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The Alaskan., 1932-03-25
PLAIN TALK By E. s. HungerfOrd, Candi- date for Delegate to Repub- lican National Convention

Primary election will be with Us very shortly. It is time that Alaska citizens commenced tc |give the question, Who's who and why?" a little attention and try to see clearly through the political smudges that are being raised. Who are we going to vote for in the primaries and why? There are some grave questions to be decided thic year.
 Primary elections have their faults; they came very close to being abolished by the last Ter ritorial Legislature. They are proving inconvenient to the well oiled plans of would be bosscc who would much rather hand pick candidates for the differen' offices than to have voters de eide the policies of the parties.
 Of one thing you may rest as sured: Had the primaries been abolished by the last Legislature the Republican voters of Alaska would never have been calico upon to consider the arguments of such a political throwback as myself. I have been told that I do not click; that I am no politi elan; that I have no business in politics, and that I am rocking the boat. Well so be it!
 I have always been more or less of a supporter of Republi can administrations Nationally and have never seen any good reason for doing otherwise in Alaska. The Democrats have never held forth any very prac- tical solution of our difficulties. I am in the same position as a good many other Alaska Repub- licans. I have looked over the Democratic offerings and fail to see where they are more to De desired than those of the Re- publicans. I have remained 6 Republican, but I will be blamed if I will unreservedly endorse the last four years of admins tration in Alaska as Republican. What we need is not a change of vehicles, but a change of drivers.
 The argument will be ex- tensively used that we should support the present administra- tion on account of the present free service Alaska is receiving from Federal sources. There is no denying that we have been receiving considerable such benefit. Most of it very satis- factory.
 Of course I am ignorant but as near as I have been able to find out; lighthouses, marshals, custom officers, land officers National park service, road ap- appropriations. U. s. Engineers.
The Alaskan., 1932-03-25
MAD HOUSE ECONOMY

pr. Thomas H. Robinson, so- oiology instructor at Colgate University recently speaking of present day economy as "the economy of a mad house." This was due to the current Ameri- can practice of continually pro ducing more of the worlds goods and providing workers with less and less wages with which to buy them.
The Alaskan., 1932-03-25
POLITICAL STRAINS

Speaking of the recent elec- tions h North Dakota. the elec-
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tion judges declared that the demand for Democratic ballots indicated that thousands of Re- publicans had switched to the Democratic Party-at least for the primary. We'll now, what was there to be expected?
The Alaskan., 1932-03-25
NEVER HAD FAITH

Senator Byrnes recently de- clared that "the farmers had lost faith in the Farm Board 7 Seems he slipped on a banana peel-the farmers never had faith in the board and that was justified.
The Alaskan., 1932-03-25

agricultural experiment stations,
 etc., are functioning all over the
 United States, giving excellent
 service and showing every indi-
 cation of continuing to do so.
 To threaten Alaskans with the
 loss of this service is an insult to our intelligence. Unfortunate
 ly we cannot eat service and the
 burning question is: How are Alaskans going to continue to eat?" Crude isn't it!
 If we could soar in the air indefinately like the condor and subsist on mosquitoes like the dragon fly we might not be in
 terested in our land or water. Unfortunately we are subject to human frailtieS and must look to these sources for our sub stance. Let us look!
 Tn our fisheries we have the dcmineering rule of Henry O. Malley who, as Commissioner of Fisheries, has imposed, in our salmon fisheries, a condition of affairs entirely foreign to the intent of the White Fisheries Bill and to equality and decency, and who only recently blocked q plea from the people of Alaska that our herring fisheries be protected from Wanton waste. Very plainly is to be read the message that O'Malley is not here for the only purpose of conserving the fisheries of Alas ka; but to establish monoplies and protect large n-resident exploiters from competition from small operators and local fishermen.
 On our land we have the Bu- reau of Forestry who have suc- cessfully blocked settlement and development for twenty years and who have succeeded, by means of arbitrary cutting re- gulationS and obstructionist ex- port policies, in preventing any revenue to be derived from our and who at present are trying their double darndest to put over a program which will pass over the lands under their control to the inconsiderate ex- ploitation of nonresident cor porationS, and doom southeast ern Alaska to remain a wilder ress forever.
 The Democrats will no doubt continue to 'holler' for Terri torial this and Territorial that, which under present conditions and a fair and impartial ad- uinistration under Federal of- f1cers, even the dumbest of us know, is neither to be expected C., in a good many cases, at present to be desired.
 I am not one of those who blame MT. Hoover for the pre- sent world depression or the of snow we had last but he heads the Admin istration which for the last four years has upheld the hand of 3 OMalley in our fisheries and that of the Forest Service off, ,ials on our land. By refusing to ce-indorse him as President we are lodging our protest.
 A vote for me in the primaries will mean that Alaska Repub leans are seeking more Alaska presidential timber. Just whom that will be remains to be determined as opposition to MT. Flowers nomination develops.
 Are you going to vote for me md lodge your protest or are you going to allow your vote to say in effect: -Four more years of the same please; we like it."
 E. s. Hungerford
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-29
TWO-THIRDS RULE RETAINED.

The Rules Committee of the Democratic Natlonal Convention in retaining for it's own procedure the rule recurring twothirds of it's voting strength to nominate the Presidential candidate acted wisely. Not necessarily that the rule is sound or workable from a standpoint of practical politics. Too often it has operated to a great material hurt to the party itself The theory behind the rule is that where any candidate can obtain such preponderant majority of the delegates he is assured of general support and is more likely to be the real choice of the convention than one who possibly by clever manipulation gains majority vote at the convention
 That has not always been the case. In notable instances candidates with slightly less than the required thirds vote have failed of nomination through the implacabilty of the minority, and the convention after almost endless ballong was forced to select some compromise candidate In these cases party splits inevitably resulted It is true that the candidate with a majority is usually nominated, which should be an argument for abrogating the rule instead of retaining it. If the rule is to be dropped however it ought to be decided upon before the convention meets at which the step is taken. It must be done a matter of general policy and not to gain an advantage for some special candidate In the present convention, the movement to abrogate the rule was started to benefit of the candidates for the nomnation-Gov. Roosevelt. For that reason, the Rules Committee was well advised to make change at this time
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-29
Why Grow Old?
(New York Herald Tribune.


 There is nothing new scientifically in the facts emphasized last week before the Medical Society of the State of New York by Dr. David J. Kaliski about the increasing death rate among older frac-
 tons of the community It is only laymen who still shocked by the discovery that all of the boasted medical science and sanitation of the last three decades has done nothing than to decrease the danger of death disease among the young; that middle-aged and elderly people are dying even younger the average than they did genera ton ago The increase, experts agree, is probably lmeangngleSs. When more people died in childhood Tor youth weddings tended to be eliminated. Ac- lcordingy, the minority of persons who lived beyond forty were harder than and lived longer. The truth s-and it is significant enough-that science has not heightened the expectation of life for the lmiddle-aged
 Not long ago Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rocke- Heller Institute, formulated idea of what he called lphysiologic time There go in any living organ ism, he said, certain biochemical processes which seem to progressively from birth to death, like la clock wound up which must then run down. There is visible hope of stopping this clock and living agelessly forever. That part of the dream lof Ponce de Leon is but a dream.
 Could it be realized indeed, it might prove to be nightmare. Yet the very facts which Dr. Car lrel and other physiologists cite disclose hope and problem, for meaning of these facts is that the physiologic clocks in different individuals run lat different rates Some persons do live to be ltenarians older. Some do stay young in mind ana Dody years longer than others or the same nation, family These differences must mask secret which laymen properly may ask the medical profession to seek.
 One way of attacking this secret is that dis cussed at the medical assembly before which Dr.
 Kask spoke What the of aging? Why lis there a physologic clock at all? What regulates it's rate? One oldtime theory, that of aging an leffect of germ infections seems to be exploded by the failure of the substantial conquest of many germ infections to engthen lives for those who Ithe dangers of youth. Lack of viamins in the food too much food, too much stimulation by civilza- tion, heredity-al have been suggested as causes of the fact that people grow older than others in the same span of years Decision between these theories clearly is impossible at present. but here certainly is problem of medical research which be- comes pressing than the further conquests of disease.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-29

SYNOPSIS: A new brand of Kidnapping is introduced by a mysterious gang, who abduet Nancy Wentworth, a popular musical comedy star, Lucci, notorious gangster, and four wealthy business men. Rela- tives of the kidnapped persons are informed that they must pay board money" to insure the prisoners safety. Jerry Calhoun, airplane pilot, who was with Nancy when she was kidnapped, his friend Emory Bat ties, and Stevens, a detective, pick up the trail of the gang where the money is collected, and follow the hydroplane in their new airplane. The cap lives find themselves in some tropical place, where the un- certainty and heat undermine their nerves. The leader of the gang, Ashwood, cultured man who is very lame, watches their strained emotions. Lucci and Mallory, a millionaire stock broker, in rivalry over Nancy, begin to quarrel. Incited by Ashwood, they start fighting what Nancy believes to be a battle to the death"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-29
Platform Changes.
(New York Times.)


 Except for it's plank on Prohibition and it's apologia for hard times replacing claim to Re- publican guaranteed prosperity, the platform adopted last week at Chicago will not seem to many read CTS to differ greatly from that of four years ago. The promise to establish agriculture on parity" with industry is repeated in the vague language used at Kansas City The party more pledged itself simultaneously to remove "mpediments' from the path of international trade yet to retain them The apparently irresistible impulse which compes platform makers to include long series of axioms on such controversial questions as Indians |" Crime" Alaska" Narcotics and Hawaii" is once more in evidence In it's closing passages, reaffrm- ing the traditional superiority of Republicans, the document borrows heavily from its predecessors.
 Nevertheless, there at certain points signif- cant omissions, changes and additions Four years ago the Republican Party specifically discussed the war debts and admitted no doubt of its ability to collect them This year it is silent that ques- tion which implies commendable desire the part of the Administration to avoid impossible mitments in a rapidly changing situation. Four years ago the party commented the action of Congress in further liberalizng the laws applicable Ito veterans relief It was such further lberaliza Itions" which imposed on the Government charge lof more than $400,000000 annually account of disabilities in no way connected with war service This year the party says on the subject of disability from causes subsequent and not attributable to war" that "a careful study should be made of exist ing veterans legislation, with view to eliminating inequalities and injustces and effecting all possible economies"
 There are other innovations For the first time the party urges that authority be granted to the Federal Power Commission ito regulate the charges for electric current when transmitted across State lines" It discusses in more specific terms than il used four years ago the problems of the railways and favors regulation of competing forms of trans Iportation under conditions of equality" It raises the question of bank regulation subject overlooked Kansas City, and recommends revision of existing laws 'so to place our banking structure on sounder basis protected by more stringent super vision and broader powers vested in the supervising authorities" Times change, and the slow-moving machinery of party government accommodates itself II to conditions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-29
Gamblers Throw
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his knees. If he noticed the quiet man on the beach who lounged near machine-gun tripod, he was not interested. Nancy, very alluring in simple dress of brown organdy, appeared at the door Her gC'den hair seemed to catch all the light in that shady corner of the porch She saw Ashwood and hesitated | The cripple snapped out of his ab- straction, rose With surprising grace and bowed.
 Good morning, Miss Went worth. There's a delightful breeze. Won't you join me?" ! She looked at him in frank cur iosity, then took the chair he had indicated.
 T am simply bursting with con- ceit," he said, easing himself into his chair. That organdy dress is perfect. The arrogant saleslady tried to tell me I should have chosen green She was wrong. I knew it then, and I'm positive of 1t now. You are very beautiful, Miss Wentworth"
 Do you mean to tell me?" she demanded, that you picked out the wardrobe I found in my clos et?"
 T admit it with becoming blush es. tottered from one end of Fifth Avenue to another, simply overwhelming the, salespeople with my unerring taste" What a strange person you are, MT. Ashwood," she observed medi- tatively.
 There was a half knocking light in his eyes as he met her somber gaze.
 How penetrating" he murmer- ed.
 She flushed at her own cliche. He did not push his advantage, but lay back in his chair and re-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-29

It is better to straddle than not to have lei to stand on.-(Boston Transcript)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-29
DIR. BUTLER IS FRANK.

In copyrighted interview appearing in the New York World-Telegram just after his return from the Republican National Convention delegate and where his plank for submitting resolution to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment defeated, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia Uni versity, predicted that the looking both-ways Pro- hbition plank finally adopted would defeat Presi- dent Hoover and carry the Republican Party lover the dam" next November unless the New England and Middle Atlantic States repudiated it in their State conventions. This few of them will do, as has already been announced by various State leaders
 The approved plank "every word of which was passed on by the President" he declared to be political blunder of the first magnitude sired by Muddlehead out of Cowardice. violates every tradition of the Republican Party. the only redeemng feature is that there is no possible chance of it being adopted by the people"
 Not only did he criticize the Prohibition plank but he condemned the convention for it's failure to deal honestly with the country's present econ- omic condition Disputing the theory that the na- ton and the world will recover automatically from the depression he believes the reason the paramount
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-29
LET'S MAKE THE FOURTH A BIG ONE.

The American Legion post of this city mas ar ranged a fine and appropriate program TOT tNe Fourth of July Not only will the community ceie- brate fittingly the nations natal day but It VIII this year observe again the bcentennal ot the birth of George Washington Part of the program will be devoted to the latter is most proper for such an occasion.
 The Legionnaires have shown their usual CIVIC spirit in taking charge of the preparations Tor the Chamber of Commerce and the city generally It only remains for the people as a whole to CO., operate with them in order to make it an un- qualified success shine. The celebration will be on as large a scale in former years, in fact the program is more varied and covers wider scope If there is any depression in our midst and due to a surplus of labor that has graVitated here in recent months some effects are felt, it will not be readily discernable next Monday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-29
CAPT. CARL WILEY NOT IMPLICATED.

Local people who became well acquainted with the Wileys during their attempted salvage of the Islander wreck astounded at the news, con- tained in Associated Press despatch Tuesday, that Ebert Fl Wiley had been arrested on charge of holding up the Seattle postoffce during the holiday season last year. He and his two brothers, Capt. Carl and Raymond. spent months here during that work. The press reports of the arrest of Ebert and his brother Raymond and the Identification slightly confusing It Capt Carl who invented the diving bell used who did most of the diving, and who resided here with his wife No charge was made against him for complcity in the robbery, Mrs. Ebert Wiley, far as is known, was never here during the period of the salvage effort.
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sumed his indolent watch over sea and sky
 , T can't imagine the same man enjoyed shopping for feminine ap- parel one day and conducting a kidnapping expedition the next. She was determined to draw him out. He interested her, this frail man who looked and spoke like a scholarly sophisicate despite the ob viouS fact that he was a deSper- ate criminal. ''Mr. Lucci tells me that you are one of the greatest l figures in gangdom."
 MT. Lucci is too flattering," he replied drily. Ut is true, of course, that we both come under the gen. eral term of gangsters, but there is something direct and forceful about One-shot's work that I could never hope to equal"
 Again that mocking gleam flash ed from his vivid blue eyes.
 T would be more successful in my chosen career" he continued comfortably, If I could be more like the worthy One-shot, who is downright, persevering and unim- aginative. One of my little foibles is that bootlegging per SC, does not stimulate me"
 He offered her a cigarette, then went on in dry, almost pedantic tone.
 My own efforts, as you may have observed, run to more un- usual things. This guest house of mine, for instance; you must ad- init that it offers a marvellous op- portunity for profit, as well as a most intriguing laboratory for the study of human psychology Where else might one have witnessed the
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gan to flutter, rapidly losing his strength as the life-giving air was denied his labored lungs.
 Then suddenly, he became limp Lucci held on, obvious to all the world except that inhuman facl before his eyes.
 That's enough" Ashwood's s voice snapped through the silent room like pistol shot. Lucci held on.
 The cripple hobbled across the floor with amazing speed. His face still bore an expression of disinterested enjoyment. A blue black streak cut a half circle through the air as the butt of his heavy automatic crashed down on Lucci's head Without sigh or groan, the intent, rigid figure slumped down like a bundle of old clothes tossed across the insensi- ble form of his enemy.
 Ashwood turned away negligent ly, whistled a shril, birdlike note and said:
 Put them to bed"
 Four burly guards who had ma- terialized out of nowhere at all, picked up the two unconscious men and bore them from the room. Then, for the first time in her life, Nancy Wentworth tainted.
 The long porch, under the caress of a faint morning trade wind was almost endurable.
 Ashwood lounged in a deck chair smoking a cigarette and idly gaz- ing over the turquoise water to- ward the tiny segment of horizon between two islands to the west ward A copy of Soldiers of For tune" lay open but forgotten on
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economic issues were not aired at Chicago is that the convention "nonplussed at the gravity and magnitude of the countrys plight" and that the delegates had mo penetrating analysis of the situation to guide them"
 The Republican Party is short leadership in his opinion and the Democrats have a virtual monopoly of Presidential timber, and he quotes Ehu Root famous New York Republican, as being of the same mind. Two years ago. he said, MT. Root wanted to know What has happened to party? Twenty five years ago we had all the talent Now the Democrats have it all"
 Dr. Butler charges that the delegates bowed to orders from Washington in adopting the wet-dry moist Prohibition plank. With hand the reins it will be interesting to see what kind of a plank the Democratic Convention evolves the same issue.
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elemental struggle which occurred last evening""
 The effect of the heat and the enforcing propinquety, too, offers a study worthy of much consider ation. Five carefully selected men and one woman. Out of the lot only you and MT. Hamilton appear to have withstood the strain with out cracking. And I have my doubts about Mir. Hamilton"
 Ashwood produced gold and platinum cigarette case and care fully selected another cigarette.
 But why" demanded Nancy, did you pick me out as one of your subjects? I'm not at all wealthy. There must be hundreds and hundreds of women who could pay you more than | If you have already collected $6O0,000 from our folks, my share would have been s10O,0O0. And if mother has paid you that, it has used up every cent I have in the world and more"
 My dear Miss Wentworth" Ash woods sardonic voice was shocked. You don't think I am making you pay your own board bill, l hope?"
 Who is paying it, then?"
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-29

So far the Roosevelt forces have had things their own way in the Democratic Convention in Chicago. They dominate the various committees and selected both the temporary and permanent chairmen. The real test will come Thursday Friday when bal loting for the Presidential nomination begins. The decisive majority by which they seated Senator J. T. Walsh as permanent chairman is a fair augury for their candidates nomination.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-29
CHAPTER 13. A FIGURE IN GANGDOM

Lucci and Mallory went down in a reverberating crash. ~ The gang ster, clinging to his adversary throat like a bull terrier to a bone
 Mallory's knees came up in a spasm of pain, His face became mottled, his jade green eyes pro truding like those of a gargoyle
 His hands beat ineffectively against Lucci's rigid arms as the latter thumbs pressed down into the windpipe. His arms and legs be-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-29

When Chairman Fess ordered the Stadium eec- tricians to turn out the high-powered lights some Democrats audiby wondered if he wasn't getting reconciled to the soft glow of twilight-(Chcago News.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-29

Come to think of it, legalizing beer wouldn't be treating the speakeasies just right Florida Times Union)