The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 24, 1929, Page 3

Palace T[’neatre = L il e Q413 SUNDAY and MONDAY—Sunday Matinee INTERNATIONAL NEWS Latest in News Events OUR COMEDY ATTRACTION “Newlyweds Troubles” A Comedy Full of Laughs ADY BE About a Musical From a Musical Comedy— Comedy— And plus ten times the comedy— Good? Say, Man, It’s Great! ADMISSION PRICES 10—20—40—Loges 50 cents TONIGHT—LAST TIMES “LOVELORN” MOLLY O’DAY and SALLY O’NEIL 10—20—50—Loges 60 cents COMING TUESDAY San Su Strutters A Novelty Musical Attraction Attractions /_lt Theatres | “THE LITTLE BUCKAROO” 3 | AT COLISEUM TONIGHT [+ 5 Buzz Barton, tne 13-year-old western star, is at the Coliseum to- night in._ “The Little Buckaroo.” This is said to be the fastest mov- ing and most breath-taking pic- ture the little freckle-faced star has made to date. ‘The story, written and adapted by Frank Howard Clark, is laid in the gold country and deals’with tn. attempt to corral a gang of out- laws and avenge the death of a lone prospector, father of the girl. A thrilling stage-coach holdup, a fight between the bandits and Buzz and his pals, and many wild- ly ridden chases provide the action. Exterior scenes for this picture were filmed in the beautiful coun- try surrounding Kernville, in the High Sierras of California, pro- viding one of the most picturesque backgrounds ever presented in a western. In addition to Puzz and his pony, Rags, the cast includes Melbourn Morante, Kenneth McDonald, Peg- gy Shaw, Al Ferguson, Walter Maley and Robert Burns. [ “LOVELORN;"-AT PALACE- | | LAST TIMES TONIGHT | ¥ ove and iis trials and tribula- tions has been presented to the screen in so many different guises that telling the world. something new on the subject would seem an impossibility—and yet Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer have achieved the im- possible. The innovation is “The Lovelorn” a Cosmopolitan ‘production featur~ ing. Sally O'Neil, showing at the Palace Theatre, and it is an al- most perfect example of good story, good acting and good directing, a] combination which usually it seems impossible to achieve. MOTHER KNOWS BEST” AT COLISEUM SUNDAY “_Admirers of pretty Madge Bel- lamy are going to have a real sur- prise and a pleasing one when they see her in her current production for Fox Films, “Mother Knows Best,” a picturization of the in- ternationally famous story by Ed- na Ferber, at the Coliseum Sunday and Monday. Hithertq Miss Bellamy has been a very -excellent light comedy por- trayer and exponent of the art of being well dressed without much clothes. In “Mother Knows Best” Miss Bellamy is called upon to run the whole gamut of human emotions and it is 8 tribute to her own art and the careful direction of John, Blystone that she proves a revela- tion. Louise Dresser, whose charm and art are akin to her popularity witia picture fans the country over, wiil play the mother role and the sup- porting cast includes such seasoned jand popular players as Barry Nor- {ton, Albert Gran, Lucien Littlefield land Robert Gordon. FARCE COMEDY OPENS 1 AT PALACE SUNDAY | The filming of “Lady Be Good, |the First National Picture which opens Sunday matinee at the Pal- lace Theatre, was unusually inter- 1esting for every member of. its cast, iror it recalled the 'days of their iLueatre experience before the mov- ies got them. Almost the entire picture takes |place backstage in a vaudeville |theatre, with the principal action lof the story taking place in the wings, the dressing rooms and “out in front.” The same waiting about in cold dressing rooms and dingy. theatres for rehearsals and the old, famil- iar atmosphere of the theatre took the actors back to the days before the moving pictures changed their lives, for. almost without exceo- tion the members of the cast had training in the legifimate theatre. | First National's permanent thea- (tre set in a building by itself is & playhouse complete in every detail. | Dorothy Mackail and Jack Mul- hall play featured roles in “Lady Be Good, with John WMiljan | James Finlayson, Yola d’'Avril, Nita | Martain, Jay Eaton, Eddie Clayton ‘and others in support. —————— | /Bl casey 1s stinl at No. 8 Wil- loughby Ave. with the best TO- {BACCO and SNUFF CURE. Hours 2 p m to7 p. m. Cal and we jwill demonstrate. P.O. Box 327. adv “ ———-——-— We are now serving mANDWICHES ll.l!d SALADS. The ‘best yet. Ju- ineau Ice Cream Parlors. —aav. ——e——e— “Fresh roasitea pe=anuts apd pop- irern. Juneau ‘Ice Cream Parlors. MUNICIPAL TAXES DUE | 'Noiice is hereby ‘giventhat : the Common Council of the City of |Juneau has fixed the rate of tax {levy for the year 1929 at Eighteen Milis on each Dollar of assessed property and taxes are now due land will be delinquent on the first Monday in October at 6 p. m., pro- !viding, however, that if one-half of !the assessed tdxes shall be' paid lon or before the first Monday in |October at the hour of 6 p. m., the |remaining one-half of the assessed {taxes shall not become due until first Monday in March of each l‘year. at the hour of 6 p. m. and {further providing, that should the jremaining one-half of the assessed |taxes be not paid on the: first {Monday in March of each year at ithe hour of 6 p. m., said taxes shall become delinquent. On all delinquent taxes a pen- laity of ten per cent shali bé added, \together with interest at the rate of. eight per cent per annum from date of such delinquency until paid. H. R. SHEPARD, City Clerk. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, AUG. 24, WEATHERHURTS ROAD PROGRAM, SAYS ELLIOTT Extreme Weather Does Material Damage to In- terior Road Projects Al roads in interior Alaska have suffered from extreme weather con- ditions during the past year, ac+ cording to Maj. Malcolm Elliott, President of the Alaske Road Com- mission, who returned on the Alas meda from an inspection trip in that section. Not in a great many | years have conditions been so ad- verse to road building and mainte- nance, he said. The snowfall last winter was un- usually heavy and blanketed the roads at some points to a depta of more than 30 feet The meli- ing snow followed by extraor(inar- {ily heavy rains caused considerable damage in the way of washing off surface material and the destruc- tion of bridges, Maj. Elliott said. Keeps Traffic Moving However, excent for turning back one small party of tourists early in June, traffic has been main- tained all season delay. Tourist traffic over Richard- son Highway has been about nor- |mal, but improved facilities in the |shape of auto stages and better roadhouse acommodations made it more comfortable. than in previous years and is expected to -stimulate | business for future seasons. In Mt. McKinley National Park tourist traffic was at least 25 per cent in excess of last year. The iprogram for the park roads, Maj. Elliott said, following the visit and |recommendations of Ernest E. Saw- | ver, has been greatly advanced, and |1t is expected a passable road to |Copper Mountain, at the base of Mt. McKinley, will be in service by the end of the working season of 1931. | The Alaska' Railroad has under |consideration the erection of a tour- ist hotel at McKinley Park Sta- |tion, and the McKinley Park Trans- | portation Company is considering moving its base camp from Savage River to Sable Pass and the even- tual construction of a modern hotel at Copper Mountain. Park Trip Enjoyed “The McKinley Park trip is one that has been enjoyed by prac- \tically everyone who made it this year. All the tourists with whom I have conversed were enthusiastic about it,” said Maj. Elliott. “The open country, beautiful scenery and the abundance of wild game pre- |sent in the park are features !Iwhich have a great attraction to the visitors. crease in tourist traffic over Steese Highway connecting Fairbanks and Circle. It is expected that this will become an important tourist route during next season as it will obviate many days of travel on the Yukon and Tanana Rivers, Maj. Elliott said. After reaching Circle by river steamer from Whitehorse, enough -of this mode of travel has been had by the majority of tour- ists. The highway is now in good shape and even during the wet weather prevailing this month, Maj. Elliott had no difficulty in covering the 160 miles by auto comfortably in eight and one-half hours. Richardson Highway suffered also from winter snow and: heavy rains. But it has been traveled comfort- ably by a large number of persons this’ summer. Boosting International Road “Interest in the proposed Inter- national Highway is very keen in the interior,” declared Maj. Elliott. So far as Alaska Is ‘concerned there are no extraordinary en- gineering or financial difficulties in the way of this project. During my forthcoming trip to Washing- ton next month, I expect to stop off at Victoria for a consultation with Canadian - officials with re- spect to the road. “The Alaska Road Commission is building a new road from Gulkana on the Richardson Highway east- erly to reach the important Chis- tochena-Chisana country which is known to contain valuable mineral resources. A good start has been made on this project in the re- habilitation of the existing road to Chistochena and the advance work beyond that point. Location has been carried considerably beyond Chistochena by a party under the direction of Engineer Donald Mec- Donald. Unit of Highway “This, when completed, may be- come a part of the International Highway. But its use for that pur- pose probably will be only tempor- ary for the reason that it passes over a summit which will only be open two ‘or three months every year. The eventual permanent lo- cation of the highway will be up the Tanana River from Grundler where it will connect with Rich- ardson Highway.” Good progress has been made on the portage project between the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers near Russian Mission. This is a co-op- erative project on which the Ter- ritory provides funds for water- ways improvements and the Alaska Road Commmission finances the land work, Maj. Elliott said. Maj. Douglas H. Gillette, En- gineer Officer of the Commission, is now inspecting the work. After finishing his-inspection:-he will g» to Iditarod to investigate the prac- without serious | There has beéen a very large in-| 1929. ticability of di rod River which was provided for by the recent Alaska Legislature. Local roads in all parts of the Territory have been under im- provement and maintenance in ac- cord with the needs of the several localities. Aviation flelds in general have been improved. The Tanana field was lengthened 300 feet. The Eagle field was also lengthened by tear-| iing down some of the old army post buildings there. A new field | was built at Chicken, in the Eagle district. < This is proving a very useful field owing to the remoteness 1of the community from the other| | methods of travel. Meets Congressmen Mazaj. Elliott left here August 2 on his inspeetion trip. He met the Ccongressional party at McKinley Park Station and escorted it through the park. Later with Col. {O. . Ohlson, General Manager of | the ‘Alaska Railroad, he went over Steese Highway to Circle. Col.' Ohlson is deeply Interested in ag-| ricultural possibilities of the sep-, tion that is now linked up d'n'ectlyl jwiin the railroad. PLANE MAKES MANY FLIGHTS LAST 2 DAYS Flights to Sitka, Skagway, Wrangell, Petersburg and Lake Dorothy The seaplane Ketchikan, Pilot Anscel C. Eckmann, returned fronr a trip to Lituya Bay yesterday afternoon at five o'clock, stopping on the way to pick up Nick Bez, | President of the Peril Straits Pack- ing Company. August Buschmann, prominent canneryman made the trip to Juneau from Port Althorp in the seaplane. Immediately after it's atrival in | Juneau, the seaplanc left for ;S!Cr ka, making the second round "teip to that town during the day. Mrs. Albert Akervik, and her son, Har- old Akervik, who came to Juneau| on the seaplane on Monday, 're- turned to Sitka yesterday after- noon. Other passengers making the trip were Jack Oskolkoff and Fred Wallson. Returning from Sitka to Juneau on the plane were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Calvin, S. Hartley and Leola B. Flory. Today the Ketchikan has been busy since 6 o'clock this morning, when Mr. Eckmann took two sur-| veyers with several hundred pounds of equipment into Lake Domt}:y. for A. J. Ela, engineer in charge of hydro-electric surveys for the Chandler-Camercn pulp and pa- per interests. Upon his return from the lake Mr. Eckmann made a trip to Port Althorp with August | Buschmann and at 11 o'clock the seaplane left for Skagway with Col. and Mrs. Conrad Mann of Kansas City, Mo., returning to Ju- neau at 12:50. 1t left at 130 o'clock for a round trip to Wrangell and Petersburg and this afternoon will make a trip to Berners Bay to drop several hundred pounds of supplies for Warren Wilson-.and Shelly Graves. Tomorrow Mr. - Eckmann plans to make passenger flights in the vicinity of Juneau: AUTO WITH FOURIN IT OYERTURNS WITH NO INJURIES DONE An Oldsmobile sedan, driven by Ed McDougal, and carrying three others, overturned on Glacier Highway yesterday cvening, turning completely over, ' without serious injury to anyone and with but little damage to the car. Mc- Dougal suffered a wrenched' or sprained shoulder. In attempting to pass anotheg machine, the Oldsmobile hit a soft! spot and turned over, landing squarely on its top with its wheels in the air. Damages to the car were limited to tearing the cloth of the top and a broken casting on the steering wheel. The accident occurred near the Albert Forest homestead where several other ma- chines have gone off the embank- ment in the past several weeks. ———————— KANSAS CITY CAPITALIST AND WIFE LEAVE IN PLANE Col. Conrad Mann, Kansas City capitalist and President of the} Chaniber of Commerce of that city, | and Mrs. Mann, who have been in| Juneau since early this week, left this morning on the seaplane Kei- chikan, for Skagway, where they will board the Princess Charlotte for the south. “I have enjoyed my visit to Alas- ka tremendously and the trip this morning will just put the finish- ing touch to it, for T am very much interested in aviation. © I have just been in- a seaplane once be- fore, however, and that was when 1 walked five miles in to a lake to fish. I didn’t walk out though, for I sent for a seaplane to pick me up,” Col. Conrad said. He is president of an aviation company in Kansas City and in- terested in several others. — Bill Casey is stili at No. 8 Wils loughby Ave. with the best TO- BACCO and SNUFF CURE. ' Hours 2 p.m. to 7 p. m. Call and we will demonstrate. P.O. Box 327. adv | oliseum Theatre WILL PRESENT A FERBER'S most popular L is now the screen’s most en- tertaining picture! with MADGE BELLAMY—LOUISE DRESSER—ALBERT GRAN— BARRY NORTON—LUCIEN LITTLEFIELD The Birth of Ambition A New York street on the east side—a child of ten entertaining her little companions with imita- tions of Harry Lauder—the child’s mother—her attitude of mother- liness — establishing her ambition for the child’s future—the driving force of her character which car- A Great Picture from a Great Book! About the Book “Mother Knows Best’ and still is, one of the most widely discused in years. Con- troversy made it talked about. It was argued that Miss Ferber had in mind a certain actress, and her mother. However, the theme would fit almost any child star and her mother from the days of Corinne and Jeannie Kimball—and what's stories ‘ncs through the story. U. S. Government |Employees Are to Make Al ka Trip WASHIN ON, Aug. 24. ~—The Interior Department announces that 20 employees will leave Sunday for a tour of Alaska. The party will sail from Secattle on August 31, arrive at Anchorage on September 7 and return to Seattle September 30. IN FIGHT BILL FOR LABOR DAY Leyson Goes on Instead of the difference? THERE 1S BUT ONE REASON " WHY we ask * ‘you to come here for your, printing. We believethatwe are equipped | ‘to give your work the prop- er attention | ‘and that we are able to/ \turn out a satisfactory _ pieceof work, ’ PUT US TO THE TEST Miller Against Roberts | —Seat Sale Opens ‘Two switches have been made in the American Legior Labor Day fight card to be staged in Elks Hall on the evening of August 31, it was announced today by Match- maker Brown. Tiger Layson, Fili- pino scrapper, is substituting for Soldier Miller with Young Eddie Roberts as his opponent, and Gun- beat Gus Norblad is substituting for Soldier Daly against Young Shar-! key, the Unalga Sailor. | Layson has fought twice here, once losing a decision and the sec- ond time winning on a foul. He was against bigger men both times and so far outweighed and over- matched he had no chance to show his wares. He is well-matched with Reberts and this bout should be as good as the average final Norblad is said to have fought some good men in Europe and is expected to glve Sharkey quite an argument. The sale of reserved seat tickets was opened yesterday and a good jaavance demand was reported. The had at the Corner, Pool pasteboards may be Alaskan Hotel, Burford's the Imperial and Pioneer halls. — e — ONE MAN KILLED; TWO ARE | INJURED Leonard Rich was instantly killed, | C. A. McGahan was injured and Mike Hunt escaped unhurt in an automobile aceident recently 43 miles above Chatanika on the, Steese highway. 1 The machiné, a Ford Truck owned | by the Alaska Road Commission, swerved from the road and plunged 30 feet down an embankment. Rich's head and shoulders were| caught under the machine as it| came 1o rest on its side and it is| believed that death occurred wilh-; in a very brief time. J Brilliant Flavor That Makes _The Meal Pabst-ett’s enticing flavor has won this new dairy food a permanent place in millions of aomes. Healthful—contains all ‘he elements of whole milk. Easy to use—spread it on bread or crackers, or combine with other foods into tempting new dishes. Have you tried Pabst Cheese? Five delightful varieties—packed in convenient sizes. A. MAGNANO COMPANY Seattle, Wash. 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