The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1943, Page 3

SATURDAY, FEERUARY 13, 1943 IT'S A JUMBO... MUMBO.. . FUNBO! ALL NEW! ALL LAFFS! ALL AMAZING! Disney’s latest full-length feature.. a bright new star who'll tickle you RELEASED BY RO RADIO B AINE DAY - BRRRY NELSON Mfiuanr CRAWFORD - KEYE LUKE TONIGHT! SENGALESE OFFERED IN FRONT LIt: LA 100,000 Trained Men Are Now Ready to Fight in Africa If Equipped HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 13.—Gover- nor General Pierre Boisson de- clared today that the French in West Africa are ready to furnish 100,000 trained Sengalese troop: a reserve of 200,000 more, if ment and lead Asked if the abc Fighting French on Dakar in 1940 was still a sore point in West Africa in view of the liaison agree- ment between DeGaulle and Gi- raud, Boisson smiled grimly and responded: “It is difficult to say. Some feel strongly, some don’t but it doesn't make any difference be- cause West Africa is well disci- plined.” The Governor General added: “Union of all French are nece: 'y to beat the Germans, and beat the Germans must be done.” VERN TRAKOWSKI AND MRS. TRAKOWSKI HERE ALLIED and wd ON WAY, ANCHORAGE Mr. and Mrs. Vern Trakowski ar- rived in Juneau from the south this week and are awaiting transporta- tion to Anchorage where Mr. Trak- owski is employed by the Alaska i Star Afrlines. Mr. Trakowski went north sever- al months ago and finding that he likes Alaska, recently took leave to| go south and bring Mrs. Trakowski | north. During their stay in Juneau Mr. and Mrs. Trakowski are guests at the Baranof Hotel. ——— * is said to be the The letter most frequently used capital initial | letter in the English language. BEGINNING TUESDAY, Feb.16 THERE WILL BE TWO DELIVERIES 10A.M.and 2P. M. Please place your orders early. Orders DAILY equip- . “THE SINGING HILL" “ALIAS BOSTON BLACKIE” DISNEY'S ‘DUMBO’ INTECHNICOLOR AT CAPITOL SUNDAY Second Feature Is "'A Yank oit e Burma Road” with Two Stars Of all the characters created by Walt Disney and his staff for such unforgettable product as “Snow White “Pinocchio” and “Fanta- ia,” none perhaps has quite come up in heart appeal to the title char- acter of the newest Disney-RKO Radio feature picture, “Dumbo” at Capitol Theatre opening Sun- Dumbo is a lovable little baby el- cphant, b with ears as big Is, and shunned-by his compan- on this account. As animated in Technicolor, Dumbo is a timid grey, roly-poly baby with big, sad, blue eyes. He is so shy he doesn't as icns Casey Junior, second only to Dumbo himself as the hit of Walt s latest full-length feature, And if you don’t think a locomotive can be a personality, you don’t Casey Junior talks, sings, whistles—and has a His song, “Casey Junior,” is one of nine new tunes in “Dumbo,” which was phofographed in Technicolor. This know your Disney! great gift for friendship. feature is at the Capitol. Sunday—Monddy Tuesday THE CAPITOL HAS have a word to say throughout the entire production, conveying his meaningful thoughts in pantomime. But what Dumbo lacks in garrulity, his pal, Timothy Mouse, makes up for. Timothy, who wears the scarlet uniform and cap of a bandmaster, befriends Dumbo when all the other clephants avoid him as a freak How Dumbo proves himself not only a hero but a celebrity of the first water makes up the' hilarious story of “Dumba,” which comes with the further appeal of nine lilting new songs, six of them by the composer of the unforgettable “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf.” The added production is “A Yank On The Burma Road,” featuring araine Day and Barry Nelson The st opens in New York, where Nelson captures two Kkillers, winning newspaper fame. He vited to lead a fleet of trucks over the Burma Road and accepts. At Rangoon he meets Miss Day. She talks herself into passage on the trucks o Chungking in order .to meet her husband, held captive by, the Chinese. The trucks start over the Burma Road, and meet up with romance, thrills, battle and tragedy "Dumbo” ai (apllol Theatre PREVUE TONIGHT A M. is in- THE BIG PICTURES Tenderloins or Tokyo, ' Buiter or Berlin, Sums Up Our Food Sifuation | (Continued from Page One) in the six months previous to Sep- tember, 1942 This condition is, ating dislocations. Farmers, of manpower, machinery and quate transportation equipment, are wondering how they can maintain last year's levels, much less increase production to the highs called for by Secretary Wickard The on for rationing is sim- ply to assure a fair distribution of what there is. Under it the poor will eat better; the rich, a much simpler and more monotonous fare than they are accustomed to. of course, cre- short Could the situation become crit- ical? It could. A bad growing season would cause havoc with the deli-| cate balance now in prospect be- tween a satisfactory diet and the |demand for such. The distribution system could pog' down, too, and it is believed that in scattered communities it will. Farmers who have depended on trucks for long hauls will find them wearing out, In such cases their only out will be short hau to already overburdened railroads. The third danger is manpower. It's not difficult to shut off the |draft of farm workers. Enlistments | will be | | closed to them soon (as to all other men), but it'll take much more drastic action to keep them from migrating to the higher wages in industry. Freezing in farm jobs 11300000 workers is a possibility. Just how serious this might be- come is seen in the estimates that will leave the farms this year and that the farm- ers will need 200,000 more workers {than they had in 1942. That 1,500,- 000 is going to have to be drummed up from somewhere if we're going |to get the job done. “Dumboe,” released by RKO Radio. placed after 1 P. M. will be delivered the following day. No Orders Delivered Under $2.00! PHONE 76 [P RpEErR—— - THRIFT C0-OP PHONE 167 It looks as though Doctor Par- ran was right. TOKEN TAKER KANSAS CITY—C. L. Smith, who collects Missouri state sales tax tokens, said the thief must be a' husky who doesn't mind ,manual labor. Stolen from his car were: Four 36-pound sacks of one-mill | tokens. One-pound sack of five-mill to- i kens. Value: 3122 93. Copr. 1945, King Feates Syndv e, In ade- | ; Feusi and Jensen Store. iCOMED\’ THRILLER COMING SUNDAY AT 20TH CENTURY "No Hands on the Clock” Stars Chester Morris and Jean Parker First they vie star now tures i story and W | Paran the Cloc {20th Century | Morri | the “cast The two Williams are ex-news-| papermen who turned their news reporting ta toward publiciz- ing mov tars, Pine was so good at his job that he became head of Paramount’s publicity department. | Thomas was his assistant. Later Pine became associated with Cecil B. DeMille and Thomas turned to writing screen plays. Recently Pine left his associate producer spot with DeMille to join his friend Thomas in the production of their own movies . Their first three pictures, which |were also made for Paramount, |were airplane action films “Power |Dive,” “Forced Landing” and “Fly- |ing Blind” In “No Hands on the Clock” they turn their attention to imystery | “No Hands on the Clock” is just that. The story tells of the efforts |of a private detective, whose honey- (moon has been interrupted, to lo- cate a kidnapped man. While he is following up some clues he finds, iinstead, the corpse of a beautiful imurdered redhead. Before he knows {how it has happened, he himself is involved and it becomes a matter ;Of life or de:“h to find the real | murderer. Adding to his difficulties iis the fact that a gangster, shoot- ing mad, mistakes him for low who “ratted” on him. made news about mo- they're making pic- n brief, is the success ducers Willilam Pine Thom: whose fourth picture, “No Hands on opens Sunday at the Theatre with Chester Jean Parker heading iam ind ts | DOUGLAS NEWS - D. L W, C. RING WEEK | ning. | - | MISS BAROUMES IS Mrs, H. O. Hansen, of Ketchikan, who was guest speaker of the Doug- a fel- PAGE THREE Where the B('lu'r BIG Pictures Play??? IO ENTURY ALL NEW SHOW STARTS SUNDAY FINAL SHOWING TONIGHT ““HOW GREEN WASMY VALLEY” Preview Tonight 12:30 A. M. e(y"_\ Matinee Sunday 2:00 P. M. A o The cops were there... 7N and, oh, yes... the brid, o oy a’groo (% Were there, 100" | A P CHESTER MORRIS: PARKER win ROSE HOBART - DICK PURCELL ROD CAMERON - ASTRID ALLWYN Directed by FRANK McDONALD - Screen Play by Mexwell Shane 7 ¢, 2 lhe ]/////// J'o,y 2 Editions Latest News. . . Carloon e Speclal Atiraction 9:30 P. M. close with refreshments served by ' Miss Eleanor Warren and Mrs. Mike | | Pusich, the hostesses for the eve- | | | NOW SEATTLE Bllllll'li las Island Women’s Club at their | /4 | February meeting Wednesday eve- ning, which she enumerated several future legislatiye proposals which should receive the support of the women of Alaska, she said. Announcement was made of the | Victory Book Campaign to be held from February 15 to March 5, in | order to secure additional reading | {material‘ for the men in the service. | Anyone in the community wishing Ito make contributions during the drive may leave their books at the | It was also announced that Mrs | Lydit Fohn-Hansen, of the Univer- | sity of Alaska Extension Service, | has offered to conduct a nutrition class in Douglas for all women in- terested in learning more about feed- ing one’s family wisely and as inex- pensively as possible during these critical times. She plans to meet with the Douglas class several after- noons a week at 1:30 o'clock in the Council Chambers at the City Hall. All interested are requested to meet February 11, in On Thursday, riage of Miss Agnes Baroumes, \formerly of Douglas' d@nd Roy W. Passi, of Denver, Colrado. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Baroumes, pioneer residents of the island. She | was born here and graduated from ) Douglas High School in 1937. For the past year she has been a | stenographer under civil service in | Seattle. Mr. Passi was formerly working tor a Seattle grocery firm and is| now in the army - - s SOPHOMORES PLAN DANCE A Victory Dance, latest entertain- | ment planned for Channel dancing folks, is announced by the Sopho-! more class of the Douglas High | School, to be given in the school! gymnasium Saturday. February 27.1 Bob Tew and his orchestra have been engaged to play for the dx\nce.‘ e | | | | | with Mrs, Fohn-Hansen next Tues- day aftérnoon for the first session. | Future meetings will be determmed:of the year, Douglas Higt It will be an oppor- | last night came within four points | at that time. D. H. S. LOSES TO MALAMUTES} Playing one of their best games | School | tunity for those attending to gain |of tying the Malamutes in a fast | much useful information from one | exciting basketball game played in | who is well qualified to teach the |the school gymnasium. subject. After the meeting, members and guests enjoyed a concert of choice | ‘recordings on the school’s radio- | victrola, The selections were pre-; sented by Betty Bonnett and Alfreda | Fleek, two members of the musiC\ appreciation class conducted by Mrs. | Ernst Oberg each Friday afternoon. | The articles of incorporation and by-laws of the Douglas Public Li- brary were read and discussed. They will be presented in proper form for adoption at the March meeting. The meeting which was held in the newly arranged teachers’ room | his automobile by Final score was 32 to 36. - - Reception Ready For Tire-Nappers SALLISAW, Okla. — The Tlmeb records that one.of its subscriber Red Jones, is teadyifor tire thieves. *His insurance: Two English pit| bull dogs which \nd guard over ht; one double- ! barrel shotgun; o&né flood light {and health center at the public which he turns on the mac! him“ school, was, brougm to a plensam P. S. His wire Is a light sleeper. \F LT HANT PRIWATE MECON W WUAT ME Do [BAK 2 Al Waets T B\G \DER STANDIN' GUARD AT CELE'S CANTEEN -2 TAS AUNT 00 MILVTARY o] OBJIECTWEY SNMOOCHIN' "ROUND WERE AL B4 (ORESE'F TS TWME World sights seserved. Boh Hope in “NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH" SR ERETT. orit Radisson and Med- THEATRE Telescopes with a magnifying | Pierre Es: gave an interesting talk in |Seattle, was solemnized the mar- | power exceeding 1000 are seldom ard Couart, French explorers, were used because of the trembling of the | said to.be the first white. men tg carthb nlmosphmr\ have set foot within Minnesota. Don't Miss the 37th Annual Firemen's Ball Elks’ Hall Public Cordially Invited W TONIGHT MUSIC by—— Bob Tew's Orchestra SPONSORED by—— Juneau Fire Depariment Admission, Gentlemen, $1.00 (Including Tax) AT SHORE \5, \F T WKNOWN *mmm URRMNTS OVER \N CAMP W\ CELIE'S GOT @ \NARSW Tus FULL OF BLACK ENED P 2acK. SIAMERINY' ON Td COOK. STONE on TWT\N“:\% BL\“BLE 10 START SUETIN 108" BARRA NN SECONT mw