The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 28, 1943, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1 943 They get along like * - DYNAMITE and a Riian DONLEVY ‘Miriam HOPKINS AF ER 4 GeNTUEMAY r BLOW.TORCH, DARK'. i« PRESTON FOSTER —PLUS— “The Greenie” Travelogue Cartoon Late News THEATRE THE CAPITOL HAS lr"’“‘. MOM’S BOY BRINGS MEDALS: THE BIG PICTURESI N BACK FROM THE FIGHTING FRONT to rest at home in the Bronx, New York, Capt. Mario Sesso of the Army Air Force shows his medals to his mother, Mary Sesso. She holds the Silver Star; in the case are the Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross. HAMMERING OFHAMBURG CONTINUES LONDON, July 28.—RAF bombers returned to Hamburg in great force last night, the British Air Ministry announces, to heap further destruc- tion on the great north German port, which has been the object of continuing round-the-clock attacks since Saturday night. About 5,000 tons of bombs have fallen on the city since Saturday (International) tons of the total amount dropped on lall of Britain during the fall of 1940 during the worst days of ‘he | Battle.of Britain. It was the RAF's fourth success night assault on the battered cit vhich in normal times has a population of more than one million people. | Sandwiched in between these night raids were two smashing day- light attacks by ‘American bombers on Sunday and Monday. There is no letup in the Allied attack as strong formations of fighters and bombers continued the assault by daylight today. Shuttling back and forth across the sunny English channel, the at- tacks on the Low Countries contin- ued past midday. DRAMA OF THE | UNDERWORLD IS 'NOW AT CAPITOL Brian Donlevy shares honors with Miriam Hopkins and Preston Foster | in the new film, “A Gentleman| After Dark,” which opens tonight at the Capitol Theatre. It is an ex- citing drama of the upper-crust of | the underworld | Although Donlevy plays the role| of a jewel thief extraordinary and| a convict, his part carries with it| the entire sympathy of the pic-! ture, that of a father’s sacrifice for| his daughter. Miriam Hopkins handles the d ficult role of his wife with her {usual superb acting and under- |standing. It's worth the price of | |admission alone to see her ward-| |robe, which is the last word in} {smartness. Preston Foster, as the | detective who becomes a judge, IS excellent. Other members of the| cast chosen with equal care include | Harold Huber, Philip Reed, Gloria| Holden, Douglass Dumbrille, Sharon | {Douglas and Bill Her “A Gentleman Af adaptation of the f |azine story by Ric |Childs titled “A Whiff Of Helio- | act, heliotrope plays an |important part in the picture as a| |symbol of good luck to Brian Don- levy whose alias is Heliotrope Harry. ! - | FASCIST PARTY IS NO MORE Complete Dissolution of National Organiza- fion Ordered (By Associated Press) | A radio broadcast from Rome,! picked up by the Associated Press’ listening post, announces the “com- dissolution of the National st Party.” The new government has ordered the first meeting of the new Ital- ian’ cabinet and has also decided “to abrogate the 14 old law under which the F: st Grand Council became an organ of the state, the law being incompatible with the return to constitutional normality,” and “to-suppress special tribunal defense. The State ordered that cases or- ; tried by the tribunal be ed to the military courts 'my corps “during duration of the actual war.” I Probe Panfel THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA SEA Yy Moy S '\Q_ & L3 :@lvfi e o e 5 AR 22 f" - SR 4 3 G SHACKLES FOR THE SEA are these lightship and buoy chains, important navigation aids for the United States Coast Guard. Maintaining them at the Guard base in Ch ston, S, C., are Albert W, Owens, co in from Amariilo, Te d George Robinson, motor machinist's mate, second class, of Charleston. ¥ (International) leria’s Ruins PRISON RIOT & 1S PUT DOWN IN OKLAHOMA Fourteen Mutinous In- mates Forced Back Info Cells McALESTER, Okla., July 28.—Of- An armadillo kills snakes by roll- ficers and guards, armed with rifles night. This is within a few hundred ing on them. RETAIL CLERKS UNION Meeting—Moose Club Rooms—July 28 AT 7:30 P. M. SKILLED LOGGERS Logging Truck Road Builders Wanted for IMPORTANT WAR WORK Certificate of Availability Required see U. S. Employment Service 124 Marine Way, Juneau A.B. Phillips at the Gastineau Hotel, Juneau ' BIG ENEMY and pistols, forced 1400 mutinous state prison inmates to return to, their cells, ending a rebellion that ! began with the accidental wound- ing of a convict by a guard. The prison work shop, employed leria aiter that Axis‘sland's surrender. The Allies occupied the island June (1. Rescue Airmen in Greenland | on war contracts, has been shut’ g down. IR FLEET 1S DOWNED iHuge Germ;fi_Junkers and| Transports Loaded for Sicily Shot Down ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN |NORTH AFRICA, July 28—Allied |Air forces have smashed a new attempt to take reinforcements on i|a large scale to Sicily, shooting| {down 21 huge German Junkers and | |52 transpgrts, in a battle over Messina Straits. | Two giant German 323 Merse- |bergs were downed by the RAF. | These planes are capable of car-| |rying more than 100 men but offi- |cial reports did not state at first | whether the big Junkers and trans- ports were filled with troops, but q |1ate reports said they were all load- led with Nazi reinforcements. e, The last living male heath hen was seen in 1932 at Martha’s Vine- yard, Mass, After four days spent in the wreckage of their B-25 bomber which was crash landed on Greenland after being forced down by lack of gas and zero visibility while on patrol, the U. 8, Army crew was rescued by a Coast Guard vessel (circle) after their discovery by an air scout- ing party. Associated Press photo from Army Air Forces. | GETSBOLDER WHERE THE BETTER |UNUSUAL MYSTERY ' FILM DUE TONIGHT | AT 20TH CENTURY Four pairs of eyes saw the crime; but four pairs of lips ®ld different stories, while a man’s life hung in the balance—proving that, when it's murder, seing isn't al s believing! But pres s who have seen 20th| , Century-Fox's latest baffler, “Thru| | Different Eyes," coming to the 20th | | Century tonight, insist that it's one \m the most unusual mystery thrill-| |ers of the year | talizingl, unfolded in flashback manner, the story cerns the tribulations of a county district attorney beset by an un- fathomable killing and a meddle- some wife as the state is concerned, closed with the con- viction of the fiance of the D. A’s That's where the missus steps in. She is very close to her and, since her intuition tells her the guilty one is still at large, |she takes matters into her own | hands, In the cast GA THE YEARS MOST BAFFLING MURDER MYSTER - / the con- own niece niece with FRANK CRAVEN MARY HOWARD « JUNE WALKER DONALD WOODS + VIVIAN BLAINE GEORGE HOLMES » JEROME COWAN A 20TH CENTURY-FOX PICTURE PLUS LATEST are Frank Craven,| | June Walker, Mary Howard, Vivian Blaine, George Holmes, Donald | Woods and Jerome Cowan who Are | ‘m\'ol\'t‘d in the romantic as well as lethal aspect of the picture. -+ SPOKESMAN OF GERMANS | | | [Declares Italy Must Re-| | main in War, Fight- ‘ ing Three Enemies LONDON, July 27.—According to | Berlin broadcasts, German spoke |men are becoming bolder in com- | menting on the change of Gov- ernments in Ttaly as British Prime Minister Churchill made it clear that proposals for an armistice have Inot yet been received from Badog- lio. | The' German radio said, in quot- | ing what it claimed a remavk| jof the Foreign Office spokesman “that as long as a patriot is at the | head of the Italian Government,| he naturally must adopt the prin- [ciple that the vital interest of Italy | |lies in fighting against her ene- mies, England, the United States| and Bolshevism.” One spokesman broadcast saying| | German Ambassador von Macken- | sen, in Rome, undoubtedly has al-| ready talked with Badoglio but no| | information could be given out con- | {cerning the meeting. 39 SOLDIERS ' ARE LOST IN DESERT AREA Searching Parties Finally | Find Platoon-3 Dead and One Missing ties of the Armed 8789, more air military control. give all of our frie known throughou LEW WILLIAMS, JR., IN JUNEAU TODAY: JOINS U. 5. FORCES Lew Williams, Jr., former Ju- neau young man, is in Juneau today and will tomorrow be a voluntary inductee into the United States Armed Services. Young Williams has ‘tried for the aviation service but vision prevented his acceptance and he is going into the other branch of the service, Williams is a son of the Post- master of Wrangell, formerly on the Empire Staff. His mother is now publisher of the Wrangell Sentinel. Williams says Wrangell is a busy place but help is slack. One 3-line | cannery there is only operating 1- women as workers, 1114 2—GOOD FEATURE PICTURES — 2 line owing to the scarcity of men ur‘ " PAGE THREE BIG PICTURES PLAY! STARTS TONIGHT SECOND FEATURE WORLD NEWS 878% More Express to Alaska Pan American Airways’ Alaska Serv- ice, merged into the transport facili- Forces, is working overtime these days. One result: express carried to Alaska in 1942 than in the year be- fore. Every ounce of cargo is under When the war is won, we will again nds the standard of service for which Pan American is t Alaska. P LPAN AMERICAN AIRWALYS DRIVEON | ~ MUNDAIS 2-SIDE ¢ Jungle Veterans Pressing | ClosefoAirdrome- * | Salamaua Bombed (Continued from Page One) | single _plane droppé& r'gon;b& | Japs also bombed Americans Inorth of Salus at Lake Nassau in CAMP YOUNG, Calif.,, July 28.— ! Army searching parties have found a company of 39 soldiers, missing| for days on the desert. Three of the soldiers were found | dead and one is missing. | The 39 soldiers were on maneu- | vers in the desolate and waterless | area and were lost from the supply | depot last Saturday during a six-| day training test. A lieutenant of the platoon left | to get some water and while away, several of the soldiers became| frightened at their situation and| staggered off in search of help.| The men were gone when the lieu- e { NEW YORK, July 28.—A megsage | the Bay Area. The attacks were in= received by the Associated Press|effective. - p sald unconfirmed reports are being| FIying Fortresses raided the | circulated in one European Capital Kahili airdrome on Bougainville Is- that German troops are moving toward Brenner Pass and taking up defense positions in Italy’s nor- thern Provinces of Venetia, Lom- bardy and Piedmont. The message added that full im- | plications of these reports are not yet known, FOR SAL 1—Sullivan Portable Compressor 1—30 h.p. Electric Motor, 60 cycle, tenant returned with the water. | A°Military Board of Inquiry has been called at Yuma, Ariz. e - | LONDON, July 28. — A dispatch | from The Netherlands reports Air| General Frederick Christiansen, | Commander of the German Mili-| tary forces in The Netherlands, has been courtmartialed on charges of cowardice. 220 volt 2—Sullivan Air Jack Hammers and Equipments 10—Pcs. 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