ROE ALEXANDER IS
COMIC SONGSTRESS
IN SINGERS SHOW
Roe Alexander, wife of Colonel
Joseph D. Alexander has been given
the role of comic songstress of the
Spring Concert and Frolic to be
presented by The Juneau Singers j
Friday, March 9th. at 8 p.m. at the
20th Century Theatre.
In an interview with Mrs. Alex
ander and upon questioning her
regarding her past experience in
the singing field, she expressed
herself in this way: "In the dear
old day's bej'ond recall, I did study
voice in Chicago, Illinois for about
six years and developed something
acceptable enough to have been J
asked to appear as guest soloist in
several concerts. For quite a few
years I did a great deal of singing
with several large choral organiza
tions, one of which had a radio
program, and also with my own
trio. As to my solo work, I was a
dramatic soprano with a vibrant
quality which adapted itself strict
ly to ‘long hair music and particu
larly the heavier operatic selections.
"I never did a popular tune in
my life and why our Director, Mrs.!
Jane McMullin, would choose me |
for such an a ignment is still the j
$64 question. At that I’m expected
to be a Joan McCracken, Judy Ca- j
nova, Betty Hutton and a few j
others all rolled into one.
"The number I've been trying to
get for the show is ‘The Rovin’
Kind' but it apparently has been
so very popular, it is temporarily
out of stock. Perhaps I'll have to
do ‘A Bushel and a Peck' and if so,
my friends will certainly see me
out of character when I coo-coo- j
coo that number in a bashful, shy
and timid voice a la sweet sixteen
who's never been kissed.
“Anyway, with or without me.
it will be a whale of a show.”
f
Mrs. McCormick Teiis
Concert Plans; Next!
Proorcm Is March i5
Though her trip to Pcrlland and
Seattle was for medical attention
and most of her time was spent in
doctor’s offices Mrs. John McCor
mick. president of the Juneau*
Douglas Concert A soclatlon had
time to meet Virginia Davis and
Gwendolyn Wiliams, artists on
Juneau's next concart program, in
Seattle last weekend.
Mr... McCormick returned to Ju
neau Saturday after an absence of
five weeks. While in Portland she
attended Rise Stevens concert.
Last Friday night in Seattle she
was the guest of Kate Flood, for
merly of the Empire, at a cocktail
par.y for Bennett Cerf, well known
book publisher and contributor to
the Saturday Review of Literature.
With Mrs. Cornelia Turner, Se
attle impresario and associated witn
Maxime Schapiro in the manage
ment of the Alaska Music Trail,
Mrs. McCormick met Miss Davis
and Miss Williams, who will be in
Juneau in concert March 15 follow
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ing their appearances in Anchor
age and Fairbanks. Both are
charming women, Mrs. McCormick
said. Virginia Davis will present
“Portraits in Song." Miss Williams,
her accompanist, is also accompan
ist for Lotte Lehman, famous
opera and concert singer who re
cently announced her retirement.
Plans for the next concert of the
Juneau-Douglas Concert Associa
tion are underway. Mrs. McCormick
said. "Everyone to whom I talked
while south was surprised that we
were able to secure the appearaiv.
of such fine artists on our Alaska
Music Trail concerts. Alaska seems
a long way for artists to travel anti
I agreed that we are fortunate to
have Alaska Music Trail arrange
ment,” Mrs. McCormick said.
SEEKS TIGHTENING j
REGISTRATION LAWS
FOR AUTOMOBILES
Tightening automobile registra
tion laws was proposed in a lengthy
bill introduced in the Alaska Senate
yesterday by Sen. W. L. (Dan)
Lhamon (R-Fairbanks).
The measure also proposes license
lees for trucks on a weight basis
instead of a flat rate for all.
Lhamon said a more stringent re
gistration law is needed because pre
' sent statutes, which were written
long before automobiles could be
driven to Alaska, are now full of
I holes.
There are many abuses in the
rapid resale of cars, Lhamon said,
and the proposed law will tighten
the law and bring new revenue
through a $2 fee for each title
change.
Sen. Steve McCutcheon (D-An
choragei introduced two bills for
new territorial office buildings. One
was proposed for Fairbanks, or
somewhere in the Fourth Division,
and another at Anchorage, or some
where in the Third Division which
long has Ween trying to block a
new building at Juneau and get it
i ior the Third Division instead. Each
bill proposed a $750,COO appropria
tion.
—EMPIRE WANT AOS PAY—
Senator Lyng
Urges Review
Of Tin Mining
Rejection by the Defense Minerals
Administration of a proposal to
greatly increase tin production in
Alaska has been protested by Terri
torial Senator Howard Lyng.
The U. S. Tin Corporation re
cently ^iled an application with the
Defense Minerals Administration to
expand its operation in the Seward
Peninsula tin field, Senator Lyng
said here today.
The application, Lyng said, had
the highest recommendation of the
officials of the U. S. Bureau of
Mines and the Geological Survey,
who supervise the DMA program
in Alaska. The application was re
jected, Senator Lyng has been in
formed.
In a letter to Charles E. Wilson,
I director of the Office of Defense
Mobilization, Senator Lyng said:
"The Second Division of Alaska,
where I have lived most of my life,
has within it the only significant
deposits of tin in North America.
: That these deposits, estimated to
total six million tons of ere, are
commercial in quality, is proved by
the fact that there has been a
small production from them an
nually in recent years.
“As the senior member of the
Territorial Legislature and as one
who knows a great deal about the :
mining business, although I am n >, j
interested personally in any tin'
property, I would like to urge that j
the application of the U. S. Tin j
Corporation be reviewed immediate
ly and that favorable action bo
taken on it if, as I am confident
you will dicover, it possesses mer.c.
“There is, it seems to me, every
reason why the United States should
seek to develop a source of this
highly strategic and critical mineral
from an area under the American
flag. The Second Division of Alaska
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bill establishing the Alaska Develop- ;
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MONTANA FIRM ENTERS
LOW BID OFFICE BLDG.
CONFERENCE IS HELD
Carson Construction Co. of
Helena, Montana, entered the low
base bid on the Alas^r Office
Building, of $1,333,379, it was uis
covered when five bids were opened
hy the Alaska Public Works here
laSt evening. Engineers estimate
was $1,200,000.
Original plans call for a basement
.nd five floors, the building to be
176 by 58 feet and is to be located
| o’! the site of the present Juneau
C m Hall and AB Hall. The building
will have 715.000 cubic feet of space.
Alternate bids were also sub
mit! e.i. which if accepted could
jungc the bid. Bids are to be sent
APVV headquarters in Washing
ten, D. C . where final decision and
award is to be made within 30 days
if a bid is accepted.
Other bids entered were: Rush
I > • Automatic Sprinkler Co. and
A ociates. Portland Ore., $1,347,000;
Brady Construction Co., Seattle,
Si..">83,000; Valle Sommers Con
■ traction Co., Seattle, $1,398,960;
and Haddock Engineers, Seattle, I
$1,416,000.
There was only'$82,621 difference
between the highest and lowest base
bids.
Don Wilson, director of APW, and
juhn Argetsinger, district engineer,
wt e conferring wdth Gov. Gruen
ing in regard to the bids.
from yakftat
Mrs, Pauline Messer who is with
the CAA at Yakutat is stopping at
the Hotel Juneau.
36 ARRiVE HERE V!A
PAH AM; 9 LEAVE
Forty-five per. ,.ns flew with Fan
American World Airways yesterday
with 25 arrivin'1, fr ,r. the south,
and 11 from Fail!;: ,v.s. Nine flew to
Seattle.
From Seattle: E. L. and F. Arnold,
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Asplund, Lou
Berman, William Bowman, John
Buchanan, Archie Campbell, James
Cawdrey,- Donna Chuntoff, James
Difalco. J. Erickson, J. Flint, Rich
ard Hunton, Joseph Lynch, Ray
Mosier, Alfred Murray, A!.'Owen,!
Clarence Ross, William S’cates, Fred
and Jean Wildt, George Wood, Art
Woodley.
From Annette: Nettie Hanson.
From Fairbanks: William and
Mrs. Stella Green with children
Douglas and Allison, Ralph Rivers,
Louis Pilcher, Charles Aikens, Lloyd
and Louis Albright, E. N. Hales,
Galen King.
To Seattle: Mr. and Mrs. N. F.
Lougher, Dr. and Mrs. A. W.
Stewart, Capt. M. Johnson, Morri.
Rafn, Elmer Sohl, L. F. Blake, Ed
Odion.
GIRL SCOOT TROOP MEETS
Girl Scout Troop No. 1 met Mon
day afternoon and elected officers
es follows: Sandra Chon, president:
Pat Sweeney, vice president: Louise
Follette, treasurer: Pat Kadow, ser
geant-at-arms: Jack j Tanner, re
porter. Ruth Hodson and Martha
Abbott served tempting refresh
ments.
Jacqueline Tanner, Reporter.
—EMPIRE tt.t.il Ait:.-. PAY—
DAUGHTER FOR TANNERS
A daughter was born to Mr. and
! Mrs. David Tanner at 11:40 o'clock
last night in St. Ann's Hospital.
; The little miss weighed live pourfds
and 14 ounces.
PARENTS OF SON
Mr. and Mrs. William Snyder are
! the parents et a son born at 9:55
! o’clo; '< last'nib'.'t in St. Ann’s Hos
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