The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1935, Page 1

OVER SIXTEEN MILLION VALUE FOR LAST YEAR Alaska Juneau Credited! with 68 Per Cent of Lode Production - The Department jof the Intefior . announces, through an advance statement preparéd: Philip' 8. Smith, of the Al chof the Geological At the mnin- erals produealliflw Aldska_mines in 193¢ had ah ted valug of | $16,793,000,“as compared with $10,- | 366,000 in 1983. This brifigs v‘lue-of‘ the mineral output of Alaska nm.'a| 1880 to miere than $688,000,000, The | figures for' 1934 are. prelimigary | estimates andsubject” to revision. General Conditions During 1934 Alaska, together with | the rest of the world, faced' uneer- | tainties and difficulties that deter- red business barking on miny new enwrpr& or pressing vijorously on alrel established prijects except as spe< cial favorable conditions appeared to encourage such ventures. A low price for all the mineral commodi- ' ties other than gold continued somewhat higher than in A, sexions distuption'sgf,ship- | pxng facilities, hroucht about' by ing in of x;ecessary machlne'ry equipment, and supplies for many of the mining camps and so had an indirect though very real ef-!| fect in reducing the output of the minerals. On the other hand, the climatic conditions that affect| mining, such as length of season and precipitation, were on whole favorable throughout t.he camps in central Alaska, which yield the greater part of the placer gold. In Southeast Alaska and in! western Alaska, notably in most of | Seward Peninsula, the season was unusually dry, so that the .supply of water for mining purposes was scarce and many of the mines had to curtail or suspend operations for part of the season. This condition affected not only the placer mines, which are ordinarily very depen- | dent on water supply for most of their operations, but also some of the smaller lode mines that usel water in milling their ore. Gold The gold production of Alaska' in 1934 is estimated ‘to have been| worth $16,105,000, based on the cur- rent price of $35 a fine ounce. This value exceeds that for the produc- tion of any other year subsequent | to 1916. In this comparison, how- ever, it should be remembered that in all the preceding years the es- tablished price of gold has been $20.67 an ounce, so that the new price is about 69 percent greater than the old price. The total value of the gold production of Alaska from the beginning of productive mining in 1880 to date is estimated as nearly $435,000,000. .As is well known, the gold pro- ducelh in Alaska comes from two distinctly different types of de- posits, placers and lodes. In the placers the gold is recovered from gravel or other unconsolidated de- posits, whereas in the lodes it oc- curs in the solid rock or vein mat- ter. In 1934 the proportion of gold | produced from deposits of these iwo types is estimated to have been about 56 to 44, or $8,996,000 from placers and $7,109,000 from -lodes. This is the same ratio as in 1932, but in 1933 the ratio was 54 to 46. As has long been the case, the bulk of the lode gold produced in the Territory came from mines in southeast Alaska, of which the mine of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, is by far the largest. However, while this region still maintained first place in pro- duction of gold from lodes, its lead over other Alaska districts appears to have been lessened, for in 1934 @ interests from em-~; through the year, though the prices | ‘were i | l G Y Persons friendly to Soviet: | " distance from the scene ofiad | settle. Communlets atten lowed the ‘assassination o ¥ PANAMA CANAL LOCKS PLACED - UNDER GUARD Threats Reporled to Have Been Received of Blow- I~ ing Up Lock Gates COLON, Jan. 1—Extra precau- {tions to guard the Gatun Locks fof the Panama Canal have been itaken after rumors were heard of a threat to blow up the massive gates. Reports are circulated that H. M. Thomas, Assistant Superintendent at the locks, received an anonymous letter in which a threat was made but both Thomas and the Military Intelligence Service denied these rumors. However, the Fourteenth |Infantry Company ' encamped to- day on the walls of the locks and all strangers are barred. FOUND DEAD ABOARD BOAT Helmer Ell;rt_s;n Dies on { Ingor—Heart Trouble or Suffocation KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 1.— Cutter Alert, with Deputy U. 8. “{ Marshal W. H. Caswell aboard, re- turned last night from Port Alex- ander, reporting the death of Hel- mer Ellertsen, aboard the boat Ingor, apparently from heart fail- ure or suffocation. The boat was filled with smoke and a mattress was smouldering when friends broke into the locked boat. There are no,evidences of foul play. The Alert brought Roy Fields' here for treatment for a broken in downtown New York only a short nti-com loiq of pra!ar:%u u;u f, (Auoc to Be Great Drama for World, Including J uneau and Aluslm The curtain was rung down at niidnight last night on the passing show of 1934. To Juneau and to | Alaska, like the rest of the world, | the year was one of the most ex- | citing, eventful dramas since the World War. Events which would have merited eight-column head- lines throughout the world a few years ago, were buried under the rising tide of big news in 1934. While Roosevelt and his New Deal and the growing war clouds in Europe and Asia held the spot- light in world news, Alaskans were more concerned with the disas- trous Nome fire, the longshore- men’s strike, the progress of the Army's bombers on their tour of the territory, the rising price of gold and fish, and the interest in Navy war games along the Alaska coastline. Things Happen Here Locally, Juneau saw the long-dis- ctissed Douglas bridge grow into a reality, read of double murders, suicides, drownings, experienced one of the worst storms in Channel history, voted into power the most impressive list of Democratic can- didates on territorial record and okayed the city government’s ap- plication to the PWA for a $100,- 000 civic improvement loan. In all, Alaskans have enjoyed a busy and eventful year, busy in pite of the big strike, and event- ful because of reflecting natianal events. As the territory bid adieu to she pauses to take inventory of the following happenings that marked 1934 one of her brightest in page lone news: January PWA allocates $175,000 for 19 new yschool buildings and $50,000 for Geological Survey work. Dr. W. J. Figg, beloved Juneau physician died. William T. Mahoney takes U. 8. Marshal's office, First Di- vision. New wing of St. Ann’s hos- pital dedicated. Oskar Hestness and wife, former Petersburg residents, guilty of murdering two sons in Seattle. Hugh J. Wade, Alaska's NRA administrator, arrives to set ‘up territorial recovery machine. | Empire’s special 20-page Develop- ment Edition published. George F. Alexander of Portland named judge | |the old and prepared for the new,| nists QI’! nqplred police action to lua? hass executions which fok iatey e Hp to) FOR MURDER OF Companion ot ‘Baby Face’ Nelson Taken East to Chicago in Irons CHICAGO, I, Jan. 1.— John Paul Chase, rushed here in irons from California, was late yester- day indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for the murder of Herman E. Hollis, Special agent of the De- partment of Justice, killed on’ No- vember 27, with Inspector Sam- uel P. Cowley when they sought to capture George “Baby Face” Nelson, his wife and a male com- panion near. the suburban of Bar- rington. Nelson was also fatally wounded in the batfle. Another indictment for Chase as the slayer of Cowley will be sought tomorrow Chase wius arrested in a Mount Shasta resort, California, last Thursday night by Federal offi- cers. He was taken to S8an Fran- {cisco and then spirited across the continent o Chicago. Chase was the “male” compan- ion of Nelson and the latter’s wife in the battle with the Federals. Mrs. Nelson later surrendered and is serving a sentence in a Wiscon- sin prison for harboring Dillinger and his gangmen. Chase escaped from the net here but was traced across the continent to California and finally arrested. WALES BIVE! PROMOTION ! . KING'S ORDEFR LONDON, Jan. . —The F e oft Wales, by order of King Ueorge has begn promoted to Ad:niral of § His Majesty's Navy, a General in! the Army and Chief Marshal ir Royal Air Force. ¢ imism for. the future seemed womi’&m FEDERAL AGENT! 1 Lnr[ TYETMOIIAL ¥ ST by oy ~ ? Fnaepty 3 % ; 0 NEW YEAR WER NATION ,egOv!r Country— elebrants' Are Merry | | ‘Press’ advices received. infall communities. New ‘¥orkers disdaining. enter- mmnent\pnbes that ran 25 per- cent highet than those during Pro- ‘hibition, tukned out for the great- est, holiday\ merrymaking in “the city’s history. Times Square was jammed with* the biggest throng everwitnessed. - * Tven Atlanta, Georgia, celebrated in a' steady downpour of‘rain which did not dampen the spirits of the Chicago drank deeply. It is esti- matéd- that 300,000 spent the' last hour ‘of the old year and the first of the New Year, ln drinking and enjoying themselves. . Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson said: “We |are on our way out.” Vice-President Garner’s hail to the New Year was: “For health 0LD YEAR ENDS WITH BURST OF BUSINESS ‘PEP’ Nahon-WIde Survey Shows Many Merchants with Bare Shelves NEW YORK, Jan. 1—The final ness ahead like the crack of a whip, reports from leading cities throughout the country showed here today. There is an extraordinary de- mand for goods, with inventories healthily low—in many cases, t00 low for comfort. This unusual situation prevailed in many manufacturing lines dur- ing the final week of the year, usually a period of slack opera- tions, with shutdowns for inven- tory purposes. Steel production, pushed up to the highest level since 1929, for the holiday week, delayed the whipping of the motor industry into new model production. The all-but-bare shelves of many merchants was another indication of the abnormal business improve- ment. Unusual activity during Christ- mas week accounted for the low stocks, The need for new goods was urgent, but merchants were count- ing the results of the best Christ~ mas season in recent years. Pinally, the need for new stocks which prevailed throughout the country seemed to insure a contin- uance of manufacturing in most all lines. JNEAU CELEBRATED IN ORDERLY MANNER It was a happy celebration of New Year Eve that was experienced Juneau last night and early this i1 mrmng | There were no cross words spoken ¢ no fists thrown. e celebration was mostly ord- erly,” said Chief of Police C. J. Dnyis this morning, and the patrol- | raen e on« night duty all nodded isame. Relgns Every-|, week of the Old Year snapped busi- ‘ BIVEN TITLE OF CHAMPION ORLD Worker Declared to Be Best Prevaricator CHICAGO, I, Jan. 1.—Verne L, ¢|Osborn, Centralia; Washington, mill [worker, has been declared cham- {pion liar of the world by the Burl- ington Liars Club. i Osborn said he was pursuing a, when we were within 10 feet of the ground, I recovered my wits. “Whoa there,” I shouted. “The mule was so darned well his tracks. I got off and dropped gently the remaining few feet.” WAS HIS FIRST LIE CENTRALIA, Wash, Jan. 1.— Vern L. Osborn, whed told of the honors that had been given him by the Burlington Liars Club, de- clared the lie that won him the told, in public. Osborn is married and has two children, the oldest two years, “I want to bring my children up to be truthful, of course, “though if they turn out to be provaritators, I want them to be good ones” said Oshorn. ——— e WHITE: HOUSE DINNER PART WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.— P dent Roosevelt and Mrs. Rooseve and other members of the family m the White House, celebrated New Year’s Eve with a dinner part: for eighty, atténded mostly by mem- bers of the young married set in honor of Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt. > - Blind Veterans 'LONDON, Jan. 1.—The Washington State Mill Francis Carv::l;u:l Bourne Is jackrabbit on his trained mule when he plunged over a 1,000-foot cliff. | “T was nonplussed for once, but| trained that he stopped dead in| world title was the first he ever |an Catholic hierarchy iff 4| Weggminstersto_ dine # ham Palace, and it has been gén- Ardent Smokers belief ARCHBISHOP OF ; Victim of Brpnchllls, Heart .ivouble ABSoC/ATED | PRESS FRANCIS CAQDI\\:AL BOURNE] LONDON, Jan. }.+Francis Car- dinal Bourne, Cagholic Archbishop of Westminster, died Monday, night | at the age of/73 years. He suffered an attack of bmn\.h‘w two years ago and mever fully recoven;;' t Heart trouble developed toward last. S, Since the real.omuon of the Romt ln 1559. no Catholic pre! untry had exercised. 50 inl]uence as Francls Cardinal] Bourne. J He was the first Archbishop of | & at Bucking- | erally agrers' thdt'the notable ad- | vance'made oy the Catholic Church in England since -the beginnigg of the church it aPpears to have been the | plan of Cardinal Bourne to have. a | commu! grow up - with ' the church rather than to wait’ until the former had been established. As far h:ci as 1893 hé engaged in a controversy with' his immediate ' predecessor,” Cardinal Vaughan, on the question whether there should be several diodgsan seminaries or| only one for all dioceses. i to refloat the (| theliner- left Seattle.: jefforts to release - hei Stranded Passen cent) has been due largely to_the’jagflership of ‘the Cardinald dinarly he In pn the growth of the legal restrietions. SECOND TRY TO PULL STRANDED SHIP OFF ISLE Expected Stoads May Be Hauled Into Deep Wat- er This Fore'no_on COAST GUARD HAIDA IS NOW,STANDING BY aaped, 8! oard. Cele- @ssen s, “ brate” ~-No» W7 Danger ted i 0 Steamer Vi ¢t oria, ‘of the Alaska Steamship s(‘mmu'ny, which went .me Bundly night at 7 o'clock in a sifw storm on Peinter Island, nea the nerthern end of Quee | Charlotte, enroute from Seat [tle 40" Alaska porte, was sf hard and fTast enrly ‘this merning, but accord n qocnled Press d ' The Empire, a .“a}l is - being made thi: ma st arrived at * which have in no danw, state. ¥ Most of the cargo h%b moved aft, * Meanwhile the passengvsn} celebrated New Years WIHi material taken aboard w'hen No ship has been*sont to e replace the Vigtoria, se'nd?ng - the island and subsequent re- ports as i to her condit on when floated. Aboard Victoria, bra!e.Regu]au . SAN FRANCISOO Cal., A bubbling, blaring New ! larity swept the Pacific Hollywpod;to the steamer Victor stranded on: a lonely island off tl tish Columbla Coast, where passengers made merry mrd rounded ship.. N Joons and lou able from the ship's wxes { ks’ popped just as they did other places on the coast. Dripks flowed freely from Can da to Mexico sy of ficials - blix their eyes at the imethods of fce and consumption ‘whie have been. viol Celebiations~were on far _into the s hours.. There Jwere ratively arrests reported by’ the police assumed a to}ennt ltutud%‘ MRS DO IS LEE EARLY i it is estimated fo have supplied s | —_— £ 3 only 68 percent of the Alasks Jode |1e8 nd took Mrs. Peder Al Peter-|o¢ myry; Division. Senate confirms|. The action is part of ¢ that smoking holds little charm for Steady Pr | Mrs. Dfris Lee died’ ab S8 v produetion, whereas in 1933 it sup-| % of Petersburg and AlbeTt|pau.rq w. Griffin as Secretary of L Year’s Honor List. which the smoker In the dark—that @, When<he became A‘rmhumm ot | clock tpAs mornitiz at 2 plied avout 74 percent. This de- Jelicke, of Port _Alexander 10 Alaska. !nounud the creation at_th. ) ‘smoker doesn’t enjoy his weed un- eslm‘{mfl Candinar Bourl vt Hospithl: crease appears to have been| Wrangell for medical treatment. | February | peers, five baronets-and 56 K v Jess he can see the smigke—is dis- \borg v Alewagiowpdty o swady‘ Thd dedd woman Both were seriously ill and unabie < Re. | Bachelor. 7\ the annual reception. of the by & survey made ' ati St 5. P Yof She was, Borg brought about through' both a ] U. S. Senate passes Alaska's Re: proved by y L. by 1t p} small | of age. ). . ~maller production of lode gold in{ ' obuln transportation previously. peal Bill, v, Masins is being observed the ! Dunstan’s Home for the Hlind, progress ‘by muitiplying 1; is 's@evived -here by 8 g > - — Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Mayn. 4 ¢/ |Si#lish Rite Temple. ‘of | where of rly 2,000 war-blinded churchés s6 the Catholics through- o Brother. o Southeast Alaska in 1934 and a ’ considerable increase in the out- (Continued on Page Six) out London might be able to at- Lend mass within half a mile, at £ (W on Page B!vem Gisdineau Channel and. also visit- are being welcomed. are being W-- 26ys March cmc leaders in Owensboro, xy.,| Lone. bandit; vobs Bailey's i to have, that eity re-! T " i vlve its ancient cum-w law, (Qom.ln\ud on M m.) iy il £y Cate| Bartlesville, Okla, both 87 _jold, recently celebrated thei: seventh wedding anniversary cared for, 95 percent are ar- dent mn of p&pex and clsn- Body 1