The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 15, 1943, Page 3

IHUR‘DA\ APRIL 15, 1943 LEE BOWMAN GETS GIRL IN SPY FiLM i LAST TIMES TONIGHT _ ACTION on the "Pacific Rehdézvous” at Capitol Theatre Has Fast Love, Action Scenes \\5 with LEE BOWMA Portraying a foreign correspon-| dent who enlists in the Navy to get a crack at the Japs, Lee Bowman is seen in his first romantic lead in) M-G-M's “Pacific Rendezvous,” | now playing at the Capitol Theatre. | Previously the handsome young lawyer from Cincinnati has played “the other man” who loves the girl | to the last reel of such pictures asj We Were Dancing” and “Kidj Glove Killer,” and loses her. i Bowman is Lt. Bill Gordon, Naval| code expert who tracks down an enemy spy ring working in the na- tion’s capital, in the timely drama Teamed with the actor is Jean Rogers, New England’s newest con- tribution to the screen. Miss Rogers portrays Elaine Carter, daughter of a high Naval official who humor-| cusly interferes with Bowman’s pri- | vate life and who is jealous with W | 90 MINUTES OF mmt' | +..with nuts on the loose and romance on the run! HERBERT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA 'FAN THRILLER MUSCLE STUFF: Coeds at the University of Colorado train for war duties on their own commando course. At gradua- tion, say the girls, they will be ready for anything from pitch- ing hay to rivets. OBSTACLE CRAWL SECOND FEATURE Not a Ladies’ Man with Paul Kelly—Fay Wray PREVUE TONIGHT 12:30 Show Place of Juneau PLANES FOR AUSTRALIA IS PROMISE Stimson Pledges Increas- ing Flow of War Materials A of air- supplies of War force of the il 15, flow military ATy WASHINGTON constantly increas craft and other is promised by Henry Stimson for Gen. Douglas MacArthur Southwest Pacific. Taking coghizance during a press conference of recent pleas ‘from Australia for additional planes to meet the more aggressive Jap aerial activity in recent weeks, Stimson said “we will keep our American and Australian fliers supplies with sufficient planes, not only to re- place our losses, but to build up our aircraft to counter the increas- ing enemy air strength.” Stimson’s comment came as mili- tary authorities here, although withholding the use of their names, expressed belief that Japanese oper- ations in the Pacific have passed the offensive stage to one of “ag- gressive defense.” These authorities saw, despite the enemy's increased air activity, lit- tle danger of a Japanese attempt to strike against Australia or any Secri the in RUNWAY BUILT IN AFRICAN FOREST — This runway was built by 150 East ~ African natives to enable an RAF plane to take off after it had been forced down. his carryings on, in the line of duty, with Mona Mari Hari modern other bastion strategy Natior T and de- important United They viewed as b rich Eas ions and other lands already cc quered velop the n- TOM HARMON ING, WAR ANN ARBOR, Michigan. April 15. arents of Tom Harmon, n's former All-American footbail player, have been notified by the War Department he has been missing in the South Ameri- can area since April. 8 Harmon enlisted in the Army Air Corps a year ago. D Munda Dumps Under Affack WASHINGTON, April 15— ican bombers made direct ammunition dumps at South Pacific, and also sta on that enemy spot. - PAUL URICK LEAVING Paul Urick, for some time stew- ard at the Moose Club and who was recently given a farewell party, is leaving late this afternoon or evening for the south. TIDES TOMORROW Low tide—5:38 am, High tide—11:42 am.,, Low tide—5:51 p.m., - e s e0 0000000 WEATHER REPORT . (U. S. Bureau) Temp. Wednesday, April 14: Maximum 49, minimum 37. Rain—.55 inch. e o o o o Ameri- hits on 3.7 feet. 14.1 feet. 17 feet. Munda, the arted fires Mata | kyo | SITKA, FALSE figgls’lulse Rainer EXCURSION F ; IsBack Acling good fly- tanley Kijell- advantage of weather were Gladys Mildren Beck and C |borg, passengers flying to Sitka this morning with Alaska Coastal, while five came to Juneau on the return trip: Harold Bates, Sitka attorney, Dave Fenton, Mar- aret Fenton, J. O. Gucker and Carl Ordahl Leaving Juneau for Excursion In- let this morning were Daniel and Sara Sharclane, Norah Rowan Glenn Huff and Dave Herring. | Arriving in Juneau from Excur- cion Inlet on the return trip were | Alfreda Bruce, John H. Burns, De | Vaugn H. Kushaw, Nuland A. Gay, Karl Ashbrunner and Rev. W. H. Matthews, Jr. Three passengers flew to False |Pass from here yesterday. Those !making the trip were K. Westfall, Harold Johnson and Kenneth Ede. Tom Morgan went to Sitka, and on return trip five passengers made the flight: Dan T. Kelly, Dan | Acts, Russell Maynard, John Wal- {mer and S. Ensto: To Sitka yesterd afternoon via Alaska Coastal also went Marion Welles, Leonard Shotridge, Nance | Church, Florence Church, Eliza- beth, Fannie, Willie and George Johnson, A. Blum, T. Peterson, Joe Moralis, E. K. Ruston, Martin| | Tings. ] From Sitka to Juneau yesterday, | Taking ing Mrs Little Lady Who Won Two Oscars Returns Again to Movieland By ROBBIN COONS lady who won two Oscars and ran away from Hollywood is back in our town, friendly toward it and not frightened any more. Pretty/ little Luise Rainer. She's been away too long—five vears—but now she’s back, star- ring for Director Frank Tuttle in a movie about the Czechoslovakian underground, “Hostages.” It's emotional thriller, with Luise in the kind of role that won her two academy awards in her three years here before. If you saw “The Great Ziegfeld” or “The Good Earth”— later pictures that drove her away, from M-G-M and Hollywood—you'll | |remember Luise. The small dark one with the'large dark eyes, the| wistful heart-shaped face, and the ‘hauntlng quality that was part passengers were Ivan E. Regan, gamin but mostly pure soul. |Mrs. L. G. Smith, H. G. Date and| ey Thomas A. Morgan. Luise even today won't say that Those flying to Excursion Inlet it was the bad pictures which caus | vesterday were Max Dickerson, jed her to throw up her picture Paul Helmick, R. M. Hiist, U. L. jcareer. But in her still halting, Vi-| | Mackay, William Humes. Return-|ennese-accented English, she will ing were C. S. McGuire, Donald L. talk about Hollywood, and Rainer, Davis and George S. Prior. jand why Hollywood frightened . Rainer and gave her a reputation {for being aloof and difficult after | her success. Let me tell you first about the (Rainer I first met, the intense lit- tle unknown who was fresh from Cleveland Ohio, is the largest ore market in the world Europe, dewy with the urge to act |for its own sake—“to give and ¢ and do the most beautiful,” |said. Then she made “Escapade and was an overnight suc g | “I was idiotically naive,” she says |today. “I was so new here and I {met such an amazing amount of |people. When they safl glad-to- meet-you and we-must-see-each |other-soon I believed them, com- |pletely. Then I have a little suc- |cess, and suddenly I am conscious of a change in people. I do not change but they do. If you are sen- | sitive you notice these things, and| she you know they are saying that you| have changed. It frightens you.| You become conscious that every-| thing you do is being interpreted | differently because you have had some acclaim. . . . ” Luise is trying |so hard to make herself under- | stood. | “I am a wild girl—not party- wild but I like to do mad things. I like to walk in the woods, and |T hate make-up, and I like to go| <blcycle-flding." she snys‘ “but 1 In Hollywood HOLLYWOOD — A pretty little | an! or even some of the pretty awful| found I could not do these thmgs fwithout being misunderstood—and I do not like that word. I made a miserable marriage (to Clifford Odets, the playwright) and it was not the fault of either of us but it was made more miserable by having jour troubles made public. I could not understand. { In short, she pulled up stakes. | She did plays in London and New | York. She gave up acting for war !work abroad. She came back to |America and did child welfare and * Red Cross work, and she went to | Columbia university to “try to put |tomething in this dumb head of | mine.” For two years, when she had con~ vinced herself that she had “no talent for acting,” she experienced |a kind of calm. Then war came to America, and she did a play— “I knew I had to do what I can do best. I had to act.” R NAVY TELLS - OFBOMBTO SINK SHIPS 'Buf Defeds of High Alfi- fude Bombing Can- cels Ifs Use DETROIT, April 15—Rear Ad- miral W. H. P. Blandy, chief of the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance, | today described an armor-piercing | bomb which can drive through the protective decks of a battleship and sink her, exploding in the ship’s interior. | He said the bomb is the answer to the problem of sinking heavily armored battleships, that it has seen especially designed to do the | job. But, he continued in he Detroit tain that abil an address | Economic Club, to y to drive through a half-foot of armor plate, the e plosive power must be sacrificed | and the high altitude needed would prove this bombing “almost useless against ships maneuvering in the open sea at a high speed.” He declared the best method of attack still is by dive-bombing. Van A. Bitiner s Appoinfed fo WlB WASHINGTON, April 15. — War Labor Board announces Pmsl- dent Roosevelt has appointed Van A. Bittner as a Labor member on the Board succeedirg Thomas Ken- nedy, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers, who has re- signed. Bittner is assistant to the Pres- ident of the CIO United Steel to IS 'MURDER BY INVITATION Chillsand Thrillsin Sinister Surroundings in 20th Century Theatre Film With Wallace Ford in the leading role, capably supported by a cast that includes Marian Marsh, Sar- ah Padden, George Guhl, Wallis Clark, and Gavin Gordon, the film “Murder by Invitation,” now play- ing at the 20th Century Theatre, | stacks up as a swiftly-paced mys- tery thriller with real entertain- ' ment punch, | The picture is notable also in that !it brings back to the screen Mar- ian Marsh, who has been in re- tirement for more than a year. | Director Phil Rosen, who seems to have a knack for making his films move along at a neat clip, surpasses himself with this one. Working from a screenplay by George Bricker, Rosen keeps the | action flowing continuouslly and builds smoothly to each situation, “Murder by Invitation,” tells the story of an eccentric old spinster who invites the prospective heirs to spend a week at her huge man- sion so she can decide who will get hol r()rlune MANY LEAVE LATE TODAY FOR SOUTH Arriving from Sitka this after- noon were the following for Ju- neau: John Murphy, Mrs. Mary Foster and E. L. Long. Sitkans going south on the ves- sel are Ray Carlson, Gordon An- rson, Pat Whalen, Mrs. Eleanor \hssmer. Homer White, Mrs. Ho- | mer White, Aaron Powers, Ralph Pochman. Leaving late this afternoon carly this cvening are the fouow ng from Juneau: For Seattle—H. N. Fulbright, Roy Johnson, Paul Urick, Sam Harper, . F. Gambles, Blanche Rollins, Sigrid Svenson, Pearl Svenson, Ray- mond Svenson, Williard Griffiths, O. Nilsen, R. Knoten, Charles At- water. I For Petersburg—Bessie Qulnba | Mercedes Quinto, Eliza Willlams, | | Randall Williams, Charlie Williams, | | Maria Williams, | For Wrangell—A. J. Morrison. | For Ketchikan—Anna Boer, Peggy Pelwick. Allléflfial | . InTunisia | | | | ALLIED | HEADQUARTERS IN ]NORTH AFRICA, April 15.—Com- |plete anpihilation of the powerful {German army in Tunisia, akin tp |the disaster inflicted on the Nazi |Sixth Army at Stalingrad, was set | {by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower last night as the Allied goal in Nortn Africa, “I am not yet able to say how the battle will go, but I hope and believe that the Battle of Tunis will be comparable to that of Sta- |lingrad,” he said Eisenhower described Field Mar- shal Erwin Rommel, who extricated |the German bulk of his Africa | Corps out of Southern and Central to Northern Tunisia, as “certain- ly a great general, but no super- man.” Smh&iiagooh - Will Be Locafed WASHINGTON, April 15. — The full story of the American air raid on Tokyo, including the location of the mythical Shangri-La, will be told soon for the first time. Director Elmer Davis of the Of- fice of War Information told re- porters today that unpublished de- tails of the rald would be released | | ini |soon by the army. He added, how- ever, he did not know whether the release would be in time for the first anniversary of the Tokyo Workers bombing, April 18. ‘Umted States is proud to be “work- ‘mg shoulder to shoulder” with the | Republics of Central ,Americu toward a “world-wide con- |cert of free Nationalists to consti- tute an International Soclety of the future.” President Roosevelt in a message | commemorating Pan-American Day. ! erning Board of the Pan-American Union. |day reflects the progress of “con- verting the dreams and asplraelons of the founders for continental in- dependence WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAYI TO0 ENTURY LAST SHOWING TONIGHT : IT'S A RENDEZVOUS WITH FEAR! :. 9¢ A famous Broadway columnist invades the shadowy mansion of a millionaire recluse and finds seven frightened people waiting for murder to strike! It's the weirdest mystery of the year! Produced by AW D:ACKEI. Directed by PHIL IOSEN Screonpley by GEORGE BRICKER "NIGHT OF - JANUARY 16th" “BIG SOCIETY CHARGE FOOD FOR FUTURE WASTED IN IS MAKING AkMY CAMPS Pre5|den1 Sends Message Claim 21 Percent Wastage Out Commemorating in Many U. §. Mili- Pan American Day fary Posts — The| WASHINGTON, April 15. — The Senate War Investigation Commit- tee discloses that a two-year stufly /by the Quartermaster Department of selected Army camps shows® 81 percent of the food wasted. * This testimony. was given to committee + in closed session. wastage was attributed to the tent and size of the ration issue, |soldiers' food preference and mess management. The committee * made "the mony public after Maj. Gen. ory, Quartermaster. General, said there “may be instances” in com- |nection with what Senator Mig has described—"huge quantities. | food being thrown out as gurb&]e" in some Army camps. > o 4 BUY WAR BONDS H WASHINGTON. Aprll 15. and South This is the assertion made by The message is sent to the Gov- President Roosevelt further sald that increasing observance of the into an effective and| harmonious means of International cooperation.” '\&\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\V\\“\\\\“\“\mfl!NV"II"!III/II/I//I/I///”M/W Our distilleries are 100% engaged in the production of alco- hol for war pur. y comes from P\ reserve stocks. Distributed by National Grocory Company, Seattle, Wmhhm 7 MM % wuat COWD BE WORE DELNGHTEWL SRAILNG BROWND SERMIDA 2 BABNEY GOOGLE AND SNUF FY SMITH TWNE'S A-WASTIN'Y By BILLY DeBECK | S W N T