The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1943, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1943 STAGGERING ... IN GRANDEUR! | QRIPPING...IN ADVENTURE! TENDER....IN ROMANCE! Clarence Budington ent —ALSO— MINNESOTA LATEST NEWS JAQ T IAS TiiZ THE CAPITOGL I $25 REWARD For information leading to the ar- rest and conviction of the party or | BIG PICTURES American Essay parties who ke into my cabin at the end of Eagle m\vjr Road | AwardS Made to and stole tools and other articles. | adv FRED JACOBSON. | LO(aI S'udenis d IR { Prohibiting the use of tin in! " repairing certain small-type gas| Local winners in the nation-wide meters will save more than 125|American essay contest sponsored shsly rh Akt T Goar |annually by Auxiliaries of the tons of American Legion were announced ' APACHES ARE ONWARPATH IN FAST FILM "Valley of the Sun” at Capitol Theatre High Quality Drama Romance under the shadow {an Apache uprising in the terri torial days of the old Southwest lis the story of the Lucille Ball- ;Jnmrs Craig starring drama, “Val- |ley of the Sun,” based on the story ,by Clarence Budington Kelland, and opening tonight at the Capi- tol Theatre. Miss Ball has the colorful role of a restaurant-keeper in a littie desert town, and Craig that of an adventurous Army scout who |single-handedly trying to avert an |Indian massacre. His efforts only |get him into trouble with the Army {authorities, and it is while endea- {voring to straighten things out that he meets Miss Ball, learns she !is about to marry an unscrupulous |Indian agent, and decides he will |interfere and marry the girl him- | self | With much of its footage taken lin picturesque scenic spots among ithe New Mexico mountains, and {with whole tribes of Indians tak- ing part in the exciting sequences (of the picture, “Valley of the Sun” is said to be one of the season’s most memorable offerings. Dean Jagger plays the scheming agent, and the cast includes such favorites as Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Billey Gil- bert, Peter Whitney, Tom Tyler and Antonio Moreno. SUGAR GIVES L0 DOWN ON WORKING INNIGHT CLUBS She Watches Over Other Girls-Ready fo Act when | i Freshness Displayed By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD-—Miss Sugar Geise, a night club queen, gave me the lowdown today on Sugar in| her element. “I just love it,” she said. “I love night club work and I think it's| more fun than pictures.” | For two years and nine months, | | | | { | | is of | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA ~ SomeSugarfor the Boy | e | | | By RAY PEACOCK | AP Features Writer | | | NEW YORK. — Betty Garrett |made her debut in musical comedy when she was the third blonde from the left in the infant’s ward |of a hospital in St. Joseph, Mo. | When S.he cried, she was & basso. | profundo, and she gave the nurses hysterics. | Today the grown-up Betty, who i hit C above middle C and is treat to the eye as well as the is one of the reasons why Michael Todd has struck gold with new musical, “Something for the Boys.” An added starter in a brilliant |cast headed by Ethel Merman, |Betty is the extra cup of coffee, the nylon stockings, the second spoonful of sugar that Mr. Todd ‘has conjured up in these days of i rationing. She was given one of the songs |which had been left over after |Miss Merman and her leading man, Bill Johuson, had received their |quota. It’s called “I'm in Love With a Soldier Boy,” and she sings it | HEY, GOOD LOOKIN' appropriately’ reads the title of the song Betty Garrett studies while waiting her turn on stage. "~ PAGE THREE 'NEW KIND OF " COMEDY COMES 10 20TH CENTURY WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY o [JOENTURY e Starls OWL SHOW TONIGHT 12:30 a.m. Tonite @ | s. ; "Misbehav}EHusbands’ | Gives Another Angle to Marriage Stafe To those who are just a bit we of hearing of marriage problems. {the new Producer’s Releasing Cor-! | poration comedy, “Misbehaving | Husbands” will come as manna| trom heaven for here Jel Buell, the| producer and William Beaudine, the | director, have conspired to put to- |gether a merry mixture which| | treats the enternal triangle ques- ition in an altogether unique and |dafly way. From beginning to end,' { this laughfest which opens an en- | gagement at the 20th Century E'Ihezm'n tonight refuses to be ser- {ious for one moment, providing the| | audience with gay and frivolous en- | ! tertainment all the time. | | Usually most comedy about mar-| !riagc has to do with newlyweds, | contering around the time-worn | the bride's cooking and | | angles of | the groom’s excitement upon learn. ing that he is soon to become a | father. The problems of coping I with the in-laws also a standby that | must never be ignored. | But in “Misbehaving Husbunds"[ | Cea Sabin and Vernon Smith have| thrown all the old chestnuts over board and in their place have con- cocted a slightly insane set of sit- lty says, “but we had fun before | Uations and a dozen novel twists {too. Mother and T and the cat Which make the story refreshing jused to live with two other girls A4 totally different. [ lin one room. She cooked for all| of us on an electric plate. We had ,ver and a 5-gall -gallon b no ironing board and I used to sit g155 Jocated by ::e Coasrtenck::r;veor: jon the floor, my legs spread out, pincoln Island. Efforts are now be-| But when we collected $1.95, The cable chain on the scow Meh- | enough for a new ironing board, we |cer was found severed and looked spent it on a show instead.” as though it had been hacked, Now she and her mother have searchers declared. an apartment. But they still have — e e Amer. Legion s HIGHWAY SEARCH | One Year Older; BY COAST GUARD = Party Is Given| . ARE CANCELLE o D From 35 to 40 members of the Wy WILLAM BEKIDINE RCA Reconding. ‘"AMONG THE LIVING ‘ THEATRE —— American Legion and the Auxiliary B 2 were present at last night's birth- Hope has been abandoned for|qay pfln¥ given by the Auxiliary recovery of the Diesel tug High- and held in Union Hall, "both took exception to A. P. Wi A p WAlKER jer’s romark, and Coffey said he a L] not think that any Senator should t |illary president. Subject for this year's contest is “Making day by Mrs. Al Zenger, local Aux- | {two shows a night, seven nights a| 7 lweek, the indefatigable Sugar has America | peen lending her unrationed en- |thusiasm and art to the floor show in at N. T. Gs. She leads the cuties Y'S COLDS Relieve misery fast —externally. Rubon | Strong First with such appeal and feeling you would swear it's straight from the heart. ) “It's funny,” Betty, award of $3.50 says the way, together with its crew of, Following a fine dinner of ham, be vindicative, that all should cots {seven which left Skagway for Ket- potato salad, pies, coffee and inci L atiot theaoives with . {R4=UORGEY chikan on February 5, with the dentals, the huge birthday cake| ‘decorum." scow Mercer No. 1 in tow. The was cut and served. Ornamented | - ———— |Highway, owned by sthe Public with the Ameriean Legion emblem . !Roads Administration and assigned {to E. W. Elliott, Alaska Division |contractors last year, was presum- ably lost on or about February 7 ,8nd embellished with roses and | other decorations, the cake was un- | usually attractive. Bridge, pinochle and singing by AT H. RODENAIR FORCES TOO MANY home-owners insure their homes for the original value instead of the present - day replacement cost. Vicks poRuB | | prize | War | Robert Savikko of Douglas, ‘(‘mmmure composed of Mrs. W. | H. Matthews, Jr., Mrs. C. L. Pope- {joy, and Mrs. F. F. Cameron. The two winning essays will be |sent to Ketchikan to compete with |others submitted districts | throughout the Territory, the Ter- | ritorial winners in twin being sub- | mitted in - competition with the from rangément with respect to finals Territorial winners. D the 'KAISER MOVES INTO AIRWAYS MANUFACTURE | Adequate. financial pro- tection is the best service of fire insurance. Insure for today’s value so that you can rebuild if your home burns down. Consult this Hartford agency about it! Shattack Agency INSURANCE—BONDS JUNEAU NEW YORK, March 17—Henry| | Kaiser, steel and magnesium mak- ier, was today named chairman of | the Board of Directors for the | Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, |in a new expansion of interests in- |to the field of airplanes. | The move made the nation'’s No. '1 shipbuilder a major figure in the 'aircraft industry. He had already | acquired control of a smaller air- ! plane building concern. In a statement concerning the {new management, Brewster said: © “The new board will take office Tective at once.” Rear Admiral Kraus of the U. S. ‘Navy Bureau of Aeronautics has + issued a statement which said that the move had the complete en- jmet her today. She was on a movie | she got her chance in a show like |set, playing the ex-girl friend of|thjs which has Cole Porter songs of | this being a : 5 | States' winners for the national|, award. Mrs. Lillian L. King | Ketchikan is responsible for” ar- ject anything else. Savings stamps went to Pat on the floor, sings and dances, and Davis, Juneau, and second prize of [serves as a sort of aide-de-gag to $2 in War stamps was awarded to|the m. ¢, Mr. Nils T. Granlund t h e | himself. | !awards being made by a judging| “And I haven't missed a show| in all that time—I love it!” she said. | | | Sugar, a pretty blonde with blue-; grey eyes and a customer smile, wasn't in the floor show when I/ John Wayne in “Free For All.” Su-| gar was wearing a skirt and a plaid | blouse, with a ribbon in her hair,| wild west beer parlor| and she playing a dance hall girl.| Sugar used to dance in pictures| —she’s been in show business since | she was three and Sugar since she} was seven—but she didn’t get any- where much until she discovered!| night club work. Then pictures dis-| covered her, and she works in both.| “I don’t need much sleep, anyway,”| she said. | At the night club Sugar, as the| boss's aide, watches out for and over the other girls. If one of them is forgetting to keep the old smile on, it's Sugar who maneuvers by her during the number and whispers the reminder. Even a casual night clubber knows that the girls have to smile while they work, even when the smile looks frozen. Sugar says that's because girls generally look prettier when they smile, and be- sides they ought to look as if they're having a wonderful time, which they are. Sugar doesn’t tumble to any suggestion to keep a dead pan oxpression, just for contrast. She even hinted darkly that with some «¢irls it's a real achievement to pro- Sugar knows about wolves in the house from the mash notes they| orsement of the Navy Pepartment. send, frequently with gifts, but the eal hazards in her work are the| drunks—the bright boys who de- vide they’ll show off with the show. Heiple i het !cfl Cl?”‘k h]")?'V"“I‘r.u:u' Ralston Island, in Lynn Can- Bert Lybeck were enjoyed by those premly,_ because my boy fnnnz‘li“1 according information re- Present, with bridge prizes going ool e g Mn',rl ived here. to Mrs. Olaf Bodding and Jean | Search Ended | Wallis, highj' and Mrs. Jean Wallis A complete search, made under 2nd Lester Rinck, low. the direction of the office of the Bh' pinochle awards were re- Captain of the Port of Junenu.lfie" by Mrs. Andrew Hildre and which began on February 12, when ‘Mrsml)a'e:e]l_‘m;:;k:m'd Andi oy, %o the scow Mercer No. 1 was found ™ pro mr’; o “l" ! Zenger. on Ralston Island by a U. S. Coast | - ‘Darwin Hoel and Mrs. Bert . Pty o gk A | Lybeck were in charge of arrange- uard vessel, was ordered .xban-;m(_ms for the party ned today, pending discovery of ik further leads as to the ve «l's whereabouts, it was announced NORWEG'A"S SINK Lieut. Warren Caro, Captain of to Overnight Success Five feet two, with blue eyes and ash-blonde hair, Betty is some- thing of an overnight success, but it took six years of waiting and going hungry and appearing in a distressing number of flops before c any 5- and a book by Herbert and Doro- thy Fields. Her only fame before seemed to come from that genteel ihe Port. Pullman car strip-tease she did in The Highway was last sighted by | 2 E"EMY VESSEI.S “Railroads on Parade” at the New ihe Eldred Rock Light Station | York World's Fair.” Born in St. Joseph, she spent most of her childhood in Seattle When she finished high school, her widowed mother suggested a fling at New York. So they packed up their cat and came east. That was in 1936. Betty got down to business with the Ameri- can Youth Theater, doing "about n a high northerly wind was | prevailing. f At the time the Highway left > i skagway the temperature was said| LONDON, March 17. — British to be 18 degrees below zero and |light naval forces manned by Nor- a gale with a velocity of 75 miles |wegians, sank two enemy supply lan hour was reported. |ships in a daring raid on the Names of those aboard the ill- |Norweglan Fjord Flore harbor last fated vessel at the time it wnslSunday, the Admiralty announced lost are not available at thistonight. vk IN DARING RAID 20 small shows. Her first real show was with Orson Welles' time in Juneau. It is believed that the vessel was | One large supply ship broke in two and sank immediately. Mercury Theater. Her part was an off-stage baby cry. either iced in or struck a sub-| The other victim was a medium merged rock. |size craft and burst into flames Chorine and Clerk i The Search and Salvage and was séen sinking later. She got experience and , she| The search, which began immed-| Both ships were torpedoed. worked as a singer and chorine | iately upon report of the scow be-| The shore. batteries opened up in night clubs. Once in a while |ing found, was conducted by Coast on the raiders' vt their fire was she clerked in stores. Then the |Guard patrol vessels based at Skag- |ineffective, " youth group tackled a more pre- | Way, Petersburg and Juneau. It tentious show, “Of V We smnglmvompassed the entire Lynn Canal ¢ ¢ e'e o eie e oo which drew some Broadway trade |4rea and particular search was o WEATHER REPORT about a year ago. She had a bet- |made in the vicinity of Ralston, o . (U. 8. Bureau) ter'part in “Let Freedom Sing, |Lincoin and Shelter Islands. ® Temp. Tuesdny, March 16: which also attempted Broadway | Vessels also combed = Stephels o . maximum 43, minimum 23. last fall, but failed. | Passage,” Froderisk:, Soundy ORI ( "ol gRVgnEI T LT, Max |ham Straits, together with all in- dsongon, say, Hev hbwever, |, bays and coves of these areas, and arranged an audition with i Colb . Porter. BHe. wiks Bt 'inlo f(t;rln:;ually from February 12 until 4 “Something for the Boys” as an| packout panels for the portholes| The weekly - Well Baby Confer- understudy to Miss Merman, but snq a gray life raft, which may ence will'be held tomorrow, Thurs- soon showed she was too good for nhave belonged to the Highway were day, from' } to 4 pm., in the Ju- that. i reported found on the east side of neau Health: Center, the public “All this attention is fun,” Bet- Lincoln Island and balf a hatch|health nurse said today. e g WELL BABY. CONFERENCE HITTING OUF, NORTH AFRICA (Continued from Page One) (Continued trom Page One) { SBaid Walker, “He, (Roden), has accused everyone eise of using their |offices for political purposes. I |want to put him on the spot.” | The Senate, resolved into a com- | mittee of the whole, got as far as yoohern Tunisia. Heavy rains are Auditor's Office discussing e i falling, the appropriations bill this morn-, ppe British PFirst Army patrols ing, and were to continue work on yentyred out and inflicted casusl- |the bill this afternoon | ties .niorth ‘of ‘the ‘Cilaa. odals" skl Sticks to Statement also made some contact with enemy Walker asked Roden about his re-!tancs the results of which are nat h announced. port in whi he stated that the i'n-rmmy.w not getting its full |money’s worth out of the Attorney General’'s Office. Roden said he would stick by that statement, but | added, that if some bills now pend- | ls Come s now pena-| - Ru H, WILLIAMS THIS ing ar ssed, 3 C ve plenty o do. o " YEAR; HE'S 85 NOW | Roden explained that he had | mTwo birthday parties honored R. |asked for a small increase for the ¥ williams' 85th birthday this salary of a clefk, and also an in-| year and surely at 85 one is efl= |crease to bring law books Up (0 titled to more than one birthday date. The House Ways and Means gelebration. | Committee, as well as the Senate on Sunday, March Tth, | Finance Committee, has approved gnd Mrs, R. H. Williams ente Izhe Attorney General’s appropria- a¢ dinner for Lieut. Williams’ fathe | tion. {er at their apartment at the Bar~ | Walker asked Roden if he Was anof and on the following Sunday, |sincere in his report, and Roden My and Mrs. Leonard Holmquist | replied, “as sincere as you are ask- were hosts at dinner at their home |ing these questions.” /in his honor. | Senator O. D. Cochran then| At both parties, those present lp | stated that he thought the Leglea-;addmcn to the honor guest were | ture fully appreciated the value of Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Mr. and the Attorney General of the Terri-| Mrs. Holmquist and Representative tory and his services. He asked and Mrs. C. A. Roust. Mrs. Holmi~ | unanimous consent that the Com-iqum is the former Florence Wil- | mittee pass on to the next item on|liams and Mrs. Rouse, whose hus- the budget. Walker objected. band is a member of the Motion Carried ‘ture from the Second Division, was Then Senator N. R. Walker| Belva Willlams until her marriage moved that the Commottee pass onfm Nome last year. Ay to the next item and the motion| _Two birthday cakes and two was carried. day dinners will make his Senator A. P. Walker then stat-|birthday anniversary one Mr. Wil- ed, “there seems to be a swum!linms will remember—and the Ejn- roller around here.” | pire will hemember and correct its - TWO BIRTHDAYS FO 3 1 PIANO TUNING H. J. BAKER GASTINEAU HOTEL or ALASKA MUSIC SHOP “You never know what they're| z0ing to do,” said Sugar. “Like| when one of the girls was sitting | on the rail during a number, and 1 fellow reached up from a table 'o untie her bra. You've got to et there fast. Another time a’ Irunk tackled a girl's ankle and | aid she couldn't get away, no mat- ‘ er what. I ran over and said to| et go, fast, or I'd have him put out. He let go, fast. And once I was against the rail for a jockey | aumber and a customer reached upi and unzipped my panties from be- | lind—and that would Be the night | [ forgot my underpanties! What a oari” BARNEY GOOGL NOTICE!? PLEASE PAY ALL ACCOUNTS DUE THE CASE LOT GROCERY AT FEM- MER'S TRANSFER, next door to the store or mail to P. 0. 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