The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 28, 1931, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY SEPT. 28, 1931 DL OO RO CAPITOL LAST TIMES TONIGHT JOAN CRAWFORD in Bayard Velller's stage smash, “Within the Law,” now the Talk of the Talkies. “PAID” CHARLEY CHASE in “ROUGH SEAS” MIDNIGHT MATINEE ' TONIGHT—1 AM.—SHOWING | ——Watch For— COHENS and KELLYS “IN AFRICA” T P Fa Sweaters Showing a large as- || sortment of coat mod- els in a full range of || colors, patterns and sizes. Real Values at BLACK CAT CANDY SHOPPE HENRY L. BAHRT, Prop. Dinner from 5:30 to 7 pm. | Lo e e e R L Music--Entertainment furnished for DANCES—PARTIES LODGE GATHERINGS ‘SMOKEY’ MILLS—Phone 402 Midweek Dance Moose Hall icrook gang, CAPITOL WILL FOLLOW ‘P AID’ WITH‘DRACULA’ Preview offimpire Story to Be Given at Mid- night Matinee Tonight After the regular showings of “Paid,” starring Joan Crawford, and of “Rough Seas” featuring Charley Chase, at the Capitol The- atre tonight, a midnight matinee, presenting “Dracula,” with Bela Lugosi in the leading role, will be given. “Dracula,” will be the head- line attraction at regular perform- ances tomorrow night. In “Paid,” as Mary Turner, the shop girl who is sent to prison, although innocent, and subsequent- ly becomes the leader of a suave Miss Crawford offers a surprise to moviegoers who have seen her only in flapper charac- | terizations. Comical Situations “Rough Seas” gives the versatile Mr. Chase a chance to put over some more of those comical situa- tions for which he is so well noted. “Dracula” is a weird story of human vampires. “Ninety per cent of the people are morbid minded!"” This is the sharp declaration of Tod Browning, director of “Drac- ula.” Asked to Stay Away ‘Th=> photoplay is of such sophis- |ticated type that Eric Paulson, Manager of the Capitol Theatre, | requests boys and girls, under 16 |vears old, not to seek admission during the uncanny production’s | engagement, —_————— HIGH SCHOOL’S ENROLMENT IS 162, NEW RECORD Interclass B;s:l:etball Tour- nament Will Be Start- ed Next Week With 162 students, the Juneau High School has the largest at- tendance in its history. Every seat {is occupied. There was some short- age of text books at the beginning |of class work, but this deficiency has been remedied by receipts and now the supply is ample. “Everything is running smooth- {ly,” declared R. S. Raven, Superin- jtendent of Public Schools, this morning. Basketball is receiving attention. Class basketball practice will start this evening with a turnout of Seniors. Every one of the four classes — Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors—will engage in two periods of practice, and then, next week, the interclass bas- ketball tournament will begin. Every class will have a boys’ team and a girls’ team and a game between boy teams and a game between girl teams will fea- ture every night of scheduled tour- nament play. The interclass tournament games will be played in the high school gymnasium. No admission will be charged for them. At the conclusion of the inter- class tournament, the squad to represent Juneau in the inter-high school - basketball competition will be selected, and training and prac- tice for these contests will begin. Superintendent Raven comment- ed on the efficient service of the new mootrbus to convey children living on Glacier Highway to and from school. “Thirty - five pupils are making the trip daily,” he said. “The ul route of the bus is 13 miles be- win W'fll tween Barnacle Gables, the 0ji- 1f You Don's Watch Outl' 'ward terminal and town.” 'lIIllll"mllIllllIllll!IllmHllllllIlII|IIIIIIlIlIIIIIlfllflllllflllllllll"lllllllll Popular Coals Dock ADMIRALTY ISLAND PACIFIC COAST NUT INDIAN LUMP NUT DIAMOND BRIQUETS CALL US DIRECT— PHONE 412 HOLLYWOOD STYLE SHOP PACIFIC COAST COAL CO LT | § g | i QT "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIlIl||IIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ,_E IBUNK STRIPPED FROM MAGAZINE TALE OF ALASKA Supposedly P rehistoric Relic from Wrangell Is Only Few Years Old In stripping the bunk from an article in the October issue of the American Magazine about a sup- posedly prehistoric specimen of Alaska ‘art, the Wrangell Sentinel has performed a service of some scientific value and given a laugh to Northerners. The magazine ar- ticle concerns the purchase of a carved granite curio by E. Alex- ander Powell when he was in Wrangell a few years ago. The ex- posure by the Wrangell Sentinel follows: Mr. Powell in his magazine ar- ticle, develops the idea that “any day you may stumble on a fortune hidden in rubbish and find high adventure where you least expect| it.” He relates several instances where, in various parts of the world, seemingly worthless objects have been discovered by chance and bought for a small sum. Relates Personal Experience “Let me tell you about an ex- perience of my own,” Mr. Powell says in the magazine story. “In th2 summer of 1920 I was traveling by steamer from Vancou-) ver to Skagway, Alaska. The boat, stopped for an hour at Wrangell, an island off the Alaskan coast, and I was one of the few passen- gers to go ashore. In a dilapidated eating-house which, I judged, had originally been a saloon, I observed on a shelf, between a cluster of empty bottles and a potted gera- nium, a most curious object. It was carved from some variety of hard, light-colored stone — granite. I guessed—and represented, as nearly as I could make out, a heraldic bird, possibly an eagle, its eyes half closed, its beak sunk upon its, breast. It stood about twelve inch- es high and, though crudely exe- cuted, had a peculiarly sinister ex-| pression. It might be Mayan. Or Babylonian, Or Phoenician. No matter what its origin, I wanted it.1 White-Bearded Old Man “The proprietor, an old, old man with a white beard reaching half- way to his waist, was behind the counter serving a throng of hungry | because it serves to remind me that Where in going about the world it is well|get a little mossy and dirty. customers. “That figure on the sheltf,’ I be- gan, striving not to show my eager- ness. ‘Is that for sale?’ “‘Yep,’ said the old man, with- out looking up from the sandwiches he was making. ‘It's yours, brother, for five bucks.’ “I handed him the money. “‘Just what is it?” I inquired, now that I had it safely in my possession. ‘Where did you get it?" “‘T took it off the grave of old Chief Skowl when I come here nigh on 60 years ago,’ was the answer. ‘That’s all I kin tell you about it.’ “I shipped the figure to my| home, near Washington. I didn’t| know just what to do with it, now that I had it, but it finally oc- curred to me that by drilling a small hole from the back of the neck through the head to the beak it would make an interesting spout for a wall-fountain in my garden. Scientists Are Fooled “On my way to the stonecutter’s I passed the National Museum. “‘I might as well learn what this thing it I thought. ‘The ex- perts in the museum should be able to tell me something about it.’ “I explained my mission to an official, who directed me to the office of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of the anthropological department of the museum and one of the world’s foremost authorities on an- thropology. I told him the story | of my find and apologized for troubling him with so unimportant a matter. “‘Not at all,’ he said courteously, “I placed the figure on the table. He glanced at it, gave a low whistle of astonishment and issued an order to a messenger. Shortly, other scientists appeared. They Blthered about the figure and ex- amined i as if it were an object of surpassing interest and import- ance. I bebame embarrassed. Deemed Rare Find “‘You evidently fail to realize,’ Dr. Hrdlicka explained to me, LUMBER the Indispensable i Building Material #Use Lumber Manufact- ured in Alaska Spruce and HEmMLOCK Let us furnish your requirements #Also Building Mater- ials, Cement, Shingles, Doors, Windows, Hard- wood Flooring and £1+ Qihbet Juneau Lum- ber Mills, Inc. . . PHONE - 358 Qualuy rmd Service s GIRL JAILED lN STABBING | and roommate of “Dot” King, whose | | of the knife attack I | card game has never been golved. - aboriginés of North !was a passenger called dssoclated Press Photo Hllda Ferguson, “Follles” dancer murder was a sensation In New York elght years ago, was held In $5,000 bail and jailed In default of bond in connection with the stab- bing In a New York night club of “Tough Willie” McCabe. The victim gambler and bodyguard to the Arnold Rothe stein, whose murder after a $300,000 ‘that you have here an object which is probably unique—certain- ly of immense ethnologic value. Barring a small figure in the Met- ropolitan Museum, this is, so far as I am aware, the only example | |of old Chief Skowl more than 60 of stone carving by the aborigines of North America in existence.! “I looked at the squat stone image with new interest. “‘We have had an expedition working on Wrangell Island all summer without discovering &ny-| thing of exceptional value, con- tinued the famous anthropologist. ‘Yet you, knowing nothing of such matters, drop off there for an hour or so and in a hash-house pick up this unique example of the art of a vanished race for $5. what you intend to do with it? You ought, of course, to present it to the nation, or in any event, to lend it to the National Museum. On Table in Library “Today the curiously carved bird stands on the table in my library May I ask| I | at Journey's End, and from be-| neath its drooping lids rezards me|shop on the waterfront for a time, malevolently. I like to look at it!then it fell down on the beach | Case. where he had obtained it. Mr. Case says he thought that in view of' the fact the stranger had paid $5 for his purchase he was entitled to a five-dollar story, so Mr. Case told him it was taken from the grave years ago and the tourist was more than satisfied. “I had set no price on the stone; I did not try to sell it, and I told my story after the stranger had insisted on buying the stone’ and had paid for it,” said Mr. Piece of Tombstone Asked where he really got it Mr. Case said: “It was in the outfit Walter Waters had several years ago when I bought out his tombstone busi- ness. Walter had the stones | shipped from the States to Wran- gell, then when a stone was sold he cut in the lettering. He be- came so adept in his stone cutting that one day he”turned out a 12- inch totem. It was in*my junk it to I stayed long enough t okeep one's eyes open. For one picked it up off the beach one day never knows where treasures may be found.” On investigation in Wrangell, the Sentinel learned that the “old man with a white beard reaching halfway to his waist, behind a counter serving sandwiches throng of hungry customers,” was T. J. Case, selling ice cream cones to a couple of children in his ice cream and sofe drink store. Mr. Case has never worn a long bzard nor served sandwiches, but that is beside the point. He re- calls perfectly the details of the | transaction when he sold the stone figure two years ago. Tourist Wanted to Buy The tourist asked to buy it, Mr. Case says, so he sold it to him for $5. After the purchaser had the figure “safely in his pessession,” he then questioned Mr Case as to 1l to aj |had any sales value. .| says. and put it in the window of the confectionery store. “It never occurred to me that it But when I got 85 out of it I hunted up Walter, and told him a tourist had paid me $256 for that little totem that had been cut out of a piece of waste marble from one of the tombstones. Now, just two years later this Mr. Powell has to write a magazine story and let Walter know I stretched the truth con- slderably Emblem of Raven Mr. Waters insists that the bird is a raven and not an eagle, no matter what any anthropologist He doesn’t know whether to be flattered or insulted when his work of art is described as “having a peculiarly sinister expression.” Alaskans |tind how Mr. Powell overcame the ‘Tobbed & young man guest in are accuslomed to magazines of cheap repute print ing fiction for fact about Alaska, | but they do expect fact material | in the American Magazine to bear | soms semblance to fact. It wmns[ incredible that Dr. Hrdlicka should | say regarding the stone cut in anv idle moment by Mr. Waters that| “parring the small figure in the| ‘GRUMPY’ NEXT Metropolitan Museum, this is, so| far as I am aware, the only ex-| ample of stone ~carving by the | Mysical Romance Will Be America existence.” > mJ‘ Followed by Comedy Thriller, Coliseum Visits Have Been Brief ' Dr. Hrdlicka's investigations in Alaska have been conducted along | yith “Sunny,” starring Marilyn the Yukon River and the Aleutian wijler, showing for the last times | Islands. He has visited Wrangell tonight at the Coliscum theatre, only when the boat on which he'“Grumpy,” with Cyril Maude in in port the leading roje, will be the head- , here. \line attraction tomorrow night | Mr. Powell's trip in 1920 was not = In “Sunny,” Miss Miller evidenc- his first trip to Alaska. In his es her wonderful technique as a| ‘account of himself in Who's Who dancer. To majintain this technique in America, he asserts that he was she dances at least an hour every the “first person to drive a motor day in the year—whether she is ap- | car overland from Mexico to Al- Pearing on the stage or screen or aska, 1913 | not. Marvelous Feat | Constant Practice Necessary This is more remarkable than his, Constant practice is necessary for ethnological find in Wrangell as @ dancer, as every muscle must be the road up the Pacific Coast end- | Perfectly co-ordinated to give the ed at Hazelton, British Columbia, effect of grace. in 1913 even as it ends there today,| ~Grumpy,” is the story of an and Hazelton is still some distance outwardly brusque but inwardly from the Alaska boundary. The [Soft-hearted old man—a retired International Highway Commission Criminal lawyer who engages in an which meets in Canada next month | €Xciting and amusing bit of sleuth- would be paticularly interested to |8 to track down a thief who had ‘SUNNY’ TO END FGR MOINTHS you've been hop- ing, wishing, pray- ng for another “sally.” Here It Is! LAST, TIMES TONIGHT The Brighest Show in Town Is At THE COLISEUM [ S obstacles of the wilderness, the riv- GrUmpy’s home of a valuable dia- ers and glagiers and mountain | ™ond- ranges which line between Hazel-| . Grumpy” Is Comedy Thriller ton and Alaska. “Grumpy” is a comedy--thriller, Pl 1o packed with human interest. “Grumpy should bring the kids to ATTENTIO! {the theatre. They'll love old “Grum- \py.” Theyll laugh at him and There will be a Stated Com-|with him. They'll thrill at his ex- munication of Mt. Juneau Lodge citing pursuit of the criminal—and No. 147 at the Masonic Temple, so will the grownups! Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock. 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