The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 30, 1935, Page 1

SKA EMPIRE VALL THE TIME” Y, APRIL 30, 1935 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS SUPREME COURT MAKES-RULING AGAINST DAMS - Refuses to (E;l Injunction| Asked for by Govern- ment of U. S. PARKER PROJECT IS HALTED, TIME BEING| Other Big Im rovemen!s- Immediately Placed in Precarious Position WASHINGTON, April 30.—Power and reclamation dams upon which millions have been spent by PWA| are apparently in a precarious po- sition as the result of a decision| of the Supreme Court which re- fused to grant the United States Government an injunction prohibit- ing Arizona from forcibly halting| or otherwise interfering with con-| struction of the Parker Dam on the Colorado River. The Court held that construction of the Parker Dam has not been authorized by law. It was recalled however, that the same procedure followed in approving and alloting! money for the Parker Dam as was| followed in allocations made for| construction of the Grand Coulee, Bonnevilie, Fort Peck and some up- per Mississippi. River works. No court action was inaugurated against construction of any other dams but lawyers said they believed the decision will open the way for such action. Wotk has been stopped on the ANNUAL SPRING CLEAN-UP WILL START MONDAY Entire Week Beginning May 6 Set Aside for Beautifying City Juneau's annual spring Clean-up, Paint-up campaign will start off next Monday, May 6, with a week designated as “Clean-up, Paint-up,” according to W. B. Kirk, chairman of the civic improvement commit- tee of the Apneau Chamber of Com- merce. ¥.yer members of the com- mittee are Allen Shattuck and H. B. LeFevre. “The beautifying and improving of Juneau’s general appearance is an endeavor that can only be made possible through the individual co- operation of every property owner, and community minded citizen of Juneau. Through individual efforts in cleaning up yards, painting hous- es and buildings, the collective re- sult will be a much more attractive Juneau,” Mr. Kirk said today. ‘“Fur- ‘ther, the value of the property will be increased through repairs, im- provements and painting.” “The Clean-up, Paint-up commit- tee strongly urges all Juneau to assume hearty cooperation, and to make 1935 the most successful of all Juneau's Clean-up, Paintup cnmpaigns eonunued Mr. Kirk. WAGNER LABOR BILL REPORTED, SENATE TODAY Cool Reception Accorded! Measure—New Compli- cations for NRA Anse WASHINGTON, April 30.—A fa- vorable report on the Wagner Labor Relations bill has been plumped in- to the Senate to complicate con- fusion surrounding the future of NRA. i The Wagner bill, which will bef offered as an amendment to NRA legislation, if not assured separate consideration, was favorably report- ed by the Senate Labor Committee. | The bill met a cool reception from | the Democratic leaders in the Sen-| ate despite claims of White House friendliness. Labor leaders are cheered over the :Price Says It’s Understood passenger at Whitehorse to make “|the trip. from..there. to,. MM G. E. sholin and E. T. Sholin Hoover Willing to Accept | if G.0.P. Urges Nomination By I!YRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) Not even the most optimistic of the Republican doctors expect their medicine to accomplish a party re- covery overnight. It is not that they believe anti- administration sentiment is lacking imong the voters. Many of them —though not all—are convinced the country is turning definitely away rom Mr. Roosevelt. The problem which worries them is how to capitalize that defection. 1 The conferences now being held, and those soon to be held, are of two kinds—both looking to the long future. Some of these meetings have be- hind them a well-concealed plan to promote the candidacy of one or another of the Republican Presi- dential aspirants. Others represent a more disinter- ested effort to find out what is wrong with the party, and what can be done to accomplish some- thing resembling unity in 1936. It would be a mistake to sup- pose that any of the powwows to be held at any time within the next few months will be at all conclusive. They are not so in- tended. It is too early for that. Is nghesl Salaried Corporate Official In United States WASHINGTON, April 30. — The Securities Commission has announced that Thomas John Watcon, President of the Inter- notional Business Machines Cor- poration, of New Jersey, draws the highest corporate salary in the United States. He received $365,538 last year. — ee— PAA ELECTRA LEAVES TODAY FORFAIRBANKS Seven Take Passage from Juneau for Interior City on Plane { With seven passengers from Ju- neau, the Pacific Alaska Airways Electra, piloted by Joseph Barrows, Murray Stewart, co-pilot, left the Juneau PAA Airport this afternoon| |at 3 c'clock bound for Fairbanks cn its weekly scheduled trip to the Interior city. Thoee leaving here on th# plane; are Roy Stotts, Alfred Lomen, G. E. Shelin, E. T. Sholin, Capt. Mur-] ray Hall, W. A Castleton and Alex Holden. The plane has one REPUBLICAN PROBLEMS Inevitably, at every such gather-| ing, two principal issues arise. The No. 1 bothersome question is, almost universally, just how con- servative the G. O. P. can afford to be in next year's campaign. Should the party continue to play the role of constitutional con-} servatism, attack all that Mr' Rogsevelt - has ddne 188 Iy, unsound and socialistic, and kiss| the Wostern Republican radicals and Mr. Castleton for Nome and|goodbye? Or should it rely on are bound for Solomon, Mr. Lomen Mr. Stotts, Capt. Hall and Mr. compromise measures, and try to Holden for Fairbanks. |be conservative enough to carry | On the return trip to Juneau|the Bast but liberal enough to have ' the PAA Electra is due here next|a chance also in the West? Sunday anernoon at 3 o'clock. The No. 2 question has to do | with Mr. Hoover, who recently has undertaken to reassert his party! leadership. Should he be encour- jaged, or would it be better if the| ')dll\ divorced mclr ver y defm‘t"‘y nwm and (m,n any prospect of !carrying & Hoover label in 19362 Nuw FUR BEAR will surprise many Republicans ther cne of these questions is ‘{m, red with any degree of final- ity for months to come. Seattle Business Man Re~‘, : POSSIBLE CANDIDATE> turns from Inte}flor. | The same can be said of Presi- Westward Trip dential candidates. The field Is so large and confused, and the Following an extended business nomination date so far away, that| trip in the interests of the National feW experienced politicians will Grocery Company, R. E. Lang, ’e\en predict who the three or fom‘ President of the company, will;leaders will be by the time the leave Juneau early tomorrow morn-|convention meets in June, 1936. ing, with Mrs. Lang on their pleas—i Whatever list is made up today ure cruiser, the “Gadget,” to hunt|must be on the basis of present brown bear, on Admiralty and|activity only, not on the basis of | Chichagof islands. known prospects. Mr. Lang reported business con-| On such a list, for the time be- ditions in the parts of the Interior{ing at least, musi be placed Mr. which he visited as “flourishing.” |Hoover himself. It is well under- On the business trip, Mr, Lang(stcod he would accept if urged, visited Cordova, Seward, Fairbanks|and that his f[riends are feeling! and. down the Yukon as far as/out sentiment in his behalf. Kaltag and back to Fairbanks by| There is a noticeable activity| plane. He arrived in Juneau Sun-|on behalf of Col. Frank Knox, the day from Fairbanks on the PAA|Chicago publisher, particularly in; plane. the South and Midwest. In fact,| Previous to the Westward and|at this stage, the campaign for him | Interior trip, Mr. Lang called at|seems as well organized as any. Southeast Alaska towns with his|He disavows connection with it. local representative, Chet Johnson., Many Republicans believe the| John Harris, well known Juneau|Hoover strength, whatever it big game guide, will accompany|amounts to, will go eventually to the Langs on the bear hunt, upon|Ogden Mills, of New York, who completion of which ‘the wisitors|was Mr. Hoover's Secretary of the will return to Seattle, headquart-|Treasury. ers for the company, and their] Many others believe a com-| home. promise inevitable, and are talking of Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan as the most likely ‘bene- ficiary, : P SR SCHOOLMAN TRAVELS Headmaster Lonsdale, of the Shawnigan Lake School for Boys on | Vancouver Island, is enroute to Scward on the Alaska. He took| The work being done on behalr pa:z:age at Seattle. His school,!0f others is less 'noticeable, but | well-known in the Pacific Norm-l hat need not mean that they can! west, is about 40 miles outside of { b disregarded. Often the final Victoria, B. C: 5 weeks of the pre-convention cam- paign, or even the convention| pericd itself, produces the winner. In spite of all the talk, the whole party situation inevitably WAIT AND SEE - MESPELT TO KUSKOKWIM A partner of Leo Rod Rodrigue in a gold mine in the Kuskokwim country, F. W. Mespelt is traveling to Seward on the Alaska from Se- attle. Mespelt and Rodrigue oper- ate a mine on the Nixon Fork of the Kuskokwim River. Their post- office is Medfra. - way, is enroute to Juneau from Se- FLOE TO KETCHIKAN attle. He stopped off at Ketchikan, O. P. Floe, ‘connected with the|being brought to the First City by Northwest Herring Company, left on |the Alaska. He Is due in Juneau of | wait-and-see. > - KATZ ENROUTE Karl K. Katz, Alaska representa- report. } the Yukon for Ketchikan, soon. NAVY STATION |quarters moved to Anchorage and {23 to assist in holding the flames ‘ POST _CONCILIATOR must remain very much a matter| | I tive of ‘the Northern Pacific Rail-| U, S, CHAMBER OF GOMMEHGE Keynote Amss Is Made g President arriman Today b H L SUGGESTIONS MADE TO ADMINISTRATION| Four Planks for Recovery Are Listed—"Reform Measures” Out WASHINGTON, April 30.—A call to the Administration to postpone|: “reform measures” in the interests| @ of speedy recovery is advocated by Henry I. Herriman, President of the |, United States Chamber of Com- merce. This was the keynote of Harri- man'’s address at the opening of the annual convention. Harriman's speech disclosed vital differences from the views of the Administration on several major Roosevelt plans for the New Deal. He said that the New Deal has at- tempted much that is good but it tried to do too much in a short time. Harriman listed four planks for recovery which he visioned as likely to wipe out unemployment and cre- ate a labor shortage, as follows: Assurance that Congress will ad- journ soon; international stabiliza- tion of currencies at the earllest possible date so foreign trade may move with less hazard; strong as- surance that further devaluation of the dollar will not be used as a measure .19, restore. prices, and curance of a definite and dras reduction in government expendi- tures -after the present emergency jappropriations are spept. - ATSEWARDIS FLAME SWEPT Loss Is Estimated at $50,- 000—No Facilities to Fight Fire SEWARD, Alaska, April 30. Eight buildings of the abandoned Navy radio station have been lost in flames started by a brush fire. | The dwellings, store house, (ool housz and garages, located about two miles from the town, were val- ued at $50,000. Thepe were no pumping facilities 50 the local fire department mem- bers were helpless. Residents and members of the crews of the coast guard cutters Tallapoosa and Mor- ris battled the flames but their fight was useless and the entire station was destroyed. The station was turned over to the United States Signal Corps sev- eral years ago but the Army head- since then the buildings at the | Navy station have stood idle. AID IS SUMMONED SEWARD, Alaska, April 30.—For- estry Service men have beeén called from the Ranger Station at Mile from entering the deeply wooded area near the Naval Radio station. 1 the fire catches the timber, the entirs countryside will be swept Dynamite is being used. So far the flames are under control -oe OF LABOR, ENROUTE CORDOVA CANNERIES In an attempt to settle a cannery labor dispute in Cordova, Charles Johnson Post, Commissioner of Con- ciliation in the Department of La- bor, is enroute from Seattle to the Prince Willlam Sound port. Post was in Juneau while the Al- aska was in port. He is expected to return here after aitempting to cettle disputes at Cordova and Sel- dovia. Traveling with Post to Cordova are three cannery executives. They are: F. A. Kepner, New England Fish Company; W. H Harris, Ste- phens Creek cannery; H. M. Parks, ;&": Major General Paul B. Malone, new Comman icr of the Ninth Corps Arca, with headguartcrs at the Presidio of San Francisco, is ‘indicated by arrow when he inspected trocps of the Sixty-third Cozst « Artillery, anti-aircraft unit at Fert McArthur, near Los Angele: assuming the command and he gave troops and e.ipmenl cne of the most. minute insp: Gen. Malone is known for his bravery and slhhfllng throughout the werld seen there. for his forensic ability. + BELIEVE HITLER PLANNING NEW | SURPRISE MOVE Expect Sioe > Tactics Used in/Reference to Rearma- an A GENEVA, April 30—A German naval officer said today Germany cible existence of a submarine fleet. It indicated Hitler thus apparently hopes to pursue the same surprise tactics he eniployed in reference to Germany’s rearmament on land and in the air. France with an eye on Germany's keep her own air force at full trained aviation machine gunners,| radio operators and mechanics to fill vacancies at Dugny military mr base at LeBourget Field. At the| same time France moved for avia-| tion alliances with other nations and toward completion of the Fran- co-Russian mutual assistance treaty. An authoritative scource said the proposed naval conversations be- tween Britain and Germany had| been postponed pending an expect-| ed announcement by Hitler on Ger-| many's foreign policy. The belief grew that Britain was planning a protest against the latest German rearmament. NRA IS UPHELD; FEDERAL JUDGE lating to Wages and Hours, Truck Code h., April 30.—Fed- eral Judge J. Stanley Webster has ruled NRA is constitutional insofar as it regulates to maximum hours and minimum wages in Interstate Commerce. The ruling was made as the court granted the Government’s tempor- ary injunction restraining T Brown, of Detroit, the wage hour provisions trucking code. —————— . HAZEL KIRMSE AND E RETURN IN SOUTH of the MR! After spending the winter in the south, Mrs. Hazel Kirmse and her son, Jack Kirmse, arrived in Ju- neau on the steamer Alaska. They expect to remain here for a week before going to Skagway to open the two Kirmse curio s.ops there for the coming scason. While most of their time was spent in Los An- ter, Mrs. J, F. Malony in Seattle Ploneer Sea Foods, for a month before coming. north, would officially deny the long pos-| BIVES DECISION Act Constitutional as Re-| geles, they visited Mrs. Kirmse's sis- | 1 Opposed to aneuvers Rev. Charles Seldon Says It Is Just to Bluff Japanese Nation ..To) . “April 30~ The Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, peace crusader and author of “In His | Steps,” States naval maneuvers “are for | the purpose of bluffing Japan and | there is no reason for them.” { The minister continued: ‘‘Every thousands of loaves of bread have | been spent. “Let the old men who start wars rearmament in the air sought to|take the place of the youth of the of Lincoln in June. s {world and they will find a new slo- | strength by calling for recruiting of gan ‘Old men start wars, let them will not be welcome to the confer- | fight them. METALS RAILS SLIP SLIGHTLY, TRADING TODAY During Session—Profit Takers Gainers NEW YORK, April 30. — Stocks | stuttered as profit takers, expect- ing a sizeable corrective reaction {went home with some of firm but metals and rails dipped. | Today's close was irregular. CLOSING PRIC TODAY | NEW YORK, April 80.—Closing {quotatfon of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 17%, American Can 120, American Power and Light 3%, | Anaconda 14'% ,Armour 3%, Bethle- hem Steel 25%, Celumet and Hec- la 3%, General Motors 29%, Inter- |nauonnl Harvester 397, United | States Steel 32'i, Pound $4.83%, | Bremner bid 63 asked 68, Nabesna ibid 55, asked 70. - STRAY SHOTS from violating | INJURES MAN SEATTLE, April 30 |Marl, aged 37, President of the M and E Cigar Company, is in the | hospital, shot in the shoulder, and Landon G Monte Vaughn, aged 39, Merchant Patrolman and Mrs, Beulah Seger, aged 36, Everett waitress, are held pending an investigation of the shooting in front of the Chamber of Commerce. Vaughn told the police he fired two shots in the air after an argu- ment with a stranger who had, he said, insulted Mrs. Seger, Vaughn said he did, not know the bullets lm;d struck anyone, On Pacific; asserted here the United | time a gun is fired in peace several| Specialties Remain Firm} their | |gains, A number of specialties were was his fir:! visit to the fort cinoe fons ever as well as GOING TOBE TOUGH ON OLD G. 0. P. GUARD No Conflict with New Group but They Are Not Just Wanted Around: KANSAS CITY, April 30. Staunichly contending there is no conflict between the old and new guards but declaring also that seek- | {ers of holders of public office are not wanted at the convention of the Mid-west Republican, leaders today looked forward to the selec- tion of delegates to the projected | “Grass Roots” crusade to the Shrine ! Members of Congress especially (ence. Those making plans for the Springfield meeting said privately: “We do not want those fellows there |trying to explain why they voted rfor all ol these Roosevelt poltcles - l INT. HIGHWAY - HAS SUPPORT, B.C. PEOPLE 'Member of Parliament De- clares Residents Are Behind Project SEATTLE, April 30.—Wholeheart- ed support of the people of British Columbia for the proposed Alaska- | Yukon-Pacific Highway is assured | by George M. Murray, member of |the British Columbia Parliament. This assurance was given here at a meeting of the Seattle Chamber |of Commerce sponsored by the Al- aska Highway Committees of the Legion and Lions Club. R Wind Kn:lu Up Dmmond as Well as Kansas Dust | HAYS, Kas., April 30—It was an PRICE TEN CENTS BOAT CARRYING SETTLERS WILL STOP IN JUNEAU Families Will Be Given Day or Two in Various Alaska Ports TROAST TELLS OF BUILDING PROGRAM Two Million Fhet ‘of/bikne ber to Be Bought from - Mills in Territory Juneau will have an opportunity to play host to the Matanuska col- onists for one or two days on their way to the new project. This was the information brought here today by N. Lester Troast of the Bureau of Indlan Affairs and architect for the big undertaking | when ha arrivad on the Alaska from Secattle. Mr. Troast, who has been in Washington preparing plans, will bave charge of all construction on the project. The St. Mihiel, army transport, which is bringing the settlers north, will stop at Ketchikan, and Juneau on both trips during May, he said. The North Star which is bringing transient men from California to do the preliminary work is now in Ketchikan loading lumber and is expected to arrive here Thursday where she also will take lumber from the Juneau Lumber Mills, one of the successful bidders for Mat- anuska b Chance For Sightseeing The St Mihiel will lea Francisco an the first trip ‘with 66 familiés and 360 and will stop at Retchikan and Ju- neau to take’ lumber, Mr. Troast said. On the second trip she’ will leave Seattle May 15 with 134 fam- ilies, averaging about five to the family, and also will stop here, “We are not herding these pedple into the north,” he said, “but giv- ing them an opportunity to see things. They will have a 'day or two in Juneau, Ketchikan and per- haps some of the other ports.” The colonists are of the highest type, the architect said, in explain- “Ban’ |ing that relief directors and other experts of the three states, Minne- sota, Wisconsin and Michigan, had been called into conference in Wash- ington and évery possible effort ex- tended to pick the people which would be most likely to make a suc- cess in the new venture. Benefits of Project Revealing the benefits of the project to Alaska, Troast said about two million feet of lumber would be purchased from Alaska mills for the construction and that feed, seed and other articles available in the Territory would be bought in Alas- ka to start the settlers out. Certain other supplies also wilk be bought from concerns within the Terrkory, he said. The first transients going to Mat- anuska on the North Star will im- mediately erect tent camps, he ex-~ plained, so that quarters will be available for the first families when they arrive on the St. Mihiel. Con- struction of houses and community center will be pushed at once and by fall it is expected the colonists will be adequately housed for the winter. Houses of Logs All settlers’ houses and out build- ings will be of loz while the com- munity_center which will inciude¥a churcly, school, garage, creamery, store”and 'so on, will be of frame construction and modern_in' évery respect. Some $115,000 will go into the sehool and other v.u-ms in the ill wind that Kicked up the dust and blew it all ‘over ‘tHe country \but it did Mrs. F. D. Lee a good turn when il uncovered a ble diamond she had’ lost fou age The stone came ‘frem Mrs. Lee's engagement ring. had made several unsuccessful searches Recently, after the wind had swept |the grass, leaves and dust from; the Lee yard, there lay the dia-, mond in plain sight | D RETURN and Murs. Claude Erskine re-| i to Juneau op the Alaska from Seattle, after a brief vacation) period in the States. Mr. Erskine, an employee of the Alaska Juneau | Gold Mining Company, ‘is well-! Known here as a baseball and bas- i kethall stur, l | be given «financia’ commanity; center and's s e school will' be’ one of'the finest in the Territory. It is estimated there will be at least 450 pupils. Lecation of e Communily center will bé at the station of Palmer on the Alaska Railroad, and one of the interesting features will be a community chick- | en ranch, although the farmers also will be able to have some ghickens. The farm homes will be built in groups of four, that is, at the four corners of adjoining 40-acre tracts |and close to the loop road which will touch every farm. Take in Present Farmers The few farmers already in the Matanuska will be taken into the project, Mr. Troast said, and will assistance the same as the imported farmers. Con- trolled preduction will bé the basio it (Continued on Page Twa)