The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 10, 1945, Page 5

TURDAY, MARCH 10, 1945 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE The Screen’s Greatest Musical Splash In Gorgeous Technicolor! Starring RED SKELTON | with i i ESTHER { - WILLIAMS Basil RATHBONE Bill GOODWIN - Ethef SMITH Jean PORTER Carlos RAMIREZ § HARRY JAMES and his MUSIC MAKERS with HELEN FORREST XAVIER CUGAT and his ORCHESTRA with LINA ROMAY SUNDAY Y@ MONDAY TUESDAY SUNDAY—Feature 2:45—5:25—7:50—10:15 ADDED PLEASURE CARTOON—LATE NEWS LAST-TIMES TONIGHT! "Trocadero” and “Saint Meets the Tiger" PREVUE TONIGHT AT 12:30 A. M. , A T i S AR JUNEAU CAMPS NO. 2 A. N. B. and A. N. S. Meet Each Monday-7:30 P. M.-A.N.B. Hall P e L S KELVIE'S ANIMAL HOSPITAL | o OPEN 24 HOURS DAILY OFFICE: 914 Calhoun Avenue ¥ AMBULANCE SERVICE BOARDING KENNELS Dr. W. A. Kelvie, Veterinary PHONE: Red 115 PLATE GLASS CoO. F. W. WENDT DON ABLE WINDOW —— AUTO IDEAL GLASS Glass Work of All Descriptions 121 MAIN STREET PHONES 633—549 WALTER J. STUTTE + GENERAL CONTRACTOR New Construction and Remodeling Phone Green 768 evenings P. O. Box 3091 Estimates Furnished AUDITS SYSTEMS TAXES NEILL, CLARK and COMPANY Public Accouniants—Auditors—Tax Counselors 208 Franklin Street — Telephone 757 Fairbanks 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 | turing Esther Williams and thirty- ! self change color to harmonize with ' Mayors May Be Voted fo | stamp. | be played with a coin no larger than’ ia nickel, an operator's license will !and backers of the bill claim it will fHou.se Joint Memorial Representative Diamond, under rules "BATHING BEAUTY' FEATURED SUNDAY AS CAPITOL'S BILL Music to be seen as well as heard —that's what Harry James delivers | for his current screen stint in “Bath- |ing Beauty.” | The tune-spangled Metro-Goldyn- Mayer Technicolor comedy, and starring Red Skelton and Esther Williams at the Capitol Sunday, in- troduces visual music. James and his band furnish melodies for an| | elaborate water ballet sequence fea- GEMMILL ACQUITTED AT SEATTLE —Testimony Com- pleted Yesterday (Continued from Page One) | | | two aquacuties. As the rhythms of the* music| b change from sweet to hot, lightmg‘w:gm:‘é‘r:ésg:::fi:’nom~ and wondered ithin the swimmin 1 it- 5 effects wi n the g pool Trutk Case the mood of the melodies. James Gemmill said if contents of the begins the sequence with blues rhy- | trunk, stolen from the house .or thms behind a blue foreground, AS“Mrs. Hazlewood in Sitka was worth $12,000, her share would be $3,000. his music- grows hotter,-the lights take on incandescent hues of red He said Mrs. Wilkins declared she and orange. The water nvmphsiwas short of money, but might are bathed in torrid lights and borrow. That she had lost $7,000 sound. :plnymg 4-5-6. This innovation was created by Gemmill said Mrs. Wilkins re- {John Murray Anderson, New York fused to send any money to the stage director, specially signed by M- |clerk of the court because signa- G-M to stage the water ballet se- ture would show, and she asked quence. Gemmill to take the money to Also in the cast are Bill Goodwin, Juneau. Donald Meek, Carlos Ramirez and | Wanted A Drink Xavier Cugat and his band. | Gemmill said Mrs. Wilkins said — e ——— !a “policeman had told her she was ;mkmg a ‘hell of a .mistake’ to HOUSE puTS cooperate with the Government and that she had better get a lawyer.” | imcm from a Deputy Marshal who iknew she was innocent. in the case, Gemmill said, he re- |sented any government man tam- |pering with a government witness. Goes To Apartment Gemmill said “let's go.” How- lever, on arrival at her apartment, r;Mrs. Wilkins refused to show him more - than the envelope. When Three-Year Terms |cemminl seized the opportunity to P iread the letter, she caught him in Alaska land snatched it away. ! Gemmill said he was embarrased d;h}:{::g:;z“m:‘edg"":;:::g;cs‘féciand concerned at antagonizing a i’ witness, and tended i be- pinball machine licensing systml;““u sh: nhadprkem;n‘;g ntm:};l sm,‘ and another to make it possible f0r| ~ Gormin said he urged Mrs. Wil- g“";fi‘g;zr;‘m:%;:awfi kins to turn the letter over for T 5 . 'safekeeping to the FBI, and when T:&:‘:rpmll:l b:&fl;“:;g«;' ;’i}: she refused, suggested leaving it censes. for , amusement devices of w‘g‘mfixfi“ ';:?:th:::fl;;h“m tele- $20 for each machine up to 100 ma- ‘phoned iy aying ghte ‘oonld. ot chines and $10 for each over 100. On raise $3,000 bu{ might get $1,500, each machine must he placed g §45 and she was to telephore him again 'on Saturday. Gemmill said he had transporta- tion for the north the next day For pinball and slot.machines to cost $30 while a $150 stamp must be affixed to each machine. The bill changes the old 12z per cent gross tax to the present system mill said when Mrs. Wilkins talked her conversation sounded screwey, but he told her to leave the money with ‘Marter, but when she insisted jon giving it to him, he waited for her at the hotel. " Gemmill said he knew Mrs. Wil- double revenue from that source. The measure referring to muni- cipalities, House Bill 94, by Shattuck, i changes the annual election law to Kins knew he accepted the money permit cities to elect for any term with the understanding it was for they wish up to three years. The Mrs. Hi 0od. bill hore an emergency clause to make it possible for changes in the spring elections, such as in the case of Juneau. A new measure was anything ab6ut giving the money to the judge, Gemmill said: “I @mu to dignify that with a denial, but it certainly was not true.” All testimony in the case was introduced, No. 19, by ———————— SAVE THE PIECES Of your broken lenses and send them to Box 468, Ketchikan, Alaska. They will be replaced promptly in our large and well-equipped labora- tory. Drs. C. M. and R. L. Carlson, Optometrists. . ———————— ATTENTION MASONS Stated Comumunication of Mt. Juneau Lodge 147 Monday evening, 17:30. Work in F, C. Degree. (Sat-Mon,) J..W. LEIVERS, Sec. suspension, praying Congress to en- | act legislation which would permit| homesteaders who lose land to the Government condemnations to be given land preferences in other areas. Two labor bills gave the labor bloc of the House, heavily supported, an afternoon of work. House Bill No. 95, the minimum wage and hour bill introduced by Representative Hope was amended to put the minimum pay at 75 cents an hour instead of $1.00. A determined attempt to include seasonal labor under the same ex- emptions as exist under the Wage and Hour law was defeated. Also defeated was House Bill No. 1, a broad measure to révise the Workmen's Compensation Act, in- troduced by Representative Shattuck | The measure has been the subject of bitter controversy among labor rep- resentatives and author Shattuck ac- cused the House labor bloc of dis- liking the bill because *“someone else outside the ranks of labor” introduc- ed it. The measure was defeated in sec- ond reading by indefinite -postpone- men, 14 to 10. BUY WAR BONDS = COLISEV NOW PLAYING WARNER’S BIG MUSICAL COMEDY SHOW "THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS” DENNIS MORGAN JOAN LESLIE EDDIE CANTOR AND MANY OTHERS! Recaplure of Islands Means Raw Materials will Soo_n Be Released (Continued from Page One | Jury Out Only 12 Minutes| REV. OLSON |BETTEDAVS SN v TO SENATE “Old Acquaintance,” adapted from Kefchikan Minister De- | | Gemmill related Mrs. Wilkins also | isaid she had a letter at her apart-1 After all the anxiety and trouble | and wanted to visit a sister. Gem- | Asked by his attorney if he said completed late yesterday afternoon.| \ |the successful Broadway production of the same name by John Van Dru-| ten, starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins, will be the new screen fare at the 20th Century starting . . Sunday. s("bes Juvenlle Prob' ‘The new Warner Bros, picture . features Gig Young, popular young lem n Alaska |player whose outstanding perform- |ances in “The Gay ©ters” and “Air ' Ketchikan's Lutheran minister,' Force” placed him among _Holly- |the Rev. R. E. Gison, yesterday af- Wood's most popular players. Also |ternoon appeared briefly on the featured are John Loder, last seen |floor of the Territorial Senate to With Bette Davis in “Now Voyager” |enter a plea for passage of House and Dolores Moran, beautiful and Bill 69, a juvenile delinquency con-talented young newcomer. trol measure. The Rev. Olson stated' Directed by Vincent ~Sherman, himself as representing the Ketchi- “Old Acquaintance” is the poignant kan Recreational Council. ‘islory of two women, complete op- He gave as background for his posites as to character and intelli- views 10 years of experiences in ju- | gence, whose lives run parallel in venile work, including numerous contacts with FBI agencies devoted | to the juvenile problem in the United States. * | Sex ' delinquency, he declared, is! the chief question confronting | Alaska with regard to juvenile mis- steps. The Juverile Code now on the Territory's law books s a good' lact, he said, but facilities are lack- ing for its enforcement. The district ing for its enforcement. The divis-| {ion of authority between the Depart- |ment of Public Welfare and the Of- fice of Indian Affairs works to the detriment of the Code. House Bill No. 69, he stated, will {do one big thing to go a long way toward better enforcement. Orp agency will be given responsibility. Rev. Olson stated that he had re- liable information that the Office 'of Indian Affairs will cooperate fin- ancially, if the Welfare Department is given jurisdiction. Declaring that he wanted only to! \imprees on the Senators the serious ineed for action now, the Rev. Olson| {again stated his belief that House | Bill No. 69 will eliminate the major |difficulty now present in enforce- ment of Alaska's Juvenile Code. Mrs, P. A. Anderson, 79, died at' 10:40 o'clock last night at her resi-‘ |dence on Twelfth Street after a long" {illness. She was born in Aslo, Nor- way, March 12, 1865, coming to Alaska many years ago. 8he is survived by five children: Otto Anderson, Abel Anderson, Mrs. |Olgh Kletzing, of Juneau; Mrs. Nina |Dahl of Petersburg; and Mrs. Annie! Lowe, of Stratford, Canada. The remains are at the Charles W. Cnrte‘r’Mortunry and funeral ser- vicés'will be. announced Mouday. —_— | i the course of many years. “Old Acquaintance” was wrltten for the screen by John Van Druten and Lenore Coffee. —.ee HOSPITAL NOTES Walter Aho has been admitted to St, Ann's Hospital for medical treatment. Roger Bailey, a surgery patient, has left St. Ann’s Hospital for his home. Mrs. Willlam Kassner has been || discharged from St. Ann’s Hospital after receiving surgical attention. Mrs. Pete Hammer, a surgery pa- | | tient, has left for home after re-| ceiving treatment at St. Ann's Hos- pital. 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