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

MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1943 v« Nautical b but Music RT LAHR - VIRGIN! q‘\t EY und H15 O — Plus — “TEE UP” [ | LATE NEWS NEW HONOR FOR ROSS — Cpl Barney Ross (left). Marine Corps hero of Guadalcanal, receives a medal from Nat Fleischer in New York for having done the most for boxing in '42. " LOADING SUPPLIES AT BRITISH AFRICA BASE % THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA | GAY MUSICAL " "SHIP AHOY" | AT CAPITOL Tommy Dorsey’s Orchestra - and Eleanor Powell's | Dances Are Shown Wwith what appears to be effort- lless grace, Eleanor Powell cracks all dancing records In a group of | |triking new routines in her lat-| est Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, | | “Ship Ahoy,” which came to the! Capitol Theatre yesterday. | She invariably brings a !dance novelty to every picture, but |this time there are five. She has |2 lovely chorus of Hollywood love- liness to aid and abet her Dancing, however, is not all that makes this picture highly enter-| taining. Red Skelton's comedy, with that of Virginia O'Brien and Bert Lahr, combine with the lilting mu- ic of Tommy Dorsey’s famous or- | chestra. First rate supporting roles | re played by William Post, Jr, Stuart Crawford and Bernard Ned- | |ell, with top-flight direction by Eddie Buzzell. | The story carries Miss Powell as |an innocent victim of saboteurs in- to a colorful Latin-American at- | mesphere, ~ where Red Skelton promptly falls in love with her. iTl“\ plot is gay and exciting - - new Betty Grable - GivenMovie PILOTS | Bath Quickly HIT ANTWERP i o e e BY DAYUGHT‘ HOLLY WO OD—Among _your other notes on the progress of civ- Follow Up Yesterday's At-| tacks on Kiel and Renau" WOTkS |three, four, five days or longer. e Don, who is a chief property LONSUN oL fe & l“""’e_f"_r_""imun, remembers that Lillian Rich, of United States Flying Fortresses|the heroine of this first lady- and Liberators attacked industrial|qunking experience of his, sim- targets near Antwerp, Belzium,'mered in warm milk, that being one with good results in daylight today, ¢ cecil B. (for Bathtub?) DeMille’s following up yesterday’s American ey g g raid on the Renault works near | with plumbing. Th Paris, and the heavy night attack ' “The Golden Bed on Kiel, Germany — A report by the official German news agency, broadcast from Ber- lin, said the raiding squadrons gcored direct hits on ‘“blocks ‘houses which caused fires and de- struction, and severe los among the civilian population” Ant- werp. it used to. sisted at his first cinema |bath, it was not unusual |director to keep a lady soaking wood as picture was The other daysDon officiated at » bath scene featuring the curve- Ox‘rumc charms of Miss Betty Grable as “Sweet Rosie O'Grady.” O'Grady, by this time in her story’s | development, was plushily prosper- ,ous as a bustled belle of Gay Nine- |ties musical comedy, and she had i@ bathrocm on which DeMille him- |self might have cast an apprecia- tive eye. Her tub was full-length, like modern versions, and its sides |were encased in polished wood. | The set was closed that day- {not because Miss Grable is coy | Mrs. Jesta Young, who returned apout appearing in a bathing suit { some weeks ago from an extensive ynder a blanket of foamy bubbles, | absence in the States, has taken 2 but because the day before some- | part time position with the Alaska body had spread the word that \S'.camship Company where she Betty would be bathing, and folks ! works afternoons. During the mom-fju‘sl couldn’t resist the urge to sec ing she works out of the office ul“‘how moving pictures were made 1J. C. Cooper. Serious art students of cinema art Immediately. after her return sprang out from crevices in the | from the south, Mrs. Young was|walls, from under rocks. | employed by the House of Repre-| “She was in the tub only a day | sentatives of the Territorial Legis- and a half,” says Don, “and not lature. steadily at that. Seems to me the | IR, ;dh‘ecturs are more careful about | | their players’ catching cold than | Empire Classifieds Pay! | they used to be. She got out of the o - - — - | water when they weren't shoot- “ing and wrapped herself in a lot jof towels. They didn't seem to {care much, in the old days, th- er 50 much soaking irritated the ‘plsyer's skin, either. I've seen some {of them come out of the tub all |red and wrinkled from too much |S08p. and water.” of D MRS. JESTA YOUNG TAKES POSITION Bathmaster Greenwood recalls regretfully that Dolores Del Rio once, for a bathtub scepe in “The Red Dancer,” stayed dunked a ]whole day—from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.— jafter which Miss Del Rio was more than slighitly waterlogged. “We've got more help on bath- |ing nowadays,” he says. “We used to have to haul the water, keep it hot, and mix up the foam bath. | Got the ingredients from a phar- | macy, mixed it ourselves, and filled {the tub. Today we get the same | stuff already mixed—it keeps its bubbles whereas ordinary soap bub- | bles burst. Now the unions make these baths easier for prop men— they get a plumber to fix the wat- jer, and a heating man to keep it {warm.” for a) glamour * Miss ‘ g NURSE'S AIDE | BENEFIT DANCE | GREAT SUCCESS That a substantial sum will bej \turned over to the American Red; Cross by the Nurses' Aides was |guaranteed by the exceptionally large crowd that attended the ben- efit dance given by the orghniza- {tion for the Red Cross at the EIks'| |Club on Saturday night. |continued until 1 o'clock in the about half an hour from 11:30 un- til 12 | Far from being a pause in the entertainment of the evening, the lintermission was one of the high gpots of the dance. Songs by Billy| | Vaisvila, who won the hearts of! | Juneau audiences at the Rotary minstrel” shows last week, several jot numbers hy Buddy Rice and is Hillbilly Band, and accordian scleetions by Hirlam Shumway were enthusiastically applauded and had {the crowd demanding more. | The hall was attractively decor- |ated with large American flags, an | Alaska flag, the Red Cross symbol and banks of greens. ind other affairs of the dance, those n the committees were, dance committee, Miss Jane Alexander ind Mrs. Gertrude Naylor; enter- |tainment committee, Mrs. Fred |Ayer, Miss Elizabeth Terhune and |Mrs. Dan Livie. * | - * }(OllEGE HEALTH - PROGRAM SHOWS | . MARKED RESULTS, As the result of the recent reor- |canization of the physical fitness program for entering freshmen, the College of the City of New York re- ports that in the six months of operation since the beginning of hé new program, freshmen have nereased 36 percent in strength. 18 percent in agility, 12 percent in museular power, and 8 percent in ndurance The report, issued by Dr. Gerald ©hrileih and Dr. Abraham Sperling fhe college hygiene department, s that these gains have addition to growth| «mpha. |all | Instructors tested 1,000 freshmen | |last September by means of maze | runs, standing ‘broad jumps and | work on the parallel bars. The ‘msLs were repeated six months lat- er after a course that included ob- | stacle racing, track, calisthenics, | swimming and competitive sports such as soccer and basketball. The report also recommended that the college’s two hour weekly health program be extended to four or five hours. ., ELDON DALY RETURNS TO KETCHIKAN AFTER SEVERAL DAYS HERE /" Eldon Daly, of the Ketchikan Spruce Mills, left with Alaska Coastal Airlines for the First City on Saturday after spending a few days in Juneau on business. | conference, e R s BIG GEORGIA AIRPLANE PLANT_Part of the main assembly building of the Bell bomber plant, rated one of the world's. largest, nearing completion at Marietta, Ga. Jeffers Soon To Quit Job, WASHINGTON, April 5—Rubber Director William M. Jeffers said he is post about Julyel if the rubber program is “all. set and coming through” by that time. Talking to the newsmen Jeffers further at a said: ilization, you may record today that| Dancing to the rhythmic strains .y the program is progressing by iving a lady a bath in the movies|of Bob Tew's excellent dance Or- migsummer, I can tell by that time takes a heck of a lot less time than |chestra, started at 10 o'clock and ;¢ how matters are shaping up. (f it looks all right to me, Il re- Back in 1925, when Don Green-|morning, with an intermission of sign as I have got a big railroad ITALIAN PORTS GIVEN BOMBINGS BY LIBERATORS Two Railway Ferry Term- inals Are Raided at Low Altitudes While all members of the Nurses'| [ONDON, April 5. — American’ | Aidé organization took an active yiherators have bombed Messina, part in selling tickets, decorating ., (h. island of Sicily, and Sangio- | vanni on the opposite side of the Strait of Messina. Great damage was done to those two railway ferry terminals at low altitude attacks. e FIGHTER PLANE BOMBS JAP SHIP SETS IT BLAZING WASHINGTON, April 5—In the New Georgia group of Islands in the South Pacific, American fighter planes set fire to a small Jap cargo vessel at anchor at Vella Lavella. > - ARMY DAY IS TO BE OBSERVED TONIGH The Juneau American Legion Post is tonight observing Army Day, which falls on tomorrow. The affair will be in the Dugout and service men on the Channel are invited to be the guests of the Legionnaires. There will be enter- tainment and refreshments. The entertainment will be songs, tap dancing, Buddy Rive’s Hill Billies | and other stunts. . JOHN HALL BACK £ FROM KETCHIKAN Public Health Engineer John Hall returned to Juneau yesterday after a week*in Ketchikan on inspection work for the Territorial Depart- ment of Health. — e ANB HOLDS MEETING TONIGHT IN HALL All members are urged to attend the business meeting of the Alas- ka Native Brotherhood, to be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Visiting members are extended a special in- vitation to attend. thinking of quitting his| SECRET AGENT OF JAPAN IS SHOWING HERE 20th Century Sby Film Sets Mood for Pearl Harbor Attack Just 25 days after the treacher- ous attack on Pearl Harbor, Direc-~ tor Irving Pichel walked onto the | set or 20th Century-Fox's “Secret | Agent of Japan” and amid a hushed | group of techniclans and actors | gave the signal for the cameras to start rolling At once the group broke into activity, and the first “inside” story of Japanese treachery in the Far | ’l;‘x\sl preceding “the day of in-| |famy” was on its way to screen | OnlyThisMan history | Knows. .. But Now showing at the 20th Cen- [tury Theatre, ‘the film features| WO M the | Preston Foster and Lynn Bari, and unreels at a suspenseful clip to rip Ithe lid off the events which led |up to the treacherous blow at| American freedom ! | The action takes place in Shang- | hai, headquarters of the Far East | spy ring. Here Preston and Lym\{ find themselves seeking the fateful | messages which will tip off all the ! plans for the attack on Pearl Har- | bor. Their struggles against the powerful enemy ring is thrillingly unfolded to keep you on the edges of your seats. The stars turn in grand per- formances, aided by a series of top-notch supporting portrayals from Noel Madison, Sen Yung, Janis Carter, Steve Geray, Kurt Katch, and Addison Richards. FIVE ARRIVE, . NINETEEN OUT T0 WESTWARD Arriving from Seattle Sunday | was Bert Wake; from Southeast | Alaska were W. O. Carlson, John | Hall, John H. Ivey and Jack Sut- | tick. | Departing for the west were for Mitk F. Fuller, Mrs. H. fubbell, Pat E. Dooley; for Yakutat, ‘Tesa F. Banks, Max A. McReynolds, «nd for Seward, John W. Turn- quest, Henry E. Mennum, W. C. Gustafson, Marvin C. Swartz, Roy | W. Peter, Earl Gardner, Albert A. | Hall, Calvin Bishaw and John W. | Euttick. | Where the Better BIG Pictures Play 120 cenTuR — NOW PLAYING — BID THIS-SECREF:MESSAGE GIVE THE ORDER TO STRIKt ...AT PEARL HARBOR? =i Nos Janis Carter - Stove Geray « Kurt Kated "MARCH ON, AMERICA® 30 MINUTES 3“ LATE NEWS SR STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 5—Cl quotation of Alaska Juneau stock today is 7%, American Can 81, Anaconda 30%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss 9%, International Harvester 694, General Mgtors 50%, it 34%, New York Central -.10%, Northern Pacific 17, United States Steel 57%, Pound $4.04. ! Dow, Jones averages today - are as follows: industrials 13644, radls 35.92, utilities 10.01. o FIREMEN ANSWER | : PRICES SATURDAY | THREE CALLS OR | sous vy mech ol . SATURDAY, SUNDAY so. Anaconda o 80'%, Anaconda 29%, Bethlehem | l The Juneau Volunteer Fire De- | | Steel 67'%, Commonwealth and Southern 11/16, Curtiss Wright lji. |partment answered three calls over Iiternational Harvester 69, Gener- Ithe weekend, including a false ® Motors 49%, Kennecott 33%, New |alarm turned in yesterday after-| York Central 18%, Northern 6 | noon. ic 14%, United States Steel o | On Saturday. afternoon, firemen | Pound $4.04. |extinguished a blaze in the garage Dow, Jones averages smn$ of Elliott Russell. The blaze dam-|were as follows: industrials 13580, aged some of Russell's fishing nets. | rails 34.84, utilities 10}?. ¥ | Sunday afternoon, another call o e i ¥ was answered when a greasy stove! caught fire in the Royal Cafe and'® ® » burned the wall in back of the ® stove before members of the Fire ® Department quenched the blaze. | ® ——r e YOUR BROKEN LENSES | : Mede e o 0 0 0 0 0 00 WEATHER REPORT (U. S. Bureau) i Temp. Saturday, April 3. Maximum 43, minimum 33. Rain—89 inch. Temp. Sunday, April 4. Maximum 39, minimum 33. Rain—83 inch. e o 0 00 0 0 0 ¢ » 'Replaced in our own shop. Eyes'e 'Examined. Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson. Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636. - ) . . L] 4 adv. G BEAUTY AND THE BEAST — SPAR Geneviev. O'Brien of the Coast Guard Women's Reserve makes friends with Hamilton, six-months-old, 163-pound Newfoundland mascot of the Coast Guard Receiving Station at Boston, Mass, BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH W -\WE'VE SEENTHE CRNES, L — [ g ANELL NARD B8\RD — AD-0CEAN GOLF COWRSE, TE CASTLE HRARBOLR WOTEL, TUCKERS TOWN, TUE SUNGLE, “TOM MOORE'S WoWsE — PR onLy NATIVE LABORERS HELP LOAD LORRIES with water drums that were landed by the Royal Navy at a Brlt}nh supply base in North Africa. 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