The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 12, 1929, Page 6

i e e p— i e SRR PRI T R b i = THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1929. ULILETS OLID 1B Ay Charles G.Booth . l SYNOPSIS: Onc night, 30 (up the fourth queen he felt afraid. years before, Alex Peterson end- |He wouldn't have minded if only ed his picturcsque carcer to |the half million or so he was worth become Andrew Ogden. |were but his was different, Ggdon's , is retelling s own flesh and blood— his f of that night ig with a noose hanging over | of horror. Peterson's or the living stake—it was| brother, al ned J But what else could he| been sentenced to hang by a ¢ was the only way and he| mners’ trial. He admits rob- n it. His head was buzz- bing Ju: L Petor- e a mill saw The room | s defics locks his of those desert rats at the| brothor in Two Brothers | {oor! He got himself in hand again min I wins a delay until |S3it That was it eptine Lundy's in mo! ation to play poker, Peterson Chapter 38 Then he A HUMAN LIFE AT STAKE topped. ‘No,' he muttered, ‘I'm out. The drama of the wei situa- “Lundy looked at dad. Every- tion held us in motionless atten-|body locked at him. Dad thought tion. Jerry, visible affected, con-(he caught a gleam of mockery in tinued in a hushed tone. Lundy's ¢ Dad said he’'d have | “Lundy sat with his shoulders |given $100 for a drink of cold} hunched up and his cards held Lundy spread his hand slowly—a close to his eyes. His eyes leaped from his own hand to the back of dad’s; his lips twitched, grinning, and he moistened them with the tip of his tongue. The men be- hind dad seemed to have stopped breathing, so dead still was the room, yet dad said the air quivered | like a harp string. Somebody be- hind him whispered: “‘Bet, yuh fool!’ “It seemed 1o ease the tension for a pmoment and Richey slid for- warr}"’: stack of blues. Dad meas- ured it with a couple more. Mac- Coy scratched his chin, thinking, then he matched the three blue stacks with another three. It was how Lundy's bet. He hunched his shoulders almost parallel the sides of his head and he blinked owlishly at dad, who was to fathom his expression. Lundy muttered something to himself, then he suddenly raised MacCoy a stack of blues. “Richey skinned his cards, hesi- tated, made a rapid -calculation, and measured Lundy's four stacks with five. Dad saw the bet and raised it two stacks of blues. Mac- Coy dropped out. “Lundy blinked at dad, peered at his cards, goggled at dad again, then shoved forward every chip he had left. Richey measured l.,un»I dy's bet stack for stack, and raised it by another. The bet was dad’s again. “He knew instinctively that his Wwas to be the final hand and for the first time since he had picked MAKE UP YOUR LIST—We Deliver Just phone us 83—85 and tell us your grocery needs. We deliver all orders promptly and fill them exactly as direct- ed. Youll have no long waits for the delivery boy or mistakes in your order when you rely on us. Just try our intelligent gro- cery service. 3 We have everything in the grocery line—and everything we have is of the best. Our prices are very low, too. SANITARY Pleases’ trying | had he? MacCoy witnessed the GROCERY transfer. { “Lundy began to laugh, then. It PHONES 83—85 must have shocked even those| toughs behind dad. Lundy kept “The Store That it going until dad could stand it ” ished forw Richey's b 1 then pt Iic writing pad off the d C bled an IOU for $10,000. Richey ceached for the pad. vater. Lundy was sliding the pad| card at a time—a straight flush! to and fro on the table, blinking at dad like some beastly prowling thing. All at once, dad scized the | d, wrote an IOU for $20,000 and oved it on top of the’ others. “Lundy grunted, calculated, or { pretended to, and wrote again. The 10U was for $40,000. | Dad wrote anot for $60,000 | “¥ou could hear the drawing of 1a now, dad said. The iroom was like a death house. Lun- |dy wrote an IOU for $100,000. “Dad said he forgot the stinking heat, Richey, MacCoy, the jam at the door. He only saw Lundy's fist, the backs of his five cards, the blinking eyes behind them. and beyond, a white-faced boy in a dark tunnel. . . He was asking himself if the devil or chance had given Lundy the four kings or the [ {rare straight flush, He pulled himself up. Lundy was probably betting on a full house. He'd stick by his queens. \ “There was a quarter of a million in the pot. A $150,000 or so of it was Lundy’s, and $90,000 dad’s; the remainder had been MacCoy's and Richey's Dad calculated swift- ly. At that time he had available about $300,000, so he could bet an- other $210,000. He thought about it for a moment longer, then he wrote a check on his Los Angeles bank for $300,000, payable to Joe Lundy. Tearing up his IOU’s, he slid the check under one of the stacks of blues. “Lundy breathed gustily, took off his glasses, and wiped his face with a dirty handkerchief. Putting on his glasses again, he whipped out ia checkbook and scribbled a check for $300,000, payable to dad, then he burned his IOU’s and scribbled on the pad. Tearing off the sheet, | he pushed it, with the check, under |one of the stacks of blues, but in {such a position that Dad read it |easily. Lundy had written: Jerry Peterson goes free, JOE LUNDY. I { “‘It’ll cost yuh the Two Brothers |to call me’ Lundy whispered. | “Dad said he had known it was {coming, just as he had known it was Lundy’s mad ambition to ruin him that had driven him to propos: | this crazy game. He wondered if the thing were real . Lundy the four kings or a straight |flush? The possibility of his having {the one or the other racked dad ‘lmrribly for a moment, then he shoved it to the back of his mind |and grabbing the pad wrote a transfer of mine property in Lun- ldy’s favor. ““That'll stick y\ any court,’ he | said, tossing it over. | “A gasp of admiration broke |from the men at the door. Dad said it came to him in a twinkling, {then, that the issue had been pre- |sented to the crowd in the proper |sporting light and that if he'd won Ithey'd probably back him up. But no longer—he'd been through enough to drive most men mad. *“iShow your hand!" he roared, ‘A Futur istic Bride % | | I | | | | Associated Press Photo Loretta Young, 17-year-old motion picture actress, may find the man of her choice before she becomes of | age but cannot marry him, She has signed a contract to that effect. g/ jumping to his feet. “There must have been something in dad’'s face that told Lundy he was going too far. He shut off his bellc and spread his hand— slowly, one card at a time. “He had a straight flush—the ace, two, three, four, and five of hearts!” (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) Smashed by the fate of cards Alex Peterson been beat- Read tomorrow’s chapter. - AT THE HOTELS Zynda | Warren Chase, Seattle; Jack| Johnson, and family; L. Regas, Se- | attlé; Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Lyle, | Seattle; Charlie William, Hawk In- | let; Mrs. Cora C. Malony. | Gastinean H. W. Jensen, Salem, Ore.; D. N. Lemiux and wife; Thomas M. Reed- er, Seattle; Mrs. B. Alexander; O. D. Leet, Mrs. Leet, and daughter, Juneau; J. C. Hepfinger, Seattle; Edward Hers Providence, R. I.; R. Lucas and son, Long Beach, Cal.; Leonard P. Wilsoff, Los Angeles; Peter A. Nenzel, San Francisco, Cal.; E. G. Thompson, Seattle; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ecker, Juneau; C. A. Payne, St. Paul; D. N. Macauley, Seattle; E. B. Dudden, Seattle; F. A. Frederick jr.; Mrs. M. M. Mark- er, Seattle; J. D. Roop, Seattle; C. Call, Hoonah; Olga Call, Hoonah; Martha Hastings, Hoonah; M. Krupp, Sitka. Alaskan Chester B. Ellfs, Taku; Bill' Mil- | ler, Seattle; Adolph Romanek, Mt. | Vernon, S. D.; C. M. Houck, Hoo- | nah; Betty Brooke, Seattle; B. Kalem, Seattle; A. Pihl, City. en? | | | | 1 PICTURES OF FATHER HUBBARD INN.Y.WORLD The color gravure section of the New York Sunday World, of June 2, contains a good picture of Father Bernard R. Hubbard, professor of geology at the University of Santa | Clara, climbing a pinacle on his recent explorations in “Alaska’s Un- | mapped Interior.” It is an excellent ' picture of the mountain-climbing prelate in his mountaineer apparel. | Alongside of the picture of Father | Hubbard is a view taken in the| Mount Katmai region of what, Father Hubbard has designated, “Katmai’s Children.” The por- trayed section is a vast group of small peaks and pinacles formed | by the eruption of Mount Katmai, which the famous geologist visitedf last year and identified as an “im- |}| mense glacier in the vicinity of Kukak Bay.” In the foreground is a picture of two members of Father Hubbard's exploration party. Father Hubbard is now in Juneau on his third annual visit. Telephone 16 | DOUGLAS NEWS | i SON AND DAUGHTER ARRIVE TO ATTEND FATHER'S FUNERAL | | } Ragnar Kromquist and Mrs. Aili :Morris were passengers for Doug- {las on the Alaska, arriving from (the south at 2 a.m. this morning, having been called home by the death of their father, Axel Krom- quist, whose funeral will be held this afternoon. Rangnar had just finished four |, courses of study at Whitman Col- lege, in Walla Walla, and was to have graduated June 17. This he was forced to forego, and will re-! ceive his diploma by mail. His plans for the future will be decided later when they can be better ad- justed to present circumstances. Mrs. Morris will remain with her mother for a couple of months be- fore returning to her home in EIl- |R. VAILETTE TO OPEN PAINT SHOP HERE Under the firm name of Armand the Painter, Armand R. Vailette, until recently connected with L. Smith, of Juneau, is opening a op of his own in this city and announces himself as ready to handle painting contracts of any deseription. Formerly connected with the Levinster Spray Painting Company, of Massachusetts, of which he is still part owner, Mr. Vailette has made himself an ex- |pert in both interior and exterior | work. He has had 10 years of |actual experience in decorating of all descriptions and is well quali- fied, it is said, to render excellent | service to those requiring a good { painter. Mr. Vailette announces that he is prepared to handle work on the installment basis of payment, a |system he was able to follow in | Massachusetts with great satisfac- tion to his customers there and which he believes will meet with popular favor in Juneau. Inci- dentally he brings to his work here s |the latest ideas developed by east- ern decorators and is prepared to TO ATTEND GRAND LODGE offer suggestions regarding the adaptation of these to Juneau A. E. Goetz took passage on the |homes. s | His office, which will be ready Yukon for Seattle and Tacoma as delegate from Gastineaux Lodge,| No. 124, F. & A. M, to the annual | meeting of the Grand Lodge which | convenes in the latter place on| June 18. Later he intends to. visit his parents in Oregon, returning| home on a steamer leaving Seattle ! June 29. Ray McCormick left on the plane | Juneau yesterday for Hyder where he will spend the next two months on survey work. D J ARk AR i TR “CONEY AND” AT LIBERTY, TONIGHT | "'Concy Island,” Ralph Ince's lat- est picture for FBO is coming to the Liberty tonight. FBO studios sent Ince more than 3,000 miles to get the real Coney Island spirit and thousands of per- sons appear in the picture who did not know they were being photo- graphed. “The Giant Dipper,” one of the largest and fastest slides at the great playground was taken over for two days and nights by the di- rector in order that he might keep his scenes authentic to the minutest detail. Patrons of the Liberty theatre are in for a real treat in “Conev Island,” featuring Lois Wilson ana Lucia Mendez. —ete——— Our Fur Manufacturing Depart- ment is in charge of an expert furrier. Goldstein’s Emporium. adv i 5 4 €ORE We are paw ready to alter or Emporium. adv. for occupancy in a few days, will be located on Front Street, but pending its completion he is handl- ing his business from his home. FAREWELL TO HENDERSONS BE HELD TOMORROW A public farewell reception will be tendered Mr. and Mrs, L. D. Henderson tomorrow, Thursday ev- ening, at 8:15 o'clock, in the par- lors of the Northern Light Pres- byterian Church, by the Martha Society, in connection with the of- ficers of the church and Sunday school. The members of the Pres- byterian Church, as well as the | friends of Mr. and Mrs. Henderson in Juneau, Douglas and Thane, are cordially invited to attend, it was announced. Mr. Henderson has been an ac- tive member and officer of the Presbyterian Church during his residence here, being a member and Clerk of the Session. Mr. Hender- son has also served as Superintend- ent of the Sundy School and as jmember of the church choir. Mrs. Henderson has also taken an active part in the work of the church, {being leader of the choir for a |number of years. Through her leadership the Presbyterian choir has rendered meny excellent musi- cal programs, both for church serv- ices and other public occasions. “We shali feel a serious loss through the departure of Mr. and Mrs. Henderson,” said a member of the Church Session today, “as both have filled a large part in our .imake up your furs. 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Williams, Potentate of the Al Koran Temple at Cleveland, and Mrs. Willlams; Charles G. White, Lieutenant Governor of the | Kiwanis Club at Cleveland, and| dent of the Kiwanis Club at Cleve- | land, and Mrs. Strong; P. H. Root, | owner of the largest bee industry in the world, Mrs. Root, and their| son Thomas Root; Dr. R. E. Tilden, | prominent surgeon of Cleveland and Mrs. Tilden; J. L. Jones, father of the radio manufacturer, and Mrs. | Jones. —t——— GORDON VISITS ALASKA Frank S. Gordon, who operates a chain of stores in Alaska, two in! Juneau, visited here early this morn- | ing. He is bound for Anchorage | on a business trip and may stop off in Juneau on his return south | to Seattle. e eeo DR. BAUGHMAN RETURNS Dr. J. A. Baughiman, pioneer doc-| tor of Skagway and foi the past 18 years located at Seward, is a passenger on the Alaska for the westward and will probably remain in the north. He went south sev-!{ eral months ago with his wife and | intended to remain. Mrs. Baugh- | Mrs. White; George Strong, Presi-||j man died suddenly in Minm:upo)is.l AND “STANDARD” Plumbing Fixtures “BIRCHFIELD” SELL American Radiator Co. Heating Boilers HART and RAY Oil Burners RICE & AHLERS CO. PLUMBING HEATING SHEET METAL Juneau, Alaska “We tell you in advance what job will cost” - - PARTY OFF FOR TAKU I. Goldstien, mobert Simpson, Charles Goldstein and L. H. Metz- gar left on Bill Strong’s Taku River boat at*11 o’clock this morn- ing to look over a mining claim discovered recently by Victor Man- ville, in which they are interested. They will investigate the pro) erty and return to Juneau on Fri- day. —,,———— LET Amnquist #ress Your Suit We call end deliver. Phone 528. SEE “Hello Hawaii” BIG MOOSE SHOW June 11 and 12 Juneau Drug Company H. M. HOLLMANN R. R. HERMANN Phone 33 Free Delivery SATISFIED CUSTOMERS We invite you to see letters we have received from ladies whom we have made fur garments for during the past few months, We can satisfy you, too. 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