The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 15, 1944, Page 3

SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1944 SUNDAY—FEATUR Here’s the lift you're longing for! Romance with the zing of spring ... as alucky guy with nothing to lose meets a girl who has every- thing...but love! - UARY GRANT ini the story he chose himself =R STARTS SUNDAY PREVUE TONIGHT INE DAY CHARLES BICKFORD*GLADYS COOPER ALAN CARNEY* HENRY STEPHENSON COMMANDOS” E STARTS AT 2:20 HEATRE THE CAPI FRENCH VILLAGES CELEBRATE THEIR INDEPENDENCE DAY One ls Entiray—ObliIeraied —Another Only Memory of Days Before War By DON WHITEHEAD WITH THE AMERICAN TROOPS OUTSIDE ST. LO, July 15.—With the roar of thundering guns along | this road front, there are two vil- lages which will always live in the memories of those who ever saw | them. There lies the happy little village of Castilly which has been ruined by the ravages of war. There too, is the Saint Andre De Depine . . . Bastille Day . . . The little gray cemetery churchyard in | Castilly where villages gathered to celebrate the fifty years ago. Now a new inde- indepndence which | came to France one hundred and | TOL HAS THE BIG | 3 | | pendence the Allies brought to be- | loved Normandy. At Saint Andre there was none to celebrate the event but only a hungry goat quietly picking at rubble. Doughboys locked sadly at some of the aged villagers because the terror of explosions had reduced their villages to a pile of wreckage. Country folk dressed in their Sun- day best. Little boys and girls with thick-soled shoes, their faces scrub- bed and their hair combed. funny little hats, they walked self- consciously. They were fascinated |'by the shining American band in- | struments, They gathered inside the churches for services. This over, a procession was held and which was led by the small boys with white surplices | adorning their Sunday clothes. One carried a crucifix., A Padre walked | behind. | Then came rrenchmen with fierce mustaches and with suits bedecked with medals. They carried the tri- colors of France. | Al gathed around the town War Memorial. American officers re- splendent in uniforms; speeches by | the Mayor, by a French and an Am- FOR SALE ONE (NEW) Hot Point ELECTRIC RANGE ® Alaska Electric Light and Power Company JUNEAU Phone No. 616 DOUGLAS Phone No. 18 4: With | 20 — 6:20 — 8:20 — 10:20 ENDS TONIGHT! "YANKS AHOY’ 'REDHEAD FROM MANHATTAN' PICTURES erican officer. Everyone cheerd. The band played the Star-Spangled Ban- ner, God Save the King, and the | stirring La Marseillaise. | We drove to Castilly toward the | front near the ridge overlooking Saint Andre and what was left of | the village after the devastation of { war. Even the dead were not per- | mitted to rest in peace. Shells blasted great craters in cemeteries, | church steeples were blown away. They once served as observation posts for the Germans. Everywhere there was destruction—desolation. Pvt. Joe Rhodes, of Baltimore, walked the streets, stoped, looked at the ruins and shook his head. “Same old story isn’t it.” D R. E. ANDERSON IN TOWN Lumber Company, is in from Whit- tier, and is registered at the Bar- anof. Baranof Beauty Salon WHERE SATISFACTION and SERVICE are SYNONYMOUS Complete Summer BEAUTY CARE A full staff of experienced operators to satisfy your every wish in hair styling. L] SHOP HOURS 9A.M.TOSP. M. OPEN EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT PHONE 538 R. E. Anderson, of the Cr)lumhia’ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRI:~JUNEAU ALASKA NEW CARY GRANT | FILM STARTS AT * CAPITOL SUNDAY Starting Sunday at the Cnpuol | Theatre is “Mr. Lucky,” an unusual| {and highly entertaining story of & romance between an earnest cialite welfare worker and a care- |free gambler, played by Cary Grant.| } Laraine Day has the feminine HOLLYWOOD S GAIN s0- | | lead in the David Hempstead pro-| |duction for RKO Radio, ithe wealthy Dorothy |War Relief, Inc., while Grant en- acts the part of Joe the Greek, owner of a big gambling boat, but |at the moment very Joe, portraying Bryant of short of cash.| seeking a sucker from whom| & |he can gyp a bankrool so that he; & |can take his ship to Cuba, encoun-' ters Dorothy selling tickets for & | |charity ball her organization is giv- | ing. The gambler to induce the War him operate a gambling concession at the ball—neglecting, to tell them that he run off with the entire proceeds. | Dorothy turns the whole scheme | down cold, and Joe has to put on an act an dapply a little romance before she consents. Unaware that Uncle Sam is on his trail and that one of his pals is planning to! double-cross him, Joe gets ready to| trim the War Relief patrons \\'1\!’!\ !fate socks him right between the, eyes and brings him to an abrupt realization of \\h‘ul In is doing. DIESELS USED IN RAIL TUNNEL AT WHITTIER WAbHIN(vTON Julv developing in Alaska now are Lho\ Diesel locomotives, which for first time have been used on lho new railroad tunnel, one of the longest in North America, at !he important deep water port nmncd Whittier, which is so new that it doesn’t appear on any of the maps available to the public. The Interior Department’s Divi- | sion of Territorities and-Island Pos=+ sessions announced that two Diesels have been placed in service on the | Alaska Railroad's 62-mile line con- necting Whittier and Anchorage. | The port of Whittier is located on Prince William Sound at the center of Alaska’s crescent shaped south- ern coast. The Army installation was named for Whittier Glaciers, which was named for the poet Whit- tier. The Alaska road was built as aj | cutoff, connecting Whittier to the | \Seward Anchorage line by a 14- mlle ‘track which runs under the Kenai | mountains and has two tunnels, the longest being 13,090 feet and mc\ | other 4,910 feet. The Diesels were procured to save | the expense of installing a forced | |draft and ventilating system in the | tunnels, said Benjamin Thoron, Di- | rector of Territories. The dlvision of the railroad has boomed the war traffic operating profit four and al half million dollars in the fiscal year of 1943. 5 OUT T0 KETCHIKAN VIA ALASKA COASTAL A trip to Ketchikan this morning by Alaska Coastal Airways carried George Waser, Golden Walthman, Lee Dickson, A. C. Steel and Col Rhode to that city, and B. Folger | to Petersburg. —_————— | LIBBY PEOPLE HERE Here on business for the Libby, McNeill and Libby Company are | E. E. Willkie, of Chicago; Frank | Britton, of Chicago, and G. V. Gra- ham, of Seattle. Mr. Willkle is a | brother of the former Presidential candidate, Wendell L. Willkie. All are guests at the Baranof. —-— SEATTLEITES ARRIVE Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Dolphin and H. J. Griedman, of the National Grocery Company, have registered at the Baranof from Seattle. e HERE FROM SKAGWAY Mr. and Mrs. George Hooker, of Skagway, are in town and guests at the Baranof. Hooker is with the Standard Oil Company. 15. — Fast| | nurs | ical therapy personnel in the Army |Purple Heart. |areas. sees his chance | and puts on a whirlwind campaign Reliefers to let| & of course,| intends to| Decorating the Hollywood scene [ these days is attractive Adele Jer- gens, who enjoys the reputation of being one of New York's most fa- mous showgirls. She soon will be seen in her first picture. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y, she. is 5 ft. 6 in. tall, weighs 128 pounds, and is a brown-eyed blonde. 'ARMY NURSES T0 ENJOY AUTHORITY OF OFFICER RANK WASHINGTON, July 15.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has ordered that all army nurses be commissioned as actual army officers in lieu of the relative rank which they now hold. In effect the order will give the female dietitians, and phys- Medical Department the full author- ity of their officer rank. Heretofore nurses were commissioned by rela- [ tive rank, somewhat limiting their .mLhorlty CANINE MARINES SENT BACK HOME, TAKE REST CURE CAMP LEJEUNE, N. C.—Seven heroic Marine dogs, suffering from shell shock and war neurosis, have been returned from Bougainville for |a rest cure at Camp LeJeune. The canine veterans, first of any | war dogs to be returned States, are not without honor wounded by a Japanese bears a citation similar Ruff is the mm.hcr of nine puppies, eight of wluch remained in the Solomons as Mar- ine mascots. They will be treated and after recovery may be sent back to battle Those unfitted for further | service will be given honorable dis- charges. —— HOSPITAL “DRESSED UP” Work of “dressing up’ the U. S.| Indian Hospital by a complete paint | to the Otto, sniper, to the ior of the building was completed | this week. The work began in the latter part of April. The exterior of the building is | the interior is done shade, ——————— THREE TO ANCHORAGE Ted Hockman, Bill Kennish, and Star Calvert were outgoing pas- sengers to Anchorage yesterday, via Alaska Airlines. in a pastel { him Jjob both on the exterior and inter- | | painted with whitewash chrome and | \|ROBERT DONAT ~ FEATURED AT 207H CENTURY The many Robert Donat fans who have been at a loss to account for the distinguished star’s long truancy from the screen, have good to celebrate. For Mr. Donat absence becomes explicable we remember that he is a hale and hearty Briton, is return- ing to the cinema, at long last, in a film said by many to be fully as engrossing those that brought fan yo0d-bye Mr. Chips,” for instance, “39 Steps,” and “The Cithadel.” In “The Young Mr. Pitt,” which opens at the 20th Century Theatre Sunday, Donat makes his first pic- ture appearance since carrying off the Academy /\wud for his mem- orable “Mr. Chips Pitt’s times were as turbulent as ours, his life analogous to that of millions of young Americans today. That’s the crux of the story. At 24, he heard his country's call, be- came “the boy Prime Minister,” and sacrificed his one great love to lead his people to victory over the Axis of his day. Robert Morley, John Mills and favorites appear Donat. cause whose when as Phyllis Calvert, other outstanding in support of OUT BY BITS WASHINGTON—Mrs. Charles W, Tillett, Assistant Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has learned how to meet the wartime manpower shortage | Recently when she could not get |valet service at a small-town hotel, she recalls, she pressed herself in sections. She found the hotel linen room and an iron, took off her skirt and pressed that. She put it back on. She took off her blouse, keeping on her jacket while she pressed that She put on her blouse while she pressed the jacket. Mrs. Tillett says that when she finished she was ready to address a large group of clubwomen. TN Allied ""Guerrillas' Are Now Fighfing In French Areas | SUPREME HEADQUARTERS | |{ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY |FORCE, July 15.—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters discloses Ithat Allied troops are operating be- |hind German lines in France with| |a special air regiment, but kept| details of the organization secret.| The wording of the communiea-| |tion made clear that it is more than an organized guerilla resist-| ance and distinct from the French| forces of the interior under De| Gaulle, it is announced. The group has already taken prisoners and| has operated against communica-| tions and other military targets. Madame (hiang Kai | Shek Is in Brazil ' But Just for Rest WASHINGTON, July 15.—Madame | Chiang Kai-Shek has arrived in | Rio de Jeneiro for a rest, according | to & report received today. The Chinese Embassy stated that ‘<he was accompanied by Madame Kung, wife of the Chinese Minister of Finance, who is now heading the Chinese delegation to the United Nations Monetary Conference at Bretton Woods, N. H. | The Embassy said that the wife | of the Generalissimo is not expected to come to the United States. | | e CPR MAN HERE H. A. Mills, Auditor for the Can- | | adian Pacific line, is in Juneau at | | the present time, and a guest at | the Baranof. He will remain here a few days before continuing to PAGE THREE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY CHETNIKS™ WHERE THE LAST TIME *¥ TONIGHT TI0 eNTRY STARTS SUNDAY MATINEE SUNDAY AT 2:00P. M. HIS FIERY WORDS STIRRED MEN’S HEARTS TO VICTORY! Every word this man uttered — even the love he knew — might have happened today! Great drama...great romance in the timeliest picture of the year! ROBERT MORLEY PHYLLIS CALVERT » JOHN MILLS Directed by Carol Reed + Produced by Edward Black « Maurice Ostrer, In Charge of Production Screen Play by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder Tops in Shorts LATEST WORLD NEWS OWL SHOW TONIGHT 12:30 A. M. Released by 20th Century-Fox, BEST SHOWS LOWEST PRICES THEATR | other Alaska cities. 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