The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 12, 1933, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1933, . Daily Alaska Empire - - GENERAL MANAGER . ROBERT W. BENDER except Sunday by the at Second and Main OMPANY every Published ka Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. arrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. at the following rates: 0; six months, in advance, $1 Dellvered by ¢ if they will promptly ¢ failure or irregularity s Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the republ 1 of all news dispatches credited to therwise ¢ ed in this paper and also the rwise local news published herein. e sure, we have not returned to the precise formulae of Wilson, for many things- have - oecurred - in 12 years. But we have returned to the essence of his ideal—that a nation cannot live in the world, en- joying its advantages and sharing its fortunes, un- less it is prepared to assume a reasonable measure of the responsibility for the wise ordering of that world. The new course being charted by the Roosevelt Administration is beset with perils, even though not just now as dangerous as those of isolation. To follow that course with safety and success requires no less skill and courage than that of isolation. But the new course is in accord with the facts @f international life in our time. And that is the vital difference. The suspension of funds for the four special officers for suppression of liquor traffic among the Indians in Alaska means that four of -the faithful won't get any pie from the political counter. LATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER AT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION ALASKA C THAN ADVICE TO SALMON PACKERS. Commissioner Bell, of the United States Bureau . of Fisheries, for a new officer seems to be have ac- quired quite a lot of knowledge about the salmon packing industry in Alaska. This is strongly indi- cated by his statement at Ketshikan, quoted in an Associated Press dispatch to The Empire, that Fed- eral control of the industry can be expected if the packers do not clean house themselves under .the National Recovery Act. For that reason, he said, he is gathering data on fair prices for the raw product, that is the fish sold to them by the fisher- men of Alaska, and fair prices for the finished article. The National Recovery Act does give the Gov- ernment the authority to fix prices and hours of labor and prices of manufactured products if the manufacturers themselves cannot or do not do so. The Act provides that the industry, through a trade association, can regulate iteslf. If a majority of the units in the industry agree upon a schedule affect- ing labor and prices of product, and it is approved by the Government, the latter has the authority to compel ‘any rebellious minority to abide by the agreement arrived at by the majority. The Commisstoner’s announcement that the Gov- ernment will take hold if the packers do not is timely. It serves notice on the industry that it must act promptly and effectively, with fairness to labor and to itself. Here is a chance for the salmon canners to get on their feet again, to eradicate all of the friction among themselves that has proved so costly in recent years. They will be well advised One thing that will help greatly to solve the troubles of the country is for everyone to make things go well in his own home town. No, we are not getting “back to normalcy”; we're just moving forward to sanity. For Conservation All Around. (New York Herald 'Tribune.) It is a pleasure to note that the conservation corps experiment gives promise of success. Appar- ently the cold feet suffered by so many early re- cruits after their first experience of the conditioning camps has had little effect on the main army, which, unless Washington reports exaggerate, now numbers 90,000 and is being swelled with 10,000 enlistments dally. Already considerably more than 100 refores- tation camps have been established and more than 80 occupied. The scope of the undertaking may be judged from the fact that the War Department must not only find training quarters for the con- stant stream of new applicants but is under sched- ule to move every day 5400 of those already con- ditioned from training quarters to permanent camps. It will require 1,350 of the latter to house the corps when it has been recruited to its full strength of i274,000, which now seems likely before July 1. But aside from the excellent prospect that this vast body of idle men will so soon be occupied in useful and healthul work under the proper con- ditions of sanitation and discipline, the program has developed certain collateral advantages scarcely less| important than its main objective. One of these, of course, was the opportunity it gave the Presi- dent to solve the problem presented by the bonus marchers. His offer of reforestation jobs to the 3,000 veterans encamped at Washington has found 2,600 takers and completely euchred their leaders, who, with a remnant of die-hard followers, are now | in full retreat. As one of them has expressed it,| “We are whipped, and we have to hand it to that smart fellow at the White House.” Even smarter, it seems to us, is the reported White House decision to stay the retirement of from 3,000 to 4,000 army officers, as decreed by Mr. Douglas's budget slashes, and put them in charge | of the conservation corps. Such a transfer would | save the country from the loss of this trained| personnel; it would spare these officers the humilia- tion of dismissal after devoting the best years of their lives to the public service, and it would| if they make the nyost of it BAN ON SAILOR PROFANITY. The announcement of Secretary of Navy Swan- supply the conservation camps with exactly the | type of management they need. Robert Fechner, director of the conservation program, has estimated that “the total requirement | for officer personnel for this huge project is 5,400 | for field work;” that this will necessitate “detailing one-half of all officers on duty with corps areas son that the Naval vessels above submarine and (3209), the early graduation of service schools destroyer classes will not be placed on rotation—|.. 4 yse of the graduates and 60 per cent of the that is laid up part time—lifts some of the gloom|facyity (1,000, the use of 169 naval surgeons and | that has settled heavily on sailors’ hearts in recent|the calling to active duty of 1,202 reserve officers.” days but not all of it. An order issued lately|Why, then, any talk of retirement? What the by Admiral R. H. Leigh probably caused more|army needs is conservation quite as much as the consternation than did the original rotation order |forests. of the Secretary. In fleet letter 333, Admiral Leigh ordered that the use of naughty swear words, “profanity” he termed it, must immediately cease, and those guilty of violating the order will be dealt with by court martial under Section 8 of Navy Regulations which prohibits among other things “scandalous conduct” “ » . ugg|crime. and the “elements” of that crime are defined: “as R o cases of aEiavAbed Sk e u'fwrmg 1o public of profanioiords, ireliglons o increasing our larger cities, but auto thefts, which djsrespectful language or undue famillarity toward|, . particularly characteristic of youth, are fewer, the Diety or religious things; sacriligious; Ir-l,,q robberies are generally on the decline, the religious; impious.” Appended to this, however, is|pyreau reports. The number of persons charged with a footnote: “This offense practically obsolete as a|driving while intoxicated is highest in cities of less court martial offense.” than 10,000 population. Auto thefts' are propor- Now what is a poor sailor to do? The order is|tionately fewer in small communities. Crime rates said not to apply to an officer. However, in Navy|vary directly with l}_li{ size of the community. Regulations at least, the terms officer and gentle- [Forgery and counterfeiting are more prevalent in man are synonymous and Admiral Leigh probably cities having a population of between 100000 and ubscribes to the notion that entleman is never 250,000, and the number of persons prosecuted for » e bl violation of the mnarcotic law is from two to three profane, at le.—:‘\st vulgarly so. The enlisted personnel times as great in cities over 100,000 in population of the fleet is in a tough spot. It is & mighty| o'y, smaller cities and towns. There is less drunk- good thing we're not engaged in war. Compliance|a,ness jn proportion to population in the very large with such an order would render the fleet defense-|anq very small communities, the greatest proportion less against attack and worthless as @ Weapon|being in those having a population between 100,- of offense. In peacetime the gobs possibly can|000 and 250,000. Larceny is more prevalent in relieve their emotions by swearing under their|smaller cities. ’ breath, but never in wartime. The department has 3,483,629 criminal finger- print records and 4,594,224 index cards showing the names and allases of individuals with criminal records. Once finger-printed and indexed at Wash- Trend of Crime. (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) The Bureau of Investigation of the Federal De- partment of Justice has recently issued a report which comments at length on the present trend of AFTER TWELVE YEARS. ¥ ington, the comings and goings of the individuals The Presidential election of 1920 registered a concerned can be closely watched. coloss.nl revulsion from war and a reversion to Orime detection is becoming. more of a certainty isolation. At the end of a costly struggle, from|., ., vear n this country. There is no diminution which this nation had gained nothing in a material| o crime, but the methods of detecting its per- sense, its people wanted to have done once and‘ petrators and combating its growth is being improved for all with Europe's fractricidal warfare, to live|each year. apart from the world and use it only as a market| How much more constructive it would be if we for excess production. The Harding and Coolidge|could check the steady increase in the birth rate Governments pursued this policy with a vengeance. of instinctive criminals, and if we could formulate Isolation became a shibboleth as never before, al-|more effective plans for preventing adolescents though when Secretary Stimson came to the State from becoming ensnarled with the law and finally Department, he modified the solitude of the nation |COming l:“" ot "'he hopper s finished product in along realistic lines, but in & restricted measure, [H0¢ WOFId of crime. The elecgon of 1932 whs a signal for the re- Lecture’ courses on the quantity theory of money, versal of this policy of isolation. The cumulative|geyaluation of the dollar, controlled inflation and pressures of our interests abroad were driving Us|pjanned economy are now given in the smoking onto the stage of world affairs even before the|cars of all morning and evening suburban trains. Roosevelt-Hoover campaign. —(Chicago News.) The evidence is piling up, day by day, to indicate - that the poll of 1932 was in fact a repeal of the Gandhi is continuing on his three weeks' fast. mandate of 1920. We have assumed leadership in|One wonders just how he tells when he quits his the World Economic Conference and the Disarma-|diet and starts fasting. ment Conference. We have designated an “Ambas- sador at Large” to maintain continuous contact with the principal European ministries of foreign affairs. As a climax to this process of rapproach- ment with the world, we have declared at Geneva our willingness to cast the weight of the nation| .y, was a lovely picture Mr. Morgan painted| in the balapces as & guarantor of the peace. of the private banker. You could almost hear new course of American foreign policy, cour-|the mystle of the wings—(St. Louis Post-Dispatch.) and realistic, without being reckless and o e AR S EY, sentimental, No matter how the cat jumps on the repeal question, Anti-Saloon League salaries will continue to be paid by a gullible public. Those are things that go on forever.—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) is in no small measure & justification| These are days when one sees many a rumble of one man—Woodrow Wilson. To belseat full of passive resistance —(Ohio State Journal.) by Mignon G. Eberhart SYNOPSIS: Bue Tally, Jim Suk- dean and e dectective Dawid Lorn have decided that the murder 9f the Russian, the attempt on Sun- ean’s life, aud the attemptod ab- duotion of Sus all are part of a lot to seourd the token by means of which Sue must prove title te her share of her father's millions. But they are unable to find a clue to the identity of the murderer. ' Marcel. porter in the lttle Prench ° Hotel which s the ascens of the tragedy, suddenly volunteers to tell Sundean what he knows. Chapter 2/ THE SHO\ IRST,” Marcel said—he would not be hurried, and I thought he had rehearsed the whole telling of his tale, and his bright eyes were sparkling—“first, the towels, “There were used towels in an unused room the morning after the murder. There was also a round—" he described it with his lively little hands—*“hollow on the elderdown as it someone had sat there for a mo- ment. I ask you—who was that?" ] started to speak and checked my- self for fear he would stop if I in- terrupted. “Then,” he held up two fingers. “Second. Father Robart was not sick during the night. I wds not with him. I slept. Walt—you will ask why I permit the police to think I was with him. But what would you? “He, a holy father, to ask such a small favor of me and me refuse. Never! And for the police—" He shrugged his shoulders in a man- ner which left little doubt as to the opinion he held of the police. “Then, third—" He paused and then went on slowly: “It is of Miss Tally, and you will know what to do. There is danger. Danger of the gravest.” Afterward it seemed to me I had been faintly conscious of some sort ot murmuring sound, but I actually heard only the words coming from the little porter's mouth. “Third,” he sald, *1 saw that night——" And then it happened. Though 1 didn’t know at once what had happened. I w=s only con- scious of a sharply spitting sound and a smell, and of Marcel's face. which sagged and was surprised and held wide black eyes and an open mouth. Both his hands went to his back, and he tried to speak. and moaned and fell forward against me. I caught him. He'd been shot. There was no one in the lounge— 1o one on the galleries, no one any: where. I eased him downward onto a chair; and then I knew that the murmur was the elevator. The shot had come from there, and the ele vator was crawling upward toward the first gallery. 5 I stepped backward until I could see the entrance from the elevatoy to the first gallery, and the en- trance to the second gallery. The thing crawled upward. The cage was dark. The two little doors blank. It neared the first gallery. Would it stop there or go on? The elevator slowly came to a stop. There was for a moment noth- ing but silence; then the doors trembled. The narrow black space between them widened almost {impercep- tibly. Curiously, I heard the shot and telt the hot sting in my shoulder before I saw the muzzle of the re- volver. Then things happened all -‘ once. SAW the short nose of a revolver poking out from behind one of the little doors, [ was consclous of a furiously sharp paln in my shoul der somewhere, | was dodging In- stinctively, and there was the sound of another shot. The door to . the lobby was just behine me, and I had leaped to shelter behind the wall and, using the key board for a shield, was peering aroupd it, de- termined to sse who was in the ele- vator., I saw the gleam of the revolver flying through the air downward, but not the arm that had thrown it. It fell with a clatter on the floor of the lounge, and at the very instant’ that 1 was leaning forward, suré now of seeing the murderer, some: one seized me from pehind; I stru gled, twisting, straining my eyes to- ward the doors of the elevator. But 1 was jerked aside. There were two policemen hang- ing to my arms and my waist, and the more furiously I struggled and tried to make them understand that the murderer was in the elevator and that he was even now escap} the more energetically they pul me away from where I could see. My shoulder hurt like hell, | fi cursing with rage and pain “ahd baffled fury, another policeman was quoning into the lobby from ont side, and a woman was screaming from somewhere in the well of the lounge. It was the screaming that drew one of the policemen into the lounge; at his shout the two hold- ing me dragged me after them to the door again and then into the lounge, Mrs. Byng, hanging over the gallery rail, stopped scream- ing to stare, and then suddenly peo- ple were coming. Lovschiem and Grethe and little Sue with her face like chalk were running along the gallery and down the stairs and into the floor of the lounge. All at once the lounge was Icra\\'ded. Evglithe priest ha * turned up, panting, his red beard agitated, and Lorn, breathless, was hurrying through the lobby and was at my side, and the little maid, Marianne, was kneeling and sobbing, and the center of it all was the small white- aproned figure sprawling in the trivolous wicker chair. In all the commotion and hubbub and torrents of French and Marl- anne's sobs, it was Lorn who re mained falrly cool, and I'm sure it was Lorn who kept them from drag- ging me immediately to jall. { don't know what he said, though I guessed, from the way he pointed | at my shoulder, and the blood that was soaking my coat, and the lack | of powder burns. One of the policemen had picked |up the gun and was holding it gin- gerly by the tips of his fingers when Lprn suddenly turned toward me. “Have you touched the gun?" he barked sharply. He was, under fire, like another man, quick, sharp, de- cisive, his eyes no longer dull. “No."” That much I was sure of. | “Whoever was in the elevator | threw it on the floor.” “In the elevator? What do you mean? Tell me quickly.” TOLD him quickly, and one of the policemen ran upstairs to the elevator. The two remaining ‘sllll held me tightly, as If that were |the only thing they understood must be done. And just then Sue perceived my wounded shoulder (she'd been stooping over Marianne, and there were tears on her white face when |she turned). 8he came swiftly to | me and put her hands on my arms and sald something quickly to the | police and I thought pleadingly. But |they would not relinquish their hold. 1 was beginning by that time to feel a little giddy and sick. Lorn said: | Leave it to me. | may be able to | et you off. Your fingerprints can't be on the revolver, and there are no powder burns so you couldn’t have done it yourself. Your being wound- ed may help.” It must have been only a few mo- .| ments before more policemen ar- rived, and all at once policemen were searching the hotel, and | was being questioned at length, It developed there were no finger- prints to be found on the revolver at all. Thus it argued that the mur- derer had worn gloves. It was at this point, that | and my clothes and the lobby and the lounge and finally even the elevator were thor- oughly searched for gloves, and to my great relief no gloves were found. They seemed to be talking of it heatedly when the doctor arrived. He examined the little huddle on the chair first and very swiftly; or- dered Marianne to a chair in the corner, where she sat sobbing help- lessly while the slender body of the little porter was carried away. Then at Sue's request he turned his attention toward me. Sue helped him; | remember the set look about her white face and the darkness of her eyes and the firm touch of her fingers. | think she was relieved at the doctor's mut- tefed comments; and I'm sure 1 felt better when she sald that the doc- tor had said it would be painful and I had lost a lot of Llood but that there was no reason why it should not heal perfectly. “What have they decided to do?" I asked her, glancing toward the, police. “l don’t know,” she said. *You see the police ran to the door of the lobby and caught you apparent. ly escaping. They both launched themselves at you.” “And kept me from discovering the murderer,” I said bitterly. The police were coming toward me again. | said rapidly: “Sue, you must take no chances. Marcel was telling me that you are in danger, when he was shot.” Before she could speak, they were questioning me again. | (Copurioht 1933 Mionon G. Bberhart) | What turn"will this fantastic tragedy take tomorrow. Old Papers for Sale at Empire Office GEORGE bR BROTHERS {-mm"‘ 20 YEARS AGO The engagement of Lila Brilliant Olds to Clarence Edwin Carpenter | was announced by the bride-to-be’s | | Phone Office, 216 the first white girl born in this DENTISTS city. | Blomgren Bullding PHONE 56 The cities of Gastineau Channel were to have the opportunity to witness a birdman in action early in August if arrangements tenta- tively planned between Mayor C. W. Carter and Capt. C. V. Martin, reached completion. Capt. Martin was one of the leading promoters| of flights by heavier than air ma=-| | chines. He was in Juneau on his way to the intérior where he was scheduled to make flights over Fairbanks on July 3, 4, and 5. He|%¥ discussed stopping in Juneau on the way south to make flights. PROFESSIONAL H Ray, Medical Gymnastics, 307 Goldstein Building | Hours 9 am. to d pm. Fraternal Societies | OF every Wednesday at 8 p. m. Visiting .f') brothers welcome. i Gastineau Channel | g e Helene W. L. Albrecht N | e s PHYSIOTHERAPY JUNE 12, 1913. Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | B. P. 0. ELKS meets | | L. W. Turoff, Exalt- mother. The wedding was to - take | Br———-—————"—"——-% place late in June. Miss Olds is e P &“r:‘“l M. H. Sides, a member of one of the prominent )i “'_’ ',__ pioneer families of Juneau and is| | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS : Seghers Council No. 1760. | | Meetings second and last | | Monday at 7:30 p. m. | | Transient. brothers urg- ed to attend. Counell Chambers, Fifth Strecs. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER. Secretary - | | Our trucks go any place any | m. A tank for Diesel Oil | ‘PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 RELIABLE TRANSFER Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | —_— The bail of Joseph MacDonald Office hourl,hi am. m":’p:n. { was completed and he was given Evenings by appointmen | I his liberty at 5 o'clock the previous Phone 321 : JUNEAU TRANSFER evening. The court asked that a|@——0m—————————& COMP. ANY —_ bond of $50,000 be provided and the bondsmen qualified in the sum of | & a quarter of a million dollars. Mr. MacDonald was at home with his family. SAWARD BUILDING Chairman B. L. 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