The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 29, 1942, Page 3

TUESDAY, pox in the United States was es? tablished in 1941, cases Ll DECEMBER 29, 1942 INFORMATION PLEASE SO YOU KNOW MUSIC LATEST NEWS — _1:15 AL K > CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! { Heir issi BROADWAY'S CRAZIEST ess Mlssmg FUN FESTIVAL...now on / the screen! starring OLSEN & JOHNS MARTHA RAYE Jane FRAZEE * Mischa AUER| Univerial Pitturs, 1 J Starts New Yegr's Eve Policermen on the Missing Persons Bureau squad in New York City are seeking wealthy Adelaide Reckford, 40, daughter of the president of the American Pencil Company. She at- tended a performance of “This Is the Army”, left the theatre, and hasn’t been seen since. Relatives fear she has met with an accident. THEATRE Show Place of Juneau An all-time low record for small- when only 1,432 were reported in the entire country. BUY DEFENSE BONDS GENE TIERNEY EXOTIC STAR IN "SUNDOWN' Capitol Theatre Showing Has Lush Beauty of Troplcal Jungles of the desert. coun- try Gene Tierney, forth an exotic and glamorous African half-caste in Walter Wan- ger's “Sundown,” the current fea- ture at the Capitol Theatre Tierney has had one of the most rapid rises in the history of mo- tion pictures » to Holly- wood a little a year ago with little preparation -aside from unusual natural ability. Pr had played some minor roles n Broadway. The ingenue lead in| The Male Animal” brought screen scouts to her door and the \oung‘ newcomer went west. She was given the feminine lead in “Return | Frank James," and three more pictures followed ‘in quick A sion i The alluring star of “Sundown” is five feet six inches tall, weighs 119 pounds. Newest star is as She ¢ more tk she of - BRITISH IN ADYANCE IN BURMA AREA Forces Advance Inland Seven Miles from | Bengal Coast NEW DELHI, Dec. 29.--Advance elements of the British forces are pushing toward western Burma and have already reached the vicinity of Rathedaung, approximately miles northwest of Akyab, a British com- munique disclosed Rathedaung is about inland from the Bay coast, and approximately 20 miles south of Alethang Yow. British troops reported they reached there a week ago. The announcement said that Brit- ish patrols encountered Jap troops in the vicinity of Rathedaung the night of December 27, and that the enemy retired after an exchange of fire. even miles of Bengal - ALASKA COASTAL MAKES 2 FLIGHTS In a flight this morning, Dean Goodwin had the following passen- gers aboard an Alaska Coastal Air- ways plane | For Excursion Carlson, Charles Hyde, R. G.Baes; | for Sitka——Harold J. Deziel. ‘ Shell Simmons flew to Wrangell | ithis morning with George Case and Lars Eide as passengers. TOWNSEND CLUB MEETS THURSDA The Townsend Club will meet Thursday night in Union Hall in- stead of Wednesday, according to an announcement made this after- noon The meeting will be in the form | of a New Year's party.and the Townsend Club orchestra will fur- nish music for dancing during the evening 2 i | - Cabbage contains from 10 to 15{ pounds of water for each pound of | dry matter. | ~ Prisoners March fo Disposal Camp in Egypt i R A Long lines of German and Italian priseners marched down the road to openings in wire fences around disposal camps near Alexandria, Egypt, then doubled back into the camp proper after their capture in the rout of Rommel's army. Soldiers and civilians watched the march. ’Awii J blossoming Miss | | boat by |of Inlet — Lawrence | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE TRAP LINES HENRY PEARSON You Juneauites all know Andy ! Gunderson. To you newcomers, he's t skipper of the tug “Pirate.” {e’s been plying these waters with | same boat ewhich he raised skiffs for 23 years. Not with only navigation, Andy ropped anchor in the legi lls of Alaska and done a | unding there to help eli- | any reefs or barriers that ve shown up Cornered in this first reluct the cabin of his reporter, Andy was at to talk but his poli- tical training soon got the better | him and I was deluged with stories dealing with his life | skipper Much of Inland Pass: snow, etc done listening for the navigation in the is done during fog, at which time steering mainly by whistling and the echo The only trouble encountered in this kind of navigation, according to Andy, is when the echoes re- bounding from two different shores, collide in the middle of the pas- sage. However, Andy has devised a large pole with ping-pong pad- dles attached with which he reach- es up and parts the echoes. Asked if he had done any hunting recently, Andy snorted. No, this was the wrong time of the year as most of the bears are hi- bernating. So instead of them now, Andy merely finds out where they are hibernating and then gently turns them 50 that the fur wili be the all sides, Yes, it is truly educational to talk to a skipper like that. I have found out many things I did not know before. Heroic Ad Calls For Award;Covefed Medal for Hebert HLADQUARTERS ALASKA DE- FENSE COMMAND, Dec. 29. — To Lieutenant Colonel Alvin Edward Hebert, one of Alaska’s best known Air Base Commanders, has just been awarded the coveted Air Medal. This was announced today at Headquart- ers of the Alaska Defense Command, and marks a brilliant piece of hero- ism on the officer’s part. The award was given by command of Major General Simon Boliver Buckner, Jr., Commanding General of the Alaska Defense Command. At the risk of his own life, Lieu- tenant Colonel Hebert, between Oc- tober 27 and November 4 last, made four flying trips in a small plane, |to the rescue of the pilot and crew i of a crashed B-18 airplane who were |in need of medical care. Lieutenant Colonel Hebert also made three more trips to fly the overland rescue party, who administered first aid to the injured pilot and crew, back to the nearest Army post 25 miles away. Each time Lieutenant Colonel He- I bert took off from a low tide sand !bar not more than ninety feet long {under extremely hazardous condi- tions. The extraordinary achieve- ments displayed during these rescue bear over same on | operations are officially described as showing great determination, itiative and intrepidity. Lieutenant Colonel Hebert entered Army Service from Texas. His home is in Cripplc Creek, Colorado. - 0SER KANSAS CITY.—Drivers of I.v~0‘ in- JUNEAU ALASKA 4 & : CONSIGNED TO THE AXIS__A long line of bombs. loaded on “trolleys,” roll across the Egyptian sands to be placed in British Wellington bombers before a raid on Axis positions, This is a familiar scene at British airfields, When Clark Was Decorated l hunting _ Weanng the Distinguished Service Medal pinned on him by Lieut. Gen, Dwight Eisenhower (right) is Gen. Mark L. Clark. He was awarded the medal for paving the way for the American invasion of North Africa, His work as a secret agent made the coup almost blood- Jess. This is a radiophoto. Oldest Skipper | eutomobiles which collided in front | |of his cafe came out swinging, Gus Triantos, manager, told police. One hurled a wrench at the other. The second driver ducked. |Then both climbed back into their cars and drove away. Triantos was the only loser cheap wrench sailed through expensive plate glass window. The | his Oldest skipper sm]mg coast guard reserve patrol boats out of Glouces ter, Mass., is Frank Gwinivan, 64, veteran yachtsman, He enlisted as | & chief boatswain’s mate some LIGHT PLANT INSTALLED W. J. English has returned to Dawson from Stewart City where he installed an electric light plant for the Hudson's Bay Company post. o BUY DEFENSE BONDS BARNEY / GOOGLE DONT TELL ME 4B WANEN"T WEORD AROWNT T NEW SRRCKRNT OSTSIDE TW ‘ Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicite | months ago and was assigned as sxipper of the former luxury schooner Mendham, This is an of- ficial U. S. Navy photo. “Bugling the term used to describe the challenge issued by bull elks to their rivals. 4 AND SNUFFY SMITH Bfi JEEP“S‘!‘. WE-ONS 6T PLEON O WTTLES RAGHT WUOR W CONP Y, CONP 6T 2 World ¢ | Tex., aviation cadet center. ' BANGS HEADS FOR LAUGHS IN "PERFECT SNOB" \Ruggles Has Bright Idea for Gag in Current 20th Century Attraction the the of of part cause Ad libbing Charlie Ruggles many a headache known comic while newest picture, “The now playing at the Theatre Ir I'wentieth Century-Fox comedy, Ruggles and his screen wife, Charlotte Greenwood, were sleeping in @ primitive jungle shack Their sleep was constantly inter- rupted by natives parading through their bedroom. Each time this in- terruption occurred, Ruggles came sleep like a start- on was for the wel working on his Perfect Snob 20th Century the out of his deep led deer It might Director R straightened be funny,” he (nl(l McCarey, “if as up 1 bounced my that old box nailed| my bed. Then lay | down again, the gourds in the hux are shaken around and fall on me.’ “Great,” said McCarey, “Let’s do it! Ruggles did it and it was tremendously funny, although he had to take several solid bumps DA head on above as 1 ‘Covered’ Hawaii 1 Richard M. Vail, 27, of Fresno, Cal,, covered Pearl Harbor as a reportér for a Honolulu newspaper. Now he is taking his pre-flight training as a combat pilot at the San Antonio, He is on the staff of the field’s official publication, PRECINE TIME PAYMEN LONDON —The General Post Of- tice, which operates telephones in Britain, is making a lot of mouey for the government awakening peo- ple at six cents a call—alarm clocks are scarce and costly. | boasted | them. TS CeNTuRY LAST TIME TONIGHT “THE PERFECT SNOB“ LATEST NEWS | ] “MEN IN WHITE" L] KAT CARTOON Bl T HEATRE il | A SHOT IN THE ’ DARK" SHOOTDOWN “TWO FELONS IN ROUNDUP |Trap Gang in Chicago-Had Escaped in October from Prison (Continuea from Page One) “the Owl” Banghart, who “no jail can hold fne” surs rendered tc FBI sgents this morn- shot being fived at A Edward Darlak, 32, serving 186 years imprisonment for the m der of,a policemun, also. surrem- dered with them. | Two other members of the gang, Eugene Lunthorn, better known @s James O'Ccunor, and St, Clair - Inerny, were shot down as ¢l attempted to escave fromi llm hiding place which was ‘uxmuu‘ ed by FBI agents. Two Cauglit Earlier Previously, Mathew Nelson and | willilam Stewart were cuptured | secretly by FBI agents. In an apartment where Touly, | Banghart and Dariak wer: nabbed, | agents found $13.600 in cash, bus | Hoover said it was not detsrmined immediately from whence the money came. Five revolvers, tive sawed off shotguns and one 30-30 rifle, afl loaded, and plenty of supplies antl ammunition were all conumsled Basin ing without a " (rewmen of (runser Boise Count Their Score Sailors on the heroie eruiser Boise, which docked at Philadelphia after sailing home from the -Solomon Islands battle area, gathered under the bridge to exult over pictures of six Jap warships the Boise was chl:’ly instrumental in sinking in a single engagement. WAAL-\ETHEY RWT N smm\m OFFN