The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 3, 1934, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3, 1934. Daily Alaska Erhpire XOBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Published ¥ except Sunday by the IRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska every evening Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Selivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: { One year, 'in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, | .00; one month, in advance, $1.25. | Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly ! notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity In the delivery of their papers. { Telephone for Editorial and Bu Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. i The Associated Press is wxclusively 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 “THE BIG ALASKA GRAB BAG.” Clouds are gathering that threaten an- other political storm over control of Alaska's resources. A prominent resident of Juneau, capital of Alaska, sends The Seattle Star copies of two bills introduced in Congress by An- thony Dimond, Delegate from Alaska, which will come up for consideration in the ses- sion at Washington beginning in January, next year. One of them, H. R. 5205, would transfer ownership and jurisdiction of all fishes and fisheries in Alaskan waters from the Unifed States to the Territory of Alaska. It ex- cepts “fur seals,” although fur seals are not fishes in structure, in habits, or in scien- tific classification. The other, H. R. 5209, would transfer ownership and jurisdiction of all “fur-bear- ing animals” in Alaska from the United tates to the Territory of Alaska. But it does NOT except “fur seals,” which are “fur- bearing animals” in fact. For purposes of administration the laws of Congress group fishes and fur seals under the Commissioner of Fisheries. And so do | those laws group bears and mountain sheep together. But a mountain sheep is not a bear for that reason. A fur seal remains a “fur-bearing animal” regardless of any administrative grouping. Right there appears to be a joker, which would, in all reasonable interpretation of language, have the effect of transferring stealthily the geal herds the Pribaloff. Islands in Aloska from the United States.to the Territory of Alaska, without restric- tion, the principal single source of sea food supply in the world, now retailing in all the States of the United States at $35,000,000 to $55,000,000 per year. | Both bills empower the Governor of | Alaska to call a special session of the Alaska | Legislature, which would be authorized im- | mediately to dispose of or deal with those vast and valuable properties in any manner. | It would not take long to land them in the i lap of the one gigantic Morgan-owned monopoly that now owns most of Alaska.— (Seattle Times.) No reasoning could be more superficial and no conclusion more illogical and unfounded than that which characterizes the Star's latest exhibition of Morgan-phobia. Its premises are false and itsi arguments even more false. | It presupposes that present vested interest in the Alaska fisheries would be arbitrarily dis- possessed under the proposed transfer of adminis- trative, legislative and regulatory authority over the Alaska fisheries, provided for by H. R. 5205 by Mr. Dimond. Most of that interest is held by Seattle mcn or corporations. All that is sought is to remove from Federal hands the power to pass laws tellt “hem how, when and where they shall fish anl vest it in the hands of the Territorial Leg- larzer companies are not opposed, but rather favor, the change ought to be sufficient proof to any reasonable individual, Star, that no sinister motive impels Alaska's Dele- ga‘e to introduce the bill. It is, in fact, a step thct has been approved at the polls by a vast ma jority of Alaskan voters and one which has been encorsed by business men as well as labor. . . . . As to the transfer of fur and game control. The Star alleges H. R. 5209 “would transfer OWN- ERSHIP and jurisdiction of all ‘fur-bearing animals’ | in Alaska from the United States to the Territory of Alaska.” No mention of ownership is' made in the measure. Assuming that Alaska as a Territory bears the same relation to the United States as Washineton did when it was a Territory, owner- ship of the game and fur is already vested in the Territory. Congress, however, pending the time when a more adequate Organic Act should be passed, retained in itself the right to make laws to administer and control these resources. Now, what Delegate Dimond proposes is, in the words of the title of the measure in question, to “extend the legislative power of the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska to include game laws and | Jaws relating to fur-bearing animals applicable to Alaska, and transferring the jurisdiction, super- vision, administration and control of the game and fur-bearing animals from the Department of Agri- culture to the Territory of Alaska, and for other ‘these resources. None is required. It admittedly is e d by the Territory. Any other theory would be repugnant to the well-established colonial principles and practiced since the very beginnings That the proposed transfer of fur-bearing ani- could “have the elfect of transferring stealthily the seal herds” of the . Siar has iU rritorial. Government is the most foolish asser- ‘iLS own fisheries which are | pearing in the Star seeking to raise a House of benefit either Alaskans or their Government. Itl should fail of its purpose through its own folly. | —_— | Anyway, if the oldtimers attempt to tell usf | ture. The fact that most of the smaller and so- over the recent market price does not in any way ed independent cannerymen and a few of the change our principal monetary policy. Neither does even the publisher of the| There is no mention of ownership ot! Pribiloff (not Pribaloff as isinds from the Federal to thciua Father CGughliii “and you have just about tion made. The bill declares plainly in the title and in section two that it applies only to the game and fur-bearing animals over which the United States Department of Agriculture has administrative control. That fact cannot have escaped the notice of the Star, since it admits it has had copies of both measures. It likewise acknowledges that the fur-seals are under ccntrol of the United States Bureau of Fisheries which is in the Department of Commerce and not Agriculture. Thus it is not crediting it with too much intelligence to say it knows that the transfer as proposed could not in any way affect the fur-seal fisheries. . . . . Objection is raised to transfer of the jurisdiction of the fisheries because it would “hand over from the United States to the Territory of Alaska, with- out restriction, the principal single source of sea food supply in the world, now retailing in all Lhe[ States of the United States at $35,000,000 to $55,- 000,000 per year.” When Washington was a Territory it controlled not inconsiderable in value and extent. It also controlled its game and! fur, and its timber-lands.. It still does so as a State. All of the other Territories of the United States, with the sole exception of Alaska, did the b same thing. All that is sought to be done is to apply here the principles of Government that proved wise and sound enough to create the greatest nation in the world. There is nothing novel about | the matter, nothing that has not been done time and time again until it has become a tradition in American administration. . . . This is the third of a series of editorials ap- Morgan bugaboo. So strained and far-fetched has been the effort that honest-minded, thinking read- ers cannot help but wonder why. The question naturally raises itself, “Is the Star dragging a red herring across the slimey trail of some interest or individual seeking something for itself?” Of one thing there can be hardly any doubt. This latest outbreak was nurtured in ignorance, conceived in malice, and inspired by no desire to anything about the “hard winter of '86” from now on, we'll just refer them to December, 1933. Modern intelligencé and the spirit of enterprise | constitute the main forces that create town progress. Silver and Our Money. (Cincinnati knquirer.) Although announced suddenly and spectacularly, | the Government's decision to buy silver at $.645 an ounce is simply the application of the agreement made at London last spring, and does not involve | any radical change of monetary policy. At London, under the urging of Senator Key Pittman, the nations agreed to pursue harmonious policies calculated to raise and stabilize the world price of silver. Major holders of silver coin and bullion, including China, India and Spain, under- took to withhold their vast stocks from the world market, excepting small quantities. Major producing nations, America, Mexico, Australia, Peru, Canada, ‘undertook’ o absorb’ specified quantities of their own new production, totaling 35,000,000 ounces an- nually. The chief results to be expected are (1) a great istimulus to domestic silver mining with consequent improvement in business throughout the Western States; (2) a considerable increase in the world price of silver, though perhaps not proportionate to the Government’s new figure; (3) increase of | the purchasing power of the Orient, Spain and Mexico, due to the higher world value of their silver currencies or reserves, offsel in part by the decrease | of their exports for the same reason; (4) slight in- | flationary trend in America because of the increase of money in circulation. \ Possibly the incidental political effects are more important than the economic effects noted above. | One of these would be the winning of the Western States over to support of the Administration, since} the silver policy is largely a dole to silver indus-‘ tries. Another, which may account for action just | at this time, is the diplomatic value of silver-buying when Mexico has just been rebuffed at Montevideo on her proposal to restore bimetallism. Finally, the | new policy tends to ward off paper money inflation | by giving Congressmen new proof of the Adminis- | tration's desire to supply “cheap money.” | the Of course, immediate effect of the silver | {announcement is a rapid rise of commodity and | security prices. But the long-run effects are not ' |likely to be spectacular. The purchase of silver up | to 25,000,000 ounces a year at a premum of 20 cents | | }lt represent inflation save in the sense that any |Federal dole to large economic interests is infla- tion, if the money does not come from taxes. | Sanctity of Contract. (The Times, London.) At present, when deftult is stalking naked and | unashamed throughout the world, it is of the utmost importance that debtors should at least acknowl- Eedge their rightful obligations, for it is only on |this basis that the delicate though necessary task |of adjusting debts to capacity for payment can be | |undertaken. Once a debt is duly acknowledged, equitable | measures necessary to redress accidental hardships brought about by changes in the world’s price level can safely be devised, but unless the sanctity |of contracts is first upheld all contractual obligations |must inevitably lose their meaning and that is a !state of things no sane person would be willing to | contemplate. Russia Recognized. (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) { In agreeing with Commissar Litvinoff for the | |resumption of diplomatic relations, President Roose- | |velt is recognizing an established fact. While trade possibilities have been nominally the ruling consideration, one cannot help believing thati {has been entertained. This relates to Japan and the question of future | Japanese-American relations and what it would |mean in a possible emergency to have the Western |Republic and the Soviet Republic together in |friendship. All in all the agreement is a triumph of real- ism and common sense over impractical stubborn- ness. | | had collap: °d ome, knocked a man |/in the President's mind at least another thought Volcanoes are erupting in Honolulu, Tokyo, Al- aska and Salvador. Put them alongside of Al Smith everybody letting off steam.—(Boston Transcript.) i PSIS: Sonya Volkov has ‘ted Curt Tennyson and his artner, Paul, and is being taken by Teeste LeNoir to join tgor Kar- akhan in the latter’s wilderness refuge in northwestern Canada. Karakhan is the crook Curt fis trailing, and Sonya is the girl Curt loves. Sudden!y the Klosohes In- dians surround Ourt's island camp, and the little party runs for a rock shelter, hoping to heat of' the at- tack Ralph Nichols. who had en= teved the wilderness with Sonya, remained behind when she left. Chapter 36 BATTLE 'R,\LPH!" Curt yelled ar him. “What're you doing? Get in here with us!™ “Don't Lave any gun!” Ralph | called over his shoulder. “Got to get gun!” “Let it go. They'll cut you off!” But Ralph courageously went on. Flinging hemselves behind the rock shelter, the two of them turned their rifles toward the canoes to the south. Curt dropped a handful of clips into Paul's pocket. “Aim low, Paul. Bounce your slugs off the water. Ne can’'t hope to Li* the men, but we can tear holes through those canoes and sink ‘en.” They emptied their magazines at the six craft. The range was too long tor dark shooting, and the moon re- flection was wrong. The canoes came straight «¢n and skimmed into th2 shallows. Reloading, Curt and Paul blasted into them again, frantically trying to knock them back. One canoe turned broadside and sank, but the two occupants leaped out and splashed ashore; and the other five canoes drove on in unchecked. Jumping to shelter on the island. the Klosohees began sizzling arrows at the rifle flashes, to cover the land ing of the other parties. Ralph came running cut of the dark with rifle, belt-gun and three cartons of cartridges in his hands. “l got 'em!™ he panted. “Couldn’t have helped out if I hadn’t gone and—" k His rejoicing ended in an agonized gasp. Within two steps of the barri cade he sudderly stumbled and flung up his arms. The gun and car- tons dropped with a clatter. Pitch ing forwara with all the momentum of his dash, he smashed head-on against a rock, rolled over and lay still. Curt vaulted over the barricade, grabbed bhim, lifted him into the shelter. “Ralph!” he cried, kneeling down and shaking his limp com rade. Ralph did not move. And then Curt saw » hard-driven arrow pro- truding from his back, and a stream of blood trickling from his mouth. The suddenness of the blow st)uck Curt dumb. He shook Ralph’'s arm again but got no response. Dead or dying—be did not know. The five canoes to the west were less than a hundred yards out. Paul had got the range 1 was ricochet: ing his bullets of the ripples with a withering effect. One canoe wabbled crazily and collapsed. In another a figure leaped up and toppled over board. “Look north!" Paul cried. “Keep those baci. I'll handle these.” For the first time Curt noticed that three canoes were skirling in toward the upper tip. At his first shot a figure rose up in the leading canoe and shouted a command. The voice soundcd to him like Tenn-Og's. “Damn yon!” —the thought flashed through bhis mind — “we patched you up and treated you white, when your buddies ran away and left you; and now youre I~ad ing men to spear us. I'll get you any way!” He poured a whole clip of vengeful bullets at the tigure. The Klosohee -till stood up, waving his arms and shouting orders. The oth er two craft stopped and began mill ing about vncertainly. As Curt | snapped in another clip, swearing savagely at wmissing Tenn-Og, all three of the canoes veered around | and skimmed back out of sight. | HEIR sudden flight astonished him: he had hit nobody, done ro damage that he could see. He laid it to cowardice, whirled to help Paul again. Of the five canoes to the west, Paul and | out of a second and sent it drifting helplessly, and had sunk a third in the shallows. Tog-ther he and Curt ran a burst at the other two. They sank both of them in the space of | five seconds, but the men jumped out into-the water, sprang ashore and | RBIDDEN VALLEY by William Bynon Mowory A dead silence fell. It lengthened to five minutes. “What do you make of it?” Paul whispered. “I don’t know. Maybe they're pull- ing themselves together for the rush.” Curt bent down beside Nichols again and tried to rouse some sign of life. Ralph still lay motionless, limp and stricken. It was all Curt could do. Fe straightened up to help Paul watch. “Seen anything of 'em?” “Not a glimpse. 1 heard a noise down near the tents but saw noth- ing.” Curt sprang over the barricade, secured Ralph's two guns and the cartridges, came back, waited. When the deadlock did break, it broke suddenly. Down at the lower tip, the canoes wh ~h had reached shore all at once went darting it through the shallows—escaping. Launched on the run, they were out upon the open lake and disappear- ing at top speed before Curt and Paul could realize what was taking place. They stared at each other amazement. “They're gone!” Paul gasped. Curt was more skeptical. He sim- ply could not believe it. “Maybe they’re gone. This thing has got the earmarks of a trap, to me.” “But we saw them go.” A suspicion cf the truth struck Curt. “How many canoes did you see?” “Six.” “That’s what I counted. Only five boats reached shore. Where'd they get that extra canoe?” They left the barricade and hur- ried dowL to the camp site. Curt’s heart sank as he glanced about. All their supplies had been destroyed. With Paul at his heels he turned and ran out to where they had aban- doned their canoe, It was not there. It was the loss of their canoe that really frightened them. Food. sup- plies, tents—those were not matters of life or death. But with a mile of water all around them and no craft to get away in, they were help- less prisoners cn that bare strip of sand and boulders. in around and found one of the pine knots which they had used for start- ing fires quickly. Over in the barri- cade Curt lit it with a double match, wedged the taper between two rocks, and bent over Ralph's crumpled form. Curt’s hand shook and his eyes grew misty as he worked with his stricken friend. He decided to cut off the 3haft of the arrow and let the rest remain, for he could never ex- tract the dart without starting an internal bleeding that would speed- ily be fatal. When he had done that, be brought water and bathed Ralph’s face and loosened his clothes to make him more comfort- bim. The remainder of the short night passed quietly. Several times Curt the lake, but he did not even bother to keep a lookout, for he knew they would not be molested. The Kloso- hees woulc sit around on those neigaboring islands and wait and wait till starvation and exposure had done the work for them. His thoughts of Sonya were bitter thoughts, not so much because of the suffering she had brought him as what she had done to Ralph. With no thought of self he had accompa- nied her on her trip, helping her ajl e could: and then, without scruple or hesitation, she had abandoned him when it suited her convenience. To sit there in terrible helpless: ness and watch his life ebb away when he might have a chance to live was the most maddening experience that Curt hau eve~ undergone, At a creek mouth on the mainland shore a wisp of smoke stood up above the trees from the central camp. Canoes came and went freely across the water. Once, when one of them came dancing past six hun- dred yards away, Paul seized his rifle in a fury, screwed up the sight on the long-range Savage, sank the craft with his ricocheting bullets, and sent its three occupants swim- ming for the nearest island. After that the canoes kept a respectful distance. The noonday sun was a torture. It beat down on the focks and sand like the glare fion a turnace door. There was not a square inch of joined their confederates, Grabbing their automatics, Curt | and Paul tensed themselves for the | hand-to-hand fight. | “Keep down!” Curt snapped, as Paul rose up g see better. “Don't expose yoursell. We've got a chance to win this.” | The arrows dwindled and stopped. | shade on the island, not a breath of air stirring. Their only reliet was to immerse themselves repeatedly in the shallows and sprinkle water around the shelter where Ralph lay. (Copyright 1933 William B. Mowery) Curt decides, tomorrow, to relieve the situation by des- perate measures. — UNITED FOOD CoO. CASH GROCERS Phone 16 We Deliver Meats—Phoge 16 LUMBER Juneau Lumbér Mills, Inc. N FRONT of the tents Paul hunted | able. That was al] they could do for | heard signal calls drifting across | ~ YEARE AGO PFrom The Empire |2 i e & JANUARY 3, 1914 Miss Edith Kempthorne an< nounced to her music pupis that she would resume teaching on Jan- uary 5 and had vacancies for a limited number of additional pupils. | Dr. Aline B. Bradley, cily physi- i cian, for Fairbanks, had been ap- | pointed a member of the Alaska Board of Medical Examiners for the Fourth division to succeed Dr. 1. H. Moore, who had left the Territory. The services of the Alaska Coast Company were to be resumed on | the Alaska run with the sail of !the Admiral Sampson from Seattle | on January 15 under the command of the ever popular Capt. M. M. Jensen. The Admiral Sampson was to alternate with fhe Admiral Evans, according to the announce- ment. A Juneau business man stated that he was bitten by a black and | tan dog in front of the postoffice | in the morninz. Others had com- | plained about being snapped at by dogs allowed to run loose on the | street and dog owners were | that there was a city ordinance providing that they must look after heir dogs. ————— PROFESSIONAL | RO e I i L Helene W. L. Albreeht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massaze, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics, | 307 Goldstein Bullding Phone Office, 216 | Rose A. Andrews Graduate Nurse i Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas- | sage, Colonic Irrigations Office hours 11 am. to 5 pm. | Evenings by Appointment Second and Main Phone 259 T [ e £ E. B. WILSON Chiropodist—Foot Specialist 401 Goldstein Building | PHONE 496 | | SRR S DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 p.m. | | — ——a Dr. C. P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building ‘Telephone 176 - ATTENTION RAINBOW GIRLS ! Election of officers Thursday evening at 7:30. A full attend- ance is desired. Joint installation Rainbow-De Molay Saturday, Jan. 6, 7:30 pm. —adv. .- - Dr. J. W. Bayne R RN e DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | Of’ice nours, 8§ am. to 5 pm. “venings by appointment Phone 321 | > p— -8 Juneau Coffee Shop l }r | | 1 Opposite MacKinnon Apts. Breakfast, Luncheon Dinner | Open 7:30 am. to 9 pm. | HELEN MODER | e Deep . .. understanding of hu- man feelings enables us to impart dignity to that service which ) adds “Final” to life. | { We overlook no de- | tail. Funerals, com- plete in every respect. The Charles W. Carter Mortuary PHONE 136-2 “The Last Service Is the Greatest Tribute” —a Robert Simpson Opt. D. Jreduate Angeles Col- | lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground | | - — DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL ) Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Room 7, Valentine Bldg. Office Pnoae 484; Residence | Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 | to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 | - — i Richard Williams DENTIST 4 — — Dr. OF+'ICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building, Phone 481 ; R . DM RV Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hovss 9 am. to 6 p.m. ! SEWARD BUILDING | Office Phone 4C9, Res. | Phone 276 | 3 JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the BIG VALUES C. L. FENTON ' CHIROPRACTOR Soutn rront St, next to Brownie's Barber Shop Office Hours: 10-12; 2-8 Evenings by Appointment ] HI-LINE SYSTEM Groceries—Produce—Fresh and Smoked Meats Front Street, opposite Harris Hardware Co. CASH AND CARRY e 1 ER B. M. Behrends the institution. GUY McNAUGHTON, Cashier Holding Fast to Established Principles o Through all the business changes of forty-two years, the management of The Bank has remained the same, and has adhered unfailingly to the established principles of sound and con- servative banking practice. Now, as since 1891, the safety of de- positors’ funds is the first consideration here, and the good will of customers is regarded as the greatest of the assets of OFFICERS B. M. BEHRENDS, President GEORGE E. CLEVELAND, JAS. W. McNAUGHTON, Asst. Cashier The B. M. Behrends Bank JUNEAU, ALASKA Asst. Cashier B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 p. m. Visiting g brothers welcome. 1 L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. > KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUR Seghers Counctl No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attcnd. Council | Chambers, Ffth Strecd. ‘ JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. I J | | H. J. TURNER, Becretary i —a ur iru’ks go any place any | \ume. 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