The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 4, 1940, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1940. ST NEWS IVTxdmghi Prevue 1:15 A.M.—-TONITE MATINEE 2:00 P.M.—SUNDAY A PRICELESS MEMORY that will last a lifetime!... A memory of the greatest love you ever witnessed! D THE 1 Sunday Monday Tuesday -ov: Robert Taylor Starred Here \Capitol Theatre Presents| | 'Lady of the Tropics’ With Robert Taylor and th |much -discussed Hedy Lamarr teamed in an unforgettable stor; Lady of the Tropics.” which ope Sunday at the Capilol Theatre, | proves not only a procduction of | unucual dynamic drama but an llround feature of topnoten en- tertainment. The stcry is ideal for {the two stars, Taylor, a young merican; [alls madly in love witn | | Miss Lamarr while visiting Saigon, | lndn China. He marries her, but| lh('n discovers it impossible to ob- | |tain a passport for her so that| ‘~lli‘ can return to America with | him. For another Furasian, plo {by Joseph Schildkraut, has exerte his powerful infiuence to keep Miss Lamarr in Saigon. The solu- | tion of the problem is an unusual | one and brings a tense climax to | the picture. | Playing for the last times to-| night is the return feature, “Dam- | sel in Distress” and ‘“Penama Lady.” -+ HERE'S HOW BASEBALL IN Y. STARTS Get ona Subway txpress Go to Polo Grounds ~"Play Ball” By GEORGE TUCKER NEW. YORK, May 4—Get on an| 8th avenue subway express, ride up to 125 street . Change to a locai and ride past 135th, past 145th and on 'til you come to 155th street. ’ “MEAN MADE ISLAND A Tour of the Golden Gate Fair in Beautiful Color, “SPORTING WINGS" LATEST NEWS Including Norway’s Present Plight S —— Get off, and walk through the big LAST TIMES # U nye Feq ek ik iron gate, on along a cement ramp TONITE: DAHsEL EN Efl‘gffii‘”é amd PANAMA LADY and up a broad flight of steps. : ——f There's a sign that says Polo 0 Leonard Holmquis U. . INSPECTORS ARE ON Grounds. There’s a sign that Mfs Har[y ASk W||l | Wil b5, joined in Junean NORTHLAND FOR WRANGELL says Baseball Today. . . . There’s & P e is bfiv \;;'hry' \;l]‘]].\ ”IB.'IN'an NSTE-E)T.-ua . g s John Newmarker and Capt. J. all about the players. . . .Oftt, y Vhlf {rom Skaqwa)’ him on a trid 10 cjark, United States steamship in- | Pearson, Hubbell Getcher News it his father | spectors, left Juneau aboard the Now.” There’s a boy who yells chil rmer pic E : Northland for Wrangell on inspec- “Papers, papers, get the latest pa- & ey B t0h SR pers. . Get the line-ups for to- o ataa The Republic of Guntemala W il i day’s game." . .. There’s a big cop, he n Juneau of her sister ablished April 17, 1839 Today's news today in The Empire, |and a hundred other cops, with grins on their Irish pans, grinning be-i| |cause they can't help it. Because | they're glad Commissioner Valentine detailed them on Harlem duty today. You walk past the high, green por- | tals of the Polo Grounds with its iron turnstiles; and dirty kids duck out of the line yelling, “Got an extra pass, got an extra ticket?”. . . You walk in the shadows under the grandstand, toward the door marked “Press Gate.” . You see a man at the gate who Lake< your ticket, and reads the number of that ticket out loud . . . He yells “Press 124" . . And someone echoes “Press 124, and the turnstiles click, and you are passed through. MODES o the MOMENT —— by Adelaide Kerr — ! L Walk up the big, wide ramp of cement that a hundred yards lony. . . You hear a‘sharp staccato of balls meeting bats. . .. You hear the clam- or of the butchers, “Hot coffee, hot coffee.”. . . “Hot dogs, hot dogs with mustard . You hear a voice boom, ‘Score Cards, Fi'Cents.” . . You hear a voice shrill, “Peanuts, Peanuts.’ | Dont stop at the top of the ramp - The lower tier is no place to| watch a baseball game. . . Go on| up to the upper tier, and out into the sunshine . .. . take up a spot behind first base. . . . where the jockies sit, and where you can watch all the close plays. . four-fifths of any baseball game is played at first base The Polo Grounds in New York is like a giant open horseshoe, with banners streaming, and with strange | new steel concentrations of light all around the upper tiers. . . . These are fore has been played by the Giants. At the open end of the horseshoe | are the bleachers, . Graduating on each side are the grandstand sec- | tions. . The players in their monkey suits are pumping a few balls into the empty sections. . . . It is batting practice. . . . Another grou): is deep in the neld shagging tlies ‘that a fat.guy named Brown is lift- ing out there with a fungo stick. | B&g long-range cameras begin to ‘pmtrude from the press box, looking like guns in a beleaguered fortress - Pigeons shoot out of a hole in Lhe press - box, carrying negatives | to a newspaper office uptown. 3 | They climb and circle; and cirele p” L | scme more, and then light out in a : i e " | straight line. . . . You see three men - ‘m black suits run out and stand at t i 7 &% | home plate and talk with a player YU |from each team. Then one of the men walks over to first base, and another to third. . . . There is a man in a monkey suit out on the hill with Vhis prutmal costume lur the June bride’s wardrobe can ‘o u» llllu:h snend a day at the fair or do lervlu after the honeymoon at a church commiitee meeting. Tt combines a dress and jacket of gray and white polka dotied crepe and a white pique hat. Adding a splash of color are earrings, bracelet and necklace. Starting Sunday | ® Daily Crossword Puzx i~ % ACROSS 1. Footway 5. And not ) & Lpect 10. English intter 12. Open court 11. Devoured 13. Slerldes finial 16. Exists Tent' 20 Covering of (4. Orient MRS 15. Destructive 1. Draw forth il 22 Moving 17, Part of a 3 church 18. Legal action W 1 habitations \(\)llw handle 2k Gi Pertaining to 23 atmospheric 26, 8 pressure 21, Tribunal 30. Members of & 28, Incendiarism 9. Lowaost nate of : Guido's 3L Thr scale Sloths 80. Carpenter's 34 va:b‘r’ull 38, )k slowly 36, Complete col- lection 37. Hermils 38 Opening In a net ub\(((ule in . Small river island a 6. Mediterranean sailing . Strike gently \'l“‘*(l!l ptric 33 Handler of SRR A Wila aninats 39. Very small harness Clea - profit 6. Device fot unclosing . Goes up greetin i5. ‘Town in 46, Knock 47. Roguish nto i w a ball in his hand. A man in an- | other monkey suit picks up a b1t and steps up to the plate that is how baseball begins in NP\‘ York. BRISTOL BAY DISPUTE WILL BE NEGOTIATED g /4 o sl SHIZE "DEATH - ANGEL” IN FUR ~ ROBBING CASE CHICAGO, Mn_v 4 — Margaret Mary Collins, called the “Kiss of Death Girl” by police because dur- | ing her heyday seven of her sweet- hmes were killed gang fashion at atest Show Value TONIGHT 2:00 P. M. . MATINEE SUNDAY 1:15 A. M. ‘.Sunday ¢ Monday ® Tuesday Junean’ QQLISEum ND, _ OPERATED BRUCE CABOT. FRANK McHUGH - ALAN HALE - Direc - JOHN UTEL + HENRY TRAVERS + VICTOR JORY - WA LUNDIGAN - Original Screen Pioy by Rebert ucknar + Music by Max A WARNER BROS. Picture A LSO Cartoon — News LAST TIMES TONIGHT Bing Dorothy Bob CROSBY = LAMOUR ~ HOPE “ROAD TO SINGAPORE" ALSO | | feeling COLISEUM PRESENTS o Ao o el west "DODGE CITY" THREE DAYS; TECHNICOLOR Marthas Will Hold ... GardenSaleTuesday The roughest and toughest he wrong end of a machine gun, | tle town in the history of the | was back in the county jail in Gary | western frontier is the setting| Planned at _vesterda_\ s meeting of 1 on charges of grand larceny and for the vigorous tale of virile ad- the Martha Society, a garden sale G 1 ]’ 1h With her was a sister, Mrs. Anna | warner Bros. production in Tech- |of the Northern Light Presbyterian e 099 eron Ryan; Mary Campbell, alias Helen pnjcolor, starring Errol Flynn, which |Church between 10 o'clock in the 2 Murphy; Ann. Wiliams, alias Ada | gpens Sunday at the Coliseum for Morning and 5 o'clock in the after- leferen(es | Greene, and Donald Smith. All were | 3 three-day run. noon — {held on $10,000 bail on the con-| Other members of what is un-| The sale will be in charge of Mrs. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 4.—|spiracy count doubtedly the most notable cast|E- M. Richardson and Mrs. Walter An offer to mediate differences be-, The “Kiss of Death” girl, Mary ovey assembled for a picture deal- P. Scott tween the unions and salmon pack- Campbell ;and Ann Williams Were yng wipn western pioneer days in- e tere er§_was accepted last night by rep-|arrested by Detective David M. Dix clude: Olivia -de Havilland, Ann M. . . B feadatives of both sroum. . |aiier they were iraied 1o o theatre S0, O e Bavine Ao Mjssionaries fo Be The oifel was made by W. T. fwm a Gary department store. It is Hugh! Alan’ Hale, John Litel,. Henty : Guerts, Pacific Coast representa- |alleged they tried to stuff two fur| o vl S R0 N Vicor Jory At Sa|vah0n Army coats into a refuse can when they time Labor Board. found they were being trailed. The Earlier, the employers said that!coats, valued at $219, were stolen unless refitting and equipping of | from the store. tive of the United States Mari- “Big Boy" Williams. Aside from its brilliant and ob- viously impre: e cast, the picture is distinguished by its magnificent Representatives of the Russian Gospel Mission, Walter Covich and ships for the Bristol Bay expedi- and: suthantic. te-creation. of- "the 'l)(]nnl Smith, .“'“ present r.nmmlc tion was started by midnight last seerie and the times depicted. T (md]~0ng'» .l‘(unnln‘)\\dnl 2'_30 QLC]';J'C;) night, the season would be aban- B"“s’l Hoa'def o lavish detail with which the Dodge 1 the afternoon and again at 7: doned. { City of ‘the 1870's and the great o'clock in the evening at the Salva- YR ¢ & € BT tion Army Hall. plains which surrounded it are U.s. (ash Is Fined WORKERS COMING NORTH Vividly brought to life o the screeq | . At the evening serviee the' Greek SEATTLE, May 4. — Business .| Agent T. O.'Navea of the Cannery | Workers Union, said further dis- patching of wdrkers to Alaska for the 1940 operations of the salmon | industry is pending completion of negotiations with the industry. Navea said 30 men have already been’ sent north and between 200 and 250 will be dispatched by May 14 put after that date no more will ‘be -shipped unless indications point to a satisfactory agreement. e NAIIS UTILIZE OIL'IN POlAND‘ BERLIN, May 4.—German experm’ and enhgineers are hard at work in- creasing' the capacity of Polish oil wells to ‘counteract the effects of the British ‘ blockade which cuts Ger- many’ off from overseas oil supplies. The Deutsche Wirtschafts Zeitung, commenting on Poland’s oil wells in German hands, said that the addi- tion of more than 500,000 tons of oil for night brseball, whk:h never be- | coniing from Poland wells annually | the program and refreshments were means & doubling of the amounts of fuel directly at the disposal of’ Germany. The *industrial newspaper Ruhr und Rhein even envisages a speedy return to production capacity of pre- World ‘War days, when the wells were in Russian hands. > Today's news today in The Empire 2 ) ! { { ) ! { ! | neau today after arriving on | m | | W. Tailb tershire, LONDON, "May at the treasury,’in’accordance with| wartime " regulations, It was the first case ‘of .its kind “since the | foreign currency regulations went into effect. | 'Scout Troop Gives Mothes’ lunkheon To compfi.e “their redui‘rememh for a hostess badge, members of Patrol 2 of troop 3, Girl Scouts of America, enttertained this after- noon in the Parlors of the Nortn- ern Light Presbyterian Church with a Mothers' luncheon. Twenty werc | present for the occasion. Lois Staniffer arranged for decor- ations, Pat Davis had charge of ‘under ‘the supervision of Doris Jean Norman. Mrs, Ray Sogaard is pa- trol captain. : I LA JOHN GILMORE HERE John Gilmore, son of P. J. Gilmore, | hotel owner in Ketchikan, is in Ju; the McKinley. Mr. Gilmore is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel - e IT'STIME TO CHANGE YOUR THINNED - GUT LUBRICANTS! CONNORS MOTOR COMPANY i | | I { | | .—Ca;i! Giéorge Treported, the studio spent a mil- y of Sxeffington, Leices- lion: and a half dollars on was fined £100 and £20 | production. costs at Bow Street Court for fail- | Technicolor, the vast production is |ing to offer $20,000 in United States said to give the spectators the currency in-his possession Jfor sale| = Orthodox Choir will be present to ake it sing edsily believable that, as - - THATCHER IN CITY Arriving on the Northland, I. A. Thatcher, traveling man, is in Ju- the In brilliant, natural neau today and is at the Baranof. TODAY'S BATHROOM IS ELEGANT BRIGGS Beautyware Fixtures in color cost but litlle' more than white and they’re just grand. ON DISPLAY! ® RICE & AHLERS CO. 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