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THE CAPITOL has the BIG PICTURES and NEWS that is NEWS FRIDAY and MICKEY MOUSE SUTIIVA CAPITOL gt First Show Starts 7 P. M. SATURDAY—1 P. M. A PRICE ON HIS HEAD-— D) 4 COLUMBIA PICTURE LAST THRILLING CHAPTER DICK TBACY” STARTING NEXT WEEK “The Flaming Frontier® M it i(:{!I!llIIIIIIIIIIlllIlIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIlIIIHIIIIIIIII|lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHINHIIIIIIIIIllllIINIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIlllIIlIIIIIIlIll LETTUCE, large crisp heads, 2 for 25c! SQUASH, rer Ib. G - ,,--~mmm_-m,w~ D e OCAL LARGE JUICE . 2doz. 49c GOES - 41bs. 1§ i ORANGES - 3No.2cans 10 Pounds GE&APEFRUIT JUICE BULK SUGAR 33e¢ 65¢ oo TRag THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JAN. TWO PICTURES ARE SEEN AS CAPITOL SHOW "Secrefs of a Nurse” and, "Thundering West” | Playing Here Emerging from opening day's showings as one of the “surprise” dramas of the year, Universal's “Secrets of a Nurse,” with Edmund Lowe, Helen Mack and Dick Foran, will have its local debut tonight| at the Capitol Theatre, The timely story theme deals| y with the sharp contro- ver ethical or non-ethical a professional trained | can- or cannot make, unusual triangle as a high- | °d criminal attorney who romance and reputation s an invincible courtroom strate- ist when he defends his young| al on an open-and-shut murder | fTack, as a beautiful nurse,| as a young boxer com- e the trio. Action begins when . badly battered in a fight sent to a hospital and is mirac- ll()u\]\ pulled through a battle for his life by the nurse. Later the pugilist is framed ont murder charge and on the nurse's | lea, the lawyer agrees to defend him, even though circumstantial vidence points to his guilt. An uphill court battle results,| limaxed by one of the most sur- prising endings to any story. Paul Hurst, Samuel S. Hinds, David Oliver, Leon Ames, Frances Robinson, Dorothy Arnold, Stan- ey Hughes and Clarence Muse are utstanding in support. Also playing is “The Thundering " which stars Charles Star- - — - 600D DOUBI.E BILL SHOWING ON SCREEN 5, 1940. Daily Crossword Puzzle ACROSS Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle DM N<I0>|Zmo | mimw . On_ the side away from | MICHAEL WHALEN 'JEAN ROGERS | { CHICK CHANDLER [ ROBERT KELLARD « JOAN WOODBURY | HAROID HUBER MARC LAWRENCE Executive Producer Sol M. Wurtzel Dicud o 1, B Hombanions + S6otn oy O el o ond e Rey . O o b o Tt end o Yoo A 20th Century-Fox Picture 'BUILDING PERMIT | ' SLUMP NOTED IN than Half of Pre- vious Year Building permits i in 1939 totalled $203491, which r the northern branch of after April 1 will bc done g OWNED AND _ OPERATED _n/ m Starling Tonight TWIN-HIT PROGRAM 1939 IN JUNEAU Tofal of $294,491 - Less| less than half the 1938 volume, ac- tion ana the drating of work pro- flllIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIII|IIlI||llll|l|llIllllllllllllllllllllm | Juneau’s Greatest Show Value THUNDERING THRILLS in the WILDEST WESTERN EPIC! TEX RITTER —as a two-fisted Texas troubadour joins an out- law band . . . and ser- enades a killer with flaming 45's| "Down the Wyoming Trail” with His Wonder Horse "WHITE FLASH" Matinee Tomorrow 1:00 P. M. Candy———Cartoon | cording to an announcement today by City Building Inspector Miltom Lagergren. Residential permits last year amounted to $139,451 and business permts to $153,950. In 1938, residential permits to= talled $222,155.50, business permits $381,395, for a total of $603,550.50; 1937, residential $136,427, business $102,775, total $239,202; 1936, busie ness $171,306, residential $246,107; | total, $417,413. e —— Mr. and Mrs. Jack F. Derrig, formerly of Ketchikan, have moved ed in Junenu} to Juneau to make their home and is|have taken an apartment at the Hillerest. iz Crackers - - - 29c | TomatoSoup - - 3for 25¢ JACKSON DAY DINNER }b\ Land Office officials of (OI_ISEUM SHOW'd“ tood that work projects thal; SR | l Cl sc Kitchenette ven-Baked Each 5c Cackies - - - - pkg. 33¢ Hot Sauce - - 1 1b. can 39c Planters 'z1amont Preserves 39 | Peanuis - - {RACHES, Bel Mlonte glice or halves, 2% tin - 19c LARGE Fresh Ranch Eggs | 2 doz. 63c MALES, ARMOUR'S, in glassjar - - - WALNUT MEATS, Fresh - - Half Pound 29c 3— 11b.tins SNOWDRIFT 59¢ # Complete Line of Heinz Famous Baby Foods Free Fast Deliveries Courteous Service .dllIl!llIIIlIIIlIIllIIllIllll||III||IlllllllllIIIIIIIl||IIIIII||I||||IIIlI!lIIIIIIlllIIIIIIHHIIIIIIlIIIllllIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIII. | S'EEA ;'7' | Alaska Eleciric Light & Power Co. You Can Cook It Retter Elecrtically Use a G-E Range — Elegtric cookery gives you the very definite advantages of better tasting, fuller flavored foods and more uniform results. New features developed by the famous G-E “House of Magic” have simplified the fine art of good cookery. Every year more and more thousands of homes change over to electric cooking. TRY IT! A New G-E Range at a New Low Price $110.00 Be Sure to Sao It TODAY at ALASKA ELECTBIC LIGHT & POWER CO. “While New York Sleeps,” the econd of the 20th Century-Fox oving Reporter series, comes to the Coliseum Theatre tonight with Michael Whalen and Chick Chand- er again playing those sleuthsome newshounds who made their bow n “Time Out For Murder.” The story is packed with thrills | nd humor and the boys are not| verse to taking a little romance ith their work. Pretty Jean Rog- | who appeared in the earlier ilm, is again their chief romantic| headache In this second thriller the Rov-| ng Reporters become involved in| series of bond messenger mur-| ers and get themselves in a classic| pot by breaking a murder story | efore it happens — and then find- ng the “victim” murdered a s&c— nd time! But Whalen and Chandler carry n gallantly—even with fair Jean jailed as a suspect and the police | n their own trail—and, after a| ries of thrill-packed adventures, | rack down the murderer and solve| he mystery. Second attraction features Tex! itter, Charles King and Bob Terry n “Down the Wyoming Trail.” L o ] = INTERIOR DEPT. GETS THIRD OF CCCIN ALASKA ‘Work in Inferior and West- ward fo Be Directed by Land Office That part of the Alaska CCC oper- |ating in portions of the Territory |north and west of Anchorage, in- cluding Cook Inlet, will, after March I BABY BEEF POT ROAST - BARY BEEF ROLLED RUMP BARBY BEEF ROLLED RIB - ROAST LEG VEAL - - - - ROAST LEG PORK - - - - ROAST LEG EAMB - - - - according to an announcment by Regional Forester B. Frank Heint- zleman. The Forest Service will der. The section of the CCC organiza- | tion to be transferred to Land Of- fice supervision will cover one-third of the Territorial organization, ap- that has been assigned to the re-| gion north of Anchorage in the past. | When the CCC program was first | tematic fire protection for these land: | rails 32.20, utilities 26.07. 131, next, be supervised by the Gen-[ |eral Land Office from Anchorage, | continue to handle the CCC from | the Kenai Peninsula south to Hy-" proximately the same proportion || will contribute to the protection of | = the open public domain of Interior | = Alaska from forest and brush fires | are to be especially favored. Sys | was initiated last year by the Gen eral Land Office under the direc tion of William J. McDonald. >-re — A T L Bl S OCK Qumuxoxvs i NEW “YORK, Jan. 5. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 67¢, American Can | 114%, American Power and Light 4%, Anaconda 29%, Bethlehem | Steel 80, Commonwealth and South- ern 1%, Curtiss Wright 19%, Gen-| eral Motors 54%, International Har- | vester 60%, Kennecott 37%, va\,i | York central 18, Northern Pncmm 9%, United States Steel 65%,| Pound $391%. Butler-Mauro Drug Co. Harry Race Drug Store Baranof Hotel S AVERAGES are today's Dow, industrials 151.54, | DOW, JO! The followi Jones averages: JANUARY S8TH—-6:30 P. M. Gold Room BARANOF HOTEL $2.50 Plate Tickets On Sale Atz===- Juneau Drug Co. Hollmann's Pharmacy Guy Smith Drug Co. = e (In Douglas and Juneau) filIIIIIIHIIllIIIIlIIIIlIllllllllll|||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIImIlllllllllllllllllllllll GEORGE BROTHERS PAY'N TAKIT PHONE 92 or 95 PHONE 92 or 9 BUTTER, Pound 35c authorized for Alaska in 1933, en-| rollments and projects were confined | to National Forest areas of South- east Alaska and the Prince William Sound region, under Forest Service| supervision. In 1937 the program was extended to other sections of Alaska wher work was justified on the basis of unemployment condi- tions and the need for public im-| provements of the type that are au- thorized as CCC projects. Perma-| nent camps were established at An- | chorage and Fairbanks. Temporary camps and day labor projects in‘ scores of other localities have been conducted in the past three years; 1 among the Eskimos of the Bering| Sea coast, the Indians on the Yu-/ kon and Kuskokwim Rivers, andl among the Whites and Natives of | the Kenai Peninsula and Cook Inlet country. The setting up of an organiza- BACON - lbo = b 1b. 1b. 1b. 35¢ 25¢ STARTING JANUARY 12—FRIDAY—We are having drawings at 7 P. M. Every Friday. THREE VALUABLES PRIZES! Be sure and get your licket with each dollar purchase. Drawing fakes place in our liquor store. GEORGE BROTHERS PAY°N TAKIT PHONE 92or 35 MIXERS AFTER 6 P. M. PHONE 92 or 35