The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 19, 1934, Page 4

~ cial figures released today by Ed. THE Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER GENERAL MANAGER every evening except Sunday by the TING ‘COMPANT at Second and Main _Alaska. Published EMPIRE PRI Streets, Juneau, " Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By il, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, In advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25, Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their Telephone for Edit for rep it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION TREND IN GOVERNMENT. A good deal of capital is being made of fact that our national political system is changing rapidly. Political opponents of the Administra- tion led by Ogden L. Mills, former Secretary Treasury and now generally regarded as a pos- sible Republican candidate for President in 1936, points to the concentration of power in the White House and charge desertion of the Consti- tution. Commentators on politics look at the extra- ordinary command the President holds over the Federal Government, and warn of dictatorship. Yco it is all too easy to exaggerate these trends. Mr. Gene Howe, Texas newspaper editor, recently asserted, as quoted by the Associated Press, that Mr. Roosevelt ranks with Mussolini in the power he wields, and ahead of Stalin and Hitler. He further declared that the members of the so-called brain trust do not exercise power, but are essentially technical advisers, most of them yes-men. His analysis seems to be more or less labored. The President exercises great powers. But these powers which are new to the Executive have been yielded by Congress for a limited time, and they may be recovered whenever the Congress chooses. The fact that the Legislature is becoming reconciled to the loss of sundry powers is not a measure of its weakness, but rather a recognition that many func- tions of government in emergency can be better administered by the Executive rather than through the j.;egislat ure. Astute manipulation in palitics is sometimes con- fused with actual power. Much of President Roose- velt’s strength lies in his uncanny knowledge of when to concede a point. His Administration has been as much a story of strategic retreats as of courageous advances, and by these means he has maintained populafity and power. He has a genius for compromise that has seldom been equalled and never excelled among his predecessors in the White Hcuse. But when his policies have been modified for reasons of political strategy, the power really has been exercised by his opponents. It would be well to take full measure of these qualifications before reaching the. conclusion that we are entering a regime of dictatorship, or even semi-dictatorship. Our political order may be under- going a change, but not in the direction of a one- man ruler. ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE. Recently a Chehalis, Wash., newspaper carried a display advertisement signed by Frank Dennis, Ta- coma, declaring that the “famous lost rocker mine” of Southeast Alaska has been rediscovered, and of- fering shares of stock in a so-called mining company for sale to the general public. Every mining country has a legendary lost rocker mine of fabulous wealth and Alaska s no exception. If it has been found, the discovery has been faithfully kept a secret. And if it were relocated as claimed by Dennis, the great wealth he claims it is known to contain would make it unnecessary for him or anyone selse to promise to the gullible a return of “$20 for their $1.” He describes a lake of “ground gold quartz” tons of gold-bearing sands running $1 per ton, and “concentrates $168 after high-grading.” This isn't the | of | millions of | all. This is a glacial lake and on its bed there is approximately “10 feet of slimes, the concentrates of which run $1500 per ton” We further learn that this vast treasure trove is located “seven miles from Windham Bay on the same ledge on which the Alaska Juneau Mining Company is located.” We don’t know Mr. Dennis. Arnold Curtis, local resident who with two companions staked the lake and are endeavoring to interest capital to explore the prospect, explodes most of his extravagant claims. There is no such thing as slimes running $1,500 to the ton, according to Curtis. Since Dennis is offering stock for sale to the general public, per- haps the authorities of the State of Washington !under which the company is supposed to have been incorporated, will be interested enough to look him up and investigate his claims. The thing looks like “sucker bait.” Such fantastic promotion schemes hardly ever appeal to people with ample capital but frequently do trap the unwary and mulet the little fellow who can ill afford even small losses. | If Dennis has what he claims, he and his associates lare to be congratulated. If he hasn't, there are ilnws made especially to fit such cases. 200-INCH TELESCOPE ASSURED. Casting the 200-inch glass reflector for the largest telescope in the world has apparently been | 1successful. For some time there was fear that the | disk had been damaged during the early stages of | cooling after the dramatic casting last Spring. But | now word comes from Dr. J. C. Hostetter, director | of research and development of the Corning Glass | Works, and Dr. George V. McCauley, physicist in | charge of the project, that success is assured. Recently scientists made a preliminary examina- tion of the disk—it was cast on March 23—and | found that the annealing process, which requires | ;eleven months of regulated temperature treatment in an electrically heated cylindrical tank, is taking | place as anticipated, and that the disk is solidifying | as one solid cake. ! “What we saw within the annealer,” Dr. Hostetter said, “is proof not only that a 200-inch telescope mirror is assured but that even larger ones can be made successfully from the low expansion boro- silicate glass which we have been using in the work.” This opens new fields of wonders to scientists through which our knowledge of the universe will be broadened. | | I Wondér what become of that organization that paraded around in sheets and was going to save the country from all the things that menaced it? Help for Municipalities. (New York Herald Tribune.) As was to be expected, there has been no rush of cities and other local taxing bodies, such as was predicted in some quarters, to take advantage of the new municipalities bankruptcies act. De- fault and composition with creditors reflect on the credit of cities much as on that of individuals. The prediction by critics of this measure that political pressure would force widespread repudiation never did sound well founded. Credit once impaired is not quickly recovered. There are States that are still | paying in a somewhat higher rate of interest on their bonds for their refusal generations back to honor debt. Actually, this new law should help toward sound | municipal finance, through making it possible to | clear out some of the remaining wreckage of the boom period. While it is doubtless true that a large proportion of the volume of default by local gov- ernmental units is in the two States of Florida and Michigan, statements introduced into the debate | on the bill in Congress showed that late last year | taxing districts in default were scattered through pretty nearly all the States. In January, it was said, the districts in difficulty had come to number more | than two thousand. So benefit from this law should be widespread. | It should not be forgotten that a year or so ago a moratorium for municipal indebtedness was being seriously proposed. What is now provided is simply that for two years as an emergency relief muni- cipalities or other subdivisions of States, drainage and irrigation districts and so on, have the oppor- tunity in case of default to negotiate agreements with their creditors in some such way as indi- | viduals may do, with court approval. Before, it has been necessary to get unanimous consent of creditors for anything of the kind, in most cases an im- possibility. This is another step toward adjusting the burden of indebtedness, of which so much has |been heard, into line with reality, and in a needed step toward 1ecovery. It is said that tear gas manufacturers are shed- ding no tears over the revival in demand for their product.—(St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) i | We hope those duns to the debtor nations were franked. It would be a shame to waste the postage. —(Ohio State Joumal» ERSKINE DROPS 61. second in runs a total of 67 bases for second in that division, with Diringer third, J. Orme and McAlister are GHINA PIRATES batted in with FEW POINTS BUT MAINTAINS LEAD Falls to .576 During Week —Is Leader in Three Other Divisions Claude Erskine during the past? week dropped .76 points from his! sensational batting average of .652,/ but he continued to head the City| League's parade of pill-busters with a mark of 576, according to offi- Mize, Official Scorer. Diringer,| Vet backstop maintained his pace and had an average of 480 to| give him second place. {Andrews, D. | J. schmitz, M. | C. MacSpadden, seven each, ten less than Erskine. There are four others, not listed by Scorer Mize, who have batted in six runs. Few triples have been recorded. Six men have hit one each. The “Bit Ten” Hitters The “Big Ten" hitters listed to- day by Mize are: AB R H Pet. . 33 19 576 12 480 12 400 6 .400 8 .348 10 333 1 .32 9 321 9 .30¢ 10 294 Erskine, E. Diringer, A. L. - 15 B. Schmitz, M...... 23 Nowell, A. L. NN 30 J. Orme, E. ... 34 McAlister, A, L. .. 28 Livingston, E. . 30 E. 34 . P. JENNE TO VISIT UTH FOR TWO MONTHS MRS, Ward McAlister, Vet infielder and pitcher, and Big Mac' Mac-| Spadden, Elk first sacker and pitcher, made their appearance in| the “big ten” batters for the first time. | Erskine Opens Honors In addition to heading the slug-| 'us in points, Erskine tops it in| ome runs, doubles, total bases, ’d runs batted in. He has five, ”—hlggm to four for Diringer McAlister, eight doubles, twice many as Livingston and Nowell, nearest rivals, has hit for 72 ‘bases and batted in 17 runs. i Garn, Elk short stop, has hit for, Mrs. C. P. Jenne took passage for the south on the steamer Alaska yesterday aftrnoon and will visit with Dr. Jenne’s mother, Mrs. T. H. White, at the latter's home in Coupeville, Washington, on | Whidby Island for the next two months. M ELSTAD RETURNS Mrs. Bert Elstad will return to Juneau fonight on the Aleutian after a visit of several weeks in Petersburg and vicinity. ——--— Shop in Juneau ABANDON BOATS TAKE TOHILLS Escape from U. S. and British Warships with | Twenty Hostages SHANGHAI, June 19.—The Chi- nese brigands have abandoned their pirate junks in the Yellow River and fled into the hills with 26 human hostages, six of them Brit- ish citizens including two Navy of- l ficers. | The pirates landed their vlcums' after racing United States and British warships started to pursue | them. The pirates overpowered the pas-‘ sengers and crew of the Brmsh‘ steamship Shuntien and took thm 20 passengers as hostages. } e e———— i Anchorage Girl to Make Tour on Bike ANCHORAGE Alaska, June 19.; —Miss Jean Horning is sailing | south to join Winnifred Hopkins in| Seattle for a biking tour of Hol- land and Germany. She has been| taking a post graduate course in the ‘Alaska School of Mines, MOCKING HOUSE BY WALTER C. BROWN. SYNOPSIS: Althonph Sergeant Harper has wroved that the stran- ger and the policeman found dead in Pierie Duiresne's honse were murdered and did not ‘kill each other as the evidence n‘m-uved to prove. he can neither identify the wmurdered stranger nor show how the murderer escaped from the house without teaving marks in the snow Dufresue althongh he has an appnrentiy airtioht alibi, has aroused Harper's suspicion, Chaptes 33 g HARPER'S THEORY &' FTERWARD. Dufresne’s alibi was 80 contoundedly air-tight that it annoyed me,” Harper contin. ued. “But how to get around it? | had that idea in mind when 1 left here right after the discovery of the bodies and dashed back to the Aus- terlitz—but there he was, dead drunk, and our own men on guard.” He shook his head. “That'’s a tough nut to crack. | guess ve'll have to look elsewhere for the mur derer. There are two vital questions we'll have to answer before we can pin it on anybody. The first one is, Who is the dead man? Certainly the man lived somewhere, ate his meals somewhere, bought things, and met people to some degree. You can't live in any city without some per- sonal contacts, “The second question is, How did the murderer escape from this house without leaving tracks in the snow? Each is a vital question and we've got to supply the answers.” “The newspapers will help us es- tablish his identity,” Laffert preph- esied. “With all the publicity we're getting, something s bound to | come out. But the question of the escape through the snow we'll have to solve ourselves. Do you suppose we could possibly be wrong about that? Maybe the murderer hid and didn’t leave until later.” Harper smoked in silence. *It’s got me guessing, but I'm convinced it was done. That’s where the mur- derer showed his devilish ingenuity, plicking his time and arranging the circumstances so that it was nearly | Impossible that his presence at the scene of the crime should even be suspected. We've been over every inch of the house half a dozen times. No hiding-place for anything larger than a cat has escaped attention. Add to this the presence of the Du- fresnes, the Croydens, the servants, and you see how impossible it would be for an outsider to escape notice. “l can’t concelve ot one outsider coming Into this house to meet and kill another outsider. That wouldn't be reasonable. If you take that line you've got to explain why any one in this household should be moved to cover up the evidence, as this hiding of the gun proves. i “No, every indication polnts té i the murderer as being among those present. There's some trick to that escape and we've got to fathom it. We know from the evidence in hand that there were previous meetings in this room between some one from this house and our man of mystery. The killing was carcfully planned, with every detail worked out in ad- vance.” “You think the snowstorm was ar- ranged for by the killer?” Lafferty demanded facetiously. THINK the presence of snow was essential to the whole scheme,” Harper replied, sericusly. “Assume there was some guilty relationship between the person who met here, say, a blackmailer and his victim. The killer has determined on mur- der as the only way out. But that murder must be made to look like suicide. “Foi' the past three days the Weather Bureau has been reporting a blizzard sweeping the Middle West and warning that we were sure to catch the tall of it. The killer saw the big chance. A completely de- tached and unoccupied house, with | snow all around it, and no prints in. the snow. That person had forty- eight hours to figure out a way to turn that unmarked snow into an unassailable alibi.” Harper tapped down the ashes in his pipe. “By the way, you haven't said a word about your check-up in the nearby houses. I suppose it was a wash-out?” Lafferty nodded disgustingly. *I couldn’t gather two cents’ worth of evidence,” he growled. “Did you cover all the houses?” “Every one in this block, both sides of the street, and the three nearest the back of this house.” Harper stirred restlessly. “Every- thing hinges on that get-away. Until we can discover that our story will not. be fully credited. What hap- pened here last night is almost as plain to me as though | had been hiding behind the door. The trouble is that the murderer’s face is just a blank and almost any one of our eight faces cguld fllkthat space.” u mean you've got the actlon pieced together?” | “Just that. Follow this closely and see if it doesn’t cover all the known points. The masquerader arrived u‘ the rendezvous ahead of time. The ! storm 13 in its early stages and ne‘ would not want to leave plain tracks | around the place. He went to Du- fresne’s room, shaved, changed Into " one of Dufresne’s dress suits and put en his disguise.” “Why the disguise?” ferty's terse fnterruption. “1 don't know,” Harper admitted. | “That is some evidence ot manfa. | am dealing with physical move- ments now, not motives. The mas- querader made himself comfortable. He got ot the liquor decanters, per- | haps filled them, lit the hearth fire, and sat back to enjoy a drink and a smoke. With the snow coming down thick apd. the double curtains drawn, it was safe to light the fire and the candles.” “Why bother with candles?” Laf- ferty questioned again. “Ah, they explain one of those: odd points that are so troublesome. You remember that the electric current was cut off at the switch? Mrs. Whitmore didn’t do that. I fig- ure that every time those persons met here at night they threw that | switch. Why? Because if the Whit- { mores, or any one else, came back | unexpectedly, they could not make a light. Hence the use of candles.” LAFFERTY approved with a nod of the head. “Then the killer came to the ren- dezvous. The snow was not yet deep enough to retain the tracks very : flong. They sat in this room and talked. There was drinking and smoking. At the pre-determined mo- ment a gun was whipped out and bang! the masquerader went out | like a candle. | “And now the murderer had to work swiftly, because any interrup- | tion would be fatal. The killer need- ed more light, for nothing must be overlooked. The fire was stirred up to increase the visibility in the | room. Unknown to the killer, a | shower of sparks went dancing up the chimney. “Now that pistol shot in a closed | | room must have sounded like a can- | non. With the sound still ringing in | his—or her ears,” Harper amended with a smile, “the thought came— ! Had any one heard it? The killer | stole to a rear window to look to- ward the garage. All quiet there. He went to the front window. Damna- tion! A policeman {s approaching. ! The murderer thought the shot had been heard and is momentarily ! thrown into a panic. What to do? Meantime, Hamill had turned in at‘ the gate. *“The Kkiller's first thought was | at the game was up. Talk the of- | er out of looking around? Thatj eeting would be remembered | vi,hene\'er the body was found. “Then came the inspiration and | fiamill was doomed from that mo- | ent, This cold-blooded killer de- clded to take the bull by the horns. @ opened the front door to Hamill and invited him inside. Hamill, no doubt recognizing the killer as one of the rightful household, went in, unprepared and unsuspecting. You remember we wondered why Hamill went directly up the steps to the front door instead of reconnoiter- ing and why he wasn't shot down on the threshold or in the hall? “The reason was that the killer {nstantly grasped the value to his | plan of having the policeman die at kte proper spot. Had Hamill not own the person who opened the or to him he certainly would have his gun ready and reports of his superior officers show that he was not the type to be caught flat- footed if there was the least reason t6 be wary. To my mind his death this room is the strongest evi- nce that some person in this house did the job. “So the stage was set. Dufresne’s gun had been used to kill the first man, then the dead man's own gun was used to kill Hamill. The orig- inal murder gun was put back in Dufresne's drawer. The gun used to kill Hamill was wiped clean and placed in the masquerader’s dead fingers. “Then the killer dug the .45 bul- let from the wainscoting and used the fire-tongs to hold it in the flames, but it wouldn’t melt. He went down into the cellar, found the roll of old carpet, and fired one shot from Hamill’s gun through it “The fact that he thought of the hple under the steps as a good place to hide the betraying bullet shows in extreme familiarity with the se. He carried Hamill's bullet upstairs and dropped it in position.” ibq.ymm 1934, by Walter C. Brown) was Laf-% Tomorrow, Har son for the mystery of the bang. !h. door. INSURANCE Allen Shattuck, Inc. Established 1898 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire P it S JUNE 19, 1914. Fraternal Societies } oF — o Gastineau Channel ——— — cht Helene xnlfirél]\g;e ray Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 B. P. 0. ELKS mece | every second ang | v fourth Wednesdays 5 | 8:00 p. m. Visity brothers welcome John H. Waln Exalted Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secreta —— Frank Bach and Harry F. Mor- ton began taking the saloon cen- sus in Douglas and expected it to require about two days to complete the work. e 5 ¥ Rose A. Ardrews ’ Graduate Nurse Electrio Cabinet Baths—Mas sage, Colonio Irrigations oOftice hours 11 a.m. to 5 pm. Evenings by Appointment | Second and Main Phone 253 KNIGHTS OF COLUUMBUS Seghers Council No.1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:230 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attend Council Chambers, Fifth Street. . JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Scretary - MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 117 Second and fourth Mon- |day of each month in ) Scottish Rite Temple, beginning at 7:30 p.'m. L. E. HENDRICKSON, Master; James W. LEIVERS, Sec- retary. Douglas Aerie L & 1 F. 0. E Meets first and third Mondays & p.m., Eagles’ Hall, Douglas. Visit brothers welcome. Sante Devan, W. P, T. W. Cashen, Secrelary Remodeling of the Malony-Cobb office building and placing a new foundation under it began the pre- vious day. The building was to be converted into a public lfbrary and reading room which was ex- pected to open within three weeks. & — E. B. WILSON Chiropodist—Foot Specialist 401 Goldstein Building PHONE 496 Pt —_ DRS. KASER & FRFEBUEGER | DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to § pm. Mr. and Mrs. Viector H. Wilhelm left for a three weeks' visit to Cor- dova and Chitina. Mr. Wilhelm expected to do some engineering work at Chitina. " Miss Helen Smith and Buddy Smith, children of Territorial Treasurer and Mrs. Walstein G.; Smith, arrived home on the Ad- miral Evans from Tacoma where they had been attending school. University of Washington stud- | lents and graduates residing on Gastineau Channel were waiting with interest the outcome of the; great college regata races to take place on the Hudson at Pough- keepsie the next day. Naturally they were all hoping for the vic-| tory of Washington's crew on| which there was one Alaskan, Clyde Rose, of Fairbanks. (T P. Jenne C. i"0ur trucks go any place any | time. A tank for Diesel Oil | and a tank for crude oil save burher trouble. ‘ PHON: 149; NIGH{ 148 1 RELIABLE TRANSFER | NOW OPEN Commercial Adjust- ment & Rating Bureau Cooperating with White Service Bureau Room 1—Shattuck Bldg. We have 5,000 local ratings on file B DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Of:ice nours, 9 am. to 5 pm. £venings by appointment, Phone 321 Robert Siwmpson t. D. Graduate Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology | Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground | A Wi A o i L 5 : ‘" DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL | | Optometrist—Optict 2 Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Room 17, Valentine Bldg. Office Phone 484; Residence Phone 238, Office Hours: 9:30 to 12} 1:00 to 5:30 | Weather for the preceding 24 hours was partly cloudy with a maximum temperature of 66 de-| grees and a minimum of 56. Pre- cipitation was .05 inches. “Trilby,” the wonderful hypnotic | play that has held the audience spellbound in every English speak- ing city of the world, was to be! presented at the Juneau Theatre by the Royal Players. i | | | | 1 | i i J. E. Kearney, who had recently 2 |met with a very painful accident in the Mexican Mine, had recov- ered sufficiently to return to work. - Mining Locauion Notices at Em- pire office. Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—CHILDREN'S READY-TO-WEAR Beward Street Near Third — & JUNEAU-YOUNG Funeral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors | and Embalmers | , Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 R (RO, New Distinctive Packages. CcoTY’S Toilet Water Dusting Powder Bath Salts $1.00 Tale—50 cents JUNEAU Drug Co. “THE CORNER DRUG STO! P O. Substation No. 1 FREE DELIVERY THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS The Gastineau Our Services to You Begin and End at th Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carryingl Boa: Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building Phone 481 | R PSS WA ST E AP Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 409, Res. Phone 276 SABIN’S Everything in Furnishings for Men THE JunEAu LAunpry | Franklin Street between Front and Second Streets TOTEM MARKET Groceries—Produce—Fresh and Smoked Meats WILLOUGHBY AVENUE CASH AND CARRY x| ! i PAINTS—OILS i Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE Thomas Hardware Co. l " 1 PHONE 355 JUNEAU FROCK SHOPPE “Exclusive but not Expensive” Coats, Dresses, Lingerie, Hosiery and Hats P HOTEL ZYNDA Large Sample Room ELEVATOR SERVICK 8. ZYNDA, Prop. R et e ] GARBAGE HAULED | | Reasonabl le Monthly Rates E. 0. DAVIS 'HONE 584 Mining Location Notices at Em- pire office. Telephone 88 FRYE’S BABY BEEF “DELICIOUS” HAMS and BACON Frye-Bruhn Compan Prompt Delivery Our officers will be Juneau, Alaska Old. Papers for Salei at Empire Office Demonstrated Dependability has enabled The B. M. 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. glad to talk things over and to suggest ways in which we might be helpful, The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau, Alaska Phone 4753