The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 16, 1943, Page 3

| VEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, | JOHNNY: Weissmoller, MAUREEN 0’Sullivan: JOHN Sheffield Foinia fato Black Market Ample Cause for OPA Housecleaning Rumor Page one) from (Continued been due to the n han- foresi finaneial arrar rmy pays the ceiling price S. No. 1 but the account to clear through Washington from six weeks to four your pay. The U have and it takes for months to Army first used tem whereby every posed to supply the many cars a week get an allocation sys- dedler was Sup- with so of Army Some i LED IN oTILERIN 20, ’IQN i awd:" Chas: BICKFORD the is 943 YOU'VE " NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT! . Tarzan ventures out of the jungle into the man- made canyons of Manhattan! HENRY BUSSE AND HIS BAND GREY CARTOON—NEWS cars a week and you .can im- ne the amount of money they t tied up at the end of the month. A lot of the dealers were ur 1g around with $200,000 to 0,000 in government claims on books and no money to meet urday night payrolls hen came the freeze but the Aty continued to insist on get- on those long-term [ it was only a short until someone figured out the ted seed’ business and immed- itely everybody began hauling seed potatoes’ Right now, we are shipping U. S. No. I's to the dehy- drating plants and every one else gettin ext year there will be an in- in acreage if we can get into the ground I don't at the good Lord is going to about harvesting time, but He d already that the planting season will be two at least. I have very serious doubts as to whether there will be sufficient skilled labor to nurse the potato plants along to anything like maximum produc- tion." There you have at least one phase of the situation in one state. There probably could be only one thing worse than cutting American potato rations—that would be taking away its bread. RUMANIA IS ASKING FOR PEACE TERMS Enemy Nervous as Large Invasion Now Is Threatened (Continued from Page One) crease 2m ow have k to has late conjectured that the Allies might attempt the simultaneous capture of Sicily from North Africa and Crete from the Middle East before invading the European mainland. Renewed Bombing These observers pointed out that the renewed bombing offensive against Sicily strongly pointed to that island as one of the first on the Allied invasion schedule. The reported sealing of the bor- der between Turkey and Syria might well be a precaution to cover a secret military movement. Many observers believe Turkish troops may soon enter the war alongside of the Allies. CHAPLIN, DEB. ISSUED LICENSE THIS MORNING SANTA BARBARA, Calif.,, Junc 16. — Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright i 1.W.Harperis unexcelled in taste and in quality ... | in making I. W. Harper, cost is no object. IW.HARPER The Gold Medal Whiskey have obtained a marriage license. He gave his age as fifty and she as eighteen. Deputy County Clerk Adtschul Newsome entered St. |said he issued the license at 8:40 Ann's Hospital yesterday for an clock this morning and that appendectomy. Chaplain and Miss O'Neill left the| ourthouse a few minutes later without announcing marriage plans. Miss O'Neill, a New York debu- tante in 1942, was recently given a screen role. Friends of the couple said that Chaplin had been coach- ing her in dramatics. —————— BUY WAR BONDS culls, including the Army. | JUNGLE FAMILY BRAVES PERILS NEW YORK CITY Capitol Theétre Showing "Tarzan's New York Adventure” Tarzan and his mate leave the perils of the jungle for still greater perils in the maelstrom of civiliza- tion, when they invade New York in their latest adventure, “Tarzan: New York Adventure,” now at the Capitol Theatre. Johnny Weiss- muller as the jungle king, Maureen | O'Sullivan Jane and Johnny Sheffield Tarzan Junior head the the thrill-packed ro- mance. The story opens rcus men artive by plane to cap- |ture lions. They see little Tar- |zan's prowess with wild beasts and, later, when Tarzan and Jane are knocked unconscious in attack by ages, escape with the boy in their plane, planning to use him as as as cast in in the jungle an w circus attraction. With money raised from their gold cave, Tar- zan and YJane follow. Tarzan, de- spite civilized clothes, battles through thrills, leaps from the Brooklyn Bridge, upsets a court- room and final wins back the boy. Many comedy sequences in- volve his struggles with modern clothes and bewildering customs of civilization. Weissmuller presents a new Tar- n in habiliments of civilization, jand Miss O'Sullivan wears some |gorgeous gowns. Charles Bickford |plays the menace, Paul Kelly a :kmdl\ aviator who befriends the {jupgle family and Virginia Gr [plays Kelly's sweetheart, who aids | {him in helping rescue the boy.|MacKenzie wr {Chill Wills, Cyrus W. Kendall,| = | Matthew Boulton and others are | among the principales. Richard | | Thorpe’s skillful direction and ef- fective photography by Sidney | wagner accentuates the comedy i-onnmcr and thrills- of the story. | HUGE FORCE HITS JAP'S RABAUL BASE Larges! Bomber Raid So! | Far on Nippon Pa- | AUSTRALIA, June 16.—The larg-| *st force of Liberators to be sent | out, again hit the big Jap base at| Rabaul yesterday, showering| grounded aircraft with 23 tons of sombs in a two-hour assault., Nineteen of the big four-motored | bombers took part in the raid which was the fourth assault on the Jap| field in six days. All of the bomb-f‘ ors returned to their base. Fires were started at the big air base that were visible for 45 miles, returning airmen said. | CAROLINA DEMOS IN | FUND BALK Paper Reporf; State Com- mittee Won't Con- | tribute fo "44 SPARTANBURG, South Car, June 16.—The Spartanburg Her- ald said the South Carolina Dem- ocratic executive committee unan- imously refused a request by the | national executive committee for ;Iinancial support in the 1944 cam- paign. Disagreement between the state |committee and the national on pol- icies of the party is the basis for | the refusal, the Herald said. | | DENIES REPORT COLUMBIA, South Car., June 16, —Winchester Smith, chairman of |the state Democratic executive |committee, said the report that {South Carolina refuses to contri- | bute toward the support of the 11944 campaign is “wholly untrue.” | > | HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs. Reece Murray has entered St. Ann’s Hospital. i | | Eugene Mrs. Chris Jorgenson, medical pa- tient at St. Ann's Hospital, was discharged yesterday. | James Miller was a recent out- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —JUNEAU ALASKA NEW PICTURE " OF FAR WEST * ADVENTURE ON %”They Died With Their ' Boots On”_Begins To- | night at 20th Century WHERE ™ Opening tonight at the 20th Cen- {tury Theatre is “They Died With Their Boots On,” latest in the ex- citing films of the old west to take its place on the impressive list of Warner Bros. productions which uses that colorful era for its set- tiny This picture stars Errol Flynn as General George Custer, telling the story of his life from the time of his entry to West Point until his memorable stand at the battle of Little Big Horn. All the tense dra- ma and romance in his exciting life is captured in this epic film It is the story of a man who lived, fought and loved with all the power his soul postessed Charming Olivia de Havilland is co-starred with Flynn in the role of Beth Custer, his lovely wife who admired her husband’'s deeds sut never lost track of the constant danger he faced Raoul Walsh, is noted' for the many epic films he has direct- ed, guided production and if past performances are any criterion, this film will certainly carry all the scope, excitement and romance that its theme conveys. In addition the film features such fine supporting players as Gene Lockhart, Charley Grapewin, Regis Toomey, Stanley Ridges, Arthur Kennedy and many others. Wally Klein and Aeneas ote the screen play. D who Newly - Married Couple Entertain PAA Staff Tuesday Mrs. Everett hosts last evening to mem- bers of the staff of Pan Ameri- can Airways Alaska Division here and their wives at the C. B. Ran- sopher residence at Norway Point on Glacier Highway. Mr were and Stearns Mr. and Mrs. Stearns, whose wedding was an event of last Friday, were presented with a love- ly silver coffee service by the PAA employees as well as a number of individual gifts. ous buffet supper was served. Now on leave from the Taku ra- dio station, Mr. Stearns and his bride plan to leave Juneau about JUNEAU LANDMARK ! HEAD To RUN s o0 oowi - FOOD PLANS One of Juneau's landmarks, an old house with a history, is today being dismantled and torn down. ‘The property belongs to the J. F. Maloney estate and is located on Third between Franklin and Sew- ard streets. According to John Reck, presi- dent of the First National Bank, whose home directly adjoins the structure, the relic was standing 'way back in '98, at which time it was the swanky law offices of J. F. Maloney and J. H. Cobb. After Agriculture Committee| Confers with Presi- | dent Today 16 Six Agriculture June House WASHINGTON, members of the Committee laid before the Presi-| dent demands for the creation a single head over all phases of being vacant for many years, the the food program, but left the| office was given an addition and | White House apparently without remodeled, giving service as a pri- having received much enepurage-, vate residence for a number of ment. ‘ years. Today, however, it has lost Chairman Hampton P. Fulmer| its charm and Grant Baldwin has said-he'has a feeling “they want| to continue this experimenting in Congress indefinitely. “Congress doesn't want to do it, and the people don't want to it been given the contract to strip it down, RAYMOND W. STOUGH, CAA OFFICIAL, IS HERE P FRANK WRIGHT, R. | | Raymond W. Stough, Director of - HERE FROM HOONAH the Economic Bureau of Civil Ae- ks | ronautics Authority, arrived inJu- I neau yesterday with Alaska Star| Frank™ Wright, Jr., manager of Airlines from Anchorage, CAA|the Téy Straits Salmon Company, headquarters in Alaska. }amved in Juneau with = Alaska Mr. Stough is making an inspec- | Coastdll Airlines today from the tion of CAA work in Alaska and company plant at Hoonah. ‘ is staying at the Baranof Hotel| Mr. Wright, who will be held for, here for a short time before con-!several days on company bu:,iness,i tinuing to his headquarters in'is staying at the Baranof Hotel| Washington, D. C. |while in the city. BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH THE (Y CENTURY o AL MI do da BETTER BIG With ARTHUR KENNEDY + CHARLEY GRAPEWIN + GENE LOCKHART Directed by RAOUL WALSH Original Screen Play by Wally Kline and Aeneas MacKenzie « Music by Max Steiner « A Warner Bros.-First National Picivre ! o - s { 4ot About 28 guests were present for 0 l S ’ T h ’ ' ) I B 0 A M : cific Field w o w ong ~ e . v { newly married couple. The evening ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN‘W spent in dancing and a delici- 46,300 POUNDS OF HALIBUT IS | SOLD IN JUNEAU pounds of halibut was brought to nearly 54 Juneau by three vessels of the hali- throughout but fleet and sold here Tuesday | and today. | Arrivals and sales were: Hyperi- en, Capt. Oscar Oberg, 15000 __ pounds, sold to New England Fish Company for 18 and 17.10 cents a pound; Fern, Capt. John Lowell, 18,500 pounds, sold to E. E. Eng- strom for 1830 and 17 cents a pound; LouHelen, Capt. A. Hildre, sold to Alaska Coast 1830 and 17 cents a Fisheries for pound. NARD HERE FOR SHORT TME FROM TAKU HARBOR Al Minard, manager of the Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery at Taku Harbor, arrived in Junean today on the company boat, Roed- here for a s be- Mr. Minard will be short time on company busine: fore returning to the cann CHAMBER WILL BID FAREWELL TO MEMBER Tomorrow’s Chamber of Com- merce luncheon in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel will be de-| voted principally to a farewell for| Lieut. Col. Frederic Nichols | Lieut. Col. Nichols is terminating his services in Juneau and will de- part for a new station shortly. vl W& |going medical patient at St. Arn’e ;Hospital. e Empire Classifieds Pay! TARN ME LOOSE % SHIF'LESS SKONK O G\T Gy COOL OFF, SNUFFY ! TUAT'S JUST AN OLD SPaNISH cusTom THEY ALl Do (T- ARN TW NE ' STARTING TONIGHT -- sand, three hundred ! State health departments spendg Empire Classifieds Pay! PAN AVMERICAN PAGE. THREE PICTURES PLAY?!? ‘Ridin’ Sunset Trail’ and ‘King of Zombies' The 250,000th ticket recently was million dollars a year | purchased at Cave of the Mounds‘. the United States. ‘BIue Mounds, Wis. § | | R g BUY WAR BONDS 878% More Express to Alaska Pan American Airways’ Alaska Serv- ice, merged into the transport facili- ties of the Armed Forces, is working overtime these days. One result: 8789 more air express carried to Alaska in 1942 than in the year be- fore. Every ounce of cargo is under military control. When the war is won, we will again give all of our friends the standard of service for which Pan American is known throughout Alaska. Vis ATRI A} S By BILLY DeBECK