The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 19, 1933, Page 7

By BILLE DE BECK WKINDA TOUGH FOR YA, SULLY---IF THE VIPER CROAKS SO'1 BROKE EVERY BONE \N HIS 8ODY--- | YOURE 22 OUTYTA LUCK--4() A Outrageous Fortune | Patiicia “SYNOPSIS: A man lies mum- Bling i his sicep in the Elston Los- pital. " Hé was picked up on a sea~ ide w?e after the wreck of the Alice Arden in a gale: now he ispers-of “Jimmy Riddell” and Something “orcen—ike a kid’s ds.” Nesta Riddell, having heard radlc of the man’s plight, comes Wi hospital to sco whelker, he may be her missing husband, The day wurse tells Nesta what she knows of the man, Chapter-Two E THE MEETING \ HE day nurse wasn’t going to be hurried. North country people take their own way and their own time. “Well, he was found on a ledge on that cliff just to the left of the gap over there. That's where the Alice Arden broke up. She was driven in with the gale, and there the current got her and she smashed on the rotks. You must have read about it. It's a very bad bit of coast because of the quicksands. “The lifeboat people picked up a few of the passengers, but this man wasn't found for getting on thirty- six hours. The gale went down very suddenly, and then there was a fog, one of the worst fogs I've ever seen. You couldn’t see your hand before your face on the cliffs, and it wasn’t til1 it lifted that they found him. He Nesta touched the arm that hid his face. must have crawled up on the ledge Aand then lost consciousness. “Dr. Sutherland thinks he’s had a knock' on the head. When he came ound he didn’t seem to know who e was or where he came from.” “Then I don’t see—" The day nurse just went on as if there had not been any interruption. “But when he is asleep he keeps muttering, and one of the things he Jkeeps saying is that pame. The Jimmy is plain enough. That Is to ay, Matron says it is Jim—and she .made out the message that was. ufludcnut—but when it came to the surname, Dr. Sutherland said it was Randal, and I thought Riddell—but Matron said Reddell, so she put in Qll the three. Anywly his )lm s ," est 'serap. pnnrked J. R” ARS. RIDDELL was folding the piece of;paper, with, the broad- ‘ast message on it. She stopped for ,a moment, pinching the edge of the jper hard. T all at once she’l “ssked what some women would have (psked hefore, . . i ¢ “I5 he bad?” The day nurse, hslutefl. i “He's'not 11, she sald=-"4t's just that he doesn’t remember aaything.” ‘Nesta folded up the paper with the radio message on it. She folded it quite small. Then I,ld- " #He hadn't any 1éteérs of papers'|: on him, I suppose?” _ “A note-case with some money in “ft—pound notes—seven or éight, I think.” 4 s “Nothing else?” ! The day nurse hesitated. Then after a moment she asked in hlr Mow voide, .*;bo 64 know anyotia called Cafo- e?” . “I might, said Nesta Riddell. "Why?" c ufio went round fn her mind. lipe she huv was old holm ssell. Had shé written? had stie written? 7y L"Why"" he said sharply. - The nurse hesitated again. She ‘didn’t want to make trouble be- bushand bandaged. She could see rumpled | world,” wmm gave way before the pressure of Nesta's will. “Qh, it was nothing veally—just the torn:oft end of ¢ lctter with ihe signature.” “Caroline?” The day nurse nodded. “Nothing else?” “No.* “Anything the other side?” ™ “No, It was really only the smalk Nesta slipped the paper she was holding into her red bag and snapped down the catch. “I'd like to se¢ him,” she said. As she walked beside the nurse along the -left-hand passage, she was wondering about that marked linen. What would Jimmy be doing 1 with his initials on his shirt and | pants? Why, the last thing on earth he'd want when he was out on a job would be anything like that—and | this had been the biggest job yet. It his things were marked, it wasn’t any of her marking; and that was certain. All her muscles | tightened up a little as they came into a light airy room with a row of'windows down one side and a wide verandah at the far end. The ward was rather empty. Halt a dozen beds were out on the veran: dah, and the sound of cheerful con- versation came back into the empty space and echoed there. Between two of the windews there was a bed with a couple of screens about it. The day nurse pulled the nearer one back, and Nesta Riddell went past her and stood at the foot of the bed. 'HERE was a man in the bed, and ; he was lying on his side with one arm thrown up acrods his face. She could see thé line of his legs, the hump of his shoulder, and the crook of the arm. Her heart began to beat very fast. “Is it your husband?” Nesta Riddell turned slowly round. The nufse was behind her, with a hand op the screen. 4 And then all at once the rosy girl who had opened the door was there, tull of hurry and importance. “Oh, nurse—Dr. Sutherland wants you on the 'phone. There’s been an accident.” The day nurse was gone before the girl stopped speaking. Nesta Riddell put up her hand and closed the screens. They made a sort of red twilight about the bed, She went past the foot and stood above the sleeping man. His head was not brown hair, and a bit of brown fore- head, and a bit of brown unshaven chin. Her heart went on beating very fast. She bent down and touched the arm that was hiding the man’s face, and at once he said, quite clearly and distinctly. “Phe finest emeralds in the Nesta drew back her hand with & jerk. A look of terror passed over her face. To Ife here in am open | ward and'tatk al the emeralds! “Ifie man’s volcé lost its distinctness and fell to a mutter, but she could hear wlmt ha was saying well "Ll & lot of greén glass . . . . like s green beads . . . . funny to lhln youd kill & man for a thing 1ike that .. .. kid's beads . ... green WE CAN'T 80 EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE -~“FIRST 1 GOTTA GET sSuLLY OUTTA JAN YA WANTA SEE LITTLE !As Chairman of Committee | as“ignments. | committee on rules. | his committee felt on Capitol Hil| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, NOW- NOwW MRS, FINNEGAN - MR GOOGLE -~ OH PLEASE TAKE ME TO MY LITTLE BARBY .- ==~ - BURE - - SURE--1 KNOW SAWBUCK SURE - MEBBE AFTER BUT YA OUGHTTA TRY EAT SUMP'N--- /SN, COPELAND ENJOYING HIS NEW POSITION He Is Taking New In- | terest in Things I By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, S:pt. 19.—~When the Democrats recaptured control | or the Senate and organized dur- 1ing the special jsession of the iSeventy - third| 'Congress, New, York state was not in line for ¢hoice committce assignments. o Texas, for ox-| ample, after 1930 congressic al elections had brought Demo -, cratic control of the Houss, inh WBVAL 5.COPEANDjioq the Speaker- ship. and chairmanships of half}| a dozen or mor: major commitiec | { with you, escorted by an usher o By C. E. BUTTERFIELD CAMDEN, N. J., Sept, 19.—Drive right in and see the movies—that's the idea behind a new theatre here. Scats in this new open air movie house—it covers an area of 250,000 square feet—are the cars them- elves. Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr,, plannzd it. Cars in Semi-Circles In place of the conventional the* ater layout, there are seven tiers And in the Senate r=oraamnuon‘ after the 1932 clections, Texas! came in for its share of Senate plums. Sheppard, the senior Sen- | ator, stepped into the shoes of Reed of Pennsylvania as chairman of the important committee on military affairs. And Connally fe]l; heir to the committce on public| buildings and grounds. of parking inclines so arranged in New York, however, had to be a semi-circle that eich row will content with Senator Wagner tak- accommodate several dozen cars. ing over the chairmanship on pat-! The rows are 50 feet wide, leav- ents and Senator Copeland \ a MATTER OF RANK POOR souL ! SHE'S GOTTA PULL HERSELF TOGETHER-- GET HER SOME GLAD RAGS--~ YOUR ORC HF STRA SLAT\ AN AUTO; l\HPRS AT THEATRE USE BICYCLES nc parking problem far mevie J., built cn this general plan. the ! ing plenty of space for parking and | the same time giving room for | {arriving and incoming cars to find | TUESDAY, SEPT. 19, 193 3. T as, = acw theatre in You take the car in W a bieycle. or leave a “seat” without disturb- ing anyone. The front row is not necessarily better than any other position in the theatre, for there is a huge screen and adequate sound equip- ment. Engineers designed appara- tus that would give enough volume to cover the huge arena and to make it possible to hear above the noises made by motors. Three huge loudspeakers con- cpaled behind the 60-foot =screen project the sound evenly through- out the enclosure. On one occasion during an elec- trical and rain storm the show went. right on, losing only three cars—of the open type. A i | Seniority in the Senate counts}in, genate wing of the Capitol it- for everything enator Copeland | ranks 15 among the Senators in point of service and Senator Wag- ngE 25, g |ites which ever so often invade The committee on patents in th"‘s»:mmrs Yiiparies. Scnate rarely is heard from. The | committee on rules is in much the| same situation, because the Senate either makes or breaks its rules ofl the floor. self are under his jurisdiction. He gets the complaints varying from poor elevator service to term- RESTAURANT-MINDED But - it'ls not by thes: services ,pnrticular]y that Senator Copeland {is making his reputation as Chair- But Senator Copeland is makmgxman of the rules committee. The Senatz Restaurant has One of the two physicians in the| ccme Hhis special hobby. Senate (Hatfield of West Virginia, There's aiways been a bit of jeal- is the other) he has found his|ousy between the House and Sen- committee assignment much to his:ate restaurant in the Capitol. liking. tely, be- to.ses that Senators’ office space|one in the Senate wing. and their environment, on “the| The Senator has set him:elf to hill” are as congenial as possible. |the task of remedying this. Un- The Benaw office bufldmg andnder his orders, the kitchens have Denra 5 Sign up with N. R A. Hélp't0 Raise Wages Incredse’ Employment : RebmflAm&mn?tW(Smty PN LA A Buy where you see this ‘ Blue Eagle and’ +you Fight for Amenca .raw - 1:- b B We have Stimulate st Enlist R the House restaurant has| His major committee duties are|been a bit more popular than the to President:Roosevelt to Pay American Wages Do Yq_u- ?a’t to Revivé ‘America bsen moved up from the base- ments, the menu will be made up in the future with an eye to how many calories a Senator needs to function efficiently after lurch. For, from all indications, it's | going to be a hard session come lnrxt January. And the good doc- | tor is a Democrat. | EPUDID BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG MMy TMGUESS THAT ONE'S JCIGARETTES NoT 70 BE ADVANCED ‘Manufaclurers Make An nouncement Because of Brief NRA ‘Clause NEW YORK, Sept. paragraph inserted into the NRA code, recently accepted by thé to- bacco industry, is believed in Wall Street to have ended the threat of drastically higher prices for cigarettz smokers at least for the time being. Th: good news for the greatest | cigarette smoking nation—consum- i 120,000,000,000 “fags” annually ~was, the, pledge by the industry not to increase the wholesalé price this year beyond the actual in- action of the Agricultural Adjust- ment Act. There havVe been téciirring ru- mors in recent months that cigar- ctfe’ manufacturers, espécially the “big four” of the industry, wer> | considering price rises to offset the reductions effected early in the year, It was estimated that two | successiye price slashes of 85c and 50¢ a thousand, announced early this year on popular brands to meet the competition 10c pack- ages, ‘cost the manufacturers— American, Reynolds, Liggett and Meyers and Lorillard Companies— an aggregate 10ss in revenue of $100,000,000. The companies pledged them- selves, unhder the code, to give full weight to probable increases In sales volume and to refrain from profiteering. This was interpret- ed in Wall Street to medan that ipre;r'nt prices would, be little al- ‘rered if “any,’ during” the rest of { the calendar year. T g LS T LADIES' ALTAR SOCIETY FOOD SALE Saturday, Sept. 23, 'In the Dis- play Rooms of the Alaska Elec- tric Light and Power Co. adv. - e The ads bring you the Informa- ! 19—A bief | crease in the cost of production! Brought abdut by the cods or thel DOUGLAS P-T. A MEETS ON 0CT. 3 Salmon Creek Roadhouse ANTON RIESS Program Comml!tee Ar- ranging Details for First Session The Exécutive Board of the Douglas Parent-Teacher Associa- = tion met last 'evefilng''to’ make §oessSsssdadsporivien s plans for the mew term’s activities | which will start with the first ecting of the Association to be held Tu:sday, October 3. Thé pro- m committee for that meeting 5 now busy arranging for the ‘en- tertainment features. Officers and Board members of the P.-TA. for this year as follows: Mrs. J. B. Langtéth, pres-! [Id nt; Mrs J R. Guerin, Vice- i Lucille Pspoon,’ e Robert Fraser, \T((‘.i urer. I‘ho\e with Mrs. Glen | Kirkham, Win. E. Fegro, A. J. Ba- log and Superintendent Bowman, €x-officio member, comprise 'the Executive Board. | —e,———— SMALLEST The superiority of funerals rests largely on the attention given to the smallest details of service. Flowers, for exam- ple, sent by friends are taste- fully arranged by one of our staff who is skilled in such matters. A small detail over- looked by some — we consider it oan important element of superior funeral direction. . RETURNING HOME Deputy U. S. Marshal W. E. Feero is expected home during the night on the Yukon after a busi- ness trip to Portland, Oregon. | Mrs. John Runquist, accompan- fed by her deoughter, Mrs. Isaac and grand-daughter, Helen Isaac, are enroute home after a month’s visit in the States. D IN AND OUT The Charles W. Carter' Mortuary PHONE 136-3 “The Last Service Is the Greatest Tribute” George Forsness, who has been | taking out logs on Shelter Island ! for - the past few wecks was in lown last night for a short busi- ness trip. He left again ¢this, morning to rejoin his partners, P. . J. Hussey and Caspér Nelson, | whom he left at the camp. | o et | DOUGLAS SHUT-OFF | l Water will be nhut off in Doug- Y las from the main tank tonight at[ 8 o'clock until 5 o'clock in the | morning. —adv. e $5 PETER PAN BEAUTY SHOP SECOND FLOOR—TRIANGLE RUILDING FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing | at very reasonable rates | | WRIGHT SHOPPE | 1 PAUL BLOEDHORN . INDIVIDUAL PERMANENTS PHONE 221 Using the Rene Méthod tion about qunmy, atyle and prlce Total valuation of property in| | Utah for assessment purposes wms| | decreased more than $48,000,000 or| |34 per cent for 1083. | Brunswick Bowling || Alleys 1 Pool Billiards Bowling | Cigars Tobacco Soft Drinks Shop in connection Lower Front Street, opposite | Winter and Pond Vo quare Dea pledged ofir word Employment and L s in the N.R. A. PeerlessBread At AUl Grocers