The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 20, 1933, Page 7

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. MONDAY, NOV. 20, 1933. BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG FORBIDDEN VALLEY by Williom Bynon Mowouy YYNOPSIS: Curt has returned to Edmonton from the sub-Arctic woith the idea of taking a new and wery good fob. But A. K. Marlin his former chiet in the koyal Mounted and father ot Risalie Marlin, whom he some day expects to marry beos him to wndertake one final man hunt—rsor lgor Kar- akhan, tnternational erook. Curt agreea. and goes to Vancouver. where he finds that Karakhan had known a airl named lelen Mathie- son. lle arranges to take lielen to dinner. hoping te get some informa- from her. Then they go for a canoce ride in the vark. Chapter Seven FAINT TRAIL T the first of thelr talk Curt tried to find out what lay behind Baid win's attempt to shield Helen that afternoon. He discovered that Bald win took her out frequently to din ner or a show, in fact kept rather steady company with her. That was all he learned, but he was satisfied there was something more, some- thing which he could uncover eas ily enough when he wanted to. Deftly leading the topic from Baldwin to Baldwin’s work, he cas- ually mentioned the Karakhan case and got her started talking about it. Almost immediately he discov- ered that she had loved the Russian passionately and still loved him, She knew about the huge swindle he had worked, but with a woman's turned to Felen Mathieson again, taking her out that evening on a long motor-canoe trip in the Strait. It was she who innocently gave him the little broken bits of information and the stray trivial detalls that he pieced together into the story of Karakhan's escape. The following morning he walked in on Baldwin and Sergeant Holden “Here In Vancouver,” he informed them, “there is, or was, a young fiy er called Jim Gunnar. He had an am phibian of his own, and he kept it at the afrport. He and Karakhan went up together two or three times a week, and Karakhan used his ship exclusively. While I''n working on another lead, | wish you'd investi zate him, Holden, and get all the information you can.” Hoiden left on the assignment Late that afternoon he returned, bringing dismal news. Young Gun nar, he reported, had bought a new six-place plane last October and started freelancing up the Alaskan coast. Just a month ago he had smacked up in a pea-soup fog at Baranoff Island. A whaling boat had taken him to a hospital at Novonesky, & little town dating from the Russian occupation of the Pacific North west; but he had died without re gaining consciousness. As gently as an inquisitor could, Curt went on. loyalty she forgave it. She knew he had callously thrown her aside—he had done so even before he fled, anc had taken up with another girl in Victoria: but she forgave that too. 1t she had had the slightest knowl- edge of where he was, she would have flown to him in an instant. For such loyalty to be wasted on a viclous wolf seemed to Curt a rea! tragedy. To judge by similar affairs ir the Russian’s career, the man had some undeniable and strong power with women. As gently as an Inquisitor could, he went on with his probing. He found out that the continued high tension of Karakhan's game had wearied him; that during his last three months in Vancouver he had fished a lot in the Strait by way of recreation, and had gone week-end- ing up the coast. On these trips he had used a plane. He owned none himself, but chartered one privately. Though a pilot went along, Karakhan usually handled the controls himself. He flew very competently, Miss Mathie- son said. 'URT'S pulse quickened at this in formation about the plane jaunts. He was working on the theory that Karakhan had escaped by air. Traln or auto was entirely too public for 80 shrewd a criminal, and he would bardly have taken ship away when a wireless flash could have inter- cepted him in mid-ocean and caught him dead to rights. But a plane was swift; it took to the trackless sky: in two hops a man could jump clear across the continent. The Silent Squad had found out about his flights but had set them down as ordinary business trips. Plainly they were not that. This news that he was keenly Inter- ested in the air and a fiyer himseif strongly bolstered up the theory that he had made his get-away in a plane. After taking Helen Mathieson home, he jotted down the informa- tion she had given him, then hur- ried out to the Marlin residence and planned his next steps. The following day he interviewed several of Karakhan's acquaint- ances and three prominent aviators of the city. They could tell him al- most nothing of value, and he HE report was a blow to Curt. it Karakhan really had escaped by plane, young Gunnar was the logical person to have taken him. Now Gun- nar was dead, and the information he might bave given was forever lost. “What was he doing on the six- teenth and seventeenth of last Sep tember, Holden?” “On the sixteenth his ship was housed at the airport. On the seven teenth he cleared for Nanaimo. It was a stormy foggy day. No other planes cleared and none came in.” “Did he take a passenger?” “No. I'm sure of that because the airport manager checks on ships. We're so close to the border that they have to be strict with inspec- tions. He cleared by himselt.” Baldwin looked relieved. The facts which Curt had dug up about young Guanar had made him uneasy, but now his confidence flowed back. “Did you check on him arriving at Nanaimo, Holden?” Curt persisted. “I phoned 'em, but they don't keep records there, and they have too many planes in and out to remem: ber any particular one.” “How much ga: did he take on bere?” Holden glanced “Eighty-five gallons.” Curt toyed with a letter knife. Baldwin felt sympathetic. Tenny- son was failing. At least this trafl, to which he had evidently pinned a lot of hope, was proving a complete dud. “About this matter of Gunpar clearing by himselt,” Curt said pres- ently, and his measured reasoning jolted Baldwin out of his complac- ency, “he could easlly enough have picked Karakhan up, somewhere out in the Strait. As for his going to Nanaimo, he never went there at ail and never intended to. He led: “That plane of his, on floats, could just barely get off with eighty-Sve gallons of gas. Nanaimo is only six- ty miles from here. Would a pilot ever tank up to capacity for a forty- five minute hop? You can bank en it, he was planning a flight of seven or eight hours.” (Copyright. 1938. William B. Mowery) at a paper. Curt learns, tomorrow, something of great importance. DOUGLAS NEWS DOUGLAS GIRL WEDS JUNEAU MAN IN SOUTH Elva Kirkhz;—and Robert Rice Married—Was to Have Been Secret The marriage of Miss Elva Leota Kirkham, of Douglas, and Mr. Rob- ert Gordon Rice, of Juneau, is an- nounced in a radiogram received here by the bride's mother, Mrs. J. O. Kirkham., The two young persons left Juneau recently to attend different schools and the romance started on the trip, end- ing in a quiet wedding at Sno- homash, Washington, November 3. The marriage was to have been kept a secret until the groom completed his studies, but it leaked out. Mrs. Rice is the charming daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Kirkham of Douglas. She is a graduate of the Lincoln High School in Tacoma and of the Washington State Col- lege at Pullman. She is a mem- ber of the Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority. Since graduating she has been teaching in Washington. Mr. Rice is the son of Dean and Mrs. Charles E. Rice of Juneau and a graduate of the Juneau High School. At present he is a student at the University of Washington and he expects to complete the |C. P. A. course with the class of 11934 For the present the couple | have taken an apartment in Se- attle. Both the bride and groom are popular members of the Channel’s younger set. e BASEKETBALL SEASO { STARTS HERE WEDNESDAY The Douglas and Juneau fire- men will clash at the Natatorium on Wednesday evening for the first {of the Channel League series con- test to be played here of the 1933- 3¢ hoop season. A preliminary game will be played between the Freshmen and Eighth Graders starting at 7:30 o'clock. — .- OPERETTA TO BE STAGED | LATTER PART OF MONTH November 28 and 29 are the dates set for the annual Douglas High | School opereita, this year called “The Radio Maid” with a setting of farm life. The operetta, in two acts, will be presented on the audi- torium stage, under the direction of Miss Pimperton, music teacher. A group of college students visit a farm, with at least two romances resulting. “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” and “Dinner at Eight” are included in the songs by the chorus. Complete cast of characters is: Vera Kirkham, June Worthington; Glenn Edwards, Robert Holebrook; Gerald Cashen, John Holebrook; Helen Pusich, his wife; Archie Edmiston, Joe, the hired man; Myrtle Feero, Mabel, the hired girl; Jessie Fraser, Betty Sey and Madelene Bucholtz, college girls. Betty Say performs a tap dance and the whole chorus dances in the course of the action. Boys’ |ehorus, which does not appear until the second act, includes the fol- lowing: Bob Feero, Roy Williams, “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” EXCLUSIVELY fiuntzefiz | . “Juneauw’s Own- Store” e e IIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIHIlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIIIIIII||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII:I HEH - HEH:-- THE WAY ' HE LOOKED AT ME - PRETTY SMART — MAKIN' OUT LIKE I DION'T EVEN NOTICE HIM:-- Gordon Mills, Wilfred Fleek, Irvin Tleek, Frank Cashel, Arvo Wahto, Olavia Wahto, Teddy Doogan and | Alex Tassel. Girls’ chorus is made up of Jen- nie Johnson, Ruth Langseth, Mary Fitzgibbon, Agnes Baroumes, Mary Loken, Mae Fitzgibbon, Esther Shafer, Alice Sey and Wilma Feero. WORK PRACTICALLY FINISHED ON PLANT OF LIBBY AT TAKU With construction practically completed on the new cannery being built at Taku Habor by the Libby, McNeill, and Libby Com- pany to replace the plant destroy- ed by fire a year ago last spring, the tender Willard B arrived in Juneau yesterday bringing in about twenty five men who have been employed on the work. A small crew remained at the camp to finish up the work and put the plant in shape to be open- ed next Spring. INVESTIGATOR IS FOUND DEAD PORTLAND, Oregon, Nov. 20.— Frank Aken, Special investigator | of the Port of Portland Commns-, sion, was found dead in his ap-| artment today. There is a wound | over the right eye, apparently a| bullet mark. It is believed he was | slain. A shot was heard during the night. His wife said he had| been threatened many times since| the investigations of the Port Ad-| ministration. | - e | ELLIOTT ROBERTSON AND | GEORGE WHITE RETURN TO| JUNEAU FROM TAKU HARBOR | Elliott Robertson, son of Mr.| and Mrs. R. E. Robertson andw George White, son of U. S. Mar-| shal Albert White, returned yes | terday morning on the tender Wil- lard B from Taku Harbor where Plain Plain Now is the id 2al time to Boxed Stationery or Monogrammed Calhng Cards Weddmg Invitations Printed or Engraved Bridge Sets or Monogrammed Part y Favors Book Plates We haye the largest assortment of Christmas Cards in this sec- tion and will print or engrave name on cards at a reasonable [chey have been employed for the months on the con- struction work for the new con-, built there by Libby, | last several nery McNeill being and Libby Company. e e———— Ten women are employed as o ucml guides in the capitol | Washington, . C. 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