The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 9, 1932, Page 4

4 Daill\' Alaska E m pire JOHN W. TROY - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER shey evening except Sunday by the E{;‘l"?;’{.l}:“‘;‘n COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. llvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and i Y “Thane for $1.25 per month By afl, postage paid, at the following rates: One year. in’ advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, e month, in advance, $1.26. hers will confer a favor If they will promptly notify t Business Office of any fallure or irregularity the delivery of their papers. il = Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the tocal news published herein, ASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ALASKAAN THAT OF ANY GTHER PUBLICATION FIRST EFFECT OF ROAD TRANSFER. When the movement was first started in Wash- ington by the Interior Department to grab the Alaska Road Commission, ostensibly to coordinate Federal activities in the Territory but really to plaster a toll system on Richardson Highway as a means of forcing interior Alaskans to pay exhorbh: tant freight and passenger rates over the Alaska | Railroad, The Empire prophesied that this, if suc- cessful, would be disastrous not only to road con- struction in the North but would injure it in other ways. The first of such harmful events has already occurred. On July 2, orders were issued by the War Department abolishing the Alaska Rivers and Harbors district and attaching the Territory to the Seattle district. Of course, the War Department has sound reasons for its action. As long as the Alaska Road Commission was headed by an Army engineer officer who could function also as District Engineer, a directing head for a rivers and harbors district was available without extra expense to the Federal Government. When the Commission was wiped out there was no Army officer here that could be assigned, and the work to be done is not big enough to justify maintaining an independent organization with nothing to do but look after it. But to Alaska, removal of the office to Seattle, involving as it does transfer of all records of ac- tivities for the past 11 years and a switch of administration of fish traps, docks and other struc- tures in navigable waters, it is a serious business. It will mean delay in handling important transactions having to do with the fishing industry and safe- guarding the harbor fronts of all Territorial sea- ports. It will cost Alaskans many thousands of dollars in fees to legal agents or steamship fares that are not necessary under the present arrange- ment. In the matter of rivers and harbors improve- ments, Alaska is certain to suffer from the move. In the 11 years since the district was created, almost $1,500,000 has been expended in projects important to navigation and safety of ocean-going travel. Be- fore the district was created, since the purchase of Alaska to 1921, more than 50 years, probably not one half of that sum was expended. It is natural that non-resident district officers, burdened with looking after interests entirely disconnected from those in the Territory, do not recognize need for rivers and harbors improvements here. They do not get the local viewpoint, except in specially called hearings which are not comprehensive enough to give the investigators a true picture of condi- tions needing remedying. Under such a system as that to which we are now returning, it is inevitable that future Federal appropriations for rivers and harbors projects here will be less frequent and for smaller amounts than has been the case for the past 11 years, and than is actually required to meet the needs now existing. The despoilation of the Alaska Road Commission was one of the most iniquitous acts against the Territory's welfare committed in recent years. It is extremely unfortunate that Alaska's representative and friends in Washington did not exert them- selves more earnestly to prevent its consummation. ROOSEVELT SPEECH APPEALS. In his speech of acceptance of the Presidential nomination of his party, Gov. Roosevelt seems to have touched a responsive chord. The summary of the address received here, while necessarily brief, indicates it was a notable effort. The Seattle Times, Republican in its political policies for almost 40 years without an interruption, in announcing its support of the Democratic standard bearer this year, said it was the “greatest public utterance in recent years, one to which the American people well may pin the fullness of their faith.” The Governor showed his usual courage in stress- ing to the party gathering that honored him the less spectacular issues like the economic situa- tion, domestic. and international. There is need for reformation of our foreign economic policy as well as that at home. Restoration of price levels {Committee has opened campaign headquarters their own opportunities, to translate that promise into actuality. ALASKA JUNEAU’'S WAGES UNCHANGED. While there has been no uneasiness manifested about maintenance of present wage scales in the Alaska Juneau's mine and mill here, it is but natural for people to wonder from time to time whether current conditions would lead to a reduction. If there were any such fears, they are dissipated now following the report of P. R. Bradley's statement the Chamber of Commerce. He assured that organization that it need feel no alarm over the wage situation. “The Alaska Juneau will go right ahead as it has in the past . ., and does not con- template any changes in its wage scales,” Mr, Brad- ley said. This timely news. The Alaska Juneau, as President Shattack pointed out to the Chamber, is the backbone of this community. Its payroll is one of the major factors in Juneau's prosperity. It is gratifying to know that the company will not take any advantage of the present depressed conditions to decrease the pay of its employees such as has been done by the Federal Government and by many industrial units throughout the country. The Brad- leys have ever been alive to their responsibilities in Juneau, and theiy determination to keep wages up is right in line with all of their policies affecting local welfare. | to is William D. Upshaw, former member of Congress, | and one time stalwart of the Democratic party, has | been nominated for the Presidency by the Prohibi- | tion Party. He says he's willing to withdraw in| favor of Senator Borah, but he probably wont have | to make good. Borah may sulk for a few more weeks but in the end he will more than likely support the Hoover administration. Chairman Sanders of the Republican National in| Chicago. Now, if the Wets rebels in the party get too gay, he can call in a few expert gunmen to quiet them down. Perhaps it would be just as well for President Hoover to omit his acceptance speech this year. Just consider the fearful aftermath of the one he made only four years ago. Repeal! First Big Step to Prosperity. (Seattle Times.) In the Democratic Party’s firm resolve to do away with Prohibition the people of the United States see something vastly more important than a mere expression of opinion on an issue that is—just as everyone says it is—essentially non-political and non-partisan. They see it as the first definite and decisive step toward national prosperity; they see in it a reversion to national common sense; a cutting away from the futile fanaticism that not only has in- flamed the public mind on this one issue, but has stimulated an unwholesome and quarrelsome spirit in all public affairs. What the Democrats say they will do—and say in no uncertain terms—rings out over the country as a clarion call to better feelings, better accord in truly American purposes, better days for all el e e Sy The action of the Democrats heightens the signi- ficance of the Republican “division” in the conven- tion of two weeks ago. The question before both Republicans and Democrats was an identical two- part question: Shall we promise the people an oppor- tunity to decide the Prohibition issue for themselves, or shall we promise the people the full strength and unremitting effort of the party to repeal the law? The two decisions are illuminating: The Repub- licans, by a narrow margin of votes, declared for the first promise; the Democrats frankly offer the second promise, which necessarily embraces the first. Most significant of all is the fact that in these great party conventions, together representing the full sweep of public opinion, not one voice was raised, not one word spoken in favor of Prohibition. ) N e S e The end of the “experiment,” which has been shocking in all its manifestations, disastrous in all is results, is plainly at hand. In clearing away the murk of it the American people cannot fail to see more clearly every other problem with which they may have to deal. The Republican convention brought the country to the dawn of the better day; the Democratic convention has flooded the country with the bright light of sincerity and truth. The American people will now cease milling about in confusion; they will move firmly forward to the higher ground that lies right ahead. Re Alaskan Retrenchments. (Seward Gateway.) Al Smith says: “ . ... if aid is limited to revenue producing improvements, then all such projects as highways and practically all State and municipal improvements will be excluded. “Many of these improvements are truly pro- ductive, even if they do not produce revenue. It is absurd to measure the productiveness of an im- provement by the amount of revenue it brings in directly.” While Mr. Smith’s utterances refer to the Hoov- er program as it affects the United States, they might have been applied to the Alaska Railroad and the road building agencies in Alaska. Whatever depression obtains in certain areas of the Territory is directly traceable. to the singling out of Alaska for retrenchment in urgent public works, especially road building. The greater part of the small sum available to the Alaska Road Commission has been obligated for machinery and supplies for a program twice as large, hence there will be little left for actual em- ployment. Under the old law the Commission was permited to obligate up to 75 per cent of the prev- lous year's appropriation. It was recently pointed out by an egineer of the Commission that the Alaskan working man is probably in point of resourcefulness and ability superior to any in the world. Thus he is being crucified for his very virtues. is another issue to be brought home to the people. He termed the Eighteenth Amendment as doomed.[cOst more in relief measures next winter than the It would have been easy for him to have played [amount slashed from the road appropriations, for up the party’s repeal plank, which he unqualifiedly endorsed, and passed over the duller if equally serious qyestions. Repeal of Prohibition is popular The; and he could not have been criticized had he had [Alfonso has just lost three millions to the Govern- That he did not do so|ment. made it the major issue. As matters now stand, it appears that it will many men will have been deprived of summer work and will enter the winter penniless, y play the game differently in Spain, where SYNOPSIS: “I am going to buy you from your fiance,” Ashwood, polished gang leader who is holding Nancy Went- worth prisoner for ransom, tells her. She has been taken with Lucci, a gangster, and four other men to an island. Jerry Calhcun, a friend and a detective have been caught trailing Ashwood. CHAPTER 21. TWO PROPOSALS “I am taking you with me to'my yacht, aboard which I shall spend the rest of my life” Ashwood told Nancy, “She is a magnificent vessel, sufficient fuel oil capacity to crusie around the world without stop- ping. I have spent & year and an absurd amount of money outfit- ting her as a home afloat. She is now anchored in Mexican watets, with a most excellent and depend- able crew, ready to sail at a mo- ment’s notice. We will leave here in the amphibian shortly after lbreakfast the day after tomorrow, and should be aboard the yacht by sunset.” Nancy brain reeled. She grasp- ed the arms of her chair. She must concentrate upon one think “That bird'll be found dead in hi at a time. “What has given you to believe that I am for sale?” she demand- ed, forcing herself to speak calm- ly. Not for nothing had she been rated a fine actress.” “Are you in love with your fience, the venerable Mr. Macomber?” he countered imperturably. “You will remember, that the apnouncement of your engagement attracted con- siderable comment in the New York press. I noted that some of the so-called scandal sheets were somewhat cynical in their observa- tions. Didn't one of the column- ists stoop to the banality of re- ferring to it as the union of May and December?” “No, I'm not in love with Philip Macomber,” she flared up. “But what difference does that make? I was tired—so tired—of having men make love to me. Philip Macomber is a wonderful man. We have known him for year: He is a kind, patient and fatherly and has promised to demand noth- ing that I do not wish to give him. When I'm married to him the others will stop. You don't know all the details, of course, but—" “I wonder if you do?” he inter- rupted, his voice mildly question- ing. “The arrangement, the set- tlement, if you please, between Mr. Macomber and your mother was quite considerable, one is told. Therefore, it is difficult to regard the matter as other than a cash sale. That being so, my predatory instincts urge me to deprive Mr. Macomber of a substantial sum of money—not in cash, but in prop- erty that he has purchased for cash.” Nancy wondered if she, too, had gone mad. Nothing seemed real Those stars, so olose that she some two hundred feet long, with | her steam up completely manned : worth,” Lucci assured her violenlty. Imight have reached up and pluck- ed one of them, mocked her. The threequarters moon, sihouetting the ms on the next island in a cut half tone, had a face h grinned sardonically at her. the man beside her was still scussing the outrageous proposal 1 a matter of fact voice which made it sound all the more unr fter the first few days on the t, Nancy, you will be quite ent, I hope. You will have all » privacy you wish. A large, e suite will be set aside for| ou into which you may retire| |when you choose. ‘We will get under way at‘once nd begin a leisurely cruise around e world, calling at every un-| own seldom-visited port on the| k seven seas. | “You will find me, I daresay, an| interesting companion. We ‘havei many things in common. You | the first woman I have ever own in ten years with whom | ‘I could be content to spend the| rest of my days. You have, thank | God, a brain and to watch it de- lop will be a source of never- iling stimulation to me. Books,| music, art—all these things will| |fill your life to an extent that |will amaze you. { | “It is entirely possible, of course, s bed in the morning, Miss Went- | |that love will come to us. Pro- pinquity works magic, good and| bad, as you have already observed here. But we will not look ahead too far. ‘Companionship is all| that 1 require at this stage of | events. That is, after all, what you expected out of your mar- riage to Macomber.” | He became siient, the tip of his cigarette glowing and fading like a mammoth firefly. She fought for control of herself. “Mr. Ashwood,” she said evenly,| “from the moment you teke me | away from this island to begin | {that mad .scheme, I shall watch | [for an opportunity to commit sui- | cide. You may be able to prevent | it for a while. But the chance| will come sooner or later and I| will kill myself just as surely as the sun rises and sets.” | He made no answer. As he lit another cigarette the red flare illuminated his strange lined face. It was set in deep thought. He ‘mok several rapid puffs, then ex- haled in a long sigh. “Dear, dear,” he observed at last. “I had no idea that you | were so conventional. I had hard- |1y expected that your mind would |Tun in such ultra-conservative grooves. Very well then, I shall send my airplane after a minister tomorrow. You may not know it now, but you will assuage your }tpajn to a great degree. You will be,” he added mockingly, “at least an honest woman, no worse off |than millions of your sex who are uncomfortably tied in the bonds of ‘matrimony.” He pushed himself to his feet. “And now, if you will excuse me, T must join the delightful group in the living room. I hear loud voices which seem to be raised in gllllllllllllllllllll HIHHunn spending and prudent is greater and affords The King doesn't take the jack over there is a plain indication of his intelligence as well as|any more.—(Boston Herald.) . to his courage. The Democratic convention has made it possible This is certainly getting to be a damp year for that party to render a vital service to the in ‘the, United States of America—(Detroit Free in the platform that it adopted as well as nation in the candidates it nominated. It remains for the £ and file of the party, and for all Americans |pendent of Idaho isn't back - home do not feel that the Republicans lived up to |lunch it will be the first time.—(New York Don't worry, Mr. President. If the Great Inde- in time for Sun.) OLDEST BAN lIIlIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIlllllllllIIIIIIlllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE ECONOMY — A Watchword of the Times will promote happiness and independenbe. "does not mean miserliness; it does mean prudent years past the purchasing power of the dollar Our Savings Department Will Help You Grasp that Opportunity The B. M. Behrends Bank It IR saving. Compared with an opportunity to save. ibe crowded with people swimming anger. It is possible that their conversation will be ‘entertaining. Will you join me?” “Thanks,” she replied indiffer- ently. “I'll stay here.” A step as soft as that of a cat slithered on the porch beside the silent girl. “Nancy, don't you worry about Limpy.” It was Lucti’s voice, harsh with suppressed rage. “I been creeping around looking the place over to see what could .be done about getting out of here. I heard |him talking and listened to what he said.” She was too exhausted to reply. If ‘'she opened her, mouth at all, she thought, it would be to shriek ir hysteria. All day long she had avoided the gangster, for her in- tuition warned her that he was reaching an emotional crisis. [ “That bird'l be found dead in his bed in the morning, Miss Went- worth,” he assured her violently. “Then T'll get his gat and heat up this joint 'til the water out there’ll to get away from the lead. You and me'll go back to Chi” ' (Copyright, Dial Press.) An “inhuman scream” awak- ens everyone, late at night, in the next installment. ———— Old papers tor sale at Empire Office. B Y CHEVROLET/ — g -! ! NEW CHEVROLET SIX The Great American Value New reduced prices delivered at Juneau Equipped r .$675.00 Coach 735.00 | Coupe 735.00 Cabriolet 830.00 Sedan (4 door) 840.00 Free Wheeling and Syncromesh CONNORS MOTOR CO., Inc. ! | e —— ) 1 PROFESSIONA [ . . k. | o —_— . T DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER Helene W.L. Albrecht PRYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastich. 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Fiours 9 ar. to 8 p.m. Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Ronms 8 and 9 Valentiue Building ‘Telephone 176 Dr. J. W. 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