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

'MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1942 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA PAGE THREE. Bud ABBOTT & Lou COSTELLO Dick POWE with the I 1L ANDREWS SISTERS CLAIRE DODD'* DICK FORAN —PLUS— FILMUSICAL CARTOON NEWS Rationing 0f Gas fo Be Starled Filling Stations on Fasl| Coast, Pacific North- west Given Orders WASHINGTON, Marcn 16—One| hundred thousand filling stations on the eastern seaboard and Pacific| Northwest that serve 10,000,000 auto drivers, will receive 20 per cent less gasoline than formerly, beginning Thursday and will be permitted to ope no more than 12 hours daily or 72 hours a week. Orders to this effect have been issued by Donald M. Nelson, War Production Administrator and is for the purpose for a stop gap until cards may be printed and a rigid rationing program started on both coasts. | > 40-8 MEET Members of the Forty and Eight enjoyed their monthly luncheon at Percy’s Cafe this noon There was a full attendance at the luncheon which is held on the third Monday of each month. Leo Jewett, Chev de Gare, presided at the meeting. - MRS. ORDWAY LEAV ON BUSIN Mrs. Laura B. Ordway, owner of Ordway's Photo Shop, left Sunday for a short business trip to Seattle. —— e — MRS .C. A. BERGSTROM AND SON LEAVE SUN. Mrs, C. A. Bergstrom and her young son Teddy, left Juneau for the south on their way to Idaho where they will visit for some time. Win Film | lier | get back when darkness came and When they failed to re-| VOLUNTEERS RESCUE MAN, 12-YEAR-OLD Pair Is Trapped by Dark- ness on Salmon Creek Trail Chief of e party trail up Headed by Police, a volunteer night climbed the mcn Creek to the dam to ring back Joe Tremel, father- in-law of Jack G ett, Juneau bar; tender, and 12-year-cld Douglas Smithberg, son of Otto Smithberg and a newsboy for The Daily Al- 1ska Empire The pair had hiked up the trail toward the Salmon Creek dam ear- yesterday but were unable 1o Ken Junge, re last snow fell n, Jun rescue arty Fire Station. Those who participated in the search were, in addition to Junge, Jack Garrett, Fritz Burg, Police Officer Cleo Commers, Otto Smith- berg and George Fitz, Scout Lead- er of Troop 612. The searchers climbed the trail in two hours and found Trem- and the Smithberg poy in an aban- dened cabin where they had taken refuge, They returned down the trail in an hour and a half After being located, Tremel and the boy remained all night and returned down the trail this morn- ing suffering no ill effects. The moned volunteers to the station house at 9:15 pm. The search had been completed by 2 am. was notified and was organized at a the alarm for the search sum-| COMEDY STARS BRING LAUGHS AT CAPITOL [ | "In the Navy"" Brings Ab-| fott, Costello and Dick Powell in Big Farce Abbott and Costello and the An- drews who scored such ional hit in “Buck Privates”, are reunited in a new comedy even sisters ser | more hilarious than their first fea- | ture, in “In The Navy” now play- ing at the Capitol Theatre, Sharling stellar position with Ab- bott and Costello is Dick Powell who plays his first singing role in several seasons. In the splendid supporting- cast of this fun pro- voking farce are Claire Dodd, Dick Foran, Butch and Buddy and Shemp Howard Music, gags and comic situations make this comedy of navy life ev- en funnier than “Buck Privates.” | Powell portrays a radio crooner. Weary of the adulation of the na- tion’s femininity, he disappears from his New York haunts and secretly enlists in the Navy. Ar- riving in San Diego to enter the Naval Training Station, his trail is picked up by Miss Dodd, news- paper camera-woman. She starts a game of tag with him that event- ually leads to Honolulu. and Coste]lo are gobs, who are in |love with the Andrews sisters and constantly in trouble The play was co-authored by Arthur T, Horman and John Grant and is based on an original story by Horman. - Many Children Get ~ Immunizations at ~ Government Clinic Native children of infant, school and school age were at the Governynent Hospital this forenoon |to the number of 124 for immuni- | zation against contagious disease, given by Dr. Maurice Corthell. Immunizations for diphtheria were given to 24 children, 40 re- ceived whooping cough immuniza- tions and 60 were vaccinated for small pox. Many preschool and in- 'fant children were brought to the Hospital to receive and members of the Territorial®De- partment of Health were pleased Ly the enthusiastic response by moth- el The clinics are part of a series being sponsored by the Ju- | neau Public Health Service. Other clinics .scheduled for this | week include one on Wednesday in the Public Health Service office in the Territorial Building, at 9 am. Aca&emy Awards for *41 L. I. N. Phoriephoto Here are the four Academy award winners for 1941, shown after they were honored in Hollywood. Gary Cooper and Joan Fontaine (left) recei screen; Mary Astor and Donald Cr isp ( _ formances for the year. ved th@r gold statuettes for giving the best performances on the right) received their awards for giving the best.sugporting per- a| Abbott | pre- | immunizations | AP Feature Service ROM the day she first put on ice skates, it took pert 16 - year old Carol Lynne less ‘than 3 years to hit Broadway as an acrobatic star of “It Happens On Ice.” It was no fluke, she says seri- ously. She's been dancing since 9, and that gave her i much of her present tech- nique and grace. Thess photos, taken at high speed, show some of the tricks she can do. THE STAG JUMP for preschool and infant children. Mothers are urged to bring their children early, since the doctor leaves at 10 am. Immunizations will be given at that time for whooping cough, diphtheria, small pox and typhoid. On . Thursday, the clinic will be held in the Juneau Public School and on Friday, in Douglas Public School. munized next Monday at the third clinic in the series for native chil- dren being held at Government Hospital. . R . e cEmama Party on Saturday Celebrates Birthday Both Mary Lou Fagerson anc Gwyneth R}'ggs were eleven year: old Saturday and the occasion was celebrated by a matinee party fol- lowed by luncheon at the home o Mary Lou's parents, Mr. and Mrs Floyd Fagerson, 510 Twelfth street Guests were Harriet Stonehouse Marcia Pudlip, Loretta Keithahn Roberta Messerschmidt, Flaire Folta, Pat Sey and the:two hono: Juests. irthday cakes, ice cream and zames entertained tne young guests at the Fagerson home following the matinee. ->o— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 16—Cliosing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2, American Can 38%, Anaconda 26'%, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Commonwealth and Southern 7/30, Curtiss Wright aecott 32%, New York Central 8!:, Northern Pacific 5%, United States Steel 507, Pound $4.04. Native children will again be im- | International Harvester 44%, Ken-| It’s Just A Waltz From Balet To Iaes RAILROAD | ~ SEIZURE LOOMING Refusal fo Arbitrafe Slrike! May Result in Gov- | .ernment Action WASHINGTON, March 16 - White House disclosed today the! President has asked George Mc-‘ Near, Jr., President of the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad, to comply with the War Labor Board's order for arbitration in the strike )f 104 employees of the line. Stephen Early, Presidential Sec- etary, said the President wrote to VicNear last Saturday reviewing the strike and calling attention to the| National Agreements of no strikes, 10 lockouts. during the war. The| President sent the letter after re- ing reports of violence in the strike and the wounding of three members of ‘a train crew last Fri- | day night. Government ‘and labor officials said the seizure of the railroad by | the Government is the only alter- | native if MeNear rejected the| President’s plea. | Previously McNear refused to con- sent to arbitration at the request of the War Labor Board and also| National Railway Mediation Board.| e MRS. K. TROBERG LEAVES Mrs. Katherin Troberg, daughter of Mr.'and Mrs. R. E. Gault, of Skagway, is a passenger bound for Sedttle. | | The | g DOW ,JONES AVERAGES ARRIVE FROM PELICAN Mrs. M. ‘W. Saule and Mrs. E. | meals. The following are today’s Dow, W. Scott arrived in Juneau today Jones averages: industrials 100.68,| from Pelican City and staying at rails 26.04, utilities 11.98. 'the Baranof Hotel. | | THE SPLIT S I | | | bruised by life but still retains the| "VICTORY" IS | EXCITING BILL, | 20TH CENTURY | Fredric March and Betty? Field Star in Adventure Film of Java Sea One of the greatest ten is presented as magnificenc screen entertainment, in Para- mount's picturization of “Victory,” Joseph Conrad's stirring tale of ad- venture and romance, at the 20th Century Theatre. | The story, of course, is set in thr‘ enchanting Java Sea, and the pic-| ture has captured all the qualities of the locale that Conrad mmm»‘ ed. The handsome Swede, Heyst (Fredric March), cynical and disil- | lusioned, prepares to retreat from | the worldsto his lonely island, Sam- buran, when he meets Alma, the planist in a traveling girls’ or- novels writ- | | | | chestra, whose members are ra-qulrmlI to sit with customers after each performance. Alma is different from the others. She ha$ been: freshness of her youth and appeal- | ing innocence. She, too, is dis- trustful of life. When the ob-| noxious hotel-keeper, Schomberg (8ig Rumann), persists in his ad- vances, March rescues her, and! takes her to his island. { There through her love, she heals the wounds that life has inflicted on him. Suddenly, their whoie world is threatened by the arrival| of three strange characters, Mr.! Jones, (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), a cold-blooded killer, Ricardo, (Jerome Cowan), whose knife is forever thirsty for blood, and Pedro (Lio- nel Royce), a hulking giant with brute strength. They are after the | fortune they believe Heyst has se- | Humidity Gives Out New Twist By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Wide World Science Editor NEW YORK--Wilt not, want not. This is a new slogan for the house- wives, who, war nutritionists predict, are going to be relying more and more on vegetables for the family The slogan won't be altogether new to the ladles who have been | accustomed to wrapping green vege- tables in a damp towel or paper. The women did it because they ! like the crispness. But there is a much more important reason. The wrapping protects the vege- | tables against loss of vitamins. Pro- ! fessor Robert S. Harris and L. Mal- | com Mosher of the Biological Re- search Laboratories of Massachu- setts Institute of Technology report | the_reason to the American Chem- ical Society. | The high humidity does the good work. The Massachusetts nutrition- ists put fresh green lettuce in‘two refrigerators. One was the conven- ! tional type, with a low humidity. The other had high humidity and higher temperature. Mayor Is Fooled; Police Found 0.K. PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 16—May- | or Earl Rildy orcereG 118 police-| men past 556 to take physical ex-| aminations in an effort to bring| younger men into the force. If the older ones failed to come up to standards, they were to go on park or school-crossing duty or re-| tire on a pension. But the mayor was in for'a sur- prise today. Only ten of the 118 failed to pass the test. | Mrs. J. Kjelsherg. creted. How Heyst and Alma pre-| vent this murderous trio from shattering their lives provides an exciting climax. | - SEVENTY - EIGHT LEAVE SUNDAY | FOR SOUTHLAND Seventy-eight neau for the morning, ‘Those taking passage were Mrs, C. A, Bergstrom, Carl Bergstrom, E. Tuley, Miss C. Olsen, Mrs. O./ Olsen, O. Newmeyer, H. Houben,| Ed Boon, D. Canilli, Mrs. G. Bris-| tol, Mrs. R. Anderson, B. R. Wat- | son, H. Mosher, W. A. Julin, Miss| C. Olsen. J. Monay, H. Martin, J. 8, Rout- ley, A. Frilund, R. 8. Caufield, W, Bay, O. Lundberg, D. Guise, T. Crombie, C. A. Green, N. Edvard- sen, O. Backlin, R. McLeod, O. Osborne, R. Ostrander, R. A. Lani- | dan, Mr. Ward, Mrs. 8. Ware, Mrs. J. Newman, Dan Ullery, Mrs. D. Ullery, H. D. Jarvis, 8. Kjelsberg, perfons left Ju-! south yesterday Mrs. J. Snow, Miss 8. Snow, P. J. Lovett, E. Vernon, P. Miller, L. J. Gemmill, Mrs. L. J. Gemmill,| Miss I. Elliott, Mrs. F. Elliott, George Straiger, Miss D. Kohler, Mrs. T. Kohler, Mrs. H. S. Jos-| lyn, Mrs. C. M. Tuckett, Mary Koess, H. C. Zimmerman, H. Wil- liams, J. W. Estes, Katherine Tro- berg, W. D. Burns, Laura Ordway, Mrs, John Marin, C. H. Eller, Joe Snow, R. H. Harmes, L. M. Sand- ers and B. R. Graves, | s e — ASST. U. 5. ATTORNEY RESIGNS AND LEAVES | FOR SOUTH WITH WIFE | L, J. Gemmill, who has been since June, 1940, has resigned his| position and left Juneau yesterday for the south, accompanied by his wife. Mr. Gemmill's resignation = be- comes effective March 30 and as yet no announcement has been madde regarding his successor. Mr. and Mrs. Gemmill expect to locate in Seattle for a time, e MRS. OSCAR OLSON AND DAUGHTERS TO VISIT Mrs. Oscar Olson and her daughters, Carol and Claire, left yesterday for Prince Rupert on their way to Napa, Idaho where they will visit Mrs. Olson's mother | Assistant United States Attorney|| Where the Better Big Pictures Play’ (20 ENTURY. - SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE and Jorome Cowan "OLISEUM NOW! “MAGIC IN MUSIC” NI ¢ CHURCH OF NATIVITY INVITES SERVICE MEN T0 PARTY TUESDAY Irish enlisted men can celebratg St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow night as the Church of the Nativity spon< rs a party for them in the Par- ish Hall during the evening. Nok only Irishimen, however, but all sers vice men are invited to the parfy, of which Mrs. Walter G. Hellan is to be chairman. . Henry Harmon is general chaif« man of the committee for the so- cials given for service men by the church. Music will be furnished by Wil- liam Hixon, proprietor of Juneau Radio Shoppe, and A. M. Uggen, owner of Alaska Music Supply Company. Refreshments will - be served. C - OPHIR MINING MAN AND » WIFE HERE ON WAY NORTH Mr. and Mrs. Eric Hard are in Juneau on their way from the sough to Ophir by plane. Mr. Hard js interested in mining properties in the Ophir district. - - —— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS —e e ? WHYWAIT ? Call STAR Cabs Go Where You Please with. Your Mind at Ease lPHONEl Ride STAR Cabs DON LOZZIE-—Owner Alaska Electric Light' and Power Co. Headquarters Hardeman WATER-PROOFED | Hats _ i 7 = BRINGING UP FATHER By GEORGE McMANUS GOOD GR g RO P TR 20 TELL THAT COOK TO for several months. —————— BUY DEFENSE STAMP: ‘The Clothing Man Py YOU MAKE ME SICK-ILL TELL HIM-MYSELF - 1891—Half a Century of Banking—1941 The B.M.Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL King Peatures Syadicate, Inc., World rights reserved.