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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25
LOCAL MEN
 SAY RATES
 REASONABLE
Goat Farmer Protests al Hearings 10 Costs of
 Shipping Grains

Maritime Commission hearings on increase of freight rates between Seattle and Alaska, closed yesterday with Examiner John Russell ad- journing the session until August 2 in Anchorage.
 On the stand yesterday after noon, Wallis S. George, Manager of the Juneau Cold Storage, testi- fled as a steamer line witness that he did not feel the increase in rates would hurt movements of fish, but declared he thought the rate should go no higher
 Francis McDermott, Vice Presi- dent and Assistant Manager of the Juneau Lumber Mills testified that he felt the lines were rendering "very satisfactory service" and that the increase in rates is justifiable in his mind in the light of increased wage and business operations costs.
 Tom Morgan, Vice-President of the Columbia Lumber Company, also testified it was his belief the. steam CT service was good" and that he had no objections to boost in freight rates with business costs ev- anywhere having taken jump.
 After Alaska Steamship Agent Horace Adams and North la n d Transportation Agent Henry Green had given routine testimony on con- dition of freight arrivals, the first real volunteer witness took the stand.
 The volunteer was goat dairy op- orator Hermon Hanson from Mile l2 on the Glacier Highway, who declared that shipping of hay and grain, inclusive of wharfage charg es, represents to him Al per cent of the cost of his shipment.
 Hanson also declared. in producing freight bills, that a shipment of III pounds of paper milk bottles from Portland. Oregon, had cost him $1422 freight and wharfage.
 Hanson declared the value of the bottles was $2OO2 and that he could have shipped them from the factory in New York to Juneau, parcel post, for SIP"
 Tt seems to me" Hanson said,
 fCnntinued m pape Sixl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25
COLONEL JOHNSON
 RESIGNS
Assistant Secretary of War Leaves Department
 Successor Named

WASHINGTON, July 25. - The White House announces the resig- nation of Assistant Secretary of War Col. Louis Johnson and the nomination of Robert Porter Pat terSon, of New York, Judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, as his successor.
 Stephen Early, White House Sec retary, told the newsmen that since time immemorial' cabinet officer has the right to select his assistant and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson asked that the President name Patterson.
 Early said Col Johnson resigned yesterday and has flown to Bo- hemian Grove near San Francisco, Cal
 Early also said that as soon as the President gets around to it he will wire Johnson acceptance of his resignation and advise him that he confidentally is expecting him, as soon as he takes a rest, to return to Washington and con- tinue in the service of the Gov ernment.'
 Early said Col Johnson will be offered an Administrative Assist ants position. It is the Presidents intention to have him as an off, cial member of the White House family and become the eyes of the President on the progress of the entire question of National De- fense.
 Judge Porter is 49, a Republican and was named Federal Judge in 1899.
 Col Louis Johnson is well known in Alaska and especially in Ju- neau for his several important of ficial trips made to the northland. It was Col. Johnson who recom- mended and then strongly insisted that Army bases be established in Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25
REPORT CONFIRMED

WASHINGTON, July .25.-Secre- tary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau said the United States has pledged "every facility" to enable the Brit ish to buy 5000 military planes a month in this country in addition to huge orders already placed.
 The Secretary confirmed the an- nouncement from London by Lord Beaverbrook.
 Secretary Morgenthau also said previous orders will require con- struction of new factories, adding that the British seem to have plenty of money for the colossal sum involved.
 The Secretary said the Treasury War and Navy Departments are in complete accord on the com mitments.
 Willie m Knudsen, production member of the National Defense Commission, has agreed to under take to work out the details for the manufacture of the planes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25
BIG FRENCH
 LINER |5 SENT
 DOWN TODAY
New Speed Torpedo Boat Sinks Wrong Ship-RAf
 Make Great Raids
tBy ASSOCIATED PRESS)

NaI air bombs early today fell on the outskirts of London, l2 miles from the central part of the British Capital City, according to the Ger man High Command while in an- other daring operation, a 50 mile an hour NaEi torpedo speedboat bounced 50 miles across the English Channel to sink an armed merchant ship near Great Britain's great na- val base at Portland.
 Skittering over the rough water of the English Channel, too fast for the long range guns of the Naval Base to make effective shots at the target, the German sea raider got its knockout blow on the 18,000- ton craft and then darted home again.
 It's trench Ship Sunk
 The Nazi Command makes a great splurge of the spectacular feat but it is quickly countered by Great Britain's First Lord of the Admir- alty who declared that the craft was the French ship Weknes, with nearly 1900 French officers and men aboard enrCute home to German conquered France The Admiralty ,seist about 1900 men were picked up from the water. The boat was flying the Fsr en h flag, the French colors were painted on the deck and sides and the ship was illuminated.
 The German High Command as- serts that German planes bombed the big Vickers Aircraft factory at Weybridge, near London, where the famous auto race track is also To- cated.
 Attacks on Germany
 The German raids came as Great Britain claimed the first major vic- tory in the five weeks old struggle against the Nazi conquest of Eng land, by repeated violent attacks on German blitzkreig bases" across the channel and at the same time tight ened the blockade of the Reich with more than 1000 mass air raids.
 The London spokesman says the British Air Force has now made it extremely difficult for Germany to the new Anchorage airbase and country as airdromes in Holland. Belgium and France, and bases of the enemy in German held Norway, have been and are being successfully raided."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25
FIGHTER IS NOW WINU.5.
 AIR CORPS

MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 25. - Steve Wilkerson was good enough as a fighter to win national in- tercollegiate title for the University of Mississippi.
 Tn the last two years he has fought professionally
 Now Steve has put away his gloves to join the U. s. Army Air Corps, where he figures my fight ing might do some good if it's needed"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25
THOUSANDS
 MISSING IN
 EVACUATION
Cundrd Liner Sinking Fig ures Revealed After
 French Escape

LONDON, July 25. = Authorized sources said today that 2.823 persons are missing in the sinking of the Cunard liner Lancastria, anchored off St. Nazaire during evacuation of British troops from France.
 Of $500 aboard, there were but 2,477 survivors, although it is be- lieved others may have saved their lives by swimming or wading ashore and falling into German hands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25

 Of Britain
 Fight Nazis
American Built Plane, Among German Raid
 CTS, Is Shot Down

LONDON, July 25.-An American made dive bomber, seized by the Germans from the French, was shot down yesterday and another was damaged by British spitfires in fierce bomb raid.
 The battles cost the Nazis twelve planes yesterday.
 It is said there were several Am erican built planes, all seized from the French, among the raiders.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25
AID FOR
 STRANDED
 CITIZENS
Army Transport 10 Be Sent 10 Finland for Left
 over Americans

WASHINGTON, July 25. The State Department announced today the Army Transport American Le- zion is sailing from New York for the Arctic port of Petsamo, North ern Finland, to remove stranded American citizens.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25
Hitler Official
 lakes Rap al us.

BERLIN, July 25.-Hitler's Min ister of Economies. Walter Funk. attacked the United States for what he termed it's discriminatory tactics against Germany disparaging efforts to evolve the Paa American plan for economy. He also ridiculed the vast stores of gold now stored in the United States as useless.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25
5AB0TAGE I5 ALLEGED BY
 RED CROSS

HYDE PARK. N. Y., July 25.- President Roosevelt told newsmen today that they might quote him as saying that reports are reaching the Red Cross from all over the country of a fifth colmn effort to sabotage the raising of funds for the suffering people of Europe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25
PLANE ORDER
 FROM BRITAIN
 PLACED IN U. }.
Three Thousand Graft 10 Be Built Monthly for
 Overseas Nation

LONDON, July 25.-Lord Beaver brook, Minister of Aviation and Production, declared in broad cast last night that the United States will approve production plan to supply Great Britain with 5000 planes month.
 Lord Beaverbrook said that his Ministry has purchased 12,115 air plane engines in the United States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25
ITALIAN BOMBS.
 STARTING FIRES

ROME, July 25-The Italian Con- mand reports that oil refineries and depots have been set afire by the Italian bombardment of the port of Hafia, in British mandated Pales- tine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25
GET FAIR MONEY

Mayor Harry G. Mccain, of Ket- chikan, has been notified that the Territory will appropriate $500 for the Ketchikan Fair held this fall. Fair plans are already well in hand.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, July 25. = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today Is Az, American Can 93A, Anaconda 18&, Bethlehem Steel 96, Commonwealth and South ern 1A, Curtiss Wright 6ss, Gen. eral Motors 43k, International Har- vester 43, Kennecott 247s, New York Central 1l2, Northern Pacific 57s, United States Steel 507s, Poun d $3.88.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25
FISHING IN WRONG
 AREA C0STS HALIBUT
 CAPTAINS S250 EACH

Halibut Aldermen Olof Westby and Martin Erandall pleaded guilty in U. s. Commissioners Court here yesterday to charges of illegal fish ing They were fl1ed $250 apiece.
 The Fish and WSldlife Service charged Westby and Brandall with fishing in an area for which they had no licenses.
 Mrs. E. N. Noble of Minneapo- lis. Minn., was named U. s. crochet champion in 1889.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25
pow. JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow. Jones averages: Industrials, 121.93; rails, 2636; utilities, 2l92.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-25

tContinued on Page Six)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-12
They Had Their lunches
And Only by Following Them Did
Many Attain Stardom
By Carlisle Jones'
By Carlisle Jones'.
HOLLYWOOD


mere are lew accidental pictures
started with determination seconhdene would
succeed The hunch often weapon of
Hollywood
1t was only half hearted hunch that Sheridan who
yet thought OF oomph take photograph
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-12
WASHINGTON, D. TUESDAY,
'Night of Love- Settles
Upon Nationals Stage
And None Too Happily Its Course
Runs in Spite of Capable Cast
And Reasonable Musical Score
BY JAY CARMODY.

few weeks Brooks Atkinson the esteemed critic the New
review that tortrgh application for wokmens
q
reprisal
going
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CdSt, III " Wy
than fair musical score, adequate
production, all these are there. But
so is one of the most banal plots,
handicapped by some embarrass-
ingly futile dialogue The latter
is so much worse than the former
is good that one regards Helen
Gleason, Martha Errolle, John
Lodge. Marguerite Namara and the
rest of the cast as kind of beauti-
full and tragic waste.
In treating Might of Love" as a
musical play, instead of musical
comedy. the Shuberts may have
been giving it one more chance be-
fore whipping it into that ultimate
form. 1t has been play. Bad. 1t
has been movie. Worse. 1t has
finally emerged as a musical play.
Worst. Now let some one go out
and get great big beautiful chorus
behind which to hide the idea, hire
a few speciality acts and Jimmy
Durante to support the current
group, and maybe the thing will
be a success If ii isn't, at least 1t
won't be necessary to worry lest 1t
turn up again.
One of the basic troubles with
Rowland Leigh's adaptation of Lii
Hatvany's play is the terrible
change that has come over the word
daring in the last decade. In a
world where civilians are bombed
into boredom, an opera singers
decision to pick up gigolo over
night to get fire into her singing
looks neither brave. nor desperate.
And when it is preceded by a
terrific barrage of inane dialogue to
prepare the public for the climactic
shock, it is the authors own fault
when the audience thinks nuts"
That's what approximately 1-1260th
of the audience thought, at least.
With another book, Robert Stolz
music might have had real chance
to demonstrate that it is quite pleas
ant as music seems to be going
these days. 1t is very nicely in the
mood of love, far less silly love
than that which shippers through
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-12
Even in Hourglass Garb,
Olivia Gets Her Man
Corset and High Yellow Footwea,
Cannot Dim Her Fascination,
But Mention of Beaus Does

HOLLYWOOD.
Make-believers at work:

MakebeneVerS
family familiar girl
the perky white hat the dress and the shoes
they said waving a
general a milling
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-12

the activities of the talented cast.
One leaves with the suspicion that
no matter what happens to the play,
the theme number, Tonight or
Never" is going to be a popular
night club serenade before the win
ter's over. Without You" is an
other of Stoz's contributions to the
evening which has threnodic quail
ity that makes it a candidate for
some degree of endurance.
The people who struggle with
Leigh's creaking charade have one
of the most thankless jobs Of the
season. Miss Gleason, who left the
Metropolitan to sing it, does hand
somely by Stolz's music, especially
that which gets into the upper reg
lister of her voice. It demonstrates
that the human voice does not need
that Internal machine into which 1t
has been singing so much lately.
Miss Errolle is another who deals
adequately with her vocal assign
ments. but honors of the evening 20
to Miss Namara, whose lusty MIN
ing of rich living old prima donna
is backed up with some operate ex-
cerpts which turn out simply grand.
They stop the show.
Lodge, brother to Senator Henry
Cabot, jr., is called upon for a
minimum of performance in the
role of a handsome brute who can
teach an opera singer to live, LIVE!
1t is not even necessary to know
his skill through his European mo-
ton pictures to realize he is far too
good an actor to get even a weak
workout in his Love Me Tonight"
role.
Watson Barratts settings are an
other detail to which the plot is
not up.
1t must be beginning to sound
like weak plot by this time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-12
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage.
NatiOnal-"Night of Love" new
musical with Helen Gleason and
John Lodge: $50 pm.
Screen.
Palace-"The Great Dictator, "
Charlie Chaplin looks at today;
10:45 I'M, 100, AIS, SIS and GAO
pm.
Keith's-'Long Voyage Home" "
down to the sea with John Ford ::
ll:l5 am, lis, 800, $40, 7:25 and
$50 pm.
Earle-"Dispatch From Reuters. -
story of news agency: II am. 1:40,
AIS. ITO and 9:55 pm. Stage
shows: 1855, $40, 625 and 9:10
pm.
Metropolitan ABE Lincoln in
Illinois," distinguished film account
OF his earlier years: II am, los,
$40, $50, 7:25 and $40 pm.
Capitol - "Hullabaloo," musical
starring Frank Morgan: II am,
Las. 4;30, tbs and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 1926, 800, sos and 8:55
pm
CoIumbia-"The WeSterner," Gary
Cooper VS.. Judge Bean: Ills am,
lis, 800. $50, 7;35 and 9;45 pm.
Little-"The Bakers Wife" who
runs away and causes crisis in this
bright French film: IL am. 12:45,
2:30, AIS, 6, 7:55 and $50 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-12

like these on men in all my life"
Yes, that was her voice all right
We suddenly realized that the girl
next to us was one of our favorite
Hollywood people, Olivia de Havil-
land, done up as belle Of the
early 19O0s. The hat, the corseted
figure, the spotted dress and the
funny shoes had disguised her ef-
fectively-for the moment.
Found all of what?" we asked.
'All of those awfully funny straw
hats the men are wearing" she said,
with the strings and ribbons on
them. And the peg-top trousers
and the quaint shoes and those
dreadfully gay shirts"
You're not so, er-calmly dressed.
yourself" we ventured. Those
polka dots and those high-yalla
shoes and that hiatt"
Olivia grinned. What's the mat
ter with this hat?" she demanded.
I'm told it was very smart when
you were young"
That isn't kind" we snapped.
But, forgetting the remark. where
did you find those high-button shoes
you are wearing? They look brand
new"
They are" Olivia agreed, hold
ing up one of her funny -shod feet
for closer inspection. That is,
they've never been worn before and
they were doubtless regarded ais
beautiful shoes when they were
made. The studio wardrobe de-
partment found them and others
we wear in the picture on the shelves
Of an old store in Nevada.
They fit perfectly and they're
comfortable. That's more than
can say for this corset. 1t makes
my waist 3 inches smaller and,
with the padding around my
shoulders and hips, is supposed TO
give me the true hourglass figure
that was the latest thing at the
beginning of the century. If you
don't mind, III stand up. 1 get all
lumpy sitting down"
The milling crowd of grotesque-
looking bit players and extras, along
with Jimmy Cagney, Jack Carson
Jimmy's successful rival for the
hand of Rita Hayworth), Alan Hale
and George Tobias. were called to
order before the gangplank of an
excursion steamer by Director
Raoul Walsh.
1t was. Walsh explained. to be a
gay. but somewhat disgruntled
crowd, worked up to an indignant
pitch because Cagney and Carson
had sold several times as many
tickets as there were places on the
boat. Olivia was to be one of the
angrier ones. She stepped into
position when an assistant motioned
her to come into camera range.
We fired a final question.
do you get your man in this,
olivia"
She gave us a "look" Il always
get my man, don't you know that?"
she said In pictures, that is. I
haven't missed one. If you don't
believe me, look over the record"
That did leave an opening. How
about your private life?' We per-
sisted.
Olivia flushed, then grinned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-12
First Candlelight
Concert Is Presented
BY ELENA DE SAYN.

A rainy afternoon yesterday did
not deter a considerable gathering
Of music lovers from attending the
first candlelight concert of the an
nual series sponsored by the Wash
ington Chamber Music Society at
the Phillips Memorial Gallery.
As of old, the Pro- Musica String
Quartet, with a slight change in its
personnel-the viola being repre-
sented by Bernard Milofsky this
Season-was the chief performer.
Milton Schwarz and Jeno Sevely,
violinS, and William Brennand.
cello. completed the membership.
The group had the assistance of
George Wargo, viola, and Howard
Mitchell, cello, in the Brahms Sex
tet in B Flat Major, OPP. g. one of
the two works presented.
The sextet proved best suited to
the orchestral quality of tone char
acteristic Of this group, which
draws considerable volume from its
instruments, often, however, at the
expense of roundness of tone. The
rich harmonization of this vital
work. influenced by classical form,
found valiant representation. The
"Andante' movement. consisting of
elaborate variations on a familiar
theme by Corelli. gave an opportu-
nifty for individual stechnical dis
play which showed the six players,
and especially the first viola, to the
best advantage. While on the whole
the first violin predominated
throughout the work, at the expense
OF finer details of ensemble, Mr.
Schwarz's playing was noted for
greater abandon and animation
The group was especially pleasing
in the "Scherzo,' where concerted
effort was intended by the COM
poser.
AS to the Boccherini Quartet No.
II, OPP. rs, No. 2, in D Minor" this
prolific composer, born nearly 200
years ago, might have taken excep-
ton to the certain robustness with
which his opus was treated yester-
day afternoon. While modern in
struments are characterized by
greater brilliancy of tone than those
of a couple of centuries ago, the
works of old masters serve, as rule,
as an excellent medium for the cul-
tivation of wider range of dy-
namics and of suave mezzo-voce
tone. The Pro- Musica String Quar-
tet gave an animated reading to the
work which concluded with a ca
denza for the first violin and found
a ready response in their hearers.
The group was enthusiastically ap-
plauded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-12
Escape to Glory

Columbia's Passage West" star
ring Pat O'Brien and Constance
Bennett, will be released as Escape
to Glory" according to an announce
ment made by Producer Sam Bis
choh.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-12

News. to see if she could enter the
Paramount Search for Beauty
contest
Rosenfield looked at his watch.
But he had looked at Ann first and
the fact that she had arrived
minutes late and that the contest
was officially closed has never both.
cred his conscience then or since.
His watch, he suggests, almost al
ways runs fast.
In any event, Ann played her
lunches then and has kept on play
ing them in Hollywood. She had 4
bunch to stay in the film colony,
she recalls, after her first option was
not renewed. She weathered two
discouraging and financially lean
years before her luck turned
Nearly Is years ago. James Gag
ney, then hoofer on the tank
town circuit, came to Hollywood on
hunch that he belonged there.
He didn't aim very high. He only
wanted extra work and he brought
along letters of introduction which
said he ought to be given a chance
as an extra. The letters did no
good He didn't get inside single
studio. He and his young wife
worked their way back to New York,
forgetting everything ecept Jimmy's
bunch that he could be a motion
picture actor.
A number of years later he went
to Hollywood with a contract and
with his original bunch intact. The
motion picture industry has paid
dearly for its early indifference to
his talents and he is now one OF its
highest paid and most popular stars.
Bette Davis had her lunches sec
ond-hand. Her mother always had
them and they were always sensible
and lucky. Bette came to Holly
wood deliberately after signing a
contract with Universal. She stayed
there for a week, after her option
was dropped. because it was rainy.
She considered that lucky and Mrs.
Davis had a bunch. Before the
week was over Bette had signed a
contract with Warner Bros. and
was rehearsing for her role opposite
George Arliss in The Man Who
Played God"
Bette's appearance in the sensa-
tional "Of Human Bondage" some
years ago was made on bunch of
her own. Her two Academy Award
winning pictures, however, were
enthusiastically approved by her
mother. Hunch by bunch Bette
and her mother have built the
Davis career to a point where she
is considered the most important
feminine star of the screen.
Enrol Flynn is another Warner
star who followed will O. the wisp
to Hollywood because he had a
bunch the end of the rainbow and
its pot of gold might be found there.
He found it and is continuing to
find 1t again and again with each
new picture.
lunches. it might be added, seem
to be important only when held by
people with an abundance of self
confidence. A majority Of the stars
and featured players Of today have
succeeded as they have because they
had ability, plus self-confidence,
plus determination, plus a bunch
they would succeed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-12

this picture whether he wants me
or not. Usually I get Enrol Flynn
but always I marry somebody. Look
at the record"
(Released by the North American
NovspApsr Alliance, Inc.)