The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1933, Page 4

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Daily Alaska ¥mpire | JOHN W. TROY - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR | ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER every evening except Sunday by the| NG COMPANY at Second and Main ska | Published EMPIRE_PRINT Streets, Juneau, Entered in the Post Office 1n Juneau as Second Class | matter. | | SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.26 per _month, foll 1 o | ¢ mall, postage paid, at the following rates: 0!1’5“\'?’:11:, hr ad 12. ix months, in advance, 00; one month, in advance, $1.25 ¥ bansibars will ‘confer favor if they will promptly | notify the Business T iy fallure or irregularity | in the and Business Offices, 374. | s is exclusively entitled to the all news dispatches credited to d in this paper and also Lha‘ ATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER | OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION | ALASKA CIR THAN T | FAC FORWARD. During his four years of tenure and in his cam- paign for re-election last year, President Hoover had no warmer supporter than-Henry Ford. Perhaps none of the great industrial leaders of the United States was so aggressive in his efforts on behalf of President Hoover as Mr. Ford. None was quite so certain that Mr. Hoover's re-election was so vital to the security and recovery of the nation. It is, therefore, of significance that the Detroit manufacturer has recently, in an advertisement appearing in Eastern newspapers over his own signa- ture, hailed the program of President Roosevelt as a “great thing.” His conversion to the Roosevelt banner is apparently without reservation. In part Mr. Ford said: A great thing has occurred amongst us. We have made a complete turn-around, and { at last America’s face is toward the future. | Three years—1929 to 1932—we Americans looked backward. All our old financial and economic machinery was geared to pull us out of the depression by the same door through which we entered. We thought it simply a case of going back by the way we came. It failed. We now realize the way is forward—through it. Thanks for that belongs to President Roosevelt. Inauguration Day he turned the Ship of State around. Having observed the failure of sincere efforts to haul us back the way we came, he designed a new method— new political and financial machinery — to pull us out the way we are going—forward. He is clearing the international obstacles out of the way; he does not stand in awe of | tariffs. The people begin to feel he does not take advice from the “interests”; that he has courage and leyalty to work for one supreme interest only—the welfare of the American people. That is a big achieve- ment for two months in office. And now we all look to what is com- ing; we grow less and less concerned with what is behind. We are looking for a hand- hold on the haul rope. Every man wants to do what he can, and all he can. Every day finds the spirit voiced in Mr. Ford’s statement more and more prevalent throughout theé country. We are doing something. The nation is in forward motion, not idling or retrogressing, waiting for something to happen. To overcome the inertia of three years with its doctrine of let time cure the evils visited upon us, and to replace that psychology with one of confidence and courage, is as Mr. Ford has said, a “great thing.” PORTER J. McCUMBER. Father of the pure food laws of the country and co-author of the intensely-criticised and ardently defended Fordney-McCumber tariff act of 1922, Porter J. McCumber of North Dakota, who died last week in Washington, D. C, saw his career| in the United States Senate terminated in the hour of its greatest achievement The Republicans had returned to power in na- tional politics in 1920 and McCumber, kept in the Senate in 1916 by a large majority despite a general Democratic victory, rose to second place on the powerful Finance Committee. Only the veteran Boies Penrpse outranked him. Then, in January, 1922, the famous chief of Pennsylvania Republican- ism died, and McCumber automatically was ele- vated to the Chairmanship and to his most profound ambition. He inherited along with Senator Penrose's mantle, title to the unfinished tariff bill which in- creased the duties on industrial imports to a point never before reached in history. But fate was to rob him of perhips a long and remarkable tenure of the Chairmanship. At the pri- mary election in 1922, Lynn J. Frazier, Nonpartisan Leaguer who had been recalled from the Governorship in a State-wide referendum, upset all expectations and defeated McCumber for the Republican nom- ination. “It is the fortune of war and that is all there is to it,” said the vanquished campaigner whqgse experience trailed back over a quarter of a century of North Dakota politics. In a few weeks he was in the fight for Frazier, supporting him “because he bore the Republican stamp.” Sent to the United States Senate for the first time in 1899, he joined some of America’s greatest leaders in discussions of momentous international questions. Aftermath of the war with Spain and the new problems presented by Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines were among his first subjects of debate. He introduced a joint resolution for the appointment of a commission to investigate the commercial conditions of China and Japan. " Placed on the Committees on Claims, Indians Af- fairs and Pensions, McCumber's clear analysis of important questions gave him distinction. His fight for Prohibition made him a national figure. He prosecuted a long and bitter struggle for the pure food laws which do not bear his name but for which political circles gave him the credit. 7] | pointed to the Senate Finance Committee in 1909, | defeat. |in the side of the Chairman, He | Archbishop Ussher that for masculine, would seem to be an indication, even he began the memorable march toward his greatest political aspiration—the Chairmanship. In 1925 McCumber was appointed to the Inter- national Joint Commission by President Coolidge, with permanent residence in Washington Many explanations were offered for McCumber's defeat. Some held that it was due primarily to his support of the Esch-Cummins law, a railway transportation act bitterly attacked by various labor groups. Others saw it as the result of his vote to seat Senator Newberry of Michigan, whose campaign expenditures were under fire. Disappointment of many of the “Indepéndent Republicans,” that fac- tion of the party opposed to the Nonpartisan League, was also said-to have been-a big factor in his How far his celebrated stand on the League of! Nations issue affected his position in his own party | was not approximated. McCumber was one of the few Republicans to favor United States participa- tion, and as the second ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was a thorn Cabot Lodge. This Hoary Earth. (New York Times.) A study of Hebrew chronological tables convinced the earth was created in 4004 B. C. Not to be outdone in exactness, a ribald commentator remarked that the time must have been 4 A. M. Now comes a committee of the Na- tional Academy of Sciences with the latest of its annual reports to assure us that the age of the earth is of the order of 2,000 million years. Scientists by no means agree on what they mean by the “age of the earth.” The astronomer begins his reckoning when the planets were torn out of the sun and were still globes of gas, and the geo- logist when the crust hardened. In the one case we deal with cosmogonical speculation; in the other with the earth’s own time-records. The geologist may be wrong by two or three million years, but not by ten or a hundred million. As for the astron- omer, with his romantic hypothesis of a.star that once swept near our sun and filched the planets from it, he is at best a guesser who may be out a billion years. ! It was redioactivity that provided the geologist | with his clock. Nothing can hasten or retard the disintegration of uranium until it becomes radium and eventually changeless lead. Measure the rate of disintegration and we hear the ticking of the centuries. There are other tests, among them the! rate at which the waters cut their way through the Grand Canyon, “an abyss of time” as Dr. J. C. Merriam calls it. Given the age of the rocks in which uranium is found, given the rate of radioactive disintegration, and we arrive at the two billion years of the National Academy's com- mittee. What a world of difference between the| point of view of Ussher and the committee! To| bridge the gap between the two is to write the history of science. | Fashions and Morality. (New York nerald Tribune.) Those who read the fashion dispatches from Paris and every one who witnesses the news reels with their style reviews are aware that in Paris| crowns are going up. Hat crowns, that is, are being elevated, one model by a hatmaker named Agnes | achieving the unprecedented altitude of seven inches, and it seems possible that women's chapeaux may | yet rival the proportions of the masculine topper. | Students of the history of France in the Middle | Ages will recall how the exaggeratedly high hat style affceted by the women of the late fourteenth | century and known as the hennin aroused the wrath | of Friar Thomas Couette and Friar Pierre des Gros. | These practical dress reformers urged the urchins | of Paris, whenever they saw a lady of fashion with this steeple-crowned headgear above hair coiffured ! in the high “atours” of the current fashion, to runi after them shouting “Au hennin! Au hennin!” to| excite scorn and ridicule. But the circumstances that no cleric rises in his | pulpit to shout “Au hennin!” at Agnes's seven- inch crown suggests the observation that fashions and morality are of late becoming more and more widely dissociated. Short skirts never provoked the uproar that the hobble skirt did, and even the ab- breviated one-piece bathing suit of recent summers caused but a minor ripple, and that among the unco pious only. It may be only a trivial straw in the wind, but the passing of the notion that costume has anything to do with godliness and the conse- quent rise of tolerance of fashions, either feminine if only a minor one, of advancing ecivilization. Lindbergh at Court. (New York World-Telegram.) America is so familiar with the faets of the Lindbergh kidnaping case that most people could | recite them backward or forward. And yet in Washington on Tuesday lawyers and the court had Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh submit once more to the agony of telling of the ghastly tragedy, reciting all the heart-rending details before a crowd that jammed the court chamber. “Did you ever seem him alive again?” Colonel Lindbedgh was asked. “No.” “Did you ever see hll;n dead?” *“I did.” Such testimony has been put into court records time and again since the kidnaping. Yet stiff and uncompromising rules and habits of legal practice, plus the fact of the many different legal jurisdic- tions in this country, bring about the perpetuation of such useless legalistic torture ‘as that inflicted upon the father of the kidnaped and brutally mur- dered Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr, in Washington Tuesday. “The trouble with American drinkers” says a critic, “is that they lack imagination.” Seems to us, from what they're expecting of three-point-two beer, they've got plenty Ohio, Journal.) In a Chicago classroom: “Now, little ones, if a teacher is to be paid $40 a week and works 40 weeks, how much (ha, ha) does she receive?’— (Detroit News.) One thing in favor of this 3.2 stuff is if a grown person should happen to get a snootful he'd be ashamed to stagger.—(Macon Telegraph.) ‘The artist these days attains the top rung of success when his pictures are cut into jig-saw puz- zles.—(Jacksonville Times-Union.) ‘When Japan bids us listen to “the voice of the people of Manchukuo,” we somehow sort of get to thinking about those old-time ventriloquist shows.— (Boston Herald.) Those whose bank dividends may be slashed may comfort themselves—3.2 beer won't have to | mediately. of imagination.—(Lorain, | | take a cut.—(Chicago News.) Towa farmers will find that the bayonet is Ap- |mightier than the rope—(Dallas News.) " BYNOPSIS: Jim Sundean 1s ac- ‘cused of murder by the manager of the French summer hotel in which Sundean is spending a winter week. He detests the oily manager Lov- 8chiem. His three fellow guests ha knows mothing of—ezcepting Sue Tally. And Sue has, only a tew minutes before, wakened him from @ doze by demanding entrance to his room, and told him a harrow- ing tale of escape from an abduc- tor. She has sent him to the hotel lobby for her key, which is not there. On his way back he sees Sue's shadow in the upper corri- dor, and then he alnmfu over a Yody. But Madame Lovschiem be- rates her husband. Chapter 8 & PERHAPS A TRAP? “§JOU'RE a tool!” Madame Lov- schiem repeated, apd the glance she gave her deflated hus- band was not pleasant. “Of course Mr. Sundean had nothing to do with the murder. That clock sword —there arec a dozen explanations. 3ut the police won't believe them. Give it to me.” The man made a protestant ges- ture, but nevertheless handed her the sword, and she took it coolly. The White Codkatoo by Mignon G. Eberhart’ “I'll just wash this off and re- place it and nobody need know any- thing about it.” Lovschiem looked blank. “That won't do at all,” he sald. ‘I don’t know what you—" “Lovschiem,” she sald sharply. Her eyes quelled his. Yet there was no reason that I could see for Madame Lovschiem’s suddenly championing me. Moreover, 1 dido't know that ) wanted her championship. In the first place, if I let her do as she proposed there was no dan- zer of the girl, or me being accused of murder. At the same time, if the truth eventually came out, as it readily might, things would look much blacker for us. And I should give the Lovschiems a most detest- able hold over me. “No,” I said. “We'll call the po- lice and let them know the whole thing, dagger and all. I didn’t kill him. I'm not afraid.” She stopped and looked at me in- credulously. I saw then that her eyes were green, limpid, and clear, and yet with t.at look of eecret reflection that a cat's have. “Not afraid?” she said rather softly. “American, aren’t you? Not bad-looking, either. Accustomed to having your own way, 1 suppose, with men—and women?” “You are too kind, madame. You'll leave the dagger exactly as it is, please, and your husband and [ will wait together while you phone for the police.” “I'll do 10thing ot the kind,” she. sald and turned to the bathroom, but I caught her wrist and led her back to the dead man. She did not protest or even pull back when I told her to place the dagger on the dead man’s ciiest, but I did not re- lease her wrist until she had done 80, and her eves shone like a cat’s when the light strikes them. She said nothing to me, however. She gave her husband a glance of scorn and fury but said in a smooth voice that was under perfect con- trol that, since Mr. Sundean so wished, they might as well call the police. “Very well,” said Lovschiem slug- gishly, as if his thoughts were sunk in some dark mire. “Call them.” She looked at him again in a kind | both moved back a little when the of impatient scorn, shrugged light- ly, and then glanced all about. “Father Robart!” she sald sud- denly. “Of ccurse. Father Robart. I'll get him at once. This—this dead man must have prayers im- A violent death, with- out absolution. Besides, it 1s not bad to give a more pious atmos- phere, eh?” THE fringes of her yellow scart ewirled and vanished in the gloom of the long corridor. Shadows followed her, and the wind whis- pered, and the whisper rose to a gust, and the whole place rattled like a dead man’s dry bones. 1 sald to myself: It's a night- mare. I'll shut my eyes and then open them and look directly at the mantel clock. The sword will still be there, and it will all have been a dream. ‘The clock sword was, of course, not on the mantel; it was lylng bloodstained there below me, and the dead man’s face was real enough. Lovschiem was standing qulet be- \slde me, his gaze too upon the dead jman, and his fat face only vaguely frightened now, for he was still sunk deep in his thoughts and looked more troubled and per /plexed than he looked frightened. I thought of Sue as I waited, of the story she had told of her abduc- tion—and the fact that she had not told enough about the event. She had not wanted me to look for her , TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1933. anductor, or to tell either the police | i or the Lovschiems. It was all full of holes, and yet I believed it. I was thinking how pleasant it had been having her by my fireside when 1 remembered | * that she had sent me for a key that| was not where she had said it would be. | While I was gone a murder had been done, gnd the sword from the big clock, which ¢he had had in her hand a few minutds before, was in | the breast of the murdered man. It seemed ridiculous—but I still be~ lieved her, Perhaps this lumpish, grotesque thing at our feet had been. pursuing her, and she had snatched the sword and etruck at him, and then run away. I was about to say something to Lovschiem, anything to break the silence in that narrow passage, when we heard a sound down the corridor and Madame Lovschiem's yellow shawl emerged, followed by { the black skirts of the priest. Madame Lovschiem led the priest directly to the man at our feet. We priest’s red beard boomed up into the light. He bent over, as we all had, and stared ai the dead man. But he looked puzzled and clumsy and did not seem to know exactly what Madame Lovschiem expected | of him. He got down, however, on his knees and got out his crucifix and rosary and began passing his fingers over the beads. From The Empire H : 20 YEARS AGO ! e MAY 23, 1913 Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Stowell ar- rived on the Mariposa to make their home in Juneau. Mr. Stowell came to take a position with the C. W. Young Company. B. D. Stewart, B. P. Vandyke, ! Mrs. DeGreff, Judge J. R. Winn,! and Nellie Simpkins were among the passengers leaving Seattle for Juncau on the steamer Spokane. Miss Gertrude Hurlbutt returned to Juneau from Jualin on the Georgia. Exercises for the Juneau High School wer2 held in the Elks' hall and a short program was given. H. J. Fisher sang and Attorney John A. Hellenthal gave an address cqn- taining the right sort of advice to graduating students. H. T. Tripp presented the diplomas to Mamie Morgan, Lessie George, Paul Car- penter, Charles Wortman, Chester ‘Tripp. Mrs. J. C. McBride's recitation of Ben Hur was to be the principal attraction on the program of the benefit entertainment being given for the Juneau public library fund. Mrs. McBride was well known as an interpreter of the best quality of literature. Mr. and Mrs. James Morris, of Paris, France, obtained a hunting license at the governor's office. COULDN'T ree his face, only his! bent head and rather thin and narrow shoulders in their tightly | buttoned -outane, and his feet, which projected from the black folds of the skirt of the garment he wore and Jooked very large. He was younger than he had seemed on my first glimpse of him; there was an unwrinkled look about the back of his neck, there seemed to be no gray in his mouse-colored hair, and his figure was rather lean. It was strange, I thought, that he was wearing American-made shoes. It was so strange that I looked closely at the soles and heels and stitching. They had undoubt- l edly been made in America. He was mumbling then, and Lov- schiem was staring blankly across ) the shadow-swept court, and Ma- dame was looking very devout ex- cept for her eyes, which were shin- ing and were looking at me with an expression that came very close to a kind of wicked amusement. The priest kept on muttering. To my approval he had asked no ques- tions about the mirder, which was selt-evident, to be sure; and he | offered no churchly admonitions or advice. It occurred to me that he | might be, in his youth, a little un- certain in what was likely an un- precedented experience with him. Lovschiem drew back a little, and Madame and I moved also. I was tired and would have done with the thing; I said: “And now, madame, the police.” “You go, Grethe,” said Lovschiem stupidly. “Tell them what you think best.” This time she consented, and after giving one quick glance about which lingered with a certain satis- faction on the kneeling figure of the priest, she went. I was euddenly frightfully weary. And I knew that I must have my story ready. My story in which there must be no holes, for I should have to stick to | it and tell it at the later and formal inquiry which would undoubtedly take place. The weakest point was my trip to the lobby. How could J explain that without telling about Suc? : Through the glass windows I looked out over the shadows of the court. If the wind would stop, per- baps things would be better. But instead of stopping or even lulling a bit, there was a terrific onslaught which fell upon the court and the old house with cold and raging fury. The shadows flew, and the small light above the great iron gate waved madly. It made such a wide arc that suddenly its flickering rays fell upon a window a:ross the court and above. The shutters of that window were thrown back, and a face was watching us. The room beyond was black, so' the watcher must have been able to see us all quite clearly against the light behind us. The face looked white in that flash of light upon it, and dreadfully haggard. You felt at once that whatever watched had some strong and dreadful interest in the sceme it looked upon. | But the thing was, it was a girl's face—and it was like Sue Tally’s face. (Copyright, 1938, Mignon G, Bderhart), INSURANCE | Allen Shattuck, Inc. Established 1898 They intended to hunt brown bear on Admiralty Island and Chicha- gof. They chartered Dr. E. H. Kaser's boat the Santa Rita to carry them from place to place among the islands. Later they planned to go down the Yukon and in the fall to hunt on Kenai penin- sula. Jchn Harris and Henry Dott served as guides. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Commissioner’s Court for the Territory of Alaska, Division Number One. In the Matter of the Estate of KNUTE WISNESS, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the undersigned was on the 15th day of May, 1933, duly ap- pointed Administrator, With the Will Annexed, of the Estate of| Knute Wisness, deceased. All persons having claims against said estate will present them with the necessary vouchers to the und- ersigned within six months from the date of this notice. Dated at Juneau, Alaska, 15, 1933. May H. L. FAULKNER, Administrator. First publication, May 16, 1933. Last publication, June 6, 1933. ONE SHOVELFUL OF OUR COAL will give as much heat as two ol the dirty, slaty kind. That's why you save money by getting your coal from us. If you want coal that will not klink up your stove, will burn down to the fine ash, that will give the most heat pos- sible you should give us your arder. WE SPECIALIZE IN FEED D. B. 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