The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 16, 1934, Page 4

Bl e e e Bl oy e g 2 C3 e Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER shed evening except Sunday by the i "elrlz(} (‘TOHPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. ‘ tulssclmPJ*noN RA'EES ®eMvered by carrier in Juneau an . PefaTar the follow! t U tage paid, at the following rates: ”yenn'r,"hp‘:dvlnce. $12.00; six months, In advance, #8.80; one month, in advanc 5. Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly motify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity i the delivery of thelr papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, ted Press is exclusively entitled to the republication of all news dispatches credited to not otherwise credited in this paper and also the E}"‘:r news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER/ THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. BE PREPARED! Nothing, apparently, can prevent a general strike in San Francisco and the bay region generally. | No sane pérson can contemplate the results of that with comfort. It means untold suffering, misery, hardship. It will hit the innocent as hard as the guilty. Whose is the fault, we do not attempt to say. There are 1230 jobs for longshoremen in San Francisco. There are 4,000 union members voting on prorpositions for settlement of the dock} workers grievances. It is clear that if the 1,250 experienced and trained workmen all voted to settle, the remainder of the membrship could defeat any proposition “which they did not approve. This is the condition that laid the foundation for the general strike. Rght or wrong, it is a fact and not a theory. It is not improbable that the monstrous thing will spread far beyond the confines of San Francisco. Puget Sound ports may be dragged into it. Two or three weeks ago Seattle unions were not favorable to a general tieup, but that doesn't mean they will not follow the lead of the Golden Gate unions. Portland seems ready to join the movement. If Seattle does, Tacoma and other ports in the Northwest can hardly escape. And that means shipping will be tied up again. In view of the trend, Alaskan firms will do well to order supplies well ahead of current demands. Even now our stores are short of many commodities. Presh meats are short, as is produce, fruits and other things vitally needed. A general strike under existing conditions will hurt Alaska tremendously, even if every precaution is taken. We should be prepared for any eventuality. TESTING RECOVERY. " ’ Ondismayed by the attacks being made on his program, and willing and ready to let the people of the country decide the issue, President Roosevelt in the radio address he made just before going on his vacation, put the matter squarely before each individual to decide. It is not an abstruse question, but one that vitally concerns each and every resi- dent of the country. And this was the way Mr. Roosevelt left it to them: But the simplest way for each of you to judge recovery lies in the plain facts of your own individual situation. Are you better off than you were last year? Are your debts less burdensome? Is your bank saccount more secure? Are your working conditions better? Is your faith in your own’ individual future more, firmly grounded? Also, let me put to you another simple question: Have you as an individual paid too high s price for these gains? Plausible self- seekers and theoretical die-hards will tell you of the loss of individual liberty. Answer this question also out of the facts of your own life: Have you lost any of your rights or liberty or constitutional freedom of action and choice? . Turn to the Bill of Rights of the Constitution, which T have solemnly sworn to maintain and under. which your freedom rests secure. Read every pro- vision of that Bill of Rights and askyourself whether you personally have suffered the impairment of a single jot of these great assurances. I have no question in my mind as to what your answer will be. The record is written in the experiences of your own personal lives, It is not a political issue, but a personal one. It has, however,, a political angle. In the approach- ing elections, voters will be called on to say whether they want to be represented by those who are in sympathy with the President’s program or by persons who are opposed to it. Alaska is one of the first to express itself. On September 11 Alaskans will go to the polls and vote for a Delegate to Congress, a Territorial Treasurer, 16 Representatives, and four The Democratic candidates are pledged by their party’s platform to support Mr. Roosevelt and his policies. The Republicans have so far L g themselves. Their plat- form is silent op the gabject, but some of their It is up to Senators. refrained from candidates have attacked the program. the voters to say which they prefer to put in power. We do not believe they will haye much difficulty WE HOPE HE READS ONE BOOK. hmlflnllchoioe“ it In the quarters he occupies aboard the U. S. 8. Houston as he speeds away across the Pacific Ocean toward the Hawaiian Islands, there is avail- able for Presidént Roosevelt a small library of some 300 volumes supplied by the Navy for his vacation reading. Thus between his fishing, public g caught dr let get away. - much idle leisure Douglas for $1.25 ithey are 21. will not have to twiddle his thumbs fish that other fishermen is at his The average-sea traveler can get one or two done to the voyage. The President may better that aver- |age but not by many. There is one book, however, jin the library that has an interesting sound—a “Handbook of Alaska.” We don't know who is the author, nmor how accurate it is. But we hope, |anyway, that the President finds time enough to {at least casually peruse it. If it's incomplete, in- |accurate and bad, it is likely to stimulate his interest in getting more accurate information, and if it is authentic and correct, it will add to his store of knowledge about this great northern frontierland—the last that the Nation owns. Any person who mortgages his property and then blows in the. proceeds on speculation or riotous living i8 pretty sure to come to the conclusion that the country’s monetary system is rotten. The Darrow Board has been abolished by Presi- denty Roosevelt, but Messrs. Darrow and his co- workers probably will not let that stop them from continuing to engage in verbal combat with Gen. Johnson. So far the honors of war seem to be almost all with the General !Babe Ruth advises boys not to smoke before In the meantime, by observing how mother and sister do it, they need have no fear of not being able to smoke gracefully when the time comes for them to try their hands. Indiscreet Editing. (New York Times.) Another volume of letters from the late Earl of Oxford and Asquith to his friend, Mrs. Harrison, has just been published in London. Like the first installment, they are largely personal, literary and philosophical. But the writer's sharp pen, as before, does not spare men still in public life. In a letter dated ten years ago he spoke pityingly of Prime Minister MacDonald—“Poor Ramsay”"—who had tak- en on a burden “far tco heavy for him.” There are sarcastic and even bitter comments on Lloyd George, with whom Lord Oxford's breach was permanent, whom he never forgave, and whom he held, as did Lord Grey, to be a man upon whose word nobody could rely. As such sentiments and attitudes were well known to exist, there was perhaps no indis- cretion in allowing them to find their way into print. But the case seems different with reports of Lord Oxford’s conversations with Colonel House. The former intimate friend of President Wilson is quoted as having spoken of his “perverse and tact- less arrogance” which prevented this country from joining the League of Nations. Even more question- able is the opinion attributed to Colonel House that Mr. Wilson's paralytic stroke was due to his “violent hatred” of the Senate. In like manner Theodore Roosevelt's “paralytic stroke”—which, by the way, he did not have—was caused by his intense dislike of Wilson, whom he “loathed with passion, morning, noon and night.” It seems amazing that such a passage could have been published without first obtaining the consent of Colonel House. If he had given it, one would be still more amazed. The truth seems to be that certain editors and publishers in England think that anything may be blurted out about Americans. We are supposed to be so fond of gossip and ill- natured remarks that we do not object when they are reported by British writers. A famous instance was the “Letters” of Matthew Arnold, published after his death. All of those relating to English and French People bore signs of careful editing, so 2s to give no offense to the living, but his haphazard comments on persons and things American were indiscriminately printed. That they contained many mistakes, and often gave pain to his hosts in this | country, was notorious. | Shaming the Old Guard. (New York World-Telegram.) Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, President of the National Republican Club, and with him Ogden Mills, James W. Wadsworth and others of the Re- publican Old¢ Guard, might well sit down and ponder the sane, farsighted reasons given by elder Republicans George W. Wickersham and former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois for declining appointment to the club’s National Affairs Com- mittee. Urging that younger men should undertake and carry through the work of this committee, Mr. Wickersham wrote: They will understand perhaps better than we the future policies which the party must adopt if it is to win back its position of leadership in national affairs. Men of our generation are so greatly out of sympathy with what is being done at the present time that perhaps they fail to appreciate the concessions that must be made to the new spirit of the age and just how far those concessions should go. Mr. Lowden likewise believes “the time has come when younger men in the Republican Party must assume responsibility.” | This is wise “elder statesmanship,” we think, in any party that hopes to progress. It is a timely warning to Old Guard standpatism and reaction. It is deserved encouragement for the new life and liberalism Republican State Chairman Macy seeks to put into his party's policies and leadership. The very antithesis of such wisdom was seen in the Old Guard’s recent choice of E. Edmund Machold for member of the National Republican Club's State Affairs Committee. With the utilities issue already well nigh para- mount in this State, with a State Senator impli- cated and a broad legislative investigation of utilities impending, with even the Republican stronghold of Westcheser County getting ready to discard another State Senator regarded as too friendly toi the power interests—despite all these conspicuous signs and portents the Old Guard deliberately snubbed Mr. Macy. and picked for its high councils the one man in New York State longest and best known as chief agent of the Power Trust! Mr. Machold on the State Affairs Committee sticks out like a sore thumb to convict the Old Guard of colossal arrogance and stupidity. Colonsl Roosevelt can at least recognize the blunder by asking Mr. Machold to rddign. Unless the President of the National Republican Club secures the Machold resignation Old Guard Re- publicanism will cut a sorrier figure than ever contrasted with the self-sacrificing, forward-look- ing party spirit of veteran but still large-minded Republicans like George W. Wickersham and former Governor Lowden. % Paraguay has decided to drop international law in her war with Bolivia. The trouble with inter- ,|national law is that 1t usually is dropped just at the time it would be most useful —(Springfield, Ohio, Sun.) A taxi driver in Texas was fined for carrying nine pasesngers in his cab. He's no taxi driver; he's a taxidermist.—(Detroit News.) Roosevelt hasn't yet THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1934. 2 Chapter 650 \ _. DESPERATE WOMAN W' ARPEL was asking himself how ~—Aline Croyden was asking herself how much of her story this Ser- geant of Detectives had guessed. Harper,” she announced simply, as demonstration in geometry.: . Harper relaxed, the tenseness eas- Ing from muscles instinctively braced against the possible impact of flying steel. The woman was ble, and there was no sign of.waver- the look in her eyes. Aline Croyden noticed this fugi- tive lapse of attention. “Please don't try anything heroic,” she spoke through tight lips. “Sit down —over there.” Harper, witi an air of casualness, took the cha'r she indicated. “This Is very dramatic, but quite useless, you know,” he objected. Her eyes burned at him, suddenly alive. “I had to be sure.” She shiv- ered a little. “As soon as I saw your face—" The detective leaned forward. “Mrs. Croyden, let us talk this situa- tion over quietly between ourselves, Gun-waving is out of place at this stage. There must have been some terrible driving power that forced you to such lengths. Only you can state what that was. Joseph Dona- ghy's part in it I can guess, but the other—?" felt you getting closer and closer to the solution, and I had to see if you really knew. You forced my hand by going riter my sister and J ierre. They have nothing to do with this matter, and at least I can have the final decency to shoulder my own burdens. And for your own safety let me repeat your warning to Jo- seph Donaghy—you can hang a per- son only once. Remember that and act accordingly. ... Have you a gun in your pocket?” Harper shook his head. “I carry one only on special occasions. “You may search me if you like,” he add- ed, half rising from the chair. “Sit still! I1f you move or make & noise I'll shoot!” There was no mistaking the steely ring of that voice. “Come, now,” Harper protested. “Even if I had a gun in my pocket.I wouldn't try to beat you to the draw. That isn't necessary. You eatt bluft me, Mrs. Croyden. . You're the one in the dangerous spot, and you can’t shoct your way out of it this "MOCKING H : BY_ WALTER C. BROWI OUSE nearly as distinctive as a fingerprint s itself.” He spoke deliberately, “Some one struck the top of that table four or! it was possible that this modish | five times with a clenched fist. That' beauty could be thrice a murderess | suggests a quarrel or an argument. The marks were made by that ring you are wearing, Mrs. Croyden. The diagonal setting of those two dia- monds makes an unmistakable pat- “I have been eavesdropping, Mr.| tern. That gave it away.” The woman digested this in sl- one who puts Q. E. D. at the end of a | lence. She looked at the ring on her finger, then, standing at the table, made the motion of phantom anger, rapping with knuckles down. “Such a small thing,” she murmured. “Great results are often measured sane and collected, at all events. by small devices,” the detective an- But her right hand was still invisi- | swered. She looked at the ring again. Ing in the set lines of her mouth or | “Otherwise, you would not have known?” she questioned. “I wouldn’t say that,” Harper re- plied. “It really would have been more baffling to us if Donaghy's death had appeared in its true col- ors. “Camouflaging it as suicide really” broke up the puzzle. It was there that your logic tripped itselt up, for in order to pin the whole thing on the supposed suicide through his ‘confession,’ you had to give away the secret of that first escape. A fa- tal error, for it prompted me to look for the same clue in the second fn- stance.” “The same clue?” she repeated. “\/ES—the same clue, No matter how clever the deed, there is al- ways an unsuspected clue left be- hind. Sometimes we are not alert enough tofi (it.” He waved toward the table. “Those diamond marks “] did not come here to talk. 1|are an instance. But the clue I re- ferred to was a peculiar cut n the snow which was made‘when the rope was shaken free and hauled back. “We found that mark in the be- ginning, but could make nothing of it. It was only when we were put in possession of the rope itself that its meaning became clear. Natural- ly, this led me to look in the snow again after we found Donaghy, and there was the same kind of mark. “That labeled it .t once as another murder, in spite of the typed confes- sion, the nature of the wound and the recovered articles. That ingeni- ous excuse for the absence of the blackmail money Donaghy had was suspicious, too, for we know he had not been away from his room last night.” “Thanks for the advice.” She drew herzelf together, slowly pulled the ring from her finger, and deliberate- Iy placed it on the table. “This has betreyed me once. It would be dan- gerpus to wear it any longer, wouldn’t it? See that it gets back safely to my husband,” she said time. My advice is to give in grace- fully.” “I shall escape,” she replied confl- dently. for that? Everything is ready.” “You can't get aw.y. at me you'll not get out of this And suppose you did escape tempo- rarily? Where could you go? whom could you turn? down. You would be a marked wo- man wherever you went. You couldn’t even find a refuge in the most, a few days of terror and flight, hunted by dogs.” The mask-like face tirned to did you know?” the lens on the table. glance. “I don't understand. What were you looking at?” for yourself?” you. Tell me, please.” “Nothing can matter now!" chances with her gun, covery. We had failed before to find any fingerbrints on that table, b¥t 1 on the top, and they furnish a clue WHOLESALE AND Phones 92—95 Ogden Mills talks like a person who has been ‘could get away with it.|talking to ole Doc Wirt.—(Macon Telegraph.) If It’s Paint PHONE 549 Mrs. Croyden gave it a swift}|” Just noticed a number of tiny marks | CEORGE BROTHERS steadily, “and tell him I'm sorry fo: all the trouble I've caused.” “But, Mrs. Croyden, you can’t go | “Do you suppose I would | @way like this, simply saying noth- | Plan everything else and not arrange | {ng'in your own defense. There must be. reasons, explanations, vou can Harper shook his head again. give. You owe it to yourself to pre- | It you shoot | SeHt your side of the story. Surely Officer Hamill had done nothing to house, peraaps not out of this room, | Warrant his death?” { ‘Aline Croyden winced from that To |'name as from a blow. “That is the redl 1urden on my conscience,” she “The full machinery of the law | Whispered. “I lost my head—I went would be turned to tracking you | CTaE¥—I saw the whole perfect plan Ihad designed destroyed by taat one blind chance. That was murder, but those other two,” she flashed with lowest slums or the underworld,|Sudden anger blazing in her shad- They'd give you up in a minute. At owed eyes, “that was only justice. 1 have not a single regret. I had to and you'd be run down like a rabbit | 86 "What weapons I could against m.’ 3 ‘Harper lowered his voice. “Mrs. "WE'LL not argue that point | Croyden, whe was H.D,, really?” _“Neither you, nor any one, shall him, with its set lines, the shadows | exer know that,” she answered bit- under sleepless eyes. “Tell e, how | terly. “Let him lie in the Morgue, let him go to a Potter’s Field, I')l never The detective silently pointed to | telh It's the best he deserves. No. one will ever come forward to claim him, alive or dead!” “J am not prying, I'm merely try- ing -to understand your story, Mri. “That's a professional secret, Mrs, | Croyden,” Sergeant Harper sald Croyden. Suppose you use the lens | With simple dignity. “Then I'll help you to understand,” “I would like to, but I can't trust |she flamed. “I have never heeu Her voice | happy in my marriage. It is true that suddenly broke in quick pleading.|I had an affair with that man. As I look back now, I hardly know how The detective thought, If I can|it began, except that I met him at a keep on talking long enough some |time When I was unhappy and one will'try that door. When that | starved for excitement” She happens I'll close in and take my |stopped, staring blankly at the de- tective. “I soon found I had fallen He sald aloud, “When vou came in | into the hands of a beast. I came 1 had just made an important dis-|to hlfq him, _ tried to break away.” (Copyright, 1934, by Walter 0. Brown) ] —_— ‘The Mu.n' tomorrow, takes & startling tur RETAIL GROCERS " Free Delivery IDEAL PAINT SHOP We Have It! W FOR INSURANCE ———— E 20 YEARS AGO I, Prom The Empire B e L S SOPUL SN roYSIOTHERAPY | JULY 16, 1914 | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. Tom Shearer, of the Shearer and 307 Goldstein Building Torvinen pressing parlor, was Harred from the Hardy shooting zallery because he shot altogether .00 well and had aiready won three ifles. The management was de- lsiricus that other patrons have a ,chance and the ban was only on when a prize was. being contested. Phone Office. 216 —— - | Rose A. Ardrews | Graduate Nurse Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas sage, Colonic Irrigations Office hours 11 a.m o 5 p.m. Evenings by Appointment The boat in which the “Blue-| | Becond and Main berry Kid,” “Dutch Marie” Schmidt, | B, | PROFESSIONAL | Helene W. L. Albrecht Massage, Electricity, Infra Red L Phone 259 |.{ T:ansient brothers urg- Fraternal Societies | —— Oor | Gastineau Channel B. P. 0. ELKS meels every second and fourth Wednesdays at 8:00 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. J hn H. Walmer » M. H. Sides, Secretary Exalted Ruler. 1 KNIGHTS OF COLUUMBUS Seghers Council No.1760. . | { Meeiingg second and last | Monday- ‘&t 7:30 p. m. & ed to attend Council ° a: Chambers, Fifth Street. * ‘Fiddler” John Holimberg and Frank | . Adams Jeft the Koyukuk..in 1912 has been discovered on the Koyu- kuk. None of the parties that were | in the boat when it left Koyukuk | had ever been sesn since the de-| ! parture except the “Bluberry Kid”| | for whom the authorities had been E. B. WILSON Chiropodist—Foot Specialist 401 Goldstein Building PHONE 498 1 JOHN F, MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Scretary ! MOUNT JUNEAU!LODGE NO. 147 +',Second and fourth Mon- 'da.v of ew:}; mopth in Scottish Rite Temple, searching for nearly a year in con- nection with the disappearance of | his traveling companions. The ! “Blucberry Kid's” name was said | DENTISTS to be Thomas Johnson and his' Blomgren Building ccmpanicns wére known to have %) PHONE 56 had several thousand dollars when parture except the “Blueberry Kid” Hours 9 am. to 8 pm. DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER 1 heginning ‘at 7:30 p. m. i E. HENDRICKSON, 5 :v; James W. LEIVERS, Sec- | Douglas Aerie ywas believed to have little money when he left the Koyukuk but was said he had funds when secn in the States. Officers had bcen | 3 DENTIST searching for him for nearly a Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine i Building Telephone 176 Weather for the precednz 24 | Dr. C. P. Jenne 3 Meets first and third Mondays 8 L ! p.m., Eagles’ Hall, Douglas. Visiting l brothers welcome. Sante Degan, W. P, T. W. Cashen, Secretary. A tank for | and a tank for crude oil save Friesel €11 | wurs was cloudy with a maximum temperature of 53 dogrees. and a|.. | | I — kY burner trouble. s | minimum of 46. Precipitation was .10 inches. Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. 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