The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 16, 1945, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT DRIVE FOR SALVATION ARMY ON Volunteer Workers Take Field Today to Garner in Fund of $4200 The volunteer workers for The Salvation Army financial campaign met at breakfast on this morning and were assigned their districts for the campaign starting today to raise $4,200. Donations may be either in cash or a pledge. Some of the larger firms’ em- ployees will give through a member of the firm appointed by the cam- paigh committee. Volunteer workers will call at| homes and smaller business dis- tricts. The workers are as follows: Allen Shattuck, H. B. Foss, the Rev. R. Treat, Earle Hunter, A. Blackerby, Lynn Forrest, Tom Sandborn, Frank Hermann, Jim Kelly, Ed. Lewis, Roald Copstead. Ed. Nielson, Charles W. Carter, J. C. Cooper, Bruce Kendall, Marshall Erwin. Tom Hutchings, Harold Sverdrup, Frank Heintzleman, James H. Stone, E. Parsons, Jim McNaughton, Mrs. W. J. Manthey, W. 3. Pullen, Mrs. M. O Johnson, Jack Fletcher, A T. Stmmons, Warren H. Wilson, Ernest L. Hayes, K. G. Merritt, Mil- ton Daniel, Dr. Willlam M. White- | head. ) ©. F. Benecke, Lt. Jerome Mor- gan, 1. L. Levy, Mrs. John Mc- Cormick, Mrs. James C Ryan, Mrs. | A. E. Karnes, Mrs. Earl Cleveland, Mrs. Madsen Streed, Mrs. Jake | ¢4 pe taken to the White House. THE DAILY ALAbKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Body of Lafe President Taken Io Speclal Train With Qoldlels standing al attention and grief strwken townspeoplc in the background, this picture was taken prior to the renwvll of the body of Franklin D. Roosevelt from the little cottage where he passed away. The remains were to be taken to the special train at Warm Springs Cropley, Mrs. Marcus Bacon, Mrs. | 8Sam Feldon. Mrs. R. B, Lesher, Brigadier C. O. Taylor, Adjt. H. Lorenzen, Mrs. C. O. Taylor, Mrs. H. Lorenzen, Capt. | Gwen Carruthers, Capt. Margaret Morris. Campaign headquarters is located at the Red Shield Reading Room. Donations may be left at the B. M. Behrends Bgnk, Canadian Pacific | smmsmp Company's office and of- ficlal receipts will be issued. SHELDON JACKSON SCHOOL CHOIR IS T0 GIVE CONCERT: iThe Sheldon Jackson School Choir from Sitka will present a concert in the Junegu High School gym-l nnlum on Friday evening, April 20, 8t 8 o'clock. This choir of 42 voices s visiting Jyneau unger the spon- gumy of ‘the Martha Soclety, the 'orld Service Circle and the choir of the Northern Light Presbyterian | Ohurch assisted by the Memorial | WOODLEY ARWAYS HERE ON SATURDAY Woodley Airways brought the fol- | lowing passengérs from Anchorage to Jupeau on Saturday: Mrs. Dell, G. Jefferson, L. Mc- Intosh, Bill Wilson, H. G. Havely and A. Covey. Returning to Anchorage = were: Major Carl F. Scheibner, Gary Pon- cia, Major Martin R. Marston, Col. | J. P. Williams, D. R. Harrison, Jos- jeph Wilile, G. H. Skinner and Dr. | James 8mith. | PFrom Juneau to Gustavus: Mrs. | R. H. Whittmore and Loway Bjerk- | ness. - RAATIKANIAN HERE Charles Raatikanian, of Pelican City, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. e ERICSON VISITS JUNEAU C. D. Ericson, of Tyee, is a guest |at the Baranof Hotel. ————————— BERTHA LEAKE HERE Bertha Leake, of Kake, guest at the Hotel Juneau. —— e — MOLLER HERE Dan Moller, of Sitka, is in Ju- neau and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. is a ———————— MRS. GAISELL TS Mrs. Linda B. Gaisell, of An-' chorage, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. - - BECONOVICH IN JUNEAU M. Beconovich, of Chisholm, Min- nesota, is in Juneau and a guest at the Hotel Juneau. b Gl LS FIRE SUNDAY At 3:20 o'clock Sunday morning, the Juneau Volunteer Fire Depart- !ment was called to 445 South, Franklin Street, where a chimney | was afire. No damage resulted. ———————— | P-TA MEETING TONIGHT | The regular monthly meeting of the Juneau Parent-Teacher Asso- .ciation will be held tonight at 8 Presbyterian Church. Towns represented by students in the choir are Metlakatla, Angoon, Juneau, Sitka, Hoonah, Hydaburg, | Bethel, Petersburg, Kake, Eek, Os- carville, Port Heiden, Craig and Fairbanks. BLACK VISITS JUNEAU A. C. Black, of Portland, Oregon, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. e ————— ELMER VISITS JUNEAU Jacob Elmer, of Skagway, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. MRS. WOLF HERE A Mm has been arranged by Miss Laverne Seagren, the choir di- rector, and Mrs. Charles G. Stuart, accompanist. George Salo Given | " Honor on Birthday, Mrs. George Salo entertained at a party Saturday evening in honor of her hulband, whose birthday an- niversary it was. Mrs. William T. Mahoney, wife The- dinner. table was decorated of the United States Marshal for with red roses and red candles, and the First Division, returned to her there was the traditional birthday |Juneau home aboard the steamer cake. Delicious refreshments were North Sea. She has been in'the setved to the following guests: Mr. States for about two months. Most and Mrs. Gust Nurmi, Mr. and Mrs. [of her stay outside was spent visit- George Baroumes, Mr. and Mrs.|ing her sister in Arcata, Cali- Willlam Schmitz, and Mr. Axel |fornia. Koskey. arrived in Juneau and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. DONALDSON IN JUNEAU W. E. Donaldsgn, Representative of the Upjohn Co., Portland, Ore- gon, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. e —————— MRS. MAHONEY BACK Mrs. J. P. Wolf, Hood Bay, has: o'clock in the High School audi- {torium. | | .- — | DIVORCE GRANTED | I U. s. District Court here Sat- 'urday, Judge George F. Alexander granted a decree of divorce to Cornelia Bass, of Yakutat, from Marinus Bass. . v LA TGS L T NAME CHANGED George F. Alexander, District Court Judge for the First Division, | has approved a change of name for a Juneau infant, from Howard Andrew Sadler to Robert Andrew Sadler. | — e | POLICE COURT FINES Four fines were imposed and one | jail sentence was handed out in| City Magistrate’s Court this morn- | ing as follows: | William W. Rusk, Alva Whalen and Elizabeth Grant were each fined $25 on drunk and disorderly charges; a juvenile was fined $10 for speeding on Willoughby Avenue | and Wilma Lucille Mohr was sen- tenced to 20 days in jail for dis-| ‘orderly conduct Mr. Salo is the owner of the New York Tavern. - ?efiect Smile Girl “Untie him a minute, Dan... gt Centenmul AT THE ANNUAL MEITING of some 3,000 members of the Philadelphia ntal Society, dental assistant Eflu Brett, of Lancaster, Pa., won fie top title of “The Girl With the Perfect Smile”s (International) MORE Northwe: than to any other, I want to buy a package of that 1lovely Centennial Peach Blossom Cake Flour!” Peach Blossom Cake Plour In the past 12 months ‘women have switched to Contennial brand, according to impartial surveys. 1 @A | s, \ | Service, University of Alaska. HE MAY BE A SERGEANT in the Army, but he's just a rookie in the Kkitchen. That is the opinion of Sgt. Lushion N. Poole's pretty wife whom he brought to this country from ‘“down under.” Mrs. Poole was “Miss Australia” of 1942 and she met her Yankee husband in’ a Sydney theater when he was in Australia with an AAF unit. Poole is now a physical instructor at an AAF redistribution station at Miami Beach, Fla., and his wife is a model., (International) ARTILLERY ' BREAKSUP | JAPBLOWS Little Sieg_f—r{e—d Line” on Okinawa Is Bitterly Contested By MURLIN SPENCER (AP War Correspondent) GUAM, April 16—Three Japa-| nese counter-attacks were broken up by artillery on Saturday night along the bitterly-contested “Little Siegfried Line” on southern OKki- nawa and the lines remained un- |changed yesterday. For the twelfth straight day, the Marines continued in the north to |mop up small groups of the enemy jin their drive which has cagried them to within 10 miles of the northern tip of the strategic island. | One isolated Japanese force on; " | 1 | { |the western side of Motobu Penin- 'sula is offering stiff resistance. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz re- ports that Keufu Island, Kerama lgroup, just off Okinawa's south- {west coast, was invaded Sunday. |This is the eighth Keruma island seized by the 77th Army Division. THIRTEEN LEAVE " ON PAN AMERICAN | | An Pan American plane left for |..eul.tle today, taking the following | passengers: Loren Pfenneghousen, | i Mrs, Theodora Crossman, Charles, | Crossman, Morton Jensen, Allen! ‘Tesberg, Mrs. Margaret Tesberg, |Ralph Marsh, Lt. Jerome Morgen and Major Chester Wagner. Going to Whitehorse from Juneau were: Harold Smith, Thomas C.| | White, Percy Gaalaas, and John R. Nelson. 'IMOGENE WARD TO BE REPRESENTATIVE, EXTENSION SERVICE Miss Imogene Ward will be repre- | sentative for the University of Alas- |ka Extension Service in Southern | Alaska with headquarters in Ketch- |ikan, it was announced today by Lydia Fohn-Hansen, Home Demonstration Leader Extension Mrs, Fohn-Hansen left today via Pan American for her Fairbanks| Headquarters. She has spent the’ past few weeks in Southeastern | Alaska in the interest of her work. e | AMERICAN LEGION ‘ MEETING TONIGHT The American Legion will hold the regular weekly business session this evening at 8 o'clock in the Legion | Dugout. The special Child Wel- | fare joint meeting of the Legion and | Auxiliary which was scheduled to- night has been postponed, and is to be held a week from tonight. The regular social meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary, which would usually be held tomorrow ev- | ening, will not be held, due to the joint meeting of the Legion next wcek FARM=FRESH WASTE=FREE FROZEN Strawherries Peaches, Sliced Apricols, Halves Peas ‘ Asparagus Peas and Carrofs 2 e PHONE ' 704 Juneau Deliveries—10 A. M. and 2R . Douglas Delivery—19 A. M. Roat Orders Delivered Anytime! Lima Beans Mixed Vegetables Spinach ‘Squash French Cut Beans Wax Cut Beans Brussel Sprouts £ o MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1945, , German army. ] Late in the day the grinding Brit- in two miles of that port, while, u p s British tanks and armored cars! I | burg. $ | The Dutch city of Goeningen, | sixth largest in Holland with a pop-{ ulation of 120,000, surrendered to the! German resistance in northeast Hol« land virtually ended. H H |ated 6,500 American and British' D’Stan(e from Rum !prisoners by capturing falling St. H f Botel After a five-mile adv: ed Capital City e H I 'BOY SCOUT COUNCIL w. ern Chemnitz, but were driven out. | : The American Seventh Army sent To MEH TOMORROW il crashing within eight miles of Lhere. tomorrow evening at the office of' and within 160 miles of Hitler's)Dr. J. O. Rude at 8 o'clock, This is 5 o |Council members, including repre-! gaden. Troops nearing N“embergisent,anves of all sponsoring organ-‘ are now 57 miles from Munich. 4 D yesterday, making a total for April 2 of 614,000. The prize of the lot was HICKOX HERE Armored Division, as its commander | Paul E. Hickox, of Hoonah, is in and his staff surrendered in the {Juneau and is a guest at the Bar- NAZIS RUSH toughest remaining divisions of the ish assault on Bremen carried with- broke out within 40 miles of Ham- Second Canadian Divigion, with' Ninth Army Still 45 Miles The British Second Army liber- | of Waldrode. (Continued jrom Page One) five divisions against Nuernberg, | The Boy Scout Council will meet mountain residence ‘at Berchtes- | & Very important meeting, and all! izations, are urged to be pr t. The Allies took 61,000 prisoners g i o the Panzer Lehr, or First German Ruhr trap. It had been one of the |anor Hotel. ATTENTION, ELKS! INFORMAL CABARET DANCE SATURDAY—APRIL 2Ist At Elks' Hall For Elks and Ladies Only! Tickets available from Emblem Club members or Steward at the club. Make Table Reservations by Friday Night PHONE 112 Dancing Starts 9:30 P. M. Large Selection of VEGETABLES and FRUITS Just Arrived! 251b. keg BUTTER $16.95 MAID 0’ CLOVER ONION SETS 3 Ibs. $1.00 EARLY ROSE SEED POTATOES 31bs. 25 501bs. §3.95 NULIFE FERTILIZER 251bs.--SL75 51bs.--$ .55 50 lbs. - - $2.75 10 1bs. - - § .95 1001bs.--$4.95 Buy Your Supply Now While Stock Lasis This Item Is Scarce EORGE BROTHER Super Market Orders for Delivery Accepud Up to 2:30 P. M. 2 FREE Deliveries Daily—10:30 A. M., 2:30 P. 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