The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 17, 1941, Page 3

I'HE CAPITOL has the BI WlLLlAM POWELL L PR Y ELPEY S Also Latest Neéws G Joseph T. Flakne and C. Ryan were hostesses t 1 a 1 o'clock luncheon he \ven following " the luncheon the oF T'xm: kne Home Scene Lun(heon Today Cook, O. S. Sullivan, ne of Mrs. Flakne on Evergree Places were set for 16 and | after- | G PICTURES—IF IT'S HOT NEWS— MYRNA' oY . PREVIEW TONIGHT 1:15 A. M. “Dance Girl, Dance” noon was spent informally demes Frank Dufresne, Oscar Robertson, E B. D. Stewart, M W. Couneil, C. E. Harry Sperling C. Ciliman Williams, W, W. E. Crouch Mi D BUY DEFENSE BONDS Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN 4. Otherwise s t = W knowl- orthless dog in Maine Cheap apart- ment house 5. Oflicial of an- cient Rome 7. flne 49. Make amends . Arctic ELook: hollow Here, Follcs? OPEN ALY NIGHT Percy fla Thrown th Key Away!? It's in the Channel e A ~— OPEN ALL NIGHT-Every Night! PERCY’S CAFE PHONE 94 Juneau Dairies Pure Cream Pure Cream America’s Another and Srawberries! Most Delicious Dish The guest list includes the Mes- Norman Olson, est Gruening, Rice. Miss | his i1y Gruening and the hostesses une who makes MYRNA LOY STAR | IN CAPITOL SHOW 'l Love Yomt‘iin' Shows Powell as Stuffed Shirt Who Stuffs Birds | Hitting nber of Love You ‘Blll POWELL AND an all time high for the laughs per second, “I Again,” co-starring Wil- llam Pow and Myrna Loy, closes its engagement at the Capitol with tonight's showing raking a new turn, “Thin Man” mystery or are involved, the story deals with the plight of a man who .suddenly recovers from an eight-year attack |of amnesia only to discover that| |he has acquired a new personality, | a wife, a bank account, a spotless |reputation in the town of Habers- | ville 1 the manager’s berth in a 1 pottery | The fact that he decides to use {all of these facts in returning to former business of being a | high-class crook. makes for the | fastest, funniest, laugh-packed en- | tertainment of many a moon. Powell has never turned in a |more amusing performance. His actions, early in the film before he shakes his amnesia, bring him be | fore the public ir new type of | characterization. He is stuffy, ego- tist 1 complete teetotaler and a {downright bore. Seeing the immac- |ulate Mr. Powell in stiff collars, | tight trousers, linen cap and | trowsy moustache, is an experience | itself, BUNDLES FOR BRITAIN SHOW AT COLISEUM 'Entire Proceeds of Per-“ formance Tonight fo | Go fo Hospitals | inasmuch as no arge a 4 | [ | With the entire proceeds to go to (Bundles for Britain, a benefit show is scheduled for tonight at the Coli- | seum Theatre. Showings will be held at 7:30 and 9:30 o'clock. The management of the Coliscum hes offered the theatre free, with staff, film and all expenses. Those attending may pay what- ever they desire. No admittance | will be charged. The Juneau Chap- | | ter of Bundles for Britain will send | the entire proceeds to New York headquarters to be transmitted to | England for hospital relief work, e 'HARRY LAWTON OF ‘ TACOMA CHAMBER | IS VISITOR HEREl On a goodwill vml to Alaska Chairman Hairy R. Lawton of the | Alaska Development Committee of the Tacoma Chambér of Commerce | has spent the past few days in Juneau. Lawton, Vice-President of the Co- lumbia Breweries, Inc., was to fly to Fairbanks by PAA today, to pro- | ceed later to Anchorage, Kodiak and | possibly Nome. | —_——————— ROTARY VISITORS Visitors at today’s Juneau Rotary‘ Club luncheon included Melvin F. Colby of Claremont, New Hamp- chire; Arnold Johnson of Everett; W. A. Gallemore of Hirst-Chichagof, and Wes Barrett, who played s;everal\ selections on a new Hammond elec- | tric organ piano attachment. i DOUGLAS NEWS SAUL : RETURNS After six months or more" absence during which he was working at the Lucky Shot mine most of the | time, Max Saul returned to his |home here on the Alaska this |morning. Cold weather and even {snow was experienced all through May in that section, according to Saul, —— | MRS. ROFF TO MEET | | DANCE PUPILS HERE| Classes in dancing for Douglas {children are now being planned by Dorothy Stearns Roff. Boys and girls up to the age of 16 are in- |vited by Mrs. Grant Logan to be| at her home Thursday afternoon, 1:30. o'clock, to meet Mrs. Roff, and enroll if they wish, for regular in- struction, H e NORTHLAND BRINGS CANS With 5000 cases of cans for Douglas Pisheries Company, the motorship Northland was a Doug- las caller this forenoon., The -ves- sel also had a few tons of general mexchandise for the town. tactics | works. ) | Duteh Harbor is ahead of schedule | |over the top of the world and these |Shipment Arrives on Aleu- |plant 8,600 eyed trout eggs tomor- Claude Hirst, Jr., | | diately. Marshal Mozee will spend THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JUNE 17 MAGNUSON [MoVE Acress GIVES TALK | S ok AT SEATTLE Starand ProducerHquand Wants Morg?hips Plying| fo Be Guests of Whit- | tiers During Stay to Alaska—Also Boost in North Aviation SEATTLE, June 17 Representa- | tive Warren G. Magnuson, Chair- | man of the Alaskan International | Highway Commission, who has re- | o' turned here after a commission | meeting in Juneau and flight over certain parts of the proposed high- | way, said more ships are needed to | ply to Alaska and he will demand | " of the Federal Maritime Commission | ‘! on his return to Washington that [*"" this demand be granted. Magnuson said that work at the naval bases at Kodiak, Sitka and | Film actress Barbara Kent, known ! {in private life as Mrs. H. E. Edding- | will arrive on the Princess Lou- | husband, who of production tonight with her general manager '1 r R-K-Q Studios. The Eddingtons will be members 1 party including Mr. and Mrs. ard Brant Jones, Mr. and Mrs, es Greene and Mr. A. S. Zoe- 1, all of Li ngeles. During their here all will be guests of Mr. Mrs. M. 8. Whittier. Four of the | will make the Circle Tour the others the roundtrip on the ouise > (ROU(H DEPARIS but would go much faster if qnppmg} FOR BRISTOL BAY facilities could be obtained to get needed material to the bases. | g o | Magnuson said also that when he| W. E. Crouch, representative of| returns to Washington he will ask | Director Ita Gabrielson of the Fishi | commercial air lines to make test| and Wildlife Service, left on the {flights from Alaska to Japan and | Alcutian this afternoon for the points on the Asiatic mainland and | Westward. | inless we take advantage of the! Crouch will continue his work of | opportunities we will wake up pres- | coordinating the work of the fish-| ently and find the Japanese and |erics and game arms of the bu-| | Russians are flying to Alaska as the |reau. He plans to be in the Bris- |result of the tremendous nmpnms tol Bay a for the height of the | given aviation. Thousands of train- | fishing n. 1 pilots, as the result of our Na- | tional Defense, will make flights HOSPITAL NOTES “In furtherance of the idea, I| Master Teddy Tisdale is in St.| | shall ask the State Department to | Ann’s Hospital receiving surgical at- | | negotiate for the joint occupation | tention. | of Wrangell Island with Ru'«n | e | e e | Oscar Christson, a surgical pa- | tient, entered St. Ann's Hospital last | TROUI EGGS To ‘mf’I‘l“l‘k‘l Bill Sm:l; T»Idlim(‘ Alaskan, ‘ BE PLANTED IN e S PETERSONLAKE was rushed to St. Ann's Hospital will be commonplace. yesterday for emergency medical at- | tention. He was dismissed again | this forenoon. | s B0 | Mis. Ida Green was admitted to | St. Ann’s Hospital last night as a medical patient. “an ,rom Hakhery | Osmund Stople, who has been in at Ke'(hlkafl | St. Ann’s Hospital for the last few | days recovering from burns received \ |in a gasboat fire last Saturday, was‘ The U. . Forest | dismissed this forenoon, “Skipper” Copstead underwent an th(‘!nmwndncto:-\y at St Ann’s Hospital steamer Aleutian from the Forest|yesterday and not Aronld Copstead. Service hatchery at Ketchikan.| The youngster is 3% years old, Planting will be under the super- | vision of the Admiralty Divisiort| Mrs, Eli Howaid is the mother | office. |of a six-pound baby girl born this | forenoon about 11:00 o'clock at the, | Government Hospital. - SIGN CARVER LEAVES Car] Hagerup, Forest Service sign | carver whose handiwork is placed | »n many roads and trails in South- | east Alaska, resigned today to go to Al age, it was announced by the Admiralty District office, Service will row morning in Peterson Lake. The eggs arrived today on > YAKUTAT MAN GETS J0B, WIFE ALL IN | ONE BIG DAY HERE June 17 wxll alwaw be remem- bered as a red-letter day by Lel:md‘ M. Dunlap of Yakutat. | Bl el Firs he was appointed U. S, SUE STEWART COMING Commissioner at Yakutat, | Miss Sue Stewart sailed from Then he married Miss Claire R.|Seattle today on the Yukon bound Crandell of Bellingham. | for Juneau where she will spend Dunlap was appointed by Judge|the summer visiting her parents. George F. Alexander 'as Yakutat|Miss Stewart has been attending Commissioner = succeeding Mrs.| Stanford University. Gladys Trefzgar, resigned. it TR The marriage was performed hv‘ WEATHER MAN HOME {U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray, H. J. Thompson; meteorologist with Myra Van Oner and Lynn J./in charge of the Weather Bureau Gemmill as witnesses. {in Alaska, returned to Juneau on ————— the Aleutian after a vacation of six weeks in the States, PR S ALICE SWAP ARRIVES Miss Alice Swap, of Seattle, ar- rived in Juneau today on the Aleutian for a vacation with rela- tives. Dorothy to Wed? En Route Juneau - From Umversuy Claude M. H.Irn, Jr, '#5 e pas-| senger on the Princess Louise for | Juneau for a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Claude M. Hirst, before spending the summer at the cannery at Icy Straits. Hirst has just completed his sopho- more year at Vanderbilt University | at Nashville, Tenn., where he is tak- ing a premedics'course. On his way | to the West Coast he stopped over in Arkansas several days visiting | friends and re)ptim. NOME ' mmmsous B. B-mm M Mar- | shal for the Becond Division, and| Deputy Marshal Walter Dowd ar-| rived in Juneau from Nome via| PAA this afternoon enroute to Morningside with two insane per- sons, Charles Wilcox and Eric Sea- burg. ‘Weather permitting they will fly to Seattle tomorrow. Dowd expects to return to ‘the Territory lmme- ‘PlANS READY FOR ARMING U. S. SHIPS Roosevelt Refuses fo Com- ment on Sinking of Robin Moor at Conference WA‘!HING]‘ON Jum‘ 17.—Presi- dent Roosevelt asserted today that the United States has plans ready | and has had them since 1918 for the |arming of American merchant ships. When asked whether there is any theught given to the arming of such vessels as the result of the sinking of the Robin Moor, the President told 1 cenference of newsmen that he supposed every Chief of Naval Oper- aticns has had the plan in their safes since 1918. A reporter inquired: “Have they come out of the safe yet” Not at his request, Roosevelt re- plied. He preferred not to comment on the sinking of the Robin Moor. S e HAAS HERE 10 BECOME LABOR CCMMISSIONER 'Head of New Department Arrives from Anchor- age on Alaska Michael J. Haas, who is to be the Territory's first Commissioner of |Leber, arrived from Anchorage on ithe steamer Alaska to open his of- fice here. Mr. and Mrs. Haas are reistered at the Gastineau Hotel. The Territorial Department of Labor was created by act of the 1941 Legislature and Haas appoint- ed Commissioner by Gov. Ernest Gruening with confirmation by the | Legislatare. |SALMON PACK REPORTS SHOW SEASON LAGGING BEHIND 1940 LEVELS ‘The early salmon pack at Cook Inlet and Kodiak is better than that |of a year ago, while the Yakutat, | Copper ‘River and Chignik packs are lagging slightly. The weekly report to the Fish and Wildlife Service of packs to date (with comparative 1940 packs in parentheses) shows: Yakutat 1,257 (1486), Copper River 24,718 (27,315), !Cook Inlet 21,264 (12,792), Kodiak 5,060 (no pack on account of strike), Chinik 3,019 (5,606). GAME RAINED OUT TONIGHT With low-hanging clouds spilling down on Juneau sporadically, the scheduled game between the Doug- las and Moose nines set for tonight on the Firemen’s Ball Park has been cancelled. Next game will be played Priday between the Elks and the Moose. mmfi(& nmno B. D.' Stewart, Territor1{ missioner of Mines, is a Junéat pas- senger on the steamer Yukon. He is returning from Washington where he was cdlled to a' conference on mineral leasing, particularly relating | to Alaska coal. His daughter, Jeanette, is return- ing with him. GAMES TODAY L T baseball games played this IM- noon in the two major leagues and LEAVES left on the for Anchor- “Com- | neck and that's all you know. "SAILOR'S LADY" FULL OF LAUGHS AT 20TH CENTURY Nancy Kellnyows Adopt- ed Baby Aboard Battle- ship in New Comedy Audiences are laughing chuckling over the riotous corme in “Sailor's Lady,” starring Naucy Kelly and Jon Hall, which is show- ing for the last time tonigh! at| the 20th Century Theatre, The Navy is the background for | this 20th Century-Fox picture. There’'s laughter from ship to {shore. And, of course, it's gnmd when the gobs land (o take ~the | girls in hand. Smart, full of :ur- prises, the picture zooms along at a fast pace to a riotous climax when a sailor's sweetheart stows away her adopted baby on the flag- ship and scuttles the Navy's war games . . . all for love of course. Nancy Kelly, one of Hollywood's most versatile young stars, has a fine comedy part in Qpposite her is Jon Hall who plays the role of a sailor engaged to marry Nancy. This is Hall's first screen appearance since his great success in “Hurricane” a few years ago. A fine bubbling with laugh-provoking tal- ent. Joan Davis, perennial favorite, heads the roster of featured play- rine Wally (Bruce baby. In Hollywood By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, June 17-—George Brent looks exaetly like a good G- Man, and nobody looke more Scotland Yard than Basil' Rath- bone. Tim Whelan, who's the di- rector, might conceivably pass as an agent of the law, and Ilona Massey, slim and blonde and very beautiful, certainly fits the popu- lar idea of an exotlc charmer en- meshed in spy schemes. But there's one man around theé set of “International Lady”— the cops-and-saboteurs movie — you wouldn't suspect-of any crinina- chasing proclivities. lic baired, wears glasses over lis - morous blue eyes, ‘and displuys a Gaelic smile and ‘a soothing man- ner. That's Jo¢ Dunn. He is—or was until his retirement recently— a real G-Man. Aldridge, Harry Vernon and Hampton) the Shannon, sea-going investigator for the Los Angeles District ~ Attorney. .| charge of the New York office of FBI when the Lindbergh kidnap- ing broke, and he worked on the chase of the outlaw Dillinger. He's' a friend of Brent’s, and he came over to the sets to help, They've quite elaborate G-men headquarters for the movie. There's an anteroom where suspects cin be kept in hot uncertainty, and an office of 'the Bpecial Agent in' Charge (played by ‘Charles ©T. Brown, who looks like a G-Man $00.) There’s a filing room and &| decoding room. There also Is '& récording outfit that serambles words, and another- that unscram- bles them. There are teletypes ‘ard a ‘short-wave radio set, and card- digesting machines—the kind that; tell all when you tell it practically any little clue.'Say’ your quarry has 2 broken molar and a mole on His 8o, you put in a card fitting that de- seription and out comes a card with| all details. ‘The decoding room is something special, too. Blackboards, easels and charts, and ¢ipher grills and letter frequency devices and a ‘decodo- graph, which is a big black cone made of layers of revolving discs that are supposed to tear a code, apart in practically nothing flat. And there's a piano, because the code, in the plat is A musical code, “Sailor's Lady | supporting cast is over- ers which includes: Dana Andrews,, Mary Nash, Larry Crabbe, Katha-| “Skipper,” | Dunn’s job now" is that of chiet) e al WAKE |IP WIIR Where the Better Big Pictores Play . - - GR\ 1.4 LAST TIME TONGHT - Y J | & -.‘ Ap ! NANCY KEl’” 1N Hatk v | sAILORY sung by Toda Massey over & na- tional hook-up. Miss Massey, munchine a dough- nut with her eoffee between scenes, was being cheerful about a disap- poiatment just received. She and Alan Curtis, rece married, have never had a honeymoon. She had |an offer from a Rio de Janeiro night club for four weeks, at $4,000 a week, for a haif<hour’s work each ! evening. Everything was set except one “ thing: Miss' ‘Massey, from Hungdry, is' héré on a° work per- mit. Leaving the ' country for any | reason, she would have to wait outside for a quota number to re- jenter, She was hoping it could be arranged, somehow. A And then she said something | many anothér star could echo: “Of "course my agent would get 10 peréent, and my "South Ameri- | can agent atiothér 10 percent, and 25 ‘peréent would go to the gov- érnment'— and it wculd still be marvelous!” ks A et ) Auk Bay First Aid Classes fo Be Held Eath Wednemy Home Nursing and First Aid class- es for Auk Bay and Gilacier Hlm- {way women will be held every. | Wednesday cvening at 7:30 o'clock at the Chapel-by-the-Lake. The tirst regiilar mm mha will' be ’ Mr enroll at that flmn PR “u na. bile Jn‘!& fi*auli wvll, 3 bile s mok o reely, you ol df Pt iy Sunt doce T firegrom o You poted. \uk“ful soury #ad: ‘\- s ol oks pun |1 ke those wood, effective Little Liver Pills to wef. these luh- fluwhlt freely Lo inake you up.” Amaszing in muking bile Ask for Carter's Littlc x.mrrnu Stubbornly refuse anything else. Price. + 26¢. A il e bl With Welded Le no WORBEBLING a month in the States on business )orof h!l- W‘ (above), Ill‘fllf and vacation. lirl of the films, and attorney ' | regson Bautzer, en route to Hono- e ffl& “%l AID |alu_on the same boat, said they rould not wed in Hawaii, but the, Sister :lpnhnne was rushed\. cfused to say that they would n | |to St. Ann’s Hospital today direct- A ted. Bautzer has been her constant escort for many months. be| ly after sh ed in Juneau, b Tase !trlc:m“l munu to re-ihe‘fl Wednesday, June 18, 7 pam.|airfleld ceive’ medical attention. in the LO.QF. Hall. All members Sister Epithane flew to Fairbanks urged to attend. from Holy Cross Mission where she ETHEL BURNETT, had been a nurse, Recorder For Delicious Nourishment JUNEAU DAIRIES MILK is tasty and nourishing in its natural state —but sometimes there are rebels’ among children and grownups who object {o being served milk as a drink. To these rebels we recommend straw- berries with milk or cream as one of the many ways to include milk in the diet. TRY IT TODAY. JUNEAU DAIRIES, lnc. £ mom: 638 Heqlth Idea MILK TOAST Plain, simple, unpretentious — milk toast is relished by ali. GETTING READY TQ BUILD Frank Pettygrove is now having lumber hauled” to Fifth Street where he: has.a home site receritly purchased from the city prepara- | tory to start building very soon. (OLISEUM-DOUGLAS Tue: —Wednesday “MAN WHO TALKED TOO MUCH” 'WOMEN OF MOOSE tion of officers will project. Italy is plapming consbruetion of 2 plant to recover magnesium and ‘bromine from. sea. water. adv,