The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1942, Page 3

TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1942 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA PAGE THREE Show Place of Juneau STARTS TOMORROW! PREVUE TONIGHT! The MERRIEST ' ROMANTIC storm! “Stranger Than CARTOON NEWS mensen Files For Announcing his candidacy the April 28 primaries for a place | in the Territorial House of Rep- iled the Court’s office en f resentatives, J. P. Christens in the Clerk of here late yesterday afternoon. became the sixth candidate for house. Christensen is one of Christensen brothers holding school bus contract out the Gla cier Highway. — e Cookies go into a fancy MUSICOMEDY | Broadwey by - Ruy BOLGER Sensations! Score- row Wizord ot 02" | John CARROLL T_ENDS TONIGHT— Bud ABBOTT - Lou COSTELLO l‘;“; and the ANDREWS SISTERS gk ! Legislature Christensen, a Juneau man, thus Public Schools. | dessert GAYROMANCE OF MARDI GRAS, | CAPITOL FILM| "Sunny’ wifl)vely Anna1 Neagle Combines Tunes, | Dances, Lively Plot | roma delightful along with gay Jerome Kern tunes and its spectacular dance Anna v numbers Neagle'’s new | “Sunny” is hailed as an exccptional % 7 its its Stressing attractive filmusical, and as some- in screen thing of an innovation the | entertainment. It Capitol Wednesday. Seven unique dance routines and the four song hits of the original show, including the memorable “Who?” are woven into the plot of the story, laid against the color- ful background of New Orleans during the Mardi Gras season. Sunny is a dancer with a travel- ing carnival company playing the| Louisana city when she meets Larry | comes to Warren, a rich young socialite, in| the hectic whirl of a Marci Gras : crowd. The two fall immediately e in love and, against the wishes of arnival troupe arrive bois- y to attend the wedding, she, gives up and runs away, going back to her criginal job. But at this point | highly unconventional nld; a hand, and the result makes for the delightful ending to this very out-of-the-ordinary tune- | film. ! The hilarious farce, of army life, | “Buck Privates” will be scen for the last times tonight e BANQUETTO | FETE THREE. HOOP TEAMS Juneau, Douglas, Skag- way Basketball Play- | ers Meet Tonight | Thirty-six Juneau, Douglas and Skagway basketball players and of- | ficials will banquet .at the Baranof | Hotel at 6:30 o'clock this evening under the sponsorship of the Juneau | in| the Honor guests at the banquet will the | be the Skagway hoopsters who last night defeated Juneau High to win he Northern Division title. Ten itop players from Juneau High and | | all the Douglas hoop squad will be present. Coaches of the (ongressman Crificizes three squads, Lairy’s sister and of the carnival| = manager, they plan to marry at| once | 3 1 But Sunny is worried over her| Well as high explosives. Picture place in the smart social circles in prnpagandg leaflet ad‘."sed L an which Larry dwells, and when the were drawings of an aircraft carrier and when quickly dipped in fruit juice!scorekeepers, referees, timekeepers or sherry and heated in covered and Douglas and Juneau school their own cooky rights. ‘ Ilargest paid circulation of any Al- ‘aska newspaper. Subscribe to The Empire. '(omin fo (apl Here are Anna Neagle and Ray Bolger in their specialty dance from “Sunny” to the tune of the immortal “Who” coming to the Capitol The Daily Alaska Fmplre nas the| British Aid Millions of Englishmen double boiler. Top with sauce. | superintendents will make brief This is good for holiday confec- talks. | tions a bit too hard to step out in - eee - | "Sitting on Their Bot- toms,” Says Robison | WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 — Rep. John W. Robsion (R.-Ky) today demanded from the House floor why an American Expeditionary Force was sent to the British Isles |instead “of yonder to the Philip- {pines to aid MacArthur and his heroic force.” | Robsion took the floor during debate on the $17,000.000,000 Naval | Appropriation Bill, which is des- |igned to make the United States Navy the strongest in the world. | Britain had thrée and one-half million men “armed to the teeth and sitting on their bottoms,” Rob y‘:ion declared, while Germany was |busy with Russia. “Oh, how American hearts are Robsion cried. Northern Ireland!” Meanwhile, the Senate Appro- priations Committee approved a $12,000,000,000 fund to expand the Army Air Corps. .- One-fourth of the world’s 200,000 known vegetable species are to be found in Brazil, according to the Department of Commerce. |bleeding for aid for MacArthur!” | “Yet we have an| army and ships and planes for| Did They Mean United States or Japan? " You . damne g / a0 Japanese flyers who bombed Pear] Harbor came equipped with crudely phrase.d propaganda leaflets as Pictured here as it was reproduced by duplicating machine on rough foglscap. the lish heading—*You damned! Go to the devil.” Beneath this greeting | battleship exploding, a fish spitting destruction, and a caricature of President Roosevelt. The Nipponese characters read, “Listen to the voice of doom! Open your eyes, blind fools!” Where the British Are in Trouble Attached to the British forces, Malay soldiers man a trench mortar unit in a Malayan tapioca plantation. These soldiers are experts in fighting in tropical jungles. The fate of northwestern Malaya and Penang, its principal city, was reported hanging in the balance as Japanese smashed into the peninsula in a des- perate attempt to break through to Singapore. | MIKE HAAS TO SPEAK . AT TOWNSEND (LUB | MEETING WEDNESDAY Labor | Territorial Commissioner morrow evening to members of the Townsend Club at their regu- |lar meeting in the Union Hall »n tGastineau Avenue. The meeting will begin at 8:30 o'clock in the evening and in ad- dition to Mr. Haas' talk routine business will be taken care of in a | short business session. The mainder of the evening will be spent in dancing to music by the Townsend orchestra, it was an- nounced by G. E. Almquist, Presi- dent. re- CHURCHILL EXPLAINS HESS TRIP | Ex-Nazi No. 2 Man Wanted fo Overthrow Prime Minister’s Party LONDON, Jan. 27.—The mission | of Rudolf Hess' flight to England last spring was to ‘establish contacts | with groups working for the over- throw of the Churchill government | 50 Germany might negotiate a mag- | nanimous peace, Prime Minister | Winston Churchill told the House | of Commons today. When Laborite William Thorne the dol/ Michael Haas will give a talk to-| _ Evidence in Kitka Case Submitted ' Jurors See Photos of Mur- der Victim's Body- | Shown Axe Weapon Jurors in the trial of the gov- |ernment versus Nick Kitka, Sitka native charged with the murder of his wife, saw gruesome evidence in the case this morning as the first-degree murder trial swung| {into its second day | Witnesses placed on the stand | as the trial resumed this morning |were L. C. Harrell, Navy photogra- | pher from the Sitka naval air base, |and John Cashen, now of Douglas | years, |but U. S. Deputy Marshal at Sitka |at the time of the crime. | |ly after the body was discovered.| | Harrell told of taking pictures of £ (lay on the floor of the house. The | pictures were submitted as evi-| | ors. | ment witness was Cashen, who told |of entering the Kitka house through |the use of a pass key and find-| ing the body of Mrs, Kitka. He| |also told of the discovery of al |double-bitted axe, behind a trunk in the room, with blood stains and iblLs of hair on the blade. The axs, iwas also admitted as an exhibit in the case, | Cashen further told of examin- llng Kitka's clothing as he was |noused in the Federal Jail at Sit- | ka and finding blood stains on two | sweat shirts and the underclothing. ‘ Witnesses questioned yesterday {as the trial opened were Dr. Louis ' | Sharpenberger, of Sitka, called to |the scene of the crime shortly | after the body was discovered, and | Donald McKinnon, assistant chief ! of police at Sitka, who first inves- | tigated the Kitka house. | } —————— 'BIRTHDAY BALL " 'CARDPARTYT0 | HAVE PRIZES Many prizes for, both ‘bridge and pincchle will be one of the features of the card party fo be given in’ | i | | | Z asked the present whereabouts of the President’s Diamond Jubilee | There will be both men's and |their selection and altogether lots the card party. Island Bastion SINGAPORE, Jan, 27 — Fiercely |vations be made. This may be donc | throughout the Channel district for The invaders are within 48 milm‘ol over $1,000.00. from Tstu Pahat, was acknow-i“’ their staff of hard workers, in- Hess, Churchill retorted: |Mrs. Charles Sabin, Miss Doris the Gold Room and lobby of the Baranof Hotel on Saturday even- | — |ing, January 31, in conjunction with | | ’jApS PRESS Birthday Ball celebration, it was announced today by Mrs. Charles G. Burdick, Juneau Chairman for | (lo SER Io the annual event. K i | | women's prizes for ‘individual tables' |of card players as well as for those | who prefer to play progressively. SINGAPORE Much care is being taken with |of fun and entertainment is assured !those who spend the eveding at Invaders Advance Along|cards mstead of dancing, according| Eolire Frout Bomb |to Mrs. Ruth P. Noble, Chairman of | niire ron ¥ on While it is assured that there will |be room for all who wish to play |cards at the gala event, members of |the committee suggest that reser- attacking Japanese troops pressed|by telephoning Mrs. Noble at the closer to vital Singapore on the|Baranof Hotel, phone 800. ! entire Malayan front today, bombed | _ Ticket Sale Good | the great island bastion and land-| With ticket sales going well ed reinforcements above the east- ern anchor line of the British de-|P0th cards and dancing, it is ex- fensen. (pected that Junean will more than 'reach the goal achieved last year| of Singapore on the west, where| Mrs, W. 8. Ramsey, Chairman of the British said “fighting is tak-|ticket sales and her assistant Mrs.! ing place above Senggarang.” L. F. Gimmell have added a num- ‘This further penetration, 12 miles ber of additional ticket, salesmen’ ledged yesterday. cluding Mrs. Madeiine Stephenson,; & _ |Mrs. Georgia Gallagher, Miss Betty | Sharpe, Mrs. E. F. Clemens, Mrs. |J; G. Shepard, Mrs. Rod Darnell, “He’s where he ought to be!” Freeburger, Mrs. Herbert Redman, | Mrs. Howard Simmons, Mrs. Lance |Hendrlcuon, Mrs. Russell Maynard and Miss ‘Mary Ellen Spain. > pA Elaine Housel have added to the BALTIMORE, Jan. 27. — Bulges |group who afe sélling' tickets in may be the sign of patriotism, |the business district, 4nd Miss Lena ladies. Housewives at a defense |Barde is selling them in the Office council meeting were urged to in- [of Indian Affairs and Miss Kath- clude more carbohydrates, fats and |erine Torkelson in the Governor's proteins in the family’s diet. “Fat |Office. sticks to your rib's longer,” a nutri- | ————— | tionist explained, } BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Bk s v 5. . BRINGING UP FATHER — I SUPPOSE SOME O THESE DAYS WE'LL BE SEEIN’ AS MANY WOMEN SOLDIERS SOLDIERIN’ 1S MAN'S GAME. Wi NONSENSE, SUSIE, A IMMIN By GEORGE McMANUS YOU CANT TELL ME MEN ARE GONNA BE ABLE T/DRIVE THEM THINGS WITHOUT THEIR WIVES TELLIN/ ASTAIRE AND GODDARD NEW DANCE TEAM "Second Chorus” Now at 20th Century Has Good Yarn, Hot Numbers Chorus,” Fred “Second starring LAST TIME TONIGHT ASTAIRE“GODDARD "SECOND. CHORUS'. A Paamount Pictra with Artie Shaw 42,5 Charles Butterworth Burgess Meredith. moc-s by Bois Momas = Where Better Big Pictures Play Astarie and his new dance partner, Paulette Goddard, is playing to- night for the last times at the 20th Century Theatre, and let it be sald that it's right “in the groove’ jiving, as one of the best comedies seen hereabouts in quite some time Miss Goddard and Astaire are charming together. Miss Gaddard, of course, has been hiding her danc- ing talent under a bushel all these and when she’s in Astair arms going through the “Dig It, you wonder why it took so long for that talent to be discovered. As- tarie's frolicsome feet are still the cleverest and most nimble which Called to the Kitka house short- ever cut a rug on the screen, as, desired ‘The man’s gay picture far as we're concerned. a marvel. And this tremely clever comedian. The story. skillfully worked out, dence and passed among the jur- produces one hilarious situation af-|the oth |ter ancther. Tt concerns two trum- ' jokes, makes up the rest of the Qll- Next on the stand as a govern- Pet players in a college band, As- arlous story. [20"CENTUR COLISEUM “Murder the Air” “Comin’ Round the Mountain® ure, who 15 its leader, and Mére- |dith who is its misleader. They are rivals for the affections for the hand’s beautiful manageress, Paul- ette Goddard. A sudden and - graduation dissolves the band, with Miss Goddard getting a job managing Artie Shaw's band. |the murdered woman's body as it shows him once again to be an ex- How Miss Goddard goes about try- ing to get the boys a break -wWith the Shaw band, and how each kills chances with practical ~ Are "Junior Oscars” Four-year-old Baby 's-ndy and 10-year-old Darryl Hickman look over the “Junior Oscar” plaques presented to them in Los Angeles after their selection as the best juvenile performers in the movies in 1941 by students of some 5,000 dancing schools throughout the country, Baby Sandy won for her work in “Melody Lane” and Hickman for Electric Washer % Savq Your Energy, . 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