With nature shining and rest
less to burst forth in all its
glory, who is so dull that he can
resist the urge to make a garden,
to paint the screns, to brighten
up the home? Nay! Nay! Do not
even try to resist, but. get ye
forth with spade and fork, with
paint brush and color pot and da
your bit to make Petersburg a
better place in which to live.
Now is the* time—catch it for
it passeth quickly—and among
cur advertisers you will find
everything you will need and a
willingness to help those who
need it. You have our word that
each is competent in his line,
thereby giving assurance of a
job well done.
Starting Saturday night, ad
mission for adults at the Coli
seum Theatre will be dropped to
50 cents. Take in Pal Night and
buy Scrip books and make the
Admission still less. —Adv.
“THE FORBIDDEN
ADVENTURE” ,:
i King Comedy will again blow
his trumpet tonight at the Coli-. •
! seum Theatre. The occasion is j
! the arrival of the celebrated;
comedy. “The Forbidden Ad
venture.” This brilliant produc
tion makes laughs in so many
ways that a mere reviewer is
befogged on the shores of per
plexity trying to number them
all.
The play is from the pen of
Sinclair Lewis, winner of the
Noble Prize., The vitriolic author
of “Main Street” and “Babbit”
has produced this penetrating
story of childhood, the story of a
child screen star, which has
amazed the critics at this de
parture from his iconoclastic
theme.
The cast of the picture in
cludes Edna May Oliver, Louise
Fazenda, Mitzi Green and Jackie
Searle. The story winds up with
; a happy reunion of several fami
lies and the departure of several
1 respective kings and queens to
their own “kindoms.”
THE RIDING FOOL
Bob Steele, that energetic
young western star who delights
the kids and grownups alike
with his rough riding and
| smooth personality rides into
town Saturday night at the Coli
seum Theatre in another of his
western thrillers. “The Riding
Fool” is his latest vehicle that
is packed with thrills that chid
and action that simply makes
you sit on the edge of your chair.
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CLOWN WAY INTO JAIL
AND KID WAY OCT
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An hour in jail is as good as a
page in a newspaper to Olsen
and Johnson, comedians de luxe
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vho have been in and out of
some of the best jails in the
vorld. Poliee who lack a sense of
iumor are the favorite victims
Df this pair of world-famous
clowns who appear at the Coli
seum Theatre on Sunday and
Monday.
Several stunts get the pair in
:o difficulties and if an officer is
foolish enough to lose his tem
per and put the pair in jail, their
day is a success. The principle
difficulty is that they are never
i ailed twice in the same city.
One such experience in a city
and the police refuse to put
them behind the bars.
Winnie Lightner is “Gold
Dust Gertie” in the picture and
she brings to the screen her in
imitable ways.
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NANCY CARROLL’S
HIT BRINGS JOBS
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One huge ballroom scene for
Nancy Carroll’s new starring
picture “Stolen Heaven” the
Coliseum attraction next Tues
day and Wednesday, required
the services of 175 extra player:
in addition to the regular large
cast.
“Stolen Heaven” in which
Miss Carroll plays her third suc
cessive dramatic characteriza
tion is a story of rapidly chang:
ing scene and action. The locale
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^ Green and Jackie Searle.
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Bob Steele in
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I real live-wire action.
Sunday & Monday
OLSEN and JOHNSON
WINNIE LIGHTNER
IN
“GOLD DUST GERTIE”
[See these mirth experts in
[this mad Fandango of Laffs -
[Faster than Gold Diggers
[and Funnier than “Life of
; the Party.
Tuesday & Wednesday
PAL NIGHT
Nancy Carroll
‘STOLEN HEAVEN”
[The gorgeous Sweetheart of
[“Laughter” creates a new£
[sensation.—DON’T MISS IT ^
STARTING SATURDAY f
i NIGHT THE ADULT AD
[MISSION WILL £E DROP
PED TO 50c. TAKE IN PAi^
NITES AND BUY SCRIFJ
BOOKS AND MAKE THE A
MISSION STILL LESS.
■ of the story shifts from New
[York-to Palm Beach to Cuba,
^ and includes episodes on an
ocean yacht. Miss Carroll and
Phillips Holmes, two of life’s
! castaways, decide to take a
.final fling at high living before
, ending their lives. In the course
of their adventure they fall in
j love, life assumes a new mean
ing for them and they decide to
battle it out.
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Price of Sheep
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John A. Simpson of Oklahoma
i last December told the Senate
that seven sheep were sold
Swift & Company for $3.30 but
that of this $2.55 had been de
ducted for insurance inspection
E nd commission. The owner of
i the sheep returned home with a
check for 75 cents as the net
price for the seven sheep.
Mr. Simpson further told the
Committee that the ultimate
consumer paid $83.70 for the
sheep. “On the Pullman,” saul
Mr. Simpson, “I was charged 85
cents for two lamb chops—10
cents more than the farmer re
ceived for seven sheep.”
“LABOR” published by the
! Railway Brotherhood, Washing
ton, D. C., states that it has ori
ginal documents in its possession
showing that A. A. Blakely Com
pany sold one Estes’ sheep for
$3.30 and that $2.55 was de
ducted for insurance and other
i charges. It also has the Blakely
| Company’s check made out to
j Estes for “Only 75 cents.”
This same company sold the
1 hides from these same sheep, on
the same day, to a fur company
for $3 without taking any de
ductions. They got more than
j four times as much for five pelts
as Estes got for seven sheep.
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I
Halibut Prices
-X
Fishermen have been express
ing general dissatisfaction with
the prices—not altogether with
the prices they receive—but the
prices at which their commodi
ties are sold retail. The Pacific
1 Fisherman in a lengthy article
defends the system by declaring
| that storage, freezing, etc., adds
to the cost and that profit on
! the fish to the wholesaler is
: very small and not out of pro
portion to investment.
All very good. The fishermen
do not quarrel about the cost of
i overhead and they do grant that
the buyer is entitled to a fair
return on his investment. But
they do object when they sell
their fish for three cents a
: pound and then have their
friends go to the same buyers
and have to pay 25 cents per
pound for the article. There is
no justification in such exorbi
tant charges. This example was
given by a citizen of Juneau
from his experience last June at
the Juneau Cold Storage.
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LINDY RANSOME BILLS
-X
According to a dispatch from
Geneva, Lindbergh ransome bills
have been passed in that city.
Pennywise
Congress has curtailed appro
priations for Alaska by several
| hundred thousand dollars in the
several departments. It has dis
I continued appropriations for the
' agricultural stations for the sake
of economy.
This same congress has appro
priated $100,000 as a pleasure
yacht for the Alaska Game
Commission.
As between the two there is no
question which appropriations
would support. Nor do you have
I to guess which one it is.
All Things to All
Men
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During the past several weeks
the antics of some voters have
been amazing to say the least.
Before any active campaign
i took place, one voter was as
siduously pressing the support
of George Grigsby for nomina
tion as delegate to Congress,
j A. H. Ziegler came along and the
support of this man went to Mr.
j Ziegler. Mr. Dimond made a
brief and harmless speech, and
this same voter was most en
thusiastic about Dimond’s can
didacy.
The question that we ask now
is Just who would such a voter
support?
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Doles
-X
President Hoover declares that
‘•J am opposed to any direct or
indirect government dole.”
We quote him again: He sees
nothing strange “in the idea
that federal taxpayers are con
tributing to the direct support
of 10.000,000 Americans—mostly
officeholders.
He favors a “Department of
Education” with its mass of
jobholders. He favors the sales
tax—with several bureaus to
crisscross to collect it with sev
eral thousands of clerks. He
signed bills giving doles to the
banks and railroads and unde
serving industries.
For instance! You pay six
cents tax when you buy a pack
of cigarettes which goes to con
tribute to the hundreds of thou
sands of doles nurtured by the
federal government by useless,
wasteful duplication , of effort
through bureaus in the several
departments.
Smoke that one for awhile!
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Bringing Farmers
! During the past year 7,500
families were placed on farms in
: t h e states of Washington
'through the activities of the
State Chamber of Commerce
Five thousand were placed on
lands west of the mountains and
1,500 east. ‘We could easily care
lor twice our present popula
tion” declared H. J. Gille, chair
man of the land utilization com
jmittee. It is pointed out that
there are now over 80 land set
tlement committees working in
that state to bring more settlers
to the state.
In Alaska the Alaska Railroad
is working to colonize the Ma
tanuska Valley. They have spent
considerable in securing settlers
i but the effort has been pretty
much nullified. Those in the
First Division question why? It
might be an interesting story.
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They Were Right
“We are in the midst of a
grave crisis.” —A. W. Mellon.
“A grave crisis confronts the
nation.”—Herbert Hoover.
“No one can exaggerate the
gravity of the present crisis.”—
Senator Robert LaFollette.
“We face a crisis of the great
est magnitude of modern times.
—Commerce Secretary Lamont
“The nation at the moment is
at a crucial point in its history.”
—Senator W. E. Borah.
“The railroads have reached a
; crisis.”—Senator James Couzens.
“In 100,000 years or so the
United States will be submerged
beneath an icesheet.”—Geologist
Stephen R. Capps.
Providing, of course, it doesn’t
I get submerged under a crisis.
The Battle Royal
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Democrats have been having
quite a battle over who will be
their candidate for President of
the United States. It is nothing
but a curtain raiser to the battle
that will be fought at the con
vention when the Kilkenny cuts
end the Tammany Tiger get
loose on the floor.
Leave it to the Democrats
themselves—they will elect
I President Hoover for another
term. Bullieve it or not!
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P.H.S. Thespians
In a review of “Hot Copy,” the
three act comedy of newspaper
life soon to be presented by the
Senior Class The Newton, Kan
sas, Republican declared the
iplaytohe “triply blessed with
1 tnree entirely comedy parts.” In
the local production on May 6th
i these parts will be played by
members of the Senior Class of
Petersburg High School. The
Kansas-Republican also said
“there are newspaper plays and
newspaper plays, but Clark
’ Willard’s ‘Hot Copy’ is the most
entertaining this reviewer has
ever seen.”
Radio station PHS will broad
cast from Petersburg by remote
control from stage of the Coli
seum, May 6th during the third
act of the smashing comedy
success of newspaper life, “Hct
Copy,” to be produced that even
ing by The Senior Class.
Sould you not find station
PHS listed in your log book it
would be well, suggests Mr. Geo.
V. Beck to reserve seats well in
advance.
The program to be broadcast
includes numbers by the Boys
Glee Club, whose offerings will
be interspersed with “Hot” news
dispatches from “all over the
world.” Walter Lersten wi.'l
handle the “mike,” and it is
predicted by those who have
seen him rehearse that he wnl
take the world by storm as a
radio announcer.
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GERMANS PRODUCE
TOBACCO WITHOUT
TRACE OF NICOTINE
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Tobacco minus nicotine is pro
duced from the leaves of a re
markable plant raised in Ger
many. This botanical freak is
the reward of experiments con
ducted under direction of the
Ministry of National Economics
at a research institute establish
ed in midst of the tobacco
growing fields of Pfalz. Altlio
an extract from the leaves is
\irtually as harmless as drink
ing water, the “smokes” made
from the plant are said to have
all the flavor of ordinary tobac
co.
An unexpected by product of
the experiment was the discov
ery that the leaves could also be
used to prepare a succulent
1 salad. As if that were not enough
.the salad may be flavored with
| oil extracted from the same
plant, according to Dr. Paul
Konig, director of the institute.
REPORTED MISSING
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Inquires have been received
concerning the following per
sons supposed to be in Alaska:
WALTER H. TESSMAN known
as JAMES H. SMITH—Walter H.
Tessman was drafted into the
Army in the World War under
the name of James H. Smith. He
was in France and after the War
returned to the States and later
acrtaken such work here,
went to Alaska. He is about 33
years of age. It is rumored that
a man by the name of James H.
Smith was burned to death in
a shack somewhere in Alaska
about six or seven years ago.
WILLIAM THOMAS SHAW—He
is about 5' 8" in height; has a
slight limp due to a childhood
accident; last heard of him he
was following tTie mechanics
trade: is about 45 years of age.
. FROY BURKS— Twenty-nine
j years of age; last heard from
j five years ago at Yes Bay vi i
! Ketchikan. At that time he
! mentioned that he would be
! trapping in that vicinity.
S. F. SMITH—Last known ad
dress was False Pass, Alaska.
Any one having any informa
tion about the above persons,
j please communicate with the
Governor’s Office, Juneau.
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SMALL POX AT UNIVERSITY
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Seven University of Washing
ton co-eds are ill with small pox
and isolated to the Firland
Sanitarium, Seattle. The epi
! demic started by a sorority house
boy refusing medical treatment
during the month of March.
Thomas Buxton, Envoy of the
Salvation Army is under orders
to leave for Yakutat this week
where he will have charge of the
Army work in the Gulf City.