The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 7, 1943, Page 3

lHURSDAY JANUAR\ 7, ENDS TONIGHT— Joan BENNETT Franchot ONE Prevue TOMURROW ' “BLONDE BLITZ" v’ blasts the blues out of four howling hepcats! June Havoc Desi Arnaz Jack Durant Eddie Foy, Jr. Fritz Feld Henry Daniell = Q N7 !.ATEST NEWS THEATRE Show Place of Junean Wasn lhred ATLANTA—Buck eran foothall referee. for the book from George Washington game son. Clemson tried a forward pass that became a lateral and the re- ceiver muffed the ball. Cheves did not biow his whistle. No one tried Cheves, vet- tes one “mson- t Clem- 1943 'TWO FEATURES EOR . CAPITOL THEATRE DURING WEEKEND "You're TeII'iAng Me” and "Four Jacks and a Jill” Start Tomorrow Manager Homer Garvin of the Capitol is announcinz a double bill, with plenty of songs, girls and comedy, for Friday and Saturday One _of the features is “You're Telling Me,” a gay, screwbyl, sa- tire on dio. Anne Gwynne shape, tt “T.N.T.” girl stands for t and terrific) takes the romantic lead. Roberi just recently here in “Hell- poppin teamed witd in ad feature creen’s trim, her e other is “Four Jacks JuL” The hectic nusicians in their beautiful the basis of the omedy ‘Teaming Ray Shirley, the gay such favorites Havoe, Ja Eddie Foy, and Fritz Feld spectacular dances nimble - fooled Bolzer catchy melodies written Creene and Harry Revel, enliven this fast-moving, filled ccmedy produced fo Radio, nd a adventures of four a swing band and Bol film and Ahne also features Desi Arnaz nt, Jack William June Br Blees Five Jr. the and six by Mort further laugh- RKO by A FEN SR EDR GIVES EPORTTO LA.--.- AWMAKERS Acclaims Mnracle of Pro- “duction” on Home Front Line (Continued from Page One) Russian which offensives various in the latter part of No- and which still “roll on | with at force and effectiveness. Roosevelt told the lawmakers at the period of our “defensive |war of attrition in the passing, adding, “Now our aim is to force the Japanese to fight.” “Last year we stopped them. This year we intend to advance,” {he stated. Speaking of the African theater, the President predicted that the last vestige of Axis powers will be driven from the south shores of the at ond, armies started | vember by points THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU ALASKA ~ | s it oo There really are four people in this picture and nothing has been done with mirrors. On the outer ex- tremities are Miss Lee (left) and Miss Lynn Wilde, beauteous East Side St. Louis twins whose warbling has won them contracts with the orchestras of Ray Noble and Bob Crosby and the flicker studios of M-G-M. The Wilde sisters went to Santa Ana, Cal,, recently to sing for aviation cadets and enlisted men of the Army Air Forces West Coast Training Center there, and, of course, had to be introduced to Santa Ana’s favorite uniformed twins, Sergeants Leonard (left) and Alfred Moskovitz, both attached to the Cadet Section of Headquarters Squadron. The Moskovitz beys believe in sticking together. They were graduated m Stanford in 1940, took a year of law at Santa Clara, joined the Army together in the summer of 1941 at Moffett Field—even earned their promotions to Private Iirst 'WAR SONGS DRAWING CONTRASTS Drippy Ditty Makes Hit But Dinah Shore Puts An- other Kind Over the same days. and relentlessly, day in out. shall heap tons upon tons losives on their war fac- their utilities and seaports.” eventual outcome of the in the Pacific, the Presi- dent said, can be put on a mathe- matical b since it is known| that the Jap strength in ships and | planes declines daily while the| American strength rises. | Wiil Bomb Japan He said this would become evi-| dent to the Japanese people “when we strike at their own home is-| lands and bomb them constantly from the air.” Near the close of his address to| the new Congress, the President By ROBBIN COONS said all the United Nations want e HOLLYWOOD Taking dial “decent peace and a durable | % beate adding that our fighting 1k on the ether machine the other e adding the ghting eve, rew a couple of numbm\ men want not only a lasting peace, ‘::de l‘)vdqd(_ wm(-hp reprosent e | but permanent employment for| oo deoTeyiomes in war songs. themselves, their families and; The fir: was a drippy ditty, neighbors who have been mustered| g ne'in o yearning contralto, about l;In- dhumu (u:nlv i UJ gal who was missing her dough resident said we do no X ‘110\ (or gob or Americans in the pu.smnu‘ wasn't clear) period suffering from under- was off to the war: nourishment, in slums or on dole. | wil} take your place, He gave no particulars of any) we are apart,” the singer new social security legislation. | “This will be a lonesome summer Pian for Peace “wi(h()u( you, Sweetheart.” There President said it has been|followed some rhymed sentimental- that we until | ity about those* heavily and day “We tories, The fighting out on The want “No one else Dear, while whined. The said should wait Wednesday night Class, Corporal and Sergeant on Em:u'm\- on Guadalcanal wrote ask- |ing me to sing a certain ballad. Said he hadn’t heard from his girl in months, but he knew she listened to me, and there were associations and memories connect- ed with the song. He said he knew when she heard me sing it, she would think of him and maybe write to him.” And vice versa. home write her the letters—and mothers ters and brothers men do the same. So maybe the lonesome summer gal is on the right track, after all. Just the same, speaking the point of view of one who's been on Guadalcanal only in mag- ination, I think Rosie and her purposeful riveting would be a far sight more rommrlinu ((OMMENTON The girls back same kind of and fathers, of fighting devildog or pilot, | who apparently | PRESIDENT'S TALK TODAY | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. The TRAP LINES HENRY PEARSON Alaska's Delegate to Anthony J. Dimond, is raising quite a rumpus over the unnecessary censoring of mail between Al and the States. At times with him. 1 The last letter I wrote cousin Cuthbert at Mukilteo, was so cut up by the censor they used it for a player roll. to my Wash,, that piano in one of my letters about the big mosquitoes up here {1 told about the incident of coupie of them landing on a local |ficld and before they were re nized, the attendants had gassed them up. 1 mentioned It was cut out as it might roven valuable to the enemy still want the mosquitoes side. w on our I haven't minded the censorship {~f mail so much as the delay it has caused in the transmittal |the same. I sent to a mail’ order | house six months ago for one of| | these new-fangled bathtubs, agree- ing to pay for it in six months (time at so much per month Be(ore it got here, I got a let- ter from the Credit Burecau telling | me that due to the fact that had not made a payment on the same for three months it was nec-| essary for them to go down to the | dock- in Seattle and repossess it. B HITS SCORED | WASHINGTON,— The Navy re-| | ported this afternoon that two new, from ' raids have been carried Jap airfields in the group, that hits were scored on them and also direct hits were made on a Jap transport. " STOCK QUOTATIONS out on NEW YORK, Jan. 7. — Closlng unmtunon of Alaska Juneau mlnew stock today is 3%, American Cau |73, Anaconda 25, Bethlehem Steel | !56%, Commonwealth and Southern s, Curtiss Wright 7%, Internauon-f Kennecott 29%, | al Harvester 58%, New York Central 10%, Northern | Pacific 7%, United States Steel 48, | Pound $4.04. Congress, | al d n of | BY ALLIES ON JAP AIRBASES Solomons’ WARREN HULL, " ISABEL JEWELL I LEAD ROLES "Marked Men” Brmgsi Grim Adventures on Des- ert to 20th Cenfury Warren Hull, noted nd the virility yals, and Isa- whose vivaclous high-pitched the leading a | agree | Handsome for his versatility of his screen portr bel Jewell, under exterior smoulders |patural talent, enact (roles in “Marked Men,” a big-thrill |melodrama epic of six fugitives in search of a refuge from the law's vengeance, now at the 20th Cen- tury Theatre Hull is cast as a young medical graduate, wrongly confined in pris- on, who escapes and finds love and a temporary haven in an Ari- zona town, only to have his hopes of happiness blasted when Fate, the person of the crime-chief who engineered him into aMing in a _felony, and later forced the lad lto join in a prison-break, appears on the scene. The youth is thereby led into a series of astonishir grim adventu in the heart of the blistering, sun-scorched desert which lies on the outskirts of the {town where he had found compara- tive safety The supporting cast of “Marked | Men,” which was produced by Sig- jmund Neufeld for Producers Re- |leasing Corporation, includes John Dilson, Paul Bryar, {liams, Lyle Clement, 1 Budd L. Bus- ‘Lcl Al St. John, Eddle Featherston, Ted Erwin, Art Miles and “Gray | Shadow,” the famous police dog screen star. FRENCHTAKE AXIS OUTPOST LONDON, Jan. 7—The Fighting French announced today that Gen- eral Le Cleroc’s forces in southern- most Libya have stormed and cap- tured Oum el Araueh, the main Axis outpost, 600 miles south of Tripoli. “After a three days’ forces advanced northward more than 1,000 miles from their bases nmr Lflk" Chad.” the bulletin said. | JAP SHIPS MASSING ATRABAU MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 7-= | Air reconnaissance over the big Jap | lbase at Rabaul revealed that the | concentration of Jap shipping there Charles Wil- | fight our| | Where the Better BIG Pictures Play TOAENTURY l.asl Time 'l'omglu 37X FuCITT and | THEATRE! LLOYD NOLAN in LJRESSED TO KILL' RED TROOPS BREAK NAZI DON LINES Soviet For(;:l\re Now 75 Miles from Rostov, Is Report MOSCOW, Jan. 7 — The Red Army of the lower Don has broken through the German lines on & 20-mwile front on both sides of the river .and has driven within ‘18 miles of Rostov, key city of the whole Nazi salient into the Cau- casus. Front dispatches said the Rus- | slans under Lieut. Gen. Rokoss- ovsky, veteran of last winter's battle of Moscow, pushed forward 50 miles | since capturing the Don River bridgehead of Tsimlyansk two days ago. Dispatches said the triumphant | Red armies of the south have cap- | tured at least 21 more cities or | towns, listed 339,150 Axis soldiers | killed or taken: prisoner since the starf of the Russian winter offen- | sive November 19. e prefietiet # to recover the ball. Finally the|the Mediterranean, Clemson captain picked it up and walked over to Cheves. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, ones averages: industrials 119.37, !h(\a been augmented since Tuesday | when it was first disclosed by an| In '1932 only 13 states levied Australian official that the Japs taxes on tobacco; now the numflr after the war to speak of a bvncl‘mmms" and a lot of other stuff | pemocrats in Congress generally America but thought this would be | little Goldilocks would be missing|praised President Roosevelt’s speech J a grave error. “If the security of|this summer without you, Sweet- Making Progress | “I do not prophesy when the “Can I run with this he asked “Yeah, Cheves replied The Clemson captain out and almost made before he was tackled — e —— GIVE "EM TIME SAN ANGELO, Texas, Jan Explaining a drop in soldier mar- riage license applications, an of- ficial of the county clerk’'s office said: “We have a short slump when- ever a group of soldiers leave, be- | cause it takes a few weeks for the new units to get acquainted with the Ril'lc“ thing?” if youre not too tired” cleared the goal 7 U.S. Nurses Eat Lunch in Jungle Dmmg Room American Army nurses who staff a hospital somewhere in New Guinea meal in an al fresco jungle dining room. Mass.; Junita Hamilton, Hendersonville, wud, Nichols, N. Y.; and Edith W, Whittaker, war will end,” he said, “but I do believe that this year will give |the United Nations a very sub- !stantial advance along the roads that lead to Berlin, Rome Tokyo.” | He opened his address with a |summary of ,war operations. In |this the President said “we are |going to strike and strike hard in | Europe. I cannot tell you whether we are going to hit them through | | Norway, through the Low Coun- tries, or through France, Sardenia or Sicily, or through the Balkans or Poland or at several points s multaneously. “But I can tell you that no mat- !ter where and when we strike by {l.md. we, the British and the ‘Rus- sians will hit them from the air, N. C.; Capt. Herbert Dryfoos, and| are shown enjoying their mid-da; Sitting at the table, left to right, are Jean Webster, 4 of Pawtucket, R, I, the individual -citizen heart, until the inclination was| should become a subj for na- strong to switch it off and try to tional debate,” he said, “the coun-find some news. try knows where I stand.” Roosevelt said that while we! | have hieved a miracle of pro- duction, we have also increased our |armed forces from a little over two million to seven million. He cited specific examples production figures, saying these surely are not such |give aid dnd comfort to enemies. or ot family Then when the dirge was there came on a cheerful, ‘em little number about Rosie, the Riveter. Rosie had a boy friend in | the service too, but Rosie was riv- of €ting at a war plant—and Rosie that | had spunk and spirit and was sink- ing her earnings into War Bonds and hastening the day when the |boy friend would end her |some summers, which Rosie didn't | mention. The Georgian military road, 130 miles long, is the only paved high- | tturn off the lonesome whiner but way suitable for heavy motor traf-|{When I hear Dinah Shore talk fic through the Caucasus Moun-|&bout songs I'm not so sure. Dinah |is the service men's vocal Beatrice o i JFairfax and when Dinah finishes ( reading her mail she opines that what the boys want to hear is songs that remind them of home, not songs about guns and battles. over as to, our S ee—— - tains. the boys. They want sentimental ballads, folk songs, melodies with memories. They seldom want boogie woogie, or hot swing tunes, or modernistic compositions—and even flag-waving songs. Dinah is happy that the boys do write her nd that she can answer their re- 1uests—a task simplified because it vorks out sometimes that as many es 50 soldiers write in requesting the same familiar ballad. “Too often,” says Dinah, “there’s | a pathetic angle to their letters— not that the boys are asking for sympathy. Here's whnt 1 mean. A THWEN T'S SETTLED- NELL TARKE CHARGE O'TW PROGRANE FER TW' SOLIERS' Weymouth, San Francisco; Marie F, Wood- go-get- | to the legislators, but the Republi- |cans were more restrained, lauding | it as having a unifying influence. Senate Demo leader Barkley said was a very magnificent Rt-publlmn leader said the President gave “an review of current conditions af- fecting the war productive effort.” e ee—— Coconut Mugs McNary lone- Well, I liked Rosie and I wanted Dinah gets specific requests from | Colonel G, F. Hix, commanding offi- cer of the Panama air base is point~ ing to individual inscribed coconut drinking mugs for use of visitors and officers. Hix is the originator of the idu ad- | i rails 28.04, utilities 15.10. were amassing a huge armada l.here o excellent ' R i has increased to 28. Escaped French Subs in Alglers 1o tovw Ak i.u &‘-uaflw« Thus French mhmzrlne, which .e'acaped from the fleet scuttling at Toulon, is shown as it lrrlved n Algiers' after a hazardous trip across the W'N2 OH SNUFFY W\L\ YA STEP OUTS\DE @ SECOND 2 1 SARGINY - N HERE ON MULTARNY CHORES- TWBONS APP'WTED BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH NEAM — T VWNON --- EVEN TH OFF\CERS ARE GOW TO \WAIT ON TRBLES .- WERE'S A FIVE NQ FIX 1T NME TO WIITE MSS LOTT\E YO THE NEXT SO\LJERS' NOVELTY SUND\G PR Copr 1942, King Features Mediterranean. This nlct-n was radioed to New York from Lendon. By BILLY DeBECK SPOT FOR THANKEE FER TW' FWE L SURE \E CAN WAt ON \LOTTIE'S TORLE -- SHE'LL BE SETTIN Y ATRBLE W\F F\FTY BOCK PRWATESY