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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-13
sHONKY TONK" AT
 COLISEUM TONIGHT

Sophie Tucker, the perennial red hot mamma" of the variety stage, is featured in "IIonky Tonk," War ner Bros. latest talking, singing and dancing Vitaphone production at the Douglas Coliseum tonight.
 In this brilliant picture she is the center of the r1otous gayety of the "Honky Tonk" night club in New York-the singer of rollicking songs in the floor show. and the bright particular star who is the principal attraction of the cabaret. And all the while she dreams of the daughter whom she is keeping at a fashionable school in ignor- ance of her mothers real life.
 Sophie sings a number of her most famous songs, as well as some that will be famous.
 Sophie Tucker is truly in her ele- ment in "Honky Tonk" but it is shown that her hidden but most expressing interest is her grown daughter who has been in a Euro pean boarding school from child hood and does not know that her mother is anything less conventional than a sedate concert singer.
 There comes day when the truth separates mother and daugh- ter and note of tragedy shrieks above the roar of jazz.
 Miss Fuckers supporting cast in- cludes George Duryea, Audrey Fer ris, Mahlon Hamilton, Lila Lee and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-13
NOTICE MOOSE

All Moose members are requested tc meet at the Elks Hall SUM DAY at l.Oo D. m. for FLAG DAY services.
 TOM SHEARER,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-13
MUSCLE SHOALS
 DISPOSITION IS| NOW ABANDONED
Conferees of House Reject Compromise for
 Middle Course

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 13- Efforts to dispose of the Gov ernment's hydroelectric power pro- ject at Muscle Shoals is definitely relinquished for the remainder Of the present session of Congress af- ter the House conferees rejected the compromise seeking a middle be- tween the Senate plan for opera ton and the House proposal for private ownership.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-13
DOUGLAS NEVIS
LOCAL STORE ADDS
 ICELESS REFRIGERATION

Keeping up with the times, the Riedi store this week added fine Frigidaire showcase to it's equip ment, for the better preservation of perishable foods.
 This latest installation of me- chanical cold apparatus makes the fifth for Douglas.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-13

NOTE-Observations Alaskan mean, Cordova and Fairbanks m. m time
 The distribution of Northern intensity mid Pacific aska Pressure fallen around the Gulf Rupert to the mouth Columbia snd the Gulf while Territory they higher
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-13
ANDREWS ON WAY SOUTH

Ed Andrews, local photographer, leftz on.sthe Dorothy. Alexander. for a short trip to Seattle and vicinity. He will first attend the Masonic convention in Tacoma as delegate from the Douglas Lodge, after which he will visit with relatives for a while, returning home in about three weeks
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-13
AT THE. HOTELS

Gastineau Mrs. Tom Stroebe; George Rob- bins, Tulsequah; w. Roberton; T. Goldberg; J. H. Brokaw, Seattle; c. M. Lightbody, San Franeisco; {; L. M. Carrigan, Seattle; Al Rath, Seattle; A. R. Butterfield, Seattle; N. L. Troast, Sitka.
 Alaskan T. J. Cornelessen. city; John Law son. Sitka; Mrs. Edith Lawson, Sit- ka; A. M. Harry, city.
 Zynda MT. and Mrs. c. Mackey, 6itka. ,.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-13
COMING NORTlE

Mrs. M. M Marks. daughte- of E. B. Dudden of the Douglas Is- land Packing Company, is Doug las-bound passenger on the Alas ka, due Sunday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-13

John T..Murray, and the production was directed by Lloyd Bacon, di- rector of Al Jolson's sensational success, "The Singing Fool
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-07
MAGAZINE MAN
 AWAITS WEATHER
 FOR AERIAL TOUR

William Howard Ganett, publisher of the magazine Comfort, of Au- guSta, Maine, who was a passen- ger on the seaplane Sitka when it made it's flight from Seattle to Ju- neau July 26, is at Fairbanks await ing favorable weather to resume his air tour of Alaska, according to As- sociated Press advices today from Fairbanks. aH
 From Fairbanks he has already made a flight to Fort Yukon. He now contemplates flight to Nome, and in returning from there to Fairbanks, he will fly by way of Mt. Mckinley National Park.
 The day after MT. Ganett's ar rival in Juneau last month, he left in the seaplane Sitka, intending to go to Cordova, but fog short dis tance from here prevented contin- uance of the flight and he and the plane came back to this city. Then he travelled by steamship from Juneau to the Westward
 MT Ganett recently completed a l6,000 mile air tour of Central and South America. He is governor for Maine of the National Aeronautical Association.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-07
| RAIL ROUTES LOCATED FROM
 AIR TUESDAY
Forestry Officials Locate Feasible Route for
 Prospecting Trails

Feasible routes for mining de- velopment trails to open up the entire northern end of Chichagof Island, tentatively rlanned by the United States Forest Service, were located Tuesday in an aerial re- connaissance made by Forest Super visor R. A. zeller, Forest Examiner Wellman Holbrook and Ranger Charles Burdick. In a few hours they were able to cover the entire district by plane, easily locating drainages and low divides suitable for trail building that would have required weeks of survey and study by field crews, said M. L. Merritt, Asst. Regional Forester.
 The tentative program calls for the linking up of Tenakee Inlet with Idaho Inlet, another connec- tion between Tenakee Inlet and Lisianski, Lisianski and Hooniah Sound, Black Bay and Chichagof to Hooniah Sound. There will be four trails. One from the head of Tenakee Inlet to Idaho Inlet. A second one from Lisianski Inlet to the head of Hooniah Sound This will be tapped by a third trail from the Tenakee Inlet terminal of the Idaho Inlet trail. The fourth link in the system will connect Hoo- niah Sound and Black Bay and from there to Chichagof.
 Seven miles of the Tenakee Inlet Idaho Inlet trail have just been completed, from the head of the former inlet. Work there will be suspended for the present. Ranger Burdick left here today for the camp to pick up the crew and take l it to Cape Decision to cooperate with the Lighthouse Service by building short trail from the new lighthouse at the cape to shelter ed cove where telephone line will be maintained for the benefit of small boats.
 The Forest Service program calls for encouraging mineral de- velopment by the construction of trails opening mineralized areas to prospecting parties" Mir Merritt said. The northern half of Chi
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-07
SAW CUTS LOGS IN WATER AT
 JUNEAU MILLS
Invention of K e tc hik a n Men Is Given Trial
 in This City

| At the Juneau Lumber Mills this week, an experiment is being made with a saw that cuts logs while they are in the water The machine was put in operation last Monday.
 Power From Gas Engine The outfit gets it's power from a gasoline engine housed in a struc- ture built out from the wharf and over the water. The saw is straight instead of circular, and is ar ranged so that when 1t works 1t moves vertically-up and down-as whipsaw operated by man above and below log. Against the almost vertical saw the log, floating in a channel between platforms, is push ed endwise by a contrivance that gets its force from the gasoline en- zine. Logs. can be squared and sawed into timbers of any thickness. Timbers are then lifted to the yard wharf, and go into the mill to be turned into smaller dimension stuff.
 The machine is effective for large logs that cannot be conveniently lifted from the water into the mill, or conveniently sawed there. In the opinion of several mill men here, however the contrivance does not operate sufficiently fast to give
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-07
"Biggest'' Potato Patch Has Output IOf 900 Carloads

HOUSTON, Tex, Aug. "A 2,100- acre potato patch" called the worlds largest, lies at Houston's back door.
 Operated on a scientific basis market charts are kept by experts only certified seed is used, and even a sales manager helps run the ranch, owned by w. T. Eldridge.
 After the huge potato crop is harvested, cowpeas, legume crop are planted. This adds humus to the soil and makes crop rotation un- necessary.
 Six hundred Mexicans, many o1 them women and children, follow potato digging machines during tht harvest"
 Potatoes beat cotton" says Ed. ridge after figuring his profits. Ht expects to gross $500,000 on ap. proximately 900 cars of potatoes shipped this season.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-07

Company, to the company's plant at Excursion Inlet, and left him there. It also carried James V Davis and his daughter Grace Vi- vian Davis to Funter Bay and left them there. The plane returned here Tuesday evening.
 Patrol of Fish Traps
 Yesterday the seaplane Sitka with E. A Meyring, pilot and Bryan Harland, mechanic, went to Fun ter Bay to take Gilbert Skinner, president of the Alaska Pacific Packing Company on a patrol of the company's fish traps. In the afternoon it went to Todd for pa trol service for the Peril Straits Packing Company. Last evening it took party of four from here up the Taku River.
 Round Trips to Funter
 Early this morning, the Sitkl made three round trips between Juneau and Funter Bay, taking workers to the Alaska Pacific can- nery at Funter. Then, with Gil- bert Skinner, President of the AL aska Pacific Salmon Corporation, it engaged in trap patrol service for three hours. Late this forenoon, the Sitka left here with Dave Housel, owner of the Alaska Hotel and c. H. Flory Alaska Commis- sioner for the Department of Agri- culture for Kuiu Bay and Sitkd. MT. Housel was to get off at &c., curity Bay to overlook his fox ranch there. MT. Flory was to make an official visit to the Agricultural Station at Sitka.
 The seaplane this afternoon IS scheduled to make a three-hour patrol of traps for the Peril Straits Packing Company
 Will Return Tonight
 The aircraft this evening will go ,o Sitka for MT. Flory and to &c., ,urity Bay for MT. Housel and re- urn with them to Juneau.
 During the flight this afternoon, 2. A. Meyring is pilot and Larry Parks, Juneau agent of the Alaska Airways, is mechanic.
 Inquiry was received today by he Airways from officials of the United States Biological Survey at Anchorage as to charter rates for plane that they contemplate to ise next week in research work n the Bristol Bay area.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-07

chagof Island is known to be well mineralized and it is hoped to fos- ter new mines there by the trail system proposed. Surveys will be made south of Juneau on the main land, in the Ketchikan and west coast regions for a similar trail development, he added.
 In this work, the Forest Service is cooperating with Federal Mining Supervisor B. D. Stewart, who has been asked to designate the most promising mineral fields for opening up to prospecting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-07

RESERVE THE DATE
 Moose Cafeteria Dance = August 18th. -adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-07
AIRPLANE TAKEN FROM HERE FOR
 USE AT SEATTLE
Petersburg to Be Based in
 South, Leaving Sitka | in Juneau

Only one seaplane of the Alaska Washington Airways will be based in Juneau for the rest of this week. The Petersburg, which has been in service here, has been taken to Seattle to operate on the Seattle Victoria Vancouver, B. C., aerial route for a while. The plane, with Pilot Robert E. Ellis and Mechanic Chandler Hicks, and carrying as passengers Mrs. Ellis and A. B. Hayes, Alaska district manager of the Airways left Tuesd ay for Ketchikan. It stopped at Hood Bay with a welding outfit wanted for use in repairing a boiler Of the Hood Bay Packing Company. From Ketchikan the Petersburg was scheduled to continue it's flight to Seattle yesterday.
 Tomorrow or Saturday, the Taku which has been based at Seattle and which has been out of commits sion for several days while being overhauled, will be ready for serv- ice again. Either it or the Peters, burg is expected to come here Sat- urday or Sunday.
 Flight Over Atlin Lake
 Tuesday afternoon the seaplane Sitka. with E. A. Meyring, pilot, and Frank Hatcher, mechanic, took three officers of the British Cruis- CT Dauntless and Mrs. H. R. Moore, wife of Captain Moore, commander of the warship, on flight over Lake Atlin, B. O., returning in the afternoon. The plane then took James Spencer, an official of the Astoria and Puget Sound Canning
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-07
WANTED

First class Boom Man. Apply Juneau Lumber Mills. -s.dv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-07

RESERVE THE DATE Moose Cafeteria Dance - Augusi 18th. -adY,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-07
HOSPITAL NOTES

Two new residents are making their home at St. Ann's Hospital. They are the baby boy of MT. and Mrs. William Jones, born yester- day, and the baby girl of MT. and Mrs. Michael Avoian, born early this morning.
 Mrs. Richard Heinmann is pa- tient in St. Ann's Hospital, having entered this morning.
 P E. Beekner injured one of his feet while working in the Juneau Lumber Mills yesterday. He is re- ceiving treatment at St. Ann's Hos pital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-07
ALASKA GIRL WINS

Miss Ruth Needing, daughter oi MT. and Mrs. Bert B. Nieding, form erly of Kennecott, won the girls tennis championship of Seattle last week. She will compete with a young lady from Tacoma for the state championship soon. The girl from Tacoma is ranked as a marvel but Miss Nieding's supporters think that "Bitty" will be the next Wash ington state girls tennis champion -(Cordova Times).
 Miss Nieding Is granddaughter of MT. and Mrs. H. R. Shepard of Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-07

LET AlmquIst Press Tour Suit. We call and deliver. Phone 528.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-07
WOMEN OF

WOMEN OF Mooseheart Legion will meet to- night at o'clock in Moose Hall.
 AGNES GREGG, adv Recorder.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-07

the quantity production that the mill is capable of giving with logs of average size.
 The machine was designed by Parks and Selig, who have a saw mill in Ketchikan.
 Owned by Inventors
 It is owned by them and has merely been rented for a trial by the Juneau Company. Outfits of like character are said to be in op- eration in Ketchikan.
The Washington times., 1930-01-18
Drys Use Fast Boats
Hunting River Rum

do not draw over two feet of
water. With them we can get
around back of the river islands" I"
Representative Thatcher. Ken
lucky, wanted to know if these
prohibition vessels were speedy.
Eyes, they hav fairly good
speed or you can't catch thoS
fellows" answered Commissioner
Doran.
why, on one trip we made out
Of Louisville with one Of the boats
down the Ohio it was gone eight
days and the crew seized % illicit
distilleries on the bottoms be-
tween Louisville and Paducah. It
was worth while"
WAS that on both sides of the
river?" asked Representative
Thatcher.
Both Sides" said Commissioner
Doran, who wound up that part
of his testimony by estimating
that it cost the prohibition unit
about S to 7 cents per mile to
operate each of it's flock Of auto.
mobiles used in enforcement work.
This. he said, was the cost of oil,
gas and tires. including storage.
The Washington times., 1930-01-18
BR|BE CHARGES
JAIL GUARDS

BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. 18
1.N.SD. Three Coast Guards
men accused of accepting bribes
totalling $25,O00 from rum run
ners Of Toledo and other cities
along the Great Lakes, were be-
ing held today to await court
martial while a fourth man was
being sought.
The search for the fourth man
is expected to lead into Canada,
where he is believed to have fled.
Meanwhile, James Courtney,
alleged head of the rum running
interests that paid the bribes, is
enjoying his liberty under bail.
The bribery charges were pre-
ferred against the four Coast
Guardsn.en by Martin w. RaS-
mussen. commander of the local
Coast Guard unit.
The tito held in Jail awaiting
general court martial are Joseph
Libby, of Atlantic City; w. E.
Wynder Surfman and w. j..
Blakeslee. The fourth member al
legged to have accepted bribes to
permit the smuggling of liquor
into this country is Cyril Small
wood. according to District Coast
Guard Commander Rasmussen.
The bribeS, it is alleged, were
offered by Courtney when his
motorboat with a quantity of
liquor aboard was seized in Toledo
harbor. The three men under
arrest and the fourth man sought
are suspected of having permitted
Courtney to land contraband.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 18 U.N.So.
A prominent Toledoian" will be
arrested within the next "a hours
in connection with the $25, 900
bribery and liquor running scan
dal along the shore of Lake Erie,
Lee Murlin, United States district
attorney here. said today.
He refused to state whether the
man was bootlegger or a citizen.
The Washington times., 1930-01-18
SEEKING
BOMB AGENT
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Aiding them is County Policeman
Frank P. Prince, who, for several
days. was the lone county au-
thority investigating the outrage.
They are making a house-to-
house canvass in Seat Pleasant in
an effort to find someone who
left the bomb on the porch Of the
home of Mrs. John Buckley, under
the mistaken idea that that was
the home of John Hall. Milk
men. bread men, and all others
whose business keeps them out
late at night. will be questioned.
Defense counsel. consisting Of
M. Hampton Magruder, Lansdale
G. SasScer and Frank Hall, has not
yet decided whether to sue for a
writ of habeas corpus for the re-
lease of Leroy. Leroy's brother,
Herman, widower of Naomi. is at
liberty under bond of $1,000 as
a States witness for his appear
ance before the grand jury in
April.
The defense is known to be
checking up on the movements of
Leroy and Herman on the morn
ing of December %, when the
bomb was left on the porch of the
Buckley home. That they have
established, to their own satiSfac-
ton, that Leroy had nothing to do
with the bombing has been an
nounced at every step they have
taken.
Magruder and SasScer ridicule
the States red clay" that was
said to have been on Leroy's shoes
when he arrived at Herman's
home that morning. Likewise.
they ridicule practically every
theory the State sets up.
Something new came to light
yesterday when it was learned
that Sheriff Charles S. Early had
refused to allow Herman Brady
to take possession Of Leroy'S car,
which is now held at Humphreys
Garage, Meadows. Md. 1t had
been understood that the car had
been turned over to Leroy'S wife
at the time he was charged with
the murder. A compartment had
been found under the floorboardS
of the car and Leroy had ad-
mitted to police, they said, that
he had been running liquor.
Herman yesterday reiterated
his expressions of love for his
dead wife and told of having
known her since she was nine
years old. He said Leroy was in
nocent, that he had no reason
for wanting to kill the girl, and
he couldn't understand why he
and Leroy were such central fig
ures in the investigation of the
tragedy,
The Washington times., 1930-01-18

Steamboat Bill" who went
up and down the Mississippi years
ago and had a rollicking song
named for him, would come across
a new type of boat could he
return to, those mighty waters
nowadays.
This is disclosed by the testi-
mony before the House Appro-
priations committee of DR.. James
M. Doran, Prohibition Commits
Sioner, who discussed the ex-
penditure Of the millions of
dollars estimated as. necessary to
carry on prohibition enforcement.
The committee came across an
item Of 100000 for fuel; gas
oline and oil.
Il believe" said Representa-
tive Wood, chairman, that you
have $50 cars and % vessels.
Are those the vessels on the
Mississippi and Ohio rivers?"
Eyes. they have fairly good
Ohio" explained DR.. Doran. They
are little launches and boats that
carry four or five men. They
have outhoard motor boats and
The Washington times., 1930-01-18
ALDR|DGE JURY
DEADLOCkED
Staff Photo.

Visibility fatigued and exhausted
by prolonged deliberation, the
jury trying Alfred Scott Aldridge.
colored youth on trial for the
killing of Policeman Harry j. Nc
Donald last July, requested fur
ther instructions from Justice
Peyten Gordon this morning.
The jurors asked the court to
define the legal difference be-
tween what constituted first and
second degree murder.
The jury deliberated four and
one-half hours yesterday and late
in the evening reported a dead
lock. They were locked up for
the night.
Policeman Mcdonald, of the
Third precinct, had arrested Al
bridge and his brother, Arthur,
in a housebreaking attempt in
the northwest last July 8, and
had taken them to the police
call box at Seventeenth and @
Streets, when the two brothers
are said to have opened fire on
him. Mortally wounded, McDon.
aid fell to the ground, firing his
own weapon killing Arthur AL
bridge. Alfred was arrested sew
eral days later.
Aldridge is being defended by
Attorney James Riley, and Walter
M. Shea, assistant United States
Attorney is conducting the prose
cution.
The Washington times., 1930-01-18

thrown into the courts, but with
Congress withholding money there
would be no enforcement.
Steam Roller Ready
Drys planned to meet the move
in steam roller fashion, although
they probably will not be able to
shut off some vicious debate. The
House will be sitting as "the COM
mittee Of the whole" during to-
days consideration of the Treas
ury appropriation bill. When the
prohibition item is reached and
LaGuardia makes his objection,
under the rules it will be referred
to Representative Smell CR) of
New York, chairman Of the Rules
Committee. for a "curbStone"
opinion. Smell is a dry and un-
queStionably will rule it out of
order. LaGuardia may then ap-
peal to the House, but should he
do so he would precipitate what
in effect would be a vote on the
Eighteenth Amendment itself
This, of course, would be carried
by the dryS by a handsome ma
jority.
Senator Borah (R.) of Idaho,
was the prime mover in the sena-
torial maneuver to force a vote on
the Blaine repeal amendment. He
broke a weeks silence by assert
ing "it might be well to have Con-
gress go on record and make it
clear this amendment is here to
stay" and he was joined by Shep-
pard and Senator Jones (RD of
Washington. author of the five
and-ten" law.
Blaine promptly answered this
with a statement Of acquiescence.
He said that because of tariff and
Muscle Shoals he didn't forSee
possibility of a vote before April,
but he insisted he seriously wanted
to bring matters to a definite con-
cluSion.
Meanwhile the House "wet
bloc" may change it's name and
become "the unofficial committee
on temperance.
This proposal is expected to be
submitted to the group on Mon
day by Representative Britten
(R.) of Illinois.
The name of the "wet bloc
committee for modification of the
prohibition law-does not ex-
press the real purpose of the
"wetS," he says. The cause,
Britten claims, is the true tenn
pefance cause.
The Washington times., 1930-01-18
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HIT BY BLAZE |
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water on the embers Of the Pitt
man home at 9 a. m.
Senator and Mrs. Pittman per-
sonally supervised the remova, Of
articles of furniture and valuables
from the house and remained on
the scene until late this morning.
They toow over the servants
quarters and later went to the
home of friends.
Snow Hampers
The second floor of the house
was practically ruined by smoke,
fire and water. Seven hose lines
were brought from hydrants, the
nearest a half mile from the
house, and in a short while
streams of water were cascading
down the stairs and through the
walls and ceiling.
The heavy snowfall hampered
firemen and seriously endangered
those who carried hose to. the
roof.
Fireman Breaks Shoulder
The injured firemen, all mem,
bers of No. 20 Engine Company,
were:
A. S. Calhoun, 3O6 C st. N. W.,
dislocated shoulder.
G. w. Jones, 818 Longfellow
st. N. w., shock.
w. r. Cryer, 21O0 F st. N. W.,
shock.
Ten companies Of the Wash,
ington Fire Department responded
to the alarm.