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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
APPEAL MADE TO
pUbLI(F0R BOOKS
FOR REMOTE POST

An appeal is made today to the
citizens of Juneau and Douglas for
books and magazines to be sent to
men stationed at a remote outpost
in the Aleutians who are greatly
in need of reading material.
A box has been placed in a con-
spicuous place at the Post Office
in the Federal Building for the pur-
pose of depositing the magazines,
and it is especially asked that do
nations be made during the next
two or three days.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
Douglas Church
Services

Notices for this cnurcn column
must be received by The Empire
not later than 10 o'clock Friday
evening to guarantee change of
sermon topics, etc.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
TIDES TOMORROW

Low tide 4:37 a. m, 40 feet.
High tide-10:43 a. m, 1873 feet.
Low tide 5::32 p. m, -0.4 feet.
High tide-1l:58 p. m, AL feet.
TIDES MONDAY
Low tide $40 a. m, SO feet
High tide-ll 40 a. m, Ill feet.
Low tide 6::21 p. m. -1.9 feet.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
SCHOOL DANCE TONIGHT

The Sophomore Glass of the
Douglas School will give their
Spring Valentine Dance this even
ing in the gymnasium Of the school.
The public is invited to come and
dance to the rhythm OF the All
Girl Orchest~.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
THIRSTY GAMBLERS

MEMPHIS, Tenn.--When police
raided a dice, game, the players
made leap for a case and half
Of whiskey cached in corner. They
snatched bottles, yanked corks and
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
ATTENTION MASONS

Called Communication of Mt. Ju-
neau Lodge Monday evening at
7.30 o'clock. Work in the E. A. De-
gree. BY order of the w. M.
j. w. LEVERS,
adv. Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
MoRn ERoM Giles EDWARDS

A wire was received by relatives
this morning that Private Glen
Edwards should arrive at his home
here sometime today He is return
ing to attend the funeral services
of his father, the late Nj A. r
Edwards.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
DOUGLAS
NEWS
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
a. n. EDWARDS ON MONDAY

Funeral services for A. r. Ed
wards will be conducted on Monday,
February 81 at o'clock in the
Chapel of the Charles w. Carter
Mortuary in Juneau Interment
will take place in the Evergreen
Cemetery with the Rev. G. H. Hill
erman, pastor of the Resurrection
Lutheran Church officiating.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
N FROM EXCURSION

Howard Hayes and Leonard john
sen arrived in town this week from
their Excursion Inlet employment.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
SEWING CLUB WILL MEET

The Monday Night Sewing Club
viii meet next Monday evening at
the home of Mrs. D. Dore.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
ALASKA EVANGELIZATION
SOCIETY
Native Gospel ServiceS)
DONALD D. VERTIN

Missionary-in-C Charge
$50 pm, Sunday-Young peoples
Bible Glass.
7:30 p.m.-Sunday Evangelistic
Wednesday, 7:3O pm. - Prayer
Meeting.
Whosoever will may come to
these services in the Mission Build
ing. We preach Salvation by Gods
All Sufficient Grace Through Faith
in Jesus Christ.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
GOSPEL SERVICES
douglas City HALL

Wednesday. 800 pm. = Nom
sectarian services conducted by H.
Gibson. Hearty invitation given to
all to attend
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
DOUGLAS GOSPEL MISSION

A. L. CALAME, Supt.
Sunday
1000 am-Sunday School in the
City Hall. Glasses for all ages.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
ST. LUKEs EPISCOPAL CHURCH

7:30 Evening prayer. Ser
vice conducted by the Rev. William
Forbes.
Ash Wednesday, 1920 anil
tany.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
YOUR BROKEN LENSES

Replaced in our own shop. Eyes
Examined. DR.. Rae Lillian Carlson,
Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19

consumed half a case before police
could harness them.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Walter A. Soboleff, Minister
200 pm. Sunday, Church
School.
2:30 pm-Divine Worship.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
sT. luxe cHURCn sERvICEs

Services will be held at the st.
Lukes Church at 1880 O'Clock to-
morrow Sunday evening. Everyone
is cordially invited to attend the
services.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
SAINT ALoYsIus' CHURCH

$50 am.-Holy mass.
Sunday School after mass.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
For Men
Who Shave
Daily!
SPECIAL PREPARATION
sOFTENS SKIN-SAvES TIME
NEEDS NO BRUSH

NOR MEN who find it necessary
I to shave every day, Glider is in
valuable. Glider is made specially for
daily shavers. A soft, smooth cream,
it is not greasy or sticky.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-19
Smooth down skin

To use Glider, first wash your face
thoroughly with soap and hot water.
Then spread on Glider quickly and
easily with your fingertips-neoer a
brush.
Instantly, Glider softens the skin
-smooths down the flaky top layer.
1t enables the razor's sharp edge to
cut your whiskers close and clean
without irritating the skin. 1t thus
eliminates the soreness that daily
shaving frequently provokes in sem
sitive skins leaves your face feeling
smoother and cleaner.
We sincerely believe that Glider
will give you more shaving comfort
than any cream you have ever tried.
Get tube at your store today.
Evening star., 1944-09-10

The year 1909 saw the birth of two
''backwoods babies" in Kentucky
each of whom was to become famous
One was Abraham Lincoln, the other
Kit Carson.
Kit was never to be so widely
known as Lincoln, but in his owl,
way he built life of some import
ance. He became a scout and Indian
fighter of much the same kind as
Daniel Boone.
Most of Boone's adventures took
place in Tennessee and Kentucky
but Carson spent almost all his life
west of the Mississippi. Kentucky
was only the starting point for
him: he left that State after spend
ing only year in it.
Kits father, Lindsey Carson, took
his wife and children to Missouri
in 1870 With the Carsons went
five other pioneer families, and the
party chose a spot north of the
Missouri River, in what is now
called Howard County, Mo.
The pioneers built a one-story fort
from logs and fitted it with many
"portholes" in which rifles could
be placed in case of an attack by
Indians.
The fort offered a crowded shelter
for a time, but before long the
families built their own cabins. They
also cleared patches of land so they
could plant corn and other crops
Much of their food was made up OF
game which the sharp-eyed hunters
brought in. The fort served as a
meeting place for the group, and it
was place of refuge when there
was alarm about the approach OF
wild Indians"
While Kit was growing up, more
and more settlers came to the area
of the fort. The youth spent much
time hunting and won a name as a
crack shot.
Evening star., 1944-09-10
Thought She Disliked
School Until 1t Was
Destroyed by Fire
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION.
BY Anna Marie Butler. ~.
Oakton (Va.) School.

Oakton (Va.) School.
I shall always remember the
night my 16-year-old brother came
home and told us that our school
had burned to the ground. I used
to get mad at school sometimes and
say wished it would burn down,
but know I did not mean it, and
when I walked over to the place
where the old school had been.
where we had all sat and studied
together, and laughed and played, I
was sorry had ever had such
thoughts.
Every one of my books had been
burned, and also the new pair of
purple gloves I had just received
for Christmas. All the other chill
dren lost books and hats and other
things. Our teachers all cried when
they came to see the place where
the school had stood, for most of
them had taught there for many
years.
We were sent to school the same
as before, but in a funny little room
IN private home, a public hall, or
one of the churches. I was one
of the lucky ones, for I was in one
of the churches.
But there was a big difference.
There were no desks, no walls to
paste drawings on, no water foun-
talns, no restrooms. We used tables
for desks-the long, wooden picnic
kind. For water fountains, we used
coolers, and big tin cans, but half
the time the water ran out. We
no longer had the hot lunches, the
indoor movies and the things we
had been used to. We had no
playground at all-in fact, my
mother said it was something like
the little old schoolhouse she went
to when she was my age.
1t has been long time now
since the fire and they are build
ing a large schoolhouse in the same
spot where the old school burned
down, but somehow, I just know
that we kids will miss the big old
white frame building where our
school days began. I started there
when I was in the first grade and
I would have graduated from there
next year, but my seventh grade
will be spent in a shiny new school.
1t has been an experience I shall
always remember.
Evening star., 1944-09-10
Prizes for Best
Contributions

The Junior Star awards as many
as five prizes of 81 each for the best
contribution published each week.
Boys and girls of high school age
and under are invited to compete.
Here are the rules:
All contributions must be ORIGI-
NAL. Write on one side of paper
and give your name, age, address,
phone number and school. Type
written contributions must be double
spaced. The editors choice of win
ners is final, and he reserves the
right to use any contribution in
whatever form he deems advisable
regardless of whether it is awarded
a prize. Checks are mailed to the
winners the week following publica-
ton of their work. Reporters cards
will be issued to writer's who, in the
opinion of the editor, deserve them.
No contributions will be returned.
Address The Junior Star, 727 Star
Building, Washington 4. D. C.
Evening star., 1944-09-10
Uncle Rays Corner

Shortly before his 18th birthday
Kit was made an apprentice to a
saddler. For two years he helped
to make and repair saddles of many
kinds. Then he left his employ
ment to 60 farther West. 1t would
seem that the saddler took some
interest in this loss, since he ad-
vertised in the Missouri Intelli-
gencer for a runaway apprentice
and offered a reward of l cent for
his return!
BY the time the notice was
printed Kit had joined a party of
men bound for New Mexico and
had reached a point within a few
hundred miles of Santa Fe.
In the following spring he started
back to Missouri and was well over
halfway there when he met
another party bound for Santa Fe.
A man in the party offered him a
dollar a day if he would drive q
team to New Mexico and he agreed.
At the age of 10 Kit joined a
band of trappers and Travelled west
ward with them toward California.
The country through which the
party passed had great stretches
of desert. Three bears were shot
and their hides were taken of in
such a way they could be used to
store water.
During one part of the journey
the water gave out. Thirsty, tired
and hungry, the men tramped
forward. Day passed into night
and night into day, still with no
water. At last, however, they came
in sight of the Colorado River.
Reaching its bank, they drank water
which tasted good, indeed. Meeting
some Mohave warriors they gave
them krlves in exchange for an
Indian pony. Quickly they killed
the animal and roasted its flesh so
they could have their first hearty
meal in several days.
More about Kit Carson next week.)
Evening star., 1944-09-10
| Public Library
Book Pointers
By Ethel Marie Wikandey
Music Division. Public Library.
Humorous MYSTERIES.


AS with any humor, that in the
mystery story is varied enough to
appeal to all tastes. Elliot Paul In
THE Mysterious Mickey Finn,
"Hugger Mugger in the Louvre"
and Mayhem in B-Flat" pictures
the riotous artistic world of the
Montmartre in series of madcap
situations. He takes all his char
acters to Montana ranch in
"Fracas in the Foothills" for a
superparody mystery story windup.
For limerick fans. to say that
Morris Bishop has written a linn
erick-full mystery, The Widening
Stain" under the alias of w. Boil
ingbroke johnson, should be suffi-
cient. Doris c. Abrahams, under the
pseudonym Caryl Brahms and
S. j. Simon, has written two mys-
teries to delight all music and ballet
lovers, for "A Bullet in the Ballet"
and Murder a la Stroganoff" poke
fun at the ballet with a gentle and
loving touch, as well as with broad
humor.
An intriguing approach to the
history of ancient times is Wallace
Irwins slant on the killing of
Caesar in "A BIC. as tracked down
by jaunty Roman reporter in THE
Julius Caesar Murder Case"
Mystery lovers, as we'll as lovers
of the light touch, will enjoy
Frances and Richard Lockridge's
THE Norths Meet Murder" Craig
Rices Home Sweet Homicide, y
Ethel Lima Whites while She
Sleeps!" Eric Kastner's THE Miss
ing Miniature" Hillel Bernstein s
''L'Affaire Jones" and Georgette
Heyer's They Found Him Dead
These books may be tracked down
at the Central Library, Eighth and
K streets NV, and at many of the
branches.
Evening star., 1944-09-10

orchestra and kindergarten. One
of the most entertaining events was
the staging of mock marriage in
honor of the 25th wedding ami
versary of the caretakers of the
center.
Anne also took piano lessons and
worked for the Red Cross. She
folded surgical dressings for 50l2
hours and came home sporting the
handsome Red Cross pin. She was
particularly interested in this work
because she is considering taking
up nursing as a career.
Anne is a member of the Library
Club and Dance Committee at Blair
and is exchange editor on the school
paper, Silver Chips.
Evening star., 1944-09-10
8 BOOKLETS BY
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Bertrand Russell, the distinguished
philosopher, mathematician, logician
and Freethinker. recently said that he
enjoyed writing booklets for E. Halde.
man-Julius because he is given the
fullest freedom of expression. In fact,
it is only in essays written for Halde.
man-Julius that DR.. Russell can give
circulation to the m d =. liberatine
thoughts he feels should be made
known to the average person. Most
standard publishers are afraid to issue
works that are frowned on by the
orthodox and conventional. Such a re.
striction is never encountered in the
editorial department of the H-J Pub.
locations. In the booklets listed below
DR.. Russell offers a feast of reason,
information, logic, wit, and rollickins
humor. We present: \
to Become 2 Truth Seeker and Break the
| Chains Of Mental Slavery 25c
AN OUTLINE OF INTELLECTUAL RUB
s.s ssH and ssansss of or'ss
HOW TO READ AND UNDERSTAND HIS
TORY. The Past as the Key to the
HOW 70 BECOME PHILOSOPHER. 4
LOGICIAN. A MATHEMATICIAN Soc
WHAT CAN A FREEMAN WORSHIP? csc
WHY I AM NOT CHRISTIAN 25c
HAS RELIGION MADE USEFUL CONTRI-
| BUTTONS TO CIVILIZATION? - csc
LIBERAL VIEW OF DIVORCE - 25c
We offer all eight booklets hy Ber.
trand Russell for only $l.45, prepaid.
Ask for BERTRAND RUSSELLS
EIGHT BOOKLETS. ADDRESS:
E. HALDEMAN JULIUS,
Box R.67, Girard, Kansas.
Evening star., 1944-09-10
Our Nations Pride
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
Bv Pauline Smith. Is.

Notre Dame Academy.
The sands of Pacific islands
On which our men now tread
Are daily being stained with
The blood of our valiant dead.
They fought and died on foreign sol
To preserve us from war and strife
To insure the future victory
Bought at the price of their life.
They stormed the sandy beaches
That mark the coast of France,
A thing declared impossible,
But today they still advance.
When the trials and cares of daily
life
Seem more than you can bear,
Just stop and think of the sacrifice
Made by your sonS-over there.
Evening star., 1944-09-10
Jethro Hammer
Dy W. tCFIUCG CW
McCdnu.)

0y MICHuet VeHHlHg. fCOUQTd
McCdnn.)
This is one Of those murder mys-
teries of the de luxe description,
one which aims at intellectually,
psychology and other commodities
generally left alone by the whodunit
boys. But. in spite of the impress
siVe getup, the reviewer. who is not
very lively in such matters, guessed
the murderer's identity on page Sc.
The book is 245 pages long.
So on the whole it would seem
that the commercial formula is bet
ter. 1t is too bad, for Mr.. Venning
gets away to very good start. The
first part of his story is as inter-
esting as any murder connoisseur
could ask. But the upstage quail
ity begins to develop very soon and
goes on getting worse and worse, so
that instead of following the au-
thor the weary reader will just
figure it for himself, which proves
to be quite easy. The crimes that
pay best are the regular ones, it
appears-at least on the publish
er's blotter.
Evening star., 1944-09-10

WTlVt poems, ne James oIoWn.
writes them so we'll that his friend
Paul Hankins, thinks his talent
should be brought to public atten-
ton. AS for the poet himself, he
just thinks his verses aren't so bad
And he hopes to improve by study
ing the works of Carl Sandburg and
Robert Frost, which he greatly ad-
mires.
You'd suppose that James IA
vorite subject in school would be
English. But for some reason ii
isn't. He cares little for it; in fact
finding much more to interest him
IN the study of science.
James thinks he inherited his
liking for poetry from his father
Cyrus Verne Brown of the Mari
time Commission. Mr.. Brown, who
recently returned from duty in
Algiers, North Africa, is a great
story-teller and writer, his son ex-
plains
But, regardless of where James
got his liking for poetry, he writes
1t, he says, because he has to-
1t comes to him while he is walking
around mostly" His head lust
fills up with the stuff" and he has
to get rid of it by writing it down
Here's sample from one OF
James poems:
When oyr bodice die
Our souls gently sigh
As they pass into eternity.
A years writing has enabled
James to fill good-sized book with
poetry On variety of subjects
Here's another sample:
My father ,Das born OF sturdy stock
He has fist like a blacksmith s
hammer,
And muscles to match.
He stands about 6 feet 2;
Built is he like pioneer.
He likes slouch hat on his head,
A deerSkin shirt on his back,
And the open country to roam in.
James lives at 1888 East-West
nlSnWay, belneSQa.
4 \ X
Why more poetry is written by
girls than by boys, don't pretend
to know. 1t may be that boys are
inclined to think of poetry as "sissi-
fed" But that, Of course, is ridicu-
lous; many of the worlds greatest
poets have been men, and most of
them real he-men, too. A he-man
for whom every boy has the greatest
admiration is 1t. Gen. George Pat
ton, who has been riding herd on the
Germans in France. And he writes
poetry in his spare time.
The Junior Star would like to see
more poems by James Brown and
other boys.
A Fall Fling" will be held 7 to II
pm. tomorrow on the roof of the
Jewish Community Center, Six
teenth and @ streets NV. It's for
boys and girls Of teen-age, and the
center's club department has ar
ranged a well-rounded program. Joel
Hayes orchestra will play for dane
ing, and there will be plenty of
refreshments. It's all free, too.
Evening star., 1944-09-10
0tamps
By James Waldo Fawceff.

The response to The Stars an
nouncement of Victory Day cachet
has given the stamp editor an op-
portunity to look into the hearts Of
his fellow Americans For two weeks
a steady stream of covers to be
mailed when Germany surrenders
has been flowing into his Office. The
envelopes have come from every
State in the Union. from Canada
Mexico and Cuba; from Army camps
and Navy stations; from hospitals
homes for children and homes for
the aged, universities, colleges, high
schools, churches, libraries, mu-
seums, prisons, department stores
shops of many different kinds, even
railroad trains on transcontinental
runs. Among those who have sent
them are Army, Navy and Marine
personnel Of every rank and grade;
doctors and nurses, clergymen
teachers, lawyers, artists and archi-
tects, professional writer's, photog-
raphers, chemists, engineers, all va
rieties of industrial workers, hun
dreds of boys and girls. All races
creeds, conditions of people are rep
resented. Many of the accompany
ing letters reveal the heights and
depths of human emotion.
For example: A man in New York
explains: Il don't doubt you are
surprised to see this cover with the
entire series of the conquered ma
tions' stamps aff1xed). 1t will mean
an awful lot to my nephew. He is
CT Joe and when he comes home
and sees how I kept his collection
up to date and the many covers ]
have for him, he will say the folks
at home did not forget him"
Still more poignant were the
cases of two Washington mothers
who brought to The Star Building
covers to be cacheted for a son who
is reported missing in a lost sub
marine and a son who is a pris-
oner of the Japs in the Philip
pines, respectively.
Dozens of other women express
their prayers for the return of peace
in such phrases as: MY only wish
is that we will soon have all the
envelopes mailed; II hope the
capitulation will be very SOON;
Wouldn't it be fine If it were all
Evening star., 1944-09-10
Guide to New Books
For Young Readers
FICTION.

The Bells of Leyden, by Catherine
Cate Coblentz Nongmans)- Story
of group of exiles who went from
England to Leyden in 1909 and their
final success in sailing for the New
World Illustrated by Hilda Var
Stockum.
Walt Disney's Surprise Package
(Simon & Schuster)-Adaptations
by H. Marion Chalmer from origina
stories by Andersen, Carroll, Gra-
hame, Barrie, Harris and others
illustrated by artists of the Disney
studio.
Once There Was Olga, by Joseph
inc Balfour Payne Putnam) Story
of farm couples search for a
donkey. Illustrated by Joan Balfour
Payne.
A Picture Book Of Mother Goose
by Berta and Elmer Hader Coward
McCann)-The old favorites dressed
up with some beautiful new draw
ings.
Then There Were Five, by Eliza
beth Enright Farrar & Rinehart)-
Father was in Washington anc
Cuffy away visiting sick cousin, sc
there was no limit to what could
happen in the Melendy family. Ano
practically everything did happen
all to make an engaging story, at.
tractively illustrated by the author.
No Room, by Rose Dobbs Coward
McCann)-The old story of how the
selfish old peasant was cured of his
selflshness, retold with humor and
illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.
A Tale Of Two Houses, by Caroline
Dyer (Whittlesey) - Picture story.
book Illustrated by Donald Mckay.
NONFICTION.
Laffy Of the Navy Salvage Divers
by Iris Vinton Dodd, Mead)-Story
of real dogs adventures as mascot
Of a Navy training school in New
York. Illustrated by Addison Bur-
bank.
Ranger Commando, Jr., by Victor
Lawson (Enterprise)-A famous ath-
lete and swimming coach tells boys
and girls all about Rangers and
Commands and throws in q huge
amount Of advice and instruction on
a wide variety of subjects. A minia-
ture library in one book, with $50
Illustrations.