ENDS
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King Cole Trio
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SHOWS
3 ;40—5:35—7:32—9:30
FEATURE
4:15—6:10—8:05—10:05
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A GREAT PICTURE IV Till TRADITION
OF “RATTLEGROUND”
THE GREATESmSUYS IN THE WORLD/
The lusty saga of the Marines who i
fought best when it was hopeless ... I
who laughed most when it was tough- l
est . . . and loved the girls who were A
closest!.; ■
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SGT STRYKER knew rharu
took more than a uniform to ^fflgggMr^
make a Man into a Marine.
ALLISON anu PETER had forty
four hours and thirty two minutes in
which to live happily ever after.
PFC RAGAZZI had no Tfe
trouble with the Nips, ffi
but was licked by a p
six foot Glamour - zon
•THE FLYNNS called a
cruce in their own war when
it came time for the Japs.
CPL THOMAS - a
hundred and seven
ry-five pounds in the
ring, but a two-ton
■ blockbuster on Iwq.
1MARY knew for
sure that all battles
weren't fought
out oo the islands.
JOHN WAYNE
■Marring JOHN AGAR • ADELE MARA . FORREST TUCKER
with WALLY CASSELL • JAMES BROWN • RICHARD WEBB • ARTHUR FRANZ
JULIE BISHOP •* JAMES HOLDEN • PETER COE • RICHARD JAECKEL
Screen Play by Harry Brown —James Edward Grant • Srory by Harry Brown
Directed by All^n Dwan • Associate Producer—Edmund Grainger
A REPUBLIC PICTURE
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DV fIC—0NE 0F THE FUNNNIEST “BABY A “MUSIC BY MARTIN”
rAflUd TOM & JERKY’S EVER!! PUSS” 9 Completely Enjoyable!
SHOWS
at
2:00
4:30
7:00
9:30
FEATURE
at
2:35
5:05
7:35
10:05
AWARDS FOR BEST
TRAVEL POSTERS BY
VISITORS ASSN.
The Alaska Visitors Association,
newly formed organization dedica
ted to the development of Alaska’s
tourist industry, announces that it
is providing $50 in prizes for a stu
dent poster contest being sponsored
by the Alaska Education Associa
tion.
Many Territorial schools are com
i peting in the contest, the theme of
i which is “Vacation in Alaska.” El
iminations will be held locally by
the different schools and their best
posters sent to Juneau before May
8 where twenty will be selected.
Prize winning efforts will form
the AEA’s exhibit at their head
quarters at the Palace Hotel at
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youl Simply writs or wire your fervor It* j
■hop or your business house, requesting i
that your merchandise be ihlppod by Ab
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the annual July convention of the
National Education Association In
San Francisco.
About 3000 visiting teachers from
all over the U. S. are expected to
view the exhibit, each, the AVA
hopes, a potential customer for
Alaska’s vast tourist attractions.
Children have been urged to fea
ture things of interest to visitors in
their own localities and everything
is expected, ranging from posters
representing the gold dredges and
birch trees of the north, Mt. Mc
Kinley and the beautiful Matanus
ka Valley of the railbelt, to South
east Alaska’s fishing fleets, fiords
and glaciers.
R. C. Rose, Assistant General
Passenger agent of the Alaska
Steamship Company, has promised
each competing school a copy of
that company’s Sydney Laurence
poster as an example of the best in
commercial art.
SENATE PRESIDENT
RETURNS ANCHORAGE
Gunnard Engebreth, president of
the senate of the recently adjourned
legislature, has returned to his
home in Anchorage via Pacific
Northern Airlines.
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• TIDE TABLE »
• April 1 •
• Low tide 3:57 a.m. 5.7 ft. •
• High tide 9:59 a.m. 14.3 ft. •
• Low tide 4:39 p.m. 0.7 ft. •
• High tide 11:18 p.m. 14.1 ft. •
• •
• April 2 •
• Low tide 5:07 a.m. 4.0 ft. •
• High tide 11:10 a.m. 15.3 ft. •
• Low tide 5:33 p.m. -0.1 ft. •
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APRIL
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IS THE
HATE
FOR THE
BIGGEST
SHOW
IN
JUNEAU’S
HISTORY!
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"SANDS OF IWO
J!MA” COMING
SUNDAY, CAPITOL
"Sands of Iwo Jima," Republic’s
remarkable story of the Marines’
greatest hour, which starts Sunday
at the Capitol Theatre, will rank
as one of the really great war pic
tures of the age.
Made w^h the complete cooiier
ation of the U. S. Marine Corps, the
film combines all of the majesty
and wretchedness, the courage and
cowardice, the hope and despair and
glory of war with a human tender
story of a group of men, their
dreams and their women.
The story, w'hich is painted
against the bloody background of
the battles of Tarawa and Iwo Jima,
starts at a Marine training camp in
New Zealand in 1943. A squadron of
U. S. Leathernecks — which is to
make history in the Pacific — is
learning to fight, the hard way,
from a tough and seasoned cam
paigner, Sergeant John Stryker.
John Wayne has been cast as
Strykff. and turns in the most pow
erful, dynamic performancp of his
career.
Stryker’s ruthless training tactics
make the relationship between him
and his men a difficult one. They
all dislike him, but ff?. Peter Qon
way, played by John Agar, detests
him.
When Stryker tries to dissuade
him from marrying Allison Bromley,
played by lovely Adele Mara, whom
he meets at a servicemen’s club, I
Conway rejects the advice. This
romance is a poignant, touching epi
sode in the midst of the brutality
of war.
The climax of this great picture
is the arrival of the Marines and
the famous flag raising.
WINTER - PLANTED
SALMON EGGS ARE
DEVELOPING NOW
A check of king salmon egg plant
ing in Montana and Spring Creeks
yesterday by the Alaska Depart
ment of Fisheries shows up satisfac
torily at this time, according to C.
L. Anderson, director.
The 30,000 king salmon eggs I
planted in the two streams last
December 22 are developing. Spring
Creeks eggs in a temperature of
about 40 degree F. are hatched out
and are about an inch long \yith
the yolk sac still attached though
the little fish are still In the gravel.
Montana Creek water is colder.
The fish are forming within the egg
and almost all checked were alive.
According to previous planting
experiments if the salmon develop
and go to sea. those that survive
will return in three years to spawn.
It is possible that some will return
in two years.
The eggs were furnished through
the Washington state department
of fisheries.
SPRING WORK IS
UNDERWAY ON
KETCHIKAN ROAD
Maintenance work on the Ketch
ikan-Wards Cove road is being ac
celerated this week to put it in
good shape for traffic after the
spring break up, Hugh A. Stoddart,
Division Engineer with the Bureau
of Public Roads said today. Stod
dart and E. H. Cowan, design en
gineer returned to Juneau, Thursday
afternoon after inspecting the Ket
chikan roadways.
The road softened up as the win
ter frost has left the ground and
improvement of the condition is
being started immediately by BPW
road crews. Chris Wyller, BPW
District Engineer, who also accom
panied Stoddart to Ketchikan is
remaining there to make arrange
ments for securing a gravel supply
to be used on the weaker sections
of the road.
TO ANCHORAGE
Floyd Guertin, Territorial Vet
eran Affairs commissioner has left
for Anchorage via Pacific Northern
Airlines on business of his office.
"DANCING IN THE
DARK" IS COMING
TO 2GTH CENTURY
William Powell. Betsy Drake and
Marl; Stevens in “Dancing in the
Dark” has been announced as the
next attraction, opening Sunday,
at the 20th Century Theatre.
In the picture, Powell plays a
has-been movie star. Emery Slade,
who hits the comeback trail through
mentoring a young starlet for the
lead in a major 20th Century-Fox
picture. "The Bandwagon.”
Miss Drake displays a whole new
string of abilities in "Dancing In
the Dark. The role of the starlet
who, with the connivance of vet-1
eran Powell and her press agent
boy friend, played by Stevens,
usurps the leading role in a pic
ture that had been intended for a
reigning Broadway star, affords
Miss Drake both dramatic and mus
ical opportunities. Opposite Powell,
Miss Drake has a strikingly dra
matic part; opposite Stevens a gaily
romantic one.
Powell is said to give much his
finest portrayol in years, in the
role of the once powerful and swell
headed film star who has fallen
from grace.
COMMUNICATION
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 27—
To the Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Alaska
Dear Friends:
Indian Commissioner Myer has
circulated to the press and to Held
oiiices of the Indian .Bureau, a re
lease of March 20th stating that
certain tribal attorney contracts of
mine will be cancelled because of
statements by the Indians them
selves that I have been negligent
in my work. This scandalous state
ment is part of the campaign by
Myer to run me out of business. It is
based on personal spite because
Indian groups, through me, have
opposed some of his policies.
Through this release he is trying to
do by defamation what he has
failed to do by administrative ac
tion because Secretary of the In
terior Oscar j L. Chapman has
stopped him.
The statements made by the In
dians were based not on their know
ledge, but entirely on the represen
tations of the Commissioner him
self and of his subordinates, and
on pressure brought by ‘the Cmn
missidn upon these Indians 'to get
rid of me. The charges of the Com
missioner have not been proven,
and 'are absolutely false.
To the contrary, the cases I am
handling have made excellent pro
gress. The Commissioner tried un
successfully to reject four other
contracts of mine on precisely the
same grounds. The cases were ap
pealed to Secretary Chapman. The
Secretary referred them to a com
mittefe headed by Assistant Solicitor
William Flanery. The committee re
ported that:
"The committee is not able to
find on the record before it that the
services required of Mr. Curry are
not being performed, or that the
obligations imposed upon him by
these additional contracts will not
be performed in the event the con
tracts are approved.”
Secretary Chapman sustained
these findings, reversed Myer’s ac
tion, and approved all four of (he
contracts in question.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) James E. Curry
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20 LIBRARY UNITS
SHIPPED ON BARANOF
TO KETCHIKAN AREA
A shipment of 20 units of the
Rotary Club sponsored Sears, Roe
buck Foundation Southeast Alaska
Circulating Library will be made
to Ketchikan Sunday on the steam
ship Baranof, it was disclosed to
day. The Alaska Steamship Com
pany is cooperating in the move
ment of the units, furnishing the
transportation to Ketchikan.
The library units consist of 10
boxes of book.; for adults and 10
for juveniles. It is the second ship
ment of the circulating library
books to be made from Juneau, the
first going out recently to Kake
and Angoon.
At Ketchikan the books will be
received by Mrs. R. E. McElderry,
Ketchikan Librarian who will han
dle their distribution to various
points in the southern district. She
will be assisted in this work by C.
M. Archbold, Division Supervisor of
the U. S. Forest Service.
The units will be divided into
two each, for adults and Juveniles,
to be sent out to the following des
igns: led points: Clover Pass, Moun
tain Point, Metlakatla, Klawock,
Annette Island, Bell Island, Myers
Chuck, Kasaan, Point Baker and
Tokecn.
FROM WHITEHORSE
Mr. and Mrs. W. Griffin of
Whitehorse are guests at the Bar
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