The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 30, 1944, Page 3

THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1944 - [STIRRING FILM ENDS TONIGHT, CAPITOL SHOW “PFirst Comes Courage,” the Col-| ENDS TONIGHT! SRR KT RS IR *'I married you to destroy you!" . Merle Brian AHERNE JUNEAU'S THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE USO NEWS Interesting ltems for Everybody JUNEAU, ALASKA and letting the refrain run some- : S Lhm;: like this: “There are omyiSWl“G MUSIC IS ithree of you named BONNIE (Mo- | | {zee, Keithahn and Klein), and only | KEY“OTE OF HlM | fone, (Mathison) called MARVEL;! {but youre ALL so fair and bonnie | and marvels quite divine!” Don't |say we haven't given you a good istart, you gentlemen of the armed tunes, exciting’ dances, Gay new forces; from this point you are on s PAGE. THRFE, WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAYI COPRENTURY) E -stepping cast make Para- your own, for better or worse, lyric- 2hd & fast-stepping OBERON s T COMES umbia production which is a vivid PROGRAM Ithe very likeable persqu of Soldier mount’s “Priorities on Parade,” the ally speaking. IH and stirring picturization of the in~ domitable spirit of the conquered THURSDAY, March 30, 9:00 p.|Ted Chresand, from Minneapolis, merry movie musical that opened last night at the 20th Century The- NOW PLAYING! peoples of Norway, showing for the last times tonight at the Capitol Theatre, is the first picture Merle Oberon has made in a year and a half. She has been devoting her | m—Regular Thursday night dance|who will perform feats of strength |in Uso. |and do weight-lifting so spectacular FRIDAY, March 31, 7:00 p. m.—|as to make us forget the absence Meeting of Servicemen's Council in | of the much publicized Mr. Bunyan. USO; 7:00 p. m—Roller skating|Special Minnesota music will be THE GOOD OLD DAYS, 1943 VARIETY Homesickness around a USO club usually is the feeling a fellow suf-| atre, one of the outstanding tune films of the current season. With Ann Miller, Betty Rhodes, Jerry Colonna, Vera Vague and % ¢ lsobel Elsom E Fritz Leiber time to entertaining American troops in England. Co-starring with Miss Oberon in| “Pirst Comes Courage” is Brian PLUS— Aherne. The supporting cast iu-! Donald Erik Rolf and Fritz Leiber. Dor-| othy Arzner directed, and the pic-| ture was produced by Harry Joe USO April formal dance at Scottish| Brown. D party at A. B. Hall (leaving USO at 7 o'clock) ;- 7:15 p. m —Movies in USO lobby; 8:30 p. m—11:00 p. m, —Minnesota State Night (recep- tion and entertainment by tow nesota.) SATURDAY, April 1, 9:00 p. m— Rite Temple. SUNDAY, April 2, 1:30 p. m. (or furnished by Soldier-pianist George | schnell, from Stillwater; and there |will be some schottiches and other | Scandinavian musical features dur- |ing the evening cludes Carl Esmond, Isobel Elsom,|beople and servicemen from Mm-} Something of the significance of ¢ y Dor- Mayo | Rochester, Minn,, and its Clinic, in the realm of medicine is known to all of us, of course. We are to learn more about them to- morrow night; and we hope and |later at convenience of servicemen) |expect. the speaker will be Dr. J. HUMORISTOF CANADA DIES IN TORONTO (Continued from Page One) SCREAMING THEIR DEFIANCE! lic on both sides of the Atlantic re- called his printed quips with chuckles. Prolific in all his fields, he gurn- ed out dozens of books, essays and articles after he started his pen go- ing in 1906. The list included such contrasting titles as “The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice” and “Ar- cadian Adventures With the Idle! Rich;” also “Baldwin And La Fon- taine” and “Boarding House Geom-! etry,” the latter stating, among others, these Fuclidean proposi- tions “The landlady of boarding house is a parallelogram—that i an cblong angular figure which; cannot be described but is equal to| anything.” “The clothes of a boarding house | bed, though produced ever so far both ways, never meet.” Fameus For Cocktails In the dry era of the United States, Leacock’s family physician advised him to take his family to| the seashore of Maine. But because | he didn't like prohibition, he took | 4 F ¥ ile are from | theém to Europe instead. He was f;::: ml-),as;):txcl;] “E:\fitwn?;lés fl:: g;‘:: | famous for a cocktail he compound- | 2nd FEATURE - FRANK (22 BUCK BRING 'EW BACK ALIVE oviomn Kilteq o5 THE AMAZON/, v Preview Tonight By Associated Press { Allied planes have bombed en- Trip to Mendenhall Glacier; 5:00 p. m.—Coffee and waffles, music; 9:30 p. m-—Vesper Service in USO; 10:00 p. m. — Singing around piano. MONDAY, April 3, 8:00 p. m~— start at 8:30. The program to be of the service who have moved minute of it. at private | presented for the benefit of the jalong and the pleasant comradeship Forum Club meeting home; 8:30 p. m.—Movies in USO lobby. TUESDAY, April 4, 7:00 p. m.— GSQ Council meeting in USO; 8.30’ p. m.—Quiz contest, broadcast over KINY; 9:30 p. m. — Customary Tuesday night games in USO. WEDNESDAY, April 5, 7:15 p. m. ~—Movies in USO lobby; 8:30 p. m. —Card party on second floor m,(-xamina(ipn of the Girls servxoe‘“ friend and Club; 9:00 p. m. — Old-rushioncd10"5’“‘“2"“0" membership list re;‘;um music of dances in USO lobby. MINNESOTA NIGHT Do you readers of this column realize HOW MANY NATIONAL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS have been won by the University of Minnesota since 1930? you aware of the percentage of the WHOLE WORLD'S output of flour produced during the past quarter place would go to a different name, g c.70"¢ Who came to our club- {century by Minneapolis and St. one that to us personally was ncr""“s‘“ any time during the first 10 Paul alone? And have you the aintest notion of exactly what po- sition among all the peoples of the earth is occupied by the sons and the daughters of THE GRANDEST AND GREATEST STATE, THE ONE-AND-ONLY STATE, THE VERY——. But hold on here! For a moment we forgot ourself after talking too long with a couple of those super-salesmen from the Quintuplet Cities of Bimidji-Red Wing-Elbow Lake-Crookston-and- Thief River Falls, metropolises which we understand are to be found in various and sundry sec- tions of The Land of the Sky Blue American gainville indicating the | the forées may be preparing for invasion of Ponape. A Navy search plane has attacked | a second group of Islands flanking the fortress of Ponape, 440 miles east of Truk. | Truk, it is said, can now be struck from three directions. | Yesterday, Liberators of the Fifth | Army Air Force attacked the sel-| dom troubled Japanese base at Hol- | landia, Dutch New Guinea. ! Storms did not prevent the Sol-| omon's air force yesterday from a| regular visit to Rabaul. i ed of rum and cream and liked a bit of Scotch with his evening bil- lard game. He was fond of the theatre, but on bad terms with dress ties. When he wore full dress his white tie was | hitched in a simple knot with the | ends dangling. His watch, carefully wound every day but seldom con sulted, was fastened to a stout| gold chain, reinforced by big safety pin. Leacock was born in Swanmoor, Hants, England, December 30, 1869. When he was six his father settled on 2 farm near Lake Simcoe, On- tario, and the 5 o’clock rising hour of that place was observed by him throughout his active life. In 1900 he married Beatrix Ham- iiton of Toronto. After she died of cancer in Liverpool in December, 1925, he gave most of his fortune for cancer research. He was invited to spend his re- a | tirement in his birthplace but de- | cided against it. | “T'll stay in Canada,” he wrote. Water. We are just a reporter, not an ad- vance man for a circus. And what we really started out to tell you is that Minnesota State Night will be tomorrow's big feature at the USO. It will be the occasion for all local townspeople and servicemen who ver lived in that State to be the hosts for the evening to all the other servicemen and the GSO girls. And the Committee tells us that we are to count on Swedish and | Norwegian cookies and other delic- ious refreshments typical of Minne- | O. Rude, a former resident of Min- with | nesota, who has just returned from |a special course at the Clinic. | The get-together by the native sons and daughters at the USO will | rest of us will begin at 9:15. MARY, BETTY, MAR- GARET & CO. PAT, | It didn't prove anything in par-! that we ticular, |apparent our hands the other probably—except tly had some spare time on day—but an ‘vcaled a varied assortment {names. All in all, an interesting {hour it was to us. Here are some of the things we found: | The commonest name among the girls: Would you suppose it would be Mary? Or Betty? Or jgaret? We felt sure these would And are|run near the top, of course, Bug|CtMt @rrival of another local man |even before we'd checked up we {had correctly guessed that first very familiar until we came to Ju- neau-—-none other than PAT of | whom the GSO boasts, as they say in the circus-posters, of no less than “7—count ‘'em—T7!" And we could use a lot more of them, too, if they were as charmingly helpful |@s the PATS bearing the respective last names of Shaffer, Nelson, Ol- son, Martin, Hagerup, Murphy and Groves—plus, for good measure, a very good additional measure from the standpoint of quality, we'd say, | PATTY Goodell. Tied for second place in total number come the MARYS, whose birth certificates read Shaw, Tup Harrington, Hoffman, Morris = o Scherer, and the BETTYS whol write their autographs by adding either Nordling, Clayton, Rice, Not- tingham, Bonnett or Dease. They in turn are followed by the MAR- | GARETS Clark, Femmer, Pearce, Frazier and Wukich. g ; | d Wi thave: izs our USO during the week just past |providing equal work for men an bposed you could | o 1q have carried in its headlines |women teachers. hardly anywhere find a group of | nearly 200 girls who have been ac- | tive at one time or another in the USO without there being a lot of | ANNES, ETHELS, GRACES,| HELENS and JENNIES among| Mar- | :f"“ “““L” :"" ""‘“"' “‘lh'l"‘;: lht‘fl“:’:l‘;“wohnmo Johnston heading the swell fom. And a much talked-of sub-|* -G n S o) fl - wort cast, “Priorities” is well worth the |t s, to0, npsUEAAR L U“'“'j;:\‘:ng.r’ll it’s relaxation you wait, i8 another kind of homesickuness, "]plus a . half dozen liting tunes, ":;T:M‘"m“m“[‘;”‘m ‘lml th"d;z :fi‘plenty of girls, and some real laughs n s the nostalgia y S |thatll tickle you right down to rwh"l:'”;m“ i lmm::ned;n “""; your toes, then this is your picture. good old days'—even though thatiryg tong in entertainment— and hap])ll'yv “'""";:x‘"d) bit of '}:‘: )p“"";,lherc's a timely story idea too. The imay have taken place right here|g " roiac sharkles. 1at the Club and only a few months| jitterhugs will go for “Priovities - e : |in a big way because of the jive be::v\ur”:?\w Sis ‘;:,:’:;h°:)l mem- | jargon and the hot licks of music | i I rees or stall| «ppigrities on Parade,” produce members) who have been around'py goi C. Siegel and directed by Al the USO for a year or more find | Rogell, is fast and funny, with more ourselves recalling with the warm- than jts share of hit tunes and est sentiments the many old friends|sever dances. You'll enjoy every iwe shared before they left. Every A s dnce-in-a--while some of those men| !¢ome back to us and a host of| {Bappy memories come trooping! |us who have liked him so well as| ovER HouSE back with them as a player of excel- Thus, during the past week Bob Satre, local boy, returned from the ’Norlhwv.\l to the delight of all of on the piano * and just on Monday we welcomed back Harold Wilcox, popular soldier from (North Branch, Minn,, he too being . !Welcomed both as a good compan- | Many, |n(|ud|ng Govern- dbn and a good musicidn. And all of us at the USO have| ment Suppoflers, Pro- {Been especially happy over the re- . fl voked at Situation LONDON, March 30.—Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill today won his eighth vote of confidence in were served by him in the canteen [OUF Vearsfrom a recalcitrant Com- | @rv rating, incidentally, more than MONS, openly vexed at being called {his own share.of our enthusiastic,to the mark over & minor domestic greetings by virtue of his cnmlng“s‘“e- but ready to shochntmued to the clubhouse accompanied on SUPPOrt of the government's over- \each visit by his popular wife, the all program, even the great new {former Pat Brown, of whom we Phase of the Allied attack. have seen entirely too little since! The vote was 425 to 23, the Prime Brv went away.) | Minister’s strongest showing since These are the names of just three the first three virtualy unanimous (men of the few who have returned votes of confidence early in his thus far and the many who we leadership through the grim days hope may find their way back be-|of warfront reverses. {fore long. We repeat again what| The House was packed with the {we have often sald before: It is|urgently summoned turnout of gov- very good to have' new men come ernment supporters, who . cheered on furlough in the person of Er- (¥in Hagerup, well-remembered by |months of its existence and who Shows at 7:30 and 9:35 P. M. \ND GIRLS WHO “kggp g FLYINS .- NOW Kegp g SWINGIN® . n MILLER - Betty RHODES - y COLONNA + Vera VAGUE 5o Johnnie JOHNSTON v s e Original Screen Piay by Art Arthur aod Frank Loesser POLICE COURT FINES | The following were fined in cu.y‘ Police Court this morning: Henry | Peters, $25, drunk and dlsorderly;l Austin Hammod, $25, drunk and A disorderly, and Hubert T. Melchese- J The immediate question was whe- | peck, $25, drunk. ; | ther the House should stand by its |action Tuesday when it overrode the NAMES IN THE WEEK |government for the first time in| HEADLINES Churehill’'s four years of wartime A daily newspaper published az;leadership by adopting a measure to the USO and to begin new until the old chamber rang as the friendships. It is even more of a yote was announced. 2 treat to welcome old friends back into comradeship. B THEATRE] BEST SHOW LOWEST PRICES e - RAINBOW BREAKFAST | Come to the Rainbow Breakfast, 12 to 2_p.m., Palm Sunday, April] 2, Masonic Temple, 65 cents. | adv. : uUso the names of many of the service-| Mrs. Cazalet Weir, who offered men and GSO girls and the patron- |the equal pay amendment in the Cases |first place, told the House, “The This weekly column limits itself | Prime Minister left no other pos-' (necessarily) to just a few of these |sible choice open to us than to sup- | “There is something in its dis- them; but in the local list we have | discovered a total of only seven girls bearing any of these names, Liking the music inherent in some names, we were happy to note the. abundance of those ending with the letter “a.” Beginning the list of given names alphabetically is ALFREDA Fleek and closing it is ZAIDA Carlson. Between these two are BARBARA Herman, DESSA 1 Schneider, EDNA Williams, EMMA | Nielsen, ERNA Meier, LILA Sin- |sota, as well as entertainment of {top quality. The State's greatest hero, of jcourse, is famed Paul Bunyan, mythical strong man, of whom we jare sure to hear a lot tomorrow from his compatriots. Almost equal- ly celebrated in Minnesotan oratory, to the point that he himself seems ihnrdly less than a myth, is Bronko-: | Nagurski, University of Minnesota fullback. We cannot hope to see either of {names in mentioning Signalcorps- | {man Bob Yetter, leaving Juneau on |a reassignment, to the keen regret | {of his many warm friends through- | |out this community * * * Then| there is Pat Nelson, GSO girl whose | recent selection ds Queen of Lhe! High School Junior Prom was a very popular choice * * * and Dessa Schneider, dropping into the Club for a while after that same dance, always fascinating but sur- | passingly so that night in her for- port him.” | Many in the House, government supporters among them, plainly were provoked by their position. R WASHINGTON, March 30—The Senate has voted its Judiciary Committee $5,000 to finance inves- tigation as to the constitutional and statutory authority for every Executive Order of Presidential di- rective issued since the advent of 878% More Express to Alaska Pan American Airways’ Alaska Serv. ice, merged into the transport facili- jthe first Roosevelt Administration. ties of the Armed Forces, 1s working World’s Greatest {tances, isolation and climate that appeals forever. Thank you, Mother { these herculean figures in our midst' |on Friday, but we are assured a sight of a non-mythical, honest-to- clair, MARTHA Pierce, MON A Everitts, NEVA Downs, NORMA Burford, OLGA Dapcevich, PANA TRAVEL SYSTEM Contact Al Pierce, Empress Building, Fairbanks, Alasks, or any local Aitlines office. AL 444 A/IR LINES | England, but I don’t think I'l come ‘home.” I'm ‘home’ now. Fetch me T'll rock it out to sleep right here.” ——eee den was founded in China in 1100 B. C. and was called the Intelli- | gence park. General Electric MAZDA LAMPS Standard my carpet slipers from the farm.| " The first known zoological gar- | Duncan, SYLVIA Davis (and An- |derson) and VERENA Murphy. | { There ought to be a poem ready to |emerge from the combined loveli- |ness of those final syllables, and a |Song from the musical beauty of |CHARLIENE (Arnold), EILEEN Baranof (Hellan), COLLEEN | B (B % ™ Bea‘uty Salon |ENE (Ktauso), KATHLERN (l\‘v?il:-' igoodness present-day strong man in {kelmann), MAUREEN (Dodge),| jand DOREEN (Wood). | Before leaving the subject of |songs, here is a suggestion to some jof you sentimental GI's who are {dazzled by the total beauty of the | |Juneau GSO: Write a song dedi- | jcated to this eye-filling ensemble, calling it “GEE-S-O-O-LOVELY!” picn. mal gown, yet never needing the support of any gala occasion to strengthen the position sfe long has held as one of the girls most high- ly regarded by the men of the USO pe s Wally Jones, of the ACS, and Beryl Marshall Jones, parents of a brand-new son, to all of whom the Club says “Congrat- ulations!” * * * gng Brigadier Chester O. Taylor, distinguished officer of the Salvation Army, whom we were proud to have as a |recent USO visitor though for too brief a stay * ¢ * anq George Rice, of Olive Hill, Ky., and Harold Wil- cox (already mentioned once in this column), playing in the band the return of “Buddy” with his WHERE SATISFACTION -and SERVICE are SYNONYMOUS EASTER ISN'T guitar and “Willie” with his banjo again at last night'’s square dance,| The action was taken after Sen- ator Barkley expressed the view the information might prove “useful to Congress” provided no attempt is; made to make the inquiry a “fishing expedition” designed to probe the reasons for the issuance of each {order. being one of the most heart-warm- ing episodes of the past six months at the Club * * * and Mrs. Harold Smith, once again resuming her ac- tive place as Chairman of our Patronesses, coming back from the States much sooner than her friends had dared hope and being welcom- ed by them with a warmth and a whole-souled enthusiasm that must be deeply gratifying to her. * BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH REMEMBER GENERAL ROSEWATERS ORDERS, SECRET SNUFEY-YOURE ON A MISSION,SO DON'T MAKE overtime these days. One result: 878% more air express carried to Alaska in 1942 than in the year be- fore. Every ounce of cargo is under military control. When the war is won, we will again give all of our friends the standard of service for which Pan American is known throughout Alaska. PANV AMIERIC IV 472181} Y By BILLY DeBECK S — Sizes WELL BE HERE IN INDIA A FEW HOURS WHILE THEY CHECK OVER THE PLANE, SNUFFY-YA WANNA YOURSELF CONSPICUOUS FAR AWAY Make an appointment early Alaska Electric Light and Power Company - JUNEAU DOUGLAS Phone No. 616 - Phone No. 18 for a COLD WAVE and new HAIR STYLE for that new EASTER BONNET. . SHOP HOURS 9AM.TOGP. M. OPEN EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT PHONE 538 TAKE IN A FEW SIGHTS ? I SWoW! g0 TH\s S W3y ¢ ectric Hammond Broiled Steak and Fried Chicken SERVED ANY TIME THE DOUGLAS INN * DINER AND DANCE OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT Organ Music DINE AND DANCE