The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 7, 1932, Page 3

CAPITOL THURSDAY ——— FRIDAY A great picture dedicated lived, loved and suffered wilderness. to the pioneer women who in the conquest of the “THE GREAT MEADOW” with JOHN MACK BROWN, ELEANOR BOARD- MAN, LUCILLE LA VERNE, ANITA LOUISE, GAVIN GORDON. Directed by CHARLES BRABIN. Alsc—ANOTHER BOY SCOUT PICTURE “KNIGHTS IN KHAKT” MADE BY BOY SCOUTS NEWS SILLY SYMPHONY—Cartoon “SILVER NITE” All-Alaska News By unanimous vote, the Cordova | Chamber of Commerce supported the resolution recently adopted by the All-Alaska Chamber of Com- merce opposing curtailment of ac- tivities of the federal government in the Territory. Republicans at Cordova have organized a club, with Assistant United States District Attorney Clyde R. Ellis, president; Mrs. R. Roy Douglas, chairman; Elmer E. Rasmuson, secretary, and J. V. Lydick, treasurer. Sedalia Barnett, negress, stabbed George Lopez three times in the| chest and back at Cordova. Her act is ascribed to jealousy. She surrendered to the authorities. He | is in the hospital, where it is said| he will recover. Cordova was visited by a little fawn the other day, the first seen in that part of Alaska this season. The animal, which strolled casually into town and went between dwell- ing houses owned by H. B. Wolking, was in good condition. Wolking and several other men drove it back into the hills where it would be in its natural element. Cordova’s chapter of the Ameri- can’ Red Cross has elected the following offceres for the ensuing year: President, Dr. W. H. Chas Secretary-Treasurer, J. W. Lydic Executive Committee, W. H. Liebe, investigations in the rail belt. A request has been received by D. W. Metzdorf, general storekeeper of the Alaska Railroad to ascertain if there are any pack outfits available for this work in the Anchorage or adjacent districts and the store- keeper desires to get in touch with owners of such immediately so that he can send his report in to ‘Washington. Ray C. Larson, president of the Anchorage Lumber & Construction company, and a pioneer resident of the Territory will become a candidate for the lower house of the territorial Legislature, subject to the Republican primaries in April, declares the Anchorage ‘Times. . John Karas, 72, member of the jPioneers of Alaska, died in the | hospital at Anchorage. Mrs. Oscar Samuelson, whose |husband is a ftrader at Bethed, jand her little daughter were brought from the Kuskokwim to Anchorage in a night flight by Aviator W. H. Barnhill Mrs. Samuelson is o patient in the An- | chorage hospital. Munroe Kast, 79, pioneer Alask- an, is developing a placer property on Poorman Creek, a tributary to Peters Creek, in the Cache HISTORIC. FILM T0 BE SHOWN ON CAPITOL SCREEN “Great Meadow” Is Fea- ture Play—Silverware to Be Given Away | “The Great Meadow,” with John iMack Brown and Eleanor Board- | |man in the leading roles, is the | featured attraction tonight at the | | Capitol theatre. | Tonight is “Silver Night.” Every woman attending either perform- | {ance will receive a piece of table | | silverware. | | Tomorrow night, added enter- | tainment will consist of “Knights | {in Khaki,” a Boy Scout picture. Adapted From Novel The story deals with hardships | of a trek of Virginians across the | Alleghany mountains to Kentucky | in 1775. It is concerned with the | Hall, Jarvis, Harrod, Scruggs, Lucas | and Perry families. Prominent Family Names These names are prominent in | the Virginia and Kentucky his~ |tories of the period. { “Knights in Khaki” is recom- mended by Child Welfare, the Na- tional Parent-Teacher magazine, ! and has been endorsed by Girl | geological survey resumes its coal | Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, American Legion, Federation of Womenss Clubs, Women's University Club,’ Boards of Education, Welfare or-| ganizations and many others. Just ONE BEERY ASSUMES A FATHER’S ROLE GU”SEUMHAS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 7, 1932, Associated Press Phot Wallace Beery, film villain, has taken three youngsters into his home, two small sons and a baby daughter of a‘deceased relative. has legally adopted little Carol Ann Beery, aged«15 months, and here he is shown with William Priester, 4 (left) and George Priester, 9 (right), to whom he’ll be “daddy” hercafter, ‘BIG MONEY' FOR ITS HEADLINER Selections Will Be Played on Organ by Rex Parrott Money” m to be pr he ‘Coliseum. th the play deals with % Street messenger boy : sion for crap shooting and c: involves him in considerable trou- ble. headlines the n Y Jests And Laughs In the most dr in the picture, he j The ending is happ: in the arms of his br moments and 1 It finds While in no sense a preachment, | “Big Money” teaches val sons on the folly of Featured play lan, Robert Armstrong, s riam Seegar, and Mar- ton. tt will play on the organ. | e ions petency made by Cou He Charles Schick of Fairbanks Fire Chief E. B. W cil has appoi te the 's methods of ng the department. zzesfzzz | As a result of charges of incom- | Thursday and Friday with EDDIE QUILLAN ROBERT ARMSTRONG oLt < JAMES GLEASON : riam Seegar Margdret Livingston | | | | | [ Vita e S O A A S X s T D SN S AP S = COLISEUM 7:30 and 9:30 DRAMA, LOVE, life, laughs, walk hand-in- hand in every scene of this engrossing picture — the finest of the yéar. DON'T-MISS SEEING CTED SHORTS— phone Act; 3. Pathe Comedy Fairbanks Igloo of Pioneers of for President, irst Vice Presi- ond Vice | President, James Bender; Secre- tary, George Moody; Treasurer, E. |H. Stroecker; Historian, Frank Chaplain, Peter Deiser; | Sergeant-At-Arms, George Blon- deau; Doorkeeper, Ole - Fisher; Bender, Mr Mr. | M Del; Blondeau, r Kramer. Strecker, Mr. Aviation Speeds and Soars to New Marks During Year of 1931 (Continuea rrom Page One) mark by flying nonstop 5011.8 miles from New York to Istanbul, coun- | Trustees for three year term, Mr. Turkey. Into St Prof. August Piccard andCharles | Kipfer,, sealed in an aluminum ball !made a balloon voyage into the | stratosphere 51,755 feet above the earth, “an altitude of nearly 10 miles. | Balked from beating the Post- Gatty time, Clyde Panghorn and Hugh Herndon, Jr.- achieved the | first nonstop flight from Japan to the United States, | Gen. Italo Balbo added a new | touch to ocean flying by leading & | squadron of TItallan planes across i the south Atlantic in formation. 7| The fever of new exploits' was ! caught by Co. Charles' A. = Lind- #| | bergh, who, with his wife. on a | “vacation” trip, blazed the trail | from the east coast of the United | States upward to the Arctic Circle and down to Japan-and China. Flying Boat Germany's giant flying boat, the DO-X, flew the south Atlantic; the Graf Zeppelin made three round- trip commercial flights between Germany and Brazil, and Captain Bert Hinkler spanned the oceam in an eastward hop. Successful nonstop flights over the north Atlantic were made from Newfoundland by Otto Hillig and Holger Hoiriis to Germany and by Capts. Alexander Maygar and George Endres to Hungary. Lighter-than-air leadership was assumed by the United States on completion of the world’s largest |Creek district. He recently went| ] G . ) . ‘ {to the States to buy $20,000 worth i 3 ’ < ) G 8 ¥ ,nirshlp‘ the U. 8. S. Akron. {of hydraulic machinery, including % 3 & : 2 | Other feats of the year included \two rams capable of lifting suffi England’s gaining permanent pos- old-tlmeidem water over a hill for the session of the Schneider trophy operation of two or three hydraulic ¢ 5 and Maj. James H .Doolittle’s west |giants, declares the Seward Gate- = b b » : i ’ : 2 to east transcontinental recoxd : 4 3 3 i flight of 11 hours and 16 minutes. 8. N. Laurie, K. G. Robinson, J. L. Galen, R. J. DelLeo, Dr. W. A. Rystrom and H. G. Steel. Edward J. Schultz, Alaskan, died at Cordova. Fur bearing animals in Valdez district are reported “rather scarce” by trappers, but ptarmigan appear fairly plentiful. i Deputy United States Marshal J. M. Regan, of Valdez, who for more than two months has been| under the doctor’s care for an in- fected foot, was taken to Seward by Dr. Shores, of Valdez, for a consultation. The trouble. grew out of a. broken bone in one of | Regan’s toes. é Mrs. Lindgren of Kenai, afflict- ed ‘with illness, was taken from thete in an airplane, piloted by, Frank Dorbrandt to Anchorage for hospital treatment. The plane had} taken Dr. A. S. Walkowski from |Cache, ‘Anchorage to Kenal to treat Mrs. Lindgren, and the doctor decided 'tors in the Ruby |been taken by deaht. Cache Creek and the | W8y Donald McLean, 84, »nd Henry Rumstick, both old-time prospec- district, have Eleven oufits, most of them do- ing hydraulic work operated on tributaries last summer and most of them made profits, declares the Seward Gate- way. Among them were Albert Murray and Charles Harper, who leased the James Murray hold- ings on Cache Creek and Nugget Creek; Matt Hamburger 4nd Michael Trapke on Dollar Creek, Joe Krummanaker on Chechako, Al Wolfe on Thunder, Toska on Hans Ericson on Cache, Ole Dahl on Nugget, Fred Diesel on Cache, Reily and Hammersley she.should be conveyed to Anchor- jon Alice Gulch, and George And- oge. ¢ If Alaskans and Alaska horses jerson on Nugget. Frozen to death, J. Dilly, a rein- can be found to do the work, the federal government will not bring{ in any packers and pack stock next ' spring when the United States deer herder, was found near Moun- tain: Village on the Yukon river, according to advices received by the’ me Nugget. ll_lll‘lmlllll!ll!'lflll!mfll - HE appeals to every Coal INDIAN We have higher priced price, that will give TNNNIENNBB R RUI R R l is A COAL with a Price that consumer in Juneau I I U S |- LUMP. 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Light up... and answer your own question! & ————— - Loaded with gola ore concentrates from the Nabesna mine at Sians, a truck, driven by Carl Carlson, broke through the. Klutina bridge, about a mile and a half from the | Copper Center roadhouse, north of Cordova. The driver was not injured. The truck and ooncen- trates are in the river. The bridge is not likely to be repaired, as crossing on the ice will soon be safe, Work on a new bridge will be started by the Alaska Road Commission in about two meonths. ., AMERICAN LEGION MEETING Regular meeting of the Alford John Bradford Post Number 4 will be held im the Dugout Thursday evening, Jan.7th. Members are re- —adv, S i S Ui ¢ X P HOLLYWOOU STYLi SHOP questéd to be present. “Tomorrow’s Styles sTodey” ‘. SKIRTS New wool tweeds and flannels, suitable for i§ sports and general I} wear in assorted col- ors and sizes.