The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 26, 1931, Page 6

Page views left: 0

You have reached the hourly page view limit. Unlock higher limit to our entire archive!

Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.

Text content (automatically generated)

——c HERES WHERE 1 GITS A LOAD OF OUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR IN ( | — et | ! ° | % |had pulled off her beret and her | |face above the round white collar |of Fran’s blouse looked soft and BY JESSIE_DOUGLAS . O X mm) locked at Nora and looked soO quickly away, with that strange in-‘ Nera, a widow with a claim 'ner light. upen his people and their home i Nora wanted the old home with near Albany. Bchind her is | its tradition and its beauty. She an aimless life in Italy with |wanted to feel stréng and fearless her artist father, Julian Lake. 'as Damon did, as Jon did, to be- Now che reproaches herself long to people who needed her. But with the thought that, had | neither Damon nor Jon could ever che married Nicholas' for love |need her. She felt all at once that| rather than to, escape her en- vircnment, she might have pre- wented his rash act. When che visits her father’s supposed- ly rich relatives in Albany, she finds Aunt Emily living hum- |¢he and her father must have some curse upon them, that they must| |wander to the end of their days. Yet if she could break down | Damon’s distrust . . . She reached blindly for the paint- bly with her daughters, Fran- |ing of the peasant woman and lift- ¢es, wheee husband has de- |eq it so that Damon could see it gerted her, and Hallie, & crip- | It is all of Nicholas I have left,” ple. Happy to see her, they |ime said in choked voice. Iend her clothes for her visit | For minutes Damon stood before next day to Nicholas’ people. |jt her face turned away from Nora, His brother, Jomathon, cold, |intent on the picture. Her shoul- gontemptuous, takes her o [ders strained forward, her hands Damon, his step-sister, at the | clenched. When she turned Nora beautiful cld Thayer place. isuw that the banked passion had burned through. Chapter 16 “If you could have saved him, I A HOME FOR NORA? could forgive you!” Damon said. Nora had been so intent on un-; “Forgive?” Nora rcpe‘alcd. a wrapping the picture that she ldont understand. had not seen the girl who crossed; ‘“You should have known, you the room to her so quietly. The should have seen what he was go- painting was the Nicholas she want-|ing to do! He had genius—T see it ed to remember, the man who had'now—and anyone, anything, should | fived to paint, not the man who have been sacrificed for him.” had found life futility. She was breathing painfully. Nora As she looked up at Damon, her |stepped back from her. She was al- first impression was of a plain girl 'most afraid of this pale passionate with hair folded about a small head ' glr] $ like a coif. She was dressed in “I want you 0.0 come here to live. green knotted silk. Pale as she You must come” Damon cried. “He was, almost colorless, the word ex- sent you to us, didn't he? Well quisite suited her. then, you cannot refuse to come!” “It was so kind of you to come”| “But Jon—" Damon said, sit beside| “You will find Jon out there in her. “I hcpg Jon ex to you the garden. He will want to talk to you.” Nora that we wanted you to come to us at once. But unfortunately we had dismissed, found herself “No, 1 didn’t want you to come,” Jonothan bru- tally answered Nora's question. some cousins staying with |x>~:h(~_\"\wnlkixm stiffly through the hall to- aré still here,” Damon adde |ward the garden. Perhaps she had Her voice was cool and remote.|put a significance on those words She seemed to Nora to be living|that did not belong there. Damon gecretly back of her transparent|was overwrought and she had flung gray eyes. But Damon was studying the first words that came into her Nora with a cool and consummate mind at Nora. Forgive? Why should knowledge that frightened her. {Damon forgive her? Had Damon “I wish,” Damon went on, “you penetrated her secret thought that would tell me everything.” jora’s mind was in confusion. it as plainly to be read as that? She had prepared herself for this.| She stumbled out in the garden But now she saw that every mative and saw Jon moving restlessly #vould be held up to the light, ev- [about. Nora told him, breathlessly, ery word would damn her. She she thought the old house beaufiful. felt instinctively that Doman dis-| “My step-father bought up all the trusted her. |land along the river. Foreigners had I don't know how to tell you!”‘bum their filthy little shacks there, But there was command in|had even built stores. But my step- Damon’s light eyes. The features|father had that all torn down. The that were so delicate were not'country’s as it used to be now, weak, and the lips, pale as coral, thank God.” were willful. Her own lips were| They walked down the sloping dry. Sometimes she could not go|lawns to the river. The river lay so on; but Damon waited until she|still it seemed under an enchant- was able to continue. Once Nora ment. On the far banks she could fooking at her felt Damon’'s pas-|see an old red ice-house, that stood glon, a banked fire ready to spring |abandoned. out at a word. ‘The blue gleam of the railroad ‘When she had ended Damon gaid, |tracks, spinning away in the dis- “Nicholas left no money, did he?|tance, caught her eye. Nor But this was his home. It was his | watched a train come around the dhtention that you live here, was it |bend, its trail of smoke black not?” against the sky. In a moment its ‘“But you—do you want me?”|shrill farewell left them again to Nora cried. silence. |she had never loved Nicholas? Was || MY STARS! T'VE SAW SOME PUNK PERISCOPES IN iMY DAY, BUT THIS'N TAKES shoulders that he was strained and angry. Something forced her to say,| You don’t want me, do ycu?” He turned and looked at her. She childish. His eyes rested on the| rosy mouth in the fresh pale face. Then he turned away. | “No, I didn't want you to come, he answered brutally. (Copyright 1930, Jesse Douglas Fox) Forgetten? That first meet- ing. Perhaps Jon’s coolness is explained tomorrow, but an overheard comment angers Nera. R FLIERS TUNING SHIPS TO BEAT GRAF'S RECORD Duilies are to Bl Made by Different Groups of Avi- ators Around World (Conunuea rrcm: Page Ong) Born in Texas 32 years ago, he now lives in Oklahoma City. JHis navigator will be Gatty, a slim young Australian who accom- panied Harold Bromley last year in an attempt to span the Facific from Japan. Aar uircus Veteran Pangborn, a veteran air circus pilot, was also born in Washington state. He is 34 years old and was trained at the school of military aeronautics at the University of California. He later served as an instructor in the world war and became a barnstormer after the armistice. His navigator and backer is Herndon, aviation enthusiast and son of a New York investment banker. Bernt Balchen, famed as the pi- lot on Admiral Byrd's transatlantic and South Pole flights, has an- nounced po details beyond the fact that he is planning a round-the- world flight. Braves Plane Jinx Benjamin Zabora, formerly chief mechanic in an airplane factory, plans to circumnavigate the globe with Emil Burgin in the “Green Flash,” which Zabora bought and rebuilt after it crashed at Old Or- chard, Me., with two other pilots at'| the start of a transatlantic hop. The fliers’ routes are still uncer- tain, for the soviet governmeént has refused Mears and Post permission to cross Russian territory. Mears has said, however, that he will press his request through diplomat-" ic channels. Mears has 12 days as his goal for the trip; Post 'has set eight days; Pangborn and Herndon have announced no definite time lmit except beating the Graf Zeppelin's mark. Post and Gatty have been grant- ed permission to fly across Russia, and are now in New York “tuning |¢ up.” ARROW TRUMP SHIRTS White or Colors $1.95 “We all want to do what Nicho- las would have wished” Damon sald. ‘Nora wanted to cry out to her, “Oh, like me a little! Why should you distrust me?” “But Damon sat there so still, her grvw folded” hands like a nun's cool narrow face like a nun’s, except for those light eyes that As they paused near the river, she stole a glance at Jon and then her eyes took in the beauty of the home and its setting. “Damon has asked me to come here to live,” Nora said at last. Jon was sitting in the deep gras: his arms about his knees, his face turned sharply away. But she could see in the very line of his|< H. S. Graves The Clothing Man T T o LT T TIITIT et T T e o 1 S | Ketchikan. YER TIME, KITTY/ IT'S BLACKER'N I'LL RAISE MONEY BACK, OR He went to the He H. McNeil will represent the to heart trouble. Bocth Fisheries as a fish buyer at | Interior only 18 months ago. | was born in Sweden. With 26 in the graduating class Cordova's commencement exer- the Ketchikan High School com- cises with eight high school grad- mencement exercises will be held uates were held May 11. June 3. 1} At the annual election of cffi- Options have been taken ongold |cers of the Parent-Teachers’ As- bearing property on Golgonda creek | sociation of Fairbanks, Mrs. Peter in the Copper River district by |Grandison was chosen president; B. B. Needing, former superinten-|C. G. Traub, vice president, and dent at Kennecott; Asa Baldwin, | Mrs. Forbes L. Baker, secretary- mineral surveyor, and J. B. O'Neil. | treasurer. Development work will begin Au- | gust 1. For the fifth consecutive year, |the Seward Dairy, Henry Leirer, In the Copper River district, 40 | proprietor, has scored 100 per men are employed on the An-|cent on inspection by Territorial drews hydraulic property on Chit- | Veterinarian Loftus. itu Creek, and 20 men are em- | ployed by the Nickoli Mining Com- | Ownership of the 'Sunrise can- pany on Dan Creek. ‘nery at Ketehikan has passed | frem the Stuart Company of Seat- C. O. Strickler, 71, was taken|tle to E. Dobzinsky, Frank Lloyd, with fatal illness while on !h?j]“rank Heath, H. M. Pederson, T. trolling boat Igloo. He died be-;Aus, O. B. Sater and Gerhard fore the craft could reach Ketchi- | Eilerson, independent trap men of kan from Kasaan Bay. He was a | Ketchikan. native of Norway. He had lived | in Ketchikan 25 years. Lt. T. T. Teague, radio engineer —_ | for the United States Military Ca- Gus Brickman, 24 year old, was ble System of Alaska, with head- fecund dead on Little Goldstream | quarters in Anchorage, is in Ket- flats in the Fairbanks district, | chikan to take charge of building where he had been engaged ‘in |and installing the radio receiving trapping muskrats. Death wasdde'|station at Mountain Point, near | Retchikan. He says the radio sta- tion at Anchorage is 30 per cent ccmpleteA New officers for the ensuing year | of the Ketchikan Parent-Teachers' ‘Assoclauan are Mrs. W. E. Brown, | president; Mrs. A. W. Angellson, vice-president, and Miss Oleta Mc- | Danicls, secretary and treasurer. Stone implements used by In- dians long ago were uncovered by workers in blasting operations on the Tongass highway, near Ketchi- kan. The implements are an axe, a pestle and a tanning tool. Hydraulic operations nave been commenced on the old Mathison gold claims in the Hope district, near Anchorage. Carl Clark, Earl Clark, Frank Clark and J. Bees- from George Roll of Hope, owner. Having eight graduates, the Sew- ard high school held graduating exercises May 14. V. H. DeBolt, last year with the Douglas school, has been engaged as superintendent of Seward schools for next year. schedule, effective June 5, three] trains will be run weekly over the | Alaska Railroad between Seward and Fairbanks, and one train overy | week between Fairbanks and Me- Kinley Park. Clyde R. Ellis, commander orthcl American Legion Post at Cordova, will ‘deliver the Memorial Day ad-| dress there. wanger have leased the property || In accordance with the summer |- DOUGLAS NEWS —]] FORMER RESIDENTS RETURN Nels Lee and family who resided here for a number of years prior to Treadwell cave-in, are back in Douglas again and have taken the Wahto house ror their residence. They expect to make their home here indefinitely. 1 Al Eggan, former dairyman of the Island, returned to the channel on ‘the Northland, Saturday, to again ‘make his home in this sec- tion. Mrs. Zggan preceded her husband last Fall and is in Sitka, at present. e ALL-ABOARD FOR WHITEHORSE Preparations’ are now in progress for the annual excursion to White- horse, Y. T., to attend the celebra- tion there scheduled for May 30. The motorship Alma is being cop- per-painted and generally overhaul- ed for the trip. She is scheduled to leave Douglas at 7:10 o'clock next Friday morning. Reservations may be ‘made and tickets secured, for the Island, at Guy’s Drug store. “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” Knit Suits Showing a Suit that is both smart and useful— In both two and three- piece models.. *“Juneau’s Own Store” — - ROMANTIC STORY IS NEXT SCREEN FEATURE “Paradise Island,” with Kenneth 7 Harlan, is the title of the feature for tonight only at the Douglas Coliseum. The last chapter of the serial, “Fhe Indians Are Coming,” is also ‘onl for this evening. DOUGLAS COLISEUM Tonight Only “Paradise: Island” Kenneth Harlan “Indians Are Coming” Last Chapter Comedy — News 183 TAXI STAND AT PIONEER POOL ROOM Day and Night ‘Service “Youthful Loveliness in 6 Days” Latest In Cosmetic Science Marvo Beauty return and Won- Sue-Fun removes facial blemishes, pimples, blackheads, freckles, wrin- kles or that worn sallow looking complexion. See Dr. Doelker, Hellenthal Bldg. INSURANCE Allen Shattuck, Inc. Established 1898 Juneau, Alaska THE CHAS. W. CARTER MORTUARY ] “The Last Service Is the Greatest Tribute” Corner 4th and Franklin Sts. Phone 136-2 Service for the Investor and home owner of AMERICA average $717 for each member and a stagger- ing total of $9,000,000,000 accumulated in BUILDING & LOAN in the UNITED STATES. 350,000 HOMES were built in 1930, invest- ment $1,300,000,000. Join this movement of home builders and SAVERS. 6% paid on time deposits. Open an account today. Dime & Dollar Building and Loan Association - Branch, Seward Street 100 Y ears of Safety and i Qu. UALITY AND SERVICE TO YOUR LIK{N Wednesday 10a.m. MUST CLOSE OUT IMMEDIATELY JOE KELLY'S ENTIRE STOCK OF MERCHANDISE Prices 209 Off Wholesale Invoice Prices. Price Cuts Out Freight and Overhead Here are some of the articles and prices: 2 Men’s fancy hose 25¢ to 30c per pr. Men’s neckties 50¢ each Sport Sweaters . $1.75 each Pure wooelen shirts 3.60 each Top coats each Bnmbac Jeoatatgiis . o i v--- 4.00 each Dushac pamts ..o bR, 2.60 each b Duxbac breeches ... . ALV, T At oy 2.80 each 4 Duxbac each Duxbac each o R S SNSRI S A St 5.00 each Erwin-Clapp @xfords ... 6.95 pair Crossett shoes .. .- 4.75 pair Crossett oxfords .. 4.00 pair Also handkerchiefs, Suspenders, Work Shirts, Collars, Sport Shirts and other merchandise. All clean stock. PLACE—Joe Kelly’s Store, Front and Franklin Streets. TIME—Wednesday, May 27, 1931. Daily from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. until entire stock is sold. TERMS CASH. NO EXCHANGES. Alaska Personal Service Agents Assignee. J. H. CAMPBELL, Clerk. : PHONES 83 OR 85 “Tlu Store That Pleases™ THI_Z&SANI TARY GROCERY Me-dowbroo Butter Austin Frech PHONE Deliveries—10:30, 2:30, 4:30 ALASKA MEAT CO. ! Pioneer Pool Hall Telephone 183 - POOL—BILLIARDS EMPLOYMENT OFFICE Chas. Miller, Prop. FINAL LIQUIDATION SALE The Leader Department Store PHONE 454 Frye-Bruhn Company PACKERS—FRESH MEATS. FISH AND POUI.'I'I' Phone 38 I p b

Other pages from this issue: