The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 30, 1948, Page 5

e e 20TH CENTURY IS ™ OFFERING ROMANCE |/ Tonite OF PARIS TONIGHT Q0°ETY o'W L, Y Complete Shows at 7:25-9:30 « 7 % ) The hed 19th Century & |novelist and short story writer, Guy |de M: nt, will be making 20th | Cent lines these days when the -Lewin production of ovel “Bel Ami,” now called “The He’s So Refined . . . 5 g | Private Affairs of Bel Ami," arrives and It's So-0-0 B s ; s / m the screen, with handsome HI‘Q"OUI’ starr with San An el Lan: and Ann Dvc with @ % 8 to talk () |fcatured cast that includes France Of Efl%f@ ! shn Carradine, Marle Wilsor L] The Private Affairs of eing released by Un the feature tury ‘Theatre for The ¢ y of thi. enter- taini film is set in Par.s during the early 80s, with Sanders pl the role of an ambitious Fre! ournalist who es his audacicus charm. wit and matehless arro- lgance with women to further his ¢ The part is a perfect one for Lim, and the dialogue, threaded »TEIE ,DA”,“Y ALASKA EMPIRE. *J,U AU, ALASKA Statue of " Alaska Prospedior, Late Alonzo Y. Lewis, Has By Territory fo Be Placed al Plonears TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1948 Foatiive at el L el bl AW B WE J 8:11—10:16 EXTRA—— g This Is America presents The Thrilling Story of the Conquest of ’ : i i f 3 ALASKA’S MOUNT McKINLEY \ \ e g y . 3 | | “"GPERATION WHITE TOWER" TOMORROW — | Vi, and th e, e NEW WESTERN THRILLS y 3 AR % ; ! |srems that are as biting as they 4 > 1 s i L | Ve |are amusing, will do much to | courage discussion on the part | women who generally are on the re- ceiving end of his barbed witti- cisms. IN GLOWING CINECOLOR of starring .; 3 GEORGE ANGELA STNDERS - LANSBURY - DVORAK with FRANCES DEE JOHN CARRADINE « SUSAN DOUGLAS - HUGO HAAS } WILSOK + ALDERT BASSEAMAN + KATHERINE EMERY « RICHARD g ond WARREN WILLIAM -+ Refeased 1hru UNITED ARTISTS - + Produced by DAVIDL,LOEW +Adapted and Dirscted by ALBERT LEWIN ——— e [ BLOW BY WRECK | RaitRoAD BaRGE ; TANDY, PAULA DEVINE - DREW £ PLUS— %0, You're Going fo Be a Father” with Joe McDoaks Air Express NEWS WALLACE BEEKY (S RAM-JET PLANE FEATURED [N BILL REPORTED MADE SEVERAL FLIGHTS BALTIMORE, Nov. 30.—®—The Glenn L. Martin Company an- nounces that a pilotless ram-jet plane it built for the Navy has made several flights of more than ten minutes. These are the longest flights ever made by a pilotless aircraft pow- cred by the novel ram-jet engine. It has no moving parts except a fuel pump. Burning gasoline heats the air taken in at the nose of the 7-foot contraption, which looks like a stovepipe, and the hot ANCHORAGE, Nov. 30.—~(®-—An- chorage's hopes of speedy installa- ,i 1eW c.ectric power ger ng facilities were shattered alc with the grounded Alaska Railroad barge. | Twenty-two crates of generator parts w atoard the barge that younded and cracked up near! Cape Spencer. City Manager Don | business Wilson learned of the misfortune, evening nen a bili of lading arrived here, room: BASNEP N Center. Following the business meeting, Gen Harmon will demonstrate the techniques of china painting. > o SHOWING, CAPITOL Wallace Beery wiio once kayoed Clark Galle when the latter leansd too far into a punch for a scene in “Hell Divers,” recently battled through his 250th film fight! 1t took place in “Alias a Gentle- man,” current attraction on the | Capitol Theatre’s screen, w.th Tom | Drake cast as Beery’s oppenent and | victim. Beery, who has been in piciures for thirty-five years and in show business for forty-five, has aver- aged a fight a picture throughout | his career, and that doesn’t count | A reeent surver suowed ‘that nearly four out of five families had one or more members who owned life insurance. 4 POTTERS TO MLET The Alaska Potters will hold a meeting on Wednesday t 8 o'clock in their club the Juneau Recreation in Chest® To help relleve conges- V' mjv VA tion, conghing, muscular | REBEKAHS ATTENTION bekahs are requested to attend the entertainment given FROM WASILLA by the Odd Fellows on Tuesday,' Emil Gustafson of Wasilla Nov. 30 at 8:30 pm 53 3t staying at the Gastineau. All F is soreness, rubon warming it flows his comedy battles with the beloved Marie Dressler. In “Alias a Gentleman” he plays | an ex-crook ‘who comes intc an uns expected- fortune and decides 10} live the life of a “gentleman.” It| takes some decidedly ungentlemanly | scrapping before he is able to ful- fill Xis social ambitions. ‘Together with Drake, the sup-{ porting cast features Dorothy Pat- rick, -remembered for her role as Mrs. Jerome Kern in “Till the Clouds Roll By.” Also in the cast are Gladys air creates a kick when out the back end. The Martin people said there was nothing . unusual .about. the speed taade. - Tt was ‘Within“the speed of nd, about 700 miles an hour. Martin built the plane, which is feet long with a 10-foot wing ead. It's called the Gordon IV. Once launched, it was steered by remote control and tracked by ra- dar. Aboard were all kinds of gadgets which radioed back how fast it was going, the altitude, the 2 George, Leon Ames, Warner An-|drag, and how the engine was derson and John Qualen. { operating. The added feature is “Operation | ‘White Tower,” a story of the Wash- | burn expedition ascending Mount | McKinley. It is a splendid enter- | tainment. B YAKUTAT TR g ; : A _"z’ : i b When you're 3 3 ‘ ¢ Jjudged by your hospitality, there is only one choice... FROM Iver Wick of Yakutat is regis- * tered at the Gastineau Hotel. e P-6 TO PETERSBURG CAA toat P-6 left the small boat Tea 2:00 pm. to 5:00 p.m., | harbor today to take supplies to Sewing Booth 11:30 a.m. }Petersburg and Arrow Point. Skip- Wed., Dec. 1, Lutheran Church 3 3t | per is Earl Dalreple. —————— | LUTHERAN Ladies Aid BAZAAR | Luncheon 11:30 am. to 1:30 pm. | A Sche Diarkof Min Whiskey T foon Selently t2rded Whiskey 90.8 Proof, 57%% Grain Neutral Spirits. Copr. 1948, Schenley Distillers Corp., N.Y.C, \\fl// Apples by Rail — . Service for Saje / Rare U, REQUEST and he “ALASKA PROSPECTOR,” and insert ALONZO VICTOR LI The Territory of Alaska has pur- | Pioneers' Christmas fund, chased the hercic sized statue of {has never given up hope that o:ijA%’F‘ the “Alaska Prospector” created by |day this shrine would be unveiled. | = the late sculptor; Alonzo Victor| Everyone in Southeast ska and o Lewis. It is to be cast in bronze other parts of Alas 28 | @E L] and then vlaced in front of the|ed unflinchingly ' 9 Pioneers’ Home at Sitka. pocket each year so The “Alaska Prospector” will be might have a happie .| the firsy statue of its size in Al- i | may know that no matter hov aska. It is twelve feet high and|or how large their contribution a} 5 three tons of clay were used to| WASHINGTON, Nov. 30—P— | small portion of this helped tq! ¥ 2 7 seulp it into the finished form. It |make the erection of this statue| Two warlime Japanesc leaders, wil weigh approximately 6500 ccndemned to hang as war crim- » | possible. "% eyl ' pounds when finished in bronze.| Alonzo Victor Lewis's son, Max /N . asked the United States Su- today to save their Mr. Lewis created this statue ai-|Dewis, is to have charge of design- | Preme Court ter four years of steady work. It ing the base and his daughter lives. has been highly acclaimed by all Charmain Gross is to have the hon- Petitions who have seen it, especially the art |Or of unveiling the “Alaska Pros- | ”‘?“’ -\"““_"7‘ critics who say it is one of the Pector.” Ga, ot Gen finest works of art in the United| Mr. Lewis’s fame an ‘shiiiaRn o The 24 States. e o wuch works sk b A Several models posed for the| World. War Memorial on the c(xp-‘ Free o appee | “Alaska Prospector,” but the faceital grounds in Olympia. Eix Jedsail R penalt of Bidski. Tolo pnd Son veatasiling Manb oL tha date JEkag-IGE" effort arid 18 tone bt clay. weaEIOIEr Jepancss leaders, Who AR way Bill” Fonda who posed for Mr. |into its creation. It is the largest| Weic sentenced to be executed, Lewis. similar group in the world and i American attorneys for Dohihara | The Board of Trustees of the Plo- | acclaimed as a mhsterplece of |2Rd Hirota questione d in the petl- neers’ Home, consisting of Henry sculptural art. His eelebrated fHions the legality of the trials con- | Roden of Juneau, J. J. Conway of | “Donghboy” statue stands in front| ucted by an Ir Aporial miicy Sitka, and Chatles Carter of Ju-|of the Civic Auditorium in Seattle; | tribunal. They asked that th neau, negotiated with Mrs, Zalmain his Lincoln statues in Tacoma and | utions be stayed that hearir Gross to purchase from her fath- | Spokane; the Soldier's Memorial in | Deld before the nigh tribunal here er's estate this statue in its present | Centralia; his Eara Meeker Pioneer |2nd that the Japanese then be re- form. Half of the money was taken | Mcnument at Puyallup, and others | leased. from the Territory’s Sourdough Me- too numerous to mention, A few | morial Fund and the other half years ago he was named Sculptor d for the purpose of a statue Laureate for the State of Washing- b for the Pioneers’ Home ty W. D. | Gross, who along with the late Eiler ton the State Legislature. His one wish that he live long | yesterday for surgical atten | Hansen, Superintendent of the Pio- neers’ Home until his death; Tarl enongh to see the “Alaska Prospec- | Mrs. Howard Davies, tor” unveiled was not fulfilled. He| Discharged from the hcspital was Knight, publisher of the Alaska passed away in November, 1946.| Harvey Fraser. Weekly, Bob Wahl, former editor Now, however, his memory will live| Bessie Jimmie of Douglas | |and publisher of the Sitka Sentinel, I r along h his permanent | admitted to th vernment the late Governor John W. T symbol of the Pioneer who made | pital, and others, worked diligently over Alaska the great counigy that it is a period of years, t g to find today. The unveiling of this tribuie mears to give to the Alaskan Pio- to the Alacska Sourdough can well”’ neers this everlasting tribute. Mr. Gress started this fund | Ze lcoked forward to as @ signal| in achievement and a gale day 1940 in conjupetion with his yearly (the History of Alaska. fand H. Cham ! | ' L 900000 /A PPy 8'66{)6"5 canit be reviews of were filed on be- Benji Dohihara, ence of Man- Hirota, former were filed for . court as Yes, today there are more than half a million happy users of General Electric Automatic Blankets, . P. STARR, Western Traffic Mgr. it 2 AVAILABLE IN THREE MODELS: Twin-bed * One-control 66 by 86 inches Now’s the time for you, too, to assure yourself of wonderful. automatic sleeping comfort. Buy a cozy G-E Au- tomatic Blanket. It will give you just- right warmth night after night . . . all winter long. 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