The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1933, Page 4

—— e st -~ o A e g et s NP 8 4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1933, Daily Al(nlska Fmpire PRESIDENT AND EDITOR JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER very _evening _ except Sunday by the Eh‘{‘;x'?ll{;?@?‘me\‘lrrn e‘l!()Mllz';\f\'\' at Second and Malin | Streets, Juneau, Ka. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class | matter, SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Dellvered by carrler In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month By mall, postage pald, at the following rates: One year, 'In advance, $12.00; aix months, In advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.21 Subscribers will confer a_favor %it they win promptly | notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity | h del of_their pa oheshom Tor Ba forial and Business Offices, 374. [ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. | i Press is exclusively entitled to the | The Associa use for rep: n of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the | ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. READ THE BILL FOR YOURSELF. ; | That is the suggestion that The Empire has to offer to all individuals who are interested in the proposal of Delegate Dimond to transfer control of the Alaska fisheries from Congress to the Alaska Legislature—that is from national to home rule. In order that all of its subscibers may have the op- portunity to do so, the entire measure appears else- where in today's edition of this paper. There has been a lot of discussion of the bill before the Chamber of Commerce and in the press. Last Saturday an editorial in The Empire sought to analyze some of the more important points at- tempted to be established by H. L. Faulkner in his opposition to the measure before the Chamber of Commeace last week. Tuesday, Mr. Faulkner replied to it in a communication addressed to the Editor. It contains no new facts, nothing that was not said to the Chamber of Commerce when it brought up the bill for discussion. As Mr. Faulkner's original| talk was discussed here editorially, however, The| Empire was glad to extend him: the privilege of| restating his case. To have done otherwise would have been less than just, and it would not knowingly | deal unjustly with him. The position of this paper in support of the Delegate naturally remains the| same. It is a good bill that the Delegate has presented, one that makes every reasonable provision‘ to safeguard all interests, public and private. It should be enacfed into law by Congress and probably will be if the Delegate receives the united support of Alaskans. Mr. of the measure is his fear that the Territory would be forced to levy oppressive taxes on industries| and individuals in order to defray costs of admin- istration. He has so far failed to discuss principles. The Empire has suggested means of substantial reduction in present and recent Federal adminis- trative costs, means it believes reasonable and sound and which will not lower the efficiency of conservation measures now in effect. It has espoused the principle of home rule for too many years for its position on this bill to be doubted. It is the very essence of home rule and constitutes the most important step toward making the Territory a prosperous and wholly self-sustaining community that has ever been suggested. . . . . There is no reason wny it should cost Alaska $1,000,000 or $600,000 biennially to regulate and properly administer the fisheries. But that is a point which will be debated until the attempt is made. Of course, that amount could be expended. But it is not likely to be. How much will, or can, be spent is a matter for the people of Alaska to say through their elected representatives after the authority for the transfer is given. They have already expressed themselves in no uncertain terms on the desirability of local control. The Delegate now merely seeks to attain it for them. In one assertion anent the Delegate, Mr. Faulkner is in error, unwittingly, of course. He asserts that Mr. Dimond has asked the Chamber for its opinion. That, so far as we can ascertain, is incorrect. The Delegate mailed the Chamber copies of this measure and its companion, which provides for transfer of administration of game and fur-bearing animals, without comment or any intimation that he would welcome the Chamber’s opinion on the economic or any other side of either bill. That suggestion, we are positive, came from Senator Allen Shattuck. At one of the Chamber's regular meetings a few weeks ago, he said the bills were too important to be passed over, and asked for their reference to a committee for study and report . . . . The Empire is absolutely convinced that the Delegate is so certain of the need for these transfers and of the earnest desire for them by a great majority of Alaskans that he would not abandon his efforts to obtain the change even though the Chamber of Commerce protested vehemently. It must be remembered that he specifically pledged himself, if elected, to do his utmost to bring it about, made that his chief plank; that his party pledged itself to the same end; and that the electors trusted in his sincerity and honesty and showed ‘that trust by electing him overwhelmingly. He would not lightly break that pledge, or pas- sively see it unfulfilled. Delegate Dimond is not that type of politician. Althougk he did not invite or request the Chamber to express an opinion, based upon economic grounds or otherwise, he would, of course, welcome one. And if it should be that it disagreed from his course, he would receive it courteously and credit it with being an honest expression, as sincere as his own is. The Empire and Mr, Faulkner agree upon this, of course. . . . . The Empire has before this said it feels the Chamber would make a mistake were it to dis- approve the fisheries measure because it feared this might be but a forerunner of the Federal |not complicated {mind just as if he were not a politician. Faulkner's chief objection to the enactment | |“crowds and parks are incompatible.” “|more in surprise than in anger, sponsibility ‘for administering the Indian schools, building of roads and trails and other matters which the nation either handles alone or in co- operation with the 'Territory; or because it fears the Territory cannot without injury to established industry or to individuals. defray administrative costs. The Chamber ought to have sufficient confidence in Alaskans to permit them to determine whether they can pay these costs. That is what the Dele- gate's bill really does. In opposing the passage of such legislation, the Chamber would in effect be saying that the residents of Alaska who are qualified not have anything to say about all. voters ought to the matter at A mistaken impression has developed widely that the bill, if passed, would then and there turn over the fisheries to Alaska. That is wholly erroneous. Section Four of the measure provides: That the administrative authority here- vested in the Territory of Alaska shall become effective until the Legislature of said Territory shall, at any regular or ext session, accept jurisdiction of the dministrative and regulatory functions over fisheries of Alaska hereby transferred to and vested in the Territory of Alaska, and shall make provision by law for the administration and regulation thereof, as well as provision for defraying the neces- sary expenses of such administration, regu- lation, protection and conservation of such fisheries. In other words, unless and until the Legislature of Alaska establishes by law a system of admin- istration that will adequately do all the things necessary for administration and regulation, and set by not |up funds sufficient to carry on such laws and regu- |lations thereunder, Federal control is to continue. we hold, is enough to justify, the Chamber to endorse the That provision alone, in fact to warrant, bill, . . . * The bill in its entirety ought to be read and studied carefully by all Alaskans. It is not long and It is simply drawn and susceptible of being easily understood. The game and fur bill follows along the same general lines, except the authority of administra- tion would pass immediately to the Territory. Pow- ers now vested in the Secretary of Agriculture and the Alaska Game Commission would be transferred to the Governor of the Territory pending some |other arrangement by the Legislature. Both measures seek to make Alaska’s dream of home rule an actuality. Both ought to be en- dorsed by every Chamber of Commerce ‘in Alaska, by the Alaska Territorial Chamber and by the rank and file of citizenry, and passed by Congress. Ickes On the rarks. (New York Times.) For a new Cabinet officer, delightfully outspoken. is on his Think of a Secretary of the Interior announcing in a public speech that the American people do not know how to use their parks! “Their idea of wild flowers is to pick them up by the roots,” He says what idea of branches.” stone even went so far as to observe, naively, that If that be true, he is likely to encounter a deal of incompati- bility before he completes his present task. He apparently recognizes the practical necessities of the case, however, for he hastened to speak of the concessions that must be made to the principle of “accessibility” if the people of the country are to get the full benefits of these great recreation cen- ters. And yet— If T had my way about National Parks, I would create one without a road in it. I would have it impenetrable forever to auto- mobiles, a place where man would not try to improve upon God. That is not so utterly tion. There is one park in the empire over which Mr. Ickes holds sway—Mount McKinley National Park in Alaska—where corduroy still rules over silk stockings and his dream is all but an actuality today. To be sure, there is a gravel road that runs in forty miles or so from the railroad station to the foot of the glaciers that ring old Denali round with glory, but what is a narrow ribbon like that in an area of 2645 square miles? The territory all about is still set down on the official maps as “unexplored areas”” One day last Spring a park ranger saw afar off what he took to be a red fox asleep on a grassy knoll. Wondering how near he could get to it without being discovered, he got down on his hands and knees and ‘crawled labor- iously toward the animal, at last over the top of a little ridge plump in the face of a grizzly. The bear made a rush at him, but turned tail and ran the moment it caught the human scent. No need for Secretary Ickes to worry about having to “dodge automobiles” in that country. And there are sections of the National Parks nearer home fit to be “forever‘'kept as wild forest lands,” as even effete New York State decrees for its preserves. It is clear that Mr. Ickes, contrary to the sometime sinister tradition of his office—con- firmed under the Fall regime—stands with the pro- tectors against the exploiters, and can be counted upon to direct the department's conservation poli- cies back into their true course. That being so, it is a little disturbing to hear rumors from Wash- ington that the National Park Service may be shifted, to some other department, where it would be less secure. trees and shrubs is to break off impossible of realiza- New Food and Drug Bill. (New York World-Telegram.) ‘The Department of Agriculture has prepared, with President Roosevelt’s approval, a new and compre- hensive food, drugs and cosmetics bill aimed to protect the public against impure and injurious products, false labels and misleading advertising. The need of such an act has been long apparent. The old Food and Drugs law of 1906 is feeble and full of loopholes. Time and again the Federal authorities have had to confess themselves power- less, under this law, to stop the manufacture and sale of products not only fraudulent but highly dangerous. So-called “radium cures” are not for- gotten, nor the scandal regarding ‘certain anaes- thetics. We hope the new law has found a way effectively to prevent the continued sale of condemned drugs. The public health greatly needs up-to-date pro- tection. The Roosevelt Administration is to be con- gratulated upon not overlooking, even among its gigantic economic and financial tasks, this very necessary and timely aid toward keeping the people of the nation well and saregunrded against poisons and impurities. Wonder what Ponzi thinks “about when he reads about the more modem financial racketeers?—(New Government turning over to Alaska the sole re- York Sun.) Harold Loy Ickes is| he told a group of | park-lovers dining together the other evening. "ThcixfiK the The Grand Panjandrum of the Yellow- | only to raise his head' SYNOPSIS: From a half dozen suspects who might have commit- ted the murder, the French police pick Jim Sundean., Sundean mot only is innocent; he was shot at five times by the murderer. But the {nsids of a cold French jail ls o bad place to oonduct a ht for freedom. and when David Lorn, a stranger, arrives with a note of introduction from Sue Tally, Sun- dean {s overjoyed. Lorn says the police have learned the murdered man was Russian and that Sundean. recently has been in Moscow. ;fl’), Chapter 15 ' MR. LORN'S THEORY 'ELL, two people can be in the same country without harm, can’t they?” “Why, don’t you' see, my friend, Lhat there’s an obylous connection? A connection, at least, in the eye of the police. And you can’t blame them much; they've had some trouble with Communistic feuds lately.” *“Oh, good God! It's—" I was fu- tile and raging at my futility, “Of all the damned, dumb, asinine—why, it's preposterous! It's stark raving crazy! It's—" *“No doubt,” he said, watching me, “But that’s what they think,” “You say you think there is some- thing you can do? What s t?” “I don’t know how it's going to come out. Don’t expect too much. But I suggested that they hold a post-mortem.” “What do you mean?” “I'm not sure I mean anything; I'm pinning my faith to the sixth bullet. Why wasn’t it fired at you? Had it already been fired?" “You mean—you think the fellow was not killed by stabbing? That he was shot?” “Perhaps.” “But that’s—why, that's out of the question, Lorn! The doctor and the police would see that at once. There'd be no possible way ot hid- ing it.” “Only one. I've looked at the dag: ger: it's barely possible that it made a jagged wound. One that might conceal—" “A bullet hole?” My private opin- ion was that the man was mad. His intentions might be good, but he was undoubtedly poor-witted. *Do you mean to say that it is possible that the murderer first shot the man through the heart and then—that’s preposterous!” “And then inserted the dagger exactly through the bullet hole. You look incredulous, Mr. Sundean. But we may be dealing with an excep tional criminal. One never knows. The murderer may be one who cal- culates every chance; one of his ad- vantages would be the fact that he is not in a city Also all papers of! identification were removed from the dead man, Thus, naturally, the! pressure of effort to discover the EE murderer is not as great as it would | be if the murdered man were known to be, for instance, a person of im- portance.” “It’s great enough,” I said bitterly. “Do you mean that the removal of his passport and papers and aHl would indicate that he was an im- portant person?” “That would be impossible to say.” “Are you a lawyer?” “No,” he said flatly, and then con- tinued briefly: “I arrived this after- noon, early. Miss Tally told me of the murder and of the attempt to abduct her last night. She urged me to come to see you and insisted that I put forth every enmergy to assist you. Otherwise, I should not have thrust myself upon you in this man- ner.” “It's very good of you,” I mur- mured, rather taken aback by his stateliness. “Very good, indeed.” He looked at his watch and picked up his hat and rose. “The doctor should have arrived by this time, and I think I can man- age to see something of the post mortem. I shall return as soon as 1 discover the result.” 1 said some kind of thanks; the man in the corridor outside let Lorn out and locked the door again but left the'light on. Y hopes were very faint. But he’d given me something to think of; and I felt rather better to think that someone—anyone—was working on my side of the affair. And Sue Tally had sent him. I got out her note and read it again. Lorn had said merely that he had just arrived and that she had told him of the murder and of the at- tempt to abduct her. This presup- posed an acquaintance between them. Well, from my point of view, his arrival had been most opportune. But I wondered what his relation was with Sue Tally, and it Increased the mystery that surrounded her. I got up and walked back and forth from one wall to another unti) I was warmer. After 1 told my- self, it was too crazy and nightmar- Established 1898 The White Codkatoo by Mignon G. Eberhart’ ish a situation to endure for long. hadn’t murdered the man, and it| was ridiculous to be cooped up in a, French jail for something I hadn’t, done, and it couldn’t last long. And all the time I was arguing thus to myself the words “circum- stantial evidence” were repeating themselves coldly in the back of my mind. And I wanted to be out of jail. In an hour or so the warder brought me a tray with a very sparse meal on it. I was still looking at the stuff and thinking that if I didn’t manage to eat it I should be very hungry indeed by morning when there were sudden and many foot~ steps in the eorridor. The first’ man through the door |the Alaska Legislature, b i 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire e DL MAY 31, 1913 Mr. and Mrs. James McKanna were the parents of a handsome baby boy born early in the morn- [ +|ing. Dr. Simpson was the attend- ing physigian. C. E. Bunnell, well known Val- dez attorney and Democratic com- mitteeman for the Third Division, arrived in Juneau on the Mari- posa and planned to remain for a few days. He commented favor- ably on the activity going on in the vicinity of Juneau. In recognition of his services as a member of the First Assembly of Represen- was the commissaire of the previous |tative Thomas Gaffney, of Nome, night; he was puffing and not at all was honored at a smoker given pompous and looked, In fact, rather junder the auspices of the Western like an outraged billy-goat. After |Federation of Miners him was Lorn, looking, I thought, a little surprised, but that was all. And after him, the young officer of the night before and several others, all highly excited. The commissaire, his mustaches and imperial quivering, talked to me for a long time in French, speaking very rapidly. He finally paused with a question, and was suddenly purple and baffled when it became apparent that I hadn’t understood a word and his efforts had been wasted. Lorn stepped quietly into the breach. “He says they are releasing you for the time being, but that yow must remain at hand,” he said. “At least, that’s the gist of what he said. I'll explain later. At present you'd better leave.” TOOK a long breath. I belleve I picked up my hat. Then I turned to the commissaire. “See here,” I said earnestly. “You were entirely wrong to arrest me. I didn’t murder the man. 1 had nothing at all to do with it. I never saw him before. I am an American citizen traveling through your city. This is preposterous. You | are crazy. You've arrested an inno- cent man and you'll suffer for it.” I had started calmly enough but wae growing enraged all over again as I proceeded with the injustice that had been done me. “You are a pompous old ass of a billy-goat anyhow, and—" “Monsieur, monsieur!” The young officer who understood English was shaking my arm. He looked pink and friendly. “You must stop, mon- | sieur. There is danger he will com- prehend a word or two.” “Oh, my God!"” I said, disgusted. “How do you say what I want to nuy in Frehch?” “Monsieur is not out ot danger. He must take care. I will tell for him that he wishes to thank Mon- .sieur le commissaire for his kind- ness.” : “You tell Monsieur le commis | saire for me he can go to—" Lorn INSURANCE Allen Shattuck, Inc. cleared his throat warningly, and I i stopped. . The commissaire shot out several | sharp and suspicious questions just then, and I don’t know what the young officer sald. He did not, how- ever, interpret literally for me, for the commissaire became gradually calm and soothed and was lctunlly ' smiling a litle when the young offi- cer concluded. At any rate, I was free. Fifteen | minutes later Lorn and I were walk- | ing along the dark narrow streets toward the old hotel, bending against the furious wind which hurled any few words out of our mauths and | prohibited my eager inquiries. At the entrance to the courtyard he paused and drew me into a cor ner that was a little out of the wind. “It is as well,” he said in my ear, “for us not to be seen together. It s not wise at the moment. Will you precede me into the hotel?” “But I want to see you at once. ‘Why did they let me out? Were you right? There are things—to be done.” “Yes and no; it's a longish story. I'l come to your room tonight,” he said. “Go on. I'll come later.” He turned away to let me enter the hotel ahead of him, but I seized his arm. “Wait,” I said. mean ‘yes and no'?" 1 was obliged to shriek against a furious gust of wind, and he looked at me in sharp disapproval. “Wind is tricky,” he eald. “We may be overheard.” “I don't care who hears. What killed him?” He jerked his arm away. “He was poisoned,” he sald. “It ] am to help you, Mr. Sundean, you must let me do it my own way. ] shall come to your room after I've had dinner. We can talk then. Nof here.” He vanished into the dark ness. (Copyright, 1933, Mignon G, Eberhart] Lorn makes a startiing revela. tion, tomorrow, “What do you Tht general public was invited to attend. T. R. Needham, editor of the Wrangell Sentinel, arrived in Ju- neau to spend a few days before returning to his home. Mr. Need- ham was a pioneer newspaperman of Juneau and Douglas, and with | George M. 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