The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1941, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20, AI_I_ TIME | .. s oworee HIGH SET, AIRTRAVEL WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—More people traveled by air during June than in any month in the history of American aviation, it was an- nounced today by Donald H. Con- 1941. CAPITOL HAS STRANGE TRI0 | INNEW PICTURE Lomhard and Laughton Star in “They Knew | What They Wanted" Dealing with a strange romance | segun impulsively by mail and its s s Where the Beiier BIG Pictures Play TOO'ENTURY Sonicun TONIGHT WEDNESDAY — THURSDAY — FRIDAY — SATURDAY KNUTE ROCKNE LIFE STORY AT 20TH CENTURY Pat 0'Brien Stars as Fam- | ous Football Wizard | Strong Cast } One of the most recent } SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU STABTS TONIGHT THIS 1S "ROCK’ The real, haman story of the unusual screen times will make stories in inforseen consequences, RKO Ra- nolly, Administrator of Civil Aero- | its local debut at the 20th Century lio’s “They Knew What They nautics | Theatre when Warner Bros. new N y { . miracle man of Notre Dame Wanted” brings Carole Lombatd| The domestic air lines carried [film, “Knute Rockne—All Ameri- ; K ind Charles Laughton to the screen |353478 revenue passengers a total can,” opens tonight for u four-day || All-American player, I , n an impressive and emotional|of 130,680225 passenger-miles, also run. i CAROL version of the late Sidney HOW-|an all-time high. The- number of I is a fim lfe story of one | AlFAmerican coach, m nn wrd’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play | travelers was 33.24 percent ahead of America’s greatest and wisest|] All-American man! heroes—Kuute Rockne. The picture traces Rockne's life from his early childhood in Norway to his tragic death in 1931. His life was full of of that title. The action of the picture, which cpens tonight at the Capitol Thea- of June 1940, according to figur compiled by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. It is believed that | CHARLES VMLnusnton. tre, is laid chiefly in California’s a large part of this increase is due| in an RKO Radio Picture Napa Valley, center of the state’s|to the accelerated tempo of thel tement, despair, love and tri- srape-growing industry. Laughton,|business in the United States| The film, with Pat O'Brien| playing his first thoroughly sym-|caused by the defense effort | the Notre Dame football Directod by GARSON KANIN, with pathetic roie in five years, por-| Previous records were also broken | ithfully portrays those ele- 1940:s great heart drame i o Sl & v in vin-|i ¢ s carrie nd keeps @ r g WILLIAM GARGAN trays a happy-go-lucky Latin vin-lin the amount of express carried and keeps alive the '.mei R HARRY CAREY yardist, one who has made plenty‘by plane, The total for June, 1941, | of Rockne" His vigor, his astute philesophy, the great beams‘ was 1,544,111 57.26 percent | FRANK FAY of money and who decides it’s time pounds, coconut shells set in plaster 'lor him to get married more than in the same month la he built, the developing of the! . XTS A SPECIALLI | Miss Lombard plays a waitress|year. Shipments of tools, parts and famous “Four Horsemen” are all| s '5' ME n G ES N T P AY e in a San Francisco cafe, whom other items urgently needed in do-; teld with a skillful blending of Gad Laugton meets on a vacation. |femse production accounted for| pewer and subtlety. in e B " Other noted players in the cast/much of the rise, it is believed. | Rockne— All American.” J‘he EYES Of the NaVY Also News Include William Gargan, as Laugh-| The passenger load factor rea(‘l\ed‘ The brilli supporting cast con-!| ton’s ranch foreman, Harry Carey,|a new peak of 64.14 percent. The | sists of e Page as Bonnie, H]A who enacts a' capable old country|factgr is based on the percentage Knute's wife; Donald Crisp as! m doctor, and Frank Fay, portraymg!of seating capacity occupied {or; Father Callahan, President of No- . IN[E] | the kindly Father McKee. the full length of all flights; dur- tre Dame, and Ranu.ld Reagon in mmg With its exceptionally human |ing customary hours of t A el, lines l!?v greatest role of his career, that To a higher L‘ story and its picturesque atmos-|operating between key points were of the renowned George Gipp. The 1. 38 l:"““‘-"'."“g %5, [M[E[S] phere, “They Knew What They forced to turn away passengers, it players that portray the roles of i e [D]A] | Wanted” offers powerful and sig-|is reported. | the “Four Horsemen” have all seen ]"‘ l\"lv"l".‘“fi E [P] nificant type of screen entertain-| The total number of passengers action, on the gridiron. They are, i o H" ment. Produced by Erich Pommer,|carried during the first half of)| Kane Richmond, as Elmer Lay- By 42 EE the offering was. directed by Gar- | this year by the 16 airlines report- den; Bob Byrne as James Crow- 2 Editions Late Worid English letter 43, & [{'xw:.k']«a of [AIR] son Kanin, with Robert Ardrey|ing to the CAA was 1569,608, an ley; Nick Lukats as Harry Stuhl- News }:vonts : 4. M u!\l\u: I-l\I [R[&[W] writing the screen play from the)increase of 36.31 perceni over | dreher and William Marshall as; E | Howard stage success. Harry £. 1940 period. Don Miller. b ey Syt v oo s e —— E {Edlngton wag exwuuve ])10duct'r | - - - | T —— AP oprr—et ESLEEUM Last Time Tonight “CHAN AT TREASURE ISLAND" mountain SIK]Y | the traditional fronts wh half| gereen Actress Mary Brian HOME IMPROVEMENT A T F Sy | Novel by Ros- (above) left Carson Ci Zam Zam Survivors Return nerican Ine Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle w h e | What makes them so neticeable A building permit application was| “Indian 60. Private room DOWN lere the sharp cries coming from| for Hollywoed August 8 after filed at the city hall late vesterday i weight 61 Cratty 1. 4 behind the coolers, . . . . “Step up| getting a divorce from Jon ‘mx installation of a hot water| 3 1rmatio 59. Latera - Shop ! " inv + & 5 \"\l o l'ué'ma daries """ G5 Unit of work 3 Stored |and get yours” i: the invitation.| Whitecmb, illustrator, whom she | 'A0k, bath and sewer hook-up for ot n a |&very soda-jerker in every \.;“,(1; 1 three months ago at the residence of Hans and John| 5. Deposit of | |ells the same thi 5| Hollywood. The actress charged | OLAnSED, 845 Eighth Street, Ap- | R loam one to suspect that the s e E proximate cost of the improvements t . Pronoun | U071 oruelty and was granted the | o 150 i 7. Legal order |ager has been giving the boys al )0 t A id is $150. & Kttt o r a ‘as Ipep talk. These stands never close,| Fisht to. resume. her,;maiden ——————— . . Atticle of bee They do nice business in the heat| Bame of Mary Brian Dantzier. During part of the Revolution= : nu]{ftou: of the day, but T re se2 anyone | A property agreement was reach- | ary War the Liberty Bell was hid- . Stripling TR | patronizing them after mianight. | ed out of court. | den in a Lhuth at Allentown, Pa. - Feusi | Nofed Brifish Humorist| — B8 3 Makes False Break with Death for a Hero—and Sorrow for a Mother . Hair over the N7/ AudR N %%“- “.W//// . Fragrant olnt- 7wl ment . City in Penu- | Ivani; s | Some Book Buyers | . Blunders . Finish | Instrumeént for { . By GEORGE TUCKER oy NEW YORK, August 20--P. G.| . Unconcealed | Wodehouse did himself no good | Bt with some people by his broadcast | Pl(;asltn: to the | from Berlin. After a year in an ! aste internment camp, during which he . Female ghee) {7 wrote tw> movels and expressed . Metallic alloy - Prive.aWa¥. | himself as feeling fine, the noted . Drone | British humorist announced that he A | had been unable to work up any . Sound of a . real hatred of the Nazis. . ArdREe el | At once caustic comment began | suago . | to appea® in print and in the man- | uscripts of the commentatars. His | friends, rallying to his defense, scoff at the “appeaser’ charge, say- ing he is far too good a kusiness- | man to endanger. his wide Amer- | ican sales through pro-Nazi talk at | this time. Wodehouse is one of | the world’s highest paid writers.; | Once he took $185,000 out of Holly- 1‘ wood for not writing a line. He just iwent out on contract, sat around until the contract was up, collected his wages, and came back to New York. His comments on: Hollywood at that time did not endear him to the picture front offices. Jam W. Stewart (left) and Thomas 0. @ arrive in New York aboard the Ezcalibur after a series of lxmm' adventures that began with Nazi sinking of the steamer Zam Zam. Emu route tu Aflries to'serve § as ambulance drivers, the pair were eapturetl by the G , but i escaped from a speeding railroad train at, St, Jean de Luz on the Span- f ish border and made théir way into unoccuplod rance dnd thence to Lisbon and New York. NO EPIDEMICS : PROTECT propartion in any Alaska town dur- ing the past week, according to the | weekly report: today from thée I'er-. ritorial Department of Health. | Two cases of tubereulosis and one of gonorrhea were reportec from Juneau. ————— ! ‘x | Industrial aotivily in Chile has' m progressively expanded : since the ¢ One notes another trend. in. the war's progress with the influx of Russian jokes, which prcbably |could be called nuw, as most jokes |are, but which really are the same old puns: doiled in new clothing and playing a return date The most familiar of these is adbgut the shill in front of & water- front bar who enticed pedestrians with, cries of “come on in—meet Body of Johnny Warstat carried ashore Mrs, Warstat and son, Carl Frank Warstat, 13, was washed off a raft by a huge wave at North Avenue beach, Chicago. Johnny Warstat, Jr., 9, the boy's brother,. went to Frank’s aid although he couldn’t swim. Frank drowned. Johnnv, the hero, drowned. Toduv Mrs. ‘Warstat, grief-stricken, haa ohe ‘son ol !hrea left. Carl. 12. Reds Use Land Mmés to Halt Nazn Bli’tz the Russian princess.” oSy roermg '< After the unwary pedesirian had War started, according to the De- T 1 sat. around. for. awhile; sipping a partment of Commerce. | J U A, drink, he said to the waiter, “But T TR | where is the princess?” NOTICE ‘[ D A I R E S “Oh, don’t warty about that,” The Neighborhoog Beauty Shop | will be 'closed starting {omorrow, ' Aug. 20 until Sept. 1. adv T e T [+ £, o the waiter soothed him. “After. a jcouple more of: these drinks you'll be able to see the whwe royal family.” Another s the tale of the moody mussian who stared gloowily into his vodka for an nour or .more. With each drink he becam: moed- ler, and finally he growled to.the Larkeeper, “I'm sick of this com- founded, ne good country. I'm go- ‘ng back to Ameriea.” “Where do you think you are?” We Stake Our Reputation o G. E. CLEANERS wMul Sea Our “MODERNE" Model Cleaner These feaiures offer niany values buiit in ¢ cleaners ® Dustproof Bag ® Spotlight ©® Motor-Driven Brush ® High Speed Motor Spectators at the hearing of the Heuse Banking Committee in Wash- irgton heard Leon Henderson, head of the Oflke of Price Adminis- tration, declare that the nation faced the “strongest and most pro- nouriced increase in the cost of Hving,” even if the Administration’s price-centrol bill became law immediately. He illustrated his testimony with charts. Pl a Covic Diesel in Yoir Boat 1 You Want “Omisk,” yelled the Russian. “Scram,” urged the waiter, grab- bing the disconsolate Muscovite by the seat of.-the britghes. “You're in Twenty-Third Street.” This next item doesn’t Russians, though it is ifi 35 today and try cleaneis. lhlk;_flqciriu Light and ® MORE ROOM IN XYOUR .‘)A‘l Lair, and maybe 7 sug- G '%n es for Your Money |sested it, Anyway, t-h;.flflh« cing ® Requires No Qiling A Comfortable, Q-lgtu-w- & in Sixth avenue or: i s No matter how large or how smail your m that Instantly Starts the Music Hall are. wu:i home, we know there is a GuE ::lennn of Safe Trips v sign in 3 bark e vv nj to meet your household néeds. Stop in flaunts this legend: these superior vacuum 3 5 B % g8 et-approved caption, this photo shows Red troopl eonnhp-qttuldng under the pro- i i 0! g whch can be seen exploding on their exposed richt flank. These troops, accord- b tho uuhp, those which have seriously slowed up ‘the Nazi drive, Photo was radioed h‘ A28 among 0% ¥ g rond Moseow to New York,