The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 7, 1939, Page 3

LA ST TIMES TONIGHT MAUREEN 0'SULLIVAN DENNIS O'KEEFE MINE TAX BILL PASSES HOUSE, in the l FAVORSLABOR | SEN A TE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, |cAPITOL COMEDY | SEEN FOR LAST TIMES TONIGHT Maureen Oflmivan, Den- | nis 0'Keefe, Mickey Rooney Star in Film Lovers pretending to be social celebrities to impress each other, an irrepressible small brother who plays a clarinet and complicates romance, troubles with a huge St Bernard dog, mingle in a combina- tion of hilarity, romance and inti- mate human touches in “Hold That Kis which ends tonight at the .Capitol Theatre. Maureen O'Sullivan, Dennis O'- Keefe, Hollywood's newest roman- tic leading man, and Mickey Rooney form the principal trio in the med- ley of mirth and heart throbs, which Edwin L. Marin, who filmed “Every- bedy Sing,” directed. | The story deals with a travel agency clerk, played by O'Keefe, |and a pretty shopgirl, Miss O'Sul- livan’s role. Attending a society girl’s wedding as part of their work, they I meet, each assuming the other is a social celebrity. They fall in love. Each tries to maintain the decep- tion to impress ihe other. An ab- isent.minded millionaire gives them 'a St. Bernard dog which neither can afford to keep. The heroin’s| 1939. The Censors Objected! This affectionate interlude from the film “Yes, My Darling Daughter,” x‘eaturmg Jeffrey Lynn and Priscilla Lane, takes place during a week-end Navy Station | Of Japanese | Is Destroyed Five Warehouses Bumed | in Mysterious Blaze- ‘ Second Dlsasfer | TOKYO, \Lml\ 7—~The Japa- nese Admiralty announces that five Navy warchouses at the great Yoko | suka Naval Station have been de- stroyed by fire. This is the second time within | {one week that disaster has struck | Japanese war resou: b | Last Thursday a series of blasts| and ensuing fires destroyed Army | powder magazines near Osaka. In| this disaster 67 persons were killed | and more than 100 missing. No cause is listed for the fire at| | the Yokosuka Naval Station. — e LIGHT MARKERS | WILL BE PLACED ON BREAKWATER COLISEUm OWNEDR AND DU Junean’s Greatest Show Value LAST TIMES TONIGHT THE GAL THAT MADE THE NINETIES GAY! MAE WEST in “EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY" with EDMUND LOWE—CHARLES BUTTERWORTH Algo: Cmoon—thphom Musical—News Japan s Planning Supremacy Naval Expafin Program Announced-to Be Rul- er Western Pacific TOKYO, March 7.—Marine Min- ister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai es-| timated that the cost of Japan Naval expansion program for the! next live years will be $432,000,000. This program is so Japan may “secure supremacy in the Western Pacific.” OLD NEW VORK 5 ~ LOCALE OF COMEDY AT (OLISEUM SHowW “Every Day's a Holiday,” ending tonight, is a story of high jinx in Little Old New York during its gay= est period—the gay nitieties and the naughty hundréds—the New York Miss West made famous some four years ago in her historic “She Done | Him Wrong.” To escape detection | after selling the bridge, and in or- | der to win an engagement as lead- |ing lady of a production, Miss West is forced to don a black wig, ae= |quire a French accent and to take | New York by storm as “Mlle. Pifi,” late of Paris. She fools everybody | but Lowe, who sees under the black wig. ' LARRY PARKS S 's & scene from the disputed picture New York censors | in the country. It’s ate Board of Regents for | refused to pass, and which was put up to the & The figures entailing the prOU-\l"v small brother threatens exposure. A have been submitted to the Budget | borrowed fashionable apartment is Workers' Claifils fo Take Precedence Over Terri- torial Tax Claims Labor liens take precedence over Territorial tax liens on mining prop- erty, contrary to what the Senate proposed in Substitute for Senate | Bill 40, passed by the House yester- day and returned to the Senate. The measure is designed to strengthen tax collection, makes mining taxes due December 31, grace until January 15, with extension | possible until March 15. Interest | at six per cent will be collected after the last due date, > > The Federal Bureau of Farm Ec- | oncmics described the gain in in- dusirial production during the last | est on record. - sv Marme Drake. 50c ALASKANA — Hollywood Sights And Sounds — HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Tyrone Power—and after by per Passed Yesterday Afternoon House Bill No. 3 propriating $25,000 from First vision road funds for work on Craig Substitute for House Bill No. Lande the Board of Cosmetology. House Joint Memorial No. 30, by | Walker, teach navigation to fishermen. House Joint Memorial Ne. 29, ing a board of engineers tigate possibilities of using the C and Northwestern Rail-| schy River way roadbed ON By Robbia Coons 1, by Walker, 001, r by request, asking Coast Guard to inv -~ RE TRIP PLE F. E. LaRue, of Anchorage, companied by Mrs. LaRue, are pas-, sengers aboard the Baranof on vacation trip to last three month: half of 1938 as one of the sharp-|during which time they will visit immcxp&lb in California. >~ I Empire Classified Ads for resuits.{ In any event the Supreme Court | March 7.—Only yesterday. . . . “Lloyds of London” too!—between trains in Chicago hiked up and down Michigan Boulevard looking for a friendly face . . Hello. . . . Ann Harding, 50 lonesome . . . and nobody even said introduced to George Bernard Shaw on a movie set, wag moved to tears by his jibes—and Alice Brady, also present, said plenty about G.B.S., Carcle whi close-ups. now Hollywood's newest lit'ry light. . . . Lombard nearly lost her movie career in an auto crash, left her with the slight cheek scar you can still spot in ap- Di- | comical the | fruth 120, revamping | to| ask- used for a dinner party that ends in disaster. After various hectic and troubles, they learn the about each other and love blooms on & new bas e U S GOVERIIMEI" ARGUES BOTH WAYS IN TAX-EXEMPTION (Continued from rage One) | Finance Corporation, claimed ex- um]mnn from state income taxes. He {won in the state courts. Utah ap- ac- [ pealed. Van Cott argued that Congress | a|by ignoring the exemptions for 69| ears, had indicated that it DOES/ sanction the exemption. That was ldn-ed,ly opposite to Jackson's posi- |tion in the O'Keefe case. jwill hear the two arguments to-| gether early in March. { The New York law specifically exempts Federal salaries from taxa- tion but the State Tax Commission | argues that O’Keefe is an employee of an agency that is “non-essen- tial.” HOLC is really a Federal mortgage bank. WOULD MEAN A LOT The Federal Government insists that HOLC, even though not strictly covernmental, nevertheless is a real Federal agency. The Government argues that O’Keefe could be taxed if it were not for the state law. Van Cott, out in Utah, hewever, takes the position that because he final decision. HE POINTS WITH PRIDE and with good reason, too, for five-year-old Robert Christenson of Waltham, Mass., a kindergarten pupil, was awarded a silver medal by the Massa- chusetts Humane society. He saved a seven-year-old playmate from.drowning in the Charles river and is the youngest hero to be so honored for bravery, by the humane society. Trene Dunne was buried in her first picture—a musical flop- peroo—and resurrected in her second “Cimarron.” Mary Pickford made headlines by bobbing her famous curls. . . . And Connie Bennett cooly turned down a coniract for ten weeks at $300,000—until she got it without any strings attached, plus assurance that the Warner Bros. would pay income tax on same. . . . And Cesar Romero was brought out as a dashing Latin, a new Great Lover—but remained to find a niche as comedian and “heavy”. . . Ditto Ivan Lebedeff, who had his friends attend the sneak preview of his first—and last—starring picture and send in post- . So that RKO really thought it had a second Val- card raves. . P s yow’re never lute . .. for dinner at PERCY'S . . . . de- licious dinners are served pip- ing hot for three full hours every evening ————35 to 8 oclock ---at PERCY’S entino on hand.., . . There's been no more successful stunt in Hollyweod—and T think Ivan is still laughing. . . . A chap named Gable was taking riding lessons . . . to the point of soreness . . . s0 as to hang on in Hollywood as a western “heavy.” . . . And Sam Goldwyn was telling another kid named Taylor to fatten up and learn to act before he asked for another screen test. . ., Jesse Lasky was telling a press conference that the talkies were just a passing fad—and a month later his studio was frantic, trying to catch up. . . . ; Mack Sennett was king of comedy. . . . And Will Rogers was flopping as a silent screen star for Hal Roach, while Aileen Pringle was lying down on tiger-skin rugs for Elinor Glyn movies—and all the time reigning as queen of local intelligentsia. . . . Claudette Colbert and Norman Foster (now her ex-) were co-starrring in “Young Man of Marnhattan”—and the movie fans at large had never heard of either. . Shirley Temple was in diapers—actually—for those “Baby Bur- lesk” films. Betty Compson was the busiest star in town. . . . “Street Girl” was a talkie sensation. . . . Hugh Herbert was writing and directing, and the screen hadn’t yet heard his woo-woo . . . While John Carradine was posturing on the boulevard like a hammy Shakespearean, looking more like “W&hfla anybody in mwn——theenlydramfibe&nghedidn‘t have a job. And her _____-———-:l* is a Federal office holder he can’t WHOLESALE BILL GIVEN GOING OVER Senate Amends Liquor Bill With Free Hand-No Beer Involved (Continued rrom Fage One) be taxed. If the Supreme Court should re- verse itself, thousands of state em- ployees would at once be subject to Federal income taxes. And likely enough the States and Congress would lose no time opening up Fed- jeral salaries to state taxation. | Already the House-has¥passed a | bill approving suglh taxation. Originally the court held such taxation of one by the other was |a dangerols and unconstitutional violation of the sovereignty of | state and Nation. | G SR A | The average expenditure of a stu- dent at the University of Oklahoma, not including clothing, is $43 a month, measure; it’s going to be an en- forcement measure,” explained the Senator from Livengooed. ° Football Senator O. D. Cochran, outspoken foe of the bill, said it would cost the Territory “at least $500,000 to start to operate under this bill.” He pre- dicted that the liquor administrator office would be “a political fom» ball.” An early move by Cochran to in- definitely postpone the bill was de- feated, three to five. When Senator Henry Roden, after second reading, moved for suspen- sion of the rules so that the bill could be placed on final pasage only two other Senators supported h.m on the vote. So the measure w5 referred to engrossment, Cosmetology The bald headed and semi-bald headed members of the Senate lab- | ored for a weary hour late ye: {to get the hairdressing and cos- metology bill into shape to suit them and then passed it. Also passed was a bill appropriat- ing $25,000 from First Division road | funds for school construction work |at Craig. A memorial asking a bnmd of engineers to study pos:lhlhnl-s of operating the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad or of using Athe roadbed for a highway finall ‘passed the Senate. After an o'u,uml house measure by Representative Smith was tabled, Senator Hofman Every Month in the Year AUCTION SALES DATES 1939 8 August 9 | 12 September 6 10 October 11 7 November 8 12 December 13 Special Sales Held On Request of Shippers March April May June July Advances will be made as usual when requested. Transferred by telegraph, if desired. ® THE SEATTLE FUR EXCHANGE 1008 Western Avenue Seattle, Wash. later withdrew, still later asking that the House memorial be taken Irmm the table. Last move of the| introduced a substitute, which he Senate on this subject was to sub- stitute the withdrawn Senate mem- ial for the House measure and to pass it five to three, over objections of Senator James Patterson, the |other Third Division solon. Coast Guard A memorial by Representative A. P. Walker asking that the Coast Guard teach navigation of fisher- men also passed. . “Ham and Eggs” went by the board when the Senate indefinitely postponed a bill by Representative Frank Gordon and Jesse Lander to | increase old age assistance from $45 to $60 per month. ‘ Killed by an unsual motion was | Gordon's bill to abolish door-to-door | | solicitors and to set a prohibitive tax on peddlers and hawkers. A mo- tion prevailed that the bill be not engrossed. Engrossment is necessary before @ measure can come up for final passage. Ordered engrossed after they sur- vivell readings were Representative Ccarl Drager’s dependent children bill and his measure providing for municipal officials to be appeinted by the mayor and confirmed by the city council MEN FOR (CC NOW WANTED| Men are wanted for the CCC, is the announcement made today. There are several vacancies and applicants are asked to report in person at the District Ranger’s Of- fice, Room 6, Shattuck building. Applicants must be in good health and not over 30 years of age. McVEY-CAMPBELL RITES YESTERDAY| Miss Belle Alla McVey and Doug- las Robert Campbell, both of Skag- way, were married here yesterday afternoon at the Commissioner’s court, by United States Commission~ er Felix Gra$. Lauder McVey and Mrs. J. W. Komen attended the couple at the ceremony, Lighthouse Tender Hem-| lock Crew Will Do | Work Next Week Three post lights will be installed jon the breakwater points of the i Juneau Small Boat Harbor by the | crew of the Government Lighthouse | 'Lender Hemlock by the first of next | week. | { The lights will be oil-burning nndw | will be set in concrete on the break- | ‘wat,er itself and will serve as warn-| ; ing indicators on the projacung‘ i sections of the rock fill | ! Under command of Capt. J. H.| | Jensen, the Hemlock docked in Ju- neau at 5 o'clock yesterday afters inoon and was scheduled to leave jearly this morning. i Inbound to Juneau, the ship| stopped at number 4 buoy off the | rock dump at the head of the local harbor and relighted the signal ! light on this marker, ’ From here the vessel will proceed | up Lynn Canal to Haines and Sen- | tinel Island. There are two machin- | ists aboard the ship for discharge at Sentinel Island where the gov- ernment maintains a sizeable light- house station. After completion of the post light installations on the breakwater here, the 34-man crew vessel will travel westward to attend lights and buoys on those waters. A floating buoy, which has eluded attempts of the Coast Guard cut- ters to retrieve, will be picked up by the Hemlock off Cape Hmrhlnbmok.i Additional buoys will be serviced off | Cape St. Elias. At the completion of this work the | ship will proceed to Seattle for its annual overhaul in drydock there. LGRS A DOUGLAS NEWS RESIDENCE PROPETRY SOLD HERE LAST WEEK A real estate transaction consu- mated here within the past few days is the change in ownership of the present Al Smith home on corner of Third and E Streets. Mrs. Agnes Johnson last week purchased the house and lots from Mr. Smith who acquired the property early last vear from Richard McOormick, but now plans to build a new home. The Johnsons expect to take up their residence in Douglas as soon as the house is at their disposal. ——————— MRS. DEMOS ON TRIP To visit her daughter, Mrs. Charl- es Whyte, in Petersburg, for a week |or two Mrs. Alex Demos was & pas- | senger for the south on the North- land which left Saturday. —— MEETING ON WEDNESDAY NIGHY D. L W Mrs. Jay Smith will entertain the Douglas Island Women’s qhb for the March meeting at her home in the Baroumes Apartments tOmorrow evening with Mrs. Mike Pusich as co-hostess. Committee of the lower Psrlmmrm | house. Marine Minister Yonai said v,ho Navy plans to spend at least $3C0, 000,000 during the next five Venxs for warships llone i msflms COME HERE ON MT. MCKINLEY, Steamer Mount McKinley docked in Juneau at 11:30 o'clock this fore- | noon with 29 passengers aboard for Juneau from Seattle and way ports. The ship is scheduled to leave from the A-J Dock at 9 o'clock to- night. Passengers for Juneau from Se- attle are Izora Anderson, Mark {Baro, J. P. Bird, J. E. Boyle, Clyde Burkett, Blanche Colling, Murs. John Cross, Roger Dudley, Oscar Elisen, |Carl Hallberg, Dan Haverlock, W. L. Hepola, Mrs. D. LaFevre, Ann Luke. Jack McConnell, Donald McDon- ald, Bob Murdock, W. J. Priestley, Mrs. V. J. Radamacher, W. F. Rohrback, Mrs. L. Shockley, Rob-: ert L. Shotak, Belle G. Simpson, Winifred Spellman, Harold Whit- man, E. Erikson, Harold Whitman. From Ketchnmn—G E. Bassett. D SIMMONB FLIES Alaska Air Transport pilot Shell | Simmons made a flight to Sitka and way stops today with radio technicians Ed Sager and Norman Cameron round trip passengers ior Hirst and Sitka. Other passengers were Jake (‘.!rl:p-| ley round trip passenger for Hirst, and ©. B. McNair for Chichagof. ABOARD TONGASS; - NOW HE’ SCAWM Larry Pmks. one of the best known steamship men in this sec~ {tion of Alaska, is aboard the steam- er Tongass on the present trip A8 Captain, and his many friends here gave him the congratulatory hand. Larry is commanding '.he‘_m- |gass in the absence of pt. A Hansen who is now in Ntw with his chief engineer, to take one of the newly purchased steamérs to |Seattle for reconditioning for the | Southeast A.luhl route. MRS, BRINGDALE m;-rum(l Mrs, Arthur Bringdale was a ‘pas- senger on the Nerth Coast, teturne. ing to Juneau from Fullerton, Cal, following the recovery of ‘her mother from a serious illness called Mrs, Bringdale to the Gali- fornia city shortly after Christmas. Traveling with her was her nephew, Alfred Brown. - eee——— WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE— o Bud Flt o Vim aud vw 3 3 W pers oot two pifte of | howels diity, 16t ir P doesr e hew iy Gaw b un “tipated. Your 0 yo 5 Brcats wadt kg dow Hurnless, genthe, et & n-&c il Lol Luok for the X ¥ ¥ Pills on the red nythiog else, Price: ag: e they RAVE aboust (5} <0fE REC. U ML o8k, | FULLY AUTOMATIC RAY HEAT is the highest peak of ol burner efficiency u-umw(monmcw RICEQAHI.ERSCO- Third and Franklin Streets————————~PHONE M ATTENTION! ALL CARPENTERS L SEWING CLUB TO MEET Postponed from lm night, the members of the ¥ pight Sewing Club will have their bi- monthly sewing session as guests of {Mrs, L. A. Johngon at the residence of Mrs. Ed Roller. V Kt See—— 55 North Coast Will Await To give out of town guests, attend the opening { 2 0 Baranof Hotel next ¥ ¥ night, ready boat passage from . the the steamship North Coast has ad- vanced its sailing date from here to midnight” Priday. The craft was originally sched- ul‘ed to leave from here Thursday night after its from Sitka. The ship is mw-ciuuhd in from Sitka Friday morning. a