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

New York drama critics had called his “Geneva” dull, bone- Jess and tedious, replied: “Com- pared with what Some Ameri- can critics have said about my plays I find these remarks quite encouraging.” WAR TIME INENGLAND By THOMAS YARBROUGH AP Feature Service Color scheme: ‘When motori go faster than 20 miles an hour in the blackout a blue - uniformed bobby in a white coat flags them down with a red flashlight LONDON-—Short 1bject from wartime England A poor schoolmaster to clear out to a “safe’ ported a rough timé He 15 homes get a room. Then he went mansion and the lady of the house explained: “I couldn’t pos- ibly let you have a room—I'm so nori-staffed. ‘T'm here on my own butler and two Each day the London weather bureau takes all the information which it figures is available to the German forecasters and hands it to an expert. Then he rhakes the best forecast he can on that basis. In the words of the bureau it “differs considerably” from the of- ficial secret British forecast - High Taxes On Canines One Place Where Putting on Dog Really Costs who tried area re- couldn't to a tried but only 4 maid At little o loud local air zatior and study in ¢ room in a radio w for the organi- post last he found a cottage, but the he went to work raid ‘precautions o he could go to hi A London man groping through the blackout walked into a parked car and bounced back with a face laceration. A | judge awarded him 860 dam- | . ages dgiinat the aier Something Imminent rationing of news- VADUZ, Liechtenstein, April 24 print has forced newspapers into —The little postage-stamp princi- condensed reporting such as this: | pality of Liechtenstein, between “George Robey (a chilh was Switzerland and Austrian Germany, much better last night.” has lower taxes than almost every — other country in Europe, save on Persons imprisoned for being |one thing—dogs Germans or friendly to the Liechtenstein's 7000 cows and Germans are entitled to a 3,000 pigs are the main source of daily pint of ale, 'stout or cider, half a bottle of wine. habitants. Cows don't like dogs and | pigs can get ‘along without them, too. Farmers figure the fewer dogs| high taxes or The port of Plymouth put on a noisy welcome for the men of the better. Hence the the cruiser Ajax when they came on “man’s best friend home from their tilt with ' the | ——e - — Graf Spee, but not a cheer went| P up when they arrived in ‘London. | Somebody was supposed to have sent a band but it didn’t show up. OMAHA, Neb, April 24— Bache- lor Mayor Dan Butler has turned his back on romarce, When Sir John Reith, X't‘phdngi \ Lord Macmillan, took over at the Ministry of Information it re- minded The Daily Telegraph's Peterborough” of that famous| ‘The Mayor of Omaha hasenough remark by Henry XIV, “L'etat trouble without ruhning a retreat c'est MOI"—“The stae is myself.” for the lovelorn,” he wrote a Ban- So many people asked him the croft, Neb., damsel who wanted his point of it he had to explain ]swr;h(’lp in forgetting a blasted ro- that in this case, MOI stood for | mance. Ministry of Information. [ The girl wanted to come here as — | Mayor Dan’s guest —and at his ex- G. B. Shaw, informed that |pense. O -Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons. HOLLYWOOD, Cal., April 24 —Sepia section Hattie McDaniel, before and since her acquisition of an Oscar, has done her own washing, cooking, cleaning, ironing. When she's too busy on a picture, she sends her sheets to the laundry and has a helper in to clean. Ordinarily, she doesn’t like out- siders messin’ around her house. Oscar hasn't changed Hattie. A few years ago, when Hattie was trying to break into pictures, she used to make a living hiring out by the day. She had to quit that kind of work, after a few pictures, because housewives would recognize her. She has fewer fancy notions about herself than Shirley Temple—which is really few Hattie was born in Wichita, Kas, her father a minister and odd-jobs man. Hattie always wanted to be an actress. She got into vaudeville. Vaudeville folded, but not Hattie. She landed in Milwaukeé one time, got a job as hostess in the ladiés” restroom of a night club—$7 a week and tips. One night, after the orchestra had left, she asked permission to try out a number on the late- | stayers. She sang ‘St. Louis Blues” and collected $90 in tribute from the customers. The manager had her organize a sepia company for the place, and Hattie starréd there three 'years. Be- tween shows, she kept her job as restroom hostess. She just likes to work. She goe nowhere fast in Hollywéod for a long time. Her first hit was in “Alice Adams,’the Hepburn movie. Her latest and biggest was as Mammy in ‘Gone.” Since then, her agent mfirnlJ receptiem AT charming hestessess give thoug™ful guests who bring gifts of deliclows Ven Duyn Jendies. Little 4 g, 9 attentions make a s, . Perey’s exclusively has been trying to talk her into doubling her salary. Hattie says tio. She sdys f Hattie asks too much fnoney, Hattie won't work as much. Hattie has the fattest role among the negro players of “Maryland.” She has been married twice, describes herself as “a widow by Death and Left.” Ben Carter, erstwhile resident of Keéokuk, Ta. ahd Aurora, 1., came to Hollywood and saw a crying need for a negro agent for negro film'talent. “1" said Ben, “am that agent.” He had a tough time at first and was shoved around plenty. Once he got in, however, Ben gradually became the leading flesh-peddler of his race, Today, he handles 60 per cent of the talent from Central Avenue. Ben became an actor while trying to “sell” Henry King one of his clients for “Little Old New York.” King gave the part .to Ben, has given him another in “Maryland.” Ben is aware that some of 'his cliénts are beginning to murthur. Dapper Ben realized an agent’s dream the other day: with 76 negroes working In “Maryland” sequences for three days, Ben-collected $750 in commissions, aside from his own salary. Employed were Ben’s 32-member thoir, singing a spiritual fte-widtten by ome Of Ben's clientshi, . i ol income to the country’s 10,000 in-| Different |ALEX HOLDEN ARRIVES |o'clock tonight, Alex Holden is en- | Jones averages: THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940. This aerial view fnade from' during a Royal Alr Force raid on this German-held Norwegian city. The white blob at upper left is described as ‘a British atrplane shows, according fo a British-approved caption, four seaplanes moored in the harbor of Bergen was_radioed from London to New York. _ House Has FOREST TRAIL MAINTENANCE TO START SOON ~ PICTURE BACKS UP BRITISH (LA!M THEY BOMBED BERGEN | a falling bomb. This picture JUNEAU BOWLERS INCREASE LEADS OVER KETCHIRAN TRAP HEARING OVER:KETCHIKAN DATE CHANGED Been B“i"fForman S{e;;r:son Is Here Wilnesses Heard Today by Both Men's and Women's HOUSTON, Tex., April 24—The home of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Teague is a geologist’s deam. It is built of petrified wood and trimmed with After Vacation - To Start at Angoon Trail maintenanee work in the stones from every state In the Admiralty Division of the Tonga union except North Carolina, as National Forest will get under way well as France Germany, En-|May 6 when the boat Barbara 8 gland, Belgium, Mexico and the sets out of Angoon with a three- South Seas man crew headed by Ken Steven- Teague said he was determined |son, Trail Maintenance Foreman to build a home different and Stevenson is in Juneau af pres- original. “We decided on a stone ent, having returned this week from p nd began gathering odd a vacation in the States. He th which to trim it.| going to Angoon on the Estebeth learned of our hobby and | this week. soon we had a garage full of - -o rocks s One summer We ran across a petrified wood dealer in Stephen-| | STOCK QUOTATIONS ville, Tex. and decided that a —_— house built of that material would (A be the answer to our problem.” NEW YORK, April 24 The Teagues will receive stones| guotation of Alaska Juneau 1 from persons who have heard of | goek today is 6%, Anaconda 30 the unique home. They hope some | Bethlehem Steel Common- day to receive one from North|ealth anda Southern 1'%, Cuitis Carolina Wright 10%, General Motors 53 TODAY WITH LOCKHEED Due to arrive in Juneau at 6| International | hecott 35 {16, Northern Pacific 8%, T | States Steel 60%, Pound $348 | \ A Central ited Harvester 59 3/4, New Yo DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are tc industrials 148.45, route from Seattle with his Marine | rails 31, utilities 24.75. ays Lockheed which has been | ing overhaul in Seattle. [ Aboard the plane are Mrs. Holden, and young Sandy who flew south with Mr. Holden six weeks ago, and | téday in his own boat from Pe A. H. Bradford, of Dillingham, | City. Mrs Alaska. A S\\ Y when you nl'n t;ol' age. For you're - A. P. WALKER HERE A. P. Walker arrived ir au an He is stopping at Gas- the ! tineau Hotel. 01d Hermit- etting a re- nowned 4-yen-gld Kentucky bourbon at a price that’s almost too good to be true. Natanal B Yo Lrond ITAGE KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY IT'S TIME TO CHANGE YOUR THINNED - 0UT LUBRICANTS! CONNORS MOTOR COMPANY TN © <o me e | ed not guilty in District Court to a |Royal and Vir | charge she transported a woman in |in school aircraft carrier ratoga. JUNEAU WomAN Anne Early Smith Returns jrom Trip After a ftrip of several months in the south, Mrs. Anne Early Smith | | | | DENIES CHARGE | | or GRA“D JURV returned to Juneau on the Alaska. Mrs. Smith spent most of her visit Ann Dwyer of Juneau today plead- |scuth with her son and daughter, nia Smith who are in Zona. the Territory of Alaska for immoral| Owner of the Royal Beauty Salon, purposes. A | Mrs. Smith has resumed charge of Miss Dwyer was indicted secretly | her shop wheih has been operated by the recent Grand Jury. She is ac- | by Miss Ethel Powell during her ab- | cused of providing transportation sence. ; | fare for Thala Soward tc fly from | - e { | Juneau to Nome allegedly for “the BOUND FOR ALTHROP | purpose of prostitution.” Oscar A. Larson, Superintendent | TR |of the Port Althrop Cannery, passed UURY HEAR'“G | through Juneau aboard the North | Sea as did Lloyd Minard, bookkeep- wAY"OR su"’ | er, who was accompanied by his wife. | —————— | STAMPS AVAILABLE Testimony was virtually completed | ppo jew Pan American and Pony: llate this afternoon in the suit °”Express stamp issues are Tiow avail- | Charles Lesher against Charles Way-| \o o4 g0 Juneau Post Office, ac- nor for alleged false arrest. Lesher cording to Postmaster Albert Wile. ek to colibet §90,000 dasmages from poth are in three-cent denomina- | Waynor. | Members of the jury are William tion. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By ‘the U..S. Weather Bureau) Forecast fer Juneau and vicinity, beginning at , April 24: Clear tonight; increasing cloudiness Thursday; minimum about degrees, not m change in temperature; gentle to moderate east- erly winds, Forecast for Southeast Alaska: North portion—Clear tonight, in- creasing cloudiness Thursday; mnot much change in ‘temperature moderate easterly wind except northerly over Lynn Canal. South portion—Partly cloudy tonight, occasional light rain Thursday; not much change in temperatur moderate southeasterly wind., Forecast of winas along the st of the Gulf of Alaska Modetate changeable winds, mostly Southeasterly from Dixon E trance to Cape Hinchinbrook; and moderate east and southeasterly from Cape Hinchinbrook to Kodiuk. : LOCAL DATA Time Barometer 1amp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 3:30 p.m., yest'y 29.90 63 26 NNE 9 3:30 a.m. today 20.89 39 90 Calm 0 Noon today 29.89 60 2 NE 10 RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 3:30am. Precip. 3:30a.m Station las; 24 hours | temp temp, 24 hours Weather Barrow 34 03 Rain Fairbanks | 0 Clear Nome 0 Cloudy Dawson g 0 » M 6 i 0 horage 58 0 Pt Bethel 53 0 St. Paul 38 04 Fozgy Dutch Harbor . 52 | 03 Rain Woenlesenski 16 | 07 Cloud, Kanatak 41 | 0 Cloud Kodgiak 43 1.38 Cordova 54 0 Juneau 63 0 Clear 0 Clear 2 0 Clear Prince Rupert . 69 49 0 PL. Cldy Prince Ge 62 32 0 Clear Seattle 56 48 62 Cloudy Portlahd 56 42 31 Pt.Cldy San Francisco .. 58 51 0 Pt. Cldy WEATHER SYNOPSIS A weak {rough extended across Dixon Entranee this moruning while tHe préssure relatively high over the Interior. The weak ening disturbance that centered near Dutch Harbor has com- pletely dissipated but another desp disturbance has appeared about 600 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor. Fair weather with mild tem- peratures continued over most sections of Alaska and the Yukon Ter- ritory. There was light to moderate rain over the Alaskan Pen- insula and along the coast from Dixon Juneau April Sunrise 4:23 a HIGHWAY CLOSED ntrance southward to Oregon p.m 7:34 sunsel will reopen the middle of next week. DURING wonK 0" Seven spans are to be replaced in the section. Only that at Pet- . . | erson Creek, however, will require Army Engineers on Teams Triumph on PETERSON BRIDGE ;" ric%. i . . — | = - - New Regulations Second Night Wokk on Tepiniiigdthe Hrkize ot A B CAIN - Peterson Creek on Gilacier High-| e Date of the Ketchikan hearing on junean FElks bowlers increased Wway started this week necessitat-| Democratic candidate for Rep- new Army Engineer regulations gov- ypei lead over Ketchikan teams ing closing of the road from Pet- | resentative, = adv. erning placing of fish traps has been oe¢" nignt in the second leg of a erson Creek northwest for about b changed from April 3 to WhateVer ujcgraphic tournament. The men's 10 days, according to the Public, For Want and For Sale Empire Hmr']!’ Ill"nu\'l \(‘l‘ ‘l!r.lit"illl‘j 1| team now holds 386 advantage Roads Administration. The road|classitieds bring results. '\’I“\‘ ‘]" "‘) ')‘[ it v :LI 'h' mg ol gver Ketchikan. The local women May Tiof Lhe HEERIAY of MY s i s s e sl e Hearings here were concluded this ¢ TOW plumcahoen BT Mnelsly | afternoon. Lieut. Colonel L, E. Atkins P“;!L (‘_'”:_';”‘:\‘ Suais e e : i and Major A, B Moannats igons | . TOEtS WAL (DB, N0 DOVINE a0 | H duicted the session in. the Grandidury |DUa05 JOURe night. Fiay Wil ¥ A ! s i i sume tomorrow and continue Fri-| | Ko registering were |42y and Saturday 4 e o F T Timmerman,| Seores:ldst night were ‘ag fol- : 4 ! A P J. White, Grover C. |V ! W Sbs. Jaries VADax Juneau Men ] ] T J. Nelson Ralph Fer- | Stewart 203 161 168— 532 J A“ BA BT | randir 3. Skinner, Jack Hellenthal irnegie 56 200— 551 ‘ ‘ Frank Dufresne, Lance He Ugrin 179— 482 3 £ rank Duree, Lanee Hendrc: Uirin - e WORKERS—No. 172 | on, John Glasse, Cash Cole and Holmquist 194— 553 ‘ ] Bob Coughlin. s i Objection was voiced to provisions| Totals 890 9082634 : L4 ! that permits for sites will not be Ketchikan Men | i ited until after areas are open- Zorich 496 i ] y the Bureau of Fisheries regu- Maloca 554 | U N 10 N “ A L L 1 lations and that the District Engin- Whaley 453 1 5 eer would be allowed to decide pri- Linstrom 480 ; & o ' fority of applicants. Howard 469 i i i - Lol pril 25 | NEW (OMMANDER e ool gl : | Juneau Women : Mrs, Kaufmann 160 166 124— 450 & | FOR SITKA BASE IS Mrs. Dufresne . 124 111 159— 394/ § | Mrs, Pe 150 134 - 418 | (OMING IN JUNE * 1o 11— g8 All Members Requested to Attend! : Mr 165 167— 447 ] e i gt < o b o8 R T L Lieut. 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