The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 20, 1949, Page 5

THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1949 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA FEATURE STARTS AT 7:45 10:05 COME EARLY CHOICE SEATS ANOTHER SMASH HIT in our winter season of BRILLIANT SCREEN ENTERTAINMENT! IRK DOUBLAS -7 STEVE BRODIE « VIRGINIA HUS Hilarious Fun with LECN ERROL in “BET YOUR LIFE” GREATEST PARADE IN HISTORY HELD IN WASHINGTON TODAY . WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—@— President Truman rode in triumph down (JPennsylvania Avenue today at the head of the greatest parade in Washington’s history. Hundreds of thousands of his fel- low countrymen cheered him into his newly begun four-year term as President and Commander In Chief. It was an ideal day for the two and one-half hours of pagentry that had been building up for weeks. The weather was crisp, cold and sunny. The vast ‘throng that jammed the “Avenue of Patriots” hours be- fore Mr. Truman was sworn in at the Capitol was in a merry holi- day mood, despite the long wait. e e—— MOUNTJOZ LEAvts TODAY Leaving for Washingten, D. C. today is Charles Mountjoy, Di- rector of Native Resources for the Alaska Native Service. He will confer’ with extension supervisors and credit agents of the Office of Indian Affairs on development of the native resources program in the Territory. Specific problems that will be considered at the meeting will be credit operations and funds for financing native resources; and de- velopment of small industries, the reindeer industry, and gardens among the native people. ———————— CORPORAL TYLER RETURNS Back this weekend at his work as clerk in the ACS administrative section, Cpl. Stanley K. Tyler can pender the pleasures of a month's annual leave Outside. He returned Tuesday aboard the Alnska h Air Express News MARSHALL RESIGNS INAUGURATION IS TELEVISED NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—(®—A tele- sien “audience of 10,600,000 per- sons in the East and Midwest was estimated for today’'s Preside inauguration. Many mere millions throughout the nation and in‘the other coun- tries were linked to the Washington ! scene by radio, Today is the first time a Presi- dential inauguration has been tele- | vised. E g FREIGHTER EUGENE DOCKS FROM SEATILE. The Robert Eugene, skippered Fred Dahl, unloaded cargo here to- day after docking from Seattle yes- terday afternoon on its first voyage of the new year. Accordinz to Skip- per Dahl, ther craft will take on a cargo of fish at Juneau Cold Stor- age before leaving for Rrince Ru- pert. s MARTHA SOCIETY TO MEET TOMORROW The Martha Society will meet tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the church parlors with Mes- dames C. C. Carter and Jose- phine Boyd as hostesses for the dessert luncheon. Mrs. Gunnar Blocmgren, Sr., will lead devotions. — .- BASKIN HERE BRIEFLY Assistant U. 8. District Attor- ney Stanley D. Baskin is back in Juneau for a few days from Ketchikan, where court is in ses- sion. He plans to return there Sunday. Baskin reports a busy court sea-' son—15 indictments, two murders and a number of sex crimes. by | FON DONALD DUCK in “THE BIG WASH” CAPITOL THEATRE FEATURES DOUBLE CROSSER IN FiLM Revolving around the case of a detective whose past shady career leads h'm into a dramatic chain ot 1ences, RKO Radio’s “Out of * Past,” co-stars Robert Mitchum Jane Greer at the head of a sle cast. This feature is at the [Capitol theatre for the remainder of the week, starting tonight. Jeff Markham ‘is sent by ‘gam- ler Wk girl friend, Kathie, who an off wit 1 a biz chunk of money. {dett finds 1 Mex co, but fall- 13 fo! lux “harm, double crosses 1 d takes her to San Franci former partner, Jack locates them, but Kathie m and f{lees. Jeff learns later returned to Whit. | his name, Jeff settles ‘fiown to nm a gas station in a lit- itle town, where he falls in love; {with pretty Ann Miller and plans {a normal life for himse}f. But Whit's | gunman, Wwhercatouts, and Jeff is forced to sce Whit, who tells him that hell 1forgive him if he will get some in- lawyer named Eels iFels is murdered, with circumstan- tial evidence po'ntinz to himself. , Desperately, Jeff makes a deal return to his business and Ann But Kathie, fearing she’ll be im-| plicated, kills Whit and compels Jeff to run off with her. Realizing licerately leads Kathie into a po- lice trap, and both of them lose their lives as Kathie tries to shoot her way out. >eo Ofllcer Objects To Official Name; \Underwrifes It | saN FrANCISCO, Jan The newest subdivision of San Francisco’s police 'ddpartment officially named the sex detail. But the name seems indelicate to one member of the detail. | He relettered the office door: “Birds and Bees Detail.” 20.—(A— Nof af Inaugural ALBANY, N Y Jan. 20.—A—! Gov. Thomas Dewey is not in Wash- /ington for the inaugural. In fact, i s he is really delighted to be in Albany. At an informal dinner last night, Dewey said: “I thought for a time last year that I would not be here.” {Then the unsuccessful Republican candidate added: “At least, I'm in [the state of New York where Re- ‘pubhcan; control both branches of |the Legislature.” .- HOSPITAL NOTES Bertha Beebe and Peter Jackson | wereadmitted to St. Ann’s Hospital | yesterday for medical attention. | Discharged from the hospital yes- terday were four young boys: Rog- er Coulton, Val Poor, Jr., Gene Jackson and Denny Julaton. DAUG"TER. FOR COLES A daughter:was born o Mr. and | Mrs. Frank Cole in St. Ann’s Hos=: | pital last evening; The baby tip- ped the scales at eight pounds. Mr. Cole is manager of the Alaska Juneau power plant at Annex Creek. Governor Dewey s BOB MEEKS OF PETERSBURG LISTS IN SIGNAL CORPS Robert Lee Meeks of Petersburg has enlisted for three years in the | Army Signal Corps, according to T/Sgt. E. 8. Craig, Juneau re- cruiting officer. Meeks expects to be assigned to the Juneau office of the ACS after basic training at Fort Greely, on Kcdiak Island. | ———————— Scme 720 fires break out in homes in the United States each day. - SECOND SHRINE FORMAL DANCE" " 5 & Scottish Rite Cathedral Tent Room SATURDAY-J AI{ UARY 22-10P. M., Shriners . . Masons . . Eastern Stars and Invited Guests * Music by Matheny's Arabian Knights > ‘ane Minister 0f India Issues | Asia Ulfimatum .. | NEW DELH[ India, Jan. 20.—® | —Indian Prime Minister Nehru has declared that Asia no longer will |allow interference with her free- dom. The Indian leader also has | demanded an end of tolonialism in Asia. | Nehru has opened a meeting of | 20 Asian nations in New Delhi. The | conference will take up the Indo- nesian situation. Nehru calls the Dutch action there “a challenze to » | | | | Taft, Pepper Are { WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—P— Inauguration day is marked by a growing word battle between Re- publican Senator Robert Taft and Democratic Senator Claude Pepper of Florida. i ‘Taft today accused Pepper of trying to slap a gag on the Senate Labor Committee. Previously the Florida Senator charged that Taft was resorting to filibuster tactics in van attempt to hold up repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. Taft has denied this and made | his counter accusation. The squab- | ble resulted from a move by Pep- per to skip committee hearings on | the law's repeal. et VISITING BASKETBALL PLAYERS ARE GU AT TEEN-AGE CLUB Tonight, immediately after the jJuneau High-Sitka High lnskelbau, ioame the Teen-Age Club will open, in henor of the visiting players. | All the members oi the club are | urged to be present to help en-| tertain the Sitka boys. - now growing more | less than in | S © America is trees and removing 1925. Stefanos, discovers Jeff's| ‘:lrin‘li)lilflng papers for him from a| The ex-sleuth |American cold war policy of calling | spokesmen knows he has been framed when ({or actions rather than words alone [Line plans sailings every two wecks, | | ith Whit to clear him so he can| he can never escape now, Jeff de-| Reported atf Odds STOP TALK, RUSSIANS ARETOLD Call for Aciion, Not Words, Is Demand Made by Lovett on USSR 1ING it Sterling to bring back the | w Under ed tion of Ci USSR want Hi, were 'O} Jan., 20.—P— of ‘State Lovett call- the Russians today for ac than the mere words nmunist leaders outside the, to show that they seriously better relatic news conference directed at recent statements Palmiro Togliatti in Italy and Marcel Cachin in France, among lothe: 1er comments said the United States is naturally very much interested in the comments of these leaders | whict officials have been | studyi ev.dence of a new Sov- |let fensive.” y restated the basic Love other g for “peace | But he strc if the Soviets and their Communist associates want to kring an im- provement in word conditions. On other matters Lovett reported |to the news conference: 1. United (States and Br.tain are working on a common approach | |to the Palestine crisis since both {want peace and stability in the Middle East. But he backed up com- !pletely a British Emba denial of London reports that Britain had ‘;10134 sed a detailed middle eastern n and sought to bargain with the ‘b ted States over it. 1 Wide areas of |remain among the United States, ‘b in and France over the pro- d merger of their three occupa- n zones into a unified Western vett said it is possibl |some of these |els—that is among the foreign of-| 18 fices of the three governments rath- | North Atlant er than among their representatives in Germany. He declared that a solution is not imminent. > ‘REBE((A JOHNSON 1S . WED TO PAUL BELL, JR. | AT ANGOON CEREMONY a large wedding January 12 in t 1e Angoon Presbyterian Church | Rebecca Ruby Johnson and Paul Frank Bell, Jr., were uniled in mar- riage, Samuel G. Johnson, marriage commissioner, officiating. Witnesses were Mrs, !son and Mrs. Margaret Abbott. A large wedding party in the A. IN. B. Hall followed the ceremony. Both Mr. Bell and his bride are | residents or Angoon. —eee - FIRST SON 15 BORN T0 ek e ' ALAN LADDS IN IDAHO .o — l jthe birth of Robert Albin Ladd, first son of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Ladd. Robert was born in Moscow, ddaho, on January 12 and weigh- ed eight pounds nine ounces at birth. Mr. Ladd was an instructor in the Douglas High School for many years. He is now on the faculty of the University of Idaho and is |an instructor in the Physics De- partment. - > NAVY AS BIDS The Commandant, Seventeenth Naval District, announces that seal- ed bids endorsed “Bids for Painting Radio Towers at the U. S. Naval |Radio Station at Kodiak, Alaska, Specification No. 21002", for furn- iishing paint, labor, and materials \for painting of radio towers will be received until 11 a. m. Kodiak time, April 5. The bids should be |addressed to the District Public Works Officer, Building S-12, Naval Air Station, Kodiak, Alaska, where they will ke publicly opened at the time aforcsaid. HOME AND INDUSTRIAL INSULATION ROCK WOOL—ALUMINUM WEATHER STRIPPING Warde A. Johnson—Phone 344 ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN via Petersbarg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg. Convenient afternoon departures, at 2:30 P. M FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 e SALES a PHONE 659 CHRIST NSEN BROS. SERVICE 909-12th St. disagreement | ¢ disagreements will ' have to be ironed out at higher lev- Mabel John- ! Word has been received here of | SEATTLE CC IN PROTEST OVER RR SHIPMENTS Declares New Line from Portland Gets Freight Business for Alaska SEATTLE, Jan P diverting of shipments of rals other equipment for the Ala; Railroad to Portland for movenr in vessels of the Coastwise Line brought from the Ci nt has protests attle Ce ment of the Interior. Between 90,000 and 100,000 tons of rails the railroad, the Chamber repe and the comparati new servi inaugurated by the steamship com- has been getting the tulk of the movement out of Portland. They now operate two Liberty {ships northward and expect a third ne shortly. In reply to Seattle protests, the Interior Department said business would bLe divided equally between Portland and tle. This ratio has not been o 1amber said Coastwise amber of 1 The .- COLD WEATHER IS | FREEZING PLAINS; IT IS BELOW ZERO KANSAS CITY Jan The winter's coldest freezing the northern pl most the midwest today. A ana into of Illinois Temperatures i did not bove zero in some parts fof th's area yesterday, and fore- casters did not expect much relief until Friday. ed for North Dakota today to 20 telow zero The cold air are ten moving into the Coast and Gulf . but temperatures are report- | me snow fell , and rain fell states ed mnhll‘i normal. lin the far southwe: in California. | - e — 1 B | NEW YORK, Jan. 20 ing quotation of Alas! Juneau mine stock today is 3 American Can 90%, Anaconda 34'%, Curtiss- Wright 8%, Internaticnal Harvest- er 27, Kennecott 55%, New York Central 12'., Northern Pacific 16%, | U. 8. Steel 7T1%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 820,000 sha. Averages today are as follow. | industrials 181.44, rails 53.99, util- ities 34.90. i EFCISAINL WY | HOME-GROWN ORCHID 3 EXHIBITED IN DOUGLAS BY DOROTHY TUCKETT Mrs. Dorothy Tuckett of Douglas |Is enjoy:ng the beauty of a fine Cappeleya hibrid orchid—and it was grown right in her home, too. The exotic bloom, a Haroldii in an iun‘lmary flower pot, responded to the kind of care usually given a geranium. Mrs. Tuckett waters it once a day. | The orchig started blooming Sat- urday, and w.ll last from three to four weeks. {M—Clos- D RANGER 10 DUE HERE The Forest Service boat, Ranger 10, with Ralph Ohman of Ketch- :kan as acting skipper, is en route to Juneau from Craig with a scow in tow. Aboard the craft is C. M. Arm- strong, new ranger for the Juneau District of the Admiralty Divis- ion. He will fille the vacancy left by transfer of Larry Zach to the Research Laboratory. Mother, you know what won- derful relief you get when you rub on Vicks VapoRub! Now...whenyour child wakes up in the night tormented with & croupy cough of a cold, here’s a special way to use Vicks VapoRub. It’s VapoRub Steam —and it brings relief almost instantly! Put a good spoonful of Vicks VapoRub in a bow! of boiling water or vaporizer, Then . . . le your child breathe in ‘the soothing VapoRub Steam. Med- icated vapors penetrate deep into cold-congested upper bron= chial tubes and bring reue(tlfxmv *s every breati! VAPORUS nmerce to the De- are needed te rehabilitate ! | ed, ero belt extends from Mon- | The highest temperatures predict- | | ADVENTURE FILM WiTH CiSCO KD AT 20TH CENTURY priceless chest of silver bandit and a carry the Cisco Kid into 1 adventure in Mo and the Bandit comng to ti Century Theatr ght. Gii Roland stars once again as the fiction andit 0. Henry fame The “Kid of silver s Moreno. ¥ police ¢ a dar- emale vicious ton learn be'n that a chest tak to m ce the and hit wer uards, and rep chest with | Cisco discovers t H g who had the nal dummy A head of t ver chest is in lity a woman m v man. Ramsay dual rele, and finally portant decision through the in- fluénce of C.sco. Dur the action of the film Roland discovers a land- grab plot which has a vicious poi- son plan behind it. The Cizco Kid's efforts to break up the plot builds up tc an exeiting climax -o e /ARMISTICE TALKS BETWEEN ISRAEL, EGYPT CONTINUE (By The Associated Press) nistice talks between Israel on me hand and Egypt and Lebanon n the other reached a decisive stage. {A Tel Aviv informant said the draft of peace terms with Lebanon was made at a border village. A compro- juerading as Ames plays the makes an im- A S | mise settlement for the borders of the Negev desert in Southern Pales- tine was before Egyptian and Jewish egotiators at Rhodes. The U. S. loan of $100,000,000 to Is appeared to presage full re- cognition soon of the new Jewish state. ! gty Premler Nehru of India renounc- led before a 20-nation conference in New Delhi the Dutch action against the Indonesian republic. He called (it a “challenge to newly awakened Asia.” Nehru said, “Asia will no longer brook any interference with her freedom.” er nations readied a proposal the United Nations fcr ending the strife in the Dutch islands. - (CREWMAN FROM TUG NOW HOSPITALIZED AT MI. EDGECUMBE SITKA, Alaska, Jan. 20.—(P— %Gmrge Paul Jones, brought here by plane Sunday after a reported scuf- fle aboard the Seattle motor tug “Acme,” was being treated today at Mt. Edgecumbe hospital: Harold Hofstad, skipper of the tug, said in Petersturg Jones was overpowered after a scuffle in which one man was thrown overboard but later rescued. There was no expla- nation for the scuffle. Jones joined the ship at Sitka. No charges have been filed here in connection with the case. - - - STEAMER MOVEMERTS ! Monday. Princess Noral scheduled to sail from Vancouver January 27. Alaska scheduled southbound on The United States and three otb- | for PAGE FIVE [0 CENTURY STARTS TONIGHT Shows at 7:28-9:30 GILBERT ROLAND -» RAMSAY AMES MARTIN GARRALAGA FRANK YACONELLI ADDED Unusual Occupations Cartoon - March of Time AIRNEWS Y ETamtnatra e s oream mm—s CCNFESSES KILLING PROSECUTOR WHO SENT HIM TO PRISON | EL PAEO, Tex., Jan. 20—P—Au- thorities in this border city have announced tha't mild-appearing Roy Frank Godbey has confessed the vengeance killing of an Okla- homa City lawyer who once sent him to prison. The announcement was made jointly by Acting Chief of Police J. W. Fitzgerald and FBI Epecial \,'\M”lL D. K. Browi. The slightly-stooped 52-year-old | priconer signed a statement that he shot and killed Earl Pruet on |January 11 in an Oklahoma City skyscraper office, the announce- | ment said. Pruet was prosecutor when God- 1| ey was tried and convicted at Wau- |rika, Okla., for a $6 holdup at near- |by Jeft cntenced to 35 years, |c released last Nov. 12 vith time off for good behavior: Br. E. Lennon Kelly Bsteopatlh Phone Blue 228 il EYES EXAMINED for Appointment LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. MARQUARDT OPTOM Second and Franklin PHONE 506 FOR speed you on your those who buy their ewing Southeas ETRIST Juneau APPOINTMENTS Alaska Coastal offers you a new service—to way. Through your local ACA agent you can reserve your seat on Pan American fo the States . . . and then to any spot on the globe!l And now, for its patrons in Sitka, Hoonah, Tenakee, Skagway, Haines and similar communities ACA holds a special block of seats on Pan Am. . . . giving them equal priorities with tickets in Juneaul MflSK%%‘ * 8 (amynss