The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 23, 1944, Page 3

» 14 FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1944 ANKERS - VERNE “THE SECRET CODE” Sat. Mat. LATEST NEWS | 1 il il jaccompanying pianist, va| | TlTLED—An American | Legion Post in Wheeling, W. Va., has selected singer Lois Mae Nolte (above) as Miss West Virginia in a state-wide contest | held recently. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 23, — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6!, American Can 88%, Anaconda 26'%, Bethlehem Steel 61%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, In- ternational Harvester 77%, Kenne- cott 31%, North American Aviation | 8%, New York Central 18%, North- | ern Pacific 17%, United States Steel | 57, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as' follows: Industrials, 147.50; rails, 41.64; utilities, 23.79. — e DR. NORRIS LEAVES Dr. Edgar Norris, Director of the U’ S. Public Health Service in Al- aska, left this morning for Seattle where he will confer with Dr. J. W. Mountain, Chief Medical Director, | States’ Relations Division. He will be gone for an indefinite period. $PY PICTURE AND BASEBALL STORY ON CAPITOL BILL one, but two, girls in his new Uni- versal film, “The Great Imperson- |ation,” itol Theatre. Evelyn Ankers, blonde most recently in “Pierre of the Plains,” and Kaaren Verne, Euro- pean dramatic actress of “All | Through the Night” Row,’ a-vis in the new spy drama Rawlins under the associate ducership of Paul Malvern. Scott Darling penned the screen play which is an adaptation of the E. Phillips Oppenheim thriller. The highly imaginative story |deals with double identity. Bel- lamy appears as a lazy aristocrat {and as a brutal enemy agent. “Ladies Day,” the first out and out comedy about baseball, is also on the double bill. Lupe Velez and Eddie Albert, and is crammed with merriment and | fireworks. | ero | 'WAR BOND SONG RECITAL TO BE B e Be Heard in Concert at Methodist Church Crystal Snow Jenne, well known| Juneau singer, will present a war bond song recital on Monday eve- ning at the Methodist Church. The musicale is sponsored by the Busi- |ness and Professional Womens !Club in conjunction with the Fifth {War Loan Drive. Mrs. Ruth Popejoy will be the and Mrs. Phyllis violinist, will assist. The price of admission is a ser- es E bond, which entitles the pur- chaser to one ticket. The tickets are on sale at the Alaska Music |Supply. Bonds and tickets may also be obtained at the door the| night of the recital. ->o——— |NEW EMPLOYEES HERE FOR INDIAN AFFAIRS ‘Three new employees have arrived from the States for the Office of Indian Affairs. From Seattle, Freda Al Peterson is a npurse with the Indian Service and will be on staff of the Govern- | ment Hospital. Office employees, June Gorham is from Inglewood, California, and Dorothy Waddington, from Van- couver, Washington. Miss Gorham has been assigned to the bookkeep- ing and trust funds section, while Miss Waddington is in the personnel | section. Langdon, ————— FUNERAL SERVICES FOR WILLIAMS TOMORROW Funeral services for Thomas Wil- liams, who died on June 19 at St. Ann’s Hospital, will be held at the Catholic Church of the Nativity to- morrow morning at 9 o'clock. The Rev. Edward Budde will officiate at the services and interment will| be in the Catholic plot at the Douglas Cemetery. SAND and GRAVEL 433 FULTON & KRUSE CONTRACTORS Verd-A-Ray LAMP BULBS The Standard Eye After a score of pictures in which| {he has been left empty-handed at the altar, Ralph Bellamy gets not| coming tonight to the Cap-| | beauty and “King's| 'HE Medical Department is a far-spread unit of the Army, are Bellamy's feminine vis-| The film was directed by John| pro- | w.| The film stars| MONDAY NIGHT . Crystal Snow Jenne Will | MISSBETTYMILL | FIRST AID MEN give emergency h morphine and sulfa and tag the casualty for fu- ture treatment. rv | stretching from the battl; THE DAILY ALASKA EMFFRE~ -JUNEAU, AAL'ASKR HOW THE ARMY 3 COLLECTING STATIONS prepare wou transportation to m | manent hospitals LITTER - BEARERS sh wounded to battalion aid stations for emergency sur- gery, blood plasma. e lines to base hospitals back home. Its job is to reach wounded men within minutes, band- | 2o0nes for further yreatment. and planes are used. This JAPS ADMIT- LOSSES IN " SEABATILE { NEW YORK, June 23. — Jap |headquarters has acknowledged the 41055 of a Jap aircraft carrier, two |oil tankers, and 50 planes in the engagement with the American naval task force west of the Mar- ianas and admitted the Japs were “unable to intlict a decisive blow lon the enemy.” | The broadcast, | recorded by the {FCC, said that part of the com- \blned Jap fleet participated in the action which began June 19, Jap time, and continued until the fol- {lowing day. The Tokyo communique asserted | that the Japs sank or damaged five Allied aircraft carriers, one or |more battleships, and asserted 100 |planes were destroyed. i age them, ease their pain ond rush them behind the fighting Litters, jeeps, ambulances, trains sketch shows a typical route. led for per- in_rear, 4 CLEARING STATIONS are well-equipped. They sift, classify patients. ROOM WITH RUNNING WATER THESE U. S. SOLDIERS in Alaska won't ever gripe again about a dearth of running water near their quarters. Their base was flooded when th~ Yukon River overflowed.its banks following an ice jam. Air Transport Command fliers later broke up the pack with bombs. (International) | (CORP. KIHLMAN, | ' WED SATURDAY| | Miss Betty Mill, daughter of Mri |and Mrs. Minard Mill of this city, | will become the bride of Corporall |Kenneth L. Kihlman, USA, son 011 Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Kihlman of | |Seattle, at an 8 o'clock ceremony | :lo be performed tomorrow evening at the family home on Seventh! Street. The Rev. W. H. Matthews, Jr., |; of the Methodist Church will read, '[the vows in the presence of a few| |close friends and relatives. Mrs. George F. Alexander will play the wedding music and before ithe service she will sing “At Dawn- ling.” The bride will have Miss Louise Adams as her only attendant, and Corp. Kihiman has asked Sergeant | Jack Vertrees to be the best man.| A reception will follow the cere- mony at the Mill residence between 9 and 11 o'clock. I NORTHERN COCKTAIL BAR TO BE OPENED, NEW MANAGEMENT The Northern Cocktail Bar on lower Franklin Street is being re- novated and extensive improvements made and will be reopened on July | 1 by the new owners, E. A, Rhoades and D. W. Such. They purchased the bar from Corbett Shipp, who had been operating the establish- ment. | Baranof Beauty Salon WHERE SATISFACTION and SERVICE are SYNONYMOUS |bers that can be contacted will be \drive. {will be with us. OUTDOOR SERVICE, PICNIC LUNCH FOR LUTHERANS SUNDAY Led by members ot the choir, the Lutherans of Juneau and Douglas will unite in a service of songs and a sermon by Pastor G. H. Hiller- man at the swimming beach about | 14 miles out Glacier Highway this |coming Sunday morning. Following in a picnic pot-luck lunch. Mem- asked to take certain items for the lunch so that it may be a balanced meal. Those not contacted shou.ld| feel free to tuke anything they wish | to help with the meal. Everyone |the service those present will unite | To Marry General should take his own eating im-; plements. | Cars and a bus will provide| | transportation for those who have no means of transportation of then own. Plans call for leaving the chumh at 10 a. m. Sunday to go to the| |beach, and the return trip will start the latter part of the afternoon. | - ‘ | | TERRITORIAL GUARDS SELL BONDS lOlIlGHI Tonight the’ Territorial Guards and the CIO will handle the bond booths and the following statement ' was issued by Capt. Hank Harmon of the Guards: H “Every member of the Territorial| Guard is expected to be on the, street tonight at 7:30 p. m. to do‘ his share in selling war bonds and stamps in the Fifth War Loan| Lois Allen, our candidate, Dress in uniform most suited to the weather.” ———————— BUY WAR BONDS OTA goa o Le0n 3Ucee35 " Women's Appanet g o atie bttt BARNEY GOOGLE iy GLORIA BAKER TOPPING, célebrated | as the first of the glamour girls in | | CHICAGO, June 23. — Governor 1937, will soon marry Brig. Gen. | Edward H. Alexander, 42, of Wat- | seka, Ill, commanding the Carib- | bean wi.ng. AirTransport Command. Announcement was made by her mother, Mrs. Margaret Emerson, in Palm Beach, Fla, (International) | Albert White Is for Dewey CHICAGO, June 23—J. Russell Sprague of the New York National |Committee and leader of the “draft Dewey” fofces, announces that Al- bert White, of Juneau, Republican delegate from Alaska, is among the party leaders volunteering support |in the drive to nominate the Gov- <mor of New York as Presidential candidate. — e — NOTICE Due to inability tp secure exper- ienced help in the dry cleaning de- partment, the Alaska Laundry, Inc. lis forced to discontinue dry-clean- ing until further notice. MOVES ITS WOUNDED EVACUATION HOSPITALS, ‘ sometimes reached by | major medical and rg| atment. From he | men either return to the front or move to other hospitals farther from the battle are |nicolor. film Powell, MUSICAL COMEDY NOW SHOWING | AT 20TH CENTURY, All the thrills and fun of a sum- mer vacation, plus a lot more, are| said to abound in Paramount’s Inewest musicomedy, “Happy Go| Luoky showing now at the 20!h1 Ccnturv ‘Theatre complete with laughs, songs, romance and (!(h-‘ five populnri Martin, Dick | Eddie| In ad-| The picture stars players—Mary Betty Hutton, Bracken and Rudy Vallee. |dition there are Mabel Paige, Eric Iso songs. AP Features'| JAPS ADMIT FEARSAIPAN - OPERATIONS 1Tokyo Broadcast Warns Saipan Baffle Most | Crifical of War (By Amciaud Press) Etsuzo Kurihara, Chief of the ‘Naval Press Section of Jap Head- h | quarters, declared in a formal state- | ment broadcast from Tokyo, that “the battle situation in the Saipan area is the most critical one since | the beginning of the war.” | 'The statement, whigh was record- ‘ed in New York by the Office of | War Information, said that a major | effort will be necessary to turn back lav:lvmu:ed naval elements “centered around more than 20 aircraft car- | riers, more than a dozen battleships, ! and more than 100 transport ships. "I'he enemy’s plane advance is the greatest since the beginning of the !war in strength of main force and in the furiousness of the enemy’s | fighting morale.” | | He said that Saipan is only 1,268 nautical miles from Tokyo and 1,~ 500 nautical miles from the Philip- pines. “Therefore if the briemy suc- there the influence to our sea and air supremacy in the western Pa- cific will be extremely great. If the enemy uses large type bombers the homeland of Japan and the Phil-| ippines will be exposed and within | bombing spherg. of enemy. planes.” The. statement was broadcast on the Jap home radio as well as abroad | and admitted that the Saipan op- eration “will advance the enemy into ' our inner Mne 2. B DEWEY DECLARES ADMINISTRATION IS BUREAUCRACY (Thomas E. Dewey sent Republican platform’ drafters a message criti- cizing the national administration as a "sprnwllng and overlapping burenucrncy." and calling for a new |regime in which the President will act with Congress to “raise Federal service to a new high level of ef- ficiency and competence.” ‘The message from Dewey, who! Blore, Clem Bevans, specialty, dancer Rita Christiani, and famous Sir Lancelot and his Calyp- Sir Lancelot, who hails from Trinidad, has a unique style |of singing which, because of his c:nchy tunes and clever phrases, appeals to the imagination of Am-| lericans from coast-to-coast. = He sings two Calypso songs in “Happy | |Go Lucky,” called “Ugly Woman"| und “Sing a Tropical Song.” If you're not yet a Calypto fan, you | undoubledlv will be aftgr you see nnd hear Sir Lancelot. | Dick Powell and Eddie Bracken play a couple of happy go lucky! beach boys with an allergy to work and Betty Hutton is Mary's pal| and Bracken's Nemesis. ! — - e 16 Vessels of 1 | ' Japanees Are Downed,Subs WASHINGTON, erican submarines, dealing nnotherl heavy blow at the Jap merchant fleet, sent 16 or more enemy vessels | to. the bottom of the Pacific. The new report of sinkings shows | the rate of destruction by Ameri- | can subs is now better than one| vessel a day, and raises to 50 the| number of Jap craft announccd‘ sunk by subs alone this month. Since the start of the war subs are credited with having sunk,; probably sunk or destroyed 774 ene- | my vessels of all types, including warshifls. ‘The total breaks down | 115 damaged. The newest bag included 11 med- | ium sized cargo, vessels, four small cargo vessels, and one medium sized naval auxiliary. — JEAN O'CONNOR ARRIVES Miss Jean O'Connor, of Seame,j has arrived here and is a guest at zhe Juneau Hotel. — e DRILL TEAM MEETS The drill team of the Rebekah Lodga “will° meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock for practice in the Odd Fellows Hall. All members are urged to attend. — e e — SOUTH TO ENLIST Three local boys, Kenneth Loken, William Spain and Dave A. Brown, all of the Alaska Coastal Airways, left this morning for the south to enlist in the armed forces. ————— Gorillas are total vegetarians in WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY! TI0 CENTURY Again Tonight! 'l'lns Week's HIT snow ount's Topical, m‘m| msicc I Hit "% the | % THRATRE . ceeds in building a powerful air base to 623 ships sunk, 36 probables, and | "The Glass Key" CALIFORNIA ARRIVAL Mrs. Belle McComber has arrived here from Los Angeles, Califor to spend the summer months wil her sister, Mrs. Ruth Hull, of Sige rid’'s Beauty Salon. This is Mrs, McComber’s visit to Alaska. BRI 5 SMITHS ENROUTE SOUTH Joyce D. Smith and Mrs., Smi the former Leota Russell, left wa-y , for Seattle. ROBERT CHEYNE LEAVES Robert Cheyne, Rotary Interna- tional District Governor, left this morning for his home in Victoria, B. C. - e NOTICE That I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by anyene un- nature but in captivity take easily to a diet of meat. supporters contend, will win the Republican nomination on the first or second ballot at mext week's ¢on-. vention, was read by the platformi committee after Senator Vanden- berg presented a proposed foreign plank calling for the creation of “peace forces” m prevent future aggression ————— — HERE FROM PETERSBURG Arriving last evening from Pet- ersburg and registering at the Ju- neau Hotel were Kathryn Winther, Elinor Winther, and Jacqueline Hemnes. )¢ e ANCHORAGE MAN HERE Ralph Therreau, of Anchorage, is in town and has registered at the less authorized by me. & (Signed) Gordon S. Peterson. ATTENTION .The Manager of the 20th Century and €oliseum Theatres has signed a contract with Local 770 of the Infernational Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the U. S. and Canada. LOCAL 770 is affiliated with “American Fed- eration of Labor,” “Territorial Federation of Labor” and the “Central Labor Council.” LOCAL 770 COVERS ALASKA P. Juneau Hotel, 0. Box 1922—Juneau AND SNUFFY SMITH 1 SWOW! I FEEL f LIKE A TRAITOR TO TH' ‘I” NEWNITED STATES--- HOWSOME\)ER— Comfort Lamp Alaska Electric Light and Power Company . JUNEAU DOUGLAS Phone No. 616 Phone No. 18 Broiled Steak and Fried Chicken SERVED ANY TIME SMART HAIRDOS Reap Compliments A full staff of experienced operators to satisfy your every wish in hair styling. L] THESE INFUNNEL JAPS DON'T FEED % | Il |” wfl‘ !w f L SHOP HOURS 9AMTOGP. M Located at SKAGWAY SKAGWAY'S ONLY DINE AND DANCE PLACE SINCE THE GOLD RUSH! The Derby Inn DINE AND DANCE BAR DINE AND DANCE