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| i i - - * THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1932. great kill, hear the blizzard. SERIES 292 THE NEW Hupmobile 8 IN TRUTH A CAR FOR A NEW AGE! JAMES CARLSON Juneau Distributor 1 LUDWIG NELSON | Watch Tepairing | Brunswick Agency l FRONT STREET it . { ELECTRICAL REPAIR WORK NO JOB TOO SMALL Capital Electric Co. e e PSS BTSN DONALDINE BEAUTY PARLO) Telephone 498~ RUTH HAYES Canvas and Leather Goods \ MADE TO ORDER | E. McClaire, Prop. ' 223 Seward Street MBS HOOKER'S COFFEE SHOP HOME COOKING Cakes, Pies, Salads, etc. I . A 7] PHONES 83 OR 83 - - e THE SANITARY and 25 others in the S You'll be with the seal hunters and see the roar of the guns, see their plight on the rolling ice in an Arctic ——SILVER DOUGLAS NEWS (GRADUATING - EXERCISES | | {Eight Boys and Three Girls to Be Given Diplomas This Evening Graduating exercises of the Douglas High School will be held tonight in the Coliseum theatre. This year's class consists of eleven members—eight boys and three | girls, as Yollows: Hilja Heinikka, valedictorian; Margaret Pearce, Rose Africh, Wil- |liam Cashen, salutatorian; Tauno {Niemi, Harry Lundell, Orrin Ed- wards, Arne Kronguist, George Guerin, Angus Gair and Frank Straiger. Program The following program has been arranged, to which the public is especially invited: Invocation—Rev. J. W. Cadwell. Song: (a) “Will o’ the Wisp” (b) “Merry June"—Girls’ Chorus. | Salutatory—William Cashen. Vocal Solo: “Vale of Dreams’— Albert C. Goetz. . Valedictory—Hilja Reinikka. Address: “Essentials of Success” —John H. Dunn, Clerk U. 8. Court, AT DOUGLAS : ealer Viking disaster. This is the picture that cost the lives of Varick Frissell L~ Presents THURSDAY--FRIDAY N You’'ll marvel at the nerve of the sound camera-men who made these on the rolling ice over seas deep. NITE— Song: Chorus. Presentation of Class — C. H. Bowman. Awarding of Diplomas — TFelix Gray, Clerk, Board of Education. Class Bong: “Douglas Forever.” —Senior Classs. k LR M SRR D. F. D. MEETING POSTPONED | The regular meeting bf the Douglas Fire Department will not “l:r held this evening on accounti of the commencemeni program to | be given in the Coliseum theatre. ;le next meeting falls on June S e HIGH SCHOOL PICNIC ARRANGED FOR FRIDAY The Pheasant has been secured | to transport the High School stu- dents to Hilda Creek tomorrow | on their annual picnic. The party will leave Douglas about 7:30 a. m. The Alumni is invited to go on this excursion. Coffee will be furnished by the student body and each individual must take his own lunch. | — e i TO ATTEND U. OF C. Miss Pepoon is leaving Sunday on the Northland for the Univer- sity of Oregon, at Eugene, where she plans to take a summer course | in Home Economics. The Other teachers plan to leave about June| 1; some ‘to attend school, others to spend the summer at their homes. - ,,—— TO VISIT WHITEHORSE A party of Douglas péople have arranged to take the trip to White- horse on the Yacobi, which leaves for Skagway about May 27. Among those making the excursion are’ the Misses Holbrook, Frazier and! - Builders’ NAILS—GLASS—DOORS—SASH SCREEN DOORS—SCREEN DOOR SETS ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SCREENS CERTAINTEED ROOFING CERTAINTEED SHEATHING CERTAINTEED ASPHALT SHINGLES Take Advantage of Our Complete Lines ' Thomas Hardware Co. Supplies scenes a mile B T e e ] Casheén. “The Store That Pleases” GROCERY . ——ee——— 0. K. AMERICA TUNE IN ON LUCKY STRIKE—60 modern minutes with the world's finest_ dance orchestoas, and famous Lucky Strike mews features, every Tues- day, Thursday, and Sas. urday evening over N. B. C. networks, IIIIIII|HIfiIII!fIiIIIII|IilIVIII||||IllflilIli"ilIIIHIIIIHIIIIlIIIIINlIIllIIImlllIIIIHIIIIIHHIHIIHIIIIIIIIIIHI|IHHIllilIII"IIIIIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIII|||IIIIII_II|III||IIIEIIII ’ CAPITOL Wi A DRAMA OF FIGHTING LOVE “A Perfect Day'—Boys' Pimperton, and Billy and Johnmy O OO OO OO OA RO YVIKING' LEADS CAPITOL'S NEW Epic of Newfoundland Seal- ing Perils Has Strong Love Theme many of the scenes filmed rugged and awe-in- background of ice-hedged d, “The Viking” which g tonight at the Cap- portray the virile fighting love, the two strong men for one The exciting and wholly seal hunting and ship absolutely genuine, as re was actually filmed led in sound in New- and on the Labrador 26 Lives Lost The Viking,” was produced by k Frissell, who with 25 oth- t his life when the Viking ally destroyed through an of the <hip’s powder ne, a catastrophe which ed the entire world. in February, f seals migrate north always stop at the ice-fields wi extend over a vast area off Lab- rador, where their young are whelp- ed One of the most peculiar facts in connection with this an- ual event is that all baby seals are born either on March 1st, or within two or three days of t date, the majority, however, ving on that exact day. Baby Seals Pure White ‘When th babies are born they are pure white and cannot swim. Their mothers leave them on the ice, returning at regular intervals to nurse them until they are from four to six weeks old. During this period the new-born seals change color and at the end of their nursing days are a glossy black and they have learned to — SWIM. 0 R | oo s e i o e ce” every year in the early days of March, with thousands of seal- ers aboard. These ships usually return with from twenty to seven- |ty thousand skins in their holds, 33, The American Tobaceo Co. Death Lurks BILL TONIGHT | Gun Gives You [ | I | | | In the abey | Stanley Fields at bay with the fan | “Ma” Parker lcck on. The absor | | SRS |of the vessels and fortunes of the hunt. | Not Fashionable Fur { ' The fur of the seals which ar !killed off Labrador is not the 1 the varyin, fur which is so coveted by fair. The skins are transformec |into leather from which boots and bags are later manufactured. The reat v of the heavy layer these seéals is in of fat that lies just underneath the skin, and which is refined into a clear white, tasteless and odorless oil, used in the manufacture of higher priced tollet soaps and perfumes. I is also mixed with some grades jof olive oil and is one of the best lubricating oils available. DE MOLAY DANCE | TOMORROW NIGHT All arrangements have been com- pleted for the first annual ball of the De Molays, to be held in the Scottish Rite ballroom Friday jevening. Three hundred and fifty |invitations have been issued, and a large attendance is anticipated Music will be #urnished by the Serenaders. Refreshments are to be served. The affair ds to be informal T oaccommodate Douglas Island residents, there will be a sp: *Why bring that up?” —the cigarette trade asks! OR years there has been generally a strikifig avoidance of the word “inhale” in cigarette advertising. Why? Goodness only knows! 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Maine Farmers’ Talk In 4 sense this unusual picture is an elaboration of the star's jweekly broadcasts humanizing the Maine farmer folk, consequently it |is a distinct novelty whose whole- |some character and entertertain- {ment values are in sharp contrast with the rapidly failing vogue of On a flight to Chichagof and \gangster films. Sitka, the seaplane Chichagof, Pilot| Real people activate the filf scel Eckmann and - Mechanic story, but above all rises the Strike Gordon Graham, left Juneau this ing personality of Parker playing forenoon. Enroute back here this a majestic, modérnized Moses Who evening, the aircraft may call at|is forever getting his fellow villag- | Hoonah. lers out of trouble, He makes the Harry I. Lucas, J. G. Shepard hamlet tolerant of the errant hets and A. Van Mavern were Passcngers | of run-away Rosie, played by Dor- {to Chichagof, and Malcolm Wilson |othy Peterson; fosters @ ‘fomance, and Frank McCafferty were book- and adopts a motherless upéhin ed for Sitka. [to confound a drunken father. Mr. Lucas owns mining property | Assisted by Good Cast on Chichagof Island and it will be| parker is assisted by a cast 4l- | looked over by Mr. Shepard, who|mest equally made up of radio ana is a mining engineer. film players. On the radio side Mr. Wilson and Mr. Van Mavern!gre Parker, (his real name is Phil- are merchandise brokers and Mr-‘lips Lord), Sophie Lord, a§ “Liz- McCafferty is proprietor of the Ju- e » Fffie Palmer as “Md Parker,” neau Motors. 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