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L - “YUKON OU = SECOND FE. THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1945 THE | \’ Forsaking the musical comedy | field for melodrama, Anna Neagle’s latest starring vehicle is “The Yel- low Canary” a fast-paced thrille about an aristocratic English girl whose apparent enthusiasm for the New Order results in her exile to Canada. With her is co-starred| Richard Greené, This feature is at| the Capitol Theatre for the Ilast times tonight. | cre are some terror-riddenj moment when, enroute to Canada, a raiding party from an enemy ves- sel boards the ship which is carry- ing Selly Maitland, the English girl, Jan Orlock, a Polish refugee, and Richard Greene, a young Naval Intelligence office whose only pur- pose in life seems to be pursuing the lovely Sally. In Canada, her pro-Nazi sympa- thies are objectionable to Madame | Orlock, whose broken body attests to Nazi brutality; when Jan at last s that he is a Nazi agent, worry over the constant pres- ence of the mysterious Naval In- telligence officer mounts. The fact that he is stopping at the, same hotel, literally sleeping outside her door irritates and {frightens her for she has been drawn by Jan in- to a well-organized and sure-to- succeed plot to blow up Halifax Har- bor. TONIGHT at 8:05-10:25 —PLU POST” NEWS Friday-Saturday N TWEyiL OROSS YOAR VERTWITH A ARMONY! 7 s SUACK and his ORCHESTRA - 'FRANK TRIAL BRINGS KETCHIKAN ATTORNEY | Walter B. King, former resident and attorney in Juneau, now estab- lished in Ketchikan, arrived here to- day. Mr. King is acting as counsel for Eunice Vivian Frank, indicted for murder in the first degree. Mrs. Frank is scheduled to enter her plea to the charge against her, in U. S, District Court here, Saturday. 'SHELDON JACKSON SCHOOL CHOIR IN ' CONCERT FRIDAY ‘Well Known_arganization‘ t of 42 Voices to Sing in . High School Gym | | The Sheldon Jackson School choir | » !from Sitka will present a concert| |||""||""""""'"l"l"""""""”“Il | Friday night starting at 8 o'clock in | st _|the High School auditorium. This 7 B ; fyear’s ' choir of 42 voices is said to! be one of the best. The choir will arrive here on two boats from Sitka, |the SJS-2 and Princeton Hall, ac-! _companied by Miss Laverne Seagren, | | director, and Mrs. C. G. Stuart, ac- |companist. It is expected the audi- |torium will be crowded on the night ! |of the concert as tickets are in good | jdemand. -3 | The members of the choir will be LEON ERROL GRACE McDONALD WALTER CATLETT | [ VIS RAMSAY AMES | » ASH MILBURN STONE MARY 60| RE "ADVENTURES OF A ROOKIE" Y S s 6 PTG o B S ! Women's Apparey “It's the Nicest Store in Town” Baranof Hotel Building @ & @ A (1 Daily Scheduled Trips Teday Where Jesus Walked”. % B — DOUGLAS |Elizabeth Fraser, and granddaugh- Alaska . . ;s0n, |ager, entertained at private homes dur- ing the stay here. The Martha So- ciety and World Service Circle of the Northern Light Presbyterian church will serve dinner to the group Fri- day and Saturday evenings. The| Sunday School Department will| serve breakfast after the church ser- vice on Sunday. The Memorial| Presbyterian church is serving lunch Friday and dinner on Sunday. The program of the concert fol- SIXTH GRADERS WRITE LETTERS 10 SWP SECTION Answers Are Now Receiv- i : ! ed from Australia, New “Now Rest Beneath Night's 1 & Shadow” men Jealand, Tasmania “O Sacred Head Now Wound- | ed” Bach “A Mighty Fortress Is Our About five months ago, on No- God” Luther vember 27, the pupils of Miss Ruth Steal Away” Negro Spiritual Brooks sixth grade in the juneau “Listen to the Lambs Negro Public Schools mailed 66 letters to Spiritual |children of the schools in the “My God and I” Latvian Carol Southwest Pacific area. These were “Alleluia” Kopolyoff introductory letters to interest the “Resurrection” Ukrainian Eas- children of Australia, New Zealand ter Song. |and Tasmania in Alaska and also “Cherubim Song” Bortniansky to find out more about the lives “Praise Ye the Father” “For Unto Us A Child Is Born" |world. (“Messiah”) ¢ . Handel| Since November 27 the sixth “Gloria” (from “12th Mass”) Mozart graders waited patiently for replies. “The Navy Hymn" Fred War- Finally, on April 14, seven letters ing Arrangement. arrived in the Juneau post office “Sheldon Jackson School Song” (ar- from New Zealand and Tasmania. ranged by Miss Seagren). ly Rage” “Hallelujah Chorus” (from “The Messiah”) | jorie Williams. Upon opening their The Sheldon Jackson School Gil‘ls"lelters they were pleasantly sur- Handel Paula Kay Cook, Gerald Hill, Rae bers, “In Old Madrid”, “Six Little of New Zealand and photographs Girls” (from the “Mikado”), and of their newly found pen pals. “Alice Blue Gown”. Miss Seagren | will sing a contralto solo, * especially the bear stories which were sent down by some of the [ sixtn graders in Juneau. Following are some interesting excerpts from these letters: NEWS “I was very pleased to get your i letter all the way from Juneau. In SOUTH FOR SUMMER Robert Fraser, Mrs. daughter ‘as the Indians are the natives of . The Maoris wear dog- ter Stewart Johnson, left on last skin cloaks ornamented with feath- night’s steamer for Seattle where ers and dyed with patterns. Some- they will join Mrs. Leonard John- times the chief wears a necklace another .daughter of Mrs. of fishes teeth.” Fraser, and mother of Miss Stew-: “We do not have bears in New art Johnson, who has been receiv- Zealand but have quite a few wild ing health treatments for months. The family will reside to- gone pig-hunting and deer stalk- gether and just visit and vacation ing.” during the summer and collect all| “The bush here is very nice and possible sunshine? Mrs. Fraser and green all the year round. You see daughter have both been employed all New Zealand's native shrubs on the Telephone switchboard at and trees are evergreens.” the Douglas office for many years,|' “All the wheat crops in the and are being relieved for the South Island have been ruined by summer by Mrs. James Sey, man- floods so that means a scarcity of and Mrs. Walter Andrews. food this year.” I“would like to know ore LEAVE FOR SOUTH iabouL Alaska as I have seen 'pic- Mrs. Al Burnham and two daugh- | - - = DAILY ALASKA EMPIR Gouncd 'of the people in this section of the ! The seven letters were addressed ! “Why Do The Nations So Furious-|to Donna Brown, Shirley Casperson, | Handel Peters, Robert Rhodes and Mar-/ Sextette will also sing three num- prised to find pictures and stamps | The letters were extremely in-; Walked teresting, and the writers showed | [constdemble interest in Alaska . . .| ]New Zealand we have Maoris. They | jare the natives of New Zealand, some pigs and deer. My father has often JUNEAU, ALASKA tures about the goldfield: These are just a few parts of the interesting letters received from {the children “Down Under.” Seven friendships have already been | started, and many more are on the way when letters arrive from Wanganui, New Zealand; Zeehan, i Tasmania, and ‘Odnadatta, Aus- Ktl‘nlm >ee — 'Martha Society | The Martha Society will hold their regular social meeting in the parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Mrs. Burrass Smith and M Nick Rocovich will be the hos tesses for the dessert luncheon. Mrs. Harvey Starling will lead the devotions, and Mrs. Alaska Norwicka will speak on the sub- ject of Indian Folk tales~ A et ALASKA COASTAL FLIES WEDNESDAY Leaving Juneau for Sitka yester- |day, Alaska Coastal Air Lines took |the following passengers: Howard Astelle, N. A. McEachran, Robert i!-‘ord, and Patricia Connor. From Juneau to Tenakee—Alfred Koski. Juneau to Chatham-—John | ness. Juneau to Port Walter—Earl Lah- meyey Returing Lib- to Juneau from Sitka man. | Angoon to Juneau—Don Fred Geeslin and Bernice Scoovy. e e GULLUFSON, JR., HERE Boatswain's Mate 1/c George Gullufson, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. George Gullufson, is visiting his parents and sisters for a short time. He arrived this morning from Tilla- mook Naval Air Station, Oregon, where he has been stationed for some time. Meetinfl omorrow {were L. T. Blake and R. D. Peter- Foster,’ ALASKA IS T0 BE;THREE STARS IN REPRESENTED ON THRILL FEATURE NEW POSTWARCOM. AT 20TH CENTURY CARSON CITY, Nevada, April 19 Playing for the last showings to- —Alaska will be asked to appoint a night the 20th Century is the representative to the Western States thrilling story, “Paris After Dark” Postwar Industrial Committee by with three top stars, George San- the Governors’ Conference to be ders, Brenda Marshall and Philip held at Reno, Robert A. Allen, Dorn, Added is a color cartoon, Nevada's State Highway Engineer Battle films. from Iwo Jima and said. several other subjects. Allen said Gov. Gruening will be| At The Colesium accompanied by his military aide,| At the Coliseum theatre for to- Major Carl Scheibner, and it is ex-|night and Friday is “Henry Aldrich, pected the Army Officer will bu‘Boy Scout,” which takes irrepressible named to the Postwar Committee|Henry Aldrich on a new adventure. from ten western states now repre - sented in the postwar group. {CONDITION OF BUR D NATIVE BOY IS CRITICAL { at - e | FIRM FILES ARTICLES | Dr. H. F. Kaack this morning OF INCORPORATION reported a slight improvement in (the condition of Waverly Peterson | Articles of incorporation for a 14-year-old native boy who was new business firm, the Miles Con- badly burned by 23,000 volts of struction Company, of Anchorage, electricity, when he came in con- have been filed here with Audlmrltact with a power-transmission line Frank A. Boyle. {Monday evening. However, his con- The new company is organized dition still remains critical. to construct residences and other R buildings and is empowered to en- MRS. ANDERS HERE gage in real estate developments Mrs. Rose Anders, nurse at the and general real estate business. Pioneers' Hospital at Sitka, has Capital stock of the company con- arrived for a visit in Juneau. She sists of one issue of 100 shares,|is a house guest of Mrs. Alex without par value. Russell. The organizing directors of the — e — corporation are: George Stanley JUNEAU WOMAN'S CLUB Miles, Douglas Thomson Fowler,| Tea, Apron and White Elephant and Shelly Harold Loveland, all of Anchorage. HOSPITAL NOTES | Mrs, Earl McGinty and baby son returned to their home yesterday| from St. Ann’s Hospital. | Mrs. Bud Nance, with her baby girl, left St. Ann's Hospital for her home yesterday. Edward Hubbard, who has been receiving medical attention at the Government Hospital, was dismissed Sale .Tuesday, April 24 at Methodist Church Parlors, 2 to 6 p. m. (Apr 19-20-21-23) TONIGHT and FRIDAY HENRY ALDRICH- "BOY SCOUT" yesterday and has returned to ‘Wrangell Institute. - — O A R LAST NIGHT! | Added— COLOR CARTOON || JOHNNY LONG AND HIS | ORCHESTRA i| BATTLE FOR IWO JIMA oo S SEATTLE For Comfort and | ' Bervice : | Tk B Getthe New Wash- ! ) “;"":* ington Habt | | ALASKANS r.l‘n. AT HOME | VANITY BEAUTY | SALON Cooper Bldg., Elsle Hildreth, Mgr. OPEN EVENINGS PHONE 318 Empire Want-aos bring resuits! | MONTHLY ACCOUNTING SERVICE Dorothy Dolan NEW ROOF . . . Time Payments Arranged Phone Red 165 ’ ters left last evening by steamer Rz for the States, where they plan to % make their future home. Mr. Burnham is in the Army to the Westward. They will make their 5/ home at Everett, Washingtdn. . | ON DEFENSE JOBS Everett Martinson, Henry Strai- ger and Wilbur Shaeffer left yes- terday for Seattle and eventually the Aleutian Islands for work on defense projects there. All three signed up for a yearis contract. : ! Y JUNIOR PROM SAT. NIGHT The Douglas High School Junior Prom will be held in the school gym Saturday. evening, April 21. The class and' their adviser, Miss McNeill, have been spending all their evenings recently in decorat- ing and preparing for the big annual event. ALASKANS SHIVER, and Sitka _ Wrangell Petershurg Ketchikan Also Trips - ) TO HAINES SKAGWAY HOONAH AND OTHER SOUTHEASTERN PORTS For Information and Reservations Phone 612 ATTENTION, ELKS! INFORMAL CABARET DANCE || SATURDAY—APRIL 21st At Elks' Hall BUDDY HUNTER'S ORC.HESTRA For Elks and Ladies Only! Tickets available from Emblem Club ‘ members or Steward at the club. Make Table Reservations by Friday Night PHONE 112 Dancing Starts 9:30 P. M. SEATTLE WEATHER| Under the caption “Those Alas- kans They P&t - Pinger - At' Seattle Weather,” The Seattle Post-' Intelligencer of April 17 prints the following story: This Queen City of the Pacific Northwest, this Gateway (closed for the duration) to the Orient, this city of Seattle suffered the insuffer- able yesterday. Pointing a disdainful and mock- ing—albeit slightly frostbitten— finger at out weather, a group of shivering Alaskans had the unmit-" igated gall to comment adversely about, the character of Seattle's cli-' mate. : “It's been a wonderfully mild winter and spring at home,” re- marked Mrs. Edwin Elliott, wife of | 4 stationer at Ketchikan. “Seattle isn’t having much luck, is it?” | Jack Talbot, business man and' member of the territorial develoP-l ment board, nodded in agreement. + “You'd certainly expect Seattle to be warmer than Alaska,” he grin- ned. “B-rrr!” Alaska's governor, Ernest Gruen- ing, en route to a governors’ con- ference at Reno, didn’t comment on this city’s slightly untimely 'chilli- GUARDS MEETING TONIGHT, AB HALL The Juneau Unit of the Territorial Guard will meet in the A, B. Hall tonight at 8 o'clock. ! .All members are to report in regu- lar uniform and leggings, and are to’ be equipped with Springfield rifles and ammunition belts. ‘The program for the evening will ( consist of a snappy drill petiod and guard duty, says Capt. Hank Har-" mon. Juneau, Alaska ——————— 'hflfifiem:mw@kkflm ; Visit Our Baby Headquarters See the M'ost Complete Line We Have in Infants’ and Children’'s Wear His MAJESTY wishes to announce Specializing in Children's and Infants’ Wear OLD MR. $3.50--2 This Price Good Columbia Lumber Co. announces a New Service Our Salesman—GARRY McDONALD Will Call and Give a Free Estimate on HOME INSULATION . . . REMODELING special----- Blend of Straight Bourhon Whiskey Juneau Liquor PHONE 498 NU-BRICK SIDING PHONE 587 BOSTON for $6.50 Until April 25th » Co. Sheldon 3 8:00 | ADMI ADULTS STUDENTS Total CONCERT School Choir FRIDAY, APRIL 20th Juneau High School | Auditorium Jackson SSION AUDITS SHOP P. 0. Box 761 KinNLOCH N. 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