The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 14, 1934, Page 11

MOVIE ACTRESS PULLS FAST ONE “T0 GET HOLIDAY [rene Dun—n_:Will Spend‘; Her Christmas Week with Hubby By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Dec. 14— Sentiment in the movie grind: Irene Dunne, whose husband, Dr. Francis Griffin, works in New York, wants to spend Christmas with him as usual. Ordinarily, there is little difficulty in arranging. her vacation, and he comes “here or he goes there. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, DEC. 14, 1934. : :il.v more than 100 years and a aat | metroj The British Ministry of Trans- portation reports that 631 road fa- talities occurred in the London itan district in the six {‘bought before Oklahoma was. & months ending June 30, or a daily state, {average of 34. J. O'Neal, pioneer Holdenvlile, Oklahoma, resident owns a walk- ing cane that has been in his fam- FOUND GULTY. IN SLAYING ON EL PASO, Tex, thur Wilson has been convicted of murder for the desert slaying of Mrs. Irene DeBolt, of Ohio, a widow, by the jury which fixed the penalty at life. Mrs. DeBolt was found slain west of Van Horn on November 7, last year. Dec. 14.—At- “Old Timers” are‘ drinking Fox Hollow. One drink will tell you why. except the stockings. Sixteen hundred dollars in cur- sing. TEXAS DESERT rency in her automobile were mis- | try needs more population. 'Slow Population Growth | CANBERRA, Dec. 14—The pop- | ulation of Australia has increased to 6,656,912, according to govern- ment figures for 1934 but the dwin- dling b rate, always notorious- |1y low, and the cessation of immi- gration have slowed the increase to a scant 50,000 a year, The birth rate in 1933 was 16.78 a thousand, the lowest on record | and one of the lowest in the world. The average Australian mother has | 289 children. The trend from farm to city con- tinues unabated. More than a third | of the nation lives in the two prin- The body was stripped of clothes | cipal cities, Sydney and Melbourne. | ILeading Australian economists doubt, however, whether the coup- They say 10,000,000 inhabitants are all The prosecution said Wilson was | that Australia ever can absorb. PR P . SR e e S e ~STAR, HISTORY LONDON," Déc. " 14.—Fred Pérry in the opinion of Jean Borotra, is the finest athlete ever to set foot on a tennis court. 3 “His physique is wonderful,” said the bounding Basque, ‘““and his whole game very fast, both as res gards strokes and footwork.” Furthermore, thé French veteran could get only & laugh gut of Til- den’s recent world ranking, fin which Perty Was placed fourth in | the list of amateurs. —— 4 Many historians have neglected the companion of Mrs. DeBoldi, | |to chronicle that a young Irish- on the auto trip westward from | Approximately 100,000 school chil- | man named John Findlay was the Cleveland and beat and strangled dren in 46 Kansas towns entered | companion of Daniel Boone i the her to death for the money. an accident prevention contest | exploration of Kentucky, says Dr. el e 2l sponsored by the Kansas safety Archibald Henderson, a recent bie SHOP IN JUNEAU! | ographer of Boone. But . this Christmas “Roberta”| &g will be in production. Irene is star- | %% red along with Fred Astaire and| =—=—= Ginger Rogers. It is scheduled as | a ‘“super-super.” That means heavy | work and no production delays that | can be avoided. But -Irene, with | Filmland was surprised by the Yuma, Ari2J elopement of Margaret | Sullavan, screen actress, and William Wyler, @ director, who were married after an acquaintance of only eight weeks. They returned to Hollywobd affer the ceremonies by a plane. (Associated Press Photos) council. foresight, has, drawn up a “Christ- mas contract.”” It specifies that from December 21 to December 28 she may be excused from “Rober- ta.” Executives, donning Santa Claus costumes weeks ahead of time, ckayed the agreement. Theyll just “shoot around” Irene Dunne that week. Chorines Eat More Not so sentimeniai, but Import- ant to big butter-and-egg men, if their species is not extinct: Movie chorus girls eat more than was their custom. About two years ago Busby Ber- keley's chorines were under strict orders to wateh their diets. They nibbled at fruit salads and toast. Lunch for two of them, including a pleasantly unbalanced meal for the alert studio statistician who keeps track of such things, brought a .check for two dollars. That was when .Berkeley was making “Gold Diggers of 1933.” Not long ago the alert studio statician got to work again. Two members of the new Berkeley ensemble were his guests at luncheon—two “Goid Diggers of 1935.” It seems Berkeley between 1933 and 1935 had come around to such things as an “aero-dynamic chorus” and girls with “air-flow figures” | Such: things make a difference in lunch checks for chorines. Fruit salad and toast drew polite | disdain. One girl ordered half a | fried chicken with mushrooms, let- tuce and thousand island dressing. | The other had ham and eggs. Both topped it off with apple pie and coffee. The bill was three dollars and five cents. « Claude Rains is' a perservering | collector of antiques. Things he had picked up in old cities of Eu- | rope and America were in his very old eastern farmhouse when it | was struck by lightning and de- | stroyed. The star of “Crime Without Pas- ision,” “The Invisible' Man,” and “What Was Mine,” admits he ‘‘went around playing Hamlet” over begun a new collection. e Empire Office. GIVE A SMITH-CORONA his loss for weeks, but already has | R. V. KILLEWICH AND W. E. POWERS RETURN FROM PETERSBURC R. V. Killewich, transit man, and | William E. Powers, rod and chain man, who have been with the United States Bureau of Public Roads party working in the vicin- ity of Petersburg under the direc- tion of E. J. White, since last spring, arrived in Juneau on the steamer Alaska. Work done by the party includ- ed clearing and grubbing of ap- proximately six miles of roadway | three miles of the road extension was let to Wright anc Stock. Mr. Killewich and Mr. Powers, who were on temporary statis with the B. P. R. have completed their assignment. e The Grand Central subway sta- (tion in New York City was the |second busiest rapid transit point during the fiscal year ending June Old newspapers for sale at The J30. The first was thé Times Square station. P o @ Here you will find just the right selection of Gifts for Children of all ages —and Grown-ups, TOQ! SHOP NOW! FOR CHRISTMAS out of Petersburg. The contract for | grading and surfacing of about | SHOP EARLY = Lent You Forget! SHOP EARLY—Juneau merchants will observe longer hours next week and stores will be open from 9 o’clock until well in the evening. The stores now have “just what you want.” Later they may be out of what you have been thinking about purchasing for a Christmas gift. 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