The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 15, 1932, Page 4

¢ chief engineer of its road building bureau—it should « ' THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1932.° Daily Alaska Empire | JOHN W. TROY - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGEB' Sunday by _the very wvenin| except NG COMP Second and Main NTING COMPANY at Alaska., Published EMPIRE_PRI Streets, Juneau Entercd in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. arrler In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month : tage paid, at the following rates: advance, $12.( ix months, in advance, advance, $1.25. onfer a favor if they will promptly Office of any failure or irregularity Dellvered by ¢ By mall, p One year, $6,00; one month Subscribers w notify the Busine in the delivery of Telephone for R OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. N Rpress. 18 exclusively entitled to the heir papers. .‘}\"l‘ '\:‘\i )»vnd Business Offices, 374. e Associated 3 u:h((rAxsx;‘.n]‘.\ tion of all news dispatches credited to| It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the| tocal mews published herein. ‘ “ULATION GUARANTEED TO EE LARGER THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION ALASKA C THAN THE PRESS ON THE DEMOCRATIC REPEAL PLANK. North South, East and West, newspapers regard- less of party affiliations have joined in frankly praising the Prohibition plank in the Democratic platform. And most of them compared it with the Republican plank on the same subject to the latter's | disadvantage. In the East, particularly. the Demo- crats won acclaim, but the other sections were al- most as solid in their endorsement. ! The Public Ledger, staid Republican journal, finds | “the Democrats have squarely joined the issue wnh“ the Republicans. . . . The country now knows where i | | both parties stand on the leading issues.” The Bal- timore Sun declared: “The Democratic Party . i has taken an unmistakable position abreast of the forward movement in which thinking men are en- listing in ever multiplying numbers. It is a heart- ening demonstration of the ultimate responsiveness of the party institutions to the demands of the rank and file” The Cleveland Plain Dealer ob- served that “the Democratic platform expresses in its Prohibition plank the majority sentiment of the country.” The Hartfort, (Conn.) Courant be- lieves “the Democratic declaration has the merit of | starting off by committing the party to the out- right repeal of the offending amendment.” The New York World-Telegram, member of the Scripps-Howard chain of 25 newspapers, asserted: “At last Prohibition repeal is in sight. The Demo- cratic platform joins the issue. It is frank. It is fair. It goes the whole way. . It was dictated to the platform writers by a vast majority of Ameri-| can voters.” The Boston News Bureau sees in the plank a major factor in the November election. Conceding that economic issues may cause it to lose some of its emphasis before the campaign is ended, it finds “at the moment the swing of the current is im- pressive. The only fairly clear and interesting sur- mise at present would seem to be the extent of possible loses on this ecore among Northern Repub- licans who like the definite Democratic position far more—to the exclusion of everything else. That might far outweigh any total of Southern Demo- crats conversely turned away.” The Chicago Tribune thinks “National Prohibi- tion, as a social evil, has heard sentence pronounced upon it,” and the St. Louis Globe Democrat agrees with it that the “end of the ‘experiment noble in purpose’ is near at hand.” “The snappiest cam- paign document submitted to any political party in the United States in many years” is the character- ization of the Detroit Free Press which asserted: “By adopting the (Prohibition) plank the conven- tion hurled the party completely over its Rubicon.” The Southern newspapers are surprisingly fav- orable to the plank. The Atlanta Constitution de- clared: “The Prohibition plank left no possible doubt as to the sentiment of Democracy. There is no quibling, straddling or evasion.. The wisdom of the boldness and directness of the Democratic plank as against the timid, irresolute wording of the Republican declaration, is shown by the response received from both Republicans and Demo- crats.” “The Prohibition plank adopted . . of clarity. It is the courageous utterance of a courageous party and it should bring it victory at the polls in November,” is the way the Rich- . is a model mond, Va, Times Dispatch greeted it. And the Tampa, Fla, Tribune added its approval, saying “The Demoratic plank on Prohibition is clear; it demands the proper steps for repeal, and calls for appropriate action by both State and nation to promote temperance, prevent the return of the saloon, and bring the liquor traffic into the open under complete control.” The Seattle Times, whose editorial has already been republished by The Empire, agreed with the editors of the East, Southwest, South, Middle West and North, praising the plank and the party for its courage in adopting it. Two other Western news- papers—both California—the Los Angeles Times and the San Francifo Chronicle, called the stand futile the latter viewing it as an “invitation for all the Drys to leave the party.” THE NEW ROAD ENGINEER. In appointing Mr. Tke P. Taylor to be acting continue to be known as the Alaska Road Commis- sion—the Department of Interior has acted with wisdom. His long connection with the Board of Commissioners for Alaska, as district super- endent and later Senior Engineer, has given him knowledge of the functions of the Commission, its road and trail system so widely scattered r Alaska’s hundreds of thousand of square miles, |game at Panama. {will instant | him, he has been doing for the Commission for several years. He succeeds to executive duties with which his association with officials of the Com- mission has given him a clear understanding. He has a great responsibility and a big job. It is no light task to carry on such ‘activities with the effi- ciency that has earned the Alaska Road Commis- sion in past years the reputation of being an out- standing example among Government agencies in the North. He cannot perform that task alone. To do so he must have the same sort of free hand that the War Department gave his predecessors in office, a freedom from Washington interference that made it possible to meet any pressing need that arose and that on many occasions was worth incalculable sums to the Territory. We hope that Mr. Taylor has the same kind and degree of co-operation from the Interior De- partment’'s Washington officers. We know he will have it from his immediate superior, Gov. George A. Parks. All Alaska wishes him success, not only| becausc he is wellknown and well-liked, but also because success in carrying on the program means as much to Alaskans as it does personally to Mr Taylor. After all there’s worse things than clouds and | gentle rain. Hail storms, heat, lightning and tor- nadoes, such as have swept wide sections of the| country make up a much less desirable climate than | the moist one that has prevailed rather more than| we enjoy in Southeast Alaska. A school for women prospectors has been opened in Colorado. Unless the Colorado girls are sadly behind their sisters in other climes, instructions in the art of gold digging will be so much wasted | effort Decommissioning a Dirigible. | (New York Times.) | The airship Los Angeles went out of commission | vesterday after almoste eight years of cruising in| the United States, with side voyages to the Carib- bean and one test of her scouting powers in a war She has the record for the longest useful life among dirigibles. When Mrs, | Calvin Coolidge christened the XR-3 as the Los Angeles in November, 1924, she exclaimed: “Go forth under the open sky and may the winds of Heaven deal gently with thee!” As the years went on, the graceful lines of the{ airship and her glistening hull became familiar to our people. An early assignment was to take up scientists to observe, on January 24, 1925, a solar eclipse. On the day after Christmas, 1927, she an- swered an emergency call to go to sea to search for the airplane Dawn, her officers scanning the sea as far as Sable Island without finding a trace of the lost ship. As a training ship she was of vital importance to the navy. She rode out many hard blows and was sometimes in ticklish positions, as when she actually stood on her nose while moored to her mast at Lakehurst. It is the experience gained in a long experimenting that qualified officers and men to take over the Akron. Some of them will be detailed to the Macon, which will soon be ready for commission. The Los Angeles was intended to point the way to the commercial use of ships of her type. It has been decided, as a result of her fine record, to build commercial dirigibles to carry the Atlantic mails. Regular voyages will be made before many years pass. A Giant Merger. (Seattle Times.) A new corporation designed to do business on at least a national and perhaps & world-wide scale, is announced in New York. It is the United States| Bridge Association, and its formation is of marked significance in view of the fact that a number of corporations, large and small, lately have been heard to complain of a decline in business. The new bridge corporation evidently sees nothing wrong in the present or awry in the prospect; it senses no slackening in the public demand for its offerings. It may as well be noted first as last that the United States Bridge Association is not likely to do much to stimulate the structural steel industry or to open up new outlets for Portland cement. It will not be connected with the kind of bridges that they put water under, George Washington Memorial or otherwise, suspension, bascule, canti- lever or whatnot. Yet a great many thousands of American people undoubtedly will be more inter- ested in what this new bridge corporation will say and do than they would be if it were merely to provide means of getting from here to there over stream or gully. When all these Americans have learned that the new bridge corporation is a giant merger of inter- ests represented on the one side by Ely Culbertson and on the other by F. Dudley Courtenay, they grasp much of its significance; and when they are told that its President will be Milton C. Work, the fullness of a great purpose will dawn upon them—they will appreciate the magnitude of this new deal. If all goes as well as expected there will soon be but one system of bidding The Dry’s Predicament. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) For the first time in a good many years, the ardent Dry finds that he has no party or slate of candidates for whom he can vote. Although the Democrats are more candid in their demand for repeal, the G. O. P. is likewise wet. Leading can- didates of both parties are wet in many States heretofore considered dry. The old Prohibition Party is disbanded, and there is no evidence of any serious effort to muster Drys into a minor party movement this year. Borah, the acknowledged leader of the dry forces, has been seduced by the liberalism of Roosevelt, and refuses to champion a movement for the de- fense of Prohibition. Economic questions ‘loom larger in his mind, and so Prohibition is discarded as a hopeless standard. There is one party, to be sure, which defends Prohibition. The Liberal Party, reviving the ghost of the greenback movement, has nominated Colonel Frank B. Webb for President, and favors retention of the Eighteenth Amendment as well as the Vol- stead Act. But there probably are few Drys who are willing to risk outright inflation of the currency in order to cast a vote against beer. Our Canadian friends may be comforted by the knowledge that nothing can be done about Pro- hibition on this side of the line in time to inter- fere with this year's tourist traffic on the other.— (Boston Transcript.) Apropos the submission plank, the attitude of virgin wilderness, and of the people of the which makes it possible for him to serve His | qualifications rank him with the leaders lession in the Territory. Thus, the ap- nearly ideal as could be. ork the more outspoken repealists i who first cries ‘Wet enough’ Express.) “Damned be he (Buffalo Courier The Senate is already making preparations to watch campaign expenditures this year. As things look now it will not have to sit up nights doing that will be required of |that.—(Detroit Free Press.) 4 | | glanced SYNOPSIS: “Marry me,” Jerry Calhoun tells Nancy Wentworth, when she says that Limpey Ashwood, the gangs- ter, who is keeping her and four men on an island for ransom, has threatened to make her become his wife. Jerry, Emory Battles and Stevens have been captured while try- ing to rescue theprisoners. CHAPTER 26. A THOUSAND DEVILS sifted loose sand through his fingers, not looking up. “Of course,” he continued; slow- ly, “you understand that the mar- riage would be inm name only, If we ever get back to ecivilization we could all work together and have it quietly annulled. -Steye prove that it had been done as the lesser of two evils.” A thousand devils were grinning om Emory’s dancing eyes as he from the sober-faced, flushed Nancy to the embarrassed | Jerry. “Fine scheme, if you ask me” Stevens said hastily. “You prob- ably won't have to worry about a divorce, or an annulment, either, because if you aren’t a widow by the time we leave here, it won't be Jerry's fault. [He’s more anx- jous to go and get himself Kkilled ' than any fellow I ever saw—un- less it’s his addle-headed running mate, here.” Jerry's ears burned as he saw the girl survey him thoughtfully. He had never been much of a la- dies' man. But he did feel fool- ish, somehow. Talking about even v e this kind of a marriage as' though they were discussing a missing engine or a spavined horse. A small hand suddenly rested upon his knee. He looked up to see Nancy smiling at him through tear-washed eyes. “You are a dear boy, Jerry, and I trust you,” she said simply. “Tll leave all the details to you three.” She rose and walked rapidly to-) ward the ~house. Emory broke into a chuckle, Jerry glared at him. “What are you laughing at, you sap? Tve got a good mind to punch you in the nose.” “I'm laughing out of pure re- lief,” gasped Emory, “that T wasn’t the fair-haired laddie who thought| of this wonderful scheme! Oh, boy! Our little Jerry, restless wanderer! of the air trails, married!” | “Shut up,” growled Jerry mo- rosely. “Didn't you hear the con-| versation?” “Sure I heard it.” Emory's grin/ was maddening. | “Didn't you hear 'me say that| the marriage would be in name| only?” | “Sure, oh sure, we heard it,| didn't we, Steve.” i The detective’s eyes were twink-/ ling, but his face was impassive.| “Well, then don't be an ass! muttered Jerry. “I heard you say it,” gibed Em- Gamblers Throw The three stared at Jerry as, though he had lost his mind. He !si and Emory would be witnesses to | ou are a deal “but You wait.” ust because I have a won- ory, |night now if we had any privacy.” almost unbearable aura of unea s pervaded everything in- side the house; blended with the heat waves that rose in_shimmer- ing layers from the parched sand outside. made , afy atmosphere sur- with electrfcity, Jerry felt a door were to be slammed, man within that huge, dark m would leap for his throat. have Hvened up the evening.” “Uh, huh,” shortly: isn't funny, it didn't mean any- sary, but it's not funny. grunted the other “But @t my age, killing Sometimes it's neces- “Oh, I don’t know,” yawned Ash- wood. tively. face, was listening which was apparently inaudible to the others. “An_aigplane,” (Copyright, “Once in a while it may be “I doubt, however, that it to Emory heard he whispered. ial Press.) Stevens evolves a plan to trick stallment, Ashwoed, in the next in- but it threatens to lead to pitched battle. was the ‘only one who, ner that evening, braved heat of her own room. thers in the living room had sett down to wait, as patiently as might be, through endless hours be: time. Emory unti and Stevens sat CARL JACOBSON JEWELER WATCH REPAIRING SEWARD STREET Opposite Chas. Goldstein’s dryly, “to break up that little bout. but you must admit that it would ( control over my temper,”|amusing, either in its cause or ef- ed Jerry witheringly, “that|fect.” He looked about 'the room, |1 don't beat you up. I'd do itjeyeing each of the men specula- { He rose and strode toward the|amused any of us last night. With- house, very much on his dignity.jout wishing to seem critical, I DENTISTS | The majestic hateur of his retreat{might remind you gentlemen that Blomgren Building |was not made easier by the soundlone of you has committed two PHONE 56 | |of Emory's rancous laughter which |rather cold-blooded murders.” Fiours 9 an. to 9 pm, Ifollowed him all the way to the| Stevens: watched Jerry, who, with . . porch steps. a faraway expression on his tanned % something | ¢ it, too. | | | | | | 1 | close together, the flyers attempt- ing ‘o read, the old man mildly watching the others with eyes that scarcely seemed to see what they were looking at. Hamilton was; plas shuffling his cards and| plac them in neat rows and columns upon the green baize- ta- ble top. Mallory, a highball on the arm of his chair, was alternately drinking and dozing. Lucci, sit- ting bolt upright in a straight chair, was finding the inactivity | almost unsupportable. e strode | to the door with irritating regu- uarity, peering out to see if the| NEW CHEVROLET SIX The Great American Value New Roadster . Coach Coupe Cabriolet reduced prices delivered at Juneau Equipped $675.00 735.00 735.00 830.00 Sedan (4 door) ... 840.00 Free Wheeling and Syncromesh CONNORS MOTOR CO., Inc. JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Lit_e Store with the BIG VALUES ! | 1 | ] l ,; | { | | i h Jerry.” | hogled-for evening breeze had ris- en.. Then he returned to the chair to sit, chaling and swearing, wait- ing for something to happen. Mar tin, unobtrusive as usual, was half- | hidden in a dark corner. He shuf-| fled his feet incessantly, uncon- sciously. Jerry found the noise ir-! ritating. Even Ashwood, stretched | out in a chaise lounge of Philip- pine wicker, seemed moody and | dispfirited. “Good God!" snarled Mallory harshly. “Why doesn't somebody | say something?” Lucci snapped out of his chair anfl faced him, his dark eyes beady with hate, his mouth a crimson | crack in his swarthy face. Then! he began to advance upon the | stockbroker, treading lightly, swift- ly. . Mallory pushed himself out of his arm chair, grinning horrib- ly. Hamilton swiftly moved his table away from the area of the impending clash. | “Lucci!” Steven's voice snapped like @ bullet. Lucci pauséd uncer- tainly. “Sit down, both of you!” The tension was suddenly brok- |] en. The gangster, surly, returned to his chair. Mallory seated him- self and drank greedily. Ashwood had not moved a mus- clue. 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