The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 23, 1928, Page 7

: Weather Bureau Porecast for Jumean and vicinity, beginnmg 4 v. m. today: Falr and warmer tonight, Tuesday cloudy and warmer; gen- tle variable winds becoming southeasterly. LOCAL DATA Pime— P. m. yest'y.30. 01 32 8. m. today..30.03 22 Noon 'today .....30.0¢ - 26 Barom. Teme. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather Clear ? SE 5 v 1 7 w2, Clear CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS - § } t 3 . Iuiumg: HI.L'.E;” mgbr':' , temp. un g Veloclly uh ooy ‘eather Notne S8, ) 20 16 (‘lear Bethel 34 32 | z:rt Yukon -28 -82 | R T 2 0 . 34 32 40 38 . 38 34 X5 . 88 32 etchikan 36 Prince Rupert.. 42 l;‘?:»htan e o Reaftie .. . 42 42 rtland . 40 38 fi Francisco.. 54 52 s.—Observations at Duich upert, Edmonton, Seattle, ml}: st 4 a m Low 8a m. 8am. II.II 20 2' IG -38 -38 -l Sl ke Cldy Clear Clear Clear Clear Rain Clay Clear Clear Clear Cldy Cldy Pt. Cldy Clay 26 28 26 28 34 36 28 36 21 22 21 - 22 28 0 6 8 6 0 38 40 0 30 30 02 48 48 12 ®—Less than 10 mites. Harbor, Kodiak, Juneau, , Portland and San Francisco are and 4 p. m., Juneau time. The pressure is low in Western Alaska formal in the extreme eastern portion and the Paclfic The pressure is falling rapidly in chgnging but little in other districts. and the weather has become cloudy at Cordova. and slightly above States. Kuskokwim Valley and Rain is falling at Kodiak The temperature the (1] rjntn decidedly in the Gulf of Alaska and fallen to the south- restWard. PASSES AWAY (Odnllnnec n'om Page One.) Goktiials tound on the Tsthmus « Panema the. remains of many yefirs toil by several French com- mm Who had attempted to dig e cahgl, what the latter accom- l-hui was of little if any ald to thoge who finally crowned. their etforts with almost undreamed of 8ps. It was the ingenuity, mws and. brains of the ; éngineers; the remarkable cy- of the workers who la- finder them, and the un-! izing ability possessed | als that did in less than &' what the experts of oth- fiq s Takes Job thals was appointed Mlt Roosevelt in 1906 to ll 'he work of digging a the Isthmus. Pre- “‘undertaken the task at fon of the government, {E‘llow progress and dp- 3 bility to surmount the éss problems confronting fiad heaped volumes of criti- zbol the project, until for a sg¢emed destined to go the ‘of forimer attempts. Goethals about him as aides the ‘eftictént body of army ofil- at-the call of the govern- , and proceeded to Pahama an. organization almgat Blly. Mmilitary in its personnel méntion of the Panama 1 and the officers who made _n“lk. would be complet? Chief Sanitary Ofticer of the | Zone, the man who “cleaned ” “the Isthmus, protected the ‘of the workers, and made . digging ot the “big diteh” ticable. His name will re- indelibly linked with that of hills. tér seven years of unremit: i&bor, wherein he drove him- ds hard and as relentlessly he drove the other Isthmian{ , and during which he met Bunqnmd almost unbeliev- obstaclés of nature and sci- fice, General Goethals reported .the Congress -of the United y and-to the world that his was _complatéd, and that American continents at 1 two d by & navig- ¥ nmt steel gates with openjng| was bullt l;mly ,of his predeces- t ' which were three h companies. One of thess urned the first spad they could not u.m' canal possible and were us- to solve the problem of a system of sufficlent magni- to handle the huge ships they knmew would be bullt ‘the futuse. Even the famed lm. builder -of the Suez abandoned the task and t the rest of his life brood _over his failure to master the les presented at Panama. The French companies who es- fod to ert 1s of Cape ‘did mot understand the con- ‘confronting them, They tributions of pilfer, | | which developed at fever brought on by carelessness and ignorance of sanitation, or fled to foreign lands to enjoy the huge sums they were able to U. S. Is Uneasy During all this time the United States was not exactly at ease re- garding Panama. The prospect of Europeans digging and subse- quently controlling a canal in the Western Hemisphere, at the very doorstep of North America, was not viewed with much favor either in official Washington or by the public at large. It was not until 1903, however, after several costly surveys had been made, that Congress appropriated the necessary funds and permitted the work to proceed as a United States government venture. For the next three years vir- tually no progress was made In actual conmstruction, and while this was blamed upon the civilian engineers, it is hardly chargable 28 a fault, for their work of pre- paration in making the Canal Zone habitable was largely re sponsible for tihe success of those who , followed. Aside from the task of eliminat- ing disease, General Goethals was faced by many other unique prob- lems, any one of which was a stu- pendous work in itself. The first of these was the cutting down to a much lower level of several good sized mountains near the center of the Isthmus in order to minimize the elevation of the canal itself. Gold Hill and Con- tractor’'s. Hill, through which the famous Culebra Cut was driven, were remoyed almost completely. and milligns of tons of earth and clay were disposed of in the op- eration. It was not until several years after the canal was openeidl to tratfic that the several slidey that point l were brought under permanent control. Mjghty Feat The second mightiest fest was the damming of the powerful and erratic Charges River with the Gatun Dam. This was designed not only to eliminate much of the -l excavation by the formation of Gatun Lake, but also to insuce plenty of watér for ships of derp draft. The lake, as completed by General Goethals, is 8; feet abose sea level, covers more than 150 square miles in the interior of the Isthmus, and is deep enough for the largest ocean liners to pass through. Following close upon the heels of this problem came the build- ing of huge concrete locks with filling and emptying, systems, and losing devices. Many times the, plans were changed, and many sleepjess 'mights the .Chief him- selt spent working .out the com- plicated . calculations, but finally [the job was ‘done, and it was not the least of those for which Gen- eral Goethals in 1915 received the thanks of Congress ‘“for distin- ‘guished service in constructing and laborers alike, and that theyv were pushed and driven to the 1limit of endurances he was one of the most popular men on the Isthmus when the time eame for him to wind up his -thln and sail for home. Promotion Rapld General Goethals was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. June 29, 1858. His ea education was obtained there also in them@ty College | Paris. New York, following ! ] 4 appointed to th 3: Ctam ry Academy at 1{Point, where he was graduated in 1880 as .a second lieutenant in weering cofps. From fhen on his promotion was rapid, until received in 1915 the rank of Sfi@mks HAS BERN AT A STAMDS' N THE WAY OF A PRIZE suem.% T S nez BARNEY'S RETURN T HIS PLACE A The e\eses’r CHAPTERS = HE WAS Dty BACH To THE BILYGOATS AND EREATEST AUMBER OF also from the University of Pann.| sylvania, B mT Y A short time after his gradua- tion, General Goethals was ap- pointed instructor of nstrnnom,\| and civil - engineering at West Point. and later was sent to Cin»l cinnati as assistant to the army engineer in charge of improving the Ohio River for navigation. It was there that his first experi- ence in canal lock and dam con- SIOUX FALLS, 8. D, Jan. 237- | When D. E. Plum, forty{five, of Pratt, Kansas, and his two sons | Jacob, nineteen, and David, sevea- Stuaotialt. was oltathal; |teen—decided to make a “killing™ Throughout the Spanish-Ameri. /DY holding up and robbing a SaN WhR Lhe: . AlNAL. An.chit _f‘Snulh Dakota bachelor farmer, corps engineers, and later wey|they stirred up more trouble fo: | themselves than they anticipat placed in charge of the Muscle Shoals - canal construction in ths |, A8 the result of their efforts to e which means “the great I-dy" Tennessee River. He also built| 8¢t rich quick” the father has a canal near Chattanooga and an.|P€en sentenced to a term of two other at Colbert Shoals. 3"‘1“0"91 -halt years in the state y Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, . and Atier ?:;";::m‘:uz"(":m' weq|the elder son has been sentenced opened in 1914, General Gosthals |y one, 04 onehalt years. Tho| served for two years as (‘overnnm:f;nxilfwn B: b;aen sent to the | of the Canal Zone, then requested |° mp. gprie wolo” ! retirement that he might with- three were engaged in har-| draw to clvilian 1(fe atter more |, otk 8 Solth Dukons farms | than 30 years of military duty. "’h”"‘, fall, and at the time of thu During the World War, however, s ?;1” are believed to have been he was recalled to active servica ;’:x,m:r"t;'e‘;' ':‘(‘)';‘l‘)‘fi’ ::"“g Tho | with the army and was given sev-| guoiqins gixty-one, wh! i“‘"be eral important missions. He serv-' ioq 16 bo wealthy. 0.0 T ed for a time as general manager | ' of the Emergency Fleet Corpora-| The Plums appeared at Spaull- tion, and in 1917 was appointed N&'s home at dusk one night ani| Acting Quartermaster General. fla}d""‘a““d the money which he received the Distinguished Service | A8 supposed to have hidden Medal from Congress for “espe- about the house. After a hand-to- cially meritorious and conspicuous Pand fight the three locked service” in reorganizing the quar- Spaulding in his granary and then termaster's department. ,searched the house. In 1919 he was again relieved of |~ [0 an old trunk they found cash. | active duty, whereupon he organ- i Liberty bonds and certificates of jzed in New York the firm of deposit. They carried away $40 OFF T0 PRISON ¢ & HAS BEEN CHIEF ANGG_E\ ENERY MINUTE =~ BUSINESS, Rs.ufl\' THE FORMATION ¢F BARNEY EERLS THAT THOTE ORGANIZING HEIWWWL. G\UE. PRIZES OF INGOATS WHQ SEND IN Tae "v.s* TJasor pevt sones prad 1w _“l x?__fi—_ I BOBBDIG Y nnnm | IN HEDJAZ | Jan, 23 | MEDINA, Arabla, { 1,—Bobbed hair has an epemy | | 'in 1Ibsn Said, king of the | | Hedjaz. | Although he refrained | from forbidding the women | to cut their hair, he ordered | that any barber found guilty of clipping a woman’s locks | £hould be sent to jail or | fined. The fashionable women of the Hedjaz have begun to | act as barber to one an- other, cash and the bonds, but have been unable to locate the deposit cei- tificates. \0il Has Right of Way Over G‘klljmmn Crops PAWHUSKA, Okla, Jan. 23— Oil is king in this part of Okla- homa, and like a greedy autocra!, he frequently confiscates land be- fore the crops are harvested. A farmer, who only a few weeks ago was proud of a field of wheat, 50 green in Winter, may now be walching the wheels of |she became actuary of the com- merely paying $100 to the ownor" of the land or the tenant. Womnmfi:h Member of Institute ST. LOUIS, Jan. 23—A school teacher who became dissatisfied | with the routine of the classrooth ! And turned to other fields has be- come one of four women members of the American Institute of Acti aries. She is Miss Eloise B. Koch anl she attained her objective within a decade after graduation from the University of Illinois. Miss Koch gave up teaching to become a clerk in a life insur- ance office. After diligent study,' pany. Years of quizzing, follow- ed by 12 separate examinations, are the entrance requirements of the Institute of Actuaries. ,——— FATHER ORLOFF IN CAL. Father J. E. Orloff, well known Alaskan, i8 now happily situated with his daughter and son-in-law in Moneta, Cal., where he plans; to spend his remaining days, a°- cording to word received from him by Theo Kettleson of the Ploneers'’ Home who forwardel the Father's letter to the Gover-' nor’s office at Juneau, Father Orloff came from thyp truck cut deep furrows in the soil | Kodiak district about a year ago as they haul oil drilling materials to half a dozen derricks. Oklahoma ‘laws give the holder of an oil lease a right tantamount George W. Goothals and Company, /D cash, §300 in Liberty bonds and Engineers and Constructors. Hn $6:000 in deposit certiticates. Tha was decorated by the Frencn authorities recovered most of the to eminent domain. He is entitlel to begin drilling in any field whorn crops may be growing by and entered the Ploneer's Home. About a month ago his daughter sent for him and he went to ner in California. 1 ‘W make men's suits for $55 | I". WOLLAND., —adv, Government with the Order of ¥ S 5 Commander, Legion of Honor, for his service in the war, and receiy- | | ed various medals and decorations “{ from ‘scientific societies: for his ccntributions to engineering. —eto—— French Income Tax { Hits Farmers l.lgll!ly PARIS, Jan. 23—Business man‘ in France pay nearly nine times as much income tax as farmers,! although France is regarded as an agricultural country. ! Salaried men, although in the; minority, pay three-fourths as; much as business men and morei than six times as much as farm-| ers contribute. In like manner,| there are three times as many | salaried men and four times as| many business men paying in-| come taxes as farmers. This inequality between busi-; nesg and the farm long has been a subject of controversy in par- liament, but country votes al-! ays have been able to detend | the farmer with the argument; that he does his duty in leedlngi clases of taxation, cited by busi-! ness representatives, shows that| business and salariel men both pay a little more than their pro- portionate. share of the income tax, while farmers, (‘unsututing' 11.75 per cent of the 3,200,000 Frenchmen paying the tax, furn- g ish only six per cent of the total. Countess Gets Title From Osage Indians PAWHUSKA, Okla, Jan. 23 Countess Hillyar de Caen of 0,' leans, France, who won the hearts of thousands of doughboys for. whom she sang while they |& were in the A. E. F.,, now has a|& i 14 American “noblllty - The wealthy Osage Indians ad- & mitted her to membership in their tribe and conferred on her the title of ‘“Mu-hi-ki-he-kah,” the people. A further comparison between E pnces. will satisfy. The .Countess, who is touring thie |& United States, also recelved an|E Indian head-dress and a rich- hued blanket. % ———eee—— SETS 25 MILES AT “DANGEROUS” SPEED PARI PARIS, Jan. 23—Twenty-five miles an hour has been fixed as 2 sort of arbitrary “dangerous” nntollobuo jpeed in_ downtown "{: 48 no legal Mmit W»fi] .;zaar is. responsi fw acts at all speeds, police, nevertheless, hlve decided that a common senio s standard must' be used so traffl; officers can exercise control. This Himit is to be enforced only |3 where there are cross streets. On [ the avennes a car may g0 as fast ) as tratfic miwon- lnl m L e e e s i INVOICE noongn PRICE LIBTS CATALOGUES STA OFFICE FORMS LETTER HEADS ANNOUNCEMENTS EVERYTHING ABOUT ANYTHING ¢ BUT-- R e e T 2 NO ONE KNOWS The Empire’s Job Printing Department knows how to do your prmtmg the nght way lnd at right i lete lntomatxc printing press equip- ment e::zglcs The Empire to ql.wlc pnceu which We have reeenfly installed machinery . and supplies for i"; business stationery. WE KNOW. YOU'LL LIKE IT! v Raised Letter Printing Trythlmmethodouyofir "‘,’==? Qtt The Daily Alaska Efl}m‘e JoB PRINTING DEPARTMENT. i3 Tas UST ISREJEcTED - WE MUST HANE Sona PIDE TRAPPERS s Te 8e ATTENTION FUR FARMERS AND We arc in the market for a large quantity of Blue Foxes. Before disposing of your supply get our prices as we are sure we - can do better for you than oustide houses. CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & €0, KEEP THEM with R Pacific Coast Cba! Phone 412 THESE WINTER DAYS AR INTERIOR IMPRO good satisfaction. 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