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

THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1945 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA MUSIC, COMEDY IN FEATURE AS CAPITOL'S BILL | Life in a teeming shipyard with accent on music and comedy is the subject of the new M-G-M musical “Meet the People™ at the Capitol Theatre, starring Lucille Ball and Dick Powell. The movie, which is based on the| successful stage revue of the same name deals with the gay side of things in a busy war industry. The shipyard workers are revealed in simple, human terms.® DOUGLAS NEWS VISITING MOTHER Mrs. Irene Montgomery and Mrs. {0. H. Schoenberger and two chil- dren are visiting their mother, Mrs. Anna Boer, of Douglas. They ar- (rived on the recent boat from the eral weeks here. MISSIONARY HERE Mrs. Ida Irvy, of Tenakee, a mis- sionary, has spent several days in | Douglas visiting Mrs. Gust Wahto. (She will return soon to her home states and plan on a visit of sev- | FOSTER, GOVERNOR " 10 MAKE EXTENDED™ - TRIP T VILLAGES | Don C. Foster, Alaska Native | service Director, was to leave Ju- | neau this afternoon on an extended | trip which will take him into many of the Aleut and Eskimo villages | where ANS activities are carried out. Mr. Foster disclosed that he is | going first to Kodiak, from where he will return to Anchorage to join Gov. Gruening, who left today for | Anchorage with the Alaska Housing Authority. The Governor and Foster will then make a trip to villages as far out LAST SHOWINGS TIOMENTURY MARY ARNOLDIS |"MINESWEEPER" | ' 93NEXTTUESDAY CLOSES TONIGHT AT 20TH CENTURY To obtain a series of novel and spectacular underwater views for “Minesweepqr,” Paramount's dra- | matization of the Na minesweep- | ing service in war, a specially con-| structed diving bell was submerged | thirty feet to the ocean floor. | The bottom of the bell was made| wide so the cameraman was able to walk about carrying his equipment | with him. Since artificial illumina- tion was not possible the photo- grapher, Fred Jackson, Jr., was able Mary E. Arnold, loved by scores of | |friends when she resided here with | her son, C. B. Arnold, then manager lof KINY, will be 93 next Tuesday.| | When she celebrated her 90th birth- day, Juneau friends sent Mrs. Arnold letters and cards. Her present ad- dress is 4512 Fremont Avenue, | Seattle 3, Wash., where she is now residing with her son. Letters received in Juneau from | Mrs. Arnold’s intimate friends says she wants to come back here some| !day and in spite of her age, keeps |well and quite vigorous, although| She says Miss Ball plays a famed BrmaclA}at Tenakee Springs. way actress wro meets riveter Dick | Powell on a bond-selling appear- | VISIT IN DOUGLAS as Seward Peninsula, giving atten- [she tires a little quicker. tion to post-war needs and dcvelop-‘wrh- believes she is getting old. She riter ment possibilities in the communities | es shopping trips, spending the 7 {to work only when the sun lit up the ¥ ance at the shipyards. She learns |he has written a play which she is willing to produce on Broadway. Dick agrees, but when the play is in preduction he learns that the mes- sage of his musical has been chang- ed and withdraws the play. Lucille follows him back to the shipyards to get the play back and stays to a worker for a while and “meet the people” in it. She and Dick fall in love but quarrel just | before she is to return to New York. fore she can leave they learn that all war workers are frozen to their w8 gl oV (AN pALL gl Bort Sl - ¥ walte when without Dick’s knowledge Lu-| cille produces the play at the ship-| yards. When Dick learns what Lu- |cille has done they kiss and make| jup in the approved manner, B 'FISHERIES AGENTS MEETING HERE ON PLANS FOR SEASO e Plus: CARTOON—NEWS Barney Kane and Dermott O'Toole were Douglas business vis- |itors yesterday. i WORKING ON HARBOR | The James V. Cole Piledriving {Company is at work on the Douglas {small boat tie-up float, adjacent to | the cannery dock. The former float ! was demolished during a bad storm !last winter. This work is part of |the city's agreement with the | Territory as its share of putting | the dock in shape to accommodate | local fishermen. The city must also Things are finally patched up“suriace the rock fill and put up railing on the fill for safety, as per agreement. NO GUALD TONIGHT According to Capt. W. Cahill, there will be no meeting of the Territorial Guard this week. e e Boy Scouts of America, met at the they visit. Mr. Foster expects to be gone from his Juneau headquarters some weeks, | though the Governor, it is anticipat- ed, will return sooner. oo 'NEW CHAIRMEN ARE NAMED CC MEETING At the meeting of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce today noon in the Baranof Hotel, reading of the minutes of the Executive Board meeting, held yesterday, revealed that B. F. Heintzleman has been !appointed chairman of a special | committee to study possibilities of public agencies and institutions locating in the Juneau area. He is to appoint his own committee. | J. P. Christensen has been ap- {pointed a committee of one to | SCOUT TROOP NO. 613 MEETS work with the City on problems | American Legion Troop No. 613, relating to “Keeping Juneau Clean.” {h..,,.l.h nurse with the Territorfal tending. | Claude Carnegie is chairman of iLegion Dugout,, last night, where a special committee on National | Holding their anual meeting to|they made plans for the coming Cemeteries, to study and foster the |outline work for the commercial/ summer camp at Eagle River. placing of a National Cemetery in | her home in Jamaica, New York. g ries | & fishing season, District Fisheries| Scoutmaster George Kuhns was in the Juneau region. | Agents for the Fish and Wildlife! Service conferred in Juneau today | with Alaska Director Frank W.| charge of the meeting. - Clites, mother of Mrs. Mrs. Annie Through the cooperation if Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson, members were shown a highly educational film |Hynes, and Fisheries Management Carl H. Prouty, is today 87 years on contributions of optical science. Supervisor, J. Steele Culbertson. | District Agents here for the |session include: Charles | ka 1Clay Scudder, Juneau. | Agent Headlee is to leave tomor- | row for his Cook Inlet post aboard | |the F&WL vessel Teal. Also on board will be Patrol Agent Don McLean, bound for Cordova, from { where he will patrol the Prince | William Sound area aboard patrol | boat No. 8. Mrs. McLean is ac- ! companying him to Cordova. e ?Babkaoy Is Bo¥n - ToEugene Nelsons Mr. and Mrs. Eugene G. Nelson are ‘the happy parents of a baby boy [ born last night at St. Ann’s Hospital. | The future mining engineer weighed lin at 5 pounds, 14'% ounces. with MOWBRAY - MILDRED COLES ROGER CLARK - SARAH PADDEN — SECOND FEATURE — AN ENTER- TAIMENT SPREE! Mr. Nelson, a mining engineer, has' ,been on the staff of the Alaska Ju-| neau Gold Mining Co., for many years. Mrs. Nelson, a former school | teacher at Kodiak and Bethel, was, {also on the staff of the Douglas | School for a short time. | 1 The baby’s grandmother, Mrs. R. 1 P. Nelson, is also very happy over |the arrival of her first grandchild. | SWANEE PRIDE LIQUEUR Fifth $3.80 0.P. A. List §5.25 Juneau Liquor Co. PHONE 498 DECORATING ; INTING and PAPERING, being in the same craft Erl: important enough to REQUIRE CARE in their execution It is more satisfactory bo know what the job is actually worth before starting and thus avoid an indefinite expense brought on by unneces- sary working hours. JAMES S. McCLELLAN Phone DOUGLAS 374 Box 12‘6 neau last September i H. Prouty. |IMLER BAGS SEA " LION FROM LYNN | CANAL T0 STUDY Ralph Imler, Research Biologist for the Fish and Wildlife Service, has completed the first piece of his probe into the sea lion situation in Alaska fishing waters. He has re- | turned from a venture up Lynn | “young.” Mrs. Clites came to Ju- | This film showed the highly-skilled | the past four years. She served two! g from her art of making lenses, binoculars |years as public ® health novse Petry, | former home in Nebracka, to make and similar related articles and the | Wrangell and for the past two years | Bristol Bay; Mark Logan, Ketchi- her home with her son-in-law and help these goods have given to all |has been stationed at Seward. | Fred Headlee, Cook Inlet, and daughter, the Rev. and Mis. Carl|different fields of work, such as| | | crime detection, medical science, | manufacturing of every type of | materials, farming, etc. |day downtown by herself and Fehuy ol uacewpeper; - which Sty Dk 1311 the new books and keeps up with |Arien and: Jean. Parker will be Rvar and mumm} hews shown for the last two times tonight | ‘About o year ago Mrs. Arnola |2t the 20th Century Theatre PETRBAS ) A | came acro: the country from Chicago to Seattle by train and stood | the trip beautifully. “QUR ALASKAN FRONTIER” AN ALASKAN TOUR IN TECHNICOLOR NEW COLOR CARTON————“TARGET-JAPAN” Il “NIGHT LIFE IN MEXICO CITY”—NEWS EVENTS | \ENTERTAINMENT AT | R vt EXTRA! Mrs. Arnold recalls she ‘knew | e Secretary Seward in Auburn, N. Y, ‘ where she lived as a girl and remem- | MINFIEI_D SCHOOL | bers the ridicule that was heaped upon him when he purchased Alaska | for Uncle Sam. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Arnold will hold open house in Seattle on May 15 and any Juneau friends will be most welcome to%attend, and any cards or letters will also be appre-| ciated. ) DR IERETS NOW IN STOCK . ... A FEW OF THE 18” FLOOR LAMP SHADES in PARCHMENT and in SILK ALSO Following the entertainment at :pUBlI( HEAI"H NURSE the school house, Miss Minnie Field, SOME TABLE LA“PS director of the Minfield Home, will‘I NICE ONES! ; w"'l (0"'|NUE SIUDY be hostess at the main building,| public| serving refreshments to those ut-‘ | Alaska Electric Light and Power Company Tre amusing circus show, which {the pupils of the Minfield School at Lena Beach, will present to the public tomorrow evening, will start' |promptly at 7:30 o'clock. The young performers have been | busy all week preparing acts and' costumes, and promise the audience a pleasant evening. Miss Catherine Bastress, | Department of Health, has resigned | T 8 A her position and arrived in Juneau | | today from the Westward enroute to' LADY IN THE DARK aboutl psy- chology wants somebody to interpret | She plans to take a post xraduawlfwr, gEseis, | course in public health work at the | JUNEAU DOUGLAS iNmL)il:o;}I:\sg:xs‘lscr::s}'.been with the; Phone No- 616 Phune No. 18 Territorial Department of Health| THEATRE Cheerful Dispensers of Dependable S 24! lect! TORIGI b YR IDAT 4-Hour Electric Service GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. PRODUCTS JAMES CAGNEY in % at - e | NORTON IN JUNEAU I | F. Robert Norton, of Hoonah, is ‘a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. | | Under New Management | ‘'l | FEM | WINDOW —s—x AUTO PLATE GLASS “The Frisco IDEAL GLASS CO. m” Glass Work of All Descriptions 121 MAIN STREET PO~ == PHONE 633 MER | TAXI | Canal on which four sea lions were | killed at Eldred Rock and two others ! taken for study near Berners Bay. 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