The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1943, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31 SHE’S GOT RHYTHM! HE'S GOT RHYTHM! &, Everybody’s got rhythm in this —Plus— PICTURE PEOPLE LATEST NEWS , 1943 JACKIE COOPER BONITA GRANVILLE George Bancroft Robert Benchley RKO-Redio Picture ADMISSION ADULTS $1.10 SERVICE MEN CHILDREN 55¢ — JUNGLE MUSIC T0 MODERN IS IN CAVALCADE "Syncopation,” America’s' Musical History, Opens Tonight at Capitol Rotar THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA 20th CENTU v Minstrel RY THEATRE - Wednesday-Thursday — Mareh 31-April 1 Proceeds to be used in adding NEW BOOKS to the CHILDREN’S SECTION of the PUBLIC LIBRARY and to continue ROTARY'S project of SUPPLYING RECREATIONAL EQUIPMENT TO ISOLATED ARMY CAMPS. United Stafes Bbs Hit u e TICKETS NOW ON SALE BY ALL ROTARIANS DraftBlows Hot Among Moyie Stars By ROBBIN COONS ! HOLLYWOOD. — When Rooney’s studio filed an appeal for nda Airfield Mickey i /GRAND OPENING OF ROTARIANS' - MINSTREL HERE 14 | | | | §Doors Open Tonight ' 1:30 o'Clock—Cur- iain» i 8:15 his draft deferment as a vital em-| Tonight marks the opening bf |ploye (he was later deferred after one of , the biggest and blackest {taking a physical exam) it muy‘Minstre, Shows ever to thrust ite have put Mickey in the middle but self on an unsuspecting Juneew it also brought out in the UPe“—inudlencc. With a cast running ¢ Painting a viv picture of Am- erican life over a quarter of a cen- tury against the colorful back- ground of the growth of “rag-tim into “swing,” “Syncopatior pre- THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES ALLIES ARE CLOSING IN ON 3 §i Desert FoxiAppears fo Be Caught in Tight Snare Now (Continued from Page One) TR thrown up trenches and other de- fenses, compelling Rommel to con- fine his retreat almost entirely to the coastal road flanked by the sea at a distance of only about fiv miles on the east, and desert marsh- es on the west. ‘The British Navy active along the EIGHT ARMY MENKILLED, EXPLOSION Accident Takes Place at Camp Swift During De- molition Exercises CAMP SWIFT, Texas, March 31. —One lieutenant and seven enlist- ed men of an engineering regiment were killed, one enlisted man was serlously injured and four others less seriously injured, by an ex- plosion here, Col. L. A. Kurtz, camp commander announced. The explosion occurred during « aemolition exercises. too, has been t —-—— Crete, Mediterranean isle, is twice the York's Long Island. A -ty Recently landed U. 8. tan ed to the Tunisian front, some of them being Yurnea ALASKA SOLDIERS 10 SEE RED CROSS PLAY ON EASTER ning hundreds of Am- stationed at isolated will find church day a bit more of the Easter \laska that ssive because to be pre play ted by the Ameri- can Red Cross. Acting on a request from an Army post in the Alaska area, rican Red Cross field directors Fort Lawton have planned the ster plays for the northern posts. More and more spiritual comfort is demanded by American fighting I stationed where they are faced by the grim realities of war. The cooperation of volunteers at the Seattle-King County Chapter of American Red Cross was sought by Field Director Albert Whale at Fort Lawton and a suitable play selected from a list checked by Pcst Chaplain Thomas J. Conroy (of the Fort. Chaplain Conroy re- quested the opinion of the School of Drama of the University of | Washington in choosing the play. In a very short time the work had n completed and the scripts, |sturdily wrapped, were sent by plane to Alaskan posts. And so it happens, that on Easter morning, in small churches (and chapels in various military posts throughout the Territory, soldiers will see and hear a sim- ple Easter play that will go far toward making the day memorable. - REP. HARVEY J. SMITH LEAVES TUESDAY FOR HOME EEN(HORAGE Harvey J. Smith, Represéntative in the recent sesSion of thé Terri- torial Legislature from the Third Division, left yesterday on his way |to his home in Anchorage. strategic| This was Smith’s third session | size of New in the House of Representatives as | |a member from Anchorage. ~ U.S. Tanks Prepared for Combat in ks are fitted for combat at & tank camp at Oran. over to the British, sents Adolphe Menjou, Jackie Coo- I ancroft at the head of iished cast. This feature opens at the Capitol tonight. This film is said to be as au- thentic in its handling of its musi- cal phases as it is engrossing in its dramatic love story. It repre- sents the outcome of many months of preparation on the part of Pro- ducer William Dieterle to give the <ereen its first genuine account of the development of American dance rhythms Opening in New Orleans in 1907 and carrying on to the present day, the action deals with pretty Kit Latimer, who learns the fundamen- tals of rag-time from her Negro mammy. When Kit's father moves to Chicago she accompanies him, grows up in the Windy City, and after tragic wartime romance 1 young trumpet pla res her ideals of populayiz- yncopated music. rigors of the Prohibition Era interfere with thelr romance and their plans, and the crash of serves to bring them together again a s after many difficulties, leading up | to the picturesque climax of the unusual offering. — - —— Baby Girl Comes to 6. H. HiIIermans’ The Rev. and Mrs. G. Herbert | Hillerman last night became the parents of a baby girl, born at St.| Ann's Hospital at 10:43 o’'clock. This is the third child of (an Church and his wife, but it is the first girl. Brothers, aged seven |and three, welcome Miss Janis Kathleen, weight seven pounds and | four ounces, to the family and promise not to pull her pigtails— | at least for a while. i' Mother and baby are doing nice- it is reported today. . TIDES TB;;ORROW Low tide—5:16 am., 28 feet. High tide—11:22 a.m, 16.0 feet. Low tide—5:46 pm. -0.5 feet. Tunisia i Soon they were to be rush Bonita Granville and George | a distin- | « |swung her toward the decision the| pastor of the Resurrection Luther- | | AND KETCHIKAN |Arriving here with ACA from ExJ' | cursion Inlet were Eddie Swope, EC. Brandes and W. M. Matthews, 7 |Jr. . iward Larman and Henry C. Sea- Smoke rises from Munda airfield after American fliers from an advan cific had given the Jap base one of its many bombings. Photo shows t Georgia Island. Munda is the Jap strong point nearest Guadalcanal, 180 miles away. HOME NEEDS | War Coundil ARE WORRY |- Now Meefing BERN, Switzerland, March 31 {ivThe Alaska War Council is now |meeting in the Governor's Office zm Juneau. The meeting * started |yesterday and was continuing this {aftérnoon ol i | Those present are, in addition 1;:‘;13;“2:\ c:“,af:alllt tm)l‘:fl:{(:tme |to Chairman Gov. Ernest Gruen- | 598, ORN ¥ > ~ "mg‘ Hugh J. Wade, representing as the battle of Tunisia Ludatl' tHe Federal Security Agency; Sec- (rétary of Alaska E. L. Bartlett, :preparc her people guardedly for n‘rep‘r?senmlg Alaska: M. D. Wil new theatre of war in Continental llams‘ of the Publio vRuac‘ls Admin- Elirope. ; ¥ istration, representing the Federal Europe’s war must in the long works Agency, and Ralph Vogel run be decided on the European of the Federal Bureau of Investi- {Continent,” wrote one Italian jour- |gation, representing the Depart- nalist who added the contradiction ment of Justice. “upon which the enemy can't set S — foot.” Otherwise Rome and Berlin |avoided any direct suggestion that Tunisia might be abandoned, but made little effort to conceal | seriousness of the situation. - /ALASKA COASTAL FLIES TO INLE - BRITISH SINK SIX AXIS . CONVOY SHIPS LONDON, March 31.—Four Brit- ish submarines sank six Axis ships and damaged four others on | Arrivals here from Sitka Tues- supply rout to Tunisia, the British |day afternoon with Alaska Coastal Admiralty announced this after- Airlines were Robert Mitchell, Jeff noon. | Wandel, Ole Twedt, Oarm Roberts One of the victims was a mediun and Jack MacDonald. sized vessel carrying petroleurmn, anc Passengers who left Juneau for other was a large and fully-laden Ketchikan with Alaska Coastal this STP- morning were Dortha Jackson, All were picked off a strongly Howard Kure, Fred R. Stieber, Ed- ¢5corted convoy off northern Sicily. burg. The plane carried mail south and was to stop at Petersburg for mail. Leaving today for Excursion In- let were Robert Chaussee, S. E. Schulberg, Oscar C. Cecottee, Carl E. Ashbremer, John L. Schaetken.; Service Men and -GS0 Girls Plan Gingfi:m Part “Girls of the GSO will be host- eggés Friday night at a Gingham Party, to be held at the USO quar- ters beginning at 7:30 o'clock, to I'which all service men are the in- EL BUY WAR BONDS BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH A WEN ' WAKE UP THAR, " = - Rk “EC\Q(MEMBER? VL1 BE WKTH YU SMORTANY v/ o X | Fee€D \:RSSWELC——. ™ the | |creasing Jjitters on the actor short- |age. The airing should be healthy, Hollywood had been kidding it- . welf (not without encouragement) { |that it might enjoy some sort of | recognition as an essential industry. Some of its technical workers, in- deed, had been given deferred stat- were held in some esteem as war- |important, - Nothing had been said |about actors, other than the offi- {cial word of the Screen Actors’ Guild, which protested against blanket deferment, ced bomber base in the South Pa- he whole of Munda Point on New So we had an industry, whose | propaganda and morale value was vited guests. , \lavishly praised, whose work in Not the soldiers’ garb hut '-h‘”'?bond-sellmg and camp-entertain- of the gitls, must be gingham, de- ment was acclaimed, left in a most clare the organizers, and all G8O | peculiar position. It should go girls are urged to attend. |ahead and make pictures—and get Games, dancing and refreshments | its actors, a primeé ingredient of |are planned for the evening’s' en-!same, where it could. |tertainment and all those attend-| The result? Through enlistment [ing are sure to enjoy the old-|or draft, Hollywood has lost these | fashioned party. stars. and , featured players: Clark iy Gable, Robert Montgomery, Doug- | - eee 1 | iln.s Fairbanks, Jr.,, Melvyn Douglas, | [] Tyrone Power, Alan Ladd, James ‘(a'holl( News Stewart, John Payne, Lew Ayres, | i ' Deplores Nazi | Immoralify Gene Raymond, Wayne ,Morris, |Gene Autry, Ronald Reagan, Vic- | BERN, Switzerland, March 31— |tor Mature, Tim Holt, Eddie Albert, | Bill Holden, Burgess Meredith, Lee | Tracy, Robert Sterling, Jeffrey |Lynn, Van Heflin, Stirling Hayden, Dan Daily, Jr., Tony Martin, Doug+ | The sexual immorality of Nazi youth | was condemned in a Catholic news |service release which published a | pastoral letter. Tt stated that Ger- man Catholic Bishops of Cologne las McPhail, Richard Ney, Ray Middleton, Lee Frederick, Richard and Paderborne circulated the letter and quoted the letter as saying | Denning, Jack Briggs, Lee Bonnell, MacDonald Carey and others of more or less prominence. Robert Taylor, George Montgom- fery, and perhaps George Sanders | “sexual violations are being con- |'sidered a virtue, thus destroying the resistance of the spirit and restraint {of the conscience, consideration, |sympathy and justice which former- are making their last films before departure. ly protected people from themselves. | Whoever places legitimate and il- And the new leading men? There are some, but the increased draft- legitimate motherhood on the same level, places a burden on the ideal ing of married men leaves scant hope that they will be around long enough to become names. of motherhood: and the value of woman: which does the worst pos- sible service to female youth.” A \FALSE ALARM (ALLS " OUT FIRE DEPARTMENT ~ ATEARLYHOURTODAY | The Juneau Volunteer Fire De- | partment’ answered a call to 1-6 at 6:30 o'clock ‘this morning that proved to be a false alarm. | ' At 2:25 p.m. today the Fire De- | partment was called to Indian and | Distin avenues where an oil bur- |ner in .a house belonging ‘to Mrs. | George Rice and occupied by Mrs. There are stars 'still around (as of this writing, at least)—family men, the romantic leads of more advanced years, younger ones still awaiting call and doing outstand- ing war work while waiting, to- gether with those rejected for phy- sical reasons like Errol Flynn. Over-age, even in the new order making “38 to 45" men subject to call, would be Monte Woolley, Lio- nel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Ronald Colman, Victor McLaglan, Warner Baxter, William Powell, Richard Dix, Walter Pidgeon, per- haps a few others. Family men—Don Ameche, Bing Crosby, John Wayne, Bob Hope, James Cagney, Fred MacMurray, Fredric March, Phil Regan, Gary Cooper, John Garfield, Richard Whorf, Kent Smith, Pat O'Brien, Robert Young among them—have been studio life-savers, but family status is increasingly shaky cause for deferment. |Ranberger had overflowed. No| e g anberger overflowed. 0| Ole Twedt arrived in Juneau di 1 t e ‘r::::e SOPIE0, IRuagedie. to W with Alaska Coastal Airlines Tues- {day afternoon and is staying at | the Gastineau Hotel while in the city. us, indicating that motion pictures! jand dramatically—Hollywood's in- (o the 40 mark, the Rotary Clul's performance offers everything h'vl)l gorgeous girls (you guess who they are), to Andy Gundersen .in South Sea interlude. The latter traction is the one on which Wwe {base our prediction that the show will be one of the “biggest.” A Charles W. Carter, President ol the Chamber of Commerce, will 'ba /the interlocutor, and end men will /be Snoball Johnson, ‘(Hank /mon), Yard Bird Yanks, ( Carnegie), Fludust Miller, (Walter Carl), and Bonehead' Jones, (Wotf‘ ter Brazelton). TR ¢ 4 | - Specialty acts - include - scores )“ |voice and instrumental solos d turing Vefnon Owen, Tony George # Troychak, Merle Ji {Pitts, Herb Waugh, Ri¢hard and ‘others. . The Ollo features ‘a‘comedy flfig logue with Roy Fields and ‘Tem Ketchum, “The 8 Ball” by string ensemble, and “South S Interlude,” ‘with Andy Gundersen and Lou Levy, as ‘well as an ap< pearance by Buddy Rice and -hig Hill Billy Band with Billy Vaisvila, Lilllan Uggen, who also apj in the show, is the director. cal director is Klondy Dufresne. The program Is a mile long. doors open at 7:30 p.m. and cube tain is at 8:15 p.m. Refr will be sold during the show. mission for adults is $1.10, for 3 vicemen and children and studer 55 cents. B The place is the Twéntle nm., tury Theatre, tonight and . row night. Armistice in Baftle - Of Bureaus Seems fo - 't Have Been Pulled Off (Continued from Page One) of ‘the day: Speaking off-the: ord to his staff officials, he “We can not afford to engage B any intra-Services of Supply . tles or in the battle of Washil ‘There is only one real battle |ing _on in the whole world now. i | “Let us not under any provogg | tion, no matter how great, be drawn ilnto useless bickering which t |our blood into bile and taunts into anger against those with whom we should work in harmony.” ¢ Another factor is the manner fn | which Pricé Administrator |Brown has taken hold of the rgs | tioning and, price control There still are skirmishes in the i“Bultle of Washington"—in labor, manpower, agriculture — but can hardly be called more that now. A few more shifts - power and a few more |with Byrnes wielding the gavel apd |so far as the executive branch of | government goes, we may be to report “all quiet on the mag.” s> AP Juneau's Well Baby Cc will be held at the Terrif | Health Center from 1 to 4 pm. W+ morrow, in Room 108 of the Health | Center. HELLD ,OPERNTOR - CONNECT ME WY THE POOL DOWNSTARS — OW, 0N HEAD Y. BW-NES-\ES \S TA\S THE POOL 2 GENERAL ROSEWATER 11.5.0., SPEARING ~ 1 INST SENT @ ERIEND OF MWNE DONN THERE — WL L NOW PLEASE WEEP W OCCUPIED FOR B | SN HOWRS 2 W, THANKNOY ™ . ByBILLYDeBECK i T OONE W ED 1 TWNO-THREE S AN NOBODY ANSWERS- mmc&«sv (‘s"i‘i‘é«nw ER. WE TO SALN ouT 7