The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 3, 1942, Page 3

MADNESS— MUTINY— ——AND A MAID! Romance and Adventure that Will Stir Your Heart! starring FRANCHOT TONE JOHN CARROLL WALTER BRENNAN CAROL BRUCE —— PLUS — “Fighter Pilot” “Flicker Memories” Late News Early Bird Prevue! Every Tuesday, Thursday Sat- ay Night at 1:15 A. M. GET THE HABIT! There are 263 wild life refuges! Before the war, Japan was one of in the U. S, aggregating 13'¢ the principal exporters of canaries million arces to the United States. - - -es BUY DEFENSE STAMPS BUY DEFENSE STAMPS TH 'FRANCHOT TONE IS STAR OF NEW CAPITOL FILM This Woman Is Mine” Opens Tonight for Two-Day Run Franchot Tone appears in one of the leading roles of “This Wom- Mine,” a new Universal ad- venture romance produced and directed by Frank Lloyd, which opens tonight at the Capitol The- atre Tone in one of his best roles Lloyd’s “Mutiny on the Boun! is with such well known players as John Carroll, Walter Brennan and Carol Bruce. Nigel Bruce, Leo G. Carroll and Frank Conroy are featured For brunette Miss Bruce, who won overnight fame on the New | York stage, “This Woman Is Mine” marks her screen debut. She por- trays the principal feminine char- acter. The picture is based on Gilbert Gabriel's best-selling novel, *“I an is since co-starred James Lewis,” and concerns lhe! people aboard the schooner Tonquin who made a hazardous voyage around the Horn in 1819 to estab- lish the American fur trade in the Paciflic Northwest. - MRS. EUG YARBROUGH LEAVES FOR FAIRBANKS Mrs. Eugene Yarbrough left Ju- neau yesterday for Fairbanks to make her home. Mrs. Yarbrough the former Edythe Young, and Lieu- tenant Yarbrough, Army Air Corps, were married this spring in Juneau at one of Lhe loveliest weddings to take place here for some time. Coolies Carry Supplies Over Himalayan Trail Chinese coolies, trained from childhood to carry he: }C)linu across an ancient caravan trail that winds 1 ! used for centuries as beasts of burden, are also b ! the Japs. Note the incongruously snappy s avy loads, are shown lugging much-needed supplies to ,600 miles over Himalayan mountain ranges. Yaks, eing used extensively since the Burma Road was closed by traw hats worn by some of the coolies. SRiIM P with dummy rifles bearing dummy tips. It — RACT I CE—_Wearing protective equipment, these Camp Wolters, Tex., soldiers fence 'S mugh. bruising pmtlce for a grim war job. E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA DOUGLAS RUG - (UTTER | NEWS | DPICTUREISON PARKHUR;J?)INS ARMY AT TwENIIETH? Pat Parkhurst, ‘{omwrly connect- e i R 6 sord| " Las Vegas Nights”" Fea- | tures Tommy Dorsey and Orchestra recently received from him. He is stationed somewhere in Colorado The last frontier town in Ameri- ca came to life in Hollywood when | his letter stated. Paramount’s “Las Vegas Nights," - FROM SITKA which opens tomight at the 20th Century Theatre, went before the | Pearl Johnson is a recent arrival from Sitka where she was nursing !in the Pioneers’ Home. She plans to remain here for the summer and will make her home with her sis |ter, Mrs. Elroy Fleek. cameras on a night club set that Tommy Dorsey offered to buy an hour after he started to work The orchestra leader said he wanted to ship the set to New| York, put it in a barn, and open it as a night club. | - - | FIRST AID MEETING The picture has an odd back- ground Paramount became in-‘ Meeting of first aid workers to ssemble and prepare materials for h:\fldagos for work anticipated in first aid service is scheduled for, trigued with the story of Las Vegas, | a wide-open Nevada town where nu‘ bets are barred. The town boost- | ters announce the glad tidings mj Ithis evening in the city hall. All women interested are urged to at- tend. billboard and publication advertis-| ing. Shoshone and Piute Indians; rub elbows with wealthy .dowagers, | dude ranchers and divorcees, Tunes | from name bands compete with! | the monotonous voice of the croup- | ier and the little white ball jitter- bugs on the roulette wheel. | Bert Wheeler and Hank Ladd,| and Tommy Dorsey and his band, | plus Phil Regan, Lilllan Cornell,| | Constance Moore and Virginia Dale | | complete the cast of “Las Vegas Nights.” SR, TS R R VISITORS FROM TENAKEE Mrs. Jack Warner and Mrs. Sam Asp flew in yesterday from Tena- |kee Springs for a couple of days |visit on business. ——————— RESIDENTS LEAVING Mrs. Gene Hulk is preparing to |1eave soon for Skagway to be near }her husband who is working in that | vicinity. Charlie Wallace, Alaska pioneer, who has been making his home in Kilburn Fourth street apartments during the winter, will sail tonight for Tenakee Springs where he will spend the summer - MANY MISTAKES ~ SEEN FOR ALERT HELD YESTERDAY Metcalf Says Drill Success- | ful in Showing [, “itenee Town The Brisn E {10t seven of 12 planes on the Augs- | rrors [burg raid. Every mile increases the cnunce of detection, making certain Director of Civilian Defense P‘lilnk!“ ‘reception committee” will ke | A. Metcalf reported today that aloft Inight's air raid drill was s It boils down to this: Any ef- ful in that it showed a ‘I(ctm- bombing of U. targets, ! of coordination between ( ->-oo | E(an United States Be Bombed from Airt Will America Be Air Raided! (Contuinued trom Fage One) highly trained bomber crews like- wise would be 14t | air raid|enough to cause serious dislocation wardens and members of the First!in a given industrial area, would | Aid units. | require a vast expenditure of scarce, ! As a part of the drill, several sec-!‘killed personnel and the most ex- tors in the city were theoretically | Pensive aireraft Anything less “bombed.” Air raid wardens were|Would be ineffective. |supposed to be informed of this) Men and equipment are always |and in turn call in First Aid workers | considered expendible material in | to care for the victims. war” There's always the possibility | The “bombed” se were. the|that a desperate Hitler would be | Coliseum Theater and Apartments,| Willing to pay the cost in a last-| {the City Dock and the Alaska |ditch gamble on slowing up U. S Steamship dock. Metcalf said “,mf]n-mlucuuu Proof that such a pos-| four of the “victims” at the Alaska |Sibility is present is the concentra- dock” died in horrible agony” when tion of anti-aircraft and interceptor ithe signals were crossed up and the units around key industrial areas. First Aid workers failed to appear.|You can be sure the Army wouldn't | The vietims, who were simulated sign equipment which is nel‘dl'dr iby willing Boy BScouts, were well | elsewhere to guard an area where taken care of in front of the Col- no possibility of attack existed. | COLISEUM Rooseve]l Gives Verbul PAGE THREE Where the Better BIG Pictures Play!? GR R, ==} i) ~ f /) \ A i [ 4 y ey £ ~ b,‘ DMENTURY NOW PLAYING RT WHEELER Mie gogs have them o0 g theie hoads ot § ‘NMN Tommy DORsEy {7 with RED DONAHUE and his Mule ““UNO" - Directed by RALPH MURPHY « Original Screen Play by Ernest Pagano and Harry Clork + Additional Dialogue by Eddie Welch + A Paramount Picture NOwW! Spanking to Washington Regarding ‘Loose Talk’ (Continued trom Page One) been as thick as briars in a black- berry patch. | The sad part of it is that some of these were planted by Axis agents and propagandists. That, in part at least, is why the President delivered his verbal '\}spunkmg, ST RS SR BOB HOPE in "ROAD TO ZANZBAR! e "WANTED? TAXI DANCERS - EVENING WORK-—Hours 9 q PM. to 1:00 AM. GOOD PA¥ ® iseum Theatré, however. But in -[rushed to the scene of a bombing and couldn't find any victims. Shortly after the |another place, the First Aid workers | alarm was OCD Is Wary | The quite obvious speed-up of|State Department is in constant civilian defense preparations also|touch with every friendly nation suggests tae probability the military |in the world. The Army and Navy has passed the word to OCD bosses |have the facts of war as rapidly as —$2.00 per hour, Write MANAGER, LITTLE BOHEMIA/ CLUB, Box 517, Sitka, Alaska. N. A. MCEACHRAN HERE N. A. McEachran, merchandise broker, arrived in Juneau this mor- ning from Ketchikan, isounded, a shingle fire broke out jon the roof of a residence on Will- joughby Avenue, and members of |Juneau Volunteer Fire Department [doused the blaze, sandwiching the|the southern Pacific coast airplane | fire call in between the alert alarm |Plants and industrial areas also | that auxiliary firemen coopemced,“’dswv The Japanese have more |in fighting * fire. |plane carriers than any of our | The Civilian Defense Board willl€nemies and might try to get one | meet Thursday evening to talk over!by the Pacific patrols. The fre- | difficulties experienced in the drill.|quent alerts in California prove the Three residents who violated alert Army isn’t discounting this opssibil- regulations by refusing to cooperate |!'Y: were arrested, Metcalf said. | . 7 'Lutheran Ladies .1 . Aid Will Meet The Lutheran_l.:adles Ald will meet at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow for| a dessert luncheon and business| session in the Church parlors. | Hostesses for the afternoon are to be Mrs. Bert*McDowell and Mrs. G. H. Hillerman. Itacks increases as U. S. production gorges upward. The possibility of plane attack on It's foolhardy tc pooh-pooh the bombing of U. S. as impossible. The military is taking the most serious precautions. They know that planes can fly to the United States from present Axis bases. They know too that the lure of a long-shot gamble increases with losses elsewhere, in an effort to recoup. ., — GOES TO KODIAK | R. J. Smith left this morning {on hi sway to Kodiak. BUY DEFENSE BO On Sren Here Three of the entertainers who brighten tne new Paramount comedy with musie, “Las Vegas Nights,” which is at the 20th Century. From left to right, the trio consists of Lillian Cornell, Phil Regan and that the likelihood of bomber nt-i‘rl""f can be transmitted. Most of these facts are placed at the dis- | posal of the scores of bureaus, ag- 5em-u=.~. and departments involved. Only by having such 1acts as scon as they are known could they shape their war policies, Even if !unly the key men in these war ag- lencies were given these facts and |they discussed them only with agency hoards of strategy, the num- {ber of persons involved would prob- lably run into the thousands. Yet the LEAKS OF ACTUAL {FACT in Washington probably could be counted on the fingers and no | thumbs. It’s rumor that does the damage tand although I don't presume to |interpret the President, I think that is what he was referring to. The fantastic, warped misinforma- tion that floats on the fringe of Washington officialdom is start- ling. For a dime a dozen, you could get “the actual numbers” of ships lost at Pearl Harbor. The “inside stories” on Bataan, the “real facts” about the bombing of Tokyo; the “honest-to-goodness reasons” for lour troops landing in Ireland have Constance Moore, who sing and dance to the tunes of Tommy Dorsey'’s orchestra, in the film. N Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. Apply at Office BUY DEFENSE BONDS Like your own hands, it washes each piece separately, thoroughly, without tan, ric. Gives F ling o harm u:mll:ly; ong life to Ask for o ‘llnll"llyl:" ::14?:.“ WANTED! FOR LOGGING CAMP CHOKERMAN DONKEY ENGINEER BUCKER SIGNAL MAN JUNEAU LUMBER MILL