The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 13, 1931, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931. CAPITOL THURSDAY- FRIDAY “HOTTER THAN HOT, BLUER THAN BLUE!” H ERE it is—the best the talking screen has produced! It’s fresh, lively, youthful! It has zest, pep a thousand laughs, cute co-eds, a grand love story, and football thrills! Ard it’s just erammed full of these De Sylva, Brown and Henderson song hits! with BESSIE LOVE Mary Lawlor CLIFF EDWARDS Stanley Smith Lola Lane New Pl | Capitol Theatre as a new Metro- | {cal comedy hit, obtained the serv- * * * * ays 1onigh L@@@Il Theatre Screens Glitter / * Back To Broadway CAPITOL HAS 2000 NEWS' FOR TONIGHT Graphic Features of Pleasing Play Trenches, roller-coaster tracks. and monorails provide means by | which unusual action scenes of the| football struggle were obtained for | the filmization of “Good News,” | which will open tonight, at the tune by writing and producin “Able’s Irish Rose,” Is to return t Broadway after an absnnce of tw version of the famous stage musi- | cutstanding gridiron triumphs, such'in a continucus closeup of action pigskin stars as George Dye, Leo and dialogue as the game Kell; Marshall Duffield, Tony gressed. Stenonovich, Frank Anthony, Dick | kee, Bud Fisher, Dov Harwoqd.‘scenes as these, Tomy Jurick, Ames Lane, tz, Bull Purcell, Jim Musick and'dialogue in the original stage play. which were pro- | ‘THE SEA GOD' 1S HEADLINER AT COLISEUM |Fay Wray and Richard i Alen Star in South Sea Island Play | “The Sea God,” founded on John| Russell's famous story, “The Lost God,” will be the headline attrac-| tion on the new program to be | presented at the Coliseum theatre tonight. “The Sea God" | stars Fay Wray | the shores of which are : the sea. 7 4 {is not all. They must be retained.|expecting such an encounter ¢ ‘Good News,” as it comes to the They excite the cupidity of vil-|big bull bear sniffed at us and| Templeton, John Alden, Harry Dur-|screen, brings such spectacular only Bill | suggested by off-stage cheering and lainous sailors who come to the island, and Arlen passes through imany trials before he emerges tri- umphant with his wealth and his beds of | bear less than fifty fee as rare pearls, and the name of the|seemed where the Trojan players won their and keeping the principal players igather pearls from the bottom of | w | | COLISEUM The Voice of the Screen STARTING TONIGMT 7:30 RICHARD ARLEN and FAY WRAY A story gripping in suspense and action. caught beneath the sea? COME ALL AND A diver What did he do? SEE AND HEAR ALSO OUR SELECTED HORT away. as surprised we and idable car- had fool- We But the acquisition of the gems!ishly left our rifles in camp n p stood up, still maintaining his po- sition. I thought it was time to art something so I took my ice pick and started clinking a rock on !I(‘l | Goldwyn-Mayer offering. . Sts P ol o AP o FEATURETTES ADDED Edgar MacGregor and Nick Aasociate: Presp PRO® |\ .py0 siory of love and adven- Grinde, who directed. the screen | Anne Nichols, who made a fol . The locale is an island, off | wait more. “Run,” I and we streak- 1 ices of the University of South- | play finds its reason g the fact|halted in indecision We didn't |ed aer sh cover fes emn California football squads for | Y*ars. Bhe pians to oo A g T R AV o o U A men- | expe: Cpstroged o the thrilling sequences that climax | |regard a deep-sea diver encased in|tally picked out a cc nt spot{a. hurried backward glance, the the action of the story. | o |his equipment as a divinity, on the rim preferring to jump|head and shoulders of an drate When the company, went on logas grooves, —enabling the photogra-| Arlen portrays the diver, who|over and avalanche down a few’|mother bear coming up over the tion at ‘the Los Angeles Staditim 'phers to keep abreast of the plays|temporarily adopts this calling o] thot he 1 mix cliff. She stayed with her cub, how- Vever. Three bears on the same section of Aniakchak's rim as we chose for observation were just three {too many, so regretfully leaving our scientific chservations and pho- tography for another day, we has- tened toward our camp at the foot of the voleano. Satisfied with our Gus Shy |Amos Sherman answered rollcall. The canoeing love scenes on the | sweetheart, who also is coveted by |if. The noise irritatvd the bear |reconnaissance we treked the long ALSO SHORT { Put in Real Actors moonlit lake also are welcome) his enemies. and he turned and ran. Up the|miles back to Kujulik bay to col- DO S In their ranks the directors pfac- changes from the stilted theatre! Interest through the picture is|snowfields and r s he went, his lect our heavier equipment and re- SUBJECTS A Mewq-Golduwyn-Mayer 4 PICTURE TELLSOFBLAST |ed Stanley Smith, leading man, and/action. |Gus Shy and Delmar Daves who! talso are featured in the cast. the field and cameras and migro- | phones were shoved into the pifsf | protected from the stampeding players by iron shutters. Along the |line of action as outlined by the | script, was erected a roller coaster | McNulty, Billy Taft, Frank Mc- Glynn and Tom Jackson. the musical score of throughout the picture. The spec- Bessie Love heads the cast in the Abe Lyman's famous band plays 16 hlt:;J tacular football wedding finale® highly maintained. Action is swift and exciting. The play is all that NEW BUILDING MATERIAL BERLIN, Aug. 13.—A new build- |ing material consisting of artificial pumice has been developed in. Ger- rified people of Meshik when peb- coming from the geographical po- |ash covered the feed the reindeer Wished For Change ous year. Kneeling as is our cus- rasping breath and growls showing the eagerness of his retr erate. “It s swered, * uppose that like men are curious too and w to see what Aniakchak is doing.” o ine,” I an- rs their liking. The eruption and con- nt : turn for a thorough exploration of the inside of Aniakchak. i jscreen version and others featured|a play involving a South Sea island | “What in the world is a bear| Adventures in tne air and in the ¥ 5 || For the unusual action shots are Mary Lawlor, Lola Lane, Cliff [should be. |doing up here, Regan withyinterior of the erupting voleano ALL TALKING [ trenches were dug in the middje of | (Ukelele Tke) Edwards, Dorothy | . the first calm breath he could op- marked the next few weeks. Load- jed with specimens of mineral forms, gases and mineral waters and with fifteen thousand feet of motion pic- tures and hundreds of still photo- graphs we at length brought our | | | | —— T + e T = g i 4 Sanctuary for Bears summer to a close. Next spring . track, upon which camera peram- |filmed entirely in natural colors is many. It is claimed to be an ex- The floor of the great crater will see a continuation of our crupting volcano and the sides of [charts. After several calculations|pulators were mounted in the|an additional attraction. cellent fire-proof material. fia R v ALY BoRk udy of the world's largest cra- GLAG‘ER P the mountain reverberated to the |by different officers the concensus o, B ey ot A 5 MR N T bf}‘“ -lo-;dlfl(“ldf.‘ ‘l“l XE;J“-’V fl;\;x“ i L ges! 50 ing . rocks. ser | o i ide 7] i : s ations bears and with its abun- |ter. (‘;::3 ‘g(rm fil;‘]\_“dngek “lr;dd?flrf ;Iro“?;;l::of; :“r‘:q”zm‘\dlm;?es rm“i:enur back of Nushagak. It was|rim of the Yolcano. The air was|to see Paradise Lost after having {dant food, its salmon and its min-| T feel particularly attached to the e ; & i o arine ght Ul as{rawning time, and when volcanic|dry and a slight breeze blowing. |lived in Paradise Found the “previ- |eral springs was evidently much to | Aniakchak volcano. Tt is the larg- |est in the world and I like big tjfnlézg"{lfsj.,r‘l‘?.\-W:,,:)f fffi“": ll;)l_l ““—;}:‘.. (;fsh‘.\.m?,lfmf,k{,k.l k blown |tarted to migrate leaving the help- | We soon wished that it would |tom on such, decasions, we said |sequent eviction from their homes|things. Also it marks one of my B o L T, Sl iet Pl el o 1y 158 young .to perish. . Reinder|change to rain. .. Every. time our four Hail Mary aloud then crossed|had mo doubt been quite . puzze|most successful attempt at sclen- BY ANIAKOHAK lasted uninterruptedly until May [the wind, settled in conamiuon, (80d carlbou ground; thelr’ tgethl|foot descended.on the.mossy tun- [ourselves and crawled cautiously|to the crater hears, and bent. on [¢iflc prediction, Tn an .Associated ! ST “mIl ler}mc A<~’q)lo‘um’1"‘dcptm St ol Kl.hel hcc‘;“';‘;“;)’:“‘:; down to the gums from the grit|dra clouds of voleanic ash rose up, |to the edge. investigation they had sought the|Press dispatch of January 30, after . sh:ook Lho‘surréundi“ng cnun‘xry .and origin. At Chigmkp ‘nxl nu;cs in fhe G anditdied, Dead filling our eyes and ears and, Silence. Nobody wanted to speak. [rim along the same route we had /I had spoken to the Chamber of . g sent rocks and ashes into the air |south, they fell a pound yr hour | SWans and geese floated down the|throat and making our hair lke|There was the new Aniakchak, |used. | Commerce at Seward and explain- Recent " Exnrptiontt W ais| Gy mannitt fiioniess, for asverat o the ' acnms ot e 2 xivers from lakes of the Alasks|wire brushes. . Dust whirlwinds set but i was the-abomination of 4eso-|" Greatly relleved by the bear's|L8; the Tecent' earthquakes ' there, ; 4 i e e a 0N peninsula and cutting them open |in motion by cross currents from lation; it was the prelude of hell, | eoseii returned again to the|Nad clearly stated that the center Greatest in World hours a4 noen. fime- at-distances 60 ( 150 Miles Away revealed the cause of their de-|the numerous mountain canyons Black walls, black = floor, black | Frn ".]; e aned agan 10 telor the Alaska Peninsula, Aniak- Sigee Katmars m%s;‘::@\li““‘:d"e‘sgae flcfxz‘f'c‘;,.h” l“_g A similar distance north at|struction, entrals full of woleanie|sent myriads of miniature tof- | water, deep black holes and blackm‘;",{ 534 f‘\‘ml “mu,‘““[)dlt? take | 1ak or Chiginagak would have s '€ 1ast | Ugashik they fell even heavier and |ash. Hibernating bears, squirrels!nados into the air making the |vents it fairl ized el v piosures in:splte of. 4he.pooy a major sruption this summer as E3imms explosion on' May 11 and on the ; A | ; f y agon the “eye|yisibility, Seeking a point of rock | P! .p 2 y At ¢ lon Kodiak island, Katmai national and small game living. inside the|setting appear more like a scene to look at it. No longer did the!., 378 2 1aq | BT€a4 as Katmai's, the rest of the (Continued from Page One) ey o Brisiol Bay where be mebsnonment. ‘lishagalic 8nd - Dolits larater - probsbly weke -sonsuined $nliit the Breat Amasiie desart thie beautifully colored lavas and shiny | bove, & pociplions snow-filled | 114 “was duly informed that I £ G5 R R STy S TR "]f"‘ aughet; ax:;l nar;a;edu:he Svmr-‘t;o"“‘ 150 miles distant depths of ash |the first great explosion an Alaskan landscape. , Bleak, volcanic glass strike the vision, ;llxuu, y}“"".‘_’“"i)(“,“’lrf‘_ the 1“‘;“""”‘?I as not afrajd to call my shot! clouds. it was probably steam ?'ra“:g o‘!“ruglsw;;ar :nd hi: C;’;::n{w 2 quarter of an inch covered|, g, much heat suddenly lberated |TOCky, open spaces were crossed,! No streams coursed through the (‘Ili(;nhjlxl‘:!“{\‘]('1l)lll’,\;:‘]?\‘l;ll‘(\ )v‘c:““\:‘mnukchak did the rest! generating from some fissure in the | RIS B L DAL 8C TS SRS everything. - Even in the interior | "ol a5 miliions of tons of tiny |d€ep gullies laboriously. climbed, flower-strewn meadows, nor Eras. b cooiisie. o e SR At T SRR T voleano that allowed water to iSO ctnd oo | o Alaska ashes fell along the |aqeoq filling the air caused an in-|dense alders struggled through and /sy slopes lead up to former vol- |y ac e abtont i e reach the buried, heated rocks. over five miles of floating pummice | gyskokwim, 300. miles away, and teresting phenomenon shortly aft- [mountain streams forded for many |canic vents; no glistening glaciers| o o, OU Attention. 1 was a sort| Mary: My nhusband wanted me Then at 12 o'clock came a terriic | 1° S17% of Water buckets, On May | probably investigation would' ShoW |or” the eruption. Clouds condensed |hours, 1 was real proud of my nor snowtlelds broke the monotony |y iper and howl combined. 1t 1to wear coiton hose. 20 yumbling from the volcano and |effects of the ash fall at even |- P, y A A L V|was followed by heavy rasping| Molly: The brute! T hope you explosion. and .2, dense. black cloud b\ oortinaxes folowed by an | tor dist rapidly all over the region and|Party. |of the huge crater walls. breathing. Douglas peored - over|shot- him, dearle rushed over twenty thousand feet ascending smoke cloud indicated | Toaes R raindrops forming about the tiny| The pace was steady and the go- | No Contorted Lava Flows the edge as I crawled beside him.| Waaiiidsr inta the air, spreading out funnel shaped and then starting to descend rapidly. Wilson and his family rushed to their cabin as did the few fear-stricken Aleuts of Meshik. The earth shook, flame and smoke rose thousands of feet high and the pyrotechnic display of indi- rvidual lava bombs hurlting through the last major explosion of Aniak- chak. Ashes Fall on Ships Ashes fell on vessels plying both in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea and one of the Govern- ment- ships heading towards the Peninsula had an interesting ac- ‘The fineness and solubility of the ash of Aniakchak’s eruption were |quite out, of the ordinary. Deposits were either washed entirely away or dissolved in the rains that fol- lowed the first eruption. Much sulphuric acid was present, tarnish- ing metal even off in the Kusko- kwim. ash bits started falling. Literally Rained Mud Turning the ashes to mud it literally rained mud for hours, making the snowfields and glaciers black as ink and causing the sur- rounding country to look as though covered with a huge funeral pall. ing tough and though the two| younger boys fell asleep from sheer | No contorted lava. flows. pleased exhaustion nearly every time we‘wuh the sinuous windings of their stopped for a few -minutes rest,|C00lNg mass. - The Avernian cob- they struggled on manfully unm‘web in the distant half cone was ten o'clock at night, or rather M‘leveled with volcanic ejecta. Vent Alaska daylight, when we madeimaumain rising in the center of camp at the foot of Aniakchak. We!'h¢ great crater had an omi- covered close to thirty miles that,JOuS crack in its side and it top One Glance Was Enough One glance was enough. A tiny cub brown bear was parked on a ledge of rock not twenty feet be- low us and his lovely ten-foot-long mother was climbing up to her darling. She saw us at the same time that we saw her and with a Diamond Briquets CLEAN ; the air combined with the lights |count to narrate. AMGALE Lode: Eiired The ash mud was, sticky, 100, and oy fcovered with clouds and gas. Beau- |flash of teeth i S B st ECONOMICAL ning forming in the cloud and| While still a gieai distance from | As is usual in the voleanic cata- |insisted on getting into every crack : | tiful - Surprise }ake nestling under i ge up th r di-| EFFICIENT coming from the earth to make a|land and while trying to pick up|clysms of the Alaska Peninsula|and corner and penetrating the Start to Climb Volcano the northern rim was choked and re;kx‘on. h {6d abott the dil “truly fear-inspiring sight. a light for observation a con- |volcanos, great loss in animal life |closest woven cloth. Next morning we started the muddy and black were its. shores anging her mind about the di- | Thunder Adds to Din Thundér added its din to almost constant explosions of the |instruments, | spicuous flickering light drew the but its position was resulted from. the explosion of Aniakchak. The most distant suf- | my student party of this year, ar- rived at Chignik shortly after the Chishiolm, Douglas and Regan;]climb to the volcano rim. Winding .‘and filled its coves. And the cause Ahrough canyons, crossing slipes of volcanic ash that rose in choking |of it all? Far off under the oppo- |site rim to us more than six and rection she made for the cub to gee if it was all right. We did not me’far from any light marked on the ferers were the reindeer in the in- middle of May, when everythingclouds, we struggled along the loose|a half miles away, a new sight durable Drying, ENAMELOID WoeD- WORK WINDOW- SILLS all will be beautifal when youw use MAR-NOT FAST-DRY VARNISH 7 for floors, fine enough for woadwork, enough for window sills—and Rapid > SEMI-LUSTRE A decorative enamel in popular Abalf-lustre interior wall paint for gdnn.rFul&y'-;u bathrooms, kitchens, Thomas Hardware Co. i [food for a it s R was still in a turmoil from the ef- fects of the eruption. No definije news of the actual eruption had reached the outside world other than another Alaska volcano had exploded in a major eruption. An-|propriateness of the name as lakchak was suspected and Chis- ck Nase though its sheer cliffs holm sent me a radio ‘message ‘to[were of “black basalt and obsidian, Holy Cross where I was chafing under the forced inaction of wait-jered glinted in the sun and at ing for the mighty Yukon to break feventidé took on all the roseate up and let the ice ouf so airplanes huies of Alpine coloring. But now could land. “ |the closer we approached the Flies Down Kuskokwim blacker it became. Black were Finally on June 2 Chief Pilot|fts snowfields and black its gla- Harry Blunt of the Pacific Inter- eiered head and even the clouds national Airways of Alaska with|that hovered about it looked black co-pilot Al Monsen flew a Fair-|in that desolate setting. { child plane to Holy Cross and|' Climbing to the ‘crater rim we started me off on the ploneer flight were. going through. a valley of down the lower Kuskokwim and|death in which not a blade of along Bering Sea. After many ad-{grass or flower or a bunch of moss ventures we landed at Chignik. Albroke through the thick covering partial and rather dangerous re-|of 'deposited ash. Black cinders connaissance of Aniakchak from|dlinked under our feet and slid the air revealed little but smoke{away. It was like walking on and gas filling an fmmense black!wheat in a huge bin and equally maw of the still erupting volcana. \difficuit., For greater safety we put off agrial{ Jutting rocks along the ridge ne- chservations until later on in the [cessitated more climbing but this summer, determining to investigate |was far more preferable than the the volcano first on foot. By|sliding cinders and choking ash. A plane and hoat. our party and|few hours of hard work and but a equipment were transported from)few feet separated us from the Chignik to Kujulik bay, the nearest {the coveted goal; the rim of Aniak- approach on foot to the volcano.|chak and the first glance into the Blunt then flew part of the equip-|great abyss. ment to Meshik lake on the flanks/|. Waited for Regan of the voleano and left for his, .= We waited for Regan to catch up headquarters at Anchorage, to re-’ as _troublesome shoes had caused turn in a few weeks time. him to come up slowly. Different With sleeping bags, cameras and lemotions surged through us, all few days the tl of expectation, in 1 started from .. Douglas ground until a long ridge was all that separated us from the highest {Point of the rim near the rocky prominence named Black Nose. Last year I could not see the ap- students.‘and Julikes myfi“ barrier mountains, acréss the An- | first time and were,tense for the dhinisthandiaiin ‘o I:et its notable head, glacier cov-| but _different égan were|at the bear!” came ‘the common traverse the coastal|tg se¢ the immense for the|exclamation. iakchak river valley and gain the epectacle. Chisholth and I were| And bear it was; a big brown) oA S greeted our eyes, There was a huge black crater built out from the wall and. from its black maw, yel- | {lo wand brown gases were pouring | and clouds of escaping steam. A few miles to the left of this new main | vent a lava hill was being push- ed up above the crater floor, its top a mass of cracking, tumbling blocks the size of houses, and| from_every crack streams of gas land steam issuing, Beyond the moving hill a seem- ingly bottomless pit had been blown out of the crater floor and smoke was pouring from it too, But the terrible blackness of it all got on our nerves, Visibility Was Impaired ‘ Visibllity was none too good as it had not rained for a few days and dust whirlwinds danced along the. crater floor like some mad ghosts that danced their Devils {Ball in the deadly smoke and gases of this prelude of hell in Aniak- chak. ‘A good strong whif of hydro- gen sulphide brought us to our senses and choking we dodged away from the rim of the cratér to where a ravine wind outside the voleano cleared the air. None of us said anything. There was noth- ing to say. It was all see, and each one felt himself as in the grasp of a chilly nightmare that he could not shake off’ Nor were we the only ones that sought the rim of Aniakchak that day. We all seemed to see him at the same time for he popped out sud- denly onto the black snowfield from behind a rock on the rim. “Look Big Brown Bear To the length of service you have had from your tires, add the many miles of driving — naturally blowouts are to be ex- pected. That is where vuleanizing comes in. It seals the hole in casing and tube, adding many more miles of service. Vulcanize Now JUNEAU Motor Co. PACIFIC COAST COAL CO. Phone 412 Merchandise Arriving on every boat H. S. Graves The Clothing Man