The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 17, 1929, Page 3

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSD. S ) ——OVERTURE PALACE ORCHESTRA “SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS” and “STUDENT PRINCE” Special Selections STARTS TONIGHT PICKETT? PAILACE \ Deliciously and Adorably TR T Ty s e - lllIIIlIHIIII"IIIIHIIIIllIllIl|!IIIIlllIllllllI!IllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllI|II{IHllllllllmllujlllllIlllpllilllllllllIIH!‘IH"II“I" kind, Mr. Editor: you can do of your ] 1 Dear, good, VIsn’t ther omething | th h the columns jpaper on behalf of a group of soul-distressed ls—the Poor Radio Owners, the Juneau Sauealers’ mor Society. There has been go much said; more desperate things thought andy most despairing rs uttered, that we hesitate to even mention the subject; yet we are hoping against hope that t rticle may do good, inasmuch as it is {not a threat, not a bawl-out, but just an honest-to-gosh appeal f: a group of radio owners and m 3 lovers who like to don their com- bath robes fill some fortahle up th {old p pull up the easy chs |and drift away in bliss to the charm of the radio, (when it is| inot punctured by soulfrying | screams and moans from the damned)—anyway, that is the | we feel about it, and the way it sounds to us. Aw, come on, now you owner of a home-made set, or any set that is not standard and which you guiltily feel “might squeal,” give us and ear and “have a heart.” Listen to reason for a minute and see if we can't solve this problem in some 1 In the first place: tion of value tion to money spent. you, Mr. Radio Squealer, to ps one-tenth the amount an owner of! a non-squealing set pays for hi then “hog the air” for an entire evening, and justify yourself? The fellow who has plunked out his 250 or 00 for a decent radio is stuck, It réceived is in is it fair for a ques- propor- is a que ibution of enjoyment you, Mr. Squealer, tune in tation, you and you alone, that station and lord master of all you survey un- you graciously sce fit to “get let the other fellow You don't believe it? Last night, was hooked work with (Chicago. conditions were and the music floated in the delight of the listeners who probably had Chicago for the first time. Suddenly the lovely strains of “I Love You Truly,” were! When on a and til of and athe. example: Seattle, bri An KJR net casting in d- up Br AN APPEAL TO “AIR HOGS,” OWNERS OF “SQUEALER” RADIOS i this town can be traced down by station as bombed and interrupted when the sfucalers crashed in, and the hymn of love turned to one of in- tense disgust and hate And you, Mr. Squealer, held the air, enjoy- ed the program while your music bex shrieked and howled for all the rest of us, who wearily de- cided it was no use to break our ear-drums, and were forced to turn to another station, and listen to the cheap strains of “I Get Myself Somebody to Love.” We ask you, Mr. Squealer, is it fair for you to the air—for you to have the station, the rest of us, (some 400 in number) are automatically shut out? n may voice the oh Thirdly: Y it you a standard, even though y b home made, or a mail or one that your Aunt ave you, last Xmas, or one that your ncle Hezekiah who died at Hoo- nah willed to you—-you may say that it does not squeal Such reasoning is silly. The only au- thority that -would justify you to make such a statement is the word of the Local Radio Testing Depart- ment after they have made a thor. ough test of your machine and pro- nounced it “offenseless. Would you be willing to have your ma- chine tested? Or are you going to be unfair because you know it doesn’t squeal, and you hesitate to ace the truth? Lastly: When you operate a ma- chine that squeals, you are il- legally operating a miniature broadcasting station. You are sending out waves and calls, and unless you have a license to do s0, you are breaking the law, and are liable to fine. v et in means of a local testing apparatus, and after-consequences could be unpleasant, but we are hoping to appeal to the justice, the fairness and reason of the owners of the squealing sets in the hope that they will see our argument and ist us in solving our problem Thanks ever so mu Mr. Squealer, for what you can do for not “doing,” and thank you, sditor, for your kind tion. Pleadingly, “400 Non-Squealing Radio Juneau, Alaska, January 16, and Stan Laurel . . with Oliver Hardy in “THE FINISHING TOUCH” ALL COMEDY SHOW 10—25—50—Loges 60 cents Coming Sunday Matinee — GEORGE SID- NEY and CHARLIE MURRAY in (11 4 4 29 The Life of Riley OO SR OARRDO O |lishea after some difficulty and - !Miss Moore changed dresses thres Attract:ons {times before the scene was mad jto the entire satisfaction of Direc {tor Millard Webb. Other supporting players in this At Theatres I('Umml_\', which has an exclusive Eastern finishing school as the PRI 3| locale of some of the story, include | HAROLD LLOYD AT Claude Gillingwate Hallam Coo- | COLISEUM TONIGHT |ley, Kathryn McGuire, Edythe B . & Chapman and Clarissa Selwynne. Lovers of the great cutdoors have a treat in store for them | CHARIIE MURRAY | when Harold Lloyd’s next gloom AT PALACE SUNDAY | chaser, “The Kid Brother,” comes to the ‘Coliseum tonizat, because| Charlie. Mur: the greater portion of fhe pictiireycomedy characterization in which, was made in the open spaces ()f][hrnugh yea on stage and the California . The Lasky Ranch ir Dark Canyon, just outside of Hol- lywood, provided a large mgasure of the locale in “The Kid Brother,” while the beautiful waters of Ava- lon Bay also provided their quota of “shots.” The story of “The Kid Brother” is set in a tiny town nestling in the screen, he, has proved himself the funniest man in pictures. He's coming to the Palace Theatre Sun- day in just that sort of role! In “The Life of Riley,” in which he is co-featured with George Sid- iney, Murray is a small-town fir chief, inventor of a fire extinguish- : it ’ ler. 'Sidney is the Chiet of Police Hletion ""!’;x"":ée i‘“’"i Jetslof the same village. Both the B i 9 reotyped feud{ g, s comies love the fascinat- yarn, which has been done to death in motion pictures, and throughout the entire picture not a gun is ing widow, played by Myrtle Sted- man. The plot starts from there and ged. Als SN 4 DAmAR: fnterostly vor pauses for an instant to dish comedy, ripe with carefully cor- pe . {up laughs and thrills, Of course related romance, drama, and with| there is a villain; a novel and in- teresting type of photographer, shell-game operator and slicker, en- thrills, the type of plot in which the bespectacled comedian revels. Harold is back in the Sympa-i, ...’y sam Hardy. The princi- thetic type of characte tion s 3 p 30 el pal romance is distinctly comedic which was so- popular in “The in nature, but there is a youthful affair between June Marlowe and | Stephen Carr, that is full of heart throbs and wistful sweetness. Freshman,” “Girl Shy,” “Grandma’s Boy,” and other of his most suc- cessful pictures. i That “The Kid Brother” will he| oo eB b ¥. M. Asher produced “The Life| SR e g of Riley”.for First National Pic- o o e BAYED J9N0 1T tures. The story was written for Pafamount’s current release ac claim it as being in a class with Harold’s best. 'What more could any audience possibly ask of a picture? “The Prodigal Bridegroom,” star- ring Ben Turpin, will be another feature of the bill. Ben, engaged to Lizzie Boone who loves him with the tender devotion of a porus plaster, is sent to the big city to sell the big butter and egg crop. En route home he meets up with his Nemesis in the per- son of Gertie Gray, a dangerous curve ahead—or anywhere else— and thereby hangs a tale and one of the funniest Ben has turned out the famous fun combination, Sid- ney and Murray, by Mann Page. Japanese See World Being Americanized (Continuea rrom Page One.) modern journalism, motor cars, jazz, radio, popular literature, all ithese ideas about rights of wom- en, the spread of irrelegion, the decline of philosophy, the mania for gold? All these we have tak- en from America. American ideas control the world in all phases of 3 civilization. Europe still holds A fl‘d' American culture in contempt, i and most Japanese ape Europe in ALL-COMEDY SHOW Ithis respect, without realizing that we are all America’s slaves materially and intellectually.” And all to no good end, says Mr. Murobuse. He' bewails the decline of the genteel civiliza- tion of the nineteenth century, the passing of aristocratic' so- | AT PALACE TONIGHT “ - It's a big comedy show at the Palace tonight and for the remain- dér of the week. Tirst there is Collgen ' Moore in “Naughty Buf Nice” and then the comedy kings,|Ciety, the coming of mass produc- Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in tion, mass thinking, mass living. the tworeeler: “The Finishing !N all the degeneration he de- Touch ™' * ’ 8cribes, the world is taking its The Palace orchestra will also|ue from the United States, the be in the and give a speciall 2T¢h type” of the new age of concert of well-’known overturen;!“mhmg materialism. —r—— and play both shows. Splashing mud in the face of af ., HARD TIME DANCE ~ girl"may ot bé'a Nrst°clads #lro-| oy Nrooee Hall, Saturday night, duetion, but it sometimes Works. ' |yonuare 19th.’ Ladies are re. ‘ That's. the way Colleen Moore|g,eqteq to wear aprons. Every- and Donald "Reed, ' Hollywood's body welcome. Moonlight Seren- newest, and one of its handsomest| aders have been engaged with leading man,’ the ‘heroine and hero|some good music with a kick that of the attraction, “Naughty, Buf will make the dance something Nice,” are brought together. |to be remembered. At Moose Hall, The filming of this scene in'January 19th. —adv. Miss Moore’s newest First Nation-} —————— 8l starring picture was accomp-!01d papers for sale at the Empire EKA By KIRKE L. SIMPSON WASHINGTON, Jan 17— When February 2 next rolls| around and the Senate opens for| the day’s business, without doubt | it will halt proceedings to do honor again to its senior em- ployee, Theodore F. Shuey, dean | of that hard driven corps of| stenogaphers known as the “Of- ficial Reporters of the Debates of | the Senate.” { It will be the birthday anni- versary of this sturdy octogemar- ian, but more than that, it will| mark his completion of 60 years of unbroken service as a Senate reporter. - There is no parallel in the Government service anywhere so far as the Bystander knows, and |in ecalling attention to the an*} nivesary last year Vice-President Dawes pointed out that Shuey in more than 59 years “has never missed a day on duty because of illness.” Kept Young by Work On that occasicn, Dr. Cope- land, Senator from New York, seized the opportunity to deliver a homily on the folly of too early retirement. ““The man who retires from ac- tive life is the man who dies,” Dr. Copeland asserted. “If Mr. Shuey had retired ten years ago he would have been buried five years since, but now he is a young man, keeping his youth by striving to do his work every day. 1If he has served the Senaté 59 years I am convinced he must | have started here the day he was!| born because he does not look to me to be more than 59.” Not to be outdone, the late Senator Willis of Ohio pointed out that Shuey had fought in| the Union ranks at Gettysburg, | with the father of the Viceé- President. All of which has very striking, the more so in that Shuey him- self, with pen poised, sat to take the record of what was sail. He was utterly unprepared to hear himself made the subject of the “Debates of the Senate.” He is & modest man. It's very difficult to get him groping amid his memories although he has record- ed time and ‘agaiu debates of historic significance. For the first time in his pro- fessional career, this sudden in- troduction of himself ' into the ghorthand hyrogliphics he was setting down swept him off his feet. He didn’t know what he was writing and a grinning col- league with knowledge of what was to come actually reported lxho debate from ambush behind 1 \AASHINGION BYSTANDER the expansive back of a Senator. Ancther Veteran Shuey is by no means the only long service member of the Sen- ate staff. A number of the per manent corps of workers go back more than a gquarter century. Several have become non-political fixtures because of their incalcu- lable value. Such is Kennedy F. Rea, long Chief of Staff of the Senate ap- propriations chairmen, who prob-| ably knows more of the details of Govenment money bills than| any living man. "It is his func-| tion to: sit at the elbow of his chief, Warren of Wyoming, or| of any committee chairmen lead- | ing an appropriation bill, fight| on the floor. He is a walking reference book on every detail of every bill - BANK DIRECTOR IS | VISITING IN ALASKA| W. H. Benton, of Minneapolis Minn,, ‘director in the Bank of Alaska, 1éft on the Margnita for Skagway after having spent sev-| eral days in Juneau, a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. Mr. Benton has been making annual trips to Alagka for the| past 12 years and said that with| each trip he finds scme new im- provement. The Bank of Alaska has branches in Skagway, Ket- chikan, Arnchorage, Cordova and Wrangell. * Upon -his return: fr Skagway, Mr. "Benton will go south and visit Portland, Ore Great Falls, Mont., and California before returning to his home in Minneapolis. It was only recently that Mr.| Benton made a combined business | and pleasure trip to Europe Lately, he had booked passage on a steamer sailing for Aus-| tralia but was forced to postponc | this trip until a later date. | ———.——— CAPT. DAVIS AND WIFE OFF TO soumi Capt. and Mrs. J. Davis with| their daughter Jacques, left for| the south on the steamer North western and will be away fro Juneau for one to two months. Th trip is a combined business and vacation trip, for Capt. Davis is to atfend to certain business mat ters and Mrs. Davis is to visit with friends and will probably recciv medical treatment before return ing to Juneau. - e, WE MAKE ESLARGEMENTS Alaska Scenic Views adv. Some Star, By Heck! REPORT FOCH 1S IMPROVING ?,Clemcnceafi N(;w QOut of Danger—King's Con- dition Satisfactory PARIS, Jan. 17. — Word .that Marshal Foch is somewhat better was given out by physicians after ¢ long ccnsultation. The bull tin sald slight improvement was noted. Georges Clemenceau is making good progress and no longer con- siders himself as “under the weather.” He still coughs but his head is clear and he is able to sleep. LONDON, Jan. 17.—The King's ProgT toward recovery is most satisfactory to date, according to today's bulletin. UNEAU IS PARADISE AND SNELLS RETURN Mi Jjames Sne AN ren, Marjorie Jane and James, arrived in Juneau Sunday night on the Princess Mary. Mrs. snell and her family have just re turned from South Wales, K |land. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Snell left Ju-| nedu last July for a trip to Eng land, but Mr. ‘Snell returned here last October. On November 22, Mrs her two children left S mpton, England on the steamer Metagama Snell and for New Brunswick, Canada. En route to Juneau they stopped in London, Ontario, where they were the guests of Mrs. Snell's siste Mrs. Richard Holcomb In speaking of her trip to Eng- land, Mrs. Snell ‘said: “After wit nessing the poor living conditions n South Wales and how desperately poor the people in that locality have been gince the World War, we feel that Junean is a veritable paradise and we are very” glad to ‘be back. While in Fngland we visited relativ in Cullompton, Devonshire my' birthplace, and I had a mo enjoyable time 'remewing ol ac quaintances and talkinz to old B 8. ZYNDA ON VACATION 8. Zynda, proprietor of the Zyn da Hotel, is a passenger for So-| attle on the Northwestern Mr. Zynda is going south on vacation and will spend about a month in Seattle and adjacent cities before returning to Juneau. — .o MARTHA SOCIETY MEETS The Martha Society will hold their regular meeting Friday, January 18, at 2:30 p. m. in the ehurch parlors. M H. Andre and Mrs. W. L. Ccates will act "as hostesses. Friends and lmfilflnn are invited to come. ady AY, JAN. 17, 1929. COLISEUM Produced by the Havold Lloyd Corporation Q Paramount Release The entertainment clas- sic of the season. You won’t know your own laughing capacity until you've seen this one. And Just Look LEON F. DREWS offers “CHAf UITA” late sensation 'l alt AND BEN TURPIN in “A PRODIGAL BRIDEGROOM” LATEST IN WORLD NEWS Prices—10-20-50 cents Loges 60 cents COMING SUNDAY GLORIA SWANSON A “FINE MANNERS” “YOUR ALASKA LAUNDRY SERVICE’ [ (1 | Hoover to Talk % | for | T ) . | o Belgium, by l | : || Air, Saturday j y Cleaning and Pressing \w WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 | | His voice traveling thousands | | | of miles over the telephone | t‘ will address the celebration | In New Building on Shattack Way || at Brussells to be attended b {| by the King and Queen of THE LAUNDRY DOES IT BEST” | | Belgium. | B speak inlnl‘ ‘ - : the telephone receiver at his k % {1 Gekk 0hes b0 B6 Mutiimes NORTHERN HOTEL || Hotel headquarters or at his || s Sreet home and ai the | |{ ROOMS—50 cents per night and up; $3.00 per week and up. | | Belgian capital his voice will | | Public shower and tub baths 50 cents. Ray Oil Burmer in {| be heard by the crowd | operation—Hot water day and night. Booms $12.00 per through a medium of am- | month and up—steam heated. plifiers. | e ] WOULD ADVANCE ELECTIONS AND Chamber Favors Septem- ber Elections and Legis- lative Meets in January NOT an Insurance Policy merely but PROTECTION you put your the money bank a bank y is sound. | Your Insurance Policy might be worth more to you than your bank account—or nothing at all. | Il Reliable Insurance Dependable Service i | The Juneau Chamber of Com- today endorsed the propos merc of the Fairbanks Chamber of Com- merce to urge that elections in ska be advanced to the first i Tuesday after the first Monday in September rather than on a similar date in November as now. It furged advancing the date of the opening of the Legislature to the cond Monday in January instead | of thae first Monday in March, zu’ Allen Shattuck, Inc. INSURANCE REAL ESTATE now The earlier election date,the services of Dr. and Mrs. W, A.|tion of the rule to “bawl out” wag urged for the reason that it|Borland at Hoonah during the epi-| members for non-attendance. Ha would be at that time of year when |demic of influenza at that place|called attention, however, to the all Aleskans were on their jobs! was unanimously adoptéd. fact that four of the five members and bec the returns could bel “bawled out” at the last meeting L. D. Henderson, representing uch easier gathered whon all| - : {the Lions Club in the bowling con- portation lines 150 were present today, so he would tran were opera bl e P C try it again, and “bawled out” W. on schedule. The carlier meet-| & Wi8 "”’I" r of Com|g’ pynen, Walter G. Hellan, J. C. {merce, but who is als B] P! Z of the Legislature was urgod | *0™ o0 W8 O B0 & member| rhomas and Jack Hayes for mon- 8 {o hake the work “of |2 % e |.A.mv ‘,“ ummef(.n-, Was| attendance. Loglslature comploted - carlior iy | 28K€d to report on the status of e the season, {the contest resulting from the “ Flah fasus 1:;“;"((' ,:‘I"h”‘ hallenge. He !,q:m: STCCK QUOTATXQHS The Secretary read a letter from |20 that with one more contest to “EA j.“,‘ A .y.v;m.,,y of FI%II;‘IL;’ Ve ’f play the Lions were something iW YORK, Jan. 17.—Alaska {Owners at Seattle saying that it MOF¢ than 200 points behind” the Juneau is quoted: today at 8%, Consolidated Cigars 94%, Chrys- ler 123, Cudahy 65%, Eitigon- Schilds 38, Kennecott Copper 155, Missouri 647%, Nevada Con- | Chamber of Commerce. Nas nding 8 r sentative C il L eprosentative (0| poiowing the presentation of ashington to protest against the g the financial statement by the adoption of the Ketchi, t P lilkan pian to Secretary of the Chamber, a vote levy a tariff on American fish soli C ol 'of thanks was extended to the|SClidated 41%, Packard Motors sold at Prince Rupert and reship-i 7 s > 3 1467%, Postum 75%, Sears, Roe- ped to the United States. The let.| MeTPer® of the old Executive Com-, o3t 17y I o O o {mittee and President Wallis George | ter asked for ti B he support of 'he}fnr the fine services during last | 1395, Texas Corporation 64%, Juneau Chamber of Commerce. U. 8. Steel 172%, National Pow- | Secretary Boyle read a letter|¥°t" The motlon was offered by| .- ang Lignt 44%. Itrom U. S. Army Emgineors say-|C0l G- F. Welsel, a member of ————————— ' the new committee. {ing there would be nothing further . A. H. Pessemier, of Goldstein’s [done thic season regarding dredg- Bawling Out Absentees Emporium, who has been south on {ing Gastineau Channel, Vice-President Walmsley said|a buying trip, is homebound on i Appreciation that he had received some “bawl-'the Alameda, sailing from Seattle ! A rezolution of appreciation’ of'ing-out” on account of the adop today.