The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 5, 1939, Page 3

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JUNEAU—DOUGLAS—ALASKA Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Jan. 5.—Addenda on the projected “hot- test films: “Confessions of a Nazi Spy,” announced by Warner Bros. for immediate production, is in line with this studio’s predeliction for capitalizing on news sensatons. It was first with realistic gang film successes, first with a racket-busting movie, first to attempt a film treatment of labor troubles (“Black Fury"), first to picture hooded terror in “Black Legion.” In recent months, sparked by its president, Harry M. Warner, it has undertaken a patriotic crusade through the medium of short subjects, most of which have been of movingly dramatic as well as patriotc interest. Presdent Warner's American Legion talk on Americanism was a sincere expression of his feelings—and the anti- Nazi film plan reflects these as well as a probable hope to profit from a quick and sensational headline movie. Warner has no German market to lose. Certain other com- panies, with heavy investments abroad, may have officials who feel as deeply personally as the Warne: these companies, however, may be expected to take the attitude of silent hope for an ultimate change in the foreign set-up. “Things will iron out in time,” said one unofficial spokesman. “Meanwhile, it would be foolhardy for us to put.out any ‘hit-and- run’ pictures for possible immediate profits.” Walter Wanger, producer of the anti-war film “Blockade” which spoke out strongly against modern war and got itself (with- out intention, I sincerely believe) condemned as an anti-religious argument, has a script of “Personal History” ready to go. ‘Written by John Howard Lawson, who scripted “Blockade” on a nippy evening there's one sure way to get warmed up, inside youjand out, drep«into Percy's for an evening special treat of steaming chili, chop suey or noodles—at — also, the yarn uses only the title of Vincent Sheehan's best-selling narrative. Barring future changes, the film’s German episode will have the American hero rescuing the heroine’s father, a kindly Jewish doctor subjected to persecution. If Chaplin follows his usual procedure on his comedy of dictatorship, his picture might be “dated” before he goes into production. . . . He has been thinking it up for two years now— and he starts werk on a picture when the spirit moves him, not before. “Idiot's Delight,” now in production, is still anti-war in theme but’ has been shorn of its thorns where Italy is concerned. The setting is now “mythical” with Tsperanto as its national language. Hollywood’s self-censors seldom submit seripts to foreign con- sulates directly, but consult with them on occasion ‘fl.er‘ checking indirectly on possible objections. . . . (But I doubt if the German consul will be consuited on “Nazi Spy!”) Only once has a President of the United States intervened directly in a movie production. . . . President Wilson let it be known quietly, in pre-War days, that the villain’s nationality in the serial “Patria” might prove embarrassing to this govern- ment in international relations—ar-. there were changes made. AUGUST, | JOE PENNER STAR OF COMEDY RIOT AT CAPITOL SHOW ‘6o Chase Yourself’ Plays By VOLTA TORREY AP Featare Service 'Writer A concealed as well as undeclared war had simmered for years along the frontier between Russia and Manchoukuo. Just wherethe boun- ' dary lay. geographers could not say. And in August, 1938, so many bombs burst on a hill called Changkufeng, for Final Showing To- nightr lOta' S(reen near the uncetrain frontiers eastern MR end, that the whole world worried, Utilizing as its unique background and wondered. . . an elaborate automobile trailer, “Go' Was Russia, China's friend, di- Chase Yourself, starring Joe Penner, verting Japan from the war in ending tonight at the Capitol The- China? Or was Japan, Germany's atre to provide the audience with | friend, distracting Russia’ from the one continuous round of laughs. crisis in choslovakia? = Or were Joe Penner plays the role of a both sides' frontier forces merely crooning bank teller who is kidnaped fighting to aveid being moved to by bandits after they rob the bank bigger and bloodier battlefields? and use Joe's trailer to effect their ~ Pew could say. But: Toyko and escape. Most of the hilarious action Moscow diplomats compared maps, in this comedy feature takes place ordered an armistice, and agreed to in and around the trailer won by let a commission draw the line be- {Joe in a raffle. tween Russia and Manchoukuo. Appearing in support of the funny War Dog Days comedian are Lucille Ball as his August 15 was expected to be “Der cold-hearted wife, June Travis as & | Tag” in Europe. It wasn't. But the beautiful society girl who is also| build-up continued every August kidnaped by the thugs, Fritz Feld |day. Hungary's kingfish, Admiral | as Miss Travis' foreign fiance whom | Nicholas Horthy, went to Germany she is trying to avoid in marriage, (o study goose-stepping. Bulgaria's {and Bradley Page, Richard Lane 'King Boris got his peighbor’s per- {and Tom Kennedy as the bank rob- mission to re-arm. Spain’s Insurgent | bers. President Franco scuttled the non- When the police launch an ex- | interventionists’ plans. Germans tensive man-hunt for Penner, whom | marched as to wa they believe robbed his own bank, | British passport officer from Vienna la series of side-splitting situations for espionage. 'develop which make “Go Chase “It will soon no longer be pos- | Yourself” one of the most notable sible,” Secretary of State Hull broad- | laugh-provoking pictures seen this | cast, “for some nations to follow the | year. Before the exciting climax is|way of force and for other nations |reached Penner’s wife and the for- |at the same time to choose and "eign nobleman become involved, the | follow the way of reason.” ! heiress’ family joins the police in | | their frantic search for the missing | persons, Penner gets in hot water with his captors by revealing clues | 'to his whereabouts during a roving | | reporters broadeast, and the gang-| sters deliberately give him and the | two women a “ride” by catapulting | the locked trailer down a dangerous | mountain road. | Edward F. Cline has retained a fast tempo in his direction of this | entertaining little picture and the| capable cast enters into the spirit | of the fast-paced story. “Go Chase Yourself,” an RKO Radio Picture, was produced by Robert Sisk from an original story by Walter O'Keefe, and adapted to the screen by Paul Yawitz and Bert Granet. e MERCY FLIGHTS NOW TRADITION OF NORTHLAN Coast Guardsmen, Civilian Pilots Become Alaska's "Good Samaritans’ (Continuea from Page One) HEAVENLY FEASTERS — “An- gels” answer Father Divine's summons to fried chicken. brought him back from the crash scene, The Levanevisky search also had its share of mercy flights, and on one occasion, a mercy flier had be rescued by—of all things—a snowmobile owned by Master Ser- geant Stanley Morgan of Barrow. ‘The snowmobile is a flivver on trac- | tor wheels which logs over the frozen | tundra at about 15 miles an: hour. Flivver Kescues Gillam Harold Gillam was flying emer- | gency supplies to Sir George Hubert Wilkins, based at Point Barrow 1o the Russian plane search. Bad wea- ther forced Gillam down at Cape Halkett, about 100 miles east of —— Barrow, in the dead of winter.:The plane was damaged in landing. The snowmobile came to his rescue with bailing wire, sheet. iron and canvas. forest fire. A miner, ill, is stranded' in his cabin. A plane is reported down. . t Off go the mercy fliers to the Gillam patched his plane and com- rescue. | pleted the flight. Time was when any sort of mercy flight hit page one, column eight. Now the flights have to pack plenty of punch, must contain the main wes | sentials: adverse weather, hardship, Those isolated settlements along| the oft-stormy Strait of Juan De Fuca, which lies between the state of Washington ‘and British Colum- bia’s Vancouver Island, also figure| ‘in mercy errands. It is usually the| Coast Guard seaplane base at Port [Angeles, Wash, that responds. —in fact, any kind of aerial derring- dor. Otherwise the telegraph editor |just boils the story down to filler Plane Subs for Stork isxze. if, indeed, he even bathers. Recently, for instance, Copilots! Mercy flights are here for good. { Lieut. D. B, MacDiarmid and Lieut, | Blase Alaska and Pacific: Northwest {(jg) F. G, Wilde, flew from Port|newspaper readers take them for Angeles to East Sound, at Orcas|granted now. Island, and picked up Mrs. Mildred Latta, 21, an expectant mother. Fif- : teen minutes later she was in Ana- | EASIER“ SIAR LAST gt:lue coyte.s and rushed to a hospital.i ‘Without waiting to learn if it was 'Scores Atfend Ceremony af Scotfish Rie to be a boy or girl, they returned to Temple 2y their base. Because of their efforts, a five- pound baby boy was delivered pre- maturely in a Caesarian operation. The doctor said the child would “probably live.” Airplanes played their part in last month’s efforts to rescue the 18 sur- vivors of the wrecked wooden mo- torship Patterson at Cape Fair- weather, Alaska. Planes dropped supplies to- the stranded men, two | landed guides and “air ferried” some | of them to civilization. Last month a radio message from Anchorage said merely “Mercy flight ‘plane sent Talketna return unidentified.. - Native - boy broken leg.” Another Anchorage plane brought the son of an Indian chief from the wilderness near Iliamna to Anchorage hospitalization for criti- | Witnessed by over 150 persons. cal burns he received in a fire which | During the ceremony a violin sclo fatally burned his father, the tribal | Was presented by Miss Sylvia Davis, chief, and destroyed the family’s|accompanied at the piano by her possessions. TR mother, Mrs. Carol Beery Davis, Alaskans Know Their Pilots and a piano solo was expertly ren- Alaskans know the names of more |dered by Miss Venetia Feero. plane pilots than they: do members| A Past Worthy Matrons ring was of their .own Territorial Legislature, | Presented Mrs. Sweeney at the close Such names as Joe Crosson, Sheldon | of the installation, by Mrs. Charles Simmons; Harold Gillam, Noel Wien, | Hawkesworth, while Walter P. Scott Bob Ellis, Alex Holden, Bob Reeves, Mmade the presentation to M. S Hans Mirow, Don Goodwin, - Art| Whittier, retiring Worthy Patron of Woodley and Bill, Lavery. the Star Order. A bouquet of flow- ‘“Zavery, it will be remembered, €r's Was also presented Mrs. Sweeney was decorated by the Soviet Gov- bY Mr. Whittier, on behalf of her ernment for his, part in the 1934 parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al Lundstrom. rescue of the “Russian Lindbergh,” Officers installed at the service Sigismund Levanevisky, Levanevisky 1ast evening were: Miss Gladys For- apparently lost his life in the Mos- rest, Worthy Matron; Homer Nord- tow-Fairbanks transpolar- flight in ling, Worthy Patron; Mrs. Mildred August, 1937, with five companions. Wyller, Associate Worthy Matron; Then there was Percy. Hubbard, | Harry Watson, Associate Worthy veteran of several mercy flights be- | Patron; Mrs. Helen Webdter, Con- Impressive installation services were exemplified last evening at the | Scottish Rite Temple when new of - ficers for the Order of Eastern Star received their respective stations. Retiring- Worthy- Matron, Mrs. ;‘Dora Sweeney, was installing officer | for the evening services, which were The late Warner Oland became 2 menace-without-a-country to Heroine Irene Castle. fore ‘he lost ‘both legs in an air|ductress; Mrs. Leona Talmage, Asso- crash while on a regular commer- | ciate Conductress; Mrs. Lillian Wat- cial assignment. Mercy = flights and ousted a| 4 | Charles Bird, ex-Public Enemy- No. 4 | 2, was caught in Baltimore. And the to| isolation, impending death—or life| son, Secretary; Mrs, Louise meisel.1 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 5, 1939. BATTLE FOUGHT FOR A HILL; EUROPE'S JITTERS GO ON INCREASING 938: | ; o BARKLEY WINS—and proves he cculd qualify for “Happy” nick- name of opponent Chandler. MeADOO LOSES—and collects a souveniy from his Senate office doer. Moscow flyers feted “Lind yer- | leged Communist “fellow travelers |many’s big landplane crossed the |and suggesting that reds might even Atlantic. The Hawaii Clipper, with |be hiding behind Shirley Temple's 15 aboard, was missing in the Pa-|swirling skirts. cific. Frank Hawks died in a crash | Norma Shearer decided not be | near Buffalo. Dan Dodge, million- | “Scarlet O'Hara."” Warner Oland heir bridegroom of a phone girl, |died. Lupe Velez divorced Johnny {drowned after mishandling dyna- | Weissmuller. Dancers tried “the mite. yam” and the “Lambeth Walk.” Another Element | Hollywood revised “‘Alexander’s Rag- drew French Chemist 'Jean Perrin re- Iported discovery of a 93rd element. |Oriental dysentery invaded Owosso, {Mich. German microscopists mag- nified germs 100,000 times. Women voyagers through Colorado River | | rapids brought back new Kinds of | cacti, And the Queen Mary set a | transatlantic speed record. New York's District Attorney | Dewey, prosecuting James J. Hines. publicized “policy," Barbara Caxroll |of Maine posed for photographers | | covering her father’s trial for mur | der. The Cleveland torso slayer's 11th and 12th vietims were found. | time Band.” Summer conce: | record throngs. And radio lis | dialed in on “Information Please.” alleged “baking to death” of four Pennsylvania prisoners was probed. “Angels” and Solons | Father Divine’'s “angels” moved lto a new “heaven" near Franklin | D. Roosevelt’s Hyde Park place. | Senators Alben W. Barkley, ‘ennett | Champ Clark and Elison D. Smith were among the many moving into| | election finals, and those who were | | beaten in preliminary pollling in- | cluded Senators James P. Pope and William G. McAdoo. The Harlan County, Ky., labor conspiraey trial's jury couldn't agree. | The Dies inquiry came to the fore, with J. B. Matthews introducing al- TENURE ACT IS UNTIMELY, VIEW : |ger, experienced embarrassment to- |day. Merritt was in the lobby of the |Hotel Juneau with J. E. Boyle, Di- | vision Superintenden’ of Union Oil, waiting for hotel manager Clar- ence Wise to begin hunting for his overcoat that he, Merritt had 5.— hidden for a prank. “POLICY PUBLICIZER"—Dew- ey prepares for Hines court room battle. ' Prankster Has His Prank Times Ediforial Says New " Teacher Law Should | Come Later | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. | The Anchorage Daily Times in an editorial says: “Enactment of the|ger asked Tenure Act for Alaska teachers, |“my coat.” which would virtually give presmt‘ Sheepishly, teachers life jobs with scant possi- had hidden a stranger’s coat an (mmy of dismissal, would be like|not Clarence Wise's. | locking the barn door before the | .- | horse is inside. Merritt in regards to Merritt realized he d o—— TO VISIT IN MONTANA | “The purpose of tenure legisla- tion is to raise the standards of, Mrs. Tom Horsman passed | the teaching profession and attract through Juneau recently, bound | efficient, competent teachers. from Valdez to her old home in “The National Educational Asso- Montana for a visit of six weeks. ciation of the United States says o SRR |a good tenure law promotes effici-| |eney by prescribing legal and pro- fessional procedure for elimination of unfit teachers and provides that any teacher may be dismissed for | unprofessional conduct, incompe- NGINEER COMING | Tke P. Taylor, Chief Engineer for the Alaska Road Commission, |will come north on the steamer |sailing from Seattle January 14. The “prank” backfired. A stran- 'NEW PLOT TWIST ADDS FLAVOR T0 MYSTERY PICTURE W "Night Club Scandal’" Has: Final Showina Tonight at Coliseum Theatre Add John T most di P ALTYMONC iv in one roles he composed on fav- twist of 10t ha ent orites, and an er to a mystery plot is Paramount’s new thriller Night Club Seandal,” which ends tonight at the Coliseum Theatre. This new, film is distinctive in its way of treating the murder which is the foundation of the story. In- stead of a hazy fumbling through reels of film, “Night Club Scandal shows the audience the murder at the beginning of the picture, when John Barrymore murders his faith- less wife and plants clues to impli- cate her lover, Harvey Stephens. fron nk irely new and your result | s From then on the audience is on equal terms with, if not ahead of. the police and reporters who work on the solution of the crime. The | plots and counter-plots which are | the result of the clue-planting make !a story which moves at top speed until the final fade-out. Barrymore's plot mov steddily |as he had planned, much to the | grief of Stephens and his sister | (Louise Campbell) until Miss Carhp- | bell entlists the aid of Reporter Lynne Overman in proving her | brother's innocence, Overman uses his influence with Detective Charles Bickford and pries into the past of | Barrymore until another murder | brings events to a head, and Barry- | more is arrested. With the eyes of a group of policemen focused on him, the mur- derer is able to kill himself by poison, thus outwitting the justice of the law; and another “perfect (crime” is a failure, - D e 'NOME VETERAN ON TRIP BELOW Dan Camp, gioneer ‘of the Nome country where he has been pros- pecting and working for the Lomen Brothers since 1900, arrived in Ju- neau by PAA plane from Fairbanks yesterday on his way Outside for a vacation trip. Camp, who says he “has done a lot of prospecting, but never found anything,” made the trip to Juneau in 28 hours, stopping overnight in Fairbanks. e RED CROSS HOME HYGIENE T0 MEET TONIGHT, DOUGLAS The regular meeting of the Red Cross Home Hyglene and Care of the Sick class will be held in the Douglas Territorial School Building | tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock. | The subject to be presented by Miss | Magnhild Oygard, Public Health Nurse, and discussed by the members of the class will embrace the care ! of infants and young children. |SENATOR SULLIVAN " AND FAMILY HER Among the legislators who have brought their families to Juneau | téney, immorality, insubordination | | or neglect of duty. “The law proposed for Alaska | makes no mention of unprofessional | | conduct, immorality or i subordina- | | tion as grounds for dismissal. ; | “A vital point to consider is the | necessity of getting the right | | teachers in schools before making | | them permanent in Alaska. Little, if | anything, has been done to raise| | requirements in qualifying for| | teaching positions. The act would | work untold hardships on innumer- able schools where persons totally unfit for teaching positions find | themselves assured life jobs. | “Pirst we should devote a period | |of years to careful selection of| | teachers, When we have proper ones | lin our schools the time has come | to ‘lack ithe barn door.” KingVSt;ngrs,aF i the “village blacksmith” and used ) George's singing act—was inspired - next spring. Take a look: | Treasurer; Mrs. Ruth Whittier, Mrs. 3 Ruth Hawkesworth, Trustees. Miss Mary Jeannetfe Whittier, Ada; Mrs. Thelma Brown, Ruth; | Mrs. Louise Blanton, Esther; Miss | Elspeth Douglas, Martha; Mrs. Amy Messerschmidt, Electa; Mrs. Jose- | phine Sullivan, Chaplain; Mrs. Gyl- la Chappell, Marthal; Mrs, Helen Foss, Organist; Mrs. Alice Larson, | Warder; Harry Jenson, Sentinel; | | Miss Mary Wildes, Miss Sybil God- frey, Color-bearers. Folowing the installing of officers, ’ refreshments were served in the banquet room, during which: time | community singing was enjoyed, | with Mrs. Carol Beery Davis accom- | panying at the piano. D | EGAN GOING OUTSIDE ‘ Mayor C. J. Egan, of Valdez, will| pass through Juneau on one of the| next steamers. He is going south| on a business trip. — ., RESTAURANT CLOSED The City Cafe at Valdez is closed until March 1 while Proprietor James Fuiji is in Seward under- going hospitalization. AMERICA'S LAMBETH WALK hopes Eleanor Glide will be, By THE AP FEATURE SERVICE Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt likes old-fashioned glid- ing steps—King Gecrge sang to a group of boys about As a result, the Eleanor Glide and the Chestnut Tree are the newest offerings before dancers in Am- erica and Eigland. Mayris Chaney, First Lady's danc- ing friend, got the glide idea from Mrs. Roosevell’s favored steps—presented it at a cabinet dinner, Carl Hcimann, launcher of the Lambeth Walk, saw King Sc Mrs. Rcosevelt and the king will have some- ;Ihing in common to talk about during the royal visit Chaney, dancing it with partner Edward Fox, rst Lad y Gli:les; |4 gestures, by the gestures. die “undel ture in the is what Miss O T —————— Carpenter CHEST . . . The English dancers do place “oi” of the Lambeth Walk. NEAU S 2 : ’L | COLISEUID Juhcau's Greatest Show Vilue Final howing Tonight TONIGHT | IS THE BIG NIGHT Watch the killer strike! See him batfle the 4 A Paramount Picture with JOHN BARRYMORE LYNNE OVERMAN « CHARLES BICKFORDLOUISE CAMPBELL ELIZABETH PATTERSON HARVEY STEPHENS + EVELYN BREMT « CTCIL CUNNINGHAM P ADDED MUSICAL COMEDY PICTORIAL REVUE PARAMOUNT NEWS for the session is Senator Ler y Sullivan of Nomé, former resid. i of Juneau | Senator and Mrs. Sullivan 2nd their two sons are at the M..- ments. -, —— Shrine Club fo Sponsor Second. Dance Saturdy Sponsored by the Shrine Cluk * .¢ Second Shrine dance will be hed at the Scottish Rite Temple Saturs | day evening, with dancing to staif at 9:30 o'clock, Arrangements for the evening will be in charge of H. L. Faulkner. R. E. Robertson and Homer Nordih:g. Wesley Barrett and his Royal Al- askans will play for the formal af- fair, while Mrs. Katherine Hooke. will supervise the serving of re- freshmen Kinnon Apart oo HILLARD IS ON WAY T0 JUNEAD J. J. Hillard, United States Cus- toms Service Deputy Collector ‘n charge at Eagle, Alaska, who has | been on temporary duty for the pist two months at Fairbanks, is on * - | way to Juneau to report to Customs | ifle&dquarurs here. Hillard will r~- main here for the remainder of the winter. & Newr ,hg;r Steps g THE CHESTNUT TREE—Constance and: Pred- demonstrate . first ,mhn—. ) ey ey dance the king started. chestnuts” and &