The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 8, 1943, Page 3

"SOILERS” IS | FINE REFILM OF EARLY CLASSIC Capitol Theatre Now Show- ing Vivid Rex Beach Classic of North “There’s never a law of man or| God holds North of '53." | That, to purloin a line from Kip- ling, is Universal's “The Spoilel |which had its local premiere yes-| terday at the Capitol Theatre. Vivid, breathless screen matter is made by Producer Frank Lloy from the Rex Beach best seller no- | vel which dramatizes the mad rush| to the Klondike and the primitive |lust for gold—and a woman's Kiss— |In the rip-roaring era of '98. , Cherry Malotte, the shrewd, se- | ductive, beautiful operator of Nome's | |most glittering gin-palace, is the| role Marlene Dietrich was born to RASHING FISTS in the GOLD- CRAZED ALASKA of '98! MARLENE DIETRICH JONN WAYNE RANDOLPH o i SCOTT eRS: Margaret LINDSAY Harry CAREY by the virility of her co-stars Ran- ido]ph Scott and John Wayne. It was a real challenge to Pro- ducer Lloyd to re-film the cinemat- | |fcally classic fist-fight of the first “Spoilers” made 30 years ago. Lloyd however, has topped the test—the Scott-Wayne brawl had yesterday’s| audience spellbound. Show Place of Juneau AMERICAN KNOX GIVES VIEWS ABOUT Skirmishing Taking Place, Solomons (Continued from Page One) wually throw into the fight is also not known. Action Is Preliminary The action is still in a “prelfmin- ary stage” said Knox, the various activities “would ordinarily precede an engagement of some size.” Secretary Knox declared that losses included “nothing significant and nothing of a major charncber:‘l While the Navy Secretary did not | possibly no heavy cruisers have been sunk so far as is known here | No Light on Battles | The Navy communique issued af-| ter the conference Knox held with| the newsmen covered action in both the North and South Pacific but' threw no further light on the sea and air fighting in the Solomons. American troops, according to last Saturday night's communique said American troops continued to ad- Celebr ifies Will Appear - NEXTBATTLE UponScreen Hair Seals Declares Orfiy‘ i’reliminary |That Is, Adorswor Adtresses Will Be Made Up for Movies By IIOB_B_I::COONS HOLLYWOOD—Sooner or later you meet all kinds of celebrities in Hollywood. You even get to know | what writers look like. Naturally, they don't look like writers. Not in the least. I had a chat today with William Makepeace Thackeray and with Charlotte Bronte. Mr. Thackeray looked, for all his bushy white hair and his dandied attire, like Sydney Greenstreet. Miss Bronte's resem- | # |elaborate, he apparently meant no|pjane Haviland |play. The portrait is ably backed | ance to Miss Olivia De Havila! |aireraft carriers, battleships and|yaq startling. Mr. Chatles Dickens was around somewhere—probably finishing up a chapter to catch the next boat to America — but I couldn’t find him. He looked,.I was told, like Reginald Sheffield. Mr. Dickens and: Mr. Thackeray were scarcely speaking. They had a feud on. Mr. Thackeray told Miss Bronte, in fact, that he would never think of presenting that fellow Dickens to her. Miss Bronte, an old- English picture in poke bonnet and JUNEAU ALASKA ’ DREAM MAN jWould Lower 0P Al Bounties On NANCY KELLY “Fly By Night” at 20th Century Has Comical 0 5 PP KON ONIOHT! AT MID | A bill introduced in the Senate L3/ H i l jthis morning by Senator Stewart Man'm'Room } |L. Stangroom would lower the % bounty on hair seal to $2 and also| Girls, what would you do if a {modify the area in which the seals handsome, gun-totin’ total stranger |are taken. {suddenly burst into your room and | The bounty is now $3. Whereas asked you to hide him from the {the bill now in effect says seals police? Pretty Nancy Kelly faces should be taken in all waters ad-|exactly that problem in Paramount's | jacent to the southern coast of breezy comedy mystery, “Fly By Alaska and east of the 152nd meri-|Night,” now at the 20th Century fdmn, and the waters of Bering Sea |Theatre. She solves it by marrying and Golvin Bay, lying within althe guy. line drawn from the tip of Rocky| Nancy's co-star, the good-looking Point to the tip of Cape Darby, the midnight visitor, is Richard Carl-' 2 latter area would be changed to|son, who plays a young interne read: lcaught in a web of international “Lying within a line drawn !rom;inmgue. Others in the fast-paced the tip of Cape Darby to Port pPicture are Albert Basserman, Mar- Safety.” Itin Kosleck, Walter Kingsford, PR RS T Nestor, Paiva, Edward Gargan, 650 Meefing Michael Morris and Miles Mander.!~ e And incidentally, The voice you IHIRIEEN I“ | ~ IsAnnounced { KE used to hear on the “March of Time" | radio program as Queen Elizabeth | (of England, as a Fulton Street fish- | wife—almost any role that called |for a genius in mimiery—likely be- 'longed to pretty Nancy Kelly, for- {mer mimicry expert. ->-e e Arrivals here by steamer from the south this morning were Isaac Anderson, Ruth Gruber and HILDINGER IS There will be a meeting of the! membership committee of the GSO' | tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the| {USO lobby. Especially requested'to LENTURY NANCY ‘\ed to his old-age and survivors ip- BOMBERS HIT ITALY MANY LEFT HOMELESS IN JUNEAU vance along the northwest coast|billowing red velvet gown, protested enemy resistance. RAF MAKES most interesting. I do not know what Miss Bronte rveally looked like, but I think that | had she looked like Miss De Havil- land she would certainly have had more suitors. Miss De Havilland, you know, has a fetching wink (as be present are Bonnie Klein, Pat (of Guadalcanal island against weakthat she found Mr. Dickens' work |Gullufsen. Eda Almquist and Jen- |nie Johnson. These meetings are |held once every month. > | | | (ONFIRMED | | HIGH BOWLER SUNDAY NIGHT Hildinger, of the £lks team made high single game score and high three-game total when the Major League teams bowled tournament games Sunday night on the Elks| Naples Waterfront Left in Blaze Was Started Satur-| NIGHT RAID Flames—Cagliari P2-¢ day Nighi when Cigar- Is Also Paided (Continued from Page One) effe Ignited Cushion Continued from Page One) T‘c‘d/ by insu;nncr. with Rommel forces in the coastal | addition to Moore, Mrs. Mon- | region and on the Tripol\lanmn»‘me. and the Oneys, other tenants| Tunisian border west of Pisidia. It ) re pomeless by the fire included: is b_eliev(d the Eighth Army is pre- |y g Howell, Mr. and Mrs. C.' paring for'a néw attack. A. Trager and two children, Wal-! Those Bunday 'Aftacks ter Russell, A. Tolonen, Mrs. Kath Bunm.ms both from C?nm and o e Mikaloff, John Medica, MTrs. the Allied Headquarters in North Neil Stevens, J. R. Eullivan, M Africa emphasized the Sunday and Mrs. Kenneth Meler, Mr. an: I)om}?mus of Italian soil Mrs. M. Isaac and two children Cairo dispatches said the Amer-|payo ™ pucon™ Bouelas Shaw ican Sunqay bombings by the Am- Martin Sorte, I Welch, Melvi erican Lx.bemwrs in addition "O‘Sklnner. Ronald F. McCoy, Lieut. starting fires that threw up great Mabel Moore, U. S. Army nurse. | i | | | | ONLORIENT in “Strawberry. Blonde”) and also,| WASHINGTON, Feb. 8—The Sen- ciub alleys. Hildinger made 250 in if coaxed, can bark like a dog— ate today confirmed President the second frame and totaled 6504" two parlor tricks in which Miss' Roosevelt’s nomination of Wiley | Lavenik, of the same team hndj Bronte certainly netver indulged. | Blount Rutledge to become As80- ' conond 'h(gh score with a single 'Elizabeth King. Passengers arriving here this morning from Ketchikan were H B. Crewson, Joseph T. Flakne, Ar- thur A. Hedges, Major Robert Hut- chinson, Elmer G. Johnson, Bernice Rankin, F. E. Shine, E. L. Tvete, Stanley Zuern and Louie Villaneva > Wanfed! Home For Saturday These assorted literary characters are in the movie “Devetion,” along (with Ida Lupino's Emily Bronte. None of them look any more like Terrifi ing Gi '|( Poundmg leen writers than did Emile Zola, whom Nazi Sub Base-Flames |1 met severai years back on an- S 100 M'I A ;othct Warner stage. Mr. Zola, you n will recall, looked like Paul Muni. ee Ies way i n Mr. Zola grew a beard, he LONDON, Feb. 8 — The Royal locked even more like Mr. Muni. ir Force last night gave the Gerv‘”r‘lf:;g l\:;;em;k Teain, who: Nee man submarine base at Lorient,| & ' ! rance the worst pounding of che’.xM,:rr T lo]ok»ld 1ke ** pdask resent war and also attacked tar- Ma: : BTnfi :ery tie, lke Tredinte, ets in the industrial Ruhr. wascbécami.R:rerytD“Bxxfungg " Preliminary reports given out by .. 2 ¢ ¥y the Air Ministry indicates gmatrhtgo ::;;;msgzk:‘immeflx:fis destruction was caused in the LOF-| ro 0 ang even Hollywood can't it was different. columns of black smoke in Naples, Residents living near the scene/ ient attack. The .base was last|p o yroo Twain 4nd Browning also scored direct hits on three | merchant vessels. of the fire packed their personal Rome Admits Attacks | The communique issued by the Italian Command was broadcast from Rome and admitted the dam- ! age by the Sunday bombings was, extensive. The bombings were the | fortieth attack of the war on| Naples. ! effects and were ready to make hasty exits if the flames, fanned by the exceedingly high wind, got| beyond control and spread. On| Federal Hill, residents were pre- pared for emergency in case the fire spread on down on Willoughby | Avenue, also the Seaview Aport-! bombed last Thursday night in con- junction with attacks made on Northern ‘Italy and the Ruhr. i Canadian airmen participated in| the attack on Lorient last night and the pilots said flames could be seen 100 miles away. ! ‘The purpose of the raids on mr-} ient is to flatten U-boat facilities| outfitting and . supplying = Nazi! going around with the same face. ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. DOUGLAS . NEWS {LLOYDS HAVE NEW DAUGHTER Mr. and Mrs, Lewis Lloyd, resid-| | i ! ‘ing in the Kilburn Apartments, be- | {came the parents of a baby girl,| | their second daughter, born at 11 lo'clock Sunday morning at St.! Ann's Hospital. The new arrival| tipped the scales close to 8% | pounds. - 1 LEAVING FOR SKAGWAY W. E. Feero expects to leave game high of 234 and 624 for his Night Fire Victim WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY Now L 3 Playi - MARRIED AT DAW RICHARD LLY - CARLSON FLY BY NIGNT ALBERT BASSERMAN - MARTIN KOSLECK |surance account he can obtain | statement showing, the wages cred- |ited up to July 1, 1942. A post capd !form is provided for persons re- questing a statement. It requires the Social Security account number, date of birth, address and signature, These cards are available at any Social Security Board Office. They are addressed to the National head- quarters where wage réecords axe kept. - “I again urge,” Mr. Wade con- tinued, “that people not waste thefr time and ours by requesting the Social Security Board to f information on wages after Jure 30, 1942, > LONDON, Feh. 8—In high spirits and glowing health, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill returg> ed triumphantly to England on Sugs day from his 10,000 mile air to North Africa and the M J East. & | McNeil total. Scores made last night were: Elks . 182 A homeless kitten — just old enough to be an expectant mother —burned out by the fire Saturday night, is at the PFire Hall, and the Fire Department members are look- ing for a home for her, Joe John- ston said today. Covered with snow and ice, for- 146— 517 200— 634 147 489 191— 650 204— 000| Carnegie Lavenik Eturrock Hildinger Stewart 189 Totals §88—2880 she was searching for her home in the debris of the burned-out Cliff Apartments. The Army turned her |over to the Navy. The Navy found 'a haven and first aid for the dis- 15— 235 146— 443 116— 366 176— 485 142— 516 — 471 167 "1,wnrm milk, a warm temporary (8pot) Hoffman Keely Mauze Commons !lorn and bewildered, the kitten was | rescued by two army officers, as, |tressed kitten at' the Fire Hall ! Totals 812—2516 Another writer ‘I met here was 'OmoITow on his return trip to Edgar Allen Poe. Even with make- his home at Skagway after a ten-| up, and brooding, he looked like day visit in Douglas. John Shepperd. When I saw him| Dt Ee? Shepperd was brooding, not about BACK FROM TRIP Poe or love, but about the kind of| Alfred Bonnett is home again| picture Poe’s life was going to make.' from a month’s vacation trip to| He was right. Poe’s shade is pro-| Washington, Oregon and Califor- 30— 90! 131— 429, 194— 524 220— 593 126— 457 | 171— 503 (8pot) Natale Knoken Pehrman Jamrosek Grzesik home provided by the Fire Depart- ment has the kitten back to nor- mal. She's' a pretty cat—angora or part angora—of tiger coloring, and she's looking for a permanent home. Just call the Fire Depart- ment if you have room for her. - ments, people either left their homes, or were ready to go. At the A special railroad test car de- Federal jail six of the prisoners tects and marks faults the|laid out hose lines and manned, track over which is passes. |them. All cells were unlocked by orders of Marshal William A. Ma- |honey and prisoners were made| |ready for evacuation if the build- !ing caught fire. | Flying embers, hurled around by ;me wind, caused much trouble but | ithey generally burned out when | falling on snow-covered roofs or were stamped out if falling else-! | where. | The fire was one of the most | spectacular blazes since the Gold-: ! stein building was destroyed, Feb- | |ruary 8, 1939, just four years ago today. Coast Guard Appreciation This afternoon officials of the Coast Guard desired to express ap- preciation to Mrs. Josephine White jfor opening her suite in the Fel- BF SURE don Apartments for first aid work ‘YOUR BABY iduring the fire Saturday night. One 1S GETTING ENOUGH Coast Guardsman, J. Basso, was ULTRA-VIOLET :rendered unconscious by smoke and . | was brought safely through by first From the time your baby is | aiders in the White apartment. Sev- z:l';'- :.’nbi“‘;:_ssh:mg': :‘n‘é ‘Eirfels others were treated for frost’ Winter. The ultra-violet in v | sunshine will help to grow | s P sturdy, straight bones. In [BABY JUNE LeMOORE !hfle.nul)::i{l, whe_n Su.mm:r DIES IN HOSPITAL l'lEIZE1 sun is ing, it's wise to June LeMoore, year-old daughter 5’5&1%‘:5:‘&’;%% {of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene LeMoore, | died as the result of disease of |the lungs in St. Ann's Hospital - in Some day youll thank a GE Sunlamp for your fine strong legs day, is all you need. raiders. ibably still brooding about it . When we get down to cases, I suppose Bette Davis and Miriam Kodiak is taking a census to as- g, " |Hopkins are the only pair of writ- certain what license fees will be ers in the current cinema-lit'ry assessed those conducting UQuor es- cron who really look like writers. tablishments. ‘The claim is made| Thats because i Acquaint- the population - has decreased S0/ance” they're modern scriveners— the licenses should be reduced. |and modern writers can look like —————- - |anything. These writers in pictures seem MARSHALL HOPPIN, lwell fed, not at all s if theyve How‘nn moMpso"' ,been starving in garrets. Some day itlllley“z:uxm to make a movie about al le successful writers in the B- pumAM lEAVE‘world, and let John Carmadine of |the lean and hungry look play it. Marshall C. Hoppin, Regional There's a man who really looks like Manager for CAA in Alaska, left'a writer, today with Burleigh Putnam, Jr. KODIAK TAKES CENSUS {Chief CAA Inspector, and Howard | J. Thompson, Senior Meteorologist | for the U. S. Weather Bureau to! return to their headquarters in Anchorage. | Mr. Hoppin and Mr. Thompson ' (Continued from Page One) came to Junean three weeks ago to attend the meetings of the War Manpower Commission held here | with H. D. Huxley, Executive Of- ficer for the War Manpower Com- mission from San Francisco. Mr. Putnam came to the city in connection with the crash of the| Woodley Airways plane in Gasti- neau Channel to make an official investigation for CAA. L e NEWSPAPER MEN ON WAY TO FAIRBANKS, ANCHORAGE | |quittal were read, as a deep hush | prevailed. Flynn jumped from his chair and rushed to Mrs. Anderson and shook her hand enthusiastically, then the hands of the other jurors. | Flushed with joy, Flynn said: “I 1did not become an American citizen for nothing. The fair play I received at this trial proved that.” nia. He réturned several days ago. - e———— MAINTENANCE COMMITTEE A meeting of the Douglas Fire | Department Maintenance Commit- {tee has been called for Tuesday jevening at 7 o'clock. Chairman | Shudshift of the committee re- | ports important work scheduled. | e | COUNCIL SESSION The regular bi-monthly meeting |of Douglas City Council for tran- | |saction of routine business gs| scheduled for this evening at the usual hour. WARM TIME AT DUGOUT TONIGHT - FORA.L MEETING { | The regular Monday night meet- | ing of the American Legion Post; {will be held in the Dugout tonight | |at 8 o'clock. { Russ Clithero, First Vice-Depart- ment Commander and Commander | {of the Sitka Post, will be on hand |with some inside information of | | Department activities. The heat as well as the coffee pot is taken care of. - - ATTENTION PICNEERS All Pioneers of Alaska are invit- o WAGE RECORDS ARE Totals 149 176 150 186 191 213 Ignatowicz Aomellino Mondoker Bystrek Hagerup 196— 140— o NOT AVAILABLE A 2 5 =2 SOCIAL SECURITY 189— 552 — e — -—| Persons seeking to learn the am- Totals |for the purpose of filing income {tax returns are urged not to request 838 907 902—2647 ount of wages earned during 1942. FORTY-EIGHT ARRIVE HERE such information from the Social | Security Board. } “It is impossible for the Board | |to give a wage earner a statement | showing the total wages he has| earned during the calendar year‘ u Churchill, immediately after un“: ing, drove directly to No. 10 Downs /ing street to prepare his report.to the Nation on the conference ) President Roosevelt at and President Inonu at Adans. | Churchill made the trip in an American built Liberator ' HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs. Harold ‘Brown and Her ifs fant son were discharged from St. Ann’'s Hospital on Saturday and Tos turned home. Mrs. Walter Heisel, who has surgical treatment at St. Ann's Hags pital returned to her home on Sate urday. L ™ 2 % William P. Zerglis, a medical par tient at St. Ann’s Hospital, was dis. charged on Saturday. | Mrs, A, J. nd her infaft n left St. Ann’s Hospital for ome on Saturday. i 150 { B b o | John Glynn enteted St. Ann's Hospital on Sunday to receive mege ical care, 4 & A baby girl was born to | Lewis Lloyd at 8t. Ann’s Hospli | Saturday night, February 6 at 10:| o'clock. The little girl's weight was ixeven pounds, fourteen ounces &b birth. Mrs. Lee Quong entered St. Anf's Hospital on Saturday for surgics! | treatment. R » Walter Megarack entered | Egan, Mrs. William Egan, | Alaska - Linck. FROM SITKA ‘1942." Mr. Hugh J. Wade, Director i bl |of the Juneau Territorial Offi ” Arrivals here Sunday ernwn‘plamed today. “This is due f: :;e from Sitka were Miss Dallas Black, delay in filing of the Social Security Ivan Rezek, Mrs. Richard Slagle, tax returns of employers and the Barbara Dobler, Irene Reynolds, length of time required to process Ivy D. Barlow, Arthur Peterson,|and post the earnings of millions of Jr., Arthur Peterson, Sr., Mrs. Ar-|workers. Consequently our records thur Peterson, Lenore Peterson, do not show wages earned after Miss Dorothy Taylor, Mrs. E. C.}June 30, 1942. Roberts, Richard Roberts, Wally| Mr. Wade pointed out that most Roberts, Janet Nelson, George L. employers upon request will furnish |Ward, Edgar G. Olson, John A.[their workers with a statement Garsett, Donald McDonald. !showing total wages paid for the Louis C. Harrell, Opal Maggard, entire year. Cherie Maggard, Willlam E. Smyth, | However, if any worker desires to John J. Provich, George Golda, ascertain whether his wages nave Arthur Buchner, Emma Peterson, Peen correctly veported and credit- | Government Hospital on Satu y ’!or medical treatment. “T‘ | Katherine Johnson, a medidal patient entered the Go Hospital on Saturday aftel February 6. 5 Mrs. Robert Paul is the of an infant girl born at the Gov- |ernment Hospital Sunday. ,g PSS SR NI 320 S ) ATTENTION PIONEERS All Pioneers of Alaska are invits ed to attend the meeting at 8 pm. in the Odd Fellows Hall. Tt is the First Session of the G Igloo. Cherie Peterson, Mrs. Viola Groh, Gus Nicketis, John Poman, William Mrs. | Mrs. Lilian Clements, Edward| Coming Soon--20th CENTURY —a short exposure, every ! THIS HANDSOME MODEL yesterday morning. The infant had| Two newspaper men, employees, Mrs. Nellie Mineer, 71, a juror, ed to attend the meeting tonight | Coffey, Jesse Lander, Wallace Por- | Actually G-E Sunlam priced at almost hall they cost a few years ago. The new, popular LM-4 lam illustrated, is only $37.50. are Come in and see tne latest models and we will explain to you how simple and easy they are to use. See them today. Give your baby the daily ultra-violet she needs. The GENERAL ELECTRIC Sunlamp affords ultra-violet in abundance and has a similar beneficial effect to the ultra-violet radiation in the Summer sun. GENERAL §3 ELECTRIC SUNLAMPS Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. Phone 6 what | been taken to the hospital at 2 a.m. Sunday morning. Besides the parents, a half sis- | ter, Marjorie Starr survives. The! remains are at the C. W. Carter Mortuary and funeral services are | to be conducted at the Mortuary Chapel at 2 o'clock Wednesday af-| ternoon with the Rev. Edwerd J.| Budde officiating. Interment will| be in Evergreen Cemetery. e Filipinos are mainly of Malay | descent, with some admixture of | Spanish and Chinese. 1 T —— ® o 00 0 00 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) | Temp. Saturday, Feb. 6: | Maximum 10, minimum -1. Precipitation .09. Snow depth 4.3 in. Temp. Sunday, Feb. 7: AW, | A. W. Woodley, owner of the, of the Fairbanks News Miner and| the Anchorage Times, are in Ju-| neau enroute to their jobs in the; Interior and the Westward. Carl| B. Stansill will join the News Miner as a shop man and Doug | Parke is returning to his former | | position as a linotype operator on ) the Anchorage Times. it WOODLEY LEAVES FOR ANCHORAGE TODAY Woodley Alrways, left this morn- ing to return to the company head- quarters in Anchorage after spend- ing the last three weeks here in connection with the crash of the Woodley tri-motor Stinson in Gas- tineau Channel in which Don Glass, pilot, lost his life. Maximum 1, minimum -1. Snow depth 4.3 in. o e 00 000 00 Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Covey were said the first ballots stood 10 to 2 for acquittal, then unanimous acquit- tal verdict. ML LTS BUY DEFENSE BONDS at 8 pm. in the Odd Fellows Hall.|ter, H. H. McCutcheon, Hlulmer; It is the First Session of the Grand | Nordale, O. D. Cochran, Alvin Vll-‘ | Igloo. adv. | man, L. Richardson, Segt. Pritt,| o Empire Classifieds Pay: |C. M. Wilcutt, Walter Brandt. SN - YW BETTER GET ONER TO TH' CANTEEN QAN LOOK OWT FOR NOWR INTEREST ,YARD BIRD - T THINK T GENERALS TRUN' TO BEAT MOUR TAME \WITH WSS CELNE Anchorage bound passengers with Mr. Woodley. 1 DONT COW-TOW To, N0 FLGHTY-UERADED TENMALES " BARNEY GOOGLE ANB SNUFFY SMITH ean & S\Y-0ALE TERM COLLONT DRBG NE OUER. THAR, CORP'L —TELL SNUFEY TO COME BACH WE'S BEEN VERY GOOD To ME AND T WOLLON'T HBNE WS FEELWNGS WURT FOR BNNTHING N THE \NORLD — PLERISE ~ FOR. LTTLE CELE'S SAKE — WM 22 Sergt. Dennison, Jack MacDonald,|