The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1942, Page 3

__THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! CAPITOL Staris Sunday? R ' THE REDDEST, BT HEATRE S, SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU ROWDIEST PAG OF THE WEST! P — PLUS — Our Gang Cartoon Late News “Scattergood Pulls the Strings” with GUY KIBBEE “MEET THE MISSUS” A_Higgins Family Laff Riot! Warren William TONIGHT-- VICTIMS OF HAY FEVER WILL BE GIVEN RELIEF Wide World Features NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 28 A young woman chemist and a New Crleans physician have come up | with research results which they expect will be a tremendous boon with their allergen concentrate from tained from other methods. found also a much smaller percent- age of “false positives,” or tests in which a patient was found appar- ently subject to one allergen, but wac actually reacting to an impurity in the solution. The stronger concentrate ,the pair added, necesitates less glycerin when preparing allergen extracts for in- jection, an advantage because glyc- to the sneezing, wheezing anms!rri_n is frequently painful when of hay fever and asthma. i g s E The work of Dr. Charlotte Boat- ner of Newcombe College (the wom- | en’s division of Tulane University) SIO(K OUOIAHONS and Dr. B. G. Efron has been di- rected at developing a new method | NEW YORK, Feb. 28—Closing for deriving highly purified, potent concentrations of allergens, the sub- stances in house dust, foods and pollens which cause allergic disord- ers in human beings. The allergen solutions are used | by physicians in tests to determine which substance or substances is making the patient’s life miserable. The usual treatment thereafter either eliminates the offending sub- stance from the individual's envir- onment, or builds up his resistance to it by injections of the substance. Drs. Boatner and Efron get con- centrates of the allergens by using chemicals and a centrifugal force | process on the material being tested. quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock at today’s short session of the New York Stock Exchange is 2, American Can 61%, Anaconda 27'%, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Com- monwealth and Southern 9/30, Cur- tiss Wright 77, International Har- vester 48':, Kennecott 34%, New York Central 51%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 106.79, rails 27.52, utilities 13.64. MRS. STEVENS HERE Mrs. Willis J. Si S, 3 There has been considerable prev- | ;1 jveq in t,u‘;e;fi:evfor:avor,l:;mi imxl‘ss fifa];maonc ex}"“c"ll"? .“f_’f}'l" | registered at the Baranof Hotel. gens, r. Boatner explains, e RV RE v difference between our methods and others is that the others try to pre- cipitate the ‘active principle’ from a substance, while we try to get rid of the impuritive and have the active principle remaining.” TRAVELLING MAN HERE E. O. Goodmansen, merchandise broker, arrived today from a busi- ness trip to Sitka and is regis- | tered at the' Baranof Hotel. 1891—Half a Century of Banking—1941 The B.M. Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska SAVINGS COMMERCIAL 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 INSURED =¥ Accounts Government Insured Up to $5.000.00 Alaska Federal Savings and Loan | Association of Juneaun Money Available at . Any Time | | | 'Trail of Vigilantes’ Open- {been directing both i FRANCHOTTONE | PLAYS WESTERN ing at Capitol Has Out- standing Cast Franchot Tone es s the first Western role of his career in head ing an imposing cast in Universal's | new adventure epic, “Trail of the Vigilantes,” opening Sunday at the Capitol Theater. Sharing honors with Tone in “Trail of the Vigilants are such | well known players as Warren Wil- liam, Broderick Crawford, Devine, Mischa Auer, Porter Hall, Peggy Moran and others. Tone portrays an undercover!' agent sent to the Western frontier | by a Kansas City newspaper to| hunt down the murderer of a re- porter. At first skeptical of cow-‘ boys and their ways, finds himself fascinated by ranch| life and, after hair-raising experi- " |ences, coupled with a romance, he| The two scientists reported tests |decides to stay. William is seen as the crooked house dust indicated a strength head of the cattlemen's association, | many times that of concentrates ob- | Crawford portrays a rough cowboy They (who wants to be a gentleman like the agent, while Devine and Auer have comedy roles specially adap- ted to their talents. | Peggy Moran, young Universal starlet, wins the first big break of her screen career in portraying the leading feminine role opposite Tone. “Trail of the Vigilantes” was di- rected by Allan Dwan, one of the screen’s all-time veterans, who has in America and Great Britain for quarter of a century. T e - POLLEY FUNERAL T0 BE HELD ON ARRIVAL OF SON a Funeral arrangements for the late E. M. Polley, who died sud- denly Thursday evening from a heart attack, are pending the ar- rival in Juneau of Dr. Clayton Pol- ley, only child of the deceased and Mrs. Polley. Dr. Polley is in Haines awaiting transportation here. Mr. Polley had lived in Juneau since 1916 when he and Mrs. Pol- ley arrived here from theéir home in Boston, Massachuselts. After ar-| ing in Juneau he was employed the Alaska Juneau mine for by ytwo years, until, in the summer of (1918, he enlisted in the army from here. - -eee ONEFLING BALTIMORE, Feh. 28 One| young man found out that sudden| impulses don’t pay. The youth | figured he was going into the army | pretty ‘soon and he “had an itch| t0 drive” just once before he was called. He drove. It cost him | 3200.75 in fines for driving while his license was revoked. And, said the judge, his license stays re-| voked—permanently. | ROLE ON SCREEN | Andy | ¢ the agent § IS KILLER OF 116 J e Wermuth Captain Arthur W. (above)), of Chicago, was re- ported by Clark Lee, the Asso- ciated Press correspondent on Batan Peninsula, Philippines, to have killed 116 Japanese and captured many more, Natalie Wermuth Sister of Captain Arthur Wer- muth, described as America’s one- man army because of his daring exploits in the Philippines, Na- talie Wermuth, above, is shown as Talia on the stage, where she ap- pears as a dancer. Captain Wer- muth is credited with having killed “at least” 116 Japs during scouting activities with General Douglas MacArthur's forces in the Philippines. CAPT. GEORGE G. SALE, FT. RICHARDSON HERE Capt. George G. Sale, from Fort Richardson, arrived in Juneau from Sitka and is staying at the Baranof Hotel, while in town. SR A BUY DEFENSE BONDS Thriller On Screen “The Trail of the Vigilantes” comes It is a western thriller with leads William and Brod Crawford. to the Capitol Theatre on Sunday. taken by Franchot Tone, Warren ! photographer who plays bodyguard Her Brother a Hero i D0 THREE STARS IN * SUNDAY FILM AT 20TH CENTURY Merle Oberson, Rita Hay- worth, Dennis Morgan in | ' Afectionately Yours’ “Affectionately Yours,” starring Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan and Rita Hayworth, has its first local showing Sunday at the 20th Cen- tury Theatre. A rollicking roman- tic comedy, it was directed by Lloyd Bacon, from a screen play by Ed- ward Kaufman based on the story by Fanya Foss and Aleen Leslie. | Making the most of a highly un- usual triangle situation, “Aflection-‘ ately Yours” romps merrily along, telling the story of a playboy for-| who comes GR RIGHT UNDER HIS War Flash! before S Blonde; ad eign correspondent home to stop his divorced wife, whom he still loves, from marry-, ing another man. Close at his heels| in hot pursuit is his erstwhile girl| friend, a resourceful young career 'girl determined to keep him from getting his wife back. Add to this the machinations of his editor, who, wants to keep his best foreign cor-| respondent unencumbered by fam- ily ties, the irate confusion of the wife's suitor, and the well-meaning interference by the Turkish news {to the correspondent. Dennis Morgan, whose work in “Kitty Foyle” won highest critical praise, as well as | armies of feminine fans, is cast|ball, carried newspapers, explored as the correspondent. Lovely Merle | the caves and roamed the hills and Oberon is the wife whom he so|trails made famous by Tom Saw- understandably pursues, and Rita|ver and Huck Finn. Hayworth, who will long be remem- His long and grueliing days in bered as the “Strawberry Blonde,” Washington are not too busy to is mighty petsuasive as the pursu- hark back to them. This was dem- | ing girl onstrated recently when John W.; Mahoney, one of Donald's boyhood chums, went to Washington on a | national defense mission. Nelson | was elated over Mahoney’s presence | and after «the business was settled, they slipped off to the quiet of | his private office to talk over “kid days” while important callers cooled their heels outside. Nelson was an honor student at the Hannibal High School from which he was graduated in 1806, and the University of Missouri where he won membership in both Tau Beta Pi and Alpha Chi Sigma, honorary engineering and chemis- try fraternities, respectively. Lessons Came First | Even as a youngster, his les-| grand | I him! P e Coming—"The >oo—— N NELSON 1S BIG SHOT FOR NATION | By HENRY B, JAMESON HANNIBAL, Mo., Feb. 28—Don- 'ald M. Nelson lived on the “wrong side” of Bear Creek here as a boy |but that made no difference. He| | | was, in'spite of it, one of the best sons came [irst. When the other | known and best liked kids in town.|boys came home from school, they He was a handsome, raw-boned {lung their books on the table anu youth; a brilliant student but not, dashed out doors to play. When| ta bookworm; a good athlete; a|Pon came home from school, he| ! promising young actor who always | 80t his lessons done first and then| {played the villain in school plays,| Went out to play. and leader of the South Side gang| *His powers of concentration were | which lined up and threw rocks at such that he didn't have to study the North Siders who tried to come | hard,” recails Sinclair Mainland, fover their way. former mayor of Hannibal and Some of his old schoolmates, still | Nelson's roommate at Missouri. “He |recall how they envied Don be-|always said in those days that his| (cause he was the only kid on the exercise consisted of running up | South Side who owned a goat cart. and down a column of figures.” Little Lord Fauntleroy This is gross exaggeration be-| He whsn't a toughie—in fact, he cause Nelson was fond of all sport.s‘. | | | | i 1 LENTURY Last Times Tonite— Hopalong Cassidy in “Doomed Caravan” FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT FINDS HOTTEST STORY boy friend retreating wore his Lord Fauntleroy suit long- er than most of the boys—but he got into plenty of fights and usual- ly won. That Lord Fauntleroy was one of the dark moments in Donald’s life. At the grownup age of eight tor nine his grandmother, with whom he lived, still insisted on his ywearing it to Sunday School. { The other boys snickered plenty but didn't dare to laugh out loud. They knew it meant a poke in the nose after church. Normal, American Boy And so fi was the life of a nor- mal, red-blooded American boy in the closing years of the “horse and buggy” era fhat Donald Nelson, the nation’s new war production boss, | spent in Hannibal, the boyhood home of Mark Twain, in the 1890's and the early part of the new cen- | tury. | Quincy Nelson, a “katy” railroad | engineer, and Mary Ann MacDon- |ald Nelson, both well known and popular residents. The old frame | house that was his birthplace still stands in the 1200 block on Lyon Street. Donald was barely three years old |when his mother died and he was |reared by Grandmother MacDon- ald. The South Side may have been called the “wrong side” but old timers recall a lot of fine folk | came from over there, Rollicking Boyhood | Those rollicking boyhood days |are still near to Nelson’s heart, He | still likes to live over those times |when he played corner-lot base- .. BRINGING UP FATHER YES-MY HUSBAND ENTERTAINED ‘GOME GENERALS IN THE ARMY- 1 OLD FRIENDS OF HIS - i | SUPPOSE T} KNOWS A LOT ABOUT FIGHTING- I TAKE (T- [ WHAT N THE | Born in 1888, he was the son of | By GEORGE McMANUS and played baseball and lootbnll( |in high school. Mainland insists ‘hi.s temper was all that kept him joff the college teams. | “Temper?” says Mainland. “they| talk about his ©eing so calm and| !easy going now, but he really had! a temper in those days.” | Nelson played in one baseball | game at Missouri—he was supposed |to be the best first baseman the coach had ever seen—but he got ! in a hot argument with the um- |pire and walked off the field de- | termined to stick to chemistry. | Contrary to some reports that | he worked his way through college tending furnaces and doing odd | Jobs, friends say Nelson had a |good allowance for those days—s$50 |or $60 a month—and any waiting lon tables or firing furnaces that| | he did was for extra pocket change. ! | Expert Pool Player He was one of the best pool play- ers in his class, and always had the' smelliest pipe on the campus. Nelson wanted to be a school | teacher; he has hinted that he| |still would like to return to “Old Mizzou” as a professor of chem- istry. He took what he intended to be a temporary job in 1912 in the laboratories of Sears, Roebuck & Company, with the expectation | that as soon as he had saved enough | money he would go to Princeton {for his doctor’s degree. Instead he rose to a $70,000-a- | year job as vice president, a po-| sition he relinquished to devote 'all his energies to winning the war in the seeopd most important jab[ !in the nation. MMM ‘ | { | _WON 'E PLAYIN/ POKER- = Where the Better BIG Sunday, Monday Pictures Play! Tnesdaz MIDNITE PREVIEW TONIGHT 1:15 A. M. o’Clock NOSE! Kitty Foyle's trawberry vancing on Merle Oberon! SUNDAY MATINEE Doors Open 1:30 P.M. Show Starts 2:00 P.M. Enierlainment “Plane Goofy” “Trouble in Store” Late World News ek RALPH BELLAMY -« GEO. TOBIAS JAMES GLEASON HATTIE McDANIEL * JEROME COWAN Directed by LLOYD BACON A WARNER BROS.-Fint National Pictur Screen Play by Edward Kaulman From the Seory by Fanya Fow and Alecn Leske Road to Zanzibar” Bob Hope, Bing Crosby Dorothy Lamour The home folks were not sur- COLISEUM — Starts Tonite prised to hear that he forgot to| James Cagney, Pat O’Brien ask about the salary-—many times ‘HERE COMES THE NAVY’ smaller—until he w: already on L the payroll. — .- — NewAngles On Zigzags same class as angular, geometrie designs and make the figure seem more stiff and angular than it real- ly is ? If you are too thin or (oo heavy, beware of such a design. For the Jbest effect don't have all the sf going in one direction. They al | much more striking if turned ty | give diagonal, vertical or hori H |lines in combination with the domg n 'rlpe inant note of the design. b Large-patterned ®esigns with dfi cles and garlands of flowers, b favored for spring wear, often steal By LUCRECE HUDGINS ‘\me show from a girl instead of WASHINGTON, Feb. 24—When |enhancing her appearance. They you start shopping for your spring |also increase the apparent size of outfit, look both ways, ladies, be- the wearer, Wi fore going to stripes zigzags and | If you dote on dots, you're akay clrcles. | because such prints are very flags As a rule, vertical stripes makes | (ering to the out-of-proportion a gal look taller, while horizontal yre and look very trim and stripes make her look broader, but|when worn with white accessories; sometimes, when the stripes are| PRG54 S S " wide and evenly spaced, an optical | i illusion results. BURDICK TO KETCHIKAN . X ] Charles G. Burdick, Assistant RS gional Forester, plans to leave Ji A stout effect may he given by a dress with an up-and-down de- sign, while a tall slender appear- ance may be given by stripes that are horizontal. neau for Ketchikan Monday on Forest Service boat. He will If this isn't confusing enough,| gone for about 10 days on official some prominent stripes fall in the | business for the department. 05 » Rites for U. S. Heroes —Official U. S. Navy Photo: & With Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the fio” fleet, in attendance, funeral services are held aboard a U. 8. cruiser at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawali, for several members of the Ihl"l" crew who lost their lives in the U, 8. raid on the Jflp—occnplnd‘ Marshall and Gilbert islands in the. Pacific. Admiral Nimitz is* standing at right in front row of officers. i’ 4 WAIT 29 Call STAR Cabs [ GO WHERE YOU PLEASE WITH YOUR MIND AT EASE * NPHONE Y * Ride STAR Cabs DON LOZZIE—Owner