The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 7, 1934, Page 4

i T e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, Y7, 1934, i Daily Alaska Empire blished every evening except Sunday by the IOIRE . PRINTING COMBANT 8t Seeond and Main ts, Juneau, Alasks. lntered in the Post Office in Juneau as Se(and Class matter. —_— SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: year, in_advance, $12.00; oix months, in advance, one month, in advance, $1.25. Bubacribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the ness Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the| r for republication of all news dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in this paper antl also the | local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER FUBL!CATION - ALASKA JUNEAU ADOPTS NRA PRINCIPLE. In voluntarily going.on a six-day work week basis and raising wages of its employes, the Alaska Juneau, as its management properly points out, has adopted the fundamental principle of the Na- tional Industrial Recovery Act and the NRA code system which is to increase both employment and pay. In reducing it week one day the company necessarily will have to employ additional men to fill its shifts. And the average wage paid for six days will be somewhat higher than was paid for the seven-day week. The company is, also, in this respect a pioneer in Alaska. In the mining industry generally, the seven-day week is common. In some districts it is not confined to an eight-hour day. No other com- pany has yet adopted the NRA principles, although all of them have expressed the willingness to accept a code when one is adopted. The company's volun- tary offer is in keeping with its promise of last month when it first granted a raise of 50 cents per day to all employees. At that time, at the request of the employees it promised to study the matter of a six-day week, and to make known its decision as soon as possible. The promptness with | which it fulfilled that promise is in keeping with | the general policy of the management to live up to all of its agreements. The employees' acceptance of the offer is another evidence of the spirit of cooperation that exists between the company and ! its employees. The new system ought to benefit both the company and its workers. The seven-day week is not a desirable thing where it can possibly ' be avoided. The efficiency of the employees un-' doubtedly will be promoted by the shorter week. The workers themselves will benefit in health and contentment through it One fact brought eut by :sthe announcement fssued by Mr. Metzgar, General Superintendent, ought to be emphasized and spread widely abroad. That is, there is no need for any inrush of labor. ‘There are sufficient capable men in the city and vicinity already to provide the company with all of the additional workmen the new system will require. Persons coming here from other points in the hope of employment from that source will be disappointed. And, too, such an inrush would add to the city's unemployment problem which is already serious. BOTTLES FOR WEAPONS. Bottles often in the past have been used as ‘weapons of offense, usually illegally and as a rule the user has found himself facing criminal charges in some court. Now the Government, through the Federal Alcohol Control Commission, proposes to adopt them as one of its major weapons in its new campaign against the bootlegging fraternity through- out the country. Proceeding on the theory that stoppage of counterfeiting of well known and popular brands of both domestic and imported liquor will check to a large degree the illicit alcohol trade the FACC recently adopted a regulation -requiring bottle manufacturers and distillers to blow or mould into bottles identifying marks. Thus any bottle can be traced to its manufacturer and to the distiller whose product it contains. Counterfeiting of labels and specially moulded bottles, although in vogue even before the Pro- hibition era, only rose to importance during Pro- hibition. Before 1920 the chief concern of the boot- legger was to evade the Federal tax by selling unbottled liquor or to transport legitimate stocks from wet to dry territory. But during Prohibition the prices that could be obtained for the finer brands of whiskey, brandy and gin invited counter- feiting, and this became a lucrative and regular part of the bootlegger's business. Repeal, therefore, found him highly expert in carrying on such activity. And with repeal many incentives to continue re- mained. They were: First—The profit to be obtained by evading high Federal and State taxes. Second—The profit to be maintained by sub- stituting inferior liquor for liquor of high reputa- tion and quality. Third—The profit available by operating a busi- ness with a small overhead, in which the expenses of offices and advertising outlay were practically eliminated. ‘The FACC believes that it can large measure the second of these Tequiring that all bottles containing eliminate in a incentives. By intelligence will know that he manufactured and distributed . liquor. to be successful necessarily the public must become bottle-conscious. is using container, and in most cases scrutiny would have given them protection, so skillful had bootlegger become in the art of counterfeiting. But two possible means of defeating this regulation secm to exist. alcoholic liquor to be indelibly marked with identifying insignia it hopes to force the bootlegger to peddle his wares in such fashion that every purchaser of ordinary illicitly For the plan liquor consuming In the past ‘buyers of liquor jave not scrutinized carefully the not the manufacturers and distillers might be produced for the bootlegging trade. There is little likelihood, however, that this will fbe’ attempted. It ‘would be infinitely more difficult 'to hide such operations than it had been to 'conceal an illicit distillery. y The nature of bottle manufacturing does not lend melf to illegal operation. The second means by which the regulat might be rendered futile would be in the resale of old bottles to bootlggers. To prevent this the| possession of used bottles will be illegal repeal the counterfeiter, almost entirely shut off {from the use of bottle factories, has had to dev')d[ on “empties” for his supply. Through the markm"§ of the bottle and prevention of the resale of used bottles this supply would be effectively cut off at its source. While there seems to be grounds for belief that| this plan may advance the Government in its cam- paign against the illicit liguor traffic, experience has shown that as long as the chance for profit| remains bootlegging will continue to exist. The | sane and logical way to end bpotlegging is to reduce the .existing exhorbitant Federal and State taxes, high import duties: and remowe quota restrictions to the end that good liquor can be made available for those who desire it at prices which will make it impossible for the cit dealer to compete with the legitimate business man. The projected flight here of the Army air squadron on its return trip from Fairbanks is more than just a pleasure hop or an official call. It is of sufficient importance to cause Juneau to see that nothing is allowed to prevent the establish- ment of a landing field capable of handling the flight. This is an instance where there must be no saying, “It can't be done.” Hollywoed on Prebation. (New York Times.) | There are gratifying signs that the leading: companies in the moving picture industry are| taking to heart the large volume of protests agamn some of their ways and products. Never before has | such a body of opinion been arrayed against fi!mti of a certain clas Catholic bishops are of one imind with Jewish rabbis in arraigning the pro- tducers who show pictures calculated to impair | morals and even glorify crime. Protestant churches ljoin with parents' associations, educators and civic societies in the threat of a boycott of vulgar and lvicious moving pictures. Superintendent Campbell has just added his strong protest in behalf of the school children of this city. The demand is for the suppression of what can only disgust and degrade, |together with the production of clean and interesting | {films fit to be shown to young and old alike. | It is evident that all this has mot been lost | {upon Hollywood. It feels itself on trial. Mr. Will Hays has—if a trifle late—roused himself to the Ineed of cleaning up the industry, and is calling upon its magnates to set about the job. If they do not !reform, they will not only fall under public con- demnation but incur serious money losses. Already the results of this widespread appeal to their ipocket merve, as well as to their sense of public {responsibility and decency; are seen in some of v.hel |announcements of the contemplated output for | lh(‘ rest of this year and for 1935. Patrons of the movie theatres will not at once be freed from a | good deal that is cheap and silly, but they may | !at least look forward to the filming of a few goud,‘ 'plays, a number of books of stirring adventure, | |and such works as “The Forsyte Saga,” “The Littie | Mipister,” “The Age of Innocence,” “The Last Days {of Pompeii,” Ridet Haggard's “She,” and ‘others. What has plainly happened is that a serious notice has been served upon Hollywood. It must | improve both its taste and morals or suffer the consequences. This wholesale fluttering of its dove- cotes bids fair to do it a lot of good. A Challenge to the U. S. (New York World-Telegram.) & The Administration’s new housing act is a chal- lenge to what has come to be the new American | spirit of self-help through civic co-operation. Under this plan for rehousing the nation’s millions the Government abandons all notion of subsidizing private industry. It will not pour bilions of public credit into building. It will, how- ever, make it easier for the billions of private dollars now rusting in the banks to go to work. The new measure, no less than NIRA, is typically Rooseveltian. Mr. Harold J. Laski, in describing the President’s conception of the State, says: “For him the power of the State remains that of the reserve organizer who defines the rules, not the immediate agent who operates the process.”- -Under the housing act the Government does just this. By insuring private home mortgages for re- novating and rebuilding; setting standards for a new type long term, amortized, cheap interest home mortgage; providing mortgage money in high inter- est rate regions through national mortgage asso- ciations; insuring the savings of building and loan associations the Government proposes to attract capital into the mortgage market. While doing this it gives full play, also, to the old-fashioned virtues of thrift and personal initiative. The new measure will live up to the hopes of its sponsors only if loaning agencies and home owners co-operate to make it work. This will re- quire a revival of the same civic enthusiasm that marked the early days of the Blue Eagles's flight. The time for a great rehousing movement is here. Home building is five years under normal. Families are living “double” and millions are in homes unfit for Americans. The consumption goods industry is picking up. People are returning to the cities. The marriage rate is going up. Recovery lags only in the heavy industries. Rehousing seems to be the next New Deal play. Strikes Can Be Settled. ‘(St. Louis Post-Dispatch.) ' While industry remains fearful of compulsion in labor disputes by way of -the Wagner bill, one strike seftlement after another proves arbitration, the best of all means, perfectly practicable. The thing can be ‘done. It is being done. is steady improvement in employment, are going up. This is the right way to settle disputes between capital and labor. It leaves both perfectly free. It is the democratic way. Why, then, should the Wagner bill in any form continue to make the country apprehensive that compulsion is to be used in a field where freedom is so increasingly successful? Agreement is possible when both labor and capital the quite free to bargain, and the record proves it. ‘There and wages Our idea of a highlight in merriment would be to watch a nudist with ivy poisoning fighting fleas.—(Philadelphia Inquirer. new One is that unscupulous We manufacturer might undertake . to establish 'flefly a bottle making plant at which counter- tett bottics bearing the insignia of the legitimate Simile for the Day—As nervous as a young couple expecting the stork for the first time after reading of the arrival of the Canadian quintuplets. —(Ohio State 'Jonrnal) SYNOPSIS: At last, things are breaking Sergeant Harper's way in his investigation of the two murs ders at Pierre Dufresne’s house, He has exposed ihe fact that both Mr. and Mrs. Dufresne are paying E Becker, a former maid of theirs, to keep quiet about some notes demanding a rendezvous, and he has broken Pierre Dufresne's supposedly air tight alibi, 7 Chapter 44 MRS. DUFRESNE HE dark blue limousine pulled up outside No. 34 Powhatan Ter- race. It was only a little past seven o’'clock, but the darkness was as ad- vanced as though the night were hours old. Through the twin cylin- ders of light from the headlights fluttered the vagrant snowflakes that heralded the sequel to the storm of the preceding day. The air was creepy with chill. “Walt here for me, no matter how long,” Harper instructed the driver. e opened the door and entered. There was no one in sight and no sound of activity anywhere. He walked down the hall, unlocked the breakfast-room door, and turned on the wall lights. Whenever he re turned to this locked room, he had a feeling that someone had been there in the interim looking over the “exhibits.” He had that feeling now, strongly, but could discover no evidence to substantiate it. Dropping his hat and overcoat an a chair, be went to the fire Sure enough, there was th urn in a corner of the h actly as Ellen Becker had it. Harper puiled it for handful by handful sifted the saud Having made sure that nothing was | be poured the into the un, and reiurned it hidden there no white sand back smoothed it down, to its place. Harper went to the looked out into the kall. Tle waited, hearing a quiet footstep. The butler appeared, w the silent figure watching, and came to him. “Where every one, Andrews?" “They are at dinner, He indi- cated a door farther du\\n the hall, “And Mrs. Dufresne? “Mrs. Dufcesne is having dinner in her own room. Did yoa wish te speak to anyone?” “Not yet, Andrews. evening will do just Donaghy about?” “I'm sorry, He asked Mr. Du- | fresne for the evening off.” door and sir.” Later in the as well. Is “What time will he be back?" “Eleven-thirty, at the latest. That | is the rule. of the house.” The detective went back into the breakfast-room, took up Mrs. Du fresne’s stained slippers, locked the door behind him, and went quietly up the stairs. Still quietly, he rappcd on the door of Mrs. Dufresne’s | room. Without any preliminary | sound the door was opened a foot or |~ so and Miss Burkett's red hLead gleamed in the opening. Sergeant Harper pusted against the door gently but firmly and in- serted himself through the opening. “You can't come in here,” protested the watch-dog supplied by the hos- tile Dr. Ulrich. “No?" queried Harper, smilin already inside. Over the nurse's shoulder he saw the mistress of the house seated in a deep armchalr. “Good evening, Mrs. Dufresne. For- give my intrusion, but it is impera- tive that 1 speak with you—now.” RS. DUFRESNE was resting very comfortably in her chair, her feet on & stool, a book open on her lap, and a soft blue lounging MOCKING HOUSE' 8Y WALTER C. BROWN. time we had an understanding about certain matters.” “What do you want, Mr. Har- per?” she asked in a muffled volice, for the surgical dressing covered one corner of her mouth. “I want the truth about certain incidents, Mrs. Dufresne, and only you can supply that,” Harper an- swered. a great many things from one source and another, some things we do not yet understand fully, but this case has definitely moved from the backstairs to the upstairs, to put it bluntly.” Sylvia Dufresne flinched. who was murdered in the breakfast. room? What was his name, and what brought him to this house, not once, but many times? I believe you can tell me!” “1 don't know,” the lady faltered, not challenging her questioner. “Where did you go when you left Mrs. Morlock’s house last night?” The hands tightened so that the ckles shone taut and white. “Who told you I left Mrs. Mor locks?” she gasped. nswer, the detective posed kn ble night, Mrs. Dufresne. They hat you walked a consider- tance through the snow. But s not all. We have an eye- wit- | last show Morlock's hous | QYLVIA DUFR but the one wholly visible eye wide with apprehension. nld you mot rather explain wa to me here, quietly, than an- & = {én these same guestions in s | ;’n]caul g visit her daughter, Mrs. s S e azel G. Kirmse, at Skagzway. b —_—‘—_-—] [courtzaom?” Harper asked. “Per. | R TR TRy, Robert Sispson ou will realize what | m 1 tell you that I talked wi 1 Backer this afternoon. told us everything. Sill the wide-eyed silence, though the Sergeant of Detectives hial exercised a hypnetic spell over IR me, Mrs. sh > real | conld not be sup {bribory. Ellen Bec | money, but Dufresne, yon <1 long by er took the told her story. Donaghy, bas also | cashed in on this, as1 | have no | doubt Le can be made to talk as Ilm]\ v as l‘le) Al Difresne mur- | eph Donaghy,” Harper | repeated. “Not to mince words, Mrs. Dufic will You held secret rendez man who 8 kilied. sne cried out at that t her hand over her face, but tective went on remorseless- have been told there were A number of jealous quarrels be- tween you and Mr. Dufresne and that he openly charged you with infidelity. At the time he stated that he would never give you a divorce. “It has been remarked that ever since this affair reached its climax Mr. Dufresne has avolded your pres- ence. It will be intimated that you entered into a plot to kill your hus- band and that in a quarrel subse- quent to the attempt on his life you killed this other man. “We are certain that Officer Ham- ill was admitted to this house by some one he recognized as belong- ing here and was then shot down. “You have my word that as the evidence now stands it will make a strong circumstantial case. You will be amazed to see how much of our ous with the robe covering her. Dr. Ulrich's bandages hid the right side of her face. The detective turned to the nurse, “I wish to talk with Mrs. Dufresne privately. If you will please leave us—T'll ring when I've finished.” The red-headed woman looked at her patient in inquiry. “But I have orders to stay here,” she objected. “Dr, Ulrich told me—" “Never mind what Dr. Ulrich told you “Go, Miss Burkett.” There was no denying the authority in that quiet voice from the armchair. Preceded by a polite “May 17" Harper pushed up a chair to face the still figure. “I hope your injury fs responding to treatment, Mrs. Du. fresne. I understood from Dr, Ulrich that you would have to keep to a liquid diet for a few days.” Mrs. Dufresne ignored the subtle exposure. She reached out her hand teward the stand at her elbow. On it were a writing pad, and a pencil, She picked up the latter. “Let us put an end to these little fictions, please,” he said, quietly. “If you can hold a conversation with Dr. Ulrich, you can talk to me. It is evidence will fit into that theory. “I have studied these facts and suspect a different story, but if you will not confide in me I shall have to act on Ellen Becker's testimony. I ask you once again to tell me the truth about last night.” ‘Then her voice came. “No—no—I have nothing to say. To you—or any one. Not even if you arrest me. You must do as you like. But please— please—don’t question me!” The tears rolled silently down her cheek, but she would not give way to audible distr@qs. Harper rose. “I am very sorry,” he sald, reaching for the bell. The nurse responded to the tinkling call as the detective picked up the slip- pers. “Miss Burkett, I make you ac- countable for Mrs. Dufresne’s safe- ty. She is not to have possession of any article with which she might inflict an injury to herself or others, That includes anything with a point- ed or cutting edge. You will also see to it that all visitors are barred from this room until further notice, Those are official instructions.” (Copyright. 1934, by Walter C. Brown) Richard Croyden makes a strarige plea, Monday. IDEAL PAINT SHOP If It’s Paint PHONE 549 We Have It! Wendt & Garster ness who will testify that you left | /o “There s no use beattg . about the bush. We have found out | Sampson had sailed for Alaska “Mrs. Dutresne, who was the man | The detective’s brows went up. | 1 ained slippers on the side ta. | These are the shoes you wore ! SNE was sitent, | a0 {Among the pasiengers aboard the) ! | three vessels were Mrs, 1. 'Sowr-|i in the community. Pending the | DENTISTS ol arrival of Judge R. W. Jennings,! Blomgren Building |in Juneau, those engaged in the! PHONE 56 upon the poll. Dr. C. P. Jenne I DENTIST Weather for the previ 5 otk I | hours was partly cloudy w R 5Bal;.‘ddi:zvzllcmlnc i 20 YEARS AGO 3- From The Empire I PROFESSIONAL ! Helene W. L. Albrecht ‘ | | ) { YAYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office. 216 JULY 7, 1914, | J. H. Guffey, well known resi- dent of Nome and owner of the Guffey building in Juneau arrived on the Mariposa to remain in Ju- neau with the idea of entering the drug business here. Rose A. Ardrews Graduate Nurse Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas sage, Colonic Irrigations Office hours 11 am. to 5 pm. Evenings by Appoint:nent Second and Main . Phone 259 The Alameda, Al-Ki and Admiral from Seattle the previous evening. 3 : by, V. H. Elfendall, Mrs.. C. 3 Davis, Mrs. J. F. Soles and Gerald- | | i l ine Soles. . , E. B. WILSON || 13 9F o | The ancient ‘capital . of Alaskaj | {had gone dry or was about to,| according to advices’ rev:eived in Juneau. At a saloon densus the people of Sitka indicated by a majority of 23, their oppositien to the granting of liquor licenses Chiropodist—Foot Specialist 401 Goldstein Building PHONE 495 DR\ K ASER & FREEBUR(:X‘ i business were up Saloons at Sitka were still cparat- ing, hcwever, and would commm to do so until the court pas:ed Hours 9 a.m. to 9 pm. | maximum temperature of 60 grees and a minimum of 44. ; Telephone 176 C\pr-fl Col. D. C in Dr. J. W. 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