The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 24, 1942, Page 3

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1942~ THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! CAPITOL [THEATRL! how Place of Juneau BUY BONDS HERE TOMORRCW ——— PREVUE TONIGHT! IT°S LAUGH TIME --- ks Zunstnde ) | P enroll in college to roll you in the ENDS TONIGHT! NEW WINE.. “, TILONAMASSEY " ALAN CURTIS BINNIE BARNES BILLY GILBERT Alaied lorn e A o PENNY SINGLETON ARTHURLAKE EL LARRY SIMMS - DAISY e | starring LEON ERROL and LUPE VELEZ LAFF HITS FUN SHOW == Moforized Army on Saving Program; Gef Down fo Earth Now (Continued from Page One) tities to tax both the stockpiles and potential synthetic production. So they started out to educate the truck jockeys and maintenance men in saving tires. By checking wheel alignments, making daily inspections of all "tires to guard against incipient blowouts and failures, they increased tire mil- eage by 50 per cent. "BLONDIE' GOES T0 COLLEGE IN FILM NOW AT CAPITOL Double Features Opening| Tomorrow Also Brings Lupe Velez Picture Because folks have taken to call-| ing him Dagwood Dumbstead, and because he wants to get ahead, Dagwood Bumstead currently is embarked upon the most. hectic ad- | venture of his merry screen life. According to advance reports, “Blondie Goes to College,” which - tomorrow on a double bill la( the Capitol Theatre, is easily |the merriest medley of misadven- |ture yet encountered by America’s| 3 |favorite fun family, the comic strip |charagters created for the news- papers by Chic Young, and brought | to the screen in all their inimitable |glory by Penny Singleton, Arthur | Lake and Larry Simms. | Latest in Columbia’s nopuhu'l Blondie series, “Blondie Goes to! | ‘College" has been hailed by Holly- l |wood as the funniest of the come- dies to date. And that, if advance laccounts of the story are to be | considered, and fond memories of Iprevious Blondie successes are to {be recalled, is saying a great deal! | { Back again and funnier than| 1(*\'&'1" Lupe Velez and Leon Errol lead a patrol of talented funsters| |through a barrage of laughter in| “The Mexican Spitfire's Baby,” which shares the bill. | Dennis Lindsay, serious-minded| | young advertising man, and his| | Mexican wife, Carmelita, quarrel| bitterly and their Uncle Matt| | = * makes up his mind that the only| | |solution is for them to adopt a| baby. Their mutual friend, Lerd oy opens g THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA CAGNEY, DAVIS | MAKE NEW TEAM AT 20TH CENTURY {"The Bride Came C. 0.D."” Is Clever Comedy on Screen Here | For James Cagney and Bette Davis, “The Bride Came COD. marks their first co-starring effort, and according to all advance ports, the team sets & new record | for smooth coordination in getting the most out of the clever comedy script. The gag film is now at the 20th Century Theatre | “The Bride Came C.OD." the amusing tale of a spoiled young debutante with more dollars than sense and an aviator with just the | opposite combination. She is about to elope with a self-infatuated bandleader, who hires Cagney to fly them to Las Vegas. But Cag- ney, desperately in need of funds /in order to keep up payments on 'his plane, decides it will be more | profitable to deliver the bride back home to her doting papa. He gets her father on the phone and |clinches the deal. He wll be paid ten dollars a pound, C.OD. for | delivering the would-be bride, un- married. By a simple he gets Betté in the plane first, and re- tells | flies off, leaving the bewildered bridegroom gaping on the ground Positive that she is being kid- napped by a desperate criminal— an illusion which Cagney does no- thing to shatter—she attempts a parachute jump and lands safely but painfully in a bed of cactus Cagney makes a forced landing, and knocks his plane out of com- mission. , - e There is no substitute for newspaper adveriisingi 7 PAGE THREE WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY! TOOMENTORY oo TONIGHT! Together JIMMY BETTE CAGNEY DAVIS in the big happy hit “THE BRIDE CAME C. 0. D.” COME IN AND ROAR NEWS 7:30—9:30 FEATURE 8:00—10.00 NOW— POWER DIVE NN NI /72 P L Sip ag\S\!““Y BROOK- N N N A and see what ‘ rand whiskey it is! The pteventive maintenance plan |Epping, is coming from England was extended to all motor equip-|S0oon on a business trip and Uncle !ment, and the results were equally Matt cables him to bring a French | gratifying. At one infantry re- War orphan with him as a sur- placement training center, repair|Prise for the young couple. { parts bills were slashed by $500' On for the last time tonight is 0PA OFFICIAL SPEAKS AT C. buying bowrbon monthly, gasoline consumption was | ‘New Wine,” fine musical starring or( MEEIING ask for Old THEATRE reduced by 46 per cent, and the Ilona Massey. | L] Sunny Brook saving in rubber held at 50 per| ————eei—— | by name cent Best of all, the surprise checkups on motorized equipment have re- sulted in keeping drivers and re- pair crews on their toes. When they pass out the medals for outstanding performance of duty, the man who conceived the PM tests rates plenty of consider- ation LULL PREVAILS, CHINA FIGHTING Entire Fro;lilfiApparenlly Broken Only by Min- or Skirmishes Regarding the battling in China, - e SCHOOL OF DANCING By Dorothy Stearns Roff, classes for Fall Recital now enrolling; also 6 ballroom lessons for $5.00. Phone | Red 575. the Chinese Army spokesman re- ported today there is a lull in the fighting along the entire front, brok- en only by minor skirmishes. On Capitol Bill One of the two features at the Capitol Theatre on Friday and Sat- urday is “The Mexican Spitfire’s Baby,” with Lupe Velez and her co-partner in comedy Leon Errol, pictured above in one of the hilar- ious scenes in their effort to outflank gldom. Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Zasu Pitts, Elizabeth Risdon and Fritz Field are also in the comedy cast. IN WAR AS IN PEACE DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED CONSERVATIVE ‘management and strict Governmens supervision work constantly for the protection of our depositors. Additional security is provided through this bank’s membership in Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora- tion, & United States Government agency which insures each depositor agzinst loss to & maximum of $5,000, First National Bank of JUNEAU, ALASKA MEMSER FEDERAL DEPO INSURANCE CORPORATION AURTWILLBE | HELD TONIGHT AT 7 0°CLOCK At 7 oclock tonight a practice| Alert will be held and will be fol- lowed immediately by a meeting of | the Civilian Defense Council, R. E.| | Robertson, Director of Civilian De- | | fense announced. ‘ | T e ———— SELECTEES ARE | RECLASSIFIED Traffic regulations will be strictly enforced during the alert and driv- ers are warned to observe them closely. { Reclassification of registrants All Auxiliary Police are to cons |under the Selective Service, as the ! will be assigned to stations accord- | Draft Board held on Tuesday eve-| ing to instructions of Welter P.|ning are as follows. | Scott, Director, Auxiliary Police. 1-A Edwin James Blake, Joseph | First Aid Problem | The problem for the First Aid Willlam Jensen, Herbert Leo Le- | Corps will be to give first aid ana Baugh, _Rnymond Otto Harlic, Wal- report the time required to attend|ter Albin Walker, Eugene Michael to a walking case, reporting at the Percich, Arthur William Hedman, | station, with a broken Jeft wust,“L?“flV Frances Clements, Howard |« |and slight cut on upper side of LeRoy Kresge, John Hopen, Jules 'wrist which is bleeding sligml'\z;Bfl”flnd Caro, Alphons Joseph | Ambulances will not be nsed to- Otto Hundt, Gosta Persson, Barney night. | Berg, Amos Louis Wallace, Preu‘ | Report of the personnel of ward-|man William Matheson. | ens, first aiders and auxiliary pol-| 1-C Lloyd Albright and George| ice attending the Alert should be John Keranen. made to the Control Station, phona 2-A Olaf Westby, John Axel! 712, Mr. Robertson said. Warden Walli, Samuel Burrell Baker and sergeants will report attendance of Carl Wilhelm, [ wardens and also of members of 2-B Lawrence J. Cashen. | | the first aid corps. | 3-A Cassius Cleo Carter. | Membership cards will be dis-| 3-B Raymond Livingstone Graff \tributed to all who have taken| 4-F Jake Jones Hendricks, John | the official oath of offica through | Willlams Roberts and Pete A: Sa-| posts and stations at the alert|vella. | tonight. R P . | | AT NOTICE | | Starting September 28tn, the only | feed deliveries to Douglas and the ‘, i | Douglas Road will be on Wednes- days at 4 p. m. Please have your | —— Four-Year-0ld Suffocafes orders in by 3 p. m. FEMMER'S TRANSFER.: in Early Morning Tragedy — - - Subscribe to the Daily Ala.\ku‘ (Continued from Page One) believed that the older children Empire—the paper with the largest| paid circulation. may have leaped out cf the win- dows. | Leo Dennis, neighhor, discovered | the fire and turned in the alarm. | The flames completely gutted the upstairs of the house but were kent from spreading to the lower floor. ‘The children’s father was found at the scene, but it is not known whether he was insida the house when the blaze started. Mrs. Mil- 1ér, who was said to have left the house at 2 a. m, returned while the fire was being fought. Authorities belicve the fire may have been started from a short circuit or a cigarette. - BUY DEFENSE BONDS NE TROPHY AND THE LAD Y_Ruth Schmidt, Pitisburgh model, was named “Miss Western Pennsylvania.” | Johnson, Omen Ira Hartley, Carl|. ‘GO CUASE NORESE'® NEW RULES WILL ‘SIMPLIFY TRAVEL T0 WHITEHORSE Passengers wishing to travel from Canada, or the United States to Skagway or from Whitehorse Y. T, Canada, through Skagway, Al- aska, to the United States or Can- will not be required to have entrance or departure permits from the Civilian Travel Control Office, according to information received by Lieut. R. A. Boaz, who is in harge of CTC offices in this dis- triet. In other words, a person wish- ing to travel from Canada or the United States proper, to White- horse, B. C., Canada, through Skagway is not required to have a travel permit from the Civilian Traffic Control office for their pass- age through Alaska, but will not be permitted to remain in the Territory, he explained. This also applies to people wishing to travel from Whitehorse, to Carada or the United States proper. e .- — GAMES TODAY The following are scores of base- ball games played in the major leagues this afternoon as received up to press time: National League New York 8; Philadelphia 0. * American League 1 SEL - AROUND Tw DRILL FELD, VEN-LOOKINY NARMINT ¥ G\ NARD B\RD | Wilford Eiteman, Price Executive for the Alaska Office of Price Ad- | ministration, was guest speaker to- |day when the Juneau Chamber of | Commerce met for luncheon in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. Eiteman gave a brief history of |the OPA and told how it applied to | Alaska. Henry Peel, Chief Econom- ist for the Alaska OPA, also was a guest. Others included Col. C. C. oLD RAND Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey o National Distillers Products Corp, N. Y.+ 90.4 Proof RS Distributed by NATIONAL GROCERY COMPANY Seattle, Washington AT | McCullough, U. 8. Army, and James Ramsey, of Anchorage. Curtis Shattuck acted as presi- 14(‘11' in the absence of President C. W. Carter, who is ill. Ui o NEW (LASH vene at City Hall from where they result of a lengthy meeting of the| Whitehorse, Y.T., Canada, through, - REPORTED ~ ON GUINEA Conlihued Aerial Attacks- Fighting in Mountain Areas Announced (By Associated Press) Australian jungle fighters are re- ported to be holding firmly amid a | renewal of fighting in the New Guinea Mountains, 32 miles from Port Moresby, Allied communiques say today. Meanwhile Allied warplanes straf- ed Jap troops and blasted away supply bases. MacArthur’'s headquarters said that casualties were suffered on both sides in clashes on the south- ern slope of the Owen Stanley range, but that there is no indica- tion of any further Jap advance. 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