The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 27, 1933, Page 7

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, OCT. 27, 1933, BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG I GOT . / BAD NEWS, SULLY-- THE VIPER WENT AN' SNATCHED MRS. FINNEGAN RIGHT OUTTA THE HOTEL o ot S i . % 1993, 'King Liquor Control—As Others Do It No. 3.—Norway’s Local Option—Sweden’s Liquor “Passbooks” RESTRICTED AMOUNTS SOLD To PASSBOOK Norway, after 10 years' expcrience with Prohibition, now allows any emount cf liquor to be <:ld cver the counter of Government- moncpcly stores, except in dry aveas. Sweden imposes reztrictions as to amount and nlace of sale. . EDITOR'S NOTE: Since the number of states ratifying the Twenty-first ~ Amendment to repeal matiomal prohibition neared the total of 36 requir- od, increasing attention has been given liquor plans in oth- cr countries. This article, the third of a series of four, deals with Norway and Sweden. vate capital, but ali revenue over 5 per cent of the actual cash subscribed by the shareholders is payable to the state. | Wholesale companies, of which | there are two in Sweden, ar> like- | wise restricted to a certain profit and are subject to control by the state. “It can be claimed,” declares Director John Bergvall, director of STOCKHOLM, Oct. 27—Whilegthe Bratt system in Stockholm, some Baltic countries have rt- | “that the alcoholic legislation now ed to high taxation and definite|m force in Sweden has been re- state monopoly as a means of li-{sponsible for the decrease in quor control, with free sale permit- | chronic alcohelism and drunken- ted, Sweden, through the Bratt{ness in general” system, continues to regard sale and consumption of liquor primar- NORWAY'S WAYS iy Ll social _uroblem. i OSLO, Oct. 27—Norway gave In _naslc principle the Bratt sys- up prohihition after a decade’s tem insists upon: struggle. (1) Disinteresled manage- The system now in force includes ment and control of private |jocal option—whereby each city, profit. town and village determines wheth- (2) Revcnue to the State. |er it shall be wet or dry—and a (3) Distinction = between l- | government monopoly in the trade quer sold for home consump- with wine and spirits. The government monopoly main- tains sales organizations in the largest cities. Customers are al- 1In its daily operation the system lowed to buy over the counter any as now developed provides for (a) | amount of wine or liquor, but sale of liquor at special stores and | none is served for ocysumption on only to persons posssssing the the premises. Certain restaurants, «passbook” identification, (b) com- cafes and hotels are granted the plete information for the state re- right to serve alcoholic beverag- garding holders of passbooks, in-|es. cluding drinking habits, occupa- tion, size of family if married, in- Many places are still dry, so come, general qualifications as a that neither beer, wine nor spirits citizen, and so on, (c) sale of|may be sold or served, but impor- strong liquor at restaurants in re- tation of these beverages for per- stricted quantitles and only when sonal use is allowed. food is served at the same time, Since it is difficult in many and (d) regulaticn of amount of rural districts to obtain legal li- fiquor sold to individual accord-|Quor, “moonshining” is practiced ing to age, sex, etc. to a certain extent. Liquor prices Bratt System Effective in 1919 [are high, in many cases being Foundations of modern Swedish prohibitive for the common peo- alcohol legislation go back to 1855 ple, which has been one o_r the when special taxation put a stop cant_rlbutory causes to the illegal to private manufacture of brann- | distilling. vin (potato spirit) and modern Prohibition For 10 Years liquor companies were ostablished. Norway’s prohibition period dat- In 1909 the prohibitionist move-|ed from December, 1916, and in ment reached the height of its|the succeeding years the nation In a voluntary - plebiscite experienced a wave of smuggling, than 1,800,000 men and wo- illegal trading in liquor, establish- or | ment of private stills, crime and 0| deaths caused by the consumption poisonous substitutes. vidual consumer. Dry Areas Import Liquor more men over 18 years pronounced fi prohibition and only about 20,00 against. In 1919 the Bratt sys-[of 7 tem was placed in effect. After a plebiscite in 1926, in Country is Districted which a b)g majority voted against 1t divides Sweden dinbe districts, prohibition, the law was repealed. each with a retailing company, 'alnee then the number of arrests which is alse the center of regis- for intoxication has steadily de- tration. Each company keeps an ereased, though n_hu not reached alphabetically arranged central|the Tow pre-war figure, and smug- register containing data regarding gling was practically stopped: im- all persons with whom the com-|mediately. pany has dealings, a sales register containing names of approved cus- tomers and a register of all pur- chases made, according to date. 1f single, the individual can be entitled to as much as three liters o (about three quarts) of spiritous| Coffee and Sandwich Sale will be liquor a month. Married, with a(held at the Salvation Army Hail family, he can be entitled to. as/on Willoughby- Ave, Friday, Oct. high as four liters a month. Young |27 from 3 to 8 pm. Public invited. men, getting their first passbook, —adv. are usually granfed two liters a month. Young working women, Temorrow — England, Bel- gium and Holland. P s ———————— When J. Omar Samson retires as a rule, get only ong liter every|from active service late in Decem-|' three months. ber as mail carrier in Marysville, Restaurants, which ar¢ permit-iCal, he will have -walked 100,000 ted only a definite margin of sales |miles in delivering mail in 33 years, profit, serve spirits and heavy he estimates. wine only with meals. ———————— Retailing companies employ pri- Daily Empwe Want Ads Pay | YA SHOULDA CROAKED THAT GUY WHEN YA HAD THE CHANCE LITTLE SAWBUCK--- THE POOR KID---HE'S BROKEN-HEARTED-- SNIF --SNIFFF Outrageous Fortune BYNOPSIS: Caroline Leigh fust Ras heard Susie Van Berg declare that she has caused the attempted murder of Elmer Van Berg by making Elmer jealous of Jim Ran- dal, friend of Susie, and the man Caroline loves. Jim is in hiding, Tis memory lost, because evidence geems to point to his having ghot Elmer and stolen the famous Van Berg emeralds, But Caroline knows Jim could not have done such @ thing. She encourages Busie Van Berg to continue her story. Chapter 35 MRS. VAN BERG'S STORY “y MUST tell someone. It just goes on and on in my head all the time. [ don’t sleep, you'know.” “You can tell me—I'm safe,” said Caroline. And then as soon as she had eaid it she had a revulsion of feeling. “No, dont tell me—don't! Don’t tell me anything! Because if you did it, and they thought it was Jim, I should have to tell them.” Susie shook her head again. “It wasn't like that. What did you think? 1 didn't shoot Elmer—I didn’t mean that. Did you think I did?” “I don't know. I didn’t want you to tell me anything you'd feel sorry about afterwards.” “I must tell someone,” said Susie piteously. “If I don’t I'll go crazy.” She broke oft with a start. “Look out of that door and see there’s no one listening!” Caroline opened the door and looked out. There was no one in sight. The contrast between the room and the passage was extreme. The air was cold. Against an uncur- tained window about three yards away the rain was beating. An inky cloud hung like a curtain across the sky. It was so dark that the sun might have set already. She went back to the sofa and sat down. “There’s no one there.” And at once, without any prelimi naries, Susie Van Berg said: “Jim shot Elmer.” “No!” said Carolipe. “No!” “Jim ehot him. It was my fault— I made Elmer jealous. You know I can’t help flirting—I'm made that way. What did Elmer marry me for it he didn’t like it? It made him mad, and—you know the way it is— I liked making him mad. But he ought to have known there was noth- ing in it.” Caroline heard her voice, harsh and unfamiliar, “Wasn't there anything in it?” “Only nonsense — and Jim wouldn't even play up to that. He theught a lot of Elmer. There was an invention they both thought a lot of. That's what Jim came to see him about that night. Did you know he was here the night Elmer was ghot?” Caroline pened?” “Did you read what I told the police? I didn’t tell any lies, but 1 didn’t tell all the truth. They'd have arrested Jim straight away if 1 had.” “What didn't you tel1?” “I told them I went downstairs to get a book, and heard voices in the study. I didn’t tell them that it was Jim’s voice I heard.” “What did you hear?” “They were quarrelling—that's why 1 listened. I heard Elmer say, ‘I'm through with you!’ And I heard Jim: say, ‘I'm dammed if I'll be spoken to like that!’” “Wae that all?” “No, it waen't. Jim said, ‘You take that back!’ And then Elmer got up— 1 heard his chair scrape along the floor and he came towards the door, and I thought how angry he’d be if be found me there and I ran away.” “Jim never shot Mr. Van Berg,” said Caroline. “Jim isn’t a thief. The person who shot Mr. Van Berg is the person who stole the emeralds.” nodded. “What hap- USIE VAN BERG put her hand to her head. She spoke in a weak, extinguished voice. “[ don’t mind about the emeralds ~—he shot Elmer. And I tore the page with his finger-prints out of Elmer’s book. I knew it the police found it they would arrest him, so I tore it out,” She eat Dbolt her ‘hands locked upon her knee. “I tore it out, but I didn’t tear it up. Do you know where he is? If you do, wili you tell him that?” “That you tore it out?” “Tell him I tore it out, but I didn’t tear it up. It Elmer gets better, I'll tear it-up, but4f he doesn't—" Her locked hands strained one against the other; a line of livid pallor ,showed beyond the painted Hne of her lips. “If he doesn’t—If he dies— ¥m going to give those finger-prints that I heard Jim's voice and that I heard him threaten Elmer.” Caroline fought the sharpest fear she had ever known. What had real- ly happened in the library that night? She steadied herself. Busie Van Berg had not moved. The patch of color on either cheek had spread a little, as a stain spreads in milk. Caroline said, “Why?” Then as Susie went on staring at her she made a quick movement. “I don't understand. Why did you tear the page out? “To help Jim—because it was my fault.” i “You won’t have helped him.very | much if you mean to tell the police| in the end.” “Only it Elmer dies,” said Susie with dry lips. Her eyes stared past Caroline at a picture of Elmer dead. “Jim didn’t shoot him.” i he'll tell me what to do. That's why tell the police. But if he doesn't get well, T shall say that Jim shot him, and that it was my fault. I can’t go on like this.” There was a dreadful finality about the way she said it. Caroline got up and put on her coat. “Are you going?” “Yes,” said Caroline. Susie drew a long sighing breath and turned her head. “Is it etill raining?” “] expect so—it black.” Susie shuddered and stood up. “There’s a storm. You can't go it there’s a storm.” “I'll get home before it breaks,” said Caroline. Now that she was on her feet, she | wanted to be gone. Her head burned with the heat of the room, and her knees were trembling. Outside, in looked very casier to feel sure about Jim .She said “Good-bye,” and went out with- out touching Susie’s hand. S soon as she had shut the door she began to run. She wanted to get right away, and she had a feeling that Susie might call her back. She turned the corner, and then turned again. The passages were very dark. She stopped run- ning and wondered if she had taken the wrong turning. The house was old and rambling. She had a hewildered feeling of having lost her sense of direction. A sudden flare of lightning gave a blinding picture of two corridors meeting at the oot of a narrow stair. Darkness followed immediate ly, and one of those peals of thun- der which sound. like giant girders being thrown down upon an iron roof. The noise was deafening. Caroline shrank {nstinctively away from the window, and found herself six or seven steps up the stair, holding to the narrow baluster and waiting for the horrible noise to stop. When she opened her eyes, shc saw above her a very faint streak of light. There. was & deon a few ste): up, and the light came from under it, It was just a thin pale streak, but it meant that there was someone in the Toom. Caroline had a feeling that someone else's eompany would be pleasant. She could say that she had lost her way in the passages. She went up to the level'of the door, and as she lifted her hand to knock, the light of another flash flared up from behind her and below, and a crash more violent than either of the others followed. Urged by blind instinct for shelter, Carol opened the door. She was inside the door and lean- ing against the jamb with the door shut behind her before the second crack of thunder came. She could not have maved to save her life. She was in the room, but she could not see it at all, because a four-leafed sereen covered the door, one panel being flat against the wall on her left, while the other three zig-zagged out from it at an angle. Caroline had takem abont three steps, when, in the reom on the other side of the screep, someone spoke. Do you thinkit's going over?” Caroline stood sfill just where she was. She had only heard that voice once. before, but she would h: known it anywhere. It was N Riddell who had spoken. (Copyright, 1983, J. B. Lippincott Co.) ‘Tomorrow, Carcline witnesses a mystericus scane. to the police, and I'm going to swear | | “Yes—he did. If Elmer gets well, | th 1 tore out the page, and why I didn’t | the wind and the rain, it might be | | By BILLE DE BECK g |FUNERAL SEKVICES NEWS Funcral services for Hiram Par- AS CHAMBER HAS | sons, who died suddenly from an attack of heart trouble on Mon- NDORSED HIGHER TARI | day evening, while a dinner guest FF| 2t the hom: of Mrs. Henry De | Groot, were -held at 2 o'clock this | afternoon in the Chapel of the . W. Carter Mortuary. Services were under the direc- ion of the American Legion Al- | ford John Bradford Post No. 4 and the Spanish-American War Veterans' of Juneau. The Ameri- can Legion ritual was used in the services, ! Interment took place in the lv'»zez'ans' plot of Evergreen Ceme- | tery following the -ceremony. | Mr. Parsons, who- was: sixty-two years old, .was owner of a fox 'm on Porcupine Island and was Juneau as a witness in the De case to be tried in this term of th> United States District Court, when death came. Lol agagagss X — ment of a resolution fa- higher protective tariffs importation of crab-meat | to the detriment of the Alaska in- dustry received the support of the local Chamber of Commerce at the regular meeting last night. Thi: was the principal issue at the sion, the rest of the time bei | given over to & discus n of the }rezu!ur activities of the organi- zation. DEPUTY FEERC HOME After being shipwrecked for scv-| eral days in Idaho Inlet, Deputy | U. S. Marshal W. E. Feero, who left here about the middle of the month en a government errand,| tarrived home last night, none the| worse for the experience. A bro-| k:n propeller shaft in the boat | which he was on caused the craft .to be thrown up on the beach by e storm, but luckily the beach was sandy and neither the boat| nor those aboard were injured. ———— 1 | | Malcolm, Sparkman .and Tolbert Holding of Dania, Fla, claim to Scouts. —e——— SHOP IN JUNEAU be the only three brothers in the| southeast who are active Eagle § ° AT THE HOTELS . - i 3 -2 OPEN FIRE ON . UNRULY ARABS on, ° T Alaskan John Roberts, Seward; Mrs. Bert Moody, Fai Buchanan, and Arvid Chichagof, Mr. a ks; D. E Demonstrators Protest to Increase in' Jéwish Immigration Zynda Mary R. Sweet, citv; L. H. De- lano, city; F. E. Bolton, Seatt A. W. Paujsen, Tacoma’ Earl Kor up, Montreal. Gastinean R H. Sargent, Washington, D. C.; Ruth Williams, Wrangell; E. L. | Mann, Wenatchee; M. F. Tratt. R | Approximately 20000 whales weighing 280,000 tons were caught in Antarctic waters during -the season just closed. 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