The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 1, 1934, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1934. Daily Alaska Empire GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT W. BENDER every evening except Sunday by the TNTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, 1, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. Published SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 B a™ oy the following rates: By mall, postage paid, at the following s One yenr, I advance, $12,00; six months, in advance, $6.00; 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 Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. a i The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use (t:r r:;mbh(-uvion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the focal news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO HBE LARGER ALASEAAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION VOTERS SHOULD REGISTER. At the City Hall today the registration books for the registration of voters were opened for the municipal election on April 3. The books will remain open until March 31. American citizenship, twenty- one year of age, bona fide residence of the Terri- tory for one year and of Juneau continuously for six months immediately preceding the date of the election, are the qualifications required. Next month will be a busy one in politics. There is the city election on April 3, and the Territorial primary will be on April 24. REGULATORY BILI The recognized need for revision of our pure food and drug laws is certain to be met in one way or another at this session of Congress. There are two bills now receiving careful attention, namely the Copeland and Black bills. The Copeland bill is a revision of the notorious Tugwell bill and the Black bill is a mild reform of the present pure food law. While strengthening of the pure food law is tlearly necessary, it is doubtful whether we need go as far the provisions of the Copeland bill. Rather than work a hardship on certain branches of the proprietary medicine industry, it appears to be a wiser course to accept the Black measure and see whether this will not supply adeguate control over the manufacture and advertising of medicines. The al question involved here is not standards to set up for the regulation of foods, drugs and cosmetics. The standards are much the same in all three bills, including the original Tug- well measure. The real difference is in the method of enforcement. The Copeland bill gives the Secre- tary of Agriculture wide powers to inspect and regulate the trade in foods and medicines, subject _to final authority of the courts. The Black bill, like the pure food law, leaves enforcement to the courts, but gives the Secretary of Agriculture certain powers to recommend trade practices, which are actually enforceable only through the courts. This is not an appropriate time to impose new Jegislation which will hamper an important indus- try, nor is it wise now to extend the already colossal powers of the Department of Agriculture. The Black bill will be a substantial improvement on the present pure food and drug act, and if it proves insufficient to curb existing abuses in this field its further amendment will remain open. what GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. Gen. Augusto C. Sandino was killed several days 8go in Nicaragua. The great majority of the read- ing public may pass this bit of news along without much thought. But several years ago this same Gen. €andino was in the headlines for weeks. He was the rebe! leader in Nicaragua that finally caused the United Staics Marines to be doubled in the Central American State. The Marines then trained the Nicaravuans to be National Guardsmen and it was the latter force that killed the former rebel |leader. Sandiro was a disturbing element for vears. | He evaded capture. He had an .uncanny way ofi being “bottled up” then somehow the cork would be pulled, and he was not in the bottle. Finally |he promised to be good but continued to be a disturber. His end is chronicled. ALASK RABBITS. Arthur Brisbane, in his copyrighted editorials appearing in the Hearst newspapers, had the follow- ing concerning the Alaskan rabbits, published Feb- | ruary 9: How little a rabbit knows about fate and the higher intelligence that controls it. Vol- canic eruptions killed small game on Al- aska’'s Kodiak and Afognak Islands. After Mount Katmai exploded, more than twenty years ago, all rabbits vanished. The Government CWA money has been spent- hiring Indians to drive tens of thou- sands of rabbits into traps. They are caught alive and sent to the stricken islands. When they get there they probably say to them- selves: “How nice of Uncle Sam to take all this trouble for us.” The fact is that they are sent to provide food for bears—and for the more valuable fur-bearing animals. How could the rabbits possibly imagaine or understand that? How can we two-legged things hope to imagine or understand why it is that we are transported here from heaven knows where, and what it is that we are supposed to do here. The University of Washington Glee Club coming North and will visit Juneau the latter part of this month or the first of April. Juneau has many old grads who will do the customary and necessary honors. is An Eastern newspaper advises that parents re- sume the use of the switch. But nowadays children | and parents are seldom at home at the same time. The soldiers’ bonus looms up again. A part of the nation, at least, is convinced that real prosperity is back. The air mail's theme song is understood to be| “We're in the Army Now.” Spring is getting nearer but we still have March to live through The Blue Eagle Label. (New York World-Telegram.) NRA enforce its codes when it determines to do That is clear in two recent cases n which clothing manufacturers defied the code and the code authority, thus not only exploiting their workers and undermining the general recovery pro- gram, but also threatening their business com- | {petitors. In both cases the culprits were forced to! surrender because NRA withheld the Blue Eagle insignia, making their products unpopular. i Wulf Bros, Inc, of New York City and Troy, | after holding out for some time, ended by agreeing to make restitution of back wages for the period of code violation and reimbursing the code authority for the expenses connected with the enforcement proceedings. Before any rugged individualist rises to protest that NRA could not crack down on wilful code violators, he should read the following letter from | a Southern dress manufacturer who was compelled | by a local NRA compliance board to give up his Blue Eagle and who since has got it back: We have found that since our operators are getting 30 cents per hour and only working forty hours per week, they are working with more pep and some are pro- ducing from 25 to 35 per cent more work. We feel that if there are any industries in the United States that do not work under the NRA, and who had our experience, they would find not only a difference but a benefit in working under a code. They would get better production and better work. Therein is the great hope of NRA. It is some- thing. more than idealistic. It is practical—and the old system of long hours and low wages is not practical, for the worker, the employer, or anybody. can 50 ‘While the French are combing their language for exact equivalents of such American expressions as “flood-lighting,” “pine-line” and “cracking down,” they might see if their dictionaries give the exact meaning of “welsher.”—(Chicago News.) Ex-Senator (by the will of the people) George Moses thinks the President is “a smiling dictator.” If true, and if successful in his efforts to save the country, the President may even laugh out loud—(Boston Globe.) SOCIETY FRON Many and varien are the costumes of socially prominent young women wintering at Florida resorts. Jean Bauer (left) of Providence, R. I., is devoting much of her time to golf at Coral Gables, wearing tht latest In sports garb. Beach, tennis Mrs. Stewart Preece (center) of Westbury, N. Y., pictured during a stroll at Palm wears a brilliant plaid dress under a four-button white jacket. A sweater and shorts make up the costume of Adelaide Moffet (right) of New York. (Associated Press Photos) . i x A SYNOPSIS: Framk Grahame, Bill Langton. Janice Kent. and their worst enemy. the hioh priest of the savage Yucatan fungle tribe that has tried to kill all of them, are trapped in a jungle valley. The high opriest is hadly injured and helpless. But the rainy season is beginning, and soon the valley will Ve filled with water. Frank plans to float in a balsa-wood facket down an _wnderground river to the sea, and bring aid — if he {8 not drowned. Chapter 42 THE START “YN/ITH luck,” repeated Langton, “l1 can be back here and get you out. With a ship I could fly from the coast to here in twenty minutes.” Frank smiled remotely. Turning on his heel he walked back to the shack. His movements thereafter were methodical. He brought out the balsa-wood jacket, and for the time being, set it aside. He brought out two coco- nut shells, split and put together again and sealed with pitch, Within them was a gquantity of dried meat, matches, dand — he smiled at the apparent incongruity of it—the matted pad of his book of traveler’'s checks. They could be used at the coast—if ever he got there. The two coconut shells he slipped Into & bit of fiber metting he had made for them. This arrangement could be tied to the jacket float., He put on the crude device that was to keep him afloat—with luck— for the eight or ten hours he would be swept through the unknown cav ern. Although the morning was not warm beads of perspiration gath ered upon his face. It was with a straining effort ot will that be banished thoughts of the accidents that might happen to him in the darkness. Would che river be like the sur- face ones? Would there be water falls, rapids, or jagged submerged rocks to ‘ear at him as he passed? Might pot eddies sweep him ‘nto blind pockets where he would| thrash his way about until exhaus- tion claimed bim? He walked down the trail to the stream’s edge. Langton, straining at the tying of the last timbers of the raft, looked up startled. Janice coils of tiber in her bands, ap proached from upstream. Puzzled.| she looked at the crude girth of the balsa-wood 1acket. She said fn a curious voice, “Frank, what is that? What do you intend?...” “Nothing doing. Frank — that's my job,” sald Langton guietly. Frank’s voice as he replied was level and brittle. “Nothing you can say—or do, for that matter—will alter the plan Billy. This Is jusga job | can do better than you can under the cir cumstances. We'll say no more about it!” Janice made a gesture ot appeal to Langton. Her face was pale be neath its tanned silkiness. “What is it Billy? What is he going to do?” “He's going to float down the cav. ern to the sea and get help. If a pop bottle made it, so can he, he thinks.” The girl put the palm of her hand to her mouth. Her eyes widenea. The coils of fiber over her slim shoulder fell to the ground. “No!” she whispered. “Oh, no... please! Frank stepped into the water. His face was set. “Billy,” he began, turn ing to his friend, “before | start, | have a few suggestions—" | ANICE splashed into the water beside him. Her hands caught him by the shoulders and she pulled at him until he faced her. “You're not going!” she ex- claimed breathlessly. “You can't! You shouldn’t!” She tugged at him with little desperate jerks. “Either Billy or | must. Please, Janice. Billy will explain. We haven’t much time now, since the rain. I've—" “You mustn’t . . . either you or Billy. What do you think | am! What do you think I'd be if I let you? .. .” Her voice broke on a little note of hysteria. “The raft is nearly ready. We'll all go together. Why <hould one of us take risks tor the others? The raft will support us all—" Gently Frank put up his arms and disengaged the girl's hands from his shoulders. He turned his face toward Languon. “Bill, it would be a good idea, 1 think, to make more of these jack- ets to wear on the raft when the water rises. Provide yourself with a stout rope and a rock for an an chor. And a long rope with a stone to throw to the bank. You might get close enough and high enough to reach the cliff tops. I'll be back. I'll be all right—" GODDESS by Herber? Jensen The girl was sobbing against him, She lifted a tear-wet face. “Frank,” she cried with choked voice, “Frank, dear. You said once you love me! As you love me, please don’t go! Billy, stop him!” ‘You don’t know what you’re say- ing,” said Frank gently. “Billy will explain why I'm going—' ‘1 do! 1do know what I'm saying. 1 love you Frank! 1 love you so much that ['d—Frank, I'd die if any- thing happened. Take me with you! We'll go together—" His heart ached. He blinked his eyes to clear away the mistiness. He was pained that her distress had brought ber to confess a love he believed she did not—could not—'| feel. ' He pressed her gently from him. He backed into the water. She strove to follow. Step by step she waded deeper, still tacing him. Over his shoulder he sent a glance to Langton—a glance both helpless and full of appeal. Langton hobbled into the water beside them. Gently but with tirm- ness he took her by the arm. Trance-like she stared at Frank who backed away toward midstream. The water swirled above his waist. Janice’s face was dazed; pain showed in her eyes, but with Lang- ton’s hand upon her arm she made no move to follow Frank. The water eddied under his crude life-belt. He was floating. Swiftly the current caught him He saw the bank and the figures of the man and girl recede. As the darkening shadow of the cavern's mouth fell upon him, he saw Janice turn her head suddenly and bury her face against the shoulder of her companion, as if she could not sup t the sight of his disappearance Langton lifted his hand dropped it. It was like a salute. BI,.\('I\'?\'ESS. Impenetrable black- ness. The wuter, gurgling about him, seemed to Frauk like a living in ibstunce. He was conscious of a varieiy of sensations. At one moment he felt that he was sus pended immovable in a void, at an other it seemed that he was being fmpelled torward in a vacuum—a swift, silent projectile—and must sooner or later crash into extinc tion. He strove to unclench his aching tgeth, to allow the nervous rigidity of his muscles to relax. He won dered if be could bear for several | bours this vivid expectation of an nibilating impact. Then suddenly he was curiously afvare of a glow about him; it was at the level of his shoulders, below him, surrounding him; but it was not above his head. [t came trom the water; it was minutes before his reason fnformed him that these were phosphorescent glimmerings in the water. By counting he tried to estimate the time he had been within the cav- ern. Already it seemed hours, but he realized that it was probably much less than that. He splashed his way to the right or left until his outstretched band would touch the side wall. He hoped to estimate the speed of his drifting by finger-tip contact with the stone. But it was slimy and chill, fou! with a slippery growth that brought to mind the wormy life that lived within the jungle swamp - bogs. Thereafter he tried to keep in mid- stream. The gurgling grew louder, the phosphorescence brightened. Dim- ly he could see the tufts and plumes of glowing light as the cur- rent splashed and whirled against the dank walls. Suddenly he struck something that gave. Long, fingerlike tendrils raked his face. He cursed his re- pugnance and strove to claw away the obstruction. He was held tightly. The current seethed #nd swirled about him, tugging at him. Automatically he looked upwerd. A faint gray slit parallel with the current was above him, 50 close that it seemed he could reach it. Instantly he realized his situa- tion. Here was a break in the cav- ern roof—the beginning of a cenote —and the obstruction that held him was a netting of vines growing over the lip of the opening down to the water. He thrashed himself loose. The tendrils were gone from about his tace; the gray slit above disap peared. He was beginning to feel chilled. Long weeks ‘v the sun had thinned his blood. The water in this under ground stream was touched by the sun only at the intervals that it ap- peared from the caverns. (Copyright, 1934, by Horbert lonsen) Frank floats through unseen perils. tomorrow. THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS The Gastineau Our Services to You Begin and End at the Passenger-Carrying Boat Gang Plank of Every . 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Douglas citizens were looking forward with delightful expectan- cy to the social function to be held by the firemen in the evening. A big dinner with social diversion constituted the program. On the previous afternoon, |Mrs. B. M. Behrends had enter- tained the Senior and Junior Camp Fire girls at her home on | Main Street. The girls wore their quaint ceremonial gowns and made a most picturesque appearance. | During the afternoon they sang | their Camp Fire songs and re- hearsed the Wohelo ceremony. Cor- delia Davis, Florence Larson and E. B, WILSON Chiropodist—Foot Specialist 401 Goldstein Building PHONE 496 ~——3 DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to pm. - o s 1 | Dr. C. P. Jenn DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Mable Bathe werz the three lead- ers. Assisted by Miss Loraine Andrews, Mrs. Behrends served a | dainty luncheon and when the af- | ternoon came to an end, all too | soon, the girls decided they liked ibeing Camp Fire girls more than ever and that Mrs. Behrends was the most lovable of hostesses. There was a movement started to get a Norwegian vice-consul appointed for Juneau and many | important officials and Norwegian |citizens had signed a petition to | the Norwegian Minister of Foreign | Affairs asking that a consulate be created here and that William ‘E. Britt be appointed to the office | | of Vice-Consul. The registration books were op- ened at the office of City Clerk |E. W. Pettit at the “municipal {building in the morning. They were to remain open until the | city election which was to occur | | | DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. OfZice nours, 9 am. to 5 pm. «venings by appointment. Phione 321 Fraternal Societies oF | Gastineau Channel B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 p.m Visiting brothers welcome. L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. SRR TR BN bt R ENICHTS OF COLUMBUR Segher3 Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Council Chambers, Fith Strect, JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Becretary MOUNT JUNEAT LODGE NO. 147 Second and fourth Mon- lday of each month in cottish Rite Temple, beginning at 7:30 p. m. L. E. HENDRICKSON, Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Scc- retary. :‘;_0 —_— e | Our iru:ks go any place amy , | time. A tank for Diesel Ol and a tank for crude oi} save burner trouble. PHONE 149, NIGHT 143 (,:‘_RELIABLE TRANSY 12 , NOW OPEN | Commercial Adjust- ment & Rating Bureau | | Cooperating with White Service | Bureau Room 1—Shattuck Bldg. We have 5,000 local ratings on file | ks Robert Sizapson Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasunavle rates WRIGHT SHOPPE PAUL BLOEDHORN DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Room 7, Valentine Bldg. Office Phone 484; Residence Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 JUNEAU-YOUNG | Funeral Parlors ! Licensed Funeral Directors | and Embalmers | | Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 | | the first Tuesday in April. SR ST R { NOTICE My wife, Vera May Nelsen, hav- |ing left my bed and board and on |and after this date, Feb. 28, I Jwill not be responsible for any debts contracted for by her in &% ‘ Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building Phone 481 SABIN’S Everything in Furnishings for Men my name. adv. CHRISTIAN NELSEN. ! | LoLA MAE ALEXANDER | | SOPRANO | | Vocal Culture-Coaching-Diction | | Studio opens March 1, Gold- | | stein Bldg. For appoinments | Dr. A. W. Stewart * DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 409, Res. Phone 276 | THE JuNeau Launbpry | Franklin Street between | Front and Second Streets | | | PHONE 359 | see Mrs. J. C. 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