The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 8, 1945, Page 5

« WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1945 YOU'LL LAUGH! SHOWPLALE or APITUL: wurea YOU'LL SHUDDER! || |one could wish. 'and for equally mysterious reasons,! | Allyn Joslyn, cartoonist whose hobby | | feature is the | true American FIRST NAII NEWS CARTOON Today’s the Day ON’T wait until after you have had a se- rious loss before you buy COMPLETE AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE A CRASH may cost you hundreds of dollars. It may happen today, or to- morrow, or any day! TO- DAY is the only safe day to get your insurance. Call Shattuek Ageney Seward Street Juneau Phone 249 SERVICE Christenson Bros. Garage 909 Twelfth St. HAIR STYLED |, by Experis WE SPECIALIZE m Cold Waving Permanents Styling Shaping Hours 9 A. M. to l‘l'. M. Baranof PHONE 659 MAJOR BONGWAS INSPIRATION T0 | COMBAT FLIERS MANILA, Aug. 8-—“The death of Rll‘h:u(l Bong is felt deeply by each r and man in the Far East Au Forces,” General Kenney, FEAF | commander, said today in a state-| ment issued from his headquarters| when informed the famed ace had! been killed in the explosion of a jet fighter plane in Southern Califor- | {nia. “Major Bong,” the General con-, |tinued, “was one of the greatest| tighter pilots of all time. He will| live in history as America’s ace of | aces. His courage and leadership' were an inspiration to every man, who has ever flown in combat.” I B aad McCARTNEY HERE | | | G. C. McCartney, of Toronto, | | Ontario, has arrived in Juneau ‘md, 'is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. | | D | | BARMEN IN JUNEAU L. L. Barmen, of Seattle, has ar- | | rived in Juneau and is a guest at| | the Baranof Hotel, | ———.———— i CATHERINE UHL HERE Catherine V. Uhl, of Wrangell, | is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. ’ - BUY WA BOND3 | THE DAILY ALAbKA E.MPIRE.— JU AU, ALASKA PAGE FIVE | CAPITOL SHOWS MYSTERY MOVIE THIS EVENING People who enjoy solving puzzles will have a good time tonight at the Capitol Theatre where the film “‘Strange Affair” opens for a tw day run. The plot is as complicated as :m\- It involves a mur- der, committed by mysterious means HIROSHIMA | DISASTROUS - SAYS TOKYO {One Explosnofi Destroys Four Square Miles of Big Town (Continued from Page One) in full view of a table full of gu(‘sls.‘ is crime detection, sets out to find| the solution and does so in spite of | his wife whose efforts to help lum almost result in his death. Screen play is by Oscar Saule, Eve Greene and Jerome Odlum, based cn an original story by Saul. Also showing as the companion success story of a tradition—"Rock2 feller Center—a “This is Americ: feature, story of a 12-story building city within a city. The high-flying camera planes Monday's attack and found only two small fires still burning. The remainder of the city appeared turned to ashes. American dfficers who studied the pictures was about the same as they would expect from a force of about 150 Superforts, each carrying seven tons of incendiary | bombs. Hiroshima, about the size of "Vh‘mplm Tenn.,, or San Antonio, | Texas, was tightly congested. This w ARSHIPS IN | prabably contributed to the degree | of destruction. One Plane In that one, swift, devastating strike, a B-29, piloted by Col. Paul | W. Tibbets, Jr, wrought as great | damage as normally is inflicted by a large force of the sky gian BOSTON, Aug. 8—Flying the Tibbets' Superfort, 10 miles from swastika under the Stars and Stripes,’ the scene and several miles high, two destroyers, the first German sur- f was rocked as if an anti-| face warships to come to this coun- ajrcraft shell had burst close by. try since the start of the war, were Although all crew members were anchored in Boston Harbor today. |wearing dark glasses, the “visual The vessels—the T39 and the T35 jmpact” of the explosives' great —Wwere manned by volunteer German flash was so tremendous that some ¢rews under American supervision. |cried “my God” in sheer amaze- The Navy yesterday declined t0 ment. Only three men on the reveal further information on the pomper had known of their secret ships’ sailing port, or why they were jicqion brought to this country. However, one Navy officer “guess- Navy Capt William Sterling ed” that the ships were brought)Parsons, who designed the bomb, Lere for “experimental purposes — and made nu- Hiroshima flight as| possibly by agreement with Russia “weaponeer,” said it was not con- | and Great Brimm % trollable like an ordinary bmnb but that he could give no det S'l’Rlp'I'E ASE GIRI. [the B-20 dropped the atomic bomb ‘we made as much distance from Capt. Parsons said that after Lht‘ ball of fire as we could. wANTS Io (HARM | “We were at least 10 miles a ! and TROOPS ABROAD |ored glasses for protection. “We stayed around two or three| there was a visual impact even though every man wore col-| PARIS, Aug. s_smme,,“r Mar- minutes and by that time the gie Hart said in a letter to the Stars smoke had risen to 40,000 feet. The {and Stripes today that the USO had town was entirely nbs( ured.” refused to let her come overseas to entertain troops although she volun- teered to read poetry in a Mother Hubbard dress. €he wrote that she had told USO |officials: “If it's sex you're worried about, relax. I've got other talents. I can sing. I can act. Strong Constitufion | TACOMA, Wa.sh.s’rhe 17-month- | no missing articles. The Sheriff,! 5) automobile use tax stamp, the/ { mother, Mrs. Alexis Orlenjak, told | the Internal Revenue department. | As the clerk was making out a| |old Orlenjak child ate the family's| him that the stamp hadn’t made the | baby nearly as uncomfortable as the’ swallow of turpentine he took whxle' her back was turned the day before, | Empire Want-ads bring results! | (¢ / v | (e @ for positi Territorial Depa Clerk-Typist ......... Clerk-Stenographer Senior Clerk Chief Clerk . Junior Accountant Accountant It is planned to hold be announced later. 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LOOP ' CROWNTO BRUINS' AP Picker Figures Tlgerl | Hold in Junior Loop t Is Slipping Fast | | \ | By Jack Hand (Associated Press Sports Writer) Chicago should tighten its hold on the National League lead and | Washington should pass Detroit in the American scramble during the intersectional series opening today, according to the past performance | charts, | Although the Cubs will be on the iroad and the Tigers will be home, the results of the first four East |vs., West tests reveal the Bruins' strength and the Bengals’ weak- iness against their rivals from the Atlantic Seaboard. y Charley Grimm’s front-runners, currently six games ahead of the| {defending champion St. Louis Cardinals, have trimmed the east- lern clubs 35 out of 54 | The Cubs move east for the last {time with a “Big Four” pitching | staff made possible by the addition of Hank Borowy. With Hank Wys {Paul Derringer and Claude Pa | seau ready to take their turn, | Grimm has Paul Erickson and Hy Vandenberg ready for “spot” duty. .| The Cubs open their eastern cam-| | paign with a doubleheader today |at Boston. St. Louis is hardly in a }xy.si(mn‘ to make a strong bid but with| time running out on the champs, Billy Southworth’s gang can't af- i ford to wait for their cripples to | return. Both Third Baseman/| !‘Whl(\ey Kurowski and Pitcher Ted | Wilks are back in St. Louis for jarm treatments as the Cards pre- | pare to open a New York | with a night game. Addition of chunky Art Rebel, a stoutish left-handed batter from | the Cardinal farm system who has llwen hitting at a 429 clip since moving up, has given the club added power but the pitching has | been spotty although improving. - ser h'\ | I ‘“r'. €. ARNOLD HERE FROM KETCHIKAN | w. C Anml(l manager for the | ICunnw Salmon Industry, Inc., ar- rived here from Ketchikan yester- \day evening on an Alaska Coastal | Airwaps plane. He plans to leave | for the Westward Saturday or, WARCRIMES TRIAL PLAN IS REACHED LONDON, Aug. 8—A master plan for the approaching major war crimes trials neared complation to- day with the disclosure that top- ranking Nazis, held as prisoner of war at Mondorf, Luxembourg, and elsewhere, their status as war be held without bail inals Supreme Court prisoners and as civil crim- Justice Robert Jackson, chief United States war crimes prosecutor, declined to di- vulge the identity of the Nazis to be removed from Luxembourg pend- ing their arrival in Nuerenberg. - ‘Urge U. S. Control Of Pacific Islands (aplured by Yanks| LOS AN(‘ELFS Aug. 8—Naval| base and airfield construction on conquered Pacific islands was recommended by a group of seven Congressmen following return ye from a month’s Pacific tour said they favored United; | States control of all Japanese man- zhuud islands taken by American forces. Rep. Ellis Patterson (D-Calif.); member of the House Fisheries Committee, said he opposes joint control with the British. > BURMA LOSSES OF JAPS HEAVY CALCUTTA, Aum 8.—Japanese losses in the month-long fighting in the Sittang River area of south- east Burma have reached more than 11,200, a Southeast Asia Command communique said today. The figure |included 74 taken pri .- CHIPPERFIELD ARRIVES W. A. Cluppvrm-m of Forters- burg, is a guest at the Hotel Ju- neau. > - MRS. SNOW HERE Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Snow, of Tulsa, Okla., are guests at the Baranof Hotel. MR., MM‘MWW This fine selection of Fresh Fruit and Vegelhhles is due to arrive on the hoat fonight.... Enjoy the Harvest of the West Coast Lettuce Cucumbers New Cabbage A D) Fresh Corn Green Peppers 2 Juneau Deliveries—10 A. M. nnd M’ Roat Orders Delivered Anytime! Green Onions Avocados Plums Tomatoes New Bunch Carrqis Celery Radishes Garlic Oranges Peaches Green Beans Cauliflower Honeydews will be moved soon to the| Nuerenberg jail, where they will lose | HARVESTMOON HELD OVER AT 20TH CENTURY Due to extra he y crowds the 20th Century Theatre has held over “Shine On Harvest Moon” for g extra showing tonight. Ann Sheri- jdan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson and Irene Manning are s ed in this tuneful musical comedy, based on the life of Nora Bayes, the vaude- ville headliner. ~Many songs are heard and lovely musical numbers presented. The finale, a Ziegfeld Follies number, is filmed in Techni- color, TEOMENTURY. HELD OVER!? _TONIGHT ONLY! “SHINE ON HARVEST MOON"’ with ANN SHERIDAN DENNIS MORGAN ACK CARSON IRENE MANNIN( It's the Year's Big Musical Hit! THURSDAY! 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