The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 4, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5788 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1931. LINDBERGHS AT BAKER " MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE SS PRICE TEN CENTY e KE; CUT OFF BY STATIC c ONGRE'S SMAN Protection for Cana(iliilifi: SAYS MINE LAW CAN BE CHANGED All Federal Lawmakers Favor Policies to De- velop Alaska REQUESTS FOR MONEY SHOULD BE MADE NOW Appropriations Committee Will Soon Make Up Its Budget Removal of existing restrictions on location of mining claims in Alaska seems likely to result from the visit of the Congressional dele- gation to Alaska, it was intimated here last night by Congressman ‘Willlam R. Eaton, Republican of Colorado, Chairman of the House Committee on Public Lands and member of the Appropriations Committee, who was in the party going south on the steamer Aleu- tian. “If the proper sort or bill is pre- pared by Alaskans and introduced in Congress to wipe out the re- strictions and -extend to the Ter- ritory the general mining laws of the United States, it probably will receive favorable consideration | from the Public Lands Commit-; tee,” Mr. Eaton said. | During the delegation’s trip to! western and interior points, wmr, ! Eaton added, many persons dls—f cussed the matter with him and' other Congressmen, all urging rem- edial action. 2 At the recent session of the Alas- ka Legislature, an act was passed | repealing the so-called Wicker-i sham Act but it requires valida- | tion by Congress before it- can be- come effective. The legislature also repealed all Territorial laws supporting the ‘Wickersham Act. Senator A. J. Dimond, Valdez, was the author of this legislation. Members of the Congressional party that voyaged north on the steamship Yukon two weeks ago, are returning south on the steamship Aleutian now. They were in Junéau several hours last night while their vessel was in port, spending most of the time as the guests of Gov. George A. Parks at the executive mansion. The Aleutian group, like the Congressional contingent on the United States Coast Guard cutter Tahoe, which called here on her way south yesterday, expressed themselves as friendly to any poli-- cies designed to develop the Terri- tory. Early Requests Urged Not Is Back Eastern opposition to utilization of Alaska’s timber resources, and the development of national for- ests in Alaska for the manufacture > pulp and paper, is8 not based upon a need for or the desirabil- ity of protecting the purely Amerl- can newsprint industry. It has for its end the securlty of the newsprint industry of Canada. Today the American newsprint makers are manufacturing barely one-third of what American con- sumers must have . Almost 65 per cent of American consumption de- mands come from abroad; Canada supplies 87 per cent of that quan- tity; and 80 per cent of Canada’s total newsprint production is mar- keted in the United States. Canada Grabs Field 1 In the past 18 years Canada’s conquest of the American pulp and newsprint market has been steady and unchecked. Today it dominates the market and United States’ manufacturers supply only one-third of the total for the two countries. | Canadian mills have a daily ca- pacity of 11940 tons of newsprint, of a yearly capacity output of 3, | American, Newsprint, of Trust Protest 725,000 tons. The United States ;has an annudl capacity of 1,750,000 | tons. | Newfoundland’s output is rela- | tively small and except in a minor way its exports to the United States do not affect the market | nationally. East Needs Imports The eastern trust, if it is to continue to dominate the national market, must keep its Canadian supplies and stifle competition at home. It has not the raw resources in eastern forests from which to Irqanufacbure either pulp or news- print on a competitive basis. With- out Canada’s vast forests and cheap waterpower, it would lose its stra- tegic position to western manw.fac- turers. Last year's statistics of the news- print industry, while not so strik- ing as several years preceding it furnish’ striking evidence of the part Canada’s resources play in the eastern trust's dominance. Can- ada exported to the United States 1,193,698 tons of newsprint in ad- dition to large quantities of pulp wood and wood pulp. The news- (Continuea on Page Two) HARDING HOLDS FOR TERRITORY IN TAX ACTION Overrules . Plaintiff's De-| murer to Answer to | Troller’s Tax TRUSTPROTEST NOT JUSTIFIED, SAY OFFICIALS Government Not Attempt- m% to Force Alaska Pulp Development L‘ In &n_oral ruling made Monday In the United States District Court affecting the Territorial tax of $250 on non-resident trollers, Judge Justin W Harding overruled a de- murrer filed against the Territory's | answer and in substance upheld the act of 1929 for the second time. ‘The ocase, brought against the Territory by Wood Freeman, a Se- attle troller, alleging the tax was prohibitive in that the average an- nual earnings of a troller were only $500, went up to the Circuit Court of Appeals last year on an- other demurrer. ' Freeman's con- tention was upheld in the Appel- late Court inasmuch as his state- ment on earnings was not contro- verted. Following the Circuit Court’s ac- tion, Attorney General Rustgard filed an answer alleging that the \average net earnings of a compe- {tent troller each year is not less ‘Washington, D. “C., and “Falf- banks Associated ‘Press despatches to the Bmpire today indicated that the protest of the American large scale pulp and paper develop- ment in Alaska was unnecessary, and that such development was not expected to occur as long as present conditions prevailed in the newsprint industry. The Association Sunday sent a letter to President Hoover urging him to halt pending ' negotiations for the sale of national forest tim- ber in Alaska on the ground that pulp production there “would thrust unwarranted products upon an over expanded industry struggling with diminishing demand and vanish- ling products.” | Not Force Development | A Washington despatch to The ,Empire said: “Under present con- ditions in the newsprint industry it “Alaskans should not delay in than $3,000; and that a tax of is expected interested Government making their wants known to Con- $250 is not unreasonable or pro- officials will «delay indefinitely the gress,” continued Mr. Eaton. “Now is the time to ask for ap- propriations,” he added. “Do not wait until next December for it will be too late then. The com- mittee compiles the budget along in September and October and has it printed by December. An- other thing I wish to tell Alas- kans, and that is not to take ad- vice too literally. When told to pray for what they want, they must understand that what is really meant is that they should pray for the strength to go out and get what they want.” | ‘hibitive. H. L. Faulkner, local counsel for Freeman, demurred to the answer as not constituting any defense to the complaint. The case was ar- gued some two weeks ago before Judge Harding. At that time Mr. Faulkner contended that the Act was invalid because it fixed a dis- 'eriminatory 1license rate between resident and nonresident trollers | in contravention of the White Fisheries Act. He did not dis- pute the Territory's contention concerning earnings. gdevelapmenc of a large woodpulp |industry in Alaska which is feared by the officers. of the American ‘Paper and Pulp Association.” “The Alaska situation involves a projected development in Ton- gass National Forest by use of proposed power plants at Ketchi- kan and Juneau. Each plant is expected to cost $15,000,000. “One of the developing groups is |headed by George T. Cameron, |publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, and Harry Chandler, publisher of the Los ‘Angeles Times. In the absence of any showing t0 !The other is headed by Zellerbach In speaking of the Alaska Rail- the contrary, therefore, Judge road, the study of which was one Harding, accepting as fact the Ter- of the principal purposes of the ritory's allegations of a $3,000 av- ‘Congressional party's visit north."ern,ge, held that the answer did ‘Congressman Eaton said: Rate Adjustment Needed “The physical condition of the (Continued on Page Three) !constitute a valld answer and overruled the demurrer. Mr. Faulkner was not present | (Continuea un Page 8ix) Both Parties Bothered by Proh ibition Question By SCOTT C. BONE THE political pendulum swings uncertainly. Both parties are in apprehension and doubt as to its swinging in 1932. Conditions are so abnormal that the campaign trend cannot be forseen. Presi- dent makers are at sea. The out- look is unfathomable. Evidence ac- cumulates of a desire on both sides to evade the Prohibition issue if possible. Whether the public mind can be diverted to a less hazardous issue, and make it paramount, is a mooted question, puzzling alike to. all primarily concerned. For the moment it looks like an im- possible undertaking. Senator Smoot, Chairman of the Pinance Committee, and Whose name is attached to the new tariff, throws down the gauntlet to Sena- tor Robinson, floor leader, and who ran on the ticket with Governor Alfred E. Smith, three years ago, i |brothers of S8an Francisco. “Each group has been tendered ipower licenses but neither has ac- cepted. Officials here said they did not expect any acceptances of the ket conditions improve. ‘right.s predicated upon acceptance (of power licenses.” PROTEST NOT JUSTIFIED In a Fairbanks despatch to The Commissioner Charles H. Empire, Flory of the Department of Agri- culture, is quoted as saying the Association’s protest is unjustified. boldly challenging him to nsmel"We are not trying to force the the schedules which the Demo- |issue or to throw more paper on cratic party would lower or raise.!the market, but we are in readiness He demands a specific statement to go ahead when conditions of the minority’s policy. This change. clearly is a preliminary maneuver| “We have the timber and power to force the tariff to the front andlw ‘build up American production obscure the Eighteenth Amend- when the time is right.” Mr. Flory ment. Evidently Smoot and Rob- added negotlations between the inson are in perfect accord in this United States Forest Service and gesture, both having a distaste for applicants for timber were dis- a combat on “wet” and “dry” lines, continued early last Spring because with wide-spread bolting and tu-{ot the business depression and mult inevitably involved. .. A New York political analyist,| | paper mills. ——— Paper and Pulp Assoclation against | GREENER AND MATTERN ARE AT FAIRBANKS || Refueling Plane for Rob- bins and Jones Made Landing in Ruby UNABLE TO GET UP BECAUSE DENSE FOG Nonstoppers Downcast Over Failure to Make Flight to Tokyo FATIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 4.— Nick Greener and Jimmy Mattern, pilots of the refueling plane for Reg L. Robbins and H. 8. Jone's plane and which became separat- ed in a dense fog prevailing Sun- day night and Monday morning, landed here from Ruby at 8:15 o'clock last night. Mattern and Greener explained that after landing at Ruby to take on more gasoline, they found it impossible to takeoff again on ae: count of the fog. Robbins and Joncs said they would not attempt another flight to Tokyo this year on accounft of the lateness of the season. Both wre downcast over the failure of ‘heir second attempt. They said they intended to remain here a lay or two before going south. PANGHORN AND HERNDON HELD UP IN SIBERIA Weathe raditions Ex- pected to Clear and May Hop Today TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 4. — Clyde Panghorn and Hugh Herndon await- od favorable weather at Khabarvosk, Siberia, for continuation of their flight, Rengo News Agency dis- patches said. The wing of the plane damaged when the fliers landed thers on Sunday was repaired Monday and the fliers announced they would take off for Nome as soon as the weather was favorable. The Rengo News Agency dis- patches quoted the fliers as deny- ing the New York reports that the world flight had been abandoned and they would probably attempt a flight from Tokyo to Seattle. At 9:30 am. today, Tokyo time, Panghorn and Herdon were half a day behind the time of Post and Gatty but each additional hour at Khabarvosk lengthened this mar- gin. TWENTY-FOUR HOUR STRIKE HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 4—A 24- hour strike involving 40,000 work- men began with a bombing that broke windows and damaged street pavement. No arrests have been made. Thirty unions are participating licenses until the newsprint mar-|in the strike to support streetcar Timber | men. The government has restricted all labor meetings. NAUTILUS HAS ANOTHER DELAY BERGEN, Norway, Aug. 4—Re- pairs to, the engine of the sub- marine Nautilus has delayed the start to the North Pole until at least tomorrow. This is according to a statement by Sir Hubert Wil- kins. ————.——— RAIL OFFICIAL GRATIFIED T. W. Evans, Vice-President of | present over-capacity of existing |the New York Central Railroad, with Mrs. Evans and their two sons, W. H. Evans and John Evans, who has been through all the cam- SCHOONER EXPLORER LEAVES |expressed delight at their visit paigns of the last three decades| and seen parties rise and fall, ven-| to Alaska. They are round-trip Bound for Kodiak, the gasoline|passengers on the steamship Aleu- tures the opinion that the current powered schooner Explorer, Capt. tian, which was here last night on mix-up is thoroughly conducive to the formation of a third party, which, if not successful, he be- lieves, would play havoc at the i Kodigk. (Continued on Page four " Magnus Hanson, left Juneau this|her way south. S.C. Murray, Gen- morning. She is salvaging cargo|eral Counsel of the New York Cen- off the wrecked freighter Golden |tral, also is aboard the Aleutian Forest, which lles not far from|and highly gratified over his Al- o . aska visit, ROUTE OF LINDBERGH FLIGHT TO THE ORIENT A & = POINT BARROW KARAGINSK, PPETROPAVLOVSH < .~ o %@ NEMURO QD c\ Veeapn R % P orawa SAM FRAWASCO o-CS NGELES B p3y m = &z 8 Progress of flight of Col. Charles A. Lindbcere h and his wife on their air trip to Japan is shown | by dotted lines. DRY LEADER PICKS SMITH | AND HOOVER Dr. McBride Says Smith, Hoover Will Again Be Nominees LITTLE POINT SABLE, Mich, Aug. 4—Dr. F. Scott McBride, Gen- eral Superintendent of the Anti- Saloon League of America, visiting his home town here, predicted, aft- ar a conference with other dry leaders, that Al Smith and Her- bert Hoover will be the Presidential nominees in 1932. He said Presi- dent Hoover will be the Republican nominee unless eliminated by him- self by declining to run again. “At the Democratic convention,” he said, “Franklin D. Roosevelt will be first put forward as a courtesyij < His supporters in the South and West will have a majority of the convention, but he will be unable} to carry Massachusetts and many other Northern and Eastern States and will not be able to carry a two-thirds majority of the con- vention. The leaders will eventual- ly turn in .full force to the sup- port of former Gov. 8mith, who will be brought forward as an emergen- cy man, and he will carry the con- vention easlly.” Dr. McBride added that neither former Gov. Smith nor Gov. Roose- velt would be acceptable to the Anti-8aloon League. DAVID CLARK FACING JURY, MURDER CASE Self-Defense Will Be Plea! i . AKER LAKE ~/n ‘anadian 'Big Lake® region . 390miles north Churchill. STOCK MARKET TRADING LIGHT N. Y. EXCHANGE Further Liquidation of Railroad Issues Are *Pronounced Today NEW YORK, Aug. 4 — Share prices dragged downward _today and trading was around the small- est volume in recent years. Further liquidation of railroad issues imposed a weight especially on Marquette prior preferred which tumbled 9 points. Atchison, Union Pacific, New York Central, New Haven and Missouri preferred stock fell from 12 to 5 points. U. S. Steel, American Can, East- man, Johns-Manville, Allied Chemi- rcal and American Telephone and Telegraph took more reductions. B TODAY’S STOCK . | | QUOTATIONS . NEW YORK, Aug. 4 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 91%, Anaconda Copper 24%, Beth- lehem Steel 37, General Motors 38%, International Harvester, no sale; Kennecott 18, Checker Cab 8%, 7%, 8, Curtiss-Wright 3, Pack- ard Motors 6%, Standard Brands FLYING COUPLE “MISSING" FOR HOURS MONDAY I il Wall of Static Finally Breaks Down—Wireless Picks Up Fliers JAPAN BOUND DUO ON GREAT LAKE Expect to Leave on An- other Hop—Yoshi- hara’s Flight Off BULLETIN — OTTAWA, Aug. 4.—Head winds along the course tc Hunter Bay held the Lind- berghs at Baker Lake today. Conditicns are reported to be unfaverable and they may hop tomorrow, OTTAWA, Aug. 4. — A wall of static separating th> Lindberghs from the outer world for many hours yesterday finally crumbled and it is learned that they landed at Baker Lake at 5 o'clock yester- day afternoon, Pacific time. The Lindberghs are preparing to lzave sometime today for Hunter iBay. 650 miles away, toward Akla- Foun ain “( 3 & e 5] Associated Press Photo The body of Henrletta Schmerler,| | | [~ 265, Columbia university ressarch| worke| Rivi Was found on the White| Apache Indian reserva about the project. He left late last (Continued on Page Two) WILL PROSPECT BARITE CLAIMS Lets Contract for, Dismond Drilling of Duncan Canal Property A contract has been let by the ! Alaska Juncau Gold Mining Com- |pany to Lynch Brothers, diamond | érillers, to prospect a barite prop- erty owned by the company in | Duncan Canal, it was made known here today by P. R. Bradley, Con- sulting Engineer. The work will start there in the near future. Pat Lynch, member of the drill- ing concern, was here several days ago conferring with Mr. Bradley tion and authorities believed she,week for his headquarters to as- had been slain. An Apache youthjsemble cquipment and supplies for was held in connection with the case jmmediate shipment to the ground. PICNICKERS ARE DROWNED GEORGETOWN, 8. C, Auz. A bus load of picnickers return-|said. 4 ' patented years' ago,” Barite is coming into a wider use in recent months than ever be- fore and there is a growing demand for it, Mr. Bradley said. It is used in large amounts in oil drilling op- erations among other things. “We have had some inquiries about the Duncan Canal property, which is an old one and was Mr. Bradley “We are having it pros- in Killing Herbert | | Standard Ofl of New Jersey 37%, Trans-America 7, United Aircraft LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 4—27%, U. S. Steel 85%. A jury has been selected for the| S e T |18, Standard Ol of California 36, pencer mn L. A. Deputy Distriet Attorney, charged | with the murder of Herbert Spen- cer, rot'éer newspaperman and edi-| tor of ing from a beach outing, plunged pected to determine the extent of through an open draw bridge here the deposit and to see whether we late last night. About 20 negroes desire to operate it ourselves or and two white men were drowned. lease it to other interested par- The white men who lost their tles.” lives, were Warren Newton, driver,| How long is will taketo demon- and his son Olin Newton. |strate the ore body is, of course, Red light signals gave warning indeterminate. The drilling opera- the bridge was lifted for a boat. tions will be continued until the The barrier was torn away when ground has been thoroughly ex- rusading,” a magazine. { plored. AS FLAGSHIP - LAST VOYAGE Admiral Schofield Will Succeed Admiral Chase in September Clark will plead self-defense. The State indicated it will ask the death sentence. Spencer was slain in the Holly- wood office of Charles Crawford, wealthy man and political boss, formerly well known in Seattle. Clark is also charged with the murder of Crawford. Ciark polled 60,000 votes for a municipal judgeship while at lib- erty under $100,000 bond. ——————— BREMERTON, Wash, Aug. 4— the bus plunged through. Célonel Lifidbergh Inspired Airplane Design Decreasing Elements of Air Resistance By ALEXANDER KLEMIN ‘the variable pitch propeller, which LOUISE CALLS: TAKES | 6 PASSENGERS SOUTH Bound from Skagway to Van- couver, B. C, the steamship Prin-| cess Louice called at Juneau this morning. Here she embarked for | southen ports six passengers. They, were: For Prince Rupert—Mrs. D, Rus- sell and baby. For Vancouver—R. Smith, W. F. Copeland. For Seattle—George O. Galbraith, J. H. Paughman. R RETIRED OFFICER ON VISIT Gen. William Crozier U. 8. A, retired, and Mrs. G. Crozier, are among the round-trip passengers on the steamship Aleutian, which called at Juncau last night en- route to Seattle. After long and distinguished service, General Croz- ier “went ‘on ' the retired list in| l’lld‘ } Battleship Texas sailed for San Diego on the last cruise as a flag- ship. i Admiral Frank H. Schofield suc- ceeds Admiral Jehu V. Chase, as Commander-in-Chief of the Navy and the flag will then be trans- ferred in September from the Texas to the Pennsylvania. The departure of Admirals Scho- tield and Chase ends probably the biggest gathering of navy rank outside the National Capitol. Among the Admirals at Bremerton and in Seattle during the fleet maneuvers, was Admiral Robert E. Coontz. e MRS. WINN OPERATED ON Mrs. Grover C. Winn successfully underwent a surgical operation in St. Ann's Hospital yesterday. Her condition is reported satisfactory. e ERNEST ROGNAN IS ILL Ernest Rognan of this city is a paient at St. Ann's Hospital for medical treatment. (Professor of Aecornautics, New York University) NEW YORK, Aug. 4—For one thing the airplane designer seeks to reduce the elements of resis- tance in flying so as to attain greater speeds. Col Charles A. Lindbergh, indi- rectly, is responsible for some of this development. He is always asking for higher speed, and in so doing has urged the designers and builders to great- er efforts. For example, Lindbergh's Lock- heed monoplane is elliptical in cross section, beautifully stream- lined from nose to tail. The resistance of engine cylin- ders is reduced by placing a ven- turi cowling over the cylinders. With the venturi cowling the flew is undisturbed after passing by the can be adqusted so that it is suit- able for high speed or take off and climbing. A special line of attack in stream lining is filleting. Fillets are grad- ual curves introduced between the wings, fuselage and tail surfaces. The ' conventional airplane today wastes perhaps 30 to 40 percent of its power in overcoming needless | resistance, and the designers and cylinders, and therefore the resis- | tance not only of the cylinders, but of the entire fuselage, is kept at a minimum. Another line of research is with | laboratories will not stop-until all this parasite resistance is eliminat- ed. esigners and inventors are also busy at the other end of the scale, trying to reduce landing speeds. The Autogiro lands very slowly and has practically no land- ing run. The Handley Page slot is another line of attack. Engines are steadily increasing in power for a given weight and in reliability. The trend of engive design is toward an intermediate step between gasoline and heavy oil by dispensing with the carburetor and injecting fuel directly into each cylinder.