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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-03
PROGRAM

THURSDAY, August 3, 9:30 p. m Regular Thursday night dance ir USO.
 FRIDAY, August 4, TOO p.m.- Meeting of Servicemen's Council ir USO; 7:3O D. m.-Technicolor mov- ies of Alaska Fish and Wildlife Service in USO; 8;30 p. m.-Radic broadcast by USO Commandos from KINY studio; 9:30 D. m.- Anniversary party in USO in honor of servicemen of Duck Creek Everyone invited
 SATURDAY, August 5, 10:0O p m.-Jukebox dance at USO.
 SUNDAY, August 6, 100 p. m Cor later at convenience of service mem "Trip to Mendenhall Glacier; 500 D. m-Coffee and waffles with music in USO; 10.00 D. m.-Sing- ing around piano.
 MONDAY, August 2, goo p. m tc midnight-Meeting and buffet party at American Legion Dugout for all servicemen.
 TUESDAY, August 8, 8:30 p. m Preachers Pet quiz contest broadcast from USO; 9:30 p.m.- Customary Tuesday night games ir USO.
 WEDNESDAY, August 9, 7:30 D m.-Movies in USO; 9:15 D. m.- Old fashioned dancing in USO. e'
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PRESENT PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

People keep asking us: How much longer will the USO remain here? Is there any truth in the rumor it will close before long? We've heard that at least several of the other Clubs in Alaska are to be discontinued-we hope this isn't the plan for Juneau"
 This is a natural concern, inas- much as the war appears rapidly to be moving farther and farther from here Nevertheless the answer to the question is this: So long as our local Club remains as busy as it is now, and continues to serve as many men, it, will stay open This is the present plan of the National Headquarters. Necessarily it's plans for all its operations everywhere are kept flexible in order that USO may serve as many of the men and women of the armed forces in as many different places as practicable. Hence mo- body can do more than hazard a guess as to what extent changing local conditions in the coming months might require changes in plans. For the present, however | it is obvious that the USO is needed in Juneau and will continue in the immediate future to be needed by the servicemen here Accordingly it will stay on the job
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"SpITFIRE" NOW
 BEING SCREENED
 ATCApIT0L SHOW

Without being a war picture, one of the great pictures of the war is "Spitfire,' starring Leslie Howard and David Niven, now at the Cap itol. Here is the story of the first and in many ways the greatest hero of World War II, who died heroic death even before the war started. His name is R. J. Nit chell, and he is the genius who invented the Spitfire, Britains deadly fighter plane which shot the Nazi planes out of the sky at the climax of the Battle of Brit ain.
 But Mitchell, portrayed by Leslie Howard, was more than a genius he was a warm, lovable human being. Howard projects this quality admirably, especially in his rela- tions with his beautiful wife, play ed by red-haired, blue-eyed Rosa mund John. David Niven, on leave from active service for his role plays a test pilot who will fly any thing born on Mitchell's drawing board, no matter how fantastic, and who has one eye cooked always for anything in skirts that happens to be in the neighborhood.
 A dramatic sequence is shown when Mitchell visits Germany in pre-war days, and becomes aware of the evil Nazi spirit behind the elaborate hospitality with which he is entertained.
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Honor. He had become one of only two living enlisted members of the Corps to receive in this war this highest of all the American dec- orations for outstanding gallantry. His name was Richard Sorensen; his home was in a small town in Minnesota.
 This award was front-page news needless to say. One of the Seat tie papers carried a particularly winning picture of the modest, smiling young hero. A copy of it found it's way into the hands of the Director of the Juneau USO. He happened not to be in the club house at the time; but he could hardly wait to get down there. Because the face of that Marine looked so FAMILIAR-and Richard Sorensen certainly was a name that brought back MEMORIES-wa asn't that the name of one of those young Marines who came through Juneau early last summer, and wasn't he from some little place near Minneapolis? Fairly sure, but not quite positive, the Director hur- ried to the club. He quickly turn ed the pages of the Servicemens' Registry. There it was: Under date of June s26y ls4S,~ among the signatures of three members of the Marine Corps appeared the name of Richard Sorense Clark's Grove, Minnesota"
 After all these months our USO has indeed received word as to what has become of at least one of OUR BOYS!
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THIS E THE ARMY" NOW AT
 10TH CENTURY

The motion picture version of the all-soldier musical, Irving Der lin's This Is the Army" produced by Warner Bros. for Army Elmer gency Relief, opened last night at the 20th Century Theatre.
 The entire company of $50 sol- diers, who appeared in the musical on Broadway and during it's cross country tour, appears here with the soldiers in their original roles in the picture, which includes the en- tire stage production of This Is the Army" as well as additional material from Irving Berlins World War I soldier show, "Yip, Yip Yap- hank"
 Irving Berlin makes his picture debut in This Is the Army" sing ing his famed lament, "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning, as he did in the stage version.
 Also included in the cast, foi purposes of a slight story content are George Murphy, Joan Leslie Lieut.. Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale George Tobias, Charles Butter worth, Una Merkel and Sgt. Jot Louis.
 In addition, it is in This Is the | Armvo that Kate Smith rnakas ha, first screen appearance in ten years and new Berlin songs are sung by Frances Langford and Gertrude Niesen.
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ONE YEAR OLD

Our Club has celebrated lot of birthdays during the past year Each month, in fact, we've had a party for all the servicemen and GSO girls with birthdays falling in that particular month.
 On Friday night of this week at 9:30 o'clock the club will give its MOST IMPORTANT BIRTHDAY PARTY, a first anniversary. The occasion to be celebrated is the ar rival in Juneau on August 4, 1943 of some of the best friends this Club has ever had, viz, the M. P outfit now stationed at Duck Creek That evening the friendship will be just one year old. We distinctly remember that night last August when, within a few hours, we saw some hundred new faces around the clubhouse and found those faces much to our liking. Through out the twelve months that have followed we have no doubt that these fellows have had repeated demonstrations of how very much this friendship has meant to all our staff members. Friday nights party will give us the chance to let them know, all over again, that WE LIKE THEM A LOT!
 The affair is exclusively in honor of this one outfit. But all other servicemen are invited to serve with the staff members as hosts. Of par mount importance, of course: All GSO girls are expect ed to be with us, since we know their presence will mean more to
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pA5T0R WOOD, WIFE RETURN HERE AFTER
 BRIEF FLYING TRIP

Pastor and Mrs. H. L. Wood Of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission returned to Juneau yesterday after noon after weeks trip visiting the Mission interests in Southeast Alaska travelling in the Mission Fairchild airplane.
 Pastor Wood states that the greatest hazard to flying in the coastal Alaska district is the lack of mooring facilities for the air. plane after landing. The town of Wrangell has built and installed two airplane ramps recently. One
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SOMETHING NOT TO MISS

SOMETHING NOT TO MISS A word to the wise" according to the old adage, is sufficient We are hopeful that a whole para graph, if not a mere word, will suffice in the case of the ignor- ant
 Almost every serviceman from the States is interested in Alaska fish and game. Few possess more than a hay knowledge about them. On Friday night of this week, at 7:3O o'clock, the USO will sponsor the showing of some especially fine movies in technicolor concerning fish, game and birds of the Ter ritory And a double treat is in store for us because the pictures will be presented by man who is an authority in the field-Mr Chas John O'Connor, Game Management Supervisor of the Fish and Wild life Service
 This is something extra-special Don't miss it!
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CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL
 OF HONOR

He was one of three Marines who dropped into the USO on an after noon in June last year. Their ship was in port here only briefly. They were at the Club not more than an hour or two. There was time for something to eat at our can teen, followed by few games of pool. Jeanne Winther, we recall, had taken up the game shortly be- fore; and she joined them at the table Soon they had to leave. There was time only for a couple of pictures with Jeanne to be snap ped, then they signed our registry and headed back for the ship.
 These Marines were among the very few we'd seen at the USO. Partly for this reason they made particularly vivid impression on us. That wasn't the only reason, how ever; for each of these young fel- lows seemed especially friendly, and when we said goodbye it was with a feeling of more than ordinary regret. They didn't say where they were headed, of course; we just assumed that inasmuch as their ship was southbound and they were Marines it would not be long be- fore they'd be seeing violent action on the road toward Japan.
 (Since that June afternoon last year several hundred more mem- bers of the Corps have paid us visits, then moved on to the south. Invariably they have impressed us as exceedingly likeable fellows and exceedingly tough fighting men; and invariably during the months that have followed as we've learn ed of the dreadful casualty lists among the Marines at Tarawa, at Kwaj jalein, and at Saipan, we have been sick at heart, wondering about the fate of these lads of our &C., quaintance. Although their lives and ours had touched for no more than an afternoon or an evening, we have claimed them ever since as OUR BOYS. We have realized, however, that it was unlikely we ever would learn what had become of any of them0
 Most unlikely, yes - but, still, there was always that remote pos sibility, wasn't there?
 During the morning of February 1st of this year, in the desper- ate fighting for Kwajalein, six young Marines lay in shell hole, defending an American machine gun nest nearby. Suddenly a Jap hand grenade fell a few feet from one of them, He instantly threw himself on top of the grenade. A second later it exploded, inflicting horrible wounds in his body but saving the lives of all his buddies. By some miracle, though the whole force of the explosion had spent itself against his body, he also lived. He lived not only through that agonizing day. Just two weeks ago he was still living; on the afternoon of July 18th at the Seat tie Naval Hospital he stood very straight and he looked very hand some an dtried not to appear self conscious while a major general of the Marine Corps decorated him with the Congressional Medal of
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is on the city dock in front of the town and the other is in the inner harbor for additional pro- tection in the event of bad weather. These facilities are greatly apprec- lated by those who fly seaplanes.
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TWO LEAVE TODAY ON
 PAN AMERICAN PLANE

Philip Busse and Helen Kirkman were flown to Whitehorse today on a PAA plane piloted by Capt. George Wilson and Bruce Giesy.
 Incoming yesterday from Seattle were Ruth Lofgren, Thomas Jud- son, Marguerite Shepard and August Buschmann. Herbert J. Lusson boarded the ship at Whitehorse.
 From Fairbanks came Irma Now ell, Norman Stines, Lester Dawson, and Howard Hughes.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-Republican National Committee Chairman Her. bert Brownell, Jr., made the pre- diction today that Thomas E. Dewey will carry at least 25 States with 311 electoral votes as against Roosevelt The victor needs but 266 electoral votes.
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IN FROM GUSTAyUS

MT. and Mrs. Floyd R. German have arrived from Gustavus and are guests the Juneau Hotel.
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IN FROM GUSTAvUS

Glen Neitzert, of the CAA, has arrived here from Gustavus and is staying at the Gastineau Hotel.
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Albert N. Tomaso, of the ACC, is in town and staying at the Juneau Hotel.
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NOTICE

I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by anyone but myself.
 WALTER F. REYNOLDS.
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LUSSON IN TOWN

H. J. Lusson has arrived here from Whitehorse and is registered at the Juneau Hotel.
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JUNEAU'5 US0 NEWS
 Interesting Items for Everybody

our guests than anything else, no doubt about that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25

the cnlet reason why
Nicky and Neenie
never quite managed 10 get married.
And finally, of course, the step be-
tween thinking of pigs and smelling
them, or thinking you smell them, is
infinitesimal.
Thus, the name. Budapest, had set
in motion a train OF thought which
had gone whistling along until it ran
smack into an imaginary and, at first
Whit, inexplicable smell
All of which just goes 10 show
what a wonderful organ the mind is
not TO mention the nose.
Distressed al the time. Neenie is no
doubt glad today that pigs intruded
on her Hungarian rhapsody. for other
wise she would be lodging block.
busters instead of being holed up
coZily at the Ritz.
Her reasons for going 10 Hungary
were reasonable Rather flamboyantly
divorced from Frazier Jelke. Newport
boulevardier. she was looking for a
place where she could collect herself,
in the style 10 which she was accuS-
toned. on the paltry sum OF $1,000
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25
MI .

by gypsy bands and then staged polo
game with Nicky captaining one
team, Steve the other - to see which
cavalier should enjoy her favors.
Tied in the final chukker, the teams
played an extra period during which
Nicky fell off his horse and wound
up in both the hospital and the arms
of his beloved.
Count Bethlen thereupon did the
gentlemanly thing and left the field.
Up and about again, Nicky wasted
no time in introducing Neenie TO his
parents. Regent Horthy seemed
agreeable, but his wife hoiSted her
lorgnette and gave her proposed
daughter-in-law such a shooting as
she had not experienced since her
divorce suit was being tried.
A day or so later a royal emissary
called on Neenie to tell her formally
that the match was off. Softened up
with some 65-cent champagne, he
stayed TO explain that born ariSto-
Gratis, aware of Nine. Horthy's porcine
early environment, had made her life
so miserable by surreptitiously giving
out with oink-oink noises that she had
sworn never to let her son marry any
body without a bona fide title.
He suggested that Neenie solace
herself by marrying some lesser gal
liant, a duke, for instance.
But Budapest was by now getting
on Neenie'S nerves. SO she packed up.
gave her butler the largest tip of the
season (S216) and returned home.
TIE AMERICAN WEEKLY .
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25
BY LAURENCE SANTREY

rUGENIA WOODWARD, New
York socialite, could scarcely
- open a newspaper in the privacy
her hotel room a few weeks ago
0,5ithout seeming to detect a faint
scent Of pigs and pigsties.
What made this so odd was %
that 1t happened only while She was
looking at papers. and t2) that there
obviously weren't any pigs around,
since she was living at the Ritz
Some women, haunted by an appar-
emily causeless barnyard scent, might
raise a rumpus over il.
Eugenia. or Neenie as her friends
call her, just sat down and asked her
self simple question.
What" she asked, lis the first
thing l think OF in connection with
pigs?"
The late Ellis Parker Butler. who
wrote the classic Pigs Is Pigs"
would probably have answered,
Pigs" But. naturally. Neenies ans.
wer would be different.
After some reflection, she replied
10 herself. Mime. Nicholas Horthy.
wife of the Regent of Hungary"
This response may seem cryptic,
but II worked wonders for Neenie.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25

This Hateful en-
counter did not
take place. how
ever, until after
young Nicky had
become a regular
visitor at her home.
Along with him
had come G oun [
Bethlen, son Of
Hungary's Premier
and member of a
clan which traces
its ancestry TO the
ninth century.
Neenie did not
stop to question
her good luck. 1t
seemed to her only
fitting that a coun-
try which could pro
vide Sl1 "a month
buffers should also
furnish such high
born Suitors in
pairs.
In the best 70.
mantle ira dition,
the two young men
had her Serenaded
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25

II convinced her
that he s &c Mt
didn't really exist.
that it was just the
ghost Of "A scent.
conjured up by "A
process which psy-
biologists call as
ISOLATION of ideas.
The newspapers.
at the time full of
headlines about tho
bombing Of Hun.
gary, had been the
first stimulus.
They had remind
ed Neenie of her
visit 20 Budapest.
budapest h a d re-
'inded her Of dash
ing Nicky Horthy,
the Regents son.
who had courted
her while she was
there. Nicky had
reminded her Of his
mama. His mama
had made her think
of pigs, because
\ Nine. Horthy is the
june -, 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25

the best cook the local employment
agencies had to offer. And cham
payne was 65 cents a quart.
In this setting. Reenie's previously
scorned alimony made her appear
TO be princeSS-or so Ii seemed un-
til she ran into Nine Horthy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25

month alimony
from Mr.. Jelke.
Pre.War Buda-
pest fitted the bill
perfectly. The pre-.
vailing comic OPP
era atmosphere
was a boon 10 di-
vorce fra ye d
nerves, and prices
were right.
For SAT a month
Neenie was able
10 rent a mansion.
Another So got
her an accom-
plished maid; $11.
a ge n uine fac
smile of an Eng
lish butler; $14,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25

daughter Of a h og
dealer and also be-
cause this fact was
the chief reason why
Afg1Ir. - NTa,-gn
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25

WOODWARD, New
- York socialite, could scarcely
- open a newspaper in the privacy
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25

june -, 1914
Evening star., 1944-07-24
William B. Ramsay Dies;
D. T.. Resident 5 Years

William B. Ramsay, 50, of 228 @
street NV, District resident for
IS years, died at Gallinger Hospital
yesterday after years illness.
Mr.. Ramsay was born in Dundee
County. Scotland, and came from
there to Washington. He worked
here as carpenter He belonged
to lexington Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Annie Ramsay; six sons, David,
Alexander, William, jr.; James, gun
ner's mate, third class, with the
Navy at sea; Sergt. Campbell Ram
say, U. S. A., and Corpl. George
Ramsay, with the Army overseas,
and a daughter, Sergt. Elizabeth
Ramsay of the WAC. Also surviving
are two sisters, Mrs. William Davis
and Annie Ramsay of Scotland, and
two brothers, George Ramsay Of
England and David Ramsay of
Canada.
Funeral arrangements have not
yet been completed.
Evening star., 1944-07-24
Allies Urgently Need
$4,000 Heavy Trucks,
Gen. SomeryeII Says

The Nations heavy truck indus
try was on emergency notice from
the War Department today that q
deficiency Of $4,000 vehicles threat
ems Allied progress "at the most
crucial stage OF our conflict" unless
the 1914 production program is
stepped up.
Requiring almost double present
production to fill the gap. compo-
nents of the truck industry have been
placed on the national urgency list
OF must" programs allowed the
highest priority for labor referral.
the War Department disclosed last
night.
The critical situation was put up
to workers and employers during
three-day conference here among
representatives of the truck indus
try, 1t. Gen. Brehon Somervell,
Chief of Army Service Forces, Vice
Chairman Charles E. Wilson of the
War Production Board and others.
Gen. Somervell moved to meet the
manpower shortage when assured
that $500 additional men placed in
key foundries would solve the prob
lem and help meet production
schedules.
Gen. Somervell declared the 8O.-
600 trucks are urgently needed not
only by the Army and Air Forces,
but also by the Navy and our Allies.
They are required at a time, he
warned, when there can be no letup
In Allied advances. especially in
France and in Russia.
The situation affecting the heavy
truck program follows disclosure in
recent weeks of War Department
action in speeding up the produc-
ton Of tanks. heavy artillery and
ammunition OF our largest types of
guns. Industrial officials pointed
out that the manpower shortage in
the heavy truck program was espe-
cially acute in the gray iron and
malleable iron plants.
Evening star., 1944-07-24
Grand Opera Company Gets
'S542 IN Contributions

Contributions amounting to $542
were made last week to the sustain
ing fund tor next seasons perform
ances of the Washington Grand
Opera Co. in Constitution Hall, ac-
cording to members of the Wash
ington Grand Opera Guild.
Mrs. Helen Harrow, guild secre-
tary, said plans were going forward
to interest various musical societies
throughout the United States in
the opera movement here She said
it was planned to select one out
standing man and woman singer
Evening star., 1944-07-24

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Evening star., 1944-07-24
Holy Comforter Church
PIons Victory Curnivul

Holy Comforter Church will hold
its annual victory carnival" on the
grounds at Fifteenth and East Capt.
tai streets beginning Wednesday ana
lasting through August S. Various
games, q pony ride. band music and
refreshments will be available.
Feature OF this years carnival
will be the awarding of a 81 900 War
Bond the last night of the carnival.
The Rev. Edwin Luckett is gen.
eral director of the Carnival Com
mittee with Alfred Neff general
chairman and Nan Ward secretary.
Evening star., 1944-07-24

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Evening star., 1944-07-24

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for debuts In leading roles next
season.
At the same time, Mrs. Myra
Gregg, chairman Of arrangements.
announced names Of the singers
who will take part in the grand
opera concert at the Statler Hotel
at $3.50 pm. August 10. The artists
will include Georgianna Bourbon,
Cladio Frigerio. Dorothy Rerning-
ton, Myra Gregg, william Webster
and Urban Holmes.