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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-17
MODERN ETIQUETTE By ROBERTA LEE

O. dismiss undesirable partner at dance
appearing rude?
BY merely asking him to take her to her friends
O. When reply invitation to house
party?
reply the that the invitation
S
When placing platter table how should the
carving be placed?
Place the fork at the left end the right
platter
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-17
LE0N0FF SERVICES
WILL BE SUNDAY
AFTERNOON AT I

Funeral IS ervic ets for Valentin
Leonoff, who died a week ago, will
be held tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock in the Chapel of the c. w.
Carter Mortuary under the direc-
ton of B.POE No 420 of which
he was a member.
Elks' ritualistic services will be
conducted both at the Chapel and
Evergreen Cemetery where inter
ment will take place, by Norman
Banfield Past Exalted Ruler of the
Elks Lodge. Music will be under
the direction of Ernest .Ehler.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-17
wARBURToN BURIED HERE

Capt. Stanley Jackson, of the
Salvation Army, conducted funeral
services for Ralph. E, Warburton, of
Tenakee, on Thursday afternoon at
the Chapel of the G. w. Carter
Mortuary. Interment was in the
pioneers plot of Evergreen Gem
etery.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-17
Hemp shortage May
Catch Him Up YET

DELAWARE, Okla, Jan. II =
Glee Smith is not worried about a
possible tire shortage.
He had one to contend with
back in the first Warld War and
found way to beat it.
Il just wrapped manila rope
around the rims of my auto wheels
and bumped along my way he ex-
planned.
IF worst comes to worst, I can
do the same thing again"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-17
improvements at Adds Ababa
New York Herald-Tribune)

New York Herald-Tribune)
Returning to Adds Ababa Emperor Halle Sc
AISLE has found many improvements the result o
Italian occupation.-News dispatch:
Adds Ababa has many new buildings,
Adds Ababa is neatly arranged;
There's an opera house with rich Florentine
gildings
There's a big marble bank where ones money
gets changed.
Adds Ababa is reached by broad highways
Even in Europe finer are found.
Adds Ababa has parks and green byways-
And also an diversified burial ground.
Adds Ababa has water by system;
Gone are the bitches, the runnes and rills.
Hot and cold faucets-youve only to twist EN-
Are fed by a reservoir up in the hills
Adds Ababa has built some new swim pools
Done in way that old Rome used to tile EN-.
Adds Ababa has black and white gym schools
And also a very large orphan asylum.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-17
HAPPY BIRTHDAY

JANUARY II
Merton Cass
Bonnie Klein
Doris Gridley
Frank Pacaton
Elizabeth Renning
JANUARY 10
Mrs. Harold Brown
Waunalee Suess
Mrs. E. Kirkpatrick
Velma Mcdaniel
Mary Joyce
Allan A. McMurcher
Patrick O'Flannigan
Daniel Wadsworth
F. T. Fitzpatrick
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-17
HOW T0LIvE
gI{gFor Less sV
CHILDRENS CLOTHES
AP5 Feature SerDice

Buy children's clothes for utility
rather than for style. Get service
able fabrics for wear and colors
to please their eyes. Instead of an
overcoat for a growing boy, con-
slider Whipcord or gabardine util-
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BROKEN LENSES

Are promptly replaced in our own
shop. DR.. Rae Lillian Carlson,
Blomgren Building. adv.
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Subscribe to the Daily Alaska
Empire-the paper with the largest
paid circulation.
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Manila's population included only few Ameri-
cans, but the city was American in appearance,
being crowded with automobiles streetcars movies,
billboards, neon lights, and merchandise from the
United States.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-17

With tire and automobile rationing ahead the
American people soon will learn whether walking is
as good an exercise as the physical cuturists claim.
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ciety to be held in the church par
lors on February 6.
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Subscribe to The Empire.
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Sinclair of Mr. and Mrs. David Brown of Treadw
returning passenger the Spokane attending
Portland Oregon
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Pulen CIV 50 of the Lightning Dodgers the star of the
night rolled average
200 for each game. His high 214.
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fair with moderate winds. Maximum
ure was 1874 and minimum 260.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Shut OF Engines
To Save Our Gas

There wasn't anything we
could do about il but keep going,
hoping we would run into some
thing. II finally got down 10
where we shut of two outside
engines 10 save our gas and
cruised along on the two inside
ones, and our last message out
was that we had an hours gas
left. approximately.
I'VE then started TO pound out
the SOS. Our radio operator
did that for one solid hour.
In the meantime we dropped
everything in the way OF mail,
tools and baggage and equip
ment that was loose in the ship,
and if you ever think that ma
terial things are worth anything,
ladies and gentlemen, have that
experience and you will find out
how useless they are no matter
how you may have cherished
them.
I'VE put our water and ra-
tions in the radio compartment;
the mattresses we put up against
the wall 10 cushion the shock,
and through expert plotting on
the part of Capt. William T..
Cherry, plus a lot of good luck,
we went into a trough and
landed up against the big swell.
We might have been so unfortu-
nate as to have hit the top of
the swell and we would have
pope On doWn
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Naval Hospital
just Completed

1T was decided TO take the
two of us off anC put us on the
PIT boat and then the plane fol-
lowed another PIT boat, which
came up in the meantime, into
the base because it was difficult
10 move Colonel Adamson and
he was very sick man, in addi-
ton.
They got into the base and
found out that Captain Cherry
had been picked up and we
heard that the other three boys
had landed on this unoccupied
island, that the navy was send
ing a doctor over 10 the island
and that they would be brought
in the following day,
Fortunately for us. the small
navy medical unit had Just fin
ished little eight or 10-cot
hospital undef the beautiful
palm trees. The moonlight and
palms made a picture that really
reminded me of the stories you
read about the south sea isles.
1t was a SShangri-La, if there
ever was one.
They worked day and night
on us. When | got in the PIT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
How They Saved
Water TO Drink

"The next day / had another
seagull land on my shoulder.
which caught, but didn't have
the heart to wiring his throat,
and | let him go.
That night we ran into our
first rainstorm. Usually you try
10 avoid a black squall, but in
this case we made il our bust
ness TO get into il.
I'VE had no experience in
catching water, but we used our
shirts. socks and handkerchiefs.
We would get them soaked up
and wring-I was the official
wringer in our boat-wring the
water into the bailing bucket,
little rubber bucket, and 1
would force il out of that and
force il into the compartments
in the Mae West life vests and
then we would ration it from
there on.
For the first few days we
were rationed on the basis of
two sips per man. That is about
one-half a jigger. And then we
were able to catch more water
and build il up.
During the storm Captain
Cherry's boat went upside down
and we lost all of our flares,
medical first aid kit. and other
things and didn't get them back.
The little boat broke away. They
padded after il and brought il
back and tied il up again and
we got through the storm.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Boys Are Constantly
Fighting OF Malaria

"1'he difficulties in and under
which our boys are operating in
the air make it serious from a
health angle, certain things that
cannot be overcome. 1t has 10
be done, il is war.
They are fighting malaria
very constantly, and in my opin-
ion if it wasn't for the fact that
they are having stimulus-suc-
ceSses in combat-they could
not possibly last physically or
mentally very long.
But due to the great stimulus
OF winning. the success they
have had, they are all happy and
anxious 10 keep going.
"One thing we need above
everything else is more and
more-after seeing these boys in
the air and on the ground, work
ing as they are "a hours the
clock around in the most unbe-
lievable living conditions, | have
come 10 the conclusion that if
you brought combat troop
back to America, if you could
overnight, and transfer them
and put them into the factories
and transfer the present war
workers out into their position.
you would have your production
doubled in 80 days time. l
mean that!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
SeaeulI Lands
On Kicks Head

After The oranges were gone
there showed UP a terrific lot of
pangs of hunger, and we prayed
for food.
we had couple of little fish
lines with hooks about the size
of the end of my little finger,
but no bait, and if ii wasn't for
the fact that 1 had seven wit
nesses. l wouldn't dare tell this
story because it seems so fan
taStic.
Within an hour after prayer
meeting a seaguH came in and
landed on my head, and you can
imagine my nervousness in try
ing TO turn around and get him,
which did. We wrung his head
and feathered him and carved
up his carcass. and distributed
and used his innards for bait.
Captain Cherry caught a
little mackerel about 6 or 8
inches long and ! caught a little
Speckled sea bass about the same
size, so we had food for a couple
of days.
I'VE divided them up equally
and there was no wastage-the
head, body, and bones were
delicious. Everybody got an
equal share.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Hopes I'll Be
Lesson for People

'They might not worry so
much about whether they had
their automobiles on week-ends
or whether they had TO walk or
ride the street car or subway,
because those of us on the home
front must remember that we
are 5000 10 5000 miles away
from all OF these hell holes OF
fire.
1T is difficult for a man 10
imagine what our boys are do
ing without seeing, but with all
the security and comforts OF
home we are enjoying ] hope
that they will resolve TO do even
better.
Il hope that the trip. what
hardships we had 10 accept or
endure might prove 10 be a les
son TO the people back home IN
the stimulus to drive them on
10 greater peak, because with
out their effort and the material
they are producing, our boys
can't do the job they are so
willing and anxious 10 do in the
four corners of the world y
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Anxious TO Get Out
Before Plane Sank

Colonel A son got
sprained back out of it; the
radio operator got badly
bumped nose. There were five
of us in the radio compartment
and when we hit we didn't skid
very far, as you can appreciate.
1T was rather sudden and
none too comfortable a shock
and portion of our radio, which
was on the wall in the tail end,
let 60 and came up and broke
down the door into the compart-
ment and that upset things, with
Colonel AdamSon's sprained back
and the fact that when the boat
on my side was kicked out the
raft got tangled in the ropes.
II can say frankly that all Of
us were so anxious TO get away
from the ship before she sank
we didn't pay much attention TO
our rations. We had no water
when we went off and we had
no food. We saved four oranges
and they were scrawny ones at
that, which we lived on for eight
days.
Il carved up those oranges
into eight pieces and rationed
them out, and If you ever had
seven hungry pairs of eyes
watching you carve, you prove
10 be pretty good carver, even
though you haven't got the ia
cllities-the parts were pretty
well balanced.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Gave Dying Boy
Benefit Of Warmth

"But on the night OF the
eleventh this boy that died was
getting very low and in spite Of
the fact that the temperature
was rs to so and the water was
warm, the waves were breaking
over us continually, and because
Of the combination of wind il
was like being doused with ice
water.
So 7 moved him over from
the little boat into our boat and
Cuddled him like a mother would
n child. trying TO give him the
benefit OF the warmth Of my
body and did for two nights,
particularly from midnight until
daybreak.
y 'FThe mist was deadly. The
night he died, in the evening, he
wanted 10 get back into the
little boat and we switched.
AT about 3 a. m. i heard his
final gasp. In spite of the fact
that / had taken men out Of
burning race cars and airplanes,
l have never had that experience
before and ] was afraid 10 make
any decision until daylight.
AT 6 a m we pulled together.
I examined him thoroughly and
pronounced him dead / asked
two Of the boys 10 double check
me, witness and verify my de-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Drenk Salt Water
During The Night

Unfortunately, the little boat,
The two-man boat, upset and
this boy we lost went overheard.
He swallowed some salt water
and was violently seasick for
several hours, which didn't con-
tribute 10 reducing his thirst
any. IL multiplied IL.
Several Of Us were feeling
none too good because il was
rough The hoy got 10 drinking
salt water during the night, I'M
beknOwn 10 US, and between salt
water poisoning and starvation,
We lost him on the night Of the
thirteenth
i had taken a piece Of rope
out OF the ship and we tied the
boats together about 20 feet
apart. We put Captain Cherry
and the co-pilot. Second 1t.
James C. Whitaker, and the
radio operator in the front one.
Colonel Adamson and the little
engineer. PVT John r. Bartck
and myself in the middle, and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Gets New Plane
To Continue Job

That is when Colonel Adam
son ran into his serious illnesses.
Fortunately for me, / bounced
back, and in just two weeks,
through the cooperation of our
good secretary and General
Arnold, there was a new ship
and crew sent out from the
States that arrived on Sunday
and / left to complete my mis-
sion.
"On Monday, I followed
through and got into New
Guinea and found the boys there
doing a most unbelievable job
because everything they do and
have done in the way of trans
portation was done by air -
troop movements, gun move
ments. ammunition, supplies.
evacuating the wounded and
under the most adverse condi-
tions.
II stayed with General Mac
Arthur and found one of the
greatest enthusiasts for aviation
that l had ever met. 1t. Gen.
George Kenney. who was in COM
mand of the air and one of the
hardest hitting airmen we have
anywhere in the world. The boys
are working day and night: they
have very difficult conditions
Under -Whieh-te work
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
He Chides Home Front
On Imagined Sacrifices
Says GuadalcanaI Fighters
Keep Going on Spirit Alone
Continued from Page one)

tail wind than the BOYS thought
they had. Mind you. there were
no weather stations like VIC have
III ms country, no teletype 10
Get the weather around, it is all
based on long-range forecast and
isn't always as accurate as 1t
might be.
When We called for bearings
the radio problem showed up, and
We didn get-couldn get them.
One of the stations tried TO give
us what they could and gave us
a certain course 10 follow, but
we couldn't get the cross bear
ms on II so it didn't make much
difference. 1t wasn't worth
great deal
We kept flying and finally
decided 10 Try the old box method
of locating something. looking
for a ship, an island, and under
those conditions you get out
there what they call island-eyes
YOU see land from many differ
ent angles and il is nothing more
than cloud shadows.
But when you want 10 find
land and are anxious 10 see II,
you multiply il ten-fold. We had
that problem but time was fleet
ing and our gas supply was run
ming low. We didn't know where
we were and we knew that no
one else knew.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Strain on Minds
BEGINS to Tell

THE cause of il I don't know,
other than a mental upset. We
tied up again and then the minds
began TO crack. l say TO you
that 1 know things about these
mems lives that probably no
other living soul knows.
THE only thing that saved
me was that l didn't get time
10 get started on my own life
or 1 would probably be talking
yet.
ION the night OF the seven
teenth day or evening we saw
our first sign of life. Then we
saw pontoon single-engine
plane about five miles away.
I'VE had been trying TO keep
on the alert and keep some one
on the watch all the time with
ears and eyes open day and
night, which became more diff
ficult as time went on. But this
little plane went by probably
five miles away. We waved
frantically, yelled, which meant
nothing.
He went on by and didn't
come back; it was rather heart
breaking. The next day two of
them came out and again they
missed us. The following day
there were four of them and
they passed us up two on either
side, about four, five or six miles
away, and though we were all
tied together and the RATS were
yellow, ii is probably one of the
most difficult things in the
world 10 be able TO see that
small an object when the break
ers are in action.
"As ! said before. we didn't
know where we were; we knew
no one else knew. Most of the
boys were afraid that we might
die and no one would ever know
whether we were dead or alive,
as is still the case with Amelia
Earhart, because that is ter
rifically big ocean.
Il thought we had landed west
of our original destination. The
only thing we had TO go by was
a watch, one watch-the others
all went haywire on account Of
the salt water. We checked the
rise and setting of the sun.
TO try TO keep our drift, we
worked up sail with a shirt
and the oars, and our drift was
in a Southwesterly direction,
but we didn't know how much so.
Il was afraid we were head
ing for a group of Japanese-held
islands and we had a double
fear of being captured and made
prisoners. We knew we wouldn't
last long under those circum-
stances.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20

boys go by and then they came
back from the sun direction and
they hit us right on the nose
One of them came down and
circled very=low and waved. I
could see the smile on his face.
I waved back frantically 10
let him know we were not dead
and then they went off over the
horizon. ! found out later they
were about out of gas, but they
came back about an hour later.
I'm the meantime a squall
blew up and they lost us. About
30 minutes later they came back
through it and hit us right on
the nose. One of them stayed
there and circled and circled
while the other one left.
The sun KEEP tgoing down,
and the fear was that if he
didn't land soon he would not
be able 10 and we would be lost
again. About that time il was
two-thirdS dark. the sun had
gone then. l couldn't see how
he could possibly land without
cracking up.
He let go with a flare. his
Very pistol, then a minute later
another one; then over the hori-
Zon we saw the blinkers of
boat, which turned out 10 be a
Pr boat, and then he came down
and landed-one of those unbe-
lievable landings and TAXED
up 10 US.
THE sun kept going down,
strength of Hercules in getting
Colonel Adamson up the 10-foot
lift in a bouncing plane and into
the cabin and the little engineer
and myself on the wing. They
dashed us TO the body with our
feet hanging over the leading
edge.
I'VE started 10 taxi for the
base some 40 miles away. i don (
remember how long we had
gone, some Is or 20 minutes,
when the PIT boat. which had
dashed madly from some so
miles away, came up.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Few Jap Fliers
Are 'first-Team

"T'he day I left they brought
down 10 enemy planes in one
combat and three in another and
lost only one. 1t was mixture
of heavy, medium and lombard
ment planes, of bombers and
Zero fighters.
Whereas our quality and ex-
perience level is going up, there
the Japanese aiFmen's expert
ence level is going downhill very
rapidly. There are left very few
first-team pilots which are hard
to beat and they are tough.
They go in anywhere at any
time into combat, but IL is quite
evident, and our boys recognize
it, that the great majority Of
Japanese pilots are inexperi-
enced and green.
"Our PISS were showing up
extremely we'll in combat and
particularly in bombardment Of
the units that Japs have at Buna
and Guna.
while out there I ran into
the fact that Brig. Gen. CHan-
ford) Jack MacNider, while
leading one of his patrols during
the night, had been hurt by
splinters from a hand grenade
and was evacuated back to a
hospital at Brisbane,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20

The navigator and crew chief,
ST. kaczmarczyk in the other.
After we got going naturally
we got to thinking about our
food and water. but we didn't
dare 60 back 10 the ship for
fear she would sink and suck us
down with il.
Then we ran into a five-day
calm, which left the ocean like a
mirror II was beastiy hot. Most
OF the boys had thrown off their
shoes and some, their socks. and
that was unfortunate. They felt
they might have 10 swim. but il
turned out they had their feet
and legs burned very badly.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Old Felt Hat
Proves Valuable

tW0 or three OF them had
nothing but jumper on, no
hats. l was more fortunate. L
had pair of high-top shoes on
on account of my bum foot and
an old felt hat that Mrs. Rick
enbacker had been trying 10 get
me 10 get rid of for the last 10
years. 1t proved 10 be very val
liable
i filled il with salt water and
put II down before my eyes. /
had grabbed three or four hand
kerchiefs and we passed these
around and put around our nose
and face, bandit fashion, which
helped, but II was very hard on
our hands and face, and feet,
particularly.
We had no rain until the
eighth night. We saw nothing in
the way OF searching planes or
ships. The little boy in my boat
had an issue Bible in the pocket
OF his jumper, and the second
day out we organized little
prayer meetings in the evening
and morning and took turn about
reading passages from the Bible,
and frankly and humbly we
prayed for our deliverance.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Colonel Recovering
In Capital Hospital

Zone young man. Sgt. Alex
snder T. Kaczmarczyk, a Polish
hoy, was lost. l was fortunate
10 be able TO bring back Col.
Hans Adamson. l brought him
back on a hospital bed. We
brought back Sgt. James w.
Reynolds, radio operator, whom
we left in San Francisco in a
hospital well along the way to-
ward recovery.
Colonel Adamson is still quite
a sick man because Of the many
things he went Thorough: :.
He is now in Walter Reed Hos
pital and in good hands. | am
certain that, being back in
Washington among his friends
and family, within six weeks or
two months he will have re-
cuperated and become normal
again.
There are lot of things 7
can't tell you, as you gentlemen
understand. They are of vital
military Importance. but ! will
try and give you as much of the
story as l can in detail. The sim
plest way / know Of doing that
is 10 tell you what happened
from the start,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
ckenbackers Dramatic Story of ~ Days Aoat in Pacific

their supplies, ammunition, guns,
gasoline, we will have served a
great purpose.
THE cries and objections TO
being rationed on rubber an
gasoline seem so insignificanI'
and ridiculous when we see what
those boys haven't got.
IL couldn't help but think
that the old rubber in an old
rubber tire was sufficient 10
make up two or three OF the
type of RATS that we were in,
and if people only knew that
the saving of one old rubber
tire makes il possible to pro-
duce one of those RATS which
might be responsible, as IT has
been in our case, of saving seven
men, they might take 1T more
seriously.