The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 2, 1934, Page 4

3~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1934. l Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER eve evening except Sunday by the EM‘;‘:&"E?OP’R[NT!‘:“G COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. —— Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Becond Clase matter, SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Qelivered by carrler In JIII\QI‘U" and Douglas for $1.25 per_month. 11, postage pald, at the following rates: e year 1 advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, .00, one month, In advance, $1.25, Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the BUMIE'IIHP{HOQ of any failure or irregularity he delivery of thelr papers. ' Palephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 174. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEL PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to th nse for republication of news dispatches credited to % or not mherwueac;edlld in this paper and also the I news published herein, ACASKA" CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. THE GRAND FLEET. Last Thursday's review of the American Battle Fleet off New York by President Roosevelt, its Commander in Chief, climaxed the greatest |ra\'erst') of our Naval vessels in history. It began when the mighty armada sailed from the waters off Southern California last March. It steamed down the coasts of Mexico and Central America, passed through the Panama Canal in 48-hours and turned north- ward to its rendezvous with its Commander in Chief. It cruised some 6,000 miles—mighty dreadnaughts, the cruisers, destroyers, submarines, aircraft carriers, with their auxiliaries and 300 planes. More than 35000 officers and men manned the | Grand Fleet. And there followed them across country some 20,000 wives and children of its per- sonnel. No wonder Southern California merchants ' lamented the departure of the fleet and Easterners | rejoiced at its coming. To Mr. Roosevelt, whose heart is wrapped up in the development of a navy adequate to defend, | extend the maritime interests of the United States, and to a majority of the citizens, its water trek and grand review within view of lhe‘ nation’s mightiest metropolis, is inspiring. To other nations which seem bent on entering once more a armament race it may serve to announce the warn- | ing that this country—if not willing—is really to | meet any compulsory issue of that kind. If so, it may indeed have been a maneuver of great benefit. LIPPMANN ON POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTIC Walter Lippmann in one of a series of Godkin Foundation lectures at Harvard under title of “The | Method of Freedom"” said the modern State must ! assumé and is’ askumiing “fésponsibility for” the national economy because compelled to assure con- | tinuity of the people's standard of life. A mood of revolutionary change is fundamentally a result of the breakdown of post-war reconstruction, whichi was almost certain to fail, the old economy being unsuited to conscious control. He added: Between 1922 and 1928 the central banks and the international financiers co-operated | in the reconstruction of what they believed to be the old cosmopolitan capitalism. They worked under enormous, in fact under in- superable, handicaps. For, although they had control over money and credit, they had almost none over commercial policy. By 1928 they had set up again an international gold standard and had stimulated a free movement of liquid capital. . But production and trade, which had been dislocated by the war and driven into new channels, did not follow this financial leadership. They remained obstinately nationalistic in the midst of the cosmopolitan financial restora- tion. Thus the bankers and financiers found themselves operating the mechanism of money and credit according to theories i which did not conform to the practices of Industry or the policies of government. accounts would not balance, and the recon- struction broke down He went on to say that the revolutionary im-| pulse of the peoples was a passion for private security in the midst of public disturbance, and this search for security brought about the end | of laissez-faire. In practice laissez-faire had not meant that the government did not intervene in industry, but simply that it intervened piece-meal. Now the Government tries to deal with the economic system as a whole, to keep it working satisfactorily. The | | | AT LEAST WE CAN EAT FISH. The first serious inconvenience of the shipping tieup has struck Juneau in the current shortage of fresh meats. Little of any kind was left in town early today and only one shipment to a single local firm is in sight to relieve the situation: Not only does this affect Juneau, but all of the smaller communities in this district which depend upon us to a considerable extent even in normal times and entirely so under conditions such as have existed during the past few weeks. Of course, we aren't going to suffer greatly from the lack of beef, pork, mutton and fowls for a limited time. We have plenty of fish in the cold| storage and more in the waters at our doors. F‘lsh‘ as a steady diet may get a little monotonous but nk isn't going to do anyone any damage to eat it. We can’t sell our fish because we can't ship them. At Jeast we can eat them for a while METEOR Whirring through space the earth collides with ‘millions of cosmic specks of matter called meteors. Transferred from @a sphere of immense cold and almost complete vacuum to the relatively “dense” atmosphere of our planet some of the larger meteors OWERS. _ burn themselves up by friction and produce the familiar “shooting stars.” Probably 999 out of every 1,000 meteors never reach the surface of the earth after striking the cushioning layer .of air which surrounds the globe. But do they mnot' have some _effect beyond the flashing bit of light which they ?V! off in their self-destruction? Scientists have {million tests made in all parts of the world, is partly manm}and the Sphinx were built? |of time with Federal action. {not stop spreading printer’s ink. asked themselves the answer to that question many times. New studies from India indicate that meteor impacts may be still another cause of jonization, or splitting apart of the atoms in the atmosphere, along with rays from radium, particles given off Reporting to the journal Nature, three Indian by the sun, solar radiation and thunder bolts. scientists, S. K. Mitram, P. Syam and B. N. Ghose describe tests suggesting that the impact of meteors changes the electrical nature of the higher levels of the atmosphere in such a way that the electrical reflecting layers for radio waves are changed. The reflecting layers consist of ionized particles. During the last shower of Leonid meteors the Indians found out that the number of ions for each | cubic inch of the reflecting layers markedly in-| creased, although there were no other activities, like sun spots, which could have produced the increase. We understand that Bishop James Cannon, Jr., has been assigned by his church to the Pacific Coast There ought to be plenty of opportunity in politics there for a man of his talents. Republicans are reported to have taken heart after Senator Reed defeated Gov. Pinchot in the recent Pennsylvania primary. ~Oh, well!, it doesn't take a great deal to encourage some Republicans these days. Dead Men's Tales. (New York Tmeis.) A generation has passed since Dr. Karl Land- steiner, now of the Rockefeller Institute, focused the attention of biologists upon the curious fact that there are but four human blood groups. These are now designated by the letters O, A, B and AB. Originally applied in matching bloods for trans- fusion, the discovery has proved to be of great value to the anthropologist For the blood groups are inherited as entities and are more stable than is variable man himself. There is some reason to sup- pose that O was the original blood of all races, although J. B. S. Haldane is convinced that all four are primeval. There is no specimen of ancient blood. Hence much of this reasoning, even though based on half a 4 speculative. From living mongrels the biochemist is asked to deduce what he can about their pure but extinct progenitors. It is therefore a technical | advance of more than passing importance that Dr. W. C. Byod of Boston has made in successfully applying the Landsteiner technique to the tissues of | Egyptian mummies. These dead Egyptians were members of group B. The natives that live in the Nile Valley today are blood of their blood, flesh ‘ur their flesh. To what must we attribute the | {decline into which Egypt fell after the Pyramids Evidently not to a change of racial stock, as some have hazarded. The next step is to discover the racial meaning {of bone structure—the more permanent part of the |body. With that as an aid it may become possible to travel back in the corridor of time and behold |at the end the cradle of our ancestors. Ancient (history may yet become a branch of biochemistry. i Disarming the Criminals. (Cincinnati Enquirer,) Many persons of good intent have proposed leg- | islation to prevent the sale of firearms to un- | authorized persons, believing this would reduce | crime. New York and Massachusetts have such law.s: "réspecting revolvers and other weapons which can be concealed on the person. But those laws have | been notoriously ineffective because firearms could | be imported from other States. State legislation cannot be a solution unless it is univeraslly adopted, and might not meet the need even then. Such laws as those of New York and Massachusetts are likely to prevent citizens from obtaining weapons for self- defense, and do not impede the criminal, who mere- ly goes across a State line and gets what he wants. If a nation-wide regime were established, how- | ever, licensing the manufacture and sale of conceal- able firearms and limiting the sale thereof to mili- tary forces and police, it might be possible to dis- | arm the criminal class gradually and then prevent their obtaining arms in future. This view is main- tained by George P. LeBrun, a homicide expert who has analyzed thousands of cases in more than 30 years of experience. He admits the ineffective- ness of present State legislation, but believes it is practicable to disarm the criminals in the course Such a plan should not be adopted hastily. But it merits serious consideration. Granting that crim- Inals still will be able to get shotguns and other sporting weapons, there would be a check on indis- criminate sales of revolvers. The madman who tried to assassinate President Roosevelt in Florida had bought his revolver only a few hours carlier. Such cases, at least, could be prevented by a ban on the sale of weapons to unauthorized persons, A nation- wide ban on such firearms would not provide a solution for our crime problem, but it might help materially. A Town Builder. (Fairbanks News-Miner.) One of the great agencies for the restoration of prosperity is publicity. The buying public must be told what to buy, where to buy and the price. The average buyer is too busy to go out and look up bargains, so he relies on his town paper to bring this knowledge to him along with the neighborhood | news. | The home merchants may stop advertising,” but | it is a step in retreat, as the mail order houses will If the farmer has a horse for sale, how is he to broadeast the news? If over the radio, few would listen in; if by postal card the expense would be prohibitive; if by phone the loss of time would be great. The home paper will tell everybody for miles around for ten cents. Home merchants who advertise in the home | paper, help to sustain a home enterprise. They nelp build the town by attracting buyers. The| non-advertiser hovers in the background and picks up business from #isitors whom the enterprising merchant has brought to town. A Bentleyville, Pa., patient. who is hot when he should be cold and cold when he should be | hot, baffles the examiners, as he shows no other | symptoms of being a Congressman.—(Detroit News.) | One nice thing about an airplane sleeper is that you can leave the shades up without feeling that| loafers on the station platform are going to see you. ! —(Indianapolis News.) 4 | Listening to the radio will cure the toothache, asserts a dentist. But we'd just about as soon have the toothache as a pain in the neck.—(Los | Angeles Times.) We suppose that 3-cent coin they propose to make will produce about the same noise as a nickel when dropped in. the collection plate.—(Ohio State Journal.) ; s IR SYNOPSIS: The evidence points to the fact that the two men found shot dead in Pierre Dufresne’s Ureakfast room killed each other. Sergeant Harper does not believe that, however, although the only fact that supports his theory 8o far seems to implicate Mrs. Dufresng herself. The Sergeant begins a re= construction of the crime, .. Chapter 20 RECONSTRUCTION- “ A LL right," let's try to recon- struct the whole thing,” said Harper. “We've got certain basic facts to serve as foundations and we'll fit them in as we go along. We'll take eight o'clock Jast night as our starting point. Hamill bad just made his report from the call- box. It was snowing heavily, there was a cold, high wind. “Hamill walked along on his beat for three blocks. That would bring it to say, ten minutes past eight. He crossed the street above here but halfway over he changed his mind and came down Powhatan Terrace instead. What made him do that? Obviously, something he saw or something he heard. “From the spot where Hamill turned off it s doubtful that he could have heard any sound from inside this house, even a shot or a scream. If there had been a noise loud enough for him to hear, cer talnly some of the neighbors would have been up ana investigating. We'll have to make Inquiries about that.” Harper jotted down a memo randum, adding other pertinent questions from time to time as he pursued the course of the mystery “It 1s much more likely,” he con tinued, “that Hamill saw something What could it have been? A light in the house? The electric switch had been turned off at the source. The curtains of this one lighted room were drawn close. That fireplace — here’s an idea, Jack. Suppose that man stirred up the fire, poked the logs. You know hearth fires don't burn so well on a rainy or snowy night, for a damp chimney chokes off the normal draught. “A shower of sparks would shoot out the top of the chimney. I've often seen it on winter nighis There would be something to draw Hamill’s attention. This is assum ing that Hamill knew the honse was unoccupied. The whole idea hinges on that. We've got Lo find out whether he knew the Dufresnes were staying elsewhere.” “That’s a neat plece of deduc tion,” Lafferty advised, “but you've overlooked an Important point. What Hamill heard was the front door banging about in the wind That was the sound that led Cen nally and Hilleary here so quickly *“l doubt that” was Harper's re- jolnder. “I've not overlooked that. banging door. The idea that a heavy door like this one could go on booming from a quarter past ejzht to nearly ten o'clock without arous ing the other residents of Powhatan Terrace is nearly impossible. But there again is something we can in quire about. > “However, be that as it may, we have Ofticer Ham{l} coming up th walk. We're safe in assuming that’ his suspicions were aroused. Now, did he find the door shut and locked or open and banging? It should bave been shut and locked. If Hamil found it that way, he knocked or rang the bell.” “Wrong again, Steve,” Lafferty objected. “If he were suspiclous he'd go first and have a quiet look around the outside of the house. But the footprints in the snow prove | that he didn't, he walkedy straight up to the front door without any de- |’ tours.” ARPER thought that over. “You're right about that, Jacks We're not clear about that door. Assuming that it was locked, fromn | the mere fact that Hamill entered some one must necessarily have opened to him. Here, then, we have our unknown man facing the police- man. That would have been the logical place for any shooting if the fellow had been a homicidal maniac, for instance. “Instead, they go into the break- fast-room, through an unlighted hall. Why, in Heaven's name? Surely Hamill would have been sus- picious and kept his gun in his hand. Our mystery man then sits down in that chair, lights a cigarette, whips out his gun and shoots Hamill in cold blood! “On the other hand, assuming that the door was unlocked, and possibly banging, as Hamill's direct approach might indicate, then he'd probably step inside and try to turn on the lights. That resulting in noth. ing, he'd probably call or whistle 10 attract attention. Perhaps he ticed the light shining under breafast-room door. He would it and look inside. MOCKING HOUSE BY WALTER C. BROWN A Miles Automatic Air “Our stranger {is sitting very com- fortably at the table, drinking and smoking, very much at home and at ease. Everything is in normal order. The man is in formal dress and bears a startling resemblance to Mr. Dufresne. So, if Hamill recognized him at all, he would mistake him for the master of the house. Cer- tainly there is no reason why Hamill should want to shoot Dufresne, but nevertheless they Xkilled each other with a remarkable unity of purpose. That's a pretty stiff dose of theory to swallow!” “It sounds crazy to me,” Lafferty agreed. “As you say, a door could hardly be banging away for nearly two hours without some of the neighlors doing something about it. On the cther hand, doors don’t open of themselves and set their locks so that they can’t shut again. If Hamill had left the door unlatched behind bim, it would have banged shut just once and locked itself.” “Well, like It or not, all our evi- dence states that the door could not have been touched after the shoot- ing, since both men were dead. We | bave only to examine the snow to | see that Connally and Hilleary were | the next to enter the house. Con- sidering the shooting as a separate action, we get into another maze. “Our mystery man must have shot Hamill twice before Hamill fired at him, for Doc Miller assured me that death must have been in- stantaneous and his position in that chair contirms it. But there we have the dilemma-—either our intruder shot Hamill after he himself was | sbot through the brain, which 13 | surely impossible, or else Hamill | fired with extraordinary accuracy after being shot in the breast twice, once through the heart. | \yo\v in a single exchange of | | shots there exists a bare mathe- | matical chance for two men to plug each other so neatly, but that third | bullet throws it into confusion. It | | has me guessing and it has Carlin | guessing, t00.” | They sat silent for a few moments and both pairs of eyes were thought- | fully focused on the little row of | | twisted bullets. The thin wires that | held their tags glistened brightly in | | the pleasant morning sun. Harper straightened up with de- | termination. “Let’s pass on to the |unknown man’s movements,” he | suggested. “So far as we know, he was not hiding here in the house all the time. Assuming that he was the writer of the threatening letters to Dufresne, it works out something | | ke this | “He somehow managed to trall Dufresne when the latter left the city. On the return trip, he must | 1 | Y avetollowed his intended victim until be learned which route he was taking, then passed him and hurried ahead to pick out a good spot for the ambush, where he waited.” #That means he had a car at his diposal,” Lafferty interjected. “Yes. After he had fired at Du- ne and the latter made good his ape, he returned to his car and me back to the city by some other road. That would be easy. “The autopsy has shown that he ate about five o'clock. As this was a cooked meal, he could not have come directly here and foraged for food. By the time he got to this use, say between five-thirty and the snow was coming down fn est, but the fall was still so thin it bis tracks were completely cov- d over later.” t would not have been safe for m to conie sooner,” Lafferty said. ember, there were painters fng on the third floor rooms il four o'clock and the Whit- s did not lock up and go to ¥ rooms over the garage until e AWe don't know how he got in,” Harper resumed, “but there are no marks of forcible entry anywhere and there were neither keys nor bur- glar tools found in his possession. In fact, so little was found on his per- son that I've come to the conclusion his pockets were looted or else he is wearing some one else’s clothing.” “That's an idea! It he put on & facial disguise to look like Dufresne perhaps he put on one of Dufresne’s suits.” 1“Exactly. There must be more traces of him in this house than we have found. For instance, it is al- most certain that he shaved himself after he got here.” Lafferty whistled. “One up on me there, Steve. That one got past me.” “If you bad looked closely at his face, you'd have seen that he was very freshly shaven, Here and there | he missed a hair, which no self-re- specting barber would have done.” tGapuright 1934, by Walter C. Brown) The murdered strangers clothes, Monday, tell tales. Conditioner is operating in the new Jensen Apartments. SEE IT. Miles Air-Conditioner can be in- stalled on any hot air furnace job. Harri Machine Shop Sheet Metal 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire e s s e} JUNE 2, 1914 In spite of rain, members of the Camp Fire Girls employed a very pleasant outing at Lemon Creek. Camp was made in the Davis cab- in on Saturday evening and just before they retired, Judge and Mrs, J. B. Marshall called. Sunday morning, between showers, there was a picnic up the Lemon Creek basin. The party returned to town in the launch Dixie. Manager Gross has secured the services of Benjamin Bill and Hap- py Duncan, popular comedians, who had come from the Orpheum cir- cuit. They were clever entertainers and played the banjo and guitar, sang the latest songs, and told funny stories, for a twenty minute act, at the Grand Theatre. The new.commercial building be- Charles Goldstein was to be named the Brunswick. The cafe part of the structure was completed and was to be occupied by Ben Hersey and Peter Olson, who were to move their fixtures in during the week. J. K. Leaming was to have his bil- ready within a few days. Weather for the previous 24 mum temperature was 56 degrees and the minimum was 36. The Yukon River was open for navigation from one end to anoth- er and the first steamer to sail for Dawson got away the previous eve- ning at 28 minutes past 8 o'clock. The first steamer to leave was the Alaska and it was followed by the Tanana and Casca which left at 10 o'clock. The Alaska and Tanana were to go through to Fairbanks but the Casca was not to go below Dawson. Crippled because they had to do Gastineau-Juneau baseball team lost to Douglas-Treadwell in the third game played by a score of 6 to 0. The game was played on the Treadwell grounds. e NOTICE TO MARINERS Watch out for obstructions in Channel due to construction on Tenth St. and Douglas Island. ALFRED DISHAW, Contractor. ———ea— Heat has a beneficial effect on many ailments because it increases the blood flow. —adv. pire office. The Flor hop. | Florence Holmquist, Prop. PHONE 427 I Behrends Bank Building — THE MISSY SHOP Specializing in | HOSIERY, LINGERIE, | HOUSE DRESSES and accessories at moderate prices L ——] —_— RYAN TRANSFER. CO | Transfer—Baggage—Coal | PHONE 29 Opposite Coliseum Theatre 5 ing constructed on Front Street by : liard parlor and bowling alleys | hours was partly cloudy. 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