The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 9, 1945, Page 2

THE DA@LYAALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA A Soldier Writes a Leffer {ARGENTINA - SoaGirlMay Walk Again IS BACK IN | " BIG LNION {United States Resumes Nor Diplomatic Rela- ; | tions with Nation PAGE THO t d i P Capable and walkable ¢ V' I | i « e st to wear on a full time schedule . . . | ; | WASHINGTON, April 9. — The | United States has resumed “normal diplomatic relations” with Argen- | tina. ‘ This action is announced by Sec- | {retary of State Stettinius who said | | it was taken in conjunction with 19 other American republics represent- | 'ed at the recent Inter-American | Conference in Mexico City and fol-| lows the declaration of war by Ar- | gentina ngainst the Axis countries and her adherence to the resolutions adopted at the Mexico City confery ence March 27. | similar action, iwill be taken by it was announced, | Britain, France, 'ARMY WOULD MOVE cmnm FROM = 'smu T0 JUNEAU Recommendahon Says, | Capital City Has More . Cenfral Location ‘WASHINGTON, April 9.—If Con- | aress accepts the recommendations ‘cf the Army's Quartermaster Corps the present national cemetery at | Sitka, Alaska, would be placed in ithe hands of a caretaker and the bedies interred would be removed to |a new site in Juneau. The new location is justified thus: |“Juneau is the capital and is theres | fore of more significance as well as |fer official and business relation- ships with the residents of the terri- | |tory. It is situated on the mainland {coast and is on all direct shipping ¢luded in any highway system that may be installed in the Tenitory rcutes north and south. It will be in- | MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1945 [whexflas Sitka is accessible only by boat It is the largest town in aska and consequently there are mcre facilities for providing the es- }senmls for funeral and funeral | parties. | The QMC found in Alaska 77 vet- | erans of the Spanish-American War, w1’127 veterans of the First World War and said there were 4840 regis- trants present in this war. ; It is estimated the bodies of men | who died overseas will be brought | home for burial and a number of wives and widows of Alaska veter- ans will be entitled to burial in the national cemetery. These will figure at 882 and on the basis of these figures, the cemetery would contain 3,000 graves. It is indicated the Sitka cemetery graves contained 158 persons, 24 of them casualties in the peresent war whose bodies will be ultimately re- ! turned to their home states. B 2 S 1y DELGROVE HERE Virginia Delgrove, of Spokane, is staying at the Baranof Hotel. R R STEWART ARRIVES Vance Stewart has arrived in Juneau from Anchorage and is a guest at the Baranof. ATKINSON MANIS IN JUNEAU TO GET - WORKERS FOR JOB John Nelson fo Be Located | in USES Office for | Next Two Days John R. Nelson, representing the Guy F. Atkinson Company arrived in town over the week end to recruit werkers for a construction job his company is building to the West- ward. He will be here for the next 2. I| two days, making his headquarters| at the United States Employment | - |Eervice. ! Nelson sald he needed male clerks | and stencgraphers, timekeepers, car- penters, plumbers, concrete rodders or reinforced concrete workers, auto, laborers and truck driv- ers and third cooks. Jack Can USES manager, said | r any men wanting to go on this job to contact.the office at 124 Ma- ‘nnn Way and interview would be ar- BARTELL ARRIVES ranged. | Samuel Bartell, registering from | il lip-on In army ru i i i | \ CREIGHTON . . . CANFIELD . . . Cuban heel, walled wonderful w Sizes 415 to 9 ehrends Co SI/INCE /887 i QUALITY will be assigned, with visions of a family reunion in view. Cpl. Hermann has been in the Army two years, during which time he has been with the Alpine Ski Troops. He will be 21 years of age next month and holds the Purple Heart award. |5 an assignment to where he will of hospitalization in save s left fore- (DL, CHEE HERMANR = NOW N HOSPITAL AT =, ORAL GABLES, FLA ¢ Mildred the OPA Offiee today ived a wire from her an arm fragment of shrapnel, dowrr almost a mile mountain on the e Medics, and during orphine helped to of I wound Hit he was car of perpendicul shoulders of - —— th Col. Hermann is warm in his praise syl o heall LOhoe) . Hakosa ! Elfin Cove, is a guest at the Bar- ell (Chee) Hermann, 'y apmy Poctors and Nurses DN, o : who was with the Alpine Ski Divi- | TR anof Hotel who cared for him before he was Lol jon of- the Tenth Army in Italy, o/ "% —— stating he had arrived safely, by i | g s FROM SEATTLE g g 8 who will guest at the Baranof be graduate from the i Hunnnn ]m\ been wounded the Battle for MV on March 3. He Mrs waiting in the hospital at son a ON MANPOWER ACT gL FROM PELICAN C. Reatikainen, of Pelican City,| is staying at the Barzmcf SWIM SUITS SHOW VARlETY IN STYLES AND FABRICS" Hermann plans to join her it is known where he as 500D 88 Will Accept Bill Senate Passed WASHINGTON, April 9 — Man- power legislation was deadlocked because of House and Senate dif- | ferences. It appeared dead as far as the House was concerned. Re-! turning from a two week's iu-‘ formal Easter recess responsible | house leaders told reporters thcy[ didn’t believe the House would ac- | cept the bill originally passed by the Senate. | The House approved the Smate’ Bill after it had been rewritten azj a Senate-House conference, but the | Senate turned it down and asKed | the House for another conference. | 2 o t | | Uplo Inlemahonal | i Jurists fo Plan for | Just Setflements WASHINGTON,_ April 9—Secre- tary of State Edward Stettinius told an international jurist’s group today their job was to express the peace-loving peoples’ determination that future international differences would “be settled by peaceful meth- | ods on a basis of justice.” i | 'The jurists, representing 38‘ United Nations Governments, are meeting to complete the basis of ‘the design of the Dumbarton Oaks | Security Plan, in preparation for the San Francisco Conference. It/ is up to them to decide whether the old “Permanent Court of Inter- .national Justice” or some new| agency should be made part of the | proposed orgsnization | =Andmmme Manls i Wounded in Adion’ WASHINGTON Aplil 9—Second | Photos Courtesy Swim for Health Association ® lefl two-piece faille bathing suit; center. Guatemalan print suit in rayon jersey; right, embroidered suit. Beachwear manufacturers have been preparing their collections earlier each year since the war started. This assures swi and sunners of an ample selection of suits in a variety of styles and Lt Lorn Eson Anderson, son of fabrics. This season there are infinite variations on the sarong and diaper themes, some of which are |Isaac Anderson, has been it shown above. Margery Jennings, Conover mode! »-piece faille suit at the left above, Both |as wounded in action: 1o (ks the twisted bra and flnu‘ skirt are trimmed with a darker shade of faille. In the center of the pic~ |Eurcpean area, the War Depart- | ture, Fena Cella, Roxyette, models a Guatemalan print two-picce suit in rayon jersey. And Hight 1S |ment isciosed. P | Dale Belmont, singer, wearing a jersey rayon form-fitting suit with gathered trunks laced at the sides | %, P and looped bra. Both are trimmed with embroidery. (Im,m.s,'o,, 1) BUY WAR BONDS 1, wears a tv i ALICE HELW! lG—Thh‘teen ve [ the Don't Think Lower House & ic.’,m the soldler’s cffer to use his s M).i a wheelchair. in AP Newsfeatures NEW YORK-—L:cause a piiva.2 something big"” before he aged in combat, & girl who hes been in a wheel chair for 13 yoars will walk again. | In 1931, policmyelitis pounced up- on the lovely North Shore of Long Island with its willow-hung coves beache: It fastened fiercely 11-year-old Alice Helwig in wanted to do “ upon | the little town of Glenwood Landing. ‘Whm hospital treatment had donc all it could, she was sent home—: “wheel chair cas! Before he enlisted Private Ray- mond Lee used to live just up the street. In training in Neijaska, he |knew he would soon be sant over- seas and might not come back. The thing uppermost in his mind was a great desire to do something help get Alice cn her feet again. He worked it over and over in his mind during long, lonely hour: why not write Mrs. Ro would know if anyone did. “I hate to bother your,” he sai ln hh letter addressed to the White . “but before long T'll go over- seas, I'(l like to do my darndest to help this girl, so, if anything velt. She Canada and The Netheralnds. Cnlmrbi:n and Peru. uniform of the Army Air Corps horse were the following passengers: in camp— ?01;; \vlvan Horn of the Bituminous tentative understanding” g reached on all but one of the issues between the operators and John L. reports that Columhia Lumber Co. announces a New Service Our Salesman—GARY McDONALD Will Call and Give a Free Estimate on HOME INSULTATION . . REMODELING NEW ROOF . . . NU-BRICK SIDING Time Payments Arranged PHONE 587 Latin American countries resum- ing normal diplomatic relations with Argentina include Uruguay, Brazil, PAN AMERI(AN OFF FOR WHITEHORSE Leaving this afternoon for Wmfie- Bl Lt. Harry Meyers, Walter Klinkham- mer, Mrs. Aldahy Fox, Sgt. Wlmam N. Weaver. Juneau to Seattle—Tom Mnrgan, Florence Barnes, Franklin Smith, | Lawrence Westre, Charles Huntley, ! Arthur Ozman, Faye Durkee, Lowell Greenwood, Don McCann, Beatrice | Rosness, Alfred Rosness, Robert Zimmer. _. MONTHLY ACCOUNTING SERVICE - COAL MEDIATOR SAYS AGREEMENT ALMOST REACHED WASHINGTON, April 9—Chair- DOROTHY DOLAN Phone - - Red 165 { . age Conference reported “a has been ewis. Van Horn wouldn't elaborate on the soft coal fields should happen to me, T'll know I did Showed, meanwhile, that at least Y semething big in my life—that is 22000 miners were off the job. T e A T big in the eyes of Ged. You see, TLEETTN 3 & this girl lives in my old heme town FROM HOONAH SPECIALIZING IN PERMANENT WAVIN and she is the loveliest, cheeriest! 11,010 Sijam. of Hoomah, is a HAIR CUTTING AND GENERAL BEAUTY CULTUR ?ri:‘li'[nlc,;‘rf)f(‘?c'iiklcndo ':1;21‘;*l cf(;;’z\lcd guest at the Baranof Hotel. A FULL LINE IN DERMETICS CREAMS 4 i us to do something to help our' _ TN U LUC'LLE,S BEA']T’Y SALoN " | feilow man?” e PHONE 492 i } It was a hard letter to write. It tock a long time. He didn't know \)9 e 4 just how it was going to sound. | “Lon’t think I'm esking for char-, ¢," he put down in his compact| handwriting. “I don't make a whole | lot when it comes to a thing like t“l\‘ but I have a little money saved and‘ guew maybe I could ttle borrow a ' back home. I'll manage to gef, v necessary somehow. But T.qo ask for advice—I know nothing | of octors, hospitals, speci: and such.” | As socn as it was reccived the let- | ter was forwardzd to the National Foundaticn for Infantile Puralysls; |A reply was sent to the camp in Nebraska and the Nassau County Chapter in Hemp:tead, N. Y. was |immediately contacted. Machinery |was sct in motion te do everything that cculd be done to help. It was the Chapter’s business to know ev- ery channel threcugh which help uul.i ccme to polio-stricken peo- | There was no need to ac- savings and his army stipend. He had already done his part. A ccmplete physical examination of Alice Helwig, now 24, showed she was suffering from the acutz con- tractions characteristic of the dis- ease. Operations were prescribed and she was sent to the New York Orthopaedic Dispensary and Hospi- tal. There operations were perform- ed on both hips and upeii the con- tracted tendons of each leg. Her slender young body straightened, Her blue eyes were bright with hepe. She could stand on her feet.| She cculd walk a few steps. Walk! Scmewhere in Italy Private Lee reccived the good news. It will be months before the en- tire benefits of the operations are |vealized but Alice Helwig is not going to spend the rest of her life [ in a wheel chair. All because a 20- year-old boy on his way to combat in the greatest of all wars wanted ! ito help her—to do “something big {in the eyes of God.” ‘MAIL SERVICE T0 ‘GREECE EXTENDED | Effective at once, according to a | postal bulletin received here by Pcst- master Crystal Jenne, weight limi- tations cn mail service to the coun- try of Gresce are to be extended. The weight limit on orinary letters is increased from one ounce to two ounces- and printed matter, mailed directly by. the_publisher, may be! posted to that country up to one pound per package. e e R e T SHOES REPAIRED WHILE YOU WAIT DAILY MAIL ORDER SERVICE. 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