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s bl THE RS el Sedio R 0 Lt R DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1933. Daily Al&skafi mpire PRESIDENT AND EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - every _evening except Sunday by _the !"‘.M,;:;‘;lném;"‘rtl‘ ING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office 1n Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrler in Jun!auh and Douglas for $1.25 per_month. By mall, postage pa'd, at the following rates: One”year, i advance, $12.00; sfx month, In advance, n onth, in advance 2 o i) eonfer & favor if they will promptly Business Office of any fallure or irregularity ery their pap.rs. e Yor Tl orial and Business Offices, 374. ER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. 4 Press is exclusively entitled to the | f all news dispatches credited to | credited in this paper and also the 1ed herein. use for republic it or not other Jocal news publi ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER | insist upon the maintenance of reasonably adequate school budgets?” There seems to be room for another query, also. “As a people have we not enlarged the scope of our schools beyond what experience has shown to be ‘reasonably adequate’ services?” Unquestionably during the years of our greatest prosperity our educational system was expanded without regard for expense and without due consideration for the ele- |ments of a well-balanced education for the average boy and girl. That, to some extent, is responsible for part of the present economic stress in the school systems of the several States. Now is the proper time to study them and see what can be eliminated without lowering educational standards and administrative efficiency. With that done, probably there will not be great difficulty in pro- viding the facilities needed for taking care of the 200,000 or more annual net increase in enrolment in the nation's schools ande the payment of decent salaries to teachers. As we understand it, the reason so many schools were closed was so that the thousands of teachers THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION | | | | ANOTHER ADMINISTRATION SUCCESS. The enactment by Congress of the measure void- ing the gold clause in contracts, both public and private, again upholds the hands of the President. The new law, it should be remembered, doesn't pro- vide for doing anything new—the President had already voided the gold clause by the impounding of the nation's gold and ruling that it was illegal to pay it out for any purpose, even though that purpose was to meet Government obligations, either in the form of interest or principal payments. The law, therefore, substitutes a de jure voiding for a de facto voiding as a fundamental part of the Goverment’s present program. The Treasury made it plain that it had set aside the gold clause in its bonds when it refused to ship gold abroad to meet its May 1 debt service. That action was greeted in some quarters with harsh words—inclding prom- inent persons at home as well as abroad—but it was wholly in keeping with precedent. And by it| the Administration served notice it would treat| foreign creditors on the same basis as it was deal-; ing with its own citizens at home. | The law passed by Congress will clear the atmosphere to a considerable extent. Suits were| threatened against the Treasury to compel payments | in gold in compliance with the gold clause. There| might have been some doubt as to court decisions on the power of the Treasury to void the clause, but generally it is conceded that the Supreme Court of the United States, if called upon to render a decision, -will uphold - the .power of Congress to| enact such legislation to meet such an emergency as now confronts the nation. It was a logical step in the Administration's pro- gram of controlled inflation. It bolsters the nation’s impounding of gold by preventing its export abroad for payment on contractual obligations. And it apparently is furthering the upward movement of commodity prices, one of the principal objectives set for itself by the Roosevelt Administration. BOXING LOSES GREAT FORCE. The realm of sport, and particularly boxing, loses a great force for good in the death recently of William Muldoon, many times member of the New York State Athletic Commission and for many years Boxing Commissioner of the State which made him a predominant figure in the professional ring game. A friend to all forms of athletics, it was in boxing, professional prize-fighting that he centered his interest. To have aided in its development from the old bare-fist days when fights were banned in most American commonwealths and fighters, seconds and promoters risked fine and imprison- ment, to the present-day game in the manner he did was an achievement of worth. He was a foe to all chicanery and crookedness in the ring. He fought it with all the strength of his iron will And it was largely through his efforts and his influence that professional boxing was dragged from the gutter in the Empire State and made once more a sport for decent people to enjoy. Nor was his influence limited to the confines of that State. It spread throughout the nation as State after State modeled their own boxing boards after the pat- tern set by him. In the lobby of Madison Square Garden near the old office of the late Tex’ Rickard with whom he fought many times over prize ring affairs, there stands a life-size photographic re- production of Muldoon from a scene in “Spartacus,” titled “The Noblest Roman of Them All” In the boxing world, like the late Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox, in the baseball world, it is not misplaced. PLIGHT OF SCHOOLS. Figures compiled by the National Education Asso- ciation show that some 500,000 boys and girls had exceedingly brief and inadequate facilities or none at all during the school year just closed. Forty States reported 145700 pupils were enrolled in schools that were forced to suspend before March 1, and 467,000 by the end of the same month. More than 2,200 schools were closed before March 1, and thousands of others after that date in which pupils involved could be given no other educational opportunities. The closures were not confined to the large cities where the stress is said to be worse. Practically every large city in the country has been affected. Salaries of teachers have been reduced from 15 per cent to nothing at all. Suspension of construction programs has prevented the erection of more than 4,000 needed rural schoolhouses and in 18,000 other districts not even minor repairs were made during the past year. The Association summarizes the facts of the survey as follows: First—The responsibilities of public education are decreasing; Second — the financial resources of public education are decreasing; Third —Educational opportunities have been seriously re- stricted. It asserts that the issue is: “Will the { couldn’t earn the millions of dollars in salaries they wouldn’t get. A Colgate psychologist has discovered that there 56 kinds of fatigue. Some people we have known were apparently afflicted by every one of them. are The Uncertain Income Tax. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Eventually, the investigation of the J. P. Morgan Company and other investment banking houses no doubt will throw some light on the question of how best to form a sound public policy toward private banking. But thus far the most striking development in the questioning of Mr. Morgan has been the evidence showing how uncertain the in- come tax can be as a source of public revenues. None of the twenty partners of the Morgan firm paid income taxes to the Federal Government for the last two years, Mr. Morgan testified. Appar- ently, that action was wholly in conformity with the law. This astonishing fact undoubtedly looks odd and inequitable to a salaried man with a family who paid $100 in income tax last year on a $5,000 income. In a sense, his objection is justly founded. Mr. Morgan or any of his partners certainly enjoyed a higher standard of living than the $5,000 worker. But paper losses were enough to cancel profits for the Morgan firm in those two years, and as a result there was no taxable income. It must be remem- bered, however, that the same investment bankers paid enormous income taxes in previous years— on paper profits. Having paid on the inflated profits, they are exempted by the technic of ac- counting in a period of deflation. The significant fact in this connection is not the strange nature of the Federal income tax, which produces such paradoxes as that cited. It is rather the uncertainty of the income tax as a means of raising revenue. In the bountiful years up (o 1930 the Federal Government reaped a rich harvest from large incomes, for profits were being made out of thin air in the speculative mania which had gripped the country. When deflation began | this rich source of revenue dried up, and the Fed- | eral Government has turned to the mass of citi-| zens to make up the shortage. Taxes on tires and | radios, gasoline and tobacco and beer, taxes on tele- | phone calls and' electric current and bank checks— these are reaching into the slender purses of the “common man” to make up for the paper deficits of the “wealthy.” Quite apart from its possible implications on private banking then, the Morgan investigation thus far has shown one principle in high relief. The income tax is not a sound reliance as a major source of revenue so long as our economic system is subject to the ups and downs of business cycles. The Worst Impoverishment. (New York Times.) Professor T. E. Gregory, the British economist, has written a striking letter about some of the remoter effects of what has been done in Germany. They are incidental, almost imponderable, but are ominous for the future. To put a ban upon the free play of intellect; to condemn a whole group of skilled writers and laboratory workers and uni- versity professors and rising men in the professions to a condition of inactivity and almost servitude— all this Professor Gregory describes as the deliberate impoverishment of a nation. Mental and spiritual poverty is much more depressing and deadly than is material. Think of the books that might have been written to delight and instruct the whole people. Think of the great discoveries in science and in medicine that might have been made. of the brain power that might have been applied to German public affairs and international rela- tions. The Nazi movement in Germany is called one of youth. But when these impetuous young men have grown to middle life, what losses may not they and their generation suffer from the present cutting off of a good part of the national resources in literature and music and research! The results of the new religious and race pro- scription in Germany may fairly be compared to what happened in the Great War. In reckoning up her losses from it, France has always placed high the artistic and literary careers that were brought to an end prematurely on the battlefields or in the trenches. Great numbers of painters and sculptors, Jjust beginning their life work, along with young writers and dramatists and poets, went to their deaths, and by so much reduced the esthetic re- sources of the French people. The case recalls that of an old man in the North referring to the American Civil War. You ask me, he said, why my generation has not done more distinguished work. The answer is that the flower of it, the brightest young men of my time, lie buried in Virginia. That was war. But Germany in peace and with a great flourish of national pride has deprived herself of what might have been ten or twenty years from now her intellectual glories. Anybody can see what Is wrong with our new beer when it takes 11 quarts of the stuff to get a fellow ripe enough to tackle “Sweet Adeline.”— (Lexington, Ky., Herald.) G. B. Shaw prices nmimself on his knowledge of American slang. After his visit to the United States, he now knows what a flop is.—(Louisville Courier-Journal.) The problem of the brewers is something like that of Shylock, who had to cut off exactly one pound of fiesh, no more and no less. Beer at 3.3 is illegal and beer at 3.1 is unsatisfactory.—(Boston Globe.) It is reported that the Japanese have set up an- other free State in the coastal area of North China, Another free State, of course, in. which you are people withdraw children from school and slacken their demands for education services; or will they free to do anything the Japs will let you.—(Macon Telegraph.) Think | Pl The ” SYNOPSIS: Can {t be that the man who murdered the Russian in the hotel corridor the man who shot five times at Jim Sundedn. and the man who tted to abduct' Sue Tally are the same? Sue Sun- dean and David Lorn. a detective, pusele over the vroblem. They agree that behind it all is a plot obtain the token by means of which Sue {s to prove her identity to her brother. whom she has ot seen for wears. and thus to share with him an immense fortune. In any case, Sue is {n danger—a aches to heln her, nd Sundean Chapter 21 STUBBORN SUE I STARTED toward Sue: it was a ghastly suggestion she'd put into words. But Lornintercepted me. “Oh, don't think of danget, Miss Tally,” he sald easily, “The token DProtects you so long as they don't discover it.” She looked faintly less rigld under the easy assurance of his words. But I was thinking: ab- duction, search, threat, unspeak. able torture, even. And she was like a rock in her determination not to go to her brother. “Can’t you cable something to Francis to bring him here sooner?” I suggested. “No,” cried Sue spiritedly, *I won't beg—" “Nonsense,” I sald. “This Is too serious for petty pride—" “Petty pride!” She was on her feet again, her eyes flashing danger- ously. “Come, come, Miss Tally,” mur. mured Lorn quietly. “We under. stand your position. But I'll cable to Mr. Tally.” “1 won't have {t—" “Then Il do it myselr,” | sald grimly, and meant ft, though | have the average man's dislike for meddling {n someone else’s affairs, “You won't,” sald Sue, sitting | down again. | “Then you'll tell the police about it and get their permission to leave—" “l won't,” said Sue quite sweetly. *“The question of cabling your brother can walit,” Lorn said qulet ly. “It wouldn't help us now, any- way, It would take Mr. Tally some time to get here, and this business will be, probably, cleared up and done with long before he can ar rive. And there is no use talkin; of leaving now. The police will nof let any of us leave. Not under,any: circumstances. It {s out of the ques.” tion. You can call that settled.” § He looked thoughtfully trom § to me and back. b : “Have you any reason at all to suspect that the Lovschiems are a the bottom of this, Miss Tally? There's a very obvious implication of a sort of conspiracy of at least two people—possibly more. Ode | person alone could not possibly swing it, any way you look at ft.” “The Lovschiems! No,” cried Sue stubbornly. “I told you I'd been nervous about {t. But nothing | definite — except that abduction, And nothing at all to involve the Lovschiems.” “But there's no one else in the hotel,” sald Lorn, “No,” agreed Sue at once. *Ex- cept the servants, and they couldn't be the offenders—Marcel {s too loyal, Marianne too honest, and the cook has no brains at all and besides is a shocking coward.” “Well,” said Lorn, “there’s the priest and Mrs. Byng.” White Codkatoo by Mignon G. Eberhart) “And do you serlously suspect either of them?" asked Sue scorn. fully. *“No—it there actually is a— conspiracy, as you call 1t—against me, it comes from outside the hotel.” “But ways and means?” hinted Lorn dryly. “Pouf! There are plenty ot ways and means. People could easily get in and out of the place, and with- out being seen. It stands open all | day. It's practically deserted fn the winter. And it's a great ram- bling affair with a hundred hiding places.” “Do you know any of them?" asked Lorn sharply, SHE looked at him fn a perplexed way. . “Oh. I see,” she said after a mo- ment. “You mean really secret ;hiding places, Isn't that a lintle ab- surd. Mr. Lorn?" “Perhaps,” he sald. “Still—{t's a very old place. you know.” “You are sure it was a man who shot at you in the courtyard. Mr, Sundean?" asked the detective. “Why, yes, of course. That 1s, well—no. 1 didn’t actually see him. and 1 suppose a woman can fire a revolver as easily as a man. But'{ felt that it was a man." Sue said quickly: “You've for gotten. Mr. Sundean | toll vify there is a way into the hoter arrn | the doors and gates have | locked for the night 1w 0 14! schiem and his wife know it. Marcel knows it. But otherwise it is sup- posed to be kept a secret.” 1 remembered her words at once." “And you sald the man who fol- lowed you last night knew the way into the hotel? That Imits it further, then, if the way is supposed to be kept a secret. If we can dis- cover just who knows of tiat way— providing of course it has actually been kept a secret—" Sue uodded yigorously, though 1 thought it un- likely—“then among those people must be—" h I checked myself, as I saw I was getting nowhere, and Lora said a little maliclously: “Must be, whom, Mr. Sundean? The murderer or the murdered man?" “That depends on the identity of the murdered man,” 1 sald rather glumly, “At any rate, it proves that the man who tried to abduct Miss Tally had some connection with the hotel—or with the Lovschiems. The fact that, after driving about for 3o long a time, he finally brought her back to the immediate vicinity of the hotel Indicates that, too." Lorn nodded. *Possibly,” he sald. “Then,” I sald, “there’s the car she was carried off In. It the mur- dered man was her abductor, then the car must be standing about near the hotel.” “True,” sald Lorn, giving me a faintly respectful look. “I'll see what I can find out about that. Fortunately, as 1 sald, the police here are inclined to be friendly to me. 1 wonder how soon we'll know the exact pofson: we can't consider its hypothetical relation to the few facts we have until we know what the pofson was, how it might be administered, and when. However, the abductor may have had ac- complices.” |4 'HERBE was only one man,” sald Sue with a small shudder. I glanced at her white face and safd quickly: “Well, there seem to be several things that will bear investigation. I want to know, first, about this business of the dagger; who took It off the dead man and washed it and then put it back on the clock? “Then I want to know why the lights went out just as they did while I was In the court. It was a most opportune accident—if acci- dent it was—for the man in the court with me; otherwise I should certainly have caught a glimpse of him, “My only surmise about that fs that, if it was Lovschiem in the court, then Madame Lovschiem could easily have pulled the main switch. She might have been watch- Ing the affair and have come to her husband’s assistance, in: that way. Where were you, Miss Tally, when the lights in the hotel went out?" “I was still fn my room,” she said | at once. “That was,” I asked, hating my- self but remembering too vividly the face in the third-floor window, “your own room — nineteen? On this floor?” “Why, yes, of course,” she sald. *“Do you mind it I ask how you knew of the murder?” “Not at all. 1 was opening my window; I could not see through [ the shutters, and 1 unlatched one in order to glance out into the court. — L PROFESSIONAL 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire S e e JUNE 7, 1913 Mrs. Hazel Kirmse and the chil- dren planned to leave shortly for Skagway where they were going to spend the summer. ~ : \ Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 | [ l The matter of getting a roadway up the hill from some point on| | DRS.KASER & FREEBURGER Dixon street near the intersection DENTISTS of Calhoun road was causing many Blomgren Building wrinkles in the brows of the city PHONE 56 solons. Peter Hanson, one of the Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. principal holders of property on|gx - the hill was very anxious about the = matter and urged the claim of his tenants to the right of ingress and egress from . their habitations. Councilman Ed. C. Hurlbutt J Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST ROOms 8 and 9 Valentine | i Bullding brought up the question of the } completion of the Sheep Creek road 'Ifelephnna 178 and said it probably would not be |H—————o0u & finished if some means for deoing so was not provided. The city of Juneau and the Alaska Gastineau Company had fulfilled their parts of the verbal agreement but the funds on hand for this section for the Alaska Road Commission are g [ ' | ! e T Dr. J. W. Bayne | DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bidg. | Office hours, § am. to 5 p.m. Evenings by appointment | very low. It was decided to place Phone 321 > : the situation before Col. Wilds P.|&——m————————0 —_— Richardson and request a further P bl S Dr. A. W. Stewart ‘ DENTIST NOTICE TO MASONS Hours b aln. 15 & Bih. S3WARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. rhone 276 Gastineaux Lodge No. 124, F. & A. M. special meeting, Past Masters’ night, Wednesday, June 7, 8 p.m. Ferry leaves Juneau 7:30. Visiting brothers welcome. By order of the ‘Worshipful Master. ‘WM. R. SPAIN, Secretary. [T | l £ Br. Richard Williams DENTIST OFFICE . AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building, PLone 481 —adv. Robert Simpson Opt. D. Graduate Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and | Opthalmology | Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground | r WSS EENE e SN SRR | | DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL ! Optometrist—Optician | | | Bves Examined—Glasses Fitted | Room 7, Valentine Bldg. | | Oftice Pnone 484; Residence | Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 { Our Invisible | to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 Gloves? " e o] S N I [rssaiosy - . Rose A. Andrews l Graduate Nurse Eleciric Cabinet Baths—Mas- sage, Colonic Irrigations Office hours 11 am. to 5 pm. Evenings by Appointment | Butler Mauro Drug Co. Second and Main Phone 259 . Express Money Orders - = Anytime | : | Phone 134 We Deliver ALLAMAE SCOTT Expert Beauty Specialist PERMANENT WAVING Phone 218 for Appointment Entrance Ploneer Barber Shop Fraternal Societies OF | Gastineau Channel | S [ B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 p.m Visiting brothers welcome. L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Council Chambers, Fifth Strees. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary | | Our trucks go any place any | time. A tank for Diesel Oil | Imdaln.k!ormdeounu\ | burner trouble. - X | ~PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 | RELIABLE TRANSFER St JUNEAU TRANSFER | COMPANY l | Moving and Storage | Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of FUEL OIL ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 — ) —— e | MAY HAYES Modiste , Borgmann Hotel i PHONE 205 5 TTTT————— = —— e TrE JuNeAu LAunbpry ' Franklin Street between | Front and Second Streets | ) PHONE 359 l [ "BERGMANN DINING ROOM Meals for Transients lv Cut Rates 1 Chicken dinner Sunday, 60c ) MRS. J. GRUNNING | | Board by Week or Month ! . HOTEL ZYNDA Large Sample Rooms ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. Summer Prices I saw light streaming trom your | room and several figures—yours, 1 thought, and Marcel’s—and 1 could see Father Robart bending as it he were kneeling. “It was clear, of course, that something unusual had happened, and | was—curious, 1 suppose. 1 ' felt apprehensive and alarmed and couldn’t possibly have gone to sleep without knowing. Finally I closed the shutter and started to dress agaln. While 1 was dressing the light in my room went out. “That has happened before, so I Just waited till it came on again and thought nothing of it. As soon as I got my coat on I came out into the corridor and hurried along it and Into the north corridor and saw Marcel. You and the priest weren’t there any more. Marcel told me what had happened, and then you came.” “You met ridors?” “No,” she said promptly. “No one.” 1 couldn’t say: But I saw you looking from a third-floor window amd you looked white and terrible, 1 couldn’t say: Why was your story about the key so strangely apt? 1 couldn’t say: Why did you repla the dagger? | couldn't say: Why, no one in the ‘cor CHIROPRACTIC “Health from Within” Dr. G. A. Doelker —AUTHENTIC— Palmer School Graduate Old Cable Office Phone 477 COAL Per ton F.0.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 i 12.95 13.00 8.00 C. L. FENTON CHIROPRACTOR Goldstein Building Office . Hours: 10-12; 2-5 L. C. SMITH and CORONA TYPEWRITERS J. B. Burford & Co. | customers” ! Indian Lump and Screenings — com- bination for furn- 9.50 A COAL FOR EVERY PURPOSE Pacific Coast Coal Co. PHONE 412 oh. why didn’t you tell me the truth about the time when you left my room? Copyriahit 1933 Mignon G. Eberhart) The terrible tangle takes a r v form. tomorrow, NEPHEW OF FORMER - | GOVERNOR PARKS TO" FINISH WEST POINT son, jr., nephew of ex-Gov. George A. Parks, who spent the summer. of | 1927 in Juneau as the guest ~of| his uncle, is a member of the Class of '33 of the United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., which graduates on Tuesday, June 18, according to official announcement received here today by friends of the young man. | He is a son of Mr. and Mrs, Hi B. Thompson who visited here last | summer. Mrs. Thompson 1is a sis-| ter of former Governor Parks and Horace Benjamin (Ben) Thomp- | road attorney. “'Young Thompson has made an excellent record at the Academy ‘and has served as a cadet officer during the past year. —— e RE-OPENED Crystal Baths, Mr. and Mrs. Eli ‘Tanner. Steam, hot and cold show- ers, tub baths. Open from 12 to 12. —adv. They reside in' Po- —l e ELKS NOTICE Regular meeting tonight, initia- tion. —adv. ¥ —l . ‘#And that means cussin’, too,” said" Chief ‘Vic Fesperman “of 'the (Charlotte, N. C. Tural police as he mailed & “No' Profanity” sign to the Mr. Thompson is a prominent nfl--, wall at wml The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau BANKERS SINCE 1891 Strong—Progressive—Conservative We cordially invite you to avail yourselves of our facilities for 1 your business. 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