The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1944, Page 3

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1944 ...FROM A BROADWAY BAND! with FRANCES LANGFORD ROBERT PAIGE WALTER CATLETT LEON ERROL “Sherlock Holmes in Washington” with BASIL RATHBONE THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURESI JAMES JACKSON IS INDICTED ON THREE COUKTS James Clifton+Jackson has been indicted by the Fedreal Grand Jury on there counts, which include as. sault with intent to kill, shooting with intent to kill and assault with a dangerous weapog. Jackscn was alleged to have shot his wife, Marie, the blast from which blew her left arm off below the elbow in a shooting scrap as the result of a domestic quarrel last | Aprl 13 at the Keystone Apartments on Lower Franklin Street. Jackson also received severe facial injuries | as a result of a shot from the same gun. Both are Negfoes and residents | of Juneau. Three men also entered pleas of not guilty on various counts when they were brought into the Federal District Courf. William Mikloff, facing a first degree murder charge, plead guilty to the murder of Dorothy Truitt last April 14 at Sitka. Guy Epperly, Coast Guardsman, also declared that he was not guilty to the charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. Epperly was claimed to have knifed H. H. Holl- mann several months ago. The third to plea not guilty, Tim Paul is charged with burglary and grand larceny. Paul was alleged to have broken into the Ludwig Wolf residence on Evergreen Avenue last December. e e———— CARD PARTY SONS OF NORWAY Saturday Jan. 26 at 8 p.m. Odd Fellows Hall. Second of Series. adv. Juneau Plumhmg& Heating Co. PLUMBING HEATING SHEET METAL PHONE 787 NIGHT: B. E. FEERO . J. R. CLARK ... OIL BURNERS WELDING Third and Franklin Green 585 Red 750 WHY NOT? AGIFTNOW ... FOR THE HOME ision Aide Adapter Fixtures. !(ANNED SALMON | workers should, if they plan to work not, | !line and urged { guest. | Parsons on the Chamber’s part in THREEHEARTS 'WLB ACCUSED mguinukeruL?lotOF MISUSING TS POWERS tangled | {House Commitiee Gives Out Blistering Report Music has (hkum:.. and romance embellishes it with hilarity in “Three Hearts for Julia,” lilting romance with Ann Sothern and Melvyn Douglas as bewildered lov- ers, ending tonight at the Capltol Theatre. Douglas plays a foreign corres- pondent, returned home to find his wife, Julia (Miss Sothern) has | -War No Excuse taken up music in a big way, with a feminine symphony orchestra and| WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. — The a couple of young musicians Wwho|National War Labor Board has been are rivals for her favor. Upon his|accused by a special House commit- arrival he is greeted with coolness|tee of violating the constitution by and divorce papers, and sets forth|requiring maintenance of union to straighten out the marital mix- membership clauses between work=- up. His publisher tries to help him.jers and employer Then a clever symphony conductor| The committee which was set up puts in a helping spoon and gives|to investigate “acts of executive the soup-with-too-many-cooks :lfagencie beyond the scope of their stir. Finally Douglas decides to do|authority,” declared in a blistering something drastic and a hilarious |report that the constitution cannot climax solves the puzzle of the be suspended by the President or tanglvd lov 5 | his agents “merely because a state S . R {of war exist: | The report said that if the WLB's | “autocratic challenge remains un- | answered it will imperil the eco- REPRESENTATIVE TALKS ATC. OF C. | tion of our government from one of |laws to one of men.” | Five of the committee members, | including Chairman Smith of Vil .ginia,.iigned the report. Henry von Hoevenberg, Mnnagerl of Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc.,| gave members of the Chamber of Sena'ors Are Commerce today a brief outline of\ plans of operation for the bommgw season and said that the Army :\ndl Military Affairs Committee Seems Against Pro- posal of FDR Navy have requisitioned 4000000 WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—The fu- cases of the pack. The War Manpower Commission, \ | ture of the national service legls- {lation rests with a small group o ' Selective Service and other agencies, | he said, are cooperating 100 percent | and the canned salmon industry has been given a No. 1 manpower prior- | ity this year which means that those employed in the industry for at least one season will be classified as essential and 2-A in the draft if | they work again this year. They | must be employed in an essential industry in the off season, however, which is a simple matter for the | States of Washington, Oregon and California, but may be more diffi- cult for Alaska. He zald that |senulon who are far from con- i1+ the S ootIng Sekaon s AkE. en | vinced the country needs civilian s , take em-' ployment in an essential industry lm;?ry?;:g today, this group wou]d now wherever available ,and that if |y} tne proposal President Roose- | no such work was available they; should not be penalized. The industry will operate this year N:z’i,:{:gng?&s reporters inter- again under the concentration plan! viewed sixteen of the eighteen used successully last year, and|members of the Senate Military figures and quotas for canneries al- 'Affairs committee and found five rady have been drawn up and are | goainst, one for, and nine unde- in Washington awaiting approval igeq hut of these at least five are of Fisheries Coordinator Harold L. jmore inclined to oppose than sup-| Ickes, Secretary of the Interior. port the bill. Tke Taylor, of Juneau, War Man- |~ one genator said, “a bill of that power Commission for Alaska, NOW yinq would do more harm than is in Seattle working on the cannery | good.” help problem. Ted Carter, Sitka gardener, also | spoke, discussing the use of chem- ‘ II'S A GREAI ical gardening in Southeast Alaska. He has been conducting experiments at Sitka for several years in this lIFE YESSIR its use by home! v 7 o .. Aklavik Pooh Bah Visits gardeners for better crops. Dr. Raymond Knoll, physician, on Edmonton But Only on Urgent Buying Trip his way to Seldovia, was another EDMONTON, Jan. 27—Stan Pef- Alaska cannery Progress was reported by Ernie| the Fourth War Loan Drive. ——— ®© o 00 0 0 0 0 o FEATURE TIME At Capitol Theatre at 8 and 10 o'clock. At 20th Century at 8:10 and 10:20 o'clock. ®e0 00000 - {annual two month’s business trip, said that if it wasn't urgent he iwould take the next plane to the PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY |paradise of plenty. Have & portralt artist take yuur' A resident of Aklavik for 32 years, picture, Hamersley Studio. Opposite |the American born fur trader, is Federal Builiing. Phone 204. adv |general store proprietor, owner of a sawmill, hotel, theater and res- PO taurant. He sat in his hotel suite here Baranof Beauty Salon and painted a picture of life in the Under New Management north with inch thick steaks and |lots of butter, jams, fresh canned fruit and other delicacies. “We have priorities but Ottawa grants us all releases on rationed articles as we have to sell a year's provisions at a time to trappers and Eskimos and rationing wouldn't work,” Peffer said. - > Albert L. Jones was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital for medical |treatment. | nomic system, and mark the transi- ' velt advanced as part of a new leg-‘ fer, out from the Far North on his| UNEAU, AL ASKA 10 FIGHT ~ NIPPONS ~ INBURMA Two Veteran'C;mpaigners Are Named Under Mountbatten LONDON, Jan. 27~Two veteran British campaigners have been nam- ed to lead the armies to fight against the Japs under Lord Mount- | batten, the British War Office an- nounces today ‘The campaigners are Gen. Sir George Gifford, veteran of 30 years in the Coional Army, and Lt. Gen. W. 1. Slim, who fought under Gen. Sir Harold Alexander in the first Burma campaign. 'MEALS ON BUSINESS TRIP; VACATION WILL FOLLOW | William M. Meals, Chief Account- jant and Office Manager of the Unemployment Compensation Com- mission for Alaska, was to leave by \plane today for a special assign- ment in Seattle, | After completion of his work, |Mr. Meals plans to enjoy a two imonth’s vacation with his ramxly | now uw)dmg in Seattle. - ‘MBORMORY DIRE(TOR { TO KETCHIKAN TODAY Miss Zora Dragich, Laboratory | Director for the Territorial Depart- ment of Health, flew to Ketchikan today for the purpose of arranging !for a new assistant to take over the Ibranch laboratory there. | Miss Dragich expects to return |within a few days l RflAIl PRICES . ON FRESH FISH | - REVISEDBYOPA| SEATTLE, Jan. 27—Fresh fish retail price ceilings designed by the Office of Price Administration to cut the cost to the consumer about 15 percent became effective today, and will vary according to the vol- ume of business done in each store. The price range includes red king salmon, troll caught steaks, 44 to 46 cents; cod, dressed, 24 to 25 cents. 'MAN CONFESSES 10 'BRUTAL MURDER OF 'WOMAN REPORTER i NEW HAVEN, Jfln 27. — Rose Brancato, 28, Journal Courier re-; | porter who disappeared mysteriously | jon July 5 and was never seen or |the Moose lodge room. |scheduled to meet tomorrow night {planning to attend the class are to | BETTY GRABLE, VIC MATURE AT 20TH CENTURY “Footlight Serenade,” 20th Cen- tury’s new filmusical Starring Betty Grable, John Payne and Victor Ma- | ture, opened yesterday for a four- day run at the 20th Century The- atre. Setting of the picture is Broad- {way, and Betty has ample oppor-| tunity to display her many varied talents as she sings, dances and romances. The picture was dlrcct- ed by Gregory Ratoff. Moose Women fo Hold Potluck Dinner The Women ui lhe Moose are having a potluck dinner Saturday January 29 at 7 o'clock sharp in Men and women of the Moose and friends may attend, accordihg to announcement. Games will fol- low the dinner, with the entertain- ment beginning at 8:30 o'clock. | In charge of the kitchen will be Mesdames Hazel Crosby, Myrtle Lind, Ethel Jones and Mary Haas. Games will be arrapged by Mes-| dames Iva Hermanson, Virginia Pugel, Billy Jaegel and Martha Schmit. i It was announced that the apron sale, scheduled for February 5, has been postponed until a later d:ltei - " PAGE THREE WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAYI (355 CENTURY NOW PLAYING! HOME NURSING CLASS MEETS FRIDAY NIGHT The Home Nursing Class is at the Douglas School, according to announcement. i Dr. Berneta Block, Director of! Maternal Child Health' and Crip- | pled Childgen’s Service, will speak during the%evening. Her topic for discussion will be “Health Attitudes | in the Home.” The school bus will leave for Douglas from the Juneau Govern- ment School at 7 o'clock and all meet at the aforementioned time and place. Coast Wanls No Japanese LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 27— Mayor Fletcher Bowron today said the mayors of all large Pacific Coast cities have sent a protest to Gen. Emmons, Western Defense Com- mand Chief, against any return of Japanese to the coast. Mayor Bowron, back from a Chi- cago meeting of mayors, told re- porters that “we have been informed | from reliable sources that feelers are being put out to see how the people of the Pacific Coast areas would react to the plan to return Japs to their former homes.” Mayor Devin of Seattle, and May- or Riley of Portland, signed the protest. heard of after, was brutally slain and her body stuffed in a !umm:el fon the night of her disappearance | in a downtown building. | Walter Law, 39, superintendent of the building confessed to the crime when arrested Saturday on embezzlement and robbery charg-| es. Law had been under suspicion | for the slaying. | cal care. | nesday. HOSPITAL NOTES Jack Bill has been discharged from St. An’s Hospital after medi- Mrs. Stanley, a surgical patient, left St. Ann's yesterday. Mrs, Jack Warner was discharged from St. Ann’s Hospital on Wed- MOTORSHIP CALL AT PE —SPECIAL CHARTER LEAVES for HAINES and SKAGWAY .. 8 A. M. SUNDAY All freight and parcels must be delivered to boat Saturday afternoon between noon and 5 P. M. For Tickets and Information PATRICIA RCY’S CAFE TRIPS AVAILABLE— ithe race on the Republican ticke®. |age JOHNE. MANDERS OF ANCHORAGE ENTERS RACE FOR DELEGATE Third to file for Delegate to Con- | gress, John E. Manders has entersd Manders is from the Third Divi- sion, having law offices at Anchor- under the firm name of Ellis and Manders. According to the Auditor's Of- fice, filings will be received up to| 5 o'clock on the afternoon of Feb- ruary 1. Advices received by the Empire from the Ketchikan Chronicle says Andy Gundersen, herring boat owii- | er, and member of the last Terri- torial Legislature, has filed for the 2-year Senate term on the Demo- | ORIGINAL PAINTING. by ALL NEW SHOW ' TONIGHT cmuc ticket. Ralph Bnrcholomew. Republlcln defeated in the primars ies two years ago, has filed for the House. - e Glenn Curtiss won a prize ip 1908 in the first “endurance flight™ by staying aloft in his “June Bug"” for one minute and 43 seconds. - e — ATTENTION ELKS ‘The Night of nights for all Elks— Past Exalted Rulers’ night—Feb. 2. Save the Date! DANCIN DREAMLAND COCKTAIL BAR STARTING AT 8 0'CLOCK Music by JOE, AL and MERV 229 South Franklin Street EVERY NIGHT —Except Wednesday Two Millhwrights end Two Machinists JUNEAU LUMBER MILLS, Inc. Must have availability certificates. Using the Silver Bowl Lamps for indirect lighting. Easily installed, and a nice addition to any room. See Them Today Alaska Electric Light and Power Company Juneau Phone 616 Douglas Phone 18 : BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH Skilled Operators THAT'S REAL THOWGHTFUL OF NOL NARD B\RO,TO WANT TO SHOW ThE < PNRANIDS AND MIUSEINS TONOUR FRIEND, GOOG\E- NES, WNDER THOSE CONDITONS NOU CON WeNE '“\E Complete Line Of Beauty Culture SHOP HOURS 9A.M.TO6P. M. OPEN EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT PHONE 538 MARIE HAMMARLEY Manager THE DOUGLAS INN * DINE AND DANCE OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT There is no substitute for newsvaper advertising! Broiled Steak and Fried Chicken BERVED ANY TIME ectric Hammond Organ Music DINE AND DANCE