The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 2, 1942, Page 3

...1o bring you the funniest “Brown” comedy in years! P’ ¥ 8:20—10 T:10— 9:45 C 4 AND starring JOEE. | BROWN with Adele Mara Victor Jory Fritz Feld LEs e e ] Cadets on Parade' FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW and JIMMY LYDON NEWS—“RIDERS OF DEATH VALLEY” Sat. Mat. THE CAPITOL HAS GIRL SCOUTS 60 INTO DEFENSE ACTIVITY WORK Courses Taken Under Red (ross Here Troops 1 and 3 of the Juneau Girl Scouts are now engaged in act- ivities under the sponsorship of the Juneau chapter of the American Two facts you can see and one you can taste recommend 01d Taylor to you. It is signed with the proudest signature in whiskeydom. It is sealed with the green stamp which says the world’s strictest whiskey standards have been observed. It is delicious on the tongue. Try it and see. Copyright 1942, National Distillers Products Corporation, New York Distributed by National Grocery Co., Seattle, Wash. Show Place of Juneau BUY BONDS HERE! THE BIG PICTURES! |Red Cross, taking First Aid courses |and Home Nursing study. | Girls who met yesterday after- | noon with Mrs. Ernest Gruening at the Governor's House for their first aid lesson, included Mary Lou Fagerson, Loretta Keithahn, Mary Thibodeau, Lois Hared, Josephine Haréd, Patsy Oakes, Pearl Swans- son, Alice Jean Davis, Roberta Mes- serschmidt, Jeanette DuSette and Mary Joan Monagle. Home Nursing Class These girls are working for their Junior First Aid Certificate and are also working for their First Aid and Personal Health Scout badges which they hope to receive at the next Court of Awards on October 25. The following Girl Scouts of Troop 1 and 3 have enrolled in a Junior Home Nursing Course be- ing sponsored by the Juneau chap- ter of the American Fled Cross: Catherine Bavard, Jean Boddy, Nellie Borbridge, Helen Dapcevich, Peggy Forward, Lois Fossum, Jean Hermle, Charlotte Mason, Donna Olds, Sharon Sharpe, and Iva Jean Schutteld. Party Planned Activities for the special observ- ance of Girl Scout Week to be ob- served the last week of October. Juneau Girl Scouts as part of the observance are planning to attend church or Sunday School all this month, and on October 25, Girl Scout Day, will attend Church as a group. Plans for a Hallowe'en Party also were made, with the First Aid stud- ents as the entertainment commit-| tee and members of the home nurs- ing class on the food committee. ‘The Girl Scouts also voted special thanks to J. K. Marshall who- re- cently carved and stained new flag standards which he gave to the | Scouts. They will be used during rituals and can also be used in parades. e ——— — Axis Supply PortBombed By Americans Greek Port(mlosSmash- ed by U. S. Planes in Egypt Fight CAIRO, Oct, 2—American heavy bombers have hit German shipping in another raid at Pylos, Greck port of supply for the Axis armies in North Africa, it was annourced today as Lieut. Gen. Montgomery declared that his British Eighth Army is preparing for “the next round” of the Battle of Egypt. Americans were credited with scoring two direct hits on one ship and numerous near misses on others in the raid. Pylos lies southwest of the coast of the Greek Peloponnesus. Montgomery's declaration gave added significance to the action last Wednesday of the sudden thrust of British forces, which struck at dawn, gained a strategic elevation and wiped out a small salient held by the Axis in the central sector of the El Alamein front. B e Su— A ton of shark yields about 90 square feet of leather for shoes, luggage; belts, purses. ———.e—— Empire Classifieds Pay! lmrry Sperling, TWO NEW FEATURES OPENING TONiGHT ON CAPITOL BILL Joe Brown Comedy Shares Bill With Freddie Bar- tholomew Film Latest in the ranks of screen funny men to reach for a wig and rouge box is Joe E. Brown. More than half of his new Columbia western comedy, “Shut My Big Mouth,” now at the Capitol The- atre, was played in pantaloons and rock-ribbed corset. Even while try- ing to win the smiles of his lead- cartwheels and bronco busting in calico and old lace. Jack Benny, another specialist in screen fun, had a whole flock of feminine clothes for his por- trayal in “Charley’s Aunt” which came through as one of his fun- | niest films to date. Hailed as a “heart”-crammed drama of young America, Colum- bia’s exciting new film, “Cadets On Parade” is also on the hill at | the Capitol, with Freddie Bartholo- mew and Jimmy Lydon in the| leading roles. Directed by Lew Landers, the story is concerned with the adventures two boys out of totally different worlds have| when they learn together the Am-| erican way to be men! Besides Bartholomew and Lydon, the cast/ also includes Joseph Crehan, Ray- mond Hatton and Minna Gombell. | e, ing lady, Adele Mara, Brown does | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ‘ 'WESTERN, MYSTERY | | ; . {115 ON DOUBLE BILL & : b 3| AT 20TH CENTURY :"Highwa>y West” Stars’k | Brenda Marshall; Jack Randall Here “Highway West," a new action- | packed Warner Bros. film of high romance and danger is now being < !shown at the 20th Century Theatre | Lovely Brenda Marshall, the screen’s | 3 | newest star, appears opposite Arthur | Kennedy, the young actor who re- | | ceived wide acclaim for his perform- ance as James Cagney's kid brother lin “City for Conquest.” | Miss Marshall is seen as the in- {nocent wife of a ruthless Killer | After he is penalized she begins a new life, but her unhappy past continues to haunt her. Her worst fears are realized when her hus-| band, now an escaped convict, re- turns to haunt her. Nearly every big western star has his cohort. In Jack Randall's current Monogram outdoor action film, “Riders From Nowhere," shar- ing the double bill opening tonight little Ernie Adams is seen as Ran- dall’'s pal. Ernie is, in his own right, a movie star for he has been in pic- tures for more than 15 years. He's |played in every type of a feature | from slapstick comedy to drawing rcom drama but he admits westerns are his favorite. New Star & BARITONE'S SON TO WED_corp. Lawrence Tib- bett, Jr., son of the opera baritone, and Edith Ernestine Witte, Kansas City musician, sign for a wedding license in Los Angeles, They met in a Coronado, Calif., swimming pool. FWA Against Inflation Second Road = Bill Goesfo WILKIETS GREETEDIN CHUNGKING {One of Biggest Welcom | for Foreigner Is Ac- | corded American | (Continued from Page One) {port, then a drive through the streets following a sound truck !which was the signal for all people |to gather and wave Chinese and | American flags. { During his stay in Chungking, | Willkie will be put up at one of the few houses in the capital equip- ped with hot and cold running water. Generalissimo Chiang Kai- ALCOHOL “MAKING ~ STOPPED . | WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. — The | War Production Board has ordered ithe entire output of the nation’s distilleries diverted to industrial ‘alcohol for wartime purposes after | October 8. | | The WPB officials estimated| ithere is now more than three and| |one-half years supply of beverage whiskey in the country. | |MINERS' HATS WANTED FOR | DEFENSE WORK To supplement the inadequate | supply of helmets for Civilian De-! |fense Corps workers anyone be- longing to6 the corps who has a| miner’s hat is requested to use it| when performing civilian defense' work, R. E. Robertson, Director of Civilian Defense said today. Anyone who is not a member of he defense corps who has a miner’s hat he will lend for de-| fense work is urged to notify the| air raid sergeant of his district, Mr. Robertson said. The supply of helmets for de-| |fense workeys is far from adequate | and the miner’s hat is said to be equally good for this purpose. PISE s A Bl (EMMA NEILSEN CHOSEN TO HEAD JHS HONOR GROUP Emma Neilsen was elected Presi- dent of the Honor Society of the Juneau High School at a meeting held recently. Other officers chos- en were Vice-President, Mary Sperling, and Secretary, Connie Davis. Members of the organization this year are Margaret Femmer, Connie Davis, Mary Gregory, Gene Hanna, Ernia Meier, Audrey Rude, Mary Sperling, Grace Berg, Doris Cahill, Merion Cass, Anna Lois Davis, Shirley Davis, Marie Hanna, Robert Helgesen, Emma Neilsen, Pat Olson, Jack Pasquan, Bob Phillips and N | Foree struck at Germany last night | \reported lost, compared to ten the|pleted, it would seem that prop- ToNorthland Conference n“ WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. — While apparently ready to accept the major elements of the Senate's |version of the inflation control j;l\ens\n'v, the House has decided to ‘War Effort | |send the legislation to a formal WASHINGT&)\A‘i)m A _\,.c_lsvn:m\ and House Conference Com- ond Alaska highway along route A Mittee for a quick adjustment of from Seattle to the Northland|the phases of the legislation still| shouldn’t be undertaken at this|in controversy. time is the position taken by 11\1-“ ot v B 37 R Federal Works Agency. Alaska lAND OFFI(E Delegate Anthony J. Dimond made| | |all kinds. known today. | Alan Johnstone, General Council | for the FWA, said in a letter to| Chairman Cartwright of the H(nlm-‘ Roads Committee that since the| named Ann Sothern; likes A would interfere with the war|Senate has sent to the White/him very much. Popular with effort. | Hotise ‘a bill reorganizing the sys-jmovie fans, too. They've doubled| He said it would cost $50,000,000]tem of the Land Office and Land and quadrupled ‘his fan mail. | and divert from the war effort|Districts in Alaska and the ap-| ¥ou ask him why he did what InMovies Is Modest Robert Slerrng Does Not Strit, Goes Straight | and Serious i i BY ROBBIN COONS | | Say New Construcio Would Interfere, 9 HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 2.—He Is| boyishly handsome, ciean-cut, go- ing on 26. He's clear-eyed, with a |strong chin and a sort of I-like- | the-world grin. Crazy about sports, Army is constructing on the prairie Popular with the girls. route, a highway to Alaska con- sy structed by the Army along route| WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. — The| |shek will give a dinner for Willkie needed machinery, labor and stra-'pointment of Registrars on regular| he did last May 16 and he'll tell kind of youngster Gable likes. No heroics, no| tegic materials and trucks. He said|salary. |you, straight off. 4 Ah1 stuff. ust | that in normal times the FWA| The measure abolishes the office|aren’t - I- wonderful |would offer no objection of con-|of Register of the District Land | Straight and serious: struction along this route “in addi-|Office in Anchorage and ex-officio| "I figured there was a job to dui (tion to the prairie route, registers at Nome and Pairbanks, and there wouldn’t be anything | ot left in the world for anybody un-| (The Register at Anchorage is cov-| |ered into Civil Service and retains|less it was done. Nobody wants to, his position while the Nome and|80- I don't want to leave this, but) Fairbanks offices will be admin-|Who does? So I figured the quick-| istered by regular employees to be|€r the better, and I went down . ."| 3 | appointed by the Interior Depart- ment, Heretofore U. S. Marshals| His name is Robert Sterling. All and Clerks of the Federal Court|Dis life—at least subconsciously, he! performed the duties in these| places. Under the bill the Secretary of the Interior is empowered to change the boundaries of land dis- tricts, designate registers or change the' Iocation of any Land Office. JUNEAU LANDLORDS " MAKE NO EFFORTS T0 INCREASE RENTS NAZI U-BOAT CENTER IS HIT BY ENGLISH Flensburg Blasted by RAF| | Fliers in Second Big Night Raid LONDON, Oct. 2—The Royal Air “Never mentioned it back home (New Castle, Pa.) because you know | how it is. You say you want to act and they throw tomatoes at you.” | He went to high school in the! hometown and spent a year at Pittsburgh in college. He'd done some amateur acting, and he de- cided to hit for Hollywood via the traveling salesman route. He didn’t make it, not that time." He went back to Pittsburgh to work| for a tire company. He spent his| vacation getting to Hollywood—and he stayed. He found a cheap, clean room and he found a few days’ work here and there selling men’s clothes in department stores. He went to movies whenever he had the price and he spent long evenings in the public library reading plays—just so he’d not be caught when he told agents he'd done such-and-such in stock. after a week of bad weather, blast- | d 3 ing anew at the Nazi U-boat build- No indication of a tendency to ing center at Flensburg. | raise rentals in Juneau has been Bomber forces were described as'found by Inspectors Lu Liston and fairly heavy. iBamey Lind, of the Office of Price Flensburg turns out and repairs Administration, who recently be- a large percentage of Hitler’s subs. gan a survey of the rental situation It was apparently hit even harder|in the city, Mrs. Mildred R. Her- than the last raid of September 23. mann, OPA Director, said today. Seventeen British planes were, While the survey is not com- night of the previous attack. erty owners of the city have made —————— no effort to increase their rentals, Subscribe to the Daily Alasku\she said, Empire—the paper with the largest | ————— paid circulation, | Empire Classifieds Pay! (G ) He heard Hollywood was looking for a “Golden Boy.” “The man | closed before opening. says—he’s wanted to be an actor. - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1942 WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY! GR b/‘[[”’-”” STARTS TONIGHT Matinee Saturday 1:00 p.m. A WARNER BROS. HIT with MARSHALL-KENNEDY said no,” says Bob Sterling, “so I went back with a different suit on and he still said no. I decided I needed an agent.” | “He picked on one. He told the agent he'd played at Miami’s Royal | Palm in 1935 and the agent turned out to be the guy who booked talent for the Royal Palm in 1935. He signed Bob anyway. Bob had a year in bits at Co- lumbia, .decided a New York play was the thing. He got one—it| Back here he signed with 20th, made several “B” pictures and didn't like it, went to Metro and made nine pic- tures in 12 months. He's worked + with Ann Sothern, Bob Taylor,| OTTAWA, Oct. 2—Hours governs Gable and Lana Turner.|ing the opening and closing of res He's with those last two in “Some- |tail stores. are.- now regulated where I'll Find You,” his best role|the Wartime Price and Trade Boal to date—third billing. He's the| A retail store other than confecs At | tionery, drug and certain other least Gable talked over with him |tablishments are allowed to st a story idea for the pair of them,|OPen only one night a week until But that was before Gable went |10 P-m. A second night opening to the Army. allowed if a corresponding num i of hours are closed for the store the next day. % BRI MRS RN T LAST TIMES TONIGHT "Sign of the Wolf” Retail Store Hours Are Now Regulale i ilite MRS. MARTHA WALKER IN FROM PELICAN CITY qpe peart increases in size u |to about 50 years of age, the In Mrs. Martha Walker arrived in|cregse being more marked in the Juneau last night from Pelican City male, and is staying at the Gastineau Hotel while in the city, D assifieds Pay! Empire Cl 20 SAWMILL MEN WANTED at JUNEAU LUMBER MILLS JUNEAU ® .Now Operating 63 Calls An OWL CAB (g BARNEY GOOGLE ANP SNUFFY SMITH 3 WELL- VLLBE R —- e oy LOOK ¥ HERE 4 Comes WOMN' KANGAROD CORN BAUEEZNG CARRNWNY MESSAGES e AN SUCH L\KE f PlGEON 2 T SWOW, COUSIN ¥, NO'RE W' WWSS oL DOUBTIY' Tow W TR NEWNTED STATES AN CANRDY WY -NE LOW-DOWN, TWIEUIY UARMINT ¢ O¥M %O “THER HALNT NARY @ DRAP LEFT