The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 7, 1937, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1937 “Libeled Lady” |MATCHES: IT'S At Capitol With | LATEST NUTTY All-Star Actors; GAME IN N, Y." UN. MON. TUES. Midnight Preview— Tonight—1:15 A.M. Matinee Sunday—2 P.M. THE SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU —~COLISEUM — SUNDAY —— "“TONIGHT IS YOUR NIGHT” —— SUNDAY STARTING SUNDAY Midnight Prevue Tonight—1:15 A. M. Sunday Matinee—2:00 P. M. 'Jean Harlow, William|One WouldiThink They | Powell, Et Al, Start Glam- , Were in Uppery Nurs- orous Parade Sunday ery of an Asylum The most ng star-spangled |pageant of notahle personalities since the sensational “Dinner at Fight” and the unprecedented “Grand Hotel” are to be seen in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's front page,{ mirth marked joy special, “Libeledj Lady,” opening at the Capitol The- |tre Sunday for a 3-day y Jean Harlow, whose “Suzy” now topping the spectacular “San | Francisco” in many cities; William | Powell, star of the first road show| attraction in years, “The Great Ziegfeld”; Myrna Loy, sharing hon- |ors with Powell in the world’s great- :st show; Spencer Tracy, now gain- millions of followers in “San ancisco” and “Fury,” and a sup- porting cast of marquee names ‘headed by Walter Connolly portray |the important roles in the new-type |newspaper story. | Jean Harlow plays character paralleling her famous “Red Dust” portrayed for ribald humor. Powell is a reporter hunting tabloid sweet- hearts to front page stories. Miss Loy is the famous daughter of the richest man in the world. Tracy is the harassed managing editor, more in love with his newspaper ithan his sweetheart. | D DOUELAS NEWS RS. GRAHAM COMPLIMENTED Complimenting Mrs. Charles Gra- {ham of Ketchikan, who is visiting |with her aunt, Mrs. John Mills, Mrs. HERE THEY “COME! I TOP FAVORITES . Joining hands ina gay whirl of comedy'ros mance & misadventure HARLOW WILLIAM POWELL MYRNA By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, Aug. 7. — Bleeks is the midtown tavern where most of the newspapermen in town report for their favor- ite brand of 00-| long. It is pron-| ounced “Blakes."| Strangers who, drop into Bleeks| for the first time| are often jolted | with the huspm«i fon that they| have happened, unwittingly into| the upper nurs- ery of an asy-| lum, for the | thing that greets| often surpasseth Tunes! o Thrills! , 8 3 A It's Merrier than ‘Thanks their eyes very understanding. Almost inva y five or six young men at the bar will be gm\'uly‘ holding clenched fists behind them,| then one after the other will sub-! mit one fist and suddenly open his hand. A number of matches, never more than three, will be in each| hand. | a 'Sing Baby Sing’ —PLUS— Legend of the Lei Battle Royal Latest in News Events P ALSO Mickey’s Moving Day 2 Late News a Million’ N | with Walter CONNOLLY: A Megtro-Goldwy; Pictures After a hasty inveniory, the pro- cess is repeated until, by the process of elimination, one is left. This is the ::matches” game, and the stakes run from bank notes (when a re- porter happens to have a bank note) to drinks. Everybody plays “matches” at! Bleeks. There is more to it than| guess work. No player is permit-! ted to hold more than three match- es. If there are four men in the| game, the total matches could not| possibly be over 12. You hide your| hands behind ycu, attempt to guess how many matches the others will James Sey entertained last eve.|Dave, then hold hands out and ning with a bridge party at her oPeN The lucky guesser is elimin- home. {ated and waits patiently for the , i s lothers to finish the game, the last | Two tables were in play with Mrs. 9 0: GhmE, SN AW JOONS y | HEherE Meatine rchtvicdy Tk hon—‘on" being stuck for the drinks. | By ROBBIN COONS ( Constance Bennett pretty nearly | |ors, and Mrs, Henry Langfeldt, con-| Bleeks is also a good place to eat,| HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 7. — Ginger drew an “A" for untemperamental ROCOVICH MAKES solation, Mrs, Graham was present- [if You are comfortably in the chips, Rogers on Hollywood feuds: | deportment during her last pic-| ENT! ed with the guest prize. > ’ although the real charm of the place| «gverybody in Hollywood pl:\ys.‘m“" . . Unqualified “A” was with- lMPROVEM S TO Additional guests were Mrs. Leon- |5 its lack of formality, its Inti={so many jokes and gags, thavs Neld on her past record, but during FRONT ST. STORE ard Johnson, Mrs. Alex Gair, Mrs.{mate atmosphere, and its conviviallhow half these feud rumors get| LoPPCr ghe “tried; havd, : SO Frank Pearce, Mrs. Joe Riedi, and companionship. Such —personalities gtarted. . . . People on the outside,| Eddie Cantor's stand-in, Gale| Remodeling is now under way on |Mrs. John Mills. \as Stanley Walker, who wrote “City| coming in late or leaving early Mogul, doubles as a gag-man. . . .|the building at Front and Main i S {Editor,” John O'Hara, (“Butterfield’ when a gag is under way, can mis-| Warner Baxter's joining the col~ | strests formerly occupied by the LARSEN TO CONSTRU |8"); Lucius Beebe, the millionaire | congtrue a whole incident. . . . It's|ODY'S yachtsmen. . . . His 51-f00b| venetian Shop, and recently ac- WAHTO HOME, DOUGLAS reporter; Dick Maney, whose gift for jixe catching a movie scene out of | cabin cruiser, acccommodating 10| qujred by Nick Rocovich, getting things into the papers sequence. . . . and reading mean- | and rigged with fishing equipment, | * ymprovements being made to m' building by Mr. Rocovich include new concrete foundations, a new i | i | Last Times Tonight—-“SMART ELONDE” with GLENDA FARRELL—BARTON MacLANE SELECTED SHORTS LATE NEWS EVENTS ' | I ! LAST TIMES TONIGHT 1 Show Starts 30 s “CAPTAIN CALAMITY (in natural color) and FIRST EPISODE . “ACE DRUMMOND Last Episode DARKEST AFRICA Late News Flashes OUR PHOTOGRAPHER TAKES PICTURES of YOUR HOMES—YOUR PLACES OF BUSINESS—OFFICE GROUPS and Other Scenes of Interest at No Expense to You! IT"S SOMETHING NEW AND EXCITING! “Feuds” in Film Colony Often Prove to Be Gags —and people at other tables look- ing at same. ‘The bill for two (chicken sandwich, chicken~ stuffed tomato, coffees, apple cakes) is $2.50, plus tax, plus tip— including stellar parade, free. Our Ventilating System Changes the Air in the Theatre EVERY 3 MINUTES P U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU Lo . Living THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) recast for Juneau apd vicinity, beginning at 4 pan., July 7. Showers tonight and Sunday; gentle to moderate southerly winds LOCAL DATA Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 53 76 s 4 48 93 Calm 0 53 81 S 5 RADIO REPORTS TODAY 4a.m. Precip. velocity 24 hrs. 29 Weather & Sprkling Cloudy Sprkling Barometer 29.97 29.85 29.83 Time 4 pm. yest'y 4 am. today Noon today 4am. Weather 4am. temp. 30 46 40 | Lowest temp. 40 30 44 40 38 42 46 48 50 46 48 48 50 50 44 56 62 50 Max. temp. last 24 hours | 56 32 54 60 54 56 56 58 60 50 53 60 64 64 66 Station Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson st. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco Snow Rain Pt. Cldy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Rain Cloudy @ el . ROSE LEAVES JUNEAU H. A. Rose, superintendent of the Kensington Mine, left for the south aboard the Princess Loulse. During his stay in Juneau he stop- Rain Rain Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy ST. LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | 7:30 p.m.—Vesper service and ser-| 68 mon. | .18 62 | Alone y Construction of the residence for referred to by theatrical producers ings into it when you haven't read|is due August 15 . The new Gust Wahto will commence the first as “Maney’s Magic,” and the like|the seript, Ann Sothern-Roger Pryor home LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 7. — part of next week. James Larsen landmarks in the place. They| i i eform- | Will have a pool protected from gy 11 Py Payment of alimony and separate of Juneau, has been selected as|are the ones who have made Bleeks| N I lare by processed glas: f- ground floge, & 0¥ TERERCHENE maintenance is reaching the pro- cnntrartor.mr the pron‘uon A‘A\\'hdt it is. ¥ |10k 35 s coshials p e DM e DIXHQL;;M( !44;5) mo-t Tande, AhamiNohn iE. & cereulnrllb portions of a ten-million-dollar an- The house will be built on the lot| As a partner at a party the om«-r‘hunmkn%kmg e = h“"“.mrk-' Ann ux.]m J':;:e;iu]eyv‘wo:c hesting piant B0 OB nual item in Los Angeles County’s on Second Street which Mr. Wahto 'night I drew Seri, a Javanese dun-‘:,‘::. ":;:fllc'c;,nglf h,‘, iflfi,;h:fl‘:firubher suits under their clothes va:flsr:éozgflrflms‘“" R economic life. recently s o e bR S 5 Bz e 4 Court officials estimated today e Trcmfiji)m—mm Fcu“‘“,fi.' mf" tklx'ron.:mnd”(%\c hoist Warn-|the picture to take home with her|While working for two days in|py B .M. Krafft, contractor, and there idre: more than 100000, divaro- | e e"(:‘ % ‘;‘ ":l‘)d“j‘” aeek S"h‘ ... almost as fast as they rewrite | Water scenes. - Just a studio|George Alfors, heating contractor, ol Wivies ‘on betickt8 dataten-| | R 1o g -“‘:i‘? _noth- o stage play for the sound stages, |Precaution against pncumonia. . . . and are due to be completed by Shite i il BG hib i fedes fl" as chm’ch e s & fubny Brodicament|trom day to day. . . . Maybe Hep-| Colony’s Luncn Hour September 1, when the ground floor the approximately 13,000 divorces| | 'mlle n.d mn: tlmt;h 0 ,g mf‘ i’nu‘burn will gratify the trouble-seek-| Noon in Hollywood. . .. The Ven-|store location will be taken over by Hiith anpuslly’ snd addlig: the" s o | smlle and polnt to ihings, SAYING\ers by waking up fo the fact And|doms: Noah BHeery in & boothMrs. Marthia Bracken. Rrd - Mis . pricas s i nothing. Finally, with a show of!gayting something, but I doubt if alone, joined later by Wally. . . .|Jean Graham, who are moving merous ‘“grass widows” who come impatience, Seri turned to me: “You % { . S ¥ sl |she cares or would show it if she George Olsen and Ethel Shutta.| their Bargain Shop from its present here from other counties and states. haven't said a word all evening. Am| . 3 : y If the total number is only 100,- |t woring your” L |did. . . . . June Travis, waiting in the| Willoughby Avenue location. 28 o s one-fiftl ol | | s A g o34 Saying It ith Icebergs ante-room for friends, greets them| Mrs. J. M. Glovanetti has moved 000 — and if only one-fifth, or 20, | Really, nothing is sacred in this i lasti 000, receive almony—and i fthey| Notices yor whis cnurch column towh it's ettin il 'u‘ g Nobody misconstrued anything, | enthusiastically. . . . Must be vis-|her Venetian Shop to the Knudsen receive an average of only $40 a|Must be received by The Empire| 'l - “‘f‘N hi_ Zw:‘;:’m" D however, on the Shirley Ross-Mar- |itors to town. . . . Oscar Straus,|Building on Willoughby Avenue, month, the yearly bill would be $9,- not later than 10 o'clock Saturday | o sl |tha Raye coolness since “Waikiki|alone and moody, lunches on un-|opposite the Femmer's Dock ap- 600,000, they said. morning to guarantee change of PAE teca 4 ds wh | Wedding.” . Buddies at first,| musical Weinerschnitzel and beer.|proach, MoRiiorite of _ordered ali- S€rmon topics, etc. ying heed fto guests Who are|in, gais still say it with icebergs.|. . . Skeets Gallagher . . . George ayments of court-ordered ali-, athletic-minded, one cafe has pro- H m handled th h court | * 8 4 | Stars aren’t the only ones who|Jessel. . . . Herbert Marshall and ony hal rough & ! vided its patrons with a tennis court, | trust lone totaled 00 " g */form mutual non-admiration so-|agent, joined by Eddie Sutherland. rustee alone totaled $736,000 last showers, and also a handball court. vear. The fif for thi ;! L :| cieties. . . . One of the bitterest in|. . . Bette Davis gaily table-visit- year. e figure for is year may | No extra charge. You have a good reach $800,000, said County Pro- WOrkiOut - &’ shower.: & brik’ pube|OvD today is that between the ing en route to hers. . . . Ditto bation Officer K. J. Scudder, the 4 ' Orry Kelly and Nancy Carroll, looking very trim. | Warner stylists, DOUGLAS PRESBYTERIAN down. And then dinner (the pro- 4 4 86 90 New York ‘Washington - WEATHER CONDITIO Seattle (airport), cloudy, temp 48; Victoria, partly cloudy, 54; Ale cloudy, 54; Langara, raining, 50:"1‘ pert, raining, 53; Ketchikan, rain raining, 50; Petersburg, raining, 5 cloudy, Tenakee, cloudy, —; Ra ling, 51; Skagway, cloudy, 53; Cord Mc€arthy, cloudy, 42; Anchorage, ¢ banks, raining, 40; Hot Springs, cl Pt. Cldy Cloudy soorsnon |l conhownos 10 NS AT 8 A.M. TODAY erature, 58; Blaine, partly cloudy, rt Bay; cloudy, 51; Bull Harbor, riple Island, raining, —; Prince Ru- ng, 51; Craig, raining, 51; Wrangell, }; Sitka, cloudy.® 51; Port Althorp, dioville, cloudy, 50; Juneau sprink- jova, raining, Chitina, cloudy, 46; loudy, 52; Nenana, raining, 44; Fair- oudy, 38; Tanana, raining, 40; Ruby, Itag, Unalakleet, missing; Ohogn-‘ trustee. - e * | HOSPITAL NOTES 4 William Niederhauser, who has been confined to St. Ann’s Hospital with an infected tooth, was dis- missed today. Mr. Niederhauser is assistant fire chief in Juneau. W. H. Ryan underwent a minor operation at St. Ann’s Hospital this morning. Miss Helen Peterson, MISSION DAVID WAGGONER, Minister Sunday services: 1:30 p.m.—Bible School. 2:30 p.m.—Preaching service. All are welcome in these services. | | i | DOUGLAS CATHOLIC CHURCH St. Aloysius Church 8:45 a.m.—Holy Mass, BARR OUT OVER prietor hopes), with all the trim- \mings. { | — e — JKILLED IN FIERY TRAP EUREKA, Cal, Aug. T—Engineer Edward Weatherby, 55, Fireman Carlton Bartlett, 50: and G. Still, Jr., head brakeman, all of Eureka, Milo' Anderson. . . . Agents, writers, directors, stars ped at the Gastineau Hotel. raining, 39; Nulato, raining, 40; Kal who has| mute, raining, 44; Egavik, cloudy, 38; Golovin, partly cloudy, 34; Coun- spent the past few months in Fair-f cil, partly cloudy, 41; Solomon, partly cloudy, 52; Teller, partly cloudy, panks, was admitted to St. Ann’s 47; Wales, cloudy, 43; Deering, clear, 40; Kotzebue, clear, 47. Hospital yesterday following her ar- Juneau, August 8. — Sunrise, 4:04 am.; sunset, 8:05 p.n. August riya] aboard the Electra, -and is to| 9. — Sunrise, 4:07 a.m.; sunset, 8:03 p.m. 1e ReeAngr ka and way points, Pilot L. F. Barr WEATHER SYNOPSIS | 1 Low barometric pressure prevailed this -morning from the Seward’ |landed the Alaska Air Transport |Bellanca Skyrocket seaplane at the Peninsula and Arctic Coast southeastward across the Gulf of Alaska MRS. I. GOLDSTEIN, company’s hangar here with R. M. to Alberta, there being two centers of low pressure, one off the coast SON, ARE RETURNING lDougl d Lisle Hebert. | as and sle lebert, rom of Southeast Alaska with a pressure of 29.74 inches and another over; | the interior from Fairbanks to Fort Simpson, the lowest reported pres-i FROM SAN FRANCISCOQ Hoonah; James L. Freeburn, Frank |Baxter and Chuck Diminy from NIGHT TO TODD AND WRANGELL Returning yesterday afternoon at! |leave for medical care in Seattle on | 5:30 o'clock from his flight to Sit- - S eee Empire classifieds pay. sure being 29.70 inches at Mayo. H'gh pressure prevailed from the Pa-! cific Northwest States westward to the Hawalian and Midway Islands,| wrs I. Goldstein and son, Bobby,!cmcmgm- Brown Benson was a the crest being 30.50 inches over the Pacific Ocean at latitude 56 de- are due to return to Juneau aboard Passenger from Sitka to Tenakee| grees and longitude 150 degrees. This general pressure distribution has e princess Alice, arriving Tues-|With him on the return flight. been attended by precipitation over most of Alaska and over north- day, completing a visit of ten weeks Again in the Totem at 6 o'clock western Canada. Snow was reported at Barrow last night. in San Francisco. |last evening, Pilot Barr. with Bud f | The two have been visiting with|Bodding as flight mechanic, took PROSPECTS |their findings. From the dredging Mrs. Goldstein’s parents, Mr. and(0ff for Todd, from where he went MlNlNG \ | operations he plans to continue on Mrs. Lea Kahn of San Francisco. |t0 Wrangell on charter with Walter BR[GHT]N'GOODNEWS |up through the Kuskokwim region. ! }MCCrary. From Wrangell, Pilot | In information to the Commis- JUNEAU MAN leTES |Barr was perhaps to fly the Totem BAY. ROEHM REPORTS sioner, Roehm pointed out that pros- lon a charter to Port Alexander, ‘ ’ | pects were pagticularly bright on the: ON KRAUSE CRIMESEYE'-“"HHK here this afternoon, + g ‘senward side of Red Mountain in| At 6:45 o'clock this morning, AAT lr:cr!t:/re (il:dtlk‘\ge ?‘rgsogice';sx Bni’ re- the Goodnews Bay region, and The September issue of the In-|Pilot Sheldon Simmons flew the gion, J. C. Roehm, field man for the while bedrock had not been reached ternational Detective Cases carries|Lockheed Vega to Todd with W. A. & orvitorial Department of Mines, is|there Was a good showing of gold g story by Ed Herron of Juneau en- |Castleton, on charter, returning at heading into the region at the head- |0d platinum, principally gold. Ititled “The Port of Missing Men.” |about 8:30 o'clock. waters of the Goodnews and Eek T The story deals with Edward| T . 1o R Rivers and then to the New York PHYSICIAN visITS |Krause, the notorious murderer PATIENT SAILS SOUTH and Alaska Dredging Company op-| Dr. Eugene L. Armstrong, Los An- whose crimes were committed along | erations on Bear Creek, according|geles physician and his wife, were the Gastineau Channel 20 years ago., George Rahr of Chicago, who was ‘o advices to Commissioner B. D.|Juneau visitors Thursday night - e — |admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital Stewart today. The trip is part of |while the Prince George was in TONSILECTOMY |when the Princess Louise passed ‘;he engineer’s summer itinerary in port. August Williams underwent a ton-|through here northbound, sailed aiding prospectors and mining op- silectomy at the Juneau Medical south on the Louise, having con- anrs with engineering advice on and Surgical Clinic this morning. valesced at the hospital, I kere killed today when the loco-; motive and several cars loaded with |\lumber plunged through a burning |trestle at Shively, 35 miles north| of here. They were trapped in the flaming wreckage. GENERAL LABOR UNION DISCUSSES HOURS, WAGES Ideals of organized labor were ‘prasem,ed at the regular session of General Labor Union, Federal char- ter 20,904, last night in the Union Hall, it was reported today.. Wage,!| hours and union recognition agree-| menis were under discussion and it| was stated that several copies of| this agreement are now in the hands of contractors and before the be- ginning of the week the rest of the contractors in Juneau will have copies. It was stated that the agree-| ment had been given the endorse- ment of the member unions of the Central Labor Council. ———————— CHICAGO PHYSICIAN HERE Dr. George Rukstinat, physician of Chicago, and his wife were vis- itors here Thursday night. They traveled to Skagway on the Frince George and were scheduled to make | the return voyage on the same ves- .sel. arriving here again tonight. AT MIKE'S PUSICH'S NEW MIKE'S PLACE TONIGHT SPECIALS— ROAST TURKEY SANDWICHES —Hot or Cold ROAST VEAL SANDWICHES SPRING CHICKEN with French Fried Potatoes Music by Esther Cashen and John Niemi