The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 26, 1932, Page 4

L — P — n Daily Alaska Empire | JOHN W. TROY PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER ¥ Published _eve: evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE BRINTING COMPANY at Sccond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class | matter. n SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane 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 any faflure or irregularity in the delivery of thelr papers. Telephone 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 news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. | BETTING At the middle of Chance were quoting odds against Gov. Roosevelt’s chances of winning the Presidential election over President Hoover. It is not in the size of the odds, which are not large that the significance lies. The real importance is that the gamblers give the Democratic nominee a better chance to win the election next November than it has given to any Democratic Presidential candidate in the past 30 years. In the midsummer of 1916, the odds were five to two on Charles Evans Hughes's chances of de- feating President Woodrow Wilson. Four years ago about the same stage in the campaign they were as high as four to one against Gov. Alfred E. Smith and went even higher as the campaign grew older. There is said to be considerable Hoover money but it is more “cagey” than usual. One prominent grain man wanted to back Hoover to carry his home State of California but had to have even money on the contest in the State. Betting odds, after all, represent the sentiment of those who have money to wager. Based upon local sentiment largely, and without the benefit of any informed survey, which is not attainable this early in the campaign, they are of little importance in indicating what the trend of the electorate will be as far away as next November. THE CAMPAIGN. of July, devotees of the Goddess of seven to five THE FISHING INDUSTRY IN RUSSIA. Russia, under the Soviet Five Year Plan, is making giant strides in building up its fishing in- dustry, says a Department of Commerce publication. Before the World War, although 500,000 persons were employed in this industry, it was technically very backward. Production was, therefore, very low, considering the abundant supplies of fish available. The total catch in 1913 amounted to only 924,820 short tons. The Soviet Five Year Plan provided for technical improvement of methods of catching and handling fish, showing improvements for the first three years. In 1931 the total catch was 1,413,477 short tons, and last year it had mounted to 1,575,056 short tons. The fishing industry is in the hands of the State which operates in three ways, through fish- eries managed directly by the State, through those managed by fish cooperatives, and through collectives which include increasing numbers of individual fish- ermen. The share of the latter groups in the total production of fish is large and growing. It was 60 per cent in 1930 and 88 per cent in 1931. Collectivism of fishing has brought many changes and improve- ments, such as the use of powerboats, motorized fishing stations, and better boats, gear and equip- ment. The engine power available for fishing rose from 20,000 horsepower on January 1, 1929, to 150,- 000 horsepower on the same date this year. The | number of boats increased from 67,100 in 1930 to 73,800 in 1931. Improvements in transportation and preparation are making it possible to increase constantly the |bit more aware of the possibilities. proportion of fresh fish shipped to market. | Pish canning is also making great strides, and |and sailboats. Such lakes as Lake Minnetonka, for facilities are constantly being enlarged. Production of canned fish, in cans of 400 grams net, amounted | to 56,262,000 in 1930 and 74,297,600 in 1931. Can- fish-meals, etc. For the improvement of the technique of fish and preparation of fish as a food and for other |steamers that once plied the little lakes are gone. purposes the Soviet Government has set up a num- |The vacationers use the water to swim in—but when ber of scientific institutes and experiment stations, | located at the chief points of catch and production, and supervised by a central scientific organization, the TSIRKH (Central Scientific Institute for the | Pish Industry) The tasks of this institution include | investigation of different districts, study of kinds | of fish in each, migration and other habits, etc. NO UNSOUND INFLATION SCHEME. The Glass currency bill, passed by Congress in| the eleventh hour of its recent session, is not an old-fashioned inflation scheme. Providing for the ~expansion of the currency base by one billion dollars, it does so logically and honestly, without - any danger to the gold standard and without setting ‘up a subsidy to any particular group or industry. It merely makes the enormous gold supply of the ‘nation a fundation for a larger pyramid of currency and credit. Admittedly one of the great difficulties of the country today is in the sagging of commodity price levels. Until this is checked and some measure of " recovery undertaken, no attempt to bolster industry " ‘or agriculture is going to get very far in the desired direction. But if prices can be improved and then ‘put on a stabilized base, the path to constructive enterprise which' will put men and women back ~ to work is again open. The billion dollars provided by the Glass plan are honest dollars, not merely printed on paper - and backed by nothing but a governmental promise. | of the nation's Federal Reserve Bank system which, purchasing power, has burdened to double those who | borrowed three years ago and find it impossible to dollar ordering of our economic system. ordinarily used. tion which has as many attendant evils as inflation Its effect should be felt on conditions in this country within a few months. generally if the Administration will follow his sug- have shrunk from $4,000,000 to $700,000 in the past four years, |must have backed his own prosperity play. on or near ning methods are being improved, with mcrenslmzlboM :)r peaid :o L‘;kixtfi;gr?:rso‘::‘gz :;de-smmo;: recovery and utilization of by-products, such as oils, |were elaborate regattas in tiny towns ng'mm neither rich inhabitants nor ornate yacht clubs. baskets into an automobile instead of a boat. |and we ourselves will wonder why we ever neglected The new currency will be more honest than today's dollar by the process of deflation, decreasing in pay back today. An honest dollar is one that is| stable in purchasing power, handicapping neither debtor nor creditor, and insuring the stable The Glass plan is not inflation as that term is| 1t is a device to counteract defla- Perhaps Senator Borah can be kept quiet Ix\)fl\l'i the Republican Prohibition plank and platform gestion about calling a world conference debts and reparations. on war President Hoover's personal fortune is said to which is somewhat below the average for shrinkage of riches since 1920. The President “Never Mind the Why and Wherefore.” (New York World-Telegram.) Sang the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B, First Lord of the Admiralty, in “Pinafore “I always voted at my party's call And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.” And so would “his sisters his cousins and his aunts” have voted, had they had the vote in those days. And so will vote some sixty-four Republican wives, daughters, sisters, cousins, aunts whose de- votion to the Women’s Organiation for National Prohibition Reform is not quite strong enough to| reconcile them to a Democratic platform and can- didate—logic or no logic. The Sir Joseph Porter of this Republican sister- hood is, according to Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, no other than our First Lord of the Treasury, Secretary Ogden L. Mills, who helped draft their protest. This would be in keeping and character, since no one had more to do than Mr. Mills with the steamroller that flattened dutiful Republican dele- gate-office-holders under the Hoover straddle plank at Chicago. Mrs. Sabin freely admits the right of the seced- ers to vote for whom they choose. But she has| truth and consistency with her when she says: When these ladies state that both parties declare in favor of submitting to the people an amendment eliminating national Pro- hibition they are reading into the Republi- can plank an interpretation not justified by its wording. For not only does the Repub- lican plank fail to advocate the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment but it specifical- ly states “we do not favor a submission limited to the issue of retention or repeal.” We credit Secretary Mills with far too good an intellect to be defending the Republican plank be- cause he personally likes it. President Hoover thought such a plank might catch both wet and dry votes for the Republican ticket. Like Sir Joseph, Mr. Mills wouldn’t think of really thinking for himself at all where party strategy has been settled. “And neither would, etc.” We hope President Hoover gets comfort from these party sisters and cousins who have broken away from Mrs. Sabin. He will need that comfort, we think, because the larger trend between now and election is likely to be strongly the other way. In the long run, no President of the United States can safely try to face two ways on a great and genuine national issue. The pose is uninspir- ing and, in the end, repellant. Even the most loyal partisans are secretly ashamed of it. The more thoughtful and independent turn from it. A Vacation Pet. (Daily Olympian.) Governor Roosevelt’s attempt to find rest and solitude at sea on a 40-foot yawl may have been slightly frustrated by the presence of that yacht- ful of politicians and reporters who followed him from the moment his cruise began; but the trip is at least, for the rest of us, a reminder of the extreme amount of pleasure which a man can get out of a boat in the summertime. The United States ought to be one of the great- est nations of boating enthusiasts in the world. It has vast ocean coastlines, a surpassingly charming stretch of shoreline on the Great Lakes, rivers in abundance and thousands upon thousands of small lakes. But the automobile has turned most of our attention to dry land. When we plan a vacation, we usually plan to spend it on wheels instead of on the water. Most of us are utterly ignorant of the fun that can be got out of a small boat. At the dawn of this century we were a little Nearly every lake of any size had its fleet of gay motor-launches instance, in Minnesota, were crisscrossed by fleets f little steamships which carried the summer &ot- tagers to and from town. The family that lived Today the picture is different. Most of the little they go on a picnic they load themselves and their One of these days well wake up. We'll discover once more the pleasure that a boat can provide, whether the boat be a canoce, an ancient catboat, a snappy speedboat or an ornate cruiser. When we do the boat-building fraternity will cash in— one of the finest kinds of recreation available. Prohibition is something you decide to do away with before you ever have it.—(Dayton, Ohio, News.) Somehow or other Bishop Cannon's regular quadrennial withdrawal from the Democratic Party didn’t cause much excitement this time.—(Detroit Free Press.) In the last analysis the Lausanne business re- duces itself down to the old skin game — heads Europe wins, and tails Uncle Sam loses.—(Washing- ton Post.) Once there was a “hard cider” Presidential cam- paign in the United States; and people were not ashamed of it either.—(St. Louis Globe Democrat.) Word from the Sing Sing death chamber is to the effect that a couple more New York gangsters have died with their Oregon boots on.—(Los Angeles Times.) SYNOPSIS: Jerry Calhoun, and Stevens are trying to end an airplane chase by attacking the hydroplane in which gangs- ters are carrying off Jerry's wife, Nancy. The rest of the gang is in rebellion against the leader, Ashwood, and is attacking him and the persons he is holding for ransom. CHAPTER 35. “HAPPY LANDINGS” The amphibian appeared to float up to meet them. | | Jerry, leaning forward in his seat, watched the gangster ship with half-closed eyes. He must miss fhat upper wing by inches only. The tracer bullets from be- low were sweeping the monoplanc from wing tip to wing tip as Lu- cei's gunner kept his finger clasped tight on his trigger. Down, down. Funny, how long such a short dive could take! The tracer bullets annoyed him. They secemed to stretch. Like a taut string between his own gray eyes and the other fellow's gun. He wondered vaguely why he hadn™ been riddled with lead. The lum- inous dial of the altimeter sudden- ly disappeared from the instrument board. Something else, too, had disintegrated as the gangster’s bul- lets crashed through the panel. He couldn't stop to see what it was. No time for anything but to dive as close to that upper wing as he could. Must give good old Steve a fair target. Then he became aware of 2 new sound, a continued tactactac as of a steel riveter at work. It was Steve. Attaboy, Steve! The long, upper wing of the amphibian seemed to leap up in the bow of the plunging mono- plane. Jerry pulled back desper- ately, wondering if he had waited too long. As the nose lifted he lis- tened for the crash that would mean the end of everything. Steve was straightening up, pulling his gun garrel out of the panel. Jerry's breath whistled between his tight shut teeth., They were clear. Miss- ed a collision by a fraction of an inch. “Get it?" he demanded. “I dunno. Usually do” It was all of a night's work with the de- tective. The monoplane was flying level again, Jerry yanked hard over to return to the attack. The dark hulk of the other ship became visible. The pilot slapped his com- panion on the back. “Look!” he shouted. Theyre go- ing down.” The amphibian, her exhausts streaming fire, were gliding in a long, thin, quarter turn, her pilot obviously trying to reach the san- dy beach of the mainland. Jerry measured the distance with his eye. Yes, they might make it. He must beat them to it. With his own engine full on, he, too, swung toward shore in a terrific power dive, hoping against hope that he would find the beach suitable for a landing. Jerry dived past the slowly-glid- ing ship. With his own mightly engine wide open, the monoplane was covering two feet to the am- phibian’s one. Down, down, with the wind whistling through the struts, the entire fabric vibrating to the banshee shriek of the mo- tor. There was no time to drag the beach to find out whether the sand was hard or soft. It didn’t, matter. Te closed the throttle and pivoted the plane around on her wing tip. As the fat balloon tires struck the sand the heavy ship lurched and faltered. Jerry braced himself, thinking that she was about to dig in and turn over. Then she rolled heavily to a stop. Jerry leaped to the sand before Stevens had opened the door on the other side. The amphibian had just landed on the water, for- ty or fifty feet from shore and was now drifting in toward the beach under the forward momen- tum of the glide. 'With engine dead and its crew silent it looked like a black ghost ship in the night. Jerry, in a cold sweet of impa- tience could not wait for her to| reach the beach. He waded out| irto the dark water, his hands| itching to wrap themselves around Lucci’s throat. “One shot out of that gun” came Stevens' calm voice from the | | ) | 1l i | He heard Stevens’ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1932. watace Gamblers Throw!| £ LAdama. ) beach, ‘I the works There was no reply. The plane, its forward way almost lost, was inching steadily toward the shore. The water was now up to Jerry's waist. “Throw vour machine gun over- board!” The detective’s voice car- ried far across the still water. “I want to hear it splash.” Still that errie silence hung ov- er everything. Jerry welt a tingle run through every nerve end. The air seemed full of static electricity, like the breathless moment between a sharp flash of lightning and the resultant clap of thunder. He pushed ahead through the water then, all restraint gone, plunged forward and began to swim with a powerful crawl stroke. Some- where in that drifting black ship Lucci should not have her. Once he put his two hands on that guy wire nothing in the world could break his hold. ‘A dozen more “and give you feet and he'd be able to clamber | aboard. They had machine-guns and automatics, but he did not care. A vivid sheet of flame from the amphibian’s bow split the dark- ness over his head. It was in- stantly reflected in a stabbing fire from the shore. The air seemed filled with twanging bullets and the sound of crackling wood. The reverberations from the machine gun fire died away into silence, utter and absolute. Jerry’'s groping hand found a wet strut. He jerked himself out of the water and scrambled out of the water and scrambled up the slippery side of the drifting plane. He swung a dripping foot over the cockpit wall. There was only one dark face there. He reached for it with clutching hands. “I give up,” the man screamed | frantically. Tt was not Lucei’s voice. His fingers met at the man’s throat. His thumbs clamped down | pressing deep into yielding glesh.| The man staggered back. Jerry stepped after him, stumbled on something soft and lost his grip. There was a heavy splash. The mau had jumped overboard. y could hear the sound of his trokes as he swam toward shore. Frenziedly Jerry looked for Lucci. voice. “Where's Lucei?” The swimming man answered. “On the floor of the -cockpit. Him and Sam. You got ‘em both.” “Another $150,000 shot to hell,” mourned Stevens. “Mdney goes awful quick around here.” Jerry clattered down the two steps into the darkness of the commodious compartment within the fuselage. “Is that you, Jerry?” Nancy’s voice was brave. “Yes,” he said briefly, choking back the rush of words that came to his lips. What use to try to keep his thoughts away from her, to try to ignore her very exis- tence? He had loved her ever |since he bad first looked into her eyes, candid and level as a boy's, back there on the Merrick road. He clenched his teeth to prevent himself from telling her while she | waited so silently for him to find | her there in the inky darkness. His wife! That spoiled it all, for had he not promised to have it annulled? How could he tell her that he loved her now, when ‘her heart would be warm with grati- tude toward him? And when they were back in New York she would be Nancy Wentworth, not the help- less, frightened little girl of the tropics, but the self-reliant, light- hearted musical comedy star. His groping hands touched hers. They were icy cold and clutched | his own ccnvulsively. “Nancy,” he whispered, “are you {all right?” § 2T [l | DONALDINE BEAUTY PARLORS Telephone 496 RUTH HAYES 17 CARL JACOBSON | JEWELER WATCH REPAIRING Opposite Chas. Goldstein’s | . . i will promote happiness years past the purchasi Our Savings Depa: Most of the European debtors are willing to meet the United States half way on the war debt proposition, that is if this country will cancel one-half they’ll forget the other. — (Ohio State ',?ftum"pmpldmdmudbymeremms Journal.) I T T LT LU ECONOMY — A Watchword of the Times does not mean miserliness; it does mean prudent spending and prudent saving. is greater and affords an opportunity to save. You Grasp that Opportunity The B. M. Behzends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA and independence. It Compared with ng power of the dollar rtment Will Help llllllllllllllllll_l l There was a moment of silence. “Yes, Jerry,” she replied calmly. ‘Except that my ankles are bound and I am tied to this seat.” His skillfful hands untied the knots and unsnapped the safety buckle. He could feel her breath on his cheek as he bent over her t0 help her to her feet. She would never know the struggle he was making to keep himself from seiz- ing her in his arms and smoth- ering that glorious red mouth with his kisses. His wife! What a joke. “What are you laughing at?” she demanded. “I'm_ not laughing,” he snapped shortly. “Let's go ashore.” patiently as he watched men scut- tle from the shelter of one palm to that of the next, always work-( ing closed and closer to the house. Dr. Titherington, looking absurdly undignified, crept across the lit- tered floor of the living room and placed a tall glass beside the el- bow of each of the defenders. “Happy landings, Ashie,” Emory nodded, catching the cripple’s eye. Ashwood's face was transform- ed. No longer mocking and syn- ical, it was wiped clear of its hard |lines and seemed twenty years { younger. ! Cheerio, old top, here's to the next war!” Ashwood drank deep Emory stared over the barricade. | . Emory fingeted his trigger im- l PROFESSIONAL HR Helene W.L. Albrecht Office hours, 8 am. to 5 pm. Dr. A. W. Stewart PHYSIOTHER. Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 S R T U sy DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Fiours 9 an. to 9 p.m. . Dr. Charles P. Jenne | DENTIST i Ronms 8 and 0 Valentine Bullding Telephone 176 Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bidg. 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