The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 21, 1934, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER . GENERAL MANAGER | Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. | | Fntered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class | matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. | Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 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 | Sub: ribers {ll_confer a favor if they will promptly the Business Office of any failure or irregularity delivery of their papers. phone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the ume for rej ication of all news dispatches credited to 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 | file to give a dependable basis for long-time precipi- | much further this curve may drop, por when it will | start upward once more. but their time phase is irregular, with no con- formity to any law of _succession. Meéteorologists of the United States Weather Bureau have been unable to work out a formula that can be applied to the millions of records on tation forecases, according to J. B. Kincer, in charge of the climate and crop weather division. If past performance could be depended on to repeat itself, he says, the country’s precipitation would soon show an upward trend. If it were to follow its previous | pattern, however, it would not move up in one long, smooth swing, but would zigzag up and down on its way to its next high. The curve for the first five months of 1934 took a decided downward slant. There is no way, Mr. Kincer says, to foretell how Maybe the strike epidemic that has. swept the country is caused by the difficulty men ‘are ex- periencing in getting settled down to the work habit again CONGRESS MAKES GOOD RECORD. The Seventy-third Congress, which came into| existence during the darkest days of the depression and closed its final session this week, established a record of legislation that no former peacetime Con-| gress has achieved. The session that ended Mondn}" night started last January. In the main it has done’ all of the things asked from it by President Roose- | velt to further his recovery program. He largely influenced the policies and the major measures enacted were written into law just about as he requested. In two instances, it departed from his program—when it overrode his veto of the independ- ent offices bill and in the failure of the Senate by 13 votes to ratify the St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty with Canada. On its list of accomplishments were “ten out- | standing measures dealing with domestic issues. These were: The Gold Reserve Act, The Silver Pur- | chase Act, The Reciprocal Tariff Act, The Stock Exchange Act, Revision of the Securities Act, The Industrial Loan Act, The National Housing Act, The Labor Disputes Act, The Cotton Control Act, and the Sugar Control Act. Each of these measures was endorsed by the Administration. Each was enacted substantially in the form in which Mr. Roosevelt desired it Each is directly concerned with one or another of the major problems with which the Government must deal in the next few | months. In addition to these measures, Congress broad- ened the authority it had previously bestowed on the President in its special session last year. It provided funds for public works, for work relief, for direct relief, and in the end it gave Mr. Roose- | velt power to interchangeably use balances remain- ing over from the appropriations it had made last| year. | If at times it seemed to move slowly, that is an attribute common to all democratic forms of govern- ment. Representative forms of legislative bodies are not built for speed records, and they seldom make any. The one just ending its career was no exception. But it did enact more laws of para-! mount importance than any other of its predrcessors‘ sitting when the nation was not at war. “ HOLC IN ALASKA AT LAST. - The inauguration of activities of the Home Owners‘ Loan Corporation in Alaska, even though| the method of procedure is not all that could bo‘ desired, is welcome indeed. It is the culmination | of a great deal of hard work by Delegate Dimond.! who was aided by Gov. Troy, and by others, notably | 8. M. Behrends who several months ago, after he had been tentatively designated by the Washington State branch, spent much time in working out a plan that he considered most adapted to local con- ditions in the Territory. That plan was not adopted and the substitute suggested in its place by Wash- ington authorities of the corporation not, in his opinion being practical, Mr. Behrends declined to act as Territorial agent. Under the new plan that has been adopted, B. M. Behrends Bank will act as representative of W. E. McCroskey, Manager of the Washington State branch, in Juneau and vicinity. Other banks will function similarly in the communities and districts in which they are located. Applications for benefits of the Home Loan Act must be made to them. After they have passed upon the applica- tions, they are then referred to Mr. McCroskey to be passed upon again. That naturally will tend to ~slow up action and, for that reason, the procedure is bound to be cumbersome and in some respects not satisfactory. Distressed owners of real property, however, can well afford to stand delay if in the end they are able to obtain the desired relief. If those who hold the mortgages against such property know they are going to get their money, or its equivalent, the distress is not going to be as acute as otherwise. Thus, pressure will be lightened pereptibly even before the refinancing is accomplished. Not 21l persons whose prpperty is mortgaged can take advantage of the functions of the HOLC. Only those. who were;in default prior to June 13, 1933, or who have defaulted since through no fault of their own will be given consideration as applicants. Mortgagors of property who are able to meet pay- ‘ments of interest and principle and are so doing, are not entitled to this form of relief. TREND TO DRY WEATHER CONTI OVER UNITED STATES. Rain and snow have shown a tendency to fall ff in the North, especially the Northwest, and ise in the South and East, in the last quarter century. The upward trend in the South and however, has changed to a downward trend last few years. trends in the United States east Rocky Mountains, on the basis of 10-year averages for the 40 years up to 1933, when ‘once said, and repeated it in his message to Con- |is the strong desire of the British Government, and Since Repeal the blenders are doing more for Prohibition than the late Scott McBride and his successors all combined were able to do before Repeal. The Next Steps. (New York Times.) American newspapers took the news of the Brit- ish decision to suspend payments on war debts with a degree of calmness and acquiescence which must almost have surprised themselves. A few raised hands of horror at the spectacle of England’s dis- honer, but the great majority accepted the result | as inevitable. It was definitely made so by the inconsiderate Johnson law. That overrode the President’s personal opinion that a small payment on account should not be considered a default. As if further to embarrass Mr. Roosevelt in future negotiations about the debts, the Tariff Bill just passed by Congress contains a clause forbidding him to offer either a cancellation or a reduction of foreign, debts in order to make a good bargain for the enlargment of our overseas commerrce. The | necessary effect is to tighten the deadlock and to adjourn probably for some time the readjustments which our Government must seek if it is to realize anything at all on this potentional asset of the Treasury. Americans ought not in consistency to object | to such a reconsideration and readjustment. In their own affairs they are doing the same thing | on an enormous scale. Contractual interest rates have been cut down. A moratorium on mortgage | payments has been set up in several States. Insur- ance companies and banks and trustees have been compelled to make large scarifices in salvaging as much as possible of their investments and re- | serves. Why should not a similar process be | applied to countries not able at once to pay thei: debts in full? President Roosevelt has more than gress, that America as a creditor nation must keep the door open for the approach and proposals of her European debtors. Such must henceforth be the attitude of the American people and of Con- gress. If they were to insist upon the letter of | their bond, they would, as it is now abundantly evident, get nothing. Time and patience and study and instruction of the public will be necessary, but in the end some | form of compromise, some method of giving our debtors a discharge, must be sought. On one side doubtless of Belgian, the French and the Italian, not to be accused of going back on their plighted word or being held up as defaulters. They allege that they cannot pay their whole debt now, but may be able to pay a part of it later. On the other side is our Government which must be anxious to get all that can be got out of the foreign indebted- ness, but which must be just as anxious to avoid increased friction with other countries resulting in an ill will more harmful than a money loss. Out of that situation it would be a reproach to the states- manship of all concerned if they could not find a way of settling this vexed question with honor and profit to all. | { | | | | Why Should This Be Communism? (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) The United Press sends a dispatch from Red House, West Virginia, covering the Government's Emergency Relief Administration’s recommendations in connection with the appropriation of $400,000 to | be expended there in rural rehabilitation work. The | hews service prefaces its wire with the statement | “Supporters call it. Utopia, opponents call it Com- | munism.” i The dispatch then goes on to describe the project. It is proposed to build 150 modern cottages, each | on a five-acre tract of good land. The buildings | will cost from $1965 to $2710 each, to construct. On ! each tract a family will be located, with the ex- | pectation that each family can raise its essential food and enough more to return a small cash revenue. The head of each family is presupposed | to be at odds with fortune, but willing to make an earnest effort to take care of those dependent upon him. He is invited to occupy a tract of land. | There is a barn adjacent to the house, and in the barn is a good cow. In the pigsty are two hogs. The land is fertile, and the occupant of the tract is afforded expert agricultural advice. In his house is running water, laundry tubs and kitchen cabinets. Each house is of different architectural design. In the center of the Red House area is a community house, containing 14 rooms and housing a theatre, doctor, nurses, dentist, attorney and agricultural advisers—all affected by adverse economic “breaks” —and a business ‘manager qualified to offer real | assistance - to. the farm occupants’ Nominal rent | will be charged .the first year, and if the resident decides to remain he rental will be appliedito the purchase price of his home. President 'Roosevelt is intensely interested in | the project. He feels that it may be a forerunner to others of similar nature and that many heads of families, whose former jobs may never again be open to them, can thus attain self-support and indepéndence, ! Why should such projects attract the shout of “Communism?” Possibly the name “Red House" is the cause. Certainly there is nothing very vicious in the plan announced—nothing that would give | promise of wrecking our present system of Govern- | ment insofar as we can determine. A few may go to nudist colonies but the majority must be content to view models in the latest bath- | ing suits.—(Indianapolis Star.) | | The center of a new golf ball is filled with pure honey. Trying to sweeten the slice, eh?—(Phila delphia Inquirer.) | | PESERS TR N | do not follow as smooth and even a pattern e trends. mymmm'cuarlm}. ly from highest to lowest, and back again, The creator of the “hot dog” is dead. He made fortune on a hand to mouth idea—{Atlanta Constitution.) 11 SYNOPSIS: Sergcant Harper be- lieves that the murderer of the stranger and the policeman found dead in Pierre Dufresne’s house is someone connected with the house hold. But he has no case until he can identify the stranger and how the murderer escaped without leaving tracks in the snow. Harper and_ Lafferty are eating luncheon in the Dufresne house. Chapter 35 MRS. CROYDEN g “rSHIS luncheon is Mrs. Croyden's kindness, not Dufresne's,” Har- per explained. “Lafferty put down his empty cup and looked at his companion mean- ingly. “Well, Mrs. Croyden may be very gracious and I'll go bail that she's certainly not hard to look at, but Bob Johnson told me that she leads her husband a merry chase. And come to think of it, Croyden does have a sort of pained and wor- ried expression. That's what comes of marrying money. When two per- sons marry, there should only be one bankroll and that should be in the pants’ pocket.” Harper frowned. “Jack, you sound like an old gossip at a tea fight. Mrs. Croyden is the only one in this house who has shown us any co-operation at all. If she hadn’t acted as a buifer, we'd probably have come to an open breach with Dufresne before this.” “0.K.” said Lafferty, with an imp- ish twinkle in his eye. “I was only passing on what was told to me. I forgot you have a soft spot for the ladies of the house.” Luncheon over, they lingered at the table, smoking and talking over the amazing feat of the murderer in escaping from the house without leaving a mark in the snow. It was a problem that gnawed and bit at Harper's mind, presenting a bold challenge to his wits and ingenuity. While they were still at it, Mrs. Croyden appeared in the doorway. MOCKING HO BY WALTER C. BROW USE taken us—the suspicion that some one in this house is a murderer. Just these few hours has made such & frightful change in every onme. I don’t pretend to understand police affairs and this one seems hopeless- | ly complicated. It is so far from our custom of every-day living that we all feel there must be some error.” dn her voice and lowered his gaze from the lifted glass to meet her wide-eved scrutiny. “Mrs, Croyden,” he replied in a voice equally grave, “there is now no room for doubt. We are always loath to believe that any person within our own circle could deliberately take human life. We run against the feeling in every case. But it happens. Last year there were nearly five hundred homicide cases in New York City alone, According to the law of aver- ages, out of every hundred thou- sand persons now alive about a dozen will die within the next twelve months—murdered!” The clear, wide eyes clouded. “Please!” she cried. “I hate such statistics. They are so sordid and hopeless. Is there any real hope of a solution, or are we all to go about under a stigma the rest of our lives? This worthless criminal who came power to harm us now than when he was alive and threatening only one!” Here was the same wild plez voiced again, even as Dufresne had blazed forth. “Yes, I have been told before that this unknown man's life inal," Harper countered drily, “and | bave also been told that he is an ab solute stranger to every one in thig house. 1 find the two statements rather inconsistent.” LINE CROYDEN turned pale and her hands clenched as she took a step backwards. Fright and “Oh, I'm sorry,” she said quickly, pterror stared out ot her eyes with as both men rose to their feet. “I had no intention of interrupting “Not at all, Mrs. Croyden,” Har- per rejoined. “We finished some time ago. Thank you for your kind- ness. We enjoyed the luncheon very much.” As Mrs. Croyden graciously dis- avowed the necessity for their thanks, Lafferty lef: the breakfast- room. Mrs. Croyden advanced into the room, glancing about curiously. “How {s the case progressing?” she inquired. Harper shrugged. “Slowly, per- haps,” he confessed, “but that's the order of nature.” The bright hair of the lady shone with a rich golden gleam as she crossed the bright shaft of winter} sunlight coming through the win- dows. She glanced curiously at the photographs scattered across Har- per’s table. The detective noted her interest and held out several for her inspec- tion. “Those are the fingerprints of our unnamed victim,” he explained, “taken from the liquor glass found on the table. They're greatly en- larged, of course. Here are the ones taken from his gun—not quite as clear, you will notice.” “But how do you tell one from the other?” Mrs. Croyden asked. “Why, the world must be literally covered with fingerprints!” “No, for mot all substances or surfaces will retain a print,” he ex- plained. “A smooth, hard, polished surface, like a mirror, or a table top, or polished metal, makes the ideal contact. Let me show you how it's done.” . ARPER went to the luncheon table and carefully lifted the goblet of water that stood by his plate. “You see this? To the casual 'eye it is clear, unmarked glass.” The detective took the insufflator and sprayed the body of the goblet with a dark powder. When it was sufficiently coated he tapped the rim evenly with the dull edge of a knife. The looser grains of fine powder fell and the remaining ones settled more firmly in place. Harper held it at eye level against the light, where three prints of Andrews’ fingers were plainly revealed. Mrs. Croyden stood by the detec- tive's shoulder and looked at the glass. “That’s very mysterious, and rather terrifying,” she murmured. “But were there any strange finger- prints in this room, besides those of— that man?” | *“Not one, I am gorry to say. Other | signs of this visit, yes, but no finger- | prints.” | The lady turned to him wi |serious ‘miein. “Mr. Harper,” she | sald earnestly, “are you sure that '|your deductions are correct? Are you positively, absolutely certain |{there was a third person in this house last night? Otherwise you have made a very serious charge. This is a terrible thing that some PRai SESR s I DO NSURANCE Allen Shattuck, Inc. Eetablished 1898 PO Old ‘Papers for Sale at Empire Office warning. “We have no fear of what you imply,” she declared, “if the hfacts are dealt with honestly and ] trust you to do that.” “Thank you,” he returned gravely, and looked again at the dark smudges on the goblet, using his magnifying lens through force of habit. That thumb mark, with ite double ridge breaking across the central whorl—that was familiar, surely? Then the answer flashed in to his mind and such a startled look came over his face that Mrs. Croy- den stared from his transformed features to the goblet and back | again. “What is it, breathed. {The detective flashed her a look ap/if he'had entirely forgotten her presence. “Just a small point, but rious one,” he replied guardedly, :‘:ciug the goblet far back on his work-table. [“Now Mrs. Croyden, I'd like to Mr. agk a few questions, if I may. Will | plete, will you please tell me how you and Mr. Croyden spent last eve- ning, say from six o'clock on? We afe required, you know, not to ex- empt any one in a case like this.” ‘“Well, I think you will be quite satisfied with our alibi. It consists of about -two thousand witnesses. Last evening Mr. Croyden and Hugo Palese, the ‘cellist, gave a joint re- cital at Orpheus Hall, “We had dinner at the Savoy, rather early, as there had been a last-minute substitution in the pro- geam and Richard waated a little extra time for rehearsal. The con- cqrt began at 8:45, and was over about 10:30. We had just reached home and Mr. Croyden was foraging in the refrigerator for a late snack when Mr. Dufresne's call came through. #‘Qur house is just around the cor- ner, you know, on Cypress Lane. In fact, you can see a corner of the back of it from these very windows.” As Mrs. Croyden raised her arm to indicate the position of the house, the sunlight struck points of fire from an unusually beautiful ring she wore on the same finger with her wedding ring, catching and flash- ing back the brilliance of two excep- tionally fine diamonds, a pure blue- white and a canary stone, both per- fectly cut and matched and set di- agonally. The detective returned to his questions. “You were in the au- dience, of course? In a box seat?” “Qh, no. That would be the worst possible place to sit. I always yfu sit down?” choose an aisle seat on the lowey/| th| geor.” *“Do you always attend your hus- band’s recitals, Mrs. Croyden?” "0t course. I never have missed e. Even when he goes on tour I travel with him.” (Copyright. 1934, by Walter C. Browns) Dufresne, tomorrow, assalls Hare l per bitterly. s Juneaun. Alaska . Harper heard the emotional catch | into this house to die has more | was worthless, depraved and crim- | the realization of the detective’s Harper?” she | “First to make our records com- | 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire P it S D JUNE 21, 1914, A Goddess of Liberty and thir- teen aides, representing the 13 colonies that wrested American in-l | dependence from Great Britain, was to be among the features of the Fourth of July celebration. The Goddess was to be selected by bal- lot by the people of Juneau and girls over 10 years of age, belong- ing to the grades of the Juneau Public Schools were eligible for election. High school girls were barred. The Goddess and her thir- teen little aides were to be in the parade. Eight trips'to Thane each day { were provided for in the new sched-| ule adopted by the Juneau Ferry and Navigation Company. The new ferry beat, Alma, was to go on the| new schedule within a week. The late Saturday night trip left Ju- neau at 12:15 o'clock instead of; 11:45 as previously. be celebrated in the evening at the Orpheum Theatre, Manager J. T. | Spickett having donated the thea- tre to the new Juneau camp. The members of the order had extend- ed an invitation to all the people of Juneau to be their guests, free of costs. The program was, Pathe Weekly, “Clue To Her Parentage” the sixth of the “What Happened to Mary” episodes; “Bunny vs. Cutey,” a laughable comedy with Wallie Van and John Bunny”; “Alkalai Ike’s Home-Coming” one of the screamiest screams ever thrown on the screen and “The Birthmark,” a strong Western dra- ma, by the Lubin company. Mrs. B. B. Neiding and children arrived from Kensington on the steamer Georgia. C. E. Bennett and Guy Terry, of Treadwell, returned from a hunt to Lake Turner with one of the larg- | est bears ever seen in Treadwell. | They had left late Saturday night ‘,and arrived at the hunting grounds |in time for the early morning | shooting. The bear they bagged | Was a brownie and measured elev- | en feet and six inches in length. | The head and feet were on exhi- | bition at the Treadwell Butcher | Shop. ‘Weather for the previous 24 hours | was clear with a maximum tem- perature of 75 degrees and a min- | imum of 49. | - e | During my apsence, ur. W. J. B. | McAuliffe, will be in charge of |my practice and office. | adv. DR. W. W. COUNCIL. | R — | Daily Empwre Want Ads Pay 1 | | | 't Salmon Creek Roadhouse e —_—T ® | beginning at 7:30 p. m. Arctic Brotherhood night was to | PROFESSIONAL | Helene W. L. Albrecht mYSIOTHEEAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | 307 Goldstein Building | Phone Office, 216 | s Y Rose A. Ar.‘drew;—”. 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