The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 29, 1929, Page 6

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUG. 29 1979 By CLIFF STERRETT POLLY AND HER PALS . fHe [6OSH, UNK') [ IT MEANS ‘THEY"2 WHO THATS woT ) | |YES. | KEEP RIGHT ON TAPPIN' THE]| ] HOLY SMOKESTACKS!! ! woT'S TS || THAT Poor ) | | yaPose WE GOTTA( | [BUT | WALLS, TILL WE FINDS A | | WHERE |S MY HAMMER? Knaus NEEWAH "THEY |G 7 HOW. [JHOLLER SPOT, SON! ILL BET| |IT HAD (T IN MY HAND, WAS ABOUT 10 ) FIND OUT, THAT'S EXACTLY WHRAT | |’ SeCCUNT AGO! DISCOVER THE e MYSTERY OF- N POOR OLE ; "GRAYSTONE] &M NEEWAH, 5 WHEN THEY P|DISCOVERED) MILD, MEDIUM and VIOLENT Exercise WITHOUT EXERTION Graybar H ealth Motors Free Trial in Your Own Home horrified whisper, I paid no speclal attention to his gesture. I thought | it part of his general objection to being seen by anybody. Now the idea forced itself into| DOUGLAS % Re.A. J.. WALLING There is no substitute | Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. Feroniods oys- | {reveal dibingle 1abtiaBoUt nielr)| Y mind MRl 6 wes s pariicular | NEWS Geslbas. Yugitive<whom ‘Mrs. | The crime of which he was con-|objection to being’scen by Profes- | for cream of tartar Juneau Phone Number 6 Grensfen'decides. to name |victed was committed at Dover: He|%°r Laxton. " f f‘ b k Cousin Jobn: Merryweather dur- |and anoiher man, giving the name| _That manl” p 5 or nne baking She Liskiritve vislt st Wood: |of Brnest Philip buf#i of yne| 1 recallediis’nbrve stricken ex-| EREPARING FUS OEENINSS %\ § $88—brings Geep amazement to |certain nationality, semed to hwe|C12mation. —Amd the terrifying) OF | BUHQOLS SR 31 \ ®etm Grenofen, almost immedi- | followed across from Ostend & icleskc | thought came tHat, later in the | Ately after his arrival by de- |in a London busiuess house, return- | Dight, when Cousin ‘John took| Work on the interior of the manding that the dilapidated |ing from Belgium with a large sum fright at the open window, he Douglas school is being rushed for fr : might have had more reason for|the opening of the fall term Tues- instead of London the to the hotel. Late informed the police bag, which he carr alarm than I supposed. For Laxton was in Devonshire on Saturday. ing some archeological work, and his letter came to me from Tavis- day, September 3. The walls are| ‘(being done over with fresh ch)-; as T had imagined do-;mine, floors freshly oiled, and with | the new desk furniture, the build-| ing will be in ship shape for they to %0 men |at night 1at Vertical Grain Hemlock = Flooring they had been molested by & greater—h bair cropped close to his head, ey his unshaven features. The Iga while walking There had i H t C & | BSiis anest belrays an Inti- |been 4 fight:in whioh ‘ong of ‘the|ieek—clogs. fo jig koene ‘G "?"‘_‘ new term. H mate knowledge of the Black- |gang had been knocked out. ,"’P“!”“Cx_‘;at‘;" ;‘y“‘rlm.L:"l‘:gr ‘;1 b4 T B i 1x4 water country, then tries to The police accompanied them to | 3¢ted Vvery curlous Saaadd RETURN TO DOUGLAS | Sover up his misstep. The next |the place andl founa the clerk un-|Of 8rcheology on Sunday night. ! | KILN DRIED |conscious. He died in hospital. No (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) ltrace of the gang could be found. morning Tom receives a shock 4 Mr. and Mrs. Elton E. Engstrom, that makes him doubt the wis- who resided in Juneau for the past EXCELLENT WEARING QUALiTY Professor Laxton disturbs “Dar- in Blemn currency to- 9] | ALBANIA AGITATES | BACK FROM FISHING GROUND Jof money italling 10,000 fr: . {clared that it as his own. . Richard admitted that he gave APE !the blow which knocked out the shock |clerk and declared that the blow “Daring | in self-defense. frem the morning paper ing Escape of a Convict.” Richard de- @om of being influenced by | Su&])l(lun mmul the two men 4 . three months, moved bac)‘ to| 3 o Veronica’'s biue eyes, for a |was e Richarg| Tom Grenofen’s peace of mind AR I is costly — so some bakin owders ! E a > po E in their former apartments. contain only substitutes. Any baking | | | PERFECT MANUFACTURE powder will do an acceptable job. But ask any domestic science teacher which is wisest to use. Ask your doctor. Ask Clm;m r THE CONVIC Recovered from the of reading that hes FOR PARTITION OF FEUDAL HOLDINGS We INVITE INSPECTION Mrs. Gus Wahto and children re- | turned home yesterday after spend- | ing the summer at Port Alexander. TIRANA, Albania, Aug. 20.—Al- any pure food department. Juneau Lumber Mills, Inc. |- ; Escape of a Convict,” I noted the| e jury convicted of man-|p.rnisstruggling under the feudal ————.————— | subsidiary headings full of slaughter, and the judge inflicted |system whereby land is owned by | A Bl A 32 Extracts : 47 Spices r (4] [} Baking Powder:Tea | ordinary Circumstances, a|the severc sentence of five years'|ihe few and worked by the many, AT THE HOTELS & | i | itude, and gave Philip, Mystery Woman, a Subtle Plot and penal is debating a proposed law which other ingre 1l mixed in the | d guilty of being ac-|would split up the vast holdings of Gastinean ! PHONE 358 | ] dispatch into ar tor the fact, 12 months'|the “begs,” or rich landowners,| I. M. Chevoweth, uatouche, Alas- | brief, it was thu and give farms to the peasantry. |ka; Charles E. Bibbs, New York Lumber For Every Purpose 1 That of a pri rom the dock Richard had made| At present the landlords have|City; Mr. and Mrs. H. Batezel, - | Sy s gy =y e p 5 s undisputed legal possession of all|River Forest, IlL; and Mrs. Guy arable land in the kingdom. The|West, San Francisco; A. Frey, Ju- peasants who cultivate it do just|neau; Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Davis; . S enough work to produce the mini- (L. C. Brown; W. A. Eaton: J. L |MRS. HOGINS BOOKKEEPER mum crops demanded by lheu:Mc]ver_ Phoenix, A R. 4 Mc-! GEORGE BROTHERS STO““‘_ C‘\LL THE feudal chiefs plus enough to keep|Iver, Phoenix, Ariz.; Richard Stao-! | their own bodies and souls to-|ler, Lincoln, Calif.; Banks Kym: Mrs. L. R. Hogins, former bwk-' gether, Tacoma; R. W. Moore, Los keeper at the Juneau Lumber Mills, Although the country's chief f00ds | geles, has accepted a position as book- | Juneau FOI C ean are of agricultural origin and there Alaskan keeper in George Brothers’ grocery | are only 900,000 people in the whole| George B. Spaulding, Funter; Art |store. Mrs. Hogins was a member | Plumber Ipng bur n'ng realm, the native farms do mnot| Hedmont, Taku; Steve Early, Taku; lof the clerical staff in the Senate| | come close to meeting the de-|nrs. F. C. Carson, Cordova; Mike|during the last session of the Alas- ' mands. Almost every year grain|genor, Cordova; G. F. Graves, | ka legislature. | D. I\L GRANT r:uslt ;:_e impértcdd from America, { pairbanks; Tom Car, Latouche; ———— | | ustralia or anada. ” - 2 i One. reason s that the sofl is Jems pordon, ST B g g e = b iy Af Hevman;Geyer USE NANAIMO SCREENED | poor. nother is that it is incom- o # 4 % ahie plelaly cultivated, A third 18 that | tren B, Ausus. Bitke: Rthel G| CA0C0 a8 SNUFF CURE. Hours PHONE 154 Pacific Coast Coal Company 2 p m to7p m Call and we roads and other market- ; ttle; R. 8. Horn, Spo- |y ; i rvi ing facilities are lacking. e Branis il Meégonigie | I RERCH 3t PO, Sok 51 a0y " Bugg:giaslgyvlce g RSN, ek, e n of the land among the|r,g.' Gparles Tuckett and Mrs.| < : cken peasantry WOUld|:puckett, Juneau; Walter Johmson; Estimates Given—Work not, of course, cure all these 115 |Suste Riesaff aud brother; H.SO, Guaranteed Aot e :w;g‘tzwf‘q S dted k?:r Hardy, Seattle; M. V. Manville and | . < cessary 51 S ar 4 i —— N \ \ Altohls s stnnoiting. wife, Juneau. o WE HAVE THE WINNING COMBINATION The practical difficulty in the| piy cazer 1o st at No. 8 Wilk| FOR THE HUNTING SEASON You get results from i way of realizing it is the fact that 2 |loughby Ave. with the best TO- The convict scurried over the wall to a waiting auto—and a girl! about two-thirds of the elected tep- | gacioe) it e he v v smoan 3 |15 e o e 5" REY e St | printing doneby us (| o 4 | ture are “begs’ They have in- |5 o to. JLger: el _and e . emlngtO,t from Dartmoor Convict Prison onja violent protest inst the sen-|gicated that they intend to fight will demonstrate. P.0. Box 327. ady Saturday was much more remark-|tence. He had ever since been a|strenuously against any such revo- | g "7 p able than it had appeared at first.|most difficult prisoner, and this||utionary legislation so far as it estern The prison officials and the Dom*i\- why he was in Dartmoor—the |affects land ownership. were entirely nonplussed. They | i 8 among the clouds PR RIET S S SN as did not know where the man n.nd!.q 2 mountainous wild reserve for and gone or with whom, ‘th worst convicts. New England Spending What they had discovered was| was the narrative which $50,000,000 on Roads the extremely clever way in which|spre over two or three columns his accomplices outside had worked of the newspaper. I read them| BOSTON, Aug. 20.—New England Without arousing the least suspicion. | with growing mystification and|winl spend approximat i L h y s imately $50,000,- The chief agent was apparently|alarm. I pp y $ eather 2 young woman who was seen in a | car that passed through the city of Exter, 25 miles trom the prison, | early Sunday morning. It was much later when it was} discovered that the prisoner was missing: then, of course, it was far too late to trace the car. But the policeman who saw it| What a trick of fate that had brought quiet and decorous Wood- 000 on surfaced roads during 1929, figures gathered from the several States by the New England Council cot into the midst of a sensational and sordid drama like this! For T could not question that the hero of the fight on Dover cliffs and the escape from Dartmoor Prison nmow lay in the guest room. Tt all dovetailed in too perfectly reveal. In Maine $6,500,000 will be ex- pended, including Federal aid mon- ey. New Hampshire expects that expenditures for building or main- taining surfaced roads will aggre- Remember Purses For Particular Women NO TWO ALIKE Attractive—Durable Discount—33 1-3 Juneau fo’ung Hardicare Co. was 5o struck by the physiognomy | to 1 il =itta aa e Wl us the mext time J s ck by the physiog | to leave a sin - ,|itures for similar purposes im Ver- wish int= D 3 of the man who leaned forward|the times, the circumstances. mont are expected to reach $4,200,- {:;ome:?.{:::!:t PHONE YOUR ORDERS uneau rug “If It's Hardware We Have I . impatiently and said, “Go on, go on!” that when the description of the fugitive was circulated he had no doubt. whatever this was the| same man. ' brows. The escape had been elaborately | studied, and once out of the cell thel prisoner had been able to get clear| by a microscopical timing of the movement of the wardens and of- ficers. The alarm system h:\rh been cleverly deranged. He had been provided with tlm cord and a thin steel hook to throw over the wall. He had scaled it at the point nearest a plantation ,which, within three seconds, gave him perfect cover. The car waited for him in the road below the cOP-{ That some connection existed be- pice. The authorities suspected that !might have been written sitting in | fugitive—and such a fugitive! 000. Massachusetts will expend, in- cluding all forms of construction and maintenance, about $15,000,000. In Rhode Island about $4,500,000 will be used for surfaced highways. Connecticut has a program that will call for the expenditure of $11,000,000 for construction and re- pair. A total of 658 miles of new hard surfaced roads are to be construct- ed in New England this year. Many more miles of highways will be re- constructed and resurfaced. e Mrs. L. J. Holmquist, proprietor of the Florence Beauty Parlor, left for the south on the Yukon to spend her vacation. B LET Amqus The police @escription of Richard front of Cousin John—his tall fig- are, his dark eyes and overhanging And there was Veronica's sudden ! flight from London on Saturday morning, her secret feturn on Sun- day evening, her concealment of a And there was Pell's absence at the same time. Was Pell the other | accomplice, the second man in the lcar? Somehow this did not seem to harmonize with the worst sus- picion that tortured me about his death. But Pell's absence would have to be explained. |tween the escape from Dartmoor land the tragedy in the library at enables us to turn out first quality work—our experi- ence enables us to intelligently aid you in planning your circular,letter or whatever print- ing you wish done. The results you get will prove thnt Good Print- +ing Pays ¢ PHONE 83 OR 85 i TO US | We will attend to them ‘prompt]y Our coal, hay, {grain and transfer busmess s increasing daily. There’s a ireason. Give us a trial order itoday and learn why. You Can’t Help Being Pleased D. B. FEMMER J! . PHONE 114 Company H. M. HOLLMANN R. R. HERMANN Free Delivery Phone 33 Post Office Substation No. 1 s CAPITAL LAUNDRY Second and Franklin PHONE 355 We Call and Deliver “The Store That Pleases” | EX-PRESIDENT COOLIDGE has called in- i| surance the modern method of making the i| uncertain certain—the means by which suc- cess is almost guaranteed. The first thing for you to make certain of is your insurance agent. Can he be depend- ed upon" The next thing to consider is the companies he represents. Are THEY de- pendable—like the Hartford, to mention but one of the great stock fire: insurance com- without the assistance of an ac-|Nweplace I could not doubt. It was rress our Sult panies in our office. ! complice inside as well as outside|pateful to have my mother in the|We call and deliver. Phone 526 THE SANITARY GROCERY ' Jt would have failed. A further’migst of this confusion; but Veron- [ = Mr. Coolidge is right and we can make } B point was that the accomplice out- must have been quite familiar ‘with the routine of the prison. The prisoner, of whom a de- was issued, wes Eugene ica’s blue eyes . . under compulsion. None of these considerations, however, was the most alarming that the newspaper suggested. An- . they placed me Foreign and Domestic Woolens in Stock Correct Fashions and Fabrie Blazer Shirts the uncertain certain for you. . : ‘Richard, 32, convicted at gm:!:;: other transcended them all. F. WOLLAND JiLLEN SHI!TTUCK w ; 0; mnsl;:flg’l:trpe::l & e 1‘::; ::i?‘t:‘:nufmfi:n "Oh‘: Merchant Tailor Ages 8 to 18 § i : five servi- | Jea i 1 re of 4 e i i tude, He deciined at the trial (o lugm on the back lawn with thels, 7' P. 0. Box 861 | INSURANCE—REAL ESTATE 3 - 4 3 | , |