The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1939, Page 2

v THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, FEB. 13, 1939. e i 2o L U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU ROLL CALL B OMENT THE WEATHER ; t ANSWERED IN M Q D E S 0[ t/)e M (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) ) B X odnd, O Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 [.m., Feb. 13: BOTH HOUSES g byA..(.’[allIL‘ Kerr Snow tonight and Tuesday, slightly watmer tonight, imoderate to ! " v fresh east and southeast winds. [ o ik )y Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: Snow tonighi and Tues- . . day, except rain over extreme south portion and along the immedi- Bllef HOlldaY SeSSIOH Of ate west coast from Cape Decision to Dixon Entrance, slightly N warmer tonight; moderate to fresh east and southeast winds, excep ! [eglsla'U!e Held a' t strong over Dixon Entrance, Clarence Strait, Chatham Strait, Fred- erick Sound and Stephens Passag> and fresh north wind tonight | Federal Requesi over Lynn Canal, becoming southerly Tuesday. | e 2, Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Strong Jrief sessions were held by both| southeast winds tonight and Tuesiay from Dixon Entrance to Cape | House and Senate this afternoon as Hinchinbrook. I ors “punched the elock” for LOCAL DATA the s of Uncle Sam and their | Time Barometer T:mp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather paychecks. ' | 3:30 p.m. yest'y 29.94 1 0 s 7 Cloudy A Federal auditor held that the 3:30 a.m. today 2073 20 91 w E Lt. Snow Legislature would have to meet to- | Noon today 290.62 25 85 w + Lt. Snow dé Lincoln’s Birthday, in order| RADIO REPORTS A vouchers could be signed for | TODAY heir salaries Max. tempt. Lowest 4a.m. 4a.m. Precip. 4am. ¥ All that took place in the Senate Station last 24 hours temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather 1 roll call, with all members ans- | Atka 38 30 30 16 31 Cloudy 4 vering “here,” 7 Anchorage 18 - 10 18 8 [ Cloudy The House read its jeurnal from Barrow a...=22 | -30 -28 4 o Clear turd maining in session about | Nome 20 ‘ 0 20 24 14 Cloudy 10 minutes > ) Bethel 30 22 30 20 02 Cloud; Both Houses adjourned until 11 Fairbanks -4 | -0 0 4 0 1cxd§ o'clock tomorrow morning. | Dawson -26 -40 -36 4 0 Clear VB A N R St. Paul ... 34 | 30 34 24 A1 Cloudy UDREME Dutch Harbor — ] 32 36 14 a2 Cloudy J Kodiak .. 36 32 32 4 5 Cloudy % Cordova . 36 | 24 36 18 T Cloudy ORDERS END 'l'o Juncau L R R T Lt Stiow - Sitka 38 | I - 0 ! Ketchikan 38 34 38 ] 14 Cloudy Mole ( MB'NE‘ Prince Rupert 42 34 38 14 59 Pt. Cldy Edmonton -8 | -12 -10 6 01 Cloudy h oo | Seattle 46 | 42 42 12 0 Cloudy Anti-trust v i y ) ; Portland ... £3 0 40 8 11 Cloudy A _S law IOlaied byj o 2 2ot & 5 § - San Francisco ... 54 | 46 46 10 T Clear Distributors—Is 5-fo- Sk e L : ‘ v New York .. ... 38 | 32 22 14 0 Clear .. - 8 3 = - ¥ ™ WEATHER SYNOPSHS New Yerk debutantes are tying hair-ribbons in the r 5 th midwinter eve Mary Augusia " ) 3 Decision Kinnan wore this pink “h»“‘.,ne when she suppe ! with Thomas Enais at the Rainbow Room recently. | :";}db“:‘?;nemc :re;uretprevai:_d '-hirs t’:"";r‘;gmm;::gfimgw‘:g WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The Su- Her black crepe frock was designed with a strapiess | and £8 8 TS Jewels Wertis ST ther being two steorn?roeifl;rr: ::e “::; (:nnrk:d intensity over the refe Court decided, today a group studded clip ard pearls. southern Bering Sea region, the lowest reported pressure being 28.18 leading motion picture- distribu- | ——mm e inches at Si. Paul Island, and the second storm area of 29.00 inches T § violated the anti-trust law ¥ . . 5 over the North Pacific Ocean at latitude 5 desrees and longitude through a film licensing agreement. | P oz Wlfe 2 lees UP Ashes of No. ] | 150 degrees. High barometric pressure prevailed over the West Coast Justice Stone, reading a five-to- % Y . | States and over the upper Mackenzie Valley. This general pressure three decisioh (Justice Frankfurter distribution has been attended by precipitation along the <coastal participating) affirmed the de- regions from the Aleutian Islands southeastward to Oregon, also y of the Nolthenil;l%xi;r Federal over the western portion of Alaska and by cloudy weather over the pariment St Court enjoining furtl§r” d¥reement. interior of Alaska. - o3 It was slightly warmer last night over the Gulf of Alaska and Southeast Alaska and much warmer over the Kuskokwim Valley and Seward Peninsula. Juneau, Feb. 14.—Sunrise, 7:37 a.m.; sunset, 4:53 p.m. g B By . . o e M EifuidMIY A5 ~———————— FF(TRA MOVES : i LARGE NUMBERS i R TWO JAUNTS Hollywood Sights And Sounds morning . PAA . Electra. with Bert 1 and Munson toek off with s oad for Fairbanks shortly atter ar- riving on a-delayed schedule {rom Whitehorse. Passengers aboard for Fairbanks from Jurpeau were M. e livan, H. Pederson, J. Crabtree, . Lee Ryan, L. Krohlow, E. Hayfort; For Bonnie Padde Rt " Hoad? m Fairbanks, with Knox and Harem” Head? very at the controls, another PAA oo plane brought in W. F. Eastman, Ncel Wein, A. M. Clausen, Z. J. Lou- J. W. Maloney, H. H. Ross and “Gunga Din.” Screen play by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol, from story by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, suggested by Rudyard Kipling poem. Directed by George Stevens. Cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli, Joan Fontaine, Montagu Love. HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Feb. 13.—Sometimes Hollywood forgets its original function, which was to make movies. Every year it turns ‘em out by the hundreds, but all too often its “movies” are talkies. Here is hurrah-worthy exception: “Gunga Din” is a movie and it isn't ashamed of it. It moves! It races; It MOVES! e ‘You won't have trouble following the story. It's a combination of “The Three Musketeers” and “Beau Geste” and “Drums” and and R. Richardson Mr. and Mrs. Samuel William Hodgdon “What Price Glory?” and “The Perils of Pauline” and all the NORFO! Knox and Savery. landed k) s 5 other slap-dash thrillers you've seen these many years. But unless ’ : e Hodgdon presen + divorced husband, Samuel, with ashes 3 Bubns. screén at 12:45 ay to take the v ‘:X\f:i’,}‘;;n]p § T Cv(dg![-gu] contest over paternity you're too derned sophisticated for your own good you'll glory » hag come t HoWing IS o, Sawmans: Hodgdon’s 1 Aileen. Mrs. Hodgdon said it | in it—and why shouldnt you? Sneer if you will, the old hoke Ebérly, N A. Palmgren,. P, McKee, .. QUEEN’S TASTE for ce they separated to give the ashes to him. S+ At111 ‘ohii beRb: shaztmiDiRent a cow can rown, T. Matthews, J. Dalton, Em- | bangs has inspired Joan Clair . isel. (above) of New York to fashion to Juneau today from a new coiffure with curls clus- s are pilots Btuart and Lein tering the forehead. England’s And “Gunga Din” is that old hoke dressed to kill. If you fans who keep Hollywood’s wheels oiled with golden lava don't go for this, you've changed—and disastrously for Hollywood. Three gay troopers of Her Majesty's army in India are the COWS tion the with B. C. Beyer, C. F. Tonsteth Elizabeth favors bangs. sideways. s a Florence Grant, Early Taylor, 8. protagonists in Rule — Britannia’s war upon the murderous ok Martinsen, S. Pearl for religious cult of Thuggee. The Thug are devotees of the goddess eau and Kar} Seegart for White- Kali, who seems to enjoy nothing better than a good strangling » . o horse S e B B A party, especially if the victims are British. A, Grant, McLaglen and Fairbanks, out on a rescue expedition < L e, after an isolated British post has been mysteriously wiped out, have a bangup, swashbucklinig battle for their lives, return to res port the reappearance of the cult. Gunga Din‘ (Jaffe) is the humble native-carrier with ambi- tions to be a soldier. Trooper Grant’s craving is for gold. When loyal Din brings tales of a mountain temple with a golden dome the two set off—and find the seat and fortress of the Thugs. Sur- rendering himself to be tortured, Grant sends the water-carrier CRIPPE LOSING ALL 115 GRIP ON ROOSEVELT % TON, Feb. 13.—Presi- e 4 1t, confined to his room e f hree days by a slight ) i i i Kk of grippe, was described to- Howatd' Dingell, ‘40, of Ba il ‘ahigh spotinyourday... : & intibeen | The President’s temperature was ¢ : 4 C A o s if ::,; el 1 st That's luncheon time at PERCY'S. That sy 1 L e e e T big plate lunch served there daily for i ing the most xs ez i ] Z only forty cents is just the ticket to send smpire ( Mg?{ERS FAM“.Y ¢ you back to your work with a new : —-— n ; ; =% AT 16, DIVORCED! - zest. I's At 2 That's the story of pretly Mrs. . \jE 5 DEAD FROM FORMER G-MAN ¥or- Mary Elizabeth Frantz, who won = LOYALTY o France was rest Harness (R.-Ind.), who a_decree from Waller Scott voiced by Bey Sidi Ahmed PERCY’S JRDER i ’ [ rested Samuel Insull in : Frantz, 22, at St. Louis. They (above), ruler of Tunis,” when ot 1% ! magnate's famed chase 1o Greec were married in 1936 when the = Daladier visited there and | . 3 ELUM, Wasi:. Feb. 13—A aas new role; he’s now a repre- bride was 14. She got custody of | pledged that France would keep § ELU Vasi eb. 13.—Ap- sentative in Congres:, their 14-month-old son, her protectorate over Tunisia, tims of a murder and " p s LR five members of the family | = 8RN % B - e Jacobs, crippled miner, * back for help. McLaglen and Fairbanks come alone, are them- 1 shot to death in their selves captured. But they maneuver the Thug leader (Ciannélli) C i into the unhappy status of prisoner of the imprisoned. The Brit- ef of Police Brunker said Ja- . ish come, marching blindly into the Thug trap, while from the temple tower the prisoners look on helpless: When Ciannelli escapes and sacrifices himself in the snake pit (oh, yes, there's a lovely snake pit!) things look blackest for our heroes. But in the battle the wounded Din gets out his trusty bugle and— Swell movie, this. Backgrounds of spectacular crags and rocks F 9 and snowy peaks, great shots of fierce battle amid Lone Pihe’s best scenery and cloud effects—all help to make “Gunga Din” approach the Hollywood ideals: colossal, gigantic, super-super. “Gunga Din” has everything—good acting, expert direction, even a bit of romance featuring the appealing Fontaine. ipparently shot his wife Mary, wee children and then took -ee - - LEGISLATORS T0 BE HONORED AT 6OV, RECEPTION to a reception in honor bers of the Legislature e be issued today by Gov. ception will be held at the! House Thursday even- rom 9 to 10 o'clock, with dan- | « until midnight .o —— leasert method” for pan- | four large pancakes, pread jam on each. Btack | FASCIST - nd new uniforms for ¢ i sorinkle yranuisted| p ARELY PHOTOGRAPHED SINCE HER MARRIAGE toPrince Philip of Hesse marked a rec ! , Bt | In 1925, Princess Mafalla, the second daugliter of Iizly’s King Emanuele, is shown with her sons, Carol's minis ] . PGS D Maurizio, Oftone and Enrico (right). The recent iliness of Princess Mafalda, who narrowly escaped | wedge-st 1 pleces and serve nice death from pueumonia, caused nostponement of (he wedding of her sister, Princess Maria, for bridee elub luncheon ‘déssert : “Four Girls in White.” Screen play by Dorothy Yost. Directed { by S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Florence Rice, Una Merkel, Ann Ruth- erford, Mary Howard, Alan Marshall, Kent Taylor, Buddy Ebsen, Jessie Ralph. Miss Rice plays a gal with marry-rich-quick motives who thinks she’ll find the man in a big hospital. She learns that being a nurse means more than man-hunting, and after she's messed up a few lives she reforms in a disaster sequence, marries the right ‘guy. [} It’s fairly routine stuff, enlivened occasionally by comedy of Merkel and Ebsen. R iype of salv popularized ny and Ttal