The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 15, 1936, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 15, l936 T MAKES HYSTERICAL HISTORY! 5 VHIbTEAMoN(lMEDIANS f BEC A CARAVAN with DOROTHY Check Your Sombrero Snapshots Easy Aces LAST TIMES TONIGHT EUGENE O'NEILL’S Great Ameérican Drama (1] Ah, Wilderness!” with Wallace Beery Lionel Barrymore Aline MacMahon Eric Linden Cecilia Parker Mickey Rooney MIDNIGHT PREVIEW “PETRIFIED FOREST” “PETRIFIED FOREST” starring Bette Davis Leslie Howard Try an 'E-m‘p'lrre ad. CAPITOL FILM HAS SONG HITS OF YESTERYEAR Dentistr;_l_s— Theme of Wheeler and Woolsey Drama at Coliseum Old tunes, prominent from 1902 to 1906, are used as incidental mu- sic in Eugene O'Neill's “Ah Wil- derness!” playing at the Capitol Theatre. Among them are “Under the Bamboo Tree,” “Then Youll Remembeér Me,” and “Arrah Wanna.” Appearing in the picture are Wal- lace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Aline Mac- Mahon, Spring Byington, Helen Flint, Frank Albertson, and Charles Grapewin. Dentistry provides an escape from death and disaster! In the words of Bert Wheeler and Robert Wool- sey this is the theme of their latest comedy “Silly Billies,” now at the Coliseum. The boys go back to the 1850's and the Far West to turn tooth pullers in this picture, and their fooling around with the forceps gets them in and out of every dan- ger that gave the plains a blood and thunder reputation. o b *. l AT THE HOTELS Gastineau Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Brewer, Fair- banks; Mr. and Mrs. I. Mosier, Cal- ifornia; Miss Somers, Seattle; B. Malony, Tulsequah; Baxter Felch,! Seattle; Ed Polson, Fairbanks; Lief, Holbe, Seattle; James Cooper, An-, chorage; A. C. Winkley; Fred Nash, Terrace, B. C.. Charles Thorpe, Vancouver; Lee Bratt, At- fin; Joyee Bulton, Atlih; R. R. Pee-' bles, Atlin; Y. Campbell, Vancouver; J. G. Telford, Vancouver; F. Hen- derson, Vancouver; Vancouver; Dorothy Daly, Seattle; Gil Rich; J. W. Barbour, Seattle; D. O. Selby, Seattle; R. E. Murphy, City, Myrtle Gallagher, City; Rex Beach, New York. Zynda Mr. and Mrs. John Flintoff, Ta- coma; Rev. A.”Nickelson, Cloquet, Minn.; C. J. Sacarisen, Hillsboro, Oregon; Isadore Bloom, Boulder, Colorado; Mrs. Gladys Cazac, Sitka; Tex Leondard, City; A. Isaacson; Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Eville, Skag- way. Alaskan R. E. Thompson, Oakland; E. W. Kubicek, Frances Lake; T. M. Mit- chell, Frances Lake; W. J. Nelson, Tulsequah; M. W. Moore, Valdez; T. W. Peterson, Funter; Woods, Tee Harbor; Chisana; Ollar Gregerson, }Thomas Willette, Sitka; um, Port Althorp; G. E. Austin, Ketchikan: Joe Hill City: A. Rob- ins, Cordova. .- ELKS OPEN HOUSE Wednesday night from 8 to p.m. Dancing, cards, bowling, lunc and entertainment. For Elks and their friends. —adv. C. Erickson, City; Daily Cross-word Puzzle ACROSS L One who sets free g RIE] D oy LEIEIRIS) Worship . By Klna of black tea : Suuse . Purposes Belf‘poscolcb Crony Preposition . Adjust again More sensitive . I’emllo salnt: abl smeo sorrow . 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UNITED STATES 15 GREAT BRITAIN 15 JAPAN 9 FRANCE 9 185925 ITALY 4 96532 GERMANY 6 69120 TONS 464,300 474,750 272,070 “Bedelia,” ( “Waltz Me Around Again Willie,'{ By LLOYD LEHBRAS WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. you ever try to weigh a battle-| ship? The one known fact concerning | the two battleships to be built by the United States Navy, beginning ‘sonn after January 1, is that they will be of precisely 33,000 tons dis- placement. That tonnage figure means, Navy 'officers explain that when the| battleship is launched and placed {in commission, loaded down with !all the mechanical gadgets a mod- ern fighting ship must have, it will displace the equivalent of 35,000 itons of water, and also weigh that| number of tons of 2,240 pounds each. Count All Weights The steel framework and plates, engines, boilers, armor, guns, wires, electric lights, kitchen equipment, |—everything that goes into the| manufacture of a battleship — is -welghed or its weight known, while [the warship of the future is still inothing more than a sketch or a blueprint. The standard displacement of | 35,000 tons—permitted by the Lon- don naval pact—includes everything except extra water for the boilers .md fuel. U The Pennsylvania, flagship of the U. S. Navy, leads a procession of warships. Two more for the line will be put under construction next year. Bameshlp weight is now such & — Did fine science, officers add, that the more, and an Ameuican battleship | number of officers and crew to be must, carried is set in advance and 1000 thickness to proteit it againt cae-| \pOll'hd.s each estimated for every ‘my shells of that calikre. | man’s weight, clothes, baggage, and his proportion of food and water carried. So precise is that weighing-in, | the Navy's experts declared, that if | therefore of the weight—to meet (‘1(‘\ it were possible to hoist the com- pleted battleship on a gigantic scale it would balance the pointed at 35000 tons. Large By Necessity Why 35,000 tons? The United States has no big na- val bases scattered around the|tleship cruiser—boasts 42,100 tons, | formed shortly after. world—as Great Britain and other|while nine of the British battle-|feldt, an old friend of Mr. | hurl ) or | glganlxc shelh 26 miles therefore, carry armor o | To carry the enormous weight of such armor the ships must be big ‘1nd sturdy. Vessels of 35.000 tons, | | officers say, are of the size—and| | American idea of an efficient bat- ajf MOYER MAKES | INSPECTION UF ALASKA FIELDS Wellknown A]askdn Domg‘ Work for Denver Financing Co. ; Le Roy Moyer, pioneer Ah\knn: and former resident of Skagway | during the early days of the Klon-| dike rush, now in business in Ana-| cortes, Washington, passed through ! Juneau aboard the Yukon south-| bound. Mr. Moyer is representing Macon | andl Company, ot Denver, GUIbEadc,] promoting, financing and operating firm, and is returning south after nspecting dredging ground 85 miles | | inorth of Nome, Seward Peninsula, on the American and Budd rivers. The inspection made by Mr. Moy~ ier is preparatory to extensive dredg- ing work. Mr. Moyer will make his report di- rect to the Denver firm e MISS EUNSON, ANTON REISS, Becomes Bride of Douglas Man | tleship. ‘The biggest American battleships | at the present time are the New! Mexico and Idaho (33,400 tons) Japanese Plans The British navy's Hood—a bat-| Miss Agnes Eunson of Los An-| |geles, and Anton Reiss were mar- {ried here this morning by United | States Commissioner J. F. Mullen. | The bride came to Juneau on the Alaska and the ceremony was per- Carl Lotts- Reiss, nations have—and it would there- | ships proper are 31,000 tons and| who was also a passenger on the fore be impossible for an American | battleship to put into port for fuel, water, food or other supplies in an| emergency. To overcome that handicap the American Navy adopted the rule long ago to build its battleships so that they would be, as far as pos- sible, self-sustaining. Battleships are also “the back- bone of the fleet” and must be ca- pable of standing up against the warships of any other nation in an emergency. Other nations have battleships with 16-inch guns that over. | The British have announced that, immediately after expiration of e: {htmg treatirs on January 1, lhn\\ will begin construction of two new 35,000 ton battleships. The Japanese navy's pride—Mut- | su and Nagato—are of 32,720 tons,| while their seven other battleships| are in the 29,000 ton category. Japan’s plans to build four n"w‘ ships—rumored to range from 40, 000 to 50,000 tons—are expected to be announced officially after Jan-| uary 1. WHEN TALKIES DON'T I\EED TALK DIRECTOR CALLS THE SCENE GOOD HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Sept. 15. — “If it's a good scene thhout dia-‘ logue, it's a good scene.” ‘ That is a simple rule. and it is| one that George Marshall puts high | on his list of things a movie director | ishould work for it. It is a rule that| |dates back. obviously, to silent pic-‘ jture training, and Marshall, who from that school. He started out with such veterans |as Frank Lloyd, Frank Burrage and Harold Lloyd at the old Universal |studios. Like them, he learned | through experience that one picture, is worth a thousand words, and he, practices today what he preaches. “Let discipline be the eémbroidery jon the picture pattern. Don't say | something when you can show it| {—and don't say it six times when] once is enough.” He and his writing “partner,” La- | mar Trotti, are engaged in a con- stant war on excess dialogue. The director sits in with the writer dur- ing the evolution of thé story, and the result is that Marshall can have his direction planned well in ad-| vance of the actual starting date Always Revising “But no matter how good a script a director is handed,’ says Marshall; “I believe there will always be a certain amount of réwriting on the set. Scenes that sound well in story conference, scenes we think we are going to ‘play’ well oftén don't. It may be because the character. in the playing, has built up into some- thing different, or becausé thé par- ticular scene may not be suited to the actor's interpretation of the character. You can't tell those things in advanéé—if you could you might not need a director. You could hand anybody an iron-clad | seript and tell him to follow it and you'd get your picture. But you'd lose all thosé things that pop up spontaneously on the set. and they include some of the best items in| many pictures.” In his recent film, “The Crime of Dr. Forbeés,” Marshall cited one in- {stance of a “spontantous” happen- ing that added to the film. The op- ening sequence showed a youth run-| ning across the college campus with a skeleton. Scene Gets Laugh In the next scene the medical fra- ternity boys were to celebrate the passing of tests. While “setting up”| for the scene was in progress, the orchestra played to while away| time, and one of the boys seized the skeleton and startéa a fox- trot. Marshall had ‘him do it in the scene, and it got lfughs. l “Another thing,” he says, “when a long| cnp and then suddenly you see it's dragging. When you can sense that, you simplify your cutting, in fact. can do your cutting on the set.” “Can This Be Dixie?” is Marshall’s present film and incidentally is the is the first Class-A picture: for the child actress Jane Withers—Class- 12 has built quite a reputation for A meaning they're spending twice as h tempo and pace in direction, hails much money as on former Withers | pictures. - oo DOUGLAS NEWS RETURNS TO TAKE HARBOR George Bach, who visited here last week with his son Ed and fam- ily, left last week on the Estebeth for his home at Taku Harbor. TAXES COMING IN City Clerk Felix Gray reports both property and dog tax collections as being good. About 12 dogs have been paid on to date, Gray said. Regular taxes are payable up to and includ- ing the last day of the month with the 5 per cent discount allowed. D KILBURNS HEARD FROM L. W. Kilburn and wife, Mrs. Grant Logan and children, left Se- attle September 9 in a new V-8 Ford, purchased in Seattle, for the start of their two months trip. The party will go over the northern highway to Massachusetts visiting Boulder Dam and other interesting places enroute. — et City’s No-Noise Dirive Includes Engine Toots ABILENE, Tex., Sept. 12.—Abil- ene’s anti-noise campaign has been extended to railroads by the City Commission. A resolution was mailed to the President of the Texas and Pacific Railroad Company asking that train operatives blow their whistles as little as possible so as not to dis- turb worship in churches and an- noy people who work in office buildings. Youth Hitch-Hikes Way to Seat in Legislature CANTON, Tex., Sept. 15.—Odis Weldon thumbed his way to a seat in the Texas Legislature. The 22- year-old farm youth hitch-htked jaround his district, sleeping on the roadside or in churches. His cam- paign cards consisted of his name the| written on the blank side of cir- Mhlnfinnifih“ ‘The pic-| mmmn-m culars and cards gathered along the route. - PETERSBURG NEWS NOTES PETERSBURG, Alaska, Sept. 14.| ~+(Special Correspondence)—School | opened in Petersburg Tuesday, Sep- |tember 8. During the summer the | school building was completely re- | novated, new indirect lighting fix-| tures being installed in the audi- | torium and first grade. The first P.-T. A. meeting for this year was | held Wednesday evening. Jack Kruger, captain of the‘ Louise S., Alaska Glacier Sea Food | Company’s shrimp boat, died short- | ly after the boat left Petersburg for | the shrimp grounds. Norman Olsen, | who was also aboard, took the wheel and returned to Petersburg.| Funeral services were held Satur-| day afternoon at the Lutheran Church. Local stores were closed for one hour. Ruth Thompson, daughter of Knute Thompson, had a tonsilect- omy Thursday, September 10. After a successful and enjoyable trip up the Stikine River, Dr. and Mrs. Rude, Mrs. Frey, Ed Young, Mary Allen, John Allen and Forest Fryer returned to Peters- burg Sunday with three moose. | Oscar Nicholson, owner of the Scow Bay cannery, sailed on the Victoria for Seattle. William Brown, superintendent, and Gus Ramstae, foreman, also sailed. Mrs. A. Peters and two children also sailed on the Victoria. Mrs. Peters received word her mother was seriously ill. | e | George Ringsted, superintendent | of the P. A. F. cannery, and O. L. Nayes, bookkeeper, left for the south on the Alaska. The forms have been layed for the paving of Front Street. The contractors expect to start pouring concrete this week. Miss Dorothy Mills has been vis- iting Miss Gertrude Stenslid the! past week, having arrived here on the Yukon. Both Miss Mills and Miss Stenslid sailed on the south- bound trip of the Yukon Monday evening for Seattle, where they will attend the University of Washing- ::n. where they are sorority sis- TS, Passengers sailing for Seattle on | the | “ mangling, |Alaska enroute to the Westward, {and John McCormick were the only |witnesses to the marriage. Mrs. Reiss, who is nurse, was a former Juneau and was on the nursing | staff at St. Ann’s Hospital. has been south since 1930, however. Mr. Reiss has resided here for {about 12 years and is employed | by the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company at the foundry at Tread- | well. The couple have taken one of Kilburn apartments, on D Street, in Douglas, where they will 'be at homv to their friends. - 'HUGE BEAR TRAPS TURNED OVER TO a GAME COMMISSION i Frank Du!‘xcsnv Execuuve O"I(‘“! of the Alaska Game Commi: has recently received ten huge bear traps from the vicinity of Haines and Klukwan. The traps are steel- jawed vicious affairs, weighing as much as forty-five pounds each, with teeth of more than an inch in length. They are quite capable of crushing, and infecting a man’s leg to such an extent that amputation, if not death would be inevitable. Use of steel traps having more | than a nine-inch spread of jaws! has been prohibited under the Al- |aska Game Laws for several years and it is not believed that traps of the kind recently received by Mr. DuFresne are being used to any great extent. The Game Commis- sion does receive reports from time ito time of such traps in the woods, however, and are making a diligent | effort, through education and dem-| onstration of the danger of this| use, in induce the owners of bear traps to turn them over to the| game wardens for 'destruction, of- ficials said. The traps recently received were all voluntarily turned over to a game warden by native and local residents of Haines and Klukwan,‘ while the warden was making a | routine patrol through that district. Some of them may be seen in the’ windows of the Juneau- Young | Hardware. The warden making the pntrol; through the Haines district reports | game to be fairly plentiful, and m- tle indication of serious vmlunons i e | NOTICE AND ATTENTION i The Territorial Board of Pharm- acy will meet in Juneau on October 15 for the purpose of issuing Ter- | ritorial licenses to applicants See H. R. VanderLeest at Butler Mauro Drug Co. for further information. Territorial Board of Pharmacy, By H. R. VANDERLEEST, —adv. President, ————— Lode ana pusves aucation notices for sale at The Empire office. D, MARRIED HERE {Former Nurse at St. Ann’s, graduate | resident of | ShL“Pllul Bob Carlsog, both killed in a ANNOUNCING LADIES’ MATIKE Every Wednesday AT 2P. M. Stacting Tomorrow COME! TELL YOUR FRIENDS! The Show Is “The Petrified Forést” with LESLIE HOWARD and —-ALSO—— ent on Girls” "Dumbbell Letters” "Jumping Champions” BETTE DAVIS be Daily Alaska Empire Talking Reporter Admission %@‘ 'TWO EVENTS INSPIRE PARTY HERE TONIGHT Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Magorty will ente: n at their home tonight cei- ebrating their tenth wedding anni- versary and the tirst birthday of their daughter, Colleen. Guests at the event will include: Mr. and Mrs. Lee Quong gad Mr, and Mrs. 8. P. Whitely. - - oo PLANE CRASH VICTIM HAS FRIENDS HERE Jay C. Johnston, passenger with | | plane crash at Goodnews Bay Sun- day, was well known to many Al- VINNEDGE GOING SOUTH Robert W. Vinnedge, President of | well askans in Juneau, as well as in the Interior. Jobnston was a brother of Fred | Johnston, whose wife is a former Juneau girl, Eva Tripp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Tripp. The crash victim's wife is one of the former known Marony Fairbanks. the North Bend, Wash., Timber Company and a heavy stockholder in the Goodnews Bay Mining Com- pany, and his nephew, John We< arrived on the PAA plane from banks Sunday and went on south on the Yukon. Vinnedge is interested in the platinum develop= ment at (‘oodno\u Bay. Furniture Polisl = (S-W Polish-al) Finish your walls correctly with S-W Flat-Tone 16 non-feding colors to choose from. Makes a soft, mat-like surface that washes and washes beautifully, a real economy in all wayst fi /’é Self Polishing Floor Wax SPECIAL—1 Pint S-W Flo-Wax and Lamb's wool Applicator—7 S-W Enamelo: Rapid dryin? ename colors—long wearing finish, Mar-not Varnisis Use Mar-not Varnish for all interior furni- ture, woodwork, and floors. 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