The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1930, Page 6

UESTION #HONOR \l\ SYNOPSIS: % Anne Wilmot is |[few inches from her ears. “I was rsuaded to accept an invita- |just saying that the nn& xsn'z‘ fon to the Sierra lodge of Leon ,bum up quite this far yet,” he re- | rea, whom her aunt is urging | péated. “I think they won't blast | ‘l a suitor because of his vast ‘a‘:am for 10 minutes or " he add- h. There, on a walk alone, ed reassuringly. “You see, the irri- meets a stranger who is in- gation company is running a tun- ifferent to her beauty and |nel through theé mountain there, ic partmer warns | working three eight hour shifts at each end The ter for the res- | ervoir—most of it—is to come from | la canyon on the other side of the | t mountain, A pretty remarkable ¢ |piece of work, so Bretton sa ‘im be.” She is the stranger's ‘ar- ered by and roturns to the lod"r ancwers Mors> with ¢ en he chide: Ler for gol et alone and her t warns He made a ht gesture toward she will no longer support her |the short, wiry little man who was u ¢h? leces Morss through her |standing with Morse on the edge shness. Robert Douglas, at- of a boulder overlooking the valley | and the nearest mountain range to ithe west John Bretton was chief ‘y'\"mc(“ for the railroad constru on work. “Bretton thinks pretty highly s fellow Glenn, who's putting the |irrigation project through,” Doug- las remarked as Morse joined them. “Bretton’s a fool,” Morse inter- | jected curtly. His temper was cvidently not a little ruffled by the ey for Morse, sees the tilt and is pleased because it dogs fit in with his plans to have orse married to a clever wo- man. of | Chapter 4 TIME FOR DIVIDENDS Anne pu]led herself up slowly to| tting position, got rather pain-| }n to her feet—she was just be- Bifining to be conscious of muscles |conversation he had just con- id tendons that she hadn't ever|cluded with his chief engineer gnown she had before—and crc | “Well, in that case you're paying over to one of the French windows |! about 10 times W { him . | wor ful e h,” the attorney retorted ct Did he tell you hc ated the site for his tu His employer’s blunt negativ encouraging, but An ed out towards the As she d one hand against the window frame, the flowing| gleeve of a negligee fell back, yealing a flawlessly modeled arm, which op | not he flesh more subtly brilliant in were, and Douglas addres sed him- { coloring and texture than any mar- |celf to her—with light smile at ble. Morse’s testiness Why, it seems "SBhe knew that she was a very|he threw himself strapped to a raft beautiful woman; knew moreover |of some sort into this canyon which gxactly what that beauty was worth. nobody had ever been known to| fact lent a certain sureness and [come out alive. He floated, swam. insciousness of power to her bear-|clung to roots went over falls, | THE DAILY AL’\QI\\ EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 1930 POIIY AND HFR PALS CROSS MY HEART, MAW, HOLISE WORK \ 15 TWICE AS TO A.,M s 1 THE OFFICE ! HARD AS HERE'S THE KEY) TO YOUR =~ And yet, she had !hc good | through whirlpools—lost his grub- ehse and perception, rarely met |sack, but manager to hold to his ifih in women of her ty al- | note-books, which were wrapped in | that the beauty was the direct |cilskin, and—well, at the end of odit |10 days he came out unhurt and| with all the data he wanted about the custodian— |his water cources and the best loca- | It was some moments before Anne ;tion for the tunnel.” | | ift of God and to take no cr a gc herself therefor. She was merely | Clinging to a raft, Glenn braved the gperils of the stream. : L SO Aty ] —_— — gboke, and then she did not look| The railroad magnate made no PAek at her aunt. “You haven't giv- ‘(ummcm other than a contemptu- #h me much of a chance at thatjous shrug, but Anne gazed at the —at making my own living—have narrator with quickening interest| you? My training has been so—|and enthusiasm. “Td like to know hly specialized.” that man,” she declared with con- older woman made no &n-|viction. “That's my idea of a real | . She took up her knitting, \man!” n. Anne stood staring nbsenuy} Morse turned a curious, searching ‘of the window. She was re-|glance on her. “What is your idea her childhood, barren of the iol a real man?” he queried. tion she craved. Perhaps her{ “Oh—stubborn | determination—" hadn't known how to express {Anne threw out her hands in an t, affection; perhaps, and that lcxpxcwvc gesture, “putting a thing more probable, love hadthrough like that regardless—hurl- n the form of an overpowering |ing defiance in the teeth of naturnl Ibbn — She broke off, noting the kind- | % before she was out of her {ling admiration in his eyes. She tepns, Anne had known by some |knew that she had—this time un- 8art of divination that she was ex- | wittingly—struck the right note in to repay her expensive up-_him. ) and education by making | Morse returned to where Britton ;qnehcula: marriage. She had | vas figuring absorbedly over his been just an investment, trained as | drawing, and Douglas indicated to as any athlete for the sor- | Anne the chasm between the moun- business of “landing” a rich|tain ranges. and. Her present flippant, half | = “That,” he explained, “is what we 1 mode of speech and thought | shall have to bridge, however, not a true reflection of her |thanks to your hero of the canyon and deepest self; rather a de-{and his precious reservoir! Our line get up between that self and |of track ought to run almost paral- enforced manner of life. lel with their dam.” pending and flirting, flirting| “They wouldn't object to that,| every man who crossed her |wopld they?” Anne inquired. —those were the two amuse-| “No, they wouldn't object,” he ints that had whiled away the |said, “but unfortunately our track of waiting for the “right|would be some 30 feet under water i when their system was put into op- |while the coldest was that of 1917 Thomas A. Edison has discovered a process where- by synthetic rubber can be produced in commer- cially profitable quantities from the common | (Right) —Gatheri ooldenrod. one of America’s most prolific weeds. | fore International Newsreel ering goldenrod, \[, ru ()f “\“' DECEMBER WAS | U ’1_11)1(” |Maru, also due January mr\\ Cleveland, due January 13 and l'n“ il liner President 24, American Mas Pierce, due Janu The C. P. R ia, due January Funnel liner Tacoma, due ), will land silk shipments in Van- souver, B. C. Other ships not how available schedules will and silk ~'upmem.'; in Seattle, —eiae l American THAN IS USUAL Mean Temperature, How- ever Was Only Slight- ly Below Normal ll\e mont, h of STEVE PAVCIOFF > usual, according to the summary sued today by the local Wemhu Brureau office. The mean temperature of 303 for the month was 0.7° below the | normal. This brought the mear temperature for the year 1029 tc | "onvicted of Assauh and’ 429°, or 0.7° above the yearly nor- Battery on Woman— Gets 6 Months Term : mal of 422°. The warmest De cember of record was that of 1907 with a mean temperature of 39.0° with a mean of 146°. The hi Convicted Tuesdey in the U. S.| est temperature for the past month, | Commissioner’s ~ Court of assault | 81°, ooourgad on theaa And tua|tDd DASELY on Mrs. A. JgRuheer Jowest, 15°, on the 10th. Trado i” her own home last Saturday, Sie oxtremes. for DEcoiEhe: were|Cioys Bayolutt was sentelpEiiby | 80° and -2° respectively. {Judge A. W. Fox to a term of six| The total 5 < JHEREARS inche months in the local Federal jail| $s was 298 ‘Tnches balliihe nor- | il gned #800, . Tavoloft SRLER | mal The first part of the month ested by City police m'nr"rs wh(“ al. he first p ¥ g g was quite dry but the latter p:m: };;ccli)]fli( IG&)‘“"E:I rm\x m the[ ?;ou%l:ll up \hyu ym.“‘.‘x.yhly toltali. F"D;‘;w(‘ubser house through pretense of A e h_inglysive, anting to rent a room, using! consecutive days, was the longest ) B€SL| Aychie Guber, 1l-year-old son of | period of the year without precipi- Mrs. Gubser, to pave the way He tation. The driest December Wasiy q gspoien to the lad lier that of 1907 with 095 inches while e week about going there, ask-| the wettest was 1026 with 1443 i50 j; his mother was alone, ete. inches. The gr rchie had told Mrs. Gubser about | any 24-hour pe which fell on urable precipita fell on 15 days. The total fall was 109 inches, about one third the normal amount {for December, The mean relative humidity was 72 per cent at 4 am., noon and 4 pm. The prevailing w |the month ‘it and she reported the matter to} the police who laid a Pavcioff appeared Saturday even-| ing. He spoke about renting a| rcom and conducted himself pro-! perly for some 10 or 15 minutes.| As he rose, apparently to leave,| he seizéd Mrs. Gubser around the Ineck and tried to choke . ‘Be= fore he could do injury the police were on the scene and took | ind direction for with an aver- HOT DAWG! 1T/ 600D T'GIT BACK TO ME, LI NEVER GVE MAW ANOTHER CHANCE TO SWAP JoBS WITH ME (Left) —Thomas A. Edison. | ea. :leaving Alaska, bui said he was‘ |delighted with his new assignment. |was ordered by James' iServant Problems Laid [TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT, SAMBO! HOW WA THE MOP Awaw BUSINESS? = LL BE Ll BELIEVE DOUGLAS | | NEWS | FIRST SCHOOL TERM 1 ALMOST HALF ENDED, i ght days’ vacation for the| as holidays, school resumed | morning with a full at-{ > of both teachers and pu-| he high school lost one in the departure of Flor- erson for Sitka where she d school for the last ha!fj {of the MISS LINDSAY IN HOSPITAL| { With an operation for appendi-} | citis pending, Miss Margaret Lind- |cay was taken to the hospital in age She is oper- uty parlor in Anchorage a year ago Miss Lindsay uns You DONT suPPosr: FER A SECCUNT, THAT T ACTUALLY. DONE ANY HOUSEWORK, DOES YOUR MURESCO FOR DECORAT WALL G AND BEAUTIFYING AND CEILINGS 55¢ Per Package THE Thomas Hardware Co. derwent a very serious operation| in a Seattle hospital and much cympathy goes out to the young lady on acount of her repeated con- tinued ill-health, from her many friends here. 5 PR b (Center)—The flow- RETURN TO DOUGLAS America’s most prolific weed. g rubber in African Corgo George Valeson, former Douglas | | boy who left here with his p:nrenn‘ shortly after the fire in 1926, turned on one of the last boats with the intention of spending the win- er here, George reports his par- FOR NEW DUTY first or the week after a three, i months t in Seattle. Engineer Ofllcer of A. RC Transferred to Mem- e orial Commission re- INDEPENDENCE FOR INDIA IS | NOWPROPOSED |New Work—ig Committee Takes Definite Steps for Change Orders transferring Maj. Douglas H Gillette, Engineer Officer of the | acka Road Commission, from Ju- neau to Washington, D. C. have| just been received from the War | Department at local headquarters of | | the Commission. The change will | |be made in the near Tuture. Maj. Gillette came to Alaska for| LAHORE, Jan. 2—A new working duty with the Commission July 12, | committee of the India National 1927 and has served with it since | Congress, has decided to authorize that time. He will be attached to |the President of Congress to call the Arlington Memorial Bridge upon all native Congressmen of {Commission in Washington. ‘the various legislatures to resign He will succeed Maj. Joseph C.! immediately. | Mehaffey, another. former member| This action will be the first step of the Alaska Road Commission, in !in the move to gain independence his new position. Maj. Mehaffey |for India through cooperation with | has been ordered to report to the |British Governmental machinery. |Governor of Panama for assignment| The Committee also fixed Janu- 1to duty. )ar) 26 as the date for a nation-| ‘While Maj. Gillette's regular tour n\xue demonstration to support Con- of duty in Alaska would not termi-|gress in the new creed for complete nate for a few months, it was ne- | independence. cessary for him to be taken out! Sl dee &t earlier in order to fill the Memorial Commission vacancy. He and Mrs. {Jess(e;"amtes %m sr:: St l angster I'une: yle Gillette will leave here about the; |middle of February. They will g0 by the way of San Francisco,{ ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Jan. 2. — The Panama Canal and New York City. |pomp in whic: slain gang cheif- He is due in Washington to relieve itains have been borne to their Maj. Mehaffey on March 1. igraves has a precedent in the bur- Maj. Gillette expressed regret at|ial accorded Jesse James. An expensive, elaborate funeral followers :nft,er he was killed in 1882., The lcasket made of steel, cost $265 | and the shroud $10 in days when To Troubles in Home1 the average funeral cost about 850 turned with one of her swift of pentinence. “But never Auntie, I know I'm a selfish but don’t you worry. I'm go- w marry Leon Morse if I have to him myself, and every wfll be all right.” eration! That's what's holding up| the surveying. Bretton says the| only way out is to build a bridge. The bridge will cost a lot of money, which doesn't count so much, but it means also three hours added to the schedule, and that does count ifrom the east, was age hourly The maximum of velocity, 10th. There were 11 clear, cloudy and 17 cloudy ¢ miles. miles recorded on the partly {deseription and were on the look- during jout ant made or home made? Philadelphia dome smc workers | have set down their reasons in a 1th<\ man into custody. Police officers said they had had complaints from other sources ‘nbout a2 man answering Pavcioff's order committee of the Philadel- for him when he staited on [Phia Soclety of Friends. survey questionnaire of the social b | 4 L R I dom't see any railroad” ob;eeted,‘ Jaughing, as she the field glasses. “I don't g ‘but the frrigation com- excavations and offices and ,'and I don't hear any- gt the irrigation company's —Jike the deuce!” (Copyright, Ruth Cross) Anne gains a clue to the iden- tity of the stranger in tomor- row's installment. e . — ODD FELLOWS ATTENTION Regular meeting of Silver Bow | Lodge No. A»E‘XOOFfius‘ evening at 7:30 o'clock. Work in the Degree of Friendship. A cor-| dial invitation is extended to vis- iting ‘brothers. handed the glasses hastily to , and clapped her hands ‘Douglas smiled. He was Smiling, Anne had an idea JOHN RECK, ‘hé was secretly laughing at)_agy. Noble Grand. all, although he covered the ——————— with an air of non-| St Louis loses between $25000 fibfl ‘humor ‘which Wwas!and $35,000 daily to racketeers and ! commerelal swindlers, it. is esti- lips ‘'move, she mated by the Befter Business Bu- December and 10 days with 100 per |his plan to make his entry into cent sunshine. There were 78.2{the Gubser home. hours of sunshine for the month,| Mrs. Gubser has resided here this being 39 per cent of the pos-|several months. Her husband is sible. a Territorial predatory animal Auroras were observed on the 4th |{hunter and is absent in the field and 5th and sleet fell on the 26th.|engaged in predatory animal trap- > — {ping and instructing others hunt- MILLIONS IN SHK 1= w".l. BE LANDED There_ are 23.5 m_otor vehlcles_ to DURING JANUARY each mile of road in the Hawaiian Islands. SEATTLE, Jan. 2. — Twenty-one e e — There are nine women students ships carrying consignments of silk valued at many millions will arrive The data are being tabulated by ' the United States women's bureau to strike at the root of the serv- ant problem from the point of view' of the workers. i Poor pay, shortage of food, incon-| venience of location, unreasonable | employers, heavy work, too little recreation, misunderstanding, and quarrels were among the cause ust— ed by the maids. g Of the 1,600,000 tourists who in, 1929 visited Vancouver, B. C. 17 per cent stayed at tourist camps. - e Kansas expects te spend approxi- in the law school at the University in Pacific Coast ports in January of Texas. S e The vessels landing silk in Seatile| Florida has 41 officially approved will include the Tyne Mary of the |airports. Yemashita Shipping Company, due January 8 and loading on Puget e Popularity of Reno as a divorce Sound and in Vancouver, B, C. lor( capital has led to inauguration of mately $29,500,000 in road improve-| ments in 1930. ———— The South Texas State Ffair cleared $11,924 on its 1929 exposi-' tion. OUR ALASKA LAUNDRY SERVICE” for Dry Cleaning and Pressing 4LASKA LAUNDRY In New Building on Shattuck Way “THE LAUNDRY DOES IT BEST” LT L L L L L L L L e L [T Ilmlm" 5the. BAS)S C\-Wants It's the dollar, after all, that enables you to secure all your material wants. And after all, it is those things which make life worth while. But you can't get rich guick over-night, and money doesn’t MIIIIIllIIIlllllIIIIIIIIIIIllllll|l|||llIIIIIIIIIIIII ney.s of your accumulate unless you heip it . . . by regular saving. Just a little each week means a lot at the end of a year .. .of fivee At compound interest it is earning money for you besides. Save and have . . . spend and want. The B. M. 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