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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1946 N L with STAN KE BAND BILLY GILBERT “CRAZY LIKE A FOX” Donald Duck in “THE CLOCK i W .\'i'(‘lll’.l" in ORDER OF RAINBO PRE: V‘:’FOBGIBLS VALENTINE CONCERT FEATURING SYLVIA DAVIS, VIOLINIST STRING QUARTETTE Northern Light Pfesbrylerian Church FEBRUARY 14,15...8P. M. ADMISSION (Tax Included)——STUDENTS ADULTS $ .70 1.00 TRANSPORTATION C. O M P AN'Y | 'THRILL MYSTERY ' COMEDY TONIGHT AS CAPITOL'S BILL | Laughs vie with thrills in the treatment of RKO Radio’s murder mystery drama, “Having Wonderful Crime,” starring Pat O'Brien, George Murphy and Carole Landis, with Lenore Aubert featured, and cpening at the Capitol Theatre to- night. The story is based on Craig Rice’s characters in thut author’s popular detective novels. Malone (O’Brien), attorney and amateur sleuth, Justus (Murphy) and Helene, his. bride (Miss Lan- dis), are inseparable friends, al- though Helene is always getting Malone into hot water with the po- lice as the result of her escapades. It i® to avoid being grilled by the police that Malone insists on ac- ccmpanying them on their honey- moon. Even on the Murphy-Landis hon- eymoon trouble catches up with the inseparable three The very matter about which they left town the mysterious disappearance of a magician who didn't" reappear after his disappearing act—follows them, and gets them into a first class quest for a double murderer. Before Malone untangles the s the trio are subjected to on their lives, and get in- volved with queer goings-on with a magician’s magic trunk and "a corpse which has a predilection for disappearing at inopportune mo- ments. In the end, the long: suffer- ing Malone manages to win happi- ness for himself with a beauteous swimming champion. Chili Williams and a bevy of bathing beauties figure in glamor sequences of ‘“Having Wonderful Crime.” HARRY GODSON IS LEAVING FOR NEW DUTIES WITH (PR Harry Godson, Railroad agent past three and 1 > this city Pacific the will Canadian in Juneau for a half years March 13 for Vie- B. C,'where he will take over duties CPR wharf agent. He and his wife will travel to Victoria by steamer. Mr. Godson will be replaced by Charlie Young, present purser on the Princess Norah. Young, who has been relief agent in Prince Ru- t and Ketchikan offices, will toke over the Juncau office on a permanent basis, and he and his wife will make t. r home here, .o DRINK KING BLACK LABEL! Yes, when baby goes for his bottle with Darigold Evapo- rated Milk in the formula he has spproval of both mother and doctor. Mother approves because of her experience with Darigold in the kitchen in dozens of uses. As for doctor, he has solid, scientific reasons for approving Dari- gold* When it-comes to baby, his approval is shown in chuckles of glee and in steady, sturdy growth. Dari- gold is a ceuly fine evaporats ed milk. | * Vitamin D content increased by the addition of 25 USP units of tasteless vitamin Dy per filuid quncc. Provides ok Les then 400 units per quare when ¢ volumes of Densold Mik md water are mixed, Darigold Milk is homogenized for earier digesti- bility and safeguarded by ization and air-tight sealing the can. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA } DOUGEAS MORE SNOW FELL | NEWS INJANUARY THAN G Capt. Wendell E. Cahill announc- es that his Territorial Guards will meet. Wednesday evening this week, | - nn wiier iy oty wawm due to a regular monthly meeting | . e .oiuai days :}' :; Sinite “‘" of the Doug'as Volunteer Fire De- |0 o u e O D partment on Thursday evening, | ¢ o g o nz'r;“,i‘ e The Guards will “meet at TEOLGRRL ) " O ab alr o'clock in the Nat Hall, where they | n O loeh BEE B8 YO0 R S0 will continue with the “Te o gpit 7 ith 4 Telephone |y ooty for Junuary was 7.9 mph |the prevailing direction was east- Rifle Match” with the Juneau Unit of Guards erly; there was three clear. da In a reguler match last w S g gular match last week o'y i1y cloudy, and 27 cloudy on the Juneuu range, the Juneau _ .. P h Guards soored ‘over Douglas’ men|i ey nc Was 23 percept of the Y FOPWIS i At | total pessibl> for January. However, by a total of 20 ! | ¥ i Doliits as shown by the ' comparative |tables below, the snowfall during i |the past mouth was over three and \'m"q"grunn-h'u times as much as during | January, 194,. Only one day, the [18th, had ahsolutely no precipita- CLUB MEET Island Club will hold a regular meeting to- morrow, Wednesday evening begin- ning at 8 o'clock at the home of tion Mrs, James Parsons. Mrs. Charles| b : { Auroras were visible on two days; Werner, will assist Mrs. Parsons as!| s o g : {fog occurred on seven, lunar halos hostess for the evening. The pro- i on three, and a lunar corona on gram commitcee announces that an| e, interesting musical has been ar-| 3 | YMPARATIVE DA ranged as part of the entertain- | COMPARATIVE 'DATA ment. d‘ City Oftice Club officers cordially invite all't Lo Liae Normal Extreme Douglas women to attend their 1946 meetings whether club members or iz not. New women of the town are especially invited Air- port 1946 | Highest | temp Mean | 1 KAY HULK AT ST. ANNE'S ;3’;:“"‘““'"‘ Mrs. ¥ugene “Kay” Hulk, entered | St. Ann's hospital Sunday and un- | M&8% derwent a major operation y%lm__’mmvmmm day. Last evening she was reported | LOWest as resting favorably. Miss Laina |%®P Aaito is staying at the Hulk home, | TO%! i e childr | precipitation taking care of_tht children. 1llnchvs» 18 DOUGLAS VET RETURNS | 108l snowfall Corporal Jack Mills arrived on| ind Saturday, as « civilian, completing | MX: Wind over four years of military duty.Lve‘"c“" Corp. Mills w discharged at An- chorage on Fzi. 1 and had enlisted | on Jan. 1, 1942. The first years he | VETER was in service in Alaska, mostly at | Whittier, during the past year has| been stationed in South Carolina. A brother, Gordon Mills, beat him | in receiving bis discharge by sev- eral months. Jack is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Mills. Sewirng.(i’rcrlé Wil Meet Tomorrow wit Mrs. Floyd Phelps The afternoon Sewing Circle of lay my the W. S. C. S. of the Methodist Bradley Church will meet tomorrow after-| Samalot, noon at 2 o'clock at the home of his wife, said he hopes to talk to Mrs. Floyd Phelps in the Waynor Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) and Rep. Case Tract, instead of with Mrs. Anna (R-S.D) Hougendobler, as originally plan- | letters of protest. ned. Samalot lost his job last month Due to illness, Mrs. Hougendobler Whe! unable to entertain the Circle at local of the Brewery, and Soft Drink workers |dent) refused him a union card. {The union, through International Representative E. J. McCann, did 44 318 A 244 6.81 349 424 28.1 98 354 36 SE 30SE AN LOSES JOB BECAUSEHE WORKED 700 HARD IS CLAIM | GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Feb. 12 | —Charles F. Samalot, 39-year-old Pacific veteran who claims he lost his job in a local brewery because he “worked too hard,” hitch-hiked his way toward Washington to lay his case before the Veterans Ad- ministration. “I'm tired of being pushed laround,” he said. “I'm going to case before General Omar (VA head).” e Flour, Cereal this time, it has been announced. St. M;rgarei's éuil Meets Tomorrow Ev St. Margaret’s Guild of the Epis- copal Church will meet tomorrow nignt at 8 o'clock at the home of ' Mics Lee Oates, 316 Fourth Street, for the regula. monthly meeting. A good attendance of members is anticipated, and friends are cor- dially invited to attend. his working too hard was the rea- e son, but offered to let Clarence C. Case, head of the Kent County | Veterans Council, act as referee. Samalot said Case asked him if e would be willing to abide by such a decision. , When the veteran refused to commit himself, Case |withdrew from the dispute. { AR S it b i | H. J. FLACESCA HERE TWO FRus SITKA | ¥ Victor Rogers and Wallace West- ' H. J. Flacesca of Tenakee is stay- fall, of Sitka_ have arrived in town ing at the Baranof during his visit and are stopping at the Baranof. | here. —— . ’ - - Cotton moths migrate north each McCLURE ARRIVES fall into the face of advancing win-| Hemy L. McClure, of Anchorage, ter — and death. " is a guest at the Baranof. | | | Attention--= RETAIL CLERKS The next meeting of the newly formed Refail Clerks Protective Association Local 1517, will be held on WEDNESDAY, February 13 at 8 P. M. in the A. F. of L. Hall, 114 Second Street ¢ Every retail clerk in Juneau is cor- dially invited to come and take ad- vantage of the reduced initiation fee granted fo charier membrs. VIRGIL ANDERSON, Becretary. Feed Co. ’ s | The Erwi Office 1. Case.Lot Grocery PHONE 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE who is acgompanied bY‘ n members of the Grand Rapids (indepen- } ISOMMERS MAKING " GIFT, GIRL SCOUTS Last Saturday, a luncheon meet- |ing of the Juneau-Douglas Girl | Sccut Council was held in the Gold Reoom of the Baranof Hotel. Mrs, | Scott Murphy, Commissioner, we comed the essembled group of 50 and then turned the meeting over to Mrs. Earl McGinty, Chairman of the Nominating Committee Burr Johuson announced te delight of the group that R Sommers of the Sommers Cor structicn Company is generously furnishing ai adequate swimmir pool at Eagle River to be avail- able for the Scout camp this sum- | mer. It was unanimously agreed that the quarterly Council meetings be |hela or: Saturday noons with a no- host luncheon being served. The leaders of the Girl Scout troops each gave brief reports of their troop activities and of the projects lin which their girls are currently ' engaged. Mrs. Keith Roberts, registrar, an- nounced thai there are 232 persons registered in the Juneau-Douglas area including Girl Scouts, Leaders, Assistant Leaders, Committee mem- bers, Board and. Council ‘membe! i There are ncw 148 girl scouts in ten troops, ranging from Brownies to the Senior Mariner Troop. Since the Intermediate Girl Scout Troop in Douglas is now without a leader, it is urged that anyone interested in heading this troop communicate immediately with Mrs. Scott Mur- phy. Mrs. Ed Johnson who was Camp Chairman last year and gave S0 generously oi her time and effort to make the camp season success- ful was given a vote of thanks and a farewell gift since she is soon moving from Douglds. i Mrs. Perry Ashcraft the present Camp Chairman announced that it was hoped that a road would be Ibuilt to the River Scout Camp this summer and that Mr. Sommers had offered to move three vak huts from the Army post to the Boy ana Girl Scout Recreation Arca at cost, for the use of the scouts on weekend outings. Mrs. Don Foster spoke on the proposed recreation building and the group unarimously offered its support of the project. the J | ! John Brillhart showing a very in- | teresting Wait. Disney movie short in sound and technicolor which was loaned by ta: Health Department. > SEEVLS IT OUT Claience Edwin Manning of Wrangell, arrested here yesterday {by City Policc and turned over t ceny charge, pleaded guilty before U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray and was fined $50. Manning elected to serve out his fine in the Federal jail here at the rate of $2 per day. The complaint against Manning was sworn by Peter A. Geschwind, charging that Manning stole $10 | not deny Samalot's contention thfltim cash from the complainant on | February 10, in Juneau. .- — DRINK KING BLACK LAREL! _ intended " der The meeting was concluded \\'ilh‘ MURDER COMEDY ENDING TONIGHT AT 20TH CENTURY Off the record, they get away with murder at Warner Bros. Not one murder, either, but twenty- five! hey're ace,” n which 'd and love all in “Arsenic and Old comedy, if you please, Is with killings, madness and which is confidently to slay audiences with at the 20th Century closes a 4-day showing to- laughter where it night Briefly, it deals with Cary Grant’s two mad maiden aunts, and their frenzy to kill more old gentlemen than Cary's brother, Raymond Massey, has alveady kill- 2dd For most of the film, nephew go along neck and neck, with twelve corpses accounted for apiece. It's only in the stretch that the ladies’ fine capacity for disposing of men via a glass of wine liberally spiked with arsenic wins out Th aunts and e insane, of course. So is Massey. And so is a character who wanders in and out of the film un- the pleasant misapprehension that he is President “Teddy" Roose- velt It's thrt h such confusion as this that Cary, freshly married to Priscilla Lene, tries and tries to stabilize his ma ge. ~ MONEY-MINDED SAN FRANCISCO, — Servicemen with time on their hapds can think of lots of ways to turn an extra penny. A couple of soldiers found profit |in lining up in a theatre queue, making a deal for their places when they neared the box office, then going to the end of the line to re- peat the performance. | Four other sailors invested $8.50 aplece and a few hours in a beau- ty shop for permanent waves. The curls, they explained, would get them $50 on a bet | - 'ALASKA AIRLINES | HAS 7 FROM WEST Arriving ou the Alaska Airlines Starliner Nowe with Captain Peter- son, Fiight Officer Fike, and Stew- ardess Stevens yesterday were the following passengers from Anchor- age: H. L. McClure, Ward Staple- Iton, Major H. Shevin, Mrs. Alva Shevin, Jure Holzendorf, Mrs. H. |J. Brown, and Florence Folk Departing for Anchorage w S. to whom he has written | pederal authorities on a petty lar- H. Kendall. | - | ARRESTE! ARRAIGNED | Arrested *his morning here by U. S. Marshal= deputies, on a war- |vant wired here from Cordova, Austin Gatlin was arraigned be- |fore U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray and his bond set at $400. Gatlin is charged in the Cordova complaint with 13suing a check without funds lin the bank the check was drawn on. PAGE FIVE ;IIIIIHIIIIIHI|IIHHHIHINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMI' Last Times TONIGHT R " FRANK CAPRAS RAYMOND JACK PETER { MASSEY + CARSON + LORRE ! Directed by FRANK CAPR PRISCILLA LANE + EOW. EVERETT HOR JAMES GLEASON » 1OSEPHINE JEAN ADAIR ¢ JOHN ALEXANDI TR § = ] = g L. 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