The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1933, Page 4

Daily Alaska ¥mpire PRESIDENT AND EDITOR JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. provement is the continued ability of producers to |secure higher finished goods prices to compensate N T for the lift in raw materials. Soap companies, steel Delivered by carrier In Juneay and Douglas for $1.28| ) " corn and grain fabricators, sugar - refiners, Onrfy‘m',lnf";’&‘\‘fifipf”‘;"pfl, l:&'flbflwflfl;’fl;mw brass manufacturers, etc, are all revising price $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.2 schedules upward successfully. notily - Basnens Office of &0y r'rfnthr':’? oV eBeomly | 1t is not to be expected that the Administration In the delivery of thelr pap.Th. o @ @ css Offices, 374, | Will Test upon its laurels now that it has balanced Telephone for Editc MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. ane bor Fepubiication of all news. dispatches credited to it or mot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION TOLLS ON PUBLIC HIGHWAYS. There seems to be some doubt as to the scope of regulations now being worked out by the Secre- tary of Interior for imposing tolls on traffic moving over Richardson Highway. The Alaska Territorial Chamber of Commerce by Delegate Dimond that all classes of motor vehicle traffic is to be required to pay sustantial tolls. Gov. Troy's information on the same subject leads to the con- clusion that only vehicles that operate for hire, motor trucks, busses and other passenger-carrying machines are to be required to pay tolls in amounts that will equalize rates with those charged by the Alaska Railroad ‘Whichever is is informed the case, Alaska has a right to object. Its objection can be based on several grounds. Official records show that of the entire cost of constructing and maintaining that road to date, 25 per cent was Territorial money—money de- rived from taxes on Territorial businesses and occu- pations. That ought to make the Territory a minority partner in the enterprise, and it obviously is entitled to expect that its taxpayers, who furnish- ed the money, have a right to free and unhampered use of the road. That is particularly true insofar as privately- owned automobiles not engaged in commercial enter- prise is concerned. There is nothing in the history of governmental co-operation in public road con-| imposition of tolls every occasion struction that will support the on pleasure vehicles. Congress, it has expressed itself on such a subject, has emphatically disapproved that procedure It has prohibited the use of Federal aid road funds on roads on which tolls can be charged, or even where there are toll bridges existing as a part of the roads. It is not conceivable that Secretary Ickes would contemplate such an unjust impost, or that President Roosevelt would permit it if he did. The argument that common carriers operating over public highways in competition with railroads should be taxed for that privilege is, however, valid. That is the basis for the moment to impose tolls on automobiles operating for hire over Richardson Highway. Undoubtedly such operations injure the Alaska Railroad to some extent. But the railroad is not unique in that respect. There isu't a railroad of any size in the entire United States that cannot show it is being even more seriously hurt by motor busses and motor trucks than the Alaska Railroad is. If the Federal Government will adopt a national policy that will give all of the railroads an even break, and that ought to be done without delay, then tolls on that class of traffic on Richardson Highway would be justified, and Alaskans would not complain. But for the Government to protect one little road and allow all of the others to go without similar protection is not equitable. There is absolutely no justification for an exception being made as to Alaska. Either all of the railroads should be given relief from this condition or none of them should. Delegate Dimond has asked the Territorial Cham- ber of Commerce and all individual Chambers to assist him in preventing the impostiion of the tolls. He would have them wire Secreatry Ickes in protest. If that does not produce the desired results, then the several organizations should go direct to the President with their case and ask only that Alaska be kept on a basis of equality with the rest of the country. on PREPARING FOR THE CELEBRATION. Announcement that the American Legion post of this city will again arrange for Juneau's annual Fourth of July Celebration, financed by public subscription through the Chamber of Commerce, is welcome news. The Legionnaires have performed that service for several years past in a . splendid manner and justly have earned the reputation of putting across anything they undertake. With them in charge, the community is assured of a grand and glorious Fourth. This year, the Chamber of Commerce, due to financial conditions, has been compelled to cut its usual allotment of funds by 50 per cent. Instead of setting aside $1,000 for that purpose, it has only $500 to spare. Despite the reduction, however, the Leionnaires are going ahead with plans for a big day. They will do more than their part, but if it is to be the sort of success everyone hopes for, resi- dents, generally, will have to assist them and co- operate with them in every possible way. WASHINGTON TONIC HAS BEEN EFFECTIVE. The industrial news still portrays a rising tide of business activity that is embracing nearly every line of industry and practically every section of the country. Electric power production, steel output, automobile shipments and railroad car-loadings are climbing so steadily as to carry all of these indices _very shortly ahead of last year. It is not to be expecied that the revival is GENERAL MANAGER | d Press is exclusively entitled to the | {having an-equally pronounced ‘effect upon prof: |In the case of the utility companies, for instance, it has all along been figured that the curve of net | would probably not pass last year until late summer. But enough ground has been gained to warrant the expectation of healthy earning power during the third and fourth quarters unless the turn proves to be but a flash in the pan. The most satisfactory phase of the current im- the budget and been responsible for such a sweeping rise in raw material prices. It intends to get mil- | lions of 1 back to work before the year is out, |and the program to this end is being developed 'A.\ rapidly as is possible in view of the many | serious problems that have to be solved in putting it on paper and into effect. [ } Advancing prices for raw furs from Alaska, bid | recent sales offerings in various markets, con- stitute but one of the encouraging signs of these days. Trappers, due to low prices during the past | two years, have not been eager to operate. They will | be more willing to do so next winter if present prices ;lrvmls are maintained. If it wasn't for the Ferguson family in Texas, newspaper paragraphers in that State could have a lot more fun with its next door neighbor, Louis- iana, about her Huey Long. Viscount Ishii has joined President Roosevelt in a public statement expressing a desire for peace in the Far East. Chinese newspapers may be pardoned if they quote the Japanese diplomat with reserva- tions. Experts Are Not Enough. (Cincinnati Engquirer.) There is nothing overwhelmingly difficult about the preparation of national and international pro- grams for the restoration of economic activity. These matters are extremely complex, and no man fully understands them. But competent technicians at least can formulate orderly and far-reaching projects to insure a measure of recovery. By readjustment | of tariffs and debts, stabilization of exchanges and release of impediments to the movement of capital, the experts can positively guarantee substantial progress—if their proposals are adopted. Unhappily, this is not the heart of the world’s dilemma. After the experts have met and formulated their programs, how can we be sure that govern- ments will accept them and put them into prac- tice. Governments know all too well that they dare not make drastic concessions against the im- mediate interests of their own people, in the hope {of long-time benefits. They know that economic nationalism, although a deterrent to progress, is still entrenched in the hearts of mankind. The plain fact is that a full realization of the‘ need for economic disarmament has not yet filtered through to the great mass of people, nor indeed to the Legislators who represent them; Neither have | economic interests within the nations come to realize | that they must make sacrifices in the common good. There is not yet a general disposition in any major country to take a courageous step towards tariff reduction or war debt revision or monetary stability. It is likely that the responsible statesmen of the world would like to sanction a drastic program for world recovery. But they have to face electorates unprepared for actions that may savor of defeat at the hands of other Powers. In addition to experts | who know the methods of economic recovery we | need a larger force of interpreters, of prophets, who can induce the people themselves to indorse the actions necessary. Unless the far-sighted meas- ures of the technicians are thus translated into popular terms, it probably is idle to hope for decisive action from our statesmen. Books Will Burn—But Thoughts Endure. (Port Angeles Evening News.) It 1s almost like going back into the middle ages to read of Germany's attempts to put the torch to all books which do not conform to the | notions of Adolf Hitler. | Those bonfires, dotting public squares from one end of Germany to the other, may have seemed to the Nazis like the beacon fires of a new day, a day in which everything “non-German” is to be de- stroyed. In reality they marked the camps of an army engaged in the most hopeless of all lost causes ~—the attempt to make force triumph over the ideas of men. It has been tried before, over and over again. Roman emperors and Spanish inquisitors have tried it, Russian czars and French kings, courts civil and religious—and it has never worked. Books have been burned and their authors have been burned, all of the resources of great kingdoms have been enlisted to stamp out ideas that rulers did not like; and nothing of permanence has ever been accomplished. The fight against a book, against an idea, against a song, is one fight in which ultimate defeat is written in the stars. ‘When a man gives a book to the world—pro- vided that his book has real merit in it and not just a tale told to #muse idle minds—he contributes something which his fellows will use as long as it contains anything of value for them. A book is the embodiment of a dream, the clothing “in words of a vision, the incarnation of an idea; and it is one of the ironies of existence that such things, utterly lacking in material substance, are among the world'’s imperishables. To be sure, you can take the book and burn it. You can take the author and burn him too, if you like; you can send soldiers into homes and dispossess any people you find reading the book or talking about it. But you accomplish nothing, aside from adding momentarily to the world’s stock {of pain and its list of heroes. History will remember you only because you tried the impossible. And the thing you fought against will go on working, as long as there is any work for it to do. Your bonfires will die down and their ashes will grow cold; but the flame that was the book itself will keep on burning as long as men anywhere need its light. The annual cost of medical care in this country is reported to be $3,650,000,000. The doctors carry most of this on their books.—(Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.) The rush of States to ratify the repeal amend- ment has all the interest and excitement of a horse race.—(Buffalo Courier Express. SYNOPSIS: Jim Sundean stum- bles over a murdered man insthe corridor of his hotel in a Uttle French town. The murderer might be Sue Tally. Lovschiem, manager of the hotel, Madame Lovschiem, the man known as Father Robart «~r some one eclse. But incon- veniently the French police believe tne wmurderer is Sundean, and shadow him continvously. Suiis dean wants very much to talk with Sue, but finds her always in the company of a newcomer, David Lorn. Chapter 13 MYSTERIOUS MR. LORN AVID LORN arrived during the afternoon. Pecause I felt restless and tired of the enforced inactivity, I watched Lorn’s entrance and reg- fstration and his subsequent prog- | ress through the lounge in Marcel’s active convoy with more interest than I should have otherwise given him. I had, of course, no premonition that he was to become such anactive | and important figure in the really hideous affair which, had we but known it, had only begun. He was, however, not a man who ThéWbile Codkatoo by Mignon G. Eberhart’ | Cursing myself for getting into | the affair—although I don’t know just how I could have kept out of it —for coming to Armene at all, for staying at the hotel, for having promised to meet Jack there, for be- ing early at the place, for planning a holiday in Spain, and for a number of other equally irrelevant affairs, I | roused at last to the fact that I was | letting the silence make me nervous. A walk in the wind would clear | my head. | 1t was as I turned from the north | corridor into the main hall of the middle part of the hotel that I finally saw Sue Tally, e was standing in a sort of re- C The man Lorn was with her, and they were talking very low and so earnestly that they did not ap- pear to see me at all. Yet, in spite ot their being so unguarded as not to » my passing, I had an impression they did not wish to be seen to- her. It was undoubtedly Sue; and r hair was as soft and bright and | her face as sweet as I remembered it from the previous night. ‘would have commanded ordinarily | any attention. He was medium tall, medium slender, his hair was me dium brown, his face just a face, and his clothes ordinary traveling s tweeds. His chin was perhaps a little | GOT to the lounge. In the lobby there were two policemen, again. Madame Grethe was there, and Lov- 1iem, looking, somehow, smug. One of the policemen approached and tapped my shoulder, and me Lorn was a “medium” sort of man. smaller than his nose and forehead promised. And it seemed to me thai ; his darkish eyes were rather‘gnatd ed, seeing more than they appeared to see. Then he disappeared into the tiny lift, and I rose and strolled to the lobby and looked at the reg- ister. Madame Lovschiem, imperturba- ble and rather nice-looking in g tight-fitting green gown with sway- ing gold hoops at her ears, was at the desk and watched me look at the register. The cockatoo watched too, and 1 was as conscious of his knowing eyes as of Madame's, which were as wise. The newcomer’s name was below mine on the otherwise clean page. It was David Lorn, and the place of residence was New York, which told me exactly nothing except that, pre- sumably, here was another Amerf- can. It is strange, now that ‘it is over, to think of that handful of Americans, synthetic and real, set down in the old hotel in Armene, all of us drawn into the mad and dread- ful struggle that centered around Sue Tally and was until the very last so ruthless in its terrible ad- . They were saying something | in French to me, and then Lovschiem undertook to interpret. “What a misfortune! What a mis- fortun he said. “They wish— oh, most mistakenly—bLut they in sist upon arresting monsieur. They are taking you away at once.” ‘There isn't enough evidence,” ) tried sharply. “You can’t arrest me. This is absurd.” The police tightened their grip | and Lovschiem, rubbing his hands, said softly: “‘Ah, what bad luck! You see, mon« sleur, there is new evidence agains{ you.” My reception in a French jail was not at all what I might have ex: pected. I was inclined to suspect that, it being at the hour when the Frenchman feels a need t6 repair te a cafe, the entire machinery neces- sary properly and formally to enter a prisoner was not, for the moment, on hand. Owing to my hazy knowl- edge of French and to the unexpeet ed turn the situation was so soon to take, I never did discover what the real and formal procedure consti- vance and yet so grimly inexplicable. My own part in it was sheer acei- dent. So was Marcel’'s—poor little Marcel. Yet none of us could escape. ADAME, I think, would have talked, but I had no wish to. My day’s thought had come to very little except the bare conclusion that I could do nothing then but await developments. I saw no one in the corridors. I heard no one as I went to my room. I knew that Mrs. Byng and the red-bearded priest and Marcel and the cook and the maid were about somewhere, but for all I saw of anyone but Marcel they might have been dead and buried. Even Lovschiem had inexplicably vanished. I tried to sleep, there in my own room, but succeeded only in staring into the fire, which Marcel thoughtfully kept going, and sm ing innumerable cigarettes. had | ok | tuted. As it was, I was simply searched,’ fingerprinted, and led to a cold little room, locked in, and then through the grating asked politely to remain there, which seemed a redundancy. Lovschiem had blandly refused to tell me what the new evidence was, and while the gendarmes who ar rested me did enough talking, the only word I was sure I understood was eui, which is unmistakable. I did manage to drag up the words for paper and ink from some faint schoolday memory, both of which they brought me. Thus I spent my first hour in a French jail composing somewhat feverish telegrams to the United States consul in Paris, and tot Jack. The telegrams, never sent. (Copyright. 1933, Mignon G, Eberhart) however, were 1 Pavid Lord, tomorrow, tal ! s vpected interest in proce JUNEAUITES PLAN ' VACATION IN SOUTH Mrs. Earle L. Hunter, Jr., and Buddy and Mrs. Wilbur Burford and Norma Burford expect to leave this week for the South where they will spend several weeks. MTs. Hunter and her young son will visit | J. E. Kirk in Sa!em. the 1933 graduates of St. Mary's college will be Dan Hurely, sight- and student for two years. Oregon. North in about six weeks. Mrs. Burford and Norma plan to! spend the summer visiting in Seat- tle and Bellingham. —— e MORAGA, Cal, May 29.—Among Jess trainer of the Galloping Gaels The world is not so much interested in what Japan hopes to get out of China as when it gets out.—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) Established 1898 INSURANCE Allen Shattuck, Inc. + Juneau, Alaska then suddenly another one was at They expect to return S v i MAY 29, 1913 ! +Miss Ben Hero," Miss Ethel Chambers and Miss Harriet Case, Juneau school teachers, who had intended putting in the first few days of vacation at the Whitehorse celebration, changed their plans as no crowd went from Juneau, the Spokane instead. ssistant District Attorney H. H. Folsom returned from Haines on the Georgia. He had represented the government at a hearing in Haines in connection wijh the kill- ing of N. H. Wixson. Mrs. W. H. Case and her chil- dren were spending a few days visiting in Skagway. Mr. Case e°X- pected to go up on an early boat. Good progress was being made in the Sheep Creek division of the Alaska Gastineau's development project and the preliminary work incident to the establishing of the big reduction plant was well along and the heavy work about to bégin. Everyone in town was talking about the benefit dance to be giv- en in the evening for the band boys. A good attendance at the affair was assured by the interest shown in the event. ——————— NOTICE TO EAGLES AND AUXILIARY Douglas Aerie 117 F. O. E. and (the Ladies’ Auxiliary invite the members and their families to the joint nistallation of officers, Mon- day, 7:30 pm., May 29, in the Eagles Hall; social entertainment will follow the ceremonies. —adv. The advertisements are you guide to efficient spending. ot e b Summer Prices COAL Per ton F.O.B. Bunkers ‘Ladysmith Screened. $14.80 Ladysmith Mine Run 14.50 Nanaimo Screened.... 14.80 Nanaimo Mine Run.. 14.50 Utah Stove . 15.00 Utah Pile Run . 14.50 Utah-Indian Lump.... 13.00 Indian Lump ... 11.00 Indian Nut ... . 11.00 !| Indian Chestnut 10.00 ! Junior Diamond 12.95 H 13.00 Any Screenings ....... 8.00 Indian Lump and i Screenings — com- bination for furn- f ace ... 9.50 i A COAL FOR EVERY PURPOSE Pacific Coast Coal Co. PHONE 412 ONE SHOVELFUL OF OUR COAL will give as much heat as two of 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 order. WE SPECIALIZE IN FEED D. B, FEMMER PHONE 114 and took passage for the south on| I L I O Dr. J. W. Bayne PROFESSIONAL Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics, 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to b pm. l | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | Gastineau Channel | Fraternal Societies OF B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at | 8 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. s o \ Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Trapsient brothers urg- ed to attend. Council i Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST R<oms 8 and 9 Valentine | Building Telephone 178 DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. i Chambers, Fifth Strees. JOHEN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER. Secretary Our trucks go any place any burner trouble. PHONE 149, NIGHT 145 : and a tank for erude oil save | | RELIABLE TRANSFER "~ KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS iy time. A tank for Diesel Ol | | | I o e | P oW | 1] iy : TRIANGLE | ¥ Dr. A. W. E}e,wart T CABS i NTT Hours lB)lz.m. to 3 pm. | 25c S o i, s, ||| Any Place in City ! 3 rhone 276 il PHONES : | 22 and 42 Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building, Phone 481 ) Robert Simpson Opt. D. Graduate Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Pitted, Lenses Ground DR. BR. E, SOUTHWELL Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Room 7. Valentine Bldg. Office Pnone 484; Residenge Phone 288. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 L L { g —— JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY Moving and Storage Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of FUEZ OIL ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 | 1l i i —— ] ——————a —a ] = S = MAY HAYES Rose . A. Andrews Modiste Graduate Nurse , Bergmann Hotel \ Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas- PHONE 205 4 sage, Colonic Irrigations S e e L S SN Office hours 11 am. to 5 pm. G}“_ Evenings by Appointment S A e T geoond and Matn . Phone 260 | | | THE JUNEs:.E. cLSAeP':?:{Y ¢ . ll“uh : o1 Front and Second Streets ALLAMAE SCOTT Expert Beauty Specialist PERMANENT WAVING Phone 218 for Appointment Entrance Pioneer Barber Shop ISR T MY L. C. SMITH and CORONA TYPEWRITERS J. B. Burford & Co. customers” Harry Race DRUGGIST “THE SQUIBB STORE” JUNEAU-YOUNG | Funeral Parlors: u.-iu Funeral Directers ». WE HAVE IT at the Right Pries Harris Hardware Co. Lower Fronk Street Advertisements are your pocket- merchandise news. book editorials. They interpret the , and Embaimers | Night Photie 1861 Day Phone 12 | —_ 3 The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau Alaska BANKERS SINCE 1891 Strong—Progressive—Conservative We cordially invite you to avail yourselves of handling your our facilities for business. . ; PHONE 359 l Meals for Transients Cut Rates Chicken dinner Sunday, 60c MRS. J. GRUNNING l Board by Week or Month P ——— Large Sample Rooms ELEVATOR SERVICE | GARBAGE HAULED | AGE HAULED “BERGMANN DINING | ROOM | ! | 1 e — Dy |l L SCHULMAN | o uring Furrier | Formerly of Juneau | | Reasonable Prices i 801 Ranke Bldg, Seattle | [ —— . GENERAL MOTORS and MAYTAG PRODUCTS W. P. JOHNSON B TLspaiEy & T CARL JACOBSON | warcn merainmva | WATCH REPAIRING i SEWARD STREET | | Opposite Goldstein Buflding | e 8 T HORLUCK'S | T | q DANISH Ice Cream ALL FLAVORS | Juneau Ice Cream « 0