The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 18, 1934, Page 4

- Dqily Alaska impire GENERAL MANAGIR ROBERT W. BENDER - t Sundar Published evory evening except Sunt ey e Streets, Juneau, Al Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSORIPTION RATE! Dellvered by carrler In Juneau and Bougtas for 9125 per_mo mall, postage peid, at "Bhe following rates OneY yenn iy advance, $12.00; six montha, O ponibare, Wil & é“““&.fir" it they will promptly 1be confer a nousfuyh'v%'; Br;-a-:‘—mot‘;m of any fallure or irregularity 11 I e Yo Editorial and Business Offices, 174. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEL PRESS. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitied to th nse for relxubllcntlon of all news dispatches cr»dgeflu’: % or not oth err.lhl:dc;edtl,ed in this paper and also Acal news publi erein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER | THAN TMAT OF ANy OTHER PUBLICATION. ldvlnce. CONCESSION IS NOT BROAD ENOUGH. If as the Secretary of the Seattle Lungshoremen’s Unions is quoted as saying, “We gave them per- mission to ship foodstuffs” to Alaska, is the only concession made by the strikers to operators of Alaska shipping, the unions have not been as gen- erous as we had hoped. Of course, food is essential and it will be needed badly if we are to be restricted to one sailing each week from Seattle. But how shall we pay for food if the strikers paralyze our industries? ' It has to be paid for and most Alaskans have to labor for their daily bread. “Wire nefting” is almost as necessary as food. If cannery operators are to be shut off from materials and supplies necessary to prepare their plants for the season's operations, there will be few operations. Thousands will lack work. The finances of the Territory will suffer a terrible blow. Mines, tco, cannot operate without supplies. Deprived of them, more thousands will suffer. Some indication of what it means is afforded by the statement of the Pacific American Fisheries at Bellingham that it is possible their two Bristol Bay plants will not be able to operate this season. ‘What applies to them holds good for other cannery- men. The Santa Ana Steamship Company, sole transporter of freight for the Kuskokwim River valley, reports dredges on several creeks awaiting delivery of fuel oil for the season. This must be delivered on the Spring high water. Failure means no gold mining there this year. The company also reported a shortage of supplies in the same region. Although it offered to meet the strikers’ demands its request for permission to load was denied. The offer of the Alaska Steamship Company to submit the entire matter to Federal arbiters and to abide by thetr decision seems to be eminently fair. The strikers ought not to reject such a proposition. It is true that the International Union might fel it good. strategy to maintain a gemrah strike against all shipping pending a blanket settle- ment involving the entire coast, but the exigencies of the Alaska situation are serious enough to justify it in exempting Alaska from the general picture. That is the view of the Alaska Steam-) ship Company and certainly it reflects the Bmtudez here in the Territoiy. Anyone with a knowledge of transportation con- ditions hcre, of the general situation, will readily realize that we must have more than a consession for a cargo of foodstuffs once a week, or for that matter twice a week. We must have the materials and supplies to keep the wheels of industry turning. Lacking them even just food is going to be difficult of attainment for some people, unless public funds shall be forthcoming with which to purchase them. FIGHT ¥OR COMMITTEE CONTROL. While iterest i it may be more or less academic at this (e, it Is evident that a stifi fight is now quietly going on for a successor to Everett 3anders as Chairman of the Republican National Committee. He has announced he will relinquish that post on June 5, on account of illhealth. The Old Guard is finding some opposition from some of the so-called liberal group, pmlcpluly in Congress which was largely instrumental | elections from the National Committee. The Con- gressional fight will be waged entirely under the ,mremun of the Repubhcan Congressional Campaign wCommn.tee which i organizing for the campaign and arranging for financing it. How successful they will be in an effort to name the Chairman of the \Nauonal Committee remains to be seen. A recent dispatch from Washington to the Seattle | Times indicated the Old Guard would be victorious. | 1t said: Although Senate friends of former Presi- dent Herbert Hoover say he will not be a Presidential candidate in 1936, he feels that he should help to rebuild the Republican Party. The former President, a titular head of the party, according to his friends in Wash- ington, will take an active part in the party's reorganization and the selection of a Chair- man of the National Committee to succeed Everett Sanders. Mr. Sanders has an- nounced that he will resign the Chairman- ship June 5. Mr. Hoover's program is to aid in the selection of a Chairman who will be sym- pathetic to the West and one who will not be too conservative. Mr. Hoover is represented as controlling almost a majority of the National Com- mittee with the aid of Charles D. Hilles of New York and J. Henry Rorabach of Con- necticut, dominant among the Eastern and so-called Old Guard group. Anchorage has protested against definite selec- tion of a site for an Army Air Corps center until experts investigate. We knew something like that would occur when Delegate Dimond wrote into his bill for the project that it would be located near Fairbanks. The War Department has abolished sabers as part of the equipment for cavalry, We hope, how- ever, it leaves the desk spurs to the officers. Still a Local Issue. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) For a century it has been a notorious fact that the American tariff has been a local issue, a play- thing of lobbies and pressure groups, and not the instrument of a national policy. There is currently a tendency to establish a new and national policy in which the tariff will be regarded as the creature of the whole people, not as the convenient means of subsidizing particular interests. This broader view has not yet dawned on a great many manufacturers, it appears from the re- cent hearings of a Senate committee. After a few statemen of nationwide outlook had indorsed the new reciprocal tariff measures, a great throng of manufacturers appeared to oppose the bill. Their point of view is summed up well by a statement from John E. Dowsing, appearing for the United States Potters’ Association. Mr. Dowsing, speaking with admirable frankness, said: “I am not here to speak for the national inter- est, but for the narrower standpoint of the pottery industry.” He opposed the bill because he feared it would result in reduction of import duties on products which his industries manufacture. This is a plausible view, and one that he is entitled to present. But it obviously should not are to vote on this measure. Those Senators are in office to represent the national interest, not to feather the nests of particular industries. All those who spoke for the national interest recognized the need for a wider executive power to deal with the tariff. Another - industrialist appearing as a witness raised a very interesting question. “We don't be- lieve,” he said, “that any industry should be sacri- ficed for the common good.” No doubt reduction of an import duty appears to the industry affected as a sacrifice of its interest for the common good. But it would be more accurate and more honest to put it another way. Reduction of the tariff on some commodity is really a process of withdrawing part of the subsidy now being paid to the domestic industry. It is not sacrificing that industry to the common good. It is simply reducing the bonus the consumers of the country have been paying to that industry. Maybe the businczs would improve in the State liquor stores if they added a little touch of old- fashioned art to the walls and installed a barrel of free pickles.—(Ohio State Journal) A sun spot, 16,000 miles long, is the talk of the hour in astronomical circles. It means high winds, rains, electrical disturbances and doubleheaders.— (Detroit News.) If the Senate wants a complete list of silver holders it had better look up the waiters and hat- checkers.—(Philadelphia Bulletin.) PHONE 205 FOR SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER @ Includes Chicken and ALL the Trimmings! Bergmann Dining Room We Feature Juneau Dairy Products I RESERVATIONS | several weeks ago in divorcing the coming Congressional | weigh too heavily in the minds of the Senators who | | (r— L ——— SYA 0L arter recerviung ening letters ix road Serq lluryer a to protect him does wot uniersi Dufresne s hint that someone o to him mau wave ambushed k Dufresne's rame et hot at on a lonely oned nd They deculs o open hatan Terrace® house as bait A killer . Harper is talking with Sheviff " Doyle, a_ reporter, when word comes that Officer Ham- i1l and another man have been found dead in Dufresne’s house. Chapter Eight CRIME SCENE ET us go back a short time and | follow the adventures of Bandit | Chaser No. 18. With Hilleary driving and Con- nally calling the turns, the speedy little car headed for Officer Ham. III's territory. They bad to drive slowly, for the headlights could not cut very deeply into the teeth of the storm and the automatic windshield wiper just about held its own against the fiercely-driven snow. Connally kept a sharp lookout, but In vain. At every street intersection Hilleary sounded the whirring siren call, familiar to every patrolman’s ear as the signal of the “Flying Squad.” Hilleary brought the car to a halt beside the call-box from which ['am- 11 should have reported. It bore a conical cap of snow, leaning crazily to one side trom the force of the wind. All around was a white wilder- ness, inches deep, and gaining stead- ily. Unbroken in its smooth, wind- irifted reaches, only a gentle bulge showed where the curbstone was set. Connally borrowed the heavy fashlight from the car's equipment and got out of the machine. The po- liceman turned on the beam and fAashed it fu a circle. Here and there were unmistakable ridges and filled- in hollows which roughly outlined the imprints a shoe had left earlier In the storm. By going . little farther afield he could distinguish two sets of the old tracks, presumably made by Ham- I's coming to the pillar for his sarlier “pull” and his subsequent departure. There were a few tire-marks in the street. but no other tracks along the sidewalk, and, having struck the scent, Connally automatically start- ed along the trail. Hilleary drove the car at a snail's pace ou a parallel line. For two blocks they continued 80, when, upon crossing an Inter- vening street, Connally found that he had lost the trail, Retracing his steps, he found that a radical alteration had taken place in Hamill's course. The old tracks showed that Hamill had crossed about a third of the width of the street, when something had induced him to set off at a sharp angle. The almost obliterated footprints led along the intersecting street. The traflers followed this tangent, Dut had not proceeded very far be fore they became aware of a boom- ing sound. Puzzled, they came to a halt, awalting a repetition of the nolse. When it came agalin, they rec- ognized the sound at once. The front door of one of the houses near the far end of the block was un- latched and the wind was banging it to and fro with thunderous force. OME prompting of instinct in- duced Connally to break into a run. He pulled up, panting, at the entrance to the front lawn, a flat, desolate level of virgin snow, bound- ed by bare hedges and skeleton bushes. The flashlight showed that the footsteps had turned in there. It also picked out the bronze nu- merals, “34,” on one of the stone pillars ot the gate. The massive front door, after its fittul booming, stood open invitingly, due to a lull in the wind. Hilleary go: out of the car, and, side by side, the two policemen ‘walked up the path and scanned the front of the house, a three-story stone mansion standing in its own grounds. There was mno light, no sign of life anywhere about the | place, The hall beyond the yawning | door was merely a black cavity lead- | ing into the unknown. “I guess we followed the tracks,” Hilleary suggested; are just from somebody wrong “these golng | home.” “What about that door?” Connally countered. “People don’t leave their | tront doors banging in a storm. We'd better look into this. Come on!” Connally pulled off a glove and pressed the electric bell button, holding it down with his finger. There was no answering sound. Af- ter waiting a suitable time, Connal- 1y stepped gingerly across the threshold. The inner vestibule doors ‘were closed. He turned the knob and peered into a still deeper well of darkness. “Hello! Hello!” he shouted, aud BY WALTER C. BROWN ] s the framewori wer door. One of the cold 2 red under the vibre jingling down over t's till there was no answer. A 4a:2 ned within. The iash g from side to s\a gave fugitive glimpses of a W& deep hall with paneled woodwest and richly furnished. But there ws. something eerie about this al’ex place wi its teetering deoir 8is the snow seeping over the siil. They looked at each other, tns: started as the door thundered sb behind them. “Prop that damn tIng open!” C ally shouted, and jerk- |ing out his service revolver, ad- vanced warily into the hall. He hsd glimpsed a faint line of light under a door farther down the hall. He tried the knob cautiously, then flung the door back with a quick motion. Hilleary had found the electric light switches near the front door, but could get no response from any of them. Armed and alert, Connally peered Into the room—and stood rooted to the threshold. Over his shoulder came the sharp hiss of indrawn breath from his companion as he, too, saw. Connally’s brain was swift In re- action. A moment’s examination of the gruesome burden of that room confirmed his worst fears. “Don’t touch anything here,” he warned, backing away toward the door. “I saw a telephone out In the hall. If it's disconnected you'll have to drive back and report this.” To his satisfaction, when he lifted the tele- phone receiver he heard the familiar buzz, and in a few moments his call was through to the Fourteenth Pre- cinct. ONNALLY had no sooner re- placed the telephone receiver than the clammy siience of this trag- le house weighed down upon them again. The wind went whistling down the deep hall, stirring up for- tive rustlings, as of unseen draper- {es, while the silent snow sifted tar- ther and farther over the threshold. The one room in the house they had entered had been fairly warm, but the exposed hallway was as chlill and biting as the outdoors. Hilleary swung his torch In ex- ploring circles. The quc:ting beam discovered a refectory table bear- ing several bronze candelbra with tall, tapering candles. These sput- tered and flickered a great deal be- fore they consented to burn, turn- ing the hall into a place of leaping shadows and shifting visibility. “You take one light, and I'll take the other, and we can make sure there's nobody kiding on this floor. anyway,” Counally suggested. “We can let the upstairs go until the others come.” A rush of wind extinguished the candles in one swoop. “We'll have to fix that front door,” Hilleary sald. “You light the candles again, I'll attend to the door,” Connally re- plied. There was a sturdy Yale lock on the inside, but he found that the lock bar had been released while the door was open, and that, conse- quently, the door could not be closed until that was set back. He did this and it locked automatically. He also noticed an old-fashioned key hang- ing beside the door jamb, and, on trying it, found that this was for the ordinary lock below the knob, Guns in hand, they lifted the can- delabra and looked in all the rooms opening from the central hall. The search was quickly made and yleld- ed nothing in the way of interest. There were two doors in the rear of the house. Each was not only locked, but bolted on the inside. Connally tound a key that fitted both locks and put it iu his pocket. There was also a short corridor that led to a side door. This was locked, but the key was not present. The door to the cellars had no lock, only a latch, but was bolted at the side and top, so 1t was left as found, after its secarl- ty had been tested. Connally was just returning from this survey when there came a thunderous pounding at the front door. The policeman hastened to open the door. He was surprised when he saw that the first man to cross the threshold wore civilian | clothes, but soon recognized Detec- | tive-Sergeant Harper, and saluted. Next came Officer Clymer, then Smith, and lastly a figure In a gray | overcoat slid jauntily past just as he swung the ponderous door shut., Once inside, Doyle was all eyes, as alert as a pointer in the middle of & tall grass fleld. Harper pulled off his gloves. “Where are they?” he asked, sim- ply. “In there.” Connally pointed to the closed door on the left. (Copyright, 1934, by Walter O. Brown) Tomorrow, Harper Investigates a gruesonte erime. A Miles Automatic Air Conditioner is operating in the new Jensen Apartments. SEE IT. Miles Air Conditioner can be in- stalled on any hot air furnace job. Ham Machine SBOP Heating | Gibson, president Washington Stev- | s s e, 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire —— (R MAY 18, 1914. Mrs. Hazel G. Kirmse arrived in Announcement was made of the {Juneau Public Scvhool faculty for the next year, as follows: high school faculty, Prof. Lester D. Hen- | derson, principal; Miss Loraine An- drews, Miss Lavina Wilson, Miss Gertrude Mallette, were chosen so far, Grade school teachers select- ed were, Miss Marie Magill, Mrs. J. Strouble, Miss Florence Getch- ell, Miss G. Poole, Miss Hariette Case, Miss Crystal Snow, Miss Dyer and Miss Couture. Prof. Hender- son had formerly been principal of | the Couer d'Alene high school. class in the Douglas schools enter- tained with a program at the school. Those taking part in it Mary Garn, Gertrude Johnson,, Myrtie Eggan, Marguerite Roene, Frank Bach, Louis Hubbard, Misses Laughlin, Museth and Wiitanen. J. C. Hayes, superintendent for the Southeast Alaska division or| the Alaska Road Commission ar-! rived from Ketchikan on the Ala- meda. mercial man, arrived in Juneau| from Skagway on his return from the Westward, | Construction had started on the handsome new four-story concrete | building being erected by S. Zynda' at the corner of Third and Main Streets. The work was being done under the direction of Thomas Bush | of the Bush-Soles company. | Weather for the preceding 24 hours was cloudy with rain. The maximum temperature was 50 de- grees and the minimum was 41 de- grees. M. J. Costello, Traffic manager of the Great Northern, Thomas J. Dillon, managing editor af the Se- | attle P.-I, George Albers, Albers| Brothers Milling Company, John E. Dreher, Seattle Times, Capt. J. S. edore company, George J. Danzand | and J. W. Hofius, of the Hofius, Steel and Equipment Company,', were the Seattle business men com- ing north on the Admiral Samp-| son as guests of H. F. 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