The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 26, 1944, Page 6

PAGESIX THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA * SITKA MRS. ELLIOTT FLETCHER HOSTE AT BRIDGE PARTY A group of friends ehjoyed a most pleasant evening of bridge last Friday evening at the home of Mrs. Elliott Fletcher on Lincoln Street. High prize went to Mrs. ‘William Charteris, while Mrs, Martha Kost- rometinoff received the consolation award. Delicious refreshments were served by the hostess Those present included the Mes- dames Jack Calvin, Frank Calvin, william C. Charteris, lj“rank Hen- nessey, Louis Scharpenberg, Martha Kostrometinoff and Clyde Hager. MAKES JUNEAU TRIP Mrs. Irene Peterson Reynolds was a passenger by plane to Juneau last week HOSTS AT DINNER Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Fletcher and their children, Paul and Kay, were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peterman on Monday evening. On Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Peterman were dinner hosts to Mr. and Mrs. Les Florence, their daugh- ter, dene, Kay Fletcher and Su- san Morgan LEAVES FOR ANCHORAGE Mrs. Haroln Dawson, wife of the former City Supervisor of Sitka, left for Anchorage last week to visit her husband, who is stationed in that city H. R. SMITH LEAVES H. R. Smith, the American Railway Express Company who has been supervising the installation of an express of- fice at the Service Transfer in Sitka, left for Juneau on a recent| boat. COMPLETE NEW HIGH SCHOOL BASEMENT Ray Peterman, local contractor, announces that work was completed on the concrete basement Sitka High School last Thursday. LEAVES ON VACATION TRIP Mrs. J. W. Forsythe was a pas- senger on a recent southbound boat Mrs. Stanley Peterson, Grand In- to enjoy a vacation in the States. stalling Chaplain; Mrs. Ernie Car-| Mrs. Forsythe is the wife of J. W. ter, Grand Installing Guide; and| Forsythe, bartender at the Colum- bia Bar, and mother of Earl For- Pianist. sythe. MAKE PETERSBURG TRIP Ernie Carter, owner of Ernie’s summer vacation. Meetings were NEWS * set for July 18 and August 15 &t eight e'clock in the evening at the home of Mrs. Ray Peterman. Mem- |bers of the audit committee were |asked to meei on Monday evening, regular | june 26, at eight o'clock at the ROTARY OFFICIAL ADDRESSES LOCAL CLUB Honored guest at the representative of | of thejat their final meeting until fall,! held Wednesday evening at the| £ weekly luncheon of the Rotary Club \of Sitka was Robert Cheyne, Dep- |uty District Governor of Rotar (The luncheon was postponed from |Tuesday to Wednesday so that Mr. |Cheyne might be present. Mr. Cheyne, whose home is in |ganization and purpose of the Ro- [tary Club. Accompanying Mr. {Cheyne from Juneau were {members of the Juneau Rotary| |Club. They included Tom Morgan, | Harold Foss, Jack Fletcher and| Brooks Hanford. MAKES SEATTLE TRIP Al Boyd took plane passage for Seattle, where he plans to join Mrs. Boyd for a vacation trip .in the States. REPORTS FOR INDUCTION Harold Engelman, who was trans- ferred from the Olympia, Washing- ton, draft board, reported to the| local Selective Service Board on| June 22 for induction into the armed forces. Mr. Engleman, who| has been employed at the Colum-| bia Lumber Company camp, will leave for Anchorage shortly. HOSTS AT DINNER Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Fletcher were dinner hosts to Mr. William| Bates of Ketchikan on Thursday | evening. I JACK GODDARD LEAVES. Jack Goddard, who has been :n- joying his furlough from the Navy with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. IM. (Winn) Goddard, at their home | here, left last Tuesday to report| for duty. |Victoria, B. C., spoke on the or-| {home of Mrs. Harold A. Veatch. | Next meeting of the group is ;scheduh’,d for the first Wednesday |in September. !To JUNEAU : Gus Erickson, employee of the Sitka Public Utilities, left for Ju- |neau by plane for a short stay. fOUr | \fAKES VACATION TRIP Mrs. J. W. Wittemeyer left her where she will visit relatives and frinds for a time. MASONIC' CLUB ENJOYS | CARD PARTY Members of the Sitka Masonic | Club “their wives and members of the Order of the Eastern Star en- {joyed a most pleasant mixer on Thursday evening at the Castle. Mrs. Charles Wortman was chair- man of the committee in charge of the affair, assisted by Mrs. Ben Miller. Cards were played and re- freshments served. TO JUNEAU Henry Moy and Ted Kettleson, who had visited the scene of the| Hoonah fire on Mr. Moy's boat, re- | turned to Sitka the first part of the weck and then took plane pas-| sage to Juneau. LEAVES FOR INDUCTION Ralph Barth, employee of the, Columbia Lumber Company, left on | a recent boat for Anchorage, where he will be inducted into the armed forces. Mr. Barth was a transfer| from the Seattle Selective Servlce: Board. INSTALLATION HELD BY WOMEN OF MOOSE | Officers for the coming year were' |installed by Women of the Moose | Moose Hall. Mrs. Gertie Berggren, Grand Installing Regent, was as sisted during the installation by Mrs. Dick Dare, Grand Installing| New' officers were installed as| follows: Graduate - Regent, Mrs. | Elvin Rottlufi; Senior Regent, Mrs. | Ray Peterman; Junior Regent, Mrs. Cocktail Bar, left for Petersburg on |Charles Wortman; Chaplain, Mrs. a business trip last week. He was'Jack Culbert; Recorder, Mrs. Wil-| accompanied by Ed Johnson, of the!liam Sarvela; and Treasurer, Mrs. | Pioneers’ Home. |Leslic_‘ Groves Appointive oficers were also installed at the ceremony. | SALESMAN LEAVES !They include: Guide, Mrs. Ted | Mr. and Mrs. John Herman leit;Wagner: Assistant Guide, Mrs. by boat for Petersburg. Mr. Her- George Eliason; Sentinel, Mrs., Pu- man is a salesman for the Seattle get Faulk; Argus, Mrs. Joseph Pet- | |erson; and Pianist, Mrs. Claude | Rhodes. 4-H BAKERY GROUP MEETS | At the business meeting which Hardware Company. projects — baking-powder biscuits, |announced that the Executive Board Typical ‘Gl Joe' | PVT. CHARLES WM. PEERS, JR., of Louisville, Ky., on war duty in the European theatre, was chosen among 250,000 candidates as the typical “GI Joe” of the U. S. Army and got a $5,000 check as winner of a contest sponsored by comedian Eddie Cantor. (International) | Bessarabia, held by Russia for more than a century, was shifted Having completed their first fO“F'preceeeded the installation it was | gingerbread, waffles and bran muf- would meet only twice during the |to Romania in 1918. fins—members of the 4-H baking | group meet Friday afternoon at the | home of Mrs. Ray Peterman to] bake drop cookies. 1 MRS. R. H. DAWSON i RETURNS *FROM STATES i Mrs. R. H. Dawson, who has been.' in the States visiting relatives and | friends for the past several months, ! has returned to her home here by boat. She was accompanied by her two grandsons. PLAN CELEBRATION Fun for youngsters alike will be had on the Fourth of July, according to plans announced by the committee in charge. A full program of races with prizes offered to the winners, and the annual ple-e«ting contest will be held. It is also possible that the dedication of the new Fire Hall will take place at that time. BANKER HERE William Bates, Ketchikan banker, has been herg on business and to attend the directors’ meeting of the First Bahk of Sitka. ARRIVE FROM HAINES | Mr. and Mrs. Dave Fenton have arrived home from a trip to Haines and Juneau. for the States shortly. P. ABSON%UE‘IEE&WC Co. Solicits the business of friends in Sitka Electric Service and Repairs Westinghouse Representative Conway Dock Company 0Oil === Coal Gasoline Insurance and adults | They plan to leave! | | AND KE (OLUMBIA COCKTAIL BAR Newly Remodeled \ | D¢ COLUMBIA COCKTAIL BAR First Bank of Sitka 5 ; COMPLETE BANKING SERVICE Money Transmitted to All Poinis Do Your Part==- Put 10% of Your Income in War Bonds at SITKA WHEN IN SITKA Make Your Headquarfers "The Home of Hospitalify" RUSS CLITHERO -:- : the HOTEL Manager home here last week for the States, | JAPS LOSE 147 PLANES - IN 2 WEEKS Futile Attack on Task Force 0ff Guam Cost Nips 402 Aircraft (Continued from Page one) locate or knock out. The enemy threw an unspecified | number of aircraft into the battle for Saipan on Friday, but the com- | munique reported only minor dam- } age. Several landing craft suffered | minor damage in an attack on trans- | |'ports in the evening by a small | flight of bombers on American oc- cupied areas in southern Saipan.| American casualties were light. Admiral Nimitz revised the figures to increase to 402 the total of Japa- nese planes downed in the futile attack June 18 on Mitscher’s task force off Guam. This is«an all time record for any theatre in the number of planes downed in one action. —lel NAZI ARMY ISTRAPPED AT VITEBSK New Russia—fi)_rive Direct- ed at Ostrov Raises Alarm in Reich (Continued from fage One) first objective of the Red Army summer offensive. The German Transocean News Agency broadcast said the German bridgehead on Vitebsk has been cut | SERVING SITKA FO! WE HAVE GIFTS for ALL OCCASIONS ‘A COMPLETE LINE - OF DRUGS Shop At Alaska Drug and Jewelry Company Jewelry -:- Fountain -:- News Stand MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1944 "' off from the rear, and the Russians are attacking with shattering force on a 250-mile front. In one of history’s greatest land offensives four powerful Russian armies drove westward ihmugh the broken German “Fathetland Line” in White Russia, leaving behind an island of 45,000 trapped enemy troops. These are being cut to pieces in the battle torn streets of en- | cirled Vitebsk. Five Great Armies As Russia’s vital role in the Allied Teheran master plan to crush Ger- many this year unfolded front by front, German broadcasts noted with alarm that a fifth Red Army has struck at the Ostrov sector, 165 miles northwest of Vitebsk. That will make a 325-mile front in the east, exclusive of the two Russian armies now battering Finland, This leaves four other great So- | viet armies equipped in part with { American weapons poised on the Polish and Rumanian fronts wait- ing for the signal for a concerted push toward Berlin in conjunction with the Allied armies irr the west and south. ——t——— The Galapagos Islands, off the coast of Ecuador, are known for long-lived giant tortoises. KICK-AND-RUN NEW YORK — Thomas L«vine was just an innocent bystander un- til he opened his mouth. He told police he was waiting for a street- car when he saw a motor car knock | down Lazarus Schwartz. The driver went back to assist Schwartz to his feet and then Le- 4 vine remortstrated with him. Whereupon the motorist kicked him,, Pt and promptiy drove away. Police reported both hit-and-run and kick-and-run victims had to have hospital treatment. (2 R OVER 20 YEARS While travelin we'll be thinki in Alaska . .. Even if we don't see them . . . Keepfln Buying Bdmls g is difficult . . . ng of our friends » TO WIN THIS YEAR . o BUY BONDS ... New Washington Hotel, Seattle MORE " THAN BEFORE DINE OUT AT MOY’S Open 5 P. M. to Midnight FRANK B. McCLURE, Manager Drop ERN ERN BY BUYING WAR BONDS When You're in Town! ° COCKTAILBAR SITKA In At 1E°S IE’S any kind of sabotage. resources. Forest Fire is Forest Enemy Number One. Do your part to keep up the parade of new forest growth already started by, « the private forest industries. : ‘ Investin War Bonds! and Save Them! : COLUMBIA LUMBER COMPANY' American FOREST. FIRE! L . THE Axis invented the phrase “Fifth Column” . . . it means It strikes at morale, property, or Forest fires, easy to start, hard to stop, and inestimably " destructive in certain seasons, are a natural temptation to any, enemy fifth columnist. Too much timber is already burned by loyal but careless Americans. Let’s cut this kind of conflagration. L v ol —_——_:w—'