The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 23, 1932, Page 4

e R e T T THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1932. Daily A laska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER hed every evening except Sunday by the EB‘!"#{%‘EPPRINT‘;’NG COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, llvered by carrler In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Dellvered by g ne for $1.25 per month By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, §12.00; six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of &ny failure or irregularity He delivery of thelr papers. & I ephone 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 mews published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. DOUBLING THE BIRD SEASON. By increasing the open season this year on migratory wild fowl, the Department of Agriculture has yielded in some measure to public clamor, or at least to that portion of the public that finds pleasure in hunting. Last year, without rhyme or reason, the Department cut the season to 30 days and in fixing the time for hunting used the worst sort of judg- ment. This year, as has just been announced from Washington, the season is to be increased to 60 days. In Alaska, it has been fixed from September 1 to October 31. That period is probably the one best suited to Alaska as a whole. But why is it necessary to regard the Territory as a unit in administering regulations on wild fowl? Natural conditions do not justify such a procedure. Mani- festly the same open dates are not applicable to the southern areas that are fitted to those in the far north, or even in the comparatively closer interior. No 600,000-square mile area in the United States could be so administered, and none is attempted except Alaska. The Territory ought to be split into at least two, and if possible more, divisions. Many local organizations have asked that it be done, but Federal authorities have not heard their requests with favor. Nor have they advanced any sound reasons for not making the division. Probably Alaskans ought to feel thankful for the 30-day increase in the hunting season. If they do not, it is not from constitutional ingratitude but rather from a sense of mystification. They do not yet know and no one ever has advanced any reason- able explanation of why it was necessary to curtail in the slightest degree the open season in the Terri- tory. Birds are abundant, increasing every year. There has been no drought or other natural causes to hamper breeding birds. The total kill in a nor- mal, or three-month, hunting season here is infin- itesimal when compared to that of any populous State. Wild fowl constitute an important source of food supply to Alaskans who do not happen to live where fresh meat can be had by walking to the corner grocery. In fact, the economic value of this game is of more importance to Alaska than the sporting value. If Alaskans do not, therefore, en- thuse over the 30-day extension of hunting, is but a natural reaction to the absurd treatment the Terri- tory has received at departmental hands in this matter of being denied the right to utilize a re- source that is abundant, when such utilization would hurt no one and denial of it help nobody. A FEW FAVORABLE STRAWS. Conditions in England present an encouraging picture that is in fine contrast to the gloom that followed the abandonment of the gold standard last September. Instead of 6 per cent then prevailing the Bank of England rate now stands at 2 per cent, the lowest on record. And the Government has at last been able to effect the long-awaited huge conversion of its debt from a 5 per cent to a 3% per cent interest basis. The result has been and enthusiasm to increase the confidence of England over its trade and financial outlook. Markets responded promptly to the good news. It may be that England is at last emerging from the morass in which it has been |sunk since the war. | At home, it is difficult to find cause for cheer A huge increase in bank circulation flowing from |the Chicago bank disturbances has wiped out all of the reduction effected since the anti-hoarding drive of February, but this may prove quite temporary. Moderate gold imports continue, increas- ing the probability of a return movement of the huge outward flow of autumn and winter. Business is slow and still contracting. Most encouraging is the steadiness of the com- modity price level, which for a fortnight has been able to stage a mild gain. Sugar and hog prices are up, however, sharply in the last month. A lift in grain prices would assuredly be the signal that the maximum readjustment in commodity prices | [hnd been accomplished. last PUBLIC FORE A study of foreign public forests, made by the United States Forest Service, shows that while public | control in the United States has been almost wholly confined to requirements for protection | against fire, other countries, as a rule have gone| considerably farther, particularly with respect to for-| ests that serve to prevent soil erosion or to regulate stream flow, or that serve other public itnerests. | Most of these countries are at the same time extending the area of public forests. | Few countries, in recent years, however, have| taken more active interest in promoting public recreational areas in their State-owned forests than the United States which has created public play- grounds, built roads and created other facilities to attract people to forested areas. POLICIES. | A number of years ago, then Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall said whimsically that what the country needed most was a good five-cent cigar. Just now the great need of the country seems to be more men able to pay for any kind of a stogie. War Debts in the Campaign. (Cincinnat iEnquirer.) | It is clear that the question of modifying the war debt settlements is going to be in the limelight for some months to come. Both the pressure of debtor nations and the sentiment of influential groups in this country will suffice to keep the problem before the Government at Washington and before the public. This does not mean, however, that the disposi- tion of war debts owing to America should be or need be an issue in the Presidential campaign. To reduce war debts or maintain them at present levels is not a question of public policy, to be determined by majority vote, but a problem in practical economics, to be met by calm analysis of the economic factors involved. The Democratic Party has declared in its plat- form against “cancellation’ of war debts. But it says nothing whatever against “reduction” of war debts. The Republican Party, on the other hand, is discreetly silent on the question at the insistent demand of Secretary Henry L. Stimson. There is no real difference between the parties on that issue. Both are prepared to stand firm on debts or modify them, depending on the economic conditions that, develop in Europe and America in the next six months. The object of leaders who help to form public opinion on this question should be, not to cham- pion debt cancellation, debt reduction or rigid debt observance, but rather to make plain the interde- pendence of Europe and America, and the extreme importance of close cooperation between them on economic questions. This point of view will leave the Federal Gov- ernment free of limitations imposed by prejudice, and it can than face the real situation in interna- tional finance, able to readjust the debt burden to suit Europe’s ability to pay, if such readjustment proves te be necessary to avoid further decrease of world trade. And, fellow Jeffersonians, let’s not rub it in so cruelly on the G. O. P.; remember the gentle ad- monition of Schley at the battle of Santiago Bay, “Don’t cheer, boys; the poor devils are dying."— (Chicago Tribune.) Four years ago both parties adopted planks in !Iavor of enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment. This year both parties declare it can’t be done.—(St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) There has never been a talkie like a national political convention.—(Buffalo Courier-Express.) ALASKA NEWS Not wishing to spoil of a black bear by shooting {of coal |the coal needs of the hide |Officer of the Bur of Fairbanks clubbed the animal|its output. | ing preparations for the production in commercial quantities | this mine may soon supply most of it, | recently visited the mine with the John Horan and his companion |View of contracting for some of launch, Alaska, which is 42 feet long, equipped with a 60-horse- power Sterling gas engine capable of developing six knots. The craft has sleeping accommodations for six persons, not including the pilot house birth. Bids will be opened at Anchorage August 10. that section. An eau of Education | ballooned from the exhaust stock. _ of Craigie creek, in the Willow ~ ereek district north of Anchorage, to death a few miles up the Chena | river from Fairbanks. But first, Horan sneaked up behind the bear | and got a cable around one of its hind feet and then snubbed the animal tightly to a tree. Residents of Kanakanak were thrilled when the first automobile ever seen in the community arrived there. It is owned by Postmaster Nicholson. One of his daughters, recently arrived from the States, drives it. When Miss Rhea Collett of Seattle arrived in Valdez, she was met by Charles H. Casey of Fair- banks. They were married at once. ‘They left the next day by automo- biles over the Richardson Highway for Fairbanks where they will make their home. Gasoline was recently advanced 2% cents a gallon at Fairbanks, bringing the price to 30’ cents a gallon for pump gasoline and 41% cents a gallon for cased gasoline. Development of the Kemff gold quartz property on the right limit is to be undertaken immediately By Cleary Hill Alaska Mining Company of Fairbanks the second dividend of 5 per cent for this summer has been declared, payable August 1, Admiral Coonrz, retired, who saw | considerable service in Alaska' waters when he was on the active list of Navy officers, is promin- ently mentioned as the next nation- al commander of the American Legion. Films of motion pictures taken by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer camera- men in the Nome area arrived recently in Anchorage by airplane. From Anchorage they were express- ed to Hollywood, Cal Lee Billings, one of the pictures- que sporting characters in the early days of Skagway, who afterwards was in Dawson, Nome, Fairbanks and the Iditarod, died recently on his farm near Elmira, not far far from Los Angeles, Cal. He was 62. He left Alaska in 1909. Fire under the floor planking of the City Dock at Seward was extinguished before any damage resulted. The little blaze was caused by a lighted cigarette that had been carelessly thrown away Benjamin Benson, member of last June's graduating class at the Seward High School, who gained distinction by designing the Alaska flag, wil study fox raising for a year on the fur farm of his parents on Benson Island near Chignik, A year from next fall he will enter the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines in which he has a scholarship for having designed the flag. Fred Crane, former Fairbanks Attorney, who practiced law the last two years in Seattle, has re- turned to Fairbanks to engag> again in law business there. Florence Bourden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bourden of Nome, died there after a lingering illness. WISCONSIN JURIST MOTORS TO GLACIER Passing through Juneau today on the steamship Alaska was Judge Oscar M. Fritz with his wife and two daughters. Judge Fritz for the past six years has served as Justice in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. While he was in this city he was and fell into a crack in the floor. To the highest bidder, the Alaska ‘Railroad will sell its cruiser type! the guest of James McCloskey, who drove Judge Fritz and his family to Mendenhall Glacier and return- ed to Juneau via the Loop Road. Gamblers Throw! Fuatace L Adams. SYNOPSIS: Jerry Calhoun tries to start his airplane en- gine under the machine gun fire of gangsters who are car- interrupted the cripple. “Spare us, on a warm morning like this, If I hear just one more such quo- tation I shall froth at the mouth rying away his wife, Nancy |and bits somebody.” Nancy. Stevens, a detective, Alfred sat up behind the over- holds the group off. The |turned couch. gangsters have revolted from their leader, Ashwood, who has kidnaped Nancy. Emory has come with Jerry to rescue her. The steward’s face was ghastly pale. His left arm, roughly ban- laged in torn sheeting, showed as a great spot of crimson against {the background of his white ser- CHAPTER 33. vice jacket. A semi-circle of emp- BEHIND THE BARRICADES |ty clips was mute evidence to the A gust of flame belched crim-|fact that he had been a bulwark son from the slowly revolving mo-of ength during the night's| tor. | siege. Ah, she'd make it! No. Churn- Martin, as usual, was silent. ing, churning, eveny second drag-;Px-uppcd on one elbow behind e ging itself into an infinity of time, parapet of chairs at the north- Stevens’ gun still barked. Another west corner window, he fingered| bullet and another raked the ca- automatic lovingly. bin. Again a ball of flaming gas| Emory, sipping his liquor slow- | led so much to the strength of the |would be safe. 0 | question. He had heard his mon- oplane take off after the amphi- bian. Something in the reckless jsurge of its engine had told him that Jerry was at the controls Having seen Stevens run down the hall after Jerry, he assumed that the two were together in the air- plane. He knew that Nancy was not in the house. What had hap- pened to her he did not know. Nor did he know why Jerry had gone flying away in the night, when his presence would have add- besieged forces im the house. It had not occurred to him to question Jerry's motives. Jerry's safety was the only thing that worried him. But no, that reckless, scream- ing zoom of the monoplane had been with Jerry’s hand on the stick. And once in the air, Jerry If Von Richthof- en's red-nosed circus hadnt been able to bring him down at St. Quentin, vertainly he was in no danger now. Emory, his eyes just over the ly, gazed across the room at the Then the engine roared, backfired,}sirange, silent man with some-| missed and suddenly burst into full{tnhing like wonder in his eyes.i throated rythmic life causing thelwho could have thought that that| plane to vibrate in every inch of|taciturn, prosaic little real estate| her fabric. promoter would have had his| Stevens’ figure appeared in the sht moment of cold-blooded,| doorway. (In the darkness over|gdea his shoulder, guns stabbed the|pefore, Emory had watched, amaz- night with their vicious pointsjed as Martin had vaulted out of of scarlet. Jerry, trembling with|nis window, sprinted across fifty| eagerness to push forward on the|rco: of bullet-swept sand and re-| throttle, watched the old man|trieved an automatic dropped by hesitate, turn back and fire a full |5 dead attacker. clip of cartridges. Then carefully| .pyeq of being shot at without closing and latching the cabin|p.ng aple to shoot back,” he had door, the detective took his seat.ieynained grimly to Emory, who The great monoplane rolled for-|y, 4 raced across the room, leaned ward over the hard-packed shell.| .. .r the window and whisked Then she was free, an earth-borne |y, pack into the relative security | monster no longer, but a joyous,| . .}, parricades. throbbing bird-like thing hurtling| o Maumy‘ % There “was en- | through the air. - | 4 other study in psychology. He had su;vens steady forefinger point- burst out of his room cold-sober ed slightly to the left. Jerry bank-,.q 4t the first massed attack| ed over to follow a faint red line| on t1o house he had been qmet-’ of exhaust fire. As he straight- ly efficient, firing steadily, accu- ened out again he glanced down| ..., a5 though shooting at slay and backwards toward the hz)use.“n,wnS on a range From a row of windows on the "‘m & had ‘been & east end of the low building tiny| O n)i,ggt' e e al’i | pinpoints of flame flickered from | 't Titherington Ea Sl the guns of the beseiged. From| - ' 1 three sides came answering flashfl““‘“fmdmg h"’m' A man of peace, | unable to have secured one of the | es. i The exhaust flames of the am- | 8l-t00 few automatics had he phibian were clearly visible now;w‘“}‘ed it, the minister had slood! and Jerny knew that he was gain- 'S€niIy-go over fhe two corridors | ing, slowly but steadily, upon thc‘le"mmg to the two rear wings to | northward speeding plane, Stey- | make sure that none of the gang- | ens held his beloved machine gun,)Sters had succeeded in slipping He squinted ahead at the flecmg.‘b""“"’e“ the house and either plane, beach r_or a flank attack. He had “How long?” he inquired t.ense-ldone his duty throughout the long 0 imizmi ost of all, it was the mi ” B ut most of all, it was the min- Torry A Comiessed ister's tender waich over Hamilton wc're‘ following them. When meyl.“h‘ch o ”‘.‘wmd ren t)_w grudg- see us they'll give her full [hmt»\“?q admiration of the cynical Ash- tle. We're fairly evenly matched | in speed. Maybe fifteen minutes. Maybe two hours. Have to wait till we see how much speed they have.” Still tied with the bonds that; Stevens had -wound round him, Hamilton lay in a coma from| | which he had emerged in wild de- |lirlum when the fighting had - < i reached a climax. Yet through it ‘Ashie, old bean, it won't be !,y p. itherington had soothed long now!” Emory Battles' smoke- ‘h!.m with never-flagging patience, |erawling over to him at frequent | intervals to see if he still slept and if the barricade of furniture and mattresses still sheltered him | from stray bullets. “How much ammunition left?” called the cripple. “Alfred!” “Only two clips, sir!” begrimed face broke into a wide- mouthed grin as he rolled over on his side and looked at the man who shared the shelter of the up-| ended living room table. The cripple ducked behind the heavy shield just as it vibrated under the sharp smack of a bul- let. His lined face was drawn| “Martin?” with fatigue, but the dancing light" “Four cllips'" in his blue eyes was undimmed as “Good Ma‘]lory?" he returned the other's smile. “Three.” “One would think my dilettante| «anq Battles has two. That friend, that you looked forward|makes fourteen. I have three my- | with pleasure to dying.” His drawl-iself, Seventeen in all. We'll have | ing voive had lost nothing of its mocking brilliance. He reached for a cigarette from Emory’s case. From where I lie,” he puffed, “it looks as though we would be able 70 hold them off about thirty more minutes, at the longest, and then only if we are able to con- tinue keeping them from passing to the rear of the house and sur- rounding us.” “They may all have sunstroke within the next thirty minutes” retorted the other, squinting cau- tlously over the top for a brief glance toward the hangar which, in the first faint pastel tints of the dawn, looked strangely peace- ful in comparison with the wreck- ed living room behind him. A bullet snapped by and he dropped to go easy from now on. Don't shoot unless you are positive you can drop your man.” | “Why don't Calhoun and Stevens come back?” grumbled Mallory. “With a nlane and a machine-gun they could run the blighters off the island!” “Are you asking me riddles?” de- manded Emory, irritated. For the past three hours he had tormented himself with the same DONALDINE BEAUTY PARLORS his head unceremoniously. ‘“You Telephone 496 RUTH HAYES picked out some pretty fair sharp-|g. ° shooters when you organized your mob, Ashie,” he declared ruefully. | CARI_"E‘LAESEQBSON I SS TS SRCI ) Yo pro- WATCH REPAIRING nounced a resonant voice from SEWARD STREET Opposite Chas. Goldstein's the center of the room. “Please, please, Dr. Titherington,”" o LT T T T T ECONOMY — A Watchword of the Times will promote happiness and independence. It does not mean miserliness; it does mean prudent spending and prudent saving. Compared with years past the purchasing power of the dollar is greater and affords an opportunity to save. LT Our Savings Department Will Help You Grasp that Opportunity chipped edge of the table, gazed steadily toward the hangar. Five men stood talking in the palm grove, just out of pistol range. As he watched them, curious, he saw two of them pick up a machine _defying courage? Two hours|gun and tripod and walk in a wide| circle toward the easterly side of the house. Then, just within easy range, they mounted the gun and lay down in the sawgrass. (Copyright, Dial Press) | PROFESSIONAL | — Helen: W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHER. Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastlcs. 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 ~ TR R . DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building ¢ PHONE 56 ‘ | Flours 9 arn. to § p.m. . Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST I Rorms 8 and 9 Valentine { Bullding | | Telephone 176 i . L] Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bidg. Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. Evenings by appointment | Phone 321 ‘——_ e Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTST Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. 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