The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1943, Page 3

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1 o SVorw mave HYSTERIGS! with laughter they rock the n with mirth! ALSO. Latest News Mystery Ship 7--9:3( Blondie 8: 08 D AR NI g 943 'DOUBLE FEATURE IS ON BILL AT CAPITOL | TONIGHT, SATURDAY Two features will be shown at the Capitol tonight and tomorrow Cne is “Blondie’s Blessed Event" and the other is “Mystery Ship.” “Blondie’s Blessed Event” is laugh packed. Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake and Larry Simms are the laugh provokers. The feature is based upon Chic Young's comic strip family and the comedy is con- cerned with the advent of a little stranger, a baby girl named Cookie, who upsets the Bumstead domicile even more thoroughly than does Dagwood looking for a lost collar button! The “Mystery Ship” an ex- citing new melodrama of treachery and espionage on the high seas The fast-moving film features Paul Kelly, Lola Lane and Larry Parks in the leading roles, while support- ing players include such popular stars as Trevor Bardette, Cy Ken- dall, Roger Imhoff, Eddie Laughton, john Tyrrell and Dick Curtis. -oo Singing Cowgirl Screened By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD—Somebody out at nL Republic had a revolutionary idea They'd make a series of pictures without a singing cowboy, by cracky I.EGISI.AT“RE i They'd make ‘em with a singing t DEADLOCKED is THRILLS thunder from stem to stern! TRIES PAUL KELLY LOLA LANE | Coombs Pt When I heard that, ‘I got on my hoss and went jingle-jangle-jingle over the pass to see. That's how come I'm reporting today on Niss Anne Jeffreys, a North Carolina girl who always wanted to sing in opera and has made the grade—in the hoss variety. “It’s a start,” she said, “even if it’s horse opera. If I make enough money in pictures, I'm going to take five years off and study and work like mad, and try for the Met. You don’t have to be so young to sing opera. You can even be 35.” | s | Senate- Declines fo Do Business — House Won't Take Bill TRAP LINES b y HENRY PEARSON Movies of the future, they say will have smell as well as sound. During a sea picture for instance, a decidedly salty odor would per- meate through the audience. The possibilities of this thing are immense. Imagine the jilted movie hero coming home drunk at 3:00 a. m. in the morning. Ushers would dash up and down the aisle opening bottles of 4-Star Hennessy so the audience could get the desired at- mosphere. Scenes filmed in the far north would be made, more realistic to the theatre goers by turning off all the heat an hour before the show started and then having everyone sit on a block of ice This will all be very nice if it isn’t carried too far. If a movie sequence were to sud- CHANNEL BUS LINES Schedule Effective February 22 JUNEAU-DOUGLAS LEAVE JUNEAU b a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. the next day wnen Senator H McCutcheon asked to reconsider it t and the rules were suspended. The measure then was passed by the Senate. denly change in the middle of a ‘HUh?) picture from Northern Alaska to the south sea islands, the whole audience would probably go home with the sunstroke. - India Grows Anxious as Ghandi Fasts It was disappointing, sort of, tha! Miss Anne the Singing Cowgirl wasn't togged out in her ridin’- shootin’ outfit. She'’s a beautiful | blonde, blue-eyed, and looked more |like a glammer-gal than a prairie House Refused Bill Received in the House, Speaker James V. Davis refused to accept flower. She had on a fancy dress|the bill. kicked it back to the Sen- ate. The Senate then sent a request and a fur jacket, and wore gold earrings, gold bracelet, gold wrisl-;xo,”‘P Houw‘mkmg Davis to ap- watch and a finger ring with a/Point a committee on rules to con- stone an inch square. |sult with a like committee that had “But 1 can really ride,” she saia, | Peen selected in the Senate to hash justifying her new western mh,_‘lhe matter out. Davis declined to “Back home I had a pony as a|@Ppoint such a committee and the child, and out here I love to ride H°u§” mwiained, Bis aouon; < horseback. What I'm ‘fraid of is| e Semate recelved notice of I won't get to ride a horse at all,/this at this morning’s session and BOMBAY, India, Feb. 19—An In- I was always a tom-boy, and 1/ ‘hereafter did ot take any action dian government communique re- always was Tom Mix when we|% 20V House bills in the Senate. ported deepening anxiety over the kids played cowhoys at home.’ ‘Whe" a House HOAMeL icame up" 16 condition of Ghangli, now in the, Miss 'Anne, who is ve'y, ve'y, "5 continued at status quo. | second week of a )frojected 21-day S'uthern, hails from Goldsboro President ‘0. D. OCochran re- fast. where her grandfather had a b‘g‘muxkrd. 1f the House refused to The communique said, “although colonial home and very strong ideas 2°°°P! one bill, T presume it will Mr. Ghandi had a total of nine &bout nice S'uthern girls being in|Tefuse to accept all bills. hours sleep, he is not refreshed nor the theater. That was why, Anne| . Unless the House receives this mentally alive, His heart action is says, her own mother who wanted|Plll (the eagle bounty bil) this feebler. Anxiety as to his condition to sing in opera gave up the idea— 55310 of Legislature is simply an- deepens.” but not Anne. “Mamma’s been be- Dulled There is nothing we can 3 1 " - . |do about it.” e e hind me all the way” she says,| No Solution “al m; er must havi PREMATURE B e mef{ Said Senator N. R. Walker: “The PHILADELPHIA —At 10:20 am.|gtre because, at 86, he went to see Tessage from the House indicates it air raid sirens screamed through-'his first movie because I was in hn_s no desire to get together on out Philadelphia for a surprise drill. /jt» {this thing. The Senate has gone At 10:21 am. a man telephoned | Anne's first movie was “I Mar-‘lhe limit. The House has even re- the Municipal Electrical Bureauand ried an Angel.” She was one of fused to appoint 2 committee to asked excitedly: {Nelson Eddy's five sweethearts in|discuss it. What the solution is, I “Is the war jdon’t know.” i ‘Lh.e picture—one of the twin sis: | When Davis had rejected the re- quest to appoint a committee j terday he had commented, “I de- cline to appoint a committee to dis- cuss an illegal matter.” Senator A. P. Walker said: “This is a small matter. It reflects on both the House and the Senate. We ciation and sang the lead roles in SPoUld -get together and compro- |“La Traviata” and “La Boheme," mlse._We are arching- out necks, and Nedda in “Pagliaccl.” But m“_‘standmg on our pride, allowing our sical training is expensive, and she|P¥ide to get between us ahd duty.” became a Powers model to finance| IP the meantime, legislative ac- it. Bfore 1ong ahe was. dothg m‘tion is definitely stalled until either well as a model that time for music' !D® House or Senate backs up. was lacking, and she decided the| \Pe'® Was no ipdication at press fwo. didn't %, /Thet Wik w)qen‘“me that any compromise was she and her mother boarded a bus| mmipent. \for Hollywood. N over?” Just turned 20, Anne has been singing since she was one year old, was on the air at 10, and left high school for New York to study for opera. She won a scholarship .with the Municipal Opera asso- LEAVE DOUGLAS 7:05 a.m. 7:40 a.m. 8:40 a.m. 10:;40 a.m. 11:40 a.m. 1:40 p.m. 3:10 p.m. 4:40 p.m. e THE DAILY ALASKA -EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA ITALIAN CLAW signal corps linesman tries caotured Italian climbers. | Youll see her first in “Calling FOR CAN.ERIES’ OPERATION “UP IN THE AR,” CRIME MYSTERY, AT 20TH CENTURY Up in the Monogram's latest Frankie Darro starring pic- ture scheduled to open tonight at the 20th Century, uses a lnige radio statior. as *s background Onee wore Darro is teamed witin Mantan Moreland, who's comedy antics are always a weleome fea- ture of these pictures The feminine lead is taken by Marjorie Reynolds, who pluys the part of Anune, receptionist who i< | waiting for a chance to sing over the air. Miss Reynolds isn't the only em- ployee of staution AB.C. with air- wave aspirations. Frankie and Man- {tan, as page boy and porter, re- (spectively, spend all their spare time rehearsing for the big op- |portunn_v they hope will come. The pair get a chance to show their stuff, but not as radio stars The station announcer gives themn their chance when he murders Lor- na Grey who plays Rita Wilson, ABC's song sta It takes this |intrepid comedy duo to name num | when the police fail. 3 | Also in the cast is Gordon Jones, popular character actor, who has |played in such pictures as “China Passage,” “Quick Money and |“Fight For Your Girl.” Others in- |clude Clyde Dilson, Dick Elliott, !and John Holland. BIG FIGHT ~ IN HOUSE " OVERBILL CLIMBERS—A British BIG ARMY TRANSPORT OVER RU l. ES I N ( R A S H | Measure Pf&fiding Equal S— One Officer Killed, 17 Are! Missing, Three Sur- vivors Rgscued WASHINGTON, Feb, 19, — One | Army officer was killed, 17 persons, | including four civilians, are missing, ' and three survivors were rescued in the crash of an Army transport Rights to Natives Is Subject BULLETIN—Tke House killed the Equal Rights Bill by a vote | of 9 to 7 late thix =*erroon. The House was snapped out of its dreamy legislative spring this afternoon as one of the hottest battles in years developed over the plane in the Pacific, according to x\,‘?;}awnir":; b‘r”or\\::l:f:‘;;lll)::d pumal an announcement by the War De- [voF PPMe HEE (O PO ik partment, The crash occurred Feb- jrUA 1o HeNV ihnaghotrs AP ruary 1, sapproximately . one nnlelm:?s‘:: st‘;:’m:;:s;::‘re“n;fi:;\zu;h: ;‘;f‘r"\ch“n' G I Btnaty Rucitie and after an hour of argument, no 1 vote had been taken Lt. Colenel Powhatan M. Morton of San Antonio, Texas, was killed, | THo%® 8gainst the bill claur that ‘The missing include, Christopher 167 gives ihe Malives HOGHDE iR V. Pickup, Burbank; Calif, the ‘oen edwm"‘:n;::y :;';“déo:::nfi:‘;: ante . civil aviation passage and the penalty clause e | 'would reaffirm these righis. Dr. James Ryan, Territorial Com- AMSM MUNDRY IS | missioner of Education, was ques- tioned on the bill in connection Au'"oRIIED 'o up 'wnh added expense for Territorial $ gg |5Chools. The passage of the bill pRI(ES I" ju"[‘u might mean that native schools X |would be abandoned, but there is The application of the Alaska DO Provislon for this in the bill Laundry of Juneau for an adjust-| Rep. Alaska Stewart Linck called ment of its prices on its laundry [the bill & “political football.” and dry cleaning services, recently | Rep. Crystal Snow Jenne spoke submitted, to the regional office of favorably on it, arguing that it the OPA.'hax been granted and a‘would provide equal rights now slight mpward revision in prices denied natives in many instances. has been allowed. | Rep. Jesse Lander spoke for it, The Alaska Laundry’s application AT8UiNg that “democracy is at the was granted on the basis of finan- |Crossroads today” and referring to cial statements submitted to the Hitler's practices on such a ques- Office of Price Administration in | Uon. Washington, D./C. A thorough Speaker James V. Davis, authoi study of the economic factors af- 0f the bill, informed Rep. Lander fecting the laundry’s operation in that the “House has no control Juneau was made by the Laundry Over Hitler at the present time.” Division of Consumer Services on! William L. Paul of the Alaska the basis of the application and |Native Brotherhood was addressing financial statements. the House on the bill at press time, This action is in line with the Urging its passage. general policy of the Office of i e Price Administration of allowing . relief in cases where actual hard- SH“"[E SERVI(E ship can be shown. The Order of Adjustment allows a slight upward | revision of prices but does not. ATLANTA—A locomotive plowed allow the full amount requested by into an automobile occupied by the laundry in its petition. Mrs. C. W, Spear and two compan- - I g - ions and dragged it along the !tracks about 40 feet. The engine |then hurled it into the path of a |train going in the opposite direc- ALWAYS FULL STAFF FIRST Do we raise the flag to half-|tion and the automobile was - 1 | | WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY! \ ALL NEW \T2O CENTURY swow romtcar A GLAMOROUS RADIO SINGER... SHOT WHILE MILLIONS LISTEN! The golden voice that thrilled the world . .. lenced by a bullet! Murder in o broadcast- ing station . .. and,trouble seeking Frankie “auditions” for the police! 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Carbon paper, please? |Urges Overall Shipbuild- ing Supervision on | West Coast { asers, please? i | WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 — The, House Naval Subcommittee which | investigated the west coast ship- {yards working on naval contracts last December reported that th2 American shipbuilding industry was \“almost criminally neglected” after the first world war but that the industry could produce up to twenty million tons of shipping this year if “undue, unnecessary” delays were corrected. | The committee urged “overall ‘shiphufldlng supervision” be placed on the Pacific Coast and that field | representatives be given more - |authority to straighten out alloca- tion and priority snarls. The committee head, Rep. War- ren G. Magnuson of Washington, ceported finding “considerable con- [usion as to the authority and dis- cretion allowed Navy supervision n | the shipbuilding field,, particularlv | with respect to suthority of super- | visors to permit substitutions fo~| specified materials, unavailable at| present.” | Much discussion was heard to; the effect that a serious bottleneck /g had occurred in many yards be- cause the men were, having to wait too long to get materials out of | the warehouse, Magnuson said. I The committee said lack of ex- perience in management was pri- marily responsible for poor plan- ning and enforced idleness aniong| workers, NO-MAN > ps, Er- | | TOPEKA, Kas. — Tom Potter ‘is' |the new no-man of the Kansas | State Senate. He's been sergeants |at-arms 30 years but he’s never. S § pm, 5:40 p.m. | Model LM priced at $3750. with 7:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 10:50 p.m. 1:00 a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. a.m. Juneau-Douglas Bus Fares MONTHLY TICKET— Juneau—Douglas ... Juneau—2-Mile Post ... Juneau—Lawson Creek . 30-RIDE TICKET— Jueanu—Douglas Juneau—2-Mile Post Juneau—Lawson Creek ... ONE WAY— Juneau—Douglas City Limits e 8 3 Juneau—2-Mile Pc i y CHILDREN—Juneau-Douglas and Way Points—10 cents These Prices Effective Feb. 16 5 Wwild Bill Eliott” (did you guess?) Bill Elliott and Gabby| Claiming tnere will be no short- Hayes. |age of labor, The, Wrangell Cham- | ber of Commerce has petitioned the ! |War Production Board to sanction e ; MW' OUBHON operation of three canneries at | . Wrangell instead of one. | QULINCY, Mass—An unidenti- | fied man called police headquarters and asked Lieutenant William F.| McIntyre if he would be stopped for driving his automobile after the | noon curfew on non-essential driv-| ing. | McIntyre said he had received no orders on the matter and asked, :whemer the man was going on al business or pleasure trip. | “Well,” came the reply, “I don't | exactly know. I'm going on my| ; honeymoon.” REPORT 10 THE Ca®_DOCTOR FOR SWoTS % | B | A LONG TRIP i | New York City’s bus, subway and | trolley lines, if :laid end to end,| {would stretch from Manhattan to | Cleveland, Ohio, “more taan 500 | miles. hia R\ staff when a President dies? If|4ragged back about 50 feet, finally | Tagalog, the national language of | your answer is “yes” you're wrong_‘;lldlns clear. Mrs, Spear and her |the Philippines, was taught with | Aluh mm Lw You never “raise” the Am"‘“"-eompamom climbed out un - English before the Japanese in- 8 | | flag to only half-staff. If the em- | seratched. vasion. blem is net already flying you run it all the way up and then lower | 1t. i LB IR . BUY WAR BONDS " Empire Classitieds Pay! By BILLY DeBEC S Y, TANR HAWT O\ JeePeR! N0 RUNME NER REAGON TER NE 10 LOWNGE QROUND T MULE SHED, GWZZUN WP M S’R\«_\E CORN SQUEEZWNS \v Td' DoC cack cm\xeg‘;(g asé\\m \é—.\'—fl& \TCHES % £ |