The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1929, Page 7

{ ® ing last night. . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27, 1929. Weather Conditions-As Weather Forceast for Juneau and n toui:;h.t and Thursda; LOCAL Barom. 29.79 30.12 30. 21 Temp. 31 3 39 Time 4 p. m. yest'y 4 a. m. today oon lod.’ly CABLE AND RA Recorded by the U.'S. Bureau nity, beginning 4 p. m. today: moderate southerly winds. DATA Humidity Wind Velocity Weather | 9 SE 6 Eain 88 NE 7 Cldy 83 E 8 Rain DIO REPORTS YESTERDAY Highest 8 p.m ] temp,__temp.__ e Stations— Barrow Nome Bethel Fort Tukon Tanana Eagle St. Paul Dutch, Harbor Kodia Cordova Juneau - Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmoriton Seattle . Portland . San Franeiseo 46 62 NOTE—Observations at St. Pai Prince - Rupert, Edmonton, Seattl made at’ 4 a. and 4 p m., Juneau The pressure is high in North Alaska southward, and is moderate on Prince William Sound. It ha hours at nearly all reporting statio curred’ over most of Southern Alask have fallen in the Northern part o of the Southern part. __temp._temp. TODAY 8§a. m._ Sam _Velocity 14 Low ("((\ idy *—Less than 10 miles. ul, Dutch Rarbor, Kodiak, Juneau, e, Portland and San Francisco are| time. | ern Alaska and from Southeastern y low in Southwestern Al ms. Light precipitation | ta and at Tanana, Temperatures i f the Territory and risen over nms;Li DOUGLAS NEWS QUIET COUNCIL MEETING HELD But few issues were before the Douglas city council for consider- ation ?t the regular monthly meet- One of these, the wilful shooting at and destruction of insulators along the power line on the Island belonging to the Al- aska Juneau company, was present- ed by Supt. W. F. Cahill. He asked the cooperation of the city offi- cials in apprehending the offend- ers; and bringing them to justice. Delinquent dog taxes constituted another matter discussed. Only about half of those owning dogs have paid so far and immediate steps are to -be taken to bring in #he remainder before the end of /the present Council’s term. Payment of current bills, nine in ¢ number, amounting to $688, was authorized by the Council. ——.———— YOUNG MAN LEAVES In response to urgent messages to return home, Jack Dolance, workipg at the Alaska Juneau, left on the Princess Mary yesterday. During his stay here he made his home wiht Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stragier. —.e— ,|! “THE QUARTERBACK” 1 AT LIBERTY TONIGHT 42 Football will be in the air to- night at the Liberty, when Richard | Dix opens in “The Quarterback.” P ' Dix is the son of a man who has been attending university sing 1899 because he promised his that he'd stay at Colton until their eleven beat the cgack State squad. Twenty-seven years have oozed by. His wife is dead, his son is now the Colton quarterback—and he i5 still. studying! Needless to say, Richard loves the prettiest girl in the state—Es- ther Ralston. Everything is all sét for the annual Colton State » contest when a newspaper accuses Dick of professionalism. Esther Is the only person who can prove his innocence. At the last min- ute he is shoved int othe line-up and the game starts in a veritable sea of mud. Laughs, spills and thrills vie with each other. ‘What happens? That is the story. . Director Fred Newmeyer pets credit for a Paramount knock- out. David Butler, Harry Beres- ford, Robert W. Craig and Mona Palma are all said to be excellent in their respective parts. ' ! DOUGLAS REGISTRATION | NOTICE : Beginning Friday, March 1, the registration ‘books Wwill be open at the home of the City Clerk, Third and H Streets, for registering qual- jfied voters for the general city el- ection to be held Tuesday, April 2. The books will be open Saturday afterncon and evenings at the Clerk’s office, Front Street, and will close Saturday, March 30. FELIX GRAY, —|dv. city Clerk of Douglas. ————— * There are plenty of wives Who love their husbands so much that want them to die no "“}?Eolds Belttxuudmflwut MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETS The Women's Missionary Socmtyy of the Northern Light Presbyterian | Church ‘will meet with -Mrs. Marshall Thursday afternoon, runrv 28, at 2:30 p. m. IN EGYPT DURIN | 3 | beginning |General City i | SCHOOL FOR JANITORS | APPEARS IN GERMANY | b. 27—Janitors will scon make | nte 1 for training son opened ¢ of a_promi- sntion of rob- of heating things the | GAPT EAKER IS MAKING FLIGHT SEATTLE, Feb. 12.—Accompan- 'ied by a plane flown by Lieut. Nel- | son, /| Capt. Tra Eaker of Question Mark 71 fame, round the world Army flier, left here on the first leg of hops to Brownsville, Texas, where he will attempt a flight to Paanma. Licut. Nelson is to accompany him to Portland. The ®lane is a new single seater Army fighting ship with a maxi- mum speed of 172 miles an hour. preliminary Registration iooks Open Registration books will be open Friday, March 1, 1929, and remain open until Saturday, March 80, 1929, for the purpose of registering qualified voters for the Election to be held April 2, 1929, H. R. SHEPARD, City Clerk. Tuesday, —adv. - bought your log yet? Have you G PROXY FIGHT While the proxy fight for control of the Standard Oil company of Indiana cont:nues, John D. Rock He Is shown in the court of his h efeller jr., is vacationing in Egypt. otel at Cairo. Our Service Answers Every Purpose We sincerely believe tion of every grocer that the first obliga- is SERVICE. That is why we keep an adgquate force of em- ployees and a complete stoek of high class merchandise to suppl y every need. CALIFORNIA GROCERY PHONE 478—Free Delivery 7"’ACE by Slmmons THE BEST COIL SPRING ON THE MARKET For Sale By Thomas Hardware Co. Alaska Love, romance and adventure was what Captain George Fried saw in Hfe at sea. Twice as a youth he ran away from home in heed to that call. Hunger, sacrifice and bitter disappoint- ments followed him before he got his sailing papers. Start here in the narrative of a man who has felt all the throbs life offered in his strug- gle from a gob to supreme command.) By CAPT. GEORGE (Copyright, 1920, A: FRIED sociated Press) Chapter 1 As a boy I developed the desire to go to sea. in Wor- cester, Mass.. and meeting sailo; listening with wide-eyed enthus asm, every youngster had the idea of getting out into the great world beyond. It was these stories of adventure that drew us to water. The only water we knew, however, was North Pond lake, a big body of water—at least I thought so in those days. We built our own boats, sort of canoes, out of barrel staves or parts of cheese boxes and car They were 15 feet long, three wide and 10 inches deep. feet The and then painted. Sometimes we had a sail and frequently two salls with masts and in this way we traversed the uncharted “sea.” But it was not so easy as it might seem to get to sca. T at- tended the Belmont and Dix street schools and reached the sixth grade when I decided to carn my own living and at the same time get enough money to start on my great adventure. I worked on Charlie Stowell’s farm for two years, pick- ibg peas, digging for beets, bring- inz in corn and attending to the Hve stock until T was about 15 years of age. That was not much ex- perience for the vocation I had se- Tected. Onc day a sailor came to visit some of our neighbors. He was a gob, but to me he looked like an admiral or a general or some one who outranked everyone else. ‘4 pictured myself in such a uniform and. went home to tell the folks of my ambitions. no encouragement, howeéver for they refused to give me permission to enlist in the Navy simply because they did not want me to leave home. And so for a time I had to be content with work on the farm. Sometimes I got away from my tasks long enough to play football and baseball with the fellows and do some skating in the winter, but most of the time T was hard at work for the magnificent sum of $3.60 a week. IvlyThirtyYears 6y CAPTAIN SEORGE FRIED , told to go home, the deception hav- canvas was immersed in linsced ofl’ They gave me' |ordeal of being permanentiy but ‘artisuml disfigured. 8o with plenty of determination land 50 cents in cash I permitted Sailor Jack to tattoo a sailor onj my left arm. He spun some Sea yarns while he worked and told {me of Europe and Africa and the South ¢ isles, China and Japan, and places where I daresay he had never been, but his stories sound- ed good to me nevertheless. Final- 1y I got the information I desired. I wrote for enlistment papers. (filled them out myself and ran jaway home for the first time with $205 in my possession. At the Newport naval training station I parted with $1 for the train ticket. When T presented the papers I was ing turning been quickly discovered. Re- to the Newport railroad station I purchased a ticket for Worcaster, leaving me with 5 cents. When I stepped from the train‘f at its destinati I immediately | knew I was in some other city, I was not panicky. I realized I had to find someons to tell my story to, so T sought a nowsboy. I w: friendly toward newsboys for, the reason that I too, had fold bapers’ and magazines in Wor- I found a young fellow about my own age and told my story. A‘l]‘ the assistance he could give me) was (o tell me where I could get| the most to eat for my 5 cents. | At once I proceeded to Pie alley | and got a plate of beans, a piece of pie and coffee. Then I was broke. Not fully appreciating my pre- di t, I decided to go to the waterfront, which was lihed with| schooners and whalers of every de- seription I spent several hours looking at these ships and marvel- ing. Then it was getting late and I thought ‘I had hetter return to the station. | { 1 found a man in uniform and lonce ngain related my story. He seemed to believe me and escorted | me to an office on the second floor where my tale was again given in detail. I was put on a train and sent back to Worcester. I was not missed at home, for I| was only away the greater part of | day, and it was nothing unusual | for me to be absent over night! when the fellows went on a long | “cruige” on North Pond lake. { My first experience was an abso- | lute’ failure. Béing without funds, reluctantly I went baclz to work and tried various jobs in factcries and farms and continued to re- main in Worcester until about 1893, | when I was prepared to leave home egain. This time T headed for New York with! my pal, Johnny Fischer. We sboth had a little money, enough to a “ . I submitted to disfigurement to hear Sailor Jack’s stories . .” In going along Main, street onc day I chanced to see a tattoo art- ist at work. T stopped and watch- ed the procedure for a while when thé thought ogcurred to me: that this man might give me some in- [formation regarding, enlistment. I could hardly get this informa- tion from Sailor Jack, as he called himself, without going through the | see us through for a time. Our departure was delayed for a time until Johnny disposed of his bicy- cle. This time we made sure to get on the right train. As soon as we arrived in New York we lo- cated a lodging house where we got a room for $3 a week. To conserve on funds we ate free lunches, but were obliged to buy & LIBE TON I(;‘H‘r RICHA QUARTERBACK R—R—R—R—RAH! Rough Him! C i Him! 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