The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 2, 1931, Page 6

e —_— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, OCI'OBER 2, 1931. ; POLLY AND HER PALS | THE BIG STUFFED-SHIRT! IM SICK OF SEEIN’ HIM SWANK AROUND IN THAT BRAN’ NEW OFFICER'S umsmw LET'S SNEAK OUT- SIDE AN' PUT THE PORE PRUNE TO THE TEST/ By CLIFF STERRETT YELP/ HELP#J PO-LICEn EEMAN LINCOLN { By FR SYNOPSIS: Two men love Sam Sherrill—Peak Abbott, the owner cf the Express, and Fred- dy Munson, reporter on the came newspaper. She wants to marry Abbott because she needs She was pleased. “Of course you would have asked! It will make me happy to feel that I may have {been some good to you and your v 1 would like to meet the money, but she loves Fred- Fourth's gaze remained on the dy. Peak arks her to marry him carpet. “You must come out some en a business Sam man- |afternoon to tea.” ages the financial affairs of her “May I? You don't know how I half-brother, Nelson, and her [want to see you home. Do you ac- tually mean it?” “Of course I mean it. You must come out some afternoon this week. T'll arrange it.” They were silent Then Eugenie said, Life is a funny thing, fourth sarugged. ‘I step-father, Fourth Aldersea. Feurth i fanatical abeut cocial prectige, which adds to Sam's alarm when the finds her half-brethcr dancing at a ras- taurant with Martha Givens, the maid of all work at the gtable wherc the three live «ince Feourth loct the family i fortune. Freddy calls Sam from “It's really awfully funny when a dance to ask her to marry |you stop to think of it. Take us, him that night. She tells him | for instance. You have a nice fam- that he would lose his freedom, |ily and lots of nice friends, but and she would continue to be |youre unhappy because you have peor, and refuses him. “Id hate | not enough money. With me it' t tell you where I'm going” |the other way round.” he cays, turning away ffom her. Btit ah e ks o “I mean that I have plenty of for a time. almost shyly: isn't it.” suppose it | | Chapter & | money, and I'm terribly unhappy.” SUDDEN LIGHT “Unhappy?” Fourth stared at “Aren't you even going to say her incredulously. gcod mgh( properly?” Sam asked.| «yes” She nodded. “I'm that " Freddy did not turn as he| way because I haven't any family, xtrudc from her down the platform.' ;ng T haven't any friends—not the “I most certainly am not!” ikind of friends you have, Mr. Al- Fifteen minutes later Sam re:!dersea. That's what I mean by its at their table being so funny about you and me. d with Xach of us has somet hlng the oth- are ¢r wants and hasn't got.” She shook joined Peak Abbott i the surprise: Cricket Club. Peak sa Sam, where “Why, “Well,” Nelson demanded, turning white, “what are you going to do?” her head. “It seems sort of wicked.” your flowers?” “My~flowers? Oh, I took them TFourth’s eyes widened as he off.” Sam glanced at her shoul- |looked at her. “Yes,” he admitted der where the spray of orchids|heavily, “I suppose it does.” had been, and then up at Peak, her eyes wide and dark. “They got crushed—somehow.” On New Year's afternoon Fourth Aldersea gloomily took himself off to pay his respects to Eugenie Frye. Fourth was not happy in his pil- grimage, for he felt that his self- respect suffered with every visit to his most profitable customer. It. was not that the rich widow was,. herself, to blame. Eugenie Fayé Bought books in greater quan- | She should be terribly unhappy be- tity thdn|all the rest of Fourth's|cause of what ‘happened on the customers " put together. ;planrmm of the railroad statioh the He realized, however, that sales- |night before. Somehow she was manship played no part in the | not. Her reasoning tried to tell her matter.~It was obvious that Eu- |that she and Freddy, in admit- gehie’s interest lay not at all inting their love, had rcached the books, but rather in the man who end of things and not the begin- sold them. ning. It reminded her that she and ©On New Year's afternoon Fourth | Freddy had parted definitely; that was. particularly perturbed. He told [ he was going away and never com- Fuenie frankly of his fall from |Ing back. wealth to poverty, and he dealt Sam admitted to herself the truth convineingly with the many humil- [ of all these things, but in spite of iations that-poverty entailed. them she was utterly happy. Eugenie, a stout, middle-aged The mere fact of love, she felt, lady in an expensive, unbecoming | was enough to make anyone hap- dress, clucked in sympathy. “It's a |py. It came like sudden light in shame. An outright shame!” the midst of darkness. Sam basked Fourth drew a long breath. “It |in it and was grateful. is all cof that. Consider, for in-| She was conscious of a new tol- stance, my present position. The |crance toward those about her. As mortgage interest in my house falls | a consequence, her remarks to Son- on the fifteenth of this month. | ny concerning Martha Givens were I can't meet it, and I see no|very different than they might way to meet it, my daughter and have been twenty-four hours be- son, and myself will be without | fore. place to live.” Fourth had gone away after din- " The widow got to her feet. “I'm |ner to pay his call upon Eugenie Fourth sat in his roadster a long time before Eugenie’s door, fight- ing a rising tide of self loathing. Eugenie had said that each of them had something the other needed—that it seemed wicked it was s0. What had she meant? He shivered and stepped heavily on the starter. To Sam, New Year's Day seemed unreal. She realized vaguely that 'ohc to lend you the money, and | Frye, leaving Sam and Sonny in the living room. Suddenly she spoke. “1 saw you the other night, Nel- son,” she said gently. “You didn't can pay it back when you like. &:lefle don't say no, Mr. Al- ” 1 h “seemed to shrink. His fell. “What can I say?” he | see me, but I saw you.” in a low tone. “I may as “Uh?” He looked up at her un- hadn't been } willingly. “What?" ', I should have | “I say I saw you the other night WA —at the Chinese restaurant on Market. street. You didn't see me. You were dancing.” Nelson slowly laid down his book. As Sam watched the color in his face became a dull brick red, and then a dead white. He got up from the davenport. 8am nodded. “Yes, you were dancing with Martha. She dances very well, doesn't she?” Nelson stared at her for a long moment, almost unbelievingly. Then he shrugged in an effort at indif- ference. “Well,” he demanded slowly, “what about it. What are you going to do?” (Copyright, Freeman Lincoln) Sam ‘makes her attitude clear to Nelscn, temorrow, and is her self amazed by Fourth. FEDERAL BUILDINC POSITIONS FILLED Announcement of a promotion and of two new appointments in the Customs Service was made yes- terday by J. C. McBride, Collector of Customs and Custodian of the Federal Buildings in Alaska. Harvey G. Goodwin, who served as laborer in the Capitel in this city, was promoted to fireman la- borer. His place as laborer was fill- ed by the appointment of Erhman Bliss of Juneau. Foster M. Mills has been ap- pointed fireman laborer at the fed- eral building in Sitka, succeeding Willlam Allard, who had served temporarily. - AMES, Iowa — The white grub Brood A, which will appear in 1933, is said by Dr. Carl J. Drake, State Entomologist, to constitute the biggest pest problem Iowa has to face at the present. Grub in- jury in 1930 amounted to several million dollars in Towa. | Lipton’s yachts, as well as those of the New York club, were haul- ed up on the ways for an indefi- | nite period. mo Contest. great conte: of 1920 when Shamrock and Reso- lute were pitted against each oth- LuN N U"IE er for what proved to be the most spectacular of all the international d races since the British defeat in 1851. Sir Thomas actually won two of the five races, and had the sat- isfaction of seeing one of his 8ham- rocks cross the finish line a victor for the first time since the began cing in America. “I have looked forward to this moment for 21 years, and now I am happy,” he said as Shamrock swept majestically over the line. In his optimism he ordered a spe- | cial casket in which to carry the | cub back to England, but the cas- ket went back empty. Aside from his long and ardent | yachting career, the life of Sir |'Thomas was full of many inter- | esting features, although the wea- ther-beaten sportsman himself was | reluctant to admit it. | He was born May 10, 1851, at | Glasgow, Scotland, of Irish parents. | After a brief schooling, he was | compelled to seek work to aid his | parents in their struggle for a live- lihcod, but after two years as a messenger boy, the lure of bigger things got the better of him. ISIR THOMAS Famous Yachtsman an Tea Merchant Passes Away Suddenly Is Stowaway Stowing away on a steamer, bound he knew' not where, he i e land:il in Ameflc? smdl w:)'k‘ed f:n THOI T |a while on a rite plantation in 7 e ‘L PT—N ‘Srmbh Carolina. Making his way to |New York two years later, he | found that fortune still kept far these conditions which was immedi- |2head of him, and many a night ately accepted. 'he is said to have slept on park War began, however, before the |benches. Finding work at last, he onn had sufficient money Lo pny &t (Centinued from Page Onej The Most Complete Collection of Christmas Greeting Cards We suggest you make your selection now. The charge will not appear on your statement until January 1, 1932. - THE EMPIRE PHONE 374 | | dates agreed upon for the race, and st | advertising. Describing his way by steerage back to Glas- gow, where he land ed without| funds but with a head full of American ideas. Most of all he had been impress- ed with the American method of glowing terms to his parents, who had accumulated a few hundred dollars, he succeeded in persuading them to open a small provision store. He advertised boldly and ex- pensively, considering the capital behind him, and soon made his name known throughout Glasgow. String of Tea Shops The shop prospered beyond Lip- ton’s most extravagant dreams, and soon another one was opened modelled exactly after the first. After a few years he had a whole |; string of shops in Glasgow and was growing rich. He eqtered the Lon-| don field, then Liverpool and Man- chester and at the height of his business career controlled more than 600 stores in England, Amer- ica and other parts of the world. In order to supply his retail stores more directly, Lipton bought ! a tea plantation in Ceylon, to which he later added a coffee plan- tation and then a cocoa grove. Finding these investments profit- able, he continued to purchase plantations, and soon his teas were known around the world. In 1898 he converted his various enterprises into a huge limited lia- bility company, which relieved him cof many business cares and per- mitted him to give more time to yachting. His fortune later was es- timated at $50,000,000. 8ir Thomas Lipton never mar- ried. — e Gudmund Jensen, who has been engaged in doing assessment work on his mining claims, has returned to town and has resumed his posi- tion of merchant patrolman at night. During his absence, the patrol duties were performed by John Zaboski. these in| DOUGLAS NEWS ANNUAL SUPPER D. F. D. TO BE HELD OCT. 24 October 24 is the date announeed at the meeting of the Douglas Vol- unteer Fire Department last night, for their annual supper, card party and dance, hy the committee in charge of the event. The Eagles' Hall will be the scene of the sup-) per and card party. Dancing fol- ed for the event. | ‘A special price for a round-tflv ticket to the entire affair will' be announced later. FROM VANCOUVER Mrs. James Sey, who has been visiting in Vancouver for the past month or more," returned home yesterday on the Princess Louise. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Leggit accom- panied Mrs. Sey, who is their neice, to visit here for a time: CHANGING RESIDENCES W. E. Snyder and family are re- moving from the Reisser cottage on |E street to the house formerly oc- | cupied by G. Hudson and family. “GRUMPY” OPENING AT DOUGLAS COLISEUM TONIGHT A delightful comedy romance which involves the mystery of a stolen diamond and the subse- quent merry chase after the culprit, s “Grumpy,” which comes to the Douglas theatre tonight and Sat- ;urday. WILL VISIT HERE DURING JURY TERM Mrs. Karl Larson and P. E. Ol- son are here from Skagway for jury duty during the present term |of court. During their stay on the tchannel they will be guests of Mr, jand Mrs. W. E. Feero. B e DOCTOR KIRBY Has opened an office in Doug- las, at the King residence between Third and Fourth Streets. adv. | DOUGLAS COLISEUM TONIGHT—SATURDAY CYRIL MAUDE in “GRUMPY” COMEDY SHOW Comedy News Drive a FORD and learn the hidden value of its more ball and THE extensive use of ball and roller bearings in the Ford is an example of value far above the twenty. By allowing moving parts to run smoothly and freely, they reduce friction and wear. means smooth, quiet operation, more speed and power, increased gasoline mileage, greater durability and longer life. Steering is made easier and safer in the new Ford because of the roller bearings in the front wheels, at the spindle bolts and in the steering mechanism. There are ball bearings on the cluteh, ball and roller bearings in the transmission, a reller beartiig at the universal joint. The ball bearing en the gemerater armature gives greater reliability to that importsnt part of the electrical system. 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