The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 26, 1942, Page 3

TWO FILMS ON TONIGHT! - CAPITOL BILL LAND OF LAWLESSNESS! Deadwood City «..Toaring melt- ing pot of the worst and the best in the west! "Sing Another Chorus’ Open Here Tonight Latest of the frontier “epics” is Universal's “Badlands of Dakota.’ The picture, which opens tonight at the Capitol Theatre, is of the same big-scale proportions that have marked its history-making | predecessors. Like them, it em- braces a glowing portion of fron- tier history, alive with characters which typify romance, adventure and glamour. And it presents a cast of excellent players. The production stars Robert Stack and Ann’Rutherford, two of Hollywood's most promising young players. The supporting cast in- with Robert Stack Ann Rutherford er, Brod Crawford, Hugh Herbert Andy Devine, and Lon Chaney, Jr. | For extraordinary comedy, Mischa |Auer, it is said, has never before |had a role equal to that assigned ‘him in Universal's new comedy tune film, “Sing Another Chorus,” which shares the bill. Jane Frazee starred Cast as the dress manufacturing concern’s janitor who aspires to win footlight glory on Broadway, Auer is featured in the picture along with Johnny Downs, Walter Catlett, Sunnie O'Dea, Iris Adrian, George Barbier, and Joe Brown, Jr. .- — — AND — "Sing Another “Riders of Death Valley” (Saturday Matinee) Late News Evenis e e ee 02000000 WEATHER REPORT . . (U. S. Bureau) . The Daily Alaska Empire has the ® Temperature Thursday, June 25 ® largest paid circulation of any Al:/® Maximum 75, Minimum 54 e aska newspaper. e e 00 0000000 00 & Shorten Wash Day by Hours with a General Electric Clothes Dryer Ten minutes from the time the clothes are put into this dryer direct from your washing machine, you can remove them fluffy and thoroughly dry, only possible through the tumbling action in pure electrically heated air. SEETHISDRYER TODAY and be convinced of the TIME and LABOR it can save you. The Alaska Electric Light and Power Company | THIS WEEKEND ‘Badlands of Dakota’ and| 1 cludes Richard Dix, Frances Farm-| is | | PATROLING ALASKAN COAST_0n a routine patrol flight watching for a Jap stab, a navy bomber skirts a range of snow-covered mountains on the south coast of Alaska near the Aleutian Island chain. Frequent bad weather hampers these flights. EISENHAUER R ARMS FOR VICTORY Production PROGRAM SET FOR I:igures 'or BROADCAST TONIGHT The second of the series of “Arms | . For Victory” programs released by Ma leen the Social Security Board, dram- | atizing the origin and development | of certain essential war arms and | WASHINGTON, June 26—Presi-| materials together with the role of | dent Roosevelt disclosed that Am- the United States Employment Ser- erica’s mighty war effort in the yice in recruiting man power for tion of a unified command to weld single month of May, turned out the production of these arms and nearly four thousand planes and mgterials, will be broadcast at more than fifteen hundred tanks. gclock this evening through In making this statement, Presi-|gacilities of Radio Station dent Roosevelt released official of Juneau. War Production figures for the Tonight's program dramatizes the first time since Pearl Harbor. story of the submarine, from the Roosevelt asserted the United time King James I of England rode | States also turned out nearly tWolyn the first submarine in 1624 thousand artillery and anti-tank | through the first submarine at- guns during May. These are ex- tack, which attack was authorized clusive of anti-aircraft guns and py George Washington, the first those to be mounted in tanks. The | syccessful —submarine attack in President said he released the fig-|Charleston Harbor in 1864, to the ures because they are going t0'modern submarine in use today give the Axis just the opposite of This program is a follow-up of “aid and comfort.” the story of tanks, and will be in ! T B o A DR turn followed by eight subsequent | programs dealing with interesting T ed subjects. While th grams are released in a ser pro- | are also individual stories with no { 'The following are final they | ~of baseball games played in the of the various programs. |two major leagues this afternoon The programs will be a regular| up to press time: feature over Radio Station KINY National League at 8 p. m. each Friday evening until | Pittsburgh 2; New York 4. the entire series has been broad-| | Chicago 6; Boston 4. cast. Each program is of fifteen l Cincinnati 4; Brooklyn 5. minutes’ duration. IT’S YOUR MOVE NOW THE MORE BONDS YOU BUY ... THE MORE PLANES WILL FLY You Get a $25 Bond for Only $18.75 Bonds—Serles Now, as never before in all our glorious history, our Army, Navy and Marine Corps urg>ntly need planes, tanks, ships and guns! Literally billions of dollars are needed immediately to produce these and other weapons of defense . . . of offense . .. and of Victory! If we are to smash the enemy out of our 3 THEY LEND Facts About Defense HOW MUCH DO COST?_YOU UNCLE SAM $18.75 $37.50 $75.00 $375.00 $750.00 When is maturity? can cash the bonds i T T 2 ‘M. P. MUNTER, CONTRACTOR, ARRIVES HERE Gen. R b & INENGLAND TOCOMMAND LONDON, June 26— Quick crea- TRANSPORT American, British and Canadian ified quarters here To these observers, ‘the arrival of Maj. Gen, Dwight Eisenhauer, com- mander of the European Theatre of Operations for American Forces meant one thing; that the stage of preliminary training has passed into a phase of active preparation for using the powerful armies’ assem- bled in Britain. Some said that the new Com- mander’'s name is a significant symibol. “Eisenhauer” in German means “Iron Beater.” Speculation as to possible make- up of a unified command of the Armies in Britain is notably absent in the party because Eisenhauer has scores direct connection in the narrative Just arrived and partly because | the reverses in North Africa have brought a clamor for a careful re- examination of the qualifications of the British Generals. Writing for the Daily Heral Gough, Commander of the Fifth British Army in France in 1918, accused senior officers of fir- ing junior officers who showe g ! forces into a coordinated figheing, the team for a blow against the Euro-| KINY | pean continent is predicted by qu.«]-i | | | cer of the Ferry Command as Com- 4, week. q surgical care. promise because of minor errors, or because of for their opinions.” — e “standing up boldly | PRIN RUPERT HALIBUT PRICES | . | PRINCE RUPET, B. C.,, June 26 M. P. Munter, of {(\e M. P. Munter ‘7Halibut, sold here today was 166,- Company, contracting firm of Se-'000 pounds, attle, and Mrs. Munter arrived in' Juneau with Alaska Coastal Air- lines yesterday afternoon from Ketchikan where the company is doing work for the government Mr. Munter’s firm was awarded | | Juneau and he will spend a few, days here looking over the work.!| He plans to return to Ketchikan to| remain until the completion of his company's work there and will be back in Juneau in about six weeks | to stay until the work is rinishod.i [ James Doyle, who will be super- , intendent in charge of the work in Juneau, for the Munter firm, has arrived here to take over the su- £ ' pervision of work. | Mr. and Mrs. Munter are both !l;jgll\;&'ggji&'f {well known in Alaska and have | spent a portion of every year, since | | they were married in 1939, in the | Territory while Mr. Munter filled contracts. Last year the M. P. Munter Co ! built the two mile strip of road | extending north from Douglas v . Ten years, but you at any time after 60 ford’s baseball et California recently it went; the contract for widening and sur- ;:1(9 CI0me, - ppoently g o facing the Glacier Highway out of | price being 1550 to 1540 and 14 cents a pound. “ SIGNS OF THE TIMES PALO ALTO, Calif.—When Stan- team traveled fo| by street-car. |bas been discharged from St. Ann’s | BY AIR IS ANNOUNCED World Wide Mail, Men, Materials System Es- fablished by U. §. WASHINGTON, June 26—Estab- lishment of a world wide military air transport system to carry men, materials and mail to the Army’s far flung outposts, has been an- nounced by the War Department, The new service is set up by con- solidating the Army Ferrying Com- mand and Transport Operations under one he; with Brig. Gen. Harold George, commanding offi- General, S RSTAP T GAORRS HOSPITAL NOTES Carl Osman has been a medical patient in St. Ann's Hospital this manding Sgt. Floyd Barnes has been in St. Ann's Hospital this week for Sam Hopkins is taking medical treatment in St. Ann's Hospltal.i Mark Dapcevich has been a sur- gical patient in St. Ann’s Hospital this week. Mrs. Sophie Kitchetoo and twin sons have been discharged from St. Ann’s Hospital, Master Buster O'Laughlin of Sitka Hospital after receiving medical | treatment. RETRSAELS V5 S 15 RADIO HISTORY | FEATURES FILM AT TWENTIETH "Great American Broad-f cast’ Brings Mem- | ories Alive In “The Great American Brond- | cast,” Jack Oakie not o but relives a pleasant per: perience In this 20th wction, now playing _entury Theatre, © Alice Faye, John Pay Romero, Oakie portra “ham” (amateur) of the days w breadeasting on a commercial s was still a nebulous dream Actually, Jack was one of the nation’s first real radio “hams” and tinkered with a primitive crystal set long before most people knew anything about radio. Not only that, but he participat- ed in many of the first broadcasts, and on New Year's Day of 1930, was one of the principals in one of the most unusual broadcasts ar- ranged up to that time. He and Bebe Daniels appeared on a broadcast sponsored by General Motors from a Hollywood studio. The music was furnished by Paul Whiteman and his orchestra from Chicago, and the vocal selections came from Marion Harris, at a New York microphone. | e Century-Fox at the tarring 1e and Cesar ys a pro= Jack radio COULDN'T STOP 'EM ROANOKE, Va.—The only way Roanoke College was able to con- tinue varsity baseball this spring was by the boys themselves fur- nishing the automobiles for trans- portation, e HAVE TO STAY DITCHED JEFERSON CITY, Mo, (AP)— State highway patrol cars no longer carry two chains. The rea- son: the highway patrol no longer can afford to tear up its cars pull- ing people out of ditches. PAGE THREE Where Better BIG Pictures Play GR [ 20"[ENTURY NOW PLAYING MATINEE SATURDAY 1:00 P. M. COLISEUM “MICHAEL SHAYNE, DETECTIVE” ME' . FOR MUNITIONS LONDON 'AP)—Gates and ralls ings collected by the Works Min- istry from 69 boroughs in the Lon- don civil defense region can new be said to be “in action,” having produced 30,000 tons of metal for munitions. B o The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any Al- aska newspaper. BUY DEFENSE STAMPS LUCKY DAY! It’s your“Lucky Day"when you land that prize beauty —you'll feel extra seas and blast him from the air over our heads, every dollar you can spare, every, dime that is not absolutely required for the mecessities of food, clothing, and shelter should be, yes, must be, loaned to your Government! We must act fast. Start getting your share of United States Defense . Bonds and Stamps today. Get — them regularly! - —_— -y v ). S. Defense BONDS x STAMPS days. The longer you hold the Bo?d, up to 10 years, the more money you'll get back. But you'll never get less than you put in. What's the interest rate? When held to maturity, the Bonds yield 2.9% per year on your investmént, compounded se annually—you get back $4 for every $3. When should I buy a Bond? Start nowg buy regularly. INVEST IN SAFETY— WITH PERFECT SAFETY! Remember—You ean start buying Defense Bonds by buying De- l.e fense Stamps for as little as . . This Message for Victory Is Sponsored by Alaska Steamship Company | bridge on the Douglas Island side |and two years ago it had the con- | tract for paving the streets of Fa | banks. Additional work in the Ter- ‘rltory done by the company includes Ithe preliminary work on the air- | field at Fairbanks. { | Both Herb Munter, brother of ;M- P. Munter, and formerly owner of the Aircraft Charter Service in Ketchikan, and Herb Munter’s son are in the U. 8. Navy Air Corps. Herb Munter holds an appointment at Lieut. Commander in the U. S ’Navy while his son, who was just \graduated from the Naval aviation training school at Corpus Christi, Texas, is an Ensign. —————— GOMEZ IS HOMELESS ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Lefty | Gomez, Yankee pitcher, has never hit a home run in all his baseball | career, lucky when you add to your enjoy- ment with CREAM OF KENTUCKY! 86 PROOF. COPR. 1942, SCHENLEY INTERNATIONAL CORP: nspection ORATION, NEW YORK CITY BRITISH SAILORETTE—A member of the Women's Royal Navy Service readies a craft at Plymouth, England, for an, visit by the Queen. At left is the Queen’s stan flown for the first time on a naval vessel.