The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1942, Page 3

TONIGHT— 2 - llllarlou Features — 2 on the loose! JOAN BLONDELL ROBT. BENCHLEY ,? Giels about town’ ‘with John Howard - Binnie Barnes' PLUS—- 'BELLAMY » Ellery. Queen ° ‘Inll‘;‘:m LINDSAY - Nkki Porte ELLERY TUEEK [ MuRDER RING “Riders of Death Valley” Saturday Matinee Latest News Events FEATURES SHOWING 7:10—9:45 THEATRE 10:50 Show Place of Juneau THE CAPITCOL H 8:15 Now at our Regular Prices! THE SENSATIONAL '$2.20 ROAD-SHOW HIT HAILED AS THE GREATEST PRODUCTION IN YEARS! The amazmq love story of the world's richest man — who wanted love on his own terms — a price no woman would pay!.. WHY? ¥ SEE WHY reviewers say: "G: t since ‘Birth of a Nation’l”" —Screenland ‘The best motion picture I ever saw!” i o A Everelt Sloane George Coulouris Ruth Warrick “A mll(.l‘pi.i.;oflc of Paul Stewart most remarkable ever Erskine Sanford RastismpTEApIp gy st ne Sanford William Allana A Importan SEE IT FROM THE START! The Mercury Actors § i/ loseph Cotten Dorothy Comingore Ray Collins Agnes Moorehead SHOWS START— SUNDAY MATINEE 2 P.M NIGHTS 7:05 g FEATURES AT— MAT. 2:25; NITES 7:30 STARTS SUNDAY Show Place of Juneau THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! American Federation of Labor MASS MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT AT 8 0°CLOCK AtA.F. of L. Headquarters on Second St. All affiliates requested to attend for purpose of form- Labor for Alaska. ing Territorial Federation of COME OUT—Every AFL Member of AFL Organizations REFRESHMENTS BEATRICE MURPHY, Secretary of Juneau Central Labor Council. SAVE WITH INSURED SAFETY 4% Our Current Rale on Savings Buy Your War Bonds Here Accounts Government Insured Up to $5,000.00 - Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Association of Juneau s ¥ <% TWOFILMSBRING | LAUGHS, MYSTERY | TOCAPITOLSCREEN Comedy ThreeGurIsAboui | Town' Appears with l i ‘Ellery Queen’ ‘; Joan Blondell's personality under- goes the most drastic change of her | career for one sequence in Colum-| |bia’s “Three Girls About Town,”| lin which she is starred with Bin-| |nie Barues and Janet Blair at the | Japitol Theatre with Robert Bench- |ley and John Howard. | Joan, whose flair for smart dress- |ing is generally recognized, appears in one sequence as a scrub woman. | |Calico dress and apron, disheveled hair and low heel Jlatest in coiffur wear. The change is such that Miss { Blondells faus will scarcely know | the bill of ave sleuth of | Ralpin Bellan |the Capiiol as the s |screen and fiction in his sensa- |tional engagement in “Ellery Queen |And The Murder Ring.” Suspense- | ful story of a triple slaying, the cast also includes Margaret Lind-' say as Nikki, Ellery Queen's lovely | secretar) ; Charley Grapewin, and| | James Burke. > | | Report Two Heat Exhaustion Cases In Juneau Area Two cases of heat exhaustion were reported in Junean during the last two days by Dr. J. O. Rude today. Dr. Rude asked The Empire to warn anyone working in the sun or hiking to wear hats to protect them from the direct heat. One of the victims was a hiker and the other was working in the sunshine, he said. -es - Mrs. Louis Delebecque was a med- ical patient in St. Ann's Hospxlal‘ ‘ yesterday. ‘ .- | There are more than 600,000 miles |of railways in the world. - - BUY DEFENSE BONDS SWIM SHORTS SLACKS - with matching jackets. * Two- and Three-Piece Play Suits All Sizes Jones—Slevens Seward Street Defroit Sees BISQUICK ACROSS Prosperous 1. Pen name of times ch 32 Acldity Dickens 34, Ice crystals Throws of six 35 Symbol for at dice tellurium Thickness Greek epic poet Duteh eity . Make amends Regret Beverage Faucet . American red 6. Goddess of the cedar hearth 46 Juliet's family . South Ameri- can ‘wood sorrel Hewn or . squared stone Click beetle Distant i Solution Of Yesterday's ®uzzle 6 Antique Wooden shoe Town in Penn- sylvania 6 Australian bird 6 6. Wear ay i DOWN Greek letter Harem rooms Gentle breezes . Clty in Georgla Roman road . Distress call Go In . Inspector of gl Small round mark “eeble-minded Showers ) Food element Full-grown pike Period of time Old ocard game Luzon tribe 4. Deadens the sound of Dramatic musi. cal wofk Sacred image . Pleasant . Rockfish . Iterated . Delayed . Trigonometri- cal function Stylish . Running knots 7. Swiss cantos . Trap . Cultivates . Sallors' patron saint Manner . Sufficlent: etic Be overfor.d of . Form of greets ing po- the Birmingham, Ala., sandlots, Trucks struck out 418 batters for| Andalusia of the Alabama-Florida League for a record that stands unmatched in modern organized baseball. Bright Future For V. Trucks Husky nghl hander Mak- ing Good Start for Star Hurler By WATSON SPOELSTRA DETROIT—Virgil Trucks doesn't | BACK FROM SITKA possess a particularly dazzling pitch- | E. A, Heiss, representative of a ing record and he obviously won't|chjorinator firm, returned this af- be the American League’s rookie of | tegon from Sitka where he went the year, but you can't tell t)?‘e‘ the water Detroit Tigers that he wont be a big | winner some day, perhaps one of the biggest. Trucks, a husky celebrated his 23rd birthday April 26 by capturing his first major league victory, and in the first half | LEWs, of the season added four others, one w . a shutout, while losing four. Furth- One section of Mannheim has no ermore, he inactive for a month |street names, but is divided into because of illness | 136 blocks which are designed by Four years ago as a voungstor off | letter and numben ?«"s"?‘ THRIFT (ORN—No. 303 cans SCOTT'S KITCHEN TOWELS culties over his contract but for $2,500 received outright claim to the ed up through the Tiger farm sys- tem. Last year he broke even ir deeisions for Buffalo of the Inter- national League, but topped the circuit in strikeouts with 204. Manager Del Baker thinks Trucks is successor to Rapid Robert Feller as the league's No. 1 fireballer (in | his first 68 innings he fanned 55). R 58 18 for a survey of supply of the b~se there, soon inutall a chlorinator. Mr. right-hander, \Helks is going to install a similar last | | machinc in the Juneau water sys- | tel uncer the orders of R. F.| owner, - DAWN FRESH—Pieces and Stems MUSHROOMS TEX—DELTA TOMATO JUICE BULK ELBO MACARONI young pitcher, who eventually mov- | for which he wlll‘ 2 for 25¢ - 2rolls35¢ large Package 43¢ 80z.can47¢ GRAPEFRUIT JUICE- 46 02.can 25¢ No. 10an 59 " PAGE THREE 'BILL BOYD STAR ! : OF "HOPALONG" | c# suunnu [ 1 WHFRE TH " S PLAY | \ ‘ | FILM NOW HERE OMLENTURY ™" oLy 1 Tov MATINEE 1.00P.M. NIGHT 7:30, 9:30 SATURDAY ONLY ' Wide Open Town’ Feafure [ Film Showing at | 20th Century Thundering action as “Hopalong” | | Cassidy alone of all western screen | heroes can deliver it, is provided n {ample easure in the latest adven- re of the famed character “Wide Open Town,” which opened at the 20th Century Theatre last night | This time it's the machinations of feminine master-mind which the ingenuity, courage and gocity of Cassidy to the fore "I'ln- mind belongs to the beauti- |ful owner of a roaring gambling !joint in a frontier community | which happens to be headquarters ilur a band of outlaws and cut- who practice just about |every ex‘gency provided for in the | Penal Ccde. The role of the beau- | tiful bandit is played by Evelyn | Brent, with William Boyd again| i[)tvl‘Ll;l)'1||;,v the redoubtable “Hop- Py . | Others in the cast |Hayden as “Lucky,” Andy Clyde as | “California,” Victor Jory a par- | ticularly vicious villain, Morris Ank- [rum as the editor of a crusadi | newspaper, and Bernice Kay, a fif- teen-year-old newcomer to the |screen who shows considerable A promise. DOUGLAS .~ NEWS ANGUISH FROM A NATION IN. CHAINS! A NN A HITLER —The Beast of Berlin | bring: | throats with ROLAND DREW STEFFI DUNA GRETA GRANDSTEDT - ALLAN LADD LUCIEN PRIVAL and an Immense Cast of Internationally Famous Players | are Russell Detroit became involved in diffi- | FOUR REGISTER IN DOUGLAS 18 TO 20 Registration in Douglas yesterday |proved to be a quiet affair for City |Clerk L. *W. Kilburn, officer in |charge, as but four young men 'qualified with the proviso, that P°'°'“°':"' /they must have been born before FERSIY with )June 30, 1924, but after Jan. CLARENCE E. RUSSELL HAYDEN 1922. Those registered were Jg | ANDY CLYDE ll)t-von, Robett Savikko, Gori - EVELYN BRENT Wahto and Robert Fleek { VICTOR JORY R N ANNUAL SOCIAL EVENT MI;::INS'GAEN'I((:;JM ON HERE THIS EVENING Directed by Lesley Selander - A HARRY SHERMAN PRODUCTION The Douglas Inn wul be the scene this evening of a gatheri 'of PAA officials and other employ-| ees of the company and frienis at| COLISEUM a dinner as*their annual social event. Approximate number of|ended with the guests for the affair will be 40. | night | — - | Report of the Board will be ul\ul‘ ‘BOA“H ENDS SESSIONS; |to 'the City Council at a special NOT SINGLE OBJECTION meeting set for next Monday nig Not a single visitor appeared be-|at whicn time the rate of taxatic !fore the Board of Equalization of that will be nec wry to provide the City Council at any of the revenues needed this year will be| | three meetings held this week which'determined. featuring WILLIAM BOYD "THE KNOCKOUT” ———— COLISEUM final session last| WASILLA PRINCIPAL RESIGNS Karl J. Miller, prineipal of the Territorial school at Wasilla near Anchorage, has resigned his position 'to accep. employment elsewhers, Territorio] Commissioner of Educa- tion Dr. James C. 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