The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-30

far as our club is concerned. She has played here at the USO on dozens of occasions. The most pie turesque of these occasions were two of the latest.
 For several hours on Sunday night and about as long on Mon day she played for us, accompanied on the drums by a Navy lad, Hilton M. Frank" Franklin, colored boy from New Orleans with sen sitive, swift-moving pair of hands and a very winning smile. As pleasant as it was to hear those two, it was even more intriguing to watch them,-for Franks ship mates off big Navy cargo ship were mighty proud of him, and they crowded around during the performance, literally beaming their approval.
 At one moment we counted no fewer than q of them sitting or lounging around the piano on that narrow platform. Not infrequently as you probably know, Navy men are a bit skeptical about USO clubs (perhaps their feeling is understandable, too, if you knew all the facts). In any event, those particular Navy fellows quite ob- viously liked the Juneau USO in general and their new friend, De- rianne Barnes in particular.
 And while on the subject of well-liked GSO members, it is especially appropriate also to men, tion here a girl from Dallas, Texas, Joy Roberts. Recently elected to the council, Joy has been enthusi- astically helpful to the club in a number of matters, most conspicu- ously so in connection with our Wednesday night square dances and last Saturday nights success full picnic out at Aux Bay
 And speaking of council members tbut of the male variety this time) another rating mention is the man who is the most recently elected representative of the servicemen. He is popular Ralph E. Randy" Randall, Coast Guardsman from Wapato, Wash.
 The USO staff is happy in know ing that hereafter it can count on the helpful advice of this old friend (we've been acquainted with Randy for nearly two years) in continually trying to make the club a more attractive place for all the servicemen
 But our USO has more Service mems Council members than just one who are popular Coast Guards men from the State of Washington. The second of the two of them also rates mention by us today. He is Alfred L. Al" Buchanan, of Leav- enworth, whose picture from a copy of the Wenatchee Daily World has been decorating the clubs bull letin board. Under the caption, Buchanan War Front From AL aska to So. Pacific" appear the four handsome brothers who have been serving in this war (another was in the Navy some 10 years ago). Naturally, the picture has at tracted lot of attention from As many friends here.
 The mention of friendship fur nishes us with an ideal spot for the introduction of the name of a man living in Juneau whom it has been privilege for great many servicemen to meet. The presence of well-liked A. B. Cain has been regular feature of our square dances on Wednesday nights for two and half years. And just last Sunday night he gave a lot of added pleasure to a large crowd of GIs and civilians in the clubhouse when he presented his excellent colored movies of Alaska. (Thank you again, very much, A. B.
 And now, with only a little more space allotted to us today, we come to another must on the list. We mention her name as the final one on today's list, and perhaps for the last time in some months,-be- cause in few days Jane English will be saying goodby to us when she leaves for the States to enter college at Marylrurst in Oregon. Richly blessed with beauty and charm, Jane's presence has for two years made this clubhouse of ours much more attractive place than it ever could have been without her.
 Since becoming the USO hostess on Tuesday nights she has appeared on most of it's Quiz Contest pro- grams, sometimes as scorekeeper, sometimes as a contestant. This