The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 21, 1945, Page 5

¥ R SATURDAY JULY 21, 1945 SHOWPLALE oF APIT TOMORROW! TONIGHT! “The Pearl of Death” "Louisiana Hayride” PREVUE TONIGHT 12:30 A. M. More Spectacular than “Arabian Nights* More Thrilling than “Ali Baba®® HOT LIPS! SWAYING HIPS! NIGEL BRUCE LEO CARRILLO GALE SONDERGAARD DOUGLASS DUMBRILLE CURT BOIS HUGE PROJECTIN COLUMBIA BASIN 15-UP 10 VOTERS GRAND COULEE, Wash, July 21.—The fate of an irrigation pro- ject which would transform a mil- lion-acre sea of sand, sagebrush| and scattered wheat fields into a | rich green farmland hangs trdu), cn the ayes and nays of some 3,600 Columbia River Basin landowners. The owners—only 700 of them live or the ground whict the pro- jects' Loosters iy cow= suppcrt 350,000 people—g2 to polling places dotting the bflsins vastness from 1to 8 p.me The ballots call for a declsion on whether the owners should enter into contracts with ‘the' Govern-| ment to pay their share of the es-| timated $280,000,000 needed to com- | plete the project. Sale of power generated at Grand Coulee Dam, which! also impounds the water to be used for irrigation, is expected to pay about three-fourths of the cost. The dictatorship of Chiang Kai-Shek! Corruption in the government! Our war effort g ogainst Japan periled! them 15,000 feet long; th I:mxm" | of x’our tunnels aggregating four half miles in length; the | ]HH]II., of approximately 2,500,000 unmc yards of concrete—enough to bmld 800 miles of standard high- way. Pay Increase Causes Sienogs Unhappmess‘ DENVER, July 21.—Stenograph- | | ers working for the State of Col-| torado are unhappy about the pay‘ raise voted them by the legisla- ture. S The increase of 25 cents a month | | put the stenogs in a higher income ‘ Lracket. Cost of the raise to stenograph- $9.60 a ‘crs with one department: | vear, or 80 cents a month. H.D. Clark, Pioneer 0f Skagway, Passes| SKAGWAY, Alaska, July 21.—H. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA '6YPSY WILDCAT' IN TECHNICOLOR COMING, CAPITOL A picture that promises to be alive with color, romance and ad- venture is due to arrive Sunday at the Capitol. | Wildcat,” produced by George Wag- gner, filmed in Technicolor, and starring Maria Montez in the title rvole, Jon Hall and Peter Coe. According to all reports, “Gypsy — ADDED — “AQUA_ACES” "(;()()i’\"% GLIDER” NEWS sm«u |SUEL CANAL TOLLS ' CANNOT BE WAIVED ON U. S. SHIPPING - LONDON, July 21. — A British | Wildcat” represents for the tem- pestuous Maria Montez a departure frem the type of characterization she interpreted in “White ' “Ali Baba and the | Forty Th nd “Cobra Woman". The role is one of the most seductive she has ever portrayed, in spite of the fact that the fiery Latin star \wcm's more clothes in “Gypsy Wild- cat” than she has worn in all her previous pictures put together. |" Jon Hall will be seen as the dash-| |ing soldler of fortune who wins her |away from her gypsy sweetheart, {played by the young Jugoslavian | Peter Coe, who attracted to much ‘tlltvnuon with his work in Walter i Wanger's “Gung Ho!" | Appearing in support of the three ‘stm‘s are Nigel Bruce as a conniving, musing official, a role decidedly dif- erent from his Doctor Watson in the Sherlock Holmes pictures; Leo rillo as chief of the gypsy band; |Gale Sondergaard as a gypsy for- tune teller; Douglass Dumbrille as a villaincus baron; and Curt Bois as a gypsy comic. 'GAMBLING PAYS NEVADA STATE CARSON CITY, Nev. July 21.— Collections from Nevada's $16,000,- 000 gambling business under the new one per cent tax on gambling house operators totals $39,215, Rob~ | bins Cahill, chief statistician of the Tax Commission, said today. The collections represent quar- terly license fee payments of ap- ! proximately 500 of the state's 700 gambling club operators. The state |is assured of at least $160,000 rev- enue annually from the one per cent tax on gross business of gamb- ling houses, Cahill said. | The state, counties and cities in 1944 collected $800,000 in taxes on gambling games. With the gross revenue tax the state’s total from gambling will approach $1,000,000 annually. EIBANK LOANS { l WASHINGTON July 21. — The| nate completed Congressional 1t is Universal's “Gypsy | such films as, GET BIG BOOST. "TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT" AT 20TH CENTURY Over 35,000,000 radio listeners can not be wrong, and when 20th Cen- tury-For decided to transfer to the sercen the favorite air show of millic -Phil Baker’s “Take It Or‘ Leave It", opening Sunday at the 20th Century, the popular radio show became, through the magic' of the movie makers, one of the biggest surprise pictures of the year. Here is a picture destined to start| a new c in musical entertain- |ment, for its orginality, musical nov- elty, and warmly human love story will satisfy every screen entertain- ment, for its originality, musical nov- tion picture fans. | To disclose the plot 'of “Take It Or' Leave It" would dull the edge of its| “surprise” elements, but it is no be- trayal of confidence to reveal that the picture becomes a musical caval- cade rivalling the biggest musicals| that Hollywood has ever produced. | Holding this lavish entertainment' toget with romantic suspense, is! a grand love story. The featured| cast includes Phil Silvers, Edward Ryan and Marjorie Massow. Stanley | Prager is featured in a top comedy role that puts the spotlight on him as a comedian of no little talent. Excitement runs high in the film when Eddie Ryan, in the role of a sailor and hopeful contestant in the !qmz. program sequence, tries for a {$64-question and stands breathlessly between the mike and the pot of gold at the question's end. Over Half of Berlin's Homes !Are in Ruins BERLIN, cuiy 21.—The Berliner ) Zeltung estimates that more than half of this city's 1,500,000 homes were destroyed during the war and that 16 years will be required to haul away the rubble if 10 trains of 50 cars each depart daily. J Among the Zeitung’s other obser- vations were these: | At the pre-war construction rate it will take 20 years to replace all the destroyed homes and the cost |will be about two billion dollars— using the pre-war valuation of the German mark as equal to 40 cent.s ' SONS OF DIVORCED ' ACTOR NOT TO BE - ACTORS IS DECREE| 1 LOS ANGELES, July ‘21, — Ken' Mugray, stage, screen and radio actor and producer and master of 'Bppruvnl today of legislation boost-‘ccremomcs of a Hollywood stage ing the lending authority of the ieview, made 1t clear today that his Export-Import Bank by $2,800,000,-| two young sons are not to become | § [nclors By an unanimous voice vote, the| In a property settlement attach- Scnatc sent to President Trumau‘pd to a divorce suit filed in Su- a measure increasing the bank’s' perior Court by his wife, Cleatus‘ Foreign Office spokesman declared loan limit from $700,000,000 to $3,- today that it “is not within our | 500,000,000. power” to waive Suez Canal tolls. This rounds out an administra-| on American * ships carrying sol- ! tion monetary program which in-! ! diers and equipment to the Pacific cluded authority, approved by the ' war theatre. for American' Caldwell, Murray stipulated that' as long as he provided for the | children, she would not “require or | permit” them to be employed tor‘[ money. This included, the stipula-| | Egypt. The commentator at a press con- ference said it was “perfectly true” fee for passage of her through the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal, however, he said, is entirely American-owned; while. the Suez Canal is owned by a corporation organized = under French law, with several nations, as shareholders, including Italy and Britain owns 44 per cent. Responding to questions, the For- eign Britain also paid tolls on all its Canel. S MR., MRS. EWiNG HERE that Britain does not pay a similar! troops | Office spokesman said that| shipping passing through the Suez| \rhamber yesterday, \pnrucipnuon in a $9,100,000,000 ln- | ternational bank for reconstruction | ond development and an $8,800,- 000,000 fwnd to support world cur- rencies. The increase in Export-Import| funds will provide loans to finance |Amerlcnn shipments of goods to xwar-devumwfl Europe. Leo Crow- ley, Foreign,K Economic Adminis- trator, said = about $1,000,000,000 would be earmarked for Russia. e tion said, employment as actors in motion pictures or “in any other fields of commercial entertain- ment.” His wife, whom he married in 1941 a month after she graduated | from high school, charged him with extreme cruelty. Murray, named in the suit as Kenneth A, Doncourt, agreed to pay $500 monthly for support of the children plus $650 monthly alimony until Jan. 1, 1956. NO PASS FORT SHERIDAN, Ill.—A soldier, not identified by the Public Rela- "PREMIER SOONG HAS HIS VIEWS | The job of carrying water to the D. Clark, 81-year-old pioneer skng- thirsty basin would necessitate the way Valley rancher, passed away i building of nearly 500 miles of ' yesterday at a hospital. He is sur-! main canals-and laterals and 3,500 vivad by his wife and two daughters, ON WAR'S LENGTH Mr. and Mrs. George Ewing, of Excursion Inlet, have arrived in miles of smaller canals; construc- Mrs. Dorothy Dewar, of Skagway, and Juneau and are guests at the Gas- CHUNGKING, July 21.—Premier V. Soong, who returned to Mrs. John McLaren in Victoria. Hneax Holel. Chungking recently from a visit tion of four huge dams, one of MANILA HARBOR : harbor, Manila bay, BUSY AGA I N—New floating pier No. 9 is shown in use in South expediting the movement of troops toward fl‘lore In trucks.” - to Moscow, declared today that the| war with Japan would end this| year or early in 1946. Soong, addressing the People's Political Council, also declared that the Chinese Government would be reorganized immediately with a view to creating the strongest pos- sible machinery for pgst-war re- ‘construction. He said that while in the United States—where he attended the San Francisco Conference before going to. Moscow—he had concluded ar- rangements for building up China's industry and fostering the coun- try’s economic development. Soong said nothing positive had been decided by his visit to Mos- cow, during which he had several meetings with Premier Stalin. He indicated, however, that negotia- tions initiated there were continu- ing. LIBBY MEN HERE 0. C. Ziebell and John M. Walker, Libby McNeill and Libby represen- tatives from Chicago, are guests at the Baranof Hotel. - e — DAVIS IN TOWN C. W. Davis, who is connected with the Standard Oil Company,' from Seattle, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel, tions office, went to T/Sgt. Russell Asche, who issues passes at the sep- aration center, and said: “I just talked with my mother jand I've got to have a furlough or a pass.” “Mother sick?” asked Asche. “No, but she told me that Queeny, my bird dog, is going to have pups.|- She's never had a litter without me.” He didn’t get a pass. ——.ee — RENSIS HERE N. H. Rensis, Pepsi-Cola Com- pany representative from Long Is- land, New Jersey, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. —————————— WHITEHORSE WOMEN HERE Alma Forrest and Rita Brandry, of Whitehorse, are guests at the Baranof Hotel, ——— VAN ERNUM IN TOWN E. L. Van Ernum, of Sitka, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. (DOUGLAS /- COLISEUM THEATRE SUNDAY ONLY! IT"S SPOOKTACULAR! "THE UNINVITED" RAY MILLAND RUTH HUSSEY R, LAST TIMES TONIGHT . . . IT'S GOOD! JOEL McCREA BETTY FIELDS compny suasn: THEGREAT MOMENT" Ha-Ha! Stars SUNDAY! ¢ pis WHAT FUN! WHAT STARS' WHAT lAUGHS' LENTUR PRESTON STURGE'S CONTINUOUS SHOWS ALL DAY FROM 1:30 P. M. 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