The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 25, 1932, Page 4

g § ) i i § i f THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1932. Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER the Sunday by o Main Published every evening except Sunday o EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered In the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, d Dellvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell an: Y Thane for $1.25 per month re paid, at the following rates: ey e, '$12.00; six months, in advance, 0; one month, in advance, $1.26. S eom o "will ‘confer & favor it they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity e delivery of their papers 3 I emnone Yor Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Aa:flwnsvmwd Press is exclusively entitled to the o for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the focal news published herein A CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER AR AN THAT OF ANV OTHER PUBLICATION GIVING JOBS TO ALASKANS. | The Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce recently petitioned Gov. Parks and other officials of the Government to take any action necessary to insure the employment of Alaskans on a road project about to be undertaken there by the United States Bureau of Public Roads. The organization asserted it confident the Government agents here either had the power to do what was asked or could get it from Washington by asking for it. It was wrong on both counts. Neither Juneau nor Washington authorities can legally put limits on contractors that will deprive them of the right to hire labor where they please. Of course, the Ket- chikan business men were perfectly justified in their efforts to protect their unemployment workers. The spirit they exhibited is commendable. However, no official action, even were it possible, will be needed. R. H. Stock, the successful bidder for the Ketchi- kan work along with two other projects, has set all fears at rest by the announcement that no labor will be brought from the States for any of this work. The number of men to be put while not impressive, means that 45 Alaskans will be able to earn enough wages to tide them through the coming winter . If the Territory could get a few more projects opened up and work launched on them by the early Fall months, and some funds are now available for that purpose, every man so taken care of would be just that many less who will need relief before next Winter comes to an end. Authorities who are in charge of Federal road to work, 45, funds in Alaska, and who certainly are familiar with existing unemployment conditions and the need for easing them, ought to leave no effort unspared to get approval from Washington, if need- ed, to expand their activities here to the utmost extent that their funds will permit. TWO VIEWS. In his speech nominating President Hoover for a second term, Joseph L. Scott, a lifelong friend of the President's, contrasted the decline of Rome under the Caesars with the salvation of America by the superhuman Hoover. Hendrick van Loon, his- torian, on the contrary compares the President with Honorius. Mr. van Loon yrote: Substitute Hoover for Honorius, and 1932 for 432, and you have an exact replica of our times. No leadership. A system that was running down like a clock of which the key had been mislaid. A few highly culti- vated and intelligent men to whom nobody listened. Both, we think, are gutlty of the same fault— exaggeration. Mr. Hoover as a superman is an exploded myth, along with his two-car garages. He has exercised leadership to some extent, but much of it has been faulty. He hasn't saved America— only America can do that. Neither has America come to the brink of dissolution and ruin under his administration. The country is sound to the core, and is slowly but surely working itself out of the depths of industrial and economic doldrums that have gripped the whole world for the past few years. OLYMPIC ‘Through economies effected in the sports pro- gram as well as increased contributions during the closing days of the canvass, funds for America’s teams in the Olympic games as Lot Angeles are now assured. The campaign for money for this purpose lagged badly in its early stages but during the latter part of June and this month gained sufficient momentum to carry it over the goal line. The American Committee originally set $350,000 as the amount necessary to insure the United States adequate representation in the games. However, by reduction of the number of entrants to not more than 340, and through other economies, the Com- mittee was able to lower its original estimates materially. In 1928, this country sent 400 contest- ants to Amsterdam at a cost much above this year’s. Little difficulty was then encountered in raising funds. Sport, today, doesn’t seem nearly so import- ant as it did four years ago when the United States was at the peak of its greatest prosperity cycle. The nation shouldn't do so badly with 340 athletes in the games. Germany will be represented by but 1. Sweden and Finland, together, will have but 91. Other nations will have teams of about that GOAL ATTAINED. for the practice of sacking grain there, which is beginning to give way to the bulk handling method, says the United States Department of Agriculture. In those days, before the Panama Canal was in |use, grain from the Pacific Northwest was usually shipped around South America. Bulk grain often spoiled from the wide changes of temperature. Flat cars were more common than ordinary freight cars, and grain in sacks could be shipped on Insurance companies were unwilling to insure grain |shipped in bulk, and so the sacking method came into general use. | Now the Panama Canal and better ships and freight cars have removed these barriers, and such |economic considerations as the saving of the cash expended for sacks are causing farmers to consider the bulk method of handling grain. About 40 per |cent of the grain which arrived at Pacific North- west terminals in 1929 was in bulk, and an in- Concerning Juries. them. | creasing portion of the grain in that region is ex-| pected to be handled in bulk, rather than in sacks. | Gambler’s Throw! Fustace L. Adamas_ J Ashwood has abducted, defend ¢ "“How long now, Jerry?" ; he detective. |1t Ashwood’s island house. Jerry | Calhoun is racing by airplane |e¢! after the members of the gang who have captured his wife, also kidnaped by Ashwood. A | J detective, Stevens, is with him. SYNOPSIS: cwn gang, Limpy Ashwood with Besieged by his Emory Baftles and the men gine we'd never catch I'll be wanting n out of the window.” him.” hield and warned CHAPTER 34 | “SHOOT AT HER PROPELLER” The other three separated, two | the propeller. white bit of cloth. the night skies with the asked Ten or fifteen miutes at least. that bird could get another fif- revolutions a minute out of his to poke this 7 The smoking coming from a point just behind the pilot's cockpit in the bow of the other plane. Nancy was prob- ably confined in the main cabin within the fabric covered fuselage, to the rear of the cockpit. Jerry could now see every detail of the ship. The tracer bullets were al- most constant. He avoided them automatically. “What shall I aim at” inquired the puzzled detective. .“No use {killing the girl so 'Ou can rescue showed him a sliding panel | her.” \ the non-shatterable glass wind- | “Wait,” snapped the pilot as he him against|{pulled back into a zoom. Full two through the shimmering arc Then both lapsed lence, their eyes fixed upon hundred feet above the amphibian he levelled out and held her to her course above and slightly be- of them dodging behind one tree the irrgular blur of blackness hind the lower ship. after another until they had work- |which was slowly revolving itself| “I'm going down,” he shouted. ed their way as close to the house o the distinguishable outline of |“Wel dive straight across her they dared. The fifth pulled | the amphibian, top wind. Shoot at her propeller.” a handkerchief out of his pocket All sense of forward motion was Stevens nodded silently and and advanced boldly, waving mp‘l ince gone. Droning steadily |pushed the muzzle of ~ his (Cincinnati Enquirer.) “Far enough, Mueller,” called |u lackness of the water ever|weight on the stick and the plane An Anglo-Saxon jury is a sentimental jury,|AShwood as the gangster reached th them, both men in the|dropped from under the two men whether it is impaneled in Cincinnati or in Old |®* hailing distance cabi felt as though they had!as she hurled downward like a Bailey. This would-be aphorism, which has all the “Come out on the porch Lim-in ying for hours without get-|falling projectile, appearances of triteness, is inspired by the ‘“not-|PY’ yelled the lone man. “I want tir anywhere. There were no (Copyright, Dial Press.) guilty” verdict returned in the case of Mrs. Elvira 0 falk to you” ands. SHecky. Doy by | Wikeh Dolores Barney, on trial in London for the murder| You hardly aspire me with can- might gauge speed or d]s~; As the two planes draw dan- of her lover. At long range, and without attempting to con-| sider the merits of the case, the verdict seems to| prove one thing—that English juries are just as| susceptible to beauty and to brilliant pleas of | defense attorneys as are American juries. This will come as a shock to the Anglophiles in the lemll profession and elsewhere who have been beating| the drums for years for British jurisprudence. There is, of course, much in British jurisprud- ence to merit the beating of drums and the waving of banners. But the Anglophiles who have told| us that the system is perfection itself probably will wail bitterly that their idol has clay feet as a result of the action of the jury in the Barney case. Let them and us be not discouraged. If the Barney jury erred, and it probably did not, at least it erred on the side of beauty in distress, which is always a good side to err on. There is so much ugliness in the world that many things can be con- doned in the name of beauty. Juries, be it known, err much less than the experts and specialists would have us believe. It! will be some time before those experts and special-| ists, who are, generally speaking, the least open- | minded men in the world, devise anything better, or even as good, as the jury system. Let the Anglophiles, therefore, slightly chast- ened, continue their efforts for legal reform pat- terned after the British code. Honesty Penalized. (New York World-Telegram.) The latest victim of Washington's shush policy is Ethelbert Stewart, 75-year-old statistician in the United States Department of Labor. About four months ago Secretary of Labor Doak announced that, upon information supplied by his aids, he could state that employment was on the increase. News men, puzzled, sought Stewart to verify this important statement. Stewart took down the phone, called Mr. Doak and told him that he was not| justified by information in his department in draw- | ing such a conclusion. Mr. Doak then called the aged statistician into his office and rebuked him Events since then have vindicated Mr. Stewart and discredited the Doak ballyhoo. Recently Mr. Stewart was recommened for retire- ment. His name was omitted from a list of valuable officials who, in spite of years beyond the retire- ment age, were to be retained in active service be- cause of their usefulness) Mr. Doak explains that he recommended none of the oldsters from his de- partment. Mr. Stewart is recognized as one of the ablest men in his line in America, and his honest work on employment is particularly needed now. He has, he says, a “lot of pay dirt” in him yet. But, un- fortunately for him and the country, he is too candid. Tossing Bougquets. (Seward Gateway.) The Cordova Times, with true loyalty to party standards makes the observation that “In affairs concerning the Territory of Alaska there were not- able gains made by the Alaskan delegates. Our voting strength at the conventions has been in- creased 50 per cent. The plight and conditions which have resulted by remote rule of the Terri- tory have been forcibly brought before the nation and the party (Republican) is pledged to a more liberal policy in governing of Alaska.” In the light of what has happened since Presi- dent Hoover visited Alaska the Times ecomiums are not unlike a funeral in Missouri. The deceased appeared to have no one willing to say a word in his favor. Finally one bolder than the rest stepped forward and said: “Well, he had a good appetite.” In Safe Hands. (Anchorage Times.) There is encouragement in the announcement that Ike P. Taylor is to have charge of Federal road building activities under the direction of the Department of the Interior. During the many years Mr. Taylor has resided in Alaska, first as a member of the engineering forces of the Alaska Railroad and more recently as senior engineer of the Alaska Road Commission, he has gained a thorough under- standing of road needs of the Territory and he will enter upon his new duties as Acting Chief Engineer under the Interior Department with the good will and confidence of Alaskans His first of- ficial announcement, that he does not contemplate any changes in personnel or stations is a reassuring one and The Times is sure the placing of road build- ing activities under the direction of Mr. Taylor will prove a very satisfactory arrangement. Siamese rebels made no attempt to confiscate the royal property. After all, boarding 50 or 100 sacred elephants runs up into peanuts. — (Detroit News.) How wet is wet? Naturally, a State-control mist is not a saturated repeal deluge. — (Washington Post.) As our Ambassador told the Danes, Uncle Sam size. If our 340 men can't maintain the athletic prowess of the country against much smaller dele- gations from foreign lands, there must be some- thing radically wrong with our methods of select- ing entrants. WESTERN WHEAT FARMERS ABANDON USE OF SACKS. Cautious sailors, who in the early days insisted that grain from the Pacific Northwest be sacked to prevent its shifting in the ships in the rough ~ voyage around Cape Horn, were partially responsible isn't Shylock. Nope. He's just Shylock's first syllable —(Boston Herald.) ‘Washington never told a lie. But he never had to vote dry and come back home to face people who know he drinks wet.—(Florida Times-Union.) Federal Judge thinks making near-beer is illegal. A lot of wets agree that it is a crime—(Dallas News.) Prohibition sentiment now seems to indicate that before long the camel will just be another animal in the circus—¢{Indianapolis Star.) fidence,” retorted the other, “while |t The dark mass of the you have a white flag in onc;\ ast line rolled past their right hand and a gun in the other.” |wing like a treadmill Mueller placed his automatic| A sudden stream of spitting fire upon the ground at his feet. Ash- t from the rear of the amphib- wood limped out on the porch. ian's fuselage. Jerry’s heart thum- Under his straightforward gaze, | e Action at last! He watched the man with the flag of truce !t shifted about uneasily. |83 “Limpy,” he said at last, “we |Time don't want to bump you off, but'g we want two-thirds of all the jack |bullets. The detective slid open the you got in the house. We'll take g panel. The cabin was in- your word for how much you got.” |stantly filled with a tornado of “Aren't you flattering!” mocked noise and wind. He inserted a the slender, white-haired man from |clip of cartridges into the breach his exposed position on the porch lof his gun. “Mueller, aren't you the man “Going to be a mite awkward,” who persuaded the others to join he shouted, peevishingly, “to stop TLucei's mob?” them without making them fall.” “What if I am?” Jerry watched a luminous streak ickering spot of crimson care- holding steadily to his course. enough to dodge the machine n when he could see its tracer “We'll dive straight across her top wing,” shouted jerry. “Shoot at her propeller.” “Nothing of importance,” replied of ruler-straight smoke draw a Ashwood evenly, “except that I'm |line from the gangster's flashing going to write your name on a|gun to a point scarcely six inches bullet.” [from the monoplane's left wing “What about the pack?” Are you [tip. Thc gunner was getting the going to kick in? If you don't.'range. The sulphurous stream we'll charge the house and take | veered, disappearing within . the it all” |trailing edge of the wing. Jerry “Charge if you like,” the cripple indifferently. “I'd ad-|The ship zoomed vertically for a vise you, Mueller, to remain be-|hundréd feet, leaving the smoking hind a tree.” |line of bullets far below. He A sudden flush suffused the face |straightened out, watching the of the gangster. So quickly that|tracer carefully. Up, up, it came. the eye could scarcely follow his|He swung to the right, then plung- movements, he dropped the flag|ed downward. During the maneu- and scooped up the automatic. | ver, he had gained perceptibly up- Emory, crouching behind his ta-|on the fleeting amphibian. ble, felt his own gun kick back| Stevens, his gun ready, paid no in his hand. He saw Mueller |attention to the other's fire, nor stand upright, rigid, a look of as-to the violent motions of the plane tonishment replacing the rage on 'as it wheeled and dived. He wait- hic features. Standing still as a e patiently for an opportunity statue, the man dropped the gun, coughed and suddenly pitched for ward full length upon the sa e grass. A gust of machine-gun bullets| rattled against the side of the| | = * turned, calm and unhurried, and | house and knocked long splinters| from the porch rail. Ashwood, strolled back into the living rcom,| NALDINE ARLO! where he took his place bcsndelDo REAURY. % i girl or causing a fatal crash. putiyindy | Telephone 498 RUTH HAYES “Much oblged, old thing,” helgir— " T said quietly. Then, turning to- ward the others. “They’ll be com~i | CARI}E‘L%EEQBSON l ing, now. Don't let one of them | slip past the house. We can't| afford to have an attack from| | the rear!” & WATCH REPAIRING SEWARD STREET Opposite Chas. Goldstein’s .. ECONOMY~— A Watchword of the Times will promote happiness and independence. It does not mean miserliness; it does mean prudent spending and prudent saving. 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