The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 2, 1943, Page 3

" COMIC- FANTASY ENDS [ ] | | | rovenr 3“1 MARRIED A WITCH” TOMORROW 2 FEATURES {don't always follow plot up with murder! | f A UNIVERSAL PICTURE GRACE McDONALD PREVUE TONIGHT—12:30 A, M. steals March away | witchcraft as it happens. GUY KIBBEE is to have the siren fail. mere spirit, she gets a THEATRE THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURESI tlals. She does it, too, Bivins Gels | add color to the event. The game between the Coppers |and the Cheechakos, originally scheduled for tomorrow night in the Douglas High School gym, will take place there tonight instead, it is announced. ALUMNITO MEETBEARS i v INPLAY-OFF BRAMHAMIN FAST WORK CLEVELAND, Dec. 2. the top active heavyweight in Of special interest to all basket- erica, took a 10-round decision ball fans is the announcement of the doubleheader scheduled for to- morrow night in the High School gym. The last game of the three-| game series between the Crimson Bears and the Alumni will be played off, and the Gremlins and i Douglas Huskies are to mix it up/ NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—Judge Ken- in the preliminary 2 nesaw Mountain Landis and Wil- The first game between the Bears liam G. Bramham retained dicta- and Alumni was played on Novem- |torship of organized baseball after ber 2, the former leading all the an explosion in minor league clubs way till the fourth quarter when!seeking to oust Bramham as minor the Alumni put on a spurt and league dictator and end the minor- nosed out the High School team major league agreement, giving by one point, the score standing Lndis control of the whole works. at 22 to 21. The Bear promptly| Bramham, in fast footwork, re- challenged their rivals to a return versed the former opinion and per- |and received thunderous boos (the crowd despite the Murray an . 14,000 contributed $55,000 to fund. The booing continued The Associated Press card | Murray six rounds, jand one even mass of blood at the finish, |the sixth stanza. match, and it was decided to hold |mitted the 16 minor league clubs, Pfc Joe Maxim of a series of three games to decide | to vote at the annual meeting, al- Deavyweight, scored a al the winner. though clubs which had folded kayo on Claudio Willax of Spain {in the sixth round of ten-round preliminary. s On November 12 the Bears had for the year were previously held their revenge when they trounced | ineligible to vote. The reinstated the Alumni by a score of 32 to 29 groups all voted for Bramham, sav- in a hard fought battle. ing him his $25,000 a year job. | The first game tomorrow -night >oo - Al B AT GASTINEAU HOTEL | will start at 7: Prices are 25" cents and 50 cents, plus a 5 cent| tax. The high school band and K At the Gastineau Hotel, P. R.| cheering section will be present to Sharp is here from Pelican. { NOTICE!!! To Whom It May Concern: Teamsters Union, Local 172, C. 1. 0., is still the bargaining agency for truck and taxi drivers in Juneau. This charter stands for the duration. IMPORTANT MEETING Monday, December 6, 7:30 P. M. UNION HALL Please Attend! { American turf, has started for The trainer said Alsab is in condition now having iclose to $250,000. THREE ARE INITIATED Bavard and Logan Stewart. e IT'S THE WEATHER It Is Imporiant at This Time : to have your Electric Refrigerator checked for that minor defect which might cause a complete breakdown for the duration. * Alaska Eleciric Light and Power Company ne 616 Douglas Phone 18 is not fog, either. elapsed. —————— MRS, SENNA POWERS nouncement made, today. e et — MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETS FRIDAY Memorial o’clock. ———————— J;meau Pho ~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU CLOSES TONIGHT AT CAPITOL SHOW | [0 - R e R T | M Sl YOUR FAVORITE 'm‘ln“m M | Hollywood definitely isn't in a' Indications of a huge oil reserve | Five men went for her in a big P “-osoP"En mm ;"swr,\' groove.” in a 20,000 square mile area of; way . yet they all had reasons gets mixed “““ » | Added proof that the movies Alaska’s Arctic slope have been un-| for wanting her out of the way. n patterns|covered by a survey party of the! That is the background of the but make drastic changes is con- U. S. Bureau tained in “I Married A Witch,” the Ebbley, Jr., engineer for the Bu-, comic-fantasy starring Frederic reau in Alaska told members of the March and Veronica Lake, ending Juneau Chamber of Commerce m-;' (tonight at the Capitol Theatre. At long last, a siren has been per-| mitted to win the hero away from|which spent four weeks in the area' the girl of his choice. Veronica early last fall under the direction ' from Susaniof District Engineer Robert S. San- Hayward-—with the aid of a bit of ford. He said that the party found, In the strict sense of the word,|ages, six more areas with excel- |a siren is a female who enters an|lent seepage conditions. | established love match and trieg to \break it up. The usual procedureimhe new seepages may be only rem- Veronica, as sirenish as any gallbley said, the indications that huge could be, is a real little witch in reserves are there are excellent. “I Married A Witch.” Starring as a| body and goes to work in a big way to region south to Fairbanks is such break up the March-Hayward nup~fv.hat pipelines from the oil lands * Decision Buf Crowd Boos Jimmy |Bivins, Cleveland Negro ranked by the National Boxing Association as Am- from |Lee O. Murray of Norfolk, Conn. from unanimous |decision of judges and referee. | Bivins weighed 187% pounds and even 200. A crowd of the !Cleveland News annual Christmas steadily for ten minutes after the dgcision. gave Bivins three, Bivins face was a and {the referee was all red from a cut over one eye opened by Murray in Cleveland, | tion by the U. S. Geological Survey technical and the U. S. Bureau of Mines. a scheduled cluded Lieut. ~ BIG RACE { LEXINGTON, Ky, Dec. 2.—Alsab, |the fourth ranking money winning race horse in the history of the New| _ Orleans to enter the $15,000 Louis- iana Handicap on December 18. good recovered from a leg injury and will resume winnings which have brought home| BY ELKS LAST NIGHT! Three candidates were antlered {last night at the regular weekly | meeting of the Elks. The candid- iates were Forrest Bates, George| BUT SH! SH! WEATHER No planes are flying today on account of the—(deleted by censor) —-but the visibility is sort of nil. stuff in the air makes it so, and it But the kids are enjoying the weather and if it keeps | up chains will be put on cars—it is kind of slippery and slushy, in spots, also, more will be told tomor- row as 24 hours will then have | The AWARDED DOLL HOUSE Mrs. Senna Powers was given the | doll house award of the Trinity | Junior Guild, according to an an- | NIGHT | The Missionary Soclety of the Presbyterian Church meets at the home of Mrs. Jake Cropley tomorrow evening at 7:30! Four out of every seven homes in the U. S. are heated 'with coal. ALASKA DEMO PARTY MYSTERYDRAMA CAUCUS SET O fEATIRED. MAY BE HUGE | OIL RESERVES IN TERRITORY year's most exciting mystery drama, | 20th Century-Fox's “I Wake Up Screaming,” now showing at the 20th Century Theatre Hollywood's three most thrilling personalities, Betty Grable, Victor Mature and Carole Landis, have A Democratic Party caucus Of yhe jeading roles in this story of the Juneau precincts one, two and|giy who was taken out of the hash three, along with Salmon Creek pouse and made the darling of Precinct has been called for this cafe society. evening at 8 o'clock inl the Union| cqrole, despite her sister Betty's Hall on Gastineau Avenue by Crys- | protdsts, agrees to let herself be tal Snow Jenne, acting chair {glamorized by Mature, a promoter,’' man. | Alan Mowbray, a well-known actor, Purpose of the caucus is to elect and Allyn Joslyn, a leading colum-| lelegates for the Divisional Con- nist. After she signs a Hollywood (vention which will be held Decem- contract without her backers' con-| ber 17. sent, she is found murdered. The Territorial Convention willl pajrd Cregar, the detective placed be held in Fairbanks from Janu-'in charge of the crime, seems more | ary 24 through 26, according to interested in putting the finger on' word from Howard Lyng, chairman Mature than finding the real mur- ,of the Democratic Territorial Cen- derer, especially since most of the tral Committee. clues point to him. The mystery severe than .at Fairbanks, itself, [ e is deepened even more when Betty with temperatures rarely ranging as 3 (ASES of l"FAN“lE lo of Mines, Norman Meefing to Elect Delegates fo First Division Conclave day | Ebbley headed the expedition |in addition to the two known seep- While there is a possibility that |nants of once large reserves, Eb-!, Furthermore, he pointed out, the |terrain of this area and that of the | to Fairbanks are entirely feasible |from the engineering point of view, land the weather extremes are less falls in love with Vic and holds out w as 50 or 70 degrees below zero. | evidence which makes him look | Ebbley pointed omethmorhez ::i)l; PARA[YS'S A' p‘lMER; even more guilty. R 2 S k |per is now in a critical stage, t Towu IS GUARAN""E W 4 S H necessarily due to the dn:i: :u nooil‘ FOHITS D Oman S O(Ie'y Of | reserves by the war, but to the fact' Three cases of infantile paralysis Ch . t- S . normal years is now reaching the cording to word received here, an ns lan erVI(e | point to where it soon will be less the town has been put under quar- 'than the normal annual consump- antine by both the Territory De- | situation in the United States pro-|: that annual production even for have been reported at Palmer, ac- Holds Election tion, partment of Health and the Mili- pRaEss Pipelines laid in to open the un- tary. All traffic in and out or The Woman's Society of Chris- | tapped reserves of the Arctic slope, lhnu;_zh_ Palmer has been halted tian Service of the Methodist Ebbley pointed out, would be much Ui it is known that no more cases Church met yesterday in regular are .'kely to develop. business session at the parsohage, There is no knowledge yet as t0 with Mrs, J. B. Smith serving as the source of the cases, nlthough‘hn_“(‘bs the appearance cf the disease has Election of officers been looked for by health authorities the followin| x'esl;lt President. in the Territory. The State of Wash- | . Cliffords Robl s Vi lP i ington has had more cases this yeflrldfl"i Mrs. R, R :isl:;' m:fle-Sel::: than in many previous years and o this has made the Territorial Health | t81y-Treasurer, Mrs. William Odell. shorter than the lines being used or the development of the Canol' project in northern Canada, 600 miles of lines being enough in most cases. A total of 1,600 miles of line is used for the Canol project. The area in which the seepages have been found in Alaska is con- was held with tained in the Naval Reserve es- authorities more alert. A Christmas theme was carried tablished in 1923 by President Hnrd-“ While little is even yet known Out in the program, decorations ing. iabout the spread of infantile par- and refreshments for the occasion. alysis, Dr. Geqrge Hays, Executive A donation was voted to the Special Officer of the Territorial Depart- |Christmas Welfare Committee, and Ebbley said that at present less than 5 percent of the gold mines in Alaska are functioning. But new operations for the mining of chrome, mercury, tungsten and tin— the strategic minerals—have beeh started after preliminary explora- accepted method of control is being | nounced and members will make put into effect at Palmer and health | two dozen extra choir caps for the authorities and physicians throush-‘(;hudre“vs Candielight Choir Pro- out the Territory have again been‘,mml to be given the evening of 'put on the alert. | December 23. e METAL SHORTAGE, Martha Society NO NEW LICENSE Meets Tomorrow p I.AIES FOR '9“) The Martha ;cx—ct_y will meet to- | Company, and Dr. C. Martin Carl-| Ison, Ketchikan optometrist. 1 Osear G. Olson, Territorial Trea- morrow in the parlors of the North- - e — syrer, announces that his orflceiern Light Presbyterian Church at ARERTT SOUTH BY [nag been unable to secure License 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon. PAA PLANE WEDNESDAY Plates for the year 1944, due lo“ Hostesses for the day will be _ shortage of metal stock, therefore Mesdames Gherkie and Dixon. Mrs. Barbara Garrett, well known | 1943 License Plates will have to re-| beauty operator with the Baranof |Main on cars this year. | | Beauty Salon, left for the States| Small metal tabs, to cover the| },yesterday by PAA enroute to Ever- numerals “1943,” have been ordered ' ett, Washington. She was accom-!and immediately upon receipt will! | panied by her son, Joey. lbe forwarded to all agents for dls-j I eI e e tribution to car owners upon appli- | H BUY WAR BONDS cation for License Plates. Guests at the meeting today in- Grace E. Eddins, Chief Nurse for the U. S. Army | post here, Lieut. Elizabeth Kerns,| | Assistant Chief Nurse, David Hoff-! (man of the Lomen Commercial! ! MRS. G. DOU A Fow Timely Drops Help Prevent | from Developing!.. Works Right Where Most Colds Start! Beware of colds! At the first warning sign of a cold—first sniffle b i of Va-tro-rfl up each nostril. This ADMISSION--- or sneeze—put a few drops of 0 specialized medication is desiined to aid natural “‘” Adults efenses against colds and so help prevent many Tax ... colds from developing if used in time. TOTAL -TRO-NOL ’Try it! Follow directions in package. ment of Health, states that every the project for the month was an- __ BASKETBALL gh School Gymnasium TOMORROW DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL vs. GREMLINS JUNEAU HIGH SCHOOL vs. J. H.S. This is the third and final game between the Alumni and the High School. The alums won the first game, the High School Use Sixth Street Entrance Only " PAGE THRE! WHERE THE BETTER BBXG PICTURES PLAY (S CENTURY NOW PLAYING! BETTY GRABLE VICTOR MATURE CAROLE LANDIS LAIRD CREGAR | CoL/EUM Guards Will Meet Tonight 'LOUISIANA PURCHASE' | Inmates of San Quentin, Cali fornia’s state prison, have reclaim: ed hundreds of tons of cable, cop per wire and rubber salvaged fro warships. e e - PEARL HARBOR DAY CARD PARTY » Dec. 7, at 8 p.m.,, Baranof Hotel Bridge and pinochle. 55 cents, included Guard will meet in the Elks' Hall tonight at 8 o'clock for their re- gular weekly session. The course in bayonet training will be contin- ued at this meeting with emphasis on the use of the parry stick. All members are requested to be at this meeting, dressed in cover- | alls and leggings, and equipped with rifles, ammunition belts and steel helmets. Shoe pacg and shirts will be issued to all who have not already received them, Capt. Henry Harmon announces. - e - FROM PELICAN CITY Here from Pelican, R. Raatikan- ien is registered at the Gastineau. BATAAN CAFE Genuine Chow Mein Chop Suey COME ONE ——— ————COME ALL! L] 289 So. Franklin Street Open All Night MOTORSHIP PATRICIA Is temporarily laid up while new motors are installed and other improvements made. Waich this space for announce- ment of resumption of schedule between Juneau, Haines and Skagway. { | BLEHEADER First Game 7:30 P. M. Second Game . ALUMNI won the second. N Students and persons in uniform.. 25¢ Tax be . 45¢ 5¢ TOTAL 50¢ s st RO WEN , SRUFEY -- FORGET TW CAMELS FAN MAL FOR A SECOND ™. CHASE NOURSELF OVER TO TH. BARNS -~ THEN'RE TAKIWNG MOWES OF MAN-0-WAR FOR TW NEWSREELS W e roiled Steak and Fried Chicken SERVED ANY TIME THE DOU DINE AND DANCE E >LAS IN "OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT lectric Hammond. Organ Music DINE AND DANCE