The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 11, 1945, Page 2

- BIGSECRET THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1945 ' N\ % Two Cozy, Handsome v § : NS Leisure Slippers . Tithn . .. . Dressy satin slip-on, soft { sole, Cuban heel. In black, | ' aqua and dubonnet, zes | 4. to 9, AA and B widths. | . 495 1 : Joli; .. o In shocking pink and royal blue wool felt, satin trim Leather sole, real comfy low heel. Sizes 412 to 9, AA and B widths. A OF PACIFIC WAR TOLD /{fleutian Based Task Force Was Small But Tied Up Japanese (Continued from Page One) hour trip back to their Aleutian bases. All the Kurile missions were car- ried out without fighter support and in the face of enemy fighter attacks and heavy and accurate anti-air- cxadt fire. durmg the two years’ operations against the Kuriles, casualties due | to/enemy aircraft and ground fire: were compaartively low, principally | bégause many crippled ships—unable | to.return,the long distances to the Alputians—found havens in neutral Ruyssian Kamchatka. It is only a| féw miles across the first Kurilg Strait from Shimushi Island. | It is now revealed that 33 bombers | and their crews were saved by this| means. Water landings in the North | Pacific means death by exposure, in | a short time—sometimes within 20| minutes. In addition to harassing the cn- emy treops in the Kurile garrisons, | pounding their huge Kataoka Naval | Base on Shimushu, ahd tieing up cohsiderable of their air force, the Aleutian Air Task Force eontinually bombed and straffed shipping and the Kurile fish canneries and fish- erfes—one of the principal sources 5.95 I QUALITY SINCE /887 Dame Naiure . Engineer . . . in Evidence! A perfect natural arch—of scin- tillating beauty—spanning Nugget Creek adjacent to Mendenhall Gla- cier has been' reported by recent visitors to the local tourist mecca. The breath-taking ice arch, esti- ted at 125 feev overall length and 25 teet high by Forest Service Re- gional Engineer A. E. Glover, is a natural phenomenon - surpassing anything that can be recalled in years, viewers report Just how long the span will stand under the present heavy rainfall is entirely a matter of conjecture, but photo fans are advised that a re- markable opportunity is theirs. T ZAT IR i iy GOVERNOR SEEKING KAVAL DISCHARGES Eeeking equal treatment for Navy men stationed in Alaska to that now accorded Army ‘and Coast Guard personnel, Gov. Ernest Gruening an- nounced today that he has dispatch- ed the following wire to Rear Admir- al Ralph Wood, Commandant of the Seventeenth Naval District, Adak: “A considerable number of men in the Navy now stationed in Alaska, who enlisted outside and desire to settle here, desire to be discharged bere, both for the purpose of get- ting a prompt start in civilian life and avoiding the cost of transporta- tion back to their original places of enlistment to Alaska. Under present practices, I am informed, the Navy CONGRESS i SPLITON | I STATEHOOD Representatives Have Dif-| fering Opinions on Alaska (Continued from Page One) population of 42491 in 1870. Idaho, admitted in 1890, was credited by the 1880 census with 88,548 people. Montana, admitted in 1889, was given ounly 39,159 population by i the 1880 ce: but had climbed to 142,924 10 y rs later. Washing- ton State, also admitted in 1889, had only 75,116 population in the 1880 census but was credited with 357,232 10 years later. Wyoming's population, the year of her admis- sion, 1890, was 62,555. Alaska had 72,524 as of 1940. The people of Alaska are going to vote next year on whether they want statehood; the Hawaiians al- ready have said they do. oo GUS GEORGE NOW HAS DISCHARG It's Gus George, ex-corporal, Army of the United States, now. | That member of the Juneau mer- AtomicPower fo Blast Wider Channel, Inland Passage, Recommended ™ BANFIELD BACK AT LEGAL DESK HERE, EX-ARM M/Sgt. Norman C. Banfield, ACS, is no longer with the Alaska Com- munications System-—and glad of it. He is once again Norman C. Banfield, attorney at law, Juneau —and glad of that, too. Sgt. Banfield was honorably disy charged from the Army of the United States at Fort Lewis, Wash., Separation Center last Sunday. He lost no time getting back to Juneau. Once again in civilian clothes after three and one-half years in the Army, he was today back at| his old desk here in the law offices of Faulkner and Banfield, renew- ing his acquaintance with deeds, statutes, writs, etc. Banfield was stationed here for two months immediately following his enlist- ment, and then spent two years at Anchorage before being transferred to Seattle, where he has served the past year and a half Here. ex-Set 1d civilian clothing and his former room still awaiting him, and moved right back into both of them. His| clothes still fit. His residence is in the home cf Mrs. J. Simpson Mac- Kinnon. Before boarding a north-bound plane following his discharge, At- torney Banfield celebrated the oc- casion with another Juneau man now stationed at Seattle with the| ACS, Bob Duckworth. Duckworth also is expecting his discharge from the Army—in about six weeks—Mr. Banfield reported. - B. & P. W. Club ~ Announces Many New Activities The annual dance sponsored by the Business and Professional Women's Club on the Saturday preceding Hallowe’en will be held this year on Oct. 27, in the Elks Hall, and will be a United Nations party and dance, it was decided at the club meeting last night, held at the home of Mrs. Walter Stutte. Mrs. Lillian Uggen will be general !chairman in charge of the dance. Also. at this time plans for the Chinese Exhibit and Tea to be held on “China Friendship Day,” Oct. 10 at the Scottish Rite Temple, and sponsored jointly by the Ju- neau Woman's Club and the B. and P. W. Club, were disclosed. Adoption of the recommended by-laws of the state federation was accepted and the local by-laws will be revised to concur, and club dues will be raised to meet the national and state dues. Mrs. Francis Paul was elected secretary to fill out the unexpired Baniield found his;| |does not permit them to be dis- chant family has completed his Army term of Eleanor Warren, who had charged in Alaska. service in the Aleutian area with an resigned, and the following ap- | “I respectfully urge that this Donorable discharge at Anchorage. pointments were made: Mrs. Helen {practice be changed. Both the His immediate plans call for a trip gtutte, legislative chairman; Mrs. |Army and Coast Guard in Alaska 0 the States, following which he yrma Nowell, Vocation and Edu- follow a practice of submitting the Will return to Juneau and his for- catjon chairman, and Mrs. Mae names of Army and Coast Guard Mer post in the operation of the ppoges, membership chairman. Ipersonnel who enlisted outside of G°orge Brothers super-market here.| once again the club will hold Alaska, and desire Alaska discharges, COrP- Gebrge was 42 months in the iy, meetings a month, instead of to the Governor's office, which Service. | only one. The business meeting will okays these discharges upon verifi- y cation that these men have employ- SOuth in about two weeks. They Will wegnesday of each month and the ment, or if not the Governor's Of- Visit Mr. George's father at LOS .i0) meeting will be held on the fice secks to find it for them. Angeles. They' expects to be in the gt Monday evening of the month. “I belicve that this is a useful States for three months. | The next meeting will be held Oct. and constructive move and I hope T A ond at the home of Mrs. Pearl you will give it your approval.” BOB leuIPS ms 15\;{;;:1 over the Triangle Inn. of enemy food production. ©On shipping “sweepe ' four-en- gined and two- od bombers went der. 50 feet and often sank small ships with machine gup fire after all bombs were ex- pehded . Both Navy and Army air units/| saw as much combat time ovrseas| as’any United States nerial unit. | “Fhe 404th Squadron w:« patrolling | the Bering Sea from the Nome sec- | tor when war was declared, and the | 77th was the first Army Air Forces | cafnbat unit to go overseas after the detlaration. The 77th was alerted | new members were ac- Monson-Burford | CULVER SCHOLARSHIP, |ii"is"s: 2hces diie ey - i for shipment tweo dayvs after Pearl| clude Mrs. Margaret Sunderland, Harbor. i Wedding Tonigm STANFORD UNIVERSIT | registered nurse; Mrs. Lucille Stine, In addition belhe the firstito | e beauty shop owner; Mrs. Dorothy bomb the Japauese homeland from | Bob Phillips, son of City Superin-| Manthey, newspaper reporter; Miss land bases, the 77th Squadron bad | _Miss Mabel Monson will become tendent of Schools A. B. Phillips, Mabel Morgan, nursing consultant, a tecord of many “firsts” Ithe bride of J. B. Burford this eve- has just been notified that he has Alaska Native Service; Miss Hazel it was the squadron, operating | DiPg at 7:30 o'clock in the Resurrec- heen awarded the George E. Culver,' Forde, Alaska Public Welfare; Mrs. He and Mrs. George plan t0 g0 e g nost luncheon on the third | . force. | frgm secret Aleutian bases, which |00 Lutheran Church, the Rev. G. Jr, Scholarship at Stanford Univer- Irma Geyer, receptionist; located and surprised and helped‘H' Hillerman officiating. After the sity. | tulh back the Japanese carrier task | fc¥ee attacking Dutch Harbor, Al- aska, on June 3 and 4, 1942, Jaking off from stezl matting run- ways in Marauders, with improvised ragks that gave the torpedoes only ! ;m inches clearance, the squadron | at least one heavy cruiser and | damaged others of the enemy task Fhe squadron carried out 90 bomb- | ing" missions against Japanese in- | staflations, but its principal duty | was sweeps against shipping. Dur- | ing the two years its medium bomb- | ers sank 21 enemy cargo vessels,| transports and warships; probably sank seven more, and damaged 30. | In so doing, the 77th virtually was wiped out four times, as, during | the two years, the squadron lost 49 bombers 13 going to Kamchatka. A medium bomber squadron opera- | tional strength usually is 12 bombers. ¢ > . SCHROEDER IN JUNEAU Leo Schroeder, Port Angeles,| Wash., is a guest at the Gastineau, ceremony a reception will be held from 8:30 to 10:30 o'clock in the |Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. eligible the recipient must All friends of the couple are invited to attend. - SEATTLE CHAMBER COMMERCF | TURNS DEAF EAR TO VIEWS OF ANCHORAGE NEWSPAPERMAN (Continued jrom Page One) Joy greater business with Alaska made no impression. Thomas had no answer to my contention that an Oriental air route other point, thus leaving all of Alaska entirely out of the picture. While tomorrow’s mesting remains closed to Alaska, Thomas said I would be permitted to attend. He also granted me 10 minutes to give the Alaska point of view at Friday's | Seattle Chamber meeting MRS. SLOAN HERE Mrs. Faye E. Sloan, of Anchor: from Seattle | would touch Adak or Kiska but no| This scholarship is awarded for scholastic achievements, and to be, have | maintained an average of grades tover B, and be among the top 10 |students in his class. Bob was awarded a scholarship |also during his first year as a medi- |cal student at Stamford University. |He plans to leave on the Princess |Louise to return to school for his third year in medical college. o - 'PATRICK J. LYNCH DIES IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, Sept. 11 Patrick | Joseph Lynch, 60, who founded the Lynch Brothers Diamond Drill Corp.,, which helped in the con- struction of many Pacific North- | west dams, died late yesterday at | his home here. He founded the company 34 years Mrs. Fern Eaton, photographer, and Mrs. Mabel Rundull, fiscal clerk, Alaska Native Service. R DIVORCES FILED Two more actions in divorce have been filed here with the Clerk of the U. S. District Court. Charging cruelty, Violet M. Stephenson asks a divorce from Vern Stephenson, now at Trona, Calif, in an action in which there is dispute on neither minor children nor property. Dora McGilton, of Petersburg, in seeking to divorce Frederick Alex- ander McGilton on allegation of incompatability, asks continued care and oustody of two minor children, $100 per month support payments, and attorney fees. sl W S s 3 OMINATO, Japan, Sept. 11.—Lt. ©pl. James P. Devereux, heroic Ma- rine commander on Wake Island, is alive and in charge of one of the prisoner of war camps in the Bibai ago at Juneau, Alaska, where he ps a guest at the Gastineau Hotel’here the past 27 years, area of Hokkaido Island, five prison-, here today. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 11—The Pacific Northwest Trade Associa- tion has recommended that scien- | tists study possible use of atomic | | power to blast a wider through the inland sea passage to Alaska. | Businessmen of Washington and 'ALASKA AIRLINES COULD SERVE AIR ROUTE T0 STATES eodore Law Says Com-. ccmp to m tween Anchorage and Seattle, with JUNEAUITE WANIS Constance Elder . ROCK FILL, HOME Frank Stimac Are. SEATTLE, Sept. 11 — One ik Wedded I_ast Nigh1 application for War Department permits to undertake construction Miss Constance Elder, of Salem, Mass., and Frank Stimac, USCG, of projects in the navigable waters of Alaska has been received by the : g H I o o e Nokomis, Tll, were united in mar- g pany Has Equipment | Seattie Distiet v 5. Army Bn- | igpe sy evening by the Revg H ol hurch * L ‘Or SETVI(e NOW | Mrs. Henry Seaberg, Juneau, has ow[“:h R‘;{b;" 'Iv'::;?i‘t)v H;E: t:zo]?al “» applied for permission to make a Mie 3 y SHEch: ]'l” X > N Taw, president of 100K, fill and construct a dweling | ey it BN IO G onyt Theodote . Lo, Ry thas his OO It in 'Gastinesu Ohannel, at| .o bl SRS channel A A enough equipment now Harbor Way and Irwin Street,| o young ouple are making Taintain a daily air schedule be- Juneau. Objections from the stand- |y op pome™ i Jyneau) far the ) ; point of navigation must be sub- mitted to the District Engineer by | Preent: B | Oregon explained’ Canadian': and 5tops’at Juneau and Ketohikan. od Sept. 25. e American engineers have been! He sald the service PRV CH G b MRS. WESTER HONORED workifig 16r o' yEats fdr-a wa¥: 4 Fould be o e il thes Ta the GETS 60 DAYS Mrs. John McLaughlin enter- improve a channel past Ripple 1){«*1\""»]:'»‘ “‘I-‘)g_; pl‘“"“\ e LT tained -friends at her home with | {Rock in the treacherous Seymour S'41* "_\(d aloft and with stew.| Flizabeih Rusk, native, who had|an informal tea yesterday after-* “ | Narrows. Rerilns pleaded guilty to a disorderly con-|hoon in, honor of Mrs. Wilur 5 | The proposal was among other, e route to Seattle to at- duct. charge, late esterday was| Wester, ~of Anthorage, for ' "u\r(‘nm ndations for development mf,{ the s meeting of Pacific Sentenced to.serve 60 da in the |Juneau resident, who is 3 5 lof Pacific Northwest shipping, in- \o6 0000 1o velative to making federal jail here, by U. S. Com- | here. M | dustries and tourist trade Bedttle the ms ir gateway to the missioner Felix' Gray. A grand | Ui Frank McCaslin, Portland Cham-'cg o larceny count that had been filed NORTHLAND COMING ber of Commerce President, told the | ~n " ¢jvi Aeronautics Board re- 8gainst her was dismissed. The Motorship Northland, from meeting the forecasts by eastern’ ..o recommended that Alaska . ele: Seattle, is scheduled to arrive to- economists of post-war hard times .. i0c pe granted a permit to VAL HAGGERTY DIES ,morrow night or Thursday morning. o [for the West Coast would Prove ...y passengers between Anchor-| Val Haggerty, former wellknown| The Steamer Aleutian, from the [“]Lw\ : and Seattle and- also ”'",‘ the A-J employee, | away in Spo- Westward, south bound, is sched- M S. 8. McKeen, Vancouver, B. st Airlines be given an inter- kane, Wash., on Sept. 2, according 'uled to arrive early tomorrow association president, said larger jo. route to the Orient to advices received he ~ evening - ol lcustoms inspection staffs a Law said that records for the la = VR B ST R £ needed in northwest ports to speed {wo months show that Alaska Air- . flow of goods across the Canadian jines has carried a total of 385-g1 — border. He also advocated MOTe passengers from Anchorage to ships assigned to the area to speed ' Juneau, bound for Seattle. e to the Orient. H. O. Mit- ing the last four months the ell, manager of the Seattle company has completed 100 per cent Chamber of Commerce Foreien of between' Anchorage " | Trade Department, urged intensifi- and Jur and Anch and { | cation of export trade efforts by Nome. i y e I northwest b : During July and August the com- i Conferénce resolutions included: pany carried 735 passengers from i “F | 1—Speedy construction of un- Anchcrage to Juneau out of a total | finished portions of the Alaskan of g44 seats available, and 87 per | . Highway west of the Rocky Moun- cent load factor. In the s tains between the. Prince Geo icd 500 carried from Juneau STEN“ | Highway and the Alcan High to Anchorage, a 58 per cent load b AP“ERS | in the Whitehorse area. factor. 2—Post-war utilization of govern- :: i ment-owned aluminum plants. ( . POSITIONS OPEN q1 91 3—A study of effccts of the Na- W d. C. S' SeW[ng ticnal Jones Act, restricting ope z i I i p tion of vessels of foreign registry c I M 1 NOW : in Pacitic Coast ports irce Meering . 4 4—Advocation of prompt return Liud of vessets snipwing 1o pevate op- Wed. Afternoon ifi erators to speed - restoration of ,( j import and export trade. The W. S. C. S. Sewing Circle of ) - - the Methodist Church will meet to- merrow afternoon at 2 ook ut Starting Salary | ‘Norah o“ the home of Mrs. George Martin, s «» 1019 West Tenth Strect. The top of discussion will be $200 Pel' M(Dllt]l [ ’ Last Trip The Princess Norah, making her last trip until next winter, arrived at the Alaska Steamship dock at from Als 6 o'clock this morning with the following passengers from Skag- way: Mrs. W. H. Barkington, Ed. Haught, S. R. Casselman, Mr. Passers, Mr. Levy, Mr. Gross, Fred Storey, D. Hukill, Mrs. Hukill, Mrs. E. Lohr, Lyle Lohr, Mrs. K. Ales ander and the Rev. G. Gallant. Sailing at 9 a. m. for the south were the following: To Seattle Betty Seymour,' Harry Bjornson, Lorene Bjornson, George J. Bednau, Myrrel O. Bed- nau, Georgia Bednau, Jesse Bednau, Julia Bednau, Alex Holden, Lor- raine Holden, Dorothy B. Ullery, Daniel R. Ullery, Mrs. C. L. Rhode Molly Rhodes and H. G. Davids To Vancouver — Anna Grane Joseph Graner, S. Vukovich, Mary ! B. Hoke, Chas. M. Hood, John Natterstad, Eva Natterstad, Uleta | Kelly, John Natterstad and Kari Jean Natterstad. To Victoria—Sandy Holden, Sam | Feldon and Mrs. S. Feldon. | | To Ketchikan—A. R. Rothroc C. A. Jenkins, G. E. Jackson, Mr G. S. Lundgren, G. S. Lundgren, S. | Gaupseth, Ray Gonzales, Donald | Lorenz, Agnes Smurdon, Mrs. C. G. | Gross, C. G. Gross, Ensign Carl F.l | Guber, Harry Kennedy, Evangeline | Kennedy, S. Danielson and Roberta | M. Huff. | To Wrangell—Mrs. T. G. Thomas, Major T. G. Thomas, N. L. Smith, (Mrs. N. L. Smith, Ida Hammond fand Eli Tanner. | BONNIEKETHANN 10 ENTER W. 5. (. | Miss Yvonne (Bonnie) Keithahn, | daughter of Museum Curator and Mrs. E. L. Keithahn, left by plane | yesterday for Seattle, enroute to { Pullman, Wash,, where she will enter - Washington State College "us a freshman. She plans to major | in Home Economics and Art. For the past 15 months, since {her graduation from Juneau High School, Bonnie has been employed {in the Alaska Road Commission | office. - TOLLEFSON OUT ! Assistant United States Attorney | Robert L. Tollefson, acting head of the First Division District Attor- 'ney’s office, left here by plane | for Ketchikan this morning, to be gone several days. He will look into matters that have piled up for his attention at Ketchikan since the resignation of R. L. Jernberg as Assistant U. S. Attorney at the First City. - ... JESSIE WELCH ARRIVES Jessie E. Welch flew here yes- terday from Amchorage via Alaska ,[lived many years. He had lived|ers of war from the district reported Airlines, and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel, 4 Chapte "amily Loyalty,” bay d on Genesis, 43 and 44. - ARI MARINE MOVEMENTS APPLY TO ROOM 205 , EATTLE, Sept. 11 — Ship ar- rivals terday: Clarence King, ka; Sca Partridge, from ¥ Ulithi; Frank A. Munsey, from # niwetok; North Pac from Al- d ska; Morton E. McCary, from Ulithi, Departures: Northbound for Al- ol aska. Lamar, for Tinian; C. Wa- chakie, for Alaska. o wr - en - e ol o e Tum “For Generations— el A Great Kentucky Whiskey’ “f we | WOODLEY AIRWAYS City Ticke? Office: Baranof Hotel NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION, NEW YORK 5, N. Y. 86.8 PROOF . 51% KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY BOURBON WHISKEY — A BLEND 49% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS The Coast Line Route From the Capital City . . . . 1o Wesiward Alaska “Route of the Coastliners> PHONE 716 e e