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STARTS TOMORROW— CAPITOL Show Place of Juneau THE CAPITOL HAS THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1942 ;REVUE TONIGHT——1:15 A. M. The amazing drama of a man who wanted to win love without giving it - and of the women who discovered too late his fatal weakness! Joseph Cotten Dorothy Cominaore Ray Collins starring Joan BLONDELL Robert BENCHLEY = John HOWARD - Binnie BARNES Junet BLAIR - Eric BLORE Una O'Conner - Hugh O'Connell : _ — DS TONIGHT “Married Bachelor” ROBERT RUTH YOUNG HUSSEY THE BIG PICTURES! The Mercury Actors Coulouris ead Geor Agnes Moor THEATRE SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU THE CAPITOL HAS ALASKA MADE PRODUCTS HAVE " OWN OPA RULES Products raised or manufactured In Alaska which are to be sold in hlaska, ore not subject to the same pifice of Price Administration reg- lations as those which are shipps=d Into the Territory, it was pointed ut today by Mrs. Mildred Hermann, pirector of OPA in Alaska. Those products produced in Al- ska, including bakery, dairy and pther articles which are sold in the erritory take the maximum March brice as their price ceiling, Mrs. ermann said. Reguletions regarding the post- g of price ceilings and submi Lon of cost-of-living reports are being 'ret vpromptly by the mer- hants of Juneau. . Many of the ost-of-living reports have already n submitted to the OPA office the Valentine Building and many f the price ceilings have already n posted although August 1 is Ihe deadline she said. W. L. Nance | as the first Juneau merchant to lubmit his cost-of-living report, ac- ording to Mrs. Hermann, Cooperation of Skagway mer- hants in fulfilling OPA regula- STARTS SUNDAY! THE BIG PICTURES! Calvin Pool, Assistant OPA Director who left recently for the Lynn Canal port. He is expected to re turn to Juneau in a short time and will thea leave for Sitka where he will assist merchants in fulfilling requiren;ents. ' JUNEAUMEN ARE RECLASSIFIED BY DRAFT BOARD Classification of men registered | with the Draft Board in Juneau, as | announced following the last Draft | Board meeting, held-this week, fol- lows: Class I-A, Ray Galao Kahapy, Er- vin David Wright, Pier Stanwood and Vernno Lloyd More; I-B, Kaarlo | Wilhelm; I-C, Foster Golden Kunz; I1-A, Helmur Heinrich Lanefett; II-B, Eugene Carl Eakin, Jason Samuel Bailey and Sherman Leon- ard Edwards. Class III-A, Rodney Goodman Darnell, Alfred Theodore Koski. Grant William Evans, Karl Ephriam Aschenbrenner Rangnar Ferdinand Kronquist, Harold Edward Hadaway, George Gamble, Edwin Elroy Ninnis | and Charles William Bland. — ., VISITS IN JUNEAU Mrs. £. H. Houghtaling, of Ket- chikan, arrived by Alaska Coasta! ! Airlines plane yesterday for a short {visit in Juneaw. She is to return ions has also been general, accord- to her home in the First City this to word received here from afterno~a. SAVE WITH INSURED SAFETY 4% Our Current Rate on Savings Buy Your War Bonds flere Accounts Government Insured Up to $5,000.00 ~ oy Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Associalion of Juneaw £ ELLERY QUEEN IN lI MYSTERY, COMEDY - SE AT CAPITOL "Murder Ring’, Plus Three Girls About Town' Open Tomotrow | | Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay |and Charley apewin—the crime- | fighting triumvirate who have con- tributed so immensely to the popu- [lar success of Columbia’s sensa- | tional Ellery Queen series -— return | to the Capitol Theatre on Friday in |“Enlery Queen and the Murder | Ring,” suspenseful story of a homi- cide-haunted hospital Not only is “Ellery Queen and the | Murder Ring” the latest in the | thrill-fjlled series, but advance re- |port rates it as easily the best | James Hogan directed the film. | Joan Blondell, Binnie Barnes and | Janet Blair will share the double | bill with what should prove a triple | dose of laugh tonic as Columbia’s “Three Girls About Town,” said to be a rollicking takeoff on life in a hectic convention hotel. As the Banner sisters, Faith, Hope | | and Charity, the three manage, with | no little mischief, to further careers as convention hostesses without sac- | rificing their heart interests. They | are alternately abetted and impeded lin the process by Robert Benchley, |appearing as Wilburforce Puddle, | befuddled hotel manager, and John | Howard, as Tommy Hopkins, a ro- | mantic newshawk who divides his | time between his work and his Hope. — e, "STORY OF RATIONS" IS FRIDAY'S "ARMS FOR VICTORY"" THEME Victory radio broadcast On the Arms for program scheduled for | o'clock the “Story of Rations” will be told by radio artists. This will be the seventh recorded program of | this series which is sponsored by the United States Employment Serv- ice, and which have been heard locally each Friday night. In the story of rations, scurvy, ancient curse of the sea and its cure | will be related. The dramatization will then take up army rations from 1776 to the present, including what “Bill” wrote to “Dere Mable” about army chow in 1917. The evolution of the science of ‘rpedmg soldiers, field rations and emergency rations will conclude the | program scheduled for tomorrow. e TooIhI)asIe Tube Sought in Canada OTTAWA, July 30.—The cam- paign to bring in old toothpaste tubes and containers has not gone very well. The salvage officials are seeking ways and means of solicit- ing better results, There is suffi- cient tin in 28 medium sized tooth- paste tubes to meet the requirements of building one fighter plane. e The Lest-preserved ~ prehistoric liff dwellings in the United States wre at Mesa Verde, Colorado. over KINY tomorrow night at 8/ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA First Generalissimo of | e— OVETA CULP HOBBY: Boss Woman, ‘T KERNODLE Features Writer BY MARGARI Wide World WASHINGTON—Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, generalissimo of the newly created Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps, is a brave woman She comes from the land of the Alamo, otherwise known as deep-in- the-heart-of-Texas, where courage is taken for granted, and women are raised in the tradition of the pioneers | In 1936 she and her husband, | William Pettus Hobby, and Jesse Jones, now Secretary of Commerce, were injured in a burning plane wreck at Ferris, Tex. The pilot was killed But she kept right on flying— ‘Ilnk home to Texas every time she gets a chance, which is scl- ;d(!l\\. | Mrs, Hobby came to Washington |last August expecting to commute |between the capital and her home in Houston. Her job as head of the Women's Interest Section in the War Department was supposed to be a part-time job, but her fam- ily has been lucky to see her even | occasionally The family econsists . of:her hus- band, World War governor of Tex- |as, who signed the Texas women’s suffrage bill; 10-year-old William, {her husband are co-publishers of | the Houston Post. | No Flutters The men will be pleased {the head of the Women's Army so prettily feminine yet not flut- tery, so peppy but not a pepper pot. Her dark brown eyes shine to see face in a chic coiffure, shows just that interesting amount of gray. Sh 37, about feet-five and ~ Coming fo Capilol Ralph Bellamy, as tllery Queen, and Margaret Lindsay, as Nikki Porter, in a tense dramatic scene from “Elery Queen and the Murder Ring,” coming to the Capitol. Jr., and 6-year-old Jessica. She and | and her dark hair, rolled from her| 'NEW FEATURE ON TONIGHT AT 20TH CENTURY Latest "Hopalong” Action Romance, 'Wide Open i Town’ on Screen A beautiful woman, master-mind | of a rustling band and crime bund in g lain — or villainess “Hopalong” Cassidy — of the latest etion romance tonight at the 20th Century The role is played by Evelyn Brent, onetime top flight film star, who has recently returned to pic- tures to play character parts. As Paradise Saloon in the town of Gun- sight, she is seen as a cool and cal- culating beauty with a finger in every criminal pie in the country- enough to keep herself from falling in love with the redoubtable Cas- | | sidy, played by William Boyd. ! Boyd, who comes into Gunsight | with his saddlemates -“Lucky” and | “California” to retrieve some cattle | stolen from his Bar 20 Ranch, finds | that he must engage in a battle of wits with Belle before he can get' W his cattle back, a state of affairs, | w incidentally, which necessitates a % | wholesale cleanup of the town of Gunsight, which he performs in typical “Hopalong” Cassidy fashion, in some five exciting reels. “Wide Open Town” also serves as ' ¢ the vehicle in which Bernice Kay, a fifteen-year-old titian-haired beauty, makes her screen debut. SEATTLETRAVEL CONTROL OFFICE 15 CRITICIZED Secrefary fllaska Sug- gests Changes for | Improvement ; | “weighs under 135.” ! Her comfortable clothes are tha Ismart kind which indicate that any uniform she had anything to do | with would be both smart and (becoming, People who know her |say she'll want tucks and darts in |the right places and probably will jt'n('()m:lgo tailoring that’s trim but {not militarily masculine. | | Business men approve of her al- ;x'ead,\ They agree that her mind | manages to budget details quickly |into a definite pattern. She is one |of those smart careerists who al- ways seem to know the right | people “at the_ right time. That, perhaps, is her big secret for get- ting things done quickly. | Newspaper men who've worked gecrotary of Alaska E. L. Bart- with her say she's one of the hard- jot¢ told members of the Junean est working folk they ever saw and chambes of Commerce at a noon that she has a knack for getting yeeting in the Baranof Hotel that “Wide Open Town,” which opens | frontier community, is the vil- | “Belle Langtry,” proprietress of the | but not quite cool and calculating | | COLISEUM an equal amount of hard work out ¢onditions now existing in the Se-| of other people. Lawyer, She was the first as to be a member trol board, where 'attle office of Civilian Traffic Con- Too 'trol could be improved if a differ- woman in Tex- ent procedure of securing permits of a flood con- Was adopted and if the office was she proved as manned by officers familiar with capable as she did in reorganizing Alaskan communities. | the gccounting .system of her pap- Mr. Bartlett, who has just re- er. She is a member of the Texas turned from a trip to the States, bar, got her law degree from the spoke fiom experience. H University of Texas. | The Secretary proposed four She wrote a textbook, “Mr. Chair- changes after qualifying his pro- man” about parliamentary pro- Posals by saying that as Alaskans |cedure after she served as parlia- “We are entitled to make sugges- mentarian of the Texas House »f tions for improvements in this mat- | Representatives. Tt is used in Texas ter:” and Louisiana schools. She's a bank First, he suggested that the Se-| director and a good public speak- attle office pe put under the jurw‘ er isdiction . of the Alaska Defenze Command instead of the Western, Defense Command. Secondly, that | Alaskan officers who are familiar | chests, a y a b l s,wnphony Drehestts with Alaskan communities should | and Houston University, where be in charge of the Seattle office. | working people get college courses. Thirdly, that a dif!el‘ent methodll b ‘:‘_“’:“";"“e'c'fm_"‘:';“:::" south. e Ued in identitying oldtime Al- e o n - € Bouth- . va residents who wish to return| |ern Newspaper Publishers Associ- ¢ "tvo merritory. He suggests that ! |ation and regularly attends con- eooq o acnfling applications Tl | ventions ‘of the American Society Salt Lave City, San Francisco and “'qh:‘:":“g::iv‘fm;"k iz Wasingten, D. C., for approval &s g ¢ of Killeen, a cen- j yhe present system, wires be sent tral Texas town, where her mother, to resicents’ home towns in Alaska ];/::; f::‘;l":: H‘T’V”]' a‘“{" lives NOW. yhere quick information may be 58 G ol | W. Culp, gptaine. concerning the applicants. was o member of the Texas Legls- ~ pinally, Mr. Bartlett stated that ature. g some means of speeding applications | She has enough energy to am- of defense workers coming to the |aze you. Even her husband says merritory should be worked out. isho has so many ideas some of A present, he said, when a group ‘m;‘r}n a;’{e ;gund to be good. of 50 workers must wait two weeks 9 ‘_“‘: ho y home in Houston is while permits are being secured, a big house surrounded 'by beau-|ysuglly about 15 are left when the |tiful gardens and grounds. It 'S time conies for departure. |an exclusive residential section| Archie Shiels president of Pa- |called River Oaks. In Washington cific American Fisheries, attended |Mrs. Hobby lives in an apartment ;e meeting and spoke briefly as | She's had her turn as a “gold getting funds for commun- | hotel | 2 did Maj. 8. J. Hath y | The new generalissimo has been | ot surjgeon e |such a deadly serious worker all _;“o———_ her life that very few anecdotes | BUY DEFENSE BO! :ha\'e sprung up about her. They i | tell one tale about her, though, that “You don't want to vote for a woman like that. Why she's been | She decided to run for the state |a parliamentarian down in Austin.” | Legislature. Her opponent was a| ‘“Sure ’'nuff?” came the answer. homespun character smart enough|“I don’t want a woman like that | | goes like this: " PAGE THREE 'ER BIG PICTURES PLAY WHERE THE BE'1 News Starts 7:30, 9:30 [ b/‘[[”r””y Feature at 8:20, 10:20 TONIGHT and FRIDAY ONLY! She’s a Big Shot in Crime...A Dead-shot with a Gun, and She’s Out to Get Cassidy! Paramount presents Clarence E. Mulford’s "WIDE OPEN TOWN . WILLIAM BOYD «n Russell Hayden«Andy Clyde Evelyn Brent - Victor Jory Morris Ankrum - Bernice Kay Directed by Lesley Selander A HARRY SHERMAN PRODUCTION ALSO: Cartoon, Musical and News There's no let- up Inthrills ... when Cassidy storts swinging! NOwW! “THE KNOCKOUT” |POSTAL ODDITIES ¥/mVidd]| Use V LETTERS, CONSERVE SPACE AND MATERIAL WHEN WRITING TO MEMBERS of OUR ARMED FORCES. AFTER _30 DAYS RETURN TO— S\ZE OF LETTER "MICRO-FILMED” DEAR SON: . TAMWRITING A"V" LETTER BECAUSE b Al ) WU LR B 50,000 OF THEM 150,000 ORDINARY LETTERS | WEIGH 45 POUNDS | FILL 37 POUCHES WHILE ] AND CAN BE MAILED V MAIL REQUIRES 22/ I IN ONLY ONE POUCH. Reg. U. 5. Pat. Office 334-566, May 5, 1936, by National Federation of Pos! Office Clerks Y B R SRy America’s first “V” letters are mailable to all members of our armed forces. When micro-filming services are available the letters are opened and photographed, an enlarged copy being mailed to the ad, dressee at the point of designation. For additional information ine quire of your local postmaster, At 20th Cenfury Tonight to play on the fact that his rural! representing my wife and daugh- | voters spoke only simple language. | ter.” | He started a whispering campaign: She lost the election. | BRINGING UP FATHER BY GOLLY~ ME - DAUGHTER —-YOU LOOK. GRAND IN THAT OUTFIT= | AM GLAD THAT YER MOTHER IS DOIN’ HER - Lfialr/ WELL- | MUST, BE OFF -DUTY CALLS- SO LONG-DADDY — A 2 THANK YOU-DADDY/ AH! M SURE GLAD THEY BELONG TO THOSE WOMEN'S CORPS -MAGGIE - ESPECIAL LY - NOW | KIN SIT AROUND THE HOUSE -AND NOBODY _TO ANNOY OR BOSS ME AROUND! Reading from left to right: Russell Hayden, William Boyd and Andy Clyde, who set things to rights in the new “Hopalong” Cassidy action drama “Wide Open Town,” which opens at the 20th Century tonight. ; By GEORGE McMANUS - GET UP OUT OF (=} TODAY -GET UP AND GET OuT—