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

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1942 PAGE THREF, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ||GUY KIBBEE IN LOVABLE ROLE AT CAPITOL Scaflergood_l;ulls Strings’ | Heads Double Fea- ture Program SHUW FLACE UF JUNEAU TONITE—SATURDAY | FEATURES! RKO- Redio presonts Second in the series of pictures | based on the world-renowned stor-| ies by Clarence Budington Kelland, “Scattergood Pulls ‘the Strings” leads the double feature bill at the| ¥ Capitol Theatre tonight and Satur- day.” Guy Kibbee, in a warm, hu- | man interpretation, again appears |in the title role—which, it is un- | derstood, he will portray in all the i series | The true-to-life representation of a small town and its inhabitants is presentad in this case through the | “GREEN medium of the romance between HORNET” two of the youngsters of Cold-| (Sat. Mat.) river. | — AND —! # f || Frowning upon the theory that | | rural communities do not foster so- | phisticates, this “Scattergood” story |proposes to show that the ‘youth of smaller towns is just as apt to be worldly-wise as his urban cous- in. Most of them go to high school and college, see educational mo-!| tion pictures, listen to the radio,| and take advantage of thy modern| facilities of transportation to visit big cities. As a consequence, it is; [not correct to depict them as pro-| verbial hayseeds ! The romance in “Scattergood Pulls the Strings” is between a typi- cal country-bred boy with high |ideals, a college graduate working | (in scientific research, and a | thoughtful young woman required | [to face the future with staunch| resignation. i Also on the program for F'riday" and Saturday will MISSUs' MATINEE Saturday 1 P.M. HOLLYWOOD SABOTAGE DRESSED UP Di recfo'riings Tense Drama Out of Dark Cellars ACTION ON ROAD TO ALASKA HELD UP BY WAR DEPT. President Says He Is Wait- ing for Recommenda- | tions fo Be Made be “Meet the Missus”, sparkling addition to the| |popular family series of the Hig-| B ‘wgms family. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—Presi- | K1 a7 dent Roosevelt told the newsmen| at a conference today that he is awaiting definite recommendation of the War Department before taking any action on theprojected highway from the United States, through Canada, to Alaska. - BUY DEFENSE STAMPS CARA NOME FACE POWDER Instant new loveliness is yours when you use your tint of this exquisite pow. der—superior in qu texture, tint ECONOMY and clinging SIZE powaerl $ | By ROBBIN COONS | (os"‘lv MISI | HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 27 — Alfred | AKE | Hitchcock had a new toy, and he | was enjoying it. 2 g CADIZ, O., Feb. 25—Mrs. Joseph | Outwardly, it was just a movie Gape got 40 miles away before she | set- Ballroom stuff. Ballroom in found she had tossed away an old /® New York mansion of the mar- | pocketbook containing five $20 ble stan_'way,_poued palm era, sur- bills, three diamond rings and a|ViViNg in this strange and hurly- ruby ring, neglecting to transfer| Purly today. Dancers. Dress ex- her valuables to a new purse she | tras in ‘their finest slllgs. velvets, had purchased. | satins—and early morning yawns Mrs. Gape drove back and|'°% 7 searched the street where the purse| And Robert Cummings and Pris- was discarded. Then she made cilla Lane, cqmmz cautiously but house-to-house calls until she‘unmelodramatmally down a stair- reached the home of A. W. Al-|Way¥, conversing furtively before bright, who returned the purse.(Cummmgb steps into the ballroom, |He found it in the street.: laceosts a couple standing near. He TS says: “Pardon me, sir, you'll think NOTICE—CAR OWNERS iI'm crazy—but this place is swarm- | Please keep cars off the streets ing with spiés and saboteurs!” REG. o GET YOUR SIZE TINT TODAY Sl . Al S0 snow plow can be used. - | -4 The old gentleman, Cyril Ring, Butler-Mauro Drug Co. feks KE‘; JUNGE, regarding him - tolerantly, his ex- The Rexall Store g hief of Police. | ,ression saying,.”I do think you're crazy"—for after all this is the home of a leader of society, the fuests are prominent in social, in- dustrial, finaneial circles, and the | affair is a charity ball—for war re- Bef. 25y Ballrbom, dancers, Cummings, Lane, Ring, the situation—what a shiny toy for Alfred Hitchcock! He beamed all over, which is quite a BABY'S COLDS Relieve misery fast —externally. Rubon ICKS VapoRus < 1891—Half a Century of Banking—1941 ‘ The B.M.Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS | The Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Association of Juneau has again declared an annual dividend of four per cent for its depositors. Start Your Account Tomorrow with $1 or More 0 | Headquariers Hardeman Money Available at Any Time Accounts Government Insured Up to $5.000.00 Alaska Federal Savings and Loan i Association of Juneau R-PROOFED Hats H. S. Graves ‘fhe Clothing Man WATE First Photo % One reason for the sensational Russian push against the Nazis is the Red Army’s ability to keep ’em flying | at twenty below zero and lower, temperatures that solidify ordinary lubricating grease into an ice-like | block. This is the PE-2, twin-engined superspeed bomber in its natural winter terrain, as it prepares to take off for a raid. The reputation the PE-2 has won for itself is enviable, but details of its winter per- of Russia’s Winter Bomber WILLIAM BOYD COMES TONIGHT, | 20TH CENTURY "Hopalong;' C;ssidy Rides| to Action in “"Doom- | ed Caravan” | ‘There’s trouble in the high erras again, and “Hopalong™ sidy rides to action and adventure lin straightening it out, in the lat-| | est of the popular Cassidy series of | outdoor action romances, “Doomed Caravan”, which opens tonight at| |the 20th Century Taking for its theme the famous| | wagon trains of the old west which| |did all the freighting on_the plains| | before the arrival of the iron horse. |“Doomed Caravan” tells the story of a frontierswoman, played by | ! Minna Gombell, who owns a freight-! ling business and who intends to| s Bl N e | |keep it running despite the am-! |bitions of a rival who stops at + % s |nothing to run her out of busi-| ness. | She overcomes the rival, with the aid of “Cassidy”, portrayed by the' inimitable William Boyd, and his = TONIGHT and OACENTURY| <prumpay WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY! RACING THRILLS...ROARING ACTION WITH CASSIDY! Paramount Presents CLARENCE E. MULFORD'S . "DOOMED CARAVAN " WILLH\MA BO“YP i Russell Hayden - Andy Ulyde Minna Gombell - Morris Ankrum Ditsched A HARRY SHERMAN P KIDDIES MATINEE Saturday at 1 P.M. PLUS—30 Minutes LATE WORLD NEWS Scenic—Cartoon—Fashions | COLISEM—Last Times Tonight of Rangoon. Bert Christman never RICHARD DIX in returned | “CHEROKEE STRIP': }\ His body was found harnessed to| an open parachute. Announcement e comic strip. formances remain a closely guarded secret. spot of beaming considering - his gross tonnage. Quite a change,” he said be- | tween takes, “from the usual mus- | ty, dark cellar of mystery and men- ace. 1 think it's different.” He in- | dicated the bright chandeliers, the | gaiety, the richness—the casual se- dateness of wealth and position dis- porting itself. But skullduggery proceeding underneath it all, he assures me, the beam overflowing his second chin. _RIDER HIT BYF.D.R. Anfi-Commai-y Sales Tag Added to Appropriation It was his first experiment with suspense under the bright lights of gaiety. With practically no en- couragement, he licked his plotting chops and told all. “They're pris- Bill Draws Fire oners of the saboteurs—at this par- e ty. They can move around freely,| WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—Presi- but they cant get out. Footmen | dent Roosevelt today condemned as guard the doors. They can iip_"si:svery reprehensible method of leg- peal to any of the guests—you just | _mmg what he called attaching saw them appeal to one—but they}"‘dem which ought to be vetoed to > measures which cannot be vetoed. don't know who is loyal, who is| s 2 & in the gang. It is all brightly light-| The President told his press conference that since 1913 he has ed, in the open. Finally Cummings . decides to denounce the saboteurs|Dad the idea it is not quite fair to Congress or to the country to from the middle of the dance floor. | % p Then he 100ks up—at an ovcrlook-’“""“h riders to appropriation mea- ing window a man levels an auto- | SUres when the riders are not ger- matic at him. He speaks—an np-lm"“"' 3 peal for charity funds. He is-still His remarks arose from the plan in the trap. . ..” |of the Senate farm bloc to tack Alfred Hitchcock was as excitcd‘on the ‘;wr_ldmg .‘32'000’000'000 War about these wheels-within-wheels Appropriation Bill an amendment of “Saboteurs” as'a kid with his| 96sigtied to prevent the sales of first electric train, He had.me|BOVeThment-held farm products be- that way ‘too. Maybe that's why| oW full parity prices. H¥chcock [’yictur’v‘w are that Wiy : 1l}e Sel!al@ has already approved 3 | legislation including this prohibi- g {tion but the farm bloc took steps 1 . ['to clinch its victory by putting sub- ANKER SUNK stantially the same provisions in the | | | | Two Survivors Land - TeII" FISH PRODUCTS (0. " How Others May Have | EsapedAlive | T: ::E::m HERE MANASQUAN, N. J., Feb. 27—|Inc, an Illinois corporation, was The American tanker R. P. Resor dualified today to do business in the burned at sea ‘after it was tor- Teiritory after filing the proper pedoed just before midnight about Papers in the office of Frank A. 20 miles southeast of here, two Boyle, Territorial Auditor. survivors who landed here said. The statutory agent in Alaska is They said they saw a motor life- | Lester O. Gore, of Ketchikan. | boat bearing about 30 men clear! |away from the ship. Flaming oil, Hosp'l‘l NO'I'ES Mrs. J. J.' Brown was admitted | surrounded the sinking craft, but| | the survivors expressed hope that |to St. Ann’s. Hospital last evening for surgical streatment. The President also indicated he would look with disfavor upon adding war powers pending in the House with an amendment to sus- | !war lasts, | the boats and occupants were res—l | cued by another ship. * ON SCREEN | : Mrs. Mary Hclmquist, who un- {derwent a minor operation at St. 'Ann’s Hospital, left the hospital today. ! Mrs. P. W. Canfield, who has been a surgical patient at St. Ann’s Hospital, | . Charles Clayton had a minor op- eration at the Government Hos- pital this morning. b e oo epemanend MISS WILLIAMS MARRIES & Andrew Ebona, of Angoon, and ‘the Capital, in cattergood Pulls the Strings,” playing the title role in the Sage of Cold River series. Guy ' Kibbee ' 1 ried today in Juneau by U. S. Com- f missioner Felix Gray. Witnesses } were Emma Hopkins and Joseph G. Johnson, WELL-WHAT'S HE ALL BLOWN UP HELLO - QAT BRG" ,DID YOu SEE GAS -BAG" 7 HE JUST LEFT-, WHAT 'STYLE HE'S PUTTIN' ON- RICH-HE boys from “Bar 20," who include| ¢ pis death was delayed by War A o e have :d both at Kun- Lucky” Jenkins, played by Russell| Dopartment regulations until after| We have operated hoth & ¥ e Wide World Features (formerly AP jhuge war appropriation so the|peature Service), asking for his danger-of a Presidential veto would |story, Christman wrote the story be lessened. ; ‘pend the 40 hour week while the! Amy Williams, of Juneau, were mar= | By GEORGE McMANUS HE THINKS HE'S SEVEN TIRES- Hayden, and “California” Jack, who is Andy Clyde in real life. All turn in the same high grade | performances which movie-goers | |have learned to expect from the| productions of Harry Sherman, the! {man who brought the famous Clar- ence E. Mulford character “Hopa- long” Cassidy to the screen. D LAST LETTER , IS GIVEN OUT FROM RANGOON American Volunteer Pilot | Christman Sends “Lat- | | est” Story to A. P. | Cable to Wide World Features | RANGOON—Of the American| | volunteer pilots who gave - their |lives defending this Asiatic out-| post of the Allied cause, none loved | |flying better than slender, blond | Bert Christman, 26, of Fort Col- | lins, Colorado, who at one time drew “Scorchy Smith,” an Associ- ated Press comic strip. | And none was braver. Wounded | {in combat on Jan. 4, Christman re- turned to action: two days later. On Jan. 20, when he came back with his tomahawk shot up from a hazardous bomber escort flight{ over Thailand, he received a cable’ {from M. J. (Joe) Wing, editor of “for Joe.” . | But on January 23, while an AP |staffer was waiting at the Ameri- jcan Volunteer Group's field tent| |to tell Bert Christman his story had cleared censorship and was; ready for cabling, something hap- pened. ‘i [ Japanese fighters made a sweep IS SEEN HERE William Boyd (abeve) knewn to millions of action fans as'“Hop- along” Cassidy, is back again in another “Hopalong” adventure, “Dogmed Caravan,” at the 20th OWNS land with 27 bullet holes in my expect responses of six-inch lo { Group's average to date is 20 toE i friends in an authentic aviation Iga mother WAk, HOHIRG ming, China and Rangoon. A bul= A military funeral was conduct- |y scraped my neck on operations ed in Burma and that was “30"| jnuary 4. My radio earphones for Bert Christman, who went on|ywere knocked off and I had to to greater adventure than any ""‘hmd with a bullet-punctured - tire, drew with his pen. But his story |ty plane slewed around on the~ lived—~and here it is, written as “‘nmwu_v but stayed right side up, lefter to his old boss. | Doctor Sam Prevo of AVG took Bert’s Letter |care of me in no time at all. January 20, 1942| Between patrols the favorite AVCE Dear Joe: topic of conversation seems to Things are getting hot here. Ev-|when the next letter will come, en Scorchy Smith would be satis-|from home. AVG'ers spend quite fied. Today I returned from a'a bit of money on cables back flight with Blenheims over Thail-|the States. They say they don plane. words with flowers gmw‘l;wh The Tomahawks have proved them, but certainly like good pursuits. Armor plate behind often from their families. “‘ the cockpit saved more than one m"“"-l of our pilots. The Japanese Navy ‘Berty Naughts and ‘Army 97's turn up b fair speed and are very maneuver- ‘ able, but the American Volunteer E 14 one. The AVG's are Army and Navy trained. We wear wrapped leggings | or waterboys. As an outfit, it doesn't polish brass buttons. Uncle | Sam was a good flying instructor, however. Today we brought the Blenheims back okay and knocKed | down two Japs when eight dived | out of the sun on our umbrella pro- tection. Blenheim pilots are first rank and seem to thrive on low level bombing. I enrolled in the AVG last June, leaving the scouting squadron of the aircraft carrier Ranger. Fly- ing always has been interesting to’| me. Now with real purpose it is especially so. However, when “this” is all over, I'm sure I'll be content again to sit at a drawing board and pen my experiences and those of my JULIUS WILE SONS & CO., INC., NEW V¢ | In these trying times relaxation is all- important. 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