The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 5, 1943, Page 3

FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1943 1 | Ellery Queen Untangles a My ‘ when he Jures d ghost from o grave! ADESPERATE CHANCE FOR ELLERY QUEEN ILLIAM GARGAN Margaret LINDSAY CHARLEY. GRAPEWIN LATE NEWS e I ALSO “THE ROYAL MOUNTED PATROL" with CHARLES STARRETT SERIAL-"WHITE EAGLE" Saturday Mat. CAPITO THEATRE THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES BOMBERS OF ALASKA COASTAL ALLIES MAXE "551'55’!&%'&% BIG SWEEP Tanks Léad First Army Passengers leaving Juneau for Excursion Inlet with Alaska Coastal Airlines yesterday afternoon were Roy Stowe, L. C. McKenna, E. C.| Demonan and John Seralie. Re- turning to Juneau with the plane MYSTERY FILM, WITH COMEDY, CAPITOL'S BiLL ”Desperaté Chance for El- lery Queen” Tops Two Feature Program “A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen,” newest in the Columbia series of mystery comedies based upon the crime-hunting exploits of | one of fiction’s most famous de-| tectives, is at the Capitol tonight | with Willlam Gargan, Margaret | Lindsay and Charley Grapewin heading the cast. Familiar to “whodunit” fans for| their performances in earlier Ellery Queen films, the headline trio supported by a top-notch cast which includes John Litel, Jack LaRue, | Frank Thomas, Lilian Bond, Char- lotte Wynters and James Burke, who again is seen as the flat-foot- ed Sergeant Velie. Gargan plays is \Defense Zone Between| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA ICDISH {MINSTRELS OF NAZISRUSH s srero NEW ZONE " gesiackeoup {metics are giving Mrs, Lillian Ug- |gen, director and producer of the RS Rotarians’ Minstrel Show, more |than her e of headaches. What will we use to black the faces of the minstrel cast? In pre- {war days one could always rely {upon the old faithful burnt cork Soissons and Compiegne Under Cons"ucfion Imethod, but not now—with cork on LS ia higher priority than a minstrel LONDON, March 5. — Fighting g0 hag French authorities said today that) . the Germans are rushing construc- tion of a“defense zone between the region of Soissons and Compiegne at the confluence of the Oise and Aisne rivers, in France, 80 miles 5 < R inland from the English Channel. + The minstrel show will be given It is reported that 5,000 French |8t the 20th Century two nights, prisons of war are being used in|March 20 and March 31. the work at the marginal northeast | > Miss Jean Gallagher You'll not see the cast of Ro- {tary Minstrel sans the oldtime hlackface even if we have toscrape ing boats,” s: Mrs. Uggen. the title role with insouciant breez- | iness; Miss Lindsay is seen as the lovely Nikki Porter, secretary to| Ellery and headache to his father. | Grapewin again is cast as the | rough, gruff Inspector Queen “A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen” is a fast-moving mystery | which largely occurs in San Fran- cisco, to which Ellery and Nikki| have gone in their hunt for a miss- ing banker, believed drowned a year ago but reported to be in the coast city. Also on the week-end double bill is “The Royal Mounted Patrol,” a swift-moving story of the Canadian Mounties. - - Mrs. J. W. Malen and Daughter Left for Seattle Last Evening Mrs. J. W. Malen, and her small | daughter, Marjorie, left for the south last night to join Lieut. Com- mander Malen, formerly Executive Officer of the U. 8. Coast Guard cutter Haida. | Mrs. Malen received word of her husband’s transfer from the Haida and left as soon as she was able H were Aramel K. Kruegar, Horatio Forces Repulsing De- jere, Aramel . ruegar, Horatio | ¥ cbtain transportation. She ex- Aligaya and B. Gomez. pects to spend some time on the termined Nazi Attack Today’s Flights passage Wwith Taking ACA for West Coast and later in the spring, "expects to go to Massachusetts to visit her parents. Last year Mrs. Malen moved to Juneau from Sitka and has been making her home at the Assembly Apartments during her stay here Little Marjorie was born at Bt RUHR VALLEY said, “It is obvious that this locality has become a vital key point for an army envisaging withdrawal from the northern coast line.” o§ :ofiffoxxs and another 2,000 west ' IsMarried on Feb. 11 . To Mr. Albert Leiser The Fighting French spokesman Announcements of the marriage in Seattle on February 11, of Miss Jean Elizabeth Gallagher, daugh- ter of Mrs. George Henry Galla- Igher, to Mr. Albert Peter Lelser,, !nx'rived in Juneau this week, and {were received with interest by the Lo many friends of Mrs. Gallagher LONDON, March 5-Royal Air!and her daughter. Force bombers last night smashed! The marriage took place in the targets in western Germany for the :Ch\u'ch of the Epiphany, according ninth consecutive night. {to the announcements. The couple No indication of the targets hit are making their home in Seattle. are given but attacks on western| Mrs. Leiser made her home in Germany are usually aimed at the | juneau with her mother for a Ruhr Valley. | Bumber of years and was employed TS in the United States Attorney's of- SHIP BuIlDING \fice here. She left for the south jabout a year and a half ago and was later joined by her mother lin Seattle where they have lived since M. 5. WHITTIER BACK eiasmaron. Murh 5, amer-| FROM OFFICIAL TRIP Maritime Commission announced to- | e AR day { “M. S. Whittier, Assistant U. S. This brings the total to 233 ships | COllector of Customs, returned to totalling 2,247,000 deadweight m"s‘.]uneau from the southern end of delivered during the first two|the Division after a three weeks' months of this year. |absence on officfal business. _ This exceeds the number of shipsi During his absence, Mr. Whittier built during the first six months of | visited the custom’s offices in 1942, Wrangell, Petersburg and ®Ketchi- - kan. FIRE DEPARTMENT | |the tar off the deck of a few fish- | (Continued from Page One) Bxcursion Inlet today were Emil attacks in the north and 40-ton Lorman, Alex Moomoff, Richard | Churchills are pouring out six- Oornelius, John J. Czyz, William pound shells at the rate of 25 a Furnish, John W. Grimmes, Earl minute, hitting the Axis columns K. Stephen and Joe J. Maretta, with fire | Passengers for Juneau today from Rommel's forces are attempting Excursion TInlet were James L. to stave off the American and Petric, Joseph E. Derosier, Adam British forces crashing the Mareth Line. The Allied forces continue to consolidate recent gains in the! central sector. Rommel’s forces are B. Pecrin, Ernest C. Stewart and E. W. Whitehead. Sitka Flights Today Leaving with Alaska Coastal Air- Ann’s Hospital last summer. A. H. ZIEGLER HERE TO ATTEND MEETING OF EDUCATION BOARD HOLDS REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING With an excellent attendance, the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department |Steel 64, Commonwealth and South- |three children when “everybody up held its regular monthly meeting in virtually back to the point from lines today were Earl Barcus, Clif- where they started the February ford Graham, Gerald Thomas, Al- drive, \vin B. Johnson and William Van | Winkle. Passengers for Juneau from Sit- ka today were W. Lewis, C. B. Finnegan, Stanley Baskin and Harry R. Glover. A large load of air mail and ex- press was taken on the Sitka flights. DON BRADY JOINS FLYING STAFF OF ALASKA COASTAL' Don Brady, well known Alaskan pilot, joined the staff of Alaska Coastal Airlines today, it was an- nounced by Alex Holden, part own- er of the .company. Brady has ‘flown in the Territory for many ENGSTROMS RETURN |years and was recently employed Mr. and Mrs. Elton Engstrom| by Morrison-Knutsen with head- and two children arrived home last |quarters in Anchorage. He was in evening after a combined business'Juneau recently while he was in | and pleasure trip of about two Southeast Alaska on the Gillam months spent in Seattle. They re-!plane search. | port all branches of business very| Mr. and Mrs. Brady and their active in the Puget Sound metropo- 17-month-old daughter arrived here lis and the weather unusually fine|last night from the Westward and for the time of the year. Practi- |will make their home in Juneau.| cally all spring flowers were in They are temporarily staying at the full bloom as they left on their Baranof Hotel. return trip north, they said. D During their stay south, Elton, Jr., attended the Seward grade school and completed the first seJMrS. Emest Parsons mester there with excellent grades.| Re Returns from Two LEO YOUNG BACK | Leo Young, prospector, miner and | DOUGLAS NEWS BOOK CAMPAIGN ENDS Prospective donors of books to the Victory Campaign for benefit of men in. the armed forces are reminded that- the drive is ending tomorrow. The committee in charge is anxious to make as good a showing for Douglas as possible and to simplify matters they ask any- | one having a book they wish to give to notify Mrs. Mark Jensen and arrangements will be made to call for it AV N | former business man of Douglas.] Monihs VIS" Sou'hl moved into the Kilburn Apartments | } this morning to again resume his| Mrs. Ernest Parsons returned last | residence on the Island after ab-|night from a two months’ stay in| sence of several years. Icities on the Pacific Coast. She| s A i ispent some time in Seattle, Port- | {land and San Francisco and, ex-| MRS' R' w' M((RARY lcept for the unusual snow sborm{ (AllED sou'l'“ BY !in Seattle during January, found | {beautiful weather during her ab-| {LINESS OF FATHER sncc s | While she was away she visited | BB |relatives and friends and spent| Mrs. R. W. McCrary, manager of |0 time with her fluught,erl.J Iso- | the Sears Roebuck office here, left [y “ova por con prank. Isobel is | early this week for Seamg where in her first year at the University she was called by the serious ill-! g y the. sexiol jof Washington where she is major- | ness of her father, James Frawley. ing in dramatics and Prank is in Mrs. McOrary's stay in the south the Army Transport Service. | is indefinite as she plans to re-! 1 iy & | main until her father’s condition | permits her to return. | The earth’s surface totals 196,940, ——————— 1000 square miles, almost four-fifths BUY WAR BONDS of it covered by water. i : girl, A. H. Ziegler, attorney of Ket- chikan and member of the Terri- torial Board of Education, arrived here last night to attend the bi- ennial meeting of the board which has been underway since last Mon- day morning. | Mr. Ziegler was delayed in ar- | in abtaining transportation trom the ARCHIE SHIELS IS | HERE ON BUSINESS DANCERECITAL | -TRIP FROM SOUTH | A e ON MARCH 1 ‘y Archie W. Shiels, president and was taken up at the session. | Following the business meeting, the usual get-together was held with refreshments, a delicious buffet sup- per and an enjoyable informal eve- |ning. ‘general manager of Pacific Ameri- g |can Fisheries, arrived in Junean The bad luck ridden dance re- last night on a business trip in cital by pupils of Dorothy Stearns|connection with the company. Roff, has been set.for the Sunday| pe expects to remain in Juneau matinee performance of the 20th for ahout two weeks before return- Century Theatre on March 14. |jng to Bellingham, Wash. Originally planned for several| wmp Shiels said that he could not months ago, the recital has had t0 ¢ this time make any statement be postponed again and again,due {ghoyt company operations during to unexpected emergencies, but the“he coming season, but that he was results should more than make uD !“glad to be home again in Alaska.” for the long delay. In addition to being one of the Costuming for the recital is the ipest known cannerymen in Alaska, most lavish of any ever held, the npy shiels has written several books shoes alone costing over $100, it about Alaska. was stated. Colorful fineries to be & - worn by the children will include national, military, cowboy and cow- and flower costumes. One snowflake number planned for the dead of winter has nevertheless been retained because of the beauty of the dress and of the dance it-| self, it is stated. TIDES TOMORROW BUY WAR BONDS " STOCK QuOTATIONS | {NEW YORK, March 5. — Closing | | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 4'%, American Can| |78%, Anaconda 29%, Bethlehem | jern %, Curtiss Wright 8%, Gener- the Fire Club in the City Hall last al Motors 48%, International Har- crushed to death at his side and night. Considerable routine business vester 64%, Kennecott 32%, New;hls daughters suffered minor in- | | York Central 14%:, Northern Pa- lcific 11%, United States Steel| |54%, Pound $4.04. | Dow Jones averages today are! as follows: industrials 130.61, rails | 32.29, utilities 17.47. | HOSPITAL NOTES | | Col. Frederic Nichols, surgical pa- | | tient at St. Ann’s Hospital, was dis- | charged yesterday and returned to| | his post. i Jeff Eldridge and Gunnar Dags- land are recently discharged medi- | cal patients at St. Ann’s Hospital. ' Mrs. Frank Edwards was dis-| charged from the Government Hos- pital this morning. ! | Kelly Williams left the Govern-l ment Hospital yesterday and re- | turned home. | Jerald Thomas has left the Gov- | ernment Hospital and returned to| | Sitka today by plane. prishet e st The first known globe model of {the world was made in the second PRIDE OF THE BOWERY" IS BILL - AT20TH CENTURY »Eést Side Kids Are Starred| in Story Telling About FCC “Pride of the Bowery” starring! |the East Side Kids, at the 20th Cen- tury Theatre, has as its locale, aj real CCC Camp. Producer Sam | Katzman secured for Monogram the | privilege of using the Thumb Butte! lCcnsen'ntion Camp situated a few| | miles outside of Prescott, Arizona. | i This is the first motion picture/ ever to be made using not only a| |ccc camp background but ac- {ually using a number of the boys |at the camp in the picture. In film ing the picture Monogram Studios | cooperated with the army officers | |at the head of the camp to make | |every detail of the story as auth-| |entic as possible. | | The camp is built in the middle | pr a large forest. Nearby is a large | |artificial lake created by the camp| { themselves, for a swimming, | hoys |hole. A number of beautiful scenes | in the picture were taken on il~1 | shores . . { In “Pride of the Bowery" a gang (of tough kids from New York's Lower East Side sign up to go to' ithe camp to spend their summer| vacation. At first the camp rules don't please them, and they decide {to make over the camp to their |own tastes. No one is more sur | prised than the toughies themselv | to find, by the end of the sum-! (mer, that they are model CCCrs. 120-0DD TOLL " OF KILLED OR " HURT, LONDON | Children,Adults Wiped Out. L in London Shelter | Disaster ' | LONDON, March 5—Two con-| ;smbles have been assigned to each | entrance of all deep subway shel- ters and other precautions have been taken, it was announced to- | day as officials investigated the iLondon shelter disaster of late yes- [terday afternoon. | At least 60 others were injured jduring the German raid and many | families were wiped out as a résult of the shelter disaster. There were about 60 dead children and some adults died standing up. As a re- sult of the extreme pressure, some of the bodies remained in standing positions for 30 minutes. \ Willlam Johnes said he was half- way down the steps toward his iront stopped.” His son Peter was "~ " PAGE THREE WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY GA: MATINEE SATURDAY LENTURY TONIGHT —————— 1:00 P. M. Two Good Feature Pictures 4 Leo GORCEY Bobby JORDAN GEORGE iy MARY HOWARD - ROBERT BARRAT - LYNNE ROBERTS. KANE RICHMOND LATEST EDITIONS WORLD NEWS EVENTS each vehicle used.” Uniform Forms Adopted The Alaska Textbook Commission was authorized to select uniform records and report forms for all | Territorial schools by a unanimous | ® vote. | Freeze Certificates Following a discussion of the 1 ® & & & & o o o o L] o WEATHER REPORT [ X | (U. S. Bureau) . 1- Temp. Thursday, March 4: +@ e Maximum 42, minimum 38. @ e e o 0o 0 00 0 0 0 BERGMANN DINING ROOM ' Opens March 10 under the map- status of teaching certificates of jagement of Mrs. Elida Anderson, men entering the armed forces a | motion introduced by Mrs. Mar- | garet , Harrais, stating “that teach- ing certificates be extended durlng! |such time as the holder may be in! the armed forces or other Federal service occasioned by the war. Cer--‘ tificates to be frozen as of the date of entry into the armed forc- es until honorably discharged.” Action was also taken requiring teachers to comply with certifi- | cation requirements of the Terri-| tory RAF Pilof Downs 4 Planes, 20 Min. | century, B. C. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Juries |NORTH AFRICA, March 5.—-1‘!1(“ 1 RAF. announced today that Al |New Zealand pilot, Flying Officer | Paddy Chambers, 28, had downed four Italian bombers in 20 minutes. | Sighting five Savoia 79's attack- | ing an Allied convoy, Chambers closed in from the rear in his| Spitfire and accounted for all but one of them. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. | - - - 50§ | BINGHAMTON, N. Y.—The re- versed flag fluttering from its pole (atop an aircraft spotter’s shanty denoted distress, but it wasn't the kind that comes droning through the skies. Police, responding to a telephone ST RS S ED. BOARD GETS THROUGH MUCH - BUSINESS THURS. At the sessions of the Territor Board of Education held in th office of the Commissioner of Edu- cation yesterday, the fourth day of the biennial meeting, the action of the Commissioner of Education in requiring all teachers and school janitors to present health certificates each school year was approved unanimously. The Board ruled that the Commissioner had sufficlent authority under Section |report of the distress signal found 1299 C.L.A. 1933 for this action. |three volunteer spotters —two women | An amendment to the transpor-/and a man-— marooned in the small | | | |tatlon rules and regulations, pre- hut. Qutside was an angry bull that ! sented by Mrs. A. J. Nordale, was had butted through a fence surround- adopted which inserts the words|ing the aircraft spotter’s station.| “bodily injury” before the words | The animal had put a direction' liability insurance shall be carried |finder and several chairs out of in the amounts of not less than commission by the time'the police five thousand dollars ($5,000) per {reached the battle scene. pupil and not less than fifty thou-, o TR sand ($50,000) for all pupils for UY WAR BONDS IN | & former manager and operator of the Swedish Coffee Shop in Seat- tle. adv, i | Model LM4 priced at 837.56 3 Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. Phone 6 High tide—1:54¢ am., 182 feet. Low tide—7:50 a.m., -0.9 feet. High tide—1:58 p.m., 19.1 feet. Low tide—8:15 p.m. -3.1 feet. BACK FROM TRIP Mrs. Dorothy Irving has returned to Juneau after a visit in the south extending over the past sev- eral weeks. GOES TO SKAGWAY J. B. Carlyle left last night for Skagway on official business. ——.e—— MOOSE LODGE WILL HOLD MEETING TONIGHT The members of the Moose Lodge will hold a regular session tonight in the Moose quarters and all are requested to attend. ~ BARNEY GOOGLE AND NARD BIRD SMITH- PRIVATE FINNEY WWL “TAKE OVER YOUR DUTIES HERE WHILE oW GO WONME ON & SWORT F\)RLO\\K‘:“ - S04 GOQD-BNE TO MOUR WIFE AND OUNTAN FRIENDS AND REPORT BACK READN TO SAW OVERSERS W ney » SNUFFY SMITH 3 T MBRD BIRD 2 UM SUPPOSED 0 DROP K\ OFF AT TUE RALROAD STETION ..BY e WWERE WHECK MANBE YE'S OUER W T SARN SANIN' 60 LONG TO WS SUODES W, PRIATE FINNEY DOWT LET NOSQDY QARNESS NE UP SN MSTAKE ¥ BILLY DeBECK JUEE——— A Ul A S g < g