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SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1942 “DON'T FILM THIS LOVE STORY,” THEY SAID, “IT'S DYNAMITE!" The startling drama of the world's richest man—and the two women he married . . . the society beauty who walked out on him . . . the $15 clerk who broke his heart! What was his fatal weakness ? Critics hail it the greatest ever made! See THIS from the beginning for ALL its thrills! Features at: 7:30—10:00 The Mercury Actors Tioans ay Collins lur.. Coulourts Agnes Moorshead Pasl Stewart Ruth Warrick Brokine Sanford Willlam Alland SUNDAY MATINEE STARTS AT 2 P. M. PREVUE TONIGHT AT 1:15 A. M. TONIGHT— Ty “Ellery Queen Murder Ring” Show Place of Juneau 8 Girls About Town" THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA "CITIZEN KANE" T0 OPEN SUNDAY | = ON CAPITOL BILL| Confroversial Orson Wells Picture Will Show in Juneau The most controversial motion picture r to come out of Holly wood, RKO Radio’s “Citizen Kane,” at last will be presented locally, opening at the Capitol Theatre o Sunday, following its triumphant uccess as @ roadshow in the coun- try’s greatest cities. Needless ‘o $ this is the picture produced, di- mgled and acted in by that storm center oi the entertainment world, Orson Welles. Orson Welles has become a leg-! snd at the age of 26, and his first motion picture, created with no previous experience on Welles' pavt | in the ceiluloid industry, sets stand- | ards, introduces bold innovations, disregards sacred traditions to the :xtent tnat critics nationally have peen fiothing at the mouth with praise. Welles Mercury production “Citi- en Kane” tells the story of a man with a2 passionate temperament, who craved power, power over lives, money and loves, and who tried to iive as a god through the pewer his fortune gave him. Bold n concept, ruthless in ponrnyal.]‘ this character, Charles Foster Kane, colld never humble himself even before the beauty of the two wom- en he married. The love of one| woman he cast aside; the other| zave hir: back his own love when| she could no longer tolerate its| tierce possessiveness. | In support of Orson Welles are' ] Serves—in Puipit L ° When the Rev. Owen W Kerr of Bridgewater, Mass., left his pul- pit, wife and children to become an Army chaplain, his wife, shown above, took over activities at the Union Congregational church for the war's duration. Mrs. Kerr now officiates at weddings, bap- tisms and funerals and also vreaches the Sunday sermones. the actois of the renowned Mercucy | Theatre, Welles’ own group which‘i he presented to startling acclaim oa | the New York stage. L s NAME WINNERS IN Home Owners Will Not Get Fuel for Needs WASHINGTON, August 1.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt said today that every user of fuel oil in the East “should | J 1 MUST CHANGE OIL BURNERS NEXT WINTER wPresidenfiays Eastern ! iumv ALDRICH | COMING SUNDAY | | TO 2014 SCREEN | [ America’s No. 1 Problem Child Is Seen in "Henry Aldrich for President” America’s number one problem | child, Henry Aldrich, is loose again. | | He'll be seen beginning tomorrow at the 20th Century Theatre in the| | third of Paramount’s popular Ald- rich family pietures, “Henry Aldrich for President” with freckled Jimmy Lydon in Jackie Cooper’s old role | as the hilarious, hapless, always-in- | hot-water Henry. With the exception of the veteran Vaughan Glaser, the dourvisaged principal of Centerville High School | in the first Aldrich picture “What a i Life’ and Lucien Littlefield, who plays a teacher, this newest Aldrich film has an entirely new cast. “Most of the original players have Director Hugh Bennett explained. “That's one trouble with | family pictures; if they hit the na-| Ition’s fancy, the players become s0 i popular that the casts are split up and bigger roles given to each of | them in other pictures.” In other words, Bennett said, “series pictures” discover more stars than the astrologers. On the screen for tonight only is “Hitler, Beast of Berlin,” an elo- quent drama of courage, patriotism and love. NEW SHOOT CLUB BEING FORMED BY JUNEAU RESIDENTS A group forming a new shooting club for Juneau yesterday afternoon gathered at the Mendenhall Rifle Range for practice under the super- | vision of Capt. C. F. Scheibner and | several men from the U. S. Army Among the group of Juneau women { going out early in the afternoon | | were Mrs. Ernest Gruening, Mrs. | Frank Dufresne, Mrs. M. D. Wil- |liams, Mrs, Langdon White, Mrs. | | graduated,” PAGE THREE Where the Better BIG Pictures Play!? (20 LENTURY * SATURDAY—TONIGHT ——ONLY!! The Most Discussed Picture Ever Made with ROLAND DREW -STEFFI DUNA GRETA ALLAN LADD LUCIEN PRIVAL STARTS SUNDAY HENRY'S PLATFORM : A kiss for every baby Bigger and better and louder laughs! Ice cream sodas served in the Principal’s Office! C“HITLER ot BEAST News 7:30, 9:30 "'Beast”’ 8:00, 10:02 SOLDIERS WITHOUT UNIFORMS!| WITHOUT MEDALS! _Preview Tonight 1: Mahnee Snndav 2 00 P. H Everybody's votin' for Henry 'cause he's bring- ing back the Great Amer- ican Laugh! It's radio's favorite son of trouble in his newest, funniest hit! “AENRY Robert Simpson, Mrs. Fred Geeslin, Mrs. Earl McGinty, Mrs. W. S. Ramsey, Mrs. W. W. Council. Lnto\ Catherine Gregory and Mrs. | face realistically the fact that there | ican be no guarantee that he will | get enough oil to meet even his | CONTEST HERE FOR RLDRICH R DOUGLAS ‘ Violet Ryan Wed NEWS | To Roy Thomas SALMON RUN PICKS UP | In a quiet ceremony performed ‘The Gladiator, tender for Doug- last night at 8 o'clock in the home las Fisheries Co., came into port of U. 5. Commissioner Felix Gray frem e fishing banks this morn- in Douglas, Mrs. Violet Ryan be- ing with 9100 salmon. According came tie bride of Roy Thomas of to report of the crew aboard the Juneau. vessel the fishermen are doing| Witnesses to the wedding were bettey now as the run of salmon | Alma Nordstrom and Arvid Ander- seems to be definitely on the up-'son. Later in tne evening, Mr. and grade Mrs. Tromas welcomed a smail e Both Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have of the theft of two wheels from Street Lepartment. thieves had been found. The Bol-| INCLUDE LOCAL GARDNERS, 8th in Juneau under sponsorship o° the deadline for Scouts making ap- test may be secured by those mt,er-E Undee the Sty teefnie, ar Admission tickets for .the show‘semm at the Court of Honor which e Gk e treatment. | Mrs, Ray McFarland and her in- medical care. | here from Yakutat. Mr. McFarland being under medical care. Yakutat on Tuesday. poppv DAY POSTER , minimum needs” next winter. | He wrote Secretary of Interior | Ickes endorsing the Government and in seven jnqustry campaign to convert oil Chosen from schools tising American Legion Auxilia: Poppy Day were judged Wednesday stitute fuels now. afternoon to be the Alaskan win- - e ners in the Territorial contest. }SEVE“IEEN Three winners are all from/ Ketchikan. They include for High ARRIVE HERE School, Anna May Personeus; | ond class, Edwin Haynes; Tth grade, | Seventeen passengers arrived here toaay from the Westward. and third class, John Jennings, fourth to sixth grade. Those arriving were Carey Waller, | Frank Cashen, Harry Cashen, Mar- Each winner receives a $5 war| savings stamp as a prize. All three vin Nelson, H. J. Ainsworth, Merle Davis, Charles Brussell. U. Webb. posters will now be forwarded m: the American Legion Auxilia1y Headquarters in Indianapolis to b entered in the national contest rov: Saul Naimark, Mrs. S. Naimark, this department. Judges for the Allen Grassley, J. L. Arnold, W. J. Manly, Paul Alex, Alfred Hedman, Gene Hastings and George Olsen. Territory included Mrs. W. 8. Ram- sey, Mrs. George Sundborg and Mrs. | Alaskan towns, three posters adver- purners to use coal and other sub- | Mys. Ernest Parsons took part. Late m‘ | the afternoon, a group of huxbnndsl arriving to practice included Mr. Williams, Dr. Simpson. Dr. White, | Dr. Ramsey and Mr. McGinty. | The group will practice again | inext Friday afternoon. ————— | | | | STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, August 1. — Closing | | stock today is 2, American Can 641 Anaconda 26, Bethlehem Steel 25,/ | Commonwealth and Southern /30, | | International Harvester 47, Kenne- | |cott 29%, New York Central 9, | | Northern Pacific 6, United States Steel 47%, Pound $4.04. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 105.90; rails, 25.92; utilities, 11.43. E. L. Keithahn. The judging was held during an afterncon tea held in the home of Mrs, John McCormick, Department Secretary for the Auxiliary, and in Scene in Capitol Film charge ¢f the poster contest for| Alaska. — e, OPA ACCOUNTANT T0 COME NORTH T0 SET UP UNIT James Harper, Chief Cost Ac-| countant of the 9th Region of the Office of Price Administration, with headque: ters in Washington, D. C., is now in Seattle awaiting trans- | portation to Alaska, according to word rezeived by Mrs, Mildred Her- mann, Director of OPA in Alaska. Mr. Harper, who will be accom- panied hy his assistant, W.. Nelson, will set up a cost analyst unit for the OPA office in Alaska and train the necessary personnel for the unit, Mrs. Hermann stated. ‘The cost analyst’ unit is made necessary by the variation from the normal inethod of computing price ceilings which is used in the Ter- ritory under the amendment cover- The famous Washington wedding scene in RKO Radio’s dramatic smash, “Citizen Kane,” when Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) A | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | Introducing the new HENRY ALDRICH | MMY LYDON JUNE PREISSER MARY ANDERSON:-CHARLES SMITH - MARTHA O'DRISCOLL VAUGHAN GLASER - Directed by HUGH BENNETT A Pgramount Picture COLISEUM — NOW! —— “WAGONS ROLL AT NIGHT” — NOWI — couszuu PAAHONORS JOE CROSSON Several hundred employees of the Alaska Division Pan American Air- ways, from Seattle to Nome, were guests of PAA last night at com- pany parties celebrating the return to work of Joe Crosson, General Manager. of the Alaska Division, Crosson, who had been seriously ill for several weeks, was back at his desk in Seattle July 6 and parties honoring him were held last night in Seattle, Prince George, Juneau, Whitehorse, Fairbanks and Nome. The Juneau party brought togeth- er about 40 employees at dinner at the Douglas inn. Honor guests were R. A, Sundell, Operations Manager of the Southern Division, PAA, Brownsville, Texas, in Alaska on an inspection trip and | N. A. McDowell, Maintenance Sup- erintendent of the Alaska division. Arrangements for the PAA cele- bration in Juneau were made by Louis A. Delebecque, Division Traffic | Manager and S. C. Barrett, Juneau Airport Manager. | A. Richelson, Mrs. H. | Elizabeth King, Capt. John O. Con- | well, Henry B. Owen, Jr, Horace O. ! Adams, Jr;, Walter F. Conrad, James | C. Ennis, Mr. and Mrs, C B. Ran- sopher, Miss Betty Mill, Bud Selten- rich, R. C. Johnson, Keith Petrich, Caroline McAlister, Mrs. A. N.| Monsen, Arnold H. Miller, George | Berry, Mrs. R. W. McCrary, Mr. and Mrs, James Langdon, Mr. and | Mrs. Tim Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Don Graham, Miss Aurora LeFebvre, E. | A. Sterns, Mr. and Mrs. Henry | Ibanez, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Russell. | SR, UL Y FOURTEEN IN FROM SOUTH THIS MORNING __ROMANE r The screen’s new Henry Aldrich, Jimmy Lydon, and his best girk \ Mary Anderson, make an ap+ Passengers arriving here this morning from the south were, from Seattle, James A. Soufalis, Lu Lis- ton; from Ketchikan, A. Tvete, | James H. Buckland, Arnold E. Mc- | Kenzie, Mrs. Arnold E. McKenzie, Miss Gloria Ann McKenzle. Walter | 8. Hornor and | |H. 8. Hornor. rivals from Wrangell were E Connor and N. A. McEachran and | Ketchum pealing twosome in Paramount’s “Henry Aldrich for President® . opening Sunday at the 20th ¢ Century. LU Ll&lON I!E’I'UI!NS FROM TRIP TO SOUTH Lu Liston, Juneau Rotary Club delegate to the Rotary Convention held recently in Bellingham, Wash, from Petersburg, S. D. and Lieut. Guy McHenry. - — BUY DEI-ENS!. STAM S By GEORGE McMANUS marries his first wite (Ruth Warrick) in the nation's capital. spectacularly dramatic sequence that's one of the highlights of the picture, its action takes place on the White House lawn. The feature BUY DEFENSE BONDS is at the Capitol opening Sunday. BRINGING UP FATHER Attending were Mr. and Mrs R. I.| Congdon, Fred G Baxter, Stanley | DeLong, Mrs. Robert Crosswhite, Mr, and Mrs. Bruce Mitchell, Miss ing OPA regulatic in Alas] . Sasons 1 ki returned to Juneau by hoat todgy after being gone for almost: & 'month, H Other tenders were expected dur- group of friends at an informal BOLYANS CAR DEWHEELED |[resided in Juneau for some time. their car as it was parked near ————————— SCOUTS MAY STILL yans are living in the South. Douglas flower growers may par-‘ Dr. James C. Ryan, chairman of the Juneau Garden Club nocordmg‘pma"o"‘ for merit badges and ested at Guy’s Drug Store. Only plications are supposed to be in have als» been made available at! 'S Deld on Fhe: secanciptancey: of HOSPITAL NOTES Y ARk, | fant son, Arthur, born on July 22 in ls storekeeper for Libby, McNeill SAVE WITH INSURED SAFETY ing the cay and a fair day's opera- | reception at their home in the tlon at the plant was anticipated.' Fosbee Apartments, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bolyan, writ-| He forinerly was with the City ing to friends here recently, told Police and is now with the City their heme one night. No trace of the missing parts nor clue to the | MAKE APPLICATIONS —— e | FLOWER SHOW ENTRIES | FOR ADVA"(EME"TS ticipate in the annual flower show! the Advancement Committee of the this year to be held on the 7th and BOY Scouts, announced today that to announcement made here. | advancement will be extended for Several sets governing the con- one week. the growers of flowers to be en- before the end of each month in tered may enter them. order for the honors to be pre- Guy's for those who may wish to e.ach mox}tl]. Hereafter, the dead- purchase them, Khne will be enforced. BABY SON, WiLL Peter Oswald was admitted to St.| Ann’s Hospital yesterday for medical RE“’R“ Io Non]‘“ Blanche Marshall entered St.| St. Ann's Hospital, left the hospital Ann’s | Hospital this morning for | today to join her husband, who is Roy Fawcett has been discharged ‘ and Libby at Yakutat. from the Government Hospital after = The McFarlands plan to return to Our Current Rate on Savings Buy Your War Bonds Here Accounts Government Insured Up to $5,000.00 Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Association of Junean ILL SAY | AM-IVE OVE TH' YOU CLUMSY DO YOU HAVE TO BoOB/ I'D LIKE TO Si DOWN A FLIGHT‘&’SF‘%P AND BREAK A TRAY OF- DrfiHESng‘éHOUT ANY |

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