The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 27, 1934, Page 4

: i { } Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER blished every evening except Sunday by the EI;‘}R]; ;’RI\T!NG COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered 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 ad’ance, $1.25. Subscribers will conior a favor if they will promptly notify the Business ('fice of any failure or ‘rregularity in the delivery of their papel Telephone for Editorial And Bunlnuu Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRES: The Aseociated Press is exclus'vely emltled to the ase for r-publication of all news c tchos credited to R%r ot btherwise credited in this vaper and also the Jocal news published herein ALASK/ CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER law and order of the Middle West had in the past spent less time on publicity and more on their marksmanship it would not have been necessary for Attorney General Cummings to have offered this purse. It is undoubtedly true that both Federal and local constabularies have been doing the best they can to run this “good boy,” who has gone astray, to earth. The Federal reward is not necessary, of couse, to stimulate them to greater and more earnest effort, For a brief moment Dillinger is getting all the notoriety in the world; he enjoys the favor of the ladies, easy money and the pleasure of knowing that with the mere announcement “I'm Dillinger” virtually any human being in the land will recognize and cringe before him. He gets all that and, on top of it the gambler's supreme thrill of playing with his own life. It is not so hard to understand how Dillingers can happen in this curious world, THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION COMMISSIONER BELL’S FIRST YEAR. As United States Commissioner of Fisheries Frank T. Bell, who is here on his second trip of inspection and investigation since he assumed that office a little more than one year ago, probably has more power for good or ill over Alaska and its people than any other individual officer of the Government of less than Cabinet rank. His word on matters pertaining to the several branches of the fisheries industries, except in halibut, fishing, while not abso- lutely final since there is an appeal to the Secre- tary of Commerce, to all intent and purposes is final. In practice both Commissioner Bell and his immediate predecessor, Henry O'Malley, have been given a free hand in the administration and regu- lation of the salmon fisheries, the herring fisheries, the shell fisheries industries and other lesser branch- es of the fisheries. That is, of course, the sensible method to pursue. To him is entrusted the re- sponsibility of preserving from destruction great natural resources of tremendous value not only to Alaska but to the Nation as well. In order to carry out that responsibility it is essential that he be given a free hand in regulating the use of those resources. When Commissioner Bell made his official visit to the Territory a year ago he said frankly that there was a lot he didn't know and would have to learn about the job. And he lost no time in setting about to acquire the necessary knowledge. He in- augurated at that time a policy of meeting the residents in each locality he visited, hearing their complaints, inviting their criticism and asking for constructive suggestions. He has delegated wide authority to local representatives of the Bureau of Fisheries so that they may handle problems as they arise in the field. He has exhibited a sympathetic understanding of most of the serious problems of resident fishermen and business interests whose existence is largely dependent upon the prosperity of those engaged in fishing. In his first year he had made a material reduction in the number of iish traps and opened many new areas to purse seining and gill netting, both of which actions were taken mainly for the benefit of resident fishermen. It is undoubtedly true’ that he has not done everything that has been demanded of him by Alaskans directly encaged in fishing. Probably no one occupying his position and charged by law with the responsibilities that &re his would o1 could have done so. In the main, however, his administration 50 far has promoted employment and prosperity for Alaska residents. He has madc many friends by his cvident fairness to everyone and his genuine sympathy for those whose livelihood is derived solely from the resources entrusted to his care. ‘We are sure that the policies that he has inauc- urated will work mnore and more to the advantage of the Territory and that each recurring visitation will find him more warmly liked as he becomes more and more familiar with conditions in this field. SURGEONS BACK “HEALTH INSURANCE.” ‘The American College of Surgeons has assumed the leadership in a nationwide movement to “pro- vide more adequate medical service for the whole community” through a. system of voluntary pre- payment of health insurance. The Board of Regents, the governing body of the college, ndopted the report of the Medical Service Board subinitted after eight months of study of the question of periodic pre- payments by Americans of moderate means for hospitalization and medical care. ‘The preamble to the report said it is “an enuncia- tlon of principles on which plans for voluntary health insurance may be formulated, but it is not a proposal for any specific plan.” This was the college’s first pronouncement on a subject which has created controversy in medical circles. Assert- ing its desire to cooperate with othér agencies in the movement, the college stated its belief that the medical profession should take control of all meas- ures aimed at setting up voluntary insurance, adding: Encouragement should be given fo the trial of new methods of practice designed to meet these needs, and a careful evalua- tion of their success should be the duty of the medical profession before they are of- fered for general adoption. It recognized four groups for immediate study for whom, it held, more adequate medical service should be made available. These were the indigent, the uneducated and credulous of the community, those financially unable to meet the costs of serious illness and hospitalization, and those living in re- mote districts where adequate medical service is not obtainable. ENEMY OF SOCIETY. _John Dlml;fifg sthe' Indiana farm boy, who made . good in @ big Way Jor. the edification of the ‘northern Middle West, now rates a further honor ‘distinction of being the Bam has posted a reward y $5,000 for information but it is depessing to observe the helplessness of the law and of society in dealing with him. For several weks now he has faded into ob- scurity, possibly sheltered by some one of the “molls” whose favor he had won or some ally of the criminal underworld for reasons of fear or purpose of gain. Perhaps the head fee of $10,009 offered by the Government will prove a strong enough lure to overcome the infatuation, fear or cupidity which may be the only bar that interposes between him at large and behind the bars A news dispatch tells of a man who played a harmonica in Philadelphia for forty-eight hours and wasn't molested And again does Philadelphia prove its right to be known as the city of brotherly love. Changing Roles. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Historically, the Democratic Party is the cham- pion of States’ rights and the sworn enemy of the concentration of power at Washington. But actual conditions play a larger part than party traditions. Today we have the amusing spectacle of the Re- publican National Committee taking over the his- toric role of the Democrats, pleading for democracy, opposing the domination of the central government. The Democrats, creatures of a situation calling for drastic measures, are today the champions of a strong central government, intervening at countless points in the nation’s economic and social system. The Republican case is not wholly convincing, as stated by the National Committee at Chicago. It proposes to meet the challenge of our time in terms of a “progressive outlook,” but it has chosen one of its most conservative leaders, Henry P. Fletch- er, to assume control of the party. It asks for individual initiative and the maintenance of compe- tition, but admits this must be checked by govern- mental regulation. In short, it winds up with the Democratic formula of ordered competition under the aegis of government. Through the deliberations of the National Com- mittee, and implicit in its declaration of policy, there is repeated proof that its leaders are thinking in terms of taking up their task where Mr. Hoover left off, rather than building on the basis of exist- ing realities. They do not even recognize that it was their own Mr. Hoover who laid the foundations in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Federal Farm Board for much of the Roosevelt Administration’s experimentation and government intervention. There have been some notable speeches from G. O. P. leaders, such as that of Ogden Mills at Topeka, Kans, in which one can find a trend toward realism. Mr. Mills frankly threw overboard the outdated policy of extreme protectionism. He readily admitted the need for many novel ventures in Federal economic policy. He welcomed the re- fashioning of the historic gold standard into some- thing useful. There was in that address a quality of understanding, keyed to the: conditions of 1934. The Republican National Committee gives little evi- dence of intellectual exposure to the blunt facts of this social-minded age. For Fairer Prices. (New York World-Telegram.) NRA, after long study, has evolved a uniform price policy to be applied with the consent of the industries to all present and future codes. At the beginning General Johnson let each industry write its own price provisions, to see if they would work. So many different indirect price-fixing provisions were put into code law, most of them with disastrous results,. Many of them merely legalized what in- dustry had been doing all along—to its own detri- ment and at the cost of the buying public. Their result was foreseen. Some prices went up too fast, where competition was curbed too much. Now NRA has a new policy frankly aimed at restoring price competition, preventing coercion of competitors and enabling the seller to fix his price at a level which will enable him to sell the largest amount of goods. When drastic action against de- strucive price cutting is called for, the Government will act. It is & major and a very delicate operation that NRA is attempting. There is no easy cure. But fair prices would enable every one to buy more of the world's goods. Finland Knows Her Mind. (New York Times.) Sturdy little Finland continues to impress spec- tators as a nation that goes her own wny, independ- ent of the fashions. She punctually meets her war debt installments to the United States at a time when nobody else does. She has successfully upheld her democratic institutions against repeated Fascist attempts, while to the east and south of her, strong-arm government prevails. Not so very long ago, when she became convinced that her Prohibition experiment was not working at all well, she turned right in and repealed Prohibition. It was an act not without some psychological effect on a much bigger nation then suffering from the same experiment. Had they been born in this country those Ontario quintuplets could have been accepted as the answer to General Johnsons, “You ain't seen nothin’ yet."—Toledo Blade.) Add similes: As distressed as a bathing-suit censor who finds that the lady bathers are obeying the rules—(New York Sun.) “Bigger Sunday Staff Headline. driver. in Hospitals Ordered”— Score one more point for the Sunday 'hiladelphia Bulletin.) An optimist is the man who thinks he can make a living from commissions for collecting old accounts.—(Atlanta Constitution.) One hopes that we shall not soon be asking ‘what is so rare as a rain in June?"—(Cl Plain Dealer.) O | BYNOPSIS: While trying to pus- ' #le out the identity of the persom wwho murdered a policeman_and @ stranger in Pierre Dufresne’s house, Sergeant Harper has discove ered that a set of threatening let 1 ters sent Dufresne was written on | paper taken from his house, and that at the time Ellen Becker, a maid, left the Dufresne employ there’ had been a “scene” between { her master and mistress. Harper s questioning the Dufresne gardener. Chapter 40 ELLEN BECKER 'AS there anything between Becker and young Dcnaghy?” Harper asked, with quick percep- tion. Whitmore pulled nn his pipe while he meditated. “Well, sometimes I thought yes and sometimes no.” “When did she leave?” “The middle of November. I re- member, because we're paid on the 15th and 30th, and the 15th was her last pay.” “Where is she working now?” “I don’t know. She never wrote to anybody nor came back to see us. She had an uncle who ran a little grocery store somewhere in the city, and that's all I ever heard about her family. She did tell me his name once, but I've forgotten, except that it wasn't Becker. Ellen wasn’t much for talking about her own affairs, al- though she had a lot of ideas like Joe about rich people.” Whitmore laughed. “Maybe she went out and got herself a rich widower.” A rapping at the door afforded Harper a graceful way of bringing the prolonged interview to an end. When the detective opened the door hedfound the same brisk young man who had run down the origin of the dead man’s disguise so success- fully. Whitmore went out and the man from the Central Bureau en- tered, handing over a batch of re- ports from Headquarters. “Nothing very important in these, I'm afraid, Sergeant,” he commented. “I'm glad you came up, Harris,” Harper replied. “I liked the way you handled that Pagliotti mattter. I'la going to give you another assign- ment, a harder one this time.” Young Harris sat silent and alert while Harper thought over bits of John Whitmore’s talk. So there had been a serious quarrel between Pierre Dufresne and his wife in No- vember. A quarrel inspired by jeal- ousy, real or fancied. Whitmore thought tkat Ellen Becker was prying and sly and that there may have been something be tween Donaghy and her. On the 15th of that month Ellen had depart- ed, somewhat mysteriously. On 19th had come the first threatening letter. Then, on the day after the mur ders Donaghy had been surpriscd with a pocketful of money, as a 1 sult of “backing the right horec Were these facts links in a cbain o not? MOCKING HOUSE BY WALTER C. BROW “I get you,” Donaghy said. ERGEANT HARPER looked nun‘ Harris’ keen eyes and spoke (- | E} cisively. “Harris, there was a maid in this house named Ellen Becker She left last November 15th. 1 want her present address. All I can tell you is that she had an uncle who ran a grocery store, but his name was not Becker. When you get her ad- dress, camp outside until I can get there. If there's anything in my tip. she may be warned to skip out of the city. I leave all the details to you, Harris, but find Ellen Becker!"” “Yes, sir!” Harrls took up his overcoat and hat and dsparted, Har- per pressed the button, and when send in Donaghy. Andrews appeared asked him to! MOOSE SMOKER July 3 @ Watch for Further Announcement Donaghy put in a prompt appear- ance, spick and span in his uniform and bearing himself with a jaunti- ness that may have been designed to nettle the detective. “You sent for me, Sergeant? Are there any holes in my alibi?" Harper looked him up and down coolly. “That's a matter for Head- | quarters to check, Donaghy. What I want to see you about is some- . thing entirely different.” “At your service,” Donaghy re- plied airily. The detective frowned at the im- pudent tone. He placed paper and l pencil before the chauffeur. “I want you to print the words I dictate to you. Print, you understand, not write?”" Donaghy poised the pencil. “I get you,” he said. “You think I wrote those letters.” He chuckled. “Not me, Sergeant. I always stick to speeches.” “Then there will be no harm in making sure,” Harper retorted, drily. Donaghy went through the double test docilely enough, but he evidently considered it as a joke and laughed as he handed over the last paper. As Harper looked them ; over Donaghy said, “I thought the ] letter question was all washed up. Didn’t the man who was killed write them?” “What makes you think so?” Harper countered. | Oh, just plain reasoning, logic, orfwhatever you want to call it.”” ONAGHY'S eyes were fastened on the detective. Under his ban: tering manner he was eager for in- formation, anxious to draw the de- tective into a discussion of the case. (A virile, handsome face, that of Donaghy, but marred by those dis. | contented lines about his mouth. Behind the cocky manner Harper suspected an intelligence of no mean order. “Donaghy, do you still malntain that you cannot identify the man who was found in that chair?” The chauffeur shook his head. “I never saw him before, and that's the truth.” “Donaghy, you're lying to me!" Even this bald challenge failed to ruffle the chauffeur’s nonchalance, and Harper took this as a bad sign. *If you know who this man is and withhold that information, you are guilty of wiltully obstructing justice. And that, Donaghy, in case you don’t know it, can be built up into a jail sentence.” 'The chauffeur shrugged. “I can’t tell you what I don’t know,” he re- peated. “Harper perched on the edge of the table and looked keenly down at the sfilten face. “You're a very cocky . but | wouldn’t st a little tempo- rd¢y prosperity go to my head.” *What do you mean?” Donaghy instantly sensed the subtle change ig: Harper's voice. “Don't beat akpund the bush, Sergeant. If you've pt anything to say, say it!"” #Don’t get nervous. That was only y way of suggesting that it's a lit- sdangerous these days to carry a rge amount of cash on your per- .'!rue dark eyes narrowed. “What ney " “i‘Don’t try to bluft me, Donaghy. 1 cbuld have you searched right here fi now. I was referring to the 10ney you won by ‘backing the right e’ 1 didn’t notice any hundred tgione horses coming through. Did your horse have a French name, by any chance?” (Copyright. 1934, by Walter C. Brown) Tomorrow, Donaghy “blows | Washington fifth, University of 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire oo JUNE 27, 1914. Col. D. C. Jackling turned his yacht Cypress over to Mrs. B. L. Thane the preceding day and dur- ing the afternoon Mrs. Thane en- tertained about 50 Juneau guests at tea until it was time to sail for the westward. ———d George Burford, Postmaster Earl Hunter, of Juneau, 8 A. Jenkins, representing the Continental Com- puting Cash Register Company and W. W. Waldron, of Seattle, form- ed an interesting quartet of fish- ermen who chartered the Burford automobile and left for a cruise over the government road to Men- game. August Bushmann took passage on the City of Seattle the prev- lous night for Wrangell. Mrs. James McCloskey, McCloskey Jr., and Eugene Me- the night before and were to spend the summer in Juneau. Grace Webster led in the voting contest for the Goddess of Liberty with 181 votes. Dorothy Haley was second with 56; Venetia Hile, 85; Lydia Korhonen, 28; Dorothy Hamilton, 17, and Sedonia Reck, 9. A. Van Mavern, of the West Coast Grocery Company, returned to Juneau from Wrangell the pre- vious evening on the steamer Hum- boldt. Columbia won the great inter- collegiate regatta on the Hudson, defeating the University of Penn- sylvania by a length and a half, Cornell, usually victor, was third, Syracuse fourth, University of Wisconsin, sixth. t was the first time Columbia had won the clas- sic. Weather for the previous day was partly cloudy with a maximum of 52, es. Precipitation was .02 inch- —————— During my ansence, ur. W. J. B. McAuliffe, will be in charge of my practice and office. adv. DR. W. W. COUNCIL, Daily Empire Want Ads Pay GOODRICH | MEN'S SHOE PACS $4.50 | See BIG VAN | W VISIT THE Salmon Creek Roadhouse denhall Glacier in search of rhmy, James| Closkey, arrived on the Humboldt | | temperature of 66 and e minimum | PROFESSIONAL —————— Helene W. L. 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