The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1943, Page 3

TUESDAY, MARCH 2 LAST TIMES TONIGHT JOAN CRAWFORD MELVYN with Roland Youn, Billie Burke® Allen Jenkins Tomorrow! /10 THE OLD SOUTHWEST'S “~MOST DEADLY ERA starring Robert STACK * Brod CRAWFORD Jackie COOPER - Anne GWYNNE Rolph BELLAMY - Jane DARWELL Prevue Tonight 12:30 A. M. THEATRE Show Place of Juneau _Members of Congress Are (lassified Now as Essential War Workers (Continued from Page One) had ought her hus- the rationing band to breakdown “Oh, no." she fixed i The four children and I ug coffee duration. We figured it was that or receive a no- tice as next of kin.” verge of said. “We the either members of Congress have finally been classified as essential war workers. The National Hous- ing Administration had to desig- nate the members essential to winning war be they could move into I hc It's a War Production Board order that new homds build with private funds have to be sold or leased to essen- tial war workers. (Otherwise no priorities on materials) The new membe of particularly have been in ful stew about getting There were no apartments, no houses and hotel rooms for only limited periods. Not being consid- ered essential war workers, they were barred from buying or leas- ing new homes built with private funds and th is a standing rule that Congressmen cannot live in houses or apartments financed with government funds. Several finally sent their families home. ALASKA STAR PLANE ARRIVES FROM WESTWARD Bringing express, mail and pas- engers from the Westward, an Al- The ty the Gongress an #w- located ska Star Airlines plane, piloted by | Chet Brown, with Robert Jocox a: co-pilot, arrived here yesterday afternoon from Anchorage and has left for the return flight Lester Mangle was an incoming passenger from Yakutat and out- going passengers were, for Anchor- age—Mr. and Mrs. Vern Trakowski and Mrs. L. W. Stam; for Yakutat —Edward Smith and Mrs. J. Dobin. day | turn MEN OF TEXAS' COMING MOVIE, CAPITOL THEATRE New Feature Opens To- morrow-'They All Kissed the Bride’ Is Closing A fast moving outdoor drama that should be enjoyed by all of the family is “Men of Texas" which comes to the Capitol Theatre to- morrew night “for a two days run Robert Stack. Brod Crawford, Jackie Cooper and Raly are starred in this story of outhwe: most thrilling era Stack is seen Yankee porter who is sent south from Chi- cago by his newspaper to cover the causes of unrest in the state of Texas. He does this and the results are a fine action drama Tonight for the last times, “They All Kisced The Bride” is on the screen the as a re- D ALASKA COASTAL MAKES FLIGHTS T0 - SITKA, EXCURSION Numerous —passensers travelled with Alaska Coastal Airlines tween Juneau and Excursion esterday afternoon and today. Le here Monday afternoon for Sitka were Dave Fenton, Pau! ch, Ole Scarbo, G. H. Hiller- man and Eiler Hansen Arriving from Sitka were William R. Ta r, Edward Radde R. Wihle, J. C. Cooper ris, Verna Anderson Pierce. Takine passace wsion Tnl Sophie Har- and Monday with e Arthur A. Hedres tt, m Coronell and Lyl¢ s here from the Inlet Mon- Art Whetstone, Richard Corneli O. C. Tilson, Lilland Moyer, M. G. Jewett, R. H. Tom- linsg J. G. Hayes, Paul Johns, Harden Davis, E. E. Smith, A. W ind Dave Chamberlain. Today’s Flights with ACA today for Mrs. William B. Thom- Jewett, J. M. Applegate, cholet, H Simmons and rel leaving for Excur- today were Tom Gary, Kretzmeier, B. C. Camalin, . ay and Billie Gray. Arriving in Juneau from Sitka were R. Chilkins and D. Young; m Excursion Inlet, John Mey- s, O. L. Powell, James M. Ander- son, Charles A. Hople, Leroy Rob- inson and William B. Meeps. CANTEEN LUNCHEON THURSDAY FOR PUBLIC A canteen - sponored luncheon, open to the public, will be given next Thursday at 12 noon in the social rooms of the Northern .ight Presbyterian Church, and prepared by Unit No. 3, it was an- nounced today by instructor Mrs. John McLaughlin. It is hoped that about 50 will out for the nourishing and well-cooked meal, which will be served about at cost. Reservations are requested and may be made through Mrs. McLaughlin or Mrs, Arthur Adams, black 604. Any proceeds that may be earned will be used to purchase equipment for the canteen, Mrs. McLaughlin said. .- The rickshaw was invented by a U. S. Marine who visited Japan in 1854 with Commodore Perry. be- | Inlet | Anders | Paul | from here to Ex- | ACA | Everett E. | Dave | MERICAN ARMY NURSES Bellamy | Ella Kaines, 20-ycar-old University of Washington at Seattle co-ed, thanks Charles Boyer, actor and pro- York where she was looking for a she plays the only femi Walt Disney Is Warrior Doing Stuff e role, By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD — When bouque passed out for quick conver- sion to war industry, there ought to be a special arrangement of red- white-and-blue orchids for the Walt Disney flicker factory Disney, pre-war output, for en- tertainment only, amounted rough- ly te 32000 feet of film, or about two features and 20 short subjects a year. The figure equalled or topped in the first month of 1943— and the estimate for the year is between 250 and 300,000 feet, de- spite loss of large slices of his per- sonnel to the service! The productions include many technical training films for the U S. Navy, delivered at cost, several short films in color under the aus- pices of the Office of the Co-Ordin- ator of Inter-American Affairs, and the feature “Victory Through Air Power” based on Maj. Alexander P, de Seversky's best-seller. There is 1 second South American feature in work, plus the usual Disney shorts and two feature “The Gremlins” and “Peter Pan was The Disney campus, of course, is not the same e -going place it used to be. You sign in and out when visiting there now, and you wear an identification badge just as when visiting an But there’s an even more notice- able difference: Disney now uses many live act to assist his paint- pot chardcters. They're time-savers. | In some films Walt is using them where they deliver the same results as cartoons would, reserving his artists for effects impossible to ob- tain otherwise. There are live ac- | tors—includ Seversky himself— in “Victor and also in “The Gremlins,” but “Peter Pan,” will be | exclusively paint-pot. I saw a few of Walt’s educational shorts the other day and I never saw education made painle: A s TSRS AN, o airplane factory. | job. She will make her movie debut one called “The ngcd] which deals with malaria carrier, the Anapholes mos- | In color, the picture details| the mosquito does its dirty work, then enlists the aid of the Seven Dwarfs (their first screen work since “Snow White”) to dem- onstrate protective measures. There's another ‘Defense Against Inva- sion which likens jthe body to a walled city, its people “mobilized” on a war basis through vaccination so that when enemy germs attack they are repulsed. There’s history and information in *“The That Built a Hemisphere, story of corn, its development and present and prospective uses, If pictures like these ever be- come part of the little red school- house tractions, the ancient art of playing hookey will disappear. Wt more, the kiddi may ha to fight for their seats—with their own papas and mammas-— when Prof. Walt Disney takes the platform Scourge and it quitc how > Cuisine Artists Serve Spaghetti For Am. Legion Turning the tables to the gratifi- cation of all concerned, visiting “artists of the cuisine”, Comrade Corp. Fields and his buddy John- son Jlast night served members of the local American Legion Post with some of the “finest spaghetti we have ever tasted,” they declared The two guest cooks spent the afternoon stirring, seasoning and cocking the feed, and served it with professional efficiency. Four new members were voted into the Post at last night’s busi- ness meeting which preceded the ial. They were William H. Ryan |Dan Hightower, Demetros Daskalos and William J. Denham. Working under First Vice-Com- mander Fred Cameron and Second Vice-Commander Les Sturm, ioth membership committees are report- led to be working well and accom- | plishing good results. | Further preparations were made |for the Jiggs dinner honoring the | Territorial Legislators to be held at 6:30 p. m. March 15 at the Odd Fellow Hall. OFF FOR ANCHORAGE Vern Trakowski, airplane me- chanic, who has been in Juneau for several weeks, left by plane yesterday for Anchorage where he is on the staff of the Alaska Star Airlines. Mrs. Trakowski, news- | paper woman, was employed on the ducer, for the film contract to which he and Producer Howard Hawks signed after “discovering” her in New in “Corvettes in Action,” in which | school | Board TERR. EDUCATION | | consideration of BOARD TAKES UP LEGISLATION Consideration of bills pertaining to education, now pending in the legislature awaiting recommenda- tion of the Territorial Board of Ed- ucation, occupied the members of the Board at their initial meetings yesterday and were still occupying the Board today. The Board of Education con- vened at 10 o'clock yesterday morn- ing for its annual ten-day session and is meeting each morning and afternoon in the offices of Dr. James Ryan, Territorial Commis- sioner of Education. At the beginning of the session yvesterday morning, a wire from A. H. Zeigler, member of the Board from the First Division, was read stating that he would arrive on the first available transportation from his home in Ketchikan. All other members of the Board are present. Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne, First Division Representative, who intro- duced House Bill No. 39, appeared before the Board yesterday morn- | ing and after considerable discus- sion, it was moved to send a letter to the House Committee on Educa- tion stating the Board’s opinion that action on the bill should be | reportial staff of the Empire dur- | ing her stay ‘here. - ——————— NOTICE The City Council of Douglas has | authorized a re-registration of all qualified voters residing within the city. Registration books will be | open at the office of the City Clerk beginning March 1, 1943, and will be closed March 31, 1943. L. W. KILBURN, adv. City Clerk. 'BARNEY GOOGLE ) THIS IS ONE JOB in which a fellow needs a pair of steady hands and a positive knowledge of what he is doing. These U. S. marines are rendering a Jap bomb harmless after it failed to explode when dropped on a U. S. position on'Guadalcanal: The vhoto was taken before army relieved the marines. (International) AND SNUFFY SMITH |"MR. BUG" IS FULL CARTOON . ALLIN COLOR | 7P rEWTURY Closing Bill at 20th Cen-i fury Is Innovation | in Animation ‘ Mr. Bug Goes to Town" is un- questionably the best of the car- toon features yat produced. It sings. it sparkles, it entertains every min- ute of the way. The story it tells is modern and up-to-date, differing 'from the usual fairy tale we have grown accustomed to expect from | cartoon features The plot of “Mr. Bug Goes to Town" at the 20th Century Theatre |for the last times tonight, is well developed, so full of the in- | gredients of adult entertainment, | lthat it could have befn enacted by { flesh-and-blood actors. It is to the film's great credit that the cartoon| sharacters were so well drawn and 0 cleve animated that at tim 1 \ocne forgets they are not actual| flesh-and-blood people i S0 postponed at least until after the| War ! Discussion of Senate Bill No. 3, concerning the minimum salaries paid to teachers was then taken up. During the afternoon session vester Charles Raatakainen, of Pelican and Henry Roden, of Ju- neau, appeared before the Board oncerning a petition for a mnew| building at Pelican. The took the matter under ad- visement. Today the Board is continuing | education legisla- | - BUGLE, BUGLE WHO'S GOT THE BUGLE, IS CRY Appealing to the patriotism of | the Juneau residents who have in their possession bugles belonging to the local post of the American Legion, Lieut. A, E. Murphy ear- nestly requests that they be turned in so that the now-organizing Army Bugle Corps may have instruments to make the project a success. Lent to the Army by the Ameri- can Legion, the only instruments o far available to make good on the promise are a drum and one bugle, the rest being farmed out to what seem to be anonymous users. Tinstruments may be turned in to Al Zenger, Post Commander, or to the Empire R DRIVER LOSES LICENSE Ruben W. Johnson was arrested last night on a charge of operat- ing an automobile on the Highway while under the influence of in- toxicating liquor. He was tried in the U. S. Commissioner’s Court this morning and fined $100 and his driving license was revoked for a period - of three months. GUADALCANAL MARINES REMOVE BOMB DETONATOR THEATRE ISBOMBING HOUSE KILLS OF U-BOATS LEGISLATION WASHINGTON, March 2—Secre-| questioned bombings of along the northern coast of France| were doing U-boats holed up there b(‘lwctfn‘k'” forays in the Atlantic | Knox, estimating that the enemy by has from 300 to 400 subs available, conditions in post-war Alaska. N6 told the press conference he was|legislator spoke attacking the put- | bombings emphasized which the subs are kept are heav- priated for expenses was a luxury protected.” Asked if there was any evidence |ford. of an increase in the U-boat force, now active in operations in the At-jRep. Willlam A, Egan’s bill lantic, Knox replied that there wasing laws requiring. branding olv no such evidence and added that foxes and prescribing. penalties.for Atlantic | stable lately.” i WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY LAST TIME TONIGHT Plus Two Editions Laié World-llaws “MEET JOHN DOE” EFFECTIVE! ON PLANNING 'Knox Questioned on Value Three Bil Receive Okeh- of Air Raids on Calendar Heavy On [&Eday Members of the House, digging into one of the heaviest calendats oty Wi ithis session, this afternoon hopd F‘::,.:t“::m.: F‘:?:i!fuml action on four . bills, killing sub bases (One and giving the nod to thiee: Rep. Joseph W. Kehoe's bill to to!set up i lecislative planning coufi~ was defeated by a 10-6 vote. Kehoe saild he believed such at agency was needed to help adjust French Coast German any direct damage to say how effective the pose of the bill. Several expressed were “in direct hits” |off-floor opinions that the $30,000 some stalls in|which the bill would have appro- |that the Territory could not Aafs The House unanimously 'passed situation is pretty, violations. §T A One vote was the matgih by Iwhich Rep. Harvey J. Smith's memorial, urging Congress to de- {lay the effective date of Alask :| reapportionment bill, passed., N |voted for it, seveh against it, !memorial urges that thé reappors | tionment of voting districts and the increases in the size of House |and Senate be held off until after the war. A Juneau attorney Grover was asked to speak on a bill wl !would provide for a review by | trict courts of sentences im) ‘comn\lxsioners' courts on pleas (guilty. He said that under the |sent law, abuses may not be reme- !d)«d and that there should be some | review. He added that he th {a provision for review would | commissioners constder sentences | more carefully. | The bill passed by a 12-4 w | after being taken off the against the wishes of its auther, Rep. Kehoe. Kehoe and Represéht- atlves Crystal Snow Jenne, Jesse Lander and Frank Whaley voted iagamst it. * e —————— ! POONA, India, Mirch 2 — With only one more might to survive | without food to complete the 318t |day of his fast, Gandhi continhed today to hold, but he is seeing his last visitors today, At 8 o'clock tomorrow . mq he will return to his status of .4 political prisoney whom no one be permitied to visit. counting firm, returned ymtg with Alaska Coastal Airlines fi a brief business trip to Sitka. - e By BILLY DeBECK WNAAL-ME CAN COLNT ON NE BEW' \ BAK . YOW'RE HOPELESS 40U \NOWT 8O MOREN GET THERE BEFORE THEN'LL SHP NOU BACK ON T NEXT convaN % ! 7% T GUESS MO KNOW YOW'LL HANE TO QE O GOOD SENANIOR \WHEN You GO OJERSERS, SNLFFY - T DONT LIKE TO THROW COLD WHTER BT (F Moy DONT MHEND YOIR WENS MO \WONT GET AN FARTHER THAN (T MMANNERLY AN CINIL-TONGUED R\}?\é\“\‘ SRARGWNT - LEAS TWISE.ONTIL T GUT NN PAWNS ON TWRT Tl WaR REC\PE FER NAKIN! \RISKTHTER SQUELIN'S HERE IS A PREVIEW of what the well-dressed Army nurse will wear in field, street or hospital. The nurses cail the uniforms the tops. Modeling the uniforms are, left to right: Helen Summers of Brooklyn, street uniform; Mary Clarke of Washington, field outfit; Eleanor Aldhizer of Washington, field and street clothes for extreme cold climates; Helen Rennie of St. Louis, street uniform with winter coat; Elizabeth Hunter of Durham, field hospital outfit. and Virginia Johnson of Washington. American hosvital uniform.