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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-05
NAVY NOW ACCEPTING
 FIRST ENLI5TMENTS IN
 ALASHA; HERE'S HOW

The Navy Department has auth orized the Commandant, Seven- teenth Naval District, Kodiak, Alaska, to accept applicants for first enlistment in the Regular Navy. Until recently, all such applicants had to travel to Se- attle, Washington, to enlist. At present, Kodiak is the only sta- tion open for applications, but it is planned to have a travelling recruiting unit visit various cities in Alaska if the number of ap- plications warrants such action.
 Those eligible for enlistment must be male citizens of the United States between seventeen and thirty-one years of age, who have had no service in any branch of the armed forces. Members of the Inactive Naval Reserve who have had no other service are also eli gible. Applicants under 19 years of age must be without dependents, those over 19 and under 21 must not have more than one dependent, and these over 21 must not have more than three dependents.
 Information on elistments may be obtained by writing to the Dis trict Director of Personnel, Head quarters, Seventeenth Naval Dis trict, Kodiak, Alaska, or, Capt James s. MacKinnon, Box 1904,
 uneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-05
RADIO LOG KINY - JUNEAU Alaska Broadcasting Go.
 c. B. S.


 MONDAY EVENING 5:00-Magic Carpet. 5:15-G. I. live. 5:30-Totem Talk-Forecasts 5:45-Spotlight Band. 6:00-PAA News. 6:l5-Amos and Andy. 6;45-Alaskan Adventure. 7.00-Here's to Veterans. Ills Standard News-Forecasts 7:30-Tony Martin Show. 8:00-Myrtery House. 8.30-Vocal Parade. 9:00-Family Theatre 9:30-Supper Club. o.45-Alaska Line News 70 00-Words with Music. 10 'l5-Forecasts All programs are subject to change
 without notice. Daytime forecasts on weekdays it 800. 930 A M, and l2 Noe
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NOTICh

The members of Junsau Post No 1, The American Legion, Depart ment of Alaska, at it's regular meet ing on January 26, 1948, will vote m a proposal to authorize the Le- ion Building Association to grant easement over a portion of Lot
 3 in Block No. 4, approximately three feet by one hundred feet in dimension
 First publication, Dec. 12 1947. Last publication, Jan. Is, 1948.
Evening star., 1948-12-02

mystery, but It's for sale all over
town. These commercial careers
continue through various markets
black and otherwise the grave
Trading, and proflt-taking, is life
itself to these people. The Com
munists may think they can regi-
ment them. II so, 1t will be the
first time in history.
If the Reds get Shanghai, they'll
get a huge, Oriental Brooklyn op.
Grating like a brawling fair in
country courtyard.
To one who last saw Shangha
hushed and sullen under japanese
occupation, the change in the city
is astounding. Shanghai now Il
entirely Chinese, with all foreign
restaurants thrown off.
The police tolerantly watch traf.
fic so crowded and so undisciplinec
that those who don't jaywalk risk
injury by simply obeying signals
There's another difference-trafft
now moves on the right side Of the
street, or tends to. However, it Is
only tendency-so no real harm Is
done in Chinese eyes. (Oriental
traffic formerly moved on the left
side of a street,
Besides the clogged stream OF
traffic, old women sell shoestrings
Evening star., 1948-12-02

and long underwear and plastic
combs on the steps Of skyscraper
banks.
Considering the hard times Of the
civil war, there are curiously few
beggars about Everybody acts as
though he Is working at some job
no matter how small. More often
than not, the individual is his own
boss, with a small stock of mer-
chandise-frequently surplus goods
which he sells in the atmosphere OF
pitchman and hawker.
The city is rundown but thor
oughly Chinese-and 1t looks more
crowded and buster than ever
Business may be highly inflated, but
it is everywhere.
The onetime Paris of the Orient
may become a second Moscow. but
the Communists can be sure of one
thing-it won't be easy.
Evening star., 1948-12-02
Tough Job Seen Ahead
For China Reds il They
Capture Shanghai
By jones D. White
Press Foreign Correspondent


SHANGHAI, Dec. 2.-They worry
here about whether and when the
Communists will take Shanghai
And If that happens, what then?
If the Communists know Shang-
hal, they are worrying, too.
This is a city of 100000 very
rugged individualists, who are about
as inclined to communism as the
New York Stock Exchange. Busi-
ness careers begin here for impov-
erished young men Of 5 and 6
years, when they enter commerce
with tray Of peanut brittle, millet
cakes or a dozen tubes Of face black
ening goo which American Marines
never got around to using in the
war against Japan.
To whom they sell this stuff Is a
Evening star., 1948-12-02
AeronuuticuI Scientists
Discuss Supersonic Flying

The technical problems Of flying
supersonic airplanes were discussed
last night at meeting of the
Washington Section of the Insti-
tute of the Aeronautical Sciences
In the National Museum.
Principal speaker was Melvin N.
Cough engineering test pilot Of
the National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics and chief Of Lang
LEY Flight Research Division. Rob-
ert j. Woods, chief design engi-
Evening star., 1948-12-02

Soap was q highly expensive item
until 1900 when a French scientist
discovered soda could be made from
common salt and by his research
made soap available to common
neople.
Evening star., 1948-12-02
THE EVENING STAR, Washington .. c. B-1


neer, and Paul G. Emmons, chief
aerodynamicist Of the Bell Aircraft
Corporation, also spoke.
Brig. Gen. Donald L. Putt, USAF
director of research and develop
ment, was chairman of the meet
ing.
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NO CLUES TO
LOST PLANES
pA(. COAST
Search by Over 40 Craft
fruit|ess-fainf Signals
Followed Silence

continued from page one,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-11-08
AMERICAN LEGION
AND AUXILIARY TO.
HOLD JOINT MEETING

Tonight at eight O'Clock in the
Legion Dugout The American Lee
gion and the American Legion Aux
iliary will have the first meeting to
he held jointly for long period
OF time
The gathering has resulted from
weeks of planning, and is expression
Of policies of the organization COM
monty practiced in many other
communities.
Pest Commander Chester Zenger
and his Legion Auxiliary Committee,
Of which Ted Smith is chairman,
have expressed the hope that a
large attendance tonight will lead
to a continuation of this plan at
times to be determined by both
branches of the organization.
Amoilg important matters Tor con-
sideration at tonight's meeting will
be final plans for Armistice observ-
ances, and the dance, which has
been conducted by The American
Legion during the week of Armistice
day for many years.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-11-08
CHURCH OF CHRIST
IS ESTABLISHED
IN JUNEAU NOW

Opening the new building of the
Church of Christ in Juneau a
week ago last Sunday gave per-
manency to the sixth Alaskan con-
gregation of that faith. Congre-
cations of this church have been
meeting for years at Fairbanks.
Seward, Ketchikan, Craig and An
chorage.
The movement Of which this
group is a part began in several
places in the early 10Th century. 1t
was the result of several men
thinking Independently Dissatis-
fled with non-scriptural holdovers
from reforming the church, this
movement concerns itself with re-
storing the New Testament church.
Although the movement is young,
comparatively, restoration churches
claims to be in the upper ten, ac-
cording to membership in Protes-
tant churches.
The Church of Christ is par
ticularly strong in the South. Nash-
vile, Tenn, having about co con-
gregations. There are churches in
al the States and many foreign
countries.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-11-08
JUNEAU SCHOOLS TO
HAVE OPEN HOUSE
TONIGHT AT SEVEN

Everyone is invited 10 attend the
annual -to-School night, which
will be held in the Juneau Public
Schools this evening between the
hours of seven and nine. Each room
in the High School and Grade
School will hold open mouse and
students work will be on display.
Back to School night marks the
opening of the 28th observance of
American Education Week. At 3 80
a short musical program will be
presented in the Grade School
Auditorium. The juneau High
School Band, under the direction of
Joseph Shofner, and the High
School Mixed Chorus, directed by
Miss Beatrice McNeeley, will be on
the program.
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have come, and found no trace OF
the tour-engined Neptune bomber
The Cutter then stood by to aid
three Coast Guard communications
trucks at Cape Flattery, on the
northwestern tip of Washington
State in securing an accurate fix
en- any calls that might be heard.
There were none
Navy authorities at the WILDLY
Island air station said the trans
missions monitored Friday and sat
III day were so weak we could not
tell if they were distress signals,
! eut we proceeded in that hope; now
that slight encouragement appears
TO have petered out"
OIL SLICK
The calls and sighting of an oil
slick at the mouth of Tahsis Inlet
gave rise to the belief that the
tomter had been ditched and at
least some of the crew had reached
shore The planes life raft carried
c hand-powered radio transmitter
, which would give off signals similar
to those heard
Clearing weather gave the Is
y. S. military and four Royal Can
adian Air Force search planes a
chance to cover all lower levels of
Vancouver Island. Clouds obscured
mountain peaks where it is now
feared the bomber crashed.
Both the Navy and Coast Guard
said that distress calls picked up
yesterday had no similarity to those
OF the past two days. The signals
were on different frequency and
directional bearings placed their
origin in the Russian-held Kurile
Islands of Japan
SEARCH HAMPERED
Snow, rain squaiIs and low cell
ings hampered the hunt for the two
either missing planes-a Pacific AL
aska Air Express airllner which dis
appeared in the Sitka- Ketchikan
area Thursday with II aboard and
q navy privateer patrol bomber,
with a crew of II, which failed to
return to its Kodiak base after an
Aleutians flight Wednesday.
Clues were lacking on the fate
OF 10th planes. The only report on
the airliner was that of an unidenti- |
lied ground observer who told the |
Coast Guard he believed he had !
heard a plane crash Thursday on |
Prince OF Wales Island, west of Ket-
chikan.
More than 40 planes and a num-
Ger Of surface ships were engaged in
the searches, described as the most
extensive ever conducted in the
area
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-11-08
DAYS OF '9S"
ARE RELIvED Ar
BIG BANQUET

SEATTLE, Nov 8.-tRl- Those
tabled days Of So Of the Alaska
gold rush were reliyed once again
Saturday night cy members of the
Alaska Yukon Pioneers Association,
who celebrated the golden anniver-
sary of the historic stampede with
a banquet.
Staged by Seattle Cabin No l
Of the Association, the dinner was
attended by approximately 600 sour
doughs ana their friends. 1t was
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-11-08
MULLANEY (0NFERS WITH
ALASKA TAX COLLECTORS

M. P. Mulaney, Tax Commission
err from the Territory, returned
last week following a routine check
up of field offices at Anchorage,
Fairbanks, Palmer and Wasilla.
Mulaney held conferences with his
agents and representatives. on pro-
cedures on tax collection. He
spent two and half weeks in
the Interior
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he fifth annual banquet.

the fifth annual banquet.
Behind the main table in the hall
the Pioneers had placed a statue
of the typical Klondiker, a figure
executed by the late Victor Alonzo
Lewis, which had been inspired by
skagway Bill Fonda, one of the
oldtimers.
Fcnda's widow, Mrs Lucy Fonda,
was among those attending the cele-
bration. A famous couple among
the guests was Capt and Mrs. A. j.
Goddard, who operated the first
steamboat down the Yukon River
Mrs. Goddard was the first licens-
ed woman pilot on the river.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-11-08
SON FOR MANSKERS

A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Troy Mansker in st. AIMS Hos
pital yesterday morning. The baby
TIPPED the scales at eight pounds
three ounces.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-11-08
ROBERTS JOINS ARC

Keith Roberts has been en-
pieyed by the Alaska Road Com
mission as office engineer stationed
in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-11-08

1t is believed that Niagara
Falls will wear its way back to
Lake Erie in about 5000 years.
Evening star., 1948-02-29
HOLLYWOOD,

When I come home at night
feel tired" Jimmy Stewart told his
doctor. "Is there anything wrong
with me?" "Yes," replied the doc
tor, You're getting old"
Mr.. Stewart, until very recently
the boy Scout" of pictures, will be
40 years old in May. That's not
old, but it's a milestone.
"See the gray in my hair" says
Jimmy, pausing in his drink-half
cream, half milk-to show the
silver streaks on his head. Eyes,
I sure am getting old" He grins,
and adds, And I honestly don't
mind"
But with 40 just around the cor
ner, Jimmy is making two big
changes in his life-privately and
professionally. He seriously wants
to get married, and he's changing
his type of roles in pictures.
In his current Alfred Hitchcock
chiller thriller, Rope" Jimmy
plays smooth, suave intellectual,
the former teacher of two boys who
brutally murder a schoolmate.
For a year Jimmy has been tell
ing me that he wants to get mar
ried. And heaven knows the girls
in Hollywood want to marry Jimmy.
He's nice, and he's successful, and
with a lot of money in the bank.
But so far nothing has happened.
There have been several false
alarms, though, on the Stewart
Evening star., 1948-02-29
HOLLYWOOD.

The movie-makerS' theme song
for 194s is dreary ditty called
Economy"
The chorus goes, "You gotta cut
the costs, boys" and they're singing
it Justify. So far, however, they've
done little but sing.
A money-saving program in the
studios is none the less called for
by the financial facts. Federal
amusement tax collections show
that movie box Office receipts for
1s47 exceeded the record breaking
figure of 81 ,562, 1925 for 1916. But:
/. Production costs have risen
steadily. ...
2. In consequence net profits, by
the best available calculation,
dropped $25 100000 in 1947.
g. European markets for Ameri-
can pictures are shot. The biggest
of these, representing an income OF
$50 100000 annually. disintegrated
when England imposed a Is per
cent tax on imported LlIIlS ldSt yedi
The Overall Plan.
Movie moguls say they are going
to attack this situation at the
source, production.
A survey of major studios indi-
Gates that the overall plan runs
something like this:
/. General reduction Of produc-
ton budgets. Pictures costing ST.
900 900 to $3,5O0,0o0 in l947 would
be made for $1,000,000 to $4,000. .0Oo
they hope.
2. Pre- production rehearsals. This
cuts production time. by eliminating
the necessity for reshooting scenes
again and again.
8. Tightening of scripts. In pre-
production editing, all scenes not
vital to the story are cast out be-
fore the cameras turn. Heretofore
many scenes have been included
Evening star., 1948-02-29
BY the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

f4o1LY Wooo.
Newspapermen, sick OF being dis
torted on the screen, were free with
advice in letters to James Stewart
when it was announced that he
would portray a reporter in a forth
coming film.
To avoid overworked misrepre-
sentations of the press, they urged
Stewart:
Don't sit on the publishers desk
and brashly tell him how to run his
rag" or sheet" Don't even tell
him how to run his newspaper. r."
Don't punch a typewriter with one
finger.
Don't roll your wet raincoat into
a ball and hurl 1t at a brother re-
porter, whistle with thumb and
forefinger at the office blond, or
slam the typewriter carriage back
and forth vigorously before begin
ming to write.
Don't swagger into police stations
and baWl out desk Sergeants.
Don't swig from a pocket flask
while writing story. This just
doesn't happen in city rooms.
Don't act like an underworld
character, dress like a tramp, or
leer at women in bars. Real news
men have manners-and wives, too
Jimmie took this advice, and de-
ported himself quite realistically in
the film (eCall Northside 777') but
He wrote his copy single-space
He typed banner headlines at the
top of his story. Both are glaring
errors which any publicity man at
Evening star., 1948-02-29
Gate, at Last, Swings a Hit

The play is filled with Irish visit
fulness, Irish superstition, Irish pre-
dilection for making fun of itself
Irish jesting at the fog-witted Eng
lish. The blending of a comedy OF
manners, sharply epigrammatic in
the vein of Wilde or Coward, and
the fanciful content is perfectly ac-
complished.
After two essays, neither of which
was we'll received, the entire COM
pany was exhilarated by the favor
able audience reaction to the third
production.
Hilton Edwards and Michael Mac
Liammoir, who conduct this fine
repertory theater in Dublin, received
visitors backstage after the curtain
had fallen and found themselves
unable to explain why Where Stars
Walk" had been delayed two weeks
in presentation.
You see," said MacLiammoir. who
wrote the play and gave beautiful
performance as the legendary
troubadour translated to earth. I'VE
were at a loss as to just what plays
out of our list of several hundred
pieces we should bring to attention
here in New York. Many of our great
est successes in Dublin Mourning
Becomes Electra" the most popular
of all. and many other Eugene
O'Neill plays, also trunkful of Eng
lish and American pieces; Ireland
itself has not and never has had
any outstanding playwright in terms,
at least, of popularity-are already
known here and well known. So We
decided to be as Irish as possible. "
1t is unlikely that their stay here
will be extended after March 6,
when, quite probably, the company
will go to Boston: ...
While MacLiammoir did not say
so. we caught an undercurrent of
surprise that sons of the ould sod
in New York have not been rallying
around as might have been expected
for interchange of nostalgia emotion
washed down by copious draughts
of spiritual potheen.
Many Of those we have met"
said another member Of the COM
pany, retain their brogue and their
Irish characteristics and all their
enthusiasm for Ireland-as a place
to come from! And no wonder" he
added, laughing
When Hilton Edwards was advised
that Boston is heavily Irish city,
he pursed his lips, in the manner
of one disillusioned.
released by the North American
Newspaper Allianee)
Evening star., 1948-02-29
By Howard c. Heyn

purely for pretentious reasons-to
enhance atmosphere or to produce
a more elaborate effect. Today's
major scripts average 125 pages,
against previous 1876.
Fewer Pictures.
4. Reduction OF story purchases
and, if possible, story prices. Most
studios have shelves stacked high
with scripts never produced because
new and more timely material was
forthcoming from best-seller lists
and the Broadway stage.
5. Fewer pictures. Most of the
majors have announced abandon
ment of "B" pictures. Bad pictures
made money during the war; they
don't now. Louis B. Mayer, who
sounded the first retrenchment call
last May, before the British tax,
said Metro-Goldwyn-May had a
reserve of 80 unreleased films re-
presenting an investment of $685.
100000. MGM, he said, would make
only "a pictures year for at least
two years, drawing upon this reserve
to bring the total annual issue to
about 36. Almost all other big
studios have ample stocks of unre-
leased films.
6. Lower salaries for top stars and
general reduction of studio person.
mel.
This last economy device is usually
the first considered. But a check
shows that layoffs have been con-
fined almost entirely to clerical help
and publicists.
Won't Hit Top Stars.
Samuel Goldwyn recently an
nounced a so per cent reduction of
executives salaries. But a check
showed he had only four to six
earning from 5000 to $500 weekly
Such a cutback, in Hollywood, is
peanuts.
But Goldwyn also said every one
who worked for him in the future
Evening star., 1948-02-29
By Lawrence Perry

NEW YORK.
Where Stars Walk" produced
by the Dublin Gate Theater Co.
at the Mansfield, is the third. of a
series of Irish plays by this gifted
group. It is regrettable that this
charming adnixture of reality and
fancy was not used earlier-instead
of John Bulls Other Island, I"
which is altogether outdated Shaw,
and "The Old Lady Says No." which
puzzled audiences beyond any pos
Sibility of entertainment.
On the other hand, Where Stars
Walk" is thoroughly delightful, a
folk tale of princess and trouba-
dour of ancient Gael reincarnated
In present-day Ireland as house
servants who, in dead of night, fare
back to the realm of faery. The
scene is laid in a Dublin drawing
room; a retired actress is preparing
to do for charity play based on
this very legend as set down in
verse by william Butler Yeats.
Evening star., 1948-02-29
By SheiIoh Grohom

matrimonial front. For awhile we
all thought that his long friendship
with Margaret SULLIVAN would end
at the altar. He was best man at
her wedding to his best friend,
Henry Fonda. And he usually beaus
her in between marriages. But
Jimmy says it's friendship and
nothing else.
Recently Jimmy has been dating
blond and beautiful Myrna Dell
But when I queried him about his
intentions he said, Nothing seri-
ous-we go out just for laughs" I
printed his remark and Miss Dell
didn't like it a bit. When Jimmy
called her for a dinner date, she
said rather acidly, For laughs?"
Whatever you say on the sub
ject turns out wrong" says Jimmy.
"If you say It's nothing serious,
you sound like a heel. If you say
anything suggestive of having fun,
you're a cad. You just can't win.
But I do want to get married and
have a lot of kids. Yet I've taken
this long about getting married
and I'm not going to be rushed into
anything
Has Bachelor Ways.
I doubt If Jimmy will ever get
married if the proposing is left to
him. What you need" I tell him
"is an aggressive girl who'll stand for
no nonsense and do the proposing. ~
Evening star., 1948-02-29
Tidal Wave of Economy Sweeps Hollywood
Cuts Film Production Costs Are Charted Effort to Keep
Profits Up as Box Office Receipts Drop

would have to take less pay. And
while the average actors salary is
fixed by guild scale Or contract.
there is some likelihood that free
lancing stars will get less in 1948.
Second-grade stars, that is. Top
people undoubtedly will get what
they ask.
The opinion has been advanced in
financial circles that economy in
the movie industry may be the first
step. in a general retrenchment
among the rest of the Nations great
industries. But there is little in
Hollywood to support such a view.
Movie studios are inclined to follow
an independent course; the normal
rules of big business never have
been applied here. One of the my
steries of American industry is the
well established fact that film
studios actually break most of the
rules-and make more money in
the process.
Evening star., 1948-02-29
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL" The Chocolate
Soldier" with Billy Gilbert,
starting tomorrow night.
AMBASSADOR-"T-Men" with
Dennis OKeefe, starting
Thursday.
CAPITOL - alias a Gentle
man." with Wallace Beery
starting Thursday.
COLUMBIA - Captain From
CASTLE" with Tyronne Power,
starting Thursday.
HIPPODROME-"Colonel Cha
BERT" with Raimu.
KEITH'S-"The Senator Was
Indiscreet," with William
Powell.
LITTLE-"Johnny Frenchman,"
with Patricia Roc, starting
Wednesday,
Observation-Disclosures Mar
cissus," with Deborah Kerr,
starting Thursday.
PALACE-"A Double Life" with
Ronald Colman, starting
Thursday.
PIX-"Waltz Time" starting
Friday.
WARNER-"T-Men, with Den
mis- O'Keefe, starting Thursday.