The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 12, 1929, Page 3

mmlllflllillllllIIIIlIIIIIlIlIIIlIIlIIIIlIIIlIIIIHIIlIIlllllllllllllllllfilllllIIII“h- TONIGHT INTERNATIONAL NEW'S THRILLS! Pirates of i RE-DEVIL AVIATOR /You Saw 12 Miles Out—Now See the and “PLEASE EXCUSE ME” Comedy ' Thursday—“THE MIDNIGHT SUN” i AT ARt i THRILLS! the Air! Atiractions | o o o of the yei At Theatres AT CO‘LISEUM TONIGHT One of the most stirring fights ever staged is to be seen in “The Heart of th> Yukon,” the| Pathe feature pictarc which will be the attraction the program at the ‘Coliseum tonight. Jim Hardys a pioneer in the girl rush, has struck it rich But “Cash” Gynon, a notorious saloon keeper, and Hardy's most bitter| enemy, determines to get it away | from him. Gynan also poses as| the father of little Anita. Wayne | who has come North searching for her father whom she has mnever, Although Gynon convinces | that he the man, Hardy | learns the truth, and after a wild race across the frozen snows,} catches Gynon who trying to| escape with Anita. | The two come . to . blaws on the| brink of an. almost Bottomlags | crevasse. ‘A single mistep mmns[ certain death. Back and forth 1h¢1 battle wages, and the suspense aroused by this tense moment is| guaranteed to give the most jaded movie-goer a thrill. The result, needless to say, is not unfavorable to Jim Hardy, but/| all will undoubtedly agree that it| is some fight. A fine cast appears in this force- | ful tale of the North country. John Bowers and Anne Cornwall are| featured in the cast, while others| prominent in support are Frank|/ Campeau, Eddie Hearn and Rus-| sell Simpson. ! is i is B 2 “THREE MILES UP” AT PALACE TONIGHT || | A birdman! Better thin that,| for no bird ever learned to fly up-| side down. Al Wilson, the screen’s | greatest stunt aviator, does this | in his latest picture, “Three Miles | Up;” a Western Universal, at the| Palace tonight. { This picture averages a thrill a second. There are= tail spins, tight spirals, a climb from one plane -to another, a parachute jump, a plane falling in flames and a bona fide air-battle with regular war equipment. Also there is the novelty of a plane chasing an automobile and swoop- ing down to make a hold-up and | there is a hand-to-hand fight be- tween the occupants of two planes the combatants balancing them- selves on the plane’s wings. In other words, Al Wilson has outdone himself in “Three Miles Up,” his latest picture. The whole dietionary of aviation stunts hasj been used and tonight the audi-| ence will hold its breath while this master of the air performs. In addition to the stunts, Bruce Mitchell, " the director-writer of “Three Miles Up,” has made a story of movel interest. The “members of the excellent cast render capable support, those players worthy of special mention including ' Bthlyne Clair, Willianr Malan, Frank Rice, William Clif- ford, Billy “Red” Jones. “GIRL' FROM CHICAGO" ? COMING TO COLISEUM | ‘ Manager Tuckett of the Col’i‘:’ senm Theatre, announces the com- ing of Conrad Nagel and Myrna Loy in “The Girl from Chieago,” a Warner Bros. - production, which| comes Thursday for a run of two days. 7 This is a brilliant story of the underworld and of a Southern girl who, seemingly becomes a part of thé hectic life of the City, to free! her brother from a frame-up which threatens his life. ' In the cast aré William'. Rassell,” Carrol Nye, Paul Panzer and Erville Alderson. | un rected. - “The Girl is acclaimed as great melodramas Ray Enright di From Chic THE MIDNIGHT SUN" COMING TO PALACE An Irishman in the role of Russian Grand Duke! Not so ual when it is play by Pat O'Malley, as O'Malley proves in “The Midnight Sun Universal Super-Jewel. This at pi of pre-war Russia was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and will b the attraction at the Palace Thea ter, commencing Thursda; O'Malley is one of four s pla; s who head the pictu all star cast. The others are Laura La Plante, Raymond Keane and George Seigmann. The rest of the cast is equally well balanced Among the pla ar2 Arthur Hoyt, Earl Metcalf, Mikhael viteh, Nickolo Sou nin, Radzina, Cesare Gravina, Nina Ro- mano, Daniel Makarenko, Vietor De Linsky, Charles A. Han and Willlam Von Hardenber picture is featured by a of lavish sets and dramatic tions. 5 = - 2 CAVALRY TESTING NEW TYPE SADDLE WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Hav- ing used the same type of saddle| > last 80 years, the United| States cavalry is experimenting with something new. Since the Mexican war cavalry- men have been enduring the dis- comfort of the Mexican saddle, named after Gen. George B. Mec- Clellan, famous fighter, who de- signed it. 1In spite of its long period of usage, the present cav- alry saddle is cumbersome and uncomfortable for the mounted soldier. The new saddle has a leather skirt covering the bulky cinch rings and straps at the side. While retaining special fea- tures of the old MeClellan sad- dle, such as fastenings for blank- et rolls, the saddles now contem- plated for use are more like the inglish flat saddle used in polo and for pleasure jaunts. Two regiments of cavalry at Fort Riley training school have been equipped with them. If they prove satisfactory they wiil prob- ably be adopted foy the entire service. HISTORIC FORT TO FISH FLEET OWNER NEW ORLEANS, ‘Feb. 12.—De- termined as was Farargut when he issued his famous edict “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead,” John Vela, owner of a Gulf Coast fishing fleet, entéréd ‘a bid of $20,000 at a Government auction sale and Fort St. Philip fell again. The new commander of the fa- mous old fort, that historic strip of land which projects itself strategically out into the Gulf of Mexico nearly 80 miles below New Orleans like a flattenéd Gi- braltar, is a native of Croatia who came to Louisana as a boy. Sieur de Bienville was the first to fortify the commanding posi- tion. The fortification passed to the United States Government with the Louisiana Purchase. In 1846, Congress granted au- thority for use of the fort for military purpose and about 12 years later Gen. P. G. T. Beaure- gard replaced old earthefn ram- parts with brick fortifications and ehdnged the muzzle-loading can- non to meet the requirements of the day. 'In’'1918 the Governmént spent approximately a million dollars in remodelling the fort to ‘'ward off any possible attacks by Ger- mand raiders. Y e—eer——— LET aimquist “rress Your Suit. We call ang dellver. Phoue 528. ing &d ilth situa- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. 12, 1929. Mdd@rn leéhtines Brighten the Heart : and Gladden the Eve Valentines on display this season show a decidedly modern| ;itrend in design. reproductions of other days shown above. For those who NEW young their YORK, Feb. people protend to despise timental forefathers, but the profusion of valentines on dis- play this year seem to indicate that somebody is' wrong. Valentine manufacturers say the young people are kidding them- selves. Valentines are as vital to a successtul love im. To prove it they of- great columns of figures show- ing that young people send valen- 12.—~Modern tines and spend a great deal more | for them than grandfather would ever have dared. Febru hop windows pay hom- age to the jolly Saint whose feast day is the fourteenth. Candy makers pack their wares in heart- shaped boxes. - Florists tie up old fashioned bougquets with quaint paper frills. Jewelers’ signs are subtly suggestive. Even book shops affair as ever, | ( b 1 hope hat gou i ol declnes | Tobe m prefer the old-fashioned arc the| Great stores on Fifth Avenue have given over counters and rows of shelves to valentines. The most modern may select from LI:-\.;.UH] ione by contemporary artists. The | strong colors and odd designs of present day art have sup ' the conventional cupids and flow- | ers. For the old-fashioned are repro- ductions of favorites of 50 yea azo. Chubby boys and rosy girls smirk in bowers of paper lace and red hearts pierced with gilded ar- rows. Pink little cupids run riot over huge cards bespattered with saccharine verse 1 There are valentines for a sweet- heart, for a wife and for a moth Uncles and aunts, sisters and have their special cards. after row is filled with poking good natured fun foibles of man jer, | cousins And row | comics, at the have valentine packages. Tales From the Hills (A Series of Popular Articles on Prospecting) P By J. C. Associate Professor of Mining Engineering Alaska Agricultural Coll ALL IN A D The tunnel reverberated with the throb of the drill. The new compressor had arrived and dur- ing the past four weeks Larry and Jack had labored almost day and night getting it up the gulgh and installing it in its room near the portal of the tunnel. It was run- ning beautifully. During the last five days they had advanced the tunnel over twenty feet—almost a month’s work by hand. Just this morning the partners had decided to raise on the ore, partly to de- termine how high it went, but mostly to provide for ventilation. The tunnel had reached a length of four hundred sixty feet, and the powder smoke didn't clear readily enough to provide good afr. ‘For the first few days they had been running the compressor and blowing air after each blast, but with gasoline costing fifty cents a gallon, -this had proved expensive. Take a *“ e Jack was on top of the muck pile running the drill. Tarry was mucking at its toe. The car full, Larry decidéd to take a “five.” He sat down and waited until Jack had finished the hole and shut off the drill. “Great ' thing,” he said, “that water attachment. 1 remember, not so many years ago, that I was working in the Independence. Stop- ers were new then. ‘They called them ‘widow makers’ because they soon made your wife a widow. Now they've got that water feed down so fine there isn’t a speck of dust.” Jack laid the machine down and, seating himself on a rock, loaded his pipe for a smoke. He was tired. The grind of the past few weeks had worn him pretty badly and he was ready to listen to one of Larry’s dissertations. “Fact is,” Larry continued, “min- ing isn’t what she used to be. Most ways things are better. Take for instance that Jackhammer— 45 pounds and she’ll drill a foot in five minutes in this tough gran- ite. Remember the old Biirleigh? Three hundred and forty-five pounds. Took two men-=and good ones too—to lift it on the bar, and then you worked and tugged and swore at it all day. We get out more rock these days but we don’t work so hard to get it out. by ‘a‘long shot. Then take other things—safety for instance, Around Not |. SCOLES ege and School of Mines. AY’S WORK all of the big mines they have everything pretty 'well guarded Then if you do get hurt—That | makes fne think—we ought t have | some first aid stuff down here at the tunnel. It’s a long piece up, to the cabin and if one of us got cut it would be mighty handy to have something to bind it up with. | Guess TI'll fix up some first aid| equipment and put it in a box out there by the compressor.” Good Gas Burned “Larry,” said Jack, “we're sit ting here listening to you spout while ‘that ecompressor is burning up good 'gas that sets this firm back fifty cents a gallon. L ghut it down and go home. “I'm tired eut anyway and don't feel any too good. Hope I don’t get the flu that I hear is going the rounds.” They gathered up the dull steel and ‘started toward the tunnel's | mouth. e are pretty soft these da | i@lly around the big con iare always grumbling but just let them look back at what they had to do twenty-five years ago. That Imakes me think. Maybe we could | gét' somebody interested in this| layout. * Our finances aren't so (flush as they might be. It we could get somebody to take part of the load we could get ahead faster and maybe we would make Jjust as much in the end.” “Well,” interrupted Jack, “we've spent fifteen years looking, and this is the best thing we've found I know there is lots of hard work ahiead, but I don’t propose to let this chance slip.” * That showing {lobks just as good no was it did the day we struck it. Tt will mill {better than $50 per ton without| half trying.” “Yes, yes, 1T know,” said Larry “but we don’t want to forget that a dollar out at interest is a dollar | Bix next year; a dollar twelve the next; a dollar nineteen the third and a dollar thirty-four in five years. We can't hang on too many years. I wasn’t saying that we'd give it away. I only thought! that we might be better off to zet l'fiome help.” “Oh, well,” grumbled Jack, some what mollified, “if you was only | thinking; it's all right.” H Compressor Shut Down { By this time they had reached the compressor, Larry shut it N LTI ||!||ll|l||||||||||l|||li|||| T T T L L T L L L L L T down nearby while Jack dropped onto a box, and reloaded his pipc. continued to tinker Wwith parts of the machine. could write to some of concerns we both know and m what we have,” continued “We could tell' them our ground 45, how many we have, how far it is to Then too, we could tell pething about our title.” snorted Jack. “Young 1 old enough vet to khow that it ain't where she if but what she is that makes a mine. Better tell them how wide she is, how she ays, what kind of walls she h and how she lays in the earth If she'll pay they'd min the Pole.” Larry gave one look at his part- ner and said: ‘“That's right. | guess I'll knock out a cup of tea on the forge before we climb the hill You look sort of tired.” LILY LANGTRY - PASSES AWAY; Famous *Jersey Lily"” Dies at Monte Carlo from f Bronchitis GOLD! - GOLD! GOLD! thes tell ti arry wher the river them “Huh at (Conttnnen trom Taze One.) b she “had’ the le In 1905 and 1906 she pla ed repertoire with her ow [35) iny in Africa. Later she a peared in ‘“Mrs. Déring’s Di- vorce,” by Pgrey Fendall and in 1915 tilled a vaudeville engage- ment in the United States. Moravia, and other parts of Aus- Becomes a Lady !tria. Early in the 18th centu Mr. Langtry, her first husband,|two Princes owning and ruling died in 1897. They had prev-| what is now the principality be- iously been divorced. i role in Princes of Liechtenstein The | | family owned large estates in Two years came involved in debt and sold | later she married Hugo Gerald de, their land and titles to the Liech- | Bathe, eldest son of Sir Henry de|tenstein family. By diploma of | Bathe, who was nearly 25 years January 23, 1719, granted by Em- | her junior. Upon the death of peror Karl VI the two lordships his father he inherited his title| were ‘constituted the princi- | and the former Mrs. Langtry|pality of Liechtenstéin. Prince | therefore was known as Lady de|Johann became the ruling Prince Bathe. lin 1858 on the death of his Lady de Bathe was at orft time|father, Prince Aloyse. Thus, his of an extensive racing|reign was one of the longest in at Regal Lodge, in Kent-| Burope. ford, Suffolk, Eng., near New-| market, and raced under the| name of “Mr. Jersey. Her most | hann’s heaith had been delicate, famous horse, Merman, won a|but that did not prevent him number of English turf clas: -s.}frmu growing up to tall and including the Gold Cup at Ascot.|handsome manhood. Nor did it She once owned & large ‘ranch |interfere with his mental well- in California and a summer home | being for he was regarded as one at Long Branch J., where she |of the most brilliant men in Eur- cwner stable Brilliant Man From early youthi irince io- made several 1912, entertained 1 for a time|ope. It is said, however, that Lady - de Bathe |responsible for the fact that he saudeville tours since never married and caused. him to it might be said, were it not that his cells were great castles. He | by his subjects. His friends never | were quite certain where he was | because when he decided to | body was warned or informed and, traveling in a coach at night of World Passes Away |ic went from ono frontier to the| —70 Years Reign | other of his realm. Junéau Chapres No. 7, will union and its posts and tele-/meet at Scottish Rite Temple land p. m, Visiting members cordially Prince Johann Marie Franz invited to attend. Business meet- 1 was born October 5, 1840, at'Maybelle George, Worthy Matron. Elsgrub, Moravia. His family or-|Fanny L. Robinson, Secretary. traced his descent through free: L o barons, _who in 1608 became | Subscribe to The Empire. in bho mian f; {the condition of his health was - - live' the lifélof ‘a recluse—a monk | lived the year round seldom seen change his abode temporarily no- ¥ Grand Old Man of Rulers | with frequent relays of horses, - e (Continued from fage One) | ATTENTION EASTERN STARS graphs administered by Switzer- Tuesday, February 12, at 8:00 Placide von und zu Liechtenstein |ing. iginated in the 12th century and| —adv. TR IR A.mwuncing ‘the‘ i'wen'ty-Third Annual Ball ; Given by the L2 i - Juneau Volunteer Fire Department TONIGHT A. B. Hall Sr:ec:iél ferry returning to Douglas at 1:15 a. m., January 13 LU D T T T O T T 2 SHOWS Johon Bowwers Edine Cormoal COLISEUM 7:30—9:25 Gold! That magic word brought thousands to Alaska Gold! Intrigue and Thrills Prices—10-20-40¢ Loges 50 cents \ Coming Thursday “CZARS OF CRIME” Dangerous Gangsters, Hated, Daring, Cvery Month in the Year 1929 Sales Dates JULY 24 AUGUST 28 SEPTEMBER 25 OCTOBER 30 MAY: 21 NOVEMBER 27 JUNE 26 DECEMBER 18 Special Sales Held on Request of Shippers Advances Will Be Made As Usual When Re- quested—Transferred by Telegraph if Desired FEBRUARY 20 MARCH 20 \APRIL 24 SEATTLEFUREXCHANGE | 65 MARION STREET VIADUCT SEATTLE,USA DANCE TONIGHT - WITH THE FIREMEN! 23rd Annual Ball A. B. HALL Dancing, 9:30 P. M. Space Donated By CALIFORNIA GROCERY . 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