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Attractions At Theatres
 BIG SPECIAL OPENS AT PALACE TONIGHT

Bringing to the screen some of the strangest expedients, dramatic methods and new forms of story telling ever seen in pictures, ''The Bridge of San Luis Rey," Metro Goldwyn M ay r's much-heralded limitation, with dialogue and talk ing sequences, of Thornton Wilder's great novel. comes to the Palace Theatre tonight.
 Perhaps no picture in history has had the problems that occurred in the filming of this sensational liter ary work, and never before has a novel been so closely translated to the screen.
 Not only in the matter of plot was this achieved, but by means of special lighting effects and impress sionistic settings, the actual psy- chology of the author, as echoed in the book, was obtained.
 We tried to film states of mind along with our characters" ex- plains Charles Brabin, the director
 Drama there is in plenty-the strange love of the old Uncle Pic for the plotting, vicious, beautiful Camille, the unrequited love of the letter writer, Manuel, and of the convent girl, Pepita, and the strange moral disintergration under tht lash of misery, of the old Marque- sa. These elements are told 1T effects and suggestions rather thar direct narration, and the effect on audiences is gripping and en- thralling.
 There is also spectacle-the great cathedral and it's majestic ser. vices, the supreme thrill when th' bridge, stretched two hundred fee
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LODE CLAIM LOCATION
 NOTICES

Both American and Canadian forms at The Empire.
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modification ratio about one and one-half percent. e s Stories going the rounds of peo- pie receiving more than one bal lot, the Digest remarked, arise from special professional or occupations al polls being made by the maga- zine concurrent with the General poll. However, it has discovered some sporadic instances of duplica- ton in the general poll, which is not unnatural. What really counts is the proved integrity of the sys- tenn" it explains,
 The Digest calls attention to a "touch of comedy" growing out of such a situation, as reported in the New York Evening Post. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, general sec- retary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, publicly advised group of min isters to vote more than once" in the poll, If they received more than one ballot "If you get three bal lots it appears you should vote them" he is reported to have said. But later, when some of his brother clergymen expressed dis may, and asked him to modify his advice before a reporter left the hall, he said that perhaps strictly we should vote only once"
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Dinner Specials at Mabry's Cafe7
 Have you trleo the rive O'Clock
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LET AImqu1st FIess Your Suit We call and deliver. Phone 328
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SOCIETY TO MEET

The Martha Society will meet Friday afternoon, April 18, at 2:3( o'clock at the manse for a socia meeting. Plans for remodeling ane painting the manse will be dis cussed. Mrs. c. 0. Saunders ano Mrs. A. D. Snyder are the hostess es for the afternoon.
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BoNNELL RETURNS

Jim Bor1nell, who was with the Juneau Lumber Mills two years ago, has returned to Juneau from Falls City and now is with the shipping department of the local concern.
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HOLLYWOOD REVUE"
 SOON SEEN AT PALACE

Jazz is the rhythm of the era put to music and is constantly in- proving, according to Arthur Lange
 musical director of the Hollywood Revue Metro o-Goldwyn Mayer huge all musical and talking spectacle, coming soon to the Palace Theatre
 Lange is a noted musical arranger, the author of 100 songs of his own
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TWO FoRDs SOLD

The Juneau Motor Company to- day announced the sale of new two-door sedan to Ed Sweeney and the purchase by Helene Albrecht, of a standard coupe. Both cars are Fords.
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across a. gorge in the Andes, breaks and plunges five to their death. Through it all runs the delicate love romance of the convent girl and her lover, who doesn't dream that he has her love.
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ELLINGEN HAS OPERATION

Chris Elhngen underwent an op- eration for the removal u his tonsils this morning at the hospital.
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Their meeting was at Austin, Tex, yet
neither Porter nor the girl who. was to become
his wife, was "a Texan. The girl was Ten
nessean from Greenville Porter was born in
Greensboro N c. The two towns are not so
very far apart. But both will Porter" and
Athol Estes had to be transported to Texas be-
fore fate allowed them to meet.
It so happened that am in position to pre-
sent for the first time intimate view OF this
touching love story, for was Athol Estes
deskmate in the high school at Austin during
the time when O. Henry courted her. and we
were very close friends then and later. The
youthful romance explains much in the career
of o. Henry, who became the best known writer
of short stories that America has produced.
His friends of the early days knew him as
"Will Porter"
Life as a clerk in the drug store in Green's
boro seemed very fiat and uninteresting to
young will He grew restless. Friends invited
him to visit their Texas ranch, and he accepted
with JOY For several years he was under the
spell Of the spurs and the sombrero. However,
he did not neglect his two best beloved posses
sions taken to the ranch with him from Green's
bora guitar and dictionary. AS he rode
boldly and thought broadly, he mastered that
dictionary from cover to cover. Was there ever
o greater master of synonyms and antonyms?
We have, too. frequent glimpses of him on the
ranch in q hammock, swung between two mes
quite trees, twanging his beloved guitar and
singing love songs.
DOTH the dictionary and the guitar helped
~ perfect him as a lover and q writer. So
he came to Austin well equipped for the sent1-
mental journey that awaited him.
He had friends in Austin, the HarreIs.
They, too were from Greensboro With the
hospitality Of the old South, they invited WIN
Porter for an indefinite visit He stayed
year. 1t was very carfree, happy year. The
dictionary still figured, and the guitar. VIII
Porter's chief delight was spelling bees. He
could spell down all three Of the Harreh boys
and their neighbors. He joined the Hill City
Quartet" and organized 1.-The jolly Entertain
ers" He liked TO sit on doorsteps and sing In
the Evening by the Moonlight"
He did not meet Athol at once, but played
around with the friends Of the Harrell boys.
He joined the Austin Grays, . military COM
pany Of local prominence and fashion, and
waxed his moustache.
1t was at this time that the little girl from
Tennessee, with her bobbing euris that fell In
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Hmerica's Greatest Writer Of Short
Stories Had Romance Of His O10m
Which EquaIed Any Of Those He
Imagined, and the Title Of 1t
Would Be, 's7He Dimity Szceetheart. "
Here 1t Is Told by the Woman Who
Knezv Hozv 1t Ill Started Dozyn in Texas.

Evening by the Moonlight" However Athol
ceased to be happy in her engagement She
had met Will Porter. He could talk love with
more diversity of expressions than any man she
had ever met. He was wonderful!
CHE would discard Lees opal ring and his
~ lock-bracelet. But Lee was carrying the key
to the bracelet He would not unlock it for
ner. She wept bitter tears, but Lee was ada
mant. Athors mother was Lees champion.
Athors fancy for VIII Porter would pass 1t
must pass for she could never marry him with
her mothers consent. Athol firmly removed
the ring. but she could not remove the brace
let.
There were numerous dances. and at all of
these she was BELLE dressed invariably in ruff
fed blue dimity, Will Porter adored her. The
bobbing curls were piled high on the head now,
for Athol was growing up She carried hersef
proudly, with a little queenly air that won for
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"rippling shining cascades" came on the scene
She was just high school girl, wearing long
sleeved white aprons. and made glad with
the medal she had won In English compost
ton"
1t was then that deslked with Athol Estes.
Every one had deskmates In those days. It
was the whispered condolences Of this young
girl that form the basis OF this love story
Athol was engaged to another man. She was
wearing lids lock-bracelet and his opal ring.
He was disturbingly handsome, well to do, and
could also twang q guitar and sing In the
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William Sidney Porter, his ,cife AthOl
and daughter Margaret as they looked
in 1895.
young. She did not know her own mind. She
was not capable Of weighing the real serious
ness Of the situation. Will Porter's mother had
died of tuberculosis, and Athol's father had died
of the same disease. The mother told VIII
Porter these things with frmness and f1nality
He left, disconnected, distressed. yet firm in his
resolve to marry Athol anyway.
He no longer came to her home In the eve
ming to sit on the steps and sing. Never again
did he, with the Hill City Quartet, the jolly
Entertainers, serenade ut the window of his
love. He had passed that milestone on his
sentimental journey. There was something of
the caveman awakened in his soul by the OPP
position of her mother. Athol was his. She
was the heart that heaven had made for him.
Both were PreSbyterians and believed strongly
in predestination. Both sang in the church
choir 1t was after church one night that she
promised to be his, regardless of parental
objection.
WHEN they did elope the time was quite un-
w premediated, quite implanted. Athol had
gone down the street in q hurry to get some
little thing for her mother She met WIN
Porter quite by accident He persuaded her to
60 with him to the home of a mutual friend.
FROM there they drove to the minister's, Sin
the cool of July day" and were married.
But marriage was not the end of their ro-
nance. 1t was just beginning Life and
love were beset by trials and joys the essentials
come preeminent in the art of depicting human
experience.
Could Athol have known the pain, the sorrow,
the humiliation that was to have been hers,
there wouId have been no turning aside, no
sadness. no repininG. She would have gone
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her q coterie Of admirers. Through grammar
and high school her desk always bristled with
heart-onerings. There were candy hearts With
irnpassioned verses, fruit, candy, flowers
She accepted these naturally and happily, as
she accepted life. But this new love was some
thing different, something new and overpower-
ing something that, despite her previous en-
gagement she had never known.
VIII Porter went TO see her mother. That
lady was firm. She could never consent to
Athol marrying Will Porter. She had too
weighty reason for her objection. Athol was
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BY FRANCES COCCIN MALTBY.

INTO the life of william Sidney Porter,
who was later to be known to the
world as O. Henry, there came, at
= crucial period Of his development,
" young schoolgirl, Athol Estes.
The Alaska fisherman., 1930-02-15
THE ALASKA FISHERMAN

the Cove nor would appoint his successor.
 And for years John Rustgard has been advo- eating elective public office in the Territory with particular stress that of the officials, the At torney General, should be member of the Board of Contol And even though he talks if he to te the next Delegate to Congress, and when he knew last summer that he was to be candidate for the ofhce has he ever breathed an intimation of resigning that his successor might have been entered in the primary contest
 When an official is candidate for renomina- tion or reelaction he is not expected to resign Custom rer1nits him to hold office. But when he seeks ano her office, advocates elective offices, and yet holds cn to position that becomes appointive if he succeeds in his ambition, can he be regard ed as other than selfish office seeker? Would not the voters of this Territory have had higher gard for the honesty and unselfshness of John Rus g7rd had he resigned from his present $5,oo0 per year rosition before entering the field for a higher office?
 It is not peasant for voters to realize the shallowncss of some of their idols. We should like to say that John Rustgard is 6 courageous, capablo, and high-ninded official. Possibly many believe i'm to be such But there is a reason why, for some years past, there has been feeling among II n7embmers of the Legislature that the ~S"~--~--OS~' Ask n-ost ery member of the Legislature during the pert three or four sessions how they value John R s gard as an official. And they know him; fir they are brought into direct contact and dealing with him.
 And it might be questioned whether John Rust?ad can legally, and certainly he cannot con- sistent'y, become candidate for other once while Le continues to hold his present ot11ce Sec- tion of Chapter-77 creating this off1ce declares "The attorr ey General shall NOT ENGAGE IN .s ANY OTHER BUSINESS. nor accept any other pro- fessional emp,oyment.' As matter of fact John Rustgard is making it his paramount business to. be nominated for Delegate to Congress That he may fail in this ambition is not to the point. #
 John Rvstgard is being paid by the Territory for holding Territorial office put his real busl- ness for several months past has been, and will be for the e17uing two months, to secure for him self nomination for another office. And at no t,1,e has he given the least intimation that con-
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 the nation and Alaska, John launched his cam paign for Attorney General. He won the nomina tion and with all other Republicans was success full at the general election.
 But before John had taken office in March, 1921, and before President Harding was inducted into off1ce John ignored the fact that the voters of the Territory had just chosen him for a term of four years and connived to secure an endorse ment by the Juneau Republican Club for the ex alted office of Federal Judge of the First Division He didn't resign and allow the Federal Governor to appoint his successor for he wasn't seriously considered for Judgeship.
 Naturally in 1924 John sought endorse ment and renomination, which he received, and later the election. But even before he started in on his second term, he threw out his lines for Judgeship but again failed.
 Soon after his third term had commenced, John Rustgard had come to believe that he had been singled out by Higher Power for exalted service-to draw down large salary With the result that last summer he was easily convinced, by those who intended to slaughter him, if he se cured the nomination, that he should oppose Dele gate Sutherland for a renomination.
 As it happened Dan Sutherland decided not to again be a candidate, and so announced last fall That was not material to John, who ready for all comers and he proudly led to the arena by the Democratic Organ, the Juneau Empire. And now John is champing at the bit, ready to be off to whirl-wind finish for many of his Democratic supporters CD have given him false hope that he has quickly absorbed.
 Unfortunately, John Rustgard has never achieved any notable public service True, At torney General, he has defended few laws that have been enacted by the Legislature. and won few law suits, that the ordinary lawyer could not help but win. If he had developed into big, broadminded, faithful public servant, such as the Territory could feel proud of it would be for rejoicing
 But is it not notorious fact that ever since he has been in public office, John Rustgard has gradually assumed high and mighty ways, until now he feels the Kingly right to lord it over us ordinary mortals. And he has not yet been one year in the office for which he has been elected for four years And if he should be nominated and elected as Delegate to Congress, he would still
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MANY curious things come under the pur-
Az view of the adjutant generals ONCE. Its
index file covers 10 600 subjects in daily use.
Here are o few unsupported items referred to
in the daily mail; Slackers, needles, almanacs,
weather signs, tanks, apoplexy, fine arts, jiu
jitsu Bibles face powder. blisters, branding
irons, bugs, catsup, hoops, women, chewing
gum, wax ticklers and our old friend red flannel.
However, one item came to the files for which
no provision had been made. 1t was care
fully wrapped package of suspicious content
an unsolicited present TO Government official.
The label said Pure North Carolina Noon
shine" The clerks read and reread that legend,
and some say that the smell verified the labels
veracity. The package was sent by special
messenger to the addressee, who Immediately
returned it to the mail room. Then there was
nothing to do but file this Official document.
So with file ticket it started on its way. But
alas there was no classification for 1t in the
archives and the bewildered file clerk put Miss
Moonshine away-some place, no one knows
where.
But how do we know that this great record
office is the largest in the world? After Mai.
Gen. Peter G. Harris who was at one time the
adiutant general of the United States Army,
visited the great war offices of Europe he said:
Although some of the European countries
called more men to the colors than the United
States during the World War, there was no
central record Office in any foreign capitol that
correspondent in size to the adjutant generals
Office in Washington. In France the records
are not centralized, but kept in the recruiting
bureaus of $50 regimental districts. In Great
Britain there are "a separate record Offices of
soldiers exclusive Of the war office in London.
1t is true then, that Maj Gen. Charles H.
Bridges, the present adjutant general of the
Army of the United States, presides over the
largest centralized record Office in the world,
and what a task he has-he and his TBS clerks.
The earliest adjutant general was commissioned
June 10, IT'S, but his Office must have been
a meager affair. Five years later a small packet
sloop sailed up the Potomac River from Phila-
delphia carrying all the documents belonging
TO the infant Republic. These papers must
have included all the existing records of the
Continental Army then in possession of the
Government AT that time Washington City
was laid out paper only, but war Office
was uhdreamed of.
In the old days all the correspondence Of
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the War Once was copied in long hand in huge
books Clerks had to be good scribes before
they could land q job. Penmanship was
fine art exhibiting grand hourishes and curll-
ques. The actual method of keeping the RECORDS
in the War Department has undergone little
change all these years, although the fancy PEN
man yielded long ago to the typewriter. Those
changes that have been made are In keeping
with modern Office methods.
Some of the Revolutionary records are OF
intense historical interest. Every Americans
heart is thrilled by the signatures of Washing
ton Lafayette and DeKalb on their official
oaths of Office at Valley Forge in 1878. An
other interesting paper of this period IS an
order from Gen. George Washington calling
attention to the futility of prOfane swearing
and requesting that all soldiers discontinue such
offensive habits at once. We also find letters
from Paul Revere that remind US OF his
dramatic midnight ride.
There are few records of the War of 1872
and most of these are published in the Bran
nan papers. Here and there we ind in the
old Army records hair-raising accounts OF In
dian massacres and battles. These aged files
became active lately because Of congressional
legislation granting pensions to men who served
30 DAYS in an Indian campaign.
During the Civil War most of the clerical
work was done by enlisted men detailed from
the Army, for there were only 81 clerks in
the adjutant generals Office. The Civil War
RECORDS mcluoe bke HHueIaI army anu iaisS'
but incomplete file of Confederate soldiers.
These documents are of great value in estab-
fishing claims for pensions. Among these musty
old files are the draft records of the Civil
War, and many intercepted and captured COM
munications from the Confederate States. Care
fully preserved in locked cases are the facsimiles
of the seal of the Confederate States of America
and the Confederate War Department seal.
Many stirring legends are told concerning the
original seals but they never came into the
possession of the Federal Government
WITH these much-fought-over records are
the secret kilograms OF President Lincoln,
written in I864-65, in his handwriting. There
are also several communications from this most
unusual President extending cemency to in
consequential unfortunateS. The papers of Gen.
Grant. Gen. Mcclellan and others equally
famous are also carefully preserved. Many COM
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True Stories" From arDepartmentFlles

In the Adjutant Generals Office in Wash-
mgton, Largest Record office in the
WorId, Tales Of Daring and VaIOr,
Dramatic Acrounts 0 Love, Patriot
ism, Spies, Intrigue and Mn;der
IRE Listed Among the Records.
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Continued on Niueteemth Page
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BY MYRTA ETHEL CAWOOD.

- HE Adjutant Generals once Of the
War Department Is the largest record
Office in the world. 1t is the one adj
ministrative branch Of the Govern
-Ana..c ounAl. IA Tia
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the diplomas. s "a Oiie n"iiie0 Oii
Inc boys soccer team of the Pierce
ocnoOl won the championship of the
easceIn ulVlSlon. They are now COM
petlng with the Park View soccer team.
ma tlaVl as won the first game in the series
ioi 'i'y-"loe championship.
Radio.
MRS. w. p. Roop, chairman of dis
cusSlon groups Of the District of Co.
luInnla congress of Parents and Teach
ers' WIN De the Parent-Teacher radio
speaker over station VOL Tuesday at
6:Oo pm. Her subject viii be THE
P her Association Work in
Parent-Study Circles"
Park View Platoon.
Founders day will he celebrated Feb
ruary 6 at 2 pm. bv the Park View
Platoon Association. Mrs. Giles scott
Rafter VIII speak. Other special fea-
lures VIII be an electric-liphted birth
DAY CAKE and 6-foot child welfare
magazine containing life-size pictures
several national officers and all past
presidents OF the Park View Associa-
tlon VIII De In attendance. There will
DC special musical numbers. Members
participating in the "Earn-a-dollar"
campaign VIII bring their money.
WheatIey.
The executive board of the Wheatley
Association will meet Monday at /. an
O'Clock In the school auditorium. The
Mothers Glee Club, under the leader
ship OF Mrs. Manning. will meet fol-
lowing the board meeting.
Plans are being made for a Founders
day program, in which children will
take part. by Mrs. James Everett, presi-
dent. The pageant will be given at the
meeting OF the association February 6,
The Drum and Bugle Corps of Troor
winter court of awards. Troop 81 is
led by Miss Suzanne Mellichampe.
The scrapbook which will be used By
Wheatley this year was won as a prize
by Mrs. Walter Jones for a poster made
in the Parent-Teacher course given at
the Franklin Administration Building.
Mrs. Jones generously gave her prize 10
the association.
Twenty-Five plate luncheons served
to teachers and children recently have
proved SO successful that a group of
mothers Is planning to serve such
luncheonS to the teachers once a week.
Mrs. Wen will be in charge Of the first
luncheon.
Langley.
In appreciation of the efforts of Sen
ator Capper in assisting the community
to secure adequate land for Fairgrounds,
ETC., and for his support of the free
text book bill, the Langley Association
and citizens have sent out invitations
to the State and each local association
to unite with them in a ceremony
which will take place February ii at s
pm. at Mckinley Technical High
School. At this gathering a testimonial
will be presented to Mr.. Capper.