The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 8, 1939, Page 3

SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU ITHEATRE N“W: JOE HITS Ac£@nm/ HIGH IN | iHILARITY. ..in his newest and ¢ “TREE OF LIFE” (Courtesy of Forest Service) BUCKAROO BROADCAST L] LATES' n NEWS Circus Party Today Feature Birthday of J@mmy Tripp | include: Marcus Russell, Wallis Ras- | musson, Donald and Bobby Kolby, Bill Sperling, William Talmadge, iDavid and Billy Graves, Harold | Sunderlund, Bruce Norman, Jim Ja- | hoda, Glenn Goudie jr. and Jerry { Magorty. Margaret Femmer and Shir- Tripp. | | M | ley animal cracker d favors, all mark the festivities this afternoon at the lay cake, P D e MRS. COPE LEAVES West Seventh Street home of Mrs. Ole Wesby who is entertaining in honcr of the ecighth birthday of Jimmy Tripp. A green and gold color scheme is being carried out in decorations for the ¢ sien, and main attraction of the party is the fishpond, with prizes being “caught” by would be Isaak Waltons. Mrs. Alonzo Cope, with her chil- dren, Edward and Margaret, is a | passenger on' the westward bound steamer Motnt McKinley for Pal- mer where she has accepted a posi- tion teaching school in the Matan- uska colony town. T The brain is 2:16 per cent of the body weight in men, and 224 per Guests present for the afternoon Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Cooms cent in women, HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March 8-—Guess who studies “music appreciation” as part of her prescribed high school course? Deanna Durbin, who not only appreciates it but makes it enough to lift the mortgage from a whole studio! . . . And here's the perfect tribute to Deanna. A young movie fan came a long way to visit Hollywood—but mainly to see Deanna. In the Universal lunchroom he was placed’ near her usual table, but unfortunately when she came in she took a seat at his back. The boy is 17—and perpetually hungry. But that day he didn't eat much. He just went through the motions—and I discovered later that he was preoccupied with other more important matters. By helding his knife at a certain angle, he could see the Durbin reflection, albeit distorted, without turning rudely to gaze at her. When I heard this, I had to arrange a meeting as a reward for such devotion. And after that was done, the young devotee “floated off the stage on a cloud. “After this,” he said soulfully, “practically Anything will be an Anti-Clima:&. Sight of the week—or any week: Martha Raye, sitting primly at a table in La Conga, wearing a dignified hat with black veil behind—and the next minute getting up' to lead the group dance (la conga) like the Martha Raye you know in pictures— indefatigably. . . . Joan Bennett, Hedy Lamarrish in her new brown hair, not dancing it—or THAT would have been the sight of the week... . . Al Jolson is through with his vaudeville-and-song air routine, is seeking a spomsor for a straight song program—which to my cherchez la femme? but yes, Monsieur, we-know where 1o find her. If she's .a smart girl she’s having her breakfast at Peircy’s | i mind would be something to dial in the current flood of alleged humor which spews from the loud-speakers. . . . If you can believe the rumors Clark Gable doesn't like his “Win8l” girl any more than the protestors at her selection. . . . And Mr. S., the producer, is having headaches. . . The picture » is in its third year of Talk, its second week of Work, and already is on its second director . . . Timely suggestion: ‘Why not warm up Ratoff who replaced Roy Del Ruth when latter walked on “Rose nf Washington Square?” Greg Ratoff, a Russian, ought to be the Perfect Choice to direct the English and Ohio stars of an old South epic. . . I don't know that itll make anybody happjer, but it's good to know how to measure an elephant. Charley, former elephant-buyer in Indian jungles where they don't have ten-ton scales handy, now is one of the ex-circus folk in the movies, and he’s boss canvasman for the Lee Tracy flicker, “What's a Fixer For?” Anyway, here’s how: You take a piece of rope and loop it around the elephan’s hoof at ground level. Three times the length of the loop is the animal’s height. Then you lead your prospect up to a pile of assorted logs and let him pick out with his trunk the heaviest log he can lift off the ground. Five times the weight of that log is the elephant’s own weight . . . You're welcome. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1939, A W that Satisfies with a Capital S | Radio City’s world-famous “Rockettes” and CHESTERFIELDS ...1wo can’t-be-copied combinations Assisting during the afternon are | Copyright 1939, LicGETT & MyERs Tosacco Co. SOCIETY HERE MAY FROLIC IN PAGES OF LIF Photographer Comes fo, Take Pictures Famous | Party for Magazine JOE E. BROWN SEEN TONIGHT, CAPITOL SHOW "The Gladiator’ Is Feature| Opening for Run of Two Nights Joe E. Brown, tne mighty-mawed Those attending the Baranof There's skill and precision in the way the Rockettes dance and there's skill and precision in the way the mild ripe Chesterfield tobaccos are blended and proportioned to bring out the best in each. That’s why Chesterfields are milder and taste better . . . that’s why they’ll give you more pleasure than any ciga- rette you ever smoked. Independent - ernment should he raised from 16| years, as at present, to 18 when the | child is regularly attending school. wqud ’séestfi Children fo Be Given Aid { ——— | Increase Is Now Being Ad- | vocated by Social Se- This, it states, would encourage the present desirable tendency .br child- ren to finish high school before seeking permanent full-time work. Although Alaska ranks high in comparison to the other 48 States and 2 Territories in caring for its| aged, it is far behind most of the States and Hawaii in its care of dependent children—it being one of eight States not participating in the dependent children feature of the | Social Security Act. | igarette tobaccos Ci ARCHITECT FOR BARANOF HOTEL COMES T0 TOWN D. N. McDonald Stresses Novel Features Offer- ed in New Building Donald N. M;;x;ld architect for the Baranof Hotel arrived in Juneau = B s TS S NE AU .xu Juneau's Greatest Show Value STARTING TONIGHT Vitaphone Nov:lty Cartoon: News Beuny Meroff and Orchestrs CHARLIE CHAN HIT " OPENS. TONIGHT AS COLISEUM PICTURE | A love of mystery stories travels {hand in hand with statesmanship, |erudition and habitually orderly thinking—in other words, the great- est detective story fans are brainy folk. A good mystery story is a mental | cocktafl that stimulates and lifts a person out of the routine groove of thinking, says Warner Olaid, who portrays the world's ace detective in “Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo,” | which opens tonight at the Coliseum | Theatre. = Oland is supported in “Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo,” his sixteenth portrayal of the great sleuth, by Keye Luke, Harold Huber, Sidney Blackmer and others. The film was directed by Eugene Forde. Sol Wurt- | zel was executive producer. D | TODAY | | | comedian, appears as a scientifically created superman in his new Colum- bia comedy opus, “The Gladiator,” opening tonight at the Capitol Theatre. Returning to Wester College as a sophomore. Joe soon become the in- nocent subject of a professor’s ex- periment in increasing the normal human strength. The hilarious af-| termath sees Joe become a national | gridiron sensation, a record-break- Hotel opening Friday night may | grace the pages of Life Magazine | through the camera portraitures of Roger Dudley, Seattle photogra- pher, an arrival from the Queen City to imprint scenes and people | of the event for possible inclusion | in ‘the pictorial periodical. | Selected as a subject ndmirabl_;! suited to the story photo sequences printed in Life under the “Life ing track and field athlete and the hero of every co-ed from coast to, coast. Goes to a Party” caption, the in- augural event of the $550,000 elab- orate hotel structure has attracted U. 5. TRANFERS. WRANGELL STE FEDERAL BLDG. Tract Is Set Aside Under Treasury by Pres. Roosevelt curity Board The Social Security Board has gone on record as favoring increased Federal participation in aid to de- | pendent children, it was pointed out | today by Mr. Wade, Territorial dir- ector of the Social Security Board in Alaska. In discussing the proposed ; changes in the Social Security Act recently submitted by the Social Security Board to the President and to Congress, Mr. Wade stated that in the SENATE abooard the Mount McKinley to) attend the opening of the new host- elry designed by him. | Accenting the highlights of the structure, Mr. McDonald states that | Passed the Baranof offers features not only | Substitute for House bill No. 18, by new to Alaska but also to building | McCormick, the habitual criminal in the ‘States. act. Flourescent lighting in the main| Senate memorial No. 1, by Hofman, lounge provided by 250 feet of lineal acting extension of oil leasing pros- tubing concealed in the ceiling cove pecting permits from four years to is a indirect illumination constitut- six. ing the largest installation of this| House bill No. 100, by Lyng, making type in a private building to date. sick leave for Territorial Employees SRR 3% L el RITES FOR BABY Mélvin Clark, ‘baby son of Mrs | are old people now being aided, ac- | assistance for dependent children is major emphasis is placed on more adequate security for children. Al- though there are probably fully as many dependent children in need of and eligible for assistanse as there cording to the Board's report, the number of persons receiving old- age assistance is nearly three times as large as the number of dependent children, receiving the aid. February estimates show about 1,800,000 recip- ients of old-age assistance as against 659,000 dependent children. Govt. Support “At the present time,” Mr. Wade quoted the Board as stating in its| ecommendations, “the Federal Gov- | ernment, contribules only one-third | of the.payments made by the States to dependent children. As a result, fewer States are participating in this program, and in many of the Btates that are partieipating, the level of lower than that for aged and the blind.” “The Beard,” he continued, “pro- poses three changes which would in- crease Federal contributions for aid to dependent children: It recom- mends that Federal nts for this program be placed ¢ 1 50-percent matching basis, like grants for old-| age assistance and aid to the blind, instead of the present basis of one- third Federal money and two-thirds State and local. Increase Maximum “It would also increase the maxi- mum amount of individual monthly | paymenis to which the Federal Gov- | ernment will contribute: At present | these are $18 for the first child and $12 for each additional child in the same family; the Board believes that the maximum should bé the same as that now provided for aid | to the aged and the blind—that is| $30 for every child. These changes By executive order of President Roosevelt, the tract of land known as U. 8. Reserve No. 1, at Wrangell, was transferred February 23 to the control of the Treasury Department, according to a copy of the Federal| Register received here. The 107,831 square foot piece of land is to be the site of a new Ped- eral Building to be built at Wrangell. DOUGLAS NEWS SCHOOL BOARD CHEERED BY LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION The Douglas Schoél Board at a meeting last night checked the as- sortment of hand tools recently purchased for the Manual Department and found them O, K. All standard make, the tools are the best obtainable and should last 20 years, H. L. Cochrane, Clerk of the Board, stated. News of the appropriation of $15,- 000 toward a gymnasium' for ' the school as enacted by the Legislature was received with great apprecia- tion at the meeting and immediate | steps will be urged taken by the City Council to secure a PWA| grant to provide a worthy annex| to the school. | e FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF WARNER’S STORE | BE COMMEMORATED | A free show at the Douglas Coli- | seum on Priday aftergoon for all his customers and on Saturday afternoon a free matinee for the kiddies, has been arranged by Jack Warner to celebrate the first year| Based on the novel of the same|the interest of this photographer name by Philip Wylie, “The Gladiat- |sufficiently to project him on a or” features a strong supporting cast |1,000-mile water journey for the including June Travis, Robert Kent, |privilege of turning his lens on Lucien Littlefield, Dickic Moore, the important scenes at the af- Ethel Wales and the bearded be- fair. hemoth, Man Mountain Dean. The Roger Dudley is a well known | film was directed by Edward Sedg- photographer of Seattle. His es- wick from a screen play by Charles tablishment in the wuhmumn{ | Melson and Arthur Sheekman. |state metropolis was founded in| | 1907 by Frank Nowell, who, in 1900 | at Nome, operated probably the {first camera portrait shop in the | Mrs. J.F. Worley i om | . | Mr. Dudley has been with this Enter’ammg TOda |firm since 1914 and, although this | |is his first trip to Alaska, he be- | For Mrs. Virgil' Farrell, who rc—‘g:;:;v:h ::“c;h;e fin‘:mwl?;g??‘ | cently returned from a vacation trip traying scenes of this country gives to the states, and Mrs. Edward Col- |y, 5" firgt hand knewledge of the fey and Mrs. Leroy Sullivan, wives of Territory. members of the Territorial Legisla- lavmh'm his praise of the new ture, Mrs. J. F. Worley is entertain- | o, " o ent‘hufla.slfi % e ing with a desert Juncheon this af—! Ao S ternoon at her residence in the|CAMEra sLudX possibilities, Mr. Dud- Fifth Avenue Apartments. 1ley stated th_e _p|cv.ures I am to Spring flowers are used as decora- |take for submissioy to the editors tions for the occasion, and the after- | Of Life w}l] come as a revelation | noon 'is being spent informally. {to the millions of people Outside Guests present include: Mesdames |Who “peruse this pictorial. Many | Claude Hirst, David Wood, Ray of those who live in the States will | Ward, D. W. Hagerty, Harold Smith, 'be astounded by the story the cam- |R. C. Sarratt, H. G. Wilcox and era will tell of this modern expen- Stacye Norman and the honorees. |sive hotel situated at the gateway - e |to a country believed by many to ibe' yet a frontier hinterland. This NEw Mw MADE |structure is one of the finest 1| | ' have ever seen. Juneau has a great | OLD BILL IS PAID 3" | A program of picture taking will Ibe worked out by the camera ex- pert and emphasis will be A sum of $375 was voted paid to|placed on scenes depicting the so- N. Lester Troast and Associates yes- |cial activities of the opening | terday when the House passed Sen- | |ate Bill 92, thus wiping out a debt | standing since the new Pioneers'| | Home was built at Siltka. | Also passed was Senate Bill 89, which makes it legal for Territoria) offices to interchange employees. .~ The orange was intrcduced into Europe by the Moors in the elev- enth century and brought to Eng- land by Sir Walter Raleigh in the sixteenth, | Phyllis Clark, who died Monday was buried here this afternoon, Funeral services were held at 1:30 'o'clock at the Native Presbyterian ! Church, with the Rev. David Wag- | goher delivering the eulogy. Inter- ment was held at the Evergreen cemetery. s e ALASKANA, By mane Drake, 0c would enable the Federal Govern-|in business for his grocery store in| ment to pay up to $15 a month for | Douglas. And in addition to the free | each child aided, provided the State |Show a country store will be fea- paid a like amount—as compared |tured with prizes of groceries to with the present Federal limitations certain lucky persons among those of $6 for the first child and $4 for |present. other children in the family. { The movie feature for the free, In addition, the Board also be- |entertainment will be the “Jones lieves that - the age limit for pay-|Family,” according to Manager| ments matehed by the Federal Gov- Charles Tuckett of the Colisenm | Clark Bassett, nanager of the PAA ‘There s a gas constitutent in ‘this tubing called zeon a close relation to neon. The dining room with a glass cefl- ing measuring eight feet by 25 feet has suspended from it three 20 foot lighting troughs carrying zeon tub- ing. It is possible here to have three diferent light sonrces. The light troughs can provide the sole light, direct lights situated above the eefl- ing out of sight can be used, or day- light filtering through the skilight below which is the glass ceiling may | furnish all the requisite illumination. Atop the roof of this 85 foot high structure is posted a modern Multi- ‘Wave Antenaplex consisting of seven strings. This arrangement perfected by RCA offers facilities for any num ber of radios in the building and can handle frequencies ranging from 530 to 18,000. Air conditioning in the dining room, duplicate boiler set-ups for heating the building, fire proofing and practical soundproofing of all units in the structure, painted ceil- ings, genuine walnut veneer in the main lounge and loby, solid brotize grills, hardware, plaques, are prom- inent elements of the bullding. To allow for the speedier installa- tion of the various sections of the hotel many fo the fixtures were as- sembled in Seattle, tore down and re- assembled here in this' manner delay occasioned by an omission or cralts- man error was eliminated. Mr. McDonald, who had a force of eight draughtsmen working on the plans for this $5560,000 hostelry, com- ments on the originality of the de- sign stating that floor plan and in- terior decroation of the hotel are| not duplicated in any other building. He is registered at the Baranof | Hotel and will stay here until next Tuesday. e, —— E. BASSETT HERE Emerson Bassett, Ketchikan air- port manager, arrived in Juneau on the Mount McKinley to spend a short stay here vsiiting his brother airport here. Emerson Bassett will remain in Juneau awaiting plane transporta- tion to Pairbanks, cumulative for 60 days. | Benate substitute from House bill No. 81, by Gordon by request, licens sing chiropractors. House joint resolution No. 7, by Committee on Printing and Publish= ing, giving the Governor custody of the Legislature’s -typewriters be= tween sessions. WELCOMES FIESTA CROWD The some 400 persons who will dine, dance, and frolic at thé dedi cation fiesta for the new Baranof Hotel next Friday night will sit down. to a multi course dinner featuring as the plece de’ resistance either Fried | Spring Chicken Baranof, Poached Halibut Cardinal, or Grilled Filets of Ring Salmon Muniere. Music entertainment and other activities to provide the attendees & | royal good time are being arrangsd by the g¢ommittee in charge of the affair. i In keeping with the democratie spirit of the dedicatory ceremony, which includes a reception at 7 o'clock on Friday night followed by | the banquet at 8 o'clock which pre- cedes a tour of the building follow- ing which dancing will commence in the colorful diring salon, mascu- line guests will go attired ' either in formal clothes or dark business suits. —————— o At the height of Lancashire’s cotton famine during the Clvil War, the British government ga relief to 485434 cotton mill work- - ers. R 0 o e Gen. Robert E. Lee, in the last year of the War Between the States, declared himself in of a gradual emancipation of