The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 26, 1943, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU ALASKA 2 |Movie Has |OPA STATES [HiLaRious i Rosy View | NOCHANGE, ~ "CAP R Of Russia FISH PRICES I T No decrease from prices of fresh True fo the Army”" Now By ROBBIN COONS {fish as set up in MPR Number 418, Playing at 20th C(’s?liLYng(?U';“'N“;:‘“l’: m,fims:““""”‘ July 13, is contemplated Cemury has en isplay o1 ce o Bioith o, a0 BeFDe IV e by the Fish Division of the Offids| Paramount offered fan in large | early to expect the Ruatlatis'td the vice Administration. ARS8 quantities to the audience at the e % pointed out in telegraphic advices|sg, Century Theatre last night | turn the compliment by flming 8yeceiveq from the national office bY | when its new comedy riot, “True to | “3*;:2‘ “‘L’ “(;'::::““l';“":; does_it|the Office of Price Administration | ;e Army” bowed into town. { R 5= here | Featuring -star cast—Judy | should be @ simple job. All the " igpermen can establish actual|Canova, Atlan Jones, Ann Miler have to do, following rules of =iy, qeni on the prices set by MPR| Jerry Colonna—every one a star ternational courtesy, is to adhere|y)g 4, gpplication for adjustment|tertainer, “True to the Army"” to the formula which seems 10|y, 1 joe5 will be given considera-|cludes laugh-provoking situations, {have guided Warner Bros. in mak-|., poyever, it must clearly ap-|gay music and sensational dancing | ing a movie of former Ambassador|yo,. (hat such hardship is actu-|among its assets. | Joseph E. Davies' book. Just let! ). i ..1red from operation under| The story concerns the plight of | them picture us as practically Per- |0 0y price schedule. The fact Judy Canova, a tight-rope Walker, | fect folks, blessed by saintly, Prac-|(;..\ inriated prices which fisher-|Who has to hide from gangsters be- | tically infallible leaders, struggling| MONDAY, JULY 26, 1943 ANN SOTHERN PLAYS LEAD IN COMEDY HERE "Panama Halfie” s on Screen Now of Capi- tol Theatre Taking its place at the top with the season’s best musicals, Metro- ,(‘mldwyn-Mnyer's “Panama Hattie,” | starring Ann Sothern and Red Skel- | ton, opened last night at the Capitol | Theatre Rich in elaborate numbers, tem- pered with a good, down-to-earth story revolving around the romance between Miss Sothern and Dan Daily, Jr., and the many antics of | Skelton, Rags Ragland and Ben Blue {as the sailors, the film contains every conceivable element of enter- tainment. The songs, including three Cole WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY! (S CENTURY LAFF RIOT?! 0VA AND COLONNA! SONGSE “Wocky I:o_l_hd IF YOU GET DOWN THIS WAY...LOOK ME UP...! I sing in Phil’s place and everybody calls me PANAMA HATTIE! Lullaby” cause she happened to see them kill A SOTHERN | Porter numbers from the Broadway | production, include tunes you'll be | humming long after you've seen the | show. | As Panama Hattie, a night club 'entertainer with a heart of gold, Miss Sothern has one of the best roles of her career. Red Skelton adds quite a few new laurels to his fame and Virginia O’Brien swings | from her dead-pan singing in a role you'll enjoy. Dailey does an excellent job in his straight role. The sequence where the three | sailors search a haunted house in their determination to run down a spy is particularly rib-tickling. along the best we can—but cheerily —with our weird political system. They could make a pretty good picture, at that, without altering the line of “Mission to Moscow™ at all. They would have, of course, to keep the character “President Roo- sevelt” intact. They could do no less than depict Amba as he is shown in “Mi |cow,"—a capitalst, but an open- |minded seeker for the truth. And they would, in all graciousness, tip their hats to the Warner Just as the Warner film does. It would be frightfully crude of them — and we are sure they | prices, they say, represent a drastic | Bros., | men were receiving early this sea- | son have been lowered will not be considered grounds for adjustment. Principal opposition in Alaska to |the specific price schedules came {from the sable fishermen who have protested both to the local OPA of- fice and the Governor, and who |have declared they will not fish at the prices established. These| leut for them. Actually, the Office {of Price Administration says, the| prices established for sable fish| are almost 30 percent in excess of | those paid in 1942, and if “fish are |wages,” the prices represent an in-| crease in those wages almost twice as great as the Little Steel Formula a man. She goes to her sweetheart, Jerry Colonna, a pigeon-trainer in a | nearby army camp. There Colonna ! and Allan Jones cut her hair, put a uniform on her and try to pass her off as one of the boys. Hilarity hits | a new high when poor Judy is order- | ed to the camp hospital for a| medical examination. The picture is a riot of Colonna quips and Canova clowning. It is! highly recommended for all those in favor of good old-fashioned belly- laughs. WALLACETO and 30 MINUTES LATEST NEWS CARTOON Red SKELTON i 3 Rags RAGLAND Ben BLUE Klan MOWBRAY Virginia 0'BRIEN — ALS DONALD DUCK 4 wouldn’t be crude—to point out that | {in Washington there is a tiny bit of confusion, that though all fac- tions are united in the win-the-war - HERE 'o SPE_“D |crusade there still are factions, to- I F SUMMER :gether with a bit of suspicion that| still playing politics {people are |while decrying same. And of course, if the Russians are diplomatic, they would not at- permits wage earners to have. ¢ SHARES FALL Fish and Wildlife (lj)ikectorl T AS I I. D U (E leie:m[;g:"o Z':ea , :iW.P.B., the NL.R.Bx.], gnd other | I s o u S T E D‘ alphabetical agencies. (“Mission to! (Continued from Page One) SPEND TIME HAPPILY NOW Arrives in b&oii fo Give| Speech - Talk of Fascists Stocks of Armament Out-| 'perrorr, suy 26—vive-presi- his office will endeavor to get 85 youiq gkip all that, and picture us | dent Henry A. Wallace, arriving here | |big a T’""k' as can be s{“‘"‘""d' but'only as a liberty-loving, fearless flts Take Tumble on 'to deliver a speech yesterday, said 1 no bars will be let d""‘“‘ where o ble—which we are. lin a press conference that “certain | to there is any danger of harmful | wa" S"eet | Antericart™ Paadtts” dlaite’ Pri. oz | ufl]ecls on the perpetuation of Lhe} | sl yxdcaust. I ask them to look at salmon crop. " themselves and ask if they've done Regulations will be made first ’ TRV S ORI, VISe 005 DUl - as much with their ideals in prac- with the idea of protecting resourc- My oo oA s £he N ]“"_’[‘l“’““‘“ eugalgcd l‘_“):’_r co:me;'fg‘nce' es, then with the view of securing / own A vas/iwith armament activities tumbled|'oy ¥ | 55 1hr0e’ & Dack. oh pORILIS “Wonderful. But true?” Hearig|a dollar to around five dollars a' Wallice declared He was proud 1o | Alaska | In districts where runs are large M. Davies, a gifted raconteur, tell share as Wall Street construed (hcih(. anad din tabny “Amérioan Fascist” | g enough to grant extensions, he sald,' informally the same stories thatiousting of Mussolinl and otheri . ... times he didn’t identify any | |such amendments in the regulations are told in the movie, I found Ttalian developments as another'y 4iui4ua1 as such | |will be made at once in Alaska. |them completely convincing. See- broad step in an ultimate Allied| po gaid he intends to use the victory. Dealings were lively on the early Stalin on Today he announced a change in ing them enacted on the screen, I time formerly devoted to the Bureau the regulations pertaining to the was struck with the essential of Economic Warfare in “getting market but fell off a pace and | later slowed near the close and Russ Fron' Bristol Bay area—a three day ex- weakness of films as a propaganda | acquainted with the folks in Wash- | |the Ugashik district which will now at it. They are excessively glib.|peace rated favorites edged upward. tension for red salmon fishing in'medium. They are simply too good | ington and throughout the country.” | § [] wl'h Army close at 6 pm. July 31. ‘They have the gift—or fault- of|There were extreme declines else- 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 FAMOUS BONERS WS Moscow” mentions the OGPU, thej | Russian secret police, only in pass-| ing—and then most kindly.) They possibilities for wild rubber. “I figured it was about time got back here to Washington find out justr what is going on. Now I'm going back to Brazii. Things are simpler there, even when you get 36 boats for every | six you order.” R e ’TWar Casualty” Pufs Lieutenant Cook Back On Line of War Duly (Continued from Page , wounded three times since we rolled | down that mountain and he's still going strong. He's quite a guy.’ All of which could be taken as a | quarrel with “Mission to Moscow.” {It is not. b ¥ | ‘ pioneer new standards of service for one) Don't try to drag me into that controversy between Vice President Wallace and RFC Director and Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones, | but here is a little story on the| Vice President’s Board of Economic | ‘Warfare. ‘ It was told by an official of the LPAN AMERICAIN AIRWAYS 5 0 e LR Size of the pack in the Brlslol'making a one-sided argument so0,where. {Bay area has exceeded all expecta- one-sided that it invites skepti- ———————— |WASH' OFFI(IAL 12 KILLED AS TWO AMERICAN B-255 COLLIDE STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 26. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau stock today is 5%, American Can Rubber Administration just back — |tfons. Supervisor of Fisheries Clar-cism. This film tells us so much of| IS (lEARED BY Thoett yesil, o dad & barty 1o the (Continued from Page One) ence L. Olson reported today that what we want to believe—that upper reaches of the Amazon s T > |latest reports show a pack of more Russia and its leaders are spiritual ppe! o to breaking down the entire German|than 1,350,000 cases and said he;as well as military allies Dgpmm” cearch for wild rubber. | . defense in Europe and it makes|expected final returns to be about that I found it cloying. “We found enough to Justity| . ."cervan rear vulnerable” 150,000 case: Lringing it out but infinitesi 3 150! cases more. w ging it out but an infinitesimal he Red Star added that Hitler For all that, “Mission to Mo: | i SUPREME COURT| OLYMPIA, July 26-—The convic- amount compared to U. S. war needs,” the engineer explains. “When I got back to the coast, I cabled my report and put in a requisition for six river barges. “A few weeks later, I got cm( answer saying thirty-six barges were on the way. I was lying awake is unable to release forces to com- bat the Allied invasion of Sicily b>- cause he is so heavily engaged on the Russian front. Dispatches describing the fury of the German counter-attacks at Orel quote German prisoners saying Hit- Last year’s -pack for this area | hung around the 400,000 case mark. | e (that Russia, Roosevelt, Davies, | o Sfalin and the Warner Bros. arc jcow” is certainly unique amony Hollywood films. It doesn’t bother with conventional plot or drama, but uses the documentary-narrative technique. It takes its point of view | i ! BILLISTO BE TESTED NOW tion of King County Treasurer Car- roll Carter on charges of collect- ing or receiving rebates on em-! ployees’ wages was reversed by the State Supreme Court and the ac- tion ordered dismissed. The majority opinion said the HAVANA, July 26—Two Ameri- can B-25 bombers starting on pa- trol, collided in midair above the /Cuban Army headquarters, killing 12 airmen, The planes were loaded with 86, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Steel | 62%, Commonwealth and Southeri} %, Curtiss Wright 7%, Genersl Motors 54, Granby Copper an, Mining 5%, International Har ter 70, Kennecott 31%, New Yi Central 17, Northern Pacific 15%, Packard Motors 4%, Republic Steel bombs or some of the crewmen might have escaped by jettisoning bombs on crowded beaches, but they Dow, Jones averages today tried crash landings at sea and the % planes exploded. as follows: industrials 142,07, 1 GREER GARSON i S |36.90, utdlities 21.70. i y | —————— R I ( H AR D NEY HEATON AT BARANOF | E Moo“l“G H. G. Heaton, with Libby, Mc-| Nelll and Libby, is in Juneau from| Funeral services were held Taku Harbor. He is at the Baranof.| 2fternoon in_the chapel of v BEVERLY HILLS, Calif,, July 26. —Actress Greer Garson and Ensign . |Charles W. Carter Mortuary 1 |John Pademeister, who passed a Richard Ney are honeymooning here for 48 hours before Ney returns |last week. The Rev. A. A. | pastor -of the Resurrection Lul - to Navy duty tomorrow. The couple met while acting in fish an Church, conducted the se: in and burial was in Evergreen Cem#$- tery. “Mrs. Miniver.” Ney played the role of her son. - e - INDIAN OFFICE TEACHERS HERE ON WAY TO HOONAH Edgar P. and Lillian V. Russell, principal and teacher for the Al- aska Office of Indian Affairs school at Hoonah, arrived here yes- terday on their way to Hoonah. S e DIVORCE GRANTED Bernice Edwards Johnson was granted a divorce from Leonard A. Johnson in U. 8. District Court | Saturday. information against Carter doean'ti constitute a commission of an of-| fense defined by statute. ler ordered his forces to hold to the last man. Prisoners told that | the Russian smash across the river “Then, one day in pops some, directly east of Orel caused eleven fellows from Washington. They |German counter-attacks to be were from BEW and they were launched and all failed. going to conduct an expedition toE R - N 7 the upper Amazon to survey the| BUY WAR BONDS 18%, United States Steel 56%, Pound $4.04. i nights trying to figure what I was going to do with those 30 extra barges. f 1l wonderful) and never departs " AR RAIDS i ot ic Government Charges 30 | tionists as it does Russian Trotsky-| |Jpder Re(en"y En- ON EUROPE ites, sparing neither. pas_airea acted Measure - Heavy Blows at Industrial It has already started a whirl| of controversy—and therein may/ He the Ricuie R IR ppod. PITTSBURGH, July 26—A Fed- ———— |eral grand jury of the recent un- |authorized strikes in the soft coal |fields of southwestern Pennsylvania . | Centers Over Last Weekend LONDON, July 26.—U. S. heavy bombers attacked mnorthern Ger- JA ps SAY |was underway today with the in- dictment of 30 persons charged ;with conspiracy to prevent produc- {tion of coal in violation of the law. | The indictments are the first | many and medium bombers hit St. | Omer in France by daylight after a 2,000-ton night raid on the Ger- since the enactment of the Smith- Connally Anti-Strike Law of June 25 man industrial city of Essen. ing and confederating together to Twenty-five planes were lost or (By Associated Press) interfere by strikes and other in- are missing in the far-flung night| A Tokyo dispatch broadcast from |terruptions, operations” in mines operations, and five enemy aircraft| Berlin said eight Liberators at- Operated by the Government. were reported downed. tacked Jap-held Wake Island early R 5 e The Air Ministry reported the|yesterday and two of the planes FINED FOR SPEEDING raiders encountered good weather!were shot down against the loss of| - Douglas V. Anabale, taxi driver, over the target area at Essen and|two Jap fighters. The brogdca.sl,‘wu fined $25 by U. 8. Commis- preliminary reports indicated the|didn't touch upon the damage on|siomer Felix Gray this morning bombing was concentrated and ef-|the ground. for speeding on the Douglas Road. fective. —_———— He was arrested by Territorial Last night's raids followed a ser- YLE TO WRANGELL {Highway Patrolman Emmett Botel- ies of round-the-clock blows deliv-| James E. Boyle, Union Oil of-|ho. ered by both the RAF and the U. 5.|ficial, took passage to Wrangell| Eighth Air Force. on Sunday. British bombers struck at Ham- —~ burg Saturday night and Ameri- can airmen heaped destruction on these smoking ruins in daylight yesterday, the deepest penetration of Germany so far. LANATURNER GIVES BIRTH T0 DAUGHTER HOLLYWOOD, Calif,, July 26.— Lana Turner, honeyhaired film actress, gave birth to a 7 pound 14 ounce baby daughter today. Her husbexd, Stephen Crane, an i Army private, is with her, 1 PADEMEISTER FUNERAL ‘ RETAIL CLERKS UNION Meeting—Moose Club Rooms—July 14 AT 7:30 P. M. EINSTOSS IS HERE H. Einstoss, well known buyer from New York, arrived Juneau during the weekend. FOR SALE® 1—Sullivan Portable Compressor 1—30 h.p. Electric Motor, 60 cycle, 220 volt 2—Sullivan Air Jack Hammers and Equipments 10—Pcs. Hollow Drill Steel 1—Set Blacksmith Tools for Hand Sharpening 2—Sets Protectomotoes. 1—Ingersoll-Rand Jacksteel The defendants are charged spe- cifically with ‘“combining, conspir- Construction and Mining Machinery to Settle an Estate 1—Complete Shanking Device for Forming Drills 8—4-point Dollies, various guages 2—Top and Bottom Forming Guages 1—Number Five Oil Purnace with Induction Blower 1—Steel Feed Tank 1—Electric Drill Hammer, 220 1—Generator, Five K. W. Sharpener with Equipments 1-—Pelton Water Wheel | 2—4-point Hexagon Dies This Machinery Is Practically N-‘ Apply to J. M. PICHOTTA, Skagway, Alaska SKILLED LOGGERS Logging Truck Road Builders Wanted for IMPORTANT WAR WORK Certificate of Availability Required U. S. Employment Service LG v Emplire Classifieds Pay! By BILLY DeBECK NOU SEE LNTTLE SOLD\ER S0-S0 WIGH - RUN THS WeY 22 WE GUZZLE QUL DAY W MY TEBNERN BN LEBNE ME TS BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH HeY, Cous\ - DROP ANCHOR, HoW S00N'S NARD B\RD - T NEXT CONNOY /| T DONT SRUVY PULLIY OUY O TRINNY-DRDZ e 124 Marine Way, Juneau A.B. Phillips at the Gastineau Hotel, Juneau