The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 5, 1934, Page 4

e e PO e 3 ¢ . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1934. Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER evening except Sunday by the COMPANY at Second and Main " published _every EMPIRE_PRINTING ts, Juneau, Alask fice in Juneau as Second Class Entered in the Post matter. 3 3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier »;".lnr:r?:::lh.and Dounlas m. $1.25 il ostage DAl f0: Bix monthe: in advance, s “hy-‘-‘r(;m\:;l'll“:"n‘r‘:;::x"”‘ar“‘}at}sgbi[ they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity e -‘r'Z-Tm.‘.‘{((’.“‘{.‘f’}}wr"'p"!{}‘frd‘x"‘m Business Offices, 374. or republication of ] fl“nr' ot e cise credited in this paper and also the | Jocal nows published herein. i ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LAR THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION OUTLOOK MORE ENCOURAGIN With the release of cannery vessels in Seattle, which presumably includes those in Bellingham, also, by the striking longshoremen and word that negotations are in progress for a similar release of | commercial ships normally engaged in the Seattle- Alaska trade, the outlook for relief from the strike| yesterday became more encouraging than at any time during the past three weeks. What today will bring forth is problematical. Gov. Martin’s radio- gram late yesterday to Gov. Troy that “prospects are | favorable to restoration of Alaska shipping” is cause | for optimism. Gov. Martin is in close touch with the unions as well as the operators and is fully aware of what is taking place. However, on earlier occasions since the strike started indications have been apparently favorable | for releasing Alaska shipping. However, every time[ something occurred to prevent that achievement.. So, in this latest development the strikers may again decline to act in respect to shipping to the Territory until the entire Pacific Coast issue is settled. For that reason, it would not be wise to relax in the latest efforts the Governor has launched for com- prehensive relief. His statements covering the whole situation in radiograms to Secretary Ickes, Delegate | Dimond and others are clear, convineing and to the | point. His request that some one make a decisioni in the matter is timely. These should be followed | up persistently. When the shipping is actually restored it will be time enough to call a halt. | TOGO, TYPICAL JAPANESE. The career of Haihachiro Togo, Admiral of ’he‘ Japanese fleet, which spanned the/emergence of the | land of the Rising Sun from the seclusion of | centuries into status of a world power, typified to the world the dominant philosophy of the Japanese | people. He was six years old when the frigates of the United States under Commodore Perry | visited the islands in 1853 and when in 1863 he. turned definitely to the sea as a career, the nnvy‘ was itself only eight years old. At 15 he was thor- oughly grounded in the frugality, fealty and filial | plety which constitutes the essentials of the samurai code. Organized first by the Shogunate, the navy was split in the clan wars which accompanied restora- tion of the empire in 1867. The following year Togo had his baptism of fire, being aboard a squadron which acked ships under Yenomoto, an officer of the Shoguus navy who attempted to set up an independen' :calm on the island of Yezzo, now Hokkaido. sSoon after that fight he was sent to Englanc Togo returned in 1876 to a nation that was just becoming navy conscious. Two years later ube first ironclad was acquired'rrom England. Also in 1878, a 1900-ton cruiser steamed westward with an all- Japanese crew, the first vessel to display Japan's flag in European waters. The first naval expansion construction program was undertaken in 1882 when 20 eruisers and 12 torpedo boats were authorized. The first battleships were started in 1892, but were not ready when war broke out with China in 1894, five days after Togo's guns had sunk a Chinese transport. Togo, now a Captain, was commander of the cruiser Naniwa. In the fleet were 27 other cruisers, the largest of 4,300 tons, and two dozen torpedo boats. The Chinese fleet was led by two 8,000-ton ironclads. When the groups met off the mouth of the Yalu River, the Chinese Admiral placed his two big ships in the center, only to see his right wing destroyed by the Japanese cruisers beyond the range of his heavier guns. The other wing scattered and the two battleships steamed back to home waters. Within the next decade the Japanese navy was expanded and modernized and Togo climbed to the| rank of Vice Admiral. In command of the main battle fleet he fired the opening shots of the Russo- Japanese War in a night attack by torpedo boats upon Port Arthur. This was on February 8, 1904, two days before Japan's formal declaration of war. Another Japanse fleet was sent to keep the Czar’s Viadivostok squadron bottled up. Minor engagements occurred off both ports until August 10 when the Russians sallied from Port Arthur. Togo smashed them, the crippled remnants creep- ing back to the shelter of the land batteries. Four days later a similar sally from Vladivostok resulted in another Russian defeat. These results meant there were no more hostile naval threats to Japanese transports bearing soldiers in increasing numbers to the battlefields of Man- churia. In St. Petersburg the Czar and his Ministers decided to correct this condition by dispatching its Baltic fleet under Admiral Rojestvesky to the Orient. The fleet sailed from Libau on October 13, 14 and Its nervous crews fired upon some British boats off the Dogger Banks and nearly a war with Great Britain. It sailed past hospital ships! assembled in Kamranh Bay, Cochin China. The Russians left Kamranh on May 15, 1905, and disappeared into the Pacific. They had two routes available to Vladivostok, the open sea east of Japan or via the ndrrow straits between Japan and Korea. They chose the latter, a fact promptly reported by Togo's scouts. On May 27 the Russians were sighted and Togo ran up his famous signal: . The fate of the empire depends upon this effort and men must do their utmost. It has been compared to NelSon's “England ex- pects every man to do his duty” which ushered in the historic battle of Trafalgar. The Russians were superior in numbers but their best ships were handicapped by having to cut speed to the progress of many old and slow units. All raged. By dawn of the ships were afloat. By noon three of these been sunk and the other two captured. Throughout the engagement Togo paced the bridge of his flagship, exposing himself to the heavy Russian fire, Once his staff officers tried to persuade him to enter the conning tower, but he refused. A minute later a square hit toppled the tower into the sea. Years later, when a friend expressed regret that had | so many young Japanese soldiers were dying in the 1932 campaign which followed erection of the State of Manchukuo in Manchuria, Togo replied: What greater happiness can come to a man than to die on the battlefields and be- come one of those enshrined in the Yasukuni Jinja? That is the soldier's privilege, more than enough to compensate for death. The Middle West and Zast report experiencing dust storms during the protracted drought. Any- way, one can now say that real estate is moving again even if it isn't exactly a sign of recovery. Although it's two years until the next National election, already talk of a third party is going the rounds. The third party gag is like the poor— always with us. “Standards of Goed Living.” (New York World-Telegram.) The Government's long-awaited rehousing pro- gram has now been laid before Congress as the Fletcher bill. Quickly enacted and sympathetically supported by the private industry it seeks to benefit, this program can hasten prosperity. This is not a half-baked emergency relief meas- ure. It was painstakingly evolved. It strikes at the old financing evils that helped to bring on the depression and now are holding back recovery. With a sound system for financing, America can take her most vital economic next step, the re- housing of millions of families in decent and up-to- date dwellings. This measure does not pour Federal money into rebuilding projects. It seeks to release billions of on a safer basis. It creates a $200,000,000 Home Credit Insurance Corp. for insuring private home improvement mortgages against losses, provided such credit advances meet standards that protect both home owners and loan companies. mortgage insurance under Government direction and standardizes such insured mortgages at interest rates of not more than 5 per cent, with amortization over twenty years. It provides for incorporation of Federally super- vised mortgage associations in localities where build- ing funds are lacking and for insuring share- holders in building and loan associations to put these hard-pressed institutions in a place comparable to banks whose deposits are insured. The need for stimulating a vast rehousing move- ment in the United States is past the stage for argument. Economists agree that recovery waits on the laggard neavy industries. Upwards of 9,000,000 families live in unfit homes. Move them into modern dwellings and you stimulate new wants and demands that may carry our living standards higher than ever have been. The Government's past efforts have failed to prime the pump of the building industry. The Home Owners Loan Corporation cannot make new loans for residential rehabilitation. Slum clearance plans have been held back by land speculators. The new project, given adequate cooperation, may blast the jam of private credit and allow the nation’s pent-up wealth to pour into its most productive channels. * Settle the War Debts. (New York Herald Tribune.) President Roosevelt has followed the only course open to him politically in discussing the question of the war debts. He has reiterated his earlier stand, that debtors who are in difficulties would be listened to with sympathy by our Government. The implication of his remarks is that he adheres to the policy -of earlier administrations that the settlements should be determined in accordance with the debtors’ capacity to pay. This in itself implies that very material concessions will have to be made. The hopeless entanglement of the war debt ques- tion in internal politics has become more than ever apparent since the passage of the Johnson bill for- bidding loans to nations that are in default on their debt payments. The question is not 50 much one of partisanship as of prejudice. The average American is convinced that most of the European debtors could make substantial payments if they wished to, but that they are determined to evade their obliga- tions. The truth that lies back of this conviction makes it all the more hard to induce the members of Congress to agree to substantial reductions, even where they are clearly desirable. The result is that the members of Congress are inclined to follow the easlest course, which is to stand pat, and point out that in proportion to the reduction of the payments on the war debts there will be a permanent increase in the tax burden of the country. The war debts should be liquidated. As a result of the depression it is hard, if not impossible, for some of the debtors to, pay the originally promised sums. Why not face this frankly and, after taking account of the present capacity of the debtors to pay, initiate new negotiations for a definitive set- tlement? Little is gained by continuing the present unsatisfactory arrangement whereby the debts can be used on both sides of the Atlantic to foment ill wind. A certain amount of face-saving is neces- sary in view of the intransigeant attitude of credi and debtors alike, g instead of continuing like children to def: other and call names. g —— and Africa and whep Rojestvensy reached he learned that Port Arthur had fallen. ts were dispatched to him and he w. proceed to Viadivostok. The whole fleet, cruisers, destroyers, colliers, supply and as a fundamental step toward a strike—(Philadel- phia Inquirer.) as —_— Oh, love, how many ecroons are committed in thy name!—(Philadelphia Inquirer. ) day and throughout the night the battle ! 28th only five Russian | private credit for this purpose by putting mortgages | For aiding new construction it provides mutual | | that gun was then held | topped by a felt hat. “Here they are, { piece—hanging up in Dufresne's Fmock] SYNOPSIS: Apparently two men, one a policemal and one g | straiger, have killed cach other in tie b ¢ room of Pierre Du= fresne's house. But Sergeant Har- per docs not believe it, and now e has evidence to back his “hunch.” The bullet mark in the wainscot- iy, supposedly made by the po- 1ccmas gun, docs ot it the bul- Chapter 22 MORE EVIDENCE ARPER'S eyes took in the dls- play of “exhibits” set out on the buffet. They stopped at the liquor glass from which the dead man had drunk, his fingerprints boldly re- vealed by the spray of fine powder. He crossed the room to a beauti- ful antique corner cupboard and opened the glass door. There they were, the matching glasses of the one the dead man had used. Using his handkerchief as a shield, he picked them out, one by one, and held them against the light. The first four were clean and clear. The fifth brought an excla- mation of triumph to his lips. It was not stained or smeared, for the sides were crystal clear, with not a trace of fingerprint, but one drop of wa- ter rolled about on the bottom. That glass had been used, dried, and re- placed—but it had been used. He dropped his handkerchief over the small glass as he heard a sound | In the hall. It was Lafferty, bearing | in his arms a bundle of clothing, Steve,” he cried eagerly, “every last wardrobe closet as neat and orderly as you please. Andrews spotted them right away.” “And I'll bet there's not a single thing in any of the pockets,” Har- per prophesied. The detective had guessed cor- rectly. Every pocket was turned out and found to be quite empty. The inner hatband bore no initials and | the maker's gilt-stamped seal had been worn away until it was unde- cipherable. The examination of the clothing further revealed that the labels had been ripped out, as Several broken threads mutely testified. Harper, however, did find a marking around the false buttonhole on the left coat lapel which indicated that a frater- nal pin or other emblem had been worn there for some time. The detective whisked away the handkerchief concealing the liquor glass, “I've got my nose down to the right trail at last, Jack. Listen to this—our mysterious visitor was not killed by Hamill. He died by the hand of some person unknown to us, The bullet that killed him lodged in that wall, and stuck there! “HE blunt-nosed bullet from Hamill’s gun that was found on the floor simply could not have made that scar in the wood. The real mur- derer removed the original bullet and substituted one from Hamill's gun. Hamill was killed by the bul- lets from the gun found in the dead man’s hand, there's no denying, but by other fin- gers.” | “Then there was a meeting here | between our dead man and another | person,” Lafferty exclaimed. “He table. Then Hamill somehow butted ! was killed as he sat there at the | into the picture and there was noth- ing for the murderer to do but add | another killing to protect himself from arrest.” | “Exactly. And the two dead men facing each other probably suggest- ed the idea. It would be quite easy ito wipe the guns clean, press the |stwo victims’ hands around the: i | i | ] But it should be possible for | the respective governments to get together like | grown men and face the realities in the situation, | Employment now seems to be regarded merely\ B e e . NG HOUSE LTER C. BROWN. stocks and leave them that way. Af- ter that I think our dead man’s pockets were rifled, identifying marks torn from his real clothes and a ring forced from his finger, prob- ably a signet ring. No doubt the murderer took them away with him and by this time they’ve been put beyond our reach forever.” “But what has this glass to do ?” Lafferty asked. | “That is our second clue and the | first definite proof that another per- | son was present last night. The dead man had been drinking. I reasoned that if he had had a visitor there would have been two glagses In serv- ice. “What would the murderer have done with his glass afterward— why, clean it and put it back in its place. And that's just what was done, only the glass was dried hasti- ly and enough water was left to form a drop in the bottom. There it is still. It is the only evidence of use— but enough.” W, | |“YT°'HEN the next question is— where is the real bullet?” Lafferty looked at the cold and | untidy hearth. “Were those ashes | sifted thoroughly?” “Yes. No foreign substances were | found there nor in the ash-pit at the | bottom of that chute,” he said, point- One drop rolled about on the bottom. ing to the iron plate set in the tiling of the hearth floor. “A steel-jacket wouldn’t melt un- der the heat of a log fire, would it?” | “No, but say, I think you've hit on something there. I believe the killer tried to melt it down that way. Look at those brass tongs. The ends are smoky and scorched but there was not a fingerprint on the handle, Wiped clean, no doubt.” ““What about the bullet from Ham- ill's gun? Where was that fired, and how? It has the proper shape for having passed through a human body and hit a wall at diminished speed. Only one of Hamill's bullets was used.” Harper pounded on the table. “You've got it, Jack. It was neces- sary to reproduce, at least roughly, the resistance of flesh and bone. ‘Where did Carlin go to fire his test bullets from these guns? To the cel- lar—and that’s where the killer would do it, too. Come on, let's search down there!” Leaving Officer O'Connell to keep an eye on the crime room and its exhibits, they made their way to the cellar. They turned on all the lights and looked around. “Whet did Carlin use for his tests?” Harper asked. “He filled up a basket with rags and waste and fired into that. We must look for something that would retard a bullet but not offer too much resistance.” ‘They wandered about, augment- ing the electric lights with the beam of their flashlight, but the unusual neatness and open order of the ce- mefted cellar held out little prom- ise of success. Mrs. Whitmore's efficient rule did not tolerate the hoarding of odds and ends of worn-out articles often accumulated in such places. Harper found his way into a boarded-off section that had once served as the coal-bin, before the advent of the oil heater, but now held only a few empty boxes and & collection of paint cans on a shelf. And there, thrust away in the dark- est corner, picked out by his flash- light, he found it. (Copyright, 1984, by Walter C. Brows) Temorrow, a mysterious stranger spies on the detectives. A Miles Automatic Air Conditioner is operating in the new Jensen Apartments. SEE'IT. Miles Air Conditioner can be in- stalled on any hot air farnace job. Harri Machine Shop Sheet Metal . 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire s ot " JUNE 5, 1914, game, of the team the previous Monday. The U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey boat Explorer, Capt. R. S. | | Patton, with a crew of 45 on board arrived in town from Excursion In- let where it had been for the last six’ weeks conducting survey work, along the coast. After taking on for ‘Knik Arm, on Cook's Inle, where a survey was to be made Among those leaving on the Princess May for the south were Mr. and Mrs. M." A. Howe, J. J. McFarland and Miss Elsie Moore. Jean Vanophem, of Brussels, Bel- gium, central figure among th: owners of the Jualin Mine, was to arrive in Juneau June 19th with a party of nine capitalists and min- ing men, according to word re- ceived by Superintendent A. N. Nadeau, who was in Juneau. Mr. Nadeau said there were 125 men working at the mine representing a pay roll of $25000 a month. They were driving the big 8,000-foot tun- nel at the rate of 450 feet a montn and more than 800 feet were al- ready driven. It was expected to have the work finished by the nexi year. After the first of the year crews were to be worked from both ends. ‘Weather for the previous 24 hours was cloudy with a maximum temperature of 53 degrees and a | minimum of 43, Three guessers tied for second prize of the Alaskan Safe naviga- tion contest. The lucky men wers A. R. Jones, of Seattle, travelling salesman, J. C. Stanley, local arch- itect and F. Terry. The prize was $15 worth of meals to the onc 1 guessing closest to the correct time the first steamer of the year reached Dawson from Whitehorse. e ATTENTION B. P. O. E. Installation of officers Wednes- day evening at 8:30 o'clock, or im- mediately following ball game to be played in Douglas. Lunch and { beer. M. H. SIDES, —adv. Secretary. . NOTICE During my absence, Dr. W. J. B. McAuliffe, will be in charge of my rpractice and office. adv. DR. W. W. COUNCIL. 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