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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-10-13

CHICAGO-Continuing Il concert
tour which is in its second month,
Miss Eta Moten, best known to the
public for her lovely contra.to voice
as heard on radio and concert stage,
has spent almost the entire month of
September in her home state. Texas.
Her tour has included Waco. Wi
chita Falls, Fort Worth and Dallas,
with return trip TO Wichita Springs
1T the Request Of white music lovers
there. After going up 70 Missouri
for an engagement there early IN
October, she will return "a Texas
TO appear in other key cities there
Marshall, for Wiley college; Austin,
and one or two others.
Miss Maten spent the latter part
Of August in Florida, where she at.
tended the convention Of the Home
and Foreign Missionary Society of
the AM.E. Church upon invitation
from its president. Mrs. Lucy NJ.
Hughes. The popular sonstress will
return to Florida in January to ap-
pear IN several cities there under
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-10-13

by early November for the housing
authority y receive applications Of
prospective tenants Of De Soto Bass
courts, Putnam said
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-10-13

ATTY. VIM. L. WcKNIEHI,
we'll known young Toledo, Ohio bar
rister who has just been appointed
special assistant Attorney General Of
the United States. Mr.. Mcknight
has been assigned to the Dept Of
Labor, wages and hours Division and
will have his headquarters in Cleye-
land, Ohio. A graduate of Yale
Law school, Mr.. Mcknight served re-
Gently as asst. Atty. General Of the
State Of Ohio and is president Of
the Ohio NAACP. (ANP)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-01

there and mis- batting has i'm
proved.
Buddy's father has long been a
baseball fan. In fact, he wanted
to play professional baseball, but
couldn't make the grade. SO when
Buddy came along, back in 1911,
John ST., decided right then that
he would rear first baseman for
John McGraw's Giants.
Young Hassett had a baseball
glove as soon as he could toddle
about. And as a baby-faced kid he
sat in the Polo Grounds and YAM
kee Stadium and watched Wally
Pipp and Lou Gehrig scoop EN- up
around the bag.
1t turned uut that it was the
Yankees and not the Giants who
got first crack at Hassett. The
Yanks picked him up off the semi
pro diamonds and shipped him to
their Wheeling farm. Then he was
optioned to Columbus. He was goine
pretty we'll when he broke his leg
But he came back The Yanks agreed
that he was a nice looking young
ster but with Lou Gehrig going
great they didn't have much use
for another first baseman. So Brook
lyn bought him in 1886 for $40 900
Johnny Mccarthy and Ralph Boyle
Sophomore DOldrums
Johnny played first and hit BIC
! for the Dodgers that year. The
sophomore year jinx got Buddy as
it has many youngsters and he
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-01
HYDRO ELECTRIC
DREDGE WORKING
FOR NYAC FIRM
New Plant Goes Into 0per
tion Most Modern
in Territory

A new hydro electric plant of
the New York Alaska Gold D~Ndo-
ing Corporation went into opera
ton at Nyac July 81, towering the
first dredge of the company.
The plant is on the Tuluksak
River, of which Bear Creek, scene
of operations of the two dredges Of
the company, is tributary.
J. C. Roehm, Associate Mining
Engineer for the Territorial De-
partment of Mines, writes that the
plant is performing very satisfac-
torily and gives the company the
most modern and efficient placer
operation in the Territory other
than that of the Fairbanks De-
partment of the U.S.S.R. & M. Co.
The two dredges were formerly
operated by diesel power and the
company officials believe that the
savings in fuel Oil alone will pay
for the new power plant within
two years.
To Goodnews Bay
On account of good weather en-
countered, Roehm has completed
ahead of schedule geological in
vestigations that were carried on
in connection with ae. ial mapping
of the Tuluksak River area. He
now plans to visit the Goodnews
Bay, Flat and Kaiyuh Hills areas
where additional investigations for
the Department of Mines will be
carried on this season.
OF especial interest will be his
visit to the new Havenstrite drag
line operations in the Kaiyuh Hills,
as no representative of the De-
partment has visited this area
since the beginning of these opera
lions. At the larger operations in
the districts visited Investigations
will be made of safety features
and recommendations for their i'm
provement made if necessary. AS
many prospectors as possible will
be contacted in the field and as
sistance given them in determining
geology, and identification of rocks
and suggestions will be made as to
favorable areas for their work.
Small operators who are unable to
employ an engineer, will also be
assisted in solving geologic and
operating problems.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-01
A SWELL SWINGER :.
Bv The APP Feature Service

BOSTON, Aug. buddy Hassett
is a good man to have around a ball
club. Buddy's tenor notes fit into
any clubhouse quartet. His Irish wit
enlivens spirits. His hustle peps up
a team.
And, at the moment, the Boston
Bees are finding that Buddy'S bomb
ing bat is a good weapon to have
around, too. He's smuggling the agate
tossed up by National league fling
ers at $40 clip. That average has
boosted him right up among the
loops select seekers.
The Manhattan-born Johnny
Hassett has had hard t i'm e,
though, convincing baseball man
ayers that he should be a first
baseman. 1t just happened that
there were pretty good first sack
ers on the clubs he has played with
the last few years. So Buddy has
seen quite bit of picket duty in
the outer gardens.
Hassett thought he was going to
be Brooklyn's first baseman. But
the Dodgers bought Dolph Camilli
from the Phillies and Buddy had
to trot out to left field. When he
got to Boston this year there was
Ebert Fletcher perched on first.
Buddy's Break
But Buddy finally got his break.
The Bees sold Fletcher to Pitts
burgh and Buddy was brought in
to the bag. He teels quite at home
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-01
COMMUNICATION

Juneau, Alaska, July 81, 1899. To
the Mayor and City Council
Gentlemen:
Il have been a resident of the
City of Juneau for Al years and
have been taxpayer for approx
mately 80 years My interest is the
interest of every taxpayer and
write you this letter as protest
against the unlawful. reckless and
useless waste of my money and
the peoples money caused by the
disregard of the peoples rights on
the part of yourselves and the Of
ficers Of the City Of Juneau.
Il refer to the manner in which
the contracting company is doing
its work on the PWA paving con-
tract on Willoughby Avenue
1.-The specifications call for the
use of coarse rock waste, crushed
rock or gravel and sand to be used
for subgrade fill The greater part
Of Willoughby Avenue is q kock
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-01
COAST LEAGUE
TEAMS TRAVEL
DURING MONDAY

No games were played in the Pa
cific Coast League yesterday as the
teams were travelling to open today
on the following schedule for this
week:
Seattle at San Francisco.
Los Angeles at Sacramento.
San Francisco at Oakland.
Portland at Hollywood.
No Big League Games
No games were played in the Ma
tional or American Leagues yester-
day.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-01

fill of coarse rock: This rock is
such that improper material Sits
through the crevices leaving no
foundation for the safe anchor
age of the concrete which is being
laid
The contracting company is
using tailings from the Al. These
taillngs contain a considerable per-
centage of shines and silt. The
company has taken away the old
surface which was packed down %
a certain extent and have used
these tailings as foundation for
the cement.
Gentlemen. I warn you that
unless you cause this job to De
performed in the manner outlined
in the specifications, the job will
be a failure and the pavement will
be checking and cracking within /,
year or two.
Juneau is burdened with a load
of taxes which will be inherited by
our children and grandchildren
Why waste this money and the
money which the United States
Govern ent has contributed
through the PWA, on piece OF
poor workmanship?
IF you people wish to remain in
office, / would suggest that you
see to it that this enormous fund
is not thrown away"
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) ROBERT M. KEENEY
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-01
SIMMONS MAKING
ANOTHER TRY TO
REACH SEA(0AST

Shell Simmcns flew out to tie
islands today after failing to get
- -,.c'n = e'ttr "cetrrday when
thick weather closed in.
passengers Tor Sitka. A. l.. Flor
zee and Norman Cameron, who
were aboard the plane yesterday,
went out again today, and J. G..
Shepard was flown to Lisianski.
Yesterday, on the return trip,
Simmons brought in Henry Roden
and A. P. Walker from Pelican
City.
Alex Holden, flying a Marine
Always plane, hoped to Todd
this morning with passenger F.
w. Downie.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-01
Gastineau Channel League
Second Half
Birthday Gathering
Surprises Honorees

An informal gathering surprised
Wellman Holbrook and Miss Lenora
White last evening at the Notebook
summer home at Point Louisa Beach
when neighbors called with gifts
and refreshments to fete the two
in honor of their birthdays.
Miss White, daughter OF Mrs.
Josephine White, with her two
friends, Miss Jewel Heaton and Miss
Betty Parsalow of Los Angeles, are
now the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Holbrook at their Point Louisa
home.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-01

wasn't any bargain in 1887. Then
Burleigh Grimes came to Brook
Ign as manager Soon afterwards
the Flock bought Camilli. And 1t
was the outfield for Hassett.
Last winter Casey Stengel, the
Boston manager who was Brooklyn
pilot when Buddy came <up, ar
ranged a deal that brought Hassett
to the Bees. He gave up Gene Moore
and Ira Hutchinson for Hassett and
Jim Outlaw
The rest of Buddy's story is cur
rent history. He got the break
he wanted and now he's making
good for the Bees at first base and
with his bat.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-01
lIcAnN nI|ADn The Veteran StyEst King
1ENNI FI\AND: Among Professional Golfers

By The AP Feature SerOlce
HENRY PICARD finally broke through He's the new Pre- essonal
Golf champion Five years ago he set record by bu ring
so Of 81 His pals knew he had the to win
any Every year serious threat the Natoa Opel
and The Pea but his July triumph in the Professionals champion
ship brought him his first major title He's
won more assorted tournaments than
any other golfer this year and tops the M
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-01
FRANCO SENDS
BERLIN FRUITS
OF HIS VICTORY
Stores "Bombdrded" with
Oranges, Formerly
a Rarity

BERLIN, Aug. l. - Oranges in
seemingly plentiful quantities have
frightened Berlin tables after many
months of inability to get more than
one or two, if any, because OF the
Nazi governments food conserva-
ton policy.
The appearance of the big boxes
of the Spanish fruit in stores eased
a burden for housewives and has
prompted many questions as to why
oranges suddenly became plentiful.
The customary answer given in the
streets was that Spanish Nationalist
Leader Gen. Francisco Franco was
paying off part of his war debt
to Germany in that way.
{ Otherwise German supplies OF
food and raw materials are practi-
4 cally on a wartime footing. Food
! boarding has been undertaken on a
gigantic scale by the German state.
Canneries, day in and day out, are
putting up meats, vegetables and
fruits as reserves against the rainy
day that will come should the coun-
try be involved in war.
S. Commodities Stored
Besides food, benzine, copper
nickel, textiles and dozens of other
commodities essential for the con-
duct of the next war are being stor-
ed. The food shortage experienced by
the average citizen does not mean
however, that the country as such
is SO badly off. 1t reflects the scale
ON which the state is accommodating
stocks for the army to live on.
About the first quest on any
American resident in Germany
hears from an American visitor is:
Us there really a food shortage
; here? 1 seem to be able to get al
; the butter and eggs I want, ano
there is some fruit"
The casual visitor, however, lives
in the standard hotels. Or, If hi
lives with friends, they have done
a. bit of boarding to provide the
best possible entertainment for tb'
guest.
. Pay Only Half
This is part of an effort to maxi
foreign travellers feel that food i
, plentiful. They do not usually no
, tice that food is expensive, for the.
! pay only about half of what thu
! native or the foreign residents pay
An American resident in German,
gets about 2.48 reichsmarks for
dollar. An American visitor entitled
to travel marks gets bout 5.4'
marks for dollar, and natural!
finds many things expensive.
Big hotels seem to have plenty
of food for the traveller, but lont
stay at one of them shows that thu
choice is limited.
At Berlin the public market!
available vegetables consist almos
entirely of spinach and potatoes
Even sauerkraut-for which a gov
eminent propaganda campaign wa.
conducted last winter-is sold ou
until late summer. Butter. lard anC
other fats are to be had only on 6
rationed basis-butter at the rate Of
5.95 ounces per person per week.
Parties Infrequent
Asparagus costs SO to 40 cents pei
German pound, equivalent to IL
American pounds. Pork is sold only
in proportion to the quantity of fats
allowed each family. Mutton ano
veal are scarce. Beef is more plen-
tiful. but often is frozen, not fresh
One result of the meat shortage
has been that private dinner parties
have become infrequent. Families
hesitate to invite guests when they
do not know whether enough meat
will be available to serve everybody
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-01
Mrs. P. R. Flynn
Is Juneau Visitor

Mrs. P. r. Flynn arrived here
on the Aleutian this morning from
San Francisco the West Coast
Fair City" and will spend several
days visiting with Mr.. and Mrs
George Henry.
From Juneau, Mrs. Flynn plans
a trip to Anchorage, where she
will visit briefly before returning
south.
Evening star., 1939-10-27
Man in Iron Mask
Back at Columbia

Some nasty things went on in the
royal household of Louis XIV, and
just about the most craven of them
all was Louis treatment of his brave
twin brother Philippe. AS genera
ton after generation has learned
from Alexander Dumas, Louis put
Philippe in an iron mask, leaving
him there to die horribly of strangu-
lation by his growing beard. The
drama of it all, brisk, full blooded
and tinctured but lightly by quaint
ness, is captured once more in "The
Man in the Iron Mask" at the Co.
lumbia.
Lending their good Offices to the
latest Interpretation of the swash-
buckling old tale are Louis Hayward
in the dual role of the rancid mon-
arch and his heroic brother, Joan
Bennett as the lovely Spanish prin-
cess, Warren William as D'Artagnan
and number of others carefully
chosen by Universal.
Any one looking for some salts
factory escape drama will find it in
this robust, romantic melodrama
even If time has laid whitening
hand on its freshness. J.C.
Evening star., 1939-10-27
Where and When
Current TheaterAttractions
and Time of Showing

National-"Very Warm for May"
new musical by Jerome Kern and
Oscar Hammerstein, I'd: $3.50 pm.
Earle-"Mr. Smith Goes to WASH
ington," Frank Capra looks at the
local scene: 10 am, 1880, 3:45, $40
and 9:40 pm. Stage shows: 1915,
3:15, $40 and 9:05 pm.
Palace-"Beau Geste," Gary Coop
er goes adventuring on the desert:
11:35 am, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05 and 9:35
pm.
Capitol-"Fast and Furious" Ann
Sothern in comedy romance: 1890
am, 1855, 1920, $50, BIS and 10:45
pm. Stage shows: 11:55 am. 2:25,
4:50, 7:20 and GAS pm.
Keith's-"The Road Back" drama
In wars aftermath: 11:15 am, /,
2:45, ABS, $40, $40 and 9:55 pm.
Metropolitan-'U-Boat &c." war;
fare under the waves: 1925 am,
1880, $3.50, 5:35, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Columbia-'The Man in the Iron
Mask" swashbuckling adventure:
1850 am, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05 and $50
pm.
Little-"A Man to Remember" q
picture to remember: II am, ITO,
3:2O, $50, TAO and 9:55 pm. "Wed-
ding Of Palo": 1925, 2:35, 4:45, SIS
and 9:10 pm.
Belasco-"Ths unashamsd." life
In Q nature camp: 1850 an, 1850,
$50, 1:30. 1:30 and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1939-10-27

Indeed for them Mr.. Cantor does
put on show on the Capitol's stage
this week. It is a bright revue
which skips along at a merry pace,
which has variety and which is ex-
ceedingly diverting, II not from be-
ginning to end at least between the
beginning and the end. The trouble
with the beginning is that this is
where Mr.. c. has a couple of gags
about the Washington traffic situ-
alton, which may be apt, but they
are the same gags he was using six
years ago. The trouble with the
ending is that this is where Mr.. c.
stops being a comedian to become
q jingoist by making little patriotic
speech that is both pretty and pretty
hamniy. 1t just smacks more of
flag waving for the applause there
is in it than anything else, and Mr..
Cantor doesn't need to wave a flag
when the Capitol's auditorium is
full of his radio fans.
These radio fans seem to know
and cherish couple of people who
0ooAoC 2vAl SdlllOl Ills lu1l-ullklO2
one a fellow known as the Mad
Russian" the other a chap called
Mr.. Guffy." Each of these has
some comic moments which are fun
fun, we will not be the last to
admit. because Mr.. Cantor is an
experienced performer who knows
his way around in a comedy situ-
alton.
The entertainment on the Capt.
tol stage, of course, is not confined
to the antics of Eddie Cantor and
stooges. There's little girl named
Leni Lynn, who has a thrilling So
prano voice, there are Fairchild and
Carroll in some of their top-notch
two-piano doings, and there is
Ruth Dayle, an accomplished tap
dancer. There also are the Stuart
Morgan Dancers, certainly the best
Of the adagio quartets, in their
thrilling display of how to handle
Evening star., 1939-10-27

ter so completely odious as to OBJ
scure the fact that he's a darned
good fighting man.
The emphasis upon the villainies
of Markof does not exactly sissify
the Gestes, of whom Mr.. Cooper is
Beau, but it does them no particu-
lar service in averting the theft Of
audience attention. In the role Of
the elder brother Of Digby Pres-
toni and John (Milland Cooper
plays the part Of the gallant gentle.
man and soldier with his accus-
toned nonchalance. 1t is a good
portrait of what it is supposed to
be, but what it is supposed to be
is somewhat overromanticized for
this realistic day.
Sequencially the Wellman Beau
Geste' follows the pattern of the
novel and the earlier film version.
1t opens with that once dramatic
desert fort scene, which by this
time will have lost its highly mys-
terious elements for a great many
people. 1t flashes thence to the
childhood of the Gestes, but only
long enough to start the explana-
tion Of why three such we'll placed
should have found haven
among the cutthroats and more pet
ty escapists enlisted in the Foreign
Legion.
The camera has done a quite ma
jestic job of imparting sweep and
impressive desert atmosphere in the
latest Beau Geste" 1t creates
vivid impression that warriors lot
in the desert is 50 far from happy
as to be miserably cruel. most forci-
bly, In those sequences in which the
vast and angry Arab army is at
tacking that lonely fort of the re-
sisting dead. That area still gets
even the veteran Beau Geste" fan.
Minor parts in the picture are
competently handled. including that
of the sacrificial Isabel, played by
Newcomer Susan HAYWARD,
Evening star., 1939-10-27

a woman II she weighs only 81
pounds. They are graceful, too,
which is something some adagio
teams are not.
The Capitol's screen attraction is
another Of those yarns about the
blithe bookseller who solves murder
mysteries aided and abated by his
frivolous young wife. It's title is
Fast and Furious" and, while it
may be fast, it is more curious than
furious, and it gets more and more
curious as 1t goes along. People
scramble about with abandon until
finally 1t appears as though Director
Busby Berkeley must have been try
Ing to work them into one of those
flower patterns he used to contrive
for Warner Bros. musicals. Gle
never quite achieved it,
The bookseller this time is Fran
chot Tone, and his wife is Ann
Sothern. and they are two people
who deserve more of life than these
bizarre adventures. They romp
through them with apparent light
heartedness, however and the mur-
derer finally is brought to justice.
The victim of this murder in
Fast and Furious" is beauty con-
test promoter. Suspects are (a) the
girl he was about to leave behind
him, (b) the girl he was about to
take on world cruise, (c) his as
sistant. who just discovered he was
fake; Cd the chap he owed $2O,-
900 and (e) the fellow who never
will suspect at all. Never.
Brighter than Fast and Furious"
Is the latest of those fashion shorts,
with 1lka Chase doing brittle and
brilliant running commentary.
Evening star., 1939-10-27

hPpCn1 dllCC COuI. ocIWccIl ClIIlcS, SIle
will try to play little tennis.
Make Rosenbloom says that mar
riage is definitely bad for the fllm
glamour boy. Take me-" says Make.
II haven't had an offer of screen
work since surrendered bachelor
hood" Gle didn't put it quite like
that, but columnist sometimes has
to act as interpreter-and editor.)
. Judy Garland had a roller
coaster date with Mickey Rooney
and Jackie Cooper one evening
recently. The next day she was very
ill. I'm either too old or too young
for that sort Of thing" said Judy
sadly An out-of- town exhibitor
was asked by his Hollywood host
what he would like to do most while
he was here. I'D like to hit Nelson
Eddy over the head with Bobby
Breen," said the exhibitor, who, ap-
parently, is not a lover Of music.
Sight Of the week Fred As
taire is in local tailor's emporium,
when In comes Greta Garbo. The
two stars compare dress notes, which
reach a peak of interest when Garbo
asks Fred-"How do you get your
suits to fit so well? Mine never
do."
\ \ y
Robert Montgomery brought back
with him from England a super car
"a Rolls-Bentley. On his second
day out here. he ran 1t into a milk
truck. (Bob had driven an ambu-
lance in London blackouts for 13
days without a scratch to himself or
the ambulanceD :. Andrea Leeds
tells me that, if she finds that her
career interferes with her marriage
in any way, she will drop out of pic
ture making. That is, If Goldwyn
lets her. He has Miss Leeds under
contract for another years {.
Which reminds me, Goldywn is now
negotiating with Norma Shearer for