The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1933, Page 4

O SR B ] ] | 4 4 ¥ i ‘s THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1933. Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER evening except Sunday by the COMPANY at Second and Main ever: " Published Entered in the Post Offic In Juneau as Second Class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month, the following rates: six months, in advance, month ad $1.26. pers will confer a favor if they will promptly s Office of any failure or irregularity their Editorial postage By mall, r, in advan rs. d Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, « for republication of all news dispatches credited to not otherwise credited in this paper and also the ews published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION A CONGRESS THAT SET NEW STANDARDS. Members of the special Session of Congress that adjourned early Friday morning after having been in session 98 days can return to their constituents with a sense of having performed well a most strenuous task and to a well-earned rest for the next six and one-half months. It was the hardest working Congress in recent years and even the Congresses of wartime did not surpass it in effi- ciency and swiftness of action. It was called into sesslon in one of the most critical periods of the Nation's history. Every bank within its confines had been closed down and all trade and commerce was at a low ebb. Men's confidence was shaken to its very core. Stunned by an unprecedented succession of economic catas- trophes, they had lost faith in the country’s financial institutions and doubt as to the stability of its government was abroad. Under the vigorous and aggressive leadership of President Roosevelt it tackled seemingly unsur- mountable problems and in the legislation it enacted for their solution it wrote new and highly important chapters into American history. Although some of these laws have not yet been set in to motion, a great part of their purpose has been achieved through the restoration of public faith in govern- ment and its ability to direct American industry and finance along sounder lines to renewed health and to bring work and prosperity back to the whole people. Some of the legislation enacted is admittedly experimental. It has yet to be tried out. It may be necessary in the future to alter it, possibly to abandon some it entirely. Yet the whole program of the Administration has the support of the entire country. Its working out is in the hands of Mr. Roosevelt. With the confidence and backing of all the people solidly behind him, there can be no such thing as failure to move ahead to better, brighter days. The manner in which this Congress has reacted to the grave emergencies of the times, as much as the spirit and temper of the people in responding to the President’s leadership and Congress's great schievements, is another striking proof that a Democratic people can and will work out s destiny under any stress. FRANCE, THE OBSTRUCTIONIST. France, whose attitude on the payment of war debts to the United States has encouraged other nations to refuse payment, is the obstructionist at the World Economic Conference at London. Before she will discuss other vexatious problems she insists on having her own way on currency standardization. It is not impossible that she will yet force the London gathering into a stalemate. Evidently the French fail to recognize, or are indifferent to the fact that the world is still at war. True the battle is not with armed forces, but as Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, said recently in a public address before an audience at an Eastern college, “instead of using guns and submarines and poison gas, there has been a re- alignment of parties and a continuance of the struggle with economic agencies. The question now is, how can we get an economie armistice?” % That is precisely the task of the London con- ference, which is now deadlocked because of France's insistence on standardization of currencies. By means of tariffs, import quotas, currency devalua- tion and other methods, the nations have been wag- ing war without cessation and mercilessly. The result has been loss to all of them, just as on the field of martial combat. Each country is determined to sell but not to buy, to devalue its currency far enough to get an apparent advantage over its neighbors. Such a course is mutually suicidal, just as the World War was a losing proposition for every na- tion involved. Abandoning the methods of economic conflict all can gain. But this calls for far-sighted statesmanship that is not easy to realize. More disturbing even than the enormity of the task, it is questionable whether the spirit of economic disarma- ment has come to dominate the situation. The one redeeming feature of the conference to date is the growing realization that if no agree- ment is reached on the major questions the already scanty commerce between nations will lapse entirely. This threat of more serious breakdown is possibly the one factor that is strong enough to compel progress at London. WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WHEAT CRO! Three things happen to the annual wheat crop of the United States. From 600,000,000 to 700,000,000 bushels go into domestic consumption. Since 1923 this consumption has increased less rapidly than the population. The two other channels into which exports decline, the carry-over mounts. Records of the United States Department of Agriculture show that in the year ended June 30, 1923, we exported 205,000,000 bushels and had a carry-over of less than 100,000,000 bushels. In the year ended June 30, 1932, we exported 112,000,000 bushels and had a carry-over of 362,000,000 bushels — three times the normal. g It might be supposed that these declining exports and mounting carry-overs implied a slump in world wheat consumption. As a matter of fact, the world consumption of wheat grew steadily in the last de- cade. In the 1930-31 season the total apparent disappearance of wheat outside Russia and China was 3,800,000,000 bushels, as compared with only 3,200,000,000 bushels in 1921-22. World wheat con- sumption in the depression year 1930-1 exceeded that of the preceding year and about equaled that of the highly prosperous season 1928-29. It was not falling consumption that brought about our mounting wheat surplus. It was rising production here and abroad. From the way the seaside vacationists are pan- {ning the brevity of the season’s bathing suits, one would think they never had visited the “ole swim- min’ hole.” The kidnapers seem to be the kingpins of today's racketeers, and even the death penalty will not curb their activities until the officers capture a few of them. Jokes about Woodin money have fallen flat as the country rushes forward to get a few of th shekels of which he is custodian. 5 Dr. Woodin. (New York Herald Tribune.) Mr [Lawrence Gilman once wrote an eloquent essay entitled “Music and the Cultivated Man"—later printed as a small book, ylelding an item to be treasured by collector and reader alike. In it he made a plea for rating an acquaintance with music —an essential part of a cultivated equipment—as essential as a knowledge of literature, history or the languages. The Greeks so treated it. Now comes Syracuse University to give Mr. Woodin the degree of Doctor of Music for his interest as an amateur of the art. A wise and discriminating gesture,! say we, Will the country understand and approve? There |will be a few cackles and chortles. from the morons. |But we suspect that there will be far more appre- ciation than lack of it. The younger generations have all been reared against a background of per- petual music. The American ether, or its modern substitute, reeks with it, good, bad and indifferent. At least, however, Americans are ear-minded to an tunprecedented degree. That is a beginning. Above and beyond, there are signs that a real renaissance of musical interest is spreading across the land. The music schools were never so well organized or so crowded. Those best delights of the amateur, choral singing and chamber music, have taken on a new life. Mr. Gilman's ideal remains an ideal, but it no longer dwells in the clouds of remote hopes. { So we felicitate Syracuse on its wisdom and imagination, and we congratulate Dr. Woodin on his new honor. He may be neither a great musi- ician nor a great Secretary of the Treasury. But |he is certainly a very able amateur in both fields. Drafted into the Treasuryship at a mobt critical | ‘hour, he has served the country with modesty, poise |and common sense, and a fine spirit of generosity toward his predecessors in' office. [Politics, like music, could use a great deal more of this amateur spirit. Recovery. (New York World-Telegram.) No one thing will pull us out of this depression. But in so far as one thing can help, we believe the Roosevelt Industrial Recovery bill is the most effec- tive prosperity move to date. It strikes at the root evil, which is the lack of purchasing power. If the mass market continues to dry up few companies in the country can escape bankruptcy. Every one—from the banker and big industrialist and merchant down to the humblest worker—is dependent upon the consumers’ market, which gives business to factories and farms and jobs to labor. The absence of a market, which is starving in- dustry today, is often described as a lack of con- sumers’ demand. ‘“People won't huy.” It is, rather, a lack of purchasing power. People cannot buy. The only way to revive the mass market is by larger payrolls. Even inflation will not help unless the money can be put iato circulation, into the pockets of the rank and file to spend. After these years of misery most business lead- ers at last understand this basic fact, that American business geared to mass production cannot survive unless it shares with labor, in the form of steady and high wages, enough for the people to buy back what they produce. But the business leaders who understand this fact, and who would act upon it, are powerless because of the unfair competition of a minority of employers who run sweated industries. Under the Industrial Recovery bill industries which are unable to regulate themselves to prevent self-destruction will be regulated by the Govern- ment. Industries will be encouraged and helped to draft their own codes of fair competition, in- cluding shorter hours and higher wages; and indus- tries which are too stupid or too dishonest to co- operate voluntarily will be forced to do so by a Government license system. Of course that is putting great power in the hands of the Government. But we did it to win the World War. We are doing it again to win a greater war. And we are fortunate to have in Washington at this time a Government to which the people are willing to entrust such powers. Although the Industrial Recovery Act is written with a definite time limitation and as an emergency measure, it should open the way to some form of permanent national planning. The American econ- omic system probably cannot survive another plunge into the chaos and business death which has dragged down the country during the last four years. National planning is the price of survival. To President Roosevelt the nation is indebted for the leadership which has made possible the industrial recovery measure. Inquirer.) time that its privacy as a bank has been invaded.— (Indianapolis News.) No, sir. We didn't get in on Mr. Morgan's ground floor. We are still in somebody's cellar.— (Dallas News.) Bet Uncle Andy Mellon gets a good laugh everylon Saturday by the crew of the the supply goes are exports and carry-over. As the time Secretary Woodin has to deny a resignation|u. 8. s, Kingfisher for a trip Mendenhall Glacier. rumor —(Toledo Blade.) . J. P. Morgan and Company may feel by this returning to Mooseheart, Illinois. SYNOPSIS: No mearer @ solu- tion of the two murders that have ocourred n their small French hotel, and the two attempts on his own life, Jim Sundean confers with David Lorn, a detective. They agree the evénts are part of an at- tempt to secure the token by means 0{ which Sue Tally must claim her share of her father's huge fortune. Lorn and Sundeau separate, and after wmaking sure mo guests are abroad in the house Sundean searches it carefully. Suddenly he discovers that he is being stealihily tollowed, Chapter 31 2 EYES IN THE DARK T WAS as if some ghost had taken a fancy to haunt my footsteps— disturbed possibly by my intrusion into his rightful domain, for if ever a place looked haunted it was that rambling old hotel. And then [ felt a presence more definitely. And I'd no sooner real- Ized it than, out of the tail of my syes, I caught a sort of movement on the lower gallery. It was only a flicker, and it was gone, though I leaned far out to look. Yet, Madame Grethe, Mrs. Byng, and Sue were still in the parlor, and [ took the pains to walk to the ele- vator shaft whence I had a view of a part of the lobby and could see Lovschiem still bending over his desk. I could not, however, see be- yond the door to the bar, so the only alternative was the suspicion that Father Robart was my ghostly companion. I had become, by that time, very circumspect in my actions, and I took greater caution about opening doors into supposedly empty rooms and was careful not to outline my- seil against any windows, thus pro- viding a target. Had I needed warning, which 1 did not, the silent, dark little eleva tor hanging there at the ground floor would have supplied it. But, as I say, 1 was little wiser, and the one definite clue—which 1 was not, as a matter of fact, at all certaln was actually a clue—was as impalpable and ghostly as was the teeling of a menacing presence stalking the dim-stretching corri- dors with me, just out of my sight and reach. I found it when I visited the two rooms, thirty-four and thirty-five; from the window of one of the two [ had caught that wild glimpse of a haggard and terrible face. The face which I refused to belleve was Sue, which she herself unwittingly de- nied, and which still was so like— so terribly like her face, with the square-cut hair framing it, page- like. Neither of the rooms appeared to have been occupied for some time They were both cold and unaired and musty. It was only accident that 1 took my way across the heavy carpet of the latter, and go- ing to the window, pulled back its curtain and squinted In an effort to see through the slits in the shutters in order to discover just how much of the second-floor corridor, direct- ly opposite and across the court, the watcher’s gaze could have en- compassed. I realized at once that I couldn’t see through the shutters satis! torily and was reaching out my hand to pull back the doors of the window and properly unlatch the shutter when my hand arrested ft- self in the very act. The shining glass was cold; the shutters behind it dark. My breath against the glass bad misted a small patch, and fn that little patch suddenly 1 saw very clearly the whorled Imprint of fingertips. Four of them and a thumb. They were very clear, sharply definite. They were spread as it the hand had pressed heavily against the glass..And they were small and slender. No man’s hand had made them. F(VE small fingerprints. The ques- tion was, When had they been made? And, more urgently, Who had made them? The possible significance of the little prints—prints that with a breath and a touch of my cuff | could everlastingly destroy—drew my attention from my surround: ings. ) Fortunately the door creaked. I've often wondered what might have happened it it had not creaked. Things might have been very differ: ent. But it was old and hadn’t bren opened and closed much in its last years, and the hinge creaked. I'm sure 1 saw the door mo=e I'm sure I caught the glint of a ing high-light In that dorkish Then I flung toward it open, and was I Thera was, howo o, dinitiess and nius inglv shadow The White Codkatoo by Mignon G. Eberharp’ pet winding past blank doors. Nom-‘, ing. 5 1 And, as it proved, those ghostly, little fingerprints had never a need| to be photographed and ticketed and carefully documented. They served thejr purpose wholly in their own ghostly fashion and added their own small link to the gradually accumulating sequence of the chain that was so strangely woven and was in the end so dread- fully like a noose. The incident of the door had final Iy convinced me of the folly of lin- gering unatmed about those dark stretches of halls and untenanted rooms, and I returned speedily to the second floor and to my own room. < Once there, in the welcome light, with the shutters open to their full- est, I convinced myself once and for all that the clumsy, enormous ward- robe was merely an enormous, clumsy wardrobe and nothing else, and that there was no secret or hid- den entrance to my room. With an aching shoulder 1 emerged into the corridor. It was dusk by that time, and I had an im- pression of lights in the court be low. I knew, now, the general plan of | the hotel; I knew the locations of the various tenanted rooms; all on the second floor. I had not, it is true, penetrated the storerooms in the wing below my own room; the time had been too short. I knew that the switch box was exactly where Mrs. Byng had told me it was, and that she could scarcely have failed to recognize Sue. I knew that the priest’s room was off an intersecting corridor not far trom the angle where I'd caught & disturbing glimpse of a moving shadow on the previous night. And 1 knew about the fingerprinte which I had not destroyed. ESIDE me was the door intc the White Salon. I had opened the door, | remembered, in the dark ness of the night when the odor of tobacco smoke had roused me. | opened it agai and stepped inside The shutters were closed, and ip the dusk I could see little. I founc and pressed the switch, but there was no bulb in the high, ornate¢ erystal chandelier. As my eyes adjusted themselves to the gray gloom, however, I coul¢ make out objects—carved arm chairs and sofas, and a heavy gil mirror above a large fireplace, anc | in one corner a great plano tha! | loomed up darkly, so large tha! there was a sort of cavern o : shadow under ft. | The Pope’s piano, undoubtedly Its dark unwieldiness and the look of waiting that an old piano al ways has—as if it were patlently pwaiting for the hands that had onct touched it—gave the last touch o morose somberness to the room. I went out hurriedly, closing the door sharply behind me to shut ir that waiting plano and those walt ing chairs, and I wished the dimly cavernous White Salon with fts musty air and its silence were at ¢ happier distance from my owr room. Momentarily I paused in the long varrow corridor with its close¢ doors on one side and ‘ts glass wal on the other to look, as somehow I always did pause to look, dowr into the court and over the whole sweep of surrounding windows anc encircling walls. Lights were on in the lobby. The light was already swaying unde: | the entrance arch, and thus above the gate that was not yet closed Two policemen were in the court buddled under their capes and lean Ing against the inner wall, whict Lovschiem and Grethe were fr he lobby. I could see into the par lor, since the light was shining there and the window facing the court yet unshuttered: Mrs. Byng and Sue were still there. 1 turned and walked along the north corridor, turned into the main section of the hotel, and started again toward the corridor running to the elevator. The whole upstalrs was silent 20 YEARS AGO Prom The Empire R R Jack Hayes, superintendent for the Alaska Road Commission in Mariposa from Haines after mak ing a hasty trip over the Chikat country. He was pleased that Col. W. P. Richardson had decided to been detailed to come to Juneau to Mayor C. W. Carter, who in semi- private life was manager of the C. 'W. Young Tigers, was intrusted to make the arrangements for an excursion and two baseball games at Skagway next Sunday. He wired J. M. Tanner of Skagway: “How are arrangements con ing along? Wire answer.” He reccived the fol- lowing answer: “All arrangemenis made. Chicken housss locked and police force doubled. Come.” signed ‘Tanner. The Comercial Club met for the purpose of arranging for the re- ception and entertainment of the excursion party of the Alaska Bu- 1eau of the New Seattle Chamber of Commerce which was to leave Seattle on June 21. It was decided to have the band down to meet the excursionists and to devote all the possible resources toward making their stay pleasant. Toward this end, President John Reck appointed a very large reception committee containing representatives from all professions and many business men. Al Gurr, who was to have the | management of the new bank in ‘Douglas, was expected to arrive in the evening from the south. The new building was to be finished and the institution opened and do- ing business by August 1. .- A train, a mile long, arrived in Seward from Anchorage recent- ly, with 77 cars, oil cars, flats, box cars and nearly every variety in the long train. | ORPHEUM ROOMS | | Steam Heated. Rates by day, | | week or month. Near Commer- | cial Dock, foot of Main St. | | Telephone 396 Bessie Lund | . — | RUSSIAN BATHS | | The Green Building | Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, | Saturday from 1 pm. to 1 am. | GASTINEAU AVENUE | . or . McCAUL MOTOR | COMPANY | Dodge and Plymouth Dealers | 3 | Ll & I Smith Electric Co. ) | Gastinesu Bullding | ‘ ELECTRICAL .1 JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the BIG VALUES @ e——————— | JUNEAU-YOUNG Funeral Parlors Liconsed Funcral Directers and Embalmers { Night Phone 1861 Day Phone 13 B ——————————————— t— - and deserted and unbelievahly empty. My footsteps made no sound on the carpeted corridor. Thus it was, | suppose, that as | passed the closed door to Sue's room 1 distinet: Iv h=a~1 someone moving about be &6 1 A t be Sue, beeause o “2en her sitting there o " G Bherhart) startling dis- SUPREME AUDITOR OF MOOSE, AND WIFE LEAVE Archy Ratcliff, Supreme Lodge Auditor of the Lqval Order of Moose, and his wife, who arrived For barroom barytones working on a 3.2 maxi-|ere on the northbound trip of mum of inspiration “The Road to Mandalay” is a|the Yukon, left for Haines on the mighty difficult geographical stretch.—(Philadelphia [Steamer Alaska. Mr. Rateliff will audit all of the Alaska lodge's of the Moose before —_—————— KINGFISHER CREW CHARTERS BUS FOR GLACIER EXCURSION ¢ o One of the large busses of the Channel Bus Line, was to ‘William “Little Bill” Johnston, former national singles tennis champion, sell stocks and bonds in San Francisco and only occa- sionally takes a whirl at the court game. | PEERLESS BREAD Always Good— Always Fresh “Ask Your Grocer” SABIN’S Everything in Furnishinge for Men the First Division, returned on the| look into the matter of the Sheep | reek road. Lieut. Eggerton had| investigate the problem. ) [ | PROFESSIONAL | | Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSI Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics, | 307 Goldsteln Buflding . | Phone Office, .216 ! L. { { DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building M PHONE 56 M Hours 9 am. to 9 p.m. + J Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST B(Oms 8 and 9 Valentine Building ‘Telephone 176 1 | | Dr:_:ll5 W. Bayne Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. office hours, § am. to 5 p.m. Evenings by appointment | Phone 321 i Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 3 pm. S1IWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. thone 276 1 | | Dr. Richard Williams | DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE | Gastineau Building, Phone 481 ws Robert Simpson Opt. D. | Qraduate Angeles Coi- | lege of Optometry and | Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground | o —. DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Optometrist—Optician | Eyes Examined—Glasses Pitted Room 7. Valentine Bldg. | Office Pmone 484; Residence | Phone 238, Office Hours: 9:30 | to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 e ——— 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 259 ALLAMAE SCOTT Expert Beauty Specialist PERMANENT WAVING Phone 218 for Appointment Entrance Pioneer Barber Shop T 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 TYPEWRAITERS J. B. Burford & Co. customers” Juneau 2 The B. M. Behrends Bank BANKERS SINCE 1891 Alaska Strong—Progressive—Conservative We cordially invite you to avail yourselves of our facilities for handling your business. -J [ — B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 5 brothers welcome. ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. —_— KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Transient brothers urg- #d to attend. Chambers, Fifth Stree:. S — . N Our trucks go any place any | -lpt-nlumdeoll-n\ L JUNFAU TRANSFER Fraternal Societies F Gastineau Channel | | p. m. Visiting 4 W. Turoff, Exalt- Seghers Council No. 1760. leetings second and last onday at 7:30 p. m. Councll JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER. Secretary ur time. A tank for Diesel Oil | barner trouble. 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