The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 12, 1937, Page 3

THE SHOW PLACE OoF JUNEAU A salvo- of laugh-bo bursting in air... b the entertainment w: ...give their all in - e \merriment ever inven \ e/ ALSO P “Sunday Go To Meeting Deadly Females G Daily Alaska Empire News G R TONIGHT "MEET NERO WOLF” with EDWARD ARNOLD Selected Short Sub- jects and News and his orchestr h! % Frank Forest Benny and his symphony o MON. TUES. Midnight Preview Tonight Matinee Sunday 2 P. mbs . as the greatest names of orld the maddest concoction of ted! 7 ACIE ALLEN NS "MARTHA RAYF BENNY GOODMA:: Shirley ROSS ~ Ray MILLANs Fields | and LEOPCLD STOKOWSKI hestra A Paramount Picture ' Vie For Honors in | - Broadcast Film Benny Goodman and His| Band Lined Up Against Stokowski, Orchestra The ents of one of music aggregations in fn ‘*The Big Broadcast scheduled to open in of big name uty and wit S tol Theatre, | Benny Goodman ra will uphold nd Leopoid Stokowski ally famous Symphony will lead his fam the “sweel” side worla swing the outstanding music clash known with | i all-star | comedy | he Capi- and his orches- swing” side internation- | conductor, ostra for the picture orchestra y Good- " all for ear and wnd the general hilarity promised by this edition of Paramount's ‘annual tribute to radio. { The music, however, is enly inci- dental to an elaborate program headed by Jack Benny ana includ- ing George Burns and Grace Al- len, Bob Burns, Martha Raye, Shirley Ross, Ray Milland, Frank Forest, Benny Fields, Eleanor Whit- ney, Larry Adler and many others Good old Gracie Allen comes to the screen in this picture the sponsor of a radio program who has her own ideas on wh constitut a good broadcast. Despite the forts of Husband George and Stu-| dio Director Benny to straighten her out, she puts her idea across. One of the things she does is to put Stan Kavanaugh, the famous comic juggler who never a word, on her program The love interest carried by |Shirley Ross, a new-comer to films who is possessed of a lively swing- ore Before mphony and Ben toot wing tootlex reater man's the 1 glory of toe as says :4(14)1)15 ilitary Tactics To Teach Movie Dances three weeks Jearning the possibili- ties and limitations of the camera. He began to like his work.” He decided that the camera should do the dancing for his choruses. That would give everyone a front-row seat and an eyeful. He used stair- and eometric designs and v . ... fantastic sets and forgot all about armories, but Berkeley never Nas . ", ;01 size of a floodlighted been a dancer himself. stiage Most of his spectacular numbers,| 2% in fact, are not dance numbers.| His beauty choruses are chosen for [ e and ability to master rou- tines: The dance director, once an artillery.. officer, applies his mili- tary training ‘to his choruses. He did it during the war when he was cntertainment officer for the Third Army of Occupation in Germany, and he hasn't recovered. ‘When Berkeley, spare and ner- vous in frame, puts his ensembles to work he goes along for the ride,| out of camera range. He works every step with them during re- hearsals, and during the “takes” he cant keep still. When they bend and dip, he bends and dips. If they execute a cute two-step, Ber- keley does one too. He even im tates the pretty faces the girls make. He smiles and coquettes just as though he were on the stage. Pershing Started Him No graceful gazelle, he still wishes he had made an earlier start in show business. General Pershing, ROBBIN COONS June 12. frustrated By HOLLYWOOD, Cal. Busby Berkeley is dancer His business is putting hundreds young, beautiful and sh through their paces on dance larger than those in most a of girls floors Brothers and “42nd Street. He has made a lot then, lately as director and dance director combined. He shouts directions in a hoarse voice. But he still doesn't know how to dance. And he ad- mits, when pressed, that he’s not even a very good ballroom dancer Irving Berlin can’t play the piano either. Joan Crawford, Jean Myrna Loy, Eleanor Pow ginia Bruce, Maureen O’'Sullivan, Betty Furness and even Garbo, if she likes, will take advantage of ithe course in culinary art to be given in the new M.G.M. commis- sary. Keye Luke, Canton-born, Ameri- can-educated actor who plays |Warner Oland’s son in the Charlie |Chan mysteries, translates the con- |siderable amount of fan mail Ol- and receives from Chinese in this and other countries. Harlow, 11, Vir- who gave him that entertainment job abroad, really started him. He returned from the army to iry the stage, but wound up selling choes. Later, luck changed and he got work as an actor, became a stage direetor, finally a musical comedy director. That was when he got close to dancing and dis- | woovered that he liked it. But it was‘ too late, so he stuck ‘to directing. Makes Camera Dance | When he came to Hollywood about eight years ago he couldn't Jean rlow has given over her entire garden to her three dogs. They are Nudger, a St. Bernard Adolph, a Dachshund, and Oscar, a Pekingese. Frances Langford, James Stew- art and Buddy Ebsen are the lat- est to succumb to Eleanor Powell's health idea, that of drinking con- passengers ‘to Interior points. — e ATTENTION MASONS There will be a Stated Communi- catch up at first. When Sam Gold- cation of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147 wyn asked “Buzz”-if he could im-|Monday evening at 7:30, Masonic prove his current crop of musicals,| Temple. By order of the W. M. Berkeley said “Sure.” Then he‘ J. W. LEIVERS, borrowed a cameraman and spent,adv. Secretary. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. ashing Machines Vacuum Cleaners ~ Flat Irons - THEY SATISFY! ® Alaska Electric Light and Power Company Tune in ori‘kIN‘Y712:15 noon, 5:45 P.M. | ALBERT NILES CASE | CONTINUED, MONDAY | Trial of Albert Niles, pioneer Al- askan, on a charge of insanity w: started in U. S. Commissioner’s [court this morning and continued |until Monday after several witnes: jhad been heard and Niles had testi- |fied in his own behalf. | Dr. C. C. Carter, who had exam- |ined the man, said Niles was suffer- ling from a physical condition whict {he believed could be remedied by proper attention in a hospital. Ef- fort was previously made to send |Niles to the Veterans' hospital at have caused a disturbance on the |tain to refuse to take him. Ameri- can Legion officials are again at- raspy, (tempting to get accommodations for |on {him in a veterans’ hospital. Niles {served in the Engineering Corps |during the war and went through the Argonne and other engage- ments - FECHNER, MORRELL RETURNING SUNDAY HERE BY AIRPLANE Robert Fechner, head of the Civil- ian Conservation Corps, Fred Mor- |rell, in charge of the work for the {Forest Service, and Charles J. Bur- |dick, Administrative Assistant in the Forest Service here who accom- panied the officials on a trip to the Westward and Interior, are re- turning to Juneau on the PAA plane tomorrow, accord- ing to word to Regional Forester B. | F. Heintzleman. Here Mr. Fechner and Mr. Mor- rell will board the Mount McKinley |for return to their Washington headquarters, getting an opportun- ity to stop at Sitka enroute south. from Fairbanks HOSPITAL NOTES ‘ Bobby and Jimmy MeCormick {underwent tonsilectomy operations |at St. Ann’s Hospital today. hl, manager of the Union Oil Company here, under- went a minor operation at St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday. — Ralph Rei: Glenn Kirkham of Douglas was |dismissed from St. Ann’s Hospital |today following surgical care. Mrs. J. Lundquist, who underwent {a major operation on May 25, was |dismissed from St. Ann’s Hospital | today. | | Mrs. Ole Westby, wife of the owner of the boat, Oceanic, was dismissed from St. Ann's Hospital today fol- lowing surgical care. Charles Pickernall, a surgical pa- tient, was dismissed today from the Government Hospital, \THREE HALIBUTERS SELL AT SEATTLE SEATTLE, June 12—No halibut- ers arrived from the western banks and sold here today but three came in from the local banks. The Ethel § brought in 15000 pounds, the Lively the same and both sold for 8% and 8 cents. The Bernice landed 15,000 pounds, selling for 8% and 8 cents. Evergreen Bowi - Events Attract . Large Audience ffairs Planned for ‘Various A 1 Next Week—Cralfts ' Regisler Monday | The second regular Friday after- After Goldwyn he went to Warner| omerican Lake but he is alleged to |noon racing contests were held yes- terd; in Evergreen Bowl before pictures since|Northland which caused the Cap- a large crowd of parents and chil-| dren. Even Mayor Judson and Re- |gional Forester Heintzleman were hand to witness some of the levents | Winners were 5-yard dash, ages Schmitz, first; Fi and, and Edwin Boys 7—Billy as follows 5 to »wart, third. Girls |25-yard dash, same ages—Barbara |Rands, first, Lodema Johnson, sec- land, and Mary Thibodeau, third | Boys 50-yard dash, ages 8 to 10— {Pedro Riego, Jr., first; Anton Bart- | ne: second, and Daniel Morr third; Girls 50-yard dash, same ages—Dorothy Thibodeau, first; Millie Miller, second, and Margaret {Rands, third | Boys 50-yard dash, ages 11 to 13— |Elroy Hoffman, first, Eddie Nelson |second, and Edward Wood, third; |Girls 50-yard dash, same ages Betty Nordling, first; Patsy Shaf- fer, second, and Alice Powers, third Inner-tube race for girls not over ten years old — Margaret Rands, first, and Dorothy Thibodeau ond. Others failed to finish. Inner- tube race for boys not over 13 {Perry Tonsgard was the only one ilu finish. Same race for girls not over 13—June Powers, first; Bet- tty Nordling, second, and Hazel Fields, third. | Free style swim for boys and giris |—Althea Rands, first; Roy Brown |second, and June Powers, third {Shallow diving contest, Roy Brown |first, and Cecile Thibodeau, sec- lond. Five others tied for third |place. All persons entering tennis tour nament, horseshoe tournament, 1 door baseball league, or basketball league are urged to sign Monday! morning. Almost all ages are rep-| resented. Adults wishing to form a league or tournament may alio register. Valuable prizes will be| |furnished. Craft. classes will register Monday. eee- SALVATION ARMY TO AID INVALID BABY The Salvation Army requests co-| operation in outfitting an invalid baby, aged two years, who is in need of baby carriage, cot and clothing. The child is ill and re- quires assistance. Donations should | be brought to the Salvation Army! Hall on Willoughby Avenue, or will| be collected if donors call 254 ‘ | a D IMPORTANT MEETI All Taxi and Truck Driver to meet Sunday, June 13, 8 p.m the Miners’ Recreation Parlor. - e The first well drilled for oil, the Drake well of 1859, was 69 fee deep. Today wells 10,000 feet deep lure quite common. { | | ac Swing, Symphony | nk Patalino, sec-' rbo? Second »Ga [ expon- | § Veda Ann Borg Those who have watched Veda Ann Borg, statuesque daughter of the vikings, in action at Holly- wood, predict that her sensational debut in the films forecasts a ca- reer rivaling that of Greta Garbo. another Norse beauty. HEALTH LETTER IS ISSUED NOW Ph}'sn('al l‘.xill“lhflllOl\S R(" quired Under Terri- torial Law The following open letter to physicians, members of School Boards and parents has been is- sued by Dr. W. W. Council, Com- missioner of Health: | You are undoubtedly [amiliar with the Territorial law requiring| that every school child must have a physical examination during each ¥ “These examinations, in the past, have possibly not been as thorough as they should have been. The Department of Health this year is trying to standardize these exam- inations and make them of mor benefit to the child, and the child’ parents. The authority to supervise these examinations is delegated to the Department of Health by the torial Legislature he Territorial Department of Health is furnishing health record forms to the parents and is asking the parents to take their children to their family physician for physical examination. The exam- ination is conducted leisurely at the office of the private physician with the parents present and the child undressed. Such careful ex- amination will reveal minor devia- tions from normal which might| be corrected at an early but which might lead to| much more serious disturbances if they do not receive the proper at- a | HERECOLISEUM KYNE STORY OF PILOTS' CLASH SUNDAY MOND TUE Stunt Flying and Modern | Commercial Aviation Contrasted, Strug_t_glv commercial plotted s Without Orde: n the C ibsorbing tale of pilot irlin- manc ing RKO in a unique Radio’s the Sunday men y ) who oday around to theme revolve: of the and empha policy that ount among m rt companies the | nsibility pilot their the| becom- | is dern worked out in the between the lives of Robe Armystrong and Vinton Hawortl who. commercial pilot and a stur flyer” respectively, clash| both in ir views of flying and| in their rivalry for Sally Eilers, who| portrays a stewarness on | ! hy Arm-| strong’s plane i Trouble starts when Haworth is! aned Armstrong’s co-pilot. ivalry turns into somethin serious when Haworth’s ¢ becomes evident and his a imperil the lives of his pas-| This leads to an exciting| lclimax when Haworth, lost in storm and fearing disaster, callous- ly “bails out” in a parachute, leav- ing the plane ard its human cargo Lo their fate Frances Sage and Charley Grape win are co-starred and the support- ing cast includes Frank M. Thomas Arthur Loft, Ward Bond and Wal- ter Miller, Lew Landers directed the CIff Reid production, with J Robert Bren and Edmund L. Hart- | man writing the screen play from the story by Peter B. Kyne. - s Distress Signals Now Uniformed The American Alpine Club ha ‘ been interested in developing a | standardized signal for use through- out the country by people who may find themselves in distress while in the outdoors. After much study they have determined upon the fol-| lowing: | A call for distress shall consist! of 3 quickly repeated calls (audibl or visual) repeated at regular in-| |tervals and thus distinguished from | any casual call, { “As a method of signaling, a whis- | tle is recommended as light to car-| ry, far more penetrating, and less| exhausting than vocal calls. Or visual signals; by day, a smudge| regulated by a coat, waving in three wide semicircles any object attach-| ed to a stick, or flashes by a mir-| ror; by night, flashing a light, o 3 small fires in a row. The unusual! Southern California Re-! nature of the signal will be im- . . | porter Arrivesin Juneau pressed upon the observer by its in- | sistent regularity. | On Wn[mg Tour | ikl The search for “These signals are to he used only where outside help is absolutely | has taken Miss Pe Gilliland on | cross country air races from Los as i | mor ardice tions |sengers. a ALSO Say It With Candy L} False Alarm L f’eggy Grilliland Writer, Flier Is Visitjng Alaska | adventure which / VIVID DRAMA! BREATHLESS MOMENTS ABOVE THE «CLOUDS! T TIMES TONIGHT “DRIFT JENCE” “LONGEST NIGHT” L} LA “Darkest Af.ricz\"— 0. 7 News Ilms covered murders, robberiesand an Indian battle and has inter- [viewed many famous men including [former President Herbert Hoover |land General John J. Pershing. Because of the time required to write and locate her material, Miss Gilliland has not flown as much during the past year. “It was al- most an occasion,” she stated this morning, “when ‘Andy’ of ‘Amos and Andy’ let me make a trip in his plane last winter at Palm Springs.” Always having wished to see Al- , Miss Gilliland did not defin- jitely decide upon her trip here un- she was assigned to interview |Charles Goldstein of Juneau last |winter. Since then she has been counting the days until her arrival required, as the expense of a rescue party is properly borne by the res- Angeles to Cleveland, and which has le her a star reporter in South- cued, and anyone eiving such a call is morally obligated to either |, himself onuvg such rescue, or y in-| orn California, has now brought competent himself to effect it, t0 0. o Juneau equipped with hun- | notify rangers, guides, or campers, q..qs of soon-to-be-answered ques- who will then proceed to the rescue.|ione about the T ritory. H “Anyone received such a signal,! Miss: GUINERAS whio las: Hea stanLl should, of course, first acknowledge| IS¢ BHIHANG, WAo a5 hecd SIOB- | it, and as an . acknowledgment {ping at the Gastineauw Hotel and R who expects to travel throughout tention in time. Wherever there is|the customary railroad “all clear’ Territorial public health nurse,|signal of two calls, if possible by the she will be available, at the request 'same method of signaling, is recom- of private physicians, to assist him mended. To forestall possible dupli- during the mination. |cation of rescue parties, the indi- “We are asking the cooperation vidual who is himself proceeding to all members of school |the rescue may well take some of parents boards and physicians, in conduct-|means of notifying the local ranger| ing these examinations. It must, of |OF guides, if such notfication can necessity, take a lot of time to|teadily be given without unduly examine several. thousand children, |delaying his efforts at rescue. and therefore, it is requested that| “On the same analogy, as a res- parents begin having their children |Cue party approaches the injured, it examined as early as possible, in May repeat ils two-call signe order that they may be allowed tolthe injured, as an aid to being |the Interior shortly, will write mag- azine articles on the Territory and ! {will collect material for newspaper columns and stories. Already she |has chosen two items for the col- umns, the first is about Patsy Ann lwho meets all the boats, and the :\u‘rum is a descriptive note on the |miners carrying their lamps down the hill. Learning to fly in 1928 and able {to write ever since early school |days, Miss Gilliland is devoted to both of her vocations and will not {name her favorite. Recently, how- {made ocut school enroll. The Territorial law espec- | ially provides that no child be ac-| cepted for enrollment in M.'h()()l‘ unless he has had a physical ex-| amination, and presents a health| certificate, | “The physicians conducting the| examination will write ‘Accept lu:"‘ enrcllment’ upon the school health | record form, furnished by the De- | partment of Health, which will be duplicate; one copy sent to the Department of Health, and the other copy given to the| superintendent. This copy | will be kept at the school as a permanent record, and accessible to the nu who will contact the parents where it is necessary for| any defects to be corrected. The| physician will bill the school board in his respec town in the| amount of $1 each examina- tion, which charge is set by the Territorial law. -~ - RETURNING HOME Miss Geraldine Bodding, who has been in the States for several weeks, | is a passenger aboard the Yukon for Juneau and home. > It costs $13,411 to tra a flying cadet, and $12,802 to n a navy officer to fly at the Pensacola avia- ve for | Assistant E found, continue repeating his three call signal.” cver, she has been more confined to writing, having beene asked to cover Palm Springs for the Los An- geles Times. As a reporter there, she e SEAL SAILING FOR . WESTWARD SUNDAY MORNING, EARLY For patrol duty in the Westward which will take her as far north as Nome and later to St. Lawrence and | Matthew Islands, the Alaska| Game Commission vessel Seal is scheduled to sail at 4 o'clock in the morning in command of Capt. K. C. Talmage. Aboard will be America Psychol OR: ce Rhode, | ntific Scie 8 taking a several weeks game che swing through the Territory; War- den Harold Gallwas, who is return- ing to his post at Seward, and Jo- seph Yolo, photographer, and J. P.| Williams of the Forest Service, who are going to the Kenai to take wild life pictures for the series now being compiled by the Game Commjssion and the Forest Service for presenta- tion in the States. eea - VES, JU Foods. THURS Make Or Break You. FRI, JUN Mighty Powers Within You. | [ ioh ELKS’ HALL Admission Free, But Come E: JEAN FAULKNER COMING | Jean Faulkner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Paulkner, is return- ing aboard the Yukon for a summer tion school, lvncauon in Juneau, i The Health In Sick And Worn-Out Bodies. | WED., JUNE 16—Fighting Disease, Old Age And Death With JUNE 17—Your Conscious Mind — How Thoughts 18—Your Subconscious Mind — Releasing The “Summertime is health- {and now that she is here, she plans to stay until the latest possible date. In October she returns to Palm Springs to again cover octivities there for the Times. e - Bell Boy Is Held In Ship Thefts NEW YORK, June 12. — Charg- ed with steealing $0,000 in jewelry John Cronin, fifteen-year-old bell- boy of the Cunard-White Star liner Aquitania, brought to New York in the ship's brig. The theft was discovered while the Aquitania was cruising in South American wa The Aquitania ex-British policem: unknown to the of the as was Sergeant-at-Armsg investigated, 6 passengers. All purser’s staff submitted to arch, ter thirty-six hours of search and suspicion, the jewelery was found In the locker of Cronin, one of the s bellbo FourFreelectures L S STANFORD KINGSLEY CLAUNCH Foremost sFood Scient ogist and Health Instructor RGY DIET” The Perfect Sy Diet o of ating For Health and Beauty. rRoGram — - 15 — Rebuilding Radiant | | | | | | 117 Franklin Street, Juneau 8:15 P. M. arly for Best Seats. All Welcome. building time in Alaska.”