The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 25, 1948, Page 5

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1948 THE DAILY ALASK4 EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 27 TONIGHT! “BORN TO SPEED" "PILGRIM LADY" SHOWPLALE or APIT Greer GARSON - MiTCHUM with RICHARD HART David Hoffman EETrT A l 8 O ==us= “RODEO THRILLS" soxony T “THE EGG AND TUESDAY ‘667 THE YEGG" : i L, LATEST NEWS : VIA AIR SUNDAY FEATURE AT 2:30 — 4:30 — 6:30 — 8:30 — 10:30 |said the Shantung provincial capi- ISInan (ap'u[ed . [tal was “completely liberated” and & all Government troops in the city By Communists were “wiped out.” S e SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25.—®—| J. | | | CULBERTSON TO SVTKA IS Io FIlE SUIT Steele Culbertson, Alaska The Chinese Communisi radio re-|Salmon Industry, I ported Communist forces captured |Sitka Sunday on company business AG A l N SI SPY will leave for Tiinan @t & Dok today, China time; and return to Juneau the first of The broadcast, heard in San |the week before continlling“to Se- Francisco by The Associated Press, | attle. | SNOW WHITE Shirts In at 10:00 . . Out at 4:00 the SAME DAY Three Months Without a Lost Item - Diaper Service $2.50 per week (All the diapers you need) WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—P— William W. Remington, temporarily suspended Commerce Department |official, threatened to file a *sub- | stantial” libel suit against Miss Elisabeth T. Bentley, confessed for- mer Russian spy. Remington said he would base his |suit on an NBC television program “Meet the Press,” on which Miss Bentley appeared on Sunday, Sept. 12, i At a news conference, Remington imade public a letter he has writ- |ten to Miss Bentley demanding “a | satisfactory putlic retraction” no jlater .than noon, Sept. 30. He said in the letter that she repeated on the broadcast charges 1 she previously made before the Sen- ate committee “that I was a com- munist.” Remington’s attorney, Joseph Rauh, said he has also asked NBC {tion” and that if it is not forth- |coming, Remington will sue the broadcasting company as well. —————— LEGION, AUXILIARY JOINT INSTALLATION NEXT MONDAY NIGHT There will be a joint installation of the American Legion and Aux- iliary officers on Monday night at 8 o'clock in the Dugout. It is announced also today that wives jof Legionnaires are invited to at- |tend this function. e There's big news in Empire ads. o SNOW WHITE LAUNDRY Pone 299 Roberta Jackson BENEFIT DANCE OO, ROBERT MITCHUM, OSSO RO RO C.J.EHRENDREICE —C.P.A. | BUSINESS COUNSELLOR | 1 " GREER GARSON IN - BILL AT CAPITOL With his new role as Greer Gar-| son’s husband in “Desire Me," dra-) matic picture coming to the Capitol | Theaire Sunday, Robert Mitchum steps into stellar rank. Hollywood lost no time in recog- nizing Mitchum’s talents—first an Academy Award nomination, and now a leading role in one of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's most important pictures for 1947. Mitchum’s chara c terization is| that of a French war prisoner who! returns to find that his best friend, played by Richard ‘Hart, has stolen into his former life, won his friends*1ion dollar and his wife. Solution of this prob-! lcm affords Mitchum a role of dra- matic strength and emotional range. | ALASKA HERRING PACK 1S 400,000 BARRELS FOR '8 WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—M—| The government-controlled South- east Alaska herring catch for 1948 totaled 400,000 barrels, the Fish and Wildlife Service says. H The agency said the catch was| twice that of 1939, when uncontrol-| led herring landings were so low| that 14 of Southeast Alaska's 18 herring production . plants were forced out of business. The Fish and Wildlife Service| prohibited herring fishing in 1940 ! to protect the spawning stock. The ! Fishery had recorded catches as| -high as 500,000 barrels of 250 KING (RAB - OF ALASKA ON MARKET Venture Yields Good In-! come for Government- | Large Cafch Reported WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—P— The largest King Crab fishing ven- ture in U. S. history brought the Federal Government a half-mil- income this year, the} Fish and Wildlife Service disclosed today As a result, a sizeatle amount of Alaskan canned king crab is on the | markets for the first time since the pre-war days when Japan met most of the U. S. demand for this celicacy A. W. Anderson, the agency's chief of commercial fisheries, told a re-| porter the Government's factory | ship Pacific Explorer caught 418,- 000 of the giant crabs-—all of thcm' males—this season. Fifteen Pounders Some of them weighed 15 or more pounds and had an over-all spread of up to four or five feet. The pack! totaled 18,000 cases, by far thef largest ever put up by U. S. inter- ests, Anderson said. He added that the catch was sold, at $24 to $26 a case, to the Colum- bia River Packers Association, As-! toria, Ore. There also was a limited | catch in Alaskan waters, he said, by | three or four small privately-awned vessels operating out of Beattle. pounds each in the 1920’s. i In 1943 the government reopen-| ed the herring fishery, restricting | the catch to 100,000 barrels. i Each year since, the quota has progressively increased as the her-| ring were restored. Quotas are determined annually on the basis of sclentific study. H Most of the catch is reduced 6| meat and oil. Only a small part is! salted, pickled or smoked as food. | Citizen of GOVT.OFFICIAL | ~ US. Charged | ! ~ As Plotter ! !the Peninsula, and in June cnughv.} the FEL [ (By The Associated Press) l | In Buenos Aires, the Argentine | government accused a United States citizen of heading an unsuccessful plot to assassinate President Juan {D. Peron and his wife. A communi- que identified the American as| iJohn Griffith, former cultural at- tache of the U. S. Bmbassy, in the| { Argentine, Twelve Argentinians, in-| {cluding three priests, have been ar-| jrested, charged with taking part in| the plot, the communique said. { (CHARTER STEAMER | | BY MARITIME COM. Sept. 25.—P— | | The Maritime Commission an-| 1for an “adequate, prompt retrac-|nounced last night the cancellation attacked with every legal weapon of all charter contracts with steam- ship companies owning no ships of their own. | The action covers 54 ships and ) involves 13 steamship lines, al | spokesman for the Commission said ‘ | He asserted the move was an elaboration uf policy announced in | {April when thé Commission dis- jclosed it would approve no new | charters. {from charter service will join the| | Maritime Commission’s reserve !fleet of more than 1,500 ships not | | now in use but still seaworthy. | —_——— | FROM ANCHORAGE ! K. Tillinghast and G. W. Tru-| deau of Anchorage are guests at 'at the ‘Gastineau Hotel. I _ 10:00 p. m. in the DOUGLAS EAGLES HALL o EYES EXAMINED Second and branklin PHONE 508 FOR A tin, S Saturday Nite-Sept. 25 Phone3sl. Room 5 Shathuck Bidg DR. D. D. MAR " OPTOMETRIST LgNSES PRESCRIBED UARDT APPOINTMENTS Admission from $1.20 up Including Tax How Big is YOUR Heart? CALLAT MIKE'S}PLAC'E ' 'glf ihe Dance = Steamers tied up at e e T T o e NORTHLAND SAILINGS Seattle by present Longshore coastwise strike. HENRY GREEN, AGENT—TELEPHONE 109 |cerning the following person is ask- |ed to communicate with the Gov- The 54 vessels being removed | ¢fOr'S Office: {5 ft. 10 ins. in height, weight about vicinity of Anchorage. | Brownie’s Liquor Store %\ Between 1931 and 1940 United States buyers paid more than $27 »{ 000,000 for Japanese canned g+ crab meat. During the last five! years of that decade Japanese im- ¢ ports accounted for 95 per cent of U. 8. consumption of canned crab-| meat. Some 413,000 cases were in- ported in 1939. Fishery in Alaska Experimental fishing this year has established, Anderson said, that; there is potentially a large crab| fishery in the Bering Sea and| smaller, but still commercially im- | portant, crab populations in Pavlof and Cance Bays on the south side of the Alaska Peninsula, around Kodiak Island and in lower Cook Inlet. The Pacific Explorer’s inexperi- enced crew caught 30,000 crabs in Pavlof Bay within a few days in d-April. The vessel moved on “the Amak Island area north ot £ many it tecame necessary to limit the fleet to 18,000 to 20,000 crabs daily. The largest one-day catch was 25,000 crabs June 3. o eee— 'STHCOLUMN IS ON RUN, SAYS CLARK 25, —P— WASHINGTON, Sept. Attorney General Tom Clark says | ! I (omk‘c“ BUSIED {that “we have the fifth column, o on the run in the United States.” Clark accused Congress of fail- ing to provide “needed laws" for dealing with subversive elements. Despite this, he promised, any fifth column in America will “be we possess, when and where it raises it hideous head.” His remarks were made in a speech before the American Hotel Association convention. ———.—— INFORMATION WANTED Anyone having information co! | i l Cole Campbell: 37 years old, light brown hair, bifie eyes, about 160 lbs. in Spent eight years Phone 103 139 So. Franklin P. O. Box 2508 Juneau Janifor Service Home and Commercial Cleaning Earl J. Conkle Phone 806 > SEATTLE Por COMFORT and SERVICE Dewey W. Qet the NEW Metzdorf ASHINGTON Vice-Pres. i and Habit! Managing Director ALASKANT FEEL AT HOMI § st NEGRO ACTOR, FILM /BPWC T0 MEET FOR STAR IS ARRESTED, IMMORAL CHARGES P "Winning the We " PAGE FIVE STARTS TONIGHT MATINEE SUNDAY st'” with Mighty Mouse and Lalest NEWS Via Air Pouglas Coliseum LAST TIME TONIGHT .... "CENTENNIAL SUMMER" rccunicotor SUNDAY and MONDAY . ... “MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET" NEW YORK, Sept (D — 25 25 The arrest of Rex Ingram, 53-year-old Negor actor and film star, on white slavery charges, is Ingram was accused of transport- | ing a 15-year-old.white girl from | announced by |y Salina, Kansas, to New York City for immoral purposes. . . D TIDE TABLE SEPTEMBER 26 Low tide, 1:09 a.m, .24 ft High tide, 7:32 am, 11.0 ft. Low tide, 13:06 pm., 7.1 ft. High tide, 19:01 p.m, 13.8 ft SEPTEMBER 27 Low tide, 2:3¢ a.m,, 26 High tide, 9:21 a.m,, 114 Low tide, 14:50 p.m., 7.1 High tide, 20:43 p.m., 13.8 *1t. ft. ft. ft. @ 0000 0000 000 There's big news -, Cutaway view / of Thermepane @ There’s no need to sacrifice comfort. Glaze your Picture Windows with Thermopane—the windowpane made of two or more panes of glass with debydrated aic hermetically sealed between them, Thermopane insulates year- round. And what a boon to the man of the house—you leave Thermopane in all year! 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