The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1949, Page 5

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, IT"S A GREAT SHOW— Just Ask Anyone! ENDS TONIGHT! 25 THE WEsTS =~ STRANGEST TRIO OF OUTLAWS/ EKS. starring ) Z JOHN WAYNE Complete Shows 7:05—9:34 Feature at 7:43—10:12 TOMORROW ONLY WAIT TILL YOU MEET O Leary FROM BROOKLYN...!!! DOROTHY LAMOUR ‘ AMECHI Janis CARTER Willard PARKER 1049 C FAMOUS STARS OF SILENTDAYS IN CAPITOL FEATURE screen are seen in the mew John Ford-Merian C. Cooper Technicolor icture, “3 Godfathers,” now at the Capitol Theatre. The quintet com- prises Mae Marsh, Gertrude Astor, Zva Novak, Ruth Clifford and Francis Ford. Miss Marsh, who rose to silent creen fame after her appearance n “The Birth of a Nation,” has ippearance in a numter of John Uord-directed pictures, including The Grapes of Wrath,” “My Darl- ng Clementine” and the recent Fort Apache.”” Her latest role asts her as Ward Bond's wife. “3 Godfathers,” based on the iovel by Peter B. Kyne, stars John vayne, Pedro Armendariz and farry Carey, Jr., son of the famous western star. It was filmeu on loca- ion in Death Valley, California. ELKS CHRISTMAS DOINGS WAS BIG THING FOR KIDS| Think of it, 900 children of Gas- 14 attended the Juneau lodge of @ks Christmas doings last Satur- iay afternoon, free show at the Sapitol Theatre and then distribu- ion of bags of Christmas goodies. But, 1100 children received bene- its of the Elks doings, shut-ins, those in hospitals and those in vari- cus homes, they were remembered w00, as the tags were distributed to them. The bags contained nuts, candy, an apple, orange and either a toy or a balloon. The ‘bags were filled by officers of the lodge, Pers, trustees, activi- ties committee and wives and the | work was done last Thursday night. | Fred Lappi was the happy Santa and he also visited both hospitals and passed out bags. There’s an easier way lo send season’s greetings this way they also had a big time. But there were other assistants involved in the doings. When the fres show at the Capi- tol was over, partment, Highway Patrol and Fire Department boys guarded the kids on the trek across the street and traffic was re-routed on F‘ranknn acc.dents and everything went oft' in the real jovial Christmas spirit. SALVATION ARMY §§ WILL GIVE PROGRAM The Salvation Army Sunday School will present their Christmas program Wednesday night at their hall on Willoughby at 7:30 o'clock. A varied and interesting program to te presented, consisting of re- citations, drills and music and a { pageant of the Nativity. A vocal solo, “Cantique de Noel” will be sung by Eddie Williams. A skit, “One more shopping day before Christmas” given by the fac- ulty precedes the arrival of Santa with treats for all. Stevens will be open until Every Eveniflg This Week Five famous stars of the suem' iineau Channel under the age of! DOUGLAS NEWS CHRISTMAS CAROLS The Rev. J. P. Porter of the| unity Methodist Church an- dents interested in Christmas Carol singing should be night of Christmas Eve. As the group will cover several different |areas, he suggested that flash- lights be taken along. There will be refreshments following the sing- ing, at 8 o'clock at the Church. CHRISTMAS TREES UP The city tree was erected this Hall. Lights are appearing on sev- erdl other outside trees in the residential district and many inside dows. business establishments. ‘With plenty of snow, it looks like a real Christmas week. — MIXED UP Two dates were mixed up. The Icorrect evenings for different pro- | grams in the community are as fol- | lows: OES. Christmas party and | election of officers, tanight in Eagl.l es Hall; Douglas Community party lWedncsday evening; Douglas Public i School program Thursday evening and the Community Methodist | Church on Friday evening. TO WEISSER; IDAHO Seymore Faurot was a passenger | last Sunday for his family home | in Weisser, Idaho, where he will spend the Christmas holidays prior to accepting a postion as designer and decorator for the Hotel Hung- erford at San Francisco, Calif. MOVIE ACTOR TIED, GAGGED IN DIANA BARRYMORE'S APT. NEW YORK, Dec. 20—(®—Robert Wilcox, motion picture actor, was The bus company brought inifound bound and gagged today in|be short so as not to interfere with Minnie Fields' home children and|{the apartment of actress Diana | other Barrymore. Police said he was tied up by two men who ransacked the apartment. Police sald Wilcox told them he | the kids trooped |yas glone in the apartment when;wns Archie Betts, Dr. across the street to the Elks Hall | tywo men appeared at the door at |Harris, Dr. John Clements and Ed And then right there the Police De- | g:30 a.m. and said they wanted to| Shaffer. Lleave flowers for Miss Barrymore, | who is confined to Roosevelt hos- ! pital from the effects of a fall. Wilcox said he told the men the | for the time being. There Were N0 | daughter of the late John Barry-[to be broadcast from 11 more was in the hospital but the men insisted on leaving the flowers. Taken from the apartment, the police said, were a mink coat, a‘ silver fox scarf, a suitcase and about $50 in silver. (AP SUADRON | MEETS TOMORROW | by the Sears-Roebuck Foundation Eager to complete organizational requirements so that programs of search-rescue and pre-flight train- ing may be initiated early in 1950, members of Juneau Civil Air Patrol Squadron plan a busy two hours tomorrow evening. | The Squadron will meet at 7:30 | pm. in the Resident Engineer's office at the Army Dock. | Appointments will be made by Alan G. Marcum, Squadron com- mander, to an aeronautical rating | toard. This group will determine qualifications and procedures to govern selection of pilots. tion will be discussed and temporary and permanent assignments made, and Marcum will review require- ments for initiating a military hasic training program. Should there be time, section personnel will go over progress charts and meet -informally in classes which will start January 4. IIIIW—III:W—f Yakutat $30.00 Homer $87.00 1 J2 0101 NORT I JUNEAU 10% Reduction on Round Trip *Plus Tax Daily Scheduled Flighis Anchorage —Cordova — Kodiak Homer — Yakutal Connections at Anchorage for all Interior and Westward Points LOW —FARES Cordova$ 53.50 Kodiak $105.00 Tickets and Reservations BARANOF HOTEL Phone 716 en AIRLINES. INC nounced this morning that all resi- || joining in | at the church by 7 o'clock, the [ morning on the corner of the City | trees are glowing through the win- A small outside tree is on | the marquee of the Drug Store, and | several others are planned on other | The official table of organiza- preparation for internal '.rnlnhu‘ ¥ eRETIRRSRENOvaRTIRIETETR T RER TS RN EAU, ALASKA THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE--JU2 Joyful Reunion | \ | | | Ruth Aberle, 16, lost four days without food in forest, is shown in ! a Longview, Wash., hoepital exchanging happy smiles with her mother, Mrs. Wiliam Alberie, after Ruth’s rescue. Doctors at hospital where Ruth was brought for observation, cailed her condition very KIWANSS DINNER TOMORROW NiGHT REPLACES MEETING A festive dinner honoring mem- bers’ wives and other guests, a short snappy program and what- | ever the rest of the evening holds for each couple—such is the holiday fare for Kiwanians, who usually meet for a Wednesday luncheon program. The Kiwanis Club party will be at 7 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Baranof Gold Room. The pro- | gram was deliberately planned to in a search for the raft lost by the tug Sunday morning at Cora Point near Cape Decision. The raft, containing 750,000 board feet of timber, was lost after in went aground on Cora Point. The Adak was forced to give up search for it due to icing condi- tions. The Coast Guard aircraft found { search as its fuel became exhausted today, Coast Guard headquarters here said. The raft of logs was bound for Ocean Falls, B.C. It was owned by the Columbia Lumber Company ot' Juneau, which had chartered me\ Adak from Owens Brothers of Hood | Bay. SNOWPLOWS BROUGHT INTO ACTION AS' SNOW | BLANKETS JUNEAU AREA| The Juneau Street Department grader went into action early this Christmas-week activities, | | says President Stanley Baskin. | Dr. John Montgomery, program | chairman, is being assisted in a clever novelty number by Kiwan-‘ Henry C. | With Kiwanians and others all over the country, many Juneau Ki- | wanians plan to tune in Christmas Eve for an hour of choral music to 12 pm. Decercher 24 over the Mutual | Broadcasting System. 'HISTORICAL MOVIE FEATURED AT P-TA Parent-Teacher Association mem- bers at their Christmas program last night saw a movie produced of the winter. Confining its work to outlying areas, the grader battled the six- inch fall on hillside streets, Mayor Waino Hendrickson said today. Meanwhile, Frank A. Metcalf, Territorial Highway Engineer, said that a rotary snowplow will be trought into action soon on Glacier Highway and the Douglas Road. i He warned motorists not to park cars on either road. Cars left slang‘ the road will be either covered with! showing the creation of the Bill of Rights. The movie was a discussion by historical characters of the prob- lems faced in drawing up the United States Constitution. A bas§ solo was sung by H. E. Salisbury, and P.-T.A. memkers, led by Mrs. Ronald Lister, sang Christ- mas carols. & (R Nugget Shop open evenings.—adv. pounded ty the Alaska Highway | Patrol, he said. Scientists classify electronics as a tool “more versatile than any previously known.” GMCs ""Deliver the Goods” Food, furniture and fuel oil . . . the tree, the turkey, the hu + . . almost everything that moves by motor truck makes its contribution toward a Merry Christmas. Now better equipped to “deliver the goods” than ever before, tough, truck-built GMCs offer powerful, valve-in-head gasoline engines or famed, 2-cycle Diesel models . . . strong, sturdy chassis with rugged axles, springs and brakes . . . outs g perform= ance and dependability, unexcelled efficiency and economy. There’s a better-built GMC for all qulh-w joh git 2 lor every transportation task . . . Christmas time and GMC Triple-Checked used % trucks are a good investment three ways . ..In Appearance, In Performance, In Vallu ! pinned him to the ground! | good. M Wirephoto. i COAST GUARD AID IN | SEARCH FOR LOG RAFT A Coast Guard aircraft from An-' Awvys Cooperative Nursery. Tomor- nette Island joined the tug Adak! only 40 logs before giving up the| | will have the opportunity to draw morning in its first anti-snow work | # snow thrown by the plow or im-| % ~ PAGE FIVE IIIIIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIAIIIIII PSR LENTURY TONITE - and- WEDNESDAY RED SKELTON IN "THE SHOW OFF" AT 20TH CENTURY An 150-pound Great Dane proved to be the great bane of Red Skel-| ton's life during filming of the new M-G-M comedy-drama, “The Show- Off,” coming to the 20th Century Theatre tonight. The dog was cast for an import- ant role in the picture and, accord- ingly, was introduced to the come- dian. As Red extended his hand to receive a canine handshake, the huge animal leaped on him and Skelton gazed up at the massive mutt and a light of recognition dawned in his eyes. It was the same dog that had been specially trained jor the M-G-M piciire, “Bathing Beauty,” to knock Red down y time it saw him. After two year “General,” the Dane, hadn't for-|\ __________ aining! B one Snow.OLr" s bama on Plus DOORS OPEN . . George Kelly’s hit play, with Skel-| ton in the title role of the egotist who makes a nuisance of himself with his in-laws. Blonde Marilyn Maxwell has the feminine lead, with other featured roles played by Mar- jorie Main, Virginia O’'Brien, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, George Cleveland, Leon Ames and Marshall ‘Thompson. BIG DAY TOMORROW AT AWVS NURSERY Tomorrow is the big day at the i 3 o Sports SHOW STARTS News by Air 7:15 and 9:30 T Plumbing © Healing Oil Burners Telephone-319, Nights-Hed 730 Harri Machine Shop, Inc. row is the day of the Christmas party. The time, s 3 p.m. and the place is the Nursery room at the Governor's House. The tree is already in place and the decora- tions on it are the productions ot | the children themselves. Since the party is a cooperative one, as are all functions of the Nursery, the mothers will provide the refreshments and each child will take a present to put into the grab-bag. And of course each child a present out again. A limit of 30 cents has been placed on the cost of the gifts. Mothers of all children are cor- dially invited to attend and join in the fun. Especially welcome are those who do not ordinarily have the opportunity to watch the Nur- sery in action. ; Wondering what to give? T8 Switch to the choicest you can give servel MRS. RODEN RETURNS Alter an extended stay in Seat- tle, Mrs. He t) d e, rs. enry Roden returne BLENDED WHISKEY—86.8 PROOF 65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. CALVERT DISTILLERS CORP., N.Y. to Juneau today, & passenger on the Denali. Cut Flowers For Bouquels or Corsages Cedar and Holly Wreaths Christmas Candles * Cedar Roping Cut Holly Mistletoe Potted Planis Juneau Florists CONNORS MOTOR CO. 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