The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 9, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLV., NO. 6931. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 20 LIVES LOST IN CALIFORNIA STORM WORK RELIEF | BILL SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT Money Is Also Alloted for Immediate Direct Needs, CCC SPECIAL TRAIN HAS SLIGHT ACCIDENT | President Attends Funeral| of Cousin, then Goes | to Washington NEW YORK, April 9.—After at- tending the funeral services for his cousin, Warren Delano Robbins, Minister to Canada, who died Sun- day, President Roosevelt, who hur- | ried here from Miami after his, fishing trip, left for Washington. Enroute north the President sign- ed the huge Work Relief Bill as the specigl train sped through South Carolina. He also allotted ! $125,000,000 for immediate use of| direct relief and $30,000,000 to keep the CCC going. Speeding north from Florida, the special train struck a stolen car that someone had abandoned on the raflroad track near Wilson, aska for preliminary work on the yng hasin, $250,000 and maintenance| Mr. Higgins explained that G. A. |Matanuska Valley project is an-|s30000; extension of turning basin,|[Jeckell, Comptroller, and Acting jured but a delay of 15 minutes Was| ncunced by the California Emerg-' 950 feet wide, 400 feet long, 8 feet|GoOvernor of Yukon Territory, North Carolina, No one was in- caused. | L K. METZGAR | RETURNS FROM BUSINESS TRIP Tugboat and Two Barges‘ for Handling Waste Rock Board of Directors Matanuska Project Is Announced WASHINGTON, April 9.—Al- a'ka Delegate Dimond has re- ceived the lisi of those on the - Board of Directors for the Mat- anutka Colonization project. The members of the board are: Gov. John W. Troy, of Ju- neau; Dr. Charles Bunnell, of College; Col. Otto F. Ohlson, General Manager of the Alas- ka Reilrcad, Anchorage; Attor- ney General James S. Truitt, of Juneau; E. R. Tarwater, Wil- liam Taylor and Mike Scrivan, all of Anchorage. e NORTH STAR T0 BRING 500 MEN, ALASKA PROJECT Matanuska Valley Land to Be Cleared for Colon- ization Scheme SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 9. —Chartering of the Bureau of Ficheries Motorship North Star to carry 500 transiont workers to Al- ency Relief Administration. The fi 120 men, who will be- gin clearance of 8,000 acres of for- est land, will gail for Seward on April 23. The North Star will alg carry 1900 tons of freight includ- ing tractors, horses, trucks and tents. The remaining men will sail in May. 500 Places Filled The 500 men include carpenters, concrete men and foresters, hand- picked from thousands of tran- sients now in California and there jare no vacancies in the group avail- ALASKA ITEMS - ARE INCLUDED IN NEW WORK Rivers and Harbors Proj- ects Authorized, but ‘No Appropriations WASHINGTON, April 9.— The Rivers and Harbors bill now before the House, authorizes the following projects in Alaska. The bill carries | no -appropriations, merely authori- zations, as follows: | Wrangell harbor, dredging basin, 400 feet by 600 feet, $56,000. Wrangell Narrows, channel 24 feet deep, 270 feet wide, $142,000. Dry Pass Channel, and 6 feet wide, $79,000. Stikine River, removal of snags | and annual mainteance, $600. Kodiak Harbor, channel 22 feet deep and 200 feet wide, §77,000. Petersburg Harbor improvement, channels and basins, $102,000, and | annual maintenance, $1,500. Egegik River, channel 5 feet deep and 100 feet wide through rapids, $5,000. Cordova Harbor, sheltered harbor, $290,000, maintenance $5,000. Seward Harbor refuge, 950 foot ,breakwater, $70,000. Nome channel, 8 feet deep, turn- | deep, $16,500. | TALLAPOOSA 1S BACK IN PORT | Coast Guard Boat to Leave, 6 feet deepI | norse, nurses and doctors had o(~{ } FRflM GVERHAULMM had loaded his pockets Wi'j. - - : & Adolph S. Ochs, Publisher of YUKON OFFICIAL IS HONORED BY. JUNEAU LEADERS Brings Sparkling Message]' of Good Will from Can- | adian Province L Higgins, representative of Yus ‘kon Territory, who arrived from 1Wh1(ehor.~’(’ Sunday, ‘on the Pfif plane as a guest of Lyman'S. | General Manager for the company, was the guest of honor and speakey at noon today at a llflh“ ering of Janeau businéss men Mt aviation enthusiasts, ‘sponsoréd by the Executive Board of the Junx! Charber of Commerce, ‘Presid I R. E. Robertson presiding. Although Mr. Higgins explained | at length that he was not in | Juneau as an official representative of the Yukon Territory, the sin® cerity of his remarks, the fraternal feeling he expressed for all north~{ erners, and the many pithy, spark-; link humorous remarks, which kept | nis audience pleasurably chuckling, { |clearly established the fact that | whether his visitation was officiel |or not, he was doing a most cred= |ible job as an ambassador of good-i iwlll from the Yukon Territory, and | | his home town, Whitehorse. under pressure of seasonal busi- ness, could not meke the trip to Juneau at this time but hoped to! within a short time. First Air Trip s this trip was Mr, Higging first venture in the air, he ex= plained that through his connec= tion with the hospital at White- fered him much advice and his ichewing gum, the practical use for | which during the flight hé wasi {not quite sure of. The Yukon Representative highly| 10 KILLED WHEN New photo (top) of Stresa, picturesque Italian small town where Sir John Simon (t British f: minister, Benito Mussolini (left), Italian premier, and Pierre Laval (center‘). l:!r&{v\gfl)("orr s tiln will meet April 11,for conversations u ‘oric Bella Isl pon which peace of Rurope may depend. In background i3 the his TRAINS GOLLIDE IN FLOOD AREA Records of Half Century Shattered by Tor- rential Rains NINE LOST IN OTHER BAD STORM SECTIONS |One BuriedTSlide—Hlfge Property Damage Is Re- ported in Many Places | | | ) i | SACRAMENTO, Cal, April 9.— Ten railway section hands were Roseville in the worst of the se~ |rles of accidents blamed on the | California storm which has already | claimed 20 lives. i Swirling rush of flood waters and record breaking rains all over the ctate also caused untold property damage. The 10 victims were repairing th> Southern Pacific tracks which ‘had been cwept away by the rains, and were instantly killed, and an- other was possibly fatally injured when a light motor railway car crashed at high speed into a gravel train, throwing the bodies of fhe | mangled men 6 feet into a ravine | beside the tracks. | Nine other lives were lost by | drowning in the floods. One man |was killed when a snow plow was thxrlcd under a slide at Lake Tahoe, Threats of more serious flood haz- lards were believed averfed with | the passing of the peak 'of the storm. Houses, farm crops, stores, high- ways and railroads -all suffered _{ivom the storm In the.Sagramento: Jand San Juoquin valleys records of a half century's standing were broken while in Los Angeles a 22- year record was shattered by the vy, AUSTRIA ¢ P ey ey STRESA {4 hoe 4 eign mi ar, INDICATIONS rains. NORTH ATLANTIC Probably Sunday’ 'm‘aised the efficiency of the PAA| | operation, and explained how the for Seal Patrol | |service that was now in operation Juneaw’s own Coast Guard cut- was the result of plans, research Leave for North Soon The tugboat Trojan, recently completed by the Winslow Marine able. | H. A. R. Carleton, Director of/ | Transient Service of this state, will accompany the second con-| New York Times, Dies Suddenly BRISTOL BAY Railway and Shipbuilding Com- pany, at Winslow, Washington, for the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company was lautiched on April 2, according to L. H. Metzgar, Gen- eral Superintendent of the Alaska Juneau, who returned here on the Yukon after an absence of more than a month in the south. Two of the three barges which will handle the waste rock of the mine have also been completed by the same shipbuilding company and ‘the third is to be finished in three more weeks, Mr. Metzgar said. The two barges, one towed by the Trojan and the second by another tug, will leave Seattle for Juneau between April 20 and May 1 lopded with lumber to be used in the construction of a flume at Salmon Creek. The barges, in which waste rock from the mine will be towed to deep water between Juneau and Thane and dumped into the Chan- nel, are 101 feet in length, 34- feet wide and draw about 8 feet of water. A War Department per- mit has been granted to the Alaska Juneau allowing for the dumping of rock half-way across Gastineau Channel leaving this ship channel entirely clear, Mr. Metzgar said. Launching Held Mrs. Metzgar, who accompanied her husband south, christened the Trojan at the launching held by the shipbuilding company last week. Among those present, in addition to Mr. Metzgar and officials of (Continued vn Page Eighy) e Alaska Flight Brings New Award To Brig.-Gen. Arnold WASHINGTON, April 9.— Brigadier General Henry H. Arnold, Commander of the Pa- cific Coast Wing of the Gen- eral Headquarters cof the Air Force, has received for the sec- ond time the Mackay Trophy for the outstanding flight of the Army’s air fleet, the 9,290-mile hop to Alaska and return last year. In presenting the trophy at the ceremony cn Bolling Field, Major James Doolittle describ- ed the flight as a “thrilling demonstration of the mobility of our National Air Defense and a practical demonstration that America can lead in the air.” i entire group. First Settlers the Matanuska settlement will come from the middle western drought area, leaving during May. It is planned that snugged houses will be ready by fall. The preliminary workers will be returned to California as soon as work is completed. The initial cost, estimated at $126,000, is coming from various al- lotted Federal funds. The cost is about $3,000 per family, not in- cluding the clearing of the land. . BODY OF GIRL SUICIDE TAKEN ON WEIRD RIDE Strange Story Being Inves- tigated by Police of New Orleans NEW ORLEANS, La. April 9.— Steve Macaluso, aged 32 years, bank employee, is held for investi- gation while the police check his weird story of riding around New Orleans for two days with the body of a pretty young woman stuffed in the luggage compartment of his car, half dazed. Macaluso, who said the girl com- mitted suicide while riding with him, refused to be shaken through long hours of questioning by Dis- trict Attorney Stanley. Macalusy> said the woman was Mrs. Grace Gonzales, a 21 year old divorcee. She shot herself Sat- urday ~afternoon, and fearing a scandal, Macaluso put the body in the luggage compartment of his car. The riding ended when he went to the District Attorney’s office late yesterday afternoon to tell of the affair. -ee Children on Relief WASHINGTON.—Relief rolls in- clude 7,400,000 children, the chil- dren's bureau reports. They con- stitute 40 percent of the total num- ber of persons on relief, tingent north and personally sup.:t':r Tallapoosa is back in port and development started three \ervise the administration of the @gain after a general overhaul at years ago. He complimented Mr. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., April 9. | the Bremerton, Wash., Navy Yard.| Peck highly on the foresight gnd‘_Ado)ph 8. Ochs, Publisher of the | The Tallapoosa arrived at the Al-|persistency exercised in bringing New York Times, died yesterday af- The first settlers to reside in 8ska Juneau Dock at 8:35 o'clock |about the fulfillment of the serv-jternoon in a sanitarium as the re- | this morning, and, that, moved over to her regular moorings at the Government Dock. Commander Fletcher W. Brown said today that the “Tally” would leave again, probably Sunday morn- ing, to join the annual Coast Guard seal patrol. The seals are now moving north and the Tallapoosa is expected to pick them up at Dixon's Entrance. This mission will take the Ju- | neau vessel as far as Unalaska and the cutter is not expected to re- turn until the latter part of May. One change in the personnel is A. L. Finnegan, who replaces War- rant Machinist A. E. Blood. B ART YOUNG DIES SUDDENLY ; WORD RECEIVED HERE Art Young, archer, lecturer and hunter, died suddenly at St. -Louis recently according to advices re- ceived here in the last mail by Dr. George L. Barton. Art Young was in Juneau sev- eral years ago returning from a trip to the westward where he hunted big game with only a bow and arrow. He was a likeable chap and had the reputation of being the only living man who killed with a bow and arrow, a Kodiak Brown bear as well as mountain sheep |and goat. He lectured throughout | the east after spending two years in Alaska making the featureé pic- ture “Alaskan Adventures.” —_——.——— TEN PASSENGERS FROM BARRACKS ARE SOUTHBOUND Ten persons connected with the Chilkoot army barracks are travel- ing to Seattle on the Victoria. Seven of these are members of ‘he Wilkerson family. Marion Wil- kerson is a retired sergeant. Ac- *ompanying him are his wife and the following children, June, Violet, Donald, Marion, Jr., and Kenneth Three soldiers from Chilkoot Barracks also are on the Victoria. They include: Ben Botello, Samuel A. Stiles, and George H. Mach- nello, J - imiles frem Juneau, to within 59 minutes flying time. Neighobor’s Area “Your neighboy, Yukon Terri- ltory,” Mr. Higgins said, “has a |total area of 207,076 square miles, |of which 206,427 comprise land and !the balance of 649 square miles, 1\vatcr. Our population is approxi- mately 5,000, widely scattered, in |this great area. “The first airfield in Whitehorse was built in 1920, by popular sub- scription. The new one is much larger and better and is slightly more than a mile from the town.” During the past year 108 Am- erican plane landings were made in Whitehorse, according to Mr. Higgins. He further stated in thanking the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, Mayor Goldstein and the City of Juneau for the flowers, and key to the City of Juneau, sent to Whitehorse, that his town had no Mayor, or no Cha:nber of Com- merce, but that as a result of Juneau’s activities in cnnection with the initiation of the plane service a commercial organization was now being formed in White- horse. Mayor I. Goldstein introduced Key Rowan, of the “Navy News,” San Diego. Mr. Rowan predicted that a number of heavy cruisers and destroyers would visit Juneau in July. In addition to those previously mentioned, Acting Governor E. W. Gritfin, M. S. Whittier, Alien Shat- tuck, M. D. Williams, Frank Boyle, W. B. Kirk, Charles E. Naghel, B. M. Behrends, J. J. Connors, Wellman Holbrook, Lyman S. Peck, shortly after |ice, which brought Whitehorse, 175 gult of a cerebral hemorrhage he | suffered at noon. ‘The ideals which Adolph S. Ochs | deemed essential in the making of |a newspaper might be summed up | (in the slogan of the New York| | Times—"All the news that's fit to | | print.” | He applied that principle to the | advertising as well as to the edi- | torial columns and by adhering te- | naciously to it built up two news- papers, the New York Times the Chattanooga, Tenn., Times, that became monuments to |as a newspaper publisher and busi- ness executive. i Great Newspaper His rehabilitation of the New York Times, eventually making it one of the greatest newspapers of the world, was the outstanding| achievement in Mr. Och’s career of more than half a century as publisher. It was, however, merely a repetition on a larger scale of what he had accomplished with the Chat- | tanooga Times. | Manifesting a peculiar liking ror‘ the print shop and printer's ink as a boy, they proved a greater at-| traction to him than his studies and weaned him away from his school books. He became a carrier boy,, then a printer'’s “devil” learned the “case” and developed into a competent printer. Becomes Publisher Mr. Ochs was only 20 years old when he took his first fling at pub- lishing. In 1878 he put out a Chat- tanooga city directory which proved a financial success. With the capi- tal thus acquired and backed only by his trémendous energy and con- and | his_genius | ‘und George Jones, the Times ha | sale of some of them for ten cents ' TOBE CLOSED {No Assurance of Limited I Pack Even If Run Is i Sufficient, Report WASHINGTON, April 9.— De- partment of Commerce officials an- | nounced here today there would be no change in regulations relative to closing Bristol Bay to salmon | fishing this season. The Department said there may be limited fishing permitted, de- pending on the run, but that no assurance could be given that the regulations would be changed even | if .a large run appeared. No' further wWord on Bristol Bay fishing had been receiyed today at the Juneau office of the Bureau of{ Pisheries. Last word = received here is that if the run is sufficient a8 limited pack of 250,000 -cases would be allowed, but that if no pack was permitted the Relief Ad- RS ¥ ministration was prepared to take Once again the Ochs genius, abil care of residents of the d & ity and confidence were manifested " # in a problem that other experi-‘:’rhiir;‘uld blc deprived of & ‘means enced publishers declined to tackle. 3 An idea of the financial weakness' . of the concern at the time may WELL KNOWN WRITERS\ be gained from a statement by | Mr. Ochs some years later when he LIKE DUFRESNE STORY| said: “The value placed on the | shares shortly after I assumed i management was indicated by the | ABIOCIATED s ABOLPH S OCHS passed into other hands and was on its way to slow extinction. Frank Dufresne, Assistant Execu- tive Officer of the Alaska Game | o4 Commission, is in receipt of an in- on (e’ dollar. teresting letter from Corey Ford In three years after its organi-|anq Alast air MacBain, widely zation the company was placed on known writers and sportsmen, cun—‘ a paying basis. Since then, With gratulating him on his recent ar- Mr. Ochs as the dominating fig- ticle in Field and Stream on strip| ure, the New Yorkx Times has Iis-| ficshing, Ford and MacBain, who en from the bottom to the tOp 1N haq a story on Canadian fishing in the volume of businéss among NeW Colliers recently, wrote they hoped | Curtis Shattuck, John W. JOnesfidence in his own ability, he en- and Robert Bender attended the luncheon. LRI L4 STOCK QUOTATIONS © 006 06000000000 NEW YORR, April 9.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock teday is 17!, American Can 119, American Power and Light 8%, Anaconda 11, Armour N 4, Bethle- hem Steel 26', Calumet and Hec- la 3, General Motors 29%, Inter- national Harvester 38's, Kennecott 17%, United States Steel 31%, Pound $4.84, Bremner 68 bid, ‘80 asked; Nabesna 58 bid, 63 asked tered the field as a newspaper pub- lisher by purchasinz & haif inter- est in the Chattanooga Times. The price was $1,750, on which he paid $250 in cash. Two years later he bought the other Ralf interest, but was obliged to pay $7,500 for it, so rapidly had the journal developed in circulation, influence and business When Mr. Ochs went to the New | York Times in 1896, that journal was described by one observer as “the most picturesque old ruin among the newspapers of Ameri- ca.” Made great and powerful by the ability of Henry J. Raymond York daily newspapers In the & fleld, outside of his own personal enterprises, Mr. Ochs took a greater interest in the affairs of The Associated Press than any other activity. In 1890 he organized The Southern Associ- ated Press‘and was one of the in- corporators of The ‘Associated Press when it was chartered ynder the laws of the State of New York af- ter its removal from Illinois in 1900 Serves A. P. He served as the first treasurer under that incorporation. A mem- ber of the Board of Directors, he (Continued on Page Two) to come north this summer or next! and go out for some strip fishing with Dufresne. They were in Ju-| neau a short time last summer but did not have time to enjoy any| strip fishing. | - > Meat ‘;Gift;” La;'ge WASHINGTON —By the end of 1934 the federal surplus-relief cor- poration had distributed to the needy 133,000,000 pounds of canned beef; 31.000,000 pounds of fresh beef; 13,000.000 pounds of boneless beef; and 75,00,000 pounds of fresh veal, BEING SWEPT BY HOWLING STORM British Freighter Calls for Help — Waves Run- ning 40 Feet High NEW YORK, April 9.—The worst northeaster in years today raged along the North Atlantic seaboard and rampant rivers ‘inland - also brought threats of heavy <flood damage. Tumultuous seas are running in the North Atlantic and the Brit- ish Freighter Badagry is wallowing 200 miles east of St. Johns, N. F. Calls of distress have been sent out from the ship asking for aid as the “hold is filling rapidly.” Several ships are proceeding to the , freighter’s aid. Long Island gnd the Jersey coast is bearing the brunt of the T0-mile an hour gale. Jones Beach, Fire Island and favorite beaches of New York are being pounded by waves 40 feet high. e ———— NEW THREAT IS INDICATED LABOR STRIFE DETROIT, Mich., April 9.— Threat of sympathetic action by me automobile workers if the United Rubber Worker$Union calls a strike at Akron, has ejected a new element in the nation’s newest labor dispute. Francis Dillon, General American Federation of Labor organizer in the automobile industry, said any walkout of the rubber workers “means the automobil> workers will go out with them. Dillon's ‘assertion is made in conneetion with the pledge of “one hundred percent cooperation” with the Akron rubber workers who are taking g siylke vote | 1