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+.SUNDAY... .MONDAY... .. TUESDAY MIDNIGHT PREVIEW Saturday—1:15 A.M. MATINEE Sunday—2 P.M. ,v?v TR s Al | AMEREGRS LITTLE SWEETHEART w..The D:mpled Dahng & Ycu Love in the Greatest Civii War Dramas! / JOHN IOLES “ KAREN MORLEY JACK HOLT Guinn Williams Bill Robinson ADDED “TWO LAME DUCKS” “SYMPHONY IN BLACK” “TIME FOR,LOV UNIVERSAL NEWS ! - Sylvia Sidney in "MARY BURNS, FUGITIVE" TONIGHT Snapshets . . . . Cartoon . . .. News THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1936. GHOST COMEDY 'SHIRLEY STARS Club, the \tion the Juneau Woman's C L] the Douglas Women'’s Club, and 4 a trip to Skagway where LEAVES CITY :: city - William Howes, No. 2 Mail Man, idressed women of that PURTY . ~pe is ) MRS. OTT LEAVES Cfficial of fFederation of bty ls ngh!y Ra!ed Mrs. William Ott, wife of the Women's Clubs Ends Visit in Juneau manager of the Coliseum Tt at Sitka, §'as an outbound pa | ger last night aboard the North- land enroute for her home. Mrs Ott arrived from the south last week and has been visiting with friends in Juneau. - -se ARRIVES FOR WEDDING Mrs. C. Copstead, mother of Raold Copstead, Piggly Wiggly Market employee, who is to be| married soon te Miss Edith Niemi,| arrived on the Northland last night | to attend the wedding. re General Known as ‘Trouble Shooter’ Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, First Vice President of the National Federa- 4 tion of Women's Clubs and well- known throughout the United States for her anti-tuberculosis work sailed last night on the Northland for Sitka. She plans to spend a short time in Sitka and go from there to Wrangell where she will board a steamer for Seattle While here, Mrs. Dunbar was guest speaker at affairs given by o WILLIAM W. HOWES By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE (Associated Press Staff Writer) City Law: DANCING until 2:30 Tonight. Territorial Law: No Beer or Wine after 1 A. M. OUR OWN LAW: i THE BEST OF FOOD. DRINKS and MUSIC. | Cover charge Saturday nights only—50c. DANCE to the BEST MUSIC at the most moderate rate. Postmaster General, is a soft- speaking, easy-moving lawyer-poli- tician rated high in Administration TER MINAL crcles as a level-headed executive T[‘e | “Tomorrow'’s Styles OPEN TILL 3 A. M. SATURDAYS || Tl V.’ Don'‘t Overlook Our FINE FOODS ] 1 | Juneau’s Own Store II|IIIIIIIII|IIHHI!IIHIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllImIIIIIIIIlIII|II!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII n- First Assistant Postmaster | | SUND OPENS SUNDAY [N DIXIE FILM ATCOLISEUM HERE TOMORROW The Little Rebel Opcn\ at the Capitol Tomor- row Matinee Robert Doat and Jean‘ Parker Star in “The Ghost Gocs West™ Well-night flawless directing and When a little girl and her happi- acting, and a great story of com-|ness are involved, the Blue and the edy and romance combine to as-|Gray are all friends—and no foes ure an enthusiastic reception by —as Shirley Temple's “The Littlest | Juneauites of the picture opening| Rebel” proves. This picture opens at the Coliseum on Sunday—‘The|at the matinee performance on Ghost Goes West Sunday at the Capitol Theatre Robert Donat and Jean Parker| As the tiniest Confederate in | are starred in this story with a| Virginia, the dimpled darling of the Scotch background, a real live screen plays her first big dramatic ghost as one member of the cast,) role in “The Littlest Rebel.” nd many mirth provoking situa-| John Boles and Karen Morley tions calculated to provide a real| are her parents. Separated by evening’s entertainment for any-| the war, they get together just be- one with a normal sense of humor.|fore the mother dies, and Boles, al- With the of bit two stars is a long list players including: Eugene lette, Everly Gregg, Elsa Lan-|to her aunt in Richmond. ster, Hay Petire, Morton Selten, He is trapped by a Yankee offi-| nd Ellito Mason cer, Jack Holt. But Holt surren- A double bill composed of ders to Shirley’s charms, and tries Stormy,” a great Western dramn, to help them through the line The Spanish Cape Mystery”| When their plot fails, both Holt playing for the last time to-{and Boles are in hot water. night How the little girl uses her charms on the President of the Un- l'ion to save her daddy and dearest| though he fears apprehension as a spy, undertakes to deliver the child and a sagacious political adviser MONDAY— [ AY— 1 SM BT “It's a Great Show!” TUESDAY— THEATRE THEY HAUNTED EACH OTHER WHILE THE REAL GHOST MADE A PRACTICE OF ITI!} No. 2 man in “the world’s larg-' friend, is revealed in. the tender | est business establishment,” he saw | dramatic climax of “The Littlest| he spotlight turned full on him|RePeL” . by reports that his chief, James A r-'u.?'mh»l” "“"“‘i‘: W Mary, Sutne JEAN PARKER Farley, would step from the Cab-) Fugitive,” “is playing for the last net to concentrate solely on the| times tonight ‘ Eugene Pallette Roosevelt re-clection campaign. |~ § A UNITED ARTIST RELEASE As Vice-Chairman of the Demo- |speaking. He has addressed hun- ratic National Committee, Howes|dreds of gatherings, including | was Farley’s right hand man dur-|graduating classes, Fourth of July SHORT UNITS—Double Exposure . . Tomorrow’s Half Back . . Fox Movi ing the last three months of the celebrations, political meetings and | ACTUALLY—The Finest Comedy We Have Offered You!—MANAGER Roosevelt campaign in 1932 As conventions of letter carriers } First Assistant Postmaster General| oHwes, 49, has been a Democrat| Last Times Tonight: “A GENUINE FRIGIDAIRE” since early in 1934, he has been|wheelhorse in South Dakota, once “STORMY” and “SPANISH CAPE Now on Display in Farley's right hand man and “trou- | predominantly Republican, since his MYSTERY” ihe Wover? ble shooter” in the Postoffice De- election to the State Senate in 1916.; Lo P A 5 g R e L bartment |He was a candidate for Governor 9th Episode—“Rustlers of Red Dog SAVE YOUR Big Administraiive Jab in 1920 became State Chairman of COUPONS I'he publicity given the tremen-|his party in 1922 and was elected | dous political power wielded by a t0 the Democratic National Com- Postmaster General often has tend- | Mitte in 1924 . He was re-elected VAo N kit i : d to overshadow the business as- in 1928, 1932 and again at the ""“"Political Lull Marks followed the sam 1eral patteron. pects of the: Job adelphia Convention Calm Before Storm It was a part of tne same that picture SAVES BOY'S Landon retired to a vacation Today a Postmaster General di-| Mr. and Mrs. Howes maintain a retreat soon after his nomina- rects a network of 46,000 postoffices | residence in Huron, their home ! tion saying little, ‘and letting Ine and mail routes carrying more than! city in South Dakota. They have (Continued from Page One) depebidinoe Dy D it an 500,000 miles. He heads the railway one daughter, Mary Senate, who much as an informal comment on mail, ocean mail and air mil ser- capital debutante recently grad- paring to spend V heavily for| campaign issues ices, the first of these alone dis- d from National Park Semin- items commonly classed as legiti- This quiet on all fronts should BEAVER FALLS, Pa, July 18— tributing and redistributing some mate not deceive the voter as to what is | Henry Douchet, 34-year-old railroad 15 billion pieces of mail yearly Although he has been in the going on behind the lines. He will | brakeman, saved the life of Harold D business only three and a LULL BEFORE STORM get .n”m ney's worth of action | peters, 5, twice. Seeing the boy sefore the summer is over half years, Howes is said to havej The full scope of these prepara- LA b trapped on a railroad trestle played an important role in deter- tions has had little reflection in 5 4 . Douchet clung to the cowcatcher mining departmental policies the comparative quiet of the per- ESTAL COMES IN iod immediatel ventions Traveling in railway mail cars he associated with a crew to learn THE HORNETS y following the con- |and pushed the boy Into the river Bert Elstad, wellknown Insurance |below. Then he dove from the cow- {heir problems. He has ridden with "AULx The reason is that each major|man, returned on the Northland |catcher and rescued the lad from the air mail on virtually every route| RAVENNA, Ohio, July 18—Paint- | party is following a studied plan of | from Petersburg. | the water. in the country and numbers many |ers got rid of a hornets' nest at|campaign, and on both sides the i LR AR T I i e TR pilots among his friends. Mrs. W. W. Stevens home, but. plan appears to be the same. It/ Lode and placer location notices| Lode and placer location notices Asks For Suggestions nearly burned the house down.|contemplates active contact with | for sale at The Empire office. |for sale at The Empire office. He has met thousands of postal| They applied a torch to the cornice |the enemy beginning round August —e — - employees and has invited them tol!to smoke out the hornets. A half |1 and increasing in intensity day by suggest ways of improving the ser- | hour later they had to summon the fire department. Then the firemen | day right up t vice, from the standpoint of both their own and the public's welfare.! had two fights on their hands— | acceptance He has an apparently, genuine lik-|fire and hornets. intended as a ing for people, enjoys going to | He did not p dances, baseball and football games and horse races. His favorite avocation R e The area of irrigated land in Asia | lis nearly five times that in North | will later on is public America. | over the The sense of completeness . . . . is the goal we constantly strive to bring to you, in the fulfilment of our obligation. This we complish by, an earnest attention to every phase of the services which we render. ac- People say . .. ... . .. when the last detail has been performed, with grace and fitness . . . that they truly appreciate the . all-embracing and quietly efficient service w hich we have offered at such moderate cost. THE Charles W. Carter Mortuary JUNEAU “We Are Always Ready” Roosevelt's opening address specific issues as his friends say he His talks in Virginia July Fourth of o the election, | salvo in his was obviously curtain-raiser only. in himself down to GLACIER TAVERN TOM CASEY Glacier Highway holiday ALL-NIGHT DANCING TONIGHT Music by J. 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