The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 6, 1934, Page 1

PR % THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIV., NO. 6721. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS DENIES GERMANY P CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES NATION'S AIM President Makes Emphatic Address at Glacier National Park GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Montana, Aug. 8—President Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, in his first talk to the Nation since his Territorial Inspection Tour, Sunday night as- serted the Government is just be- ginning to fight to save its re- sources for agriculture and indus- try from the selfishness of indi- viduals. “We have won a greater part of our fight to obtain and retain great public properties for the benefit of the public,” said the President. “We are at the thresh- hold of even a more important battle to save our resources for agriculture and industry against the selfishness of individuals” By “great public properties” the President referred to hydro-elec- tric plants, waterways, forests and other conservation projects. NEW WAR OUTLINED ENROUTE WITH ROGSEVELT, Aug. 6—The President is on his way to Glasgow, Montana, from where he motors to inspect the Fort Peck project on the upper Missouri after the declaration that his Administration is just begin- ning te war on individual selfish- ness. OFF FOR EAST SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 6. President Roosevelt’s special train arrived here at 6:04 last Saturday evening and departed east five minutes later for Glacier Park, Montana, his next stop. The President’s combined va- cation and investigation tour en- route east includes a visit to the Fort Peck, Montana, dam develop- ment, then go on through the northern tier of states to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where the prin- .cipal speech of the tour will be made. ———.———— RELIEF GIVEN T0 800,000 IN DROUGHT AREA KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug. 6.— Approximately 800,000 persons, the number equal to the combined population of the states of .Idaho, Deleware and Nevada, are on re- lief rolls in the drought blighted western half of the United States as shown by tabulation last Sat- urday night from official records. In addition to funds spent for relief the Government is buying cattle and sheep from the sun parched areas and either slaughter the animals or are moving them to more favored sections. Scattered rains of the past week lowered temperatures but only in e few instances benefitted the crops. ——o—r—— Stockyard Strike Is " All Over Twelve-Day Tie-up in- Chi- cago Is Ended by Efforts of Gen. H. S. Johnson CHICAGO, T, Aug. 6. — The twelve-day-old strike of [ivestock handlers in the Union Stockyards was settled late last Saturday as Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, NRA Ad- ministrator completed a six hour conference with the principal con- cerns involved and the strike lead- ers. Eight hundred union men were involved and they claim a victory. Work in the stockyards was re- sumed Sunday with full shifts. _ NATION Neio Air Routes to Alaska May Be Opened;Gherardi Making Inspection Tour| SEATTLE, Aug. 6.—Interested in opening new air routes to Alaska and along the Aleutians, Rear Admiral Walter R. Gherardi, Chief of the Hydrographic Division of the United States Navy, arrived here Saturday. Rear Admiral Gherardi has been on an inspection tour of the Navy's hydrographic stations on the Pacific Coast and has traveled up the coast from Panama. soon for Washington, D. C. He will leave here “Sih;er Shirts;; Scheme to Overthrow Communists, then Tackle Government of U. S. NEW PLANTO AID FARMERS, DROUGHT AREA Soil Tillers May Be Brought to Alaska — Dimond | Gives His Approval | WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. — The possibility of establishing a small agricultural area in Alaska with farmers from the drought section of the Middle West is viewed with favor by Delegate A. J. Dimond. He said he discussed the possibility of such development in the An- chorage district with FERA of- ficials and that organization is giving the matter consideration. “Such a program, of necessity, | must be on a small scale at first,” said Delegate Dimond. ‘“Persons moved to the area must be se- lected with the utmost care for they will be forced to bear the burdens of pioneer life for a while.” Delegate Dimond said there has been some talk of extending the Alaska Railroad into the region to encourage gevelopment of agricul- ture and added that however he believed a motor highway would be more beneficial in that farmers could truck their produce to an outlet much faster and cheaper. Pioneer of Interior on Last Trail Woman WI:—Went Over| Chilkoot Pass, Passes Away atFairbanks | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 6. — Mrs. Daniel McKinnon, aged 80 years, died at her home here yes- terday. She was a member of the; Pioneer Women of Alaska and the Order of Eastern Star. Mrs. McKinnon hiked over Chil- koot Pass to Dawson and “down the river” -to Dawson in '98. Sh moved to Fairbanks in 1905 and had lived in this vicinity since that time. She was well versed in the history of the Yukon and Alaska interior. — Home Loan Board “Cracks Down’ on Playing Politics WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. — The Home Owners’' Loan Corporation is cracking down on political man- euvering by employees and officers. ' A new order warns members of the staff throughout the country not to do any campaign speech-' making. They cannot hold any but minor political offices. Even wearing buttons of either party is prohibited. The order came at a time when campaign fever is burning high and in the face of reports that some Home Owners' Loan Corpora- | tion employees and officers were taking major parts in political ac- tivities, even to the extent of using corporation offices for headquar-, ters, | been watching the Silver | for several months. | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 6.— The Los Angeles Examiner, in a copyright story, in the Sunday edi- tion, said testimony has been given before the Congressional Commit- tee on Un-American .activities, now sitting in Los Angeles “that armed men, known as Silver Shirts, with secret anxiliary called Storm ‘Troopers, avowedly organized to change the Government of the United States,” are drilling in the neighborhood of San Diego. Capt. William Rynes, of the Los Angeles Department of the Anti- Radical Squad said the police have Shirts He said he did not know that testimony. has been given before the Congressional Committee. The Examiner says the avowed purpose of the Silver Shirts and their auxiliary is to use armed strength to overcome Communists, who they believe will stage an up- rising and seize control of the government, and wrest control from the Communists for themselves. The Silver Shirts plan to re- move ' all Jews from public office, including Henry Morgenthau, Sec- retary of the Treasury, the Ex- aminer says. FOIL ATTEMPT AT ABDUCTION Police Receive Tip from Intended Victim— Men Sought ' OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla,"Aug. !86—Three men are sought in what the police described as an apparent attempt to kidnap Robert A. Hef- ner, Sr., wealthy oilman, socially prominent and former Justice of ‘the State Supreme Court. Hefner telephoned and the warn- Ilng came just in time to thwart Ithe abduction attempt. The police said the three men | sought had gained information ! from the janitor of Hefner's apart- ment building regarding his habits. ® 'Nazi Fight in Austria | Not Ended When Men_Are Gone, Women and Children Will Take Up Cause } YUGOSLAVIA BORDER, Aug. 6. —(Copyright by Associated Press). —Constantine Kammerhofer, Chief {of Staff of the Austrian Nazi arm- ed forces, told the Associated Press the Nazi rebellion in Austria has only just begun. He said: “We are not finished with our fight for German-Austria’s free- dom. We will go on. “True our military resistance is temporarily broken but the fight goes on and when there are no men left, women and children will continue fighting Schuschnigg’s government. . He has no more chance to survive than his prede- cessors.” ——————— Cannabis indicia, an Indian hemp, is known in East India as bhang, in Mexico as marijuana, and in Arabia and the United States as hashish, NINE ARMY AIR | CORPS PLANES Fleet Returns to Interior After Photographing Along Coast FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 6.— Nine Army Air Corps bombers re- turned to Fairbanks last Saturday afternoon from Anchorage, having photographed 8,000 square miles on Friday, a record for a single' day. At an altitude of 16,000 feet the bombers photographed 4,000 square | miles. Photos were taken west of Me- Kinley Park, Susitna to Kenai and west of Seward. ‘The bombers will photograph in the vicinity of Fairbanks next. The tenth bomber, which “went down in Cook Inlet, will be sal- vaged. FOREST FIRES UNDER CONTROL FIVE SECTIONS SPOKANE, Wash,, Aug. 6—For- est fires are rapidly yielding to hordes of fighters drafted Yor bringing them under control. From Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia came reports of terror of woods- men being suppressed. Near Missoula twenty fire fight- ers were injured, two perhaps serious, when two truck loads of men overturned enroute to blazes. —— o — CENSURES BANK ORGANIZATIONS {Senate Banking Committee Cites Big Investment Concerns ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Meth- ods used by American investment | bankers in selling billions of dol- lars worth of securities now al- most valueless, are described by the Senate Banking Committee as “scandalous and shocking, and at time violative of the most ele- ‘mentary principles of business eth- | ies. King George Gets ‘Too Damned Angry’ to Play-Golf Game LONDON, Aug. 6—The Prince of Wales has disclosed that King George has quit playing golf be- cause it made him too angry. “I asked him the other day why he did not go on with golf,” the prince related, “and all he said to me was, ‘I got too damned angry.'” AT FAIRBANKS|| Three fliers failed to establish a new record for ascent when the hu near Rapid City, dola, filled with scientific Instruments, Aright), member of the crew, (Associated Press Photo) D. The huge gas ba STRATOSPHERE. GONDOLA WRE g ripped and they took to parachutes as it descended. The gon- was smashed In a field near Loomis, Neb. Capt. A. W. Stevens is shown chopping a hole in it to discover the instruments were destroyed. CKED IN CRASH ge balloon in which they took off ADOLF HITLER SAYS NO WAR CLOUDS SEEN Germanyfil Not Fight Again Excepf in Posi- tive Self Defense MAKES APPEAL TO PEOPLE OF NATION Pays Great_'l:ribute to Dead President in Speech to Fellow Countrymen LONDON, Aug. 6—The London Daily Mail quotes President-Chan- chellor Adolf Hitler as saying in an interview in Berlin that “be- {lieve me, we will never again fight except in self-dfense. If it rests with Germany, war will not come again. This country has a pro- found impression of the evils of war."” Hitler, according to the Mail's article, declared the late President “was as innocent of beginning the World War as anybody in the world” pointing out he was in re- tirement at the time. Hitler praised von Hindenburg as a military commander and de- FORBONDDEALS Four-Million Alaska’s 1934 salmon pack passed the four-million mark in the week ending July 28, when the total reached 4,157,490 cases, according |to figures released here by the United States Bureau of Fisheries. | Only Southeast Alaska was lagging behind a year ago, due to the late- | ness of the runs of pink salmon. Warden Donald 8. Haley, on a ‘tour of inspection, wired from Icy! |Strait Saturday that a good run! |had struck in from the ocean and | was moving past Inian Island and along the north shore of Icy Strait. The season closed last week in |that area and will close tonight in eastern Icy Strait. Reds Are Abundant ‘The feature of the pack this year is the abnormally heavy pro- |duction of red salmon. The total lup to July 28 was 2487357 cases, |the largest ever packed in any | entire season except in 1918, a war- |time year, when the packers made every effort to get fish. This year tne siuation was dif- ferent, the packers did not antici- pate, more than a normal run. None of them took cans and tin for a heavy run. Consequently most | One big flaw which the com- mittee found amongst the results District Reds Kings of its stock market and banking|syayyiat 17,013 4,627 investigation was that bankers “frequently didn't" have a decent| ooy Uit Anae i regard” for their investors' inter-| Western 7154 o ests. Eastern 6125 3,702 Another Soon ‘Wrangell 5,510 126 A third installment of the Bank-|Ketchikan . . 15,522 658 ing Committee’s report will be|West Coastof Prince made public next week, and it,| of Wales Island .. 3943 5905 with previous chapters, will be|mristo] Bay (Final)— used as a basis for further legiS-| ‘gyicngk-Naknek 1118739 1,102 lation when Congress meets in Nushagak 361287 7,070 Jm;t;nem Egegik 140,750 47 report cited J. P. Morgan and Company, Kuhn-Loeb Com-| Ugashik 56,166 83 pany, National City Company, Dil-|Alaska Peninsula— lon-Read Company, and other big| South Side 179,660 3,788 investment organizations, and said| North Side(Final) 87,126 217 that the investment banker did|Chignik 110,533 141 nothing to curb the gpeculative|godiak 129,856 326 4 Rotn, : Cook Inlet 127,777 18119 It also censured the selling of Ounteal Alpska securities to a preferred list in c aly 92201 ' 8890 order to extend “influence and ‘opper R. (Final) A control over individuals in high| Pr. Wil Sound . 12262 604 Pplaces.” Resurrection Bay 976 TOTALS 2487375 50,753 GRAND TOTAL—(All Species)—4,15 Mark; Reds Salmon Pack Jumps Above MANY EVENTS Heaviest Except for 1918 of them were without cans before | \Dances, Baseball, Basket-| the season ended and while the fish were still moving in large numbers toward their spawning grounds. Had there been ample cans, the Bristol Bay pack would have been considerably larger than the 1,739,678 cases reported. Peninsula Is Good The final pack report from the north side of the Alaska Peninsula shows 88,460 cases put up, of which 87,126 were reds. Last year the same district ‘produced but 28,397 cases. The south side of the peninsula to July 28 had packed 515,384 cases as compared to 367,710 cases at the same time in 1933. The percentage of reds was unusually large with 179,660 cases reported. Chignik with 138,383 cases is 100 per cent ahead of 19393. Kodiak is also far ahead of last year, 372,262 cases as compared to 296,374. The Cook Inlet pack, 192,099, is 70,000 cases to the good. Copper River is 35,000 cases ahead, and Prince William Sound, with 271,406 cases, is 80,000 cases ahead of last year. Pack by District The pack by district to July 28, follows: Red Tails Pinks Chums Cohoe 85,706 29,820 5436 25,183 58109 3,325 24375 30978 7,106 76,069 7453 3,823 A 252,586 12,482 9,426 12,311 4,471 9,436 16,199 i 11,086" ., 2,052 1926 14,668 1,125 929 e 3,752 1,249 . 1,498 177,135 140,200 14,601 - 22 1,005 . 18,5681 8,267 861 207,904 38162 3,014 19,900 7,539 18,164 p 221,278 27,156 10,106 ! 364 20,429 1,116,799 267,711 86, 7,490 cases. Woman Shot Four | . Times; Passes Away| BAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 6. —Mrs. Anita B. Watkins, aged 35 years, shot four times in what the | Police described as a struggle with | ‘her estranged husband, on a down- town street, is dead, f DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE MAN TOURS IN ALASKA Mr. and Mrs, P. W. Girvin, of San Francisco, are round-trippers on the steamer Northwestern. Mr Glrvin is connected with the Fed- eral Department of Justice at the Headquarters, the Hall of Justice, in San Francisco, OVER WEEKEND | FOR U. S, NAVY | ball Games Wind Up Week | of Entertainment | Eleven Navy seaplanes took | off at 1 o'clock this afternoon for Cordova. The twelfth plane | was hoisted to the deck of the U. S 8. Wright for adjust- ments., At 3:20 o'clock this aftednoon it was not known when -the Wright would wgigh anchor and leave for Cordova. | After nearly a week's visit in| I Juneau during which cordiality was | the keynote of all entertainment, (both formal and informal, and fine | weather contributed its share to |the pleasure of all, ‘the Aircraft’ SBquadrons, Base Force, United |States Navy with the flagship U. 8. 8. Wright wer leave for the Westward at 10 o'clock this morning, Departure was delayed by weather reports from Icy Straits and Cordova stating that those districts were blanketed with fog, and they plan to leave as soon as more favorable flying conditions are reported. The week of entertainment for the Navy was wound up over the weekend by a variety of events, including dances, baseball and bas- ketball games, U. 8. 8. Wright band concerts, special church services, house parties both in town and at {eountry homes along the highway and, as the finale, the delightful reception held aboard the U. 8. S. Wright Sunday afternoon by Ad- miral A. W. Johnson and officers of the squadrons returning the hospitality of their Juneau friends. Open ‘Air Concert Hundreds of people heard the final open air concert given by ]lhc U. 8. S. Wright band on Satr |urday evening in front of the Pirst | National Bank'‘ on Front Street |after which the majority attended |the farewell navy dance at the | Mandarin Ball Room. Tewnspeople Entertained One of the most enjoyable func- |tions held here for sometime was | the reception aboard the U. S. S | Wright yesterday afternoon when !Admiral Johnson and officers of the Aircraft Squadrons entertained |the residents of Juneau, Douglas %aud surrounding communities. The Naval officers proved themselves | perfect hosts in making their civil- !lan guests feel comvletely at home from the moment they left the Government float in small boats until they again reached shore. The |von Hindenburg is not dead. |is preparéd to | jclared he “had the political lead- jership of our people during this iperiod, the World War, and if he |had his say, Germany would have |been spared the greatest humilia- tion ever to go down in history.” TRIBUTE TO HINDENBURG BERLIN, Aug. 6. — President- Chancellor Hitler paid a solemn tribute to the late President Paul von Hindenburg and prayed for peace, freedom and honor of Ger- |many in an address to Germany. He said: “I implore you all now to look beyond this transitory moment into the future. Let strong realization enter our hearts. Herr Reich Presi- dent and Field Marshal General He living, for in dying he now wanders above us as an eternal patron of us mortals, surrounded by the great spirits of the past and as on eternal patron and protector of the German Reich and the German Nation.” HINDENBUR TO BE LAIDAWAY THIS EVENING Cortege Wifi?ass Through Lane of Flaming Torch- es to Tannenburg NEUDECK, Germany, Aug. 6.— Through a lane of flaming torches, a lane 60 miles long, the body of former President Paul von Hinden- burg will be taken tonight to the grave. A squadron of airplanes will scatter red roses over his Neudeck estate. Brief exercises will be held in the Manor house then the casket will be placed on a gun carriage for the trip to ;Tannenbyrg, the scene of his great’ triumph, where he will be buried. SEN. CUTTING COMING NORTH ABOARD YUKON SEATTLE, Aug. 6.—United States Senator Bronson Cutting, Republi- can of New Mexico, who has sup-~ ported the Democratic Administra~ tion, arrived here by plane Sunday and took the steamer Yukon for Alaska on a short vacation frip. Senator Cutting is traveling forecastle deck, which was canopied ,and enclosed with canvas and dec- (Continued on Page Two) alone and said he would go as far north as Seward. His plans after that are indefinite but he expeets’ to return here within three weeks, ANS ANOTHER WAR ROOSEVELT MAKES ADDRESS