THE KUSKO TIMES
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Tttkntna, Alaska, April 27, 1929.
STIFF SENTENCE IMPOSED
UNDER NEW JONES BILL
SACRAMENTO.—In the first con
viction under the new Jones law, five
“master mind” rum runners were sen
tenced to 15 months apiece and fined
$3,000.
“You men are killers and this
crime comes under the law made es
pecially for such as you,” Federal
Judge George M. Borquin said in sen
tencing the men, John Ferris, Frank
Finney, Fred Morton, James Sanchez
and Frank Wilson.
Last week Sanchez and Wilson
were found driving a truck loaded
with $12,000 worth of liuor. The
other three were driving a sedan
which was convoying the truck. In
the sedan were found a machine gun
and a coil of rope.
In the arguments at the trial the
district attorney branded the men as
j-«<\L-<>tcers who would take human life
if necessary to maintain supremacy
in liquor traffic.
MASTER FORGER PENS
Way out of prison
KANSAS CITY.—Hays Van Gor
der, master forger, so clever with a
pen that he forged his way out of
Leavenworth federal penitentiary, is
behind the bars again because the
lure of the racket was too strong.
The convict gained his freedom!
several weeks ago, and recently a;
flood of bogus money orders appeared ;
in Middle Western States. Postal in-j
spectors got busy and the trail led to [
• Milan, Mo., where a suspect after-!
wards identified as Van Gorder was I
arrested.
The authorities could not believe it,:
but an investigation proved that Van;
Gorder gained his freedom from the.
penitentiary with a forged court!
order, which was sent to a friend in '
Washington and remailed to Leaven- ‘
worth in a franked envelope.
NOTARY JAILS WOMAN
FOR REFUSING TO TALK'
OMAHA.—Action of a notary pub
lic in committing a woman to jail for
her refusal to answer questions was
upheld in district court today by
Judge James Fitzgerald.
The woman is Mrs. Pauline Farley,
administratrix of the estate of the'
late W. H. Farley, her wealthy hus-i
band. She was held in jail for two j
hours until her attorney got her out I
on SI,000 bonds through a habeas cor- j
pus action.
Mrs. Genevieve Clemmer, a step
daughter of Mrs. Farley, is suing to
prevent the latter's appointment as
administratrix.
Mrs. Farley, appearing before the
notary for deposition, refused to an
swer questions on advice of counsel.
Judge Fitzgerald, in upholding the
notary, said: “It is the first case in
tny remembrance that a notary has
gent anybody to jail for contempt of
court—and a woman at that. But the
Jaw, in my opinion, gave Whittaker
eft* power to do it,”
EAST HAS NO LIKING
FOR SILVER DOLLARS
Eastern papers chronicle the fail
ure of Secretary Mellon’s efforts to
cause more exteisive use of the silver
dollar, by the people, in lieu of cur
rency. Several plans of getting the
silver dollars into circulation were
tried out. One of them was to pay
out at least one silver dollar to each
Government employe on every pay
day. It was found that the big dol
lars quickly found their way to the
banks and then to the Treasury. The
people did not want them. They pre
ferred the one-dollar bills.
This leads th eCinrinnati Enquirer
to say:
“As a matter of fact, the silver dol
lar serves no useful purpose in our
monetary system whatever. This,
Lke of the money-carrying public for
along with the plainly indicated dis
it, should be sufficient to condemn this
great American nuisance to that
umbo where are hidden the mammoth
and the mansion, the bustle and side
whiskers.”
All of which means that it is large
ly a matter of habit. On the Pacific
Coast the people do not like the one
dollar bills as well as they like the
silver cartwheels. Dealers say that
when they pay out one-dollar bills in
making change the customers usually
ask if they have silver.
Pacific Coast people have always
preferred coin to currency. It was
only the stress of war that induced
them to give up gold for paper. They
would probably welcome a return of
the five, ten and twenty-dollar gold
pieces to go with their silver.—Ex.
HAVE WHAT PEOPLE WANT;
THEN LET THEM KNOW IT
Have what the people want, then,
let the peopie know you have it byi
advertising. That’s the secret of
commercial success, according to Ar-j
thur Brisbane, noted publicist.
In evidence of this view, Mr. Bris-'
bane .calls attention to the fact that
the big Woodworth concern is plan
ning an enormous advertising cam
paign wnich will involve an expendi
ture of $3,000,000 the first year.
Here is a (significant hint for some
of our local tradesmen who still ciing:
to the fallacious view that advertis
ing does notihelp their business.
The great) Woolworth concern has
been heretofore little addicted to
large-scale Advertising. The ,
has been to depend upon the selection
of locations! where large numbers of
people passiii the doors, rather than
to attract riatronage by advertising,
and the selection of business sites
was made [ipreiy upon the number of
people passing a given point hourly
or daily.
Commenting on the change in the
Woolworth 1 attitude, Mr. Brisbane
says its abandonment of the theory
that selecting the right location
makes advertising unnecessary proves
the wisdom of Woolworth’s president,
H. T. Parsons.
“Get the best position for your
store by all means,” he says, “but get
also the best ‘position’ and the best
copy for your advertising in a news
paper.”—Ex.
SEES GASOLINE SUPPLY
LASTING 2,500 YEARS
LONON.—Dr. Gustav Egloff, tech
nical director of the Universal Oil
Products Company', of Chicago, told
the World Power conference today
that the present coal fields alone
would supply enough gasoline to op
erate the 30,000,000 automobiles now
in ue fsor 2,500 years.
There is enough shale oil to operate
these automobiles for 400 years, he
said. As for crude oil, Dr. EglofF
added: “The total amount is assured
ly of staggering volume. Geologists
state that oil discovery is a possibil
ity in 1,100,000,000 acres in the
United States alone, or 56 per cent of
its total land area.
“The contrast of this huge terri
tury with the _2,OO0,0OO jacTes; produc
ing oil at present makes certain that
new fields .will bp continually , discov
ered,
"What is true regarding.the poten
tial oil production of tbp JJ.nited
States probably is true eVe.ninn .great
measure for many other countries pf
the world where oil exploration has
been less thorough. Crude oil.wilt la
the dominant source of gasoline for
at least a century to come.”
Dr. EglotF show.ed how gasoline
could be obtained, by the cracking pro
cess' from fish, vegetable ..and paat
oils, woihI, tar and asphalt.
.Faith - Overdone.
Representative Hartsell Ragon, of
Arkansas, said of certain hideous So
viet executions:
“Anybody who can believe ift the
Soviets after that has too much faith
It reminds me of an anecdote.
“Mamie Brown, a Clarksville serv
ant girl, took the afternoon off to
visit a fortune .teller. She came back
home in tears.
"‘What’s the matter, Mamie?’ said
the mistress. ‘Did the fortune teller
predict had luck?’
“Mamie sobbed louder than ever.
“ ‘It’s terrible news I got, terrible,’
she said. ‘.The woman told me that
my father is tendin’ fires, and fjhov
elin’ coal for a livin'.’
“‘But that’s no disgrace, Mamie,’
said her mistress. ‘Don’t be so proud
and stuck up.’
“ ‘Oh, it ain’t that, ma’am,’ said
Mamie. *It.’s my sorrow for poor
father. He’s been dead, you see,
eight years-’ ”
The 'High Road.
Bernard M. Baruch, discussipg suc
cuss, said at a luncheon in New York:
“Julius Rosenwald, the mail order
king, imputes his success to luck. I
would impute it to -pluck, or what
ever the quality is that makes a man
!7ght on the harder, the more he is
knocked down and kicked about.”
Mr. Baruch paused a moment, then
he said impressively:
“Failure is the high road to suc
A musical publisher received a
touching hallad from a young lady
entitled “J Wonder If He’ll Marry'
Me?” He returned her effort with
the following note: ‘.‘Dear Madam:
If he does he ought never be trusted
with- firearms again.”
Quick Recovery.
“Oh\, George, dear,” she whispered
when Jhe slipped the engagement rir\g
on her finger, “how sweet of you to
rememher just the sort of stone ; I
preferred! None of the others were'
ever so thoughtful.”
George was staggered for a mo
ment, then he answered: “Not at ail,
near. You see, this is the one I al
ways use.”
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