The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 15, 1932, Page 3

7 / If TONIGHT HOWARD HUGHES . WALTER. CATLETT 3 ORGE E. STONE fjAE CLARKE SLIM SUMMERVILLE “TORCHY PASSES THE BUCK” We apologize for not being able to accommodate all our patrons last night to this wohderful program. Do not mi this greatest of all newspaper stories. MIDNIGHT SHOW TONIGHT—1 A. M. “COCK OF THE WALK” and “Rogue of the Rio Grande” —COMING— “Mother’s Miilion” “Palmy Days” “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” Stetson Berets JUST RECEIVED in a full range of gizes and colors. “}uneaw’s Qwn Store” B e e I ©Old papers for sale at The Empire, 4| will constitute the double bill that |credit expansion bill, || will be presented at regular per- the President, and which will be CAPITOL ENDS BOTH HOUSES “FRONT PAGE" | PLAN TORUSH | THIS EVENING BANKING BILL | Double Bill—W_ill Be Pre-|Enactment of Measure Ex- viewed at 1 A. M. and | pected to Be Complet- Given Tomorrow | ed This Week With “The Fron Page,” showing | WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 15— for the last times tonight at the|To aid the business of hard-pressed Capitol theatre, “Rogue of the Rio |banks, Congress undertook today to| Grande” and “Cock ©O' the Walk” sho, a burst of speed to enact the | formances tomorrow night. 'This |supported regardless of party ties. double blil will be previewed at| The bill is expected to pass the 1:30 o'clock tonight. House today and final enactment | “The Front Page,” which drew before the end of the week. Chai capacity audiences last might, has | man Steagall, of the House Bank- a notable cast. Adolphe Menjou |ing Committee, is prepared to ask p! ruthless, debonair managing editor. [the measure through. Crack Police Reporter | The Senate expects | { to get the| unemployment relief measures, police reporter. Mary Brian has a‘ which will be voted upon today. particularly sympathetic part. | Edward Everett Horton, is a Te-| porter, is! — e who as his pals say is | “goofy.” Others of importance are | { PIONEER DIES | | Slim Summerville, George E. Stcne,} [ | Walter Catlett, Matt Moore, Phil| | Tead, Frank McHugh, and Sp’.’ncer‘l IN HUME FIR 1 Charters. Double Bill For Preview | | In the double bill, “Rogue of the Rio Grande” and “Cock O'the| SEWARD, Alaska, Feb. 15.—J. D. 4 t i , aged 83, an Alaska pxoneer,‘ | Walk,” Myrna Loy has the star|Vickery, aged 83, | feminine Tole in each of the plays, |Was burned to death Sunday morn- | IThus, in one evening, she will be|ing when his house was destroyed ( | seen in widely different character- |bY @ tire of unknown origin. | izations. s ‘S o e o o e CUT AND DIVERSITY ff;i“sbanfin. played by Jose Bohr,| IS CROP PLANTING { SLOGAN IN DIXIE| | 'who has foroed the crooked mayor | |of the town to open his safe ;nd! ] | turn over a sum of money to him. 4 % y " |A reward is offered for El Malo's wgfig:grt;mgfniy b e <2, capture. Yet the bold band“!keynobe of Dixie's farm program flaunts. danger by appearing at the| iy year, cantina, unknown to the sheriff.| "o ) o program, built around the When El Malo's identity is finally, «jjye_af-home” idea, is the plan of disclosed, he makes his gelaway |eyiension workers of various states, with Carmita, enacted by Miss Loy, | 4 already farm agents and home |the cafe entertainer, with whom he;d(monslra(.mn workers are CAITy- el = |ing plans to their constituents, “Cock O’ The Walk { The outlook for cotton this year,| “Cock O’ the Walk,” Joseph ;e emphasize, 1s far from | Sciidikraut: ' p e part of 3h, and an effort will be made | and, handsome Argentine SPOrts-iy; haye farmers plant more than man. Many women love him, and (1. cagh crop, varying with the {he plays with them all. His days yo0a)ity and accessibility to market. are filled with intrigues, and he —, minimum production of cotton | manages to get himself fea;ed and . recommended by the Georgia. col- hated by most of the married men y.z0 or goriculture, although noth- in town. His success in romantie o’ po peon caid about adopting |€ affairs, however, does not prevent|, . ot acrease control plan. Eu- his plans for a brilliant career @s ... Talmadge, commissioner of a violinist. To further these plans . ulture, said a cut of 10 per he goes to unusual measures t0 in- | o oo G Coa o renge was cer- s h financial independemce. |y, He obtains the help of Narita, en- More | poult: acted by Miss Loy, the despondent g n by Georgia organizations. beauty whom he pretends to ig- oee = o Mississippl farmers are prepared | ! Much of the action ocCUrs in an |y, proquee this year's crop at arec- {cord low cost, J. C. Holton, com-| | Argentine cafe, which provides a missioner of agriculture, says. vivid, colonful background. North Carolina's plan, advanced i e | by the state college of agriculture, y provides for all food and feed H crops needed on the farm, strict ad- } i herence to a budget, cash crops best | ! | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Feb. 15— 1A letter from W. B. Foshay offer- suited to the individual farm, idle | Ila.nd seeded to legums, improve- jment of fanm generally, improved living conditions. ing to assist the Government in the investigation of his enterprises lafter the receivership in 1929 was | offered in evidence by teh defense | Alabama, through Gov. B. M |at the trial today and resulted in {Miller, has refused to join Texas, Mississippt, South Carolina and; {a fiery outburst between attorneys. | This was climaxed by an order of Arkansas in the move for a law to reduce the cotton crop 50 per cent. But Seth P. Storrs, commissioner | the court that Fred Horowitz, spe- cial prosecutor, take his seat. i Lm0 e CANDIDATE FOR OFFIGE KILLED contracts between the agricultural department, and farmers. From Arkansas comes an opti- mistic note, The record breaking| crop of 1931 has placed farmers in FOXFIELD, County of Leitrim, |Ireland, Feb. 15.—P. Reynolds, can- didate for reelection to the Irish Parliament, and a detective named McGeshan, were shot and killed an independent position. The farm- | ers are paying their federal loans, Sunday night, while delivering polit- ical talks here. have their pantries and barns well filled, and many have money in the A man named Joseph Leedy has been arrested in connection with ‘banks, the killings. The Irish Free State hold the general election tomorrow. Gibraltar Tunnel Plans Kept Alive by Spaniards MADRID, Peb. 15.—Despite the low ebb of Spanish finances, a attertion to livestock, and food crops will be 1 | | | | ———————— Membership Growing in Association to Fight Prohibition WASHINGJTON, D. C., Feb. 15— The Association Against the Pro- hibition Amendment claimed a membership of more than half a ] million in the annual report issuu!{ today. This is a gain of 114514 during a year. | —————— i CLUB MEMBERS MAKE PROFIT SANTA CRUZ, Cal—Profits w—\ fathered by | |laws s the part of Walter Burns, a |for suspension of the rules to get | § Pat O'Brien, is Hildy, the ecrack |bill tomorrow, after cleaning up the | f8 Here's one of the tense scenes in “The Seas Beneath,” stirring drama of World War events, which will be previewed at 1:30 o’clock tonight at the Coliscum Theatre and which will be shown at regular performances beginning ' tomorrow night. Left to right, in the picture, are character likenesses of Larry Keént, Walter McGrail, George O'Brien and’ Warren Hymer. ALASKA NEWS Ole Gunderson and Mrs. Phyllis Kanerva were married recently in ‘Wrangell. | By scores of 28 15 and 38 to 18, Ketchikan high school's basketball team defeated Wrangell high school at Wrangell. | Against Bride of James Steward, 63, resident of Wrangell since 1918, died there re- cently. With catches of beaver, Andrew Anderson, Richard Jensen, John Slavin, Neil Noonan and Joseph Donohoe, trappers, arrived in C¢ dova. Muskrat are being take plentiful numbers by Paul Gral and Paul Wa the near Cordova. By hurling a rock at a mountain goat on a hillside not far from dova, a trapper is said to have the animal The trapper had sed the goat for more than a mile. infected s Marshal H Div. 1 eye, United Having no physician, Stewart, B. C., by its Board of Trade has written to the Secretary of the Province of British Columbia re- questing his assistance in obtain- ing a doctor for the camp. Two hundred and fifty dollars’ worth of food commodities were ob- tained at the Depression Dance at Cordova for distribution among the | city’s needy. Articles of food were accepted as admission tickets to the dance. P The recent $100,000 suit, b against Shirley Dahl, , Miss Pullman’s former United States Dstrict Judge E. Coke Hill, of the Third Division, and Attorney A. J. Dimond, of Val- dez, gave addresses on the growth of 'representative government and the operation of primary election before the Women's Club of Cordova. baby, recalls the furore that the ui bood aroused a couple of years a 1t is quite the style about town, says the Chitina Herald, to cut wood in the timber or to be seen packing a cross cut saw on one’s| back. | but Kate n, regar the realms of eugeni lations with the come: | his dancing partner, Shi | |$100,000, sharging alienation of e e ART SENSE DEVELOPS EARLY | Eugenic Baby y Dahl, Miss Pullman sued the bride | settlement on Kate and the eugenic b:!.y out of court Fad Died Like Eugenie Hat Craze Celebrated Experiments in Modernistic Mother- hood Recalled by Recent Alienation Suit “Eugenic Father.” rought by Kate Pullman, former vaudeville bride of Roscoe Ails, well-known partner and father of her eugenic nconventional experiment i r- go. When Kate Pullman gave birth to a baby at New York, in August 1928, she announced that it was & eugenic baby, the result of an experiment in m She steadfastly refused to reveal the identity of the child’s father. But when an article published in & theatrical magazine named her partner, Roscoe Ails, as the father of another ‘‘eug Grace Burnhawm, a wealthy widow, some weeks before, Miss Pullman admitted that Ails was also the father of her child. vigorously denied that Ails was her collaborator in her venture inte lernistic motherhood. c” baby, born to Mre. Mrs. Burnham broke off all business and social re. dless, cently when Ails murr%‘d o affections, tu‘ But Ails made a ichildren have “aitistic intelligence” IQWA CITY, lowa-—Phychology land that six-year-olds can discern studies at the University of Towa 'violations of art principles in cos- have shown that four -year -old tumes and furniture. = Schilling =MW ANTLLA BRAZILIAN DECREE LAUDS BPIRIT OF ALMS TAKING SAO PAULO, Brazil, Feb, 15-- Col. Manoel Rabello, Chief Execu- tive of this State, has decreed that beggars must not be arrested, He enjoined police to be polite in tell- ing them to move on, “especially in the case of a lady.” Begging, said the Colonel, shows the beggar has superior spirit since he has subjagated pride. Moreover beggars, living on the bounty of others, are morally useful while idle rich, producing nothing, are harmful to society. The Colonel opined also that alms benefit the giver as much as R COLISEUM = LAST TIMES TONIGHT “East Lynne” YEAST LYNNE" TO SHOW LAST TIMES TONIGHT “Seas Beneath™ to Be Pre- sented at 1:30 A. M, and Tomorrow TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY MILNIGHT PREVIEW TONIGHT BEast Lynne,” drama, with Ann Harding, Conrad Nagel and Clive Brook in leading roles, will be shown for the last times tonight at the Coliseum We have met enemy and she i beautiful. We sure rendert” BSeas Beneath,” thrilling adventure story of ocean depths, starring Georgée OBrien and Marion Lessing, will be the head- line attraction tomorrow night, and this attraction will feature the program that will be presented at the 1:30 o'clock matinee tonight. Rex Parrott will play selections on the organ at all performances, “Bast Lynne,” by many sociolo- gists is believed to have influenced the fight of women for civil rights |as effectually as “Uncle Tom's | Cabin” advanced the movement for abolition of negro slavery. Husband Was Master | Until “Bast Lynne” had made |its appearance, woman accepted her {husband as her master. His wishes | were law. Not until England and the whole world, for that matter, was brought | face to face with facts as they ap- plied to [Isabel, the heroine of !“Bast Lynne,” and her vain strug- gle for possession of the child she had brought into this world was any serfous thought given to the rights of motherhood and woman~ hood generally. | The theme of the novel became | 'one of the most successufl of stage | § plays, and the screen version en- ‘hanees the stage interpretation. “The Sea Beneath” “The Sea - Beneath” revolves around the activities of a noted Germen submarine, the U-172, and the efforts of two American ships to capture it. One of these vessels, a big schooner, is equipped as a “Q-ship” or “mystery ship,” with a big gun concealed under a false | deck-house. ‘The other is an Am- | erican submarine, escorting the| schooner and maintaining telephone communiciation with her through a long cable. The efforts of the German spy, a woman, almost capture the Amenican vessels and the heart of their commander. FAMOUS PIER 1S DESTROYED Pleasure Resort at Atlantic' City Burned—Spec- tacular Fire SOMETHING NEW IN BIG THRILLS with STARTLING ACTION | { with George O’BRIEN Marion LESSING Fox Movietone's Undersea Drama Directed by | JOHN FORD DAILY EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, !Feb. 15—The Steeple Chase Pier,| |a pleasure resort and a landmark {since 1892, was destroyed in a spee- tacular fire Sunday night. SAVE HALF. wooD CLEAN HEMLOCK 14 in., 16 in., 24 in. Single Yoad, $4.25 Double Load, $8.00 A discount of 50 cenis per load is made for CASH LFAVE ORDERS WITH | | § An electric sign, containing 27,000 | light globes, said to be one of the| most elaborate electric signs in the | world, and six stores on the front of the pier, were destroyed. i ‘The origin of the fire is un- known. ————— WATER FLOODS BASEMENT For three hours yesterday after- noon, the equipment and several members of the Fire Department Were kept busy pumping water from the basement of the building occu- lphdby the Juneau Tce Cream Par- lors. The thaw caused four feet GEORGE BROTHERS Telephones 92 or 95 CHESTER BARNESSON - Telephone 039, 1 long, 1 shars | government commission headed by Lieutenant Colonel Pedro Jenevois continues; to-study the possibility if building a railroad tunnel under taling $2,100 by breeding animals) and raising vegetables was realized | by 134 members of the 4-H clubs' in Sante Cruz County. The work &S schilling Vanilla has fla- vored the birthday cakes-of several million the recipient. The first tangible results of the decree were groups of students dis- guised as blind and lame, a.skhg! Not Only Cheaper but Better alms in the streets and staging| high jinks with the proceeds. R e NG SIX-SHOOTERS the strait of Giberaltar. was done in spare hours and rang- Recently the commissionreported|ed from a few hundred feet of that rock structure, similar to that!garden ground to an acre of straw- of Giberaltar and the African blur(a'bemes and from a single dalry | extends under the straif. calf to 650 baby chicks. ' | westerners for fifty years, Vanilla, as delicate INSURANCE Allen Shattuck, Inc. R | Qe QUIT LEASI | i as a“rose— yet it ‘permeates AUSTIN, Tex.—A law enacted by | the last Legislature will eliminate a 50 per cent tax on pistol sales which brought about the custom of leaing weapons for 99 years. An annual tax of $10 on pistol dealers was_ substituted. 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