The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 22, 1943, Page 3

'WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1943 5, LAND 0B FILM 91(APIIO[:|N SURPRISE Lawrence to the screen, “A Date | Aussies Drop in on Enemy With the Falcon” again teams George Sanders and Wendy Barrie from American Air Transports in the top roles of a stirring and laughter-packed drama. The film (Continued from Page One) GAY... GALLANT! «.The most charming adventurer | who ever talked his | way into a woman's opens tonight for a two-day run at | tne Capito 1Theatre. James Gleason, Allen Jenkins and Mona Maris have the other featur- ed parts in the offering, which re- volves about the puzzling disappear- ance and seeming murder of a clever scientist who has invented a cheap method of making synthetic dia- monds for defense uses. Lawrence, known as The Falcon,| Four bridges were destroyed, three| is intrigued into investigating the|damaged, an enemy supply road case, working with the suspiclous along the coast torn up, 20 trud Inspector O'Hara of the police de- | Set afire, a warehouse destroved. partment. The Falcon’s fiancee, and two barges sunk. 3 : whose plans for an immdeiate wed- | All of the American raiders re- ding are wrecked by Lawrence's|turned. : sudden attention to the affair,| Al the same time, 20 Jap planes torms at him, especially when she | Were downed in a raid on American- Alscovess thatie mp;s[mz’m and at. held Vella Lavella Island, and the tractive feminine crook is involved,|Japs, moving in more planes, raid- How the suave investigator nar-|®d Munda airfield, New Georgia rowly escapes losing his life before| Thirty Jap dive-bombers, escort- be runs down the criminals behing 1 by 20 fighters, bl "‘)‘he at- the daring scheme and rescues the tack on Vella Lavella. The Am- missing scientist, makes for the ericans shot down 12 bombers and bréathless ending as the flancee {iVe fighters and lost three plancs. triumphantly leads The Falcon off Anti-aircraft fire bagged three more toward the altar. dWF boeubers. ot ol ommzm shot down. A total of 57 tons of bombs was dropped on Madang and our planes fired 120,000 rounds in strafing sweeps. GEORGE SANDERS WENDY BARRIE ALLEN JENKINS JAMES GLEASON —ALS0— 3 Stooges Air Corps Training THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA "BLUES INTHE NIGHT” COMING | 10 20TH CENTURY | Priscilla Lane, Betty Field and | Richard Whorf head the cast of the| 20th Century's new feature, “Blues in the Night,” which the manage- ment promises as a new and ex-‘ citing kind of musical. The picture, | making its debut tonight, was pro- | duced by the Warner Bros. studio {which has enlisted some of Holly {wood's best acting, directional, writ- | ing and musical talent in turning| }Olll the film. Robert Rossen’s screen play,! jadapted from a play by Edwin Gil- bert, is a tightly-knit dramatic tale of a bunch of youngsters who form their own band to play the kind of tblues which they believe to be the true folk music of America. Rich- ard Whorf, talented stage star was' borrowed from the Lunt-Fontanne producing unit to play the role of the pianist who organizes the group.' Priscilla Lane, whose singing with Fred Warin's band first brought her| to Hollywood, is cast as the singer, and “little mother,” whose faith and courage keeps the band to- gether through some mighty hard times, and Betty Field, clever young | dramatic star of such films as “Of Mice and Men” and “Shepherd of the Hills,” plays the selfish, heart- less nightclub hostess who nearly | leads Whorf to his ruin. Others in! highly talented cast include Lloyd| Nolan, Jack Carson, Wallace Ford, Howard da Sylva, Elia Kazan and| Billy Halop. MARTHAS' RUMMAGE SALE ON TOMORROW Girl S(out Troop - For Upper Grades | Mrs. Floyd Fagerson, troop leader | GooD BOOST for Girl Scout Troop No. 3, spon-| sored by the Martha Society of the| Northern Light Presbyterian! OMAHA, Sept Church, announces that the first have done just as good a job as meeting will be held tomorrow our soldiers” President William afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the|Green, of the Ameri Federation Church parlors. lof Labor, told the delegates to the Girls in the seventh and eighth|American Legion Convention here |erades of school who are interested | today. |in this troop are requested to at-| Green said that there have been ‘lend the meeting at which ume‘mfinv persons making “rash and Iplans of organization will be dis- | unreasonable statemenh toward or- clerk of‘cuwed Ways and means of assist-|ganized labor,” but speaking for (more than 600,000 hard working and thoroughly patriotic members of the AFL, I can truthfully say - {they bitterly resent the slurs and |denunciations heaped upon the or- | ganized workers of Amrnm by the Dmplv who know benm GEORGE WAlMSI.EY 22 —“Our workers THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! WRANGELL CLERK HERE L. B. Chisholm, city MYRTLE DUNN IMPROVING Myrtle Dunn, President of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ Union, is recovering nicely at St. | Wrangell, is spending a few days in|ing with the war effort will also Ann’s Hoospital according to reports [ Juneau is a guest at the B(u-\be studied by the girls and their today. | anof -Hotel. | 1eaders. George Walmsley, former Juneau boy, is now a Marine, Private First Class, and has gone to North Car lina to become a radar technician, according to word received here by Mrs. George Shaw from = young Walmsley'’s mother, Mrs. Charles Carnaby, of Bremerton, Wash. Walmsley completed his training at the Marine Base in San Pedro, RIDE THE BUS CHANNEL BUS LINES Wishes to Announce the Inauguration of the Juneau Transit System . . . others from his platoon to take a further three-month course and ad- ! ditional training at Treasure Island, San Francisco. PR A THY L vl HENRY BAMAN AND FAMILY TO LEAVE SOON ON VACATION Henry‘ Baman, nccompsmed by | his wife and son, are leaving short- | |ly for the States for an extended with the following Schedule and Route: SCHEDULE Leave Boat Harbor 15 minutes be- fore each hour and 15 minutes after each hour. Starting at 7:15 A. M. continuing until 12:45 A. M. Bus runs to Alaska Juneau at ROUTE Starting at South end of South Franklin Street, running north to Front Street, on Front Street to South Main Street, running south on South Main Street to Willoughby Avenue, running out Willoughby to Tenth with Mr. Baman’s parents in Bel- grade, Montana. His father is 86 vears old and his mother is 81. where he was selected with four| l?ome mothers before next June 30. vacation. While there they will visit fssistance 1s needed for nearly half| 7:30 A. M, 3:30 P. M. and 4:30 P.M Leave City Cafe on South Frank- lin St. 5 minutes after each hour and ‘5 minutes after each half Street, turning at Tenth Street, run- ning to Small Boat Harbor, then up Twelfth Street, Calhoun Avenue and Fourth Street to Main, running south on Main to Front Street, cross over Mr. Baman has geen in the Ju-|* neau vicinity for twenty years, and|” lately has been employed at Hutch- | ing’s Market. He plans to return The rummage sale sponsored by the Martha Society will be held at the Northern Light Presbyterian| Church basement tomorrow morn- | ing beginning at 10 o'clock. The committee in charge of the| sale includes Mrs. M. S. Whittier, chairman; Mrs. R. L. Wolfe, Mrs. Delbert Dixon, Mrs. Roy Ruther- ford, Mrs. Robert Sanford, Mrs. E.| J. Cowling, Mrs. George Baker, Mrs. J. J. Stocker, dnd Mrs Bailey. {JAKE (ROPlEY R GRADUATED FROM | NEW ARMY SCHOOL! | Pvt. Jake Cropley, Jr., son of Mr. | and Mrs. Jake Cropley of Juneau,| has been graduated from the Army’s | { Amphibious Vehicle Training School jat Moultrieville, South Carolina, as driver of one of the amphibians, according to word received here by nts. Y Cropley, entered the Army last January and was first sent to Vancouver Barracks in Washington before being admitted to the train- | ing school in July Expedant Mothersfo 00 Secure Aid { WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. — The House appropriations committee today recommended an emergency appropriation of $18,620,000 to assist enlisted men’s wives who will be- The allotment is based on the {Children’s Bureau estitnate that the iaverage cost is $84.50 a case. The! committee estimates that Federal! of the 645,000 service men's wives| expected to become mothers in the| turrenl fiscal year. T — FROM ANCHORAGE Mr. and Mrs. Dan Gilda of An- chorage are guests at the Baranof! ‘here about the last of January. 1 ———e—e—— EN ROUTE TO SITKA J. J. Matuska, of Ketchikan, is staying at the Gastineau Hotel for j@ short time until he leaves for | Sitka on a business trip. ¢ —————— PAA MAN HERE Art H. Froese, employee of the, Pan American Airways is registered | at the Baranof Hotel. hour. Starting at 7:35 A. M. and con- tinuing until 12:35 A. M. to Franklin Street and back to south end of South Franklin Street. CASH FARES 15¢ 30-Fare Transit Books - $3.00 Hotel. SR, L WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—A Pub- lic Works Job Reservoir against| postwar unemployment is urged by Maj. Gen. Phillip B. Fleming, Fed-! eral Works Administrator. Fleming said Federal control willl enable the Government to weld to- |gether thousands of separate jobs, Lurnlna the spigot on and off as the Ineed arose. STARTS TONITE For 4 Tuneful Days PRISCILLA A Warner Bros. Hit starring BETTY - kind of musical! All about the New Orléans blue-spots.. . and the reckless ryhthm-kings who play the blues! RICHARD LANE - FIELD-WHORF LLOYD NOlAN DOG TIRED Carioon {Money by Bale Being Prinfed in U. §. for Use in Occupied Lands (Continued from Page One) pounds they would have been puld‘ anyway. | There are two important ques-| tions that the Treasury and State | Departments and Army have allow- | ed to go upanswered: (1). Who established the rate of exchange @t 100, liras to the dollar| and 400 to fhe pound—and why? | | (2. What Is to be done about | redeeming ghe muney in post-war times? Any answers you can give to| uestions is going to raise | a territic lurore in the ranks of the monetary theorists. That's un- doubtedly ‘why.,they have gone un- those two answered. But until they are an-| swered, the Allies will continue to be suspected—except in payment to| soldiers on* a guarantee basis—of i toying ‘with the vicious fiat money | the Axis has so cruelly employed. | PSSt By BUY WAR BONDS JACK, CARSON 30 Minutes SPECIAL NEWS (swell new discovery!) By Harold (Stormy Weather) Arlen and Johnny (Make with the Kisses) Mercer GALA — GALA MIDNITE SHOW TONITE — 12:30 .\ll{b cours DIIULEY HERE ON WAY TO WESTWARD Mrs. Colis Druley, accompanied by her two children, visited friends in Juneau yesterday while the steamer on which she is a pasenger to'the Westward was in port. She is bound for Red Muumaln near Seldovia, MOTORSHIP | where Mr.: Dnlle formerly with Alaska Juneau Dld Mining pany here, is manager of a chr property. AT BARANOF HOTEL 1§ Allyn i, Byrstey. Jotthe ‘Netibna Park Service, 48 a guest at the Baxs anof Hotel 1 PATRICIA PLYING BETWEEN JUNEA®, HAINES and sxmuv LEAVES JUNEAW Tuesdays and Saturdays at B'U' P. l TICKETS and INFORMATION at PERCY’ S CAFE Where all small packages may e left. Buy 30-Fare Transit Books and ride for 10c a fare WHAT'S Al T FURSE Juneaw’s Newest Enterprise RIDE THE BUS BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH Z72Z-U0 | T SEZ-NOWRE BOOKED OUT ON THE NEXT . FUGHT TO AFR\CA, _SNUFEY 1| [HARYT Broiled Steak and Eried Chicken SERVED ANY TIME DINE AND DANCE HE DOUGLAS IN OPEN UNT T SWOW Y, & PORE, *ARNYN NARD B\RD GOT N0 MORE PRNATSY THan IL MIDNIGHT By BILLY DeBECK DD THQT NARMINT Electric Hammond Organ Music DINE AND DANCE