The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 30, 1945, Page 3

. » » THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1945 JUNEAU'S USO NEWS | Interesting ltems for Everybody THURSDAY, Aug. 30—9:30 p. m,, Dance in USO to music by Service- men’s Band. * FRIDAY, Aug. 31—6:45 Enter- tainment Committee supper in USO. 7:30 p. m, Presentation by USO Commandos of “The First Mar- garet.” 8 p. m, Meeting of Com- mittee of Management. 8 p. m, Portrait drawing by Mary and Jean Shaw. 9:45 p. m., Special games party in USO. 10:30 p. m. August birthday party and entertainment, followed by juke box dance in USO. * x x SATURDAY, Sept. 1—10 p. m, Juke box dance in USO. SUNDAY, Sept. 2 — Sightseeing trips to Mendenhall Glacier and other points of interest throughout the afternoon. 10 a. m. Boat trip to Taku Glacier. 1:30 p. m., Hiking party leaves USO. 5:45 p. m, Coffee hour, with cake. Dorianne Barnes at the piano. 10 p. m, Moving pictures of Alaska. * % * MONDAY, Sept. 3—7 p. m, Meeting of Servicemen's Council. 9 p. m., Street dance in front of USO. Public invited. ® x % TUESDAY, Sept. 4—7:30 p. m, Broadeast of quiz Contest from USO. 9:45 p. m., Customary Tues- day night games. * WEDNESDAY, Sept. 5—T7:30 p. m.,, GSO Council meeting. 7:30 p. m., Movies in USO. 9:30 p. m, Square dancing in USQ STREET DANCE All servicemen and all civilians are invited to the street dance to be given Monday night, Sept. 3, in front of the USO. ol Further details will be announced later this week in the Empire. In the meantime, we hope everyone will make a note of the time and place of the party and will plan to attend. JEANNE IS BACK When she said goodby almost exactly two years ago, she re- marked: “I may be seeing you TONIGHT - EVANGELIST CHARLESE. BLAIR Will Deliver the Following Message— ‘Death Ratiles in the Throat of aDyingAge’ 8 P. M. at the Bethel Tabernacle 4th and Franklin Sts. RALPH E. BAKER, Pastor again within a couple of months.” We certainly hoped she was right. We were very reluctant to see her go at all, for Jeanne Winther had proved herself one of the club’s most useful Girls’ Service .Organ- ization members. She had proved this in a variety of ways. During that first summer of the USO's existence we repeat- edly had occasion to make special mention of her helpfulness in vari- ous activities. And in several re- cent columns in which we've remi- nisced about that summer of 1943 you'll probably recall that her name has appeared prominently. | You all have read that article in the Alaska Life Magazine giving 'the USO a generous share of the credit for Juneau's reputation among servicemen, as “The City with a Heart.” Jeanne Winther did much more than her share in help- ing to establish that reputation. And now, at last, after two yea she has returned to Juneau. Our | USO earnestly hopes she will de- !cide to stay. MANFRED, NORTH DAKOTA We promised that every once in a while we'd bring you a report on the statistics recorded in our State Registry. This is the book at the USO in which we ask all the ser- vicemen to record their names, home-towns and hobbies. | On several occasions in the past we've listed some interesting stat- istics taken from a review of the whole registry. And every six months or so we've tried to bring you up to date as to which state |then had the most registrants, which was the currently favorite hobby, etc. | | It was in March that we told you the three cities represented by the largest number of native sons signing our book were Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles. Today we bring you a report of a rival for this honor. Perhaps you never, up ,to now, had even heard of this | place,—the town of Manfred, N. D. We'll confess that until a couple of months ago, neither had we! According to one of the fellows (from there it has a total popula- tion of 400, or perhaps less. And yet, within the past several months, no less than three of its sons in the armed forces have found their way to our USO,—and they were men from three different outfits, at that. We have no exact idea, of course, as to just how many would be the yeek's broadeast was dedicated to her. That contest, like a number of the others, included a series of as our club is concerned. She the USO on The most pic- far has played here at dozens of occasions, turesque of these occasions were|tunes played for identification. To- two of the latest. day we repeat what we said, in For several hours on Sunday|part, on Tuesday as a tribute to night and about as long on Mon-|Jane: We always will identify her on the ums by a Navy lad,!personal favorites among the songs. Hilton M. “Frank” Franklin, colored Its chorus begins, where friendship sitive, swift-moving pair of hands to look at, delightful to know—."” and a very winning smile. As - two, it was even more intriguing | DoUGLAS to watch them,—for Frank's ship-| mates off a big Navy cargo ship NEWS they crowded around during the| performance, literally beaming their et Py At one moment we counted no| A special meeting of the Douglas fewer than 21 of them sitting or|City Council was called last even- parrow platform. Not infrequently,| Poor and Lee E. Swift to purchase as you probably know, Navy men(F‘m‘ Ktreet property now owned clubs (perhaps their « feeling is, Purpose of clearing and developing understandable, too, if you knew | the property into a residential dis- particular Navy fellows quite ob- | Purchase price for the property, viously liked the Juneau USO in plus the assurance that machinery rianne Barnes in particular |immediately in clearing and level- R B A ting the ground; that buildings of 2 & ‘F‘nm‘x,‘;”" 1| high class construction especially qppx'npri-;lt‘o L “|put under way and that the street tion here a girl from Dallas, Texas, | TORing the property would be _ After studying the proposal, the i THUACL Mayetay TR B mayor and council decided it could astically helpful to the club in a ously so in connection with our| i MEUTEIIRS SIS Loy % |tending sewer r s Wednesday night square dances § NEWSD and, weier -liutw, cial position to accomplish at the ful picnic out at Auk Bay. | present time. (but of |]u~_male val_’ie!y_this time) | the water and sewer line costs another rating mention is the man appraised at the earliest possible day she played for us, accompanied | with the opening line of one of our boy from New Orleans with a sen- | with Jane English begins: “Lovely pleasant as it was to hear those were mighty proud of him, and approval. SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Jounging around the piano on that|ing to discuss a proposal by Val are a bit skeptical about Uso;"-\ the City of Douglas, for the all the facts). In any event, those|trict. The proposal offered a cash general and their new friend, Do-|Would be put onto the property well-liked GSO ! WL I also to men- | Joy Roberts. Recently elected to| " oched and improved. number of matters, most u.)nspk:u-‘“Ut be._acoepted as stated . becatise and last Saturday night's success- Whiclr the olty is not in & finan- And speaking of council members| However, they agreed to have who is the most recently elected date so that the ctiy’s obligations representative of the servicemen. could be known. The proposal He is popular Ralph E. “Randy”|asked for ten 100-foot frontage Randall, Coast Guardsman from jots, which would mean 10 new Wapato, Wash. homes on adjoining property, The USO staff is happy in know- ; tending from the Schlegel resi- ing that hereafter it can count on|dence east for 1,000 feet. the helpful advice of this old, e friend (we've been acquainted with | Randy for nearly two years) in Most local cannery workers and continually trying to make the club y!lShermen are now in town after a more attractive place for all the COMmPpleting cannery operations in servicemen. | nearby canneries. But our USO has more Service-| Mr: and Mrs. David Hotch, Paul men’s Council members than just|J°SePh, Paul Kinch, Mary Mar- one who are popular Coast Guards-:Shnll' Mary Willis and Sam' Jack- men from the State of Washington, ;S°R are among those now back at The second of the two of them alsu;'helr homes. rates mention by us today. He is| E > Alfred L. “Al” Buchanan, of Leav-! SNYDERS ARRIVE enworth, whose picture from a| Mr. and Mrs. Francis Snyder copy of the Wenatchee Daily wOfld\amved on the North Sea 1rom has been decorating the club’s bul- FFrince Rupert, where Mr. Snyder letin board. Under the caption,|Das, been stationed mn connection “Buchanan War Front From Al-|¥ith Army Transport Service.| aska to So. Pacific’ appear the Former Douglas resu‘iem.s. they now‘ four handsome brothers who have|Plan to make their home nere. been serving in this war (another| M- Snyder is a_brother of Mrs. | was in the Navy some 10 yca.rs;h‘ E. Goetz of Douglas. | ago). Naturally, the picture has at- | e | tracted a lot of attention from Al's| ex- CANNERY WORKERS IN. TOWN total number of men entering the service from a town of this size. But surely it can't be very large. And so today we place at the top of the list of our club’s regis- |trants, ahead of Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, and the rest (per- | centage-wise, at least), the town ‘01 Manfred, in the State of North | Dakota. | And if this item should happen to find its way back to that com- munity, we want Manfred to know |that we salute it for this fact and also for the fact that it has bgen represented at the Juneau USO l‘Club by three young men who you again, very much, A. B.) {made such a fine impression on us And now, with only a little more : as was true of Soldiers Oliver Fro- space alloted to us today, we come nig and Marvin Solberg, and Or-'to another must on the list: We dean B. Gladheim, of the U. S. mention her name as the final one many friends here. The mention of friendship fur-| nishes us with an ideal spot for the introduction of the name of a man living in Juneau whom it has been a privilege for a great many servicemen to meet. The presence of well-liked A. B. Cain has been | a regular feature of our square dances on Wednesday nights for, two and a half years. And just last Sunday night he gave a lot of| added pledsure to a large crowd of | GI's and civilians in the clubhouse when he presented his excellent colored movies of Alaska. (Thank | Navy. | on today’s list, and perhaps for the ABOUT SOME |last time in some months—be- FRIENDS OF OURS | cause in a few days Jane English “The time has come, the Walrus will be saying goodby to us when said, to talk of many things'. . she leaves for the States to enter As for us, that time is long over- college at Marylrurst in Oregon. due. Many things, also many per-‘Richly blessed with beauty and sons, have rated mention here in'charm, Jane’s presence has for two this column for quite some time. years made this clubhouse of ours | So let’s talk about at least a few a much more attractive place than of them (as many as space will it ever could have been without permit) right now: her. First on the list is Dorianne| Since becoming the USO hostess Barnes, once of Wrangell, now of on ‘Tuesday nights she has appeared Juneau. A gifted pianist, she is a on most of its Quiz Contest pro- generous and friendly person, too— grams, sometimes as scorekeeper, and that's a fine combination so sometimes as a contestant. This VICTORY CAFE Now Open In Its New Location at - 460 SOUTH FRANKLIN STREET We al?o serve Iry appoiniment Full Course GRIENTAL DINNERS For Clean, Wholesome Home-like Meals Drop in at "THE VI Specializingin CHINESE FOOD.. . and HOME MADE PASTRY HICKEN and STEAKS FRIED CTORY CAFE A ROGERS—Proprietriess ANDRE SAINT-MARIE HERE Andre Saint-Marie, of Los An- geles, Calif,, is a guest at the Gas- tineau Hotel. e — st About 125,000 farms were con- | nected in line with the rural elec-! trification program in 1944. WIND Height of Waves Station Weather Temp. Dir.and Vel. (Sea Condition) | Cape Decision Cloudy 51 NW 16 2 feet | | Cape Spencer Pt. Cloudy [0 ENE 17 1 foot | | Eldred Rock ‘ Cloudy 50 NE 8 1foot | Five Finger Light Cloudy 54 Calm Smooth t Guard Island Pt. Cloudy, 57 Calm 1 foot | | Lincoln Rock Pt. Cloudy 50 NNW 5 Smooth . Point Retreat Pt. Cloudy 55 N 9 Smooth NOMER ~NEW LOW FARES-- JUNEAU to ANCHORAGE . JUNEAU 1o NOME . . . . | - JUNEAU 1o BETHEL . . . JUNEAU to McGRATH . . Corresponding Reductions to All Intermediate Points ALSO REDUCED EXPRESS RATES BETWEEN ALL POINTS Federal Transportation Tax Not Included DC-3 EQUIPMENT ALASKA A PHONE 667 FAIRBANKS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA U.SFLAGIS UNFURLED, sugi. Japan He as was the greatest transport of the Pacific got under- the | fulfill his pledge to return to Manila. Steel helmeted Maj M. Swing led his Eleventh Division Paratroopers from Okinawa to At- touch Gen e first to mass air 7,500 Paratroopers Land Nlp lAND bk | An unending | transports, each Atsugi Airfield, Yokosuka Naval Base Taken Over by Yanks (Continued from Page One) | | | | | suka. This was the first step to- ward a juncture between the sea and airborne forces whose original landings were made 18 miles apart on either side of Miura Peninsula. Forces Are Covered Both air and sea forces were covered in typical battle fashion by the ready, but silent, guns of ! an Allied war fleet anchored in Forces, and Lt. Gen. Ennis C Tokyo Bay and swarms of planes| ynpitenead, Commander of the ranging from fighters to Super- wirth Air Force. forts. b FE T Today’s initial occupation by 18,- 150 armed Americans and British will be followed by major occupa- tion forces—the Sixth and Eighth Armies, which helped MacArthur The his Other ranking officers flying into included Lt. L. Eichelberger, whose Eighth Army will occupy the Tokyo area; Spaatz, Commander of the U Army Strategic Air Forces, whose Superforts helped bring the Mikado to his knees; Gen. George C. Ken- ney, Commanding the Far East Atsugi Frostbite is a form of mortifica- tion due to the action of cold in cutting off the blood supply from the stream carrying 40-man | loads, landed on the 5,600-foot run- way at three minute intervals with clock-like regularity, disgorging 7,- 500 Paratroopers, garbed in battle green and fully armed. of MacArthur's Staff five-star inevitable dark glasses smoking a long-stemmed pipe, was accompanied by his Chief of Staff, Lt. general, Gen. Richard K. Sutherland. fingers, toes, Gen Gen S n and ears. U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU JUNEAU, ALASKA WEATHER Biil, LETIN DATA FOR *4 fIOURS ENDED AT 4:30 A. M,, 12TH MERIDIAN TIME *—(4:30 a.m. yesterday to 4:30 a.m. today) MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN Reports trom Marine Stations at 10:30 A. M. Today MARINE FORECAST FOR SOUTHEAST ALASKA: winds, mostly northerly 10 to 25 miles per hour. Partly cloudy. ‘ Max. temp. | TODAY last i Lowest 4:30 a.m. 24 hrs. Station 24 hrs.* | temy. temp. Precip. 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