The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 25, 1934, Page 4

RaE 1 4 TH E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1934. Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Published _every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Mnln‘ Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 pen month, l By mall, postage pald, at the following rates: One year, In advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.26. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of_their paper TS, Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the wee for republication of all news dispatches credited to ft 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 PROMOTING BOOTLEGGING. The object of the City Council in the proposed enactment the liquor and beer traffic is declared to be to empower the of an ordinance regulating municipal court to try persons accused of violating the regulations of the Territorial Board of Liquor Control. To that end, of the regulations of the Board. Without an ordi- nance on the subject, it is said the City Council has been advised cases arising from arrests by the municipal police officers would have to be tried in the Federal courts and any fines imposed con- sequently go into the Federal treasury. It is but natural for the City to want jurisdiction inasmuch as it has to do the policing and bear the cost of police work. However, in the proposed ordinance, the Council would go beyond simple re-enactment of the Board's regulations. In section seven of the ordiance intro- duced last Friday night, stores selling alcoholic liquor are required to remain closed between 1 am. and 8 am. The Control Board's regulations permit them to remain open at all hours. It considered this phase of the regulations at some length. In the end it concluded that to limit the hours of sales would merely put a handicap on legitimate business and encourage bootlegging. Undoubtedly that is correct. It would do so in any community, and particularly in a community whose principal industry is on a 24-hour basis. The Alaska Juneau's employment lists carry more than 700 persons. Probably one-third of them work on the afternoon shift. They get to town about midnight. By the time they have cleaned up | and can get downtown, it is after 1 a.m. They sleep during the morning hours and go- back to work in the afternoon. If they want liquor, they would have to get it from the bootlegger. SBince the resumption of the legal sale of liquor, local stores have remained open after 1 am. So far as is known, that has not affected in the least| degree the moral tone of the community. It has, however, reduced bootlegging to a marked degree. Of course, there #s bootlegging still going on. But/ it is the result of high prices for legal liquor. Until | these are more reasonable we shall continue to have bootlegging. But the Council ought not to adopt regulations that will penalize the legitimate business man who is paying taxes and license fees. Section six is also unsound and unreasonable. It is said that it conforms to the Board's regula- tlons. It prohibits restaurants from selling draft beer with meals after 1 a.m., while they are per- mitted to serve “beer in uncapped bottles.” Such a regulation merely makes it more expensive for those who want a glass of beer with meals to get it. They have to buy a bottle instead of a glass. Why it should be illegal to serve beer from a keg but legal to serve it from a bottle is impossible to under- stand. Even if the Board's regulations make such it proposes to re-enact all | Wallace by |the ability |Salurda,\'; a distinction, the City ordinance ought not to make | the same error. Liquor regulation requires serious study. The system we have is not yet two months old . It | ought to be given a chance to be tried out thor- oughly before we undertake to change it. Too much regulation is as bad as too little. Regulations that do not comport with public opinion are “unm than useless. They cannot be enforced and merely | bring reasonable regulations into disrepute. Anyi ordinance the City passes ought to be enacted with| these conditions in mind. PRESIDENT EARNS VACATION. i e i The entire Nation will rejoice that President Roosevelt can find time for a vacation trip that will take him as far away as Hawail. Alaskans, his warmest admirers, will regret that he 'cannot find enough of it to visit them and see for himself this great frontierland which is just beginning to| experience development on a permanent basis. On his journey across the Pacific Ocean to Honolulu, Mr. Roosevelt will leave behind him his secretariat and get away from the corps of newspaper cor- respondents that usually accompany a Chief Execu- tive when he goes vacationing as well as when he labors. If any man in the United States has earned the right to a complete rest and relaxation from official duties, freedom from worries and a chance to retreat from the public gaze for a while, that man is President Roosevelt. The demands upon his genius, his time, his nervous energy and his strength have been enormous ever since he took office. In the past few months he has had to deal with Congress, to intervene in industrial and labor dif- ferences, to take a hand in international problems as well as domestic issues. It is almost miraculous | that he has come through in as fine condition as he has. Next winter his problems will be almost as numerous and as serious as those of the past 15 months. The Honolulu trip is just the thing to prepare him for a long grind ahead. Japan denies it bombed the Chinese the other day. The idea being, we suppose, that the Chinese Jjust flew up and bombed themselves. The City Council would ban operations of liquor stores after 1 am. But that would not prevent the sale of liquor in the wee sma' hours of the morning; it would merely furnish a lot of cash customers to the bootleggers. Another American Triumph. (Manchester, Eng., Guardian.) Soon we shall be driven to the conclusion that | there is more in the United States supremacy at golf than can be accounted for by any tradition of working at the game instead of playing it; there must be something in the air of the Nort,hl American continent that throws up “super-golfers” as rapidly as blackberries in less-favored climes. “Bobby” Jones is now out of the amateur running —but more or less instantly there emerges what seems, from the accounts of Saturday's play in the final of the Amateur Golf Championship at Prest- wick, to be a sort of super-Jones in the twenty- three-year-old Lawson Little, who beat James the tremendous margin of fourteen holes up and thirteen to play. In the ordinary way one might have been a little doubtful about of Wallace, the shipyard worker of Troon, who forged to the front so brilliantly in the earlier rounds of the championship, to stand up to the strain of the final match, for those who arrive suddenly in the major golfing contests are always liable to a sudden descent in the last stage. But Wallace did not crumple up at Prestwick on he was just fearfully and wonderfully outplayed by a man who is seven years his junior and who began his golf as a child of seven. Neither Wallace nor anybody else could do anything against golf like Lawson Little played — 66 for the first eighteen holes, or six strokes better than the par for the course. There is nothing to be done about it except to salute the emergence of another won- derful golfer from a country which seems to produce them just as often and as rapidly as they may be required. But perhaps in some parts of the West of Scotland some people may have been |asking themselves two questions last week-end— why they bothered to invent golf and why Columbus troubled to discover America. Writer in a British medical journal says it is now possible to have an operaton for appendicitis and not have the scar show, but evidently that sawbones doesn't know how our girls are dressing. —«Phxlndelphxa Inqulreri of destitution; PENSION FUNDS SUIT PUT OVER UNTIL JULY2 residents of Alaska; and relief of needy and indigent. The 1933 Leg- | JUNEAU TODAYNOON islature appropriated for these pur-| poses an aggregate of $340,000, of | which more than fifty per has already been expended. — e for the rchef the ROEDDA ARRIVES IN REPORTS TRAP LIFT The Roedda, Capt. Jim Davis, raruved in Juneau today noon from | Naked Island, and reported that| the first lift on the pile trap there cent Judge Alexander Continues Hearing in Demmert Suit for One Week Hearing of the suit of Charles Demmert, Indian busness man of Klawock, against Walstein G. Smith Territorial Treasurer, for an injunc- tion to prevent him from making further payment out of Territorial pension funds was continued today ! by Federal Judge George F. Alex- ander until 2 p. m. Monday, July 2nd. The case was originally set to be heard at 10 a. m. today and was carried over another week when W. L. Paul, counsel for Dem- mert, was unable to appear. ‘The action was brought on June 16 at which time a temporary in- Junction to stop further pension disbursements pending outcome of the suit was sought. Judge Alex- ander refused to grant it. The complaint alleges that all the pension payments and disburse- ments from these funds are ille- gal, and that the laws under which | ‘payments are made are invalid on _account Of the proviso that ex- from particlpation in them| persons who are eligible for re-{ Department of In- to be : Care of dependent WW!O : ..,...mm.,.; APPROACH BIDS OPENED TODAY; AWARDS UNMADE E. J. Cowling was low bidder on the main approach to the Douglas bridge. tenders on which were .0p- ened today at local headquarters of the Alaska Road Commission. The bid was $8,080, with a unit bid of 38 cents per cubic yard on 18,000 yards of fill rock. No award of the bids was made today it was announced by Haw- ley Sterling, assistant chief engin- eer. The bids, he said, were wired to Chief Engineer Tke Taylor at Nome. It is up to Mr. Taylor to decide whether to award the contract to Mr. Cowling or to do the work by day labor. Mr. Sterling indicated that it might be possible to save 25 per cent on the job if it were done by day labor. The bids, he said, were somewhat higher than costs on similar work recently done by the city and also higher than the Willoughby Avenue job done last winter. Other bidders were: Cash Cole, $9,168; George L. Tbert- son, $9.634; and Hildre Brothers, $10,919. ——o—— Mining Location Notices at Em- pire office, was made with a take of 3,000 (Salmon. The P. E. Harris cannery ‘at Hawk Inlet is canning the fish under an agreement with Capt, Davis. The other trap at Cape Bendel has not yet been seg ! Vacation | Needs ' Butler Mauro { Drug Co. | “Express Money Orders | Anytime” Phone 134 Shop in Juneau S U, HEADQUARTERS for . Free Delivery SYNOPSIS? has proved that the strunger and the policeman found dead in Pierre Dufresne’s house were murdered ‘and did not shoot each other. But the motive of the orime, the iden- tity of the stranger, and the means of escape used by the murderer still are a mystery. Harper has discov- ered. however, the print of D= Jresne's butler’s thumb on one of a set of threatening letters received by Dufresne. Andrews, frightened, denies all knowledge of the letters, Sergeant Harper Chapter 38 ANGER ANDREWS, fingerprints do not He.” “These must. I tell you, I knew nothing about it. Besides, I was at the Austerlitz last night. You know that.” “Sure, I know it. You've got an fronclad alibi. Quite true, but there was more than one {u this plot. “When I got to the Austerlitz, why were you so nervous, Andrews? I hadn't yet told my news, but you were nlready upset, jumpy. Why were you 8o agitated when I insisted on rousing your master? Why all this, if you knew nothing about what had happemed?” f Once again the man exhibited all the signs of an intense inward strug- gle to repress an emotional strain. By sheer foroe of will Andrews pulled himself together. “1 h- ' strict orders mot to disturb Mr. buiresne on any account.” He faltered on, “You see, sir, I knew he was intoxi- cated and didn’t want a stranger to see him in that condition.” “You're lying, Andrews. There’s something else. Mr. Dufresne was more than halt drunk when I left him the first time.” Sergeant Harper spoke out of the certitude of his conviction. The but- ler’s words were plausible, yes, but there was that indefinable some- thing in his tone that convinced the detective that Andrews was uneasy at mention of the Austerlitz surprise visit. “Furthermore,” Harper continued, “some one spied on us while we were searching tr 2 cellar this morn- ing. The resulv was the hiding of the gun that had been in Mr. Du- fresne’s room. Those are overt acts and some one Is going to answer for them.” Andrews’ eyes glinted as he squared his shoulders and faced the detective squarely. “If you think I am guilty, I'd prefer that you repeat those charges before Mr Dufresne,” he challenged. “That’s not a bad Idea " Harper snapped, and strode over to the bell. Dufresne made a prompt appéar- ance, The detective repeated the ac- count of his discovery and placed both letter and goblet before the dapper man, silent and attentive un- til Harper had finished. Then Dufresne pushed the exhib- its aside without a glance. “I'nt'not surprised that you've come to'some such idiotic conclusion,” he saids “There is no question as to Andrews® loyalty. I would as soon accuse my- selt.” He put his hand on the. old man’s shoulder with a gesture of af- feation. Harper's anger mounted, too. “This mutual loyalty is very touch- ing but it still doesn’t explain how Andrews’ thumb print came to be on this letter. That cerfainly calls for an explanation.” Dufresne turned to his servant. “Have we any stationery like that in the house?” “No, sir. We've never used tinted papers of any kind.” “IT'g strange that every letter is a different color,” Dufresne com- mented thoughtfully. “Stationery {8 | not sold that way. It suggests sam- ple specimens.” Andrews started up. “I remember now,” he cried excitedly, “these are sample sheets. They were sent here by some printing concern soliciting business. Mrs. Whitmore turned them over to me a long time ago and I stuck them away fn a desk. Last autumn I cleared out the desk and threw them into the waste-basket. That's how my finger mark got on the sheet.” “There you are, Harper,” fresne announced triumphantly. This time Harper believed the but- ler's explanation, for his tone had the spontaneity of simple truth. “If we accept Andrews’ explana- tion,” he said, “then any one could have taken them from the cellar. But it establishes a strong point, Mr. Dufresne—those letters originated in this house! And now, if you'll ex- cuse me, | have other matters to go over with Andrews.” Dufresne accepted the invitation to withdraw but went away with a siow step and a puckered frown be- tween his brows, as if absorbed by some weighty problem. When he nad gone and the door was closed again, “I have a test to propose, Andrews,” Du- MOCKING HOUSE BY WALTER C. BROW the detective stated, “to determine who did write the letters.” The butler made a free gesture with his hand. “I have no‘objection, sir.” Harper handed him a blank plece of paper and a pencil with a soft lead. “Please print, not write, what I dictate.” Andrews nodded, whereupon Har- per began to read the letter which bore the butler’s imprint. He read leisurely, giving the man ample time to draw the letters. When it was over he placed a fresh plece of paper before Andrews. “Now,” he sald, “this time go as fast as you can.” His dictation doubled in speed and his repeated admonitions of “Faster! Faster!” sent the butler's pencil scampering. Harper compared the two papers. “Please do not mention this test to any one in the house,” the detective ordered. “Only the guilty person need fear the result.” A long look passed between the two men, a profound and searching look on both sides. “You may rely or my discretion, sir,” said An- drews gravely as he turned to leave. As soon as the butler had gone Harper brought out the test papers again and compared them, not only with the original letter, but with each other. Andrews’ specimens seemed to be quite genuine and to substantiate his denial of author- ship. HE sight of Mrs. Dufresne's ruined slippers, rescued from the rubbish by Lafferty's zeal, sug- gested an easy way of checking that lady’s writing, with no one the wisez, Harper locked the door to the break- fast-room and betook himself to the cellar. Two square rubbish hoxes stood under the stairs. One contained crumpled paper bags, discarded advertising matter and waste paper of various sorts. Scattered here and there among these were slips from the pad Mrs.. Dufresne used for writing out ques- tions and answers since her surglical wrappings had enforced muteness. There were about a dozen fn all and’Harper quickly gathered them, not stopping to read them there. He had snapped off his light and was about to ascend when he heard foot- ' steps on the stairs and placid-faced John Whitmore appeared, carrying an armload of empty boxes. “Whitmore,” Harper began, “have you the time to do a little job for me?” The handy man nodded eagerly, delighted to have a finger in this most superlative of thrillers. The ddtective lowered his voice to the proper conspiratorial pitch. “I want you to go to all the rooms up- stajrs, empty the waste-baskets, and brjgg direct to me what you find in them.” “But I emptied them all first thing this mor, &ng.': Whitmore whispered. Harper 'hodded. “I know you did, but do it again. That includes Mrs. Dufresne’s room. Act very casual about it, so no one will suspect any- thing. Understand?” *“Qh, yes, sir,” Whitmore respond- ed with alacrity. “I'll go right away.” Harper followed him upstairs and was walking through the dark-pan- eled hall when he saw that familiar figure in the huge fur coat making toward the front door. “May I have a word with you, Doctor!” he called, and Dr. Ulrich swung around. “How is Mrs. Dufresne today?” Harper asked. “Doing well enough,” Ulrich re- sponded rather curtly. “When will she be able to talk? } have some questions to ask her.” “She is not to talk for several ays, at least. That is final. If your aestions can’t wait, I'll arrange an interview. She can write out the an- swers tor you, but I insist on being present.” “Thanks, but 1 prefer to hear the answers from her own lips.” “Well, then, you'll have to wait,” Ulrich snapped, his waxed mous- taches bristling and his black eyes glaring behind the gold-rimmed glasses. Harper watched his brusque de parture from the vestibule, curious to'know the reason for the big doc tor's animosity. He returned to the breakfast-room and sat down to study the salvaged slips that bore Sylvia Dufresne’s writing. There was absolutely nothing to be gleaned fropr the contents themselves, and the detective could see no points of similarity between Mrs. Dufresne's swiftly paced and essentially femf nine style and the broad incisive strokes of the anonymous penman.. The longer he pored over the let ters the firmer became his convic tion that a man had written them. ‘There was something about the sequence of events that baffled pen: etration. (Copyright. 1934, by Walter C. Brown, Tomorrow, Harper unearths an Important fact about Donaghy, MOOSE SMOKER July 3 i @ Watch for Further Announcement e ——— Old Papers for Sale at Empire Office ———— 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire P it B D JUNE 25, 1914 Jean Vanophem, president of the Algunican Development Company, and his pafty arrived from the south in the morning and took apartments at the Hotel Cain. The party included Misses Madeline and Julia Vanophem, sisters, and +Miss Simone Vanophem, daughter of Mr. Vanophem, Dr. Echor Huy- brechts, Mr. and Mrs. Van Die- volt, Victor Van Niewentuyse. The last named was Mr. Vanophem’s sec- retary and all lived in Brussels, Belgium. They planned to leave the following day for Jualin on the Pacific in company with Supt. L. K. Kennedy. | In a Juneau paper 21 years oldi picked up by George Burford and[ John Winn several days previously, many interesting lights were| thrown on Juneau of the early 90’s. Among the professional cards; to appear in the paper published by E. O. Sylvester was that of John F. Maloney, attorney-at-law and occupying a choice place among the advertisers appeared that of B. M. Hehrends, Dealer in General Merchandise, L. V. Win- ters’ name appeared in the ad- vertisement of “Landerkin and| Winter, Photographers.” Col. J. D. Jacklin, vice-president | and managing director of the Alas- ka Gastineau Minng Company, ar- rived from the south with hisyacht Cyprus about midnight the previous night. Ameng the guests who were aboard the Cyprus were H. F. Alexander, president of the Pacific Alaska Navigation Company, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Salisbury, F. C. Janney, J. F, Judge, H. B. Tooker, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Stimp- son, George Wollsey, H. A. Fitch, Mr. and Mrs. L. Scates, Miss Win- nifred Braden, George O. Bradley and J. C. Marmaduke. The Poughkeepsie regatta was to take place on the Hudson on June 26. Weather for the preceding 24| hours was clear with a maximum temperature of 74 degrees and a minimum of 45. Nicholas: Van Fruyider and] . 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