The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 23, 1933, Page 4

{ e T T 1T B * Telephone 577 4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1933. Dail Alaska Empire THE SPREAD OF CONFIDENCE. y The spread of confidence is visible everywhere, | GENERAL MANM}ER‘Gone is the spirit of defeatism, gone is the fear —of chaos. Business is pouring in from so many ROBERT W. BENDER - except NY at ning IMP. " Published MPIRE PRI Juneau, TING Alask of buoyancy. Metropolitan stores, which three weeks ago, had Inot felt the industrial and speculative surge, are now doing a splendid trade. The best-known de- partment store in the country announces the biggest Dellvered by carcier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By il, postage paid, at the following rates: Hlv’ m.::, uf m\imp 00; six months, in advance, |unit volume thus far in June on record. The public $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. - " Subscribers donrii” n tavoe i, ity WAlL DRIy | ey are DOW BOSSChInG: notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity The lift in commodity and security prices has e o Eliorial and Business Offices, 374, , |Deen so extensive as to facilitate wholesale liquidation —_— ———— of frozen loans by banks and institutions. Their MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEDI PRES‘S‘." g “position is now quite healthy and a vast amount he Associated Press is exclusively entitles o the use for Tepablication of all news dispatches credited to Of funds has been released. i: K .'L"L‘-\";,I::i;ifi’)::-}x'1‘.:‘:]:»([;3 in this paper and also the The Administration is apparently quite sincere and determined in its intention of assisting farm ALASbfrILA%'R;:’:’AL_‘AESNANGYU%’?{;ELEE?JB{?CABfiOhARGER"re]ief stll further and intends to press for acreage . & reduction. Improving the agricultural position is |bound to be stimulating to all American business. President Lewis of the Juneau Water Company says we'll have 100 per cent water next winter. Oh, well! if we don’t, we can fall back on three point two beer. | Here is a nice little problem in mathematics. Three or four months ago steel operations were down to 12 per cent of capacity. After two and one- half months of three point two beer addition, steel operations have advanced to 50 per cent. | ! The new Anti-Saloon League creed: “If at first ' they don’t vote dry, try, try again.” i OGRS ALASKA’S FIRST SECRETARY. Karl Theile, who yesterday ended almost 12 years of service as Secretary of Alaska, has the distinction of having been the first to hold that (New York Times.) position. Prior to his tenure, the Surveyor General Apparently Kansas is to have no immediate of the Territor; was ex-officio Secretary. Shortly chance to vote on repeal. Her Attorney General after he succeeded R. J. Sommers, his Democratic Wwill protect her against the ravages of Three Point predecessor, mn 1921, the office ot Surveyor General Two. In The Kansas Repealist, a reprehensible was abolished. monthly that has been allowed to reach a second Mr. Theile served with distinction to himself ani " 5 s il ¥ 3::‘: ; t;e;ve;ir:dg::"B:;mw:: I:rspn e?::"ee: by tion of a Drinker, shows that, as might have been g expected, the Sunflower folk, always obsessed with President Harding, next by President Coolidge and yigent emotion, when it drinks wants violent drink. the third time by President Hoover. An Alaskan ganeas liquor “is gauged by no other standard than of long standing, he viewed questions of public jts ‘power’” For more than fifty years Dry interest from a Territorial slant, and ever advocated propagandists have educated the young to believe the things he felt for the best interests of Alaska. that liquor isn't made to drink but to get drunk on: A rock-ribbed Republican in politics, it was obvious Today’s youthful tipplers of both sexes since last November that a Democrat would succeed ~ drink solely to get drunk. him after the advent of the Roosevelt Administra-' SO did their elders’ If they were thirsty they tion. Had the Republicans continued in power, they Partook as adolescents of stuff that would have had its proper use as “paint remover.” In time Mr. could have done no better than to have continued 4 him in office, and probably a great deal worse by Dewey learned civilized habits. In his wanderings 2 about the world he found that he was a wine- failing to. drinker. Strong waters lost their flavor. Deprived Mr. Theile, in leaving public office, does 80 of the caress of sherry, “the enchanting tang of with the friendship of Republican and Democrat claret,” he has no heart or palate for the native alike, All of them wish him success and prosperity and normal delirious potions— ‘white mule,” that as he assumes active control of nis salmon canning kicks further than Apollo ever darted, and business in Wrangell. It is gratifying to know that cheap corn liquor with a potency by volume he and his family will continue to reside in Juneau.| equivalent to an equal solution mixed of laudanum, hasheesh, Hostetter's Bitters, | ether and gasoline. LET'S CELEBRATE AS USUAL. | Mr. Dewey, true to wine, forgets the mitigat- _— ing beer. In spite of the Attorney General, “there With the Fourth ot July just ahead, let's give is hardly a town of any consequence in which 3.2 the American Legion and the Chamber of Commerce beer cannot be bought today,” says another writer. Marion 'Ellet complains that “a bunch of Prohibi- a hand in making this year's celebration just as big R and as eventful as ever, even though financial tion drunks on a road near Topeka almost crashed into a peaceable beer party coming on from Kansas resources available are about 80 jper cent less than City.” Kansas do move. At State after State votes normal. After all, money is not the most important {; strike the Eighteenth Amendment out of the thing about these occasions. We must have some Constitution, may not some thought of revenue of it, but plenty of cooperation will overcome appar- thrown away pierce that head so long bent, as the ent shortages. State motto puts it, on getting to the stars through And there is real cause for celebrating this year, rough going? ‘We are on the upgrade. Business is improving every- where. Work is starting up not only here but throughout the country. Jobs are being created now and the rate will be multiplied many times as the season advances. The salmon canning season Is, under way. Hundreds of men idle for long weary months have been enrolled in Emergency Conservn-l tion Work Camps. . Sawmills are running again. Logging camps are operating. The tourist season is opening and steamers are bringing them north in respectable numbers even at this date. There is a possibility of having a destroyer or two in 'port for the occasion. So let's make it a real jollification. There's foot racing for the kids, jumping, bicycle races and lots Energetic Kansas Drink. An unimportant man is one who has not been mentioned as being on the Morgan bargain list.— (Ohio State Journal) As indicated by the States which thus far have voted on repeal, the question is not whether this country is wet, but how wet.—(Buffalo Courier-Ex- press.) i Now that they've started kidnaping folks from the bathroom, the moral is always lock the door before you hop into the tub.—(Ohio State Journal. Mr. Morgan explains that he paid an income tax in England because the law made him pay. q humber in the perfect Commonwealth, Mr. Ernest; of Dewey, recording his own experience as “The Evolu-lan unknown and, till very lately, of other sports. Ball games, too, add to the day. There are lots of fireworks in town. With just a modicum of help, such as lots of automobiles for| gometimes it would almost seem that in the the parade, flags for the youngsters, the American American definition a taxpayer is any guy who Legion boys in charge can make it an old fashioned isn't smart enough to get out of doing it.—(Boston Fourth of July. Herald.) QUALITY BAKERY BARGAINS for SATURDAY ASSORTED CREAM PIES, large Now are you satisfied?—(Washington Post.) LATEST SWIM CAPS MADE TO FIT CINNAMON ROLLS, dozen Keeps Water Out OUR FAMOUS TOMATO ROLLS, dozen . .. Juneau Drug Co. “The Corner Drug Store” SPONGE LAYERS, each (Delicious for Shortcakes - JUNEAU BAKERY _FRONT STREET , We Deliver SYNOPSIS: Kapin old French hutil 1. scene of Lo yhustly 1o Sundean an 4 third body crum of a huge olil pla for Sue's saletu. vi wid Lorn the detectioe wurders are conne ol to her fathor s 'l had beew a ghoxtly ol 1ew dean lifted the wioio ld Chapter 34 FATHER ROBART'S END T WAS quite naturaliy the priest's death that brought things to their ¢limax, that was in” itseit-the: beginning of that preordained . dé nouement. For it was, of course, the body of the erstwhile priest that we found that morning, huddled and crowded foi its black robes in the depth of the coffin-like piano. It was the priest, and he had been poisoned, and the poison, said the commis- saire, wiser now, was again nico- tine. There was a small puncture in the skin of his right arm, and the poison, it appeared, and Lorn agreed with the police when he told me of it, had been administered quickly and deftly with a needle. it was, added Lorn more dryly than usual, a very quick-action poison. The priest would have had practical- 1y no time to call for help. It was to be expected, too, that the murder of the priest would sharply deny my previous calcula- tions. Everything, to my mind, bad pointed toward. the priest’s guilt. But now he himself was a victim to the insensate plan thdt reckoned murder, and murder by polson, only a counter. The first murder had been that of unidentifiable man. The second mur- der had been that of a waiter— shocking enough as a crime, it's true, but still Marcel had been in the eyes of the world a person of little importance. And his death had been considered, and rightly, 1 thought, to have been induced by, and a result of, the first murder. But the murder of a priest—that was different—even though he might prove to be only a mas- queraded priest. It was not only the fact of a third murder in a few days that roused the town and the police to a higher pitch of excitement and energy. There was also the fact that it proved that the murderer had es-' caped all efforts of the police to dis- cover his identity, and that he felt 80 secure in his safety that he dared another brutal murder under thelr very noses. It there had been few clues about the first murder and only my own evidence, which was little enough to go on in the case of Marcel’s death, there were no clues at all for the third. The priest was dead by poison and had been dead for from seven to elghteen hours, and that was all they knew. L The police sent promptly to far- away Paris for assistance; from something Lorn said, I believe there had been in the town one of those subterranean political wars brewing which had previously interven and determined the commlssaire to settle the matter it it was possible without help. s UT the third murder proved too much for his faith in himself end his wish to inspire his political opponents with a sense of his own ability. Or perhaps it was the pres- sure of public opinion that grew too great for him. % He also temporarily increased his force, so that instead of our being simply clapped into jall we were, to all practical purposes, held pris- oners by the numerous guards which surrounded the hotel and overflowed into the courtyard and rambled uneasily through the cor ridors and went to the kitchen. There Paul supplied them with such grequent drinks that there wera several occasions, I'm sure, when, 1if the murderer had popped up under their noses like a rabbit and de- clared his identity, they might as readily have welcomed him as s comrade as have given chase. It s perhaps not strange, under the circumstances, that while this guard might have been supposed to act as protectors as well as jallers they were not wholly successtul in either rdle, as you will see. And by the time the detectives trom Paris arrived the thing had already marched to its swift and violent ending. E The intervening time seéms long in retrospect, but was very swift in experience, for we were so caught in the rapid, dangerous swirl of events that everything beyond our imme diate peril was crowded out of pur consclousness. FORMER JUNEAU MAN HONORED BY PRFSID_ENT’S WIFE When Mrs. Franklin D. Roose- velt, wife of the President, made her recent trip from Washington, D. C, to Los Angeles, she stopped:‘ for one day in Arizona. At Clark- dale, Arizona, the copper mine officials wanted to place their ap- peal before Mrs.. Roosevelt and selected Harlan Herner, brother of Mrs. Frank Garnick, to present their case. Mr. Herner was noti- fied that he could have 30 min- utes of Mrs. Roosevelt's time but S0 conclusive and interesting were arguments that-he was gran The White Codkatoo by Mignon G. Eberkart) © the tirst dazed moment fol- my grisly discovery In the wion, | realized that if Sue 1 In danger before, that dan- st now be immeasurably ) the end Sue and I both went i1 the police and tell them of 1 was there in the White Salon. . went together, for [ could not your to let her out of my sight in it menacing place. | don’t remember, that [ told ber what lay in that- black coffin, but somehow shle knew, | do remember our calling from the very landing where | had stumbled upon the dead man whose murder had ushered in {he dreadful business, to the po- liceman in the court below. And | remember how he sprang to his feet and stared up at us, and how his jaw dropped, and the blank astonishment in his face when he comprehended Sue’s rapid French. And that he had visibly to try several times before he could pucker his open mouth to give the shrill whistle. that brought two other policemen tumbling into the court and eventually up the little winding stairway to bring in thelr wake turmoil and search and in- quiry again. The whole thing couldn’t have taken more than four minutes, but it seemed at least ten. UT the thing that stands out sharply in my memory is the thing that happened on the very second preceding thelr entrance Into the White Salon. L had left Sue under their eyes on thé landing and had myself turned back into the corridor and then inte the room. 1 suppose I had ap- proached the great plano merely in \qrder to show them where the body lay, for I could hear their hurried feet on the stairway. It was only chance that I stood in such a position near the plano that a wisp of white on the carpet caught my eyes. I bent involuntarily and took in my hand a small hand- kerchief. It had been concealed from my eyes until then by a massive carved leg of the piano. It was a woman’'s handkerchlef, but it was the faint scent clinging to it that brought it upward nearer my face. 1 was a familiar scent; & faint delicate whiff of a fragrance that swiftly brought Sue to my 'mind. Then I recognized it: it was faintly like gardenias. There was no time to think, for the steps were at the open door of the White Salon. But I knew that during our moment together in the ghostly room Sue had not been near that end of the piano. “And I slipped the thing into my pocket as three blue-caped figures burst into the room, and the air began to crackle with excitement and furious questions and sputter- ing exclamations. « The whole thing was like & re- .peated nightmare with the results ithat 1 have mentioned. It was noon before I had a quiet word in the lounge with Lorn and Sue. . Lorn had, of course, turned up hot-foot at the first news of the new hhdy. And he felt, as did I, that he thing of supreme importance was to remove Sue at once from that death-ridden place. And Sue at last agreed. “I can’t stand it any longer,” said Sue. She was white and frightened and taut-lipped. “If the murders are, as you belleve, actually the result -of .a scheme to rob me of my jn- heritance, let's make an end to it. cent of the money than be even re- _motely the cause of such—such—" She shuddered and sald in a breath- less way: “It's as if I caused it all." { “Nonsense.” I sald brusquely, not Hking the look in her face or the way her little hands twisted them- ‘selves together. “You aren’t the ‘cause of thls. The cause is the scoundrel who's back of it. Don't fook like that.” “We can’t even know with cer talnty,” 1interposed Lorn dryly, “that this last murder has anything to do with your inheritance.” “Don’t put me off llke that* flashed Sue. “You know what you think, no matter what you caz prove.” “Yes,” agreed Lorn, imperturd ably. “I know what I think. There i a plot against you. The peculiarity of the terms of your identifying yourself and recelving your money practically invites such a thing. And I'm willing to admit that this—er— ptiest’s surteptitious visit to your room links him with you and yout five millions.” “Why do you think the priest was Kkilled?” asked Sue. | (Copyrioht. 1933, Mignon G. Wberhars) i N ) ' Sue determines, t pon a course of action. o :‘u m Msr: Roosevelt took nofes i id and promised the icopper situation, relative to Ari- zona, would be presented to the proper administration officials, Mr. Herner lett Juneau five or six years ago. He was connected with - the mining operations at ‘Thane and since leaving the north has been associated in an official capacity with copper companies in |the Western State, principally Ar- izona. —e—— AUTO DRIVERS. ATTENTION! All operalors’ ‘aeenses expired May 31. If you drive a ear you must have a license. Fee $1.00. A. W. HENNING, * City Clerk; | ‘Heaven knows, I'd rather lose every | 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire JUNE 23, 1913 The high school band excursion and dance that was to have been held in Sheep Creek at the new auditorium was postponed due to the fact that the large hall was not yet complete. The band- boys Mrs. J. L. Gages announced the opening of a shop of ladies ready- to-wear apparel at the corner of Main and Second Streets. All that remained to be done to the Alaska boundary survey was to mark about’ 80 jmiles of the 14lst degree of longitude in the White River and Chitina country which would be finished during the sum- mer, according to J. D. CMaig, head of the Canadian end of that work who came north to join Thomas Riggs, Jr., at Skagway, and con- tinue in with him. U. S. Marshal H. L. Faulkner said that the appropriation for transportation of prisoners had been exhausted for some time and went down to inspect the hall,| | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER which was 120 feet long by 60 feet| | DENTISTS wide and it was their united opin- | Blomgren Building | jon that it was the finest auditor- PHONE 56 jum in the North. l ! Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. 3 L Helene W. L, Albrecbt PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | 307 Goldstein Building | Phone Office, 218 & & T I Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST ReO)ms 8 and 9 Valentine | Building 1 Telephone 176 | = Dr.J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIET he has been compelled to advance from his own funds money for that purpose to the amount of $800. The program ‘at the Orpheum Theatre attracted large crowds. It included “Days of Terror,” dealing with the revolutionary period in France, in two reels; “Bronco Bil- ly's Last Holdup,” one of the An- derson mélodrama’s and “Who's To Win,” a comedy featuring John Bunny and other classy actors. ————.—— MISS MARY PULLEN TO VISIT GRANDMOTHER IN e Miss Mary Pullen passed through Juneau last evening on the Can- adian National steamer Prince George on her way to Skagway to visit her grandmother, Mrs. Har- riet Pullen, owner of the famous Pullen House -in that city. Miss Pullen, who has been teach- ing schoo! at Kodiak for the last several years, went south several weeks ago and has been visiting her family in Portland. ORPHEUM ROOMS | Bteam Heated. Rates by day, | week or month. Near Commer- | cial Dock, foot of Main St. | Telephone 396 Bessie Lund | o ° RUSSIAN BATHS | The Green Building Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, | Saturday from 1 pm. to 1 am. | GASTINEAU AVENUE | . 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