The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1928, Page 3

\L\\s Shown Twice Ia.uh LAUGH AND (,R()W FAT This Feature Twice Each 7:30 and 9:40 P. M. at This Feature Once Only Each’ Night at 8:45 P. M. the marvelous ho: PETE MORRISON in ‘THE ESCAPE The thrilling cutdoor story of a plucky cowboy who single-handed prevented a bank robbery, outfought the bandits and won the heart of a true danghter of the Great West. Brilliantly supported by the famous “Lightnin’,” rse, TWO UP-TO-DATE FEATURES FOR ONE PRICE 10-—25—50—Loges 60 cents ORCHESTRA CONCERT FROM 7 TO-7:15 FEATURING “Aida-March” from G. Verdi’ s Opera, and Serenade from “Les Millions d Arlequin” by B. Drigo. For Sunday—RAMON NOVARRO, star of “Ben Hur,” star of ‘“Mare ALICE TERRY, and Nostrum,” in “LOVERS,” based on “The World and His Wife.” —— Attractions At Theatres il v’ Y TWO FEATURES ARE | y I o SHOWING AT PALAGE | =¥ Another cyclone of laughs with | Jean Hersholt as its instigator and mniastér of ‘ceremonies, is en- tertaining- audiences at, the Pal- ace Theatre. . Its title is “The Wrong Mr. Wright,” and its purpose is to furnish 'laughter to every man, woman and child with a sense of huror. It is riotously funny-- funnier than any picture to be shown here in many a day. Imagine, if you can, Jean Her- sholt, heretofore portrayer of seri- ous and semi-serious roles, cavort- ing on- the screen as a fuil- fledged comedian. Somebody should be blamed for not “dis- covering” him as a comedian years ago. This feature is shown tweie each night. Bank robberies, thrilling rides, gun-fights, all liberally supplied with an admixture of drama and comedy, is the splendid concoc- tion offered in “The Escape,” the ‘x{‘fllt mnestmnk Western star- riag Pete Morrison, the other fea- %:rq of Mnblam The pic- re: js” fon of the popular " Mguzine -stefy by L. V! Jefferson. 'f'"ml.l.s OF KENTUCKY” ;‘- | . SHOWING AT GCOQLISEUM “Hills ot Kentucky,” was.greet- ed by a large audience which found the story almost as suspen- sive as “The Night Cry,” also | with Rin-Tin-Tin, which was shown at'the Coliseumi some time ago. . A little girl again 1is the cause of the suspense; she had befriended Rin-Tin-Tin, who ‘s given the part of a roving sav- age dog, member of a pack of other savage dogs, d is shown saved from' being . devoured the pack by the timely arrival &f Rin-Tin-Tin, who stood the wolves |* Other |« oft until help had arrived. mse is created by the vil- lain’ Rin“Tin“Tin. In one situation the villain is shown tracing Rin-Tin- Tin to the heroine’s home; the mnn. is temse when he en- ters while Rin-Tin-Tin Hes in bed with his little pal, covered ovor attempts to shoot to kil| - | BIG FEATURE AT PALACE ON SUNDAY \ . i The enemy mankind cannot see, cannot fight, and cannot con- quer, scandal, is the villain of the most 1emcckable play in years, 58| “Lovers,” ac¢ the Palace Sunday, with Ramon Novarro and i Perry} YThe {new Metro-Gold | Mayer drama, a vivid story of modern Spain, has no villain save the scandal which wrecks fa ilies, ruins the honor of a beau ful, woman, and results in one o the most dramatic situations ever played on the sereen. John M. | Stahl directed the mew play. | \ “SIR LUMBERJACK” AT \ | COLISEUM TOMORROW | il -2 Many things not included in the curriculum of a rich man’s son | may happen to a wealthy young wastrel .who suddenly finds him self dropped, in tramp's clothing, into the middle of one of his father's logging camps. The ef- forts of Lefty Flynn to establish his identity, and the thrills which follow the first actual “work” he Ihnd ever done in his life, keept “Sir Lumberjack,” F. B. 0.8 la- test production starring the for- mer Yale athlete, moving at top speed. “Sir Lumberjack,” comes to the Coliseum Theatre for Sat- urday only. —— LEGION GIVES MIXER NEXT TUESDAY JAN. 31 A get-together mixer will be theld at the local American Le- gion Post Dugout next Tuesday night, January 31, it was an- nounced today. The mixer was decided upon and preliminary. ar- rangements made last night at ‘the regular meeting of the Post. The mixer will be for members 'of the Post and the Auxiliary and their friénds. According to plans now underway for the event it wjll be a successful party and a large crowd is expected to attend. SERBIAN SOCIETY I’ROGRAH TONIGHT In commmnmm of those who have put literature to the front in /Serbia, the Serbian.So- clety wllll hold its annual cele- 'bration this evening at 8 o'clock in the Moose Hall, and ali Ser- ‘bians and their families are in- afi? Rin-Tin-Tin , who had lbnpod 'fvlud Featuring the program to be iven will be a play from a book| tory of whose revolving around the ;the Archduke Ferdinan —eto——— M. Bothwell, local broker, o has been in the States J a passenger aboard | ris, | terday morning | ed | harder | gangs back of this outrage.” | organization, |ted by DEFY MADE BY BOMBERS IS ACCEPTED Chicago Administration| Picks Up Threat of Bomb Ouhage CHICAGO, mite defy ]m that The dyna- hombers laid on the doorstep of the home of City | Comptroller C former C arles F. Fitzmor- f of Police, has been snatch- City Administra- up the n by ayor Thompson sai direct challenge We accept t is over the SOTTY. We than ever to “This om the it When challengers will work break the awle will “ be LEGION POST MEETS TWICE EACH MONTH A change in the by-laws auth- orizing regular meetings to be held twice each month instead of once as heretofore, was adopt- ed by Alford John Bradford Post No. 4, American Legion at the regilar meeting last night at the Dugout The Legion hereafter will meet on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month. The interest taken by members of the Post during the last few months in Legion activities ne- cessitates two meetings each month to properly handle the business which comes before the it was said COSTUME DANCES OF INDIANS TUESDAY Indian costume dance is given next Tuesday even- ing, January 31, in the A. N. B. Hall it was announced today. These dances are to be interpre- 35 persons while a play. ““The Chief’s Daughter,” is to be enacted by 14 persons. For more than 25 years the An to be dances have been abandoned and nothing has been heard of them, but through such occasional pro- grams as the one to be given Tuesday it is hoped they will be revived. Ketchikan Boy Escapes; Leaves Barney Google Note VANCOUVER, Wash:, Jan. 27. —Forcing himself through a ven- tilator aperature in his cell in the basement of the Clark County Court House last nighc¢, Ravmond Moran, of Ketchikan, Alaska, aged 19 years old, worked his way up three and one half stories through a brick air shaft to the roof and escaped undetected from the County Jail. Moran left a note, cut with a razor blade, saying: “Hope you don’t feel hurt.” Moran did mot disturb the other prisoers. He was being held on a charge of grand lar- ceny for the alleged theft of an automobile, [ERMECHPNS. S ¢ THE EMPIRE HAS THE LARG EST, MOST UP-TO-DATE ANI BEST EQUIPPED JOB PB]NT!N( PLANT IX ALAS! yes-! Civil war in China has practically wiped out the ancient walled city of Chochow, about forty miles | troops operating modern equipment. Photo shows at top Manchurian during slege; eral Tsur Tso-Hua, commander of besicging force from Peking, The town was being held by Shansi wroops and Machurian forces after seventy days of fighting were able to reduce the town to ruins with scene, ‘R(ulto Message (Inlnrhnflonll valre!l) G s Is for “Mac” IN GULOMBIA {In North Wastes CHICAGO, Jan. 27. “Hello {Mac,” that is the salutation that ldrifts out of loud speakers in| at-|countless . homes on Thursday rived here from Colon at 2 o'clock [nights, as it wings its way to yesterday afternoon, making (hu one man in the cabin of flight in a little more than four hours, a" distance of 400 miles." ('Ih\RTA(.hA\A, (u]nmh..\. Col. Charles A. Lindbe: Ja: in station WJAZ, in Chicago,| Bugepg F: MeDonald,, , Chicuga |, French aviators, Costes and sportSman, ‘explorer un(‘ Presi- Brix arrived here from Colon yes-|dent of the Zenith Radio Cor- terday afternoon, having made the ‘poration,’ talks to (‘nmmafider 900 mile hop in approximately 8% ! Dons ald Macmillan. hours. Nearly 3,000 persons wel-| ————— comed them. GUATEMALA CITY, Jan. 27 {FAIRBANKS CONSUMERS Af’a recent meeting of the Fa'r- | banks City Council, the Northern | Commercial Company made for- by mal application for a new fran- chise for an electric light and power franchise, saying it desi ed to modernize -its present plant | and ayxt.em and did not feel jusii- | .rations into the Klamath Basin | fled in going ahead unless it was | in Oregon. |assured of another franchise, A S R e, } THe rates offerefl for the first WHY SURE! THE PRESIDENT yvear«by the company were: Will be out all winter, warm and| Electric power, 121 cents per :omfortable. Just Phone 257. kilowatt. Sob Turner. —adv.| FElecttic Hght: First 50 kilo- | watts, 22 cents per kilowatt; sec- \ldnnersmrllien! The nmpln f)ml 50 kflowntts. 21 cents per Creat Northern to— Build Into Oregon| Jan, 27.—Fin- WASHINGIUN, al orders have been issued the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion under which the Great| Northern Railway may proceed with the plan of extending op- CLASS OF SERVICE a ship| frozen in the wastes of Labrador. ! Standing before the microphone | ILOWER RATES OFFERED| Left inset is one of many of Shansi dea | are some of the wounded being earried from the I kilowatt; third 50 kilowatts, | cents per kilowatt; fourth 50 kilo ‘wzns, 19 cents per kilowa:r; fifth 50 kilowatts, 18 cents per | kilowatt; sixth 50 kilowatts, 17 cents per kilowatt. All consumption | watte, 12% cents | flat. No charge will be made for m> ters. The current rates at Fairbanks are three cents . per. kilowatt for | light and two and one-half cents | for power, apd x 20 or less kilo- | watts mre "tusel {any month a meler charge ol $1 is made. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF FAIRBANKS ADDS TO STOCK The stockholders of the First National Bank of Fairbanks re- icently voted to imcrease its capi- | tal stotk by $50,000, making the ‘mtal issue $100,000. The surplus | remains at the old figure, §50,000. | The purpose was to “place behind | the business of the institution a over 300 ki per | munity unexcelled banking facili- |ties and to further increase the security of its depositors,” said an official bank statemeént. | Mrs. Melvin Eid, wife of the druggist at Britt's Pharmacy, left Seattle yesterday morning on the Alameda, bound for Juneau. She and Mr. Eid -will make their home here. WESTERN This is' a full-rate Telegram or Cablegram unless its character UNION is indicated by a symbol in the check or in the NEWCOMB CARLTON, J. C. WILLEVER, Vice. Presldent SYMBOLS Day Letter Night Message Night Letter Deferred Cable Letter Wosk Lnd Letter Blue NITE NL LCO CLT WLT The illlng time is shown in thn date line on full-rate telegrams and day letters, uml the time of recemt at dullnluon as shown on all messages, is STANDARD TIME. CHICAGO ILLINOIS ALAS A ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER CO. JUNEAU - ' ALASKA WE ISSUE THE FOLLOWING CHALLENGE TO ALL MAKERS OF RADIO SETS AND THE DEALERS HANDLING THEM STOP UNDER IDENTICAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND CONDI-' TIONS AND TAKING OUR VARIOUS MODELS IN THEIR PROPER GRADE WE CHALLENGE ANY MAKE OF RADIO RECEIVER TO EQUAL OR SURPASS ZENITH PERFORMANCE IN QUALITY OR QUANTITY OF TONE SELECTIV- ITY SENSITIVITY DISTANCE EASE OF OPER. ATION PRECISION OF MANUFACTURER OR GENERAL ALL AROUND PERFORMANCE. ZENITH RADIO CORPORATION Maskw Electrid Light & Power Co., Agents, Juneau, Alaska, . Zenith Products, Zenith Radio Sets sell for $100.00 and npwards. Oatalogues and further dats om application. IIIIlIIIII LT inset on right, is Gen- | 20| kilowatt | larger capital to afford the com- |] 3 d IIIIIIIlIIIIIIII|IlllIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIHIMII:. T—O0—N—I—G-H-T 9:25 LATEST \hus PATHE REVIEW CUR GANG IS WITH US in “MONKEY Bl \INESS“ RIN TIN TIN “HILIS OF KENTUCKY?” +t All Yor Cue of t! Aiound Shows Yome Time WE RECOMMEND IT 10—20—60—1.0(“ 60c WNERE YO U S8k u?-:‘;A NMENY SATURDAY | “SIR LUMBER- } “THE PASSIONATE JACK” fi ¢ QUEST” " IIIIIIIIlll!llIIIIIIlIlllIlllllllllllllIIIIIIHHIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHMHNIIII YOUR SATURDAY DANCE is the cne dance you intend to enjoy. We are giving you a.new combination inm ‘the Moonlight Serenaders this week. PIANO SAXAPHONE BANJO CORNET TROMBONE DRUMS We are also issuing a ticket to those attending which is pod for five dances at 75 cents cach dance held at the lower floor, commencing February 4th. SUNDAY Hear Murphy on Clarinet Moonlight Serenaders A. B. HALL SATURDAY NIGHT Right after the basketball game Admission $1.00 ettt e et PLUMBING HEATING REPAIRING If your pipes arc frozen, or you are im nud‘ o uy kind ’“‘ Plumbing or Heating you will t by calling STEVE STANW! A’ your service at any hour, “Let me tell you what your job will cost” Plone 505 Shop 215, rear Hdrris Hardware Co: SPECIAL SALE 'ON WINDOW SHADES AT JUNEAU PAINT STORE eonfa“g...nu gD to their coal dling Have us deliver you ,u address and note bettor heat and M fir you have. Wauldn't ask you' to do this it it cost more, 't. It teally costs less an¢ teia) il preve it e ofvry a fuli 7 of Feedss b. B. FEALMER PACKERS and PROVISIONERS QUALITY MEATS Featuring Frye’s Delicious Hams and Bacon and Frye'’s Baby Beef FRYE-BRUHN COMPANY PHONE 38 “CHEERFUL” COMBINATION Wood and Coal AT A REDUGED PRICE FOR ONE WEEK ONLY -