The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1943, Page 3

Ld ‘modities against the government as|quist at her \Y 31, 1943 LACKADAISICAL MAISIE COMES IN NEW COMEDY Fast Talking Ann Sothern Wins Again in New Bill at Capitol Theatre The adventures of Maisie contin- ue fast and furious in Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer's “Maisie Gets Her | Man," latest |in the series of which Ann Sothern is the star, and which pened yesterday at the Capitol Theatre Sharing starring honors with Mis: | Sothern is Red Skelton, radio and screen comedian, who appears as| an aspiring vaudeville comic. The | |teaming of Ann Sothern and Red Skelton is a ‘“natural” and the starring first-night audience left no doubt ANN SOTHERN |5 i it i e RED SKELTON Maisie appears as a jobless show- 9 G girl in search af a job after she with Leo Gorcey . Allen Jenkins An MGHM Picture |quits a knife-thrower’s act when MARCH OF TIME drunk. She wanders into a build- ng known to its regulars as Larceny Building,” and Maisie's life is just a series of adventures | after that | Maisie and Red form a vaudeville | team, get a booking but they fail because of Red's incurable stage fright. Thereafter they get mixed THEATRE up with a ket in the * ceny SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU Building” How they clear them- KILLED OFF, ‘1"1'( by steamer from the .\onlh 27, John Newmarker and quarters Admits Defeat After 20 Days’ Battling uated from high school this spring Page | that gentleman turns up*for work vy and the Nation” LATEST NEWS Mrs. Newmarker And Young Jack Refurn Saturday | Mrs. Newmarker, who left Juneau | ine October, visited ‘her sister in | Kansas City and proceeded to Hugo Okla., where her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Goff, reside. She Headquarters com- |Jack took a small apartment near- “carry|by. Mrs. Goff has made several out a final blow against the enemy trips to Juneau and asked to be re- was made on last Satur and | membered to her friends here. then added that “it is tholight the, During their stay, several trips entire number of force com- | were made to Dallas, Texas, nearby pletely perished.” i to Ardmore, where Mrs. New- With characteristic to marker attended school. In making idealize the defeat, the Tokyo ra-|the return trip they flew from dio later broadcast “Japanese | Dallas, Texas to Seattle, leaving troops laufiched a final attack onDallas last Sunday at 8:30 a. m Attu after shouting Banzal Em- and reaching Seattle at 12:40 that peror and making bows toward the night, after an hour and a half Imperial Palace in Tokyo.” stopover in Los Angeles: The Tokyo broadc on May 27{ They were especially fortunate asserted that the “Japanese ranks|to have been able to make the trip began to show their caps” and on|by air because of the current floods May 28 said “only a few more hun-|in the Mid-West, Mrs. Newmarker dred men remained and those who |said, since the trip, which ordinar- were wounded and unable to par-|lly takes five days, would have been ticipate killed themselves preceding [8reatly lengthened. For some time the final ()fle",m- Kansas City was virtually cut off ‘l’mm outside communication, Mrs | Newmarker said, and wide area: (Continued from one) anese Imperial munique, that the decision to our attempts hme been inundated. Many soldi me ‘m(' said to have lost their lives in rescue work, as well as «mlmna Oklahoma was experiencing real’ summer weather before their de-| | parture with day after day of tem-| pexa'.ums at 95 degrees, and the! real hot weather still to come. It| iwas a relief to be back to the »Loolnes.s of the coast, they report. Jack expects to work here until| WASHINGTON, May 31 7Secre.‘Octobcr when he will be 18, and tary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes | |then plans to enlist in the Coast said today an arrangement ha Guard. been worked out for supplying nor-| numerous mal commodity requirements for the civilian population of Alaska next‘BndaI Shower for winter. i He announced that under the| e veeened v ooa | Miss Carlson Held| bution and administration, produc-| ers are allowed to fill orders in| Honoring Miss Kathleen Carlson, Seattle and with other West Coast|pride-elect whose wedding is set exporting firms and producers, and |for June 9. a bridal shower was are permitted to charge these com-|given recently by Miss Edna Alm- home at 417 Harris “set aside” ordefs | Street. Ickes said that producers are al-| Twenty guests were present, and ready ‘required to set aside per-jgames appropriate to the occasion centages for government purchase|were played. The guest of honor re- in slow filling orders for exporters.|ceived many lovely gifts of china He also said that the Department/and glassware, and spring flowers| of the Interior had assumed the|were used as decoration. responsibility for seeing to it that| A large white bell covered with supplies are made available to ex-|pink flow hung between the liv- porters to be used exclusively for|ing and dining rooms, under which the Alaska program. |the bride-to-be opened her gifts. Immediate action is necessary,| Ickes said, since supplies must be;| ke i, e oot st < BoI) | HART RETURNS ment of the Interior is responsible for arranging for purchase, for shipment, for storage and distri-| bution of essential commodities for | the civilian popu]auan of Alaska. LABORATORY DI DIRECTOR BACK FROM KETCHIKAN Miss Zora Dragich, director of the Territorial Department of Health laboratories, returned Satur- day evening from a trip to Ketchi- | noted that 2'2 miles of rock ballast kan, where she engaged in road had been completed and is laying out the laboratory soon to{beincz used to carry loads of logs be established in the new Health|from 20 to 25 tons. Center there. Miss Dragich went - to Ketchikan last Tuesday and while there conferred with Dr. Dwight L. Cramer, health officer, and public ' health nurse Mrs. Arthur Bogue. - e BUY WAR BONDS Back from a two weeks’ inspection trip of logging operations on the West Coast of Prince of Wales Island, John H. Brillhart, Ranger with the Forest Service, reports that five rafts have already gone south and a sixth is ready to depart for Puget Sound. He also stated that eight rafts have been sold to local saw mills at Juneau and Ketchikan While at West Edna Bay, Brillhart MULLEN RETURNS J. F. Mullen, President of the B. M. Behrends Bank, returned to Juneau Saturday night after an extensive business trip in the States. the | and ¢ FROM OPERATIONSL SEEKS DIVORCE SO HE CAN WED HEDY MOOT QUESTION | IS POSED WITH | CURRENT SHOW ITALIAN AIR) BASESRAIDED, 5 KNO(KED OUTw "Are Husbands Necessary" B 1 i s Gay Absurdity Now Relentless Pounding Made| 25 _ T ; at 20th Ceniury by Masses Flying Fort- | £ : resses, Liberators | Necessary,” is the forms the “Are Husbands | moot question which name theme of the new and laugh- able farce now playing at the 20th Century Theatre, with Ray Milland, Betty Fields and Eugene Palette as the fine cast ably supported by a | | (Continued from Page one) [ | confirmation that the | French Fleet in Alexandria, demo-| | group of laugh-getters. bilized and helpless and the men 4 | Screened as a farce and designed disgruntled since the fall of France, 5 4 ¥ {for the sole purpose of relieving three years joined the Allied | g !the Nation’s pent-up emotions| cause bringing to the United Na-| | through wholehearted mirth, the tions a potentially powerful new | film ha also introduced several| naval squadron for possible use on | new and modern twists to the com- the Mediterranean ! ic art and also some surprise situa- The German radio, according to | tions that are well timed. ‘T'ml\!m.m advices, hinted the| The picture is on again tonight | | Allies are planning an invasion | and closes its run at the 20th June because that date is the Century tomorrow night. | inniversary of the French ;umh-! | tice in 1940. | [ More than 300 planes, perhaps| { | as many as 350, hit Naples and| | | Foggia Air Base on the Italian| mainland, and the fortified islands| of Pantelleria, Chilivania, Alghero| and Sardinia. More than 100 Fortresses bombed Naples on Sunday, Allied Head- | quarters announced today and mon-‘ than 50 Liberators again smashed | “Great damage” done at| . | Naples, the Italian High Command | Stalin Declares Movement | announces, 58 persons being killed f and 31 injured ‘ Permanent-Convinc- | Ten Allied planes are lv]mxlvd . f enemy planes MOSCOW 31.—Joseph Stal- in outlined his views on the dissol- | ution of the Comintern in a letter| to Reuters’ Moscow correspondent | {though 14 were |downed, even this was greater op- and observers considered he intend-| ed, among other things, to convince position than was met Saturday| . . | when sweeps over Pantelleria Al\d JOHN LODER, English film star, pictured here with Hedy Lamarr, sceptics dissolution of the Com- i munistic Internationale will be per-| Sardinia encountered no enemy op-| exotic screen beauty, is reported” seeking a Mexican divorce from position of fighter planes at all. | his wife, Micheline Cheirel, so he may wed Hedy. His present divorce Apparently, Mussolini’s air bases,| decree is not final for four more months., (International) ,manent and is not just a v.unnm-‘ [ measure Addressing upon which he depends for his first line of defense against an invasion, nave been knocked out by « series| WP LAS FREN(H FLEET 4 NEWS IS NOW UNDER i Spomaenc, "stain suid |the dissolution’ of the Comintern AlllED BANNER is proper and timely and will “re- YEAR'S ABSENCE sult in further strengthening the of fierce and relentless blows during ! the past two weeks - i united front of the Allies and other Loveless Nations in their fight for victory, A over Hitlerite tyranny IS MISSING IN FIGHTING INALEUTIANS CHURCH HIT Commander of Pursunww on September 1 Mr. Loveles OF GERMANS was m«lnu( d as a regular Planes Not Seen Sifice lof the Gospel. After some Eighteen Children Killed on Sunday as Well as School Teachers |ing in Washington, D. C, PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 31.—Lt | delphia and New York City turning west, Rev. Loveless Col. James Richard Watt, 30, a|cibated in evangelistic services in Commander of pursuit planes inimany churches, and interested au- | join the Allies.” | Alaska, has been missing since May |diences with projected views, which| The fleet consists of one battle- 3 in the Aleutians, his wife has!he secured with his own camera ship, four cruisers, three destroyers,' SOUTHWEST ENGLISH TOWN,| Mav 31.—A 6-foot carving of a| crucifixion still hung to a pile ol‘ irubble at a Parish Church in L]lb been informed by the War Depart-| During his absence Donald Ver-|submarine and ulmlmy vessels. peacetime resort today. ent. itin has been in charge of Douglas German raiders | official ago, o | the Foggia Air Base, 80 miles north- was his letter to Harold AFTER The Rev. George companied by Mrs young daughter, were arrival Saturday evening to again take up |their work in Alaska under the auspices of the Alaska Evangeliza tion Society They left War Vesseis at Alexandria Are Turned Over fo | Americans, British hom June 20 Mich,, as and PRIghOn LONDON, May 31.—The French warships in the Alexandria camp ire under the Allied banner after lying immobilized since the fall of | France, three years ago, the Berlin radio declares in a broadcast picked up here The Berlin radio said: “The French vessels have been given up to the American and British, both vessels and crewmen, and they will minister time visit- Phila- Re- parti- Mrs. Watts said her husband left | for Alaska in February and be- panied by hi came Commander of pursuit planes,|to leave shortly for a an assignment he had previously | and east {beld with Lt. Col. Jack Chennault.| The Rev. Loveless plans to re- {He previously had been on the|main here for the next two months | West Coast with an Air Defense after which he expects to make a |Wing and also spent some time intrip Westward in interests of the | Hawall. Society. parishoners of the Society. Accom- family, he expects visit south recked the| | teachers, the Fascist Party. Only former hombs of heavy calibre. oldiers, decorated men, and those from,_ several other classes, will be | injured, illowed to remain in the Party, - - 5,000 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED RUNS i WEEK ON RUHR |, Azsyerine toe con. twelve slightly hurt and an undetermined number of teach- |ers are still missing here. 'FIRE TODAY AT | BRUNSWICK CAFE Bitter Strug@ Take Place in Kuban Sector- Claims (By Associated Press) | Fierce aerial battles continued today to predominate the fighting| NOTICE TO PAY SCHOOL TAX in the Kuban Sector on the Rus-| Notice is hereby given to all per- sian front after a week of bitter | | PLANS OF TEACHERS A I R BAI IlES FOR THIS SUMMER All members of Douglas school . {faculty will remain on the channel| LONDON, May 31—A broadeast tims, or a time at least, according to ['om .the Rome radio, picked UP| Fast German raiders CONTINUING {report, Supt. Miss Warren may here, said sweeping changes aré down on harbor towns on the south | leave later for a trip south; Miss Ackerson expects to stay here for lthe entire vacation period; Ernst Oberg has been inducted for mili- tary serv Miss McNeill is leav- ing for Wrangell where she w |spend some time with her sister and later they expect to visit their ormer home in Kentucky; Mrs Nelson will be at her home in Ju- {neau and Miss Carlson, whose forthcoming marriage was recently announced, will later on be at home in Douglas all summer, fire at the Brunswick Cafe South Franklin Street. According to Fire Chief Mulvihill, the fire was started by grease. There was no damage - LONDON, May 31.—British air- on | men, up to Saturday night, had chalked up the highest total of sons within the City of Douglas j,mps dumped in Europe in any sl who are liable for the payment of one week of the war. In three raids Four, hundred and {ifty-six planes|scnool tax as required by Chapter on Germany's industrial Ruhr Val- THUCKLN POPULATED ARERNS \,800,000 PEOPLE \N ABOWT ~ 3400 SQUARE = i b oy f‘:'mlw‘tm":*fi?flxfi\"fifi;‘flmfi laws: that the loy & record of nearly 5000 tons of | FROM POINT RETREAT 1o dispatches state as released in Mos-| e bipgidssters an ~ othesn Highiy A ot R W cow. | L. w. KILBURN, bombs had been lossed by RAF Retreat Lighthouse, are in Juneau|e The " chirain AL bloadcast’ddz',ff,_sc_)_]fl_'r?i Collector. he: uyz_!z(fmbmw and hb;lyxxjg at the Baranof B Lhat the German Air P‘oxLe Semeniay imstraied e pestea BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH Soviet attempts to get in the rear of the German defense front in the Kuban area.” The radio claims that w fully manned landing boats in the| > SON\E £acts BBO\!T | Sea of Azov, 15 in number, and also | PLERTO RICO THET ¥MNGHT two freighters, were sunk by Oel-" \ \\F\NQ‘( -(0 man flie assisted by the German CON\E \! \(0\) infantry. RFTER \WE LAND It is also reported that Stalin is! sending - most of his famous air| heroes of the Soviet Union to the| area northwest of Novorossisk where the Germans are clinging stubbornly to the last Caucasus bridgehead. | | - FROM KETCHIKAN J. L. Sherman, manager of the Ellis Air Transport, is in Juneau from Ketchikan. He is registered ‘at the Baranof. |IMPORTANT To be |evening, at 8 o'clock in the social rooms of the Northern Light Pres- important Aides byterian | meeting for all 1-6, at 1:35| Gastineau Channel has been called. the Juneau Every Aide of the community \ Fire Department put out a chimney |asked to attend. Temp. ON TdE FACE OF THE EARTH — Buy More Stamps > BETTER BIG PICTURES [ 20" CENTURY Buy More Jonds FOR A LOT OF LAUGHS ARE Husbands Necessary £ > HERE IS RAY MILLAND Betty Fields and Eugene Pallelte in a Hilarious Wacky Comedy CARTOON ALSO ——— SCENIC 30 MINUTES LATEST WORLD NEWS \ BLUE, WHITE and PERFECT 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. ichuxch Glidabkiliing at least 18“ E GLOVER IS FAS(ISTS IS children and three Sunday school | ON SHORT I'RIP]Tom Harmon | The crucifix was suspended in} | . ‘Lhe- archway besides the steeple, the | I 'rl ¢ {only part of the church left stand- | g Glover, Regional Engineer for the n o- y } "Y\B Rescue workers are still digging U, S, Forest Service, is in Juneau | the debris in search for more vic- |for a short stay in connection with | | Forest Service matters and Alaska swooped | spruce operations. | Before returning to Seattle, where | being made in the membership of land southwest coast and dropped he is on temporary duty for the | Forest Service, Glover Fourteen children were seriously the operations at Edna Bay. - e - MEETING OF NURSES held tomorrow, Church, an Nurses’ > - WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Sunday, May 30 minimum e o o o LPAN AMERICAN Arriving by plane from Seattle, A will inspect AIRW ALY Lightning Fi?fler Pilof,:*- Former Foothall Star, on New Duty | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS /1Nt AIDES | NORTH AFRICA, May 31.—Secondt” Tuesday | Lieutenant Tom Harmon, /o @00 0000000 Saturday, May 29: Maximum 64, minimum 43. Temp. Maximum 61, e o 0 o o 45. . of is . . . . . . . By BILLY DeBECK WE BSTER SLEEP S\X NOT COUNTIY COMP'NY for: | All-American football star of Mich~t igan, has arrived here for duty in¢ North Africa as a Lightning flxhzm pilot. Harmon was missing in a mghh to South America several weeks: ago, was slightly injured but huo fully recovered. D H FISH BUYER IN J. Greenburg, with the Seaboard Fishing Company, arrived here' from Ketchikan and is at the Gas-; tineau Hotel. ! e BUY WAR BONDS | P e W o S W T G\G SMO\(\ES W Tl BED-ST\D -