The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1934, Page 4

i sy Empire ERAL MANAGER Daily Alaska by the Mair nday id ar xcept NG COMPANY at u, Alaska Secc + the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 2‘ Dailvered by carrler In Juneau and Douglas for 81. per_month. 1 t the following ratea: six months, in advance, tage paid, 1 GBis 26,00 1 advance, $1.26 : Su’ S snfer a favor if they will promptly notity the Business Office of any failure or irregulacity he delivery of their papers 2 o 'l," € one for Editorial nd Business Offices, 374. a MEMEER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. Press is exclusively entitled to th tion of all news dispatches credited tc use for republic #t or not « ise credited in this paper and also the tocal hed b \ews publ RANTEED TO BE LARGER OTHER PUBLICATION ALASKA CIRCUL THAN THAT ALASKA LOSES ABLE OFFICIAL. While all Alaskans are pleased tt the merit of B. F. Heintzleman has been officia recognized by his promotion to a higher, and more responsible position in the Forest Service, the regret that his ne work will take him away from Alaska is general In the fifteen years or more that he has been here he hes demonstrated that he is one of the very bes yublic officials that was ever associated with the governmnt of this Territory Of the . hest character, intelligence, compet- . he has impressed his personality ence and rg i libly upon Alaska. The usefulness of his service the Territory is of high order. He has accom- d great good which will retain its importance even though he may be far awa The hope that he may return again to the Territory in an official or otherwise, is sincere and widespread. leave Alaska with the assurance that with him the love and esteem of the paining behind. That he will make good work there is no doubt. Making good cel of Mr. Heinlzleman. He has throughout his still brief, but very active career. He is an expert in his profession, to which he has been devoted and faithful, but equal with faithfulness to his profession has been 5 desire to be useful to the public. He is a good and a fine and izen. capacity He will takes re he peor in his new is a part and ps always made good and able man HALIBUT SEASON IS HERE. t season opens tomorrow and already the jority of the fishing vessels are on r way to the banks. Good luck to these hardy fishers and may they return witk od catches and sell at good prices. The men who go down to the sea in these halibut fishing crafl know that time is money and fish They must be on the banks when the season ns. Last the catch ran more than twenty-one ‘million pounds of halibut and about one million five hundred the nd pounds of cod. Some may shake their heads and mourn that the fun's out of fishing with commissions and codes and such. But all figure that when the catch is in, the price is paid and the profits split share by they’ll make enough in the six months to perhaps tuck them snugly away. Here is good luck. gone i share SENATOR NORRIS AT IT AGA W. Nor Senator George batting average in ; rewriting the Constitution has taken another poten-| tial spurt with the approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee of a revised draft of his amendment to provide direct election of President and Vice-Presi- dent, to enable poor but able men to get on the kallot, as he says. The proposal is now going on the calendar to await its turn on the floor but the veteran Re- pablican independent from Nebraska says he will push it just as he did his amendment abolishing the “lame duck” sessions of Congress. A number of teeth were taken out of the CHINESE FETE DAWN February 14 is Valentine’s day on the Ameri. ~ Francisco’s Chinatown when dragons are brought (Associated Press 2 an calendar but to the older generations of American . Chinese this year it is the first day of the New Year. Above are shown the two typical scenes of San ture costumed men are conducting the Ceremony of the Lion. Custom prescribes th 4 must be paid by sunset on the last day of the old year and the New Year gr Photos) amendment by the committee, but Norris belie it 'stil is a big step toward outright popular election. As originally drawn it would have divi the lectoral, or “Presidential,” vote, as the amendment erms it, in each State in proportion to the lar vote received by each candidate, but the committe changed this to give the State's entire electoral | vote to the candidate receiving a plurality of the| direct vote. “In effect,” the committee report s is 10 change from pre it THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 28, 1934. | | | ‘A New Serial SYNOPSIS: By 'a curious fate, Frank Grahame, the explorer; Janice Kent, movie star; Billy Langton, missing aviator. and the high. priest of a savage tribe in Yucatan which has tried to kill Grahame and Janice, all are caught in a Mezican valley from which they can mot escape. The diet was augmented by fruits from does away with the Presidential Elector: | badly wounded a’hkm mm;nn(n7 a oe nade v p » the| contemptuous calm, but the other Under a change made by the committee, the| TRECEEOCe Cltns of surviving :andidate receiving the highest number of such} the rainy season, which will, they ar . fear, fill their valley with water, votes, if that number constituted 35 per cent or| % nore of the total, would be President. The electior chapley it hen, could only be thrown into' the House if two st more candidates had an equal and highest| NEW PROBLEMS yumber of votes, or no one received 35 per cent UT Langton had developed a cun- )f the total ning in"the hunt. With a long In such event the House would choose from not fiber rope, his club and his stone more than the highest three on the list and the| he brought them quantities of Senate uld na the Vice-President, undes | o ch Frank (115;7cted and milar circumsatnces from the two highest | butidn theisuntoqctyyERuil s e | 1 FAREL Tickets are being sold by the students of the| Juneau Public Schools for the Athletic Carnival next | Friday night at which time funds are to be raised ‘(u: sending both the boys’ and girls’ basketball teams of the high school to play in other South- ka towns Ketchikan and Wrangell or | Petersburg, will meet the Gastineau Channel cham- | |pions in these games. Dig down, everybody, and |buy a ticket, whether you use it or not—it is for {2 good cause | Chalk up win for Administrator Hugh S. Johnson. He beat the critics of NRA and pro- poses himself a twelve-point program to change |existing industrial codes. The President is coming to Alaska. He has promised our Delegate, Anthony J. Dimond, he will a table of shipments from this country whi a falling off as marked as that of our foreign countries. The reason for the evidently, however, in part somewhat differer high mark was reached in 1927, when the Territory took our goods to the amount of $53,000,000. In 11932, the latest year for which statistics are pub- lished, the amount s $19,000,000. Some of the details are easily explained. Beef {and veal shipments, which are also at their maximum in 1927, shrunk from nearly 4,000,000 ‘]Jmu\(ls to 2,401,050. This is probably due to the |development of reindeer breeding. As a matter of {fact some of this meat is now exported to the | United States proper. The decline in po: ham, !bacon, mutton and lamb shipments w much {smaller and that in poultry and game was negligible |The last mentioned item showed an actual gain in 1930 and 1931 over the figures for the previous {banner year’ of 1927. Thé falling off in dairy |products and' eggs was also comparatively small | Wheat flour and sugar have more than held their {own. The great shrinkage in manufactures of wood is doubtless to be accounted for by fhe building of imills to work up Alaska’s abundant supplies of raw | |material. There has, on the other hand, been an |enormous increase in the shipments of paper boxes and tons, | Alaska is supposed to have vast reserves of coal and oil, but development has been hindered by legal complications growing out of the discovery of ex- |tensive frauds and the subsequent cancellation of all remaining claims. This situation has been set right, but imports have not yet diminished so great- \ly as to indicate that the Territory is becoming |independent of outside supplies. Indeed the decline |in purchases of goods which can never be produced at home indicates that the depression has played a part in the general shrinkage. Of course in the case of most commodities the lower prices of 1932 account for a large part of the money decline. The next decade will probably witness a good deal of further readjustment in the trade of this Territory with the United States proper. In the course of 10 years it is possible that some of the items will be almost eliminated, while, with grow- ing prosperity, others will greatly increase. There will be a continual shifting in the proportions of various commodities until Alaskan possibilities have been further explored and it can be better de- termined in what respects the region can be entirely self supporting, and what articles must always be obtained from the United countries OF LUNAR NEW YEAR - forth for parading through the streets. In the top pic- personal obli- ted free of debt. visit the Northland before his term is ended. What | a grpat welcome he will receive. 1 RS Trade with Alaska. (Lowell, Mass., Courier-Citizen.) On count of the remote situation of Ala it is possible to obtain figures of its trade with the rest of the country such as are not available for any of the State. The Daily Alaska Empire, in its recent “development edition,” has shed States or from foreign | 1 variety of trees. Here the abkin helped them. He | spurned their offerings of meat, but once after he had expressed a will- 1gness to Frank to help them to the y of fruits and roots, they d a diet of saltless meat that as becoming more repugnant m. ove | d tot One day Frank suggested to Lang- | ton that the high-priest might be- | come a problem to them when once | y decided they were able to leave ically helpless. Suppos- ing we did get him to the top of the cliff, we could never take him with | us through the jungle. We'd have all we could do to.get through ourselves without any such hindrance. If we decided to use the raft and float downstream—then what? We might be taking him to his death.” | “If we leave him he dies anyway,” muttered Langton. “I'm damned if | 'm so concerned about him. He's crazy as a loon. Remember 1 tried to kill him once. If I had it would have been good riddance.” “But you wouldn’t leave a dog here if you saw a chance to get out.” “If it were a mad dog, I'd kill it,” said Langton significantly. “But not a mad man.” o,” replied Langton soberly. “Not a mad man. At that he might prove ful to us. I have a fanny hunch that he knows how td get out of here.” Frank passed a hand over his streaming brow. “l hope not,” he muttered. “I hope not. That would mean he'd get to his friends and | then we'd—" “Be out of the frying pan/’ com- pleted Langton. “A pleasant thought. I'm working on a jacket of balsa wood. I'll have it finished in a day | or two, and then. . .. “I hope it fits me,” said Frank significantly. Langton replied¢grimly, “It is not intended to fit you.” Frank put his hand on the arm of the other. “Billy, once or twice yon got a little bitter with me. Said you're half a man, and all that, and made the trip successfully through the caverns. “That’s the bunk, and you know it, old man. A good bone doctor back home would have you straightened out in a jiffy. You've got people back home: [ haven’t any. You've got lots to live for; I wonder a little about myself. I've been paid to take chances all my life. One more won't matter much. If I survive this one and get to the coast, I'll get down to Cozumel where the mail planes stop and have you both out of here within a weelk after I start. “JT'S a good gamble, Billy. This stream runs from four to six niiles an hour—more than we could make in a day in the jungle. We're not more than eight or ten hours from the coast by way of the stream “I'm going to try it. There may be a lot of swimming to do; you couldn’t do that. Billy, it's my gam. ble, I tell you, you've got to let me do it.” “And Janice Kent?” queried Lang ton softly. Grahame looked a little set-faced | “It is very important to me that she gets out of this somehow.” “And fsn’t it important to her that you come out all right?” Frank laughed shortly. “Not any, | | £ | Bill. Oh, don't misunderstand me, she’s not that callous. I just sensed in your question that you suspected a romance, and answered it as if you implied that she had more than an ordinary interest in me other than seeing a fellow companion in diffi culty get out of his jam. Truly, Bill. —" . “You gabble too much, Frank. Me. | thinks the lady—or rather the gen | /tleman—doth protest too much,” he 'quoted! [ As they talked Janice came up from the stream’s edge with a bundle of wet cactus fibers. She smiled gailv as she passed them. it didn’t matter whether or not you' by Herbert Jensen Her shirt, her jacket, her breeches —were beginning to show the rav- ages of daily toil. They looked torn and scuffed. Her hands were swollen and red from the unaccustomed severity of working with the coarse fiber. Only her face looked serene and fit, that and the minted-gold glory of her hair. Langton said softly, “Frank, a girl of her courage deserves taking chances for.” Frank turned away. He suspected that his old friend had discerned that he, Grahame, was in love with Janice. The kindly fellow, however, had not hinted at it; but certain little tactful gestures when none were necessary made Frank realize that he was conscious that perhaps at least one of his two visitors from civilization might be aware of a sen- timent that was deeper than mere comradeship. The thought was painful to Frank. To him Janice’s decision in Holly- wood had been uncompromising; there was no further appeal to be made. Any thought or ‘speculation upon what might have been served only to stir unpleasant memories. Langton had said that she was a girl of courage; to Frank this en- forced Intimacy had given him a greater opportunity to judge: she was magnificent—miraculous. That night he helped Langton complete the balsa-wood jacket. It was a clumsy affair made of two foot lengths of this curious wood that is lighter than cork. It was tied together with twisted strands of cactus fiber; shoulder straps were made of the same ma terial. Frank tried it on. He resolved that in a day or two he would put it to use. I ATER that night, sleeping sound- ~ Iy, they were awakened by the rashing of thunder. Sheet-lightning flared about the skies. Huddled in the doorway of the shack that screened the entrance of the cave, they stood until the sky opened its ducts and drove them away from un. der the flimsy roof. Within the cave, dank with un evaporated water from the last floods and musty with bat offal, |Grahame and Langton stared at each other soberly. Resinous torches provided in an ticipation of this emo>rgency had been lighted. The thunderous boom- ing without precluded any possibil- ity of sleep. The rains are here,” muttered Grahame. “It won't be long now,” replied Lgygton lightly. Frank neticed that his¥riend’s face looked queerly pale on the patches his beard did not cover. In the morning, it was Janice who tB1d them about the curious behavior of the ahkin. The girl had insisted despite the protest of the men, that she be the high-priest's attendant. She had, however, been deter mined: therefor they had construc. ted a pallet in a corner of the inner cave for the ahkin and one nearby for the girk shack, had entered the cave and lighted the torches, Janice had looked to the welfare of her charge. She had found him, his back sup- ported upright against the cave's wall, rigid in a state approaching catalepsy. She had shaken his shoulder | thinking him in the midst of a dream, | but he had not awakened. Usnally, | she knew, he slept lightly. His limbs |apd his body were marble-stiff. His | face was frozen although his eyes | were open but opaque. | Janice reported that it sounded | like a quiet droning so imperceptible | was his voice, but by concentrating | she was aware that words were {s- ‘suing from his parted lips; strange | words that held the cadence of mys- | tic ceremony. | “He was asleep and dreaming,” | Frank guggested. | Langton looked thoughtful. The two men did not press her with fur- | ther comment or question, but as of one accord they made their way to the stream’s edge. The sky was sullen overhead: it held more than a hint of raln—it was a threat. The stream undoubtedly was higher, tawny with the discol- oration of vegetation. It ran swiftly, definitely, and dis- appeared into the maw of the lower cavern leaving little sponges of yel- .10\‘7 foam clinging to the rocky por- | tals. “With luck,” stated Grahame star- | ing speculatively at the stream, “we | have about a week on dry ground here. After that ...” (Copyright, 1934, by Herbert Jensen) Frank begins, tomorrow, his greatest trial. Our Services to You e ALASKA TELEPHONE 22 THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS The Gastineau Begin and End at the Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Boat IR EXPRESS FOR CHARTER Lockheed 6-Passenger Seaplane ! J. V. 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