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VDAY A MO! , APRIL 1 2,1943 OLD WEST IS MELODRAMA OF : ACTION,COMEDY Capitel's " Jackass Mail”" | § and "'Battle of Mid- way'* Fine Bill Building That Rugged Remeo’s Back! Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main one of the screen’s most comical teams, &gain appear in Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's “Jackass Mail,” now showing at the Capitol Thea- tre. The comedy with action and drama typical of Beery. The comedy moments are chiefly derived from Beery's blun- dering attempts to woo Miss Main, who plays the owner of a frontier dance hall. She is also the driver of the “Jackass Mail,” which fre- quently carries large shipments of gold. Whether the gold or Miss Main is the object of Beery's af- fections is a moot question A notable dramatic performanc is that of ten-year-old Darryl Hick- man, who portrays the son of th outlaw whom Beery slays. The greatest technicolor film op in history is the “Battle of in TECHNICOLOR s ] Midway,” the U. S. Navy Techni- nv the-scene during the great naval ! MIDW. " film is replete ALSO-SENSATIONAL Filmed Under Fire on- ® The wi engagement, and which is also on A U.S. Navy Film the bill showing at the Capitol —AND | Theatre % ‘. MICKEY MOU | From LATE NEW he was vice dynamic personality. : news center as NRA iff commission. Then he wa in Roper’s: building commissioner of internal reu More than that ind in that post colle Roper’s mission w World War taxes, organiz THEATRE his department in the machinery for tional prohibition in 1919 SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU g0 the seope | eopee signed March 31, 1920, and Herbert made the bl ce poitfilio a stepping stone | the succeeding Republican istrations practiced law in the Whit Neither ington, chiefly on income 1017, | tar- i made | ente | ed the huge | March to September chairman of the became chief administrator another red some had Hoover part of ction of respects also | enforcir He throu; admin- | Wash- tax when House circumstance daunted began at once organiz- lvisory ' contacts with busi- uess and industrial leaders to watch the evolution of NRA. From that sou came repi »d suzgestions for “self government” of business in cooperation with government as an alternative to NRA ‘“regimenta- tion.” cases Roper was married December 25, 1889, to Miss Lou McKenzie of Scotland County, North Carolina They were the parents of two daughters and five sons - PASSES AWAY IN HIS HOME THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASK Collapses; Kills e Chief Joseph W. Morgan was killed in St. Louis in the collapse of this warehouse wall during a fire. I was falling and firemen and others racing to safety when the photographer, atop a truck, jumped and made this picture, as he, too, dashed from the danger ara. Three other firemen were injured. NEW ORDERS RECLASSIFY REGISTRANTS (Continued from Page One) farming, except those personally essential to essential activities and those whose induction would mean “extreme hardship and privation” to dependent: The 3-A classification which has been open to childless, married men has been reserved exclusively for fathers. "SWEATER GIRL' IS FINE TUNEFUL MUSICAL HIT | Twentieth C;htury Theatre Brings Song, Dance Hit, Comedy Galore Judging by audience reactions to date, Paramount has a hit in “Sweater Girl,” the merry mystery | musical that is at the 20th Century | Theatre. The cast includes Eddie Bracken , June Preisser, Betty {Rhud(‘.«'. Phillip Terry Nils | Asther. | while director William Clemens ihu.\‘ put the accent on music and |laughs, “Sweater Girl” departs from |the usual tune-film pattern by hav- |ing a fast-moving plot, plenty of {thrills and suspense and even a {good, spine-chilling shudder here |and there for good measure | Eddie Bracken, well remembered {for his comic roles in “The Fleefs In" and “Caught in the Draft,” is a stage-struck student in this one. He's helping to direct a col- lege musical show, during rehea rals of which a lad gets murdered That starts a chain of events with all the elements of a first rate “whodunit,” including a half-wit suspect, a not-so-dumb detective clues pointing to everybody in the |picture and, of course, a happy |ending. | |ALASKA COASTAL | ,, MOSPITAL NOTES | Mr, | |urday became the parents of a baby - MAKE FLIGHTS T0 i EARBY po‘“ISYSL Ann’s Hospital and weighing| | Fire Chief and |daughter, born at 12:15 noon at' seven pounds and four ounces. | Passenge arriving in Juneau' Mrs. Rene Laurin gave birth to jon Saturday afternoon from Excur- a baby boy yesterday evening at| Ision Inlet with Alaska Coastal Air- 7:10 o'clock at St. Ann’s Hospital. | lines were E. E. Bilodeau, Arthur The infant weighed seven poundsj E. Hill, J. E. J. Anysmith, Jack Mc- and ten ounces. i | Culiough, R. R. Kinkaid, C. P. pe=tion | King, Forrest Winters, Earl L. Linn, |E. G. Rice. Taking passage from Juneau to Excursion * Inlet Saturday after-! | noon were, Melvin F. Gray, Theo- Mrs. Belle Caukle and Mrs. Toy |dore Abramoff, E. W. Saxl, M. C. Davis are recently admitted medical ! Deller and J. L. Bishop. |patients at St. Ann's Hospital. Arr s from Hoonah on Satur-| - day afternoon were Annie Law- G. G. Brown and Jimmie Mar-| | rence, Clara Ross, Matt Lawrence, tin have been admitted to St. Ann’s Born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fawcett this morning at the Gov-| ernment Hospital, a baby boy. \ \;fi_QQ'E Nils - Astfet tamoutit » Picture stajring il EDDIE BRAGKEN i Jine preisser Betty Rhtodes -_Phillip Terrw- Freida Inescort William Henry Johnnie Johnston Screen Play.by Eve Gfeene - Additional Dialogue by Robert Blee Based on a Story by Beulah Masie Dix and Bertram Millhause § 30 —— MINUTES LATEST NEWS —— 30 ‘ "Pacific Blackout” News Cartoon And with the constitutional fall of NRA on May 27, 1935, it was to voluntary maintenance of some NRA standards by employers that the nation turned. Johnson and Roosevelt's First Secretary of Commerce Dies in Washington (Continuea 1rom Page One) a hard worker in the Demo- cratic party’s national organi: “Uncle Dan” knew all the ropes. Although interested primarily in politics and the law, Roper's acti- vities spread to affairs of church education, national defense and con- servation. He was a member of the general conference of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, South, in 1930 and the sixth ecumenical con- ference in 1931. He served on the District of Columbia Board of Edu- cation 1931-32, on the Federal Board of Vocational Education, on the United States Council of National Defense and on the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission From the outset of deal” administration, Roper was leader of the move for “partner- ship” between government and bus- iness, was one of the most pro- lific of the cabinet speakers and, by long odds, the mbst reassuring as to the fundamental conservatism of the Roosevelt policies. Roper Plan Outlives NRA Secretary Roper began that mis- sionary work under trying circum- stances. NRA, the National Recov- ery Administration, was hatched and housed in his own Commerce Department Building, a vast new structure inherited from the Hoover Administration. General Hugh Johnson, of blistering tongue and £ s the “new NazisSayThisIsH |NRA were gone, but Roper and his “partnership” ideal carried on Roper was born in Marlboro County, South Carolina, April 1, '1867, the son of John Wesley and Henrietta V. Roper. After two years at Wofford College, Spartanburg, C., he transferred to Trinity lege, now Duke University, and eraduated with an A.B. degree 1888. He taught school four years and then at the age of 25, won election to the state legis- lature, Cotton Counting System Two years later, in 1894, he went to Washington as clerk of the Sen- ate Committee on Interstate Com- merce. He had his first experience with the Department of Commerce from 1900 to 1910, serving most of the time with the census bureau 2s an expert agent. One of his accomplishments was devising the plan for frequent counting of cot- | ton bales turned out by ginneries | during harvest seasons. This stifled | misleading ‘foreign guesses on the | size of the American crop Wwhich | previously had handicaped Ameri- can growers and mills. Meanwhile | he attended the law school of Na- | tional University, winning an LL.B degree in 1901, His first outstanding office wa First Assistant Postmaster General the appointment coming from Pres- ident Wilson in 1913. He became a in NAZIS LOSE TANK FIGHT IN TUNISIA (Continued from Page One) sian mountain wall to the coastal plain, already penetrated Saturday through Fondouk Pass, just south- east of Kairouan. The British Eighth Army’s ad- vance of 125 miles from the Wadi el Akarit line in six days was slightly impeded by demolitions planted by Rommel, and by diffi-| cult terrain, but Montgomery's van- guards stirred up little resistance in the Sousse area because the enemy already had pulled back toward the ridge running inland from Endivaville, 27 miles north of Sousge. Big Fight Coming So far, the “Desert Fox" has avoided any major conflict with the Allied forces, but his field for re- treat has now narrowed down to the small triangle between Tunis, Bizerte and the mountain strong- hold to the south of Tunis, where he evidently plans to make a stand. | A supplemental dispatch from North Africa said that photographs of Saturday's 100-plane raid on Lamaddaelena, Sardini disclosed that the Flying Fortresses had sunk | For hardship cases a new classi- Annabel Lawrence and Charles fication, 3-D, has been set up for Fawcett; from Sitka, C. J. Baily, deferment of anyone whose induc- | Eddie "Swope, Jim Reed and Gil| tion would result in “extreme hard- | Rich i ship and privation to wife, child | Today's Flights or parent and who maintains a fide family relationship with home.” bona their - RHEA TAYLOR IS COMMANDER AT SITKA STATION Relieves CapT Isbell Who Is Assigned to Wash- ington, D. C. SEATTLE, April 12—The Thir- teenth Naval District today an- nounced that Comdr. Rhea Taylor, Executive Officer of the Dutch Har- bor Naval Air Station will become Commanding Officer at the Sitka Naval Air Station, relieving Capt. H. A. Isbell, assigned to Washing- ton, D. C. Comdr. Taylor has been at Dutch Harbor since July 1 and has had much experience in naval aviation Capt. Isbell, who was Staff Gun- nery Officer at sea or on foreign soil for four years previous to duty at Sitka, was here last week | enroute to Washington, D. C. - figure in Democratic national coun- |one 10,000-ton Italian cruiser, the CHICHAGOF MAN HAS cils in August, 1916, when made chairman of the organization bu- reau for the second Wilson cam- illéiéfééling War Wounded Trieste, and badly damaged the 10,000-ton Gorizia, another Italian warship. i A g e SUCCESSFUL OPERATION Theodore O. Anderson, brought from Chichagof by Alaska Coastal plane Saturday afternoon, entered St. Ann’s Hospital at once for an emergency appendectomy and is now making an excellent recovery, bperating surgeon Dr. J. O. Rude reports. — ., FURNITURE' NEEDED FOR RECREATIONAL CENTER NEAR HERE Day room furniture of all sorts, as well as games, lamps, ete., i The German caption accompanying this picture, transmitted by radio from Stockholm to New York, said it showed Adolf Hitler greeting German wounded soldiers at the Zeughaus in Berlin when he spoke af a heroes’ memorial day ceremony. badly needed for the recreation center at Excursion Inlet. Tians- portation is at present available and anyone having items to donate should call the Empire early to- morrow if possible. with Alas- | | Leaving here today |ka Coastal Airlines for Sitka were | Pete Alberico, O. G. Layman, Don- jald R. Neal, Alben F. Young, In- |nocent William, Jr., Miss H. Grop-! !per and for whitewater Bay, Abe| Hospital for medical attention. Mrs. Myrtle Lind entered St.| Ann’s Hospital yesterday for sur-| gery. Theodore Anderson was an in-| coming surgical patient at St. Ann's Hospital Saturday. Mrs. Elsie Pratt has entered the | Erickson. | Government Hospital for care, | Leaving here today for Excursion Inlet were, J. J. Standish, Fritz| Fieldheim, D. H. Price, Jack Mec- | Gellin, A. Smih, N. A. Smith, W.| Howard, R. Iness, A. E. Hill and D.| | Brandeberry. { | Arriving in Juneau from Excur- ismn Inlet were Charles Chuch, R. ’N. Grenfeel, M. R. Mathewson. ——ee ALASKA BUREAU "~ OF MINES HEAD BACK IN JUNEAU | R. 8. Sanford, in charge of the | U. 8. Bureau of Mines operations | for strategic minerals in Alaska, re- |turned to his Juneau headquarters by steamer today after an official business trip to the States, to the Bureau's regional headquarters in Raleigh, Mo., and to New York. The trip was made in connection with further planning for this year's operation of the Bureau's war mineral exploration program |in Alaska, and Sanford reports imany projects will be opened up as |s0on as the weather permits. Several engineers already are in Alaska, and others are on their way. Norman Ebbley, Jr., in charge of one of the projects near Fair- banks last year, is on his way back to resume work'in the Interior. Harold Heide, who supervised work on the Seward Peninsula tin pro- ject last year will return as soon as possible to resume work there. Two other engineers, one enroute, are coming later to start projects, one in the Interior, the other in Western Alaska. On the train trip to New York| through the Eastern United States, Sanford noted that autos appeared to be extinct. He said you could run ilong an important highway for 20 miles without seeing an auto, and then it would be only one—the results of gasoline rationing. medical patients at St pital, have been discharged. Hughes, .have been dismissed from St. Ann’s Hospital | their homes. Elmer Jordan and Jack Jadoff, Ann's Hos- | | NICE RESCUE WORK — Gene Goodwin, tn breeches, Ann Pyle and Katharine| pugy, helps in Los Angeles rescue demonstration by coast guards ' both surgical patients, ik i Mrs, and have returned * There is no substitute for newspaper advertisin WATER FOR DESERT FIGHTERS_Emphasizing the difficulty of keeping the Allied . armies of North Africa supplied with water, two-gallon cans of the precious liquid are unloaded from flat-bottomed landing boats and packed on a truck for delivery to Gen. Sir Bernmard L. Mont- B gomery’s British Eighth Army during the Libyan offensive. Note the cans are easily carriea by hand. 'BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH T SWOW ¥ SERMIDY SUORE \S SO0 THNY O T NARVES - TS JES' AS CAN AN PEACENBLE QS SN WK v By BILLY DeBECK .