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1S HE HERE AGAINT GREAT GUNS, & &HELLO POP! DID I 57 GIVE THAT ] DOUGLAS | FRST TIGKET 1S FILED FOR | CITY COUNGIL Douglas Candidates An-| nounce Th(‘,lnsc]\"(‘fu : e Others Coming Up Kilb , to suci ther ter Frankfur A V. e the £ > forthtoming munis > be held April 5.| nembers of the Oiti- | 0 cupy the vacan- y occur this year. | ld-over members of the e H. L. Cochrane, Alex Arne Shudshift, | acocrding to re-| made up. This would | and no doubt speed | tion which has been | { | up. the glow to date. e GOES TO SEATTLE Repert Bonner, pattern maker of Trcadwell, and Douglas City Coun- cilman, took passage on the Norco, | Saburd for the south. He ex-| zd to be absent for an indefi- | time | e — 1 NEW DELIVERY BOY FOR THE HUB A new baby boy was born at St STORE Ann’s hospital last night o Mr and Mrs. Mike Pusich of Douglas. | The 1 e fellow tipped the scales at eight and one-half pounds. Later | he will no doubt be an important | member of the Hug Store crew. - D e awberry known ! lintock has been de-) veloped by University of Teu neseé experiment station. | POLLY AND HER PALS 2 gy = v o SR R e e I WIiISH YOU'D BVER ALLEGED G HUMORIST . THE AIR! § \ N \V/ AMERICAN VIS, BUT PLANS ONE May Come to U. S. Latter Part of This Year, All Depends By JAMES A .MILLS BOMBAY, March 21.—Mohandas K. Gandhi still plans to visit the United States. The date, pends upon the political tion in India. If things calm down and he can | °ff-». a compromise¢ on the self- situa- governm:nt question, he may be ab.- to cross the Atlantic in the| lattor pact of 1982. ] America Must Behave | “But there must be a further| ondition to my going to the Umb?di‘ States," added the Mahatma. “I! must feel that T can serve a reall purpose there. ~ Americans must ) make it clear to me that they real- ly want to hear my message. | “They must also assure me that I won't be torn to pieces, as Pro- fessor Einstein was. There is such | a thing as being killed by the kind- ness of your friends. | “I must also be convineed In my | own mind that I will not be ex- ploited, misunderstood or abused.” Gandhi was asked what solutions he would offer to combat crime, | divorce, and the drink evil, in the event he went to the United States. Would Cure U. S. Evils “Crime,” he prenounced “is a dis- ease, and I would eradicate it by pathological, spiritual and moral means. Mere imprisonment cannot i cure it. | 1 would abolish the death pen- and prisons and substitute moral reformatories. “Crime will continue in the United States so long as the pres- ent lbreakneck speed and the race for doing better than your neigh- bor continues.” | Gandhi, who has a very happy, married life and does not believe | in divorce, said the divorce evil in the United States can be cured only by people ‘living saner and purer | lives,” | It was lkewise impossible, the Mahatma declared, for the Ameri- can authorit to uppress the widespread use of alcohol by spend- ing millions of dolllars on the en- forcement of the Volstead Act. “You canot cure the curse of have rows and FOR ALL JUNEAU Teleph FLLOWERS For Easter LILIES, DAFFODILS, HYACINTHS, TULIPS and cther CUT FLOWERS and POTTED PLA S will be found here in abundance. gladden your home on Easter. select yours today. any part of the city. We Telegra{h Flowers Anywhere For we rows of exquisite blooms to Come in and We deliver flowers to OCCASIONS FLORISTS one, 311 FUNNY STORY ABOUT THE EIGHT ESKIMOS ? SANDH! DREADS /‘*/\/—\/-'\\ IS IT FUNNY ? HA-HA ! HO-HO! BOY, IT'S A SCREAM/! TELL YOU THE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1932, Bv CLIFF STERRFTT WAL, YOU NEVER TOLD 1T TO ME THEN, TH,AT'S A COFF @EQKZE_-‘FC 222 T Saga of Modern ‘Valjean’ To Have Happy Ending * * * * Sixteen Years a Fugitive From Justice, Lamont Signor, Recently Recaptured, Won Par- don Through Intercession of Citizens i Where He Started New Life. i| { | For the firit time in sixteen years, since he escaped fro; i farm at London, Obio, where he was serving time for husgloc Lamont Signor knows the meaning of real happiness. Recentls arrested in Pine Hills, N. J., where he has won the admiration and respect of the entire community, for helping an unemployed citizen to obtain firewood from a private estate, Signor was identified by his fingerprints as Howard Penny, escaped Ohio convict. He was held for extradition to that State, but his fellow citizens of Pine Hills got up a petition, stating their opinion of Signor and setting forth his excellent recoid during the sixteen years he had been a member of the community. This they sent to Gov. George E. White, of Ohie. | who was 8o impressed by Signor's determined efforts and success in rehabilitating himself that he granted the man a full pardon, Signor is a former member of the Pine Hills School Board and takes an active part in civic affairs. His fellow citizens assert that the uncoverin of his past oaly decpened the respect in which they hold him. R i T B - e —— Buckmaster ! Winner of | Nome Race alcohol by mere money or enact- | ments,” said Mr. Gandhi, who has | been a teetotaler all his life. “Drink is a moral question, and | the evil can be exterminated only | by moral appeals to the conscience | Amd‘ pride of the individual and the nation.” | The Indian nationalist leader | opined that over-machanizatio and_over-production were at. the ‘B orden Marathon Event, Run Sunday Under base of the world’s economic ills, | He urged the people of the United | e Favorable Conditions States to adopt the spinning-wheel | and hand industry, like the vil- | lages of India. NOME, Alaska, March 21—The “The vital needs of every nation |Borden Dog Race took place here should be supplied by itself through |vesterday afternoon, starting at 2 its ‘cottage industries,’” he said. |o'clock. —————— 1) Erxl;est Buckmaster won the race, ¢ wmpavieey | 1S dogs making the course in 2 GARDEN FAVORS “HEAVIES” |hours and 7 minutes. | Harold Tutok, native, was second, NEW YORK,March 21.—The num- |12 minutes behind Buckmaster. ber of heavyweigh: pouts on the| Ed Rohn was third to cross the weekly fight cards at Madison |return line. Square Garden is being increased. | The race was run under favor- James J. Johnston, manager, and |Aable conditions but the time made Sam McQuade, matchmaker, believe |4id not threaten the record Fred that the willingness of Max Schm.- |AYers made years ago. cling, champion, to meet Jack PR S T Sharkey has stimuated interest in | ‘Students are enrolled at Brigham heavies. Young university, Provo, Utah, from | 17 states and five foreign nations. MIXING BOWL all for CALIFORNIA GROCERY WHITE KING DEAL 2 large packages of WHITE KING SOAP and 1 ten-inch enamelware EASTER CARDS BOOKLETS { EASTER NOVELTIES Butler, Mauro Drug Co. | THE REXALL STORE 1 PHONE 134 FREE DELIVERY || EXPRESS MONEY ORDERS KELLER LEAVES KIDNAPER 1S ! si0 i | ON INSPECTION ~SENTENCED TO TRIP TO SOUTH PRISON TERM {Commissioner of Educa- Pleads Guilty to Harbor- ing, Concealing of : James DeJute, Jr. WARREN, Ohio, March 21— the larger portion of this|Jchn D. Marco, second of two men sion, W. K. Keller, Conun.i-‘chxlrg:d with the kidnaping of ner of Education, left today on|James DeJute, Jr, 11-year-old son steamer Yukon, He will be ab-{cf a wealthy contractor of Niles, about two weeks | pleaded guilty today to the charge Commissioner Keller will visit all|cf harboring and concealing the he larger schools in the south-|boy, and was sentenced to from ern end of the Division, and some |one to twenty years in prison. maller ones. His first stop| The other man, Harold Hargraves 1l be at Petersburg. was recently sentenced ot life im= From there he will go to Point | prisonment. SHOOT WOMEN s and confer with local school about next year's school taions. TO SERVE 5 MONTHS BUCHAREST, Rumania, March 21.—Tt is reported here today that F. C, McKiniey, arrested over the |2 number of women were shot down weck end on a charge of violating | While defending churches from the the Alaska Bone Dry Law, pleaded |Soviet troops on “Bloody Sunday” ty today in the United States on the Ukranian border. Churches | are reported to have been wrecked tion to Visit Larger Schools to South On an inspection trip that will| Di the boards op: MKINLEY SENTENCED Comm: ner's Court. He was sen-| " e nced by Judge Charles Bey to (DY the Soviet troops i months’ imprisonment in the | RN RRaESE - T local Federal jail. : TRAVELING MEN RETURN Hi Johnuson, arrested with) J. W. Gucker and G. L. Rich, McKinley, pleaded not guilty. His commercial men, returned to Ju- g was continued by Judge |neau this morning aboard the Yu- of $1,000. the interior and to the wes y and bond was fixed in the sum kon after calling on the trade in| M BABE'S SUCCESS IN THE SWAMPS b el Associal ted Press Photo The Babe, still unmindful of the fact that he hasn't signed a con- tract to swing a bat for the New York Yankee engaging in alf manner of activities in the southland. Here’s Mr. Ruth just after he emerged from the Florida wilds swamps, Who knows, if Babe signs up he may appear wearing a new alligator glove. with this sizeable denizen of the in the outfield EDUCATOR TO BET $15,000 PORTLAND, Oregon, March 21— This state will pay $15,000 yearly to the man who will be chosen to head the new State Unified System of Higher Education. The man will be known as ‘Chan- cellor and will be the directing head of the Oregon University, Oregon Btate College and three normal schools. He will be chosen from cutside the state. Camadian Pacific Declares Dividend MONTRTAL, March 21:—Directors of the Canadian Pacific Railway have declared a’ dividend of 1% ' YUKON CANINES ARE STRICKEN SEWARD, Alaska, March 21.— ‘Travelers along the Yukon River | report over 200 sled dogs have been |fatally afflicted with & peculia: malady which paralyzes the hips {and hind legs. . A similar disease |among dogs raged in Nome about |25 years ago. e A s 8 {per cent (31 cents per share) on | ordinary capital stock for the quar- |ter ended December 31, 1931. | The Directors changed the divi- | dend policy from a quarterly to a | cemi-annual basis. Dividends for | the first half of 1932, it was an- | nounced will be considered at the | board’s August meeting, ——————— SHOP IN JUNEAU Read for Profit — Use for Results Daily Empire Want Ads Experience Has ' Proved Their Efficiency ’ G, yré!gfl‘nae E]mre .