The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 22, 1945, Page 6

PAGE SIX “Serving the Top of the World” Yakutat Cordova Kodiak Anchorage Fairbanks Nome Serving Seward Peninsula and Kuskckwim Area ALASKA AIRLINES Baranof Hotel Information and Reservations OFFICE PHONE 667 _—_—-———————d 0DT POLICY MAY CANCEL BIG SERIES All-Star Ball Gam&ls Out- Shadow Hangs Over World Classic vy BUS HAM 4 crts Writer) H WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 The 1945 World Series may be cancelled | and the annual All-Star Major League game is definitely out of the picture. The whole sports world will have to curtail travel sharply as a result of a Government de- ;nu- Action, which took the form of ‘request,” by the Office of De- Transportation, was addressed a fense o I‘nmull_\' to Baseball, which was B AR AR TR F |asked to cut travel by 25 per cent, ' VANITY } 'zl‘ll;o?p:on‘OD:,l:fll (;8"’- ]‘r(mpm‘(‘tl to 1944. But, the ODT BEAUTY {1 BEOUL By Rt is formulating an over-all “Home SALON E : Lenses duplicated—Frames sold- l’nl\m' L wllli\h x.\r xxl‘)lrclcld LH || ered—Reading Glasses $7.50 pair ||Cut out at least one-fourth of a Cooper Bldg, Elsie Hildreth, Mer. | | | ; passenger-miles travelled by ath- OPEDI§ EVENINGS PHONE 318 || —Guns repaired—New Gun Parts | [}, toams, amateur and profes- e e e s e sional. ""N_"ma Some intersectional football con- O L s tests and ha all games ap- | Tanned |parently will go by the board, how- Holel Junea“ | ever, the action came as somewhat RABBIT SKINS of a relief to those baseball fans For Comfort who have been fearing outrigh v J cancellation. It tends to give the At Lowes! Bates BUY DIRECT AND 1} (00" ort of lease-on-life on a SAVE MONEY. clarified basis, provided the ODT ROUMH WITH BATH | Any quantity, immediate “requests” are observed. o | delivery. Write for Price Here are four ways by which WITEOUT BATH ‘ List. Baseball is asked to cut travel: i 1)—Games are to be played only Most Convenient Location || Valcauda Fur Co. in the home city of one or the ~THIRD AND MAIN— Owner-Mgr., Clarence Wise Seattle, Washington JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a daily habit—ask for it by name Juneau Dairies, Inc. é\ For Comfort and Service Get the New Wash- ington Habit ALASKANS FEEL AT HOME at | WHING DING M%m» Phone 519 D THE BARANOF ALASKA'S FINEST || HOTEL Eat in the Famous Gold Room 1t Costs No More Phone 800 WATKINS GOOD HEALTH PRODUCTS Foods, Medicines, Flavorings and Spices, Toiletries and Household Necesities at PRE-WAR CEILING PRICES Complete Line GARNICK’S GROCERY Phone 174 Come in and get your FREE Calendar and Almanac DU (L Py ANCHORAGFE via Yakutat and Cordova FARE: 8$82.00 (plus tax) Effective Nov. 1, 1944 Departs Juneau each Tuesday and Friday 2P. M. Woeodley Airways Alaska Coastal Airlines, Agents—Phone 612 #_ ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES Serving Southeast Alaska——Passengers, Mail, Express SITKA TRIP—Scheduled Daily at 9:30 A. M. Hawk An- Pel- Kim- Chicha- Inlet Hoonah goon Tenakee Todd Ican shan gof Bitks Juneau ...$ 8 $10 $18 $10 818 818 $18 818 s1x Sitka ... 18 18 18 10 18 18 10 10 Chichagof 18 10 18 10 18 10 ] Kimshan_ 18 10 18 10 L 10 Pelican . 18 10 18 1 Todd ... 18 18 10 10 Tenakee . 10 10 Ul 4ngoon . 18 18 Hoonah . 10 Haines and Skagway—Scheduled Daily at 9:30 A. M. Halnes Skagway $18.00 $20.00 10.00 Express Rate: 10 cents per pound—Minimum Charge 60¢ Round Trip Fare: Twice One-Way Fare, less 10% SCHEDULED DAILY Ketchikan Wrangell Petersburg Juneau ... $45.00 $35.00 $30.00 30.00 10.00 20.00 Express Rate: 25¢ per pound—Minimum of $1.00 to Ketchikan Express Rate: 10c per pound—Minimum of 60c to Petersbury and Wrangell warrants. Schedules and Rates Subject to Pnouz 512 Change Without Notiocs. Above rates applicable when passenger traffic e S e e e et et cther of the competing teams; 2)—Team rosters, when travelling, are to be reduced to a minimum; -The World Series is to be held only if transpa tion and war cenditions, at the time, permit; 4)—All clubs are to re-examine their schedules and make such further transportation savings as / be possible. ajor League leaders “voluntarily pledged full - cooperation.” OTHER SPORT HINTS WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 — The Office of Defense Transportation teday was not prepared to say whether major basketball and track teurnaments would be cancelled under the new over-all travel Such a possibility became e held on ourts for most ent since t utral” fields or participants. Such events as the Intercolleziate Basketball Championships in New |t York and Kansas Oy, te aliiuat Invitational cage meet at New York, the Drake and Penn Relays, apparently would be involved. | R HOOP ENTRIES LINING UP FOR NCAA TOURNEY Arkansas U. Will Confend| in Western Playoff at Kansas City NEW YORK, Feb. 22—~Lineup5i for the big post-season intercol- | legiate basketball tournament, ine volving teams for the NCAA cham-| pionship and the same number in| the National Invitational Tourna- | ment at Madisonn Square Garden, | have begun to take form but are| not expected to be completed for 10 days yet. Four NCAA teams will meet at| Kar City, March 23 and 24, and | four others in the Garden, on the 22nd and 24th, with the Western champion coming to New York for| the title game on March 27. | U. A. ACCEPTS | FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Feb. 22— The University of Arkansas has accepted an invitation to represent District Six in the NCAA basket- ball playoffs at Kansas City, March 23 and 24. The New Spar Cap— Its Ccp-hvutmg ‘\ ® FRIDAY, | with ke part in 16 misions over | ON GEMMILL TRIAL |enemy-held territory. X T The going had been rough. On a Deputy Marshals Walter Hellan THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE UNEAU ALASKA ; JUNEAU'S USO NEWS | | In!ere;ling Items for Everybody P R 0 G R A M |come, “Where’s home?” “I'm from e Haines,” he said. | o THURSDAY, Eebruary 22—9:30 _ Haines!” exclaimed the director. p. m., Dance in USO to music of “Why, that surely is a coincidence. | Servicemen’s Band. That girl over there at the table ° ) has just come down from Haines.” February 23—7 p. m., In a moment they'd been Meeting of Committee of Manage- dueed. °1 certalnly do know your Radio Show over father,” she replied. “I talked with him only day before yesterday. He ] riving there as he himself had be- ment. 7:30 p. m., KINY, “Mount Vernon Interlude,” by USO Commandos. 8 p. m and a lot of other people can Portrait drawing by Mary and Jean Dardly wait to ""l“" youl o Shaw. 10 p. m, February Birthday (The glil, Elizabeth Clark, a P 11 p. m., Juke box dance school teacher, had come to Ju- 5 oh 8 neau just the day previous. She s 1 fUATY 24! was awaiting the arrival here of ¢ SATURDAY, February 24—10:30 , " fionce also of the Army Air Juke box dance at USO. e o o @ SUNDAY, February 25—1:30 p. m.,, Trip to Mendenhall Glacier 5:30 p. m., Coffee Hour, with waffles, Ruth Brooks at the piano 10 p. m., Songfest. (Note: The Ju- neau Ski Club welcomes servicemen to participation in Sunday’s skiing.) o o o e MONDAY, February 26—7 p. m,, Meeting of Servicemen's Council. 7 to 10 p. m., Juneau Badminton Club meets for play in High School welcome. 8:30 p. Beifly Corps, so that they could marry. Only a couple of minutes before she | had been introduced to the director. “Where has your fiance been sta- tioned?” he asked. “In Kansas,— Coffeyville, Kansas,” she said. “Why, that's odd,” was his reply. “Of the four men in this room right now, one—that Coast Guards- man there—| just returned from his leave in Coffeyville.” And B. E. (“Kansas”) Graham was called over to answer her questions about the home-town he had so recently gym; servicemen left.) m. Forum Club leaves USO for ! meeting in private home, 8:45 p. m,,| During nearly two years at the | Movies in USO, Juneau USO Club we've been a| - witness to almost countless heart- | warming episodes of one sort or another. At the moment we recalled none quite so cheerily pulse- | e TUESDAY, February m., Broadcast of Quiz Contest. 27—17:30 p. 9:30 . m. Customary Tuesday night : ]fl’x\mux in USO, 4 quickening as the sight of the face : I of that combat-weary, travel- weary sergeant of the Air Corps e WEDNESDAY, February 28—7:30 p. m., Movies in USO. 9:30 p. m, “-'hf n he mc} that girl down from Squire dancing _in_ USO, uinder Haines on Sunday night. joint auspices with AWVS. Public He didn't find at ouwr USO a cordially _invited. home away from home. Much better e o6 o o o than that, he found somebody Fate HEADED HOME: OR ADVANCE seemed to have sent down here to WELCOME AT THE USO reassure him about his true home. For he was one of that multitude of men who, on the eve of their return after years of absence in the war, find themselves seized by panic lest home turn out to be utterly different from the place remembered, lest perhaps even at the last moment they find them- selves cheated of loved ones they had left there. If they who have so long walked or flown through the shadows of death could only gain some real, first-hand assur- ance in those final hours that they weuld find *life still being lived there as when they went away—, that would mean immeasurably much to them. To one such man at least there came, most unexpectedly, in those final hours a peace of mind born out of just such assurance gained as the result of a chance meeting He was lonely and he was home- sick. He was cn his way home right then, to be sure—but that had been true ever since he'd em- barked from France on December 1, just 80 days before. And, like any another rviceman on the move, he hadn't been paid for everal months. He had cause to be blue that Sunday night! He didn’t know anyone down at the USQ. But he certainly had timé ‘on his hands; so he dropped into the building to have a look- around. For a few minutes noboby noticed him. He thumbed listlessly through the club's picture album. As he turned to go, the director came into the room and crossed over to get acquainted with him. His name was Charley Paddg he said. Yes, he happened to have he same name as the great runner who was killed in a plane. crash during his chance visit to the near Sitka some months ago. He Juneau USO Club last Sunday were the Army Air Corps wings hight. himself,—and also the Air Medal two oakleaf clusters. He'd‘FEDERAl 7&‘HEERS77 been deing reconnaissance work, as number of flights members of his @hd Syd Thompson will go south |plane’s crew had been killed right tomorrow to answer subpoenas in there beside him, either by flak|the trial of Firsi District Attorney or aircraft fire. And of the grc,up,L\nn Gemmill, accused of accept- of 24 photographers who had sailed |1ng a bribe in an Alaska case. tcgether for FEurope 30 months! Interior Department Counsellor befcre, cnly he and one other had|George Folta, formerly Assistant escaped both death and serious|District Attorney in the First Di- wounds. He had been unaccount- Vision and the present Assistant ably lucky, he said, no doubt about |District Attorney, Robert Tollefson, it! { alsc subpoened, will leave for Seatite A close friend of his had com-|shertly. The ttal is scheduled for |pleted 78 missions also. He'd been| March 6. ee— Martha Hanson, of Hoonah, has ibeen admitted to the Government Hospital to receive medical atten- due to leave for the States the very next day. He volunteered for one more mission that night. It proved to be that one-too-many which. all combat-exhausted Afr |tion. [ Corpsmen dread. TS e Sgt. Paddock was desperately | NOTICE TO AUTOISTS! tired of war. And he “sure would| Beginning xow, cars without be glad to get hame” He hadn'tlicenses will be taken in and fines had any word from home fér a assessed. long time now,—probably his dad|(Signed) was as uncertain of his EVER ar- JOHN MONAGLE, Chief of Police. | | | | | | | wam Hall, 1s the Official U. S. Co Attractive SPAR Eli 22, of Rochester, N. Y. new SPAR rrison .cap, optional gear for the Coast Guard | Women’s Reserve. The “overseas” style millinery is_proving populur w:th SPARS, a large number of | whom qumkly changed over from the official brim-type hat, now | il HAVE YOU TRIED IT? intro- § | after she was sworn in as a mem- e e ] Act promptly, Mother, to help relieve Distrilmted in m._si_i Iyuo- & Company £ | PROUDLY DISPLAYING her Ameri- l can Legion membership card is | Cpl. Ruth Franz, of Baltimore, Md., | ber of Marine Post No. 1. She be- cames the first woman marine ad- | mitted to membership in that city, | where she is employed at a war | plant. Ruth was honorably dis- charged after two years' duty with the leathernecks. (International) Led Luzon Rescuers LEADER of the 6th Ranger Battalion in its spectacularly successful Com= | maxndo raid on a Jap prison camp near Cabu, in Nueva Hcija Prov- ince on Luzon, was Col. Henry Mucei of Bridgeport, Conn. Taking Jap guards oy surprise, the daring raiders penetrated 25 miles behind' enemy lines to rescue 513 prisoners (486 of them Americans) from an enemy camp in which they were dying of malnutrition, disease and old wounds, (International) | muscular soreness or tightness, conges- tion tation in upper breathing passages, fits of coughing—due to colds. Rub on Vicks VapoRub . . . it PENETRATES to upper bronchial tubcs with its special medicinal vapors, STIMULATES chest und back ces like a warming poultice. Often by morning most of the riscryof the coldis gone! Remember— | ONLY VAPORUB Gives You this spe- | cial double action. It’s time-tested, home-proved... the best-known home | remedy for reliey- o - . | VISKS ing m:sencs of ren’s colds. R TOTIeT i Women's Apparer Baranof Hotel Building HAIR STYLED by Experis WE SPECIALIZE n Cold Waving Permanents Styling Shaping Hours 9 A. M. to 6 P. 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