The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 26, 1934, Page 4

T s 1 1 i i e = THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1934 Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Sonday t by the T Becond and Main evenl NTIN NY at ‘Published EMPIRE_PRINTING CO! Streets, Jureau, Alaska. o onneny, Aleska. 3 s an i “Hniored fu ihe Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, uitversd by carierin Juneay ‘and Couglas for " per _month. tago paid, at the followiny rates: OnBeyye :‘I'lnpo:d=§nr2, n:.oo-h-g months, in advance, $6.00; one mouth, in advance, $1.25. i cribers will confer a tavor if they will promptly oty the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity livery of their papers. - +2?eg§onar¥or ‘Editorial and Business Offices, 374. W BER OF ASS8OCIATEL PRE§S. ‘The A:‘-sugsa Press is exclusively entitled to tb gse for republication of all news dispatches craalusdu;o * or not nthrwinsdcgeditled in this paper and also the #cal news published herein. s IRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LA ALAS?:GA‘; TMAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. OFFICIALS IN POLITICS. The bfl]. introduced by Senator Steiwer, of Ore- gon, and quickly passed by the Senate, to prohibit appointive Federal officers from taking part as delegates in national party conventions has been interpreted in some quarters as a move to take postmasters out of politics. That is becayse the postmasters are the most numerous class of ap- pointive Federal officers of a political character and naturally they will be most affected by the proposed legislation, which by the way still has to pass the House of Representatives. However, the measure should not be interpreted as an attack on Post- master General Farley and his subordinates, but as a prohibition against active partisan political par- ticipation by all appointive Federal officers. While the measure is not intended, probably, as an attack upon the party system, it undoubtedly will tend to weaken it since it is usually the most prominent and most effective party workers who are rewarded by Federal appointments. Therefore, al- though the bill would in some measure divorce the administrative branches of government more com- pletely from the political processes of government, all realists wijl readily recognize that postmasters and many other appointive Federal officials are in politics and will always remain there. Forbidding them to take part in party conventions will' not affect that condition. The real question is whether appointive officers shall engage in party politics. Whether the bill would accomplish that end. It seems unlikely that barring office holders from conventions will keep administrative officials from political activity. So long as Federal appointments are diciated by considerations of party politics, which is to say so long as the party system is to be maintained, that long will the octuparits ‘of those posts continue to play their various’ roles in the maintenance of party machines and the election of their party's candidates. WE HAVEN'T FARED SO BADLY. The Scword Gaeteway under the heading, “WHER IS ALASKA'S NEW DEAL’", recently to the American business and social life, this is one of the most hopeful auguries-one could ask for. Thus the Bell System’s net gains in stations for April rose as high as 48,160, following a turn in the tide which started last September, the January gain being about 20,000. For the first quarter of this year it was 108,000. Now President Gifford makes note of this steady recent gain, which he correctly interprets as a ‘“sign of general business improve- ment.” He says new connections are being made | at the rate of 500,000 per year, or about a 4 per cent again, the upward impetus having spread from the West to the Southwest to the East. The New York Company last month gained 4474 stations where it lost 14575 a year ago; similarly in the first quarter it gained 14,781 where it lost 19,163 last | year, This is the Eastern pick up. l It is here a case of “talking business” primarily. Japanese seem to be itching to give the bull in the chiga shop a few lessons on how to really mess up things. Now that the Literary Digest is conducting a new poll, that Post Office Department deficit ought to be wiped out. It really is astonishing that some resourceful Re-), publican hasn’t thought to charge the Roosevelt| Administration with responsibility for that Spring | Midwest drought. Bluffing All Around. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Discouraging reports from Europe indicate that the British have followed the example of other countries, .and are now trying to realize “disarma- ment” by threatening to outbuild other Powers. This sort of strategy has failed conspicuously in every instance, and seems certain to produce bad results in this case. Theoretically the threat at London of vast increases of air defenses is an attempt to compel the French to adopt a more conciliatory armament policy. Actually it is more likely to re- enforce the French in their determination to extend their already unprecedented national defense system. The German policy of quietly rearming despite treaties to the contrary was a case of bluffing. The Reich cannot provide itself with armaments rapidly enough to become a serious threat to the Allied Powers in less than five or ten years. But by threatening to build in contravention of existing treaties Berlin hoped to induce France and England to sanction larger German defenses. With the ex- ception of France the Powers were willing to modify the restrictions on Germany. But the veto of the French has wrecked this program of compromise. In the West it is much the same. Japan and America are making important additions to their fleets, hoping to put themselves into such positions by 1835 that they will have tactical advantages at the coming naval limitation conference. Actually those building programe are more likely to raise the general level of armaments and so increase ! the burden on taxpayers, without accomplishing any | other purpose. In Europe and the Far East, the two zones of | possible conflict, the evidence shows plainly that | bluffing is not the avenue to progréss in disarma- | ment. Rather it heightens distrust and invites com- petitive arming. Paper navies that threaten com- | petitive building are in the same class. They are | not:'an adequate -substitute for negotiation, com- | promise and agreements limiting the land and naval | armaments of the nations. | Statehood for Territories. (Seattle Times.) An interesting question will be raised if Puerto Rico and Hawaii press their claims for Statehood. Up to this time, the nation has been able to complaincd that we are not faring at ail well under the “New Deal.” It declared: Report: from Washingion indicate that Congress will not alter its attitude toward Alaska with respect to stimulants calculated to assist the Territory to advance to a point where it may go on its own. Among the suggestions which have been turned down by the Sub-committee on Ap- propriations is that of increasing the activ- ities of the Geological Survey. Thus we have a half-loaf situation where- in practically all legislation has been directed to a rearrangement of the fisheries and nothing calculated to stimulate the Interior, The Government retains a staff of en- gineers in perpetuity for the purpose of continuing the geological work of the na- tion. That this service no longer claims the full attention of this staff of eme gineers in the United States proper, no more logical proposal could be offered than that it continue the work undertaken in the Rail- road Zone in 1930, and which was the great- est stimulus to mining activity since the original Dawson rush. - ‘With all due respect to the Gateway, we believe it has spoken hastily and without consideration of the many acts of the Roosevelt Administration during the past year that are calculated to bsneflt the Territory. ' While it is true that appropriations for normal governmental activities have been pared down in Alaska, the reductions were porportionate with ap- confine its commonwealths to this continent and to the domain between the Canadian line and; Mexico. Alaska will be interested in the attitude of official Washington. It also looks forward to the time when similar consideration will be asked | for its Territory and people. Statehood for Alaska would have become a live issue years ago had the white population been larger. The issue has been raised on numerous occasions but never has made much progress. How- ever, it is certain to be brought forward again and again, as more settlers enter the Territory. Finan- cially speaking, competent authorities assert the Nortland now is perfectly capable of carrying the expense of a State administration. Streamline Civilization. , (New York World-Telegram.) Necessity, the mother of invention, in the new famed Burlington “Zephyr”' has wrought an inevit- able revolution in American railroad passenger carry- ing. To the tens of thousands who visited the train while on ‘exhibition here the doom of the present lumbering comets seemed apparent and imminent. For some time the B. M. T. officials have been considering installation of similar type trains. Competition of the bus and of the airplane sired the new railroad marvel. The railroads had to cut time and costs to compete and stay in the game. The new streamlined Diesel-driven train, capable of clipping off 108 miles an hour and costing but a third as much as the standard train to operate, is the answer. All it lacks are wings. Who knows propriations for similar activities elsewhere in the country. As we shared in cuts, so did we share also in emergency appropriations. Substantial sums have been allotted from Federal appropriations for Public Works, Civil Works, Federal Emergency Re- lief and every other form of activity launched by President Roosevelt to cope with the depression. And the very aectivity of which the Gateway com- plains, has been allotted $50,000 to expend this Summer on just the work that the Seward news- paper asserts was so beneficial in 1930 and ought to be resumed without delay. In the matter of appropriations Alaska has not fared badly. On the contrary, we have shared generously. So, also, in Congress, Delegate Dimond has been successful in getting many measures through "Congress because the Administration's lead- ers there are sympathetic with his program, and, as Representative Sirovich of New York said recently of himself, inclined to give Alaska’s present Dele- gate anything he wants and thinks Alaska ought to have. “TALKING BUSINESS.” In recent months the subsidiaries of the American ‘Telephone and Telegraph Company, headed by the ‘New York Telephone Company, have been reporting '» cheerful succession of gains in new 'phones in- led, where all during the depression the sub- sc1 discontinuing the service at a pathe mwm what the tele- ‘Shone, not yet quite 60 years old, has come to mean but it may take them on in another decade, and double or treble the speed, meeting the airplane half- way in a mutual development toward the prevalent passenger trahsportation of the future. This radical change in railroad train design doubbless augurs astonishing changes in many other departments of life, in industry, building construc- tion and vehicles within the next few years. % "The challenge of super-inventions materializing and just ahead of 'us, with all that these will mean in terms of employment and manner of living, clearly shows that the New Deal move toward a streamlihing Diesel-powering of our economic and political life started just in the nick of time. o “Strikers Confer 'With Soup Heads."—Headline over a Camden dispatch. Come, come, boys, no personalities.—(Detroit News.) Among other criticisms of the Whistler “Mother” stamp is the point that it would look a lot better if it said “Two” instead of “Three."—(Boston Tran- seript.) It is unlawful t6 buy votes, except when scared Congressmen appropriate public money for the boys. —(Los Angeles Times.) France who gave us Lafayette and took our cash, is going to defawlt her war debt again, apparently operating on the hard principle, “If you can’t be honest, be consistent.”—(Ohio State Journal.) In this ewnt«ry:;.ofiomo people attend the movies every week. This depression. is hell.—(Atchi~ son Globe.) » 3TMocCKI SYNOPSIS: It seema obvious that the two men found shot to death in Pierre Dufresne’s break- rast room killed each other. and that one of them is the crank who hax been writing threatening let- to Dufresne. But ters Sergeant Hoper has a different hunch aile thunah neither Dufresne. his wite, nor anyone else can shed any loht on the matter. Harper s about to question the household, Chapter 15 INQUISITION FEW minutes later Mrs. Du- fresne's sister arrived, with her husband, Richard Croyden. One had only to glance at Aline Croyden to recognize her as the sister of Sylvia Dufresne. Her hair approached an auburn shade rather thar the golden blonde coloring of her sister. Her features, too, though of the same distinctive ieauty, had less of the fragile and ethereal quality. Her natural manner was more vigorous and forthright, though not lacking either in poise or graciousness. Mrs. Croyden excused herself at the first opportunity to go upstairs and see If she could be of any ser- vice. Harper continued to talk with Richard Croyden. He found this brother-in-law of Plerre Dutresne a nervous, impulsive personality, but with an alert, incisive turn of mind. He questioned the detective close ly along lines which showed that he had a keen grasp of the essentials of the mystery and a bond of mutual !iking and respect sprang up be- tween him aod the Sergeant of De- tectives at thelr first contact. It was not until later that the de- tective found out that Croyden was the famous concert pianist. Croyden was not the only one who exhibited a strong interest in the strange mystery of the breakfast- room. The chauffeur, Donaghy, lis- tened intently and said nothing. And Harper was surprised to glance up ward and find D-. Ulrich standivg near the head of the stairs, absorbed in the conversations below. Hp caught the detective’s look and slow- ly backed away, with a sardonic gleam of the eye. When Mrs. Croyden returned from upstairs, Harper mustered them all into the breakfastroom. They formed into two natural groups, fac- inz the body in the chair. In one group were Pierre Dufresne, and Mr. and Mrs. Croyden. In the other were the two Whitmores, Andrews, and Donaghy. The detective gave a brief sum- mary of the situation, to which they listened in absolute silence. He dem- onstrated how the features had been altered by the disguise. “Have any of you ever seen this man before?” Pierre Dufresne looked on in stony silence. “Have you, Mrs. Croyden?” “I am sure | have not,” she an- swered in a very small voice: “Mr. Croyden?” “No, Sergeant. Sorry 1 can't help you.” o “Whitmore?” The black-browed Mrs. Whitmore spoke up before her slow-minded spouse could pull his wits together. *“No, we've never seen him,” she an- swered, sharply. “Perhaps your husband would prefer to answer for himself,” Harper suggested, annoyed by her alr. “Well, I ought to know. We've been married twenty-some years, and if 1 didn’t see him, John didn't see him,” she shot back, her black ping. 's right, I don't know him,” the slow-voiced John Whitmore re- ! plied, with a sheepish look. “Andrews?” The tight-lipped butler looked more glum than cver as he silently shook his head. “Donaghy?" o THE handsome chauffeur had been the most interested ‘member of the group. He looked long and care fully at the unidentified victim. “ft seems to me I h seen this man somewhere before,” he stated, slowly. His deliberate words had the ef- fect of a bowmbshell in that room. Harper caught the sudden tense ness, the sharp hiss of some one's breath, a catch Lhat just missed be- ing a gasp. His eye swept the group. Andrews’ look was positively veno mous. The detective scented some- thing in the wind. “Thinx hard, Dovaghy. This {s most tmportant.” Joseph Donaghy beld his pause to the limit, then he smiled and shook his head. “For a moment | thought 1 had ft—something about the face. I'll try to remember, Sergeant. May be it will come back to me.” BY WALTER C. BROWN. NG HOUSE That was what Donaghy’'s words brought to Harper’s ear, but it was as if Donaghy’s real voice had been saying, “1 know this man. That knowledge is dangerous to onme of you. Will it be made worth while for me to forget?” And more than one pair of ears was aware of the importance of both messages! - « s The following day, Wednesday, January 11th, dawned clear and cold. The heavy fall of snow had tapered off about midnight and there had been very little wind to disturb ft afterward, Harper, arriving for duty at Du- fresne’'s house shortly after eight o'clock, noted with satisfaction the undisturbed condition of the white blanket surrounding the house. A caprice of Nature had contrived this smooth carpet .o record a portion of the previous night's fantastic story and the detective proposed to make good use of it. Harper found Mrs. Richard Croy- den in the hall, deep in consultation with the black-browed housekeeper, Mrs. Martha Whitmore. Despite the late hour at which she had retired, Aline Croyden was serene and clear- eyed, and without a trace of fatigue. She wore a tailored morning dress and its sheer simplicity of line en- hanced her air of youthful charm. “Good morning, Mrs. Croyden,” Harper greeted her, and nodded pleasantly to the housekeeper. Mrs. Whitmore returned a grudg- ing nod and retreated to her domain in the rear of the house. “Good morn- ing, Mr. Harper,” Aline responded, with a cordial smile. “Or should I say ‘Sergeant’ Harper?" The detective smiled with her. “Not unless you prefer it. There is a theory that the best way to address a Sergeant of Police is to call him ‘Captain,’” he bantered, meeting her pleasant mood. “That's a clever idea. I shall call you Mr. Harper and reserve the ‘Captain’ in case 1 should need it later,” she sald, teasingly. “You know, 1 have been quite surprised at your assistants. 1 had the idea that detectives were heavy-set men with clipped moustaches, that they al- ways chewed on unlighted clgars and wore derby hats which they never removed, except possibly to sleep. Or do detectives ever sleep?” » “Somtimes for weeks at a stretch,” Harper assured her with mock so- lemnity, “but when a big case comes along we have to get our sleep when, and if, wa can find it.” MRS, CROYDEN dropped her tone of light raillery “But | am keep- ing you from your work. I fear the others will not be down for some time yet. It was so late when we re- tired. My sister asked me to take charge of the household arrange- ments until she is able to be around again.” “She asked you?” Harper caught her up quickly. “Dr. Ulrich told me that Mrs. Dufresne was not to talk tor several days.” Allne nodded. “Ot course, Mr. Harper. 1 used ‘talk’ in a figurative sense. My sister has already ar- ranged a system of communication. Whenever she has a question or a message she writes it down on a pad. It works out quite easily.” “By the way, how is Mrs. Dutresne this morning?”* “Poor girl, she’s naturally greatly worried over the possibility of a scar, and then these tragic happen-. ings are keeping her on edge.” Sergeant Harper and Mrs. Croy- den entered the breakfast-room. Al though the victims had long since been removed, the room retained a tragic and depressing aura that not even the bright morning light could dissipate. There were those dark stains on the rug, for instance, and the un- known dead man’s clothing piled on a chair, complete from the shoes to the beribboned nose-glasses. But the ‘most characteristic seal of the po- lice visitatlon were the numerous patches of dusting powders that had been sprayed tere and there in the search for fingerprints. “You certainly leave nothing to chance,” Mrs. Croyden observed. “This morning I saw there was a po- liceman guarding Mr. Dufresne's room. Isn’t that a rather unusual procedure, Mr. Harper? Surely,’ last night’s events put an end to the dan- ger?” The detective shook his head. “This is an unusuai case, Mrs. Croy- den, We do nos actually know that the man found in this room is the man who threatened Mr. Dufresne and attempted to kill him.” “But surely you have a theory? 1 thought the matter was quite clear.” (Copyright 1934. by Walter O. Brown) I Monday, Harper plunges into | the maze. 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire B s i) President W. E. Nowell, of the Juneau Steamship company, had received a cablegram stating that excursion tickets for Juneauiles wishing to attend the Whitehorse celebration would be sent down on the Dolphin. The Junedu Steamship company was making a combina- tion rate of $11.00 for the round ytrip from Juneau to Whitehorse. The Salmon Creek propefll:el. un- der option and being developed by George R. Noble and associates were showing up well and a re- markably rich specimen of fre» gold was encountered in the thud vein of the lode, according to John Perelle, in charge of the develop- ment, who brought the specimen into town. The Juneau grammar school baseball team defeated a like or-| ganization from Douglas on the Juneau grounds by a score of 3| to 1. T. Christenson and Clement' Hodges formed the Juneau battery. | i Mrs. Hazel Kirmse planned to return to her home in Skagway on the Spokane after visiting her sis- ter, Mrs. J. F. Malony, here for several days. ‘Weather for the previous 24 hours was cloudy with rain. The! maximum temperature was 55 de-| grees and the minimum was 42. Precipitation was .22 inches. Those who took advantage of the | excursion rate to Skagway and ‘Whitehorse and left here early on the Mariposa, were, Mrs. E. P. Stowell, Mrs. W. DeLong, Mrs. Lena Rutledge, Miss O. M. Lacey, Mrs. W. W. Casey, W. W. Casey, Oak Olson, Mrs. Oak Olson, J. L. Gray, C. W. Carter, Willis Cornell, O. E.| Lemmon, L. Rayburn, C. C. King, | C. M. Stockwell, W. H. Case, C.; W. Felch and Miss Ruth Anderson. Those drawn as jurors for the Skagway term of court were, from Juneau, W. H. Case, B. H. Del- Zenger, Cash Cole, S. H. Ewing, Clyde Winter, H. P. Tripp, Martin Lynch, John Keese, George C. Bur- ford, and John C. Patterson. From Skagway, E. J. Shaw, Joseph Beau- chart, Frank Cox, James Kennedy, | Fred Tanner and N. B. Bellenger. From Haines, J. W. Coombs, Jessie Jensen and Charles Beresford, and from Treadwell, George Stevens. e WOOD FOR SALE Block wood and klindling. Phone 358. —adv. TR Mining Locavion Notices at Em- pire office. & AN I i HOLLYWOOD | SHOE PARLOR Shoes Made Like New While U Wait L THE MISSY SHOP Specializing in HOSIERY, LINGERIE, HOUSE DRESSES and accessories at moderate prices —u e SRR o b F RYAN TRANSFER. CO | ‘Transfer—Baggage—Coal PHONE 29 Opposite Coliseum Theatre | zelle, C. J. Skuse, Robert Cragg, S.| | P PROFESSIONAL " | Helene W. 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