The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 26, 1949, Page 3

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1949 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—]JUNEAU, ALASKA " illll!lllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIiIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIHI'HIIIIIII SHOWPLALE oF APITUL We are PROGUD of this lereald ENDS TONIGHT! Thrilling Return Engagement “KIT CARSON" Complete Shows—7:20- 9:30 Feature at —————7:50-10:00 show — just as you will be, because it represents the finest the sereen can offer! with CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCES There's no hurry . . . Come anytime! M. G. M’s MUSICAL MERRY-GO-ROUND Feature Starts— 1:35—3:46—5:57 8:11—10:25 HIS ORCHESTRA" TOWN' A “TEX BENEKE and Beginning Tomorrow MADY CHRISTIANS - HOWARD DUFF LOUISK HORTON - FRANK CONROY ARLENE FRANCS LLOYD GOUGH Produced for the Sereew by CHESTER ERSKINE' From the Play by Arthar Miller - Directed by IRVING REIS A CHESTER ERSKINE ropecrion NEW YORK'S CRITICS® AWARD PLAY becomes Writtea Added Atiractions — JOHN NESBITT'S PASSING PAR. show you “MY OLD presents DONALD DUCK CARTOON and LATE NEWS by AIR EXPRESS ADE " MEMORIAL IS | _ VOTEDDOWN | BY SENATORS (Continued trom Page Cne) property is in the incorporated towns and is already obligated, while the Federal governmert cwns and controls the natural rescurces.” Long Negligent “We have long been negligent in performing our functicns, including ¢ the building of schools both in ru- ral and municipal areas,” Senator Rivers charged. He described city schools as “bulging at the seams” and rural schools antiquated,. small, poorly lighted and ready to fall down. “Even with the funds requested here, it will require five to eight yearg to catch up with our school construction program,” Senator Riv- ers stated. “Congress has allowed nearly ev- ery ¢ity in the Territory to bond itself and we will be negligent if we don't take this opportunity to use our credit to fill our needs.” ator Rivers scoffed at the idea that, Territorial bonds would not sell ‘and that the memorial would in any way injure the statehood cause. “It 1s the first indication we can give Congress that we are trying to help ourselves. We aren’t asking for a handout from the govern- ment.” Asserting that the city of An- “ chorage is bonded for thirteen mil- lion dollars, Senator Rivers sald that 3 or 3% per cent bonds would find a ready market. Engebreth Contradicts Senate President Gunnard Enge- breth turned the chair over to Sen- ator Lyng and took the floor, also in opposition to the memorial. « - '3 He contradicted Senator Rivers’: statement regarding Anchorage, lhu_nl that the city is bonded only for about five million dollars, and “they are worried about that.” Announcing that he is aware of the need for school building and firmly in accord with the program for their construction, Senator Engebreth said that the priority list made up by the Board of Edu- cation will take care of the im- Mediate wants, out of tax money. Senator McCutcheon felt that the opponents of the bill had lost sight ,of the fact that the memorial is to | only a request for permission bond and said that it will be up to the next legislature to take up the bonding question if the per- missicn is granted. Pay as You Go Senator Butrovich favored a “pay as you go” program of school con- struction, and recalled that only a few years ago a twenty-five million dollar national debt was a cause for worry. “Yet we propose to go in debt | for more than half of that amount,” he said. “The interest alone would amount to enough to buila several schools each bien- nium.” Fairbanks, he said, is having treuble selling its municipal bonds and may have to put the rate up to four per cent before they are sold. “We have taken on an ambitious tax program,” Senator Butrovich said. “We had better follow the lead Democrats in Congress and not stretch out too far. The future is too uncertain.” Senator Peratrovich did not be- lieve the memorial would In any way jeopardize statehood. “The need for new schools is there,” he said. “Let us take care of it.” g The five senators voting for the memorial were Huntley, MacKenzie, McCutcheon, Peratrovich and Riv- ers. 7, S. B. 23, to change the name of the Unemployment Compensation Commission to the Employment Se- curity Commission, which had been passed by a 15-1 vote during the morning session, was revoted yes- terday afternoon on a motion for reconsideration by Senator Jones. Although unemployment compen- sation was the sole function of the commission when it was creat- ed in 1937, Senator McCutcheon stated, it now has several other ' EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. MARQUARDT OPTOMETRIST Second and Franklin Juneau PHONE 506 FOR APPOINTMENTS functions, including the employ- ment service, the handling of re- and War Shipping Administration benefits for the unemployed. them by reason of the name they go under?” Senator Jones wanted to know. Senator McCutcheon said he didn’'t know of any. The bill passed 12-4, with Sena- tors Butrovich, Dawes, Jones and Engebreth on the minority side. PRI 272 8 N3 DOUGLAS NEWS VISITING HERE Mrs. Albert Dennard, of Sitka, is | visiting her sister, Mrs. Elroy her nephew Billy Fleek, who is ser- jously ill at St. Ann's Hospital. TO ANNETTE Gerald Cashen is leaving today for Ketchikan where he will fin- ish examinations for a positian in the Customs Service, and to be sta- tioned at Annette Island. NEW PICKUP William Boehl, operator owned of the Douglas Boat Shop is driving a new Chevy pickup. It arrived on a recent boat from Seattle. CHANGE IN, POTLUCK-CUBS The potluck dinner for, Cub Sceuts and their parents will be held in the Eagles Hall Monday evening instead of at the school as previously announced. The time is the same, 6:30 o'clock, and the Den Mothers are planning for all parents and Cubs to be present. MASONS MEET TUESDAY A Stated Communication of Gas- tineaux Lodge 124, F and A M, will ke held Tuesday evening at 7:30 ;o'clock in Eagles Hall. There will be work in the M. M. Degree. RETURNS ‘Wm. Durance returned Thursday from Valdez where he assisted the Public Health Department in con- ducting an X-ray project. KEARNS AT CORDOVA Wm. Kearns, Bureau of Mines, left the first of the week for Cordova. He will return here next Monday or Tuesday. ———eeo——— | 230 Country Clab, 19 fl adjustment allowances for veterans | “Are there any functions denied ’ Fleek and family this week. sne] made the trip to help in caring for | Fried Chicken ana T-bone Steaks STARTING SUNDAY, | CAPITOL THEATRE Universal-International’s film version of “All My Sons,” adapted from the New York Critics’ Circle prize play, will open Sunday at the | Capitol. ! Edward G. Robinson and Burt |Lancaster are costarred as father and son in the powerful drama of an American family caught in the aftermath of a wartime manufactur- ing scandal. A new romantic team is intro- duced in the joining of Lancaster | with Louisa Horton, stage actress making her film debut. Miss Hor- ton brings a fresh kind of glamor to the screen that has intrigued early reviewers of the picture. Mady Christians, noted Broadway star, appears as Robinson's wife. + Howard Duff and Lloyd Gough, the fight promoter of “Body and Soul,” are also in the cast and Arlene Francis, stage and radio personality, makes her screen debut in the film The action takes place in a small community where Robinson operates a stove factory which, during the war, turned out airplane engines {and parts. His sale of defective later Ly his son, an ex-G.I. PR T W AT SENATE'S $75 PENSION (Continued from Page One) R T lars is pretty high. Where are we | going to get the extra money? Take |it away from the schools or raise more?” | The House later refused for a sec- lond time to concur with & Senate ! change in one of its bills. It voted 22 to 0 against concurring on the Senate amendment cutting the bounty on coyotes to $20. The House |had voted for $30. The present bounty is $25. House rhembers said the Senators must have been mis- informed on the coyote population; that there are a large number in |the Third Division. { The House rejected, 10 to 12, Rep. Taylor’s bill to quallfy experienced stateside dentists automatically in Alaska. New Bills News bills introduced in the House yesterday afternoon were: By Egan, for $5 bounty on eagles; $15,000 appropriation. ; By McCutcheon, to create a wild- ‘life research unit at the University {of Alaska under a director who is labeled the “Leader” in the bill; $40,000 appropriation. By Carlson and Owen, reintro- duction in slightly modified form of )the once-defeated bill for creating a special marine facilities account .for motor fuels tax receipts from | boats. A resolution by Owen would ask President Truman and Congression- al leaders to support passage of the Bland-Magnuson bills for building a merchant marine. Nerland in House Senator Nerland made a dramatic half hour appearance in the House to assure the members the Board ‘Df Regents is working actively for the selection of a new University President. He expressed resentment over the House resolution of tha) previous day which contended the regents weren't taking their task seriously. When he concluded, Speaker McCutcheon and Rep. Glen Franklin assured the Senator they meant no personal offense, but that they felt other regents were not showing sufficlent active insert in the problem. JUNIOR CHOIRS WILL REHEARSE NEXT WEEK FOR COMING AFFAIR Members of the Special Inter- Church Junior Choir are requested to meet for rehearsal at the North- ern Light Presbyterian Church at 12:30 p.m. on Monday, ‘Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of the coming week. These rehearsals are directed by Mrs. Robert Treat and -the selec- tions will be given at the World Day of Prayer worship service held Fri- day evening, March 4, at 8 pm. in that church. = TRUSTEES OF NL T0 BE INSTALLED SUNDAY The members of the Board of Trustees of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church, who were elected at the recent Congressional Meeting, will be installed into office at the Worship Service Sun- day morning. Trustees to be installed are: Jud- son G. Husted, Russell E. Alexan- der, William L. Paul, Jr., Kenneth S. Clem, Henry E. Green and Will- jam W. Reedy. e A new camera used in U. S. Navy equipment at that time is discovered | HOUSE BALKS | "WESTERN UNION' AT 20TH CENTURY STARTING SURDAY ' Zane Gre Western Union, celebrated as the mightiest drama of the frontier West the screen has ever known, makes a return engage- ment at the 20th Century Theatre starting Sunday, to thrill local audiences with its stirring adventure, pulse-pounding excitement and col- orful drama. Filmed by Twentieth Century-Fox, the picture features an outstanding cast headed oy Rob- ert Young and Randolph Scott, and includes Dean Jagger, Virginia Gil- more, John Carradine and Slim A thrill-thundering e;iic of In- dians, romance and blazinz guns, “Western Union unfolds the grip- ping adventure s y of the fierce battle to build the first tl'm\.\mflll-' nental telegraph over a West in-! fested with renegades and hostile Indian tribes. The signal for th: wagon train to start rolling across the prairie marked the beginning of one of the most colorful and thrilling episodes in the history of the West. | Battling the heat of the desert and the snow of dangerous moun-| tain passes, their cattle stolen and! their wires cut down, and’stalked every foot of the way by Indians who were incited to massacre by flnl outlaw band, Creighton and his men ¢ fought their way to an unforgettalle | triumph. I PROTESTANT MAKES PLEA OF GUILTY. { | i | i i ! | (By The Associated Press) The main defendant in the Bul- garian Communits trial of 15 Prot- estant churchmen pleaded guilty to- day to espionage and treason. He is the Rev, Vassil G. Ziapkov, | Congregational church pastor and representative of the United Evan- gelical churches. The heads of the Methodist and Baptist churches in Bulgaria previously had denounced“ themselves at length in similar | pleas. " Palmiro Togliatti, head of the Italian Communist party, sald in an interview the Italian people ' would have the “duty to aid in the | most efficient way” any Russian army which might be required to} pursue “an aggressor” on Italian | soil. ; His utterance went further than ' that of French Communist leader Maurice Theorez Tuesday. Theor- ez said French commies would wel- | come Russian troops -should they drive an enemy onto French soil. The French Chamber of Deputies condemned the statement. { French police arrested three pro- Communist newsmen and a defense plant draftsman and accused them of prying into defense secrets. The Rev. Yanko Ivanov, head of the Methodist church in Buigaria and one of 15 Protestant clergy- men on trial for treason, spying | and black market dealing, con- cluded seven hours of self-denun- ciation in Sofia. He asserted he had spied for years for the British and Americans. The Bulgarian Baptist church head, Nikola Naumov, opened the | trial yesterday with a similar con- | fession. He denounced himself too, | and said “the time of Communism ! created.” — e Loo at Berlin Faces Trouble BERLIN—®— Berlin’s decimat- ed but still extremely popular zoo is planning to cover its surviv- ing monkeys with woolen blankets if the Soviet blockade holds and the winter is severe. This was disclosed by Director Katharine Heimroth as she drafted emergency measures to bring the zoo through its fourth—and perhaps its most severe—postwar winter. The zoo is in the British sec- tor of the city and thus witl the remainder of the three western occupled sectors, depends upon the Anglo-American airlift for supplies Coal will certainly be in shorter supply than ever. Since many of the buildings are bomb damaged,f chill winds whistle through them | and only small coal stoves are available to warm the cages. That is where blanket coverings would come in handy for the smaller animals, especially the monkeys. Winter casualties in the past| have been heavy. “Siam,” the( zoo's last elephant, died last win- ter. He had sickened from the combined effects of age, short diet and cold. Other casualties in the past postwar winters have been from theft. Hungry people stole some animals and birds for research can take'pictures with an exposure of only a millionth of a second. food. Berlin's children now lre; helping to relieve the zoo's food problem by contributing gnmer-! ings of acorns, grass and straw, | has come, a new world is being |atures also on the Pacific Coast, 1 Juneau, follow: : Barrow Cordova Dawson Edmonton Fairbanks Haines . Havre Juneau Airpor Annette Island Kodiak McGrath Nome Petersburg ... Matinee at 2:15 Evening Shows at 7:12-9:30 Starls Tomor- row 9p Cou T The Sereen Has Seldom Seen Fis Egual for for Quidoor Thrills? 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( ADDED FOR YOUR PLEASURE i LAST TIMES TONIGHT CONDITIONS OF WEATHER ALASKA PT Weather conditions and temper=- at various Alaska points, at 4:30 £, m, 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau, Alaska Coastal Airlines enables you to arrange ~through your local ticket agent—your passage fo the States on Pan American, and then to any spot on the globel And for you who buy tickets in Sitka, Hoonah, Tenakee, Skagway, Haines and similar communities, ACA reserves a special block of seats so that its passengers share equal priority with those who buy tickets in Juneaul ML 25—Cloudy i -11-Drifting Snow | 4—Clear | 40—Rain | 0—Cloudy | . 25—Partly Cloudy nlnsx » W % 6—Cloudy 4 36—Drizzle . 16—Clear ! '. 37—Rain I R ehving Southeastern M ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN 21—Partly Cloudy | via Pelershurg and Wrangell -18—Cloudy | 11-—Cloudy | With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg. Convenient afternoon departures, at 2:30 P. M. .. =13—Cloudy | FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 Anclorage Bethel Kotzebue Northway | 40—Cloudy 43—Partly Cloudy | 19—Fog | 38—Fog | 46—Rain | -26—Snow | 38—Rain | Portland Prince George Seattle Sitka ‘Whitehorse Yakutat PUBLIC HEALTH MAN | 10 BE BPW SPEAKER i Jas Dr. Jack Haldeman, U. S. Public Health coordinator from Anchorage, will speak to members of the Busi- | ness and Professional Women's | Club Monday noon at the Baranof ! Hotel. His subject will be public, health problems in Alaska. A member of the Alaska Native Service medical division will also | speak at the BPW meeting. | ———— MASONIC NOTICE | Regular meeting Monday evening | 7:30. Official visitation and ad- dress by Grand Historian, F & AM of Washington, 30 2t Plumbing © H-aling Qil Burners [elephone-319 Nighis-Red 730 Harri Machine Shop, Inc.