The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1934, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Published _every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main , Juneau, Alaska. wtered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. id, at the following rates: $12.00; six months, In advance, | By mall, postage e, §1.25. favor it they will promptly b failure or irregularity e deliver apers. b lephone and Business Offices, 37 ditos MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. wciated Press 18 exclusively entitled to th 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 | FHAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. WHAT'S IN A A recently issued report of the United States Geographic Board calls to mind the little known but portant activity which is the func- tion of this Federal agency. The Board, which is composed of members of the various map-making organizations of the Federal Government, has been | serving since its formation in 1890 as National | of disputes as to the correct names of names of towns, rivers, geographic features. are followed by all map makers and interesting and arbiter in case or the proper spelling mountains, islands and other The Board’s official decisions Federal, State and commercial usually by most writers and the public. Many per- sons remember the great verbal battle of Mount Rainier-Mount Tacoma which raged about 20 years and which the Geographic Board settled in or of “Mount Rainier.” The report mentioned above, which is called the Sixth Report of the U. S. Geographic Bmlrd‘} contains the 25000 decisions made by the Board | from 1890 to date. It has also a very interesting| explanation of the rules which it follows in making its decisions. Clearly the board does not adopt names casually and one gains the impression that many of the decisions entail an exhaustive study of early reports on the discovery, exploration and history of the locality, often in a number of lan- guages, in order to favor the name with a good local background. This is borne out by looking over many of the Alaska names with which the book | abounds. Many an Alaskan island, inlet, river and mountain first had an Indian or skimo name, over this was superimposed Spapish, English, French | and Russian names as the explorers followed each other and to this -formidable list American gold- seekers, whalers and fishermen added another. To| add to the confusion many early map makers, his- torians and novelists were guilty of misspelling these | names. An example of an Alaskan name which has | been simplified through decision by the Board acting | in accordance with its rules of translating the | Russian language into English is “Chichagof.” It supersedes the involved “Tchitchagoff” of the Alaska maps during the Russian occupation. The necessity for making a choice between names given a certain object at different times or by different individuals is illustrated by the name of our nearby glacier. The board decided that the name should be Taku and not Kluma-Gutta or Foster. Perhaps the greatest confusion over duplication in Alaska names for the same geographic feature is the case of the Yukon River. Not only had‘ various sections of the river different names in the early days but successive explorers spelled “Yukon” in various ways. We find that the Geographic Board ended the tangle by officially adopting the word the spelling “Yukon" and discarding “‘Youcon,” “Jukchana” and “Kwichpac.” The word “Alaska” is a simplication of a number earlier involved forms of spelling the word. As the Board states in the opening chapter of its report “Geographic names constitute a revealing record of human migration and settlement and! afford insight into the history, the language, the economic and structure and the religious} faith of a people Alaska names are rich with| the romance of the Territor; early exploration and of social ment and this report can profitably be studied |¥ those who wish to see appropriate, euphonious names used on our maps and charts, and especially names based on our interesting histor) » The Geological Survey, Coast and Geodetic Sur-| vey and Forest Service are the three largest map-| making organizations in Alaska and thus present| the great majority of the dispufed Alaska names to the Board for decision. However, other agencies such as the Territory, cities, public organizations | and private citizens likewise make use of the Board | to clarify conflicting local names or local methods of spelling The bureau officials of which the Geographic Board is composed serve on the board without extra compensation. They are to be congratulated on the work they are doing and the comprehensive report they have just issued } WAS KING OF THE PEOPLE. King Albert I, of the Belgians, who met death last Saturday afternoon in a mountain climbing accident, was with the people and for the people of his native land During the World War King Albert many times endured the hardships of the soldiers in the field and in several battles faced the same dangers to which they were exposed. On three occasions he narrowly escaped death by shellfire when flying over the enemy trenches. At another time a Ger- man shell tore off one of the wheels of the auto- mobile in which he was riding. Early in 1915, chauffeur attempted to drive the King into the n lines and was shot dead for his treachery. chauffeur wes said to have been offered a bribe $200,000. After the armistice, King Alvert devoted all ; energies toward resuscitating his war-torn land |homelands, the transport Buford backed out from | jour THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, FEB. 19, S Y TN O i o T T A YV 934. concern, the betterment of the conditions of his people. He immediately set up a new government to begin the period of reconstruction and mr'I\IdFd; in it representatives of the three principal political | parties of the country. He appealed to all parties| to cooperate for the general benefit of the country, | emphasizing his interest in all the people as he did | in his first speech from the throne when he .xm(lf “Our prosperity depends upon the prosperity m; the masse 3 The King frequently visited the devastated areas | and made contributions of considegable sums (U: the King Albert Fund, which was devoted to the| temporary shelter of sufferers of the war. With the | reconstruction work under way at home, the King, | with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Leopold,, undertook journeys to the United States, England, France,| Spain, Brazil and other countries with the object| of studying trade conditions and finding new outl | for Belgian commerce. They were received with| cordiality everywhere. | During the tour of the royal party in Ll\:>= country, Americans raised a fund of $50,000 in' King Albert’s honor toward the restoration Louvain University, which had been one of the objects of enemy bombardment during the war. Sev- eral American universities conferred upon the King the honorary degree of doctor of laws. He visited among other places the tombs of Washington and Lincoln and the grave of Colonel Théodore Roosevelt King Albert conceived the idea of working for a | more general prosperity for his people while he was| Crown Prince. That he might know their wants and, needs” from a first-hand study of their prob- | lems, he worked in the mines, drove railway engines | and performed other manual labor that brought him in contact with the working class., Later as a mem- | ber of the Belgian Senate the burden of his speeches | generally was the betterment of the common people. When he became their ruler he promised a reign One of his first steps was to blot out in the Begian Congo, which for years had shamed Belgium in the eyes of the civilized world. He knew how to correct the evils, having visited the dependency to make a personal of | of progress. human slavery Early in his reign he was responsible for several social economic and legal reforms. By his liberal | acts, King Albert attracted the Socialists who, dur- ing the latter years of the reign of Leopold II, had been growing stronger. During the war among | the men he summoned for consultation was Van- dervelde, the Socialist leader. Another was Ver- haeren, the poet, whom the King asked to go on the firing line and preach patriotism to the soldiers. | Pomp and circumstance were tolerated by King Albert only so far as events made them necessary. He made the procedure and expression in his court as simple as possible. Among his people he was | friendly and modest almost to the point of fulness. When he and the Queen visited England, which they did frequently, they stopped at a hotel and mingled freely with shoppers and theatre-goers. Known as a beloyed ruler, a brave soldier, a keen | diplomat and prince of mechanics, King Albert was | as proud of the last title as he was of the rest.| During his student days he showed marked taste | for engineering and mechanics. Naval and aerial | construction especially attracted him and even after ascending to the throne he went to England to make a special study of naval construction | He gained the distinction during his service | of being the first crowned head to risk riding in | an airplane. After the war he became so interested | in aviation that he did most of his traveling by | air despite the pleas of his Ministers. | | bash- From the Business Report of the American Fed—; eration of Labi “If deflation had run its course, half of our population might be starving tods battle unless it believed No community ever over- in its No army ever won it could lick the enemy. came its obstacles, unless it had confidence ability to triumph over them. a | i Emma Comes Back. (Portland Oregonian.) With 248 aliens aboard, being deported to their a New York pier on December 21, 1919. A stocky, defiant woman by the name of Emma Goldman leaned over the railing of the ship and shouted to the crowd on the pier: We expect to be called back to Soviet America! Mrs. Goldman came back to America the other day. It wasn't to “Soviet America” that she came, and she wasn’'t “called back.” She just came. She! sort of wanted to come. Mrs. Goldman spent only a few months in Rus- sia—the homeland to which she was deported with | so much fanfare. The Soviet officials gave an | official welcome to the notorious “philosophical anarchist,” but in a few months, in company with her faithful Berkman, she had fled to the Ukraine, nd after she managed to get out of Russia by of Riga, she never again got close to the border. She went around Europe declaring that the Soviet'’s crushing of liberty was much more severe than the crushing of the Czar. Finally she claimed English citizenship, through a new marriage. She listed the free countries of the world in the fol- lowing order: Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Eng- land. o The United States and Russia she put at the bottom, but Russia the worst. Yet all these fifteen years of wandering she has been watching America with overpowering nostalgia, and requesting permis- sion to re-enter. It is a terrible country, but she likes it. And now the ban against her has been lifted, at least for the time being, and Mrs. Gold- man chose to enter at Niagara Falls. It sounds almost—well, almost like a sort of second honey- moon Judging from some of the libelous labeling of legal liquor we've gone from contraband to contrabond.—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) At the first sound of the mob, woe to the Cuban President who does not choose to run!— (Buffalo Courier-Exyress.) These are the days when the fan dancers are |being starred and feathered.—(Ohio State Journal.) “To Give Dinner to Leading Republicans,” runs an Ohio headline. Well! Relief measures are |beginning to reach all classes, aren't they?—(Boston {Herald.) The war against the depression may be tough, but at least there is not very much poison gas around and no heavy artillery or bullets.—(Boston Globe.) Admiral Byrd reports that Little America is “all there.” Let us hope that big America will soon be sending out the same news.—(New York to the work that had always been his chief ‘Times,) SYNOPSIS: Frank Grahame, Janice Kent, the movie star, and Greene, her press agent, all are condemned by their captors, the cruel sublevados of the Yucatam jungle, to death mext day, In the middle_of the might, Grahame {s awakened by an object thrown into the cell he and Greene occupy. There i3 a message—from Juan, the Mezican boy he had supposedly sent vack fo the coast the day ve- ore. Chapter 33 ESCAPE PLAN RANK scanned the message quickly, a new hope rising tumul- tuously in his breast. He awakened his companion. In a low voice he read the note aloud, translating roughly in to English, “Get this Greene: ‘Very estimable sir, and my friend: the talk within the city is that you and another man and a lady are to be sacrificed to Yum-( at the pyramid top to- morrow in the morning. It is with little hope I write you, but I have secured the extra pistol and some cartridges from our packs which were in the ahkin's dwelling place. ‘I did not gc to the coast, for which please excuse me. I followed you to the small ruin where you c | slept. I watched you go into the city and return with the other man and the beautiful lady.’ “I heard the young rascal, Thought it was a lizard.” There was a tight- ness in his throa. as he chuckled at Juan's naive compliment to Janice's investigation shortly before he ascended the throne.| , e says also, ‘I saw these suble- |, vados capturé you. Excuse me for being of no help. I hoped to come into the city and make effective your release later. This I cannot do as your prison is very well guarded. “‘There is an aeroplane in the central plaza. There are boxes of gasoline mnearby. This knowledge may e of use to you. After you read this, throw the stone out to me and I will tie to it two pistols. Juan Piedra.’” “Who's Juan Piedra?” Greene. Frank's voice was soft. “A very courageous and loyal young man. A Mexican lad who came with me frow the coast.” There was a moisture in Frank's eyes as he tossed the stone through the window opening. “It's a chance in a thousand,” he commented as he drew the cord, heavy with the pistols through the bars. “Thank God for Juan . .. the young idiot. Perbaps, tomorrow, wé may make & break, and shoot our way to the ship. “If we could do that, and stand them off long enough to gas the bus and warm the engine, we might get away. Langton's message on the wall said his landing was okay, so the crate’s in good shape anyway. What luck that there’s gas. They probably brought it frcm Merida. Wonder if it's high test?” Greene asked, “Was this Juan the ace you had rp your sleeve when you threatened Ortega that you'd get him if he didn't get Janice out of this?” Frank shook lLis head. “Sorry if 1 raised your hopes on that one. I was blufing. I just had some idea that I might seal a message and send it out like Billy Langton did. But as soon as I said it I knew it would be practically impossible. Even if I got asked | hold of a bottle and could seal it, | chances would all be against any ones’ finding it as they did Billy He talked swiftly, formulatin plan after plan, discarding some too hopelessly impractical, accept- ing others as secondary ones, in case the break for the airplane was im- possible. “QPEST talk it all over,” he said, “so | we can act upon whatever seems best at the time. At the ve) worst we die. Get that guy Orteg; Greene, if it’s the last thing you dc “Don’t worry,” replied Greene. “rd like to interfere with that ahkin bimbo too.” “Here . . . see if you can lift me up to the window.” Hope gave him strength that had not been his when he attempted to climb that after- noon. Clinging to the bars with his sound arm, he called softly. | “Senor!” Juan's voice came from | |under the window. !, “Is the airplane guarded?” “No, senor.’ “Do you think you could go there and pour one or two cases into the | tank? You will find the tank-cap in | the hood just back of the engine. Put two or three more cases in the cock- pit as far back as you can.” “I will try, senor.” bt “Good boy, Juan. Don’t get caught. It is not that important. Come back here when you are finished and throw two stones through the win- dow. If 1 throw them back, then I will want to talk with you again. If I do not, then go away from here and don't come back. Make the coast if you can and tell the authorities what you know.” “Bueno, senor. Good.” g ed two hours, fretting ence. Just as Grahame had decided that something had happened to the boy, a stone tinkled gainst a bar in the window and fell into the cell. A moment later another bounced on the floor and rolled across it. “The kid did it!” exulted Gra- hame. “Have we anything to say to! before he goes?” Greene pondered. Grahame stood with the two stones in his hand, ready to return them to Juan through the window. Greene opened his mouth to speak when from with- out came the sound of a scuffle, and a sharp cry. y nor!” The word floated like a wail of hopelessness through the barred window. Grahame'’s face be- came a mask of distress. “They've got him!" Grene cried out hoarsely. t me up!” His tone was bit- 1ere throbbed in his breast a chedness that Juan had rief through his last effort behalf. As his face rose above the sill he d a thud, the rattle of metallic ments and the sound of a athing deeply. “Juan,” he called, caring not how loud his cry sounded in the night. “Silencio’” A new, harsher voice spoke from below. “The Bat will have another heart to feed upon to morrow!"” ' Juan did not answer. Grahame slid back to the floor. Despondency came him—a blanket of anguish the laughing, joking » Catholic concern humorously come to on thei he Ju ongratulated Grahame that he was | t of the Faith, since then it woulc | t matter were Frank to die un iven, was captive. Juan the loyal, would be a sacri Cama-zotz, the “HE sound of many feet padding and the clanking ahame. His ] in the corridor, of metal, awoke Gr der hurt him, bandaging with a glow of satisfgc Flog—for conceal 3¢ vithin the rougk stathing, that once had beer Greene's undershirt, was the thick IuMp of his automatic. His companion had tied it there be fore they had stretched themselves on their benches to spend in res what remained of the night. It was accessible to his left hand, an¢ could be gotten at with little trou | ble. Greene had hidden the other ir his waistband under the shirt. Wher his coat was buttoned, Grahame be | lieved that it would not be datected Sooner or later they could expect tc have their clothes torn from them but that again, depended upon what use they made of their guns. A few minutes later Grahame hac | his first sight of Janice since the fight of the previous day. The corri dor was packed with guards, and her white helmet showed above the heads of the natives. ‘They were small men, these jun- gle people. Grahum~ cyed them sci entifically, as a boxer studies his | prospective opponent., They were pushed toward Janice; evidently the party was to be reunited for the final scene. Grahame stared at the girl anx- iously. It would be horrible it she had been mistreated, but as her glance met his his tensed muscles relaxed with relief. Her face was pale, but composed. About the eyes were traces of fa- tigue, but the eyes themselves seemed to glow with calm courage. The American permitted himselt a wayward thought of admiration } and of compliment, as he faced her. It was unbelievable, but typically feminine, that'she could be so cooly self-possessed. Her skin was clean and, fresh as it she had recently bathed; the col- lar that flared away from her throat over the lapels of her trim khaki coat was spotlessly white. Even the boots that laced her calves, gleamed dully as if polished. She appeared as though she were about to step out into the sun for a morning’s canter. (Copyright, 1934, by Herbery Jensen) Tomorrow, Juan e with Ortega. THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS The Gastineau Our Services to You Begin and End at the Gang Plank of Every Pasgenger-Carrying Boat ALASKA Al R EXPR ESS FOR CHARTER Lockheed 6-Passenger Seaplane TELEPHONE 22 J. V. HICKEY lad | Bat, to Yum | shou! | but he felt at the | B 20 YEARS AGO Prom The Empire ! 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The home | office was named as New York and the capital stock placed at $2,000,- 000. id- Linemen were busily at work stringing lights along Ferry Way, | (Hooligan Alley) from the ferry float to Lower Front Street. When [the juice was turned on people | were expecting it to be as light as g Broadway. Pr'(r:ica‘lly everyone in Juneau |and many from across the Channel were planning to attend the mas- | querade ball to be given in the Elks Hall in' the evening by the { Juneau Athletic Club. Excellent music was engaged and no detail left uncared for to make it an out- standing success. Late ferries had been arranged for to take people liv in Douglas, Treadwell and ep Creek home after the dance. - The State Agricultural college of | Fiorida receives a monthly average |of 8000 Ietters from farmers re- ‘qucsung advice. 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