The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 16, 1939, Page 3

THEATRE Show Place of Juneau AIDNIGHT MATINE “ROMANCE ON THE RUN “LAW OF THE UNDERWORLD" NEWS ONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT HAS KEPT (CNGRESS ALERT (Continyea 1ran Facs Oned nst amendment Relations Act y, Oklahoma 117 oil field petitions ag nal Labor mittee, of the h.l F 1 Hu mes' a of I petitior prot wage-hour wker tha Town: rs of the Provic national ikland for » 3 Act while the Dang erican Revolution R. I, wrge pl y fense. Am- of of THAT suIe!” slature sub- biecting to re- » Constellation Newport “DON'T The Rl it mits a resolution moval of f its s other Massa- em dents Northampton, > that should be Facuity nith husett thought als 0 Holyrood, ‘a pro- cost of egislation » Commerce legisla rates tc West o6 level Sommit tion to out > Seu i i legi Vn\‘mu Virgini 0 rates—and doe ant The Montane legislatur TVA to use co per of aluminum ich mostly impored And we ude from the C tic City tions, money to torium in want any Jurce n't instead says, wiring it is concl with a petition ior of Atlan- fonal conven- pending Federal v ipal aud W They don't mpetition from THAT [ o <> - SCOTTISH RITE 181+ DEGREE 10 BE CONFERRED Annual Reunion Continues at Masonic Temple Here Tonighl st u]ul xl\'\'l | Haley, LAST TIMES TONIGHT SHORTS Windward Way Kennedy's Castle eting will be held at the Masonic Temple starting Last night, the reunion, of members Channel attended a 6:3 ner and later wit cnfer of the 14th degree of the Rite full form by officers of the Lodge of Perfection, u the direction Charles Hawkesworth A number of out-of-town visitors to the session, which will contil smorrow and Saturday, were bei shown the city today by officers o he lodge at 8 o'cloc living on of oo . FISHERIES MAN T0 LEAVE FOR CORDOVA DUTY Olson W|II Be Relieved Here by Don Haley for Season Clarence L. Olson, who has besn in charge of the Bureau of Fisher office here since the first of the year is leaving on the next boat to the Westward to work at Cnrdm a for am and salmon He will be relieved here by I)'m ald formerly warden at aig who is arriving tle Twins Bom? Ore Is Four Months The Older JASPER, Ind William Scherles, born today four birth of the first boy Attending physicians said the new baby and his mother, Robert Scherle getting fine. The 28 and caring three other before she hospital Mrs. Scherle came in 12 days of equ g the record for the de- ayed f twins, R SAM HARRIS T0 WED WIDOW, VIC WATSON March 16.—Little twin brother was weeks after the that Mrs are along ar-old woman was for her first twin children several was last taken to up and days the e NEW YORK, March 16.—The vet- | eran theatrical producer Sam Har announces his intent to marry Mrs. Kathreen Watson, Mrs. Watson is a sister of actor George Brent. Her husband, Vic- tor Watson, was a’ newspaper execu- tive. He jumped to his death from a hotel window last NOVLmbL‘ > SHORTSTOP BARTELL ON INACTIVE LIST AVALON, Cal. March 16.—Dick Barteil. shortsiop Cubs, is on the inactive list today | woven » | the baely uesday from Seat- | for the Chicago| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, s A i Screen Tapper's Hawaiian Dance Is Causing Begular Among Naiives MYSIERY FiLM ENDS TONIGHT AT CAPITOL Lady in the Morgue” Crime Ciub Production Now Showing Here who Is Film detective fans, themselves on solving screen mys- teries bef the cinema detective, wii { of the toughest jobs 0 “The Lady In her one of the al Crime Club - night Capital famou terie Theat The { doubt until the | tity of the real “The Black Doll, | Case” and other Crime Club thrill- ers, inasmuch as the plot has been 50 carefully as to practically defy solution of the mystery in advance. In addition to the clever {plot manipulation, “The Lady In The Morgue” is packed (o the hilt | with vivid situations action | and sardonic humor The picture tells of the theft of of a beautiful girl from morgue before it can be identi- “Bill Crame” secks it because fears it may be that of a mi heiress. Rival want the bady because they believe it |that of the wife of of them Wild scenes of adventure take place | betore the body is recovered. Even Jfter this is done (he still seems |far from solution until Crane sud- denly gathers all the principals to- ether and builds up a foolproof case against the guilty party - ‘(OAl MINERS IN PARLEY ON NEW m at the 2ly left in the jden- iller, as it was in The Westland audience is complet end about the | tled !Iu {ing gangsters is one WAGE SCHEDULES - W \'OPK March 16. extend the present centract for the soft coal i ation today miners A pro- W Apps under and mine i con: by | op President United Mine { have proposed the operators t d for higher hour The present of the said to when a de- shorter Lewis, is tension down and John L. Worl the ey rned wages kers contract expires on presentatives said that would agree to con= of the mines dur- ld extend tiations on tinue ope ing 1939 the ca a ne The tees were te g neg and operator commit- discussing W and hours meet again this afternoon ider the Lewis plan. - A. M. McLANE IS DEAD, KETCHIKAN KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March A. M. McLane, 52, died last night following an extended illness McLane came his family in 1930 and became Chief Operator of the Ketchikan Public Utilities Power Plant. He previously operated h\mu el ectric plants at Goldends d Hanford, - Washington, and toria, Oregon. Two years ago he retired because of ill health. He is survived by his widcw, a son Homan, in Ketchikan, and a daughter, Mary, in Seattle. c—— GOV, FITZGERALD cor IS SERIOUSLY ILL GRAND LEDGE, Mich. March 16. —The condition of Gov. Fred D. Officers of the Ala»kzx chapter after developing rheumatism in his| Fitzgerald has taken a turn for the of Rose oix tonight will confer the 18th degree as part of the an-“ nyal reunion now being held by the Scottish Rite bo(l)es of Junc:m Thv p left ankle. Manager Barnett named veteran| Weody English to replace Bartell in the remaining squad games. | worse, according to his physician, Dr. T. M. McCoy. Gov. Fitzgerald is suffering from | a severe case of flu. | Mo Prbprty Rights Start With Toy : lF a spemal toy takes your child’s fancy when she’s vis- .iting.a.playmate 'round the corner and she just ups and carsit home... no“ T act as though she were a thief. Settle down casu- ally and explain the moral code involved. The best way is to compare the division of belongings in her own home, and persuade her to take the toy back. She’ll probably do it with- out any fuss, once she understand.:. | Hula-Baloo | pride PUALANE MOSSMAN They Both ACK STINNETT Writer move- By AP Feature Servic NEW YORK-There's ment among the local Hawaiians. Eleanor Powell started it in her latest picture, “Honolulu,” but don't get me wrong. The movement results from the contention that Mi Powell has got the hula all wrong. The Hawailans are ‘hubu” (that 15) about the way Miss Powell dance honors under the t of the ancient Hawaijan shuff F. C. Allen, Jr., President of the Hawailan Society, s ly no other way to describe it t sacrilegious.” He adds he's no sabbatical but explains had its roots in religion. With the Hawaiians, it is ritual rite learned from childhiood by the peo- ple of the islands. It can be learned missionary or “The hula The 1939. ELEANOR |’n“'l'L|. v're Doing ihe tHula after years of study, if ab all. Miss Powell is a channing person a delightful dancer—but the people who produced the picture should not call what she does a hula. It's just not that at all.” Pualani Mo * of a trio here and considered by many (in- cluding Mr. Allen and George Jean Nathan-—who once wen! far west as Hollywood) as the mos ithentie hula dancer in New York ys sim- ply that whatever Miss Powell is trying to do, the result is not the hula a1 on shoes to tap my hulas, 4 | by outsider should go to Honolulu, put says Pualani, “and try way through one of the ‘My friends, this is the wd ss Eleanor Powell does that gre American dance the tap,* T don't think Miss Powell would like it either "Teen Age Fliers Take fo Air As Part of High School Work 16. } to Ketchikan with | Flying cadets take the school's gether as part of their course. Rv The AP Feature HELENA, Mont.—It takes three ye: to make a first rate airplane pilot out of a young. eager 'teen age civilian student. That’s what they tell you in the Flying Cadet department at Helena High School where President Roose- velt’s plan to train young flyers as “insurance” for the Army Air Corps lin case of war was anticipated by eight years. The Helena school began training |pilots in 1931; now it turns them {out at the rate of 30 a year, Half have the 200 hours of flying experi- ence necessary to obtain a commer- cial flier's license; the others can | qualify for private pilot's licerises Lieut. L. W. (Bill) Fahrner, in- structor, says the traipning is pat- | terned after that of the Army A Corps and all instruetion is by Air Corps Reserve officers. The equip- ment is very similar to that used by the Army. | High Schioolers Car' Learn While the President’s plan is to | train the pilots and mechanics in | colleges, the record at the Helena !schonl indicates the instruction can be started Successfully in the senior year of high schoel. | “In 1400 hours of student fl ‘v«e have had not a single ac I nor even so much as a scratched | plane,” says Fahrner. Rigid rules helped a lot. Usually | three years of preparatory work in high school-are necessary before a student can qualify for the air corps. Then he spends a whole year |in ground school studying mainte- | nance of planes and engines, theory |of flignt, aerodynamics, principles of flight, safety and analysis of fly- ing. In the second year he takes air traffic rules, navigation meteorology and then he takes a turn at- the controls. For 16 hours of flying, U Service up e the and training plane apart and put it to- This youth is painting the frame. time required by the Civil Aerg- nautics Authority, the student has an experienced flier with him. Then he goes alone. At the end of nus second year in flying school, which is his fifth in high school, he is ready for ad- vanced flight training and study of commergial airlines operation. Repair Planes Thirty-five of the school’s grad- uates are pilots, three of them with JOHN HOWARD PLAYS FEATURE ROLE IN NEW MYSTERY, COLISEUM| ranking John Louise Hollywood's comedy John myster Barrymo Campbell seen on the reen of the Coliseum Theatre for the last times in dog Drummond’s - Peri the ni thrill-romance from E 1 other well known inchuding Porter Hall, zabeth Patterson, Nydia Westman | and Michael Brooke, are in :the cast By virfue of their previous formances in “Bulldog Dmmmuml Comes Back” and “Bulldog Drum- mond’s Revenge, rred to In studio parlanc a “team” rather than a “east,” play their familiar roles in the new picture, W of the war waged by the world's most powerful dia- mond syndicate against a Eritish chemist who has discovered the secret of manufacturing perfect | jewels from chemicals in his labora- tory and a d SCHOOL HOUSE RAZED BY FIRE, DARING Perfect order afternoon frame school houw pupils to the pla Teachers had sufficient warning to lead *the last of the pupils to 54 (-L_\’. 15 minutes before the roof col Kir W fire March 16 maintained this swept a two story and drove 130 ; ground. a - o Students Picket When Prexy Gels Air CRTONVILLE, Mich The tudents at the’ Ortonville went on strike today and! picketed the school house in a de- mand for the retention of Ray- mond Baker as Superintendent of seh 8. Baker March 16.— has been Superintendent of the Ortonville schools for the last | ’0“'“ products laboratory, at Madi- nine years, He has not been offered * & new contract for next year. Baker said that he did not know why the school hoard had refused him a new ('Ullll'll(‘[ D Goldfish Win Court Mercy For Driver MILWAUXEE, March 16.—Three goldfish won a guspended sentence for Wesley Budziszewski, twenty- three, on a speeding charge. He wes taking the goldfish in a bowl to a friend, he told Judge Harvey L. Neelen, when the bowl tipped over aud the water rap out. So Budziszewski stepped on the ac- celerator. Patrolman John Brown the fish were gasping when he stopped the car. The fish now are at Isolation Hospital, the judge was informed, where the driver's friend is a patient. testified ' commercial flying jobs. Sixty others |are airline mechanics. Besides thoge in aviation, a num- ber of students found the training fitted them to be expert welders, sheet metal workers, machinists, el- ectricians or radio repairmen. | Airlines cooperate in the training by sending planes, ‘plus materials and parts, for repair in the school shops, a $66,000 plant at the airport. In addition to the shops the school | has two training ships. Officials estimate it costs about $15.000 to operdte the school each year, byt the government, under the vocational education plan, pays ofie- | half of the instructor's silary and the students earn about $5,000 a year repairing planes and doing otherl | tasks for airlines. There now are 70 students enrolled, all the school will accommodate. A $20,000 enlargement program has been approved. BIDDY LAID AN EGG and therein lies a fale by Albert Clark of Russellville, Administration in Washington. stared sq long at an elec she developed a fixation and laid above bulb- Ky., to the Rural Clark explains: one of his lfl c light used to step up Mium McKendrie holds Exhibits 1 and 2, | Paramount. | these leading five | as | areat | | 3 '—-——-—m LAST TIMES TONIGHT ANOTHER BAFFLING BULLDOG DRUMMI THRILL MYSTERY! \ "BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S PERIL” Reginald Denny and E. E- Clive, are | —with—— JOUN BARRYMORE—JOHN HOWARD—LOUISE CAMPBELL i DL L £t i S A et e el . L s S MUSICAL COMEDY toon—Sportlight—News Bii- | ‘NAIllESE Gy | 5 VISUALIZED; | BUT WOOD USED | NEW HAVEN. Conn Crectien of new cit wood but without a nail ,xs explained as an alre: practi- | cable scution of housing problems, | Tae prediction was made to the | Yale-Life conference on house | building teghnics which opened a |session at Yale's school of [fine |arts. It was made by R. V. Parsons, rescarch engineer of the Johns- Manville Company | Tne houses wonld be gether with a new resin “glue” |would make the wood almost stropg as metal and fire resistant 10,000 at a Time | AU present, Parsons said, more than 66 percent of Americans are able to pay less than $30 a month | rent, a figure which he called im- practical to reach on the high lana values in an urban community. The answer, he declared, s certain of new cities. These cities would be built with- {in cemmuting distance of present |cities, on never less than 25,000 acres cof land, with all titles held |by common authority, or by trust companies. Each would be between 130,000 and 100,000 persons, and never | |over. There would be a surrounding |“green bAt" as a barrier, for re-| creation and for gardens. | | The houses would be erected 10,- 000 at a time. The technique for |deing this he said, is already avail- | lable from work done in the U. 8.! reh 16~ | mestly of in them. stuck to- that as | , Wis. There, nails are replaced ‘hy a waterproofed bond, which is| |really a new kind of biue. War Product The “glue” is made Jormaldehyde and phenol. outgrowth of a World War sub- stance, used to make strong wooden airplane wings, but objecs tional then because inflammable. | Government scientists have made it fire resistant and the forest lab- (oratory uses it to make plywood. Three thin layers of wood are sat- maostly of It s an| urated with the “glue” and pressed together for walls, five plys for !floors. " This wood will make both Inter- | {lor and exterior finish, Parsons de- clared, Box-shaped glrdeu made in | this way, he asserted, “are tremen- | dously strong.” Hardwoods, out fo | make mosaic-like tiles, can be nell- pressed 50 as to be wateyproof for| | bothrooms and kitchens. | Wood primed with this new resin at the factory, and cut to be “glued” into a home, would “make @ better house than can possibly be contrived of thousands of parts) nailed together by hand carpenter {1abor.” >, — FROM SITKA | J. E. Bchafer was an passenger from BSitka with Shell| Simmons this afternoon, coming| over in the Alaska Air Transport, Lockheed. A ey MASK FOR POLICY ‘ ROME-—-An enterprising insur- |ance company here has a new Ibonus plan giving a gas-mask free to everyone taking out a policy. Everyone Welcome inbound A ANTI-PARALYSIS HOPE IS REVIVED Surgery Ma-y Solye Mys- tery - Delicate Opera- tion May Give Hint BALTIMOR:, Mach 15—Delicate surgery on a monkey's brain nerves may reveal the path infantile paf= iysis virus flows into man's body. Dr. Neward A. Howe, heuroana= omis who has been working oh the wroeblem (hree years at Jobns Hop= ins University d today his study ‘Is to test the theory that man ac= quires his immunity to infantiie saraly by siigl? attacks which orogress no firther than his colfae= tory bulb.” The bulb Is a clump of tissue where the nerves from the nose join before they enter the brain, Dr. Howe explained the major result of his work so far has been the discovery of a way to give mon- key a m'ld form of the disease. ‘This is done by cutting the nerves between the olfactory bulb and the brain. After this operation, when the monkey contracts the disease ‘hrough the nose, the infection is cunfined to the bulb and does not spread to the brain. The important question of wheth- er this attack gives the animal im~ munity from infantile paralysis, is still to be answered, The virus, which has never seen nor Isolated, apparently | lows the path of the olfactory nerve to the brain, A — HIS SPUDS PROVE AID T0 EDUCATION ITHACA, N. Y. March 16.—Pota- | toes are sbuas o some peov'e, but to Walter Scudder, Shemung County 4-H member and a Oor- nell University student, they ase an ald to education. Fiom one acre, Walter 266 bushels, of which fl:‘m were “No. 1's.” Many of these have been sold for 70 cents a bushel, The remaining culls, valued at 18 leents a bushel, also will help pay |for his education. 'ALASKANS ENJOY GARRETT'S |OLD NORTH STATE brand BLACKBERRY with spicy tang of ripe ‘blackbarios from th \ | Bive Ridge foothills. ® Ask your dealer alse for Virginia Dare Wine (White or Red) . . . Garrett's American Seuternes, Hout Saw ternes, Concord Wine ««.and Gurrett's fine Amarican Port faleohol 19-21% by velume). 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