The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 21, 1932, Page 4

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1932. Daiiy AlaSim E mpire JOHN W. TROY - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER ery evening except Sunday by the TING COMPANY at Second and Main Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Secord Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month By mail, p id, at the following rates: One year, in advan: % svx months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in adv Subscribers will confer a favor lf they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delive of their papers. " Tele 1.»“.~r¥‘r “Editorial_and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. s is exclusively entitled to the The Associated use for f all news dispatches credited to It or no h »dited in this paper and also the focal news pmlmhnd herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. CONGRE ADJOURNS. ion of the Seventy-second Congress, | die last Saturday night, made | itself. It operated under | difficulties more serious | years, The first that adjourned sin a commendable record for trying circumstances and than any of its predecessors for many sibly more than has faced any Congress since the war years. Its members need not return to their homes ashamed of the record it made. It enacted ses pos- some legislation which, If not calculated to relieve) the depression, at least will have the effect of ameliorating some of its worst results. And it re- fused to enact many measures which, if they had become laws, would have tended to further upset | conditions. In its earlier stages there was a notable absence of partisanship displayed in both branches. In the House, where Democratic control replaced a 12-year Republican regime, this was particularly emphasized. Under the leadership of Speaker Garner, Democratic committees worked out the rehabilitation program submitted to the House by President Hoover ancl1 Democratic leaders engineered it through the House. If, after that was disposed of, House Democrats sought to reap advantages from their control, it was not more reprehensible than the action of the President and his political advisers in claiming, partisan credit for the relief measures embraced in | the program made possible by the earlier non- partisan activities. In the latter phases of the Democratic policy in the House there was nothing out of the ordinary procedure. It was expected a.m| not abnormal. But when the Administra to capitalize on its relief program it violated a| pledge made to Speaker Garner and the country that none of these measures would be regarded as political Big business, after the enactment of measures approving the Hoover Moratorium, the law creating the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the tax bill and the economy bill, was ready for Congress to adjourn. Its fancy created all sorts of bugaboos. Every day brought new worries to it, and most of them occasioned by what Congress might or might not do. Adjournment came with all of these fears unrealized. Thus business can learn from the old philosopher who said he had lived a long time and had many worries, most of them about things which never happened. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION WARNS EMPLOYEE Too much interest, publicly displayed, by mem- bers of the organized Federa! classified service will be sharply dealt with by the Civil Service Commis- sion. The Commission in a public announcement issued a short time ago made this clear as follows: In order that Federal classified employees might be fully advised of the provisions of the civil-service rules relating to political activity by organized groups, the Commission has published for years its ruling that what an employee may not lawfully do independ- | ently he may not lawfully do in open or secret cooperation with others; neither may he employ for any unlawful purpose an agent, officer, or other person chosen by himself or subject to his power. Every em- ployee is clearly responsible for a continua- tion or repetition of the abuse of power vested by such employee in an association, or its officers or in other persons. Such responsibility may be terminated only by establishing and maintaining effective con- trol over such agencies, ,or by the with- drawal of the power so vested in them. To make a public attack on a candidate for public office is to take active part in a political campaign. Such action by an employee is a violation of Civil Service Rule I and may subject the offending employee to separation from the public service. If the attack is made by the joint action of sev- eral employees, the guilt is still personal and attaches to each employee separately and severally for the purpose of the admin- istration of the civil-service law. If it be permissible for Federal employees to take active part in a political campaign to elect one candidate and defeat another, by the same token the successful candidate must ipunishment. imade to yield. {units of highly complex compounds. {atoms. {ing on absurdly those legislators whose records are regarded as favorable in matters primarily or solely concerning Federal employees. This does not square with a statement credited to Postmaster General Walter C. Brown and made | to a gathering of postmasters in a talk delivered | a short time before the Republican convention. He warned them if they didn't get back of Hoover, they might as well tender their resignations, or| words to that effect. It will be interesting to see whether the postmasters heed the Civil Service Commission or the voice of their immediate boss. MUNICIPAL RECREATION CAMPS. Municipal recreation camps in the National For- ests have proved so attractive to city dwellers that several California cities each have two of these| camps and Los Angeles four. This plan of munici- palities to provide their taxpayers with summer outings at cost has created. a demand for camp sites all the way from 25 to 300 miles from the city, according to the United States Forest Service. The Prince of .Wales is said to have added the session of Congress certainly must be gluttons for X-Rays, Electrons and Life. | (New York Times.) } When Dr. H. J. Muller in the course of his classic experiments turned the X-rays on the fruit-fly and obtained monstrosities that startled experimental|™ evolutionists, and when still more recently X-rayed | grapefruit were exhibited in Schenectady, N. Y. ‘ which had flowered in five weeks instead of the| usual five years, we beheld what was in effect a| transmutation of life comparable with the trans-| mutation of the elements. the genes—infinitesimal Although !hey‘ are alive, they are nevertheless aggre‘ganons of When atoms are struck by X-rays—bullets according to the new view—electrons are The roots of life are of light, expelled from the nuclei and so is the elemient that they compose. We saw | not so many weeks ago that when the gamma rays of radium, which are much like Xrays, strike atoms of genes by disturbing their electrons in some on the living cell with which biologists are already | concerned. Atomic physics and experimental evolu- tion seem to join hands. The problem of modify- | ing the gene is therefore much like that of trans- muting the atom by the application of force. Jumping Salmon. (Seldovia Herald.) point to good runs, and encouraged to believe the finny tribe will be plentiful in Cook Inlet this season. Trap operators about Kalgin Island report that never befcre to their knowledge were there as many fish, this early, as are at present cavorting about the newly built traps. Kings and reds show up in abundance. One of the cheering sights to Sel- dovians, from vantage points along the board walk, is to see salmon jumping in the bay. A cheerful season preview. Enter, of course, the discouraging reports of distracted markets, bring- low prices with losses in sight, creating a pessimism not calculated to drive opera- tors to expend their fullest energy, but on the other hand the situation surely will not last always. And The Herald is one that persists in believing that sanity will triumph; that America, the worlds great bread basket, will again pour its bountiful sup- plies to every corner of the earth with commen- surate returns. So jump, you salmon, jump! coming. Let's fill up the cans, and be cheerful; about it. We're started. See it through. This awful hullabaloo about Presidential candidates, Pro- hibition repeal and non-repeal, soldier bonus, sales tax, budget-balancing—this, too, shall pass; happy days will come again, and along with them a de- veloping salmon market, with right prices and fair profits. No doubt about it. So here's to heavy runs, big packs, and near-future prosperit. Fish signs and packefs are There's a good time Au Revoir! Judge Cecil H. Clegg. Welcome! Judge E. Coke Hill. (Fairbanks News-Miner.) Citizens of Fairbanks are not going to say goodbye to Judge Cecil H. Clegg, just au revoir, as we expect to see him make an occasional trip over the highway from Valdez just to pay a visit to his old stamping grounds and say “hello” to his many friends. Judge Clegg leaves Fairbanks tomorrow over the Richardson Highway enroute to Valdez to assume the duties of District Judge of the Third Division. The transfer of Judge Clegg will mean a great loss to the Fourth Division, and a decided gain to the Third Division. He has proved himself, during his many years on the bench in this city, to be an able and upright jurist, and carries with him the well wishes of the residents of this section of the Territory. Judge E. Coke Hill, who has been transferred from the Third to the Fourth Division, is an old- timer of the Northland, and long has held the esteem of the people of Alaska. He has ably rep- resented the Department of Justice during his term as District Judge of the Third Division. Welcome! Judge E. Coke Hill. “We'll be seeing you again!” Judge Cecil H. Clegg. For the benefit of future convention radio aud- lences the delegates and the galleries should use be accorded the right to dismiss from the public service whom he will and fill the vacancy by the appointment of whom he will. That means the return of the spoils system, with infinite disaster to Federal employees and the public service. It is childish to as- sume that the protective provisions of the civil-service law can outlive the full and impartial enforcement of its restrictive pro- visions. The latter alone make the former possible, and the nullification of the latter will destroy the whole law. The foregoing principles are fundamental to any maintenance of the merit system; and the Commission accordingly holds that it is contrary to the civil-service rules pro- hibiting political activity for any organiza- tion of classified Federal employees fo issue letters or statements making direct or im- plied suggestion that the Federal employees . vote or work for the return to office of different wave lengths for their booing.—(Indian- apolis Star.) Democratic Party to the Republican Party: You take the dry road and I'll take the wet one and T'll be temperate “afore ye."—(Buffalo Courier-Ex- press.) Looks like the Democrats went as far as they could on Prohibition without going up on the platform and tapping a key of beer.—(Dayton, Ohio, News.) N Loyal Democrats compare their national plat- form to a 1932 bathing suit—brief and with plenty of visible backbone.—(Chicago News,) It begins to look as though the Prohibition ma- chine has stripped its own gears. — (Philadelphia Inquirer.) . to mll)mg the occupants of each of the rooms. Life itself had beon“ sounds were i ment of stony immobility, he beck- oney to the flyer, who joined him his ear to the panel. The atoms are changed |’ disjointed phrases. {rose and fell, came to the ears of the tense men his crouched, attentive, | showing no expression. rose again. ing. Canfield fishermen | - e | Price Gam SYNOPSIS: Expecting an at- tack from Ashwood’'s gangs- ters, led by Lucci against their leader, Jerry Calhoun and Stevens prepare their defens- es. Arshwood is helding Nancy Wentworth, Lucci and three others prisoners on his island. Two men have been murdered by someone unknown, and all the prisoners are nerve-strain- ed from the heat. watace L. Adama_ J CHAPTER 31. “DROP YOUR GUN” Very quietly, listening for sounds | from the servants’ quarters, Jerry and Stevens walked down the long, /The silent hall of the west wing. Door after door they passed un- ! til at last they reached that which art of standing on his head to the list of his par!or"\_hey knew opened o&:u; Lucei’s accomplishments, Combined with his feat of m.s-“m“g:e‘“?e”h;:gn ;maga;’stmfi;{z ;nvoun',mg ;e,éd flllrst from.l}orses. this ought to .w!:n ne panels for sounds of ‘the oc Hm UD. BROVE M |cupant. Of TLucei there was nol Ithe least sound, but their hearing Those who signed the petition of soldier bon'.xs:“m disturbed by the steady foot- seekers asking President Hoover to call a special falls of a man in the next room who appeared to be pacing back and forth within the close con-1 |fines as a ship's captain marches | |to and fro on the lofty bridge. But Lucei was still out of the build- ing. Of that much the pair were ure. He could scarcely have gona »leep with his plans for the ht so close to maturity. Y Vno is doing all the walking?" \\)wp red Jerry cautiously. Stevens glanced about, mentally he breathed and tip- door from which the 1ing. After a mo- “Hamilton,” d to the The man within, walking r could be heard mutte As his voi the nucleus of a beryllium atom, helium is knocked outside. out. Matter was transmuted in the truest sense. “Chicago. . . .. Always talking Have we not what a biologist would call a mutant?|. ... driving me mad with. .. And is it not clear that X-rays must affect the l‘(’Vlllilmm another word and Il way not yet determined? | Ten steps forward, ten steps Here we have the starting point of a pur?ly;bflgk Ten forward and ten back, physical and chemical theory of the action of energy | endlessly. The muttering subsided. aightened up and vens with growing horror in eyes. The little man still his The voice “Martin's pop eyes, always look- looking can't play with those eyes staring. Too hot to wear wool. . going down Martin's fault, damn him.” in sudden crescendo. and then T'll be cool again.” footsteps ran across the There came the sound of a turning in the lock. The detective straightened up and dragged Jerry to a positidn against the wall just beyond hc hinges of the door. Hamilton, wild-eyed, dishevelled, stepped o into the dim hall, a heavy autc- matic in his hand. In an instant, Stevens had twis'ed the gun out of his hand. Jerry, his powerfui The room key arms around the slender figure of | the crazed man, pushed him, strug- gling, biting and kicking, back into his room. < t's too hot to start anything tonight, sir.” Stevens told him soothingly. Hamilton still struggled, but m~‘ emotional crisis had passed. ke| looked thin, haggered, and old. “I must see Martin,” he whis- pered helplessly. “If I can se: Martin for a minute, will be all right. TItl be cool again, the price of wool will go up and we'll have a little peace.” “That’s all right’, murmered Jerry, lifting him and Dplacirg him at full length on the bed “You'll see him in the morning.” Swiftly, skillfully, Stevens his hands and feet with torn strips of sheeting, adjusted his limp fi- gure to a comfortable position and pushed a pillow under his head He walked to the dresser, opened several drawers, then with an ex- clamation of satisfaction, took out a double handful of -cartridges and clips and stowed them away in his pocket. “See you in the morning, Mr Hamilton!” he said quietly. H2 switched off the light and followe1i Jerry into the hall, ing the door behind him “Com will promote happiness is greater and affords PRSI Er T e lIlllllllllll|lllllllllllllllllllllIlllllIllllllllIIlllllIlllIllmlllllllll|lllllllllllllllull I scraps of sentences | looked | calm face | The voice rose| “T'll kill him everything | | trouble, | You will need it soon, I think.” tied | .| Telephone 496 carefully lock- | IIIlIIIllllllllllilllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"IIIIIIIIIIIIIII ECONOMY — A Watchword of the Times does not mean miserliness; it does mean prudent spending and prudent saving. years past the purchasing power of the dollar Our Savings Department Will Help You Grasp that Opportunity The B. M. Behrends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA bler's Throwl | on. kid, We got a gun now." living room was still de- They stepped out on the looking toward the north- near the end of the long, narrow island, the hangar nestled Ibeside the inlet. From the direc- tion of the hangar, came a short e, making no effort at con- | cealment. The sound of voices could Le ‘h?a*d from the, westerly corner of tmn porch. The footsteps of two en crunched through the saw- rgrass and the sand. Those would Ibf‘ Ashwood and Emory, Jerry de- lcided, returning from their stroll. flyer crouched a little, sensing an approaching crisis. The three walking men would reach the steps of the porch :simultaneously. He| felt Stevens' arm brush against his jside and ‘heard the faint metallic lick of a safety catch. He could e the cripple’s white hair, now, almost within reach from the porch |rail. Suddenly the two strollers {stopped. The white head turned toward the oncoming figure. is that?” Ashwood in- quired, idly curious. s me, Lucei” Have you forgotten that I told you to remain in your room at night?” Stevens, on hands crept toward the rail, and knees, Jerry close “Good boy, Alfred. the gun. Any more around?” “No, sir. under my mattress.” “So, the whole outfit has desert- ed, eh?” The leader's voice held a tinge of regret. “I had thought they were loyal” “They were, sir,” assured him, “until them they would of them I had this one hidden the steward Lucei I would not join them, they did not trust me. I do not know their plans but I think they are going to steal the planes and fly away, sir™ Ashwood turned to the others. “Alfred was my batman during the war,” he explained simply “Wc can count on him.” There was a series of staccato snapping noises, as though an ex- driver | were flicking. his. whip about their ears. THe five dived unceremoniously for - the shelter of the living woom. From the easterly corner of the house the knife-like flashes of a machinc gun stabbed the darkness. “That's the erowd on the in- shore beach,” sald the cripple. “Seem to be pretty well surround- ed, don't we?” (Copyright, | iE Dial Press.) In the midst of the confus- ion tomorrow, Nancy disap- pears. ———.——— Canada has about 500,000 acres of forest lands, more than 50 per cent of which is covered with tim- ber of merchantable size. GARBAGE by his side, i Aw, to hell with you and your orders,” snarled Lucci. “Stick ‘em “{up, quick! I'm covering you and aching to drill you both!” You are indiscreet Lucei,” the | cripple told him coldly. “Have vou forgotten my guards with their machine guns?” { Not by a damn sight!” retorted | angster. ‘“They're my guarf‘s" Since you're fading outa the| they're joining my mOLv g now. Listen, Limpy, clm- ‘re joining up with me, or‘ to bump you off, hers| see?” His voice was mfi!-i‘ the now! pictur st er yo |Tm going and now, | ignant Jerry had no doubt would carry out his threat. , that ha| | v‘ | Drop your gun, One-shot! Stevens did not raise his wvoice ibut the effect of the words was| almost magical. Ashwood and Em-| jory jumped in surprise. There| jwas a crimson, spurt from Lucei's {automatic. The bullet spatted be- |tween the two crouching men on the porch. The gangster, with a| turned and ran at full speed d the hangar, zigzagging and ng behind the slender trunks | palms as he continued his ate flig rough the dark- gun flamed once, r cut it, Limpy,” sald the ve calmly. “You need all idges. Wish you could; get my old revolver from the fel-| er who frisked me. These new- fangled automatics are always jam- ming at the wrong time!” His voice was mildly regretful as he fussed with the instrument n his hand. The cripple gazed | wonderingly at the porch. “And they say there’'s no San- Claus,” he marveled. “Better come up here and let's talk it over,” suggested the old |man casually. | The screen door squeaked on its hinges. Jerry spun around, his muscles quivering, tensed for sud- |den action. Then he relaxed. Tt was Alfred. the steward. He glanc- ed at the two \igilam men. “Beg pardon, sir,” he bowed, an lanxious frown on his usually ex- pressionless forehead. “I was look- detect your ing for Mr. Ashwood, sir.” | “Here I am Alfred,” called the cripple, limping up the steps what is it?” “Sir, T must tell you that the other servants have all gone down !to the hangar. I'm afraid there is sir. Here is a revolver. DONALDINE BEAUTY PARLORS RUTH HAYES B — CARL JACOBSON | | JEWELER WATCH REPAIRING [ SEWARD STREET | Opposite Chas. Goldstein's | and independence. It Compared with an opportunity to save, - 50 BUSINESS SUPPLIE HAULED Reasonable Monthly Rates HEMLOCK WOOD |i Order Now at These Prices Full Cord Half Cord 50 cents discount for cash per cord E. 0. DAVIS TELEPHONE 584 o . told be arrested as soon as you left. Since they knew ——— e .. DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER Better keep|e { Bullding Telephone 176 o . o —® PROFESSIONAL | Helenz W.L. Albrecht Dr. Charles P. 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