The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1941, Page 5

TOOK 14 YEARS | FOR GOODRICH T0 | WRITE "DELILAH"™ Modern Author Is Really Disappoinfed Because | Novel "Best Seller” | By JOHN SELBY 11 Press Arts Editer) ppointed. The reason. | | he was very dis for this is complicated Geodrich is two widely separated He is one of those men to happen. him peonle whom adventures always And his Cyrano complex make: rtist in word odrich’s “nese’ is rning out literatu Cyrano, his obs ife. Whenever he 1o world, he sees it throu s of a literar ist. just a saw it over the nose W% a wayse getting him intc ince he was a boy, Goodri aoverned every single thi ione. Eut not the things that have pered to him. | And new “Delilah” has justified | verything, for the novel is, firse, a | almost incredible, adventure which the entire crew of a r is the composite herc. And ly, it is one of the very few written in this century in a (ttempt to create literature me sort of literature as . and Punishment,” for ex- the 1 w ¥ L hap- | rattling, ample. Oddly, it turned out just that way, sh Mr. Goedrich was 14 years icinz it. He signed his nontract with F! r & Rinehart before Her- ; Allen signed the “Anthony Ad- contract with the same pub- or, but the first half of the beok, is “Delilah,” was publishad vears .after “Anthony:" And Hervey Allen works more slowly than most. An ‘Average Man’ Goodrich is, in appearance, strictly “medium”"—medium height, not par- ticularly blond or brunet, not par- ticul athletic looking, ard yet not a pectacled bookworm either. which The By LESTER satisfactorily has disgraced wildly when bulls Garza foug! Bul when he {alks about writing he Lecomes titanic all of a suddea He first became obsessed with lit- erature as such when he was a boy. He never doubted that some day he would try to produce literature, either. But at first he did not know what made literature—a copy of “Crime and Punishment” he fourd in the street taught him that. Even then he did not know how to find other books like “Crime and Punish- ment,” so he copied down titles re- ferred to in it, and repeated the pro- cess in an endless chain, He Worked In Hollywood But even Goodrich had to eat while writing. Because he had only cne object before him, he could af- ferd®to work at anything, so long as i* paid. He is the most un-Hollywood creature alive, but. for years he has worked in Hollywood at any sort of hack job. And when he had saved Beook ““ALASKA"’ D. HENDERSON The Story of Alaska in Printed Word and Picture NOT SO MAGN IFICEN T—This is Mexico's once-favored may have to chmnge his title, “The Magnificent,” to something him with Mexico City bul matter what oifer he hady Then he wrote, but not cuietly. Things happened. For instance, he was calmly writing in Mexico when a chap arrived who wanted to fly a plane to Peru. Goodrich is an aviator and a navigator; he consented to 80. After a set of tantastic adventures the plane crashed at San Juan de Norte, on the Nicaraguan coast. shore, but the friend was hurt. Therefore Goodrich was forced to swim through wreck of the plane for first aid ma- terial. They would certainly have died, the two of them, if a few boat- loads of Indians had not seen the plane go down nad brought some soldiers. Now Goodrich is off to Hollywood | for a spot of work, and then he will finish up the second vclume of a few thousand dollars, he Guit, no “Delilah.” After that is over he has 00 N T = AR less showy since his failure to kill bulls lifight fans. Several times the crowds have jeered ht had to be removed alive from the ring. Goodrich and his friend got to| the sharks to the | bullfighter, Lorenzo Garza, who ' |a project which will use of the rest| io( his life. “‘Delilah’ gathers up all sorts of men and, within the dimensions of a small destroyer, allows them to jwork out their existence,” he ex- plains. “Now I want to do the same | sort of thing with a city—that is nx‘.‘ “endless job, but one I've been pre-| paring for these 20 years ———e———— — \Needle in Her Leg Mystifies Woman TERRA HAUTE, Ind, April 1" — Mus. Lela Jeffers told her husband, | the Rev. A. R. Jeffers, she believed she had rheumatism in her right leg. He examined her leg and pull- ed out a needle. Mrs. Jeffers uaid she must have swallowed it when a girl, but didn’t remember doing 0. ON SAL The Empire and Learn About Alaska and ~ Its History! Seventh Printing The Widest Selling Book on Alaska! Price $] E AT Newsstands .00 M ( Schmidt and George Rurberville ac- | . TONIGHT AT GYM SACRAMENT ‘STILL LEADS P.C.LEAGUE 'Seatfle Runnerup by Tak- | ing Doubleheader from I los Angeles Sunday (By Associated Press) Sacramento keeps in the lead in | the Pacific Coast League taking a | | doubleheader Sunday from Portland | but splitting two games with Port- | land on Saturday. | Seattle captured a twin bill Sun- | day from Los Angeles and remains | runnerup to Sacramento. | San Diego is in the third spot | | although splitting a doubleheader Sunday with Hollywood. 1 Oakland divided a pair Sunday | with San Francisco to stay in fourth position. Two well-pitched games by Bm‘. counted for Sacramento’s victories while Dick Barrett, the ace mounds- | man for Seattle, won the first game ’ aided by Bill Matheson's nome and | double and Niemic's triple, scoring | in ‘the fourth accounted for the| nighteap. GAMES SUNDAY | Seattle 4, 3; Los Angeles 0, 2. Portland 1, 1; Sacramento 10, 2. Hollywood 2, 5; San Diego 3. 0. San Francisco 3, 4; Oakland 5, 2. GAMES SATURDAY Portland 5, 5; Sacramento 4, 11. San Francisco 5; Oakland 7. Seattle-Los Angeles, rained out. | Hollywood-San Diego, rained out. OF THE CLUBS STANDING Won Lost Prt.| Sacramento 8 1 889 Seattie 6 3 189 |San Diego 4 3 871 Oakland 5 4 556 San Francisco 3 6 .333 Los Angeles 2 5 286 Hollywood 2 5 286 Portland 2 6 250 - - - - NEW MOVE - NOW MADE, | | ;Neutraliiy Agreement Fin- ally Put Across by | Two Nations | | | (Continued from Page One) | anvse-Russial| neutr y pact is { “definitely a blow e activities and policies of the United Stat in the Pacific,” the newspaper Yo- kiuri declares today. | The newspaper Asahis, in a dis- . pateh’ from its correspondent in | | New. York- City, says to “observers” | there s a belief Japanese develop-| ments _may follow the agreement and ,increased pressure and possibly actien,against the East Indies, and;French Indo-China, which ancflflb @ threat to Sinzapore, nnd“ ,\also strengthening action azainst | China, PR G | SOAP BOX DERBY BOYS WILL MEET Al Gastineau Channel Boys from Eightfo 15 | Urged fo Atfend All Juneau, Douglas and Glacier| Highway = boys between the ages of ‘eight and 15 are invited to at- tend a meeting at the Juneau High| School bym at 7 o'clock tonight. The meeting, arranged -by the general committee in charge of the' Juneau Rotgry-Empire Soap Box Derby which will be run off here in June, will be for the purpose of| learning how many local youths are interested in participating in this! event. i manned a sailing ship in days gone | | HALIFAX AT FOX HUN T_vViscount Halifax, Pa., where Lord Halifax, in brown English riding costume, e rode four hours. With him are W. Plunket Stewart, his host aud Lady Halifax; Charles Smith, the huntsman. with the hounds at Unionville, first fox hunt in 15 months. H wead of Cheshire Hunt; Mrs. Stewart (in riding habit); British ambassador to U.S., makes friends had 1's A Roosevelt and a Willkie Join in Handshake Me been the First Lady of the land JUNEAU SCENE ON COVER OF EDITION, ALASKA SPORTSMAN \ i In this day of speed and stream- lining, spreading sails are as un- .ommon to see as were airplanes| 9 years ago. Yet, in Alaska, the: days of wooden ships and iron men are not entirely gone. Each| year during the sumnier months the four-masted topsail schooner Sophie Christenson is a familiar sight in the Bering Sea, and her men are as hardy a crew as ever by. In the current issue of The Alas- ka Sportsman magazine, the May/| number, Carl Larson, a former member of the crew of the Sophic Christenson, thrillingly describes a season's VOYAge. “One Way to Spend a Vaca- tion,” by Art Tessmer, is a fish- ing story of another kind. Tess- mer’s favorite sport is king sai- mon fishing. In this article he de-, scribes the thrill of catching @) record-breaking 53-pound king on light tackle. “The Life That Never Knows Harness,” also in the May issue of The Alaska Sportsman, de-| scribes the activities of a profes- sional woodsman, R. W. (Red) Ir-| win. | Also in this magazine is the ar-| ticke “Fartune’s Rock - Strewn Waters,” the fifth of a series of six chapters of “The Arctic Trail” IT'S A GOOD THING THA SMOKE CIGARET TRYIN'TO ROLL. e PICTURE, =V ONE FO DAYS -1 GUESS THE ONLY ONES THAT KIN DO IT ARE MOVING COWBOYS T PDON'T 'VE BEEN R TWO M GITTIN' HOMESICK [ ALREADY -1 MISS TH' DRUG STORES WITH GARDEN HOSE -LAWN - MOWERS AN' STOVES IN THEIR WINDOWS - By GEORGE McMANUS EVERYTHING You -1 HOPE E ENJOYING THE DESERT-OH- SO BEAUTIFUL IF LOOK AROLIND- IT'S COMMENCIN' TO LOOK PRET TV GOOD TO ME NOW- il ng for the first time at a Women's National Press club function in Washington, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Lady of the U. S. shakes hands with Mrs. Edith Willkie, who would have Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Essary, Mrs. Willkie and Viscountess Halifax Wendell L. Willkie, had won the presidential elec- tion last November. Halifax, wife of the U. 8. ambassador from Eng- land, shakes hands with Mrs. Helen Essary, presi dent of the press club, second from left, if her husband, At the right, Viscountess by Peter Dow; a ‘“picture story” heralding the opening of the sport fishing season in Alaska, and the usual departments, oddities and Ll L00Ns. On the cover of the May issue is a natural color scene of trout f{ishing near Juneau LB S R Edith Birkeland Returns fo Sitka Miss Edith Birkeland returned to Sitka today by plane after spend- ing the past few days in Juneau with her sister, Mrs. Kenyon Mac- Lean. Miss Birkeland came here by plane Friday for the christening of her niece, Bonnie MacLean. Try s classiliea ac m rfe mmpire CONTRACTED FOR 7.074,200,000 ENVELOPES// LTI Tnz PgsT OrFice DEPARTMENT DOES NOT PRINT ITS STAMPED ENVELOPES. - RECENTLY ;1T MOOSE WOMEN 10 HOLD SOCIAL Women of the Moose will hold a meeting Wednesday evening at7:15 o'clock in the LO.O.F. Hall, and !rollowhxg the short session of busi- ness a bingo game will be played. Arrangements for the social will be in charge of Mesdames Alma Pearscn, Gertie Olson, Mark Jen- sen, Lyda Museth, Martha Gutshe and Miss Esther Commet. An invitation to attend the so- slal is extended all members of the Moose lodge. — v —— Industries which did not exist 40 years ago provide employment today for one worker in - every ‘our, % ———— ' Try & classified ad In The Empire TeA,(S.DAK) w Jorn Vincent Davis, Pam BeacH. FLORIDA, LETTER CARRIER,DROVE ONE CAR 195,000 MILES DELIVERING UNITED STAT.S MAILS Since 1930 John Vincent Davis has driven his miles delivering the United States ‘mails. rted 1,350,000 times. stopped and sta 7,020 gallons of gas, 12 batteries and eight sets of T lthnflqum To cover this b ot Lo S