The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 16, 1934, Page 4

Not st L 18 mo I yessels. He can't fish in without them. He believes, and very properly, that ‘the law, as represented by the International Fish- Daily Alaska Empire GENERAL MANAGER | Sunday by _the Second " and Main | cept at Streets, June Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second tter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25| per_month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. Subs will confer a favor if they will promptly notify ny failure or irregularity | in Telephon MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. A ated ititled to the s credited to and also the Press is exclusively SUARA OF ANY OTHER TEED TO BE LARGER PUBLICATION RESIDENT FISHERMEN AT DISADVANTAGE. The resident halibut fishermen of Southeast| Alaska, who lar owners and operators of vesesls 0 small to trips tc Western Alaska | areas which are negotiated in almost absolute safety by the schooners which for the most part come from | P t Sound, complain that the regulations of the; International Fisheries Commission work to their | great disadvar e, and, unless there is some mn:h-l‘ fication which to fish periods durir will permit them longer the year, they will soon be unable to Apparently there is just ground | earn a livelihood for their complaint, The waters of the North Pacific Ocean off the | » of Alaska, where the fishing banks are e divided into two areas, the dividing line being d at Cape Spencer. In each area the| Commission fixes a maximum quantity of fish lhati can be taken. It opened the season this year on| March 1. No closing date was set, but the fishermen were told that hen the m mum was reached in either area it would be closely entirely for fish- ing for the remainder of the year. The same procedure was followed last season. Area two, in which the waters of Southeast Alaska are contained, was closed on August 26, 1933. Local fishermen, with their smaller vessels, were forced | to remain idle from then until last March. The| schooners, mainly owned by nonresidents of Alaska, fished until late in October. Word has been re- ccived here by the fishermen that area two will be closed again this year in August, due to the fact that its quota will have been exhausted by that time Last season, it was claimed in some quarters, and | credited in officlal circles, that the local fishermen, | which includes all Alaskan halibuters, refused lr:! curtail their operations while those of Puget Sound | did. That was cited as a reason why the quota in area two was used up so quickly. This year, how- ever, local fishermen did curtail in agreement with! those of Puget Sound. After each trip, the boats | laid up 10 days. Each boat limited to the amount it could take per man in its crew. And still the result is unchanged. Curtailment, it seems, has not benefitted the resident fishermen at all. On the contrary it has cost him money since he hes lost several trips he might have made to the biénks, and the fish he might have taken had there been no limit set for the boats. How has it affected the Puget Sound vessels? The resident fishermen claim they have not been | injured in any way. They say positively that the | larger vessels, or some of them, instead of shipping | nine-men crews, increased them to ten thus making up any loss that could occur from boat limitation. They further allege that the Puget Sounders have fished so extensively in area two, which requires a | much shorter Tun than area three, that any possible benefit that might have accrued from curtailment, has been impossible, was It is e to understand how and why that might be. Vessels fishing out of Seattle, for in- stance, would naturally find it more profitable to fish south of Cape Spencer than west of that line to the Kodiak banks. The time consumed in making the voyage to the first would be much less than to the latter. And consequently, the number of trips they could. make, regardless of the 10-day layup would be correspondingly more numerous. As they, too, are anxious to earn as much each season as they can, it seems inevitable that they would fish in area two as long as the regulations permit. There is another advantage that is bound to result to the non-resident schooner operators from the early closing of area two. As soon as that is accomplished, competition from the small boats i5 cut off. The larger vessels have the market all to themselves. The supply of fresh fish is reduced substantially, and the fishermen who has them to sell ordinarily would get higher prices for his fares These things are pretty generally fact by resident halibut fishermen. They are bound to resent them. They' are convinced the present system works to the advantage of the nonresident. It is true that the Alaskan is not barred by law from area three. Usually, however, he is barred by economics. He is a man of small means. He hasn't the money or credit to purchase expensive fishing the unsheltered waters accepted as will at least permit him to fish long enough each to earn a living for himself and his family there doesn't seem to be anything radical or unjust about that belief. FEARS ARE RELIEVED. The strajghtforward declaration of Seattle long- officials that the efforts of Mayor Charles re-open all shipping traffic in that $ the recently made agreement and operators of Alaska vessels aggressive policy by SR . Smith will | week |Se;u:hu new Mayor would result in resumption of natural. ngth !lh(‘ Alaska tieup. Such fears but Rumors that thé unions, to p refute assertions that they in blockade Alaska rally they were ¢ Now that were | and | W were h uld and industry. round prov ed up to splendid the prom: Again have he oremen proved them- | selves to be reasonable and of sound judgment their attitude toward Alaska. Their action will be warmly and widely commended in the Territory in From all indications, and the various and. sundry iefault notes, it would appear as if the forgotten man has a better chance of belng remembered than‘ he forgotten payments. Jupiter Pluvius should go on a prolonged | in these latitudes, we imagine there would | be no appeals for any board of. mediators. It redoubtable youth NRA has it all over making the front page every day, but old boys COD and IOU still cause the most| trouble e R R i ibly the Darrow Board has decided that its| 1 report was so coolly received that it is| essary for it to quit talking =about principles | NRA and turn to criticising its personnel. igin, Reading the Ads. (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) Do you read adveriise 7f not, you may be missing much of the real news of the day— | news that may contribute substantially toward business success. Opportunity knocks at the door | of the reader of advertisements. Many men owe their success to the habit of reading advertisements. The ads are silent salesmen, offering their proposi- tions to the reading public. Much careful attention | is put into the average newspaper or magazine ad. | Space is valuable, and most buyers of such space The reader, passing over the advertising pagesf and intent on more entertaining reading, may be | short-changing himself. He may feel that there is | nothing he cares to buy, but he may find, tucked | away in the ads, an inquiry’ regarding that which | he might like to sell. Through a more careful read- ing of ad¥ertisements he will broaden his knowledge of what is going on about him in the field of business. Watch a keen business man reading his newspaper. He r 5 the news heads, and quickly | selects the items of particular interest, but before he turns the pages he ns the advertisements. He has found that it pays not to pass the ads| too hurriedly. Often he finds profitable buys and profitable sales that he would have otherwise | missed. Opportunities are offered in many ways— opportunities that he cannot afford to miss. There | |are many business leads in the advertising columns of a daily newspaper. Many of the ads you read, if you make it a habit to read ads, will have no appeal to you per- sonally, but often you will find one that does— | one that may net you a sum worth while. Thou- sands of dollars are frittered away through poor advertising copy. Many papers are cluttered with a hodge-podge of senseless advertising, but even on such pages there may be an ad that you can ill afford to miss. Some one with an important mes- sage to you may be seeking your attention. If you refuse to read the advertisements you will miss that message. Your business competitor may obtain a ! distinct advantage if he reads the advertisements | while you, feeling there is nothing you cage to buy, hurriedly turn the pages seeking the lighter news. Rgad the ads! It is a habit that pays. And, onece you have acquired the habit, you will wonder why you passed up so much constructive news | during the years you felt that the reading of ads all right for those wishing to buy, for | others a waste of time. —_— To the Commander in Chief. (New York Herald Tribune.) To few Presidents has so magnificent an hour been granted as to President Roosevelt standing on the bridge of the Indianapolis as the might of the Navy swept by. The salute came to him by virtue of his great office, which names him “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.” But few Presidents have done more to justify that title. It did not need the zest of Mr. Roosevelt’s smile | or his warm message of praise to establish the | €special interest which he feels in the nation’s| first line of defense. The record was written in | his steady, courageous support of the Navy's up- | building before the fleet review was thought of. | It is simple justice, therefore, to note that it | temained for this Democratic President to do for th_e Navy what his Republican predecessors had falled to do. In saluating the President upon the oceasion of this great review, we are glad to express | our admiration for the statemanship which made‘ the roar of these guns in honor of the Commander | a richly deserved tribute, — R The Bootlegger's Friend. (New York World-Telegram.) i The Coast Guard is spending taxpayers' money for a fleet of seaplanes to wage war on the rum | runners. Had we used discretion in our liquor tariffs there | would be no rum rows today off the Atlantic, | Pacific and Gulf coasts. The rum rows exist chiefly because of the huge profits to be gained by smuggling in liquor to avoid the $5 a gallon tariff. The Internal Revenue Bureau is preparing to spend more of the taxpayers' millions to mobilize a liquor tax enforcement army of 4,000. | Such a vast and costly bureaucracy would be unnecessary were our liquor tariffs and taxes and the profits of distillers kept within reason. We travel in a mad circle. We levy impossible tariffs and prevent the legal liquor industry from | replenishing its inadequate supply of good liquor. | We levy stiff taxes and make even tne cheapest | ::-gnl liquor 0o costly for the average man's pocket- 00K. Thus we make it possible for the bootleg in dustry to thrive by robbing our Government of reve- ¢ nue. And the Government dissipates the revenue | it does collect by buying meore equipment snd! employing more jobholders to wage an uneven and | unnecessary war or smugglers and bootleggers. | We can just seem to hear that proud Ontario mother crooning softly to her recently arrived quin- tuplets a sweet lullaby: “Sleep jointly and col- | lectively, my little ones! Sleep simultaneously, | my preity ones! Sleep!—(Boston Herald.) i Considering the designs of bathing suits for the better reception of sun tan, Old Sol certainly has his work cut out for him.—(Buffalo Courier.) have something worthwhile to say. B SYNOPSIS: Sergeant Harper has needed to find a certain .. & in_ Pierre Dufresne’s house were murdered by a third person, and did_not kill eaoh other. Dufresne and others of his household have placed obstacles in his way. Now he has found the gun hidden in one of the roof gutters. Chapter 31 A GUN TALKS I.\' his eagerness Harper bent down to reach the revolver, but Lat- ferty jerked him back by the collar. “You can’t get it that way; you'll | lose your balance. We need a rake or a pole.” “I'm not going to wait for that. Here, hold me while [ erawl after ft.” Harper stretched down the slope head first, while Lafferty kept a tight grip on his ankles. Lower and lower he crawled until he picked up the gun by the barrel. : Lafferty promptly hauled him back to safety. Without even both- ering to shake the snow from his clothing, Harper stood up and broke open the revolver. “There you are! One empty shell! Jack, this is the real murder gun. Now, if we only knew who hid it up here!” They hurried downstairs, and Lafferty sprayed the heavy revolver with the insufflator. He tapped the BY WALTER C. BROWN. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1934, HOUSE working brain. Not many people could think up a good trick like that under sudden pressure. If he hadn't dropped the twine we might still be at sea.” “Just a moment, Jack. We really have no proof that Dufresne hid the gun. We're assuming that the twine fell from thie pocket of his robe, but we must remember that every one in the house, except Mrs. Dufresne and her nurse, was there at the time. The fact that it was found near where he was sitting doesn’t prove he dropped it.” “But didn’t you yourself see Du fresne searching the room for it, later?” “Let's not jump to conclusions, Jack. We've got to weigh every- thing down to the last grain. If we solve this thing at all it will be only because we strike just the right bal- ance.” “Who else could have been smarst enough to engineer it?” Lafierty challenged. “TCHAT'S a dangerous way to rea- son it out. We know the gun was in Dufresne’s room this morn- ing, for you saw it there. But did Dufresne know it was there? fact that it was there to be seen as late as this morning’s search raises a doubt. If you had such a gun to conceal, wouldn’t you pick a better He picked up the gun. gun with steady strokes of an un- opened pocket-knife, to dislodge. all loose particles, then bent his tall body over the table as he adjusted the circular lens to the proper height and squinted through the glass at the magnified surfaces. Sergeant Harper stood beside him, watching closely. But his expres- sion did not reflect the extreme dis- appointment of Lafferty’s as the lat- er straightened up and muttered, “Not a mark—curse the luck!” “I didn’t expect to find any,” Har- per commented, “We've got to be content with having recovered the gun and that’s something at least. | Direct proof of chicanery is what we've needed most in this case.” He picked up the distorted bullet rescued from that dark cavity under the stone steps and held it beside the discharged metal shell. “I'm sure these belong together. If they do, we've got our cornerstone in place. It won’t be hard to check 1t up.” p“Sm‘e. it's a hundred to one this is the gun. Only one bullet has been fired and the caliber looks right. The barrel’s fouled, too.” Lafferty sniffed at the muzzle opening. and eafer place than an unlocked drawer in your own room for it? Ot course, you would. “And if you had the time, early in e morning, for instance, wouldn’t xu have taken the gun, cleaned and oiled it, and replaced the empty cartridge? Mind, I'm not trying to Glear Dufresne, nor denying that he ad the best opportunity for doing R. but there are arguments on both gides of this fence.” ! “It's too slick a job to have been done by any one except Dufresne,” Lafferty insisted. . “No, I don’t agree with you there. it’s a cunning trick and shows a thorough knowledge of the house and its construction, but I wouldn't dghy could have thought of it.” Lafferty thought it over silently. 4And the window from which the ('u was swung is in a spare room?” “It's a guest room, furnished but unoccupied.” deny, Steve. weapon. You can't imagine any woman toting that thing around | be too much of a load.” "THAT certainly was an inspira tion, looking in the gutter of tiic roof. Whoever put it there w: fast thinker, no doubt about that “Mrs. Whitmore’s chance words gave me the idea. For no particulur reason they called up a vision of window being raised and the pin dangling outside with the strin: doubled through the trigger guard At the same time I remembered how the eaves projected over the to; floor windows. The gun could |, swung higher and higher until landed very meatly in the gutu overhead and out of reach. “Free one end of the string, draw it down, close the window and the: you have it. The wet section, wh it rested in the snow, should ha\e told me that, and I suppose it wou'. have eventually, but Mrs. Whitmor unknowingly jogged up the process “Well, if Dufresne did it, we'v got to credit him with a smooii | © *“Yes, I'll grant you that—if it was brought to this house a man prob- ably brought it. But we don’t know | that. Perhaps it was here all the time. There’s nothing to prevent a desperate or an infuriated woman trom firing it. That flasco of mine with Andrews seems to have ended all hope of getting at the ownership of the gun. They all know about it now and they'll deny ever having secn it.” You can't expect them to give their boss away at this stage of the same. You know how servants are.” “There are two ways of looking at that. These four walls enclose two separate and distinct stages. There is one for the Dufresnes and the Croydens and tdeir friends of tho same class. The other stage is for the servants.” (Copyright, 1934, by Walter C. Brown) Monaay, Lafferty makes a serious accusation. —~— FOR INS URANCE See H. R. SHEPARD & SON Telephone 409 B. M. Behrends Bank Bldg, | - —— INSURANCE g Allen Sha Established 1898 ttuck, Inc. Juneau. Alaska The ! | feature of the game. ,“ | eay that neither Andrews nor Don- | | “Well, there's one thing you can’t This gun is a man's | with her. The size and weight of it'd | L s 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire O P il By JUNE 16, 1914, Mr. and Mrs. Monte Snow, of Treadwell, were parents of a sev- Ann’s Hospital the previous Satur- day evening, June 13. 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