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PICKETT’ PALACE Sy TONIGHT THE CIRCUS COMES TO JUNEAU—Clowns, Ele- phants, Camels, Lions—¢ sweet romance— a real drama of circus life. “Three Ring Marriage” with beautiful Mary Astor and Handsome Lloyd Hughes There will also be an International News and Snookums Comedy “Happy Day” COMING THURSDAY—CHESTER CONKLIN in the “BIG NOISE” menagerie, figures in a motiorf pic- ture offering for “Three Ring Mar- riage,” the First National Picture featuring Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes, which comes to the Palace | Theatre tonight. | The Al G. Barnes Circus was used to supply atmosphere, real circus performers, freaks, barkers, and " leven “roustabouts” for this thrilling *land human tale of life under the “big top.” Every phase of circus llife is portrayed, since the film New York’s underworld, that re- |troupe joined the eircus at Tueson, gion of shadowed sin whose nightly Arizona, lived with ‘1L during its exploits in crime outstrip the in- |homeward loop showings to winter ventions of fiction, is the back- quarters in California, and work- | ground of Dolores Costello’s new |€d with the circus throughout the Attractions At Theaires g TALKIE FEATURE IS AT COLISEUM TONIGHT e nell, | June 2. BISHOP IS T0 ALASKA BORN GIVE ADDRESS YOUTH MAY FORM TOGRADUATES ORGANIZATION | Senator Aldrich Interested| in Organizing Native Sons and Daughters Bishop Rowe to Make Com- ment Address at the | Alaska College Bishop Peter Trimble ROWe,|rich, former Grand President of the | Protestant Episcopal Church, dio-|pjoneers of Alaska, has begun a| cese of Alaska, will deliver “"‘}mm’ ment looking toward the or- commencement address at the Alas- jon at Juheau and Douglas | ka Agricultural College "and Schoo of Mines this year, it was announc- ed today by Dr. Charles E. BuUn-|ihey have such an organization at President of the institution.|wairbanks, Graduation exercises will be held|toward their organization at Ju-| neau, have never resulted in nc-i | [ | of Alaska. At the present time Dr. Bunnell visited Juneau this morning while the Aleutian was in port. He is enroute to Fairbanks|such an organization is to take the after a brief visit to Seattle. Iplace of the Ploneers of Alaska, Among this years graduating|when it shall have disappeared class at the college is Miss Gene: | tion. Mr. Aldrich sdid the need for vieve Parker of Fairbanks, who i Unless,” said Mr. Aldrich,” th to receive the degree of Minig En-|pionecrs of Alaska continve to fx- gineer, the first woman to be|tend the date of arrival in the awarded it by the Alaska institu- tion, and she becomes one of the few women in the entire country to hold that degree. ~Miss Parker was awarded a degree in General Science by the College last year. Other graduates this year are: Albert Visca, Business Administra- tion; John Boswell, of Vail, Ore., Mining Engineer; and H. J. Nich- olls, Mining Engineer. Nicholls did most of his preliminary work North necessary for eligibility for | membership, the Pioneers of Alas- must in the nature of thing disappear with the passing of time, order provided that to be a mem-| ber one must have come to Alnska" during the last century—or before January 1, 1901. The date had| hardly been established before there was a movement to extend it. The‘ Former Senator Frank A. Ald-|§ he Native Sons and Daughters| but movenients looking | through the death of its members. “In the beginning the laws of tho; % TONIGHT 7:30 Two Shows COLISEUM AL TONIGHT 9:25 Two Shows ¢ starring vehicle, “Tenderloin,” a procuction. WARNER BROS. presert Vitaphone talkie feature at the Col- iseum tonight. Crook dramas are the latest craze | of popular fancy, and as a back ground for the emotional of the gifted Dolores Costello, “a |Circus life is filmed throughout. gripping, swift-moving drama 15[ 'Decade May Wipe Out promised by Warner Brothers who produced “Tenderloin” from an original story by Melville Crosman, | E. T. Lowe, Jr., doing the scenario., Conrad Nagel has the leading' Georgle Stone, John Miljan, Dan|president of Smith College. Wolheim and Pat Hartigan. Michael Curtiz directed. traveling about,” ers. the most stirring of her career. There will also be movietone fea mino Gigli and Guiseppe De Lucai!he age of 35.” in the opera “The Pearl Fishers.” ) - eee — — jE | S | CIRCUS LIFE STORY | | AT PALACE TONIGHT [ 3| A regular big-time circus per- formance, with side shows and huge | fur | garments. Goldstein's oorium, Needless to say, it is not only a |thrilling human picture of life un- der the big top and behind the scenes of the circus, but the most | talents ' realistic yet produced, since actual Mark of College Career 7 iy | BOSTON, May 21.— The stamp male role, while others in the sub-'or 5 college education has a short; porting cast are Mitchell Lewis, jifo says Williamn Allan Nielson, “I spend a great deal of my time President Niel- | 3 Miss Costello’s role is that of alson explains, “and from my obser- dancing girl in a cheap Bowery|vations made in the smoking com- dive who is “framed up” as ac- partments of Pullman I have found | complice to a band of bank loot- that the marks of a college educa- | Her performance is ome of |tion commence to be obliterated in| |from five to 10 years, while they| {have entirely disappeared by the| tures on the bill, one being Benia- time the college man has reached | | Try a BOT TAMALE after the| 52 show. Juneau Ice Cream Parlors, —adv. - We make ana alter all kinds of | Em- —adv. T O L LU T U O DT LT U LT AT SEATTLE PRICES “MAKE US PROVE IT” “THE EMPIRE” TELEPHONE 374 LT LT TV IR e e e T T UL T T LT at the University of Nevada. Dr. Bunnell announced two ap- pointments to the faculty of the College. Prof. Charles U. Southwick. University of Washington gradu- ate, and instructor in the Romanic Languages department of that in- stitution for several years, has ac- cepted appointment as professor of English and French. Prof. Cecil F. Robe, graduate of University of | Oregon, and connected with the University of Washington for the past four or five years, has ac-| cepted the position of professor of History and American Government There is one other vacancy to be filled, instructor in Civil Engineer- ing and Mathematics. The College will not receive this year its $10,000 allotment from the Federal Government under the Hatch and Smith-Lever Acts, Dr. Dunnell d. He sent a copy to the Department of Agriculture of the local statute accepting for -the !'Territory the benefits of those laws, and has received a letter from Dr. Warburton, Chief of the Bureau of Extension Work, saying it was too late to be included in the Department’s supply bill for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The first allotment will be made to Alaska for the fiscal year 1930- 31. This will delay by one year Dr. Bunnell's plan for opening ex- tension courses in agriculture and home economics. RAIN PREVENTS GAME AT DOUGLAS TONIGHT With rain falling all day long and no sign of a break in weather conditions by evening, the league ball game between Douglas and the American Legion at Douglas, was postponed. This is the third post- ponement during the past week. All three games will be advanced on the schedule and played off as weather conditions permit. s MAJOR SPAULDING WILL HAVE COMMAND AT HAINES Major Basil Spaulding, who will succeed Major Thornton Rogers a commander of Chilkoot Barracks is due to arrive in Alaska late in |July or early in August, from an is now in duty. Mgajor Spaulding will be preceded to Alaska by Capt. Lucien Bogan, who has been with the 9th Infant- ry at Fort Sam Souston, Texas. Capt. Bogan, who is due on the next trip of the Admiral Rogers, and will be in comimand of Chil- | koot Barracks until the arrival of Major Spaulding, was récently mar- ried in Memphis, Tenn., and will be accompanied north by his wife. e 2 OFFICERS AND FAMILIES Major Thornton Rogers, for the past two years, Commander of Chilkcot Barracks at Haines, and Mrs. Wwgers, arrived in Juneau on thc Alameda and expect to take passage for the States on the Yu- kon. Major Rogers has finished his tour of duty at Haines and will go to Fort Cook, Nebraska. Lieut. George J. Engelthaler, and Mrs. Engelthaler, who arrived on the Alameda, also expect to leave for the south on the Yukon. Lieut. Engelthaler and Mrs. Engelthaler who willl go East through the Panama Canal, are bound for Geor- gia where he will take a course in an army school. — .- LAWRENCE KERR LEAVES _ Lawrence Kerr, who was Clerk of the House of Representatives during the last Territorial Legisla- ture, and has since the adjourn- ment made a trip to Ketchikan, left on the steamer Aleutian for the Westward. He expects to leave Nenana June 1 for St. Michael where he will manage the Wil- army school in Kentucky, where he | - ON THEIR WAY SOUTH towns. liams stere and trading post. | Empire. old sourdoughs were able to defeat | the proposal for some time, but finally it was extended for five! years. At that time it was pro-] vided that the property, etc., of | Pioneers should pass to the Native Sons and Daughters of Alaska anc| the Pioneers looked with favor upon} developing the Sons and Daughtersi into a Territory-wide organization.i “If we could establish units of | the Native Sons and Daughters at | Juneau and Douglas there would | 92 three units and they could unite in establishing a Grand Lodge, covering the entire Territory and push the organization into other | localities.” | The potential plan for the Na-l tive Sons and Daughters of Alas-| cd is an organization along tne; 'ihes of the Native Sons of the| Solden West of California, and the Native Sons of Washington. “Of | ourse,” Mr. Aldrich said, “the Na- tive Sons and Daughters of Alas-| ta would form their own constitu- tion and by-laws and have complete sharge of their own organization, but the plan is to give them com- plete co-operation of the Pioneers of Alaska. | WHO'S WHO | | AND WHERE || George M. Gouodman, su‘perm- tendent of the Skagway schools| juring the last year, is bound for the States on the Alameda. He is on his way to San Diego where he will do a tour of duty during the summer with the United States Marine Corps, of which he is a reserve officer. Next fall he will go to Vancouver, Wash., where he | has a position in one of the Junior High Schools. T. F. Fitch, of the Canadian Customs Servicé at Prince Rupert, who has been inspecling shipments to the Tulsequal Mines up the raku River, arrived in Juneau last night and is a guest at the Gasti- | neau Hotel. W. D, Gross, owner of the Coli- seum Theatres {n Juneau and Ket- chikan, left for the First City on| the Aldmeda to superintend the installation of Movietone and Vita- phone equipment in his theatre From Ketchikan Mr. Gross axpects to make a short trip to Seattle. Mrs. Willlam Geddes returned oh the Aleutian after spending the 'ast five weeks visiting with rela- tives at Port Townsend, Wash. Mrs. J. W. Leadbetter and her daughter Ethel, were , Ketchikan passengers on the steamer Aleu- tian. Capt. Leadbetter is master of the Lighthouse Tender Cedar. Paul H. Otto, representative of & Seattle jewelry house, arrived in Juneau on the Alameda after mak- ing a trip to all Southeast Alaska Geotge E. Carbray, who repre- DOIORES COSTELEC " TENDERLOIN with CONRAD NAGEL MITCHELL LEWIS ~ DAN WOLHEIM JOHN MILAN ;- Directed by MICHAEL CURTIZ +_ GEORGIE STONE Bocdonthe sty by MEVALE CROSAN = Sconarlo by €T LOWE Jn) YORK NIGHT LIFE! A WARNER BROS. PRODUCTION MOVIETONE . NEWS Featuring the Marriage of Prince Ingabord and also Burial of Marshal PRICES-—-10¢, 20c¢, | Foch \ OPERA IN VIT A- PHONE Gigli and De Tuca in “The Pedrl Fishe NAVY MAPPERS DUE TO LEAVE SEATTLETODAY Four Planes and Tender Scheduled to Start North for Season's Work BULLETIN—SEATTLE, May 21. —Twelve members of the Alaska Air Mappers Expedition left for Southeast Alaska this morning but returned shortly after because of fog. It is expected they will make ahother attempt tomorrow. The Navy air mappers; with a squadron of four planes and the tender Gannet, were scheduled to have left Seattle this morning for their summer’s aerial mapping in Alaska, according to .telegraphic advices received at local U. 8. For- est Service headquarters-today. Lieut. Comdr. A. W. Radford is in charge of the expedition with R. H. Sargent, topographer, representing the Interior Department. /The entire expedition was to have left Seattle today if weather conditions were favorable. The planes expected to come through to' Ketchikan tonight and two of sents the Seattle Hardware Com- pany, arrived here on the Alameda from a trip to all Southeast Alaska towns. Miss Dorothy Crim, her mother, Mrs. I. D. Crim and Miss Hazel Ol- son left for the States on the Ala- meda. Miss Crim and Miss Olsor taught in the Douglas schools dur= ing the last year. A. H. Kean, brother of L. Kean, focal manager of Frye-Bruhn com- pany, arrived today for a brief visit with the latter. Both will return to Seattle on the yacl Jazz, Capt. Cash Cole, when starts south this week to enter the Capital-to-Capital Ydcht Race. ———————— GIVEN FINE TODAY Claus Johnson was arrested yes- terday for violations of the Alaskh Bohe Dry Law dnd was fined $35 by U. S. Com Charles Sey in the Commissioner’s Court this morning. i ————————— Commercial job printing at The thém, with Commander Radford and Mr; Sargeant aboard, planned to come to Juneau tomorrow for a conferénce with Gov. Commissioner Flory of the De- partment of Agriculture. i No bases have yet been selected | for the sqiiadron. Commander Rad- ford decidea to defer tHis action nitil after making a personal ifives- tigation of the several harbors. Tt fs expected a base will be establish- ed here and maintained for a con- siderdble part of the summer. Lat- ind Petersburg. These ports will to Ketchikan from here. #The mappers will be kept busy) virtually all summer, accord- to a letter from Mr. Sargent| the Forest Service. 1t is hoped ing gfit they will cover both the Taku | and Chilkat rivers in addition to e islands and other mainland areas in this district. Lieut. E. F. Burkett, executive of-: ficer of the expedition, Lieut. R. Parks and | }r, gi“‘é thappers may move to Si!.k’al[,os Angeles, Cal., arrived in Ju-, t Y be visited by Commander Radford | and Mr. Sargent when they return; F’.Aour work. Coates Studios. Whitehead, photographic officer,| Lieut. Comdr. C. F. Smith, andl| Lieut. E. B. Cair, paymaster, were all members of the 1926 mapping | expedition. Several of the enlist-| ed personnel also were on that same voyage. Other officers on| the present expedition, are: Lieut.! C. K. Greber, radio and engineer | officer, Lieut. L. P. Pawlikowski, | assistant in operations and mghti officer. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AGAIN FAGES FLOOD MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 21.—Ris- ing streams and rivers are threat-, ening many sections of the Mis- sissippl River Valley today and sent emergency crews scurrying to scene of impending disasters. { Breaks at roon today had been | averted except in one instance, at a point where danger was ledst ex-| pected. While engineers were di-| recting forces in three pldces near; Kennett, Missoliri, the St. Francis River bourided through a weukenedf bit in the levee ahd overflowed 50,000 acres. No lives are reported to have been 10st. The forcé on the levees is grow-| ing hourly. 44 { At Mound’s Landihg an cffort to 4avert another break 1s heing mede. A disastrous crevasse oc- lcurred there in 1927, A private levee near Natchez, Mississippi, showed signs of break- ihg and between 300 and 400 per- sons, their belongings and livestock were tiken to Higher grotind. PROMINENT MINING MEN ARRIVE JUNEAU TODAY‘; Philip Wiseman and Roy W,| Moore, prominent mining men of | neau on the Aleutian accompnnlcd' by Mrs. Wiseman and Mrs. Moore. They are interested in the Tulse- quah Mining property up the Taku River and were met this morning by J.P.Stapler, who has been at the ; property for several weeks. They | will leave in Bill Strong’s Taku River boat for the mining property | a8 soon as the weather pernits. ST - WA We SPECIALIZE on Tinticg and Praming Pictures. Call in and see adv. GET A CORONA FOR GRADUATION The Ideal Gift for College Come in and try them out J. B. Biirford & Co. “Our Dobrstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers” - OUR SERVICE EXTENDS ALL OVER THE WORLD N THE " First National Bank OF JUNEAU X | according to his appearanee WEAR TAILOR MADE CLOTHES And have them madeé at home. It is cheaper to have thém made at home than to send outside for them. F. 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