The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 14, 1939, Page 3

T ———— = THEATRE Show Place of Juneau SHORTS puiey curtoonsehsna ne fiais LATE NEWS "~ MIDNIGHT PREVIEW LADY IN THE MORGUE JACK HENSON | IS PROMOTED | 10 M. E. POST. Former Rebb-rier on The Empire Staff Goes Up in Newspaper Circles PORT ANGELES, Wash., March 14—The management of the Port Angeles News today announced the appointment of Jack Henson, for the past 10 y Editor, the post of Managing E Henson suc who has t. Crown-Zeller Francisco. , Henson is a newsp: rman of 37 years, starting in Douglas in 1902 as printer’s tice. He retu. to Port Angele: in 1922, comin neau where he I for a number of y Alaska Empire < LIFE PHOTCGRAPHER RETUR:‘iS T0 SEATTLE Roger Dudley, boyhood uth from i been repor 's on the Da hi; free-lance photo- grapher from Seattle, who popped flash bulbs ail cver Baranof Hotel during the Grand Opening last Friday night, is headed back to the Queen City on the Mount McKinley, confident he has a “swell” group of pictures. It is Dudley's plan to submit the pictures to Life magazine for “party” group e The Hudson r is the most im- portant commerc waterway on the Atlantic coast. the a lal - by LAST TIMES TONIGHT PLANS RECEIVED FOR TWO NEW INDIAN SCHOOLS McGinty Sehdir;g Out Spec- ifications for Kwethluk, Nunapitchuk Jobs Plans and specifications for a $15,- 000 school at Nunapitchuk and a $20,000, school at Kwethluk were received here today by Earl Mc- Ginty, Construction Superintendent for the Office of Indian Affairs. The plans will go out to con- tractors in the next mail. McGinty returned yesterday by plane from Fairbanks after a speedy two weeks’ trip to Kanakanak, Beth- el, Nunapitchuk and Kwethluk. He went by steamer to Seward, by train to Anchorage and the rest of the way to the remote Indian villages plane. A new hospital costing $150,000 is to be built at Bethel and a $}45,- 000 hospital at Kanakanak. SENATOR HOFMAN IS Senator Joe Hofman, a bit tired and a bit disgruntled with the ef-, forts of his comrades in the re- cently convened legislative session, boarded the steamer Yukon today to return to the Gateway City. Senator Hofman will be back again next session, in 1941, as his term does not expire until then. e, PELLAMY GOES Ben Bellamy, traveling man, left Juneau on the Mount McKinley for Ketchikan. He plans to spend about a week in the First City. CARDBOARD CROSS! NG ‘is_attributed. by Washing- ton, D. C., police to F. A. Drumgold, 45, of San Jose, Cal. The officers arrested Engineer Drumgold for driving without a proper license plate and said that the Californian had crossed the con- tinent using above cardboard. Officer H. W. Carmicaael (above) is examining the home-made tag which reads: California, 1939. - & i Vings Amid Battleships at War Games A 7 When the United States Navy engaged in the war games “somewhere i come of the. battleships looked when seen through th: wings-of planes on the deck of the aircraft carrier Texington. President Rocsevelt, aboard the U.S. ROBERT TAYLOR FILM IS ENDING HERE TONIGHT "The Crowd Roars™ Seen for Last Times at Capitol Theatre Fans who are weary of the talk , can get more than worth in “The Crowd Roars,” one of the fastest-moving, red-blooded pleces of sheer enter- tainm-nt ever to be printed on cel- than any previous effort, ends to- night at the Capitol Theatre. Taylor turns in the standout per- formance of his career as Tommy McCoy, who fights his way up from the wrong side of the tracks to a crack at the light-heavyweight championship. He not only looks the part to perfectioh, he gives it every ounce of energy and acting ability in his 174 pounds, ringside. As the father, Brian McCoy, dis- solute ex-vaudeville “ham,” Frank Morgan combines his side-splitting comedy with a dramatic characteri- zation that rivals even his screen son’s work. Maurcen O'Sullivan, teamed with Taylor in “A Yank at Oxford,” once more proves the ideal romantic in- terest, with competition in the per- son of blonde Jane Wyman. The two |add flashing charm to the picture's lighter moments. Kenneth Fergusons Are Parents of Girl | Mr. are the parents of a baby girl born at St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday af- ternoon at 2 o'clock. The new citi- zen weighed seven pounds at birth and attending physician was Dr. William M. Whitehead. Mr. Ferguson, who is head of the English department for the Juneau High School, reports that both Mrs. Ferguson and the baby girl are 8 B VT L 'SENATOR COCHRAN T0 TAKE IN FAIR | Senator O. D. Cochran left on the steamer Mount McKinley for | Seattle. ' His travel plans were indefinite |when he left, hut he believed he would take in the San Francisco Fair and spend about a month Out- side before returning north to Nome. PRI IS SRS DEMO WOMEN A i IMPORTANT MEET A large attendance marked the meeting last night of the Detmo- cratic Women’s Club of Gastineau | Channel held at the Trinity Parish Hall. | An interesting discussion on “Child | Welfare” was presented by Miss Deborah Prentz, Supervisor for the Child Welfare Department, and dur- | ing the evening an interview on “Legislative Procedure” was carried jon by Mrs. J. C. Michaelson and Mrs. Stella Young. B e i SN 'SENATOR PATTERSON * LEAVES FOR VALDEZ Senator James H. Patterson, with two sessions of Legislature behind him and his term expired, left | Juneau on the Yukon this morning to return to Valdez. Patterson will assume the post of | U. 8. Marshal, Third Division, with | headquarters at Valdez, having been | appointed to the post while he was | | | attending the legislative scosion. | s, TR WOMEN OF THE MOOSE | Meeting Wednesday night, 7 o'clock, |LO.O.F. Hall. HATTIE PETERMAN, adv. Recorder. n the Caribbean,” this is the way . Houston, witnessed the maneuvers, in talkies and want action for their their Iuloid. The picture, which should do more for Robert Taylor's popularity and Mrs. Kenneth l’-‘uruux‘nn‘ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPII-?E, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, Ffi_‘).. I Glamor Girl Weds Producer | Hedy Lamarrone of the newest af the bride of Gene Markey perfermed at Mexic ., Mexico, af They are shiown shortly after their civil magistrate. | | ‘UTTER FLOP’ js Mary Cobb’s enfry in the new date- report system begun by a Rad- cliffe dormitory at Cambridge, Mass., so that the students can grade their men friends. A yel- low mark rates the date an “utter flop”; purple is “divine.” MRS. GLENN FRANKLIN | FLIES TO FAIRBANKS | 1 Mrs. Glenn Franklin flew to Fair- banks today with Pacific Alaska | Airways after spending two months |visiting with her parents, the !Wahtos, in Douglas. * | Mrs. Franklin will join her hus- 'band, bookkeeper with the McRae mining interests, at Fairbanks, and |will go out to Coal Creek in the banks on her first visit to the mur-|::‘ pool parlors Woodchopper district as soon as mining operations resume, | DOCTOR ASSIGNED T0 PERRYVILLE; IS THROUGH ON YUKON Enroute to Perryville on the Al- aska Peninsula, Dr. Abraham Le- vine, Office of Indian Affairs doctor. | passed through on the Yukon today | Dr. Levine has been at Klawock for | several weeks. | From Cordova, Dr. Levine will be taken to Perryville on the Coast Guard cutter Spencer. He will be on duty at Perryville for several months. —————————— 'RALPH FURUNESS RETURNS INSID Ralph Furuness flew to Fairbanks lon a PAA Electra this forenoon returning to the employe of the Fairbanks Exploration Company. He has been visiting his parents at | Thane for the winter. — - \DOWD OF KOTZEBUE ON RETURN JOURNEY Representative W. J. Dowd, young- est member of the Legislature, and most distant-residing representative of the ‘House’s Fourteenth Session, jembarked for Seward on the Yu- gon. Dowd will spend some time in An- chorage before going to Fairbanks and flying back to his Kotzebue home where will take over man-| agership of the Ferguson stores and | afrways while his superior takes a| trip Outside, | Hoellywood's glamour girls, became movie producer and writer, in a ceremony fter a motor dash from Hollywood. marriage, performed by a Mexican ‘ l: HospITAL Notes l Mrs. A. Larson and baby girl were | dismissed this afternoon from St. | Ann’s Hospital. George Lamaki was a medical ad- admission last night at St. Ann’s | Hospital Ed James was admitted to St. Ann's Hospital for surgical care this morning. Mrs. Homer Charles entered the the Government Hospital this morn- ing for medical attention. HARRY WEST AND | | WIFE SAIL TODAY | Mr.and Mrs. Harry West are pas- | sengers for Seward on the Yukon today, returning to the Gateway City after two months in Juneau during which West was Sergeant-at-/ Arms for the House of Representa- tives. | Next Month, West will go out to Lander, Harvey Smith, J. G. 8hep- ! ;0 member of the School Board, ito be Bristol Bay again for the fishing season. e ' BAKER SAILS Sam Baker, traveling man, sailed ¥. H. Murphy, Mrs. F. H. Murphy, || | 1. H, McCutcheon, Ben C, Goebels, | ©11i2éns not for Ketchikan on the steamer Mount McKinley. | R | CATHERINE CHENEY SOUTH | Catherine Cheney, who for the, past several months has been on' the nursing staff of St. Ann’s Hos- | pital, left for Seattle on the! steamer Mount McKinley. While in the south she plans to enter busi- ness college for a course of traln-! ing. i | e | MRS. MULLEN LEAVES l Mrs, P. J. Mullen, who has been | confined to St. Ann’s Hospital for the past several days with a broken hip received as a result of a fall, left on the steamer Mount Me- Kinley for the States I e ———- MRS. BENDER LEAVES I Mrs. Helen Bender is a passenger‘ |aboard the PAA Electra for Fair-! ior. She expects to reiurn in about ten days. LA VA S BOYLE SAILS b J. E. Boyle, Divisional Manager for Union Ofl, sailed for Peters- burg on the Mount McKinley in con- nection with routine business. —————— Joe Flakne, Territorial Director of Employment, left for Petersburg on the Mount McKinley in connec- tion with business of his office. Lo i ATTENTION OES. | Regular meeting Juneau Chapter No. 7, Tuesday, 8 p.m., Rainbow Girls exemplifying their Degrees. Refreshments. LILLIAN G. WATSON, Secretary. e A new variety of cotton which is said to be resistant to fusarium wilt, a plant disease prevalent in the Mississippi Delta, has been de- veloped by Lousiana and Federal farm experts. ady. |sof, John SHIRLEY TEMPLE IS STAR OF MUSICAL | IN COLISEUM SHOW A star—surrounded by stars! That's Shirley Temple, America’s top-ranking star in her best-of-all cal, “Rebecca of Sunnybrook ri whicl ds tonight at the Coliseum Theatve 1 lded ast includes 2 h Scott, Gloria Stuart, Jack Haley, Phyllis Brooks, Helen Wes ey, son, Alan Dinehatt, J. Edward Bromberg, Dixie Dunbar, Paul Hurst, William Demarest, Ruth Gil- lette, Paul Harvey, Franklin Pang- born, the Raymond Scott Quintet and many mo g SEEKING NEW WAGE SCALE Peace Conference Is De- layed While Negofia- fions Are Opened | ' NEW YORK, March 14.—The fifth | peace conferenc eof American labor was postponed for several hours to- day to allow CIO leaders to attend | the opening negotiations of a new | contract in the bitumous coal in- dustry. CIO President Lewis and Vice-Presi- dent Murray accompanied district leaders of the United mine workers to the meeting with employers of 500 thousand miners in the soft coal section, The UMW will seek a six | day, 30 hour week and a 50 cents per day increase. The two year con- tract expiring March 30 provides | & seven day 40 hotrr week and a daily wage of $6. AFL and CIO peace was to be resumed late this afternoon. | e MANY SAIL FOR Slim Sumimerville, Bill Robin- | |D. F. D. OPEN HOUSE Juneau's Greatedt Show Value LAST TIMES TONIGHT : a7, Wl;6R055 Your Siar of Siars—— with Stars and Stars! In Her Grandest Musical by Far! SHIRLEY TEMPLE r:BECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM . | Business of greatest importance with RANDOLPH SCOTT—GLORIA STUART—JACK HALEY Also: Clyde Lucas—Pictorial—Cartoon—News: ooz o GOSPEL MISSION MEETING D UG' AS Douglas Gospel Mission is to meet Thursday afternoon at 2 o'cl of N Ew S | this week at the home of Mrs. Henry Schlegel. No memhership Isr1 %’d Sl [and everyone is cordially invited to COUNCIL TO PREPARE attend. T AT ONCE FOR P, W. A iy GRANT APPLICATION Nonml“msou transacted by the City Council at th;m!‘n!b | the regular meeting last night was o l authorization of immediate steps to! n(“ ' KH(“ m be taken to have all papers nrepared | in readiness to ask the P. W. A, President of the Senate, Sehator Administration for a grant on the Norman R. Walker left on the | 815,000 allotted the City for a school Mouht McKinley with Mrs. ‘Walker | gymnasium when that money be- to return to his drug store in the | comes available. }F‘h'sl City. A communication was read from It was Senator Walker who au- N. L. Troast, architect, offering ns-‘v!hm’ed the most significant meas- sistance with plans and application. ure to pass the Legisiature during WESTWARD, YUKON When the Yukon sailed for the| Westward this afternoon, 41 pass- engers were aboard for Seward, Val- dez a \ low nd Mrs. Harry West, Che Spencer, Mr. and H. L. ¥ Ruth Healey, T. W. Pcterson, W. J. Dowd, R. E. Murphy. | Fred Sorri, Joe Hofman, J. M.| M vod ard, E. F. Clemenfs, Tom Granno cos, Lloyd Pearson, J. M. West, Wal- ter Aswill, Ted Pluman, Max Scott, B. C. Casler, E. R. Willard, Donald Stragier, Noel | Stragler, Helen Stragier, N. H.| Smith, Ruth Coffey, Ed Coffey, J.| P. Crummons, William M. Long, David Ludwig, W. 8. Newton. | For Valdez—James Patterson. For Cordova—Ben Lowell. B He Forgot Pifching Pennies BOSTON, March 14, — Nevada would take a back seat as wideopen gambMng state if Massachusetts adopts a bill advocated before the legal affairs committee by its spon- | M. MacCauley, Revere, His bill provided for a state eut| tackets, church beano poker and bridge; gambling 1 on the trains; slot ma- chines, faro, monte, roulette, keno, !fip-tn), twenty - one, blackjack, seven and a half; big Injun, Klon- dike, craps, stud poker, draw poker ‘“or banking or percentage games played with cards, dice or any me- chanical device for money.” He forgot one game — pitching | pennies. >, — BUNNELL RETURNS 10 COLLEGE POST Judge Charles Bunnell, President of the University of Alaska, flew back to his duties’ at the Farthest !North institution of higher learn- iing today with Pacific Alaska Air- ways. Judge Bunnell has been here for several weeks in connection with Legislative appropriations for the | university. > Schilling of tartar. No *'baki over half a century, good cooks preferred Schilling—knowing that successful baking is true economy. fmmy POWDER For finer textured cake with lasting freshness, use Schilling Baking Powder! Ivis double-acting, made withe pure cream g powder taste!”’ For Tomorrow evening at 8:30 in the City Hall, the firemen's social for members and their ladies is sched- uled to start with showing of movies. An orchestra will be on hand to furnish music and dancing will be A letter was also read from the the session—the cocktdil bill, which lessee of the cannery in reference will bring the open bar to life again to piling. Chairman Rice of the |in three months. A | wharf comimittee, reported the roof | - on the dock bullding in need of re-| R| SHYMA" S‘u ki {pair, due to damage done by the recent wind. ] Clerk Charles Tuckett reported | som" Io snm the monthly analysis of water re-| S ceived showed the supply here okey,| Al Shyman, a Vice-President of A resolution was passed by the the new Baranof Hotel, sailed south Council authorizing the Mayor and for Seattle on the Mount McKin- City Clerk to botrow funds up to|ley. He came north to attend the $3,000 from the bank to carry the opening of the Baranof, school over the present term. 570y R Bills totaling $450 were approved PETE GILMORE m i and ordered paid. ,v g ——————— " BACK TO KETCHIKAN IS TO START AT 8:30 peie Gilmore, of Retchikar; who has been employed in the Sepate during the past session of the Ter- ritorial Legislature, is returning to his home in the First City on Mount McKinley. s He will return to law school at next . order, Refreshiments will be | SHAa; Clars; Urivensity 1580 il served. LR B IF Team et o i ot WAKE UP YOUR NOTICE OF CITY ELECTION & LN 1 Notice is hereby given of the An- L'va Bllh % nual Election o Mayo thres s 4 — Calouer— And Yo'l Jumip' Out ot Bed Foll of Vi und Viger ot whorifl pik members of the City Councll and Witk helt t the City Hall on April 4 | Reg | i are now optn ' | Eile office, for @l 5L G previously registered | nicird the v who have resided a year In the| . 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