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of Juneau STARTING TODAY ALSO— Vitaphone Hippodrome Pluto’s Judgment Day Daily Alaska Empire’s News SILK FLAG IS PRESENTEDT0 CATHOLIC D. A, Committees Named to Have Charge of Third, Final Card Party At the regular meeting of the Catholic Daughters of America last night in the Parish Hall the com- Iittee was appointed for the third <nd final pre-Lenten card party which is to be held on February ¢ Mrs.. L. H. Smith, Mrs. Ed Gio- vanetti, and Mrs. A. M. Geyer will be in charge of the party and award committee and the refreshment committee is made up of Mrs. F. L. Johnson, Mrs. Helen Brown, and Miss Ruth Geyer. A silk flag was presented last night to the Juneau Court from the Catholic Court in Seatfle. The Se- attle Court takes special pride in the growth of the Court here be- cause two of its members, Mrs. Mar- jon Sheridan and Mrs. Florence ‘Walsh, recently organized the Ju- neau chapter. Tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock the sewing club will meet at the home of Mrs. J. K. McAllister and on Tuesday, February 2, Mrs. Wal- ter Hellan will have the study club meeting at her home. e - ESTEBETH'S SAILING The motorship sails for Sitka and way ports Thursday, January 28 at 6 p.m. Al freight must be on th dock at 12 o'clock noon. adv. - Pear production on the Pacific coast is on the upward trend. Grapefruit produetion is now the highest point in American his- tory. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE District Land Office Anchorage, Alaska. December 2, 1936. Notice is hereby given that Sam Frank Buoy, together with his wit nesses, Fred O. Matson and Albert Frederick Parker, all of Gustav Alaska. has submitted final proof on his homestead, Anchorage 07762, for the NW4%NEY sec. 10, SW SE%, NW%SE%, SW%NEY%, sec. 3, 160 acres, and it is now in the file of the U. 8. Land Office, Anchor- filed in the local land office within days thereafter, said final proof will be accepted and fihal certificate issued. GEORGE A. LINGO, Register. First publication, Jan. 27, 1937. PHONE 356 For Prompt, Safe Efficient Service CALL A CHECKER CAB . © ORRATE ) LO8 T S RS THE TERMINAL “This Is Something Different That You Will Enjoy.” The First National Bank JUNEAU ® CAPITAL—$50,000 SURPLUS—$75.000 COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS - ACCOUNTS SAFEV DEPOSIT BOXES 2% Paid on T. 40 8. R. 59 ECRM. cont.’lining‘ age, Alaska, and if no protest is| the period of publication or thirty | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 22 ON TRIAL FOR MURDER: CAPITOL PLAY ['Walking Dead’ at Coliseum | Is Called New Type | of Mystery Film On trial for first-degree murder Nou one defendant, but TWENTY- TWO! Tt ional climax of daver's powerful “Fury,” opening s the ser Goldwyn'- reen pl hi at the via Sidney are 'the man Krasna | ne n | country g Tracy is a hard-working average | American, with faith in the hghh‘ | ne of his country and its people. | Miss Sidney is the schgol teacher | sweetheart who shares his confi-| dence in the future. | Then tragedy strikes swiftly! | circumstantial evidence leads to| |the innocent man’s arrest as a kid- | [nap suspect. Wiid rumors spread | {among the townspeople. They storm | {the prison in which he is held and {burn it to the ground in hysterical| rage when unable to break through the cell block and get him for the| ikind of so-called justice adminis-| | tered with a rope! | \ But Tracy lives! He contrives n| | crazed revenge on the men and wo- men who have wrecked his life! A notable cast supports the new eo-starring romantic team: Walter | Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis Walter Brennan, George Walco! Frank Albertson and hundreds of other players give “Fury” a dyna-| mic force seldom attempted on the screen. Fritz Lang, the great Efuropen'x director, is the director of this can- did picture of a national shame! Science plays a stellar role in the ‘Warner Bros. pictt “The Walkin Dead,” at the Coliseum Theatre now In the laboratory shown in the film only the latest and most im-| proved equipment ‘was employed. | Dr. Beaumont, played by Edmund venn, is a scie t who has per ted a formula that restores life to the dead. Gwenn spent many hours delvin- into the depths of science to gain |at least a fundamental knowledge o the subject. Director Michael Curtiz declares that the picture is a departure from he usual mystery thriller. Tt is a picture of scientific exploitation? “This picture,” says the director. | “brings to the public eye the won- !ders of science and introduces t3 them a new field that science i about to penetrate.” | Boris Karloff is starred while |others in the cast besides Gwenn linclude Ricardo Cortez, Marguer- |ite Churchill, Warren Hull, Barton \MacLane and Henry O'Neill. |screen #lay is by Ewart Adamson. Peter Milne, Robert Andrews, and Lillie Hayward, based on the story by Adamson and Joseph Fields. WA THE TABLE COVER |Was awarded to numbers 98 first second and 8 third. |ady. PALERMO LINEN ing lovers in Nor story of mob lawles supposediy civilized | ac UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOE GENERAL LAND OFFICE District Land Office Anchorage, Alaska. December 28, 1936. | Notice is hereby given that Glen | R. B. Parker, entryman, together {with his witnesses, Inez May White jand Albert F. Parker, has made final proof on his homestead, An-| chorage Serial 07420, for the NEY | NW4, sec. 17, SEVSWY%, WSEY |sec. 8, T 40 S. R. 59 E. CRM. containing 160 acres, and it is now in the files of the U. S. Land Of-| {fice, Ancorage, Alaska, and if no| protest is filed in the local land office within the period of publica-| {tion or thirty days thereafter, said | (final proof will be accepted and |final certificate issued. | GEORGE A. LINGO, | | Register. | First publication, Jan. 13, 1937. | Last publication, Feb. 10, 1937. | | UNITED STATES | | DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR | | GENERAL LAND OFFICE | | District Land Office | Anchorage, Alaska, | December 14, 1936. | | Notice is hereby given that| Charles Fox, of Douglas, Alaska,| has made application for a soldiers’ | additional homestead, Anchorage 07376, for a tract of land embraced in U. 8. Suryey No. 1964, containing 11.82 acres, latitude 58 degrees 1’1" |50” N. longitude 134 degrees 26 104” W., situated 2 miles northwest | |from Douglas, Alaska. ‘ | Any and all persons claiming ad- | versely any of the above described | |land should file their adverse claim | in the U. S. Land Office, Anchor- | age, Alaska, within the period ofs publication or thirty days there- after, or they will be barred by the provisions of the Statutes. GEORGE A. LINGO, | Register. First publication, Jan. 13, 1937. | Last pubication, March 10, 1937. : WOO0D : | Hemlock $6.50 Cord Cash i ‘ <Delivered | Pireplace—Glacier Alder—Any length cut to order Bill Manthey PHONE 2653 | 7ioover, head G-man, who is of the opi Films Hoard Comedians, or a laughl ree with deligl elly, ar day Alarmed preducers where it is going to get new come- ¥ ably Bob Burns, Martha e, The |dancing Ray Bolger. But a directl, argument—is very well for the pr ent SHOP | past flowed its own embry talent. cd bothering about its own rel |source of comedy supply—the ohviated the custard pie and ch gems which served as a prep school for the few comics who did not Helen Hayes once called “our moth- er, Lhe stage.” DNESDAY, JAN..27, 4 . - ime Career Looms a Womar & Behind every public enemy in his life of crime is a woman. Such is the observation of J. Edgar 1 that the es are Among ley, who aided him in the kidnaping of Charles Urschel, Oklahoma oil man; Helen Gillis, wife of “Baby Face” Nelson and his constant companion Guring his criminal carcer; Evelyn Frechette, Dil- linger’s girl friend and accomplice; “Ma"” Barker, who dominated the Karpis-Barker gang and died with a machine gup in her hands. women actually involved in crime -qore vicious and cruel than mos: men instances cited by him in illustrati we Katherine Kelley, wife of “Machine Gu Fearing Shortage “Soon” HERE TODAY; COONS ar ) newcomers without som Jan, 27 ¢ may be view ) By ROBBIN HOLLYWOOD, Ca from now er the comedian: tage experience 1y all their biographis and Harold Lloyd, who grew h the / 15 yea PAA Plane Will Probably Return to Fairbank Tomorrow Morning mption: The * viewers amon upply laugh: Their de begin -with-delight, natur- the comedians who of to- as pros ' th alarm. ! ever more than compl ones. edian. High peginning to wonder lean of und of life in a trunk that de- oility to audi-~ often precarious life owner's from skeptical ht in to view w on 7:20 o'c Leaving Fairbank (Fairbanks time) t reporting out of Whitehorse o'clock this afterr Pacific aska Alirways Electrs piloted by AL Monsen, with Walt Hall as co- pllot, was due to land at the Juneau |PAA Airport this afternoon about 3:30 o with nine passenger: m the Interior. passenge booked to le en it r orn s coming and Hall D. Har W at u Hollywood Wanes little or ille no vaude the stage, and, the quenceé™ean be little no nou /. And &s it woll, s s ardent- or 1dy has year brought school? prophets of ¢ dians as are funny from sc held in their hands. On the stag | you have to be funny in person and leave your s t in the wings. the | D ' MRS. LAKE’S BROTHER ENDS VACATION HERE a vacation of { in Juneau, Roy of Lowman and in Seattle, Seattle from Pacifi to the comedy Interior the to- ful ) com ye, and 11 of these ly or in# ne from the stag 7 to the and that— to Juneau with th afternocn k Greeg, B. Theo. Laird, stranberg, Mr. Anthanaspolos for the return For Fair- A. Treptre Clark Ju- | ¥.T, will be J. Morrison, who 1 on the last Electra here, but means no answer for M nopstolos, and Mh on with the s bly with vaudeville has stauncl e fountain from which in th Following fou AYe months spe son, employee ford Company for his home in neau on the Canadian steamer Princess Norah. While in Juneau, Mr. Carlson visited his sister and brother-in- law, Mr. and Mrs, Edward atland his niece Joyce Lake, al Decker Apartments. - - Natives of American generally able to read @ And at home Hollywood has c¢ . The double-feature practice e - Escort Bureay” Officer Worries La ive hearing a diploma from e of those two-reel most of wil INSTITUTIONS FINANCING MORTGAGES ACCEPTED FOR INSURANCE or Soiia_l__Club Employment Agency CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 21. —| Whether the gentle art of piloting | | lonely women about the byways of 1a great eity—at $5 a head—consti- | tutes an employment agency, a so- 1°club or just a charilabie bus proposition provides one of sev- | eral sticklers for J. Leslie Molgan, Morgan president of Wilmor, an agen which provides rts for unescorted females. He | said that if the bureau is an em- | ployment agency, the young | | college duates he use tss | | would employes coming {the Social Security Act, ounts, tax | either a $50 NATIONAL BANKS STATE BANKS as es un involvin s and what-not. Also $150 city license, Joseph E. idy, City License | Commissioner, is at' a‘loss to cata- logues tha: neav-institution. | Morganrsaied he had béen informed his tion “could be consid- nothing but an employmen Oon other hand, BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATICH INSURANCE COMPANIES IR MORTOAGES FOR NEW CONSTRUGTEN ] [5] MORTGAGES REFHANGED here,” 11 any and as Morgan dec order. But a woman called ed for a brunette 32-year-old feet 10 inches tall. 1 told her that a brunette of 6 feet and 27 +| years was my closest answer to the This chart shows the comparative dollar volume of all home mort- didn't suit and gages written by different types of financial institutions and accepted hung up without hiring an escort for insurance by the Federal Housing Ad: istration. - - Of all mortgages accepted, 31.52 per cent were written by national of the banks, 29.89 per cent by state banks, 16.58 per cent by building and I net income w he highe Joan associations, 8.43 per cent by mortgage companies, 6.63 per cent | comber of any period in 17 years, | by insurance companies, 3.63 per cent by savings banks, 3.3¢ per cent |according to the U, §. Bureau of | by industrial banks, finance companies, and all others. The chart | Agricultural Economics. i her, was prepared by the Divisions of Economics and Statistics, Federal | B 211 Housing Administration. Try an Empire ag. FLECTRAFLIES : Wonders HWHc Is Running | TERRITORIAL 1200R STORE H BILL OFFERED Senalor Patterson Intro- duces Plan for Administra- tor Handling System THEATRE LAST TIMES TONIGHT [ ‘ I {3 i it m 13th Leg introduced A Territorial liquor stor earance in being n of today atterson makin be offered e Vieto: a bill mak -~ iquor several 0N for Anderso in a referendum as the man who returned from the dead «to avenge his own murder! ling f on itor r Pa 10 explained me! d o n, w L “temperate liquor by the package and in his measure would ere- ate an administrator of liquor stores who would have charge of handling liquor wi rritory He would have to be given a salary ,000 per year and could set u wge for th ale by pri- at o prioee to be fixed by nistrator and have jurisdiction over the entire matter, » bill would set up a found of $50,000 to put the system into opera- 1 All re ues under the measure d rev to the Territor; It il became law, the Adminis would be appointed by the islature e office the. first nex until the following e Admini vot mplete in the 1 sole the vtor to hold it At ve r would be elected Thrill for Thelma ed its first setback to- when the Senate Yerritorial committee turned in a ma- eport recommending that the Cochran, Wal- d Brunelle signed the ma- jority report and enator Roden, author of the measwe, did not con~ cur. Re port of tee which visited the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka was presented the Sena today. It reported that the Senators found the institution in excellent condition and commended the ef- of Superintendent Eiler Han- sen for the way in which he con- Fox News asure do not pas the Senaforial commit- forts . ducted the Home. Following the brief session, the , Senate adjourned until 2 o'clock to- morrow afternoon. - e WEATHER FOR 15 MONTHS 1S MOST SEVERE Worst Combination that Was Every Recorded in United States WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—J. incer, Chief of the Climate Div ion of the Weather Bureau, sa'd the last fifteen months have brought the country the “worst combination of weather ever recorded.” He said the present floods are just another in the series of ex- treme conditipns. The first extreme, was the unu- sually cold winter of 1935 and 1936, then devastating floods last spring in the east, tornadoes in the south, searing summer drought in the mid- west and “about the only thing we seaped was a severe tropical storm,” declared Kincer. | . | i import VOTES S100000 FOR FLOOD AID 5 B This zarape costume won for #Jna Gryalva the champlonship In a con test for the most novel bathing suit among Mexican girls of Phoe Ariz. (Associated Press Photo) to east Texas. The les one of the most success= 1t ast season. e Y, Jan, 27. The| The government's agricultural sta- ure today authorized !tistics service originated in 1838 the expenditure of $100,000 to aid with a $1,000 appropriation by Con» citizens in the flood ravaged states. | gre: the n Foliow the Sun to California WHISTLING DEFIANCE at winter, our trains speed over an all-weather bighway of SAFE, smooth steel. Rain, snow and fog hold no terror for those who travel in ease and comfort with us. Palm-fringed beaches, sun-warmed and storied cities, desert resorts and guest ranches, await in unhurried peace the pleasure of your arrival. RAIL FARES ARE VERY LOW! For ex- ample, from here to: From Vancouver From Beattle 2y 3-month _2l-day _3-month Roundtrip Roundtrip Roundtrip Roundtrip San Francisco ,#29.50 #35.00 %24.00 %29.00 Los Angeles . . 39.50 46.00 34.00 40.00 Fares above good in coaches. Also in tourist sleeping cars, plus small berth charge. Fares good in standard Pullmans cost a little more, TAYLOR, Gen. Agt., 1405 Fourth Ave, ALTON, Canadian Gen. Agt., 474 Granvil or J.A.ORMANDY, Gea. Pass. Agt., 705 Paci Vancouver, B, C.3 Bldg., Portland, Ore