The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1943, Page 3

MONDAY ,MAY 10, 1943 PETE SMITH NEWS ' THEATRE SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU 25,000LAY DOWNARMS, ONE SECTOR AnotherTw"e'htfy-fiveThou- sand Are C by British Forces (Continued { antirad Upiuivd m Page ¢ the northern my has been afternocn in all of region where the e cut off by the wec of the British First Afmy that drove through Tunis and cleaned up the Bulk of the Axis Armored forces there The total number of prisoners taken by the Americans is over 2 000 and this in addition to 25,00 taken by the British, Several German Generals are among those surrender The British armored fcrces, strik- ing south and southeastward from the Hamman Lif area on the Gulf of Tunis, southeast of the con- quered Capital City, found the Ger- mans at le stiffening there, temporarily The official communique ys there is stiff fighting, which is in a confused state, late this af- ternoon 1 The British force has pushed ahead however with for- ward patrols and has reached a point 12 miles south of Creteville, which has placed them near the center of the Peninsula’s base. They have deployed to other areas where some troops on the Peninsula are attempting to get away. The at- tempted escape of the enemy forc- es in some cases amounted to al- most a panic. The AMied Air forces are attack- ing those attempting to escape both on land on sea. Many boats laden with soldiers have been sunk and the men clung desperately to rafts after the vessels submerged. In some instances the escapees tried to ward off air attacks by waving white flags. - armored DIVORCES GRANTED Divorces have been granted by Judge George F. Alexander in the Federal District Court to Leola Ira Sweeney from Ray Leonard Sweeney, Lillian Pear]l Stokes from John Henry Stokes, and Evelyn Brown from Robert Brown. - e - Empire Classifieds Pay! COLORFUL IS i LOCALE FOR COMEDY PLOT Irene Dunne and Patric| | Knowles at Capifol in | "lady ina Jam” | What happens to & delightfully] irresponsible Manhattan. hei when she goes broke and discovers| the extravagant life she has led has, comjpletely unfitted her to cope with life’s normal problems—in- | cluding love? i Gregory La Cava has used this premise for his gay Universal com- starring show- edy, “Lady in Jam,” Irene Dunne, which is now ing at the Capitol Theatre. ic Knowles, Ralph Bellamy, Pallette, Queenie Vassar T S. Hinds head the t of players. is the delightfully daft he “Lady in a Jam who go goes West to Ari- zona to work an abandoned gold mine in a ghost town. She finds that life in the raw is astonishingly different and for more exciting from | mediately recognized by BUSY FLIGHT CALENDAR FOR ~ COASTALPLANES Alaska Coastal took the following to Excursion Inlet this morning: Ray Raynor, Harry Raynor, Verne Hoke, James Huston. Can't Fool Gatemenat Hollywood But Stars iike It When John Wright, George B. Norris, Jot A. Smitl d Norman S. Makeup Destroys ~ jonn & smith an i i | Flying to Haines were E. L. Grif- The" |dem“y |fin and G. L. Beach. Taking the " plane from Skagway enroute to By ROBBIN COONS Juneau were H. L. Robinson, Mur- HOLLYWOOD—One time, in his \u "y acour, Joseph Snyder, R. L. early days as a pre ent, an en-| i U E T, Pope and W. A. ergetic young mam we shall call Armstrong From Sitka were Vic Reeder, Mrs. Hoethko, Mrs. P. J. Hussey, Mrs. Sully Frank Perrett, because that is his true hancock, thought he had come 1p with a new one. The gateman,” said he, with art- J Milnes and Henr ful enthusiasm, to his boss, “failed| G0Ing to Excursion Inlet yester- to recognize Colleen Moore when|d8y with Alaska Coastal were| she came through the studio gate|James O'Conners, John P. Hado this morning!” (Colleen was play-|sky, Tony Zerek, O. L. Wigerson, ing an old woman that day for E. H. Camden and George F. “So Big:" the time was 1925). Wright. Deturning to Juneau were THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA | Returning were Chester E. Green, A Williams flew to Haines, and mak-‘ AIRCHAINS | _ RAPPED BY ~ COURT RULE | - | WASHINGTON, May 10. — The| | Supreme Court of the United States {today upheld the restrictions im-| (posed by the Communications Com- | mission regarding chain broadcast-| ing | Associate Justice Frankfurter de- {livercd the 5 to 2 decision to chal- {lenge regulations of the National| | Broac ng Company and of Col-| umbia | Among other thfngs broadcasters| have contended is that the regula- {tion: prevent a station from grant- {ing «n option to the network organ- |ization for any period of its broad- casting time. | | The companies also asserted that| the regulations barring exclusive contracts with affiliated stations |bave caused the networks ¢ damage., | Justices Murphy and Roberts dis- isented in the decision, while Justi-| Black and Rutledge did not| The majority opinion | ces | participate. read “The Communications Act auth- jorized the Commission to promul- {gate regulations designed to correct | collection of income | man THOUSANDS ARE TAKEN PRISONERS Offensive, Then Capture of Tunis, Bizerte Witness Many captives The perpetrator of that harmless | phony didn't know, and may not !know until he reads this, how close (he was to the truth. For a gate- |man who can't recognize the stars |of his lot, no matter how they are |made up, isn't worth his weight in | film. Let's give the poor, maligned gateman five minutes to refute the | slander. Our spokesman will be Irving Gibbs, now at Twentieth Century, who's been watching them come and go for more than 25 years. “The truth of the matter,” says Centinued from Page One) Brother Gibbs, “is that a gateman - has to spot the stars, no matter ans and British. what they have on their faces. Buit It is revealed that Maj. Gen.|if he's got good sense, there's many Omar Bradley commanded the vic-ja time that he pretends he doesn't torious forces of the United States know them Second Army in the capture of| Nothing deflates a playing Bizerte having taken over from|qa character role more than to have Patton who has been assigned to recognize him through his the rugged mountainous section. | up the first time he appears In Tunis, the British quickly in it around the studio. Just think, mopped up sniping | the chances are he had to be in the As one truckload of Italian pris-|makeup department by 5:30 in the s were rolled away, a few wise- | morning and the boys worked on cracks were made. One TItalian. him until 9, putting on whiskers, speaking perfect English said: | puilding wrin and maybe add- “Hurrah, we are now on the way|ing a scar nd there. Makeup to New York and you are on the|men love to put scars on ‘acto way to Italy.” | T don’t know why. Boy, did we have - 'a time when they made ‘Black Swan’ and had all those pirates! PENNY DRIVEIS | .. .. who's a little over 30, but he al- ON wAv IODAY' 1\\ ays plays old men. For “The Moon ' Is Down’ he wears a wig of thin- APPEAl IS MADE nish white hair and a scraggly mus- 3 ‘mcnc Lige a good gateman, part One of the twenty-one children ©f Whose job is to help keep every- from Alaska being treated at the body happy, I pretended I didnt Children’s Orthopedic Hospital, Se- |know him and made him show me attle, now is Eugenia, a 7-year-old | Dis studio pass. Boy, he was flat- girl from Juneau. Eugenia is crip- |tered! pled with tuberculosis of the spine| “T'd never met Orson Welles be- and” has been at the Orthopedic |fore he came here for ‘Jane Eyre. since October. I'd heard different ideas about him, She is just one of the many child- but T've learned since he is a regu- ren who will be aided by funds col- 1ar fellow. Anyway, the first day he came in all fixed up in dark make- up with his hair wild, something done to his nose, and I said, polite- ly, ‘Good morning, Mr. Welles. lected throughout the Northwest by Orthopedic Penny Drives during the first two weeks in May. Penny Drive envelopes with their ed heart and appeal to “open your | Brother, that was unkind. I could heart, will you help a crippled se¢ him wince. I shouldn’t have child” were distributed today in |done it.” Juneau by Mrs. George F. Alexand- TR e U er and her committee. In Douglas, Mrs, W. E. Cahill will have charge ; of the Penny Drive for Mrs. Alex- ander { So, save your pennies this week, | TIDES TOMORROW Low tide—0:10 a.m, 62 feet High tide—5:58 am., 12.7 feet. and when down town, leave them | ? g in Penny Drive envelopes, conven- | Tew ! tde-1aibtipanl 8 et iently displayed in shops and offices,| High tide—7:30 pm., 117 feet. or give them to your youngsters loi LENIHAN HERE take to school for the envelopes in | every school room. | B. Lenihan, with CAA, flew “Open your Heart and Help a in from Anchorage on Saturday Crippled Child.” |and is at the Gastineau Hotel. The Old e M-10 American tank destroyers, one of the United States’ newer weapons of destruction, pass an ancient and New in North Africa T mT————— 4 Arab farm as they rumble up to the North African front, .M. McKinley. vers is Lee Cobb, | RUMLPLAN | PASSED BY | (OMMITTEE WASHINGTON, May 10. — The| Senate Finance Committee has| completed a modified version of)| the Ruml-Carlson “Skip-a-Year" | measure devoted to the taxes. } the final favorable| Chairman George, said a report of the measure made today to the Senate, asking that the debate start Wednesday The committee altered provisions in the windfall sections, the final providing in general that Recording vote of 13-8, action was |9 PAGE THREE BRENDA JOYCE “ Where the Better BIG Pictures Play ASSTAMPBUG, | Gfifb’“ rENTUR, 20TH CENTURY Richard Iraws Comedian£ | Spencer Charters Aiso | in ‘Postman’ Comedy Brenda Joy role in “The| current | Postman Didn't Ring,” 20th Cen- | tury-Fox romantic drama, now playing at the 20th Century Thea- | tre, will cost her money. The blonde | star portrays an avid stamp collec- tor who hunts rare ones and finds ‘ love. [ Although she previously had no sive to collect stamps, she now | rabid enthusiast, for it seems the education in philately she! is a that inyone with an income s\hnonnnll\'”:m during production, kindled her | large during the year which ob- tained the tax abatement must pay on the excess over “norm RAID MADE BY BOMBERS, SOLOMONS| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, May 10. — American bombers went into action Sunday near Gizo Island, the middle of the! Solomons, and one 1,000-pound bomb hit one Japanese destroyer, | sending it down, and other half- ton bombs are believed to have hit or nearly hit several other de- stroyers. HOME - FRON LEGISLATION WASHINGTON, May 10.—Legis- lation to set up an Independent Ci- vilian Supply Administration to equal that of the Armed Services, for goods and supplies needed on the home front, has passed the enate by 44 to 29 and sent to the House. - STAR AIRLINES R L | BUY WAR BONDS ! PLANE ARRIVE Alaska Star Airlines plane flew in Saturday from Anchorage with pilot Chet Brown and co-pilot Ed Bowman. Passengers coming here from the Westward were Mrs. Mary Morray, Chester Guebb, Mr. and Mrs. Ed- gar F. Russell, Mrs. Magnus Han- sen, Mrs. Jessic Welch and Clif- ford B. Linehan. Flying out yesterday were K. K. Harnish, J. J. Zober, Henry Foster, Art Beaudin and Con Bentzen for Anchorage. Maurice L. Boyd for Yakutat and Stanley Bartsen for Cordova. .- IRL THATCHER IN Irl A. Thatcher, well known sales- man, arrived here Sunday from Ketchikan. He is registered at the Baranof. Showin The boss just smiled and said|Lewis G. McDonald, Doug Heay, the gateman not-recognizing-the- |Hubert L. Taylor, Vince Yakopatz, no one, not even an enthusiastic|genbottom Perrett, could get it in print again.| Leonard Morganstern and Louise story was written that Colleen, jng the return trip were C. H. made up as an old lady, was im-|Schambel, Tommy Wood and Mrs. . v e abuses such as those disclosed by it | Coming in from Excursion WIth |y 1 jnyestigation of chain broad- one of the planes were George we find that the action of the Com- son Alford. |mission has been based upon' find- Making a trip from Skagway which were pursuant to the author- |Schenk and James A. Long. ity granted by Congress. f Mrs. J. Clark, Ronald Search, Joe | “It is not for us to say that the |Murray and Frank E. Cashel went | public interests are furthered or | were Howard R. Smith, Robert D.|gulations.” | Baker, Julie Baker, Ole Scarbo and ¥ S Mrs. John Winther, Jr. HEAVY loSSES Jimmy, the Alaska Coastal returned | here with Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Me- | land, Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Quinn and Irl A. Thatcher. ‘ the following: Chester E. Strand, | | C. E. Gallagher, T. Spaulding, B. W. Saxl and A. C. Steele. On the | return were Charles Fontaine, Ju- lius 4 | Paulson, Eugene Johnson and Paul| LONDON, May 10. — The Axlfii Pinishing up the trip Saturday in the retreat in Africa which began fternoon, a flight was made to with the reconquest of Ethiopia. Excursion with the following: A.| These figures are based on offi- V. Teshery, John Headland, K. S.|clal announcements made from vanaugh. On the return to Ju- In North Africa alone the Axis neau were Stephen McNeil and from |are estimated to have lost 426,000 Hoonah, Jin McKinley and Mrs. |S0ldiers not including the 50,000 ‘cnptux'cd around Bizerte and Tunis. Tom Morgan chartered a plane s 5 Another trip to Excursion: Pnul; Galong, Walter P. Ehn, Richard| AT COLD S‘I'ORAG Rafelty, Earl Spaulding and Don! Hansen. Returning were: M. F. X | Three halibuters sold fish today Another plane from Excursion, 2t the Juneau Cold Storage with brought in Anthony C. Steele, w“_‘prlcos set at 14.%, and 12.% cents and William Noel. | The Reliance, Capt. Albert Green- | Passengers coming here on a Jast | Wald, sold 4,700 pounds to the Alas- ber, Al Seeliger, James Reed and| °0° Capt. Tom Sanders, 10,000 |Alberta E. Seidler. . |pounds to the New England Fish ‘ . |to Booth Fisheries. | | R Saturday Dinner | |soups should have a speck of salt | added. And you can mix in a dash | . 0fWedded Couple == | Corporal and Mrs. Horace Free- Methodist Church, entertained their attendants at a Saturday Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. Tulips and candelabra adorned gracious in the newly assumed re- sponsibilities as host and hostess. Mrs. L. H. Hodges, arrived yes- | and will visit her sister, Mrs. Tho- mas J. Jacobsen in Juneau. mining operator in the Atlin dis- | trict and like other gold miners | duration. | star-story was such old stuff that|Harry J. Small and Edward Hig- Whereupon, a bet was made. the gate-|ward Kelly. . casting. Our duty is at an end when |Humsky, Russell Lindley and By-‘ ings which supported the evidence |were William H. Short, William C. |to Sitka by plane. On the return |retarded by chain broadcasting re- Making a trip to Sitka with Lee A plane went to the Inlet with Ciasto, Lynn Young, Olar| Anacher, have lost more than 750,000 troops, Kiger, C. Lancaster and C. D. Ka- time to time. i e |for Mitchel Bay and return. \]'HREE BOATS SEll | Noftz and A. F. Parker. |liam Wolfe, M. L. Boyd, Margaret|8nd 1485 and 1285 cents. flight from Sitka were Johp J. Zo-|kd Coast Fisherles; the Persever- | Co.; and the Tenessee, 7,000 pounds l Whipped cream used for topping For Attendants | |of chopped parsley for extra sea- man, married last Friday at the evening dinner party held in the the table, and the bridal couple was | ! U | ATLIN'S ONLY WOMAN | terday by steamer from Skagway, Mrs. Hodges is the only woman has ceased operations for the war's ——————— | Here is a new home-made sand- |wich spread: Mix equal portions chopped cooked ham and roasted | peanuts, add 1/4 as much chopped jcelery and onions, moisten with ;a(sup, chili sauce or mayonnaise. Irenc Dunnc leaves the social whirl to gal of the West in “Lady in gii Capitol ‘ become a rootin’-tootin’, rip-rarin’ a Jam,” a comedy-riot! years.with her interes Richard Travis shares top billing in the film, whose sup-| porting t features Spencer Char- ters, Stanley Andrews and others. - HOSPITAL NOTES Richard C. Gordon has emeredl\ Aun’s Hospital for medical care. | St Mrs. C. L. Wingerson was an in- | coming medical patient at St. Ann's | Hospital Saturday Mrs. Bert Bertholl have left St. Ann’s returned home and baby girl Hospital and Mrs. Sam Devon, at St. Ann's Hospital for surgery, has returned | home. | Harold Dick was discharged yes- terday afterfoon from the Govern- ment Hospital. Jim H. Hodges has entered St. Ann’s Hospital for surgery. | | Lewis E. Hill, Willlam A. Russell | and Jake Hirsch were medical pa-| tients admitted yesterday at St.| Ann's Hospital. Emile Forhill is a newly admitted medical patient at St. Ann's Hospi- tal. | | Mrs. Martha Nelson last night became the mother of a bahy boy, born at the Government Hospital. Mildred Jacobs and Charles! | Howard were incoming patients at| .(3) The War Department, | the Government Hospital recently. sonified by Secretary Henry H. C. Kemmer, surgical patient at St. Ann's ospital, has been dis- charged. Mrs. Otto Smithberg was an out- | going surgical patient at St. An Hospital yesterday. Mrs. Peter Howard and her baby girl, and Mrs. Flora Jones have been discharged from the Govern- ment Hospital, e B LSRN T Luncheon Party for Mary Thjtzt_)deau Sat. A birthday luncheon party cele-| brating Mary Thibodeau's twelfth | anniversary was given at her home| last Saturday. Following the lunch- eon and games at the family resi-| dence, the youngsters attended a! matinee performance, Those present were Mary Lou Fagerson, Josephine, Lois and Ag- nes Hared, Arleen Godkin, Zelma Gross, Joan Martin, Sue Mullen,! Iva Schulpelz, Virginia DeGanahl, Jeannette Doucette and Joan Wil- liamson. SATURDAY EVENING POST ITEM PRAISES WORK OF DR HAYS Written as a vignette on page 94 of the May 8 Saturday Evening Post is a tribute to the 1938 health program of Flint, Michigan, where Dr. George Hays was then city health director. Describing the health depart- ment’s progressive work on sanita- tion there, the item explains that a course in sanitation is now a pre- requisite for getting a work permit in that city, and as a result few if any cases of food poisoning occur. - ATTENTION ODD FELLOWS Regular meeting I1.O.OF. to be held Tuesday, May 11. Work will be conferred in the first degree. | | ozar A 20th CONTURY-FOX PICTURE' ——AND— 5 OF THE JUNGLE" Cartoon—“BACK TO THE SOIL MINUTES 30 Uiz v 30 | THEATRE] Now Playing .. . “A Gentleman at Heart" {Real ""War Cabinet” of President Is Revealed; Close ""Advisers” Nofed (Continued from Page One) is “czar” of the home front amd probably exercises more authority than any man in the country mqr than the President. et Stimson and, more importantly, Chief of Staff Gen. George C. uv- shall. | o (4) “The Navy Department, . pet- sonified by Secretary Frank Khbx and commander in Chief: As 1 Ernest J.' King. i (5) The State Department, fi‘o’r- sonified by aging Secretary Cor- dell Hull and, more importantly, Under Secretary of State sudd'r Welles. ¥ You will note that in tHe last three instances, I have named de- partments and used the ph “personified by.” That's because“th departments are vital in the war Gabinet, but no observers here be- lieve the men at the head of them have been entrusted with poligy- making authority to anywhere near the same extent as Byrnes.or the President. I don’t mean that there are mot other powerful figures in Washing- ton. There are those men clos the President, his "ndvlurs":% Harry L. Hopkinses, Judge Samugl LI Rosenmans, Bernard Bar ete, and there is that most impor ant fellow, Director of the By Harold D. Smith. By being ri more often than a “curmudg (as he calls himself) has any right to be, interior secretary and il Harold L. Ickes has e respect in inner circles thl:.“;e ever had before. Wilson, Brown, Attorney General Francis Biddle, Manpower Commis- sioner Paul V. McNutt, and the na- tion’s No. 1 home-front lender, retary of Commerce Jesse Jones all have their niches. Vice Presidént Henry Wallace has.one, too, and it may well be that Food Admin- istrator Chester Davis will almost make the wartime varsity. Ma Wilson will too. s Yet none of these others really helongs to the “steering committee” that has the final say when chips are down. Not at the sent writing, anyway. Never since national defense started have the reins been in so few hands. T oY MBI S Save the date, Sat, May 1§ MEL MARTIN, adv. Noble Grand. | Annual DFD Dance with Beb Tew's Orchestra. adv. 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