The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 25, 1929, Page 2

. SALE OF Ladies’ /' Raincoats Your opportunity to purchase a new Spri Raincoat at a special The coat we offer for three days is a flannel lined leatk- crette, with swanky flare, belt at waist line, belied An all weather sporis normal coat in red, black /(rnlrn and blue. All sizes, 16 to 44 For Thursday, Friday and Saturday Only ' $5.95 B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. Junear’s Leading Department Store 'CAPTAI'NS OF CO-ED RIFLE TEAMS Helen Taylor (left) is the star shot and captain or wnc weorge Washington university co-ed rifle. team, which will compete in the national girls' rifle team champiowships. Hazel Kreider is captain of the Maryland unlversity team. Soutit Sedrlrélunders To See First Airplane OAKLAND, Cal slanders are to get ) when Franklin W. We traveler who has been in of an American trading station ir the Southern Pacific for 15 arrived in French Oceania with his new American plane. ‘Wakefield says he bought il planc to ccmmute between his 5 cutlying island posts in the Sout! Sca. A California pilot, whonu Wakefield has taken with hin will fly the trader between his sta tions until he learns to pilot the piane himself. Flying conditions in the island are ideal most of the year, Wake field says, and the island beacho are natural alrports. His lon jump will be 100 miles to Papecl: the largest isle in the group whic! has a population of 35,000. _‘He expects his initial flight ove French Oceania, which is a lonel stretehin 1,000 miles across the southérn Pu april 25—cer- | Spain Casts Her Net For Tourist Business PARIS, April 25—Spain’s plan to establish a big government tour- ist agency in Paris is stirring the French to action. Spain, with $5,000,000 to spend tracting tourists, intends to buy or rent a downtown building here ind try to create a flow of travel o see her sights. France, often:eloquent about the| weed for meeting the competition f other countries, finally considers he time has come to coordinate| wer travel agencies. There are 1 dozen or more separate organiza- ions, rome of them aided by the overnment, that attempt to en: ouragé touring. e TALY KEEPS HOME FIRE BRIGHT FOR IMMIGRANTS ROME, April 25—More than 7~ 00 children of Italians living ibroad were given free holidays in he mother country of their par- nts last year. Plans are under way to take care f 10,000 during the spring, aut- mn and summer of 1929. They ill be brought at Government ex- ense from Germany, England, ‘rench Tunisia ant the Dalmatian THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1929. GROSS BRINGS | TALKIES BACK FOR COLISEUM Vitaphone anc [ovietone, | First in Alaska, to Be Installed Here On Tuesday, May 7, the peopfe |of Juncau will have the opportun- {ity of hearing a ¢omplete Movie- Vitaphone program for the first time in Ala: at the | Coliseum Theatre, according to the plans of W. D. Gross, who re- {turned on the Yukon bringing with |him most of the equipment and {Hatry Taylor, engineer in charge of 'the installation, of the “Talkie” | equipment in the Coliseum Theatre. The “femainder of the equipment g three more engineers will ar- i here on the steamer Aleutian, {he said today. The installation is cstimated to take 12 days, Mr. C added. the opening night the pro- be made up of a Movie- reel, a Vitaphone Act, a 1one comedy, a Movietone tif- | colored scenic and the big picture, 4 Warner Brothers | Vitaphone talkie, which, if it is possible to obtain it, will be the thrilling mystery play, “The Ter- which is said to be more ex- that “The Bat” and “The e On gram will | tone news eiting Cat and Canary” combined. ! Mr tion of equipn depo: Coss ordered the installa- Movietone and Vitaphone nt and paid a substantial | on it, 14 months ago, but | owing to the iremendous demand by theatres all over the country, and hundreds of previous orders, had difficulty in getting the engi- ne and equipment to Alaska this 500N, The engineers who are to install the equipment in the Coli- | 1 Theatres in Juneau and Ket- chikan, were recently occupied in equipping the new Fox Theatre in t Seattlc and promised Mr. Gross to come north as soon as their”) work w completed. The Fox Theatre opened last Friday, and on | Saturday Mr. Gross and Mr. Tay- lor took the steamer for Juneau Junean Fortunate | “Out of 150,000 theatres in the | United States and Europe, only | {900 have talkie equipment, and |very soon the people -of Juneau and Ketchikan will be among tHose fortunate enough to have “talkie” | theatres in their towns, There are | theatre owners all over the country who are willing to spend any lamount of money to hurry instal- |1ation of Movietone and Vitaphone equipment in their theatres but the | demand is so great that they have | {to wait their turn. “Experience has shown that cheaper outfits, made in imitation of Movietone and Vitaphone, are not practicable as they are contin- ually out of order and generally ‘un,',mi.-,facmry. It is my intention. always, to give the people of Ju- {neau and Ketchikan the most pro- gressive and best in the way of entertainment that it is possible to obtain,” Mr. Gross said. Talking Pictures Coming H plans to have a Movietone |weekly and a Vitaphone act on |each change of program at the Coliseum and 2 big talkle feature | about once a week. He has a full list of Warner Brothers' Vitaphone pictures econtracted for, and some of the features which are being shown in the largest theatres in the country, that will come to the | Coliscum are: Al Jolson in “The l Jazz Singer,” and “The Singing Fool,” “The Lion and the Mouse,” “Glorious Betsy,” “My Man,” “Ten- derloin,” “Lights of New York,” “The Redeeming 8in,” “The Desert Song,” “Conquest,” “Stark Mad,” “The Home Towners,” “Sonny Boy,” “On Trial,” and Alec B. Frances, Louise Fazenda, and May McAvoy in “The Terror,” which Mr. Gross “opes to obtafn fér ‘the opening Iight. | In addition to the Warner Broth- ers feature talking pictures, he has contracted for the Mack Sen- nett talking comedies, Pat Rooney, | Chick Sales, George Jessel and many other celebrities in Movie- | tone and Vitaphone Acts. During the installation of talking picture equipment the tl tre will be open as usual, Mr. said. the hea- PuPrchased Furniture | During the six weeks he has| been in Seattle he purchased fur- | niture for the apartments he is, building above the. moving picture | exchange building on lower Btreet. There will be apartments in the build will be the very latzst ihing, w all modern convenionies g ing Trig \U ish Amer 1 | with the finest springs anl mal- | tresses, hardwood floors and fur- niture, Mr. Gross declared. Each apartment will consist of kitcheu- | ette, bath and lving room, con- veniently arranged. Fire Proof Building ‘The building is being made en- | tirely fireproof and on the opening day, about six weeks from now, Mr. Gross will have open house to give the people of Juneau an opportun- | ity to inspect the new apartment: “I would like the people to what can be done with a buildir which has been idle for many year: and what attractive apartments can be built,” he said. ! e | | | el {lfizcoflc?jmfce jcanjq}n Wi idea. off b ted pleees ik idenation when Looki {nwfl% Banded pleces o eonsideration or \{mzx wandobe, for apring Possifililico.- She cenfines while, Hack, gpay and. pealing Way. red {m the Alevsés eg aflrck. eecese00ess000o0 c;zc,;;(_Mwith,ad.vfphqthuN (Q‘fi ° TODAY'S STOCK ° s b . QUOTATIONS | LA e e AR AR Ui SRR i LT . rrive here from ttle soon, ac- rding to a m ge received by apt. M. J. O’Connor, Assistant || wHO'S wHe ‘ AND WHERE am B. Smith, automobile det er at Cordova, is a southbound p: senger on the Alaska. M. NEW YORK, April 25.—Ala: Juneau mine stock is quoted tods at 6., American Smelting 104%, Cudahy 55%, General Motors 85%, Gold Dust 65%, Mack Trucks 104, | {It will go from here to the Alaska ninsula district for the season. | Smith!v“‘“' ‘Scoter has been undergoing Missouri 82%, National Power and is going outside on vacation for|COmPlete overhaul and repairs in Light 53, Texas Corporation 657, !scveral months | tle. el U. 8. Steel 185%, Bethlehem Steel| Rev. Charles E. Rice, Dean ofl 113%, Continental Motors 22, Good- | Trinity Cathedral in Juneau, re-|{CONTRACTORS BACK year 131'%%, International Paper A_l!urn'cd from Cordovaon the stes ‘-i FROM THE WESTWARD 2914, Paper B 17, Independent Gas|er Alasta. The Rev. Ricz ac | 36%, Standatd Ofl of California |Panied Bishop P. T. Rowe to Cor-| V. K. Woods, representative of pec- |the Seims - Carlson Contracting | Company of Spokane, Wash. and dova about two weeks ago for : Stewart-Warner 70%. { lial church wor e H. B. Carbi traveling com-|C. Gardner, member of the con- STUDENTS K_Now mercial man, is a passenger for|tracting firm of Johnson and Gard- Retchikan on the Alaska. Mr.|ner, of Portland, Ore., returned on THEIR ALASKA Carbray is making the trip in the|the steamer Alaska from Seward intercst of the firms he | where they have been looking over TS | preposed contracts for the U. S. represents. A copy of the “Broadcast” the| £ LA Bureau of Public Roads in that school paper of the Queen Ann|BRANCH GOES SOUTH; | vicinity. School, Seattle, was received in a VISITS CANNERIES HERE | ERaE e SRR recent mail by the Chamber of Commerce and today was showh the members at the regular lunch- | D. W. Branch, manager of the| KITTIWAKE LEAVES Salmon Department of Libby, Mc eon. The paper was of interest iniNeill and Libby, who has b The U. S. Bureau of Fisheries that it was largely devoted to/north about ‘ten days on busir at Kittiwake, Capt. J. R. Craw- Alaska. The articles were the pen(0of his company near Juneau, is|ford, left this morning for Prince a southbound passenger on the Willlam Sound in the vicinity of steamer Alaska. Mr. Branch plans| Cordova for fishing patrol work. to return north in about a month. | —— ———— ! New, select line of visiting cards | workings of the students who had studied about the Territory during the school term. A story on the mineral resources of Alaska by an up-and-coming! youngster said that “The rocks near Juneau yield much gold and these rocks have been dug for years | and now Juneau is a large town.”| Many fine articles by the stu- dents appear in the paper and chow that as a whole the students have spent much time seeking knowledge of the Territory. | e Fresh roasted peanuts and pop- corn. Juneau Ice Cream Parlors. SCOTER EXPECTED SOON | at The Empire. The U. S. Bureau of Fisheries | Commercial job printing at The boat Scoter, Capt. Neis Rogne, will | Empire. i | | ka Agent for the Bureau here. | Amillionaire dies in a weird and baffling murder! Can you solve the mystery of *“Gold Bullets?” Whether you do or not ‘you will thrill to the excitement and romance of this gripping ‘story ' BEGINNING MONDAY APRIL 20% Daib’ Alaska ire | | I Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast for Juneau and flnhliy, beginning 4 p. m. foday: Rain tonight and Friday; fresh southeasterly winds. LOCAL DATA Time Barom. Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4 p. m. yest'y 30.13 45 78 E 14 Rain 4 a. m. today 30.14 “ 79 E 12 Cldy Noon today 30.14 43 83 E 12 Rain CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS YESRRNDAY . o] - - AoDiY Highest 8 pm. | Low 8a. m. 8am. Precip. 8am. Stations— temp. _temp._ | _ temp. temp. Velocity 24 hrs. Weather Barrow 24 18 | 4 14 % 0 Clear Nome 38 34 | 34 36 12 Trace Rain Bethel 43 40 34 40 10 (] Clay Fort Yukon 54 44 | 22 9 o= 0 Clear Tanana 48 44 36 40 — 0 Pt Cldy Eagle ... 56 46 | 26 46 = 0 Clear St. Paul . < 34 | 28 28 18 0 Cldy Dutch Harbor ... 40 40 34 36 - 06 Rain Kodiak 2 40 | 38 38 10 2 Cldy Cordova 44 42 | 40 40 22 54 Rain Juneau 52 45 | 43 1“4 12 15 Cldy Ketchikah 56 — | 44 — 8 84 Rain Prince Rupert . 58 50 | 42 44 [] 0 Pt. Cldy Edmonton 64 62 | 32 32 e 0 Clear Seattle 64 62 | 42 42 [ 0 Foggy Portland 72 2 | 48 48 i 0 Clear San Francisco ... 62 56 | 46 48 i 0 Cldy 0 *—Less than 10 miles. NOTE--Opservations at St. Paul, Dutch Harbor, Kodiak. Juneau, Prince Rupert, Edmonton, Seattle, Portland and San Frandsco are wade at 4 a. and 4 p. m, Juneau time. [ The pressure is low throughou! Alaska except the Southeastern portion and is high from British Cslumbia to the Hawaiian Islands. Rain has been general in Southern Alaska and showers have fallen at Nome. 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