The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 30, 1932, Page 4

S o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1932. Dail y Alaska Em pire | JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published _every evening except Sunday by the| EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main uneau, Alaska T ntered in the Post Office in Juneau as Sccond Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month, at the following rates: By mall, e paid One year, x months, in advance, 6.00 Y Subscribers w if they will promptly notify the B y failure or irregularity r pape del! S on srial and Business Offices, 374. | in t Teiephone for E " MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. Aseociated Press is exclusively entitied to the for republication of all news. dispatches credited to local news publis ALASKA CIRCUL. THAN THAT O ON GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER F ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. SEWARD DAY. Sixty-five years ago today Secretary of State William H. Seward, representing President Andrew Johnson and the United States, and M. de Stoeckl, representing Czar Alexander II and Russia, signed the treaty of purchase of Alaska. It marked the first decisive step toward making this Territory an American possession. The Territory has com- memorated the occasion by making the 30th of March an official holiday and designating it as Seward Day for America’s representative in the negotiations. The action was appropriate. It gave Alaska two holidays of equal importance: the other being Alaska Day, October 18, the date on which the treaty of purchase, that had been ratified by the United States Senate in the Summer following its negotia- tion, became effective. The Russian flag was lowered on that date at Sitka and the Stars and Stripes, signifying American ownership, was flung to the breeze. The negotiations for the purchase of Alaska were started by the Washington Territorial Legislature which adopted a memorial addressed to President Johnson praying that the United States buy Alaska. President Johnson submitted the memorial to Sec- retary of State Seward with his approval. The latter immediately took the matter up with M. de Stoeckl, the Russian Minister. The treaty, its ratification and consummation, followed in regular order To those who live in Alaska Seward D: is one of two great days in the annual calendar. It is meet that it be celebrated with enthusiasm wher- ever Alaskans might be. PROMINENT YUK FIGURE DIES. Frederick Tennyson Congdon, formerly Governor (Commissioner) of Yukon Territory and later Member of Parliament from Yukon, well known throughout the North, died a few days ago at his home in| Toronto, aged seventy-three years. He was a leading lawyer, practicing in five Provinces and Yukon Ter- ritory during his eventful life, and regarded as one of the most finished orators in the Dominion. He came to Dawson in the early days as legal adviser | of the Government and was later promoted to the | Governorship. Two or three times he was elected to Parliament and several times defeated for that| office. He was one of the prominent figures in the development of Yukon Territory before he removed | to Vancouver. Later he located in Toronto. His death is sincerely regretted by all who knew him. [according to figures recently compiled by the United |The contractors and material dealers might be call- lamong the American people an effective desire for States Department of Commerce. A productive ad- vertising campaign by the distributers helped to account for this gain. Advertising is being employed as an effective sales weapon in behalf of cigarettes in Switzerland just as it is in the United States, where large amounts are invested in newspaper space to tell the public about the removal of impuri- ties through improvements in manufacturing such | ties through improvements in manufacturing and improvements in packaging such as the notched-tab cellophane wrapper. The Swiss liking for American tobacco is also indicated by the tobacco imports, approximately half of the imported leaf tobacco of Switzerland being supplied by the United States. Senator Nye says he will not support President Hoover for re-election. That is one vote the G. O. P. will lose, unless the Senator changes his mind, for Mr. Hoover will be renominated. No one will deny that Senator Nye has a right to control his own vote, but many will question that he has power to cause many others to follow him blindly. With fifteen deaths from storms in one day, the Governor of New York snowbound at his farm, not enough electricity in Pennsylvania's *penitentiary to execute a man, and other complications due to cold and wind and snow, the East is having a hard time of it in these late March days. El Padre Del Nieve. (Seward Gateway.) Bermard R. Hubbard, S. J., has won the merited title of “Father of the Snows” in his years of Alaska travel and famous explorations of glaciers and volcanoes. As usual, throughout the winter months, he has been delivering lectures in the larger cities of the United States which are of inestimable value in their presentation of the marvels and scenic wonders of Alaska. Possibly no theme has so gripped and ‘held the attention of the public than the volcanic chain on the Alaska Peninsula. With motion pictures, Father Hubbard has brought to his audiences, things for which mil- lions crave but of which few are able to avail themselves. His return at this time when his favorite vol- canoss out Westward have a rival in Mount Shis- haldin, warns us that we are in for another series of entertaining thrills as well as a fund of in- estimable knowledge of Vulcan when his forge is casting sparks. It is fortunate that the nation possesses such| men as Father Hubbard. It was through his pro- totypes of history that the portals of learning were thrown open to the world and civilization was en- riched with knowledge which has been the stepping stone to the pinnacle of world enlightenment cast- ing its glow over mankind. A Selling Job for Builders and Dealers. (Editor and Publisher.) One fact we must recognize is that competition is not confined to persons and concerns within the same industry, but that one of our most important forms of competition is that between industries. The American people must be made to want larger and better homes so much that they will perfer and definitely decide to spend more for them rather than' for other things. Probably the strongest com- petition that the home building industry receives is from the automobile industry. Having convinced | the American people that every family should have one car, that industry is now engaged in trying to convince them that every family should have two cars. The automobile industry not only does more national advertising than any other industry, but it has agents in every community that use the most efficient selling methods known. If the home build- ing industry is to meet that kind of competition the different parts of the industry—manufacturers, contractors, material dealers—must use equally ef- fective sales methods, both nationally and locally. ed, not unaptly, the local agents of the building in- dustry. It is they who are in direct contact with home owners and prospective home owners. There- fore, they must be mainly relied upon to create larger and better homes in order that the home building industry may successfully meet the compe- tition of other industries that are trying to sell the BEST PLACE TO BUILD A HOME. There is a movement on foot throughout the country to educate people to the idea of owning their own homes. There is no better place in the world to own a home than in Juneau. There is no place where the outlook is brighter for maintaining the value of a home than it is here and there is certainly nowhere safer from business or health standpoints in which to live. Juneau is prosperous and it will remain prosperous if too many people | do not come here from less desirable places. For those that are here and working Juneau is just about the best place in the world. Why not build & home here and stay? SWISS BUY MORE AMERICAN CIGARETTES. Sale of American cigarettes in Switzerland in- ! creased 8 per cent. in 1931 as compared with 1930, ‘people other things. The Anti-Saloon League has met with rather poor |success in its efforts to dry up the country, but it seems to have been able to dry up the sinews of |war upon which it depends—(Detrolt Free Press.) | | Don't search the dictionary for words mean ‘enough to apply to the kidnapers of a child. The |dictionary is a decent book.—(Toledo Blade.) | Buying “baby bonds” should become one of our leading infant industries.—(Indianapolis Star.) | The Chinese are said to have “fooled” the Japs by their quiet retreat. That's the kind of surprise party Tokyo would like every day.—(Boston Herald.) Charles Schwab says he is confident of the fu- |ture. What a difference in the confidence of a man {a few millions can make!—(Miami, Fla, News.) Washington’s egg shipments break all records. KITTY by JANE SYNOPSIS: Kitty Frew leaves her husband, Gar, a few short weeks after their mar- riage, and says she won't come back until he is willing to sup- port her. He has been content to bring his wife to his par- ents’ home, and live on his mother’s money, while he rests from the strain of graduation from college.. Kitty discovers that Mrs. Frew is trying to make Gar regret his marriage and will not stay in the home. Mrs. Frew's ambitions for her have been disappointed by his marriage to an unknown girl from a small town, but she hopes to prove that Kitty dees not fit into their arrangement. Another person annoyed by the marriage is Marge Crosby, who Gar formerly liked, and who still hopes to steal him away from Kitty. When she leaves, Kitty calls up David Frew, Gar’s half-brother, whom she trusts, but who has quar- reled with his family. CHAPTER 14 RUNAWAY “So you've run away, bag and baggage,” David said. X “I had to David. How could T stay?” Don't you see that I sim- ply couldn't.” Kitty's face, white and strained, lifted pleadingly to David Frew's He turned from it a little ab- ruptly. “Yes, I can see that you thought that. 1 went, myself—just like that. But I've always been sor- ry I did for it gave her an in- mning.” Then suddenly he laughed. “Well, we're sort of in the same boat aren't we?” Kitty acknowledged that with a wan little smile. But it com- forted her to a degree. She re- laxed against the shabby cushions of the divan to which David on coming had led her, drew a long shivering breath. Though at the time her brain had seemed to work with mechani- cal precision now she had only a confused recollection of her actual flight in which Pound's face and its deep concern stood out most vividly. Her bag was too heavy for her. Pound had said, but she had known that he meant more than the bag. There was a sharp wind blowing and Pound had stood out in it bare-headed, until the taxi he'd called had come up to the curb. Oh, Pound was kind! And David had been kind. Da- vid had listened to her story with= out a single interruption. She knew that he'd been angry, listen- ing, she’d seen how he dug his hands savagely into his pockets, thow, now and then, his lips- bit hard over some word he would not speak. He'd paced up and down the floor. But he hadn't interrupted her and she was grate- ful for that, becauseif he had she could mot have gone on with it perhaps. “What's your plan, you want to go home?” “T thought of that gt first but I'd rather not. I'd hate to go. —like this—to have them know— for Gar's sake, you see—! She faltered, flushing, for she knew David would not see. He had the grace to turn his scorn from her. “You seem too absurdly:like a child to start on your own—" “Oh, But I'm not!” Kitty pro- tested quickly. “Really now I feel as if I were middleaged. I can work. I'm not afraid of it Or of leaving to live alone until She faltered again. David's anger reached & point beyond his control. “Why in heaven's name did you throw Kitty? Do FREW g A 3 ABBOTT, You haven't eaten any din- " he said abruptly. “I haven' So let's cheer ourselves a e before we decide the sit- uation. Sit here while I wash up and then well go out.” He went into an adjoining room. Left alone Kitty dropped her head against the back of the 1v and closed her eyes. Oh, been right in knowing she cculd léan on David’s kindness. And just for awhile she had to lean on something. When she opened her eyes it was to her first realization of the room, a shabby room, in mannish thing in disorder. It seemed to have nothing in it but books, books on shelyes put in between windows and against the end —books on the table back of divan, old, worn-looking books. noting them, Kitty smiled. pictured David lonely but ner it} 3ut 3he'd no one could be lonely with so y books. At one of the win- stood a desk and a type- ter, covered over with a wild sonfusion of loose sheets of paper. That was where David worked— probably he'd been working there when she telephoned. He came in to find her still smiling. “Fine. You're looking e like yourself, Kitty. Ready? There's a little place on the cor- ner,” not many frills to it—" ‘Oh, I'm so glad of that;” Kit- ty's tone was fervent. The restaurant was almost emp- ty. The table to which David led Kitty was marble<topped, center- ed with salt and pepper shakers, an enormous sugar bowl and vine- gar cruet. A sign on the wall behind it warned patrons to watch their own hats and coats. Kitty had a swift disturbing mental picture of Gar at the Hoff- man, Marge, Diana, Red, the oth- ers— T can recommend the beef- ik and French fries,” David was “I'm really not hungry.” Yet, when her dinner was set before her, Kitty ate, because she knew it would please David if she ate. “Now.” David pushed his emp- ty pie plate away from him. “T've been thinking, Kitty—" She had to interrupt him. “Oh, David, I'm so sorry to bother you like this. But you see T had to talk to some one.” She flashed a small grateful smile on him. David laughed. “Dont worry about bothering me. No one be- fore, to my knowledge, ever has dooked to me for help of any sort. It sets me up immensely. But what I was going to say. is that well take the whole problem to Dorcas Tabor.” tty shrank back into her chair with a quick sound of pro- test. #Oh, David! I can't!” David ignored her pleading. “Dorcas is the most understand- ing creature in the world, Kitty,” he told her. “I call her a doctor of souls, an angel of the damn- ed—" But his extravagant hyperbole did not reassure her. She could not take her story to a strang- er; David ought not to ask it of her. “David, I can't,” she repeated miserably. “Well, one thing, Kitty. I can't put you up tonight. Not that I wouldn’t sit on the curb all night quite happy knowing that you twere comfortable in my bed but my dear stepmother might mot believe that I occupied the curb, Another thing I cannot advise you about. getting work as well as Dorcas can. And we don't want to start off on the wrong foot, you see.” yourself away on Gar before you knew what you were getting?” He demanded with savage roughness. “David, please! "I love Gar.” “Sorry, Kitty. I've overlooked that curious fact” He sat down next to her on the divan. He took one of her hands in his. “Anyway, weire not fighting him. “We're fighting for the other one” “I a fighting for Gar’s and my happiness.” In her earnest- 1t seems we have not only contented cows, but in- spired hens.—(Seattle Times.) Povrricsa Rarndom (By BYRON PRICE) fancy. Roosevelt-for-President man. This struck a responsive chord in the old bay state, which had no notion Smith would run. Much as they disliked every appearance of ness Kitty caught her hands over her breast and the gesture gave her the look of a religieuse taking ‘a vow. David saw her like that and a sudden Sswift tenderness softened the hard lines on his face. ‘A painful flush had crept over Kitty's face. She had put David in an awkward position and now was balking his most reasonable way out of it. She mnodded her head slowly in acceptance of his suggestion, averting her gaze as she did so. “That's a good girl!” She might, have been, indeed, the child he thought her. “You'll like Dorcas. She lives just two blocks down the street. Well go there now. Maybe we'll be lucky enough to find her without any engagement this evening.” Outside David drew Kitty's hand through his arm. In spite of herself her steps lagged; it still bare to anyone but David the gituation that had brought her here. David stopped before a short flight of stained worn stone steps flanked by rusty iron railings. That these had had beauty, that the wide door above them must have opened at one ftime to the cheer and warmth of a gracious hospitality could not cross Kitty's fancy then; her shrinking had now grown to terror and she pulled involuntarily on Davids arm. “I can't!” she implored. But he only laughed. unti! you see Dorcas.” The door was slightly ajar as if it were any one’s business o enter at will. The hall was long and narrow and bare and lighted only by a single glcbe far up in the ceiling. David appeared famil- jar with the emptiness and .the dimness; he started at once up the long flight of stairs, emitting a peculiar whistle as he went. \* its sound a door on the second floor opened letting out an ob- long yellow light. (Copywright, Jane Abbott) * Kitty's fright changes to sur- prise when she sees Dorcas, in the next installment Can there be a solution to her problem?” “Wait “Allen A” SHIRTS AND SHORTS New Shipment Just in The kind that fit SABIN’S “The Store for Men” seemed unthinkable that she could|® PROFESSIONAL | L] Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 | \. DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | | DENTISTS | Blomgren Building PHONE 56 ! Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Room 7, Valentine Bldg. Office Phone 484; Residence Phone 288. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 | B —— | Fraternal Societies ' oF 5 . + Gastineau Channe! | R A e e i B. P. 0. 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The outcome of the April 26 During the present generation the majority has been turning gradually away from the Republi- can leadership of the proud old colonial families, and reposing in- creased power in the hands of an element whose voting strength comes Jargely from immigrant stock, under the leadership of the Irish-Americans. Now, the leaders of the newly- triumphant Democratic element are quarreling bitterly over the spoils of victory. In a most interesting way, the struggle for local ascendency has entangled itself with the question of presidential preference. Party Heads For Smith One element, which now favors Smith, has within its ranks most of the titular leaders of the party, including Joseph B. Ely, Senator David 1. Walsh, and the State chairman, Frank J. Donahue, becoming the tail to Curley’s kite, some of the leaders of the opposi- tion faction appeared on the point of joining up with the Roosevelt movement of which Curley had ta- ken such complete possession. 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