The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 23, 1933, Page 4

e A AR ST ——— 5 | Twenty-first Amendment repealing the Eighteenth. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 23 1933 Daily Avld;sl;a Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Published every evening except Sunday by FEMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for s per _month, By mall, postage pald, at the following rates: | One year, In advance, $i2.00; six months, In advance, | $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.2 | Subscribers will confer a favor n they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure 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 local news published herein. | ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER| THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION | — | | | | PIONEER AIRMAN. DEATH TAKES In the tragedy at Livengood this week, in which Pilot G. E. (Ed) Young and two passengers were killed when their plane crashed, one of Alaska’s foremost airmen passed on to the Land of Happy Landings. With Col. Ben Eielson, rightly called the “father of aviation in Alaska,” Mr. Young was one of a small group of men who had the vision to see how large a part the airplane could play in Alaskan transportation and communication. They had vision and the courage to back it. As a result of that, Juneau is now but a day from Nome, and Fairbanks the distance between lunch and dinner.| Time is the measure of our distances rather than miles. Like Col. Eielson, Mr. Young was a flyer of rare| ability and had the qualities that inspire the con- fidence of those with whom he came into contact Like him, he passed out in the harness of his calling, | which probably is as he would have wished it. His| death is a loss to aviation in the Territory and| to the Territory, itself. Alaska is a more livable | five dry sisterhood march to the polls next month, Virginia on October 3, and Florida one week later. If both follow the lead of the rest of the Union to and there doesn't seem to be any likelihood they will be found at odds, only three more date, that he\\( ates will be necessary for rafification. - That number is assured on November 7, when States vote. These are: North and South Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Utah. Four of :rlwm all except North Carolina, are virtually certain| to ratify repeal. North Carolina is one of the few States in which the Drys have been conceded a fighting chance. It was one of the two in the Dry column of the Literary Digest's 1932 Prohibition Poll. The margin was so close that the switch of less than one per cent of the vote to the Wet side would put it onto the Wet column. While its vote is not needed, the anti-Prohibition organizations have not neglected to make a campaign there, and their leaders believe it, too, will vote against .the present system. University professors of Havana are drawing up a formula of Government for President San Martin of Cuba, himself a former University érexy. This “brain trust” business seems to be highly contagious. Japanese Methods. (Manchester, Eng., Guardian.) The Japanese capture of Dolon-nor, in Inner Mongolia, has been followed by an advance into the Province of Chahar. Needless to say, this represents another outrageous violation of the rights of China as well as of the armistice which Japan signed on June 1. The Japanese themselves—in the elaborate structures of deceit and special plead- ing which serve them to defend the indefensible— have never pretended that the Province of Chahar forms part of “Manchukuo.” They have, however, consistently refrained from any definite statement about “Manchukuo’s” western frontiers. Now that it is convenient to them to invade Chahar, they have their usual armory of arguments. The Prov- ince of Chahar was occupied, it seems, by Marshal Feng, aided by money from Canton and Moscow; his troops were Communists. These things are as may be; it i§ at least as likely that Marshal Feng was being paid from Mukden, as the Russian press asserts. At any rate, he managed to create complete confusion in the Province of Chahar and to present the Japanese with the excuse for intervention “for the maintenance of peace and order in Jehol.” Having accomplished this, .he has withdrawn to Shantung. The Japanese can rely on the support of Mongols, who have always disliked Chinese rule. They have to meet the resistance of some thousands of demoralized soldiers only. Nothing can stop them from occupying as much of this huge and thinly populated Province as they please. Its cities guard the back door to Jehol and the trade routes place, its people are more clearly knit together because of him and his work among us. Words, | of course, have little meaning to those who are| bereaved at a time like this. Yet, in the hearts| of all Alaskans there is a sense of a sharing of | grief with Mrs. Young and of deepest sympathy | for her in her great loss. | DISTILLING IS ENCOURAGED. The conviction of the Government that repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment is in sight is evi- denced very clearly in its new policy as regards distilling of liquor. It is far more liberal than that heretofore used and tends to encourage the operation of distilleries under Government license at their full capacity. The quota of 5,500,000 gallons set a year ago has long since been exhausted. Several weeks ago, Com- missioner James M. Doran of the Bureau of Indus- trial Alcohol authorized a new quota of 7,500,000 gallons and has let it be known that a third quota for the same amount will be authorized as soon as the second has been fiiled. That means by the end of the year 15000000 gallons of new liquor will be in the warehouses. The problem of obtaining a sufficient stock of American made liquor after repeal is a serious one. Stocks of matured whiskey are not large. There are but seven distilleries of any size legitimately operating. A few are being rushed into production and many other are planning to recondition plant and equipment in preparation for repeal. The situa- tion is different from when the legalization of beer was impending. Breweries there were in consid- erable number engaged in the manufacture of near beer, but most distilleries have allowed their machin- ery to rust, and more plants have been completely dismantled. Medicinal whiskey stocks, constantly depleted by the heavy drain under the more liberal prescrip- tion law now in effect, stand at 18,500,000 gallons, only a small fraction of the pre-Prohibition annual requirements. Federal authorities are now anxious to build up the spirit stocks to the limit. In the first place in order to obtain much needed revenue from legalized liquor there must first be liquor available. And, also, an adequate supply of matured stocks will diminish the feared flood of untaxed and impure wildcat whiskey. In addition to these reasons, the Government is anxious to preserve the domestic market for American concerns. for the purpose df revenue and unemployment relief. Just what the new tax rate will be on whiskey is uncertain. With the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment the $6.60 levy on liquor diverted for beverage purposes will be no longer applicable. This will leave the old rate of $1.10 per gallon effective until Congress provides for a new rate. If repeal is achieved by December 6, as now seems assured, a full month will elapse before Congress meets and it will be several weeks after that before new legis- lation could be put into effect. It is certain that the rate next year, will be higher than $1.10 per gallon. Just how much more will depend a good deal on how badly the revenue is needed in order to balance the budget. ROUNDING THE TURN. Again the West and Southwest have spoken onj | National Prohibition, and as has been the case on 29 previous similar occasions in all sections of the . country, the popular verdict was unfavorable. New &m emphatically confirmed the dictum of Texas and Arizona, voting three to one to ratify the West was heard from again when Idaho, one * m “traditionally” dry commonwealths two to onme. The verdict of the 0 States brings 31 into line for from the Federal Constitu- across the Gobi Desert—hence its importance. When |has Japan held back from what she coveted for trumpery moral considerations? While the World Scrambles for Gold. (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) The world scrambles for gold! Gold prices have gone skyrocketing as hoard- ers, speculators, prospectors and central banks throughout the European world seek frantically to increase their gold holdings. Fortunes of mining magnates were increased by millions of dollars. A man who put $1,000 into Sons of Gwalia shares in 1931 could now sell for $50,000. The Randfortein Estates Company, valued at $9,- 000,000 two years ago, is now worth $50,000,000. The world’s keenest speculators and financiers are gathering in frenzied excitement at Johannesburg in South Africa and at the money centers of Europe to buy up the gold itself or to purchase shares in gold mining enterprises. Distractedly the gold fever mounts. Although gold shares have been rising ever since Great Britain went off the gold standard two years ago, the real gold rush recently started when the dollar and pound sterling began to sag in relation to the continental gold currencies. The price of gold went up to $29.35 a fine ounce, the highest since last December and comparing to the all-time high price reached last November. And now gold becomes more than a medium of exchange. The turbulent upward rush of prices through the frenzied buying and passionate desire for the metal is not sprung from the cool calcula- tion of the financier . The bright-eyed, world-old gold mania is recrudescent. And while the American national leaders and the American people fly over new seas under the Blue Eagle of the NRA, the old world scrambles after gold. Our Duty in Cuba. (Milwaukee Journal.) The best way is to let Cuba work out its political salvation. help. Behind the political wrongs are economic wrongs. The financing of Cuba from New York City was one type of invasion that the Cubans resented. They say they are not going to repudiate these debts, though they do question the integrity of many of them. They are going to ask for time in which to set a frenzied financial house in order. On that point they should have help—all the reasonable help that this country can give them. We may not like to acknowledge it, but there is an American responsibility involved in this Cuban upheaval. America gave to Cuba the form of constitution and government which she apparently does not want. We helped to bring on an economic crisis through our trade policies. We let our bankers put over the loans that wrecked Cuban finances. Rather than talk too glibly of intervention, or cry out that the Communists are in control, we should, in view of our own record, approach the Cuban situation as ;sympameucully and helpfully as we can. The President gave a light for a cigarette to a C. C. C. boy the other day, but that was right in his line. He's been providing a great waken- ing light for the whole country for some time.— | (Boston Globe.) ; Scientists who say there are only two birds to every acre of ground in this country must have made their calculations before the advent of the Blue Eagle.—(Philadelphia Bulletin.) A French star gazer claims to have discovered a new world. We warn him, if wars are needed to make it safe for anything we shall not be there. —(Detroit News.) They say that General Johnson has the look of eagles in his eyes—(New York Sun.) d to keep it there. the repeal resolution is now the bhome stretch. The _reputed With Huey at the receiving end of a long-deferred and eminently deserved black eye, and the NRA down to working basis, we seem set now to go (Lexington, Ky., Herald.) But there is another way that this country can YANK WHALERS ARE DWINDLING Dramatlc Chapter of Am- erica’s Maritime His- tory Is Passihg WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—One of the most dramatic chapters in America’s maritime history is ‘now drawing to a prosaic close. The American whaling fleet, once a lusty institution and the inspiration for countless thrilling sagas ‘of the sea, is on the verge of going out of existence, says A. J. Tyrer, assistant director of the Bureau of Navigation and Steam- boat Inspection. In the full flush of its activity | the fleet comprised 206,000 gross tons, but it has been reduced gradually until today only 14 ves- sels of 9,367 gross tons are left. The fleet is made up of 12 steam- ers and one motorship. In the day when whalers were an im- portant part of the merchant fleet of the United States almost every one was a sailing craft. Headquarters Move Since the time the first Ameri- can whalers headed their well pro- visioned vessels away from the New England coast late in the! eighteenth century for their search| of “swimming treasure,” the head- quarters of the fleet has moved completely across the continent. | A few old-time Captains of the| whaling ships still live in cot- tages hard by the New England\?nw {Fold in egg whites. shores where they can get a sight of the sea and a whiff of the MENUS; Frui Whit 2 cups pastry flour, 4 teaspoons bakin, 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire of the_ DAY ALEXANDER GEORGE FOR SUNDAY TEA (Serving Eight) | im,....—- e ) SEPTEMBER 23, 1913. The big cold storage plant at Sitka was ready for business and the first: fish had been taken The company offered to take all The Menu t Salad Cheese Pastry Strips fish that was brought to it at a Mayonnaise price of two cents a pound, up- ward. Pineapple Sherbet ¢ Cake Caramel Frosting Coffee F. J. Wettrick and Mrs. Wet- trick planned to leave for the south on the Humboldt during the day. Mr. Wettrick was called south on business matters. They Cheese Pastry Sticks powder, !4 teaspoon salt, 4 oons lard, 2-3 cup milk,|cxpected ‘o return about Novem- . cup grated cheese, 2 table-|ber 1. spoons soft butter, % teaspoon salt. '« teaspoon paprika. The Rev. E. H. Brown, pastor Mix_flour, baking powder and of the Catholic Church in Juneau salt ing wher out with dough over in half, knife cut then cut | long move 2-3 cup butter, aspoon Cut in lard with knife. Mi'(-]for ten years past, planned to with knife, add milk and|leave for the south on the steamer 1 soft dough forms, pat or roll | Narthwestern. He was to be suc- until % inch thick. Spread|cceded by the Rev. Gratham, who rest of ingredients and fold | had recently come to Juneau from With sharp | Missoula, Montana. Failing health into % inch strips and| caused Father Brown to give up each strip three inches his work here. With spatula carefully re-| ed strips to greased bak- The second story walls of the >t. Bake 8 minutes in| City Hali were practically com- ate oven. Serve fresh. pleted and were ready to receive White Cake the joice and timbers for the third 1% cups sugar, | floor. The work had been done 1 cup milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, % | by day labor. almond extract, % tea- . 3 cups pastry flour, 3 Prof. C. C. Jorgeson, head of the Agricultural Experiment sta- tions in Alaska, left for the States Add on the Jefferson, after completing a tour of all of the stations in Alaska. He reported all of them in thriving condition. baking powder, beaten. n butter and sugar. extracts, salt, flour and bak- powder and beat 2 minutes. Mix lightly. 4 egg Pour batter into 2 layer cake salt, but all the American whal-' s i ing vessels with one exception, D' fitted with waxed papers.| The first meeting of the Camp ' Bake 25 minutes in a moderately | mire Girls was to take place in now are operated out of San Francisco and Seattle, Tyler says., The early records of the Bu- reau of Navigation show a whal- slow 1 cup dark brown sugar, 2-3 cupr oven. Cover with frosting.|, few days at the studio of Miss Caramel Frosifg | Edith Kempthorne in the Charon residence. ing fleet of 4126 gross tons in sugar, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 cup! 3 h 1794, At this time the number of M™% 't teaspoc N il il The smoker held in the Tread- vessels was not a matter of record. Boil gently, stirring frequently, well Club was a great succes: By 1820 the fleet totaled 36,445 tons. By 1845 the tonnage in- creased to 190,594, with the peak of all time reached in 1858, when 198,594 tons were listed. That marked the zenith of American whaling enterprise and from that date until now it has diminished until soft ball forms when portion is tested with many men attending from | various points on Gastineau Chan- in cup of cold water. i nel. The hit of the evening was S 'Nc:f E( :mm::te\i (:::-(li( v::d‘ an opening song by Monte Snow. “_" Fr ?‘ uke A number of excellent boxing L o8 oh matches took place. DO 1Ot SeIve OVEr-large Or 100 | fossero oo oo o oo os oo portions of foods. Have thcm' steadily. i Neot Mote, Howover | tefipting looking on the plates “Tomorrow’s Styles Offsetting to some extent the and sarnish well to make attract- Today” passing of the American whaler Ve is the recent increase in the pro- B R e T portion of American seamen find-| ing employment on vessels flying the American flag. This is due, Tyler says, to the Masters of| American vessels showing a pref- erence for native and naturalized seamen. | In une fiscar year ending June 30 the proportion of American-born | or naturalized seamen shipped and reshipped by the United States Shipping Commissioners at the 13 largest ports of the country in- creased to 747 per cent., as com- pared with 67.7 per cent in the previous fiscal year. In the last fiscal year 221,128 seamen were shipped on American vessels. Of this total 165310 were American-born or naturalized citi- zens. There were 12780 British, 7,885 Spanish, 8401 German, and all others totaled 26,752. t — e, MRS. JOSEPHINE SPICKETT, POSTMASTER, LEAVES ON VACATION TO CALIFORNIA annual vacation trip south, Mrs. Josephine Spickett, Postmaster, left this morning on the Princess Louise. Mrs. Spickett plans to visit her sister, Mrs. J. B. Caro, in San Francisco, and will possibly continue to Southern Cali-| fornia before returning the euly} part of November. i —l On her Daily Emprre Want Ads Pay Cu 0 CONTENTMENT Brewed to smooth away the rough edges of a ! bad night or a hard day —our coffee. Smooth. Stimulating. Served steaming hot. Blending richly with the good thick cream. And SATISFYING. BAILEY’S Runrnchon Lntllenn ' Church REV. ERLING K. OLAFSON, 3 Pastor ‘Morning Worship 10:30 AM. Woodworking Cabinet Making | | Phone 349 aliy Tmpwe Want Ads Pay J. W. SORRI &’07’59 Small Jobs a Specialty s 85 Gastineau Ave. Juneau’s Own Store f Cigars Cigarettes Candy Cards The New Arctic Pabst Famous Draught Beer On Tap “JIMMY" CARLSON Not Because We Are Cheaper BUT BETTER RICE & AHLERS CO. PLUMBING HEATING SHEET METAL “We tell you in advance what job will cost” 14444/4/4 47447y N\ KETISTINY \i WL, s Building for Better 5 . Times » - Relying upon the natural resources of this |- section, its wealth in gold and timber, its fisheries and its rich dairying land, and =8 above all upon the faith and courage of its 4 people, The B. M. Behrends Bank is building - confidently for better times which Alaska will enjoy as business — stimulated by the < National Recovery movement — improves 5] in the States. N This institution stands shoulder to < shoulder with those who believe in the IS future of the Juneau district. S (8 The B. M. Behrends Bank JUNEAU, ALASKA ZZ et TR PROFESSIONAL | T PHYSIOTHERAPY | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | | 307 Goldstein Building i Phone Office, 216 | | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | DENTISTS | | Blomgren Building | | PHONE 56 | Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. 4 Jenne 7 [)r Rooms & and 9 Valentine | Building ! Telephone DP. NTIST 176 Dr.J. W. B | DENTIST | Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | Office hours, 9.am. to 5 pm. | | Evenings by appointment Phone 321 | ¥ . = » Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. | SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. | -— L | I i | | Phone 276 Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST | | OFFICE AND RESIDENCE ‘i | Gastineau Building, Phone 481 I‘, l [ | PRESTE E | —a | Robert Simpson | t. D. Sreduate Angeles Col- | | lege of Optometry and Onthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground | —a 3 SOUTHWELL i Optomeuut—omicun | Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted | Room 7. Valentine Bldg. Office Pnone 484; Residence Phone 238. Office Mours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 | & 4, ST, Rose A. Andrews Graduate Nurse 1 | Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas- sage, Colonic Irrigations | Office hours 11 am. to 5 pm. | Evenings by Appointment Second and Main Phone 259 . | | LEON ENSCH CHIROPRACTOR g || Helene W. L. Albrecht | . i (A Fraternal Societies OF Gastineau Channpl ‘! — B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday #t 8 p. m. Visiting Qrothers welcome. L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Council Chambers, Fifth Strecd. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary time. A tank for Diesel O | and a tank for crude oil save burner trouble. PHONE 149. NIGHT 148 | RELIABLE TRANSFER ] D TR e e | ‘ Our trucks go any place any i f z Wise to Call 48 Juneau Transfer Co. when in need of MOVING or STORAGE { ! Fuel 0Oil Ceal Transfer § J | | Pamer School Graduate | Over First National Bank | | PHONE 451 Konnerup’s MORE for LESS JUNEAU-YOUNG | Funeral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers ‘.nght Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 B I ] i | | L] 0 SABIN’S | Everything In Furnishings | for Men I TR [ S— ?_,._ | THE JunEAU LAunpry / ’ Franklin Street betweem | } Front an” Second Streets Phone 218 for Appointment PHONE 359 || i o e MAE SCOTT || —mee————s I AzIx‘pI::}m-ey gp(e:mun JUNEAU FROCK ! 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