The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 15, 1934, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1934 ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Sunday by the Published _every evening _except EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Street Juneau, Alask: e d in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class mat T SUBSCRIPTION RATES. carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 Dellvered by r_month. By mail i, at the following rates: One ye ne 2.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; onc , in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will con favor if they will promptly ness Office of any failure or irregularity of their papers. or Rditorial and Business Offices, 374. Telephone MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republi n of all news d credited to it or not otherwi ited in this § and also the local news publishe ein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION, pe FINE PUBLIC SERVANT RECALLED TO DUTY. | In *his 27 them years of residence in Alaska, all of as an agent or representative of the Department of Interior, largely with the General Land Office, George A. Parks has rendered the finest type of public service. It has justly won him wide recognition both in and out of official circles, As a special agent of the General Land Office, as| Chief of its Alaska Field Division, and as Governor | of Alaska, he met the most rigid requirements. He ! respected the rights of individuals as sincerely as he | protected the interests of the Government. It is, therefore, with pleasure that w greet his return to the public service through appointment by Secretary Ickes as District Cadastral Engineer of the General d Office for Alaska. ' e mission of his office is to extend the system | of public land suveys in the Territory. It is a big job. There is more unsurveyed public domain in | Alaska than in all the rest of the country combined. | Its importance can be readily realized when it is| taken into consideration that all ownership of real property is based upon it. Homes, farms, factory | sites, leases of oil and coal lands, all of them depend upon land surveys Security of title rests upon their validity. Each year finds surveys more in demand. The work is far behind now due to lack spent of personnel and funds. The need will become greater as development progresses. Mr. Parks's long connection with the Land Office has fitted him pre-eminently to direct the work, and his long residence here has equipped him with knowledge of local conditions that adds to his fitness. Throughout the Territory, regardless of y affiliation, the commendation of Secretary »s for his selection wil be gener: STOP INDISCRIMINATE SHOOTING. ‘The interruption of communication between the tuning station and the downtown office of the United States Signal Corps’s radio station -is the| culmination of reckless and indiscriminate shootings along Glacier Highway that have become altogether | too frequent for comfort. A number of individuals have reported narrow escapes from flying bullets. Sign posts marking the highway and other property has been maliciously shot up. The financial loss in all of these incidents has not been large, it is true. But the effect is disturb- dng. There is real danger to human and animal life in it. It is mere luck that someone has not been killed or seriously wounded long ago. In the shooting of the cable between the tuning station and the downtown office, there was a minor disrup- tion of the service and a not inconsiderable incon- wenience caused to the operating force through necessary severi-mile transfer of some of the mem- bers. It was destruction of Government property. That is a felonous crime that can be punished by a heavy fine and long penal imprisonment, perhaps severer punishment than the intent of the Tesponsible parties ought to demand. That fact, however, ought not to and will not { There has been too much of this sort of It is high time ones. g pernicious activity in this vieinity. an end was put to it. ACCURATE INFORMATION NECESSARY. The Hartford, Conn., Courant reminds its readers that “the idea back of the NRA was to establish industial seli-regulation, with governmental help in coordinating the effort and supplying a measure of authority to prevent the good work of the many of the few.” Whereupon it remarks: Lack of cooperation within the industries not only was among the causes of the de- pression, but it was somewhat responsible for the intenstiy of the ill effects of the The conservative Courant, located in the midst of one of the country’s most important regions, states the case mildly. Considerable light has been cast on this subject in the public hearings on codes. Under the old regime of hit-or-miss! which witnessed a lack of cooperation, it appl‘m‘s:‘ that industries were also lacking in information. | For example, in reporting to President Roosevelt | his approval of a code as announced by NRA, Gen. Johnson wrote in part as follows There is great discrepancy between the information shown in the application sub- mitted by the industry representing the code and that set forth in the statistical analysis of the Research and Planning Division. The former indicates that sales increased from approximately $400,000 in 1929 to $2.500,000 in 1933, while the Research and Planning from being undone and hamstrung by the wilfulness depression. | report lists sales at $535,000 and $700,000 for . the same periods. The Nation’s business is unquestionably a matter of vital importance to the Nation. It would be important if it and our population stood at the figures of the night Gen. George Washington died, and infinitely more so since we have become | the first industrial and commercial nation in the world. The, United States Senate yesterday publicly an- | nounced the death of the bill for the immediate | payment of the soldiers’ bonus two months after the nation was acquainted with that fact. Caesar merely but Max Baer flattened his out. crossed his Alps, The Last One Gone. (New York Times.) In the determination of the Nazi regime to ex-! tinguish freedom of the press in Germany, one important newspaper after another has been sub- | jected to absolute governmental control, and now what appeared to be the lone survivor has met the same fate. For many years the Frankfurter Zeitung was a power not only in Germany but throughout Europe. Its authority in all financial matters was of the highest, while it was always faithful to the finest tradition of German cultivation and liberal- ism. Ever since Hitler came to power it has been increasingly hampered and restricted, though its proprietors and directors were nominally left alone. Now they have been forced out, on what terms is not stated, though there are the usual euphemism about the paper having been taken over by “old friends.” No one is deceived by this, nor by the state- ment of the German Foreign Minister that he hopes the Zeitung will remain as a German newspaper | with “a window to the outside world.” Nothing will | be allowed to get through that window which the Government finds in the least unpleasing. Unless and until the German Government awakes to the folly of shutting out information and reducing news- papers to the pitiful role of being merely bill- | boards to display official orders, there can be little | hope that the Frankfurter Zeitung will be restored to its old position of prestige and influence. It may be allowed by the Nazis as a name to live, but the spirit will have gone out of it. The 18-day grapefruit diet doesn't appeal to one of our fat, finicky friends who says he just couldn't stay damp that long.—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) As it turned out, the chief accomplishment of the war was to make the world safe for Japan.— (Los Angeles Times.) When it comes to the late war, we may not | know whose the blame, but are pretty certain whose default.—(Dallas News.) These are times when one-half the people think Uncle Sam is Santa Claus and the other half think deter officers from efforts to ferret out the guilty “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” MILLINERY Of mid-season importance . . . Something Different. tern hats of individual character. from. Unheard of Values-Only $5.00 AT * Juneau’s Own Store he’s a Tax Collector.—(Dallas News.) All pat- Fifty new models to choose | it been used. SYNOPSI Serceant 1 nex nas only a piece of string and the testimony of a manufacturer of dis- guises to go on as clues (o the mys- terious death of two men in Pierre Dufresne’s house The string may explain what became of one of the death guns. but the {nformation about the disguise only comnlicates matters. o is questioning the liousekeeper. 1who has told him that a maid recently left the Dufresues’ employ. Chapter 30 PUZZLED HOUSEKEEPER ‘[JOW long have you been living over the garage?” Harper ked. industrial t i “Since about the middle of De- rember.” “When did the decorators tinish?” “About two weeks ago.” “Why didn’t you move back to :he house?” “Mr. Dufresne thought it just as well to leave things as they were intil the house was opened again. I'here was to be a big party then, 1 selieve.” “Then, since the middle of De- { sember there has been no one stay- ng in this house at night?” “No. After the workmen left each jay Mr. Holliday locked up and srought me the keys. Every morn- ng he came for them, so the men ould get in and work.” “Were you here in the house at all yesterday?” “Yes, in the afternoon. wery room of the house.” “What then?” “I locked up and went back.” “Was it snowing then?” “Just beginning.” “Your husband was there all the time? In the evening?” “During the evening, did you at 1 was in | any time look out of the window, sver toward the house?” “Not that 1 recall. We went to bed early. The next thing we knew :he 'phone was ringing and Andrews was telling me that some one bad been killed in the breakfast-room and to hurry over. So we got up iand dressed.” “Mrs. Whitmore, what would you say it 1 told you that this house has | been frequently occupied at night during the last few weeks?" The housekeeper stared at him without the slightest change in her grim expression. “Am I to imply from your silence that you don’t believe me?” “l don't believe it,” she snapped. “kit's impossible, 1 would have known."” “Well, it happened. Probably it was the man who was killed last night. In fact, it's possible these ! nocturnal visits began as far back a8 last October, while you were | still living here in the house.” “That's absurd,” Mrs, Whitmore i declared. “Perhaps 1 can prove it to you. When this place was closed for the summer the ash-pits for the fire- places were cleaned out?” “Certainly.” “Well, it you will look into the pit from this room you will find quite an accumulation of ashes there—wood ashes. That means those ashes have accumulated since last summer, In other words, some one has been using that fireplace.” For the first time Mrs, Whitmore looked startled. “But the hearth was always clean and ready,” she muttered. “I would have seen had I've been through this room a dozen times.” “Of course the hearth was clean —it was swept clean every time it was used and the ashes put down the chute. Fresh logs were left in place From the amount of ash in the pit I'd say the fire had been lit half a dozen times.” N RS. WHITMORE pondered this in puzzled silence. “While the logs were beginning to burn, smoke would be coming from the chimney,” the detective contin- ueds “I take it that you never no- ticed that from your windows?” “No. No. We mnever saw any- thing like that or we would have looked into it.” “Another thing, Mrs. Whitmore. These two decanters were found on this table. When did you last see them?” “They were emptied and cleaned last summer and put away in the middle compartment of that buffet.” “Well, you can see that they've | been filled. The man who broke in here last night knew his way about the house. gAnd if you still have any doubts, there is the matter of the candles. When you were in here yesterday, what was the condi- | tion of the candles in those hold- ers?” “They were fresh candles, not used at all.” “Yet when we got here last night they were about to expire. Now a | twelve- or fourteen-inch candle will 3 MOCKI BY WALTER C. BROW NG HOUSE juot burn,down to its socket in four or tive hours. But we have the so- iution to that question. We found a box of candles in the drawer of the buffet. This box originally held a dozen, which are now only short stumps, more evidence of prior meetings in this house. The four candles you put in the holders, Mrs. Whitmore, are lying there in the buffet, untouched.” Mrs. Whitmore shook her head. “This is all news to me.” “Another thing—last night the eleciric current was switched off at the fuse-box. Is that the way you left it each night?” “Why, no. The only times we cut off the current was when repairs were being made to the wiring or fixtures. The lights were all ht when 1 left yesterday.” Harper paused again and there was more curiosity than animosity now in their locked glances. “Tell me,” he began anew, “did Mr. Du- fresne ever come up here in the evening? Any time since he took up his quarters at the Austerlitz?” “No, he did not.” “Did Mrs. Dufresne ever come up here at night—alone?” The housekeeper's eyes took on a venomous glitter, “I see what you're driving at,” she snapped, “and you ought to be ashamed to ask the question. The detectlve smiled exasperat- ingly”in the face of her fury. “Aren’t you a little quick on the trigger, Mrs Whitmore? 1 haven't made any ac cusations. [ merely asked if Mrs Dufresne had ever come up here at night?” Mrs. Whitmore sprang up. “She did not. See if you can twist that around, The idea! If that's what's buzzing in your head you'd better open the windows and let some clean air in!” ’I‘ill-: incensed woman stalked to- ward the door, leaving behind her a Sérgeant of Detectives who seemed no whit abashed nor em- barrassed by her vehemence. In- deed, his face assumed the pleased expression of & man who has sud- denly collared an elusive idea. Her angry suggestion about open- ing a window, by some hidden proc- ese of mind, had linked itself with a of twine tucked away in his pocket. In a flash he grasped the significance of that clue and the force of this intuition carried certi- tude with it. Mrs. Whitmore, throwing open the door for her wrathful exit, hit the lanky Lafferty, who had that instant put his hand on the knob to enter tho room. Lafferty hunched his shoulders and ed his arm in front of his face in mock defense. “What did you do to the old erow ?” he inquired. FHer feathers are all ruffled and, unless my ears deceive me, she was cussing as she left.” Harper had unrolled his piece of twine and was fingering it thought- fully. “Charming woman, Mrs. Whit- more,” he exclaimed. *'She thought she was giving me a piece of her mind, but she just told me where that missing gun was hidden.” “That's as clear as mud. Where do yousthink the gun is hidden?” “Come on,” Harper invited, “I can show you quicker than I can explain it. 1 know I'm right—it must be there. I ought to have fig- ured it out even without finding the string.” They made their way to the top floor, without meeting any one en route, and mounted the cramped and sharply-turning shaft of steps that led to the square, glass-en- closed cupola or tower that crowned the house. The detective raised one of the windows, after a stubborn resist- ance, and slipped out over the s Lafferty followed. *“What now he gqueried, turning up his coat col- lar. Harper stood looking around. From this elevation the surround- ing world appeared like a soft white wilderness, stretched away to in- finity. But the detective had only a mo- ment's thought for this. His feet left clear tracks in the pristine whiteness as he went carefully to- ward the edge of the roof. “Watch out you don't start slip- ping down that slope,” Lafferty warned, *“or you'll end up with a broken neck.” They walked gingerly along the danger line, careful to avoid any sudden slip, Harper with his eye cast on the short, steep slope tc his left. Suddenl, he steppec ahead and pointed down to a dark blotch in the snowladen spout that edged the roof. “There it 1s! There's the gun!” (Copyright, 1934, by Walter C. Brown) Tomorrow, a revolver tells Harper things he wants to know, 20 YEARS AGO ance at the Treadwell diamond and |anc at the Treadwell diamond and |!he weather was perfect. There +was nearly an hour’s delay while a dispute on an umpire took place. Juneau maintained the right to James Barragar and Treadwell re- fused to accept him. After much discussion “Dolly” Gray was ac- cepted as a substitute compromise. Judge R. A. Gunnison and fam- ily, consisting of Mrs, R. A. Gun- nison, Master Royal Gunnison and between Juneau and Douglas madel [ ! who had been attending school in Seattle for the last year, was a homeward bound passenger on the steamer Mariposa. B. L. Thane took a party of twen- | {ty friends for an outing the prev- sightseeing. Taking advantage of the fine weather, Jack Lawrie, Victor Ep- steyn, Mort Mathias, Al Cooper and George Mathias made a trip to Mendenhall Glacier on motorcycles | © the day before. They reported the road in excellent condition. | Thirty saloon men of Juneau and Douglas were called before Judge Robert W. Jennings during the al‘-{ ternoon for the purpose of listen-; ing to some instructions regarding qualifications for securing licenses during the coming year. Judge| | Jennngs said that he would revoke £ s VR U YO \ ) P i PROFESSIONAL ! Graduate Nurse Electrio Cabinet Baths—Mas sage, Colonic Irrigations oOtfice hours 11 am. to 5 pm. | Evenings by Appointment | Second anid Main Phone 259 1 e E. l Chiropodist—Foot Specialist 401 Goldstein Building Madam Gunnison, mother of the PHOKE 406 o Judge, left on the Jefferson forj®————— . Skagway to spend the next “wi{:—————’_‘ weeks while Mr. Gunnison attend-| ed court. DRS. KASER & FREZBURGER DENTISTS Miss Cordelia Jennings, daughter | | Blomgren Building | of Judge and Mrs. Robert Jennings, | | PHONE 56 ! Hours 9 am. to § pm. DENTIST ! Rooms 8 and § Valentine DENTIST Rooms 5-8 Triangle Bldg. Rose A. Andrew;—v #ied to attend. B. WILSON | R L T Nr. C. P. Jenne | ey i Dr. J. W. Bayne L T AR e e o Fraternal Societies | oF Gastineau Channel | e From The Empire Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY 9 PR e . e ~=3| | \fassage, Electricity, Infra Red prlh ;ecor;dln[\(’ NE 15, 1914, , Medical Gymnastics. #) it and o | n;:’n Goldstein Building =Y fourth Wednesdays at Douglas’ victory 7 to 5 in the Phone Office, 216 bl H:IOO p: m‘. Visitir sixth baseball game of the series ==___’_______——:" brothers welcome. John H. Walmer, aplece, There was a record attend- |B———x A _3__ Exalted Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary || =n~IGATS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1768, Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. _ Transient brothers urg- Council Chambers, Fifta Stresl. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K H. J. TURNER, Becretary e | MOUNT JUNEATD LODGE NO. 14t I Second and fourth Mon- . |day of ~wh month in Scottish r'‘e Temple, 2: | beginning at 7:2" p. m. L. E. HENDRICKSON, Master; JAMES W. LEIVIRS, Sen« retary. Douglas Aerie 117 F. O. E. Meets first and third Mondays 8 p.m., Eagles’ Hall, Douglas. Visiting brothers welcome. Sante Dozan, W. P, T. W. Cashen, Secr Bullding ious evening on the Grubstake II. = = The cruising party visited Stevens’ | Teléyticne F08 Our”trueks ‘go. aky Jisoe i | Passage and spent a few hours 5'______,_”—————————___" time. A tank for Diesel Ol | | and a tank for crude oil save | burner trouble. PHONx 149; NIGH{ 148 RELIABLE TRANSFER 1 ! & Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and | Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground | Ofice nours, 9 am. to 5§ pm. I: £venungs by .m;ol.nnnem, | e s & L NOW OPEN | =|| Commercial Adjust- | Robert Simapson ||| ment&Rating Burean | t D Cooperating with White Service | OP " = Bureau | I 1 — Room 1—Shattuck Bldg. We have 5,000 local ratings on file r— the license of anyone convicted of selling liquor to minors, Indians o habitual drunkards. A record must | ' be kept of liquor sold in flasks and | the names of all those who had been convicted or suspicioned of supplying natives with liquor must| | be registered for the information of government officials engaged in the suppression of the traffic to Indians. He said there were 19 sa- loons in Juneau and a large num- ber in Douglas and that no more| licenses would be granted in either! place until conditions changed. Al | committee was named to take al | census of Juneau consisting of Al-! len Shattuck, James McKanna, and‘ J. C. Readman and in Douglas,| | Frank Bach and Harry Morton. i { Weather for the preceding 24 | hours was clear with a maximum temperature of 80 degrees and a‘i minimum of 70. ! B FAIRBANKS HAS WOMAN | MAGISTRATE, CITY CLERK Miss Grace Fisher has been ap- pointed €ity Clerk and Magistrate at Fairbanks, SUMMER PARTY 4] o f Dr. Richard Williams £ : T TOTEM MARKET | DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Optometrist—Optici: 2 Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Room 7, Valentine Bldg. Office Phone 484; Residence | Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 DENTIST i OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building | Phone 481 | Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 409, Res. Phone 276 ) == Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—CHILDREN'S ‘ READY-TO-WEAR Beward Street Near Third | | s RN el | ! e L O JUNEAU-YOUNG 1 | Funeral Parlors f Licensed Funeral Directors | | and Embalmers | | Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 | SABIN’S Everything in Furnishings | for Men ‘ i Groceries—Produce—Fresh | and Smoked Meats | WILLOUGHBY AVENUE | CASH AND CARRY | | FROCKS | T THE LATEST | | | Linens—Organdies—Silks | | COLEMANS | Thomas Hardware Co. i el e s succeeding Charles W. Joynt, who recently resigned as | B——————————% e e S City Clerk, and J. G. 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