The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1949, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ™~ PAGE FIVE UOCLENTURY I gmv START UNEAU, ALASKA James Stewar! to Wed TUESDAY; MAY 3 T/ O'BRIEN IN " FEATURE ROLE AT CAPITOL THEATRE Pat O'Brien is at the Capitol Theatre tonight for the last times in “Fighting Father Dunne,” in which he presents the real life| |story of the St. Louis priest and {his work with the underprivileged youngsters of his city. O'Brien does an excellent job in the , role of Father Peter Dunnne, his| characterization being warmly hu- man''and believable. In telling its| tale of the priest’s struggle to make a start ‘with his Newsboys' Home, the film achieves a happy realism that is deftly carried on to the later i gequences as the Home prospers and Father Dunne sees his life work ‘succeeding. "STAR IS BORN" | FEATURE TONIGHT | AT 20TH CENTURY Three movie stars will be smn In the feature bill opening tonight | at the 20th Century Theatre. | DOORS The feature is “A Star Is Born”| .nd the three in the leading roles OPEN are Frederic March, Janet Gaynor| at HURRY! ENDS TONIGHT! Complete Show 7:21—9:30 Feature at 7:556—10:04 v STARTS TOMORROW! PERILOUS ADVENTURESin A LAND OF TERROR! nd Adelpe ! Menjou LIONS, , ROTARIANS - IN JOINT SESSION; { PICNIC DATE IS SET | Rotarian Pr »ulom Charles Cart- | | er quoted the scriptures this noon | 7:20 and 9:30 JANET =GAYNOR Stirring story of the stalwart hero of a town's toughest guys! staning PM 0'BRI s Father D L UNION VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL IS OPENING MONDAY The Eriscopal, Me- | morial Presbyterian, Northcrn Light Presbyterian, Lutheran, churches in. the Union School beginning Monday morning. The beginners, ages 4 and 5 will meet at the Lutheran church a two hour session beginning at 9 am. The Primary, Junior and In- termediate groups will'‘meét ‘first'at the Northern Light church for an ventist are cooperating Vacation Bitle next week on SNOW immm\mx INat10:00 . DI APER % $2.50 per weele Reliable and Satisfactory Work Snow White Service Phone 299 Ask Your Who Patronize gSnow White Laundry Methodist, | Sal- | vatich Army and Seventh Day Ad-| for | SHIRTS 1optznmf,r worship service or chapel service, and then go to their de- | partment groupings from there. The Primary group, ages 6, 7 and 8, will meet at the Methodist church. The Juniors, ages 9, 10 and 11, will meet at the Northern Light church, ‘nnd the Junior High group 12, 13 nnd 14, will meet at the Episcopal | | church. MUSEUM OPEN TONIGHT ! With ‘many tourists expected in Juneau from the two ships due in port today, Curator Edward L. Keithahn announces that the Al- aska Museum will be open this eve- ning. The United States has some 40 million ‘ automotive vehieles in op- eraticn. CRRRRRRRRRRRY WHITE . OUT at 400 SERVICE Make Neighbors § 5 z | / I | 3 PASSENGER SAILING SCHEDULE ALSO FREQUENT FREIGHTER SERVICE For turther information contact H. E. GREEN, Agent — Phone 2 SOUTHBOL VD S.S. Aleutian May 29 for ‘Wrangell Ketchikan Seattle June 5 for Ketchikan Seattle s.s. Bcnmof S.S Aleutian NOR’PHBOUN D S. S. Denali June 12 for Seward for | June1 [ ! Haines e Skagway Kodiak Seldovia Seward ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY g A AL Jba Darryl Hickman, as one of the iboys who goes wrong, and Charles Kemper as the priest's brother-in- i law, stand out in the featured cast, | Which also includes Una O'Connor and Arthur Shields. Joe Sawyer, Anna Q. Nilsson, Myrna Dell and Jim Nolan are other prominent members of the cast. . Adams-Adams Wedding Will Be Thursday Louise Adams, daughter of Mr. land “Mrs. Horace O. Adams of Juneau, will be married Thursday, June 2 to Riley LeRoy Adams, of Anchorage and Texas, at a cere- mony in the Norther: L1ght Pres- oyterian church it is zunounced. Miss Adams, a popuiar Juneau girl who has been in Anchorage for the last two years, met her husband to be, a former Texan, in the West- ward city where both the Adams were in the office of the District Engineer. With Miss Adams and the bride- groom-elect who arrived from An- chorage by airplane Saturday, was Miss Villan Wiltjen, who will be maid of honor at the wedding. Best man will be the kride’s brother, Horace Adams, Jr., who is expected arrive today from Anchorage where he is employed by the CAA. While no invitations have been issued to the ceremony or recep- tion, friends of the bride are in- vited to the wedding at the church and the reception which will be in the Iris Room of the Baranof at @ o'clock. The marriage will be performed by-the Rev. Willis R. Booth. Wed- Ging music will be provided by Mrs. Wilda Founce Husted, organist and Ernest Ehler. Mr. Adams, who has lived in Anchorage for the last two years, is from Vernon, Texas, and plans ot the young people include a trip to visit his family next winter. Announcement of Louise’s en- gagement was made in Anchorage several weeks ago, and in her honor have been several showers and parties. Following their marriage, the young couple will return to An- chorage next Sunday after visiting here with the bride's parems and her many friends. FIVE HALIBUTERS IN; SELL CATCHES HERE Landings today totalled 38,000 pounds from five boats with smali selling at 12 cents a pound, med- iums at 17.25 and large at 16. There | were no landings yesterday. Going to Booth Fisheries: Evolu- tion (Jim Marks), 1,000 pounds of small, 4,000 mediums, 3,000 large. Going to E. C. Johnson: Hi (E. A. Kchlhase) 500, 1,500, 1,500. Going to Alaska Coastal Fisher- ies: Avona (Axel Nelson), 800, 12,000, 2,200. ‘Going to Engstrom Brothers: New Anny (William Marks), 1,000, 2,000, 1,000; Tern (Tom Leite), 1,000, 4,000, 2,500. with her coat at a Hollywoed night » wlrepholo. CALIFORNIA HUNTERS BAG THREE TROPHIES | AFTER CRAFT BLAZE Bad luck which hit two Califor- | 1ia doctors on a bear hunting trip | in the islands last week, switched | to good luck. Medical men Dr. Rus- sell Johnson of Westminster and Dr. Ed Anderson of Stockton, left for the South aboard the Aleutian | with two skins and a head as trophies of their bear hunting in Alaska. The two hunters and their guides. | W, John Harris and his son Fred| !Hm\rls, narrowly escaped injury last week when a kitchen range | aboard the vessel Phyllis B ex- ploded and the craft went uc n flames within a few seconds. Lost, along with hundreds of dol- | lars in camera, hunting and camping gear, was a trophy kagged by the men on the portage ketween Port Frederick and Tenakee Inlet. * The two doctors returnel by plane following the mishap to hunt at King Salmon Bay where they tock their three trophies. AUTHOR OF ALASKA BOOK NORTH AGAIN SEATTLE, May 31— (®— James EBond, author of the book, “From Cut of the Yukon,” is on his way tc Alaska again, via Pan American World Airways, to .write his second book on the gold rush country. He left Seattle Friday, flying to White- horse, Y.T. apnd plans to travel north of Dawson into the wilder- ness country. PROVISIONS STOLEN FROM PETERSON, SITKOH BAY Don Gallagher, skipper on the M /V Beachcomber, reports that Al- bert Peterson, logger, had about] $300 worth of provisions stolen frcm his camp on Sitkoh Bay while getting a “cat” and logging arch ready at Hood Bay for transfer to the bay. The theft was discovered Saturday when the eguipment was unloaded from the Beachcomber at the later named bay. Peterson was brought to Juneau on the freighter to get another supply of provisions. There are about 250,000 cigarette vending machines now in operation in the United States. SHUFFLEBOARD - CONTEST - Ladies’ EVERY WEDNESDAY | : communities -----ut.---- BAILEY’S BAR Co AND JOIN IN THE FUN Night o me Screen Actor James Stewart assists Mrs. Gloria Hatrick McLean spot. Earlier, Stewart announced their engagement and said they plan a simple wedding in August. SEAFARER Lieut. (jg) Clarice L. Pierson, a naval reserve officer, is this coun- try's first WAVE to be assigned to sea duty. She sailed from San Francisco aboard the Navy trans- port U. S. S. Butler (April 14) for Pearl Harbor on a routine training cruise. She will not have to stand deck watches, but will spend most of her time at a desk in an execu- tive position. (P \Virephotn, TACOMA CHAMBER ARRIVES ABOARD NORAH ON TOUR ‘Tacoma business®men represent- ing the Chamber of Commerce ar- rived here at 3 o'clock this after- noon aboard the CR vessel Princess Norah on an official tour of South- east Alaska. Twenty Chamber members, ac- companied by their wives, hre ex- pected to make up the Puget Sound delegation. At 5:30 this afternoon visitors are to meet with the Juneau Chamber of Commerce at a cocktail party in the Gold Room of the Baranot Hotel. Ray Fetterolf, Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, manager of the tour. They will leave for Skagway aboard the Norah when she sails at 11:30 tonight. secretary of the is GRIFFIN RETURNS The Rev. John W. Griffin, pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, is back in Juneau after an interesting three-w2ek trip to the interior and the southwest. He went first to Fairbanks and Anchorage, then, with two other| pastors, visited mission schools at| Aleknagik, Dilingham and other in the Bristol Bay| area. VFW AUXILIARY TO MEET Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxil- iary will meet tomorrow evening at the Jeep Club for an important session. NYMAN RETURNS John Nyman, wages and hours inspector for the U. S. Department of Labor, returned Sunday trom Ketchikan where he had been most of the week making routine inspec- tions, to eulogize fraternization of Lions, and Rotarians in a joint luncheon | | meeting at the Baranof Hotel Lions, postponing their meeting | date one day due to the Memorial ‘h(,liduy. sat in with Rotarians for | their weekly session. | | * Quipped presiding officer Carter, | and the lamb shall lie | and a child shall| “The lion down together lead them.” | Lion President George Danner took over the gavel for introduc- | tien of guests and to thank Rotar- ians for the good turn. Ellis Reynolds, Rotary’s program chairman for June, announced one i of the club’s big events of the year, | the annual picnic, will be held next rain or shine, at the Auk | Recreation Beach beginning at Assisting Reynolds on next month’s program committee are Del | Miller, Harold Fcss and Carson Lawrence. | Girl Scout's drive for funds to! send two delegates to the national Scout encampment at Muskegon, Mich.,, in July, got a boost from Capitol Theater manager L. O. Luk- en, here frcm Seattle to take over managership for a month. Luken announced that Scout will receive half of the proceeds from tickets |sold to both Juneau theaters on Wednesdays and Thursdays until June 16. He urged Rotarians and | Lions to aid in the effort of Scouts to raise $800 to send their delegates, }Mary Lou Pagerson and Shirley | Casperson to the national rally. | Harold Foss, member of the Sal- vation Army advisory board, an- ! ncunced the opening tonight of the Army represented to group at to- with this year's quota set at $4,500. Major Eric Newbould and Capt. Sexton Johansen of the Salvation Army represented to group at to- | day's “Army Day” Rotary meeting. Major Newbould thanked the com- | munity for their past sup- pert before announcing the show- ing of a film on Army work in peace time and war. | Guests at the joint session were | Leslie Yaw of Sitka, Stanley War- 1bunon of Tacoma, Robert Fleming | of Seattle and Bill Stuart of M:. | Edgecumbe. PRESIDENT LESLIE YAW OF SHELDON JACKSON IS JUNEAU VISITOR Leslie Yaw, President of Sheldon | Jackson Junior College, who came here with the school boat to pick up conference students, enjoyed an informal morning conference with Dr. James C. Ryan, Territorial Commissioner of Education. Prexy Yaw expected to take 21 students aboard the SJS II, leav- FREDRIC MARCH ing about 4 o'clock this afternoon, and scheduled to arrive at Sitka at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The Princeton Hall will bring | about 20 or 25 students from com- munities to the south. Dr. Barnett Eby of Philadelphia, | { who will direct the church confer- ‘ence June 1-7, is expected in Ju- neau tomorrow, for flight connec- | tions to Sitka. | ———— | ° BRIDGE CONTERACT | Ray James of Seward, who is well | known here, has beer awarded the! Forest Service contract for con- | It is about ‘ 4 LTy * x * AdolpheMENJOU MayROBSON Andy DEVINE AR IS @éz/l' * with * A United Artists Picture ; SELECTED SHOR’I‘S LATE NEWS by AIR BURDICK RETURNS FROM KENA! TRIP! Reporting sadly tbat he hadn't|Forester, Burdick re- turned Saturday from a three-week | the the Kenai|There, he has worked hard for pas- wet a line, Charles G. trip mostly Peninsula, “I just plain didn’'t get to do fishing!” said Burdick today. Burdick, As spent on istant Regional For- ester, went to the westward with Linn A. Forrest and W. A. Chip- rfield, who remained in the Ksnnl area for further work on land use. |, B. Prank Hemntzleman, Reglonal is expected in Juneau after spending most of in Washington, D.C. Thursday, winter sage of legislation ‘to provide any |further Alaska roads, as well as toward the establishment cf pulp mills in Southeast Alaska. Get the NEW GLO-COAT! 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