The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 14, 1934, Page 4

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1934. Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER GENERAL MANAGER Published _every evening except Sunday by the IRE’ PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main ts, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Qffice in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Oelivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. i : mail, postage paid, at the following rates: .-'nur, ‘I advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, ..8? one month, in advance, $1.25, Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly motlfy the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. I‘elephonorfor Editorial and Business Offices, 874. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the E.IM republication of all news dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. ALMOST A UNANIMOUS YES. | The final report of the Literary Digest’s poll shows that the country's voters, of all classes and| every profession except one, are more strongly | aligned behind President Roosevelt than they were | in 1932 when he was elected. It shows that his policies are approved by a majority of voters in every State in the Union except one—Vermont.| Business men, clergy, physicians, educators and lawyers expressed confidence in him and approval! of his policies. The students of 17 colleges scattered throughout the country did likewise. Only the bankers voted in a majority their disapproval. The vot~ in Vermont was 2992 for and 3459 against support of the Roosevelt program. Vermont was one of the States carried by Hoover in 1932, |C. du Pont has claimed for the United States. There JUNEAU WELCOMES KETCHIKAN'S “QUEEN.” ) Juneau is glad to welcome “the First Lady of the | First City of Alaska,” Miss Geraldine Sandstrom, who was chosen Queen to preside at Ketchikan's very fine Fourth of July celebration recently. She | | will arrive on the steamer Alaska this evening and | |be the city’s guest for a few hours while the vessel | is in port. The capital city of Alaska is always| delighted to be host to visitors from the First City.| One who has been honored as Miss Sandstrom has been by her fellow townsmen, Juneau is pleased to honor also. Johnson's publicly and vigorously pro- claimed disgust with Herr Hitler seems likely to cause a protest from Germany. After all the protests the doughty NRA warrior has heard and answered in the past year, one more or less, even from Hitler, will mean nothing in his busy life. Gen. If anything were needed to prove that “happy days are here again,” the announcement that a bartenders’ union has been formed here ought to fill the bill The Soaring Glider. (New York Herald Tribune.) There are few records in sport, one imagines, so well worth having as that which Mr. Richard are few sports, at any rate, which make one-half the appeal to the imagination made by the sport of piloting the soaring gliderrs. To ride for over 150 miles upon the silent and empty air, to mount lightly upon the side of a cloud bank or to dip and recover, like a hawk, on the impalpable updraft from a mountain, to thread one’s way hour after hour from one unseen current to the next, sustained only by one’s own skill and knowledge—these are achievements that seem to make man really the master, and not simply the invader, of the skies. The ordinary aviator, dragged into the heavens be- hind a roaring power plant as a train is dragged by a locomotive, becomes an almost pedestrian figure by comparison with the pilot of a soaring glider, who rides only upon the wings of the wind. The sailplane looks more like a bird than the powered airplane (which seldom suggests a bird so much as it suggests a gigantic insect), and the sailplane’s pilot has to think like a bird. Like the "skipper of a racing sloop, he is wholly dependent jupon the air currents and upon his knowledge of their peculiarities; if the sailor loses his slant of % {wind, however, he can always wait for another, gains for the President ranging from 09 per Cent|..;. yo gaiipiane pilot can never wait at all. In to 14.39. These States were: Maine, New Hampshire, ;s yore magnificent and more hazardous sport he Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecucut,;must know and take advantage of every slightest New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, West | ypdraft; and given good soaring weather his records Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min- must be made wholly by his own mastery of his In the Digest's latest poll, the percentage of gain there for Roosevelt was 6.05 per cent over his 1932 vote. Twenty-eight States and “State Unknown” showed MOCKING HOUSE BY WALTER C. BROW SYNOPSIS: Sergeant Harpers theory that Pierre Dufreans or his wife is guilty of the murder of two men in the Dufresne house {8 blown sky high by the suicide of Joseph Donaghy. their chauffeur. Donaghy has left a note confessing the crime, and explained the murderer's mys- terious _escape from the house, Harper has not been able to check Donaghy’s movements becanse he Jad told the other eervants he was taking the night off. Chapter 49 NEW THEORY “PJ'HANK you, Andrews,” Iarper | acknowledged the patent sin- cerity of the old butler's words. “That will be all for the present,” he told them, in dismissal. The ser- vapts filed out silently, with O'Con- nell bringing up the rear. Sergeant Harper leaned back wearily. His face was drawn and tired, his eyes looking dully through | the window at a winter landscape he | did not see. Lafferty gave him a keen look. “What's the matter, old man? You leok as if you'd been up all night.” The detective thumped the skein of rope on the table with sudden fury. “Another life gone and I feel I'm partly responsible. I should have tive idly pressed his finger over the spot, but it would not move nor rub off. Harper leaned closer. It was a thin scratch, now first revealed by a Lrick of the reflected light. There wa8 another—a little nest of scratches. Curious that he had not seen them before. He brought the magnitying lens from the work-table and held it over the marks. There was a.de- sign mingled through these marks, much plainer now—a double design. He leaned closer and closer, experi- menting with the lens height to in- crease the magnification.. Impatient, he pulled the heavy ta- ble nearer to the light of the window to nullify that gleaming reflection which made it so hard to see those small marks clearly. And there, against this improved background, figured out that rope trick sooner. Now that youngster is out of the | way and the whole damned business 1s to do over again!” | “What do you mean, Steve?” Laf- ferty gasped. “In plain words, Donaghy’s sui- cide is a ‘fake,’ a ‘plant’ He was murdered, just like the others. Out there is the same mysterious mark in the snow, only this time it's be- tween the pergola and the garage!” “Holy Moses!” murmured the lanky detective, weakly. “Not only that,” Harper went on, “I found two more of those spikes. One driven into the end of the per gola and one beside the pent roof over the garage door. You see where this leaves us?” “But good God, man, where is it gbing to end?” “I don’t know, but I do know that | Donaghy never went to any gam- bling house and lost his ‘roll.’ You remember that it snowed again from seven to eleven o'clock last night. I | nesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Wash- | ington,” Oregon and California. Twenty States showed a loss for Roosevelt, surprisingly largely in! graceful art. The airplane began in the crude gliders of thirty or forty years ago; but as soon as powered flight had been achieved the glider was more or less for- the Southern States. The heaviest loss was in South Carolina, 1041 per cent, and the smallest in} Missouri, .11 per cent. Other States in which losSQSj occurred were: Indiana, Iowa, South Dakota, Ne-| braska, Kansas, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, | Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama,| Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and | ‘Texas. In the professions, 54.36 per cent of the clergy voted “yes"; 56.23 per cent of the business men; 56.83 per cent of the physicians; 53.19 per cent of | the lawyers; and 67.20 per cent of the educators, all voted “yes.” The bankers voted 47.59 per cent “yes,” a minority. In 17 States a majority of the bankers were for the President and in the other 31 against. Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Vassar, Uni- versity of Washington, Dartmouth, Brown, Univer- sity of Virginia, University of Wisconsin, Univer- sity of Colorado, University of Minnesota, Wellesley, Stanford, University of Michigan, University of Illinois, New York University and Columbia all gave majorities for Mr. Roosevelt’s program, the average being 64.35 per cent for and 35.65 against. It is significant that a majority of the eduators of every one of the 48 States and in the District of Columbia voted “yes,” and that the student vote in the colleges polled followed that trend very closely. Of the 17 colleges listed, Hoover carried 13 of them in the 1932 election and Roosevelt but four. In this poll the President carried all of them. The student “yes” vote was 16,293 and the “no” vote was 9,025. From these students will come the leaders of the next genera- tion. It is clear that the “New Deal” will go on after today's leaders have passed from the scene. These young men and women are thinking for themselves today and will be foremost in the thought and action of the Nation in the next ten to 25 years, gotten until the Germans started seriously to ox- periment with it after the war. They soon began to discover of what amazing things it was capable. The world was startled when they succeeded in making flights lasting three or four hours; but last August Kurt Schmidt rode the air currents over the | Rhine Valley for thirty-six and a half hours on end. Mr. du Pont, in setting the new world’s distance record, rode from Elmira right across the serried ranges of the Alleghanies, losing his altitude (and with it his power of continuing) only when he reached the Jersey plain. But it was not the air drafts from the mountains, it seems that kept him up; it was the clouds. He “made use of” a moun- tain only once, he remarked at the end. It seems a cheerfully disrespectful way to talk about moun- tains. The Vice-President. (New York Times.) When Vice-President Coolidge was first asked to sit in the Cabinet of President Harding he manifested his customary reticence. One correspon- dent after another tried in vain to find out what took place on that historic occasion. Finally one of them, in despair, asked him where he sat at the table. But the cautious Mr. Coolidge would not even by so much reveal the secrets of the Cabinet room. “You will have to ask the President about that,” was the reply. John Nance Garner, in an article on “This Job of Mine” in The American Magazine, is equally discreet, and even more self-effacing. He calls himself the “spare tire on the national automobile.” He has modified the precept that Vice-Presidents, like children, should be seen but not heard: he is not even seen so frequently as his predecessors. “When I took office,” he declares, “I served notice that I wasn't going to be a show- horse and run around to social affairs” Refusing to be a lingering companion of the potted palms, he can keep “farmers’ hours” once more. His life, he would have us believe, runs in quiet ORGANIZATION NEEDED FOR PROPER RECEPTION. Before the end of the current month, Juneau will be host to between 1700 and 2,000 officers and men of the United States Navy. There are about 1500" in the submarine division and surface vessels due to arrive in port on July 27 for a three or four day visit. In addition two Navy aerial squadrons composed of 12 seaplanes, and two surface ships will arrive here on August 1. In this force will be approximately 500 officers and men. This community is not inexperienced in enter- taining visitors in numbers, but it has never had such a large aggregation as that comprising the personnel of the submarine expedition which will just clear from here as the seaplane force is ar- riving. It will require the cooperation of every resident on a well-organized basis to properly re- ceive and entertain them. If we try it in a hit-and- miss manner, we shall not acquit ourselves creditably as hosts. It will take spme finances to look “after necessary expenses for entertainment, such as dances, motor car rides over Glacier Highway and other events that probably will be arranged. The Cham- ber of Commerce, which is heading the movement to prepare for these visitations, has asked local . fraternal organizations for certain assistance which Mbtedly will be willingly furnished. It will ‘meed, also, aid from all residents and that, too, @ are certain, will be forthcoming. The expeditions will be of more than casual pee to the city. Two thousand men in port n days to a week, at a time when off, will spend a not incon- with local business firms. and Uncle Sam’s pay liber- on entertainment is not mu a splendid channels. Eyen the Vice-President's vote in case of a tie is not what it is cracked up to be, since ties come seldom, and when they do he may cast only an affirmative vote, or none at all. Still, “there is the satisfaction of being able to serve the President in a modest and obscure way as his agent at the Capitol.” For Mr. Garner, too, sits in the Cabinet, and confesses that he is “a party to the discussion of problems, the formulating of poli- cies.” Report has it that his services in this con- nection are not quite so “obscure” as he would have us believe. Our Washington correspondent has spoken of him as affording the President also a useful “barometer of the public mind and thermometer of Congress.” On the Hill he is an observer merely, not the apostle of regeneration, like one of his predeces- sors. But he cannot help observing. Those Senate committees—why are they so large? Senators can- not possibly find time to attend all their stated committee meetings. “Over in the House they (I almost said ‘we’) do not allow any member to sit on more than one of their important committees.” Will the Senate pay any more attention to this modest “observation” than it did to the reforming zeal of Vice-President Dawes? It is said the chiggers are not very enthusiastic over these nudist colonies. They run themselves nearly to death in covering so much territory look- ing for the best location.—(Daily Olympian.) If we understand correctly what we have read about the new summer figures, a girl ought to have enough curves to be willowy but not enough to be pillowy.—(Boston Herald.) Putting the aspirin right into some of the new blends might be a solution.—(Detroit News.) “French Regard Debt Payment to U. S. As Silly,” says a headline. Well, from our viewpoint, it is centsless—(Ohio State Journal) It is a happy nation wherein industry and its strikes are soon separated—Buffalo Courier- Express.) waited here until midnight to see him. How did he get back into the garage after that without leaving his own footprints in the snow?” Lafferty shrugged. BELIEVE,” Harper continued, “that Donaghy left this house and went directly to his room and stayed there. At that time it wasn't snowing. But if he did that, he couldn’t have lost his money gam- bling and that would make that mueh of the letter'a lie. Yet the loss of that money is given as a ma- | Jjor reason for the suicide.” “Hmm. What about Donaghy's alibi for the night of the murders? It looked all right to me.” “Yes, and it looked all right to me. It was the average sort of ac- count that is genuine in ninety-nine times in a hundred. It's not the too- foxy kind that can account for every minute, because the need for that was borne in mind.” Harper turned the signet ring idly in his fingers. “I can't quite swallow ‘Harry Dorey,’” he said. “The bare name suggests nothing, explains nothing. Why did this H.D. buy a disguise in order to look like Dufresne? We've got the right an- swer as to how the escape was pulled off and perhaps the name of the murdered man, but along with these two answers we get about a dozen new questions to wrestle with.” Lafferty said, “You told me that the wound was in typical sulcide form—with the gun muzzle pressed firmly against the head. I suppose you realize that a murderer rarely gets a chance to hold the gun that way, unless he catches his victim . | K | “Donaghy's confession Is nat signed.” he saw, and like a thunderclap the trath burst upon him in one flash, A hand, a clenched hand, had pounded on that table, pounded in anger, and on one of the fingers had been a ring, most certainly a ring with two stones set in it, two gems set diagonally to each other! “Good God! Aline Croyden!” Harper could never tell after- wards whether e had cried that. name aloud in the shock of discov- ery or whether that accusing shout [ —~——— 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire et s st e D JULY 14, 1914 M. George, on Sunday evening entertained the members of the Douglas Island baseball team at his home, with an evening of mu- sic and games. Music was fur- nished by the Mandolin Club led by Clarence Salmonson. Refresh- ments were served. Dispatches from St. Petersburg tated that the mystic lay monk, Gregery Rasputin, for several years a notable figure of the Czar's court, was stabbed the previous night by a woman named Guseva, who declared she wanted to avenge one of Rasputin's girl vic- tims who entered a convent. In commenting on stabbing, the Lon- don Daily Mail said, “the names of of St. Petersburg’s exclusive social circies had een linked with this mysterious son of a peasant. His uncanny influence over women raised himr from’ obsecurity to a position where he was a truste advisor of the Russian Czar.” V. H. Elfendahl, secretary, of the || Tee Harbor Packing Company were at Tee Harbor engaged in the com- pany's affairs. They expected to remain at the cannery about month. Unrest in Mexico continucd | though the Brazilan minister | American interests in that coua- | try telegraphed Secretary of State W. J. 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But the right hand was hidden in the fold of her coat, and looking into her eyes, Sergeant Harper read many things, not the least of which ‘was the knowledge of what she held in that concealed hand. She reached behind her locked the door. (Copyright, 193}, by Walter C. Brows) asleep or unconscious?” “Asleep, or unconscious, or—" “Or what?” Lafferty pressed. “You just gave me an Idea,” Har- per answered guardedly, “but it's still too hazy to discuss. Here's what [ want you to do, Jack. Take O'Connell and go back to the ga- rage. Give it a good ripping out, es- pecially for anything that might have a bearing on the suicide-mur- der question.” After Lafferty bad gone Harper paced the length of the room rest- lessly, fitting this new design Into the jumbled mosalc formed by all the known amgles of the case. “A very pretty theory,” he growled to himselt, “but how to prove it? How to prove {t?” and HAT was that mark where the light gleamed across the pol- lshed wood of the table? 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