The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 9, 1936, Page 3

REV. HUBBARD " APPEARS HERE | AT COLISEUM | Capitol Theatre Shows Boris Karloff in “Invisible Ray,” Horror Film The Rev. Bernard Hubbard, Alas- ka's Glacier Priest and scientist of note from the Geology Depart- |ment of Santa Clara University will appear tonight at the Coliseum theatre under auspicies of the Hos- pital Guild. He will talk on his ex- plorations of this summer and show his latest moving pictures. Regular prices will prevail, and all proceeds will go to St. Ann's Hospital. Though a master of makeup, Boris Karloff yearned to appear on the screen with more-or-less un- draped features and in “Invisible Ray” his wish has finally been | gratified. This picture, a thrilling} VERY TOUCH WAS FATAL..! | || His scientific i finds became {1 Y| infernal methods to spread disaster! . drama of adventure and science di-| !rected by Lambert Hillyer, is the > | feature at the Capitol Theatre, with Karloff and Bela Lugois in the star- ng roles and a supporting cast! Al P. Scott IIWISIII!:E RAY 51 YEARS nLnfTEHRIffl“I!IAL | Cooper. Francis DRAKE FrankLAWTON A (| 1 " CATO LU LABORATORY | | - : |which includes Frances Drake, 1 Frank Lawton, Beulah Bondi, Wal- e g 2 SRR S BELA | i { R | | | { A UNIVERSAL PICTURE | —Government-financed fire m:hl-{1 ers are about to tackle a blaze that 30. {1has defied efforts to extinguish it| 2 5 et i |for 51 years while causing miltions| UPENED HERE - STARTS TONIGHT “The Lucky Swede” of dollars damage. | i “Off the Record” | Ten to 200 feet underground in a| =t | | “Dumbbell Letters” 10-square-mile area rages an infer-| The Territorial Laboratory, func- | no between Shawnee and New |tioning under the Department of i K Alaska Empire Straitsville, 10 miles south of here.|Health, today opened its first head- It has consumed thousands of |quarters in the Goldstein Building. tons of coal, threatens other of|Miss Magnhild Oygard, R. N, Py County’s rich coal and oil de-|boratory Technician, will direct the — = | posits, has made a large area un-|Division of Laboratories of the De- inhabitable and turned once-fertile partment of Health, which is a joint soil into barren ground | participation of the Territory and Latest News +. Coronation Year Ball tended as it was.by many members of the royal family, was one of the i ’ o i o | the United States Public Health Ser- . . to Resemble George’s nignignts of the time. | e £ 00 0 Blgitour o 00 by f BN .| Accommodation at the ball is be-| o0 of hituminous coal in the sum-| The activities of the laboratory i LONDON, Sept. 9—One of the ing arranged for 2500 guests. The ... ¢ 1884 The Works Progress|will follow Public Health measures, proceeds will be divided between most brilliant sbcial evenis of the | o Administration has appropnated‘and will serve primarily in com- 5 period will be the Coronation Year "‘}::‘“Y";?(‘inyb;m(‘;s;wa:;fp ”;?'“(\‘;lel:r;s $232,000 to hal t it ?nd Dr. Carlln?umcabk\ disease control and sani- Ball at Grosvenor Hall next June.| who are indnoeits the (’ven(. Kinx; Watson, State Administrator, says !tation. 3 s = |work will start as soon as proper .-, It will be organized on similar | Edward is patron of the league and equipment is obtained The project calls for a huge steam shovel trench around much of the jarea. Then the coal seams will be ’icul and non-combustible material | {thrown in the path of the fire. |about 70 guests last evening at the | william Berry, New Straitsville Home Boarding House at a party ESTHER DAVIS IS HOSTESS AT PARTY| Sovereign of the Order - | lines to the Shakespeare Ball which took: place during the year of King George’s coronation, and which, at- Try & classiffed—wzmpire. | A | " halted, it will restore the area as an | ter, | £ important coal producing point. | ¢ The fire has caused cave-ins and| pancing to the music of Rudolph | created natural chimneys. Water|Edman and Fred Lehto, accordion-| seeping into flame-filled shafts gen- ists and an attractively appointed erates steam and huge holes are sypper made up the evening J uneau Lumber M "lls, I ne. blown into the hilly ground. | sisting Miss Davis were Mrs. Emil| | Is Often Spectucular | Vienola and Mrs. Oscar Routsala. — Shooting up through the chim-; A number of lovely gifts were re-| neys, the flames often tower many ceived by the popular young couple | feet into the gir. They cause grass| from the assembled guests. ] fires and hundreds of persons are .. _ . A° L‘ Mo°k called out to' halt the spread of fire I > £ above the ground. You are invited to present this Conflicting legends are told con- coupon at the box office of the cerning the fire's cause. Some say| an explosion of “bug dust,” or com- Capitol Theatre tickets for your- mon slack, set it off. and recei‘:d self and a friend ?r whose marriage w |of last week. ! As- | D. J. Lewis of New Lexington, who' has studied the fire’s history, re- relative to see “The Invisibl e Invisible H None, however, has been able to lates a version that the fire result- ed from the great Hocking Valley mine gtrike of 1884 and was set by Ra e ! estimate exactly the damage the fire . has' caused. 1 miners who believed one of the companies planned to import wurk-‘ ers. : UNITED STATES { DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR | 1 GENERAL LAND OFFICE District Land Office As ‘g+paid-up slblcfiher -of ' The Daily Alaska Empire e s | . ! June 28, 1936. Good only for current offering | | Notice'is herehy given that'Dot- Your Name May Appear Tomorrow |othy “Stearns Roff, Has made a WATCH THIS SPACE b for a ication. 0 soldiers’ | additional ‘gonies‘;aad Anchorage 07987, for a tyact of land located on 1 D — - Gastineau ALASKA MEAT CO. ] Fac ¥ 1134 degrees 18" W. FEATURING CARSTEN’S BABY BEEF —DIAMOND || "Any and all persons claiming ad- TC HAMS AND BACON—U. S. Government Inspected || versely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse claims in the U. 8. Land Office, Anchor- age, Alaska, within the period of publication or thirty days there- cm_l'-‘or Every Purpose—co AL la.fter, or they will be barred by the provisions of the Statutes. PACIFIC COAST COAL COMPANY. GEORGE_ A, LINGO, * * Phone 412 / No. 2188, containing 4.42 acres. Lati- jtude 58 degrees 14’ 49” N. Longitude i Register. {First publication, Aug. 26, 1936. 4 ‘| Last publication, Oct. 21, 1936. INSURANCE | Ghianist Allen Shattuck It Established 1898 - .. PHONE 36 For 'very prompt LIQUOR DELIVERY — & s .., ; | { .. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9, 1936. ... Film Star Admits Engagemient | Marian Marsh ‘Wedding bells may ring any moment now for Marian Marsh, screen star, who recently surprised Hollywood by announcing her engage- ment to Al P. Scott, Los Angeles stock broker, above. 'MAN' OF NORTH WINNING FIGHT; O WALK AGAIN (Seattle Times) | The plot of a tragic story which! began at Point Lay on the bleak,| .. | frozen Arctic shore 200 miles below | rought him into Seattle Point B: was changed yesterday to the | rrow, during the winter of/ ren’s Med men believe it will have a happy ending. It was during the winter of 1932/ that an epidemic of whooping cough spread through the little village Gilbert Moyer, then 6 years old,| ho was the son of C. D. Moyer,| :rnment school teacher, con- | | tracted the disease. It became com- | tion in the North to bring the hoy plicated. Dreaded spinal meningitis set in | 600 Lotg Miles To Go The boy's father decided he must Miss Esther Davis entertained be taken to the hospital. But there|1933. is nothing casual about such a de- cision in the Arctic. The Moyer {business leader, says if the fire is honoring Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Coul-|family waited until the second week “That's the best way to travel. But the Lebanon republic brought to| an event in April, 1933, to begin the 600-mile (it was late in the spring, and the!light, a splendid stone statue of a Journey to Kotzebue. 1 Moyer wanied to make the trip| on the ice along the shore, but | wanted to travel late in the spring/out on the ice every night, sleeping 50 the boy could be put on a boat for the “outside” immediately. With three sleds, three dog teams | and Eskimo drivers, Mr. and Mrs.| Moyer, Gilbert, and his five broth-| ers and sisters, started from Point It’s Coming THE COMET! Orthopedic Hospital|c | imprisoned, was removed. THEATRE FATHER HUBBARD EXPLORER OF ALASKA'S GLACIERS Auspices of Hospital Guild ON THE STAGE IN PERSON Telling as only he can tell of the WONDERS, MYSTERIES and GRANDEUR of our GLACIERS which are OLDER THAN TIME! ....ALSO.... FATHER HUBBARD’S LATEST MOTION PICTURES TWO FULL SHOWS AT 7:30 P. M. AND 9:30 P. M. AT REGULAR ADMISSIONS Father Hubbard donates his time and pictures for the benefit of St. Ann's Hospital Golden Jubilee Anniverscry. Lay April 16, with the u\mperaturoi the trip tried a short cut across the tre, Arab structures and fortifi~ at 30 degrees below zero. mountains. We were caught in a|cations built by the Crusaders. Dogs Stumble in Traces isnowstorm and for two days and! Today it is a winor seaport. They came into Kotzebue eigh-)nights we just stayed there, wait- e, teen days later without food, and| ing. Our food ran out, and we head- ATTENTION REBEKAHS with their dogs stumbling wv;xrily‘“d back to the ocean and finished| The first regular meeting of the in the traces. An airplane took the[the journey along the shore. Welseason will be held Wednesday boy to Valdez, and a steamship|Were pretty well played out, all|pight at 8 o'clock in the I. O. O. harbor un;““m'" |F. Hall. All members are requested May 28 But the grin which he exchanged|{o attend. Since then he has lain in plaster| V0 Bis o W E Sus ihay, s MILDRED CASHEN, S out of the clinic, told that the Are-| _ady. Becretary. tic journey was inconsequental when But last week, Gilbert, 10 years e compared with the news of the boy's improvement. Wide Range of Egyptians Shown by Lebanon Ruins| Phone 626, day or night, for res- ervations in Irving Airways Lock- heed. old now, was told that soon he will be able to move about on crutches. Half the cast, in which he has been| He had won the first victory in his long battle for health, His father, who gave up his posi- | BEIRUT, Syria, Sept. 9.—Arch-| “outside,” and who now is manag-|eological discoveries showing the| fogsfed er of the National Re-employment Strong influence of Egypt along the Service in Everett, told yesterday Lebanon coast from the 18th to| of the long journey by dog sled in 14th centuries, B. C., have been un- ea earthed at Djeleil, site of the an- “We followed the ice along the|cient city of Byblos. \ shore most of the time,” he said.| Excavations by archeologists 0[! Toasting ice was hummocky in places, and man in Egyptian costume, the ruins| in some places there was open wa- of a temple, several gold statues ter we had to avoid. We camped and other ornaments set with prec- ious stones and a silver ax. J Djeleil's archeological treasures | provide a record of its age-old hi tory and its many occupations. There are the tombs of Phoenician | kings, a row of columns erected by the Greeks, a small Roman thea- releases extra flavor - more | under furs and in sleeping bags. of the delicious flavor “Cold? Well, it was down around 30 degrees below zero during all the trip, but the children were used to it. They liked it. “The Eskimos during the last of with which a tea leaf ' was blest by nature. —————eeeeeeet. e