The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 9, 1930, Page 11

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, DEC. 9, 1930. N l ! | i LU DO T T T T L Girl Bootlegger Sentenced to oy W WE LIST BELOW A FEW TITLES OF THAT WILL MAKE ACCEPTABLE Christmas Gifts Prices vary but most of them are in the new $1.25 edition There is usually only one of a title if you fancy either or several—a | reservation by telephone may be hurch or Pnson Was the Decision Whleh Confronted Esther Matsnn, 22-Year- 0ld Bootlegger, of Denver, Who Was Sentenced by U. S. Judge Symes to Attend Church or Go to Jail. CHINA REPAIRS DAMAGE READY /| FOR NEW WARS Go to Church By MORRIS J. HARRIS SHANGHALI, Dec. . —Chinese po- liticlans who fluanted the rebel standard have fled into = Shanst province leaving the Nahking gov- ernment confronted with the task of repairing the damage caused Ly the 1930 civil war. The fact that the rebel chiefs may be plotting a new conflict for of the freebooters. Pmage, torture and wholesale slaughter have been rampant and whole villages have been burned, leaving scores of thousands of Chinese homeless and hopeless. One of the most appalling conse- quences of the communistic activi- ties was the loss of crops. The Reds destroyed grain fields, slaughtered or drove away the livestock and completely ruined silk farms. Un- less the government is able to rout the Reds this winter, thousands of fields will not be planted next spring. I she accepted one and even agreed to address the meet- ing. right to use a musical compusmon suddenly in the creation of a film does not | extend to public exhibition of the ! Studio for an appointment. Sit- finished product. | RN RN I | |tings up to the 12th will be fin- 'Ashed in time to mail for Christmas British Quote Steeper ‘deuveryn e PORTRAITS ¥FOK CHRISTMAS Phone 487, Winter' and Pond Prices on Rare Stamps LONDON, Dec. 9.—New stam catalogues here snow considerable appreciation in value of some of| the scarcer items. Continuing to head the list in scarcity, and in increase of prices over last year are the “classic” is- Polish Court Upholds Author’s Movie Rights | next spring forces the nationalists , to accomplish within a few months ! {what would ordinarily take several | {have held that movie theatre own-'at $1500. The years to complete. WARSAW, Dec. 9.—Polish courts sues of the British empire between 1840 and 1870. Airplane stamps, as a class, show swift rises in the new lisf The Hawker stamp of New foundland, which sold a few years ago $150, is quoted this year “DePinedo” stamp | ings, at wexs must have permission of com- of the same dominion is listed at | Much happened to Nanking after posers to exhibit films containing $750. | General Yen Hsi-Shan, “model gov- | excerpts from the latter’s musical Similar advance is shown in the| erhor” of Shansi, started early this |Works, even though the producers 24c. American airmail stamp, mis- the campaign against cmangiflf the film have purchased the printed with the “center inverted” ai-Shek that nearly succeeded.i Business went to smash for one | thing and communism gained sucm a foothold that its position in some | sections is well night impregnable. | More than a thousand miles of | | telegraph and telephone lines must be put back in commission. Rail-| roads, bombed and torn up, must| be restored to running order and and the tax collecting system is in bad need of a shakeup. At present the odds are all| against another uprising next March but Nanking can not af-| ford to be caught unprepared. ‘While Yen Hsi-Shan is not likely | American prodycers movie rights. The finding was made here when the proprietor of a theatre was fined $850 because he exhibited a film made on the Western Electric sound system and containing a scene from the opera “Cavaleria nna” without first obtaining permission from Pietro Mascagni. The famous Italian composer |brought the suit. The case went back to the Bern authors’ rights convention, which the United States did not sign.' have been sending over many films containing musical settings of scenes taken which has jumped $850 to $2,500. e .- Emma Goldman Comes Back Into Red Spotlight | Losstt : mbnkuhnd between [Se'chd. Seb that those brkes of EID quences. If in price from NICE, France, Dec. 9—Fmma' Goldman, unable to obtain a visa for retarning to the United States.‘ has resumed her communistic ac-| tivities, For more than a year she lnd been residing here in semi-obscur-~ ity, keeping well out of the spot- light in the hope that this course made. Gmc! MeTHopIST EPlacopaL Mios EsteR, HURCH, DENVER/ Ma TSON to go to war agaln unless he forced to, Wang Ching-Wei, an im. portant factor in most of China’s| |from the works of European au- would aid in obtaining a revoca- | thors, and trouble has developed in tion of the United States Govern-| several instances. ments edicts which several years| In the Warsaw case the defend- 8go banished her and some other DENVER, Col—When"each Sun- pints of good or even bad whiskey day a pretty young woman sits wich to prohibition agents is a bad piece bowed head in the Grace Methodist ' of work, as Esther found. And so Episcopal Church of Denver, she!this time all she could do was ask will be serving part of her sentence " the court for leniency, if not mer- as a bootlegger. Church or prison!cy, She was before a judge said to | that was the decision that recently be hard-boiled and this was her confronted Miss Esther Matson, 22- | third appearance in court, year-old bootlegger in the court| Ben B. Laska, attorney for Miss |of United States District Judge J.|Marston, expected to hear a curt | Foster Symes. She was sentenced |“90 days” from Judge Symes, even to attend church every Sunday for |after Esther had pleaded that she two years or go to jail. She chose was an orphan and her attorney | the former, not only because it|had explained how difficult it was The NUGGET SHOP Home of Gruen Watches Child’s Story of the Human Race —by Coffman. Mother India. The Magical Island. Circus Parade. Beggars of Life. to her that she was to report to nounced that he hopes to go on| the minister weekly where and how fighting. she had lived the rest of the week. Dislodging the communists is ‘Then Esther sprung a question. She considerable of an undertaking. | wanted to know what she should Central and southern China were| — be good on, with no career and no overrun by the Reds and their means of earning a living. And 50, bands grew stronger as the Nation- after conferences and meetings a alist forces became weaker through job was found, not by the minis- the battles of last summer. ter, but by the lawyer. He had lo- Theewar in the north compelled cated a store willing to employ the Chiang Kai-Shek to withdraw his| recalcitrant Esther and she will garrisons from Hunan, Kwangtung, | have to work hard to earn her Wwangsi and Fukien provinces nnd‘ small salary. Which will be thé reports from missionaries and trav- | was lighter, but because she believed for a girl to resist making $100 punishment the two years of hard elers in those sections describe a | Is It Necessary. Recollections and Letters of Gen- eral Lee. The Young May Moon. Irene of Tundra Towers. With Steffanson in the Arctic. The Deadfall. The Saga of Billy the Kid. Adventures of an African Slaver. The President’s Daughter. Congal. The Trail Eater. The Spoilers Bons of the Mammoth. The Golden Bubble. The Altar of Honor. The Snare. So Big. Clair Ambler, Illiterate Digest. Tarzan the Untamed. Shanty Irish. Giants in the Earth. Ancestor Jerico. The Story of Philosophy. Friendly Arctic. Uncle Sam's Attic. Stikeen. |that it would do her the most good. Her lawyer confirmed his client’s judgment. | The difficulty of obtalning a | minister who would have her as a member of his congregation was | apparent. Not that every Denver | clergyman was not willing to help the girl. It was merely because of the notoriety that the presence of | the fair sinner might cause. It was thought that curiosity would bring throngs of undesirables to the | church. It teok a week to make | the arrangements, and the Rev, A. | A, Heist agreed te take a chance. | His attitude is you who is without sin cast the first stone” It remains to be seen | just how the congregation will wel- come the new member in their | midst and whether there will be an | increase in the number of men at- | tending Sunday services to view the The sentence is as dramatic as/ the culprit and the case. Miss Marston had pleaded guilty and | asked the mercy of the court. 8he had been arrested twice previously and had managed to free herself on a technicality. But selling five “Let him among| | fair moral of the minister’s sermon. | weekly bootlegging than a mere work or the church sentence to a pittance in an honest job. And then girl who might have served 90 days Judge Symes sprung his melodra-'and then gone back to luxury? | matic “Do you ever go to church?” and everybody was staggered. And ! Esther, after thinking oyer a gaed LTI DT DU L LU T T Dr.R. E. Southwell RESIDENT EYE SIGHT SPECIALIST situation that Europeans and Amer- | ns can scarcely comprehend, Few towns escaped the ferocity 5 E é i g & g g g 3 5 »8 £ & Kwas best to tell the truth. And se i she demurely answered, “No, sir." “Did the idea ever occur to you that you might benefit by going to church?” was the question next asked by His Honor. Again, Esther, after pondering, told the judge that she had never thought about it. Even if the judge did winee at Es- ther's almost hrutal frankness, he at least seemed to appreciate her truth and sincerity. And then came the alternative of being placed on probation and going to church for 104 Sundays about two hours each visit, or spending 90 days in jail. | Esther did seme rapid calculating and before she could speak her law- yer announced he was sure that his ‘cllem, would be glad of the oppor- tunity to mend her ways. The judge asked Esther if she would be a good girl out of church as well as when she was listening to church services. He had explained lllllllllll"llllullllIIIIIIIIIIII.IIllIlI EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED ROOM 7—VALENTINE BLDG. Office Phone 484 Residence Phone 238 Ballads of a Cheecako The Ballad of Yukon Jake. Animal Stories from Eskimo Land. First Crossing of the Polar Sea. Dady Cross-word Puzzle Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 9. Halfy prefix 10, Eons Office Hours— The Story of Mankind. Jare the in- mm-lua 9:30 to 12 Noon 1:00 to 5:30 p.m. The Great Horn Spoon. The Dark Journey. Count Luckner the Sea Devil. Three Boy Scouts in Africa. 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