The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 3, 1933, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1933. Daily Alaska Kmpire PRESIDENT AND EDITOR | GENERAL MANAGER JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - 3 he bublished _every evening except Sunday byt EMPIRE PRINTING (COMBANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, s A Entered in the Post Office in Juncau as Second Class | matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. | Dellvered by carrler in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month. i at the following rates: | 00; six months, In advance, $1.25 By mall, postage pald One year, In h.mh’flnr;h $ $6.00; one month, in advs & Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly nom‘;vm\‘).r.! Business Office of any failure or irregularity | el their pap.rs. o | TYor Edltorial and Business Offices, 374, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. | ssoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the | u.e"'?f, ':.‘.1 tion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the | Jocal news publishad herein A CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ALASKA AN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION NOTICE TO HOLD CLAIM. A feature of the Federal act, recently approved by the President, exempting certain unpatented mining claims from the usual annual assessment work is revealed in copies of the law just received by The Empire from Delegate Dimond. Persons or other owners of such ground and claiming exemp- tion have to file a notice of intention of holding the property. Any one not entitled to .exemption from payment of a Federal income tax for the taxable year 1932 cannot claim exemption. All others may do SO with the following proviso, which is quoted from the act: “Provided further, that every claimant of any such mining claim, in order to obtain the bene- fits of this Act, shall file, or cause to be filed, in the office where the location notice or certificate is recorded, on or before 12 o'clock meridian, July ‘1, 1933, notice of his desire to hold said mining claim | under this Act, which notice shall state that the| claimant, or claimants, were entitled to exemption| from the payment of a Federal income tax for the| taxable year of 1932.” WHAT DID HE PROVE? The physically fragile Mahatma Gandhi, who brought himself into the world picture again on| May 8, with the announcement of a thrce-wecksi fast in the interest of India’s “untouchables,” has survived the test. Already a weak and aged man,| it will be days,yet before physicians can say whether it was fatal in its consequences. So far he lives, but whether he lives or dies, what will he have‘ gained for the “untouchables” whose cause enlisted | his major championship? i Western thought, at least, is not much impressed by this “process of purification,’ as the Indian leader calls it. Martyrdoms, however picturesque, dramatic or sincere, no longer are in fashion. We live in a realistic age, and there are so many better ways by which a cause may be advanced than meekly to die for it as a gesture of protest and reproach. For an intelligent human being to sit in the dirt and dust and say, “If what is wrong is not corrected by somebody, I propose to starve myself to death,” is more provocative of emotions of dis- gust than of admiration, reverence or pity. Gandhi, with his admitted powers, can live and by consistent constructive effort do a great deal for any cause he might espouse, but his death would merely be a futile gesture. His fasting stunts in- vite neither respect nor reverence — they suggest chillishness or senility. The untouchables need real help. It will someday be forthcoming. Their deliverance, however, will not be effected through the fasting and prayers of some reputed saint. It will come, when it does, because men have come to realize the real divinity of justice and “humanity. And one man's fasting, even if he be a holy man, will not hasten materially that realization. HE CHANGED HIS MIND. Last Fall, during the Presidential campaign, Harvey Firestone, intimate comrade of Henry Ford, said publicly it would be a national calamity if Herbert Hoover should not be re-elected as President of the United States. Mr. Ford took the same attitude. Several weeks ago, Mr. Ford advertised ‘his change of mind and praised President Roosevelt to the skies. Now comes Mr. Firestone with a similar admission of error. He, too has changed his mind. Business is better, so much so, that in the past 90 days the Firestone company has considerably more than doubled its working foree to keep apace with the increased demands. So concludes Mr. Firestone: I thought it would be a calamity not to re-elect Hoover. But I have changed my mind. Roosevelt went right in and commenced to do things. And that is one of the biggest reasons for the ever increasing popularity of Mr. Roosevelt. He “commenced to do things,” and he has never quit it. He's still doing them to the great delight of the entire country which is behind him with a confidence in his leadership that no attack can shake. MILD WINTER HELPS MANY INSECT PEST! Many of the important insect pests hibernated successfully this winter, according to the spring surveys of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. Temperatures were not low enough over most of the country to destroy insects in large numbers, and where it was extremely cold a thick blanket of snow protected their winter quarters. Grasshopper eggs came through the winter in excellent condition; the Mexican bean beetle in Ohio River Valley showed a high survival; the ,in good shape. The codling moth in the East | procedure, but in'one thing it seems about to break %{;m.sm'd business as that of any normal session. Central States and in Missouri and the sugarcane borer in Louisiana, however, suffered a high mortal- ity from extreme or unseasonable cold Summer activities of insect pests, entomologists point out, are affected far less by winter kill than by conditions at the time of emerging from hiberna- tion and during the growing season. If, for example, the weather is warm and bright when young grass- hoppers begin to hop, even a depleted army soon grows strong enough to do much damage. And if, on the other hand, the weather is cold and rainy, the young hoppers may be killed off in vast numbers, as happened in the spring of 1932 over much of the threatened area in the West. The codling moth soon overcomes any reduction in numbers due to low winter temperatures if favorable weather pre- Is during its egg-laying period Weather unfavorable to insect development but favorable to parasites and disease that attack the pests materially reduces the insect hordes the farmer must combat each season. The special session of Cougress to date has been unlike its recent predecessors in most of its no records. Its calendar is jammed with un- Anchorage announces the organization of two women's baseball clubs. We hope for the sake of the self-esteem of the masculine sex there that they are not as proficient the women bowlers of the city are. So far as the Federal treasury is concerned the cup that cheers turned out to be the beer mug. An Admirable Choice. (Cincinnati Enquirer,) The designation of Arthur E. Morgan, President of Antioch College, as the active head of the newly created Tennessee Valley Authority is certain to meet warm approval in Cincinnati and in Ohio gen- erally. Mr. Morgan, a Cincinnatian by birth, is identified with the Miami Conservancy project, now a proved success; with the unique educational ex- periment at Yellow Springs, and with many enter- prises in scientific research. He is an able engineer, a competent executive, and a man of unusually alert and original mind. As the head of the gigantic Tennessee Valley project, Mr. Morgan will have a double responsi- bility. He must see that the economic program roughed out in the recent statute is carried through successfully. He must also prove to the people of the United States that public works on an enormous scale are economically sound and financially feasible, and a workable remedy for unemployment. Proving that, he will have laid the foundation for national economic planning on a realistic basis. Mr. Morgan's is a_task for a technically trained engineer, to be sure. But even more, it is a task for a creative imagination, which can visualize and bring to fruition the concept of colossal public expenditures as a lever to restore ecoonmic well- being to a distrait nation. Mr. Morgan's experience and quality of mind assure us that he will succeed if success is possible. Good Will Prospectors. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer.) Next month will see a band of 300 white-collared prospectors depart from Seattle for Alaska on a mission that can be made as significant to this city as the famed gold rush of the nineties. The group will be composed of Seattle business executives and their wives who are making the good will journey under the auspices of the Cham- ber of Commerce to renew old business relation- ships and to make new trade contacts. In the spirit of friendliness and appreciation of Alaska’s problems together with the influence of more favorable economic conditions, they will do much to open up the Alaskan treasure trove to the mutual benefit of Alaska and Seattle. This port and market center is destined to play an increasingly important part in Alaska’s devel- opment. Its strategic situation and sympathetic and cooperative attitude toward the Northern Terri- tory assure this. A good will journey such as is planned will safeguard and hasten the benefits of this relationship. Last year, probably the worst of the depression, Alaska drew on the United States for imports valued at $20,510,238 of which domestic merchandise accounted for $19,573,105. Alaska's own products amounted to $39,326,445. ‘With improved business conditions and strength- ening prices, these impressive totals can be greatly expanded in coming months. They are exceedingly important as a reflection of the potential scope of Seattle’s trade territory. The Alaskan market is one that Seattle cannot afford to neglect. The good will journey is a timely recognition of that fact. for the same period Physicians’ Pay. (New York World-Telegram.) ‘The doctors complain of the faulty distribution of wealth as it is affecting them in the depression, and as it has affected them for the last decade and a half. Medical Week, publication of the Medical So- ciety of the County of New York, points out that the general taxpaying public must dig down deep to pay for the innumerable free hospital patients, and then adds that the doctor is twice victimized, as a taxpayer and as dispenser of free esrvice in the clinies. The editorial says:—“The conditions governing affiliations with municipal and voluntary hospitals are virtual confiscation of the service that is the sole source of livelihood to most doctors. Twenty years ago it would have been heresy to propose the payment of physicians for ward and clinic service. Today there is a growing lay acquiescence in the bellef that the doctor, llke every one else, |is entitled to be paid for his work. The inability of a large section of the public to pay for medical care is due not to any inherent defect of private practice, but to a system that places the greatest part of the nation's wealth in the hands of a few people. The remedy lies in the eradication of the larger causes.” : It is true that physicians gain in knowledge and skill from their free-patient work. Yet doctors are about the only commercialized professional class who are required to give a great amount of their time away for nothing. They should get paid for their work. Social institutions and wealth distribu- tion should be arranged in such a way that they would be paid. At the same time millions of free |no more scruples, then. But it's a | SYNOPSIS: Jim Sundean has been released from fall by the Frenoh police, but not freed o] the suspicion that perhaps, after all, he had murdered the unidentified Russian found in the corridor out- side his_hotel room. Sue Tally, whom Sundean should suspect, Jrom the evidence, has sent Davie Lorn to aid him, Grethe Lovschiem, wife of the hotel manager. calls in an efforg to pump Sundean. and uses her personal charm generous- v, but with no result. hen Sue arrives, confessing her distaste of the dark corridors and strangs noises of the old hotel, Chapter 18 SUE’'S FEAR SUE took a long breath. Her hands had met and were faintly pink against the black velvet of the coat she wore—the same coat she’d worn the previous night, and the same slender scarlet slippers with their shining silver heels were there on the rug with the flickering lights on them, too. “I've come to let you know—what I know. Because you see—" she hes- tated—*"you see, I'm afrald that the man was killed—" she hesitated again, and then the words came out in a little rush—“because of me!" she said amazingly and looked at me again, “Because of you!” She nodded. “It's terrible, fsn’t it?” she said. “Are you sure you want to hear?” “Ot course I want to hear,” I said. “But don’t be frightened. Don't look as it you were blaming yourself, Let's talk about it coolly and sen-| sibly.” Her cheeks grew- pink. “I'm being sensible,” she said in- | dignantly. “But it is dreadful. "I | shall never forget how he—" She | stopped herself abruptly and went on: “I'm not frightened. And I'm | not silly and nervous over nothing.” “1 know that,” I said hastily. And I did know it. There was courage in | the very lift of her head on her slender white neck. “Tell me anything you wish, and don’t feel that you are burdening me with your troubles. As a matter of fact, I'm in a rather unpleasant sort of fix myself, and I've got to get myself out of it. And while I've got notions in plenty about all this business there are few things I know definitely. And I thought, of course, that your—experience of last night—"" “Abduction,” she said firmly. “Yes. That it was likely the mur- der somehow concerned it. Other- wise one would be expecting too| much of coincidence.” “Very well,"” she said. “I'll have | rather difficult story, and it has to do with things that one does not or- dinarily tell — strangers —" she paused over the word and chose an- other—*that one does not ordinarily tell friends. I don't know where to begin.” “Tell me why you were abducted,” I said, liking the word friends. “Do you know why?” *“Oh, yes,” she said at once. “I was abducted because of something I possess.” She laughed rather sadly and continued: “1 haven't any money. But I've got something that's worth, roughly, about five millions.” She looked at me doubtfully and added: “Dollars, I mean.” 1 believed her. 1 was a little stunned, but 1 belleved every word she'd said. The amazing thing about it was that 1 believed it in spite of a voice which was saying inside me: ‘That’s right. Believe her. She'll say next that she's got some of the Russian Crown jewels and that a zang of Bolshevists are after her and them. And you'll believe that t00.” “In that case,” 1 said, “you'd bet- ter put it in a safe place.” “§0U don't believe me,” she said quietly. Yes, I do. I don't want to, but I do. I know that every word you've sald is the truth.” “And after I've gone,” she sald very quietly, “after I've gone, you'll wonder how you came to credit ft for a moment. Well, I can quite un- derstand it “You don’t understand least,” I said brusquely. 1 offered her a cigarette, lighted one myselt at her nod, and threw the match toward the fire and said: “All right. What next? As 1 say, you'd better put it in a safe place, whatever it fs.” “Oh, it’s in a safe place,” she said. “And actually I've only got halt of it—what I have isn’'t worth a cent in the The White Codkatoo by Mignon G. Eberhart) way of it, Mr. Sundean; I'm going to | start really at the beginning. I'll make it as brief as I can make it, for it isn’t a pleasant story. “My mother, as I told you, died here last year. My father, in Amer- ica, died some months ago, too. They had been estranged for years—since 1 was three years old. Mother had Hved here and there, and I've al- ways been with my mother. That was one of the—agreements. My brother remained with my father. He was four years older than I when our parents separated. “My mother—" she paused and took a long breath as if she'd reached the most difficult part of the story—“my mother was an extraor- divary person, Mr. Sundean. 1 didn’t know—and it doesn’t concern this, why they separated, but whatever the reason was, my mother held it more important than anything else in the world. More important even than that I should ever see my father.” “You mean to say you never saw | him again?” “Yes,” she said quietly. “I never saw him again. My mother was very bitter and remalined so. My brother was to stay with my father, 1 with my mother. My mother tad a small income, but during her fllness we were obliged to use up most of the capital. “She refused to the last to hold | any communication with my father or brother; it was not easy for her to do that—but she was—she had{ aordinary command over hei- " She paused thoughtfully and then continued in a brisker tone: “At any rate, my father was a wealthy man when he died. He wanted me to have half his estate— to share it with Francis,~that's my brother. And—and this, of course, is the kernel of the affair—when my mother went away he gave me a— a small—"" | She hesitated and glanced at me| and said: “I'm not to tell anyone what it was exactly. And, anyway, it doesn’t matter, because it has no in- trinsic value, it's only its signifi- cance that counts. I had part and my brother had part, and probably| there are no others identical with those we have in the world You see, | of course, what it was for.” ¢ “Identification,” I said. “§/ES. My mother being what she was, my father knew that she would take steps to loose us from any possible connection with him. | And that's just what she did. We went under various names, | think, for'a while, though 1 don't remem- ber much of that; all I remember about those days is the continual going here and there. “Well—the point is that my father didn’t keep in touch with us—my mother was determined that he should not. After | reached an age to motice things we used our ewn name, of course, and 1 knew the whole story. Mother had not been well, and I felt closer to her than to my father. Then she—died.” She paused again, and 1 put an- other small log on the fire and gave her a little time. “She gave me, of course, an envel- ope with her marriage certificate and my birth certificate and various things of that sort in it. And at last she told me to find my father. After a time I wrote: he was dying. “Francis, my brother, replied. He sald there would be the matter of ideatification. It seems that my fa- ther had finally advertised and they’d had a number of letters from girls who said they were Sue Tally. Hersaid that birth and marriage cer- tificates could be faked, but that if L'were really his sister there would be one means of identification. “l knew, of course, what he meant. But 1 wrote in as guarded a fashion as he had written, saying only that I had it and not what it was. Then my father died; there, was business for Francis to see to., Francis sent Mr. Lorn—the detec- tive, you know--to see me. He ev(J dently reported that | appeared to be actually Sue Tally. And Fran- cls—" She smiled a little wryly. “Perhaps I'd better read you the let- ter Mr. Lorn brought me from Francis.” . She unbuttoned her velvet coat. Under it was some kind of black frock through which there were glimpses of white. She reached un- der the laces-and brought out a let- ter, Then she leaned over and held the letter toward me. (Copyright. 1933, Mignon 'G. Eberhart) all by itself. But you see—this is the Sundean reads, Monday, the sgranae letter from Sue’s brother. | JUDGE ORDERS THRASHING AS BOY'S PENALTY SAN JOSE, Cal, June 3.—An old- fashioned thrashing by his father is to be given a San Jose bad boy who was not bad enough to be sent to reform school, as the re- sult of an order by Superior Judge Willlam F. James of the Juvenile Court. The judge said he would send a court bailiff “to keep the cops away” while the boy was being patients now conibelled to submit to pauperization should be put in the way of paying for what they get. > ’ and the chinch bug wintered success- the Middle West; and the tobacco flea Now, when Europeans twit us because we have no ruins, we can point to the bills we hold against punished. Judge James, who has been men- tioned as @ successor to the late state Supreme Court Justice John E. Richards, decided on the wood- shed punishment when a boy pre- viously before the court for minor | guide to efficient ;immcnons was returned for an- other offense. The boy couldn’t remember what the judge had told him the last time he was there. He wasn't sure whether he could remember anoth- er lecture. The judge pondered and then ordered a ‘“good, sound The father’s provest that “the cops’ would get him if he whipped his son made no difference to the court. “This is a court order,” said the jurist. “T'll send the bailiff along to keep the cops away and to see that you do a good job of thrash- ing.” “And that,” he added, with the full approval of the Juvenile Court committee, “is going to be the pol- icy of this court in the future for bad boys who are not bad enough to, be sent to a state school.” —— ‘The advértisements are you spending. 1 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire L e JUNE 3, 1913 Every seat at the Orpheum The- ater was occupied and all avail- able standing room used at the opening engagement of the Juve- nile Bostonians on the previous evening. The popularity of the young players insured a full house at the second performance, ! % L Earl Rogers, one of the most prominent trial lawyers in Los An- geles, and Mrs. Rogers, arrived in|g Juneau on a rest and pleasure trip to the Territory. Mr. Rogers, who suffered a break down during the second trial of Clarence G. Darrow whom he represénted, in connec- tion with the McNamara bribery scandal, directed that no mail or telegrams reach him on the round trip north: He said that his health was already greatly improved. A team belonging to Derry and Cole bolted up the hill near Fifth Street and ran away. They came tearing down Main street hill and crashed into an Alaska-Gastineau team on the Pacific Coast dock. One of the company’s finest horses was seriously injured. Dr. P. J. Mahone returned to Juneau on the steamer Humboldt from a trip to the States. 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