The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 26, 1944, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1944 HEATRE CAPITOL HAS THE GRIPPING STCRY OF THE YEAR! brings you his first screen mystery! SHOW STARTS 7:25 — 9:30 NOW PLAYING PICTURES ...ALSO... COLOR CARTOON TRAVEL—SPORT BEULAH LEE ACCEPTS POSITION ON STAFF AT MARSHAL'S OFFICE | Mrs. Beulah Lee, who for sev-| eral years owned and operated the Co-workers and admirers in 48 Royal Blue Cab Company, has states, District of Columbia, and | joined the 'staff at the United | the Territory of Alaska are hlghly‘ States Marshal's office. Mrs. enthused over the growing cam- began her new duties today. |paign to honor Benarr MacFadden M= RS SRt ™S on his 77th birthday, August 16, |at Dansville, N. Y., where the Phy- COUPLE MARRIED HERE | sical Culture Hotel golden jubilee BY U. S. COMMISSIONER | wil] hurrah his 50 years of health Geraldine Brabo of San Fran- work as father of physical culture, cisco and George R. Rowley of now called physical medicine in Sitka were united in marriage yes- America. terday by United States Commis-| According to Dr. G. A. Doelker, sioner Felix Gray in his court in|Alaska representative, many no- | the Federal Building. The Misses tables throughout the land will be | Lorene Krause and Nila Hall Wer¢ on hand < to honor MacFadden.' witnesses to the ceremony. Heading the honor list are Gov.r ‘_—___" !Prvnncv Cooper, Gov. Earl Warren, Gov. Ernest Gruening, Congress-| You cA““oT rl“n | man John W. Tolan, Senators Gil-| lette and Murdock, Jesse W. Car-| IN THE ‘ ter, California Supreme Court,| ‘ENTIRE NATION Maj. Clark Gable, Lionel Barry-| { more, Robert Taylor, Bing Croshy, | Leo Carrillo, Hedy Lamarr, Wallace Such perfect spot for a carefree recreation as Alaska’s foremost resort Beery, Judy Garland, Ann Sothern,| Lolivia de Haviland, Gayelord Hau-“ | ser, E. Roger Lapman, Mayor of | {San Francisco; F. L. Doelker, ship- | BELL ISLAND, ALASKA NEAR KETCHIKAN \ping executive; Capt. A. E. Lathrop, | Alaska pioneer of the golden north. So Come Now and Enjoy a Delightful Vacation! : | MacFADDEN WILL BE HONORED AUGUST 16 Lee It is interesting to note that | physical medicine has recently been donated $1,100,000 by Bernard Bar- luch to advance and develop this science of health building and re: toration. During the 50 years that Bernarr MacFadden has been fight- ing for ‘this science, many of the orthodox physicians called it 100 iper‘ cent quackery, while today it |is hailed as the health science of| the future, according to Dr. Doel- ker. | Gt \ | | ) Baranof Beauty Salon|| ok qyoraTions NEW YORK, July.26. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | |stock is 6%, American Can 92%,| | American Tel. and Tel. 162%, Ana-| iconda 26%, Beech Aircraft .9%,| | Bethlehem Steel 62%, Curtiss-| | Wright 5%, DuPont common 158, | International Harvester 75%, Ken-| necott 31%, North American Avia- {tion 8%, New York Central 20%, ‘Northern Pacific 16%, Standard Oil | of California 36%, United States | Steel 58%, Pound $4.04. i Dow, Jones averages today are ! as follows: Industrials, 146.64; rails, | 41.42; utilities, 23.70. WHERE SATISFACTION and SERVICE are SYNONYMOUS ANNOUNCEMENT: Miss Jane Wells has rejoined our staff after an absence of 6 months in the States. Her old friends are invited to ask for her in phoning for appoint- ments. SHOP HOURS 9A. M.TOSP. M. OPEN EVENINGS BY PRICES TUESDAY Closing quotations of Alaska Ju- | American Tel. and Tel. 1627%, Beech | Aircraft 9%, Bethlehem Steel 62%, | Curtiss-Wright 5%, DuPont Com- | mon 157, Kennecott 32%, North Am- | erican Aviation 8%, New York Cen- | tral 207%, Northern Pacific 17%, | Standard Oil of California 37'%, | United States Steel 59%, Pound |and Esther |City Manager Plan. !at the range. ‘neau mine stock Tuesday was 6%, | 'FOUR FLIGHTS TODAY FOR ALASKA COASTAL was flown to Petersburg this morning on an Alaska Coastal plane, and J. B. Bigelow to Wrangell on a second | flight. | Passengers to Sitka today were {Mrs. Baggen, Kathern Johnson, |Mrs. D. Champlane, and Gertrude Snow. Returning were David How- |ard, from Chatham, and Samuel |Burton, Ann De Wair, Myrtle |Dunn, Earl McGinty, and Frank Shotter from Sitka. James Skilex was flown to Hawk Inlet this afternoon. Fenton Davis was a passenger for Hoonah on a flight yesterday, Howard and W. R. Coffey were flown to Excursion In- let. Mary Oarteet and Richard Dalton were return passengers from Hoonah. i ey CITY MANAGER PLAN SPEAKER, CHAMBER MEET luncheon’ and of the Junior Norman Tate At the business regular session |Chamber of Commerce at the Bar-|Fairbanks. | anof Hotel at noon tomorrow, B. D. Stewart will speak on the He will be introduced by Charles W. Carter. Both Stewart and Carter are for- mer mayors of Juneau. A large attendance of members| is requested at the meeting. | ALASKA GUARD MEET SCHEDULED TONIGHT The Juneau unit of the Terri- torial Guard is scheduled to meet this evening at the Mendenhall rifle range for machine gun drill. The regular weekly meeting of the Juneau unit and the Highway lunit will be held tomorrow evening Rifle practice will be the main event of the evening, the results to determine the team for the August 6 matches. All members are urgently re- quested to attend both méets and transportation for them will be fur- nished as usual. Capt. Hank Harmon announces that the range will be kept open all day on Sunday, July 30, so |that those desiring to do s0 can | practice. { ————— TACOMANS ARRIVE | $4.04. APPOINTMENT Dow, Jones averages Tuesday were PHONE 538 141.68: utilities, 23.63. ter, of Tacoma, Juneau Hotel. (ways with the following passen- Mrs. R. J. Morrison and daugh- have arrived in ! as follows: Industrials, 146.74; rails, town and are registered . at the THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA "JOURNEY INTO |POSTWAR ALASKA * "FEAR” NOW AT BOOM PREDICTED CAPITOL SHOW| ~BYMAYORHAYES SE! July 26— |the death of an American naval/and housing for thousands of ser- | expert as part of the Nazi scheme vicemen and war workers who plan of world conquest, comprises \he“tu o Alaska their home will /basis of “Journey Into Fear,” Or-|provid investment opportunitis son Welles' exciting new melodra-|for Seattle capital, Mayor A. B.| matic film, at the Capitol tonight.|Hayes of Juneau said. Headlining Joseph Cotten as’ the| Employment Hayes conferred with the Cham- | American and Dolorés del Rio as{ber of Commerce Alaska Commit-| a dancer who falls in love with|tee and said that not only would |him, the picture has its setting intr be a huge tourist boom, but Cotten, as Graham, naval a marked increase in the perman- has been surveying the|ent population Turkish fleet preparatory to its re-; Juneau's Mayor will armament, and to delay this pro-leral days here and then go to the gram the Nazis decide to kill him |Elks National War Conference in| before he can take his data back|Chicago | to America. | ERR IG5 S Colonel Haki, head of the Tur-| |kish secret service, endeavors tolFlOREN([s | MILES FROM | (foil the plot by smuggling Graham |into Russia via the Black Sea. But the Gestapo stick to the trail, and Pisa Battered by Big Guns as FEighth Army Near Goal Graham finds two of his fellow travelers on the little Greek steam- ROME, July 26.-—The southern | portion of historic Pisa is being ler are Nazi killers. His desperate battered as big German guns step- I to elude their murderous ped up the shelling of areas below | efforts |attentions bring about the thrilling the Arno River, which is in Am- erican hands, while the Eighth |climax, and are said to make the RKO Radio film one of the year's | most suspense-packed offerings. Welles himself” plays the part of Army, advancing on a 30-mile front, | penetrated to & point within eight | | miles of the outskirts of Florence. | The Fifth Army, some of whose | |Colonel Haki, and Ruth Warfck, units are within a few hundred |Eustace Wyatt, Everett Sloane,! |Jack Moss, Jack Durant and Ed- ggar Barrier have important roles. |Norman Foster directed. ., tendance at the weekly meetings | yards of Pisa’s famed leaning tower, ! of the Juneau Townsend Club dur- | COnsolidated its hold on a broad ing the summer months, and last | fFont south of Arno. night there was the usual loyal Townsendites present and also visit- 1944 FISH (AT(H spend sev- There has been no decline in at- 'MANY VISITORS ATTEND MEETING OF - TOWNSEND CLUB | business meeting interesilng and brief. Miss Beatrice Rosness, Sec- retary, read the minutes and the weekly “Flash” which expressed op- | timism about securing the requisite number of signers to the Townsend bill petition before the reconvening of Congress. Several membership | applications were received. | Visitors last night were Mrs. R. | T. Reed of Petersburg, guest of Mrs. | David Milner; Mrs. M. E. Howe, ac | tive worker in the Townsend mov ment in Redlands, California; Miss WASHINGTON, July 26. — Fish | production for the first half of the year ran far ahead of the period lfar last year, the Office of Co- ordinator of Fisheries reported, ad- ding the hope that the year's total catch will reach 4,300,000,000 pounds, |:'compared to 4,000,000,0000 pounds | for 1943. 8 PASSENGERS OUT VIA PAN AMERICAN A flight to Whitehorse was made today by Pan American World Air- gers: William Wise, Jr., and wife, Arthur Ramsberg, Mrs. Bessie V. Smith, and John C. Hawson. Mrs. Ella Vernetti and Harlow Burt will fly to Fairbanks today, weather permitting, and Charles Minning to Seattle. - e ALICE WILSON HERE Alice S. Wilson, of Kattag, Alaska, is registered at the Gas-| tineau Hotel. Pauline Roach, Minot, North Da-| I i kota, well known in Southeast Al-| In the Pacific, mackerel, shrimp aska because of her supervision of |2nd California plichards slumped, but the landing of fresh fish in the | Henry Seeberger, formerly of Long- | w .view, Washington. and Mrs. Mildred | Percent. In California, tuna is hav- Onsoien, whose home was in San | D8 the best year since 1940, and Maine is packing 35 percent more Alaska. Bill Haynes, oldtime Juneau barber, returned last week from a RPN b trip to Anchorage, Fairbanks and Pl ANES Bl AS"' of Juneau and Southeast Alaska in general, and was welcomed home at | “baning & | TR A I l SMASH social period and refreshments were | r served in the lower hall. | i — - An incoming Alaska Airliner ye: terday brought to Juneau the fol- baby, Carl Martin, George Ton: ,U- S- All’(l’afl Carve Pa'h gerg, Dick Christensen, Kenneth| . Smith, and Capt. Bill Curry from for First Afmy as RAF Bombs Germany fighters and Marauder bombers again supported the American First Army, smashing German positions trail in the thrust south of the Pieriers-St, Lo road, followed by. Royal Air Force attacks of great Stuttgart, an engineering and rail center, was saturated for the second successive night, and the British heim, Wanne, and Eickel, despite severe electrical storms. In the afternoon medium bombers over Normandy. Up to 600 American heavies at- tacked military targets at Vienna outings for Girl Scout groups; Mrs. | major New England ports is up 16 Pedro, California, before coming to 4 sardines than in 1943, Nome, with a greater appreciation | Dancing was enjoyed during the EIGHT IN VIA ALASKA PLAN NAll TARGETS< lowing persons: Ruth Howard and| Anchorage, and B. J. Frazier from LONDON, July 26.—United States in wave on wave, and blasting a strength,over Germany. also struck Berlin, Bremen, Mann- conducted a virtual shuttle service and an oil refinery in Albania. OF LAST SEASON HIGH QUOTA FORRUBBER 1S REACHED Director Deiv?y Announc-| es Liquidating of His Government Agency WASHINGTON, July 26. The first war agency to liquidate its own bureau is the countr new three and a quarter billion dollgr syn- thetic rubber industry, which Rub- ber Director Dewey declared will survivé imto the peacetime era. Dewey announced his own res- ignation and the dissolution of his own office on or before September | He. said the industry is now | producing at the full rate recom- mended by the Baruch Committee two years ago, which is about 836,~ 000 tons a year, some 250,000 tons more than the cBuntry's consump- tion of natural rubber before the war. ERROL FLYNN comedy as the fat Here Is — FULLREPORT TI0MLENTURY PAGE THREE STARTS TONIGHT “GENTLEMAN JIM” The Great Human Interest Story of Gentleman Jim Corbett from bank clerk to champion. ALAN HALE provides hilarious her. Action - Laughs - Romance OWL SHOW TONIGHT — 12:30 A. M. FROM REICH |triButE 15 PAID | 10 PHOTOGRAPHER ONBOMBING v 1ep a7 5. 10 Death of Hitler WOUId‘A NINTH AIR Fgfifm HEADl- Have Been 'Unimagin- [QUARTERS IN NORMANDY, July able Misfortune’ Press photographer, killed by a bomb from a B-26 Marauder, which'| NEW YORK, July 26.—Nazi Pro- fell short of the target yesterday | paganda Minister Joseph Guebbels,\m the forward area of the St. Lo who recently was appointed the battlefront. Reich’'s Commissar for Total War| “He performed exceptionally Effort, gave what he called a full meritorious service in pictorial cov- | | report on Thursday’s bombing which erage of the personnel and abtivi- | narrowly missed killing Adolf Hitler. 'ties of the entire air force,” Gen. | | Goebbels declared he is convinced yewis said. { “there are no disasters and no| | dangers which would not in the last turn in our favor.” In an official broadcast from Ber- lin, which_was recorded by the As- | | soctated Press, NBS, CBS, the newly | | appointed Plenipotentiary for Total | | Mobilization of Germany said, “If | | the plot had succeeded, the efforts { of millions and millions of Germans pORIlAND AREA would have been thrown to nothing,’ PORTLAND, July 26. — Desecra- and unimaginable misfortune would tion of a Jap cemetery for the | overcome the Germans.” | second*time in a year is blamed by ! He seid that Gestapo Chief Hein- juvenile court ofifcers on adults Irich Himmler has been ordered to rather than boys. The ponderous “reorganize the whole German re-'gravestones were broken, wooden serve army and move the reserves markers splintered and set ablaze, at home to the front.” 'and a fence torn to pieces. g D ATDAWSON CREEK ey on DESTROYED BY FIRE Payne, convicted in Skagway on charges of theft and a Peeping Tom, DAWSON CREEK, July 25.—The United States Engineers’ Post Gar- tribute to Bede Irvin, Associated - eee VANDALS WRECK JAP CEMETERY IN 26.—Maj. Gen. Lewis Brereton nmd; CoL7EM ‘MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY" TATE IN JUNEAU Norman Tate has arrived here from Petersburg and is a guest at the Juneau Hotel. ———— HOWSEN IN TOWN John C. Howsen, from Dawson Creek, B. C, is in town and stays ing at the Baranof. e, HERE FROM, WHITEHORSE Mrs. Harry Ferguson, of White- horse, is in town and registered at the Gastineau. e RECORD ROUT €INCINNATI When the 8t Louis Cardinals defeated the Cin< cinnati Reds, 18-0, in a recent game, it marked the most one-sided shut- out victory in the National League since 1906 when the Chicago Cubs routed the New York Giants, 19-0; e POLICE COURT FINE Lyle K. M. Holum was fined $30 this morning in Municipal Court upon conviction on a drunk and diss orderly charge. Teores 308 10 . Sveers Women's Appaner respectively, arrived in Juneau to- age was destroyed by fire Monday day iIn custody of United States Deputy Marshal Louls “Rapuzzi. night and the loss is estimated at half a million dollars. Each was given a jail sentence of three months and assessed a $50 ‘The garage held 25 assorted ve- hicles, three bulldozers and hun- fine. dreds of valuable sets of mechanics’ tools. WORK WEEK UPPED FOR * ARMY HELP FOR WASHINGTON, July 26.—A 54- hour work week, an increase of an hour a day, has been ordered by General Brehon Somervell, Ohief of the Army Service Forces, for all military and civilian personnel at headquarters under his command, because of an “accumulation of un- finished work.” e, America consumes more coffee than any other nation. JUNEAU Phone No. 616 SALE ONE (NEW) - Hot Point ELECTRIC RANGE L J Alaska Electric Light and Power Company DOUGLAS Phone No. 18 . " ik, | " ENOIN' (T ALL, SNUFEY BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH YE BETTER WATCH OUT ---THAT GAL'S GOT HER CAP Broiled Steak and Fried Chicken SERVED ANY TIME DINE AND The Derby Inn DINE AND DANCE DANCE BAR [ Located at SKAGWAY SKAGWAY'S ONLY DINE AND DANCE PLACE SINCE THE GOLD RUSH!