The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1934, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1934. Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER shed every evening except Sunday the FEMPL PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Etreets, Juneau, TEntered in the Post Office In Juneau as Becond Class ‘matter. BSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by ot in Juneay ‘and Douglas for per _mi . , postage paid, at the following rates: m’eyyxen:'fl lrrhad‘:fnc;. :u.oo'l.u months, In advance, th, advance, .26, o barribera will confer a favor if they will promptly notity the Business Office of any tallure or irregulari 1 delivery of_their pape R eshone Yor Editorial and Business Offices, 374. F ASSOCIATEL PRESS. MEMlEdRmO ’l exclusively entitled to th all news dispatches credited to d also the .25 g 4 b’l’llt 1t f cation o luwfol:ol‘.‘eov;;lerwl!e credited in this paper an ocal ublished herein. Aus::w.clpncul.lxrlnn GUARANTEED TO_ BE LARGER THAN TMAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. THE SHIPPING EMERGENCY. Yesterday's grist of news anent the Pacific Coast Jongshoremen’s strikc is most disheartening to AI-I aska, The situation casts a pall of gloom over the entire Territory. diregarding all considerations of humanity with the loaded on the occasional specious plea that the operators have caused Lhe! disaste: that confronts Alaska, have blockaded Alaska, cut it off from its base of food, clothing, medicines, supplies, equipment and materials for its | industries, just as absolutely as if a foreign enemy | had laid seige to us and held us confined with its ships and guus. That is exactly the effect of the‘ strikers vole 10L to permit any more shipping of | any kind 710 Puget Sound ports to territorial| waters. . P . . The <ciegates proclaim there is nu emergency because Southeast Alaska is served by two Canadian steamship lines, In that pronouncement they are joined by J. H. Ryan, President of the International Longshoremen's Association. Even if that were true, and it is not, the emergency would still exist. Since last September four ports in Southeast Alaska —Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau and Skagway have had meager service from one Canadian company. Th' Canadian Pacific all during the winter operated a small vessel on a 10-day schedule. Its cargo and passenger-carrying accommodations are insufficient to serve either Ketchikan or Juneau with all other means of transport cut off. Not until the middle of June will the second company—the Canadian Na- tional—enter this field and then only to cater to tourist trade. The Canadian Pacific does transport mail, but the Canadian Nationgl does not. Eoch of them will opefate But‘h single vessel Wweekly and this is far from sufficient tonnage to keep the towns on the route supplied with supplies even if all barriers are removed. B . . . The greatest barrier is credit accommodations for commerce. Alaska’s incoming commerce is based upon credit arrangements built up over the past 35 years between Alaskan merchants and those of Puget Sound cities. It is a thing that cannot be arranged overnight. Without it, commerce can be carried on only on a limited scale. The whole idea that Southeast Alaska can get along on service from Canadian lines and obtain its supplies from Canad- jan sources is so fantastic and impracticable it would be laughable if it were not such a life and death matter. Nor is Southeast Alaska the only section of the Territory affected by the blockade. West and north of the Panhandle lies most of Alaska. Every inhabi- tant in it is dependent for most of the food, all of the clothing and medicine they use, upon the operations of the vessels that the strikers have tied up. There is no possible way in which they can utilize Canadian shipping. Their plight is too desperate to contemplate with equanimity. . B . . Despite the lightly-made assertions of the strik- ing unions that no emergency exists in Alaska, one does exist so grave in nature as to endanger Alaska’s existence if its cause is not removed and the cituation remedied. It has two phases. The first, of course, is lack of supplies necessary for main- taining healthful human life. There isn't a town or cettlement in the entire Territory that does not face a shortage of food. From all sections appeals have come to Gov. Troy to “do something.” And in answer to his appeal on behalf of the people of Alaska, the strikers pharisaically respond, “tell is to the operators, they caused it.” The second phase of the emergency is equally as serious and more far-reaching than the first. For a time most of us can live off the resources of the country, although the youngest must inevitably suffer from malnutrition. But if our industries are forced to close down, as is unavoidable if there is no relief furnished, we cannot longer continue as an organized -ociety. 'We shall be deprived of our sources of re , as individuals and as a govern- m 1 ur thout income, our businesses and our governmicnt must cease to function That is the picure Gov. Troy ha: painted to operators and sirikers alike. It is nou exaggerated. It is impossible 10 exaggerate it. The operators, at least those connected with Alaskan shipping, have informed the Governor they are willing to aceept the demands. But the unions wont deal with them. They will deal only with 8ll of the coastal shipping as a unit, or with mone at all. The strikers, arguing that the conditions do not exist, retort even if they do, they are caused by ty | watched with keenest interest by all residents of | parable to the same setup, none could acquire the In a word, the striring un)ons,’{ood or medicine just so long as the shipments are | decisions of Los Angeles and San. Francisco. Neither should Alaska be made to suffer absolute ruin be- cause the strikers cammot compel the southern operators to accept their terms. Government | intervention seems to be the only solution. It should be no longer delayed. ENHANCED MINING OUTLOOK. The negotiations just launched by the Alaska; Juneau Gold Mining Company to purchase the old Alaska Gastineau mining and other properties from the Alaska Mining and Power Company will be this community and district. The hope is general that they will be successful. 1 The Alaska Juneau is the logical interest to take over that group. Its own mine adjoins the old Perseverance mine, upon which the Alaska Gastineau | development was based. It is in position to operate that mine at a profit, if it can be made profitable, and there is little reason to doubt that it can be. | It is strategically situated for that operation. No other company or group would have anything com- same advantages naturally inherent to the Alaska Junesu, Acquisition would be a real and lasting benefit to this community. It would naturally expand' materially the scope of operations of the Alaska' Juneau, adding population and wealth to the com- munity. Of even more significance, would be the fact that it would lengthen substantially the life of the big local mine. So, for its immediate and future benefits, the consummation of the deal is greatly to be desired by Juneau and every other community in this region. We don’t believe anyone will care whether the Seattle longshoremen decided whether beer is a vessels allowed freedom from the blockade. Flocds and Sunspots. (New York Herald Tribune.) Captain T. J. J. See, of California, remembered for uncompromising objection to the Einstein theories | of relativity and to many other dicta of modern | science, has been wrong about more things than most scientific men, but never more wrong than in last wek’s prediction of vast floods to follow in itwo or three years the present recurrence of sun- spots. Whether or not there will be floods in 1937 no one can tell. It may be that the captain will {be proved right. There usually are floods some- where on the earth each year, as well as tornadoes, hot spells, cold spells, hailstorms and all the rest of nature's atmospheric armentarium, a fact which makes the fulfillment of any weather prediction a virtual certainty if only one takes in sufficient time and territory. But if the floods do come it will not be because of sunspots, still less because of the ireasons which Captain See assigns. Sunspots the captain sees cooling the earth by cutting down the heat of sunlight. ~ This earthly : cooling then brings down greater quantities of cold air from the upper atmosphere. This cold air mixes with warm air to cause rain. The rains account for the floods. To start at the beginning | {of this reasoning, it is not a fact that sunspots lcool the sun's surface or lessen the supply of heat to the earth. On the contrary, they indicate a | hotter surface and a greater heat supply, as has ibeen proved hundreds of times by direct measur iment of solar radiation. Although the sunspot | itself commonly is cooler than surrounding portions | of the solar surface, this is more than compensated} by the appearance of hotter solar areas elsewhere, presumably because the whole surface of the sun is being stirred by the gigantic solar storm of which the sunspot is one sign. Times of many sunspots being marked by more sun heat supplied to earth instead of less, it is difficult to see how this whole planet could be made cooler or how cold air could be drawn down from | on high. What the recurring sunspot cycle seems to do is to cause alternating periods of less or greater warming of surface waters of the oceans, more warmth when sunspots are plentiful, less when spots are few. The Saar Plebiscite. (New York Times.) On Tuesday the Council of the League of Nations took up the question of the Saar Valley. Under the Versailles Treaty it' is to be decided by a popular election next year whether the territory is to be restored to Germany or placed under French Jjurisdiction. Until Hitler came to power, it was generally expected that the inhabitants of the Saar would vote to resume German citizenship. But many of them are miners, or belong to labor unions, and | are said to have been given pause by Hitler'’s ruth- less destruction of organized labor through the Reich. However that may be, it is clearly of the highest importance that the plebiscite be conducted in a way to assure an unfettered expression of the will of the voters in the Saar. To this end, the League Council has done well to begin by providing that the election of 1935 must be supervised by a neutral commission, and also that a tribunal com- posed of three neutrals be set up to pass upon disputes about the qualifications of voters or possible violations of the regulations governing the plebiscite. Another important aspect of the matter will have to be passed on later. This is taking measures to guarantee the rights and welfare of minorities after the election shall have decided the question of sovereignty. The difficulty was foreseen and dealt with, in general terms, by the Annex to the Treaty of Sersailles. Whether the Saar is given back to Germany or assigned to France, there will be minorities, variously composed, ‘whose privileges as well as obligations must be safeguarded. It is not a case of nationality or race or religion. As Germany in the Versailles Treaty demanded and obtained a guarantee of the “educational, religious and cultural rights of German minorities in terrtories transferred from the German Empire to the new State created by the treaty,” so it is maintained that after the Saar plebiscite the German Government would be obligated to agree, as did the German delegates at Versailles, that “Germany is determined to treat foreign - minorities within her’ territory according to the same principles.” The fact that this under- taking has not been lived up to in the Reich as now constituted is only another reason why the League of Nations should insist that it must be STENOPSIS. Two men me found Aol in Pierre Dutresne's splendict Jowse. Although tie cvidence vointy to tho fact that they shot each other. Sergeant Harner does wot Delieve 1t, Then from Uhe reporter Iioward Dovle. farver learns that Bivs. Dufresne was not where she was supnosed to be at the time of the murder. and that someons has watched (he Dulvesng house from acrass the fouce. He reluses to wse Risnew evidence at once.however, . Chapter 19 . “THE ENVELOPES “ JUST the Bame, Sergeant, it would be a mighty handy weap- on to swing over their heads,” Laf. ferty said. “Ten to one it was some. body connected with this house who stood out there watching last inght.” “Yes, I'll grant all that, but we'd still be aiming in the dark. We are not sure whether the marks on the other side of the wall were left by man or woman. They've been cov- ered up too well by the later snow. On the other hand, their condition proves that they were made about the time Officer Hamill came along, for their condition is approximately the same. It may even be that his arrival caused this watcher to flee.” “The answer might be found in a certaln room upstairs. You remem- ber what Doyle told you—" “You think it was Mrs. Dufresne The detective banged who was hiddenbehind the wall?” “How did you guess it?" Lafferty remarked sarcastically. “The weather last night wasn’t exactly suitable for a pleasure stroll.” Harper nodded gravely, “Yes, it looks bad, but she has us blocked very nicely there. We can’t do much until Dr. Ulrich lifts his embargo and then all the lady has to do is say that ehe was outside watching the fire. Evidence that some one was outside the house is not quite the same thing as proving there was some one inside while the crime was being committed, not with an unmarked expanse of snow between the two locations. *“Ot course, we'll have to check up every one's wherenbouts for last evening. The real key to the whole question lies in the identity of the man Hamill killed. [I'm convinced he's not the absolute unknown they all claim he is. Donaghy threw out a hint of that, but Donaghy's going to be hard to handle.” Harper folded the sketch and put allet. “Remember,” Now, let's give science a chance.” HEY sat down at the table side by side, and Harper spread out the first bundle of papers. There were six photographs in the lot, one of the fingerprints of the unidenti- fled dead man’s right hand, one of his left, and separate enlargements of the thumb and forefinger of each hand. “Jackson cannot identify the fin- gerprints. They are not in our files. He is sending duplicate prints to other large cities and to the United States Bureau of Investigation.” Lafferty nodded approvingly “That’s a good idea.” The next package revealed a se- ries of photographs showing ‘the scene of the crime from varlous an- gles and pictures of the dead man {n the armchair, both with and with- out his factal disguise. Attached to these was Jackson's second, report, giving the: physical dimensions and characteristics of the victim of Hamill's gun, after the adapted and improved methods aris- ing from the original system of Ber- tillon. Harper ran his eye down the divisions. “Not much help there s [arper's d the list to envelope ylelded the prints made from the fingermarks found on various objects in the —pieces of furniture, the liquor glass, the decanter, the cigarette package and the gun. Each photo- graph bore Jackson's Identification of the mark as being that of the dead j man. The fingerprints of Officer Hamill were similarly certified as being correct, They appeared only on the zun which had been found lying un- der his hand. *“All in order so far,” Harper was forced to admit. ext came two small cardboard bo: The detective opened one, and from the midst of its packing of cotton wool extracted a scarred, twisted lump of metal. There was a tag fastened to it marked with se- rial numbers. “7S THAT one of Lafferty asked. “Yes, this is the one that rubbed ou. our mystery man,” Harper re plied, examining the rifling grooves in the twisted bullet. There was a second metal pellet in the box, not the bullets?” quite as mis-shapen, but likewise tagged and bearing a splash of red paint on the bottom. This was the e —— 3 his fist on the table. st bullet fired by Carlin from the ead policeman’s gun end used in domparison with the lethal bullet %o establish the homicide weapon. Harper had watched this scientific ‘theck-up being made on former oc- éasions and knew that the well-de- Eled rifling grooves, so plainly visi- e to the eye, served only to estab- Hsh the make of the weapon, the identification of the specific gun be- fng accomplished through a micro- scopic study of the web of fine lines extending between these grooves. . The second box contained three bullets, the two extracted from Ham- ill's body and the paint-marked test bullet from the second bomicidal weapon. With these was a paper bearing Carlin’s formal report of his examination of the bullets. There was not the slightest doubt but that the bullets had issued from the guns as specified In his findings. Harper ranged the harmless-look- ing lumps of metal before him on the table and regarded them thought- fully. “It's hard to see how our theories of premeditated action are going to hold up against this sort of evidence,” he mused. 4Still watching the fateful bullets, he ripped open the last two envel- opes with his finger. One was a bulky manila affair containing the assort- ment of crank letters which Mr. Dufresne had turned over to the po- lice at the time he had first taken up the matter with them. Harper put them aside for more detailed study later. . The other envelope contained the autopsy report. They had found no additional mark of violence on the unknown man’s body. A moderate amount of alcohol was found to be present, but not sufficient to cause intoxication. An analysis revealed that a cooked meal had been eaten about three hours before death. % Harper put down the Coroner’s re- rt with a sigh. “Well, according to :fi the scientific tests and standards two men, apparently total rs, suddenly came face to ce in this room and killed each r—just like that.” The detective his fist on the table with sud- #‘::hamlnc‘ “I don’t belleve ft!* (Copyright. 1934, by Walter C. Brown) : 2 . Tomorrow, the myste ot th @.Tnuu MRSt InEriden toes, T e i i e 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire e it e S MAY 31, 1914 With H. F. Alexander and his guests aboard, the Admiral Samp- son arrived in Juneau in the morn- ing after completing a trip to the Westward. The steamer docked at 5 o'clock and sailed for the south at 7 o'clock. All aboard were en- thusiastic over the trip and their enthusiasm was divided between the material resources and the grandeur of the scenery. .|few days previously at the home solos { | accompanied by M. Wallenberg On the previous Saturday the Juneau Dramatic Company present- ed “Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm” which was greatly enjoyed by a large audience. It was presented| under the direction of Henry Mc- Iver. Miss Edith Kempthorne, music| instructor and guardian of the Camp Fire Girls and Bluebirds, left on the Jefferson for a summer va-| cation. She planned to visit in1 cisco to look into the work done by the Camp Fire organization there. During her absence Miss Cordelia Davis was to have charge of the| Camp Fire Girls and Miss Alice: Margrie was to take care of the| younger members of her music classes. The Bluebirds had a picnic a of their guardian hecause rain pre- vented them enjoying it out of H. P. Crowther and Mrs. J. R. Whipple talked to the girls and later there was a musical program in which Fay Thane, Marian Belle! Pond, Betty Ward, Frances Nowell, Margery Renison, Margaret Shat- tuck, Venetia Pugh and Marie| Goldstein entertained the others with duets and piano and vocal B. L. Thane, of the Alaska Gas- tinéau, F. W. Bradley, President of the Gastineau Mining Company and the Alaska Juneau, Robert A. Kinzie, of the Alaska Treadwell, and H. Galloway, civil engineers, made a trip to Salmon Creek the previous morning on the Grubstake 11 and after making an examina- neau. Weather for the previous 24 hours was cloudy with a maximum temperature of 54 and a minimum of 37. Precipitation was .03 inches. e, NOTICE TO MARINERS Watch out for obstructions in| Channel due to construction on Douglas Island Bridge between! Tenth St. and Douglas Island. ALFRED DISHAW, Contractor. ————— 1 WOOD FOR SALE ! Block wood and klnaiing. 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Behrends Bank to earn and keep the good will of depositors from every part of the great district which this institution serves. Whether you require ‘Checking or-Savings serv- ice, or cooperation in the solution of some business problem, an alliance with Alaska’s oldest and larges* bank will prove its worth to you. [ —_ —_— TOTEM MARKET | Fraternal Societies —_——e. OF Gastineau Channel — B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 p m Visiting #') brothers welcome. L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. ENIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1768, Meetings second and lasy Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- 2d to attend. Council Chambers, Fitih Strevk. JOHN PF. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Becretary MOUNT JUNEADU LODGE NO. 1# Second and fourth.Mon- day of ~wh month in Scottish ‘e Temple, beginning at 7:2" p. m. u E. HENDRICKSON, Master; JAMES W. LEIVIRS, Sew Douglas Aerie 117 F. O. E. Moets first and third Mondays 3 p.m., Eagles’ Hail, Douglas. Visiling brothers welcome. R. A. Schmidl, W. P, Guy L. Smith, Secretary Our trucks go any place any time. A tank for Diesel Oil and a tank for crude oil save i burner trouble. i PHON: 149; NIGH{ 148 RELIABLE TRANSFER | NOW OPEN Commercial Adjust- ment & Rating Burean Cooperating with White Service Bureau Room 1—Shattuck Bldg. We have 5,000 local ratings on file I Jones-Stevens Shop | LADIES'—CHILDREN'S READY-TO-WEAR Beward Street Near Third | | A R e | R JLEAE A FIVRRRAR JUNEAU-YOUNG Funeral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors | and Embalmers “nght Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 SABIN’S Everything in Furnishings for Men THE JuNEAu LAunDRY Franklin Street between Front and Second Streets PHONE 358 | ; | | 4 JUNEAU FROCK SHOPPE “Exclusive but not Expensive” GARBAGE HAULED | Reasonable Monthly Rates E. 0. DAVIS TELEPHONE 584 Phone 4753 A Miles Automatic Air Conditioner is operating in the nc\$ Jensen Apartments. SEE IT. Miles Air Conditioner can be in- stalled on any hot air furnace job. Harri Mac Phaicking 5. Hea done in the Saar, if the plebiscite makes it German again. Our officers will be glad to talk things over the operators. In the words of Cain they seek to and to suggest ways in which we might be helpful. shift the responsibility to another and deny they are their brother’s keeper. In view of the danger of highway travel these g . . days the next standard equipment for automobiles we k the issue has been drawn finely[should be a chaplain—(Ohio State Journal,) enough now for the Government to intervene. If operators of vessels normally plying between ® ot Sound and Alaska are willing to accede to “H:f cer: demands, and they have said they are, they, should be P:l:l;wfl to operate eVED| poy pegutiful is nature’s awakening—the leaves ” interests cen in Los Angeles, 8an|ynfolding, the lambs gamboling on' the hillside and 0 other ports are not. Seattle shipping|the little new blue eagles leaving the nest—(De- anot be held responsible for the actions and |troit News.) ‘ . . The B. M. Behrends Bank ine Shop e, g Japan corrects an earlier impression concerning the closing of the Open Door in China. The u-uxq;? is to be ajar.—(Detroit News,)