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THRILL FEATURE
NOW ON SCREEN,
CAPITOL THEATRE
One of the season’s best who
dur»-its is currently showing at the
Capitol Theatre in M-G-M’s "Scene
of the Crime," starring Van John
son in the role of a police lieuten
ant who solves the murder of a fel
low policeman.
Crammed with mystery and sus
pense, introducing a wide variety of
fascinating underworld characters,
and rising to a shattering climax,
here is a picture for all who find
satisfaction in a crime-thriller (
which keeps you on the edge of your
seat from opening sequence to final
fadeout.
The picture casts Johnson as Mike
i Conovan, police lieutenant fanatic
| ally devoted to his work and deeply
in love with his young wife, Gloria.
When a veteran member of the po
lice force is murdered, Mike is
assigned to track down the killer,
aided by his laconic assistant, Piper,
and C. C., a young stripling whom
Mike has taken under his wing. The
principal clue is the fact that the
| murderer has a twisted left hand, j
1 In the suspense-filled hunt, Mike
and his aides encounter a wide va
riety of sinister characters, includ
ing a "fixer,” a stool pigeon, two
! recent graduates of a famous prison,
. and Lili, a voluptuous strip-tease
I artist.
| Of course the murderer is caught
! in a sequence of terrific gun play.
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Armitage, Traveler
From Hawaii, 'Comes
jBack' to Territory
George T. Armitage, whose en
thusiasm for Alaska is second only
to his enthusiasm for his own
Hawaii, belives that an all-Alaska
travel association could do much to
develop and increase Alaska’s tour
ist business.
For 22 years, Armitage was asso
ciated with the Hawaiian Tourist
Bureau and is credited with much
of Hawaii’s success as a vacation
land.
Not long after he was graduated j
from the University of Montana
with that institution's first degree
in journalism, Armitage went to
the Islands to work for Riley Allen
on the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
During World War I he_ was with
the Siberian Expeditionary Force,
and soon after his return to Hon
olulu left the newspaper business
for the Hawaii Tourist Bureau of
which he was a part from 1920
until another war came along and
the business was discontinued in
1942.
Mr. Armitage then combined his
interest in tourists and his exper
ience as a journalist to enter the
publishing business. With his wife
he is editor and publisher of a
dozen or more publications of in
terest to travelers. Everything
from a dictionary of Hawaiian
words, to a short history, a cook
book of Hawaiian cocktails, is pub
lished with Armitage imprint. Al!
the souvenir publications, the big
post cards that are so popular that
the hotels are changing their mail
boxes so the mail slots will be
large enough to accommodate them,
these are all published by the Ar
mitages.
Here at the invitation of the
Alaska Development Board with a
view to studying Alaska's needs in
its approach to ah increased tourist
business, Mr. Armitage says that
he does not want to tell Alaskans
what they should do. "All I can
do is tell you of my own exper
iences in helping to develop Ha
waii's tourist business,” Mr. Armi
tage said.
“Come Backer’*
A “come backer,” this is MV.
Armitage’s second trip north. Two
i years ago Mr. and Mrs. Armitage
spent a month in the Territory.
"It was May, the weather was won
derful and I have been talking
Alaska ever since,” the Islander
said.
On his return to Hawaii from
his trip to Alaska, Mr. Armita'ge
wrote a series of articles about
Alaska for the Honolulu Advertiser.
"I think I conveyed my love of
your territory to the people of my
territory, and I believe that a
number of Hawaiians have made
the trip to Alaska as a result of
my boosting of Alaska," he said.
"One should not wait until tour
ist accommodations are ready.
Start advertising for tourist travel
and when the tourists come, you
will start building for them. Time
was when we didn’t have enough
rooms in Honolulu to take care of
thfc travelers. We started building,
then, for a time, we had an excess
of accommodations, and you will
probably have the same experience."
By a consolidated effort on the
part of the whole territory, Alaska
could develop a much greater in
dustry, Mr. Armitage is sure,
i Met in Ketchikan by George
I Sundborg of the Alaska Develop
ment Board, Mr. Armitage has al
ready had meetings with Chambers
of Commerce groups in Ketchikan,
Wrangell and Petersburg.
“We got off to an auspicious
start in Ketchikan," Mr. Armitage
explained. “Pledges to a tourist
fund of approximately $5,000 fol
lowed Bob Ellis' original pledge of
$1,000, Ellis, chairman of the tour
ist committee of the Chamber of
Commerce, was enthusiastic about
an all-Alaska plan.”
“Kokua" was the word Armitage
I used in describing the meetings in
Petersburg and Wrangell. Its
meaning? Hawaiian for “help or
I assistance or backing."
Goodwill Trips
One thing the man from Hawaii
would like to do is to promote an
exchange visit from Alaska to Ha
waii. "If a goodwill plane or ship
load of Alaskans could make the
trip to Hawaii during the winter
months and a similar trip from
Hawaii to Alaska could be made
in the summer, I think that alone
would do much to increase toufcs!
traffice to Alaska.
"Our territories are naturally
sympathetic. We complement each
other. Alaskans travel during the
winter, Hawaiians, usually, during
the summer. People from both of
the territories are great travelers.
Hawaiians who come to Alaska
want to come back, and I think
you Alaskans who come to Hawaii
feel the same way about our terri
tory. We should make a point of
exchanging travel.”
A recent traveler to Hawaii, ahd
close friend of the Armitage family,
Miss Mildred Maynard was the first
person Mr. Armitage "looked up”
on his arrival in Juneau.
He will be in Alaska about a
month and cover all of the Terri
tory before his return heme.
AMS EXAMINATIONS
WILL BE HELD IN
JUNEAU ON SEPT. 16
Alaska merit, system examinations
will be given in Juneau and in other
convenient Alaskan centers qn Sept.
16, according to Dr. I. J. Mont
gomery, supervisor. Examinations
include one for a district represen
tative child welfare worker for the
Department of Public Welfare, with
monthly salary range from $400-475
in the First Division and $460 to
$546.25 in the Second, Third and
Fourth Divisions.
Other tests will be given for Em
ployment Security Commission jun
ior interviewer, salary range from
$330 to $405 in the First Division,
$379.50 to $465.75 in Second, Third
and Fourth Divisions; junior stat
istician, First Division only, salary
range $330 to $405; and principal
appeals referee. First Division only,
salary range $400 to $475. Exmina
tion for accounting clerks with sal
ary range $285 to $335 will also be
given.
Dr. Montgomery stressed that ap
plication blanks must be mailed to
the Alaska Merit System, Box 201,
Juneau, prior to Sept. 1. Details
may be obtained by writing to the
Juneau office. Places for examina
tion will be determined by the num
ber of applications from the various
population centers, Montgomery
said. Tests in Juneau will be held
in the high school study hall.
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MANY ISSUES
TALKED OVER
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whether there will be a meeting of
heads of state,” a reporter remarked.
Mr. Truman replied flatly there i
will be no such meeting. He agreed
however, that he was differentiating
between heads of state and high
level meetings.
Anti-Inflation Controls ,
Turning again to anti-inflation
controls, the President said existing
government agencies could handle'
the administrative job efficiently, i
When asked whether that meant
another OPA is unlikely, he said:
| You can take it that way if you
| like.
He said he had been spending five
i years improving the government’s
j administrative setup and it is now
I an excellent and efficient machine.
| He repeated there is no need as yet
for price, wage-rationing controls,
I but when needed they should be put
i into operation all at once.
Threatened RR Strike
Mr. Truman said he is in constant
touch with John R. Steelman, his
assistant, who is trying to avert a
threatened railroad strike. But he
had no comment on demands by the
conductors and trainmep’s unions
for a 40-hour work week with no
loss in take home pay.
He also had no comment on what
a reporter termed the "apparent
defeat" of Senator Glen Taylor in
the Idaho primary. He said he might
comment when the official returns
| are in.
He confined his reaction to the
| Senate’s rejection of four of his
i nominations yesterday to a state
I ment that Senate courtesy still rules.
(OAST GUARD PUNS
ORGANIZED RESERVE
The Coast Guard Reserve Is now
making plans to organize and train
a limited number of personnel anf.
I to insure a specified number of
days’ drill with pay for the fiscal
year, according to the commander
of tne 17th Coast Guard district.
At present re-eniistments will
continue to be for inactive duty,
but when organized units art
formed, training with pay will be
authorized as finances permit, he
stated.
Re-enlistments will be in the
rating held at time of discharge or
in a comparable rating, and appli
cants must be between 17 and 45
years Of age and have been sep
arated from the Coast Guard with
an honorable discharge.
The Coast Guard Reserve was
formed by an act of Congress in
1941 and demobilized in 1946, but
it has never been entirely deact
ivated.
Former Coast Guard and Coast
Guard Reserve personnel wishing
to re-enlist may make application
to the Commander, 17th Coast
Guard District, post office box
2991, Juneau.
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I • TIDE TABLE •
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• AUGUST II •
• High tide 0:01 a.m., 15.0 ft. •
• Low tide 6:44 a.m., -0.3 ft. •
• High tide 13:14 p.m., 13.8 ft. •
• Low tide 18:46 p.m., 4.5 ft. •
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MONTGOMERYS HAVE
CABIN AT LENA COVE
Dr. I. J. Montgomery’s summer
cabin at Lena Cove has been com
pleted. It is a one-room structure
with a picture window framing a
view of Gastineau Channel. Dr.
Montgomery is head of the Alaska
merit system.
FROM BARGE
A. E. Owens of Barge, Alaska, is
a guest at the Baranof Hotel. i
FILM 'FRONTIER
MARSHAL' TONIGHT
AT 20TH CENTURY
Starting tonight the Gross 20th
Century is presenting the famous
screen western picture. "Frontier
Marshall,” starring Randolph Scott,
Nancy Kelly. Cesar Romero, Binnie
Barnes, and John Carradine. With
such a top flight cast of outstand- !
ing screen personalities, patrons are
assured of an exciting action smash
ing story as Randolph Scott who
plays the marshal, single-handedly
tames the wildest and wickedest
town of the old west.
In addition to the thrilling fea
ture, the management announces a
well rounded program of interesting
and entertaining short subjects. A
comedy featurette, “Pie in Your
Eye," with plenty of the old time
slap-stick situations that are always |
so popular with movie-goers. An in
teresting brevity that is sure to
please, "Babies, They're Wonderful,"
also a cartoon in Technicolor,
“Squawkin' Hawk,” and a brand
new issue of Fox News flown in by
air express.
WINTER WOLVES IN
FOR ROUGH GOING
Plans /or a more Intensified and
concentrated wolf 'control program
in Alaska were announced today by
Maurice Kelly, district agent of
predator control for the Fish and
Wildlife Service. Kelly will be
leaving for his headquarters at
\nchorage next week.
There will be four main areas of
jperation. Stanley K. Patrick and
loe Miner, predator control agents,
with some assistance from Bob
Baker, enforcement agent, will work
the Kotzebue region, concentrating
jn the Noatak and Colville River
basins where the wolves have been
whittling on the caribout and rein
deer herds. Before freeze-up oper
ations will be mainly with wolf
getters. Arrangements are made
for a permanent camp and the U.S.
Navy will make gas caches along
its cat trails for winter hunting
from two airplanes after the freeze.
The Alaska Peninsula area will
be handled by Hammond J. Ham
mond and Enforcement Agent Bob
Mahaffey at Dillingham. There a
new Cessna 170 plane will be used.
The object is to give the Peninsula
caribou herds a chance to come
back.
In the Anchorage area there will
be concentration on the wolves
working on the Nelchina caribou
herd in addition to those in the
Wrangell Mountains district where
there are some sheep. Last year’s
activities resulted in recovering of
54 bodies of wolves that had been
following the Nelchina herd. David
B. Harris, Bob Burkholder artd
Kelly will work this region.
Frank Glaser, the old master
wolfer who thinks like a wolf, will
be aided with a small plane to
cover his regular Fairbanks, Forty- j
Mile and Chicken districts.
Southeastern Alaska will be cov
ered by Hosea Sarber as usual.
Kelly reported that during the
fiscal year ending July 1st, 260
wolves had been taken by predator
control in Alaska as against 116
for the previous year.
Molotov in China
For Red Conference
(By Associated Press)
A Chinese Nationalist newspaper
says that Soviet Vice-Premier V.
M. Molotov is in Peiping for con
ferences with Chinese Red leader
Mao Tze-Tung. The report said
Molotov reached the Communist
China capital July 31st. There Is
no confirmation, however.
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