The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1934, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1934. GENERAL MANAGER evenl: exceépt Sunday by the Enmtm“mpdmfi'fio COH"P‘ANY at Second and Maln Streets, Juneau, Alaska. —_— Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. ROBERT W. BENDER - - SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for ¥ Bela™ar the following rates: mall, postage paid, at the follo : | Oneyear it 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 of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. e MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEL, PRESS. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to tb use for republication of all news dispatches credited to | * or not “m"wueacrl;em:cd in this paper and also the ocal news published herein. | ALASKA cxpm:uu\'rlon GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN TMAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. | ! | ‘ “MOST CONSCIENTIOUS” DELEGATE. | ALASKA’S That is the title conferred on Delegate Dimond recently by Representative Sirovich, of New York, a member of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries during a hearing before it on the Delegate’s bill to transfer jurisdiction over the fisheries from Congress to the Alaska Legislature. Mr. Dimond was discussing the proposition tha!‘it‘ as less difficult to get needed legislation through | the Alaska Legislature, since it is local, than Lhrough‘ Congress, which has so much of its time taken up | with matters of national import. Commenting on this Dr. Sirovich said: From my observations of the Delegates who have come from Alaska, I will say, as far as I am personally concerned, I | think you are the most conscientious one | I have seen, and I think, if you will keep | on insisting on getting for Alaska what Alaska should receive, there is nothing that you could not get here that you could get from the Alaska Legislature, and T want to help you do it | No firer compliment could have been paid to| Delegate Dimend. It is one, however, that people| of Aliska will readily understand since they have for many years recognized just that quality in hinw along with his ability, sincerity and capacity for and willingness to work, without thought of per- sonal considerations, for the best interests of the Territory. Dr. Sirovich, too, is deeply interested in Alaska, and has evidenced it on several occasions. His generous offer to assist the Delegate from Alaska is as kindly as it was well-meant. It is in creating such friendliness among members of Congress that Mr. Dimond is rendering a really unique service to the Territory. | DR. EDWARD W. NELSON. In the death recently of Dr. Edward William Nelson, retired Chief of the United States Biological Survey, there passed another of those little known, | loyal and efficient servants of the Government who have contributed much to Alaskan development. During his tenure of office in the Biological Survey he visited Alaska many times. He was an ardent booster of its possibilities and a sane and sound conservationist. Like his successor, Paul G. Reding- ton, he was not easily swept off his feet by “causes” and sentimental campaigns. He knew a great deal about the problems of wild life con- servation in the Territory. He believed in the utilization of the fur and game resources in the Territory, utilization to the fullest 'possible extent without endangering the supply. Dr. Nelson was one of the first officials of the Federal Government to recognize the potential value of the reindeer herds of the north. He fore- caw their ever increasing numbers to the point where, without commercial exploitation, range de- struction was inevitable. He caused studies of range, grazing conditions and of diseases to be made. In this and other ways he rendered services of real and lasting value to the nation as well as to Alaska. CAYAFAS AND THE BEAR. Last year a herring fisherman, one Chris Cayafas by name, was brought to this city suffering from severe wounds inflicted by an enraged brown bear in the vicinity of Little Port Walter. After extended | Territory. 1,25 might interpret a plea for relief on the ground that| {the industry produces it is not taxed anything ’can'nmg industry is one mainly derived from produc- Daily Alaska Empire | tion. Others -have emphasized the point that ap- proximately 80 per cent of Territorial revenues orig- |inate in that industry. Usually that would mean that it*comes from taxes on property, such as lands, improvements, including buildings, equipment, | vessels and stocks. That is the system of taxation common to the entire country except here in the Thus, it is entirely possible that one the fisheries industry pays 80 per cent of the taxes as an appeal for aid to the operators in meeting this expense. The reverse, however, is actually the case. Unless the Territory. our revenues. that reason s given to the Territory and not the industry. The point made by those engaged in it is extremely well taken, K Sometimes we worder if a lot-of this objection to “A#¥ing’ ‘Brains in ‘the Government’s service isn't basednon the fact thatit:is’ hatder- to' deal with a man_with brains than with one who just takes his orders from some politicak hosé. Upon its production we depend for T’h@ investigator ought to be a pretty cheerful individual these days. It looks as if repeal is going to give him as much work as Prohibition did. “Where Rolls the Oregon.” (New York Times.) During the past week there have been cele- brations of the hundredth anniversary of the set- ting out of Jason Lee for the Oregon country. It was on the morning of the 28th of April in 1834 |that the young missionary, of powerful frame and “constitution like iron,” made the start from Inde- pendence, Missouri. There must have been some prescience of his mission in his naming. His ex- pedition, unlike that of Jason of the Argonauts, lies all within the memory of history. A monument marks the exact location of his Colchis; his portrait has been given most conspicuous position in the Oregon State Capitol and a permanent place has been assued for him in the Congressional Hall where the States are represented by the forms of those whom they most delight to honor. While the Oregon tale begins with Jason Lee, in 1833-34, both Methodists and ‘Congregational- Presbyteri: organs were in 1827-28 re-echoing the “cry from Macedonia” that was first voiced in 1820. | The fate of the future of Ameica, it was urged, lay with those who should “send westward the seeds of morality and education which should make the new lands conform to the American ideal.” The plea was that tracts, missionaries, educated clergy, schools and colleges take the westward trails along with the faring immigrant. To that cry Jason Lee and other missionaries from the East made prompt and sacrificial response. But they were not only pioneers in their spiritual mission, they were the first to report the soil and climate conditions “which actually attracted immigration in bulk” to the land “where the sunsets go.” That the Oregon hears other sounds than “his own dashings” is due above others to these Jasons of the New World. The Rope Trick. (New York World-Telegram.) No fantasy or old conceit of travelers has de- lighted the imagination more than the famous Indian rope trick, for genuine performance of whict the British Society of the Magic Circle now—in uribelief—offers’ a rewaxd of $2,500.. The society de- clares the trick never was done, and by the offer it hopes to explode the myth. The story is that a fakir throws up a rope, and lengthening out of sight into the heéavens. Then a it hangs vertically in air, unattached, gradually boy climbs the rope, the fakir follows with a sword, and both disappear. After sounds of struggle dis- membered portions of the boy fall to earth, the fakir climbs down wiping his sword, assembles the pieces, restores the boy to life, and the latter runs around crying “Baksheesh!” It would be a good trick. Alas, we never have seen it. John Mulholland, an authority in the field, sides with the Magic Circle in declaring that no one ever did see it. On the other hand, the amazing Mme. Blavatsky says in her book “Isis Unveiled” that she saw it with her own eyes. The Englishman Dr. Alexander Cannon has just published a book called “The In- visble Influence,” in which he says that a thousand reputable witnesses have seen it. Many old books have accounts of it in diverse form. To all of which Mr. Mulholland and serious students generally still answer an emphatic “Bosh!” Their theory is that the rope trick is a Chinese fairy tale, akin to Jack and the Beanstalk, which raconteurs have transferred to India or Thibet. So long as the $2,500 offer stands we'll cherish the hope that some little man in a Gandhi costume may walk up some day and take the money. But, we confess, it's a very faint hope. Pacific Coast Defense. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer.) With Congress stirring under the goading of Pacific Coast Chambers of Commerce, every thought- ful resident of the Puget Sound area should lend aggressive support to the drive to obtain adequate defenses for this area. treatment in a local hospital Cayafas regained health. Now he is on his way back to Alaska again to spend the summer on a herring seine boat as a means of earning a livelihood but in his mind, s0 he told Seattle newspapermen, is a determina- tion to kill the brute that so nearly killed him. No one can justly criticise Cayafas for that sentiment since the attack was unprovoked. If he kills the bear society probably will be benefitted since it has shown it is a “big bad bear.” Sooner or later, if it continues to roam the woods, it will probably attack another human being which may not get off as easily as Cayafas did. Just a word of advice to Mr. Cayafas might not be exactly out of place.” He seems to be a non-resident of Alaska. We have a game law, pass- ed by Congress, which prohibits non-residents from hunting bears in the Territory .without first paying a $50 license fee. And while the Game Wardens undoubtedly will sympathize with and understand his declaration of war against the animal that at- tacked him, now that he has declared his intention so publicly, if he goes a hunting wifhout a license, some fine morning he may find himself charged with violation of the Alaska game law, which, to our way of thinking would be just too bad. A POINT WELL TAKEN. In their joint appeal to President Roosevelt and members of his Cabinet to intercede for Alaska ", flnwmz in the longshoremen’s strike, the Associa- tion of Pacific Fisheries and the Northwest Salmon Canners’ Association made a point that has not en stressed in previous portrayals of the situation California delegations in Congress have responded to the plea. Washington's Senators and Represen- tatives should quickly get behind the movement. Representative Florence P. Kahn of California described the situation, all the more aggrevated by uncertainties that have recently risen in the Orient, when she said: The people of the Pacific Coast would be stunned if the real condivion of our de- fenses were disclosed. The facilities are not only pitiably inadequate, but a great deal of the equipment — particularly guns — is archiac and would be of little help in event of .invasion. The condition that is apparent to all residents of this atea is sufficiently alarming- to aroeuse fears that this frontier on the Pacific arena is a forgotten outpost. The fleet is in Atlantic waters, air defenses are negligible, what Coast defense guns there are are utterly .impotent, forts are ghost villages, and Bremerton Navy Yard, one of the vital units in naval operations, is an open target. The situation is apparent to all. But if the true condition is worse, as Representative Kahn hints, all the more effort should be applied to cancel the nvitation to attack such a condition represents, > The ball is rolling now in Congress to gain authority to give the Pacific Coast the protection it deserves. Help it to gain momentum! Monkey Gland Champion, 64, Weds Twenty-Year- Old Girl—News Item. He'd better look out so she doesn't make a money out of him—(Buffalo Cour- ier-Express.) Old-timers were lucky. They got their tobacco They noted that the taxes on the salmon taste from a pipe instead of a kiss.—(Los Angeles Times.) . Therefore, whatever aid is given for| , SYNOPS 4 man made up to resemble Pierre Dufresne, contrac- tor and political power, and a po= Ticeman apparently have shot each other in Dufresne’s howse. Mrs. Dy~ fresne has fainted and -cut hep cheel at the sight; Dufresne has not yet arrived from his dswntoion hotel. Sergeant Harper, however, cannot quite believe that the shots were ivcd as the evidence seema (o indicate. 4 Chapter 13 DR. ULRICH / URTHER investigation was tem- porarily interrupted by the sounds of a new arrival at the house. Harper went out into the hall to find out who it was. A tall figure, wearing an: enormous’ fur coaty strede toward him. “Dr. Ulrich?” he inquired. The tall man nodded curtly. “Are you Sergeant Harper?” » The detective nodded. “Mrs. Du- fresne is in her room. I'll go up with you.” “What are all these policemen do- ing around here—and that ambu- lance outside?” Ulrich demanded. “We found the bodies of two men in the breakfast-room here, one the policeman from this district. The evidence seems to indicate that they killed each other, but we haven’t had time enough to go into the details.” \ The doctor stopped dead in his MOCKING HOUSE BY WALTER C. BROWN. Harper frowned. “I've been won- dering why he jumped to that con- clusion so readily. At the moment [ see no necessity for questioning Mrs. Dufresne about anything. 1 only hope that it turns out as he ex: pects. I'm more than sorry it hap- ened at all and I can’t help feeling [‘lhm. I am partly to blame.” Nonsense,” Dr. Miller declared, wasn't your fault.” 11 right, Doc,-let’s drop it. I'll have something to say about that later. Let's get on with this before there are any more delays. You've examined the bodies?” Dr. Miller nodded. “Syperficially, of course, but I doubt 'that the au: topsy’ll tell us any more than we can see with the naked eye. Matter of form in a cut-and-driedicase like this.” “Well, I want a complete post- mortem report just the same and an analysis of the stomach con- tents. It might be helpful to know when and what he had last eaten and the amount of alcohol con- sumed. Just a matter of record, Doc, is it possible that this could have been a double suicide, or murder and suicide?” “YMPOSSIBLE. The nature ana location of the wounds make that absolutely impossible. Besides, there are no powder burns. They That strange corpse. tracks, his eyebrows arched in sur- prise. “So that was the ‘little trou- ble' you mentioned -over, tha telg- phone? Who is the other victim?” Harper shook his head. He had taken an instant dislike to the ag- gressive, patronizing manner of the medical man. The detective had left him and was half-way down the stairs, when Dr. Ulrich, coatless and with his shirt sleeves rolled up, came strid- ing after him and seized him by the arm. “You damned clodhoppers!” he blazed, glaring down at Harper from the height of his seventy-odd inches. “What have you been doing to Mrs. Dufresne? If you've been trying any of your dirty third-de- gree methods on her I'll see that you answer for it.” Harper pushed the restraining arm aside. “There’s no use bluster- ing around here, Doctor. This place happens to be in the hands of the police and I am in charge. You will please confine your efforts to your patient. When that is done, I'll be glad to answer any questions about Mrs. Dufresne’s accident.” ‘ JITH an angry growl, Dr. Ulrich ran down the steps and seized the telephone. Harper returned to the breakfast-room where Carlin was once more absorbed in study- ing the mark on the wainscoting left by the spent bullet. The detec- tive revolved slowly around that strange corpse in the chair, study- ing the body from all angles A few minutes later Dr. Miller ap- peared. “Dr. Ulrich has sent for a nurse,” he announced. “He says it will be best not to move Mrs. Du- fresne. “What does he say about the cut?” “He thinks it can be healed with- out leaving a scar, but Mrs. Du- fresne will have an uncomfortable time of it for a few days. She’ll have to be fed through a tube and she won’t be able to talk or move about. Any sudden jolt or move- ment of her jaws would open up the cut and undo all the work. “He warned me that she is nét to be cross-examined or annoyed in any way. Why is he so hot under the collar? He seems to have an idea that we've been grilling her about this business.” ) shot each other and dropped in their tracks.” “Can you fix the time of death?” The police stirgeon *apprbached the murdered stranger. He moved the dead man’s arms slightly, bent the fingers, and tilted the head a little to one side. He went through Officer Hamill's body. “L'd” say that death occurred somewhere between seven and nine o'clock. As you know, Sergeant, rigor mortis sets in anywhere from three to twelve hours after death, depending on the surrounding tem- perature, the physical condition of the subject, and so on. In each case the muscles are just beginning to set. This tallies with the coagula- tion of the blood at the wounds.” Harper nodded. “We've not had much of a chance to trace things,” he explained, “and of this one man kpow that Officer Hamill ‘pulled his box’ at eight o’clock. His failure to ring up at nine led to the discov- ery of the crime. The search party that went out after him heard the door of this house banging in the wind and investigated. That was about ten o'clock or a few minutes after.” Dr. Miller tucked away his watch. “That fits in all right. Yes, it is my opinion that they died at the same time.” “Well, then, what about this, Doc? Carlin thinks that the wound in the head could only have been made by a .45 caliber steel-jacket bullet. The one we found was a .38 blunt-nose.” “Nonsense,” he snorted in con- tempt. “You can’t tell offhand, that way. Bullets are tricky things, no matter what the caliber. When they strike a bony surface there’s no telling what course they’ll take. Be- sides, you've got the bullet, haven't you?” 3 “Yes, we have it. We assume that it’s from. Hamill's gun.” “That ought to settle the argu- ment.” Miller's voice took on a shrewd pitch. “Have you turned up anything that looks fishy?” “No, I haven't,” Harper was forced to admit. (Copyright, 1934, by Waiter C. Brown) Tomorrow, the tangle grows sud. lenly worse. | we know nothing whatever. We do | A Miles Automatic Air Conditioner is operating in the pew Jensen Apartments. SEE IT. Miles Air Conditioner can be in- stalled on any hot air furnace job. Harri Machine Shop Heating Sheet Metal | took passage on the Princess May i Treadwell company and also of the | Pepsin ends your distressing symp- much the same performance with | i 20 YEARS AGO } From The Empire — MAY 24, 1914 The first constructive action was taken by ‘the city council the pre- vious building of the proposed waterfront thoroughfare to be known as Wil- loughby Avenue. 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