The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 22, 1930, Page 3

Positively Last Times TONIGHT Positively Last Times TONIGHT PALAC OUR PROGRAMS — Always Good—Ofter. Great—Never a Doubt e A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All TALKING All SINGING All DANCING PICTURE “More revue-like than anything on the legitimate stage and infinitely brighter.” Nothing like it every before shown on a Juneau Theatre Screen 10—25—75—Loges, $1.00 No Show Wednesday Night—Theatre Rented ——COMING: : “The Woman Disputed’ with NORMA TALMADGE ] LUDWIG NELSON'S Annual Sale will be held as the past, May 1st. SR P Attractions ; {tnms. in —adv. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1930 50-CENT PROFIT BRINGS RUM WAR TO EL PASO MEX/CO [ CUarez MEX/CO €L PASO A 50-cent profit has brought border rum war to El Paso, near Juarez, as map shows. Officers are Note men with hands raised and injured man at left being assisted byf patrolman. Chief H. Horsley (center) and other border patrolmen are shown guarding open section of shown (top) arresting smugglers. | river at El Paso (lower right). | | EL PASO, Tex., April 22.—Good i whiskey brings $2 a pint in saloons in Juarez, Mexico, a stone's throw across the Rio Grande. | On this side bootleggers deliver |the same grade for $2.50 a pint. In ithat spare 50-cent spread lies a | thrilling story of relentless warfare against smugglers. | Physical conditions favor smug- jglers. Among Mexican peons is an ever-ready supply of manpower ea- (ger to risk life or arrest to earn $1 |to $250 spending 10 minutes wad- |ing the shallow, murky Rio Grande |under the burden of a case or two |of liquor Opposed are United States cus- border patrol and immigra- tion officers. ! The result has been almost night- !ly warfare — minor outbreaks to pitched battles, So accustomed has El Paso be- come that the city sleeps soundly while rifles and pistols bark. Lit- tle attention is paid even when fights occur within city limits Risking their own lives noncha- lantly, the smugglers display an (utter diSregard for .others’ lives. Fourteen United 8States officers |have been slain in and near EI | Paso. ‘ Juarez and El Paso, center to center, are six minutes apart by Ltrolley. Not_since the border pa- (trol was established four years ago LET Aimquist Fress your Sult has an American citizen been found We call and deliver. At Theatres Phone 528 |Participating in the smuggling. Some officers believe there are & | 0 § ¥CocK EYED WORLD" IS NOW AT COLISEUM © One of the hilarious episodes in the all talking Fox Movietone pro- duction, “The Cock Eyed World,” directed by Raoul Walsh of “What Price Glory” fame, deals with a little red book, given “Top Sergeant Flagg,” played by Victor McLaglen, to his pal and arch enemy, “Ser- geant Quirt,” played by Edmund Lowe, when the latter ‘decides to leave the service. The red hook names, addresses and descriptions of Quirt’s vaieours former flames, little contains hurries to the nearest telephone booth &nd calls the lassies listed in this little red book. He only lo- cates “Fanny,” played by beautiful Jean Bary. She is dated for a rollicking trip to Coney Island. All goes well until they meet the last person in the world they expected to find, Quirt, and then trouble begins. Quirt makes a sly effort to get the girl. “The Cock Eyed World” is now packing them in at the Coliseum ! Theatre. It is from the story by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson. Billy K. Wells wrote the dialog and lovely Lily Damita is also featured. [:’ HOLLYWOOD REVUE LAST TIMES PALACE TONIGHT & _—J:',J Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, from first to last, has done a wonderful job with its great musical extravaganza, “The Hollywood Revue,” which plays! at the Palace Theatre for the last| times tonight. It has shown us/ what talking films can de, and if| they have reached this stage of| perfection already, what next? Not one star, but dozens—name: to conjure with in the motion pic: ture world, pass in review before your eyes, each with song, dance or skit, each with his or her proper balance; each, often with a back-| ground of gorgeous girls in gor-, geous seftings, brilliantly illumin- ated with color and sound. | Twenty songs! As many dances. Tremendous ensembles marks this supes-musical production. It is an all-talking, all-musical, all-dancing sensation! Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer has done itself proud. A skillful “prosecutor,” himself a mysterious visit domain, had barely finished the grilling, when his little drama was interrupted., WHO IS GUILTY? his secretary, servints, acquaintances and even by his wife. - _ The police were pounding on the door, demanding ndmittance. had become a reality. Dan Parados was dead in his library, a bullet through his hcart.’ Read the answer in this unique, pulsating story ofl »wvenge and romance—by Charles G. Booth—his la "MURDER AT HIGH TIDE” -~ test, distinctive _work, Americans behind the racket. They | have learned that bootleggers bar- |gain for liquors in Juarez on a basis of delivery on the American side. | Many smugglers prefer to run | their loads across the international | boundary just above El Paso, where only a monument marked line separates Old Mexico and the Am- erican State of New Mexico, but as it passes here and turns southeast towards the Gulf of Mexico the Rio Grande is not much of a river nor very grand. It is shallow and sluggish, and sometimes a good broad jumper could hop across it. As long ago as 1899 an effort to make the temperamental Rio more | tractable resulted in establishment of a smugglers’ haven. Cordova Island is no island at all, but a bit of Mexico hitched on lb\ El Paso 30 years ago when the Cordova Cutoff was negotiatéd as a |flood prevention measure and the Rio Grande was trundled further |south into Old Mexico. While the ,l‘t‘(l of the stream ordinarily marks [the international Iine, ' artificial {changes in its course do not count |with the International Boundary Commission. Shaped like a fan, Cordova Island {makes a big swing into El Paso, |and many of the streets in the | southern part of the ancient city, El Paso del Norte (the pass of the north) run blind into the “island.” There it is that the law enforce- a goodly number, to say the least. | When the transport carrying the marines dock in New York, “Flagg” J Parados, turned to a grim contest of make-belicve—cach attempting to “‘convict™ , the others of the hypothetical murder of their absent host. A # Like a mountain avalanche, there burst out a torrent of hatreds and jealousies, hissing, stinging, biting. Parados was loathed and despised by his business associates, Under his very roof, Parados’ bitterest enemies “confessed” their innermost thoughts, laid bare a dozen motives for the imaginary crime, to which nearly every person in the house became a party-suspect, or to Parados sinister The game ment officers and smugglers fre- quently battle. Alded by a dense growth of cot-| tonwood saplings fringing Cordova Island, smugglers can run their loads right up to the ‘international line without fear of being molested —except by hijackers. When darkness creeps in from the desert, Cordova Island becomes a hotbed of rum runners. They aim for friendly huts on the Am- erican side to cache their loads and collect. R e o [French Women Darn More than U. S. Sisters MIAMI, Fla., April 22.—Independ- ence of American women precludes |consideration of darning and mend- |ing as a duty, believes Maj. Georges i Thenault, French war flier. On the other hand, the French' wife sews for her husband without | {protest, but lacks the charm of the {American girl, engendered as it is by her “spirit, freedom and inde-, pendence,” he said " WE'LL TELL “THE COCK EYED WORLD” IT IS SOME PICTURE COLISEUM Where Sound Sounds Best IT’S ON AGAIN TONIGHT SEZ WE! A 7 Coming Soon AVICTOR MLAGLEN, Epmunp LOWE Liry DAMITA RAGUL WALSH CRCRC R R . e BRYAN'S TYPEWRITER NOW IN U. S. MUSEUM WASHINGTON, April 21. —The typewriter on which the late William Jennings 3 wrote the famous of gold” speech now reposes in the national mu- seum. It was given to the insti- tution by Benjamin Davis, of Washington, secretary to the great commoner when he stampeded the Democratic National Convention at Chi- cago 34 years ago with this speech. The brief oration brought him the Democratic Presdential nomination, e 0000 |GARDEN CLUB IS TO MEET THIS EVENING The Garden Club meets tonight {at 8 o'clock in | Legion - Dugout, - to Associated Press Photo Renee Adoree, film actress, is ill in La Crescenta, Cal, —_— . e perfect plans Major Thenault, who command- jed the Lafayette escadrille during! the World War, now is air and| | military attache at the French Em- ' |bassy in Washington. He married an American girl, the former Miss |sarah Spencer, Chicago. st i AGFA-ANSCO FILMS AT { ALASKA SCENIC VIEWS adv by STARTS MONDAY, |for the year. All members are ‘urged to be present. ————— NOTICE tU SHIPPERS FRIEND OF VETERANS WASHINGTON—Photographs u[‘i Mrs. Mary A. Hickey, Superintend-| The “MARGNITA” will pot ac- ent of Nurses of the Veterans cept freight after 1:30 p, m. on Bureau will adorn the walls of 50 sailing date. —ady. hospitals for disabled veterans. She | e is known to thousands of disabled| Try the FIve O'ORWK soldiers all over the country. | Specials at Mabry's. J Dinner —adv i Chavries G. Booth APRIL 28 ®esccessscccssscsessnse the American | WORDS and MUSIC BROADWAY GOLD DIGGERS Is Coming “Tomorrow's Styles Today” Dresses Models which are both chic and serviceable shown in a full range of colors and sizes. Priced from $7.95 to $17.95 Ol¢ papers for sale at The Em- pire office. 1 MURDER - HIGH TIDE in DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE