The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1934, Page 4

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1934. coast on an extended tour of first-hand inspection. And prior to the opening of the convention, he received answers to questionnaires submitted to business men, through affiliated Chambers of Com- merce, in every section of the Union. Daily Alaska Empire GENERAL MANAGER e ROBERT W. BFNDER m;“fi'{{;m'# ';xrfic QEBWANB;«-T s&‘:ndd"-n:yufl‘: The significance of Mr. Harriman's assurance Streets, Junciu, Alaska. to the delegates that the course pursued by the | " Bntered In | ont Office In Juneau as Second Class | President was essential to business recovery lies in Watter. the fact that no disposition was manifest by them BSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by :fr‘im in Juneau and Douglas for §1.25 i, a The following ratas: t 3 By mall, postage pald, iy o One year, in advance, $12.00; slx months, ; advance, $1.26. 8 bocribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notlfy the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity to interfere with the orderly course of NRA and the further fact that Mr. Harriman was re-elected for a third term. His conclusions are widely at variance with those of the Darrow board. They reflect the judgment of | of_their papers. i : i -:-z?epafi,‘,‘::rfw ‘Bditorial and Business Offices, 374. the business fraternity of the c.nt re. country .A,nd| ASSOCIATEL PRESS, they are in line with the President’s own dccmnn‘ The Aflfc’f.?fa"#:u is exclusively entitied to th | to continue the NRA program for at least one use for republication of all news dispatches credited to " or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the more year. ocal news published herein. ALAISKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THMAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. Halibuters are permitted to unload their cargoes in Pugef Sound ports but the striking longshoremen put Alaska halibuters and salmon trollers out of business by refusing to allow their fish to be unloaded from larger vessels arriving there from Alaska. A suspicious person might almost be ex- cused if he concluded it was a plot to put Alaska fishermen out of business. B The Republican Party is showing some signs ofl life and would like to throw a real party, but to date it cannot agree upon who is going to lead the way. So it still sits on the side of the bed and waits for the dawn. Most repeal liquor is as disappointing as a drink as it is as a revenue producer. CHARTER PLAN SHOULD BE TRIED. The plan for the Alaska Railroad to charter vessels which normally operate to Alaska on regular schedule out of Seattle plus cannery supply ships conditioned for voyages to Alaskan ports ought to be adopted by the Federal Government. It has much promise in it and seems to be the only manner in which serious friction with the strikers can be avoided if traffic is to be resumed. The attitude of nounced in January of bringing the Federal Gov- the unions is unmistakably against any loading of 'ernment’s operations out of the red if possible, by ately operated ships, either commercial or non- the end of the fiscal year 1936. The good credit of commercial as long as the general conditions remain the Government is the cornerstone of confidence so unchanged. They are willing to permit infrequent R€CESsary for recovery. T R Fortunately the President has not closed the sailings for necessary foodstuffs and other essentials, door agalnst emergency appropristions in excess of but not to open industrial operations. the requested $1,322,000,000 if they become necessary, There seems to be but two methods in which pyt has merely pointed out that higher taxes must the impasse can be ended. The charter method go hand-in-hand with a larger appropriation if the seems to be available. The other is through armed budget is to be balanced in 1936. protection to strikebreakers, State militia or Federal ! Congress failed, when it had the tax bill under troops. Whichever is used, those who are fully consideration, to take precautions against the pos- informed on the situation in Seattle and other Sibility of unexpected demands upon the Treasury; Puget Sound ports foresee serious trouble “probable hazxng so failed, the onl{hcollx,rse ;h“: Congress can blcedshed,” as Judge Reynolds, Federal mediator, ,m"" gusue is fo follow the Presldenys iprogran, . ! Relief expenditures by the Federal Government expressed it. That should be averted if it is bumanly ;)¢ "he continued. There should be no controversy possible. It would leave scars for many years, Pro- jn Congress on this point. Federal relief was forced, ducing resentment not only among the longshoremen gafter too long a delay, by uncompromising necessity but other unions as well that would have a disturb- trailing in the wake of collapsed private charity ing effect on the entire economic situation for a and bankrupted States and municipalities. long time. Four and one-half million families are still The charter method, in view of the expressed dependent upon Federal relief, and relief funds are willingness of the unions to load Government shlps‘be“%i exl:f:d?d_ ‘:" the -mer?;,:gflfitgg?,; m‘ihb.]e with tessary supplies, might bring the desired o100 y : . 4 ¥ to provide jobs instead of doles follows the best | resumption of traffic between Alaska and Pugel . evican traditions. But playing politics with the Sound without serious friction. Of course, if "he,laxpayers‘ money and the unemployed man’s need longshoremen then refuse to load vessels under'js not in keeping with either good traditions or | Government charter, that is a contingency to be good government. considered if it arises. Certainly the Federal Gov-| Fights will be waged in Congress on two points | ernme: unot longer. stand by and see this Ter- —on the adequacy of the appropriation and on ritery starved to death through the cessation of 'attempts to earmark for pet projects portions of vessel operal | the $560,000,000 lump sum for public works and irelief. The President wisely has asked that the sum be restricted. No one knows now whether the appropriation, G v | together with the nearly two billion dollars already ‘'We cannot solve our economic problems Ry appropriated and as yet unspent, will prove adequate. lurnifig back or standing still, We cannot afford That can be answered only by business conditions to cling too tenaciously to old convictions or yield | ,ng weather conditions that cannot now be fore- too reluctantly to new ideals. The chaos of UN-icagt The “President, however, seems confident that bridled competition cannot be permitted to return.ithe fund will be sufficient at least until Congress ' Some Federal agencies cooperating with buslness:reconvenes in January. If events prove that he has must continue to carry out the major functions guessed wrong it will be up to him to call a special exercised by the NRA and the AAA. This does not . session. | mean an era of bureaucratic conirol, but rather a! It is this very uncertainty of what the fall and regime of orderly economic freedom in which the winte_r months will bring that should impel Congress industries themselves play their responsible pui BN e piveasin. President 'the Sge fand thiy he hes » g asked to divert savings from other appropriations The quotation is not from the President of "he‘tor Telief purposes. United States. It is from the text of the keynotei We are trying to carry on with a very narrow address of President Henry I. Harriman in opening ! margin. A straitjacket appropriation bill might the twenty-second annual convention of the United make it an impossible task for the President. States Chamber of Commerce. He was completing A his second term as the head of an organization| Although it may not be strictly according to which comprises the Chambers of Commerce of the |Hoyle, we should say that in the case of the upstate entire country. A shrewd New England industrialist,|man who became the father of twins twice in 10 few men have been in position better to judge Lhelm°“"h5' two pairs comes pretty near constituting ,. & full house.—(Boston Herald.) conduct and cumulative results: of the President’s recovery program, directly and indirectly, inside and| Resigning Chairman Sanders calls meeting to out. Supplementing what he could not fall 10 select a new G. O. P. pilot. The year 1932 con- observe from his office on Lafayette Street in yinced us that what they need first is a crew.— WESTERN MAN o Reuscron DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE IS The War Chest. (New York World-Telegram.) President Roosevelt’s budget message to Congress yesterday was an inventory of the war chest against depression. Appropriately, he holds to the determination an- n. NO TURNING BACK. CALLS OUT FIRE DEPT. GETS POLE IN AUTO CLASSIC Mrs. Anna Winn's house on Third OPENED, GENEVA Street near Franklin, scene of a brought out the fire department this afternoon at 3:48 o'clock. 0s Angeles Racer Wins| Coveted Position in Big ‘Workmen employed by the Krafft Cabinet Works on the repairing of Race Set for Tomorrow INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 29.— Kelly Petillo, of Los Angeles, won the pole in the 500-mile auto clas- sic scheduled for tomorrow on the Indianapolis Speedway. Petillo qualified for the coveted position with 119.329 miles an hour in tests. All qualifiers surpassed the 100~ mile average in 25-mile trial heats. Thirty three cars are posted to astart the race tomorrow. _ Louis Meyer, of South Gate, Cal- recent fire, were burning scrap from the house in the lot before it. Some passerby apparently caught a glimpse of the reflection of the bonfire in the window of a nearby Rouse and turned .in the alarm without checking up. | —————— Norman Davis Tells Na- tions of World What U. S. Will Do GENEVA, May 29.—Norman Da- | vis, Large, today told the nations of the | world, at the opening of the Dis- | armament Conference, that the PREPARING FUR United States is willing to join them in a “substantial proportion- ‘EvENT AI. WAR' ate reduction in naval tonnage and “ | ternational agreement re g ulating ‘sales of war material.” .MA, is seeking his third tri- mph. He is the only previous OSE-ELKS GAME CALLED 'OFF FOR THE SECOND TIME ‘The Moose-Elks game, postponed ym last Friday owing to rain, and ed to have been played this ng, was cancelled this morn- by President W. A. Holzheimer. McKinnon of the Moose s upable to assemble & full team the game and will be put until Jater-in the season. it the 1l ROME, May 29.—The belief that Premier Mussolini plans to finance Italy’s next “eventual war” by tak- !lng possession of the nation’s en- | tire economic system and operating |1t for the Government's profit, is Is |expressed in well informed circles.' | During the “war” it is exflnned; ;Lh.t all conception of private prop-; {erty, private initiatives and private profit will be suspended in favor, of state capitalism. Doctor, Bitten By Black Spider, Unconscious BOISE, Idaho, May 29.— United States ‘Ambassador at | likewise is willing to join an in-| 5 % - T 4 | ' A Miles Automatic Air Conditioner is operating in the new Jensen Apartments. SYNOPSIS: Apparently the wo- liceman and the stranger found dead in Pierre Dufresnc’s breake fast room have shot each other, and apvarently the stranaer s he who has been writing threatoning letters to Dufresne. But stranae strands of suspicion attach to most of the versona in the house. and Sergeant Harper cannot believe tn the obvious solution. He and Laf- ferty begin sorting out the strands. Chapter 17 TRACKS IN SNOW JERGEANT HARPER spread out a blank plece of paper and drew a hasty, but recognizable, plan of the ground floor of the Dufresne mansion, with the adjacent grounds. All windows and doors were desig- nated. “Now, before we look at those footprints in the snow firmly fn our heads. I've made a complete elreuit of the house. I'll mark {n the tracks as | tell you about taem, them you can go out yoursel? and cheek over my work before the sur gets busy and destroys them, X “First, here is the back of the house. There are two doors, both giv- ing onto a porch. There are two sets of hesvily-marked tracks, leading from the slde door of the garage builging to the back door of this house. “They were made by Mr. and Mrs. Whitmore, comizg over in resposise to Andrews' cull. There are no other footprints at the hack of the house &and, naturally, there are nome in tho snow to either the right or the left side of the house. “Seccondly, there is a confusion of tracks from the pavement to the front door. There is one set, filled in 8now. Mixed in with these are two sets of fresher tracks, partly flled in. The first set is the original trail left by Hamill, the second lot were made by Connally and Hilleary as they followed. “Then there is a second group, tortunately to one side of the otffers. They were made by Clymer, Smith, Doyle and myself, the second group to arrive on the scene. After that | had Connally shove' a path and ev ery one entering or leaving has had to use the path. “Furthermore, it was Conna!ly who actually traced Uamill's foot- steps from the callbox and he swears that when he and Hilleary arrived here there was one, and only one, set of prints leading up to the door. every single person who entered this house before the path was cleared, except the unidentiied man. He must have come in before the snuw started, or before it was deep enough to retain the impression of a footprint. “We know the snow started fall- Ing about half-past three yesterday afternoon, but it didn't really begin| snowing heavily until an hour or so later. It Is almost certain that this man was in this house before half- past five. Otherwise shapeless, but noticeable, ridges would have been left in the snow. Officer Hamill must have been killed as soon as he en- tered this room. Miller puts the hour of his death as between seven and nine. “As you see, that leaves the most important questions unanswereds When and why did the murdered man break in? What drew Hamill's the record of all who entered this house last uight between, say, haif- past five and balf-past ten, always excepting ou” mysterious dead man. As far as I can see it's an unassall- able record and It doesn’t turnish much ground for the suspicion that all is not as it seems on the sur face.” “Do you feel sure that these marks in the snow weren’'t tampered with?” asked Lafferty. “Can you rely on them entirely?" T e no room for doubt* Harper repiled. “You cannot walk through snow of any depth without leaving traces. Try It, and see for yourself. The snow can go on for hours after a track has been made and it will still be visible. That orig- inal, unbroken surface of a fall of snow cannot be duplicated.” “JJOLD cn a minute,” Lafferty in- terjected, “couldn’t some one tread in previously made tracks and get out that way?” Harper shook his head. “One look, at Hamill's marks will convince you that that wasn't done. I know that trick has been used. but I'll swear it didn’t happen in this Instance. I've’ looked at those marks very care-| fully and they are absolutely bonal fide. Not even a cat walked across |those grounds last night.” Lafferty thought it over. “Well, we \went over every hole and corner of I 3°MOCKING BY WALTER C. BROWN. reports, let's get this matter of the | and almost coverec by the later | “This gives us an accounting for | attention to this house? We have HOUSE this house last night and there was ro oune in hiding, walting for s chance to sneak out. So, if no one left the house after the shooting, and no one wac in the house when we searched it, there’s an end of the matter.” Harper smiled doggedly. “No, that’s not the end of the matter. I already bave hints of certaln things that require explalning. We're going to sit down in this room and recon- struct this affair, movement by movewment. If it really was an un- foreseen and aimless business, then | every single bit of evidence we have | gathered wil. fit into place—if it | does not, then something has been | tampered with!"” | “But who could have tampered | with 1t? This room has been under guard every minute since Hilleary first looked in and saw the bodies.” “Exactly. But what about the in- terval between the shooting and Hilleary's arrival?” the detective asked, drily. “Certainly, but you've just fin- |isbed proving to me that no one | could have left here after the shoot- ing without leaving tracks in the snow and ] know that no one was hidden in the house. What are you driving at?” “Simply this—the visible evidence tends to show that these two men were absolutely alone In this house and that they killed each other. But if the evidence leads us to Impossi- bilities, then the evidence must be | wrong.” i Lafferty gave his ‘rior a know- ing look. “Then you: ..ve got some thing up your sleeve.” ne accused. “No, | haven't, except an Instine tive feeling that we're going to run |into some mighty queer things. Now, let’s have a look at Jackson's surprise package. Perhaps we'll get some help from it.” | H:\RPER began to open the sealed | envelopes marked with his name. “While [ get these sorted and arranged,” he suggested, “suppose you step outside and check over my work on the footprints. There was | only one mark anywhere In the snow that I couldn’t account for.” The detective put down a little X on his sketch. “There it 13, a curved | gash In the snow about twenty feet from the side of the house. Just the one solitary mark and not more than an inch below the top surface. It's | the sort of mark that would be made by a bent twig, except that there i nothing buried there in the snow. It Is about eight or ten {nches long. I can’t see any significance, but | you'd better take a look and see If you can explain it. We may as wel! be thorough.” Lafferty took the sketch drawn by Harper and left. while the latter spread out on the table all the ma terial that had come up from Head quarters. But, before he had chance to delve into this, there was a discreet tapping at the door and | ‘Andrews’ grave tace appeared In re sponse to the detective's invitatior to euter. “There is a Mr. Howard Doyle tc see you, sir.,” the butler announced “but the officer won't let him in un- less you say so.” “That’s all right, Andrews, let him come in." The butler gave his stiff, jerky nod and withdrew, anc shortly after ward the Daily Ledger's crime re porter entered. “How are tricks, 59rnnnl‘!" he asked In his usual breezy way. “For a minute I thought I was persona non grata around here.” “Pull over a chalr, Doyle. I've been wanting to have a few words with you and 1 may as well get them oft my chest right now.” The reporter brought a chair over to the table, and sat down, unbutton- ing his overcoat. “Listen, Harper, before you start talking, answer me one question. DId you say anything about what ! did last night? Just an- swer yes or no, and no hard feelings elther way.” *“I did not.” “How about Captain Macklin?" Harper shook his head. “I'm in full charge of this case, Doyle. Macklin wouldn't do anything like that without consulting me first. The chances are he doesn’t even know about {t.” Doyle lit a cigarette and took sev- eral puffs . silence, his eyes fixed on a corner of the celling. “Get this, Harper. I've been pulled off the case, What does that sound like to you?” “It sounds to me as it Dufresne has had something to say to your front office,” Harper replied prompt-| ly, “and after that bonehead play of yours I'm not surprised.” | “Bonehead play, you call ft1* Doyle grinned impishly, “Listen, Harper, you'll be plenty glad I made it before I leave here.” (Copyright. 1934. by Walter C. Brown) | | Doyle contributes some Impq tant information. tomorrow, r— SEE IT. Miles Air C | ———————— ]‘m-flnkmflufl | Old nevspspers for sale at Em- been unconscious since pire’ Oifice. J - Tnureday. onditioner can be in- stalled on any hot air furnace job. Harri Machine Shop Plumbing Heating ~ Sheet Metal 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire — P MAY 29, 1914 The Alaska Bindery, recently es- tablished by George M. Simpkins, was doing business in its first home located over the store of Epsteyn and Gilmour Co. The bindery was fully equipped to do all kinds of binding and ruling. Mr. Simpkins was complimented by his many | friends for establishing such an en- terprise here. School teachers leaving for the south on The Spokane to spend the summer included Miss Loraine An- drews and Miss Lavina Wilson. Miss Harriet Case, also a teacher, left on the Humboldt on her way to Gladstone, Oregon, where she was to spend part of her summer vacation, later taking a special gon. Bound for Whitehorse to enjoy the annual celebration of Empire Day in the Canadian city, 65 excur- sionists left Juneau on the Geor- gla at 1 o'clock in the morning. Included in the number were Har- 1y J. Fisher and the C. W. Young Tigers who were to meet the ball teams of Skagway and Whitehorse in the Interior town. The players making the trip were, Fred Smith, Chic Harris, E. Brennan, J. Momb, E. Wright, N. Mosier, C. Maher, W. Frie, W. Zott, J Woodard and W. Cornell. Weather for the previous 24 hours was cloudy with rain. The maximum temperature was 50 de- grees and the minimum was 41. Precipitation was .36 inch. President F. W. Bradley, of the Treadwell company and Col. John H. McKinzie spenj the previous day in Treadwell conferring with Sup- erintendent R. A. Kinzie on busi- ness in connection with the mining property. those making the excursion ‘Whitehorse. to James L. Freeburn, superinten- dent of the Chichagof mine, left the previous day for the mine on St. Nicholas. He was accompanied by W. H. Gillard and H. Anderson of Juneau. ., Daily Empire Want Ads Pay “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” “Juneauw’s OQwn Store” R —— THE MISSY SHOP Specializing in | HOSIERY, LINGERIE, HOUSE DRESSES and accessories at moderate prices —m RYAN TRANSFER. CO Transfer—Baggage—Coal PHONE 29 Opposite Coliseum Theatre & | course at the University of Ore-|= Mrs. H. T. Tripp and her daugh- |, | ter, Miss Gladys Tripp were among | PROFESSIONAL f = Helene W. L. Albrecht PAYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldstein Bullding Phone Office, 216 " e T ’ Rose A. 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