The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 23, 1950, Page 5

THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1950 ENDS TONIGHT! Doors Open 7:00 Feature at 8:05—10:10 EXTRA —— “THE FIGHT FOR BETTER SCHOOLS” as presented by THE MARCH OF TIME SHOWPLALE oF ABITUL; (24124725 7{6//// RN wmfi“““ g v I TOMORROW and SATURDAY You can’t go wrong on this one —— 3 HOURS OF EXCITEMENT! Thrilling as a Whiplash! * PACKING MORE WALLOP than The Saturday Evening Post MITCHELL e GREY “THE ROYAL MOUNTED RIDES AGAIN” Chapter Two — “The Avalanche Trap” MUSICAL PROGRAMS WERE FEATURES OF MISSIONARY TRIPS March, 1950, marks a high point | in missionary acuvities of M.V. Princeton Hall and its staff when several reiigious services and musi- cal programs were brought to com- munities of Southeast Alaska. Leaving Juneau March 6, the Presbyterian boat carried the Rev. R. Rolland Armsirong, field rep-| resentative to Alaska of the board of National Missions, Presbyterian Church, US.A. Armstrong was ac- | companied "By*“the” ‘Rev. Paul 'H.| Prouty, skipper of Princeton Hall | and Herbert Mercer, engineer. Also making the journey was Walter W. Smith, newsman and photographer. Stopping first at Petersburg, im- portant business was transacted in- cluding completion of tentative plans for the erection of a new church and manse to replace the structure recently damaged by fire. The party then proceeded to Kake where the Field Representative made his initial appearance betore that community in a public service This was followed by the annual session of the congregation for elec- tion of officers+n the, local church organization. Andrew Gambel is pastor of the Kake community. The following evening an import- ant meeting was held of the local chapter of the ANB to consider matters concerning the well-being of all Alaska. The visitors were Brotherhood guests. Kake Choir Aboard Following these events the Kake choir went aboard and on Friday afternoon the enlarged group ar- rived in Angoon. Receptions and Juncheons preceded and followed the evening service. Again, the Rev. Armstrong was introduced to people he will serve and he delivered the sermon, Saturday morning 14 members of the Angoon church group joined with the Kake choir and smooth sailing brought the party safewy tc Hoonah. Here, the visitors received another cordial welcome. Dinner was served by the ladies of the church and this was fol- Jowed by a musical program and service. ‘The Field Representative delivered his greetings and the ser- mon. Then the officers and mem- bers of the Russian Orthodox con- gregation of Hoonah served refresh- ments. This was followed by an in- formal program. Busy Sunday Sunday was a day and evening of continuous services, opening with the morning worship and featuring the sermon by the Rev. Armstrong, A noonday luncheon in the church parlors, an afternoon service with the Salvation Army of Hoonah, in which messages were heard by Sam Johnson and Andrew Gambel, pas- tors of the Angoon and Kake com- munities, respectively. Preceding the Sunday night serv- ices in the church ot which Mode- rator George Betts is pastor, was NERVOUS STOMACH IMIN relieves distressing symptoms ! :tl:}.‘u‘r‘vou stomach” — Vincss after Srcals, belching. bloating and colic due to £y doctors: L h"mbe:'}fil“gmfinv! World found highly effective. n-n—:.m- ¥ billion sold todate. | a dinner given by the Hoonah chap- ter of the Alaska Native Sisterhood. At this, the Hoonah community! band played several stirring marches and selections. Sunday night marked the con- clusion of a week of intense mis- sionary service, when Andrew Gambel of Kake delivered the | sermon. After the night service the visi- tors were entertained by the Salva- tion Army of Hoonah and refresh- ments were served, with various men and women being called upon to cement the ties of friendship with- appropriate remarks. Thus the traditional bonds between these three communities of Kake-Angoon- Hoonah were again stressed and the next morning saw the Prince- ton Hall under way for the'return journey. At Angoon a congregational session was held for election of church officers. Andrew Gambel again spoke and directed the eve- ning service. Upon return to Kake, final stop of the missionary journeys, further business was conducted in a con- gregational meeting which followed the evening services. Baptismal Services During the more than a week, sev- eral baptismal services were con- ducted by the Rev. Paul H. Prouty, : and officers were officially mscauedl 'P-TA FUND SHOW NOW AT CAPITOL, LAST SCREENING BULLETIN—Owing to popular demand, the announcement was made this afternoon that the “Boy With Green Hair” will be held | over for showing tomorrow night also. A boy's belief that he must start a campaign against war motivates the striking plot of RKO Radio’s production in color by Technicclor, | “The Boy With Green Hair.” ! Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Bar- | bara Hale and Dean Stockwell have the principal roles, with the 11- year-old Stockwell in the title part. | Joseph Losey directed the Dore | Schary presentation, and Stephen | Ames produced, with Richard Lyon' Walter Catlett, Samuel S. Hinds and Regis Toomey as members of | the cast. i This feature, benefit for the P-TA scholarship. is at the Capitol The- nr_e for final showings tonight, two shows. reau of Mines, John T. Howell is more than ever convinced that his | officials is partly to be credited, | fusical highlight of the Easter the visitor said today. |season will be the afternoon con- trip to the Territory from Bogota,|[0f Handel's great oratorio, “The Colombia, regarding his Alaska in- | Messiah.” The concert will be In and going, Howell will be back at| “Juneau’s craving for good music his work in South America just a | Will find satisfaction in this an-, Out of Bogota, he is working on “So many requests have been re- three big hydro-electric and irriga- | ceived for the Singers to include Venezuela and Chile. His firm is R.|{inale of the Palm Sunday con- J. Tipton and Associates of Denver, |cert. This chorus, which has stir- Howell answered, “Homer.” It used |On its Juneau audience at Christ- to be Chicago. Roaming the world mas. This is the only one of the BEST OF THE BIRDS— a penguin, and his wife, in a_headdress of ostrich feathers. won prizes for the outstanding bird costumes at a “Ball of the Birds” given by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kollsman in Beverly Hills, Cal. N | NOTED ENGINEER | | PREFERS ALASKATO | | | srnor Lew M. Williams and officials | " v future lies in Alaska. The coopera- | ON pAlM SUNDAY tive attitude of these and other T Howell, who made his first trip|cert Palm Sunday in which Juneau to Juneau in 1938, is on a quick |Singers present the Easter portion vestments. Visiting metropolitan i the 20th Century Theatre, the ex- areas in the states, both coming!act hour to be announced later. month after his departure for the‘l'uuncem('m," said Larry Parker, 14,000-mile trip. sident, today. tion projects as consulting engineer | the famous ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ that to the governments of Colombia, |this number will be repeated as the Colo. red listeners since its very first Asked what place he calls home, | performance, had the same ettect since his first trip here and later |“Messiah' numbers on the holiday engineering work during World War 1I, Howell kept dreaming of Alaska, | and resolved to live in the Territory. On this “look-see” trip, he is ex- cited about the industrial possibili- ties of Kachemak Bay, as well as the future for agriculture in the Homer area. With his family, now living in Bogota, Howell expects to be back in Alaska to stay, after his work in Colombia is completed in a 1eW{ months. Howell is “sold” on the ‘*“un- equalled possibilities of cheap hydro-electric power in Southeast Alaska,” and he says, “Wherever to carry on a more active program|there is cheap power, industry will| of religious services in the months| pe attracted. With its wonderful | concert to be repeated.” In order to assure the same high standard of performance as the |holiday presentation, the schedule |of weekly rehearsals will be stepped lup during the next ten days. Extra rehearsals will be planned at the “IEhCfll’aill tonight, at 8:45 pm. In the Methodist Church. Mrs. Jane McMullin, director, asks that all Singers be present tonight for the rehearsal and plan- ning. FILING DATE FOR ' ENUMERATORS T0 w0 come. After a return to Juneau, with the vessel serviced and refuelled, SKip- | per Prouty again mwvigated the j vessel to Hoonah last Saturday for a return weekend of service and song. In this instance those aboard included the Rev. Walter A. Sobo- .eff, pastor, and the choir of Ju-j neau’s Memorial Presbyterian church. With customary warmth of aospitality, the people of Hoonah welcomed the second group, also, into their homes and as typical of the attitude of the Hoonah com- munity, Mayor Harry Douglas, in! one of the several receptions and | dinners given, declared that by this | plan of inter-community visitation, music and worship, the people’s lives are enriched, and real prog- cess is achieved. CUTTER TO BREAK ICE AT BIG PORT WALTER The Coast Guard has been asisgned duties, according to headquarters here. The cuttter, now carrying out aids to navigation work in Gas- tineau Channel and Stephens Pas- sage, has been ordered to proceed ‘0 Big Port Walter on the south- east shore of Baranof Island after completing its aids to navigation duties and kréak ice in the har- bor to allow passage to the pier there. cutter Clover ice-breaking Coast Guard Martha Society Rummage ©Sale Thursday 23rd. 10:30 a.m. Northern Light Presbyterian Church base- ment.—adv., 56-3t | | $5,000,000 Roosevelt Medical - Center | with President people and climate and its natural (LOSE ON FRIDAY resources, I certainly am sold on the long-range future developmen: of | The filing daie ror appiica Alaska.” | for enumerators in the 17th Decen- Howell came from Central Amer- | nial Census for the Juneau city jca to Alaska in 1947 from Central area will end at the close of busi- America, where he had built the ness Friday, March 24. Selection of the enumerators will at Guatemala, to be cosulting en-'| be made immediately and the train- gineer for the Alaska Railroad on |ing school will open Monday, March its rehabilitation program. During |27 in the Senate Chambers on the the war, he was a civilian consultant ‘ second floor of the Federal Build- for the Army Engineers at Anchor- | ing. Fred C. Daughtery, Crew Leader age, and did military construction |for the northern portion of the in the Aleutians. | First Division, will conduct the As an Army commission was slow ‘ training sessions. in coming through, but a !Navy The office of the Census Super- commission of lieutenant was not, | visor, Mrs. Gronroos, is located in Howell joined the Navy and was Room 224 (House of Representa- immediately sent on overseas duty. | tives), Federal Building, Telephone He participated in the Italian and | 590 or Post Office Box 441. | Southern France invasion, and was | Roosevelt and | Miss Elizabeth Lineburger of Churchill at the Yalta conference. |Sitka is stopping at the Baranof Previously, he had been in the | Hotel. U.S. Engineers, on the third locks | ——————— project of the Panama Canal. | You don’t have to send out for “Juneau is as wonderful as ever,” |bulbs. Juneau Young Hardware | Howell said today at the Baranof [now has a large new selection of | Hotel. “I hope to be back soon with |bulbs on display at less than Seattle my family—this time, to stay in|Pprices—adv. 56-tt | He asks the sum plus costs and | office, and were not lighted Pianist Artur Rubinstein, as SOROPTIMISTS T0 HEAR DEBATE AT FRIDAY SESSION Whether the electoral coliege should be abolished and election of the President of the United States should be by the direct vote of the people, will be decided by the Sorop- timist club, when it makes its de- cision on the debate which will highlight its noonday luncheon pro- gram tomorrow in the Terrace Room of the Baranof. The debate will represent a vari- ation from the usual type of club program, and will be given by the debating team of the Juneau High School, Miss Helen Schaefer, direc- tor. Members of the team are' af- firmative, Robert Secrist, Nella Ger- main and Carl Weidman; nega- tive, Elton Engstrom, Jr. Connie Williams and Henry Haugen. Richard Klingbeil, who will act as chairman of the team, will also serve as alternate, Miss Schaefer | said. The debate before the local club is really in the nature of a “warmer- upper” it was announced, »s the team has a date to debate this sub- ject with Petersburg High School’s team on April 14, and is intent in getting all the practice possible be- fore it journeys to Petersburg for the, big event. It already has ap- peared before the P-TA and the High School student body. Members of the Soroptimist Club are reminded that they may take guests to the meeting, and others interested in attending may make arrangements for so doing, as long as the space holds out, i* was an- nounced today by Alice Thorne, president of the club. Th2 program should prove of special interest, she pointed out, not only because of the | timeliness of the topic but also he- cause of the students pacticipating. $5,000 ASKED FOR INJURIES CAUSED BY SLING BOARDS A civil suit for $5,000 and costs was filed today by Horace O. Adams, | employee of the Odom Company, | against the Ketchikan Whart Com- pany, claiming extensive injuries were caused him by a pile of sling boards on the company’s Juneau dock last December 9. Adam states in his complaint that upon leaving his firm’s office that evening, he fell over the obstruc- | tion, causing painful leg injuries. attorney fees. Howard D. Stabler represents him in the case. The boards, he states, obstructed passage to and‘ from the Odom Alaska.” TUNIS STRIKE ORDERED TO PROTEST U.S. ARMS (By Associated Press) French Communists stepped up their strikes against U.8. arms aid to Atlantic Pact nations. A 48-hour walkout of port workers in Tunis, French African possession, was ordered. It was a demonstration against the expected arrival there of a French aircraft carrier trans- porting U.S. planes. SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S | ~ Plumbing Oil Burners Telephone-319 Harri Machine Shop, Inc. priorily with fhose who Nights—Red 730 - w‘-“, Soutbbound? Alaska Coastal Alrfines enables you fo amatge —through your local ticket agent—ycur passage o the States on Pon American, and then to ony spot on the globe! And for you who buy tickets In Sika, Hoosch, Tenakes, Skogway, Haines ! @nd similar communities, ACA reserves o special block of seats so that its passengers share equal GMSKW buy tickets in Juneasl @« @« 9 IRLINES 8 VICTOR WINS CASE; | WILL DONATE MONEY | T0 LIBRARY DRIVE, The jury hearing a civic case filed | by Martin Victor Furs, Inc., against ;Mrv. Claudie Brown for $125.24, | brought back a verdict for the ftur company late yesteraay afternoon. The suit involved non-payment for repairs and alterations done to a fur coat belonging to Mrs. Brown, owner of Brown’s Apparel Shop. She' claimed the coat given her was not the sarae she had leit for repairs. | Victor said that upon receipt of {the money he would donate it to| (the Juneau Memorial L\bruryi | Fund. 1 | he furrier, who bought the shop, | from Charles Goldstein early in, | 1947, is selling out his Chicago site, | | he said after the verdict came in, ‘:\, soon as negotiations are com-, | pleted. He came here especially for ! the trial. Concerning the cases’ out- | come, he said: | “Inasmuch as my reputation as a/ | responsible business man in the | communjty was at stake, I am | grateful for the jury’s expression of faith and belief in me—which I con- sider ample compensation for the trip and other expenses of the case.” 'STRANDED AIRMEN " RETURN TO YAKUTAZ A report reaching Coast Guard | headquarters here from the Civil Aeronautics Authority in Yakutat late yesterday said the two men stranded on Rocky Island in Dry | Bay on a flight from Yakutat have been returned to Yakutat. The men were reported misstg! March 15. They were sighted onj Rocky Island two days later. i The report did not indicate how | the men, Clem Simmons and a} Mrs. Hanson had reached Yakutat.. CATRON' DIVORCE ASKED Irene Catron has filed a suit for! | divorce today against her husband,| Ivan Lee Catron, with the clerk of { the district court. The couple were married here January 29, 1944, i She asks the custody of her two; children by a previous marriage, | adopted by Catron following their | marriage. The complaint states she was subjected to “cruel and inhu- man treatment” by the defendant, and that he has been “excessively ! addicted to alcohol.” William L. Paul, Jr., her attor-)| ney, filed the suit. I | HOSPITAL NOTES Walter Butt, Andrew S. Jackson, Mrs. Roderick Rohrberg, Lois Simp- kins and Herbert Lenz were admit- ted to St. Ann’s hospital yesterday. Mrs. C. Untalasco, Elmer Brady, and Mrs. Harold Sewill and her in- fant son were dismissed. ATTENTION Suit Club members attend Bail- ey’s Bar, your name may be sel- ected. 9:30 Friday night.—adv. NOTICE The Family Dry Cleaners, 1020 11th St. will not take any cleaning between March 20 and May 1, clos- | ed for installation of machinery. 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