The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 14, 1932, Page 4

T — THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1932 l_)ailg: Alaska Em pire 4 JOHN W. TR(:)i' - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR} ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER’ evening except Sunday by thel 3 COMPANY At Second and Main ska. Published _every EMPIRE_PRINT Streets, Juneau, A | Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Cln“; matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Dellvered by cil ne for §1.25 per month postage paid, at the following rates: wdvance, §12.00; six months, in advance, in advance, $1.25 Subscribers w er a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity the delive o r papers § i Tor Tial 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. $6.00; one n ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION, 1 | [grounds, and have many happy memories of by- gone days when everybody was interested and the whole town could be depended upon for’encourage- |ize beer. Thus he now holds the same stock he held loan in 1920, has wiped out a $280,000 loan, and in addition he has a cash deposit of $6,000. The question now arises, has he gained or lost by reason of the depression? Mathematics seem of little avail here. A philosopher might give a more nearly correct solution to the problem. At |any rate, the man's confidence in his original judg- ment is striking, and if more investors had it per- haps the depression would end more quickly than now seems likely to happen. tariff walls have to eat Now that England has put up the st Ireland, the Irish probably will own potatoes. agai their When political organizations reach the state of alled third parties, they are the longest kind hopes American countries must count that day lost be getting to when another South where they |revolution is not begun. The Senate has killed the Bingham bill to legal- Why all this fuss about legalized beer, isn't the kind we now have good enough? A Landmark Gone. (Seattle Times.) Seattle's more persistent and optimistic baseball fans view with mild dismay the havoc wrought by fire at the old grounds in Rainier Valley. They DEMOCRATS RALLY TO CAUSE. Democratic leaders who, upon departing from | Chicago, said they were going home to heal the | wounds of conflict in the convention, seem to be | having an easier time and a greater degree of | success than many of the seasoned political com- | mentators present guessed would be possible. In | the short time that has elapsed virtually every| leader of importance who opposed Gov. Roosevelt’s nomination, including those who fought to the last; ditch, has publicly pledged support to the Roose-i velt-Garner ticket Led by the redoubtable Al' Smith, no pretense of concealing his hurt at the outcome | of the Chicago balloting, his allies have come into camp and enlisted for the campaign. Mayor Frank Hague, driving force behind the pre-convention “stop Roosevelt” movement, was ahead of Mr. Smith with his loyalty pledge of “whole-hearted support.” The Queens group of New Yorkers who backed Smith | fell into line equally as cordially. Both wings, the “old guard,” and “new guard,” of Connecticut Democrats buried the hatchet for the good of the common cause and pledged support to Roose- velt and Garner. Massachusetts under the leader- who made ship of Senator Walsh and Gov, Ely made it un- animous. Mayor James J. Walker, of New York, under charges from Investigator Samuel Seabury and whose removal by Gov. Rosoevelt is being demand- ed, has declared, regardless of the outcome of this case, he will work for Roosevelt. “I have been a party politician too long to have any trouble méking up my mind,” he asserted in announcing his support of the Democratic ticket. As an indication of the spirit of harmony that is developing in the East, Mayor James Curley of Boston, Roosevelt leader in that State who had intimated sometime ago he might seek the guber- natorial nomination, publicly announced he would support, Gov. Ely, hitherto his chief political enemy, for renomination and re-election. “I am interested solely in the success of Franklin D. Roosevelt,” Mr. Curley aserted. With Gov. Ely heading the State ticket he is optimistic over carrying the Bay State for the Democratic cause. Southern leaders, many of whom were against the adoption of the Wet plank by the convention, have assured the national party organization that the solid South can be safely counted for Gov. Roosevelt DRYS FACE DELIMMA. Organized Drys, meeting today in Washington for a two-day session to discuss their campaign strategy, face an embarrassing delimma. Both of the big parties have turned away from Prohibition coun- cils—the Republicans wet and the Democrats wetter —and the diehard Drys have nowhere to turn unless to a hopeless third party. Shrewd politicians like those who compose the rv board of strategy will have no time to waste on a-forlorn hope such as the recently resurrected Prohibition Party = which nominated former Representative William D. Upshaw. Thirty Prohibition groups were called to be represented at the current Washington conference held under the auspices of the National Board of Strategy. Three viewpoints are understood to be under consideration—to endorse President Hoover and the Republican Party's indefinite and incon- clusive Prohibition plank; ignore the national tickets and concentrate on electing Dry Senators and Rep- resentatives; and initiating an entirely | independent Dry movement. Of the three proposals, it seems not unlikely that the first will be chosen as the most available for bringing into reality the Drys’ hope of continuing their domination of the country for another four years. It is significant that no consideration is to be given supporting Gov. Roose- velt and Speaker Garner. The - clearcut Demo- cratic plank on Prohibition left no room for the bosses of the Dry element in that party FOR A PHILOSOPHER NOT A MATHEMATICIAN. ‘While the depression is actually distressing the mation, it has not killed its sense of humor alto- gether and queer stories having their origin in economic stress have brought smiles to the lips of thousands. One of the queerest tales of this nature comes from Michigan. In 1929, so the story goes, a man had a $280,000 |legianc lelder fans have gradually thinned out; | standing; ment and support of the home team. That was quite some time ago. The ranks of the who remain are never as optimistic about anything as once they were. Among the newer casual patrons of the game—there have not been so many of these either—the old grounds have had no sentimental they have meant little more than a place to watch performances that stirred but scant en- thusiasm and scarcely anything of the spirit of civic loyalty. Dugdale Park, as it in honor of the portly papa of baseball in Seattle, is a waste of ruins today; and whether its ram- shackle structures are to be replaced with new seems to be a matter of interest only to the “owners” and the few others connected with the exaggerated commercial side of the game as it has been presented ‘in this city in recent years. Old- timers are sorry to see a landmark swept away; but it has been so long since it contributed to their real and continuing enjoyment that they find a measure of consolation in the thought that they haven’t lost much. Bibles All (New York World-Telegram.) Here and there in Christendom 9,745,356 Bibles have come from the presses in the last year, and the faithful have been enabled to choose from texts in 182 languages issued in formats ranging from flimsy to grandiose. Yet some copies that are old staindbys have lost none of their lure. Johann Gutenberg’s edition on vellum, first of printed books, seems a creation as beautiful as it did in 1750, when the young Frenchman, Guillaume- (Francoic de Bure stumbled upon it in the Mazarin Library, in Paris, where it had lain unidentified for centuries—as beautiful even as it did to the burghers of Mainz in 1455, when it came, pristine, from the print shop. Certainly it is among the most valuable of Bibles, for Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, of New York, paid $50,000 for the copy he bought in London. Of peculiar interest, too, to some is the old Gen- evan text, or Breeches, Bible, named because the seventh verse in the third chapter of Genesis re- ports: Then the eyes of them bothe were op- ened & they knewe they were naked; and they sewed figtre leaves together, and made themselves breeches. Certain humans, being what they are, even treasure gleefully Matthew's Bible of 1551, known as the Bug Bible, wherein Psalm xci., 5 reads: So that thou shalt not nede to be afraid for any bugges by nighte . . . . It is just as well, probably, to let human nature answer, too, for bibliophiles’ chortling over the Wicked Bible of 1631 (one of the four existing copies is in a New York Public Library collection) which makes the incomparable slip. It leaves the “not” out of the Seventh Com- mandment. North Carolina Answers. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The first answer to the question of what the South’s attitude will be toward the Democratic wet plank has been given by the once dry State of North Carolina. That that State is for repeal its voters have demonstrated by & vote of two to one. In a run-off primary Senator Cameron Morrison, Democratic wheel-horse in the State for 40 years. bone dry, backed by all Prohibition groups and, at the close of the campaign, declaring against the Democratic plank, lost by 100,000 votes or more in an out and out wet-dry test. His victorious opponent, Robert Reynolds, took in the first primary and then in the run-off vote, essentially the same stand as the Democratic na- tional platform. His appeal to the voters was made directly in support of the anti-Prohibition cause. He led Morrison by 14,000 votes in the first pri- mary, which was participated in by five other candidates. In the final primary a test betweea Morrison and himself alone—the victory of Rey: nolds was overwhelming. The Senator carried only eight of North Carolina’s 100 counties, It should be clear-to all that to hope now to win the people by expressing bone-dry sentiment is reliance on a shadow. The. day of the dry empire is gone, and the politicians who supported it will have to change or fade from the picture. “And if anyone expected to see defection from the Solid South because of the Democratic Prohibition plank, he had better revise his calculations. If Schmeling had closed both of Sharkey's eyes, we suppose that in addition to losing the cham- pionship he would have been arrested and charged with assault and battery.—(Ohio State Journal.) With folks acting so erratically ‘on their old al- °s, the statesmen don't dread the big stick Joan at a certain bank as security for which he IR Politics now Ralf as much as the big switch.— deposited stock worth, at the then existing market | Boston Herald) quotation, $400,000. When the stock market hit the toboggan, the bank sold him out, Technically the dry slogan, “You can't balance getling $330- |the budget with a corkscrew,” begs the question, 000 for the stock and leaving the man with his|{What's a corkcrew 'y ew got to do with s debt to the bank satisfied and a $50000 credit on |News.) L) D with Deeat--hekoty the books. Conditions kept declining and the bank failed. Shortly thereafter it was reorganized and in the| through the shrinkage ‘involved the man’s’ credit dwindled *to $36,000. He promptly drew out $30,000 with which he bought back all of the securities he had origin- King Prajadhipok, of Siam, returns to his throne little hole of discretion.”— Well, anyway, Borah has done his best to make Prohibition the chief issue of the campaign.—(Phil- ally deposited with the bank to cover his $280,000 |adelphia Inquirer.) have seen some great games played on those old| and those| was affectionately called| SYNOPSIS: Two men have been mysteriously murdered on the island where Limpy Ash- wood is helding six prisoners fer ransom. Jerry Calhoun, who has hoped to rescue Nan- cy Wentworth, one of the pris- cners, and his friend, Emory Battles, have been captured with a detective, Stevens, and held by Ashwoed and his gang. CHAPTER 25. WHO KILLED THEM? “Murder-drunk bird running around with a gun that we've got to get,” Stevens growled. “Limpy brooding about some new scheme he’s got in mind but doesn't want to talk about. Rewards slipping out from under know there won't be any rewards to get; everybody'll be bumped off | by We've got to get busy right away.” guard?” asked Jerry, his busy with the most obvious of the | immediate problems at hand. “I wish I knew. Might be almost anyone. | laming it on one of the prison- | ers. It’s easy to guess, of course, that it would be Mallory or Lucei. Mallory's half off his conk now. would just as soon knoek | Lucei nut. But I'm not sure. Willlams hadn’t been arguing with eith of them. That leaves only the | three of us, Hamilton and Martin. You boys didn't do it, did you?" Jerry and Emory stared ‘at him | incredulously, but the old blue eyes were serious. “Well, of course I really didn't think you did,” he hastened to in- |form them. “But it doesn’t seem ta likely thing for anybody to do and this heat and everything, cer- tainly plays hell with a feller's state of mind.” he went on, “was another matter. Anybody—the three of us even—| would have had a motive there in |getting the gun and ammunition. |But it was cold-blooded as the |devil, a thing T wouldn't want to do. If it hadn't been for the kill- ing of Williams, a few minutes later, I'd have blamed it on Lucci |He’s always sneaking around here at all hours of the day or night. |It's a wonder the guards haven't shot him long ago. But I can't see him bumping off Williams. And |that's where my engine misses fira |every time. I guess I'm not as {bright as I used to be.” I've had about enough of it,” declared Jerry, a reckless gleam in his gray eyes. “You fellows keep your eye on me and when 1 start something be ready to jump right into the middle of it. I haven't been in a good, old-fash- ioned, knock - down - and - drag-out bar-room brawl for so long that I'm beginning to crave action.” “Wish I'd brought along a cou- ple of older men,” complained Ste- vens plaintively. “It's all right to fight when there isn't any oth- er way to get out of trouble. Bui the older you get, the more peace- ! able you become. You just jump a second too soon or a second t00 late, young man, and that Limpy will empty a whole clip into you before you reach him.” Jerry’s face bore a stubborn ex- pression which the detective's) words failed to erase. The flyer was fed up with inaction and was determined to force things to a conclusion. The sooner the bet-? ter. Emory, a wide smile on his reck- | less face, cared little what hap- pened as long as something hap- pened soon. He was enjoying ev- ery minute of his stay on the is- land. Not since the armistice had his nerves tingled with such pleas- urable anticipation of impending action as they did here where every moment which passed in peace brought the inevitable cris- | is just that much closer. Even the thought that the murderer might pick him as his next victim did not | decrease his happiness by a sin- gle whit. He believed he could| take care of himself and the ex-| citement of the moment would make the experience a delightful| one. Emory's only conscious dread was of the days, months and years of probable boredom when this Gamblers Throw Fustace L Adama Heat scrambling | our brains like a pan full of eggs., us every minute. First thing you|feet and turned toward the house. the madman with the gun.'blows off.” Who killed Willlams and the fand started after his friend. Ste- mind fvens sat still, watching' them quiz- 1 guess Limpy's right in |off another man as crack a pea~fing to be doing?” asked the de- was @ harmless little squid and; “Now this killing of the guard,”|[s |adventure had reached whatever conclusion was destined for it. “Look,” ex¢laimed Stevens. “Here | comes Miss Wentworth. In a hur- |ry, too.” The girl was approaching through ‘Lhc scrub, her face pale and drawa | with emotion. Oh, Mr. Calhoun,” she gasped. |“I must get off this jsland this ,morning.” | “What's the matter?” demanded J and Emory at the some mo- ment. She had ot been so over- {come and nervous during those horrible few moments after Wil- liams' murder. | “Ashwood is making .me marry him. That plane has gone after)| a minister.” The three men stared at her in amazement. Jerry, his face sud- pale, rose quickly to his | denly ‘Come on, you fellows,” he said. queitly. “Here’'s where the lid Emory, smiling contentedly, rose zically. “Where you fellers going?” Jerry stopped in mid-stride. “The houseparty’s going to break up now,” he snapped. “I'm going to take Ashwood apart to see what makes him sick.” “And what are the guards go- ne tective curiously. Are you coming?"” demanded | Jerry shortly. Uh, uh, in just a minute, if sit down and plan things 2 tle bit first. I never was one to rush right into trouble, Come on, sit down. Five-ten minutes isn't going to make or break any- thing.” you'll vy and Emory hesitated. Their ng blood was at the boiling | and logic was not what they ted. t down, will you?” The de- e's voice was petulant. “Do u want to do the best thing Miss Wentworth, or do youj just want to fight?” They sat down. decidedly sulky. All right,” said Stevens. “Now, Miss Wentworth, you sit down, too.! and tell us all about it. We'll get things fixed up somehow. If we have to fight, I reckon we can do} a4 pretty good job. If a little ferniggeling around will settle things, we'll do that. But tell use what it's all about.” She glanced at him gratefully, and sank to the ground. His quiet, I voice impressed her with| confidence. Hesitatingly, larconi- cally, she told them of Ashwood's plans for her abduction. “Phew!” TEmory whistled, at the conclusion of her story. “The lit- tle guy has nerve enough, I'll hand him that.’ Jerry had brought down his im- pulse for swift, decisive action. “How about a marriage license?” he asked. “He didn't mention that,” replied the girl simply. “The f{lyers might be able to get one wherever they're going after the minister,” hazarded the old man. “1 wonder,” ventured Jerry, hesi- tatingly, “whether he would have threatened to carry you away if you had been married already.” “No telling,” said Stevens posi- tively. “You can's guess the way that feller's mind will turn. Tt's a fifty-fifty bet.” “I don't’ believe he would take a married woman off" stated Em- dry. “That bird has a code of morals all his own. “Well, I'm not married,” she said flatly, “so there's no use guess- ing about it.” “It might be worth taking a chance on,” observed Jerry, a spot of red on each cheek-bone. She looked at him, not understanding. “When is this marriage business going to be pulled off?” “Tonight or tomorrow morning, I think.” Her voice was discour- aged. “Ashwood plans to leave here tomorraw.” “What?” demanded all men at once. “Yes, diant you know? He says we can be at his yacht by tomor- row evening.” “Looks like me stand ready to lose our share in the reward,” mourned Stevens. “Unless some- thing happens tonight htere does- poin Emory looked three ul’llI|IIIIIlllllllllIlllIlllllllllllllllllllllll will promote happiness years past the purchasi (T The B. M. 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