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PAGE EIGHT BIG TIME HAD BY ALL ON ELKS TRIP TO SKAGWAY “"Where's Elmer?” Be- comes Theme of Dedi- cation Days pllgrimage of Juneau Elks to Skagway aboard the Princess Louise over the weekend for the dedication of the new lodge for The exceptional. The serious moment of the 11 o'clock toast was presented by Exalted Ruler L. T. McGuane. Monday’s Program With sightseeing, and an Emblem Club tea in the afternoon (Juneau Elk, Henry Messerschmidt the only man present), a which the Skagway Elks were hosts, the Elks and Emblem Club, the day was busy until the Days of '98 dance in the evening. Additional entertainment in- cluded a bowling match between Juneau and Skagway on which this report was furnished: BPO Elks No. 431 was Skagway party but Skagway made it Elmer Friend's party, too. After all, Elmer is the oldest member of the Skag- way lodge from standpoint of length of membership. From the moment Louise docked in Skagway o'clock Sunday morning and Si way Elks with posters asking “Where's Elmer?” greeted the ship until it sailed again Monday night and the band from the Elks dance accompanied the visitors to the dock | and serenaded Elmer a last time| with “For He's a Jolly Good Fellow,” | it was Skagway's welcome to Elmer | Friend, the member who had not | attended a home lodge meeting since ; he left the gold rush town 45 ymxwl AgO. P Banners welcoming Elmer back to the fold decorated the cocktail lounge in the new Elks building, and | “Where's Elmer?” cards were wornj by all of ‘the Elks—visitors and| hosts alike. the Princess at 8’ Elks Home Dedicated The new Elks' building, occasion § for the dedication, is the fifth the ; Skagway Elks have called home since the lodge was chartered in 1899. First event on the busy prugrznm' arranged by the Skagway Elks for Sunday and Monday was the dedi- cation ceremony at 2 o'clock Sun- day afternoon. More than 200 people were prc-‘ sent for the dignified ritual con- ducted by a team of Juneau Past Exalted Rulers with Arthur (Scotty) Adams as Exalted Ruler. Other Ju- neau PER’s taking part in the cere- mony were Ellis Reynolds, Dewey Baker, Leonard Holmquist, Howard Simmons, Pat Carroll, N. C. Ban- field and Victor Power. History of the Skagway Elks was told by Mr. Banfield, and the story of the acquisition of the new build- ing was read by Arnold Gutfeld, of the Skagway lodge. R. B. Birren, chairman of the Skagway Elks build- ing committee delivered the keys of the new building to Exalted Ruler Adams, who, in turn, gave them to Bruce' Boynton, chairman of the board of trustees, Skagway lodge. Representing the Sitka Elks at the ceremony was Orville Paxton, and J. R. MacMillan, formerly of the Skagway lodge, represented Ketchikan lodge. The new Elks home, which all agreed would be a fine building for a city much larger than Skagway, has two bowling alleys, a billiard room, cocktail lounge, lodge room and large dance floor. Larry McGuane, is Exalted Ruler of the Skagway lodge, host for the occasion and D. L. Stevenson, dis- trict deputy Grand Exalted Ruler, Alaska east, this year is a member of the Skagway lodge. Meeting and Initiation Business for the Elks continued Sunday night with a meeting of the lodge and initiation conducted by Juneau PER’s as officers. These were PER Adams, as Exalted Ruler, and: Reynolds, Holmquist, Banfield, Powers, Baker, Carroll, Simmons, A. A. Hedges, Dr. A. W. Stewart, M. E. Monagle. Initiated for Juneau Lodge No. 420 was Mike Pusich, mayor of Douglas. New members of the Skag- way lodge are Donald R. Whelpey, Camillo Brena and Orrin E. Ed- wards. Floor Show at Dance An Elks Dance followed lodge meeting and Pat Carroll, former Skagway mayor, now of Ju- neau, was master of ceremonies. | “gravy” shot Juneau bowlers were among those attending dedication made the rounds. The refreshing water made these fellows very sure of themselves, so they proceeded to take on the Skagway aces. “The first game should have sig- nified to the Juneau group that all was not well, Skagway won easily, by 109 pins. However, a change in the lineup found the second game going to Juneau by 121 pins. Juneau went cocktail hour at | and a buffet supper, sponsored by | “Somehow news that several hot- | dinner Monday evening. Program Committee: Lenora Moe, Juanita Stevenson, Jacqueline Budd. Table Setting Committee: Frances Gutfeld, chairman; Gertrude Beit- inger, Birdie Roehr, Ella Wasser, Marion Fraser. Decorating Committee: | Hoyt and Dorothy Dewar. | Kitchen Committee: Dorothy | Sheleby, chairman; Ethel Villesvik, Patty Wheaton, Adele McGuane. All Past Presidents acted as hostesses and poured: Frances Gut- feld, Lenora Moe, Marian Fraser, | Jacqueline Budd, and Dorothy De- war. Buffet Supper: Marie Hoyt, chair- | man: Frances Gutfeld, Gertrude | Beitinger, Dolores Hvisdock, Vir- ginia Burfield, Mae Heidelberger, Barbara Birren. Marie Days of '98 Dance Pat Carroll was master of cere- monies at the dance and Dr. Clay- ton Polley, originator of the Days of '98 receipt was arrested by the kangaroo court to be fined for in- flicting such an instrument on the into the last game with a 12 pin lead and their usual ‘no-one-can- | beat-us’ attitude, but when the| smoke cleared away, Juneau lost | the last game by 8) pins and the match by 77. | Juneau Elks who engaged in the | match were Baker, E. Robert Haag, Hedges, Holmquist, Bernt Mork and Stewart. The Skagway Elks who took the | were Beitinger, Birren, | Budd, Burfield, Clark, Eagle, MCAE Guane and Wilcox. ! Team scores were: Skagway 780 629 801—2210 Juneau 671 750 712 Fun For Kids ¥. E. Willman, whose candy mak- ing machine was flown to Skagway by Alaska Coastal, with a commit- tee composed of Dewey Baker and | Robert Haag made cotton candy for 186 Skagway school children at the Coliseum theatre where Will- man gave the youngsters a show of | 133 | City of Skagway. Awarded prizes for winnings at the games were Dr. Joyce Smith and Dr. Clayton L. Polley. The Juneau visitors enjoyed Skag- way's Days of '98, the costume party the town puts on during the sum- mer for the tourist ships. Many of the costumes the Skagway towns- people wear are original from the gold rush dags. On the Trip Pusich, Mrs. E." Snethen, Arnold Sorenson, Bernt Mork, Bill Beitin- ger, N. C. Banfield, Jack Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Art Hedges, William Neiderhauser, H. Messerschmidt, Ray Abrahamson, F. E. Willman, Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Polley, Dr. J. D. Smith, Elmer Friend, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. (Pat) Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Biggs, Anthony Macchia, R. The delegation from Juneau in- | cluded Exalted Ruler and Mrs. Wal- | | lis S. George, Mr. and Mrs. "Mike | H. VanderLeest, Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Stewart, Comdr. and Mrs. Charles V. Rudolph, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Holmgquist, Lester Linehan, Mr. and In the Floor Show Mrs. K. E. Vuille, Mr. and Mrs. H. The Skagway Elks and Emblem |E. Simmons, Club members who took part in the | Monagle, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur western floor™ show Sunday night | Adams, Mrs. Helen Monsen, Mr. and and the numbers they sang were|Mrs. Dewey Baker, Ellis Reynolds, magic—fire-eating, and all the works. The show was at the Coli- seum theatre, arranged for by man- | ager W. E. Feero. | Mr. and Mrs. M. E., the presented by Pat Carroll as master | of ceremonies: } “Don’t Fence Me In,” sung by the | complete cast: Adele McGuane, | Javan Beitinger, Linda Bigham, | Virginia Steffen, Bea O'Daniel, Le- | nora Moe, Juanita Stevenson, Jac- | queline Budd, Bill Bigham, Alex| Blanchard, Maurice Wheaton, and | Merle Sipprell. “Lucy, Take Your Shoes Off,” Jackie Budd and Linda Bigham. “Careless Hands,” men’s trio: Biil| Bigham, Bud Blanchard, Mcrle‘ Sipprell. “Blue Tail Fly,” Maurice Wheaton. “The Gods Were Angry With Me,” | Juanita Stevenson and Bill Bigham. | “Cream of Kentucky,” entire cast | with Lenora Moe doing specialty | take-offs on the Juneau guests. | “Tumbling Tumbleweeds,” men’s trio. “Slap Her Down, Pa,” Juanita| Stevenson. “Ragtime Cowboy,” entire cast. Jackie Budd played accordion ac- companiments for three and Juanita Stevenson piano for the rest. Committee Members Emblem Club members who served on committees for the various events of the two-day celebration were: General Chairman, Mrs. Marie Hoyt, President of the Skagway | Emblem Club. All members of the Emblem Club “World's best-tasting Cough Medication ! numbers | E. Robert Haag. It was a trip home for the Car- rolls and the Dr. Polleys, all former Skagway residents—as well as for Elmer Friend who had not been in Skagway since he left there 45 years ago. With Exalted Ruler Wallis George in charge, the Juneau Elks were hosts at cocktails in the lounge of the Princess Louise Sunday. Votes of thanks for their kindness, thoughtfulness and general goodwill on the trip were accorded Capt. | | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA tive, the voices good and staging prepared refreshments for the tca'Gaye Hughes of the Princess Louise, Monday afternoon and the buffet Harry Beale, purser, Mrs. Gladys "sherman, hostess and J. A, Ken- nedy, steward. | 1t was a fine trip, all of the Ju- neau people agreed, the Skagway Elks were wonderful hosts and the trip arrangements perfect. | Elmer’s trip home to Skagway was worth a year's vacation, he says. | (We'll remind him of that someday.) The “Where's Elmer” theme, ar- ranged by Pat Carroll, was a com- plete surprise to Mr. Friend, and a happy surprise, this reporter be- lieves. Elmer, we are sure, enjoyed every minute of it. He even played the drums during the dance Sun- |day night. U. N. HIVE YEARS OLD | | | vigilantes and taken before the | TH I S D A Y i (Continued from Page One) | leaguered Vietnam was bedecked | with U.N. flags as planes dropped {leaflets urging the people of Indo- | China to join Americans in a fight for “peace through prosperity, and no misery through terror.” That | country celebrated U.N. Day as 1 French troops siruggled against the 'growing might of a Communist-led guerrilla army. In Rangoon, Burma’s Defense Minister U. Win marked the U.N. anniversary with a plea for the ad- | mission of Communist China to the !world organization. Russ Pat on Back The Russian Communist party | newspaper Pravda said that if the United Nations has played a posi- | tive role in its five years of exist- | ence, it owed this fact to the sup- | port of the Soviet Union. | The flag of the United Nations waved over City Hall in Berlin— “the only spot of freedom behind | the iron curtain”—as Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U.S. Chairman of the “Crusade for Freedom” dedicated the 10-ton bronze freedom bell. At a Com- munist rally across the sector border Red agitators labelled the bell “a war bell, a hunger bell, a death bell.” WED YESTERDAY Hazel Lucille Miles of Seattle became the bride of George Arthur Britton of this city yesterday af- ternoon in the U.S. Commissioner’s courtroom. Judge Gordon Gray officiated. The ceremony was witnessed by Howard J. Marks and Jim A. Mul- laly, Jr. Fashion-Right And warm Too! ROBERTSONS RETURN FROM LEGAL MEETS IN WASHINGTON,D.C. Attorney and Mrs. R. E. Robert- son returned aboard the Princess Louise after attending the annual Conference of Uniform State Law Commissioners and the annual con- vention of the American Bar Asso- | ciation, both held in Washington, | D. C. Robertson was the territor- CHALLENGE TO RUSSIA (Continued from Page One) threatened violation. Disarmament 3 must be policed continuocusly and ial delegate to the meeting. | thoroughly. It must be founded up- The passage of the anti-subversive |, trec and open interchange of }:}:nbsy ss;g';s::vfifgz;s“;‘;fiag;iinrormanon acrcss national bord- {particularly to the American Bm‘el;[r. Truman conceded that the ‘?}f;"gz:::fl'"s:;d}2‘;"?;‘;&];9:;:;?;‘;'x)gs)b)lnty of attaining that goal | sored the passage of that legisla- SREUGIY ST A s he Nt The territorial legislature in the}lea.se P i A g P past has enacted several of the|,q,q o a1 mankind,” he continued ksl lawsrn;zj:onr)mendgs ;y L?;"'It would free the nations to devote Gomsalmintiscs 1 (e toeeory Hal| o GFSREle SEErgien 40 W Hing not financially aided in the work out poverty, hunger and injustice. of the conference, said Robertson. Alaska’s quota is $30 annually and Robertson hopes that the next ses- poTTERS (I-UB will 'HAVE FiLM SHOWING |ATWEDNESDAY MEET sion of the legislature will appro- ‘The film, “The Oldest Art,” pro- | priate the money to aid in this duced by the manufactureers of work. He expressed his gratification at Franciscan Pottery will be shown by the Alaska Potters Club Wed- the recent Republican victory in southeast Alaska and in the general defeat of New Dealism in the ter- ritorial elections on October 10. There is little doubt that those re-| sults presaged Republican success | generally throughout the nation| in the November 7 elections and | would give great impetus to a Re- | publican victory, he said. Interest in the civil defense pro- gram in the larger cities is qulte‘ active mainly with the view of teaching the people what to do inj| case of atomic bombing, Robertson observed, The members of the! civil defense program stateside aref going to a lot of expense and| trouble holding state and interstate meetings in order to coordinate the in the Grade School auditorium. The picture has been previously shown the grade schocl children and the history intricities of ceramics was enthusiastically en- joyed. bership this year, the Alaska Pot- ters Club wish to show the public through this means, the fa. nation which this art has for those devot- ing but a few hours a BY TRUMAN| plan to a higher degree of perfec- tion, The next meeting of the lo- cal civil defense council is sched- uled for next Monday evening at 7:45 o'clock in the City Councii Chambers. Robertsen is the dircctor of the council. learning the interesting and us work. The public is invited |admission is free. will meet immediately at the Arts |and Crafts quarters at the A.B. Hall |where instructions will be given in glazing. | After the showing, Club members ' FAREWELL DINNER FOR HUGHES SATURDAY EVE| MARRIAGE LICENSE A Hoonah couple applied for a ‘marriage license yesterday in the | U.S. Commissioner’s office. They are urday evening in the Casler heme |Fred Carrol Morgan, carpenter, and with Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Casler and | Margaret Charles, cannery worker. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sully as co- | ==——r————m—-- == — hosts. Other guests at the buffet| dinner were Dr. and Mrs. John | Clements, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert| Rowland and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd | | Fagerson. Canasta prizes were won by Mrs. Clements and Mr. Hughes. A farewell dinner was given for Mr. and Mrs. William Hughes Sat. NO WONDER TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 195/ AT HOTEL JUNEAU R. H. Wilson, U. S. Coast Guard from Neah Bay, Wash.,, is stopping jat the Juneau Hotel. You'll seon ‘meet GOOD ANCHORAGE VISITOR Francis A. Butler, Anchorage, is registeréd at the Baranof Hotel. ATTENTION REBEKAHS 2nd nomination or officers Wea. Oct. 25, 8 p.m. All'members quested to be present. 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