The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 11, 1932, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1932. CAPITOL LAST TIMES TONIGHT 'SHANGHAIED Love‘Revenge, Mutiny YAboard a_Hell- Shlp u:hard Cromwell “Noah' . Beery/ Sally | ‘Blane| - Svory by Norman Springer) Directed by { Gmg- 8. Seitz! % _'A Columbia Picture Selected Shert Subjects CHI;\ A NITE PREVIEW TOI\IG“T—I A M. Starting Tnmnrrow BUSTER KEATON in IDEWAL NEW YORK” COM!N(; “‘Susan Lenox Hex !-‘all and Rise,” “Men in Her Life,” “Way Back Home,” “Squaw Man,” “Frankenstein” SCOUTS WILL LAY CONCRETE - spoils the effect of antiquity — Alaskan and acquaintance of thirty|ingly funny wrestling match and Cabin to Be Improved— Council Asks Transpor- tation Assistance Transportation facilities for thir- teen sacks of cement to be taken to the Scout Camp at the Eagle River bar have been requested by the Juneau Scout Council, it wa made known,, today. G. E. Krause, local contractor, accompanied by members of the Council, will journey to the camp one week from next Sunday to a concrete floor under the ¢ awning of the cabin. The inauguration of the project will depend on whether or not the cement can be taken to the camp between now and May 22 by some- c¢ne who has hoat accommoda- tions. Any owner of any craft which | will pass Eagle River on its way out of Juneau, and who could transport the cement for the Coun- cil, is asked to get in touch with Dr. Robert Simpson, President. . Harry H. Mitchell, resident of Seward died there of a paralytic stroke. Old papers for sate at 'the Emplre. THEY HAVE STYLE AND KEEP IT 'When yecu puichase a pair of Flhn Iv L lvo Shoes you needn’t flylc. B'cu- :\yh is built into pair of Friencly Fives with Mm available. Just ..noflm razson lwhy “An 'l:c utstandit ue in men'’s fine footwer teday. Come. in FIVE ' SHOES | H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man — |for the occasion. 'general public as well as for lodge LIFE IN NINETIES IS REVIVED IN DRAMA OF SEA Shanghaled Love” Shows for Last Times To- night at Capitol When the Columbia wardrobe department was ordered to secure accurate costumes for the produc- tion of Norman Springer's thrill- ing sea romance as told in “Shan- haied Love,” which shows for the last times tonight at the Capitol theatre, it threw up its hands and uttered a long drawn out groan, . indeed, was a tough job! In the days of clipper ships the' ladies cof leisure wore bustles and long dresses, most of which were home-made. Caps of the sea- faring men and their accompany- ing pea-jackets were of an en- different style from those ‘While duplicates could made, Director George B. Seitz ed on realism to the nth de- . He wanted old clothes of vhe period. ‘"arvhed 0ld Attics Then the wardrobe scouts svart- ed making a canvas of the water front attics. From San Pedro to Seattle they scoured the coast. At last they began to meet with suc- cess and old-timers, glad to see the days of the “gay nineties” lived over again on the screen began to send in authentic cos- tumes for the picture. “Shanghaied Love” ‘is accurate in every detail. Old kegs, some age, are used for props. ornamenting the are those which were nailed (o its walls, and many of the bar gla: dive. | Polka Is Dzm‘fll “catch-as-can-can” No dancing” these ladies of uncertain reputa- feet and the old sea boots of the sailors clump through ‘the dance! as in days of yore. Richard Cromwell, Sally Blane play the featured leads in "Shflngh:ned Love.” ELKS TO STAGE USUAL MOTHERS' DAY EXERCISES Program ‘Poslponed from| Last Sunday to Be Giv- | en by Lodge Tonight | The Annual Mothers’ Day pro- P. O. Elks, postponed from Ilast Sunday, will be held tonight by that order in the lodge rooms in Elks' Building. A program of in-| strumental and vocal music and other features has been arranged Music will be furnished by Earle Hunter’s Elks Orchestra. Mrs. J. D. Van Atta will give a reading, a Tribute to Mother. Ted Keaton and Sam Ritter, and possibly oth- ers, will be heard in old favorite songs. The program is open to the members, and a cordial invitation is extended to everyone to be present. ©Old papers fer sa= at The Empire. | tion dance the old-fashioned polka! Shoes of the period grace tiny paper was the following in its news |theatrical performance staged by | Associated Press Phote Faced with the necessity of choos- | ing between her husband and the stage, Olive Borden took the latter. She revealed she had separat from her husband, Theodore Stew- art, New York broker, and returned | to the theater in a vaudeville act. | 'NOTED ALASKAN AT PORT ANGELES, The Port Angeles News of recent date contained the following in its personal items: “NOTED ALASKAN HFRF—CRN Earle C. Hunter, of the Federal Fisheries boat Brant, in Port An- geles harbor yesterday, is one of the best known of Alaskan men. of them more than fifty years of Mr. Hunter went to the Territory|Ville star, plays the pringipal boy The signs in early days and was at one time|Part and Frank Rowan, New York “Tub of Blood” Postmaster of Juneau, and is known\ to thousands of people in the North. He revisits the North each es are the heavy old “schoon-|year with the boat that he com-|Marshall found in the cellar of the mands and knows every bit of the| The punch | waters of Southeast Alaska. While 'here he visited with Jack Henson of the Evening News, also a former| years standing.” In the same edition of the same) columns: “Coming Brant, in for supplies, the 100-foot patrol and admin- Noah Beery istrative boat of the United Statesicue by the band of boys. Bureau of Fisheries, in annual of I\(’”flh Ba_, geles Friday. I‘hi‘ Brant of Capt. Earle Hunter, now engaged | patrol duties out! called in Port An- is under command who IIJ\ covered a vast extent of Pacific| , Coast waters, principally in Alaska | A G A lN H E ADS and on the North Pacific and/ 'Sound in the past 30 years. For about two months in the spring- time she is assigned to patrol with headquarters at Neah | y. In the summer and autumn, how ever, she carries on administra- tive work for the Bureau of Flah-. eries in Northern waters. “It is the vessel's duty during| the summer months to transport | Henry O'Malley, Federal Fisheries Commissioner, about Alaskan wat- ers as far as the Pribilof Islands. Dennis Winn the bureau's agent for Alaska, on an inspection tour of the Southeast portion of that Territory. “In 1926, Capt. Hunter took the Brant as far south as the Mexican Coast with Herbert Hoover, at that time Secretary of Commerce, as the chief passenger. “The fisheries beat is making regular trips to Port Angeles about every ten days during her seal pa- trol service.” —————— FRENCH RELISH GRAMMAR PARIS—The French Academy's recently completed grammar has becom= a ‘'best seller. Within a month 80,000 copies were sold. Spec- fal editions were sent to the Presi- dent and members of the Cabinet. ing and repairing. FURS and FUR GARMENTS REMODEL NOW! Now is' the time to have your furs remodeled in the latest 1932 Styles —at very reasonable prices, too! We have new machinery for ¢lean- Fire-Proof Storage Bring your Furs in and store them for the summer in our Fire-Proof and Moth-Proof Vaults. the seal} “SIBEWALKS OF NEW YORK" ON SCREEN AT 1 AM, 1Bu€ter Kea l on Comedy| Shows Regularly at Capitol Tomorrow | Smail boys, decayed vegetables, | gangster bullets and other as:sor ¢d trials and tribulations carry | Buster Keaton through a series| 'cf nilarious woes in “Sidewalks of New Yo his new Metro- ! Goldwyn-Mayer comedy whith will be previewed at 1 o'clock tonight| land be shown regularly tomorrow | inight at the Capitol. | Busfer plays a millionaire's son who owns some ‘tenements. He| wants {o bring light to the tough| ters of the neighborhood and |starts a one-man “big brother” | mov. ement and a gymnasium, fR]l\ in love with a sister of one of the |boys—and gets pelted, mauled, and cthenwise maltreated in the ad- venture. To “Rub Him Out” Then a gang leader decides to { “rub him out.” More trouble. Com- {ical chases and a few thrills— but he wins out in the end. George Landy, screen writer, and |Paul G. Smith, New York play-| wright, are responsible ¥or the | story, and Jules White and Zion Mye.\s directed the production. The cast includes Anita Page as the heroine, and the comical | valet is played by CIiff Edwards. | Star in Vzudevillq { Norma Philli Jr., a vaude- E youngs e star, the gangster chief. Oth- s in the cast are Frank La Rue, ar Apfel, Sid Saylor and Clark scenes include the vegetable battle on the Buster and his the scream- hilaricus in which attract fire; \ street, |tep hat ;L'ho boxing match, the rough house in the gymnasium, the amafi.cur. |the children, the chase with the |gangsters and Buster's comical es- cape from their clutches and res- | —————— — WALLIS GEORGE COLD STORAGE at Company’s An- nual Meeting | | Wallis 8. George was re-clected | President and Manager of the Ju-! neau Cold Storage Company at the| gram of Juneau Lodge No. 420, B.|Later in the year she will carry S0ual meeting yesterday of we |directors of the corporation. J. ¥.| ,Malony, who lives in Seattle, was |renamed Vice-President. The other officers, all re-chosen, are John | Reck, Vice-President; Oliver Drange, Treasurer, and H. I Lucas, Seo- retary. The directors met immediately lafter they themselves had been ! elected at the annual meeting oOF ‘the stoekholders, which was held in the offices of the Cold Storage | Company on Lower Front Street. At the stockholders’ meeting, the audit and financial report, covering plant operations for the year 1931; |was prseented. The annual report of President-and General Manage? George was also submitted. Both | reports were approved. {Tests Show Each Legume Needs Difluent Soil Food URBANA, T, May 11.—Tests covering 260,000 aeres of INinofs; land have proved that common legumes—such as red clover, sweet | clover and alfalfa—have different soil requirements and that all solis’ can’. grow them equally success- | fully. Mapping this land for acidity’ and phosphorus, says C. M. Lind- |ley, soils extension specialist Of 4 the University of Illinois, has “'gone | |far toward 'correcting one of the | \mosv costly miunderstandings about soils.” The experiments showed sweet clover needs “sweel” 8ol that alfalfa thrives best in sofl with “medium to high” amounts af phosphorus and that red clover can stand more acidity than e sweet clover or alfalfa. AP MATTHEW M. REESE GOES TO WESTWARD that about a month, after making ex- aminations of properties, Reese has spent many Alaska and has friends thro the Territory. |—Louis Meyer, {mile automobile race here May 30 Meyer Seeks to Top Milton’s Record of-$4‘),600 'For Winnings in Indianapolis Aute Speed Grind | Louie Meycr (framed, center) will send his car to the starting line (pictured at bottom) in the 300-mile auto speed classic at Indianapolis May 30 with a chan race was started. Milten and Hartz (left) retired at first and < Rickenbacker (right), two grand veterans, never could get goi ce to ond top all money winners since the in money winning. Oldfield and in the chase for lold‘ By CLAUDE WOLFE INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 10.| the calm Califor- nian of the roaring road, has a| chance by winning this year's 500- COURT ISSUES MANDAMUS WRIT ner 2t indiogoris who 8 g 1 INP 0 WE R CASE the spori. His purse ‘collections | total $33500, and he will be the |Okagway Company Order-| cnly starter with a chance to set ed by 'Harding to RC- a purse record. . . Milton Twele Victor store Certain Service | Tommy Milton, only driver ever to win the 500-mile race twice, heads all drivers in winnings. Of to top all other money earners | in the history of the classic. Meyer will go to the .starting ‘Writs ‘/of mandamus were -issued’ | today by Judge Justin W. Harding | |the $1,278850 the speedway cor-! poration has distributed to drivers, | ;in ‘the Federal district court or- dering the Home Power Company All Of'ficers?;r; Re-elected It {200,-and Rene Thomas, the French- | discrimination Wl‘ since 1909, Milton got $49,600. He | of Skagway to immediately resume | won in 1921 and 1923 and has re- | service to Louis Rapuzzi and George | tired. {Braich, or to appear in. court on | A man who never won a 500-2 :m!e.ng 28 and show cause, if any, race is the next biggest money-|why they shoud not be restored. winner. He is Harry Hartz, who; The company recently eut off collected $37,000 by finishing sec-|jts electric service to Rapuzzi and cnd in 1922, 1923 and 1926 and Braich because of a radio -merial, fourth in 1924 and 1925. Second |which they owned, crossing over prize in the long race is SlDOOOmm company’s service wires. They and (first is $20,000. Hartz quit the 'filed suits in the district court pilot’s game after cracking up a|asking for the writs to compel few years ago. {service. Even the Best Fall | These actions are the aftermath | Some of the country’s greatest of a suit recently tried before drivers in the last decade have Judge Harding brought by the jfound gold hard to win on the'City of Skagway to prevent the |hard bricks of the bumpy 2% mile power company from cutting off {track here. They provided fans eléctric service to the municipal- | with thrills galore and some of! Jity itself and to residents of the Vatlcan Seeks Tltles for New Public Ways VATICAN CITY, May 11.—Fol- lowing two years of intense con- struction, Vatican City finds itself with 13 streets and seven squares lacking names. The Pope nas appointed a spec- ial commission to remedy the lack. It is probable that the old square of St. Martha, which has | been enlarged and modernized, will be named after the presenc Pontiff. THREE ABOARD PLANE MISSING IN ARGTIC AREA {Party Searggg for ‘Bay- chimo Not Reported Since Leaving Nome POINT BARROW, Alaska, May 11.—Mrs. Edna Christofferson, Port. land aviatrix; Pilot W. R. Graham and Mechanic” George Laiblin, who left Nome on May 3, have not re- ported since. They are believed fo have been forced down in a stoffn at Wainwright, Point Hope or else- where. The trio was enroute to locate the Hudson's Bay trading ship Bay- ichimo. The craft was last sighted | March 25, ten miles off shore. Some believe she has drifted south since then. Lighter, Plus Tank Car, Equals New Terminal 'OLERMONT-FERRAND, Frange, May 11—This city is to have a new raiiroad station, because @ | traveler got a new cigarette light- er. He bought the gadget in the station’s tobacco shop, thied to fill it from a tank car of gasdline and started a fire “whith Burned the station to the' groumd. = ° . —e——— A midwestern retail merhant has créated a lighting deviee in a darkened display Window. , A sign above the darkened reads, “you can see the by simply pressing the It is reported that shoppers in line to await their turn at the button. Light ficods .the display “being as long asthe button I8 pressed. HORMEL'S DAIRY BRAND PORK Hormel's latest food delicacy. all the natural juices and Vacuum-cooked. HOCKS You'll like it. With curing ingredients added. 45¢ per can—encught for four or five péople CALIFORNIA GROCERY Prompt Delivery PHONE 478 them went broke doing it. | community who owned radio re- Eddie - Rickenbacker, Amenican | cejvers or resided in districls where war ace and now president of the such receivers were owned and op- speedway corporation, was one Who’?uted, The case was decided by} gambled on his driving for many|Jjudge Harding last Monday. He years but never profited financial-granted a permanent restraining ly. His long career in speedway crder against the Home Power cempetition netted him only $1400 Company to stop it from cutting from local promoters. He finished | |off ‘current of three residents of n the money tenth, in 1914. |Skagway -whom evidence showed Barney Oldfield, grand old man had fbeen threatened with a de- of automible racing, tried for years privation of service, to increase his bankroll here. His The decision held that the city fame as a daredevil pilot gained did have the right to maintain the |him the finest cars of his day, action and that 1t was the proper. but semething always went wrong party plaintiff. In this connection || and he only earned $4700. He (Judge Harding said: ‘T still feel ‘was fifth in 1914 and 1916. at this time I should permit the “Wild Bob” Burman, killed at suit by the city and should not BSanta Monica, flirted with the gods dismiss it on the ground it is mot cf chance here and won only $2- the proper party in interest.” 200. The late Jimmy Murphy was | In addition to the company be- a big wininer, however, his collec- |ing ‘malde ‘the defendant in the tions totaling $33500, the same mandamus suits flled by Rapuzzi as those of the youthful Meyer. and Braich, its president, Charles Ralph De Palma won $31,400. |Nye, has been bound over to the His nephew, Peter, profited $25,- Federal grand jury for alleged against the same man, took away $30000 in 1814 two patrons. and 11915. Jules Goux, .another | i Frenchman, pulled down $28,500 by SOVIETS TO FARM ARCTIC {winning in 1913 and taking Iorurbhl YAKUTSK, U. S. S. R—In its in 1914 and third in 1919. [euort to make crops near the Arc~ ‘Among younger drivers, Louie tic Circle, the Soviet Government Schneider, wvictor a year ago, is has set aside 76,000 acres along collector of #$26,000, Billy Arnold, the Amga River in this Northeast- ahead at the finish lines in 1930, ern Provinee of Siberia for cultiva- | $28,400, and George Souders, 1827 |tion this summer. 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