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FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1946 A Week-End THRILL for ACTION FANS! THE RANGERS BATTLE \© ENEMY AGENTS starring CHARLES STARRETT vitnDUB TAYLOR COLUMBIA PICTURE PLUS—" 1 Wit UNIVERSAL PRESENTS “TERROR BY NIGHT* Starring Fiction’s Mighty Men of Mystery— Basil Rathhone — Nigel Bruce “Sundown Valley”—17:21-9:30 “Terror by Night”—8:28-10:37 EXTRA! SATURDAY MATINEE “DESERT HAWK” Chap. 7 ol : Fragrant, flavorful, re- freshing! You'll be proud to serve this quality tea. Schilling Tea FEUSI& JENSEN PHONE 202 . . . DOULGAS SPECIALS For FRIDAY and SATURDAY PUREX - . - - . quartl% M.O.TISSUE - .- - 3for 2% SCOT TOWELS - - - - 20c DUTCHCLEANSER - - - 10c Large Assorfment of MEATS PRIME STEER BEEF POT ROAST — RIB ROAST GROUND MEAT — ROUND STEAKS SIRLOINS LEG 0' LAMB — PORK LOIN ROAST HAMS — CUT-UP FRYERS. Always the BEST for Your Dinners ¢ T THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA DETECTIVE STORY, 'TERROR BY NIGHT' By MAJOR THOMAS | IS CAPITOL'S BILL veteran who wasn't| Sherlock Holmes frustrates a| If youre a !'e\\‘el robbery and solves a murder | disabled while in the service you ystery in his latest cinema adven- might just as well finish reading |ture, “Terror By Night’) a Univer-|the rest of this newspaper and Isal detective story thriller, due to- then turn to a good book. Because this article is about Inight at the Capitol Theatre. |" Basil Rathbone portrays the fa- | mous sleuth. Nigel Bruce, co-star- !red with Rathbone, appears as Dr. | Watson. Public Law 16, the Vocational Re- habilitation Act which gives spec- ial education rights to those veter- ans with a service-connected dis- The suspenseful screeng pen- ability for which a pension or re- |ned by Frank Gruber, was adapted |tirement pay is payable. { {from a story by Sir Arthur Conan| If you're eligible for Public Law ‘Doyl[‘, Action, fo rthe most part,|16 and plan to go to school or col- {takes place aboard a speeding night lege or take training-on-the-job, |express train enroute from London|yowll be entitled to keep your full i{to Scotland. Passengers on the pension and draw the same sub- Itrain include Sherlock, his col- sistence allowance you'd get if you| league, Dr. Watson, Inspector Le- were going to school under the |strade of Scotland Yard and nu-!GI Bill. That's not all. The new merous criminal characters. All/method of payments set up by are involved in the disappearance Congress last December provides for of a fabulous diamond, the Star of | certain minimum payments to vets Rhodesia, which Sherlock intends|who have only small pensions. to deliver to its owner. | In case you don’t remember what A murder which accompanies allowances are payable under the |the attempted theft, is one of the GI Bill, here they are: For single |film’s surprising highlights, while vets with no dependents, $65 a Sherlock’s ingenious trap for the month; for veterans with depen- crook is said to be one of the most dents (one or more) $80 a month. clever yet employed by the invin-' Lets assume you are getting a cible detective. rension of $46 a month and that g o S you have no dependants. You start training under Public 16. You'll! "Alv COLONIES get the $46 plus $65 subsistence al- | lowance, making a total of $111 a month SCRATCHED OFF | of $11.50 a month. That, plus! pARlS PROGRAM the subsistence allowance, wouid { amount to only $76.50 a month.| S SRR not enough, though Congress, and| £0 it has sct the minimum pay-| ment (pension plus allowance) at| $105 a month for vets with no de-| No matter what pension | But say youre getting a pension PARIS, June 21.—The four For- eign Ministers have virtually agreed to postpone action on Italy’s col- onies for one year, an American in- Pendents. ¢ formant said. you've been awarded, :\'cu 11 get at| T isters expressed general least $105 a month lf» you !akej 16 L R c b o U lS | your training under Public 16. | i‘f‘,tf,’::;,“orcrs(iwp:,"q’;'f‘,:lI,,hyg‘r'rm‘; Now look at the disablad vet who | othy becomes $154, and tha get. Just one more thing. If Harvey had been really badly wounded, and! were gelting a pension of, say, $165| a month, he wouldn't ever have to what he'll figure out these i ments. That's bec his pension plus the $90 subsistence allowance would be greater than any minimum h(?‘ could ever reach, unless he had two; dependent parents and exactly 15/ kids. i R - { NorthSea From South The Northland Transportation | Company’s North Sea, arriving at| 4:45 p. m. yesterday and sailing| for Excursion Inlet and Sitka at] 10 a. m. teday, brought the follow- ing passengers from Petersburg: | Mrs. Stanley Jako, James Jako, and | Rose Lee Jako. From Wrangell: Mr. and Mrs. M.| O. Johnson, Evelyn Mather, Eleanor | Hooker, George, W. Taylor, Mrs. G.| W. Taylor. Mrs: O. Osterman, Leo, Dale, Jay, | bor Lewis B. Schwellenbach wusi Bobby and Leona Osterman, Bill| Moore, Pete Sandal, Mrs. M. Lu\'-? ett. From Ketchikan:. George Janis Urho Silverberg, Beth Tryck, Dor- Tryck, John Herman, L. T.| Bruner, J. B. Caldwell, and Ed| Sylte. Mrs. Israel Stevens, Janet Mor- gan, Albert Morgan, Judge and Mrs, | George Alexander, John Walmer,| Frank H. P. Rogers, Patrick Kelley, John Gallagher. Mildred Maynard, Lt. and Mrs. | Louise Here Going South Steamer Princess Louise arrived from Skagway at 8 o'clock this morning and sailed south at 9:30 o’clock. Passengers arriving steamer from Skagway on the for Juneau minimum pay-j wo.e B Garlouk, Miss B. Kock, J,/noted funsters who are co-starred Reynoldson, R. Carter, Mrs. T. Jen- sen and baby, R. Feero and wife, Miss I. Thompson, H. C. Thompson, Mrs. R. Garlock, C. J. Smith, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. T. Skarrett, Henry Roden, T. L. Baker. Leaving Juneau on the Louise for Seattle were Mrs. T. Hurlihy, Ma- jor T. Schmidt and wife, Mrs. C Devlin, Mrs. Leonard J. William- son and daughter Joan, Jerome Hansen, Peter Forrest, J. S. Wat- son, D. Mitchell. For Vancouver—M. T. wife. For Prince Rupert—R. ner, Martin Pepper. gl iy SCHWELLENBACHS TAKE THINGS EASY ONSKAGWAY VISIT Wells and H. Tan- Well rested after a quiet inter- | !lude at Skagway, Secretary of Lu-“ BRI"GS I" TEN; 21 ready to approach his arduous du- ties with renewed vigor as he sailed southbound through Juneau this morning aboard the steamer Prin- cess Louise, heading back for Se- attle and the International Mari- time Conference there. The Secretary and Mrs. Schwel- lenbach did little except take it easy while the Princess was laying over at the Lynn Canal port. Their sightseeing was confined to taking in the town and a short trip up the White Pass Route. They were met 3 PAGE FIVE 000000000000 00000000000 LAST TIME TONIGHT! C’'mon! Meet The Daffiness Boys! | CCMEDY TRIO IN | FEATURE SHOW | AT20TH CENTURY | A new comedy trio opened last night at the 20th Century Theatre in “Three of a Kind,” and will be |seen for the final times tonight. R Billy Gilbert, Maxie Rosenbloom and Shep Howard are the three in this first of a new series, and their supporting. cast includes June {Lang, Helen Gilbert, Buzzy Henry, Paul Phillips Wheeler Oakman, Franklyn Parker, Marie Austin, |Robert McKenzie, Sheila Roberts, |Sid Saylor and Harris Ashburn Briefly, the story finds Gilbert, Howard and Rosenbloom, as vaude- ville acrobats and cafe owner, re-| spectively, trying to provide a home of a young lad, whose father, a fel- low entertainer, has died. Miss Gil- | bert, the scheming stepmother of the boy, presents rnmphcunnns[ |when she tries to claim guardian- ! iship that would net her jurisdic- (tion over a fat insurance policy | {left to the son. The three com-| [bat her plans with all kinds of | |tricks, even to consulting a matri- | monial agency so that one of them | ’vnn get married 1d adopt him | legally. as Produced by SAM KATZMAN and JACK DIETZ vcor BARNEY SARECKY Dancind by D ROSS UiDARN" | < Oy byt e g b 1ARS YA 4 AR AR, | | STARLINER JUNEAU | AND WK COME THREE PRI PAATHER FLOWN WESTWARD | 7, o sbs | | Can Handle The Toughest ) Hombres In T ‘The Starliner Juncau piloted by-‘ State' 4 Captain Bill Lund, with Flight Officer Ed Coffield, and Stewardes Elly Crane arrived in Juneau yes- terday with the following passeng- ers from Anchorage: Alvin Ander- B son, Victor Anderson, Mrs. N. Skill- | man, Betty Tiéchroew, William Fergeson, Mary Trapp, Michael' Trapp and F. A. Graham; from| Cordova: Jack Logan and Pat' Joyce. | — > NOTICE Regular Meeting OF THE CARPENTERS and JOINERS Union Local No. 2247 | FRIDAY—JUNE21 —8P. M. ANNUAL ELECTION OF LOCAL "AND GENERAL OFFICES ¢ WALTER KNAPE, Recording Secretary. N, |is getting a pension of $115 a, which had been offerea at sessions mnnfih 1.';,--11 S”S get the $115, plus‘RObe“ Young, Mike Baranoff, Vic- the subsistence allowance of $65.[tor Barnett, Harry R. Smith. | |making a grand total of $180 a| From Seattle—Mrs. Lonnie McIn- | Lonanth Mok B tosh, Mrs. M. Gottschamer, Mark | | Gottschamer, H. M. Porter, Mr. | But how about the vet who's ac-|and Mrs. John Johnson, J. V. Da-| |quired a bride and a brood? What's |vis, J. V. Davis, Jr., Roland Davis, | |the least amount he's entitled to If{Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Harris. /he goes to school under Public |Law 162 That's a little more| Mrs. J. Herrett, Thomas Herrett, | complicated. | Mrs. Francis M]x,.Mary Lou Mix,l | The disabled ex-Joe who has only{J: B. Ingram, Mrs. Daniel Ross, !one dependent is entitled to a min-|John Ross. Jane English, Lorraine English, | }imum of $115. The educational| | |subsistence allowance for a veter-|Mr. and Mrs. Paul Morgan, Mrs.| F. A. Stejar, an with a dependent is $90. So if 'Lillie Lakin, Mrs. this $90 added to his pension is less|Charles Stejar, D. W. Denton, Mrs. ithan $115, he'll get the $115 — the A. R. Hudson, Douglas Hudson, Si- ! minimum., mon Media. 4 Take Harvey Simms. He's married| J. C. Thompson, A. R. Hudson, and has two kids. He's getting a|W. White, Gladys Meckinsky, Miss | pension of $46 a month and starts|L- M. Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. Don- lin training under the Vucflbinnnl!“m Hutchins. O. Eastaugh, Mr. and Mrs. 1. Rehabilitation Act. The minimum, 5 'he's entitled to is $132 a month|Jack Adelson, Charles Williams, R. (8115 because he has a dependent,|Berg, G. Ohman, R. E. Smothers, |plus $10 for the first child and!B. D: Smothers, Edwin J. Kjera, L. seven for the other). T. Wittenberg, John Goins, Archie But his pension plus the subsis- | White. tence allowance of $90 exceeds the| Outgoing passengers, all minimum. The minimum is $132./bound, were: Mrs. Martha IHis pension ($46) plus $90 equal:,;“"ld- George Dick, Laprite I$136 and that's what hell get. |J. I. Oouch, Mrs. A. J. Soley, Suppose a year rolls by and Har- | Price, Nanette Tullis, Mrs. Roy Ivey finds himself with three chil-|C:*'& C. J. Richa, Steve Vuko- dren. ‘That means the minimum Vvich. Jack Carrol, Mrs. H. J. Som- he's entitled to is $132 plus $7 or|Mers, Mrs. H. J. Conde, 4. L. Bes- 1$139. ! cancon. His pension plus the suhslstencn! allowance (which is $90 for a de-| pendent or dependents) is still $136,/ |which now fs less than the mlni-‘HARBOR NEws {mum. So he’ll get the $139. The| | minimum. ; But we're not throygh yet. Say{ Machine work completed, Tom Harvey's father dies, and he find gandyik's Norland, which has dock- ihis mother leaning on him f0rieq here for the last few days, will support. That means the minimum jeave for Area III halibut grounds p—— - —< | today or tomorrow. Walter Johns’ Flying Cloud, which piled up on Favorite Reef a few weeks ago, has been repaired and left yesterday to work for the Su- perior Packing Company of Ten- akee. | Also due to seine for Superior is S. G. Johnson’s Good Tidings. Johnson, who has been waiting |completion of machine work by the Harbor Machine Shop, sai he hopes to leave Sunday. He-said| ithe handle had rusted off his winch |but he believes it will be in working |condition by Monday or Tuesday at the latest. He will take his fam- ily with him. i Due out with a party consisting jof Dr. and Mrs. Howe Vance, Mr. of the Ministers’ conierence last month. Under the pian, Italy would re- nounce sovereignty over the colon- ies, which would be considered un- der Four-Power control pending a final decision on the matter. If the United States, Britain, Russia and France still were divided on the subject at the end of the one- year period, the matter would be re- ferred to the trusteeship council of the United Nations. The virtual agreement the on colonial question swept aside one; of the most important problems | blocking progress on Europcan peace settlements. | Earlier, a British informant said |the Foreign Ministers had agrced jv.hnt British and American troops in Italy and Ri an troops in Bul- garia should be evacuated within 90 days after peace treaties with those two countries go into effect. e SPREADING OUT PHILADELPHIA, June 21.— The American Legion instituted its first| all-woman post last night, but the ladies took the oath in civies. “We thought about wearing our uniforms,” said Margaret M. Schaf- er, Post chairman, “but for the sake of those who aren’t the same size as they used to be, we decided on dresses.” e e——— LET YOUR money earn four percent. Buy Alaska Finance Cor- poration demand notes. —— e Empire Want Aas oring results! A NEW SERVICE FULLY BONDED WAREHOUSE BY PHONE 114 (295-tf) | Femmer Transfer IN STORING YOUR GOODS WITH US YOU ARE PROTECTED FROM—— o FIRE, THEFT or OTHER LOSSES Sitka- Little- Kildal, Myrtle THE Office—Triangle Square Clear Coffee IS GOOD COFFEE SILEX COFFEE is CLEAR and DELICIOUS! : A Choice of Models at ; PARSONS ELECRTIC CO. Corner Second and Seward Streets ;and Mrs. Robert Davlin, June Gor- |ham and guests tonight is Ray | Westfall's charter boat, Messen- |ger. Westfall said the party will |fish salmon. | Harold Hoffman's gas boat u, |developed engine trouble on the way back from Funter Bay and was towed 'to the Small Boat Havbor by Lown and Reams in their troll- er, arriving late late night. | Cowling’s Garag has installed a |new Kermath 122 hp engine with a {two to one reduction in Ben Merl- vin's troller, the Doris K. NO COUNCIL MEETING ' 10 BE HELD TONIGHT i Owing to one councilman being |unable to attend, thus making no quorum, Mayor Waino Hendrickson announces there will be no council meeting tonight. Instead there will |be a meeting of the council next | Monday night. ] — LET YOUR money earn four | percent, Buy Alaska Finance Cor- | poration demand notes. (295-tf) J.|wife of the Aleutian Game Refuge aboard ship here again this morn- . Cn the return flight the foliow- ing by Lew M. Williams, Acting ing were flown to the Westward Governor. ' City: Edward J. Becker, Mrs. Ed- SO I 0t 2 |ward J. Becker, Dr. G. A. Doelker, BRANT NORTHBOUND “Dl‘. S. N. Bredlie, Frederick Lintner, | The Fish and Wildlife flagship Willlam Wagner, George Gallin-| Brant, Capt. Jim Collons, is now ger, Pat Hirst, Minnie Raymer, B. enroute to Southwest Alaska on her Ogilbi, J. Ogilbi, Ada Snider, F. L.! first trip of the year, the Regional | Waterworth, D. L. Phuehler, G. A.| F&WL office disclosed today. She Latham, R. E. Betz, Levell Be”"i sailed from Seattle yesterday. The Helen Pratt and Ted Haas; to| Brant is reported loaded to capa- | Cordova: Margaret Cavass; to city. with passengers unable to se-|Yakutat: Katie Miller. cure commercial transportation. 5 - 5 Among those coming here are Miss Mary Sperling, who is returning irom a term at the University of Minnesota, and Mrs. Douglas Gray, Empire Want Aas bring resuits! Manager, who will visit her pars ents-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Gray, in Douglas. The Brant has several way stops charted enroute north and is not expected to dock here until the latter part of next week. p. B Oet the New Wash- MoClure, ington Haklt Mgr. ALASKANS FEEL AT HFOME at S e - VACATION OVER Vacation time ended for him, De- puty U. S. Marshal Syd Thompson was back at his duties in the Mar- shal’s office here this morning. He vacationed at home. 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