The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 1, 1946, Page 5

MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1946 t L #CHNA SKY” LAST | PAA CARRIES MANY 'TWO ENSIGNS ARE LAST NIGHT! A NEW AND STRANGE STORY OF LOVEAND HATE! DESIRES of BROTHER and GEORGE SANDERS AP 5””1’14:?:% ITUL STARTS TOMOR- (ARt 00 HARBOR MACHINE SHOP MOTORS REBUILT — STERN BEARING MILLY MACHINING, and WELDING West 11th and F St., Phone 876 SAMPLER +1 653 famous assortment of liked confections : i ; here direct from % 47.50. the makers -$1.50 BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. “The Rexall Store” Lang's Salted NUTS SHOWING TONIGHT AS CAPITOL'S BILL A story of love and peril in a small Chinese village on the war front is told in RKO Radio’s thrill- ing new drama, “China Sky” star- ring Randolph Scott, Ruth War- rick and Ellen Drew, at the Capitol for the last times tonight. £cott has the role of Dr. Gray Thompson, head of the village hos- pital which serves the brave Chi- nese guerrillas defending a mountain pass above the village. Miss War- rick is Dr. Sara Durand, Dr Thompsod's devoted and heroic as- stant, and Miss Drew is Louise, Gray's brids, whom he brings back with him after a trip to America for money and supplies. Right from the start it is appar- ent that Louise can't take it. She is terrified by the Jap bombings and becomes insanely jealous of Sara So desperate is Louise to get away from the place that she falls r the plot of Japanese officer- prisoner, who promises to have an enemy plane take them a . How this plot back: s nearly brings total dis 1e village forms the thrilling sult of wh Thompson and of atent romanc is resolved. PREFERENTIAL TEA HELD BY FRAT SUNDAY At an attractive afternoon affair held in the home of Mrs. Mildred Hermann, International Honorary member, Delta chapter of Beta Sigma Phi yesterday afternoon held its preferential tea for the spring rushing season. Membership bids were extended to six girls, who will be pledged to the social and cultural sorority at the annual Founders’ Day Ban- quet to be held April 30. The table centerpiece was a bou- quet of pink and white tulips, with four white candles flanking the ar- rangement. Miss Irene Rasmussen, assisted by Mrs. Ken Alexander, was in charge of the affair. Mrs. L. M. Dunlap, former president of Delta Chapter, presided over the table. Mrs. R. B. Williams, Vice Presi dent, extended the bids to prospec- tive members. The next regular meeting for sorority members will be held Tues- day night, in the apartment Joyce Williams in the Baranof Ho- tel. Mrs. Irma Purington, chair- man of the sorority’s most import ant event of the year “Promenade” an Easter fashion showing, to be! held April 13, will outline final plans. LUTHERAN LENTEN SERVICE TOMORROW. | Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock the.: regular midweek Lenten devotional‘ service will be held at the Luther-| an Church on the corner of Main and Third Streets. The public is cordially welcome to | !attend these services which are be- | ing used for a study of the Gcspel‘ of St. John. This week's study will complete the section covered by the | eighteenth through the twentieth | chapters which portray “God as Love to all mankind” of | | attended Juneau schools. | recently returned after receiving a!gjqred Rock ~ WEEKEND FLIGHTS Durin; ican Airways. flew passengers to and from Juneau: On Saturday, leaving for Seattie were: Horace Wilson, Albert Stef- fin, Charles Waynor, Viola Klas- sen, Leland Anderson, Stanford An- derson, Ernest Swanson, Viva Wil- liams, Rosa Bonquist, Travis Lewis, Jack Ruttenberg, Hilda Ruttenberg, Jack Huli, Lila Rine, Isabel Austin, Orvilla Flatebo, Arthur Lumatta, Clare Stigen, Lorna Furbush. For Whitehorse, Douglas Kenzie, Arriving from Seattle: Joseph R. Maroe, John Martin, Mary Lou Kellar, James Debusk, Harry Black, John O'Keefe, Emil Gardner, Ver- nette Gardner, Dennis Gardner, Carl Thore, Doris Thore, Michael There, her Brown, Jacqueline Brewn, John Berry, Goldie Berry Sunday passengers were: to S ttle, Robert Pasquan, C. Earl Al- brecht, Blanche Albrecht, Jane Al- recht, Jack Albrecht, George Mer- Arthur Ozman, Fay Ozman, John Clements, Neill Anderson, Wilma Hughes, Danny Hughes: to Fairbanks, Charles Williams, Glenn Allen, Josephine Chamlis. From Seattle: Gay McCullom, Rex Charles, Charles Walser, John Sooter, Mary Geiger, Robert Bar- beau, William Anderson, Carol Eastbaugh, Robert Eastbaugh, Fred | Eastbaugh, William Stutte, Mar- Wilson, Ellen Wilson, Sharon son, Helen Heustis, Dudial Ga- | briel, Lt. Com. Roy Cookston, Al Huffman, Walter Cramer, Col. L. B. Delong, George Colwell, Lavonne Colwell. Mac- ->o - Margaret Welsh io Wed Gilbert Bixby At a charming luncheon Satur- day afterncon in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel the engagement and forthcoming marriage of Miss Margaret Welsh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Welsh of Mead- | ville, Pa, and Mr. Gilbert Bixby, |son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Bixby of this city, was announced. | The luncheon table was lovely | with spring flowers and candles. | Guests included Dr. Berneta Block, | Mesdames A. F. Bixby, Homer Gar- !vin, Marcus Jensen, Howard Sim- | mons, Sam Paul, Hans Berg, Le- land Dunlap, Eugene Weschenfel- ider and D. D. Drowley, and the Misses Dorothy Whitney, Helen Waters and Mary Kach. May 9 has been set as the wed- {ding date, | ~ Miss Welsh, who has been Public Health Nurse in the Juneau Public Health Center the past year and {a half, has made many friends' | since coming here. The groom-to- be is also wellknown here, having He has discharge from the Navy, in wmch} he served during the war. —_—— . — New Government Is Formed in Belgium| BRUSSELS, April 1.—Belgium has a new government today with Ach- ille van Acker back at his post as |the Premier of the new regime. Van Acker formed his first post- war cabinet in February, 1945, but a Social Christian party victory | (at the polls a year later caused him | |to resign. » | The former Premier, however, formed his coalition government | yesterday at the request of Regent FAMOUS FOR FLAVOR from Frisco to Fairbanks Especially nice after a nasty day Is that highball coming soon. Prince Charles. He acted after So- icialist leader Paul-Henri Spaak and Social Christian party leader | Auguste de Schryver had failed In !their efforts to effect a Belgian government. B i T RN SPRING SALE Aprons, fancy work, refreshments, {at The Salvation Army, ‘Willough- by Ave. 2 to 4 pm. Tuesday April 2 by the Ladies Home League. Pro- ceeds applied to Missionary Work. (233-t1) For the whiskey and ice always seem to play A pleasant and cheerful tune. H.E. Kelley g the weekend Pan Amer-| the following | JUNEAU, ALASK Iwcckvnd roused hopes that melting | conditions soon would improve in | Heney Mountains and thus alle- K'llED A‘l’ KODIAK | viate a water shortage which has forced a curtailment of water ser- | vice for more than a week IN Au'o A((IDE"T; The city’s reservoir became so Ilow officials cut water service to 1 two hours daily to insure fire pro- SEATTLE, April 1—The NaVy|tection. Many businesses, including announced the names of the tWOjaundries and soga fountains, were officers killed and four injured 1ast | forced to close until they were abie Tuesday morning at Kodiak, Alaska, | to instail their own storage tanks when a taxicab, detouring around a { on roof tops. snow-blocked road, went over al bluff at the end of an airplane runway. Dead were Ensign Charles E. Wayland, Piedmont, Mo., and En- sign Charles Edwin Swartz, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pa THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PERAEASRIRY S TR { Cavalry Abolished As Branch of Army The injured: Lt. (j.g.) Robert — Dwight Clausa, Grand Junction,| WASHINGTON, April 1—Mili- Colo.; Ensign Richard Ulbert Open- | tary men heard with sentimental land, McCloud, Calif.; Ensign|regret today that the War Depart- James August Robinson, Pound,' ment has decided to abolish the Va.; and Ensign Walter W. John- cavalry as a separate branch of son, Chicago, Ill. Also hurt was the | the Army. taxicab driver, John K. Kellogg. | There was no official confirma- >-eo tion, but service pubhications ienurt that a general Army reorganization (ORDOVA FA(I“G propesal awaiting President Tru- man’'s approval calls for merging CORDOVA, Alaska April 1—A' There arec more the horse outfits with the armored foree heavy rain storm here over the of woodpecker: - than 450 kind: V. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU JUNEAU, ALASKA WEATHER BULLETIN DATA FOR 24 HOURS ENDED AT 4:30 A. M,, 120TH MERIDIAN T ME Max. temp. | TODAY last Lowest 4:30 am. 24 hrs. 24 hrs.* temp. temp. Precip. 43 15 15 01 . e | -6 Trace 12 | =8 12 .08 26 26 .30 27 1 Trace 46 33 [ 24 31 36 32 N 32 36 33 43 36 T -5 [ -6 1 -16 -6 Weather at. 4:30 a.m. Clear Snow Snow Showers Cloudy Pt. Cloudy Pt. Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Snow Snow Showers Snow Showers Snow Clear Ice Crystals Snow Station Anchorage Barrow Bethel | Cordova Dawson Edmonton | Fairbanks Haines Juneau Juneau Airport Ketchikan Kotzebue . McGrath Nome . Northway . Petersburg . Portland Prince Rupert ... Prince George . San Francisco Seattle Sitka .. Whitehorse o 20 07 13 Trace Trace Trace 01 09 05 0 34 0 caBBRERY 41 57 53 Pt. Cloudy Pt. Cloudy Cloudy Rain 41 37 3 34 61 46 60 41 e 21 Yakutat : % | = 28 *——(4:30 a. m. yesterday to 4:30 a, m. today’ | WEATHER SYNOPSIS: Cold aif has swept across the Guif of Alaska picking up moisture during its passage and causing showery activity and freezing temperatures throughout Southeast Alaska this morning. A low center is located in the Bering Sea with the storm line passing through Nunivak Island, Port Heidern and the Shumagin Islands early this morning and is moving eastward about 25 miles per hour. This is the | first of a series of new storms moving way across the northern [ Pacific with the second in the series abol 300 miles southwest of Attu Island. | MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN Reports from Marine Stations at 12:30 P. M. Today WIND Height of Waves Temp. Dir.and Vel. (Sea Condition) . N 32 5 feet B W 20 4 Teet 34 SSE 24 3 feet 36 WBW 8 Calm 41 w 10 1 foot Lincoln Rock .. 38 WNW 14 1 foot Point Retreat . 35 SSE 7 1 foot MARINE FORECAST FOR THE PERIOD ENDING TUESDAY NIGHT: Lynn Canal-—southerly winds 20 miles per hour increasing Tues- day morning to near 30 miles per hour and decreasing Tuesday afternoon to under 15 miles per hour. Cross Sound and Icy Strait—west winds 20 miles per hour becoming easterly 15 miles per hour tonight and westerly 15 miles per hour Tuesday afternoon. Stephens Passage, Taku Inlet and Chatham Strait—southerly winds under 15 miles per hour increasing to 20 miles per hour tonight and under 15 miles per hour becoming southerly under 15 miles per hour Tuesday morning. Outside waters, Dixon Entrance to Sitka—northwest winds 15 to 20 miles per hour becom- ing varizble and under 15 miles per hour tonight and backing to the southeast 20 miles per hour Tuesday. Showers throughout the area. Snow shower"u Cloudy Snow Showers 35 Trace 61 Weather Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cloudy Cloudy .....Cloudy ...Pt. Cloudy Station Cape Decision Cape Spencer Five Finger Light . Guard Island .. skin freshener cleansing cream Today, each day is many days . . . filled with fense, busy hours. You ~ drew PAGE FIVE "LAURA" THRILLING FEATURE SHOWING | 7" AT 20TH CENTURY Forget every mystery film you've ever seen. And—for that matter— eyery romance, drama and comedy, too. { For 20th Century-Fox has brought “Laura” to the screen: with Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton| Webb, Vinvent Rice and Judith An- derson, and it is now at the 20th Century. The feature is suspense from start to finish. Gene Tierney is seen in the top role of her career, that of Laura, the chic advertising executive who owes her sensational rise in Ne York's sophisticated pre-Pearl Har bor cafe society to a fabulo man-about-town. | In the role of Mark McPherson Dana Andrews introduces type of detective to the terly unhackneyed and As wonderfully capable as ever, An- portrayal is warmly human le. Entrusted with one challenging roles of comes through with and believe the most yed he g colors “Laura {stage’s celek sophisticated comed, |screen, and mighty welcome he is. Webb is cast in a part which he handles with entrancing peffection, Ithat of the film's Waldo Lydecker, the middle-aged, barbed-tongue, |Broadway columnist-critic who moulds Laura to his ideal and ‘u'ies to keep her in a glass case. of the Clifton Webb, the star of suave {NINE PASSENGERS IN FROM WEST VIA PNA Pacific Northern Airlines arrived here yesterday with Captain Matty | Springer, First Officer Dean, and Stewardess Louis Leightner, and |nine passengers. From Anchorage passengers were: Ted Blandov, Clare Stigen, Lila Rine, Mrs. Isabel Austin, Arthur Lumatta, Orvilla Flatebo, Mrs. H. Huntley, Lorna Furbush, Max Rey- nolds. Passengers on the return trip to Anchorage were Robert Gal- braith, Mary Lou Kellar, Mr. and Mrs. G. Gardner and infant, Mr. | and Mrs. T. Thore and infant, Harold Brown, Esther Brown, Es-| telle Debrusk, James Debrusk, Harry Black, John O'Keefe, Elmer Lanstra, James Chase, Robert Ro- land and John. Nesh AT SR Barlender Killed In Tavern Holdup EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 1.— A man walked into a tavern here last night, shot and killed bartend- er Raymond Henderson, 36, of Oak- | land, and then with two helpers lined up the patrons and robbed | them. e e—— EARL M'LAUGHLIN IS LEAVING FOR STATES Earl McLaughlin, of the U. S. Weather Bureau at the Juneau Airport, is leaving on the North Bea this week to visit relatives and friends in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother will accompany him. - + SPECIAL MEETING ANB—ANS Douglas Camps No. 3. April 3, 1946, 7,30 p.m., at Douglas Govn't School. (233-t2) NOW OHENTORY 0% ine A STRANGE AND DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT IN LOVE... AND M R aen | Py Py New IGOR .. & Fox s drama, to the { | | | NrET TR ~15t and Gastineag—Phcne 327 & Mill Workers Eeev. Arthur H. Wal- ther: Phghe Green 340; meet- ings Ist and 3rd Monadys, 7:00. = M I MEZTINGS HELD IN UNION ¥ Juncau Transport Workers ,Local 172; Secy. George C. Martin; Phone Black 265; meetings 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 8:00 P. M. Int. Weodworkers of America Local M-271; Secy. Henry Ad- sero; meetings 2nd and 4th Fri- days at 7:30 P. M. United Trollers of Alaska, Local 26; Secy. B. H. (Jack) Manery; | United Cannery Workers, Local Phone Blue 220; meetings 1st ; | 269; Secy. Ruth Hayes. and 3rd Wednesdays, 8:00 P. M. Inter. Longshcremen & Ware- housemen Union, Local 1-41 Cold Storage Workers; Secy. Mike Avoian: Green 1759; meetings 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 7:30 MEETINGS AT 222 WILLOUGHBY—PHONE 518 International Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union, Local 1-16 Secy. Don McCammon; Phone Blue 372; meetings Mondays, 7:30 Local Industrial Union, Local 882 Sec. Abel Anderson; Black 605. You won't believe your eyes when you see the new AUTOMAGIC THOR GLADIRON! ‘Women said the Thor Glad- iron couldn’t be improved —but wait "till you see the new Automagic Gladiron! 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