The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 8, 1933, Page 12

NICK BEZ TALKS WITH PRESIDENT IN WASHINGTON Canneryman Enjoys Dis- tinction of Conversing with Roosevelt 10 is well known in Southeast Alaska as tt ent of the Peril s Company at Todd, A of the Al- irways, now enjoys of having personal- 1 President Roose- recent trip to Wash- according to the Nick had to say that he arranged to converse with him further me’Tu A TTE M PT next day. “Nick, like the majority of Pa- cific purse-seine fishermen, is native of Jugoslavia, having come to this coast as a boy just reach- ing maturif shortly before war, and started out ernment’s job on a Puget Sound purse seiner. From that humble beginning he has advanced, by hard work, enterprise and native ability, to a recognized position in the salmon canning industry, with interests extending over a much broader field. Within a few ® own, fishing in Puget Sound and in Alaska. A few years later he became superintendent of one of the Alaska Consolidated Canneries plants, and soon afterward was one of the organizers of the Peril Straits Packing Co., of which he is now vice-president. Operating on Chichagof Island, he soon be- the' with a fish-| years he had a seine boat of his THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, DEC. 8, 1933. 70 TAKE BACK YACHTING CUP Wife Influences Sopwith to | Race American Boats for Trophy ( By OSCAR LEIDING | LONDON, Dec. 8—A man whose /chief hobby is sailing has entered the lists to accomplish what oth- |ers have failed to do in 82 years | —bring back “the America’s Cup” |from the United States. | He is T. O. M. Sopwith, a new- comer to this classic of sporting history but no newcomer to the ranks of amateur yachtsmen, who ed by few, if any, in ng industry. On!ern Afrways, ive days, October 30|t 31, he conversed personally| from Seattle to Central Alaska.” sident Roosevelt. ———————— e subjects discussed in these ations have not been dis-‘/’flpr 21 Years if the President de-| Farme: Finally on on the fisheries, 5 7 i wsportation condi-' Strikes W ater n Southeast Alaska, Nick is| o n throw much interest- but VASQUARK, Sask, Dec. 8. came head of the Alaska South- providing rapid air nsport service over a wide area on these matters. t ha ned is told as fol- Nick was in Washington to confer with gover officials on various Alaska and particularly a John Larson, a farmer in the Van-| guard district, has struck water on his ranch after 21 years of effort. He had been digging this length lof time. He had dozens of wells on his place ranging in depth from e about him which| came interested in the mining yo ™ i upon the task last last issue of Pa- pogsibilities of the district, and!g igered by the late Sir Thom- founded the Alaska Chichagof ¢ Lipton. purse-seine fisher-| Mining Co., whose property is com-| ™ "0 it 6 be pitted against man, salmon canner, miner, air ing to be recognized as a good pr |Lhe Amierican defenders will be (an i r operator—enjoys a dis-| ducer; and more recently he be- . n’ien) yacht “Endeavor,” which has been designed by Charles Nicholson, designer of the two “‘Shamrocks” which Lipton raced |in his last unsuccessful quests for the cup. | Tourned America in 1911 Mr. Sopwith, who has been sail- | .ing since he was a small boy in | Scotland. is best known as a pion- eer flier and aircraft constructor TROSKY GETS IN LIMELIGHT Farmer Boy May Settle Indians’ Infield Prob- lem Next Season and it was as a flier, in the days when planes were fragile craft of linen, wood and wires, that he toured America in 1911 He claims that there is no par- ticular reason that has prompted him to challenge for the famous 1 yachting trophy except that “it is one of the things that is in the back of the head of every man when he builds a new yacht for the big class.” And, if his challenge is accept- ed, Mr. Sopworth, a tall, clean- cut man of 45 whose hair is whit- ening around the temples, will be there to sail his own boat. “I always saill my boats,” he said, simply. “The American ama- teur yachtsman always sail their own boats and I certainly plan on doing so. It is much more satis- factory.” But it will be more of a family ‘arfai:' than that, for Mrs. Sop- with, who admits on the side that | perhaps she has been the greatest | influence in getting her husband to ‘chnnenge for the cup, will be a | member of the crew as official | time keeper” | “There won't be any room for | non-workers in the big races,” lshe said. “Everyone will have | more than enough to do.” | ©Of the “Endeavor,” Mr. Sop- worth will say nothing for the present—though plans on a draw- | ing board in his home indicate the racer is daily on his mind. The yachf has been finished on paper and is to be built at Gosport. probably for launching in April. DES MOINES, Ia., Dec. 8.—The 1934 baseball season still is five months or more away, doesn’t keep the Norway, but that == 0IL FROM IRA hot stove league” from going mw‘ | (Hal) | boy reason is Harold 21-year-old farmer who moved into Cleveland late in | the 1933 season and proceeded to show the Indian fans how a first baseman should field and hit. Started As Pitcher In 1931 Hal was pitching for the | (o Norway prep team and doing a|Long Pipe Line Is Complet- good job of it, when Cyril Slap-| 360 and hitting 20 home runs. | Toledo took him over last season |and he batted .325 in the Ameri- can association, knocking 34 hom- ers, He had changed to the first base job by this time and Cleve- land sought to obtain his services in July. However, the Mudhens needed his hitting and kept him | untfl the end of the Association season. ‘With Cleveland Trosky batted 205 in 44 times at bat. ——————— FOR FRENCHMEN ed—Defense Status Syria, has been completed and the southern branch—617 miles— from Kirkuk to Haifa, in -English mandated Palestine, is nearing completeion. ‘The pipeline to the Mediterran- ean runs under the Tigris and Eu- phrates rivers and over mountains and desert. Two 10-inch pipes were laid under dramatic circum- stances and mews that oil would soon flow from the Kirkuk wells was Welcome in France which has no oil of its own. Lack of the blue-black fluid hampered the French in the war and they have fought constantly since then to obtain an independ- ent supply as a national defense measure. This created bitter controversy among the ex-allies who wanted to profit from the Mosul fields which fell into their hands as a result of the war. Three American-Eng- lish companies and the French agreed in 1920 to share the oil equally but this only started com- icka, Cleveland scout saw the boy | ¥ and he was signed by the Indians, | Is Also Aided R o . then farmed out to Burlington in | e to end in Territory over which they the Mississippi Valley league. | By M. K. WHITELEATHER had control. He pitched five games for Bur-| PARIS, Dec. 8—Mesoptamian| ., . 4 40 1nie gig ite i ok lington and got & sore arm, neces- | oil over which diplomatic battles sitating his removal to right field. | have waged, will flow into Paris- His batting average jumped from |ian automobile tanks within a few 181 at the end of his hurllx{g‘monbhs, the French Oil Company, career to .302 at the close of the | holder of one-fourth interest in the season. rich Iraq oil sands, has announced. Cracked 34 Home Runs The 531-mile northern branch Trosky played with Quincy in | of the pipeline from Kirkuk, Iraq, the Three-I League in 1932, batting | to Tripoli, in TFrench-mandated come until 1931 when it was agreed to construct two pipelines, one ending at Tripoli and the other at Haifa. The Shell Company of Pales- tine and the Vacuum Oil Company of the United States have erected tative of the salmon fisheries|5 to 150 feet. One went down to in code conferences, buft had no thought of conferring with President. By some chance re-|ally to haul his water supply from t river, two miles distant BASKET SOCIAL AT THE A. N. B. Hall, December 9 Auspices Y. P. A, C. and A. N. B. H Benefit for Christmas Funds SPECIAL MUSIC AND TERTAINMENT ing was arranged; and Roosevelt was so interested in General Admission THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS The Gastineau Our Services to You Begin and End at the Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Boat depth of 455 feet, in Larson’s des-| the | perate efforts to find water. Fin-| well diggers declined to both- mark, President Roosevelt was in-|er any further, convinced it w: formed that an Alaska fisherman|no use. Larson, himself, kept on.| and miner was in the city, and|He recently dug a hole in a new| sald, ‘If he has a few minutes to | place and at 14 feet found all the after | spare, I would like to see him’| water he needed. And this, Naturally Nick was not too busy |four years of dry summers. In his| to see the President, and a meet- |21 years on the ranch, Larson had | —_— & as| § a LUMBER Juneau Lumber Mills, Inc. { ALASKA MEAT CO. FEATURING CARSTEN’S BABY BEEF—DIAMOND TC HAMS AND BACON—U. S. 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Since then, greater quantities have been coming from Russia and Rumania and Amer- ica’s share diminished, from 53 per cent in 1930 to 38 per cent in 1932. e |Double of “Pretty Boy” Is Tired Of Wild Stares MIAMI, Okla., Dec. 8—As long as his work keeps him in the southwest, W. A. Hoover, Miami salesman, decided he might as well have it understood that he is not “Pretty Boy Floyd.” He appealed to Sheriff Dee Watters to calm the populace and issue an officlal memorandum on the physical resemblance between the law-abiding citizen and the des- perate outlaw. Several times in recent weeks Brewer has been mistaken for Floyd. Persons he met “started apprehensively” at him, he said, and peace officers on one occas- ion were moved to investigate his actions, . 80 trim . . allow freedom . . . yet there are loads of on the market so eather in black, seal and calf.