The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1934, Page 4

=" “ 4 43 i - - < THE D AILY ‘ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1934 Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER a_every evening except Sunday by the EH’;";‘P’(‘EP‘;’RL\"TI!\'G COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25|the public, decide is acceptable. | employers because they cannot help but feel that per_month. By mall, 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 papers. 5 Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. Press is exclusively entitled to the ion of all news dispatches credited to | §t or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. h ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION | COMPTON ANSWERS DARROW. In attacking the code for the lumber industry in his latest broadside against the National Recovery Administration, Clarence Darrow picked poorly, if those who are most directly affected by it are to be believed. The entire record of that industry under the code refutes his charge that it xnilimu=s| against the small plant as is shown by the fact! that only one large mill has been built during the past year as compared to hundreds of smaller ones. The code for the lumber and timber products industries represents the largest industry aggregate of any code, embracing more than 30,000 private enterprises employing more than 1,000,000 men and women. It is the first of the great natural-con- servation codes. More than a year ago President Roosevelt asked its members to include in any codes submitted “effective protection against destructive forest exploitation” and, after months of coopera- tion with public agencies, the code authority de- veloped a conservation plan as applied to the 400,- 000,000 acres of timber land, more than one-fifth of the land area of the United States, which the Presidently recently described as “one of the great- est accomplishments of the past year.” In portraying the operation of the code at the annual convention of the National American Whole- sale Lumber Association, Wilson Compton, President of the American Forest Products Industries and a member of the code authority said: Our industry, which a year ago had seen its business shrink in volume to the lowest point in over 60 years and to a price level the lowest in more than a quarter of a centur its employment shrivel and its capital assets crumble, with recorded losses <in 1932 equal to half of its gross sales, has now seen an increase in its volume of 30 per cent; in its employment of over 55 per cent; to roost. the union leaders its support. Seattle and other locals, voting later, made the rejection practically unanimous. Of course, the locals are not obligated to accept any . offer that their duly named representatives |agree upon with the employers. Yet, it adds to | the confusion and bewilderment. when they turn |down plan after plan that these leaders, after long negotiations with employers and representatives of It discourages the negotiation is useless. It likewise discourages the public which naturally feel that it has a right to believe that in dealing with the union's spokesmen it is dealing with those in authority. These repeated rejections of peace offers are making a tragic farce out of all efforts to mediate and all negotiations. The Chinese are said to have their taxes paid up as far in advance as 1961.° We have only spent ours that far ahead. Perhaps if we had not lent England that money during the war and. had invested it in Irish sweepstakes more of it would have come home A forecast is made that visitors to the Chicago Fair this year will find it much cooler there. Prob- ably on the theory that it wont be so hot because Sally Rand and her fan will not be present. Previews of Utopia. (New York Times.) It was the happy thought of Mr. Sloan to plan “a Jules Vern glimpse into the future of science | and industry” primarily to combat “existing be- liefs * * * that progress in this world is finished.” | ‘What did industry do with the wings thus given? The responses reveal 300 leaders fluttering unimagi- natively on the ground. They repudiate the notion that science and technology have nothing more to give. Yet it is impossible for them to conceive Utopia without our cement, our improved bakery, our metal furniture, our tractors, our rustless wire- rope, our quick-drying lacquers. | Professor Pitkin presented the one literary con- ception of a scientific future. As a teacher of | journalism, who finds no difficulty in turning out a 100,000-word best-seller in a month, he knew what to do with his wings. Like another Daedalus, he |: flew straight for the sun to indulge in stimulating but impractical fancies, such as a world in 1966 calling up the Service Station of the Life, Liberty and Happiness Company for new shoes or a week- end ticket to Afghanistan, burning the last fly- swatter ceremoniously in 1981, and attaining un- believable political bliss with ‘“one keeper in each | city hall and State capitol * * * just to be sure that nobody took the inmates seriously.” It was the scientists who were the most prac- tical. For the most part they drew on their ex- perience as directors of great research laboratories. The wonders of the future are but outgrowths of present accomlishment. When Willis R. Whitney spoke of a “tiny electric motor running by sun- light” it was something that he had seen. And when he assured us that houses will be air-condi- tioned, trains will speed at 100 to 200 miles an | hour, homes will have their teletypes to receive the latest news as well as pictures transmitted by radio and television, and neutrons, deutons and positrons will be harnessed in human service, he carried conviction because he has had no small part in making this electrical and chemical world what it is. He soared, but he soared under control. Mr. Charles F. Kettering, another director in its prices over 60 per cent; in its minimum wages over 90 per cent, and in its total payrolls nearly 120 per cent. It has seen the substitution of a hopeful for a hopeless industry attitude. It finds a great industry, representing in ordinary times nearly eight per cent of the total employment of all manufacturing industries, heretofore transit- ory in viewpoint, now deliberately setting itself under an NRA forest-conservation code toward permanent operations. ‘That the lumber code “at’ least has not op- pressed small enterprises merely because they are small is evident,” said Mr. Compton, “in the fact that since it became effective last Fall more than 3,000 mills have been started, many hundreds of small mills have been built and only one large one.” In conclusion he said: Of the thousands of producers, large and small alike, who want to pay decent wages, as against the 50 cents a day paid last year by many small mills and a few larger ones, observe respectable hours and play fair with their competitors, 98 per cent are for the code and NRA. And they speak for the pay envelopes and the pay-envelope hopes of more than a million men and the sources of livelihood of millions more. I believe the same fundamental situation exists in the majority of the great industries. Any man, or group of men, in high place or low, assumes great moral and human responsi- bility who undertakes, cavalierly and with- out advancing a better alternative, to de- stroy public and ' industry faith in, and support for, the most effective plan yet devised for combating industrial disintegra- tion and establishing a base for industrial recovery. Mr. Darrow and his associates want a socialistic form of government. The Old Guard critics of the NRA offer nothing but a return to the status quo of pre-NRA days. They seek to tear down what has been built and offer nothing in its place except the system that caused the depression. As Gen. Johnson, in a speech commemorating the first anniversary of NRA, said, it has raised employment 37 per cent and payrolls 72 per cent. Until its critics can offer something ‘that promises better, the nation would be foolish to consider their attacks seriously. * UNIONS IGNORE LEADERSHIP. Most of the longshoremen’s unions on the Pacific Coast have rejected the latest compromise offer for settlement of the general shipping tieup that has crippled ‘shipping from Canada to Mexico, with the exception of Los Angeles. This was not a “com- pany” offer, but was a program worked out by representatives of the employees, union leaders and commercial organizations. It was signed by representatives of them all. While its effective- ness was contingent upon its approval by the several unions from Seattle to San Diego, union leaders expressed confidence that this would be forthcoming generally. Apparently they felt that the terms gave ample recognition to the union and was broad to cover all disputed points. ‘Their optimism was not well founded, as events d. Portland, San Francisco, Tacoma and San the first locals tp vote,’ rejected the offer. Pedro, among the first five voting, gave of | research, was no less imaginative, yet temperate. Jules Verne prophecies? Anybody can toss them off by the hundred, and many will be fulfilled. It was the mystery of nature that enthralled him. Why are leaves green? Why is glass transparent? Why does a wire conduct electricity? Answer these questions and a Utopia is yours undreamed of in any romancing. Stratosphere planes flying 500 miles an hour, homes in which we have but to push a button to shake hands electrically with a friend in China, or to breathe the air of the Alps, follow as a matter of course. His was the social view of science and invention, the view of the laboratory worker who sees himself the instrument of a race struggling out of the morass of ignorance. Knowl- edge, ever more knowledge, of the universe and the mystery of life—that is Utopia. Charges for the Air Board. (New York World-Telegram.) Doubtless the Special' Board of Inquiry, headed by Newton D. Baker, which, under War Depart- ment auspices, is investigating the competency and | equipment of the Army Air Corps, will sift care- fully the charges reported in this newspaper in a series of articles by George Daws. Persons interviewed included high army officers and Congressional and civilian experts on military aviation. They are men who have been in a posi- tion to know and appraise the facts. But that does not necessarily mean that their charges and opinions should be taken at face value. A majority of the members of the Baker board are disinterested, public-spirited civilians, who can be depended upon to maintain an objective view- point. The others are army officers who, though | not non-partisan, have valuable knowledge of the facts and of the problems. Appointment of the Baker board was timely, coming as it did on the heels of the army's air mail performance, which dramatically centered public attention on the seeming inability of the army to fly in an emergency and under adverse conditions. Critical military and civilian experts have charged that the corps is deficient both in training and equipment, that it is not organized on a war- preparedness basis and that in event of a major aerial attack by an enemy it could not repel the invaders. ‘They have charged that too few of the army plines are fighting craft and that the bulk of these are obsolete, that army pilots do not receive enough instruction in blind flying and that the corps’ radio facilities have not kept pace with new inventions. Out of the Baker board’s inquiry should come the whole truth and a satisfactory program. Anent this fad of modern girls wearing most of their feet outside their sandals, we simply can't refrain from the horrible suspicion that it was their | bathing costumes that started it.—(Lexington, Ky‘z Herald.) i The flavor of mucilage now used on postage stamps is that of the candied sweet potato. Any good pharmarcy can supply them, and baked Vir- ginia ham.—(Detroit News.) As President Roosevelt might say: “Oh, what is 50 rare as a day in June with Congress out of the way and no steel strike to worry about!"—(Buffalo Courier-Express.) The principal crop being raised on farms this season is dust.—(Ohio' State Journal.) | from his.ironclad alibi, the fact that | point to his innocence. A guilty man | would not have beep so careless.” | Lafferty commented. | Ellen Becker, had been sent away SYNOPSIS: Rergeant Harper has at last explained to his own satisfaction how @ murderer killed a stranger and a_policeman in Pierre Dufresne’s house. But he cannot make a case until he can identify the stranger, and deter- ‘mine how the murderer escaped. He has_recoustructed the crime for. Lafferty, his helper, reached one small flaw' in the plan, - Chapter 34 BANGING DOOR “NJEXT, the murderer rinsed and dried the second liquor glass and put it back in the cabinet,” ex- plained Harper. “The dead man’s pockets and clothing were emptied of anything that might establish his identity. But the killer over-reached himself there by making too thor- ough a job of that. A couple of keys, a pen or pencil, two or three things like that would have created a more normal appearance. By means un- known to us, the murderer then made his escape.” “But what about the banging door?” Lafferty insisted. “The killer took a big chance there. It might have drawn some one's attention while the murderer was in the mid- dle of all those details.” “I've got an answer for that, too. The lock-bar was let dowh just be- fore the get-away. There was a pur- pose behind that banging door. It The door was supposed to draw attention. was supposed to draw attention to the crime!” “The murderer wanted the bodies discovered right away?” “Exactly.” “But why was it so important to have the bodies discovered at once?” “There can be only one answer to that—the murderer had a good alibi and he didn't wafit to waste it. Had these bodies been lying here all night, discovery would not have come until the Whitmores en- tered this room. That might have been some time today, perhaps not until tomorrow. But that would not do. The killer wanted it known that the deed was done early last eve ning. Why, unless he had prepared a protecting alibi?” AFFERTY was interested. “That 4 gounds as if you were aiming at Dufresne. He certainly has the classiest alibi of the lot.” “Yes, he was practically a pris- oner, under lock and key. But, aside the gun was left in his drawer, un- cleaned and not reloaded, seems to “It’s pretty hard to feel sure about anything 80 long as we have no ids of the motive behind the killing,” “That makes it difficult,” Harper agreed. “And it we go back a little in point of time, we're up against some erratic behavior. The earliest event of which we have any knowledge shows us the masquerader buying his disguise in October, while the Dufresnes were still away. Why did he do that? Why did he want to look like Dufresne? We don’t know and it’s an important factor.” “Perhaps he counted on being taken for Dufresne,” Lafferty haz- arded, “in case some one saw him prowling around the house. The resemblance was remarkable, al- though without the disguise there was practically no similarity.” “That may be the reason, but if of 80, whom did he meet here? The Du- fresnes, Andrews and Donaghy were at Moose Head Lodge. The maid, months before. The Whitmores, knowing Dufresne was in Maine, 3°MOCKING BY WALTER C. BROWN. ‘| ties for another. Besides, I am quite and has “I'that there's a break in the link be- HOUSE wounldn't have been fooled for more than ten seconds, unless this man came here to meet them. Which | only substitutes one set of absurdi- convinced that the Whitmores can be dropped from our calculations. “The next real mystery concerns the threatening letters. What was their object, if action was really’ contemplated? The letters really meant business, as the ambush proved.” Lafferty thought it over. “You can’t.dodge the inference that there was a conspiracy afoot to do away with Dufresne. Those letters made no demands for money. Just the threat to kill. That backs up my theory—Mrs. Dufresne teamed up | with some one to get rid of her hus- band. The letters were sent first, as a blind to give us a false lead to work on.” ‘fIF Mrs. Dufresne teamed up with some one here in the house, where does our dead man enter the picture? And if not, then who hid the gun this morning? Certainly she did not.” \ “Just the same, I'm holding out | for my theory. She's back of it, and her husband is foolishly trying to cover up for her. We don’'t know what's been going on in their private lives.” 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire b e ——d JUNE 20, 1914. Among the attractions planned for the Fourth of July celebration was a monster parade, to be some—‘ 1 thing entirely different in such af- fairs in Alaska. It was to consist of beautiful floats, representing dif- ferent mercantile establishments and other subjects, decorated auto- mobiles, bicycles, motoreycles, band wagons drawn by decorated horses, a clown band, the fire department in uniform, wild animals in cages, steam caliope and many other in- teresting novelties. The parade was to be over a mile in length and from the amusement viewpoint was to be one of the biggest undertak- {ings attempted in the city. Telegraphic dispatches announced that President Wilson and Emperor William had exchanged wireless greetings across the Atlantic. The previous day had marked the first use of the Panama Canal for commercial purposes by the shipping of the world. The Santa Clara, the first privately owned vessel to pass through the canal was let through the locks and towed through the canal, passing from ocean to ocean. Weather for the preceding 24 hours was clear with & maximum temperature of 72 degrees and a minimum of 70. Manager R. J. Wulzen, of the lo- cal baseball team, announced that there would be another game play- ed between the Juneau and Doug- las teams the following day at 3:15 o'clock sharp in Recreation Park. Ford was to be in the box for Juneau and Pittman would do the twirling for Douglas. R. F. Lewis, president and princi- pal owner of the Juneau Water Company arrived from the south on the Alameda the previous night. Mr. Lewis stated that his visit at this time had no special signifi- cance. “But, Jack, haven’t I pointed out | tween the dead man and the crank letters? I don’t say he didn’t write | them, but we can’t prove that he | dlt{l, and the fact remains that none of his fingerprints appear on any off the letter sheets. *“Dufresne himself smeared over ] same of the early letters, but later | heé was more careful in his handling | of them. There is a pretty fair | thumb mark on the left margin of | No. 3 letter, but we've combed our | own files and submitted it to the | U. 8. Bureau, with no result. That | thumb is not down in the archives nor s our unknown visitor. Which is not very surprising, for from the start it did not seem to be the work of habitual criminals. We'll have to | read those letters over and over and | try to deduce something from the | coptents as our knowledge of the cape expands.” Harper was interrupted by the entrance of Andrews, who an- junced that luncheon would be ed, if they were ready. Behind him came John Whitmore carrying a small table, which he set up. The bijtler spread a snowy cloth and proceeded to place the china and silver handed him by his docile as- sistant. Sergeant Harper and Lafferty lin- gered silently by the fireplace while these preparations were going on.| Andrews drew up chairs for them| and when they were seated Whit-| more lumbered in with the silver- lidded platters on a tray. The butler arranged the various dishes, then retired noiselessly. “Service de luxe,” remarked Laf- ferty, peering interestedly under the silver covers. “Um. That looks good.” He had uncovered a dish of creamed chicken with mushrooms, in a ring of currant jelly. “And hot biscuits, all snug in a blanket. Steve, you must have a drag with our host. T;thought a little snack in the ser-| ants’ quarters might be the peak his generosity. He has to toler-| us, but he is not obliged to do us, sg well. He must be trying to soften onr hearts.” (Gopyright. 1933, by Walter C. Brown) i | Mrs. CroyGon reenters the ‘grisly mystery tomorrow. f——— Established 1898 e o INSURANCE - Allen Shattuck, Inc. Juneau, Aluska | advertisers will Mr. and Mrs. Lafe E. Spray ar- rived on the Alameda from Ket- chikan and Hadley where they had visited on their way home from the south. They were to occupy one of the new Jaeger cottages on ‘West Ninth Street. ————— NEW TELEFPHONE DIRECTORY A new telephone book will be issued by us about July 1 and all please see that their ad copy is in our hands not later than June 25. Thank you. JUNEAU AND DOUGLAS adv. TELEPHONE COMPANY. - Old newspapers for sale at Em. pire Office. Il B VU Salmon Creek Roadhouse ANTON RIESS PROFESSIONAL Helene W. L. 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