The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 3, 1942, Page 3

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1942 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA DOUBLE FEATURE |SMASHNEW |55 NIPPONS " BILL IS COMING | | BETTEDAVISn | CAITOL THEATRE JAP FORCE, | ARE KILLED prevoe | Tom Harmon, Famous Half- SO[OMONS BY MAR'NES ARl back Stars-"Frisco Lil i s e Is Second Film “Harmon of Michigan,” vehicle for Tom Harmon's famous life| story as All-American halfback, opens Friday for a two-day runj at the Capitol Theatre, with “Frisco Lil" starring Irene Harvey and Kent Taylor, as a second attrac-| tion on the double bill. Tom Harmon makes his screen debut in Columbia's thrilling dra- ma. Nationally acclaimed as the jreatest grid star of them all, Har- mon is ably supported in the film by Anita Louise, Oscar O'Shea, Warren Ashe, and his favorite blocking back, Forest Evashevski. | In “Frisco Lil,” behind-the- cenes operations in a modern gambling rendezvous are brought MURDER THEME, 20TH CENTURY, 1S KILLER DILLER | Twin Device Makes Plot for Horror Film Now Thrilling Audiences The 20th Century Theatre, where |Paramount's “Among the Living"” |1et out its first nightmarish scream last night, is no place for film fans with faint hearts. However, by all odds it’s the best place in town for those who dote on murder and mayhem “Among the Living piciously—with a funeral es back to Paul, a prisoner in a strait jacket hidden away in a secret room in huge, rambling mansion on the edge of a down- at-the-heels mill town. Then it |really gets into its stride when Paul escapes. The maniac starts a reign of terror in Radentown, killing and vanishing, only to re- THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! ENDS TONIGHT! WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAYI [7] b“[[”’-””yLAST TIME TONIGHT: THEATRE how Place of Juneau TOMORROW! WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Succ es of American ground force: Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons continued today. Marine patrols, at- tacking enemy forces on the little island have wiped out another 55 Japs and captured a quantity of arms and ammunition, the Navy Department announces, In daylight attacks, meanwhile, Army and Navy aircraft continued |to harass the enemy positions. o] loaded with Jap sol- | headed for battle on adalcanal. . As has been seen in late re- ports, no new Jap soldiers have been landed for some time. Such transports could carry between four and five thousand men. OUR LOSSES American losses in the battle included one American cruiser sunk, and another U.S. vessel | The Marines, in their latest ven- damaged ture, attacked a patrol of 60 Japs There has been no word as to near the upper Lunga River and !the number of casualties received killed 35 of the Nippons. In another or the ships encounter on the Matanikau River, damaged 20 more Japs were killed. The Japs broadcast a claim today : OARING ACROSS THE SCREEN IN THE PICTURE YOU DEMANDED! begins aus- It flash- a ALBERT DEKKER - SUSAN HAYWARD HARRY CAREY - FRANCES FARMER Dirgcted by STUART HEISLER - A Paramount. Picture types of American that an Allied battleship, a cruiser | lof the Augusta type, and two de-{ stroyers were sunk on the night to light through the action of| Irene Hervey in the title role. A girl who leads a double life, she transforms herself from a young law student into shrewd card dealer in order to save her father from paying the penalty for a mur- —Plus— der of which he is innocent. Je-! Cowan, Minor Watson, and “JUNGLE GIRL"” 2 Chapters Sat. Mat. lel S. Hinds are the .\\lpp()rl-; »; %, Fus® rome STOCK QUOTATIONS 3 NEW YORK, Dec Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mmpirorce was the first in this area| stock today is 3'%, American Can) {71%, Anaconda 2! Steel Commonwealth and| Southern %, Curtiss Wright 6%, Internationa! Harvester 567, Ken- | i, New York Central 117%, | with HERVEY TAYLOR Jerome COWEN Miror WATSON. I necott ‘Sll‘t‘l 47Y%, Pound $4.04 | & | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Do | Jones rages: industrials 115.17, ails 26.99, utilities 13.81. . . P { PRICES WEDNESDAY There is no substitute for newspaper advertising! | auska Juneau mine stock closed | 5 | at 3% on Wednesday, American Can at 71, Anaconda 25'%, Bethlehem Steel 55, Commonwealth and South- | ern 14, Curtiss Wright 6%, Interna- | tional Harvester 55%, Kennecott | 27%, New York Central 117, North- | jern Pacific 7%, United States Steel | 47, Pound $4.04. | | The following were Wednesday's | Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, | ;115 16; rails, 26.95; utilities, 13.88. 'NEW EXECUTIVES OF | | \ \\’\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\“\\\|“IIllm"”WIW/I//////////////////////////////////% « BE OF GOOD CHEER - - this Holiday Season!, 14 IR (. OF C. ANNOUNCED i Members of the Juneau Chamber {of Commerce today elected the fol- | lowing as members of the Board of | Executives at their noon meeting |in the Gold Room of the Baranof | | Hotel: | | Dr. Joseph C. Rude, Homer Gar- | vin, Harry Sperling, R. L. Davlin, |Charles E. Naghel and Stanley | Grummett. | e, — = Have you tasted Old Sunny Brook recently? If's finer than KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY National Distillers Products Corp., N. Y. * 90.4 Proof vor 24 2z AN JES " Distributed by National Grocery Company, Seattle, Washington | i FI::Y:Z: E;figorn.i‘z; r,!: !Juneau this week to take a posi- (Ition with the Alaska Credit Bu- reau. Miss Regan was formerly with the Fire Control office in Anchorage and more recently has been making her home in Denver, Colo. S T - |MISS FRANCES REGAN | | RAMSAY LEAV] FOR KETCHIKAN TODAY JAMI James Ramsay left Juneau today for Ketchikan to be away for a short time on personal business. Pk i i B L BUY DEFENSE BONDS o 1 Keep Your Washing Machine in the Service! Your washing machine has a weekly job |ticed law in Juneau, of November 30 off Guadalcanal. The Navy told of the battle in & communique which said that an American task went out north of Guadalcafial in the night and found several enemy troop transports escorted by combatant fleet units in the waters immedi- ately north of the i Pick Up Survi Some Jap sailors floating in life- boats were rescued the next day. The Navy identified one of the destroyers sunk as the Takanami, believed to be about 1500 tons. The interception of this Jap force since the Jap fleet was smashed Bethlehem [on the night of November 14-15,|Roy Woolman, Kenneth W. Steven- and 28 enemy ships were sent down 10 damaged. With today’s figures, the total announced Jap losses in the Solo- Northern Pacific 7%, United States|mons now stand at 129 ships sunk,|John Axel Walti, John Francis probably sunk or damaged - e ALLIES NEAR CAPTURE OF AXIS BASES (Continued from Page One) by ground and air, the British Navy swung into action with its big guns to harass the enemy from the sea. No details of the sea action were given. LIBERIA COOPERATES WASHINGTON, Dec, 3.--Liberia, strategic west coast Africa country, has granted air base rights to the United States for the duration in a war agreement, the State Depart- ment announces. The pact gives the United States the right to build, control, operate and defend all airports there, and to assist also in the protection and defense of any part of that country which is liable to attack. ‘The agreement was signed as early as last March 31 in Monrovia, the State Department said. . HAROLD BATES ARRIVES FROM SITKA ON BUSINESS Harold Bates, who formerly prac- arrived last night from Sitka where he moved several months ago to open a law office. Mr. Bates, who is also City Attorney for Sitka, will spend a few days here on business. N A . Trinity Cathedral Choir fo Practice The choir of Holy Trinity Ca- thedral will practice tonight in i Trinity Hall. Members are request- ed to be on hand at 8 o'clock. —————— CONDITION OF WILE SHOWS NO CHANGE Condition of Albert Wile, Juneau postmaster, has not improved since yesterday and hope for his recov- ery is lessening, Dr. J. O. Rude, physician, said today. ! Reclassification of selectees as| announced by the local Draft Board as the result of recent meetings is {as follows | 1-A — Albert Melvin 'Stanwood P. Whiteley, Albert S. Glover, Phillip E. Bertholl, Lee S. |Scott, William Gordon Gray, Jo- |seph T. Whiting, Alfred T. Koski, !Leo M. Jones, Jr, Willlam M. | Geeddes. 2-A—Lindtner 3-B—Roy E. Wennstrom, Johnson, Larsen Skeie | Claude |son, William E. Collen, Henning N. | | Johnson. 4-A—Raymond McCormick, Einer T. Lavold, Clifford Swanson, has A who has a ) he escaped from Mc- Seattle in the act of committing burglary. e —— BUY DEFENSE BONDS | RECREATION CENTER i | If you have a piano in your home that is unused or outgrown by the family, the Rev. Wiant, chaplain of an outlying Army post, has a laudable outlet for it in the‘ camp recreation center. Any person having a piano to |sell or donate for the project is/ | requested. to get in touch with the 'Rev. W. H. Matthews, Jr, phone 238, who is empowered to make acquisition. Several are needed. ; > [ MRS. E. V. DAVIS AND TWIN | ARTIFICIAL EYES | SONS HERE ON WAY WEST| Dr. Rae L. Carlson, Blomgren | Mrs. E. V. Davis, whose husband Bldg,, has received an assortment lis a well known lawyer in An-|of artificial eyes, blue, for the | chorage, with her twin sons, is in;leu side. Phone 636 for fitting, if | Juneau this week on her way home | interested. This assortment will be | from the south. Mrs. Davis has| available up to December 15, only. |been in Boise, Idaho, since last| adv. March and expects to leave rori .- | the Westward on the first available! Some of the earliest evidences of ' plane. | iron-smeltizg furnaces were found in the valley of the Nile. RE(lA IFIED his chief prey. BY DRAF" BD Albert Dekker docs a swell job| #|in the double role of John Raden, | |twin brother, the maniacal Paul Susan . Hayward is excellent as just escapes being one of the mad- man’s vietims. Jean Phillips, who lan, turns in a magnificent por-‘AlASKA ESCAPE s formance, as does the veteran| R > | Charles Pearce, habitual criminal ARRESTED AFTER june escape artit wno once suve law enforcement officers [quite a bit of |recaptured in Seattle after escap- Frank Willis George, Jr, 19, and being sent back into confine- Mutter, Harry Scott, Emile T. Fox-|of Sitka, has been turned over to'ment, the U.S. Marshal's office an- bridge, James J. Rollands, Oscar |lice B. H. Manery after his con-| Pearce, long record, Johnson, John Jacobs, Hans P. fession that he robbed Jim Paul was sent to the penitentiary from Bringdale, Michael I. Bocatch,|a Juneau rooming house last]clutches of Alaska lawmen once 'James J. Horton, Charles L. Park- night. jand almost escaping again. |A. Nivala, Lynn E. Morgan, Johnland returned to Paul, Chief Man- | on a charge of stealing a boat, es- Sedick, Darvin E. H. Hoel, Hans|ery said. When the youth was first'caped and was later captured in W. Stromgren, Willlam E. Grif-|on him. But he had $300 more hid- | sentenced to serve seven years, he fiths, Karl N. Anderson, Georgeiden in his clothes and attempted |almost escaped again here with the gen P. Christensen, Earl E. White- [his arrest. Chief Manery caught|rates also sentenced to the peni- sel, Eugene G. Nelson, George him in the act of attempting to tentiary. Fossum, Fred Schneider, Arthur . — Carlson, Elwin C. Scott, Dimitri All GUARD u"ll 4-F—Maximilian Younger, Albert V. T. Power, Capriano K. Carrillo, | e s o Do sures| 10 ATTEND LECTURE S. Hunter, Arthur W. Hedman, Notice was issued this afternoon 1-C—Earl A. Neuru (enlisted); Harley J. Turner (enlisted); Er- ritorial Guard units are requested . g to meet at 7:15 o'clock this eve- F. Clements (enlisted); Woodrow £y 1 4 W. Stuart; Prederick T. Linden- torium for a special lecture. James G. Morrison (enlisted); Wil- S H G 'ld I ' liam 8. Dapcevich (enlisted). H en'or U| S 0 The Senior Guild of Holy Trinity i Cathedral will meet Friday evening Joe Williams, Seventh and Gold.{ All members are requested to at- | appear and kill again. Women are a millionaire mill owner, and his Millie Pickens, the mill girl who does get strangled as Peggy No- g " ARTIST CAUGHT | Alaskan ROBBERY I“ (“‘Y trouble, been ing from McNeil Island Penitentiary hill, Gust A. Erickson, John Bor- |Federal authorities by Chief of Po- | nounces. Metsala, George Lekanoff, Arthur of Juneau of more than $300 m’hvm in 1938, after escaping the ler, Sr., John Will Roberts, Matti| All of the money was recovered| He was convicted in Petersburg | Berkeland, Carl W. Grahn, Paul|searched, officers found only $38|Skagway. Brought to Juneau and Dalton, Clarence G. Geddes, Jor-[to get rid of the larger sum after'aid of two cellmates, both fish pi- Gamble, Odin Lonning, Victor N.|drop the roll into the jail toilet. ! Recently Titoff. WILL MEET EARLY; 4 Alexander H. Sokoloff, Theodore Chris Hennings. i that members of all Alaska Ter-! | nest D. Tyler (enlisted); Ellsworth 2 4 e ning in the Grade School audi- meyer (enlisted); Eugene S. Chase; : n Meet Friday Night at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. tend. Low tide—4:26 am., 3.0 feet, High tide—10:43 am, 163 feet. Low tide—5:15 p.m., 10 feet. High tide—11:27 p.m., 14.3 feet S to do—and if it stops working, you may not be able to buy another till the war is over. This means . keep it in repair with a check-up by a reliable Al- aska Electric Light and Power Co. expert. Small repai.rs made early will keep it in service. We Make ALL Electrical Repairs? Eleciric Light and Power Co. ELECTRICAL REPAIR FOR THIS SEASON'S MOST EXCITING FILM ADVENTURE! A WARKER BR35. WT with JEFFREY LYNN Phiip DORN « Kaoren VERNE - Mana MARIS Diracted by VINCENT SHERMAN 20th CENTURY THEATRE Neil Island and was recaptured in| hlllie&Show TONIGHT! CLUEGIVENAS 0 WANTED MAN OLYMPIA, Wash, Dec. 3. = Charles B. Reed, recently resigned |as Assistant Secretary of State |and charged with grand larceriy of $100 cecllected as trustee f the $3,000 statewide fund to purs chase films and photograph equips ment of the late Asahel Curtis to preserve them as a historic rel is believed to be in California. .- & Smallest country on tne Amer} can continents is El Salvador, land of 13,000 square miles. You Wan't Have Long to Wait for SOMETHING INTERESTING Think | 20thCENTURY | “Pity they can't find something he can do with his feet.” AN Drawr. for Office of War Information Courtesy of Bailey’s Cocktail Bar AN E T DERE NOW NORDBIRD, D DO SOMETHIN' QUOA QAROUT CHOSEF'S T\ -~ WE FLATTENED TUREE 1F T WERE YOI, TO WR0P TUIT BOOMERMNG Ta\ OF WS N SOMETHIN' SOFT REFORE WE LETS [T TN AGANY