The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 16, 1942, Page 3

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1942 PAGE THREE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA (Norway in Revolt) NEWS SHOWING - i Now Show Place of Juneau Japanese Spy Film By ROBBIN COONS Hollywood, Feb. 16 — It was in Shanghai, on Decemier o6, 1941, The drab little office with the (omes Up VICTOR MATURE IS STARRED IN | SEA EPIC HERE, "Captain Caution’ Playing at Capitol Theatre Based | on Roberts’ Best Seller The roaring action of battles on the high seas, the thrilling, smash- | ing supremacy is unfolded with terrific impact and amazing realism in Hal Roach’s “Captain Caution” the sweeping sea epic based on Kenneth Roberts’ best seller, which | had its local premiers at the Capi- | tol Theatre on Sunday through | United Artists release. The scope of sweeping action on| the screen has always been limit- less because of the versatility of the camera, and never has this been more forcefully proved than in the vividly realistic sequences | which are unreeled in “Captain Caution.” | But flaming action is not the only highlight in this new adven- ture romance Starred in the film are Vietor | Mature and Louise Platt, and in| prominent supporting roles are| such favorites as Leo Carrillo, Bruce Cabot, Vivienne Osborne, | Robert Barrat and Miles Mander. | This thrilling feature is on again for tonight with final showing to-| morrow night. | [ . £ 3 | | |man who stands to clean up al | quick piece of change if he| doesn’t mind risking the transferred hate and suspicion of fans. He| doesn't. Cravat (Noel because he! was a Christmas baby) is of Dutch,| | French, Hungarian descent, and| was born in the Dutch East Indies! Yes, he feels that way about the Setting Sun. Of course there’s an around to foil all this secret agent stuff, and that's Preston Foster. Here he is right here, though that| |was his tortured cry you just heard | ordered scuttled to save her from when he jumped from th FBI MAKES NEW RAIDS ON ALIENS . American | This is the great liner Normandie—now the U. . S. Lafayette—a roa complete destruction. e ship to the pier. DUANE BURRIDGE HAS OFFERED LAND FOR veerasLe GARDENS TRIAL BEGUN Duane M. Burridge, owner of the tract of land known as the “Bur- ridge Homestead” at approximately mile 2 on Glacier Highway, north ng Inferno Sweeps Liner Normandie rin g inferno of flame and smoke as she blazed at her New York pier. This graphic Scund photo depicts the desperate efforts made to check the flames and save the massive ship, third largest in the world. She was There were 2,200 persons aboard and only 170 suffered injui DAMAGE CASE al New quk_ bie; | | g One man was killed FIREMEN'S BALL | SATURDAY NIGHT DREW BIG CROWD B E FO R E ]URY ‘Atfair One of Most Sutcess-i ful Social Events of ! |those ever-scrappin’ a gang of saboteurs. It's there that FAST, FUNNY THRILLER AT 20TH CENTURY. Lloyd Nolan and Lynn Bari Scrapping Screen Sweef- hearts in ‘Chater Pilot’ Lloyd Nolan and Lynn Bari, screen sweet- hearts, battle not only each other| gut sabotage in the skies during| “Charter Pilot,” action-packed film which opened yesterday at the 20th Century Theatre | This fast and funny thriller from the 20th Century-Fox studios, stars Nglan and has Bari opposite him at the head of a strong featureq cast including Arleen Whelan and George Montgomery. Lloyd's a daredevil pilot while Lynn is a radio announcer who| broadcasts his thrilling adventures| each week. She gets Lloyd to give up flying and accept an executive position on the promise of marry- ing him. But Lloyd doesn’t stay, grounded for long. Going to Honduras for line investigation, Lloyd an air- uncovers | five- mile- a- minute thrills take place five miles up with Lloyd res-| cuing his buddy and Lynn on hand (to broadeast it in one of this sea- son’s most thrilling climaxes. —lel SUSPENSION, * ASSESSMENT MEASURE UP | | | | 1 | | Delegate Dimond Intro-| duces Measure in House | TIOMCENTURY Where the Better BIG Pictures Piay! | Starring llOYDmNOIMI LYNN BARI ARLEEN WHELAN GEORGE MONTGOMERY 4 A LATE WORLD NEWS Scenic—Novelty—Cartoon , | COLISEUM—Last Times Tonile {“Rhythm on the River" MANY SIGN UP [FOR DRAFT AT HALL, DUGOUT Regislrafiofin'ers fo Ré- main Open Until9 * This Evening Slowly but steadily, scores .of Juneau men between the ages of 20 . cpaque glass door had a flag on lhil!’ndnm- He's kgrinrl:mg s LY Y S Crbntal e St SO Ty and 44 thronged into draft re - the wall—the Setting Sun of Japan it his is one knockout | . _ .of Juneau, has g e citi-| myia) was begun in U. S. District H . | tration centers in the City Hall o gy Japanese sentry by|punch he isn't having to take. Officers Arrest:and Search ‘zens o Gastineau channel the pri- gourt this mosning in the case of Winter Season Regardmg Work | Amerioan Tagioh' DHigoat: toas S the opaque glass door puffed on| “I've been knocked out in pic- vilege of growing vegetables On pi,vq Capp versus Robert Smith ‘udd their names to the long' list’ a cigarette, lounged against his|tures plenty,” he says. “I've been Suspeds Nea[ Sa(- his land for the duration of the .4 ihers. The action is in con- Hundreds of dancers crowded the 2 Americans who may be called jto P e " helknocked i cidentall f . 5 i o is i G 2 v . i Recognizing tne urgent need for| rifle On the other side of the|knocke out accidentally, o ¥ present war with the Axis nations, nection with damages allegedly Elks' Hall on Saturday evening to b legislation, Alaska Delegnte‘d""md their country. More glass, the silhouette of a man, an)course—six times. Noel Madison| ramento, Calif it was announced by Dr. W. B.'girrercd in an automobile accident, Make the 36th annual Firemen's S48 ~CE7HA 0%, M oduced 300 had registered at the. two g S Bl rtured | here—he slipped me the kayo twice. ' . e srritor! art- | P Voo b * Ball £ th rage u1 Anthony J. Dimond has Introduced 1 e Sy evil man—and a sudden L(\lulx(.d i ) 3 g Ramsey of the Terriiorial Depart The following jurors were lm_’l}a one o e most successful the bill, H. R. 6381, “Providing for ters by 4:30 o'clock this afte: cry of anguish from this evil onfi.vFlfH time w"us in The Last Mile.’| ment of Health. | paneled: Merton F. Benedict, Cor- |£iven in the long history of the the suéper‘mlo.n of annual assess-| Neither registration place - unseen victim The Japanese He misjudged a punch. I've even| SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 16- A shart Hine 8do: & FepreseAtatival ARl Bo AL Bbatiey |volunteer firemen in Juneau. ¥ assess-! . wded af any time, although: entry puffed on his cigarette, knocked myself out. Took a spill|, = S b ¥ | delia “Carison, Tsaac M. Hofstad,|Tioo™nrevaiied at the dance for MRt Work on mining clalms held \ o onpbaared at o regular PRTe Py sod OF 2 2 " i b .. Twenty-five raiding parties de-jof the Territorial Department of Nathaniel Blair, Mary. Jeanette| .- ' by location in the United States' | lounged against his rifle. unmoved.|in ‘The Last Days of Pompeil' .., 04 simuitaneously on Japanese | mealth discussed with B. F. Heint- | ¢ 5 el | which “V for Victory, Valentine and g .| Volunteer clerks asked questi i 3 s 2 5 8 4 s : -| cowling, Clara E. Gruber, Edwin s and Alaska,” reading as follows: | . Even now, a Japanese fleet was|that put me out cold. Lee Tracy got| .. qences in the vicinity of strateg-! s 8 | Volunteer” was the watchword and . and filled in the answers on regls~ acific|me in another pic | ity of straleg-|;leman, Regional Forester, the|Francis Cashel, Mrs. Helen V. , “Be it enacted by the Senate ' vitie g ly across Pacific|me in another picture. o Epatih iy | g the dancers entered so thoroughl: tratio T:’l;::w]:;‘" :lLL\mu:)\n 2 the| “But you never catch me doing|\C Sacramento air fields today inpossipjlity of the Forest Service Friend, Mrs. Mae Howell, Matte iy, e spi’m g il e, and House of Representatives of gre';““:i:“:::; ‘D‘;"’m;:.‘::lm olive branch for Washington Slunt stuf{ nowadays — nog|another maor FBI roundup of 5Us-making land available for garden Davis, Georpiana Stewart and John by unanimous acclaim, -the five |€ United States of America in'" ype registration centers will mes R when T can help it. Who thanks|Pected enemy aliens in Northerlpiots. Mr. Heintzleman wired Washi- | Clauson. Ipiece orchestra of Lillian Uggen CONBIess assembled, That the pro-i,, ;"o pon until 9 o'elock this evehe It was a scene for “Secret Agent for it? Nobody. You can break|Coifornia. b lington for authority to do so, also d— |was requested to play for an extra Vision of section 2324 of the Re-jy. o, .y every male between of J ‘plfll;n"' and right now—without|your neck in a picture, and |lxey3|wm“:::jv’:':u r;'}d‘rxt“t‘u:':‘\“ l';m:(:mp:)];‘lor use of CCC workers and equip- | ey .vi.;é;dhstntutes of the Um;cd S:“T"'!ug«s of 20" and 44 who' nas e il Yo 3 % Sy, i on- 13 a sounty offlcers e B ¢ clearing o 1g This | AL ' which requires on each mining; 7 < e t 4 Geelng any more—1Il venture a|se¢ it and say, ‘Aw. it was faked! " LA O® URC ARSI B Ty [ ment for clearing. the land. Thisi lu("_E WRIGHT IS | Preceding the dance numerous MY 64 i atent| "istered previously, may be S. ¢ s is 4 sture to make|anyway.” $0-0-0-0 g | authority was granted by the De-| | supper and dinner rties were clajm 8d,: and. uy i rolled. guess that this is a picture el 3 By charge of the San Francisco FBI| VIO s SFEERG 8 TRC D HERE ON WAY EAST |siven at various homes throughout N been issued therefor, not 1 : ARHEN R R \| partme o erior. ell- given a s h S IS i i your blood boil over, and over, and | over. Hollywood at war labors under | no handicaps, fears no m\'esugamon; for its “propaganda” (nor ever did| can bel for that matter), and we treated to an honest, enjoyable| hate. | It's as startling now to see Japs in uniform off the set as it used| to be to see Nazis with swastikal arm bands. Most of these Japan- ese are the real thing—and Amer-| jcans—but the garch-fiend, the se-| cret agent, who comes from be- hind the door with a friendly grin is Noel Madison, transformed by make-up into a convincing Oriental. | It’s really no change of pace for| him—Noel usually plays gangaters} in pictures. i There's another Noel | Noel Cravat. Christmas necktie, Elsie Janis calls him. Cravat, slant- eyed and dark, plays the secret| agent’s henchman, another sweet| character. Cravat looks more or-| iental than Madison. DR. J. E. YOUNG WILL RETURN TO HOME IN NORTH CAROLINA Dr. J. E. Young, who has been in Juneau waiting transportation to Cordova where he was called to appear as a government witness in a trial in the United States Dis- |trict Court, was notified that his| testimony would not be needed and will leave Juneau for the south to return to his home in Greenshoro, North Carolina. Dr. Young left Cordova some ax‘oundv'“me ago and has been practicing| No enemy planes were sighted medicine in the southern city since leaving Alaska. > J. C. MELLQUIST ARRIVES BY PLANE FROM P'BURG J. C. Mellquist, well known mer- {office, were armed with more thar 200 presidential warrants for thej arrest and search of aliens. RADIO SILENCE " IN_NORTHLAND ON SUNDAY P.M. A “Radio silence” was observed over Alaska for 15 minutes late( Sunday afternoon as the result of an “air raid alert alarm” sent out from Anchorage, according to an Associated Press dispatch. i and the “radio silence” was soon lifted. The Army communications systems, CAA and broadcasting |stations “went off the air” during the silence period and until the “all clear” signal. No explanation man Holbrook of the Forest Serv- ice, who was requested to select the land, approached Mr. Burridge he readily consented to the use of ! his homestead. It is planned to di- vide the ground into plots 25 by 50 feet and assign plots to individuals by lot, It is quite possible that the amount of green stuff coming into Juneau from now on will be less since a large number of the truck |farmers on the Pacific Coast were Japanese who are now interned. It will be necessary for the For- est Service, who administers the CCC program, to know very soon how much land will have to be cleared. Those who desire to plant a garden, write or call the Terri- torial Department of Health, Ju- neau, telephone 466. e | !lhe city with guests joining the throng of dancers later in the even- ing. | FOR MEDICAL CARE | e - FIRST AID COUNCIL T0 BE ESTABLISHED, Lucille Wright, well known field nurse with the Office of Indian | Affairs, arrived yesterday from| | Fairbanks, on her way to Minneap- | |olis, Minnesota for medical lrout-i ment and rest. Miss Wright caused great concm'n‘ THURSDAY smlo" late last October when she was losL! in a snow storm during a dog team| On Thursday evening at 7:30 trip from Moose Creek to Tetlinjo'clock there will be a meeting of |and located only after she had been |all those who have been assigned |out for 24 hours and"had boht feet|to the various first aid posts {tmzen. Searching parties both by‘throughout the city for the pur-! {air an dski were sent out as s0OD|pose of organizing a First Aid {as she was reported missing and council, it was announced today she was located and, brought tolpy Dr. Courtney Smith, First Aid | safety. o : s | { . . |Chairman for Civilian Defense She has been in Alaska over fif-| |teen years and for the last nvol‘::g“" Xho Wik peeeide. ay: e Sress ‘has served in the Moose Creek, Tetlin and Aanana Crossing com- munities. Officers will be elected during |the evening from among the Chiefs than $100 worth of labor to be pe formed or improvements aggregat-! ing such amount to be made each| year, be, and the same is hereby,| suspended as to all mining claims in the United States, including Al- aska, during the year beginning at| 12 o'clock meridian July 1, 1941, and ending at 12 ,o'clock meridian' July 1, 1942: Provided, That every claimant of any such mining claim,| in order to obtain the benefits of! this Act, shall file, or cause to be! filed, in the office where the loca- tion notice or certificate is recorded, | on or before 12 o'clock meridian, | July 1, 1942, a notice of his desire | to hold said mining claim under this Act.” Representative James G. Scrug- ham of Nevada had previously in-| troduced a somewhat similar meas- ure in the House, H. R. 6295, to suspend the requirements for as- sessment” work as to all mining| claims “which are situated within v s ARMY VS. NAVY VASHON, Wash.,, Feb. 16 — Mr, and Mrs. George J. Smith swe%t with pride when son John won &n appointment to Annapolis, i They were proud again when George was chosen for West Point. John and George are twins. § ARSI i BUY DEFENSE STAMPS lof First Aid Posts and plans for|the exterior limits of any area {FIRST AID POSTS T0 BE EQUIPPED FOR USE TUESDAY All equipment is to be distribut- | p RAYER FRIDAYM to the various First Aid Posts | throughout the city tomorrow, it The World Day of Prayer will was announced today by Dr. Court- be observed in Juneau next fiiday@ney Smith, Chah‘mnyn {,,. F;'sto ‘i\rid “It's not make-up,” he says. “My chandise broker, arrived in Juneau eyes slant naturally. All they had on Saturday from Petersburg afld| to do was to pluck the outer ends| other towns of Southeast Alaska. of my eyebrows. | —_———— This being a young BUY DEFENSE STAMPS was forthcoming. - ¥ ffici i J ANCHORAGETOMR. | —~==— [ i e tosem e AND MRS. D. VicTor, ~ PRECAUTION wusen v o SALMON TRAP | { here’s Mr. and Mrs, Dan Victor are the'J Stanley Liveriore, 61, given a |parents of a baby girl born re-|department store’s $500 payroll by |cently at Providence Hospital in mistake, trudged two miles in bit- iAnchorage, Alaska. This is the ter cold weather to return it, 1891—Half a Century of Banking—1941 TheB.M.Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska SAVINGS COMMERCIAL | DON'T _THINK 1T M I DROP IN AND 'S SAFE TO DRWE FURTHER THIS BLACKOUT=WHILE IN_THIS NEIGHBORHOOD with two sessions arranged. one at)go. the Civilian Defense committee. 2 o'clock in the afternoon and the| other at 8 o'clock in the evening, su! that those unable to attend the first | | will go to the night meeting. ' The sessions will be held in Holy| Trinity Cathedral and as the day, is of great importance. observed ance is expected to be large at both; meetings. 4 1 Suitable programs are being ar-' ranged for bhoth afternoon and evening. { This equipment includes first aid kits, splints, stretchers, bandages and all necessary materials to make them efficient and ready for use. In addition to the distribution of bearing the name, Pirst Aid Emer- gency Center, will be placed = on houses and buildings in which the 20 first aid posts are located so that they can readily be located. over the civilized world, the attend-|the equipment, an attractive sign! second child of Mr. and Mrs. vic-;although the store has messengers itor, the first, Dan Jr. is ncarly;and he has a telephone. three years old. Mrs. Victor, who Said Livermore: is well known in Juneau, was Miss, “I have a party line, and I Alice Moran prior to her marriage |wanted the information kept con- and was for several years on the fidential.” nursing staff of St. Ann’s Hos-| - pital here, | Molotov, the Soviet Commissar ————— |of Foreign Affalrs, was one of the You say “old as the hills” and editors of “Pravda” when it was “changeable as the weather.” Ac- | founded. i tually the hills are young in geo-) logic . age; the weather constant. ——-o BUY DEFENSE STAMPS IN IS IN THE CHAT WiTH RAY SHUROWNCORN- 1Y o TH’ LIGHTS GO ON - T-'CAR WILL. BE SAFE SO YOU SAY THAT YER NEPHEW TIM BUSINESS NOW? OH-YES-AN' HE'S S0 BUSY - THAT HE EVEN WORKS DURING THE JUNIK BLACKOUTS - By GE—OBGE—i;(cMAN‘ Us BY GOLLY-| ?- TIM N, | BUSINESS! CASE IGNORED BY TRIBUNAL Supreme Court Refuses fo, Hear Arguments for Alaska Fisherman WASHINGTON, Féb. 16 — The| Supreme Court today refused to review rulings by the secretaries of { War and Interior denying Wilbur Dow, Alaska -fisherman, the allo-| cation of two Alaskan water sites for salmon trapping. Dow appealed from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which dismissed the complaint against the two departments. In 1927 the Fisheries Bureau closed Alaska areas to fish trap- ping. but since has permitted ap-| plications for specific trap sites. Dow did not want to fish sites | prospected by others, contending the practice would lead “to trap Jjumping in the form of legalized commercial warfare.” His applica- tions for two other sites was de- aied. { | | b Empire Classifieds Pay! Paul Muni (top) “Hudson's Bay” is given bril- liant support by feature flayer\. . Laird Cregar (center) and John: « Sutton (below) in 0th Century~ « Fox adventure film which is | coming to the 20th Century Theatre, #3 e 3o * 4§