The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1941, Page 3

THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES ZAPITOL THRY W RELEpsEDT SHORTS? : lo.llmlng Loyalfy 0f Serbs Expressed Supreme Council Sends Encouraging Cablegram to Yugoslavians Serbians are strongly be- countrymen in main- taining a fight for their freedom incidentally Serbians in all of the United States have me attitude and are equally to the support of this any def moves. ort of the national view. of the Serbians, has received a copy of the Ameri- can Srbobran, published at Pitts- purgh, Pa. under date of March 7, which contains a cablegram sent to the Serbians by the Supreme Council of the Serh National Fe The cablegram is signed by Werlinich, Supreme Presi Local hind their ive cra dent Seeretary, and addressed to His Royal Highness, Prince Paul, and Drag Cvetkovich, Premier of Yugo- The cablegram, bubbling h patriotism and urging the rbians to keep their land liber- ated from aggression, is as follows: “Serbian traditional love for free- dom and liberty has enriched Serb- ian history with shining gems of nman heroic sacrifices. No people, it is believed, paid with lives and 'blood for its freedom and independence than have the Smbnns \vho brought 9 I'ETF SMITH: “Spo World in 1960—Latest News Emil. P. Rundich ¢ and Branko Pekich, Supreme’ SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU STARTS TONIGHT , composed of Raft and |\\!mk(‘ husbands cross the law and | Before Your tl. S. Mosquito Squadron! about the union of the South Slavs Every foot of Yugoslav soil wa: paid for with suffering, misery and death. The soil liberated with| lives and blood should likewise be| defended: let the fiery sword of| the sons of the noble race defend their home ‘In these days of totalitarian governments, when human freedom | and liberty is at stake, when na- tions are being overrun by hordes dictators, when the peoples are enslaved and civilization put to| trial, Yugoslavia—the land where| the first constitutional law was es-| tablished (by Dushan Silni) should never surrender its freedom | cowardly “The Serb National Federation, the largest Serbian fraternal ganization in the United States and Canada, representing the natural- ized citizens of the Serb race and their descendants greet their coun- ry of birth and ancestry with the appeal to the Yugoslavs to defend Yugoslav territory, freedom and civilization—and not to permit to- alitarian hordes to overrun the cred land where millions of graves stand as mute evidence of people who knew how to cherish and defend liberty. It is a greater and nobler honor to die in glory than live in shame and slavery.” e e TOMORROW TO MARK BEGINNING OF SPRING SEASON - OFFICALLY With the vernal equinox occuring at 4:21 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, spring begins officially in Juneau. Local weather Bureau authorities emphasized *“Officially” impliying that all wintry weather may not be a thing of the past. Forecasts indicate light spring rains—they said B s of rains— | leave | be or- | tended THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 'BENNETT-RAFT TEAM SEEN IN NEW PLAY HERE Stirring Stofy of Woman's| Devotion Seen at Capitol Theatre and in wit- Highly emotional drama honest-to-goodness thrills store for filmgoers when t ness Walter Wanger's new production, “The House Across the Bay,” which opens tonight at the Capitol Theatre, with George Raft and Joan Bennett heading an im- posing cast of Hollywood t notchers. This new picture lmlu)L introduces a new romantic team Miss Ben- nett, but it brings the beautiful Miss Bennett forward in one her most varied and exciting roles to date. Walter Wanger is gratulated for having story which deals with e women them behind while they serve prison sentences. The picture spotlights the plight of these wom- en, beautiful, exposed to tempta- tions, but trying to be faithful to their men behind bars. Joan Ben- nett, playing the role of Brenda Bentley, speaks for all those women who are left without their men to battle a hostile world and to save their faith and loyalty. “The House Across the Bay” marks the first time the Spo(lig]lt has been turned upen the story of these women. When Brenda Bent- ley travels to San Francisco and rents an apartment 3an Francisco Bay so that she can near her husband, serving a term in a Federal Prison, a real-life episode torn from actual court records, For Bentley is fictitious only in that she is not vidual but represents a of a group. a composite > Auxiliary Gives Legion Birthday Party Last Night Honoring the twenty-second birth- day of the American Legion, a bxrlh-" |day dinner was given last night at the Dugout, with members of the Legion A as hostesses. Apprcximately 65 the affair dinner hour, mander, was presented with huge Legion birthday cake. Bridge and pinochle provided en- tertainment for the evening, as well as community singing. Mrs. Ethel Johnson was accompanist for the song fest. and during the AP VLS MRS. MARIE DRAKE HAS SPRING BOUQUET A beautiful bouquet of bright yel- low crocuses, picked from the gard- en at the Fritz Cove home of Deputy Commissioner of Education, Marie Drake, made the Office of Education the brightest spot in the PFederal Building today. Almost two weeks earlier than us- | ual, the crocuses, a cultivated var-| iety, are strong and hardy. ———.———— TOWEL-A-DAY BLACKWELL, Okla.—As a hobby Mrs. O. A. Boyles makes dish tow- els. She started in 1831 and now has 1,150, all of different designs. She tries to make one each day, except Sunday film | of | to be con-| filmed this | overlooking | she is| Brenda character | an indi-| individuals at-| the | Frank Metcalf, Com- | Mrs. | | raised by the bill which would in- ‘| Mr. and Mrs, H. R. VanderLeest. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS Mouth of & volcano . Cutting wit 3. Pillage . Iscaped by artifice . Youth beloved by Venus . Wax ointment . Six . Object . At home . Genus of the maples And not Persiga fal . Domesticate: Pedal digit 20. Encourage . Drudges . Remove trom high position . Nove! Japanese coin Kind of wine Cherry color Recent Pronoun English scliool 6. The sweetsop 3 Fe.me 10, Brother of Odin Traditional ales 2. Metric land measure Moauntain where the ark landed . New Zealand hedge laurel . Mexican dish . Kind of brown mineral GOVERNOR HITSLABOR | DEPT. BILL {Full of FauKDeclares | Message-Becomes Law Sans Signature Criticizing the Department of Labor bill for a long list of al- |leged shortcomings, Gov. Ernest Gruening nevertheless let the measure become law without his signature yesterday afternoon be- |cause, as he stated in a letter to ‘lhe Senate, “it represents the only | |gain that labor has made in the Fifteenth Territorial Legislature now drawing to a close.” The bill became law at 4:30 o'- |clock yesterday afternoon, three |days after it was received by the Governor. “It should be pointed out,” the| | Governor wrote to the Senate, “that | various other desirable labor re- forms in existing statutes have been lost in this session by a scant margin, That under the national New Deal administration the Ter- ritory should so._little reflect the progressive tendencies of our lead- ership—tendencies which I believe the vote of the Alaska electorate has repeatedly endorsed—is regret- table.” Residence Regquirement | The Governor found fault with the qualifications placed upon tne |office of Commissioner of Labor, declaring the. 36-year . age mini~ mum unnecessarily high and the | 10-year Alaska residence “fantas- | tic, without precedent, parallel or justifieation.” The residence requirement, which applies: to all employees of the new Department except clerical me’ Governor pointed - out was “over twice as stringent as the residence |requirement for the Pioneers’ Home.” | He called the mquirement disas- | trous to the growth and progress of the Territory, if it were followed in other offices. “It would in effect,” he said, “be hanging a sort of ‘keep out' sign on Alaska—a sparsely settled Ters ritory in need of more population.”| Other Objections i The Governor also objected 1o the power to fill vacancies In the Commissionership- resting* with thé | Attorney General, Auditor and| Treasurer, saying such . power should - beleng to the' Governot, with ‘confirmation. by the Legisla- turé, Other. faults found with the bi]l were that the $3,600 salary for the ‘Commissioner is too low, the office should be appointive rather than elective and there are anum- ber of complicated legal questions terfere with the administration of the office. Teathers Emeriamed' At Informal lecheon Miss Jeanne deerl.aest enm- tained a group of teachers with a luncheon yesterday afternoon. The informal affair was given at the Main Street home of her parents, ——————— WHY SUFFER with your feet? Phone 645: Chiropodist Dr. Steves. | (adv.) NOTICE | AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing | air route from, Seattle-to Nome, on sale at J. B, Burford & Co. adv, ] 2808 | the i< rojolx] LS ] > Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN . Neckties Iixtreme Philippine mountain . Metal City in Okla- Snapp! . Hate ng beetle . Mountain in Crete . Withdraws . Kind of mineral Sound of cattle . Interior decorator 26. Kind of hard rubber 31. Female sheep . Watch narrowly Club-shaped ought into being . Musica; compositions . Applicant for admission Seventh Blrihday Party Today for Lois Lawrence Balloons, favors and Easter de- corations added to the festivities of seventh birthday party today of Doris Lawrence, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carson Lawrence. The af- fair was given at the family home in the Waynor Addition. Asked for the celebration were Donna, Robert and Sandy Brown, Evelyn Claire Hollmann, Beverly Junge, Helen DuPree, Sue Ward, Virginia Nielson, Carol Cameron, Linda Clark, Dick and Douglas Keat- ing, Tem Morgan, Sammy Bassett and theé honoree’s sister, Carol Ann Lawrence, 1941. 'ROMANTIC DRAMA IS FEATURED HERE AT 20TH CENTURY i ‘Invisible Stripes’ Has Cast, | of Stars-Last Show- ing _Torprighl | Invisible l after-prison life | | [ Stripes” a drama of based on a book ends tonight at Theatre. George by Lewis E. Law the 20th Centur Raft, Jane Bryan | den are starred, with | Bogart, Paul Kelly, Lee and Henry O'Neill heading porting cast “Invisible Stripes” of two convicts who from nrison on the one a hardened criminal, ortender anxious to return and useful life. The former ces no attempt to mend his ways. He knows that he will end up back in the big house, but happens he intends 1o 1 The latter tries to find honest work, but the prison stigma!® him to lose his jobs as fast as he gets them. His girl turns against him, refuses to marry a inded man. His younger brother | discouraged by his own inability | to make enough money to marry on, is ripe for a life of crime and | easy money. Realizing the futility trying to go straight ' himself, ex-convict goes back to his old gang and joins them in a rob- bery, so that he can give his broth- er enough money to go into busi-| | ness for himsell .o SUNDAY FUNERAL FOR (ONRAD GOLDFIELD | | With the arriv 1 r)f Peter Gold- | field on the steamer Mount McKin- ley on Saturday, funeral services for his brother, Conrad Goldfield, have been arranged for Sunday af- ternoon at 2 o'clock, Services wiil| be conducted by the Rev, John L.| Cauble from the Chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. Pallbearer will include }Krugness, is Dyrdahl, | Swanson, Emil Samuelson, ‘B orlick and E. O. Jacobson. i | RSO ok it | The Dally Alaska Empire has the | largest paid circulation of any Al- aska newspaper. Humphre Patrick the sup- the story are released same day: the other the John | Severin | Martin ' Bombs Fell But He Sings On of ehfldren gather around hnd hauled a bird cage from the ruins of a house demolished during a one-| -plane air raid of London. Miraculously, the bird was alive, kept on singing. | office April 1, Where the Better BIG Pictures Play! pecial Preview Tonight JAMES CAGNEY “The Roaring Twenties” News starts 1:15 90 TRy AT LAST! A TRULY and William Hol- | RAFT Feature 1:30 a. m. LAST SHOWING TONIGHT! 9 PICTUREY ] Rumphrey BOGART « Flora ROBSON - Paut ety « MN Lo Patrick Directed by LLOYD BACON - A WARNER 0S.-First National Picture Sereen Play by Warren Dt - vn—-mumn.n—-—m Based on the Bosk by Ao B Lowes WHO IS WHO IN ALASKA LEGISLATURE (4 Henry Roden Henry Roden, of Juneau, Demo- cratic Senator from the First Di- vision, has served several terms in the Alaska Legislature. He was a member of the First Territorial Legislative Session in 1913. Mr. Roden was born in Switzer- land in 1874 and first came to Al- aska in 1897. He spent a number of years in the Interior and now maintains a law office in Juneau where he is active in community and civie affairs, In the recent Territorial elec- tions Mr. Roden was elected to the office of Attorney General of the Territory of Alaska. He will take 1941, Mr. Roden is married and Mrs. Roden who has lived in the Terri- tory many years, is aclive in real estate circles > LAST TIMES TONIGHT 2—FEATURES—2 “AMBUSH” and “WEQTBOUND STAGE" HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs. Fred Orme and baby son were dismissed last night from St. Ann's Hospital and are “at their home on B Street. After receiving Mike Haneogean from St. Ann’s. medical = care, was dismissed Louis Zorate was dismissed from St. Ann's today after receiving medical care, Admitted for medical care, Jar- vis Alom is at St. Ann’s. A medical dismissal, C. E. Wood- | man left St. Ann’s last nlxmf |GUARD OFFICERS GET FEDERAL RECOGNITION Two Federal remgmtlom for of- ficers of the Alaska National Guard were announced by the Adjutant [} , General's office today. air raid warden after the latter They were the recognition of Ma- jor Charles G. Burdick, command- ing officer of the First Battalion, 297th Infantry, Alaska National Guard, dating from January 11, 1941, and the recognition of sec- ond lieutenant Orman T, Smith of Company D, 297th Infantry, sta- tioned at Anchorage. Smith's rec-; ognition dates from chber 8, 1940.’ -, i (UFF APPOINTEDTO | SUB CLERK POSIION According to announcement to- day by Postmaster Albert E, Wile, Herbert Cuff has been appointed as regular sub-clerk at, the Juneau Post Office. Cuff is filling the pcsi~ tion left vacant recently by the death of Quincey Padgett. Postmaster Wile, also stated that examinations will be held shortly ! to estabiish a new register of male post cffice employees. S e SUICIDE FLIGHT STATESVILLE, N, C—A hawk hung himself here. On a foray into J. W. Cornelius’ chicken yard, the bird broke his neck when he struck a mdio aerial. What Briish Found When They Captured Dcrna Bombed - reptnted)y by Brmxh planes during. the attack of Derna, in Ilalian Libya, the Italian bar- racks there presented this sight when the British fensive. The Brit marched in and toek the town in their African ofs ish now control the entire north- castern section of Libya. s Subscrive o the Dally M Empire—the paper with the largest , paid circulation. UNITED STATES i DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE District Land Office Anchorage, Alaska February 25, 1941 Notice is hereby given that Wil~ liam McKenzie, entryman, together with his witnesses, Peggy McLeod and John R. Langseth, has made ap- plication for a homesite under the act of May 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 809) Anchorage Serial No. 09931, for a' tract of land described as Lot C of! Tract A of the Tee Harbor Group of Homesites situated near Juneau, Al- aska, Plat of U. S. Survey No. 2388, containing 4.74 acres, and it is now in the files of the U. 8. Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska. Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above mentioned ' land should file their adverse claim in the district land office within the period of publication or thirty. deys thereafter, or they will be barréd by | the provisions of the statutes, GEORGE A. LINGO, Register, First publication, March: 9, 1941, Last publication, May 14, 1941, NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That at 10 o'clock A. M. March 29th, 1941, at the office of the United. States Commissioner for Juneau Precinct, 5th floor of the Federal and Territorial Building, at Juneau, Alaska, Ella Bock Johnson, admin- istratrix of - the estate of Anton Pet~ erson, deceased, pursuit to order of the Probate Court for the Juneau Precinct, Alaska, will sell to the highest and best bidder, for cash, all the real property of the estate of Anton Peterson, deceased, if the highest. and. best bid js satistactory to_said administratrix and within the terms of said order, and subject to” confirmation of said Probate Court, Sald real property is deserib~ ed as follows: The patented lands embraced within ‘H. E. Survey No. 236, con- talning 24.11 acres, less 0.859 of an acre sold August 18th, 1939 to Ebba Erickson, and less one triangular Jot with 40 foot sides sold to Eugene E. Weschenfelder January 3d, 1839. Said H. E. Survey 236 is situated at the end of the Pritz Cove Highway. about 14 miles northwesterly ffom Juneau, Alasks; and contains there- on'habitable buildings and other P provements and cleared ground ' for gardens. See Howard D. Stabler, Shattuck Building for Iurnher in- formation. b Dated: Juneau, Alaska, Pebnnry 1 25th, 1941 ELLA BOCK JOHNSON, Administratrix. Pirst publication, Feb. 26, 1941. Last publication, March 19, 1841. e ———————————— MONTGOMERY WARD &CO. : Unfair to Organized Labor RETAIL CLERKS UNTON