The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 3, 1943, Page 3

. . TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1943 A MAGNIFICENT ADVENTURE IN TECHNICOLOR AND CELLULOID! FIRST TIME AT POPULAR PRICES! Walt fiDiAnufi'b J}ma%inq A TECHNICOLORFUL MUSIC Conducted by the Great STOKOWSKT! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASK. FINAL SHOWING OF "PITTSBURGH" TONIGHT, CAPITOL Activities in half a dozen of the nation’s largest industrial plants are shown in Universal's “Pitt burgh,” showing for the last tim tonight at the Capitol Theatre. Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott and John Wayne are co-starred in the Charles K. Feldman produc-| tion. | Since the conversion of private| industry into an all-out war ma-| chine is a dominating factor in the ' film, Universal sent a camera crew to Pittsburgh to photograph back- ground action in several of that] city's largest factories Most of this film footage is in: !cluded in the production. - ALASKA OPA SAYS TENTATIVE TERMS REACHED ON MEAT Alaskans Wil Receive Enough - Rationing Not Imminent Apropos the concerning the imminence tioning in the Territory, the numerous reports of ra-! | DAYS ONLY WEDNESDAY—THURSDAY = ANNOUNCEMENT PREVUE TONIGHT 12:30 A. M. CAPITOL THEATRE STARTS CAMPAIGN | ~ |the summer. Office of Price Administration to- {day issued the following ment: “Tentative arrangements just been made to permit ments of meat to Alaska the quotas recently set by the Wa Food Administration. Information from Washington indicates that these arrangements, while exempt- have ship=, "HAPPY JANE” ed the phone in | the ! erett MAGNIFICENT DOPE" ENDS AT 20TH CENTURY| Don Ameche and Henry Fonda| appear together for the first time| since Ameche cinematically invent- “The Story of Al-| exander Graham Bell” in 20th Century-Fox’s sparkling new hit, The Magnificent Dope,” ending its run tonight at the 20th Century The whose only other co- starrer was “The Life of Lillian Russell,” share top billing with Lynn Bari, making her debut as lead in a major production cast, headed by Edward Ev- Horton, includes many favo- pair The rites, The picture is noteworthy. for having provided lovely Lynn Bari her first starring role in a major production on the 20th Cen- tury-Fox lot. Lynn's performance, it is believed, will place her among the most important leading ladies in Hollywood .- too, ALUMINUM Alaska | state-! outside | ing Alaska from the original quo-| tas, provide for controls to prevent excessive shipments. This news of particular importance to welfare of the freeze-up ywhich buy most of this meat | “The quotas provided that 'the three months ending Septem- ‘bu 30, 1943, the limit of meat im-' | portations was to be 65 percent of | |the beef and veal shipped in the | same period of 1941, 80 percent of is| the ! sections | lXI: | for "IN HOLLY- WOOD is Jane Hale, 21-year-old dance director. She was chosen by Don Loper to replace the gifted danseuse, Eleanor Powell. Her film contract was signed on her 21st birthday. ry rationing. inland waters by a system of volur In a country whose PRODUCTION INCREASES WASHINGTON, Aug. The War Department today annn\mccd | it is cancelling contracts for the | manufacture of C-76 cargo planes by the Curtiss Wright Company of | Louisville and Higgins Company of | New Orleans. | The War Department said alum- inum production is now greatly in- creased and should be sufficient to meet all requirements for the all- ‘mu tal n]w of plane -e- U.5.SHIPS GIVEN T0 ~ BRITAIN WHERE PAGE THREE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY! (ST LENTURY NOW PLAYING! % MAGNIFICENT . DOPE with EDWARD EVERETT HORTON « George Barbier Directed by Walter Lang + Produced by William Perlberg Screen Play by George Seaton Originol Story by Joseph Schrank A 20th CENTURY-FOX PICTURE 30 — MINUTES LATEST NEWS — 30 ( | | 1 | FATHERS MAY SOON GO INTO |teem with millions of |the finest f sh in the husv‘”“ finest food fisk that would present no serious dif ounds of | the lamb and mutton, and 85 per- s | icent of the pork. The 1941 period was manifestly inappropri- LONDON, Aug. 3.—British anm- CONGRATUI.ATED world, ’ | Minister Winston Churchill told llun " | House of Commons today that Presi- | I" Dow"l"fi 25 Beginning last night and continu- Effective August 2nd it is our pleas- ure to announce the addition to our plumbing and heating mechanical staff of MR.E.C. SHELLWORTH and we invite the people of this vieinity to avail themselves of Mr. Shellworth’s 38 years experience in the plumbing and heating industry. HARRI MACHINE SHOP OSCAR HARRI, Proprietor Withholding Tax — Depositary Employers withholding income tax funds from their wage payments may deposit them with us as a depositary and financial agent of the United States. Authorized depositary 1ece1pt\ will be issued by us for use of the employer in filing his quart- erly return. The B. M. Behrends Bank SKILLED I.IIGGERS Logging Truck Road Builders Wanted for IMPORTANT WAR WORK Certificate of Availability Required see U. S. Employment Service 124 Marine Way, Juneau Lynn L. Crosby at the Gastineau Hotel, Juneau There Is No Substitute for Newspaper Advertising! to sell enough war bonds to buy a Mitchell bomber to send to the fighting front will be carried on by | the management of the Capitol Theatre in Juneau, Manager Homer Garvin announces. { ing through August 15, a ‘campaign All persons purchasing bonds from | the theatre which is an authorized issuing agency may sign their names on a scroll which will be sent to the North American Aviation Com- ! pany which will have the scroll | microfilmed and placed in the cabin of one of the planes heading for war. The original scroll will then be returned to the theatre for ! display. Persons wishing to buy war bonds may make application when enter- ' ing the theatre and pick the bonds up on the way out. ‘Ploesti Oil Fields Aflame as Result of Mass Ameman Attack <Commued from Page One) man and Rumaian fighters were| waiting at high altitude for the| American bomber fleet and pounced on the air armada as it neared' the target. The enemy defenses were on the alert for approximately an hour as the flight of the Ameri- cans, was charted while still cross- ing Bulgaria. The German report differed with the eye witnesses. A Nazi com- munique claimed the attack “turns out to be an even greater failure,” asserting 52 American planes were shot down and 15 were forced tol land in neutral territory. 20 Planes Lost Yesterday’s report from the Ninth Air Force headquarters said 20 planes were downed over the target area and a number had not returned to their base. Yesterday thHe Germans claimed 36 bombers were shot down. A total of 175 bombers made the attack, zooming in at smokestack level with special bomb sights, making sure of their hits. The Ploesti oil fields have been supplying approximately one-third of the Axis oil requirements. Approximately 2,000 airmen took part in the raid which one mili- tary authority yesterday said may materially effect the course of the war. Seven oil refineries were to have been hit and burst flames. Just how much damage was done to the huge fuel producing, center has not been disclosed, pending further reports from returning air- men. 5 | ) said into i protective, |ate for Alaska because of the con- siderable increases in population | |since that year, and was therefore | |so represented to Washington by the Alaska Office of Price Admin- istration. Alaska Has Plenty “There is of course a meat shortage and in order to supply Lend Lease and military requirements, civilian consumption | has had to be cut. Alaska certainly should have no cause for complaint | if she finds her supply under mod- | erate controls. She has been af- fected by food shortages far less! (than any other place under the Amencan flag. | “I am confident when they have time to think about the matter,| national | |Alaskans will remember that they, 'too, are Americans and capable of |tightening up their belts as the! |King, in a statement reviewing the rest of the country has been doing| for months. In the meantime, we| do not contemplate rationing ex- cept as a last resort. That has al- |ways been our assurance to Alaska and it still is. the attention that rationing is by no means the bugbear and mon- | trosity ithas been made out to be.| Should unforseen events ultimate- ly make it necessary to adopt a rationing program for Alaska,| there is no reason for the general public to be concerned over the matter. Actually rationing is a not a menacing pro- cedure, and very generally through- out the country, in spite of its manifest inconveniences, it has| been gratefully accepted. It simply| guarantees an equal share of scarce commodities to all people within the rationed area. No Rationing “We do not at present contem- plate a rationing program for Al- aska. We do not, however, forget that we are still trying to win a war, and in wartime the rules un- der which we operate may change over night. We have never felt that in good conscience we could a give absolute assurances that there would be no rationing, and we have | never done so. | HEY,SP\KE - HAVE & SEEN NARD B\RD ST AROWND ToDAY 22 WS BUNK WRSNT SLEPT WY A0S NaAT SRS B.P.O. ELKS Special meeting, 4, 1943, 8 p.m. M. H. SIDES, Secretary. Wednesday, Aug. adv. of school dames Richard Byrnes, Henry Har-| mon, Stanley, Stan Hillman, “At present, Alaska'’s reduction in|City is meat supplies can easily be met|at the Baranof Hotel. i$ K TRIMDAD'S KINDA TR\CKY, BARNEY - ficulties.” | - Situafion In Italy Involved |Canadian Prime Minister King Makes State- ment on War 3 L. OTTAWA, |Prime Minister Aug. w Mackenzie war, said: “It is possible Italy will experi-! ence a complete political and social | | collapse.” King declared that a perfect and complete military conquest and a’ matter of a short time. ‘King warned that Italy’s ulti- mate surrender, however, “may he a final act but it will not come as sdon as might be expected. Idoubt| if. we realize how involved the whole situation in Italy has be-| come.” Mrs. Roth Honored At Luncheon Today For Mrs. Harold Roth, who will leave shortly for Seward where her husband has accepted the position | superintendent, an in- formal luncheon was given today by Mrs. George B. Schmidt at her home on Distin Avenue. ,Asked to attend were the Mes- John McLaughlin, Bernard A. L. Dahl| and Miss Cecelia Lieby. - MAITLAND AT BARANOF | Alexander Maitland of Kansas| in Juneau and registered | WANBE e GOT LOST _ Canadian | | thousands of enlisted men, Upon re- | (dent Roosevelt promised to jover to Great Britain between 150 [and 200 American built ships on\ which work has already started. The | | letter, which he read, explained the | ]nncoss of handing over the ships Imll be spread over | period. The Prime Minister told the Com- | mons that this will absorb the reserves of trained seafaring popu- lation resources of both the United | States and Great Britain, and “economically, and providentially lapplies to the main purpose of the war.” JOHNC. KIRMSE COMMISSIONER SECOND LIEUT. CAMP LEE, Va., Aug. 3.—John C. Kirmse of Skagway, Alaska, upon completion of the intensive 13-week course for officer candidates at The Quartermaster School here, has been commissioned a Second Lieutenant “However, it should be called to then occupation of Sicily is only!in the Army of the United States. conditions; he Quartermaster Under underwent rigorous The School course of instruction in all | | Quartermaster activities, which em- | physical [* phasizes military training, hardening and mastery of weapons varying from a .30 calibre rifle to the 37 mm, gun. Candidates at the | school are chosen by boards through- out the Army. Selection is based upon initiative, military aptitude, turn | a 10-month | | | | | | intelligence, civilian experience and | | Army record. Under the command of Brig. Gen. George A. Horkan, The Quarter- master School instructs and trains officer candidates and officers. ceiving his commission Quartermaster, Lt. Kirmse departed | with other new officers to assume duties wherever the Army fights. o WARBURTON HERE S. Warburton, with the Pelican City Cold Storage Company, is at the Baranof Hotel - - E. B. EELS IN E. B. Skeels, with Guy-Atkinson Company, is in Juneau and regis- tered at the Baranof Hotel BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH HRAVE Y& CHECKED WS FRNORITE OLNTS ET,B.G.2 s a fighting | | | | I THANKS, SPIKE - THHT GNES ME & GOOD LONDON, Aug. 3. — Brigadier General Frank Armstrong, manding a heavy bombardment unit of the United States Eighth Air Force, congratulated his Fighter Command for shooting down 25 'enemy fighters on July 30, when Flying Fortresses supported by | Thunderbolts bombed Essen. The General said: “This is prob- ‘ably one of the outstanding aerial ‘vlctmys by fighters in aviation his- ‘tory while covering the withdraawal of | the Fortresses from the German | border area. The Fortresses them- ,selves accounted for 27 other planes. FIGHTER PLANES com- | The Thunderbolts got the planes | U. . UNIFORMS | \ WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Only handful of States can get throug] | October without some drafting of pre-Pear] Harbor fathers now that Selective Service has lifted the pan against it. An unofficial survey in~ dicated that many States reported | that they are scraping the bottom of the manpower barrel. If they a able to meet the October quot fathers heretofore deferred for de- | pendency alone must go into uni- | form. i War Manpower Director Paul V. | McNutt announced late yesterday the lifting of the ban on induction of fathers of children born before September 15, 1942. Afte'r\’ictory When the war is won, Pan. American Airways will pioneer new standards of service for our friends in Alaska. Meanwhile, we are 1009, engaged in the war effort — with every passenger and every ounce of cargo priorited by the Armed Forces—and we appreci- ate your patience and understanding when the accommodation you want is not available. By BILLY DeBECK DO Nou (Ve GUEST HERE A \TT\E AN ANMERICAN SOLDIER QBOWT S50-50 W\GH 22