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FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1942 Show Place of Juneau VITE—SATURDAY A WOLF OF NEWSPAPERDOM who lost his faith injustiet ... but found it inthe fires of trutht i LLOYD NOLAN Doris DAVENPORT Frank ALBERTSON "HIT THE ROAD" with Gladys Barton George MacLane Dead End Kids PLUS— 7] "The Green Hornet Saturday Matinee Only LATE NEWS DEAD END KIDS COME TONIGHT, CAPITOL BILL Boys Famous for Unique Work on Stage, Screen in "Hit the Road” | 2. Applications will be examined The Dead End Kids, famous fOriy, e order in which they ap- their umique work on- stage and plied. screen, are co-starred with Gladys; 3. Those taking the examina- George, Barton MacLane and The o, wij be classified as “eligible” Little Tough Guys in Ullh‘elsal‘s‘or “ineligible” instead of being “Hit the Road,” which comes t0- |, mpared according to their grade. night to the Capitol Theatre. 4. The Commission may go oue Each of the boys, Billy Halop.|gqe the “eligible” list to recruit Huntz Hall, Bernard Punsley and higher types of personnel for cer- Gabriel Dell appeared in the Broad- itain positions. way presentation of Sidney Kings-, ley “Dead End,” a play which aroused nation-wide comment when |, = oneve e war-time shortage it was first offered in New York.| o .4 cervants. Such appo&fit- Since then the boys, ixml\'ll.iux\lly"xm,mS will be good only until six and collectively, have appeared M| months after the end of the war, 4 number of screen plays. i:\nd employes serving under “war Gladys George and Barton M“c"scrv\:p appointments” won't be Lane will be seen in the leading oiven’fy)l civil service status. Max- adult characterizations. Evelyn An- | ... age limits are being lifted kers, Charles Lang, Shemp HO“"‘rxcepL in special cases. ard and little Bobs Watson hflvc‘ The Prasident’s ofder alse disect prominent roles. o 6 bt i1 < red tabe o6 BapDIy- Vietims of ling and transferring workers ‘Hit the Road" tells the story! ., jmportant agencies. To thi of'a group of boys, orphaned SONS \eng the Commission has set it- of gangsters slain in an all‘ocious‘beu up as central clearing house underworld mass killing. |and recruiting agency for all of- Robert Lee Johnson and Brenda ... under civil service. (Excep- Weisberg penned the screen play tions are FBI, TVA, WPA, NYA which is adapted from the orxgiml;nnd Farm Security Administration.) by: yohason Altogether the Commission ex- (Continued rrom Page One) This procedure is intended only Atrocity story - - Two Shorfages Exist in ~ Washington; Room for Help fo Live In tol THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Office Help, "TREASURY STAR PARADE” TO BE HEARD IN JUNEAU Radio Broadcasts of Spec- ial Enterfainment Sched- uled for Three Nights | | The brighest stars of America’s | stage, screen and radio firmament tare to be heard on Alaska radio |stations, as the Defense Savings Staff office in Juneau makes avail- able to local listeners a series of | transcribed programs known as the “Treasury Star Parade.” Each pro-| {gram comprises a well-balanced | I15-minute entertainment of musi-| |cal backgrounds, songs, dramatic sketches and patriotic talks to| hich the leading stars of the Am-' erican show world have contributed, their time and talents. I | Among those participating in the! |first twelve of the series — which| |now are available to Alaska broad- | casting stations are Maurice | Evans, Judith Anderson, Lt. Robert | Montgomery, U. S. N., Igor Gorin, |that all but about a billion dollars 6 BILLIONS ASKED I‘OI!L NEW PLANES 18 Billion Dollar Appro- priation for War Now Up Before House WASHINGTON, March 27-*An $18,302,000000 ecmergency appro- priation, carrying funds for 31,000 new Army war planes, which will| make the Army total 60,000 plnnes‘ by the end of the year, has been| sent to the House by its Appmpria-i tions Committee, recommending | | | | | | | be turned over to the War Dcpurt-‘ ment. | The committee has asked that $6,999,000,000 be used for airplanes, complete with spare parts and radio ordance Congress provided funds in Jan-| uary for 33,000 planes but Lieut.- Gen. H. H. Arnold, Chief of the| Air Corps, said another 23,000 | planes will be requested soon. “ President Roosevelt recommended | to Congress a 60,000 plane program | this calendar year and a 125,000 | plane program for 1943. | D | SKI ACTIVITIES | FOR TOMORROW, | | " PAGE THREE What fun! Where the Better BIG Pictures Play! TOO"CENTURY TONIGHT and ATURDAY SPECIAL MATINEE 1:00 P. M. SATURDAY 2 Features2 RTHBOUND” - TWOFEATIRES [FDR ORDERS' FORPROGRAM, | 2otk ceniury, SHIPMENT " TORUSSIA ' First Priori|y—War Supplies fo Be Released for " Accent on>Love,” "Along the Rio Grande on Double Bill Hailed as topnotch entertainment, | “Accent On Love” is slated to| When a Snarling Six-gom Was Law Along the Border! 4 Picture Producad by BERT GILROY o EOWARD KIL| Screen Pla) V. Jones and Morton irected by by Abher rant COLISE ANNOUNCE ANTI-SUB DEFENSES ';Army, Navy fo Cooperate ' More Fully Against i Sea Raiders Ally Soon | pects to recruit about 100,000 per-|Al Goodman’s Orchestra, Ella Lo-| sons a month for the country as|gan, Carmen Miranda, Olsen and| ! iopen tonight at the 20th Century | 4 a whole during 1942 and 1943.| Johnson, Frederic March, Florence | | Theatre. Featuring George Mont- WASHING'I‘ON.WIVlBrch 27— The WASHINGTON, March 27—Uni« SECOND MEADOW Chest Colds To e ey | JICKS Rub on Tested VapoRuB Headquarters Hardeman WATER-PROOFED Hals H. S. Graves ‘fhe Clothing Man Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. Phone 616 JUNEAU LAUNDRY IS | About 60 percent of these will be |additions to the federal payroll, the | (LOSING BUSINESS : 8 s, Feder: m- t AFTER 40 YEARS ool coecea o 20m- i 1000 by midsummer. After 40 years in business in! MSFRPLSELS 12 | Juneau the Ju_neau Laundry an-. 2 . ‘g:::;;imifiszg'curemem from busi-| Ralnbow G"ls Plan Defense Breakfast Here | Loss of skilled labor has made| 1“ necessary for the management | Rainbow Girls of Juneau want to buy a share in their country. To ito discontinue business, it was said help in the purchase of a defense | today. Already short of labor, two more| \men, Mack Mori, tailor, and Tom- my Itabashi, both American born | Japanese, are scheduled for Selec-| bond in the name of their chapter, they will give a breakfast Sunday morning in the Scottish Rite Tem- ple, to which all Juneau is invited. The breakfast will be served from 'tive Service. Mori leaves Monday for Chilkoot Barracks and Itaboshi noon until 2 o'clock and all friends of the group are invited to come examination for service tomorrow. has been called to take his physical | The Juneau Laundry premises (will be occupied by Rod Darnell’s and help the girls in their effort toward a defense bond and, inci- dentally, enjoy a fine breakfast. Planning the breakfast are these Triangle Cleaners April 1. Last day of business for the Jun< |eau Laundry will be Saturday and jbundles will be accepted until 10 o'clock in the morning, the laundry management announces e Sincere thanks and apprf'(‘iauon chairmen, Emma Nielsen, food, or continued patronage over the . | many years they have been in busi-| Merilyn Merritt, .. kitchen; Zalda ‘l;(“‘s wes' also: expressed by toe CarLan. decorations; Mary Jukich, l aviniey management. entertainment; Betty Nordling, so- | s A e liciting and Grace Berg, tickets. Assisting on the food committee | are Margaret Clark, Bonnie Jean i IN 1910 Klein and Nadine Metcalf. On the | | kitchen committee are Astrid Holm, Jrizs j Mary Sperling and Lucille Goetz. Suits 256 percent off, everything!other members of the decoration | else accordingly, and julcy steaks,|committee are Adrienne Glasse, 15 cents a pound, appears in Gold-|Betty Lou Hared and Mary Greg- i stein’s Emporium advertisement and | ory. |a meat advertisement in the Al- Beverly Leivers is assisting Mary |aska Daily Record of August 29,|Jukich on the entertainment com- 1910. The old newspaper was found | mitteec and Erna Meir is working recently by Frank Metcalf. with Betty Nordling on the solicit- i {ing committee. Tickets may be obtained from members of the organizations. ! Stih Martha Society fo Give Dinner Monday Members of Martha Society will serve a covered dish dinner Monday night preceding the meeting of the Congregation of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church in the church. Mrs. Homer Nordling, chairman | | | greaseless cream, It makes your face powder cling more lastingly and smoothly, too! LARGE JAR ¢ 4 | | | | | | ASK FOR IT TODAY -MAURO DRUG CO. | “The Rexall Store” 1891—Half a Century of Banking—1941 The B.M.Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL " BRINGING UP FATHER e WELL- | GYESS ILL STRAIGHTEN UP THE ATTIC -1 SOMETHING TO USE IN THIS WAR- ///f/, for the dinner, called a meeting this week of committee members to discuss the affair, Mrs. Katherine Hooker, chairman of the committee for the Easter goodie sale, to be held on April 4, jhas named Mrs. J. W. Leivers, Mrs. R. Martin and Mrs. William H. Rehfuss as her assistants, —————— THE JUGOSLAV NATIONAL Defense will hold a meeting in |the City Hall on Sunday night at seven o'clock. All the Jugoslavs on Gastineau Channel are invited to attend the meeting. —MARKO DAPCEVICH, Secty. ———————— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS SAVINGS | Eldgredge, Walter Huston, | Gonzales, William Hargraves, Dan-| Iny Kaye, Mary Jane Walsh, Paul; |Lukas and Mady Christians. | The first of these programs, ded- | }icaled to the U. S. Treasury's De- |fense Savings program, was heard | lover station KINY last Wednesday | |evening. The second will be heard | at 8:30 o'clock tonight, and hence- | {forth the programs will be broad-| | cast each Monday, Wednesday and | | Friday at 8:30 p. m. | oo a5 R S Curfew Set " For Aliens | | Alo_n_g Coast ‘Japanese, Enemy Aliens Must Be in af 8 o'Clock Every Night | SAN FRANCISCO, March 27 — Curfew rings tonight and every! night at 8 o'clock for .all enemy aliens and all Japanese along the Pacific Seaboard and for certain interior districts in the West. Two hundred thousand affected |persons must be inside their own | homes every night at 8 o'clock and remain there until 6 a. m., with no exceptions allowed. Offenders face heavy fines and imprisonment, according to the FBI, which will enforce the curfew. g i 'LABOR DISPUTE | HITS CANNERS OF ALASKA SALMON Seattle, March 27—The Machin- ists Union, Local No. 79, will meet Sunday to act on a labor agreement affecting work of 600 machinists in {the Alaska salmon canning indus- |try. I. A. Sandvigen, Business Agent, said the employers and union are deadlocked over terms, but Charles ‘Wheeler, Labor Conciliator, is hope- ful of presenting a satisfactory pact. If terms of the agreement can be settled Sunday, the dispute will probably be referred to the War Labor Board, Sandviden said “as there is not much time left to get the men to Alaska.” MG T TRAVELING MEN HERE | W. F. Bergeson, Robert Martin| and N. A, McEachran, wholesale representatives, arrived in Juneau this afternoon from Petersburg. ., ' BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Izena | | Dean Williams and Joe| Werner Will Give In- structions Saturday Saturday ski activities will be centered at ‘the second meadow practice area where instruction will| be in progress throughout the day. | Any skiers wishing to practice on the course should take advantage |offered by Dean Williams and Joe Werner. gomery and Osa Massen, it is the| white House disclosed today that story of the millionaire who t0sses|the President has ordered the first away his yachts to make love t0 priority shipment of war supplies a tenement bud on a fire escape.|to Russia, and has told the War Walking out on his unhappy life | proquction Board, the Army and the as the executive of a real estate|Nayy to release such supplies as ‘corpm‘ation. Montgomery endeavors|goon as possible, to find something else to do. He| The President, starts life anew as a day laborer| Rear Admiral O. T. Land, War in a gang bossed by J. Carrol|ghipping Director, said he found Naish. Becoming friendly with| that “our protocol shipments to Naish, he goes to live with him|Russia still are far behind,” and and his family in a tenement— «wished to emphasize again to you and he falls in love with Osa Mas-|that the Russian protocol should sen, who i8 a charming boarder| have the first priority in ship- at the Naish household, and thea‘pmgv" story develops. 1 - in a letter to GRS P N fication of the army and navy anti- submarine warfare for both the At- lantic and Pacific Coasts under naval sea frontier commanders is announced today. It /was learned that the step was ordered March 25 by army and navy commands “with view to increasing the effectiveness of anti-submarine warfare along our coasts.” o A naval communique said the order is in line with an order is- sued by army defense commandersy and assigns army air units under naval officers commanding the sea frontiers. \ | tor the instruction which will be | | | weekend. Coffee will be served to| Conditions are reported to be ex- cellent in this area as well as the upper ski bowl which will provide plenty of snow thrills over the Tim Holt, 22-year-old son of Jack Holt, western star of silent pictures, continues to follow in the footsteps of his father with his latest outdoor drama, “Along the Rio Grande,” second feature on tonight’s program. - e MISS McCLOSKY AND GUS GEORGE WED AT CHARMING SERVICE all skiers making the trip to the meadow Saturday. ROBERTSONS CELEBRATE WEDDING ANNIVERSARY WITH INFORMAL PARTY A group of close friends were guests of Mr. and Mrs, R. E. Rob- ertson for an informal evening last CHINESE GET CEILING IS - MORE TROOPS |MPOSEDON FOR TOUNGOO NEWSPRINT | CHUNGKING, March 2’?—Chl- WASHINGTON, March 27—The |nese reinforcements have reached Office of Price Administration has Toungoo in Burma, on the Ran- .. P | Road posed porary 60-day price goputo. Mandalay and fight- ceiling on newsprint, freezing It |ertson, young attorney, and their | marriage was one of the first so- married in Juneau at the Gover- nor's House twenty-nine years ago. A visitor from the east, Miss Carro Green had come to Juneau to be the guest of Mrs. Clark, wife of Gov. Walter E. Clark. During her visit here she met Mr. Rob- cial events in the newly completed governor's mansion. ALASKA (OASTAL AIRLINES MAKES FLIGHT TO SITKA On a flight to Sitka yesterday afternoon the following made the trip from here on an Alaska Coast- al ‘Airlines plane, D. R.. Dickey, O. F. Benecke, F. W. Williamson, Milton Bagby and Nita C. Dickey Returning to Juneau were Ray Kenny, E. E. Edwards and Father Zrobin. . The plane carried air mail both to and from Sitka yesterday after- noon. - —— GUARDERS ENTERTAINED Members of the Coast Guard stationed ‘at Petersburg, and their families, were entertained recently at a dinner given by the WCTU. ;‘Zr:nhZe:{;ge;i :vfenfi:; 5 Mrs‘iChlnese positions several days ago, Tom George, brothel: of Lhe“’ook toesgliz b ave ‘siiice " 1oes | groom acted as best man while Mrs, |1t 10 cm_"cse bsciing Tforoes. Tom George attended the bride as| matron of honor. The wedding, march was played preceding the«‘FIREMEN DOUSE ceremony which was performed be- | Members of Juneau Volunteer fore an improvised alter in the Fire Depaprtment this afternoon beautifully decorated living room. | The bride was lovely in a powder | blue suit and small white turban| and wore a corsage of roses in| pastel shades while her matron of | honor wore an afrernoon dress of | darker blue with a rose bud (.-m'-lmg ks mooced, o LN, Biiey sage. | City Float near the City Dogk. About forty close friends of the -Although the firemen put out the couple attended the wedding and|fire immediately, considerable dam- ihe informal reception which fol-|88€ Was done to the inside of the lowed. In serving the wedding sup- | vessel. per Mrs. Tom George was assisted by Mrs. William Reck and Mrs. William Pege. The table was most attractive with a large floral center- piece and lighted with tall tapers in silver candlesticks. Mrs. Gus George is the daughter of Mrs. Alice McClosky, of Seattle, and made her home in that city until she came to Juneau for a visit some time ago. Mr. and Mrs. George will be at home to their friends in Mr.| George’s apartment on South PFranklin until Monday, when he will leave for Chilkoot Barracks to! join the army. FIVE ARRIVE FRO SEATTLE THIS P. M. Juneau arrivals from the south today were Lenore Anderson, A. B. Hayes, Cecil Montgomery, Laura P. Ordway and ‘M. D. Williams. Those who arrived from South- east Alaska ports were H. M. Brown, M. F. Burgeson, Robert Martin and N. A. McEachran. A DUCKWORTH IN ARMY |doused a fire on the UNO-II, fish-| There was a good program follow- ing and all who attended had a splendid time. BY GOLLY-ME OLD BUGLE THAT | USED IN TH' LAST W COULD BLOW LIKE | DID N THOSE D BUGLER In the battle of Gettysburg six Confederate and five Federal gen- erals were killed or fatally wounded. | Bob' Duckworth, for years with the District Supervisor's office of the United States Forestry, has re- turned to Juneau from Seattle and WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? YOLU GOT THE REGIMENT THAT IS CAMPIN' ACROSS THE STREET ALL UP-AN'YOU EVEN WOKE THE |is now on the staff of the Signal [Corps, United States Army, Juneau office, er— il — M. D. WILLIAMS HERE M. D. Williams, District Engin- eer for the Public Roads Admin- istration, returned to Juneau by boat this afternoon after a two- months’ trip Outside. i e A WPB ""Unfreezes ' Electric lcebox Retail Stocks WASHINGTON, March 27— The War Production Board to- day unfroze stocks of domestic electric refrigerators held by dealers and has announced un- restricted retail sale, uP- Miss Margaret McClosky became|ing is now in progress on the city's " & tok night on the occasion of their ihe bride .of Gus George. wall|wostern. - southern: xad tofthérn at the p‘rgbml level of $50 a»m wedding anniversary. 4 , The ceiling, in effect, cancels out known Juneau merchant and mem- | oytskirts, a Chinese communique Cards were played and a late ber of the firm of George Brothers, Fxid 2 the announced increase to $53 .& supper served. at a charming ceremony perrnrmed' o {ton, recently announced by Cans 3 5 It was at Toungoo that Japanese Mr. and Mrs. Robertson Were|uy tne Rev. W. H. Matthews, Jr.,| vt aree *¢ TOU00 that SRMIERT adian producers because tie ORA ceiling orders forbid American buy- ers to pay more than the pré< seribed maximum as well as fix- ing the price at which United States manufacturers can sell. | STOCK QUOTATIONS ; e NEW YORK, March 27-—Clo|tu‘ quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 1%, American Caf} 59'%, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel 58%, Commonwealth and Southerny 7/30, Curtiss Wright 7Y%, International Harvester 42%, ¢ necott 32, New York Central Northern Pacific 5%, United States Steel 50, Pound $4.03%. ? 5 DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 100, rails 24.95, utilities 11.45. i 4 e MRS. LAURA ORDWAY RETURNS FROM TRIP SOUTH ON BUSINESS Mrs. Laura P. Ordway, owner of Ordway's Photo Shop, returned to+ day from a short business trip te Beattle. . While she was in Seattle, Mrs. Ordway employed a commercial and portrait photographer for the shop in Juneau who is expected to ars rive by steamer in the near fu- ture. She was away from Juneau two weeks. » S e ——— MR. AND MRS. SHERWOOD HERE FROM KET! Mr. and Mrs. John Sherwood are in Juneau from Ketchikan Ay Mr. Sherwood is manager of Ellis Air Transport. They hope make a round trip to Whitehorse from Juneau before returning tg i i G their home. ———— " SITKA BANKER'S ¢ WIFE S0 Mrs. O. E. Johnson, whose huss band is a Sitka banker, is a southd bound passenger on her way Seattle where she will visit duri the summer months. ————e 3 A. B. HAYES RETURNS e A. B. Hayes, part owner of thd Alaska Dock and Storage returned today from a two vacation trip to Seattle where visited his mother and friends for a short time, "s

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