The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 8, 1933, Page 4

¥ g THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1933. Daily Alaska ¥mpire PRESIDENT AND EDITOR | GENERAL MANAGER | | JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - | the | except Sunday by d_e rening EMr;:;rl‘z“rimr?m, “COMPANY at Second and Main | Streets, Juneau, | Entered in the Post Office mn Juneau as Second Class | | | | SUBSCRIPTION RATES. | Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.28 [ matter. 5o ot the following rates st paid, at the followin, H By P rdvance, $12.00; six months, In advance, 00; o nonth, in advance, $1.21 | B o v will confer o favor if they will promptly | notify the Busf Office of any failure or irregularity | delivery el P I'S. I e ey o Ealioridl and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. oclated Press is exclusively entitled to the | uu.nl::r '::;m ation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the Jocal news published herein. 5 CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ALASKA AN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. HISTORY STILL IN THE MAKING. On his return here from an extended stay in the National capital recently, Commissioner Flory of the Department of Agriculture spoke of the thrill of being in Washington and watching the making of new history. Readers of the newspapers of today also get some of that same emotion as they digest their contents. For no observer, not even the most casual, can fail to grasp that momentous questions are being worked out. The times are most eventful, though the events themselves may lack the color and drama of such an era as that between 1914 and 1918. Instead of the clash of armies on fields of martial combat, there is the struggle of new ideas against the old ones, new practices against old customs and old systems that can no longer render the services that the public must have. Too long have the problems engendered by the great progress of industry and of the sciences gone neglected. We have seen our greatest industry, agriculture, go practically bankrupt, millions of our people become the objects of charity, public and private, while we defied the law of progress by clinging to the outworn laws of a generation in which the ox-cart-and the pony express were more common than the airplane and the radio. Few of us understand all of the steps that are being taken and fewer still can say with certainty in what measure they will succeed. In the working out of any system for which there is no precedent, there must be experimentation. And President Roosevelt has said frankly thal some of the measures he has proposed are experiments. Some will fail, as is inevitable in any system having the human equation. In their stead others will have to be tried out. This, too, is a part of the history-making of today. For those who have the eyes to see understandingly, it has all the thrill of armed combat, and as few armed combats ever are, it is a real test of the nation’s fitness to survive and move ahead to finer, better days. S| PLANES IN FISHERIES CONTROL. British Columbia, with its thousands of miles of coastline, almost identical in character with that of Southeast Alaska, and a salmon fishery of the same kind, has proved by the experience of several years that aircraft is more suited generally to enforcement of regulations than water craft. It has several major advantages that outweigh some considerations that might favor vessels. One or'two seaplanes can patrol the entire coastline section more thoroughly than a whole fleet of small craft. They can and do cover fishing districts effectively. The cost of operation is in favor of the planes rather than the boats, due to the fact that one of the former does many times the work of the latter. Aerial patrol is more effi- cient than water patrol. Persons inclined to ignore regulations are slow to do so with a seaplane in the district. Moving at a rate of speed that gives no time for a violator to remove evidences of his viola- tion of the law, it naturally prevents infractions. Just how this type of control is regarded is evidenced by a recent comment made in the Daily Empire, published at Prince Rupert, which said: Seaplanes have demonstrated their use- fulness in fisheries patrol work in Canada and they will again be used this year on the Pacific Coast. As a class, the commercial fishermen of Canada respect the fishing regulations but there is always the possibility, of course, that someone may prove an exception to the rule and the seaplane, swift, coming sud- denly out of the sky, is an effective means of checking anything of the kind or of catching the offender. Last year the planes utilized in the fisheries patrol in British Co- lumbia were on duty in the air for 275 hours and 25 minutes. That was a considerable shorter flying time than was required in the |rent ‘D\ll\ and Bradstreet. of .loans by. institutions of every description. In both the East and the industrial West the thawing out of loans has proceeded far more rapidly than has been estimated would have been possible in the period of a year. At the same time, the solidification of vaiues has removed fear from the minds of individuals and banks. Likelihood of virtual decimation of values has disappeared and with assurance of present values for bonds and sound common stocks the public at large is again becoming willing to spend its income in a normal manner. The result of the financial improvement is show- ing up in the East in the retail trade. While the depressed Mid-West and Far-West had already felt the betterment, the East has been slower to respond, largely becouse of apprehension that the trade gain would prove another flash in the pan. The rebound in commodity prices has trans- formed the morale and buying power of the agricul- tural population. Big jumps have been recorded in such staples as corn, wheat, wool, cotton, hog and sugar prices, and this condition has loosened the purse-strings freely as experience of stores and merchants of every description attests through cur- weekly reviews of such trade authorities as One difference between Uncle Sam at the London | conference that begins next Monday and at other international gatherings of the past 12 years is that he won't be there as a kibitizer. A consignment of our three point two beer has been sent to Paris. How about trading the French a lot of our three point two wine for some of the real stuff? Trimming Bewhiskered Salaries. (New York Herald Tribune.) The nation generally, we believe, will applaud the new ruling of the Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration that railroads applying for loans must re- duce the salaries of their officers. It is only fair to say that most of them have done so to a limited extent and that in a few cases they have even anticipated the cuts now decreed by the R. F. C. But there can be little question that these salaries on the average still reflect the heroic age when to run a railroad was considered a fuedal distinc- tion deserving exaggerated reward. The occasion of the ruling was the grant of a loan of $23,000,000 to the Southern Pacific Company. A report to the Interstate Commerce Commission last June showed that this company paid the chair- man of its board $135,000 a year, cut from a previous high of $150,000; that it paid its vice-chairman $76,- 500 and its presidenf $90,000, boia also representing 10 per cént reductions. What the plain citizen will | note is that each one of these gentlemen, even on | the basis of a reduced wage, was receiving in June, 1932, more than the President of the United States. A list of twenty salaries paid by other roads at the same time shows eight of them in excess of that which goes with the occupancy of the White House. Perhaps the latter is not a just criterion. Cer- tainly it bears no remote relation to the value of a President’s services. Yet. it is arguable that if he is able and willing to get along on it there is little reason why railroad executives whose properties are | not earning their fixed charges should demand | more; why, in fact, they should not be content with | less. In any event, the R. F. C. has made it a condi- tion of the Southern Pacific loan that any salary heretofore above $100,000 shall be reduced 60 per cent; those between $50,000 and $100,000, 50 per cent; between $25,000 and $50,000, 25 per cent; be- tween $10,000 and $25,000, 25 per cent, and between $4,800 and $10,000, 10 per cent. Counted in these reductions are to be those already made, which somewhat cushions the drop. And (a further con- solation and probably also a strong incentive to good management) they are to remain in effect only during the continuance of the R. F. C. loan “or | until the road is earning all fixed charges,” “It will be the policy of the corporation,” continues Chairman Jones's statement, “to impose similar conditions in all future loans to railroads or other corporations paying excessive salaries.” In the mean time Congress is fiddling with the idea of limiting by statute the salaries paid by bor- rowers from the R. F. C. Why not leave this task to the R. F. C. itself, which in the instance cited seems to have exercised both firmness and judg- ment? The Nature of the News. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Even a very few years ago the run of the news | was profoundly different from that of today. This change is most astonishing if one takes the pains to contrast an Enquirer of a decade ago with one published currently. The news has changed because public interests have changed and because the world itself is changed. The sensational stories today are not all “sen- sational” in the old meaning of the term. They do not at all deal with crime or scandal or indeed with personal affairs of any sort. Many are ac- counts of intricate economic problems and far- reaching measures to advance the public welfare. A decade ago such stories would have been stamped “technical” and either thrown away by the editors or relegated to a minor place in the financial pages. The world is smaller today, and its people are cognizant that they must inform themselves of com- mon problems, if they are to protect their own interests. Thus the curiosity of the average reader is shared between stories of “human interest” and stories of humanity itself. He no longer is wholly concerned with the errors or achievements of an individual, so much as the mistakes and efforts of industries and governments, as they apply to his life. L4 In similar measure the scope of the news has broadened. There are no longer geographical limi- previous year, and much below the maximum of 443 hours and 40 minutes in the 1930 season, but in 1932 the lessened intensive- ness of fishing operations, which was the natural consequence of unfavorable world market conditions, made is unnecessary to have the seaplanes in the air for as long tations for the news. Excepting the temporary period of the War, when all eyes were turned to Europe, American newspaper readers in the past have been engrossed in their own country and their own cities. Today, much of the vital news comes under a foreign date line. It is nearly as mean- ingful as that which comes from Washington or a time as in other years. Care is always taken in every year, of- course, to see that the seaplane patrol is employed only when and where it is absolutely needed, and in this way the expense is kept at a minimum. Undoubtedly this system could be used to ad- vantage in Alaska. If, and when, Congress turns over the administration of local fisheries to the Territory to administer local authorities should study it carefully. Many thousands of dollars most cer- tainly could be saved from present administrative costs by its adoption. FINANCE AND TRADE CONTINUE UPWARD. The rise in security values has been of inestimable benefit to the country in permitting the liquidation Columbus or originates in Cincinnati. It follows that newspapers are not always easy reading. Their subject matter is complicated and sometimes abstruse. There is a limit to the sim- plification that is possible. But there is no proper ground for complaint if your morning’s news reads SYNOPSIS: Sue Tally, Jim Sun- dean and the detective vid Lorn band together to trap the person who murdered the Russian in the corridor of their hotel. the person who shot five times at Sundean, and the man who tried to abduc Sue, They belicve the three inci- dents are part of an attempt to se- cure the token with which Bue | must prove her title to a share in her father’s fortune. But what worries Sundean most is a fear that perhaps Sue is not vlaying Quite square, Chapter 22 ; SOUNDS IN THE DARK 'HE wind hurled about the hote! and banged the loose shutter, and I said rather heavily: “Then, again, there’s the identity bf the murdered man. His knowing the secret way into the hotel—" “If you mean that the Lovschlems had something to do with—my— with that affair, you are quite wrong,” sald Sue warmly, with an Bir of defence. “They have been very kind to me. They were kind to my mother, 1 ~1 feel sure it was not the Lov- scheims.” “Very well,” I sald. “But I saw Madame Lovschiem, remember, ‘at the moment when she first saw the murdered man. And she said to Lovschiem: ‘'So, you've killed “That really. means nothing, how- ever,” Sue returned. “She might have thought it was some robber he'd killed. | be alarmed if he had acted so im- pulsively.” continued, meeting Sue’s eyes. “But the murdered man and Lovschiem knew him. And why did Madame Lovschiem try to replace the dag- ger in the clock under my very knowledge of it from the police?” “Did she do that?” said Lorn. “She did,” I saild. Lorn made no comment, and Sue finally said thoughtfully, but very stubbornly, It seemed to me: “Perhaps Madame only wanted to keep the hotel out of as much scandal as was possible. And she thinks you didn't do ft, Mr. Sun- dean.” “Nice of her, I'm sure,” I sald, pxasperated. Her eyes flared darker again, but Lorn intervened. "YOU evidently don't know, Mr. Sundean, that the police have gone quite thoroughly into the mat- ter of alibis. The Lovschiems say they were within sight of each other and were actually talking when the bell rang and Lovschiem heard it. Marianne, the maid, says she was sound asleep, and the po- lice had to bang on the door of her room—" “Where is her room?” 1 Inter- rupted to ask. “On the second floor back to- ‘ward the service stair. It was the same with Mrs. Bynz. The priest says Marcel had been with him up to a moment or two before Madame Lovschiem knocked on the door of his room and begged him to come to the dead man. Marcel agrees The White Codkatoo by Mignon G. Eberhart) She would of course | the door. It seems that the priest had a —touch of—" “Stomach-ache,” sald. Sue rapl brandy and stayed with him an hour.” “Exactly,” said the detective. your story of why you had gone to the lobby and stumbled upon the murdered man pass last night be- cause 1 honestly didn’t know what to do, and 1 could see they be- lieved you at the moment. It's true I shrank from telling about that at- tempted abduction. “The police would never belleve! | the thing as it stands. But I can see now that I made a mistake, and! I'm golng to tell therm the truth about it at once. 1 can give you & complete alibi, Mr. Sundean, and I intend to do so.” way, “there’s no need for this dis- cussion. 1 was about ta remind you | that those alibls are of practically no importance. In view of the re- cent diseovery, 1 mean. The pol- son.” He was right, of course. After a moment Sue rose. “I's late,” she sald wearlly. “And we seem to be getting mno- where, It was a dreadful night and it's been & crazy day, and it the wind doesn’t stop blowing for a while tonight I shall go quite out of my head.” She paused and smiled a little wryly and sald: “When shall we three meet again?” “YAJHEN the hurly-burly’s done,” 1 said absently. Tomorrow,” said Lorn prosaical- ly. “I don’t wish to be over-en- couraging, Mr. Sundean, but I real- ly think you've given me something to go on. You are sure you've for- gotten nothing?” “There was on the landing » broken bit of something that looks like wax or rubber, and a brown leal,” I said thoughtfully. “I've got them here.” We all Jooked at the shriveled leal and the bit of bard wax in the palm of my hand, but they were only a leaf and a scrap of reddish brown. Lorn finally shrugged and dis- missed them. “Nothing, probably,” he said. “I'll \keep them in mind, however.” As the glow fell to ashes, | slept. e & WOk Cavler! He turned suggestively toward It is strange now to think how little significance we gave that small burden in the palm “You may be right, of course,” 1|0f my hand—the small burden that 80 nearly meant my death. But that it looks to me more as it she knew | Was later. “Going, Miss Tally?” he asked. “Yes,” said Sue abruptly. “Good- night.” “Wait. 1 don't like your going syes and suggest that we keep any | through the corridors. Let me—" “Oh, I'm going now, too,” sald Lorn. “I'll see that she gets to her room all right.” “Look here, Miss Tally,” I sald. | “You had a very terrible experi- ence last night. I want you to as- sure me that you—" strange that [ stumbled over my trite words and wished Lorn were back in New York—"will take no risks.” “Thank you,” she said slowly. “I —no—I can’t think I'm in danger now.” She put out her hand, aad I held it a moment, and Lorn sald briefly: “I shall try to see that Miss Tal- 1y is in no danger. Good-night, Mr. Sundean.” The whole tangle in all its con- tradictory aspects, whirled and whirled through my mind. The wind howled outside, and the flames in the fireplace gradually died to a red glow. Just as the glow fell into ashes [ think 1 went to sleep. 1 woke suddenly. I did not know what had awak- ened me. And yet in the stillness and the darkness and the cold of that de serted wing there was some sort of life awakened. I heard it again. A slight noise of some motion some- where. ' tCopyright. 1933, Mignon G. Bberhart) | What is the sinister thing abroad, | tomorrow, in’ the creaking oid MEMBERS OF PAA FORCE ARRIVE ON FAIRCHILD PLANE Jerry Jones, pilot for the Pacifie Alaska Airways, who has been based at Nome, arrived in Juneau somewhat like a textbook in economics. That is the sort of world you live in. Those are the sort of|Jjoe Crosson last evening on his| 'After June 10 no telephone el rentals for the month of June| He is staying at the|Will be accepted at a discount. AN problems you're up against. Americans lose more money and with better grace than any people on earth; but they are re- on the Fairchild plane with pilot way south to spend a three month vacation. Gastineau Hotel until the sailing of the Aleutian for the south. chanics with the company. They will sail on the Aleutian for the south on their way to the New York City office of the Pan Am- erican Airways, of which the Alas- | ka Pacific is a subsidiary company. NOTICE by mail must bear of not later than last vising their banking and investment system just the| Three other employees of the |discount date. Please be prompt same.—(St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) ‘The country has quit looking for a good nickel cigar and now is concentrating its efforts on get- ting a good nickel glass of beer. — (Indianapolis|since shortly after Christmas and |Seandinavian Rooms. Single steam- F. N. Kelly and W. J. O'Toole, me~| heated rooms $1250 month. —adv. Star.) Alaska Pacific Airways who made the trip with Mr. Fairbanks are Don Parker, who has been in the Fairbanks office Crosson from{v. | JUNEAU AND DOUGLAS TELEPHONE CO. ————a———— RE-OPENED “And further,” sald Sue, “I let| “You know,” sald Lorn In & bored' | } 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire ! i ianid JUNE 8, 1913 S. Hellenthal returned from the ly. “And rang for Marcel and Mar-! !south on the Spokane after spend- cel brought him hot water and|'ing several weeks in the states on business. Judge Robert W. Jennings re- ceived a cablegram from Judge Peter D. Overfield of the Third Division saying that he would sail for Juneau imMmediately. = Judge | Overfield was coming to the'capi- | tol to hear an application.of Jo- |!seph MacDonald to be released | |from jail on bond. Carl Alfred Bloomquist and Miss Selma Louisa Carlson, of Douglas, wers married in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Juneau, the Rev. R. C. Blackwell officiating. The groom left for the Jualin Mine to prepare a home to which to take his bride. A big brown bear was encoun- tered by’ wireless operator B. F. Miller only a few yards from his home, in the morning. The animal loomed so hugely important and menacing that the operator’s fin- gers inadvertantly sought the key to tick off the signal “SOS”, but as it could not be reached, he awaited Idevelopments. The bear took him- self off without pursuit. The same bear was reported having been seén in Evergreen cemetery the day before. The first test of radio telephone to be made in Juneau took place Friday and was made by D. G. |Chilson and E. E. Beattie. The former used the phone and the lat- ter did the receiving. The test proved to be a success. James McCloskey took passage on the Spokane ror Seattle to be gone for a short time. ———————— ATTENTION AMERICAN LEGION Important meeting tonight at 8 o'clock. All members are urged to be present. —adv. . HAVE YOUR TRIED Our Invisible Gloves? Butler Mauro Drug Co. | Express Money Orders Anytime Phone 134 We Deliver Summer Prices 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 Briquets .. Carbonado Egg-. Any Screenings Indian Lump and Screenings — com- bination for furn- ace . 9.50 A COAL FOR EVERY PURPOSE Pacific Coast Coal Co. 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