The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 26, 1934, Page 4

w2 - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER % Published _every evening _except _Sunday by _the Eurl:l;RE. PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Aln.lkn Fntered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per momhh tollowl h mall, postage paid. at the following rates: By' InD n\‘l\:nrn‘ $12.00; six months, in advance, month, in advance, $1.25. will confer a favor if they will promptly %6 o 00; Subscribe notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity : in the delivery of their papers. Gobi Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374, Ateaa MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the wee for republication of all news dispatches credited to for ot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. l.\'OT WHAT HOOVER GAVE. A recent political advertisement published under the auspices of the Republican Territorial Committee of Alaska, “Dedicated to the Republican Party and | fts candidates in this coming election,” asks this | and women of | question of the ex-service men Alaska: What do the Veterans think of the treat- greater part of the:summer. ment they have received under this Ad- ministration? I the Republican bigwigs of Alaska had studious- ly endeavored to select an unfortunate topic for comparison between the Roosevelt Administration | and the Hoover regime they could not have suc- ceeded better than in this instance. The time that has elapsed since the first bonus marchers encamped in the National capital and presented to Congress | their demands for an immediate payment of the| bonus is too short for anyone, whether service or | non-service, to have forgotten the tragic incidents that transpired. All veterans, whether sympathetic with the bonus seekers or not, still remember with | horror the answer that President Hoover, who re-| fused to receive the delegation of the leaders, gave | to them at the hands of troops armed for war, and who did not hesitate to use not only rifies but gasses against defenseless men, women and even little children. who with now! )me else to go had accompanied their parents to this temporary home | within the shadow of the White House. Nor do veterans forget that within a few short months of that time, after Mr. Roosevelt had suc- ceeded Mr. Hoover as President, a second Bonus | Exeditionary Force again marched to Washington to present a similar demand. Its leaders were re- ceived at the White House. Its personnel was quart- ered in comfortable lodgings and furnished adequate | food by the ‘orders of 'President Roosevelt. And almost without delay every member of the force who desired it was furnished a job in the Civilian Conservation Corps while those who did not desire it were provided with transportation to their homes | with subsistence enroute. Of course thinking people readily recognize that | the advertisement of the Republican Territorial Committee of Alaska is merely a feeble effort to stir emotional sentiment against the Roosevelt Ad- ministration because it has steadfastly declined to lend its support to the immediate payment of a soldiers’ bonus. Its position in this respect is identical with that taken by the last two preceding Republican Administrations. It is regrettable that politicians would seek to capitalize human emotions in this fashion. Only a sense of desperation could lead to such tactics. COURSES IN EXPLORING. Unless the youth of today are less red-blooded than their forefathers one can predict that the | of candidates for the State election. lout of the present world-wide fog." {boy" to Greenland, is not ;just a classrqom explorer. The party of 26 students who will enter the Yukon will not lack for able leadership and experienced teachers. George Cpok, cook for the first Byrd Antarctic expedition will be along as will Dr. Peter Heinbecker, of Washington University of St. Louis. who has made pioneer studies in Labrador and Greenland. Exploring, Prof. Belknap believes, is not a dead occupation outside of the polar regions as public opinion would have it. That view of exploring is the superficial one that would give up the whole program unless one cannot be the first. to see the Desert or the Falls of the Zambesi River in Rivers, mountains and large lakes may be on the maps in school geographies but the world needs more knowledge about them than the mere report of their existence gleaned from a hurried trip by some adventurer out for glamor, or personal profit. The new explorers, the Michigan scientists feel, will differ from the traditional adventurer who traveled for sport or mere curiosity. Instead of dashing' across the tountry they will travel slowly mapping the land, studying its plants, animal and human life with particular care given to estimates of natural resources and geological and meteorolog- ical conditions. Probably the work, more and more, be carried on by large expeditions, like the one now headed by Admiral Byrd in Antartica. The members will have as much fun as the old- fashioned explorers, but they will have a broader knowledge of science and achieve more important results in the advancement of knowledge. Maybe we do have some curious customs in this country, such as calling it Communism when the Government manages things for everybody and calling it freedom when the Insulls manage things for the Insulls. “Amos and Andy,” it is announced, are about to take a vacation and will be off the air for the Boy, what a break! The Ohio Prohibition Party has selected a list And that is the height of optimism. A Million Strong. (New York Times.) During 1933 there were 1,002,538 different boys in the membership of the Boy Scouts of America, in- cluding 51,884 Cubs. With their “Scouter” and “Cubber” men leaders the organization’s grand total reached 1268441. So the “first million” has been passed on the way to the goal which the leaders in this greatest of boy movements have set for them- | selves: the recruiting of a sufficient number of boys at the age of 12 during the next ten years “to get one out of every four 12-year-olds in Scout- ing for a four-year-period.” The advance made in the period through which we have just passed is a i clear and hopeful indication of the soundness of the Boy Scout program and of its enduring vitality. At the annual meeting of the National Council held last week in Buffalo—“the biggest and best ever held anywhere’—Newton D. Baker said that the Boy Scouts “are in a position to lead the adults Certain it is that what Scouting cultivates in youth—honor, self- reliance, initiative, cooperation, sportsmanship—is most needed in citizenship. America should not forget the comment made by Principal Jacks two or three years ago, after a six months’ tour of the cities of this country, to the effect that Scouting is among the very first of the forces making for the best in the fight with the worst. More re- cently, President Roosevelt, who has been for a long time actively associated with the movement, has spoken of it as “a new era of moral force in America.” All things may indeed become “new” in the extension of the “good-turn” activities into all the relations of men in society. Boy Scout training should be especially helpful to those boys in this tragic time who are neither in school nor at work. Most of them are beyond the Scout age, but the leaders are mindful of them also and are seeking to help them by an “older program which carries on to the very doors of responsible citizenship. *“Oldsters” can do their country a great future good by encouraging boys to join the Scouts, and they can do the boys an immediate good by helping to give them a happy bo\hood in wholesome companionship and adven- [ture. They can also help by joining the organiza- tion themselves as volunteer leaders. President Hoover once said that there is material for 10,- 000,000 Scouts. If that “material” were reached new course at the University of Michigan which‘and availed of, we should have no anxiety about teaches exploring will have a large enrolment. Under the direction of Prof. Ralph L. Balknap, of the geology department, a training school has been organized for students interested in adventure and | The uncharted | the scientific methods of exploring. wilds of the Yukon will be the the course this summer. Prof. Belknap ,as the director of the recently “laboratory” for four tomorrow. It is said that in some sections the nudists have compromised with the law by wearing shorts, but it certainly will cramp their style.—(Philadei- phia Inquirer.) strike, and that also will be news.—(Indianapolis ntumed expedmon of the Unnersnv of Michigan News' and Nelson 155 pounds. In lhc ‘cmtnm raiser ' Eddie Neillsen, 0 ‘138 -pounder from the Coast Guard ’ cutter, clashes 144, local Indian MOOSE CARD ON with Billy Jacks, All of the boxers are working lout daily at the high school gym | LY 3 M under the watchful eye of Match~ maker “Pop” Bayers. They are | said bruiser. ARRESTED FOR GAMEVIOLATION to be rounding: into conditiol ,rapldly and will be in first cln:s Moose Smoker Committee shape for the fights. In addition to Completes Card for Fourth Feature a “surprise” the event will be | this week. On July 3, the Coast Guard is going to war. Fighters from the Tallapoosa, veteran ecraft of that service, have drawn three assign- ments out of four on the Moose fight card which will be the open- ing event on Juneau's annual Fourth of July program. GETS NEW scheduled, the Moose will put on | novelty nurhber to open up the smoker. LOCAL 'GROCERY FIRM {Lyman De S!effany, Indict- ed with Dorbandt, Is Held at Anchorage Lyman De Staffany, charged with | violating the Alaska Game Law, was arrested yesterday at Anchor- age by Federal officers on a war- rant telegraphed’ from this ::ity.K Bail was fixed in the sum of $1000 in default of which he was com- the ' four bouts' Tickets for put on sale late LOCATION Some of these days there may be a peacerul' SYNOPSIS: Sergeant Harper {s not much closer to finding the mur- derer of a golicemar and a stranger in Pierre Dufresne’s house than at the beginning, although he has as- sembled a great deal of evidence, But he has at least determined that the man_ who 1wrote a series of threatening letters to Dufresne wrote them on paper he found in a wastehasket in ufresne’s bases ment. Now to find the writer. Chapter 39 H PUMPING WHITMORE ‘HE Sergeant’s meditations were interrupted by the return of John Whitmore with the spoils of his tour through the house. The booty was en« tirely devoid of interest except for the six or seven slips from Mrs. Du: fresne's pad. Hatper deftly rescued these, pretended to poke through the rest of the papers, then sent Whit- more to dispose of the trash, telling him to return afterwards. While he was gone Harper ran through this latest collection of slips, evidently covering the recent visit of Dr. Ulrich. But once aguin the almost monosyllabic brevity of the perciled notes defied reconstrue- tion. The lady wa. either distraught or wary. Whitmore returned to the break- fast-room with the sleck air of a suc- cessful conspirator. The detective realized that in this placid-minded handy man of the household he had' his best chance to get some genuine ‘inside” information. The detective roce and locked the door with a theatrical flourish. “I don’t want any interruptions for a while,” he explained, as he returned to his chair. “Sit down, John, and you say to a friendly little chat?” Whitmore hitched hic chair a bit closer. “Yes, sir. Anything I can do—" “Oh, before we talk,” Harper in- terrupted, “there’s a little test 1 want to make.” He then explained about the hand-lettered warnings and put Whitmore through the same naces with the dictated notes, first leisure- ly, then rapidly. “Just as 1 expected, no similarity at all,” Harper announced heartily, putting the sheets aside. “Now that's out of the way, we can relax.” He drew out his pipe und tobacco pouch. ‘Do you smoke, John?" Whereupon Joan produced a curved briar pipe even more scarred from use than Harper's cwn and ac- cepted a flling from thg detective's pouch. For a few moments they puffed away in silence. “This is good to- bacco, sir,” Whitmore commented, nodding his head sagely. Harper smiled. “I have the mix- ture made up specially for me,” he explained. “I smoke a lot and fit's worth the difference in price. There's nothing like a pipeful of good to- bacco when you've got a bit of think- ing to do.” John nodded agreement. “I guess this business has given you plenty of that, sir. It's a queer one, all right.” “As queer as auy I've ever han: dled,” said Harper, gazing thought- fully into the circular view of the room projected on the Girandole mir. ror over the buffet. “Two murders in one night—right here in this room,” Whitmore almost whispered. “It doesn't seem real.” “It was real enough for the poor devils who were killed. You knew Officer Hamill, didn’t you, Jolin?" “Yes, I knew him. Talked to him lots of times last summer. A nice, pleasant fellow.” E was a fine man and a good policeman: Everybody liked He leaves a wife and children and it's going to be hard on them. The other fellow mav have been a croo.;, or a blackmailer, or a gunman, and the world's better off witkout him, as Mr. Dufresne says, but the family ! of a man like Hamill has to pay the | price for it.” Whitmore nodded in sympathy. “I've heard what they have to say about the murder upstairs,” Harper went on, “and that’s very little to John, is what the staff thinks about Lo “They’'re not saying very much and that’s a fact,” Whitmore an- swered, and chuckled. “Between you and me, sir, you've got ‘em all sus- picious of each other. They're going around watching each other out of | the tail of their eyes.” “Have there been any arguments or bad feeling lately?” “Nothing to speak of, Sergeant. We all get along together pretty well, better than in most places. Of course, once in a while old Andrews gives Joe a raking over the coals, but that’s only when Joe ha. been too flip with his tongue. Joe's young and hot-headed, not as well broken to the harness as the rest of us.” MOCKING HOUSE BY WALTER C. BROW TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1934 ou mean Donaghy, the chauffeu “Yes He gets a bit beyond himself at times, talking uy all kinds of wild ideas about capital and labor, and /, and that sort of stuff. Joe ha v struck me as being a v lad,” the detective mur- mured. “He's a good-looking fellow and he acts as if he knew it.” tmore winked heavily. “Sure, s a devil with the ladies, anyway, to hear him tell it. He's going to find a rich young widow, says he, ana then he’ll marry ahd live in style. He says he can double her money over and over, but he’s more fikely to run through it in six months, him and his ‘parlay’ bets.’ " “0Ob, so Joe likes to bet on the horses?” “He does. I never heard of a man ever took a dollar away from the races in the long runm, but that doesn't stop em from betting. Some- times he's lucky, though. Just today I saw him counting over a roll of bills as big as your fist. He said he'd got a bet down on the right horse at last. Came in at 100 to 1. But that's once in a lifetime.” “That’s right,” said Harper soft- make yourself comfortable. What do |g 1y, looking out at the snow-covered grounds, “it's once in a lifetime.” Then, after a few moments of si- lence he resumed, “Andrews s real- 1y devoted to this family, isn’t he?” "l\ AKE no mistake about that,” Whitmore quickly afirmed. “He’s gruff and old-fashioned and as close-mouthed as a clam, but he's | him,: John, from his Captain down.'|s! the family watch-dog. You won't get anything out of him.” The detective cocked an eye at John Whitmore. ‘Why, {s there gomething to be got out of him? That sounds as it he's hiding some- thing?" “I shouldu’t have put it that way,” Whitmore hastened to amend. “I've been in service thirty-five years and 1 have yet to see the family that didn't have trouble of some sort they wouldn't like to have made pub- lic. But murder is a horse of another color.” Harper smiled quietly. “Of course, John. I know you're not the kind to carry tales and I'm not asking you to. I've heard some stories, too, so far as that goes.” It was the detec- tive's turn to give a knowing wink. “That was a pretty stiff row they had last November, wasn't it, just about the time Ellen Becker left?” Whitmore looked relieved. “So you heard about that?” He accepted at tull value Harper's assumed knwlledga “Things have never beeh quite the same since then,” he sald, sadly, shaking his head. “For a 'while it looked Ilike they were hedded ®or a break-up. Mr. Dufresne has been touchy and sharp-spoken and suspicious ever since, although he should be jealous of Mrs. Du- fresne is more than 1 can make out.” “Perhaps the roo. of Mr. Du- fresne’s jealousy lies in the differ- ence in their ages” said Harper. ‘| “That often happens, you know.” Whitmore took a long pull st his pipe. “Well, then, take Mr. Croyden. He's in about the same boat. He's not worried about getting old, like Mr. Dufresne. His trouble is that his wife has so much more money than he has. So they're at it hammer and tongs half the time. Their maid, Hannah, comes over here a lot and some fine stories she brings with her.” John Whitmore warmed to his )ject and proceeded to.illustrate hlu’ philosophy with chapter and e. Harper listered to it all with half-closed eyes, nodding at appro- priate places. Johns tongue, sub- dued for many a moon by the auto- itic Martha, rambled on and on, gpurred by the awounor of a sympa- hetic ear. He seued not to ques- tl but that the detective's duties ” already made him acquainted with these highways and byways of the household at 3. Powhatan Ter- go on. What 1 have been wondering, | race. Harper listened, careful not to bneak the spell by inept questions. He simply sat there in smiling, friendly ease, smokcd his pipe and ligtened to the thousand and one de- tajls that gave him a keener insight then he could nave obtained by un- 1ip’ »d cross-examination. Only once did he interrupt. “Who was this girl, Ellen Becker, and why did she leave?” he asked casually, following Whitmore’s chance men- tion of the former housemaid. ™1 don't know w.uch about her,” Jghn replied. “Nobody did. She was hoity-toity kind, not very so- ciable.” (Copyright, 1934, by Walter C. Brown) What Is the mystery of Ellen Becker, Harper won tomorrow. A The Juneau Cash Grocery will In the headliner, Sailor McPher-| move to the corner location in| son, middleweight, who has shown | the Hellenthal-Goldstein building | his wares here before, tackles|at the corner of Second and Seward Granny Hulse, oné of the -cleverest | Streets. According to Freddie Gill- and toughest battlers in that class | man, manager, their business has that has shown here for many Joungmwn their present quarters, years. The Coast Guardsman hasjto obtain more space in order to - & five-pound edge on Granny which | |Bive better service, and also to! isn't enough to count hegvily at'and the change has been made that weight. carry a wider range and greater A special, double semi-fina} ol‘quanmy of stock. class has been arransedb E. B. Morris, contractor, is in- the Paps’ Boxing Committee.'stalling the fixtures in the new rold Thayer, 160, meets Eddie store, which will be open for busi- 158, in one, and Sailor ness Monday morning, July 2, y Hixon tltu on B‘mm Nel- e son in the other. Mining Location Notices at Em- mitted to the Federal jail. De Staffany was jointly indicted with Frank Dorbandt, well known aviator, at Ketchikan more than | a year ago. He and Dorbandt, it is said, have but recently returned to Alaska from the States. Dorbandt was ar- rested at Fairbanks some two or| three weeks ago. He was released under bond is operating an air service out of Tairbanks. He and De Staffany will be brought to Ketchikan at the next term of the Federal Dis- trict Court, probably next fall for trial. They are accused of illegal transportation of contraband beav- er pelts. e TR MOOSE SMOKER J uly 3 @ Watch for Further Announc;emeut old Paperé for Sale at Empire Office 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire s it 2wl JUNE 26, 1914 Dorothy Haley had taken the lead in the voting for the Goddess of Liberty Contest. The winner of the contest, open to all grade school pupils over ten years of age was to preside over the Fourth of July celebration. Contestants to date were Dorothy Haley, Venetia Hile, Grace Webster, Sedonia Reck, Dorothy Troy, Gertrude Nelson, Marie Goldstein, Florence Larson and Dorothy Hamilton. Mrs. A. Rosenberg, who had been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Alvin Percy E. Pond, who had been in the Atlin section: for some time was expected to return’to Juheau. Before Col. D. €. Jackling left for the Westward aboard the yacht Cyprus, P. H. O'Neill was called into the general offices of the Alaska Gastineau Mining = Com- pany and presented with a $1,200 watch, bearing the following in- scription: “Presented to P. H. O'Neill by officials of the Alaska Gold Mines Co. in recognition of distinguished servce and record achievement in driving the Sheep Creek tunnel. “CHARLES HAYDEN, “President. “D. C. JACKLING, “Managing Director “B. L. THANE, “Manager. 1914.” “Juneau, Alaska, Goldstein, left for the South. ' | i PROFESSIONAL Helene W. L. Albrecht YAYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 — Rose A. Ardrews Graduate Nurse Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas sage, Colonic Irrigations Office hours 1L am. to 5 pm. | Evenings by ‘Appointment Second and Main Phone 259 e & 401 Goldstein Building | [ _ DRS. KASER & FREZBUEGER | DENTISTS | Blomgren Bullding | PHONE 58 | Hours § am. to § pm. PHONE 496 ' —] Gastineau Channel ] ity ot e 0 —_— B. P. 0. 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