The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 15, 1934, Page 4

B - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - iR ST Daily Alaska Em pire i GENERAL MANAGER Published eve: evening _except Sunday by the EMPIRE PR!NTlIgG COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class atter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneay and Douglas for $1.26 per_month. mall, postage pald, at the following rates: Oy dvancs. $12.00; stx montha, in advance, $6.00; one month, In advance, $1.26, Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity i fhe delivery of their papers. "' Pelephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEL, PRESS, The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tk mse for republication of all news dispatches credited to % or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the wcal news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. LONGSHOREMEN’S STRIKE IS DISTURBING ¥ The current strike of longshoremen in Pacific Coast cities probably contains more menace to Alaska than any other section of the country. If it brings about a complete tieup it will not only do much injury to business and commerce; it will threaten the welfare of virtually every Alaskan community. All of our supplies of every kind, food, fuel, eloth- ing, medicines, every commodity that we use in our nermal everyday lives, comes from or through some Pacific Coast port. That applies to the whole region from Point Barrow to Ketchikan and Hyder. While the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea communities have supplies until the opening of navigatiop, that is not the case of those towns from Fairbanks south which depend on weekly, or more frequent, ship- ments of supplies to keep them going. The strike comes, too, at the most inopportune time for Alaskan industries. Seasonal businesses are Just preparing to open for the Summer. Salmon canning and placer mining must have supplies and equipment before they can put the thousands of men to work that they annually employ. Road construction, possible for but a limited period in each year and employing hundreds, must wait for supplies and machinery. Thus, a protracted tie-up would be disastrous both to business and to labor here, and would seriously affect the pocketbook of the Territory, so largely dependent upon taxes from the salmon fisheries. As a people we live largely upon foodstuffs ship- pedped from California, Oregon and Washington producers and manufacturers. We have no other source of supply. None other is available since all of our transportation is based on Seattle. Ship- ment through British Columbia ports, even if it were possible to get supplies there by rail, is barred by the Jones Merchant gMarine -Ach . « We know nothing of the merits of the strike. But we cannot be blamed for the wish that it be settled without delay. NO MUNICIPAL LIQUOR STORES. The decision of the Board of Liquor Control to deny the City Council of Ketchikan a retail liquor license for a liquor store to be opened by that municipality, based on an opinion by Attorney General James S. Truitt that a municipality cannot powerful as either of the two great Jawish families in this country and abroad, is the Japanese House of "Mitsui, with a record of three centuries. To the business world it is the Mitsni Comei Kaisha, a big holding company, the partners of which are the heads of 11 trading, mining, trust and insur; ance, shipping and shipbuilding and warehous business. Governing their operations is a family code or constitution which has been in existence since 1694 comprising 13 clauses. Some of the more interest- ing are: Everything has its limits; know that over- expansion which you may covet will beget confusion and trouble. Thrift enriches the house while luxury ruins a man. A small sacrifice today great loss tomorrow. Never touch another business. Do not without reason seek the luxury and ease of retirement. It is noteworty that the House of Mitsul is still doing business and its name is known and its credit honored throughout the world. is preferable to Capital is still hoping that the day will come when it can sit up and take interest. Every recreation. individual is entitled to work, rest and Life is balanced when all three factors | are controlled. This Perplexing Universe. (New York Times.) “A grain of sand in each volume of space equal to the volume of the earth”—such is the picture of cosmical emptiness that Dr. Hubble presented before the National Academy of Sciences. The best vacuum that man can produce is almost as dense as lead in comparison. How abjectly small seems the earth, how insignificant man! Once the solar system was a drop in a bucket; now it is a drop in an ocean. ‘We accept the immensity of the cosmos, but can we accept its structures as now revealed to us? What if the outermost nebulae are apparently rush- ing away with speeds of 15,000 miles a second? What if astronomers surmise that beyond these are others flying away with speeds that:approach the velocity of light—the absolute maximum if relativity is true? What does “seeing” mean when we deal with vast distances, vast reaches of time? Even Edding- ton, the staunchest advocate of an inflated universe, insists that “there are no purely observational facts about the heavenly bodies.” What we profess to “see” are events that occurred hundreds of billions of years ago—at a time when the solar system was not even in existence. And the seeing occurs in a terrestrial observatory. This being so, the universe is a mere hypothesis, like the atom. Two square inches of retina, a brain behind the retina—such is the apparatus with which we are endowed to form an estimate of myriads of stars. We need hypothesis; for we cannot behold these galaxies and suns without wondering about their meaning. But we must also admit that the meaning is probably wrong. It was so with every cosmogony from primitive man to Newton. We have no reason to suppose that the expanding universe of Lemaitrz, De Sitter and Einstein is the last word. Dr. Hubble's positivism is based on an acceptance of the wave theory of light. But we must also reckon with the quantum theory—which is based on the supposition that light is not a wave motion but a rain of bullets. According to that theory it is not difficult to account for the reddening of the outermost nebulae—the only, evidence of their reces- slon—on the supposition that they lose energy as they journey toward our eyes, grow weary, as it were, and change color. If this is so, the rushing away is an optical illusion. Twenty years ago no one would have thought of questioning evidence of the kind submitted in favor of expanding space. Now, with an infinite number of possible universes to chose from, who can say that the one in which we momentarily believe, the one younger than its own stars, is right? legally engage in that traffic, was without doubt proper under the circumstances. The Attorney Gen- eral is the legal adviser of the Territory’s officers, commissions and boards. It case of doubt, they turn to him for guidance on questions of law. No one, e are certain, can cavil at the Board for accepting his view of the law in this instance. Local attorneys who have no interest, direct or indirect, in the matter agree with Mr. Truitt's interpretation of the law. A. H. Ziegler, prominent Ketchikan attorney, visiling here last week, ex- pvessed himself to the same effect. All of them #Ye a unit in the opinion that a City Council in any Alaskan community has no legal or moral right to expend the taxpayers’ money in the operation of a retail liquor store. There may be some lawyers who disagree with that propesition, but, if so, we have not heard of them. In 1923, the Alaska Legislature passed what is known as the Municipal Code. It specifically enumerates the powers and authority vested in the City Council. The only businesses mentioned, aside from certain public utilities, are fuel and lighterage. And tax moneys cannot be diverted to support them. Of course, none will argue that the Board of Liquor Control can add to or take away from the powers bestowed on the municipalities by the Legislature. So much for the legal phase of the question. From a standpoint of public interest, The Empire does not believe municipally owned and operated liquor stores are desirable. Experience has proven that the less any municipality engages in any line of business, the better it is for the taxpayers. The more it engages in business, the higher the tax rate and assessment rolls. ; P Of all businesses that a municipality might under- take, the liquor business offers the most dangers. To do so would subordinate every other public interest to the liquor traffic. ~Public health, public safety, schools, streets and sewers, and all of the normal activities of the municipal administration would give place to how the-liquor business should be run, who should have charge of it for the city. Municipal elections would be fought over issues arising from the traffic rather than over the most . important issues of every-day civic affairs. ¥ Legally and morally, therefore, we believe Mr. . Truitt’s ruling is sound and proper. The Board { acted wisely in following his advice. 4 WISE ADMONITIO; . Rules to perpetuate the power and solidarity of ' and Guggenheims have at various been described by biographers of the founders ” powerful European and American groups. Crime—A National Threat. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) When it is possible for a criminal to break from jail in Indiana, dash to Chicago, round up his gang and hide in Wisconsin, and then operate over several States, the menace created for society is more than local. It is national in its scope because the radius of criminal activities reaches far beyond local jurisdictions. This does not mean that preventive and punitive measures should not rest largely with counties and States, Local police and State constabularies, where they exist, are the backbone of law enforcement in America, and must continue to be. But a wider range of Federal ac- tivity is desirable, and closer coordination of Federal and local crime detection is urgently necessary. Substantial improvements have been made in the last two years. Largely as a result of the shock to the nation resulting from a series of infamous kidnapings, Federal legislation has been extended, and Federal work to combat crime has strengthened very greatly. The results are apparent in-the inerease of convictions for kidnaping. Yet the successive blunders of Federal and other agents trailing the Dillinger gang in Wisconsin indicate that there is plenty room for improvement in their methods. For Congress to offer a reward for the capture of Dillinger, dead or alive, as proposed recently in the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, will do no | harm. But Such gestures do not go to the root of the matter. We must have effective State con- stabularies, linked closely to Federal authorities. And it is wholly possible that we shall not be able to make this country safe for its citizens until we create a Federal police force comparable to the military police in many foreign countries. » Innumerable counties and forty-eight States in- volve so many jurisdictions, so many frontiers, that the outlaw has a tremendous advantage. The utmost cooperation of Federal and local law enfrrcement officers might . meet the need. If not, then a nation-wide armed force to deal with violent crime is the only way out. % Great Britain has a surplus, not of wheat, cotton or anything like that, but of money in the treas- ury. The trick is said to be merely not spending as much as was planned. We might try it, but we won't. —(Springfield, Ohio, Sun.) Crowds chase a dangerous mad dog and nobody tries to shoot a drunken driver.—(Akron Beacon- Journal.) It isn't her inability to afford a European war that stops Europe; it's ours.—(Detroit News.) Speaking of the debt payment question, a Gallic statesman recalls that France once sent us La- fayette. Ah, true! And what she gives us now wise and proud patriarchs always emphasized ssential wisdom of family cohesion lest division infon and of operations undermine the strength mobilized finances and action. Orient a:family as well known and as sounds a lot like the first three letters of his name —(Boston Herald.) Taxpayers are the grapes in the political wine press.—(Buffalo Courier-Express.) been | MOCKI BYNOPSIS: It seems obvious that the man who ambushed Pierre Dufresne. contractor -and political power. {8 he who has been sendi Dufresne threatening letters. But Sergeant Harper is_not so sure, and he is puzzled by Dufresne’s hint that someone close to him may be guilty. Dufresne is about to opem his house on the edge of the city as - bait for the guilty man; “Sheriff” Doyle. reporter. arrives at the 14 Precinct police station just as Offig- cer Hamill fails to pull his b for the first time. £ Chapter Seven ° ENTER TRAGEDY EWIS sat bolt upright at men- tion of those names, while the others ceased their activities to hear more of this, Detective Barry was virtually in command of the plain- clothesmen in the Central Distriet, while Sergeant Stephen Harper was the particular bright and shin- ing light of the Homicide Squad. “What would they be doing up here?” Lewis queried. “What’s up?” “Don’t you read the papers, Ser- geant?” he teased. “This is front- page stuff and the gent lives in your own bailiwick. 1 see you've got my paper there. Page one, column three. Another scoop for Howard Doyle. I've got a date here tonight with either Barry or Harper—and won’t they be surprised!” He NG HOUSE BY WALTER C. BROWN ticed the reporter perched by the, radiator and regarding him with the ! peculiar smile of the cat who has just swallowed the canary. Harper checked the question. Standing erect and silent, he pulled off his gloves, while he and the reporter exchanged a long, non-committal stare, Harper unbuttoned his over- coat and loosed the muffler, reveal- Ling his formal attire. “How did you get out here, Doyle?” he questioned at last. “l walked—the last mile or so,” was the flip answer, Harper walked over and sat down beside him. “You know what I mean. Why are you hanging around here?” OYLE brought a folded newspa- per from his pocket and handed it over. “Page one, column three,” he advised wearily, reaching for an- other cizarette. The reporter permitted himself another mocking smile. “You've been outguessed, Sergeant. Marki- son pitched the boys that yarn about Dufresne coming up here to his house tomorrow. I printed it, but I 1arat just the same. I figured 1s just a little cheese to bait and that either you or Barry would be up this way to get some grinned through a puff of blue Lewis spread out the newspaper «nd turned to the indicated spot. Heading the column was a picture of Dufresne’'s brown coupe, with heavy circles drawn around the bul. let marks. Inset was a photograph of the dapper Pierre Dufresne him. self. Then followed a double-col umn account of the anonymous and threatening letters and their dra- matic sequel, which had so narrowly averted tragedy. They read through the account, while Doyle warmed himself and blew smoke rings toward the cei) Ing. Before they could question him further there was an interruption This was a blast from an zutomobile siren as a car came pelting along on | skid chains and balted outside. Voices were heard and the slam ming of an auto door. Two men cane stamping in, stiff and cold from a long drive. They were Officers Smith and Hilleary, the crew of Bandit Chaser No. 18, now steaming and chugging outside. Hilleary knew the reporter and dropped a friendly nod in his direc- tion. “We just came in to warm up for a minute,” he explained to Ser- geant Lewis. EWIS had begun to worry about | the unreported Officer 1645. On such a night it seemed difficult to account for No. 1645's dereliction from duty on any grounds short of accident or willful neglect. On the one hand, Officer Hamill was known as a conscientious man and a stick- ler where rules and regulations were concerned, and, on the other, where, in that howling wilderness of de serted pavements and aloof, inhns. pitable mansions could he have taken shelter and lost track of time? The Sergeant came to a decision. “One of my men failed to report on the last ‘pull’ Hilleary,” he ex. plained. *“Could you take Connally here over the beat and find out what the trouble is? It would only take a few minutes in the car.” “Sure,” the good-natured Hilleary answered. “There’s only room for two, so I'll leave Smitty here to get | thawed out till we get back.” Atter a minute’s breathing spell Hilleary buttoned up his coat again | and drew on the gloves, while Con- nally bundled himself up similarly At 9:45 they set out on their search The Bandit Chaser had been gone but a few minutes when another car pulled up outside, and, as Doyle had predicted, Sergeant Stephen Harper ot the Homicide Bureau entered the #w.tion House. Rapidly he returned fus Dolicemen’s ealutes as he ad w..»ed 10 the raileg-in desk, where Lrwn rose. just about to ask the Ser e question when he no advance dope and arrange for & warm reception should our friend N i o They read through the account. the crank try to finish his job. De duction, simple deduction.” Harper nodded. “I see. Perhaps }you can deduce the next move?” .. “That depends,” the reporter re plied. *I'd say the best play would be to ‘fake’ the removal of Dufresne from the Austerlitz to his home and then wait for the crank to try again If that's the scheme, you needn't worry. All the boys will play it up strong for you. Am I right?” “That's too good to be only s guess,” the detective answered. “1 know your methods, Sherlock Holmes,” Doyle retorted, then dropped his voice into a more ze rious tone. “I've been let in on the ground floor, believe it or not. | know Dufresne. He consulted with* me about those letters before he went to Connors about it. That was my advice. 1didn’t like the tone of them, not a bit. I saw Dufresne be- fore you reported there. He'd just finished talking with Connors over the ‘phone and ie asked me about this man Stephen Harper who was being assigned to the case. | told him you were the smartest detective north of the Mason and Dixon Line.” “Thanks for your good opinion,” | 'was Harper’s dry comment. “Listen, Harper, was Dufresne drunk when you left him at the Aus | terlitz?" The detective nodded. “I.thought so,” Doyle continued. At that moment the white bulb | on the switchboard flared, and Syers clapped on his earphones. At the first few words he stiffeped. “That's Connally,” he flung over his shoal der, “they’ve found Hamill at No. 34 Powhatan Terrace—and there's another dead man in the same | room!” | Doyle looked at Harper, and Har- | per looked at Doyle. | (Copyright. 1934, by Walter C. Brown) The crew of the bandit cha tomorrow, makes a gruesome A Miles Automatic Air Conditioner is operating in the ne SEE IT. Miles Air ( stalled on any hot air Plumbing 'w Jensen Apartments. “onditioner can be in- furnace job. Harri Machine Shop Heating o Sheet Metal THE DAILY ALASKA'EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1934, |some time. | prr——— 20 YEARS AGO | From The Empire — May 15, 1914 Excavation was to begin within {a few days on the new home of the B. M. Behrends Bank, on Thirdl |and Seward streets, and also for the new postoffice building to be built by Mr. Behrends on his Third Street property. Former U. S. Marshal H. L. Faulkner stated that he intended to take a vocation following his seven years in office ‘but would return to Juneau permanently. Mr. and Mrs. Faulkner planned to visit friends in Eastern Washington for Col. Wilds P. Richardson, WhDE had been identified with Alaska ever since he had been a c«zp:ain.i was promoted four days before his| departure from Washington, D. C.,| to the rank of a full Colonel, from | that of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was a northbound passenger on the Alameda on his way to Valdez. | Weather for the previous 24 hours was cloudy with rain. The maximum temperature was 61 and the minimum was 38. | Juneau baseball fans were jubil- ant at the victory of the Gasti- neau-Juneau baseball team over the Douglas-Treadwell outfit the first game of the 1914 season. The final score was 8 to 1 in favor of the Juneau boys. Dr. Robert Simpson, who was due to have returned to Juneau from Ketchikan on the steamer Mariposa, was delayed longer than he expected In the first city and to arrive the following day. J. T. Spickett, of the Orpheum Theatre, had hung up a purse of $100 to go to the winning team in the Juneau-Douglas baseball series of 1914. e ln‘i was returning on the Spokane, due | PROFESSIONAL YHYSIOTHERAPY Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldstein Building | l Phone Office, 216 & Helene W. L. Albrecht Massage, Electricity, Infra Red £} Rose A. 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