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

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1942 /fi'lflli/ YOU'LL LAUGH "BALL OF FIRE" MIRTH-PACKED WITH YOUR HEART WIDE OPEN...when Sparkling with the gayest fun | the professor the screen has known in years, unbends with Samuel Goldwyn's production of | a bflllg' “Ball of Fire" opened at the Capi- 5 tol Theatre yesterday to score a Gary Cooper and Barbara Stan- wyck, who have the stellar roles, turn in flawless performances this mirth-packed tale of a staid professor’s romance with club singer. Most of the action occurs in an old New York house, where eight rofessors are preparing a new | encyclopedia. Their leader, Cooper, meets Stanwyck while doing re- search for an. article on the sub- ject of Slang, and the girl comes | to stay with the octet to avoid the police who seek her for question- ing about a killing in which her :angster boy-friend is implicated. When the gangster subsequently claims her she has to choose be- tween marrying him and marrying Cooper, who is wildly in love witl her by this time. Matters come to e 1 LI JEEY 15404 STANNY a hectic climax, a whirlwind of ALA Al laughs being mixed in with the - suspense of the ending. FEATURE STARTS 7:40—10:00 MANY GIRLS GET AWARDS ATSCOUT COURT ON SUNDAY Civilian Defense Service. Prominent Among Ac- tivities of Girls THE BIG PICTURE THE CAPITOL H:/ In a ificant ceremony honor- ing Girl Scouts of Juneau and A EI.K ARE Douglas, the Court of Awards held leIER RAPS juNE u S | yesterday afternoon at the Northern | Light Presbyterian Church present- md service badges and special awards | to Scouts who had completed quali- fying work Onlshndm" was the work done by BACK FROM VISIT To ESI'AND ("Y’ members of the Senior Troop led S 0{ IURSBIGES “"“mg‘l ihad Ixmshed the regular First Aid ” | offered their services as Civilian De- | days to Sitka, “““"H Which “they | fense officers in the eity's air raid initiated a class of Sitkans. shelters. Of these Dorothea Hend- Returning were Exalted Ruler |rickson, it was announced, received AUSTRALIA WAR EFFORT (Continued from Page One) intemperate” in saying that Aus- | Arthur Adams, Harry Sperling and |the highest grade ever scored by tralian labor and internal affairs|M. E. Monagle, both Past Exalted |anyone in Juneau on the examina- are hampering Gen. MacArthur. Rulers; Esteemed Leading Knight |tion. R. E. Robertson gave the girls Floyd Fagerson, Esteemed Lectur- |their oath of office as Civilian De- | ing Knight L. J. Holmquist, Sec- |fense officers and notified them of retary M. H. Sides, Chaplain Roald |ligibility for Red Cross certificates. Copstead and L. E. Iversen. ‘EXP"‘ ing the hope that disaster Fred G. Hanford, District Deputy | would never come to Juneau, Mr. | Robertson commended the girls for Evatt declared that Baldwin had | not visited Australia but had ob- tained his information from a few persons who had returned to the United States after failing in Aus- tralia. and Grand Exalted Ruler, of Wran- gl g iR e i Evatt said that calling the gov- gell, also made the trip, returning fidatioe 1 dheir l;,blli'.y et e‘f— ernment complacent was false. to Juneau by steamer and pro- ‘!lclenny along with the other 300 3% A | coeding: mouth ‘yesterds; members of Juneau's Civilian De- | i TR A | fense. FIRST AID (lASS } SUNDAY FALSE ALARM | Have Guest Speaker ! Smoke pouring from a stove pipe | Guest speaker, Mrs. George Wash- MEETS TOMORROW through a rear window of a cabin |ington, gave a vivid picture of every- on Willoughby Avenue Sunday |day activities of Puerto Rican young The First Am cla« will meet | forenoon, drifted around in front | People, based upon her own stay at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening|in clouds and caused some one to |2 exchange teacher there. Pointing ut that many of them were able to in the Grade School. think a fire was developing. The |© ; was sounded and: the fire |subsist if necessary on whatever | foodstuffs were at hand, she de- hed & Tun for hothing, |scribed a picnic meal where sections | of banana leaf were used for plates, |and chips from the stalk for spoons. Oranges, she said, were sold by sing- | |ing vendors at three for a penny, {and cooking oils were as generously jused as olive oil in Italy. In a brief resume of activities of | | Girl Scouts here, Mrs. Robert Cough- | ‘lm described the work carried on in | | the troops and introduced the Scout | leaders present. Mrs. H. J. Powers, | leader of the 24 Scouts in the Juneau | |Brownie troop, has organized the | glrls into packs with leaders, she | said, and the Brownie troop of Douglas, led by Mrs. Nevin, and having 12 members, has been active all summer. | The three Intermediate Troops consist of 14 girls led by Mrs. Floyd Fagerson, who have been working for their Personal Health badges and have taken Junicr First Aid, taught by Mrs. Ernest Gruening; those led by Mrs. P. J. Gilmore, studying Home Nursing under Mrs. McGinty; and the third, a newly-organized troop of Aleut girl evacuees at Kil- lisnoo, led by Mrs. Charles McGee, | a teacher. | The fourth, that of Douglas, led | by Miss Ruby McNeil, has 12 girls enrolled who have completed re- quirements for Bibliophile, Clothing, | Housekeeping, Hostess, Home Safety and other badges. Investiture of new Scouts and | presentation of awards and badges |was made by Mrs. H. L. Faulkner, |Girl Scout Commissioner. Mrs. | Faulkner paid special tribute to the unassuming but primarily important work done by Mrs. McGinty among local Girl Scouts, describing her as | “the hub of the wheel around which iScouung here revolves. The rest {of us,” she went on. “are more or less regular, but Mrs, McGinty keeps We Make ALL Electrical Repairs: ;Lhic“}ii:;:vnmg&; the program and | mistress of ceremonies, was Mrs. E. | L. Keithahn, who expressed her ;Hrg Alaska Electric Light vl and Power Co. |thanks to all who participated and |ll Any persons wishing to enroll in alarm 2 boys the class still may do so. There's a “Sweeping” Big Job 1o Be Done! Don’t let the condition of your electric sweeper go from bad to worse . .. you won’t be able to get a new one easily! Don’t let sharp things be picked up to cut the rubber belt. Empty the bag often. When repairs are needed, let the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company make them at once! AIN'" o KEEP SER sl | praised the girls for their worthwhile |work for defense here. Mrs. Carol | Beery Davis played the entry march, ‘nnd color bearers were Lorraine Englmh Alyce Jean Davis, Loretta ‘Kenhahn and Lois Fossum. Award Winners Following is a list of those who FEATURE HERE distinct triumph as entertainment. | in | a night | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA "lf's a Gam, Gary!” Sur a gam—a leg—a limb to you, Professor! A sprightly epi- sode in the romance between a an encyclope- aret professor writing of slang, | and a ¢ | sweetheart of the gangsters who runs to him for protection. Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck are starred, in Samuel Gold- H wyn's “Ball of Fir the Capi- tol for two more n Richard Arden, co-star with blonde Jean Parker of Paramount’s ex- citing action ror ance, “Torpedo Boat,” showing now at the 20th Century Theatre, stands by while officers of the United States ? direct a swift P.T. speedster by radio control. The film tells the thrill- ing story of the men who design and test Uncle Sam’s sea spitfires. sign, Drawing and Painting, Cloth- [ garet Clark and Doris Miettenin ing, and Housekeeping; Mae Cuth- [also earned Red Cross certificates bert, Clothing, Home Safety, Host- [ but were not present to take the ess, Pioneer; Margaret Cochrane, |oath of office. Campcraft; Phyllis Andrews, Cloth- —_———————— ing; Noreen Andrews, Hostess CARROT PLOT AT POINT LOUISA IS RUINED BY THIEF A thief with an appetite for carrots pulled up four rows of the etables in the garden sponsored Housekeeping, Clothing, Design, and Drawing and Painting; Tenderfoot badges were awarded to Janet Jen- son, Nancy Neimi, Shirley Anne Ed- wards, and Phoebe Anne Logan, all of Douglas. Patrol badges went tc Margaret Cochrane and Patsy Anne Balog. Juneau Lorraine English, Archi- tecture, Personal Health; Joan Wellman Holbrook, H. L. Hared, Second Class badge, Personal | Faulkner and Charles G. Burdick Health and Architecture; Donna |u¢ their Point Louisa homes and | Olds, Tenderfoot rank and Second made off with them sometime be- tween last Thursday night and Friday night, the U.S. Marshal's Jffice reported today. | Class; and Tenderfoot rank to Jean- ette Du Sette, Sonja Sheeper, Peggy Forward, Joan Hared and Katherine Bavard, ¢ th The culprits also stole a large Girl Scouts of the Senior TrooP | yo(a} hox, made to order for Hol- who won awards and Senior Service brook’s ‘boat, " apparently using it {emblems were: Lois Allen, Jeanne | G e A e S ) tote the carrots off in. The Butts, Connie Davis, Patricia Davis Shirley Davis, Dorothea Hendrick- son, Margaret Femmer, Winona Monroe, Charlotte Stevenson, Dor- othy Fors and Ardys Styles. These girls also took oaths of office a Civilian Defense officers. Those who won their Senior Serv- S. Marshal's office is investigat- the theft, e eee - TIDES TOMORROW lice Emblem were Betty Nordling f“ih :_i;le—;:;; am., 3 37 Zii & A0 lde—9:. am., E 2L, Grace Berg, Marilyn Merrm.t Emma High 46330 pr. 1677 feet, Neilson, Waunalee Suess, Doris Miet- | | tide—10:02 p.m., -0.2 feet. tenin, Margaret Clark, Alice Powers, Shirley Kleweno, Ardys Styles, Dor- othy Fors and Winona Monroe. Mar- BUY DEFENSE STAMP AN ELECTRICAL REPAIR received awards and badges: Douglas: Patsy Anne Balog, De-l 1 SWER T WS BEEN SHRGINT CRESION--WE DONT PAGE THREE "TORPEDO BOAT" | 15 THRILL-LADEN | ACTON PICTURE Playing WHERJ TOO CENTURY THE | | | | | | | ( | | With the roar of powerful mo- tors for refrain and the tang of ) i e . ,..mus...smnkmo ACROSS THE WAVES!. mount’s newest and fastest thrill /i 1 e Hsi film, “Torpedo Boat,” arrived at the 20th Century yesterday and was accorded immediate acclaim | Richard Arlen and blonde Jean Parker share stardom in this o swiftly told tale of the men who PY & o, TR TS - | build and test the Navy's 70-mile- RICHARD JEAN | an-hour ocean hornets. Others in % | the cast are Mary Carlisle, Phillip ARI'EN 5 pARKER jiTerey, DIGERurcell and. Warren Mary Carlisle - Phillip Terry + Dick Purcell Hymer. Diracted by John Rawlins: « Sirden Play by, Maxwall Shane “Torpedo Boat” races from one thrill to another with hardly a moment between for the audience to catch its collective breath. It's a screen load of excitement, plus plenty of romance and just enough comedy. It™ a top flight romanti thriller in anybody's league MRS. HOLZHEIMER PASSES IN JUNEAU SUNDAY MORNING NEWS: Battle on Solomons—C(Convoy Gets Through SITKA WOMAN IS ARRESTED HERE 2 THEATRE Deputy Marshal W. J. Mar- US. Active, Beloved Resident ‘i jcswerday amested wss vio | “KISS THE BOYS ’ Charles Schrewsbury, alias Viola GoonnYE" H Hanlan, of Sitka, on a telegraphic )’ charged with drawing a check '0 week s ”Iness without funds. e L 5 : . She has been turned over to NOTICE O.E. STAR (Continued rrom Page One US. Deputy Marshal Kenneth ]—-J‘[‘”t‘“" gL(”dw rtln. 17,. Ordertmt)‘! of Salt Lake City, and three Sampson, of Sitka, and was to be Fastern Star regular meeting, granddaughters, including Mary Teturned there today for trial, Tuesday, October 27, at 8 p.m. Ini- Ellerton Gregory, Who resides “" IFRENE tiation, following notice, refresh= 3 2 E ments. Juneau. b T e sinee 1014 MRS. JOHANSEN'S ALice BROWN, Mrs. Holzheimer was born in Wilkesbarre, Pa. She was married FUNERAL IS SET SRR it i to Judge Holzheimer on June 1900, in Salt Lake City. They lived in the state of Wash- for some time, where her i Empire—the paper with the largest FOR WEDNESDA paid circulation. ington Mrs. Jennie Johansen, wife of husband was associated in the john Johansen of Juneau, will be | law profession with his brother. In hyried here on Wednesday, with | 1914, they came to Alaska. funeral services to be held at 2 | Mrs. Holzheimer began her ac- pm. in the Chapel of the Charles | tive work in the Democratic party w. cCarter Mortuary, with Dean | during her residence in the state . E. Rice giving the eulogy. In-| of Washington, and was_instrumen- | tal in the campaign for Gov. Ron- ald Lister before coming to Alaska. | During the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition held in Seattle, she held the position of Executive Com- missioner and Hostess of the Wash- terment will be in Evergreen Cem- etery. | Mrs. Johansen, 22, was born in Sitka and was the daughter of Mrs. B. Chernikoff. Her survivors' are Mr. Johansen, their nine- month-old son John R. Johansen, ington Building at the fair, the Mys Chernikoff, and four brothers former position being one seldom ' Rjchard, Harold, Eugene and Julm‘ held by a woman. McRoberts. ‘ | After coming fo Alaska, Judge and Mrs, Holzheimer lived in Ket- chikan, then went to Nome whe he was named Federal Judge of the Second Judicial Division under | Wilson's: administration. They then returned to Ketchikan and came [to Juneau in 1933, where he has | been United States Attorney. Was Loyal Worker | Mrs. Holzheimer, who was a fine speaker and a loyal party worker, ,continued her interest in the | Democratic party during her resl» dence in the Territory. | | She was elected Democratic Na- |tional Committee Woman from !Alaska at the convention held in Texas 14 years ago. She held that | position for 12 years, retiring at "the last convention. Always glad to take part worthwhile movements, she had | been especially active since the| start of this war in work for the| Red Cross. She was a member of | the Episcopal Church, and Semuu Trinity Guild of the church, where she was in charge of Red Cross sewing. She was a member of the| Order of Eastern Star, and was| active in the organization of the| League of Women Voters in Ju-| neau, having served as its Presi-| dent at one time. As Vice-Chairman of the Ameri-| can Women’s Voluntary Services since the beginning of this war,| she acted as chairman of the Hos- | pital Committee, and was tireless in her visits to the soldiers con- |fined by illness. Mrs. Holzheimer's death yester- day came as a tremendous shock |to the community that had grown to count upon her advice and support for every worthwhile ac- tivity. e BUY DEFENSE BONDS in| “They're from the War Manpower Commission— they're looking ahead."” Ovee b o ¥ e e Courtesy of Bailey’'s Cocktail Bar ANRRL--PLICK ME FER A JON-BIRD- \.\.TER WX NESTODN =TT COWDN'T Wey