The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1938, Page 3

The Show Place of Juneau Love...YOU FUNNY THI And how funny it can be .+.as a boy loses one girl and wins another (with the help of cops, [ 3 robbers, milkmen, fire- @ 4 men) in the exciting | £ hours between midnight and dawn! SHORTS Stevedores Celorful Bombay Prirate Party Stranger than Fiction Timely News Robt.YOUNG ¢ Florence RICE Sunie CLAYWORTH Barnett PARKER Screen Play by George Oppenheimer and Everett Freeman | Directed by Edwin L. Marin | Preduced by Sam Zimbalist DEPARTMENT OF TOP FLIGHT NAVY EXPANDING ARTISTS ARE NOW IN ALASKA GOING RURAL Certain Parts of Amaknak Actors and Others Quitting Island Transferred by | City to Move Out Executive Order ‘ Into Countryland (Continued from Page Three) By GEORGE TUCKER 9 p NEW YORK, March 2.—Perhaps the opinion of Delegate Dimond, |it's merely a sign of spring, but and he has continued working to- \more and more the top flight ward that end. Greatly increased |artists, actors and authors are go- defense’ facilities for Alaska have |ing rural. also been recommended by Repre-| Hendrik Willem Van Loon has sentative M. J. Maas of the House moved into a rambling house on Committee on Naval Affairs. On | Connecticut’s salty shores and in- this subject he recently said, “Na- | vites there pilgrims to his dutch tional defense needs in Alaska are teas. Irrepressible worker that he urgent, and particularly a naval is he continues his labors on his air base in Unalaska.” Maj. Gen. books and drawings while chatting William C. Rivers, U. S. A, retired, with his guests. In the middle of a also emphasized the need for op- paragraph or half finished with a erations based at Unalaska when watercolor he will stop to give his he testified before the House Naval guests a lecture on the past and Affairs Committee on February 11. future of the arts. In this connection he stated, “A A short drive away is the coun- moderate fleet based on the Aleu- tryside home of Peggy Wood, who tians can defend our West Coast has deserted it temporarily to ap- and the Panma Canal better and pear in a play in London. It is a more economically than a fleet meodernistic house, enclosed most- based on Honolulu. Honolulu is Iy in glass walls, and perches on useful as a secondary defense and the side of a hill overlooking a to aid in defending the Panama wide grove of trees Canal, but it does not happen to lie within 2,000 miles of the sea Nearby route to Jaapn. The aircraft, the dell the home of Mary Servoss, submarines, mines and fleet itself who played the Queen to Leslie should be in the Aleutians which Howard’s Hamlet. It is a big house, are squarely on the route to Japan.” quite English countryside in ap- - |pearance, and the walls are covered with original paintings and Van Gogh prints. is hidden in a wooded rural neigh- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1938. . U. S. to Honor John Muir, Whe Toiled To Help World Enjoy Grea YOUNG, RIGE STARRING IN GAY COMEDY Marricd Before Breakfast’ Is Now Playing at Capitol As stirring to the senses as a reliable alarm clock, “Married Be- fore Breakfast” comes to the screen of the Capitol Theatre tonight. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer with Edwin L. Marin di- recting, the new picture features Robert Young and Florence Rice in a romantic comedy with thrills. The narrative concerns a hand- some young inventor, played by Young, who is engaged to a so- ciety debutant. In a travel agency he meets a charming girl clerk Miss Rice, and ceases to be so positive about the marriage. In his efforts to impress the girl he tries to sell her boy friend an in- surance policy and the plot goes into its complications. The inventor has acquired a robot which is the marvel of all who see it. But when the youth and the lovely travel clerk become involved in a jewel robbery, then are kidnapped, and finally are ar- rested, the robot really does his stuff. They are vindicated even- tually and_discover that neither of them wants to marry anyone but the other. Which is perfectly all right with the mechanical man NEW BRIDGES T0 BE BUILT OUT HICHWAY Forest Service Supervising Replacement of Eagle River Structure Two bridges are being built in the Eagle River section by CCC workers, according to W. J. Mec- Donald, Regional Forest Inspector. The suspension bridge over Eagle River will be replaced by a horse trail piling bridge and a vehicle bridge will be built over the Her- bert River. The Eagle River structure will be six feet wide and 300 feet long. Piling will be driven for the cross- ing a short distance below the present site of the suspension bridge which was washed out last fall. It will have a puncheon deck and three-pile brace every fourteen feet. This bridge connects with a trail on the north shore of the river that leads to Yankee Basin and to Echo Cove, promising mining areas. The Herbert River bridge, about a mile from the Eagle River high- way where a spur takes off shortly before the end of the road, will make available a large gravel pit that the Bureau of Public Roads and the Forest Service will use for a rock material reservoir. By JOHN JACKSON WASHINGTON, Mar. 2—Offici- als of the U. S. national parks serv- ice are making elaborate plans for cbservance of John Muir's 100th birthday, April 28. Programs dedicated to the mem- ory of the famous Scot-American naturalist will be given by schools, patriotic organizations and con- servation groups. Special conser- vation projects in commemoration of Muir’s valuable work will be started during the coming cen- tenary celebration John Muir was born in the little Scettish town of Dunbar, and came to the United States at the age of 11, settling in Kingston, Wis Wandered Over America As a youngster he showed an aptitude and interest for the natur- al sciences, and when he entered the University of Wisconsin he majored in botany, chemis and geology. Upon leaving the campus, Muir became an explorer, traveling to Canada by way of the Great Lakes. Later he turned south to the Gulf of Mexico and then west to Cali- fornia, where he arrived in 1868. Immediately he made his way into the Yosemite valley, which be- | came his headquarters during the next ten years. From there he ascended the high Sierras, making | careful plant studies of the entire| region. | Possessing the rare gift of com-| municating to others his keen cbservations of nature, Muir wrote many books which helped his read- ers to enjoy the simple satisfactions of the out-of-doors. | “Everybody needs beauty as well| as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike,” Muir wrote, " Forest and Trail | When be died, on Christmas Eve, | 1914, in Los Angeles, Cal., he was | acclaimed as one of the greatest | evangelists of nature the United| States had produced. | Today his love of natural beauty is memorialized in the “John Muir UNIQUE BAND, SIX MEMBERS, WILL BE SEEN Rudy Vallee Will Show Act Off in “Gold Diggers in Paris’ | By ROBBIN COONS | HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 2. — The Schnickelfritzes are as incredible as their name. It sounds like a gag, and it is—half a dozen of them. They, or it, is a band. Freddie Fisher’s Schnickelfritz Band from Minnesota. Rudy Vallee gave a party to show them off—they're in Rudy’s “Gold Diggers in Paris” at his insistence—and the show- off was amazing. | They are a rustic novelty crew |of the musical jester school. All | Whitney to the Yosemite valley. JUNEAU'S OWNED_AND OPERATED 8y W.1LGROSS Jurieau’s Greatest Show Value NOW. Another Perry Mason Thriller The Pennsylvania borhoods also are being settled by Broadway and Hollywood famous names, this parade being led by the witty but sad minstrel, Dorothy Parker. Up the Hudson River, especially around Sneeden’s Landing and the High Tor region where Ichabod Crane, the Headless Horseman and other Washington Irving charac- ters are supposed to have roamed, is another such art settiement. Margaret Perry and Burgess Mere- — |dith have a riverside home there and so does Maxwell Anderson, who wrote quite an excellent play ™ about the weird sights he imagined * THIS FAMOUS HOTEL is close to the theatres and happened in the ghostly region. stores, with magnificent view of mountains and har- bor, Splendid food, perfect Paradoxical as it may seem this comfort, convenience and flight of the artists to the country- LARGE """ Rates side is dictated largely by a desire ROOMS, x-m:x £ . for time and freedom in which e‘:; all with Special s to work. In the days when they livi baghs ALASRANG ‘LKt THE |in Greenwich Village studios and M later in the East Fifties near the murky waters of the East River, NEW WA5H|NGTON they found themselves more and more pressed for time in which to e pursue their careers. On Manhattan it was an easy matter for friends, business ac- quaintances, fans and hundreds of others to pursue them continually in their homes. Courteous though they liked to be, they discovered that these interruptions were con- ';: tinually interfering with their work. | ) ‘THE CASE OF THE STUTTERING BISHOP” Thrills! Chills! Laughter! Selected Short Subjects Latest Paramount News .50 BODDING TRANSFER | | MARINE PHONE BUILDING kg Rock—Coal Hauling Stove—Fuel Oil Delivery 23 | The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Pranklin Sts. PHONE 136 | S e ) — that'the classic rafters of Carnegie % Hall vibrate in swing time. Duke Ellington is polishing his baton and | his band for a session there come spring. And his orchestra probably will be augmented by a huge choir. away from the crowd and isolated enough to find leisure to work. | Health Foods Center BATTLE CREEK, HAUSER AND OTHER DIETETIC ¥OODS 230 Franklin St. Telephone 62 They're ransacking the lists for a professional name for Max Rosen, z the 16-year-old swing harpist. —————————} Seems they're afraid he will be NEW confused with the violinist. | ALASKAN e . HOTEL l | So. Franklin Street | JUNEAU——Phone Single O L ELKS ATTENTION Past Exalted Rulers’ Night, March, 2, initiation, nomination of officers.| So they are fleeing to the country- | side where they are far enough | won't be the only time this season ! It also serves to form the first!gsix of them manage to look like link of a road that may some day | pewildered hayseeds. They don't tap mining areas in the vicinity | dare look anything else, this being of Herbert Glacier. expected of ex-farmhands, as Paul A crew of 12 men is now work-| Cooper, pianist and arranger, ex- ing on the Herbert River bridge plained. Cooper used to be a radio and will go to Eagle River after announced (Wichita Falls, Tex.). they have completed their present Barber College Alumnus work. “There ain’t one of us six who lcan’t milk a cow,” said Kenneth MRS Trisko, trap drummer, with pride. A,l'. CTA‘Esf HPolggll:EgO “If things go bad in the band, ing,” proclaimed Stanley Pritts DEPARTURE SOUTH ;e e pice I can always go back to barber- the gangling trombonist. brought his certlficate from Oma- For Mrs. W. H. Case who will end her visit in Juneau Monday when |« s t Qutdoors R acae | Yosemite was his workshop | —| John Muir, naturalist extends from Mt A grove of giant redwoods near San Francisco is now known as “John Muir Woods.” Although the centenary program this spring will be concerned chief- ly with Muir's contributions to the science of conservation, it must not be forgotten that he was one of Trail,” which ha'’s barber college along, just case.) Fisher organized the group in Winona, Minn,, late in 1935. A year ago they began making graph discs which sold like Shir- ley Temple dolls. Vallee found them in a Minneapolis night club. They had gotten together—from Towa, Missouri, Nebraska, gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Together, they found, they could do the derndest things. They still do. One of them is “The Wreck of the Old 97,” with Neals Laakso, the, Finnish cornestist, playing a train whistle while the others do a cheo-cheo with their feet and smoke comes out of Maestro Fisher’s tall hat. Hats, it is soon apparent, are fairly vital to the Schnickelfritz art. They brought two trunkfuls of old hats with them. One of the main uses of hats, which may sound unmusical but isn't, is to keep the hats going, from one player to another, in endless chain while the music plays. Laakso, the Artist The trombone is Fritts's forte, by no means his only talent. His specialty is, believe it, the easel. That isn’t a musical instrument except in this band. To it are fast- ened assorted objects. He strums a washboard, taps out cadences on a cowbell and frying pan with thim- bled fingers. Nels Laakso, youngest of the six, is considered a ‘“real artist” on the cornet — triple-tonguer and easy master of high C. He’s a glum- looking individual, with a flair for comedy. Charles Koenig, plays—what did you in the smallest, expect?—the | ringside phono- | Michi- | [the world’s greatest globe-trotters, On his first trip to Alaska, in 1879, he discovered Glacier bay and the great sheet of ice that bears his name. With a fidelity for facts, and a fertile power of poetic imag- inations, he described this trip, to- gether with his journeys to the Cau- casus, Siber Manchuria, India, Egypt, Australia and New Zealand. biggest instruments. At 152 pounds weight, Koenig wrestles with the tuba (28 pounds) the bull fiddle (21 pounds.) Kenneth Trisko does the drums, which include drums and other things. All of them play the hats, - > Star Found Dead Harriet Brown Nielsen, former act- ress and swimming star of Olympie wlibre, was found dead in her New Fork apartment. Police are ques- jioning a friend, William King, who ‘ound her body, in an attempt to lear up the mysterious circum- tances surrounding her passing. she sails south aboard the Mount McKinley, a fea was given yester- | day afternoon by her daughter, Mrs. Hugh Wade, at the Wade residence on Basin Road. Close to fifty guests called dur-| ing the afternoon. Assisting the|| hostess were Mrs, William Britt, | Mrs. J. J. Stocker, Mrs. Guy Mec- | Naughton, Mrs. T. M. Reed, Mrs. J. B. Godfrey, Mrs. Hector McLean, | Mrs. Charles W. Hawkesworth, Mrs. Ray G. Day, Mrs. Jack Hellenthal, and Mrs. M. S. Whittier who poured. | Mrs. Wilbur Burford, Mrs. Charles | Sabin, Mrs. Simpson MacKinnon, | Mrs. Ernest Parsons, Miss Nell Mc- | Closkey, and Mrs. Gertrude Naylor | assisted in serving. | Leaves Cruches, ~ Jumps to Death | That Benny Goodman concert LOS ANGELES, Mar. 2—Dan J.| Sullivan, 70, crippled and unem- | ployed, found it necessary to apply | for an old-age pension. But the.application bothered him. So, sitting in a dingy, third-floor hotel room he wrote: | “My worst curse—signing an old- | age pension application. The doing | it I signed away my liberty as an | American citizen. Finis. Dan J.| Sullivan.” He hobbled to the window, placed | his crutches by the sill, climbed out on the fire escape and jumped to his death. ——— Quill toothpicks are more popu- lar than wooden ones in England. - BEING IN , D. C., includes, itary -cape; Capt. H. M. \ braid, indicating that he is HE ARMY NOW left to right: Lieut. Col. W. O. Turner in evening Lok s LA e to be a dressier a’hlr.'lgloce do‘ztli:uhdw :::e dress uniforms to be compulsory nex lor army officers. Style prevue a lling - Ryan, field commander, in dress uniform with dress—tails, dark blue coat aud trousers, with gold aide to President Roosevelt; Lieut. W. E. Hall in mess dress attire; Lieut. h Rhudy in full dress; Lieut. J. G. Fowler in air force dress uniform. THREE BILLS | ON NORTHLAND | UP IN SENATE Army Air Base Discussed by Delegate Before House Com. (Continueda from Page One) in Washington, several vears past D.C, for IN CAPITAL CITY Recently arriving in the East, Robert Kallenberg of Dillingham accompanied by his sister, a resi- dent of Ohio, is stopping for sev- eral days in the Capital City this week. They are returning from a visit to Florida. Mr. Kallenberg ex- pects to return to Dillingham and 3nag Point soon ARE NORTHBOUND Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cameron, long- time residents of Katalla, who came ‘o the States last July and have been in Boston most of the time since, visited in Washington on February 18 and 19 and then left for California where they will stay for several weeks before returning to Alaska. COLEMAN VISITS Herbert Coleman of Ketchikan, is visiting in Washington and called on Delegate Dimond February 19. TODD COMES WEST After spending about a week in Washington, United States Marshal C. J. Todd and his daughter, Mrs R. L. Clifton, left February 18 en- route to California where they will vacation further for a few days be-| fore returning to Valdez. WADE RETURNING l Hugh J. Wade, Territorial Direc- tor for the Social Security Board in Alaska, has been in the city of Washington for several days on of- | ficial business. He expects to return | to his Juneau office next week. | | TO VISIT MOSCOW Froelich G. Rainey, profes- anthropology at the Univer-| Dr. sor of Rainey, arrived in Washington Feb- | ruary 17 to complete the working| out of arrangements for a visit to| Moscow through which he hopes to| arrange for an exchange of nnthru-; pological work in Alaska and eastern | Siberia. | ALASKA AIR BASE | | On February 18 Delegate Dimond | appeared before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropri- ations which was then considering | the War Department appropriation bill and requested an appropriatfon | of two million dollars to ‘commerice | | work on the Army air base author- |1zed for Alaska under the Act of | August 12, 1935, commonly known | as the Wilcox Air Defense Act. | The Delegate pointed out that | Alaska lies on the direct route be- | tween the main body of the United | States and the Orient and that, owing to circumstances which have | occurred during the past year, ft| is more than ever important that | Alaska be adequately defended, and! that any hostile power in posses- sion of Alaska would be within easy striking distance of the United States, the distance between Ket- | chikan and Seattle being only 747 | miles. He further invited the at- ‘mention of the Committee to the flight recently made by the six Army bombers, commonly called “flying | fortresses” from the United States, | by way of Lima, Peru, to Buenos | Aires, capital of the Argentine Re- | public, and said that it would be | impossible for those particular ships to operate in Alaska because we | bave no airfields sufficiently large | to accommodate them; and that it | was a thousand times more impor- | tant to prepare adequate defenses | for Alaska than it could possibly be | to aid in the defense of the South | American countries, no matter what, | Del |that ihe total value of the *ship- justification there migh! he for such assistance to those cou.itries. He again told the committée that the line between Yokohama and the main body of the United States by way of the Aleutians fs 1,400 miles shorter than a line between Yoko- hama and the United States which would pass through the Hawailian Islands. The Delegate reminded the com- mittee of the testimony given by Maj. Gen. Williains C. Rivers, US.A,, retired, a few days ago and {nvited particular attentfon to that part of his statement which follows: “President Roosevelt evidently had in mind that we need a naval force primarily for defense. For example, Hawaii Mes many hundred miles away from® our contimental limits; Alaska isa good deal nearer the Cali- fornia coast, however, than Hono- lulu is. Hence, a hostile fléet lying in the ice-free harbors of Unalaska would be inside a fle>t at Honolul. “The Unalaska fle:t wouid have, also, a stratégic Advaniage: it would cooperaté on shortir and interior lines, forcing the Honolilu fleet to work on exterior and longer lines, a disadvantage for the Honolulu fleet, “Zero weather has wnever heen known in Unalaska. There are fogs in the Aleutians; also in Newark and in New York ha:lor. more fogs in the English Channel, Scotland and the North Sea.” While Geners! Rivers' remarks had reference to n:oial defense alone, it is obvious that military de- fense of Alaska, for th~ protection of the United States as well as of Alaska, is equally justified by ele- mentary stratecic principles. In remarking upon the value of Alaska to ‘the United States, ‘the te infcried the committee ments to the United States during the calendar yeer 1937, amounted to $80,566,157 Representative J. Buell Sayger, chairman of the House sub-ommit- tee on Militarv Appropriations, -re- cently stated that there is noed for an Army air base in the "Te’zitony, and when #sked if he would follow up on that théme when ti> bill Was being heard. snid, “That is my Ye- lief and I will make recommenda- tions to that effect.” The fact ‘hal an iien. for the proposed base near PFairbanks was not included in ‘the bill by the Bii- reau of the Budget is expected to cause considerable obfection to such inclusion now in the €ommittee and | sity of Alaska, accompanied by Mus, °F O the flodr ‘of the House. 350 NATIVES TO WORK FOR, Destitute Intevior. Will Be Given Jobs in -Section Gangs Arrangements are being complet- ed for the employment of 350 In- terior natives on the Alaska Rail- road during the summer seasan, according to George C. Penny, Sup- ervisor of Social Welfare for the Bu- reau of Indian Affairs, b In announcing thht Me Will, be transferred to ‘Seattle, léaving March 15, Mr. Periny d&mm was “trying to wind up this ‘hative employment thing on the’ Railroad belt before leaving.” “We have been faced with problem of taking care of acul destitute natives in great numbers along the Rallroad, the upper.Kus- kokwim and along the Richardson Highway,” Periny said. “We will get requests for more than double the this arrangement with the Alsska Railroad, but # = will definitely help.” Penny further said that the. first group of about 75, would be em- ployed May 1 and the remainder during the month. No natives who have available opportunities to thake money at fishing will be given a share in ‘the ‘employmbrit, ‘PFenny said. FOR INSURANCE See H. R. SHEPARD & SON Telephone 409 B. M. Behrends Bank Eldg. WINDOW CLEANING PHONE 48°