The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 26, 1941, Page 3

PAGE THREE "MURDER OVER NEW | wrer e i pars iy " FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1941 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-- JUNEAU, ALASKA (CAPITOL THEATRE GR: W TONIGHT Show Place of Juneau THE MOST ROMANTIC ROGUE OF ALL TIME! _] ALEXANDER KORDA presents he Thief of Ba clad starring CONRAD VEIDT n-l SABU IN MAGIC TECHNICOLOR 1 od Ziree UNITED ARTISTS COMING—NEW YEAR'S EVE SPECIAL MATINEE Charles Cha[)lln The Great Dictator SECURE YOUR RESERVED SEATS NOW! Tickets on sale at the theatre box office General Admission at Preview—65¢ Total RED CROSS WAR CHEST DRIVE MON. Juneau Cha?tér to Raise $6500 for National War Emergency Needs for Juneau's contribu- tion to the first war chest drive) of the American Red Cross since this country’s entrance into World War II will start Monday, it was; announced today. A distinct campaign annual roll call of the Red Cross held recently, the war chest drive aims at a goal of $6500 to be raised by the Juneau chapter as its portion of the $50,000,000 war chest fund urged recently by President Roosevelt as the Red Cr national goal Under Capt. John Newmarker Red Cross chief of the Chapter, committee AUTOMOBILE OWNERS ATTENTION The 1942 Automobile License Plates are now available and on sale at the Office of the City Clerk. | The operation of motor vehicles not bearing 1942 license plates prohibited after December 31 R. G. RICE, City Clerk adv. | - e NOTICE AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing air route from Seattle to Nome, on sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. - - - BUY DEFENSE STAMPS A drive It's Healthy, Too! BRUNSWICK JOIN THE FUN—— BOWL BOWLING ALLEYS from the a here is headed by Stanley Jackson and in- |, decend in body on Washington, | John | B. F. Heintlezman, J. F. Mullen, Allen Shattuck W. A. Rasmussen, John W. Jones, Dr. W. M. Whitehead, Charles W. Carter, A. Van Mavern, M. H. Sides, Chris Hennings, Ro- bert J. Schoetler, J. W. McDaniel, Harold C. Aase. The territory covered by the Ju- neau chapter includes 10 communi- ties, including Juneau, Petersburg and Skagway, but not Sitka. - cludes Reck, DIVORCE ASKED Alice Stolpe Anderson has charged non-support action for divorce from Ralph Bar- ton Anderson in Federal District Court here, | EARNINGS On Savings Accounis ® Accounts Government In- sured up to $5,000. ® Money available at any time. ® Start an account with §1 or more. Current 4% Kale Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Assn. of Juneau Phone 3 Ice Cream Holiday Specials Plum Pudding Nessel Rode Pudding New England Frozen Pudding Juneau Dairies Inc. Phone 638 | plished in this picture Juneau in filing an| NOW IS SHOWING "THIEF OF BAGDAD’ June Duprez and John Jus- tin in Dazzling Drama of Exohc East the most coloriul pictures ever to be last night at where Alex- at a bril- all-Techni- Thief By wnd far one of exciting unreeled Theatre, presented his new “The made was he Capitol nder Korda fiant premiere color production, | Bagdad.” the balance of this week | with Sabu, John Justin, | Duprez and Conrad Veidt in ;le::tiin‘.{ roles, it tells a story {sut of the Arabian Nights: | story of the young Prince of Bag- iad who, with his friend and com- | panion, the little thief of Bagdad, seeks the hand of the | B while opposed by his and Vizier, the Magician Jaffar, who desires the Princess and the throne for himself | “The Thief of | venturous, romantic its best. The screen dominated by the sceres in dazzling Technicolor the magic and “miracles” in picture leave one in breathless amazement. The Flying Horse Magic Carpet, The Dancing Dolls, The All-Seeing Eye and a Djinni who changes at will from & titan June a Bagdad” is ad- spectacle is and 200 feet high into a tiny being \\'ln1 can fit into a bottle, are but a few of the memorable feats accom- Needless to say, “The Thief of ‘B'xg(ld(' utilizes new and revolu- tionary as well as secret techni | methods in achieving the spectac Lu sequences that, far from (‘\m‘ having been equaled, have never leven been attempted before. In short, it brings the exciting, mystiz |essence of ancient Persia to the screen in all its yvlor\ GAME (0MM|SSION - MEMBERS GETTING | - SET FOR SESSION Banning of Sport Hunting | for Duration of War | Being Considered | Game commissioners of Alas ‘are gathering in Juneau these days D. C, for the annual meeting of the Alaska Game Commission, scheduled to get under way January 11. It is the first time a meeting |of the commission has been held outside of the territory. In Juneau today was John Haj- |dukovich, of Tanacross. Expected to arrive within the next few days ls Andy Simons, of Lakeview, on |the Kenai Penisnula, Earl Ohmer, of Petersburg, chairman of the commission, may come here and| meet the other members, or may joini them at Ketchikan on their |way south, Frank Dufresne, execu- tive officer of the commission, ex- |end of this week, he stated. | Speaking of the Washington | meeting, Dufresne said today that there is a “strong feeling hunting purely for sport should not ,he indulged in during the present war situation.” “Game animals may be for be wasted,” "Dufresne declared. | It was intimated several weeks ago that a re-vamping of the Al- aska game laws, so far as they apply to granting of resident hunt- |ing licenses to service men, will probably be considered at the Washington session ELKS ARE PI.ANIIING FOR HI JINX PARTY Earle Hunter, Exalted Ruler, made arrangements for the refresh- ments served on Christmas day at the Elks Club when that group held an informal gathering. The Elks club will entertain their ladies at the annual Hi Jinx party on New Year's Eve. for the occasion are under the di- rection of A. B. Hayes. R BUY DEFENSE KRTAMPS the | right | Princess of | evil | the | The | pects to leave here sometime the | that | needed | food purposes and should not| Arrangements | Rescued (aplam and Crewof Iorpedoed Tanker of | This picture will run (’nr‘ the | | | at | literally | immense crowd | | been brought to safety at Eureka, Calif. Captain Clark A. Farrow and | Press telemat airmailed to The Empire. | NavyReports NAVAL BASE ' Wake Island EMPLOYEES Holding Out TO PAY TAX No Details Released But Headquarters Receives Word from Midway 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 The |Navy Department today said its ‘1mu~ of Marines still is holding out 'on Wake Island. The garrison on Midway Island was in communication with head- | quarters here yesterlay but the Navy would not discuss the messages nor how the Marine e faring on the mid-Pacific isles > 'KODIAK AIR BASE SCHOOL IS CLOSED i 19 Kodiak | The new Territorial school at the Siti the. Aliaka . sahool tax Kodiak Naval Air Base has been ... writes an end to the fight| closed after only three months of : ‘ waged by the Territory for sev- service, it was announced this morn- eral ‘mbnths to_foree. colletion of |ing by James Ryan, Territorial '~ ° Commissioner of Education the tax from employees on mili- Closing of the school is in line '4r¥ bases, Roden declared. with evacuation of women and chil- | During the past summer much \dren from the air base at Kodiak | difficulty was encountered by the since start of the war, Ryan said.|school tax collectors at the Army Three teachers were employed there ;4 Navy bases, The contractors and the enrollment of children had | .ontended that they were Federal ‘IEEChEd 115 at the time the institu- . umentalities and as such w \S"’“"d"‘"s b ‘;l:“' bsy l;a;/y ofrchm free from the payment of Teri ames T. Braafladt, principle of the ;) taxes and that this covered| school, is going into the navy. Bits » AABIO T well. At certain | The air base school was located | ‘DI emPIOVeSs as eight miles from the city of Kodiak bases the ' contractors and their Ryan said he has received no report | 1¢68l advisers openly told jon conditions at the Kodiak city|men not to pay the :school" tax. | school since outbreak of the war. Army Bases First > commenced an Y I)EFENSE STAMPS the contractors | THE WEATHER | (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) i U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU December 27—Sunrise 8:48 a.m., sunset 4:11 p.n. FORECASTS FOR TONIGHT ONLY: Southeast Alaska: Rain or snow showers south of Juneau and snow flurries to the northward with little change in temperature to- night. Juneau and vicinity: Rain or snow showers with lowest tempera ture tonight about 32 degrees. RADIO REPORTS Christmas Eve Ruling of U. S. Atty.-Gen. Means Much fo Alaska Claus, in the of the U Attorney General, an early visit Alaska and left to hundred I territorial today. it person what may thousand dol- stocking, several in the learned I'he money the $5 school dered collecied will be derived from tax, which w or=- from all employees at Navy air b in a communi- catioli received here by Territorial Attorney General Henry Roden the day before Christmas. The ruling,| which directs contractors at Sitka, and Dutch Harbor tocom- es ac at | Roden " against An- excess of .09 inches 4:30 a.m. temp. Lowest tem p. -26 26 -25 24 29 Max. temp. last 24 hours -20 Station Barrow Nome Mayo Anchorage Bethel Atka Juneau Ketchikan Prince George Edmonton Seattle Portland 21 Crew members of the torpedoed tanker Emidio gathered with their Captain (hd when an enemy submarine iorpedoed the Emidio, were taken aboard a Coast Guard ship. paid | to the Territory of | amount | ity “!the their ! _lof the tax. The contractors refused " point blank to do so—hence the Precipitation in | belongings. YORK’ IS PICTURE AT 20TH CENTURY Sidney Toler as "Charlie | New | chan | est | | players nds folded), after they had 31 survivors, five of them injured (Associated | | case was| time ‘o Trial of this continued from time to give the contractors n opportun- | ity to et in touch with their of-| fices outside. The Secretary of War and Attorney General of the Unit- ed States were appealed to with ghe result that the oontractors were directed to furnish the tax| collectors with a list of their em- ployees and to assist in the col- | lection of the tax and abstain from | claiming same to be illegal That settled the question with the Army contractors but not with those of the Navy at Sitka, Kodiak | and Dutch Harbor. At these places | also, it was claimed the tax could| not be collected. Rather than bring lan action against them Roden wrote to Capt. W. J. Thomas,. of | the Bremerfon Navyl Yard, inj harge of Alaska operations. Capt. ‘homas requested the Attorney General to abslain from taking any legal action until he had an | opportunity to submit the question | 'to the Attorney General of the United States. Roden consented to this. chorage. On Christmas Eve } December 24 Roden received | of a communication in| he officer On la copy | which t] in charge of the ‘lhl\':\l air stations directs the COII-I tractors at Sitka, Kodiak and Dutch | Harbor to comply with the Alaska |school tax laws, to furnish list of their employees to the collectors, | to advise their men to pay the| itax and to retain same out of 1Lhe-,n wages if they fail to do so. This, Roden hopes, is the last| chapter in the history of the school | |tax collection in the Territory. “Probably several thousand men have escaped payment of this tax! |during the present year due to| stubborn refusal of the con-| tractors to give a little assistance |to the collectors,” Roden said to- ay. “The law requires that an mployer furnish the collector a list of his employees and to re- | tain out of their wages the amount | Roden states that he will en- Ldeavur to retrieve some of the loss- es by suing the contractors for the amounts they should have held out |of their men’s wages . FRE | | | KODIAK, Alaska, Dec. 26— The 63-foot halibut boat President, Jack McCord of Valdez, owner, together with a $18,000 fur cargo, was totally {destroyed by fire at the McCord Ranch dock at Sitkalidak Island. The fire was started when the| engine backed fired. The vessel wns pushed from the rock and then the charred hulk finally sank after the fire raged for five hours, Bill Thorsen, engineer-pilot; Ar- thur Hawkinson, mate, and Joseph Rouse, assistant engineer, were |aboard at the time of the start of |the fire and escaped from the iflames but lost all of their personal OH~ NO -MUM~- YOLIR MOTHER 'S STILL OUT _LOOKING Cope 1941, (m. Features Syndicate, Inc, World rights L WOULD < I'M AFRAID SHi -DEAR=- | WISH MOTHER ‘l"O£> V\OR\?\/ING- SOME PACKAGES ORDERED BY MRS. JGGS— MRS. HERE'S SOME ROM PACKAGE FOR 5IX FLJ!? COATS S. JIGGS FQOM WALL. RUSSANMINIK FLIR COMPANY- JIGGS - | Toler {ing cast | ery | picts [to attend a police convention | from IROBERT (OWLING Chan” Nips Saboteurs in Latest Film Charlie Chan for—the picture been waiting stratosphere bomber! mystery hit from “Murder Over York” and comes tonight to |the 20th Century Theatre, with Sidney Toler again portraying the med oriental sleuth Charlie battles death - dealing pies high in the skies over Amer- ica's greatest city in “Murder Over New York” and in of the screen’s most unusual climaxes, solves a diabolical plot to subotage stratosphere bomber. Called by previewers “the strong- of the Chan pictures,” “Mur- der Over New York” is said to give not only his ablest support- but the best story he's had. Among the prominent in the cast of the picture Weaver, Robert Low- Cortez. Here's the ins have of the the latest Century-Fox It's 20th one a ever are Marjorie and Ricardo Murder Over New York” de- the adventures that befall York when he comes En-| route he meets an old friend from)} Scotland Yard who enlists Char-| [lie's help in attempting to locate a notorious saboteur, but before |Chan can aid, the Englishman is | murdered. Sensing the implications of the; case, Chan bends all his efforts toward a quick solution. He nar- rows down the list of suspects, and is about to make his solution when| a sudden attack destroys his evi-| dence. Undaunted, Charlic contn- ues his pursuit of the criminal! mastermind. The thrilling climax of the j |ture takes place in a plane high| aver New York. It develops into a LENTURY TONIGHT and SATURDAY Matinee Saturday 1:00 P. M. '2 GOOD PICTURES 2 \4 0% pt ot* SIDNEY TOLER as “Charlie Chan WEAVER - LOWERY CORTEL - MacBRIDE me COWBOY 'fl; SUNDOWN" —e COLISEUM “MYSTERY SEA RAIDER™ battle of wills, with but six seconds " separating Charlie from death—-| and a more suspensive job has never been turned out by the mys- tery masters of Hollywood. Also Tex Ritter in “The Cowbov| Sundown” will be the .('rvmrll feature. | - NEW MASON HEAD Robert W. Cowling was elected | Worshipful Master for the 1942 term when members of the Masonic Lodge met in the Scottish Rite Temple. Annual installation cere- {monies will be held in January. Elected to serve with Cowling| were Maurice J, Whittier, senior, warden, and Ethan H. Nelson, jun-| jor warden. Those re-elected were, Daniel Ross, treasurer, Leivers, secretary. e FIREMEN ARE HOSTS 4 CHRISTMAS DAY PARTY Friends of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department, and their friends were legion, were guests of the fire boys at the Firemens' Club in the City Hall Christmas afternoon. The open house was held between the hours of 2 and 5 o'clock in the iafternoon and there was a steady| gathering during that period. Chief | V. W. Mulvihill and a corps of ssistants were responsible for the| pleasurable affair. | > | CARTERS GIVE DINNER PAH,'I‘Y‘ A family dinner party was given by Mr, and Mrs. Charles W. Carter | at their home on Christmas day| for Mr. and Mrs. Don Skuse, George | Skuse, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Skuse, | Mr. and Mrs. Lester Linehan, Sarah and Charles Linehan, Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Tisdale and Mr. and Mrs. Claude Carnegie. Speedy L) Efficient aska ncwspaper. HEADQUARTERS TYPHOON SUITS Ideal for Hunters and Fishermen Sizes Small, Medium, Large Extra Large All in Stock H. S. Graves The Clothing Man and J. W.."g JULIUS WILE SONS & CO., INC., NEW YOP' The Dauy Alaska Empire has largest paid circulation of any Alo L Prompt Dependable DAILY DELIVERY SERVICE ON THE GLACI Highway ER HIGHWAY Deliv ery At the Empire Printing Company H.R “SHORTY" WHITFIELD, O