The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 17, 1932, Page 4

4 e — THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, OCT. 17, 1932. Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER | EF‘P‘;&‘!‘;QGPRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Btreets, Juneau, Alaska. e . Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 1) d by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Dellvered By Cq ane for $1.25 per month By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, fn advance $12.00; sx months, In advance, ; month, in advance, $1.25. u:flugfim- will confer a favor if they will promptly ootify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity he delivery of their papers. i ';r:kple:oneww Editorial and Business Offices, 374. WMEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited it or not otherwise credited in this paper and local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. IT MAY BE UNANIMOUSLY FOR ROOSEVELT. The Seattle Times came out for Gov. Roosevelt just as the Democratic National Convention was ready to adjourn. Then, for reasons not yet dis- closed, it slipped back to its old moorings and again stood for Hoover. Yet, W. W. Jermane, its Wash- ington correspondent and “associate editor” in a dispatch to the paper from the National Capital, dated October 8, said: With October nearly one-third gone the opinion may safely be ventured that the election of Governor Roosevelt to the Presi- dency is as certain as anything ever can be certain in politics. Mr. Jermane then goes on to analyze the Roose- velt showing in the Literary Digest Presidential poll which shows Gov. Roosevelt in the lead in all the reported thirty-eight States except six. Mr. Jermane points out that the Literary Digest poll is made up largely by post card replies received from people whose names were secured from telephone directories and mail order houses' mailing lists. He then points out that there are 20,000,000 voters in the country who have no telephones and who have not for years, if ever, patronized mail order houses. A large part of these 20,000,000 voters, he says, are unemployed. He quotes figures obtained by small town newspapers and other sources which indicate that at least 90 per cent. of them are for Gov. Roosevelt and most of the other 10 per cent. are for the Socialist or the candidate of one or another of the other minor parties. He says the situation clearly indicates that it is within the cards for a landslide for Gov. Roosevelt. He even declares there is a lot of facts in the situation to warrant the claim of the Democratic National Committee that President Hoover will not carry a single State. The Electoral College, he says, may show a unanimous vote for Roosevelt and Garner. LONDON’S “THUNDERER” HAS NEW DRESS. No newspaper happening has caused more com- ment in the English speaking world for many years than the circumstance that the London Times, the old “Thunderer,” has changed its dress and format. The unchanging format of the Times has for scores of years been a vyeritable symbol of conservative England. The change is said to be radical. The very title on the first page is changed from the familiar Gothic, adopted in 1788 and continued until the new ' dress was completed, for a plain block Roman heading. It throws away the headline types it has used and adopts more modern styles, but proposes to ocntinue its rule of using no headline more than a column . wide. The body type is to be changed, but for a bookish type, and not the standard news type now almost universally in vogue. Fortunately for the peace ‘of mind of British Tories The Times will not violate tradition so grossly as to put the important news on Page One, but retains that space for advertisements, and throws the big news stories into the middle of the paper. The Times's explanatory statement argued that consideration for the reader under new conditions more trying to the eye than the old has been the main reason for this alteration in style. It is main- tained, rather whimsically, that the new typography has to be adapted to people who wish to be able to read a newspaper in an automobile or in an afrplane. The New York Times disclosed a very high com- pliment to the great London Times in its com- ment on the change. It said: However, the main thing is that the proprietors of The London Times promise to maintain the prestige of that newspaper, 50 long maintained and so well deserved, for accuracy in printing. The same care which it has bestowed upon the selection and arrangement of news it has given to the paper’s proof-reading. Long a model of excellence, it is to be hoped that nothing will be allowed to interfere with it. And it may confidently be expected that The Lon- don Times, in whatever dress it may adopt, will continue to display those high journal- istic qualities which “apparel the apparel.” ‘The Cincinnati Enquirer commenting upon this “new deal” in English journalism, said: There are more radical things that might happen in England, of course. King George might run off with a chorus girl. Winston Churchill might take the stump defending Gandhi's program. The King's navy might be done away with entirely in the interest of economy. But short of these somewhat illogical possibilities the renovation of The Times is quite the most startling we can imagine. The Times in a new dress! It sounds like Queen Mary in a beret. Eng. land is tottering! | every evening except Suaday by the to | also the |dently meant just what he said. He is to campaign |renewed friendship. ALASKANS DO NOT BELIEVE IT. The people of Alaska do not believe that the abolition of the Alaska Rivers and Harbors District and the removal of the office of the U. S. Army District Engineer from Juneau to Seattle has con- tributed to self-government and economy. They do not see economy in transferring from Alaska to Seattle the $30,000 a year that was paid out here for the administration of the Alasks Rivers and Harbors District or in the extra expense of doing business in Seattle. Nor do they see additional home rule-in doing business in Seattle that formerly was done in Alaska. Even Delegate Wickersham cannot make that clear to their vision. Jim Farley, judging by his more or less fre- quent statements and claims, expects Gov. Roosevelt to be elected President of the United States. When Al Smith shook Frank Roosevelt’s hand and declared that it came from the heart he evi- his New England for long time friend and the The Democratic King County Chairman at Seattle is Joseph P. Whetstone. King County Democratic candidates ought to be able to keep sharp. “Wrong, Late and Futile.” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer.) Senator Wagner in his keynote speech before the New York State Democratic Convention achieved a rare grouping of truthful descriptives when he referred to President Hoover as “wrong, late and futile.” How “wrong,” the melancholy record of his ad- ministration discloses. To realize how “late,” it is only necessary to recall his tardy and not yet complete perception of the true nature and extent of the industrial and unemployment erisis which holds the Nation in its grip. How “futile” he has been is shown in the fail- ure of every measure he has brought forward for the country’s relief. PR SYNOPSIS: Nan, her hus- band,, Jervis Weare, and Fer- dinand Francis, ' their guest, are saved almost miraculously from death beneath their car, which cverturns because of a mysteriously lcosened wheol, Two days before Nan and Jer- vis nearly fell to death through a weakened bridge, Robert Leonard is hovering near, yet Jervis sees nothing strange al- though Ferdinand describes a chemical to rot wood about which Leonard could have known. CHAPTER 31. DAMAGING PROOF Jervis turned to Francis, “So Leonard put your friend Eisenthal's stuff to weaken wood on the bridge and then—did you happen to think out how he was going to arrange that it was Nan and T who would cross the bridge at the psychological moment?” “It didn’t require much arrange- ing. You brought Nan down here on a pouring, wet evening. It was a certainty that you weren't going to wander round and show her the sights in the rain. It was cer- tain that as soon as it stopped you'd show her around, and one of the first things you'd show her would be the waterfall. “And what does everyone do But it is Mr. Hoover's treatment of the unem- ployment problem—perhaps the most grievous phase of the crisis—which shows him not only wrong, not only late, not only futile, but wrong, late and futile combined. As Senator Wagner pointed out, Mr. Hoover, when still Secretary of Commerce ,had all the in- formation necessary to inform him that we were displacing men from their jobs my means of new machinery and improved methods more rapidly than we were absorbing them into new industries. Notwithstanding the increase of unemployment in inverse ratio to the growth of our production— a process which has continued steadily since 1918— the President resisted every far-sighted proposal that was made to anticipate and prevent unemploy- ment reaching the point of danger and nation-wide distress. Finally, when the number of the unemployed had mounted to twelve millions and the question had become one of feeding the starving and im- poverished, President Hoover was unable to recognize the claer purpose and the imperative necessity of such a relief measure as the Garner bill, which passed the Democratic House of Representatives. “Wrong” in his opposition to this measure, he finally came to the acceptance of its principle, but he came “late,” and he proceeded to translate his «|way toward safeguarding Alaska and conversion to the view that public construction could be defended as a source of employment, if nothing else, by giving his belated approval to a few projects only and which involved a relatively small expenditure and was thus futile as a method of meeting the situation. “Wrong, late and futile” will stick! Where Alaska Comes In. (Anchorage Times.) The Pacific Northwest, for safety's sake, some day will unite in & movement that will be helpful to Alaska. And the day may not be far away. Capt. N. H. Goss, U. S. N, speaking recently before the members’ council of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, sounded a warning that may arouse Se- attle and neighboring cities to action. The Puget| Sound area, he said, is not now protected against the approach of enemy aircraft, and he suggested the establishment of a naval air base in the Aleu- tian Islands. No vital area, such as the navy yard at Bremerton, can be retained, he explained, if it is defended only from positions immediately adjacent to it. Therefore, there is need of a naval base in the Aleutians to afford the needed protection. Nothing can be done about it just now, how- ever, because the Washington treaty of 1922 does not permit the establishment of such a base; but “fortunately,” the Captain pointed out, “the terms of the treaty expire in 1936, and they need not be renewed unless you and the people of the United| States desire it.” In addition to providing the Pacific Northwest with adequate defense, such a base would go a long| incidentally, create a market for Alaska coal and other products of the Territory which such a base would consume in large quanties. In running both for Congress and the Vice- Presidency maybe Jack Garner’s ambition is to become Speaker of both Houses.—(Cincinnati En- quirer.) A Colorado donkey rolling down hill Kkicks up} $50 worth of gold quartz. If that isn't a good Demo- cratic omen, what is one?—(Cleveland Plain Dealer.) Japan has a way of doing things, then wamng‘ for the world's reaction.—(Toledo Blade.) The middle-of-the-road politician, who doesn't dare tell where he stands, is apt to find himself in the middle of the mud puddle. — (Newark, Ohio, Advocate.) Apparently this country is getting ready to go Democratic—not as an indorsement of the Demo- cratic Party, but because there is a feeling that the Democrtaic Party is no worse than the Re- publican Party—(Atchison, Kan., Globe.) A Southwestern farm paper editorial is entitled “Back to the Mule,” just as editorials in other parts of the country are urging a movement away from the mule and back to good liquor.—(Dayton, Ohio, News.) Americanism: Jailing the lttle fellows who are caught gambling; praying for the return of a bull market, so nice people can make money gambling Don’t they stand in the middle of that bridge and look down into the pool? Robert Leonard knew that just as well as I know it, and he’d only got to slip over to the bridge any time in the might to arrange things so that the next person would give an exhibition of high diving.” “You only want that conven- ient witness of yours? Can't you produce him? He ought to have seen Leonard at the fatal spot.” “I did see him,” said Nan, “I told you I did.” Jervis laughed. “Oh, yes—I forgot—Nan saw ‘him! The case is completed! She tooked out of the window in the middle of the night, and saw him by a flash of lightning! He must have been the best part of a cou- ple of hundred yards away—but what is that to the eye of faith? ‘We couldn’t have an accident with- out Leonard, so somebody’s bound to have seen him hanging around.” “Come on, F. F.! Tt's going to be @ job to saddle him with the wheel coming off my car, but I suppose you're going to try.” He tilted his black head and looked at them both. His frown was gone. His look had a curious brilliance of amusement, but un- der it Nan at least was aware of something flercely challenging. She thought: ‘He hates me. I can't help him.” And then Ferdinand was speak- ing. “Well,” he said, “if Robert Leon- ard wanted to tamper with your car, you made it easy for him.” “Aattaboy!” murmered Jervis. “Well, didn't you? After you'd you ran way back into the shade. T located the place after T'd clean- ed up. Your oil had dripped some. There you were, half way down to the garage with that left front put us down at the front door| ¥ wheel in a lot of bushes.” GOOD Financial success chance or accident people. *ly wealthy. A more in stocks.—Akron, Ohio, Beacon-Journal.) ——— The Administration attitude appears to be that the old Pine Tree State ought to stick to raising potatoes agriculturally instead of raising what it did politically.—(Boston Herald.) No’thing Venture by Patricia Wentworth where was Robert till e middle of lunch? Mess-| ut with his cdar in the wasn't he? And what was vent him stepping into the on his way up to the house operating on that wheel of y with a wrench? He was going to be late for lunch anyhow, < he wouldn't be in a hurry. As on, F. F., youre doing it |awfully well.” l I am going on. T'm going to tell you how I know he wasn't in hurry. T stepped down to the T and I had a look at his | € There was a couple of chauf- |teurs there, and we got chatty— |conversation flowed. I wanted to |find out just how much time Rob- ert had really wasted over the old |wreck. He didn't waste so very |much. He left that garage at one- |1 n precisely. The second |chauffeur happened to notice the time, because he’d got a date with |a ginl—at least that’s what T gath- lered from the way he looked when e other one chaffed him about So you a ’bemg so sure of the time. see Robert didn't hurry.” “Well played,” said Jervis. “That |is a very good effort, but I'm afraid. it's not quite good enough. If Leonard had been up to any monkey business with the wheel, when they're being shown the fall? the last thing he'd do would be|In the Commissioner's Court for}e “You made it easy for Robert to um with your car,” said F. F. to ask for a lift in a car that mighf go to glory at any moment. “Say first instead of last, and|e m with you.” Jervis gave a short laugh. “So_he's suicidal as well as homi- cidal.” Ferdinand sat back in his chair. “We've got to take some risks in this world.” he replied. “Isn't it obvious he'd have left the wheel so0 that it would have run you well away from the Tetterleys? And if hed been in such a hurry as he said to reach those incu- bators would he have stood mop- ping his face and watching us out of sight when we put him down?” Dorothy Stearns Roff Teacher of DANCING TELEPHONE 5451 Saloum’s Seward Street, near Second HAAS Famous Candies “Humph! And FF., can you give| o one single reason why should want to kill me?” b Ferdinand glanced quickly at Nan, but she was looking down into her lap. Jervis went on: " “It's not up to me to unravel your mystery. But I might say that if I had been killed this af- ternoon Leonard would not have profited one cent.” “Who would?” asked Ferdinand.|® “You, if you'd been a survivor.|e Are you carrying a wrench to-: | day? Because youre down for $10,- 000 in my will, and there’s about as much evidence against you ac against Leonard. You were pres- ent the day I almost drowned; you knew the chemist; you were in New York when the taxi ran me down—" Francis laughed, and help up his hand. “Is there sdnybody who might [ S inherit your property whom youle m’ couldn't read out of your will?” “Rosamund Carew.” F. F. shrugged. “There you are, Jervis (Copyright, 1932, Lippincott) Nan speaks her mind to- morrow, and Jervis learns more about her. ——ell CARD OF YHANKS We wish to express our heart- felt appreciation of the sympathy shown by our friends in our be- reavement, and for the beautiful flowers at the service. adv. JOHN LIVIE AND FAMILY. NOTICE TO CREDITORS the Territory of Alaska, Division Number One. Before E. E. Zimmer, U. 8. Com- missioner and Ex-Officio Probate Judge, Haines Precinct. In the matter of the estate of Edward Fay, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the undersigned was, on the 1st day of October, 1932, duly ap- pointed executor of the last Will of Edward Fay, deeased. All per- sons having claims against the estate of said deceased will present them with proper vouchers and duly verified to the undersigned at Haines, Alaska, within six (6) months from the date of this no- tice. Dated at Haines, Alaska, 1st day of October, 1932. 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