The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 4, 1943, Page 3

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1943 TONIGHT— THE RAIDERS ARE RIDING! ROBERT BROD STACK - CRAWFORD Friday—Saturday Ellery Queen balks a miurder William GARGAN- Margaret LINDSAY ORI “Royal Mounted P CHARLES ) atrol” with RETT PREVUE TONITE—12:30 A. M. THEATRE SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU RUSSIAiS ADVANCING ONBASTION Plow Forvv/ard, Menacing Orel Between Central and Southern Fronts (Continued from Page One) Lgosvsky were announced early las! 1 night from Moscow along with the 2 capture of Rzhev. The capture of I Lgosvsky places the Red Army > columns about 45 miles from the 1 Bryansk railway through Konotop ! to Kiey, the Capital of the Ukraine. - — TIDES TOMORROW High tide—1:13 am. 171 feet. Low tide—7:05 am. 02 feet. High tide—1:13 p.m, 189 feet. Low tide— pm., -3.1 feet. - BUY WAR BONDS | ma. NEW "QUEEN" POSER LEADS DOUBLE BILL Capitol Theatre Brings "’Royal Mounted Patrol and Detective Thriller Featuring the “Royal Mounted Patrol,” a swift-moving drama of the we-get-our-man school, and “A Desperate Chance for Ellery Quee is the double bill fare at Homer Garvin's Capitol Theatre for Friday and Saturday nights. Ellery Queen, super-sleuth of radio, fiction and screen, returns to the screen in Columbia’s “A Des- perate Chance for Ellery Queen,” latest in the thrill-packed series of detective comedies. William Gargan plays the title role, with Lindsay continuing as his lovely, crime- Other familiar: Grapewin, as In- James Burke again ley Queen, and Velie. csperate Chance for Eller; Queen” was directed by James Ho an, one of filmdom’s better fabri itors of act and ad i Suppe uch apak Litel, Lili on, Jack Le ‘Thoma. The tivit new film has set in and Nikko go in qu believed wned San which El ker the brough the bar s to locate The case i instigation of In their effol man and learn the reasons for sterious disappearance, they one of the of mystery and crime » the screen, accord- wsiastic Hollywood re- er’s wife the m; become ngled wildest web: en in S eee - ALLIES PUT PINCERS ON AXIS FORCES Both Ends of Tunisian Front Being Closed- Contact Patrols (Continued from Page One) Pass, indicating that Rommel is surrendering all his gains at the center in the interest of gaining greater security to the south, fol- lowed the announcement that the nearby town of Sidi Bouzid was reentered by the United States forces without opposition. - e - WHITEHEADS TO RETURN It is reported that Dr. W. Fed Lady Movie ~ BIGCONVOY | * THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Diredor Is ~ WIPEDOUT, BILLIS PASSED ‘Now on Job By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD —Merle Oberon and Carl Esmond stand at a hos- pital doorway, waiting to go into their scene. From behind the camera a voice. gentle but carrying authority, s “Start.” After the scene the sam {voice s “Cut.” It's the most un- usual director’s voice in Hollywood because it belongs to a woman, the only woman director in town, Dor- |othy Arzner. Miss Arzner has been that—the only woman director—since 1927, when she made Esther Ralston’s first starring picture, “Fashions for Women.” These are times when women more and more are stepping nto men’s jobs, but so far there has' been no great rush of appli- ants for the job of directing pic- tures. There probably never will he, because directing—with all its riefs and day-to-day problems, to nothing of its physical strains— of the jobs least likely to be pted by women From this you would expect Dor- thy Arzner to look like an Ama- zon, with a fog-horn voice and at cast some semblance ¢i a hatchet- e to frighten actors into line Actually, she is a completely gentle, ccmpletely feminine woman, small and trimly attractive. Concessions to her job are her close-cropped nair, now handsomely touched with |gray, and her neatly tailored suits | Behind her camera or desk she has |the forcefulness of a person who lknows her job. Away from it. She |is retiring, almost shy. I suspect that one of the main reasons for her success is that she has never asked allowances for be- longing to the weaker sex. She |came up the hard way—from stu- dio typist on through the mills of writing, holding script, assisting the tilm editor or cutter, editing, assist- ant-directing on to her own job as director. T haven't given any particular thought to why other women haven't become directors,” ’'she ‘but I suppose it's because nowadays the picture industry is 50 much bigger. When I started it was small, the studio was a closely knit family, and I had a chance to learn all the technical details that go into picture-making.” Miss Arzner now is directing a psychological -action picture, “At- tack by Night,” It features Com- mando raids and such. Many direc- tors turn over such action stuff to “second units,” b'ut Miss Arzner intends to direct her own. Arzner. sets always have a quiet atmosphere, probably because crew men feel more than usually re- strained in language and behavior. | But Dorothy Arzner says the “nicest ‘complimem" she ever had came SEA BATTLE 1Ten Warships, 12 Irans—i ports Sent Down in Bis- marck Sea Fight (Continued from Page One) 90,000 Tons Lost Centinuing, the communique says | | ‘he destroyed ships represent a | 'tonnage estimated at approximately | 90,000 tons. All are sunk or sinking. { | His air coverage of this maval force |* |has been decimated and dispersed. | JUNEAU ALASKA W AR POWERS SUSPENSE AND THRILLS FAST INF.B. L PLOT BY SENATORS ety Game” at 201 The Senate, by one vote, this afternoon passed the war powers bill written by the Department of the Intesior, vesting a wide variety of powers in the Governor of Al- aska over matters pertaining to “health ) and welfare” of armed for in Alaska. 1adors Frank S. Gordon, Her- bert H. McCutcheon, A. H. Nordale, Arth o+ P. Walker and Norman R. Wa'£er voted for the bill. Senators O. /'D. Cochran, Edward D. Coffey ard Stewart L. Stangroom voted nst it The measure was discussed pro Fifty-five of the enemy planes have nd con on the floor along the been shot out of combat and many | others damaged. “The original convoy of 14 ships. was joined during the afternoa.i by eight other vessels. Jam Attack From Air “Our Air Force, of all categcries, ket constantly attacking through- | cut the day and ship after ship was hit again and again | with heavy bombs from low altitndes. 'he enemy air coverage became did not same line. Senator A. P. Walker enter into the discussion. The bill must now go to the House for consideration D IRIS GRAY GIVES CONCERT, MOSCOW much weaker, his forces more.’ scat- tered, then dispersed. Finally his| remnants, isolated and bewilldered, gradually were annihilated by our |decisive air formations as we sent them into combat. | “Our decisive success cennot fail| |to have most important, results on {the enemy’s strategic tacgical plans.” | > AT8 KILLED - INSTAMPEDE RAID ALERT LONDON, Mairch 4.—At least 178 | persons were killed and 60 injuved |in 'an accident ‘at the entrance of |a London subway shelter at an air |raid alert tonight. | Paople were | suffocated in a great | heap after a woman tripped on the stairs and the following crowds | piled up. ! The Ministry of 'Home Security | |issued a statement tonight that | {there was “no sign of a panic be fore the accident.” | No bombs fell anywhere in the district. | FIRST AID CLASS FOR NURSES’ AIDES 10 START MONDAY' A Red Cross First Aid Course. known Juneau and Mrs. J. L. Gray, recently gave a concert in Moscow, Idaho, before the Music Club of that city and received the following high notice in the Mos- CowW newspaper: Miss Iris Gray appeared members of Moscow Music Club last night for the first time with the lecture-recital of recorded mu- sic she gave at the home of Mus. Harrison C. Dale. Miss came to the University of Idaho this year from Oregon State College and is working for her master’s degree. Stating that recitals of this type are diflicult since there is no in- térest outside the music, no charm- ing person to look at or clothes to comment on, Miss Gray in an informal way proceeded to hold the 40 women in a near trance during the fairly long program of cor tions. The plan was to play a song, an orchestra numbver and piano selec- tion from each composer. Befor each of the three groups Miss G gave a short history of the com- poser’s life and work, and briefly described the numbers to be heard. During the playing, Miss Gray passed around her collection of European post cards, concerning he life of Beethoven, from his Iris Gray, well daughter of Mr before v Tne birthplace to pictures of his death mask. The program comprised: Johann Sebastian Bach, La viella annee est passee; - Bien-aime, Jesus, nous voici; Bist du bei mir; and Sonata for flute and harpischord. Ludwig von Beethoven, Leonora's recitative. and aria from “Fideli,0” Bagatelle, Opus 119, No. 11 and Coriiolan overature. Johannes Grahms, Feldeisamkeit, books = to Excursion from an electrician: “When I go in connection with the 20-hour | Bellade in D minor (Edward) and afternoon. Ihome from this set,” he said, “I Red Cross Nurses' Aide Course will |Academic Festival overture. + | never wrangle with my wife. Some- pegin on Monday evening at 7:30 Whitehead, wife and three chil-|times after a day on other sets my oclock in the Health Center at, dren, expect to return to Juneau from Virginia, sometime in Sep- tember. . - D Empire Classifieds Pay! " A RED TRAITOR MEETS THE A RUSSIAN PEASANTS, both men After he was the outskirts of the village and shot out to the enemy. 2 5% and women, nerves are shot and I'm so jumpy ihe Territorial Building, it was an- | b T'm not fit to live with.” . — | | Musicians Dance, March 6. adv. FIRING SQUA beat one of the members of their village who sold thoroughly gone over by his former friends he was marched to to death (bottom) by a firlng squad. (International) 'nounced today by Mrs. Fred Gees- | |lin. Mrs. Rose Schneider will teach | |the course. | Bacause of the great interest |shown in Nurses' Aide work, third class is now being planned ‘ | Those who wish to enroll may | | write or call Mrs. Harley Turner, iafi,ernoons or evenings, at blue |440 for application blanks. i The new class will be taught by |Mrs. Andy Gunderson and will bo! :s;larted as soon as enough applica- jtion blanks are turned in. | — e |Canteen Unit Three Serves_EJncheon | About 65 Juneau residents in- cluding some representation from Douglas, availed themselves of the ' opportunity for an out-of-the-or- dinary meal today and appeared at the Canteen luncheon served at inoon in the social rooms of the {Northern Light Presbyterian | Church. . The initial large-scale project | for Canteen Unit 3 under the tutel- {age of Mrs. John McLaughlin, pro- !duced an excellent meal of beef stew, fruit salad, rice pudding, hot buttered bread and coffee. All foods ‘Stl‘ved were purchased and pre- | pared by members of the group of | “12 regular class members and four | returning. students. | R more than $65,000,000 on harbor improvements. Since the French acquired Casa- anniversary anca 35 years ago they have spent system of astronomy. Century Stars Charles Farrell, June Lang Mystery, intrigue and excitement are the keynotes of Monogram’s The Deadly Game,” action melo- drama starring Charles Farrell and June Lang now at the 20th Century Theatre. The picture is a wide-awake ex- pose of spy activities in the United States, and the counter-espionage work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Although the picture sacrifices none of its entertainment value and is paced for action and suspense, it smashes home a message of tre- mendous importance in these event- ful, news-making day “The Deadly Game” is a story of Barry Scott, Federal Bureau of Investigation Agent, played by Charles Farrell, who is assigned to protect Dr. Reisner. A brilliant sci- entist, Reisner has perfected an instrument to detect night air raid- ers. This is an important defense factor important in fact that Nazi undercover agents already have made one attempt to kidnap Reisner and learn the secret of his invention Despite Scott’s precautions, Reis- ner is kidnapped by the spy ring and the F. B. I. man is faced with the dangerous task of learning the scientist’s whe houts and unmask- ing the leader of the Nazi agents. - ALASKA COASTAL MAKES FLIGHTS TO SITKA, EXCURSION Leaving Juneau for Excursion In- esterday afternoon with Alaska tal Airlines were L. Lopez, Macario V. Horo, O. K. Kreuger, B. R. Riley, L. W. Mason. Those returning to Juneau with the plane were Thomas H. Ellison, J. E. Alex- ander, Frank Orinello, John Lind- berg, Richard Peck and B. Taley. Tod: Flights Leaving Juneau this morning with ACA for Sitka were Edward Littlefield, John C. Ohrt, V. Mor- row, Sophie Harris and E. M. God- dard Arriving in Juneau from Sitka were Paul Audett,. Kathleen Jef- frey, J. Jeffers and Mrs. Al Kess- ler. Outgoing passengers with ACA for Excursion Inlet were R. Baier, E. W. Whitehead, Roy Stowe, L. C. McKenna and E. C. Demorran. | Those coming to Juneau on the return flight were Rev. W. H. Matthews, Jr., Joseph A. Godfrey and Franklin Coolbaugh. An additional flight was on the Inlet this S0 ——————— The year 1943 marks the 40th of the Copernican .- - Empire Classifieds Pay! WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY IO [N TURY SPECIAL OWL SHOW ENDS TONIGHT! Shows at 7:20-9:30 TONIGHT—12:30 A. M. WHEN SECRET ENEMIES STRIKE! 4 In the shadows of the nation's capitol,F.B.1. undercover men wage a desperate battle against ruthless foreign agents... who stop at nothing to car- ry out their deadly plans! Charles ' FARRELL June LANG with JOHN MILJAN BERNADENE HAYES and TEX RITTER in ‘Ridin’ the Cherokee Trail® WOULD CONSIDER APPOINTMENTS ONNEXTMONDAY A resolution introduced in the Senate this afternoon by President O. D. Cochran sets next Monday at 2 pm. as the time for a joint session of both houses to consider appointments made by the Gov- ernor. The following appointments have been made: To the Unemployment Compen- sation Commission—George Vaara of Anchorage, Anthony Zorich of Ketchikan, Ernest F. Jessen of Fairbanks. To the Board of Public Welfare —Mrs. Clara J. McCutcheon of An- chorage, John H. Walmer of Ju- neau. R COUNCIL WILL HOL] MEETING ON FRIDAY Routine business will be tran-| sacted at the City Council meeting tomorrow night in the City Hall chambers. .- 'Y WAR BONDS Women Trained as ‘‘Lube’ Experts N What was probably their initial “worm’s-eye view” of a | experienced instructors, these girls were trained to be motor car was-the laboratory course for the 23 young |fully qualified “lube” experts. On graduating, all went to women in Chevrolet’s first lubrication school for women, | work at once in West Coast Chevrolet dealerships. Simi WEY,NARD B\RD ¥ PILE OWTTR TAST BUNK — NOUW'RE MOV Y | " BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH held recently in Oakland, Cal. Under the direction of | lar schools are to be held in other areas. BY JEEPERS Y. T KNOWED \NAAL- BLESS YORE BONES, COUSI\N 7D COME MKE T\ - QL. OF & SUDDENTY * D GWE A EYE TEOF 1O KNOW ANANTRER TUEN \WAY A P\FR\(\(‘L&R RNSTRALR 7 SWPPWN ME “THE PARSON OF | PANAMINT” DECISIVE WINS IN INTER-CLASS PLAY Wins have been decisive in the two games«so far played o' the interclass basketball schedule | of the Juneau High School, with the Juniors taking the Senlors 17 to 3, and the Sophs carpetbagging the Frosh 24 to 3. Six games remain to be played lon the double round for the ama- teurs, as well as the final playoff to determine the winner of the experience-building sertes. h ————————— s UY WAR BONDS | —— — “n | Model LM4 priced at $37.50 | Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. Phone 6 By BILLY DeBECK PIICH MOWRSELE Q PUP TENT, SNIFFY W MAJOR \S ONIN STANAN'