The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 8, 1945, Page 5

> SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1945 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR a | > = e s — ~ o S 7 ‘ mm—.. 0 COSTELLO, /2 L ont9 e, || BUD ABBOTT IN " . " Eadie Was a Lady g CAPITOL'S SHOW| A N " . als 11 ¥k A y __Fa ; The Tral’ol‘ w“hm If you think Abbott and Cos- - {tello have indulged in slapstick be- | fore, wait until you see them in YO“R FAVoRl"‘E |their first film in over a year— . [“In Society,” the Universal picture fuN-sIARS | which is due Sunday at the Capitol |ar Theatre with Arthur Treacher, Mar- | ARE BACK! |ion Hutton, Kirby Grant and Will| | Osborne and his orchestra. | “In Society” has Abbott and and r“““mn | Costello as plumbers who, among |other things, parley a little bathroom THAN EVEB! |1eak into a gigantic flood that inun- |dates an entire mansion To es- T S — | cape drowning the boys climb aboard | ¢ | a bathtub and ride to safety through bedroom and down a rapids of 4 Itheir own making, said rapids be- ling none other than the grand stair- {way of the mansion—which should |give some indication of the hilarious |ment on the building T ! goings-on “In Society.” | | Will Osborne and L | provide the musical accompaniment | to Marion Hutton's songs | L Marion, blonde sister of Betty | Hutton, proves herself as able a * | performer on the screen |on the radio. Miss Hutton sings two {Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time.” i . { There are also many other song with | nits by others of this comedy cast. ARTHUR TREACHER 1 B T S § MARION HUTTON 5. B. HILLMAN TO KIRBY GRANT '+ . : S KB cRANES " TAKE SPECIALIZED ; ANNE GILLIS | INSTRUMENT WORK | an WILL OSBORME & | Stanley B. Hillman, member of 1 and his orches: ? | the Weather Bureau staff at the air- % port departed by Pan-American |plane yesterday enroute to Wash- 3 . lington, D. C., where he will receive | £ FOR YOUR ADDED PLEASURE [§ | specialized training in maintenance, y “MAIN STREET TODAY" — CARTOON |installation, calibration and inspec- » NEWS—Plane Crashes Empire State Bldg. {tion of radiosonde, ceilometer and 4 RAWIN stations and equipment ’ | Radiosonde consists of a set of | . o » Feature 2:30, 4 ’ 50 meteorological instruments combin- i RGN T G o 1 W S U ———— S— R «—f ed with a small radio lrunsmm.er‘ PREVUE SATURDAY NIGHT 12:30 A. M. |55 5t s carried siott | G0 3 - : e — |perature, humidity and pressure of 000000000200000000000500900000080000000600000000 Rogene Moore | dioaa Biptars of Wie Fmodbbars. & [4 | The ceilometer is a recently de- > Save Your Food and Elech‘lcal |veloped photo-electric method of Appliances with Rayon “Seal-Sac” COVERS FOR Toasters . . . Mixers . . . Coffee Brewers Also in three- and six-piece Bowl Cover Sets that are just the thing o preserve the freshness of those left-overs. Moisture Resistant . . . Durable Custom-Tailored PURCHASE SETS NOW AT Alaska Electric Light and Power Company Phone 616 £l ‘ g L L4 "o i WWW“QMOWO‘W“MOM measuring cloud heights in daytime, R. R. Stryker to , |a method which will be of great valu aviati he fi lan accurate direction-finding meth- In a wedding ceremony at the od which makes it possible to mea- heme of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. | sure upper wind above continuous Homer Garvin, Rogene Moore cloud layers, an impossibility with will become the bride of Richard ordinary pilot baloon methods. The R. Stryker, of Anchorage tomorrow importance of this to aviation needs evening ;‘n(; emphasis. A reception honoring the young Mr. Hillerman expects to return couple will be held at the home of jto Juneau about the last of Decem- Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Fagerson, at 510 ber. Twelith Street, at 9 o'clock, follow- | 3 . Wedding Delaved By Late Steamer |invitations have been sent. The wedding of Miss Lorraine | e - | i | EVANGELIST WHITED | HOLD SERVICES HERE ]Rude and S/Sgt. Thomas E. Thomp- Ronald Whited, evangelist, is now ; son, which was to have been solemn- holding special services at th?‘ifl‘d this evening in the Resurrec- Church of Christ, Tenth and E tion Lutheran Church, has been post- streets and will continue until Sep-:m"ed pending the arrival of the tember 18. | steamer Alaska from the Westward. { The evangelist, who is only 21, is The prospective bridegroom is aboard | a student at the Northwest Christian |the steamer. iCOllege in Eugenz, Ore., and Uni- T A B Roid HOSPITAL NOTES versity of Oregon and will return to Fred Woll returned to his home 00006000000 0000¢0005000090000000000 ¢ There is no substitute for newspaner advertising! | school during the coming fall. Whited spent the summer in Ket- | from St. Ann’s Hospital, after re- | ceiving medical care. | chikan and at the cannery in George | Mrs. Don Mack went home yes- B NORTHLAND 3 TRANSPORTATION Inlet. He plans going to Anchorage terday from St. Ann's Hospital, before returning to college. £ SUSE Empire Want-ads bring results! - emrapse e — where she was a medical patient. ! John Dolan, pioneer of Alaska, who has been at St. Ann’s Hospital {for some time, has gone to the Pioneers’ Home in Sitka. Mrs. Art Littlefield and baby, of Douglas, went home last night from the Government Hospital. | Mrs. George Dykeman was flown here from Pelican late yesterday by Alaska Coastal Airlines and rushed to St. Ann’s Hospital by ambulance for emergenc medical attention. 33 INJURED AS TRAIN CRASHES INTO ANOTHER GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Codlo, Sept. 8.—At least 33 persons were injured, several of them seriously, when the locomotive of a Union | Remember i HEN YOU BUY Auto- | o i mobile Insurance re- | member — just as in every- thing else — you get ONLY { the quality of protection and service that you pay isn‘t any better than an umbrella with a missing section! Western tracks six miles east of Glenwood Springs last night. wood Springs hospitals. $o Wright, Grand Junction, Colo., di- i vision superintendent of the Denver and Rio Grande Western, said the Shattuek wreck occurred at 6:15 p. m. when the second section of Union Pacific Train No. 87 pulled into the curved siding and rammed the first section of U. P. No. 37. ———-—. Seward Street WEBB HERE A. G. Webb, of Seattle, has ar- Phone 249 |,ived in town and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. Juneau his orchestra |ing across the street had been as- | she was| ommended denial of the claim, since |songs, “No Bout About It” and “My |assessment was excessive for | for. Pacific passenger train rammed into, rear-end Pullmans of another west- NSUFFICIENT insurance |siding of Denver and Rio Grande, bound U. P. train on the Grizzly, Injured overflowed the two Glen- JUNEAU, ALASK DOOR CLOSED ON BACK TAX ADJUSTMENTS Evidently feeling sufficiently steep- ed in their own tax troubles, Ju- | neau’s City Councilmen last evening |sang out an unanimous “No" vota |against digging into tax difficulties sing from previous years. The decision against opening the door to claims based on prior assess- | ments came in action on J. J. Klein's request for refund of $295 against |his protested payment of $452 in| 11944 taxes on the Klein Building at |Sccond and Franklin Streets, form- | lerly known as the Krafft Building Attorney William Paul, Jr., repre- senting Mr. Klein, explained that (the request was based on the con- | |tention that the vital principle of | | equality of assessment had been b; | passed in the case of the 1944 asses was cited r TOOF Build- |that the very simil |sessed at only $14,000, whereas the | Klein property was pegged at $27 City Attorney Howard D. Stabler | report cn the matter, however, rec- | it was not shown that the Klein | that | property and the character of use| of the lodge building is different. | It would be equally just, the at- torney contended, to increase the| "UNION PACIFIC" | SHOWS TONIGHT AT 20TH CENTURY Barbara Stanwyck, in a role com- pletely different from any she has previously attempted, and Joel N co-starred in the romantic leads of “Union Pacifte," Cecil B. De Mille's grand-scale interpretation of the | building of America’s first trans- continental railroad, which is show- ing for the last times tonight at the 3 20th Century Theatre Although the popular Miss Stan- wyck has played roles as varied as Middle Western farm-woman, England factory wench and Park Avenue debutante, her Mollic Mona- han in “Union Pacific” marks something new in the Stanwyck repretoire. She is a daring, warm- hearted, fiery girl of the West, the daughter of the “U. P's” gineer, the postmistress of “end of railroad-builders. She is equally at home outwitting western comforting the homesick Irish labor- ers, battling Indians on the warpath or engaging in high-powered ro- mance. Mollie’s romantic interest in “Un- ion Pacific” is one Jeff Butler (play ed by the handsome McCrea), a brave and reckless trouble-shooter assessment on the lodge hall, if the | present Council does have authority | {to revise assessments of previous | years, Mr. Stabler, though, gave his opinion that the present Council does not have that authority. | The Councilmen voted to accept the City Attorney's recommendation —thereby avoiding setting a pre- | cedent that might have called down | about their heads many more com- plaints from the past. The Council also turned a deaf | lear to cries to reopen the rocvnl]y‘ | terminated Board of Equalization | | hearings for this year. Otto Ander- | son, fisherman, had come forward | as an example of those who had! |been unable to be present at lhl‘i |time of the Board sessions, his oc- many miles away. { | The Council, however, considered | 1sentee propetry owner, declaring extended far beyond the mormal' | times, that it is the taxpayer’s re- sponsibility to present his complaint | | at the appointed period. | TWO STARLINERS FROM ANCHORAGE On the first flight yesterday, for Alaska Airlines, the Starliner Fair- banks brought the following passen-| gers from Anchorage: Ed Welch, H. |D. Miller, George Vaara, Jean Vaara, Bill Poler, Robert Booth, Al-| berta Bigelow, Paul Shannon, Joe| Mosely, William Talquist, E. T. Cur-l ran, Evelyn Logan, Helmett Lang- field, Mrs. Maxwell Clark, Harland Holton, M. Ellifson, A. A, Webb,! Selweyn Womack, Ellen Valle und{ William H. Barron. | On the second flight the Starliner| Nome with Capt. Lund, and F‘lighl.‘ Officer Silver, flew the following| ito Juneau from Anchorage: Ruby {Morton, Johnny Morton, Emme Nicolet, Andrew Maxson, Wilde| | Hegdahl, Victor Rowe, Cedric Da-| |vis, Scott Donaldson, William EBoehl. Capt. Hicks, Lt. Robert Huff and W. Burnside. | From Yakutat: Mrs. P. B. Henry' and child, G. P. Logan and John Garcia. | On the return flight the following | flew to Anchorage: Minna Coughlin.‘ Thomas M. Donohoce, Fred Axford, Mrs. Fred Axford, Joe Axford, Fred Johnson, Marion Folsom and A. T. Wickstrom. - >ee VERNA CARRIGAN RETURNS Verna Carrigan returned via PAA yesterday after a visit of several months in the Pacific Northwest, meeting many former while Outside. REQUEST Removal Transmiss Sealed bids will be r of the Area Engine 20, behind the Signal Twelfth Street with Juneau, Alaska. complete dismantlin Juneau, Alaska. 3 S. P ! LEAV [t Juneauites l 1945, for dismantling the 300-foot steel radio transmis Specifications call for hauling to the Juneau Port storage area. Further information may be obtained from the Area Engineer, P, O. Box 1361, FOR SKAGWAY AND HAINES '{ FRIDAY MORNING AT NINE Sailing Date Subject to Change whom the Washington government has assigned to keep order along the righ-of-way. The two meet at “end of track”, the gaudy, brawling settlement that moves ever west their romance moves as swiftly for- ward as the phenomenal railroad itself - USO Reception fo Teachers Tomorrow : ‘Tomorrow afternoon at o'clock, the USO will play host 5:30 All of the newcomers to the com- munity, both men and women, are | (affords information concerning tem-|him in the same light as an ab- |invited to the clubhouse to enjoy the Coffee-and-Waftfles Hour with the | the upper air, giving a three-dimen- | that the hearings had already been |servicemen. The Servicemen’s coun- & cil will serve as the committee to re- ceive these special guests. - - - Rainbow Girls Go To Chth Sunday Members of the Order for Rain- ¥ bow Girls will attend church to- morrow. They will go in a body to the 11 o'clock service at the Meth- odist church and the pastor, the Rev. Robert S. Treat, will take as his sarmon topic “Growing in Grace.” ———— - by the Bliliblh Parliament in 1922, The forested area of Canada is . estimated % COLISEUM v NOW PLAYING! SENSATIONAL! THE PICTURE THAT MUST BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED! HITLER GANG" DOUGLASY, COLISEUM THEATRE SUNDAY ONLY! “Four Jills in a Jeep” FOR BIDS of Radio ion Tower 1 eceived at the office er until September ssion tower located | Corps buildings on in the city limits of g of the tower and New » first en-'% ack” and little sister of the husky » sharpers, © z CONTINUOUS SHOWS ALL DAY ard with the railroad, and to the new teachers of the Douglas and | and assembled in a small cardboard | cupation having required that he be | Juneau Schools. at 1,220,405 square miles. & sEEzEETE PR "THE . ‘ i LATEST AIR EXPRESS ISSUE - | FOX MOVIETONE NEWS HISTORIC FILMS: ! Jap Surrender Mission o Manila TIEIREEIC ATRICIA ? % PAGE FIVE TIOMENTURY % oRicHT! Roar westward with the Empire builders in the greatest American epic of them all! Cecil B. DeMille’s ‘UNION PACIFIC starring BARBARA STANWYCK AKIM TAMIROFF - ROBERT PRESTON LYNNE OVERMAN - BRIAN DONLEVY ALSO Produced and Directed by PRI CECIL B. DeMILLE A PARAMOUNT P\CTURE. 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We are staffed-and equipped to give you any type of decorative work—from the simplest home to elaborate commercial designing — AND EACH RECEIVES THE SAME ATTENTION. JAMES S. MeCLELLAN Phone Douglas 374 . P. O. Box 1216 —————— —