The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1939, Page 3

THEATRE FERNAND M-G-M PICTURE HORTS "' R g | BEEF STEW with NEW | VEGETABLES — tomorrow for Lunch at the BARANOF — SUPERINTENDENT OF MT. McKINLEY PARK IS VISITOR Weather in?a?k Excellent This Summer-To Make Glacier Bay Cruise Weather in Mount McKinley Na- tional Park has been so agreeable this summer that even a Califor- nian will admit it The Californian is Frank Been, new Superintendent of Mount Mc- Kinley Park, who was transferred north recently from Sequoia Park in California and who is in Juneau at present. Been said today Mount McKin- ley had 21 days in June in which | the mountain was visible, despite the month being the rainiest June in many years. With Earl Trag Director of Admiral Byrd Rushes Antaretie Expedition as Nations Seramble for Polar Territory MILIZA RAINER - GRAVET - KORJUS | DISNEY SILLY SYMPHONY NEWS OF THE DAY The Show Place of Juneau NOW! Research and Information for the National Park Service, Been is leaving tomorrow morning on the Ranger VI for a month’s trip to Glacier Bay. The two men will look the National Monument over with view to planning tourist and re- reation facilities there he Ranger VI, who is being provided for the park men's use by the U, S. Forest Service, ar- rived Saturday night from Ket- chikan. Allan Sallee is captain - - Office Door Here "Reorganized” A sign painter’s brush today made official the recent change of title | of the Bureau of Public Roads. On the ground glass window of the door to the Bureau's office the sign was being re-lettered today “Public Roads Administration” in conformity with the change made under reorganization July 1. - >ee - DOCTOR BACK Rae Lillian Carlson, opto- metrist, returned from a trip to Yakutat this morning, coming aboard the steamer Columbia. D The Book ALASKA, larged. Now On Sale; $1.00. Dr in! Revised and ! STRAUSS' TUNES - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1939 ' Daily Crossword Puzzle IMUSICAL COMEDY | AT COLISEUM SHOW work. From then on various favor- ites were suggested. A poll was taken in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer mu- sic department and its results sub- mitted to Bernard Hyman, producer of the picture, The picture, dealing with the life and loves of Strauss, was directed by Julien Duvivier. The musical numbers, all composed by Strauss, are presented in lavish Imperial Court, opera, casino, palace, and Vienna woods sequences. Miss Rainer plays the faithful wife, Gra- vet is seen as Strauss, and Miss Korjus as the Vienna opera star with whom Strauss became infatu- ated. Players include Hugh Herbert, Lionel Atwill, Curt Bois, Leonid Kinsky, Al Shean, Minna Gombell, George Houston, Bert Roach, Greta Meyer, Herman Bing, Alma Kruger, Henry. Hull, Sig Rumann. and | Christian Rub. \ R N | el e War Secrelary May Get New Powers WASHINGTON, July 31. — The ARE FEA]‘URED |N ACROSS Solution of Saturday's Puzzle ; 1d0l1zen ! \ . Youngest son Y EATURE o ookt g i vamtawn (. TELLS SWING STOR FILM AT CAPITOL | %™ g v ons L wle by . 9. Topnotcher E 5 'u“l‘l“‘fi" | A crew of swing nutty and: fame —~— i Q. sy S| 91 Cube'root of hungry musicians “jammed" their "The 6 t Waltz”" Costars R g oy O e way across the continent last night e breal Waliz B e ko ve S| i Pertatung to | in the new film that opened at the L ) R 5 d at the ex- Al 2 A';“‘K"‘““ | Coliseum . Theatre, right into an uise Kainer an Feeslet: B. Waits ror audition at the Cocoanut Grove, F dG { 4. W Y| 2 Make autthe and right o the top of a current ernana brave 1s. Tree R| 2. Genus of the film hit parade — 19. Minute orlfices Bl 3wkl | The new picture is “Cocoanut From the great score of Johann |21 x.nn;ex Tyoepe o i stralr | Grove” and heading a long list of | ¢ e ok . » tacle for flu! 31. Likel " i e o S(rm]m "1‘“:“ .“chmu l-»lfl:lrl“‘n:g;b . Am‘;m o Jully S| 32 Ex’wf'?“_dy ufir:::nka?;; rA;rl::«ixl.~|ar;mFl‘1-d| M;‘;p popular of it all was one - niture ond | ray rrie iard, 2 ncul;“mu.xsim]I u;;.lgngom: v(‘j,ulrlmg 42 Simor g 18 Baimationdn, :ulnmnt;u and mltl.s‘ul*ul. leads in |‘.|u|' the ming of “The rea altz,” |28, Alternative held ilm. aramoun! has surrounded drama of ‘:m- life of the composer, |23 Happens Atio ime them with a cast that includes Ben ! |30, Symbol for tan- 37. Soak DOWN In addition " currently playing at the Capitol &i tahim n Bibti ’Il‘:nn: ¥ fii\‘rmgrm;h 38 Ier\'e(nv('r‘urll Blue, Rufe Davis, the Yacht Club eatre wi cas ade . Settle 9. Kind of uro= . lerary frag- 37. Pour fort ” S g Ve Theatre with a briliisnt cast hf"dm 33. Knock pean mint ments 40. Seaweed Boys, Harry Owens and his Royal by Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravet g; %lgflnl 3 i 45. uumbal 5 41. Propel with Hawaiian Orchestra and Dorothy iz ody of printed 46. Wear away oars end Millsa Korjus. matter on a 47, Likewise S 42. Duteh city Howe. “The Blue Danube” was unani- R page f i unit of wolrk $ Jiiidem 430 At the tiine MacMurray, in his role in the new » chosen by o . ut new soles 49. Marry again 7. Utility spoken of i oy s o mously chosen by all concerned with N evoe'®® 0 Mot sheep 8 Breathea 4. Female deer film,: plays an almost exact proto the picture as Straus” best-known type of his own life before he crashed the movies. He is a young bandleader who has an aptitude for losing jobs quicker than he can get them, and as a result winds up flat broke with a rebellious band | on his hands. To keep them together | he tells. them that he has arranged for an audition at the Grove. The only problem that then confronts him is to get the “swingsters” to | California. | medy, however, the population is largely Walloon (French) | Propaganda Raids Pro-Belgian residents of the dis- trict say the people generally are satisfied, want to stay in Belgium, and would have no serious complaint about their treatment if left alone by the agitators. But they are deluged with Ger- |man propaganda which is especially effective among the youths, aceord- ing to charges in.parliament. “Travel agencies” sponsor tours into Germany for the youths of the districts. At St. Vith, for instance, thirty young men are said to have been taken into Germany, given courses of instruction, and return- ed in miltiary formation. Politically, the pro-nazi groups House has passed and sent to the Senate for concurrence, a bill that| will authorize the Secretary of War | to make contracts for the evecution of construction projects in two areas beyond the continental limits of the United States. | The contracts thereby might be made under terms at variance with the usual procedure followed in making contracts of a similar na-| ture within the continental United States. In1914, Now Empire classifieds pay. Belgium, Innocent Bystander Of Violafion of Air Frontier {have made little headway. In tthe | general election in April this year, the party considered as pro-nazi— the “Heimattreue Front” — failed to get a seat in parliament. ->>— Standsin Fear 00 sonoe ~-MEN T0 JOIN | 'WEATHER STAFF ‘Equipmenl—Ar_rives for. 35 i Day Operation-Two Ly Experl_s Coming its first six weeks. White arrows on this map indicate the column-centers, of eight. in- vading German armies. The five that run through Belgium ttace the great wheeling movement by which Germany almost won the war in Two radio-sonde experts, Carl Russo and Theodore W. Kleinsasser, | will come to Juneau late in August [to join the staff of the U. 8. Weath- |er Bureau in charge of new upper ‘air observations to be made in re- lation to air-mass forecasts. Russo will come from Arlington, Virginia, and Kleinsasser -from Ok- lahoma City, Oklahoma. | Today a shipment of 35 radio- sonde instruments were received | here from the factory at Baltimore, | Each instrument . includes within | its compact case equipment to meas- |ure barometric pressure, humidity, | temperature as low as 112 degrees below zero and a radio broadcast- ing unit to send signals back to a ground station which will record iall the data. ! Release Daily The instruments, suspended by | antenna from rubber balloons which will be inflated to about five-foot diameter, will be released here and at Fairbanks daily starting Sep- tember 1. After the balloon reach- es a height at which lack of out- side pressure causes it to burst, the Top, 1s the Barkentine, Bear of Oakland, Vetersw’oF Pws’ Kitarctic Journeys, With (inset) Admira) Byrd in Polar Outfit. ‘Bottom (Left), Byrd Points Out ‘to rAdmiral R. R. Waesche (Left) and Dr. Ernest Gruening, Where He Will Lead the Expedition. ‘Right, Is Map of the Antarctic. The race for the Antarctic is on. When President Roosevelt commis- sioned Admiral Richard E. Byrd to head a government-financed expedi- tion into the polar region, he made it plain that the United States is definitely interested in claiming sec- tions of the vast ice-covered area. In many respects, Byrd’s forth- coming return to Antarctica will be in the nature of a race against Nazi Germany, which recently claimed 250,000 square miles east of the ‘Weddell Sea. Great Britain, Nor- way, Australia, France and Russia are also interested in the polar re- gions, but not to the extent of rush- ing an expedition. Admiral B; tions with $340,000 appropriated by |Congress, $100,000 which he raised, jand other private capital. Byrd \calculates the cost of the expedition \at approximately $1,000,000. In addition, the explorer will do- nate the ship in whid.lhl‘le Al:nda his previous ji to tarctic, the 68-year-old n:hnum. Bear of Oakland, which will be refitted with a new engine. The government will supply two additional boats. About two hundred men will make up the exploring force, which is to sail about October 1 and may return in six and one-half months. However, food and other supplies to last two years will be carried. Innovation in Antarctic explora- tion is the bb-foot, specially-built snow cruiser built like a bus, to cruiseacrosstheicy wastes, Designer of the cruiger,which wfllh:{nvppllad by caterpillar tread wheels, is Dr. Thomas E. Poulter, second in com- mand of the Byrd Antarctic expedi- tion in 1934.36. The - will carry a small house on its 8 with mooring.atop for an airplane, and will accommodate four men with provisions for & year., t The expedition, Byrd's third to the southernmost tip of the world, will map out, survey and claim ter- ritory definitely for the United States. If possible, he will map the huge coal and oil deposits. But, while the natural resources are very important, great impor- tance is placed on' the territory as bases for aviation @nd.mew routes for inter-continental travel. Byrd has said the United States should most definitely claim all territory around Palmer Land, which is 576 nautical miles from the tip of South America, and, therefore, he feels, within. the scope of the Monroe Doc- trine, Also, immediate steps should be taken to formally claim Marie Byrd Land. ¥ . -The expedition is under the su: pervision of Dr. Ernest H. Gruen- ing, -director. of the Interior De- partment’s territorial department, | and will probably sail from sol Atlantic rt, possibly . Boston. The first Byrd expedition to the Antarctic lasted from December 30, 1 to February. 19, 1930, with Bfiflyfiumsm th Pole No. vember 29, 1929, . Second uxy-éiuon lasted from .{;;;lry 17, 1934, to February 6, 4 There would be a good chance for Twenty-five years ago last Friday, July 28, 1914—the World War started. A few days later Germany invaded Belgium. This story, telling what's worrying Belgium . today, . was. written. by J. C, 8 , .AP Chiet, of Bu- reau, London, after'a first-hand surveys 1 & n BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 31.—A | quarter of a century after the Ger- | | man_invasion of Belgium—in Aug- | ust, 1914—Belgians are worrying a- plenty, about the danger of a new war, ‘But they don’t belleve his- tory will repeat. {*They think, in any event, that if a new European war should come,| Belglum’ would not suffer the first blow as she did in 1914 . their country to stay out altogeth- ef, Belgians say, except for one| think—the air, The eastern fronter, with Ger- many, 16 better fortified than it was; 25 years ago. The fortifications cover a longer stretch. Behind them is a stronger army, always on guard. JAnd . besides, Belgians say, the whole military situation has chang- | ed. since 1914. In the event of a | new war between Germanv and | Prance, for -instance, some military | experts believe neither would try immediately to break through the strongland fortifications of the oth- |er. | .The first deadly assaults, they say, would be ‘from the air.. And that’s| 1why ‘Belgium worries so much. It’s that frontier—a relatively new one l—whlch many Belgians fear would be violated first. It's the one that Belgium.is least prepared to defend —and the most difficult one to de- fend. ) The shortest route; as a crow flies, between Berlin and Paris is acrossi Belgium, Between Berlin and Lon- don, it's across Holland. But between Munich or some other southern German cities, again it's across Bel- gium. Belgium could be avoided, as well | as Holland, by British, French or German planes carrying out attacks on the enemy. But in warfare es- pecially it would be easy for pilots to get off their courses. Under the new foreign policy of complete independence, Belgium is committed to defend her own fron- tiers. This is as true of the air as of the land. If French, British, or German | planes flew across—intentionally or unintentionally—once or twice—the enemy country might merely lodge protests with Belgium and demand that she protect her frontiers. If it happened several times, however, | the other country might resort to the same course. ; So the battlefields might be over| Belgium — and might eventually draw Belgium into the war.” | The Belgian “Sudetens” | Another big worry in Belgium juat; now is her “Sudetenland” 1 This is the frontier territory which Belgium acquired from Germany af- ter the war—the cantons of Eupen, Malmedy and St Vith. Adolf Hitler hasn’t asked for their return. Hitler has even put them in the same cate- gory with France's Alsace-Lorraine as territory to which he has no further claim. Nevertheless they've become a hotbed of pro-nazi propaganda and political agitation, according to dis- closures in parliament. Beventy thousand people live in the . three contons. Eupen is the largest, St. Vith the smallest. Ger- mans predominate in both. In Mal- instrument falls to earth on a para- chute. A reward is offered for re- turn of the instruments to the Bu- reau, but very few are expected ever to be found in Alaska. The balloons will be inflated with helium, 30 tanks of which are on their way here from the Govern- ment plant at Amarillo, Texas. The receiving station, where Russo and Kleinsagser will listed in on the stream of radio signals eman- ating from the balloons, is on its way to Juneau for installation at the Weather Bureau office. R iz v e P J. C. Haldemans Are Enterfaining For House Guests Dr. and Mrs, John C. Haldeman are entertaining informally through- out the week for their house guests, Mrs, Mable H. Greene and her daughter, Miss Dorothy Greene, of Oklahoma City. Mrs. Greene and her daughter arrived in Juneau on the Princess Charlotte and expect to spend a week in the Capital City. Leaving on the steamer Mount McKinley during the early part of August, Mrs. Greene and daughter will be accompanied south by Mrs. Ha.deman’s mother, Mrs. lda E Stivey, also fo Oklahoma City, who has been visiting in the city for the past three and one half months. The three will return to their homes via the Golden Gate Exposition at San Prancisco. — e —— Empire Wane Ads Bring Results. Juneau’s Greatest Show Vfio NOow!? The Firdt HeartSock-Drama Ever Set to Swing Musicl FRED MacMURRAY in “COCOANUT GROVE” COLISEY WNED AND _OPERATED W.1.5ROSS with } HARRIET HILLIARD—BEN BLUE—RUFE DAVIS ALSO Musical Scenic News-———ALSO Hollywood Sights And Sounds O fobbie Coom HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 31.-—Joe Penner had a party the other day. It was a nice party, a really unusual party. The only guests were taxicab drivers and, of course, their cabs Joe was making a picture called “The Day the Bookies Wept.” (What day, did you say?) Joe plays a cabby, one of a number of cabbies who buy a race horse to beat the bookmakers and make Joe its trainer. Joe spent a lot of time before starting the pie- ture, riding around with a cab-driver friend of his to pick up the lingo, the mannerisms, the way of life. A lot of the eab- drivers he met were used in the picture. So Joe had the party, when the cabbies’ film careers were done. There wasn't any reason for the party. Just Joe Penner, who's a big-hearted cuss, and likes people. He said, if you pressed him for a reason for his party, that well, here was a bunch of nice guys who were always taking people to parties and hardly ever got to go to any themselves. Mary Martin, whose heart now belongs to Paramount, may have been nonplussed to find a Mary Lee Martin already there, plus a Marion Martin ditto. . . . Nonplussing to others was Mary Martin’s photographic resemblance, with bangs, to Claudette Col- bert, who has practically a monopoly on the use of bangs In screen coiffure. First guess: Mary Martin will keep her name, lose her bangs. Andy Panda, an engaging little critter, joins the color cartoon 200 under guidance of Walter Lantz, of “Oswald the Rabbit” fame. ... Andy's debut is made in “Life Begins for Andy Panda,” best described as “Pandamonium.” . .. Lantz, unable to borrow one [ e e U e “Come and Get It> Has a Special Meaning Tasty food, efficient service and an atmosphere truly home-like sound the old call of “Come and Get It” ... . “aPERCY’S of the two or three pandas in the U. S., took movies in the Chicago 200, made his sketches from these. . . . Interesting sidelight: Fan- nie Brice, hearing that Andy spoke in a manner suggestive of her own Baby Snooks, came over for a look and a hear, remained to supply Producer Lantz with ideas and tips for Andy's‘next adven- ture. Deanna Durbin has “First Love” but no parents—for the first time—in her new flicker. . . . Joseph Calleia thinks he has beaten the “type” jinx at las . Took him two years, and a nice bankroll he sacrificed by turning down villainous roles, to do it. . . . His role in “Algiers,” diMerent from all he had prev- iously done, was the starter. ... Then “Five Came Back” with the role of sympathetic anarchist, and “Golden Boy,” a role with sympathy and humor. . . . Now “Full Confession,” a herolc priest. ... But the climax is ahead: the erstwhile heavy is o' portfsy “Father Damien,” the saintly priest of Molokal's leper colony! ... Priestly roles seem to bring good luck to actors: Spencer Tracy, a splendid gangster in “Quick Millions,” really got under way with His priest in “San PFrancisco,” and Pat O'Brien’s ‘in “Angels with Dirty Faces” was his best break in years. ... seain 'QUAKER America’s Most Modérn Oil Range =~ . temperatures. : B Forced Draft assures clean-burning flame. ® Priced at $169.00, which includes coil and hooking up to existing piping. Terms. ON DISPLAY RICE & AHLERS CO. FRANKLIN AT THIRD . . . s - PHONESA