The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 14, 1929, Page 6

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 14, 1929. BOAT-HOUSE DOOR OR \ lm“munnm PERISH OF STARVATION ) i \ DAG NAR- I H". It By CLIFF STERRETT Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning 4 p. 1. today: Rain tonight and Sunday; moderate southerly winds. ~OCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4 p. m. yest'y 2991 51 91 SE 3 Rain 4. m. today 30.10 19 95 s 3 Rain ,ém today 3018 52 3 SE 6 Rain CABLE AND RADIO REFORTS T YESTERDAY TODAY Highest 4pm. | Low 4cm. 4am. Precip. 4am. Stations— temp. temp. | emp. temp. Velocity 24 hrs. Weather Barrow . 38 28 |” 28 30 16 [] Clay Nome .. 58 56 T G . 0 Clear Fort Yukon 58 48 g 8, o~ 0 Pt Cldy Tanana 44 38 | 44 44 i 0 Cldy gtme & 56 44 24 36 - 0 Clear . Paul . 48 46 4 46 36 30 Rain Duteh Harbor 54 , 54 48 50 — 104 cldy Kodiak 64 60 | 50 80 20 10 Rain Cordova 56 54 46 52 4 60 Cldy Joneau 60 51 8 49 3 183 Rain Kétchikan 2 — 6 — 4 0 Clear Prince Rupert 60 58 | 4 80 0 02 Clear Edmionton w 0 54 54 . 0 Pt Cldy Seattle ... 82 80 60 60 12 0 Clear Portland 84 80 | 60 60 . 0 Cldy Sin Francisco T8N A W 88 . 0 Pt Cldy *Less than 10 miles. NOTE—Observations at Barrow, Fort Yukon, Tanana and Eagle are made at 8 a. m. and 8 p. m, Juneau time. The I has moved ire area central yesterday in the Gulf of Alaska ward to Canada aad the pressure has temporarily risen in this vicinity. The ctorm in the Aleutian Islands has be- come intensified and is central in Bristol Bay with gales to the Westward. The pressure is high off Vancouver Island. Rains have fallen in Southern Alaska excejt the extreme Southeast. Tempera- tures have fallen in Northwestein and Southeastern Alaska and it §5 much warmer in the central Interior. ALASKAN HOTEL MODERN REASONABLE RATES 1, Proprietor Island, Alaska. If you want to know how good DIAMOND R s e i o cement is-how uniform in texture-how un- faltering in performance-look up the local dealer ALWAYS PLENTY OF DIAMOND CEMENT CARRIED IN STOCK BY THE SIGN OF QUALITY CEMENT The Cement People Talk About : Made from lime rock taken from Dall the market made from Alaska lime G.E. KRAUSE BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER Manufacturer of Concrete Brick, Bloéks, Chimney Blocks, Sewerpipe 3 ; and Other Concrete Products &y R A, o WALLING e these risks because of Veronica SYNOPSIS: The secrets of the |Seabroke. And .now it appeared black bag—priceless jewelry and |Veronica was going to let us down.| gems—carried off under the nos- | While we talked Millie brought| i es of searching policemen! The me a letter I felt as if somebody | Grenofen home is surrounded 'had hit me between the eyes by officers when Somerfield |when I read it. The address given | scoops up the sinister treasures s them into a camera case and walks away just as the of- ficers enter. They have a search warrant and seek certain prop- erty, stolen from the Fotherbury library. While the officers are searching the house, Tom sud- denly remembers the Abbey his- | tory—did Somerfield take it? But the policemen leave empty hand- ed and Tom dashes to his bed- room and finds in the cover of a prized volume from which all |was just “London.” It contained | {merely three sentences: | Dear Mr. Grenofen— My father summoned up to London suddenly last night. He has urgent business abroad and we are to go with him. It is impossible to say when we shall return to Blackwater. Yours sincerely, VERONICA SEABROKE. I felt literally sick. This—after all that had happened! I passed the leaves have been torn—the the note to my mother and sat much sought abbey history, still | down. in the house. ( But there was hardly time for +her to say: Chapter 30 | “Tom-—there's more in this than | FUGITIVES {we can see—" Mother smiled at my amaze-, A prolonged ringing of the bell ment; finding the much-sought and loudly raised voices caused me abbey book inside the cover of my to rush into the hall. | Sheldon. On the doorstep stood young| “Had to do it,” she said. “When |Fotherbury, and beside him the {I met the man outside the draw- man Hallett. When he saw me, ing room window I ran up to find he yelled: | | you. This lay on the floor. Thera| “Ah, there you are. Now per-| | seemed to be about 10 seconds to haps youll tell us where Veronica decide what to do—" | seabroke is." “Oh, what luck,” said I. “And| “Perhaps’ said I to the cub, “if| | what a genius you are.” you don’t stop shouting and remove There was a little glow of min-|yourself ~from my premises, I'l| gled fun and pride in her face!fling you into the road for an ah=| when she said: |conditioned cad.” | “We seem to nave waiked right; AndI walked out to him with Lh.-,i |into it, don't we?” | appropriate gesture. { “Up to the middlz,” Fotherbuty flinched visibly and| I confessed. | then went back down a step. | But this conversation with my|the Bk € i B mother proved the last I was to! what (Xq,s ”“S‘ b e afi“‘.‘l‘ have for some time. And the his companion T thought 3cu‘(: finished your nasty job.” 4 | It appeared that Mr. Hallett| had sallied forth with two search | warrants that afternoon—one for Sandypoint. He had gone on to the Seabroke's house and found it locked and deserted. “Mr. Fotherbury,” thought you might they-had gone.” “I don't. Good afternvon,” said I. I turned, to see my mother in a whispered conference withi| Millie at the back of the hall. She | beckoned me."” “Go 'with Millie,” she said, mys- terlously. “Quick, Tom.” A little quaver in her voice sent me off without further question. The girl went swiftly into the kitchen garden, I following. Then she pointed to the hedge at the end. 2 i | “The American gentleman said ‘you must go to him: he daren’t show his nose.” “Somerfield! Only some ureac‘ urgency could have brought Somer- field back to Woodcot I thought hard. i “Millie,” I said, “go and get me a hat and ask Mrs. Grenofen toi give you all the money she has| in the house for me. Don't’lose a second.” |+ The astonished girl hurried back to the house. I fourid Somerfield still carrying the camera case and miserable end of it! She had run he said, know whete The only cement on rock. ¥m in time, Grenofen. was & near thing.” “Why ‘are you—" said I. + “Because I love you so, of course! We're in the soup. You know that turn in the lane? I'd nearly got thére when I heard voices—two men's and one of them Laxton's. I nipped ‘up the bank and into the woods -and waited. They didn't come far—just strolled up and down talking. That put the lid on Phew! It find what they wanted with the search warrant, they were going to the escape of a prisoner. They'd heard from Scotland Yard of a sus- picious boat and a landing on the| French coast They're after Ver- onica, toew I stuck there for all} eternity. Then the cop came out of your place and walked down with young Fotherbury and they all started off for the Seabrokes. When they've ‘got Veronica, they’ll come for you.* ! “They’ won't said I. p 3 And I told Somerfield hurredly what had happened. 5 “Good little Veronica!” claimed. Millie came down the path with a hat in one hand and the other| get Veronica,” he ex- beth from her, told her not to say a word about me or Somerfield to. anybody but mother, and then said —what they sald. If they dxdnml.IBEnxk arrest you for being accessory tof< | tightly gripping a packet. I took! to him: “This way." We plunge into the wood. s s e How Laxton got on our trail we could not guess. But he did. The wood behind my house was not very extensive—a square mile at the most—but it was dense with much thicket. Without knowing it as intimately as Cousin John ev- idently did, I had a fair knowledge STERRET. -8 2 DOUGLAS | NEWS D SENIORS ELECT OFFICERS i) i l.f‘“ l‘,\ | At a Senior meeting Friday af- | ternoon, September 13, the fourth year students of the Douglas High | School elected the following offi- cers: President, Saimie Kromquist; vice-president, Marjery Fox; sec-~ retary, Mae Fraser, treasurer, Eliz- abeth Sey; Gastineau Breeze re- i porter, Alice Tassell; class advisor, |Mrs. Cathcart. { —_———————— | TEACHERS ARE HONORED Mr. and Mrs. Elton Engstrom - |entertained at two tables of bridge Friday evening complimentary to |the new teachers of the Douglas school. Prizes for high and low scores went to' Miss Josie Hursh and Alex Dunham. | e, o o on e o CARD PARTY TO FEATURE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Services | Northern Light Rebekah Lodge Notices for this cnaren column NO. 2, of Douglas, will give a pub- must be received by The Empire lic card party Saturday evening, not later than 10 o'clock Saturday | September 21, i honor of the thir- cf the lie of the land, and I guided morning to guarantee change of | tieth anniversary of its institution. Somerfield to what I thought was |the middle of the wood, where a little depression came down thru | the steepest part of the hillside. ! In this hollow was a thick un- | dergrowth of thorn, hazel and| bracken, and in it a kind of low | tunnel, whether made by a fox lor badger I did not know. Somerfield shook his head when I pointed it out to him. “We can't crawl in there without breaking it up and shouting to the world where we've gone.” “I know,” said he, “but you can's carry that about you forever.” I indicated the camera case. “Don’t you think—" “Sure,” said he. little idea.” In that brake we hid the evi- “That’s a cute {dence for which Laxton was search- !g ing, and not a minute too soon, as it proved. For even while we replaced branches and brackens fronds and took our bearings, we became con-: ccious that they were beating the wocd. There were voices calling to cach other from a distance. | There was whistling. We looked our questions. “It's a biggish wood,” said Somer- field. “They've got enough men for a cordon. If they're sharp—"| Somerfield argued that if we sep- | arated we should double their, chance. They would come in a line keeping touch as near as their num-' bers would allow. We moved away from the brake 100 yards to a region where the timber. grew bigger. “I wish I could see a beech or two,” said Somerfield. | There were beeches in the wood | I knew. T asked why he wanted | beeches. | “Beech leaves keep dry and last| a long time,” he said. “Try higher up. I think I re-| member a clump of beeches, but it's | almost on the edge..” “No matter. We can double back if it don’t do.” Moving quietly and swiftly, we climbed the hill and found the little group of trees. They were ratheri sparse and the jungle had dis-; appeared. But on the ground was| what Somerfield wanted—a deep mass of gold-brown leaves. We se- lected a spot immediately behind a, big bole. In. the irony of circumstance the; first voice we heard was Laxton's. He and Hallett were together. ’I‘hey| passed close to us—or were about to pass. I had a nerve explosion when I |heard Laxton cry out: “Hullo! What's that?” ‘Their rustling footsteps among the leaves crashed so close to me as to be deafening. Then they ceased. “Ten . . . 20 . 30 . . .and one, two, three, four, five, six treas- ury notes, all in a nice iittle par- cel. Well, well—" Laxton seemed to be shouting in fmy ear. I thought it was all over. I lay on my face with arms out- stretched. Some part of me must ‘be uncovered! (Oopyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) Surrounded by his pursuers— capture imminent. Continue the story Monday. : . 'SUNDAY NIGHT POWDER MY K STARRING IRENE RICH A Coinedy Drama Full of . Laughs and Some- thing New 10—20—40 cents Extra plans are being made to {make the event a memorable one. > ; sermon topics, etc. o o T Douglas Presbyterian Native # { Mission CAPTIVATING CGMEDY o STARS MISS RICH 2:30 p. m.—Sunday Scnool. 3:15 p. m.—Sermon. 7:00 p. m.— Thursday—Midweek prayer service. All are cordially welcome to these services. o Picture fans who like fast mov- ing comedy filled with laugh-pro- that lead to romance will. find these ingredients in “Powder My % | Back,” Irene Rich's latest starring vehicle which is coming to the Liberty Theatre Sunday evening. Irene Rich as Fritzi Foy, musical comedy queen, who subsequently & 5 %3 marries the man who had closed Ry St. Luke’s Episcopal Church | ;o0 show because of its nudity, 730 p. m—Evening Prayer .,n'} gives a characterization that proves Sermon. she is just as much at home in a comedy role as in a more serious 43 | part. “Powder My Back” was directed by Roy Del Ruth. The scenario |was written by Robert Lord from a Joseph Jackson adaptation of a Jerome Kingston story. - e — Miss Rich is supported hy SCOUTS HAVE CHECK Audrey Ferris, Andre Beranger, CONCESSION AT FAIR,Carrol Nye, Cissy Fitzgerald and Anders Randolf. Douglas Catholic Church | “"All services in the new church.J No Mass. f Congre:al;()nfl Community Church "L D. HAMMOCK, Lay vastor 10:30 a. m.—Sunday School. 11:30 a. m.—Sermon. & The check room at the Fair is being run by the Boy Scouts ad ' has been giving first elass service to all its patrons. It has proved to be exceptionally popular during the rainy days and nights for very few people like to be bothered with raincoats and umbrellas while vis- itign the various concessions, danc- ing, or while viewing the exhibits. P MARRIAGE OF P. R, BRADLEY, JR., WILL OCCUR NEXT WEEK Invitations have been received here to the marriage of Miss Eliza- beth Clark to Mr. Philip Read Bradley, Jr., elder son of Mr. and Bill Casey is still at No. 8 Wil- Mrs. P. R. Bradley, formerly of this loughby Ave. with the best TO- |city and now residing in San Fran- RBACCO and SNUFF CURE. Hours,cisco next Wednesday evening. 2 p.m to 7 p. m. Cal and we| Miss Clark is the daughter of will demonstrate. P.O. Box 327. adv Mr. and Mrs. Baylies Coleman D . SR Clark, prominent residents of San ELECTRICITY OFF NOTICE ;ancmcm Mr. Bradley is well Electric current will be OFF on known here as he spent a large Lower Front Street Sunday from part of his boyhood on Gastineau 7 a. m. to 7:30 a. m. from Gas-|Channel. tineau Hotel to Saw Mill. Sty ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT] LODE MINING CLAIM LOOCA- & POWER CO. TION NOTICES AT THE EMPIRE adv. .FOR CHARTER Launch “Ventura” TRIPS TO ANY POINT CONSIDERED HUNTING PARTIES, ETC. Capt. Geo. Baggen Telephone 682 THE CHAS. W. CARTER MORTUARY “The Last Service Is the Greatest Tribute” Corner 4th and Franklin St.’ Phone 136 _ New Ford F or-dor" Sedan Is An Economical Car to Drive ECONOMICAL because of its low first cost, and low cost of up-keep. Economical because it has been made to stand up under thousands and thousands of miles of steady running. ' An indication of the built-in quality of this car is shown in the extensive use of fine steel fo S More steel forgings, in fact, are used in the new Ford .than in almost sny other car, regardless of price. Come in and learn about the safety, comfort, smoothness and alert performance of this car by driving it yourself. You’ll know it’s a great auto- mobile the minute you take the wheel. Juneau Motors, Inc. voking situations and complications |- NOTICLE! I am grateful to George Bros. for the splendid work they did in collecting and now that another month has rolled hy won't you please drop into their store and pay that-little account due me. —adv. D. B. 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