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SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, Continuous Shows all day Sunday Doors Open 1:30 Completz Shows Begin sSpring isn’t here yet - 1949 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA TERRIFYING SKI JUMPING THRILLS in our NEW Ibsbl' AIR EX I’RESb NEWS were .. .. by the blaze of cclor en our screen --- the laughter and the joyous fun for everyone!* TOMORRO Wwe hamn! 8 proseut A N and greater Jeanette ~~ MacDonald i ENDS TONITE! e —————————————— Starring JEANHTE mUUNAlB' ‘ JANE —Plus these superb Academy Award Sub]ecis impress itself on your it gay ynung mafluLs d honeymaow. JOSE URdI (4]] Heor ““The Dickey Bird Song"'! And many 'do AN, iy E AND ENJOY THE TECHNICOLOR TIME OF YOUR LIFE! 'Afi%fi- DAVENPORT John Mnhm Produced WILCOX 13 PASTERNAK A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE An M. G. M. PASSING PARADE narrated by John Nesbitt that will | memory forever! “GOODBYE MISS TURLOCK” The finest and most touching iribute ever TOM and JERRY romp THROUGH ANOTHER HOWLARIOUS TECHNICOLOR CARTOON (Feature at 7:45-10:05) ROBERT MITCHUM JANE GREER | Switzerland has been found and and everybody is hsppy given to the profession of teaching. ,mallred \ \ \ £ A\ \ N e D - Wanls Investigation TOUPLE IS KILLED BY PROWLINGTIGER KOTA HINGGI, JOHORE, Fed-l‘d""* ration of Malaya—(®—While their | three small sons huddled in- side their thatch hut, a Malay and his wife were killed by a tiger in a Malay settlement recently. The man heard a commotion among his fowls outside the house one night and went to investigate. The tiger jumped on his back. His screams brought his wife, Wwho courageously struck blow after blow at the animal with a parang (Ma- lay knife), but the beast killed both of them. Neighbors later found the tiger in the jungle, writhing from the wounds inflicted by the woman. | They shot it. - — SWISS, FRENCH LOCATE BORDER; EVERYBODY GLAD GENEVA, Switzerland—(®— The lost border between France and ,anof Hotel. P agaln Some farmers who tI | they were Swiss are paying Flench‘ dees now and some who thought | hey were French now find Lheh\ are in Switzerland. The cor- | rection was made after more than | 0f Spies Hurried fo "Logical Conclusion’ 100 years of uncertainty along | ? the Jura mountain frontier of west- (By The Associated Press) lern Switzerland. It involved a | A new member of the House Un- stretch of about fifteen miles. »|American Activities Committee be- The frontier was fixed in 1824, leves that the Communist spy in- but the Duke of Neuenberg on me“fltlgfltlons should be pushed to swiss side and his Imperial ernch‘ at he terms a “logical conclu- colleagues neglected to mark it |sion.” Democratic Representative |jor posterity. Peasants in the|John McSweeney of Ohio adds that region have been asking themselv- | “the —enemies who work from s for years whether they really : w_nhm" are more serious than for- ‘e in Switzerland or France, |eign armies. But McSweeney op- Now the people who worry about | POses the smearing of innocent such things finally have cut a|men and women by ‘“unsupported path twelve feet wide through the | | accusation.” woods and wesds to mark the spol.‘ . - mow srea FORMER NAZI OF OPINION 3RD WAR WILL AID GERMANY FRIEDBERG, Germany —®—A former high-ranking Nazi who later | Registered at the Baranof Ho- tel from Sitka are Ernest Somers, Roc C. Avrit, Mrs. Max Penrod .md Harry Brown. | —_—————— | | ED LOCKEN HERE Ed, Locken, prominent resident of Petersburg, is staying at the Bar- Germany would be strengthened ’ through a third world war. He 1 Dr. Otto Strasser, now living Canada. In one of the letters h( sends regularly to his Germal friends, Strasser says: “Even if five or ten million Ger- mans will be killed in a third war, Germany's position will be strength- ened after it, because the number of killed Russians, American, French and Poles will be far greater.” The 51-year-old politician hopes for an early return to Germany to tecome the leader of a new Ger- man party which has just been founded in this small town of Fried- berg in the American zone state of { united provinces "THREE DARING DAUGHTERS" AT CAPITOL SUNDAY “Three Daring MGM musi ITnmllH- B Daughters.,” new comes to the Capitol for a four-day run, inday Heralding the return to the screen of Jeanette acDonald following ive years spent in the concert and | operatic fiel Sharing ~v11n billing with Jose Iturbi and Jane Powell, Miss Mac- Donald plays the role of a beautiful, uccessful businegs woman with hre rowinz daughters, Her ro- :nh\n:( and marringe with Iturbi and subsequent mixups in trying to e n e facts of lfe and adolescent youngsters humorous situations to her highlight the iof the plot Photographed in Technicolor, the natic theme is enhanced with nging by both Miss MacDonald | ove’ ving of Iturbi, who enacts h'm- Music ranges from Liszt to Soogie-Woogie with Jane singing | er first “torch” number—"Route 06." e USHERETTES CASHIERS | AT CAPITOL THEATRE ARE IN NEW UNIFORMS Tomorrow the Capitol Theatre ushers in its spring season, rath- er prematurely, by decking out its staff of usherettes and cashiers in dazzling new uniforms; trying somewhat to match the technicolor lash on the screen of M.G.M.'s “Three Daring Daughters.” One set of unitorms of soft grey gdhmdme wool slacks topped with ! | | | ? | a satin ‘jacket in aqua and the | other set of blue gabardine slacks | with rust satin jackets are sure to brighten the theatre with spring colors. The popular Juneau girls on the Capitol staff are Mae Dapcevich and Margaret Atkinson, cashiers; and usherettes Jeanette Casperson, Virginia Crawford, Donna Olds and Shirley Pulmer lANGUAGE DISPUTE IS FACED BY INDIA NEW DELHI—(®—Warning of a possivie disintegration of India on the language issue has been given by a member of the constituent as- sembly. T. T. Krishnamachari, delegate from Madras, says if Nnrm | India in its exuberance for a na- tional language wanted to Hindi on the whole of India, “the chances are South India, which knows little Hindi will like to cut off from the rest of India.” Hindi is spoken or understood by the majority of India's 325,000,000 but in the South it is an alien dia- lect. It is so especially in the Mad- ras province and in the princely states of Mysore, Travancore and Cochin. ‘The controversy in the constituent assembly arose out of the demand of some of its members from the to conduct the proceed'ngs in Hindi and to draft the constitution in Hindi. “Without a national language, independence will be meaningless,” they asserted. The past hatred in South India for the English language as being foreign has gone with the depar- ture of the British, Krishnama- chari says. “The impatience and in- tolerance of the North is starting a new hatred though Hindi is ul- imately destined to become the national language of India.” WORK ON KREMLIN SIIRRING HISTORY MOSCOW—(®P— The recent re- toration work on the Kremlin has neen responsible for many discov- 'ries about this ancient citadel. A wall older than the Kremlin vall has been found in the lower iection of the Blagoveschchensky tower, It is part of the former . BIG TECHNICOLOR Porrrrrrr e 2 | A big cast of topnotchers in sing- | ing and dancing will be seen at the 20th Century Theatre for three days, starting tonight, in the tech- nicolor Kissing Her Now?” The film is a story of the glam- orous life of that romantic trou- badour, wrote and sang the nation's songs at the turn of the century. It is a great story of back-stage PAGL FIVE Starts TONIGHT SUNDAY MATINEE Deors Open 2 P. M. EVENING SHOWS 7:22 — 9:30 (O LENTURY He Wrote His Songs Across a Nation's Heart! And Had a GIRL for EVERY SONG! . . . OH! Thisisa story based on the glamorous life of that romantic troubadour, Joseph E. Howard, who wrote and sang the nation's songs at the turn of the century. Joe was a rolling stone that left a trail of melody from coast to coast and wherever he went there was sure to be a lovely face, a trim : ankle and the fragrant memory of melodies that can never be forgotten! (gad, what a life!) I wonder whos” kissing her now M/t{w ‘ sty - MAHTHA STEWART - REGINALD GARDINER ooty LLOYD BACON proswcos vy GEORGE Ji 2/ < XITIIN JUNE HAVER: MARK STEVENS- Stupiditious Cat . . (A Cartoon) LATEST NEWS EVENTS BY AIR | life and stars June Haver and Mark !when the fire started, apparently | Stevens with Martha Stewart and from a defective stove pipe. She was Reginal Gardiner and many others burned as she tried to enter the in supporting roles. | house and save the children. Heavy — e — 1snom on the roads slowed neigh- " i o bors in Lheh: efforts to hring aid. Children Perish in GF, BANKER Farm House Fire; Snow Prevents Aid FEATURE COMING T0 20TH CENTURY [ ANCHORAGE BANKER HERE | E. E. Rasmuson of the Bank of | Anchorage has arrived in Juneau |and is staying at the Baranof ! Hotel. | | | | e MARRIAGE LICENSE A marriage license, for which ap- NEWPORT, Wash, Jan. 21— | Plication was made January 4, was Charles, 5, and Everet, 6, sons of | issued this morning to Miss Mary Mrs. Lillian Chenevert, perished in | Catherine O'Connell and Jessie El- |a fire which destroyed their farm |mer Snyder, Jr, both of Douglas. home yesterday, despite efforts of| Miss O'Connell is a registered their widowed mother to save :hem.}n"rse and Mr. Snyder's occupa- Mrs. Chenevert was doing chores tion is that of a diamond driller. feature, “I Wonder Who's Joseph E. Howard, who Wy A ., OUR JANUARY OFFER is being extended a few more days. Many have taken ad- vantage of these savings . . . YOU T@D, may do so if whitestone wall which was buiit it the time of Dmitrfy Donskoy. A well preserved fresco of the sixteenth centry made by Feodicia, son of the famous artist, Dionisia, you will PHONE 538 for YOUR appoiniment. ey vas found when some old layers believed that these frescoes were lost forever. In the corner of the Kremlu\s Arsenal tower workers found bronze signet ring embedded in the Machineless Wave - - $10.00 With Tulip Oil and Realistic Cream. (Average time, 8 hours) Hesse. The party calls itself “Union |W¥all. The name on the ring was | of Germany’s Renewal.” One of its ‘Yakov” and the family name had S 5 been obliterated. principal demands is the re-estab- M h w 5 lishment of a German “Relch.” > acilne wave - 8. D AIRLI\'I‘ OFFICIAL HERE . owner of the Ellis Anlnn of Ketchikan is register- ed at the Baranof Hotel. Ellis is a member of the Territorial Veter- Board. - e CREATIVE WRITERS MEET The Creative Writers will meet Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock in El an’s the home of Mrs. Ed Sweeney, 517 N. Franklin Street. { All who have manuscripts ready ! turned against Hitler belicves that|are requested to bring them to the | School meéting at her home in meeting for criticism, Awa TO VIEE'I' | The American Women's Volun-' tary Service will hold an important meeting on Wednesday evening at| 8 o'clock at the Governor's House. A dance will be planned for the near future and plans for the Day Nursery will be discussed. All | members are urged to attend this | meeting. SUNDAY SCHOOL IN DOUGLAS TOMORROW Due to the illness of Mrs. Eva Schlegel, there will be no Sunday Complete Shampoo Finger Wave and Hair Cut. (Average time, 3 hours) NO ILAH PARMENTER, Proprietor— of paint were removed from one )f the cathedrals inside the Krem- 1in, 1l In the Nineteenth Century it was E l i N E ) N ] Douglas tomorrow. l You CAN Find New Beauty in °49 Baranof Beauty Salon __IRENE STUBBS, Beautician PHONE 538 for YOUR appoiniment oUR JANUAR‘%’ SPECIALS