The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 2, 1932, Page 3

CAPITOL LAST ‘'TIMES TONIGHT | - E‘n‘i‘ RIS . The most exciting drama ever made! MIDNIGHT SHOW Tonight—1 A. M. “SECRET WITNESS” —— NOW IS SPRING CAR CLEANING TIME Does your car need cleaning and touching up? Or complete re- painting? Take advantage of our skilled services, equipment and have the job done right. We also refinish furniture. Estimates Gladly Given. GENE EWART with Connors Motor Co. | | mificence, § ) with lights and courtley appoint- _—————l THEO. S. PEDERSON ALASKA HOME DECORATOR Estimates Furnished Free General Painting Contractor Shop Phone 354—Residence Phone 37—2 Rings Shop at Third and Seward O e — L. C. SMITH and CORONA TYPEWRITERS | J. B. Burford & Co. e | | “Our, doorstep worn by ‘satisfied | cn.stomeru" & DONALDINE BEAUTY PARLORS[ RUTH HAYES Daily Empire Want Ads Pay Telephone 496 Tense Mystery Production Will Preview at 1A. M. FINE SETTINGS ARE SHOWN IN GILBERT PLAY ‘Phantom fiaris' to Be Seen Last Times To- night at Capitol “The Phantom of Paris,” which will be shown for the last times tonight at the Capitol thea- tre, John Gilbert is offered a new type of vehicle for this his- tronic talents. | Still, the flashing lover of the screen, Gilbert plays the part of a | magician who, by his skillful man- ipulations, is able to extricate him- |self from every type of device {known to man, handcuffs, straight- J’lckeus, leg iroms, etc. i Settlings Are' Stupendous | Bui not alone does the clever ‘work of the Metro-Goldwyn-May- er star carry the picture. In quick succession, the scenes go from one stupendous setting to another. One, the interior of an amphi- theatre where Gilbert, as Cheri- Bibi, holds his audience spellbound with his tricks, is particulary bril- iant. The spectators in this scene are dressed in the very Ilatest mode, a veritable splash of fash- ion. A vast French prison scene. fol- lows close upon several shots in mansions of the elite, the home of a marquis, drawing rooms of mag- ballrooms ~ resplendant ments. ! lira Stylish Gowns The gowns and evening wraps worn by Lelia Hyams and Na- talie Moorhead are the last word in ultra fashion. One gown, an evening creation of velvet and spiderweb spangles worn by Miss Mooraead, was so intricate that it took three maids twenty-five minutes to help Miss Moorhead inbo it. The garden shots of the mar- quis’ estate depict the sedate and courtly charm of the French for- mal surroundings of the palatial wvillas. Correct in every detail, no expense ‘was spared to bring be- — & fore the public the finest that the France of the wealthy and fash- icnable has to offer. The cast of the new Gilbert ve- hicle includes Lewis Stone, Jean |Hersholt, C. Aubrey Smith, Ian eith and Alfred Hickman. ———— For American Leglon Auxuillary May Day Dance Hope Chest Information call Mrs. E. M. Poi- jley or Mrs. Homer Nordling. adv. At LT TR Good to Know-- Are diamonds mined in the United States? Yes, in Arkansas. AND— The title “Bargain Heating” was made populair by coal usrs:who!.. . . start their fires with INDIAN COAL then...bank it with CAR- BONADO Coking Furnace Coal. YOU try it! Moneyback guarantee, of , satisfaction with every load. Call Us Direct—PHONE 412 sented regularly tomerrow night at stirring scenes cf the play. Purnell Pratt. — Indian dogs are no: allowed to run at large in Dawson and resi- dents are requested not to feed such enimals, according to a le- gal notice published by the city of Dawson in the Dawson News. Because of an epidemic of in- fluenza, schools in Dawson were closed for a week last month. Tk ailment was not of virulent form, but afflicled almost all residents. Jack John (Spud) Murphy and Fred Merrill have returned to Dawson from a winter's trapping in the Fortymile country. They reported & poor season. ; John Griffin, 70, old-time 1’@51-‘ dent of the Kuskokwim couniry, | died at Takoina. Andrew Agenia of English B;xy‘r and Port Graham was accidenially killed in a logging camp at Vindy Bay, near the south end of Cook Inlet, He was struck by a whirl- ing wire cable, Caught in the breakup of the Nushagak River, “Klondike” John- son, old-time resident of the Bris- “rom left to right the perfermers are Una Merkel, All-Alaska News | |in readiness | Cook, Who in Thts Group Is Keepm o a Secret" “The Secret Witness,” a baffling mystery photoplay, will be previewed at 1 o'clock tonight and pre- the Capitol Theatre. In the above illustration is shown one of the William Collier, Jr, and JACK FROST 1S LOCAL VISITOR o —— $35,000; meter deposit fund, $5,000; { all invested in bonds; liability Jn- surance fund, $4479, of which 8- [Killing Frost Is Reported 500 is invested in bonds. but TWiCP ‘Dlll‘il’lg Fairbanks had a deficit of $5,- 1 081 March It had surplus of | Entlre Month $15439 Mar: 31, 1932, being a gain of $18,520 in receipts ovex| expeditures during the year ended | last March 31, it was revealed today in the regular | monthly summary of local weather ! conditions issued by R. C. Mize,| Meteorologist, United States Weath- | er Bureau. shown on April 5 and 6, a heavy| one on April 23, and lighter frosts on the 13th, 25th and 26th. Although there were but 12 {wholly clear days, there was more sunshine than ever before recorded for that month, and only on 11 days were there measurable pre- cipitation. This was seven below the average number. There were 10 days with 100 per cent sunshine, and the total hours of sun, 2568, was 60 per cent of the possible. There were |four partly cloudy and 14 cloudy |days, and four on which sunshine was not measured. The relative humidity was 83 | per cent at 4 a.m.; 54 per cent at Fourteen men have been em- {ployed for several weeks at the Nenana shipyards getting the Al- {aska Railroad's floating equipment for the opening of interior river navigation. At the recent annual election of the Ancherage Moose Lodge John H. Clifford was chosen Dis- tator, E. I. Amundsen, vice dictator. William Lawrence, prelate; John M. treasurer; John S. Johnson, trusiee; Charles L. Kemp, dele- gate to the convention, Attorney L. D. Roach, secretary. Anchorage high school is now fully accredited with the North- west Association of Secondary and Higher Schools, tol Bay region, and his dog team were marooned 12 hours on a cake | of floating ice. Their plight was finally discoveed by Walchman f Point ¢ a boat par imperiled man | ho organized scued the and his dogs, Anchorage is in excellent shape | imanv\mly At the end of the 31, ithe muni- and checking savings acuoum‘ GUBSER LEAVES | TODAY;TO WORK 0UT OF OLYMPIA Ditector of Campaign Against Predators Trans- ferred to the South Transferred from Alaska after three years here in control of pre- datory animal control activities for | the United States Biological Sur-| vey, Harlan. H. Gubser left today on the steamer Yukon for Seattle, | enroute to Olympia where he will ,'ma.lne his headquarters for the! present. Notice of 1is withdrawal was | noon and 51 per cent at 4 p.m. The story of a wild or insame| The prevailing wind direction was man roaming the hills betweenfrom the south and the average ational River and Charlig Cre\x‘vguxny was 6.2 miles per hour. in the Fagle Cily district, for|The maximum velocity, also from whom a warrant was issued 1ast)the south, was 23 miles | August, proved to be a myth. TWO |occurring on April 10, 'uxplancs under the auspices O Auroras were' noted on the 6th, {the Alaskh Game Commission,|7th, 23d and 24th. nade a thorough search of thm ——————— ccuntry without finding any signs jof him and all are now *ausfle\' there is no one there, says the Fairbanks Nows-Miner. ties during the past three year: In leaving, Mr. Guhser expressed |(yy: o Winsor Returns from In- his appreciation far the co-opera- F spection of New 500- tion given him by hundreds of trappers all over the Territory who Foot Steel Structure The new 500-foot steel bridge were keenly interested in the war on predattors. . His two sons, Edwin and Ar- chie, will continue to reside here|Over Skagway River at' Skagway for the time being. is practically complete and ready to be turned over to the United States Bureau of Public Roads, it was announced by Ivan Wind- sor, Asst. District Engineer, who returned last night after an in- epection of the project. Onmly a few odds and ends remain to be cared for, he said. The bridge has six 80-foot steel I-beams, is timber decked and. a roadway 10 feet wide. It rests on Cemmission, it was - added, feels that Mr. Gubser’s.work was highly effective as indicated by the steady increase in wolives and coyotes on which the Territory has paid boun- | Flonda Club to Alter Links for Big Golfers MIAML, Fla, May 2—By the 'ttmc another winter gold season rolls around the Miami-Biltmore I14yout will be one of the in |the South, Pucific Coast Coal Co. You are cordially invited to call and inspect THE FINEST AND LARGEST . ASSORTMENT OF HOT POINT ELECTRIC RANGES ) EVER EXHIBITED IN ALASKA N'rw Béeauti]uI -Modelg_‘QIl an!ay, Alaska' Elsétric nght & Power Co. Juneau Phone No. 6 Dougias Phone No. 18 Edison Mazda i.lmps given Gov. Parks several weeks| Officials of the club, where the ago by Paul D. Redington, Chief rich men fournament was played {of the Bureau, who gave lack of |this vear, have started an im- |funds as the season for discon-!Drovement . program, based on tinuing the work in the Territory suggestions offered by Gene Sara- five central and two concrete con- crete. piers. The .approaches, one- quarter of a mile long at both ends, are dirt and gravel. The bridge was erected by R. H.* Stock, well-known contractor at this time. He advised the Gov- ernor if co-cperative funds for the work, should be made available at some future time the Bureau might resume its activities, The Alaska Game Commission | Tegrets deeply. the.. withdrawal of of Washington. and Alaska. He s there mnow superintending the {nal touches, and will come here on an early boat. ——ee— WESTERN RANCHER ' COMES |zen, Tommy Armour, Johnny Far- rell, Walter Hagen and other wide- !ly known. golfers, The program calls for re-build- ing and remodelling, several greems, €elevation of a tee and re-arrange- ment of several traps. ——— RIO LACKS SCHOOL ROOM IMr. Gubser and suspension of the | predatory animal control program | |in iAlaska, % was announced by| = IH W. . Terhune, Executive Secrs-| RIO DE JANEIRO—Fifty thou-| ,ta.ry He also represents the Bio-!sand children in this city of 2,- {logical Survey but had mo con-|000,000 are without school facili- HERE ON BUSINESS TRIP Harold E. Bowman, of the Kanaga Island Ranching Company, ‘with extensive holdings in Southwest Alaska, arrived here today on business and will remain inection with the campaign on |ties, and newspapers are insisting | predators Whith was handled di-|that authorities remedy the situa-| rectly from Washington, D. C. Th° non trading posts in Southwe: in the city several days. His com- ‘pany operates fox ranches and two Alaskay POLLY AND HER PAIS TS A DEAD SECRET. BUT PAS PATCHING UP THE LOVER'S * l | | i l | | E | T'BE THE ANONYMOUS AUTHOR!{] e OF THIS DELIGHTFUL LIL President | 6 TIMES, APRIL Jack Frost made its appearance‘:om but six times in Juneau last month, | | tion Killing frosts were| per hour, | er VOLCANOES D0 CAPITUL BILLS ‘THEIH STUFF FOR, " DRAMA FILLED | WITH THRILLS ‘Secret Wiress' Previews at 1 A. M. and Shows Tomorrow Night ‘T allapoosa Returns to Base and. Leaves Soon on Flour Mission Farticularly fine views of the active volconic mountains of Pav- {lof and €hishaldin on the Alaskan Peninsula were afforded officers ‘and crew . of the United States a | Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa, on the vessel's recent cruise & Unalaska and Aktu to give relief to t.he imperilled trading schooner A policeman listening in on )‘buw wire at the ground floor switchboard of an apartment house rushes up to the penthous the terrace of which a givl has Just leaped to her death, and finy | JUNeau. Saturdey night. She is dying the' man he just hearq|Scheduled fo depart Wednesday on {laughing over the phone! He has @ Red Cross flour distribution mis- been shot, but there is no one to 0B toPONts to the Westward and e found in the apartment except then will do. patrol duty on' the |the victim's pet ape. seal herd migrating to the Prib- This -is the thrilling start of tlof Tslands. “The Secret Witness,” the Col-! Paviof and Shishaldin were pass~ umbia picture based on Samuei ed May: 14. Bpewack’s ‘novel, “Murder in the Day Was Beautiful Gilded Cage,” which will be pre- “It' was & beautiful day,” said viewed at 1 o'clock tonight and Capt. €. M. ‘Dench, commander of ibe shown regularly tomorrow night the Tallapoosa. “The sky was clear at the Capitol theatre. as we passed Pavlof. The voleano Three Leading Characters was steaming gently. The stream Una Merkel, Willlam Collier, of steam carried in a long wraith Jr., and ZaSu Pitts head the cast, miles to leeward. No smoke was {Which includes Purnell Pratt, Paul coming out. In May last Yyear, Hurst, June Clyde, Clyde ‘Cook, when the Tallapoosa passed Pav~ |Rita La Roy, Ralf Harolde and lov, the ‘mountain was belching {others. |forth considerable smoke. | ‘The murdered man, Herbert Fol-| Shishaldin was smoking as we it develops @t the investiga- passed on the recent cruise. The which is conducted immed- smoke - column was. rising, about iately, had many enemies who had |4,000 feet from the top of the cra- {reasons for wishing him dead.|ter, and before dissipating ithe | There was his wife, for instance, smoke formed a cloud of purplish, {who wanted fer freedom so she wine-color. After dark, and until jcculd marry another. He found fog shut off the view, there was | separation without divorce highly ' irregular- pulsing flame rising to jconvenient to a ‘man of his phil- | heights of 200 to 600 feet above 'andexlng habits, and refused. (the crater. While the flame var- Several Others, Besides lled in height, it mwas continually There was the brother of the above the top of the crater.” girl who killed herself because Fol-,‘ 600 Sacks of Flour som could mot marry her if he) gjy hundred sacks of Red Cross would. There was the thug heimour will be loaded at Seward hired as a bodyguard and valet| |by the Tallapoosa and will be dis-| and framed for theft. And "h""“brlbubed to Kodiak, Karluk, Sand was |Point, Unga, Belkofsky, Unalaska, Um Me\ko] plays the role of |ganatak and Squaw Harbor. |@ girl in a neighboring npanmem‘ Enroute from Cordova to Ju- who becomes part of the plot| neau, the Tallapoosa stood by to when William Collier, Jr. brea.ks‘,,,s,,m if necessity arose, the Unit- into her apartment in trying t|eq States naval planes Seward and | gob away from the scene of the ynajaska on their flight from Yak- imurder. Collier is arrested on‘u,’\“ to Cordova. The flight was circumstantial evidence but thelmade without incident, girl believes him innocent, and it| qpe Tallapoosa departed from is her intuition thai guides her in | junean April 8 on what was in- finally solving the mystery. ZaSu|tended should be a brief cruise Pitts has one of her usual com- ‘to Sitka, having as passengers Gov. cdy roles as the switchboard op-|George A. Parks ' Lt. Hodge *and | ‘ator who “éouldn’t keep a date pean C. E. Rice. with her boy friend because the Ordered to Help Eunice citement kept her on duty at| Ay Sitka the cruiser received or- e b“”d jders to proceed to the Westwand | ILIFE SAVING PROGRAM TO ¢ BIVEN TONIGHT Salvation Army Arranges Fine Program in Odd Fellows Hall Lfle-n,vlng uuard.s of the Salva- tion Army will demonstrate their work this evening in Odd Fellows’ Hall, eorner of Second and. Frank- lin Streets. The demonstration will be thefirst of its kind by Indians in Alaska. The work is similar ‘to ' that taught Boy Scouts and to Pirst Aid adult classes, The Guards have new., uniforms and are expected to show . adeptness in the various tests, ., . was reported lost between Unalas- ‘ka and Aktu. Gov. Parks, Lt. Hodge and Dean Rice disembark- ed from the Talapoosa at Sitka |and returned to Juneau on a com- mately worked her way Harbor. Aboard.of the CRUISER'S CREW The cutter returned to| land search for the Eunice wihich t The program wul begin at. 8 French Woman_to Present Americans to British Court o'clogk. .. It will- be both. inst: ictive and -entertaining.. In additon to the life-saving demonstration, there will be seyeral musical selections. Staff Captain. Joseph Acton, Di- visiohal (Commadnder of the Salva- tion Army in Alaska, will preside. — o> FUNERAL FOR INDIAN GIRL Funeral services were held this LONDCN, May ' 2.—Madame de Pleuriau, wife of the French Am- bassador, will..present a group:of American - women . when . the first of :the British Courts are heid on, May 11. She will. do so et the vequest of American Ambassador Mellon. His daughter, now m tet the American BEmbassy, not make ‘the presentation until she is presented. e IN THE FUEL OIL LINE We: haul Diesel ofl only. ‘For reasonable delivery rates’ Phone 8L THE ‘NORTH TRANSFER— afternoon in the chapel of the Russlan Orthodox Church in the | Willoughby Avenue district for the late May Watson, 7 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Watson, Indian residents of this city. Interment, under direction of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary was in Evergreen Cemetery. “service with a smile” DOUGLAS NEWS DEROUX BACK FROM STATES | lemg Engmeer Has Been { Absent from Douglas ) Five Months August DeRoux arrived home Saturday on the Norco ffom a |five months’ visit' in the States, the business of which, it s under- stood, was highly successful. Mr. | DeRoux, who is a mining engineer, |is interested in some valuable prop- lerties within a: few miles of Doug- las regarding whieh. important an- nouncements are expected in the jnear future, ———————— OUT OF HOSPITAL Louis Shafer came home from the hospital yesterday and is well on the road to complete recovery from an operation for appendicitis which he underwent a week ago. r e YUKON MAKES CALL FOR LOCAL CANNERY Bringing some machinery forthe Douglas Cannery, the Yukon called in " here 'last - night or her way South from the Westward. ————— IN TOWN, FIRST TIME IN EIGHT Moms James Huffman, Eagle River farmer, came into town yesterday for his first: visit in eight months. HEAVY BOOKINGS - OF ALASKA 'I'Ogg PARTIES Heavy bookings of summer tour- ists being made by representa~ tives of the Alaska Steamship pom- ’ pany &t Seattle include b special party. of 150 Pennsylvania farm- ers and members of their famil- ies who will sail from Seatile on {the steamship Alaska, July 19 on an eleven-day ‘cruise of Southeast Alasko. -~ The Pennsylvania Farm- er, A magazine devoted to the farming industry, s sponsoring: the trip. The farmer party will arrive in Seattle on a speclal train from Pittsburgh. /A Los Angeics Chamber of |merce tour party will sail. {Seattle June 10 on the steamship ' Alaska Steamship Company’s lner Aleutian for an 'eleven-day trip | Steamship a cruise to AH.. AL pArTTIE ST IO GRACE vnvw pAv,;g HAS PLAYERSPRODUCTION Miss Grace Vivian Davis, talent- fed. daughter of Capt: James V. | Davis.of Juneau, is appearing’with the Cornish-Players in the Cornish Theatre, Seattle, in their revival of “The Good. Hope’—first produced in December with .great Miss Davis plays the lead— an old mother, a Dutch fishing "village, who ‘press. Following: the close of the term .at the Cornish Schoal, . oould |Davis leaves with the iPlnyeru ‘Touring Group to tour' t‘» IMiddle West with: ‘Love end Chance” in which lhe plays the | lead.