The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 16, 1939, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, ON THEIR WAY ING! MEING! COMING!? CRY WEEK ON EVERY __NEW MODELS IN S-STERN & TOPCOATS I COMING OUR WAY N R iow siyles, new patterns and seaves, new comfort, but the ame old fine quality. SEE t, ’x‘jj NEAU'S r{. [ jand Einar Haugen for use of the TWO COMPANIES |5 S Aase st e S used to berth on the Juneau-Doug- las run | The Davis Transportation Com- pany has secured their half of the lease for berthing of the motor- ~TAKE LEASES ON Fal] “"P FERRY DOCK | ship Estebeth, while Einar Haugen |will berth his motorship Dart at PO ced by the Juneau |the inside of the float. By Javigation Company to-| A new gangway to the float has W M s had been given 10 |peen completed by Woodman and rtation Company | Bernstein. e st ot e "Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbia Cooms HOLLYW fadack Horn LAY 00D, Cal., d o March 16.—David Niven, Britain's Little a plum again the other day. New con- er assignments. a, looking back on four rollicking years of sticking e movie pie, “I'm the luckiest bloke alive—I can’t can't be Niven!” (Niven admits it now) he's been a ham at heart. trite,” he says, “but I always had a sort of I'd like to be an actor.” Closest he got to it v 1aving some stills taken by a movie company. He ed when they told him to come around next day. tt was before his famous arrival on the local weeks here looking for work. Acting? cting tra, or painting scenery—it didn't matter. " He didn't get a look-in, and he left. to Sanhurst, the British West Point, and at 18— 1d his commission. He spent nearly three years ver, Aldershot and Netheravon—and then y. “It was a marvelous life—but I in it for me. I thought maybe I'd end up so I'd better get out.” he lumberjacked and fished and wrote a few r—and then New York. He moved into the hd in nine days could afford neither to stay out. He worked for a Chinese laundry—to get his hock—and later as representative of a London wine s job collapsed when our hero delivered 50 cases of fine pposedly to a restaurant, only to learn next morning was rubber and the gent who took delivery on the staurant at all. ventures of Davey carried him to Cuba—and boat after he learned some people pull y boost, bi and ent three brok the future 1 old major, where re in a rut— arned glad of it . . . it doesn't natter to us what happens or who s kicking up a fuss . . . we just go r'ghi on serving the best meals n Juneau. Percy’s ccted to matters concerning machine guns and rebels and the k of the moon; thence to Cristobal, where he took the wrong t and landed in San Francisco; thence to Santa Barbara, where he attended a farewell party aboard H. M. S. Norfolk (he antly broke all this time), and awoke to find the ship ith. First boat they met was H. M. S. Bounty, or its reproduction built for the “Mutiny” movie. Our hero (probably inspuciant by now as which wrong boat he tock) was lowered over the side to the Bounty—and thus into Hollywood. H ) of made more parties than pictures that first year, being a unusual social grace and affability. His first picture Ba Coast,” in which he had one line of dialogue. In 1nd he said “Goodbye, my dear,” to Elissa Landi; in his third Hello, my dear,” to Wendy Barrie—after which sensational s he hit Sam Goldwyu for a rise, which he didn't get. building slowly to the point where, in “Dawn Patrol,” st steal the picture. In “Wuthering Heights” he first serious romantic role, opposite Merle Oberon. In one -y—and couldn’t. Said he'd never cried in his They s menthol in his eyes, which merely made his nose run—so they made it dry grief. Like Scaramouche, he “was born with the gift of laughter and it the world was mad.” His prime interest, fishing, way to skiing. “I'm serious—in fact, rather pompous designed a sweater emblem. for David Niven's Own Ski Club—erossed skis surmounted by a ham. He wears a tiny gold skj as club champ—I'm the only member, of course.” His theory about Hollywood: “The more you get away from it the better for your acting. It does you good to mingle with real people on the outside—people who'll kick you on the bottom when you need it.” e e ————————— There’s still a Chance FOR YOU TO SE- LECT A SUIT FROM OUR THREE— Big Value Groups 8.75 $16.50 $29.75 e Don't Overlook the Shoe Bargains on the 3rd Floor. SAYlNG IT WITH vania and Virginia presented B.M. Behrends Co., Inc. LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE" DOUGLAS NEWS FRANK PEARCE SU! TO LINGERING ll.LNESS H Death came to Frank H. Pearce, i pioneer resident of Douglas, at 3:20 o'clock this morning at his home Ire]easmg him from an illness which 'resiswd every effort that was made by his physicians here and out- side as well, to remedy. Without any definite suffering, he had just| ™ grown weaker and weaker as the months passed and the last one of which he was bed ridden pnct.l- cally all the time. Born in Birmingham, England, 63 years ago, Mr. Pearce came to Douglas in 1904, residing here con- tinuously since, and working first for the Treadwell Company and lat- er for the Alaska Juneau as mach- inist steadily until his cnodition prevented. The deceased is survived by his wife and two daughters Margaret and Mary; also a brother and sister both married in England. Douglas Aerie 117, F.OE. was his only frat- ernal affiliation. With Mr. Pearce’s passing Doug- las loses a fine citizen who was lov- ed and respected by every one who knew him. Always cheery in dispo- sition, he rarely passed up an op- | portunity to communicate, by jest, his spirit of levity to others. The sympathies of the entire com- munity are wlv.h the bereaved fam- ily. The remains are at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. Funeral arrangements have been tentatively set for Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Services to be conducted by Dean C. E. Rice in the Episcopal Church at Douglas. Interment will follow in the Evergreen Cemetery in Juneau. el OPEN HOUSE OF DF.D The Douglas firemen proved themselves real hosts last night at the party given in the fire hall for the Juneau and Douglas hook and ladder boys and their ladies. Moving pictures of the Goldstein building, and the Air Transport building fires and the last big Doug- las fire, were shown, 200 feet of film taken by Elmer Benedict and a 1000 feet by Ed Jahoda. Also included were scenes of strip fishing and beautiful scenic views that were en- joyed by the large number present. Dancing to music by Edwards’ or- chestra and refreshments added to the entertainment until a late hour. ——————— PETERSBURG CAGERS VISIT Various classrooms of the Doug- las High School were visited this morning by the members of the Petersburg School basketball dele- gation, PROPOSED $4,000, FOREIGN NEWS CORRESPONDENT ceased Irish Poet Was Most Unfavorable By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, March 16.—William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, died ir came through with the story I wen Albert Stevens Crockett for som person reminiscences of the Albert Stevens Crockett is the last 30 years. Years of movini correspondent threw him into con tact with most of the titans of th theatrical, sporting and he seems a walking glossary of fam on this occasion this is what b said: “T had gone over to Ireland to dij up a story, being then London cor- respondent of the old New Yorl Herald. In the Shannon hofel Tree and the latter’s His Majesty the St. James theatre the followin, time came an invitation to dine Wit the actor-producer on Sunday nigh R TSR GOODIE SALE By American Legion Auxiliary at Hollmann's Drug Store, Sat., March 18, starting at 10 am. adv, Patrick Hanley was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital for surgical at- tention this morning. Mrs. Florence Fletcher entered St. Ann’s Hospital last night for an operation this morning. John B. Godfrey was a medical dismissal this morning from 8t. Ann's Hospital. Axel Antoneson was dismissed to- day from medical care at St.Ann’s Hospital. S e — CARD PARTY BSERIES First of series March 17 at 8 o'~ clock in the Union Hall, by Ladies’ Auxiliary. Prizes for whist and pinochle given each night of play and grand prizes at the finish, Public invited. Admission 25 cents. y adv. American” probe. Petition was 600 fPel long. L. _N. Y.; Dies; Roscoe ‘Walker, Trentop, N. G would have high abutments to avoid annual ice jams. ADMITS WRONG First Impre?ion of De- Dublin recently, and when the cables down to the Biltmore and asked | man. an old | terview Yeats and got an -bsn]n-nl' hand at recalling world figures of different imp: about the continent as a foreign Cnum of da politcal worlds, so that now, at least to me, iliar but undefined names. In such CAIe OV instances I always seek him out, and | found my old friend, Henry Dana, | in figure. manager for Sir Herbert Beerbloom | smart lounge suit. Many times since theatre, in London. He told me Tree | pressions of was going to present William J. even if he has had years experience Locke’s ‘The Beloved Vagabond’ at as Monday night, and that the author upon. Cetra was stopping at the Shannon. In due I first met THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1939. SIGNATURES » organizations in New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- to Rep. Martin Dies, a petition urging congress to continue the Dies “Un- ve Beinert, N, Y.: 000 BRIDGE to replace N gara This is was a formal dinner with Tree presiding ughter Viola act- ing as host and the guests being Locke, Dana and myself “After dinner Dana and T went down to the hotel lounge, most of Tree's company sembled. Lolling on the rounded by beautiful women, was a handsome you man with a pale face, dark handswept hair, and wearing a flow lack tie velveteen jac! Wi Butler Yeats. Being at the age when a; hard-working newspaperman was apt to look down on anybody, ever a poet, who seemed to be s , (man, I conceived a sort . to him and did not verses the women t hnn to quote. “A few years later, in New York H\\h.-; I was chief interviewer for ! the old Morning Sun, I had to m-‘ to the beginning liste were of the man. interview because, a s later, George Mallon note from Yeats which nice things about the w that I still have it. On subsequent occasions T in- him. The last time he r 1 heard him speak before the Dutch Treat Club, and was en- e | chanted ssion g that - | handed me el said such int w sev - | terviewed al “But the picture was completely g | gone of the sentimental-looking poet - | in velvete jacket, flowing tie and k | hands He was now a rip- I|ened 1 of the world, substantial carefuly groomed in a 's |then T thought that the young firs American, coure g | tries, pondent in foreign coun- always to be relied 1ly mine was not when Yeats in Dublin, because h | his subsequent career proved me, t. | to say the least, to be the victim are not And so, in Tree's apartment, there of myopoic inferences.” to R.: Clarence Brinser, Philadelphia; Franklin Foye, Griffith, Washington. D. €. Wm. Falls’ famous “honeymoon” span architect’s sketch of bridge. Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 16 quotation of Alask stock today is 9% American Pow conda Commonwealth and Curtiss Wright cc eral M s 49 vester ~Closir Juneau mine an Can 91 ht 6%, Anay Steel 70 Southern 1%, nmon 6%, Gen- tional H: 36%, New 'n Pacific United ates Steel 60%, Pound $4.68%. DOW, JONES The following Jones ave rails 31.42, util AVERAGES are today's Dow industrials 147.54, ties 21, - HAIDA 0 MAKE OFFICIAL CALL ON ARMY POST Will Give Dinner for Of- ficers ‘of Chilkoot Bar- racks at Haines Coast Guard cutter Haida will sail to Hajnes and the Chilkoot Army Barracks Saturday morning on an official exchange visit and routine cruise. Wives and sweethearts of Haida officers will make the trip, the highlight of which will be a buffet dinner to be given aboard the Haida for Army officers and ladies. While at the Post, the Haida basketball club will play a Barracks team, also. The cutter is expected back here Sunday evening. - The L. A. Plants Pr(’purv for Army Plane Orders Ready for lnue orders from me Unncd States Army, the North American Aviation plant in Les Angeles is prepared for mass production of planes. Photo shows an assembly line depicting how airplane skele- tons, at rear, move forward as work progresses uniil they emerge (in foreground) completely finished planes, They are then ready for factory and Army lests before final acceptance, U 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGR.ICULTU‘R.E WEATBER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Fovecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., March 16: Cloudy and warmer tonight 1 Friday; moderate to fresh east- erly winds, becuming houtheast Friday. Weather forecast for Soutbeast Alaska: (North Portion) cloudy and, warmer tonight and Friday; moderate to fresh easterly winds, be- coming southeast Friday, except fresh to strong over Frederick Sound and Chatham Strait and frosh to strong northerly winds over Lynn Canal. (South Portion) cloudy and warmer, probably with oc- jonal rain tonight and Friday; moderate to fresh southeast winds, except fresh to strong over Dixon Entrance and Clarence Strait. Forecast ¢f winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh to strong 'southeast winds along the coast from Dixon Entrance to Cape Ommaney tonight and Frida; fresh to strong easterly winds, becom- ing southeast from Cape to Cape Spencer and fresh to trong east and northeast winds from Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchin- brook LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 30.46 5 10 30.50 2 30.43 Time 3:30 p.m. yest'y 3:30 am. today Noon today Weather Clear Clear Cloudy Max. tempt. | Lowest 4a.m. 4am. Precip. last 24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. 46 28 28 26 6 0 12 10 20 14 14 -2 24 32 38 sam. Weather Clear Clear Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Station Atka Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau 32 Sitka 41 Ketchikan 38 Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco New York ‘Washington Cloudy Cloudy Clear Rain Cloudy Clear Rain Cloudy SYNOPSIS Baromeiric pressure was high over central and western Canada and over all Alaska this morning but was falling generally over South- east Alaska. The barometer was low over the Gulf of Alagka and the northeast portion of the north Pacific Ocean with the center of 29.20 .inches at latitude 46 degrees N., L 1gitude 154 degrees west. Light precipitation fell-at Kodiak and ¢ southern Alberta and along the coast from Dixon Entrance to Oregon, with generally fair weather over the rest of Alaska, western and central Canada and the West Coast states, duri the last 24 hours. 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