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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TTHURSD AY AUGUST 15, 1935 By Blll IE DE BARNEY COOGLE AND SPARK PLUG x NEW OH, BOY. *LOOKIT THAT PILE O 'I‘I" RS, I KNEW géfiou YOUR SIDE -- SNUFFY -~ - | Sharpers Re plucev Kidnapers IEM! ANE CONTRACTORS | ISk WTH BOUGLAS 108 Anhuugh their contract was com- | Ipleted about teh 'days ago, Siems. ‘@pokane Gompany, ‘builders of the | dlew Dougles highway, linking the| bwn and bridge across the channel, finished work yesterday of cleaning | Wp after the job and picking up| fiu:lr equipment. ‘The road now awaits the surfac- m which is to he undertaken as as Peril to Countess “Babs” as She Flees from Her U. S. as gravel apd other mwerm n'be Supplied by trucking across Douglas bridge. When that is iompleted, the road- will be one of the finest stretches of similar length far motor ‘travel in Alaska. Slems-Spokane Company men have done a fipe job and abundant medlt is due the Bureau of Public | Roads engineers who laid out the | project. and have seen it through | thus far. | —_— ! MUST VACCINATE CHILDREN * /BEFORE ATTENDING SCHQOL | Avcording to a letter recently re- ceived by the School Board from A. E. Karnes, Commissioner of Educa- ls tion, Dr,' W. W. Cauncil, Territor- )| 1al'Health Commissioner, has order- edithat 'all children be vaccinated before they start school this Fall T MRS. L‘JNDELL ENTERTAINS FOR. COLLEGE STUDENTS Miss. Hilja Reinikka and William ' Cablien,. students from the Univer-| | ' sity’ of ' Alaska, home for a short| | visit,. were honored at & luncheon | | given. yesterday afternoon by Mrs. || @, Lundell. Covers were laid for t sevét. Both the young people plan td “Faitbanks, Miss Reinikka going to Fairbanks by plane next Tues- and Cashen in two weeks for his third year. Mr. and Mrs. Lundell themselves | have two children at the Alaska Oollege, Harry who will be in his| " third year a§ a student of mining | ! engineering and Elsa in her second | 4 Year of preparing to be a teacher. MISSES SHUDSHIFT ARE HONOR GUESTS BOAT PARTY several social functions be- ing’’' given complimentary to the Misses Martha and Margaret Shud- shigt, who are Visiting their ‘aunt . and' uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Arne Shudshift, was one last evening of | inaccustomed pleasiire for them, a | boat party to Greens Bay. Bightesn | young poople made the' trip, visiting the“wreck of the Islander. The boa: Thige Deuces, Capt: Art Berggren took the party out.: ; to leave soon for their return trip| ddy, for her last year's enrollment | Countess Barbara Hardenberg-Reventlow, heiress to the Wool- worth “five and dime” millions, is shewn with her new husband, Count’ Haugwitz, as they alighted in Paris from a boat train. The wealthy Countess said she intends to live in Europe because she is “afraid of American kidnapers.” By ROGER D. GREENE . ‘ancry, the Countess will guards to blackguards. prefer LCNDON, Aug. 15.—In her flight 842 abroad "becnus‘f" s0 she says, <§m 1 am tired of having guards {afraid of American kidnapers,” foliow tie ewryhers.” Wi RO Countéss Hardenberg - Reventlow, |edly said, on sailing for Europe |she former Pxincess Mdivani nee | With her new husband, .the dash- {Barbara Hutton, may find a hor- ""g Opugt S inet’s nest of menaces to her five-| She will not need them abroad. and-dime store millions. “Twill be|On her arrival at beauitful old less violent, perhaps, but mot less|Castle Hardenberg, on the Island { potent. of Lolland, Denmark, the American ¢ s heiress saw her fears of the ‘thnt Europe's suave ‘“‘conmen” are turies-ald . moats. sl \grif | iawers. | just &5 likely to yearn after as their England's Record Clean more brusque: brethren across the| Eyen without the moats and tow- Atlantic. ers, she will be comparatively safe. It well may he that after en- |A survey of Europe indicates that countering the delicate nuances of |kidnaping for ransom 1s strictly blackmail, high-finance swlndunglan American msutunon > BASEBALL GAME SCHEDULED -l | The fine weattier nas revived base | ball interest hére again after & pe- | riod of dormancy due to the long, ! rainy spell and tonight the matried i and'single men will . The game is Bcheduled for: 6 o'clock sharp. ters are expected out in forcs. Andy Andrews is hy ! side atld Grly and other. ‘Feusi and JMH ‘are leflni one’ of their on Fromit stregt, opposite the Old Island ‘ho- | tel for use .as‘a' garage. The huild- +ing “recently used by boat builders, was once a cigar'store; and also a saloon in the old days: ' ' | —————— PICNIC BEING HELD The members of $he Douglas TH- land Women's Club are on a picnle today at the Treadwell beach. This altefnoon sports of various kinds,| swimiming and eats are being en-| joyed. Late this afterpoon the hus- bands of members are expected ' to join the women and an enjoyable evening is predicted. — et . SALMON BROUGHT.IN, clate nt&hm and a the® boyt ammm e; days ol ng - lor one| Adqggab]a to Anyumdlwdud ' reu;wueugepts of amy class jof: ?q}ldlngs and harmohizes pé) - ctly wnh all styles of. furn- ishings. . TiE @ DECfiTINT is milled in white and in deep rich colors all of which " are’ inter-mixable to produce any desired shade. N | HIIIIIIMIIIIMNIIIIIIHIHIIIIIIIImfllllllllllllII“Ill!lfilIHlflmmmmIMIIIIIIHHlIIIIlllllHImIIIIIIIIRIIIIHIHHH“IIIHIHHII WAAL - RECKON THEM THAR LETTERS ORTER LO- u)lZlE GLAD$0¥_E |through musty records for decades {back without. finding « single in- |stance in England of “the snatch” for ransom as practiced in the U d States. The nearesu |seizure of Dr. London in 1896; approach was the Sun Yat Sen in but that had a ing a price of $500,000 on his head Hm owing his escape from China. \Ancgedly kidnaped at the instiga- |tion of the Chinese Legation Here, he was released when the vener- able Marquis of Salisbury, then Foreign Secretary, threatened to break into the legation. As a “big business” kidnaping has never even been attempted in England. Actually, the highest ran- som ever demanded, according to |available records, was $15, which 2 hotel klmhen pomzr demmded Eventhem time unless It’s the gin | A A farnace 1 A roset cos you an estiraate of HOME OF |political background, Dr. Sen hav- MAKE ) for the He but the p: {in the urn of a missing child kidnaped the child, reatening letter to when he .aw an appeal papers German Penalties Severe 1 In Ge ny kidnaping is a term associated with the United States, except entirely political kid- napings such as the Herr Jacob “snatch m . Switzerland « and other N aids.” Ransom kid- naping has little chance of becom- ing a “favorite sport” in the third | Reich bec |drastic that ause no member of 'ing an heiress Moreover, the criminal police of Burope » obligingly exchange in- formation with neighboring coun- tries (h it would be folly to at- PAW T JES' FEEL EZ GAYLY N' SPRIGHTLY A GAL the penalties are so | the | |underworld would think of purloin- | ) VES -S\R-EE - 1L HOP OVER T JUDGE UPHAM Td' A M AN' LET HIM QUB HIS NOSE_OVER THESG_ LETxERS | jthe type made [amous tim across the border. In France, Countess would find much the same safety —from kidnapers, at least. For| when the French criminal covets! |a millionaire’s gold he goes after it in more subtle ways. When practicea at all, the| ‘snatch” in France has been for political purposes. The Russian General, Alexandre Kou tepoff, whose unsolved disappear- ance in 1630 was charg~d to Soviet Secret I’olice, was jachably the most famous ca:e. Opera Bouffe Game Ended In central Europe Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania and Yugoslavia—kidnaping for ran- som also is unknown. sections of the Balkans where it used to be a source of steady in- Barbara ! 8 usually iheard of now and then in the Bal- There are | Where home! (iPripare for winter by havin ; your, heating plants re- paired during warm weather. C. H. Metca'fe Co. GENBRAL ELECTRIC OIL FURN ACES tempt to smuggle a "snatch vie- come lox berlbboned brlgands q( “SAY, YOU KNOW HOW li)ahl operds, bul the practice ub gis- appeared, The condition is equally true in Italy, where Mussolini’s strict, po- | ice system has stamped gut the Mafia of Sicily and the Camorra' of the mainland cities. Those entry preferred, the “protection” racket to the ‘“snateh™ but used to ‘'employ the latter occasionally. 'PAA LOCKHEED FROM INTERIOR The PAA Lockheed Electra arrived yesterday from Fairbanks with Pi- lots Jerry Jones and William Knox at the controls. M. E. Hardy was a passenger from Fairbanks to White- BALKAN KIDNAPING PLOTS |horse. HAVE ROMANTIC TWIST VIENNA, Aug. 14—A kidnaping game of peculiar local flavor is S TR O REILAND ARRIVES HERE TO BECOME SCHILLING AGENT maiden’s family objects to the E. J. (Jerry) Reiland arrived kidnaper as a sultor. Generalfy here earlier this week from Seattle there is a happy ending to those to relieve H. B. Crewson as Alaska affairs, the young man's spunk Trepresentative for A. Schilling and arousing the admiration of his Company of San Francisco. father-in-law. Riland has been with his firm In some districts of Albania, for the past nine years. He was the old custom of buying | transferred from Washington and brides ‘still holds, an impecunious Oregon to handle the Alaska trade. pdmirer coetisionally steals the girl| OCrewson announced today that he to esgape . Paymg from $50 to $100 | had resigned as Schillings repre- to har father, | sentative ‘here and that he will But Countess leave on the Princess Louise to- kan countries. Determined teal girls, lovers sometimes usually because the| Barbara Hutton- | {Mdivani-Reventlow would scarcely /MOrTow morning for Vancouver, B. C., and Seattle. He expecls to re- turn soon and continue to make her rat- be in danger there despite riches for divorced women led far below par in the marriage his headquarters in Juneau. market. Crewson had been with the Schil- TO MIX "EM I/ “YOU MEAN..I KNOW WHAT GIN TO PUT: ost expert bartender can’t make a perfect Martini every the gin is right all the time. That’s why bars famous for their'gin drinks use Hiram Walker’s Distilled London Dry Gin. that never goes off the quality standard! 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