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Defense In Swingtime
Apparently having learned a few tricks from the motion pic
tures and radio programs which popularized themselves through
theme songs, the U. S. Treasury Department is doing alright for
itself along musical lines.
Latest tuneful wrinkle in the national fiscal offices is the pro
motion of the popular song and dance hit, “Any Bond* Today?"
which is being swung by various patr.otic dance bands all over
the nation as a step in the campaign to sell more Defense Savings
Bonds.
In a style in keeping with the importance of the U. S. Trea
sury. the Morgenthau Music House is really going to town with
its financial composition. Famed Irvin Berlin wrote the song as
a theme song for the Defense Savings Program, and the best
orchestras in Che country are making phonographic recordings
ctf the piece.
Most recent development in the swingtime sales program of
the House of Morgenthau is an agreement of the Automatic
Phonograph Manufacturers Association and representatives of all
major recording companies with the objective of having "Any
Bends Today?” placed in the No. 1 position on every one of the
300,500 juke boxes in the country.
So the patrons of roadhouses, taverns and'small caifes. where
r.-r.st of the music boxes are located can have a choice of the
music accompanying this harmonious sales campaign, at least
three record compaines have already placed recordings of the
piece on the market. On the Decca record, the Berlin patriotic
number is played by the Decca Band and features the singing
of Dick Robertson. On a new Victor record, the selection is surg
by Barry Wood, who first popu'arized the piece by singing it on
the Treasury Hour, a nationwide Morgenthau broadcast. A new
Columbia rec •: .1 pr sents "Any Bonds Today?" played by Kay
Kvser's orchestra.
So far as we can remember, this is the first time a piece of
music has been u.-cd directly to sell government bond's. Undoubt
edly th stirring strains of "Over There" in World War I helped
a lot indirectly to so 1 Liberty Bonds, and you’ll remember that
Irving Berlin also was the song writer of that theme song of the
fi . . ti . ... ! c ad o..
t This same Irving Berlin, of course, was also the author of
“O' d Bit -s America,” written at the time of the first World War
and later brought to such a apot of prominence through the ef
forts i’ Kate Smith that it is a pupu «r competitor with “The
Star Spangled Banner” as a national anthem.
A- a matter of fact, if The Empire’s fund to raise rcceation
al equipment for the Juneau men at Chilkoot Barracks doesn't
pi ) up suddenly, we might get Mr. Berlin to write a theme song
for th ■ drive.
We might call it "Chilkoot Sleepytime Song” and it wou'd
be filled with the 1 ngings of the boys in khaki britches for push
balls and punching bags. On the other hand, not having the
Fort Knox gold hole to back us up financially, we’ll probably
■have to continue waging our campaign in print and leave the
musical notes to Secretary Morgenthau. —Juneau Empire.
THE NAVY DEEPLY REGRETS”
A telegram starting: “The Navy Department deeply regrets to in
form you” gave Mrs. .Jennie Dobnikar (above), 70, of Cleveland,
Ohio, official notification that her son, Louis, was missing from
the torpedoed U. S. Destroyer Kearney, Mrs. Dobnikar, who has i
two other sons in the Navy, sat by her radio, but had little hope. |
ADC Soldiers I
Carry Stricken
Lad To Doctor
Lief Steinberger, 13-year-old
Palmer boy is in a Seattle
■ hospital fighting of! the threat of
a dangerous infection from a gun
shot wound which shattered his
hip, and what chances the lad
has he owes to four enlisted men
from Ft. Richardson.
The story of the heroic efforts
of the four soldiers drifted in be-;
latedly from the back country'
| around Pa’mer where Steinberg
er and two companions, Donald
j Parks, 12, and Otto Peterson, Jr.,;
about the same age were hunting
i on Sept. 21. An accidentally dis- j
icharged .22 calibre high-power-'
ed rifle sent a. slug crashing into
tlie Steinberger boy’s hip. While
one of Steinbergers companions
i stayed with him, the other ran
j three miles to the highway
! where he encountered Sgt. For
rest L. Brown, Pvts. Vern By bee,
Glade Underwood and Jack
Bransford, all of the infantry.
! The four men made their way to
the scene of the accident, where
army training made itself effect
ive.
Sergeant Brown administered
speedy first aid, the four sol
diers fashioned a litter from an!
army blanket. One of them broke
trail through the trees and under
brush, while the others carried
the painfully injured lad on the
improvised litter. The grueling
trip to the highway, some three
mi es away, required almost"
three hours. From there the lad
, was carried by ambulance to Dr.
C. E. Albrecht.
According to the doctor, the
; boy had undergone a series of
operations for chronic bone in- j
fection in the same leg struck by;
the bullet. This situation, he
pointed out, made young Stein
berger's condition so precarious
that it was considered essential1
j to send him Outside for surgical
attention.
The boy’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. J. Steinberger, were in
Anchorage at the time of the ac
cident, and were notified by tele
phone. With their consent, Dr. A1
1 brecht arranged with the Crip
p ed Children’s Division of the
Territorial Department of Health
to send his young patient to the
Children’s Orthopedic Hospital in;
Seattle.
“The boy was suffering from
; cold and shock when he arrived
i at my office.” the Doctor said.
| “His previous condition made his
case particularly serious.” He
i paid high tribute to the Ft. Rich
ardson soldiers for their part in
bringing the boy in.
The terrain in the area is par
i ticulariy difficult, he pointed out.
, The accident occurred about 3
1 miles dowm river from the Knik
River bridge, and two miles in-;
land across marshy country.
The boy’s father is a farmer|
and miner in the Palmer area.
U. S. Marshal William Bou
wens investigated the accident,
i but neither of young Steinberg
! er’s companions was held.
Dr. Albrecht said he had re
ceived no word from Seattle as,
yet regarding the boy’s condi
tion, but declared that in any
event the lad is in serious danger
J of losing a limb and possibly his;
life. The bullet splintered the)
; hip bone, hit the backbone and
mushroomed out of the body.
— Alaska Service Record
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Duke of Windsor
V isits Henry Ford
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NEW YORK — The Duke of
Windsor left New York on his
special train for Detroit after j
spending part of a day inspect
ing Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The Duke’s train stopped at
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, where
Mayor Arthur Reaum boarded i
the train for a brief call on the j
former British king. In Detroit,
the Duke visited a number of air i
craft factories and called on Hen
ry Ford.
The Duchess of Windsor, who1
visited the New York headquar
ters of the American Red Cross,
remained in New York
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Fingerprint Jobs
Open With FBI
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Fingerprint positions are pre
; sentlv available in the Identifica
tion Division of the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation at Wash
ington, D. C„ according to an an
nouncement made by R. C. Vogel
Special Agent in Charge of FBI’s
Juneau, Alaska, Field Division.
Only men are eligible for these
'' positions and they must be be-i
j tween 18 and 35 years of age. j
have at least a high school edu-1
cation, unimpeachable character,
! and be .physically fit, it was j
stated by Vogel.
Appointments are not made for
i imediate assignments upon finger
: printing work but these employ
ees are selected from FBI clerks
after a short training period. The
starting salary for both clerks j
and fingerprint classifiers is
$1,440 per annum.
Defense Work
The volume of work in the
FBI's Identification Division has
increased manyfold as a result of
the National Defense program.
Last year, according to Vogel,
the FBI received 8.759,782 finger
print cards which were more
than had been received during
the entire seven years preceding.
4 Other positions of a clerical
nature available with the FBI
are those of stenographer, typist,
under-clerk trainees and messen
gers. Anyone interested in filing
an application should communi
cate directly with R. C. Vogel,
F. B. I„ at 515 Federal and Terri
.torial Building, Juneau. Alaska,
or with Director J. Edgar Hoover
at Washington D. C.
CIO’s Lewis
Advised To
Keep Calm
✓
WASHINGTON —C h a i r man
Charles D. Davis, of the Defense
Mediation Board, advised John
L. Lewis, of the United Mine
orkers board to consider the cap
tive coal mine dispute “care-i
fully. calm’y and not under
pressure.”
November 15 was set as a
strike deadline as the board
broke up its session on the dis
pute.
“I think setting a deadline on
any proceeding of this character
is an undesirable thing to do
since it puts the board under
pressure,” Davis told reporters.
Davis also made public a let
ter from Lewis, acknow'edging
receipt of a notice of the new
truce in the captive mines, to
terminate November 15.
President Roosevelt told his
press conference that* he had no
news regarding anti-strike leg
islat’on. but his manner indicated
he might have some later on.
Defense savings stamps are on
sale at retail stores now and Ima
Dodo has spent three days shop
ping in the hope she can find
some store that sells them cheap J
er.
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EVE CURIE DROPPED
BY FRENCH LEGION
PARIS —The French Legion of
Honor announced recently the ex
pulsion of Henri Bernstein, the
playwright, and Eve Curie, dau
ghter of the co-discoverer of
radium. Both are in the United
States and had previously been
deprived of their French citizen
ship.
Gen. Charles de Gaulle leader
of the Free French, also was ex
pelled from the Legion.
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English speaking nations have
two big worires: Axis today,
taxes tomorrow.
We like the spirit and' humor
of the English pharmacist who
put the sign in his window: “Bis
muth as usual during alterca
tions.”
Get-rich-quick schemes are
short cuts to disaster.
“When bad men combine, the
god must associate, else they will
fall, one by one, an unpitied sac
rifice in a contemtible struggle”
GERMAN SOLDIERS LOAD BIG GUN
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Nazi artillerymen load a shell into a big gun used in the seige on Leningrad, German sources say.
This picture sent via radio from Berlin.
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