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‘known to exist. -3 0 s SRR AR AN RIS S AS—— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1933. e I, N Daily Al('r,ska 7Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER 'h thed every evening except FM‘;::RE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main St ‘Juneau, Alaska Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Entered in the matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. ; mail, pos Jaid, at the following rates: By mail, postage haiis30; six months, in advance, ; one month, in 1.25. ribers will confer a favor if they will promptly not i-"f.".".:..\.:‘u”:s onfer A Loy failure or irregularity B .I‘,‘{,ff,f.’ O e m ‘and Business Offices, 374. vance, ER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. entitled to the tches credited to per and also the ication of it or not otherwise credited Jocal news published herein. RCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ALASKA AN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION in this pe NEW FEDERAL OFFICIALS. The Senate lately confirmed all of the Presi- dential nominations for positions in Alaska except that of George F. Alexander, attorney of Portland, Ore. In fact, the reliable Associated Press origin- ally reported that Mr. Alexander, too, was on the Jist of those confirmed by the Senate. Now it ap- pears that his name was not on the list, and that there is reason to doubt that he will be con- firmed at the special session of Congress. Delegate Dimond is reported to have filed a pyotest against him with the Senate Judiclary Com- mittee, and several members of that body are re- ported to be opposed to him. Undoubtedly the Delegate’'s opposition rests on the fact that Mr. Alexander is not an Alaskan. No other reason is Reports received by The Empire praise him highly as a fine citizen, a capable at- torney, one of the most prominent in his home city, a man of broad experience and a life-long Demo- crat. He is known to have the support of most of the Pacific Coast delegations in Congress and that of Missouri, where he was born and lived for many years. Mr. Alexander’s name naturally was not on the local organization’s slate for that position, or any other Federal post in the Territory. It endorsed Alaskans only, and submitted to the National or- ganization its claims that this patronage was not to be parceled out to any State organization. It was confident that its claims were recognized as just and that they would be upheld by the Admin- istration. Of course, The Empire believes they should be. It feels that the Delegate has pursued the only course consistent with his and the local organization’s promises to Alaskans. Mr. Alexander, of course, would make a fine Judge and if anyone other than an Alaskan must be appointed, none, we are convinced, would reflect greater credit to the Administration. We are not convinced, though, that the appointment of a nonresident of the Territory is necessary. Simon Hellenthal, the organization's candidate for the position, is eminently qualified for the the judgeship. He is a lawyer of the first rate, a capable administrator, possesses sound judgment and is well balanced and finely poised. These qualifications he has in common with those of Mr. Alexander. In addition he is an Alaskan of many years standing. That should be decisive- in his favor. All of the new officials confirmed are men of the highest standing in the Territory. Judge Holzheimer is a scholar, a successful lawyer of many years experience in Alaska, filled the office of District Judge in the Second Division capably for four years, and will bring to the office of United States Attorney here more experience than any of his predecessors in many yars. Joseph A. McDonald, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the local Legislature this year, and Ralph J. Rivers, Fairbanks attorney, confirmed respectively for United States Marshal and United States Attorney for the Fourth Division, are highly respected citizens of their home community. They and Judge Holzheimer were endorsed by the Terri- torial party organization. All of them will represent. WHAT MR. MORGAN DOESN'T UNDERSTAND. Mr. Morgan at the conclusion, for the present, of the Senate Banking Comumittee’s hearing, criti- cised the publicity given to the “preferred list" of customers which was composed of prominent men un- doubtedly serve the public with credit to them- selves and honor to the Administration whom they traders. Yet it failed under a test of its pride and prestige. By a mistake which had with the years swollen into a grevious fault, it sacrificed something intangible, im- ponderable, that has to do with the very highest repute. The members of such a | partnership forgot they must not only be beyond reproach in their financial dealings as they doubtless are—but they must always appear to be so. The hearings have disclosed that the firm is a center of a huge network,of power and influence embracing the largest corporations in every line of economic activity. It has, and still can, controlled a huge pool of capital. By its prestige and con- nections it has exercised a towering influence upon American corporate financing. It is now clear that its great power is practically unregulated- by either law or public opinion. All of its essential decisions have been private and but for the: events of the past three or four years its operations would still continue to be private and almost = wholly unrevealed. The only check upon it has been the conscience of the firm and its banking traditions. We believe the continuance of such a condition is repugnant to a Democracy, that it is not in keeping with our doctrines for private individuals, publicly unaccountable, to be possessed of such great power. Except it were exercised in a spirit vision of far-sighted public policy, it would be intolerable. The testimony, so far, tends to prove that no set of men, no matter how honorable they may be, nor how high their traditions, can be trusted with such private power and the opportuni- ties for personal gain it carries with it. Some measure of regulation and restriction is certainly needed. This is one of the problems that Congress will have to deal with in its next session. President Roosevelt may not be cartooned with a history as a plain talker with a punch in his words. The “depression cut” that Babe Ruth took in his salary doesn't seem to be reflected in his home run ability. Then and Now. (New York Times.) Tonight a star will turn on a myriad lights in Chicago, and the buildings of “A Century of Progress” will stand illumined. Thus science will open the Fair, to dominate it thereafter. Since the Columbian Exposition of forty years ago it has transformed the environment and created almost a new social and economic order. The Fair of today becomes a cross section of our civilization—an op- portunity for taking stock of our accomplishments. If the handful of pioneers who established the old trading post that has developed into Chicago could only come back to life! In 1833, Conestoga wagons, log-cabins, toylike locomotives puffing in the East, the horse man's chief reliance on the farm —it is hard to imagine such a world with automo- biles now rolling over smooth highways, airplanes droning overhead, radio bringing the President’s voice into millions of homes, world-wide television in the offing. Even those who were dazzled by the Exposition of forty years ago must be awed as they note what has grown up in their own lives. dynainos, electric trains, mechanisms that pulled, twisted, bent and shaped metal. But science had not arrived. Its spirit had not yet taken possession of American industry. At Chicago we see it de- liberately linked to the factory, and industry grown mightier for the union. 4 The very aspect of the Fair proclaims our progress. We have but to contrast the baroque Greek temples of forty years ago with the audac- jously colored functional structures that stand on the Fair grounds today. Then a wistful harking back to the Acropolis and the Capitoline Hill; now a complete break with the past and consciousness of a civilization that must be expressed in rolled shapes and painted sheet steel. Civilization’s record for the last forty years is not spotless. A World War, the injustices that followed, the economic crisis that has unnerved us —these have given rise to doubting and questioning. They are even linked with the rise of science. In this increasing domination of the laboratory, in these machines that have shortened the working day and given us a standard of living that would have seemed regal in 1833, there are skill, intelligence, even spirituality. A race that can rise to such heights by mastering energy and matter may look forward to the future with hope. If this Century of Progress stands for science as the conqueror of nature, perhaps the next will reveal social man as the conqueror of science. The Ultimate in Economy. (The Tribune, Salt Lake City.) Governmental economies cannot end with the huge slashes which have been carved out of par- ticular groups. Rather, they must proceed to the ultimate limit, must continue on, until all waste and extravagance have been removed from the Federal budgets. This, in brief, is the declaration of Louis A. Johnson, National Commander of the American Le- gion, on his visit to Salt Lake. It is both logical and consistent, as well as the natural expectation of a group which has been called upon to share heavily in the Government's program of economy. Current economies are necessary, imperative. But, as Commander Johnson indicates, justice demands that they be pursued to the absolute limit. There can be no lasting program of economical admin- istration of governmental affairs, unless it drives of most scrupulous trusteeship and with a clear| Sue There were machines enough then—swnm—engines,i SYNOPSIS: Two murders have been committed in Jim Suwndcon s little hotel in Southern Fronce. and two attempts have been made on his life. It all is linked . Sundcan and David Lorn the detective be- lieve, with an attempt to secure the token with which Swe Tally must prove her right to half of her father's millions. The wolice suspect the wounded Sundean of the murders. but his chief concern is for the welfare of Sue Taily. ,l'wm Lorn. he goes to look after er. Chapter 26 THE CONFERENCE HE went with us back to my room. We chose that room with- out thinking about it. I suppose be- cause we had met and talked there before and because it was warm and the wing was deserted and thus we would be apt to have no ob- servers. The police, Lorn said dry- ly, were'stationed at various places around the hotel, “We're like rats in a trap,” sald suddenly and caught her breath. And so began another strange conference in that old-fashioned room in the cold, deserted wing. with the fire crackling now and then, and the wind blowing in the court: below and outside the win: dows. Lorn and I did most of the talk- ing. Sue was very quiet and pale, and there had been tears on her cheeks. Our talk was not long, for huge club in his hands, but he will go down in| We were all desperately weary and shaken with the ugly affair of the afternoon. It was, however, impor tant; particularly important in view of what happened later. “See here,” 1 said abruptly. *] know you consider the Lovschieme your friends. But I want to suggest y something. Why don't you tell Madame that you've put the token in a bank? A bank in Paris or Lon don or somewhere. “Don’t tell me where you have 1 —perhaps that's exactly what you did—at any rate, 1 think you're wise to keep 1its whereabouts a secret. But that will put them off— “Always providing,” interrupted Sue dangerously, “that my friends who have been my only friends for a long and hard year are planning to murder me for an inheritance that they don’t even know I've got.” “Always providing that,” | said wishing I could shake her. It was curious how easily a little flame of queer antagonism could leap up between us; it was as If for a flash each resented something in the other. I resented her nat agreeing with me, and then | knew that somehow she had a kind of hold upon me or I shouldn’t have hated her disagreeing with me. angl 80 then something in me resented that hold upon me. And In another second there was no feeling of resentment at all, only a warm kind of pleasure be cause she was there, sitting quietly before me, her bright head bent. and the fine angle of her chin faint ly pink against the black velvet of her tightly buttoned coat, her slen der feet on the rug, her whole love ly body slim and fine and yet beauti- fully rounded. I said in a matter-of-fact way: “We can scarcely help wondering about the Lovschiems. You admit- ted that your mother might have told them something. They are here—managing the hotel. Who else is there to suspect?” E'VE been over all this' be: fore,” sald Sue. “And, anyway, you have no evidence against either of them.” “That's quite true,” said Lorn dryly. “There’s not one definite thing we've got against Lovschiem.” “Unless we can prove he knew the man who was first murder, As for Marcel’s murder—anyone—/ everyone in the hotel is open suspicion.” ;1 “Do you still feel it may be lim« ited to the hotel?” asked Sue. * —surely that can’t be true. I can’t believe that the Lovschiems are in- volved. You and Mr. Lorn and Father Robart are self-explanatory. The cook is just a fat and rather stupild cook—and anyway, he wasn't here the night of the first murder. Marlanne—that's absu Mrs. Byng—equally absurd. And' dn’t do 1t. p 8y Mignos G. Eberhare’ “And as to the night of the first nurder?” I said. ~Oh,"—she spread out her hands n a hopeless gesture—“I don't ow. Anything could have been lone that night. Perhaps that way through the hotel gate was known to more people than I thought. At any rate it’s not to be thought of that the murderer is here, now, in this hotel. But I promise you, Mr. Sundean, that I shall be very- care- ful.” Her breath caught in what was very near a sob. “How could I help being careful after what I've seen?” Her face was tired and white. ‘There were slender blue marks un- der her eyes, I sald: “See here. We'll cut this talk short. We can ¥inish it tomorrow. The main thing s for you to keep your door locked and bolted tonight. And the first thing in the morn- ing—" I hesitated, for after all what I was about to say was Lorn’s busi- ness, not mine. But I continued: “The first thing in the morning it might not be a bad idea to get the papers that you gave to Lovschiem out of his safe and take them to the bank."” “That's what Mr. Lorn advised,” said Sue wearlly. “Very well. I'll do it. But the Lovschiems—" She broke off abruptly and said instead, “I'm going now.” We both went with her to her room. Lorn stood with her at the door, while I searched her room; there was, of course, no one hiding in the great wardrobe ‘or behind the curtains or in the bathtub, and there was little other place in which to hide. But I wanted to be certain, and I waited in the corridor until she had whispered *“Good-night” and vanished and | heard the key turn- ing and then immediately the bolt slipping into place. | | | | HE corridors were deserted, and there had been no one to see us. Lorn turned in another direction. | walked toward the north-wing cor- ridor again. The halls were half dark, as usual. It was just as | turned suddenly around the angle above the steps that | thought 1| saw a darker shadow down the length of the cor- ridor ahead of me which moved juickly out of sight beybnd the angle of the intersecting corridor. | ran lightly and rapidly toward where it had been, but when 1 reached the angle there was noth- ing but blank doors and narrow hall leading back to a window at its end. Probably, | told myself, turning finally into the long hare corridor | of the north wing with its cold shin- “lng windows all along the court side and its bitter draft—probably a ‘mere optical 1llusion composed of othing but shadow. r‘ The court was crazy again that night; though the wind was not as strong as it had been, and the gusts were not as wild with their flying shadows. Still, it did not look in- viting; neither did the little fron stairway descending Into darkness. In the turmoil of the day 1 had again neglected to ask Lovschiem for a key, and | again, with a kind of grim amusement at myself, propped the table against the door. 1 was determined to stay in that room, but | never liked it. Neither did 1 like the cold, de- serted wing with its mysterious creaks and rustles. And nelther, 1 confessed to myself, had I liked that flying shadow. It had had, somehow, a substan- tiality one does not assocliate with mere shadows. My shoulder was aching and throbbing damnably, and 1 took one t the pills the doctor had left me nd finally went to sleep. 1 awoke with a start. I'd been | dreaming wildly of Father Robart’s black soutane with its full black kirt and of Sue's red slippers and the wind. The wind had lulled again into such quiet that probably the mice in the old walls were noisy again. 1 listened, but if a noie had awakened me I heard mno further sound. And it a prowling ghost had to visit me, awakening me th a passing touch or sigh, then it was a lively ghost indeed, for I #And there's no one else—No, it |smelled very definitely the odor ot 't be limited to us in the hotel. | tobacco: er all, someone could easily have| I sniffed agaln and sat up. - ot into the place this afternoon— | There was no ghost about it. reason at all why he shouldn't| Someone, somewhere mear me, who were given an opportunity to purchase securi- ties at cheaper rates than-were paid at the samejonly way in which time by the investing public generally. This phase of the operations of Morgan's left a worse impression than the fact that Mr. Morgan and his partners paid no Federal income tax in 1932 and but a few paltry thousands of dollars in 1930 and 1931. There is a statute governing the payment of income taxes and admittedly Mr. Morgan and his associates were nicely scrupulous in complying with it. Morgan’s, however, as a private banking house, was exempt from the laws that govern commercial banking. There was no law to stay them from having a “preferred list” of customers. Yet so high was the standing of the corporation that the general public had a right to expect it would not be guilty of such a practice. There was nothing illegal about the favors it passed out. Things of that kind have been done for many years by many brokerage houses and syndicates of promotion. But Morgan's stood for something higher and finer than that, some- thing that was disinterested and impersonal, a sense of responsibility that naturally one expects to find with great power uncurbed by written law. As the New York Times points out: Here was a firm of bankers, perhaps the most famous and powerful in the whole world, which was certainly under no ne- cessity of practicing the small arts of petty never has been mental problem. capital. success of taxation. cracy by Christmas! directly at all unnecessary expenditures. We have encountered this very conflict. sums of private money are tied up in governmental just completed her second year at financing, largely for the tax preference allowed.|the Washington State College at That it is an obstacle to private financing and (Pullman is returning home for the private initiative is self-evident. gion leader is not far wrong when he declares that|land to spend her vacation with it is the seat of a major portion of our trouble. Certainly, in such times as these, when taxes con- stitute a major concern to every individual, there can be little hope of relief while preferential bids|yr. AND MRS. H. D. STABLER| make governmental securities the first objective of The logical limit of this is suppression. of private effort in favor of governmental activity, which inevitably results in the destruction of the|who have been in California on the current course can be justi- fied before all people. Mr. Johnson, perhaps, has something of the same thing in mind, as he directs general attention to the financial involvments that have come to gov- ernments as a result of taX-exempt securities. There much doubt that such a course ultimately would serve to distort the tax burden, which in turn was bound to make for a govern- "=(New York @un) © i - It is the Vast Perhaps the Le- ve walked boldly in, either front | Was smoking. kitchen entrance; shot Marcel, escaped without being seen.” ¢ volce trembled over Marcel, { experienced a strange littl ge of tenderness toward her, (Copyright, 1933, Mignon G, Edberhart) . Racked with pain from M ’ ‘Sundean tries, tomorrow f Lo MISS DOROTHY GREEN IS RETURNING FROM COLLEGE ON MOTORSHIP NORTHLAND Miss Doroshy Green, who has summer on the motorship North- her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. B, Green. —_————— RETURNING ON NORTHLAND Mr. and Mrs. Howard D. Stabler, a motor trip for the last several weeks, are returning to Juneau on The President’s little spur to the Prohibition|the Northland, which is due here repeal movement in his remarks on taxation sug- gests the possibility of a slogan “Out of the hypo- on Friday. ‘While in San Francisco, early in , Mr." Stabler argued several |cases before the Circuit Court of Appeals. —ee— R. E. ROBERTSON AND FAMILY RETURNING TO JUNEAU ON NORTHLAND Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Robertson and their children, Eiliott and Carol, are northbound passengers from Seattle on the Northland which sailed Monday night. Mr. Robertson went south on legal business several weeks ago and Elliott has been attending the University of Washington. They were joined in Seattle by Mrs. Rob- lertson and Carol Robertson who took & steamer to the Puget Sound city shortly after the Juneau schools closed. From The Empire e —mmerd JUNE 14, 1913 The Juneau Pirates were forced to walk the plank in the baseball game in Juneau the previous night with the Douglas Wildcats. The Douglas boys snatched the game in the ninth inning with a final score of 6 to 5. Judge Peter D. Overfleld expect- ed to leave Juneau for the south on the Princess Sophia. He *d not expect to return to Alaska right away. Court business at Val- dez was all cleaned up and there remained in Juneau but the sign- ing of the bill of exceptions in the Itow murder case and thé decree and findings of facts in the Alas- ka-Gastineau case against Tread- well and a bill of exceptions in the same case. He sald he thought his official dutles in Juneau would end today as he expected Judge Fred M. Brown to be confirmed as Judge immediately. The movement to establish a waterfront thoroughfare in Juneau had many supporters. One of the first to bring forth the idea was B. L. Thane, General Manager of the Alaska-Gastineau Mining Co. Assistant United States Attorney H. H. Folsom left for Petersburg to investigate the alleged killing of John ‘Adams, an Indian, on April 25 near Little Duncan Canal. The Juneau High School band was to give an excursion to Sheep Creek in a short time and was trying to secure the steamer Geor- gia to assist in conveying the peo- ple of Juneau, Douglas and Tread- well to the place where a fine en- tertainment winding up with a dance would be provided. General ‘Manager B. L. Thane had offered the large dining room of the Sheep Creek camp as a ball room. —eo———— ATTENTION WOMEN OF THE MOOSE There will be a regular meeting of the Women of the Moose Thurs- day night at 7:30 o'clock. Installa- tion of officers will be held at 8:30 o'clock and husbands of Women of the Moose and all Moose members are cordially invited to attend. K. E. JARMAN, Recorder. D o o e d Orsa, Sweden's “tax-free parish,” is being taxed for the first time in 47 years because of depression and unemployment. —adv. PEERLESS BREAD Always Good— Always Fresh “Ask Your Grocer” PIGGLY A JUNEAU-YOUNG L3 | P Funeral Parlors I Licemsed Fumeral Directors ¥ and Embalmers | Night Fhone 1861 Day Phone 12 ; e Konnerup’s MORE for LESS = ol SABIN’ PROFESSIONAL l Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY , Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | 307 Goldstein Building | Phone Office, 216 | | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER I DENTISTS | Blomgren Building | PHONE 56 l: Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. i ! Dr. Ch;rles P. Jenne ‘ | Booms ¢ wnd 9 Valentine 3! Tulephone 176 l Dr. ]I.myrisgayne Rooms 5-8 Triangle Bldg. | Office hours, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. | | Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 8§ pm. SAWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. rhone 276 Ao et 1 | l | Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE | Gastineau Building, Pkone 481 Robert Simpson Opt. D. Qraduate Angeles Coil- lege of Optometry and | Opthalmology | Glasses Witted, Lenses Ground | DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL ©Optometrist—Optician | Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted | Room 7. Valentine Bldg. | Office Pmone 484; Residence Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 | | to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 | [ T | 3 "o Rose A. Andrews Graduate Nurse Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas- sage, Colonic Irrigations Office hours 11 am. to 5 pm. Evenings by Appointment Second and Main Phone 250 | . L P ALLAMAE SCOTT Expert Beauty Specialist I PERMANENT WAVING Phone 218 for Appointment Entrance Ploneer Barber S8hop CHIROPRACTIC “Health from Within” Dr. G. A. Doelker ~—AUTHENTIC— Palmer School Graduate Old Cable Office Phone 477 C. L. FENTON CHIROPRACTOR Golastein Building Office Hours: 10-12; 2-5 Evenings by Appointment L. C. SMITH and CORONA TYPEWRITERS J. B. Burford & Co. customers” SR Fraternal Sociel OF | Gastineau Channel | S B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday ab 8 p.m. Visiting brothers welcome. L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. R 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 Strecs. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary time. A tank for Diesel Ol | | and & tank for crude ofi save | | burner trouble. ’ PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 RELIABLE TRANSFER ' JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY Moving and Storage Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of FUEL OIL ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 MAY HAYES Modiste , Bergmann Hotel PHONE 205 R0 ey AT | THE JuNEAU LAUNDRY | Franklin Street between | [ Front and Second Streels | PHONE 359 ROOM Meals for Transients Cut Rates Chicken dinner Sunday, 60o MRS. J. GRUNNING Board by Week or Month I-BEWGMANN DINING | e = —————ai HOTEL ZYNDA Large Sample Rooms . 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