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FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1947 ~" THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA TONIGHT and SATU DOUBLE THRILLS for ACTION FANS! in action, % in the flesh, in his most amazing adventurfi TROUBLEsSHOOTING SADDLE PALS TURN QUT EXTRA! COMMUNITY SING and AIR EXPRESS NEWS RIO GRANDE" at 7:10—9:35 ‘DICK TRACY" at 8:25—10:50 MATINEE STURDAY AT 1:30 P. M. - ARNOLT Sea-7H¢te WARINE ENGINE Waelghs only 198 Ibs. . . . plston dis- only 61 cubic Inches . . & develops 20 H.P. ot only 2800 RP.AS Parforms smoothly et high speeds er low speeds on fishing boats, ounliiery @eft, ond small runabouts. Motor Rebuild and Marine Service 1012 West 10th St. | SERVICE 0 Get the NEW d WASHINGTON Thatcher, Habit! Mgr. ALASKANS FEEL AT HOME at 'DICK TRACY" IS | ONE FEATURE AT CAPITOL TONIGHT Revenge forms the theme of RKO Radio's “Dick Tracy,” the first of a series based on Chester Gould’s popular cartoon strip of the same name, with Morgan Con- way in the role of the famous de- tective. This feature at the Capitol Theatre tonight The revolves around the fiendish ions of “Splitface” (Mike M , an ex-convict who seeks revenge upon fourteen people responsible for sending him to the penitentiary Splitface” dispatch- es four victims before Tracy is able to deliver him to justice “Dick Tracy” a fast-moving is story ap! is thriller in ‘'which comedy is by no means neglected, Tracy’s sweet- heart, lovely “Tess Trueheart” (Anne Jeffreys), learns early that duty comes before romance with her detective-lover. The other feature on the bill for this weekend is “Riders of the Rio Grande.” D YOU'LL FIND THE WIDEST SELECTION of furniture on Ju- neau Young's Mezzanine floor. —ady. 581-tf ——eeo— Malaria is cne of the oldest wn dise: ses of mankii Coming June 29th? ‘ —— NEW OLYMPIAN HIAWATHAS ona SUPER-SPEED SCHEDULE between SEATTLE and CHICAG This new Milwaukee Road Speedli will be ready for your summer trip New equipment on the OLYMPIAN HiA- warnas willinclude Touralux sleeping cars for luxury at low cost .. .improved Hia- watha-type coaches ... Tip Top Grill car restaurant section and cocktaill ounge + . . beautiful new dining car. Bedrooms, compartments and drawing rooms available in present type standard sleeping cars. Until June 29th, the electrified OLYMPIAN will continue to provide sezvice to Chicago. Full range of accommodatious. ask your nearest For r ns, Steamship Office, Travel Bureau, or Soattle 1, Wash. Bo sure your ticket reads via MILWAUKEE Roap For oY 3 “t“" ‘.9 $ photograph. SITTINGS can be ¢ FOR APPO PHON D | £ O ) 0 - o o mmoa ] CUILS PLEASE DAD with a really FINE PORTRAIT of YOURSELF or CHILDREN One that you can be certain will be his favorite your home or in our studio. JOSEPH W. ALEXANDER PAA BRINGS 46 TO [COLONEL TULLY erable amount of the money e | pended for the upkeep and oper- | of the System. ACS is one cies of overnment 1 Other | in the making, Col Pan-American Airways brought OF A(S AI.ASKA Tully said, include the installa- in 46 passengers from Seattle yes-| ’ tion of telephone service between terday, and had 18 out-bound M k A N f additional Alaskan cities and towns from here | nnoun and the extension of phone service Arriving from Seattle were the ? es A flé.h(ememfs 0 "'tgfl these to points in the U. S following: Eldon Nicholls, Charles| |pofian m the subject of general ACS Roehl, Peggy Robb and Jill, Eula p a & anges Y nl])(’rnli\ru Col. Tully said that . the Army operated communica- Mr. and Mla‘ B. J. Logan, W | beveE: g ing the past year in maintenance Col. T. J. Tully, Commanding and ?Hi(‘(‘l' of the Alaska Communica- and personnel and expects to vance with many improvements jam Manthey, Ray Waterbury, Beu-. l]a Faulk, R. Nevers, Clara Karen Heley. s System of the U. S. Army the future. He s that ACS Beryl Robinson and Phillip, Veta Sighal Corps, now in Juneau on has many modernization plans in Boyd, Gladys Knight, Jack Keeler, 80 inspection trip, said today thatimind for the betterment of its ser- George Black, Fdward Sargeant, Alaska’s commercial radio stationslvice to Alaskans A B. Moe, H. A. Nelson, Wesley Will soon be able to broadcast| Col. Tully said that he has many Scott, Lester Johnson, Francis Da-.adio programs originating in the hopes for the expansion of ACS vis, Carl Bingston, F. P. Smith, J. U: S. Col. Tully it this | facilities because it s primari A. Scheider. new service is only one of the g military operation, although pe: Elvin Julian, Charles Henderson, many modernization features being | forming civilian services, and must Harold Pearson, Walter Lund, W, installed in ACS which is the only be built into a strong link now in E. McMahan, George Yeidt, Chet Means of communication between order to provide better links for Nelswender, Willlam FHansen: the Territory and the States the fense of Alaska and the Alfred Grinde, Ben Chinn, Don-| Tully said that transmitting North American Continent if that ald Rushtin, Charles Durkin, Don-|€Quipment has already been in- occasion should arise ald Murray, Frank Rynberg, An- stalled at Seattle and proposed rate| Col. Tully said that only Regu- gus Helander. ' structure have been submitted to Jar Army volunteers will remain Leaving for Fairbanks were Toni Washington for approval for the jn the System by the end of the Green, Ann Tambke, Breudell Can- transmission of radio broadpasts month. He said all draftees and cels, Mr. and Mrs. Volney Rich- n;) Al‘uslka Il';l:hu( stations. Fu‘mc: short térm enlistees will have left approval of rates are expected ACS by that time moTr(',d'N“me Genevieve White, Oliy- | Within the next few days. He| Col. Tully said is in er Jetty and Bess Cross. said that as soon as adoqu':z:c fre- | Alaska, from his ¢ head- To Seattle, Lillian Converse, El. duencies are made avaliabie, ACS|quarters, on a regular inspection ery Converse, Roy Harris, Harry will be ready to begin sending ra-itrip. He will visit almost all of Luckencach, Mrs, Fred Parsons, 410 Programs, originating in theithe ACS stations in Southeast Mrs! Elmer Kock, ¢ Linda Kock 8. for rebroadcast over localland Central Alaska before his r Mills Chase, Ruth Chase, Arthur stations. He said that the nexti turn to the States. He said th Woodley: step will be up to the radio sta-|he has been finding out the addi- - tion operators to purchase the tional needs of the Territory, dur- . (ervice for use in Alaska ing his trip, and explaining its MISSI“G FRED wvA“I 3 William J. Wagner, President of , sent functions to Alaska citi- | the Alaska Broadeasting System, g:»l Tully assumed command of | LOCATED BY EMPIRE : rcony romca tree siaten o acs i Sune s Durne S by b g e i s B A% "oV |World War II, he attained the rank enkof Bay-on Kuiu ¥sland. who was (") o release of U. S. radio pro- ‘l.ze in the .avlf'<1|||-||.\.1\(-.v11 ‘l‘ a- reported missing ;astv.veek.hnsbeeln grams to Alaska. The Territorial lf., “1“ Ol:;t,‘xnt.m“sl “”h, tu\“ 'II located llu-m:ghv an article appear- oo . e bers are: KINY, Ju- Corps “n(.l later \\n.x Alh"(l .H« ad ing in the Empire. L. M. Campbell, neaw: ' ETEN, -Kotohikens . and quarters in that area under the who saw the item, wrote to the Ju- KFQD, Anchorage. A fourth sta- various commands of Generals Pat- ton, Bradley and Eisenhower. He neau Postmaster, Mrs. Crystal . p i £ . - ¥ Jenne, and told her that a man, nop 'y Fl’::)“f,“":;h:r“"?Snsb&ug:fn. is the possessor of the Order of named Frank Wyant, is MOW em- | Goioner Tully added that ACS is th.e British En{l{pu‘r.v‘ ‘lhr Franch ployed at the logging camp of the a1 gruaying plans for the broad-| Cro% d€ Gugrze. with palm - and Art Willey Logging Co. near Wran- casting of intra-Alaska programs| !¢ Legion of Honor, the Ameri. gell. bar the Bhenafis of Wi iiee Pecits IO Distinguished Service Medal : . |and Legion of Merit, plus other Campbell said that Wyant had {5y This, he explained, may be| leit a fox farm at Tebenkof Bay developed at a later date. | to take the employment with the =1, aqdition to this service, the logging company. He said that he ACS chief pointed to many other | believed that both Wyants are the jmprovements and new services in- same and that the name of “Fred” troduced by the System since the| decorations. i g 0 JUDGE FOLTA T0 was erroneous. end of the war. He said tests are ADDRESS SENIOR Wyant was reported to U. S. now being made for establish-| Marshal William T. Mahoney as ing land line telephone faciliti CLASS TONIGHT Commencement exercises for the 1947 Senior Class of Juneau High chool will be held tonight at cleck in the High School Gymna- 52 graduates receiving being missing by Steve Feist, of the to the U. S. from Juneau via M. S. Yakobi, who delivers the U. submarine cable to Skagway and| S. Mail to that district. Feist said thence into Canada and over the! that Wyant had told him that he Alcan Highway. He said that the would be gone only a few days but tests are still in the exploratory’ that when Wyant did not return stages and that their final out- after several weeks, he became con- come depends considerably upon i cerned. the ACS appropriations bill now Sium. With pending in Congress. dipigmas. Col. Tully gave, as illustrations| Judge George W. Folta will de- YOU'LL FIND THE WIDEST ,¢ ACS progress, rate reductions, Vel the Commencement address, SELECTION of furniture on Ju- egtaplished in Alaska since July j,1and the Rev. Willis R. Booth the neau Young’s Mezzanine floor. 1946 for general telegraph and inVocation. —adv. 581-tf telephone services and the intro-| ON the program are marches by - - duction of various telephone cir- the High School Band, trombone between various points in and clarinet solos, songs by a ntix- the Territory. He also pointed to ed chorus and the Girls Glee Club, the setting up of special rates fur“‘“d a trumpet duet. such services as telephone con-| Making perhaps his last appear- ferences, customer participation ancé as leader of the High School service and radio broadcasting. Band will be Joseph Shofner, and By virtue of the customer par- Miss Cordelix Keppinger is mak- ticipation service, which assures its ing her farewell appearance as in- users of a fast priority in the Structor of the Glee Club and chor- handling of its messages, Col. Tully | Us a said _ that Airlines, in the Terri-| ———————— 1 tory, afe now using ACS for their| | wdministrative messages, instead | Poppv DAY( | onveniently arranged in of maintaining their own com-| w | munications system, as was done‘ i before the war. This service, he J‘cxplained, includes the installation INTMENT E 303 | “Buy a Poppy’ was the familiar greeting on the streets today as solicitors of the VFW appeared with Buddy poppies. Tomorrow, the American of teletypes in the various offices of the companies using this method of communication. In addition to | | Phone 863 ) D) T S PORTRAIT and COMMERCIAL Room 8 jthe airlines, Col. Tully said that ;most newspapers and radio stations PHOTOGRAPHY. | Legion | poppies will he sold and solicitors 2 have also installed teletype mach-| *ines in ‘their offices. This service| Shattuck Bldg. e s o - - GEORGE BLACK HERE - |has been in effect for one year| on anexperimental basis to insure| Ifast service to these customers, 4uecment Agent in the Cook Inlet On the subject of rates, Col.|district, for the U. S. Fish and Tully said that the present rate| Wildlife Service, arrived here yes- structure is a result of a three terday from a trip to Seattle. He months study. He said that these| Was scheduled to return to Anchor- | rates compare favorably with rates|age today. | elsewhere. He explained the lim-| oy itations of business to be sained[ in Alaska was taken into consid-| Suit for divorce has George O. Black, Fisheries Man- e SEEKS DIVORCE been filed | eration before the rates were fin-|in U. S. District Court here by Jack ally decided upon. Tully declar-|A. Thompson from Alma D.Thomp- ed that ACS is also expected to|son, The suit charges the defendant return to the Treasury a consid- with desertion. Tuey kNow Towle Sterling is a real investment — one that pays dividends in beauty and graciousness for life! This l_ovcly solid silver is not expensive — and there’s a real collector’s thrill in acquiring a complete set by Towle’s “place-setting plan.” d .. . A six-piece place setting can i cost as little as $22.50 including i for VACATION Time i’s carefree loveliness 20% Federal Tax. You'll find your favorite pattern here . . . it bears Because you want to lead a.gay and dashing life—you want a’ hair-styl- ing becoming and ' easy to manage. It is yours to have in ; TowLe Al rmen ! and hor gilies or appointment NUGGET staff. Telephone 583 BARANOF ANQF Beauty Salon will also be busy making their sales. We ship pre-paid "™ PAGE FIVE TIOMCENTURY Last Time Tonight 25—9:30 SONG, DANCE RECTAL | GIVEN BY PUPILS OF | DOROTHY STEARNS ROFF| 2-FISTED CAGNEY SEEN IN FEATURE AT 20TH CENTURY Shows at 7: Sixteen d. umber brilliant- Iy costumed, and several accom-| Jimmy Cagney uses his two fists 8 TS panied by songs, were presented by In one scene in “Blood on the 1 the pupils of the Dorothy Sun,” the feature at the 20th Cen- Roff Dancing School Wedne v tury Theatre for the last two evening at the 20th Century Thea- * tonight. ~ The entire tre. ' Toe dancers were Maria Story is thrilling and Jimmy plays Werobee in a kyblu formal bal- the part of a newspaperman who let costume, and Colleen Sharpe covers a copy of the infamous doing a Colonial-costumed number naka Memorial, the Jap “Mein Tap dancers were Carrye Lou pt and attempt to smuggle Blair, Marcia Horton Valerle 1t out of Japan Smith, Maria W in mili-| ©ppo Cagney a: glamor T el ous Eurasian secret agent, is S Hul were Sandra La-!Via Sidney. The supporting cas and Barbara Hallman A 13 excellent glate tap was by Shirley Cas- g s g son, and also a formal ballet! number. A Jungle Kitty Dance| FlSH'NG NEWS by Erlene Miller and Margery, Four crait landed halibut catches air was well received, as Was'at the Juneau Cold Storage thi ) their Snowflake Ballet morning. They were the Viking Marla Worobe Carnival acro- ynder John Sunderland, with 14,000 batic dance with swirling ribbons pounds: the Rainier, Ed Skaret, and tambourine was cleverly dome. 13000 pounds; the 30K1613, under Gladys Uggen and Geraldine ¢ w. Loftus from Petersburg, with Thomy sang in Norweglan and 5500 pounds; and another Peters- W9 HeRUUIWLY, 5 Nef COSLUMES pyrg poat, Rebert Shelton's Priority, for their dance Dolc Frei- with 6,000 pounds AT muth’s marigold Waltz was splen- did in a Gd-yard ballet dress. ARMY FLIERS IN JUNEAU Slarls Tnmorrow Cloud Dance by Geraldine At the Baranof Hotel last night y e Bar: st nigh son and Gladys Usgen was 8 were Major H. W. Richardson, Lt 10 dream in blue and white M ; y i Lillian Uggen 'wast the: ‘capahle ‘sec| 1k i ot ac Lt By R, THODS Leave HEI’ ’0 IR s ; 4= igon, all from Morrison Field, West companist for the eveni 3 Palm Beach, Florida CL CEHE e Heaven - When you pay for QUALITY why M . 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Mxx‘hnm':.' and three pri- 50 gallons and under Minimum charge $1.25 soners, Jack Austin, Nancy Aspen Over 50 gal. to 100 gal. $1.25 {and Paul Milton; from Hoonah, “plus 2¢ per gal. over 50 Earle Fleming, Eva Wilson and 100 to 200" al W‘)’ i PEE SRl eRE A rah Scharclane. 4 «V0 gal 9448 § iy s 1¢ per gal. over 100 Over 200 gal. DiETiIIANS WANTED IN GOVT. HOSPITALS The United States Civil Service Commission announces today that employment cpportunities for Die- titians exist in St. Elizabeth Hospi- 3 V¢ per gal. over 200 420 gal. pump loads 420 gal. drop loads $3.00 Highway and Outside of Juneau tal, Freedmen's Hospital, Gallinger 100 to 200 gallons $2.25 Hospital, and Glenn Dale Sanator- plus 11 ¢ per gal. over 100 gal. ium, in Washington and in U. S. Over 200 gallons $3.75 Public Health Service hospitals plus 1c¢ per gal. over 200 throughout the country. 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