The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 24, 1934, Page 4

e — ? | 3 ! | | .3 f R ¥ : 3 - PSSR "onl_\' reason for such abnormal prices is scarcity. Costs of production do not justify,them. The distiller !is ‘protected by the $5 per gallon import tax and ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER‘ the quota barrier from foreign competition. Removal Published every evening except Sunday by the DMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. " Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second. Class matter. duty will remain unchanged. i | Bootleggers are taking advantage of high prices and the duty on foreign liquor to seize markcts; that they lost'when repeal was new. And the legal| dealers are battling them just as violently as the Prohibitiorists did during the Dry era. They see their profits dwindling and sales lessened as the| illicit dealers once again elude border guards and | SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Oelivered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month, By mall, postage pald, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will .confer a favor if they will promptly ihe Business Office of any fallure or irregularity bring in foreign liquors without payment of any| n e delivery of their papers. . B i raffi i ' rices s T BUlolal S50 Business Offioss, IL ) | K. This traffic Would: 5o De et 16 prices | SRESS were back n a pre-war basis. Elimination of the; MEMBER Or ASSOCIET S0 le import duty would destroy a large part of the| The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to tt use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. illegal liquor traffic, and it would bring quotations| on the domestic production back to something| approaching normal. In the end the Government would be the gainer, Its loss of revenue resulting from abolition of the import duty would be com- pensated” by increased internal revenue taxes on| heavier sales. is is not done, | ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION If something like thi: Congress is apt' to be called on again to make| large appropriations to curb rumrunning and boot- legging. | } EROSION EVIL HERE. | The evil effects of soil erosion are not a threat| of the future but are already in evidence on tens |of thousands of farms in this country, the United | States Department of Agriculture says. | In the South, the North, and the Middle West, many farmers are working land which has been made poor by erosion. Much of it is good -for forest land or land which could be used for forestry. Al- Congress has passed and the President approved Dele- ' though millions of acres have been stripped of fine gate Dimond’s bifl to advance the biennial Territorial hardwoods and pine forests, much of the land was election to the second Tuesday in September, making not gsuitable for fgrming for more than about a| our balloting date almost two months ahead of the | gener | NEW ELECTION DATE. ation because of its slope and because it was general Congr nal elections. Maine, however, has ;5 o] that eroded easi | one day the advantage of us. In that State the [ U —— election is held on the second Monday. The date) After today residents of Juneau have but one fixed here was named by the Territorial Legislature week in which to register for the municipal election. in 1933 at the suggestion of Delegate Dimond. It The registration to date is heavier than for the at first considered the first Tuesday in September, same period last year and the total for 1933 was but in the end picked the second Tuesday because the greatest in history. That is encouraging. The of the fact that Labor Day, a holiday, falls on final week’s additions ought to bring this year's the first Monday of the month. Election day, also!total to another new high mark. a holiday, had it occurred on the first Tuesday, would have brought three holidays in a row, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Some of the more thrifty | prae g vz Legislators just couldn't stand the idea of so much (Seward Gateway.) wasted time. | With due respect to his predecessors in office, The reason for advancing the date of the elec- Delegate Tony Dimond gives promise of emerging tion is to give ample time for returns to come in from the present session of Congress with the skids before Congress convenes on January 3, every second Sreased for the launching of a well-coordinated year. Under the Norris lame duck amendment, Il’l""!*;“-”“,tff"‘ the fPJ:Vf“B“"“ W SaVanSRRNTE op 3 A AT he Territory as a whole. instead of convening on the first Monday in 'DccemAv Unlike his predecessors, Delegate Dimond is ap- ber, each new Congress will sit on January 3. Had # Z parently unwilling to follow the worn and political the November election date been retained, it would ..y leading solely to isolated academic questions, have been imposible for the Delegate from Alaska with branches here and there touching thread-bare to have assumed his seat in January. By advancing subjects, such as fisheries and wider latitude of the date to September, this is remedied. self-government. | The Legislature also suggested that its own ses- While these ancient causes are still occupying sions be advanced from March to January. Thus, a proper place on the Delegate’s agenda, he is not Dimond on the Job. it will sit coincident with Congress. The change Satisfied to allow them the full center of the stage. ought to be beneficial. It will give members from He is laboring to make the best of what powers other tions time to come to the capital and he has and initiate something over and above these finish their labors during the slack business and.™eré Political pawns, ¢ 2 £ o With painstaking care he is working out each industrial season. By the time seasonal work begins problem separately, making sure of his ground to open up, the Legislature -will: have vcompleted '“"fb’etore he approaches Congress, and then Whipping labors and members will 'be back at home. There the component parts into a comprehensive whole. have been instances in past years when individuals| He has not been slow to take advantage of highly qualified for Legislators have declined to bo‘oppor!unmcs offered under the NRA. His first step candidates because it would interfere with their was to get Alaska recognized as having contingent business. This will not be the case so much under rights with the States in all procedure where Fed- the new law. Altogether, the Territory should benefit €ral funds are to be made available to industry. from the change. ‘Then he set to work assembling the many sug- igesuons advanced on behalf of the Territory, both ;within 'and without, studying them and revising ‘each to fit snugly into a plan he has had in mind since arriving in Washington. If he emerges with but a part of his program fulfilled Alaska will receive the greatest impetus THE SAME OLD FOE. The announced aim of the Board of Liquor Control to adopt a system that will bring an end| to bootlegging is praiseworthy, and it should have|® "_“fi(eh‘s‘z;y‘ s d the support of every Alaskan. The establishment ' 0 TS, B0 Who Dave . aavAncad. on |their intrinsic merit, Delegate Di g of a competitive system of private selling under a. 3 e Do) e Tnoking far beyond the present. low license fee and an abnormally low excise tax/ seems to be as far as the Board can possibly gol in this direction. Two main essentials must be met if the illicit liquor vendor is to be wiped out.| The serious feature about the Dillinger case is Good liquors must be readily available. It must be not that a desperate criminal is again at large, had at prices that the bootlegger cannot meet. |but that his escape from a jail which he had Whether this can be done under the existing confidently threatened to break gives a thrill of high prices demanded by American distillers 1is confidence to the whole underworld he represents. doubtful. There is a notable scarcity of good, aged Other prisoners in other jails, seeing how easily whiskey in this country. The prices are altogether D€ Pulled the trick, will undoubtely set about to too high. With bourbon and rye from bonded ware-im.""a"e him.’. And gsSnwhile, the laugh of defiance B i 1eiuing. 35 {0 AN oer ALt b ke rem“,thh which he taunted the officers of the law as £ it ' he dropped his wooden weapon for a loaded machine market throughout the country, the bootlegger o ;i gun will echo through all the gang hangout: coesn’t have to bother about legal competition. The the country. ER08, oo Dillinger’s Laugh. (Louisville Courier-Journal.) BOAT TANKS OF ! Ui ® Galvanized Iron ® Copper ® Stainless Steel ® Made to Your Order! ® Get Our Prices LAST! ® RICE & AHLERS (0. - PLUMBING HEATING SHEET METAL e : “We tell in advance what job will cost” of the quota barrier will occur April 30, but mc‘ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURD Judith Lane | | by JEANNE BOW SYNOPSIS : Judith Lane is ask- tng Tom Bevins' physician about Jiis hoalth. for the night before Bevins Lad asked Judy to carry on i case he died. Bevins is be- ginning a Uig dam project at Rio| Diablo, and has found that Moy-' ton Lampere, member of the firm that landies his legal business. is trying to double-cross him. To complicate matters. Judith is en- gaged to Norman Dale, Lampere’s partuer. 1l to complicate them still more, Mathile Bevins, Tom's danghter, hopes to win Norman i spite of Judy. » Chapter 12 HONEYMOON { TIIE physician laughed. "Br‘vi“s‘ is a bull headed old rascal,” ho; admitted; then, with concern, “Are| you il too?” “Xo, but T am worried, and what| r'd like to ask you shouldn’t be dis- cussed over the telephone, only I'm afraid I won't sleep until I receive the answer.” 4 “Better ask then; he said he'd| worked you pretty hard.” “Doctor Kelly, I'm engaged to be married, and if Big Tom is in a seri- ous condition I feel 1 should wait. He told me he was liable to die any minute—" “Well, aren’t we all? Walk against a traffic light; work overtime in the hot sun, do any one of a number of foolish things and sce what hap- pens.” “You mean?” “With proper caution, no more all night vigils and particularly with common sense where his emotions | are concerned your friend may live to be a hundred. ‘There is nothing in his present condition to warrant your putting off your wedding. Now go to sleep.” . . . . . . " “And so they lived happily ever after,” quoted Judith Lane Dale, as she lay on the sand, staring at the blue of a late September sky. “Norm ...'member how fairy tales always used to stop with the marriage of the mysterious prince to Cinderella? Clia says they stopped there because fairy tales had to have happy end- ings, and if they'd gone on any fur- ther there wouldn't have been...” Judith found her mouth gagged with a rubber cap. “Don’t st preaching Cliaisms on your honey moon,” admonished Norman. “Aside from being poor e it disturbs m. reading these. . He had'been going through a hand ful of mail brought to the beach by Lige from the honeymoon cottage where Delphinium presided and per- sisted in her efforts to “fatten thet skinny chile.” “Here's a note from the contrac tor, Judy, he says we can move into Hillendale by October 15th, that's three weeks away ... and ‘Will Mys. Dale be contented with white picket fences? The stones won't be avail- January’s cows came in and ate the | evergreens Jimson planted and now January wants us to pay the dam ages.'” “To our evergreens?” demanded Judith. “No, his cows.” Drat January. Norm, our living room drapes are exactly the color of the Gulf out there at the horizon line, aren’t they?” “And here’s a note from Mathile, says Big Tom is feeling fine, they're going on up the coast.” Judith sat up—*“So Tilly writes my man does she? Look here,” she showed Norman an envelope across which her name was scrawled in heavy masculine writing, “Your wo. man gets written to by Slim San- ford.” “Nice chap, I like him,” observed Norman, then with a quick laugh, ‘ne need to return the compliment, come on Judy, I'll beat you to the third breaker with a two minute handicap.” UDITH came up through the third breaker even with Norman and | together they swam beyond the surf to float lazily. “Norman,” Judith rolled over and began te tread water, “how’s your mother enjoying the cruise?” “Well,” observed that young man, “she said they put on a Havana to Miami tournament of contract and she won seventy-five dollars. Need 1 say more?” Judith laughed. They swam on un ti! another question came to her mind. “Norm, it certainly was gen erous of her to give us Lige and Delphy. I feel like I'd aiways known them.” “Generous, my eye,” he retorted “Mother’s suite isn’t big enoush for our full-blossomed Delphinium to turn around without knocking over card tables.” Judith sputtered as she went un der, then came up sait water star. ring her eyelashes. “Clia says, Jane Allen told her able for two months and Farmer|. . Suite . . . Dolores looked so lovely “ behind her huge harp . . . she men- [tioned this to Norman, who was yMAN your mother would _iave come to! live with you.” Norman started to tread water, went under a wave and coming upl looked as dignified as a young man might look under the circumstance: “Judy listen. I've never had any idea of marrying Matilda. As for{ mother’s coming to live with us—if | I had . .. well Tilda’s the only per- on she's never been able to whip at bridzge and iife would have been one' iong tournament, and I don’t like naments.” | o g i i gt il g 5 of Mathile’ self of this! Hillendale | lowever, she didn't un-| derstand why, with thirty-one days to October, Mathile had to chose| that particular day for the Naiad to dock at the turning basin. Someone had to drive down for Mrs. Dale, senior, and someone had | tn stay at the house to attend to| the last moment affair ferred being at the house. his sho’ is a pretty house, Miss Judy,” wheezed Delphy, sinking into | & deep chair In the ‘iving room, with | the easy familfarity of one “bo'n t' | the family.” “And you like your quarters,| Delphy? Hew about Lige, is it go- ing to be too far from town for .aws no, that boy he kin get up an crap game, an’ its a sight n me when he loses to his- st She looked out on the long room th its quaint fixtures, pale yellow lls and sea-green drapes. eems right nice livin’ here with chur 1 been polishin’ thirty ars. Member how Ma's Anthony brung it long from ’ginia. Miz Dale, tho' she don’t need no furniture ‘ceptin’ a card table. Many’s a time I said 's a shame she weren’t bo'n a | man so's she could put that there | mind o' hers to business. Some w men ought to have a dozen chilern’ . Juditir pre- | | AY, MARCH 24, 1934. e 20 YEARS AGO Prom The Empire MARCH 24, 1914. The stocks of goods in the Gold- stein stores was to be moved into the temporary quarters across the street within a few days. It was expected that the work of tearing down the old structures for the erection of the big concrete build- ing was to start April 1. | [3 Juneau’s . celebration in honor of the passage of the Alaska Rail-' road bill was to begin with a pa- rade and end with a dance, cording to plans made by the com- mittee with the rarangements in:' hand. The parade, to symbolize the progress and development of the country, was to be headed by mushers with packs, followed in sequence by dog teams, pack horses and floats representing the differ-, ent modes of mining. Many or-| ganizations wexle to take part. | | The baseball ground was to be! in Last Chance Basin Creek, B. L. Thane, of the Alaska-| the property, had offered to donate enough ground in the basin to| make a good athletic park, on be-| half of the company. All efforts| to secure ground on the water- {front, at or near the Gold Creek | estuary had been abandoned. A| committee composed of J. R. Willis, | A. H. Humphries and J. C. Mc-| Bride, with H. W. Wulzen as con-| sulting engineer, had been appoint-| ed with full power to go ahead| and prepare the grounds. “ Weather for the previous 24 hours had been clear. imum temperature for that period was 42 degrees and the minimum was 31. The max- The big 10,000-foot tunnel at! Sheep Creek had been extended until there remained less than| or a boardin’ house o keep them busy, and she's one.” | Judith smiled a small secret smile as she thought of Clia—"Mrs. J. An- thony Dale,” Clia had said, “is a fine | ample of a good business woman finding an outlet for her talent In | ocial piracy.” FEW nights later, in the throes £X ot giving her first formal dinner, | she thought again of what Clia and | Delphy had said. Trembling with | Tatigue and excitement she sat be- | for her dressing room table trying | to fasten the strap of her beige vel- | vet gown. | Twenty guests . .. suppose one or | two were late, didn't come . . . Lige | inust remember Big Tom was to Mave only water, no wine, no coffee | . and afterwards, the orchestra with the Venetian was to begin | struggling with his tie. “Reminds me,” he said, “I'll put up a card table in the den, that's far | enough away so the few who have to have their bridge won’t be an: noyed.” Judith looked into the mirror. Would the time come when she | would be like this mother of his? Would marriage and motherhood leave her life so empty she'd want | to return to the business world out of sheer boredom? Norman and Judith spent their first Thanksgiving with the Bevins and as fond as was Judith of Big Tom she began to look upon his family @s flies in the amber of her honeymoon. But Thanksgiving was not as mo notonous as Judith had anticipated Big Tom’s delight at having her there made up for Mathile’s insist | ence upon monopolizing Norman | and when the engineer, so clearly showing the mark of illness, took her into the library o show her a miniature dam he had constructed she became completely absorbed in the project. And then time passed an¢ some: how it seemed to her she had always | lived there; had always been mar ried to Norman. There was nothing in watching the mantel clock for the hands to point to the hour his car would purr up the driveway and she would meet him at the door, to re mind her of the lonely nights in hes apartment. The unity of their life and love was so perfect she made no attemp! to analyze it, or fear it too perfec! to last. And then, like the shattering of ¢ fragile prism came a telephone mes sa.e In the midst of their Valentin¢ party. ' Tom Bevins had dropped dead. (Copyright, 193}. by Jeanne Bowman) Monda |that it you had married Mathile | TELEPHONE 22 ALASKA AIR EXPRESS FOR CHARTER Lockheed 6-Passenger Seaplane dith shoulders heavy 5. rasnonsih J. V. HICKEY THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS The Gastineau Our Services to You Begin and End at the Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Boat 200 feet to break through con-| necting the Sheep Creek and Gold | Creek basins. It was expected that the final shot would be fired with- in the week. The Alaska-Gastineau Mining Company was preparing to install the second unit in the lower pow- er plant at Salmon Creek and to resume operation on the big con- crete impounding dam. - PAST MASTERS’ NIGHT | TO BE HELD MONDAY Monday night, Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147, F. & A. M. will celebrate Past Master’s Night. Degree work will be conferred in the Third Degree and will be exemplified by all chairs heing filled by Past Masters of Juneau and Douglas lodges, as well as so- journing Past Masters. This is an annual event looked forward to by all Masons on the channel and a big turnout is ex- pected. Refreshments will be| served after the meeting. FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) oIl GREASES Juneau Motors FOOT OF MAIN ST, To Our Depositors The B. M. Behrends indispensible part which its depositors have played in its steady progress ever since its establishment in 1891, Their continuous patronage is an expression of their confidence and good to continue to merit this the instit.ution’s_ helpfulness to Juneau’s business interests in keeping the wheels of progress moving. ' The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau, ac-| 5 I of Gold| | Gastineau company, which ownedf‘, Il PROFESSIONAL | She b | I || Helene W. L. Albrecht YHYSIOTHERAPY | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red ! Ray, Medical Gymnastics, 307 Goldstein Building N Phone Office, 216 [ [ i Rose A. Ardrews Graduate Nurse Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas sage, Colonic Irrigations | Office hours 11 a.m. to 5 pm. | | Evenings by Appointment Second and Main Phone 239 53 e —— 1 E. B. WILSON Chiropodist—Foot Specialist 401 Goldstein Building PHONE 496 & = f e R DRS. EASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS i Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 8§ am. to 8§ pm. — & { N C. P. Jenne | DENTIST Rooms 8 and 8 Valentine { Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Ofice nours, 9 am. to 5 pm. Phone 321 Robert Simpson Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles Col- | lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground H [+ ~ | svenings by appointment, | l R S TR [ Fraternal Societies | [} Gastineau Channel y B. P. 0. ELKS meets | every Wednesday at 83 p.m Visiting brothers welcome. ) L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. ENIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Segher3s Council No. 17€0. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. ‘Transient brothers urg-' -} ed to attend. Counefl Chambers, Fith Btreed, JOHN F. MULLEN, G. E. H. J. TURNER, Secretary MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 ! Second and fourth Mon- !day of each month in x| Scottish Rite Temple, beginning at 7:30 p. m. L. E. HENDRICKSON, Master; JAMES W. 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