The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 14, 1945, Page 5

| | HURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1945 THE DAILY ‘ALASKA COMEDY "KANSAS CITY KITTY" 1S ON BILL AT CAPITOL Patrons of the Capitol Theatre have always found Joan Davis’ pic- filled as they have been with i’ml;\rious gags, songs and clever plots, a must in their search for gayety |and escape in a world of stress and worry. “Kaensas City Kitty,” her {current Columbia picture, will prove |to be no exception if last night's {audience is any criterion. Her | buffoonery rocked it with laughter:. {It's her most entertaining yet. Cast as a learn-the-piano-by-ear- | in-six-ea ns music teacher, {Joan gets herself into some of the | screwiest situations ever encounter- |ed by this screwiest of comediennes. |She’s clowning and going-to-towning, }cmgmg. dancing, spooning and SHOWPLALE oF APITUL; HURRY! - THE FUN ENDS TONIGHT! JHEP A QUEEN ON THE KADIO/ Sl ON THE SCREEN s = / joan § KANSA RITIY OW——2 BIG HITS A NEW SCREEN TEAM JANET MARTIN and ALLAN LANE win BOB CROSBY - JANE FRAZEE ERIK ROLF and THE WILLIAMS BROTHERS {Joan Davis can give out. | Jane Frazee, Bob Crosby, Erik Rolf, Tim Ryan, Robert Emmett Keane and the Williams Brothers. 'COASTAL AIRLINES CARRIES MANY ON WEDNESDAY FLIGHTS Alaska Coastal Airlines had the following passengers yes- terday on the following flights: Juneau to Sitka: R. L. Tollefson and Oliver Mansfield. Juneau to Tenakee: A. Warwick. To Petersburg: K. L. Nelson. To Port Walter: Mrs. Harold Ar- entsen. Im's A KIELER- DILLER! To Ketchikan: Arthur A. Feaver and Oscar B. Warren. To Pelican: Mr. W. C. McCadden, Mrs. W. C. McCadden, Thomas Jen- | sen and Everett E. Smith. | To Hoonah: Jerry W. McKinley, A. O. Peterson, Robert Carteele, Mrs. Robert Carteele and Sven Swanson. To Skagway: M. Kinney, Mrs. M. Kinney, R. J. Lundy and Alice Al- bert. To Hawk Inlet: Arvin O'Berg. Incoming passengers were: From Tenakee: Mrs. Sam Asp. From Sitka: Glen Leach. From Petershurg: Mark Knight. From Pelican: Robert Tickner, Mrs. Robert Tickner, Lawrence Bo- {havoe, L. Broad and Ed Casey. From Hoonah: Marguerite Shep- herd. From Wrangell: Celestine Nore. From Ketchikan: M. Grawer and Henry M. Hogue. _PAN AMERICAN ON - WEDNESDAY FLIGHTS CARRIES 35 PERSONS Pan American World Airways Clippers flew 35 passengers between {Seattle and Juneau, 19 of whom |flew to Seattle and the following 16 \flew from Seattle to Juneau: Paul |Hayzatt, Thomas White, Nick Bez, |Imogene Johnson, Charles Bailey, |Joseph Peterson, Clara McGrath, i Velva Smith, Bruce Smith, Monty |Lable, Harold McWilliams, Hugh |Davis, Victor Grogan, Thomas {Downs, Verne Lee and Beulah Lee. Attention=-- CARPENTERS Local Union 2247 SPECIAL MEETING FRIDAY—-JUNE 15 Wage Increase Has Been Allowed! All membes urged to be present for discussion. JAMES 1. PARSONS, President. (et e e e e ERN'S PORTRAIT STUDIO z A photograph captures forever the beauty of the bride on her wed- \ ding day. We will take all your wedding pictures. i PHONE 567 SECOND STREET s { RI MACHINE SHOP HAR OIL BURNERS | Burdick, Esther Johansen, Yvonne There is no substitute for newspaper advertising! (Scote-deweomd System) Acetylene Welding, GIFTS |Cooper, Arnold Hartvigen, Richard P':::l:g:‘;::::f“" T mll !Hebert, Dean Pulsifer, Florence Mc- OLYMPIC NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY !Lucille ' Edwards, Andrew Bratcher, SEATTLE |Mary Mominee, Joseph Kaniowsky, RUTH B. ROCK BETTY McCORMICK |Gordon M. Trygstad, Donald A. | Highet, John Raft, Minard Cole General Agent—Baranof Hotel Juneau Agent—Phone 547 NORTHLAND ‘TRANSPORTATION C. O M P ANY jand Arthur Johnson, Howard Bell iand Mrs. Frankie Bell were White- | horse-bound. | HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs. Sam Asp entered St. Ann's Hospital yesterday for medical care. Peter C. Delgard was admitted to medical patient. Sven Aasen and Louis Hansen, medical patients at St. Ann’s Hos- pital, have returned to thelr homes. Rosalind Carteeti has been dis- charged from the Government Hos- | pital. Mrs. William Franks was an in- coming medical patient at St. Ann’s Hospital Wednesday. Alice Albert has been transferred from the Juneau Government Hos- pital to the Skagway Hospital. Presbyterian §. . Picnics Tomorrow A picnic and supper for Sunday School members of Northern Light Presbyterian Church and the chil- drens’ parents, will be held this coming Friday at Recreation Beach, it was announced today. * The children an dall the parents who can get away at that hour, will depart from the church at 4 p. m. tomorrow, it was explained, while those who are unable to:go at 6 p. m., and leave to join the earlier group for a picnic supper at the beach. — > MARRIAGE APPLICATION - Application for & marriage license for Donald Anderson, fisherman, and Charlotte Wilde, both residents of Juneau, has been filed at the U. S. Commiissioner's office, ~ mooning in a manner which only| Besides the star, the cast features BIG WALT DISNEY BOND CONTESTT0 END SATURDAY with Purchases fo Per- mit Entry o Parade Only two more days are left for |Juneau boys and girls to purchase their War Bonds for entry into the |big Walt Disney Bond parade and contest Saturday afternoon. The bond booth in front of the First National Bank will be open from 3 to 6 p. m. Friday and from 11:30 to 12:30 p. m. Saturday. At 12:45 o'clock on Saturday, the big costume parade will gather at the rear of the Federal Building and the parade will start promptly at 1 p.m. A band will lead the contes- tants across the front of the Federal Building, down Seward Street to 'Front and across Front Street to Franklin and then into the Capitol THAT ROOSEVELT LOAN ON FLOOR OF HOUSE TODAY Boys and Girls Must Hurry|Treasu ry'Did Not A!Iowi $228,500 as 'Bad Debt’ —More Info Sought WASHINGTON, June 14. — The House was advised today the Treas- ury had not allowed a $228,500 “bad debt” on a $200,000 loan to Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt. Chairman Dougaton (D-N.C. of the House Ways and Means Com- mittee told the House he has been so informed by the Treasury De- partment Doughton's statement was fol- lowed immediately by a demand by Rep. Woodruff (R-Mich.) on (floor that the Ways and Means Committee make a thorough inves- tigation of the matter. that Congress send Colin F. Stam, the | Rep. Knutson (R-Minn.) proposed ! | | | Army, Navy Casualties Are Given WASHINGTON, June 14—Com-| bat casualties of the Army and Navy during the war reached 1,- 017,097 today, an increase of 5048 | in the last week. The increase was one of the smallest weekly rises in months and | |apparently reflected the end of |fighting in Europe. Secretary of War Stimson report- | ed that Army casualties in all| theaters now total 899952 on the| basis of individual names received here through June 7 and reflecting fighting through the first half of May. The Navy added 117,145 to the Army’s figure. | 'JOURNALISTS OF jabout the amazing force that first | cibility |the blitz, Theatre, where the kids will enjoy a free show especially selected for them by Manager Homer Garvin. The grand prizes for costumes will be awarded at the theatre. They head of its staff of tax experts,| to examine the 1942 tax return fllcdl by Hartford, President of the Great ! Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. | It was on his 1942 return that | CHINA RESTRICTED FUTURE WRITINGS planes | St. Ann’s Hospital Wednesday as a! earlier will gather at the churchl include a $50 War Bond grand prize for the best parade entry; $10 in |stamps and a leather jacket for the boy with the best Walt Disney cos- jtume; $10 in stamps and a dress for the girl with the best Disney cos- tume. Other top prizes include $7.50 in stamps with a mitt and ball for the second best Disney costume among the boys and $7.50 in stamps and a Jantzen sweater for the girl |who is second best. Third prize in the Disney costume contest are $5.00 iand a pair of cords for the boy and a dirndl dr for the girl. In the bicycle contest, $250 in |stamps will be awarded, plus a foun- tain pen for the best boy’s bicycle :and a necklace for the girl. Many other grand prizes in war stamps and in toys, books, games and clothing are to be given in the divisions of pet entries, foreign cos- tumes and original entries. To be eligible to enter the con- test, all boys and*girls under 12 years of age must have purchased a War {Bond or completed their stamp books for a Bond during this week from Beta Sigma Phi sorority, sponsors of the Disney drive. The bonds® may 'be secured at the booth or from members of the sorority. Colorful Walt Disney certificates are given to each boy or girl who ipurchases a bond through the sor- ority. This certificate makes him eligible for entry in the parade. In order that the kids may pre- serve their certificates for framing ‘in their rooms, tags are being giv- ren to each purchaser of a bond, and when the parade begins, and will serve as tickets to the free matinee. e, — OPA REGULATIONS EXTENDED TO NEW FIELD IN ALASKA ‘ Maximum charges for storage, warehousing and terminal services are now subject to control under Maximum Price Regulation 586—ef- (fective as of June 1 here in Alaska, |as announced by officials of the in Juneau. | Territorial OPA office (Sellers of such services will be in- formed of its pricing and filing re- quirements through a trade bulle- (tin in the near future. | Previously covered by several dif- |ferent regulations, this ' new move on the part of OPA provides a con- solidation and simplification of controls over a major field of in- dustry in Alaska. Principal services affected are: storage of goods for future delivery, including dry and cold storage; freezing, including “quick freezing”; wharfage and handling; hoist and crane service; stevedoring, loading and unloading 1of ships, cars, barges; and such sub- ordinate services as packaging, crating, weighing, baling; but only when performed by same establish- ment providing principal services of storage and terminal facilities. Basically this regulation tends to hold maximum prices to the March 1942 level with all sellers required to file a statement in duplicate, showing their maximum prices, rates and pricing methods, with the near- est OPA field office after June 1 and not later than September 1. FEDERAL EMPLOYEES PAY INCREASE BILL HAS PASSED HOUSE Alva Blackerby, President of the Juneau Federation of Federal Em- ployees, said this morning he had Ibeen informed by National President Luther C. Stewart that the Federal employees’ pay increase bill had ,passed the House and will now go to conference committee. If the bill goes through in sub- stantially the same form as now it will mean that Federal employees in Alaska will receive practically, {the same pay as they receive now for a 48-hour week when the time comes to go back to the 40-hour week. / ettt TICKNER FAMILY HERE Mr. and Mrs, “Tickner and child arrived 'y y, via Alaska Coastal Airlines, from their home in Sitka and are guests at the Gas- § gfinna Hotel. 2 e s - { these tags are to be worn Saturday | Hartford's attorney said the unpaid portion of the Roosevelt loan was written off as a “bad debt”. Doughton said it is not his pur- pose to “cover up anything.” D e FIRE DAMAGES UPPER STORY Fire, possibly kindled by young- sters playing in a vacant upper floor apartment of one of the central of four buildings comprising the Wind- |sor Apartments here, charred the | interior of the apartment unit and stored furniture early this after- noon, Quantities of smoke were billow- ing from the structure when the alarm was phoned in at 12:55 o’clock. By 1:40 o'clock the blaze was re- ported extinguished by Fire Chief Minard Mill, with damage confined to the apartment where the fire started. The damaged building is held by the Joe Kaher Estate and is sit- uated midway of the hillside between South Franklin Street and Gastineau Avenue, overlooking the Winter and Pond Building. The .3-2 call was the second fire alarm sounded in Juneau during the past 24 hours. Chief Mill made no estimate of the amount of dam- age and declared the exact cause of the blaze had not been determined. | hood of its having resulted from | carelessness on the part of children, | since the apartment was apparently not tenanted. - et - ADAMS IN JUNEAU A. C. Adams, of Excursion Inlet, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. — - — Glenn Leach, Northern Sales Company representative, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. OF APT. BLDG. However, he pointed out the likeli- | CHUNGKING, June 14.—Chinese journalists are forbidden to write anything against the imterest of the nation and state under strict new rules announced today by the min- i istries of the Interior and Social | Affairs. | The regulations, effective July 1,| require the newsmen to join Chinese j press associations supervised and ! directed by local administrative or- | { ganizations of the Ministry of Social Affairs. The various press associations, | under the rules, must adgpt reso- lutions to help propagate the na- tional policies and the late Dr. Sun Yat-Sen's three “peoples’s principles | of nationalism, democracy, liveli- hood.” The government, under the regu- lations, may overrule any decision of the press associations going be- yond government orders. CHIEF HOGINS GETS DISCHARGE; IS NOW ARRIVED BACK HERE After having served in the Aleu- tians with the Naval Reserve, at- tached to the amphibious forces, Chief Boatswain’s Mate Leslie R.| Hogins, USNR, of Juneau, has been { honorably discharged because of | age and returned this week to his| home here. During his final month of ser- vice, Chief Hogins was assigned to Port Hueneme, California, near Ox- nard. Some months ago he was in Juneau on furlough and that time told of his experiences in a | short talk before the Juneau| Chamber of Commerce. 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