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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21
ALASKA COASTAL MAKES } FLIGHTS
 ON WEDNESDAY

Alaska Coastal AirlineS made three flights yesterday Those going to Ketchian were Evelyn Ridley and Donald Graham
 Juneau to Wrangell-Alice Edge come, Mrs. M. w. Soule.
 Petersburg to Ketchikan-Jennie Lloyd
 Wrangell to Juneau-Neil Grant.
 Ketchikan to Juneau = B. Frank Heintzleman, Mildred R. Maynard.
 Petersburg to Juneau-E. L. Aus tin and Marie Loy.
 Juneau to William Grasle and G. A. Belford
 Sitka to Juneau-Lon Glover, E. M. Whalen, Virgil Baker, T. D. Van diver, Fred Milligan and Alice BroOkman
 Juneau to Hoonah-James Hud. son, Frank Johnson, Minnie John- son, Caryl Martin.
 Hoonah to Juneau-James Hud- son, Sam Knudsen and Henry Moy.
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uTTERRuG DANCING

From week to week over the past year and half this reporter of yours has tried at one time or an- other to write on practically every activity about the USO. There isn't much that we've missed, we say confidently At least, up to few minutes ago we'd have said It At this very moment, however, we are a shade less sure of ourself inasmuch as we have just suddenly realized that we've never done piece concerning one of the most vivid and colorful of all the characteristic phenomena of USO life, Jitterbug Dancing How in the world that omission ever occurred, we really can't imaginel
 Here at last we find ourselves in the midst of this item. But how shall we handle it? How can we hope to do justice in two or three paragraphs to a subject that rates at least as many columns? And how shall we approach the subject?
 Shall we get sociological with high-sounding title such as UT TERBUG DANCING CAUSE OR CURE OF JUVENILE DELIN- QUENCY? Or shall we climb up onto a high esthetic level with THE PLACE OF JITTERBUG DANCING IN THE PAST, THE PRESENT, THE FUTURE, AND THE FUTURE PERFECT SUB- JUNCTIVE? Or would you prefer the biological treatment suggested by THE JITTERBUG: BUTTER FLY OR WORM? Or perhaps something more blunt, such as THE JITTERBUG,-WHY?
 Now you see how hopeless 1t is to try to satisfy all of our hun dreds of thousands of readers, with their varying tastes and prefer ences! So we've decided not to deal with the subject at all. h. stead, we'll tell you who some Of the best jitterbug dancers are: Among the CTS one of those at the top, by common agreement among the girls, is Soldier Gordon
 Doc) Stewart, from Chicago.
 A second is blonde Coastguards- man "Ar' Buchanan, from Port land, Ore. A third, undoubtedly the most violently acrobatic of them all hereabouts-is John Gionfreddo, from Washington, D. O., also of the U. s. c. G. In the ranks of the GSO members, the jitterbug dancers are numerous. Among the ablest of them (we aren't trying to give you a complete list-it would be too long) are Emma Nielsen, Shirley Olds, Pat Martin, Pat Olson, Margaret Clark, Sophie Harris and Jackie Schmitz.
 Before finishing this note, here's one paragraph with wistful note predominating For at least part of the evening we do wish we could turn back the clock a year and watch the jitterbug dancing of two of our girls,-we'd get such a thrill seeing Pat Olson dance again with Bobby Goldstein, Sol dier from New York believed now to be serving in France), and we'd be equally elated over the chance to watch Jeanne Winther (still so much missed at the USO) dance once more with any one of her several regular partners!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21
COMING EVENTS

Get out your notebooks, you servicemen and GSO girls, and save the following dates: Friday. September 29-September Birthday Party; Saturday, September 30- Barn Dance in USO; Saturday, Oc- tober 7-Monthly Formal Dance at Scottish Rite Temple; Saturday, October Hold Fashioned Corn Roast on Treadwell Beach; Satur- day, October 28-USO Halloween Dance.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21
JUNEAU'S US0 NEWS
Interesting Items for Everybody

Tuesday night with that colored boy from Cincinnati, Ohio. His two favorite authors, the lad said are William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw; and he discussed them with boyish enthusiasm and affection and a real understanding
 Did he do any writing himself? Yes, he'd tried his hand at it a bit. Did he play the piano? or sing? He sang a little, he said But what he showed the most en- thusiasm of all for was his mothers playing of the piano He was ex- tremely proud of his mother be- cause she had learned how to play entirely after she grew up.
 It isn't easy for the director to make clear to anyone else just eX- actly why this young man made so instant and so deep an impress sion on him-yet that is exactly what happened Not for many years has he come across any young fellow possessing to so marked a degree those twin essentials of greatness dignity and humility.
 At the time he entered the navy he was a freshman at Wilberforce College in Ohio. Just as he was about to say goodnight on Tuesday, he confided in the director what he hopes to do before he can re- gard his education as complete. He added quickly, with that attractive shyness: But I guess that's en- tirely too high an ambition!" The directors reply was. T doubt if ANY ambition that you may have will prove too high
 Today in this column we risk a prediction.-a prediction about an obscure negro lad of 20, at present a third class quartermaster's mate in the U. s. Navy That prediction is this: Somewhere, some time you will be hearing of him in the field of literature. His name is Charles Veal. That's an unusual name, but not hard to remember. It will, we confidently believe, be a name well worth your remembering.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21

DEPARTMENT OF REASONS WHY OUR DISPOSITION RE- MAINS SUNNY DESPITE THE RAIN: We've. often been heard to exclaim that we have one of the very incest jobs anybody could pos sibly have during the war. The main reason is obvious: Continual ly we're associated with such friendly, pleasant people. During the past week. for example, it's been a joy to have the very popu- lar Mona Everetts helping us at the canteen every day during the lunch hour rush. and to have Coastguardsman Van" Van Vel kinburgh, of Ketchikan, offer to lend us a hand if needed any time he is off duty Gle is said to be an excellent cook, and also to watch his exceedingly clever handling of his first quiz con test assignment on Tuesday which he won handlly and to nave the-much- -too-long b S Il t Ruth Brooks back at the piano again last Wednesday to the delight of all who were present and to be able to play host to well liked Soldiers Walter Huntley, of North Carolina, and Melvin Brown, of Utah, here on Alaska furloughs after nearly two years spent in the far Aleutians i. and to enjoy daily visits recently from the charming and always jolly Bonnie Klein, whose very presence indoors at the USO makes relatively un- important the state of the out-of doors and to be able to rely confidently every night on the CO., operation of the Clubs many friends among the M. P's and the SIPS under 1st. Sgt. Scotty Harris and Chief Swank, in keeping an ever watchful eye on this USO of theirs and ours.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21
RUMMAGE SALE

By Methodist Ladies, Sept 26. 10 a. mm., in basement of Church. Leave Rummage at basement or Call 238.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21
---- FOR KETCHIKAN

Leaves Thursday morning for Ketchikan, Motor Cruiser Stormy Petrel. For information call Gasti- neau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21
NOTICE

Not responsible for any debts contracted for the firm of Fulton and Kruse unless authorized by I. G. Fulton. Adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21

The Indians of Peru kept the medical properties of quinine a secret from the Spaniards for a century.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21
NOTICE

Aurora Encampment No. Al, regular meeting and refreshments, 7:30 D. m Thursday, Sept. 2l, Odd Fellows Hall.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21
FOR SALE

l2 Gauge Winchester pump shot gun, $35 25-35 Winchester lever action rifle, $35; Remington stan- dard typewriter, $25; Health Ray sun lamp with extra cartoons, S20; silver trumpet with case and music stand, $50; A Colt Frontier sidearm with shells, belt and holster, S45; Segal key -mak- | ing machine with cutters and all key blanks; two new Gladstone bags; set of plumbers pipe dyes, $10; reducer rowing machine, Sl0; [ electric portable photograph, $20. THOMPSON OPTICAL CO,
 PA 2nd Street.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21

Movado Military Watch No. 3713. Reward. Mike Korry, Capitol
 Bar.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21

STEAM HEATED ROOM, twin beds, $15 a bed Phone Black 600 or 315 Gold St.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21
PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY

Have a portrait artist take your picture. Hamersley Studio. Opposite Federal Building, Phone 294. Adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21

18th and Harbor Way,
 Ladies Elgin wrist watch. Shirlee 1I9i42 inscribed on back. Re-
 ward. Phone Red 545.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21
LOST AND FOUND

IOST-Key container, one stamped 1857. Reward. Leave at Elm pire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21

Bunch of keys, identifica- ton tag Bennie Fernando,
 B. 0. O., N. A. S.. Sitka, Alaska,
 AAA. Return to Royal Cafe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21

I.OST-Wrist watch, leather band, engraved on back Bee to Bill
 Dec. 25, 1937." Keepsake. Reward, return to Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21
FOR RENT

FOR RENT-Furnished clean quiet apartments. Phone Red 100.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21

Will parties who found black silk purse please return to Mrs. H. J. Waugh. Reward. Phone l87.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21

Three-room furnished cabin, oil
 heat. Inquire 513A Willoughby.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-21

WANTED-A trombone for school boy. Phone Green 479 between 5 and p. ii.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-04
.kiwanis S peeds
Vocuti ionuI Aid

The Ell Centro Kiwanis club next
Thursday will. present 2l classes in
Vocational training at Central Union
high school and Junior college as
part of the clubs annual contri-
>bution to the young people of the
community.
I'VE want to help the young pco-
pie select what business OF pro-
feSsion they want to follow after
,they finish school, said r. w.
: Ward, chairman of the Kiwanis vo-
.cational guidance committee. we
:. have selected as speakers at the
81 class sessions the men and Wom-
EN- actually following the businesses
or professions to, be discussed. They
will explain the work they do and
tell what training is needed to pre-
pare for engaging in it. Then we
have arranged it SO that the young
. l3aple in the classes may ask ques-
- . of the teachers.
=. sm preparing for the course the
eUmmittee sent each pupil in the
high school and Junior college a
fquestionnaire explaining the course
and asking them to list their first,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-04
Holland
Base
Bombed
Nazi Airdrome
Blasted
By For+resses

LONDON, May a. (UP)-
Flying Fortresses struck a
German airdrome in Holland
Thursday and Berlin report
ed bomber forces over Germany
few hours after 300 British raid
ers devastated three big Nazi anti
invasion supply bases in France.
About 200 Fortresses of the Unit
ed States Eighth air force led sew
eral formations of allied planes
over the rampartS of the. Atlantic
wall to carry the preinvasion bomb
ardment through its 18th straight
day
Royal air force bombing fleets
crashed through stiff shield of
German night fighters and raineG
about 2,240 tons of explosives on
Nazi munitions, aircraft and sup
ply depots at Mailly, Montdidier,
and Chateaudun, while a diver
sionary force jabbed at Lucwig-
shafen and other targets in west
ern Germany.
London newspapers interpreted
the three-day smash at France as
significant blows against import
ant concentration points of Ger
man troops assigned to defend
western Europe against the allied
invasion.
Nazi broad casts during the morn
ing said bomber formations also
were over northwest and west Ger
many, including the Munster area,
an indication that 9th air force
Flying Fortresses or LiberatorS
might be in action.
Allied planes streamed across the
English channel toward the con-
tinent in an almost ceaseless pro-
cession, despite cloudy weather.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-04

second, and third choice of busi-
ness or vocation The pupils filled
out and turned in 385 of the queS-
tionnaires. The various businesses
and professions to be discussed were
selected from these questionnaires
by tallying those most frequently
mentioned.
The classes to be presented be-
tween 1l:l5 a. m. and noon will be
accounting, advertising, agriculture,
art, banking, general busine IS,
chemistry, clerking, cosmetology,
engineering, forestry, government,
journalism, machinists, medicine,
music, nursing, photography, stenog-
raphy, teaching, telephone and tele-
graph.
"The students will elect the class
which interests them most" said
School Superintendent Guy Weak
ley, and attend that class. We feel
that this program is helpful one
for the school as well as for the
young people
The Kiwanis committee is COM
posed of Ward. Ed Akin, Rev. Hay
den Sears, Eugene Waterman, and
John Dubois.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-04
IU. s. Planes and PIT Boats
Fight 1t Out by Mistake

started when a PIT boat grounded
ON a reef near the Cape, which Is
in the Rabaul area, and American
planes attacked it. The crew OF the
boat attempted to defend itself and
shot down one of the planes, he
sale.
When another PIT boat came TO
the aid of the stricken craft. the
American planes attacked again,
the spokesman added, and the Sec
ond U. S. fighter was shot down.
Both of the fleet little PTS were
wrecked.
HIT WEST OF TRUK
The communique disclosed new
attacks Monday by southwest Pa
cific bombers on Woleai, approxi-
mately 500 miles west of Truk In
the Carolines. The raid was the
18th of the war on the island. which
lies almost midway between Tr1ik
and the Palaus.
Other u. S. bombers. flying from
Solomons bases attacked the isolat-
ed Rabaul area, dropping 81 tons
of bombs ON Vunakambi plantation.
Rakada runway, and the Duke oil
York island, while fighters damag-
ed three barges in Kerayia bay.
Heavy bomberS. again hit Geel-
Wink bay In western Dutch New
Guinea 10 bomb Mokmer airdrome
on Biak island IN the Schouten
group.
Along the HanSa bay COAST Of
British New Guinea. fighter bonib-
ers attacked installations around
the bay while attack planes struck
bivouac areas at Uligan. Light nav
al patrols damaged beached barge
at Hatzfeldt harbor and shelied
shore targets at Cape Crolsilles.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-04

: seized properties.
Three FBI agents arrested Paul
Sowell, assistant to the operating
manager of the plant, and took
him. wearing handouts, before U.
S. Commissioner Edwin K. Walker
for arraignment on charges of
stealing government property.
Sowell pleaded innocent ano was
released under $3.50 bond.
Walker continued the case until
May II.
ATTORNEY PROTESTS
Sowell'S attorney, James Leaton,
objected to the manner in which
the defendant was treated after his
arrest.
This man was not brought be-
fore the commissioner without un-
necessary delay" Leaton said.
"ne was taken to the district
attorneys office and the U. S. mar
shaN's office and was fingerprinted
before warrant was sworn out
against him. / object to this high
randeG, manner"
Leaton asked that Sowell be re-
leased without bond because he
owns q, home in fashionable SUBJ
urban Winnetka, but the govern
i ment insisted that small bond be
arranged.
The charge against 'Sowen is a
misdemeanor and carries possible
penalty of year in Jail or $1,000
fine.
After the arrest, the FBI ciSclos-
ed that its agents had been posted
in the plant since the government
seizure at the request of Attorney
General Francis Biddle.
Spencer Drayton, Chicago FBI
chief, said members of his staff,
who had been posted around the
plant to prevent obstruction OF
property, saw Sowell remove the
sign and took him into custody.
EXPLAINS ACT
Sowell, 80, said he walked into
the lobby of the spraWling plant
along the Chicago river on the way
to his office when he noticed the
placard. 1t was hanging loose at
one corner, he said, so he took II
down "for souvenir
II dicn't even have time to read
it," he said.
Three FBI men grabbed me be-
fore / could see what it was all
about"
He has been an employe OF the
company for about nine years.
The seizure of Sowell was the
first public acknowledgment that
FIBI agents were stationed in the
Continued on page 2, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-04
s.
Defy WLB Order
Refusal to Obey Mandate on Pay
Controversy Ha|ts Work
On Repair of Ships Vital to War

because "43 hours a week was all
that President Roosevelt had asked
all labor to do"
The NWLB had ordered the un-
ion to comply with its work week
directive or to send officials to a
hearing in Washington on Saturday
to show cause why penalties should
not be invoked.
Meanwhile, CIO machinists who
have refused to perform repair work
on a Kaiser cargo vessel at the
Moore Drydock Co. yarcs in Oak
land, Cal. will meet Thursday night
to consider the NWLB directive.
WILL NOT WORK
James P. Smith, CIO local 1904
business agent, said the men would
not work except at the repair rate
of $l.34, pending the meeting.
Thomas Fair Neblett, regional
WLB chairman, Wedneso ay declar-
ed that acceptance or rejection
of a federal order is not a matter
to be decided by vote at member
Continued Cn Pg. 2, Col. g
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Union Considers
0ustinq Browne

HICAGO, May a. tUP) -
George E. Browne, under sentence
of eight years in New York for his
part in the million-dollar movie
eXtortion case, faced expulsion
Thursday from membership in Local
2 of the Chicago Theatrical Protec-
tive union.
Leaders predicted that Brownies
expulsion, which was recommended
at the locals election last night,
would be ratified at the unions
meeting June IA, thus depriving him
of union support by which he rose
to the presidency of the Interna-
tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employees and Moving Picture OPP
orators union, the parent organiza-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-04
Modesto Blaze
Hits Hotel;
One Man Killed

MODESTO, Calf, May 4. (UP)-
More than half the Hotel Modesto
was destroyed and one man was
killed in fire which burned five
hours Wednesday night and early
Thursday and started other smaller
blazes over an area six blocks
around the hotel.
The blaze started in the basement
of paint store on the ground
floor of the hotel and spread rapid
ly through the five-story building.
Andrew Slaughter. USN, cook
third class, was killed when he
reached from a fifth story window
for fire ladder and either jumped
or slipped to the ground. Damage
was estimated at more than $400,-
600.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-04
Two Marines Die
In Traffic Crash

VALLEJO Calf, May 4. tUP)-
Three men. two of them marines
stationed at Mare Island navy yard,
were killed Wednesday night when
an automobile crashed into an 18-
ton freight truck at a boulevard
intersection.
The dead were:
John Monroe, %, USMC, Mare
Island.
Forest l.. Truman, %, USMC,
Mare Island.
Stanley Thorne, 60, l945 Louisiana
street, Vallejo.
The marines we're in the auto
mobile which collided with the
truck, driven by Norman Cliff Pick
otto. "a, San Francisco.
Thorne had stepped from a bus
at the street corner when the auto
mobile struck him after crashing
into the truck
Piexotto, who was not injured
said the automobile was being driven
at more than 60 miles per hour and
did not stop at the boulevard inter-
section. The truck was net damaged
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-04
Shoppers Give
Points "Ho, Ho

The point is no points.
Butchers did land office busi-
ness Thursday with housewives en-
ioying their first 'pointleSs' meat
buying in many a weary month.
F'rowns were replaced by smiles as
the housewives planned their menus
without having to count points all
the time.
Shoppers whisked the cans of
meat and fish off the shelves in
the twinkling of an eye and made
great inroads on butchers supplies
of veal, pork, ham, lamb, and lunch
meat.
They even bought beef steaks
and beef roasts," one beaming
butcher said. "T'hey saved up their
points and went In heavy for beef
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-04
Death Summons
Mrs. AL Smith

NEW YORK, May 4. (UP)-Mrs.
Alfred f. Smith, wife of the former
governor of New York and 1928
Democratic presidential candidate,
died early Thursday of virus pneu-
monia after a five-Week illness at
ST. Vincent's hospital.
Mrs. Smith, the former Catherine
Dunn, was born and educated in the
Bronx section OF New York City.
She was graduated from st. Angus
tine academy in 1895.
She and Former Governor Smith
were married in 1900 and had five
children, all of whom survive. They
are: Alfred E., Jr; Arthur; Walter;
Mrs. John A. Warner, and Mrs.
Timothy j. Quillinan, Jr There are
IA grandchildren
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-04

SAN FRANCISCO, May a.
(UP) San Francisco bay
area machinists Thursday
continued their refusal to
obey National War Labor board ci-
receives that they complete repair
work on navy and maritime COM
mission vessels and work more than
48 hours weekly in l04 San Francis
co machine shops.
Members of AFL Machinists Lo-
cal 68 in San Francisco, meeting
Wednesday night, decided to stand
pat" against NWLB orc ers that
they finish work on drydocked
navy net tender and rescind a un-
ion ruling limiting overtime work
to 48 hours weekly.
NAVY PLEDGES RATE
E. F.. Dillon, union business agent,
said the navy had promised the
machinists would receive the re-
pair rate scale of $1.34 per hour
for final work on all new ships put
in drydock after test runs. Despite
this agreement, Dillon said, the
men had been ordered yesterday
to work on the net tender at the
Bethlehem shipyards for the new
construction rate of $1.20 per hour.
Dillon also sale the machinists
would not work more than 48 hours
week, as ordered by the NWLB,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-04

steaks and beef roaStS, the only
meats still rationed."
Butchers declared they thus far
had plenty of supplies TO meet the
demand but could not say how long
they would last because they had
only half a days business to check
ON since the points were removed.
One butcher declared that he
never had sold so much pork in
his life. He said the housewives
appeared to have great interest
in ham and most of the women
who stopped at the meat counter
bought some along wit.l the rest of
her purchases.
All butchers interviewed Thursday
reported brisk Increase in business
and in general more cheerful lot
of customers.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-04
Moore
Named
Mayor
Council Makes
Choice and
Assigns Posts

Prem l.. Moore, who is s'orv-
ing his second term as cOun-
Gilman, was elected Mayor
at the reorganization of the Ell
Centro city council Wednesday
night.
The meeting opened with former
Mayor Bob Hatton expressing his
appreciation for cooperation he had
received during his term. He then
nominated Moore, the nominations
were closed, and Moore was elected
unanimously.
Following this the following COM
missioners were named to their for
mer posts on a motion by W. A.
@Tondro, new council member: Hat
ton, streets: Herb w. FaWcett. water
and park; Moore. police and fire;
Wesley He'll, finance: Tondro,
health and sewer, formerly held by
CONTINUED on Pg. 2, Col. a.
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Boo I'd
Ukose
E. {. Council
Demands
Cleaner Civ

"This town is a bunch of
dump grounds!'
This statement by Council
man w. A. Tondro at the
Wednesday night meeting of the
Ell Centro city council touched off
a spontaneous resolution on the
part of that group to set up a def
mite program CT improvement of
the city parks and parkways.
Included in the program which
will now undergo investigation was
determination that citizens be
served notice that the new council
intends to enlist their cooperation
in keeping the city clean either
voluntarily or by enforcement.
Let's crack Gown" a statement
by the newly elected Mayor Prem
L. Moore. met full agreement of the
Continued on Pg. 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-04

D.
HOUSE,
WASHINGTON, D.
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