The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 22, 1932, Page 4

i i Daily Alaska Empire \T AND EDITOR “RAL MANAGER JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER by _the Sunday a 1 Main Published every evening except EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Streets, Juneau, Alaska. u as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. d red by carrler In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell an i Y hane for $1.25 per month the following rates: y i1, postage Oone yemm P advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, | 6,00; one month. in advance, $1.25. O beoribere will confer a favor if they will promptly s Office of any failure or Irregularity their papers. orial and Business Offices, 374. notify the Busin in the delivery c Telephone for E MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The A B O ASSOCIAT D PRESS:d to the AN cotton holdings is practically complete, and | ne Associated Pres e ively el t use for republication of all m»wul?.smu»m»: x;ircg;:gdlén Cong; has not made provision for future pur- not 0 credite er an 4 it or not redited in this paper a tocal news p! ed herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION INADEQUATE ROAD PROGRA of Public Roads The United States Bureau re- cently opened bids on four projects that, apparently | constitute the 1932 road building program to be financed by the Federal Government's Forest High- way Fund. The total involved in the awards was less than $50,000, about $48,875. This is much the smallest sum the Roads Bureau has ever expended since the Alaska district was created. It is less than one-seventh of the greatly curtailed allotment given Alaska this by the Department of Agriculture by direction of Congress, which limited expenditures from the Forest Highway Fund during the current fiscal year to $350,000. Deducting $100,000 for maintenance of existing projects and $50,000 for payment on projects in process of contsruction would still leave the bureau with $100,000 for initiating new projects. The list of projects that have already been ap- year proved by the Secretary of Agriculture for future construction totals many times that sum Surely there are some among them that are worthy of launching. Alaska, like every other section of the United States, has hundreds of men without em- ployment. Throughout the country, except in this Territory, the Government has not only made its usual contributions to road funds, it also has appro- priated additional funds in order that emergency relief may be provided for the unemployed. The expenditure of $50,000 or $100,000 additional in Alaska this year would take care of many now idle, prevent destitution during the coming winter, thus relieving municipalitiss andithe Territory from expenditures for charity, and would furnish needed public highways. The current Forest road program is wholly inade- quate and out of keeping with the policy of the Federal Government everywhere else in the country. Where it has been generous to the States and Hawali, it has been niggardly with Alaska. It is high time that there was a change of policy in this respect. If the Bureau of Public Roads and the Forest Service organizations in Alaska cannot induce the Department of Agricuiture to act, organizations such as Chambers of Commerce, municipal authori- ties and even the Governor of Alaska ought to take a hand. WARNS THE ADVENTUROUS. The United States Bureau of Mines recently is- sued a pamphlet warning against the exploration of abandoned mines and similar underground work- ings. The spirit of adventure which leads men and boys to such acts has been ‘the cause of many an untimely death. There is almost always a decided element of danger either from falling earth caused by the disturbance of the visitors or from the pres- ence of gas which may be exploded by the lights carried or by asphyxiation. During December, 1930, five boys carrying candles entered some old workings near Pittsburgh and all — 15 minutes Cordova. on the beach — e All-Alaska News 5 s ley, barely had time to get their Four Indians dug 150 clams in effects into the life boat and pull near away from the flaming vessel be- were overcome by the impure air, and all paid the penalty with their lives. Sometime after that tragic incident, five men entered a cave-in and abandoned mine near Tn’ni-‘ dad, Colo. Their carbide lamps ignited the accumu- | lation of gas and four were killed, while the fifth | was terribly burned and gassed. They had been warned of their danger before going into the hole, but they refused to heed. The people of the mining | 'districts know the danger, and usually they do not take chances. The accidents happen to curious strangers. FARM BOARD’S DAYS NUMBERED. The days of the Federal Farm Board are, appar- ently, numbered. Its program of liquidating wheat g operations. The end of the wheat stabiliza- operations may be expected within a few | wonths. The Government's last bale of cotton, it is said, will be sold during the current fiscal year. | Congress, itself, speeded the Board’s liquidation by giving 45,000,000 more bushels of wheat and 500,000 SYNOPSIS: Limpy Ashwood, heading a kidnaping gang, finds right marries Jerry Calhoun so Ash- wood cannot marry her. Jerry be plane. The hall leading to the guests’ rooms resounded with the clatter of feef, Mallory, Martin and Dr. Tither- ington burst into the living room excitedly demanding an explana tion of the gunfire. Jerry pushec redoubled At ambled = on hrough sand langar was close now. bales of cotton to charity, greatly simplying its | problem. | The advent of the Board was greeted by the country, particularly the farmers, with high hopes None of these materialized. Its operations were stabilizing in name only. The effort was a complete flop, and the cost to the taxpayers was enormous. | Had benefits been commensurate with the cost, | the nation would not have complained. That was not the case, and the Board's demise will not be attended by any mourning other than by the few | | who derive fat salaries from it | | | to| | “Roosevelt and Repeal” seems to be made ;m‘der for a Democratic slogan. | There's one thing about Gen. Smedley Butler, | (the big marine has little difficulty in making “first page” position on the country's newspapers. | i | Lausanne’s Realities. (Boston News Bureau.) that started at Serajevo was ended at Lausanne, 13 2-3 years after the; It has smoldered on meanwhile in non- fashion, despite all efforts to extinguish : The war ivesterday ;Armisiice military lit finally. i There has been the long, futile chapters of effort \to quench it,—the first fantastic reparations scheme, |{the Ruhr invasion, the Dawes Plan, the Young Plan, ithen the skirmishing that led up to Lausanne |Finally there is the arrival at realities, with Ger- many now self-obligated to pay virtually a cent (for every dollar first demanded. Moreover, instead of unborn generations being bound for nearly two- thirds of a century, there is a brief and conditional term of years. | Under this new scheme, based on reciprocal confidence as expressed therein and on German !contribution toward European reconstruction, thas new payment is to be only three billion marks; the bonds representing it are to be issued not before three years, and never if unissued after 16 years; | and the price of 90 will mean only 2700,000,000 | marks. So are the figures whittled down very finely, | at the same time that a mutually convenient silence is kept as to “war guilt.” That silence is ushered | in as Lausanne replaces Versailles in a treaty tu]ei Such was the only possible outcome insofar as| a central feud between France and Germany had| kept obstructing the pacification and recovery of| Europe. Adversity, chiefly economic, had remoulded the temper of each, especially of France, to a de- |gree impossible not so long ago. That outcome was clearly foreshadowed even through all the crises of bargaining. So we come to the threshold of another outcome, —sure, if delayed. That affects the relation be- inevitably to include war debts as well as repara- tions. We had told France, as admitted in Wash- ington, that the first necessary step was for agree- ment at home on reparations within Europe before ever looking hither for any accommodation on debts, and then to come singly for new adjustments. Now that new stage approaches with the ac- cord just attained at Lausanne. The immediaie next step there is to invite us to a world econ- omic conferences, conveniently termed as independ- ent enterprise. But the real and important next step will be for a new debt parley Lausanne spells realities as reached within Europe. Debt discussion will mean realities soon approached in world terms—perhaps after election. The noise of the convention floor doesn't count as much, after all, as the whisper in the hotel room. First there was much ado and then there was McAdoo—(Boston Herald.) in a match in Juneau some weeks ago, will meet on the mat in Petersburg July 28 Asssessed valuation of property, both real and personal, in Wran- gell, as established for the pur- pose of the 1932 tax levy, is $805,- 210. Wrangell's City Council has been requested to state on what terms tween the two continents, as negotiation broadens| | knees. |fore the explosion. Fifteen hundred |dollars had been refused for the Three or four bears, which ap-|boat just before her departure from pear to be quite tame, are reported |Petersburg. by Cordova motorists as ranging| constantly close to the Lake E)‘ak‘ William L. Cartwright, who op- Highway. The Cordova Times |erates hotels in Michigan and Flor- warns persons not to put much |ida, who came to Southeast Alaska confidence in the tameness of the /on a pleasure tour recently, met animals. {his four half-brothers at Skagway {for the first time. The father, Clarence L. Turner, 41, was kill- | Charles Cartwright, who came to ed by the accidental discharge of a‘Al ka in 1898, died in Skagway 30-30 rifle that he was cleaning |last year. in his cabin near Hyder. | | Five hundred persons attended Gold values of $480 a ton inthe annual picnic held under aus- samples of ore taken from the Goat pices of the Loyal Order of Moose Mountain claims in the Cordova near Cordova. The outing was at district have been reported in|Strawberry Point. assays made at Kennecott says lhe|‘ Cordova Times. These samples. which were picked from points along the quartz ledge for a dis- tance of about two miles, were sent to Kennecott by J. V. Lydick. Rigid inspection of canned sal- {mon will be made by the Canadian Government, declared J. A. Moth- |erwell, Canadian Supervisor of Fish. |eries, on a recent visit to Ketchi- |kan. The canned fish will be in- spected for three grades, Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Fire starting in the forecastle of the powerboat Woodrow, owned by Petrich and MacKenzie, spread to oil drums on deck and they ex- i ploded, causing the reported total loss of the vessel. The accident More salmon fry are present in previous year, the Ketchikan Chronicle says. the craft left Petersburg for Se- ‘attle. Those aboard, including Roy Anderson and Jack Ryan, : ‘Leonard Stokes and L. E. McGin- heavyweight wrestlers, who enclsed‘ the Yes Bay Hatchery than in any | it would dispose of the light and power plant the municipality is operating. The request comes from the Wrangell branch of the Bank of Alaska, which is trustee of the Wrangell Lumber and Power Com- pany. The bank stated resumption of operations by the lumber mill are under consideration if the| power and lighting t can be obtained. The Council will put the issue to a referendum vote of citi- zens if the bank gives assurance lof definite plans for resumption of lumber mill operations. | Kippered herring are being pack- ed by W. J. Imlach at his Port Benny plant near Cordova, | Roy J. Storey of the Engineering Department of the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad at Cor- dova and Miss Florence Guitteau were married at Cordova. The cere- mony took placea few hours after the arrival of the young woman from Seattle. I { John H. Hansen and Johanna Jangaard were married at Cordova. ! Emil C. Hagen, of Cordova, em- ’ployed by the Copper River, and Northwestern Railroad, and Miss | Anna Sander, were married at Mc- | Carthy , | them aside impatiently and ran or against the door. The center pan- el splintered. The door sagged on its hinges. He kicked it into the room and stood an instant at the threshold, glancing at the unten- anted bed and at the wide-open window. He leaned far out, peer- ing about until his eyes grew ac- customed to the darkness. A hun- dred yards to the north were thr dark figures running toward the hangar. Jerry placed one hand| upon the sill and vaulted to the ground. At the same instant Stevens burst the room, just in time to see hand flash downward out i down water. eagerness. onoplane, doubtedly would lately. 'All right, son, get her started,” Sicvens said. “I'il stay here and tig ‘e offu" of sight With an agility was amazing for a man of years, he slid out of the window. | Two men were pulling and push- ing at Nancy, hurrying her away from the house. Jerry, silently, closed up on them wnhfjng every stride. Far over to the right | haust )of flame, path, that watch over the amphibian the machine gun stammered into action. The first bullets his head. With despair heart, the pilot flung himself on |great wing. his face. The detective’s voice, | him. his own men turned against |was the amphibian. him by Lucci, whom he is holding for ransom. Nancy Wentworth, also a prisoner, gar. Stevens, impatiently the top of your head. Great aren't yow.” hands blazed ‘with brilliant ime to run for it. ended on being able to seize the Failing that, they un- Gamblers Throw by Fustace L. Adama_ J and you speed - the Its i Sudden hope surged into Jerry's He quickened his pace, veer toward the monoplane. could hear the hammering of the| amphibian’s engine as she taxied| the runway and into be helpless. wait, monoplane. from whose I engine thundered through the dark i Jerry listened carefully. The two men | who had carried Nancy had disap- It peared in the shadow of the han- In a few moments it would too late. They'd have her in h He forgot the snapping bullets which were cutting through has been captured, together with Emory and Stevens, a de- the palm leaves above. He at- tective. The gangsters open tempied to rise. The iron hand fire. e detective fell upon his shoul- and forced him back to his CHAPTER 32. ees. A HAIL OF BULLETS Six inches mor murmered 'd of two. and knees and sawgrass, ' The nter- lights. down the hall toward Nancy’s From its open door a wide white room. on of light shone across the| | Her door was locked. He pound- waters of the inlet. In its ed on the panel, calling her. There jon glistened the silvery wing was no reply. &ie hammered with Emory's monoplane, standing redoubled force, conscious of a silently on the hard-packed sand |, gnawing fear in his heart. Step-|thir or forty feet west of the ping backward he hurled himself building. They the Jerry's muscles quivered wlm‘ Now, if ever, was the | Office. Everything de- | Come on,” he whispered, “make a dash for our plane.” The detective, grunted inarticu-| Jerry did not He tha* {rose from his crouch like a sprint- his [er at the searting gun. A large black figure blocked his! of a guard standing But running | his attention was upon the taxi- ex- issued a varicolored ribbon | With all the momentum | whined |of his plunging body, Jerry divedi through the palm leaves just over at him. The two went down in a| in his tangle, beneath the shadow of the | WOO0D Stevens, arriving almost as theyl, incredibly calm, came from behind fell, swung the butt of his gun| tdown with terrific force upon the “Guess you flying fellers didn’t lgangster's head. There was a hol- learn much about the war,” panted, crawling on hands “You were outlined agains! |feet the moonlit water plain as broad daylight.” he [low thwack. and “We've got to rescue .Nanc}' " de- |peneath the cabin door. Fumbling clared Jewry vehemently. at the handle, he became con- “Sure, agreed the imperturbable |scious of flashes and spurts of| voice, “but we can’t dc it if we're The man's arms re- and {laxed. Stevens jerked Jerry to his shoved him into action.| In another moment flying feet had reached the stirrup | the pilot’s flame which came from every side. dead. Come on, let’s crawl a mite.” A burst of firing sounded from | the house behind them, echoed from the east by the shatter of another machine gun. The two crawling men worked their way patiently toward the hangar. The whole island was now crackling with' the sound of gunfire. Jerry thought of Emory back there m!'relephone bt DONALDINE BEAUTY PARLORS RUTH HAYES the beleagured house. Its paper-|e thin walls would offer little pro- | tection against the crashing bul- lets. The pilot wished desperately to return to his friend's side. But SEWARD CARL JACOBSON JEWELER WATCH REPAIRING STREET Nancy was somewhere ahead! | Opposite Chas. Goldstein’s I he vibrant roar of an airplane | g ° T e T ey ECONOMY~— LT T spending and prudent saving. is greater and affords an opportunity You Grasp that Opportunity OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA will promote happiness and independence. does not mean miserliness; it does mean prudent Compared with years past the purchasing power of the dollar A Watchword of the Times 1t to save. Our Savings Department Will Help The B. M. B_ehrends Bank LU T OO T T I LT The slap-slap of bullets was almost continuous. He wondered how so many shots could possibly miss jhim. It seemed to take hours and hours to open the cabin door. Stevens’ voice, calm and matter of fact, cut through the inferno of sound. “All right son, I'll stay here and Jerry squirmed into the bucket seat and felt for the starter. Cold perspiration beaded his face as it occurred to him that the guards get her started hold ‘em off.” The heavy crash of Stevens' au- tomatic came almost from beneat the cabin floor. The old man was Istill alive, then, probably crouch- |ing beneath the aluminum-cowled |right ‘wheel as he held the mob at bay. | Why didn't the engine start? | Churning, churning — would she never take.hold? Jerry jazzed the rottle desperately, ducking in- stinctively as a bullet tore through {the wall of the cabin and snapped |close by his head | (Copyright, Dial Press.) | | Will the engine start in time? The motor roars, (o- morrow—and then dies away, bullets rake the cabins. | while | Old papers ror sale & Emplre | GARBAGE | HAULED Reasonable Monthly Rates HEMLOCK WOOD Order Now at These Prices Full Cord $8.00 Half Cord . $4.25 50 cents discount for cask per cord E. O. DAVIS TELEPHONE 584 JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Lit e Store with the BIG VALUES BUSINESS SUPPLIES: COMMERCIAL PRINTING BINDERY Geo. M. Smpkins Co. cCAUL . MOTOR | i | | | 1 . ! CO. 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