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

- HEAVY VOTE ANT SMOKE VICTIM THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE «ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME® VOL. XLV., NO. 6924. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 1935. 1, MOST SCENIC AIR SCHEDULE, BEGINS TUES, Large Crowd Expected to Witness Take-off of Paci- fic Alaska Airways Plane Covering one of the most scenic routes made by airplanes in Al- aska and one of the most interest- ing air journeys in the world, the new schedule of the Pacific Alaska Airways goes into effect tomorrow with the taking off of the new Lockheed Electra ten-passenger plane from the P. A. A. Airpart on the Glacier Highway. If weather is favorable, as is predicted today, the plane will fly from Juneau to the Taku district where both Big Taku and Little Taku glaciers come into view. The plane will pass up the Taku Val- ley, constantly gaining altitude and in a matter of minutes will cross the border Jine between Alaska and British Columbia and drop down over beautiful Atlin Lake, famous for its fishing and hunting grounds, according to Lyman S. Peck, who has flown the route. The plane will not stop at Atlin, however, but continue to Whitehorse where, just previous ‘to landing, a magnifieent view of the Yukon River, with Lake LeBarge lying in the distance may -be seen -to the north. On leaving Whitehorse, the plane takes a westward course, and in a few minutes approaches Lake Kluane. This lake is fully thirty miles long, and is one of the largest and most beautiful in Yukon Territory, ac- cording to pilots of the company, who have made it ‘a frequent stop. passes-the border line between Al- aske -and Canada within a short space of ‘time and crosses to the headwaters of the Tanana River which is followed down fo Fair- banks. This route covers one of the greatest game and fishing dis- tricts in the Territory and is ex- pected. to prove popular with sportsmen of Alaske and other parts of the country. 2 Aviation Advance Marking a tremendous advance in aviation for Southeast Alaska, the inauguration of this schedule has caused tremendous interest among residents of Gastineau Channel and a large crowd is ex- pected to be on. hand when the inaugural ceremonies begin at 2 o'clock ‘tomorrow at the airport. Short talks will ' be made by Gov. John W. Troy, Mayor 1. Goldstein, Lyman S. Peck, General Manager of the Pacific Alaska Airways and R. E. Robertson, President of the Chamber of Commerce. Transportation Arranged Transportation for those not hav- ing motor cars or available means of getting to the airport will be furnished through the courtesy of the Farthest North Gray Line, the Royal Blue Cab Company and the Chamber of Commerce. Three large Gray Line busses and five Royal Blue cabs will be in front of the Federal and’ Territorial Building at 1 o'clock in the afternoon and will take capacity loads to the air field. School Children Excused In order that children of the Juneau Public Schools, from the fifth grade up through high school may be on hand to watch the take-off on this historic flight, Acting Superintendent of Schools, Alex Dunhem today announced that all children beginning with the fifth grade, who present writ- ten permission from their parents with written' assurance that trans- portation will be taken care of by the parents, may be excused from school after being dismissed at the usual luncheon, recess. Cabs for Anyone Early The Royal Blue Cab Company announced this afternoon that any- one wishing to go to the airport earlier than 1 o'clock may call the cab company for transportation at its downtown stand. —————— ® 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 e STOCK QUOTATIONS ~ e e 00 0o 0s 0000 0 00 NEW YORK, April 1.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 16%, American Can 115%, American Power and Light 3, Anaconda 10%, Armour N 4%, Bethlenem Steel 24%, Calumet and Hecla 3, General Motors 28%, Ken- necott 16, United States Steel 287%, Pound $4.79, Bremner bid 581; ask- ed 63, Nabesna bid 60 asked 75. Nuns, Monks Are Jailed | By Germany‘ Are Charg; with Violat- ing Currency Laws— Defense Is Made BERLIN, April 1—A prominent| Catholic attorney said that if; Catholic .nuns and monks arrested in Germany violated any currency LOSES BATTLE FOR HIS LIFE Church Di;s——in Hospital Late Saturday Night— Transfusion Fails Donald Church’s fight for his life proved a losing one. (Andy Bahr Is ‘F lown Back to | Civilization || oo, o g ilization Sunday after five years conducting a herd of 3,000 rein~ deer from Kotzebue, Alaska, to the Mackenzie river. He is en- route to his home in Seattle. While Bahr has been away: from Seattle an insurance com- pany foreclosed mortgages on two apartment houses repre- senting his life savings. He has /| however, one year in which: DELINQUENTS | - FEW IN NUMBER | ON TAX BOOKS ity Clerk Reports Only 5! Per Cent of Personal Levies Still Due Less than five percent of the 1934 real and personal property laws it was because they regard| The 25-year-old itinerant work- the money collected for missionary € Who had figured in Friday's as belonging directly gas-fume boat tragedy here died at St. Ann's Hospital at 11:45 o'~ diction. | clock Saturday night after doctors The number of Catholics who had battled for hours to check the have exchanged their cells in their fatal inroads of poison in his blood convents for cells in Nazi prisons stream. is still undetermined. Church's death brought the fa- The German authorities claimed the laws making mandatory a re- port to the Reich banks of any foreign exchange held by Geérman citizens was violated by those ar- rested. LABORER DROPS DEAD WATCHING purposes to God and beyond human juris- marine accident. Kenneth P. Jung- quist, 28, had been found dead in the forecastle of the halibut boat Norland Friday when mariners dis- {covered the two men unconscious from coal stove fumes. No funeral arrangements have been made for either men, it was announced from the Charles W. Carter Mortuary today. The fight to save Church's life ended in a sad climax late Satur- ,day night after a blood transfus- ion had' failed to accomplish its purpose. He never regained con- sciousness. An inhalator manipulated by a VESSEL TODAY Victor Berglund, Said to crew, had been used first. Finally, Be Lumber Worker early Saturday night, the trans- B P | fusion was made. Two young Dies at Dock Here | friends previously had offered their | blood. talities to two in Juneau's freak redeem his property. Sitaxes due the City of Juneau are {fdelinquent as of March 31, the ‘glend of the municipal fiscal year, it was announced today by City Clerk A. W. Henning. With a total . ${tax levy of $96,426.8¢ in 1934, only ,$4,473.31 remains unpaid. Substan- {tial payments expected this month lwm reduce this sum materially, Henning said. A year ago the 1933 delinquent taxes amounted to $4,756.43, indi- cating that the percentage of de- linquency dropped slightly the past year. The assessment figures were lpractically the same. Collections Are Good The amount still due on taxes for years prior to 1934 is $1,888.80, $5,050.19 having been collected the past fiscal year. . “Not many cities in the country can make as favorable a showing in the matter of delinquencies,” commented Henning today. “It re- \flects a healthy financial condi- tion.” ‘The delinquent tax roll will be made up in the next few days. Property owners who have made satisfactory arrangements for the liquidation of their accounts will not have their names appear on { Knight Makes Statement Following Preliminary Council Meet and passenger lerminal facilities in {Alaska” for Juneau was made to- day by Harold Knight, accredited representative of the Northiand Transportation Company, following a special meeting of the City qm- cil at City Hall Saturday night. Mr. Knight attended the meeting to present the Northland Iine's offer of a five-year option om the City Dock. No arrangements or details Were | completed, pending the outcome of | A forecast of the “best frewhti | Victor Berglund, Juneau laborer said to be about 50 years of age, dropped dead on the Pacific Coast Four persons were called to the hospital for ‘the transfusion, but Doug Oliver, clerk in the B. M. ' tomorrow’s general municipal elec- ition which will name three coun- Icnmen and a mayor. However, Mx. the delinquent roll, it was stated at the City Hall. Has Cash Balance Dock at 9:30 o'clock ‘this méming. He had been watching the freight- ing operations on the soutbbound ‘Yukon, which arrived an hour ear- lier. Dr. W. W. Council was called by, dock officials and he u the man dead. No cause of was announced. 5 Kt Berglund was a former resident of Monroe, Wash., and he 18 be-| lieved to bz survived by-a wife liv-| ing in thdt city. Friends said he! BLAME ON U. S. planned to seek employment in the‘ ot i Juneau Lumber Mills, scheduled to ‘death open for the spring . season on|I Ormer-Treasury Secretary TR ; | Says He Conducted rglund resi in one of Mrs. o AMarchie Boyaton's. cablris on Wil | Stock Sale Himself loughby Avenue with Gus F‘ltz—" i berg. Fitzberg and Ed Higback are| PITTSBURGH, Pa, April 1.— the friends who supplied lnlorma-i“‘d"ew Mellon, former Secretary tion concerning the dead man. lof the Treasury, took the responsi- The body was taken to the | Dility on the witness stand today Charles W. Carter Mortuary. 'at his income tax hearing for re- | ductions made in his 1931 tax re- " {Clty Council seemedsjuighly. 18Y, past, few. days. enables the city to orable to the Northland proposi=fciose its vear with $1,585.45 | tion. . cash on hand and in banks in the City Dotk O. K, general fund, and no bank in- {Enight reported that the pman.'! A rush of tax payments the “If our deal is accomplished I|jebtedness, according to Clerk can assure Juneau of the best!Henning. Unpaid current bills freight and passenger terminal fa-|amount to much less than this cilities in Alaska,” Mr. Knight said.|gum, “The City Dock, df certain repairsi B are made, offers an ideal set-up for a modern marine terminal.” UNITED sTA TEs Mr. Knight pointed out that the City Council was not willing to' consider the Northland Company's F AcE H RT offer until it was assured that ev- ery possible attempt had been made by the firm to negotiate wnh’ | private wharfage interests here.I | However, when these negotiations | failed, the City Council agreed to consider the Northland proposition.! Federal Commission Makes Definite announcement of the . detatls of the move of the North-| Report—Authorized land Line to City Dock is expect-! by President ied following next Friday's Council PRIV G - | port. Nn GHANGE DF | The financier said the country's “strange” laws governing income WAR NOW POPE 'PIUS BELIEVES Too Enormous a Crime Against Humanity Holy See Tells Cardinals VATICAN CITY, April 1.—Pope Pius told the secret consistory of 20 Cardinals today that he believes “war impossible.” He sald it is impossible because, first, “it would be so enormous a crime and such a foolish manifestation of fury; second, we cannot persuade our- selves and those who should have at heart prosperity of the people that we want to push to suicide, ruin and extermination not only our own nation but the greater taxes made necessary transactions which the government claims fraudulent but Mellon claims le- gitimate. Mellon, questioned con- cerning the sale of a huge block of Pittsburgh coal common stock on which he claimed a tax loss of $5,600,000, said he conducted the sale himself. The hearing is now in its seventh week. The Government claims Mel- lon owes a tax assessment of $3,- 089,000, while he claims he paid the Government taxes of $139,000,000 too much. 2 VESSELS ARE HELD IN GRASP "OF ICE FLOES part of humanity; third, to us S| HILIPAX, April 1.—The heaviest to ‘many others there is manifest the physical and. material impossis bility of war ingthe present most serious circumstatice.” ‘The Cardinals approved the can- onizing of Sir Thomas Moore and Bishop Fisher, who 1lost their heads in opposing The marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. —— - - MRS. WEBSTER ON' VACATION JOURNEY Mrs. Anna Webster, owner of the Juneau-Douglas Telephone Com- “|1antic,” ice barrier in years, extending from St, Pierre almost to Sable Island, the “Graveyard of the At- held two vessels impris- oned and sent liners and freight- ers swerving to the southward. Jammed in the ice floes off Cape Breton coast is the collier Coalby. helpless about one mile from Louis- burg. An unidentified schooner, believ- ed to be owned by Arthur Storey, of Gloucester, is held fast in the ice floes 14 miles north of Flint Island. pany, and her grandson, Ray Hur- ley, are Seattle-bound passengers on the Northland, which they boarded here last night. D MEHERINS RETURN Mr. and Mrs. Joe Meherin re- turned to Juneau as passengers from Seward on the southbound Mrs. Webster is bound on anjyukon. Mr. Meherin is a travelling extended vacation trip. representative of the Hills Broth- Young Hurley will study engi-fers products and was met in Sew- neering in a San Francisco school.|ard by his wife, | session. Until all details have been |completed Mr. Knight said he would remain in the city. He is registered at the Gastineau Hotel, No Ticket Change ““No change is anticipated at this time in the ticket agency” Mr. |Knight said. “So far as I know, the uptown ticket agency, now lo- cated with the J. B, Burford Com- pany, will continue at that office for an indefinite period. The North- land Line is satisfied completely with the efficient manner in which the Burford Company has handled our passenger business here.” ‘The reason given for the pro- posed move from the Northland’s present berthing at the D. B. Fem~ mer Dock, Knight explained, is to enlarge and install a passenger waiting room and other modern terminal facilities. Mine Sweeper S;v”afiow Is on Way to Aleutians KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 1— The mine sweeper Swallow, carry- naval outposts as far as the Aleu- naval outposts as far as the Auel- tians, arrived here Saturday night for an overnight stop. The Swallow is the vanguard of the navy craft’s annual visit to the Aleutians. The vessel will re- turn south in about one month. - ERSKINES GO SOUTH Mr. and Mrs. Claude Erskine left for Seattle on the Northland. Ers- kine is an employee of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company. He is well-known in city sporting ecir- cles, being a prominent basketball and baseball player. MRS. WATSON GOES Mrs, Claude Watson, wife of a former employee of the Juneal Cash Grocery, is bound for Ket- chikan, accompanied by her child, on the Northland. Her husband re- cently left for that city WASHINGTON, April 1.—A crit- jical shortage of electric power that would be “disastrous in case the United States became involved in war,” is reported in the first official mnational power survey made by the Federal Power Com- mission at the direction of Presi- dent Roosevelt. The report says the use of elec- tricity for domestic purposes as well as certain branches of indus- try has grown at such a rate dur- /ing depression that upon resump- tion of normal industrial activity the demand will be at least 4,000,000 kilowats in excess of that existing in 1929. This is equivalent to the lcapacity of fifty large generating stations. The report says there has been little new generating capacity con- structed by privately owned utili- ties since 1930. ‘The repdrt sustains the Adminis- tration’s contention there is need for such projects like Boulder Dam and the Tennessee Valley Author- ity. e o HEBERT ON YUKON I Lyle Hebert, Schwabacher Hard- ware Company representative, ar- rived here from Seward aboard the Yukon, . Woman in Air 22 Minutes On Parachute Jump MOSCOW, April 1.—Vera Fe- dorffa, wife of a Red Army of- ficer, claims the woman’s para- chute jumping record after it is asserted she made a leap of 20,853 feet. The woman made the jump . without extra oxygen appara- tus, It is reported she was in the air 22 minutes after she left the plane. She landed on a housetop. Prison, Not Death, for Revolters Greek Courtmartial Pass-% es Sentences on | Many Offenders ATHENS, Greece, April 1.—Se- vere prison sentences but no death penalties were inflicied Sunday by the court martial upon a number of officers and others charged with | participating in the recent revoit.| Ten officers were given life| s were sent to pris- s, others were given' lighter punishment while four were | acquitted. Cheers greeted the verdiet which| caused relief throughout Greece.| The decision not to invoke the| death penalty is generally received! as a step in the direction of peace between the Government and its| cpponents. | 0SCAR 6. OLSON TAKES OFFICE AS TREASURER Walstein GSr;ith Retires from Position Held More than Twenty Years Oscar G. Olson, Territorial Treas- urer, today took over his office as Walstein G. Smith, who has held that position since it was estab- lished in 1913, retired from his official capacity. Due to a question regarding the legality of changing the expiration date of the incumbent, the transfer of the. office has been delayed since January 1, ds was provided by the Territorial Legislature of 1933, In speaking of the policy of the office, Mr. Olson said that it would be maintained along the same lines followed in the past and he paid high compliment to his predecessor in office. While no changes in personnel will take place immediately, Mr. Olson has named Tom Martinsen to take the position of Chief Clerk, held for the last twenty years by C. E. Harland. Mr. Harland, how- ever, will remain in office for some time as will E. M. Polley, Territorial Tax Collector, who will be succeeded by Walter P. Sharpe at a later date. Both Mr., Martinsen and Mr. Sharpe are in Juneau and will familiarize themselves with _their new duties before now and such time as they take office. Mr. Martinsen has made his home in Cordova and has had accounting experience while Mr. Sharpe has been accountant for a cold storage plant in Ketchikan for the last six years, He is a native of Nome and has lived in Ketchikan for more than twenty years where he attended the public schools. He later attended Columbia University in Portland, Oregon. Smith Enters Bank Mr. Smith, who was elected Vice- President of the First National Bank of Juneau at the annual stockholders meeting in January, will take over the active Vice- Presidency of that institution with- in a few days, he announced today. e e S FOUR TANKERS RUN BLOCKADE INOIL STRIKE SEATTLE, April 1—Four tank- ers ran through the strike block~ ade here today in a determined ef- fort to avert a gasoline and fuel oil shortage. The oil companies prepared to unload three of the tankers which were abandoned by their crews. Mayor Charles Smith promised police protection. i N MRS. M'CAIN LEAVES Returning to her home in Ket- chikan, Mrs. H. G. McCain, wife of a Ketchikan attorney, took pas- sage on the Northland. Her hus- band, who was here in connection | voters “come early and avoid the | airport with the Ketchkan utiility suit in the United States District Court, left for the First City recently. 1,998 REGISTER |CONFIDENGE IS FOR ELECTION EXPRESSED BY DUE TUESDAY ALL CANDIDATES Record NUI;I')E-I’ Sign Per- Aspirants Hopeful‘ of Vie manent Ballot Books | tory in Last Minute at City Hall Statements Today FIGURE TOPS OLD POLLS TO BE OPEN MARK 20 PER CENT FROM 9 A.M.TO 7 P.M Selections to Be Made in Mayor, Three Councilmen, Three Precincts from School Board Member 9 to 7 o'Clock to Be Chosen There is every indication that With the final day of the cam- tomorrow’s election day in Juneau Palgn virtually over, mayorality will be a record-breaking one. candidates in the city election to- Final tabulation today of regis- Morrow made the following final tration figures for the general Pre-election statements this after- municipal election showed that noon: only two more eligible voters were Mayor I. Goldstein—"We feel needed to make an even 2,000 elec- that the citizens cf Juneau are forate. As it was, City Clerk A, W. 00 much interested in the Henning closed his permanent reg- Public prejects being carried istration books at 9 o'clock Sat- Ott to change the city admin- urday night with exactly 1,998 per- Iviration at this time and thus =ons enrolled. vacrifice experience. It is im- Candidates for mayor, three City Potsible to please everybody, Council positions and one School but with the means available Board vacancy urged today that We have endeavored to do the most important work first, al- ways bearing in mind the best interests of the taxpayers. The city cleses the year free of cur- rent indebtedness, and we rest with the people on the basis of our record the outcome of whether they will continue our tenure in office.” NO PROMISES C. H. MacSpadden—“As clec- ticn day nears I feel confident the people of Juneay have all the available ' It we of the Citisens ] clected we assure the voters that we will immediately carry out the planks of our platform. Myvelf and the gentlemen rush” as the 1,998 figure sets a new record, one ‘which is 20 percent larger than the 1,664 total estab- lished last year. Also, voters were urged to ballot before going to the to witness the departure of the first Pacific Alaska Alr- ways plane for Fairbanks. | Voting will be done from the hours of 9 o'clotk in the morning until 7 o'clock in the evening in three precincts. The First Precinet voting will be in the fire apparat- us room of the City Hall. Second’ Precinct voters will receive ballots at Giovanetti’s store ‘at Front and Main Streets. Voters in the Third Precinct will name their choices in the Home Grocery on Willoughby Avenue near Seventh Avenue. | The number of qualified voters in each precinct follow: First, 975; ' Second, 648; Third, 375. i Officials, appointed at the Coun- cil meeting of March 15, are as follows: T The First Precinct officers are: Judges—John McLaughlin, Dean C. E. Rice, Rev. E. K. Olafson; clerks—Mrs. E. H. Kaser, Bob Tous- saint. The Second Precinct offi- cers are: Judges—Agnes Manning, A. Bartholomew, Willlam Stein- relative to appointments.” UNIFIED COOPERATION Garland Boggan—*“I am confi- dent of being elected. I feel sure that Juneau is in line for great development and if I am elected I will endeavor to unite the cposing factions into uni- fied cooperation to work f beck; clerks—D. M. Bothwell, Ger- the accomplishment of these trude Helgesen. The third Precinct ‘hings which would make our officers are: Judges—Mrs. Henry, City a finer place in which to W. Anderson, J. W. Meyers, Mrs. R, lve” 4 H. Burns; clerks—Grant Baldwin, LABOR PROGRAM '/ Mis. W. H Y ¢+ | Charles Crozier—It' looks -, . 91 very interesting and we are ' confident we will' pull ‘¢hrough. f o« N We still insist that our first 4 act if elected will be to have » { the light company pay interest | on meter deposits. We also re- L Gs’ | awure that relative to relief | work everybody will' be given ! an equal opportunity.” THEN CRASH -7 | Candidates for the council ' po- | sitions also expressed confidence y: in their election as the 1998 reg~ Natlonal Reco rd Holdel"l.stered voters prepared to go to and Repor!er Victims | the polls between the hours of 9 A J jam. and 7 pm. tomorrow. City of Air Disaster |Clerk A. W. Henning stated that {everything was in shape to handle CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., April a heavy vote which is generally 1.—Jack Barstow, former associate anticipated. of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh in' The names of 14 aspirants will glider experiments and one time appear on the ballot tomorrow holder of the National glider en- with the mayority candidates leads durance record, is dead, a victim ing the ticket and listed in the fol- yesterday of a spectacular midalr lowing order for the oné year term: plane collision. Garland Boggan, Charles L. Croz- Barstow and his passenger, Jack icr, I. Goldstein, C. H. MacSpad- Cogwill, a reporter, plunged to den, death after thelr plane locked wings with a ship piloted by Ed- die Johnson, airport manager, who was injured. The ships ecollided at a low alti- tude, broke apart and crashed to the ground, barely missing hun- dreds of spectators. R Banker Shoots His Wife, For Council Nine appear on the ballot for the three two-year councilmanie positions in the following order: Alfred Dishaw, Niel L. Heard, G. E. Krause, John R. Monagle, Mike E. Mopagle, Art McKinnon, W. A Rasmussen, William J. Reck and | George B. Rice. Walter P. Scott is unopposed for | the school board. | Final public rally of the cams Self, DE to “‘l-healthlpaign is being held tonight in the SEATTLE, April 1—Police sald| o o o e r:“t}‘;‘;l?'::;mi‘ flg'd Cl":?“:“"“’g‘s' They also appeared at the theatre 3 . e € 9| saturday night. then shot himself to death here to- day because of ill health it Lillian Bookholt, housekeeper in the Assembly hotel where the Perk- b ins lived, found the bodies with af Bernice Van Dyke, employee note apparently written by Perkins the Juneau Ice Cream Parlors, which said: “We have reached the a Seattle-bound passenger on end of our rope,” ‘Nor;hhn(t TO SEATTLE