The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1932, Page 4

He | | o Daily Alaska Em - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR MANAGER JOHN W. TROY - ROBERT W. BENDER - - GE the Main ay by evening except i nd and Published eve « COMPANY at EMPIRE PRINTING Streets, Juneau, Ala Entered in the matter. s Second Class SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Dellvered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Thane for $1.25 per month By mall, p e 1e following rates: One ye m s, in advance, rreadwell and mont “s“\l;r:u:c‘; ibers will cc it they will promptly notify t 1sir any fallure or irregularity e delive B ephone X Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. sl s exclusively entitied to the Il news dispatches credited to d in this paper and also the ATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ANY OTHER PUBLICATION THAN TH NO REASON TO QUESTION HONESTY. There has been a great deal of harsh criticism of the ex-soldiers—somewhat derisiv referred as “bonus marchers” who trekked just to the national capital to press upon Congress demands for the veterans' bonus. ed for so much as of Congress of now the immediate cash payment of Criticism of these men is not an explanation them by members and other info d leaders of the nature adjusted compensation certificates the veterans now hold and which, at maturity, will constitute the bonus now sought As Mr. Walter Lippmann, in a copyrighted article in the New York Herald Tribune recently pointed out: “the first thing to remember is that these veterans honestly believe they are merely trying to collect a lawful debt.” If one fails to take that into consideration, injustice is surely done to the men who are making the effort, as mistaken as it is. The veterans know that Congress has formally acknowledged the nation's debt and its They hold what they regard the note guaranteeing its payment. They are now out of jobs and none are to be had anywhere. It is not altogether unnatural for .them to seek to cash thesz notes, the adjusted compenastion certifi- cates, which in most cases is all they possess that has a tangible value. That the certificates they hold are not worth their face value until 1945 does not seem to them, with- to the as out considerable exposition, a serious handicap Most of them have little or no knowledge of financial technique, and the mantigs of c pound inter are | beyond the ken of the to make the whol majc matter clear to all of thos a large part of which is as deeply ignorant of the subject as the “bonus marchers” The talk of “Communistic influences” is pure bunkum, a dis- « credit to those uttering it erns, who are merely poorly advised and badly led OTHERS FOLLOW ROCKEFELLER’S LEAD. More than a little comment caused early this month when John D. Rockefeller, Jr, warm supporter of Faderal Prohibition, in a letter to Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler declared himself in favor of repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. He summed up his position as follows 1 am not unmindful of the great blessing which the abolition of the saloon has been to our country or of certain other benefits that have resulted from the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment. It is my profound conviction, however, that these benefits, im- portant and far-reaching as they are, are more than outweighed by the evils that have developed and flourished since its adop- tion, evils which, unless promptly checked are likely to lead to conditions unspeakably worse than those which prevailed before. The Wets, as was natural feller's adhesion to their cause with acclaim while the Drys made no effort to conceal their consterna- tion. Not only did they the moral support derived from such a leader as Mr. Rockefeller but, lose All-Afaska News | —_— Maxine Young, 4 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles charge of hearing there was es ablaze with matche | ‘Wnile working to amount. | Government's who hold the certificates, and to the general public, rather than to the vet-| long a| greeted Mr. Rocke- | insanity, | the Alaskan Road Commission in SRR e, b LA AR AT - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1932. ~ v O RN TR N T SN T as important to thém, they lost one of xheir’ campaign contributors, lost heavily, too, in another direction I of other prominent men have gone on| Mr. Rockefeller's own statement as a| iz for them to follow. One of these was Dr.| R. Mott, President of the International Mis- sionary Council and head of the World's Alliance of the Young Men's Christian Association who, after | reading the Rockefeller letter while on a visit to London he was in favor of some sort of re- A numbe record with John said consideration of the nation’s Prohibition policy in the form of a popular referendum to be divorced om politics as far as possible. George Foster Pea- other body, a prominent philanthropist echoed Mr, Rocl r's plea for repeal And the National ¢y League took similar action Mr. Rockefeller wrote Dr., Butler he approved a plank the noted New York educator was pre- paring for submission to the Republican oon\-enncmI at Chicago (which was offered and defeated), and| he hoped that the Democratic convention would of adopt an identical plank which would effectually remove the issue from partisan politics. That, of| course, is not possible since the Republican majority | ca o turned down the Butler plank. If the| Democrats should adopt it, or one similar, it would, course, be a partisan issue during the Presi-| campaign. of dential The Department of Agriculture announces apart- houses for hens as the latest rural improve- | ment. In the urban centers platinum blonds will| continue to demand “love nests.” men | | | aith and Confidence. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) | Ambassador Mellon, in a recent address before| the English-Speaking Union, London, reminded his| hea that America still is a young country in| outlook as well as in years. Naturally, he told them, many of our faults are the faults of youth; but,| he added. ne goes with youth, and a belief in our capacity to accomplish that which we set out to do. | The Ambassador recognized America’s bewilder- | ment in the face of forces which have overwhelmed | the world. But he pointed to the profound truth | that we have found that the machine -civilization which has been evolved in recent years cannot be‘ made to function with ever-increasing speed, and\ that new inventions and overproduction have ne-| cessitated a period of slowing down till the world | adjusts itself to the conditions that have arisen since the war. But, said the Ambassador, the principles upon which the English-speaking civilization was found- | ed have not changed, and that, being true to these| principles, we should weather the present storm as we have weathered our other storms before. | And there have been many such storms—some of | them worse than the present one. | | True faith and confidence are not shaken by | 'existing clouds of depression—not the faith and| confidence of the English-speaking peoples. Am- | bassador Mellon does well to proclaim his healthy | loptimism—it is the battle song of America. He| {might have gone farther and have said that in- icluded in this vision of optimism is a greater and| freer America—one liberated from the hateful bonds | lof prejudice and.intolerance, those twin devils which have retarded the progress upward of man, both| materially and spiritually, throughout all the years | f history. | Escape Avenue. | (New York World-Telegram.) | Halluncinations encompass all of us, even in| | working hours, leaders in a new branch of science (psychobiological pharmaco-dynamics) believe their research reveals. But who needs a laboratory to | justify these day-dreams? They are warp and woof of living. They succor the aggrieved and assuage the bored. Theirs is the secret of the pleasant avenue of escape as essen- tial to those in high place as to the lowly. Without them what would be left of the vicarious |pleasure in most of the movies and shop windows, !in many of the magazines and some of the books? | Without them how much would be left of the high |hope of almost impossible achievement and the unreasoning courage that stays on while life does? | Scientific study of them, of course, should lead to new knowledge of the working of the mind; ;mennwhne. like the sun and a breeze, they are pleasant to have around. { Of course that American who won a beer-drink- ing contest in Paris had the advantage of having ,ac(‘umulaled a twelve-year thirst. — (Philadelphia ;Bu]leun.) The Aztecs knew the power of moisture, but they {used it to split rocks instead of parties.—(Los Angeles {Times.) | Or, as Mr. Rockefeller might have put it, what |does it profit you to take one gin store off the ground floor at the corner and put three on the second floor in the middle of the block?—(Macon, Ga., Telegraph.) was missing. It is believed Thomp- |son was drowned. He had been mis- sing for a week. His widow and others of his family live at Pear- son, Wash. Sea lions and seals are reported by the Seward Gateway as caus- ing trouble to fishermen in waters near Seward. The creatures get entangled in nets and often damage them considerably. and after a committed to the | ¥ Young was burned to death in a|asylum at Morningside, Oregon. fire that destroyed the Young home | Papers on I person showed" that at Stew: B. C. The flames were he had been sent to Morningside| TWwo of Fatner Bernard Hub- started the infant’s brothers,|from Seward in 1913 and that since |bard’s dogs of the team which John and Charles, Jr, aged res-|then he had been committed toand t00k him safely down the lower | pectively 23 months and 3 years, | discharged {rom six insane asylums, | Yukon region two winters ago, who set bedclott playing | Margie and Katmai, have been ¢ Teceived at Seward by Jack Prosser with a force ol from Holy Cross. Prosser will care Wrangell's new resbyterian | clearing snow from a road in Snow- |07 the animals until the “Padre hurch, replacing the structure |slide Guich near Valdez, William ©f the Snows" returns to Seward Burned about a year ago, has been | Havener, was struck on the head |{rom the Westward. dedicated. Rev. Rus: F. Pederson, land back by a lump of snow| 3 the pastor, presided at the cere- |weighing about 100 pounds. His' GOM is ' becoming a popular monies, which were performed by back was severely injured by the SPOr‘ at Anchorage. Dues of the Rev. Dr. Arthur H. Limouze, sec- chunk of snow and his forehead Anchorage Golf Club are $10 for getary of general promotion, Board was badly cut, when in falling, ™" $5 for women and $250 for Of National Missions, with head- he hit the steel blade of a snow [POVS and girls for the season. -guarters in New York. plow. { Ed. Woods, an old-timer of Val- 1 who is now running a sheep cattle ranch on Sitkalidak Twenty-seven counted on the slopes near Good Glacier, Seward district, by a prospector on ! | E. E. Smith, old time prospector, !has uncovered what he considers wiid )goats WET€ a likely gold quartz vein on Goat high "“’l‘::“'.‘“;;-Mmmum. 42 miles from Cord- jova on the Copper River and North- western Railway, reports the Cor- dova Times. i , reports that~ his stock is i doing - fine. The island is near Fourth of July Oreek. - Kodisk Island. A * Jens Harold Jensen, 56 years old, who had a ticket from Seattle 10| Seward, was taken off a north- bound steamship at Wrangell on a | ¢ e Searchers round the boat of Ivar|{ At the beginning of a day if you ‘Thoin, 1, 72, gill netter, living in {schedule your work and plens‘ure Scow Bay, near Petersburg, on you will find you accomplish far Zarembo Island. The net was half more than by letting the day take pulled into the -boat and one oarcare of itself, SYNOPSIS: Jerry Calhoun, Emory Battles and a detective, Stevens, are preparing for an intensive hunt after the kid- napers who carried off Nancy Wentwerth, a musical comedy star, and who also have ab- ducted a gangster and four wealthy business men. They plan to follow down the gang by airplanes, as both boys are pilets. Nancy, captured while she was with Jerry, and the others are being held while their rclatives pay “board money” to ensure their safety. The mon- ey was collected by a hydro- plane, which gives a clue as. te the modern methods and reeources of the kidnapers. And meanwhile the captives find themselves transported by air- plane to some unknown place of tropical heat. They sze only rvarts, and their nerves grow strained in the suspense and hcat. One of the millionaires, Mallery, tells Nancy he has been in love with her for years and tries to kiss her — when someone interferes. I CHAPTER 9. A DANGEROUS MAN The whirling blur of things luse of machine guns, bombs, air- drinks and furniture, say, anothe” five grand. That's something like $40,000. God knows how much they will chisel outa us before they turn us loose. But me, I don't mind. It's worth whatever it costs. I did- n’t think any red hot living could teach me a good racket. And this one's a Wow.” His calm analysis of the situa- tion as a business proposition ap- to her sense of humor and restored her perspective. She hatl ‘heatd of notorious One- shot Lucei, as had ev other newspaper-reading inhabitant of the United States. Tales of the diabolical ferocity, his cold-blooded planes ‘arid other frightful weapons of modern warfare, his brazen dis- of life or man-made laws mplete domination of more two-thirds of the entire crim- inal clement of the country, had been widely written up in the press. She common with millions of others, had imagined One-shot Lucci to be a modern edition of the wild west gunman of popular fict ead, he reminded her of the rous fellows who owed her » fruit shop in New York. was only the expression of his steadied. Nancy's eyes returned to focus. A long breath or two and| she was almost herself. ! Before her was the gangster,| One-shot Lucci, balancing himself ightly upon the balls of his feet, we have also the energy and under ordi- Trubbing the knuckles of his right exce y circumstances the boundless optimism that|hand and staring at her with his with a total lack of moral sense,| bright, hard little eyes. His shock of black hair was slicked back against his head, glued down with pomade. She could smell the scent of it. “If he tri to neck you again.‘ Tl kill him,” he declared flatly. “Lucky I happened by.” He paused a moment in thought. Then his| brow cleared. “Wouldn't it be bet- ter if T cracked his neck right now? There wouldn't be a squawk out of him:.” “No, no, please, Mr. Lucci,” she turned a sob into a nervous laugh. “Thank you so much, Mr. Lucci, but let's not add to our troubles.” Mr. Lucci looked as thougt thought the trouble would be neg- ligible, a thing to be forgotten in the next breath, but she hurried on. “I'm sure he won't bother me again.” Mallory was struggling to his feet s hot and murderous A bluish lump was already becom- ing evident on the point of his chin, He lurched as he turned and staggered into the house That's what too much does to a guy,” Lucci philosophically. If that bird w training now, he could way through quite a to.” He wiped his forehead with a florid handkerchief of lavender silk, bordered and initialled in pur- ple. ain't it hot! Have you got any idea where we are, Miss| ‘Wentworth?’ | ““Not the slightest! She drew a long breath of relief. A danger| point had been passed in safety. “Mr. Mallory thinks we're on one of the southernmost islands of the Bahama group. Mr. Hamilton thinks we on the Florida coast.”| “How long were you in that plane” { “It must have been fifteen or sixteen hours. The curtains were | drawn during the day time and we| landed at night, so we couldn’t see whether we had been flying over land or water.” “Fifteen hours,” echoed the gang- ster reflectively. “That knocks my idea out of the picture. T figured we'd been in the air long enough to of got to California or maybe Mexico. But I don’'t think they could have carried you that far from New York It's hot enough to be way down in the tropics. Well T'll pass. We'll know sometime, T guess. if we don't all get bumped off down here fighting with each other. Have they said anything to! you about ransom money?” | “Not a word. Not to any of the others, so far as I know. Perhaps that’s one of the things that makes | the tension and the uncertainty.” “Well, it's a swell racket, what-| ever they're doing about collecting for us. They bought this island, and this portable house for $15.000 say. The airplane cost them teen—twenty grand more. The clothes they bought for us when we got down here, and the eats will promote happiness does not mean miserline spending and prudent s You Grasp tha [T T T T the kidnape: ECONOMY — A Watchword of the Times years past the purchasing power of the dollar is greater and affords an opportunity to save. Our Savings Department Will Help The B. M. Behrends Bank ) OLDEST BANK T ALASKA { eyes, chill as brown agate, and the hard set to his jaw that was mark- edly different. Yet these two fea- tures alon2 told her that he might ‘be—that he was—all of those things delineated by the newspapers. His tional intelligence, combined | made him what he indubitably was, | one he most dangerous men in} Amer | “Well, what do you see?” His| erisp , with scarcely a tracei of a challenged her. | little that T did not know.” pted her thrust. ‘ t find a cool she | | ed toward the door and reached the sanctuary | ened interior when his and measured, came to| t time anyone starts to make | you, Nancy, tell him that toss his heart out to the wheeled around, her cour- irning, determined to figh hen and there. He had dis-| d. His steps could be heard through the the corner of the porch. sawgrass | ¢ scares during been any g of di y as bold raids of | in Chicago. | such a ger ding pery the whigh followed the Newsp. were filled with | headlines reporting the latest vague of ‘the police analyzed, revealed | that: the officials knew nothing and (were at their wits' end. Every airplane manufacturing plant in the United States was vis- ited by police who checked the| name of each recent purchaser of an amphibian or a flying boat. Work of checking up the results of such craft was proceeding apace, but, since aviators are notably a| migratory lot, months would bz needed to complete the work. Attorneys representing the two Chicago millionaires, took the train for New York, with a man who| was reputedly the cleverest crim- inal lawyer in the United States who represented One-shot Lucci. After a very lengthy conference with the firm of Hammond, Smyth, Whittelsey, Van Ashforth and Ham- mond, the reward fund was in- creased to $150,000 for each per- son rescued from captivity. Also $250,000 was offered to the person or persons causing the arrest and conviction of the kidnapping band. An undenied rumor was pub- hed in the press stating that a score of wealthy men had under- written a huge fund to be used in retaining the services of the two largest private detective agencies in the country to work independ- ently of each other and of the po- lice. On Saturday, the 15th, it was announced that-a demand had been made upon the friends and rela- tives of the Chicago victims for a “board bill” of $100,000 each, to be placed in a rowboat anchored upon Lake Michigan exactly 12 miles east of the Great Lakes na- | val training station. Specific men- and independence. It it does mean prudent aving. Compared with t Opportunity tion was made in the demand that] e for aircrafs) | Warning was trap was watch or surface vessels. given that set on Lake Michigan to that off Montauk Point, no effort would be made to take the money and the prisoners would bear the brunt of |this occasion, mailed in Chicago's populous Loop. There were no finger prints nor any other would be set if a similar traceable clues. At ‘Wednesday morning nine o'clock the followi from a box a large cabin PHYSIOTHERAPY Helene W. L. Albrecht Massage, Electricity, Infra Red DES. KASER & FREEBURGER | PROFESSIONAL [[eSotnem: Chamd) | Fraternal Societie. | or Gastineau Channe! B. P. 0. ELKS Meets second and |retaliation. As before, the notes Ray, Medical Gymnastics. fourth W e d nesda | were written and enclosed in non- 410 Goldsteln Building at 8 p.m. - descript stationery, but were, on Phone Office, 216 Visiting brothers welcome. GEORGE MESSERSCHMIDT, DENTISTS Exalted Ruler. ng Blomgren Building M. H. SIDES, Secretar: Y. PHONE 56 By monoplane zogmed off an uneven| | Fiours 9 ar. to 9 pm. LOYA LORDER OF field of stubble on the outskiris » » MOOSE, NO. 700 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and flew Meets Monday 8 p. 1, southward’ at an amazing speed.| ®— . C. H. MacSpadden, Dic- When it turned out over Lake|| X)r. Charles P. Jenne tator. Legion of Moosa Michigan at Waukegan, its alti- DENTIST | [No. 25 meets first and third Tues. tude was such as to render it al- Rorms 8 and 9 Valentine days. G. A. Baldwin, _Secretary most invisible .from the ground. Bullding | [and Herder, P. O. Box'273. Twenty-four thousand feet above Telephone 176 I _— the vasg’ expanse of inland sea,|e®—. Eiiricd o | MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 47 three men were comfortably seated | g T Second and fourth Mon- in its heated, enclosed cabin. Jerry his gray eyes sparkling, was at the Joystick. (Copyright, Jerry is grimly to chase time, Dial Press.) determined the kidnapers, this to their hidden head- quarters. Tomorrow, the strange plane appears again. SARGON is rapidly becoming a | household word throughout the United States and Canada. Butler e, DENTIST ’, Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. L Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. Evenings by appointment Phone 321 Dr. J. W. Bayne |. T j DENTST Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. M. SEWARD BUILDING Ctfice Phone 469, Res. Dr. A. W. Stewart ‘ | | | | e day of each month in Scottish Rite Temple, beginning at 7:30 p. m. JOHN J. FARGHER, 07 Ma ter; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Ssa retary. A, ENIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Conncil No, 1760, Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg ed to attend. Councy Chambers, Fifth Street Mauro Drug Co. —adv. Phone 276 JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. S R G+ i H. J. TURNER, Secretary Old papers tor sale at Empir: Office. @ (3 . - | Robert Simpson l l e 4 h i | TNy Opt. D. and a tank for crude oil save | NEW @Graduate Angeles Col- } | burner trouble. | lege of Optometry and | || PHONE 149. NIGHT 148 | Orthalmology ; o 6 l RELIABLE TRANSFER [. . Men’s Wear < : AT NEW LOW Dr. 8&01;&:2;!;;0“ NEW RECORDS PRICES Electric Treatments ] NEW SHEET MUSIC ) Hellenthal Building ’ A complete line of Lrin O | RADIO SERVICE @ ours: 10-12, 1-5, 7 W. L. Douglas Shoes ||,_ o/l Expert Radio Repairing SAM THE TAILOR Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Room 17, Valentine Bldg. 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