The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 28, 1951, Page 5

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1951 MMWWMOWW‘M | X T(DNIGHT ONLY! DRAMA OF THE INTRIGUE OF A WILD LOVE? A startling story of iremendous emotional impaci!!! From the pen of VICKI BAUM Maureen Melvyn O'HARA - DGUGLAS FROM THE PIN OF THE AUTHOR OF "BILL WILLIAMS VICTOR JORY | wmmnowowownoooo»mo | | | There isno subsmule for Newspaper Adverilslng" DR. TED OBERMAN OPTOMETRIST 20th Century Theatre Bldg. Phone: 61 | 2nd Floor | products now go to initial markets 'in motor vehicies. Lt AR PRRRIRRERETORRARRR Tomonnow[ The true, savage story [ | of BILLY. THE KID '} | | AUDIE GALE MURPHY-STORM ALBERT DEXKER - SHEPPERD STRUDWICK ROTARIANS T0 HOLD |C C(OKVENTION, SEATTLE Rotarians from Juneau and from | all over Alaska, western British Co- | lumbia and western Washington will gather in Seattle for their 37th Annual Rotary District Conference, May . to 8, ording to District Gor<rnor James ‘W. Woodford of | | Scattle. About 1500 representatives and their wives from 55 Rotary Clubs are expected. for the confereuce, which was last held in Seattle in 1947. Vancouver, B. C, was the host city last year. 1 The Rotary Club of Seattle will be official conference host, ascisted by the Ballard, University District and West Seattle Rotary Clubs. Se- attle’s Olympic Hotei will be con- ference headquarters. Nearly 90 per cent of all farm Overstoecek Clearance 40% Discount GLASS ELECTRIC COFFEE We wish to move our overstock of this standard, nationally advertised appliance — This Week Only PARSONS ELECTRIC, Inc. Teamsters’ A.F. of L. Hall ====cazau== TONI Wednesday MAKERS GHT =Varch 28 Be There! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA =™ 'WOMAN'S SECRET' IS TONIGHT ONLY AT CAPITOL THEATRE Following a story line tailored closely to the radio soap-opera formula, “A Woman's Secret” man- ages to combine tragedy, personal confiict, romance and a few laughs in a highly enjoyable package of broad audience appeal, This feature is at the Capitol Theatre for to- night only. The cast, headed by beauteous Maureen O'Hara, talented Gloria Grahame and capable Melvyn Doug- las deliver themselves of top per- formances, In supporting roles Jay C. Flippen as the police inspector stands out fer his understanding and convincing pcrirayal. Mary Philips introduces some ‘cheer into the preceedings as his c e loving wife. A couple of good blues num- bers are tossed off with skill by Miss Grahame and Miss O’'Hara ilso gets a chance to do a little comedy number. Direction by Nicholas Ray is all e could wish. He keeps the play going at a smooth and rapid pace. The film is based on the Vicki Baum novel, “Mortgage on Life.” rnmnnm\ and continuing thru the Capitol screen will offer ‘Thr‘ XKid from Texas” film in color by Technicolor and starring Audie Murphy. GHIGLIONE NAMED ((OM. CHAIRMAN OF ENGINEERS SOCIETY! A. F. Ghiglione, Chief Engineer of the Alaska Road Commission, has received notification of his appoint- ment as chairman of the American ociety of Civil Engineers Joint Committee on Snow, Ice and Per- ma-Frost. Ghiglione has been a member of the Joint Committee since its in- ception a year and a half ago. He is the only member from Alaska and one of three members outside the eastern states, there being one member from California and one from the middle west. Gail Hathaway, prominent en- gineer of Washington, D. C., was previously ' chairman of the Joint Committee on Snow, Ice and Per- ma-Frost and- has recently been chosen president of the civil en- gineers society, NEIMI TO INSPECT INTERIOR ROAD WORK W. J. Niemi Chief of the Oper- ations Division, Alaskn Road Com- mission has lett on the Pacific Northern Airways plane for An- chorage on a ten day trip to the westward and interior. Niemi will study present road maintenance conditions and survey preliminary work underway pre- paratory to the season’s road oper- ations in the interior. He will visit the Anchorage, Fairbanks and Val- dez districts. SEE MADSENS FOR NYLON FISHING LINE and Herring Nettings OPEN EVENINGS Opp. Ball Park- Phone 914 J. A. Durgin Company, Inc. Accounting Auditing Tax Work Room 3, Valentine Building JUNEAU, ALASKA P. O. Box 642 Telephone 919 e Meeting Local No. 10 == $:00 P. M. NEW TEEN AGE NOVEL IS T0 BE PUBLISHED BY MARGARET BELL, ALASKA Bell, of Loring, will have her new novel for teen-age girls, “Ride Out the Storm,’ pub- lished by William Morrow and Company, New York, this month It is the story of Lisbeth Craig, of Hermit Bay, who had to leave Alaska to go to school in the States and hated and feared the thought of it. She hated it because she loved everything the wild country that had home for all her thirteen ye and feared it be- cause she knew she would be dif- ferent from the other girls St. Anne’s, in California, was a church school with fine traditions, but Lisbeth found it as hard to get accustomed to the girls as she had feared. And just when she was at last beginning to understand them a little, storm arose far wor.e than any she had met in Alaska.| How Lisbeth rode out the storm is the climax of this unusual story. Miss B born on Prince of Wales Island, the scene of her two earl n vwl‘ for olkler girls “Watch For a 11.White Sail” and The 1 1 Casts a Shadow.” Her family settled in Klinkwan, on the Island, and in 1947 Miss Bell jour- neyed there to find her grandfa- ther’s house, of which only a few traces remained. She sailed around the Island cn a mail boat piloted by an Indian who was able to po.n. out the old passages re he steamboats used to run por that the country is as \‘All and as lonel Miss per schoolir Margaret E. was s ever Bell went to the States for at the Annie Wright Seminary in ma and later at the University of Washinglon in Seattle. She lived for a number of ye: in Portland, Oregon, return- ing each summer to Alaska. Prior to World War II, she lived for ten years in San Francisco. During the war she spent three and years working with the Red Cross in Northwest Canada and Alaska with more than a year in the Al- eutian Islands. FEBRUARY WAS DRIER, COOLER a The United States Weather Bu- reau released the following weather information for the month of Feb- ruary. The. month was drier and cooler than normal with more sun- shine than is usually expected. This is the second consecutive month this condition was experienced. The wettest and warmest period was from the 13th to the 21st during which much of the accumulated snow melted. Detailed Airport and City Office data is recorded below: Airport Data: Highest temperature: 46 in 1944; this February 37. Lowest tempera- ture: -12 in 1949; this February -8. Mean maximum temperature: Av- erage 31.1; this February 28.3. Mean minimum temperature: Average 19.5; this February 14.8. Mean monthly temperature: Normal 27.5; this February 21.6. Total precipita- tion: Normal 420; this February 2.31. Maximum wind: SE 36 in 1946; this February SE 31. Total snowfall: Average 181; this February 20.0 Average cloudiness: Average 77 per cent; this Percentage of possible sunshine: Average 34 per cent; this February 41 per cent. City Data: Highest temperature: 39 on the 16th, lowest tempegature: 10 on the 10th and 11th. Mean maximum temperature: 29.7, Mean minimun !empernture" 19.1, mean monthiy temperature: 25.6. Total precipiia- tion: 4.75 inches. BLM FIELD SEASON STARTS NEXT WEEK * IN KETCHIKAN AREA The 1951 field season of the En- gineering Division, Bureau of Lanc Management will commence the first of next week with surveys (c be made in the Ketchikan area Leonard Berlin, Division Chief, dis- closes. o Harold Radcliffe, cadastral eng- ineer, and his assistant Clarence Norton will inaurgurate groups of homesite surveys in the Clover Pass district, approximately 20 mile: north of Ketchikan. They have beer engaged in the local BLM office the past winter. MRS. WICKERSHAM RETURNS Mrs. James Wickersham returned to Juneau on the steamship Bar- anof after a several weeks vacation visit in the states. Her niece, Mrs Jack Allman, came in from her lodge at Excursion Inlet to welcome her aunt home. TIDE TABLE March 29 5:34 am. 158 ft. e Low tide 12:38 p.m. 06 ft. e High tide e High tide 7:11 pm. 11.9 ft. e 0 0 000 0 0 00 half | baggage FWS THAN IS NORMAL: "FLAXY MARTIN' -COMING TONIGHT AT 20TH CENTURY| Action and romance are cln,\cl_\" welded in Warner Bros. strong drama, “Flaxy Martin,” which stars Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott and | Dorothy Malone. It opens tonight at the 20th Ceniury Theatre, H The plot revelves around the ac- | tivities of a gambling syndicate, with Scott in the role of the young | legal representative of the ring. Miss Mayo plays her second star- ring part for Warners in the key feminine role, Miss Malone, fast climbing the ladder to stardom, plays the girl who helps Scott break | away from his crodked associates Also prominent in “Flaxy Mar- tin” is Douglas Kennedy, who plays Ithe part of the shrewd head of the ? New York q\mhl"u' syndicate. WRANGELL MAN FAILS IN ATTEMPT SHIP MINK SKINS Cal Zuver of Wrangell a plea of guilty to a charge ol vio lation of the Alaska Game law on two counts and was fined $50) or each: count and given a susp2ndac | jail sentence of six months, by Judge Joel Wing, U Cowmmis- l()!\L‘I at Wrangell in the Commis- joner's Court there last week. Ad- s of the ¢ on rozeive: y Fish and Service En- forcement Sup Dan Ralsto in the Juneau Regional office from Enforcement Agent Monte Clem-; mons at Wrangell. Zuver was apprehended hy Titt and Wildlife Service Enforcame:t agents in the early i March 21 at the Seattle, w port when he disembar 1 from ¢ Pan American plane afier it had landed from Alaska. Among @ agents found ont¢ suitcase filled with 110 mink skn Ivalued at approximately $4,000. The skins were confiscated by Enforce- ment Agent Leo R. Childers of the FWS Seattle office. The mink season has not been open for year in Southeast Alaska. Zuver returned immediately by plane to Wrangell and was arrested fon his arrival there by FWS En- | forcement Agent Monte Clemmons. He was charged with violation of the Lacey Act, the inter-state com- merce law which prohibits the transportation of shipping of illeg- ally taken fur, game and birds, and with engaging in fur buying with- out a fur buyer's license, enterad | were ife isor for trapping the 'past February 57 per ceml For Smart Spring and Summer Wear $12.75 1o $42.50 Just arrived! A host of the prettiest navy sheers you've seen in a long time! Flatteringly styled . . . many crisped with touches of white. All sizes. PAGE FIVE ) THEATRE » WHERE HITS ARE A HABIT! TONIGHT and Thursday DOORS OPEN 2 SHOWS at T FEATURE at 9:30 8:00—10:10 She had too much beauty... too little conscience / STARRING VIRGINIA ZACHARY NikYD - SEBFT oo WALONE with Tom D'Andrea * Helen Westcott R o R 2 R A Admitted to St. Ann’s h()'pr:ll‘ yesterday were Gordon Burnett, | % ¥ aMbs. Nadine Martini, Baby David| Wes Overby ‘will be icastminstes. Stedman, C. Holland and ‘Liezel; 3 & regular meeting of the Taku Moyer. Toastmasters club tomorrow eve- ning at € at the Baranof Hotel. Discharged were Mrs. L. McJSprnkcrs will be Hunt Gruening, Guane, Mrs. Harold Gronroos, A.|A, F. Ghiglione, Wayne Richey, Berendini. i Waino Hendrickson, and Dr, At the Government hospital Ad-|Clements. 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