The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. XLV., NO. 6938. 2 AMERICANS FRE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1935, “ALL THE" NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, = ON SPY CHARGES MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS EAGUE CONDEMNS NEW BONUS MEASURE JUNEAU CONCERN “Pioncers” Will Seck Farm Empire Right in Heart of telds of Alaska GENEVAPARLEY | BACKS FRANCE TREATY STAND Only Denm;i_Refused to‘ Vote on Resolution Pro- | testing Repudiation BRITAIN AND ITALY SEEK FURTHER MOVE Suggest Measures Be Tak- en in Economic, Finan- cial Way in Future | 1 GENEVA, April 17. — The League of Nations today adopted the tri-power reso- lution condemning Germany for her repudiation of treaty obligations. Only Denmark abstained from-voting on the resolution which was presented by Frafice. Great Britain and Italy de- plored the unilateral abroga- tion of treaty obligations and requested the League to ap- point & committee to consider what -measures in an econs omic and financial way may be taken against future re- pudiators of inter n a tional commitments. i Attempts of Maxim Litvin-? off, Soviet Foreign Commis- sar, to extend implications carried in the resolution to parts of the world other than Lurope wps overriden. German Resentment German quarters openly express- ed resentment of the action and} it is said the representatives “““'i cated belief it would block any possibility of Germany's return to the League. The German spokesman said his country will pay no attention to| the resolution and remain out of | the League, with the United States.| The Germans are particularly, disappointed in the fact Poland voted for the resolution. | EXPOSE ESPIONAGE RING PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, April 17. —Vigorous measures were taken; by police here today to suppress| news of reported arrests of at least two score pro-German spies, four of whom are said to be high Czécho army officers and several others German citizens. Newspapers said the alleged wn-l spiracy had been in progress a long -time. Former Austrian of- ficers .arrested on suspicions of espionage: are said to have dis-‘ closed ecorrespondence with Czech army officers whom they reported approached them to obtain military information. i L. 8. PECK LEAVES FOR FAIRBANKS ON | PLANE THIS A. M.| After spending the last three weeks in Juneau in connection with the inauguration of the Pacific Alaska Airways weekly. air service | between this, eity and Fairbanks Divorce Pending M.s. Lois Spreckels mmz‘ the socially Clarke De Ruyter of New York, has established residence at Reno, Nev., preparatory to king divorce from Adolph B. Spreckels (above), an heir to the Spreckels sugar fortune. (Associated Press Photo) 60V, TROY IS DUE IN WASHINGTON BY PLANE TODAY Expects to Remain for Sev- erall Weeks in National Capital on Business SEATTLE, April 17.—Gov. John ‘W. Troy left Seattle by plane yes- terday for an official trip to Wash- ington, D. C. He expected to re- |main in the National Capitol for three weeks and return by way of |san Diego, California, where he will look into the plans for an Al- aska exhibit at the Expesition. On his way east Gov. Troy stop- ped over in Portland, Oregon, for several hours to visit with his granddaughter, Miss Joan Morgan, who is under the care of an eye- specialist in that city. He is sched- uled to reach Washington this eve- ning. ‘The Governor has recovered from a cold which caused him to remain in Seattle for several days n(w‘ his arrival there last week. IN SNOW STORM f{SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 17.—The plane aboard which is Gov. John W. Troy, of Alaska, enroute to Washington, D. C., ‘is held up here on account of a snow storm and his arrival in the east is now gcheduled for tomorrow night. MRS. REFSLAND HAS INTERESTING TRIP Mrs. Martha B. Refsland, Asso- {LOW BIDDER ON _{lower), for nt Lols) MATANUSKA JOB e 222 i i | | | | Local Company Prol:oal:fly*i Will Supply First Lum- | ber for Project The Juneau Lumber Mijlls was low | bidder on the first lumber order for the Matanuska project, it was re- vealed when bids were opened by |the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation yesterday afternoon. i | The local firm bid $17.50 a thou- | |sand on the 115,676 foot order, a| total price of $2,024.23. While the contract has not been officially 1et,\ it will probably be awarded the | | Jumeau company, ‘Corporation offi- | !cials said. | | Other bidders were the Alaska Spruce and Cedar Products Com-i ! pany of Wrangell at $20 a thou- sand and the Ketchikan Spruce Mills at. $18.50 a thousand. Call for Another 200,000 Feet Call for bids on another 200,000 feet of Alaska lumber was'made to- day by the Corporation, the bids,.tq | be opened at 10 o'clock April 20. | Due to the fact that the first colonists are leaving from San Francisco for the north on May 1,/ and materials for construction will | be needed at once, delivery of the‘ Jumber will be made this month| and dispatched immediately to the| new project. | To Extend Surveys To make surveys for Corporation | of the proposed sites in the Mata- GER FORECAST SAYS PRESIDENT WILL APPROVE-PLAN AN ACTI Proposal Calls. for. Nego- tiable Bonds Readily Convertible Cash DATE OF MATURITY | ADVANCED TO 1938 | Compromis:Bi-ll Estimated‘ to Cost Billion Three | Hundred Thousand WASHINGTON, April 17— United States Senator Pat Har- rison, late tcday, introduced a comprom’se bonus bill estimat- ed to cost one billion ' three hundred thousand dollars. The forecart is made that President Roosevelt will ap- prove the bill cven though cost- ing the Government half a bil- lion more than the present law. The compromise bill advances . the date of maturity.of the cer- tificates to 1938 and offers (o exchange for them negotiable bonds readily convertible into cash. The veterans may hold their certificates until the old ma- turity ¢ate and obtain four per- cent interest compounded an- nually, The bill commits Congress to a declaration of policy against general pension legislation but in no way affects allowances be- MATANUSKA . ANCHORAGE, nuska, Floyd G. Betts, United States | Cada:tral Enmneer, and John Stew- art, principal assistant, left on the | Alaska yesterday. They will extend the reangular net surveys and sub- | divide some of the 40-acre tracts, according to District Cadastral En- | gineer George A. Parks. At An- {chorage, Betts and Stewart will or- | ganize a party of probably seven men to carry on the work which/ is expected to take the greater part of the summer. A total of 80,000 acres has been set aside thus far for the colo-| nists, each family to get 40 acres. nucka Valley, shown here when blcoms, the Government is ilies, the first contingent cf an The new pioneers will sail from by 1 (¢ the Matanu:ka Valley SEATTLE, . April 17.—Recalling frontier expansions of other lean | decades, 400 young single men from | relief camps will soon sail from Se- | attle and San Francisco, to be fol-| “|lowed by approximately 200 picked | | families—the first contingent of - quNs F H' A| modern pioneers who will carve ! new homes in the fertile Matanus- ka valley of Alaska. | STA FF ERE‘ Unlike the pioneers of the cov- | |ered wagon era, these moderns will travel in special trains from their homes in northern Michigan, Min- | nesota and Wisconsin to Seattle or| San Francisco, where they will take iship for Seward. From there they| will go by rail again to their new| | homes. i Accepts Position as Archi- tectural Inspector for Administration, Alaska In the shadow of Alaska’s snow-capped peaks, future years may sce the development cf a new agricultural empire. To the Mata- sending 400 single men and 200 fam- embatking at Seward, shcwn ¢n the map. From there they will go ing paid, Senator Harrison said. .- PAR PLANE LEAVES TODAY FOR FAIRBANKS Seven Take Passage on Third.Scheduled Trip of l-?gk!leed to Interior §. 0 ol | e—— [ %fié%fir 'Whitenotse dnd Fair- bas . the: 10-plage Lockheed Electts of ‘the Pacific 'Alaska Air- | ways left. the Juneau PAA airport at 11:10 o'clock this morning on its weekly scheduled trip. It will make + short stop at Whitehorse and ds due in Fairbanks this afternoon. Scheduled to leave yesterday, de- parture was delayed until this morning by unfavorable weather. Acting Divisional Engineer Joseph Barrows ‘is piloting the plane and S. E. Robbins is co-pilot. With seven passengers and con- the potato hills were a mass of agricultural colonization project. San Francisco and Seattle, dis- north of Anchorage. ST, MIBIEL WILL BRING SETTLERS NORTH ON MAY 1 First Contingent to Leave from San Francisco—, Second from Seattle Andd \ WASHINGTON, April 17— The| s B Mr. and Mrs. Robert Swits 6-C.TO LEARN RELIEF FUND EFFECT HERE Holbrook’s Report to Ex- ecutive Board Will Be Read atvLuncheon Probable effect of the large pub- lic relief work appropriations ap- proved by Congress recently on lo- cal Forest Service projects, will be explained to members of the Cham- ber of Commerce as they meet for Juncheon tomorrow noon at Bail- ey's Cafe. This explanation, which will in- dicate how much Citizens Civilian Corps work can be expected in the future here, will be given when Becretary Curtis Shattuck reads the report of the Executive Board meet- ing held yesterday. Welman Holbrook, assistant reg- jonal forester with the United States Forest Service, appeared at yesterday's session and the sub- gtance of his remarks will be read tomorrow, Speakers Due Three, and probably four speak- ers will be introduced by Presi- dent R. E. Robertson. Honored among them will be A. B. (Cot) Hayes, traffic represen- tative of the Pacific Alaska Airways. Hayes, before joining the PAA was formerly manager of the Alaska Southern Airways here last sum- mer. He was brought from Seattle on Tuesday’s Alaska. Ensign George Tanner of the Salvation Army also will be pre- Jed as being ber of the| | H, 0. Redman, member @ | Will Get 40-Acre Tracts War Department announces that| firm of N. L. Troast and ASSO-| wejther win ik | hey be forced to 4 | ciates, architects of this city, has g oqi1e o livelihoofi Foin. - thol il the army transport St. Mihiel will| been appointed Architectural In-'p..o B S hans of thelr armivel. be temporarily recommissioned to| siderable baggage, the plane had an almost limit load when it left] Juneau on . the 700-mile trip. Those leaving for Fairbanks were | spector for the Federal Housmg}.rhe government, through the FERA‘"'“’W“ 1,500 persons now on re- Administration in ";"‘:““fi N was | will see that food is plentiful, tools announced today by JOhnE.Pegues, ayaiiapie for clearing and planting Territorial Director. Mr. Redman g, -ponq o0y fiding homes, that lief rolls from Michigan, Wisconsin | T. B. Wilson, Vice-President and | and Minnesota to new homes in|General Manager of the Alaska| Matanuska. The ship is now in San |Steamship Company; O. L. Hager, cattle, Franeisco and will make the first resigned from his fifm yesterday i > adiatel 4 p, hogs and poultry are 4 and | immediately, entered “on BiS|on pang for stocking the new farms.| YOV38€ about May 1, taking,the new duties. ! When the % .. first contingent of the 200 families -y et ground is cleared each ” will ‘make his ‘headquarters famfly will Ullotted a 40-ache already tentatively selected. About President of the New England Fish Company; Roderick Tower, “New York sportsman; E, O, McDonnell, ‘Diregtor.of the Pan American Airr on' April 2, Lyman 8. Peck; V‘Ce"‘cia:e Supervisor of Eleméntary Ed- in Juneau. This appointment com- | Président and General Manager of \he company left. this morning for Fairbanks on the regular trip of| the Lockheed Electra. Mr. Peck. expects to remain in the Interior about three weeks when he will return here by plane and continue south on his way to New York City. e —— - COUPLE TO NOME On their way to Nome, Mr. and Mrs. C. White are passengers from Seattle for Seward on the Alaska. White is a. Nome mining man. ————— RODEN RETURNS Senator Henry “Roden, local at- torney, refurned from a short busi- ness trip to Petersburg on ‘the Al~ G ucation in the Bureau of Indian Affairs for Southeast Alaska, re- ports a most interesting trip to the various Indian schools. She was back in her office today after re- turning yesterday to Juneau on the Alaska. While in the Southeast Mrs. Refsland visited s¢hools at Kia- wock, Hydaburg, Ketchikan, Sax- man, Metlakatla and at the Wrane gell Institute. She conferred wlxtk the teachers ,nspected the vari- ou$ scheols and took up various matters in eonnection with the pro- gram now being carried out under her supervision. e HOLST TO' SEATTLE - Martin:Holst,' halibut boat, owh- Northland. y pletes the Faderal Housing staff or- ganization in the Territory, Mr. Pegues said. ‘n architectural work in Alaska for averal years. A native of Ohio, he received his early education in Mr. Redman has been engz\gcd‘ |tract and given a drawing account ;of $3,000 to be repaid in 30 years ' with 3 per cent interest. Surrounded by Willow creek, the Lucky Shot and other famous gold |flelds, as well as one of Alaska’s most productive coal fields, these! | hand-picked sons and daughters of | He 700 persons including 65 women and children will sail on the first voy- age. Four hundred men from tran- sient camps also will be on the first wayss Lyman, 8. Peck, Vice Presi- dent apnd General Manager of the | Pacific~ Alaska Alrways, Mrs. Ella | Gillette and Jean Gillette. sented. He is a recent arrival from| Vancouver, B. C., and he comes AND HIS WIFE GIVEN LIBERTY IFrench Court Takes Ac- | tion in Celebrated Espionage:Case BGTH HELD IN JAIL || FOR SIXTEEN MONTHS Rumors that Couple Estranged Borne Out by Attitude at Trial PARIS, April 17. — After sixtecn months in French Jjails, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Switz, of Orange, New Jer- scy, U. 8. A., have been ord- ercd freed by the court which {tried them and nineteen |cthers on espionage charges. Most of the others have | been ordered jailed under var- |ious sentences. | The Switzs were recogniz- lilty, it was de- {clared, but they were exempt from punishment because i they turned State’s evidence. The Switzs listened eagerly to the Judge but never 'glanced at each other. Both smiled. when judgment was announced. Switz seemed to be studi- cusly avoiding looking at his wife, strengthening the rum- ors that they have become ,estranged’ during their long imprisonment in French jails cn spy charges. e COLD WEATHER 1S PREVAILING IN CROP AREA Snow Falls ‘in Southern Section—Dust Storms Plague Southwest CHICAGO, 11, April 17.—A wave of warmer weather, counted on by fruit growers to dissipate the pos- sibility of extensixe crop losses, failed to materialize today. The cold snap, which began ear- lier in the weekyds spreading rapid- 1]y easl and Sousimseos: . It is predicted smow . will cover a wide section: Various parts of Pennsylvania to- {here to replace Capt. R, B. Lesher, who is leaving soon on a year's furloygh. | Arncld 'To Talk Then: there will be Clarence Ar- nold, manager of Juneaw’s new ra- dio gtafion, KENY, which is being, installed in the Goldstein Building. A fourth speaker, who may be; present, is C. E. Wortman, Sitka druggist. > trip to begin work of building the| Making up a polar bear hunting | Laura Ingalls new community and will return to the United States late in the fall. On the second voyage the St. | party, Hager, Wilson, Tower and | McDonnell will continue to Wain- {wright and Point Barrow by PAA the public schools of Seattle. He| 3 | the sofl will raise vegetables, grains, | & t nine years| s ) ::ne f0. Alswin.; pbou YEATS| truits, livestock afd produce dairy He has worked at various 4 |products. A cannery will preserve the times he past five years forbr. s in, the D y food for distribution in the terri- Mr. Troast, the Office of Indian| Affairs, the United States Bureau ¢f Public Roads and ilar or-j ganizations. | He became a member of the| Troast firm about one year ago! and was made its office manager at'that time. He has designed a fumber of buildings in Juheau and other Alaskan communities. A Fertile Land Just north of Anchorage, the Matanuska valley of more than 1,000,000 acres is said by govern- ment experts to be one of the most fertile in the world. There is a federal agricultural experimental e } (Continued on Page Six.) Mihiel will sail from Seattle about plane from Fairbanks and Mrs. Gil- May 15, taking the remainder of|lette and her daughter, Jean, will the permanent settlers for creation'continue to Nome on the scheduled of a small town around the village PAA trip from the Interior city. of Palmer as now visualized. The| The plane is due here next Sun- settlers will disembark at Seward day on the return frip from Fair- from the 8t. Mihiel. banks. The livestock and necessary| freight will be shipped on com- mercial vessels but farm imple- —— ments, household effects and build-{ Guests registered .af the Gas- ing materials will be taken with the|tineau - Hotel today inelude: . Mrs. settlers on both voyages of the St.|Elle Gillette, Seattle; G, Osborn, Mihiel.« | Junzau. e AT THE GASTINEAU Forced Down By Dust Storm ALAMOSA, Colorado, April 17. —Laura Ingalls was forced down at this small farming community late yesterday af- terncon after flying blind four heurs in a “stupendous, terrif- ic and tragic” dust sterm which she was unable to get abpve at 22,000 «feet. She had been in , the alr fen howrc and 40 nm'n- utcs frem: Loc Abgeles im an at~ ‘tempt to break the transzonti- nenfal rpeed record. » day experienced témperatures down as low s 10 degrees ahove zero. | - Snow has calready extended as !far south as Maryland, North Caro- lina and Virginia. Richmeond, Virginia, has the lat- est metisurable snowfall’ sinee 1898, Scattered dust storms continue to iplague the Southwest. FORMER JUNEAUITE RETURNS TO ALASKA AFTER TRIP EAST Z.Y. Loussac, well known Anchor- age druggist, was a passenger to the Westward on the Alaska after an extensive business trip to New | York and east. While the boat was ‘ihere he called on Attorney General {James 8. Truitt, and other old friends. the Anchorage Times, the Evan | Jones Coal Mine, and has a drug }swwuvswhom‘e. was formerly in the ‘drug: business here. He was in | the east,attempting to interest cap- ital im. the , piatinum industry in Mr. Loussac, who is interested in "