The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1944, Page 3

FRIDA\ ANUARY 14 1944 \oughs and Sweet Leilanis! Heart-teasing Songs! Eye-pleasing Sarongs! You'll find a pair of eyes—in paradise... the tempting tempos of the tropics! to AlI.AN JANE JONES FRAZEE ANDY DEVINE MARY WICKES ERNEST TRUEX The STEP-BROTHERS The HORTON DANCERS and introducing ACQUANETTA {pronounced, Ak-wan-etta) These Tropic Tunes! ‘Blue Misc” “Tropic Lullaby” “Isle of Romance” “I've Set My Mind onYou” SF( OND FEATURE——— “HALFWAY TG SHANGHAI" KENT TAYLOR IRENE HERVEY Mystery=-----Murder Riding the Roaring Rails of the Most Dangerous Run on the China Lifeline! THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! flew to the Westward city with the Woodley Airways o REGISTERS HERE leen Casey has registered as a guest at the Baranof. She is n'om Seattle JOHN McCORMICK ON ROUTINE INSPECTION TRIP T0 ANCHORAGE John McCormick, Director of Se- lective Service for Alaska, left to- day on a routine trip to Anchorage. He may also visit Kodiak and plans to be absent from his office for about three weeks. Mr. McCormick -ea FROM ANCHORAGE Maurice C. Johnson and his mo-, ther, Mrs. Margaret Johnson are at the Hotel Juneau. They regis- tered from Anchorage. HERE | panied | movie Wickes and Ernesu DOUBLE FEATURE | ON WEEKEND BILL | AS CAPITOL SHOW tropical romance accom- haunting music and thrilling eomedy action, describes! Universal's latest and happiest| venture, “Rhythm of v.he‘ Islands” coming tonight to the Cap- litol Theatre. Allan Jones and Jane' [Prazee are co-starred and the pre-| tentious supporting cast boasts such | favorites Andy Deyine, Ma Truex. The famous Step Brothers and the Horton Dancers are featured,| while another outstanding high-! - Dreamy by as |light of the film is the introduction | {of deals | Americans who go into the romance | business on a large scale. They buy la tropical island, lure wealthy tour-| |scheme and reclaim the island. | ’b:I] | in Los Angeles today, his office here | announces. | with Kent Taylor at the head of a | large Acquanetta, devastating new glamour girl. i The ingeniously contrived story| with two enterprising young ists to its balmy shoves and stage BY ARLENE WOLF synthetic native shindigs to enter- AP Features Writer ain the visitors. Jones and De- | NEW YORK-—Trving Klaw is King- vine are the proprietors. Miss Fra-1piy of the pin-ups. He sells thou- zee and Mary Wickes portray the|gngs of photographs of current "“]':“"“"""‘"":“;r" “]‘(‘; f"e‘dc":‘:::“‘und past film heart throbs to the selves caught in the ex stage struck of the nation, and when unruly natives upset the |y gging by his business, there must be one in every 8 Packed in his tiny store on East N * oy 14 Street are two and a half mil- f}f‘afi"p&}:l, 'l’:’fgll:f"; lion stills of some 4,000 film per- is also shown on the doubh""o"am“"“ from Fatty Arbuckle w The offering, described as a |Verd Zorina. Mail dumped fast-moving action melodrama, is|K1aw's lap each morning bxmg localed ahoard a railroad train|2ll kinds of letters from every- running from Lashio, them from service Burma Road Where—lots of | terminus, to Rangoon |men, including colonels and cap- - EARL MCARRON | = IS HERE FOR OPA; FROM MILWAUKEE Earl McCarron, formerly chief at- torney for the OPA defense rental area in Milwaukee, Wis, and re- cently appointed Territorial Direc- tor-Attorney for the Alaska Defense |year. Rental area, has arrived here to| wWomen in uniform are not im- make his headquarters {mune from the pin-up craze. They A graduate of Notre Dame Um-‘m for Clark Gable, Alan Ladd and versity and the University of Wis-|George Montgomery. Then there’s consin, McCarron joined the re- jthe elderly lady who collects child gional rent division of the OPA at|gstar pictures, a man who Chicago in May 1942. He was trans- |standing order for tatooed y)l.won ferred to Milwaukee in June ‘“.dnd another who doesn’t care what survey housing conditions in anti-! 1 girl looks like as long as she cipation of rent control which went ' thas long hair. into effect August 1 and for tm-] Largest Order past two months has been district| Biggest order to date came from Featuring beautiful Irene Harvey cast Universal's hai A Vote Cheesecake “Cheesecake is a good morale factor,” one C.O. wrote. “I want to distribute these phuu)gruphs in ,lhe recreation room.” Some letters arrive in stern mil- |itary form ubject—Pin Ups; To: Irving Klaw,” but no matter what the format, Betty Grable, Janet Blair, Betty Hutton and Jean Har- low are the names which turn up most frequently. There’s also a steady demand for stars of yester- For attorney for the Milwaukee Madison '|a man in Ohio who is making a - and Beloit areas. McCarron was at- [scrapbook Including everybody who's torney {Ar the HOLC from 1933 to'ever been under a Klieg light. He 1942 with headquarters at Madison. asked for 12,000 photographs. He was accompanied north by|took Klaw and his sister Pauline Mrs. McCarron, who was office| three months to fill that order. manager for the Chicago Ordnance| Somehow, the Klaws know ex- Division in Milwaukee. They are!actly where to put their hands on guuu at the Hou\l Juneau. {just the right pictures, which they |purchase in quantity from motion plcture companies and sell from lof the whole pin-up cmzp “It's pASSES AWAYUW an ('»Cdpl\( measure, he says. Corp. Gelone Gels SEATTLE, Jan. 15 — Eworidge | New Lease on Life Amos Stuart, 86, founder of the Ay | By Bergman Visit Carnation Milk Company and na- tionally known livestock owner, died | He had made his home | Corp. Gustav A, Gelotte, late of of number one pin-ups is the trick up Irving Klaw's sleev 2IMPORTANT RAILCITIES FALL TO REDS . » Capture of Sirateglc Cen-| ters Made on Fourth Day of Attack LONDON, Jan 1‘.»7'”"‘ Army, it is announced tonight, Russian has captured Mozyr, and also the rail! junction of Kalinkovichy, clearing another important sector of the Zhlobin-Berdichev rail line for Red Army communications. The two towns were protected by the strongest defenses the Germans could build in their many months (of occupation, and were captured by General Rokossovsky's forces on Ithe fourth #ay of the offensive in| this area i The two White Russian towns are about 12 miles apart, Kalinkovichi to the north being the most import- ant for it is on the junction of the rail lines running to Moscow, | Warsaw, Leningrad and Odessa The twin triumph in clearing the patch for the Red Army through the Pripet Marshes into Poland | through Pinsk was announced in a special order of the day by Mar- shal Stalin. He praised the troops| “skillful outflanking man- | took the towns by for their which > IBACH'S HERE and Mrs. H. H Bay are at the Mr. Dunda Hotel. Ibach of Baranof N FROM INDIANA George J. Wells, from Logansport, Klaw takes a philosophical view Indiana, arrived here and is at the fighters returned from across the Hotel Juneau. - AT HOTEL JUNEAU John Henderson came in night from the states and is at the Juneau. e, WHAT KILLS COCK ROBIN NEW YORK—Birds suffer from {many diseases akin to those of men. Among them are tapeworm, mal— last | [EPIC OF HEROIC DEFENSE SHOWING AT 20TH CENTURY, dt‘hl\”"l) on 3 uon’ in “Wake Island,” Paramount’s re- creation of the epic defense of the| | strategic Pacific outpost by a ~|||.||H band of Marine heroes. t Fully one-third of the thrilling film, now at the 20th Century The- atre, is devoted to re-enactment of |the hard fighting on land and in wm- air by the Leathernecks against | |the: men of the Rising Sun. Chief roles in this story of | doughty Marines are enacted | |Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, | Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker, | Walter Abel, Barbara Britton, and iWillmm Bendix. Miss Britton is| virtually the only adult girl shown| {in the picture. ‘ The “Battle of Wake Island” “‘“l Xmuummz actfon for fourteen mem- orable days. “Wake Island,” the| movie, begins its story shortly be-| |fore thé attack., which took place simultaneously with that on penn’ ‘}l.ubm Once having e lished i \ characters and their personalities, the story goes into the dramatic! account of the battle itself and the| parts the fighting heroes played in The accent is the by | - MILI ATOLL - RAIDED; NO ~ OPPOSITION WASHINGTON, Jan, 14. - The Navy Department reported another bombing raid on Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands which have been .poundr-d on an almost clock-like | | regularity in recent days. | The step-up in the number of | raids on the islands in the uorlhi from the American-held Gilberts | |indicate that the time is near for ‘mn beginning of soitening up opera- | tions such as asually precede in- vasion movements. | There was no enemy fighter op- | {posmon encountered on the latest {raid carried out Wednesday and ak {our planes returned safely. There was no indication in the wm-l munique as to the extent of "“‘\ damage done. ‘ BIGSWARMS OF BOMBERS ' RAID REICH LONDON, Jan. 14.—West bound | formations of American bombers: shepherded by darting swarms of | | channel late this afternoon in what | was apparently the first raid since | the mammoth air battle over Ger- many on Tuesday. The Allies at |the same time resumed their big| |air offensive against the Germans | | on mystery targets on the northern | French coast. | “ All day relays of medium bombers ‘and fighters streaked across the sunlit strait returning after short | Foreign PAGE THREE WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY! Now JOMCENTURY * ok ok Kk R |b‘fl Playing srgun '* * * * \ast plane/ A Paramount Picture with BRIAN DONLEVY MACDONALD ROBERT CAREY - PRESTON Albert [lekker Vhlllam Bendix Walter Abel- PLUS SHORT SUBJECTS AND LATEST WORLD NEWS ARE KILLED ALLIED RAID Hotel Juneau, are here from Sitka, v Hard of Hearing . LONDON, Jan. 14—The Ankun.-,,m,mh,‘m,,,_m,mh%m radio says the Japanese and Hun- |If you are temporarily deafened, garian ministers, also the Bulgarian :i:;'f:’;‘ h“’l‘n‘;‘d‘;‘n‘:r&hdnm minister, were killed in| Ourine Home Method test that so many say Monday’s Allled bomber raid on | bas enabled them to hear well Sofia, E. West Vanderwort, of Sitka 18 a guest at the Hotel Juneau. i Wanted! Men an{ Women Who Are etom D K e A S 4 ‘mus| r T after ng simpl Bulgarian Capital. | test or you get your money back at onee, - >oo — - Ask about Ourine Ear Drops todsy at Butler, Mauro Drug Co. “The Rexall Store” L. T. Oldroyd is here from Col- | lege, Alaska, and at the Baranof. | MEN WANTED Juneau Plumbing & | sandriken, Sweden, thinks Ingridiaria, elephantiasis, appendicitis, tu- | intervals. | in California for several years. One Bergman is a goddess—no berculosis, ptomaine poisoning, lead| The German {son and five grandchildren survive. | radio raised the less- Heating Co. 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Lu Liston, Harvester 72%, Kennecott 37'2, New | photographer known sign well and $4.04. later Miss Bergman autographed Dow, Jones averages today are as | the picture in Swedish—which free- follows: Industrials, 138.15; raih,‘ly translated means “hope you get 35.07; utilities 22.36. | well soon.” 3 G, e R | Upon receipt of the photo, Gus- TICKNER FROM SITKA | tav was ready to walk out of the T hospn.al a cured man! Registered from Sitka, Bob Tick- | it e R Here from Ketchikan, Evelyn | Peters and Helen Haskins are at the Hotel Juneau R R Sl DR. LOY AT HOTEL Dr. H. H. Loy, registered from the Duck Creek camp,! the Army Hospital to! visit with her fellow countryman,| A | Juneau | painter | York Central 16%, Northern Pacific | snapped the couple as they sat dis- | 14, United States Steel 53%, Pound | cussing their native Sweden, ;md‘ bac- | claim of American losses on the last big blow on western Germany, de- | claring “at least 200 planes” were | downed Tuesday. poisoning and various fungi, terial and virus ailments. R s BUY WAR BONDS MOTORSHIP PATRICIA Will leave for HAINES and SKAGWAY at9A. M. SUNDAY | For Tickets and Information | CALL AT PERCY’S CAFE ; Where all small packages may be left Two Millwrights ond Two Machinists JUNEAU LUMBER MILLS, Inec. Must have availability certificates. 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