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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JUNE 4 Juneau's Greatest Show Value Last Times TONIGHT Remember "Four Daughter: . Her’s a New and Better Picture with that COULDN'T-BE-BETTER CASTI “DAUGHTERS COURAGEQUS” ‘ ¥ T siise) o : SN DEANNA DURBIN 'More Pictures of Imperial Valley Quake Damage THE CAPITOL HAS IG Pl [ vk : : L \ CA —"72?{25 pfr;\::z; JUNEAU i S'NGS FOUR "!Ew w ! o SONGS IN FItM Last Times Tonight | “First Love’" Ends Tonight YWNED AND _OPFRATED W Prevu; ;fénigi;t—l:ls “THESE GLAMOUR GIRLS"” UDAIPUR KING VULUTRE LATE NEWS ALS THE RAC ) TO ERASE—Even the humble eraser has been mechanized, particularly in the case of above WPA- employed draftsman who's busy at Philadelphia making maps of strategic U. S. areas for defense studies. That’s an electric eraser Lie hblds. its value being in the faster production of maps. About i5 expert draftsmen are at work on these defense mans. GEORGE FOLTA, FAMILY HER Folta, recently appmm,‘dj,*ardm;; the newly created office. | - here today on the steamer Denali. |ton, D. C, for the past George 3 adviser for the Department | »f Interior in Alaska, accompanied Today’s news today in The Empire NEWEST IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN EQUIPMENT Murphy Cabraneite Kiichen office af Radio Engineering and Manufacturing Company Phone 176 Box 2824 ! SO ITS TIME TO CHANGE 'YOUR HEAVIER ~ LUBRICANTS! wusaication [T et St s P e iy | tor, |by Mrs. Tolta and their two chil- |dren, Claire and Richard, arrived | Mr. Folta has been in Washing- | several weeks consulting with officials re- 7 Oldest Bank in Alaska . Commercial Safe Deposit Savings Banking by Mail Depariment The B. M. Behrends O o e ] > - T~ > > -G G >+ . As Feature at Capitol | Theatre Deanna Durbin sings four songs in her new Universal | “First Love,” which ends i.u. the Capitol Theatre | The four numbers are “One | production, | tonight | Fine. Day,” from Puccini’s opera, | “Madame Butterfly;” “Spring. in| | My Heart,” an arrangement ur‘ | Straus waltzes adapted by R. H. Salter and lyrics by Ralph Freed; | ‘Home, Sweet Home,” the old fav-| orite by John Howard Payne mzcl‘ | Sir Henry Bishop, and “Amapola,” |y 3. M. Lacalle. | The aria from “Madame Butter- | fly” will be sung in English, for | the first time on the screen. | Miss Durbin’s recordings were | made under the supervision of | | Charles Previn, head of the music department at Universal studios, and Bernard M. Brown, chief of the studio’s sound department. Supporting Miss Durbin in |“First Love,” her sixth picture, will be seen a cast which includes Helen Parrish, Robert Stack, Eu- gene Pallette, Lewis Howard and others. The picture was produced | by Joe Pasternak. and directed by | Henry Koster. | | - D TWENTY-ONE GIRLS SIGN FOR SCOUT | CAMPTHIS SUMMER Annual Oufing to Be Held | at Eagle River from June 17toJuly1 | Twenty-one Girl Scouts have so | far signified their intentichs of at- | tending summer camp at Eagle| River, according to results of yes- | terday’s meeting in the Methodist | Church social room. Camp information, applications | and health certificates to be filled out by a local physician, were dis- | tributed at the meetin to each girl. | Announcement was also made that | Mrs. F. O'Malley would again be | camp cook, and that the new direc- | Miss Margaret Johnson of | Grand Forks, North Dakota, would | arrive here June 11. The summer | camp will be held between June | 17 and July 1. | Also present for the meeting were members of the Brownie Troop. The | group met under the direction of | Mrs. G. Edward Knight and Mrs. | J. Clark, and spent the afternoon in soap carving. - >os CAPT. LATHROP WILL BUILD IN ANCHORAGE NEXT Capt. Austin E, Lathrop who has | already done more for. the develop- ment of Alaska than ‘any other person, is planning further build- | ing, it was made known when he | was in port today on his return to his headquarters in Fairbanks. The next enterprise of Capt. Lathrop, who has Trecently com- pleted two building projects in Fairbanks, will be the construction | of a five-story concrete apartment- | hotel building in Anchorage. Pres- | ent plans are that work will begin | in the fall or early spring, on a| property -directly across the street | from Anchorage’s new Federal | Building, | Housing a second theatre to be operated in Anchorage by Capt. Lathrop, the first floor will be store space, the next two floors, hotel rooms and the fourth and fifth floors will be occupied by‘ small apartments. | With Miss Miriam Dickey, his| indispensible secretary, Capt. La-| throp has. been in Seattle for sev-| eral weeks, accomplishing the sea- | son's buying and business for his | extensive interests in Alaska. These | include the Fairbanks News-Miner | and the weekly Alaska Miner, his| newly completed farthest north ra- | |dio station,. KFAR, the coal mine | at Healy, two theatres in Fairbanks and_theatres at Anchorage and Cor- | dova. Nephew Accompanying Captain Traveling with Capt. Lathrop | and Miss Dickey are Mr. and Mrs Austin. G. Cooley, of New York, | who will make the trip to Fair- banks Hy boat and train and re- turn. to Juneau by PAA Electra. Cooley, nephew of Capt. Lathrop. is ‘the inventor .of the system of transmitting pictures by telegraph transmitting pictures by elegraph and - radio. | On a vacation from his home in | New York where he is in charge of the New York Times Wide World laboratories, Cooley is making his| second trip to Alaska, He was Ln‘ Cordova visiting his uncle in 191%. | Mr. and Mrs Cooley hope to fly from Juneau south aboard PAA’s new Clipper ship, they said today. Wrecked by successive earthquakes which brought death to eight, injuries to more than 200, southeastern California’s rich Imperial Valley faced a new peril May 20 in a threatened water famine. Jrri- gation and water supply points were seriously smeshed. Photo above shows wreckage of a Brawley hotel after its collapse in which one was killed. Second photo shows a market at Imperial where a mother, her two children and a high school girl were crushed when the build- ing fell. Note partially buried auto. Lower photo shows huge gaps in a highway near El Centro where road communications were dis- rupted by such gaps in the earth, - Cliff Threatens to’ Fall e : " s g % Aside frem deep subterranean groans, Point Fermin, San Pedro, Cal., “moving bluff,” is helding its own after its two-foot wide, 150-foot long crack attracted thousands who heard the cliff was about to “slide into the Pacific.” Slippage which involves an area the size of several city blocks, is said to be due to an earthquake fault which runs along the shoreline, . i | from NEWS PASEBALL GAME NOW DEPENDS ON WEATHER Tho fir<t baseball game of this series for the channel sched- weid fer the Douglas diamond s between the Douglas Firemen and Moose team, but the weather must be favcrable, according to seome of the players, or it will be postponed. Amid bu; of sunshine as this was. beir vritten a full attendance is anticipated at the game. - >,— year YOUNG SMOOT WEST William Smoot who has been liv- ing with. his mother in Renusyl- vania for the past year or two wa. a through passenger on the Aleu- tian last Saturday going to join his father, Charles Smoot at age. The family lived in Douglas for some time three or four years age. | ML BRI SR A SCHOOL BOARD BUDGET Douglas School Board is meeting ‘lnmghl in the school building to | complete the 1940-41 term: expense | | bucget for the purpose oi securing appropriation of funds from the | City Council to cover. WM. CASHEN HERE William Cashen arrived here Sun- day evening from Anchorage where he is an instructor in the high school. His plans for the summer vacation are a little indefinite as yet, but for the present he is en- joying a visit with his mother, Mrs. | Ssadie Cashen. - -> LUNDELL-MONKMAN WEDDING TOLD IN ANCHOKAGE PAPER Under the caption of “Miss Monkman Becomes Bride of Mr. | Lundell” in the Anchorae Times is described in detail the wedding | of the couple which took place at | Anchorage on May 27th, as follows: “Choosing her parents’ wedding | day for her own . marriage, Miss | Mona Louise Monkman, daughter |of Mr. and Mrs. John Francis Monkman of Anchorage, last night | became the bride of Mr, Harry Lun- | dell of Fairbanks. She was given in marriage by her father, pioneer of Alaska, who 28 | years ago yesterday married -Mrs: Monkman at Iditarod. Father Der- mot O'Flanagan of the Holy Family Catholic Church pronounced the | rites before a small wedding party |of intimate friends in the rectory. | “A reception at the Monkman | home followed from 8 to 10 p. m, | where countless friends arrived to | offer congratulations to the bride and groom. i “Mrs. Lundell wore a long gown | of white silk jersey. Her striking | Drunette hair was enhanced by a | gardenia worn at the left side of |the head. She carried a bouquet | of dark red roses. The bride was attended by Miss Bonnie Bell, who'was attired in or- | chid chiffon and carrjed a bouquet | of roses of a lighter shade. |° William Cashen, a companion of | the groom since boyhood. was: best Anchor- | PRISCILLA LANE—ROSEMARY LANE—LOLA LANE GALE PAGE—JOHN GARFIELD—]JEFFREY LYNN | Mo Alaska; while Mr. Lundell's birth- place was in the Gastineau Channel section of Alaska. il I S, Earl Lagergren Is U. of W. Graduate Friends of Earl learted today of his graduating the University of Washing- | ton where he has received his de- |gree in mechanical engineering. | A graduate of the Juneau High | School, Mr. Lagergren plans to visit | during the summer months in the East, with a sojourn in Chicago, and later may return to tnis city. | - >-es E. Lagergren | TRAVELING MAN ARRIV H. AGerstman, traveling man, |arrived in Juneau from Petersburg |on the steamer Alaska. Gerstman will be here for several days and |is registered at the Baranof Hotel. }‘ - HERE ON VACATION In Juneau on a vacation from the East, Abraham Ziller, of the For- estry Department in Washington, D. C, arrived here on the north- bound steamer Alaska Ziller is staying at the Baranof Hotel. | | | HOLLYWOOD, June 4 a thin face, deep brown eyes. anyhody else T know. to vist an ailing grandmother. couldn't do any worse, benefits whenever we could. a $17 prize. days for the prize. . . . OPEN A man. Other members of the wedding | party were the Misses J. Hazel Zim- | merman, Vivian Stoddard, - Evelyn Landstrom, Doris Dool, Tess Dorsch, | Margaret Yyman, Mrs. Oakley| Brown. A wedding cake baked by | Mrs. Monkman, and a bride’s cake | were served with punch. At two o'clock today a gay crowd of well-wishers bid the newly-mar- ried pair farewell as they boarded the afternoon train for. their new | home in Fairbanks wherz Mr. Lun- dell, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gust | Lundell of Douglas and Juneau, is| assayer for the Fairbanks Explora- tion Company. For m\vellnz.'t.hei bride wore dusty rose costume suit| with harmonizing accessories. The wedding grew from a ro- mance begun several years ago when | Mr. and Mrs. Lundell: were .under- | graduates at the University of “Al-| aska. Mrs, Lundell received her teaching diploma there and has been jon the staff of the PaJmer schools| |for the past three years. Mr. Lun-{ | dell matriculated in mining engin-| | eering. { Both are Alaskans from birth, 1.me bride having been born in mz,} up singing on the sidewalks outside the Beachcombers (uie}. You won't believe Betty's story. because I sat next to her at lunch (she didn't touch her lunch because she'd rather talk than eat), and she told me about it. You have (o believe Betty Brewer, She, her mother, dad and sister Ilene, 11, and brother Monte (or Sonny), 8, came here a couple of years ago from Joplin, Mo., FAMILY PROBLEMS THEME OF FISM AT COLISEUM THEATRE Daughters Courageous,” sched- uled to close tonight at the Ooli- seum Theatre, is the kind of fam- ily story that really goes deeply into the type of problems that are of considerable interest to modern families. The question, for instance, of whether the girls’ father has the right to come back and claim his place in their home after his earlier desertion. Or whether. the mother, who believes in. allowing her daughters to lead their own lives has the right change her tactics and interfere when she sees: her youngest child falling in love with the wrong kind of boy. Starring in the picture are the three Lane sisters Priscilla, Rose- mary and Lola, and Gale Page, John Garfield, Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, May Robson, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank MecHugh and Dick Foran. e B s - The Hai-Lo 1§ a Chinese vertica flute made of a sea-shell. > - Empue classifieds Lring results e e S S SS THESE THREE ENEMIES OF INTERIOR DECORATION Grease Steam VENTILATING FAN RICE & AHLERS CO. Mg Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons. Oq_lars With a Betty Brewer, 13, here nominated as your new screen sweetheart, is a little girl with a turned-up nose, She’s thin, and not pretty, but has more determination than Joan Crawford, who has more than It's incredible. I believe it if you believe anything. Dad was a carpenter, but he culdn’t get much work. The two girls (Ilene is Betty's stand-in) took up singing after listening to the radio convinced them they But let Betty carry on the recital: “We got an audition at a radio station, and we got a job. We made our own arrangements, and one day we were going to sing ‘Oh, Johnny’ and the accompanist started off his way while we sang our way so we got fired. We made a little money by singing ‘at-gas company dinners, and electric light company din- ners, and banquets for (then( Governor Merriam, and we did We took a bus to.San Franeisco— mother went along—and up there we won an amateur night with Didn't do much good because we had to work four “Back here we couldn't get anything else to do so we took PERCY’S CAFE LL NIGH [ ] at PERCY'S ANY TIME for Dinners ‘or: Light Lunches that all Juneau. is lalking about. TRY OUR FOUN- TAIN, TOO! 3 I'm not ashamed of it—it's honest, and we made enough that way to feed us all. for six months. All the movie stars were nice to us. .. . Lots of people said they'd give us a chance in pictures, but most of 'em just forgot, T s'pose. . ... We did it .. We got a bit in a Warner short, and lots of interviews, and a singing bit i a Gene Autry picture and finally met. Mr. (Sam) Wood, and T had a feeling this was going to be it because I'd had a dream about it—you believe in dreams, don’s you?’ ..." Well, to cut it short Betty in what Murray in that was amounts to the lead “Rangers of Fortune.” “it.” Sam Wood is directing role oppostie Fred Mac- Wood says he’ll shoot the first drama coach who gets near Betty—that she's just right as she is. Betty giggles about her appearance on the screen. Pinocchio,” she says “I look like Ilene giggles a lot, too, like any little girl. When you ask Betty whether she plans to be a glamour girl, he says, “Look at my face! How could I?” So Sonny is in school, and Betty is on the high road, and Ilene is making a regular salary as a stand-in, and Dad has had some work, though Betty wasn’t sure it would last. It looks like a happy Cinderella ending to a tale of woes bravely met. g “I'd do it all over again, and I wouldn't mind, if I had to,” said Betty. gt