The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 24, 1934, Page 4

i 4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1934. Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Published IRE_PRIN Btreets, June uinday by _the Second and Main ning _except OMPANY at Entered in matter. i SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: Ome year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $8.00; one month, in advance, §1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly motify the Business 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 use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the | local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER' THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION PUBLIC ENEMY John Dillifiger, Indiana farm boy, who admitted he was “not such a bad fellow as you think,” and who made good in such a big way as to cause his listing as America’s public enemy No. 1, lived many months on borrowed time. He made a career of “cop Kkilling” which, while it undoubtedly has its exciting moments, is noted for brevity more than anything else. As he lived, so he died. made Judge Colt the arbiter of his destiny, it was fitting that the same inexorable judge should impose . and execute sentence on him. Dillinger had his brief moment. All the glory that could come from a life of violent crime was his. It wasn't really glory, merely a tawdry imitation of the genuine article. Notoriety was his. He en-! Joyed the favors of the “molls” and perhaps it was one of those who tipped off the Federal officers on the fatal visit to a moving picture house. He | became a first class desperado, and knew the bully’s highest joy of seeing almost any other man cringe before him when he boasted, “"I'm Dillinger.” Perhaps the greatest thrill was that coming from playing a game in which his own life was the stake. Even that palled, it is evident. In a desperate attempt to cheat the fate he must have known was inevitable, he tried to change his identity so that he could escape payment for his crimes against society. That only can account for his dyed hair, the marks of the plastic surgery on his face, the straightened nose. Yet it availed him not at all. Somebody had to be on the inside. Somebody hx\d‘ to know that Dillinger was in Chicago, that he Was |said against any plan for guarantee of deposits. evening. |in practice the so-called planning to go to a movie on Sunday ‘That so) m‘fim’mamnflv‘ knew when he was going and just how he would appear. the information they were willing to pay $5,000 for, Just a chance to put hands on the bad man. And 80 he came to the end of his criminal days—the staccato barking of revolvers and the acrid smell | of burnt powder—and Public Enemy No. 1 became a mere huddle of garmented flesh. As with John Dillinger, the mills of lhe gods will grind out fate for his prototypes. Those who wage warfare on society in the Dillinger fashion sooner or later, usually sooner, meet the end that was his. In choosing to live by violence, they choose also to die violently. It isn't society but they who make it so. SOURCE OF OUR NEW KNOWLEDGE. It is only through the acquisition of additional Information and its application that civilization can advance. Our educational institutions are organized to dispense knowledge, new and old. Who shall Having | jof deposits up to a maximum |$2,500, but now increased |In principle, and on the ground that it may en- |- From that source the Federal officers gm,’uabllmes are not dangerously large and that it has veais Juneau has earndd the well-merited reputation of ‘being 'a fine host.. We have had British and Cerman sailors as our guests as well as. our own bluejackets and to them all has been displayed the brand of hospitality that has made Alaska noted. Committees, of course, cannot do that. They are merely the machinery which the community uses. The community, each resident, is responsible for the showing we make. tackled the job of heing host to such a large number of guests at one time. Because they are so numerous, it behcoves us all to be on the job all the time and see that they have a good time. {And while wg are showing them a good time, we zre bound to have just as much pleasure out of it as our guests will ‘themselves: In doing this the dividends of good will that naturhlly grow out of he visits will repay us as individuals and the com- {munity as a whole many times what we pub into {it in time, effort and mongy!: R Lest it' be overlooked, Juneau is due to be cap- tured next Friday by a landing force of American bluejackets: from the submatines. No- resistance is expected | Vice-President Garner has termed himself the | “spare tire" of the Administration. At any rate it is much safer to have a spare tire along than a | flat one. The First “Pay-Off.” | (New York Times.) Checks are being mailed by the Federal Deposit jInsurance Corporation to depositors in the closed ,Fond du Lac State Bank of East Peoria, Ill. This .is the first application to be made, anywhere in the country, of the Federal guarantee plan which went into effect six months ago. The Fond du Lac Bank was an insured institution. Its depositors will receive payments up to a maximum of $2,500. It is reported that this limit will cover in full the claims of 99 per cent of the individual depositors. The law airects that the Deposit Insurance Cor- { poration shall be named as receiver when any na- {tional bank is unable to meet the claims of its de- positors,” and that it shall accept appointment as | receiver, if named by the appropriate State author- ity, in the event of failure of a State bank which is a member of the guarantee plan. In either case the corporation is directed at once to organize {a new mnational bank, which is to assume the insured deposit liabilities of the closed bank, to |receive new deposits and otherwise to function tem- porarily. Thereafter efforts are to be made to provide the new bank with sufficient capital to lenable it to resume operations under the manage- ment of its own directors. If such capital is not jsubseribed within two years, and if no merger can ibe effected meantime with a solvent institution, the Deposit Insurance Corporation is to place the new bank in voluntary liquidation and wind up its affairs, “paying to depositors and other creditors the amount available for distribution to them, after deducting therefrom their share of the costs of the Jiquidation of the closed bank.” The guarantee plan thus combines provision for ‘reorgamzauon or for liquidation with the insurance originally set at to $5,000. | (since July 1) courage irresponsible banking, there is much to be ! But | “temporary” plan now in | effect” has mét: withr-approval on the part of many | conservative bankers, who believe that its present helped to restore confidence in the banking structure shaken by last year's panic. Only two insured banks failed during the first six months of 1934. This compares with an average of no less than 447 bank failures annually during the first six months of the decade from 1923 to 1932. While many other factors have played a part in the highly favorable record of the last half year, the “temporary” plan seems clearly entitled to part of the credit. Arms Embargo Progresses. (New York World-Telegram.) Encouraging is news from Geneva telling of ap- proval by a special disarmament conference com- mittee of the American proposal for international regulation of the traffic in arms. Japan and Italy, the same two powers that refused to enter into an agreement to withhold arms shipments to the Chaco war belligerents, decline also to accept this plan. But approving it are Great Britain, France, the United States, Czecho- supply the new knowledge upon which civilization |govaka and fourteen lesser nations, s nourished? The universities have assumed the responsibility with quite fruitful results, and their The proposed treaty sprovides for the registra- tion of private and public armament plants and the laboratories are the prircipal source of the growth {filling of data on arms orders, exports and imports factor of civilization—pure science. So rapid is our rate of growth that discoveries made in these laboratories, which seem to have only a purely academic value today; are quickly appearing!| « in the market embodied in commercial articles, It| has been found quite necessary in recent years to protect the public from uncontrolled exploitation of these discoveries. To accomplish this, the pro- fessors making them take out patents and -assign them to a separate corporation organized by the university to administer them. Licenses are then granted for the commercial use of the inventions, the fees going to the universities to be applied to further research. Most of the leading universities now maintain such corporations, and they hold an increasing number of very valuable patents. A few days ago the Pennsylvania State College, where 110 research projects are under way, joined the group. If, during the next quarter of a century, control of all basic scientific discoveries and their com- mercial applications should be centralized in_a small group of leading universities, a situation will develop that is potent with vast possibilities. The result might be the creation of an ipternational brain t{qst of magnificent proportions that would have grent influence over commercial and economic activities throughout the world. Despite the rising craze for nationalistic economic independence, governments do not seem to "have grasped the possibilities that le in scientific research. OUR GUESTS. The Chamber of Commerce, through its Special - Entertainment Committee, aided by local fraternal organizations and the City Council, is efficiently organizing for the reception of the some 2,000 sailors and soldiers who will be the city's oficial guests at intervals during the next two weeks. Local busi- ‘ness men are generously contributing funds for entertainment purposes. There will be dances, ball tennis, golf, fishing and games, -Mle rides, other . for the visitors. Everything that a community of wfi *e can offer will be tendered to them. _ ‘However, it mfl mere emertnlnmem that makes visitations of this w umnonbu for the visitors. with a central organization, presumably at Geneva. It is a much stronger proposal than the 1825 con- vention, just ratified by our Congress. ,Delay in setting up some effectual international control of arms shipments is inexcusable. folly. The |insane duel between Paraguay and Bolivia over a strip of fever-infested jungle has lasted two years and cost the lives of at least 30,000 men. The League of Nations Chaco Commission reported that the weapons used in this senseless slaughter “are supplied to the belligerents by American and Euro- pean countries.” The unholy traffic in lethal weapons must stop, and the only way to stop it is through the co- operation of nations. ™Some sutiable international organization must and will take action,” said President Roosevelt re- cently. “The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable governments to engagé in the mad race in armament which, if permitted to continue, may well result in war.’ This grave menace to the peace of the world is due .in. no ‘small measure to the uncontrolled activities of the manufacturers and merchants of engines of destruction, and it may be met by the concerted action of the peoples Pflf all natiohs.” Rediscovegy. . & (Seattle Times.) Navy ;'m’nes soon will start their flight from San Diego to Alaska. Army planes, Alaska-bound, presently will wing a direct route across this country and Canada from a take-off at Washing- ton, D C. And now comes a flotilla of eight submarines up the coast on a cruise, via Seattle and the inside passage, as far to the northwest- ward as Dutch Harbor. Alaska, it seems, is about to be rediscovered. The German laboratories may have to produce a synthetic form of liberty—(Buffalo Courier-Ex- press.) A lot of Nazis are saying things about Hitler which are not in the book of intructions.—(Detroit Free Press.) In these days it isn't long after a man lands a job that the plckeu land on' the ml.n-«(m;dd- Never before has the town | death came as a distinct shock. and Karl, of Norway; five sisters, Mrs. Bertha Nordberg and Mrs. Holmgren, of Tacoma, Miss Anna Melseth, of Seattle, and Mrs. Caren Berg and Mrs. Inger Simmonson of Norway. M' Peter Melseth and her niece, Barbara Melseth, of Hoquiam, are passengers for Juneau aboard . the steamer Yukon which will ar- rive here tomorrow. PETER MELSETH PASSES AWAY IN HOSPITAL, SOUTH : {Former Juneau Resident Dies in Seattle After - (RETURN FROM TRAMP ness of Few Months ] ACROSS YELLOWSTONE Arc Davlin and Bill Norton, re- Peter Melseth, 48 yedrs of and for the last ten years a m urning on the P_lorthhnd yester- day' from a month’s vacation in dent-of Juneau, passed away q, A 0 Marine Hospital in Seéattl ¢ the States, report an interesting Wednesday from . ulcers of:.- m, and enjoyable trip. stomach, according to.information ~From Seatile they went to Pux received by Peter Melsetn, Jr, Jand, and across country to Yel— Funeral services were held at .ina lowstone Park by, bus. At the Home Undertaking Parlors in Se- Park Entrance, they started a 140- attle on Friday and interment took Mile hike, which took them into place in Washington Memorial Most Of the scenic spots. They Park, the message stated. | took many pictures, including sev- Mr. Melseth was engaged in the _eral reels of mavies of the things e R ¢ that they saw. fishing business in this v\clmty‘b = . - ¢ from his arrival in Alaska in 1024} 1!, %as the first trip outs'de for until last fall when he was first ~o o ¥ 3 ki i) taken ill. I February Mr. Mel- and he expressed himself as being seth left here for Seattle for medi. [/¢0LY impressed with what he saw. al attention accompanied by his In this respect, he mentioned par- wife. His improvement was so . 12 J6ale calins. 0F sage. brush marked after a short period tnay " Scuthern Idaho, which he said he was permitted to leave the hos- contributed a great deal to his ap- pital to stay with relatives and preciation of Alaska with its rain! Mrs. Melseth returned to Juneau. A it His conditlon continued apparently’ KETCHIKAN C. OF C. good until early in June when BOARD NOMINEES TO 1 Mrs. Melseth received word that BE VOTED UPON SOON | he had returned to the hospital P ¥ and was in serious condition. ol _, ar irec. With. their only son, Peter Mel- Nominees for the board of direc-| e i h : seth, Jr., employee of B. M. Behr- oo or ' g:zc&]xa;csapr:mmof ends Bank, Mrs. Melseth left for Dr. W. E. Peterson, W. E. Brown, ,and would conduct the Hotel New s , 20 YEARS AGO ‘ From The Empire £ = ; JULY 24, 1914 John P. Olds chartered the Fox in the morning and started for Excursion Inlet, to make inquiries as to the safety of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Carpenter, who were sup- posed to have left that place for Juneau in a small launch several days previously. On the way over 1a gas boat was met coming from Excursion Inlet thaf reported Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter safe at that ce. They had started for home were caught in a storm and put back to Excursion Inlet for safety. Supt. J. C. Hayes, of the Alaska Road Commission, who was out toward Mendenhall.on the govern- ment road in the morning, report-! ed that the incessant rains had caused the small mountain streams to flood. Lemon Creek reached river proportions though the bridge was still in place. Weather for the previous 2% hours was cloudy with rain. The maximum temperature was 55 de- grees and the minimum 48. cipitation was .68 inches. Harrv F. Cain, proprietor of the Hotel Cain, announced that he had Pre- secured the upper floors ot the new | five-story Zynda buildiny at tae | corner of Third and Main St-e Cain on the premises. The in- “eror Was to be comnleted by Auz- Seattle, to be with her husband, M J. W. Mendenhall, W. A. Bates, W. whose condition, while serious was C Arnold, Dr H. S. Hall, Don Ar- not thought to be critical. After | mour, Captain W. C. Dibrell, J. E.| several weeks with his parents, J: o pW J. McDonald, Willis| Mr. Melseth, Jr, returned to Ju- Bieant w. B. King, John Kool neau and news of his fath Dr. Bec A. Wilson, Rev. George J Canze .to U. S. In 1923 | Mr. Melseth came to the United States from their home in Aale- sund, Norway, in 1923 and located Delfino Salazar, known in Pot-| in Tacoma, Washington. He en- ersburg as “Mexican Joe,” recently gaged in the lumber business in died in that city at the age of 69 that vicinity and in the Grays years. He had been a resident of Harbor country until his departure Petersburg since 1914, and of Al- for Alaska, a year later. Upon his aska for 35 years. He was born in arrival in Juneau he entered the Sonora, Mexico. fishing business and last year was = ‘ captain of the halibut boat Dixon, owned by Mayor I. Goldstein. Relatives who survive besides his widow, Anne Melseth and son Peter, are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Melseth, who reside in Norway; three brothers, Martin, of Quinault, Olaf of Unga, Alaska, e | EXPATRIATE DIES Paris Inn |} Where you can Dine, a & Special ITALIAN-FRENCH DINNERS with wine if desired DAILY—A full course dinner you will enjoy for 75 cents. Gastineau . Cafe Gastineau Hotel Dance and Romance Orchestra Every Night PEARL and BILL THE MiSSY SHOP ] Specializing in ! HOSIERY, LINGERIE, [% HOUSE DRESSES l and accessories at moderate | | prices —_— | selves ust 15 and the building was to have 40 guest rooms. A party of well known the big mess hall of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company Thane. Invitations had been, re- ceived by many town people and | Juneau society folks were all stirred up over the alluring pros- pects. 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