The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 3, 1938, Page 3

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT Show Place of Juneau SHORT! TO SPRING M-G-M W PREVIEW “MAN OF THE PEOPLE™ LAST TIMES TONIGHT Flaming with the fierce romance of those wholive forthe moment! ...Dietrich—more beauti- ful than ever...Donat— more thrilling than in “Monte Cristo"! KLEXANDER KORDA Wl DIETRICH Kbl DONAT s KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR from the navel by JAMES HILTON Aathor of ‘Last Horizon' -‘Goodbye, M. Chigs' Directnd by JACQUES FEYDER th United Artists A LONDON FILS Sees Baskethall PANAY BOWLERS Geflfiinfig Slower ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 3. Dehn a member of pro basketball team, believes the new basketball rules designed to speed up the game will defeat their swn purpose “Abolishing says, “may Dutch the Celtic the serve center the jump,” he purpose for a time, but, once teams get used; to it, they will fit the offense to the new trend and eventually make the game much slower than before.’ - HORSESHOES BRING LUCK? w., Feb. 5. here wonderin SYDNEY, N horse owners are whether horse-shoeing bills are un-| necessary. Lady Airli filly, ran “barefooted” to win her second start at odds of 38-to-1 GEHRINGER NO. § DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 3.—Charles Gehringer, Detroit second-baseman, is the kth infielder to win American League batting cham- pionship. He front after the 1937 season. the was out The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth a Franklin Sts. PHON “I had thought an electric range was slow but. . the new G-E gives clean, intense cooking beat instantly” Many General Electric models offer this exclustve General Electric feature.”, SPEED OVEN. 10%to30% faster—uses 10% to 45% less current. MASTER OVEN. Extra large capacity for un- usual needs. 25% greater space than con- ventional ovens. SUPER BROILER. Has great- est flexibility in both speed and capacity. WIN THREE FROM MINDANAO TEAM In Islander's League at the Brunswick last night, the Panay trio walloped the Mindanao squad by over 300 pins. Ladies practiced women’s tournament preparation for their bowling each week on Mondays and Wednesdays. All women's not yet complete and he the coming night for last are several | positions are still unfilled, according | {to Emil Galao, who is helping the | women get a tournament organiz- ed | Last night's scores follow i MINDANAO Beierly 148 148 [ Maypa 104 130 Villaganas 187 118 131 136— 370 128— 378 Totals 389 391 Taloga | Terencio Paulo Totals FAIRBANK In Fe EASTERN ¥ STAR Annabeth Rennic installed as Worthy Matron of the Order of Eastern ar; B. C. Rothenburg, Vorthy Pa- tron; Dorothy Nickoloff, Associate Matron; and James E. Barrack, As- !sociate Patron, - INSTALLATION HELD Rainbow Girls of Fairbanks installed Joan Peterson as y Adviser and Dorothea Ge: aghty as Worthy Associate Adviser. D Empire classifieds pay. was re- General Electric Range ® You can cook a meal as fast or faster on a new General Electric Range than by any other method. And economically, too. ® General Electric Ranges are equipped with General Electric Hi-Speed Calrod cooking units that dre bermetically sealed and practically indestructible. Faster, use less current, last looger. $110.00 ™ ” Liveral Trade-in Allowance SOLD ON CONVENIENT PAYMENT PLAN Alaska Electric Light and Power Clo.ish JUNEAU—DOU GLAS—ALASKA in two nights of | teams | 427 DONAT STARS INFEATURE AT CAPITOL | Dietrich Is Femin- ine Lead in “Kmight Without Armor™ Mar nal t ent Dietrich plays for the fi- tonight at the Capitol The- her first British film. Alex- “Knight Wihout Ar- which co-stars her with the ing Robert Donat v ¥ wces Marion, ace Hollywood scenarist, made the screen adapta- ticn of this beautitul love story which casts Marlene and Donat in most thrilling roles as an al- luring Russian countess and a man of mystery from another world who are thrown together amid the tu- mult of a history-making day. Out of a hatred they de- velop a love that leads them through 1 series of ng adventures, of- tering moments of incomparable horror and incompaprable bliss as they flee from the terrors ‘that threaten them 4 “Knight Without Armor” rected by Jacques Feyder, the dis- tinguished European megaphonist who last ar directed the unforget- table La Kermesse Heroiqu arnival in Flanders.”) The settings are by Lazare the photogr by Stradling, and the costumes Georges Benda Supporting Miss Dietrich and Do- nat are Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor, Basil Gill Hay Petrie and Miles Malleson | - JAPAN PLANS GREAT DRIVE atre in mor,” da their great was di- Meer- Harry 1 by | | | Foreigners Are Warned to Leave Newly Designat- ed War Zone SHANGHAI, Feb. 3 armed forces have marked out a huge area in East Cen China as a new war zone and have asked Americans and other foreigners to leave The Japanese spokesman an- nounced the decision under which it is indicated that many point; in the area will be subjected bombardment in a drive to crush General Chiang Kai-Shek's Chinese | armies. Japanese authorities will be given maps showing location of foreign- ers and other property - Communists Smile at | Bureaucracy [ apanese MOSCOW, Feb. 3.—Russians wisecrack about the Soviet regime with impunity so long as the humor doesn’t cut too deep. | They do mild spoofing at reaucracy like the following “Can you tell me where find a light breakfast?” “In ‘the Park of Culture Rest the meals are N In fact, they are underweight.” Or: “Why does your husband from 10 to 4 every day?” “He lost his job recently still can't get out of the old habit.” - —e i PLEADS GUILTY Lester Rink pleaded guilty to as- sault and battery in Commission- er's Court today, was fined $350, which he paid, and given a six months’ suspended jail sentence. The charge of contributing to the| delinquency of minor girls was not pressed under agreement of good avior on the suspended sentence, S ant District Attorney George| W. Folta said. bu- I can and sleep WADE. LEAVING i Hugh Wade, Federal Social Se- curity Director in Alaska, is sailing on the Northland enroute to Wash- | ington to attend a conference of | Regional Directors of the Social Security. | Wade said he hoped to return the first week in March THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THUI ON KAI-SHEK XSDAY, FEB. 3, Off Pirate Captain Cool Gus Suhr, first baseman and captain of the Pittsburgh Pirates, so hot under the collar when he received his 1928 contract, in which he was asked to play better bail for less money bottle cooled off in thi %ot abbed the nearest charg vater and o in his Milbrae, Cal, stcre. JAPAN PLANS DOPING U. 8. Charges Made Country Us- ing China for Grow- ing of Opium Minister Files For Terr, House ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 3 The Rev. B. J. Bingle, Palmer Pre: byterian pastor, has filed as an in- dependent lidate Terri- torial House. His petition b natures of 69 colonists the ar to WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Charg- Japan is deliberately in- opium growing in China with the design of ng it clan- - that destinely to the United State creasing ' MOTHER OF 5 Department, Division ot Affairs backs up his charges with e which will be to certain authoritie - MISS PENTZ IS ON STAFF OF PUBLIC WELFARE BOARD ANCHORAGE Mrs. Oscar Be Anchorage for Five children CONFIRMED Feb. 3. Alaska, Feb. 3 n, 47, resident years, died here survive i submitte of yesterday Miss Deborah Pentz, of San Fran- cisco, arrived Juneau on the Baranof and has taken an apart- ment at the Assembly. Miss Pentz is on the staff of the Territorial De- tment Public Welfare, em- d under a Federal wough the Children’s Bureau of the Depar of Labor ‘Don’t You Think Pm Worth It?’ w. ate of The Sen- rmed the nomination Griffin to again be and also Ben- o0 be United Stat Second Division, . with headquarters at Nome. has ¢ Edward n W of My M Marshal of Alas nent Joe McCarthy, manager of the New York Yankees, lent an attentive ear to his slugger, Joe DiMaggio, when the two met at the banquet of the Philadelphia Sporting Writers’ Association, at which Joe re- ceived a cup marking his sclection as last year's most valuable player. DiMaggio refused to sign a $25,000 coniract, reportedly wants $40,000. 1938. SONJA HENIE IS GREATEST Sonja Henie DRAWING CARD ~ Little Miss Packing Thf'm in While Touring with Ice Skating Troupe 3—A about NEW YORK, Feb Mis i ast in sports, Sonju Heinie, touring the with her own ice-skating has been playing ndin only She played $206,000 in eight nights $137.000 at Detroit nights, $108,000 in Cleveland in and Madisan Square Garden was sold out more than a week b started her tive-night best draw U rou tc ¢ crowd to of in C cago, in sey fore she gement - HOTEL MAN IN NEW YORK HAS REAL KINGDOM C. E. Rochester Is Czar, with Many Subjects at that—Affable Ruler By GEORGE NEW YORK, Feb. citing, broadening, at times exasperaling experience {his business of being a hotel man in New York. But Charles E. Ro- chester wouldn’t want it any other way. Just who is Charles E. anyway? He is czar, host, counselor, nurse- maid, friend, and foster-parent to a great many people who live in a particular world of their own—that curious, tingling, often puzzling ever-fascinating, world which is any great metropolitan hotel Mr. Rochester’s particular is the Lexington, a modern sky- scraper edifice on Lexington Ave- nue which stands within two skips and a jump of the spot where Washington once fled from the Brit- ish Czar? Well, he has hundreds of subjects. Their dispositions natur- ally are complex and ditferent Host? A glance at the register will show that not a day passes that diplomats, generals, actors, famous aviators, business men, plain citi- zens arrive at his door for a di or a week or a year. He is thi host. Every guest is entitled to go directly to the manager for any- thing he wants, Counselor? Only last week he| ve expert advice to one of his employees who wanted to go into| business for himself. He has settled| lovers’ quarrels, been witnes marriages. His own people are al- ays coming to him with some pri- vate snarl in their individual lives TUCKER 3.—It wearying s an ex- and | Rochester world i to| 1 i {detns |says Officer to be straightened out Sometimes it is a contretemps such as a suicide or a death which claims his attention and calls for quick-thinking and prompt action.| Such publicity is bad for a hotel, vet occasionally people die in ho- tels. Sometimes it the dead-beat who wines and dines and then at- tempts to evade paying the check.| For these annoyances there are| plainclothesman and house dicks. Their reports are made daily, some- times hour Mr. Rochester has to hear these reports, make instant de-| cisions as to what action must be taken Then there is the problem “’t purchasing the vast stores and sup-| plies that are consumed daily in any, great hotel. Your managing di-| rector has a staff of trained experts to assist in these matters, yet the| burden is his—on his shoulders | falls the blame if the house dips into the red. That is why he is at! once bhoss and chief cook, supply| sergeant and top man. It would be a snap, he says, if there were| about 48 hours to every day. BuLJ alas, there are only 24. | At the moment, however, he isn't| worrying. He's catching fish off the coast of the Hawailan Islands, din- ing on ripe pineapples, and acquir-| ing a coat of that exotic moon-l {burn which you get in the islands. 'It's his first vacation in seven years is i | I'he Norwe actress understanding between Americ Abandon Salvage, Honeymoon Bridge NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y " 3 11 salvage attempts on the fallen Honeymoon bridge have been aban- doned and the famous span has been left to the mercy of the worst ice jam in 40 yes - Not An Earthquake But Just Another Blast in A. J. Mine Juneau residents who thought| there was an earthquake this morn- ing, were mistaken. It was just| the Alaska Juneau mine blasting rock again. According to J. A General Superintendent of the mine, several hundred hoxes of pow- der went off at 7:10 this morning not an unusual blast, but prob- ably through atmospheric conditions more noticeable than usual. -es MARSHAL RETURN! U. S. Marshal William T. Mahon- ey is returning from Sitka aboard! the Northland this afternoon, bring- ling 10 prisoners to the Federal jail| | here. ! R Tuscaloosa, Ala University The reports police force no of Alabama |student has been arrested for drink- ing in the past Just three years. “Stu~ haven't been drinking, F. Robinson - Bolivia is the only country South America without a seaport. in COMMENCES Adults—25¢ + to the United States, Munthe de Mqrm_\ is shown pinning the medal of the Order of *h Williams, " COLISEU Juneau High Gymnasium (Sixth Street Entrance Only) DEMOLAY vs. ELKS HIGH SCHOOL vs. KRAUSE Gets a Médal nsticre, ja Henie, ts and better is the highest Olaf on the King of Nor Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On No matter how meny medicines you have tric:l <ough, chest cold, or bronchial irritufion, you can get relief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford (o take a chance with any remedy lcss potent than | Creomulsion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble and aids na- | ture to soothe and heal the inflamed mucous membranes and to loosen and expel the germ-laden phlegm. Even if other remedies have failed, don’t be discouraged, try Creomul- | sion. Your druggist is authorized to refund your money if you are not thoroughly satisfied with the bene- | fits obtained from the very first bottle. Creomulsion is one word-—not two, and it has no hyphen in it. Ask for it plainly, see that the name on the bottle is Creomulsion, and youll get the genuine product and the relief you want. (Adv.) Last Times Tonight TONIGHT IS THE “BIG NIGHT” Edward Arnold and Francine Lariimore in ‘John Meade’s Woman’ Two Brilliant Stars in a Terrific Drama THE COLISEUM HAS THE SHORT SUBJECTS CITY LEAGUE BASKETBALL TOMORROW NiGHT DOUBLE-HEADER AT 7:30 P. M. 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