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

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1944 LAST TIMES TOXIGHT! "MISTER BIG" T0 END TONIGHT ON CAPITOL SCREEN A new movie star won the ap- proval and applause of audiences) THE DAILY ALASKA EMFPIR! BRAZIL MERCHANT |HUGE CAST OF AND WIFE ARRIVE | STARS IN FILM, 20TH CENTURY| B | “Tales of Manhattan” is a cine- Mr, and Mrs. Lauro Guimaraes l from Rio de Janiero, have just ar- ma achievement of rare distinction. It has enough stars and thrills and| WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY! THOMENTURY O D GHT! Shows at 7:25 — 9:35 P. M. ars! Never Any yesterday at the Capitol Theatre, Never So Many Donald JEAN . 0'CONNOR . RYAN ,$ o 3 : tlyse KNOX - Robert PAIGE STARTS TOMORROW — 2 FEATURES! Half Woman! Half Beast! R JAMBOREE OF Jovt OAN DAVIS NX FALKENBURE 7 VRGE ANN SAVR £SLIE BROOKS THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! IMMI“ENT | the Mogaung Valley by the capture |of the village of Manpin, 10 miles AT KoHlMAinonh of Kamaign. | A ERRE | (Continued from Page One) Jbattering the Jap bunkers with ‘heavy guns, and shooting snipers {in the chimneys of the houses. { In North Burma, Lt. Gen. Joseph | stilwell’s Chinese scored a 'spectacu- |lar success m their advance down ELLIS LUND ARRIVES Ellis Lund, a guest at the Baranof, | has arrived in Juneau from Los R e o o e T Y | veles Valley, the floor of which is 6,000| AVEeles: feet above sea level, and the snow- | capped Himalayas in the distance. | ARRIVES FROM SITKA Kohima gairison recently received | J. R. Clairs is in town and a guest tanks to help expand its perimeteriat the Gastineau, registering .last to successive towns on the outskirts, ' night from Sitka. it's (Ieafi-UpWeek' for Clothes, Too! TRIANGLE CLEANERS SEND CLOTHES where Universal’'s comedy musical, | ived in Juneau. He came to the suspense and laughter for ten pic-| United States to purchase a cargo ship from the government for theltures. It is a fabulous entertain-| Sociedade Naceional De Transporte ment. Heretofore we were more! e Comercio Lts. of Brazi than content to have, say, Charles; tile juvenile who has attracted| The ship has been purchased and|Boyer and Rita Hayworth, in widespread attention with his amaz- | aythorization of the Maritime Com- |photoplay. But now 20th Century-| “Mister Big,” had its initial local| showing. The star is young Donald O'Connor, singing, dancing, versa- ' i | WESTON TO BKAGWAY | Art Weston has accepted em- ployment as a steamfitter with a construction company at Skagway. |He is leaving on the first trans- | portation. | REC T | RESTING Mrs. Glenn Kirkham is reported |as resting well at St. Ann's Hos- | pital, but not vet in condition for ian operation. ing talents and likeable personal-|mission secured to make transfer of {Fox comes along with an unbeliev- ity. The picture will have its final|the flag from American to Bra-|ably generous film that is calcul- showing tonight. zilian. The ship has a great deal|ated to spoil film fans for some The new film is made to order|of refrigeration space and it will time to come. for young Mr. O'Connor. He per-|pe used to deliver goods from the|. All of these are in the picture| forms in a dozen different charac-|southern to the northern part of |showing now at the 20th Century— terizations, each one & good Show in|Brazil, those points where the Am-|Boyer and Miss Hayworth, Ginger| | itself. |erican and Brazilian Armies are|Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles| Gloria Jean and Peggy R¥yan hold | working together in common inter-|Laughton, Edward G. Robinson,| top spots in the cast and With|est. There are no roads or routes{Paul Robeson, Ethel Waters, “Ro-| O'Connor, form an . extraordinary|to supply them overland because of|chester” and many, many more.| |screen tri the mountainous terrain, and they And the story is so great, there | R s T T must rely solely on ships for their |plenty of work for all of them! You ¢ |supplies. Should the submarine|can't afford to miss it! DoUGLA.S menace again become great, even | L, - this means may be cut off. v vse’ I TEACHERS COULD “The first job the ship will do,”| says Mr. Guimaraes, “will. be to VA(ATION HERE "H HOME |carry lumber (now considered by‘ Returning to her home here after|the U. S. Government as the higher | ! a three-month vacation in Seaufccmmmmy. even higher thna steel) SAYS KlNGSlY‘ tle, Miss Grace Pusich reports hav- to an Allied port, the name of whlch} { ing had a wonderful time. While'I cannot mention.” RIS visiting in Seattle, Miss Pusich was! Mr. Guimares recently spent ;ml Trving R. Kingsly, secretary-trea- fortunate in having her brother entire year in the United States S of the American Federation of Rudolph “Rudy” Pusich receive a|trying to obtain material to trans-|Teachers, from Chicago, was guest 20-day furlough, which they spent/port oil from a Peruvian section on SPeaker at the Juneau Chamber of |together. “Rudy” is a machinist’s the east coast of the Andes, called Commerce meeting this noon in the mate on a Coast Guard boat and is Montana. The only. possible way Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. | being transferred to the East Coast'that this oil may be taken is| He spoke highly of the tourist for duty. With her vacation behmdlthmugh the Amazon River and attractions in this area and said it rher, Miss Pusich will again assist nine-tenths of the river runs/Was probable that a vacation plan \her father as Hostess of “Mike’s through Brazil. A pipeline will be for teachers could be worked out | Place.” |needed and the oil must be takenifor Southeast Alaska, saying the | —_— |in barges three thousand miles from education they could receive in a the source of the oil to the port summer here would be more valu- jof Belem at the mouth of the'able than six weeks in summer Amazon. The company has con-!school in the States. ‘u_essions of oil and the authoriza-| JKingsly pointed out the business {tion of the Peruvian Government.!yalue in better education in not Big Undertaking only cutting down the juvenile de- For this great undertaking it is linquency and crime which costs/ | necessary to obtain a great deal of the United States billions each year, pipe, steel plates, barges, tugboats, but in the war effort today and the| tanks for storage, pumps and all transition in the post-war period. other equipment necessary to handle | He complimenled the Territory on | | e i::‘hshzr;:h;?szmlll;f;rt::;leyz the foundation for education which' | . 5 €5, i5 being built in Alaska. | {FOS]’ER RE"URNS FRoM jdue to the war effort in America, K. G. Menitt conducted the { b made it impossible for Mr. Guimaraes sting 1 " " WESTWARD CONFERENCE o o more than s cmal porion Fomer Garvin ‘and. Vice-Presdent | ,Of what is needed. He believes that jacic Fletcher. i the may now have a better chance . fmank Dufresne introduced Jack Donald C. Foster, General Super- of securing the rest of it, si g ;3 tnbabllant <ot the "Ottite |G Th0an ! Croyarment il (A ‘,,';ffgrf,':fi SContichy IREmetly, BE. ATGHOASS, Affairs, is back from a conference practically completed, so that more new Executive Officer for the Alas- at Anchorage with the Alaska De- material is available. kn Game 'Commission; fwho | spoke; partment. He is also working hard to obtain baichly. | While in the westward, Foster vis- material for a cracking factory. Bulredne TROUMEN ARt WD Tied ited the Tyonek and Eklutna In-| (Fhere are two types of factories E8tS to Chicago for his new assign- dian schools end the school and'used in handling oll: a cracking Meht: with the Fish and Wildlife hospital at Palmer. He also confer- factory for heavy oil and a topping Service, he will pe on the committee red with the Anchorage Junior factory for lighter oil) The gaso- foF the Outdoo. Writers of America Chamber of Commerce regarding line, kerosene, deisel oil, and fuel Who want to Lold their next con- tuberculosis problems and hospital il Produced would be very helpful,'vention in Alaska, and said if he needs in general. not only for development of Bra- has anythinz to do about it, the S zilian rubber, which is still the best'convention will be held in Juneau.| | i i L : 3 REAL ESTATE DEA il gl b Mgy Bt e T v b syl v g | IS COMPLETED HERE | ties of the Amazon Basin. ‘mail boat contract between Juneau ‘Willilam V. Graves, employee of | a cement factory that takes a lot interested Juneau boat owner. of oil to operate, and is going to be | Part of the program for this de- and Haines, and the Postal Depart- the Alaska Road Commission, yes- ¥ {put in the central part of Brazil velopment will be the purchase of ment has asked for a bid from an terday purchased the home now oc- | The Chamber also is cooperating with Ketchikan in attempts to se- BACK GOOD AS NEW Phone General Electric MAZDA LAMPS Standard Sizes Alaska Eleciric Light and Power Company JUNEAU DOUGLAS Phone No. 616 Phone No. 18 Broiled Steak and Fried Chicken SERVED ANY TIME cupied by A. S. Martin on Glacier Highway, Waynor Addition, through the offices of Howard D. Stabler, attorney. Mr. Graves reports that he sold {his house on the Fritz-Cove Road to Forrest Bates. Charles Waynor also reports that he sold the house now occupied by Forrést Fennessey on Behrends Av- as ‘a great step for its future, as|cure equitable fish prices for Alas- lau the construction work there is ka, although a wire has been re- of brick and mortar. In spite of|ceived from the OPA stating that the fantastic quantities of hard iy, changes are contemplated in! ‘wood available, they do not use “mnces already set, other than an in buildings. This may be due to|jnvastigation of breakage. the presence of termites; or pos-| g sibly tradition. In the coloniza- ition time the houses and churches ‘were built of large stones and (cal) Frank Hermann reported two men | are in Juneau investigating the pos- | dib of investing in & marine burned calcarium. Many of them ways in Juneav and a full report will be made next week by Her- mann. A letter from the Cordova Cham- beér lof Commerce wa$ read, stating that the Chamber had sent a con- gratulatory message to Gov. Ernest Gruening on h:is recent reappoint- ment, enue to Albert Burrows. Mr. Bur- | rows. is associated with Sommers Construction Company. are still standing. Mr. and Mrs. Guimaraes have made the trip to Alaska for the - e - | purpose of seeing this country, of HERE FROM SCATTLE | which they have heard so much. If J. 8. Newhouse, of Seattle, reg- s . 4 ossible, the; i - istered last night at the Baratiol. bawks berese | rettening o ra States. THOMPSON IN FROM SITKA WITH PRISONERS Deputy U. S. Marshal Sid Thomp- son returned from Sitka with two prisoners to serve Federal jail terms here. Martha McGuire, charged with being drunk and disorderly, will serve a 90-day sentence and Nich- > MRS. SANFORD T0 SPEND SUMMER IN ~ VISIT IN STATES Mrs. Robert S. Sanford, and son, Robert, have left for the States for the summer, visiting in Effingham, Ill. with her mother. She is the wite of Robert S. San- Baranof Beauty Salon ' Pioneers Meefing Where a Picture Like It “THRILLING!" Says Walter Winchell. From the first kiss to the last breath-taking mo- jment . .. A story as thrilling as its stars! An experience you'll never forget! CHARLES BOYER RITA EDW. HAYWORTH G. ROBINSON CHARLES LAUGHTON PAUL ROBESON ETHEL WATERS “'ROCHESTER"’ GINGER ROGERS HENRY FONDA EUGENE PALLETTE-CESAR ROMERQ GEORGE SANDERS-JAMES GLEASON IN “TALES OF MANHATTAN” OWL SHOW 12:30 A. M. TONIGHT TWO PAA PLANES LEAVE THIS P. M. . i Two PAA plaues left this after- nooh, one for Seattle and one for Fairbanks. Those enroute to thel northern city were Arnold Hildre, | on business for the Sommers Con- struction Company; Martin Hen- num and Gordon Dean Hennum. Disembarking at Whitehorse will be Mrs. Sadie Johnson who will be em- ployed by t¢he E. W. Elliot Company, and Tom Dyer, branch manager of the Standard Oil Company of Cal- ifornia. Mrs. Olive Smith, PAA employ {on vacation, and her baby daugh- | ' BEST SHOWS LOWEST PRICES Missionary Meeting To Be Held Tonight The Missionary Society of the Memorial Presbyterian Church will| meet at the Manse this evening at! 7:30 o'clock. Mrs. Amy James pres- ident, requests that as many mem- bers as possible attend g il SITKA MEN HERE Harold Dawson and Robert N.! MRS. CALLOW HERE Mrs. H. V. Callow has returned from a two months' visit with her parents at Mount Vernon, Wash. 0. L. GILBERT ARRIVES O. L, Gilbert, a guest of the Ju- neau Hotel, arrived recently from Des Moines, Iowa. prie b S FORREST FAMILY BACK After an abesnce of over four months, Mrs. Lynn Forrest and twq sons Steven and Dick, returned from ter, Barbara were passengers on the | Hayes, from Sitka, are guests at.Oregon where they have been visit< plane for Seattle. the Juneau Hotel. ing with relatives. mier g Tomgriow Night The Pioneers of Alaska meeting | at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in the IOOF Hall will be followed by a joint social with the Pioneer Aux- iliary. During the evening colored scenic and flower slides will be shown by Trevor Davis, in addition to several interesting slides from invaded Italy. Guest speaker during the social will be Mrs. George Washington, whose topic will be “South Am- erica.” —l CARL JOHNSON IN JUNEAU Carl Johnson arrived last night olas Malachoff, with the same |ford, Bureau of Mines chief for the charge, will serve 120 days. Alaska area. from Ketchikan and is at the Gas- tineau. 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