The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 30, 1933, Page 4

fi~ ! 1 : SR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1933. Daily Aifiska Fmpire PRESIDENT AND EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - evening _except Sunday by the g M COMPANY at Second and Main EMPIRE PRINT Streets, Juneau, A Entered ir matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneay and Douglas for $1.25| per_mon y Dera™or e following rates: One”yEur, ' wdvance, $2.00; six months, tn advance, %0; one month, in advance, $1.21 o :flb(&:"slh'(tlr{;“(\\'ll fer a favor Sie they will promptly | notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity o tarhone To nd Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. 3 Press is exclusively entitled to the "of all news dispatches credited to it or not o 8 local news published ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN VH.'( OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. MEMORIAL DAY. Memorial Day, tenderest of all American holi- days, is with us again today, remindful of the debt a grateful country owes the men who gave their allz Amid its preoccupa- | pauses to for its safety and perpetuity tion with economic stress, the celebrate with piety and pride the deeds of bravery and patriotism performed on land and sea in the hour of emergency. It does so in the reassuring confidence that should duty ever call again the breed will not be found extinct. Its glory and its traditions survive in the hearts of living Americans, despite the organized efforts of those groups which deprecate national defense and are restless to undermine it. The day of remembrance of our heroic dead has more than ordinary significance. The need of the hour is for the stamina that has overthrown every armed enemy of the United| States. The situation calls today for no whit less of courage, or perseverance, of the will to conquer| that our forces have always displayed when they| faced the foe. It is to meet to recall the vicissitudes of the founding fathers and to derive inspiration afresh from their fortitude and faith. It was these vir- tues, as well as valor in battle, that made their causes triumphant. Today, as we pause to honor ourselves by paying tribute to the nation's dead from war, the sense of the great need for preventing in the future the sacrifice that was demanded of them ought to be more confirmed than ever before. Representatives nation of the world’s nations, large and small, are gathered| around the council table in Geneva seeking some practical formula of disarmament and security to the end that war may be outlawed from among civilized peoples. The remembrance of these dead should serve to strengthen the determination of Americans that every influence likely to lead the nation into new wars shall be avoided if possible and that we shall lead in the work of bringing the nations of the world into an accord that will make wars imposible. No greater tribute could be paid to them than such a reconsecration for world peace. NO REVOLT IN THE HOUSE. lower House of Congress passed the great three-billion dollar public works bill, the greatest plank in the President's broad program for relieving unemployment and launching a general economic and industrial recov- ery. The revolt in the House that newspaper cor- respondents in the National capital thought was likely to break out over this measure, if ever threat- ened, was extremely short-lived. The vote--32¢4 to T6+is sufficient evidence that the Administration’s leaders in the House are still handling legislative matters efficiently as well as expeditiously. Commenting recently on the extraordinary speed with which so much yimportant legislation has been enacted at this special on of Congress, Newton D. Baker, Woodrow Wilson's great War Secretary, analyzed the causes as follows: The Administration, by adopting at once a bold and confident course, captured the imagination of the country and the new President was able to secure the enactment of laws from the Congress within the space of a few days which in the normal course of events could not well have been expected to be enacted in less than a year or two. Everybody agrees to the wisdom of what has been done. At the same time, every- body recognizes that we were able to do this not because our institutions were geared up to make. it easy to do but because of the entirely accidental circumstances that a new President had been swept into power by an overwhelming vote and had qualities which enabled him to dramatize his own courage to such an extent that traditional limita- tions and institutional obstacles were swept away. The Senate has not been able to rapidly as the House in any of these matters. has been due to the rules that permit unlimited debate except by apply- ing the cloture which the Senate is always re- luctant to do. But it has acted with as much promptness as could have been Administration has met every front. and Senator Robinson, Democratic upper Chamber, have agreed upon June 10 for adjournment. of the special session indicates that there will be no delay there in completing the Administration’s emergency program. BEER AND BOOTLEGGING. Three point W0 beer may not have much ‘kick” Saturday the Administration’s test leader in the in it for the palate of individuals accustomed for the past 13 years to weird concoctions that have masqueraded as whiskey, gin, and beer in the wake X of Natiopal Prohibition, - but- from everywhere the the Post Office 1 Juneau as Second Class | credited in this paper and also the | | | | The term | spineless | move as That slower processes of the Senate, expected and the with a solid The announcement that President Roosevelt same report comes. Legal beer has made a big dent in the current finances of the bootleggers. In the “wet” cities of the country, from New York to San Francisco, thousands of speakeasies have been forced out of business in the few weeks that have elapsed since the sale of beer was legalized The “hip-pocket” whiskey dealer has fallen on evil days. The “delivery” man finds time aplenty on his hands between orders. Seattle is the latest city to report these condi- tions to prevail. All of the larger cities of the {country. heralded this fact sometime ago. Conditions in Alaskan towns where the bootleggers were once highly prosperous are just as bad for them as they are in the States, Even the potent Admiralty Islartd mule is reported to be losing its appeal as the’ palates of its former adherents become more accustomed to the milder tang of three point two. Prohibitionists who watched the re-advent of beer with anticipation of the nation’s drinkers going on a marvelous beer jag must be bitterly disappointed. Here it is almost three months since the amber fluid began to flow and there has been fewer |instead of more arrests for drunkenness, less of ‘dnving while intoxicated instead of more, and no increase in automobile accidents from any section. Perhaps, after all, they were mistaken about three |point two being intoxicating in fact, and Congress was right in saying it was not. “free silver” is more than a little misleading. After all, dollars made from it would still have to be worked for. With the return of beer, the drys predicted the highways would be knee deep with injured persons. Like a lot of other dry foreeasts, it doesn’t seem to have panned out. Revolvers For All (Manchester, Eng., Guardian.) Fundamental differences between .the attitude of this country and that of the United States seem to be implied in a new suggestion for dealing with the problem of the gangster-gunman. In this coun- |try the ideal is to limit, and, if possile, to eliminate, the number of private citizens who are in pos- session of those firearms whose only real purpose is to serve as weapons of offense. Even the police are. not so armed, and if a detective on dangerous duty needs a revolver he has to make a special {requisition for it. The whole system tends to make the actual possession of such fire arms a symptom of criminal intent. But in the United States, where over 10,000 people are said to be killed by gunshot wounds every year, exactly the opposite system is now advised. Colonel Goddard, who is rather oddly described as “professor of political science at |Northwestern University, Chicago,” and “arms and |ammunition expert,” recommends that every good American citizen should be equipped with a re- volver and told to act as his own policeman in a |great national campaign against ‘“gunmen and hoodlums.” “Arm the reputable citizen,” says this exponent of political science expressed in terms of six-shooters, “and you disarm the criminal” “Not s0,” would be the reply of our police ndmmlstrators,t “the more revolvers you put into public possession, the more the killings and woundings will increase, {since the firearm is always the -weapon of the man |who means to shoot first.” In any event it would} be flatly contrary to the English tradition to en- courage private citizens to believe that they must ilook to their own protection. That is the business of the police, who in most cases heartily resent the slur on their own efficiency which is implied | in any suggestion that a citizen needs a revolver in order to protect his own life or property. The Demand for Autos. (Daily Olympian.) The increase in American automobile production recorded in April is one of the most encouragmg] facts on the whole industrial horizon. To begin with, it is the first genuine upturn recorded by the automobile industry since the de- pression began. Secondly, it has come in direct response to dealer demand. The manufacurers are not forcing cars on their retailers; they are making them be- cause the retailers have discovered that the public demand is going up. The cars that are leaving the factories these days are being sold. The buying of automobiles on an extensive scale is not a small-change business. If, at last, the market actually is expanding, it augurs well for a substantial pick-up in general business. {| Insured Bank Deposits. (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) The American Bankers Association, in a state- ment sent to newspapers throughout the country, calls attention to the inefficiency of bank deposit insurance plans that have been tried in various States. The association contends that such blanket insurance puts a premium on poor banking and penalizes good banking practice. In other words, properly conducted banks would thereby be made responsible for the improper conduct of improperly managed institutions. It is questionable whether bankers as a class realize the extent of the disfavor noted in the public’s attitude toward banks in general. The losses that have been sustained are not and will not be forgotten. The matter of insured deposits—the providing of proper protection for depositors—is one that has been discussed for many years. It would seem that some such provision could well be made a feature of the appeal of banks for business. With- out in any way attempting to pass judgment on the deposit insurance phase of the Glass and Steagall bank reform bill now before Congtess it is safe to say that a savings bank advertising insur- ance protection of deposits would be offering the public something that would bring business to that particular bank. We appreciate the fact that the subject is in- volved. 'We also appreciate “that- the subject has been made more involved than necessary by those objecting to any form for insuring deposits—object- ing to something that might prove decidedly for their own best interests. A suggestion to send Huey Long to London as a return call for Bernard Shaw's visit to America has some good points—(Los Angeles Times.) A surprised man is the one who drinks a dozen bottles of 3.2 beer and then finds that he is able SYNOPSIS: There are half a dozen persons ‘who might have murdered the mysterious stranger : ZLovschiem, Madame Grethe Love achiem, Sus Tally, Father Robart, even Marcel, the porter of the hotel in which this strange crew is gath- ered. All Jim Sundean knows is that he didn't commit the murder himself—yet he has been arrested \ for it. Sundean also knows that he aiaw’t much like to find Sue and a new arrival talking together just B Yefore the police arrived. - pid vy Chapter 14 \ . -~ A VISITOR COMES ' ND I wanted first of all a law- yer; 1 felt rather cold as I sud- denly recalled that in France there 18 no writ of habeas corpus. It is true that I was an American citl- zen, a fact clearly set forth in my passport, but this had not appeared to relieve the situation in the least. It didn't seem at all legal that they should simply throw me into jail and keep me there, but every- thing I had ever heard about the yemarkable freedom of the French police in such matters returned to my memory, and I began to feel a degree of anxlety which, I was to discover, was quite justifiable. Night comes early in the winter at Armene, and the room was quite dark, and no one had appeared to light it, and I was smoking my last cigarette and wishing I had the pompous old commissaire by the beard when I heard footsteps and voiges and a key turning in the lock. The cold, dark little room was flooded with light, and a visitor, a man, was ushered in to see me. I got to my feet and was blinking | in the unexpected light as he insin- uated something that rattled gently into the hand of the man who had opened the door. Then my visitor turned, and I saw the man who had arrived at the hotel during the | afternoon. He sald briskly: “I'm sorry to see you here, Mr. Sundean. My name is Lorn—David Lorn.” He paused and then added: “Miss Tally asked me to see you.” His words were neither promis- ing nor exactly explanatory; still, things looked suddenly better. I was not, after all, entirely without a friend. “Sit down?” He drew up the small straight chair, and I sat down on the cot. He put his hat on the floor, opened his coat, and drew out a folded paper. While his chin was no larger than it had been in the afternoon, I'm bound to admit that the sight of his countenance was very welcome. He handed me the paper, and it was a note from Sue Tally. It was brief but nice. She had written; “Your being thrust Into jall is absurd and intolerable. This'is Mr. Lorn. He knows the whole affair and thinks he can do something about it.” She had written hurriedly and, 1 thought, agitatedly, and her signa- ture was a spirited S. Tally. “Miss Tally is very good,” I put the note in my pocket. He cleared his throat and looked at the floor by my feet. “She thinks you didn’t do this.” “She's right,” I said with some 1 said. The White Codkatoo by Mignon G. Eberhare) | | 1y it is so completely shattered that help. T need help. But what exlcfly‘ is there to do?” “First, Mr. Sundean, you told ths shots last night while you were in the court with some person _whm1 you did not see?” “Yes, five.” } “H'mm. Then I may be right in my surmise. It's a possibility at least—" “What is a possibility?” “That the other revolver shot, tho sixth—" “But there was no sixth; there were only five.” “He fired twice at your flashlight, three times over your head. You still remained in the courtyard—" “I couldn't get away,” I sald. “Exactly. Therefore it is reason- able to suppose that it the sixth shot had still remained in his revolver he would have again tried to—er— shoot you.” “I don’t see,” I sald, “that that has anything to do with getting me out of here. The man was murdered by stabbing. Look here, perhaps you can tell me just why I'm here. What's this new evidence Lov- schiem was so afrald he'd tell me about?” “H'mm. Well, {t's rather bad, Mr. Sundean. But still not at all con- vincing. There's the matter of the clock sword being from your room: they are divided in opinion at the moment regarding your seemingly frank bringing the thing to their attention. At the moment I fear the welight of opinion is that it was only a clever ruse on your part.” OW do you know that?” “I've been talking to the of- ficer in charge. I took the liberty of telling him, Mr. Sundean, that I was your legal representative. And owing to a matter which 1 brought before him he was inclined to talk to me at some length.” “That’s very good of you,” I sald warmly. “Then there's your flashlight.” “But it was shot out of my hand.” “Yes, of course. But unfortunate shattered police that there were five revolver || lald Beattie. E ! YEARS AGO From The Empire s iy MAY 30, 1913 Judge Robert W. Jennings was entertained at a smoker given in ‘his honor by the Juneau Lodge No, U 700, Loyal Order of Moose at the {Odd Fellows’ hall at the end of the regular lodge meeting. An enjoy- 'able program was given and. the large attgendance had a Moqgh’la good time. At the second meeting called by Mayor C. W. Carter, regarding plans for the Fourth of July cele- |bration, committees were appoint- ed to handle the affairs for the day. The committees were, fi- nance, executive, sports, transpor- tation, decoration, dance, music, advertising, publicity and recep- tion. Public offices and stores in Ju- neau were closed in observation of Memorial Day and graves of the survivors of the Civil War were decorated. The Empire did not publish. The camping trip of ten boys and young men of Castle No. 2132, Knights of King Arthur, returned from a camping trip to Lemon Creck, that was made under the guidance of the Rev. John B. Stev- ens of the Presbyterian Church. Those in the party were The Rev. J. B. Stevens, Burdett Winn, Mar- tin Price, Edward Beattie, Martin Jorgensen, Roy Torvinin, Donald McKinnon, Ronald, Reardon, Alva Kelly, Lance Hendrickson and Ron- ‘The band boys had a tough time at the big band dance given the night before as all of the music was furnished by them and they didnt have much time to dance themselves. e, Old papers at The Empire. it is difficult to tell just what did happen to it. Pieces were found just below the landing on which there was a patch of blood from the mur- dered man; those pleces might be taken to mean that you simply dropped your flashlight in a strug- gle with him.” “But that's—why, that's no evi- dence.” *The police are apt to take a dit- forent view from what we expect., But there are two other things, Mr. Sundean. There’s a matter of a soiled towel; a towel which bears trages of blood. They say you dried your hands on it.” “Why, of course, I washed my hands! Remember, I stumbled and went down on the body. And then when I discovered what it was 1 dragged him through the door and into the corridor.” “That’s what you say.” “It’s the truth.” “Oh, certainly, Mr. Sundean. But heat. “gN fact,”” he went on rather cau- tiously, “after hearing her story of the whole affair, I am inclined to agree with her. At least,” he con- tinued before I could speak, “there appear to be a number of rather in- teresting points of which she has told me which may—mind, I only say may—prove to be evidence.” “Evidence?” “Evidence in your favor, I mean to say. However, you—er—" I thought he looked directiy at me; and he said unexpectedly: “It’s just as well to start with a clean slate, murder the man.” “You're damned right, I dldn't murder him. I never even saw him' before—" think so. sit dow fully. “There, now, that's better, Mr. Sundean. Let's be calm about this. First, however, do you feel like—er—accepting my help?” , “Am I in a position to refuse help?” He smiled faintly. “No,” he said as if I had expected | a reply. “Nice that you can keep your spirits up. You aren’t in a very nice position, you know.” I said more graciously: “It’s very good of vou to offer to | Russia, near and in Moscow for the | bulletin, on file here with the police, makes no mention at all of Moscow. . however. I take it you really didn't - “Never mind, never mind. I didn’t {} Sit down, Mr. Sundean, fis l'gour confidence.” He looked at me doubt- 1% #Hang it, man, I am telling the 'véason to think that he's a Russian, there’s the other way of looking at it. And the conclusive thing to their mind is this: Letters were found among your things, as well as various articles of clothing and pa- pers, that proved you have been in last two years. Yet your arrival In it you claim your home §s in New York. Is your home New York?" “Yes. That is, no. That 1s—I have 1o home, ‘exactly. New York does as well as any place. And I've been on construction job in Russia. I'm an engineer.” ~ “So Miss Tally told me,” he nid was at last looking directly at but I could not measure the ok in his dull deepset eyes. He ded expressionlessly: “Perhaps 'd better tell you that I cannot pos- bly help you unless you give me truth. I've told the truth all along. There was no reason mnot to. I've ‘been in Moscow, certainly, but what ot it? Many people have been in Moscow; the city’s full of people.” "\Well, you see,” said Lorn slowly. “The murdered man—they have £00.” (Copyright, 1933, Mignon G. Eberhart) Mr. Lorn tomorrow, Injects a n!lflllng fact into the sinister Now They Have “Tays” LOS ANGELES, May 27.—Tay has become a common nickname at the University of Southern Cali- fornia since Raymond (Tay) Brown captained the unbeaten 1932 foot- ball eleven. Talka Gon, Japanese Olympic marathon runner who has been at- tending the Trojan school, liked the contraction. Now Raymond All Over the Campus; tain Stanley Williamson of the 1931 ’m eleven, has taken it up. Brown got the name from his mall brother, Howard, who in in- lancy couldn't say Ray. It stayed with him. That's the way, too, that James Joseph Tunney became “Gene.” His younger brother: could only make. ‘Williamson, brother of former Cap- “Gene” of “Jim” and “Gene” 1t has been ever since. ————————— JITNEY DANCE Tonight. A. N. B. Hall. Music by Krane's Orchestra. —adv. to walk home.—(Jacksonville Times-Union.) After the Iowa farmers hang all the Judges they can expect nothing better than pitchfork title to their property—(Dallas News.) Latest .of the movements in the dance of Boston life is the kick at the kickless beer.—(Boston Tran- seript.) 5 Still, the new beer product is not sufficiently authoritative to justify dispensing entirely with the needle just yet.—(Lexington, Ky. 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