The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 2, 1932, Page 4

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1932. Daily Alaska E m}iire JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERA! PRESIDENT AND EDITOR | L MANAGER |building are being cut to a minimum; the agricul- = _|tural experiment stations have been abandoned, and In the excey Y a Published _ev: EMPIRE_PRIN Streets, Juneau, st Sunday by t Second and Main Entered In the Post Office in Jun matter. eau as Second Class SUBSCRIPTION RA arrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Delivered by carrier In Junsau, Dougint, Thane fo By mail, postage T r, in a at the ; six $1.25. any fs y of their p . for Editorial or if they will promptly Japers. & and Business Offices, 374. eries companies, TES. aggregations of following rates: months, in advance, allure or irregularity The Associated Press it or not otherwise credited in this ocal news published herein, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. is exclusively » for republication of all news dispat itled to the credited to and also the ape ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTE THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER - Seattle ED To BE LARGER | Seattle PUBLICATION place. Mr. of Washington. down :ngaged in the form. FOOL FRIENDS. Some Western Democrats get a platform plank pledg to a course of development in good move; it ought to win. It was the Klondike rush covery of new gold fields that did much to bring good times to the West around the The golden flood start- ed business wheels turning everywhere. Alaska has been deliberately interests. turn of the century. For years, locked up by gan, of course, and administration of the Ter; as he wishes. The Northern Territory knows, metals, timber, coal, oil—a t ucts. Its lands are capable millions of people in comfort. But no man without larg various big permission from Mr. Morgan—can go to Al- aska and work with any hope whatever of success. There is no chance f man—and never will be, as long as the door is locked and Morgan holds the key. Every Westerner would benefit by the flood of new wealth that would follow an intelligent, liberal policy of Alaskan devel- opment by the people and for the people.— (Seattle Star.) While the good intentions of are appreciated, we are reminded upon & time asked to be saved In this instance, the harm is by an uninformed friend. Alaska has not been locked up by big interests. Such development as we have in been largely the result of big interests—among them the Morgan interests. The locking up of Alaska has to following the policies of our Pr Pinchot particularly. The Star is big P. They caused the locking u oil lands, and made the timber long time. Then came Wilson and of repairing wrongs. ernment must not be a hog in t would not let private citizens dev it would build a railroad. Congre: we got the Alaska Railroad. Patriotic and intelli- gent men in the Forest Service, suppored by friends in Congress and the Executive Departments, at last worked out a plan for timber devel and the Forest Service made liberal allowances for road building. Then came another Progressiv a fight to raise freight and passenger tolls on the Alaska Railroad so high as to i ness of the railroad. Now the Interior Department wants to take over the Richardson Highway and charge tolls on it so that its serv impaired. Others at Washington dominates these is, a vast treasure house, These things stopped the building of railroads and other development in the Territory. inaugurated a policy It was decided that the Gov- are trying to ing the party Alaska. It's a he dis- i e dis the Territory Mor- Senators and interests, ritory proceeds as everyone filled with housand prod- of supporting in the States. e capital—and work in Alaska or the average rules Alaska. tories, the black the Seattle paper that someone once from fool friends. ‘Washington. this Territory has “C (N been mostly due il ogressive friends— Progressive with a p of the coal and unavailable for a ships, going leaves his courage it seems to say. “They’ll he manger. If it elop the Territory 'ss acquiesced, and gers’ camp, and lumberman. silk. IRRIOERY At his death Congress e Senator to lead mpair the useful-|Zations had seen ices also might be want to withdraw ’{mm the negotiations that are being so well handled by the Forest Service looking to the development of timber areas for pulp and paper. meantime the |other activities threatened. No, the damage to Alaska and the dangers that threaten are not the Big Interests, not the Mor- gans, the Guggenheims, the Bradleys, the big fish- meddling by Washington busybodies—most of so-called Progressives. ROSS CHESTNUT, KLONDIKE PIONEER, Ross E. Chestnut, rush to the Klondike but for nearly thirty years in tha customs service at Port Townsend and then after the removal of the quarters to that City, died recently at the latter He was a special deputy in charge of ap- praisements at the time of his death. vived by his widow, daughter of former Collector of Customs Harper, and children. Chestnut Klondike and was graduated from the University official and very popular wherever he was known. A church assembly blames parents for breaking Prohibition. Those Yankee baseball players are showing old They are leading the American League as they have so often done before. long way to the next World Series, The Threat to Alaska. The vulnerability of Alaska and the inability of to cope with problems constantly arising due to the lack of judgment which neces- sarily must constantly reoccur in a distant, poliitcally bisected government, has been well illustrated dur- ing the present session of Congress. try at present, are, in many instances men whom no party would have dared offer under former nominating systems, but who have managed to creep into these once honored posts under the failure of | the present-day weak nominating primary elections It is these men who constitute a direct threat to Alaska. We had examples of these men, in recent weeks, when they suggested cutting out all road and trail the population was slashing again at the Alaska Railroad appropria- tion, and succeeded, and when they put through a twenty-nine per cent. reduction in the already miserably small allotment made to the Geological Survey for its work in Alaska. It is a strange situation which at present over- We have become the exile of Terri- Where there is honor and distinction in governing the Philippines or even the little Virgin Islands, in Alaska it is an unworthy post, a title without its customary heritage of power, for while these other Territories or protectorates have one Governor we have seventeen—the head of every active bureau in Robert Dollar, multimillionaire master of many has put out to sea on his last and most mysterious voyage. tical as was this God-fearing old Scotchman, his “Don’t wait for your ships to come in,” he used keep sending ’'em out.” ing 'em out” to the very last. At 11 he was a cook’s helper in a Canadian log- learning to on a piece of bark. Twice he went broke as farmer At 57 he sent to Shanghai a tiny schooner of lumber, bringing her back laden with tea, spice and He had discovered the Pacific commercially. ing a fleet of more than fifty vessels, including a fleet of round-the-world liners. Always he believed the Pacific was the ocean of destiny, that the Mediterranean and Atlantic civili- Governar Roosevelt delegations of South Dakota, Wyoming and Alabama on the same day he lost California, but it is the big one that always gets away.—(Boston Globe.) the appropriations for road other much them the big dredging concerns or capital. The trouble is too DEAD. a veteran of the 1897 gold customs head- He is sur- returned to Seattle from the He was a fine citizen, capable There work. must be a lot of them However, it is a (Cordova Times.) Representatives serving our coun- by the War Department because small. When the suggested sheep child of the United States. p” Dollar’s Ships. York World-Telegram.) Hardbitten, unlettered and prac- adopted country with a vision of peculiarly to need right now. come in all right so long as you “Cap” Dollar kept ‘“send- “figger” by candle-light at the age of 88 he was operat- their day. You Sl e SYNOPSIS: anncunces Jenny’s marriage Eddie Townsend. cmployer, ried women. CHAPTER 27. man’s form came around the tain of the four-poster. the shoulder and neck, and ing. He 1looked deferentially ed: “I thought quired me, sir?” perhaps you Jenny still further. “Get out! away! I'm capable of ringing you, when I want you!” The soft, sliding walk took “Have you seen that fellow fore?” carried my cousin’s bag down, you. “Ha! faces. acter, too, by the set of your You've a memory No need to blush—I'm old eno herself without offense. . do you think of him?” ly, “to discuss your nephew.” fellow, my valet,” that was his made blush anew. smile, to conclusion about a man. two. But—" “You don't like the look of hi Don't trust him?” or unwillingly, “not to trust him a matter of great importance. that’s only my opinion.” whether with satisfaction or could barely see him and when spoke she had the greatest di culty in following his words; nerve--racking squeak but a mx otonous thread of sound that bl ded with the rustle of brocade of the satin coverlet under hands. little Miss Jenny. You've got same tricks and graces and same sound judgment under that pale gold hair. n't listen to her d'ye see.” 8l her up, laughed at her, cowed found that she had had the ri of most things. People she wa; ed me against and people she lieved in, them all and T wa$™wrong. You speak up—you stand up collected the convention 21,400 POUNDS OF FISH COME IN PAST 24 HOURS Gillnet King Salmon from Taku River Drops to 2V and | Twenty-one thousand, four hun- dred pounds of fish were brought in the past 24 hours to Juneau, but 15500 pounds of the 16,000 pounds of the halibut were taken to Prince Rupert, B. C, in the hope of getting better prices than the 3 cents a pound first grade and 2 cents a pound second grade ~ . offered here. 3 Of the total receipts, 9400 pounds were king salmon. For the Taku gillnet catches of this fish, the price declined today to 2% cents a pound for reds and 1 cent . a pound for whites. Trolling sal- '~ mon maintained its figures of 4 .‘;‘ and 1. Boats and Catches Boats, ¢aptains, salmon catches, ‘buyers and prices follow: T 58, Thomas Bowman, T 473, Willlam Jackson, 450, all 1 _ Storage Company for freezing at 3 reds and 1 cent for . bought by the cold storage for 2% and 1; Sadie, Stevens, 3700, trolling, 840! ; T 488, Henry Stevens, 630; | bought by the Juneau Cold | bought by the cold storage for 4 and 1; T 578, Willlam Wilson, 1,- | 000; Emma, John Winther, 700, all | trolling, bought by E. E. Eng- |strom for 4 and 1 to be frozen for |the Fulton Fish and Oyster Com- pany of Chicago. 16,000 Pounds of Halibut The halibut brought to Juneau was 16,000 pounds on the Avona, Capt. Olaf Larsen. Five hundred pounds of this fish were sold to Mr. Engstrom for 3 cents a pound first grade and 2 cents a pound second grade. The rest of the catch was taken by the Avona to Prince Rupert, B. C. Six thousand pounds of halibut brought to Juneau Tuesday by the Fane, Capt. Olaf Johanson, were sold at 8 and 2 late yesterday to Mr. Engstrom for freezing for the Fulton PFish and Oyster Company. The Mary R, Capt. Miljo Rad- !man, took ice today preparatory to leaving for the halibut banks. B MAJ. OLIVER IS SECRETARY OF MISS. RIVER COMMISSION Maj. Lunsford E. Oliver, former Engineer Officer of the Alaska Road Commission, who has been on jduty for some time at Fort Hum- | phreys, Va., was recently ordered (to report for duty at Vicksburg, Miss. He has been assigned to the Mississippi River Commission as its Secretary and will make his | headquarters at Vicksburg. ——————— | The Rev. Erling K. Olafson, Pas- tor of the Resurrection Lutheran Church, who has been attending the Lutheran Synod in the South, is returning home to Juneau to- night, a passenger on the , Norah, 7 ALASKA NEWS ©One of three hungry bears broke into the cabin of James Chakos, trapper at Mile 30 on the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad north of Cordova, while the habi- tation was occupied by its owner. He killed the intruder, Cracks as wide as six inches in the ground and new ridges of earth were made by a quake in the Fairwell mountain district, not far from the Kuskokwim country. Ein- ar Carlsen, a trapper of McGrath, told Aviator Matt Nieminen, who reported the story to the An- chorage Times on his return to Anchorage from a flight to Me- Grath. ‘Trappers in the Faise Pass dis- trict had a good season. Red fox and mink were more plentiful than usual, Getting 50 cents tq the pan, from soil that was the site of the Wash- ington-Alaska Bank in Fairbanks, George Moore took a truck load of the earth away to sluice. A week later he returned and got another truck load. Hg refused to tell the result of his sluicing op- erations. During the years the bank did business, gold dust sift- ed through floor cracks. The bank building was torn down to make lmom for the new Federal bufld- ng. Mrs. E. L. Hunter, Jr, returned home to Juncau, a passenger aboard the Northland. She has been visit- ing her parents in Oregon. [\ —iwithout meaning to , Eh?” “Well, I had the advantage a very bullying old grandfatix explained Jenny erlet. rather. hands were!—she remembered grandfather's being like that at nights as hot as this. slipped her other hand under it and cradled it gently, trying give out her own thrilling warmth. mut- tered Grafton Matching, as though “What “Old bones, cold bones,” he had read her thoughts. GETTING ALONG The sure way to get along in this world is to save some money ALL the time, It isn’t necessary to make large deposits, as small and frequent additions to your account will make your bank fast. We pay four per cent on savings accounts compounded twice a year B. M. Behrends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA “The cleverest little scamp 1 ever knew,” Garth Aveney calls Jenny Revell, be- cause she has encouraged him, and now her cousin, Georgie, ‘Jenny - has premised not to tell that Geor- gie really is married to Eddie, because Grafton Matching, her | discharges all mar- Before Jenny could tell him, a'matter to me. She saw that he was short in\ he had a soft, quick way of tread: Grafton Matching and murmer- | dr: “Why should I require you?| valet over the expanse of carpet to|her out. a door in the paneling of the wail. |gie should hate him and fear him A moment later it closed behind|and so lightly deceive Hhim. him. Jenny found that her éccen- |wasn't dignified, all this secrecy tric host was watching her again. |and intrigue about Eddie. “Yes, just for a second when he the Old Man and gasping, Jenny the day that she went away With|_or eise he really could read her| And you're a judge of char- and the breadth between your eyes. to pay a ‘compliment to the queen . What “I don’t want,” said Jenny firm»1 “But I was speaking of that the old man pointed out; and the sly grimace “It doesn't seem fair to come only seen him twice for a minute “It might be better,” said Jenny The strange old man lay bacK|want me too,” she promised him. upon his pillows, wriggling twice— | noyance Jenny could not tell—and remained flat upon the bed. She he was not using his dreadful his opened windows and the sound “My wife was so very like you, Only T would- and tren when she was gone, she was right about But you're not so timid as she was. me—I couldn't cow you without conscienciously. And they laughed together—Jen- ny Revell and the old man wha, people said, hadn’t got a heart. On impulse, she put out & hand to ‘cover his as it plucked at the cov- “Please shout at me if you'd T shan’t care a scrap.” How thin and cold old people’s Can't Marry by Julia Cleft-Addams (t SSrslaS T mars s re ==l o= su =l phew Garth Aveney?” to and detest all in one breath. “There’s nothing. dislike each dther.” { | He thinks badly of me and I'm not free to defend myself. But| las we're not likely to see anything 'turned cur- |matter at all” ‘My wife said that of me once,’ hen we had a courting quarrel. She had spirit, then.” [ tha: rong about everything.” ed her hands away, a out, re-and then I shall forget—" {voice broke and she had to stop.! Her | more! Go for |laughed. He really was the | half-hidden, baiting her, It was a pity that Geor- Tt {the landing. be-| All this nonsense about you mar- |rying my pilot, Townsend,” said new,” OL shrank fn her chair. Magic, this mind. for| “That's what has come between She faced all these truths and, “Who's shouting now?” enquir- |with her head up and her redden- His employer’s voice rosc|ed Grafton Matching and wriggled [ed lips smiling, into a rasping squeak that startled flatter in the enormous bed. {flight that led to her apartment. In spite of her misery, Jenny Nevertheless, as she laid her hand like ajon the door and heard a step on mischievous old wizard, lying there[the inner side of it, she darted drawing jaway and up the next flight, and stood there, panting, opened the door and came out on (Copyright, Julia Cleft-Addams.) “You'll choose between me and your job, and you'll choose Eddie tells Georgie in the next installment. Daily Empire Wwant Ads Pay |is between you and my great-ne- control over her nerves to return. She could hear Gill downstairs in She began to draw her hands his office, moving heavily about, |away but he retained them with|and she could hear the muffled |surprising strength. All her vital- noises of the street outside, the ity seemed to flow out from her!hootings and grandings of the cars and into .that strange, compelling and, the cries of the children on old creature ‘'whom one could love the pavement. For some odd rea- | son, she remembered that at this That is—we hour Eyle Street was on the very{® edge of twilight and that Jenny,|e. funny kid, loved to watch the dusk, She shivered but resolutely COMPLIMENT TO THE QUEEN of each other, his opinion doesn't|Face things, face things—cried her He simply doesn't|courage. Face the fact that Jenny {isn’'t a child and that Eddie always really wanted a home-loving little wife who would leave all the ad- venturing to him. Face the fact “We haven't—it isn't—you're alljthat Eddie can't go on adventur- Bheling at all, for a bit, and that be-; crying ing a man and T -shall make him apologize | want -2 home-loving wife all got up, and up the stairs.( he will the illogical, she ran up the while Eddie you and Garth Aveney, all this 1ps nonsense about Townsend,” con-| cluded Grafton Matching. “Do you| |like butter-scoteh?” | | “No, I hate it!” Jenny answered.| too bewildered to be polite. “I do not really eat any sweets.” “Nor do half the people I give‘L them too, but they're such sheep; they daren’t say so. All the same,| little Miss Jenny. I know what| you like and I111 have them next | time you come and see me. To- ugh her |morrow. Youll come tomorrow.| M€|I daresay. You might come ev-| I've lory day.” She could not decide whether it Goodyear - Tires Full Stock of AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES Juneau Motors Authorized Ford Agency |was a request or an order or a im? | phophecy. But she forgot that |she had bewildered her and an-| Vo |geréed her and teased her and,| M ibending down, she put her lips| But |10 his frail cold hands, “Yes, I'l come as often as you| |“And now I must go and look af-| ter—ailter Eddie. Good-night.” She believed that he was laugh- ing as she left the room. At her? At Eddie? Georgie would maintain an- he BUSINESS SUPPLIES; COMMERCIAL PRINTING BINDERY Geo. M. Smvpkins Co. ffi- f that the Old Man knew Well or enough which of them had mar- ried his pilot. Perhaps she was right and the mocking old laugh was a sign of it. But why should he have spoken of Garth Aveney? He had Lalkedl as though it were she and not Georgie whom Garth had loved ap first sight. And—and at dinner, Garth had talked like that, too. She had barely a glance for the butler who proffered her shawl and put her into the big car that, | he assured her, waited her pleas- ure. She knew only that she must get home to the apartment and ask Georgie—many things. on- en- at his her ther all hut her ight rn- be- Georgie stood on the stairs, and | watched Jenny go on her way to dine with Grafton Matching. A shimmer of silvery green and a flash of jade and she had van- iched from sight. Georgie was left there to face with something that she had never admitted to herself—that her little cousin wasl} not a child, not an enchanting lit- | tle plaything, but a woman grown —A wvery lovely woman. Georgie took out her powder and lipstick and lavishly repaired her complexion. She wished that!| she had not lost her temper with Jenny, not only because there was, after all, no reason for her jeal- her [ousy, but because she had planned and [to some home cool and competent Shefand to be a tower of strength to Eddie and Jenny as well. And now she was actually crying. 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