The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 9, 1937, Page 8

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, OCT. 9, 1937, ee e 0 e e s 000 HEALTH BAN IS OVER; CHILDR ARE OUT OF The health ban, established o | because of an infantile paral s case, ended at midnight Fri- day. Today, Kid-dom and the canine companions, released from temporary “jail” at home are surging the streets, attend- ing the movies and enjoying free ice cream. They are busy telling one another what they have been doing for the past — 12 days and really are glad e | The Unemployment Compensation ® that schools are opening next @ | Commission at Juneau today an- ® Monday. b nounced the receipt of the first un- ® ® ® @ ® 0 0 0 6 0 0 6 0 ¢ ~mployment compensation contri- N bution check, the amount being $2,090.16. flun Ec s This represents the begmning of an unemployment compensation — fund for the Territory of Alaska than watching a ball The money cannot be used for any game “Bud” Foster of KINY cther purpose than payment of announcing one. He gets much more benefits to unemployed workers, workad up than any bleacher fan payments to begin January 1, 1939. with a pop bottle in his hand, but The expenses of the Commission be of all is the pitcher-ball-bat- are paid by the Federal Social Se- batter combination he has along- curity Board so that all contri- side to give realism to the battle. butions go directly into this fund It is a cunning contrivance, with for benefits. a ball of fraction tape on a rod The failure of a liable employer to that can be swung in its axis by pay his contribution covering the a handle, cither forward to hit a first nine months of 1937 on or be- rigid baseball bat with the handle fore October 31 will subject him to sawed off, or backward, to thud an interest penalty of one-half per realistically in matted padding. cent for each month or fraction The “click” of a well placed hit thereof that he is delinquent, the results from the first motion and Commission stressed the sound of ball against glove for Under the terms of the Alaska the backward motion — and then Act all information submitted by there are records, too, that make it in paying their contri- possible for the crowd to scream| nd the names of the em- at the proper time. ployees will be kept confidential The invention is Bob Barringer's, Approximately 25,000 workers the new broadcast manager within the Territory will acquire - ;’:"l‘Ef“Xi'Il‘:‘.‘ u‘,".;:i‘,‘;;‘,l";;f;n?:l com. NEW OFFICERS ARE pensation Act ELECTED BY LOCAL UNION AT MEETING| HAIDA, JUNEAU CLUB | o B . WILL SHOOT SUNDAY unihids N (B AR el mrvflmv' of the Juneau Mine and“ Riflemen from the Coast Guard Mill Workers Local 203, in Unicn| cutter Haida and the Juneau Rifle Hall. and Pistol Club have arranged ‘a Those elected for the the new shoot at Mendenhall range for to- term follow: President, W. A. Ras- morrow and transportation will be mussen; Vice-President, Rex Her-! provided for” all ‘shooters, leaving man; Financlal- Secretary, J. L.| There have been three films that from in fient of the Federal build- Covich; Recording Secretary; Chris| Would have justified selection ing 2t 8:30 in the morning, it was Hennings, Trustee; Jack Ronaer;|cause of merits of production, announced today by club officials. Conductor, Arley Mullin, and War-|'ectom: B den, Ture Holm [oanas, iapr . \puw romance; to “First Lady,” a No news has v ¢ PETE OLSEN DIES the . Central Labor | fai l)(,er:\l“lsrlnmhgoxr?f f\l:)mgll IN 300-FOOT FALL, Ciris Hennines who left for thellol il ® o0t ol uotess, American Federation of Labor con- e Bouque{ f;,r Pty il AI‘ASKA JUNEAU ;L‘;;L"':nlz”“‘“ e g Sk, """i 1t is “Stage Door” (RKO) that @ gets our nod. As directed by Greg- ory LaCava, the film takes a sim- ple story of theatrical ambition, COMPENSATION FUND STARTS IN TERRITORY Commission'A nnounces Receipt of First Check for $2,090.16 AIL" better to see It i THE FliZLlNG OF A CLASH works. or anything in it, he ins Robbin Coons, Hollywood cor- respondent for The Associated Press Feature Service and the Empire is an expert on film- dom’s affairs. From his studies of the September previews, he herewith presents the movie-of- the-month, with reason: By ROBBIN COOD AP Feature Service Writer HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Oct. 9. |Outstanding recent movies have been of such varied types that se- \l((uon of a “movie of the month” »l‘ more than ordinar difficult. to The Prisoner of Zenda, been received Council from by Falling 300 feet down a chute in the Alaska Juncau mine, Peter Eiv- NATIVE CCC CREW TO in Olsen, 39 r-old A. J. bull- adorns it with generous humor, BE FORMED, HOONAH {10, (. fageay. and vorks dozer, was pronounced dead in the m all smoothly and swiftly toward ambulance upon arrival at St. Ann’s Hospital last night at 8:45 o'clock. Harold Smith of the U S. Forest|an emotional climax that has the Olsen, who has no living rela- Service lcft for Hoonah on the ! impact of an explosion. tives, was born in Norway in 1898. Estebeth. The official goes there| The screen play, by Morrie He had been employed at the Al- to organize a Civilian Conservation cking andq Anthony Veiller, departs aska Juneau mine for shortly over Corps crew made up of natives in'y¢ win from the stage ipt of a month. conjunction with the expanded CCC gana Ferber and George S. Kauf Announcement of funeral services program. He expects to return onlmay will be made later from the Charles the Estebeth. W. Carter Mortuary ELECTRA TAKES OFF and much of it was rewr |ten on the set under LaCava's su- | pervision. This is one picture which |argues well for that method. MMATH FUNERAL irgucs ven for that metrod. | TO BE TOMORROW |,,.coivie, Soraing ouse in New | York where_girls of beauty and THIS MORNING WITH Funeral services will be held for| 1 unera T i talent, d f neither, share LOAD OF PASSENGERS roy sonatn at 2 ofclock tomorrow|ihe ambition fo cruch - footlight in Elks' Hall under the auspices of |fame. The Pacific Alaska Airways Lock- the Benevolent and Protective Or-| The real actress among the girls heed Electra got off for Fairbanks ger of Elks. living here Kaye Hamilton (An- at 11 o'clock this forenoon after Rey John A. Glasse will officiate |drea Leeds) who has set her heart bad weather had held the plane here a¢ the services at which Mrs. Lola |on a certain role in a play to be since early In the week. Pilots Mae Alexander will sing accom- Monson and Hall were at the con- panjed by Mrs. Carol Beery Davis. trols, with four passengers in the R cabin. | Railway camping cars are leased Passengers on the TFairbanks- to vacationists in Belgium. They bound ship were Leroy DeLong, are transported over the rails from Charlie Murray, C. J. Johnson and a central point to a vacation spot Herb Malters. and remain the property of the e camper for the term of the lease. Lode and pacer location notices .- for sale at The Empire Office. News Today.—Empire. ST S R Menjou), Jean Rogers (Ginge Rogers) is a truculent, jed dancing girl, Terry 'Hepburn, is a rich girl lat the club for “atmosphere trying to become an actress. Father as Angel Terry is intelligent, clever, warm-hearted. Unknown to (her father has angeled Powell’s on condition Terry be starred. So ishe gets the role Kaye Hamilton was to have played. In rehearsals she is wooden. On her opening night she is terror-stricken. Jean—already hating her because (Katharine who lives " while i her, Toda; BEFORE YOUR BUY: dirt—comes to her dressing room A New Fur Coat — LADIES—‘ | It will pay you to accept our invitation to visit| our shop and factory and inspect our furs and equipment. SEE THE MANY FUR COATS, with the news that Kaye Hamilton has committed suicide. on and gives a triumphant per- formance. in the latest mode, which we have just made up‘ for this winter season and now have on display— ALL 1937 STYLES. JUST SEE THEM—YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY Also: Pieces and Coats Made to Order in ALASKA'S LARGEST FUR FACTORY. YURMA IS A FURRIER BY TRADE | FOR HOME OR BUSINESS REFRIGERATION SERVICE and REPAIRS Phone 34 Our Refrigeration Expert, JOHN HOUK, is equipped to give you Quick, Efficient Service at reasonable cost. Rice & Ahlers Company |efit of Astaire), lcomer, There is little to choose between the performances of ‘Hepburn and Rogers. The latter scores dramat- ically and comically, (without ben- and the former re- captures the electric force and skill that made her earlier vehicles no- table. Old Reliable Menjou Leeds, a compartive new- is star material, and Lucille Ball registers more effectively than ever before in comedy. Collier, Franklin Pangborn and Phyllis Kennedy (the maid) contri- bute to the film's worth along with a large group of young actresses and—of course—the old reliable Menjou, and the increasingly com- petent Gail Patrick. Miss However, the film is mainly La-| Cava's. He has made “Stage Door” more than a clice of life it is a slice of the heart. CHECK-UP Last month’s best: (Goldwyn) Sylvia Sidney, Humphrey Bogart, directed by William Wyler. This Month’s Runners-Up: “Pris-| oner of Zenda” (Selznick-Interna-| inun.m starring Ronald Colman; directed by John Cromwell; “Pirst | Lady” (Warner Bros.), starring Kay When Ginger Rogers (in striped robe) and Katharine ne expected a battle of temperament ; anyway; with Gregory LaCava di Acclai Born in Towanda, Pa The picture work for him and, maybe, why K. Hepburn vs. G. Regers was the temperamental fizzle Stanley Logan, “100 star- Francis, directed by Most interest Men and a Girl (Universal) , \ring Deanna Durbin, with Adolphe be-| di-| acting and entertainment.' Ry- |produced by Tony Powell (Adolphe | good-heart- | i and play| she considers Terry has played her| Emotion- ally wreked by this news, Terry goes | Constance | “Dead End”| starring Joel McCrea, | Menjou, Leopold Stokowski, ed by Henry Koster. Stars-of-thi Rogers in “t Rogers in * as direct- Hepburn and ta George “Madame X.” HAIDA LOSING TWO OFFIGERS, Transfer orders have been received by two Ensigns on the Cutter Haida Ensign R. R. Shunk is being trans- ferred to the Atalanta at Seattle, and Ensign G. R. Reynolds has been | ed to the Ingham, also in nt Rollins of the A transferred to i be ffoct- Pe- The orders will not become e ive until around the first of cember. Unfaithl Maid In Prison Gamp MUNICH, O('t 9 A servant gixl in Weissenburg in Northern Bavar ia, was sent to a concentration| camp for “repeatedly quitting her’ jobs without giving notice, and ma-| liciously leaving her employers without help in the house.” | The chief the Nazi country bu- | reau, when making mmu‘llm(n' for an indefinite period, announ “This is one place you won't be able to leave without giving notice.”| Hushand Refuses Basement Barpai OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 9.—Alvin W.| Ostrum, seeking a divorce, testi-| of Italian parents, {owned by Lake. MOVIE OF THE MONTH Coons Picks “Stage Door”— ims Hepburn, Rogers Hepburn were cast as co-stars in “Stage *Door,” Perhaps the girls wouldn't have fought under any circum- cting, the expected battie did not come off. with the girls here, handles players so easily that they never suspect he is giving them the psychological Gags and horseplay are his tools. paper cartoonist and an artist before he went into {llms. He likes to have players with ideas express them. That's why actors like to LaCava, chatting LaCava was a news- is more important than anybedy of the year. ArmyMan Promoted Col. Julian L. Schley Chief among army promotions is that of Col. Julian L. Schley commander of the U. S. army eng school at Fort Belvoir, Ja., who was I a major g eral and appointed chief of army engineers, effective Oct. 17. Sidewalk Built of Tlmhsmnes LOS ANGE L Jct. 9. — A sidewalk made of tombstones is the pride of Frank Lake, contractor. It happened this way: During the depression a hard-hit monument maker got permission to store his stock in trade on a lot Later he declared he didn’t want to move the heavy stones away, so Lake used them to build a sidewalk. “They’ll come in handy some day,” he says. “All I'll have to do is to 'dig a hole under one of them.” D Prison Dates Banned TECUMSEH, Okla, Oct. 9. There'll be no more “date nights” —parties with young men as guests —for the honor girls at Oklahoma's state training school for girls. The state board of affairs, acting on the Mabel Bassett, state commission of charities and corrections, has abol- ished the ‘“date night” system at the correctional institution. “The girls are disappointed and hurt, but they are taking it like ladies,” Mrs. Creighten Burnham, superintendent of tiue school, said there. She inaugurated the idea last July 16 to give the girls social back- ground. Police Whistle Saves 50 in Fire NEW YORK, Oct. 9.— Alertness of a polioeman probably saved the lives of fifty persons, as flames threatened their five-story tene- ment. The patrolman was crossing Man- hatfan bridge when he noticed flames shooting from the roof. Commandeering a truck, he sped across the bridge, stopped opposite the tenement, and frantically blew his whistle until slumberers on the top floor were awakened. eee Losers Stuck GRAND HAVEN, Mich., Oct. 9.— “Double trouble” was the lot of three Grand Rapids men who com- plained to Sheriff Frank Van Etta that they had lost money at a gambling concession at a country fair near Grand Haven. The sheriff listened sympatheti- v to their complaint and then rged them with violating the ate gambling laws by patroni%ing gaming device. The men paid fines of from $3.50 to $5 each. They said they had lost $135 on the gambling wheel. Unloaded Gun Not Deadly : Weapon ck CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 9—By the ruling of Justice Samuel H. Trude, a revolver isn't a deadly weapon un- less it is loaded. Consequently he dismissed a charge of assault with a deadly weapen brought ‘against Charles Starauss, fifty-two, a jani- ter. The charge had been prefer- red when neighbors saw Strauss brandishing a revolver at Melvin SLauton thirteen. Testimony was the gun contained no bullets. Today s News Today ——Emplre recommendation of Mrs.' }Men Over 40 Preferred \As Salesmen | | Dewar’s (PRONOUNCED DO-ERS) WHITE LABEL For NEW YORK, Oct. 9—Men over forty are preferred to their young-| er rivals for executive and selling jobs by New York City's foremost group of sales executives, the mem- bers of the Sales Executive Club. These men represent some of the! nation’s largest businesses. Their| report was made at a meeting of the club to which were invited mem- | {bers of the American Legion, who! are campaigning on behalf cf more| work Yor men over sixty. Eighty per cent of the members of the Sales Executive Club report- ed they preferred men cver forty.| The survey was made by Charles C. Stech, research specialist of Nev York City. | The reasons for preference of]| older men, in order of importance, were: 1. They are likely to turn cutl more production. 2.—More likely to be conscientious about those phases of work hard to check up. 3.—More likely to be open-mind- ed toward criticism. { 4.—Likely to undertake unpleas- ant assignments more willingly. 5.—More likely to bring in new ideas of VBI\IP Greece o to Have Debtors’ Prison ATHENS, Oct. 9.—Greece have a debtor’s prison. The Minister of Justice has de- cided on the construction of a building capable of housing 200 persons who have not paid their | debts to the State. The prison will be divided into owo distinct sections, one for those debtors who have not liquidated their obligations to the State to- gether with the legal expenses, and the other for those who have paid the amount of their debts, but have not paid the legal expenses in- volved. is to Hodson's Horse (41h Duke of Cambridge's Own Lancers) g Youth Sneaking Up On 60-Year-Old Mani ENID, Okla., Oct. 9.—Youth is5 creeping up on 60-year-old R. L. Downing, who has discarded his glasses and now is cutting his third set of teeth. Downing formerly could not read the streamer line on a newspaper without his glasses. One day he found he could read a little better, and within a year he laid aside his glasses entirely. The improvement in his eye- sight, Downing admitted, was not nearly so much a surprise as the discovery his third set of teeth was | coming through. 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