The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 7, 1945, Page 5

TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1945 1IN TECHNICOLOR! TONIGHT! 7:45—10:10 TOMORROW! R'sa P artcng DIETRICH Rockefeller LUZON JAPS POCKETED IN THREE AREAS General Yamshita Believ- ed fo Be Among Jap Remnants MANILA, Aug. 7—American am;i "KISMET" LEAVES CAPITOL THEATRE AFTER 3-DAY RUN Apparently Hollywood now goes to greater lengths than cver to insure authenticity in its big productions.| When Director William Dieterle and Producer Everett Riskin started preparations for “Kismet,” the Ron- ald Colman-Marlene Dietrich Tech- Inicolor film showing for the last times tonight at the Capitol Theatre, !they were determined to capture the flavor of ancient Bagdad and the; spirit of the time in the settings and costumes. Months were consumed in study of books, photographs and letters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's research, art and wardrobe departments. Even outsiders contributed suggestions. A member of the U. S. Army sta- tioned in England helped with the| costumes. The soldier, Sgt. J. F.| Herwood, secured photographs of | ? Bedouin dancing girls from the Brit- | lish museum and sent them to his sister, Marian Herwood, assistant to Irene, M-G-M executive designer. Harem costumes were developed | from the photographs to take full IN LIBERATED OSLO—_Norwegiar police stand guard | outside Mollergate 19 in the capital city of Oslo, formerly a | Nazi gestapo prison, after patriots and police authorities took over. the building. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA E advantage of Technicolor. TR DOUGLAS glealhemécks, ’7 ‘Lady Variety, Righlflon Jobs Word was received here from the ! San Diego Naval Training Station | ,that Apprentice Seaman Mickey | | Pusich took the honors for his {company in a sharp-shooting con- test, in which 189 participated. Sea- | man Pusich was high man for the| PEARL HARBOR — Lady leather- company with a score of 142 out D€cks are rugged. After three jof a possible 150. Besides wjnni"g'monlhs overseas, the Mnnm_' Corps the honors for his company, Pusich Women's Reserve has‘v,ho situation was given a 42-hour leave as a Well in hand out here in the I’a(‘x}hu {1eward. Mickey is the son of Mr, and does everything from greasing land Mrs. Mike Pusich, and was a |I°PS 10 patrolling its own camp. graduate of the Douglas High In fact, if you want to start an School last May. He, with two com- argument in this spic and span fe- panions, Wilfred Rice and Bill ,male camp, make some statment Devon, were enlisted in the Navy Such as: ¢ the latter part of June. The three| ‘I understand it takes quitc a {are still stationed together. |force of men to maintain this camp i |for you girls.” FISHIN' | To show you how wrong you are, Ray and Richard McCormick left the lady Marines, cool-looking in |last evening for several days' fish- |their pert green and white seer- ing and camping. Accompanying sucker uniforms, w:lll walk you all them were the latter’s three sons, |°Ye" the lot, ‘pomung out that the |Jim, Bob and Tony, and Lan,}““Womcn Marines are more than 95 | Pusich. i |per cent self-maintaining.” The other five percent are two brawny male Marines, one a guard who stands at the front gate (and don’t try to get into this camp with- By BONNIE WILEY GARAGE TORN DOWN | ‘The old garage in rear of the! !duty, which is the same as an Army K.P, only it is never used as a | disciplinary measure. Among those hard at it was Pfec. Florence Popp (17351 Greeley street, Detroit, Mich) who was nearly! ilcst bebind a wall of fesh pine- apple she was slicing. Another was | Pvt. Maxine Repper (1201 Elizabesh streat, St. Joseph, Mo.) heading the| coffee detail. ! The women Marines transport unit handles all transportation for the ibattalion and dainty feminine me-| chanics don coveralls, roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty with all manner of greasing and repair jobs—like Corporal Margaret 'M. Hirte (6114 N. Wilbur street,| Portland, Ore.) who was hard at it| | doing something or other to the en- !gine of her jeep. Corporal Hirte {used to be an accountant in Port- land and never had much curiosity | about what made an auto run before| she joined the lady Marines. They do their own landscaping, toc, and have an “outdigger” divis- ion which keeps busy planting trees, | bushes, grass and turning over the; topscil like mad. Maintenance wo- men—plumber and electricians— handle minor repair jobs. The wo- /men keep their barracks spotlessly clean and have added a few touches of color, where GI regulations per- mit On top of all that, you'll find the gals running the PX, operating their MacKENLZIE Ki 18 OLD SONGS IN MUSICAL AT 20TH CENTURY PRESIDENT T0 REPORT! ON POTSDAM Twenty-four songs, 18 of them oldies, guaranteed to produce nostal- |gia, and six original numbers heard| g | forthe first time, are the vocal score| ABOARD U. 8. S. AUGUSTA for Warner Bros.' “Shine On Har- WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN,| Vvest Moon” Ann Sheridan-Dennis Aug. 7—President Truman, confi-|Morgan starrer now playing at the dent the new atomic bomb will|20th Century Theatre. shorten the war against Japan,[ The new numbers, with music today neared the shore of his own |DbY Moe K. Jerome and lyrics by country which he left one month|Kim Gannon are “"We're Doing Our g0, Best For You" and “Rainy Days", “The President expects to be back iSiSter-act personality songs for Miss | in Washington by tomorrow and Sheridan = and Irene Manning; | soon thereafter will fix a time for | Inank You For The Dance” a his radio report on the Berlin |VAltZ song for Irene Manning and “Big Three” meeting, a male chorus; “So Dumb But So Obviously eager to share his ela- | Deautiful” comedy song for Jack tion over War Department advices|CArSon and Marie Wilson; and “I on the first use of the terrible new | G0 For You” and “Time Waits For aerial weapon, Mr. Truman walk(-d’Nu one’s love songs for, Denula Mare all ‘around the ship yesterday tell- |50 8nd Miss Sheridan. While these U erew membere. showt 1t tunes have been given a flavor of the 1906-1910 period of the picture BT by Jerome and Gannon, they're also IN v EST'GAIE ]bmgnbl(- by today's standards. RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 7—Re- ports from the Brazilian frontier today said Brazilian military au- i ! b | CHUNGKING, Aug. 7 — Chinese thorities had dptgm(‘d a Cf‘l"n"‘.tmops have captured Yeungkong bian gunboat pending 1nvestlga!hm;Kwa"gmng Province mghww‘};‘ of a collision in which the Bra-|junction close to the South China | CHINESE TROOPS WIDEN AREA OF . INVASION COAST zilian river vessel “Adjudante” was |Sea, southeast of Canton, and are sunk on an upper tributary of the|driving the Japanese toward Yan-| Amazon Aug. 1 with a heavy 1088 | ping, 32 miles to the northeast, the of life. | Chinese High Comman i Dead and missing from the | today. i i “Adjudante” were estimated at 54| The capture of Yeungkong uuht-‘ by the Journal Do Commercio. ened the Chinese grip on a 50-mile The Journal sald 38 survivors|stretch of the Chinese “invasion had ‘arrived down stream at Ma-|coast” west of Hongkong. | naus. The collision occurred in a i : 1egion not far from the Brazilian, Colombian and Peruyvian frontiers, which has been the scene of past| Colombian-Peruvian border dis- putes. | MR., MRS. ROBBINS HERE | Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Robbins, of Seattle, arrived in Juneau yester- day from Whitehorse and are guests at the Bavanof Hotel. i ATTENTION ELKS! Regular mecting Wednesday night at Eight. Please be there. | - | Empire Want-ads bring results! % COLISEUM | TONIGHT and WEDNESDAY NG | IS ELECTED TO | CANADA COMMONS ALEXANDRIA, Ont, Aug. 7— Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie| King, defeated for Parliament in! his Prince Albert constituency in| GR: A GREAT 0 55-MAKER PROM 'IWAR'IM BRog Butler 7% winS. Z SAKALL + Directed by Davi Added: COLOR CARTOON—WORLD NEWS | ) 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000008048 CATERPILLAR REG.U. 8. PAT.OFF. 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These “housekeeping” duties, of course, are in afidition to their} real reason for being out here—to the. general election June 11, has been returned to the Canadian House} of Commons by a landslide mdjorfty in a by-election at Glen- | lown MPs, who wear the regula- e Rt ] |tion armbands and carry billy clubs In a letter from M/M 2nd Class | flashlights and whistles. Twenty of Rudy Pusich it was revealed that them constitute the interior guard he took part in the rescue at sea |company, working in pairs of four- of two Japs, after they had been hour watches and walking four to ar_lcat in an open skiff for 10 days. | five miles per watch. Pictures of the rescue appeared on| On this particular tour Private the front page of the Daily Alaska Helen I. Vernon (749 Gum street,' Empire under date of July 30, but | North Vernon, Ind.) was receiving at that time it was not known that |orders for her four-hour watch from the Douglas lad was a member of the sergeant of the guard, Platoon | the ship’s crew making the rescue.| Sergeant Helen M. DeRego (1723 | |Central Avenue, Alameda, Calif). Comely Pfc. Elvqra A. Haggebloom "S (964 Lowry avenue, N. E., Minneap- | was killed in an air raid. | An estimated 6,000 Japanese have been pocketed in three areas in the towering mountains. The U. S.' Sixth Infantry Division reported these enemy remnants had been split into small groups in the vi- cinity of Antipolo, Mayoyao and Hungduan. Correspondent Russell ~ Brines, ! with the 127th Infantry Regiment of the Thirty-Second Division, said | three American and Filipino col- umns had made new thrusts 55 miles northeast of Baguio, and were developing a two-way pinch! cn enemy holdouts believed to in- clude Yamashita and his staff. — JAPANESE HEAR WARNING FROM ADMIRAL NOMURA SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. T—Adm. 'ee; Kichisaburo Nomura warned the Japanese people today not to ex- pect compromise surrender terms although the Americans are frankly anxious to end the war quickly. The former Ambassador to ‘Washington, who yesterday char-f acterized the Potsdam surrender| ultimatum to Japan as the height| of impertinence, teday moved to further stiffen the national back- bone in an interview characterizing the American people as “hot- tempered.” The former envoy did not men- tion in his anti-surrender dis- cussion the awesome new - atomic bomb which first was released against the Japanese yesterday with a.power threatening extermi- nation of the empire. 'RUSSIA IS TO FEED OWN COUNTRYMEN BEFORE OTHERS MOSCOW, .. Aug. 7—The Soviet Union will mot be able to contri- bute materially to any food chest for Western Europe, agricultural experts predicted today. The best wheat crop since the war is threatened, they say, by drenching daily rains that have prevailed for nearly three weeks in Northern Russia, White Russia and the wheat producing areas in Si- beria. But, even if the nation should turn out a good wheat crop this year, authorities say they will first better the lot of the Soviet people, who began the war with a set (brief decree in which he said he | was restoring olis, Minn.) was helping guard the! outside gate, busily inspecting passes | BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 7 — All|The girls usually draw 30 days mess legal restrictions on freedom of| release men for combat duty. And! yowll find the girls filling men’s shoes in offices, serving as drivers, radio repairmen, QM and ordnance stock clerks, photo technicians, telephone operators, communica- tions and personnel executives. Any complaints? Tell 'em to !he‘ Marines! - PARKS I JUNEAU James Parks, of Hoonah, has ar-| rived in Juneau and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. | T CARD OF THANKS For the many acts of thoughtful kindness to my late wife during her many years of illness. And for | the many beautiful floral offerings for the funeral, I wish to express | my sincerc appreciation. 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