The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 8, 1940, Page 3

THE BIG PICTURES and LATEST NEWS are at the CAPITOL SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU lnumnn B ¢~ ipansies and baby’s breath arranged | in a pewter bow! and matching can- \delnbra held pink tapers. Twenty-five guests were askcd to call b'-twccn 3 and 5 olclock. - Tea-Shower Honors June lynch Today An informal tea and miscellan- cous shcwer was given this after- noon by Mrs. Gecrge M. Simpkins at her residence on Fifth Street in DINNER HONORS ;n{gp}irlnm to Miss J;:w HL)iuck:, SEI.MER HOLTE The tea table was centeted with, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Danielson en- tertained last evening at their| SAVINGS HERE ARE | EARNING | 47 Your Meney Is ® Available for with- drawal on request. ® Insured by U. S. Government up to $5.,000. ner party in honor of Selmer Holte, 'who plans to leave soon for Yaku- tat. | A color scheme of pink and| white was selected for the occasion and the cvening was spent in-| formally. Guests were Mr. and Mrs, Car- son Lawrence, Elmer Benedict, My-| ron Christy, John Young and the| honoree. Entertains With | Quting Yesterday\ Miss Clara Wanher entertained a group of friends yesterday at the, H. L. Faulkner summer home on Louisa Beach. A picnic dinner was served and guests spent the day in-| formally. - (-ARBTI'.IE RETURNS William Garster‘ steward at the Elks Club, returned Saturday night on the steamer Yukon from a visit | in the States, | - | | DEAN RICE MAKES TR’IP | | Dean C. E. Rice made the round | trip to Skagway on the steamer| | Yukon and while in the Gateway Alaska Federal Savings & Loan Assn. of Juneau Telephone 3 | cellent entertainment. | mercenary woman has married a THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JULY 8, TRIPLE-STARRED | FILM SMASH AT CAPITOL SHOW "“In Name Only Playing 5 as Feature Atfraction on Juneau Screen A vivid, memorable presentation | of a modern social problem is “In Name Only,” which opened at the Capitol Theatre yesterday with Car- ole Lombard, Cary Grant and Kay Francis comprising its dramatic tri- | angle. “In Name Only” is a sincerely- told story fashioned inte an ex- A selfish, wealthy young man for whom she has no ldve whatever. By the time he learns what his wife is really like she has firmly in- trenched herself in the affections of his unsuspecting parents. He does nothing about his mari- tal difficulties until he meets a charming young widow and falls| ‘th Street residence with a dm-,in love. When he asks his wife for | his freedom she refuses, having no intention of giving up. her se- cure position and her prospects. Out of this impasse the story climbs to gripping dramatic heights, with splendid performances of the three' principals aiding vastly in building its realism and emotional appeal. Miss Lombards work as and Miss Francis are superlative, | ranking among the finest of these| three favorites. Supporting players are equally notable, particularly Charles Coburn, Helen Vinson, Katharine Alexander, Jonathan | Hale and Maurice Moscovich. John Cromwell adroitly directed “In Name Only,” a production by George Haight for RKO Radio for| which Richard Sherman wrote the screen play from Bessie Breuer's | novel, "Memory of Love.” PAUPER'S OATH LAW APPLIES IN the | f“omcr woman” and the portrayals | (of the mnrned couple by Grant Daily Crossword Puzzle dl// llgfl n7 | Wi ACROSS 1, Harmless weakness or falling 1 Jellyfish Inpouring Mountain ridges . Like . Unrefined metal 17. Long narrow infet | 18 Quarter pint: abbr. 9. Symboi for | tellurium 20. Breed of dog | 23 Sun god 23 Female salnt: abbr. 25, /7 E u. h N i 88 R 3l Reads metrically | 2. writing im- plement 27, French_article 29. Congealed | s0. 3L water Old_piece of // L V) Yeedle-shape 5 7 fll%flll% nautical W A 36. Gorge 31. Sober 33, Vestige 39, Ambassadors 40, Greei letter 41 June bug 42, Symbol for sodium 43. Infatuation | 44 Climbing stems 1 Solution of Saturday’s Puzzle 53 Coure S 55, Corrode JE[AI8IS) 56, Short for a BIAlH] man’s name Refreshed by Implore Affirmative Calmest . Selitary Two metrleal feet taken together . Toward the left side o . Statute Dad . Is_sorry for one's sins . Note of the scale . Correct: collog. the ocean . Old tribe of Indians . Precious . Old musical note . Set apart . Pertaining to the largest contizent . Speed contest . Lift 6. Of the palate . Heather Part of a for- tificalion . Knack 2. Person In charge ot prem.ses United | a boat . Engender Assert . With full force, 48. Uninhabited Yhm 50. Polynesian chestout Render un- consclous Symbol for selenfum Itallan river [ERATHTAY LIE] | 9. . International agreement Complements of mortises DOWN , Commands . Beginning . On condition that . Smudge of ink 33. MODES of the MOMENT by Amy Porter LOWER COURTS {Judge Praft Hands Down City he held Sunday services, 000 A .| Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons. HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 8—Paul Whiteman brought his genial double chin and band—beg pardon, orchestra—to town to “Strike Up the Band.” His stay, this time, was different. The last time he made a movie in Holywood he and the gang stayed a while. Their latest visit was for a mere five days, or long enough to do their sequences for the Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland musical. Metro did not bother, as Universal once did, to throw up a lavish rustic bungalow to accommodate them. The movie business has changed, but the King of Jazz, himself, has changed little. He still doen’st fancy himself as a movie actor, although “The King of Jazz,” his one starring picture, finally grossed some- where around $4,000,000 throughout the world. “Here's one fiddler,” he said, “who isn’t looking for a chance to act. If they give me any dialogue, they'll have to tell me how to say it.” Whiteman and orchestra pieoneered in making jazz re- spectable, 'way back in the twenties. Through changing musical eras and fads, the plump maestro has stuck to music and shied away from “novelties,” while still keeping abreast of the trends. He “says ti with music” rather than with the cacophonous beat- ing of pipe together, the clanking of chains or the wrecking of kitchen stoves. The jitterbug, Whiteman observed, is a vanishing species, mostly prevalent now among youngsters of high school and early college years. In “Strike Up the Band,” Rooney plays the leader of an ama- PERCY’S CAFE OPEN ALL NIGHT [ srTor at PERCY'S ANY TIME for Dinners or llqh! Lunches that all Juneau is talking about. TRY OUR FOUN- TAIN, TOO! teur orchestra who is offered a job by Whiteman when the kids take over during an intermission. Mickey, a song-writer and no mean musician himself on the side, learned a few things from Whiteman during his visit. Mickey was sitting behind the camera tapping a rhythm on his knees, when Whiteman came over and challenged him. “Can you do this one?” Whiteman sat down and began a complicated series of toe- tapping, hand-clapping, and knee-slappings. Mickey tried it, while a crowd gathered around, and he got nowhere. He tried it again, and again, and still didn’t make it. “That,” said Whiteman, “is what I ask my boys when t-hey think they know more bout rhythm than I do.” The maestro’s last film work was in “Thanks a Million,” the Dick Powell picture, and the Whiteman sequences were made in New York. He was such a stranger to movie ways, this trip out, that he actually conducted and the orchestra played during a scene, But he got the hang of it quickly—he conducted and the orchestra merely went through the motion of playing “My Won- derful One.” He even took a convinecing bow when the extras dancing gave him “silent” applause. The big Whiteman number in the film is “When Day Is Done” —played according to his old, original wfie’& v | trict Court. Decision Which May Form Precedent The pauper’s oath law, which |allows prisoners to obtain freetiom | after | fine, | courts applies to in Alaska as well as to Commissioner's | serving out only $60 of a | District Courts, according to a de- | | cision made in the Fourth Divis-| ion by Judge Harry E. Pratt and reported Miner. The law provides that a prisoner $60 can obtain release by taking a pauper’s oath agter served 30 days in jail. In serving out a fine in jail the prisoner is | credited with $2 a day. ; Game Law Case | in a case involving Hugo Strom- berger, who, on conviction of hav- ing violated the game law, was sentenced to serve six months in Jjail and to pay a fine of $150. | The prisoner served the jailsen- tence, and then started serving out his fine in jail. After having 30 days, calling for $60 on his fine, he took a pauper's oath and ap-| | plied for cancellation of the rest —$90—of the fine and his liberty. In the past, on several occasions, | Commissioner William N. Growden| had construed the law as it was construed by Judge Pratt in his new decision, | who has been fined more than| having | Judge Pratt’s decision was glvenl in the Fairbanks New- | Mothers won't m because their daughters waut to look like the little girl in the movies, when it means buying such a sweet and proper little dress as the one shown here. It’s of white shantung, with red, Practice in Other Divisions However, inasmuch as Commis- ! sioners in other Divisions, pn.rncu- larly the Third, have been holding the pauper’s oath law does not ap-| ply to Commissioner’s Court and| that prisoners fined more than/ $60. must work out their fines, lf not paid, Commissioner Growden and United States Attorney Ralph| J. Rivers thought a definite ruling should 'be made by the Distrlct‘ Court. Accordingly, the Commissioner| ruled against Stromberger's apphi-| cation of freedom, after 30 days had been served on the fine, and| Robert C. Ilsley, Attorney for| Stromberger, appealed to the Dis- ‘The pauper’s oath law since 1935 has been applicable in District Courts, and Judge Pratt’s ruling is that it also is applicable in Com- missioner *Courts, SOBOLEFFS ARE ON JUNEAU TRIP Vincent Soboleff and Mrs. So- boleff, of Kootznohoo Imlet, ar- rived in Juneau last night on their gasboat and will be in town for two or three days. | Soboleff is a general merchant| of his section and reports that business is fair. - e —— Subscripe to The Daily Alaska Em-« 'ALASKA LUMBER |by Director William L. Austin of | white and blue touches at neckline and sleeve, and in the shirred waistband. Modeled by Virginia Weidler, child starlet. | for the best year for which figures are available—56,800,000 feet for | 1922, Although most of the establish- ments classified in this industry |in Alaska are mills whose final products are lumber or shiagles, mills which manufacture from lumber of their own produc- tion and logging camps operated PRODUCTION ON UPWARD TREND ‘Census of Manufactures Shows 1939 Cut of 23,009,000 Feet Downward trend in the produc- | included. g — The Dauy Aiaska mmplire has the largest paid circulation of any Al- aska newspaper. boxes independently of sawmills are alsg/ Going to the city was another 940. HOLLAND DAYS ARE TOLD BY VANDERBREGGEN Young ledurer Writes of Youth in Little Dutch : Village 1 | (Fhis is the first of a series of | articles cn. Holland being writ- ten specially for the Daily Al- aska Empire by Cornelius Van- derbreggen Jr., writer and lec- turer, who is spending several wecks in Juneau. Mr. Vander- breggen has lived in Holland on four different occasions, most recently for the twelve months previcus fo September 1, 1939. i He is a graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts.) I can remember very clearly the | day in my life when the word “Holland,” first assumed an im- pertance in my mind. I was six and a half years old, skinny, bristly | haired. and a serious student in the first grade of a suburban Phil- adelphia grammar school. On a| lazy May afternoon my father came heme from work early and went to the city. When he returned he anncunced that he had made plans for our summer vacation, that we| wcw lcaving: for Holland on June| Iv,\m at my ecarly age I realized that the news was reeking 'with| cignificance; it meant getting. out of school two weeks early; it meant | cnjoying an eleven day trip across | the ocean; it meant visiting a new| land; but most important, it meant going to grandmother’s, an exper- jence I had never before known. I had often experienced deep | pangs of juvenile frustration when| in kindergarten and first grade we | had <ung at Thanksgiving time, “Qver the hills and through the wocds to grandmother's house we go.” My mother’s mother had died in Philadelphia when I was a baby. My father's mother had always lived i in a little Dutch village with the big | name of Rijnzaterwoude. I had never gone to grandmother’s. At last my time had come. School had prepared me poorly for Holland. I had learned about | windmills and wooden shoes, tulips |and canals, ice and silver skates. But none of these things was to| | make a memorable impression on | me. Holland proved to be filled |with a thousand delights that no | schoolbook has ever mentioned. I know my first ecstatic memor- lies are associated with strawberries —huge, luscious, sweet, red straw- berries served on thick slices of white bread, squashed with a fork, and smothered with sugar. That was the treat which we were served | ten finutes after we had arrived, at grandmothers's stately house in the country, after we ourselves had been squashed and smothered by more than a dozen big, friendly, and rosy- | cheeked Dutch relatives. It is highly significant that my first impressions of Holland had to | do with strawberries for one out (of two of all my other memories concerns things to eat: stroopwaf- fels, gebakjes, krentenbroodjes — which may sound unappetizing but which translated mean (1) thin, buttery waffles filled with molasses |and baked on a hot griddle until ! deliciously golden brown, (2) alter- nate layers of cake, whipped cream, glace fruit, and grated nuts com- piled as frothy tarts, (3) big, round, sweet,chock-full - o'-raisin - currant nnd-c.mm rolls that are sold for 'two cents each in Dutch bakery |stores, And Dutch bakery stores ;‘re as numerous as skyscrapers in New York, drug stores in Seattle, ‘snloons in Wrangell. | One of the things I enjoyed doing 'in Holland was watching the police- | men learning to swim. Every week |at the boat club on the lake ally non-swimmnig policemen of nearby |communities had to report for a lcsson Across & big stump on the ishore a huge pole was laid. To the pole was tied a rope, to the rope a | policeman. For fifteen minutes each police- man was privileged to hang from the pole, and while he smote the |water violently with his arms a lecrowd of gaping spectators con-| | trolled the pole and saw to it that though his head and feet might {be thirty inches below the surface of the lake his mid-rifts always| remained three or four inches above. | | pleasure—to Rotterdam, to Haar- |lem, to Amsterdam. From grand- mother’s we took a horse and buggy ithat conveyed us along the dike canal to Leimuiden. There we lbought tickets on the pigmy train MAY WE tion of sawmills in Alaska, begun| |in 1937, has reversed itself, ac- cording to a preliminary report | compiled from returns of the INO Census of Manufactures, released | the Bureau of the Census, Depart- ment of Commerce. This census| was taken in Alaska as a part of the Sixteenth Decennial Census, | covering operations in 1939, | TFotal production of lumber in Alaska in 1939 amounted to 23.- FBANK 009,000 feet, an increase of 6.5 per cent over 21,508,000 feet in 193 This increase stands out in con-| trast with decreases from 28,858,000 feet. in 1936 to 25,276,000 in 1937 and to 21,598,000 in 1938. Never- theless, 1939 production was far below that recorded for 1930, 34, Third and Franklin pire—the paper with the largest guaranteed olmM 216,000 feet, and still further below the maximum produetion reported 6 TOOT ? We have done no advertising lately on WELDING For the simple reason that PLISKA Is so good he is kept busy night and day. His satisfied customers advertise for him. RICE & AHLERS CO. PHONE 34 COLISEUM OWNED AND _OPiFATED Juneaw’s Greatest Show Value NOW! “Young MIr. Lincoln” with HENRY FONDA—ALICE BRADY MARJORIE WEAVER—ARLEEN WHELAN ALso CARTOON- with its vigorous little high smoke- | young Lincoln’s Iie, stacked engine. Vs ALSO is thrillingly | recounted in this Cosmopolitan pro- We usually went second class, \(lucnon for 20th Century-Fox, and | which meant that we sat in a com- | partment with green plush seats.|rode into Springfield on a don- |Once we tried first class, where the [key, but church | that pioneer seats were also plush, carpet red instead of green, and where every seat had a white “nap- | kin” pinned neatly across the back. | | cor |always impressed me as extremely satisfactory. we see the gangling youth, who his first real test in town, facing it with the fortitude that foreshadowed the man he was to be. Alice Brady, Marjorie facing Weaver | Third class, which we also sampled, ' and Arleen Whelan are co-fea- isted of wooden benches and|tyred under the di- Ford. Kenneth Fonda, John with rection of | Macgowan acted as associate pro- Regardless of the class, one met | ducer. I remember hav- ing first learned to say, “Goeden dag,” for use in train travel, for whenever a Duteh person enters a train compartment he greets all‘ the other passengers (there may be | as many as nine) and when he leaves | he says good-bye to all of them. As a result sociability is encour- aged and the air is a'ways preg- |nant with impending pleasantness. I have many an early memory of bars of chocolate and of fruit loz- engers received from kindly lady passengers in Dutch trains and, many more recent memories of din- ner invitations and week-end sail- |ing trips that resulted from char- acteristic compartment conversa- tions. I repeat: “Gong to the city was |a pleasure.” It didn’t matter so much whether we ever did anything when we got there. alone was always a gratifying ad- venture. Mr. Vanderbreggen will lecture on Holland in the Lutheran Church, Friday and Saturday, July 13 and 14 at 8:15. There will also be a Saturday matinee for children, six to twelve years old. HENRY FONDA STARS IN PICTURE NOW AT COLISEUM THEATRE Not the story of Lincoln’s life, but the story of his heart—his wit, his courage, the two loves he knew—is told in Darryl F. Zanuck’s production of “Young Mr. coln,” which is playing at the Coli- seum Theatre, with Henry Fonda in the title role. Here indeed is the story of Abra- ham Lincoln that has never been told, the real and human Lincoln, young jackleg lawyer, who loved to tell funny stories, wrestle with the boys, and courted pretty girls. The celebrated ‘“moonlight mur- I sociable people. 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