The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1940, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE FRIDAY MAY 31, 1940. Juneau’s Greatest Show Value FRIDAY and Dmh Crossword Puzzle ACROSS THE CAPITOL has the BIG PICTURES and NEWS that is NEWS Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle Hark FRIDAY SATURDAY Maker of Great gave you ‘Back MICKEY MOUSE MATINEE SATURDAY-1:00 P. M. "EX-CHAMP" Chapter 5§ “LONE RANGER" CARTOON OUR GANG COMEDY ’FBEE CANDY! NTRODUCTION ADULPRE MENJUH ANDR DS EDGAR BERGEN ui "CHARLIE McCARTHY" GEORGE MURPHY Rita JOHNSON lnn SHERIDAN Eve ARDEN » COSSART MICKEY MOUSE MATINEE SATURDAY—1:00 P. M. | star, Tof LP OWN NAN GREY ' A\ Constance MOOKE Yy p’ Added: LATEST NEWS Nan Grey, Tom Brown Co- nr.w IRIUMPH | Reside Cover the 8. 9. Male ftigures i) > top of . Recent” § >V FOR McLAGLEN [ET > —m Dillseed close: poetie . Solid water AIF E. b Nt of work b food 1al doctors O] mi< SHent . Dross of a metal Starin New Fealure | ™ M — o[> Supervises a publication . Dry Goddess of A E4 O v e A‘ capiml | food at table moN> o> — O[> @[>\ =5 B AT | } In a story that tugs at the heart-| >|RIONCIZ fragment . Elaborate {strings, Victor McLaglen triumphs fin his new. picture, Universal's “Ex- . Domestic fowl . Short for a Brazillan M 0> PNZ00ZNo/Mm o +Champ,” which starts tonight at| ~--NZ/P 0 TN N Z >0 MBS 0 IORMO-H] SO o) OlzNm| TRI>IZ |0 city’ M| ZNmM[B01< [Zm\O A 8 R AN D E [@ = . Southern (the Capitol Theatre. The Academy Award winning aided by a well selected cast, {wrings the utmost from his char- | acterization of an old ex-champion fighter. He is forced to make 2a decision that means the sacrifice {of his own honor, dear to him the iris {through years of honest effort. ‘ family When he loses his job as apart- | ment house doorman he undertakes |the training of a young fighter, who ultimately reaches the goal, of a fight with the champion. Mc- | Laglen’s son, played by Donald| | Briggs, has meanwhile speculated | fwith a client’s money, and faces| disgrace and prison unless the {funds are replaced. Gunner is . Silkworm Asidtio palm 38, Ringlets Happen again or repeatedly Behalf ¥ One sixteenth of an ounce . A game 9. Body of water . Any plant of Mountain: comb. form Before: prefix Old card game Soon 7. Troublesome plant . Range of knowladze 59. Optical g tellation DOwN L Not profes- rfaced with the decision of sac- rificing his fighter and his own| 1110!1(‘5'.4' to save the reputation of {his own son. | In a supporting role is Tom |Brown as the young fighter, in |love with Gunner's daughter, Nan | Grey. William Frawley is seen as| |2 faithful hanger-on, with Samuel | S. Hinds as a kindly boxing com- missioner who has faith in Gun- ner's honesty. | | The picture was directed by Phil Rosen and produced by Burt Kelly from the original story by Gordon Kahn, Alex Gottlieb and Edmund | L. Hartmann are credited with the ' | screenplay. lLhe main street, along the bay, and Fast-moving German troops have reached and captured the French town of Sedan (1bove), according to an official French War Office communique. mun Allnd troops are reported to have withdrawn to a pxunangud LAST RITES FOR VETERAN ACTOR CONNOLLY HELD Juneau Siudems Play in U. of W. Spring Concert Of interest to Juneau friends of | BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, May 31.| Miss Mary Stewart and Miss Sylvia | The film world paid farewell yes- | Davis, who went south recently for terday to Walter Connolly, the vet- | try-outs in the Stokowski Symphony | eran stage and screen actor who |Orchestra, comes news that the two| died from a heart attack Tuesday. |High School students accepted an Connolly had played character invitation extended by Director parts and occasionally the lead m"GEOT!;P Kirchner, to play in three many films and was long on the |spring concerts presented by the age before beginning his Holly- | University of Washington Orchestra. wood career. He was 52 years old. |The musicals were presented last| The Sedan, standing on the Belgian border, had been evacuated. lmv., prepared for decisive battle. Petershurg Pioneeron Last Trail Thomas S. Elsemore Dies in Maynard Hospital in Seattle | without SITKA OBSERVES R T T T\ S ——— | cluded. “These are permanent” just as our nation will be permanent CLTEA ST A NG (e Bulm\‘ve ”“an hw;\lx1 for ‘u*\u- and |ial Correspondence)—Sitka observed . y: e g F 5 | fight to eliminate greed from our Memorial Day yesterday with a i 3 H own lives, he declared in closing parade, services at the National h After a wreath had been placed Cemetery, and services on the| in memory of soldiers killed in the waterfront, y , > Civil- Spanish-American, and World The ceremonies were conducted SRR Sand B U0'g. Marine by the Sitka Post of the American ! ; ; v ¥ i} fired a three-volley salute. Then Legion with cooperation from the | taps, quiet and reverent, were e B e i S;Jlxj,nd(’(ll \\llh‘lln' echo dying among started from the Post Office Build-| . the distant, peaks, ing shortly after 10 am., The . S i G - The | rhe- Decoration Day marchers walked under a brilliant " bt i elnte el came to an end with a prayer and » " S UD| the Jopdring of a wreath into the sea at the Standard Oil Dock firing squad of bluejackets from the Naval Air Station did honor to the sailors and seamen dead in the war-duty of this country, and taps were sounded again. Thus Sitka remembered those who died for their nation; but every person here hepes and prays no more American war deaths will be necessary. >oe MacKINNON ON HAIDA Lieut. Commander o. S. Mac- Kinnon of the 15th Naval District cffice here, is due back n Juneau tomorrow on the Coast Guard cut- ter Haida from the Westward observance out to the National Cemetery. The Rev. Tim Ryan delivered an address at the cemetery in whicn he condemned greed as the cause of war and mest of the world's troubles. “The insane leaders of an insane world preach an insane phil- osophy that the individual should exist only for the state,” he said. He declared that ruthless leaders trying “to justify injustice,. glut greed, and usurp absolute authority" have plunged our world into chaos. Our own country is in peril from and within, he asserted “The United States of America is founded on Jusuce liberLy. and 2 Al TEACHERS SAIL ON PRINCESS, BARANOF TODAY The steamers Baranof and Prin- cess Louise are crowded with mem- of the Juneau Public School y, enroute south for the sum- mer months. On board the Princess Louise is who will spend some at his home in Eugene, Ore- before vacationing in Cali- time gon, fornia Also sailing on the Princess boat, Miss Edna FEarpoie will spend her summer in Eastern Washington with a trek to the San Francisco Fair, . Robert White, accompanied by Mrs. White, sailed south on the Baranof. He will attend summer school at Berkeley, Cal. Another Baranof passenger, Theo- dore Hodwalker will attend summer school in Colorado and will visit both the San Francisco and New York expositions. Miss Pauline Louise. Monroe is on the Adolph Zukor presents Clarence E. Mulford’s A e A Paramount Picture featurmny WILLIAM BOYD with George Hayes « Russell Hayden Evelyn Venable + Clara Kimball Young A Harry Sherman Production R isco World's Fair Mrs. T. F. Dryden booked 1 the Princess boat. They heir summer in Seattle Marian Edwards, with her daughter, are enroute to Clarkston sh., on the Princess. During the ummer Mrs. Edwards plans to umer school and may visit Francisco Fair Miss Frances Whe sailed south the Louise with plans to visit ir tate aving on the Princess, Miss Har ett Tust will 'vacation in Calif Phyllis Poulin will spend her levada. She was a south- 1 passenger on the Baranof. oute to Seattle for the sum- mer, Miss Myrtle Moe sailed today on the Louise, Miss Velma Bloom left for south on the stéamer Baranof will spend her vacation in Nebra Summer school at the University of Washington are Mrs. Iva Tilden’s plans, She was a passenger on the Princess boat Mabel Monson left for €an Francisco. the She Miss on the Princess plans to attend summer school liss Hellen Harrell left on the and will visit for the at her home in Franklin | Princess | summer Ind Also saiing on ine Princess boat Miss Ruth McVay will take a bu: trip to California, the National Parks and then spend some time at her home in South Dakota - ON BARANOF Ros Townsend, Underwood typewriter man, is in Juneau after arriving from Seward on the south- bound Baranof. Townsend is staying {at the Gastineau Hotel. ARRIV coe TRONTIERSMEN_ outlaws sters | er, | the ranch country She | SATURDAY F-R-E-E MATINEE Tomorrow—1P. M. i s S m}: m pl S OF JUNEAU. and. the GASTINEAU CHANNEL dis- FREE MATINEE at the COLISEUM THEATRE Tomorrow-——1:00 P.M. The Fronhersmen ALso 17 Bee Candy—Prizes "THE FRONTIERSMEN"" HAS INITIAL SHOWING AT (OLISEUM THEATRE Frontier days return to town to night with the opening of the new Hoepalong Cassidy” outdoor action “The Frontiersmen,” at the Coliseum Theatre. the foreman of “Bar 20" and natural leader of his fellow-ranch= ers, Willilam Boyd is faced with the em preventing a band of from using the neighbor- hood school as a blind for their activities and turning the young- into juvenile gangsters. His [ opponents are the local mayor, who is secretly allied with he cattle thieves, and a hot-tem- pered boy, who scorns everything Conditions reach a crisis with the arrival of a new school teach- who been brought down tG by “Hoppy” te clean up the school. Her beauty and charm immediately percipitat:s 1 bitter rivalry between ranchers and cutlaws for her attentions, - TWO FLIGHTS MADE T0: SITKA AND COAST PORTS Alex Holden in a flight to the Coast today carried Willlam Paul to Hoonah, Lazo Bozovich to Hawk Inlet mine, and on his return trip to Juneau, brought Mel Bowdish from Tenakee. y Other flights scheduled for today are to Hirst, Hirst-Chichagof and Sitka. drama of | the school has to offer. [SSSSSSSSSSSSSS S ! THESE THREE ENEMIES OF INTERIOR DECORATION Grease STOPPED! Steam Odors ———With a VENTILATING FAN CONSULT i RICE & AHLERS CO. She will spend most of her | time in Portland and may Visit the bew e s v rrirrvvrrrrvrvrvrvrrrvrvrvvrvrvrv v v vy o’mozé 2% %eréé z‘/az‘ of this week. actor will be buried at his | Friday and Saturday and Tuesday | home city of Cincinnati Thomas S. Elsemore, Cashier of DOG LICENSES ARE DUE Dog licenses for the year 1940 are due June 1. H. J. TURNER, City Clerk. B Empire cmssifieds bring results. adv. i NEWEST IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN, EQUIPMENT | Jack Glasse, another Juneau stu-|the Bank of Petersburg, and for | | dent who was in Seattle for the try- many years one of the leading citi- ‘cu!s was not able to play in the |zens of that place and of Alaska, | cencerts as he had motored to an- | died at Maynard Hospital, Seattle, other part of the State for a visit. Wednesday evening. i Word was received by H, L. Faulk- | ner, a close friend of Mr. Elsemore for more than thirty years. Mr. Elsemore was born in the State of Maine and when a young man was an instructor at Bowdoin College. He came to Alaska about {1809 ‘and was first employed in the Ketchikan post office. In 1910 he TOO I.A_ TO CLASSIFY ‘FoUND—Coat and cap at Salmon | | Creek. Inquire '153-B Gastinean Ave, Murphy Cabranette Kilchen z offjce at Radio Engineering and Manufacturiig. Company |was appointed Deputy Marshal at | Petersburg and had resided there |ever since. He remained in the | Marshal’s office only a year or two Saiiigiie «..THAT'S COOLER BETTER-TASTING Phone 176 Box | when he resigned at the time the zgz,i,,“, ‘Bank of Petersburg was organized L2 Dldest Banlk in Alaslm Commerclal Safe Deposit Banking by Mail Department TheB.M Bank fiiflu.ll“n and he had been with that insti- tution ever since. He had always been active in civic and fraternal |affairs He served several times as Mayor of Petersburg. Mr, Elsemore was a member of the Juneau Masonic lodge, of the Scottish Rite Bodies and of the Elks Lodge. Hg is survived by a wife, and LWQ children of the ages of about 15 and 12, respectively. Mr. Elsemore left Petersburg abaut six weeks ago for Seattle for medical {| treatment and he enteyed the May- nard Hospital on his arrival. He underwent two operations for stom- |ach trouble. Last Monday his con« dition become so critical that Mrs. Elsemore was sent for and she left Petersburg that day but had not arrived at the time of her, husband's | death; but should have arrivéd 4 there yesterday evening. | Funeral services will be held to- ‘| morrow (Saturday) afternoon at 3 | o'clock from the Mittlestadt Funeral Parlurs 1n Seattle - BOB.WOOD SOUTH, Bob Woud sailed south on the Savings fl 5 | i Behrends The one cigarette that gives you a completely satisfying smoke is Chest- erfield, because it has the qualities that sp;g](grs dike best . . . it’s Cooler-Smoking, Beyer-Tasting and Definitely Milder. et Every day more people enjoy Chester- field’qr‘glpt combination of the best tobaccos that grow in our own Tobaccoland and in fu;mfl' Tyrh:y and Greece. Next time ask for Chesterfield . .. America’s Busiest Cigarette. kK 9 | Princess Tovisc .0r @& sojeurn in | california. ] l C-w'@}mp Lum‘-.;-. Fonsceiico.! DEFINITELY MILDER The beauty and charm of Miss LOIS EMERY made her Northwestern University's choice for 1940 Beauty Queen. BETTER TOBACCO FOR BETTER SMOKING At every auction in Tobaccoland the Chesterfield buyers' decisions are watched with interest and re- spect, for no company buys better tobaccos than those that go into the making of Chesterfield Cigarettes. -