The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 12, 1942, Page 3

MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1942 * THE DAILY ALASKA FMPIRE —JUNEAU, ALASKA __ PAGE THREF _ CAPITOL i T HEATRE Hi. SHOW PLACE OF JUNLAU‘ BILL POWELL DRESSED AS A WOMAN IS A R-1-0-T! He pretends to go out of to get back into Myma's heart! You'll | | his efforts to prove he’s sane make | ‘ .MI.PATRICK uaCARSON 1 MORENCE BATES + SIDNEY BLACKMER | Also: ‘ INFORMATION PLEASE | LATEST NEWS \ | | DOUGLAS SENIORS GIVE MOST SUCCESSFUL DANCE Douglas High School gym was the scene on Saturday night of nuci of the two principal school dances!| of the year, the Seniors’ annual, and a pretty event it was, with al good crowd present to insure pleas- urable as well as financial succes: .- CLUB MEETING Douglas Island Woman's Club| will held its meeting for January on Wednesday evening of this week at the home of Mrs. Charles Fox in Juneau. - COUNCIL IS TO BE IN SESSION TONIGHT For their regul business ses- sion, the members of the Douglas| City Council will meet tonight in the City Hall. - BEARS’' NEST SHELTER Work on the old Bears' Nest, considered as Douglas’ best answer | for a bomb proof shelter, is pro-| gressing slowly. Located about 75| feet below Hachmeister’s garage on| St. Ann’s Avenue, entrance to the| tunnel is reached by steps to the beach from the avenue. Measuring close to 9 by 9 feet, the tunnel extends into the hillside between 1300 and 1,700 feet and would more than accommodate all the Is- land’s populatien. B WELL BABY CONFERENCE Tomorrow afternoon between the hours of 1 and 2 o'clock a well baby nursing conference will be held in the Douglas City Hall un- der the supervision of Mrs. Mar- jorie Hessig. - Emplre Classifieds Pay! COMING! COMING! THE WORLD IN FLAMES? | wife” | “Love Crazy,” | cal | personating a woman to chewing | “dire effects” livelihood™ [FANS' FAVORITE MR, AND MRS, ARE AT CAPITOL Myrna Loy, William Powell | in Funniest Adventure Convulse Audiences william Powell plays a lunatic to keep Myrna Loy from divorcing him in their newest “man and adventure of the screen, Inlarious adventure film playing tonfght and Tuesday at the Capitol Theatre. The story which convulsed Sun-| day crowds, revolves about Powell’s antics as a supposed lunatic, until the alienists become convinced that this craziness is “om the square” and decide to lock him up. Then | him look crazier still amid comi- adventures ranging from im- up a phonograph record. Jack Conway, who directed the hilarious Powell-Loy team in “Li- F UNCTIONAL COATS ARE THE THlNG THESE DAYS beled Lady,” directed the new pic- ture, with a cast that includes Gail Patrick, Jack Carson, Florence Bates, Sidney Blackmer, Vladimir Sokoloff, Kathleen Lockhart, Fern Emmett, Joseph Crehan, George Meeker, Sig Rumann and Sara Haden, Comedy highlights include the absurd psycopathic examination of Powell, his masquerade as a so- ciety woman to escape the authori- ties, his comical troubles in a balky elevator, and other mad antics. - e Government Employees Hit Rate Raise Protest Increased Freight and Passenger Costs— Sent fo Washington Etrongly protesting the 45 per cent increase in freight and pass- enger rates on Alaska ship lines, a resolution was @drafted Saturday by the officers and directors of the Federal Employees’ Union No. 251, and has been forwarded to Wash- ington, D. C., office of the National Federation of Federal Employees, it was learned today. The resolution pointed out the! such increased rates vould have on the “business and of the people of the Territory, which includes a large number of year-around government cmployees whose income is based upon schedules set by Congress. e e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 12. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 22, American Can 61%, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Steel 64%, Commonwealth and Southern 5/16, Curtiss Wright 8%, International Harvester 46'¢. Ken- necott 35%, New York Central 9%, Northern Pacific 6, United States Steel 54, Pound $4.04. i DOW, JONES AVERAGES Diagonal tweed coat, left; center, timmy-tuft reversible; right, tweed coat over worsted cravanetted garment suitable for a number gabardine topcoat. of different uses. days, and the gabardine is for rain and mild weather. enough for the coldest day MANY WITNESS INSTALLATION HELD SATURDAY Before a large 1ttcndanc(' im- pressive public joint installation of the Order of Rainbow Girls and | Order of DeMolay was held on Saturday evening in the Rite Temple. Miss Betty Rice was installed as Worthy Advisor for the Order of Rainbow and Griffith Nordling was | installed as Master Councillor for the Order of DeMolay. Miss Isabel Parsons, retiring Worthy Advisor, acted as Installing Officer for the Rainbow girls and was assisted by Past Worthy Advisors Miss Mary Stewart, as Installing Marshal; Miss Ruth Allen, Installing Chap- lain; Miss Katherine Torkelsen, In- stalling Musician and Miss Eliza- beth Tucker, Installing Recorder.| Installing members for the Royal Arch Gunnison Chapter of De-| Molay were Fred Sorri, Installing | Officer; Elwin Messer, Acting Sen- ior Councillor; Pete Warner, Act- ing Junior Councillor Krugness, Marshall Those installed as Advisor They ve Taken Over The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 110.65; rails, 27.89; utilties, 14.54 3 b CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA MEET TUESDAY At 8 o'clock tomorrow evening the| Catholic Daughters of America will hold their regular monthly business meeting in the Parish Hall. Mrs. Herbert Redman, Grand Regent wil lconduct the meeting. B | MRS. VIC ROSS ARRIVES HERE FROM ISLAND CITY Mrs. Viv Ross, who has been mak- ing her home in Sitka, where her husband is employed, has arrived in Juneau. Mr. and Mrs, Ross form- erly lived here. -—— AUXILIARY TO MEET Members of the Junior Ladies | Auxiliary, No. 34, will meet at 8. o'clock tomorrow evening in Umon Hall. All members are urged to| Scottish | and John| | Board for ine ‘Lho coming year are, Cowling, Mother Advisor; old Brown, Associate | visor and Mrs. K. C. Talmage, Mrs.| by the new officers, with Miss Betty Mrs. Belle Burford, Rice presiding as Worthy Advisor, Mrs. Norman at the Scottish Rite Temple. Nelson, Mr, W. Leivers and M. S.|of which | Helen Webster, Mrs. cook | Homer Stabler, Whittier. Twenty eight merit bars for perfect | for the year 1941 were given bars service during the J. C. Thomas, Mrs. Ethan Nordling, J girls for last Officers of DeMolay were: | Master Councillor; Senior Ceuncillor; non, Junior Adams, vard, Junior wald, Senior Brewn, Junior | Hanson, Marshall; Harold DeReux, | Johnson, Orator; Jack Preccptor. | Bob Phillips, | Claude Anderson, Invald Varness, Ski: Deacon; 4th | Donald Fleek, 5th Preceptor; 'lin Ferro, 6th Preceptor and Rod- aska newspaper. and Councillor; Senior Deacon; Steward; Steward; Chaplain; Bill Dapecivich, | walnuts and 1'% Lauder McVey, Sentinel; | from his palm tree. Almoner; Rainoow Girls ior | ney Nordling, Ttin Preceptor. Mrs. Robert | Mrs. Har- Mother Ad- Howard were given attendanc e | uu'!', ontstanding | term. DeMolay Officers installed in the Order |y, aiteng the Federal District Court Grift Nordling, \ Harry Sperling, | ip MacKin- | Horace John Ba- Erling Os- Alfred Gaylord James Talmage, 1st | 2nd Preceptor; 3rd Preceptor: | Preceptor; Mar- Mrs. | | [ Inside out, it be- | | | Rainbow Initiation Next Saturday night initiation of new candidates will be conducted The meeting will be followed by a | joint Rainbow and DeMolay!dance Miss Esther George is| chairman. The dance 1 for mem- I bers of the organizations ‘and their| | invited friends only. D SITKA DOCTOR HERE Dr. Louis Sharpenberg, prominent Sitka physician, arrived here today | i term. * STRANGE HARVEST SPRINGFIELD, Calif. — H. A. | Walker harvested five pounds of pounds of almonds | He pruned the leaves from part of the tree and found squirrels had stored the nuts in nooks just above the leaf stubs. -, | The Daily Alaska Empire nas the |1argest paid circulation of any Al- the Nazx War ‘Machine | s Functional coats are the thing these days, designers conserving materials and making each single | erstwhile wildcat The practical and smart diagonal tweed winter coat, left, is unlined and can only be worn on one side. Center is the timmy-tuft jacket popular with college girls. Right side out, it's a woolly jacket that goes well with a plaid skirt. comes a kelly green and red plaid jacket to be worn with solid colored skirt. The matching hood is detachable. Right is a tri-weather coat which consists of a mannish box coat of fine tweed, and. an inner topcoat of all worsted cravanetted gabardine. The tweed garment is warm enough for cool Zipped together, the combination is warm | the Mickey Rooney, Ava JANE WITHERS HEADS CAST AT 20TH CENTURY “Youth Will Be Served’! Shows Young Star as Wildeat “"Cracker” Portraying a, wildcat “cracker” who becomes a Georgla “peach,” J-In(' Withers in “Youth Will Be Served,” her latest starring film | { for 20th Century-Fox, opened yes- terday at the 20th Century Thea- tre and will continue tonight and Tuesday. Surrounding Jane with a group of fine supporting players, | == Where the Better | X0 cenruny BIG Pictures Play TONIGIT and TUESDAY — the new film is based on a real| COLISEUM 2 NOW — "THE LETTER' s NOW — COLISEUM story full of = heart-tugs, dmma, {laughs and excitement. Delightfully entertaining from start to finish, “Youth Will Be Served™ has a strong featured cast | which includes Jane Darwell, Rob- ert Conway, Elyse Knox, Brown, Jr, John Jualen and Charles Holland. Set in the South’s hill-billy coun- try, the picture opens with Jane's father being imprisoned for moon-, | shining. Jane runs away with d neighbor boy, “Benjy” portrayed by freckle-faced Joe Brown, Jr. That’s the start of a series of exciting adventures as the twui youngsters ride a freight train in! which two bank bandits are mak-! |ing their escape. Ravenously hun-| gry after a day of wandering, they come across a youth camp and are asked to stay on. It is there, under the influence of kindly Jane Darwell, that the “cracker” from catfish country becomes a regular little lady. Gardner Married SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Jan. 12. —Mickey Rooney, 21, film star, and Ava Gardner, 19, who came west to crash the movies six months ago, were married here’ Saturday afternoon. - DAMAGE SIIIT IS DISMISSED, The $5,000 dnmage suit brought by Jose Carrillez against the Ju-' neau Lumber Mills was dismissed by PFederal District Court here this morning after announcement that settlement of the claims had been made out of court. | The suit claimed damages for a back injury Carrillez declared he received working at the local mill, and which should have been paid him under the Workmen's Com- pensation Act. e IR PR LT Mrs. Schoettler and Children to Leave; Called south by the illness of her mother, Mrs. R. J. Schoettler is leaving soon for Seattle. She will be accompanied by her daughter Marja and her niece, | Joyce Quist, on her visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W, Quist. Mrs. Schoettler expects to return to Juneau in about two months. e MRS. J. W. MALEN HERE FROM SITKA TO LIVE |~ Mrs. J. W. Malen, wife of Lieut. Malen, USC.G., has arrived in Juneau and is staying at the Bar- anof Hotel. — e - MR. AND MRS. SHELDON TAKE APARTMENT HERE! Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Sheldon, who arrived here recently from Fair- banks to make their home, have taken an apartment in the Feldon Apartments. Mr. Sheldon is Ex- ecutive Director of the Unemploy~ ment Compensation Commission. .- MRS. M. K. CAUTHORNE HOSTESS SATURDAY Mrs. Mary Keith Cauthorne was hostess at her apartment in the Baranof Hotel with a small cocktail party on Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock for Mrs. Dwight, Brown and Mrs. G. A. Lingo who recently {carrier of typhus, GERMANS ARE =LOUSY, SAYS SWISS PAPER Nazi SoldlersNegled Laun- dry - Typhus Fever Epidemic Results BERN, Switzerland, Jan, 12. —| |Germany, combatting an outbreak EASTERN STAR TO HOLD of typhus fever, recently rushcd‘ hundreds of additional doctors and | nurses to the Eastern Front and’ established an anti-epidemic (‘enter\ in Warsaw, the Berlin cqrrespon-| dent of the Swiss newspaper, Na- tional Zeitung, reported today. ‘ “The battle against lice,” (‘Mer‘ resulted from Nazi soldiers wearing heavy cloth-| ing for long periods without lnun-‘ dering it. Asiatic cholera also was reported | in “the regions around the Ural Mountains. —— e — Subscribe to the wally Alask»! Empire—the paper with the lnrgeat,l paid eirculation. Feeding Anti Members of the American Women's ing coffee, doughnuts and cigarettes on duty in New York City. The e mlhury | Ward and Baumarner, Five New Liquor Licenses Granfed new liquor licenses to be in Southeast Alaska towns other than Juneau were approved this morning by Federal Distriét Court here. Mrs, Helen Ronning, of Wrangell, received both restaurant and re- tail licenses, F. O. Eagles, of Ket- chigan, granted a club license. also of Ket- were granted a dispensaty Another dispensary license Madalynne Bacon, of Sitka. -oe Five used chikan, license. went to l REGULAR MEETING TUES. On Tuesday evening the Order the Eastern Star will hold its r ular meeting in the Scottish m ‘emple. The meeting will be cot~ {ducted by Mrs. Leona Talmage Worthy Matron, and Mrs. Al Brown, secretary. v COMING! COMING} THE WORLD IN FLAMES?, Daring! Senasational! A Picture for Free Americans -Aircraftsmen Volunteer Service are shown serv- | to the crew of an anti-aireraft nn H xact location’ of the A A post is' & secret, Navy Hero’s Son He Never Saw Daring! Senasational! Here is the triumvirate reported in command of the Nazi war machine. Right, Hitler, who has put himself A Picture for Free Americans in control of the army, is shown with Gen. Alfred Jodl, usually seen in pictures with Hitler at the front, and who is credited with doing much of the strategic thinking. Left, is Col. Gen. Franz Halder, chief of the @erman general staff, and also credited with master-minding many of the major Naz? umpmznl- Empire Classifieds Pay! By GEORGE McMANUS attend. | arrived here from Sitka. J ————— Subscribe to The Empire. _ BRINGING UP FATHER [ FAWTHER-1WANT YOL) TO GO OUT AND FIND JIGGS AND BRING HIM HOME RIGHT AWAY — OH=-I'LL FIND HIM - BUT-WHO'S GOING TO BRING ME HOME? GRACIOUS ! FATHER HAS BEEN GONE FOR THREE HOURS - DID YOU YES-GET YOLIR COAT AND HAT AND_GO T AND LOOK Or MY FATHER - His father never saw him, but Baby Martin Lake of San Podm Cal,, some day will hear of the heroic deeds of his daddy, “killed in action in defense of his country” in the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, aftack. Mrs. Lake, who has just received word from the navy, that her husband, Warrant Officer John E. Lake, was killed in action, is shown with Martin, only a few weeks old, and her other son; John, 4,