The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1934, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA’EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1934, into paper mone, Daily Alaska Empire - AGER | the volume of th of the country ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL Published every evening except Sunday by EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANT at Second and ; Streets, Juneau, Alasks. { " The result, of ittt s s R O 2. 0 K M oo TSP l Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class | stock of the cou F o from the public SUBSORIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.! Balaar the following rates mall, postage pald, at the follot rates: Ollzyyenr. mD advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, In advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery o eir papers. " Teiephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. ‘ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEL, PRESS. The Assoclated Press 1s exclusively entitied to tk nse for republication of news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the focal news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION, promptly ceased Authorities in will not be true will continue to real significance, ing the normal more money backlog of monet. a more efficient l;my of them are | (New DEVALUED DOLLARS AND ALA TOURIST |now chief of the There may not seem at first any connection with President Roosevelt’s monetary ])olx(-)e.s and A]aslfa tadti>an wany pu tours, but probably one of the major factors in| : the reported interest in them, said to be the keenest | for many years, is the devalued dollar. A few | years back, before money sort of dxsnppeax'ed,‘ American tourists flocked across the Atlantic and | ‘ spent their dollars in European countries where they were worth a great deal more than they were |marginal lands at home. American students went abroad more |the future. The readily then than now because American money |Objective. went further in Farls. and other cenlcrs»nhan it RN BRve Deen did in New York, Chicago or San Francisco. In| .. ocide ag game refuges. 1927, for instance, an American in France could part were bought before obtain a franc for two cents, now it takes almost six and three-fourths cents. It was a halcyon sum- mer in 1927 and a year or two thereafter for American tourists in Europe, and not a few French- men and others were offended by the disrespectful way in which they handled paper currencies. Now the case is reversed, and while a “cheaper” Darling, who kn currency and bank credit, and eredit In the making of these projected of war propaganda by the makers of munitions, it might be a good idea to see at‘the same time if Chief Darling yearns for 17,000,000 acres. that a part, at least, of this may be obtained with the carrying out of the program of withdrawing ;of Americans are converting old jewelry and trinkets y. When the volume of gold com- of American homes is more than double e new gold coming out of the mines we have a monetary phenomencn M| of considerable significance. course, is to increase the monetary ntry. A similar flow of scrap gold to the mint in England reached o0 large proportions after October, 1931, when the London Government left the gold standard but very to be a factor of importance the United States predict that this here, that the market for old gold boom. Some venture to prophesy that the total of scrap gold to come out of hiding will reach an aggregate of one billion dollars. If so the credit and currency b: will be augmented to a degree that will command of the country With $1,000,000,000 more of mone- tary gold the credit structure of the country can be expanded by $10. 000,000,000, perhaps without chang- rclationship of monetary gold to As economic life improves, will be needed, and this ary gold may be needed, even with use of existing st investigations subsidizing Dillinger. | More Puddles for Ducks. York Herald Tribune.) Bven though Jay Darling, famous cartoonist and Biological Survey, may not achieve | his life's ambition of a puddle for every duck in the | United States, he is leaving nothing undone to ob- ddles as possible. To this end the President has just directed that $1,000,000 be placed at his disposal for the purchase and rental of lands as refuges for migratory birds and other wild life. He hopes from production. But that is in present fund is for a more limited As such it is a good beginning. Already extensive acquired by the Government and But these for the most the New Deal. Specific appropriations were made for the purpose. Under the present system funds are allotted in connection with relieving unemployment program of public works. being killed—or rather, saved—with one stone. indication has yet been available as to where the new lands are to be acquired or rented. But Chief and carrying out a Thus three birds are No ows the traveling as well as the dollar may boost our sales of goods abroad, it eating and nesting habits of ducks, may be depended doésn’t encourage Americans to travel or live abroad. upon to see that way stations are provided wherever Conversely, some FEuropean tourists, other than|they are most needed. He calls them “travelers' b 4 h, are actually lured to this country. Thus|gaid” stations. As a matter of fact they include New York reports a recent landing of 125 on the |maternity centers and lunch counters, labeled in first “cheap dollar” excursion this way on a German |large letters “For Ducks Only.” Other wild life may, steamer for a four-day stay, with other such Lours’ to follow. Foreign funds that used to mean $85 w command $144. Hence, Eourpeans now make up 42 per cent of ocean passenger lists as against seven per cent last year. But Americans are not about to quit the habit of having a summer or winter tour. Florida last winter gained at the expense of Spain, France and Biological Survey (New Stubbornness however, also find sanctuary in these regions. are assured of the beneficent protection of the new quality in a Tammany boss. All chief Were Are Tammany's Best? York World-Telegram.) may, on occasions, seem a useful But not when his hold Italy, and her hotels had one of th" most active on the Tammany leadership gets down to the and prosperous seasons on record. Similarly, New narrow margin of one-half of one vote England summer resorts are booking more guests Supporters of John F. Curry who urge him to for the next few months than for several Years.|upe game" by refusing to quit till he’s fired are { The fact that the dollar is now “worth” more at|doing neither Mr. Curry nor the organization a home than it is abroad is largely credited with|service. Leadership that depends on the fraction this new prosperity. That it is just as much alof a vote has ceased to be leadership. A boss should factor in reviving tourist traffic here can hardly inot be the last to know when he’s through. be doubted. We are surprised these present Tammany ructions are replacement. REAPPEARING GOLD. The increase in the price of gold from $20.67 an ounce to $35 was expected, among other things, to produce an important rise in the volume of gold output at existing mines and stimulate the search for and development of new mines. It is doing both qf these things and as a result many more people are employed in gold mining, refining and “prospecting. But the most astonishing result of the higher gold price is the volume of scrap gold which is pouring into the coffers of the Government. Something like $4,000,000 Wworth of scrap or secondary gold is sold each week to the mints and assay ofices. This is more than double the output of newly mined domestic gold. Licenses have been issued to thousands of persons to buy scrap gold from the public and resell it to the Government. Stimulated by the efforts of these licensees and by the higher price, many millions PTHC T PR LTy GOSN, Strange that Mr. Surrogate James lations, however, formerly did RE}IEPTION TO BE BISHOP P. T. ROWE Bishop Peter Trimbie Rowe will| grest all of his old friends and | the Hospital Day dance to be held meet many new ones this evening|at the Elks Hall on Saturday night at an informal public reception under the auspites of the Hospital which will be held at the Episcopal | Guild. Deanery on Gold Street by the| This dance will be the wind-up members of Trinity Guild. The of the annual Hospital Day ob- hours are from 8 o'clock until 11|servances and will also practically o'clock and the public of Gastineau) conclude the spring dances which Channel is cordially invited. Dean|have furnished such delightful en- and Mrs. C. E. Rice will receive! tertainment this season. with Bishop Rowe. Many dinner and buffet sug}:er rties bei lanned for Sat- Bishop Rowe is making his an- fidfll; ev:::inzm‘ which the’ par- nual visit to the Episcopal parlshes‘ ticipants will attend the gala af- of Southeast Alaska and will bel g, a¢ the Eiks hall and dance to in Juneau for a few days before!| ., " ¢ of Freddie Gilman’s continuing to Skagway and Haines. | Troubadour Orchestra. ¥ He returned on the.seaplane Bar— Hospital day is an anfiual affair + anof early this week from Sitkal .,.i" s observed in ‘every part of where he spent a week visiting the| ;¢ country and many other parts church and parish in that city. | o the world. A large crowd is an- Head of the Alaska diocese Of|fcipated at the dance to be given the Episcopal Church, Bishop here on Saturday night. Rowe has been making annual trips| . to the Territory for nearly 40 vears| - and has covered thousands of miles LEE JOHNSON ENTERS by steamer, dog team, airplane and‘ ST. ANN'S HOSPITAL every other means of travel used| in Alaska. His friends throuzhou!i Lee Johnson entered St. Ann's country are numbered nmoflg‘Hospral last evening for medical thousands and include people! attention. Mr. Johnson is a hali- of every color and creed | but fisherman. . After visiting Haines and Skag-l > - “way, Bishop Rowe will return to MICHAEL NASH LEAVES the States to prepare for the long| HOSPITAL FOR HOME y through the Mackenzie( —_— Yukon River and northern; Michael Nash, of Windham Bay, western: Alacka districts which | who entered St. Ann's Hospital will make this summer visiting two weeks ago for medical care, Episcopal mission and parish.;left the hospital this morning. DAY DANCE SATURDAY Elaborate plans are completed for : ee— v e i ifi!fl 50 conspicuously Curry's downfall a word should be heard from Tammany's Big Three —Alfred E. Smith, Senator Robert F. Wagner and Has Tammany been abandoned by biggest and best? HELD TONIGHT FOR (ATTEND HOSPITAL! negative—ouster rather than Now, if ever, would seem the time for the better element in Tammany to be putting forward a new type of leader representative of the larger Democracy and capable of making Tammany an asset instead of a liability to the Democratic Party. in a situation involving not only but Tammany's future not A. Foley! its ablest, Secretary Ickes suggests that guests at Washing- ton dinner parties be deaf and dumb. Recent reve- seem to indicate that all some of them need to add to their present equipment is the deaf part of it.—(Boston Herald.) A depression is when two live cheaper than one (Ohio State Journal.) MOTHERS’ DAY ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON A ritual service honoring Moth- ers’ Day will be given by the local Elks' Lodge in the lodge room Sunday, May 13, at 2 o'clock in the according to an an- I\ail.ernoon. | Foster of the committee | charge. Not only lodge members but the general public as well is invited Dean C. E. Rice will make the address for the Mothers’ Day ob- servance. in - eee {TYEE TO VISIT HERE; SEA SCOUTS COMING Another visit of the Sea Scout flagship, Tyee Scout, is scheduled to arrive in Juneau sometime in the latter part of June, repeating the visit which it made last sum- mer. Stuart P, Walsh, Chief Scout Executive, will be in charge of the expedition, which will leave Seattle June 18, to return July 6. ‘The boys will visit Prince Rupert, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg and Juneau. The party will be composed of 24 select Scouts, an Alaska pilot, and a cook. > The Alaska Air Express sea- plane Pioneer went to Petersburg last night with passengers. ‘While in Petersburg the Pioneer made a chartered flight to Wran- gell. The plane will take off at noon tomorrow . for Sitka, Hoonah, Tenakee .and Angoon. nouncement made today by Frank | | | | M SYNOPSIS: wealthy contract Pierre 01 b Dufresne, v and political boss, has been ambushed on o lone- 1y rocd wear the city. He repérts the occurreice to the tocal police and then to Director of Police Cone nors. who is much verturbed. Mean- while Dufrcsne has made a sy chaige in a bid for a certain large contract, Chapter Three DEFENSE PLANS CONNORS abruptly changed the trend of the conversation “Where was Markison while all this was going on?” he demanded. “It wasn't Markison’s fault, He left the Austerlitz with me this morning and rode as far as the Old Pike Road. Everything was qulet, and | didn’t see any necessity for his tagging at my heels all day, so | dropped him there, | had taken Mrs Dufresne’s car and no one but she knew where | was going. No one,| not even myself, knew what time | would be coming back. Of course,” he added, thoughtfully, “this may be just a coincidence and have nothing to do with the crank letters, but i looks as if those bullets had my initials on them.” Connors nodded and picked up the telephone. “Tell Markison and Bar- ry to report to me at once,” he or- dered. Then he leaned back, chew- | BY WALTER C. BROWN detective nodded emphatically “That’s true, Chief.” Connors snorted and leaned for- ward over the desk, punctuating his remarks with vicious jabs of the un- lighted cigar. “Well, you're dead wrong, Markison. And you, too, Bar- ry. Somebody has been tracking Mr. Dufresne. That same somebody fired three bullets into his car this afternoon. “It's a miracle he wasn't killed. No one but you two and Mrs. Du- | fresne knew about this trip before- nand, so it stands to reason this fellow was on the job—and too otht | smart for you | “Now, get this, and get it straight. We're going to protect Mr. Du- fresne if we have to turn out half | the Force to do it Get together all the men you need to throw a cordon around him. Take no chances. Strike | out along every line of inquiry you can think of. “Barry, you take charge of these arrangements. You have a free hand, | and I'll back you to the limit, but pick out men who know what it's all about. Markison, I'm putting Mr. Dufresne’s personal safety directly in your hands. You hang on like a shadow and keep your eyes open. There i3 some one and it's up to us to catch him! “Get busy now, for Mr. Dufresne ing on his cigar. “Now, give me all | wants to get back to the Austerlitz. S “Now give me the details of the shooting.” the details about this shooting,” he suggested. Dufresne recounted the meager details of the mysterious attack. “As you know, Jim,” he continueds “Markison has been trailing around with me for a week. And knowing that these anonymous penmen sel dom try to carry out their threats, 1 went about my business as usual “When my wife and 1 came back to the city last autumn, we delayed opening the house Mrs. Dufresne took a notion to have some of the rooms re-furnished. She has been visiting some cousins out in the sub urbs, while I put up at the Auster: litz as a matter of convenience. “I've had a heavy round of visits up-State. Yesterday I decided to sce Gridley about that Lee County job I called up Mrs. Dufresne before I started this morning. You h heard what happened on the back.” To all seeming, the Director of Police was more upset and con cerned over this attempted murder than the man who had so narrowly escaped death. Dufresne was too im portant a man, both financiall d politically, not to warrant every ef. fort being made to protect his per- sonal safety. ‘WO of the Detective Burcau's best men had already been de tailed on this affair after Dufresne had produced his series of crank letters. The result had been entire. ly negative. But now that this threat had materialized in a lethal aspect, something drastic must be done, re- gardless of the difficulties surround- ing the tracking down of this type of lawlessness. Presently Connors’ secretary ush. ered in the two plainclothesmen They saluted their Chief and waited expectantly. Dufresne exchanged nods with them, then lit a fresh cigarette and withdrew to the win- dow. “Markison,” Connors began, “you've trailed Mr. Dufresne for a week, or close to it. What have you to report?” “Nothing, sir,” the detective an swered, readily enough. “I'll swear there was no one following him about while 1 was on the job. I've divided time with Barry, here, and he'll tell you the same.” The second And while you're downstairs, take a look at that car. Perhaps the bullet holes will convince you!” After the crestfailen detectives had withdrawn to augment their forces, Dufresne came back to the desk and impatiently crushed out the stub of his cigarette, “Those fellows are not up to this job,” he declared. “They're too thick mentally, their ideas are muscle bound. Probably they're still uncon- vinced, because they didn’t see any thing. The reason is obvious— they're just the common garden va- riety of ‘gumshoe.’ Their me’" nds are hallmarked. Even a half-witted criminal could see them coming a block away. “PEFORE I can feel safe again, Jim, 1 must have a man who won't waste time looking for false whiskers hiding behind trees. Can’t you dig up a man I can take around with me without having him arouse suspicion or derision? Some one who can move about in evening clothes in places like the Austerlitz without looking like a musical com- edy waiter? This thing may drag on for weeks and I can’t have a riot squad picketed wherever I am.” Markison returned to indicate that the revised preparations were in readiness. Duiresne picked up his hat and overcoat and silently fol- lowed his bodyguard from the office. After he had gone, Connors tilted back and forth in his swivel chair, while he looked thoughtfully out at the falling snow. Coming to a decision, he lifted the telephone receiver. “Get me Homi- cide,” he ordered, and in a moment he had his connection. “Director Connors sp2aking. Put on Sergeant Harper—" The chair creaked back and forth as he waited. “Hello, Harper? . .. Say, Harper, have you got a dress suit? ... No, I'm not joking Tuxedo? Sure, that'll fill the bil . Come on over, Harper, and I'll tell you about this soup-and-fish job.” He listened to the Detective-Sergeant’s response and chuckled. “No, this is the real thing. I'll tell you about it when you get here. .. .” (Copyright. 1934, by Walter C. Brown) Tomorrow, Harper has dinner under strange circumstances. The W hite Ray Oil Burner FOR STOVES AND RANGES Will positively burn oil with a clean white flame. Absolutely no soot. See This Burner In Operation Harri Machine Shop Plumbing Heating Sheet Metal — 20 YEARS AGO ‘From The Empire —— MAY 10, 1914 The elaborate entertainment pre- sented by the Camp Fire girls the previous evening at the Elks' Hali attracted a large crowd which re- ceived the playlets and specialties with enthusiasm. The Bluebirds youngest group to appear, gave “The Song of the* Planets,” in rwhich Fay Thane, Francis Nowell, Irene Nelson, Eva Tripp, Virginia Shattuck, Nettie Larson, Nadja | Kashevaroff, Marjory Renison, Betty Ward, Marion Belle Pond, Margaret Shattuck, Jean Stevens, Lucille Bathe, Madeline Valentine, Venetia Pugh and Geraldine Mc- Laughlin took part. Dr. Robert Simpson, who had| been away in Ketchikan on pro-; fessional business, was returning on the Mariposa. | Letters had been received by thei Mayor and The Empire from D.| A. Grant, secretary of the ce!e-', bration committee of White Horse| inviting all of the people of Ju-| neau to attend the celebration of the King’s birthday on May 30. | { | | Much interest was being shown in the play “The Man From| { Home"” by Booth Tarkington, to be | presented at the new Juneau Theatre under the auspices of the | Ladies’ Guild of Trinity Episcopal| church within a few days. Tick-| et reservations were going so rap-| idly that a sold out house was as- | sured. Baseball fans were disappointed when the first game of the season of 1914 schedule between the Doug- las-Treadwell and Juneau-Gasti- | neau baseball teams, was postpon- ed on account of rain. However g| |red hot game was played between | the C. W. Young company’s Tigers and a pick-up team known as the| | Darkhorses. The line-up of the ‘Tigers was Frye, Cornell, Dermody, | Wright, Harris, Woodard, Smith, | Fraser, Sandstrom and J. McBride. Worth, Shepard, Conway, Mahar, | Hoffman, Terry, Fairchild, Zott, | Blackburn, Lowland and Wurz- | bacher. | A. T. Spatz, manager and pro- | prietor of the Spatz Cafe, had b Dr. Richard Williams | made some decided improvements in his popular restaurant by hav- ing a new hallway leading direct- ly to the street from the ladies’ ! dining room and the interior en- | tirely rearranged and redecorated. | The ice went out of the Chena | slough at Fairbanks, | River at Chena and the Yukon| | river at Dawson and the Iditarod | rivers the previous day. The Turner Street bridge was carried out at | Fairbanks as usual. The previous day, W. A. Hesse | took a motion picture of the Alas- |ka Gastineau Mining company’s | | big concrete dam construction at Mr. Hesse was the well-known dep- | uty U. S. Mineral land surveyor | who had jumped into the motion picture game a year ago and the preceding year had succeeded in | getting some fine films of Mt. Katmai in eruption. | Weather for the preceding 24 hours was clear with a maximum | temperature of 62 degrees and a minimum of 44. ATTENTION The De Molay Dance which was | The Darkhorses lineup was Janus, | § T TOTEM MARKET | the upper basin of Salmon Creek.| ! scheduled for the 11th has been postponed until May 18th. I I PROFESSIONAL Helene W. L. Albrecht | YHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 | Rose A. Ardrews Graduate Nurse Electrioc Cabinet Baths—Mas | sage, Colonic Irrigations Office hours 11 am. to 5 pm. | Evenings by Appointment Second and Main Phone 259 S —_— E. B. WILSON Chiropodist—Foot Specialist 401 Goldstein Building | PHONE 496 DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 8 am. to 9 pm. i Phone 321 % - = B — | Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground | —hid Ne, C. P. Jenn DENTIST Rooms § and 9 Valentine Building Telephone 176 Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Ofice nours, 8 am. to 5 pm. £venings by appolntment, 1 Robert Simpson I Opt. 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