The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 15, 1940, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THU 1 | THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES Ty SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU Last Times Tonight CARTOONSTRIP. | FAMILY NOWIR THIRD PICTURE Last. Showing Tonight of| "Blondie Takes a Va- cation” at Capitol TAKES A VACATION BLONDIE A Columb | | There will be, amongst the Bum- | family's millions of screen i ste: & 1 fans, a few doubters who say: “They it . S 4 5 P LARRY S|MMS DA'SY can't be any funnier than they were T {in their first films” Those few| M1ZHT PREVIEW. The Uncensored Version | doubters are urged to join Capitol - , Theatre audiences and learn better. | Qwiet on the Westera Front” s —— Mrs. Paul Johnson The Bumsteads—Ilovely Blondie, har- assed Dagwoo delightful Baby Dumpling and timid Daisy, the dog —are back, funnier than ever! The same principals are featured. | ! Pretty Penny Singleton is Blondie. upie Honored {Arthur Lake, a guffaw-getter if : . there ever was one, plays Dagwood This Affernoon Entertains Herefor [ SoreSimm: 2 5w o S |ling. Even Daisy, the dog, is back " ; Nied! Virgisih ™ Dudiey M J k St ph full of tricks and gay antics ri )» an event of next Mon- ey !could not be more timely and is da Mrs, Robert Bender Given in honor of Mrs. Jack perfectly suited a winter evening's and ther Metzgar enter- = Mrs, Paul Johnson en- entertainment | tair h cacktails this afternoon with a shower and tea Blondie, Dagwood, Baby Dump- at Mrs. Be s residence on Ever- srday afternoon at her resi- ling and Daisy, starting the first green Ave Guests were invit- dence in the Elgin Apartments. 'day of their vacation in their usual ed to call betwen 4:30 and 6 o'clock Assisting during the tea hours whirlwind of confusion, set off for — - were Mrs, Zola Guerin, mother of a lakeside resort. On the rtrain m the henoree, Mrs. Tom Herritt and they meet a genial pyromaniac' Jack Garrett ramed Gillis, played by Dcnald G ts for the afternosn were Meek, and a tough-crusted businoss- Mesdames George Gustufsen, Pat man named Morton, played by Don- Bandy, Dolly 1, Gladys Wil- ald MacBride. After several hilar F00D SPECIALS! S*W‘E Howard Mosher, Larry Tram- icus mishaps the family arrives | ?“ ':{t.FT co-uP Evelyn Vernon, Martin at the lake. Morton, who owns the Tynch, Belle Campbell J W. leading hotel, refuses them admit- Kcemen, Beulah Sund, t tance, an act hardly to be wonder- £AL BRAND Jack Garrett, ed at after the way Baby Dump- ling and Daisy plagued him during the train ride. The Bumpsteads go to the cnly . other hotel on the lake, where they learn that its owner has been sub- Brown Catherine Dabo, 0 Cemmers, Stanley Cox, George Shaw, Herman Port Louck, Matt Warden, Gi Carl Bergstrom, Don Parsons, G¢ ACK CHEESE 1" %e den Bristol, Lena Bristol, Sig Jack- Jected to unfalr competition by - son, Zola Guerin, Ernestine Tyler, Morton and is about to go out of 2 i Tom Herrett, Tom Greenhow, Jack Dusiness. FEagerly siding with the LL PICKLES for DR ta " 1P it sc Peterson, Walt McKinnon, George CPpressed, the Bumsteads try to KA Clark, Robert Davlin, Tom Casey, help him. 4 —— | Norman Cameron, Phil Sternig, Before it ends, the Bumsteads has been ruined, but the had a glorious time Miss. vacation Art Jensen and _ audience has Jerry ‘Green ‘/ DOG 3 cans for 32c ¢s June -Lynch, Marjorie al tain, Bessie Powers, Pat C Fast “paced, brimming over with : Atlone Withey dud Vivian Powers, /aughable situations, “Blondie Takes GAB lfl 1bs. 63 Arlene Wit -xlv'\h ian il Ll e ¢ c ening TWO SEAPLANES L] FLY OUT TODAY title to final fadeout. >o Hollywood Probing Is Annotnced ) for 3 while Simmor T to pick up ) —_—_ . SULK Ibs. for St '%J 4 ) ! Cameron round trip to Tenakee >o o COLLECTION SUIT The Schwabacher Harawars Com- pany today filed suit in District Court to collect a $3,000 debt and a $150 assigned debt of the M. Seller Company from William Dewar, own- er of a Skagway store, and James E. Schafer, r owner who al- legedly incurred the debts. R T WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. Con- gressman Martin Dies returned to Washington today after two months rest in his native Texas. He cele- brated his return by announcing that his committee soon would be- gin an investigation of subversive groups in Hollywood. Dies charged that motion picture preducers have what he called: “One of the best organized of all cam- paigns against the Dies committee.” Said Dies: “We are determined tc expose Hollywood.” Dies de- 5 e i d 1 clared he had a report prepared by a special investigator who spent; eight months in the movie capital, - ee——— i Juneau Ladies’ Aux. ' ToGive Bingo Party MEXICAN FIiELD TOMATOLS THRIFT CO-DP We Deliver PHONE 767 Empire Want Ads Bring Results. e /2 | 4 = B ,_‘“/ ’/7/-//-6 Following tomorrow night’s 8 o'~ - a8 clock business meeting in Union | Hall, members of jthe Junesu Ladies Auxiliary will hold a Bingo party, The games will be in charge of Mrs. Emily Stender, Mrs, Leona Sebenico and Mrs. Katherine Dal- santo, H Refreshments are to be arranged by Mrs. Lona Hill, Mrs. Emma Waltcnen and Mrs. Eleanor Wil- liams. IS EVERY TIME WITH BAKING SChillingrmu ‘To make biscuitsthat “meltin your mouth,” do as good cooks have done for over half a century! Rely upon Schilling Baking Powder! It is double-acting, made with pure cream of tartar, and never leaves that "baking powder taste!” Use Schilling Baking Powder for al/ baking. Remember, only success- Jful baking is true economy! hs Enjoy Social Evening Plans for the annual Rebekah dance to be held March 30, were \discussed at last night's meeting of ‘the lcdge held in the 1.O.OF. and will also pay for the |Hall., The session was presided over eggs, butter, flour, eic., you | by Mrs. Elsie Blythe, Noble Grand have used, if you find any | Following the business meeting Gultwhaevr wish It an informal card party was held, ‘with the Noble Grand, and Mrs. Amy Messerschmidt, Viice Grand, | hostzsses for the occasion. |' A buffet supper was served and ‘a Valentine motif prevailed in dec- orations for the evening. The 50-| cial ‘hour was highlighted by the !vlsll of Mrs. Edith Sheelor, who has just returned from the South. N Ounces 4 — Bl MONEYBACK To show our unbounded | faith in this CREAM OF TARTAR Baking Powder, your grocer will return your money at our expense, AN'T GO WRONG OIL BURNER "THE BIGGEST BURNER INSTALLATIONS IN JUNEAU ARE RAYS! RICE & AHLERS CO. PHONE 34 Third and Franklin YOU C ! Wipe enameled stove surfaces daily with a cloth dipped in warm | water and mild soap suds. This helps keep the stove in gaod or- er and will keep enamel shiny. Wipe when the stove is cool; if| crack, Daily Crossword Puzzle ACROSS Solution to Yesterday't Puzzle o ’1"le L. Patch up or make over 1. Help 3. One appointed to act for sheriff 4. Kind of plane 5. Shrub 6. Narcotie 18. Perform 19. American r :0. Architectural screen 1. Hoarse sound 22. Symbol for tellurium ple- m ?U o\ R 2] 7 (e Kind of crus- NOD ML ONDP>N>0 Jests Companion Landed properties 21. City in Quebec province, tacean > =i 4 hawk family Remove from aSanada & DOWN high position . Foot covering 41 News organts L 5 . Satiat Mature LA nt on 40. Closing musical Stung 42 Applications 43. One Min prefix 41, Drinks in 4 honor of 46. Suppresses in pronouncing 48, Whirlpools 49, Present AUDYe announces ment 47. Behold Screen Newcomer to Wed Soon Wedding of screen newcomer, Doris Bowdon, above, and Nunnally Johnson, noted fiction writer and scenarist, is expected soon. Miss Bowdon, who hails from Memphis, Tenn.,, told newsmen that Nunnally called her on the telephone “and asked me to become his wife.” She he Grapes of Wrath.” has a part in the hit movie, Patfiog Dominates China’s Puppet at Sen, father of Chinese independence, ted a huge poster of Wang Ching-Wei, ermination of the Sino-Japanese war. In the shadow of a statue of Sun Y: in Hankow, the Japanese have ercc their puppet head of China, urging © T T e "‘"yl There is no substiluie for Newspaper Advertising ccomiance. SDAY, FEB. 15, 1940. 3 - |OLISEUM COMEDY | ENDS TONIGHT AS | Juneau’s Greatest Show Value Last Times Tonight LOCAL ATTRACTION With Lyhn Bari 08 [P enmos® man 19 %'T 29 S ety K @GR our verve lin on the heaven where ; \nd cay W, tiy promise ¢ v | more laughs ti ou can ghake a LYNN BARI-MICHAEL WHALEN—JUNE GALE | side at N “Pardon | [ ———— et ————— 'our Ce Fox N M Al at the eum Theatre left R T W WAy a del tful audience how i»|‘ - e i mere. This feature end run i i ok t aht SR i e e en.| INicted on WPA Fraud Charges possible, live ery well, we see the 3 . ¥ attempting % % t too 5 2 job, 1w the lor me-hcnored tradition, is pleading for the rent | Then sudc everything S at once Elite Escc » calls to tell them' that herseback ridin with Kid Ra the i chamy s aws But the meet with little success because horses run away! B DIMOND URGES PCSTAL MONEY IN ALEUTIAMS Says Seward fo Bristol Bay Boat Service Now Inadequate ASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Alaska te Anthony J. Dimond to- the Senate Appro- restore to the 000 for mail rvice between Con offic and pass Post Bristol Seward and Bay points, which has been cut out by the House. The increased appropriation ::,‘u.:tm;.lu 'w::“ po! f.‘.’rjz.);;L \,sl T”:: Charged with conspiracy to defraud the government through diversion C C boat, of WPA money and labor, these four men, all prominent in the social, e % civie and business affairs of Indianapolis, have been indicted in iatest oL the ittee that federal drive to clean up WPA “irregularities” in Indiana. Top (L. to r.), the boat now plyin: route Arthur F. Eickhoff, realtor; Charles E. Jefferson, former member of is inadequat the county flood control board. Bottom, Carl F. Kortepeter, former S iy county WPA coordinator; Arthur V. Brown, banker. MiSS MIRIAM LEA'S TROTH ANNOUNCED > main features of the plan. When it is completed, the little rth re village of 700 residents (2,000 in s will look much Vitlaae s IO KENNEIH lg F n as it did when was known as & wu, E@ Re a'n hipbuildi 0 years ago. . - When thx is compieted, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lea have Melville . will aver Sk japd anncunced the engagement of their and buildings and,.clear, to Lowe, son of Mrs. Carrie Lowe of LR G New Meadow, Idaho i 0 1 known in this city, Miss Asly,ln()thl"g Lea is a graduate of the Juneau Feb, 15 —Backward High School and e clock 7o Mr. Lowe came to the Capital )t Brook ‘i rong f[l’r(’.,' City about nine years ago and is Long Island, restoring it to L2 a employed by Wilbur “early republican” appearance — Y"“ &H,lll It Burf and residents of the community I WAL Both the bride-elect and Mr. enthusiastic NP Lowe have many friends in Ju- restoration, to be done by } neau. They have set no definite Ward Melville, wealthy New York val, Feb. 1 date their marriage which is'shoe manufacturer whose summer aid from the exy 1 to take place here within estate is in Stony Brook, will cost nan :~.nr@s driving tho ¢t few months. an estimated $500.000, and carries & truck, it's time to \n\\-\‘vvlgaw, So - = out plans originally projected by said officials in bringing into court A parer he late Mr. and Auburn Cass, 36. Cass pleaded Chapel'bY'I.ake e el guiliy to receiving $50 a month cseen legal compli-| through perjured claims. S f P t o vk will start within| ~ PRBEAS 7 - (éne ot rarty . be completed about | “STOMACH DISTRESS SO BAD a fate I COULD HARDLY WORK” The Chapeladies entertained their| Construction of a village green i nds and friends at the/in the ¢ r of th n, rerouting | says C. S. Gross: “After taking “hapel- by-the-Lake last evening,| Main Street, demolition of about 15| Adla Tablets the pains are relieved St. Valentine was the theme of residentizl and business buildings, and I eat anything.” Try Adla for the evening carried out in the!the remodel of five of the old-| excess stomach acidity on our money games and entertainment, and at est house d construction of a|back guarantee. At all leading drug- 11 oclock a buffet lunch wasjrow of about 15 ne ildings in — in Douglas by Guy's Drug erved authent Y an style —adv. Those attending were Mr. and| — e & ot Mrs. Fred Campen, Mr. and Mr: Clarence Whittanen, Mrs. Dora! Spaulding, Mr. and Mrs. George Phillips, Mrs. Frank Millard, Mr: Virgil Newell, Mr. and Mrs. Price, | Mrs. Frank Maier, Mrs. Jennie Pet- | and Mrs. Stender. i - e o — | JuneauSkiClub | Card Party Held There were about fifty ski-club- bers who attended last night’s card party held at the Seventh Street home of Mrs, Ernest Parsons. | The affair was arranged by Mrs. Lilliar® Clements, Miss Jane Vikery, | BUd Nance and Orrin Kimball, | Honors ‘in bridge were ' won'' by Mrs. W. P. Blanton and Bob Kim- ball, high: and Miss Elspeth Déuglas = ersen and Robert Stoft, low. ' Pinochle | B prizes went to Miss Judith Alstead and William Trumbo, high; and| Easy on Your Purse— Miss Jane Vickery, low. Lo — Cost of your berth in an Empire Builder Modern ( s Tourist Sleeper is surprisingly low. And' what a ARRES' EAI 7 bargain in travel comfort! A big, soft berth with f fa N ia clean, fresh linen. Individucl reading lights. Cléan, wl"D BAY ; roomy dressing rooms, Friendly, courteous attend- ants, eager to make your journey pleasant. MONEY COMPLAINT Appetiting Empire Builder meols Gte ansy on v Y your purse, too. A complete dinner —with wide s L choice of delicious, carefully prepared dishes — for ed with obtaining money as little as 50 cents, o false pretenses, William Bor- Ask today about Modern Tourist, Luxury Coach en was arrested at Windham Bay and Standard Pullman low fares East on the air- and returned here by plane today conditioned Empire Builder — daily to Chicago, in custody of Deputy Marshal Wil- liam Markle. | The complaint against Boren was Ask H. F. “Nick” CARTER 1400 4th Ave, va gk .Sm‘w.’.fi!@ filed here by Ray McGraw, Chief of | Police at Sitka. JIRE RININDED EMPIRE Boren was released on his own DUILVLRA l —. 7 on the Airs Conditionad