The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1933, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1933 Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - Published _every _evening _except Sunday by the EMPIRE_PRINT COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Ju 3 a. Entered in the Post Office 1 Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. v m 0! paid, a he followl : ’64:\‘_-‘ ;‘M e tavor it thay will pmmpuy;goos swimming. But a good many people are notify the ness Office of any failure or irregularity |drowned every year because they fail fo observe in the delivery of their pap.r | etesnons Tor d Business Offices, 374, | them. MENSER OF ASBOCIATER BREP There is a saying in the East that the “Cabots The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to|talk to the Adamses and the Adamses talk only it or not otherwise creditcd in this paper and also the |45 Goq,” and that the House of Morgan talked to — — |nobody it didn't want to. But that was before the ALASKA CIRCULATION & OTHER PUBLICATION o |advent of the Roosevelt Administration. Now the |head of the House of Morgon talks to a Senate SOMETHING TO BE REMEMBERED. Yesterday the Executive Committee of the Cham- ber of Commerce by a three to two vote with two members absent adopted a motion to recommend that the Chamber tomorrow endorse Delegate Di- mond’s bill to turn over to the Territory the'controi of its own fur and game resources. That action, we believe was in strict accord with every tradition and principal of American Government. The same committee, however, by another three to two vote, adopted another motion to recommend to the Chamber that it do not endorse or support the Delegate’s bill to turn over to Alaska the admin- istration and regulation of the fisheries resources of the Territory. And that action, we further be- lieve, was contrary to the dearest principles and inherited traditions of Americans. Without being critical of the latter action, we do not believe it is representative of the viewpoint of the Chamber of Commerce as a whole or of the community generally. Not once, but on many occasions where that has been a question at issue,! a vast majority of Alaskans, and of the residents of Juneau, have recorded themselves as unswervingly and unconditionally for Territorial control and ad- ministration of all the natural resources of the Territory. Delegate Dimond is making an honest effort to obtain just that. Admittedly there is a strong chance for him to succeed. If he gets the backing of the Territory’s business men as well as other groups such as resident fishermen and other workers, that chance is bound to be greatly en- hanced. The opposition of the local Chamber, if it decides to oppose him, will be a severe blow but not necessarily a fatal one. The majority of the Executive Committee mem- bers present yesterday who voted against the fish- eries transfer measure, or at least some of them, were guided in that position solely by a fear that the cost of administration would be prohibitive. Most, if not all, of them are in hearty accord with the principle of “home rule” which is the founda- tion stone of the proposal. That fear is largely chimerical. It has been fed upon accounts of large expenditures made by the United States Bureau of Fisheries since 1926. They were large, in fact, larger than needed. It is wellknown to most people who have studied the matter, who are familiar with the avenues of expenditure, that a great part of them could and should be eliminated. The opera- tion and maintenance of a fleet of vessels, all of them fine, efficient ships built from public funds during the heydey of national prosperity yhen the money of taxpayers was expended with expansive and careless gestur a sample, That source of expense alone could be reduced by many thousands of dollars annually. The practice of hiring men in Seattle and Portland and elsewhere, transporting them to Bristol Bay and the Alaska Peninsula and other remote areas could and should be eliminated with a con- sequent saving of other thousands of dollars. Ex- pensive weirs are constructed in many streams in every district of Alaska each year. Most of them serve little except scientific purposes and could be eliminated. And there are other ways of economical administration that are not used now that would naturally be brought into play under local control. Economy, fear of added tax burdens, is a weak excuse to advance for opposition to transfer of control from Washington to Alaska, one that ought ‘not to prevail. The compelling reasons for local administration and regulations of fisheries, of game and fur and all other natural resources of the Territory were succintly stated last month by Gov. Troy shortly after his inauguration. In commenting on the two Dimond measures, the Governor, in a statement given to the Associated Press at its solicitation, said in part: The objection to the present conditions is that the laws affecting fish and game in Alaska are administered by people who are not directly concerned with their admin- istration ‘When the people of Alaska control their own resources they will consider the best interest of the people and the Territory at all times. That, we contend, is the crux of the whole mat- ter. Do Alaskans want to control their own re- sources for their own best interests?, or, do they want to continue to exist under long-distance control by people and organizations who are not directly affected by or concerned with the effects of that administration? There is no reasonable person who will ‘argue for the latter propostion. Then certainly no vague, indefinite arguments about peanut econ- omies ought to be permitted to swerve the Chamber from active and ardently supporting both of the Dimond bills. TAKE A FEW PRECAUTION Just now we are about to enter a new swimming season. Days of sunshine, warmer weather and ‘smooth inviting waters invite visitors to the beaches GENERAL MANAGER | i 0 land lakes to take a dip. Hardy a summer passes without its drownings largely caused by the failure of swimmers to take a few simple precautions. Everyone knows that it isn't safe to plunge into cold water when one is over-heated or has just eaten a big meal. It's equally unsafe to swim alone in a spot where none can help you should help be needed. It's foolish to dive into a strange hole without first convincing yourself that you aren't going to land on a snag, a boulder or a rocky, shallow bottom. It's not wise to go into the water if one is under par physically, or to remain in after one is chilled and tiring. investigating committee on the latter's own terms. Mussolini credits President Roosevelt with a triple play and gives Herr Hitler an assist for their co-operation in saving the Geneva Dlsnrma-l ment Conference from being a washout. Public Works. (New York World-Telegram.) With the Federal budget nearing a balance the ways are being cleared in Washington for launch- ing a big public works program. This launching is long overdue. Normally we spend on Federal, State and local public works some $3,000,000,000 a year, or a quarter the amount spent on all construction. Last year this should have been doubled. Instead it was slashed by a third. In framing the belated project the Administra- tion should be guided by three principles. First, the program should be large enough to prime the pump of private industry. As Senator Wagner says, you can't prime a pump with an eye- dropper. President Roosevelt has warned that his plans will fall short of the huge spending bee de- manded by labor and many economists. Probably it will total no more than $3,000,000,000, including R. F. C. loans, under the Wagner bill, to localities for tax-liquidating projects and a Fed- eral bond issue. If this much money is quickly and wisely spent labor need be alarmed. Contrasted with a year ago there are other unemployment remedies at work or in the making, inflation, Muscle Shoals, forestation, domestic and international economic agreements. Next, such practicable works should be chosen as will employ the greatest numbers of men at the| earliest moment. Millions of Americans cannot be asked to subsist on meagre doles when it is in| the power of the Government to give them jobs. Finally, public, as well as private, spending| should be carried on with a view to the nation's| changing economy. Slum abatement, for instance, stands first as| a social mandate. But when we wipe out those | blighted areas of America we should recognize the trend of industry away from cities to the suburban’ and semi-rural regions. Instead of erecting model tenements on the costly sites of the old “lung| blocks” we should build workingmen's homes in the | open spaces with a bit of land around each of | them. Where the slums now stand we could create | parks or, perhaps, parking spaces for automobiles and landing fields for planes. Similarly highways, canals, bridges and grade crossing works should be built with a view to the railroad problem and the future of our traffic needs. Duplicating or unnecessary public buildings, roads and pork barrel construction should be avoided. Post-depression America will be a far different land from pre-depression America. We can plan| our public works to help make it a fairer one. Seriousness Also Has Its Place. (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) Many worthy men occuping high positions in national political life realize that they are made ridiculous as the result of the practice of some press associations ang the larger metropolitan news- papers in assigning humorists to report party con- ventions and other affairs of nation-wide interest. Our appetite for humor is apparently insatiable, but seriousness has its place. There are posmons.‘ occupied by conscientious men, that should not be | made targets for those whose only ability as writers is “wise-cracking.” Individuals, honestly trying to lend commendable dignity to important posts, are made to appear as “monkeys on sticks” at times when, as a matter of fact, the public would benefit if humorists would develop severe cases of writer's cramp. The country thereby loses 'through mis- directed humor that knows no bounds. William Lyon Phelps, some time ago, wrote an article on the subject of boundless humor for the International Book Review. In it he stated in part: “I am aware of the American public’s desire for Jjococity. Anyone who can ridicule religion, morality and genuine earnestness is sure of an audience. Humorous writers, or columnists, are keen critics of bumptious absurdities; they maintain excellence in grammar and diction and generally add to the daily happiness of thousands. But to send out pro- fessional humorists who report national party con- ventions as though every delegate were a hypo- critical windbag, is to stultify the editorial and news columns and tends to persuade American youth that all of our political leaders are ridiculous frauds.” Humor is a wholesome and corrective force. There are many laws and law-makers that need its chastisement, but the deliberate attempt to make all of the proceedings of a great party convention and all who participate in it ridiculous, is not constructive journalism. We stand to lose too much by such process. Some of the anti-administration Senators seem to think that the Tennessee River dam project is a triumph of muscle over mind. (Indianapolis News.) The advent of 3.2 beer has sent the price of crabs up to $3 per barrel in the East. In this part of the country, however, the inclination of those who have sampled the product is to do their own crabbing.—(Los Angeles Times.) Former Secretary of the Terasury, Ogden Mills, objects to inflation. Now, there’s a man who learn- ed last November what it means to be blown up. —(Lexington, Ky., Herald.) What do these fellows who hijack the alleged |.. 3.2 nectar do with it? Pour it out and refill the kegs and bottles with something of a more pleasing nature?—(Macon Telegraph.) From all we can gather there is little doubt about the habit-forming hazard of 3.2 per cent. Any man can drink or let it alone, preferahly the latter—(Philadelphia Inquirer,) SYNOPSIS: Jim Sundean waits for the police to come and arrest him for a murder he did not com- mit—in a hall-deserted hotel in 8outhern France Circumstances point to the Yullt of an attractive American girl. Sue Tally. who only a short time before has asked refuge from an abdwctor in Sun- dean’s room. but who would not permit him to search for her pur- suer. She handled. in vassing. o sharp ‘sword in the hands of a figure on_an enormous old clock fn Sundean’s room. Sundean has found the sword in the breast of the murdered man. Now Father Robart. ill at ease. is praying over the corpse Sue has fied and Sun- dean tries to concoct a story that will_not incriminate her. Then, across the court. he sees a face e believes to be hers. Chapter 9 THE SHO1 T was Sue Tally. It was not Sue Tally. It was Sue Tally. I told myself that 1 was mistaken. had been too brief, too sudden and swift a flash to permit me to recog: nize any face. But 1 stared and stared at that unshuttered window and wondered what was back of those winking blank panes, and that strange, haunting resemblance to Sue Tally’s face would not leave me. Suddenly I was consclous that Lovschiem had roused from his distraction sufficiently to note my gaze and follow it. I had the im- pression he had overlooked some pressing and urgent aspect of af- fairs. This impression was con- firmed when he caught his breath sharply, slid a quick glance at me, and said suddenly: “But 1 must go. There are things —Grethe will want—you and Father Robart can stay with the—with this.” His eyes indicated the thing at our feet. “Wait,” 1 sald. “What room fis that across there? What number is 1t? The one with the shutters open.” His eyes were veiled and yet in tensely aware of me and my ques tion. . “You mean across the court there? That {s about 34 or 35 Why?” Not 19, then. “Is it unoccupled?” “Yes.” out a shadow of hesitation. “I saw a face just now in the win dow.” “No, no. You are mistaken. There is no one there.” “There certainly was a face there, Lovschiem.” It seemed to me he looked faintly relievec at the implication that | did not know the face. But he sald a word or two to the priest, who did not look around or reply, and wad- dled hurriedly away. At the end of the passage he met the little porter and stopped for a few words with him before he disappeared around the corner, and the porter hurried toward us. Madame had called him, the por- ter said breathlessly, and he was to remain with us while Monsieur went to her assistance. Turning into my room, 1 threw my coat over my shoulders and took a flashlight from my bag. The lit- tle porter watched me anxiously, and [ said as I returned to the cor- ridor: i “I'm going to look about the court. Back in a moment.” He did not seem reassured, but, of course, had nothing to say. Then I closed the door, saw the porter's bright eyes watching it and what he could see of me, stepped out of their range of vision, and snapped the button on my flashlight. It made a darting circle of thin light on the stone floor of the lan‘ling. HERE were no signs of a strug- gle, but I could have expected none. There were no muddy foot- prints, for there was no mud; every- thing in Armene “/as dry and cold and wind-swept. There were no cigar ashes. There were no coat buttons, There was nothing but a dark blotch, quite small, where the dead man bad huddled. 1 bent close to the worn stone and looked and looked, turning my flash- light here and there, and eventually 1 did discover a small red piece of what looked like bard rubber or very hard wax. It was rough and irregularly semicircular and about the size of a half-dollar. It bore no faint resemblance to any kind of clue. | put it in my pocket merely because it was the only thing ex- cept the dark patch on the stone and a dry brown leaf that the land ing held. [t was just at that second that there was a sudden lull in the wind: everything, shadows and shrutbery and rattling windows, fell into dead quiet, and | beard an unguarded step on the stairway below me, The White Codkatoo by Mignon G. Eberhart’ He replied directly, with- | It wasn't any sound but a step: | knew that perfectly, and | daresay that instant 1 should not be alive now. But | heard it and moved to one side in order to look over the curve of the railing. And at that very instant there were two sharp cracks of a revolver, my HasLlight spun out of my hand and thudded somewhere below, the wind swooped down upon the courtyard with a crash, and every light In the hotel went out. My hand tingled but wasn't hurt ‘here was no sound but the hurl ing of the wind, and | found myself running down the stairway, bold ing to the railing. There Is Lo ex cuse for it, but that is what I did. | encountered nothing on the | stairway. If it was Lovschier who | bad shot at me—and I thought it ( told myself that the light upon it | possible—he would probably either | follow me to finish the job or seck | to reenter the hotel himself. | He certainly was not apt to re | enter the hotel by way of the wicd | ing stairway and the corridor where | the priest and the porter waited; | if I followed the wall cautiously past | the great iron gate below the en- |trance arch and then around the corner, opposite, 1 might catch him at the door of the lohby. Y this time I had cooled a trifle, and my progress was slower and more careful, and | wished | had | some kind of weapon. Lovschiem | was fat, however, and out of condi- | tion. If I could get him before he | had time to use his revolver—again | something brushed my hand. This time it was not a shrub. It was a rough fabric and an arm, and it moved quickly away, and 1 hurled myself in its direction, tackling low as In football. | Icaughtonly the fiyingend of some kind of garment which wrenched itself out of my clutch, my knees scraped the pavement, and there were three flashes of light from revolver shots that spat viclously through the tumult. Vaguely 1 thought it was lucky | was flat on the pavement and waited. There were no more shots, and the wind shrieked, and it was black as pitch | everywhere. I wished I had had the good sense | to retreat before it was too late, | and got cautiously to my knees, then swiftly to my feet and ran to my right a few steps. The sound made by the wind covered my own foot- steps, but it also covered the sound of any movement he had made. Cautiously, straining my ears to hear, I edged toward the wall of the north wing, not, however, toward the corner of the stairway. That, I thought, was where he would ex- pect me to go; it would be natural for me to attempt to escape by the way in which I had entered the realized rather chillingly, had been entirely too precipitate. When someone starts shooting at you In the dark and you have no weapon at all, you can’t help wishing vebe mently that you were elsewhere. Agalinst the wall, with some kind of small tree in a tub at one side of me, | waited. If he approached from the side of the shrub I would hear him or feel him and have some warning; then, since you'd rather take a chance than stand still and be .shot, | could take him perhaps unexpectedly and have a better chance In a fight. Presently | began to work quietly toward the door to the lobby. The entrance gates were locked, Sue had said; he would not deliberately en- ter the hotel by the north-wing cor- ridor above, and the only place left was the lobby door. 1 encountered no one and heard nothing but the wind. And I had not more than arrived at the lobby door when the lights suddenly flashed up: the light swaying above the entrance, throwing the court into shadows and empty white spaces again; the light from my door above; and now a light in the lobby beside me. 1 stepped aside from the door Into the shadow and waited again. There was nothing to be seen but the shadows and the bending shrubs and trees in the courtyard. Defeated and angry, | opened the lobby door. ‘Madame, her red hair shining under the desk light, looked up at me, a quick flash in her green eyes. “Your husband just came In by this door.” I said. “Where is he?” “No one entered by that door, she replied crisply. The cockatoo chattered, and she added: “Hush, Pucci.” (Copyright 1933 Mignon G. Eberkart) Tomorrow, Sue stares with fright. #nzd ouam At tha murdaras mas B INSURANCE Allen Shattuck, Inc. Established 1898 Juneau, Alaska UNITED FOOD CO. CASH GROCERS Phone 16 We Deliver Meats—Phone 403 it the wind had not lulled just at ! |from the east. somewhere off at my left and three | courtyard—an entrance which, 1| i 20 YEARS AGO f { i MAY 24, 1913 . Looking toward the advance- ment of the Juneau Public Sch;ah.! the members of the School Board decided to have a male principal for the high school and a male| superintendent. It was understcod that both positions had be:n of-| fered and accepted. Late arrivals from Ketchikan said that city w: to have a modern skyscraper, six stories high. H. C. Strong, the well known steam man and capitalist, was to have| the building erected. | Lots of baseball doings were on tap for the following Sunday. Be- sides the contest between the Doug- las-Treadwell Wildcats and the Ju- contest betwezn the C. W. Young Tigers and the Juneau Construction Company's Squareheads. single, died alone at the home of | Karl Milbach on the hill near Ken- nedy St with Mr. Milbach for months and while he had been ill for several days Mr. Milbach was shocked to find him dead upon his return to his home in the evening The deceased was a prospector and was understood to have remittances Company increased its schedule to Douglas and Treadwell, making twelve round trips daily instead of | ten, and three round trips to Sheep Creek instead of the former two. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE Anchorage, Alaska, April 10, 1933. Notice is hereby given that Al- filed an application for a Soldiers { Additional Homestead, serial 07714 fo~ patent for a tract of land em- and it is now in the files of the U. S, Land Office at Anchorage, Alaska. Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above mentioned| land should file their adverse| claims in the U. S. Land Office at Anchorage, Alaska, within the period of publication or thirty day: thereafter or they will be barre by the provisions of the statutes.| J. LINDLEY GREEN, Register. First publication, April 19, 1933. Last publication, June 14, 1933. N ONE SHOVELFUL O OUR COAL will give as much heat as two of | the dirty, slaty kind. That's why lyou 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 order. WE SPECIALIZE IN FEED D. B. FEMMER PHONE 114 SOMETHING NEW! —Try Our— [ TOMATO ROLLS Juneau Bakery neau Indians there was to be a|~ Samuel Copner, 47 years old and| | t. He had been staying| several|® The Juneau Ferry and Navigation bert Forrest of Juneau, Alaska has| " braced in U. S. Survey No. 2106, lege of Optometry and | situated about 1% miles northwest Opthalmology of Juneau, Alaska and adjoining| | Glasses Pitted, Lenses Ground U. S. 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