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- A . e PYZTHHEL - haT. % e W, JACQUELINE ¥ ON HER OWNR by RICHARD STARR, 3 tough SYNOPSIS: Miss Jacqueline |you will find me a rather Groy, wanted by police in con- | morsel” nection with the theft of a dia- | It was half a warning. Carew wmond necklace stolen at Circo’'s |[took it with a smile. “This Is aw- might club! Teddy Montrose |fully good of you. I don’t know wunsuccessfully attempts to allay |how to express my t Jacquel be so frightfi lite. She liked politer her fears but Jacqueline is wor- ried and puzzled. She hasn’t the necklace, she thinks, and is po- Teddy ess. startled when she finds it in a Montrose was P But she did little purse Mrs. Porter Mason not like Mr brand. It gave her to hold and then dis- appeared during the raid on the | “We'll take it as read,” she said. | night club. There is but ome |“Will you wait here while I put| eonclusion—Mrs. Mason was the |my frock on, or would you rdth"!"‘ | thief and Jacqueline unwitting- Iy aided her. Visions of arrest and imprisonment form in Jac- queline’s mind. She is uncertain what course to pursue and longs to talk things over with Teddy. A knock on the door frightens Jacqueline. She tucks the jewels inside her blouse and opens the door. It is Mr. Ca- * COMMITTEE OF |of its pot ag |diamonds wink ! She replaced the plant them there—10,000 |of stolen property. | She was almost tempted to tak: the wretched things out and drop them in the river. But she gave a thought to the owner of the dia- ;xr, nds. She was determined that these diamonds should be returned their rightful owner—and that not be Mrs. Porter Mason. 1930, Richard Starr) There were the wickedly at her and left pounds worth to | would (Cop, HOUSE AGAINST EAGLEMEASURE Sutherland Says Commit- tee Adverse to Passage —Senate 'Will Pass It rew. Chapter 21 THROUGH THE KEYHOLE Again Jacqueline felt faint with the wave of relief which swept over | her. A little while ago she would| 4 not have believed it possible that| B she could ever be intensely glad to see Mr. Carew. But she S. | «I didn't send my name up,” he| explained, as she invited him in.| I would have done so but I| thought you would probably not have remembered it. It is very kind: of you to see me." “I remember it Jacqueline, smiling. | “I took the liberty of calling to see how you are after out little adventure of last night,” he went on. | Mr, And Jacqueline, who had been about to speak, held her peace. She did not forget that it was Mrs. Por- ter Mason who had introduced Mr.! o Tew. | | | perfectly,” said | diamonds! Carew sought the walt below in the lounge, or some- where? You can smoke here.” “I will wait here,” answered Ca- Carew, and she was beginning t . been hard hit by low prices for cot-| | S 6 see Mrs, Porter Mason in a new| Jacqueline was communing with|ton. Rayon has proven ruwinous| The Tanana, Capt. Westerholm,| =~ NOTICE TO CREDITORS light herself about Mr. Carew a he competition to cotton goods and|with al hundred tons of “I searched for you everywhere Went out of the room. e had the manufacturers of the latter|freight for Channel ports,” arrived Iu‘tha Comm!s.sxom‘xj.\ Court fur.‘ after the raid” sald Mr. Carew, CAught a look in his eyes—the|commodity have been unable t0'in port from the south at mid-| the Territory of Alaska, Division «put could not find a trace of you 100k of a man who is consci overcome it. The hard times in|pight last night and docked at! _lNumber One i anywhere, Of course, I had not tIying to fascinate a girl. What|the South have d direct bearing |Femmer's wha Before A. W. FOX, Commissioner the faintest idea that anything un- W86 known among the girls of on the salmon canning industry as| After unloading e she visiteq| 20d ex—Off‘lcm Probate Judge, Ju- pleasant was going to occur last Byrams as the “sheik look.” But most of the cheaper grades of sal-|at Dupont and shortly before noon | MeaH Precinct. | 12 was not quite night, or I should have tried to per- apart from this, She remem- suade Mrs. Mason to go somewhere Sure of Mr. Car: else. But it was her idea going to bered that he was a friend of Mrs. Circo's, not mine.” Porter Mason, and it seemed that “I quite understand that,” said MIS. Mason was a mystery Jacqueline. “I am not blaming you, S0 when she had only be Mr. Oarew, or anybody. I think it her bedroom a minute was quite exciting.” she started to «That's the way to look at it,” she slipped back #mid Carew, smiling. “All that rub- ifig room and delib bish about taking our names and Ohe mischievous brown eye to the| addresses and so on is merely a crack of the sitting-room door. | matter of form. You will never hear Mr. Carew was Vv busily en-! another word about it.” gaged, it seemed, in searching her| Jacqueline was not listening very room. At that moment he was at/ much. She was thinking as clear- the mantelpiece, taking down the| ly as she could. vases and looking into them. He It seemed that Mr. Carew knew made the rounds of the room as| nothing about the part she had she stood for at least 10 minutes played in connection with the raid. watching. She came swiftly to the conclusion “He is looking for the diamonds,” | that it would be best not to en- concluded. Jacqueline. “He knows| lighten him. She would not trust where Mrs. Porter Mason is, and Mr. Carew until she knew more he has come from here to get the| about him. diamonds away without saying a “Do you happen to know, Mr. word about them. Well, I wish she Garew,” she asked, “that Mrs. Por- had them, but I am not going to| ter Mason has not returned to the give them to her.” hotel since the raid?” | It was wicked, she told herself,| “I'm not surprised,” sald Ca- to think: that Mrs. Porter MaScn§ réw, calmly. “Mrs. Mason is a rath- Was & thief, that Mr. _Carcw was er eccentric lady, and she has a the aco_ompuce of a thief. Was it way of disappearing suddenly like not quite possible that somebody this.” else had stolen the diamonds and “Rather a curious habit, isn't it?” when the alarm of the raid came, | asked Jacqueline, drily. had thrust them in her hand? He laughed. “She’s a curious per- Jacqueline left Mr. Carew to his son, and awfully interesting on that own devices, oonfident that he account. I know she was looking would not find the hiding place she for you after the raid, but like me had selected. When she was ready, she could not find you. She had she told" him to go downstairs and found some other friends, and I get a cab. She locked the door should not be surprised if she went and swiftly lifted the palm out home with them. Having done so, - it is just like her to stay with them for a few days.” « see,” murmured Jacqueline. | “As a matter of fact,” continued Although it fook them something Carew, “I've come on rather a bold over a tHousand years to come to errand, and Mrs. Mason not being here, makes it impossible, I am afraid, to ask what I was going Jacqueline smiled. Whatever he had to ask, Mr. Carew had, she '.hbught, put this rather nicely; apd although Jacqueline was in no way interested in him, she was touched slightly by the expression of keen disappointment which Mr, Carew had assumed. “you need not be Jfraid to ask, Mr. Carew,” she said. “1 will tell you, if it is impossible.” “I intended to ask you if you would be kind enough to come ou‘t to dinner with me" said Carew. “I ve taken tickets for a theatre ards. But, of course, Now Mrs. Porter Mason has disap- and you have nobody to chaperone you—-" | Jacqueline reflected quickly. She f had nothing to do. If she did not | out somewhere this evening she only sit and worry about the‘ | m:m.s. 'Well,” she said, with: the old sabit of carefulness in small things, there's no sense in wasting two perfectly good theatre tickets, and ugi.r all, I've never had a chaper- one before until last night—and that wasn't altogether a succemul‘ ht, was it?” ?You mean you will come?” cried Mr. Carew, delighted. in and before her frock, 1 the dress- ely applied | Y ch rou {1magination, its consummation will |ident of the Alaska Road Commis- (CHINESE MUSIC UNDERGOES RADICAL CHANGE (Continued from Page One) boundary, ed States territory there is a tract | of 10 to 15 miles wide that warrants careful prospecting, though most of the richest finds that have been made so far lie east of the boun-| in Cana@a.” New Anaesthetic Found The medical science has recently developed a new anaesthetic for operative cases, Dr. W. W. Council told the Chamber. Sodium amy- | tal injections are mow used. This| treatment produced the same re sult as ether, putting the patient to sleep naturally, and has none of the objectionable affects of ether. Dr. Council was called south early | this year by the death of his father | in North Carolina. He spent some- time in eastern North Carolina and visited extensively in the southern | | part of the country. | so that within the Unit- lbpen called for Friday evening 'ru{ |teer Fire Department, all churches |the American Legion, B. P. Q. Elks, |organizations are expected to at- readings, also. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1930. basis; declared Rev. George J. Beck Hoonah missionary, a guest of the |Chamber today. Solidity is present in its street improvements, its build- | Mrs. Joe Kendler is leaving for ings, all of which indicate a grcat—fthr south on the Princess Norah |er future for the city, he said. | Saturday enroute to Weinheim | Hoonah, he said, is growing, but |Germany, for a visit of threc it needs more adequate transporta- |[months. She will be accompanied [tion. It is one of the moSt iso- |by her daughter Mildred. Enroute lated communities in Alaska, he|Mrs. Kendler will stop over for a averred. A new dock fer large brief visit in Chicago and then go steamers has recently beeh com- |to Montreal leaving there for the | pleted there, the Union Oll :«Com- | Atlantic trip on the Empress Mont- pany has put in a new $tatien,.and [c:mr, During her visit in Ger- the Standard Oil is conlldafig a | many, Mrs. Kendler intends to wit- similar move, he said. The'tHreat- ened loss of the Margnita on the Juneau-Sitka’ run, he deelared, would be a calamity to Héonah, | and he asked the Chamben $o.'do | i'anylhmg in its power to prevent 'it. H. M. Sawyer, head of Sawyer & | Reynolds Company, logging contrac- | tors, and member of the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce, was another |ir the Federal District Court late guest of the Chamber today. this afternoon. The Government Two violin solos, rendered by Ed- |Wwas presenting its evidence at that ward W. Handin, were featufeg’ of time, and it was not expected the today's program of the Chamber. |case would reach the jury before Friday afternoon. Klarito is ac-| A general meeting of all com- cused of assaulting Gus Erickson mittees connected with the annual He was jointly indicted with Marie Cleanup and Paintup Campaign,| Veloria Who was convicted earlier g slated to open here April 15, has |this week. ———————— KETCHIKAN MAN FINED MRS. KENDLER LEAVING FOR TRIP TO GERMANY | ness the production of the “Passion | Play.” ———-——— | KLARITO TRIAL STILL IN PROGRESS IN DIST. COURT The trial of P. Klarito, indicted on a charge of assault with a d gerous weapon, was still in prog: AT 8 o'clock in Council Chambers of City Hall, it was announced tbday | by H. L. Faulkner, Chairman of the| Ed. Davis, Ketchikan, was yester- | Civic Improvements Committee of day fined $1,000 by United States the Chamber of Commerce, At Commissioner W. C. Arnold for vio- | that time final plans for the drive lating the Alaska Bone Dry Law will be formulated. |He was given a suspended sentence It is expected that almost every ©f 30 days, also. ivic and fraternal organization in ! N 4 et the city will be represented in the | NOTICE campaign. Committees from the hamber of Commerce, City Coun-| The students ot the Martinique 1, Women'’s Club, Boy Scout Coun_‘Svhl'ni of Dance and Drama will il, Public Schools, Juneau Volun- give a program on Friday evening at {8 pm. at the Studio at the corner of Third and Main Streets. Mrs. Loyal Order of Moose, and other Martin will offer several dramatic (adv.) tend tomorrow's meeting. - eee NOTICE 1v SHIPPERS The “MARGNITA” will pot ac- FRE]CHTER TANANA |cept freight after 1:30 p. m. on The entire South, he said, has mon have heretofore been marketed | in that portion of the country. Dr. Council visited Atlanta where | he saw the great Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial with its carv- ed figure of Gen. Robert E. Lee, 300 feet high; New Orleans and S Mardi Gras; Florida and its winte resorts filled to capacity; and Southern California’s winter, pls grounds. In one of these ‘places were there any indications of a| lack of prosperity. | The Taku mining discoveries had | been widely advertised and he heard of them all over the country. Hej forecast that many people would go there this Spring regardless of handicaps. Highway Project Slow ‘While the Pacific Yukon Highway is a project that appeals to the be slow, Maj. Malcolm Elliott, Pres~ sion told the Chamber. It will be of inestimable value to Alaska when eventually it becomes an actuality last to the United States as a por- tion of the continent. is the chief stumbling block. That government is neither favorable nor unfavorable, but remains to be con- vinced of the worth of the scheme. “I have the utmost confidence the project is going through even- tually, but it is not going to be built this year, and probably not next year,” he added. Juneau is building on a solid change from the “tan chien” of their venerable ancestors to the saxophone of their “white devil” neighbors across the sea is due in no little part to the influence of the Criental flapperhood with May Wong as a typical example. Satisfied up to the present with their native music, which has und- ergone no appreciable change for centuries, consisting of what, to the Caucasian ear, resembles little more than a hodge-podge of primitive intonations accompanied by a mon- otonous series of chords, Chinese is rapidly undergoing a change. Mr. Callen, now in China record- ing folk songs harmony, the outstanding ingred- d|lent in melody making, heretofore unknown to Chinese music, is about to have its Oriental inning. to use duets, trios, and even quar- Chinese trade. According to Mr. Callen, this new trend in music in the Orient may Occident. native country, exert their influence |charged at the Union Oil Company T HALIBUT IS SOLD instead of a dream, linking it at|sau and San Juan respectively Just now, he added, the inertia of | the Canadian dominion government | music, according to R. J. Callen of the Brunswick - Balke - Collender Company's foreign recording staff, in the Cantonese and Pekinese dialect, reports that It is his plan to shortly attempt téts in instituting the demanded harmony in new recordings for the i be traced to the influence of the The increasing number of young Chinese in golng away %o school become, in a sanse, Ameri- canized and, on returning to their IS UNLOADING HERE s*"'"s date. .\ w sl In the Matter of the Estate of JAMES WALLACE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That H. L. Faulkner was, on the 9th day of April, 1930, appointed administrator of the estate of James Wallace, deceased All persons having claims against the estate of said deceased are lrequired fo present them to the | undersigned at 424 Goldstein Build- ling within six months from the IN JUNEAU TODAY date of this notice. | Dated at Juneau, Alaska, April 9, 30. Four hoats of the Juneau fleet|™’ i arrived in port this morning with | 21,500 pounds of halibut which sold Fi returned to unload coal at the Pa-| cific Coast Coal Company. ' She| has shipments for the Juneau Lum- ' ber Mills and the Standard Oil Company, the latter to be dis- f. The freighter will reain port until sometime tomorrow. PR R H. L. FAULKNER, Administrator. g i publication, April 10, 19830. this afternoon at prices of from 10 ;.. publication, Nay 1, 1930. and 6 to 10 and 6.10. | New England gave the highest bids, 10 and 610 on the Vivian, Capt. 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