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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1937. ge—— INTRICUE AND JRSEEALLY TODAY | DRAMA OF SPY A MERRY MELANGE OF RING IN ‘SUZY" ‘o “Sing Baby*SAing" Ranges . from Hi-de-ho to Ham- let at Coliseum N, The Jean Harlow picture, “Suzy,” sed on the best-seller novel of the title by Herbert Gorman, is the attraction at the Capitol e of the ace leading men of {the screen-support Miss Harlow inl this production in the persons of |Franchot Tone and Cary Grant,| each of whom is seen as M: Har- lows husband <a respective por- tions of the exciting story. The romance, intrigue and drama! in the precarious lives of those who !stand behind the scenes of interna- tional espionage form the back- |ground of the plot which centers! |about an American girl stranded in ;Lnndon. The girl, Suzy, unwittingly |becomes entangled with spy activi- b {same A . ALICE FAYE' ' Adolphe: MENIQUS $ ~TED HEALY S ALSO—I Want to Play House . . Going Places . . News . Women’s Pay Law Aids | ,)l)l{ | % |ties and stumbles upon the evi-| EXPLOSION—ACCIDENTAL Everybody But Mothers i v e o e ovcuion] iy rare shoto of a natura xvios, zove . v 3. i v o {of a woman counter-spy and the! g0 sam's “explosion detective,” a cluc (o the discovery that water N — oSSR Ishattering of her romance with af oot it Aot young officer. | & e The picture is the directorial ef-| Y i s T " TR fect of George Fitzmaurice Wwho By MORGAN M. BEATTY o | ke s achieved distinction for his direc- (AP Feature Service Writer) "’f iy . \.,,~ Bl ]‘)‘“ tion of Greta Garbo in two of her| WASHINGTON B g b g . successful photoplays, “Mati' David J. Price a he the 1 by ¥ cing a big section and “As You Desire Me. sereaming “exp he packs his ¢, in @ dust laden conduit v Nobody will be able to complain bag for a quick plane ride to the wgp i Bapy’ Gigr, the musts iodne | rediction Comes True 1 at the Coliseum Thea-| This chief of the Agriculture| winin 24 hours the explosion |tre, is lmited in scope. The pic-|pepartment's Bureau of Chemicalprice predicted had occurred but ’ ture literally ranges from hi-de-ho|gegearch recognized the (it vented itself harmlessly through |to Hamlet, from bay rum to cham-|gorid's outstanding “explosion de- |the cloth roofing. Then they call- {pagne, from the dizzy speech Ofiteptjve” when it comes o track-led him in again and he showed Gregory Ratoff to the equally dizzy jng down the source of a blast. |them how to ‘}npc' waste carbon jentics of the Ritz Brothers, and,i “ith his staff, he follows P dioxide gas from their furnaces to from the swing tunes of Pollack'«cjyes” to past explosions to ar-|yuinerabl spots in the plant * and Weller, as - interpreted by Alice!yoct future ones W¥lay have Had ng trohste sibe. he- i " hey have had no trouble since, be 2 Faye, to the lambic pentameter of| Tne quick-eyed specialist is N0t cquse carbon dioxide gas is death William Shakespeare, inter- rested one whit in plain dyna-'to fi: preted by Adolpe Menjou. Mr. Men-'pjte or nitro-glycerine. But any| i e TR jou, incidentally upsets a’ personal|patural explosion of dust or gas ..ot pIOSSOND R | stETpe |tradition of fastideousness by roam-'p-cvec nic hrown eyes spa $7¢ Sheugh. They are merely sudden 15 ing around in a nightic, in'n 5e-| poure over photographs of the scens | ERIU/MS O imfiammable materials |quence which adds nothing to hiS carried in newspaper: ealls it | UsuR s or fine partioles’: T} e reputation as one of the world’s indqing the funflame 7 e T gases require vumnamn» » 1best cresbed: men: gt g8 - S0U-{within a fraction of a second or WAITRESSE! MOTHERS |Pest dressed D, iy of Gregory|QYIn€ such fundamentals back infyieq uy explosion like the New Lon- Assured of $14.50 “Salary” Unchanged = irpin y of Gregory |97 prought the discovery with col-|qon oy school disaster follows atoff, Menjou and the Brothersijeaoues in the Bureau of Min 4 3 SR £ OLYMPIA, Wasiv, April 26.—Prac- |tending the provisions to unpro- Ritz, the picture is punctuated by hat coal du plepn i ke (gerice ) doee mot Wi, TOF explos- ¢ o tically every working woman m!u-u.-d occupatior the stooging and counter-stooging ! v of the mi as coal ik “ ke ‘!H‘“‘,“”“Vv D e e ?"m Washington but mother will get a| Alice Lord, instrumental in get-|0f Ted Healy and Patsy Kelly, T Sl B B new problems to study. He mak break from the seal of approval ting the law passed originally, and |~ S hig,; own. o g,““"” recently placed on the state’s mini- other Seattle Central Labor Coun-| Six tables of Cootie made up the| Price also was an early discoveret he lLas b in Alington, Va. v~ mum wage law by the United States cil leaders plan to co-operate in entertainment of the evening, with of the mounting danger of dust St e Five Supreme Court. enforcement but lean toward or-|Mrs. Glen Kirkham winning first!€xplosions in the industrial & Price likes to tell how his men Hotel and restaurant employes, ganization rather than statute as prize, Mrs. J. R. Guerin and Mrs, As a result he has belped design|stopped the fires in the flood zone mercantile and machinery workers the best means of improving work- A. Shudshift consolation buildings that vent the dust and|las ~fires that were caused already are protected and other oc- ing conditions. | Mrs. Gallwas was the recipient 8Void ignition. { by, water. a Once a great industrialist| Parmers were puzzled when, their of a number of appropriate and use- | !ful gifts from her friends. Mrs. |J. O. Kirkham, for those present, |presented her with an assortment cupations will be brought under the For example, they compare the | law as the workers apply. But ma union’s minimum of $15 weekly plus i hasn’t heard anything about the meals for waitresses and cham- 8-hour day 6-day week with a bermaids, with the $14.50 without $14.50 weekly minimum for hotel meals provided by the state law.|of stainless steel wear and a set of ll ¢ ana restaurant employes and $13.20' The state permits the employer to nested mixing bowls. A lively din- for other specific businesses. subtract 95 cents a day if the wait- | ner service for eight was presented * Those are the standards set up ress chooses to eat at the restau-|her from Nugget Chapter, Eastern by the State Welfare committee in rant, leaving her $8.80 for the week.|Star. | 1921, eight years after the Legisle Ed Sorger, state safety supervisor,| The list of guests included Mes- | ture passed the law for the pro- believes the state's scales should be!dames Robert Fraser, W. R. Spain, ! 4 tection of lives, health and morals changed now to meet modern con-|{J. R. Guerin, W. E. Cahill, James | of women and minors. | ditions. [Sey, Alex Gair, Edward Bach, E. The law was little enforced, how-| — e |E. Engstrom, R. M. Davis, Inga cver, and brought virtually no 3 : |Dickinson, J. O. Kirkham, Glen, |Kirkham, A. Shudshift, A. H. Camp- | | bell, Jack Sey, A. F. Knight, Gun- ‘m\r Blomgren, Arthur Ficken, J. A. ;Williams, Laurel McKechnie, A. Crowe, C. A. Fox, L. Delebecque, | Harold Gallwas, Ray Day and Bud Carmichael. | Ncsosscnns . “Schilling change in the lives of the 125,000 to | 150000 women, state officials es- | timate it affects. i ! . Now, the women paid less than the minimum could sue employers, | just like the former Wenatchee | NEws hotel chambermaid who brought the ‘[ test case, and collected a total of g3 — o | $100,000. Assistant Attorney Gen- & s MRS. KIRBY RETURNS etal W. A. Toner estimates. Toner| BVEPT WILL CONVERT | HERE FROM WESTWARD | defended the law before the high! NEWCBUITANG V1O, Mrs. Alice Kirby arrived here Sat- | court. | MODERN BEER, PARLOR urday from Seldovia to spend the‘ The State Welfare committee will Joe Riedi is making preparatiohs summer. With her son, Frank Pet-1 <+ meet shortly to map a course for to open a beer parlor in his newly tygrove, she has taken the former! strict enforcement of the law constructed store building on Third Mills residence on St. Ann’s Ave- $+ through a field staff and for ex- Street which he expects to have nue. T ready for occupancy early in May.; ————————— He originally planned to use the| AT TREADWELL | | building for a bake-shop. Later Mr.! ‘Walter Savikko went to work Sat-| |Riedi plans to construct a building lurday as outside man for the Tread- | \for his grocery store on D Street, well Foundry at Treadwell. 1 |where the store was formerly lo- A G i | cated. STUDENTS ENJOY HIKE i | i Eight high school students, with Miss Florence Ryan, hiked to Ne- vada Creek for an outing yester- day. ., — “MRS. GALLWAS COMPLIMENTED | A number of Douglas women were | |guests at a party given by Mrs. {Charles Sey at her home in Juneau ——————————— !Saturday evening in honor of Mrs.| MISSIONARY YACHT | |F. A. J. Gallwas. A birthday event, | BE STATIONED HERE | it was, commemorating the 70th for Believed to have left Anacortes ithe pioneer resident, 39 of which for here last Thursday, a boat to she has seen in Douglas. |be used in the service of the Alaska Evangelization Society, is enroute to Douglas and should arrive in a day or so. Floyd Gilman, field director of the Society, will have charge of the boat, and make trips to neighboring towns during the| |summer. The yacht will be berthed | in Douglas. | ., | | | | Ve "{ZORICT DRY CLEANING . AK LYMP'A EDWARDS BUYS HOME . M ES O SO A. R. Edwards has purchased the Rollins cottugé on Fourth Street! : REFRESHINGLY GOOD? Soft i * Y and is making repairs and altera- tions to the building preparatory! ey 99 | to making it a home for his fam-| 4 Wates | “Its the Water” . ‘ Washing K #hib and special type of natural prew- S eee i 4 | ing water, combined with skill and fine | NEW SITKA NURSE | ingredients, has made certain European beers world famous for 'quality . . . { Likewise, in America, our subterranean ! wells at Tumwater have made Olympia Beer internationally recognized for fine | flavor, clean taste, eon- | stant purity and re freshing goodness. Enroute to Sitka from Seattle aboard the steamer Northwestern,! due here this evemung from Lynn Canal, is Miss Mary Nouguier, new‘ nurse for the Pioneers' Home at| Sitka. | el 1 Harry J. McGill, executive of the Hop Gold Brewing Company, at| Vancouver, Washington, arrived here Sunday afternoon from Wran- gell aboard the steamer North-! western. Mr. McGill is engaged on' a good will tour of Alaskan cities' for the company. - 9 Your ALASKA . | LAUNDRY PHONE 15 chanced upon an article describing barns started- burning down after Price’s work, and recalled he had!the waters receded in West Virginia a new plant with a possible dust|and Ohio. Price told them to stick hazard opening within 24 hours. F a thermometer in their hay and sent for Price, '('. Il a fire department to scatter it “You'll have a d niwhen the temperature reached 200 within a day after you e Fahrenheit. They did, and open plant,” Price told the man. arns stopped burning ‘How can we prevent it ” ‘he answer is that bacteria in| “You can’t do that immediately, water: nked hay caused fermen- but you can remove a serious dan-|tation, and that rted heat in the ack. yer to your workmen.” EXPLOSION—DELIBERATE Dr. Price deliberately produced this blast in his Arlington, Va., “explosive gallery” to prove that dust explosions gather force as they go. This explosion was started under the shed in center but did not attain its full force until it reached the tower at rirht. 1 mother, Mrs. Ronald Lister Mlss LOVFJOY’ MRS | ‘Favors were dolls and .bnllunnfl REDLING WILL SAIL land pil’.lk' and white were the table SOUTH NEXT MONT “’“"”“““5- Refreshments were i ) crangeade, -layer cake @ Miss Bernice Lovejoy is m;rcrea; ade, three-layer cake and ice| foraChe SOER REMAY. 27. 0 VIS Ang The gue: were Sharon Sharpe, Sea.tl.lo with friends and relatives nopn " ann Douglas, Tony and Lo and later to enter bu pss college. MaSpadden: R ob.er Y Miss Lovejoy will be accompan- | o iqe Ev;lyn SR ied by her mother, Mrs. W. N. Red- Jenny 'und Ruth ’1'__””1 ling, who will visit in Seattle for about six weeks, returning then to Juneau. The two formerly made Swanson, Laura Olson, Stonehouse, Doris Graves, Joan and Jean Lesher, ancy Mec- their home in Seattle where they|p ooy :;:m N:,‘?(]:J(E( % have many friends. Miss Lovejoy Hughes, Buddy and Donny Mog- plans to remain in Seattle and will probably return to Juneau early next summer. seth, Elton Engstrom, Jr., Norman ister, Bobby Lesher. Afternoon iex was ser Lister to the followin; e |Mrs. James Dennis, Mrs. W BIRTHDAY PARTY ls islmrpe, Mrs. Lxrlx;':l l);;ru»n. ENJOYED BY SYLVIA |[Eiton Engstrom, Mrs. Thom Hughes, Mrs. Erling K. Olafson, USTER AND FR[ENDS Mrs. Bruce Lesher, Mrs. Peter Reed, Mrs. Bert McDowell and Mrs. Jack Sylvia Lister, six years old today, popejoy. celebrated her birthday Saturday e with a party at the home of her “Alaska” by - Lester D. Henderson. sandwiches, ANNUAL MEET, AMER. LEGION, IN SEPTEMBER 'l‘hrn(‘-day VCon\'cnlion lo Be Held—Dates Are Announced by Ellis Clyde R. Ellis, chaivman of the convention committee, h announc- ed t the 18th annual convention of the American Legion, Depart- ment of Alaska, will be held in chordge on September 20, 21 SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU The TOAST GF GAY PAREE! ...The homhshell of the houlevard! While all of the plans have not been rormulated, it is the plan of the committee to make this the best convention that has ever been held in Alaska Due to the publicity that Anchor- age has received during the past two years, the committee has been a sured of a large attendance of dele- gates and visitors. In 1930 the city entertained the American Legion | during its annual convention. The delegates and visitors who attended that convention are still talking out the wonderful times tHey had which w gely dne to cooperation the citizen Anchorage in making the delegates feel at home, |and.giving them a delightful time.: As one expressed it—*The people/ of Anchorage are certainly hospit- able and friendly. Many who were not Legionn s, although strang-| lers to us, invited us to their home: |it seemed as though everyonme was of Anchorage ] of of Also Song A Day Fool Your Friends {holding ‘open house. " | ' St e | One of the outstanding entertain- Daily Alaska fi,j‘., {menv features will be a trip to Pal- Empire News ik mer on Sunday, September 19, where the delegates will be entertained by the Palmer Post. i The complete program will be an- nounced later. The committee has Rl.s N ls Called Gunwoman been promised the cooperation of| (] e et the Anchorage Chamber of Com-| |merce, all other organzations, and| BACK lN jUNEAu the city of Anchorage. AT s STAR AIRWAYS PILOT AND FAMILY GO OUT | AFTER 3 AIRPLANES| Accompanied by Mrs. Neese and' |their small daughter Betty, Ken- | |neth Neese, wellknown Anchorage | flier, until recently manager of the ey o two weeks' business trip to| Star Airways, is among the 1ew go(chikan, Accompanying Dr. Carl-| |passengers southbound aboard the s her young daughter Zaida,! {steamer Mount McKinley, in port|ywho yeturned from Berkeley, Cali- nexe” Batiitiay, gvening. fornia, where she has been attend-' | Mr. Neese is enroute to Michi-|ing school for the past year.. Her gan, where he will purchase three gdest daughter, Constance, who is {pew Stinson planes for the Star|, student at the University of Cal | Alrways. Pilot Neese will fly WO jtornia, and who has been ill, is| |of them out to Seaftle, from Where n,y recovered, but will spend the {E18x Sip 50, b8 shipped north. One lneyt two months at Pacific Grove of the planes, which is to be equip- |yecuperating, so that she can re- ped with floats, he will fly north tym to the University on July 1st | himself. [to complete her year's credits. | { Dr. Carlson commented on the| lunusual activity in Ketchikan. Sev-| eral new buildings are going up, |WIFE OF WESDAHL COMMANDER HERE nong them the Federal building o jand a new apartment house which/ Ceming north to join her hus- is peing built by C. J. Stoll, former {band, Mrs. H. Arnold Karo, wife street Commissioner of Ketchikan.! |of Lieutenant Karo, commander of There is a generally optimistic spirit {the Coast and Geodetic Survey in Ketchikan and the business peo- tender Wesdahl which is charting ple are looking forward to a good . Taku Inlet, arrived here Saturday fishing season. ! evening aboard the steamer Bar- Plans for the Fair to take pluce‘ 'Returns from Professional| Trip to Ketchikan— | Daughter with Her | | Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson, local op-| tometrist, has returned to Juneau [ >-ee - anof. Mrs. Karo plans to make next September are now engaging her home here for the summer. |the attention of the City Council! s = & ! ccompanied by a detective, comely, | Mrs. Karo is a former student and the Fair Commission. youthful Mildred Strockus is shown of the University of Washington, | - e - (where she was recognized as pos-| ssing outstanding dramatic tal-| rent and took leading roles in many | presentations of the University Wednesday, April 28, parlors North- | Drama Department. ern Light Presbyterian Church from { B MR 5 to 7:30 d'clock, adults 75 cents A TR e | Lode and placer location motices children under 12, 50 cents, Public Old-age pensions were introduc- for sale at The Empire OfZice. invited. adv. ed into Great Britain in 1908. ;?terlnkz I‘?oljice“headlumn at # | Newar! . J., after she had been MARTHA SOCIETY DINNER | charged, with an attempt to shoot | her husband. The husband himself lodged the charge it An Open And Closed Case Of Safety Pin Swallowing pin while arranging her dolly’s clothes and was rashed from St. Peters, Minn., to a Minneapolis hospital where surgeons bared the stomach | wall by a long incision, felt the pin through the s omach tissues and, by deft mani tion, closed it. At the left Claire holds a pin like the one she swailowed. The X-ray pictures at the right show the pin open and closed in the child's stomach. (Associated Press Phiotos), Five-year-old Claire Oles swallowed an opened n;:‘tz

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