The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 19, 1943, Page 3

3 ’ WEDNESDAY, MAY GLAMOUR GIRLS WATCHOUT!! 19, 1943 HERE She's COMES Fiuq-cu!tin‘ Jitterbug SHIRLEY - NOwW! AR GK LBEE N\OO“E antists ited P od U U —PLUS— “Stranger Than Fiction’ Everyone Sing HAS THE BIG PICTURE We wanted it to be certain the formation and there is still a need for secrecy,” said Knox Massacre Bay ern end of Attu, mentioned by the Navy as one of two principal land- ing of the U. S. froops, was actt named Massacre. The Na= Geographic Society relates ey that ack fur hunters massa- (Cantinued Troms Page One) cred 15 native Aleutians at that i 1745 soon after the Rus- iax an to move into the is- “greatly help,” said Secretary Knox, [.." . by permitting available American s i air power to be thrown against the Japanese positions and soften them Up for the land attack Complete Secrecy The Secretary said the operation was initially accomplished « with complete secrecy and no serious op- position until the American troops landed on the beaches and then the opposition became ‘“very stren- uous and stubborn.” One reason why secrecy was par- BOMBER IN FLAMES IN KISKARAID ticularly important, said the Navy a Secretary, was that vessels worked through treacherous —reef-strewn (Continiiad from Page One) harbors offered an- feet deep and waters where chorages only 14 Trained in the A. A. F. West had the enemy fire opened %00 Goast Training Center (he graduat- soon, our losses might have been eq from Luke Field Arizona, in De- much heavier. As it was, said Knox, cember, 1941), the twenty-four- our landings were “risky and un- vear-old flyer is the son of Mrs. certain of succi This was the Lillian Mills, 627 W. Mercer Pl, Se- need for secrecy, Knox said, and attle. He is an alumnus of Queen information was held up as Jdong Anne High School and the Univer- as possible. sity of Washington We Appreciate Pan American Airways appreciates the patience and understanding of our friends in Alaska at this time when every passenger and every ounce of cargo is subject to military priority. After Victory, Pan American will pioneer new standards of service for Alaska., AIRWANS PAIN AMERICAN T) AD OLESCENTS o ADVENTURE IN LIGHT COMEDY Shirley Temple in ""Miss Annie Rooney” at Capitol Agdinst a gay, laugh-filled back- ground of delightful comedy and rich humor, Shirley Temple is pre- sented as a Modern Miss, who gets her first romantic screen Kiss in the new Edward Small production, M Annie Rooney opening to- night at the Capitol Theatre under the auspices of United Artists. This new picture was directed by Ed Marin from the screenplay writ- ten by George Bruce In the film, Shirley is seen as a girl who »s on the wrong side of he tracks but wins everyone on| both sides with her warm loveliness nd infectious yety. She is the retired police- an insurance of man and daughter of calesman who would rather promote billion-dollar ideas than work at his granddaughter a job When Annie Roney gets her family mixed with that of a social- ite boy friend from Park Avenue, the complications astounding and side-splitting. But it all comes just right, with Annie inno- cently engineering for her father’s big idea - SHIPPING LOSSES TO NORTH AFRICA EXTREMELY LIGHT Remarkab!ertampaign on Seas from United King- are ol suceess dom, U. S. Reponed Iwith past president Mis. J. P Williams as installing officer, and | ALLIED H[‘AI)QU‘R TERS IN Mrs. Ray Wolfe as page NORTH AFRICA, May 19.—Ship-| Reviewing the accomplishments | ping losses of moving enormous Of the past year, retiring president, numbers of men and supplies to Mrs. Thomas S. Parke summarized North Africa for the Allied cam-'the principal accomplishments of| paign amounted only to two and the organizations as including knit- sixteen hundredths percent of thelting and sewing for the Red Cross total traffic as well as participation in the an It is officially announced that,nual drive for funds; activity in from November 8, 1942, to May 8,|the Victory Book drive; Red Shield 1943, a total of more than 11,000,- \mending; U.S.0. patron AWVS 000 gross tons of shipping arrived projects before the opening of the at North African ports including local USO; War Savings Depart- Casablanca, from the United States| ment participation in entertainment and United Kingdom programs for military personnel, Since traffic goes both ways, the|purchase of War Bonds; fat sal- tonnage actually escorted by The|yage American and British navies was| “Educational and cultural aspects more than 22,000,000 tons of club work have been empha- B30 e sized by the Fine Arts and Educ tion Department, with programs | said REGULATIONS ARE SLIGHTLY CHANGED On May 13, Assistant Secretar_\" of the Interior Chapman signed amendments to the Alaska Fishing| Regulations advancing the opening| date for commercial fishing on the| Yukon River from June 1 to May| 21; reopening the Ugashik District | of Bristol Bay to commercial fish- | ing;" eliminating the mid-week | closed periods in the Alaska Pen-| insula and Bristol Bay districts, except for Ugashik, and advancing the opening date of herring fishing in Kodiak quota waters from July 1 to June 18. This information has been re- ceived here by Frank W. Hynes, Assistant Fishery Supervisor. - - Outdoor Nature Activities for Girl Scouts Set Juneau-Douglas Girl Scouts be- gin their outdoor nature activities tomorrow afternoon at 3:45 o'clock in the Odd Fellows Hall, when Alva Blackerby of the U. S. Forést Serv- ice will give a talk on trees growing in this vicinity. Mr. Blackerby will also show slides of plant life and scenery of Alaska. “Both discussion and pic- tures will be used by Scout lead- ers as background material in be- ginning the new field work planned for the summe it is explained, while tomorrow’s meeting makes a particularly good time for girls to begin Scouting work, because en- tirely new activities are now being organized. All girls who plan to attend the Girl Scout summer camp at Eagle | River are asked to take their filled- | out application blanks and the ini- | tial fee of $2 to turn in at tomor-| row’s meeting. | — ., — Brown, cangeryman from M. G. | Prince William Sound, flew in to Juneau yesterday afternoon. He is at the Gastineau Hotel. | ceived with madrked interest. MRS. McCORMICK IS INSTALLED AS JWC PRESIDENT of the year for active Juneau Woman's Club ed last evening with the in- stallation banquet and ceremonies held in the social rooms of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church, with about 50 present Beginning at 6:30 o'clock, dinner was arranged by the Execu- tive Board of the Club with George Rice as chairman (‘ht‘[‘riul Social the highlight oce the bouquets of yellow daffodils dressed | the tables, while candles every- where made pools of dancing light Yellow candles flanked the floral centerpieces, while small birthday candles in gumdrop holders we! eac! Wee baskets hold- ing sprigs snow on the fgvors lace of individual Ray Wolfe were used in that McCormick place airy mountain were arranged by Mrs White tapers candlelighting stalled Mrs. club president Other officers ins Mrs. Burrs mith, vice president; Mrs. James Cole, recording secre- tary; Mrs. Willilam Gulbransen, corresponding secretary; Mrs. D, W. Herron treasurer Miss Madge Mutchmore, custodian. During the evening the incoming president also announced appointment of two de- the ceremony John in- as talled were partment chairmen—Mrs. M. O. Johnson as chairman of the War Service Department, and Mrs. J P. Williams as chairman of the Membership Department { Following the dinner, which wi served by girls of the Senior Girl Scout troop, Mrs. Henry Harmon sang a delightful group of solos A reading, “George’s Buggy Ride,” given by Mrs. R. B. Lesher, w greatly enjoyed. Mrs. Norman Ru tad, president of the Douglas Is- land Woman's Club, was introduced at the meeting Installation of officers took place Civic Improvement, American |Home, and Legislative departments were also listed as being purpose- fully active during the year, while the Building Board has operated | efficiently, she said In closing, Mrs am pleased to pa: along the honor of being president of the Juneau Woman's Club to a fellow mem- ber who has worked faithfully And untiringly for the organization.’ Cooperation Necessary Following presentation of the | president’s pin to Mrs. McCormick ithe new president spoke briefly, thanking the organization for faith Parke said: “I in her ability, but also pointing out that the close cooperation of every member was necessary for the success of the new club year. “The success of the year's activi- ties depends on the members rather than on the president,” she stated Films lent by the Office of War Information were shown to the group by Dr. George A. Dale, as- sociate supervisor of education for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The films, with sound tracks, were re- “Wo- men in War Activities” and “West- ern Front” were those shown. The installation banquet closes the year of club activities until next September, when the group will reconvene for the new calen- dar of meetings. B Key West was the first native source of sponges in Amel THE DAILY ALASKA EM Mrs. | PIRE _JUNEAU ALAS "MOONTIDE" 1S - COMING TONIGHT AT 20TH CENTURY French Actor Jean Gabin| lda | | Makes Debut | Lupino Co-starred A screen event of major import- |ance will take place tonight at the |20th Century Theatre when Jean lGulv.vv great French star American film debut in 20 ntury-Fox's “Moontide,” the stirring story of life along the Paci- {fic waterfront, adapted from the best-selling novel of Willard Rob- | erts who in recent years has been recognized the greatest star of French films, gives a perform- ance which is said to outshine any {of his previous c! cterizations in a part which is tailor-made for his {virile type of acting. It is a credit |to his studio that “Moontide” was picked as the vehicle to best in- troduce Gabin to the great mass of American moviegoers For a co-star, Ida Lupino was chosen. It was felt she could best| complement Gabin's realistic and powerful role in the film. Thomas |Mitchell and Claude Rains, two of Hollywood's outstanding character actors, were added to the cast, and John O'Hara, the famous novelist s assigned to the adaptation of| the sto | Archie Mayo, noted for his hand- g of many of filmdom’s out-| standing performers ,was chosen to s{direct the film. The entire produc- tion was placed in the hands of Producer Mark Hellinger : According to preview critics, the |transition from French to Ameri- |ean films, has, for Gabin, been a |remarkably successful one. In short “Moontide” is a screen event which |every moviegoer should experience - Long Movie Coming Up Very Soon By ROBBIN COONS | HOLLYWOOD--Most of us [haven't seen “For Whom the Bell }mlls at all, and won't until it’s but there's a man in town who has seen it every ‘day for nearly 40 days The “Bell” in that |amount is so proud and secretiv about, so secretive they scarcely mention except in loud land hu s0 hush-hush that| | nobody Paramount (except maybe few tops) can look. And the man who has seen the “Bell” so much is Sherman Todd who is an associate producer at RKO .That shows how, things be- |ing equal, the en't. Todd lent | himself to Paramount to be film editor on the “Bell” and cut it down ‘to size, but it's still about the long- est movie Hollywood ever made— longer than “Gone With the Wind released in July, it s, at the And good, very good, says Todd Warner Baxter, _after “Crime Doctor,” can be sure he'll be a pop- ular how the . made chair- rationing He'll no matter turns out. He's be man of the gasoline board in the Malibu district be popular, that is, with some They've put up 20th to house the overflow for lot's plaster department place since materials began ting scarce. Plaster, cheap plentiful, can duplicate any ber of priority board sidings, corrugated iron, wood flooring, metal fixtures, etc. There's plaster all over the big Lourdes vil- lage set for “The Song of Berna- dette,” plaster that fools the cam- era. The department has doubled its staff, works 10 hours a day. They're putting so much civil- ian talent into “This Is The Army” that Lhe question is sure to come up: True words department (spoken by the Devil in “Heaven Can Wait”:) “. . . .were so0 busy down hele—mully, sometimes guy the a get- and .where in Sahara,” hi: picture Par-| yells | & get a| o “WRlI?” circus tent at| busy | num- | materials—shingles, | it luoks as Where the Buy More Stamps 4 DAY S— ‘i KNOW ALL “But that guy. “HE’'S who lif the whole world is coming to hell!” When Humphrey Bogart was on location in' the desert for “Some- s hotel boasted 16-year-old boy a bellhop Mario, |who became the movie's mas |One day Mayo Methot (Mrs. Bo- art) asked Mario if he liked the | Bogart role Yankee tank com- | mander who keeps Afrika Kor Nazis from taking an old Sahara | fortress. “Naw,” said Mario, “Well, why not?"” “It’s like this. In ‘High Sierra’ lu‘ kept off a whole stateful of cops Lmd captured a whole mountain ‘Ill ‘Across the Pacific’ he saved the |Panama Canal. In ‘All Through ithe Night' he saved New York from Ithe Nazis.” Mayo asked expectantly “Aw, in this picture he's making he has a hard time holding a little bit of a fort that I could handle myself. Naw!” movie | ENEMY LOSS IN TUNISIA IS 324,000 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS NORTH AFRICA, May 19—Total German and Italian losses in the Tunisian campaign from the smash- ing of the Mareth Line to over- coming the last resistance in North Africa, numbered 324,000 men, in- (cluding an estimated 30000 killed, 127,000 seriously wounded and 267, 000 captured. e e BUY WAR BONDE BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH Y JEEPERS Y ULL SUE TH NeNY DEPOTMENT TAEY GOT NO R\GHT TO GWE ORDERS T0 A NEWNITED STATES Broiled Steak and Fried Chicken SERVED ANY TIME DINE AND DANCE i O MBAIKE Nou OW NEAN 2 GENERBL ROSEWRTER OO T CaPTaW \NORK OR THE DOUGLAS IN OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT Betier BIG Picture (LN TUR TO KNOW ABOUT MEN... “And if you'd seen what I've seen ...you'd hate "em all, too! . one look from him . . . and I'm helpless like a dame who ain’t ever been kissed!"” ALL MAN" — Fred Othman United Press JEAN GABIN-IDA LUPINO 20- IN| Electric P/\(‘F THREE, Play??? Buy More Bonds TARTING TONIGHT! 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He expects to be away about 1 week. | GENERAL HARDWOOD [OD. - | Day War Workers, 5 Musicians at Night Domestic and Imported NEW YORK Morale has a dual meaning to that wacky or- |chestra known as the Korn Kob- HAnnwoons {blers. They make enough people ‘ldugh in these unpleasant days to | be really important as morale build- lers. But they have their own mor- lale to consider. So five days @ week, three mem- Complete Stock Ship Industrial bers of the orchestra work in the Cabi Rex Engineering oompany plant ‘abinet at Plainfield, N. J. One member Woods works on a farm. Three nights a - week, the band plays a Broadway night spot particularly popular Kiln Dried-—Alr Dried with service men HARDWOODS S AT R | In the vicinity of Tunis, Africa, ) INDIANA BENDING OAK more than a hundred varieties of dates grow on a million palm trees T SWOW Y, T THNK T SWF'LESS SKONKS QARE JES' HECKLW NME ON PURPOSE RS 5 Hammond Organ Music DINE AND DANCE