The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 18, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY - ALASKA VOL. XLV., NO. 6939. “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ISDAY, APRIL 18, 1935. CMPIRE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS DARLING IRKED _Austria Moves AT FAILURE OF GAME PROGRAM Biological Survey Chief Is| Ready to Ouit Unless ! Matters Corrected SAYS CONGRESS GAVE ONLY.LIP SERVICE “Ding” Ch—a—;-ges Efforts Have Been Blocked from Beginning WASHINGTON, April 18.—(Copy- righted by the Associated Press, .1935)—J, N. “Ding” Darling, Bio- logical Survey Chief, yesterday as- sailed the Administration for failing | | | I | | | | {us bill today, Author (;f—strai;gm 'ff# Plan Says Veterans Op= posed to Compromite WASHINGTON, April 18 —Rep- resentative - Wright - Patman lashed ,out at Senator Pat Harrison's saying . the . men would rather- lose the battle than accept a com He predicted the House would by his bill Under the Harrison- bill, said the veteran who had $500 against his certificate, paying of the loan and if he converted the honus into @ would have about $175 left. * ‘The Harrison measure which introduced yesterday would ad { basry — ————— PRICE TEN CENTS CONTENTS OF MESSAGEIS Spokesman, However, Says Germany: Definitely ‘Out of League of Nations;, FRANCE, RUSSIA SAID TO HAVE MADE PACT {Geneva Turns to New Ne- gotiations Aimed to Guard Against Future Wars BERLIN, April 18/—~A British Em- spokesman , revealed ' today KEPT SECRET that President Adolf Hitler of Ger- | man had sent Great Britain a dip- Icmatic note deseribed as a “siz- | « to carry out his wild game conser- vation program. | Darling said he has been at !zler.” Although he declined to di- ,vulge the note’s exact contents, he | said he believed yesterday's League | the date of -maturity of the | tificate to 1938 and offers to work for more than a year without being able to stir more than a lip service from Congressmen, Cabinet | members and other government of- | ficials. Darling said he is “ready to quit unless matters are corrected very | rapidly and very soon.” Program Sidetracked | The Biological Survey Chief said | there had been great expectancy built up among sportsmen and con- | servationists but despite the sup- port of the President the “program from the very beginning has been | blocked, hampered, sidetracked, pigeon-holed until it begins to ap- pear almost useless to continue.” As ‘an {llustration, Darling said Cohigress - provided the Department of "Agriculture with $17,500 to in- Crense ‘the ndmber of game wardens in Alaska,.but did not provide the | transportation needs, and added they had enough game wardens for game law enforcement in Alaska, but not money even to buy gasoline for four boats built last year for patrol work. No Money Set Aside Darling also complained there was | no money in the Work Relief meas- | ure set aside for waterfowl and game restoration although such projects | would provide work. PARTY OF ELKS WILL MAKE TRIP TO PETERSBURS Initiation, Establishment of 'Bills’ Club and Purple .* Bubble Ball, Events At the regylar weekly meeting of the B. P. O. Elks held last night, the committee in charge of estab- lishing a “Bill's Club” at Peters- burg, announced that all arrange- ments had been made for the offi- cers of Juneau Lodge and a large contingent of members to go to Petersburg for the event. The Committee, composed of L. W. Turoff and Henry Messer- schmidt, Past Exalted Rulers, and Norman Banfield, announced that a chartered boat will leave Juneau May 10 and the same evening a class of 15 candidates will be initi- ated. The Bill's Club will be estab- lished on May 11, preceding a Pur- ple Bubble Ball to be held in honor of the Baby Elks. The party will leave Petersburg immediately after the dance and will arrive pack in Juneau Sunday night, May 12. Since ' the committee announced that members could make reserva- tions for the trip at a nominal cost, it is anticipated that a great many members will make the trip. ‘The. officers of the lodge who will go and conduct the initiation are: John H. Walmer, Exalted Ruler; | Martin Jorgensen, P. E. R, Es- teemed Leading Knight; M. E. Mon- agle, Esteemed Loyal Knight; Hen- ry Messerschmidt, P. E. R, Es-| teemed Lecturing Knight; Frank Foster, Esquire; M. H. Sides, Sec- retary; George 8haw, Tiler; Arthur Adams, Inner Guard; J. D. Van Atta, Chaplain; H. R. Shepard,| ‘Trustee. T TO CANDLE MINI | ministration. This Archduke Otto crisis. BRISTOL BAY FISHING NOT CLOSEDISSUE Delegate Dimond Is Trying Hard to Have Limited Catch Taken in Area WASHINGTON, April 6.—(Special Correspondence)—The Delegate has been working actively to have the fiching regulations which entirely close the Bristol Bay area to sal- mon fishing during the coming season changed to permit only suf- ficient fishing to be done to furnish employment to the local residents who are dependent on this work for their livelihood, and for a time it was hoped that this could be done as it is believed that such regulations would limit the catch sufficiently to provide escapement enough to guarantee propagation of the salmon of this cycle. Announcement However, the Secretary of Com- merce has announced: “That while the present regulations (issued in January, 1935) which close the Bris- tol Bay area completely, to salmon fishing during the coming season will not at this time be relaxed, nevertheless, if after the salmon run begins it transpires that the run is sufficient to permit fishing consistent with conservation of the fish, the Department will under such circumstances open the Bay to limited commercial fishing. The present regulations which closed the bay completely are necessitated by the excessive depletion in the five- |year cycle of fish which is due to return this year to the Bristol Bay area. This cycle has been so great- ly depleted by fishing in the past that there is grave danger that if fishing is not stopped for one sea- son, the cycle may be completely destroyed for commercial fishing. To Extend Relief “The policy of the Relief Admin- istration is such as to give assur- ance that the Alaskan residents of the Bristol Bay area, insofar as the closing of the Bay may deprive ‘hem of employment this year, will be taken care of by the Relief Ad- secems better Government economy than to per- mit the wholesale destruction of . highly valuable run of fish. Also it is to the interest of the Alaskan fishermen themselves that this run of fish should not be destroyed for commercial fishing, since if it is destroyed they will be deprived al- together of livelihood in each re- curring year of this cycle.” It is not likely that any canner- iese will be able to start up in the C. Meisenheimer, mining man of Candle, is returning there as a pas- senger on the Alaska from Seattle, via Valdez, short time that will be available if it is found that the fish are run- " (Continued on Plge"-l’h'm ¥ Heimwehr in front of Vienna palace Austria’s decision to follow Germany’s example in increasing its armed forces has added another problem to the European arms Premier Kurt Schuschnigg, right, stated that steps had already been taken to achieve that end. Private armies, such as the Heim- wehr, headed by Prince Ernest von Starhemberg, would be elimi- mated. The latter seeks to restore the Hapsburgs to the threnme in the person of Archduke Otto von Hapsburg, left. !l)imoml Introduces | Bill Benefitting Alaska ‘Fishermen WASHINGTON, April 18, — Alaska Delégate Anthony J. Di- mond has introduced a bill in the House extending the bene- fits of the United States Public Service to fishermen. Thiz bill would include those cf the fishing industry for the came benefits as now extended to seamen. NORTH SEA IS PALATIAL SHIP . ON ALASKA RUN Vessel Is Making Initial Voyage to Southeast Alaska Ports The North Sea is scheduled to arrive at Douglas at 7 o'clock tomerrow morning and will ar- rive in Juneau two hours later. Setting a new high standard of service. and convenience for northern travellers, the steamship North Sea is now on her maiden voyage from Seattle to Southeast Alaska ports. As a running mate of the well known and popular mo- torship Northland, she will sail from Seattle on - alternate Mon- days, enabling the Northland Transportation Company to furnish a fast weekly passenger, freight and express service of the highest type. The North Sea, formerly the Ad- miral Peoples, was built in 1918 for the U. S. Shipping Board as a cargo ship, but with lines laid out for conversion to passenger service. In 1924 she was rebuilt and fivted out in Philadelphia at a cost of about one-half million dollars as a lux- urious coasting vessel, and placed on the Miami run where she be- came immensely popular. When the Florida boom collapsed in 1927, she was placed on the Portland-San Francisco route, from which she was taken by her present owners last winter. Built of Steel The North Sea is three hundred and twelve feet long, forty-five feet wide, over 3,000 gross register tons, and her 1700 horsepower gives her better than twelve knots per hour loaded. Built of steel with a double bottom throughout, and with ample bulkheads, there is comforting as- surance of safety to the traveller and “shipper. A rating of “A-1" by the American Bureau of Shipping is a further guarantee that the best of material and workmanship entered into her construction. The North Sea has accommodations for 347 passengers, 145 of which are “(Continuea on Page Two.) change for them negotiable | the latter which would be convertible into cash, aces 7.o| sponsors of the bill which is #aid to have Presidential approval. &1so the veterans could hold their g;; tificates until the old maturity of 1945 and obtain four percent im- terest compounded ~annually,| it was explained. JUNEAU VETOES " KETCHIKAN G0 * INGREASE IDEA Chamber Upholds Execu- tive Board’s Decision at Luncheon Today Because the Forest Service does not favor such a move, Juneau’s Chamber of Commerce went on rec- ord today as declining to join a similar group in Ketchikan in pe- titiening for an increased allotment of Civilian Conservation Corps work- ers for Alaska. This action was tak- en at Bailey's Cafe this noon when ithe members approved the Tues- day Executive Board meeting report. | That the Forest Service does not |approve of the First City’s idea for an enlarged CCC force for the Ter- ritory was evident as Wellman Hol- brook, Assistant Regional Forester, told members of the present CCC and Forest Service setup. Mr. Holbrook first explained that, in the States, CCC workers are tak- en from large cities only from the ages of 18 to 25. They must be sin- gle and must give $25 a month to dependents. However, in Alaska, Mr. Holbrook said that these con- ditions have been waived. Quota Is 325 “Originally our guota here was put at 325 men,” Mr. Holbrook said. “However, only once in the two years we have been operating the CCC for the government have we had the quota filled. Our camps waver in enrolment from 19 to 80 men. “Therefore, it is illogical to ask for a quota of 600 men, double the figure we are allowed now. If we were allowed it, undoubtedly we would find it necessary to use the system in vogue in the States: that is, 825 of every $30 pay check would be sent out of the Territory to dependents. This would be a fact because, in order io fill that 600 quota, unemployed young men from the States would have to be shipped here." Mr. Holbrook went on to explain that under the present public works relief bill, the Forest Service ex- pects to receive enough money to carry out contemplated projects. Al- askan labor will be provided for under the Forest Service, he de- clared, and, if an excess of labor is found, it will be turned into the CCC camps. To Change Wages The Forest Service plans, he said, to shift its employees to a ‘“pre- vailing wage” scale. Under this cystem, younger, inexperienced men who are unable to earn “prevailing wages” will be placed in CCC camps for training along lines such as trail building, powder handling and timber surveying. Mr. Holbrook’s talk really came as a part of the business portion of the meeting. Another business (Continued on Page Two) Eighteen of the 19 children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph St. Pierre, in their big house in Salem, Mass. ’g‘ JOB HUNTERS SHOULD STAY OUT OF NORTH Gov. Troy Sounds Warning During His Brief Stay m'gd& Lake City SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 18.—Alaska is no place for the job hunter, said Governor John W. Troy. The Governor of the Northern Territory is here, delayed on ac- count of weather conditions, on his eastbound airplane flight from the coast to Washington, D. C., where he is bound for conferences with Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes and other heads of Depart- ments. Gov. Troy believes that Alaska will some day win a name as an agricultural region as well as a storehouse of mineral wealth.: He said: “Agriculture is capable of con- siderable expansion in Alaska and we just need more people to con- sume home grown products, but at present there is no place for job hunters.” e e RARE RELICS REVEALED T0 WORSHIPPERS Holy Thursday Has Special Significance to Thou- sands in Rome ROME, April 18.—Christ’s ecruci- ficial moan, ““I thirst,” echoed in the hearts of thousands of devout Romans and Pilgrims who saw part of the sponge said to have been lifted to the Savior's lips as he died. The relic was displayed at St./point of interest centering around |until 1919 when he came to Alaska [Warning ’ Sent Out 1 By Nome| {No Jobs Available, Hous-| ing Facilities Are Already Taged NOME, Alaska, April 18.—Lack- ing housing facilities, in addition to no new jobs, has been advanced by Mayor Rex F. Swartz and the |Nome Civic Organization as the reasons why job hunters should' ) mark Nome off the list. A survey showed, Mayor Swartz said, that the supply of labor more than equals the demand, this be- ing especially true as far as skilled labor is concerned, including car- penters. Mayor Swartz said that it now appears no extensive construction will get underway this year. Every avaliable cabin and house is occu- pied and the hotels are full so newcomers to Nome must make ar- rangements for shelter, such as tents and stoves, before arriving. Nome has'no relief organization and does not expect to establish any public bunk house or eating facili- ties. The city has nothing what- soever to offer the unemployed just now, said Mayor Swartz, | L R | NEW 60LD RUSH FORECAST FOR " GASSIAR AREA i |Capt, Strong, Harlin Tell of | Quartz Veins Found at McDame Creek The North Country’s next im- portant gold rush locality may be the Cassiar district of northernj British Columbia, with the focal who have been wed 265 years, live with them he family, minus the 19th child, is shown. HOLBROOKMARKS 30 YEARS WITH FOREST SERVICE Assistant Regional Forester Started ‘Work in Mon- | “ fanaas Youth-of 21 | | Thirty years is a long time but it doesn't seem so long when you are looking back on golden years,' in the opinion of Wellman Hol-| brook, Assistant Regional Forester,| who today is marking the 30th an-| niversary of his connection with the | Forest Service. Roses and cards of good wishes decorated his desk this| morning as members of the Forest Service staff complimented their chief. | “No, it doesn’t seem so long,” he commented as he recalled how a youngster of 21 he went to work in the Little Belt Forest Reserve in Montana. They called them re- serves in those days and the forests had just been transferred from the Department of Interior to the Ag- ricultural department when young Holbrook took up his duties at $60 a month, had to furnish two horses and feed horses and self out of his meager wages. And the forester has good reason to remember just how old he was; then. It was necessary to be 21 to get the job. The examinations were held on the last day of July and the first of August. Holbrook passed the tests on August 1, the day he| was 21. He went to work April 18, 1905. He stayed in the Little Belt until the fall of 1908 when he was' transferred to Helena National For- est. After eight months there he went back to the Little Belt as| Deputy Supervisor. The reserve lat- er became the Jefferson National Forest and then was changed to| its present name of Lewis and Clark | National Forest with headqunnera; in Great Falls. In 1917 Holbrook was transferred| to Portland, Ore., and served thereL John Lateran Basilica as part of McDame Creek, a tributary of the | where ‘he has been since. The first ' Rome’s religious celebration of Holy Thursday. two skulls, reputed to be those of 8t. Peter and St. Paul and a por- tion of the pillar on which it is believed Christ was scourged. — e BOY DIES Jerry White, 7-year-old native boy, died at the Government Hos- pital this morning. He was born in Sitka, but his family resides in Hoonah. The body, at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary today, will be taken by to Hoonah for burial — e MINERS DEPART Five miners left Juneau for Chi- chagof on the Estebeth. They will be employed by the Chichagof Gold Mine Company. They include Frank Ferkovich, Jr, George Radosevich,'famous for its rich placer diggings, | “entative, H. B. Crewson, is travel- John Dayack, Jack Lunden, and Folix Alko, private gasboat | Dease River. At least, that Is| two years he was here Alagka ror-‘ action positively means the end of any talk of Germany returning to the Leajue of Nations. EXPECT TO SIGN TOMORROW PARIS, April 18.—An authorita- tive source said here today that an accord reached between France and Russia for mutual assistance prob- ably will be initialed here tomorrow without waiting for Premier Laval of France to visit Moscow. The source sald the talks at Geneva between Laval and Maxim Litvi- no!ff of Russia so smoothed over the rough edges of the accord that in- itialing will be possible as soon as the ministerial council should ap- prove it. One of the points calls for puni- tive measures against aggressor na- tions WhICH ‘are not members of the League of Nations. Germany is not a member. NEW AGREEMENTS DISCUSSED GENEVA, Apru 1¥.—sStatesmen at the League of Nations meeting today turned from denunciation of Germany’s violation of the Ver- sailles treaty to negotiations of new pacts intended to guard against fu- ture wars. 5 Yesterday the League . approved the French resolution condemning Germany for repudiation of treaty obligations after the attempt of So- viet ‘Russia to extend implications carried in the resolution to parts of the world other than Europe had failed. —— e — BORAH BRINGS OUT BILLTO STOP.LOANS Any Money Loared Europe Only “Aid to War” Says Senator WASHINGTON, April 18—Sen« ator Willlam E. Borah has intro- duced a bill prohibiting any new public or private loans to foreign governments except those on the American continent, asserting that any money loaned in Europe will be “in aid of war’ X Senator Borah also lashed ouf at the League of Natlons' Council for the stand against Germany, declaring the League Ngs become cpineless and the tool of “nations | what Capt. Willlam Strong and J.|ests were handled out of the Port-|incieaq of an institution to insure At 8t. Peters the worshippers saw | C. (Jack) Harlin are telling friends land office, but in 1921 they were peace.” here this week. The pair, weather- | beaten and hardened from a win- |ter in that area, are resting at| their headquarters in the Alaskan| Hotel after arriving here Monday | via dog team and rowboat. ‘ It took Capt. Strong and Harlin { three weeks to travel the 250 miles —as ~the airplane flies—between | Juneau and McDame Creek. They| arrived at Tulsequah, B. C., Joined\ G. F. Scott there and then mwed‘ to Juneau. | It's Worth It! | But those rigorous days of lrn\'vl‘ and frigid weeks of blood-chilling weather in the Cassiar winter were | worth it! Capt. Bill and his friend,| Jack, think theyive struck it Here's the hisitory, as Strong - told it to an Empire porter: | “In early years, the Cassiar was Capt. | re- (Continued on Page Five) made a region with headquarters| here. s | - t { BROJACKS RETURN | | Mr. and Mrs. Steve Brojack are | returning to, Tenakeé on the Este-| beth. They arrived here Monday on the Kenai from that town. Brojack | has been a cook at the Pioneers' Home in Sitka. R LIGHT LEAVES 8. A. Light, representative of the| Tonkin Distributing Company, is| bound for Sitka from Juneau on the Estebeth. D CREWSON ON ESTEBETH The Schillings Products repre- ing to Sitka on the Estebeth from Juneau, ENSIGN TANNER'S "SON, ILL, BETTER His hémorrhage of the night stop= ped, little 7-year-old Bobby Tanner, son of Ensign and Mrs. George Tanner of the Salvation Army, was resting easier today at the Army Citadel on Willoughby Avenue. The young son of the newly ar- rived Army leader here suddenly developed profuse bleeding from the nose last night. Finally, early this morning the combined efforts of parents and an attending physician were able to stop the blood flow. S eee WARNER IS BETTER Charles Warner, ill manager of the Warner Machine Shop at 8t. Ann's Hospital, is “pretty good to= day,” an attending physician said this afternoon,