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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-08-08
FITS ROLE PERFECTLY

Maureen O,Hara, co-starring with
Louis Hayward and Lucille Ball in
RKO Radios Dance, Girl, Dance
in whic she is cast as an aspiring
ballet dancer, was both ballet dancer
and singer with the Dublin Oera
Society in Ireland when only Il
years old.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-08-08

of their home, says the actor, his
mother-in-law agreed to take care
of the details of closing the house
and paying off the servants. So he
gave her signed check with the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-08-08
MOVIE NOTES
NEW ROMANTIC TEAM

NEW NOWV1A4N INO 4 N11A1NA
A new romantic team makes its
debut in RKO Radios zone Crowded
Night" dramatic offering laid in a
little Arizona auto camp. Billie
Seward, former Broadway musical
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
Claims JuneaI, Merchants
 Pay Higher Freight Rate
 Than 5itka and Skagway

branches of the ships personnel amounted to a 98 per cent increase and added that if current demands of longshoremen for increased wa ges are granted, it will cost the Alaska Steamship Company $59OO( this season alone.
 "Quickie" Strikes
 "Quickie" strikes, which the com- pany usually settles by agreeing tc the demands of the strikers, in or der to permit vessels to sail are one of the greatest problems the com pany has faced in recent years McKinstry said.
 Demands of unions for changes in living quarters aboard the fif- teen vessels operating on the line cost the company $57,000 since the first of the year, McKinstry declar- ed. and added that insistence of sea- men aboard the Aleutian that crew mess quarters be transferred to the same deck as the dining salon cost $24,O00.
 McKinstry said he estimated the company lost $129,000 earning ca pacity since 1894 because passenger space is being taken over by crews on various vessels.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
DOLLARS, TIME, IN
 RACE NOW
Chief of Army Air Corps Tells of Efforts of /
 Unified States

SPOKANE, Wash, July H.-Ma- jor General Henry H. Arnfld Chief of the Army Air Corps, said here last night:
 "The United States $ attempting to do with dollars what Germany did with time and the result is problematical There is no substi- ute for time. It took Germany six years to build up its balanced army.
 England has tried building with dollars and has met with fair sue cess.
 France was just too busy to build at all.
 "It remains to be seen what we can do"
 The Army Air Corps Chief Is here with members of his staff enroute by Army plane to inspect Alaskan air bases and stopped here over night after the flight from Boiling Field. Washington, D. c.
 The party left here at 6 o'clock this morning and plan to stop at Prince George and Whitehorse en- route to Fairbanks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
Find Bombs Near Scene
 COP Meet
New York Police Author. flies Reveal Discovery
 in Philadelphia

NEW YORK, July 1.-Two pow erful dynamite bombs were found near the Republican Convention Hall in Philadelphia two weeks ago it was learned today from high po- lice authority after Police Commis- sioner Valentine disclosed that a number of bombs were found dur ing the convention.
 Valentine did not say how many bombs were found nor where they were discovered but other sources said seven or eight bombs were found. some of them in the hall which is frequently used for Con- munist meetings.
 Valentine made the disclosure of the finding of the bombs in a talk to his detective force. He asserted that the bomb explosion at the New York Worlds Fair, in which two detectives were killed on July 4, was just the beginning
 The voice of the veteran peace officer choked with emotion as he spoke of the two victims whe died as the result of the bomb explosion and declared that the department is out to get the perpetrators of the plot. convict them and have them sentenced to their proper punish ment, electrocution.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11

SEATTLE, July 11-Late yester- day afternoon, David Scoll, counsel for the United States Maritime Commission, conducting hearings here on the raise in steamship rates between Seattle and Alaska ports, questioned J. D. Nelson, Alaska Steamship Company's rate expert, about freight rate increases to Ju- neau being increased more than on freight carried a greater dls- tance, to Skagway and Sitka.
 Scoll's questioning was brought in in several instances that Ju- neau merchants pay a higher freight increase than merchants in other ports.
 Nelson, in giving his testimony yesterday afternoon, said the All aska Steamship Company expected to increase it's annual income by S31O, ,0OO when the higher tariff rates were instituted during the spring. Nelson testified the com- pany expected an increased return of $150,000 from passenger fares and $1600OO from the increased freight rates.
 Continuing his testimony today, Nelson said new settlers moving to Southwestern Alaska are not af- fected by the freight increases of the Alaska Steamship Company. He said the company encourages emi- grafton to Alaska by providing a special tariff. The schedule covers emigrant household goods and be- longings.
 Nelson also explained that fuel oil delivered to Womans Bay, Ko- diak Island, was carried at a cost of 75 cents a barrel compared to a regular charge of $1 a barrel to Kodiak, seven miles away, because Womans Bay is the site of the Navy base.
 NelSOn also Sdlu CeIJdui lIciSiit rates to Anchorage and neighboring communities were lower than usual because they were competitive rates, established to meet competi- ton offered by tramp freighters via the Alaska trade during the sum- mer months.
 Labor costs have virtually doubled since the 1884 maritime strike, Mall colm McKinstry, Assistant Manager of the Alaska Steamship Company testified this afternoon.
 Maritime Examiner John Russell, presiding, announced the Commis- sion, attorneys for both sides, and transportation officials will sail for Alaska Saturday to hold further hearings at Ketchikan, Juneau and Anchorage so that merchants, and other shippers will be given an op- portunity to protest increases.
 McKinistry said that between 1894 and 1889, his company wages to all
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
BRA(ED FOR AIR RAIDS
 BY GERMANS

LONDON, July 1l.--Great Britain braced itself today for continued severe air raids following yester- days fierce sky battle over the English Channel More than 100 Nazi planes participated in the day. light raid.
 The British Air Ministry claims that IA Nazi planes were sent twisting down into the channel and that 25 others limped to their German bases. out of action.
 The British officials claim only two RAF planes were lost in the prolonged battle in the clouds.
 Coastal defenses are today manned to maximum strength pre- pared for further raids.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
Italians Claim Two British Wdrships Are Badly
 Damaged BRITISH RESPOND,
 GENERAL DEN!ALS Outcome of Mediterranean Struggle Sill Moof-
 ed Question
lBy Associated Pressi

New light on the controversial question of "battleship against plane" in actual combat. was cast today with disclosure by General Pricolo, Italian Air Chief, that 300 Italian planes were engaged in the battle between British and Italian war fleets in the Mediterranean Tuesday night and yesterday.
 Dispatches from Rome acknowl- edged large part of the Italian air force returned with damaged planes and wounded crewmen hit by the terrific drumfire of surface ships and also report that three Italian planes were lost.
 In contrast, Sir Andrew Cunning ham, Commander of the British Mediterranean fleet, reported his ships did not suffer single cas- ualty.
 , An Italian High Command com- fnunique, coming belatedly, insisted however, that Italian bombing planes set fire to the 42,000-ton Brit ish battle cruiser Hood, worlds big gest warship. and scored two bomb hits on the deck of the 22000-ton aircraft carrier Ark Royal as well as two hits on another English bat tleship.
 The British Admiralty issued formal denial of this statement.
 Italy's use of 300 planes during the two-day battle presumably repre- sented the biggest aerial assault ever hurled against warships.
 The attack on the Hood and Ark Royal occurred Tuesday, the Italians said, in waters south of the Baleares Islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
SUBS TAKE HEAVY TOLL
 OF BRITISH
Germans Declare They Will Starve England 10
 Knees by Blockade
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS)


 Germany's assault on the British sea lanes, lifelines of the United Kingdom, wrought great destruc- tion of shipping, costing Great Britain 600,000 tons by submarine attacks alone in the past six weeks.
 The Nazi High Command said this rate of sinking exceeds that of the World War period of un- restricted sub warfare when the U-boats of the Imperial Navy and other action sent down an average of 250,000 tons monthly.
 The Nazis declared their sea campaign is rapidly becoming a starvation blockade of the British Isles.
 These claims of the Nazis are reminders of the early months of 1917 when the United Kingdom food supply was sufficient only for three weeks.
 Defiantly, Minister of Agriculture Hudson told the House of Com mons Great Britain would eat re- gardless of subs and bombers, but home production must increase. Nazi bombers ranged over Eng Hand again today and the Govern ment reported few" deaths, while it was claimed eight raiders were shot down.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
CONGRESS SENDS WHITE HOUSE HUGE
 EXPANSION BILL
Greater Part of S4,OOO,. GOO, ,O00 10 Be Used
 for Defense

WASHINGTON, July 11.-A four billion dollar expansion bill was today sent to the White House by Congress, it's major portion for de- fense campaign.
 The defense Commission announc- ed that they let $100,00000O in contracts in recent days for new war planes for the Army and Navy and other contracts would begin to be negotiated with a view of adding 25,OOO more planes by July, 1942.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
Associated Press Writer Gives His Hde|ighfs on
 Thai Convention of COP

wardly calm. Very few ges- lures, no shouting Say, why hasn't somebody written a disser- tation on what loud-speaker sys- tems and radio have done to pub lie speaking technique?
 That elderly gent with the white mustache, prodding about through convention night-life, is Michigans Gov. Luren Dickenson. .. Remem- Der, he's the sin-chaser who put the stamp of wicked Babylon on New York cafe society. =. Wonder what he'll have to say about the whoopee Republicans in Philly?
 Unkindest convention cut came from the fellow who, when offered a Willkie button, said: Hell, no, I'm a Republican So were a lot of those people in that snake dance that wove through the Belle -Stratford lobby shouting We want Willkie!"
 People are crazy look at them piling in behind that Dewey for President fife and drum corps. Why, it's developing into a parade. I need a little air. Think I'll string along and see what happens. No thanks, lady, I WON'T carry a banner. I just came along for the stroll. Everybodys singing, guess I will, too. Say, this is fun. Being a strict neutral, I'll have to march in all other can didates' parades just to square myself. People are crazy, but it's fun being crazy. Say, lady. give me that banner!
 A FIFTH COLUMNIST?
 Most discussed sandwich man at the convention. The fellow who
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
Accused of Holding Off Three Cannery Boats
 with Rifles
GRAND LARCENY iS
 CHARGED TO GREW
AIIeqed Pirate Seiner Surf Being lowed to
 Juneau

Four alleged fish pirates, young Ketchikaners armed with rifles, were halted by an airplane and placed under arrest early thi is morning in Chatham Strait near Ansoon after their boat had been pursued all night by three can nery tenders.
 The prisoners, who had seized rifles and axes to hold off board ing parties when the cannery boats came upon them as they brailed a trap at Hawk Inlet last night, are charged with grand larceny.
 They are Robert A. Hullt, James A. Simmons, Courtney H. Lyons and J. Francis Mills, all of Ket- chikan, Hullt, Captain of the purse seiner Surf, is A years old. The others are from 2l to 23 years of age.
 Arrested by Hellan
 The arrest was made at 7:5O o. clock this morning by Deputy U s. Marshal Walter Hellan, who had been summoned to Hawk Inlet by an urgent message from Hans Floe, Superintendent of the P. E. Harris eannery there.
 With the following cannery ten ders about to lose their quarry as the Surf headed for the shallow "skookumchuck" rapids at the mouth of Kootznahoo Inlet, where the larger boats could not have followed, Pilot Shell Simmons power -dived his Lockheed plane on the Seiner.
 The plane circled the Surf twice and alighted just ahead of 1t, where Hellan ordered the crew to shut off the motor and come out on deck. When they were convinced
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
HANGAR5 OF UNITED LINE UNDER GUARD

LOS ANGELES, Cal, July H. Officials of the United Air Lines explain that the placing of guards around the company's hangars is merely precautionary measure.
 Officials said that the company has received no threats of sabotage. The guards are on duty at the com- pany's west coast hangars from mid- night to o'clock in the morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
GREAT BRITAIN MAKES FRIENDS
 WITH RUSSIANS
Progress Reported in Me- qotiations with Ndzi's
 Economic Partner

LONDON, July 11-It is officially reported here that Great Britain is making progress in an effort to make friends with Russia, Ger many's economic partner. This was told to the House of Commons to- day by Foreign Affairs Undersecre- tary Butler
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
SIX SHIPS pICkETED,
 WESTWARD
Canneries in Kodiak Area Tied Up by Labor
 TroSbles

SEATTLE, July 1l.-Six freight carriers in the Kodiak, Alaska area, are being picketed as the result of strike sanction given the Alaska Fishermens' Union by the Washing ten District of the Maritime Fed eration.
 Local officials said the canneries employ 2,000 men.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
LOUISE PATTERSON
 CLIPPER PASSENGER

Louise Patterson, fiancee of Curtis Snattuck, is aboard the Alaska Clip per today making round trip from Seattle.
 Miss Patterson and MT. Shatutck are to be married August in Se- attle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
HALIBuTERs IN

Two halibut vessels unloaded car goes today at the Juneau Fish Ex- change, the Saga selling 5000 pounds at 8.80 and 6.70, and the Arden selling l2,000 pounds at 8.80 and CTS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
ARMY TRANSPORT AT SEATTLE FOR
 ARMY SUPPLIES

SEATTLE. July 11.--The United States Army transport Liberty has arrived here to load construction material for the air base at Fair banks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, July 11.-Notes from the cuff of a shirt worn at Philadelphia
 Say, what is this |. a Holly wood world premiere? Gangs of gawkers glut the marquee lane to COP. national headquarters . Maybee Hoover, Landon, Taft & Co. don't have glamour, but they sure got what it takes to draw the madding throng.
 Sam Pryor Jr., who is running this whole shebang, being con- vention committee chairman, is right. There's not much gig ging going on. But it's the first time in my life I ever paid 25 cents for a pitcher of cracked ice.
 Remind me to ask Martha Taft about that little carnation red platter of hat. Did she buy it to match the carnations or did Bob" pick red carnations as his flower after he saw the hat?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-11
EATING AND DRINGING

People are nuts. The bars are full by breakfast time. Guess eye-openers are a conven- ton institution. =. If you want to hear a story about slowing away
 the food. remind me to tell you about that chicken dinner Wen dell Willkie tossed for the Negro delegates. ... Young man who grew most in stature during the convention: Harold E. Stassen, 33- year-old Minnesota Governor. His grin is fetching. His platform delivery is a perfect example of controlled force. It's a trick of getting vibrantly tuned up in -side and continuing to appear out
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4 FIFTH COLUMNIsT?

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-20

perhaps. but when he is in a scene
his three dimensional ability makes
all the others very small fry in
deed They have asked Con-
stance Bennett to put on more
weight because of her co-starring
assignment with Pat O'Brien, who
is a bit on the bulky side. The pic
ture. Passage West" is to be made
at Columbia and is Pats first as
free. lancer. Good luck. Pat, and
don't let Connie grab too much of
the spotlight.
Ginger Rogers, who is supposed to
be resting, was spotted at a local
flying field with Howard Hughes.
So I guess this romance is still 60
ing on. Talking about romance.
Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton are
not seeing each other quite as much
as they did. I understand Barbara
did not like the newspaper item
stating that she would marry Cary
after her divorce from the count
:. Kay Francis is selling the big
chateau she bought when she was
engaged to Baron Barnekow. She
finds it too big On the other
side Of the current house-selling
rush Is Olivia de Havilland, who
is looking for a mansion in Beverly
Hills. Why not switch, girls?
X
Cecil B. De Mile was having a
conference the other day at his
bungalow on the Paramount lot.
He was just about to reach the high
point of his oratory when the air
was rent with hideous sound.
C. B. stopped. then said sternly:
Find out what that is" 1t was
Jack Benny's Rochester practicing
little trombone solo. Remove
him." ordered De Mile. Said
Rochester: why can't he 60 some
where else to work" No one knows
what happened after this, because
all the yves" men tainted
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Director Can't Find
Nice Gentle Ape
For Film Role
BY the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Anybody have nice gentle ape?
You'd think, with Hollywood full
Of such variety of things, animal,
vegetable and mineral, that it
would have nice gentle ape. But
it hasn't.
1t has an imitation ape, nice and
gentle, in the person of Charles Co.
mora. He does all the ape close
ups because he is the only man in
these parts who owns a monkey
suit.
He'll do most of the work in ID.
o. A." dead on ARRIVAL, a mystery
thriller in the works now, but the
director of this is a stickler for
realism and demands, at least in a
scene or two, a real. live ape.
San Diego refused to give up, even
for the art cinematic, any of the
apes in its ZOO and the Cincinnati
Zoo. at last reports, wasn't en-
thusiastic about loaning an animal.
Said they're all dangerous.
Ellen Drew, the leading lady, is
supposed to appear with the real,
live ape but If no gentle apes owner
responds to the studios plea she
will be much happier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-20
Betty Cradle Turns
To Song Writing

Betty Cradle has turned her hand
to song writing.
The goth Century-Fox star, now
at work with Don Ameche in the
technicolor production, Down
Argentine Way" revealed that she
has already completed two songs,
both music and lyrics, and Is now
at work on a third.
Both the completed songs have
been accepted for publication by
the Irving Berlin company in New
York. One is ALLURE" and the
other I'm Not Worried"
Miss Cradle began the songs while
starring in the New York musical
comedy hit, "Du Barry Was Lady
She finished both after returning to
Hollywood to replace Alice Faye In
Down Argentine Way"
Mack Gordon and Harry Warren,
who wrote the score for the picture,
recommended that Betty submit the
songs to the publishing company
after she sang them to gain their
opinion. She has been notified that
her tunes will soon be on the
market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-20

And, in the same breath, the critics?
A chance to do so might or might
not lie in the fact that SO movie
commentators and critics have just
put themselves on record as pre-
dieting Brenda Marshall is most
likely to be the starlet achieving
stardom before the end of the year.
Miss Marshall, dark and lovely in
the capacious frocks of a 10Th CEN
fury senorita, makes her next ap-
pearance on local screen at the
Earle on Friday. The film is 1.-The
Sea Hawk" in which she appears
with Enrol Flynn.
The picture, incidentally, was
screened yesterday.
That even Shakespeare could
write unproduced plays is to be
demonstrated in the next 10 days
at the Barter Theater, Abingdon,
Va. The demonstration is to take
the form of presentation Of
Shakespeare's Edward ILL.," a
drama which never has been Of
fered before in America and which
has been produced nowhere in the
universe in $40 years.
Incidental to the American pre-
miere of this composition of the
Bard's the theater will hold a two
day clinic on what's wrong with
the theater.
Effects of war bulletins from
Bethesda: Things to Come" H. G..
Wells look ahead film, produced
four years ago, will come to the
Hiser Theater for a two-day stand
starting Thursday. :. On the same
day and the day after Sidney Lust's
Bethesda Theater will continue its
parade Of patriotic shorts, next of
which will be THE Flag Speaks"
=. In playing the crook of It Love
You Again" Edmund Lowe has made
quite a shift in character since he
last drew check from M-G-M.
The cheek in question, made
out in 1885, was for loves perform
ance as Philo Vance, detective, in
THE Garden Murder Case"
Garfield Swift, baritone whose con-
cert at the Mayflower last spring
was the first of several local APP
pearances, will be guest soloist with
the National Symphony next Sum-
day. says a post card to this de-
partment. One of the things
over which Hollywood is chortling
these days is a victory of cinema
players over a group of stage per-
formers in recent diction test.
The memo to us does not say who
were the judges or the participants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-20
Virginian'
Staged by
Roadside
Owen Wister PLAY
Well Done at
Barn Theater
BY HARRY MACARTHUR

Once again the Roadside Theater
folk have temporarily deserted the
melodrama to delve into the turn
of-the-century department of the
theater's archives, from whence they
have emerged bravely waving aloft
Owen Wister's "Virginian." 1t is
quite creditable production, too
acted well for the most part, en-
gineered nimbly by Director Ralph
Fowler, played in and around some
Of Don Jones handsome settings.
That THE Virginian" only man
ages a pace somewhat below the
speedy hilarity Of Roadside melo-
dramas is due merely to the fact
that times have changed since 1908,
but not enough. Some of the hokum
Of Mr.. Wister's familiar tale now is
comic to the utmost degree, to be
sure, almost in the same mood as
some of those bald-faced, trumped-
up situations in the melodramas.
But some of it is the same sort of
hokum that still comes out of type
writer's in 1910; sometimes THE Vir-
ginlan' is just dusty. not so rusty
you laugh at its creakings.
Still it is quite an amiable affair,
with hero in the person of Richard
Kreuzberg's Virginian, who GER
tainly deserves all the cheers he
gets and more, a noble, brave and
virtuous young man whose love is
pure and straightforward and whose
ideals are high. And the young
lady of his choice, the school
teacher who learns that mans work
must be done even if she calls it
"Murder!" is as fine heroine as
Lansing Hall ever has been, which
is pretty fine.
There's a villain for kissing, too;
you remember Trampas, the das-
tardly cattle-rustler the Virginian
had to track down. then warn
Smile when you say that" He's
played by Harold Stepler, with full
leer and oily voice, definitely is a
chap to be Missed down by an audi
ence Natalie H. Core, Kenn Rom
ney, Keith Adamson, Alan Fischer,
William Zuckert. Paul Sears, Frank
Cronin and sundry others contribute
variously to the goings-on. All in
all, despite the musty moments,
there is goodly splash of the Road
side spirit about 1.-The Virginian."