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: THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1928. mediately advised the convention that he would '=|= ?yraiding squad?” asked the friend.| #————————— ———— — ——— ily Alaska Empi : , VTN at ASKA I'MPATre :0 vetore the country in a nationwide campaign | ‘ i g 'SSIONAL 3 y P with a solution for some of the evils of gz e ool Se-}:ldeTHlE and n " Prohibition system. That was leadership. Again DETOUR ed tl roddce o HN . .. . EDITOR MANAGER| » y do : 0 JOHN W. TROY EDI o AND ““lwhen confronted with a question as to whether | Freah Pruit sud: Veevtalios RS EASER & T Published every ecvening eicept Sunday by the he would stand by the Demoecratic platform as By SAM HILL Find Your Own Moral Wholesale and Retail DENTISTS EMPIRE_ PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Mal"|regards farm relief and what steps he would take | #—————""" : nob feels comfortable because| | Out of town :',m"l‘:“ i 1 and 3 Goldsteth Bias, R S, SR 4, o {to make its planks effective, he promptly replied O (the LT ¥ thaie’ anh: o0 AR B | special attention g n ’,HU\‘P',-“ & Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class| - H NE Bl oo [ The world is better round, e on A bt A M g Junean Lions R i — pledges given at Houston . I understand and Of that I am mfortable RECHRED | HNG IDRN 5 | Club M ware, SUBSCRIPTION RATES. = | ) Meets every Wed | { | to his questioner that he “stands squarely on the v : i Corona By mail, postage pald, at the following rates: lit electe: ot B s inauguration, but would L. C. Smith and.C One SAvente. §12.00; six months, in advance, |if elected, not await his inaugurall $6.70; one th, in advar $1.25, {immediately call a conference to study the farm Curiosity of an Old-Timer Mystery TYPEWRITERS Hende President Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly | _ . B o ith th onvening ot What has bec s of the old Z ; » T & i o . notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity |Problem and be ready with the c g Ak on iR hot R ik, Public Stenographer Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine .. Redlingshater, Secy-Treas. iu the delivery of their papers | Congre o submit a farm relief program . i t i : s Buildin B Rletione Tor orial 4nd Business Offices, 374, | UONET CHImEIS & e 8 alled “nasty nice | 8 * — - | There was no hedging about Gov. Smith’s { L g r shou phone 1 i " 1 nothing but a lot of air sympathize with the objects organized agricul-| But brother, veople all, iin DR T RUvered iy ‘carien I, Junsau, Douglas, Treddwel) and mn-pil- ‘u(xj\lu:;l‘vn‘u “r‘.,nv, ,J,“ » He added he would I'm sur ml;‘.';{ ol squar gt J. B. BURFORD & CO : ane for ,..25 per month. | ot WS . . ey Dr. Charles P. Jenne nesday at 12:30 DENTIST | - o'vlocks ther MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, sta o again demonstrated his ability to % £ | be v ¥ e The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the AR 9 Jasmn, comob o Passing Observation e BROWN’S use for republication of all news dispatches credited to[lead, proving once more his fitness to guide thel A town without an airport now | o, it or mot otherwise credited in this paper and also the|, . @ Ty e A town an airport now DOEEAR. Sonhe r destinies of his par knows how a town without a rail-| local news published herein | 7 [ sl — road mnsed to feel. | Add Hymns of Stationery—Notions— i 8 | e I hat Greeting Carda—Toys— i 5 2 Secretary LATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER . NG ity Saiitatih Lol 3 i | 2 ¥ % Brothers welcome. ALASICLAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. [ . 1t the Prohibitlon Party nominates Herbert| . witn the Reverse ' Englieh s Myrtle Stiggle Novelties ! Wi Hoover as its Presidential candidate, it will round| «iaving trouble?” asked i g hink | E Oidtn o One Mailin 5 P " R TR lout a remarkable political record. He was first men-|pooh who had stopped beside the | ; . o3 S Frotmemes | tioned for the Presidency i 20 when his name|stalled car i ~ - o | Scowttsh Rits | was suggested as a Democratic candidate; now the| “No,” growl ice from BT (" /‘ I) P 4 M 2 T Ragules Sastinis | Reput \s have nominated him; and the Pro-|under y b % Ml enak iy y/AICED ALY ] I o v v hibitionists may do likewise. So far, however,|!he D f m Ontecpath ein B 1 Odd Feliows |there has been no intimation that the Farmer-|‘ ; v ibs s b / ' | 71 8 or by VALTER B. H | H < A8y 2 JRAuRY ER B. AEISE! Labor group name him e = o oy ) Do | Licensed Ostec Edysicten : — R T 1 1 AND LOT CLEANING P e y il i iverkary John William Shead; ;dad- G. A. GETCHELL, * | ¥zt OF MDOSE A Bermf :'%ppl\ers‘lr). St Phoae' 109 or 149 S i J Jumenu ‘!3"-',-:'#?;.&7? wsbans—and is dead Old Maid Gossip ~ < h Bl AR 4 S i “She used to b £ th - Dr. Gee. L. Barton ; “Tifl;l};w‘" DI t:;: ¥ 11.-;:qu .w}. uf{:\ l‘l_v-r‘un. :"i“’f. A«v::m Mr‘.:hlllhvl\;- T,.‘em Were the Happy Days when she wa \ | ; : : HIRO OR, He 4‘ m‘ al v AURON BEe s [best known to American whalers and to Blinks ’ Tanaln Pablie ‘Eillede e o 6 IRGURON, Secreinty) United States Coast Guard Service. The man|y..o )0y 5 be 7| i AACHIC JUNEAU LODGE NO, L |whose mame they bear lies in the rude soil of| 50 " PR ! and { o LA A A WORTHWHILE BOOK. |Bering Island in the Karmandorski group off the 3 ¢ R ¢ i R Mon- —— [coast of Kamchatka. At Petropovlovsk on the| ..o oo Tty ; Free Reading Boom i - “Alaska, Its Scenic Features, Geography, His-|peninsula, a monument—a column and gl()\wv—. ey GRIUREttnE thes and g 3 an al City Hatl, Sscond Fioor | RV NS | | 1 (New York Times.) “Things ain't what M of those days tory and Government,” the latest addition to|was raised to his memory in 1824. s yearl gacen ANey. Wt % | Malil Blraet &t 4h Helone W. I books dealing with the Territory, is indeed a|marks the 200th anniversa of the elene vy 3 A . i e them up f | Reading Room Open From B L llle’ publication. It s ,clear - dhat ifs|Of the strait helween Biberts -mud_ 4 YL Sun Too: Mush of & Stratiger ¢ Would hANe e R author, Commissioner L. D. Hende of the S0 pht Order o1 Vitus Bering, the Dane, who served Territorial Department of Education, wrote with]| EASTEKN STAR Looks li this would be a har tion ¢ rat | Cireulation Room Open Second and Fourth 1‘01») summer those who depend r a home, sW ome 1 m|{1 to 65:30 p. m.—7:00 p. 1 3 & \aTIP. ! ot each month .3 d : ock, " 1. O, the sale of sunburn and frecklelliv 1 one o 1odern, thr 8:30 p. m . 423 / Tall, MILDRED MA lotions for their living m ¢ ey fats Current Magazines, Newspapars | | x - | SV orthy M i ! i Reference Books, Etc, 4 y No Insurance Against That Kind oud of her ring b FREE TO ALL “8 E BITE INSURA * it mear r to ym an ad in an faithfully and was its greatest explorer |eighteenth century a wide and accurate knowledge of the subjects| ertainly the adventure upon which Peter with which he deals in the volume. Not only the Great sent Captain Vitus Bering in 1726 w that, his long re nce in Alaka, his intimate [one of enormous difficulty He was one of the| acquaintance with local conditions and people | world’s most stalwart explorers, but justice has have given him a sympathetic viewpoint which "m been lhlmx- to l]li:,m»hh;\l:nl«-uls l'rh[(l- st o Yo% his intrepid march through Siberia to the 7 however, has not betrayed him into any ov 1“““"\‘( 1“"4I hl VOSARG In shipe wirlibeenne i) », this is no p : ) 1 % the kind you PNt 0F fact |shore is fittingly told by a Dane, Bering Liisberg, | In a brief but excellent foreword he outlines|p@H B W RS GF % The American-Scandinay. | e MO b ‘ “,“"1 (5 correctly the object of the book as follows Raview | his booklet seeks to portray Alaska | In his youth Bering entered the great Czar's| .. 1 | ’ : ¢ p ]'p AL on an exceedingly broad s Within |srvice, and had risen to the rank of Captain in “}“' "!\l‘“\‘ . fellow groan 3 5 ) rarer?y its pages will be found information on the navy when he was put at the head of the| fways | L B BEORD $50 X To think of all the groaning he| s ys v S N ers urged ol Chazo- RIE 117 F. O. & Meets Monday nig) Hall Casiien | the gecgraphy, scenic featu resources, first expedition, “organized with the special aim| il d 2 tha Pinas b it Try Our Swedish Rye commerce, history and government of of investigating whether or not Asia and America| %' 00 : 2 e e : | s this far-flung empire of the North were connected by 1and.” At the time, 1734, the| If he falls to let ple alone | “The 1 . sor e Alagka is a misunderstood land; a region west coast of America was not known further s e, reason some moor IoOWS|{ Real Pumpernickel Bread conceived in the popular mind as bound- north than Cape Blanco, which may now be seen| . Bty CIE 0 il b S syl e ed on the North, South, East and West ol the mapy o Oikon. There waa. 8- IGRend, - STastiie Y SRR SRR IR T, O ot oo ita A by ice and snow; inhabited by a peculiar aming the ‘TohuMtohis. of Kamchutka of:#'a’ Insga|tul to keep ko far awsy from, it amuy HRCEe ASsAE Drovidse & pecple, living In domed ice huts and conritry ‘toward 1 east.'’ It ‘was to-le tieidon-| Ve Ou DBNR ilig. ISR O An sDenciug Tioney UOR AROM. o inel J""()(l“ subsisting on walrus meat and seal cern of Vitus Bering to explore the coast of |2utomobiler” asked the boss B e B s e o p oil; and as containing little of economic Asia after he reached Okhotsk. “Jes force of habit, boss, that has s far in that di value to the great Republic of which It was not until Jan. 24, 1725, that Bering|®ll Ah's been used to working}rect hthe' feuriine Kkir , ‘ Rakery it is a part and his lieutenant, Spangberg, another Dane, got| *Ound muies,” he grimned. y arery To the reader who will follow us away from St. Petersburg. + At Ilinsk it became 5 & through the succeeding pages, we hope necessary to go into Winter quarters. In June,| W¢ “"9"0‘ 5";”“""’ & Bt of | to show Alaska in its true light—as an 1726, Yakutsk was reached. There 2,000 leather UL S anBgeEs: e e W SR ! inhabited and habitable land, rich in bags for the transportation of flour were made| ‘Drousht is causing great dam- | THE “HI:H‘“OR‘ E % 4 oo ere L resources, replete with natural attrac- and 800 horses were engaged. Spanberg was di-|38¢ I Porto Rico™ -News Item INN B T T s o e A LA S . S 53 5 S TS SRl tions, and abounding in opportunity; verted with 200 men tc the Urak River, cn whos e || The i 4 New Palatial Modern gent; Agnes Grigg, Recorder. with homes and firesides, schools, waters he was to use eighteen rafts to carry Modernized Proverp [ Hotel at Whitehorse THE CHAS. W. CARTER MORTUARY 3 s i The fool buyeth an umbrella and | | o dod : % CHAS, W. C/ ‘R ] RTU 4 churches, and all things necessary to a supplies. Bering marched on to Okhotsk. The ol buyeth an umbrella and| | ;wpe Whitshorse Inn has just | - full and complete life. way lay through rugged mountains, over marsh-| the Wise man borrows it; | “The Last Service Is the Greatest Tribute” e R Within the limited space of the volume, theles and tundras and through dense forests, In : ! | the latest in hotel construc- Brunswick Bowling author has succeded well in doing the things|the winter months, when the adventurers exper-| Punishment In Fact | | tion. All rooms with hot Corner 4th and Franklin St. Phone 136 Allevs set forth to be accomplished, Ne iily the|lenced a temperature as low as 70 degrees helow |Course no one will deny 1’ and cold running water of | 7 | Geaduate Gr -l . lege ot Optometry 2 | ——— =53 ;’,"‘i‘:’t‘;m}‘f‘i;i; AMERICAN LEGION Glass | : Leneses Greuad b 5 Meets second and i ol s fourth Thursday each nonth in et 1 I &5 Dugout. JAPANESE TOY SHOP S T L T T S e e B. | WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART Froft Street | LEGION, NO. 439 Box 218 for Mall Orders Meects 1st and 3rd Thursdays i - e e \ month, 8 P.M. at Moose . We deliver ) § AR SRS RSN IS S0 SECRE RS TS ! ) | | | | | | been built in keeping witk plctures have been painted with broad strokes,|26r0. @ hole in the snow was used for cooking, g "] .v'”'“l“_’ilu'::‘ h".""i"z: | which no other pm_-x in the | > G : i 040 5 o) 1 f»‘*'anfl‘e'.’n?fifr',}”%'fix"; eating and sleeping. ut, brother, it's Bome J Yukon can boast, private | e P At Okhotsk the Fortuna was built with tim-| To listen to spellbindi connecting and public baths, [ i b bers dragged for many weary miles by dogs and s | maid and bellboy service, 1 = —& horses. Tar was made on the spot; salt from Catch Only Little Fellows | Write or wire for the Territory's great disadvantage, is so sadly|the sea. A second ship, the Gabriel, was ready| “Why did you turn down that| | ¢jon | lacking abroad and is encountered all too fre-|in the midsummer of 1728, It was in the Gabriel |fellow’s request to be put on the g e ! THE TRROS CO. quently right here at home. While the booklet [that Bering's discoveries were made. The Asiatic| 777020705 0 M a n u facturers Carbonated i§ apparently designed mainly for ‘outside” |coast was roughly mapped. It was on a second | PRINTING and STATIONERY Deverages. Wholesalers Can- B e iantion, it 18:.ot such. uniaue, valie..tab| expedition I|hz]|l i l‘r.r Bering"s men died of | | b dy, Near Beer, Carbonic Gas. g i P iy e Tac _|s¢ and he himse] succumbed on Dec. 8, 4UT()S FOR }IIRF PHONE NO. B SR wibiidenines to have a mesdy. MefeRsliodn. To.the lsland whers,his' Hés Capiain (‘:mk! 4 b ’ . . p & dpposite Alaska Eleetrie Light Office 5 i ence book on his homeland should be without it.|zive’ tho name Bering Phone 241 Oppos e s k9 = Mr. Henderson has done the Territory a serv- i : | SRR S S T AT . ERWL L SR LIS, OPEN EVENINGS [ fce fn writing it. The one possible criticism to ; iy M s ol Sl be made is that it is all too short, that it lacks The Last of the Barons. Prompt and Courteous Serv- | | P MORI,“‘S many intimate details which would make splendid e & | fce Day and Night, Special | CONSTRUCTION reading. This defect does not detract from the (Manchester, Eng., Guardian.) o | Rates for Trips to Menden- s T COMPANY work, however, and it stimulates a desire for ]'H‘l'lu'tlujl (."“‘hul“"“‘o;"fi ‘;( the :\”;h”? AI’:GSI ]’ hall Glacter fl:i"l/\h\fl.;lc River :"“”‘A 8 T »dge . Son' SaaaAs are s 0 be found whispering anywhere it is ’ 324 X 41- A QKA \ v | more knowledge on the topics treated and leads|®™ St 1018 | : ) / ) SAND and 1o a hope that someday in the near future the|ay'shs |o Americn Wihen we read of the ware C. VAIL, Proprietor Vs 8.0 I L “ 4 Commissioner of Education will bring out another : b et el | Next Arcade Cafe Phone 32 d A = 5 GRAVE o ion WL atmosphere appears to be positively feuedal. To A< Next Arcade Cate Phone 324 | MODER REASONABLE RATES RAVEL Details have had to be omitted in many instances. Yet anyone who will carefully read it, cannot but - gain a conception of the real Alaska which, to —n this view that there is nothing so “old-world" as| - Carpenter and Concrete LR New York the “Times” of that city brings topical | Sl o ey e | Dave Housgr, pror. Work. AGE LIMIT IN INDUSTRY. confirmation. Commenting on the Epsom Derby, . s i S It expresses surprise that the English King and We welcome you The growing practice of arbitrary discharge|Queen should have traveled by a circuitous route —says Taxi Tad. MILLER’S TAXT! The sudden telegram telling of b { visitors—arriving on the next Phones 183 and 218 | of workers when they reach a certain age, mo|°V!& to the crowds on the road, and suggests Msttar what. ‘their - skill and’ -Sheie waluk 6 ;‘I.u‘u a4 mayor of democatic Ame would, with industry, is unsocial and, from economic stand-|; " “.it‘.‘:l:“(;:“‘?;:z‘kva:)}]:]m;)-l:‘)‘tt(:::]-‘n:[‘,'l”l:u:'lem::'r;i»{:‘-:: boat. Ii the emergency jubk Juneau, Alaska point, unsound according to an article by the|wus the better part of valour. l,;',u“e“ ot :all Single 0 m} -l(ll \.md ‘,“f"' CARS w&x)‘gog’lrngmvgns Secretary of Labor in the June issue of the Month-|“dry" States would not dare to attend such & | oo cerrim tast service o ly Labor Review. The age limit beyond which |carnival save in disguise, and estate agents would| | 0 Chrison taxi s —— a worker may not retain his employment is set[see to it that nobody else saw anything by a . in some plants at 50 and in other cases the|Simple annexation of the “downs so free” for No job too large ner toa small for us. MORRIS CONSTRUCTION CO. BYILDING CONTRACTORS Phone 62 aanmrarRaszadt | Keeping Pace With the Times [, JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY ! / : A § £ Moves, Packs and Stores est standards of efficiency in banking Freight and Baggage Modern business requires the high- STETITATRIETETE—RgTRRSS well as in other present day essentials. Prompt Service—Day and > . . e Night A banking service that suits peo- ple is an appropriate banking service BARAREINRAZAE: 17 RARNNAIERATESEANRINARETIRSRLLTE) mpt very of : LADYSMITH COAL PHONE 48 to render such service for the people of this community. The B. M. Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska Service Transfer Co. SAW MILL W00D and COAL Office Phone 389 Residence Phone 442 THE EMPIRE HAS THE EST. MOST UP-TO.DATE CUANT IN ALABKA. | MRS 3 3 N ) :l NS IRITRSETETTIRTSEIT IISE RN RIS RSN NNRERENIRI IR AIRION LS| Mmit is even lower While there might have |PUrposes of intensive development. We do mnot 4 . | Day and Night Service been some reason for this practice in former s ‘I‘““:" that certain Americans could do for the Carlson’s Taxi and PHONE 485 Gy g2 4 o s A Jerby what they are doing for some of their 3 when many occupations required great ph L 9« BUTAS. Amhulnnce SCTVICC Strength, with present mechaniaation of industry |on ', Sucationsl and cultufal institutions, and, BLUE BIRD TAXI and consequent lightening of physical tasks there|remain impenitent in gur pl‘e!en:l:r:- ‘rlulr ll|:“(tlr:iye PO A ol and St U seems to be no justification for arbitrary dis-|dull pleasure or our time. The romantic mood SR e Stand at Bill's Barber Shop charge of workers at the age when through their|which decorates American galety with the masks Phone Single 0 and 94 acquired skill and experience they should be|and false whiskers of Senators on the spree e of the most value to their employer. Is altogether too mediaeval for us, and we can TR T A v v “With the infinite number of our industrial|®VeD €njoy a holiday unspiced by homicide. Those b Bodkbad (o Coining Ad. bs dome by mAchinery. ever hn]u_h.-)m.uu who feel elemental longings have John Borbridge more automatic and easier for human hands to|Ur !0 emigrate. = Baronial Broadway awaits TAXI B ahveh e’ reRso ik’ B3R them In Manhattan they can be as Harly C A SE run,” Secretary s says, asous for| uglish as they please, “ovicH AuTo SERVICEY|| PHONES firing older workers fade to almost nothing Juneau, Aluska Nights—-377 ‘Where machines do so much and worker so BTAND AT THE ARCTIC 0 i little, the worker of 60 becomes as able as the| Slewly and majestically the camel marched "’“’""fl’.",‘ 1-‘1:;‘; Night, Camrs st and our management aims at all times one of 20, with added value of tendency tof NTOUEM the Kansas City Convention Hall, and mo o 88 A ; voice was raised against it; but it got some e ) JECK o thy _joh. sour looks.—(St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) = ; — REEDER’S TAX1 =@ i PHONE 182 SMITH THE LEADER. 4 ¥ The Packard Tas For a man who “didn’t know anything about PHONE Day and Night Service That Gov. Alfred Smith's reputation as a|Pbolitics and wasn’t a politician,” Herbert Hoover l 118 R . hasn’t done so bad.—{Detroit Free Press.) i leader, earned through .hls vears as head of 0 il Tess. i Stand opposite Connors | [} S ‘New York Democracy, is not ill-founded has —_—T i Motor Co. | ‘been strikingly demonstrated since he was. se- 3 The scientist who tells of the possibilities | b i Jected as his party’s national leader. And it is ‘.'.'.,,l.’f"."'2‘:"f","‘”",';',,‘}f lu:»z‘tn:::;.mh:;v.p h?\o’n list- el Standard Transfer a strikingly courageous leadership. In his ac- 10 Bension SEwae i ok n‘ 3 Walter Bindseil, Pro %’P“‘““ of "‘:“m:""::"; L',‘l‘;“‘;;;m“er:""”;:“:::y".‘l: Some ‘people at Kansas City must have re- Tre Juneau Launory i Stand gfigsgu‘fl};mery ouston conve! 0C! ¢ gretted terribly that Lindy is too young.— large that it was his concept that is the “‘duty|(Springfield g bl nae Franklin Street, betwesn Residence Phone 2203 Tge pringfield, Mass.,, Republican.) of the chosen leader cf the people to point the wLE Front and Second Streets way.” Watch out. A platform too “dry” might warp. PHONE 359 pa y that conception he im-|-——(Atchison, Kans., Globe.) Adverusmsg AIWaYs pays. ar NI T ) h, Fay conce ’ the columns of The Bmpire. SAEBSEZASASRERIAEELEIRINIRAESNRNTNERSRIE |