The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 19, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLV., NO. 6940. GIANT PLANES TO FLY ALONG PACIFIC COAST Epochal Flight Is Outlined During Summer Games of Battle Fleet BULLETIN — WASHINGTON, April 19.—At least 12 huge sea- planes will fly to Alaska from San Diego within two weeks accompanied by the Tender Wright and two smaller tend- ders under Rear Admiral A, W. Johnson. Navy officials said they have not been informed of any plans to extend the flight to Midway Island or Honolulu. Reports from San Pedro indi- . cated the Squadron may remain in Alaskan waters the entire summer. LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 19.— The Los Angeles Times today says an epochal massed flight of giant Navy seaplanes will be one of the features of the United States Bat- tle Fleet maneuvers in the far flung war game on the North Pa- cific during the summer. Starting at San Diego, the giant Navy seaplanes will fly along the West Coast to the Aleutians, to Adak Island, then to Midway, re- turning to Califoraie -via- Honollu. MRS. ADSIT HONORED AT LUNCHEON BEFORE GOING ON VACATION, A luncheon honoring Mrs. Agnes F. Adsit, Chief Clerk in the Au- ditor's office who leaves the first of the week on a month’s vacation in the States, was given today noon at the home of Mrs. T. M. Reed. In the group complimenting Mrs. Adsit were Miss Isabell Cashen, Miss Dolly Baldwin and Miss Lois M. Spencer of the Auditor’s staff; Mrs. Grace Gleason, here from Seattle,| Marie Drake and Miss| Mary Nordnes from the Commis-J and Mrs. sioner of Education’s office. Mrs. Adsit is planning to leave on the North Sea for Seattle and Portland where she will visit rela- tives and mends‘ NOME T0 GET $100,00 L0A WASHINGTON, April 19.—Secre- tary of Interior Ickes has approv- ed a PWA loan grant of $100,000 for Nome, Alaska, for a drainage system. BRIDGE SHOWER GIVEN IN HONOR OF RECENT BRIDE| In honor 0! Mrs. Alex Russell, formerly Mrs. Dorothy Stevenson, whose marriage took place recently, a few friends gathered at an in- formal shower and bridge party at the home of Mrs. N. A. McEachran in the Coliseum Apartments last evening. Following the presentafion of the attractive gifts, two tables of bridge were in play and the enjoyable ev- ening was concluded with the serv- ing of refreshments. R MRS J. C. COOPER IS ILL WITH INFLUENZA ATTACK Mrs. J. C. Cooper is confined to her home in the Marshal Apart- ments with a severe attack of in- fluenza. Dr. W. J. B. McAuliffe is in attendance. s ! THE WEATHER | Forecast for Juneau and vi- cinity, beginning at 4 pm, | April 19: Rain, | snow at intervals, tonight and | | Baturday; moderate to fresh | | southeast winds. | | | | | l Hospua! today. JUNEAU ALASKA, DAY, APRIL 19, 1935. {Eskimo Assistant |To Santa Claus Wins 'Blessing of Court | TROLLERS VOTE "HERE TO FAVOR EINSTOSS BID MILWAUKEE, April 19.—The fact that Cheeket Ketuni Ucket, 30, Eskimo, drives a dog team up “near Santa Claus' toy fac- tery” saved him from possible was rcady to start back to Nome was ready to start bac kto Nome when he tarried in a tavern and became boisterous, authorities who arrested him said. “Well,” said Judge George Page, “you've got a long way to go and you'd better be getting back to help Santa so I'll sus- pend sentence.” The Eckimo told the court he came here at Christmas time with a reindeer and dog team. east Alaska Must Be Tabulated As far_as the Juneau local of |the Alaska Trollers Co-operative | Association is concerned, the At- lantic and Pacific Packing Com- pany, which held the contract last year, may again have the exclusive |sales agency for the association’s 4 N ! cateh. | That's the way the Juneau local | unanimously voted in a meeting at City Hall earlier this week, Dick }Hams, port delegate, announced to- GUMBINE BEAT day. Sigmund Einstoss is head of | the favored firm. GHIGAGD T However, Juneau's choice is onl) | i | i | a field of four buyers and dealing firms. However, R;Jts of South- one of eight. A majority of seven other Southeast Alaska cities will decide the sale agency from among Paul Allows Only Eight Hits While Joe Hits Homer, Only Score CHICAGO, Il., April 19— Paul Dean, assisted by Joe Medwick, conquered the Chicago Cubs yester- day afternoon by a score of 1 to 0. Dean. allowed only eight .scat| tered hits. Medwick hit a home run in the sixth inning for the only run of the, game. GAMES THURSDAY Pacific Coast League Seattle 2; Los Angeles 8. Missions 5; Oakland 9. Portland 4; San Francisco Hollywood 5; Sacramento 3. Naticnal League Brooklyn 9; Philadelphia 10. St. Louis 1; Chicago 0. Cincinnati 9; Pittsburgh 4. New York-Boston, rain. American League Philadelphia 5; Washington 6. Chicago 4; Detroti 5. Boston 0; New York 4. Cleveland-St. Louis, rain. 5. Balloting started this week in locals at Craig, Port Alexander, , Petersburg, Wrangell, Sitka, Hoonah {and Ketchikan, Donier Tabulates Results will be tabulated and an- nounced by A. N. Donier, associa- Mon president and resident of Ket- chlkan Bidders and their prices or per- centages, follow: - Atlantic and Pa- [eific Packing Company (Sigmund | Einstors), 8% cents on large reds, 3% cents small reds, 3% cents; whites; United Smoked Fish Cor- poration (H. 8. Pinch), 8, 4 and 3 cents; New England Fish Company, 75 per cent of the market value of their fish; Oxenburg Brothers, | (A. Bunzen) ( 70 per cent. Fishermen receive these advanxh from the agent when the fish are delivered and are given dividends in ratio to their sales to the co- operative when the fish so taken are sold by the agent. Prices on cohioes will be determined later. No Kings Yet Delegate Harris said today that | I no reports of king salmon biting | ,in any numbers had been received from Inside Passage fishermen. Shouts at Woman Victim Before Going to Gallows SMITHLAND, Ky., April 19.~/ After 1,500 citizens who gathered . see him die, William Deboe was hanged today for the criminal assault of Mrs. Marjorie Johns| son, wife of a storekeepes, while bandits robbed his store. 1 He shouted to his vietim in® the crowd, “If I had had $500 I wouldn’t be on this scaffold, she would have taken it.” She replied: “Not if you had offered me 2 thousand.” - TACOMAN HEL FOR ALLEGED i | % | 1 5 | 1 talking 45 minutes fo° | WIFE MURDER MEMBER OF ASSOClATFD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MING TO ALASKA Price Says Cabmet Shake-Up W ould Not Surpnse Capital By BYRON PRICE ((llwf of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) | A re-deal of Roosevelt cabinet ap- pointments would not surprise the iWR\'hmglon politicians who usually are in the know. It is expected generally that Postmaster General Farley will get out after Congress quits, devoting himself to organizing the Democrat- ic Party for next year's campaign, but that is only part of the story. The approach of another Presi- dential year, coupled with the de- velopment of real opposition on Capitol Hill, has brought home the gomparative weakness of the pres- ent cabinet lineup from the stand- "‘pmnl of practicaly political influ- Fm ‘mer presidents frequently have urom,m into their cabinets political ’&Bdt‘rs who could control almost beyond question certain blocs of ]vote\ in Congress and in political loomenuons For instance the ten ‘cabinet members sometimes virtu- ally have had in their pockets the 20 Senate votes from their own states. Nothing like that exists today. “Other Woman” Accuses, Six Were Politiclans Of the ten in the Roosevelt cab- RanCher Of Slaymg Mat‘ Ilnet, only six came into office with what might have been called an with Axe During Quarrel” | |outstanding political background, TACOMA, Wash,, April 19—Ae- and only four of these six had re- feused by his parmour, Elmer Mc- cently been anything like a politi- Cune, 30, rabbit rancher, is ml cal boss of his own state. | held here for the aileged .axe I"“Farley is one of the six, but even der of his wife. Police; who said in his case one of the two New McCune faced intensive grilling, York Senators—Copeland—often has | were told of the alleged killing by been off the new deal reservation. Ruth Dunlap, 36, formerly of Se- Nor can Farley control Tammany. | attle, who was jailed with McCune| Another is Secretary Swanson, two days ago, and who admitted but many thought he had com- {living with the man since last No- pletely lost the control he once held | vember, over the Virginia Democratic or- Authorities said the woman gave|ganization, and was on the verge of them a signed statement to thelbecoming a lame duck, when he was ‘une told her of fihe'elevafied to the Navy appointment. asserted slaying and where the body! A third is Attorney General Cum- | would be found. mings. However, in spite of the Insisting she believed MCCune;power he once wielded in Con- \kmed his wife in self-defense, Miss necticut, he was in the minority | Dunlap's reputed statement re-|faction of the delegation at the lated how the man told of domes- 1932 national convention. tic quarreling, of striking his wuel The fourth is Secretary Hull who, on the head with a small axe after'uke Cummings, is a former Demo- she struck him with a stick. He cratic National Chairman. Of late tried two hours to revive her, then, 'years, on the other hand, his con- | |effect that McC ’{St. Louis mixed with } 1 Hcwever, the fish are beginning to bite in Sitka waters. | He said that there are approx- Ppet, imately 70 men who have signed as 903 members of t.he Juneau local. - MRS, BECKER = ELECTED AS = DA R, CHIEF 500] WASHINGTON, April 19.— Mrs. 500 William A. Becker, of Summitt, .333 New Jersey, has been elected Pres- .000 ident General of the Daughters of ,the American Revolution by 1,436 1.000 to 619 votes over Dr. Flora Myers 1.000 Gillentine, of Chattanooga. 667 The election was a triumph for 500 the present DAR administration 500 over fhe strongest insurgent move 333 in the mgnmzauon in many years. R 0 YES, IT’s EARLY, BUT AUTO DRIVING STANDING OF CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost 10 7 i | | os Angeles . | Oakland | Hollywood 5 | 8an Francisco 4 | Sacramento 5 Beame 3 Port]and 2 ' Missions 2 1.000, 67/ Nauonal League Boston o Cincinnati [Chlcsgo' | Brooklyn Philadelphia St. Louis Pittsburgh New York American Cleveland | Washington Boston | Chicago ........... Detroit New York League 1 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 | Philadelphia e NEW MINING CONCERN ! Articles of mcorpomnon for the LICENSES ARE OUT | Alaska-Sunshine Gold Mining Com- ipany of Haines were filed with tne Of course, it's a little early to Territorial Auditor today by Sena- begin remining automobile drivers tor Henry Roden for Earl A. Ja- that they must procure driving li- cobs and Louis Johnson of Seattle. censes, but if you're one of those The company Wwill engage in pros- “early birds” you'll be glad to know | pecting and mining and capital is NOW that said licenses must be ob-| |p|nced at $100,000. tained by June 1. B City Clerk A. W. Henning put the e e o2 oo oo e oo oltwoyear licenses on sale today at . HOSPITAL NOTES e |City Hall. The fee is $1, and the ® e 00 00 00 20 oo olicnses do not expire until May Gus Zitieff was rushed to St.|31, 1937. Ann's Hospital yesterday alwmoon} —————— in an ambulance from the Alaskn‘o e 0 e0ces 0000 Juneau Gold Mining Company’s|® AT THE HOTELS . | plant.” Ztieff is being treated today" eececesccsscee | Zynda for an injured foot. James Bartels, being treated today | Rose W. Swift, Seattle; R. W. | for influenza, was admitted to St.| Wills, Seattle. Alaskan Bill Burrett, Juneau. Miss Edith Horton, a medical pa- | Gastineau | |tient, was discharged from St. Ann's| Sam E. Seager, Juneau; William ' Dahigren, Juneau, | Ann’s Hospital yesterday. ‘ becoming frightened, buried her, the reputed statement said. Hunt for Mrs. McCune began/ | two days ago when Mrs. Mae Bul- | |ger of Orting, her mother, aid of authorities in following up the report of an Orting youth that year-old son of the McCunes, near mother were supposed to have been in Colorado. HAS CONFESSED TACOMA, April 19. — Deputy Stewart Elliott said this afternoon that McCune confessed in a Wwrit- with an axe during a quarrel and buried the body where it has been result of a fractured skull. The confession, it is said, declared they had not lived together a year before last November when they de- cided to try it again. They started quarreling while enroute back to their ranch home and McCune kiiled his wife that night. He then persuaded Miss Dunlap to come and live with him. He told his boy his mother had gane RAIN FALLS IN AMARILLO, Texas, April 19— Rain brought joy today to resi- dents of this section and hope was renewed to all along the southern, edge of the dust belt that crops wil! be saved. Dust in some places is two inches deep. P ! NATIVE BOY DIES Norman Burton, 14-year-old Met- {lakatla Indian, died of tuberculosis {at Government Hospital last night. |His father, Ned Burton, has been notified by the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, which is holding the body. Young Burton had been in the hos- pital a few more days than a year, asked ; he saw her grandson, LeRoy, seven-| Puyallup. Both the boy and his] ten statement that he slew his wife found. She apparently died as the| TEX. DUST BELT trol over Tennessee politics has |been of doubtful force. Situation Discussed ‘When the administration came to its big test on the work relief |bill, cabinet members made a check~ up. They found almost every Senator from every home state of a cabinet- eer voting against the President. {And they admitted there was noth- ing they could do about it. One report heard on Capitol Hill |—and believed, in view of : the |source—was that this situation was ‘discussed at a cabinet meeting. Anyway, some of those who have heard the cabinet line-up talked over in very high quarters, believe |some of the present cabinet mem- bers are headed for ‘“promotions” jto the diplomatic service and else- where, to make room for successors Who will be listened to by & larger segment of Congress. All such suggestions are denied at the White House, where it is in- ’nmd that if any changes take I place, they will be just in the nat- ural course. Nevertheless, the poli- ticians are watching for—and ex- pecting—developments. —————— {Mrs.. Reinert Nominated Postmaster, Ketchikan WASHINGTON, April 19.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has sent to the Senate the nomination of Mrs. Ag- nes Reinert to be postmaster at Ketchikan, Alaska. ———— GRAY RETURNS HOME J. L. (Dolly) Gray, popular for- mer Pire Chief, was discharged from St. Ann's Hospital today, after _spending several days in combating !a serious cold. FLYNN DISCHARGED P. J. Flynn, Skagway resident, left 8t. Ann’s Hospital this after- noon for the residence of his daugh- ter, Mrs. James McAlister. Mr. Flynn has been a medical patient. He will visit with his daughter be- fore returning to Skagway. (COUNCIL WILL PLAN LIQUOR CODE TONIGHT Committee Probably to Be Heard Discussion of municipal liquor regulations probably will be the main item of business as the City Council meets at 2 o‘clock mn\gh:, at the City Hall Last week, in a speclal session, the City Fathers decided, unani-; mously, that the ecity administra-| tion should stand with the Terri-| torial Liquor Board in the matter| of enforcing regulations. However, in order for policemen legally to bring liquor offenders before the, City Magistrate for trial, a new code of local regulations must be drawn. The special codification commit- tee, appointed by Mayor Isadore Goldstein last week, consists of the following Councilmen: G. E. Krause, chairman; Ralph Beistline, Henry Messerschmidt, and Mayor stein, ex-officio member. Committee May Report This committee has met during the week and is expected to present a report tonight. What action the Council will take is not known, but it probably after discussion, will draw up a rough draft of a new municipai liquor code. Two other items of considerable local interest—the opeéning of bids on a portion of the city’s Public Works Administration loan street Gold- Report of Krause's Special’ | bach, (Social Sm'urltv Bill Approved By House Today WASHINGTON, April 19—The House, late today, brushed aside the amendments and approved President Roosevelt’s Social Se- curity bill. Eventually the bill will levy two and three quarters billions of dollars annually for old age annuities and ]nh insurance. SCHWELLENBACH EXPLAINS WHY SEATTLE LOST Washmgton Senalor Says Army Transport Happen- ed to Be in Bay City WASHINGTON, April 19.—United States Senator Louis B. Schwellen- Washington state Democrat, said reports that the colonization of | | itative SOVIET CHIEF APPEALS FOR UNITED FRONT {Russian Leader Declares Hitler Preparing for Gi- gantic Aerial Attack POISON GAS STRIFE FEARED BY MOSCOW Reich Undecided on Move Following Britain-Ital- ian Ultimatum MCSCOW, April 19.—M. Khripin, chief of the Soviet military air force, today appealed through the author- organ, Pravia, urging all countries to unite in face of what he declared were German prepara- tion for aerial chemical bacteriol~ ogical war. Germany is prepared to use the the Matanuska Valley in Alaska !worst of poison, he charged, and it will be conducted solely from San IS doubtful if she will even stop at Francisco is because the Army trans-~ bacteriological warfare, the Soviet {while those port St. Mihiel is now at San Fran- cisco and it was decided to use that ship because bids of private ship- ping companies were considered too high. Families from Minnesota will be embarked from the California port, from Wisconsin - and Michigan and all equipment will be sent from Seattle. California transients will be em- ployed to lay the colony ground work because that state has so paving project, and consideration of the Northland Transportation Company's proposed move to City Dock—will not be considered to- night. Can't Open Bids The bids, re-advertised for after first ones had been found to be too high, can not be opened until next week. The Northland proposition is pending the arrival of company officials tomorrow on the North Sea from Seattle. Tonight's session will mark the third time councilmen have sat down in official session and the fifth time, including informal ga- therings, since the election of April 2. e NORTH SEA IS HERE SATURDAY INITIAL VOYAGE The Northa§ea, making the initial voyage to Southeast Alaska ports for the Northland Transportation ‘Company, is scheduled to arrive to- morrow at 10 a. m. from Seattle. Yesterday forenoon, a radiogram was received by D. B. Femmer from Harld Knight, at Ketchikan, stating the North Sea would arrive “to- morrow.” As the steamer did not get away from Ketchikan until last night and has calls to make at Wrangell and Petersburg permitting of a long stop in each town to al- low of inspection, “tomorrow” meant “Saturday.” pric 8 WARDEN LEAVES ON SEAL EXPEDITION Donald 8. Haley, Warden in the Juneau district for the Bureau of Pisheries, left early this morning on the Scoter, fisheries boat, for Sitka where he will take 100 seals for the Biological Survey. An ex- amination of the seal stomachs will be made in an effort to determine what effect the seal migration has on salmon and halibut industry. Complaints have been made that the seals destroy and eat large numbers of the fish. Haley expects to be gone until about the first of June, Dimon:i Seeks F it.n';d Survey Made of Two many more than Washington, Sen- ator Schwellenbach said. Northwest cities are up in arms because early reports said all 001-{ onization work would be done from San Francisco. DELAY REPORTED LANSING, Mich,, April 19.—Mi-| gration of families from this sec- tion to the Matanuska Valley in Alaska will not take place until the second week in May owing to a delay in completing arrangements. | The families, it is said, have not yet signed the contracts. _ The Minnesota group will leave April 28, according to reports re- ceived here. Hunter Is Shot as Rabbit Makes Escape| DENVER, April 19.~BEdmund R.| Burke and R. E. Mackey, Denver | sportsmen, went rabbit hunting. They saw a rabbit running into a culvert. Burke went to one ‘end of the culvert and Mackey to the opposite end. Burke heard a noise and fired into the culvert. Mackey was brought to a Denver hospital with two shot wounds in his face. The rabbit escaped PAA PLANE MAKES FAST TRIP FROM | HERE, FAIRBANKS Making an extremely fast trip, the Pacific Alaska Airways Electra, which left here with seven passen- gers on’ Wednesday morning, arriv-/ ed in Fairbanks at 2:45 o'clock the same afternoon, according to word received by the PAA radio station here yesterday afternoon. The plane took off from the PAA Juneau air- port shortly after 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning for its weekly trip to the Interior. Those making the trip on that oc- casion were T. B. Wilson, O. L.} Hager, E. O. McDonnell and Rod- erick Tower, bound for Point Bar- row on a polar bear hunt, Lyman 8. Peck, for Fairbanks and Mrs. Ella Gillette and her daughter Jean, who were to transfer to the Nome bound PAA plane in Fair- banks. Joseph Barrows is pilot and 8. E. Robbins. co-pilot D Sloughs in Interior WASHINGTON, April 19.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has introduced a bill to call for a flood WABNER BETTER Charles Warner, St. Ann's Hos- chief said. AWAITING EASTER EGG BERLIN, April 19.—Warned by Britain and Italy that they oppose any move to refortify the demili- tarized Rbineland zone, President Hitler deliberated today on what stand he would take in face of in- (u'mgllons’l reproof for Qtnnanys treaty repudiations. Ambassadors of the great Europ- ean powers planned to stay close to Berlin during the Easter week end, awaiting what one descirbed as a “colored Easter egg containing a serpent.” The British and Ttalian warning that they would insist on preserva- tion of the present status in the demilitarized Rhineland was pre- sented to the Reich by Ambassadors lof the two powers. EASTER TRADE T0 BE BOOMED FOR TWO DAYS Adverse Weather Condx- tions Have Retarded Week's Business NEW YORK, April 19.—A tem- porary setback in the retail busi- ness this week was because of ad- verse weather conditions prevailing in many sections of the United States. This is according to the weekly review of Dun-Bradstreet, Inc. The review says heavy Easter trade is, however, predicted for to- day and tomorrow, especially, al- though the trade has been fairly good so far this week notwithstand- ing the weather conditions. DR. BUNNELL RECOVERING WASHINGTON, April 19— Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, President of the University of Alaska, is report- ed recovering from an operation for removal of his tonsils. The edu- cator has been in a hospital here for several weeks® suffering from neuritis. Removal of his tonsils was advised in an effort to remedy the condition. - NUNMAKER CHOSEN CARPENTER LEADER Following the resignation of Gar= land Boggan as president of the Carpenters Union, Local No. 1, Lew Nunamaker was chosen to succeed pital attendants said today, contin- ues to improve. The head of the him. The action was a feature of survey of the Tanana and Chena|Warner Machine Shop has been ser-|the last meeting of the carpenters sloughs in the yicinity of Pairbanks. lously ill with influanza, 3roup.