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- SUNDAY — MONDAY — TUESDAY MIDNIGHT PREVIEW Tonight—1:15 A. M. MATINEE — Sunday — 2 P. M. Another Story of T CAPITOL SHOW PLA(/E OF ]UI«EAU THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY, JAN. 14, 1939, ATRE ] E. MARCH of TIM The News Behind the News XTRA? TAEREETHIRERE THEY'RE HERE AGAIN...IN new ADVENTIIRESI Mickey Rooney, the funniest kid in pictures, is back with his grand family in their most excit- ing romance! HEART-THRILLS . . . when Cecilia Parker dares love at 18! HOWLS... when Mickey teaches a pretty French miss how to "‘Big Apple’’! DRAMA . . . as Judge Hardy battles intrigue ih high places! You'll love it! Judge Hardy's Family Lewis STONE ® Mickey ROONEY cectia PARKER - roy HOLDEN Screen Play by KAY VAN RIPER + « Based upon the Characters Créated by AURANIA ROUVEROL Directed by AMewq Golduyn DEMILLE EPIC | ISPLAYED BY | BRILLIANT CAST "The Buccaneer” Opens: Sunday at Coliseum Starring F. March Cne cof the greatest casts ever breught together for a motion pic-‘ turc appears in Cecil B. DeMme's; epic production of America’s strug- | gle :for survival during the War | of 1812, “The Buccaneer,” opening Sunday at the Coliseum Theatre. | Iredric March, the lead, por-) tr: one of the most colorful and | imvcrtant, but least known, chz\r—w. acters of American history, Jean | Lafitte, the pirate king of the ecar- | 1y nineteenth century who held (the entire Caribbean in his’ grasp. DeMille’s glamorous importation | frem the stage and screen of Buda- | pest, Francicka Gaal, makes her debut in American pictures as} March’s leading lady. She plays | a Dutch girl. “Gretchen,” whose | wide-eyed charm and innocent | lovgliness turn Lefitte from an out- | law into the hero of New Orleans. The seascned chargcter actor | who came to Hollywood from the Moscow Art Theoatres and won | worldwide fame as the general in| “The General Died at Dawn,” i Akim Tamiroff, is seen as Lafitte’s steadfast lieutenant, Dominique | You, the one-time cannoneer or(‘ Napoleon, who has gone down in history as the leader of the futile attemt to rescue the Emperor from St. Helena. Margot Grahame, the beautiful | Fnglish star who scored in “The | Informer,” lays the tragic role of the New Orleans belle who ! loves Lafitte and whose sister is killed by his pirate crew. In addi- tion to Walter Brennan and Ian Keith, the cast includes Hugh Sothern, a direct descendant of General Jackson, in the role nii the hero of New Orleans. H Showing for the last times to-| night is the double hill “Little Miss | | Both’Panies Beal : Very Quick Refreals GEORGE B. SEITZ T PICTURE SHORTS Walt Disney’s “Moth and the Flame" “Swinging Mallets” and Latest News Last Times Tonight New F eature at Cupltol in a scene with Mickey Rooney. SENATE'S FIRST MEASURE READY FOR GOVERNOR | author, is to facilitate quieting of Joi n'i. Resoluiio‘n- Cbnies Through Mill-Split on New Employees (Continted from Sage One) to determine just who it was, as the vote was taken viva voce. Up until today every vote in the Senate had been unanimous. Resolution Passes Enrolled copies of joint resolution No. 1, nraviding for the hiring or oughmed and “Two Gun Jus- tWo extre employees in each house, | was signed today by Senate Presi- | dent ‘Walker and House Speaker | Howard Lyng and sent to the office | lof the Goyernor. Interrupting reading of lengthy Senate bill No. 2, dealing with copyright laws, the Senate adjourn- ed at noon until 11 o'clock Menday Lewis' Stone is featured T “Judge Capitol Theatre on Sunday for a three-day run. Hardy's Children,” coming to the Here he is seen the bill died for want of a second One Bill Passes Passed unanimously today was | Senate bill No. 1, making unknown | heirs defendants in actions relating | to real property. Purpose of the bill, according to Senator Vic Rivers, its titles for federal government insured loans purposes. Senate bill No. 3, embodying | amendments to the Unemployment | Compensation Act, was sent to the | Committee on Engrossment and En- | rollment, after the House reported its passage. Senators will meet as a Commit- | tee of the Whole with members of | the Alaska Game Commission fol- S | lowing the joint session Monday | gfternoon, President Walker n«:;unced,l L e — Had Rough Time, an- CHEYENNE, Wyo. Jan, 14-Ci (Doc) Rogers really ‘“roughed it” dyring his campaign for state auditor. He reported. to the secretary of state that his campaign expenses were “nearly nothing, I hardly ANCHORAGE; ~ Alaska, Jan. 14.|morning, A joint session of the Sen- ‘s,)enL a nickel.” ~—When, Nick Lane, roadhouse op- | erator at Peters Creek, heard ga; noige in‘a shed he thought it was al neighbor helping himself to moose | meat. Lane rushed into the shed in the darkness, grabbed an then he found he had a hand full of fur from a large and active brown bear. ate and House is to be held Monday | at 3 o'clock. Sengtor Joe Hofman of Seward protested designation in the copy- | right measure of the U. 8. Marshal as receiver in certain cases, de- intruder, | claring that the Territory should the chance. avoid “passing the buck” to Fedem]‘ officials -in -so .many of its laws.| “I'got me a bed roll and I made |it. a practice to drive out of town a few miles, park under a shelter- ing tree, fix the bed roll and go to sleep” he said. “I always ate with farmers and ranchers when I had | " He was defeated. ————— Tweezers ~are very convenient | While other Senators said they for removing pin feathers. Or you Lane dashed out, yelling luudlir agreed in principle with Hofman's can “singe” them off by holding Two bears departed with equal, spegd in the opposite direction. “home rule” stand, his motion to ‘the fowl over a flame, turning it lsulke the title “U. 8. Marshal” from 'quickly to aovid scorching. Still Didn’t Win| “SOME BLONDES ARE DANGEROUS" “MAKING THE HEADLINES" NEWS LEGISLATURE ~ FLAYED OVER EDMUNDS CAS Court Denies Demurrei of Attorney General in Optometry Suit The Territorial Legislature was taken to task in Judge George F. Alexander’s court this morning |when a demurrer action filed by {in the case of Dr. J. W. Edmunds |vs. the Board of Examiners in Optometry and its secretary, Dr Rae Lillian Carlson was denied. ¢ The demurrer had been filed by Truitt and attorney for the defen- dants, H. L. Faulkner, the demurrer stating insufficient evidence for |complaint, following an alternative writ of mandate from the court. ;Dr. J. W. Edmund’s 1938 license a |few weeks ago on the charge of “unethical advertising,” and he has since heen ‘denied a new license for 1939. | Attorney Howard D, Stabler, act- -|ing for the plaintiff, condemned a “legislative hody that would dele- \1,.m.- power to any such group to L‘xkc away a man's profession and pracucr | “we might as well be fiRussia,” ’Sta,bler remarked to the court. The complaint charges that Dr. Edmunds’ license was revoked al- though he had no opportunity to face those who advanced affida- vits, to cross examine or produce {his own witnesses. Further, the complaint charges | |Edmunds was denied his constitu- | |tional rights when he was not granted a jury trial and that the |Board acted in vidlation of the ‘Compiled Laws of Alaska. describ- ing the procedure of said board {in the process of revoking certifi- cates of registration. Specifically, the complaint charg- es that “Dr, Rae Lillian Carlson {and Dr. Robert Simpson sat arbi- trarily as a three member Board |of Examiners.in a hearing on hear- |say evidence and arbitrarily re- voked his license.” Attorney Stabler's complaint |charges also call the Board® action “void—and that the Legislature cf Alaska is without the power or authority to delegate to the Board of Examiners the power to hear, Lry‘and determine, or the power to revoke a license, such power only being vested in the District Court.” With the demurrer denied, an-| .other court hearing will be held in | the’ near future on the complaint which asks writ of mandamus for the” secretary of the heard- of op- tometry examiners to show cause why Dr. Edmunds’ license should not be reissued. Damages of $500 are also asked by Dr.. Edmunds. Y Hardy, | Attorney General James S. Truitt| The Board of Optometry revoked | "JUDGE HARDY" 1S PORTRAYED BY LEWIS STONE Mickey Roone y Plays Comedy Role in Show Sunday af Capitol . “Judge Hardy's Ghildren,” third of the “Hardy Family” series and sequel to “You're Only Young Once,” is the attraction coming to the Cap- itol Theatre The new family comedy, Wwith Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker and Fay Holden takes the family to Washington for hectic ad- venture in society and among the lobbyists In the new picture Stone, as Judge is named on a poweér com- | miss "he family leaves its coun- try home; the daughter, played by Miss Parker, becomes infatuated with a State Department employee and takes a whirl at society; the son, played by Mickey Rooney, falls lin Jove with the daughter of a French diplomat, dons his first tux- edo and winds up in disgrace when | ejected from a fashionable dancing [srhml for teaching the youngsters the “Big Apple.” Meantime the judge foils the plot of lobbyists and the family refurns |to the country town of Carvel in triumph George Seitz, who directed the prec ¢ “family” pictures, direct- ed the new one. Intimate glimpses into the family comedies, joys, sor- rows and problems proyide enter- tainment in the infensely human | story. Players include Betty Ross | Clarke, Ann Rutherford, = Robert | Whitney, Jacqueline Laurent, Ruth | Husse; Jonathan Hale, Janet | Beecher and Leonard Penn. | Ending tonight is a double fea- ture, “Some Blondes are Dange ous” and “Making the Headlines. e MUSSOLINI 1S NOT GIVING IN | berlain Confab Is on } Jewish Issue j OME, Jan. Mussolini is reported to have agreed in talks with British Chamberlain, to cooperate in the |world effort to solve the Jewish refugee problem. This is according ' (to British sources, and the agree- |ment to cooperate on the Jewish |issue, apparently is the sole result |of the conferences. | The Fascist newspapers however |said the way appears to have been opened for new European and Med- ' iterranean equilibrium, Premier Chamberlain and Vis- |count Halifix started for home today. ——————— MINE EXTENSION | CLASSES CLOSED 'Over One Hundred Have | Taken Courses Here— Wilcox Leaving City of . Min- University H. G..Wilcox Director |ing Extension for the work in the Juneau area last night. | These are for the purpose of giving | of various eities throughout the Ter- ritory. During the five weeks course just completed approximately 115 stu- dents availed themselves of the op- | portunity to learn first hand infor- 'maflon about prospecting, ore ex- { amination and related subjects, Two men were sent out from the University this year as part of their exténsion service. Besides Mr, Wil- | cox, John McAnerney is conducting | the work in Southwest Alaska. |7 Mr. Wilcox will leave next Thurs- day for Ketchikan to resume his class work. Boar Trees Hunter ¥ “ AUCLAND, New Zealand. — Five promirfent pig hunters had to climb trees and stay aloft for an hour during a battle with a huge board in the back country of Uruti. The boar ~was eventually surrounded by dogs and killed. The hunters descended, but had to fire 15 bul- lets before killing the animal, —— ., . |First Ambassador ...To Visit Princesses | LONDON, Ji 14. — Princes§ | Elizabeth ~arid “Princess Margaret officially received an embassador at Buckingham Palace for the first time. This was M. Corbin, French am- 3 i ONE LITTLE BIT, 0nly Agreemen af Cham-| 14—Premier Benito Premier | of Alaska concluded his final class | free mining instructions to residents | PREVIEW TONIGHT Sunday Monday 1:15 A. M. Tflesdl MATINEE SUNDAY y Tuneau’s Greatest Show Value 2:00 P. M. | e e PAGE TORY COMES THIS THE NATIONI s OF AMERICA'S WHO SAVED FROM THE MOST THRILLING ROARING STORY OF THE PIRATE v'\, Do pUMBRILLE * Be o § GEHT BARRAY HEO ‘:\[\é:: CAMPEELL * EVERTN M“S O Directed by {“ g. Del Edwin Jost ALLE { ... ADDED ATTRACTIONS . . : Lew Lehr aml l'ox Movielonews SUNDAY is lhe BIG NIGHT NOTICE! s program runs two and a half hours NOTICE! COME EARLY FOR CHOICE SEATS! Twin Hit Program LAST TIMES “LITTLE MISS THOROUGHBRED cnd TIM McCOY in TONIGHT “TWO-GUN JUSTICE” NEW INTERESTS TAKE SHARE OF . CHICHAGOF (0. Jack Littlepage Is to Be | Superintendent of De- velopment Plan Properties of the Chichagof Mine |are to be subjected to a sizeable | development program commencing within & few weeks, according to | announcement made today by James Preeburn, Vice President of the | Chichagaf Mining Co., located on Chichagof Island. The development plans are an- nounced concurrently with the in- formation that additional capital will be invested in the properties ! by a new group of mining interests which have taken over a share of the stock in the old company 8s operat~ |cd by the Chichagof Mining Co., of which E. J. Young of Tacoma is ) President and James Freeburn of Here is FN&“‘ Via i per,” the new feature opening Chichagof, Vice President. at the Coliseam on is supported in the Paramount Pic. | Tmportant change in the new set- 4 up will see Jack Littlepage, well ture with Framciska Gaal: _ 'known Alaskan mining engineer in oy T < 4 Y the position as superintendent of bassador, who presented. dolls | mately 18,000 years ago the mine operation and develop- given to the Princesses by Peo- “Their cullure was not s0 ad-| ments. Freeburn will continue to ple of France during the State [vanced as the civilization ol their act in the capacity of conswitant to = & visit of the King and Quéen - to [contemporaries of the solutrean the superintendent. 1 Paris Jast July. period in Europe, According to Mr. Littlepage the ki — eee new deveiopment work will com- e Says Man Has Been Here. -, Lot of mence within the next few wepks. Mr. Freebuin and Myr. Littlepaze will leave for Chichagof in a few V8. Hunts Lion: By Airplane R 18,000 Years g VICTORIA® PALLS, South Afri-| ; ca—Huntiug lous by aeroplane is| l CHICAGO) Jfii J4Prof. Fay-|the latest sport. tn this distriet, & | & OO Cooper Cole of the University of | gpencer flew over lion country re- AR Chicago has expressed belief that|cently and spotted three lions en-| e“om 1L, Jan, 14—Food the first inhabitants of North | joying a kill. He landed some dis-|assembled to' feed 75,000 spectators America mimlw luru 18,000 years | tance away, shot one lion, put the at the state cornhusking Wfl ¢ ugJo | beast in his afrplane and flew home. | included ' 5,000 pounds q( “Since no Lrwel ‘of either Stone | - - | burger, 500 pounds of Age men or the higher primates| Use this test for dfiep-lm frying | 1,000 pounds of ham, 1,000 have been found In America it is|of onions: When a plece of bread|of fish, 75,000 buns, ll)Om apparent,” he sald, “that’ the earli- | browns in one minute, add the }200 pounds of coffee r est men in the new world were | onions and cook them about one gallops of water and, immigrapts, who arrived epproxi- and vne-half minutes, botuw of soft dripks,