The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 1, 1941, Page 3

The CAPITOL has the BIG Pictures and News that Is News NOW! Show Place of Juneau Shows Start at 7:05 P. M. and 9:30 P. M. >~ YOU'VE A DATE WITH 100 FOLLIES S (CAPITOL SHOWS STORY OF ERA | ekl OF ZIEGFELD ::x:" “Glorified Girl” Is Back-| ground for “Ziegfeld Girl"-Strong Cast | . Rounded Bringing all the lavish back-| . Accepted 33. Vegetable . Floating in water . Small poot 33, Device for catehing appendage 14, Crafty Channel from the shore inland . Ornament with needlework Astatic palm Tavern . Note of the . Literary supervisor . Midday . Addresses . Adjective and noun sufix 51. Swiss river . Savory meat 46. Hindu cymbals I "TEEN AGE KIDS HEAD CAST OF NEW PICTURE 20th Century Is Showing| Story of Inferlochen Music Camp Work One of the most delightful and LENTUR, amount pre ' Pa L WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY! AGAIN TONIGHT THE BEST MUSICAL EVER IN JUNEAU MAGIc refreshing pictures to come in quite some time opened last night at the 20th Century Theatre. It is Paramount's new comedy musical, “There's Magic in Music.” Clever, bright and melodious, the story is about a hoydenish young burlesque queen with a mag- | nificent voice, who becomes an opera singer. It is a hilarious story that the picture tells, and the mu- slc, as played and sung by many scale Mlowing lamese coins . Fruit stones Clergyman Birthplace of Abraham ground of the “Glorified Girl” era of Florenz Ziegfeld days, Metro- |Goldwyn - Mayer's extravaganza “Ziegfeld Girl” opened yesterday at the Capitol Theatre. The length of | the film makes it necessary for the feature to start at 7:05 o'clock, and the theatre opens at 6:30 o clock. | With an excellent cast of top flight stars, the film tells the storyi of three showgirls who set out to| jelly Solution Of Saturday's Puxzle 5. Carries through . Fish e“l.{ “u. Biblical garden Town In Hawall 4. Goddess of dis- . Move quickly O . Aerial rallways: “Colloa, 65. Stil HEN/dn II IN MUSIc ALLAN JONES - SUSANNA FOSTE MARGARET LINDSAY - LYNNE OVERMAN GRACE BRADLEY - WILLIAM COLLIER Sr DOWN Seandinavian d cord . Discover . Dimmed by tears . Gypey . Flow back . Obtain | Double . Free . Vigilant . Funeral plles . Burdensome . Dish of eggs warring JAMES STEWART JUDY GARLAND HEDY LAMARR LANA TURNER wss TONY MARTIN - JACKIE COOPER AN HUNTER - CHAS. WINKINGER Aleutian Crack-up "Not Very Exciting’ It took two starts for Alaska from Seattle before some of the northbound passengers aboard the Yukon, which reached here last night, were able to get into the Territory, for many of them, in- cluding several who debarked here, were aboard the Aleutian, which |turned back after a run-in with Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows, early last Wednesday. Aleutian passengers humorously termed their trip the “Aleutian ex- More than 200 men and women | cursidon to Ripple Rock,” and de- will attend the Gastineau Channel|clared that there was no panic or Spdttsmen's Association banquet in|worry among passengers aboard the the Elks Hall at 7 o'clock l‘hxs ship when it hit the rock and evening, President Bob Henning gamaged its double bottom. said this afternoon, but tickets are| myo’ 5ocident, which occurred ab still available and latecomers will‘é:30 am., shook a number of pas- B Soconipotiated. ¢ .. 'sengers from their bunks, several he EReaRnE gt 3. oglock s of whom hurriedly donned life pre- fternoon had mounted to 228 as 2 1 hu e arrangements committee sexjvers. R.e_turmng to Seattle, the 'ship was tilted on a decided list HUNTERS BANQUET | . TONIGHT fdore thanfio Reserva- tions Made Buf Always Room for One More | | | w‘umed the large hall and set up see more of life in a shorter time than is usual. The first, character- lzes the daughter of Edward Gal-) lagher of Gallagher and Shean, | wins stardom, eventually creating an opportunity for the success Of | her father and his vaudeville part- ner. | The second, wife of an impover- | shed violinist, finds that she still | loves him and wins him back, al- though he had left her in protest | against her acceptance of the job. | The third, department store ele- vator operator and policeman’s | Jaughter, takes the easy way of | idmiration and gifts, and ends in' misery and dies on the opening night of a new edition of the ‘Ziegfeld Follies.” The three show girls are por-| trayed by Judy Garland, Lana Tur- | ner and Hedy Lamarr, and James | Stewart is the male star. Others in the cast are Tony Martin, Jackie | Cooper, Ian Hunter, Charles Win-| ninger, Edward Everett Horton ani| Felix Bressart. | e tkd WEATHER STILL DELAYS MEETING OF COMMISSION. | Harry Phillips, newly appointed! LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1.—Gover- chairman of the Territorial Unem- nor Culbert I. Olson yesterday par- 3 “Fr] ] Az aa A i % W JAN VALTIN GETS PARDON FROM OLSON Wrifer of Best Seller Wag- ing Battle Against Deportation ployment Compensation = Commis- ] Wi EE I R JEE € Je long banquet tables. w starboard, the passengers stated. ™ 'm the kitchen, the chefs were| They said that the public address @sy preparing the hunters' stew— system on the boat warned all to ito which went 180 pounds of ven-|keep calm and reasurred them that @n, and 50 pounds each of rad- no real danger existed. Part way th Hes, rutabagas and onions on top back to Seattle, some passengers 4 100 pounds of potatoes. Stacks said, the Aleutian was joined by { fresh pies of all variety, donated another steamer, which trailed the ¢ Junea§ housewives, along with damaged boat to port, presumably tl ¢ after Jar of jams and jellies, ére prepared for the banqueters. ‘An elahorate program of talks, y, 1ck-identification programs and ption pictures is on the bill for 1 onight, with Frank Dufresne, ex- cutive officer of the Alaska Game . sommission, scheduled to make the f,18in speech. A $10 prize will be awarded the| uest making the best score in the ntest, with a special prize going » the ornithologist who identifies .1e rare redrmosed bird recently trapped by the Game Commission. WORKERS PUT OUT FIRE AT GARAGE A fire ignited when a welding| torch struck spilled gasoline was, extinguished by employes at the' Cowlin-Davlin Motor Company at 11:50 o'clock this forenoon. Only damage was from smoke which| to take off passengers if anything further went wrong. ! Water taken into the hold dam- aged some cargo, it was said, and | particularly some of the parcel post |sacks for the Westward, with | Christmas packages described as { completely soaked. | During the wait in Seattle be- | tween their arrival on the Aleu- tian and departure the next night on the Yukon, passengers were fed aboard ship and treated royally by | the Alaska Steamship Company, | they reported. NP S ROSTOV IS EVACUATED BY GERMANS (Continued from Page One) blackened the walls and ceiling., ~ Workers used hand extinguishers sals, indicating that sniping had . the fire and it was out when|developed to an unprecedented ex- erhe Juneau Fire Department ar-|tent. vlived responding to the 2-5 alarm.| e e COURT SATURDAY The special session of the Fed- “.:al District Court recently ad- BATTERED NAZIS RETREAT MOSCOW, Dec. 1. — The severely battered German troops are being | hurled back through village after village on the retreat from Rostov py wned in Ketchikan will be con- ,,z ued here Saturday, December 6, fv was announced today. The con-: and this is the biggest Nazi re- versal in the Russian campaign. The Germans have been unable to stem sion, was awaiting favorable flying ‘weather to come here for an annual meet- ing of the board, which was sched- uled to start last Tuesday. He flew from Fairbanks to Whitehorse yesterday. Meantime, Mrs. Mildred Her- mann, local attorney, continued to- day to hold her single member ses- sions of the commission as she met in the commission offices. Mrs. Hermann has been meeting each day since last Tuesday at the ap- pointed session time of 10 a.m., but has been unable to conduct any ousiness for lack of a quorum of board members. GOERING, PETAIN HAVE CONFERENCE BERLIN, Dec. 1.—Field Marshal Goering and Premier Marshal Pe- tain met today at St. Florentine Veigigny, France, a town 60 miles southeast of Paris. The DNB says the two had a long conversation about questions of “interest to France and Ger- many.” S e GOODWIN BACK HOME Stormy weather between Juneau and Sitka held Alaska Coastal Air- ways activity to a minimum over the weekend, although Pilot Dean Good- win hopped from Sitka to his home base with mail and express. - All scheduled flights to Sitka, Tul- sequah and island points were can- celled today. e, CAPTAIN WHITTIER HERE Dr. Jed Whittier, Captain in the in Whitehorse today, | |doned Jan Valtin from a prison sentence for assault during a hold- |up. Valtin is the German-born writer whose “Out of the Night” is pur- ported to expose Communist and Nazi activities and has become a best seller. It was declared that Valtin, when informed of the pardon remarked that the move meaht “the first round of my fight against depor- tation has been won. Explosion Threatfens I.a[ge Area Huge Accumulator Tank May Blow Up - Resi- dents Warned fo Flee OKMULGE, Oklahoma, Dec. 1— and milk . Plays on words . Persia . Sets in from the margin 2. American Indians . Medley 5. Gas of the air . Chinese coin . Unadulterated . In favor of . Long abusive speec! . Fish hawk . Tenth part of anything . Pungent . Throws . Presentl 3, Mald beloved by Hercules | . Girdle . Beverage . Automob! - ad U.S. ARMY OFFICERIS FIRED UPON Major GeneTa;I— Brett Is At- tacked When Flying Over Sea in Plane CAIRO, Dec. 1—An airplane that bore Major Generhl George - Brett, Chief of the United States Army Air Corps, was fired on by an Axis destroyer as the plane crossed over the Mediterranean yesterday. Brett revealed this. here tonight upon his arrival 'from England to speed the ;U. S. plane delivery to the British forces of the . middlé East. Brett said the plane was not hit as the pilot- dipped | suddenly to within a few feet of the water. \ - e JUNIOR TRINITY GUIL D MEETS TOMORROW NIGHT Mémbers of the Junior Trinity Guild will meet tomorrdw night at brilliant performers, is really en- | thralling. Boasung an impressive cast, the new film arrival features the gold~ en-voiced starlet, Susanna Foster; Allan Jones, in better voice- than ever before; beautiful Margaret Lindsay and Comedian Lynne Ov- erman. In addition to these. screen favorites there are also in the cast three of opera's greatest singers: Richard Bonelli, Irra Petina and Tandy MacKenzie, all of whom make their screen debuts in this picture. Even the brilliance of these operatic stars, however, is not enough to dim the shining musical iand acting talents of five 'teen age youngsters who do much to bright- {en the picture. They are Heimo Haitto, young Finnish violinist; Patricla Travers, Dolly Loehr, Kaye Connor and Willlam Chapman, JUNEAU MAN WILL JOIN ARMY FROM Inductee Who Sailed South on £ve of Induction - Here Picked Up Meicryslaw - Tietz, Juneau man who, sailed for the states the ddy he was to be inducted into the ariny here, will' join the khaki-clad Arrested in Seattle as he stepped off 'the 'bolit, Flets wiis told. to re- port - for induction into the army dt one of ' the, inducfion posts in the 'city: ! When he agreed, plans to return him: here' on the charge of ignoring induction orders were | dropped, according: to Lynn . J. Gemmill, Assistant District At- torney. ' Teitz, who enrolled in the draft 8 0'clock in the home of Mrs. Helen Cass, it was ‘announced today by Mrs. Robert Rice, acting secretary. There is important business to come before the meeting and a full at- tendance is desired. ————— CASES SOUTHBOUND Howard Case and Mrs, Case left Juneau on the Columbia after a brief visit here on their way south from Goodnews Bay.* e e TYEE GOES SOUTH Mrs. 'A. Wellesandt. sailed south yesterday afternoon on the Alaska Transportation Company steamer Tyee.. The Tyee arrived from Sitka early yesterddy morning and sailed for Seattle after discharging freight Four men lost their lives, 17 others were injured, two critically, by an explosion that set ablaze the gaso- line department of the Phillips BERING IN POR Petroleum Company’s refinery. The threat of an explosion of a| Freighter Bering, with a jury huge accumulator tank, has been | Fudder, arrived in port. shortly be- partially. relieved as. workers suc-| fore 4 oclock this afternoon. ceeded in reducing the pressure | chamber from 600 to 75 pounds. | at Femmer’s Wharf and Union Oil Company. g e v Hundreds of residents in the area have been warned to leave their homes. 3 —————— tinuation of the Ketchikan sesskon! the advance of the Russians, so hur- will allow litigants in any unfln»!r‘ ndly: ace bty Withorawiny: ished cases instituted at the First| ™ . =/ GADEACRII Tesotted ‘&' Tibw f:lty to enter motions or be heard,| Soviet, thrust has developed in the i e ok shell-pocked Donets Basin, north- 5 west of Rostov, where the advance MUNDINQERS RETLl.tN might open the corridor to the Sea Ralph Mundinger, who is with| of Azov which was recently cut the CAA in Juneau, returned from ,¢f yy the Germans. a trip to the states last night with | s bride of less than a week. The| SRS Mundingers are making their home DR. HULL LEAVES in the Mead Apartments on Sixth Dr. Frank E. Hull, Red Cross rep- | resentative, who has been in Juneau Street. several weeks, left for the Westward and Interior aboard the Yukon. BUY DEFENSE STAMPS 297th Infantry, returned to Juneau on the steamer Columbia from An- chorage, where he was attached to the regimental headquarters. He is staying with his parents, Mr.| and Mrs. M. S. Whittier. AL ANDERSON COMING Al Anderson, executive secretary of the Alaska Mining Association and former Juneau newspaperman, is on his way to Juneau on a Pan American plane, friends here said today. Anderson will visit- here before —————— PATRICIA DOOLEY RETURNS Miss Patty Dooley, who has been on a vacation trip to Fairbanks, Cordova and Anchorage, returned to|going Outside on association busi- Juneau aboard the Columbia and|ness. His plane was held by is back at work in the Territorial | weather in Whitehorse today. Department of Health. She has - been away about six weeks. BUY DEFENSE STAMPS NT PulL O Rt ¥ STUPID \ARD BIRD T SWOW. oty GEEN :g T STACKS SNCE NE \NENT ON 25 A0y DID MOW CALL WP THE MASSEUR 2 Jazz Symphonetie Now Being Writien NEW YORK, Dec. 1. — Morton Gould is at work on a new com- position, “American Symphonette Number Five,” which he is writing to demonstrate the coming of age |of jazz and its place in school musie. The new work will be given a premiere by the Senior Symphony | Orchestra of the High School of { Music and Art at its winter concett | under the baton of Alexander ! Richter. | here, was in Anchorage at work when his induction order was maiied out. ' However before the order could have reached him he arrived in Juneau ‘on & southbound ship and ‘announced his tentlon of going to Seattle.. The order for induction was issued to him ver- bally here, but he proceeded on to Seattle in the face of the army order. ; Special Events fo:,v Mark Last of Card Parties Saturday A special celebration will’ mark the l1ast of the card parties being given by the Sons of Norway next Saturday night. - The affair will be the fifth and last of the weekly card parties the group is sponsor- ing to raise funds for airplanes for Norway. Sepcial for the evening will be a dance following the cards, and the grand prizes for the serles will also be awarded, Dancing will be to the music of the organizatiof’s prchestra, composed of Mrs. ;John Sunderland, Mrs. 'Lina. Hildre snd Bert Alstead. Refreshments will be served. Prizes at last Saturday’s . party were won by Mrs. Gertie Olson and Green and J. Fagerheim, consola- tions. The series of five parties have been arranged by a committee com- posed of Belle Knutsen, chairman, Pete Hildre, Bert Alstead, Mrs, W, Rasmussen and John Fagerheim. SEATILE STATION - {B. L. VanderLeest, president of the board riinks at Beattle, it was announced| Louis Dyrhdal, firsts, and Mrs. Joe | COLISEUM KNUTE ROCKNE_ALL—AMERICAR IndianService Officers Move It was moving day today in the: Office of Indian Affairs here, as {the medical staff and part of the| educational staff packed records| and moved from their Federal| Building headquarters to the omces‘ in the Old First National Bank Bulilding formerly occupied by Dr.| L. P. Dawes. Moving there were Dr. Langdon! White, in charge of melical work | in the Indian service here; Bertha| |M. Tiber, superintendent of nurses, | |and Dr. Luella M. King, nssoclate; supervisor of education. | > | TERRITORIAL RECORDS LOST IN SEWARD FIRE All official records of the Ter- ritorial Board of Pharmacy were destroyed in the Seward fire a week ago, it was revealed today by | | | | i | ‘ , | The _records, VanderLeest said, were in the possession of Elwin Swetman, Secretary-Treasurer .of the board and proprietor of the Seward Drug Company. The ter- ritorial papers went up in smoke with the rest of the drug store in Seward, he said, g However, VanderLeest ' revealed that there is a silver lining in the case of the loss. VanderLeest be- dieves he has copies of most of| ithose records, safe here in Juneau.! He will send the coples to Sweat- man within the next week to be| Ghecked and certified. ' - COURT MEMBERS BACK { Robert Coughlin, clerk of the Sourt, and Peggy McLeod, court| Stenographer, returned here on the| McKinley, Saturday night, last| members to come back to Juneau of the Federal District .Court staff! which has been holding a special court session in Ketchikan. 4 BRI U T ST STEWART DUE WEDNESDAY * B. D. Stewart, Territorial Com- | |missioner of 'Mines, will return| here by plane from Fairbanks Wed- nesday; it was announced today. Stewart had orginally planned to take a plane here today but was |unable to secure reservations until the middle of the week. B COD BOAT RETURNS _After being stormbound in Hawk Inlet for a week, the fishing boat Spencer arrived in Auk Bay this| morning and - moored at Caro's' Float. The Spencer crew planned to take codfish in the inlet but heavy weather forced them to abandon their work. e GOES WESTWARD | | SITKA MAN WINS % CONTRACT FOR § FIRE INSURA Conway Will Insure Sup intendent and Nurse: Homes for Terrifory - J. J. Conway, Sitka insur man, was declared today to submitted the successful low . to furnish $15,000 worth of surance on each of two at the Alaska Pioneers’ Home. * The Conway bid offered the surance for a three-year of $120 on the superintondent' dwelling, and a three-year 0 of 132 on the nurse’s home." The four bids submitted opened Saturday afternoon at Governor's office here and the O way bid was approved this mornis DOUBLEHEADER T0 OPEN HOOP. SLATE TONIG With the first toot of ‘the & horn in Juneau High Sdl tonight, the Gastineau Channgl; ketball Leagus willapen.its 1941 -¢ season with & doubleheader [ to attract a sell-out crowd, Pre-season conflicts have sharf ened all four starting teamis and iy initial ‘slate promises plenty” of By tion with the Juneau PFiremen: ing Henning's quintet in the- and the Douglas Eagles. taking the Elks in the second game. ' 4, FOLTA RETURNS George Folta, Attorney- for the Department of the arrived here from the Sunday morning aboard the Coli bia, following an absence of weeks on legal business for the: ernment. ——————— SOUTH FOR HOLIDAYS Everett Nowell, Alaska reps tative of several large firms, léft. the Columbia for Seattle to.3p ‘ the holidays with his family. He stop over at Ketchikan for business visit. —————— American Legion Auxiliary ing Tuesday night at 8 pm, —————— Subscribe to The Empire. JOIN THE ruu—-_ ‘{ _ BOWL Its Healthy, Tool ° BRUNSWICK Mrs. Elizabeth DeArmond, of Sit- ka, left aboard the Yukon for a visit to'the Westward. pe Al ON THE GLACI Highway BOWLING ALLEYS - HAULING OF ALL KIND DAILY DELIVERY SERVICE ER HIGHWAY Delivery At the Empire Printing Company H. R. "SHORTY" WHITFIELD, Owner