The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 22, 1937, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. FRIDAY, JAN. 22, 1937. o — SNIPERS IN:FIERCE BATTLE PICTURE ABOUT NEXT WAR HAS BEEN GANCELLED Could Only Have Been Shown in Two Countries —Other Hollywood Notes SPANISH FASCISTS CAPTURE LOYALIST CU . The Show Place of Jumeau STARTIN Favorite Newscaster | Traps a Murder Mob by Air! s 3 B BiDN HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 22—Unreel | parade: The times so unseitled | as Tess Slesinger said fictionally, | that film makers must have a care, | Pritz Lang wanted to film a stor about the next war. After con tation with various foreign bassadors he learned he could it, all right. But after ma there would be just about two cc | tries in which he could show it being Siam Most fitting gesture of the mor world-premierir wille,” | heroine consumed by more than <+ ALSO . . |on the desert. Garbo is sepul- | Dr. Oswald [chrally beautiful in this one, and| Table Tennis | Robert Taylor surprises with his| o0 LEW AYRES Florence RICE lumbia Pictuge scist forces and Loyalist snipers : s £ ' Marine Follies Ifirst job of acting Claudette Vitaphone—New {Colbert, and most of the women | present, wept at the preview JOE BROWN IN Polite Fans | Lily Pons sings, acts cute and walks out on two weddings in “That Girl from Paris,” which shows but faint similarity to Betty Comp- son’s eariy talkie, “Street Girl." . . Lee-lee, surrounded by a mad male | t composed of Gene Ru\mnudfl Oakie, Mischa Auer and Frank | Jenks, is really very cute. . .. And | Lucille Ball, in her first big rolr makes a bid to take Ginger Roger: place as Fred Astaire’s partner. . . . After the preview, f lined up outside for Gene and Jeanette Mac- Donald, who emerged and sailed through the crowd which fell back respectfully. A disgusted youmg wi nan, peised to tackle, withdrew with the rest, but muttered: “These West- wood and Beverly Hills people | too polite—they let 'em get away s | Those long movie titles axc i e oy ducing the weary marquee-lighters the Cubi=lto efforts like this, seen on a Ver- imont avenue theatre: “Mag. Brute 0g antics|__yaliante Carrie . . dian, the| gEasiest marquee problem was pre- the famous|sented by “M” . . . I if there has been a tougher one tifan “I'm Glad My Boy Grew Up To Be a Soldier,” which someone | perpetrated in 1915 Incidentally, the mbers Male | the shortest possible title has never dence numbers, all{been used. . . . st by the famous musical com-| Clark Gable s cdy produc: Bobby Conno embarrassed in heavy love scenes The story is a rollicking c Few Plaques Here romance dealing with the h 2 Hollywood, where fame lights and side of doughboy life in France dur-|flil s not strong on enduring mem- ing the World War. The picture is{orials . . . If a monument to Schu- caid to be staged with more elabor- | mann-Heink is erected, it will be ateness than any previous Joe E.|only the second ... The other (to Brown comedy. | Valentino) stands in a tiny park Miss Blongdell, Miss Shaw -andjWhere occasionally an extra girl Beverly Roberts are Joe's three|has made a bid for notice with war-time sweeth arts while cthers|{® “suicide attempt.” . . . A bronze, in the cast include Eric Blore, Cr: DOUGHBOY ROLE, GAPITOL TODAY Code Bt FriDollag Bill Is Key to Coli- | seum Mystery Ye- | h with the original ful new sony and Al Dubin, sung Blondell, Winifred spiced s of And doub | plaque on a sound stage is tribute Reynolds, Joseph King, Robert Bar-| 0 Will Rogers, and another plaque rat, G. P. Huntley, Jr., and Frani"‘"‘fs where the first Hollywood Mitchell. 4'111:"!(’ was made—but the plague Remaining at the Coliseum the- | as been moved with the building atre is Columbia’s “Panic on the|that was on the site . . . Air,” an intriguing murder-m stery;b‘:‘);vfmsr“’zamy heard by drama featuring Lew Ayres, ¥ --‘MN Sin;.snn ence Rice and Benny Baker. Based Winvds‘or p: on a wellknown magazine story by sl ‘Theodore A. Tinsley, and adapted to the screen by Harold Shumate, “Panic on the Air” details the puz- zling circumstances that surround | *the death and violence that foilow| in the wake of a five-dollar bill bearing a mysterious message in| code. Ayres, a Winchell-like radio newscaster, determines to solve the mystery, particularly after he meets| and falls in love with the lovely| Florence Rice, whose presence in the case puzzles him mo Others in the cast are Edwin Max-) well, Charles Wilson, Murray Alper, and Wyrley Birch. D. Ross Leder- man directed. now Boasberg who said was gone-with-the- 'Roosevelt Displays i Cleverness in Plan, Govt. Reorganization' (Continued trom Page One) | W 2 best time. The President has tre-| mendous prestige, a huge congrp'.-! sional majority, and a horsevand-i buggy whip in the form of patron-| age. 1 But the old opposition that has | baffled such reorganization attempts | before still confronts the President.| __|Elimination of a single group 31’ lemployes or a single service now !s\mplied by government brings par- ades of protest. | In February, 1932, President Hoo- ver asked blanket authority to ac- complish a reorganization. He baited In dramatic fashion this picture shows the denouement of a battle bet the snipers are marched away by their captors.. They were dislodged by which they fired on Fascist lorrieg. In the foreground are bodies of F. t k from a building they had F ack on the snipers’ ne for eight hours, during The capture occurred on SOCIETY GIRL TURNS the Villareal front northeast of M DANCE Florence Meyer, daughter of Eugene Meyer, Washington publisher and former federal reserve board governor, makes her professional debut as a featured dancer in a Max Road,” at New York. At left, she Reinhardt production, “The Eternal is pictured as a juggler who dances up a flight of steps and at right in her dressing room. (Associated Press SEX CONTROL COMIN SURE, SAYS DOCTOR Boy or Girl, Which? New Steps Reported to Have Been Taken PASADENA, Cal, Jar steps in the art of prenatal sex de- termination have been discussed at the California Institute of Technolo- 22, Ne | gy here, by two of the world’s for most authorities on biological sc ence, and out of the conference may come a method of human sex con- trol. Photos) Frank - Hayes, Juneau; H. M. De- Lanoie, New York City. Zynda rence Wise, Seattle; Kneeland, Seattle; Sadie land, Auburn, Wash. WHOOPEE! ICF 3ever] Sutl 0 Water Freezes in Plaza Fountain City Em ployee Indignant SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan ater in the downtown pl. tain froze over today for th time since 1913. A few persons broke off pic ice and displayed them triumph cently was ress Photo) BUYING ) to Visit Parents yntana on 53rd edding Anniv, L5 JURORS True Bills Returned Against ¢ Ryan, John Davis, Jr., Harold Barrett in charge of the re to-wear and dry goods the B. M. Behrends e tomorrow on the ute to New York indictments were Federal Grand Ju A true bill was re: Tom Ryan, who veral counts includ- ibined buying trip wielding a f rm and lepartments, and an an- Mrs. G. E se on on. v here last summer. Hi east Mrs. Gray plan. 6 W at $2500. Ryan wa ents in Montana wh ) ie Jast fall by the District their 53rd wedding office to relatives but returned to the Territor rrested at Ketchikan and brought here to face trial. indictments were returned st John Davis, Jr.,, who is ¢ of assault and battery concealed weapons, and W. Barrett, ch with serjury in connection with his testi- mony in obtaining a divorce. Dav hail was fixed at $2,500 and Bar+ ett’s at $1,000. Chris Jorgensen and Charle ‘\’lel, indicted erday, will be ‘ajgned in Federal: Court tomorre rorning and C} Seelye, al mder indictment, will be arraigned t 2 p.m. Monday - TALLY AT KODIAK The Co ard cutter Taliapoo- a is at Kodiak today, ageording to vord to the U. 8. Custems Office ind expects to reach Yakutat Janu- ry 26 if the bar is vorable. If wf, the cutter will come direct to Juneau, a radiogram to the Cus- oms Office said. - more by the Kr way r pe ¢ and Chicago, Mrs in conjunction with F. Mullen in shop- from leading manu- general supplies for M. Behrends store, including pring and summer ladies o-wear 1937 fashior ding to present plans, the during which ew made to bring the merchandise to Ju- tend over a period of weeks - an od ed trip, 1l be and best will e al neau Ve W rle JACK FOY Alaska pioneer, who re- taken to a sanitarium in nd, Ore., died there January cording to word to the Gover nor's office. Foy was well known mong many of the old timers. - - BACK FROM VACATION J. O. Ebing, foreman for the Bu- eau of Public Roads at Moose Pass a passenger on the Gorgas for ard, returning from the States he has been on a vacatior DEAD Foy Texas last year supplied 33.6 per t of the na 1 total of 4,414 00,000,000 cubic feel of gas moved tween states. $10,000 REWARD FOR KIDNAPER - REWARD $10,000 “On January 12, Homer S Commings, Attorney General of the United JOAN BLONDELL BEVERLY ROBERTS WINIFRED $3AL A WARNER BROS.-1st NATIONAL PICTURE —ALSO— Betty Boop and Henry Pictorial Review orting Comparison Daily Alaska Empire’s Talking Reporter | MICKEY MOUSE MATINEE SATURDAY—1 P. M. “SONS 0’ GUNS” BUTHT T COMEDY——CARTOON——CANDY R R R R S 0 14 b s e [vided living quarters. The boys are (.ooperz\hve Dormltm : 4 1 boarded at cost, paying $15 a month. Cutting College Costs 1t there is any surplus at the end ,g i 8 jof the year, it will be refunded. . E A | Farm agents in each county in STILLWATER, Okla., Jan. 22. —| ; College education for 145 Oklahomn | the state were designated to select farm_youths at a cost of $150 q|tWO outstanding farm . youths for vear or less for living expenses llnslellr"ll"‘cl“' been made possible at Oklahoma | | Agricultural and Mechanical college Increased -production. of LaRpiet through a cooperative dormlBomy. |1, 4,0 ynited States is forecast by The school was donated a civilian | 4 o e conservation corps camp about u"r"“l‘:::" by ‘the University of Calls ornia. mile from the campus and it pro- BESTD 7o AL WS PHONE ! For Prompt, Safe Efficient Service CALL A medicated with throat-soothing ingredients of Vicks VapoRub. it by promising to save “many mil- | lions of dollars now extracted an- Conferees are Dr. Thomas Hunt States, under autbority vested in him by an Act of Congress offered a reward Morgan, Nobel Prize winner, and ly. An indignant city ey CHECKER CAB 556 e 1 ]nually from our over-burdened tax-|Dr. Richard B. Goldschmidt of the ipayers.” But the depression and | University of California. [ put a stop to this, smashed th and then drained the basin (MR |to Hoover’s suggestion for addition NEw llFE FOR {of a few assistant secretaryships as | t of th ization. OLD ROOFS > b women ol e | Senator Robinson of Arkansas, who | now is majority leader, “we will be! moving in the direction of still fur- | ther increasing federal offices and no one knows where the process iwill end.” John Garner, now vice president, but then speaker of the Democratic |house, was first then to point out that Hoover did not specify any | 3 3 | federal activity he would eliminate UR Johas-Maaville Roof Coat- | iy, "i1.0 interest of economy. 5 P 7 ings stop leaks in old foofs. We | To get his non-economy reorgani- |zation plan through, President and water-proofing materials, includ- | Roosevelt must work with these two. P e ’ | That will give you a ruler by which ing roof coatings, and putties . . . just |to measure his difficulties. | what the old roof needs to be good for many more years of service. Use these to doctor up that old roof of youss. THOMAS Hardware Co. vIIHIIIIIII!II!IH!!H!II!!!II!Illllll!!Illlllll | election troubles hit Hoover in full force about that time. . . . Present Chiefs Balked Then | Tt is interesting to recall reaction |s 0) carry the complete line of J-M repair - Spent for Arms] VIENNA, Jan. 22—Austria will spend for armaments the $34,000.- 000 profit shown in 1935 by the gov- ernment tobacco monopoly. A pr—— Try an Empire ad. Tobaceo Profits Dr. Goldschmidt stated he had determined that one hormone-like ¢-determining substance can be detected in the blood cam of the prospective mother in sufficient concentration to predict in advance the sex of the baby. Three years ago Dr. Goldschmidt predicted that the time would come when the sex of unborn children could not only be determined, but could actually be controlled in ad- vance. This he intimated, could effected by injecting the substanc governing the sex required into the glood of prospective parents. o - — | AT THE HOTELS 5 kS - o Gastinean Mr. and Mrs, Henry Museth, Dy Pont; S. M. Hopstad, Petersbur Miss S. Parker, Portland, Ore.; Mrs. Weiss, Portland; Heinie Daht, Petersburg; S. Mathisen, Peters: burg; C. S. Anderson, Petersbur; W. C. Stump, Ketchikan; Albert Crooks. Alaskan G. E. Scott, Juneau; A. Surgo, Ju neau; Larry Fitzpatrick, Seattle; F Roberts, Kensington; Jack West- fall, Seattle;.Chet Johnson, Juneau; Jim Nelson, Seattle; M. Hellen, Se- attle; Stanley Bryant, Seattle; Jack Karney, Juneau; J. Hendricks, Ju- neau; George B. Williams, Juneau; - lfiubstance controls the deLermma-‘BETTY THORSEN AND |tion of sex. He discovered that the | CHARLES MOREHOUbL BE WEDDED TONIGHT | Miss Betty Thorsen and Charles Morehouse will be unit Imarriage tonight at 9:3 1 lthe Lutheran Church by the Erling K. Olafson. ‘The bride | was a riving this 1 ing on the Gen. W. C. Gorga | Morehouse, the personality bo; |the Piggly Wiggly Meat Compa: came north last month from Se tle. The boys from the Piggly Wig | Store were down to greef the pr pective bride at the dock this n ing and gave her a rice shower Mrs. Ronald Copstead will the bride tonight and Mr. Cop: is to be best man. D BOUND FOR SEWARD Mrs. P. C. McMullen and s aboard the Gen. W. C. Gi . {route to their home in Seward is the wife of a prominent merchant of Seward and has been south - iting for several months. - oo NC SKA Due to the i ered the ice at A J At ing is out until anott fr cording to word to the Fore: Serv- ice. "$10.000.00 for information furnished to a representative of the Federal Bureau of Inves: tigation, United States Departaent of Justice leading to the ideatification and apprehension of the person or persons responsibbe for the kidnaping on December 27, 1936 and subsequent murder of CHARLES FLETCHER MATTSON, ten-year-old son of Dr and Mrs ¥ W Mattson of Tacoma, Washinglon The person who kidnaped Charles Fletcher Mallson from, the residence of bis parents on the night of Deceaber 27, 1936 is described as {ollows: About 30 years 5 feet 7 or B inches 145 10 165 pousds Swarthy Did ot stand erect; dimple in chio; high cheek boaes; nose sppenred 10 be broken a litile below ceater; had Age Height Weight Coap! Peculiarities Southern Earopean extraction A1l claims to any of the aforesaid reward aad all questions and disputes that may erise as among claimants o the reward sball be passed upoo by the Attorney Geaeral and bis decision shall be final and conclusive The right is reserved to allocate portions of the reward as smong scveral claimaats ¥o part of this reward shail be paid to any official or employee of the De- sartment of Juslics If you are in possession of any information concerniog the identity ur whereabouts of the perpetrators of this offense, it is requested that you com- municate immediatcly by telephone or telegraph, collect, with the nearest division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice, the addresses of which are set forth on the reverse side of this nu- Rice, or directly with the National Headquarters of the Federal Durcau of lavestigation at hington, D. C., telephone NAT'ONAL THT JOHN EDGAR HOO¥ER, DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, WASHINGTON, D. C. L. Edgar Hoover, director of the federal bureau of investigation, sent thoysands of these posters throughout the United States offering a $10,000 reward for information on the kidnaping and murder of 10.year- old Charles Mattson of Tacoma. (Associated Press Photo) THE TERMINAL “phis Is Something Different That You Will Enjoy.” Mary Kolase You are invited to present this coupon at the box of the " Capitol Theatre and recelive tickets for yourself and a friend or relative to see “Sons @ Guns” As a paid-ap subseriber of The Daly Alaka Enpie Your Name May Appear Tomorrow WATCH THIS SPACE office