The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1934, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empirgw ROBERT W. NERAL MANAGER Sunday by _the nd and Main BENDER - - | Published evening e P PRINT! COMPANY a C the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Entered in matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. | Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25| per month. postage pald, at the ,'in_advance, $12.00; one month, in advance Subscribers will confer a f: the Business Office of delivery of their pap hone for Editorial a following rates: six months, in a or if they will promptly \y failure or irregularity 1 Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. . Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the I ation 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 { | pay | out | critical of CWA. ilized to bring prosperity to all in greater abund- ance for each individual than the country has yet experienced. The money disbursed by the CWA reaches what we commonly know here as bedrock. Admittedly the cost is large. Taxes probably will be higher than ever, since somebody is going to the bill sometime. There is no other way And if, as must follow from the results so far attained, empioyment can be furnished to millions in that manner who otherwise would be | idle, the spread of the cost will be wide, and it can be met with greater ease than could be done with temporary palliatives, like a dole system, such as have been suggested by those who have been Both the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Public Works Administration have been demon- strated to be of unusual value. Funds in sufficient quantity should be furnished Mr. Roosevelt to continue both until such time as industry can be restored to a state which makes unnecessary such enormous projects by the Federal Government. Thursday night's Demotratic caucus to perfect| that party’s local organization and bring it up to! date, and to elect delegates to a soon-to-be-held Divisional Convention, serves to remind us that this is another political year. Five thousand cases of Japanese tuna have just arrived at a California port bearing Blue Eagle labels. Here, Gen. Johnson, is a most flagrant case | of chiseling. | {collapse in Detroit. | — UNITED STATES MARSHAL MAHONEY, While it did not require his own declarations | that the United States Marshal's Office of the First| Division will be conducted for the public good, since all who know him or of him were convinced of that | fact long ago, the remarks made by W. T. Mahoney, | who today became United States Marshal, to the| local Chamber of Commerce were timely and to the point. “I shall try to be a public servant and | not merely a political appointee,” he will succeed in his effort is a foregone clusion. His appointment is gratifying for a number of reasons. He is a bona fide Alaskan of more than a quarter of a century’s continued residence. He has held public office before, having been United States Commissioner during the second Wilson regime, and made a good one. He has succeeded as a business man in his home town, Ketchikan. He is possessed of good judgment, is well balanced, has a sense of humor and is a good judge of human nature. He is a good citizen in every sense of that term. He will make a splendid United States Marshal, and The Empire believes his administra- tion will not only be a credit to him but it will also add to the prestige of the National Ad- ministration. con- NATIONAL FOREST JOBS FEEDIN MARY MOUTHS. Jobs under the recovery program are going a long way in feeding hungry mouths on the George Washington, National Forest in Virginia and West Virginia, actording fo Supervisor JOHR W: McNair. In a letter to United States Forest Service head- quarters in Washington, Supervisor McNair states that the 89 men now at work on timber-stand improvement in the forest have, all told, 242 minor dependents. “One man has 16 children,” he writes. “One has 12, 3 have 11 each, 2 have 10, 1 has 9, 2 have 8, and 6 have 7 each. The average length of time these men have been out of work is slightly in excess of 14 months. Ten of these men are vet- erans of the World War.” In one section of another Eastern National Forest 5 men on the N.LR.A. work were reported to average 7.2 children each. Under the National Industrial Recovery Act $15,- 982,445 has been allotted to the Forest Service for National Forest improvement work, and $10,000,000 for forest development roads and trails. The weekly repert of the Forest Service shows approximately 14,000 men employed on these jobs throughout the National Forests. CONGRESS SHOULD ACT PROMPTLY. President Roosevelt has asked Congress for funds tc continue the CCC and CWA activities. That re- quest should be granted with the least possible delay. Such action unquestionably will meet with general approval throughout the United States. Of the 300,000 odd thousand individuals who first enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corps, in Alaska it is the Emergency Conservation Works, two-thirds asked to go forward in the second period. Reports indicate that they glory in their huski- ness, in the performance of duties varied and useful. They have learned that the wilderness ways are not of necessity uncomfortable and there are certain luxuries which many a city man might well envy. Foresters, like mountain men, breathe fresh air. Since the Forest Corps began its operations the lumber industries have passed under a code which promises to rehabilitate them. There is a chance that many a young man who has been learning the technique of forestry will find a place in the lumbering industry. Woodworking industries thrive only while timber holds out, and the number of Ste s which can supply their own lumber is dimin- ishing rapidly. We have, according to Mr. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, something like 84,000,000 acres of devastated forest land. Coupled with the Govern- ment'’s homestead policy, a rational conservation scheme can restore these tracts and supply homes for men trained under the CCC. These are reascns why the Conservation Corps seems to have a future which is not merely an extension of doles. No more is the CWA an exten- sion of the dole system. The criticism which first greeted this plan it was originally initiated has largely subsided. The critics are either retracting their hasty words or have hushed to silence before the avalanche of proof of the substantial benefits that have accrued to both the public and the individuals who are working at living wages on Civil Works projects. The principle involved—that it is the proper procedure to make it possible for every adult to earn his food, clothing and shelter—upon which the Administration sanctioned the CWA operations is generally accepted as a sound and proper public policy. That is what the CWA is intended to do, and is successfully doing in most places. The wealth of the Nation and its resources are being mob- he declared. That |- Imated he will introduce is one to create represen- A Senate investigating committee has found out that Henry Ford lost $50,000,000 in the banking And it didn't even dent Henry's | bankroll, we bet. Dimond on Job. (Anchorage Times.) Alaska’s Delegate, Anthony J. Dimond, is losing | no time in the present session of Congress. The | first day saw him introduce nine bills, all touching Alaska matters. From advices received recently, he will have a number of others to offer before the ssion ends. ! Among the measures the Delegate recently inti- tation for Alaska in the Senate. Delegate Dimond explains that there is so much to handle at Wash- ington on behalf of the Territory that he is swamp- ed with the business, and he needs help. If he had a co-worker in the Senate, Alaska would have another official advocate in Congress and one to guard zealously her interests in the upper House. The Territory has-a number of able friends among | the present Senate memberships, but a member fully delegated to work on her behalf doubtless| would be able to devote a greater measure of time | to Alaska affairg and secure added benefits. The time will come some day when the members ! from Alaska not only will have the privilege of | speaking but also will have a vote in Congress, | and the more able representatives the Territory | now has in Washington the sooner will Statehood | be realized for this vast northern domain. One significant measure introduced this week by{ Delegate Dimond is that authorizing the Secretaries] of War, Agriculture, Interior and Commerce to re- | ceive funds and co-operate in works within the Territory. This should lead to a more highly ‘co- ordinated Federal service in the Territory, and give | Alaska increased benefits at lower costs. | It is up to Alaskans to co-operate with the | Delegate and the Federal as well as Territorial | officials in all matters, and particularly just at | this time in the efforts being put forth at Wash- ington by her Delegate. Advices from the capitol indicate a short but important session. Alaskans should not be slow in presenting any representatins they have to make. Her hard working and capable Delegate is not only | on the job but anxious to hear from his constituents | and do what he can in their behalf. The Terri- | tory is fortunate in having a ma'. of his ability and tireless devotion $n Congress. Our Own Code. (Seward Gateway.) What better example of whole-hearted adher- | ence to the NRA and opportunity for swinging back into the glorious days of Alaska’s golden birth | than for everyone who can afford it to select a worthy man and by giving him employment during the winter help him to gain a grubstake for pros- | pecting and sniping next spring? sl Surely the spirit of '98 is not entirely dead! | And surely Alaskans are not willing to sit idly | by and see outsiders gradually acquire the golden wealth of the Territory as they are doing by the purchase of worthy prospects. It is a time-honored maxim that he who has someting to sell when there is a spirited demand for that particular thing is the one who wins. Every man who can spare the time and money | to stake a piece of known placer or quartz carrying gold should do so, for the mining boom is gradually developing. Every successful man knows someone in whom he places confidence. It will not require much to place him in a position where he can share in the harvest now ripening. Nothing would go farther to further attract attention to Alaska’s golden treasure than the word sent abroad that Alaskans themselves were leading the procession. Should Extend Repeal to Alaska. (Seattle Times.) Delegate Dimond, representing Alaska in Con- gress, has lost no time in moving for repeal of Territorial Prohiibition. Some Federal courts in “the States” already have held that repeal of the Eigh- teenth Amendment automatically wiped out all drys laws enacted thereunder by Congress. That should include the Alaska dry law; but if there’s any doubt about it, the right recently reasserted by the whole people of the United States should be speedily extended to Alaska. Be nice, too, if another deer would get itself trapped on a ledge now so that the public could get its mind off the money situation and Congress and so on.—(Macon Telegraph.) There is nothing particularly surprising in the idea that four-year-old whiskey can be made in 17 days. Prohibition has taught the lads a lot of tricks.—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) Jesse Livermore is not the only market speculator who has woke up with a headache and blurred memory.—(Charleston, W. Va., Mail.) No difference how much you may be expecting it, sitting down on an icy pavement always comes as a shock.—(Ohio State Journal) Americanism—Legalizing liquor to kill the speak- easy; taxing it so heavily that the “speak” can continue to prosper by underselling.—¢Akron Beacon Journal.) | quito’s song. s O SYNOPSIS: Somya Kolkov has tracked lgor Karakhaw to Iis Caundian wilderness hiding plece to avenge the deaths of her father and Urother, whom Karakhan has petrayed to the 8 ¢ Jehan, by a ruse, suce Souya to a bunk in his cabin. and telly her he is ieaving her to the meroy of the Indians. Her only hope is Curt Tennyson, and Curt is delayed because his partner. Smash Desplrines, has failed to mect kim with Curt’s plane, Chapter 44 DELIVERING ANGEL NTIL he reached oll John's lake up the [skifimwah, the prospect of getting into his plane and whirl ing north had buoyed Curt up and kept him going long after he had yone dead on his feet. But he had reached the limit of human endur- ance, and the shoek of finding him- self hopelessly stranded through Smash’s truancy, pushed him over the limit. Stumbling under a pine tree, he slumped down, almost in a collapse, and dropped into the merci tul oblivion of sleep. Tenn-Og began looking around the cabin, reading signs—a crushed | nettle, footprints, a broken twig with wilted leaves. He announced presently that Smash had not been there yesterday or the day before that. He had left three days ago. To sit ground and watch the sky for a plane that did not come was more than Paul could bear. Wisely 1e kept himself busy. While Tenn | Og went down the shore to a small stream where ptarmigan were chort ing among the cloudberry thickets he drew out the canoe and gummed t. freshened up the musty cabin and chopped a dead jackpine into fire wood. When Tenn-Og came back with three ptarmigan, he cleaned and dressed the birds, cooked them. and prepared a meal. Near seven o'clock Curt woke up Paul had supper ready, but Curi could not force himself to eat. The thought of Sonya drawing nearer and nearer that headwaters lake sent him tramping the landwash again in distraction. 3 Paul and Tenn-Og made a two pronged javelin, hardened the points in the fire: and went down to a rock jut to epear trout. As Curt turned ouce, he saw they had stopped fish ing and were listening inteatly, look ing around the horizon. A few moments later he caught | a faraway hum, faint as a mos from nowhere in particular; but it rapidly grew louder, deeper, and changed to a throaty drone. He lo cated its direction, due south, and whirled to look. Out above a lofty range hove a glistening speck, shining in the slant evening sun. Curt stood rooted in hia tracks, afraid that the growing speck was a delusion and might vanish. But it came on and on, tiil at last he distinguished the liues of his plane. For him that glistening plane had all the splendor of a delivering an gel. From its height of ten thousand feet it glided down and down banked over the lake, leveled off, touched and came taxying shore- ward. The three leaped into their canoe and darted out to meet jt. As they swung around the pro peller and clambered upon a pon- toon, Smash opened a panel and flipped his cigarette into the water “Hullo! Didn’t keep you waiting, did I, Curt? Darned sorry; but say. you ought to see the dance pavilion and the whole layout down there at Lake Maria—uh—Why, what's the matter, Curt?” . Curt glared at him tight-lipped, sent the canoe spinning with a kick. slammed open the door and climbed into the cabin. “P1l take the controls. Get back | in the rear place; I want Tenn-Og up front with me.” E LIFTED the tank flaps and glanced at the gauges. One third full! For a moment he was tempted to throw Smash off on that wilderness shore and let him get out to Russian Lake afoot, if he could. It was like Smash, with his mind on Lake Marianne, to come off with barely enough gas to return to Tellacet. There was plenty to reach the Lil- luar headwaters, but none to bring the ship back south. When they reached the lake they would have no gas to maneuver with or get out to civilization. Taking off, he circled to five thou- sand feet and started west, down the Iskitimwah. Fifteen minutes later, as he sailed out over the river- widening and the island of black lilies, he saw Tenn-Og look down at the country below and blink aston- ished eyes. Fifteen minutes—and that same trip had taken six hard canoe-hours that morning! Intending to approach his goal from the west in order to keep from flying over the main band of Kloso- It seemed to come | RBIDDEN VALLEY by William Bynon Mowery ‘hees. he headed on westward for sixty miles, then swung north aud started up across the ranges, gradu- ally picking up altitude till needle quivered on fifteen thousand. Tenn-Og kept looking out of the panel windows on each side, trying desperately to guide the fight. In the deep valleys under keel twilight was already gathering: the visibil- ity was made still poorer by & pearly-gray haze that came drifting down from some forest fire in the Yukon country. But his job was to guide them, and he came through with it. Asa moun- tain nomad he was somewhat used to heights, and by recoguizing a fa- miliar ranze or lake system now and then, he was able to keep his bearings. At last e touched Curt’s arm and pointed twenty-odd miles east at two lordly cloud-wrapped mountains. “Sunali and Dinaggwah,” he said; and he indicated that on the other side of them lay the headwaters lake. Curt studied the giant twins care- | fully, He had to get down on that | lake unheard and unseen, for at the | slightest hint of a plane in that country Karakhan would escape in his own ship, and they had no gas to follow. If the plane could climb high enough, be could cut off the engine and glide those twenty-five miles to the lake and so get there unheard. But to reach it without being seen was a harder problem, calling for all the fiying skill he had. There was a flock of clouds swirling around the two giants and filling the pass between them. If he could keep be- hind some big cloud on his approach and fly through the pass by instru ments, he'woull come out on the shadow side of Sunali. It would be twilight there and the plane would hardly be visible a mile away. E PUT the plane into a steep cireling climb. At eighteen thousand feet he geared in the su percharge to aid the laboring motor The thermometer on the wing strut showed sixteen below, and at nine- teen thousand feet it dropped twenty-one. He noticed his compan- | ions nodding drowsily, and he kept a sharp watch over his own senses. In the thin air he managed to get another thousand out of his plane | Twenty thousand feet high, he looked through a rift of cloud be tween the two mountains and canght a glimpse of the dark lake valley beyond. Cutting off the engine, he pointed the ship at the great cleft, and began the long silent glide. Heading on and on toward the the clouds that hovered around the glants. For a space of five minutes he slipped silently through fleecy wopipack, where the sky above and carth below were blotted out and only his instruments kept him pointed true. When he came out of the wool- pack, he was through the pass and down in the purple shadows of Sunali. Dropping on down, with the dark waters slowly coming up to meet him, he veered in toward the south shore, under Tenn-Og’s guidance. Three miles from Karakhan's cabin, he leveled off, plowed water, and came to a stop. He was there, all right; he had made it without be- ing seen or heard; but with less than six gallons of gas left, he would never get out of that mountain- cradled lake. No escape, bo retreat —it was a locked fight now. A light breeze blowing offshore began drifting the plane out into the .lake. Paul reached the two stubby paddles from the canvas canoe out- fit, and the four men clambered down on the floats. By strenuous work they managed to check the drift and start the plane in to- ward land. < A mile from the cabin Tenn-Og showed them a small cove, screened by several big pines, where the plane would be fairly well hidden. They warped it inside, moored ft, got'out their guns. “You're to stay here and watch the ship,” Curt ordered Smash. He hated to cut down his party, but Smash was too careless for the work ahead. Instead of a help he would be a constant danger. “Now keep yourself under cover; these Kloso- hees have sharp eyes and long ears. We'll scout the place out down there before we spring the fight, and I'll let you know what we're doing.” | “Okay. Don’t worry about me.” | A little distance down the shore | Curt happened to turn and glance back at the cove. A match was flar- ing up—Smash lighting a cigarette. the black pine shadows the point fire could have been spotted half a mile away. (Copyright, William B. Mowery) Curt’s party spies out the enemv. tomorrow. the | e e P 20 YEARS AGO 4 | Prom The Empire i - At a meeting of the Juneau Com- mercial Club, the first to be held in the new city hall, members in-, dorsed Seattle’s claim to one of the regional reserve banks that were to be established in conform- ity to the new currency law. Re-; marks were made by D. A. Ep- steyn, H. J. Fisher, E. P. Pond, President John Reck and others. Negotiations were under way for the sale of the Juneau Drug Com- pany’s store on Front street to Store and O. F. Hill, who formerly conducted a drug business in Se- attle. J. Connors, of Nome, was regis- tered at the Alaskan Hotel J. W. Dudley, former registrar of the Juneau Land Office, ex- pected to leave for Seattle on the Jefferson to attend the Munday trial. Harry F. Morton and wife, of Perseverance, came to town the previous night and were guests at the Hotel Cain. Harvey Fremming, electrician with the Alaska Electric Light and | Power Company, had moved his | headquarters to the Douglas side | of the Channel. Charles Staggers and William Jorgensen, well known professional | divers, were joined by Walter Mc- Cray, another professional diver, of | Tacoma, and the entire party were aboard the Mariposa on their way to the scene of the wrecked Olym- | everything of value. Daily Empire Tvant Ads Pay. GARDEN PATCH FRESH FRUIT and VEGETABLES “Where Producer and Consumer Meet” Free Delivery PHONE 243 2 doors north of First National Bank - to | snowy pass, he plunged at last into | THRILL! Nothing like the thrill of a ten-strike! 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CASH AND CARRY AL Holding Fast to Established Principles ® Through all the business changes of —— Start the New Year With Our Special Shampoo and Finger Wave (For a short time only—$1) Telephone 221 for Appointment PETER PAN BEAUTY Second Floor SHOPPE Triangle Bldg. forty-two years, the management of The B. M. Behrends 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 customerss is regarded as the greatest of the assets of the institution. » OFFICERS B. M. BEHRENDS, President GUY McNAUGHTON, GEORGE E.CLEVELAND, Cashier Asst. Cashier JAS. W. McNAUGHTON, Asst. Cashier " The B. M. Behrends i Fraternal Societies oF Gastineau Channel = ee—— B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 p. m Visiting fl) brothers 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. Councll Chambers, Fifth Streed, JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary Our iru’ks go sny place a_ny—. time. A tank for Diesel Gl | and a tank for crude oll save ' burner trouble. PHONE 149, NIGHT 8 RELIABLE TRANSYER [ R T 2T Wise to Call 48 Juneau Transfer Co. when in need of MOVING TORAGE Fuel Oil Cozl Transfer Konnerup’s MARE for LESS JUNEAU-YOUNG Funeral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors and Emtalmers Night Phone 1851 Day Phone12 | " vtk ——a THE JuNEau LAunDRY Frankiin Street betweem Front an?2 Secomd Sireets JUNEAU FROCK SHOPPE ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. ARBAGE HAULED Reasonable Monthly Rates E. 0. DAVIS TELEPHONE 584 Day Phone 371 McCAUL MOTOR COMPANY | Dodge and Plymouth Dealers o $5.00 per month J. B. Burford & Co. “Our doorstep worn by satisfied customers” *