chatles W. Carter at the USO | Bost: that night, .. | Ohie | STANDING OF CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won' Lost Pet. 31 23 574 23 566 24 547 25 528 28 500 27 491 - Pet. 858 595 859 AT4 AT4 463 St. Louis | Cincinnati e — CLEO SHANS STOPS JEFFRA’S COMEBACK BALTI , Md., June 1.—Cleo interested” in the USO made con-| . tributioRa jof . ofte: o o m’mmerjshuns. mauling Los Angeles negro, Iput an end to the comeback win ke e ey (helplng 0 \streak of Baltimore's Harry Jeffra than it could otherwise have been, i2st night by taking the unanimous And so, herewith, we acknowledge |10-Tound decision. " d round to the the Club’s indebtedness to (among| From the secon to a lot of others) Mrs. George An-|end, Shan had complete corumand derson, for the latest of a long ser- and floored Jeffra in the ninth ies of very thoughtful gifts of flow- |tound for a no-count. ers * * * and to Soldier Dick Will- LTINS 5 o (Y con, of Philadelphia, for the high PLEASE NOTICE quality of his photographic work| Lola’s Beauty Shop will be closed on the occasion of the crowning of luntil June 1. adv. USO - HEADLINERS - OF - THE - WEEK - DEPARTMENT: As always seems the case every wezk, since last Thursday a larg War fonds. 18 important / Buy Wan Bonds Here I it to furnish us with the & danpe Part ot ANl you Earn is Yours fo Save/ \d i [ | | { [ Alaska Federal Savings ‘ & Loan Association S PSS T 5 O S R B s two at most. For example, they've ! ~Fresk BUTTER Chas. G. Warner Co. Marine Engines and Supplies MACHINE SHOP Ropes and Paints Leota’s WOMEN'S APPAREL Baranof Hotel NORTH TRANSFER Light and Heavy Hauling E.O.DAVIS = E. W. DAVIS PHONE 81 ~COWLING-DAVLIN .. COMPANY DODGE ;d»,l":.mom Diesel Ofl—Stove Ofl—Your Coal Choice—General Haul- ing — Storage and Crating CALL US! Juneau Transfer Phone 48—Night Phone 481 ' TIMELY CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality W:rk Clothing Complete Outfitter for Men “SMILING SERVICE” Bert's Cash Grocery PHONE 104 or 105 Pree Delivery Juneau GASTINEAU HOTEL Every comfort made for our guests Alr Service Information “HOME GROCERY | Phone 146 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 American Ment — Phene 38 {Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE Utah Nut and Lump COAL Alaska Dock & Storage nmnosxlc il Juneau’s Most Popular “Meating” Place ONLY THE BEST OPF MEATS PHONE 202 Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 Pred W. Wendt