The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 26, 1945, Page 5

SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1945 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - JUNEAU ALASKA .lllllI|IlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIllIIIItlIIIIIIII|IllIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIhIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllIIIIIII|IIl|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIl. !EDDIE (ANTOR m t SHOWPLALE o . TONEGINY | SHOW BUSINESS' A p IT “Three Little Sisters’ IS CAPITOL BILL AND ’ . ' | - A“el’glc to Love | Romance, comedy, and drama * form the triple theme of “Show |Business,” Eddie Cantor's sparkling new filmusical which with its array “lof stars tells a gay story of the| !|American theatre. This big feature icpens at the Capitol Sunday. | Eddie Cantor, George Murphy, {Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly and Con- ' stance Moore have the stellar roles lin the tuneful picture, which, along . iwith its intriguing action, features | |eigth nostalgic old song favorites and |a catchy new melody. Cantor portrays a youngster from the East Side who makes his stage |debut at an old Bowery theatre and | |Murphy is cast as a successful bur- !lesque actor who encourages the boy | {and subsequently feams with him | {in a vaudeville act. Later the pair ‘jun forces with Miss Davis and ‘MLs Moore to make a foursome that climbs to fame and fortune. | A comedy romance between Can- ; |tor and Miss Davis and a serious one | |between Murphy and Miss Moore, :lccmplicated by activities of a riv- lal actress and of a theatrical agent, motivate much of the story. Glimpses |of memorable scenzs from various = | hit shows of the period and scores of novelty numbers and spectacular ef- ects add to the film’'s entertainment ualities. " - LAST WEEK OF " DENNY DRIVE" . SO0N T0 BEGIN | ‘Orthopedlc Hospital Rec- ords Show Humanitar- ian Nature of Cause i The annuai “Penny Drive” for | . | support of the Children’s Ortho- un‘pedlc Hospital, in Seattle, is enter- (mg the last week here, it was pointed jout today by Mrs. George F. Alex- |ander, Chairman, the little envel- 2 opes bearing the ‘red heart are to & be collected early next month with the coins dropped in them by local & | citizens. | The Children’s Orthopedic Society !started by Mrs. J. W. Clise and 23 Seattle friends on January 7, 1907, has a two-fold purpose, Mrs. Alex- |ander stated: “To establish and | maintain a hospital for the care and . treatment of children. To make : useful members of society out of those afflicted or deformed from : birth or as a result of accident or “ | disease, without prejudice of. raee, | |ereed or color.” At present the 1 hospital does 75% of its work for | | non-paying patients—that is why it | needs, and has, many friends. A large part of the services of the | | Orthopedic Hospital are voluntary. = | Red Cross Nurses’ Aides, Senior and i (Junior Volunteers help in minister- “|ing to the patients. In 1943, 120 | . | volunteers of various kind served 110,489 hours in all departments. Up #!to October, 1944, 39,339 children | «|were accepted for treatment and «{during the year 1940 care was given \ 50 infantile paralysis cases. During the first. six months of :"1944 723 children were x-rayed at _. the institution and approximately 111,000 operations are done yearly. nMore than 600 cleft lip and palate | cases alone have been cared for since |the hospital was founded in 1907.| u|For the year 1942, the hospital's i | records show the following totals: =| Number of patients admitted, 1,- #1141; communities served, 235; opera- tions, 1,193; x-rays and treatments, 3,145; physiotherapy treatments, 46,- =|72; days service to hospital pa- ‘| tients, 40,730; average in-patients ‘| per day, 112; out-patients treated, 2,752; patients treated in all depart- ments, 3217; doctors’ visits to in- patients, 2,767; doctors’ visits to out- patient depanment. 838; doctors on Don Douglas SUNDAY—FEATURE AT 2:15 — 4:15 — 6:20 — 8:25 — 10:25 ] number of pntlents per day and PREVUE TONIGHT AT 12:30 A. M. A SRRSO | operacions was somewnat. sower, aue to periods of communicable disease S O e shortage of personnel. War conditions have placed a particularly heavy burden on the hospital, including a marked in- crease in the population of the area L “SKI CHASE" COLOR CARTOON FIRST PICTURES ROOSEVELT FUNERAL To Fomilies and Friends of Servicomen: HL Tt one of the flns chosen by the 4 War Department and provided by the moion pictwe industry for showing overseas in combat areas, Red Cross hospitals and ot isolated outposts, S SEATTLE P s i | HARRI MACHINE SHOP | | Acetylene Welding, i ey i OIL BURNERS For Comfort and |served coupled with the absence of GIFTS a large proportion of the staff in Blacksmithing A Service. the armed services. Plumbing, Heating, PRy e e : The facts presented above show i = : F. B. Get the New V/ash- | conciusively the worthwhile use to McClure, ington Hubit which are put the pennies and other % 4 Mgr. coins dropped by Juneau residents ALASKANS FEEL AT HOME at Few VisHincTon] into the little envelopes displayed on the change counters of local stores, Mrs. Alexander emphasized. YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONFERENCE WILL ~ BE HELD AT SITKA The motorship 8JS II will leave from the Small Boat Harbor at 8 o'clock Sunday evening instead of 4 p. m. as previously announced. This boat will take the young people to the Young ‘People’s Con- ference to be held at Sitka on the campus of Sheldon Jackson School. Any young persons interested in attending the conference and who is 16 years of age or over, or a fresh- | man in high school, should register with the Rev. Willis R. Booth im- There is no substitute for newspaper advertising! \ | | | | CARSON'S ¥~ BAKERY Phone 546 P Fish Boat Orders Given Special Attention WRAPPED AND PACKED WINBOWS, DOORS, CABINETS, 0. B. Williams Co. 1939 First South Seattle 4 THE FIXIT SHOP 215 Second Street Musical Instrument Repairing General Light Repair Work PHONE 567 ROY EATON ling and suicide attacks. lLt Col RCMP DRAMATIC FEATURE SUNDAY ISFOUGHT | a7 20mh century | i d - | % # #A) |naventure story of the Royal Canad- {lan Mounted Police, the men who AIR BATTLE (Cc jtury theatre Sunday. An excellent | Lands on Airfield A color cartoon with Porky Pig | The Japanese made the fantastic | g patrol the vast stretches of the Can- . . adian Northwest, starring Errol Eleven Light U. S. Ships|riynn, | supporting cast with Julie Bishop,| |Helmut Dantine and Gene Lockhart tinued from Page One) and Daffy Duck, a Movietone ad- MBI 4 TiEd |venture, “Sails Aloft" and a News attempts to land grenade-armed | troops on the Yontan airdrome dur- will open at the 20th Cen- Damaged-Nip Squad |are also in this interesting drama {Reel completes the bill ing their determined low-level straf- AT THE COLISEUM At the Coliseum starting tonight, is a return showing of “The Desert | |Song,” the technicolor musical ro-i Five twin-engine planes attempted jmnncn with Dennis Morgan and to make belly landings on the Yon- piane Manning. tan airstrip but four were destroyed | in the air. The fifth came down jand members of the new Giretsu A unit of the Kamikaze Special Air o(Al SS BOARD tack Corps tumbled out, bent upon | exploding nearby parked planes and | (lASSB '6 FoR airfield installations. Associated Press correspondent | Vern Haugland said “Eight or more | M".ITARY DUIIES men rushed from the plane in the | H moonlight, setting fire to parked | : e panes with bombs and hand gren- | Sixteen registrants are classified ades. Most of these Japanese were | 1-A” on the iatest draft list re- killed quickly or committed suicide | leased by Local Selective Board No. when injured.” ‘3 following its most recent meeting Haugland said the new-type as- | ithis week. Forty-eight registrants sault caused such surprise and con- | are listed in all on the new classifi- fusion that the Japanese who leap- | cation roster: ed from the plane “had time to| l-A—Alexander J. Hay, Lynes H. huddle for a conference and retun | Seevers, William C. Shaw, Arthur to the plane for gear before really | G- Jensen, Joseph M. Molloy, Jr. | getting fired upon.” | Ludwig C. Baggen, Paul T. Wolney, At least 11 of the Giretsu planes, |Joseph Kezele, Robert W. Mitchell which carried as many as 15 men \Stephen M. Bella, John W. Jeffrey each, were wiped out at Yontan and | Peter Howard, Frank P. Williams, elsewhere. Paul J. Williams, Wiliam L. Har) Seven American planes were de- |Glenn W. Trueblood, Jr. stroyed on the ground at Yontan,| 1-C (Ind)—Chester A. Carlson, Katena and Te airfields during the |Fausto M. Paulo, Albert R. Peter- air assault. Admiral Nimitz said 500, Willilam E. Odell, Jacob White one of the 11 light fleet units hit |Al Anderson, Edward K. Haffner, was dumaged henvfly Adam M. Greenwald. Canc.—Conley R. Ayres. | 2-A—Jan King, George E. Fleek, [ | Peter Gilovenale, Jack C. Cremin, MRS HopKI"S ‘Robert W. Cowling, Juan B. Zapata, | Elwood R. Dailey, Mentur S. Peter- SON GIVEN DFC 2-, A (F)—James D. Thomas. T 2-B—Eugene E. Eakin, Roderick | Word has been recelved by Mrs. ‘E Sutherland, Robert R. Tew, James Mabel E. Hopkins that her stepson, ‘L Gray, Jr. Donald W. Nance, com-| 2-B (F)—James L. Aubert, Bert ! manding officer of the 49th Fighter | H. Flotre. Squadron in the 14th Pighter Group,| ¢-A—Hans I. Johansen, George H. has been awarded the Distinguished | Tamaki, Gasper Advincula, Michael Flying Cross for extraordinary | W. Gawryluke, James M. Wilson. achjevement in aerial flight in the| 4-F—Kenneth F. Millard, Orvis vicinity of Graz, Austria, shortly be- | L. Finzel, Albert W. Fleek. fcre the close of the European war. | S “Exhibiting skillful leadership and | employing .careful judgment in at-} tacking enemy rolling stock,” read | 2 the citation, “he led the squndmnf w%%wggmlgggg?'r :| on repeated assaults which account- |y yopperyiures for 24-Hour Perioa @ | ed for the destruction of 18 oil cars Erdias 158 b'0lok ‘This Morning - -» and one locomotive, as well as dam- i S e o age to five passenger cars.” 3 | Col. Nance entered the Army as a | In Juneau—Maximum, 59; e second lieutenant in July, 1940, and [ ® minimum, 45. g W was graduated from Stockton Fleld At Alrport—Maximum, 58; e Air Training School in March, 1941.| & minimum, 46, - He saw duty in the Aleutians and | ® 3 .I in Italy, where his unit distinguish- | ® ¢ ® Tomorrow’s Forecast ¢ ¢ ¢} ed themselves for outstanding serv- | ice. Partly cloudy; sunhy this e | - AT E S afternoon and Sunday. | HOONAH PEOPLE MERE Warmer this afternoon. ! Mr. and Mrs. George Hagel and, ® Mr. and Mrs. Homer I. Stockdale,|® ® © of Hoonah, are guests at the Gas-| tineau Hotel. i ——————————— | southern SHARP IN TOWN |north. P. R. Sharp, of Pelican City, is a | guest at the Gastineau Hotel. — eee 1 GEORGE BRINCK HERE | George Brinck, Manager of the! Gilmore Hotel and the Revilla' THEATRE NOW PLAYIN Apartments in Ketchikan, is in TECHNICOLOR | Juneau for a few days on business, ‘THE and is a guest at the Baranof | i DESERT SONG’ | Hotel. DENNIS MORGAN IRENE MANNING e o0 00 0 0 0 - —— Belgians speak French in area, Flemish fn the | the i DOUGLASY COLISEUM THEATRE SUNDAY ONLY Neededevery | “THE i minute HILTER GANG' HETHER you drive IT’S SENSATIONAL! one mile or many miles and whether you drive once a week or ev- ery day, your ear may cause you a crippling fi- nancial loss. ‘OIL BURNERS HEATING Smith Oil Burner Service Day Phone 711 P. 0. Box 2066 SERVICE INSTALLATION |! Carry complete Auto- mobile Insurance. Then wherever you go or what- ever happens you'll be protected. Shattueck Agency Seward Street THE BARANOF ALASKA'S FINEST HOTEL Eat in the Famous Gold Room mediately. The conference will be held May 28 to June 3. AS YOU LIKE IT! Practically all butadiene rubber now produced is extracted: from either :petroleum or ethyl alcohol. < Empire wanz-aas bring resuits! 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