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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-23
PROGRAM

THURSDAY, March %. 900 p
m.-Regular Thursday night dance
in USO.
FRIDAY. March "a, TOO p. M
Meeting of Servicemen's Council ir
USO; TOO p. m.-Roller skating
party 0eave USO at 7:00) 7:30 p
m.-Movies in USO lobby; 9:l5 p
m.-Game party.
SATURDAY, March IS. $3.50 p
m.-Movies in USO lobby; lo:l5 p
m.--Dance in USO.
SUNDAY, March 26. 1880 p. M
COR later at convenience Of service
men) Trip to Mendenhall Glacier
500 p. rn.-Coffee and cookies, with
music; $50 p. m.-Vesper service
in USO; 1000 p. m. - Singing
around piano.
MONDAY, March ~, 800 p. m
Forum Club meeting at private
home; $3.50 p. m.-Movies in use
lobby
TUESDAY. March 20, $3.50 p. m
Quiz contest, broadcast over
KINY) $50 p. m. Customary
Tuesday night games In USO.
WEDNESDAY, March 80, tbs p
m.-Movies in USO lobby; $3.50 p
m.-Card party on second floor Of
Club; 900 p. m. - Old fashioned
dances in USO lobby.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-23
LADIES, CHOICE,

On the subject of the choice OF
leaders, we think the Juneau UsC
was exceedingly fortunate In an
other election, too. This one was
held at Tuesdays meeting OF the
Girls Service Organization.
1t has been said, you know, and
widely recognized that the female
OF the species is more deadly than
the male. Whatever the accuracy
OF this proposition as a generality
at least the young ladies of the
CSC could hardly have been sur
passed in the deadly accuracy of
their aim in picking off the right
girls TO be added to the membership
OF the ESQ Council. Their selec-
tions-E NINA Nielsen. GLADYS
Knight, Margaret Femner. Shir-
ley Kleweno and Neva Downs -
have served the UsO faithfully
they know its needs, and thew ran
be counted upon at all times to do
their enthusiastic best to make It
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-23
MEMORIES: MARCH, 1913
MARCH. 1914

Hardly a day goes by without our
getting at least one or two letters
from fellows who have enjoyed the
Club, have moved on, and want us
to know how pleasantly they hold
it in memory. Most of these letters
come from men who were stationed
in this area for many weeks; but
some of them were written by fell
lows, who although in town for only
few hours, seem to have been
deeply touched by some act Of hos
pitality CASUALLY by one or another
Of the girls) that might have pass
ed unnoticed by casual observer.
1t has been just year, plus a
couple of days. since the writer of
this column walked into the club
house for the first time. So we've
been acquiring many memories for
our personal collection for the years
to come. A number of them, among
the most delightful. are trivial
measured by objective. standards.
No happy memories acquired in
war time, however. are insignificant
to the men who possess them. We
venture to list few of our men,
cries today, not because they are
ours but because the recording of
them here is likely to stir up the
same or quite similar fond recollec-
tons for many another man who
will remember that once upon a
time during World War II a kind
Fate brought him to Juneau.
A poem entitled ITO a GRADUATE
ing Class, begins
What will you remember of these
happy days?
Memory returns to you in little
WAYS. ."
And so. if and when we grad
uate" from this war, some of us
will be remembering things as little,
no more significant (and no less
significant. if you just happen to
set a very high value on certain
sentimental thingsD than for ex-
ample, the only thing whatever that
stands out of the haze surrounding
our initial night at the club, our
catching sight of the smile of Katie
Torkelson that spelled a rainbow
colored Welcome" to fellow a
long way from home as nothing else
could have done just then
and the friendliness of Lila Sinclair
and Ardys Stiles at the first of the
game parties at private home. un-
counciously and automatically set
ting a standard for charming COM
partnership by ESQ girls beyond
anything which we lin our ignor-
ance as a stranger to Alaska) had
imagined at all likely i" and the
thoughtfulness OF Don Skuse Zone
OF the busiest men in town, but
never too busy to help the USO and
its servicemen) friendliness EVIL
denced by no one instance that
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-23
WELLMAN HOLBROOK
BACK FROM WESTWARD

Wellman Holbrook, Assistant Re-
gional Forester. returned yesterday
by PAA from Anchorage. where he
was called three weeks ago as a wit
ness In a court case.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-23
COMMITTEES OF MANAGEMENT
ELECTIONS

1t has been with great pleasure
that our Club staff learned of the
results of the election of the new
members of the Committee of Man
agement which took place on Fri
day. We are comparative newcom-
ers to Juneau ourselves, so we rec
ognize our need for as much help
as possible from men of the COM
munity who are we'll established
here. For this reason we are de-
lighted with the selection of Frank
Boyle. Jack Burford, James C.
Cooper, Jack Fletcher. Perry Hill
cary, Charles E. Naghel and John
G. Young to serve with the men
who have comprised the Committee
for the past year. We regard the
choice of the officers also as very
happy one, Elmer Friend CHAIR
mani and Robert Simpson Vice
Chairman and T. A. Dyck (Treas-
ureD having repeatedly evidenced
their keen interest in the welfare
OF the servicemen and their loyalty
to the USO.
AT this time we gratefully &C.
knowledge how much help each of
us has received in the past from
the retiring officers, Chairman
Harry Sporting, and Vice. Chairman
Henry Harmon, who have never
been too busy to confer with us and
to be Of assistance in numerous
different ways. Though giving up
their positions as officers they will
continue to serve as members of
the board
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-23
COMEDY MUSICAL
ENDING TONIGHT,
CAPITOL SCREEN

Go to the Capitol Theatre if you
want to see the smartest, merriest
and funniest musical picture of the
season It's Columbia's Whats
Buzzin' Cousin2," with such bright
array of talent and such tuneful
lot of swingy music, that you'll for
get all the troubles you have OF
think you have.
It's gay plot that houses the
antics of that dusky zany, Roches-
ter, the pert beauty and tip-top
dancing OF Ann Miller, and the tor
rid rhythms of Freddy Martin and
his orchestra. Along with these
stars doing their specialties in a
very special way, they act, and right
well, in a story that is original and
clever
At the beginning Of the picture
we find Freddy Martin and his boys,
assisted by their handy man, Ro-
chester, stranded in a ghost town
when they run out of gas. Next
morning we see four lovely ladies,
headed by Ann Miller, coming to
claim the property Ann had inner
tied. The sight of the deserted vii
lage reduces them to tears but
everybody, including the boys, stays
and tries to put the town on its feet.
A gold rush, brought on when
Rochester finds nugget in his VIC
tory garden, brings on boom. The
picture, as well as the town, steps
up to dizzy pace, then. A few
complications set in but they are
irOned out in merry fashion.
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minutes leave with charming girl
named Mary Mccormack, whom
they had met coming up from
Wrangell some weeks earlier and
whom they were greatly surprised
to find as USO hostess, but as a
matter Of fact not much more sur
prised than she herself was, mas
much as she had had no idea until
three days before that she would be
invited to be our hostess and had
walked into the clubhouse to begin
her work just exactly ten minutes
prior to the arrival Of her company
OF Canadians and hearin q
the remark made by someone
Though the words are vivid in our
recollection. the identity of the per-
son is noD soon after we came to
Juneau that Those Nielsen sisters
are two very loyal ESQ girls" a
remark we have recalled frequently
as a classic example of understate-
ment. 1t being a fact that one year
later we can go on record as stating
that we could fill this column full
several times over simply by emu
merating occasions within our men,
ory when either Luise or Emma. or
both together, have done something
In the life of the Juneau USO of
sufficient significance to make IT
stand out In memory!
We note that we've mentioned
less than twenty names in jotting
down these random recollections
Obviously this list is little more than
fragmentary. If space permitted,
we could multiply It's number over
at least twenty times--and even
then it would be subject to con-
slant addition as other episodes
would keep coming to mind. The
fact Is that as long as servicemen
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WEATHER REPORT
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-23

stands out conspicuously but rather
by so steady succession of
thoughtful acts as to make them a
matter of course in the Clubs life
and the stories told by DR..
Robert Simpson Of his early days
in the Territory. good stories made
better by the sense of humor and
the sense of the dramatic possessed
by that genial host and the
comradeship of Soldier Bob Porter
field, important. figure in the Am
erican theatre, but more import
ant to all of us as a really rare
friend, giving us the Forum Club
evening most to be cherished in
memory when he recounted his adj
ventures on the stage and
the hospitality of Betty Nordling
and her mother that night. Gre
ating in their home an ideal setting
for that nearly perfect evenings
fCiiJOS sAANliS hllt litC iliCllQ-
illness OF single girl who repre-
sented a whole townful Of girls,
when Jeanne WHITTIER stood all by
herself on the dock for an hour one
Saturday afternoon in July and
gave USO cigarettes and Ice cream
to some 300 young Seabees, mostly
homesick boys from the East coast
headed for the Aleutians, not al
lowed to leave the ship and realiz-
ing that this was probably the last
girl they'd be talking to for many
a long month and the sight
lof member of the Ketchikan
Coast Guard boxing team, slender
ly-built Erwin Cape, in the ring at
the local ball park last summer, so
rugged and skillful competitor
and so outstanding among all those
fighters as to make one wonder II
perhaps we were watching a lad
who would some day become a ma
tional champion and the en-
thusiasm with which the First Mo-
ton Picture Unit soldiers, from the
moment Of their arrival at the Club
last fall, took our Aida Matheson
to their collective hearts (and kept
her there, too, for the many weeks
OF their stay} = and the ey-
tracrdinary zest with which every-
body present, as participants or
spectators, enjoyed the USO street
dance last July, a truly unique af-
fair and the sound of the
music OF Charley Reichert's Coast
guardsmen, playing for the Septem-
Der dance in the Scottish Rite
Temple, producing music that can
be described as nothing less than
tremendous both in its volume and
its power to stir up the dancers to
a near-fever of enthusiasm. leav-
ing everyone bit limp though still
excited when it was all over
and the sense of distinct loss to
the USO with which we learned in
the summer that two OF the local
girls. Sylvia Anderson and Doris
Cahill. were leaving for the States
to be gone an indefinite time, this
feeling of loss being acute even
though one of them had been In
the clubhouse only once or twice
and the other was not yet old
enough to join the ESQ, but each
girl in her own way seeming to us
extraordinarily gifted as a potential
friend of our servicemen and
the festive spirit of reunion that
pervaded the clubhouse one Aug
ust night when nearly a hundred
Canadian soldiers just off boat,
rushed in to spend part of a few
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-23
One CANDIDATE
INITIATED, ELks

At the regular meeting of the
Juneau Elks. last night, Major w. B.
Alexander was given antlers. 1t was
also announced that Past Exalted
Ruler Henry Messerschmidt will be
the installing officer on April 5 when
the new officers are placed in their
chairs.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-23

Largest early immigration TO this
country was the Irish, who were
driven from their homes by potato
crop failures.
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BEST SHOWS
LOWEST PRICES
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
MEMORIAL CHURCH Is
MEETING THIS EVENING

The Missionary Society OF the
Memorial Church, through its PRESS
dent. Mrs. Amy James. announces .
meeting will be held at 7:3O o'clock
tonight in the manse and all mem-
bers are requested to attend. &
Mrs. Ruth Meyers will serve as
hostess
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-23
COMING EVENTS

Make note now of some Of the
Clubs special events during the
next several weeks. and don't miss
them:
Friday. March 81 - Minnesota
state night. Cor further details,
watch the Empire.)
Saturday, April April formal
dance at Scottish Rite Temple.
Friday, April 7--Award OF addi-
tional ESQ Service Bars. =
Saturday. April 22-Sadie Haw-
kins' Party.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-23
JUNEAU'5 US0 NEWS
Interesting Items for Everybody

an ever-bctter club for the Service
men. Congratulations are due to
all concerned
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-23

get together in the years to come
and reminisce of the Alaskan days
of 1942-l944 there will be fellows
talking still gratefully of those
friends and many more and wildly
remembering why they continue to
cherish their names in deep graft
tude.
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I New City Officials
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lions. whom City Clerk Lead
better appointed TO replace Jones.
Jones viii replace Edward II,
KENNEDY. who resigned last week,
effective Feb. 10.
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I More Cities in Japan
Ordered DepopuIated

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Army DecordteS
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2d 1t. Charles Busick. 20l4 Della
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FIDR Vet
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Welt today on the administration
sponsored soldiers federal ballot
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SPECIAL HOUSE RULE

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week that every congressman
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on the soldier ballot measure.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-14
While Walter WinchelI is away, this menth, hiS column wil be conducted by guest eoiumnists.
"FOxllOlePete'' Mascot of ssh Infan- try Division Pet of
 oSgwVd sssAHd
 of Waterbury.

WITH THE FIFTH ARasY. Itsly-Pete. rubble-born. vino Eeaned. founding pup Of Private Prank D,Amieo. Connecticut artn- ieryman fighting with the eeth Infantry Division kD Italy. found Rome Rdtb its frenxied, 1OwerS streging crowds Of liberated na1 tiyes . bit confusing.
 Veteran of the Fifth Armys push from MiDtuFna over the mountainous spine Of Italy to Rome, nothing had Pete experl. eneed in his full 3 months of lie to prepare him for such . ronsing reception as that accorded the first troops to enter Rome,
 Village after village he had seen and heard blasted dOgp about JerTy's ears by his beloved seth Division artillerymep but the noise Of battle he was used to was potbs ing like this go ie just stuck close to his masters heels,
 POxhOle Pete, then just Q soft little ball Of flar, had been picked up ip the little village of caraao in southern Italy, D'AMie0 and his buddies Of Q wire section had wetvDnTsed Pete with condensed milk and Q medicine dr0pper until he gas strong enough 10 eat 'C ratiOns,
 Peteis natural liking foT wine, according to the aftilleFymap had made him the sfattestg and "gTiekiasw pup an the line, He was always on hand, barking and Wags sing his tai, EhAn the men ye5 turned from no-inaE1'sslaDd afteH laying communications wiEe.
 The pups conduct has been SO good, they said, that he's been recommended for . promotion to sergeant.
 Vital ststAstias An ROxh0le Pete aFe' height, ge inches; weigbt about i've pohDdsi overall length, 30 inches,
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