The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 11, 1934, Page 4

K THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JULY I1, 1934. 1D¢ul Alaska Empire | ROBERT W. BEN’DER GENERAL MANAGER —— Published _every evening except Sunday by _the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY &t Second and Main nreeu Juneau, Alaska. T Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class | tter. X SUBSCRIPTION RATES. $1.25 | Oelivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for r month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: me year, In advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, one month, in advance, $1.25 EASeI will ontes & Favor if they will promptly | motify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity | i the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Busines 374, R b "EM!ER OF ASSOCIATED PR The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the for republication of all news dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the | Jocal news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION GOLD UNDER THE “NEW DEAL.” No more concrete illustration could be given o(’; the effects of the “New Deal” on Alaska than the| figures issued by James J. Connors, Collector of | Customs, on the gold shipments made from the ‘Territory during the first six months of the current year. The value of such shipments, $5749,652, is about 101 per cent more than it was, for the first| six months last year. cent of the increase is due to the gold policy of | the Roosevelt Administration which nationalized the gold supply of the nation, and its production, and increased the price from $20.67 a fine ounce to $35. And there is much talk just now in unofficial quarters of raising it to $40.34, the limit fixed by statute. There was a rise of 32 per cent in the q\mntil,v of production during the first half of thls‘ year, and that, too, can fairly be said to have resulted from the higher price of yellow metal. The longshoremen’s strike and consequent sus- pension of shipping between Alaska and Seattle opqraled to curtail production in many regions of the Territory. Had it not been for this, and the water shortage in certain placer areas, the total output from Alaska's gold mines between January 1, and June 30 undoubtedly would have been nearer | seven than to six million dollars. Thus, as in the fisheries, our major gold mining has received a new lease on life through the “New Deal” and the impetus lhus gained should carry mining to new high levels not | Beretofore experienced in our history. | A little more than 69 per| industry, “MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE. The approaching Army Airplane Good Will Tour to Alaska ic something more than a mere l:'mning{ "exercise for the ten big Martin bombers and the| men who fly them, say the authors of the Wash- | ington Merry-Go-Round column in an article ap- pearing in various and sundry newspapers under date of June 26. So, too, probably have the Navy airplane expedition and the submarine cruise which are headed this way enroute to the Aleutian; 1slands. , The Merry-Go-Rounders size it up this way: : The Army’s flight of Martin bombers to ! Alaska has a lot more behind it than meets + the naked eye. Alaska plus the Aleutian Islands is the focal point for either defense or attack in any war in the Pacific. How rapidly and “how safely American airplanes can get to Alaska in such an emergency is of vital importance. What is known by few people is the Navy's survey of the Aleutian Islands west of Kodiak Bay two years ago. To the gen- eral public the work was done for the Coast and Geodetic Survey of the Com- merce Department. Actually, the Navy want- ed to find out what hm)bors were safe for airplane bases. Now “the Army “has taunched- another move which indicates that the military strategists are not to be unprepared in the | Pacific. + What Messrs. Pearson and Allen have put into Qype, other Washington correspondents are saying, also. Japan seems to be determined to make the Mric Ocean a Japanese lake, and has already Said she will, at next year's naval conference de- mand a parity of sea forces with Great Britain d the United States. The interest of the Navy in the Aleutians for the past two years and the Mny's plane expedition here may not be wholly unconnected with that and the eventualities that fiu.y grow out of the Japanese demands. ! EARLY PATENTS SHOW MODERN TRAIN TREND. ! Air-conditioned and streamlined trains were con- ceived before the Civil War, Patent Office records show, according to the Assoclated Press,”that one inventor in 1855 took out & patent on air-ecoling ‘n;? still another in 1865 obtained Tights on a streamlined car design. Tbe first attempt to. intro- Quce air-cooling " is credited to J. H. Barry; of| Philadelphia. In 1865, S. R. Calthorp, of Roxbury, Mass., took out papers to patent the streamlined car but it is gnly within. the Jast’ year .that such designs have been put into practice. The Associated Press quotes Jes L. Howard, Assistant General Counsel for Western Railroad Association, as explaining the reason for the lapse of time. *“He explained it in this manner: Barry and Calthorp took out the first - -patents in their field and were far ahead of their times. For many years following their days comfort and speed of travel were not the important things. It was only neces- sary that we be moved from place to place without loss of life and limb. - Today it is different. We demand, in ‘__'ddmnn to safety, the utmost comfort and 2 mile or two a minute speed, and we are e dsmome | partment lwhich produced it that ordinarily it “can be seen { their boats, carried outboard | timber davits, Ibe light and clean enough to be driven by its five | “whalers” {of the boat; |breaking labor for small return which were demand- the seeds to the have attaired. Calthorp cited retarding of speed caused by wind resistance in his application, and added: “To diminish this annosphcrfc resistance is the object of my inventicn.’ The speed he believed attainable was not esti- mated, but from drawings it resembled closely the | modern bullei-shaped train. 5 Barry's application stated how he “invented a Inew and useful machine for effectively ventilating| and cooling railroad cars, omnibuses, stages and other closed vehicles, and for ventilating and cooling public and private buildings in whole or in part, steamships and sailing vessels.” successful growth they steamboats, Stary ‘Fight Littie Late,” says an Seems to us that they are at even “Republicans Empire heéadline. least two years too -early for anything that, out of courtesy, could-be called a fight. When Gen. Johnson goes away on that much much-needed vacation, we wonder who will take over his job of answering critics of thé NRA. Maybe they'll jus;l save that for him when he returns. “Ham" Le predicts that the De- Justice will shortly begin criminal prosecution gf the “price kiters.” Well, there's one thing the “kiters” wont have to worry about— money to hire the best lawyers in the country. Senator J. of The Whaleboat. (New York Herald Tribune.) It is something of a shock to be reminded by The Vineyard Gazette” that the whaleboat—one of the noblest, as it was also one of the most beau- tiful, achievements of the earlier American boat builders—is now so nearly extinct in the waters The old whaling ships them- selves, it must be confessed, though stout hearted enough, were rather squat and ungainly craft; but in the old-fashioned were things of living grace and competence, well worthy of the museums in which they, or accurate models of them, can now be | found. The whaleboat had to be competent; it had to have everything which can be asked of a boat. It had to be fast and able under sail; it had to only in museums.” oarsmen. It had to be a good towing boat when the iron was in a running whale, and it had to be a first-rate sea boat, since it lived and worked in the open oceans. The answer to these hard specifications was a long, rather deep boat, with a handsome sheer, fine bows and a sharp stern, capable of rising easily in a following sea and permitting her to be handled with the steering oar, which is better than a rudder for offshort work. Painted white with a black gun- wale, the whaleboat was as beautiful as she was able. Her lines are still preserved in the nava carrier by the smaller ships of the Am- erican and British navies; but there is seldom | any need nowadays for the peculiar combination of | requirements which produced her, though her in- |fluence can be traced in all kinds of small boats |for offshore work, from dories to the double-ended lifeboats of a modern liner. Even less is there need for her special and | characteristic fittings—the rounded notch cut out of he- foremost thwart in which the harpooner braced knee as he rose to strike; the chock in the | bows which took rthe smoking ‘whale line as it led | out of the line ttbs, around the snubbing post at the extreme after end and right down center line| the cleats holding the razor-sharp harpoons and lances ready at hand. Such things are all museum pieces now along with the boat herself—and one is almost tempted pessimistically to add—the qualities of great physical strength, of skill and hardihood and willingness to accept heart- ed of the men who used them. Japan’s Demands. (Philadelphia Inquirer.) The intimation that the naval parley set for next year may have to be postponed because of the demands of Japan is less surprising than it would have been had the Japanese not been insist- ing so persistently on full equality with the Amer- icans and British. The reason is plain enough— domination of the Pacific. The return of the American fleet to the Pacific is a perfecily open disclosure of the American attitude. Japan may build to the limit of her financial capacity, but the United States will never permit the Pacific to become a Japanese lake. Neither, for that matter, will Great Britain. She has Australia to consider, as well as vast interests in China. That the British, as well as ourselves, should now wish to build up to full treaty strength is not surprising. There is no gesture of hostility to Japan in this or any cause for disagreement be- tween Great Britain and the United States. It is| the ambition of Japan that is dangerous. Equator to Are (Daily Olympian.) We thought we had this country pretty well built up with roads. Yet the PWA, €WA, and CCC found plenty of opportunity to build enough roads to girdle the globe just in the last year. First, we thought of roads from the point of view of the country. Then the State road was the model. Then the States road was built with Na- tional assistance. Then came the great National highways, East and West, North and South. Now we begin to think of roads in terms of continients. War Department engineers have found that, the projected road from Seattle to Fairbanks, Alaska, is féasible. If put through, such road would lead to faster development of Alaska, and closer relations wl;h Canada, both much to be desired. Further, it would connect eventually with the | road now being pushed south from the Rio Grande. This Fall such an all-weather road is expected to be completed from Laredo, Tex., to Mexico City. South America. It will be a proud day for America when it has a road on which its people may drive from the Equator to the Arctic. No “strategic highway” such as bellicose countiers are fond of building, but a broad highway of peace, linking with a friendly tie the peaceful peoples of the Western world. After careful survey it has been decided that knees in the car are more attractive than those they put under front axles. (Lexington, Ky., Herald.) To judge from his former Allies’s sense of their | letter explaining bis action. So this MOCKING HOUSE SYNOPSIS: Serpeant [laraer just has explained to Pierve D fresne that the wowerful politi cian’s alibi on the night whea firn men_were murdered in )is house ix worth nothing at all (1 prr hin selt has escaped from (he Dol and guarded apartment 1hn: posedly held Dufresue v hile murders were tiking piace fresne maintains a scorijul tude, Chapter 47 AGAIN DEATH OU appear to be arm:l points, Harper. 1t" ty yarn. You've almost couv me of its truth!™ “We've had all these pi evidence,” the detective continued calmly, “but we couldn’t get th-m into a pattern. After we had a& !‘fiw with Ellen Becker we began to an- dergtand.” Plerre Dufresne jerked as thouh he felt a knife at his ribs, “Enén Becker?” he echoed faintly. “Yes, and once again | can telf | you something you didn’t know be fore. Your bribes to her were & waste of money. She had already put her silence where!"” Dufresne leaped up, his face working, his eyes glittering iu stark rage. He gripped the detective’s shoulder. “My wife—?" he choked. Harper nodded. “Ellen Becker has been taking money from hoth ot you. When she confessed about those notes in the sand, it became obvious how you must have planned to catch that man in your house and murder him. But you have hope- lessly prejudiced your case by being secret and subtle, with the result that a perfectly innocent man lost his life as well. That part is not so | easy to forgive.” Dufresne “Harper,” you say if | denied everything, com pletely and absolutely?” “You may deny all you like, but you'll find it pretty hard to explain away Ellen Becker's evidence, or those letters. Then there’s the pres ence of the master-key on your ring. and the murder gun, first hidden in | your room. Besides, there is any amount of corroborative evidence.” | “But didn’t you tell me you had | two suspects on your list? Or were | you lying to try to trap me?" “Not exactly that, Mr, Dufresne.” Harper threw his bombshell. “Mrs. Dufresne’s actions are under equal | scrutiny. She is known to have been away from Mrs. Morlock's house during that mysterious fire. She has ! refused to give any explanation or account for her movements.” | Dufresne halted in his tracks, a peculiar intentness coming into his eves, as though looking at thing far away, “l suppose you wife with arrest?” “] am giving her every chance to reconsider her decision,” Harper re. plied, “but continued refusal to an swer my questions will force my hand.” Pierre Dufresne threw back his head and burst Into harsh, jarring laughter. “Are you mad?” he cried “No one in this house is ever going to stand trial for murder.” faced the detective. some threatened my HE prize quandary of all time!"” Sergeant Stephen Harper, still clad in pajamas, was shaving him- self. He had just started the razor down the side of his face when the telephone by his bed began to ring. In a moment a voice he did not rec- ognize was pouring out an excited tale. “Wait a minute. . . . Stop shouting, I'm not deaf,” Harper protested. “Who {s it? ... O'Connor? . . . at Dufresne’s. . .. Yes. ... Who?. .. Donaghy, the chauffeur? . .. Yes, yes, go on ... Whitmore found him? «+. You've kept the others away? That's the stuff, O'Connor! Hold everything! I'll come right out!™ Harper sat down on the edge of the bed. Joseph Donaghy, the chauffeur, a suicide in his living quarters over the Dufresne garage! And there was a letter he had written—an open was the end of the trail for that cocky young fellow. He hurriedly finishing shaving, dressed, and was ready at the door when the car from the Homicide Bu- reau stopped to pick him up. In the back seat were the fingerprint man, a police surgeon, and the offictal photographer, his two black boxes of equipment wedged between his knees. The snow-laden streets made for slow driving but there was not much conversation exchanged on the run up to Powhatan Terrace. im 5 in pawn—else | he exploded, “what would | | typ: | BY WALTER C. BROWN. , Tue uniformed policeman on rd at the front door to the Du- {resne house looked alert and ex- « when he saw the official group oming up the path. “Plenty of ex- i‘crent in there this morning, Ser- 101" he voluateered. . four men from Headquarters ced into the hall. They heard ;.08 coming from the rear of the J nn(l found an excited group kitchen. A policeman his stand at the back Andrews and the two Whit- were holding a lively discus- 1 with bim, i'ie appearapce of Sergeant Har- per and ‘his party choked off this The detective greeted them hen turned to the police here's O'Connell?” out there, with the body,” nodding toward the garage. Al right, boys.” went out the back door, ero: the porch, went down the | wooden steps and along the brick path under a covered pergola. The suow that had fallen the night be- fore had thrust its spearheads be- tween the latticed sides, but the the pergola to the stone garage was a matter of about fifteen yards and a iber of tracks in the otherwise smooth snow led to the side door of the building, where there was a =mall porch with wooden Colonial benches on each side, under a little | pent roof. bed where Joseph Donaghy lay dead, lying back at an angle from the edge of the bed, with his head sidewise on the pillow. He wore no uniform, but had taken off the coat {and vest of his civilian suit T'he tuutomatic gun was loosely held in his right hand. His feet rested on {the floor, his arms were in a natural pe 2. The bullet had been fired into the right temple. The Coroner’s man picked up the ejected shell from a fold of the bed clothes. He looked closely at the wound, thea hent one of the finzers e nodded to Harper. "ieen dead "si'( or seven hours.” Harper, satisfied with his serutiny and the police surgeon and they set about their routine procedure. Then the detective turned to the picce de resistance of this unexpected clf: max. A cha under it, awn up cl bed. On the chair stood a portable writer and in it was a typed lotter. The arranzement suggested | bat the chauffenr had finished typ: reached for his gun without get- g tp, puiled the trigger, and fal n sideways ncross the bed. Harper refully released the letter and ad it s was the letter: Jing to kick off in a minute I couldn't stand going to e to the chair. Tonight n enough fack to make a getaw but instead 1 drepped my vo rper ix wise to me [ know although he goes around hinting that he's ot something on the boss. I'm not sorry 1 bumped off Harry “ure Dorey but I'm real sorry 1 had to hump off the cop. | knew him and s a good guy but I had no ce when he butted in. never had anv luck after | got in with Harry. We started on easy jobs but when Harry wanted to try the dirty stuff [ wanted to pull out. He got nasty and said he would turn me in if I didn’t play ball. So .Iin:urcd out a way to get rid of him Look In the old tire hanging on the well of the zarage and it will save a lot of explaining My scheme worked out fine and my alibi held up and everything would have been an right if it hadn't been for the *Robody will shed a tear because Harry has gone, so | burned all his papers. Harper can figure out the rest of it for himself. Anvway I swore I'd never go to jail and | won't. | can't find anything to sign this with, but I guess that won't be necessary. Harper read this startling confes- sion through twice and put the let- ter aside thoughtfully, “Have you been down in the garage O'Con- nell?” + “Yes, sir. It's just like it says In the letter—an old tire hangin’ up on a big spike.” “All right, bring the tire up here.” Presently the ruddy-faced police man came back with the designated tire. O'Connell held it upright on the window-seat. while Harper's eager fingers dislodzed the contents of the circular hiding-place. The first, and bulkiest portion of the treasure trove proved to be a neatly-skeined length of a very thin, but exceptionally strong and dur able rope. It was a brownish yellow in color and to each end of it a metal ring was bound. These rings had the ‘eircumference of a fifty-cent plece. )!q”w(gll. 1934. by Walter C. Brown) Tomorrow, the piece of 1 explained. LS e Later it is to be driven through to Central and | obligations, Uncle Sam appears to have made the world safe for insoivency.—(Buffalo Courier-Ex- press.) ' . getting it. Barry and Calthorp planted the ¥ sagd.l for air-conditioning and streamlining frains, but it took the opportune mo- '&: lk!lled engineers to cultivate T. R. used to throw 'em into the Ananias Club, but F. R. just lets 'em testify before a House crmmittee.—(Dallas News.) - IDEAL PA If It's Paint PHONE 549 INT SHOP We Have It! 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