The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 26, 1945, Page 3

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1945 STARRY- EYED! MOON STRUCK! Romarnce in the stars! Love and kisses along the Milky Way! It's a gay made in heaven love match! et POWELL * #edy LAMARR . TONIGHT! FEATURE STARTS 7:50—10:15 —ADDED— BOB CHESTER A'\l) HIS ORCHESTRA PETE' SMITH'S “PRACTICAL JOKER” COLOR CARTOON y ONEILL SPRING. ING BYINGTON NEWS S R R P (ST O DRG0 [ R DR. RAE LILLIAN CARLSON OPTOMETRIST IS NOW IN JUNEAU To Examine EYES and Fit Glasses Phone 636 for Appointment OFFICE IN BLOMGREN BUILDING JUNEAU CAMPSNO. 2 A. N. B. and A. N. S. Meet Each Monday-7:30 P. M.-A.N.B. Hall THE FIXIT SHOP 215 SECOND STREET MUSICAL INSTRUMENT REPAIRING GENERAL LIGHT REPAIR WORK | Phone 567 Roy Eaton SUSSSLVSUSS PSS | AUDITS SYSTEMS TAXES NEILL, CLARK and COMPANY Public Accountants—Auditors—Tax Counselors 208 Franklin Sireet — Telephone 757 Fatrbanks Office: 201-2 Lavery Building KINLOCH N. NEILL JOHN W. CLARK WE OFFER TO A LIMITED NUMBER OF CLIENTS A COMPLETE MONTHLY ACCOUNTING AND TAX SERVICE TELEPHONE 757 FOR SALE Graehl Circle Bar Fairbanks, Alaska New building — sunken dance floor — Seats 300. This is the largest and finest NITE CLUB in the Fairbanks district. FOR FULL INFORMATION WRITE GRADELLE LEIGH REALTY CO. FAIRBANKS, ALASKA # KELVIE'S ANIMAL HOSPITAL OPEN 24 HOURS DAILY OFP’ICE 914 Calhoun Avenue PHONE: Red 115 AMBULANCE SERVICE i BOARDING KENNELS Dr. W. A. Kelvie, Veterinary WINDOW AUTO PLATE GLASS IDEAL GLASS CO. Glass Work of All Déseriptions 121 MAIN STREET F.W. WENDT NES ,'::.u.. DON ABLE "HEAVENLY BODY' IS FINE COMEDY THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR ON CAPITOL BILL An com astronomer’s wife, bored with doing nothing i who be- | nights when her husband is away| | 2athering ‘data on a new comet he| ‘ms discovered, takes up astrology.| lhe resulting fireworks make up one | 'of the | mestic funniest of the screen’s do-' comedies starring William | APo\.el and Hedy Lamarr at the ?"Apml Theatre. Hedy Lamarr and William Powell | |made their film debut together as a oving couple in “Crossroads” ut the new film marks | switch in their charaeterizations. | “The Heavenly Body” is a comedy | with a capital C. When Hedy takes up astrology on! the advice of her fluttery neighbor,! Spring Byington, she dossn’t know what she is letting kerself in for. The first thing Bill knows he must not kiss her on Tuesdays. But in spite of his prolest Hedy won't give up keor horosccpe. Things reach a head when Madame Sybill (Fay| Bainter) predicts that within a cer- | |tain pericd Hedy will meet a “dark | man from far off pla vho will be the true love of her lif When Air Raid Warden James Craig knocks at |Hedy’s door asking her to put out .the light Hedy decides she cannot \comhate destiny. Enter husband Powell trying to ighten out his wife’s marital| hennanigans, and the fun is only| {beginning. Mix in a collisien be- | jtween his comet and the moon while | Craig and Hedy find themsclves ‘alone in a mountain shack and ‘hilarny runs high. | i ST | | House Hurt as Senafe Kicks On Statehood ‘ A piqued House of Representatives received a “fafled to pass” report! from the Senate Saturday after- |noon on the House Joint Memorial No. 7 asking Congress for statehood, and immediately bounced the report back to Senatorial laps with a “pleasz reconsider.” The memorial, authored by Repre- sentatives McCutclteon and Hanford, passed unanimously by the Houss, asked for Alaskan Statehood with| but one reservation — that the| ’ren\tou be given ‘“complete con- Itrol of all its hesources.” A House attempt to include pro-! ; visions for a referendum of the peo-! ple in Alaska on the question of statehood had Yailed with a House| belief such would be requested “any- |way” by Congress. | 'This fact, coupled to the fact the Senate already has a statehood ref- lerendum bill authored by Senator| wwalker apparently caused the House measure to go its way to the | morgue, “I can't understand a vote like' chat " Representative McCutcheon |declared on the House floor, asking | {that the Senate be requested to re- consider. “A vote like that tmedns | we don’t want statehood.” The Senate was to taks action fo- day on Lhe reconsideration. H ——————— 'SEN. 6. COLLINS PREPARES FOR SPORT FLYING Legistator will Pilot and Guide for Hunfers and Fishermen’ A soon as he has finished follow- ing a true course past legislative perils, Senator Grenold Collins, straight-flying junior member of the Territory’s upper house, will lay an air-course for his Anchorage home in his own plane. > i Senator Collins is now in the | throes of assembling a Stinson “Re- liant” seaplane, which he purchased Outside and which has just recently been delivered to him in Juneau. \In moments off from legislative duties, the Third Division Senator heads for the Pan American Air- | ways’ shops to put in a personal lick {at the assembly of his atrcraft. He and Mrs. Collins will fly to An- chorage in the ship at the close of the session. Senator Collins has also just re- cently ‘passed his examinations for a!i: Registered Guide license and plans to make use of his plane mainly for | sports charters. Basing at Anchor- #ge he will make use of his 20 years experience in nearly all outlying sec- tions of Alaska to act as both pilot and guide for hunters and fisher- men. K As his plans in the sporting field are necessarily mostly post-war, the | hicles, \present law, are made at the direction of the|~ last} ‘WOMAN OF THE YEAR’ — “Woman of the Year” in Atlanta, Ga, Mrs. Willlam G. Hamm shows how she teaches deaf and mute children in the Atlanta Junior League Speech school, GAS TAX ACT PROPOSED IN SENATE BILL Territorial thces Audlt Pops Up Again in New ! Senate Measure | “Five cents per gallon of motor fuel” would be. collected off every Alaskan highway and airline user | by Senate Bill No. 35, introduced lin the Territorial Senate Saturday afternoon. Sponsors of the measure are Senators Frank Whaley, Allen Shattuck and Grenold Collins. The bill, now in the hands of (the Senate Taxation Comunittee, is patterned after the State gasoline tax law, with the taxation of aircraft fuel added. The bill would license motor fuel dealers \and make them responsible for cql- lection of the tax, receipts from which would go into a separate fund for the development and, maintenance of Territorial high- ways, airports and transportation | facilities. The Territorial Board of Road |Commissioners would be made re- |sponsible for the administration and enforcement of the provisiofis| lof the act. Exempt from payment of the levy would be official. ve- boats. and motor-powered | vehicles not using public roadways.! The roundly-jostled Audits of Territorial. Offices law made its re-appearancé in the Senate Sat- urday afternoon also, in a nhew! version, by Senator Howard Lyng.| Senate Bill No. 36 is a substitute | for Senate Bill No. 14, after severe - | mauling. | No. 36 puts responsibility for Lh(l audits in the hands of the Terri- torial Board of Administration, rather than the Territorial Auditor alone. It provies for having the work done by public accountants, with reports to be before the Leg- islature within 10 days after con- vening. Audits would be made bi- ennially. The bill replaces the under which audits Goyernor. | No. 36 was, referred to the Judi- ciary Committee. WOMAN TELLS OF BATILEREACTIONS |- ON HOSPITAL SHIP I Bonnie Wiley, First Wom.| an to Go with Amphi- | bious Operation By BONNIE WILEY H (First Woman Corfespondent to| Accempany Amphibious Opemzums’ in the Pacific, Aboard a Hoapital Ship cff Iwe Jima on D-Day Plus | One,) ABOARD A’ U. S. HOSPITAL | SHIP RETURNING TO IWO, JIMA | —Marines are very tough. I found that out on this trip that carried un- | soncerned Navy doctors and nurses | 30 close to Iwo Jima that it look-| 2d as though I could have tossed a former warden for the Alaska Game Commission pians that his newly- organized afr service will fly. what- ever charter trips are available in the interim. Senator Collins has been more places in the Territory than most anybody, first as a navigator on a trading vessel plying the Bering Strait and Arctic Ocean, later by dog-team and plane as a far-ranging representative of the game commis- sion. Jack O'Connor, Game supervhar for the Pish and Wildlife Service, says of him: “He's one of those persons who never get lost.” Empire Want-ads Tring resulis! 'ock onto the beach. | There was no whimpering aboard, | sven the worst cases were more in- | ‘erested in what happened on shore | ‘han in their own wounds. Many | were not badly wounded. (Miss Wiley said in a broadcast from the | 2acific, “We carried 600 wounded,! and of these, 20 diéd on the way.' dight were buried at sea. It was , mpressive and made you want to :ry and grab up a gun at the sam=' ime.” There were 20 Navy nurses aboard. S e Capt. Thomas Stewart, Juneau man, recently wrote friends here. He is wish Ski Troops in a moun- tain division on the Italian Front.; MRS. FLYNN? Washington | ¢ BORED HOUSE HAS RESPITE ONSATURDAY ’Iuv House of Rep wmgfivm got a bit bored Saturduy afternoon after two deys of wrangling with G 1al Appropriations Bill and tock ation from that measure untit’ Munddy to clean up the calendar to the extent of passmg three iess in- portant measures. Without fight, Senate Bill 26 was passed, reimbursing Senator Blown- lell and Representatives Huntley (and Pollard for days absent from | the roll call because of late arrivals; |House Bill 47 was passed, repealing an oid law which forbade driving at | more than a walk over bridges, and House Joint Resolution No. 3 w also passed, authorizing the Highway incer to appropriate $10,000 for§ ’(a seawall project at Wrangell, cer-| Jack Eddington, Chief Petty Of- ficer attached to Navy Intelligence hi (abecve), daughter, Nora Eddington 20, former Los Angeles |tain paving in the Ketchikan dis-| itrict, to the extent of $18,000, and a |rocklill to be made for the ap- to the Douglas dock for A new bill was, introduced under suspensfon cf. tlYe rules, House: Bill (hn.ngm to inclu the hair seéal bounty area aireraft plant. worker and- cigar | stand salesgirl, had married movie actor Errck Flynn in Capuico, Mex., in August, 1943. (AP Wire- photo) TOWNSEND LLUB 10 BE ADDRESSED BY SPEAKER J. LAND Tomorrow tTuesdBw night, Jesse o'clock, to the ‘large throng. D. Lander, of Representatives, Speaker of the House of Fairbanks, | wiil address members of the Juneau | Townsend Club relative to old age | After the business ses- | assistance. sion there will be dancing with music by E. M. McIntyre, kumt,‘ | and_Mra, “Carl C. Collen, The publie is mvnun to this affal ‘SHRINE DANCE ~ GREAT SUCCESS An estimated 160 couples made a big time of the first formal Juneau the | PAGE THREE TO0PENTORY NOW PLAYING lear’s To W ,.)\( Comeg, -"‘ smol® ""TRUE TO LIFE" IS NOW SHOWING AT 20TH CENTURY * omrl,hm'. luml in film mak- Paramount recently used two rs to pc the tory This trick » hilarfous e rdy to Life.” now at |ing, we's he "°.‘?A | with m "ot her & the 20th Century. « In the novel dual cs same characters are being played by Mary Martin and Ann Doran; Vic- tor-Moer2 and Hury Hayden; Will- fam T Jamizon Mat e < R st lineup the an and M and Robe 1ly Hudsen and Fancho® Tone and Dic the male leads op tin, I I the | charactars are playe they ar p.m yed a \ly are in 1 iife by ti Mary, Fa hot, Dick !the otl Then they are vadic program within by a cast. The results ymaka for one of the fur st pictures seen in a long time, so ke s catch it. irley Powell have Miss Mar * main cast, Moore and duplicated for a the picture e . MARY FRANCHOT ¢ WARTIN * TONE DICK ELL 'J‘/.DOR - MAJOR NANCE IS AWARDED MEDAL Mrs, Mable huphhw has lo(‘(lvk'd , word that her son, Major Donald ' | W. Nance, has been awarded the Air | Medal for “meritorious hievement in aerial Tlight" at his fighter field in Italy. Now on his second tour of duty, Major Nance is a veteran fighter pilot with a record of over 20 miis- sions against the Japs, and 18 com- Py W P Ristons o6ty Topold bat missions against the Germans as | AAAMSI AN An cemmanding officer of a veteran, : ADDED ENTERTAINMENT hard-hitting P-38 Lightning Squad- COLOH CABTOON ron in the 15th Air Force. Major | Nance was stationed in the Aleu- “MORMAN TRAILS"—in Color LATEST PATHE NEWS— — and twice as fuvmyl — A Baramauat Pcturs with m m!’hfl MARSHALL * Screen ¢ | tians from May, 1941 to July, 1943, jand after being transferred to the States, assumed command of his present sqaudren Octobe: 5, 1944, | ‘ and flew his first mission with it as | ———— —~ | part of the second oldest P-38 group | overseas, on October 14, escorting | | bembers to Blechhammer, Germany. Major Nance visited his mother jand other relatives in Juneau in July, 1943. He is a brother of Lee Nance. | THEATRE LAST TIMES TONIGHT | g’ | "Squadron { Bubscribe to the Dafly Alnbl Empire—the paper with the largest | paid circulation. | D \ » at Los Amgeles harbor, said that |No. T4, by Representative Krause.| N O R T H A N D D TRANSPORTATION C O M N | Shrine Club dance of the season,|. | Saturday, twirling untfl 2 a. m. 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