The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 24, 1940, Page 2

Here is a view of tk S. Navy's lalest imp sive weapon the <hip, smaller than (k" twins Lexi \ and Saratoga, has more maneuverability than the larger craft Official trial runs are being held off the Maine coast. l g b e 1 T q | More New Wing; For Uncle Sam * i Diego, Cal. with a wing span of 110 feet, a 64-foot fuselage and a height of 19 feet. 1,020 miles, bomb-load capacity four tons. NEW YORK SHOWN 45 APATHETIC range immensity of Cify Pre- cludes Sympathy or Warmth, I Seems By GEORGE TUeH NEW YORK, Feb. 24T her shocking unemotionalism of 3 b New York is frequently manifested FRIEND_pivorce suit has apathy been filed by James Roosevelt, i nals who are dead, in dis- F.D.R.’s son and film executive, ss, or merely drunk or sleeping. who has attended west coast pernaps this is due to the preva- affairs with pert Romelle ., .. ¢ «sieepers” or jerks who, be- Schneider (above). A nurse, she ing homeless or at least witless for attended James affer his 1938 : ¥ ‘stomach ulcer operation. the time being, think nothing of strelching out on the sidewalk or he .MODES of the MOMENT. by Adelaide Kerr i £ ¥ i 5\, hu grace note for the awkward age an American designer makes 4 this round-neckéd frock of white rayon suiting. It's buttoned down fhe back to the waist and cinched with a broad belt, criss-crossed 2 mesia zegd, blue and white cotton skeins. ~ Navy's New Airralt Carrier Wasp 000,000 aircraft carrier Wasp. The huge picture, just released by the War Department, shows the Amy Air Corps’ new bomber, the XB-24 at Built by the Consolidated Aircraft € rp., it is an all-metal, four-motored, high-wing plane, : Unwilling Hosts of Hitler | Nearly 8,000 New York tol, to protest against the |censure. The awful immensity of New York precludes the personal |sympathy and warmth to be found in less populous localities. And yet, this peculiar sense of de- tachment always startles me when |I come upon it. Why, I can not !truthfully say. Maybe it is simply fthe vanity of mortals who grieve for those who have passed on. rrob- | ably it is some offshoot of fear, based on the subconscious realization that | there, but for the Grace of God, lies George Tucker. | | New York and its immediate vic- |inity has some lovely names and |also some very hideous ones. There ‘is Corlear's Hook, an elbow of land | that jabs out from Manhaitan ito {the East River that connotes the first gathering of the Dutch on the wilderness shores. For some pecul- iar reason ihis old Duteh name aiways fascinated me. And so has an Juan a raiher shabiy ton of New York now but replete Its speed is over 300 miles an hour, on the even colder pavements of the subway stations and dropping off to sleep. sther morning about 8:30 a has Hill Wa; itting on the cutb a Chambers at its inter n| with much two-fisted lore. The wilh Seventh Avenue, He necded | Lame that herrifies me is Flush { thave. His clothes were preity 1t was on Flushing Meadow t shabby. By the thermometer on|the Fair was held. 1 do not knuw the Lrie station, just two blocks; Who gave this locality the nam: of away, the temperaturs was 35, jusi i lushing, but who ' was respon- three degrees above freezing. sible. most certainly went out of This man suddenly toppled over | heir way (o ugiily an in: in the street He lay with that munity. errible incrtness of the very drunk Names of mu- or the dead. But he sn't drunk, | SIC d P ¥ y ecause his breathing was impercep- | /(owing syllables such W (ibie. Chambers Street at 9 o'clock Favern (just say (hat soit in the morning is a busy street. It|yourself) or Stoney Point. Great Neck I dislike. Weehawkin is a Lianie and one that no one fdrgets is the point of entry in Manhattan for thousands of commuters who live on the Jersey side. It would be no exaggeration to say that 300 pecple passed this man in the space of fiftéeen minutes, yet not a single one paused to inquire after him, or ;> give aid. They accorded him with that peculiar stare reserved for freaks or objects that inspire dread of loathing, but that was all. No ne slackened pace. These people ere hurrying to their offices and no unidentified body on the red bricks of Chambers Street was go- ing to delay them. GOVERKOR'S RETURN IS POSTPONED Business Will Keep Gruen- ing in Washingfon Unfil March 27 In a few ms=autes a cop ran up and Yent over the man. Right be- hind came an ambulance and a po- lice doctor. A hasty examination revealed neither hunger, nor nar- cotics nor foul play. The man had suffered a heart attack. His heart had simply stopped beating. The hundreds who passed him and ac- | corded him a glance of curiosity mingled with loathing do not know this. In all probability most of them went home that night and teld of a contemptible bum they saw in the gutter. That is New York's way. That is the city and the pity | of it. Perhaps no one is to blame. | Perhaps there are no grounds for ning’s return has been postponed until early in April, according to word received by his office here. Governor and Mrs. Gruening plan to leave Washington March 27. e ATTENTION MASONS There will be a Stated Communi- cation of Mt. Juneau Lodge Mon- day evening at 7:30 o'clcck with work in the F. C. Degree adv. Empire classifieds bring results. Sister Innocénicla (left) and Sister Bogumila, of the Franciscan Order with headquarters dt , N. J.. return to New York. after service i Poland. The Sistérs told how the American-built convent to which they were assigned, sixteen miles from Warsaw, was used as headquarters by e German general staff during the siege of the Polish capital. ‘Hitler | “imself, they declared; watched the military advance from there Il 8,000 March on Albany The date of Gov. Ernest Grue-| to Protest Budget T 7 taxpayers jam the 30th Infantry Armory, Albany, four blocks from the capi- l, oposed state budget of $396,700,000 with a proposed increase of $15,000,000 ! = marconal income taxes, Special trains were jammed by this greatest march on Albany in history. | Russians Advance on Isthinus Kakisalmi ® Lappeenranta “FF1 N, L N T Wl e I\ e —— Viipuriy 2. (Viboro e the course of the Russian drive acress the Karelian Isthmus, which after 16 days of heavy fighting ! had reached the village «f Summa, 20 miles southwest of Viipuri, | Finland’s second largest city, and apparent Russian objective. Black arrow forking off toward Kamara indicated flanking movement. Finns said deep Mannerheim Line defenses (shown by vertical lines) holding firm as Russians claimed captur numerous forts. n push east of Mjolla had reached the we: Finns admitted ancther Russi defense line. 3 El r Roosevelt, wife of the President, meets Anna Eleano1 ;l:;se‘::llélm:l:er:nl-yen-old. who is held by her mother, Mrs, Perley Ylake, at Cambridge, Mass,, after the First Lady addressed the quax:d 'ameé, wives of Harvard menfolk. Infant Anna Eleanor was born ir ~ trailer. i Oldest Bank in i Alaska i Commercial " Savings Safe Deposit Banking by Mail Depariment The B. M. Behrends Bank ] Juneau, Alaska o | 15 JUDGMENTS ARE l U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Feb. 24: Fair and continued cold tonight and Sunday, minimum temperature tonight about 15 degrees; moderaie northeasterly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Fair and continued cold tonight and Sunday; moderate northerly winds, probably increasing over ex- treme southern portion Sunday. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska. Moderate east to southeast winds along the coast from Dixon En- trance to Kodiak tonight, becoming moderate to fresh Sunday. LOCAL DATA Humidity Wind Velocity = Weather Time Barometer Temp. 3:30 p.m., yest'y 30.00 24 18 SE 12 Clear 3:30 a.m. today 30.20 18 24 NNE 14 Clear Noon today 30.30 18 31 NNE 10 Clear RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. tempt. | Lowest 3:30am. Precip. 3:30a.m. Station last 24 hours temp. temp. 24hours Weather Anchorage 30 10 14 0 Cloudy Barrow -11 -20 -20 0 Clear Nome 36 11 14 [ Clear Bethel 27 5 8 0 Clear Fairbanks 13 -6 11 0 Clear St. Paul 34 31 32 .05 Cloudy Cutch Harbor .. 41 37 39 1.29 Rain Kodiak 42 | 29 29 0 Clear Cordova 37 29 31 [ Cloudy Juncau 26 16 18 J Clear Sitka 33 26 0 Ketchikan 31 16 19 0 Clear 3 47 38 39 33 Pt. Cldy Portland 46 36 36 .28 Foggy San Francisco .. 60 | 54 54 01 Cloudy WEATHER SYNOPSIS Pressure continued high this morning over Alaska and British Columbia. The disturbamee: off the coast of California has moved slowly northeastward with the lowest pressure, 29.32 inches, reported in latitude 40 degrees north and longitude 139 degrees west. The intense western disturbance was centered about 500 miles south of Dutch Harbor. The weather has continued clear to partly cloudy over most of Alaska but cloudy we:ther and rain continued over the Aleutians. Temperatures were slightly lower over Southeast Alaska this morning, Juneau, Feb. 25.—Sunrise 7:06 am., sunset 5:19 p.m.; Sunrise 7:08 am., sunset 5:22 p.m Feb, 26 26.- to Juneau after several weeks out- side, Sm Bv (oun" Martinson is returning aboard the Alaska which saiT@ north this s morning for Seattle. District Judge : George F. Alex- P S ander today signed 15 judgments and committments resulting from oroceedings in the term of court. An emulsifying oil, commercial« ly valuable ,s produced as a re- sult of the manufacture of cham- B e o ois oil. The chamois is soaked in MARTINSON IS ON partially oxidized cod oil, which WAY HOME, ALASKA is later drained and squeezed, and converted to new uses. .- Empire classitieds pay Tom Martinson, of the Territor- ial Treasurer's office, Is returning Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons. HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb. 24—I expect Margaret Lindsay will begin throwing things sooh. It's doctor’s orders—almost. Dubuque’s Margaret Kies told me about it—sitting and laugh- ing and sipping a coke on the davenport in the big living room of her Hollywood hillside house. She didn’t look like “that cold Lindsay gir as Hollywood used to call her—sitting there with her laughing eyes and her carelessly brushed-back brown heir. It was talk about “that cold Lindsay girl” that brought up the subject of temperament—and throwing things. “I know they said I was cold,” she said. “What could I do about it? I was not here, and frightened, I was from the mid- west, and I brought my reserve with me. I never could go into a party and kiss all my friends and gush ‘Darlings!’ and ‘Dearests!’ and T didn’t know what to do when others greeted me that way. . . . “I've terrible stage-fright. . . . And I don't show it, so I get no sympathy. It's true. I'd like to do a play in New York again —if only I could get over the horrible agony of the first cue, the first entrance. I suffer tortures when I go on the air. I always hope, while riding to the broadcast center, that I'll have an acci- dent and not reach it. Once on a personal appearance in San Francisco I didn't sleep for three nights before the date, worrying about it and what I should say. I was physically ill from stage fright, and I went out there and said things and I think, they got over—and afterwards, did I get sympathy? No-0-0-0-! “The suffering is all inside. Nerves. That's why my doctor NOW AT Percy’s exclusively TH3t's the receptiom charming hostessess gfve thougntful guests who bring gifts of delicious Van Duyn Candies. Little attertions make you & "must come" guest. Try it FRESH VAN BUYN CHOCOLATE SHOPS told me to let myself go. Not to keep the commotion all bottled up—to let off steam instead. Not to try to be too polite to everybody I when I'm upset, but to try a good, hearty Get-the- H - - - out-of-here once in a while instead.” “And throw things, perhaps?” I suggested hopefully. “Well . . . not yet, anyway,” said the lady-like Lindsay. Relaxation is a blessing Margaret has known little of in the past five years. She was under contract (to Warner's) and she worked dand worked s6me more—when she wasn’'t “under suspen- sion” for turning down roles she didn’t think suitable. “F made some bad pictures, but turned down worse,” she said. She used to try getting away from Hollywood for a while. Once, vacation-bound to Honolulu, she had a summons back for re-takes before her boat docked. Returning, she worked two hours on the retakes—‘and they weren't even in the picture when it was released,” she reflected wryly. “Twice I got as far as Chicago on vacations to New York, only to be called back to the studios.” Gone from the Warner fold for a new three-ayear deal at Universal, the girl who fooled Hollywood with an English accent seven years ago is set for some serious attacks on the bigger and better peaks of Hollywood. First in her campaign is “The House of the Seven (Gables,” in which she “ages” for the first time on the screen. Before any further work, however, she’s off to New York to see the shows—certain, this time, that she won't be stopped by & “telegram at Chicago. B