The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 23, 1932, Page 4

0 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1932. . - = PRESIDE JOHN W. TROY |recently ended in Z = | NT AND EDITOR {what term :RAL MANAGER ginia” apply to —linsult to the Dry ROBERT W. BENDER - - G blished vel 3 except EW‘:;“I:’!P}"‘ ]",{'T“I’f\'fl COMPANY at Streets, J au, Alaska Sunday by M"j"‘l ey adopted a Second and Main |y pemocrats a Entered in the Post Office in June matter. au as Second Class |will have SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Dou glas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month ; {1928 By mail e paid, at the following rates: | One v vance, $12 x months, in advance, | Bishop ); one n , in advance 5. A ot confer a favor if they will promptly | notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity Postmaster in the delivery of their papers Telephone for Edit nd Business Offices, 374. TE v MEMBER OF ASSOCI The Associated Press is exc use for republication of it or not otherwise credited in this in. tocal news published he Il_news dispatches credited to | conditions. D PRESS. | ely entitled to thelonly paper and also the . . ;aa a bunch of bums. Daily Alaska Empire 7 ~__ |staged a “beer parade” in the convention hall e of opprobrium will the General Walter F. Brown, 'j'n Senator Borah, prefers the o. f. saloon to present | What's difference is the saloons paid taxes on good | |liquor they sold and the speakeasies pay graft on| At the Republican convention Chicago, anti-Prohibition delegates Just “Pope of Vir- the Republican Party for tha s? With the Republicans boasting “moist” plank on Prohibition and Imost certain to have one that is genuinely wet, the meaning of the word depression a fresh politican-churchman |funds used to de significance for the Virginia who handled the campaign efeat Gov. Smith in that State in It looks like a hard campaign year for the according wrong with that? About the the bum liquor they dispense. ALASKA CIRCULATION G e i =L} UARANTEED TO BE LARGER | THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION | Senator national “three. ) election there to attend tI popular CHIEF FORESTER A statement of the “Forest Service Policy in Al- R. Y. Stuart, and head of the United States Forest Service, lays that ought to be guiding for every department and Federal bureau connected with/ He declares: aska,” issued by Maj down one principle Territorial administration. ANNOUNCES ALASKAN POLICY. supporting colds are caught |hot barracks, work in drafts at temperatures below Chief Forester | be seen under t holds out no hoj Alaska is a Territory of the Uni | States. Its people are American citiz |seems to be unc; Its economic and social advancement is a |for swarming in matter of national interest and concern. Its : lack of complete self-government imposes an A Tip additional obligation upon t avoid creation of conditions inimical to its welfare. That is a doctrine to which every American, he be true to his heritage of free to subscribe. There is but one to it. ditions created by Federal admin: Maj. Stuart did not go far enough. well have conceded the right of Alaskans, as Amer cans, to have something to say about whether con- he nation to if | citizenship, ought | possible criticism | % He mmhhposmon of both in a significant |is in the diversior istrative acts and‘m[o the tra: Borah, not wanting | party, can continue to be a one-man part evidence. |case is especially impressive. |most northerly community live and sleep in damp, there is no serum that will impart immunity. asuries of Provinces and the to lead a through the other year just as he is in Chicago crowds cheered Al' Smith on his arrival| he Democratic National Convention Whether Smith is ever President, he will always be Common Colds. (New York Times.) That colds are associated with |Public Health officials have long suspected . Dr Wilson G. Smillile of Harvard now supplies the In four isolated communities only from outsiders. Spitzbergen's The miners of that |freezing, but catch no cold. When Dr. Smillie con- cludes that the common cold must be attributed to an infection and probably to one that can never he microscope we naturally ask if He pe. Only the secondary infections may perhaps be thus controlled. The primary cold | onquerable—the price that we pay cities. from the Canadians. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The Enquirer’s Ottawa correspondent pointed out article, printed Thursday, that the contrgl and sale of liquor by Provincial Governments in Canada has done much to fortify the fiscal| Provinces and the Dominion Gov- {ernment, and has avoided drastic increases of taxes. The real meaning of the Canadian liquor system n of the great profits of bootleggers Dominion. regulations are in fact inimical to Alaska's welfare. By orderly schemes of control, liquor is taken out Many instances can be cited of Federal policies mj'Jf politics and out of private business as well. It Alaska, forced on us in the guise of being for our (1S taxed moderately by the Dominion Government, best interests, when actually they development and advancement W the nation in any respect The Forest Service poli be printed in its entirety responsibility for forest developm points out y state that Southeast! Alaska's damaged Alaskan |Whieh re: i ithout benefitting |~ ‘0 Frovincia |which realizes $40,000,000 a year thereby. It is sold Governments through monopolies, and the profit of some $30,000,000 a year goes to Provincial treasur ment, t00 long t0| When it is rea ent and hemlock and [tained while the ies. lized that this vast revenue—greater recognizes that bureau’s than any other tax in Canada except income and properly |sales taxes, and sometimes larger than these—is ob- Canadian people drink less and spruce resources constitute one of the Territory’s less of alcoholic beverages each year, it is apparent three perity. major sources for future growth and It is forthright in its declaration that the| Forast Service will fulfill its responsibilities in th"[steady that Canada pros- |scheme revenue. has of control. Taxes and profits on liquor are a remarkable evolved a sound and workable Where sales tax and income tax development of these resources by encouraging their yrevenues fall away in depression by 40 to 60 per utilization in the manufacture of wood-pulp andcent, liquor revenues show perhaps a 20 per cent paper. It rejects as untenable the theory that no- |decline. More important, the tax or profit on liquor body will be hurt by tying up all or any of these is not a compulsory payment. It is neither the forests as game sanctuaries and brands as untrue |drag on industry nor the nuisance to individuals the claim that this could be done without cost to| It vigorously opposes such with Alaskans, Glacier Bay National Monument as the proper placc‘ the Federal Government a procedure and, siding for additional game sanctuaries. Alaskans will welcome the Stuart statement. is encouraging to have men hold his to come to our aid when fanatical conservation- tion law continu might do wore tl ians. points to ! It ing positions like | changing circums that almost all other imposts prove to be. As the sentiment for modification of the Prohibi- es to mount in this country, we han take a tip from the Canad- Their system is sound, from a moral and from a fiscal point of view. As a rule, speakeasies adapt themselves easily lo tances, and if and when 2.75 beer ists mass their forces in a drive to tie up more of |is legalized would merely have to water the present our Territory which is already ridden to distraction | with foolish and useless reservations, HARD TIMES FOR BISHOP CANNON. ‘La.st September when Legionnai American Legion’s National Convention at Detroit, enlivened the sessions with the cry “we want beer,” Bishop James Cannon, Jr., publicly attacked them So far, (Dayton, Ohio, Nt res, attending the Well, have anything ni the Dry leaders are 'Mr. Rockefeller from all sides. stock 200 per cent.—(Detroit News.) not even the rabid drys have hinted that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was bought off— ews.) now busy attacking Obviously they can't ce to say about a man who states the truth as he sees it—(New York Sun.) JEANNE COMES FOR SUPPLIES FOR LIARD PARTY G. C. Booth, Millionaire, Here from Tulsequah On Way Home To get supplies for the Thomas M. Mitchell prospecting party, which | is based at Tulsequah, B, C. and| which plans aerial trips into the Liard district of Yukon Territory, the river boat Jeanne, Capt. Wil-| liam Strong, came to Juneau last| evening. She is scheduled to leave | here tomorrow morning on her re- turn to Tulsequah. | The vessel brought to this city | George C. Booth of Detroit and R. 8. Montague of Saginaw, Mich,, | members of the Mitchell party, and | Mrs. Bessie Hearn, wro has charge | of vhe cooking at Mitchell camp| at Tulsequah. Millionaire To Go Home M™Mr. Booth, a millionaire, who came to Alaska a few eweks ago with other members of the treasure seekers, does not expect to returr to Tulsequah. He plans to leave here in a day or two on his re- turn to Detroit He hopes to ar- range ot travel from this city to Seattle by plane. Mr. Montague and Mrs. Hearn will go back to Tulsequah on the Jeanne. The Mitchell plane that was here several days undergoing repairs, took off this forenoon for Tulse-| quah. ‘Aboard of it were Co-pilots | Mrs. Mitchell At Atlin | Mrs. Thomas M. Mitchell, wife | of the head of the Mitchell party, | arrived this week in Juneau from Seattle, and departed from here for Skagway. She was destined for Atlin, where Mr. Mitchell is ex- pected ‘to make his headquarters, while the five planes chartered by his party, fly to and from the Liard area. 5,000 POUNDS OF KING SALMON SELL FOR 3 AND 1 Five thousand pounds of Kking |salmon constituted fish receipts today in Juneau. The amount was |included in one catch, that of the Thlinket, Capt. James Martin. The fish were bought by E. E. Eng- strom, representing the Sebastian- Stuart Company, for {reezing, at the usual prices of 3 cents a pound for reds and 1 cent a pound for whites. Ten tierces of mua cured salmon were shipped south today on the Admiral Watson. Brooklyn and Seattle Five of the tierces were sent by {the Juneau Cold Storage Company to the Atlantic and Pacific Fish- eries of Brooklyn, N. Y, and five by Mr. Engstrom to Sebastian- Stuart. Ice and Bait Taken In the past few days bait and ice have been taken by the halibut boats Norland, Capt. Thomas Sand- vik; Avona, Capt. Olaf Larson, and Mary, Capt. Conrad Nergaard. Ice has been taken by the sal- mon boats Sadie, Capt. James Young; Celtic, Capt. Henry Moy; T-3044, Capt. Henry Kitka, and FLAG OF WALES FOLLOWS TRADE LONDON, June 23.—The Prince of Wales is to fly a new flag carrying the Cornish motto “One And All!” over Fort Belvidere, his {country house, and also above the properties he owns in Cornwall and jfrom which most of his income comes. ————— JAPAN LOSES SAKEH THIRST TOKYO, June 23.—Japan’s pro- duction of sakeh, the national rice- beer, in 1931 was the lowest since 195. Brewers said competition of lager beer and imported drinks were responsible, rather than any trend toward prohibition. Kreuger’s Gold ‘Goblet Merely Gilded Tin Cup STOCKHOLM, June 23.—Match- ing the rest of his incredible ca- reer, & golden loving cup presented to Ivar Kreuger on his 50th birth- day has been discovered to be only gilded tin. None of the master swindler's flats or villas reflect any luxury, only modest comfort. Kreuger's only extravagance ap- pears to have been fast cars and motor boats. One of his boats, which most him $5,000, sold for E. C. Burton and W. W. Emery. T-3118, Capt. Frank Bell. $700. | | | crowded cities | R tra modern kidnaping gang who have carried off Naney Wentworth and a number of wealthy men and are demand- ing “board money” while they | hold their captives in some un- | known hide-away. Jerry is de- termined to rescue Nancy, since she was abducted while he was . withh her, and his plans are ap- | proved by Stevens, a govern- ment detective assigned to the case. Stevens is especially con- | sho cerned with locating One-Shot Lucci, a gangster ameng the kidnaped persons, who are be- sides Lucci and Nancy—Mal- lory, a stockbroker, Hamilton, a millionaire business man, and Martin and Williams of Chicago. No clues have been found as to the whereabouts of the gang and their prisoners. Jerry and Emory try to follow the hydroplane thal collects the | board money from a stipulated rowboat off the coast, but their own plane fails in both speed and fuel. Emory plans to buy an up-to-date plane. CHAPTER 8. “YOU'VE BEWITCHED ME” The implacable glare of the af- ternoon sun hammered down upon the low, rambling house. | 3 any cloud, turned the white shell|get beach into a dazzling lory his f wear muci up: | muscled. polo fields with spirited ponies and pretty women, no hand hall courts | stared anged membering their stations before they were set down on this dden, eet. ago, no golf links with frotsed | s a No, not His cly Here these, hballs and one pretty wo- | So to both he had devoted | 1t assiduously, the drink with- | traint, of her patience. openly at Nancy and smirk- suddenly. P—— Gamblers Throw by Ewatace L Adama_ Detective work be able to breathe. The tension airplane is necessary, Jerry |which bound the island like an un and Emory Battles |iron band would relax. The men de, in dealing with the ul- would become almost normal, re- in hate-mad spot. “njoying yourself, Nancy?” voice came from behind shoulder. hand on her breast. ‘Are you drunk again, Mr. Mal- she challenged him coldly. ry %eetered unsteadily on clipped red hair was awry, his jade-green eyes blood | His broad shoulders sagged y. Lack of exercise and too drink was 1 a figure which had but three She wheeled, taking its been lithe and ha there were with showers and experienced rub-| ber: t the nineteenth h only two were I the woman to Now drunk yet,* he said. | erhaps a little later.” His mood | His irritable | voice betrayed a man whose nerves were frayed and jangling. The blazing light, undimmed by“eiw would one do to help him for- the passing of time in this incandes- hellhole? Hamilton, with his blam- “What life Al her toll rd- | no ole. eft, | the he | cence which burned its way intojed solitaire, Martin, sitting there one's needle. eyeballs inbearable, so dry and brown and| i -looking were their rattling leaves, Their ters gave little shade and less rest golliwoy-like clus- to the eye, serving only to ac- centuate the glare of the bras: [ sky and the burnished iridescence | of the flattened sea. cowering from the all-encompass ing heat. She was young and beau- tiful, with the straight, slender figure of a boy. ¥or the thous- andth time she studied the scores | south, then turned her gaze ward the sharply-edged segments of horizon between two islands to{ the west. The flash of hope that veys faded info hopelessness. railing, forgetting everything bu‘_: T will smash his face Williams, steal- in just like a white hot|like a bump on a log until you The palm trees themselves could seemed to find the oppressive heat|make him speak to every chance to make calf’s Suddenly Nancy felt, rather than heard a sharp, ringing at you. crack. yet, to-| with sarcasm. You the heat and the ever-growing ten- | Years ago. sion in the house. patches of mangrave-covered sand YO0 never went of | ncver met peopie. human foot nor those shimmering together here, I can't think of waters the splash of a paddle or anything bu “You've thought of nothing else” house she countered scornfully, “but the an heat and the liquor and the chanc- Have you given any might never know the touch beat of a propeller. The twenty-| acre island upon which the stood seemed utterly lost a uninhabited archipélago of is dotted sea. The madhouse of this porch was a part might burst| company of desperate men, and the ly. She shivered, although the very | air scorched her, from an open door. An hour more before the malev- and- |es of escape. which thought to your wife, “My wife? into flames and disintegrate under wife and I New York! T'm madly 4“Lucci, the gunman, pacing back and forth cage. | walk like a panther in And every time we take ai toward the beach or the hangar, two or three guards, watch | |us with their hands in their bulg- A girl stood in a tiny patch of [ing pockets, hoping that we'll do shade at one end of the porch, Something that will give them 8 |little gun practice. It you weren't ‘herc. I'd have run amuck long ago. | something doesn’t |happen to break the monotony.” “That will of islands to the north, east and |me.” if be wvery helpful The girl's voice was heavy | “You fill me with admiretion for your self-control.” | “See here, plained querulously. always lighted those brown eyes | fault. when she began her frequent sur-(myself. Nancy,” know T've not out you.” lately?” T've told you that have been separated the torrid heat, together with its for years.” he declared tempestous- “Ill have her get a divorce outside world might never know. the moment we turn to New York.” A million miles like the blast away from this madness, It hard- ly seemed to exist. “That might be a favor to your olent sun would dive into the sea,!wife she said drearily, “but please, with tropic haste. Then one would please, let's talk of something else” he com- “It's all your been“ in love with you and you treat me like a dog. She leaned against the porch |I've loved you ever since your op- ening night at the Criterion, two Tve tried, God knows | Those little | how many times to meet you. But | on parties, And now we're his lonly will be charged for City li- BUSINESS SUPPLIES? “Naney.” .. e e with , PROFESSIONAL | bewitched me! You are—" . . In an another instant she was in S his arms, kicking, her liitle fists at the burly chest and shoulders, squirming silently to break his hold. His Kkisses fell upon her cheek. A guard, stroll- ing along the beach, stopped and watched them in frank, cynical en- Jjoyment. She was sick and giddy. Then, suddenly, she felt, rather than heard a sharp, ringing crack. The straining arms sagged as his body relaxed, became limp and settled toward the floor. She was dragged down with him. Strong hands mmering with seized her by the shoulders and > jerked her back to her feet. (Copyright, Dial Press.) Nancy escapes from one pur- suer to find herself facing another, ' tomorrow. ————————- CITY AUTOMOBILE LICENSES In order that City- and Territor- ial automobile licenses may fall} due on the same date hereafter, namely, January 1 of each year, the Common Council of Juneau has resolved that for the year 1932, be- gining June 1 and ending Decem- ber 31, 1932, Five Dollars ($5.00) cense. This license is now due and pay- able at the office of the City Clerk. Penalty for non-payment is pre- scribed. H. R. SHEPARD, —adv. City Clerk. PRt o T e Old papers for sale at Empir: Office. NEW STOCK of Men’s Wear AT NEW LOW PRICES A complete line of W. L. Douglas Shoes SAM THE TAILOR His voice was vibrant intensity. “I can't—you've ( | CHIROPRACTOR Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 410 Goldsteln Building Phone Office, 216 [ e & DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building | PHONE 56 ! Fiours 9 ax. to 9 pm. . . . Dr. Charles P. Jenne ! DENTIST Ronms 8 and 9 Valentine { Building | Telephone 176 | . . *— . Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm, Evenings by appointment | Phone 321 . Dr. A. W. Stewart DENT)ST Hours 9 a&. m. to 6 p. m. SEWARD BUILDING Cftfice’ Phone 469, Res. Phone 276 .l Robert Simpson Opt. D. @Graduate Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Orithalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground [ | ! [ PRS2 (A Ty Dr. C. L. Fenton | Electric Treatments Hellenthal Building FOOT CORRECTION ! Hours: 10-12, 1-5, 7-8 DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fivted Room 7, Valentine Bldg. Office Phone 484; Residence Phone 3238. Office Hours: 9:30 to 13; 1:00 to 5:30 [ r ] i 1 i COMMERCIAL PRINTING BINDERY Geo. M. Smvekins Co. McCAUL MOTOR Co. to my i LTI T T T T T T T T ECONOMY — A Watchword of the Times will promote happiness and independence. does not mean miserliness; it does mean prudent spending and prudent saving. Compared with years past the purchasing power of the dollar is greater and affords an opportunity to save. It Our Savings Department Will Help You Grasp that Opportunity The B. M. Belirends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA i SAVE HALF wWOoO0D CLEAN HEMLOCK 14 in., 16 in., 24 in. Single Load, $4.25 Double Load, $8.00 A discount of 50 cents per load is made for CASH LEAVE ORDERS WITH GEORGE BROTHERS Telephones 92 or 95 CHESTER BARNESSON Telephone 039, 1 long, 1 short FIRE ALARM CALLS Third and Pranklin, Front and Franklin. Pront, near Ferry Way. Front, near Gross Apts. Front, opp. City Whart. Front, near Saw Mill. Front at A. J. Office. Willoughby at Totem Grocery. Willoughby, opp., Cash Cole's Garage. Front and Seward. Front and Main, 8Second and Main, Fifth and Seward. Seventh and Maln, Fire Hall. Home Boarding House. Gastineau and Rawn Way. Second and Gold. Fourth and Harris, Fifth and Gold, DR. S. B. JORDAN DRUGLESS PHYSICIAN Behrends Bank Building Phone 259 Hours: 9:30-12; 1-8 ¢ R O A R R Workmanship Guaranteed ! Prices Reasonable Smart Dressmaking Shoppe 109 Main St. Phone 219 VENETIAN SHOP Dry Goods, Notions, Men's Furnishings Mrs, Mary Giovanetti, Magr. Saloum’s IN NEW LOCATION Seward Street, mear Second SABIN’S Everything in Furnishings for Men » L) . | GENE EWART The Painter Telephone 397 L 1 Canvas and Leather Goods MADE TO ORDER E. McClaire, Prop. | 223 Seward Street ! DON'T BE TOO LIBERAL g — Fraternal Societie. ? oF Gastineau Chan i B. P. 0. ELKS Meets second and fourth W e d nesdays at 8 p.m. Visiting bro thers welcome. GEORGE MESSERSCHMIDT. Exalted Ruler. M. H. SIDES, Secretary. LOYA LORDER OF MOOSE, NO. 700 Meets Monday 8 p. ra, C. H. MacSpadden, Dic= tator. Legion of Moosa No. 25 meets first and third Tues- days. G. A. Baldwin, Secretary and Herder, P. O. Box 273. MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. @ Second and fourth Mon- A day ofs each month in A Scottish Rite Temple, ’ beginning at 7:30 p. m. (}\ LAY JOHN J. FARGHER, 5 Ma ter; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Ses. retary. ENIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1766, Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m Transient brothers urg. ed to attend. Councy Chambers, Fifth Street JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. L o s S S S ) Our trucks go any place any time. A tank for Diesel Oil and a tank for crude oil save burner trouble. PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 | RELIABLE TRANSFER .. NEW RECORDS NEW SHEET MUSIC RADIO SERVICE Expert Radio Repairing Radio Tubes and Supplies JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY VS 7 Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 17PLAY BILLIARD BURFORD’S THE JUuNEAU LAUNDRY Franklin Street, between Front and Second Streets PHONE 359 W.P. 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