The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 4, 1947, Page 5

It's WISE to see it! W' It’s FOOLISH ic miss it! HELD OVER! TONIGHT ONLY! Plus The Capitol Hour “PORT OF NEW YORK" Starring Goofy in “HOW TO FISH” 7"‘“94”‘ ey O’BRIEN AIR EXPRESS NE3 with LIONEL BARRYMORE LEWIS STONE EDWARD ARNOLD CAPITOL HOUR AT 7:18 -9:30 FEATURE AT THOMAS MITCHELL 7:556—10:07 onSotteon i s Beginning TOMORROW!? The MOST SUSPENSEFUL of all "Falcon” thrillers! And — even the Bumsieads were RNEVER FUNNIER!? THE BUMSTEADS ARE HERE! . PENNY SINGLETON isPHOTOGRAPIHY your Bad's Hobby? & is, you can’t give him anything for Father's Day that will please him more than that new camera or other cquipment that 5 becn hanker- L u o E. k L) ing for, —— Your Photo Shop 20th Century Building PHONE 35 PHOTOGRAPHIC HEADQUARTERS “Nobody was ever sorry he saved!” U.S. Savings Bonds Buy where you work, buy where you bank CAPITOL SHOWS "3 WISE FOOLS” FOR LAST TIME The delightful story- of a little girl who brings sunshine into the lives of three frosty old bachelors, with Margaret O'Brien ‘as the little girl, is held over at the Capitol for {inal showings tonight. The feature is hree Wise Fools” and the bachelors are Lionel Bar- rymore, Lewis Stone and Edward | Arnold, supported by Thomas Mit- | chell | Margaret’ blays a little Irish tot, brogue and all, who takes over the household of three spiteful bacl elors and comes through with some surprising results Starting tomorrew night is double bill for the three last day: of this we The features arc “Blondie’s Lucky Day,” a comedy | and “The Falcon's Alibi" in which | the Falcon, accu: eds Lo solve ) murders, the laugh | on the ‘la by proving his ln‘m—; cence | JESI e S | i t ALASKA COASTAL | AIRLINES CARR! 39 CN TUESDAY ka Cobastal Airlines touched esterday at Sitka, Pelican, Hoonah, | Toku Lodge, Petersburg, Wrangell | and Ketchikan on regular passenger | flights. | Bound from Juneau to Sitka were | T. W. Fox, J. Cooper, Mrs. RUbY | ipair candidate for Queen of the Jackson, Mary Jacobson, H. S.|mourth of July celebration Finch, Mary Krueger, Michael Mit- | * npios Thompson was a member of Koff, Charles Chalk, Annie Petersen, | "o g dunting class at Ju- G. Newhouse, R. Emery and Mr. and Mrs. Rice. 1 Flying to Pelican City were Kalle Raatikainen; to Hoonah, V. Beau- mont; to Petersburg, G. B. Walker W. T. Roberts and Armado Reyes; to Wrangell, Guy Karpla and H Johnson; to Ketchikan, William T. Mahoney and G. Gunayah. From Hoonah to Juneau, Tom , Dyer, Sarah Sharclane; from Peli- | can Cit J. Martin and G. Ful- from Sitka, Mae Kreuger, H Doelge, C. W. Martin, E. B. Davis, Gertrude Olsen, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Wildes, E. Kluckholm, Dorothy jc;.mpm-u, Andrew Baker, Anna Martin and Ruth Hay { 1 From Taku Lodge, Mary Joyce; | from Wrangell, Mr. and Mrs. Rod- |(1A1~, from Ketchikan, Clifford Bo: | ley. VRS | ; AT - JUNEAU HOT | New arrivals yesterds the . Hotel Juneau were Mr. and Mrs. | W. A. Collins and family, from Til- lamook, Oregon; Leo Paskevich and James F. Strand, from Anchorage. THE DAI | Seattle Army post parade grounds | tiring efforts and devotion to duty "PRAVDA'S Communist parly newspaper, Pra\'(}.\._ 0 story, block-square plant built in 1934, F LY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA : MPOSING ROOM _ This is the composing room of the of in Moscow. The 36 type-set ting machines are part of a nine- ravda prints 1,800,000 four-page papers daily. ANNTHOMPSONIS MRS, C.CARNEGIE | MISS M. MERRITT QUEEK CANDIDATE NAMED PRESIDENT | QUEEN CANDIDATE CFLABOR COUNCIL LEGION AUXILIARY OF JUNEAU COF € Juneau Cential Labor Council an- neunced late yesterday that they are Miss Ann Thompson neau High School, and during T senior year was elected queen of th Junior Prom. The 18%ear-old Ann is a real Alaskan, having been bhorr in Juneau, @ he daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Syd Thempson, Miss DQorothy Plum, President of the Juneau Central Labor Council stated that all members of organized labor affiliated with the Council re giving their support to Miss Thomp- son The Central Le tering a float the parade, several other individual unions pect to participate. NATE DRUXMAR RECEIVES WAR DEPT. CITATION Prominent Seaiiie Spor?s-; man Decorated by Army for War Work bor Council is Nate Druxman, wellknown tc as a former na- sports promoter in Seattle, has d the highesi civilian decoration, to be given by the War Dept., for his services at the Seattle Port of Embarkation duriny World War IL. According to word received herc toda; the Exceptional Meritoriou ice Emblem second to be award- ed a Washington State resident,| was presented by Col. C. 1. Dennis, Fort Lawton Commanding Officer at impressive ceremonies on the Druxman was commended for un- in the procurement of creationa’ | equipment contributing to the mo ale of the Armed Forces at ove seas stations in Alaska and the Pa- ific Islands. In addition to his| Army duties, Druxman also assist- gd the Red Cross, the Navy and the Coast Guard with their pro- curement problems and also raised thousands of dollars for the war effort through the sale of War Bonds. Helped Alaskan Ports He was particularly cited for completely equipping the Army’s recreational center at Mt. McKin- ley Park and for procuring a com- plete printing shop for Fort Rich- ardson at a time when it was ut- terly impossible to purchase such equipment through normal chan-f nels. Druxman also secured many | large contributions of morale equipment as am extra-curricular activity. He was highly commended by commanding officers and grate- ful servicemen at faraway posts The decoration was endorsed by | Secretary of War Patterson. 1 Druxman, who has supervised athletic events for 30 years, is the| father of four sons, all of whom entered the U. S. Armed Forces during World War II. The eldest| son, Bob, has been a resident of Juneau since 1940 and is wellknown as an Empire reporter and an-| nouncer-reporter at KINY. | S R | | DR. KASER LEAVES Dr. E. H. Kaser, wellknown pio- | neer dentist, left Juneau yester [ via PAA plane for Seattle where he has purchased a home and will take up residence there. Over a year ago he disposed of his dental parlors | now operated and owned by Dr.| Joyce D. Smith in the Blomgren Building. Sk AR Empire Want-ads for results! | 260 Poppy wreaths Cecelia Thi&deau Is Am- erican Legion July 4ih Queen Candidate The American Legion Auxiliary i1t their meeting last night in the ected Mrs. Claude esident for the year g in fall. Other fficers elected to scrve with Mrs Carnegie include Mis. J. C. Hayes Ist V. 1s. A. A Kiefer, Alfred Zenger, Treasurer; Mrs. W. J Historian; Mrs. Joe Ordos, Chap- Jain; Mrs est Lincoln r geant-at-Arms, and Mrs. James So- ouls, 1 Past President. ccutive Commitiee members d, in addition to the oificers > Mrs. Waino Hendrickson, Mrs. Peterman and Mrs. Olaf Bod- named dele- artment Con- held in An- foulis was to De vention, which will be horage June 30, July 1, 2 and 3 The nine delegat to convention are Mesdames Bert Lybeck, Claude carnegie, Waino Hendrickson, Le Jewitt, Edith Walker, Olaf Bod- ling, A. A. Kiefer, J. C. Hayes and Al Zenger. Alternates amed - ‘lude Mesdames Ernest Lin ucille Stonehouse, Joe Ordos, Ra D J. O. Rude, Geo Gullufsen, led Laughlin and Herman Porter, and Miss Harriet Stonehous: Other business transacted by the auxiliary included making a dona- ion of $25 to the Teen Age Club, ind $10 to the Girl Scout camp fund. “Poppy Day” Report Mrs. Lybeck, Poppy Chairman, eported the Poppy Day sales were ery successful, with the gross re- irns reaching nearly $1,000. Over re made and lelivered to stores and business wuses, she said, and sincere thanks vere expressed by Mrs. Lybeck on half of the whole Auxiliary for untailing coopers Juneau and Douglas me his special part of the srogram. The girls and boys who volun- ecred their help on Poppy Day will Je given a picnic Friday afternoon in Evergreen Bowl, in recognition of their help, which was sincerely ippreciated. The American Legion for Fourth of July Queen, Miss Cecelia Thibodeau, will also be sponsored by the Auxiliary for that honor. Miss Thibodeau, attractive brunette daughter of Past Com- mander Joe Thibodeau, has lived in Juneau pra€tically all of her 24 years, except for the first two months and the time she was away a school. She is now employed in the Juneau District Welfare Office i the Klein Building. The next meeting of the Legion Auxiliary will be held Tuesday, June 17, and at that time plans ill be completed 1or the enter- ven by on Poppy Day candidate tainment of the National President, | Mrs. Norton Pearl, who will make' in overnight stop in Juneau June 28, enroute vention, > MRS. FARGHER AND DAUGHTER T0 SPEND SUMMER TRAVELING Mrs. Jack Fargher and daughter Roma, who graduated this ar from Juneau High School, sailed on thy teamer Alaska this morning for Se- ittle, with plans for spending the ntire summer traveling around the country visiting friends and rela- tives. to Department Con- I nnon, President of the mber of Commy e, an- terday that Marilyn M MacE 1eau Cr ced ye ritt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, |K. G. (Doc) Merritt, had been ze- lected to represent the Chamber « Commerce as the Fourth of July Queen. Miss Merritt has spent mest of her life in Juneau and is a grad- uate of the Juncau High School where she active in student funetions. During her high school days she took a whelehearted int in the wc of the Rainbow Girl. Mor 1e has been emnloyed by t ter President MacKinnon urges all Chamber members to gi divided @ during their un- tention to Miss Merritt the forthcoming month in that she will rate top honors e queen contest. D Baby Is Shot, Slray Bullet MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 4—(P— 'k Adkins, a 15-month-cld struck by v bullet rere while the child’s zrand- father, N. L. Ledb: r, rocked him in his arms. [ Physicians said the pullet, which | apparently richochetted out of the Lloosahatchie River bottoms near the child’s home, was imbedded in the baby’s brain. They described his condition as “satisfactor RECOFFICEFOR TERRITORY OPENS | TODAY IN JUNEAU A new Alaska office, of the Re- canstruction Finance Corporation, was opened here today by L. Aubrey Heady, RFC Field Repr ntative. Heady revealed the former -RFC of- i fice, at Anchorage, was closed June 1 and that this will be the only such office in the Territory. He said it | will be responsible to the Regional RFC headguarters in Seattlz. Heady explained that the RFC makes loans to businesses and in- dustries needing capital which can- not be secured from banks because of government regulations limiting the size of loans and the need of banks to make short term instead of long term loans. He said, however, | that the RFC often participates with banks in the making of some loans. | The RFC office is located in Room 314 of the Federal Building. Heady | is registered at the Hotel Juncau. | e — ! i TWIN BOYS ARE BORN 10 FLOYD EPPERSONS Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Epperson are the doubly proud and happy par- ents of twin boys born yesterday | |morning at St. Ann's Hospital. The first to arrive weighed 7 pounds,| 110 ounces and the second baby, 6| | pounds, 8 cunces. | The twins have a four-year old ( brother awaiting them at the fam- lily home at Fritz Cove, where the {father, who is a wellknown fisher- Iman, has been busy building an 'aadition to the house, in anticipa- {tion of the twins' arrival SOUTH HA MRS. Mrs. Brooks Hanford, and daugh- “Four of Them Objected, f*' | win the next war. Roma will enter the University of | ter left on the Alaska for a sum- | washington at the beginning of the mer vacation. She will spend the tall term, at which time Mrs. Fargh- ' summer months at Oak Harbor on “er will return to Juneau Whidby TIsland, near Seattle. H PAGE FTVE "THERE'S MAGIC P9557drruTioV N MUSIC" NOW fbf LEATURY AT 207H CENTURY | Lo Times Tomieh Filled with joyous and exhilarat- ing music, and brightened by the presence of many outstanding mu- sical stars, Paramount's new comedy musical 4 ‘There's Magic in Musi is the feature at the 20th Century Theatre. . The picture features 16-year-old Susanna Foster and Allan Jones, @lso Margaret Lindsay, Lynn Over- man, comedy screen favorite, Grace Bradley and William Collier, Sr. Adding st ore to the roster of talented perscnalities who appear) in this picture, are the nulmnullyi famous opera stars, Richard Bo- nelli, Trra Petina and Tandy Mac- | Kenz ith Picture Wi The story is about a young bnr-l A Poramount e girl, hard-boiled, but not| ‘ ]ones ardened, who is taken from aj A‘an cheap theatre and transformed into | a lovely operatic star. - - 0LD CHOO CHOO FROM ALASKAR.R. | ARE GIONG T0 POT 1| Susanna Fo | | margaret Lindsay Lynne OV - ACE BRADL 'Gu'.tlAM CO\.LIER,bSr. : d Directed by ":l:l::!u L. STONE | a trill that thrills | Took Plunge from Barge Into Deep * Selected Short Subjects SEATTLE, June 4. — ®—Rusted | | ATEST “‘8‘[1“‘“ NEWS and worn, 11 ancien’ Alaska Rail- | road steam locomotives which saw | valiant service threugh the second ! | World War now wait the m:'lLlng; pot. "\ (4 Somewhere on the bottom of the | Pacitic between Whittier and Sm.i ile, four sister locomotives, weigh- 2% DIGESTIVE TRACT ng 70 1 90 tons, lie in the murky‘ ienik They got dumped in the | d by a lashing -mile-an-hour | And Stop Dosing Your Stomach gaie, which broke them loose fmmi With Soda and Alkalizers thelr mocrirgs as they were brought | pon't expect to get real u.lilel from headache, d ba h, breath by takini SO o othar alkalizer if the true cause of Your trouble is constipation. Gt south by barge a month ago. The old engines, once the pride of B bk ¥ g case, real trouble is no the Alaska Railroad and most of 1o thin case, youb O Gt estinal tract them six-wheelers, were bought as | where 80% of your food is digested. And when scrap by a salvage comnanv here, | the lower part gets blocked food may fail to it value is about $20 o ton. | ¥k Sow wane for rel el 1o some- “They're a sad looking lot of choo | Lhing to fuabloge. yopt ey ively— help choos and their Ji* is about up,” | Naturegetbackonherfest. = 0 Walt Dexter steel plant yardmaster, Get Carter's Fills right nov % said today. “Don't think we won't be ¢lad rected. They gently an I?:fl‘vd ‘'unblock’ et. Thi e digeative Juices to mix better geative e Tood & ou et genuine roliel from i ou can f y I arter's Pilly today. ~Unbloek” when they're melted down and gone. iy Sour We're getting tired of having people | yntestinal tract for real relief from indigestion. ask us why we're busting up per- B ——— fectly good locomotives.” Seha O oo Sumcced PHONF, 555 MAJORWARS MAY | Thomas Hardware (o. | PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf BE OUTMODED BY HARDWARE ST. LOUIS, June 4—®—Chancel- lor Arthur H. Compton of Washing- ton University, one of the scienti: who helped develop the atomic bomb, s the weapon in all prob- | ability has made major wars be- tween great powers a thing of the past. | Dr. Compton told members of the American Petroleum Institute he believed that no nation would start | an atomic war because it would take much more than atomjg bombs to The possibility | of retaliation with its tremendous | damage, he said, would be too risk: YELLOW CAB Phone 22 24-hour Dependable Service .»—m_ -o.im‘ S - SMITH HEATING and APPLIANCE (0. 209 Seward Street DAY PHONE—476 NIGHT PHONE—GREEN 840 O : AT THE NUGGET SHOP you may choose your pattern of STERLING SILVERWARE from an unusually large and exclusive stock of famous designs. NOW ON DISPLAY ARE: Chantilly, Buttercup, Strasbourg, Greenbrier—by GORHAM. Candlelight, Rambler Rose, Royal Windsor, 0Old Master, Old Mirror—by TOWLE. . English Shell, Modern Victori William and Mary—by LUNT. Stradavari, Grand Baroque, Rose Point—by WALLACE. Spring Glory, Enchantress, Prelude—by INTERNATIONAL. Chateau Rose—by ALVIN. Rrincess Ingrid, Hand Made, and The Newest—by WHITING. Edward the Seventh—by SMITH. Select your Oyster Forks now—as we have several on hand, besides the fancy pieces also BABY SETS TO MATCH ” 0000000