The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 12, 1932, Page 6

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 12, 1932. Syncpsis: Venice Muir has set three goals for herself—to be- ceme popular in New York | ciety, tc repay Roland Wain- | waight for an old snub, and to attract Drake Farrelly. She re- | turns frem Paris with a manu- | factured spicy reputation that makes her popular. She cap- | tures Wainwright’s interest. But | Drake remains aloof. Chapter 36. RUMOR TRICKS VENICE Venice and Drake talked imper- sonally in the taxi and it was not until they were at a small table, their dinner ordered, that she sum- moned the courage to say, “Lola’s news ¢f me has disconcerted you, hasn't it?” “Yes, it has, rather.” “Why?” “You won't like what I'm going to say.” “Say it, anyway.” “I don't particularly admire a girl who leans on a married man or who gets a ochap in such a state that he kills himself when she turns him down.” Venice felt the shamed color ereeping into her face. That was exactly the way it all appeared and yet up to now it had served her well. It had intrigued a score of imaginations. And yet here was the only person who secemed real LADY with« DAST BY HARRIET HENRY F YOU'RE GOIN’ RABBITIN: Y'BETTER GIT! e ID BE A PRETTY SIGHT 1 IN THE BIG WOODS,, . WITHOUT A WEAPON, |WWOULDN'T 17 o Bv CLIFF STERRETT oH!1S TH;') ALL THAT'SZ STOPPIN' YE? 7 81081 Norssuser Pl e G5 AT b o What “Let's talk about you,” she then forced herself to say brightly. “I'm an uninteresting guy.” “No, really. What do you do with yourself all the time?” She did so much want to know desperate. ‘What ment. Once more he sensed that he was I;BWADER ‘m afraid she wasn’'t xeally interested. “Please, Drake. I love hearing.” “The perfect hostess,” he chaffed. had this koowledge of Guy and Rene done? She felt can Venive do? makes one more effort to explain to Drake, in tomorrow’s install- She | contered on this side of the Chan- | pel tonight. The Bureau of Public Roads five will play a dark horse| in the quintet from the Coast D S— % : and most earnestly desired to Daily Empire Want Ads Pay. Guard cutter Tallapcosa which :s| reach that warm, friendly footing J R SR ARnArE T again. “Nothing that would be enter- taining telling.” “Please, Drake.” He smiled at her serious, almost intense mien. “Has the naughty little girl been snubbed” She did not return the smile. “Yes, you are snubbing me. I wouldn't ask questions if I weren’t interested. = Even the inigquitous sometimes really like some one and want to hear what he does. Be friands with me, Drake.” f He stared at this little speech, a puzzled look coming into his clear amber-yellow eyes. The hurt sar- casm with which she had employed that “iniquitous” perplexed him and childish sincerity of the last sentence could not be denied. “I'm sorry, Venioe. Prepare your- | self for a dull chronicle. But wait, let’s get the check first and we'll start the daily grind of Drake Far- relly in the taxi homeward bound.” In the cab they were silent for a dozen blocks, she looking out of the window, her mind busy with this ‘said to have an up and coming |squad that will give a good ac- BAmE ON ToNlGHT‘c:zum of itself. The Fire Department will meet staying at the Alaskan Hotel. dles in their shops and show win- dows. — et ALASKAN - Mrs. Thomas | tineau Hotel. LIGHT STRIKE IN RUMANIA XLAUSENBURG, Rumania—Be- cause the municipal electric plant refused to reduce rates, mer- With four (ams swinging into|the Alaska Juneau five for the chants of this Transylvania fown OhT"‘:"mhigf I‘;flgmfele‘“m:, Allied action . tonight- in two gamss. at first time this year in the second |declared an Borde: the Juneau High School gym, in-|game. The first game will start at|and used kerosene lamps and can- terest of the basketball fans Wwas (7:30 p. m. o STAYING AT lght | gore STOCK PRICES SAGGING AGAIN LATE TRADING DOUGLAS POUGLAS CH'Y ‘OOUNCIL HOLDS -3 HOUR SESSION Losses of One to Two Points Are Common for Many Issues NEW YORK, Jan. 12—The up- ward tendency of railroad issues found the rest of the stock market unresponsive today and the 1list generally fell back in late trading ‘with losses of one to two points common at the close. About 1,400,000 shares were trad- ed today. Rails off one to two points in- Pacific and Santa Fe. Other issues losing American Steel, American East- “illumination strike” | man Auburn lost three points. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Closing Stroebe Is among quotation of alaska Juneau mine IT ISN'T BEING DONE ANYMORE —the wants of man now easily filled . . . i George Clemens of Douglas is the guests registered at the Gas-|stock today is 13, American Can 60%, Anaconda Copper 11%, Beth- —|lehem Steel 19%, Curtiss-Wright 1%, Fox Films 4!2, General Motors 23%, International Harvester 25, Kennecott ‘Copper T1%, Packard| Motors 5United States Steel 41%, Bunker Hill, no sale. el P BLUE LODGE TO ISTAGE PROGRAM ON FEBRUARY 2 F. & A. M. Chapter to In- augurate Washington Bi- Centennial Programs The first of a series of observ- ances planned in Juneau in com- memoration of the Washington Bi- _Centennial this year will be given by the Blue Lodge Masons, Mount Juneau Lodge No. 147, F. & A. M., here on Washington’s natal day, February 22, it was announced to- {day. The annual Shrine Dance | which has always occurred on that {date in past years has been set jover until February 26 to make {way for the Blue Lodge’s event. Other organizations, fraternal, civic and school, are arranging observances for dates between Feb- ruary 22, when the national Bi Centennial celebration opens, and Thanksgiving Day, its close. The Blue Lodge will present an elaborate program in Masonic | Temple to which the public will be cordially invited. It will feature songs of the colonial and revolu- tionary war period and other num- bers equally unique and interest-| ing. The program will cover one' Lagting about three hours; most of which was devoted to the read- ing and consideration of the new propesed traffic ordinance, an extra meeting of the Douglas City Coun- cil was held last evening. After a number of changes were made in some of its sections to meet local conditions the ordinance was passed to its third reading and will be taken up at the next regular meeting of the gouncilmen. Some other matters came up for | attention, the most important of cluded New York Central, Union,Which will await action at the next meetin g. Several spectators were similarly | Present at the session. e — D. I. W. C. MEETING The Doyglas Island Women's Club will met Wednesday night at the home of Mrs. A. R. Edwards. —— “SEA LEGS” IS AT’ COLISEUM THIS EVENING Jack Oakie in ‘‘Sea Legs,” will be the comedy attraction at the Doug- las Coliseum theatre tonight and tomorrow. hour and thirty minutes. Lacal talent has been enlisted and will start practicing in the near future, it was said. —_———,———— Thirty-seven thousand dollars will be expended this year by the Citizens Light, Power and Water Company of Ketchikan to cover extensions, replacements, increase the size of the primary feeders, install telephone cables in place of the present system of open enlarge water mains and numerous small items, according to O. M. Carter, manager of the Company. To cost $20,000, a business struc= ture will be erected on Mission Street at the 1oot of Bawden Street in Ketchikan by the Ketchi- kan Spruce Mills. For the building, a ten-year lease has been taken by the Mercantile firm of Thomp- son & Hattrick. N. Lester Troast, architect of Juneau, has been en- gaged to draw the plans. The structure is to be ready for occu- pancy April 30. DOUGLAS COLISEUM TONIGHT and WEDNESDAY JACK OAKIE —in— “SEA LEGS” Comedy—Acts—News 0'her, a friend in whom she could confide, with whom she could re- Jjoice, in being her real self, who regarded it all as a blot on her personal escutcheon. She couldn’t bear this. She wanted him to ad- mire, her, to offer his sincere approbation. “It wasn't really all like that,” she protested earnestly. tone was @ trifle amused. She could see that he was prepared for a manufactured recrimination. “Guy Bryson, the American, and 1 played about together because we. were both lonely. It—it was a sort of arrangement. It wasn't an affair. We never once though of each other that way. He never even held my hand. Rene Thena- ardier was a fortune hunter. His debts were mounting. He wanted to marry me for my money. He killed himself because of one,_particularly unbearable debt to & woman. Drake laughed. It was that in- fectious laugh, but there was a Quality in it this time that hurt. “Venice Muir, you're a genius.” “What do you mean?” He didn't believe her. Her dinner was going practically untasted. “Jook here,” he protested, “you'ra pot eating. Isn't everything al sight?” ' #The food’s delicious. didn't like your laugh.” “m _sorry, Venice. I didn't ‘it to be'a horrid laugh. But not a boy of eighteen. You But I T talked to you as if you were nd. I told you the truth, es, but €0 beautifully glossed. d for the idealistic young ears.” toyed -unhappily with her It all seemed suddenly hope- the rumors as “What was it really like then™ | ghouldn’t talk t0 ye as if T were.” |way. “1 don't particu- larly admire a girl who leads on a married man,” said Draks. J new unhappy problem. Drake hated |4 the very thing she had striven to achieve. . Her carefully builded wall of rumor. He was lost in watching her clear-cut profile. How could | this grave, feminine girl, who ap- | peared so honest and so shy be at |4 the source of all that Lola had glowingly reported? If he could|# only believe her interpretation of |4 the gossip. But no. It was her |3 ability to make people believe that had misled him in the beginning |4 and had no doubt fooled this Bry- son person and the Marquis. Venice suddenly turned. Their eyes met and clung. Hers were grave, his smiled for the serious- ness of her expression. - “Begin now, Drake. ‘I go down town every day and'—" ¥ He laughed. ‘“¥Yes, I go down town every day and I slave in the offices of Peas- ley and Whitcomb. In the eve- nings I make drawings for blue prints or stay at home and play contract with the family. Occasi- onally I go out with a girl or one of my special.cronies. That's all. An undnspiring existe n ce, monotonous, yet pleasant.” . “I didn't know you had a family. A big one?” “A mother and a father, sisters and two brothers.” “Go on,” she begged. Tt was as though he suddenly thought he was boring her. He smiled and shook his head. “Nothing glamorous about my existence. And here we are any- " two Back in Venice’s livin-room, di- vested of hats and coats, they stirred the fire 40 & cheerful blaze and made themselves comfortable. “What would happen if you won this contest?” she asked. “They’d use my drawing and I'd probably get good offers from all sorts of firms.” “Would that mean a tremen- dous lot to you?” “Yes” His face went alight. “I'd have a chance to bridge the years of hack work under other people. 1" He stopped BE MODERMN! CONSULT THE CLASSIFIED ADS Brains do it—not brawn! Don’t try to get};‘véhét you want with a bludgeon. More modern facili- ties are at your service. The Empire through its classified columns—carries your needs to the minds of the people you want to reach—immed- iately - effectively —inexpensively. Insert an advertisement! Read the advertisements! 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