The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 15, 1949, Page 5

FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1949 TONIGHT and SAT. ONLY! Continuous Shows Sat. * THE BRAWLING >~/ STORY OF THE " LUSTY MISSISSIPPI - ...where women must love ...and men must fight and when they do— mmatmin, o o 2 J T B UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL presents Yiomne DeCARLD - b DURYEA Fod CAMERON: ers CARTER RIVER LADY R R ¥ ¥ LLOYD GOUGH - FLORENCE BATES ey by D. D. BEAUCHAMP ara WILLIAM BOWERS Fam the Nowl by HOUSTON BRANCH and FRANK WATERS Pruduced by LEONARD GOLDSTEIN Diected by GEORGE SHERMAN Complete Shows 7:26—9:30 Feature Starts 8:09—10:13 —EXTRA— Pete Smith’s “PIGSKIN SKILL" Mus Eee e For Estimates on that New Basement, House or Fireplace—PHONE 416—Evenings We have enough PUMICE and CONCRETE BLOCKS for several houses EARL CRASS AND SON NOTICE NEW BUSINESS HOURS for AMERICAN SHOE SHOP 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5.00 p.m. Saturday EFFECTIVE MONDAY JULY 18, 1948 Alaska Coastal offers you a new service—to speed you on your 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! 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 equu| priorities with those who buy their tickets in Juneaul nms:?ofl% :'3&;'.5: |Indiana. He has "RIVER LADY” IS \ OUTDOOR FEATURE CAPITOL THEMRE\ Patrons in tm\ market for an outdoor action picture with ro-| |mance will find “River Lady” lu} their liking. This feature is at the| Capitol Theatre tonight. | The four-way love interest in- volving Yvonne DeCarlo, Dan Dur-| vea, Rod Cameron and Helena Car- ter is played for all its worth against a brawling 19th century background of logging camps and 'a Mississippi gambling ship. Technicolor photography proves highly decorative and helpful: | Miss DeCarlo, owner of the gambling ship, and Miss Carter,| daughter of the local lumber king, | compete for Cameron’s love, COMMITTEE ON - WEATHER NAMED, SALMON DERBY Weather committee for the Gold- | en North Derby sponsored by the | Territorial Sportsmen Inc., will con- ! sist of Claude Brown in charge of the Juneau station of the weather bureau, J. R. Kurcheski, command- | er of the Coast' Guard Cutter Stor- | | is, Sim MacKinnon and Keith | Wildes. Charles G. Burdick, President cf | | the Territorial Sportsmen Inc., an- | | nounces that this committee will | be in charge of the weather during | the Derby, which is screduled for | i the last three days in July J | | | In the event that this weather | committee is unable to arrange sat- | isfactory fishing weather during | the three days of the Derby, the | members will be authorized to post- | i pone the Derby to a more satisfac- | tory” date. |0. H. STRATTONS HERE . FOR FAMILY REUNION AFTER SEVERAL YEARS Back in Juneau to see if the bridge he designed ten or 15 years ago is still standing, O. H. Strat-| | ton, now of Los Angeles, Juneau for the first time since he | left the Alaska Road Commission six years ago. Mr. Stratton, who designed the Douglas Bridge when he was with | | the ARC, arrived by Pan American yesterday with his wife and Miss Doris Stratton, their daughter, who is now a librarian in Los Angeles. Their return to Juneau is really a family reunion, for they are vis- iting Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Stratton and their two grandchildren who live at 11th and B. The younger Mr. Stratton is with the U. S. For- est Service. The Strattons, whose time in Ju- neau is governed by Miss Strat- ton's vacation, will return to Cali- fornia by plane in two weeks. In the meantime ‘they are renewing old friendships in Juneau Mr. Stratton commented that | traffic over the Douglas Bridge had | greatly increased since the days when it was built. IDR. A. F. GRAY IS TO PREACH HERE SUNDAY Dr. A. F. Gray, President of Pa- | cific Bible College of Portland, Ore- | gon, will be the guest speaker in| the regular Sunday services of the First Church of God on Sundnv, July 17. | Dr. Gray is Chairman of the| General Ministerial Assembly of the Church of God, which meets| annually during June at Anderson,} served in this capacity for a number of years. He is also the author of several texi- books in the field of Christian ‘Theology and is a member of the editorial council of “The Gospel Trumpet” the weekly religious jour- nal of the Church of God. Dr. Gray will preach in the morn- ing service at 11 o'clock and in |the evening service at 8 o'clock, Sunday, July 17, at the First Church | |of God which meets in the Odd | Fellows Hall, 209 Franklin Street.| | The public is cordially invited to attend these special services. \COMMUNISTS USE BOMBS IN INDIA H | > | (By The Associated -'lsxess) | A policeman was killed and 40| persons injured by a bomb explo- i sion in Calcutta, India, during an| address by Prime Minister Jawa- | harlal Nehru. | The Indian leader attacked Com- | | munism in his talk to the nearly | 1,000,000 people assembled. | Authorities said the disturbances | were engineered by Communists. BENSON TO WESTWARD | . Commissioner of Labor Henry| Benson will leave this weekend for | a several-day trip to the Westward. | He plans to stop in Anchorage, Nome, Fairbanks, Seward and Cor- dova on Department of Labor business before retumlng to Ju-| neau. o ) | ner-dance will be held in the Gold | freshman | lations Committee has kicked up THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Wed Aboard Yacht JUNEAU, ALASEA Motion Picture Producer David Selznick and Actress Jennifer Jones, shown in Paris last month, were married (July 13) aboard the yacht “Momona.” Disclosure of the wedding was made by the Mayor of Porotfino, Italy, who said the ceremony took place while the craft lay at anchor off Portofino, picturesque resort on the Italian Riviera. (P Wirephoto. 8 CRUISERS LEAVE | RUPERT, LAST LEG | OF CAPITAL RACE, ety i Eight boats rrince Rupert esterday on the Alaska leg of the Capital-to-Capital Cruiser Race, ac- cording to a telegram received from Jack ord by Fred Easts The boats are the Donjac owned and skippered by Jack Burford; Donalie, Carmalita, Conquest, Klat- awa, Nika, Devshir and Aileen. The Jeanne, Spunky II, Marvir |and El Com-A-De droppad out of | the race at Prince Rupert | The boats are to theoretically fin- | ish this leg from Prince Rupert to the Douglas Bridge finish line at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. At a dinner-dance held Wednes- | day evening in Prince Rupert, May- | or Noras Arnold presented the| first, second and third prizes for| the Naniamo, B. C.-Prince Rupert | leg of the race to the Aileen, Con- quest and Devshir. Though any one of the eight boats entered in this last leg of the race may cross the finish line first at the Douglas Bridge, the winner is not known until the per-) centage of error is figured forl each predicted loz of the boats en- | tered. The boat with the small est error will be declared the win ner. When the first boat crosses (m" finish line, whistles of the Ala ! Juneau Gold Mining Co. mi the CGC Storis and the Juneau Spruce Corp. mill will sound off in wel- come. At a meeting of the Juneau; Yacht Club last night it was de- cided the dinner to be held for the visiting yachtsmen and guests ! Saturday night will be a dinner- dance. From 7 to 8 o'clock tomorrow evening a cocktail party will be | held in the Baranof lobby with the Chamber of Cemmerce as host to visitinng yachtsmen, Yacht Club and Chamber members. A din-| Room from 8 to 9 o'clock. Between 9 and 9:30 o'clock the welcome will ke given to the visit- ing yachtsmen and the awards made to the lirst three place win- | | ners. Dancing wil be from 10 o'clock until midnight with Bud Hunter’s orchestra furnishing the music. Reservations for the dinner must be made at the Jack Burford store by Saturday noon. There will be an estimated 120 Yacht Club mem- bers and friends at the informal affair. STORM BREWS IN GOP RANKS ON APPOINTMENT WASHINGTON, July 15. —(®#— A proposal to place New York’s Senator John Foster Dulles on the Senate Foreign Re- a political storm in Republican ranks, Senate leaders are discussing en- larging the 13-member committee to make room for Dulles, GOP for- eign policy expert, until his ap- pointment expires in December. But Senator Morse, (R-Ore) has served notice he is “fighting mad” and will call a special party con- ference to oppose any such move He insists, friends say, that he is in line for the next seat on the Foreign Relations cdommittee. Morse has long wanted to be a member of the foreign policy group and has insisted that the next ap- pointment be a Senator from the West Coast—which has no repre- sentative on the committee. The science of geography is dife ‘argely to developments started My | Alexander von Humbolt, a German scholay born in 1769, - | Cordova | Edmonton | Fairbanks | Haines { for Vancouver | Mrs. {lor party were Miss Anna Laurit- 1 e | isen and Mr |and Mrs. H. G. i Holland. (ONDITIONS OF WEATHER ALASKA P75, Weather conditions and temper- atures at various Alaska points, (also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 | am., 120th Meridian ‘Time, released by the Weather Juneau, follow: Anchorage Barrow Bethel 54—Rain 38—Partly Cloudy 50—Rain 47—Cloud:; ..z Partly Cloudy —Partly Cloudy | 50— Partly Cloudy 49—Partly Cloudy 58—Clear 42—Partly Cloudy 55—Partly Cloudy 49—Rain Showers 57—Partly Cloudy 4—Partly Cloudy | 48— -Clnud\ 54—Cloudy 49-Fog | —Thunderstorms 44—Partly Cloudy 59—Partly Cloudy 48—Cloudy | 47—Partly Cloudy Dawson Havre Juneau Airport Annette Island Kodiak Kotzebue McGrath Nome Northway Petersburg Portland Prince George | Seattle Whitehorse | Yakutat 64 |CORSAIR WILL MAKE | 3 MORE TRIPS NORTH deluxe cruiser of Lines, Seattle, | 11:30 o'clock | The Corsair, the Pacific Cruise sailed last night at Aboard the Corsair were Mr. and | W. W. Naylor of Beverly Hills, California. The Naylors are owners of the exclusive Beverly Hills Club. Included in the Nay and Mrs. Kenneth! Also aboard were Mr.| Crone, Amsterdam, | Nicholson. Places of call for the cruiser are Ketchikan, Juneau, Glacier Bay. Skagway, Sitka, Petersburg, Wran- gell, Metlakatla, and the Malibu| Club on Pris s Louisa Inlet south of Powell River with Vancouver as home port during the summer sea- son. There will be three more trips| this season spaced 12 days apart before the Corsair is overhauled in Lake Washington, Seattle. Starting in November, cruises will be made to Acapulco, Mexico, until the end | of March. Officers aboard the Corsair are| Capt. Harry Nedden, master, Ralph Meldram, purser, Charles W. Hall, :hiet engineer, and Gustav Schmidt, | chief steward. The pleasure ship was redesigned, rebuilt, redecorated and refurnish- ed in 1947. The 42 rooms, each! with private bath, accommodate 82 persons. Electro-turbines generat- ing 6,000 horsepower propel the 343 | foot long cruiser at a speed of 18 knots. The equipment includes all standard safety devices plus mdar,} fathometer and direction-finder. | There is ship-to-shore telephone | service with a telephone in each| room, ! Truck m Jrowned While ‘ranking Truck LOS ANGELES, July 15 > and | Bureau, | Hoonah: | Kennedy, bvela Ben Mullen, Lou Hudson. | Eugene Hall, Chester Jacobs; | Pelican: U. 5. Marines Hit | made one of their famed landing so "FURY AT FURNACE | CREEK" SHOWING AT 20TH CENTURY Blazing with excitement, thrilling with tumultrous spectacle, and completely absorbing from begin ning to end in a gripping drama that is super:ly acted and filmed Twentieth Century-Fox's “Fury at Furnace Creek” openeq yesterday at the 20th Century Theatre. It is, by all odds, one of the most entertainments to appear screen for many months. “Fury at Furnace Creek” is a saga of the vengeance and heroism born in the winning of the West | Set in the Apache country ot 1880 it unfolds the drama of two broth- {ers who battle to clear the name of their father who was amed by lan unscrupulous silver syndicate that provoked a massacre as A imefins of opening Indian lands to exploitation. In its telling, it high- lights in a new and exciting way | the rich color, fast and reckless ! action and taut drama that marked | the great march westward into the! jland of promise and of danger. | | Victor Mature and Coleen Gray | are co-starred in “Fury at F‘llx'nn('l“ Creek." . | solid the on 101 (ARRIED ON ALASKA COASTAL THURSDAY TRIPS With 101 passengers carried on | tlights yesterday by Alaska Coastal| | Airlines, there were 29 on interport trips and 36 on the outgoing and, 36 on the inbound trips. | For Pelican: Mrs. Keefe, Mrs. F.| Cabkoro, Brooks Hanford, Bob Ahu-! | riola, Mr. Davenport. For Elfin Cove: Russ Siirila, Mrs. | Ida Pearson. For Skagway: Walter Hersel, Jack Klumb, Mr. and Mrs. i Lamb, Frank Lamb, Dorothy Lamb, | I | | | G. Pete Ulmer, C. J. Westcott. | For Kendall, Nevers, Halnes: Paul Harvey Foley. For Sitka: C. J. Ehrendreich, Keith Gamcle, James McNamara, Dick Gunnell, S. Bunnell, Joe John- son, Mrs. Willilam Levanoff, Ruth Bailow, George Sarbross, C. B. Pan- ner. { For Owens, witt, J. drews. For Wrangell: o.| Petersburg: H. D. Stephens, H. Gatfney, T. Sage, W. R. John De- Agnes An- Ethel Calvin; for ! Taku Point: Al Ritchie; from Taku Lodge: Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Holi-| |day; from Petersburg: John Eas- |ley, Vie Lawson. From Ketchikan: Robert Estey; from Wrangell: Al Ritchie; from O. N. Reiquan, Robert Mrs. Cartuti; from Gus- Ann Johnson. From Sitka: V. Stone, Henry, Mrs. Hanebery, Dorothy Mitchell, M. Sydman, Mrs. McCui- lean and son, M. McNamara, Jack Klumb, John Holic, George Sar- tavus: Robert From Fish Bay: Wally Westtall, trom | Skagway: S. P. Troutman; from Oa Kimberly, Chris Buh- load, J. D. Stone, Mike Goodman, K. Raatikainen, Mrs. P. J. Johns- ton, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Bittner, W. W. Reams. Beach, Crefe Isle ABOARD THE U. S. SIXTH TASK FLEET, MEDITERRANEAN SEA, July 15—(®— Some 1200 U. S, Marines hit the beach on the island of Crete tomorrow—but the “invasion” is just a training exer- cise, approved by the Greek gov- ernment. Never before have the marines far east of the United States. The landing will be the culmin- ation of a training operation of ! the Sixth Task Fleet, which is stationed in the Mediterranean. The fleet’s commander, Vice Adm. For- rest P. Sherman, conducts such ex- ercises nearly every month to keep his force in fighting trim. Dance Music by: DAN'S MERRYMAKERS 31, his Truck driver Yeo Trumpowskl, was drowned while cranking truck. In forward gear, it shot ahead, draped Trumpowski over the hood and whirled across the busy coast highway yesterday, narrowly miss- ing other cars. The truck nosed aver In a slough and pinned Trumpowski under the water level Police rescue squads arrived in ‘en minutes, but Trumpowski was dead, ™ PAGE FIVE (OB LENTURY DOORS TONETE OPEN e SATURDAY Cheer! Two brothers vowed to vengeance! SHOW STARTS 1:25 and 9:30 See! : Apache attack! at 7:00 Thrill! Last stand at Ft. Furnace Creek! Spectacle! The battle of flaming Arrows! The Fiery Saga of the Winning of the West! Starring VIGTOR MATURE - COLEEN GRAY wih GLENN LANGAN « REGINALD GARDINER Dirocted by Albert Dekker « Fred Clark Charles Kemper BRUCE HUMPERSTONE Directed by FRED KOHLMAR e PLUS... Cartoon and Sports Always Late News by Air CANTURT IO Cartoons -=- Cartoons Plus FEATURE “Northwest Trail” SATURDAY MORNING KIDS' MATINEE BIG AWARDS DOORS OPEN AT 9:30 CARTOONS and FEATURE at 10:00 For Each Dollar Spent at the Siores listed helow you will receive an Award Voucher 1o turn in at The 20th Century SATURDAY MORNING "KIDS MATINEE” Parsons Electric Co. Juneau-Young Hardware Co. Tot-to-Teen Shop Gus George Grocery Nance 5-10-25 Store Fred Henning-Complete Outfitter Warfield-Drug Juneau Marine Supply, “L. Goldstein” Sugar Bow] Cafe Plumbing 2 Heai.ig il Burners Telephone-319 Nights-Red 730 | I Harri Machine Shop, Inc. O GET ACQUAINTED PARTY . Refreshments . . . Games COOKIES and PUNCH ICE CREAM, CAKE, MAKE THIS YOUR SATURDAY NIGHT DATE!!! Saturday. 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