The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 9, 1943, Page 3

FRIDAY. APRIL 9, 1943 I Broadway's Junior Sensation who wowed ‘em on the Stage in “"PANAMA HATTIE" will wow you on the Companien Feature "CETIREL of CIREMIE" with Frank Albertson Linda Hayes ing with Action and Romance! —ALSO— «Last Minute News and ""White Eagle” (Saturday Matinee) Bla 1ce (not the Cor Joan Crawford, Gin- Fontaine, Eleanor Goddard, Marjor- Leslie Leslie studio picture with her them an idea Yankee Doodle had wait it him the THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! TAFPRE FRED ASTALLL FAVORITEFan, iEra FRED ASTAIRE = = GoesThrough Al1 Old Rou- ey routne for “Limit He than his tines So Does Not Re- |} i s peatAn yorH.,Dar(Ps ars b By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD -~ The fan sees more Fred Astaire dance tines than any other Astaire. This is not vanity. Fred makes a picture, he Joan tte han Joan to her Fred dancing and talked 3ros., about e that put her Dandy and ave in Fred But to took ch her I looks taller ten, no stouter pounds. His shoes 7 | tem-made and last for ause he has a large oth for dancing and ordinary who|wear. One pair recently brought rou-|3116,000 at auction—on a bond sell- Fred | 'ng tour. Before| Astaire, by virtue of composing everal hit tunes, is a member of ets out | all his old routines and studies CAP. Among his works: “I'm Up to a Big Letdown,” them to avoid repeating himself. | Build In his 16 films in 10 years, he has | “Like Taking Candy from a Baby. not yet been guilty of so doing. (He is proud of the checks ASCAP Ten years of success in Holly-|sends him now and then. He likes wood make an actor practically an | Thythm music’—things he can institution, and Astaire is that. He|dance to. His name for the classi- is without doubt the most agile and |cal type i ater music.” active star of his age in pictures Fred likes, in addition to gin Some theater guides list his birth- |rummy and golf, well-tailored day as May 10, 1900. He says the|clothes and bright neckties. He al- year was 1899, |50 likes small cars, practical joke: He has been on screen or stage |and doing impersonations of Jim- for 38 years beginning with his|my Cagney—and of Shirley Temple. sister Adele in vaudeville when he | e was five. He was born in Omaha, JOHN WALMER LEAVE Neb., and his real name -was Aus- ON SHORT TRIP TO terlitz. They changed it to Astaire SITKA FOR BOARD becauce Austermz” sounded John Walmer, member of the LR Atke a) batle. Territorial Board of Public Wel- £ 3 fare, left this morning for Sitka Fred thinks he began worrying— 'y, conpection with Board business which has since become his favorite g fe accompanied Russell diversion—when he was 12 and a ; e Mpypard, Jersey City theater manager let Director of the Public Welfare De- it be known that Adele had talent partment and expects to return to but “the boy” wasn't so hot. That JUneau on Sunday. puzzled Fred, who not only danced b e and sang, but played the piano in MAYNARD MAKES the act. He kept on, however. FLYING sister Adele was Fred's parmer Director longer than any of her nine suc- Partment of Public Welfare, Rus- cessors. She left him in 1930 to sell Maynard, left this morning for marry Lord Charles Cavendish, son Sitka on departmentel business. He of the Duke of Devonshire. Suc- plans to return Sunday evening. v is a4 “too USSELL Warner | five | collection | SPOILED BRAT | AND GANGSTER FILMS SHOWN | Capitol Theatre Has * "0b-| Ilgngounglady and | "(itadel of Crime” A nine-year-old child star romping comedy which opens to- night at the Capitol Theatre is one of two Friday-Saturday features. Centering its side-split fun wound the custody of million- ire’s spoiled child, “Obliging Y dy" marks the screen return ver little Joan Carroll, the c wtress of the recent nam hit on Broadway featured honors the gay romanti Fdmond O'Brien, Ruth Warric Citizen Kane” fame, Robe h, Eve Arden and Fran 1 gborn, all of whom contribute » uproarious situations of the | | | in a Hat- with comedy 3 Sharing an in film Movie fans who enjoyed the cod old red-blooded gangster films f prohibition days are promised a sicture with a bootlegging back- round brought up to date in Re- public’s “Citadel of Crime,” No. 2 attraction at the Capitol, with Frankie Albertson, Robert Arm- | trong, Linda Hayes, Skeets Gal-| lagher, Paul Fix, Emmett Vogon |Billy Benedict and a large sup-| 'GLENN ROBINSON TAKES POSITION, WAR MAHPOWER Glenn Robinson left this week cursion Inlet where he will utilization consultant for r Manpower Commission, i announced today by Arthur tor for the aployment Service Robinson was formerly Employment Service in Jordova from where he went to <odiak to open the US.ES. office. | He later resigned to work for the | 1s-Drake contracting firm and Juneau recently as A.F. representative ai the meet- War Com- which rch 20. with e to L. i | of t | Manpower nittee ok pla here arsion Inlet, Mr. Robin- has to do with the rul- the War Manpower Com- that an employee who quits have an employer's re-| if he wishes to be given em- sloyhent on other defense work. An employee who is not granted 1 release may consult with Robinson and if warranted, ippeal may be granted the ployee. g of iittee ork must ‘|l\|1 | the em- |, THE D Diving Champ Is Bride Marjorie Gestring, former Olympic diving champion, is shown as she left St. James Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, with Edward Harrison Carter, formerly of South Bend, In, just after her wedding. Their romance began during high school days FRENCH SHIP GETS 2 NAII SUBMARINES Corvette A&n} Has Field Day in Atlantic Con- voy Flght last mon(h corvette, LONDON, A])ll] subfarines were ,sunk by the Fighting French the Aconit, in battle which saw the sinking of the vely new British farvester. The Admiralty said that the ac- tion occurred near midnight when the 1300-ton Harvester located the Nazi sea raider and brought surface with depth then rammed her The submersible became jammed the Harvester's stern where remained fast for several min- then broke clear. an Atlantic convoy | destroyer, | her to charges, | | AILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA 'TUNEFUL HIT HOLIDAYINN, | 1S GRAND FUN Twentieth Century Gala Musical Stars Bing Croshy, Astaire All the gay and cavefree holida we love to celebrate, rolled together {into one grand entertainment jam- | |boree, are at the h Century !'Theatre whe® Paramount presents ving Berlin's “Holiday Inn" with | { 5iny Crosby and Fred Astaire, | Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia and Walter Abel Here is the picture wc've een waiting for, a picture spells F-U-N from opening fli to final fadeout. It's fun set srand new Irving Berlin music | eleven smash hit melodies which | {Mr. Berlin has written especially | for this Bing Crosby-Fred Astaire | starrer. Among them are wmnr‘l “Be Careful It's ‘Song of Freedem,” “You' X'Oy Easy to Dance With" and other hyi now familiar Hit Parade favorites {de has even kicked in, for good measure, two old song hits—“Lazy" jand “Easter Parade.” | The idea of “Holiday Inn" was| conceived by Irving Berlin and Mark Sandrich, who produced and directed it for Paramount. Sandrich is known for his brilliant direc- tion of filmusicals. “Holiday Inn” caps a successful career of directing Fred Astaire, Jack Benny and other top stars in their best pictures. Both Berlin and Sandrich waated IROLLBACK is the highly original result OPA Brown Says Control of ( E G A M E Other Commodities S'i'ops WORK fo Be Taken WASHINGTON, /\mll 9. — Thc FoRD plANT it is (‘m\r'mm'nl intends shortly, learned authoritatively, to roll back the market price on live hogs. The | current levels are nearly 516 for|N@@rly 5 000 Workers be 100 pounds and this il | im"m-r’; Witk 1o koot pam T | Walkout But Majority OPA Chief Prentiss Brown said Later Return- this is in line with the President’s order to “hold the line” on farm prices and wages. | DETROIT, Mich. April 9. — A! Brown said also, regulations "‘T‘?spomaneous or unauthorized work, {now being prepared to bring about | stoppage interrupted production of | price control of wheat, cotton,|war vehicles in two plants of the| fresh fish, apples and other fresh|Ford Company here affecting 5000 |fruits as the season comes, and |workers. | | ol n Los Angeles. | i \ | | i are =Q=N=I-G-H-T WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY EVERYTHING YOU LOVE IS IN "HOLIDAY INN IRVING, SONoS| // A’i *nu than ever bdenby’ ¥ nerica’s No. 1 music manl’ / / BING CROSBY AT _ HIS SINGING BEST!. Hear him sing "Be Careful, It's My Heart" and "Vlhlh Cll"l"lli‘l‘ His unu'lon-l “Fire Dance” will have you gés, . b wing Bedlins starrng Bing Fred (ROSBY - ASTAIRE "’Mar/r Sandrich T s MARJORIE REYNOLDS « IlAlE Am% Scroen Play by Claude Biny JOMCENTURY ninm; Sl SITOWS AT 7:30-—-9:30 DOUGLAS NEWS also on certain oil-bearing seeds in The dXSpute started when a dice The French corvette sighted the Se additional utilization con-|sub on the surface, engaged it in sultants are to be named in the|gunfire, finally rammed her amid- \ear futwe to be stationed at vari-|ships, sinking her ous places, Mr. Hedges said | Meanwhile, - ‘uv:’ was such that it could only the Harvester's dam- | milk manufacturing processes and some other production not now junder control, - ALASKA COASTAL game in a lavatory was broken up "TOBACCO ROAD" by Plant Protection Men in the NEW OFFICERS ELECTED ! Highland Park plant. The COm-l AND INSTALLED BY DFD pany spokesman said this caused! Election and installation of the | mbet Waner. more than 500 men in the tank following new officers was the njemi: Social, production unit to stop work at|principal business of the Dnllvl!l\\“"d Hirsch. 2:45 a. m. today and this stoppage Volunteer Fire Department at the later spread to 2,700 men on the regular monthly meeting last eve-iygpg WAIC‘VFR AND (‘HILDR.EN r, Andrews and T, Cochrane, Anderson TRIP TO SITKA | of the Territorial De- | Byron Coleman and|"< s e o Mrs. Coleman Are on, Way fo Californial | Mr. and Mrs. Byron Colemfln‘ passed through Juneau yesterday on their way from Kodiak to Sdll‘ Francisco, California where Lhey‘ expect to make their future home For the last several years Mx Coleman has been Alaska Steam-| ship Agent in Kodiak and M Coleman has been acting as assi | ant agent. Walter Sipparell, well known steamship man, has tem- porarily taken over the agency at| Kodiak after moving there from Seward. - — In PFrance during the Middle | Ages the length of a man’s shoes) indicated his social rank. PUZZLE —FIND THE SOLDIER — Wearing the Army’s new jungle suit of mottled green and khaki, this U. S. soldier is scarcely distinguishable from the foliage in New Caledonia, _ |to return to the convoy which was \ull in danger of attack. Later, the Harvester was forced to stop and was torpedoed and sunk while lying still. The French \h!p came back to pick up the de- stroyer’s survivors and spotted an- uthm sub on the surface. Again the corvette used depth charges and finally rammed the second !raider, sinking it. LEWIS RAPS NEW ORDERS FDR ISSUES Says Proble?of Mine In- dustry Unchanged- Bread, Political Pawn NEW YORK, April 9.—John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, today declared that Presi- dent Roosevelt’s “hold the line” order against inflation left the problem of the mine industry un- chenged and left the “mine workers till hungry and still resentful at ! having their demands for bread made a political pawn.” Negotiations were resumed today for,a new contract in the Appala- chian Coal Fields to cover approxi- mately 450,000 union members. Lewis, in a statement, said the miners’ wages are now “substand- ard.” MAKES S(HEDULE' |day shift and 1,000 employees in (HARI’ER FUGHI’S another unit. Nearly all employees sumed work before noon but i some workers had gone home, ion| The company spokesman said the | t with Alaska Coast A)xllxn(*s”;.v011( stoppage began after Plant | on Thursday afternoon Homer | Protection men took badges from | Woodall, Leo W. Ryser, Jack Buk- |eight men in a dice game and told | ler. Returning to Juneau from the |them to report to the Labor Rela- | Inlet were Allan Moss, Prank Mar-|tions Office, shall, L. B. Carlson. S. Sully, S.| E. Bradd and Lucile Adams made’ 2 round trip charter trip to Lhe: A mattress set afire by a cigaret | Inlet. called out members of Juneau Vol- Passengers for Killisnoo Thurs-|unteer Fire Department last night day were Steve Prokopeuff, Philip (to the Ferry Way Rooms. No dam- Navgoroff, George Prokopeuff, Wil- !age was done. liam Dirks and Andrew Sniggniero. Arrivals in Juneau from Sitka | Thursday - afternoon were Cecil Nix, Ralph Wilcoxin, E. K. Rush- ton, F. Willlams and B. P. Fal- kenburg. ving Juneau for e - - MATTRESS FIRE HERE | Today'’s Flights Leaving here today on a plane bound for Ketchikan were Paul kel, H. A. Arslanian, E. H. |gress in the matter of insurance | | for, woeds, G. L. Newell, J. J. Me- herin. Taking passage today for Sitka re Russell Maynard, John Wal- wr, 8. P. Nack and James Top- t; for Excursion Inlet were Charles R. Deming and John H. Ethridge. Arrivals here from Sitka were Magnus Olson, N. E. Wiley, Mr. and Mrs. Leo M. Jones and Martin A. Tengs; from Excursion Inlet were Floyd Kidton and D. C. Cari- | oles. 20 LEADER — maj. Peter D. Clainos, (above) is commander of U. S. Army’s first all-Greek unit now in Gr-lninx. e BUY WAR BONBS | Poor; ning: President, ARE HERE FROM TENAKEE Walter Andrews; Vice-| npg Jack Warner and daughters Jack e e President, Tauno Niemi; Chief,!aleta and Toni arrived here last Mike Pusich; Foreman, James evening from Tenakee Springs to Manning; Secretary, Lang- | roceive medical aid and visit for seth; Trustee, H. L.Cochrane; chief | few days. They are guests at the truck driver, and maintenance man, pome of Mrs. Warner's parents, My, Dale Fleek. and Mrs. John G. Johnson. Mr. Pusich again became chief et AR over his own protest, for about his| fifth or sixth term of efficient ser-| ICKES GIVEN Contrary to the usual procedure, | installation being held in May, lhn| new officials immediately took of- fice at conclusion of the election. ] Business transacted prior to the - election consisted of committee re-| ports. H. L. Cochrane reported pro- | l AND lE ASB the members. Maintenance | committee announced request re-| ———— ' ceived from high school students H for use of nat a couple of nights May DEfer Of waIVe Pa" per week for roller-skating. It was 2 recommended by Andrews that the men's on cenam AI" P pupils be allowed to use the nat H # it, providing they keep the nat| WASHINGTON, April 9. — The clean. The two night's use with ::::; h::e P:fi‘lie‘:u::d sent to the d;‘;::o‘:,z 2:;:‘:: :;a n‘;:tit:l by An- (tary of Interior Harold L. Xm drews to effect that some of the\"se his’ discretion “;’d“" or walwe baseball paraphernalia was miss- ‘Il: :_};L":':‘rs :gfi:’h;‘; ;nn-miwfll Chief Pusich and Secremry‘ Ina leaer to' Chairman J. W. Langseth were requested to com- | Robinson of the House Public municate with proper otncials’mm Committee, Secretary Ickes about return of the equipment. said military operations in Alask New committees were named as| prevented some lessees for fur follows: Annual Spring Dance, Carl farming and grazing lands com- Lindstrom, Chairman, Fred Endres, | plying with the terms of the le Tic Niemi, Louis Wagner and Val He advocated passage of the me; Maintenance, Manning, Wo- | sure. 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