The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 2, 1945, Page 5

THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1945 *ThePHANTOMof the OPERA!"" v ! SUSANNA TURHAN BORIS FOSTER - BEY * KARLOFF . A D D E D- “FURY IN THE PACIFIC” TOMORROW! DOUBLE FEATURE IN WHICH THE OLD WEST TAKES A RIBBING—— AND YOU SEE A 10:00 TERROR UNMASKED! BOB CROSBY Fay McKENZIE Edward NORRIS NORTHLAND TRANSPORTATION SERVING ALASKA ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN via Pelershurg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock, Hydaburg and steamers for Prince Rupert, Vancouver, and Seattle FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 5 ALASHE; oasiay Daily Scheduled Trips Sitka Wrangell Pefershurg Keichikan Also Trips TO HAINES SKAGWAY HOONAH AND OTHER SOUTHEASTERN PORTS For Informafion and Reservations Phone 612 i THE ‘DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA [*THE CLIMAX" I ON LAST TIMES AS CAPITOL BILL Universal's light opera, with a heavy, “The Climax,” is on tonight for the last times at the Capitol Theatre. The story, part of it told in music, is fascinating, thrilling. While action and comedy are sub- ordinated to suspense, music and spectacle, the production is high in| popular entertainment values. Boris Karloff, Susanne Foster, Turban Bey, Jane Farrar and others | are in this most highly entertaining | features. { | - Mrs. Hag;rup Home | After Visit in South Mrs. Patricia Hagerup, owner of the American Beauty Parlor, has returned to Juneau, after spending the past six months with her hus- band, Pfc. Ervin Hagerup, in Georgia and Mississippi. Ervin, who is the son of Mr. and ;Mrs. Trygve Hagerup, is at present still at a camp in Mississippi. On an 18-day furlough, Mr. and Mrs. Hagerup visited New York City, Washington, D. C,, and other cities in the vicinity. They lived for a| month in Atlanta, Georgia, about which place Mrs. Hagerup was quite enthusiastic. “The people there were 'so nice, and it was a really |lcvely place to live,” she said, but| issippi was “too hot” for com-| SCORCHING RAID MADE ON TARGETS Widening C?nTpaign fo Cut Japan Off from Asia- fic Mainland (Continued jrom Page One) shu island and Toyama, west coast aluminum city. High explosives were loosed on four Kawasaki oil plants in Tokyo Bay with ‘“good effect.” ‘Tokyo reported 69 Mustang fight- ers from Iwo Jima struck Honshu again today, raiding the Osaka-Kobe area for two hours while Okinawa- based planes struck other points. About 500 miles north of Tokyo, the Japanese said three submarines shelled Erimo Cape on Hokkaido island, often reported a submarine target in recent weeks. Admiral Nimitz admitted some American ships were slightly damag- ed by shore battries in the bom- bardment of Wake, 1,985 miles south- east of Tokyo. LAVAL IS ACCUSED WARPLOT COME WEST KANSAS CITY, Aug. 2—The Star says in a special dispatch from Washington, that President Harry! (S. Truman will return to his sum- imer White House at Independence | {late this month for a rest and visit { with his family. Planning of a reconversion pro- gram for industry and re-organiza- | tion of the State Department are ex- pected to occupy the President's| | time on his arrival from Europe, but i | | | | British Charge Is Lodged Against Former French Premier, Facing Trial LONDON, Aug. 2.—Pierre Laval, under arrest in Paris on charges of collaborating with the Germans, was confronted today with an offi- |clal British statement accusing him of plotting to involve Britain in war with the Vichy government in the {he will head Westward, once his | desk is cleared of these matters, the! | Star says. { fall of 1940. The allegation against the former Vichy chief of government was made in a British white paper issued last inight while Laval was awaiting in- i terrogation by French authorities. { The paper said Sir Samuel Hoare, [the British Ambassador to Madrid, DOUGEAS STRANGE STORY BEING REVEALED AT 20TH CENTURY Playing for the last times tonight at the 20th Century is the Warner Bros. drama, “Between Two Worlds” an absorbing story of a strange ship |adrift on a fog-bound sea. Starred iin the cast are James Garfield, |Paul Henried, Eleanor Parker, Syd- ney Greenstreet and George Tobias: An interesting short subject, “Cavalcade of the Dance" with Ve-| loz and Yolanda, world famous, |dance team, is added. OPA PRICE - FIXING METHODS IMPROVED In its constant effort to pass |elong to both Alaskan retailers and | consumers the benefit of anyj tion capacity as Nippon did in "R'Jdichaugcs in the price structure, the July." Alaska OPA announces Amendment July was red in flames spurting|s o RMPR 288 (specific dollars| from more than 36,000 tons of bombs| 5,4 cents ceilings). | —mostly incendiary—dropped on 36| mhjs gmendment, effective here! cities and eight oil refinery centers| Ao 2 makes a number of changes, 295 gradually building up to the |, “the maximum prices of certain' promised 1,000-plus plane raids on! commodities, such as: certain v d hflmr!nnd_ canned fruits, vegetables, cereals,! The B-20s struck Japan on l3|mlree, flour and flour mixes. Some ' RE of s e | prices have been increased, others Japan was red in flames spurting |y . ve peon reduced to reflect the from cornered remnants of her Navy. ' | 1 d ts due mainl! By July 28 Admiral Halsey could say | C*18¢s In landed costs due y P [to shifting wholesale markets, as every major shop of Nippon's navy he bad started out to get had been |shown by periodic surveys. knoeked out. | Two other important changes are - | incorporated in this new amend- . ment. A number of electric irons DE fv GIvEN [m'c added to the previous list of those brands and models having specific dollars and cents cellings iin Alaska. This is indicative of the Early War Demand Turne Down Is Revealed in Trial of Petain icuursc of action OPA must follow |as reconversion goods come onto By LOUIS NEVIN (Associated Press War Correspondent) {the market. ( The other major change is a PARIS, Aug. 2.—Pierre Laval, whose name has filtered fre- | widespread revision of specific quently through ten days of "REDJULY" IS COSTLY " FOR JAPS Beginning of Knockout Blow on Nippon Em- pire Is Registered GUAM, Aug. 2—The 31 days of “Red July” will go down in history as the begining of the knockout of the once great Empire of Japan. Months of American planning, the storing up of tremendous supplies, building new bases on Okinawa and Luzon, constant sea and air pressure erupted into the most destructive| period in Japan’s history. No country ever lost so much of its fleet, air force and war produc- | | | prices for tires and tubes. This itends to reduce the average price |level for passenger car tires, ad- i justs prices on certain sizes and | types of truck tires and tubes, and | provides a differential for rayon truck tires. This revision alse elimi- nates from the schedule many ob- solete and unobtainable sizes. { Retailers and dealers affected by | these changes are being notified in jdetail and will thus be able to pass along to consumers any downward revisions. Likewise, this amendment ‘through any of its necessary up- ward adjustments, relieves inequi- ties to retailers caught between a fixed retail ceiling and an in- creased wholesale cost. This latter testimony will be called as a witness tomorrow in the treason trial of Marshal Petain, the | \ - NEWS | MRs. FORREST souTn | Mrs. Wallen Forrest left yester- |day for Seattle, where she will be | with her husband, Wallen Forrest, | during his furlough period. Wallen has served many months in West- ward Alaska, having recently been | transferred to the Seattle area. | The couple will stay with Mrs. | Forrest’s grandmother in Seattle 1and will be fortunate to also visit Phil Forrest, who is also on fur- ilough after three years' service overseas. Phil Forrest spent two| weeks with his parents and friends| here on the Channel. Leonard For- rest, the elder brother, is also in Seattle and will be able to enjoy | the visit. Mrs. Forrest is the former Helen Pusich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Pusich of Douglas. STROM IN ‘'FROM HOONAH T. E. Strom, who has been em- ployed on a construction job in Hoonah for several months as a cement finisher, returned to Doug- las Sunday and is now working for the same construction company, which has the contract for recon- struction of the Goldstein Building in Juneau. While employed in Hoonah, Strom kept his wife and |two children here in Douglas in nie Kilburn house. Mr. and Mrs. Strom are from Minnesota, where he was engaged in the cement and | building contracting trades, FROM SITKA Richard McCormick teturned to his home here this week from Sitka, where he completed his con- tract,on the naval base. McCormick has been stationed at the Sitka base for nearly a year and a half with only two short visits with his family during that time. He will spend several weeks just mak- ing up for lost time before accept- ing another position, He will also do a little fishing' with the boys, Jimmy, Bobby and Tony. WARREN GRANT HOME Warren Grant arrived by plane vesterday to spend a short. visit with his mother and sisters here. Warren has been stationed in the U. 8. Air Corps as a gunner in a Miami, Fla, training camp. He will now be stationed at Lincoln, Neb., for further training, after e four-day visit with his relatives. Mother Grant and sisters, Bar- bara and Louise, are taking him sightseeing today to Mendenhall Glacier and surrounding country. His father, Leigh S. Grant, is not able to be at home, being em- ployed on war work out of town. ———— e SHIPPERS’ ATTENTION Alaska Trausportation receiving freight at the Alaska Dock and Storage Co. for the following places: Hoonah, Pelican, Craig and Klawock, until Aug. 4th, | iand if the Royal Navy and French had cabled the Foreign Office on Nov. 4, 1940 that the French ambas- sador to Spain had informed him Laval was planning to use the! French fleet and military units inj| efforts to recover French colonies which had rallied to General Char- les de Gualle, Sir Samuel, now Lord Temple- ,wood. was quoted as saying in his | cable: “The (French) ambassador regards the plan as not only very mean, but very clever. He agreed with me that if it was carried out it undoubtedly would mean war between Great Britain and Vichy.” Britain had promised to support De Gaulle, the white paper snld,\ fleets come into conflict Laval‘ would have charged British aggres- sion. e 4.2 S STARLINER JUNEAU HAS 21 PASSENGERS IN FROM WESTWARD Alaska Airlines' Starliner Juneau flew 21 incoming passengers to Juneau and carried 22 people out yes- terday. Incoming passengers from Anchor- age were: Amy Marek, Rose Hal- vorson, Robert Lee, Dr. C. F. Sarle, Charles Commack, Aida McCalester, Euginio Pascut, W. P. McCreight, Raymond Puitte, Emil Phiel, Kitty, Nielson, Irving Knapp, Commander Wolfe, James L. Bue, Joseph L. James, Tony Terro, Oscar Erickson, L. E. Woods and Willard Gaynor. From Yakutat: Ernest L. Sunnell and John Harry. Outgoing passengers to Anchorage were: Mrs. A; M. Ross, James Ross, June Young, Estelle Casler, Harry J. Hill, Violet Eidsmoe, Kenneth E. Smith, Rita Harper, Barbara Van Hagle, Mrs. Betty Snooks, Bobby 8nooks, Albert Kangas, James Wil- son, C. A. Barnett, Juanita Bar- nett, Basil St. Clair, Grace St. Clair and John Rankin. . To Cordova: Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Brindle, Clarence Payne and John Dawson. 12 Oz. Premafure Baby Reporfed in "6ood Condifion" BOSTON, Aug. 2—The “general| condition” of a perfectly formed baby bern five and one-half months; prematurely and weighing but 12 ounces was reported “very good” to- day by attendants at the Children’s Hospital. The child was born to Mrs. Fran- ces Perry at Chelsa Memorial Hos-| pital last Monday night and was rushed to the Children’s Hospital and placed in an incubator. ! ————————— It is believed that the card game of bridge originated in Greece, ¢gurt announced today. PABIS, Aug.. 2—Gen, Berpard Serigny testified at the treason trial of Marshal Petain today that Hmer| 1941 demanded that Generalissimo Franco allow Germany to send troops through Spain to attack Gibraltar. The General, who described him- self s an intimate friend of the Marshal, said Franco had disclosed the demand to Petain along with the information that he had refused. | Petain, himsel{, was uneasy about Spain, the witness testified, but he| quoted the MarShal as saying: “Franco can count on me in re-| sisting the Germans' demand forl‘ permission to cross Spain.” i As the trial started its tenth day,' defense council read a cable sign- ed by John Alexander Schaeffer, Director of the National Republi- can Vigilance Committee, New York,' which said: “American veterans who had the, honor of serving in France under‘ Gen. Pershing and who have admir- ed you through the years as a sol- dier and .patriot salute you in this grave hour. With abiding affection and confidence, we condemn your trial as unrepresentative of the great French people and pray that the conscience of France will compel termination of the proceedings.” There still was no announcement when Pierre Laval, Chief of Govern-| ment in Petain's Vichy government, would be called from Fresnes prison to testify. Long Trip Is Made InHome-made Kyak GRAND COULEE, Aug. 2.—Clif- ford Koester, Bureau of Reclamation electrician, has completed a 32!-‘ mile trip in a home-made kyak from Revelstoke, B. C., to Grand Coluee. Koester, who had been paddling eight days and supplementing his food rations with trout caught along/ the way, was greeted by his wife, who asked, “Is that you under all those whiskers?” Y COLISEUM v TONIGHT and FRIDAY PRESTON FOSTER VICTOR McLAGLEN "lloge_rh_Touhy —Gangster” Extras=-= “FURY IN THE PACIFIC” NEW U. 8. 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