The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 9, 1935, Page 7

CORONER'S JURY FINDS MAN DIED THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, FEB. 9, 1935. William Sprigade and James Mon- agle. Johnstone's body is being kept at the Carter Mortuary, pending fun- eral arrangements. 16 PROPOSALS HAVE PIONEER GROUPS 'HOLD INDUCTION FINAL RITES HELD FOR PHILLIPS TODAY The many friends of the late “Pewee” Phillips, popular,local mu- sician, attended the final rites in TRAP HEARING DRAWS LARGE lInw.*s!-ment,“ he declared, “and if this proposed action is taken we'll Just have to liquidate.” He also pointed out that the elimination of "traps would mean that some other type of gear would have to be used where it could be Explains Letter ‘flshermen were making barely He qualified his above . state- {enough to pay for gear, and that | ment relative to the complete|the speaker over the radio said the | abolishment of the fish trap, as|fishermen of British Columbia were provided for in the memorial, by |trying to work out some kind of & reading from a letter “which he|program whereby traps would be |had recently written to', Delegate jput into operation again, and the fishermen could in some manner | Evergreen Cemetery this afternoon used effectively, and that it un- Dimond, expressing his " opinion BY SELF WOUND Body Found on Beach| Identified as Johnstone, Who Suicided The man found dead on the beach under the Winter and Pond store on Lower Front Street yes- terday morning committed sui- cide by cutting his throat; and that man was Harry Johnstone formerly of Belfast, Ireland ‘Those e the two facts es- tablished by a coroner’s jury at an inquest held in the Federal and| Territorial Building and in the| C. W. Carter Mortuary this morn- ing. The inquest had been ordered | by United States Commissioner | J. F. Mullen yesterday after cn_vi police and United States Marshal's officers had been called to investi- gate. { The six men on the jury first established the fact that the man| was Harry Johnstone, whose broth- | er, Robert, had written here for| information as to his whereabouts| from Belfast last month. The iden-| tification was done largely on the evidence offered by Vera Black- well, operator of rooms where Johnstone stayed, and Hugo Berg- strom. | Gach Across ‘Throat Secondly, the verdict of death -y suicide was returned after Dr. V. W. Council, city and Territorial health officer, reported a large gash across the man’s throat, dis- covered in an autopsy. | In addition to Vera Blackwell, Bergstrom, and Dr. Council, the following witnesses were called and testified: Dan Ralston of the Alas- kan Hotel who said he had seen Johnstone on a Juneau street on January 14; Frank Olson, one of the two Juneau Water Company employees who found Johnstone's body; and Chief of Police C. J.! PASSED LEGISLATURE (Continued from Page One) approved. One would include non- resident fishermen in the restric- tion against traps and would con- fine seine fishing to residents only. Other amendments were promised by Senator Frawley for Monday. Brunelle Memorial Senator Brunelle offered a new memorial today, asking that Con- gress appropriate $200,000 to reim- burse the Territory and various cities in Alaska for cost of edu- cating Indians and Eskimos. More than 1850 are now on the list, the memorial cites, entailing an annual expense to the Territory of ap- proximately $200,000. The appro- priation is asked for the fiscal year, July 1, 1934, to June 30, 1935, The Senate will meet again at 1:30 Monday. The House met at morning, adjourning 8:30 this immediately | thereafter to make the planned ex- | Caul, & new trustee. cursion to the mine. It reconvenes at 9 o'clock Monday morning. An informal joint meeting of the House and Senate is planned for shortly after the Senate convenes Monday afternoon to consider pen- sion legislation. - UNEMPLOYED FAVOR GOVERNOR’S ACTION AS MOVE AWAITED | following a service at Carter's | Mortuary at 2 o'clock. Pallbearers, all members of the | musicians’ local, of which Mr. Phillips was vice-president, were Smokey Mills, Dave Burnette, Paul Brown, Jerry McKinley, Egil So- berg and LeRoy West. The Rev. C. E. Rice, of Trinity Cathedral, officiated at the fun- eral and burial services, with Har- old Knox at the chapel organ, who played “The JLost Chord.” OF '3 OFFIGERS {Andrew Nerland, Grand President of Fair- banks, Presides Both the Pioneers of Alaska and the Pioneers Auxiliary of Alaska inducted new slates of officers for 1935 at an impressive joint cere- mony held at Odd Fellows Hall last night. Representative Andrew R | Nerland of Fairbanks, who is| 1 |Grand President of the Pioneers |of Alaska, acted as initiatory offi- L] | cer for both groups. TR A DING DULL y | | M™rs. J. Hayes, re-elected as | president, was installed in that Moderate Advance Report- ed but Traders Con- office for the Auxiliary. Other | Auxiliary officers included: Mrs. tinue to Be Wary |Panny Connors, vice-president; | Miss Agnes Manning, secretary; Mrs. Charles W. Carter, treasur- er; Mrs, Anna Winn, chaplain; Mrs. Mary Michaelson, sergeant- | at-arms; and Mrs. Thomas Me- | The Pioneers inducted the fol-| NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—Stocks were |lowing slate of officers: Charles moderately higher at the short ses- | W. Carter, president; John W. sjon of the New York Exchange to- | Meyers, vice-president; Elmer day. ‘Trading continued to be Reed, secretary; John Reck, treas-|extremely dull, however. Traders urer; H. R. Shepard, historian; gare still wary. |Dean C. E. Rice, chaplain, and | Lockie MacKinnon and John Feusi, | | new trustees. CLOSING PRICES TODAY ! NEW YORK, Feb. 9. — Closing | Officers had nothing to an- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine inounce today as to details on the stock today is 17%, American Can Grand Igloo convention here late 114%, American Power and Light next week. 2%, Anaconda 10%, Armour N. 5%, ap4aea Bethlehem Steel 39%, Calumet and OLD-TIMERS MOURN DEATH OF R. LOWE session at a late hour, it was re-| Oldtimers in Juneau and else- ported that favorable comment|where in Alaska today were mourn- ; was being expressed toward Gov.|ing the death of Rufus Lowe in John W. Troy's announcement yes-| Dawson, Y, T., yesterday. terday pertaining to the issuance, Lowe came to Juneau in 1889 of relief orders. |and for many years was a promi- Bert W. Harris, who acted as|nent figure in the life of the com- Juneau's Unemployed League mpt‘ again this afternoon, and, al-| though the meeting still was in| Hecla 3%, General Motors 31%%, International Harvester 40, Kenne- cott 16%, United States Steel 36%, Pound $4.88%, Bremner bid 46':. OTHER STOCK QUOTATIONS The following are closing prices of various issues today on the New York Stock Exchange, furnished by the Wilson - Fairbanks and Com- pany's Juneau office: Davis, who told of a previous ac- ‘spok_esman for an unemployed del- | munity. During his long stay here| Amer. Radiator 14%, Amer. R. M cident to Johnstone last summer €gation which asked Gov. Troy yes- | he erected many buildings, a num- |21%, Amer. Smelting 35, Amer. T. and who told of receiving the m_lterday to have a downtown distrib- | ber of them still standing on Main & T. 104%, Amer. Tobacco 81%, ter from the man's brother in Ireland. uting place for the order instead Street. of the present headquarters in the| In addition to his wife, the vet- | American W. W. 11%. Atchison Topeka 44%, Atlantic On the jury were the following: | Federal and Territorial Building,| eran Alaskan is survived by the|Refining 24%, Bendix 15%, C. P. J. G. Morrison, C. B. Bohm,gsflld that the League was reacting | following immegdiate relatives: Mrs.|12%, Caterpillar 39%, Cerro de Lockie MacKinnon, J. M. Willi; TN Pay’nTakit George Bros. LOWER LIQUOR PRICES ALW AYS Pay'n Takit George Bros. Phone Your Orders! Store open' until midnight T tive's reply. | hill, daughters, of Juneau; Al Gov. Troy told the men yester-| Lowe, son, of California, and Billy | day that the distributing office Lowe, son, attending high school in] would be moved downtown, pro-|Seattle. | viding some checking system be ————.e—-— | established so that each person's| PLANE DAMAGED BUT expenditures would pass through PILOT IS UNINJURED the Governor's office. | “The Governor told us that he| Pilot Ray Peterson had the gods would do everything in his power |with him when he taxied in from to aid us in our request,” Harris| the field at Merrill Airport Janu- | said. “We are grateful for that in-“ary 21, says the Anchorage Times. | terest and appreciate his efforts| Fog was so thick that he could not in our behalf.” see the Russell Merrill memorial Although it was believed that|beacon, and his Robin ship bump- plans are being worked out today ed into a corner of the base of for the moving of the relief or-|the beacon and was smashed to der office downtown, no announce- | bits. Peterson walked out of the ment was forthcoming from the|remnants of his plane unscratched. Governor's office other than the T fact that Harry Watson, secretary| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 9.— to the Governor, and B. D. Stew- | The San Francisco Chronicle says art, Federal Emergency Relief Ad-|Mrs. Al Capone is living here un- ministration engineer, were work-|der an assumed name so as to be ing on the details, 'near her husband, now in prison 98.CENT SHOE SALE Continues [ ] LEADER DEPT. STORE ams, | “favorably” to the Chief Execu-|Audalie Westby and Mrs. E. Fox- | Pasco 41%, C. & O. 42%, Chrysler 387%, Cont. Can 66%, Cont. Oil 18, du Pont de Nemours 94%. Elec. Auto-Lite 247%, Fairbanks- Morse 19%, Federal Mining 48%, Gen. Electric 23%, Granby 6%, G. N. 14, Howe Sound 4§, Hudson 10%. Int. Nickel 227%, Johns-Manville 50%, Liggett & Myers 105z, Liquid Carbonic 28%, Loew's 32%, Loose- Wiles 34%, Lorillard 20%. Marshall Field 9, Mathieson Al- kali 28%, McIntyre 41%, Montgom- ery Ward 26%, Nash 16%, Nat. Cash Register 16%, N. Y. C. 17%, N. P. 17%, Penney 68%. Pullman 49%, Radio 5%, Rey- nolds Tobacco 48, Sears Roebuck 35%, S. P. 15%, Socony 14, Sperry 8%. Stand. Oil Cal. 30%, Stand. Oil N. J. 40%, Texas Corp. 19%, Tim- ken 34%, United Aircraft 13%. U. S. Rubber 14%, U. S. Smelt-| ing 113%, West. Air Brake 24%, West. Electric 38X, Woolworth 54%. Averages—Up .30. Spot silver—537%c. Toronto, Vancouver and Seattle mining exchanges: Bralorne $10.70, B. R. X. 18¢c, Cariboo Gold Quartz $1.17, Golconda 29¢, Montana Con- solidated 18%, Nebasna $1.10 asked, Pioneer Gold $10.50 asked, Premier $1.50, Silversmith 6%, Sunshine $11.60. — ., AT THE ALASKAN Jack Scheuneman, Juneau, is a registered guest at the Alaskan GEORGE BROTHERS “TOMORROW’S STYLES TODAY” Hotel today. Dance Frocks ® JUST RECEIVED A LOVELY SELECTION OF SMART FROCKS IN THE Firemen'’s NICK OF TIME FOR THE— “JUNEAU’S OWN STORE” SENATE CROWD Proponents and Opponents Are Heard on Proposed Memorial to Congress (Continuea Tfrom Page One) !wmch are now taken can be in- | sured. Those contending for the purse seine and for the abolition of traps said in their remarks that traps have an unfair advantage and that the trap fish are taken in prefer- ence to seine-fish; also that the traps as an instrument of taking fish is unquestionably, in their opinion, one of special privilege and monopoly. In answer to a query from Sen- ator M. E. S. Brunelle as to the comparative number of fishermen here and in British Columbia, Gil- bert said he thought it would be time to take out the traps when |sufficient fishermen are available to supply the industry with fish. It was pointed out by Mr. Gil- bert that the following considera- tions should be borne in mind: That the operation of salmon traps | produces a lot of employment, and | he demonstrated with figures that there were more man-days of work used in the logging, preparation and operation of traps than were used in taking an equal amount of fish with seines. In proving his point, he used the typical instance in the case of his own company at a cannery where 50 per cent seine fish and 50 per cent trap fish were taken. Off-Season Employment In the operation of traps, he showed that the industry spent $1,000,000 to $1,100,000 in off-season employment—that is, before and after the fishing season and at a time when employment is most needed in the Territory and which would not be otherwise available. Mr. Gilbert said that the im- mediate abolishment of traps would force the liquidation of a large proportion of canneries operating in Alaska, which would eliminate the employment which they furn- ish, the income they pay to the | Territory, more than 80 per cent of the entire tax revenue, and cur- tail transportation furnished by the | steamship companies, which must of necessity have tonnage to carry |on their business. The loss of labor and transportation would certainly |affect the merchants in the Terri~ |tory as well. “We have a five million dollar tonight! 3 doubtedly would have to come from the outside. In- such cases, the outside fishermen would not leave anything in the Territory and, during their operation here, would undoubtedly invade the areas now being fished by local seiners, pro- portionately reducing ‘their catches| and in many cases would prac- tically dispossess the Native seiners! who would® be at a greater dis- advantage than those with better equipment. Comparisons Made Comparisons were made for the benefit of the committee of .the cost of trap fish as against seine fish in order to clear up the mis- congeption on this point. These figurés showed that during three years out of the !o}lr years of figures given the trap fish were slightly cheaper than the seine fish, and during the fourth year the| trap _fish were more expensive than the seine fish, but, on the whole, it was brought out that it was only through the operation of the traps in producing volume, thereby reducing the unit cost, that it was possible to pay these high seine fish prices. In order to clear up this point an analogy was made between Southeast Alaska and north British Columbia, and it was clearly shown that the Can- adian fishermen received from but 50 per cent to 75 per cent of that which the Alaska seiner received, for the reason given above. Reply to Hess Replying to Senator Luther C. Hess as to competition, the Alaska Pacific man said tuna, sardines and mackeral offered th® keenest and that it was impossible to com- pete with beef when prices in that industry are down. He said: “Sal- mon hasn't had a chance yet. Qual- ity is our first consideration. With that we feel the industry, with a real educational advertising cam- paign, has a big opportunity to spread out; to take its place in the foremast ranks and become an outstanding industry that will mean much to Alaska.” William Paul, appearing as a representative of the Alaska Native Brotherhood, told the committee he thought it was not a question of traps but rather one of special privilege, He contended the traps are a special privilege and that as a result the purse seiners are not able to make a living. But the memorial, Paul said, should go further than elimination of traps. It should include non-resident fish- ermen glso, he stated, so that Alaska fishermen would have first opportunity to make a living in their own country. SAYS “Then we'll go down to the Capital Beer Parlor “That’s where the crowd goes, you know and . . “We might win the prize!” |that while he favored the ultimate abolishment of fish traps he did not feel that it was equitable or fair to abolish the traps at one fell swoop, but on the other hand that he believed that they should | be reduced on some basis of fair- ness but not less than tén per cent a year. 'He further suggested, as read from the letter, that the se- |lection of trap sites to be closed) |be under the direction of the Sec- retary of Commerce. If Congress had started this in 1920 when he first advocated the idea we would have built up a population of seiners that could handle the situation and the traps would be gone. Abel Anderson, speaking for the | fishermen, argued against the traps |on grounds that they are a barrier |to increased population. | Traps or Population | “The question is do you want traps or population,” he said. “With traps the fishermen are out of employment and unless there is employment we can not hope to build up a population in the Ter-! ritory.” H. L. Faulkner, Juneau attorney, warned the committee of the big hole in revenue if the fishing industry is regulated out of busi- ness all at once. He explained there had been a gradual elimina- tion of traps since 1927 but that to throw them all ou® ncw would mean a terrific lost oi revenue to the Territory. Helps Lumbering “The maintenzace of the fish trap business 12 most important to benefit through this arrangement, In Good Congition In geuneral, it was indicated by Mr. Gilbert that the fisheries at this time were in the best condi- tion they have been in the history of commercial fishing in Alaska, as witness this large pack of 7,300,000 cases packed in 1934, and that, while the packers of canned sal- mon have lost money during the depression years, even though car- rying a substantial tax burden, they feel that if they are permit- ted to continue, now that condi- tions have improved, they will be able to survive and place the in- dustry on a more prosperous basis than it has ever been. This will be possible through a more in- telligent marketing of the product by the use of national consumer advertising, and by the more care- ful supervision of the quality of the product. Mr. Gilbert stated in conclusion that the people in the cannery business had invested their money under the existing laws and had done so in good faith, and, as a consequence, feel satisfied that when the full facts were known the people of Alaska as a whole will 7ive their largest industry a fair deal. Others appearing before the committee were A. P. Walker, member of the House from Craig; A. W. Brindle of the Ward's Cove Packing Company; M. J. Hene- ghan, Ketchikan; Frank Lloyd, Ketchikan Packing Company; Frank Lloyd, Ketchikan, and Mr. 8chultz, representing the fisher- men. the continuance of the logging in- dustry in Alaska,” said C. T. Gard-|CARPENTERS NEAR ner, representing that industry. WORK AGREEMEN". “For example last year from De- cember 1, 1933 to April 1, 1934, we employed an average of 50 men | Agreement on a working code ier per month with a high peak of 651935 between Juneau carpenters in February and March. Right|and contractors was near today, now, because of the uncertainty | following a harmonious meeting of the continued operation of traps | between representatives of the two we are employing one watchman organizations at Alaska Labor As- at camp, instead of the 65 men soclation headquarters above the we had working last year. | Capitol Beer Parlors on Front “In addition to the direct sale Street last night. of trap logs to the canneries,” Mr. | This was the report made today Gardner said, “their orders allow | by Garland W. Boggan, president us to keep in business because in | of the local Carpenters’ Union. logging for the traps we take out much material that is suitable for | lumber which we could not afford to do, and mill to meet retail prices.” Mr. Gardner also pointed out; {that through a radio program broadcast over CNRV in Vancouver,} B. C, on February 6, 1935, he had heard that the Skeena, Nass and | Frazier rivers were badly depleted | of fish, also that the Canadian' Boggan said the carpenters’ re- resentatives had signed the agree- ment, but that, because the entire official delegation of contractors was not present, the employers had not signed yet. However, Boggan in- timated that by the next meeting ' | of the Union, set for Tuesday ' hight, the agreement would be in eftect. He would give no particulars as to the agreement. y Stmel it o