The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 9, 1935, Page 3

You'll see a thousand thrills thunder across the screen in split-second succession. T WESTERNER «th Marion Shilling Walt Coburn irected by Dovid Selman A COLUMBIA PICTURE bascd on story b D —ALSO— Reckless Knights Springboard Champs News STARTS TONIGHT MIDNIGHT PREVIEW ‘Silverstreak’ NOTICE Continental Products are Cobbs Creek, Dixie Bell Gin, SCOTTISH RITE MASONS Rye, Sweepstakes, Patrician, Old Regular meeting Friday ovening,|:reasure, Cavalier Gin. Ask for August 9 (TONIGHT). D:gree gontinental—IT IS PURE. ~ adv Work. Refreshments. Visiting mem- | s bers” cordially invited. Lpav.| e — DAILY EMFPIRE WANT A0S PAY! S ——— PO WINDOW CLEANING PHONE 485 ittt et S et guiates ]| CAPITOL BEER PARLORS | AND BALL ROOM Lunches Dancing Every Night 7] PHONE 58 Private Booths Juneau Cash Grocery CASH GROCERS Corner Second and Seward Free Delivery PicGiy Rittenhouse | TIMM'COY IS COLISEUM STAR Several well known' rodeo riders are seen in the current ‘Columbia | production, “The Westerner,” which opens at the Coliseu ‘mtheatre to- night. Tim McCoy, stdrring in the picture, is presented as & bucking {horse rider who wins a champion- {ship at a western rodeo. A number of professional: riders !appear in the rodeo stenes. . Chief | among the riders is Jack Kennedy, Who last year won the champion- ship at the Congress of Rough Rld- ers held at the Los Angeles Coli- seum. Riders from the Argentine Russia, Australia, Africa and other parts of the world competed for the coveted honor. In the picture, McCoy rides “Mid- nicht” a famous bucking outlaw ‘horse, » The supporting cast includes Mar- ion Shilling, Roger Atchley, Joseph Sauers, Eddie Cobb and Albert J Smith, ¥ CONCRETE POURING STARTS ON LOWER FRONT TOMORROW The unfortunate truck and auto- mobile ‘drivers who have been forced to traverse the one-way, pot-hole filled roadway along Lows er Front Street recently will be glad to learn that E. J. Cowling, | President of the Gastineau Con- struction Company, announced to- ‘day that he intended to start paving operations on that section tomorrow. | For several days the busy flow of traffic has been forced to use a {Front Street while the other half |of thie road, partially prepared with }a pouring of concrete, has been blocked. Tomorrow, weather per- mitting, Cowling plans to start |pouring his special “quick-setting” concrete preparation which will jonly require five days instead of |28 before being used. | Meanwhile, the Gastineau Com- pum poured concrete in forms on| | Franklin Street, between Third and | Fourth Avenue, today. e MISSIONARY TRAVELS | Westward who has been Jh('r(' left Juneau for Vancouver, B.| c on the Princess Alice. i - R NOTICE SCOTTISH RITE MASONS Regular meeting Friday evening, | August 9 (TONIGHT) Degree Work, Refreshments. Visiting mem- bers _cordially invited. ~adv. | —————— | Continental Distillers, largest in |world. Clear Heads call for Con- tinental Whiskies. i Cobbs Creek Whiskey—uew sen- sation in Juneau. = Distributed by Wilbur Irvlng, Gunneau Hotel. ad. |one-way thoroughfare along Lower | C. Norris, a missionary from the| visiting | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1935. DOUGLAS NEW§ TAXPAYERS OF . DOUGLAS MEET TONIGHT - Final Council Approval Is Given for Public Works Planned Following z\nomor mesting of the Douglas City Council held last ev- ening for further inspection of the plans and specifications for the new water works and scwerage system, all delay in advertising for bids on ‘| the projects was removed by a vote of final approval being passed. Messrs. O. H. Stratton and Nelson Beers, who are engineering the pro- ject, will now proceed with obtain- ng bids from those who would do the jobs. A meeting of all the tax-payer voters of the town is being adver- tised for tonight at 8 o'clock, when all pnases of the undertaking will be discussed, so that they may vote more intelligently on the $27 500 loan issue next Tuesday. The city | engineers will be there to explain | the extent of the public improve-| ment which will be obtained by the expenditure of this money and how the principle and interest will be paid. ———.e | BUSY DAY AT CANNERY | Port Huton with 14,000 salmon, and |the Mary Ann from Taku River |with a few hundred during the jmght afforded an early start for the day's canning by Douglas Fish- eries company this morning. The Sampson was expected in during the day with about 8,000 more which would give the cannery em- ployees overtime work. HAS SPRAINED ANKLE Jimmy Doogan is getting around on crutches at present due to a [ badly sprained ankle. — - — NOTICE TO TAX-PAYING | VOTERS r A mass meeting of the tax-pay- |ing votes of Douglas will be held | in the City Hall tonight at 8 o’clock |to explain the matter of bonding: |the City for $27,500.00 for P.W.A. projects. adv 1 BIG I’AHTY TONIGHT | All Douglas residents have been { invited by Mrs. Rose Davis to a | house warming at the Government —adv. | School tonight. There will be games | |and dancing. Those attending the mass meeting are urged to attend the party following the session in the City Hall. - A Great American Visits A Great American Institution! Just as millions of American housewives show their appreciation for the finest of foods at low- ‘est possible prices by buying at PIGGLY WIGGLY so did WILL ROGERS on his recent visit to Juneau. EST QUALITY at the LOWEST POSSIBLE PRI E6GS | MEAT Largest—Freshest 2doz., 75¢ String Beans No. Two Cans 2 for 25¢ Grapefruit 2 No. 2 cans, 25¢ MILK DARIGOLD—Talls 14 cans, 99¢ Pt - Cantalou pes Large—Ripe—Fancy 2 for 29¢ ONIONS FANCY YELLOW NEW CROP 5 Ibs., 25¢ "MEAT DEPARTMENT 24-2 rings—42-2 rings Roasters Tumble; DRUM BROILERS $1.15 THREE WHOLE BIRDS Plump—Fresh—Fryers Young 24¢c lb. Blue Ribbon—Best Known Quality Shortening 3 lbs. for 50c¢ Swift’s Jewel—Pastry Tested Fresh—New Style Glass.., MITYFINE DIXIE MOCK Made Fresh Daily—Specially Pric_e_q for Satdray CES. DEPT. A Hens 35¢ 1b. Colored—Extra Fancy—1935 COTTAGE CHEESE r—15¢ STICKS B WILL knew that the name PIGGLY WIGGLY meant but one thing only. The HIGH- BUTTER SUNSET GOLD—The Best 2 lbs., 65¢ Cigarettes 1l Popular Brands Carton, $1.’23_ Pork and Beans 2 large cans, 29¢ COFFEE SCHILLINGS Pound, 29¢ Banangs - 31bs., 39 POTATOES Best Quality—New B. SHOPPING BAG ' down The cannery tender Mavis from | HANSEN TELLS OF PIONEERS' {=HOME ON AIR DF‘K ;§Supermlendent of Sitka In- I stitution Speak.\ on Empire Broadcast er Han-on, Superintendent of the’ ?0 eers'’ Home in Sitka, does nbt. ghink he has a tough job in handling 160 old men He ex opinion when ved on The Empire program over radio last night. real trou- : the residents of the “Quite often we lows arguing wheth- should be up or ike that minor com- petitive spirit. It's a good thing.” Asked about the condition of J E. Kenny, the Home resident who was blinded, then just recently, op- erated n by a famous eye spec- ialistj who visited Sitka on a tour party and who voluntgered his ser- vices, Hansen caid Kenny now could ee. T superintendent declared that Kenny was “mighty glad a few days ago to go downtown and be able to read the labels on the whis- | key bottles again.” Striking a more serious note, Han- sen furned philosophical as he an- |swer¢d a query. “Do the pioneers 20 ta the Home to die?” “Np, they don't,” he said. * | turally, we have many deaths ther | But the men living there don’t wor- ry ahout death. T've seen so many of them face death with the same quiet, courage that they faced hard- | sRips here in the early days of Al- | aska, that it's given me an entirely new philosophy of dying.” ~hastly, Hansen spoke a word about his newly-announced plan for a s@itable monument in commem- oraj of the service done the Ter- ritdy by the pioneers. Hansen said the “beauty of my idea is that it won't cost the Territory of Alaska |ong, penny.” He said he proposed |a BFddual accumulation of the cost |of the monument through bequests. D - ressed that find tw But I 1 | i Rex Beach, Famous Author, Back North ’Inl for a Visit (Continued (rom Page Two) adian National Railway and stopped over at Jaspar National Park, re- cently opened park and the pride of the Canadian government. Mr. Beach hdq the decided honor of wetting the first fly in Jaspar Lake since it was stocked some time ago with rainbow trout. He sald that| | Kamloops, a variety of trout named for the district in which they were| first discovered, were also reputed to be taken from the lake, but that| local authorities stated that Kam- |locps trout are actually only an- other species of rainbow trout. He isaid, "I had an argument about 'this with a game warden, but the fish expert won. I have never yet won an argument with a game warden.” Still Striving Asked which of his novels he him- | self considered best, Mr. Beach said quickly, “I don’t ltke any of them.” | He confessed, however, that he had |found the much-read ‘Son of the Gods' the easiest to write and got| the most satisfaction out of doing it.” However, When an author gets to consider- ing any of his work as being es- pecially good, he might just as well quit writing.” me, 1V el he remarked that| IR PICTURE AT-GAPITOL L Gary Grant, one of the stars of | the recent thriller “The Eagle and the Hawk,” will be: scen at the Capitol theatre for ‘the first time | tonight in another - aviation film Paramount’s “Wings in the Dark." In this film Grant plays the role of a scientific explorerf the air a man who strives to ‘make avia- tion safe by perfecting blind-flying. Myrna Loy, is co-starred as the girl who helps him to carry on his work after he has been blinded by an ac- cident, The picture, which is di- rected by James Flood, is intended to depict the thrills and romance in the development of peacetime av- iation, Also featured in the picture are Roscoe Karns, Robert Kavanaugh and Dean Jagger. Of his method of writ Beach said, “I write. entirely nghand and usually in the morn- ngs. I try to confine myself to a Jarticular period of writing but am act arbitrary about iti I find long- hand makes for more fluid writing decause it is easier £o correct when it is typed one has the ac rantage of having seen it in two fitferent ways. Then if one reads it aloud, and I often do read it to ny retary or have her read it to me, one gets a third reaction—the auditory one.” He said his concern was usually more with theme than with plot, the latter being modified in part by the characters which he pnandled. “This is not, however, to be construed as any sort of literary advic he interrupted himself Writing is different from any oth- or profession 1 ever heard of in that the longer one does it the harder it is to do.” Club Affiliations Mr. Beach was for some years President of the National Authors League, in which he holds a life membership, and is a charter mem- ber of the Dutch Treat Chub, where editors and authors meet once a week Mr. Beach plans t6 spend several days in Juneau. While here he ex- pects to experiment with strip-fish- ing and will make trout expeditions to nearby lakes. He said that he had no definite plans except to wander about in the Interior, but that he did hope to visit his friend Joe Ibach as “the fellow who acted as guide for Fred Stone when he visited the Cordova country.” He has never seen Fairbanks but was in Rampart and Fort Yukon in 1897. Latest Novel “Wild Pastures,” a story of the little-known days of the cattle in- dustry in Florida, is the latest nov- ‘1'1 by Mr. Beach. A new novel, | “Jungle Gold,” a story of the devel- {opment of the banana industry in Central America, will be released | by Farrar & Rinehart in Novem- ber. ————— SUMMER LODGES ARE BEING BUILT Olaf Eikland, of the Juneau Cab- inet and Millwork Detail Company, | has started construction of a sum- {mer lodge at Lena Point tn be named Camp Sat-a-Rock. Adjoin- ing his spot, Harry Stonehouse is erecting a summet camp to be known |at Alder Lodge. PR P LT Continental Prodiiets are Cobbs | Creek, Dixie' Bell'Gin, Rittenhouse Rye, Sweepstakes, Patrician, Old ‘i’l‘reasura, Cayalier Gin. Aak for pordner HIRAM WALKER'S Extra! Yankee Stadium. Ntw ALSO NEW FALL Tense, -tender and thrilling ! Flying . fools who played a dangerous game of love MYRNA LOV C(ARV GRANT Extra! TALKING PICTURES HEAVYWEICHT FIGHT York, June 2 TONIGHT g FALL Extra! JOE LOUIS — PRINO CARNERA 1935 Starting SUITS and OVERCOATS HAND TAILORED TO MEASURE AMPLES are being shown in our cut, trim and make depart- JITS irom $27.50 Up ® Genuine Quality Tailoring Service. ® Best Virgin Wool Fabric SA The TAILOR Near Gastineau Hotel - TEN HIGH ///'////// ////)//