The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1932, Page 4

ooy ¢ v . Daily Alaska Empire JORN W, TROY - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Published every evenin except Sunday by the FMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANTY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered In the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. o * arrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell an mall, postage paid, a! e follo S ODuBy]enl", lnpndvnnce, $12.00; six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.26. Subscribers '1‘] confer a favor if they will promptly potify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity 1 delive of their papers. o 'P:lev:\one"!w Editorial and Business Offices, 374, MEMBER OF AFSOCIATED 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 local news published herein. - - ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. TEN STATES ADD TO ROOSEVELT LEAD. The last Literary Digest, October 15, contained tabulations of that publication’s Presidential poll from thirty-eight Statgs. Thirty-one of them showed Roosevelt majorities and Hoover was leading in seven. The Democratic National Committee has now released the Roosevelt and Hoover votes in the other ten States—in all of which Roosevelt was leading. The Roosevelt and Hoover vote was counted in the untabulated States as follows: State Hoover Roosevelt Florida 2,286 6,080 Maryland 3,360 8,344 Minnesota 18,014 31,873 Missouri 14,061 22,087 North Carolina 2,985 12,087 Oklahoma 4214 8921 Tennessee 3,711 10,856 Texas 7,097 31,762 Virginia 2,983 9,072 ‘Washington 5,820 11,061 ‘Totals 64,531 152,143 The totals in the thirty-one States that were tabulated in the last Literary Digest were Hoover, 781,431; Roosevelt, 1062087. Adding the totals of the ten States above reported, and we have grand totals: Hoover, 845,962; Roosevelt, 1214,230; Roose- velt's majority, 432,799. The electoral votes of the forty-one States that now show Roosevelt majoritiess number 474 and those for Hoover 57. Chairman James A. Farley of the Democratic National Committee says & recheck of the Literary Digest poll by the Democratic executive staff and a comparison of it with other polls made by various other sources “indicate that New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hamp- shire are definitely in the Roosevelt column.” This would leave Maine and Vermont the only doubtful States. Mr. Farley, however, does not concede these States to the Republicans. He said: The poll shows Maine and Vermont to be the only doubtful States at this time, but I firmly believe that the recent election in Maine can be considered in no other light than as a pfomise of what that State will do in November—register a triumph for the Democratic National ticket. We are hope- ful of Vermont; we feel that the present swing to Governor Roosevelt there will grow to such proportions by election day that the Green Mountain State too will be found in the Democratic column, on Novem- ber eighth. GREAT WET AND “STAR SPANGLED BANNER” BOOSTER DIES. ‘When Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland, died a few days ago most newspapers and others remembered him as the Democratic House wet leader. A few, very few, remembered him as the author of the legislation making Fort McHenry, the guns of which stopped a British fleet that was moving on Baltimore in the War of 1812, a Na- tional Monument and the “Star Spangled Banner,” written in apprecriation of Fort McHenry's effective defense against the British, the National anthem. The New York Times calls attention to the testi- monial of Secretary of State Stimson who reminded the country of other results from the long Con- gressional career of the hard-working and faithful Maryland Legislator. The Times said: Secretary Stimson has a longer memory. He reminds us that Mr. Linthicum, as Chair- man of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and for some years as a member of the Foreign Service Building Commis- sion, had worked long and usefully for the improvement of the'foreign service. That and the Department of State “have lost one of their best friends and Congress and the country as a whole one of their most devoted servants.” However Mr, Linthicum will probably be remem- bered longer on account of his valiant fight against Prohibition and as a big booster for the “Star Spangled Banner” than for the fine .American Ambassadorial residences that grace world capitals. ENGLAND GETS ALONG WITHOUT PROHIBITIO In another place is an editorial from the Man- chester Guardian in which it is said that there is less drunkenness in England than there was dur- ing the Victorian period, that people are better dressed and live longer and happler. It concludes that “for the majority it is a better London and a better England to live in than those that were known to Hogarth or Thackeray or the late Vie- torians.” And all this progress was made without the intervention of the “noble experiment” England has never known the blessings of Prohibition, but i through education’ and persuasion people are led to drink less.. A better condition brought about that way Is lkely to endure. That suggests that the United States was making wonderful progress toward temperance before the people began to use force instead of persuasion and education to bring about better results. There {are few who now do not admit that crime and |other undesirable features have grown worse since the policeman’s club and intolerance have taken the place of preaching and reasoning in handling the |liguor question. The United States is not a member of the League of Nations but American influence seems ‘lto permiate the newspaper men attached to the League. These representatives of the press recently at a dinner given to the League members presented the League with a pair of dice as providing a ‘cheap and peaceful method of settling infernational disputes. That was an American -trick, | In San Francisco the Democratig registration |is four times as great now as it wa§ at this time |in 1930. The Democrats claim that 'a very large {porcemage of those registered as Republicans will ;vorr for Roosevelt and other Democratic nominees. Italy Bids for Passenger Traffic. (New York Times.) Ambrose Lightship is separated by 3,200 nautical miles from Gibraltar and by 3,225 from Cherbourg. It will be nip and tuck between the Rex and her unfinished sister ship, the Conte di Savoia, on the southern course, and the Bremen and the Europa on the northern, with the advantage on the Italian side in weather and distance. All four vessels have been designated to make the crossing in about four and a half days. Although the Italians disclaim any intention of competing for the blue ribbon of the seas, turbines developing 125,000 horsepower in a hull of 54,000 gross tons speak for themselves. Moreover, a contract speed of twenty-eight knots agrees so closely with that of the Germany grey- hounds that the Rex must be regarded as some- thing more than just another fast, big, luxurious ship. Add to the picture the 70,000-ton’ super-Ile de France, soon to be launched, and the coming years promise to be exciting on the Atlantic. Over a year ago.Sir Percy Bates of the Cunard Company reminded his shareholders that “blue rib- bons are pretty ornaments, but their revenue value is indirect,” although he was willing to gamble on No. 534—the provisional, unromantic designation of a 73,000-ton hull which was to cost $30,000,000 and which was to eclipse any liner ever built in size, speed and luxury. 8ince then work on No. 534 has been temporarily abandoned. Neither the Brit- ish Government, which had granted a subsidy, nor the Cunard Company, saw any hope of profit in fast steamers while America was plungd in depression. Speed is notoriously expensive, and no large, fast ship has ever sailed with a full complement of passengers on every voyage. One cannot but admire the courage of the Italians in the face of this de- cision, made by a nation rich in shipping experience. Some $40,000,000 has probably been invested in the Rex and the Conte di Savoia—most of it Govern- ment money. The Italians are evidently convinced that blue ribbons are more than pretty ornaments, and that speed may lure passenger trade to the southern route and thus justify an expenditure which seems staggering at the present time. In the end it is the American tourist who must pay for the Rex and her sister ship. Thus viewed, the two are not only symbols of Italian pride, ambition and enterprise, but flattering manifestations of Italian faith in our economic stability and ultimate finan- cial recovery. The Brighter Spots. (Manchester Guardian.) Heads are often shaken over the present age; it is rebuked for “materialism” and, in the same breath, assured that it is drifting straight towards material disaster and the dissolution of society as we have known it in the immediate past. It is a “sick” world, or so we are frequtntly told; it pursues the wrong things and yet its health is not im- proved when it fails to get them. The diagnosis often seems a little jaundiced; international finance is in Queer treet, but it is arguable that personal happiness and efficiency stand a little higher than ever they did before. The American Consul Gen-| eral in London, who is retiring this month after an acquaintance with England which dates from 1886, is evidently of that opinion; he has just ob- served to an interviewer that the people he sees around him in London are better dressed than they were when he first arrived, that they look healthier, “there is not-so much drunkenxess, and there appears to be more happiness.” If he is right, the drift is not all ‘towards disaster; the economic situation is uncertain and 'involved, ‘but on the personal side we have salved a good deal that is worth having. And there is much obvious evidence in support of his view. Embarrassed as we are we do not accept thé destitution that was common to the London of Dickens, or even of “Number 5, John Street,” as inevitable and beyond relief; the vast spread of the London suburbs alone indicates that, though the private fortunes may be fewer, there are far more people who are sure of a higher standard of living than was known to the past. Health certainly improves; it is sta- tistically certain that the average expectation of life Is longer, a change that is partly due to healthy and active habits prolonged from youth into the middle years. Such things do stand for happiness as, happiness is known to average human beings. For the majority it is a better London and a better England to live in than those that were known to Hogarth or Thackeray or the late Victorians. It is_not so nice, perhaps, for the increasingly dis- possessed mingrity, but on a wide view this “sick world” of ours is not without its redeeming fea- tures. . In Maine, representatives of the Attornqy General have begun an inquiry in & number of districts where the Democrats registered unexpected ma- Jjorities. And the Democrats may be moved to say, “Let us have the majorities of a Nation and we care not who conducts its ' post-mortems.”—(New York Times.) { The underworld has had its way so long it has grown distressingly chesty and it wouldn't surprise us much to learn that the slickers who swiped three tons of headache tablets from a manufacturing plant were trying to sell them direct to the Re- publican Campaign Committee.—(Macon, Ga. Tele- graph.) If prosperity isn't coming back until the lessons of the depression have soaked in and taken hold we're in for quite a spell of old clothes and last year’s models.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) —And then there is the Earl of Warwick pull- ing a Jeremiad in the second part of Henry VI, Act I. Says the Earl: “Oh, father, Maine is lost!” The bally old croaker!—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) It THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19, 1932. SYNOPSIS: Jervis already toppling '“MWC:;;’: again under the knowledge that it was Nan, the girl he mar- ried to save his fortune after Rosamund Carew’s treachery, whe had ten years before sav. ed his life. Nan has left the room angrily after she and Ferdinand Francis fail to con- vince Jervis that Resamund’ cousin, Robert Leonard, l:n:: hind the series of murderous, “accidents” that have threat- ened Jervis of late, CHAPTER ' 33. TENDER THOUGHTS + Jervis . went striding down the drive and once outside the gates, turned into & field. He'could havs found his way blindfolded, but out here under the sky and ‘away from shadowy trees, it was not so dark. The cloudless expanse- above his head was luminous and already pricked with stars. The moon had not yet risen. ‘As he walked, his thoughts clear- ed. If it was Nan who had saved his life ten years ago af the risk of her own, and if she had known this, their whole relation was on ly affected—so profoundly, in fact, as to alter the entire point of view. He went back to the stinging shock of Rosamund's defection on the eve of their marriage. He had believed then, and had since had this belief intensified, that it was a' shameless and callous maneuvre to supplant him as his grand- father's heir. ‘To counter this, he must be mar- ried by the date fixed in Ambrose Weare's will. Nan had stepped into the breach with her quiet pro- posal that they should marry as a matter of business. She had been very businesslike. She must have something for her trouble—a per- centage. She had in fact, put her- self up for sale for ten thousand dollars. He had not known then that the money was for her sis- ter who was now on her way to Australia. Jervis was aware that he him- self had not bothered about being fair. In marrying Nan he spoiled Rosamund’s dirty game, and that was all he had cared for at the time. In the last 24 hours he had experienced a disposition to turn his back on the events which had led up to the marriage. They made a background incompatible with Nan as he was beginning to know her. F. F’s story made it impossible to blot things out.” He felt instead an overwhelming desire to know what had been ‘at the back of Nan's mind when she proposed that business arrangement. He had set her down as a shrewd oppor- tunist catching at a marriage above her hopes. Butf, then, why mnot play her best card—why not show her scar and claim his gratitude? The shrewd opportunist would surely have done this. And Nan according to F. F. had hidden her She had hidden her parentage, t00. No opportunist worth the name would have neglected to claim Nigel Forsyth as a father. What had been in her mind? Something glimmered among his thoughts. like a will o’ the wisp. It was a dancing point of light that turned a flickering gleam here and there and was gone. He would have married anyone and pickéd her up anywhere. He had certainly been mad, and it was Nan who had stood between him and the abyss. The gleam touched, that, Noné' of these things presented themselves to him in words. It could hardly be said that he rec- ognized what the gleam showed him. His conscious thought had not greatly altered as yet. There was behind it a pressure which would compel it to alter. Jervis turned and began to walk back by the way he had come. One think at least he could now explain to his own satisfaction, and that was Nan's extraordinary obsession with regard to Robert Leonard. He didn't of course’ be- lieve the story of Leonard coming down the cliff and passing the pool. That was monsense—part of the - obsession. No—what - had happened was quite obviously true—Nan had seen Leonard somewhere on the beach Nothing Venture by Patricia Wentworth a different basis; it was profound- | trump card instead of playing it. (struggle with it, stiffening herself either that day or some other day. She had had a shock, and was, |geverish, and she had got Leonard mixed up with her fever. She |had had a bad dream about Leon- lard and had tacked it on to the |things that had really happened. Je felt much better when he had tled this. It let Nan out, and it let Leonard out. It ex- ‘plained everything perfectly. | He got back to Weare to find [the house dark except for a light lin the hall. Monk had standing |orders never to sit up. He put lout the hall light, and went up lir the dark. As he passed Nan's | door, he heard the thump of Bran’s tail and a faint snuffling lsound. He said, “Lie down, Bran.” | As he opened his own door, the sounds ceased. He put on his light and undressed. Before he got into bed he drew the curtains |back, and fell asleep, while he.was | wondering why moonlight made everything so still. He waked with a start, he did not know how much later. Then he heard a sound—Bran moving in Nan's room. Restless brute! But that wouldn't have waked him. He raised himself on his hand, and as he did so, he heard a chok- ling cry and in a moment was out of bed and at the door between jsame thing. He's jagainst his arm so that she could [ e I PROFESSIONAL | look at him. “Did—you—dream it—t00?"” “No. Look here; it's nothing— a dream's nothing—it can't hurt anhyone—you've only got to wake up. Here's Bran telling you the most awfully upset about you.” Bran had his forepaws on the bed again. Te tip of his tail moved depracatingly. He pushed his head forward and blew warm puffs of air at her hand, her arm. “Feeling better?” asked Jervis. “What was it? Would you Ilik< to tell me?” Leaning against his arm, and looking up at him with those un- naturally. wide eyes, she said. “I thought—you were dead.” Her volce was the lost ghost of herself. He hardly heard the words yet they reached him, releasing some emotion -whicli -he did noY understand. He did not. try to understand i, but it “reinforced that odd tenderness. \ “I ‘thought you were dead,” said Nan. “Do I feel as if I were dead?” His arm tightened about her. “l1 saw you—in a dark place. You were—dead.” “Would you mind, Nan?” he ask- ed softly. (Copyright, 1932, Lippincott) Out of the darkness, tomor- row someone calls to Jervis Weare. DON'T BE TOO the two rooms. It it was bolt- g, ... But it gave to his hand. He switched on the light, and saw Nan sitting up in bed under the crimson canopy; her eyes wide and blank with terror, and her lips parted in a gasping cry. Bran, with hs forepaws on the bed, was !whining and licking frantically at her hair, her shoulder, her arm. As the light went on, he growled, flung round, dropped to the floor, and bounded to meet Jervis, thrust- ing at him with his head and making anxious sounds in his throat. Jervis bade him lie down, harsh- ly. His first thought was that the dog had frightened Nan. Then, as he reached the, he saw that her gaze was fixed neither on him nor on Bran. It had no focus; it saw nothing. It was just a wild gaze of fear. She was sitting stiffly upright with her hands pressed down upon the bed. Her short brown hair was wildly rumpled. Her face was of an agonizing pallid, her eyes all staring pupils. She had on a child- ish white nightgown, rather high at. the neck, and beneath it her breast rose and fell with each sob- bing breath. Jervis sat down on the edge of the bed and put a hand on her shoulder. “Nan—what is 1t? Please don’t be so frightened—you're all right. It was just a dream.” She trem- bled, and he put his arm about her. “All right in a minute. Just hold on, and it'll go. Would you like a drink of water?. ... No, I won't go till you want me to.” She was small and light to hold. Another of those dreadful shud- ders passed over her. He felt her against his arms until she was rigid. A sudden awkward tender- ness for her fear came up to him. Under the impatient temperament he had a soft heart for children, animals—anything weak, defense- less, frightened. He patted her shoulder and tightened his grasp. “Look here, there isnt anything to be afraid of. Tt was only al dream.” She turned then, straining back Saloum’s Seward Street, near Second A HAAS | Famoue Candies The Cash Bazaar .l Open Evenings \ LIBERAL With vhe coal if it comes from our place. For our coal goes farther and gives a more even and satisfying heat. 1If your coal bin is running low, better have us send you & nex supply to prove our statement. Our draging service is always the best and we specialize in Feed. D. B. FEMME Phone 114 ZYNDA ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. 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