The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 10, 1933, Page 4

~ 4 SECNSIETIp————————————————————— eSS SRS T T L H lHZ DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1933. Daily Alaska Fmpire power to control the use and arrange for the dis- ’posmon of our natural resources, they can really ibe put to work for the Territory. And until that is JOHN W. TROY - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR done, the material advantages we obtain from them ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL M.ANAGEl.iwm be wholly incidental. Sunday by the Published every evening except EMP;‘RE‘J PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. 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 paid, at the following rates: One vear, in_advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, in advanpce, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity In the delivery of their pap.rs. Telephone fer Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Assoclatod Press is exclusively entitled to the | use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. CHAMBER ACTS WISELY AND PROPERLY. The endorsement of the local Chamber of Com- merce of Delegate Dimond’s bill providing for trans- fer of control of the fisheries of the Territory from Federal authority to the Alaska Legislature, while not unexpected, was impressive for the overwhelm-| ing majority that the motion of approval was given. The effort to have the local organization take an adverse stand was well directed and used arguments that in their very nature tended to draw support. In effect, said the opponents of such a change in the present governmental set-up, “it would be a fine thing to do, but it would cost more than we can afford. It will raise the taxes of all indus* tries and individuals as well” And in these days of lessened revenues such an argument might well cause business men to hesitate. This is not a new argument. 'In fact, it is as old as the republic, itself. It was first heard when the pioneers of the scattered American colonies debated severance of relations from the mother country—England. The chief argument advanced 2 by those opposed to independence was.that the col- onials were too poor, their industries too negligible, and their sources of taxation too few to make it pos- sible for them to support an independent government. t Most of those advancing that argument were fine citizens, honest and sincere in their conviction that economic ruin awaited the property owner and the business man if an independent government was established. From that period in the rounirys nistory down to today, the same fear has ®een voiced time after time as Territories felt the urge to establish State governments. As the tide of settlement poured over the summits of the Appalachian mountain chain and .spread throughout the West to the Pacific Ocean to form first Territories and then States, there was heard again and again the warning “we can't afford to stand alone. We must have Federal support or we will starve to death.” Yet none of them have done so. The country has prospered and grown great—Nation and States—and largely because the residents of Ter- ritory and State learned to stand alone, govein themselves, were permitted to own and administer their own natural resources. History will repeat itself in Alaska. i i . 5 Once given { The Chamber was wise in expressing its ap- |proval of the measure. It was altogether proper 1for it to do. And it was a fine thing that it has assumed the leadership in the Territory in this connection. Other similar organizations will render the Territory a distinguished service by joining the fJuncau Chamber in assisting Delegate Dimond to get this and the measure for control of game |and fur resources turned over to the Territory. |INDIANA WET VICTORY SIGNIFICANT. | The landsliae proporiions of the vote in Indiana for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment was more significant than the unexpected size of the impres- sive majorities that were rolled up by the repealists lin New York, Ilinols and seven other States that |to date have ratified the repeal resolution. In {Indiana the Prohibitionists made a real fight. It was one of the States they claimed to have a chance to capture. The leading Dry orators and strategists | were massed there in an active campaign against ratification. Some weeks ago, the Anti-Saloon "Ll’ague head, Scott McBride, predicted that ;Indiana would reject the resolution and vote to re- tain the Eighteenth Amendment as a part of the | Federal Constitution. Not only that, but the anti- Prohibitionists conceded the outcome would be close although they were confident of victory. | ‘That is what makes the Indiana vote really Eimpressive. It demonstrates anew that the great majority of the nation’s voters have definitely made up their minds that Constitutional Prohibition must |go. It has been a sham, a fraud, a deceit. Not a ‘slngle one of the promises made by its proponents {has been kept. It didn't do a thing they said it would do. Most of all, it didn't make us a sober (nation. Iv flooded it with illicit liquor much of |which was poisonous in nature; it deprived the (various governmental units from municipal to Fed- ioml of billions of dollars in revenue; it extracted. from the Federal treasury at least one billion | dollars for enforcement that didn’t and couldn’t |enforce; and it created a class of criminals that has successfully defied the laws of ecity, county, | State and Nation, openly and boastfully, for 13 years. The record of its failure is too plaln for its defenders to conceal, and too damning for them to excuse. The United States, so the vote on the resolution of repeal in Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, New York, Wyoming, Nevada, Delaware, Illinois and Indiana proclaim, is definitely headed out of the slimey era of Prohibition. i | | It’s hard to tell these days just what restaurants really are—whether they are drug-stores, night clubs, hog dog stands or just beer parlors. National Prohibition Administrator Dalrymple told the House Ways and Means Committee he is un- alterably opposed to repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Of course, the reason couldn’t be that repeal would compel the Major to look for another source of income. While President Roosevelt is valiantly waging war on the current depression, his Secretary of Com- | merce is studying pians for preventing such things |from recurring in the future. That's a fine sample jof teamwork. > N Your [ pay I 1 Opportunity ! Builders Supply Co. A. DISHAW & SON ; 100 Doors at Cost | parture a suggestion of escape, and Tlle SYNOPSIS, Sue Tally fom Sun | Avan and the Detectine 1 1 have gone Choronahly i tragedy. They beticve that o der ol the Russin wn the ¢orvidor of then hotel the iive shots bt Swndean m_the comt awd Sue x abduction all vetate to an 1t to scenre the token bu menns ol | which Nue will «laim ey shore of | er tather's estate. Kt noe knows | how Lorn and S st leave Sundean diows his oo The sound of a movement wlose bu wakens him. i Chapter 23 THE SILENT PRIEST GOT up on my elbow and peered toward the door, and finally rose | silently and went to it. The tabvle which | aad again placed before It was undisturbed. “Mice,” 1 told myself. “in the walls. The place Is full of them. probably.” And went back to bed But not this time to sleep. Among several ¢ .her things | determined to get a few quiet words with Marcel fn the morning. I should also remember to ask Lovschiem for a key to my room After all, keys existed, and | mysell intended to make no casual matter of it. There was something declidedly unpleasant about that deserted wing and now that the wind had gone down I .particularly disliked the way various creaks and small mysterious rustles came to life. With dawn I fell asleep again and woke late to a gray and troublous day. When Marcel brought my coffee and some very hard rolls | began: “Marcel, you i ow, of course, that I'm in rather 1 bad fix about this murder?” Oh, yes, he xnea: “Well, it develops that it is of the atmost importance to both Miss Tally and me to discover every thing possible about the murder. I myself am in some danger of being hanged for it—or gulllotined or whatever they do—and Miss Tal ly—" “Miss Tally is In danger, also.” finished Marcel quickly, his eyes snapping. “Me, 1 know that.” “Well, themn,” | sald slowly, "1 won't press you, Marcel, but | want you to think It over. Miss Tally says you have been very kind to her —perhaps when you consider the matter for a time you may—er— recall something you've seen or heard that will help us discover the real murderer.” He nodded soberly. “You know, then, do {t?" I had gone too far. “Monsieur is not a criminal,” sald Marcel. “1 cannot say more—but | will think. It is possible—perhaps Monsieur would ik his bath now?” And after running tne tnbirufi" that I didn’t almost lukewarm waterj-be t abruptly. There wus about -hI8 1 could only hope that his Jiking for Sue Tally would work in dur favor. I wanted to help Sue, of course, but at the same time there’s no use denying that 1. wanted quite as much to help myself. White Codkatoo by Mignon G. Eberhart) The hotel had been deserted when I first came down in the morp- ing; only Pucel cocked a suspiclous eye toward me as I went through the lobby. But when I returned from my walk Madame Grethe was at the desk—her eyes looked #ery green and knowing, and she smfled secretively as she spoke to me—and Mrs. Byng and the priest were sit- ting in the lounge. Mrs. Byng was koitting furiously on some enor mous garment. ¥ E place was silent except tc{ the priest’s newspaper rustlin; now and then and Mrs. Byng's needles clicking. I looked up: the skylight was gray and the encircling galleries were empty and bare and the doors blank. It was not, to say the least, a cheerful spot, and 4t was rather appalling to think that we'd all got to stay there until the police gave us permission to leave. I sat down fairly near the prigst. I got out my cigarettes; Pucel transferred his attention to: the 'watch on my wrist. “I'm sorry,” I sald, across the ob- vious barrier of the newspaper. “But—may I have a match?* Mrs. Byng's needles clicked, and she ggve me a sharp look, and her equine nose lifted a little as if it sniffed battle. The priest's newspa- per rustled reluctantly as he shifted it to one hand. The flaming radi- ance of his beard came into view, he reached for the box of matches lying before him on the emall ta- ble and passed it over to me. “Thanks,” I murmured, lit my )el;ln'.te, and as he immersed him- self in the mewspaper at once, I persisted: “You speak English, then?” k i He gave me a morose look wm the edge of the newspaper. by GEORGE BROTHERS “Yes,' he said flatly, and uisap od again. Mrs. Byng's needles ed violently. aveling? 1 isty approach. N0 rhis time he did not even glance around the newspaper. inzlish, are you?" He looked at me fully this time. I1is face was not old, but it was lined; his eyes were a light yellow- . and around his mouth the irs of his red beard grew thin, and you felt a sort of distaste look ing at it. “No,” he said sharply. “French.” He stared at me a moment and then added: “If you must know, I've spent two years in America and I'm here for my health. | also spenk French and Italian. And 1 can read Latin.” ¥ 1 said blandly: “Funny place to come to for your health. Have you been here long?” “The newspaper quivered for a mo- ment, then his light eyes and flam- ing soft beard reappeared. “If,” he ¢21d coldly, “you want my full history, go to the police. They've just acquired it, owing to the very strange affair which ac- companied your arrival here. There was,” he added, driving the point further aome, “no murder before you arrived.” He continued to stare coldly and blandly at me. It was unfortunate that Puccl, who had been exploring silently in the vicinity of my pocket, drew forth at that moment a box of matches, laid it carefully upon my knee, and uttered a trlumphant cluck. The priest looked at it, and Mrs. Byng looked at it, and the cockatoo looked at f. and preened himself and clucked again happily. remarked In a HE second cluck was too much for Father Robart, who himself uttered a sound not too faintly re- sembling it, shoved his paper to- gether with an angry motion, rose, and stalked toward the lift. The lit- tle iron gate banged. the two nar- row doors dipped together, and the small lift, looking not unlike a very tall coffin, murmured. dully and started to crawl upward. “Puccl,” 1 said softly, “some day someone's going to wring your neck.” Mrs. Byng sniffed again. “If there ever was a bird in league with a daevil, it Is that one.” She eyed. the bird with asperity, and Puccl, eyeing her brightly, uttered a kind of squawky gurgle which certzinly suggested a hoarsely dia- bolic laugh. Mrs. Byng's thick eyebrows flew upward in a startled manner, and the needles paused for just an In- stant; then, recovering herself nobly, she nodded to me In anm *1- told-you-so" way and resumed. her knitting. Puccl returned to the matches quite as if sulphur had a natural attraction for him, and 1 said to-Mre. Byng: “I'm glad to see you've recovered from the shock of the other night.” “l may look better,” she sald. knitting rapidly. “But I still feel the shock. 1 feel anything for a long time, Mr. Sundean, and feel it deep- 13. 1 bave temperament. I have tem- perament. And | might say right here—1 have good eyes, Mr. Sun dean. And temperament.” “No doubt,” I said warmly under the compulsion of her waiting gaze, and just then the gong for lunch sounded. The meal over, I returned to the lounge and settled in a corner at the tar end with coffee and a ciga- rette and an old “Punch,” hoping either Sue or Lorn would find me there. But Lorn slipped quietly out again and Sue had disappeared. Gradually the faint clatter from reglons back of the dining room died away. The day had grown darker, and the well of the lounge, lighted only by the gray and sullen skylight, was : shadowy and dim and very silent. The whole place in fact had sunk into a kind of sentient, brooding silence which reminded you that, be- yond those twisting dark corridors and blank doors, there was, the same small circle that had been in the hotel that wind-ridden night when a man was murdered. I felt uneasy and restless, and was oddly relieved to hear quick 1light footsteps cross the dining room back of me. It was Marcel. He came closer to me. His eyes darted quickly about the lounge. “I have decided mysell. I will tell you,” he said then, soberly and in a low voice. “It is at best only three things that I know. One.is about the towels. And one is about Father Robart. And the third one —may mean a life.” (Copyright, 1933, Mignon @. Eberhart) \ A sudden terrible chift in the situation comes Monday. 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics, 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 et JUNE 10, 1913 Samuel H. Piles, formerly United States Senator from the States of ‘Washington, and J. M. Shoup, for- merly United States Marshal for the First Division, were entered as associate council in the McDonald Case. J. A. Hellenthal .was chief counsel. Judge R. W. Jennings, | who was disqualified from trying | | 1 | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Bullding PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. the case because of having been as- sociated with the defense before his elevation to thé bench, gave way to Judge Peter D. Overfield, who - arrived . from. Valdez for -the purpose of giving a hearing on the application of Joseph McDonald to be admitted 'to.bail pending. his trial which 'was set for July 8. The hearing started in the United| | States District Court and was ex- pected to consume two days. Reoms 8 .and § Valentine Building Teléphone 176 Charles Goldstein resumed his custom of offering each customer buying a suit of clothes for the few weeks preceding the Fourth of July, his choice among the hats or Dr. J. W. Bayne Rooms 8-6 Tridngle Bldg. Offie’ hours, 9 &m. to 5 p George E. Howard, of Sitka, was ordained Deacon by Bishop P. T. Rowe, in Trinity Cathedral. There was special music for the occasion| | and Bishop Rowe gave a sermon. Bishop Rowe was to leave in a few days for Skagway and the In- terior of Alaska to remain until September. EAST SWELTERS, TERRIFIC HEAT IS PREVAILING Dr. A, W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. to § pm. SJAWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. rhone 276 | Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building, Plone 481 Robert Simpson Opt. 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