The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 18, 1949, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT SCHAIRPO OFFERS T0 GIVE CONCERT FOR GRAND PIANO Monumenal Program Is! Planned for Special Civic | Event on October 28 ven by a now making his tour of Alaska, a civic spirit is about | and a concert | in sight to the impetus g third surge to have concert Jur expression is all but Schapiro, who played to an enthusiastic audience last week extended his visit here, so he said, because he such a good time. This was possible because the artist, now long enamored of aska, had insisted on having three weeks in the Territory—an unheard of arrangement on a rigid concert tour, On his “vacatior in Juneau however, the Russian-born Ameri- can pianist was busy with a num-| ber of things terides social (-nzmzv-l ments and practicing. Things suck a§ dreaming of that piano Juneau wants, and of matter-of-fact tele- grams to his understanding man- ager, Bernard L. LaBerge, in New York. It all started with Schapiro’s com- ment at the reception following his concert, when the pianist said he would like to give a concert to raise, the price of a fine concert grand By the terms of his contract, he; can give his own services only on the basis of a small -percentage of was Al-! | month. which will be entrusted with the with David Tewkesbury lcare of the instrument when it ar-|of the Alaska Almanac. Froin there rives. 20th even, sured, and where it will be avnu-““Baby, It's old Outside.” able for solo, ensemble, band, or- one degree above freezing at Nome | calmly. i chestra and community enterprises. | yesterday—but getting colder. | musician today, the center of any general gathering. I strongly believe that it is neces- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Seattle after his Anchorage ap- pearance, he will return to Juneau to give the gala piano-fund con- cert October 28 in the 20th Century Theatre. Moreover, he is programming a concert worthy of New York's Car-' negie Hall. | “It is a beeg piano we want,"| Schapiro said today, just bclol‘e’ | | DUCK SIGHTED ON "LAKE BANFIELD" CAUSES CONCERN There had been comments about the possibility of skating on Lake | Banfield—the pond on the flat roof |of the new Coast Guard Building | —or raising goldfish or young sal- | mon there. But the comments have Eskimo Girl Sk been made facetiously. SEATTLE, Oct. 18—(®—A bach-| This morning comments didn't | seem like jokes: a duck was sitting WINS BLIND DATE TRIP T0 NOME ON RADIO SHOW Brooklyn Bachelor Flying North for Date with leaving to fill a concert engagement in Fairbanks. “So I will give a beeg program. I will play major works of the world’s finest composers.| One of them must be Chopin, of| course, in this centennial year and I have now planned thel concert five times,” he added, “I|€lor from Brooklyn flew north to- shall decide finally in a day or two.” day to keep a long distance “blind | Placidly i Lake Banflg:. his baciz Just as generous, and as eager date” with an Eskimo girl. f;ve;fl; ml”lla ?{:;;Wv mselr)ve;s“Id for the fine instrument which will| Morton Tahlor is making the| the Fe 7 .k,”_“h"% AR be a real community asset, Junenu‘s}l'mg Jaunt because of one of those|see the duck’s heac move, T r ivie o i . |zany “Truth or Consequences” ra-|Wwatched closely. They said: “Pro- g el s b e bably frozen there—poor thing.” too, so that every available dollar|di0 program gags ably frozen P g. may go into the piano fund As a consequence of a wrong, (Window glass is not optically . g |answer, Tahlor was told to make a |ground; there is bound to be some o N el O e [date with a gir] named Mollie ondistortion.) i A ad a5 Price— | o other end of a telephone hook-| News of the duck’s arrival on $1, plus tax, for any seat In the |y, = Afterward, Tahlor was told|Lake Banfleld spread llke & grass theatre the girl's full name is|fire. Soon heads were craning and e _____|that ; This token admission, however,| nropie Whitebear arid that she was | Suggestions were being given with- |out being requested. will te just the beginning, as many Nome, Alaska. Action was finally taken. One many persons will want to add their | 1 would have been hard to find own gifts in greater amounts, t0- |, yortherner any farther from the | ambitious man volunteered to let ward a superior piano. | Hollywood radio studio—or from | the Fish and Wildlife Game Man- Checks may be made payable to!Brooklyn—without crossing to Si- |agement office know about the the Community Plano Fund or to beria. }skranded duck so it could be band- the Juneau - Concert Association, Tahlor flew to Fairbanks today|ed and set free. publisher| When he heard about the duck, Urban C. “Pete” Nelson, FWS re- the'he will fly west to keep his date.|search biologist who has had quite the| He and Mollie are billed for ala lot of experience with ducks, an|duet broadcast next week. Their|looked out the window. as- | number——you'll “It's got a golden-eye's head and never guess—| It was|a mallard’s body,” he announced |in It is planned to keep concert grand on the stage of Century Theatre, where suitable temperature is He took binoculars from his desk’ | drawer. “Sure enough,” he said. “There’s 'a string around its neck, too. String |looks like it leads to a window of “A fine piano,” said the visiting| “somehow becomes | B u l l E T I N S MASS ARRESTS IN CIECH PURGE (By The Associated Press) An Associated Press correspon- | dent in Czechoslovakia has been | told this by a Prague cab-driver: | “You know my opinion? The re- public of Czechoslovakia is one big prison.” That is the driver’s re- action to the continuing mass ar- rests. The Communist government has arrested thousands of Czechs in the | past two weeks. The cab driver| 's taken hundreds of people in his cab to the Pankrac Prison | in the past week—people who are looking fer missing relatives or friends. “Everyone is looking for someone else,” he says. “These are crazy times, impossible days. Everyone is! frightened.” i The arrests are reported to be for two purposes: to liquidate the mid- dle classes, and to purge Commu -] ists who are suspected of sympathy | lor Marshal Tito of Yugus!m‘m‘ Even athletes are not immune —thcl government has wrecked the Czech! world champion amateur hockey team. Three players have been kicked off the team as “politically unreliable.” ! REPORT FAILURE | IN SETTLEMENT OF | 1 FOREIGN MESS! i BY MAX HARRELSON i LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 18.—( The United Nations Assembly’s} Balkan Peace Committee announced MIXUP IN HALLS BUT FURNACE IS INSTALLED, STAYS BRITTON, Okla., Oct. 18.—(P—A mix-up of halls cost an appliance | store here $100. | Lawrence Brown found workmen cutting a hole in the new hard- wood floor at the Masonic Lodge hall. They said they were install- ing a furnace. | Brown said the lodge hadn't ord- ered one. While he argued by the telephone with the appliance store manager, workmen corgpleted the installation. The company finally admitted its mistake—the furnace was supposed to go to a residence three blocks | down the street. The lodge will keep the rurnace-—‘r the company sold it at half-price. But the Tom Halls down the street still need a furnace. Life, Death, Hils One Camden Family CAMDEN, N. J., Oct. 18.—(®—Life and death came to the Rocco Gamble family within several hours. Gamble's 21-year-old wife gave birth to their first son yesterday morning. Returning to the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lulu Dickin-. son, to announce the birth, Gamble was told his oldest child, Charlotte May, 3 had been struck by a truck.| The child died shortly after the 21-year-old father returned to the hospital. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1949 GENERATIONS A GREAT KENTUCKY FAVORITE" A Gentleman's Whiskey from Kenfucky National Distillers Prod. Corp., N. Y. + 86 Proof * 65% Grain Neutral Spirits In many lovely styles — from the plain-tailored “Snip-it” slip (requires only cutting to adjust the hem!) to the frilly and graceful lace- trimmed styles. | the Juneau Hotel. Just a decoy.” That news spread as quickly as The Gambles have another daugh- sary for the active musical life of | which will take care of expenses Schapiro has offered to do just that. especially for the | | a community, and especially fo A Czechoslovakian newspaper to- i y g le. It musical interest of young peopl fday diaclosed what apparently is a| in the hal 1 > can be a real factor e hapPy | oyech Communist government drive He has re-arranged his schedule} to that, instead of flying direct to LOW-COST COMFOR1 In New Touralux Sleeping Cars Olympian HIAWATHA SEATTLE o CHICAGO| This air conditioned Speedliner offers a full range of accommodations includ- | ing unique Touralux slecpers. You get a comfortable berth in a new, cheer- fully decorated car for about one-third less than in standard sleepers, and rail fare is little more than in coaches. Striking dining car and the smart Tip Top Grill car with snack section, Luxurest coaches and private-room sleepers. Leave Seattle daily 2:45 pm. Also daily service East on the air conditioned, electrified COLUMBIAN, For reservations, ask your nearest ! Steamsbip Office, Travel Burean, or ' R. E. Carson, General Agent ‘White Bld, and Union 8¢ ads via' The MILWAUKEE Road lovely new Elgins handsome and many other makes foo The Nugget Shop has just received the largest, most superbly styled shipment of men’s and women'’s HAMILTON and ELGIN WATCHES ever received in Alaska. There’s a watch for you at the NUGGET SHOP from $29.75 up The NUGGET SHOP Come in and i f the growing| " :x:::tliui‘ducauon . e s g:“’ purge its own Czechoslovak army. g ¥ i The newspaper i e “The beautiful sound of a piano| Epaper in Eragus- denead- | i |ed merciless treatment from mili- is universal; it appeals to the im- AREPSe: i 2 g | agl e erions, Ttioly HhAD I o for RN, 800 agigon. 2 o called class enemies found in the | the other, and people in the Fed- eral Building seemed a little dis-| appointed at having been fooled. “practical jokers,” they said.| ‘Spending their time . . M (NOTE: Harold Foss, of the firm | of Foss and Malcolm, Architects, who designed the new building, The today it had failed to find any basis for settling the Greek-Balkan conflict, ter, one-year-old Roseann. i .ok e fur-man o s | FWS VESSELS BEGIN | TREK T0 SOUTHWARD| Assembly’s 59-nation political com-| Largest Fish and Wildlite Service | Association are handling detalls of | yopurmeq to the U. | Association President, all offers of | opine pucsia ! ping at the Gastineau Hotel. |all the officers now eligible to the the sound of any other instrument.| . |army purge. “Too” he commented, “the lit-|*"™Y BUrE erature of the plano, and of the| y, ;) 45, parliament begins its piano and another instrument or | . 3 2 ensemtle, and the plano with voice, | ;Zi;’l:;ml,;:;”;’mz:‘C;I']e b,a;f:rd ,,;"jr makes it imperative for Juneau | ernment is due to announce \:'hm,i have its benefits. |steps it will take to bolster fur. | “And now,” Schapiro smiled, | ppor e caoging British economy. “having struggled so hard with “”\ But the super-secret program still kinds of instruments here, I shalllp o'y "o nnioveq by Prinic M“;M_ look forward to future cf’me“s‘er Attlee’s cabinet. l here with pure joy, for having an, B adequate and expressive InsttU-| pugia and the U.S. Navy took ment.” |part in a little ceremony at Yuko-| A new tourist service between Members of the Juneau CONCert o janan today. The Russians|San Francisco and Honolulu at & | S. nine frigates| 25 per cent deduction below the the hurry-up benefit concert OCt-|jpaneq during the war. These are | present fare of $160 was announced | ober 28. According to Ernest EBIET: | the first of 27 lend-lease escort | today by Pan American World Air is scheduled to re- ways, to operate in addition te | regular double-deck clipper service. | ces s | The new tourist service will be the sake of the piano, as that every prolonged steel strike may | effective December 1, subject to| person in Juneau may feel he Das| cuuse shutdowns in the auto indus- | Civil Aeronautics Board approval a part in providing it. |try. A Detroit executive says that|Flights will start in Los Angeles Ehler may be reached in care “f}:teel supplies are dwindling be-|and fly to the islands via San the Baranof Hotel. Representatives| cayse of the 18-day-old strike, | Francisco. of civic and service clubs already‘and if steel shipments do not re-\ Fare from either city will be $120 have volunteered their enthusiastic sume by Monday, auto production one way and $228 round trip. Light | support. |lines may slow down next momh,‘refreshmems will be served instead | | of hot meals, and there will be the VISITORS | The Senate has asked the House | usual stewardess service. {to join it in setting up a com-i Harvey Hancock, PAA division mittee to study several aspects of | traffic manager, noted that the |the presidency. In the first place,| company had pioneered tourist ser- Ay |the Senate wants to look into gEVlCe between New York and Puerto » |change in the way the nation elects |Rico a year ago with successful re- FROM HAINE lits chief executive. Also, the Sen-|sults. He said the tourist fare R. Gelott and S. L. Homer of meiate wants to study a way to select M. V. Chilkoot of Haines are stop- |2’ Person to become President if said: “It's a dead flat roof. | building is designed so two more stories can be added. The puddle, of course, will do no damage.”) This afternoon the duck was still there, sitting placidly in Lake Ban- | | iield, snow on his back and string | around his neck. NEW TOURIST RATE IS ANNOUNCED BY PAA volunteer participation in its suc-| . will be welcomed—as much for | A ANGOON Helen and Florence Davis of An- goon are registered at the Baranof Hotel. the islands who have never flown the Pacific before. office sheuld die. The brine shrimp, found all over | PUBLIC CARD PARTY planes will take many persons to | committee had authorized him to report failure. Romulo made it clear he did not believe further efforts would be worthwhile at this time. TWO NEW MEMBERS FOR LEGION POST HERE Fred C. Robards of the Fish and | wildlife Service and Robert D.} Stevenson of the Internal Revenue | Service were initiated to member-| ship in the American Legion, Ju~i neau Post Number 4, at the Dugout last night. ' Post Armistice Day Committee reported that the Taku Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars had ox’-l’ fered its cooperation in the joint sponsorship of an American Legion- V.F.W. Armistice Day dance to be held in the Elks Hall November 11. Details will be announced lat- er, the committee reported. Post Commander Bob Druxman announced that membership of the Post Legislative Committee during the coming year would be: Chuck Porter, chairman; Howard D. Stab- ler and Norman Banfield, mem- bers. At the end of the meeting, there |was a spaghetti feed. | s i A S MRS GRONROOS RETURNS Mrs. Bonnie Jo Gronroos of the Bureau of Census office here re- turned from Cordova yesterday af- ter enumerating the city as part of AWVS Nursery Benefit, Oct. 21st, 8 p.m., Scottish Rite Temple. 26 3t the world, are reproduced by unfer- | WAM(RIW ‘I’o AID the business census. CABLE BARGE LENOIR The ACS vessel Wamcat left Ju- neau yesterday for Midway Island in southeast Alaska to aid the AT | barge Lenoir in caktle repair wor'\‘ Men aboard the two vessels will work on two repeater stations, ac- cording to ACS officers here. Aboard the Wamcat are Master Sergeant Clifton Tisdale, Sgt. Fred Dawley, Sgt. John Lloyd, Cpl. Dave Walker, Pvt. Ralph Ivey and Pve. Erling Martinsen. You've never seen so m beautiful briefs and panties. Pick ’em in posy colors, or fresh blue or white. A truly fine selection | at low, Hamiltons low prices. 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