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as males. But Miss Hayes has found
them smarter, so she trained canary
circus. Its outstanding performer is a
self-possessed bird named Emma
Emma is a dauntless soul, not in.
Inundated by man or beast, or two
UNDERGROUND photographers. She
and the other circus performers ride
toy tricycles, walk tight rope, climb
a winding stairs, swing on a trapeze,
perform other clever tricks and accept
the praise that comes their way as
their just due. Two OF the birds work
on the railroad" riding a miniature
hand car round and round the track.
There is no magic in canary train
ing. Miss Hayes insists. First, be sure
your bird likes you, for if he doesn't
all your efforts will be wasted. See that
his physical needs are attended to;
and take care that he isn't thwarted
in love. for lovelorn bird won't sing.
Miss Hayes starts training the birds
as soon as they can hear, and that's
pretty early in life 1t took her seven
months to train her first birds to
whistle tune. but now the young
birds hear their parents whistling.
which makes training easier for the
birds - and the teacher. Last year
she raised forty-fve young and every
one whistled Yankee Doodle" at
eight or ten weeks.
But. without the aid of the parents,
it takes lot of patience and under
standing.
Miss Hayes attributes much of her
success to her skill in matching the
tune to the bird You can't teach Just
any tune to just any canary, she says;
you must consider the pitch and range
of his voice. and the rhythm of his
natural song.
Yankee Doodle" is a rollicking
tune and well suited to the birds vocal
capacity. says Miss Hayes; but some
birds in her troupe sing other songs.
One ambitious youngster attempted
The Rosary" but he couldn't
whistle it all the way through - the
half tones were too much for him.
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cuffed garment fell to the earth reveal.
ing that her wrists and her throat were
jeweled. She had on a necklace of
pearls, a diamond mounted wrist.
watch. and broad emerald and dia-
mond bracelet that had been an
engagement present from Todd. She
had on also the ring he had given her.
But it was not on these valuables
that the mans eyes rested now. True,
his look shifted from one bright bauble
to another. but at once it rested on her
body - upon her slim ankles below
the hem of her skirt, upon her bare
shoulders. her bare arms. She had the
feeling of a naked white slave in
black mans market place. And a
deeper. more saturating terror than
that which she had known in the pre-.
ceding moments possessed her.
There was no need that he should
put into speech his new intent. 1t was
exactly as though this human asp said
to her:
This is a richer prospect than I
had hoped for. First III get rid of
your two young men. Then ="
She wanted to scream out - and
didn't dare. She wanted to plead
with him - and couldn't. A single
outcry from her. a single attempt at
resistance by either of her companions.
and the work of killing would be pre-
cipitated--of that intuitively she was
certain.
And then, all at once, the wretch
began to chuckle. He was enjoying
the expression on Rossiter's face. As
he evidently interpreted it, fear was
turning Rossiter's face into a comic
mask Rossiter's cheeks were sucked
in until the jawbones showed through
the shrunken skin, and Rossiter's lips
pursing up in curious pucker, and
Rossiter's eyes were squirting up as
though Rossiter might be getting
ready to burst into tears.
1t was such good joke that he
had to laugh out. He did, loudly. And
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his laugh ended in an agonized howl.
The pistol. fired without aim. barked
once. twice, its bullets going wild and
harming no one. Then Todd leaped
forward to do his share. His athletic
body flew across the intervening space,
and both his fists landed, one on the
point of the jaw, the other squarely
between the enemy's blinded eyes,
where it made the moist smearing
which had suddenly appeared there
spatter out in a kind of amber-colored
asterisk.
Pat felt her knees giving way under
her and sat down on the grass, for the
first time in her healthy young life
half fainting away. What brought her
back to actualities was remark ut
tered in an almost casual tone by that
blessed marksman from Butte.
He and Todd had the wriggling,
screeching footpad down, face to the
ground. Chewing away blithely, he
knelt on their prisoners heaving shoul
ders while Todd. having knotted two
handkerchiefs and a cravat together
into serviceable rope, was graphing
with the prisoners threshing arms in
an endeavor to pinion his wrists be-
hind his back.
Wait a minute, old man, till turn
him over" the victorious sharpshooter
was saying. It'll be only kindness to
tie his hands in front of him - so he
can reach up and claw at his eyes once
in a while. You'd be astonished how
that stuff burns when it lands in your
eyes, said Rossiter, still chewing away.
So at that Pat got up, very shaky.
from where she had dropped, and she
bided her chance until the struggle was
ended. and then she somewhat hys-
terically kissed Todd and after that
she kissed Rossiter, not on the cheek
but full on the lips and, so doing,
caught a pronouncedly nicotinish smell.
For the moment at least, it seemed to
her the grandest smell she'd ever
smelled in her entire life.
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The Sharpshooter
Continued from page fwo

how she bumped into tree boles and
stumblingly angled clear of them; how
she and Todd and Rossiter backed
and backed until by direction from
their master, he shepherding them
along like the vigilant drill-rnaster of
an awkward squad. they brought up
in small glade that was hidden from
the road.
While it was all happening. though.
her whole being was concentrated in
an orbit of horror and apprehension
upon their captor. Her eyes told her
that she had fallen into the hands OF
creature in whom all Imaginable craft
and cruelty was summed up. In his
triumph he radiated a malignancy. a
capacity for inflicting nameless indig-
mites, if so minded, which even in that
moment she told herself would be no
part OF an ordinary bandit. 1t was as
though he swan at them through a
film of his own distilled viciousness.
1t was not so much the gloating
play across his pasty-white face with
the slick unwholesome patina upon it
that betokened drug-hend, nor the
eyes that glared at them with so
venomous an intensity, nor the baleful
foppishness of his flashy garments, as
though butcher had put on his
Sunday best for slaughter house work
- it was not any one of these things
but rather all Of them plus an almost
visible emanation which made him the
composite of evil and degeneracy.
And here now the helpless three of
them stood abreast under the hyp-
nothing spells of his weapon and Of
his dreadful sinister personality -
these three who less than five minutes
before had been detouring along
through peaceful country road bound
for smart dinner party.
The hold-up mans next words we're
addressed to the girl.
"Slide out of that cloak of yours"
he ordered. Make it snappy, Frail."
She minded him. The loose, deep
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What's the matter. old chap"
asked Todd.
Not changing his position, the
stranger muttered words. They caught
some of them - dizziness all of
sudden :. had to stop. =. here a long
while"
Poor fellow" murmured Pat.
Here. Jess" volunteered Todd,
Tets get him on his pins"
The two men moved closer with in
tent to take the sufferer by the arms
and raise him, Pat advancing with
them.
The lolled head snapped erect. the
transfer med figure sprang upright. and
the stranger was alertly on his feet
and in command of the situation,
holding them under the foreshortened
muzzle of an automatic pistol which
shifted from left to right and back
again.
Stick 'em up, friends" he bade the
astounded trio with sort of fevered
and ferocious gayety. And keep 'em
up"
Never before having heard that
command given, Pat nevertheless in
stantly obeyed it. AS her opened palms
lifted past the level of her ears. her
fascinated stare fixed on the daunting
armed apparition before her, Pat was
somehow aware that her companions
were doing the same thing, their hands
going aloft jerkily, as hers did, but
going.
"GoodT the stranger exulted. Now
get this: Step off into them bushes
behind you and keep stepping until l
give the word. Never mind turning
round to see which way you're going.
Keep your lamps on me. III steer you
with this" With his pistol barrel he
made a darting motion.
Afterwards Pat, for one. was able
to recreate from her consciousness
separate items of recollection. She was
able to remember how briars tore at
her stockings and stung at her ankles;
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MY Old Kentucky Home" thus
making a medley. He celebrated his
third birthday on May 25th.
"Caruso," about a year old now,
is another star performer. He whistles
Yankee Doodle" so softly and
sweetly that one would almost believe
he was whistling sacred number;
and he drops from one note to the
other in true operatic grace.
Buddy" has been two years before
the public and he likes his audiences
to be large. He whistles better when
plenty of folks crowd around him.
The more they laugh the more he
whistles; sometimes he'll repeat verse
and chorus dozen times lit depends
upon how well pleased his audience is)
and if there are no cheers he gives his
own Hip. hip, hooray"
Female canaries rarely sing, and,
when they do, they do not sing as well
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oak and Scrub-pine. The familiar Long
Island of smart villages and million
aires estates and ambitious real
estate developments suddenly was
extinguished behind them. They passed
section of somebody's high-fenced
hunting preserve, passed few scat
tered small homesteads, then for a
longish stretch nothing was to be seen
ahead or on either flank excepting
trees and thickets touched on their
off-sides with the slanting sun-rays.
Il never suspected you had reg
ular wilderness this close to New York
City" remarked Rossiter.
Il knew this woodland was here"
said Todd, but | didn't know there
was so much Of it. Or so few signs of
h,gqan life. We haven't met anybody
since that last little farmhouse"
Just then they rounded sharp
turn and came upon a fellow traveller,
who seemed to be in difficulties. A
small smart-looking two-seater was
drawn up at the side of the road. A
well-dressed young man sat on the
inner running board of his car. He was
hunched down in a posture suggesting
weakness. His head was down. his
neck sagging. His hands dangled in his
lap. His hat was off and lying in
sandy rut. As they neared him, their
own car slowing down, the slumped
figure stirred but did not straighten.
One arm, raised as if with an effort,
- AS waved in gesture that carried an
appeal.
Wed better stop" said Todd.
He steered wide of the halted car
and brought his machine to stand
still few rods on beyond. AS he and
Rossiter got out. Pat said:
Wait, I'm coming too. He looks
sick - terribly sick"
Struck me the same way" Ros-
sitter said.
At their hurried approach the hud-
died shape on the running-board did
not move.
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bv PEGGY Won DER GOLTZ

sidered complete and beyond addition,
he learned MY Old Kentucky
Home"
Sitting on Miss Hayes finger,
White Wings will peck her hand be-
tween verses. Sometimes he gets his
song pitched too high; then he stops
and takes the tone. do, mi. sol, mi,"
and starts all over. Occasionally he
will whistle line of Yankee Doodle"
and follow it with bar or two from
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for some years; she has taught many
birds to whistle tunes and wild bird
calls - she even has a canary choir
which sings in perfect harmony. and a
flock of trick canaries which can do
many kinds of circus stunts - but
White Wings remains her star per-
former. He learned to whistle Yankee
Doodle" when he was youngster.
and. at the mature age of year and a
half, when a canary's song is con-
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pearance; but he is worth
his weight in gold. When he hops on
his mistress hand. cocks a bright,
black eye at an admiring world, and
whistles Yankee Doodle" in sweet,
precise little voice you understand
why he is so precious.
White Wings mistress, Miss Lillian
Hayes, of Dunreith, Indiana. has
been breeding and training canaries
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-16
ROPER PUSHING AIRPORT WORK
 FOR TERRITORY
Secretary of Commerce Asks Conference to Press
 Demands for Action

Secretary of Commerce Daniel c Roper is pressing demands for favor able action on the s2.900,000 alloca- tion of funds for Alaska airport im- provements, according to information from Washington today via the Asso- ciated Press. The Secretary has ask ed Postmaster General James A. Far ley, Secretary of War George Dern and Delegate Anthony J. Dimond to confer with Harry L. Hopkins, head of the Works Progress Administra- ton, with the purpose of pushing the proposed projects forward.
 Secretary Roper declares the pro- jects will benefit the Department of Commerce, Army and Navy in ad- dition to aiding in the developmens of Alaska.
 The airport program has been dor mant for the last several weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-16
BREWSTER IS IN CITY FOR
 BRIEF VISIT
Aeronautics Inspector Ar rives on Northwestern.
 Goes Out on Victoria

Hugh Brewster, Inspector of Aero nautics, Department of Commerce arrived from his headquarters at Anchorage on the Northwestern MT. Brewster is here to confer with Ike P. Taylor of the Alaska Road Commission, and William A. Hesse Highway Engineer, to pay his re- spects to the Governor, and routine inspection of airplanes and pilots At the present time there are in Juneau only two transport pilots Sheldon Simmons and Bob Ellis and two planes, the Alaska Air Transport Patco and the Juneau Flying Club Klem Skylark.
 MT. Brewster expects to sail foi Cordova, Valdez and Anchorage or the Victoria tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-16
Former Juneau Mining Man Is Given High Honors

John Littlepage, well known American mining engineer and one time connected with the Gaa.ineau Gold Mining Com pany, at Thane, has be n awarded the Leni1 Decoration, the highest honor given in the Soviet Union for aid in devei- ing the Soviet gold industry. For the last seven years he has been doing engineering work in the Soviet gold mines. Presi- dent Michael Kalinin person. ally made the award according to Associated Press dispatches received by The Empire.
 Jehn Littlepage left Juneau 10 to F years ago and for a time engaged in mining en- gineering in Utah and Nevada. He then went to Russia where he has been successfully em- pIoyed for the past seven years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-16
NEW RECORDS GIVE AERIAL
 LEAD TO U. s,
France Strays Behind by One Point Tn Official
 Tally, Air Races

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.- Five new aviation records, including the land-plane speed record establishea by Howard Hughes in Santa Ana, put the United States ahead of France In a race for aerial supremacy, the Ma tional Aeronautical Association an- |nounced today.
 Three new records approved by the Fed e r a ti on Aeronautique 1nterna- tionale of Paris as well as two other figures set for light type seaplanes this week at Miami, were cited by Ben King of Washington as giving the United States 39 points against 38 for France, as soon as final offl- cial approval on the latter two rec ords is forthcoming.
 Hughes flight of 352.388 miles per hour at Santa Ana on September l5 is described by an Association repre- sentative as likely to be unbroken for a long time unless somebody wants
 to spend million on it, as Hughes did.
 The Association recognized the flight of Lieut.. Comdr Knefler Nc Ginnis with his twin-engined navy flying boat Coco" in solo flight from Panama to Alameda, October 14-15 as the worlds long distance record for that type of plane. Major Alexander P. Deserversky 1; credited with a new straight line
 speed record for amphibians, flying 370814 kilometers per hour.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-16
STAR WITNESS IS CALLED IN
 MURDER TRIAL
Letter, Making Request for Money After Staying,
 Is Revealed

FORT ORCHARD, Wash, Dec. l6 Carrie M. Stickles, Memphis, Ten nessee, dietician, told the Eriands Point mass murder jury that Leo Hall wrota her three days after the killings ea March 2S, 1884, asking for money with which to flee to Sc attle
 Miss Joan Umek, of Olympia, an- other witness, described having ob- served a scar on Halls cheek late in April or early in May" of 1884. She quoted Hall as saying he had re- ceived the scar in an automobile wreck when returning from Vancou- yer, B. c.
 A letter introduced by the prose- cution as having been written by Hall to Miss Stickels stated that the writer was in a jam, that an attempt had been made upon his life, and that he feared another attempt would be made He said he wanted money to get away.
 A score or more of witnesses tes- tified Saturday for the prosecution, most of them being introduced for the purpose of corroborating the tes- timony of Mrs. Peggy Paulos, Halls co-defendant, who is also his chief accuser on first degree murder charg- es in connection with the sextuple killings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-16
WENzEL TAKES COLONY POST

J.. G. Wenzel, Assistant Account ant in Charge for the Treasury Department, is to leave aboard the Victoria for Matanuska. where he will assume control of the account ing work in the Federal Colony, according to Charles E. Naghel, accountant in Charge.
 Wenzel, who will return to the Juneau office in about month, will supervise the change from the Corporate to the Federal accounts and disbursing setup in Matanuska He will be accompanied by s. Dan- iel Putnam. Assistant Disbursing Clerk. who will handle the work for the Disbursing Office.
 Wenzel was transferred to Ju- neau from the Treasury Depart ment in Washington last Septem- Der.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-16
TO GET REPUBLICAN
 '36 CONVENTION
Ohio City Gets Call Over Chicago and Kansas City
 Alter Secret Ballot

WASHINGTON, Dec. l6. Y The Republicans have chosen Cleveland for next years party convention to nominate a Presidential campaign.
 The decision was made by the Republican National Committee af- ter secret ballot in place of the customary roll call vote. The poll gave Cleveland 54 votes, Chicago 3e, and Kansas City six.
 Chairman Henry P. Fletcher op- ened the committee meeting with the assertion, We all know the New Deal is slipping. We've got the Democrats on the run"
 Miss Margaret E. White was named to fill the vacancy from Al- aSka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-16
SCION OF RICH FAMILY LURED
 FROM ROOMS
"A Year Old Youth of Manufacturer Being Held
 in Country for Ransom
BROTHER RECEIVES
 INSTRUCTIONS NOTE
Auth critics Throw Full Strength Into Search as
 Snatch Evidence Grows

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-- Caleb J. Milne, w, member of a socially prominent Phil adelphia family, disappeared Saturday from his New York apartment and Sunday night was reported kidnapped for ransom.
 Spurred on by the growing belief of relatives that Milne has been kidnapped for ran som, officials today intensi- fled their search for the mys- teriously missing 24-year-old scion of one of PhiIadelphia's first families.
 The youths grandfather, Caleb J. Milne, IT,, retired textile manufacturer, reluct- antly agreed with the kidnap theory.
 A brother, Frederic, has re- ceived a note S saying the youth had been kidnapped and was being held in the c0un- try and that a further letter of instructions was coming.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-16
ANNUAL CONFAB OF GAME BOARD
 COMES TO END
Alaska Game Commission CTS Conclude Seven
 Day Meet Here

The Alaska Game Commission concluded it's annual meeting here at l2:30 p. m. today.
 The commissioners were in ses- sion with Executive Officer Hugh Terhune for seven days, reviewing activities of the game organization during 1885, and drawing up rec concentrations on proposed 1886 game regulations to be submitted in Washington.
 Commissioner Karl N. Dinner left at l p. m. today aboard the Seal for his home in Petersburg. Chairman Irving NICK. Reed of Fairbanks is awaiting the next plane to the In- terior, while Commissioners Frank Williams and Andrew Simons will embark on the next steamer for the States. Williams will renew acquaintances in Seattle, while Si- mons is accepting invitations from sportsmen friends in the east to visit with them.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-16
PARITY ISSUE

LONDON, Dec 16.-Viscount Mon sell, First Lord of Admiralty, sum marized the naval conference, situa tion to Premier Stanley Baldwin. to- day while delegates sought to un- ravel the snarl resulting from Js- pans equality demands. Informed sources expected negotiators to iat- tempt to dispose of or sicetrack lthe parity issue soon to permit the con- ference to proceed with the discus sion of limitations of submarines tonnage, type of warships and arma- mentS.
 A secret session of the chiefs alone of the American, British, Japanese, French and Italian delegations was slated late today.
 Shadow Over Conference
 The shadow of secret diplomatic maneuvers has fallen across the week old conference which is struggling to extrica5e itself from the compli- cations of the Japanese parity de- mands. Uncertainty hinges on two developments, both originating with the Japanese. Some observers ex- pressed fear the conference might be turned into super secret" session Coupled with the launching of sep arate talks, they said this might steer the conference on the rocks of bi- lateral conversations which wrecked the preliminary negotiations last year.
 Great Britain Acts
 Americans were uneasy over the trend after the open round table dis cussions which, they feel, are vital to avoid playing off one nation against another.
 Great Britain's delegation hasten ed to clear up the situation in its private talk Friday night with the Japanese which was said to be pure ly supplementary to the conference itself. Such talks among various dele gations is continuing from time tc time, nevertheless, feeling remains among observers that the Japanese are trying to drive a wedge betweer Americans and British in their op- position to Tokyo's equality proposal
 Nagano Assures England
 Admiral Nagano of the Japanese delegation has made an effort to as sure the British their interests in tht Far East are in no danger from Ja. pan and therefore the British oppo. sition is untenable. Both sides have expressed a desire to avoid a dead lock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-16
Noted Screen Star Found Dead in Her
 Car Near Her Home
Thelma Todd Dies at Los Angeles No Evidence
 of Foul Play

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 16.-- Thelma Todd, blonde screen actress, was found dead in an automobile in the garage of her seaside resi- dence today.
 Although there was blood at the mouth and nose, there was no i'm mediate evidence of foul play
 Miss Todd, clad in a fur coat and pink party dress, was slumped back in the front seat.
 She was last seen Saturday night in fashionable Hollywood Cafe
 Capt. Bruce Clark, West Los An geles police, said he could find nc evidence of murder.