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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
You Wouldn't Recognize
 The Old Place

Has Juneau changed much through the years?
 It has changed so much that un- less you have visited the town re- gently you will have trouble finding your way around.
 D. H. McCloy. assayer for the Min CTS and Merchants Bank of Nome and who had an assay office here in 1899 came to Juneau last Jan- uary for his first visit in 40 years and walked all over town looking for a landmark" he could recognize.
 The old Occidental Hotel, then the fanciest place in Juneau" the Russian church, the Episc copal church and Behrends store were about the only places he remem- bered.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
116 6ALA5kA PLANES FOR EVERY ONE IN
 STATES, PER CAPITA

From statistics recently furnished a Congressional Committee in testi- mony relating to delivery of mail by air in Alaska 1t was shown that in the fiscal year 1889 there were ll6 times as many commercial planes in Alaska as in the United States; 70 times as many air miles flown in Alaska as in the United States; g times as many passengers flying in Alaska as in the United States; 1,034 times as many pounds of freight and express carried by air and 48 times as many pounds of mail carried by air in Alaska as in the United States-population con- sidered, or per capita.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
CITY LAYS MORE THAN
 MILE OF NEW SEWERS
Lu Liston photo.

New sewers costing $5l ,353.20 were laid down in Juneau during the past year under a City contract awarded the R. J. Sommers Construction Company.
 A total of 5,899 feet of main sew CTS and 3,034 feet of house con- nections were installed to serve Will loughby Avenue, Marine Way. Shat tuck Way Ferry Way and Admiral Way in downtown Juneau.
 Average cost of the work per lin- cal foot, including appurtenances was $5,75.
 A PWA grant supplemented City funds used for the improvement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
YEAR'5W0Rk GREATEST IN
 CITY HISTORY
Area of Paving More thdn Doubled = Mile and
 Half Added

The area of pavement in Juneau was more than doubled in l93S as the result of a municipal proJect which laid 1:59 miles of concrete streets.
 Financed by a s93,500 bond issue and a WPA grant which made total of $170,000, the street and sew CT improvement work performed Tn the past year has been the most ambitious in the history of the City of Juneau.
 New concrete paving, varying in width from 20 feet to 30 feet, was laid last summer on Willoughby Avenue, 18th Street, Calhoun Ave- nue, Marine Way, South Seward Street, Shattuck Way, Ferry Way, Admiral Way and E Street.
 27,147 Square Yards
 The 8,40O lineal feet of new paw ing consists of 27,147.81 square yards of what used to be gravel and dirt and which is now the finest con- crete paving to be found anywhere.
 In lineal feet, the new paving work comprises 48.8 percent of total Juneau pavement to date. In square yards it represents 54 percent of the total. Juneau laid $500 lineal feet Q3,00O square yards) of pave ment in 1885 and previous to that time had only 3,200 lineal feet or 10000 square yards of such streets.
 Today the City boasts 3.26 miles of paved streets.
 Cost Is Low
 Cost of the 1889 paving was $89,- 57l.13. The per square yard cost of $3.30 was considerably below that in 1885 when the figure was $3.62.
 The total contract for paving last year, including curbs, gutters, drain age appurtenances, etc, was SOL 934.18.
 Paving was laid by the L. J. Dowell Company, Inc, under con- tract. Work was planned and su- pervised by City Engineer Milton Lagergren.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
REFINAN(ING
 OF BONDS TO
 SAVE MONEY
City Administration Puts Into Effect Plan to
 Reduce Debt

Early this month, as the culmln- alton of a year of effort, the City of Juneau perfected and enacted a plan of bond refinancing which will save taxpayers thousands of dollars in interest and will pay off the City's debt under painless au- tomatic schedule.
 Under the refinancing plan, two old bond issues on which six per- cent interest has been paid in the past were called and reissued at three percent, thus cutting the an- nual interest in half.
 Issues so refinanced were S9O,0oO in school bonds and $44,000 in sew er bonds. A cash payment on March 1 of this year retired $5,000 of this total, leaving $129000 outstanding
 Large Saving
 The tax saving in the first year alone will be $3,810. The saving over a 15-year period will pay off the entire principal represented in the refinanced bonds.
 An important feature of the or dinance which the Council passed to put the refinancing plan in ef- feet creates special fund to be known as the 1940 General Obliga- tion Refunding Bond Fund into which taxes will be paid annually to be used for no other purpose than to pay interest and principal on the new issue By 1855 the bonds will have been retired. By 1859, under a schedule worked out for the City all of Juneaus present bonds will have been retired.
 Many contributed toward making this forward step possible. Mayor Harry I. Lucas has been working a year to bring it about. Secretary of Alaska E. L. (Bob) Bartlett has been helping. Alaska Delegate An thony J. Dimond obtained an Act of Congress making 1t possible for mu- nicipal corporations in Alaska to refinance outstanding bond issues
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
SEARCHLIGHT SCANS CLOUDS
 OVER JUNEAU
Ceiling Light Projettor Is Installed for Weather
 Bureau Work

A giant searchlight has been in stalled here to stab into the night over Juneau at three hour intervals to measure the height of clouds above the earth.
 The apparatus, known as cell ing light protector" is operated by the U. s. Weather Bureau.
 Throwing a beam from 450 watt lamp, the searchlight measures cloud height accurately up to 75,0O0 feet The light has been installed at the Forest Service warehouse and is op- erated from the Weather Bureau office in the Federal Building by remote control.
 Wires Leased
 A pair of telephone wires have been leased for turning 1t on and off. A switch in the office operates a relay switch at the warehouse, which trips the light on.
 As the light throws a vertical beam, and the distance from the Federal Building to the warehouse is known, all that must be learned to determine the heigh ht of the clouds is the gle between the building roof observation point and the illumination on the cloud. This angle is measured with an instru- ment known as clinometer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
JUNEAU TO VOTE ON CHANGING TO
 STANDARD TIME
Ballot 10 Decide Argued Question-N0W Hour
 Behind Seattle

Citizens of Juneau will vote at the municipal election on April 2 on proposal to adopt Pacific Standard Time as the official time here.
 This was decided last month when the City Council passed resolution placing the matter on the ballot at the request of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce.
 The ballot question will be:
 Shall Juneau time be changed permanently after April 30, 1940, to Pacific Coast Standard Time by ad- vancing it one hour?"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
Fore" Sounds On SS,000,000 Juneau Golf Course

Juneau boasts what has been called "the most expensive golf course in America" Located three miles south of the City at Thane, it's cost is figured at $8000,000.
 But it has to be figured this way: The nine-hole layout rests on waste material deposited from the old Alaska Gastineau Company gold mine, a venture which cost $17,000,- 900 and returned S9,000,000. The only thing left to show for the $8,- 900, ,OO0 difference is the golf course.
 It has other claims to fame. Its turf" consists of semi-silty sand, residue from the old mine operations. Playing winter rules, the golf ad- diets of Juneau are able to come in consistently with figures around par.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31

Half a ton of muskeg peat from the bogs north of Juneau recently was cut, dried and baled by enroll lees of the Montana Creek CCC Camp for shipment to the States for experimental purposes.
 Possibilities of commercial de- velopment of Southeast Alaska's extensive peat deposits are being investigated by vegetable packers of the West Coast.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
Juneau Building In Lasting
 Brick and Mortar

That Juneau is building flor keeps" is markedly apparent to infrequent visitors to the commun- ity. Among those who have re- marked on this fact recently is E.. L. Sampson of Ketchikan.
 New buildings here reflect, he said, that Juneau has an acute case of concrete-itis," condition which he described as mark of progress and prosperity.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
CITY ELECTION
 ON CALENDAR;
 FIVE OFFICES
Mayor, Three Countilmen, School Board Member
 to Be Chosen

Municipal politics, as well as Dl- visional and Territorial, will be to the fore in the coming month.
 The City election takes place April 9 with a Mayor, three Councilmen and a School Board Director to be elected. Offices at stake are those of Mayor Harry I. Lucas. Council men Sam Feldon. Ralph Beistline and Harry Lea. and School Director Grover c. Vim.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
ALASKA HAS 361
 N0TARIES; MOST
 INFIRST DIVISION

Alaska has 361 Notaries Public, according to a compilation made by the office of the Secretary of Alaska.
 The First Division, with l22, has the most, followed by the Third and Fourth, tied at 103 each, and the Second with B.
 Juneau has 59, more notaries than any other city in Alaska. Fairbanks has 55. Ketchikan 29, Anchorage 2S. Nome g and Seward 13.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
OFFICIALS Of Your City

Mayor Harry l. Lucas.
 Council Sam Feldon. E. J. Blake. Harry Lea. Ralph Beistline. E. E. Ninnis. Henry Messerschmidt.
 City Clerk Harley J. Turner, Clerk Etta Mae Duckworth, Assistant.
 Police Dan Ralston, Chief. Kenneth Junge, Assistant.
 City Engineer Milton Lagergren.
 Wharfinger J. E. Kearney, Wharfinger. J. L. Gray, Assistant.
 Librarian Ann B. Coleman.
 Fire Department V. w. Mulvihill, Chief. William Niederhauser. Assistant.
 agistrate Grover C. Vim.
 Health Dr. w. w. Council, Health Officer Magnhild Oygard, Health Nurse.
 Street FOreman Bert Lybeck
 Cemetery Caretaker Hans Nielsen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
GUTTER TO MAKE
 SPECIAL CRUISE
 TO BRISTOL BAY

A special cruise to Bristol Bay for the purpose of fisheries patrol work, observations and oceano- graphic study will be made this year by the Coast Guard cutter Redwing, which bases at Port Angeles, Wash ington.
 The Redwing will carry scientists from the U. s. Bureau of Fisheries on the special trip, scheduled from July 1 to September l.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
JUNEAU CHAMBER REPORTS YEAR OF
 CIVIC PROGRESS
Organization Active Dur ing 1939 for UpbuiId-
 ing of Community
By RAY H. STEVENS Secretary, Juneau Chamber of
Commerce

The past year was busy one for the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, both in tasks brought to comple- ton and in groundwork laid for civic and Territorial progress of the future.
 Memorable among the Chambers activities was opposition to the threat posed by the Slattery report which would have opened Alaska to colonization by European refugees. A Chamber brief exposing the fal- lacies of the Slattery report and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31

The ancient Romans are said to have named the salmon. They called it "salmo, leaping fish"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31

Tin cans form the largest im- ported item to Alaska. They are used in the canned salmon indus try.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
Many Marriages; Only a Few Divorces Here

Marriage is still highly popular institution in Juneau. Last year 145 couples took marriage VOWS here, according to the records of U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray.
 Down the hall in the office of Clerk of the District Court Robert Coughlin they will tell you that in 1889 the Court granted only 58 di- yorces.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31

The first steamboat ascended the Yukon River in 1866.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Erlich Film Shown
To D. C. Council

Representatives of the District OF
Columbia Motion Picture Council
attended over the week end a spe-
cial screening Of "Dr. Enrich s
Magic Bullet" which opens Friday
at the Earle.
Besides Mrs. F. A. Linzel, presi-
dent Of the council, those who at
tended were Mrs. Howard S. Paine
Chevy Chase Woman's Club; Mrs
Dwight G. Curtiss, Chevy Chase
Woman's Club; Mrs. E. j. Ryan
Daughters Of the American Revo-
luton; Mrs. Belle Cutter Parker
First Ward Citizens; Miss Mary
Parker, Mrs. Edgar B. Merritt, Dis
trict Of Columbia Federation OF
Women's Clubs; Mrs. G. M. Jansky
jr., American Association of Uni
versity Women; Mrs. E. w. Chaplin
Community Film Council: Mrs. G. L.
Chambers, League Of American Pen
Women; Mrs. A. N. Dickson, Chevy
Chase Woman's Club; Mr.. Sparks
drama department, George WASH
ington University, and the Rev. John
L. Nixon, social welfare department,
Washington Federation OF Churches.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

National Cornelia Otis Skinner In
Edna His Wife: $50 pm.
Earle-'Little Old New York" |"
Mr.. Fulton invents q steamboat:
II am, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10 and 10 pm.
Stage shows: 12:45, 1886, $40 and
o:05 pm.
Keith's-"SwissF Family Robinson" I"
screen account Of that escape from
civilization: 11:15 am, 1:20, 3:25,
$50, 1885 and $40 pm. March Of
Time: J.. sos, $40, 7:15. and
$40 pm.
Capitol-"The Light That Failed" !"
Ronald Colman In the Kipling
story: 10:45 am, 1:30, 4:2o, 7:10
and 10 pm. Stage shows: 1870,
$3.50, $40 and s:l0 pm.
Metropolitan" Geronimo" red
skins bite the dust: 11:20 am, 1:25,
$3.50, 5:35, TAO and 9:45 pm.
Palace-"Gone With the Wind"
with Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
Continuous performance from Gas
am. through 2:45 pm. Reserved
seat showing at 8 pm.
Columbia-'Remember the Night,
light-hearted romance on the ten
der side: 1885 an, 1855, 3:35, 5:35,
TAO and 0:40 pm.
Little-"Secret Agent" spy thriller
In the Hitchcock manner: II an,
1880, 2:30, 4:20. $40, 3 and $50 pm
Ttsns-Lux-News and ShoYte;
continuous 3yogn 10 an.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Civic Leaders Join
Club in Honorina
Andrew Kelley

The roster Of names on the hon
orary committee which will honor
Andrew R. Kelley with a testimonial
dinner Friday, March 8, at the Will
lard Hotel, includes a host of lead
ing personalities in civic and theatri-
cal circles. The dinner-testimonial
is being sponsored by the Variety
Club, with Commissioner Melvin G.
HaZen as general chairman.
Among those on the honorary
committee are Commissioner George
Allen, Leonard Bergman, George M.
Cohan, Stephen Early, Max Gordon,
Marcus Heiman, Gilbert Miller,
Commissioner David McCoach, Lee
and j. ]. Shubert, Grad Sears, s.
Charlie Enfield, Joseph Bernhard,
Harry Goldberg, Oscar A. Doob,
Joseph r. Vogel, Howard Dietz, G. C..
Moskowitz, Robert Gillham, Lynn
Farnol, S. Barrett Mccormick, Will
liam Rogers, William Scully, Joseph
Tumulty. Howard Strickling, G. C..
Pettijohn, Mark Foote, Jack Cohn,
Charles E. Mccarthy, Lew Pollack,
S. N. Behrman, George De witt,
George P. Marshall, Guthrie Nc
Clintic, Elmer Rice and Robert Z.
Sherwood.
Tickets are available at the Va
riety Club.
Evening star., 1940-02-26

remember. The R-K-O exchange
could not remember and, unfor-
tunately, it could not locate a press
book which would have been such
. handsome substitute for a better
memory.
Accordingly, the question was
tossed at random among readers of
entertainment items and immedi-
ately grand total of 81, 8 by phone,
~ by mail, let 1t be known the
melody in question was "Plaisirs
d'Amour," by Giovanni Martini.
That many persons knowing one
thing that well would be the sub
ject of special brochure by the
Chamber of Commerce in more
self conscious city.
First person to get us on the
phone was Miss Shirley Rowe, 80
Concord avenue NV. Among the
others whose memories are better
than ours, Mr.. Meakin's or R-K-O's
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Audience to Share
Prof. Quiz Show

AudNnceS VIII participate IN the
programs Prof. Quiz will present
daily when the &C. B. 8. Radio Re-
vue" opens Friday at the Earle, for
the professor will call upon mem
bers Of the audience to take part In
his program.
Cash prizes will be given to the
three winners of each show. Incl
dentally, according to WJSV, Prof.
Quiz started his program in WASH
tngton under the title of prof
Quiz and His Brain Busters" How
ever, although the program orig
mated here, the Earle management
has arranged to present the national
broadcast from its stage on Friday
at 8 O'Clock. This Is the Midwest
West Coast broadcast.
Evening star., 1940-02-26

act play-writing contest, giving the
judges, 1t is reported. quite q Job Of
judging. Those gentlemen emerged
from their solemn conclave in due
time, however, waving bravely aloft
the prize winning manuscripts. The
three plays which triumphed over
all competition will be staged by the
Cue and Curtain Club March l3 and
a at Western Presbyterian Church.
Winner In the contest was Eugene
Lerner's Destiny" which seems to
deal with the larger forces at work In
the world, its two leading characters
being Adolph Hitler and Katharine
de Medici. No small scope for q one
act play, but this isn't all. Some of
the other people involved In Mr..
Lerner's Destiny" are Nero, Oliver
Cromwell, Herod the Great, Ma
poleon and man named Mueller.
Leading roles in Destiny" will be
played by Jack Salamanca and
Phyllis Botta. others in the cast:
Alan Dewey, Miller Marshall, Leroy
Baker. Hugh Bryan, George Bishop
and Mr.. Lerner.
Second play on the bill will be
Jack SAlamanca's Half Moon Over
the CITY," to be played by Taminah
Irani, Jason Geigei, Ray Reiser
John Ligon, Jack Schultz and Dick
Ballard. The third-place winner
which will complete the program, is
Patsy Walkers Secession"
X \ X X
Another project by local drama
lists results in the leap year pro-
gram to be presented the evening Of
February 20 (of course) by the
dramatic and literary workshop OF
the Arts Club. The two origina,
plays-each dealing with leap yea,
and love-are Another Day" BY
Mrs. Edwin H. Etz, and a Shadow
play by Anne PEBBLES. another
Day" will be performed on the stage
of the Arts Clubs intimate theate,
by Maude Howell Smith, Anne
Rutherford, Gerald McGraw anc
Evening star., 1940-02-26

10 Cue CdTOlc
Lombard-C Clark Gable menage are
slightly premature. There's q heap
Of difference in wanting and having
Robert Taylor has been kidded
lot about his new mustache and
is weary of the joke. II wish people
would leave me alone" he COM
plains. I'm just an actor trying to
get along" Judy Garland Is un-
happy. After her showing in wizard
of OF" and Babes in Arms" she ex-
pected to go on to bigger and better
pictures. But all she gets after q
studio absence of four months is
a minor role, one of three girl
friends to Mickey Rooney in his
current Andy Hardy Meets a Debu-
tante." BY the way, the studio is
looking for bona-flde deb.
Ruby Keeler and AL Jolson to-
gether at the Brown Derby. A
photographer wants to take their
picture, but departs in a hurry when
AL makes a gesture Of annoyance.
BY the way, it's strange but true
that Hollywood divorcing couples
are usually friendlier after the break
than when they were married. To
watch Joan Crawford with Franchot
Tone, or Henry Fonda with Mar
garet Sullavan, you would never
guess at the period of hate or irrita-
ton that must have preceded their
respective divorces.
\ \ X X
Hugh Herbert plays six roles in
his latest picture, la Conga
Nights" He appears as himself, his
aunt and four of his sisters! .
Laurence Olivier is the clown on the
Pride and Prejudice" set. Just be-
fore q take" he contrives to get his
fellow actors in a state of the giggles.
Which is why the whole cast must
work two nights this week-to make
up for the lost time Paulette
Goddard calls for Charlie Chaplin
after her own chore on "The
Ghost Breakers" and they drive to
q hamburger stand, eat couple OF
them-then Charlie goes back to
work and Paulette goes home to bed
i. Bing Crosby reads while he
eats lunch in the Universal COM
missary. But don't get Bing wrong
his literature is q race sheet.
***
Vivien Leigh says 1t isn't true
that she was discovered by Charles
Laughton-as the latter's press rep
resentative is currently insisting.
She came to fame via part on
the London stage ). Warner Baxter
says that his reason for making
'.Earthbound" at Fox is to pay Oh
his income tax for last year. (He
earned $279 9807.) II I earned that
sort of money I'd deduct my income
tax from the weekly salary. It must
be embarrassing to be called on to
pay $150,000 on an income you had
last year, but not this :. Lew Ayres
has played q doctor so many times
on the screen that you would think
he could take care Of himself in
real life. But I saw him the other
day bareheaded In the rain. Nc
wonder he caught coldl
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Evening star., 1940-02-26

. brilliant technique and an un-
usually suave and telling touch.
Rogers "Telemann Fugue," Ravel's
"Ondine" and Bartok's "Ballade on
Hungarian Theme" gave him the
opportunity to make himself known
as pianist Of superb insight and
rare talent. His flair for the un-
usual was further shown in his en-
cores. Henry Cowell's "Exaltation," !"
where the elbow Of the left and right
arm alternately assisted the fingers,
and in the clever "A Woman Who
Talked Too Much" by Eric Satie.
In his short solo appearance Mr..
Wallenborn quite distracted the at
tention from Miss Jepson, for, ex-
quisitely played as were his accom-
paniments, he stood then as an
artist IN his own right and an ex-
traordinary fine one at that.
Evening star., 1940-02-26

William ]. McManus. The Shadow
play will be played by Dorothy
Winchcole, Elizabeth Clark, Miss
Rutherford and Mr.. McManus.
Western High School has pro-
duced the third instance of local
play-writing activity in its contest
Tor q one-act play, to be part of
Westerns 50th anniversary spring
play program. Winner Of this COM
petition was '"The Robots" a fan
tasy of the world of 1890, written by
Leslie Stevens, Western High senior.
The Robots" and two other plays
"A Sleeping Car" comedy of the
days Of 1890, and Murder! MUIR
der! Murder!" humorous mystery
yarn of today-will be staged March
at Western High School audi
torium.
The Players Club of Central Com
munity Center is extending the
scope OF its activities with classes in
the technique Of stage and platform
expression. These will be held each
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday eve
ming at Central High School, start
ing March 4.
The Monday and Thursday classes
Will include work in original in
depreciation and Characterization
through pantomime, correct stage
movement, analysis of character
and its expression through voice and
body and study in direction. William
F. Baker will be In charge Of these
sessions. Tuesday evenings will be
devoted to work In voice and speech
under the guidance Of Pauline e.
Oak.
The casting ofiice:
The Montgomery Players will hold
try-outs tonight at their general
meeting at Bethesda Chevy Chase
Community Center to cast Susan
and God" to be their final produce
ton Of the season. First rehearsals
are scheduled for next week, under
the direction of Frederick Kerby,
with the play slated for production
the evening of April 20 at Leland
Junior High School.
Thursday night the East WASH
tngton Troupers. will have try-outs,
open to any player interested and
not limited to members Of the group,
at Eastern High School. At that
time Director L. Zah Rogers will
cast both the one-act play the
Troupers viii enter In the WJSV
radio tournament and 1.-THE Whole
Towns Talking" to be the groups
spring paay.
Evening star., 1940-02-26

Twenty-six, or almost one-third, Of
the Districts traffic fatalities hast
year were centered In . rectangle In
the deWntown area, roughly bounded
BY F1efj9a avenue On the north,
Pennsylvania avenue On the south,
Maryland avemue On the east and
New 0a0D1AlTo aveaue - ths We9t.
Evening star., 1940-02-26

Derby Enrol
Flynn was In
dulging In some
horseplay wit h
Director Mix e
Curtiz and sud-
d e My foun d
himself on the
floor. He had
forgotten tina t
CurtiZ on c e
earned his living
as the strong
man Of q circus!
Those new re-
ports about the
visit Of the stork
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