The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 29, 1939, Page 3

Support the Rotary Conferenc: d Boost Juneau! The Show Place of Juneau STARTING TONIGHT THEATRE YOU’'LL GET FOOTLIGHT Going Places Come Across Boat Building SHORTS NEWS Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbia Cooss - “Dark Victory.” Screenplay by Casey Robinson from play by George Emerson Brewer, Jr., and Bertram Bloch. Directed by Ed- mund Goulding. Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers, Cora Witherspoon, Dorothy Peterson. HOLLYWOOD, Cal., March 29.—A bright and vivid society girl, Judith (Davis) travels a fast pace in parties and horses, refusing to acknowledge growing illness or her fear of it. Against her will she is taken to young Dr. Steele (Brent) who diagnoses her brain ailment, induces her to submit to an operation He learns the truth then—that she has but ten months to live —at the time that they fall in love. With her secretary Ann (Fitzgerald) he enters a conspiracy of silence, proposes to Judy, determined to keep her as radiantly happy as love has made her. Steele and Ann know the end will come suddenly, the only warning an hour or so of growing blindness. But Judy, by accident, learns her fate—and fear and outraged confidence turn her aaginst her friends. She embarks on a reck- less spree of riotous living, trying to forget fear. She finds the answer in conv tion with her impudent trainer (Bogart) and the answer is courage. She goes to Steele, begs forgiveness, marries him for the little remaining time—and in the end achieves, in cheerful calm, her “victory over darkness.” ‘The vehicle, for the remarkable Bette Davis, is an emotional field day as it will be for audiences. Since they gave her a sta- tuette for “Dangerous’y and “Jezebel,” they’ll have to give her a monument for this—-as sure and deft a triumph of gamut-running as any actress has been given in pictures. Equally remarkable is the fact that while dominating the film she still leaves room for a sincere and excellent characterization by Brent, for an impressive screen debut by the quietly charming PSS U same e we’re modest ... NEW COMEDY SEEN TONIGHT _ AT CAPITOL Alice Brady, Charles Win-; ninger Star in "Good- | bye Broadway’ The story, “Goodbye Broadway,” | opening tonight at the Capitol The- | atre, which was freely adapted by Roy Chanslor and A. Dorian Otvos | from the stage hit by James A.! | Gleason, takes the Malloys, onetime Broadway headliners, to the little town of Hamilton, Connecticut, to| put on their act. When a fresh hotel ‘: clerk insults Pat Malloy, he buys the | | place just to fire the guy. That| |leaves the Malloys broke, but when the bills begin to mount and some | of their old vaudeville pals turn the hotel into a rehearsal hall, the fun really starts. Winninger and Miss Brady are| grand, better than they were in| “Three Smart Girls.” Tom Brown as a small town wag who wants to be a Broadway star, and Dorothea Kent, as a hard boiled little troup- | er who likes Tom, have some of the | || best lines in the script. The cast is strong all the way down. Frank Jenks is capital as the flip hotel clerk. Jed Prouty is the town| Scrooge who likes nothing better than to foreclose a mortgage, and Donald Meek almost runs away | with the picture as the village idiot, | who scrambles up everything for | everyone, Producer Edmund Grainger out- did himself in assembling a bangup | cast for a swell story. Ray McCarey who has given us so many amusing | films in the past deserves some sort of special award for his direction of “Goodbye Broadway.” It's a pic- ture you mustn't miss. DOUGLAS NEWS ‘OND TICKET IS FILED WITH BONNER FOR MAYOR | Another complete ticket headed | by Robert Bonner, Jr., as candidate | for mayor and Lawrence Carlson,| Claude Erskine and Frank Camp-| bell for councilmen, was filed this| morning, City Clerk Tuckett report- ed | An independant filing for the| | council was made yesterday by Sante Degan. Up to noon today no one had filed for members of the School Board. MEETING OF MISSION CIRCLE IS POSTPONED | The semi-monthly meeting of the Douglas Gospel Mission Circle which | was scheduled for to morrow after-| noon with Mrs, Lonnie Grant as| hostess has been postponed for two weeks due to illness in the Grant family. Winnie Lee, the eldest daughter was this morning reported down with chicken poz. J UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, Deposed Head 0f Cuba Dies In Operation |Gerardo Machado, Who Shot Those Who Oppos- ed Him, Passes Away (Continued from Page One) minutes before secret police visited his hotel. Five days later former Havanna associates in New York learned he was in Interlaken; Switzerland. Recently he came back to the United States. Manipulates Constitution Machado, an accomplished vote- getter, went into the Cuban presi- dency ir 1925 for a four-year term under pledge not to stand. for re- election. But in 1928 the Cuban con- gress, of which he had won control by astute party maneuvering, amended the. constitution, making the presidential term six years, This would have held him in of- fice until 1931, but after the amend- ment_was adopted, a fresh election was called. Machado ran for the full new term and was elected, thus Joan Crawford Details Charges, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1939. . ot 4 b I g Because she will be abroad when her divorce suit against Franchot Tene comes into court, Joan Crawford, film dctress, detailed her ac- transeript. extending Hhis regime ostensibly un- |- til 1935. Then in the summer of 1931 there was s0 much criticism of the 1928 amendment that Machado sanctioned a program whereby an- other amendment was adopted pro- viding for an election in November, 1032, But meanwhile the world econom- ic depression had descended upon Cuba. The sugar market collapsed, distress was added to political un- rest. There were revolts, riots and attempts to assassinate Machado. Congress granted him power to sus- pend constitutional guarantees and he struck back at his enemies by means of censorship, suppression of anti-administration newspapers, court martials and wholesale ar- rests. Cited For Bravery Cabanas fortress was filled with cpponents of his administration and many of his enemies were shot while, it was alleged, they were at- tempting to escape from arresting officers. Machado's foes said that in most of these cases the prisoners, forced to run, were riddled in the back at short range. Machado was born at Villas Clara September 29, 1873, to Col. Gerardo Machado and Senora Ludgardo | Morales de Machado. His parents were from Santa Clara families which for years had been identi- |fied with movements to free the is- land from Spain and it was said that in childhood the future presi- dent seldom saw his father because the colonel generally was in the field. Machado entered the struggle when he was 22, took part in many engagements, was severely wounded and twice cited for valor, When independence finally came he held the rank of brigadier general. Thereafter he occupied himself with a sugar plantation, cattle breeding, commercial ventures and politics. He became inspector general of the young republic’s army and was interior '1908-10. GOLDSTEIN BACK FROM INTERIOR: DLANE ACCIDENT Five Planes at Scene 30 Minutes After Mes- sage Sent Out Charles Goldstein is beck at his call” in an airplane accident Satur- | day at Takotna Goldstein was a passenger aboard the plane with pilot Ralph Savory and traveling man B, K. Kane when | » the plane’s engine quit just after) taking off at Takotna, nesessitating a forced landing in which the plane turned over and was badly dnm:aued.i P The plane had climbed to about| 1500 feet, Goldstein said, when the | motor stopped suddenly while “‘"i ship was in a banking turn. “Savery did the smartest thing he could have,” Goldstein said. “He found he had no power, so just shoved the stick forward and dived for the ground to get flying speed.” The landing was made in about four feet of snow, and one ski struck am. obstruction, turning the plane turtle Ounly injury, Goldstein said, was a cut tongue and a few chipped teeth, received by Kane, who struck the dashboard. The landing was made only three fourths of a mile out of Taketna and the accident was visible from the town. Goldstein spoke highly of radio telephones and Interior airmen, “Within thirty minutes of the time the call was sent out from Tak- otna,” he said, “five planes were at the field. Every plane withing 300 cusations of cruelty before a Hollywood notary publ is shown with ‘her attorney, Ellis I. Hirschfield desk in Juneau today after a “close| Miss Crawford she signed the A Stage Kiss? ol Sam Harris, 67, New York theatri- | cal producer, kisses his third wife, | the former Mrs. Kathleen Watson, | after their marriage in German- | town, Pa. The bride, a sister of | George Brent, actor, is 38, The cere- mony was attended by many no- tables in the theatrical world. NOTICE TO CREDITORS | |IN THE UNITED STATE§ COM- MISSIONER'S (EX-OFRFICIO PROBATE) COURT FOR THE/ | TERRITORY OF ALASKA, JU- | NEAU COMMISSIONER'S PRE-| | cINcT. ! | In the Matter of the Estate of | WILLIAM N. C. WADDLETON, De- ceased. NOTICE 1S HEREBY GIVEN,| | That the undersigned was, on the ;23rd day of December, 1938, duly ap- | pointed administrator of the estate |of WILLIAM N. C. WADDLETON, SONG - FILLED WY OPENS TONIGHT AT “Thrill of a Lifetime,” is the mer- | ry melange of mirth and music | | which opens at. the Coliseurn Thc-‘ atre tonight, | The Yacht Club Boys, Judy Can- | | ova and lovely Dorothy Lamour from | the radio—that romancin’ prancin’, | danein’ . pairs of lovers, Johnny | Downs and BEleanor Whitney—Betty Grable, the girl whom artists call the nearest approach to perfection in form Ben Blue, Leif Erikson, Larry Orabbe, Franklin Pangborn and The Fanchonettes, one of the mostly highly trained chorus troupes in show business—that's the cast! Produced by Fanchon, Hollywood's only woman director (and it would appear that a lot of Hollywood gen- tlemen who put comedy and music on celluloid can learn a thing or two from her) and directed by George Archainbaud, ‘Thrill of a Lifetime” is a highly irresponsible story of show business and the summer camp business. The two merge when. a young vaudeville team, played by Downs and Miss Whitney, and young playwright, portrayed by Erikson, attempt to prove their worth to a preducer by taking over a camp. - Bulgaria is now greatly mcreasing its trade with Portugal UNITElY STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE District nd Office Anehorage, Alaska January 9. 193! Notice is héreby given that George J. Bednér, his r le application for a homesite under the act of Mgy 26, 1934, for a tract of land situated on Teé¢ Harbor about 18 miles orthwest of Juneau, Alaska, Anchorage serial 08370, U. S. Survey No. 2266, con- taining 4.60 acres, latitude 58° 24’ 36” N, longitude 134° 45" 30 W. and it is now in the files of the U.'S. Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska, Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the abpve.mentioned land should file . adyerse claims in the U. 8, Land Office, within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter, or they will be barred by the provigions of the Statutes. GEORGE A. LINGO, Register. First publication, Feb. 1, 1939, Last publication, March 29, 1939. COLIS COLISEUM THEATRE ... au'’s EUM OPERATED 0SS Grecttost Show Value STARTING TONIGHT: BETTY GRABLE | LARRY: CRABBEY LEF (ERIKSON ond DON'T FAIL TO-SEE THE COMPLETE m:wx% OF MACHINES FOR EVERY TYPE OF BUSI- NESS. OUR TIVE WILL BE THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER 0. O. B. COHUN, Agent ’ 1923 5th Ave. Seattle, Wn. themsélves in TROLLING and SEINE boats for: ' secretary of the Leadership of the liberal party came to him in 1920 and payed the District Land Office | deceased, and that letters of admin- Anchorage, Alaska. January 9, 1939, miles got the message.” by 5 Joe Crosson flew. the men back to | istration therefor on said day were Fairbanks on Sunday after a Star |duly issued to the undersigned. but we still have to admit OTHER AGENCIES: | Adlas-Imperial Diesels. | Palmer Engines } that we serve the finest plate luncheon in all Juneau — for only forty cents — Percy’s Miss Fitzgerald, and for Bogart, even in a minor role, to register forcefully. It’s doubtful that a better performance will come out of Hollywood—at. least until Bette, assisted by equally inspired writing and direction, makes another picture. Only an anti-climactic final sequence mars a solidly satisfying film. “Midnight.” Screenplay by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder from story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz. Directed by Mitchell Leisen. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Francis Lederer, John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Elaine Barrie, Hedda Hop- per, Rex O’Malley. Antidote for the crying-jag of “Dark Vietory” is this frothy comedy concoction about a gold-digging American chorine (Col- bert) who lives by her wits and makes fortune come her way —until a taxi-driver (Ameche) comes along and upsets her “prac- tical” design for living. The chorine arrives in Paris from Monte Carle, broke, her only asset a gold evening gown. Clad therein, she crashes a society party, soon finds herself employed by a wealthy gentle- man (Barrymore) to distract the atfentions of fickle, smooth Jacques (Lederer) from the former’s wife (Astor). On a house party she is about to accomplish her work, posing as a baroness on her employer’s bank account, when that handsome taxi-driver butts in to strike midnight for Cinderella. Without conscience she foils him, then decides to chuck the masquerade and accept his offer of marriage—but not soon enough. The finale is a riot of comedy in a divorce court. “Midnight” profits by enthusiastic performance, witty lines and clever situations which touch on zany comedy and dabble in the risque more than once. The result is one of the season’s smartest, most amusing comedies. A Not the least of “Midnight's” attractions is the opportunity it offers to see Mrs. John Barrymore in her fArst acting assign- ment: the role of smart-set milliner who profitably insults her customers. There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising Notice is hereby given that R. L. Stewart, has made application for a soldiers’ additional homestead, under Sec. 2308 R. S. Anchorage serial 08549, situated approximately 1 mile northwest of the Juneau Douglas bridge on the east shore of Douglas Island, embraced in U. S. Survey No. 2335, containing 2.77 acres. Latitude 58° 18’ 45” N. Longitude 134° 26’ W. and it is new in the files of the U. 8. Land Office, Anchorage, Al- aska. Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse claim in the District Land Office, within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter or they will be barred by the Statutes. GEORGE A. LINGO, Register. First publication, Feb. 8, 1939. Last publication, April 5, 1939. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE UNITED STATES COM- MISSIONER'S COURT FOR THE PRECINCT OF JUNEAU. ALAS- KA: BEFORE THE HONOR- ABLE FELIX GRAY, UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER AND EX-OFFICIO PROBATE JUDGE In the Matter of the Estate of JOHN NELSON TALSWICK, also known as JOHN SUSEG NELSON. Notice is hereby given by the un- dersigned administrator with the Will annexed of the estate of John Nelson Talswick, also known ‘as John Suseg Nelson, deceased, to the | ereditors of, and all persons having |claims against said deceased, to ex- |hibit them, with the necessary |vouchers, within six months after {the first publication of this notice, |to said administrator with the will |annexed at his office in the Alaska |Juneau Office Building, Juneau, Al- |aska, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of |said estate within the Precinct of ;Juneau. Territory of Alaska. | L. H. METZGAR, | Administrator with the | Will annexed of the Es- { | tate of John Nelson Tals- wick, Deceased. way for his election as Cuba’s fifth president, ALASKARAZOR' CLAM QUOTAS ARE RELAYED Fishery Regulafions for 1939 Promise: Increase in Production Alaska fishery regulations for 1939 open the way to marked increase in the production of razor clams in the Territoty, providing the market will absorb the pack. In the Prince William Sound, Copper River and ‘Bering River areas, which préduce the vast ma- jority of the Territory’s pack of razor clams, the quotas for the spring season to April 15 is fixed at 1,600,000 pounds of clams in the shell or 40,000 cases of four dozen halves, From April 15 to the end of the spring seéason June 30, no' quota is fixed. Last year the.quota for the entire spring season was 1,- 200,000 pounds or 30,000 cases. The area east of Srawberry Point Channel is to be closed for the year as soon as 800,000 pounds or 20,000 cases have been taken in the com- bined Prince William Sound and Copper River areas. ‘The fall season runs from August 16 to the end of the year, with a quota for the Prince William Sound and Copper River areas of 280,000 pounds or 7,000 cases. No quota is fixed for the Bering River area dur- ing the fall season. e ki Ty NOTICE — Social meeting of Juneau Wom- an’s Club, March 31, 7:45 pm. at the home of Mrs. Ray G. Day. MRS. C. C. RULAFORD, I‘Publication dates, March 22-29; April 5-12-19, 1939, adv. wroefwitnIheg Secretary. Airways plane had taken them to McGrath and Goldstein flew back fo Juneau by PAA Electra, arriving this rhorning. b Finalks‘e*r’vi‘c;s for Mrs. H.R. Shep: . Thursday Affernoon Fi L Funeral services for Mys. . R Shepard will be held tomorrow af- |ternoon at 2 o'clock at the Holy | Trinity Cathedral. Dean C. E. Rice will officiate and interment will follow in the Ever-| {green Cemetery. Members of the| | Ladies Auxiliary of the American | Legion will participate in the com- | mital’ service at the cemetery, and | all members are requested to meet || | at the Dugout at 1:45 o'clock to at-| tend the serviees . CATHOLIC GROUP HAS SOCIAL MEET | Following a business meeting last | evening in the Parish Hall, mem- [bers of the Catholic Daughters oi‘ America had a social session, in| {charge of which as Mrs. Edward | |Herron. The greater part of me‘ |evening was spent in playing cootie. i Plans were made for initiation | {of a class of new candidates at a | meeting next month, and anuounce- | {ment was also made during the |evening that the sewing group will | ;hold an all-day session Thursday at Parish Hall. Quilting will take |the (up the greater part of the day. | e | DUPONTER BACK | R. E. Murphy, Dupont powder ’m»m‘ returned from an Interior trip |on a PAA Electra today and is stop- |ping at the Gastineau Hotel. { - - | The Forest Service estimates that| the 630,000,000 acres of United Stat- | es timber land is probably sufficient | to meet the country’s needs if prop- | erly cared for, said estate are Hereby ninistrator at’ the of Monagle, d Juneau, Alaska All persons having claims against required to| the same, with ~proper. and duly vérified. within (6) months from the date ot‘ to the lersigned ad- of his At-} nd M, Ff.i Building, rpsent chers, R. E. Robert at ] ey Dated at Juneat, Alaska, this 28th | 'NICK SUCUI, Administrator. irst publication, March 8, 1939. ast publication, March 29, 1939. Johnson Outboards and other engines of qualitys There is COMPACTNESS—QUIET ECONOMY—~LACK OF VIBRATION—CLEANNESS no substitute for Newsp aper Adv,atfifin@ WRAPPED? READY FOR MAILING at drugstores and newsstands. and The Empire office —mailed FREE if left at Empire or drugstore. Exira charge for refurn address— the complete story of Alaska in 1938 Told in pictures and the words of the men and women best-informed on things Alaskan a wealth of facts .. . . About this great Northern Territory l"roqnu elo) . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE > seu ¥ itspansraen