The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1934, Page 4

r' THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1934. Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER d ev evening _except Sunday by the .&?‘IEMP‘RI:I‘TGI?G COMPANY at Second and Main Btreets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCIRIPJYION RA‘;E% ol PG Deltve ier in Juneau and Douglas for $1. ered by carr Mg 3 By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, Is?'one ‘month, in advance, $1.26. @ubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly potify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers launched their drive from Cincinnati. Presumably it would be the export business which here would be directly affected, following its past troubles with the British and French. Then there are the “stars,” seeing their chance, perhaps, and demanding more effective as well as purer vehicles. All this doesn't add to the serenity of the producers, who have been struggling toward better business in a material sense. But the silver lining may be that Hollywood, so often recognized by the press as “on probation,” knows all this also. BY WALTER C. BROW SYNOPSIS: At last there is a rift in the wall of silence that has surrounded Sergeant Harper's in- westigation of the murder of the stranger and the policeman in Picrre Dufresne’s house. Ellen Becker, formerly a Tousemaid for the Dufresnes, has admitted receiv- ing money from both Mr. and Mrs, Dufresne to keep quiet about some notes demanding a rendezvous she had found concealed in the house. ‘twenty-eighth. >*MOCKING HOUSE over the details of the top floor, the “perhaps you would be interested in seeing this, Sergeant,” Mr. Com- stock suggested. He brought out a leather-bound box-case. “These are Mr. Dufresne’s original sketches for the building,” he explained. ———— | 20 YEARS AGO it —— R o ST TR | PROFESSIONAL ’ Frmrmlo§ocieliex | s Ty y > From The Empire Helene W. L. Albrecht l gl' Gl Ppad _('h_'f'i"f"_,_.' pres S ek 1) rHYSIOTHERAPY — - | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | R. P. 0. ELKS meets Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | v overy second and JULY G, 1914. 307 Goldstein Buflding | ## fousth Wednesday United States Mining Inspector Phone Office. 216 'I - 8;00 p m. Visiting Sumner 8. Smith, returned to Ju- gl | brothers welcome neau on the Mariposa to be here R T T Y John H. ~Wal { Exalied Ru Sides, S . ing for a trip to the Westward. Rose A. Ardrews ]|E4 .1{’1 5 —l oy Graduate Nurse | The National deficit for the fiscal year just ended was just $3,198,000,000 instead of the $7,309,- 000,000 forecast last winter by President Roosevelt in his budget message to Congress. The taxpayer may not always grasp the meaning of such stupend- ous sums, but he can be depended on to be thankful for the four billions and a odd millions saved. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. Yhe Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the for republication of all news dispatches credited to ‘or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the 1 news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. few the Fourth of July is over, what n end to the shooting of fireworks Now that about putting on the publi The “news” in the story about the nudist wed- ding wasn't in the lack of clothes of the bride and groom but the fact that it embarrassed the “news” photographers a ned to cover the event. of evening their Smith that the Seattle long- voting to load Alaska vessels from the Port of Tacoma. It was a rather | score with Mayor shoemen took in and release them clever way SHIPPING IS RESUMED. Coincident with the announcement that General Manager Ohlson of the Alaska Railrcad had arrived in Seattle to charter vessels to serve Alaska and thus end the blockade that has brought new economic distress to the Territory, the longshoremen voted | to raise the blockade and let vessels move north .’rxhflemllxni:::':::;dt?:yagtgel t:‘)mv.hzua!::io:n:a::lt 7 A report on \\hal.has been accomplished has just been written by Secretary of the Interior condition that the boats be loaded from and sail [y, 014 1, Ickes, as Public Works Administrator. It out of the Port of Tacoma. Clearly this is & counter- ;s on agmirable report in its candor. stroke aimed at Mayor Charles L. Smith's fight t0| yckes says frankly that the PWA “has won in open the Port of Seattle to all shipping. Tacoma many sectors, and lost in others. It has made | is not trying to break the tieup and thus benefits errors, corrected its mistakes, and doubtless will One Year of the PWA Shows Much Done. (Daily Olympian.) The nation's greatest effort to create employ- ment through a giant program of public works is now just one year old. Harper accuses her of working with Wanaohy, the chauffeur. Chapter 43 THE AUSTERLIT2 " ‘B HAVE not. I've told you everything I know about it. Joe and I have been going around to- gether and he wormed the truth out of me about why I left. But if he's been getting any money out of it, I don’t know anything about it. Don’t take me back to that house,” she pleaded. “Honestly, I've told you all I know.” “You'll have to face the music,” Harper declared, “but for the pres- ent I'm going to hold you in reserve as a surprise witness. You'll have to stay in this house, though, until I'm ready, and there will be a detective right here to see that you don’t run away. You will not be allowed to send any messages befor) morning.” “I'll stay here and the longer the better.” So it was settled. Detective Har- ris was given his instructions and Harper closed Folio B-3 and looked at these original plans, sketched with clean, incisive strokes. Was the artist who could do these things the same man who could be jerked back by primitive emotions to mur- derous savagery, a puppet to dance 8o ignobly to the string-pulling of such as Ellen Becker? The artist de- nied, but the man had lettered and signed each sheet, and there were A’s, and (s, and M’s, and S's that cricdal ‘o the detective's trained vision, 1 recalled those printed crank letters. SERGEANT HARPER put the pa- pers back in the case, quietly, almost reluctantly. “Mr. Comstock, I'll have to ask you to let me have these papers.” The manager's expression re vealed his astonisLment. “This is for official purposes, that’s all I can tell you,” Harper continued. “You will have our re ceipt against their safe return.” Mr. Comstock nodded, repressing his curlosity, 1 Mr. spection of the Chisana, Fairbanks, Hot Springs, ing several weeks in the Atlin dis | trict, looking over mining interests, returned to Juneau and reported things moving along in a satisfac- tory manner. with a $100 purse, the contribuiion Smith returned from an in- Ruby, districts. Iditarod and Nome He was accom- | panied by Territorial Mining In- spector Willlam Maloney, who re- mained at Nome. | Mrs. Barron, wife of J. F. Bar-| ron, head of the Funter Bay can-| | nery, {Anna Barron, accompanied by a party of friends, were passengers aboard the City of Seattle on their way to Funter for the summer. and their daughter, Miss E. P. Pond, who had been spend- Capt. made the trip on the launch Iowa 1 Receiver Frank A. Boyle, of the | local land office, engazed pass on the Admiral Sampson for S for a week or ten days before leav- , | Second any Main Billy Dickinson, Superin- tendent McCurnen of the Kansas Electric Cabinet Baths—Mae sage, Colonic Irrigations | | Office hours 11 am to 5 pm. Evenings by Appointinent Phone 259 3 i Chiropodist—Foot Specialist 401 Goldsten Building PHONE 493 DENTISTS Diomgren Building PHONE 3§ ! 9 am. to 9 pm. | C. P. Jenne | City Co., and Lawrence J. Reedy, Dr spent the previous day fishing on ' DENTIST Bear Creek and returned to town 5 with good strings of trout. They S a;‘;:?di:gva]enune | all had a most enjoyal day and 7 Telephone 176 | Dr. J. W. Bayne | Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldgz. | tle. i DENTIST | Walter Ford, Juneau's pr | | office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. | baseball pitcher, was pr Evenings by appointment PHONE 321 E. B WILSON || 2 1Tk ,MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 117 Second and fourth M day of*each month in ,Scottish Rite Temple, i ¥ heginning at “7:30 p. m. E. HENDRICKSO! fl.:S, KASER & FREEBURGER .; James W. LEIVERS, Sec-} i ,_:Icry ENIGUTS OF coryy Seghe; & tings second and last ay at nsient brothers urg- attend JOHN H. J. TURNER, Scretary Meets first and p.m., Eagles’ Hall, Douglas. Visiting urothers welcome. | time. PHONE 149; Council No.173 7:30 p. m. c g Council . Fifth Street. F. MULLEN, G K Douglas Aerie 117 F. O. E. third Mondays 8 Sante Degdn, Secretary Vlace any | A tank for Diesel () ! and a tank for crude oil save | burner trouble, ) NIGH( 148 ! RELIABLE TRANSFER _l Commercial Adjust- at the expense of Seattle. imake more errors, to be corrected in their turn . . . While the new arrangement will not be as| satisfactory as one for sailing out of Seattle, it| will not impose any impossible handicaps on trade., Most of Alaska’s business is done with Seattle | merchants and through its banking houses. Tt will be slightly more exepnsive to move goods from there to Tacoma and that fact ought to result in Tacoma business firms picking up considerable business herei unless Seattle equalizes the handling charges. The | important thing, however, is that we will get meh, ~wares we need to sustain industrial activities and | supplies for human use. | That is a pessimistic note injected by Judge Charles A. Reynolds, Regional Chairman, who sug gested to Gov. Troy that he advise Alaskan indus-!| trialists and business men to place their orders at once as the settlement may be upset later. And while it is sincerely to be hoped that events prove his uneasiness to have been unfounded, undoubtedly it is the part of wisdom to follow out his recom-' But it is a wheelhorse in the recovery team . . . and it is pulling its weight.” Much criticism has come to the PWA, centered on two points: First, that it was slow in getting under way, and that increased employment was not quickly felt; second, that many cities which needed PWA money most were denied it. So it is good that Ickes now sums up what has been accom- plished. The whole $3,300,000,000 was allotted by January 1934¢. More than a billion dollars of the fund has actually been paid in cash. Some 16,000 con- struction projects have been provided for, most of them now under way. How many men have been given work? Ickes is careful not to say because he feels that any estimate on that basis would be misleading. You might say, for instance, that two million men had received employment. But if they all worked one week and then were laid off, that wouldn't be much work, after all. “Don’t take me back to that house,” she pleaded. of enthusiastic fans who had wit-|&* NOW OPE s | ment & Rating Bureaun | nessed his excellent work during | the season to date. R. W. Wulzen, | team manager, made the presenta- T Robert Sizpson | | Cooperating with White Servics Bureau Room 1—Shattuck Bldg. : i | tion. Ford held an enviable rec- t. D 1 i . D, | ord and had to his credit an aver- Graduate Angeles Col- ; ey ":‘f,m,flf" i jage of 11 strikeouts a game while | lege of Optometry and | [ o | the hits off his delivery had been Opthalmology — e} ——n kept down to an average of 4 a | Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground P R ' game. o 7 777 " &|i Jones-Stevens Shop | Weather for the previous day! - o ‘ LADIES —CHILDREN'S was partly cloudy with a maximum DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL | | READY-TO-WEAR | temperature of 62 and a minimum | Optometrist—Optic! = 1 Beward Street Near Third | | of 46. —— ATTENTION KRAINBOW GIRLS to 12; All members are urged to meet in the basement of the Presbyter- ian Church Sunday at 10:45 to attend the service of that church. Eves Examined—Glassss Fitted | [8—— =~ # Room 17, Valentine Bldg. Office Phone 484; Residence Phone 238. Office Hours: 1:00 to 5:30 DB R L = " Dr. Richard Williams || | 2 — .’ JUNEAU-YOUNG Funeral Parlors Licenced Funeral Directors and Embalmers 9:30 h ! , So Ickes makes his estimate on hours of work mendations. Passions are higher in the strike zone proyided. There were “1,418,000,000 hours of honest than ever before. Both sides are evidently determ- work at honest wages on direct construction site ined to fight it out to a finish. The union will not 'employment only to men who otherwise would have consent to sharing control of the hiring halls with passed those hours in the ranks of the idle.” the employers, and the shippers as a whole are That means 177,250,000 eight-hour days, or 29,- adamant in their demand that either they or [541,666 weeks' work. Or it means 20 weeks' work the Government be given some authority over them. |for nearly a million and a half men. Almost as Tacoma, too, may decide to undertake to apen‘"’]‘““‘ again is assured in coming months from fts port to all shipping. It that should transpire, ahlolmems already made, .ifnd it is further estimated there isn't much doubt that the longshoremen would that two hours of indirect wok is provided in producing the materials for these jobs for every again tieup the Alaska vessels. hour actually put in them directly. In view of these popssible developments, the So the PWA Administration has provided a vast Pederal Government should authorize Cok Ohlson {amount of work, and in the heavy and construction to, go ahead with his arrangements for chartering industries chiefly, where it was most needed. In these ships. With the owners and operators, he the main, the huge fund seems to have been spent could work out a charter plan and have everything |for projects of value to the public, and withou in readiness so that, if another blockade is ordered |administrative scandal. h by the strikers, the Alaska Railroad could take over Secretary Ickes is to be congratulated on mak- the vessels at once and maintain service without ing a frank, straightfoward report on his handling such interruptions as that which we are now of the huge sums of public money to which he refers as “a publi % experiencing. It is not impossible by any means Public trust, that Sccretary Ickes's directions to Col. Ohison and installed in a chair in the hallway, while Harper and Lafferty re- sumed their interrupted journey to the Austerlitz. They rode in silence for a while, both absorb in turning over the! had | startling story Ellen Becker ne that Jjust unfolded. “Ima getting away with t 2 detective said, “playing both ends! against the middle. Our usual luck is still running true—here we | have two persons trying to shut| her up.” ‘They pulled up at the canvas!' marquee of the palatial Austerlitz and the military-looking attendant | opened the door of their car. As the two detectives walked toward | the entrance Harper said, “We're going in herc and I'll try to break down one of the neatest alibis that was ever put over. “Saying so is easier than doing President Cleveland became famous for his prin- the latier’s prompt appearance in Seattle had & lot ciple that “public office is a public trust.” Harold Ickes will gain immortal fame if he can establish to do with the vote to reopen operations between |q like regard for public money. Tacoma and Alaska. And if it were known that everything was arranged for Government charter and operation of vessels if the present settlement is upset, there might be less likelihood of an upset. Light Against the Gloom. (New York Times.) It might with some appropriateness be said of Dean Inge, as was written of an earlier Dean of St. Paul's, John Donne, that his faculty of preaching continually increased, and that as he exceeded others at first, so at last he exceeded himself. But relieved of the duties of the deanery, which is no sinecure, he will have freedom to address for the rest of his years an even wider audience than the Cathedral of St. Paul (recently fortified by repairs against'the ravages of time as prophesied by Lord Macaulay) has given him. His own prophecy by contrast is that European society “will hardly break up. while America remains sound,” but with only this gloomy touch of the subjunctive, that “it will not stand if America breaks up.” Dean Inge has, by his own :mct-selxdlscipline. earned the right to speak of eternal values. He has made his own what he has helped others to find: something of what the saint, the scientist and the artist respectively find in their experience of life. His definition of eternity is “to be eternal in every moment.” It is neither the sphere of mere continuance nor of mere reward and punishment, but one in which “all values are preserved freed from the changes and chances of mortal life.” And to achieve immortality is to “have life more abundantly”—the very purpose named by the Great Teacher Himself in describing His mission. The meaning and value of our personal life are aternal, and there is no danger of their being lost. It is here, however, that we are, as Dean Inge has said, “deciding in our lives our rank in the eternal 'world.” : If he has taught light “to counterfeit a gloom” in some of his comments on what foolish things some mortals are doing with their lives, he has on the other hand invested life with a significance and glory against which even the janua lethi shall FOR SAFER ROADS AS WELL AS RAILROADS. Safety is a relative thing, depending on how new Pprecautions are devised to meet new dangers. The railroad, being older than the automobile and vastly more hedged around with the safeguards experience has suggested, shows a declining curve of fatalities. The motor car, in a way its competitor but often more truly its complement, shows just now a rising curve. Dr. Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance statis- tician, shows an auto death rate for the first quarter of the current calendar year nearly 20 per cent above the same period of 1933. He warns that “unless concerted efforts are made to control the situation” the 1934 toll may exceed the previous peak of 33,500 deaths set in 1931. At the same time the railroads report, on the occasion of the award of the E. H. Harriman safety medal to the Union Pacific, only 530 fatalities among passengers and workers in 1933, or the fewest in any recent year, and 75 per cent under its 2164 deaths in 1923. Meanwhile the 10-year decrease in injuries was . 75 per cent—from 158525 to 17,555. Care and & R concentration impossible to the auto help explain ke this good showing. Improving economic conditions, reflected in more cars which themselves are used more, partly account for the rising auto death rate; depression had brought a consistent downward trend. Also during the depression, the child fatalities had decreased, but so far this year there is a startling 26 per _cent ‘increase from last year. Such figures are a challenge to every regulat- $0,” was Lafferty's retort, They stepped up ‘o th elaborate- ly grilled desk in the Austerlitz, where Harper asked for the man- ager. The affable manager looked inquiringly at Harper. “What can T do for you, Sergeant?” “I would like to see a floor plan of the Austerlitz, Mr. Comstock, “Certainly.” The manager pressed a button, and a silent, ef- ficient secretary appeared in the doorway. “Miss Summers, bring me Folio B-3, please.” When she had gone he turned to the detective. “I sup- pose this has some connection with last night's affair?” “In a small way,” Harper con- ceded. ‘“How long has Mr., Du- fresne occupied that suite?” he asked in turn. Mr. Comstock smiled broadly, “I see you're not acquainted with the Austerlitz’s history. Mr. Dufresne has had his suite here ever since it was built. In fact, he designed the building, helped finance it, super- vised its erection, and still has the controlling stock interest.” “That was quite an individual feat, then,” Harper answered, “He is a truly remarkable man» Comstock asserted warmly, "ar{d a genuine artist.” Miss Summers returned with a wide, flat folio. Harper looked at each diagram, from that of the base- ment up to the roof. He lingered Une e his as<stanty rode up with them in the elevator and opened the Dufresne suite. It was very quiet up there. The assistant detached a key from his ring, hand- ed it t> Harper, and retired to the background from whence he watched the detectives with discreet curiosity. Harper stood long in Dufresne’s bedroom, recalling the sight of Du- fresne's body sprawled inertly, the reek of brandy, the gaunt Andrews’ panic-stricken eyes from the door- way. . The detective opened a closet door and looked inside. He bent down to examine the double row of shoes on their racks. He borrowed Lafferty’s flashlight and went on hands and knees to ican the floor of the closet under the bright circle of light, Harper stood up and closed the door. “I'm ready for the test,” he announced. “I'll lock myself in these rooms and you stand out there and walt by the elevators, where Marki- son and the others kept watch.” Lafterty, grinning, stepped out in- to the corridor. He saw Harper close the door from the inside and heard the lock snap. “Yell when you're ready to give up,” he called through the door, then went over and sat down beside Mr. Comstock’s as- sistant. i “What's going on?” asked the lat- ter, with pardonable mystification. “The Sergeant has a Houdini com- plex,” Lafferty answered. “Say, is there an emergency staircase in this place?” “Right beside the elevators. The door with the red bulb over ft.” ' Lafferty settled back, satisfied. Sitting in silence, the lanky de- tective finally pulled out his watch. Less than five minutes had passed. He kept & wary eye on the corridor and the door to the Dufresne suite. Three more minutee ticked away. ' Then, with the faintest swishing noise, an elevator shot up to the fioor level, the grilled doors slid open, and Sergeant Harper, smiling ‘blandly, stepped out! (Copyright, 1984, by Walter C. Brown) “Who was that man?” Harper asks Mrs. Dufresne, tomorrow, — Shop I Juneau IDEAL PAI T SHOP b 1f It's Paint We Have It! PHONE 549 . Wendt & Garster ‘ J UNEAU | Phone 481 1. D rug CO- ‘fl Dr. A. W. Stewart i | Phone 276 2 = T R R 5 T o P e BT T S FIN TEM MARK| l' Watch and Jewelry Repairing _(;!-'gerle-—hrfduce—l?fiu-l:h FRONT STREET | s T s *'——————Jl e = T | s gy | , SR . PAINTS——OILS i HARDWARE | l $4.50 :I' See BIG VAN —adv. “THE CORNER DRUG STORE” P O. 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