The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 5, 1944, Page 6

PAGESIX Philip A. Johnson has' gast as manager of the First Ban Sitka, the resignation to take fect on the appointment of a new manager. Mr. Johnson came to the bank as cashier-manager over two years ago from Portland. Mrs. Johnson is at present visiting her family in Towa Mrs. Farnk Wright, Jr, and daughter Patricia, left for Seattle on the North Sea, after spending two months in Sitka Frank Wright, Jr., is the new manager for the Pyramid Pisheries Co. Mr William Rodenberg enter- the members of Beta Sigma rority at her home Friday! The evening was spent| bridge J. Conway, ren Charles, John ailed on the North Sea. with her and Mari- Mrs. 3 h Conway has purchased a home in where she plans to live| for the coming year. Mrs. Conway has let her Sitka home to Mr. and | Mrs. H. B. Campbell for a year. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. W. Knight entertained with dinner and cards Thursday of last week. The on occasion was the birthday of Mrs. Foster Mills, Foster Mills and| Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peterman were the other guests. Thomas A Shannon passed away at the Pioneers’ Home Hospital on July 31, and was buried in the Pioneers’ Cemetery by the Rev. Timothy O'Rielly. Mr. Shannon entered the home from Tenakee on October 23, 1942. He was born in Olden, Miss,, July 4, 1863. The Sitka Sentinel — formerly owned by William L. Baker of Ket- chikan, and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Hale Tabor—has been pur- chased by Mr. and Mrs. l'Iax'oldl Veatch. The first issue of the paper since change of ownership ippeared on the streets on Aug- ust 1 Word has been received from; Camp Gordon, Johnston, Fla, that Pfc. Jess W. Shoulder of Sitka was graduated from the Coastwise Piloting School, Naval Training Section, after a three weeks' course. Shoulder was inducted December 10, 1941. ‘The Moose Lodge is meeting Aug- ust 7, at 8 p.m. for the Initiation! of new members. 1 | On Monday, July 31, Dick Dare arrived by plane from Bristol Bay, | where he has been employed for the past two months. He plans to go fishing with Carl Susor. To welcome Dare home, Mrs. LaMoine Peterson had a small dinner party. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Dick Dare and daughter Judy, Santipoli and Al Scariato. Miss Ida Hanson and Miss Grace Hanson, who have been visiting their sister, Mrs. J. W. Wittmyer,' Miss Ida Hanson | left this week. is enroute to Seattle, while her sis- ter will continue on to York, Neb. The Lutheran Church is having a picnic on Sunday afternoon, Aug-l Weather per- ust 6, at 2 v'clock. mitting, the picnic will be held at the Block House. Should the day be rainy the members will have | their picnic lunch in the church basement. Guests at this week were Brooks Renn Anchorage, and Rex Marchant Biorka, both members of CAA third guest was Hale Tabor. of A On Tuesday, August 8, at 1 p. m..‘ the Women of St. Peter’s Guild will meet with Mrs. Wm. A. Thomas at the manse for a desert luncheon and business meeting. Jerry Holmes returned this week from Noy's Itland, where he has been repairing boilers for the Ncw England Fish Company. Clarence Rands and his three' daughters, Althea, Margaret and Barbara, and Mrs. were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. ———— PARSONS ELECTRIC CO. JUNEAU Solicits the business of friends in Sitka Electric Service and Repairs Westinghouse Representative _Conway Dock Company 0Qil === Coal Gasoline Insurance Phone 78 Vince | the Rotary Luncheon | of | Arnold Curtis i " NEWS * Ray Prxorman on Tuesday evening. | Mrs. Josenh Supa and Mrs. Charles Johnstone gave a surprise handkerchief shower at the for- mer's home for Mrs. Eugene Price, who left Sitka this week |guests were Mrs. Martin Tengs, Mrs, Tom Scott, Mrs. James Carr, Mrs. Ray Peterman, and Mrs. Bill Koepke. | A birthday dinner party for Russ |Clithero, manager of the Sitka Ho- tel, was given by Irene Williams and Lee Wilms at the [1ast Saturday evening included Mr. and Mrs. An Lorentzen, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Johnson, Mrs. Ted Johnstone, Mrs. Earl Forsythe, Mrs. Eugenia Kidd, Mr. and Mrs. Rex Marchant, Jack Roper, Sgt. Walter Linnell, Al Ben- son, and Chief Wesley Allen The guest list Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peterman en- tertained in hoonr of Mr. and Mrs P. D. Reeder, parents of Mrs Charles Whittimore, proprietor of “‘Connie’s” on Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Paul and Mrs. Charles Whittimore were the other dinner guests. At the Masonic Club card party held Thursday evening at th(‘ Castle, prizes were won by Higley and Mrs. Harold A. Veatch for bridge, and Mrs. Len Poterson and Vic LeMoe for pinochle. and Mrs. Ben Miller and \lh and Mrs. Pete Ramer were in of arrangements, which mclud( d delicious refreshments. Mrs. Elliot Fletcher, wife of the| assistant cashier of the First Bank of Sitka, and their daughter sailed last week for Seattle, where they plan to spend a month visit- ing friends and relatives. ‘Tal Guppy, Max Lurz and Claude formal Elks party ing were enjoyed. Refreshments were served. Mrs. Louis G. Scharpenberg lcl‘t for Petersburg Sunday, July 30, to spend a few weeks with her sister, Mrs. Tony Schwamm. Miss Donna Gayle McGraw has |turned from Seattle, where she was| visiting her Pugsley. sister, Mrs. Leonard Mrs. Earl Forsythe and her two children, Sandra Lee and Richard, | flew to Juneau to meet friend, "relurmng to Sitka by boat. a Mrs. Eugenia Kidd is visiting Mrs. | 'Earl Forsythe. During her stay! |Drug and Jewelry Store. Mrs. Ernie Carter left Sunday for Seattle to buy furniture for jtheir new home in Jamestown Bay. 1 The Cold Storage Store has a The | latter’'s home | 95 | urned Morgan and Mr.| Kny,‘ Rhodes were responsible for an in- | Saturday eve-! ning during which cards and danc- her she is employed at the Alaska | s THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1944 me— new manager, Mr. Arthur G. |Buu.ke. of Seattle. The former |manager, Ken Jlordby, is now man- |ager of Art's Cocktail Bar. Mrs. Minna Grassle, wife of the manager of the Sitka Machine Shop, returned from the South Saturday. Barney Essendrup, from the ATS, left Seattle after spending a few weeks (with his family. on furlough Mrs. Bernice Hall, who has been |teaching in Sitka the past two |years, left last Sunday for her |home in Mrs. Harold Melby last week re- from visiting friends in Washington. With her were her |{two daughters, Annie and Vonnie, Master Wesley Stoft and Alicia| | Nelson, ! On the afternoon Mrs. Frank Hennessy entertained {m honor of her mother, Mrs. Lil- lian Rehberg, who was celebrating her 52nd birthday. Guests includ- |ed Mrs, Wynn Goddard, Mrs. Ray |Peterman, Mrs. Arnold Curtis, Mrs. of August 1, |Al Lindegarde, Mrs. J. T. Ladely, ’Mr: Phil Zettle and Mrs. R. S. ’(xfl'vlold 'LIGHTNING | ADVANCEBY | - OUR TANKS (Continued from Page One) lattack continues. | Other American units are storm- Sunday for; Bellingham, Washington, the last stard of their original In—‘AthlPtics 1to 0. It was a pitching! vasion defenses. |duel between Hank Borowy of the The proximity of the American |Yanks and Bobo Newsom of the forces to St. Nazaire is indlcuted,fmmcucs, Bobo gave up six hits, with more than a hundred Royal and Borowy zave up nine, but they Air Force Lancaster bombers dis- were well scartered. patched to attack the port. . The| The Chicago White Sox is safe| planes packed six-ton blockbusters, in the first division for the present jand attacked the thick concrete at least, when they defeated the| U-boat pens at noon today, with Cleveland Indians yesterday for the the idea of preventing the Ger- third straight to sweep the series. man subs from escaping in the| The Boston Red Sox opened a interval before the Yanks arrive on 2-game home stand yesterday by the scene. |splitting a doubleheader with the S eee — | Washington Senators. Emmett | O'Neill shut out the Senators with| |a two-hit 4-0 win in the nightcap. ‘4) Neill's fast ball was clicking yes- (By Associated Press) |terday between the second and |eight innings when he retired 19 | batters in a “ow. - e————— THANEM IN TOWN Oswald Thanem, of the Contin- | enetal Can Company, is registered | at the Gastineau Hotel. | | SIX IN VIA PAA In from Seattle yesterday, via | Pan American World Airways, were Thé New York Yankees spoiled ne following: Benjamin Howell, Connie Mack’s 50th baseball anni- Emile Perron, Leonard Jenkins, versary party at Shibe Park’ yes- | Kenneth Atwell, Peter Audrae, and terday by downing the Philadelphia 'Ira Gabrielson. WE HAVE GIFTS for ALL OCCASIONS A COMPLETE LINE OF DRUGS |ing westward along the Peninsula| toward the prize jewel of Brest,! trans-Atlantic port, second largest in France. | The German-controlled Vichy| radio said the Americans are with-| [in 18 miles of Nantes, but Ger-| |man communications to Brittany| }u-v not at their best. | Early in the day the Germans {acknowledged that American units 'had reached a point halfway up| {the Peninsula, about 75 miles air-| line from Brest. | | Allied headyuarters was chary of (details of today's operations, pos- sibly in an effort to keep precise the swift | | information of "md confused Germans. There were no late reports from |Allied war correspondents in the | field. Only isolated instances of resist- |ence in Brittany were reported. |Otherwise the American Army units | were moving and the German units |running. | At the other end of the invasion front, meanwhile, British forces were reported to be speedily re- ducing the Germans to the sam: degree of impotence, driving them COLUMBIA COCKTAIL BAR Newly Remodeled [ AND KEEP ‘EM ¥ COLUMBIA C OCKTAILBAR First Bank of Sitka A COMPLETE BANKING SERVICE Money Transmitted fo All Points Do Your Part- Put 10% of Your Income in War Bonds WHEN IN SITKA Make Your Headquarlers -at SITKA RUSS CLITHERO "The Home of Hospitality” the HOTEL Manager Al]iedI movements from the disorganized: back yesterday at the handx of the Reds. The Cards used four hurlers but none could match Bucky Walters, who won easily by an 8-hit performance. New York downed Philadelphia yesterday on the strength of a last- {inning rally to break a 3-3 tie. The run came on Hank Luby's bomer with none out. Ben Chapman, 36-year-old vet- eran and former outfielder, recent- ly acquired by Brooklyn as a pit- Bill Nicholson’s big bat continued |cher, twirled the Dodgers yester- to talk yesterday-as the Chicago day to a 9 to 4 win over Boston. Cubs defeated the Pittsburgh Plr-,He allowed but eight hits. 1 ..* ! 46 NEGROES DIE , IN TRAIN W2ECK 1 | CARDS LOSE TO REDS BY 5-3 SCORE (By Associated Press) STOCKTON, Ga., Aug. 5 seven persons, all Negro ) were killed, and 32 injured several cars of a westbounc Coast Line passenger trair. « with a freight train on here. Six cars were derail General Manager Sibley wreck occurred when rail were going home to AlaLaw ates on the strength of his 24m> ——-————— the week-end. homer of the season that producedA Remove buttons, buckles and —_—— two runs in the. ninth inning. 'trimmings from .garments before! El Salvador ranks fourth in world The Cardinals took a 5 to 3 set- laundering. production of coffee. il 2 FOR THE DURATION... 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Few people realize how explosive a dry forest is in fire season el ow,matwmkhng,nlonespukmybefmnedmmaronmg conflagration, destroying in a few hours what nature, aided by man, has taken years to produce. A cigarette in a forest is a spari P COLUMBIA LUM B 5t ¢ ONEreANY SITKA ————— JUNEAU - ANCHORAGE uie3. o v . e s NS R b O