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Entered as secona-class matter Au
gust 29th, 1923, at the postoffice at
'Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
iMarch 3, 1879.
Takotna. Alaska, Sept. 29, 1928.
‘LIFE FOR A PINT” LAW.
(Juneau Empire.)
A discussion recently of the new
‘criminal code of the State of Mich
igan by the State prosecuting attor
neys and the attorney general seemed
‘to indicate that these officers of law
•enforcement are convinced that it
'would be the part of wisdom to take
•dry law convictions out of the scope
•of the habitual criminal clause. Un
‘der the present status, minor dry law
infractions count toward a mandatory
-'life sentence provided for four felo
nies. Notoriety given the case of
Fred P-alm, a Lansing man, who was
• sent to prison for life when his final
• offense consisted of the possession of
-a pint of gin, is said to have influ
enced sentiment throughout the State
to such an extent that the next Leg
islature will be compelled, to lighten
•the habitual criminal law.
The State commissioner of pardons
‘and paroles, Arthur D. Woods, felt
this change in sentiment and has an
nounced he will urge the State’s law
‘be made to conform to the Federal
•code, thus reducing prohibition viola
tions to misdemeanors. To send a
-man to prison for life when several
•of the offenses charged against him
• are mere dry law infractions “is an
••extreme penalty,” Wood declared.
-His attitude is supported by Governor
Fred Green.
This attitude of Michigan public of
ificers hasn’t pleased prohibition
zealots, and prospects point to a
• fight. Anti-Saloon League officials
have openly declared that prohibition
violations must remain felonies and
that bitter opposition will be offered
;any effort to modify the existing
‘statutes.
That such zealots will prevail in
face of official approval of the pro
. posed change in the law seems un
llikely. However, the Anti-Saloon
League is not without its influence
•and does not hesitate to use it to club
weak-kneed legislators into doing its
•bidding whenever the occasion
•arises. If it had its way Michigan
would be but one of 48 States in
'which the law would make prohibition
violations felonious, and require “a
life for a pint” sentence for even
fewer than four offenses, however
minor their nature. It is this attitude
•of determination to impose their own
ideas and ideals of life upon others
■with a different set, entailing total de
struction of personal liberty, that has
been more influential in the growth of
public sentiment against the present
system of prohibition.
GENERAL MOTORS SHOWS
BIG HALF YEAR PROFFITS
NEW YORK.—Net earnings of
General Motors Corporation for the
first half of 1928 increased to $161,
267,974 from $129,250,207 in the first
half of 1927.
Balance of $156,565,974 after" divi
dends on preferred and debenture
stocks, was equal to $9 a share on the
common stock, against $124341,9.87,
or $7.17 a share in .the first half of
1927, on a comparable share-basis.
Cash, United States Government,
and other marketable securities on
June 30 amounted to $264,383,668. a
record for cash and cash items in the
history of the .corporation.
Net working capital was $320346,- j
653, an increase of $47,422,677 . since j
December 31, 1927, after deduction of
the extra dividend of $34,800,000 paid
on JJuly 3, 1928.
Second quarter earnings were $91,
799,398, against $76,698,799 in the
second quarter last yea,. a gain of
$15400399.
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of1
General Motors Corporatin, today an
nounced the folowing:
“For the six months .ended June .30
retail sales by General Motors dealers
to users were 1,062,733 cars, com
pared with 840,481 cars in the corre
sponding period of 1927. General
Motors sales to dealers for the six
months totaled 1,083,316 cars, com
pared with 883,477 cars in the corre
sponding period, of 1927.”
MAN AND WOMAN ^CRITICAL
LY HURT IN PLANE CRASH
VALDEZ.—.While Owen E. Meals
E. Meals was circling at Galena to
make a landing, his .fuel supply be
came .exhausted and .the engine
stalled. The plane .went into. a tail
spil, but Meals managed to straighten
it out .partially. The, plane crashed on
a bar on the east side of the Copper
river. The accident was witnessed by
people at Gakona, who seat to Sour
dough for a boat, which .was swamped
in attempting a crossing. Then they
took the frame of a boat, wrapped
canvas around it and crossed.
They found Steward lying on a
wing, Mrs. Ruth Staats in the cockpit
and Meals in the pilot’ seat. Both
were pinned in .and -had to be chopped
out. First aid treatment was admin
istered at Gakona. Dr.Chase, of Val
dez, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stew
art, .sister .and brother-in-law of Mrs.
Staats, reached Gakona later. . Both
Mrs. Staats’ legs were bokeu, one in
two places. Steward’s legs were
broken just above the ankles, his back
was injured,^»nd.he may have internal
injuries. Meals ;xeached Valdez yes
terday at midnight. .He is badly cut,
bruised and wrenched, but was not
dangerously hurt. .Mrs..Staats and
Steward were taken to .Hie Keimecott
hospitaL
Try Again, Dad*
Dad (severely)—Ethel, I certainly
smell cigarette smoke, onyyour 'breath.
Daughter (slick.as.they.make ’em)
—Now, father, if -you think I’ve been
kissing George, why don’t you say so
right out an dsay so?
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‘23 YEARS AFTER JULES VERNE’
The recent round-the-world trip
made by Mears and CoUyer takes the
Grand Rapids Herald back to things
that seemed fantastic 23 years ago,
when Jules Verne died:
“Sixty years ago the man who
wrote 4 'Round the World Iri Eighty
Days’ was hailed as the most fan
tastic dreamer upon the globe. His
imagination knew no bounds. He
dreamed of voyages to the bottom of
the sea in strange vessels whose oc
cupants were able to breathe through
the use of freakish devices. He
arearaed also of traveling ‘Across
Africa In afialloon.’ But the most
monumental figment of Jules Verne’s
imagination—next ‘From the Earth
to the Moon’—was ‘ 'Round the World
in 80 Days.’ The sheer impossibility
of a human being traveling from
London to. New York, to San Fran
cisco, to Tokio, to. Suez, to Budapest,
to Hamburg, to. London in. 80 days
was alluring. A„ great dream, the
critics all said, but merely a dream.
Never would .it come .true.
“But that was during the life time
of Jules Verne, who died-—when? Not
in the l*th century,, when Pope Greg
ory changed .the calendar. - .Not in the
18th century when. Franklin discov
ered electricity. Not even, as early as
the 19th century -when the telegraph
and telephone were invented. . Jules
Verne, died in 1905!
“And 23, years after the death^of
the man whose ‘.!Round the World .in
80 Dpys’ was .called, a classic of fan
tasy,. 23 years afterward John Henry
Mears and B. D. Collye made his 80
day voyage ridiculously alow. Ip just
23 days, 14 hours, 9.... minutes and- 5
seconds they traveled from New York
eastward to New York And their
record.doesn’t begin ta.tap the possi
bilities. Their sea jumps were made,
by steamer instead of- by-airplane.
’Round the ■..world., in 10 days is an
early. possibility—not .a dream, a
probability! New York, ’Frisco, Yo
kohama, Bohara, Constantinople,
Paris, London, New York in 10 days,
n more! It is a probability only - 23
years after the death of the man
whose 80-day circling of the globe
was counted evidence of imagination
gone wild. The world has advanced
startlingly. fast in the last quarter
century,, and still -is,, going forward.”
- The Striver.
The.fact, that the American public
spends a billion a year on the movies
led -Will H. Hays to say to: a. Los An
geles reporter:
“It’s nawonder, with such loyal and
generous support, that the movies
strive for an impossible perfection.
“There’s an anecdote that, rightly
understood, illustrates this striving.
It seems that a movie star required a
substitute to impersonate him in a
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to be pulled off close to the camera,
and so the substitute had to esemble
the star.
“Well, about six hundred, young
men turned up for the job, and. the
star turned up himself to.'see how
things were going.
“When he arrived* in the big.diall
the casting manager was vtalkiug
from .bench to bench, examining each
applicatn. closely and anxiously, and
then murmuring ‘Not the type, you’re
not the type,’ he woqld pass on.
“The sta sat down at the end <rf a
bench of applicants. The. manager
reached him in due course, and, before
he could speak,
‘“No use. You're not the type.’'”
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
' In the Commissioner’s Court at Mc
Grath, Mount McKinley Precinct,
i Fourth Division, Territory of
Alaska, before W. T. Vanderpool,
U. S. Commissioner, and ex-ofScio
Prohate Judge.
In the matter of the estate of Helen
McGinty, deceased.
Notice is Jiereby .given fliatithe an
dersigned has been duly Appointed ad
ministrator of the estate of Helen Mc
i Ginty,. deceased.
. * AlLpecsons* hayjnguclaimx, . against
said estate are. requirwl to present
i same, duly ivenifjed,. srith proper
! vouchers atturhed.tajthe .hndersigaed,
! at.Takotna, .Alaska, -within six <(6)
! months from the date o£ this .notice.
' Dated;.Xakotna, Alaska, AugitsS.25,
1928. A. X. JGRANT,
. Administrator.
First publication, Aug, 26/ 1928.
.Last publicationv Sept. 22, .1928.
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