The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 21, 1943, Page 3

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1943 TONIGHT! STARTS SUNDAY! g Mg,,&... \ i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA "STRICTLY IN THE GROOVE""—Ozzie Nelson and Orchestra —and—"SHERLOCK HOLMES COMES T0 WASHINGTON" [ TR All Crossed-Up...and Kissed-Up! Diana BARRYMORE Robert CUMMINGS ' .THE HENRY KOSTER PRODUCTION Kay FRANCIS John BOLES —PLUS— IS SHE 21 and old enough— OR ONLY 12 but bold enough— TO HEAD HIM FOR THE ALTAR? " . _,‘5‘“ - “Cruise Sports” Color’' Cartoon Latest News BIG PICTURES! THE CAPITOL HAS Tk Didn’t we meet ... . you were a little when older? |8 DAY —Feature at 2:30—4:30—6:30 8:30—10:30 CAPITOL BILLS MODERN COMEDY NEXT FEATURE For newness, hovelty and a defi- nie breakaway from conventional filmfare, Universal's “Between Us Girls,” coming Sunday to the Capi- tol Theatre, is declared to be the season’s champion screen attrac- tion. The picture, directed and pro- duced by Henry Koster, boasts more legitimate “firsts” than any | feature of recent months, perhap: Diana Barrymore, Robert Cummings ard Kay Fran- |eis have the leading roles The movie, described as {ern coniedy, concerns a young stage |star who masquerades a 12- year-old tom-boy to help her beau- |tiful, too-youthful mother win the handsome she loves. Compii= | cations however, when the ar-old also falls in love and |finds herself in deeper and deeper | difficulties while attempting to |prove she is a full-grown woman |instead of a child. | Diana Barrymore's second screen (appearance, the picture awards her | her first starring film role, teamed with Robert Cummings. John Boles, who appears oppo- site Miss; Francis, rates a “first” as the picture serves as his initial start since his retirement from the screen a few years ago. Since then, he has continuously toured the two Americas in concert but, smitten |by a touch of nostalgia, he chose |to return to the screen in “Be- tween Us Girls.” | Andy Devine joins the galaxy of {“firsts” by playing his first tailor- made dressed-up role, as Miss Bar- | rymore’s manager, in his first top- | budget picture. - LIST OF JOBS FOR AFTER WAR HERE SUBMITTED Council Also F Requests The- ‘ afres fo Prohibit | Smoking A list of 17 proposed post-war projects for Juneau was approved by the City Council last night at the request of Gov. Ernest Gruen- ing, including projects ranging from a new city hall to a civic center building. The Council also recommended the appointment of a three-member advisory board to serve with Librar-, ian Ann Coleman in determining the selection of books for the li« brary. The Council voted to request Ju-y neau theaters to prohibit smoking movie years a mod- as man arise “Miss State Fair’ FINE CAST SEEN INNEW FILM AT 207H CENTURY “Law of the Tropics,” a dramatic love story set in the slumbrous at- mosphere of a tropical rubber plan- tation, will open Sunday at the 20th Century Theatre. The film has a very fine cast, featuring Constance Bennett and Jeffrey Lynn in the starring roles with Regis Toomey {Mona Maris and Hobart Bosworth in support Lynn, in the role of a young rub planter, is informed while on way to meet his financee from » United States, that she Is al- \dy married. He stops off in a waterfront dive to forget his troubles and he meets a singer, pla: ed by Constance Bennett. Things happen so swiftly and so surprising- y, that it would be unfair to reveal any more of the story. | Ray Enright directed “Law of the Tropics” which was adapted for the screen by Charles Gr son from a book by Alice Tisdale Hobart. e ber his GERRY BACH | PASSESAWAY CHOSEN Miss Colorado State Fair for 1943, Margaret Gramly will be official. hostess. for the fair and rodeo to be held in her home city of Pueblo, Aug. 23-27. She is an excellent equestrienne and swim- mer. « (International) HOSPITAL NOTES Jack Dalton has been discharged from St Hospital a medical patient Esther Hazeltine was after medical care. Smith has entered St medical treatment Emmett Ann’s for Ann’s dismissed from St. Ann’s Hospital on Friday | | Gerry Bach, one of the best ‘icn own transportation men of | Alaska, died siiddenly at Ketchikan | yesterday according to advices re- ceived here by Henry Green, Ju- neau Agent for the Northland | Transportation Company. | In the early days, Gerry Bach was purser on Admiral Line steam- |ers, being one of the best known pursers on the Alaska run, Seattle | vla Southeast Alaska to Westward !Alaska ports. Since leaving the | pursership, he has been steamship |agent at various ports and for past |years has been the agent. of the | Northland Transportation Company |at Ketchikan, | Survivors are his widow and one |son, now in the Coast Guard. S e FLOWRR TE ATTENDED BY - TWO HUNDRED Approximately 200 individuals A son was born to Mrs. Jack Fra-|eajleq at the Scottish Rite Temple vesterday weighed St The Ann’s Infant zier noon at after- yesterday afternoon between 2 and five |§ o'clock when members of the Ju- pounds, one and a half ounces at|pneay Garden Club* were hostesses birth. Master Billy Fortier entered Ann’s Hospital this morning | tonsillectomy. Mrs. Matthew Wilson and baby 1“‘11!] a flower tea, | Mrs. M .D. Williams and Mrs. J. F. Jeffrey received during the after- for a|ngon and guests attending were pre- |cented with miniature nosegay bou- | tonnieres. | The tea table was covered with a in theatres as a fire control pre. o7 Were dismissed from the Gov-|lace cloth and a charming arrange- caution. | A temporary permit was granted noon > ,ernment Hospital yesterday after- ment of pink roses from the Charles |Forward garden formed a lovely |centerpiece. 'White tapers offset PAGE THREE. WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY AST rovgnr “SON Buy More Stamps STARTS SUNDAY.--- TYRONE POWER 70" [ENTURY of FURY’ Buy More Jonds MATINEE 2:00 P. M. A WARNER BROS. PICTURE with CONSTANCE JEFFREY BENNETT : LYNN: REGIS TOOMEY - MONA MARIS - HOBART B0SWORTH - Directed by RAY ENRIGHT Screen Play by Charles Grayson . From & Book by Alice Tisdale Hobart + A Warner Bros. - First Netionel Pictur 30 Minutes Latest News OWL SHOW TONIGHT 12:30 A. M. ‘Hnlhrunk and Harold Smith Assisting during the afternoon were Mesdames John M(-Corn')u-k‘ David Ramsey, Ralph Wright, Lynn Forrest and Charles Forward. On display during the tea hours were colorful arrangements of flowers from local gardens. Among the larger displays were groups of gladioli, dahlias, marigolds, sweet peas and papsies. Floral arrange- ments for the tea were under the supervision of Mrs. Willlam Paul, and pictures of the exhibit were taken during the afternoon for fu- ture use by the club - One colony of beavers in the midwest is believed to have been in existence for more than one thousand years. 'NINE ARRIVE FROM SOUTH LAST NIGHT The following passengers arrivi herc from the south last night: Phil E. Harding, Mrs. Florence Harding, Grace Harding, Mrs. T. Crawford, Ronald L. Crawford, Robert Peiper, | Mrs, Mildred Peiper, Motris Peiper, |and Miss A. Steen. MRS. NORMAN (00K IS ILL IN HOSPITAL Mrs. Norman Cook, taken to St | Ann’s Hospital several days ago, 18 seriously il but is slowly showihg signs of improvement. Pastor H. L. Wood for building a| plane hangar in the small l)(mt‘ AT TION MASONS the picturesque scene and approp- | harbor. Stated Communication of Mt. Ju- |riate music during the afternoon | The Baranof Coffee Shop was Neau Lodge Monday evening at|was arranged by Mrs. Ernest Ehler.| |granted a restaurant license, and 7:30. Work in the F. C. Degree.| Those presiding at the tea table THEATRE THE SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU Allied Superiority in Air Admitted by Nazis; German Losses Increase PREVUE LEIVERS, Secretary. ladv. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. EDISON MAZDA LAMPS The Standard of Comparison * Alaska Eleciric Light and Power Company Juneau Phone 616 Douglas Phone 18 94% More Passengers to Alaska That is the 1942 record of Pan Amer- ican Airways’ Alaska Service. But every passenger is now priorited by (Continued from Page one) the Armed Forces, selected for his importance to the war effort. When Victory is won, we will pio- neer new standards of service for our friends in Alaska. SKILLED LOGGERS Logging Truck Road Builders Wanted for IMPORTANT WAR WORK Certificate of Availability Required PAN AMERICAN IR 1EY By BILLY DeBECK Y PORE LOWIZIE - 7 SHE WUZ RUTHER CuE BLRDDY HED | THANKELL T GUESSH TUO-TUREE RIGHT SPRY | HER MOLRNW' WDDYWERS ASHNNLP ) CLOS WWZ M o UER <EEToTAL ET UP W T RECKON SNWFEN'LL SE TAKW' OWT WSHORANCE NAOW W THET TUAR GOOD NE\GHBORLY eouey 124 Marine Way, Juneau WIE MOTH HOLES TONITE 12.30 A M |Haloff and Henry was granted a|All Masons welcome. | were Mesdames Josephine Boyd, J.| a bigger res i {in central ‘lumsia, only 15 now | L A g b | their planes on the theory they make any kind of accurate estimate Booked for the south last night Already last January it was ev rategy. Now the day when vir- the 15,000 t. 24,000 ships it was es- C. Brown, L. L. Blackburn, Francis Japs, but Russian production (Mos. |Yel» L. P. Callahan, H. G. Heaton,| | tion. The Ploesti oil refineries in|HAROLD ROTH LEAVE | Superintendent of the Seward Pub- | squadrons to set up a “milk route” | tain localities, and there seems to| WNaaL - NUP- T SETCUN THEM | sue for peace and use the remain- ing fight. The counter-argument, E dispensary license. J W J. Connors, William Paul, George > TS SRS S T Y SR g SR PR TRN SR - Alexander, Walter Sharpe, Wellman dent that the Germans were hoard- | tually all of Germany will be reach- | s man o 0 ing their planes. AP war corres- able from Italjan bases is in sight“zz lEAvE HERE pondent Wes Gallagher wrote: | and the few more months which the | | “Where 100 Stukas once appeared | N#7IS might have used to build up FOR Sou]’“ I sty 2 | It is doubtful that her bomb-rid- appear; where 40 Axis fighters flew, | qleq factories could have done much[ I_ASI EVENING only four fly now. \more than keep step with losses| | If the Nazis were hanging on to anyway. It is plainly impossible to| ! year the Luftwaffe itself was down could be better employed when it as to how much Nazi aircraft pro- Were the following, all for Seattle: to about 5000. Aeroplane sets pres- | came to defending Europe, the un- duction has n hamstrung, but it| M!- and Mrs. Elwin F. Higby, ent Nazi bomber strength at about |expectedly fast ~developments in is equally that Germany is|Claude O. Ponting, Edward H 2,000. Italy have shown this up as bad not going Jme anywhere near|LeWison, May 8. Brown, Stewa o — tiated she turned out last year. Macken, Edward W. Putnam, American-British production this| 3¢0rge A. Swelley, Freda Cofle, vear is planned at about 100,000, |Clyde M. Ordway. i Part of this will go against the| 9J°ohn Lamson, Howard H. Saw-| cow won't say what it is) make up A B., Anderson, Donald Martin, | some of the difference. |Mary Jane Snider, Mary A. Nelson, Another thing that must be giv-ica"l Nelson, and Vernon L. Barrett, ing Goering fits is the fuel situa- 4, g | Rumania are a big source of Axis FOR POST AT SEWARD, | aviation gasoline. We have already | Harold Roth left Juneau yester- given Ploesti a serious setback, and |day for Seward where he will be | bases in TItaly would . permit our k’“c Schools. His family will follow to Rumania like the one they flew|as soon as transportation is avail- ‘from England to Germany’s Ruhr |able. f }W’;’]':.i Germans hi : Iready ad o - ave already ad- | mitted Allied air superiority in oer-f ND SNUFFY SMITH | be rio doubt that they are losing the | | air war. Perhaps right now there U S E 10 ment Serv-ce |is debate in high places in serin| | O SNUFFY |~ FOLKS AN TRINNN-DAD . mp Y 1 over whether it would be wise to| | GHOWED 1P | TARRED AN FERTHERED 0 g N\ GOUTH /T SHIF'LESS SKONK AN ing German planes—and tanks, sub- ON Q RA\L marines and factories—as political “MER\CKV R\D “\N\ OWT weapons at the peace table rather - than as military weapons in a los- | = by top Nazis, would be that they are \NQ\)\D&“ in the soup anyway and might as well take a chance on fighting it out. SUSPRISE NE NERY & N\TE Lynn L. Crosby at the Gastineau Hotel, Juneau —————— The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any Al- aska newspaper. THE DOUGLAS INN DINE AND DANCE ? OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT D e Broiled Steak and Fried Chicken SERVED ANY TIME Electric Hammond | Organ Music DINE AND DANCE