The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 6, 1943, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1943 (BENNETT, TONE, ACE FUNSTERS, - ~ AREATCAPITOL "The Wife Takes a Flyer” | ' Is Fast Moving Com- edy with War Flavor | Joan Bennett and Franchot Tone | JOAN BENNETT are in a dizzy and delightful com- | Franchot TONE edy, “The Wife Takes a Flyer” now n at the Capitol. Tt is a fun-filled fable of an RAF Yankee who bails out over occupied territory to find the arms of the loveliest occupant | more dar us than the long arm | {of the Gestapo. Miss Bennett appears as a little | {Dutch girl estranged from her ec- | entric husband sceking a divorce When Tone parachutes into her immediate vicinity, and turns to her for shelter, she pretends he is her husband, much to the mortifi- cation of a pompous Nazi major on the make.” ALSO Tone promptly falls in love with PETE SMITH'S the girl nl\(lldova his level best 1 .o | 10, one, win her the divorce she “WHAT ABOUT DADDY™ R (it and. two, to remain “mar- COMMUNITY SING rled” to her. The romantic con- LATEST NEWS fusion necessarily involves a cer- tain amount of mental confusion and it is small wonder that he develops a reputation for eccen- tricity THEATRE The reputation proves of consid- Show Place of Juneau crable value when Tone and Miss Bennett turn espionage agents, b with the Major as the tim. “The Wife Ts a Flyer” reaches its climactic sequences in a court martial, and a breath-tak- e A Stardom may be ahead for these three lovely ladies, newcome! the films. Kay Williams, sn Erie, Pa., girl, is & former advertisin® ingly suspenseful escape there- model. She does the smiling for from the cigaret ads and has been heard > — on the radio. She appears soon TRAP LINES by HENRY PEARSON | Fampis Negro in a new technicolor picture. Marilyn Maxwell, former singer with a name band, has appeared in several movies and gets her the nation and soon plays her first screen role in “Du Barry Was a Lady* to dressing up to pleasc the fom Japtain Gallagher of the tug : AM“"DSON RE”(S i =S b M M Beery in “Salute to the Marines. Tidbits from Excursion Irlef S { l e n I I s I I s Natalie Draper, a former Powers ihine eve that he still unconscious- ly puts on a tie and shaves regu- Pirate took good care of a prac- : tical joker who was always getting Dr. George Washmgton‘ 0" EXHIB" HERE; Carver, Born in Slavery, jis ‘ Larry Kretzmeier has boen so tscd in his hair. When he found out that the said joker was to be a| CAIVGL, DO I Jlavery, - | assenger on his ship for. Juneau W S If you've always wondered just | seacocks opened just enough to g s e {fill the shoes of a great man, _\'»)‘\I} let in a little of the briny. Finally (Continued from Page One) can find out for yourself for | the passenger spotted the water Ransomed for Horse ““[{the shoes of Captain Roald| casing through the cracks and| go was ransomed from his cap- |Amundson, famous Norweglan ex- spread the alarm. Seriously, Gal-|yo.o with a horse valued at $300, |Plorer and first man to pass over | lagher told him he would have t0|pic mother was never heard of the North Pole in a ligh han- man the bilze pumps which the [y,oi, air craft—are now on exhibit in poor soul did until the boat docked, | gangling boy, determined to|the Territorial Museum here, in' at which time Gallagher walked . a trim little custom-made number | !better his lot, he worked his way through public schools and then ‘ through Iowa State College, win- | 1894 | Were worn by Amundson in built of wood. { In addition to the shoes, which| wet | past the prostrate man and calmly screwed in the loosened seacock Ining a bachelor's degree in One of the young men here SO gnq a master's degree in 1896, Weather and are modeled along | put out because he was not receiv-| prom there he went to Tuskegee | typical Dutch lines, sections of | ing any mail, deliberately avoided | pjstityte, founded by the late the Norge, ' in which Amundson,| the post-office for three weeks.| Booker T. Washington and later to Lincoln Ellsworth and the Italian | Then, expecting a huge amount, he | pocome the world's lergest insti- | navigator Nebile, made the fam-| went to the window and received | tution of learning for ‘e negro. .ous flight in 1926, are on exhibit | one letter from a bank in the carver never married | Included are sections of u]ummum} States telling him that his account PN IDT UL SR pipe used in the rigid structur:| was overdrawn. of the nose, a door, a gas tank| ( w AR]‘E and also a pair of ship’s side| Earle Mathews, hiking enthusi-| Qa -( R ls lanterns from the Gjoya, the ves-| ast, picked the coldest day of the sel in which Amundson made the year to fall in the creek. He says RE-ELECTED AS voyage of 1903-1906, which result- he didn’t mind that so much, it od in the. Alscoyery of’ the North | was the ribbing he took after- (HAMBER pRES West Passage. | wards. . . . L] Structure Described Pieces of all three of the gas bags which made up the envelope in the non-rigid type of dirigible are included in the Amundson col- lection, and are brown, yellowish- tan and gray in color. Careful workmanship is revealed !in the aluminum piping and joint- ures that provided the craft's only skeleton—the jointures of the Nor- wegian-built ship are wrapped with fine aluminum wire, then soldered. A felt gasket and aluminum valve Curly Canoles, one of the great- The Executive Board of the Cham- est gagmen in these parts of Al-| per of Commerce today met and re- aska, is still looking for someone elected Charles W. Carter as Presi- to tell a joke to. . . . dent for the coming year. Homer | Garvin was named First Vice-Presi- One of these most comical sights hereabouts is to watch town-bound fellows trying to get to the plane in time. The minute the plane lands there is a mad scramble. dent and Dr. J. O. Rude was elected Second Vice-President. President Carter will preside to- morrow noon when the Chamber holds its first meeting of 1943. An Some commandeer skiffs and with | interesing program s being ar- the aid of a board or two, start the general direction from the Norge aré also included loaded | For every five tons of new steel in the collection, as well as a pho- etc., that American railroads use they tograph of Captain Amundson in| return to the mills four tons of parkah and mukluks, taken by C'} ranged. o serap. L. Andrews in 1906. paddling in of the ramp, while others, overcoat, the rocks around with suitcase, scramble over the beach . SR SEeE) Insignia for New Hngh School Victor); Cc;;;;s | G vermition tos [ Moy Bive [ White | Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission, announced plans to recruit the nation’s 6,500,000 hi.xh school students into & Victory Corps to school them in aiding the war effort. Both girls and boys will take part in military drills, Shown are the six insignia to be used by the corps. Enrollmeus will be voluntary, Lovely Ladies Who May Reach Stardom in 43 leading feminine role with Wallace model, has graced billboards of THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE--JUNEAU ALASKA "MARKED MEN' IS . THRILLER COMING AT 20TH CENTURY Prison Break by Convicts! Ends in Death Strug- gle of Survivors Assured by their desperate leader | that they have again cheated the| >§ law, six killer-fugitives stride hope- i fully a ss the midsummer oven ., of the blistering Arizona desert i After suffering the tortures of § thirst, hunger and terror, only two of the original six from | the sand-swept wastes, escaping, by the narrowest of margins, the dead- ly blasts of the sun and the foam- flecked teeth of starving-mad, trail- ing wolves anticipating a feast of | human flesh and blood | That is the final and engrossing- | ly melodramatic of rked Men,” a magnificent saga | of cne man's courage pitted against terrible odds, which will begin an engagement tonight at the 20th Century “Marked Men" presents the story of a young medical graduate, who, | having been convicted and jailed | for a crime innocently committed, | and having but two more months, | of his sentence to serve, is forced, ! ” 3 5 by the same underworld leader who engineered his downfall, to join in! i the break for freedom | GR emerge sequence With officers following him, the ;_ youth finds himself in Arizona,| where, on the desert’s edge, he is| saved from a pack of wolves by a| : : ] | half-wild police dog, which, when' : ] : . ‘ treated kindly by the fugitive, be-| : comes the lad’s pal and companion in his astonishing after-adventures, | After meeting and falling in love with a beautiful girl, Fate again catapults the youth, now a hero in the eyes of new-found friends, into the clutches of his worst enemy, the bandit-leader who forced him to flee from prison. To mete jus- tice to his oppressor, he guides the THEATRE outlaws into the desert, where, LR lafter four weaker men have died violent deaths, the youngster tricks talie Draper | Kay Williams i COPE——— > i o emarkable Pictures Included ‘Whittier and Andrews Donors Taken by Mrs. Tom Peterson of ~ Much of the Amundson collec- and deltvers Rl Norge as it is flying over the tion in the Territorial Museum (, the authorities. | lown, and as the envelops isbeing Whittier, Assistant U. S. Collector, deflated and the ship disassembled. of Customs, who was at Teller RDo AY | | | of pictures showing the approch landing and obtained the relics at md landing of the Norge at its that time { % ; ; i Kiketide Athiar ith all the simple beauty pos- destination on the epochal flight The illustrious wooden shoes and _CHICAGO—Mrs. Angeline Sittler, | ' 2.8 19, seeking a divorce on charges of Sible at an intimate home wedding, from Spitzbergen, Norway, to Tel- the red and blue sidelights from ki s Rupecn i85, LR1a 1 Mlao an e the Gloga, were-pressrited by G, L. cruelty.: told 'shdge- Josepis™ Sabat |Miss Dorthy Lewls aiid far, Clordon £ # PO 4 Bilii and she left her husband, John, 26, be- | Gray were married yes Y. oyes Landing at Teller May 13, 1926, | Andrews, oldtime Alaskan and au- o0 5 B0 00T 00 40T on e goap, [nIng at 8:30 o'clock at the home of of many hooks on }ht Eskimo, 4 e pinched her while she obey- the bridegroom’s parents, Mr. and now living in Eugene, Ore. | led his commands. She said the Mrs. Felix Gray of Douglas. i soap eating incident occurred when | The Rev. Willis R. Booth The pistachio nut comtains over |she objected to her husband gam- | formed the candlelight ceremony, ‘bling. She was granted a divorce. | which took place under a cluster of pastel-toned wedding bells with { multi-colored satin ribbon streamers. Mrs. Ray Nevin, primary teacher |in the Nouglas schools, played a soft ! prelude as the guests were admitted, jand sang special numbers. | Attendants for the bridal couple | | were Miss Helen Zir bridesmaid, | {and Chester Zimmerman, best man. | | ‘The bride wore an aqua-blue crepe "afternoon dress, and the attending | ladies also wore short dresses be- cause of the heavy rains and inclem- ent weather ! Coffee, sandwiches and wedding | | cake were served to the wedding | by our time, according to the Nor- wegian explorer’s ship log, the date is November 14, counting from the Teller, the photographs show the sther side of the hemisphere. Lonely Vigil Over His Pal’s Body who is per-~ 50 percept of oil. i the arch-villain into signing a con- 5DORIHY leIS fession of - guilt, | { unloading party and to the twenty-odd jnu—‘ | mate friends who attendéd the cere- | | mony. - The newlyweds will be at home in the Douglas residence of Com- | missioner and Mrs. Felix Gray dur- | ing the latter’s absence in the States | | visting with another son, Lieut Douglas Gray, who is being trans- ferred from his station at Kodiak. | The bride is on the staff of the | First' National Bank and Mr. Gray | is clerk in the office of the United States Commissioner. R | i report PAGE THREE 'R BIG PICTURES:PLAY! LENTURY $IX FUGITIVES BREAK FOR ALL NEW SHOW TONIGHT FREEDOM | “MONSTERS OF THE DEEP” bl EDITIONS | & LATE NEWS "RIDERS from NOWHERE' “"HIGHWAY WEST' REPORTEDTO BE MOPPING GERMANS UP Gain Stratefiills in Firsf. Activity for Some Time (Continued from Page One) American medium B-;fl rau- der bombers also attacked the Nazl irdrome at Kairoun, about 36 miles southwest of Sousse, Cairo commus niques disclosed that Sousse. itself was also hit, ¢ by Make " Hit§ q The American communique. sajd U. S. heavy bombers made a raid, all “of . their boml within the target 'area.” Th British, evidently: referring to Lh‘ same attack, said- hits were scorygd on the docks and buildings. There is still' nothing further to on the pursuit of Pleld shal Erwin Rommel's forces in A communique said. there were no important air actions yes- {terday on this front. # - AUTOMOBILE OWNERS ATTENTION i The 1943 Automobile License Plates are now available and op A small black and tan terrier keeps watch over the body of his playmate who was erushed o death beneath the wheels of a truck, in Washington, D. C. Employes in the near by War Department Building witnessed the lone vigil which was kept until a pound truck removed the body. The dog whined to be taken along. He was lifted into the truck and taken to the District pound where he will be kept pending the arrival of its owner, GENERAL ROSEWATER WNITH A FRIENDY | sale at the office of the City Clerk. | The operation of motor vehicles DOG BEAIS (AR {not bearing 1943 license plates | prohibited after December 31, 1! | ETTA MAE DUCKWORTH, | TACOMA - The police prowler car.! adv. City Clerk. * .‘crew‘s report was short and to the —— e 4 point. It read: 3 “Chased dog that broke loose from , The Canadian potato crop in 1043 | Railway Express Agency. No luck. Was the largest in recent years, | We ran out of gas before dog ran amounting to 43,047,000 hundreds | out of energy.” weight e S By BILLY DeBECK