The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 18, 1933, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1933. JOHN W. TROY - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Published _every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska sred In the Post Office n Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.26 per_month. age paid, at the following rates: ance, $12.00; six months, In advance, 1 advance, $1.25 a favor If they will promptly of any failure or irregularity bers. 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 local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. AL’ SMITH FOR CHAIRMAN. the New York State Convention the resolution for the On June 27, will assemble to vote on repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. It is a fore- gone conclusion that it will ratify the resolution. The outcome not being in doubt, interest largely is centered around the fact that both Democratic and Republican leaders in New York State have united upon the selected of a Chairman for the gathering. Democratic National and State Chair- man Farley and Republican State Chairman Macy have selected former Governor Alfred E. Smith for that honor. No choice could have been more fitting. For 13 years, or since National Prohibition was made a part of the Constitution, the famous New York leader has led in the fight on Prohibition, not only in the Empire State but in the Nation. He urged its repeal unhesitatingly when that course was far from being as popular as it is today. And he was the first to demand for modification of the Volstead Act. Back in 1920, as Governor of New York, Mr. Smith challenged the propriety of ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment by legislative act. In that year in his annual message to the Legislature he declared: In order that the true opinion and posi- tion of the State of New York in regard to the Eighteenth Amendment be ascertained and made known to the and carried out, people of the other States, I recommend that the Legislature rescind the prior rait- Tication of the sald amendment and submit the question to the qualified voters of the State at the general election in the year 1920. Three years 1aier, as Governor of the State, he signed the repeal of the State enforcement law, accompany- ing it with a memorandum that long remained as a most powerful arraignment of the Volstead Act. Still later, in the same position, he transmitted a memorial from the Legislature to the Congress of the United States urging modification of the Vol- stead Act to permit the manufacture and sale of light wines and beer, so lately accomplished through the aggressive leadership of President Roosevelt. In 1926, he was Governor when the people of New York by a majority in excess of 1,100,000 votes, approved a referendum for modification. Nominated by the Democratic Party in 1928 as its Presidential candidate, Mr. Smith, in order that there be no mistake about his own position on Prohibition, wired the convention at Houston setting it forth in no uncertain terms. During the cam- paign that followed, he attacked National Pro- hibition in a bold and forthright manner. In 1928, in his final message to the New York Legislature, Gov. Smith suggested an amendment to the State Constitution to the end that no future amendments to the Federal Constitution be acted upon by the Legislature before referendum on the State statute by the people. No other leader in the entire country can point to a more consistent record on the question of Pro- hibition. None has been more conspicuous for boldness and intelligent leadership in the fight on the Eighteenth Amendment. And no member of either of the big parties in New York is so entitled to preside over the approaching convention by reason of his services as former Governor Smith. SOUTH SUPPORTS NEGRO COLLEGES. Negro colleges in the Southern States are steadily winning more than a modicum of State support and emerging from a denomination status. At a dinner held in behalf of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., -in New York recently Chancellor Kirkland of Van- derbilt, one of the South’s leading white universities, said today several Negro institutions rank alongside the better colleges for whites. This year, alone, saw four Negro colleges placed in Class A, as meet- ing the full requirements of the Southern College Association, the standardizing agency for the South, while 21 received Class B rating. Moreover, their support, which 20 years ago was mainly derived from Northern philanthrophy, today is more than one-half provided by taxes of the Southern States. In other words, State colleges rather than private and denominational ones have now become the dominant form of Negro higher education below the Mason and Dixon line. ASSESSMENT WORK SUSPENDED. The National House of Representatives has passed the Senate bill suspending assessment work on min- ing claims for the current year. This applies to the United States proper and Alaska. All assessment work for the year ending June 30, 1933, is thereby , made unnecessary except on claims owned by per- sons paying a Federal income tax. This action by Congress has been expected for several weeks. Con- siderable opposition to such a measure was evident 4n this Territory, coming from many who were ' convinced that suspension would deprive many men ,y_ work that normally Providel them with a liveli- hood. In debate during the recent session of the Legislature, it was revealed that last Fall, the period when much of the anual work on unpatented claims is usually performed, many owners were under the belief that suspension for this year was al- ready effective. For that reason they did not do it. The time between now and June 30 is too limited for them to have remedied this neglect. For that reason the Legislature favored suspension this year but not next. With improving conditions wide scale, it is ‘possible that no effort will be made to prolong the suspension another year. Alas- kans, who are accustomed to performing the annual labor in the fall months, will be on the safe side if they continue that practice this Fall. noetd on a nation- After all of the advance publicity Hitler got on his maiden speech, - it must have been rather disappointing to those who had prophesied it would start another World War. Gaston B. Means has been convicted of hoax in the Lindbergh kidnaping case after a prolonged trial in a Washington, D. C, tourt. He was already convicted in the public's mind before he was brought to trial. Double Gardens. (New York Times.) Maeterlinck’s “Double Garden” has in it nothing more pleasing to the reader than Mr. White's “Spirea and Things” in the Emporia Daily Gazette. One might believe that there is not a thing in the world “the matter with Kansas' when it is spirea week. No town is so mean and poor that it is not brightened and glorified by the cataracts of spirea falling across the lawns, and no town where the April spirea sprays- its bloom so measly that it is not beautiful in Spring before the scars of the year have burned and deadened it. There are companion flowers, tulips and the iris, but spireas lead the procession of loveliness that with the addition of perennials and flowering shrubs reaches from April to November. Wild flowers still frequent the woods and march in the virgin strips of prairie that make a border for the railroad tracks; but the pioneers brought their ‘flower beds” with them from the East: roses, morning-glories, four-o'clocks and zinnias—and sun- flowers. Maeterlinck traces the long journeys that some of these pioneers made to reach the Kansan frontiers — from the gardens or fields of Asia, Europe or Africa. But now, as the Emporia editor remarks, while the flowers of the recent century were “universal.” “scattering,” those of the new century are He doesn’'t undertake to point the moral of the flowers of the field: “Shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?” But their very presence does yield a fresh hope which even economic troubles cannot extinguish. We are, with all our disappointments, making the planet ours as it never was before, and not only “adorning our stay” but gradually “broadening the acreage of happiness and of beautiful life.” From this we have right to infer that the thoughts of men “are more just and greedier of truth.” If there were a moral, it would be that those who have flowers in abundance should share them with the sick and other shut-ins of the great cities and so make of their gardens “double gardens.” The Paths of Glory.’ (Cincinnati Enquirer.) As his life mellows and merges into the subdued color-tones and tranquility of sunset years Richard Pearson Hobson receives official honor and award at the hands of a grateful Government! Years have passed, a mighty world conflict has been fought since the sharp, brief war with Spain. It was during that short struggle that Hobson bottled the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago, Cuba, by sinking the collier Merrimac at the harbor mouth—a brave, daredevil deed of youthful high adventure. This deed of colorful naval heroism brought deserved fame to the young Hobson. The country acclaimed it with unreserved enthusiasm. Last week Congress, in recognition of his services to his country, gave to Hobson the Congressional Medal of Honor. He may be considered more for- tunate than some of those who have received only posthumous honors at the hands of the Government they faithfully served. “The paths of glory lead but to the grave,” sang one of the world’s strong poets; but, perhaps, they often could be lightened by the rays of a swifter official appreciation than is customary in America. Wasted Education. (Daily Olympian.) That delegation of college graduates in cap and gown who visited Washington to call attention to the plight of the student who gets a diploma and then finds that there isn‘t the shadow of a job for him emphasizes one of the most tragic aspects of the whole deprgsslon. All through these difficult years our colleges have been industriously training young men and women for leadership; and whatever the colleges’ shortcomings, they have in the main done a good job and they have had fine material' to work with. But these trained and ambitious youngsters have, for the most part, found no chance to exercise their talents. Equipped for leadership, they can’t even be followers. 3 4 Not least among the wastes caused by the de- pression is this waste of brain power. A camera has been perfected which .takes 2,500 pictures a second. Now it is ‘possible to get a movie SYNOPSIS: James Sundean cannot shake off a feeling of foreboding that assails him on arrival at his hotel in Armene, Southern France. Perhaps it is the howling nerth wind, which shakes the house. Perhaps it is Lovschiem, the proprietor. Perhaps it is the paucity of guests—there are only three: Mrs. Felicia Byng of Omaha; Father Robart, a red-haired priest, and an interesting Am- crican girl named Sue Tally. Sundean is nervous but not surprised when Miss Tally bursts into his room at mid- night to take refuge from an abductor; he has calmed her when there is a sudden loud crash. Chapter 5 SUNDEAN’S ERRAND My frightened visitor half rose; we were silent a moment. Then the noise recurred, and we relaxed. Tt was a shutter banging in the in- creasing wind. “Yes, I've just come from Rus- sia,” I went on. “An old friend of mine, Jack Dunning, and I ar- ranged to mest here for a trip through Southern Spain. I'm a week ahead of time.” The girl nodded, and after a moment asked: “What do you think of the hotel?” 5 “It's rather large in the winter, isn't it? The handful of guests must rattle around like so mny peanuts.” “We do rather rattle around. Es- pecially when the summer staff is dismissed. Just now there are only the cook, one porter and one maid, the manager, and Madame Lov- schiem, his wif:. And you and Mrs. Byng and a priest. And my- self, of course. It is very quiet and lonely in the winter.” I must have looked a question, for she added: “I have been here about a year. You see—my mother was ill and died here. Madame Lovschiem and her husband have been very kind to me and to my mother."” As if she wished to change the subject she told me about the ho- tel. It had been, she said, an old and very elegant family residence before being bought from its no- ble owners, ana cuuverted into tourist hotel some years before. “Of course,” she said, “it has been changed from time to time, dec- orations renewed. There is a pri- vate salon next door that has the original old satin brocade on the walls. The room is seldom opened, a but you might like to see it. There | is a piano in it, as big as a barn, on which a long ago Pope is said to have sung a mass. T doubt that —however.” I made a sound of agreement, and she went on swiftly: * “There’'s a story about these old clocks, too; that they were bought in preparation for a visit from Napoleon. He liked clocks, you know; but T doubt that one, tco. Even the most passionate clock lover wouldn't want half a hun- dred of them. Oh, you have the sword clock. It's the only on¢ in the house.” Her pink fingers touched the lit- tle sword and slid it gently out of the bronze soldier’'s grasp. T must have looked surprised, for she laughed for the first time and flourished it. “Didn’t you know it| was loose? It's sharp, t00.” She ran her finger tips along the edge. “Like a dagger.” She stood there touching the toy sword. Her bright head was bent. Her velvet coat was buttoned as tight as a basque to her chin, its skirt fitbed her slender waist and hips and then flared long and fuil. | Something to my astonishment I heard myself saying: “I want to help you. Won't you let me?” The White Coclkaloo by Mignon G. Eberhart’ ' she replaced the little sword ! slowly. After a time—probably only la few seconds—she went on | gravely: | “Perhaps T'd better tell you what ‘happenod tonight. It must have |been around 10 o'clock when T went out. I was restless and want- led to walk in the wind a little be- fore trying to sleep. I often take {walks in the evenings; there's I never been any danger at all. “Tonight a car passing me stop- ped. A n got out. T started to | walk aw but he caught me. He | tied comething over my mouth and und my wrists and put me in ;nh: back seat of the car. He was hurried and I think frightened at | what he was going, and of course | ggled. { Then he got into the front seat !and drove and drove and drove. I thought we were miles from Ar- She held the toy sword. mene. I was in a panic, naturally, but I worked so frantically that I gobt my hands loose and the scarf from my face. It must have been more than an hour that he drove. Finally he stopped.” She stopped, too, and took a long breath. “I had planned what' {T would do. As he got out of the| g . IH —————— 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire i o id ) MAY 18, 1913 ! The Junior Prom tha previous night was a brilliant affair, at- tended by more than a hundred couple, many of them from Doug- las and Tregdwell. The Elks' hall was beautifully decorated. A cozy corner arrangement in one end of the room with a student lamp on the table looked nice and homey and became a favorite spot for spoony couples. The seven-piece orchestra furnished excellent music and the poetry of motion was heightened by graceful forms and beautiful costumes, On the com- mittee in charge .of decorations were Helen Blackwell, Gunnard Gustafson, Alma Sowerby, Alice, Tibbits, Ed. Beattie and on the re- freshment committee, George Nel- son, Charles Sabin and Russell Casey. A new era had set in for «Ju- neau—the era of good roads, rock- paved streets to supplant the ex- pensive and disagreeable plank highways. It was proposed to estab- lish a rock-crushing plant on low- er Gold Creek as soon as the en- gine for operating the B. L. Thane rock crusher arrived hne, of Douglas, was enroute back to the North- land on the City of Seattle. Hon. Arthur G. Shoup of Sit- ka, was appointed a Notary Pub- lic by Gov. Walter E. Clark. N. L. Burton and Mrs. Burton, | accompanied by a party of school mistresses, chartered the launch Union and went on an excursion %o let. “I've troubled you enough,” she said. “I can't thank you. Now I'm going.” “But wait. Look here. Are you sure youll be safe? I can't let you go like this.” “I'm quite alright. for walks on the bridge again, at night, anyway. And there's no need to call Madame. T'll lock the door.” An expression of consternation crossed her face. “My key,” she said, “I left my key on the board in the lobby.” “Il get it. What number is it?” “Nineteen. But—" “Don’t leave until I return.” (Copyright, 1933, M. G. Eberhart) Sundean stumbles, tomorrow, over a terrible object in the hallway. —_— et | Make Millions Think—and Buy. | ® - — ] | | i PAINTS—OILS | Builders’ and Shelf | HARDWARE | Thomas Hardware Co. | | S front seat, I got out the back seat: on the opposite side and ran. The wind was blowing, and it was dark, jand he didn't hear me open the ihe found T was not there. “Then I saw a light, and it was tha light at the entrance of the | hotel. I didn't stop to think hcw istrange it was, T just ran. The gate was locked, of course; but I knew the way in. He was after e Something must have come from my throat then, for she stopped, gave me a questioning look, and {then went on. “He could see me under the small light. He was so close, and there was no light in the hotel. and he, too, knew the way into the court. Then I saw your light. 1 ran into the shadow and up the stairway. I think he wasted time Tooking in the courtyard for me. “I don't think he heard me call to you; the wind was too loud. But T'm afraid he saw me against the light. You can see your light from the court, you know, when the door is open. And that's—that’s all. Except that I want you to tell “Who was the man?” “1 don't know.” #It wasn't Lovschiem?” “Oh, no!” she cried. “It wasn't Lovschiém. He is so fat, you know. | This man wasn't fat.” I said the fellow ought to be | killed. I believe I said I would | enjoy the job of doing it. of the Roosevelt Administration in action.—(Louis- ville Courier-Journal.) & A Chinese school teacher has found a way of trisecting the angle. That's nothing. Japan has been bisecting Manchuria for. two years.—(Boston Herald.) In other words, if he gets drunk on 3.2 beer, either his head or his midriff is hollow. — (Los Angeles Times.) One sort of inflation will not be popular. In- flation of the price of a bottle of beer.—(Detroit Free Press.) The New York brewers admit that the first beer was weak. They're telling us!—(New York Sun.) To have and o hold: A farm mortgage. That's about all you can do with it.—(St. Louis Globe- Democrat.) A lot of 32 per cent beer is, reported to be somewhat weak in its arithmetic.—(Philadelphia Bul- letin.) " If “Sweet Adeline” can come back, surely pros- perity can!—(Indianapolis News.) The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau H BANKERS SINCE 1891 Strong—Progressive—Conservative We cordially invite you to avail yourselves of o handling your brisiness. P ~ Alaska ur. facilities for door, and it was a moment before ino one—especially the Lovschiems.” | e for Busy PEOPLE Being in a hurry doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a deli- cious lunch. Come here and be con- vinced. Bailey’s Cafe m SOMETHING NEW! —Try Our— TOMATO ROLLS | | Hardwood Flooring—Laying, \ Sanding, | 403 Goldstein Blg. Phone 582 | e —— LUDWIG NELSON | Watch Regatring : | PRONT STREST ! Taku Harbor and Limestone In-! { I shan't go PROFESSIONAL Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics, 307 Goldstein Bullding | Phone Office, 216 | - —_— DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Buildinz PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 p.m. ks Dr. Charles P. Jenne l DENTIST | Building ! Telephone 178 —— Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Office hours, 9 am. to 5 p.m. Evenings by appointment | Phone 321 i 3 3 TR Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. to § pm. SLWARD BUILDING | Office Phone 469, Res. i Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE | Gastineau Buflding, Plone 481 | | Robert. Simpson Opt. D. Graduate Angeles' Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground B iR e DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL ' Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Room 7. Valentine Bldg. Office Pnone 484; Residence | Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 —_— S s Rose A. Andrews Graduate Nurse Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas- sage, Colonic Irrigations Office hours 11 am. to 5 p.m. Evenings by Appointment Second and Main Phone 259 i | | | o . | | ALLAMAE SCOTT | Expert Beauty Specialist | | PERMANENT WAVING | Phone 218 for Appointment | Entrance Pioneer Barber Shop | T— ay L. C. SMITH and CORONA TYPEWRITERS J. B. 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