The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 23, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLV., NO. 6943 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS VERA BAYERS DISCOVERED IN WATER, DEAD Daughter of Former Sea Captain May Have Died from Heart Attack After her family had conducted a frantic all-night search for her, Vera Inez Bayers, 2l-year-old| daughter of Mrs. Vera Bayers, was found dead in the waters of Gns-J tineau Channel just off the Cold Storage Dock at 8:30 o'clock this| morning. Capt. Oscar Oberg, of| the halibut vessel Hyperien. dis- covered the body floating near the surface. | Although no official examination by a physician had been made late this afternoon, it was said that Miss Bayers apparently had died as the result of a heart attack. She was knewn to have had a heart trouble, | and had not been well for months. | A preliminary investigation reveal- | ed the fact that her lungs were not filled with water, indicating that she probably had not drowned. Miss Bayers was last seen alive at a downtown restaurant where she was dining with a male com- panion, whose name was withheld today by the authorities. 7:30 o'clock last night, according | SHARE PROGEEDSIL ATEST SCHEME Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd is coming home a sick man, and changet About \rought in him by Antarctic ordeal show in nevie photo. taien as he sailed toward Panama with Mrs. Yv- to her escort's testimony, Miss Bay- _ ers, who had complained of not feeling well, excused herself from the table. She was not seen again until found dead this morning, it is said. Search Starts After she did not return for considerable time, her companion notified her mother, who lives onj ‘Willoughby Avenué, This notifica- tion set the family, including the four sisters and bother of the dead girl, on an all-night search, ! Members of the family expressed the opinion today that Miss Bayers had walked along the dock's edge| in the early evening for “a breath of fresh air,” had been stricken with a heart attack, and had fallen into the water, After Capt. Oberg, who was man- euvering his boat alongside the dock preparatory to taking on fish- ing supplies, had found the body, he notified City Police and Chief Roy Hoffman took charge. The girl's body was taken to the Charles W. Carter Mortuary at 9:15 o'clock | this morning. It was held there today pending funeral nrrunge-' ments. Six Survive | Miss Bayers is survived, in addi-| tion to her mother, by four sisters, Mrs. Lillian Stabler, Mrs. Roberta | Parsons, Miss Ethel Bayers, TROLLERS FACE NEW ACTION OF BUYERS OF FISH Eight Per Cent to Be De- duced for Heads, Two Per Cent for Ice SEATTLE, Apri 23.—Moving quickly in a new controversy which threatens to tie-up the salmon troll- ing indusiry of the North Pacific, Wood Freeman, Manager of the Trolling Vessels - Association called yesterday for a vote of fishermen of the Neah Bay, the central point in the Western Washington fishing. ‘The action followed the ruling of buyers, effective yesterday, to de- duct eight percent of the weight for heads and two percent for ice on all salmon bought in the future. ‘Two trollers refused to sell under | the newly imposed conditions. Should the Neah Bay trollers re- 'World Wide | Armament Action Hi ts China NANKING, April 23—China. today fell in line with the world wide armament activities by ordering her male high | echcol and college students to | undcrge at least ome year of | intensive military training. This will prcduce 100,000 thorough- ly trained re:orvists for the army yearly. s O i | CLIPPER SHIP IS RETURNING T0 CALIFORNIA Pan - American Craft Now on Way Back from Trail Blazing Flight ALAMEDA, Cal., April 23.—Head- and fuse to accept the cut, Freeman said jwinds has slowed the Pan-Amer- Miss Thais Bayers; and a brother, they will then take up the question ican clipper down to 85 miles an Lloyd. years ago, was & well-known marine | figure in Juneau. ‘Tay Bayers and had sailed “around | the Horn” on a windjammer. Like her father, it is believed that Miss Bayers will be buried at Sea. Tentative arrangements call for the funeral being held tomor- row on Taku Inlet from the Wan- derer, skippered by Capt. Kell Lar- sen, a friend of the family. Miss Bayers was born in Kake| in 1913. She attended grade and high school here. Friends today called her “popular and a nice, plain girl, with no fancy frills.” She had been taking care of chil-| dren as part-time work since leav-| ing high school. LONGSHOREMAN IS STRICKEN BY DEATH Frank McKinley, about 65, a longshoreman, was found dead in his cabin on Willoughby Avenue this afternoon, apparently the vic- tim of a heart attack, according to Dr. W. J. B. McAuliffe, who was summoned. F. Fagerson, who owns the cabin in which MecKinley lived, said he had been here for a long time but was not known to have ,any relatives. The Marshal's office Wwas making an investigation this afternoon, The hody was being re- ‘moved to the Juneau Young Under- | taking esiablishment. — e KEENANS RETURN Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Keenan are re- turning to their home in Candle. .They are bound for Seward on the Yukon from Seattle. Keenan is well- ‘known as a Candle mining man. ——————_— MISS, SCHWAM BACK Miss Etta Schwam, Juneau High 'School language instructor, returned from a week-end journey to Sitka on the North §ea. 1 “This move comes at a bad time,” the fishermen are not making ex- penses now as fish are scarce and prices low, while costs of supplies have increased considerably.” 200 CRAFT IDLE SEATTLE, April 23.—As the re- sult of the new controversy with the buyers over prices, it is estimated 200 salmon craft are idle here and at Neah Bay. Fishermen are tying up as fast as they reach port. It is be- lieved Alaska fishermen will join the tie-up. FLEET LEAVES FOR ALEUTIANS BREMERTON, Wash., April 23.—| Her father, who died two with the British Columbia trollers. hour, its crew reports. { The clipper was reported to be He was Capt.|said Freeman, “as the majority of |flying into a 34-mile an hour head- wind 1,400 miles out of Honolulu lat 6 cclock this morning on the |return flight to this port. | The clipper left Pear] Harbor at 15:50 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Pacific Time. ‘The clipper made the flight blaz- ing the route for the United States {to China air service for the Pan- |American. NEARING HOME PORT ALAMEDA, April 23.—The clipper ship was 398 miles off the mainland at 11 o'clock. this forenoon, flying only 86 miles an hour with visibility only 15 miles, weather cloudy and a | moderately calm sea. Two thousand persons are await- |ing the arrival of the clipper. | — e |30 BEAVER SKINS | SEIZED AT CRAIG Bound for the Aleutians to continue | mapping and charting the islands,| Seizure of 30 beaver skins from foul:pnaval vessels left today. Gus Starklof, Craig fur dealer, on The vessels are the Kingfisher.}ch“fies of illegal possession is re- Tanager, Quail and Oglala. ipo_rtgd to the Alaska Game Com- It is believed the little fleet will |Rission here by E. M. Goddard, go directly to Dutch Harbor. | game warden at Ketchikan. Stark- Three naval planes are included in |10 s alleged to have taken 40 the equipment taken north. beaver himself, far more than the - - limit. The dealer claims-some na- tives took the beaver for him, all | ut 10 which he is allowed. 5 ‘ The wire from Goddard to Frank Air Measure | Dutrecne, Assistant Executive Offi- s . |cer, did not give all the details of Before (,mnfixfltm* o gy { Department of —————,—— WASHINGI'ON. April 23.—A - Honors Heroes bill fe crca‘e a Federal De- partment ¢f the Air i pointed toward almest certain approval by the House Military Commit- tce. Thisewill bc over the. bit- ter protests from both the -Army and Navy Departments, | FRANKFORT, Ky. — Heroic stat- nes of Abraham Lincoln and Jeffer- |son Davis—Lincoln looking north, Davis south—soon will stand back- | to-back here in their native state. SEND “RATS” T0 RAT ISLANDS IS 1.8, COURT RULES FISHERMEN MAY Decision Based on Case In-}Army Officer Proposed volving 1933 Contract | Putting Criminals in Iso- in Bristol Bay Area i lated Spotsin Aleutians PORTLAND, April 23.—Federal| BALTIMORE, April 23. — “Send Judge James Alfer Fee has ruledjrats to rat islands” is the crime thet fishermen hired by canning, correction program to be suggest- companies in the United States ed soon to Attorney General Hom- are entitled to share in the pro- er S. Cummings. By “rats” Col ceeds from fish caught in Alaskan|C. A. Seone, originator of the plan, waters and delivered to Alaskan, means gangsters, habitual erim= canneries by Alaskan The decision will affect a lqu:cnmes. Islands to which they would number of cannery employees sign- be sent are isolated far out in the ed in the United States for Alcutian group where, hesasserted, 1933 season and involves a large escape is impossible. sums of money, L i Col. Seone is Signal Officer of The case was brought by Martin the Third Corps Area. Penology is T. Olson and a group of other his hobby. He plans to submit his fishermen against Libby, Me¢Neill proposal to Cummings in the near and Libby. The contract signed in!future. Criminals would be given 1933 stated that seamen and fish-!freedom of the islands and would ermen signed in the United' States be required to provide their own t0 work in Bristol Bay should share sustenance through their own en- in one third of the price paid forideavors. He said they could fish fish transferred to the Bristol Bay and also raise sheep and goats and cennery from other sources in Lhe:rehabillmtion would be achieved, years prior to 1933. Alaskan boat|making the prisoners eligible to owners not under contract to the, transfer to islands nearer the| company and workmen signed in mainland after two years on the the United States to process the|'rat” group. After seven years on fish transferred to the cannery|the near islands they could be from Alaskan boats shared in the transferred to the Territory of Al- proceeds in 1933. However, the aska, he said. company placed Alaskan fishermen | T under contract and took the posi-| D tion that workmen signed in the| United States should not share in| proceeds from fish caught by Al-| askans. Judge Fee's ruling over-‘SII-VER GDES uP 'NEAR U, S, FIGURE | threw that contention. 1 POWERFUL U S, FLEET IS NOW nvar sty 7 BE'N!;_FURMED Anticipated in-Fin- ancial Center Finishing Touches M ade' for Maneuvers in North Pacific mines for the new metal. This led to expectations in Wall Street that an- SAN PEDRO, Cal., April 23.— The other setup in the Treasury price most powerful United States fleet might be announced shortly. ever assembled is putting on the However, Secretary Morgenthau NEW YORK, April 23.—The world price of bar silver shot up today | close to the price which the United States treasury is paying American fishermen. inals and parolees who commit new GREENVILLE, Texas, April 23.— A grand jury nivestigation is planned in the case of Jackie Glen Darden, aged eight years, accused of slaying his mother while walking in his sleep. A. P. Darden, the boy's father, said he was awakened before dawn by the discharge of a shotgun. He quick- 1y arose and found his little son standing near Mrs. Darden’s bed, gun in hand. He was asleep. “I shook him and when he awoke he did not know what happened,” said the father. Fi resh 7-14; finishing touches of preparedness for said he did not count on the United the annual maneuvers in the North States doing anything on the price of Facific next month. ,bar silver for commercial use. Price There are now in the Pacific wat- in New York was fixed at 697, up 2% ers 197 vessels which combined with cents from yesterday. the 38 ships in the Asiatic fleet bringsj i T o e a total of 235 American Naval vessels exclusive of District and Station ships in the Paeific Area. . STOCK PRICES | AS'HE WALKS PUSH UPWARD | INHIS SLEEP FINAL HOURS kight-Year-0a 5oy, Suc- e denly Awakened, Does Metals and Rails Dull but! Not Know of Crime Other Issues Keep Chins Up All Day NEW YORK, April 23.—A dullish! sentiment for metals and rails kept stocks with chins up most of the day notwithstanding some of the recent leaders slipped at times under profit taking. The list was up In the final half hour of trading. Today’s close was firm. Sales totaled 1,250,000 shares. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, April 23— Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 17'4, American Can 120, American Power and Light 3%, Anaconda 12, Armour N 3%, Bethle- hem Steel 26%, Calumet and Hecla 3%, General Motors 30%, Interna- tional Harvester 39%, Kennecott 17%, United States Steel 33, Poun $4.84%, Bremner bid 59 asked 62, Na- besna bid 60 asked 80. v e Three Burned to Death; Rooming House Fire Swept pes Arise Qver Colony Project ST. PAUL, Minn., April 23— Clyde Cook, Walter Minn., farm- cr, chosen as a typical figure, told today about his fresh hopes he bears on his way to the Matanuska project. Cook came from Oklahoma four years ago. He had noth- ing and settled on a dried up lake bottom and built a cabin. Not much tc pay a man for his time, Cook said. “I have signed up for the Matanuska colony as I would not give wp this chance for the world,” said Cook. “It looks good to me” NORTH BEND, Wash., April 23 Merle Sharrai, aged 35; an 18-monthsq old daughter of Merlyn Stephon, and Richard ' Marks, aged eight, were| burned to death early today in a rooming house fire. PRICE TEN CENTS NORTH STARIS SAILING TONIGHT FROMCALIFORNIA 120 Men with Provisions, Tools, Machinery. Com- ing Via Juneau COST OF PROJECT FIXED AT $981,907 Estimate Includes Land, Buildings, Schools, Live- stock and Supplies SAN F'RANCISCO, April 23.—One hundred and twenty men, the van- guard of America’s first extra Ter- ritorial eettlement project in the Matanuska Valley in Alaska, today boarded the vessel North Star |s. , as | ~ Here are the Coats and Sebring twins who'll be married In San | Diego, Calif,, when the girls Louise May (left) and Lois Maude Coats | arrive from Seattle, Wash., for the ceremonies which will unite Roy | Calvin Sebring (left) and Louise May and Ray Alvin will be wed to | Lois Maude. The Sebrings are enlisted marines. (Associated Press ’ 11 MEN PLACED UNDER ARREST, TANKER STRIKE Democratic Leaders Adopt B x b New Policy Regarding .Dynamlte Terror Campaign| Senator’s Assaults i Is Reported to Have 1 Been Nipped Silence to ; Greet Long On Tirades | WASHINGTON, Apru LC.—DEmn-‘ cratic leaders of the Senate have SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 23. decided to apply the silent treatment —The police today began an in- to Senator Huey P. Long who cut vestigation of a marine labor af- loose with a new assault in which he filiation of eleven men and by flung such words cinch bug at whose arrest at Modesto they claim Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, to have balked ‘a dynamite terror and ignoramus at Secretary of Agri- campaign against the Standard Oil culture Wallace. | Company. After experiencing some difficulty| Preceding the arrest of the men, of mental strain in remaining in the police seized a dozen sticks of their seats, the Democratic Senators dynamite and they link the inci- reached the conclusion that better dent with the oil tanker strike. results will be obtained by silence Following the arrests, members of rather than returning shot for shot, the Special Mediation Board ex-| Senator Long voiced the threat to Pressed the hope the strike will take Loulsiana out of the tax-paying end by the end of this week. Union. | The District Attorney said sev- ,eral of the eleven men arrested confessed to plans to blow up the QUAKE VICTIMS; QUINTUPLETS AID IS RUSHED ARE BETTER, Ltet Figues e e?ead: SAYS DOCTOR Three Thousand ~ |No Anxiety Need Be Felt| TAIHOKU, Formosa, April %.— Over Condition of Five Relief agencies are rushing food, D]onne Bab]es water and medical supplies into remote sections of Northwestern CALLANDER, Ont, April 23— Formosa as the tropical sun parch- Dr. Alan Brown, ¢hild specialist,| ed the tongues of stricken inhabi- examihed the Dionne quintuplets tants, following the disastrous tpday and found them ‘satisfactor-| earthqyake of last Sunday and ad- ily recovering” from head colds.| ded to the hazard of the spread He pronounced their physical con- of disease. dition excelient. | which will szil tonight under Capt. L. Whitlam fer Juneau ang thence to Seward. Provisions, tools, machinery and supplies for the cix months' ground breaking ordeal were in the holds well as 15 trucks, a score of tractors and building equipment. At Eeward 500 tons of lumber and supplies will provide the workers with materials from which the new day colony will emerge. ESTIMATE COST WASHINGTON, April 23.—The Federal Emergency Relief Adminis- tration has estimated the cost of the Matanuska Valley colonization project at $981,907 with buildings involving half a million. This will include wells and fencing, $250,000; $1,000; garages and repair :shops, about $9,000; creamery, $15,000; houses for community hatchery, $6,000; manager's house, $4,000; teachers’ home, equippde, $34,000; two work center buildings and grain mills, $2,500; warehouse, 4,- 1 000; duplex teachers’ house, $5,000; trading post, $10,000; school and community house, $150,000 and equipment for these, $143,000; live- stock, furnishings and feed, $155,- 000, including 400 cows, five bulls, 100 horses, hens, harness, 50 army wagons, furniture, household goods, seed, feed, farm tools and equip= thent. Land $30,000 The land costs a total of $30,000. Only 25 barns will be constructed end only 100 cows will be taken north the first year. Under the program $2,300 of the proposed $3,000 will be received during the first year by each fam- ily. This includes the $2,200 for land and buildings. FAMILIES SIGN CONTRACTS FOR ALASKA GOLONY - — «2 IXEIN Sixty-seven from Minnesota Leave St. Paul.Fn- day for Seattle”" ST. PAUL, Minn., April 23— A list of 67 Minnesota families is now complete with the receipt of the last. signed - contract. The families will deave Friday'for Seattle to sail for the Matanuska valley in Alaska. MATANUSKA BIDS SEATTLE, Apri 23.-Bids for building material, farm mathinery The latest figures how the dead number ‘3,152 and seriously hurt 10406 with homeless well over a quarter-of a million persons. e Want More Sheep | HALLE, Germany—Peasantry of Saxony provinee have been told by Dr. von Haussen, a govgrnment spokesman, that this year Germany must have 1,000,000 more sheep than last. D Parngu;yam Routed; Charagua Recaptured LAPAZ, April 23.—The Bolivian Army High Command announces troops have recaptured the stra- tegically important Bolivian city of Charagua ' from the Paraguayans who are in a disorderly flight Dr. Brown was called in when and other supplies for the Matanuska Oliva Dionne, father of the quint-|project will be opeped hepe this uplets, was not satisfied at reports| week, J. R. Ummel, Interior Depart- made by Dr. A. R. Dafoe. thal|ment Purchasing Agent announces. there was no neced for anxiety| The bids will cover eight carioads over the condition of any of the of lumber and other building mater- tive. |1al, to be opened on Thursday and on Saturday bids will be opened for | machinery which includes a complete |sawmill, binders, mowers, plows, threshing outfit, small farm tools and 200 cook stove Malaria Epidemic Breaks Out Again; Victims Are 54,000 COLOMBO, Cey April 23— | With 54,000 deaths already report- | of bloodhounds near Salmon Beach, |ed,’ it “is officially '’ stated the = north of the city. Kress was armed|malaria epidemic {5 Helieved to be with a knife but made no attempt|reviving in a nuthber “of ‘cities, to resist'when the dogs corndred him ! The hesptials are again Tilling up! and the posse surrounded him, {in all localities. e : Liberty of McNeil Island Prisoner Is Short Lived TACOMA, April 23.—Robert Kress, 39, McNeil Island penitentiary pris- oner, dumped the trusty operator of the prison launch overboard here to- day and sped away in the boat. He was later captured with the aid