The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 5, 1934, Page 4

o r"“ “" i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1934. \ Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER GENERAL MANAGER T Published _every evening _except Sunday by _the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Btreets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. § SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, ; one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify 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 Amsociated Press is exclusively entitled to the for republication of all news dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the tocal news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN, THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. SECRETARY ICKES MOVES TO RELIEVE ALASKA. In directing Col. Ohlson, General Manager of the Alaska Railroad, to proceed to Seattle and negotiate for the charter of vessels to serve Alaska pending settlement of the longshoremen's strike, Secretary | TIckes acted with both timeliness and vision. In view of the refusal of the strikers to abide by their agree- ment of June 9, by which Alaska shipping was placed in a different category from the rest of xhei Pacific Coast and released from the tieup, there was no other course left open if disaster here was to be avoided. Already many communties are re-, porting shortages of fresh meat and other sLap!es: of food. The gold mining and fishing and other| lesser industries are beginning to suffer again. Unless the blockade is lifted, and that shortly, we will be again where we were a month ago. Under the law which created the Alaska Rail- road, its management has the authority to charter ocean-going vessels. Once chartered they become Government property just as much as though the Government had constructed and owned them out- right. That the strikers will defy the Govern- ment and attempt to keep its vessels tied to the docks, or refuse to load or discharge cargo, is not Itkely. This move on the part of the Federal Govern- ment will not affect the general Pacific Coast tieup. In the end, it may be necessary for the Government to intervene there, also. But the Interior Depart- ment is not concernéd with that. It is just now interested in seeing that this Territory is not badly crippled because its industries cannot get supplies, builders cannot get materials and public works are slowed down for the same reason. Through the Governor's office, Secretary Ickes is head of the ‘Territorial administration. His is the responsibility in the last analysis in seeing that Alaska is not starved to death or its industries killed throéugh lack of transportation. In moving to charter the needed shipping, he shows that he recognizes that responsibility and is ready to accept all that it entails. DEMOCRATS CHOOSE WISELY. In electing A. A. Shonbeck, as its Chairman, the Democratic Territorial Committee acted with wis- dom. He is one of the staunchest workers in the party organization and has had many years of actual experience in handling political campaigns and other matters that the Chairman of the Central Committee must know if it is to function efficiently and effectively. He knows that elections are not won by ballyhoo. It takes careful preparation, close organization and teamwork from the leaders down to the newest recruit in the rank and file. He is capable of laying the groundwork and of inspiring Rarmonious cooperation. He will make a most worthy successor to Gov. Troy. Mr. Shonbeck’s selection will be pleasing to Delegate Dimond.' He is a warm personal friend of the latter as well as a political co-worker. He is widely known throughout the Territory. He has lived in other sections of the Territory in past years. A resident since the early days, he is thoroughly Alaskan and can be depended on to voice the Alaskan viewpoint on all subjects. SYNTHETIC RUBBER. T the claims made for synthetic ruhM tires tested on Arizona and Maryland roads as td 1ooks and strength and wear are borne out completely, a somewhat revolutionary future prospect may be ahead in the rubber world. This DuPont product, fashioned by a Dayton manufacturing firm into tires and declared to have stood up as well as those from natural rubver, may mark another chapter in a long story stretching from Brazilian jungles to the successor cultivated plantations in the Far East, marked by such episodes as Goodyear's discovery of vulcanizing at the kitchen stove 95 years ago. Also such as the frenzied but vain search by German chemists in 1915 and 1916 for an ‘“ersatz” or substitute rubber for use in a war needing sorely the rubber dented to them. They did make a little of an inferior product at much cose and little resilency, which deteriorated rapidly in the open. This new substitute is declared to deteriorate more slowly than natural rubber when exposed to the elements. “Cost is, of course, a vital element. At a dollar ® pound there is no' present threat to the vast investment in ruhber—growmz‘ But there is a de- cided potential check against any wild uprush in prices. These lately got down to 2% cents a pound. Once during the war they crossed $3; after the war |ereased. tinues to have those elements even though the latest interest is centered in science rather than exploration. CROWD MORALE IMPROVES. It is not only in restored dividend rates, in- creased payrolls, freer investments and similar phenomena that the emergence of the country is being so plainly demonstrated. Little bits of testi- mony of an indirect sort may mean just as much, and have as much of or greater significance. Nothing better demonstrated this than current accounts of various sporting events. Crowds of unsual size have been recorded at the ball parks, New London and Poughkeepsie for the crew races, track meets, automobile; speed races, -the Baer- Carnerg fightzand the $port scribes abtribute them to “genesal.enthusiasm.” It i§ a possibly significant bit of érowd psychology 'or morgle—spending instead of hoarding and.being able to,’and cheering instead of .groaning:> As' the two Navy destroyers steamed out of port here after a three-day t, the vanguard of the submarine expedition. headed for an even longer visit ‘was plowing its way northward from Sdn Diego. Good bye Navy! and Come On! more Navy! It may never be known what Mussolini told Hitler at their recent meeting, but the results seem to be all that Hitler could desire. Showers of Radium. (New York Times.) The rocks are full of radium. From them come rays which are forever colliding with air atoms, wrecking them and thus making them electrically sensitive. For over a generation physicists have been aware of this effect—“ionization.” ~Attempts to measure it led to the strange discovery that in- stead of decreasing at great heights it actually in- The physicists shielded the instruments with lead to cut off the rays from the rocks. Still the effect increased with the altitude. At last it was concluded that not only is there radium in the rocks to electrify the air, but also some powerful outer radiation., Thus were the cosmic rays dis- covered. Just how radium is able to charge the atmosphere is a mystery that seems to have been cleared up by Drs. G. R. Wait and A. G. McNish of the Carnegie Institution at Washington. It has been assumed that not only is there a direct smiting of the air as it is swept against radium-bearing rocks, but that radium atoms are torn loose and blown about. For this guessing Wait and McNish substitute more definite information. They find that radium is carried up into the atmosphere only to rain down again in the showers that attend lightning storms. Since not enough radium would thus fall into a catch-basin even as big as an ordinary lake, we must accept inferences—in this case readings of measuring devices correlated with thunderstorms. The agreement is so good that a case for radium rain is made out. All this dovetails neatly with the discovery, made a few years ago in South Africa by Drs. B. F. J. Schonland and J. P. T. Viljoen, of electrons which spout from voleano-like thunderclouds and which are almost as powerful as the cosmie rays. The clouds are tense with electricity—a generic name for electrons. Radium, lifted from the earth in |much the manner pictured by Drs. Witt and Mc- Nish, bombards the air molecules of with an incessant fire of particles. It is as if a match had been applied to gunpowder. The tense cloud can no longer contain itself. A terrific flash follows and with it a fountain of electrons plays, with sprays of penetrating rays tumbling back not on the earth immediately below but on areas hundreds of miles away. Schoolbooks must now be revised to explain the origin of lightning in accordance with the new Iphysics, and the philosopher will have occasion to marvel anew at the complexity of nature and the nice balance of her forces. Your Credit Is Good! (Daily Jourrial of Commerce, Seattle) Advertisements, signs and display cards tell you your credit is good, but in the general run of installment buying you are not offered credit. Credit does not enter into the usual transaction. You may have an article delivered, after making a down payment and agreeing to pay the balance in weekly or monthly installments, but you do not own the thing purchased until the last installment is paid. Under the laws of France title to the article purchased must pass from the vendor to the vendee when delivery is made. Here it does not. So you really do not know whether your credit is good, because you are not offered credit. You are given custody and use of the article purchased, but it is not yours until paid for in full, Credit is hardly |the proper word for us to use. ! Many families never would own their homes, their furniture, their cars and other desirable prop- erties were they not permitted to buy them on installments. A large percentage of our people will meet their contract payments, but never séem able to save enough to pay cash in full at the time of purchase, They mistakenly think they are using their credit, but such is not the case, unless title passes with the acceptance of the commodity ordered. Installment selling has never attained great popu- larity in European countries. English firms, spec- jalizing in installment contracts, shield their cus- tomers from neighborood gossip by advertising that “All purchases are delivered in vans that do not bear the name of our company.” Here installment buying carries no stigma. If a family wishes- to mortgage its future eéarnings, it is no one’s busi- ness. American installment selling has boosted sales to a point that staggers the imagination of Euro- pean manufacturers and dealers. And whie credit is presumed to be more dignified there than here —while we may seldom be offered real credit—it seems that Americans, as a class, have as kene an appreciation of honesty as do the people of European .countries and, judging by recent wholesalt debt defaulting, a far finer sense of personal re- sponsibility in meeting their just obligations when due. i W ad —_— i Senator John E. Erickson, while presiding in the Senate, fell asleep in his chair the other day during a debate. Theré is a Sénagar with a lot of common sense—(New York Sun.) during the heyday of the ill-fated Stevensen plan, in 1922-28, they crossed $1. The price is now a shade over 14 cents. Ths substitute may also be a brake upon the more modest new five-year plan of the Anglo-Duicn interests. Also it may represent protection for American consumers, whose resentment and turning to reciaimed rubber had so much to do with the collapse of the Stevenson pian. The rubber industry had its beginnings in ro- mance ‘and adventure in the wilderness. It con- A Scotchman must have invented that new beer glass now in use. It is large at the top and small at the bottom. The largest part of the glass holds the foam.—(Jacksonville Times-Union.) We seem to have everything now that it is necessary to know about Charles Dickens, except whether he liked his steak medium or well done.— (Detroit News.) While you may not be able to take one, this is a good time to plan your vacation, the clouds | i EAS EXPLODES IN BILGES OF "FISHING BOAT R. A. Reischl and J. C. Martinsen Are Burned Rescuing Children R. A. Reischl, local manazer of the Union Oil Company, and J. C. Martinsen, owner of the gasboat Agnes R. were painfully " burned about the face and hands late Tuesday afternoon in rescuing Mar- tinsen’s children from the forward deck of the boat after gasoline in the bilges had become ignited. Mr. Martinsen was taking gas- oline aboard for the trip to Sitka, where he planned to spend the summer fishing, when a leak was discovered in the gasoline tank. Mr. Martinsen and Mr. Reischl went upon the dock after an electric pump to get the gasoline out of the bilges, while Mrs. Martinsen was on the after deck pumping the gasoline out with a hand pump. Cause Unknown ‘The cause of the explosion is un- known, as Mr. Martinsen said that he very carefully extinguished the fire in the bcat's stove before ap- proaching the oil dock. The force of the explosion blew the door off the cabin of the boat, and it struck Mrs, Martinsen, knocking her down. The children were on the forward deck atop of the pilot house, and Mr. Reischl and Mr. Martinsen were forced to go through the flames in order to get them. Damage to the boat was not great, consisting chiefly of a thor- ough scorching, which will neces- sitate a complete new paint job The Agnes R. had just been painted and overhauled, Mr. Mar- tinsen spending about a month on the work in preparation for the move to Sitka. i S — GENERAL M'RAE AND PARTY HERE FLYING, INTERIOR Gen. A. D. McRae, Major J. C. Ross, and J. B. Joraleman, Can- adian capitalists and mining men arrived in Juneau on a Pacific Alaska plane, piloted by Joe Cros- son, at 3 pm. today. The party left Vancouver, B. C., early this morning. General McRae, Canadian Senator, ciates have who is also a and his asso- interests in mining property near Fairbanks and wil devote about ten days time in- specting the work. Later they will g0 into the Great Bear Lake couns try to look over mining possibilitie there. While in Juneau the pa callec on Gov. John W. Trey and Ike P. Taylor, Chief Engineer of the Al- aska Road Commission. Departure from Juneau depends on the weather. PATCO IS MAKING McLean, flew to Ketchikan terday afternoon with Mr., and Mrs. Harry Race, leaving Juneau at 4 o'clock. The plane was occu- pied today with charter flights for a mining concern, and is expected back this evening if the weather permits, according to C. V. Kay, Manager of the Panhandle Transport Company. yes- Air LT. H. E. MORGAN FLIES TO SITKA TO CATCH DESTROYER Mrs. Helen Bender and Lt. and Mrs. H. E. Morgan left this after- noon for Sitka where Lieutenant Morgan will rejoin the destroyer Buchanan returning to the naval base at San Diego. The party went in the seaplane Chichagof, with Pilot R. E. Ellis and Me- chanic Lloyd Jarman. Others leaving on the plane were Hans Floe for Hawk Inlet and the Rev. Edward C. Budde for Sitka. BILLY HAJEK TO MAKE APPEARANCE Billy Hajek, sailor jazzman, whe has made several long distance piano playing records, is in Ji ‘'neau and wilk make a appearance at the Capitol Beer Pariors tonight. — ., Mining Location Notices at Em- pire office. TRIP TO KETCHIKAN The seaplane Patco, Pilot Chet SENATOR BORAH HAS CRITICISM FOR2 PARTIES | | WASHINGTON, July 5—United . States Senator William E. Borah, | Republican Independent of Idaho, |1ast night criticised the Adminis- ftmuon for an ‘“effort to fasten a ! stranglehold system of bureaucracy upon the people.” " Senator Borah assailed both ma- jor political parties for failure to combat monopolies. In a nation-wide broadcast, the Idaho Senator tempered the cha, of Bureaucracy against the | Adr ration with the statement i t as long as the Administra- (tion's fight was for correction of { abuses, which led to depression, he { would support the Administration. | Senator Borah said a free press is essential and warned of the | danger of a bureaucratic controlled press. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE IS SERVED PAPERS BALTIMORE, Md., July 5—An- gered when aroused from Pull- man berth to be served with papers naming him defendant in a test case of the Agricultural Adjust- ment Act, Secretary of Agriculture w. e, hurled the paper back into the face of the Deputy U. S. Marshal. ) The Secretary the defendants in the suit tuted in the District Court by the Royal Farms Dairy, questioning the constitution The plaintiff asl < to restrain the AAA from ining its books. The Government asked dismissal the action as the Secretary could not be brought to Maryiand named amongz insti- is of e necessary. The deputy laid the ter the second hur! face, on Wallac walked cut of the car. D WALL STREET “WISE GUYS” ‘GET WARNING WASHINGTON, July 5.—“Wise guys” of Wall Street drew a warn- ing from Joseph P. Kennedy who has begun work as head of the Securities Exchange Commission. Kennedy announced he is deter- mined to show the critics he is not the street's representative on the Control Board. He said the Stock Exchange Act does not require any- thing that anyone dealing in the market cah't afford to do. Kennedy said the Act makes the market safe for investors and it will be impossible in the future for speculators to catch profit on the run. 2 IMPORTANT BILLS SIGNED ‘WASHINGTON, July ' 5.—Before leaving ‘Washington, President Roosevelt signed the legislation granting a partial six-year mora- torium on paying off farm mort- gages, and also the Crosser Bill for a retirement pension system for railway employees and asking for re-application of employees of the Alaska Railroad. — T ALASKA RAILROAD STATUS WASHINGTON, July 5—It has not been determined whether the Railroad Pension Bill will apply ‘to the Alaska Railroad employees. The Interior Department refuses to comment until officials have studied the masure. Alaska Delegate Dimond inter- prets the measure as applying to the Alaska Railroad saying the bill provides for applications of all railroads within the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Act and the I. C. C. says the Alaska Rail- road is under the I. C. C. Act. Except for minor changes in ap- plications, the final ‘decision will be with the Interior Department. papers, af- back in his berth and w2y Af It's Paint PHONE 549 'IDEAL PAINT SHOP We Have It! 3 Wendt & Garster FOR INSURANCE See H. R. SHEPARD & SON Telephone 409 B. M. Behrends Bank Bldg. Old Papers fof Sale, at, Empire Office || 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire it " ——d JULY 5, 1914, Juneau celebrated the Fourth of July in an harmonious manner and the day was thoroughly suc- cessful in spite of the fact that the weather was threatening dur- ing the early part of the day and follewing the parade there was a slight drizzle that continued threugh the afternoon. The sports, jbaseball games and fire work dis- {play all altracted large -crowds. Juneau and Dougias broke even on | the baseball games ‘with a win apiece. Among the . attractive flbats in i the Independence Day parade were the Draper Club float, in which ymany little girls, dressed as flow- ers added a decorativé touch, and the Goddess of Liberty float in ‘[whuh Miss Dorothy Haley, as god- |dess, was surrounded by her at- | tendants. Those appearing in the |Draper Club float were the little Miss Frances Nowell, as butterfly driver, Rachel Fisher, Cherice Pet- tit, Mary Kashevaroff, Alice Case | Natalia Kashevaroff, 1Iris Gray, Esther Karer, Elizabeth Kaser and Madeline Valentine. In the God- dess of Liberty float were, Anna i Farly, Abbie Arnold, Eth2l Olson, | Florence Larson, Sidonia Reck, El- sa Smith, Meredith Hamilton, Dor- jothy Troy, Mary Meier, Daisy | Lundstrom, Dorothy Hamilton, Ger- | trude Nelson, Helen and Vera Pettingale. | Among the winners of the chil ren’s races on the Fourth were, Lucile Larson, Lydia Kashevaroff, James Barragar, Jr., Howard Case, | Nadja Kashevaroff, Laura Mc- Closkey, Carlin Brotherton, Curtis Brotherton, James ‘McCloskey, Axel Koskey, Harry Williams, Elliott Fremming and Eugenz Nelson. 'WAKE UP YOUR | ! Shop in Juneau | WITHOUT CALOMEL | nd You'll Jump Out of Bed in| | the Morning Rarin’ to Go 1t you feel sour and sunk and the world | i00ks’ punk, don’t swallow & lot of salts, mineral water,ofl, luzative candy or chewing gum and ex em to make you suddenly oweet and buoyant and full of sunshine. For they ean't do it. They only move the bowels and a mere movement doesn’t get af the cavee. The reason for your down-and-out | feeling is your liver. It should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily. 1! this bile is not flowing freely, your food | doesn’t digest. It just decays in_the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You havi thick, bad taste and your breath ia fo skin often breaks out in blemishes. Your head aches and you feel down and out, Your whole system is poisoned. 1t takes th od, old CARTER'S ' LITTLE iR PILLS to :--c iy i E LIVER f bil g, (reeiy and make you ey contain wonderful, ess, gentle vegetable extracts, amazing when it comes to making the bile flow freely. But don't ask for “Vlrfi“l. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills. Look for the name Carte: Little Liver Pills on the red label. Resent & substitute- FIN. Waich and Jewelry Repairing i at very reasonable rates ey . PAUL BLOEDHORN | FRONT STREET L 7" GOODRICH | ] | MEN'S SHOE PACS ‘ | | $4.50 Hendrickson | . 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