The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 2, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVI., NO. 6951 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1935, ADVANCE SHIPS OF U. S, FLEET - NOWIN NORTH Twelve Seaplanes Leave Sitka for Kodiak, Sur- face Boats Following The advance guard of the United States Navy, in preparing for the great maneuvers to begin on the North Pacific next Sunday, is al-! ready in the morth, distributed at various points. The 12 naval seaplanes leaving — — T KIDDIES ROLL EASTER EGGS ON WHITE HOUSE LAWN & rector IRWIN TELLS OF MATANUSKA AT C.-C. MEET Chamber Hears Project Director, Troast De- scribe Valley Plan Juneau's business and professional leaders met Donald L. Irwin, di- of the Matanuska Valley farm colonization project, today. The meeting took place at the weekly session of the Chamber of Commerce at Bailey's Cafe, and it Twilight N ight; SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 2—Twe hundred and seventy- four Minnesota farm colonists sailed for Alaska at 5:25 o'clock yesterday aftermoon on the Army transport St. Mihiel. An ERA chorus and band gave a vorenade on the dock prior to the departure of the vessel, By W. A. WELLS SANFRANCISCO, Cal, May 2.— It’s a hardy life they face up north but they're a hardy bunch who face it, these modern argonauts who are sailing on the U. 8. transport St Mihiel into the sunlight of a new economic existence in the Matanus- 2()-H our Da ysfi to Greet New Alaska Pioneers A nments somewhat similar as to climate to that of the northern valley. | Rigors of ! weather, isolation and |the prospect of greater depriva- tions than most have been ac- icus!omml to have been stressed by |the Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration which is sponsoring this mass migration | Days 20 Hours Long | But the enthusiasms of those | depression or other adverse factors a losing one, have not been chilled. Relief officials here have been lit- :rho«n\ and of thousands who have| found the battle against drought,| PRICE TEN CENTS NORTH STAR i TAKING LUMBER FOR COLONISTS Director Erwin and Assist- ants Enthusiastic Over Big Undertaking |VESSEL EXPECTED TO LEAVE TOMORROW |Supplies for Two Months, | Tractors, Other Equip- |erally swamped by applications of| those who would join In the unique | ment Aboard colonization movement, Many times | the number which could be includ-| Bound for the great colonization ed have tried to get their names|project in the Matanuska Valley im added to the list. i Central Southern Alaska, and filled enced foresters, toughened to hard About the time the first contin-|with the courage and determination work months spent in the transi-'gent of homesteaders and their|to win, the vanguard of those who ent forest camps, chiefly in Cali- worker cohorts arrive, the da will | will turn the fertile Alaskan valley fornia. The farmers, whom the be 20 hours lonz and the remaininz|into a home site arrived in Juneau Sand Point near Seattle last Mon-: day morning, arrived at Sitka at/ 5:30 o'clock that afternoon, making a nonstop flight. | The planes left Sitka at 7o'clock ' yesterday morning on a nonstop flight for Kodiak and presumnb]y; arrived there as no advices have been received to the contrarv | Destroyers Breckenridge and Bid- joccured a few minutes after the 4 motorship North Star berthed at @ ' Pacific Coast Dock this forenoon. Assistant Director of the Bureau, of Indian Affairs Charles W.| Hawkesworth met Irwin and other { Matanuska officials and brought i them direetly off the boat to the § Chamber meeting. | ka valley of Alaska. The army of workers chosen to ccompany the handpicked contin- zent of agriculturalists have been vecruited from able-bodied, experi- dle and the service ship Sandpiper, ! at Sitka at the same time as the| seaplanes, also left there for un-; known destinations yesterday morn- ing. 1 All movements of the planes and surface - vessels are under secret orders. | Yesterday part of the Unitad States Battle Fleet entered the Golden Gate at San Francisco. Four cruisers of the flect, with an oil tanker, arrived at Port Angeles, Wash., this morning. How many others are to join the cruis- ers and how long they, will remain there is not announced. Associated Press dispatches from Seattle said part of the battle fleet is expected to enter Puget Sound sometime today. i SENATE BEGINS DISCUSSION OF BONUS MEASURE Effort Unde_:\;/ay to Raise Interest Rate on Harri- | son Bond Proposal WASHINGTON, May 2.—Plung- ing into the bonus issue after breaking the deadlock over the anti-lynching bill, the Senate found an effort under way to change the Harrison bonus compromise so it would pay five per cent on bonds to be exchanged for certificates instead of four per cent. The Patman and Vinson bills| also will be offered the Senate as substitutes for the Harrison bill.; Under the Harrison measure the| veteran who borrowed half on a thousand dollar certificate would receive about $180 at this time. COL, LINDBERGH IS THREATENED: 1 ARREST MADE Night Watchman Is Taken Into Custody in Pat- erson, New Jersey PATERSON, N. J., May 2.—J. N. Phillip Martin, aged 46, night watchman, is held pending arraign- ment on a charge of sending ob- scene letters in which he threatened Col. Charles A. Lindbergh with death. The police said the prisoner ad- mitted the letters were in his hand- writing but he does not remember writing them. One of the letters said: “This is from John and is not a ransom note. This is a killing note. Tl kill Lindy and myself. I'm John and I'm going to take the law in my hands.” Frank Dorbandt, Flier, Reported Seriously Ill, in Fairbanks Hospital ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 2— Reports received from Fairbanks (GERMANY OVER |race and decided on a new effort today say Frank Dorbandt, Alaskan flier, is dangerously ill with pneu- monia and with only a fighting chance to ‘recover. He is in St Joseph Hospital, Thousands of youngsters joinea in the fun at the traditional Easter Monday egg rolling on the White House grounds. At the right, Melbourne Christopher does some magic and Diana Roosevelt of Detroit Is astonished to find an egg in her mouth. Amy Roosevelt, her sister ( wvelt also found it amusing. Left: Some of the first group admitted to Photos) Air Reserves Summoned to Help Protect France Against Surprise Attack CEALLENGE OF - | will be mobilized of the government's campaign | bolster national defenses. By ROBERT B. PARKER 2.—Reserve air units his year as part to ister, d-that private organiza- tions will be called for the firs ARMS AGGEPTED [limt‘ this year, instead of in 1936 @as | previo y planned, because of the Great Bntam to Speed De_‘fear of a surprise attack on France . . . {from the air. fenses, Epecially Air | He tod the Union for Defense - Against Air Attacks that France’s Proglam air fleet is ready to answer “bom- 2 bardmen: by bombardment and in- cendiarism by incendiarism. Three Years' Work In One “I stop at the enumeration for vou have understood me,” he added. General Denain, who has com- pressed a three-year plane building pregram into one year to meet the challenge of Germany's air corps, said he had instituted “industrial imebilization” measures to assure de- livery of hundreds of new fighting | ships hefore December. | France, he said, will be able to LONDON, May 2—The British Government has accepted Ger-, many's challenge to an armament; to win the Reich’s cooperation in a general security system based on; disarmament. Premier Ramsay MacDcnald an- nounced that Great Brita.vs air program will be immediately ac- celerated and expanded. FALLS |N ‘of 1,800 new planes planned by | General Hermann Goering. uNE nusT BUWL | The air minister scoffed at the § |idea that an invading enemy fleet |cau1d paralyze the nation, for, he GOLURADU AREA protect herself. | General Denain said that in 1933 iR |the French fleet was composed of 3 . {and incapable of properly defend- n nght Clo‘_hes to ing the country. Its stocks of muni- Welcome Moisture tions and its armaments, he said SPRINGFIELD, Colorado, May 2.|War. —Rain splashed into the dust bowl| Force Triples This Year of the southwest last night and| “German air armaments forced us into the streets in their night|adopted two vears ago to modernize clothes to welcome the moisture|the fleet,” he said. “We now must make urgent efforts to develop an R ecigbag RAIN !more than match the reich’s fleet jcaid, France is strong enough to Residents Dash Into Streelsil.soo planes “of the vintage of 1925 |dated from the close of the world residents dashed from their bedsto speed up the program which was which poured down for two hours, reviving crop hopes. The rain was the first of any amouni since January and the heaviest since June, 1932. The rain; was quite general over this sec-| tion. |tripled and its radius of action antee of our security.” At the end of this year, the air minister said, the nation's bomb- At Dalhart, Texas, efforts to doubled. He said 24-hour watches bring rain by dynamite explosions|have bcen instituted at all air bases have failed so far. for instant action in case of sudden B attack. | French airplane factories, he re- vealed, are just beginning to reach ] | highspeed. Since January 1, he said, e (the number of planes in the air NEAR ANGHURAGE corps has been increased by 20 per ‘cem. | “The air corps is 40 per cent stropger than in 1933, said General ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 2.— Denain. “Our average radius i3 550 Ed Tepas was shot in the chest miles compared to 310 miles two and killed at the Toumi ranch, years ago.” four miles from here, in an alleged; Civilians Train to Watch drunken brawl. George Ray, Unit-| The corps, the minister told his ed States Army war veteran, has'audience, will receive soon a squad- given himself up to the Deputy ron of the world's most modern pur- United States Marshal. The latter | suit planes equipped with motor- said the shooting was admitted bY driven guns. Observation planes, of Ray but in self-defense when hit which Frances has nearly 850 now, by a bottle. Ray is still bleeding i) be increased nearly 50 per cent, badly in the jail here. he said. T 55 S VS | He revealed that 5000 civilian Twigs from 17,000 elmtrees sus- .ywatchers” have enrolled in the air pected of being infected with Dutch rajq defense program (o warn of elm disease have been inspected ___ during the past year, 1Contn{69d on Page Two) General Victor Dznain, Air Min-| left), and Mrs. Franklin D. Roose- the grounds. (Associated Press ATTACK MADE ON NEW DEAL BRINGS REPLY fiying organizations | Hull Goes to U. S. Cham-!vertisea before. ber Convention—Roose- | velt to Send Message 'WASHINGTON, ~May 2= Amitf- portunities will be opened up. signs of hostility between President Roosevelt and the United States Chamber of Commerce, Secretary of Interior Cordell Hull went before the businessmen’s convention to at- tack what he called “unscrupulous resistance” to the Roosevelt pro- gram of lowering tariffs in negotiat- ing reciprocal trade treaties. Secretary Hull criticised those business interests which he said were bringing pressure to bear in “fear they may deprived of even a small part of the artificial advantage given them by an over- indulgent Government.” It is reported the President is angry over the sharp assaults which convention speakers have launched|which can be raised in the Mata-|next year. We will make such large | against the New Deal measures and plans to send a message to the crganization at the annual dinner tonight. 20,000 AUTO WORKERS OUT G.M.PLANTS |Conference Between Union | Heads and Government [ Is Taking Place | DETROIT, Mich., May 2—Twen- ty thousand workers in the industry, forced into id through a series of strikes and aviation for reprisals, the best guar- |shutdowns in the General Molors\, = . .. qu have benefited through | Corporation and subsidiary plants, |today awaited the outcome of the scheduled peace conferences be- ing fleet, now about 300, will be|tween the American Federation of| |Labor officers and those of the | Government. - KILLS MOTHER, ~ DIES, GALLOWS BELLEVILLE, Ontario, May 2.— Harold W. Vermilyea, fruit farmer of California, who came here on a visit to his mother, was hanged early this morning for killing her in a dispute over money matters. | hand-picked. The workmen, being |laborers rom Alaska, | | Matanuska project Supplies will be A Irwin was introduced by N Lester Troast, Juneau man who is| architect - in - charge of the Mata- nuska colonization plan and who recently returned from Washing- ton, D. C. conferences. Irwin Speaks t attention was given Mr. !Irwin, the ex-Colorado farmer who ‘wm direct the producing work of Guun scHnUL the colony, when he arose to speak. | 'm going to live in that valley for a number of years. I believe F T RE {the plan is feasible and practicable and that it will be a success,” he said. “This Matanuska proposition of the Government's is advertising Alaska as it has never been ad- work army will help to establish, were handpicked in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, from en- | | Territorial Director of Edu- cation Speaks to Chamber Today “We, in charge, are not afraid of this project. In fact, I'm sure it is going to mean much to Al- 1 forecast that business op- | jaska. “Valley *colontgationdetails, * the Chamber of Commerce, in regu- lar luncheon session at Balley's Cafe today, heard Anthony E. Kar- nes, Territorial Director of Educ- cation, and also considered several important business details. Mr. Karnes, who recently re- turned from a trip to the States which took him to Washington, D. C., in the interest of Alaska school- am sure that new business ventures |will be attracted to Alaska. You people here can't lose anything by | the venture. You have everything to gain. I ask your co-operation.” | Troast Gives Detail 1 Mr. Irwin had been preceded |on the speaking program by Mr. | Troast, who gave more details of | the project. The Juneau man, who | will spend the summer in the|ing, told the Chamber that pros- Matanuska country supervising con- | pects were good “for a big advance struction work, gave his fellow-fon the practical side of education in townsmen an accurate picture of|Alaska.” | the plan. “By the practical side, I mean “The whole proposition.” Mr.|voeational and adult education,” | Troast said, “is being based on the|Mr. Karnes sald. “We have been |fact that $1,000000 of produce,|given $30,000 for vocational work nuska Valley, is being shipped in|strikes in vocational instruction |yearly to Anchorage and the Al-|that we shall employ a supervisor |aska Railroad belt from the Out-|of that work.” side. The project is based on the | market. However, we won't flood Part-Tinze Work Due any market with our produce; we| Mr. Karnes went on to tell how intend to control all production. part-time vocational training, such | “The directors and the immi- as has long been taught in the igrants to the valley have been|States, will be presented in Alaska next year. Students will be able to co-ordinate school work with lines of employment in which they may be engaged while attending classes. Then, too, where the demand is strong, adult education along voca- tional lines may be installed. “I am very hopeful for the edu- cational future of Alaska during the next four or five years,” Mr. Kar- nes concluded. Kirk Presides The business portion of the meet- ing found Willlam Kirk, second | purchased in Seward, Anchorage, yice president, presiding in the |and Fairbanks. Juneau and Ketchi-| yiace of R E. Robertson, who was unable to attend. |the purchase of lumber. Bec B s v | “This project can mean much to sent, | Alaska. We are developing a new |resource for the Territory; one |calling again for an evidence of Thalxeciitiva’ Board mesting from |that famous {Alaska Spirit. With Tuesday to Monday, These changes | your co-operation, it will be a suc- had been Proposed because of the | cess.” % 35 § .| new airplane service to Fairbanks ,BHOW_M",. ”f"x:'“,' :;V:edd;";'el: which often takes important per- f fe project, Do JSI9R sonages who arrive here on Tuesday fofticial - members of ihe projectyoyp, out of town before the Thurs- | party on the North Star. One was As% seakloi. - Provonents and. o | Francis L. Biggs, immediate archi- ponents. i 'Lh i syl tectural assistant to Troast. An- 8. 0. 1ae. wexe | other was Frank Bliss, assistant Secretary Curtis Shattuck read a i g B ant| Drief financial report which showed e O cmber. was | that $1.885 had been received from !gor!enss. T Lcwml]am well-known | 63h memberships. His comparison ,5:"' r of the North Star of meeting attendance showed that I 5 £ an average of 33 were attending | brought from California by the | North Star, represent all kinds of skilled labor. We telegraphed Gov. but not all ‘the trades which we needed to | work throughout the season, could be supplied by men now on relief here. Alaska to Benefit “Over $1,125,000 will be spent in the Territory by the Alaska Rural | Rehabilitation Corporation for the proposition to change the meeting date from Thursday to Tuesday and 'American Is Held on Charge of Espionage TOKYO, May 2—The ketch “Fly- ing Dutchman” and three men aboard, described as a retired Unit- ed States Navy Lieutenant, a Ger- \man and a Russian, are reported to have been detained in Formosa 10n 2 charge of espionage. luncheons this year as to 35 who attended last year. A motion was made and passed without formal vote to telegraph Gov. Gov. John 'W. Troy to inter- cede the Federal Communications Commission for concessions for the The ketch left Shanghai early in|KINY. April ostensibly to seek South Seas buried treasure. 1 The ketch is commanded by W. |8, Gates of Lancaster, Pa, and & former Lieutenant of the United States Navy, . Professor C. R. Kellogg of Massa- told a Stockton, Calif., club, the bee “works itself to death in six weeks,” i In addition to hearing Matanuska no vote was taken on the| .. heard. | chusetts State Agricultural College. | four hours scarcely darker than deep twilight. Yet the days will (Continued on Page Five) NORTH STAR IN PORT WITH 118 FOR MATANUSKA Motorship to Be in Juneau Approximately 24 Hours Loading Freight With one hundred and eighteen ‘members of the prelimiinary work- ers bound for the Matanuska Vals ley aboard, the motorship North Star, Capt. 8. T, L. Whitlam, com- mander, docked at the Pacific Coast | dock stortly before noon today. The 'mot,orahip 1il be In port approxi- mately 24 hours loading 170 tons of lumber and 55 tons of stoves to be used in the agricultural settlement. The North Star left San Francisco, bound directly for Ketchikan on April 23 after spending nearly five days in the Bay City loading 1,300 tons of lumber and freight Matanuska. Two days out of San Francisco, rought weather was encountered which delayed the North Star more than a day on its way north. Ap- | proximately 25 of the Transient | workers, many of whom are having | their first sea voyage, succumed to seasickness until they got their sea legs several days after leaving San Francisco, according to ships of- ficer's. The motorship docked in | mained there until 11:15 o'clock ‘ye:wrduy morning while 300 tons {of lumber were taken on board for |the Matanuska colony. | Impreved Quarters | The North Star,, which was chart- |ered from the United States Bu- |reau of Indian Affairs to be used in | transporting workmen and sup- M)lw.\ for the Mantanuska project, has ordinary accommodations for | about forty-five on board, includ- |ing steerage and temporary quart- |ers were arranged for the ad- ditional numbers. Bunks were in- |stalled in the after hold to ac- commodate 78 of the Transient | workers and others are taken care |of in the regular steerage quart- Regular Personnel | With the exception of the Ste- ward's department, the regular of- | ficers and personnel of the North | Star are aboard the vessel. In the steward's department, ten additional workers from the steward's depart- {ment, of the construction crew are [as»wlmg in handling the cooking |and serving of food. Ship’s Oficers | Officers aboard the motorship in addition to Capt. Whitlam are, |1st Mate E. L. Bush, 2nd Mate |I. Lystad, 3rd Mate, Charles Salen- jus; Chief Engineer, Herman San- wick, 1st Assistant Engineer W. H. | Greenfield, 2nd Assistant Engineer, | E. L. Holland, 3rd Assistant Engin- |eer O. Gunderson; Chief Steward |8. Sundt; Wireless Operator and | Purser M. Dowdy | In spite of the unusual crowd | aboard, Steward Sundt providing the same variety and quality of food |as that ordinarily served aboard | the North Star on its voyages to |Alaka. With siorage space for [ four months' supplies on the ves- o (Continued on Page EigaW -, eyed for | | Ketchikan Monday night and re-! shortly before noon today on the North Star Sfrong, weather tanned, clear- are these men, who came from all paris of the United States, aid the coming settlers in |wresting from the wilderness a | habitable community. | Two Divisions | Headed by Donald L. Irwin, Di- recior of Rural Rehabilitatfon for Alaska, who will have charge of the huge undertaking, two divisions ‘makc up the party which is to lake the initial step in making the proj- |ect an actuality. With Director Ir- win 18 Stewart Campbell, who will |be one of his chief assistants, and | Francis Biggs, who will be associat- ed with N. Lester Troast, architect in charge of construction. They are the leaders of the colonization division, Heading the construction .division is Frank U. Bliss, Divector of Con- struction. On his staff are Frank |G. carr, his secretary; W. T. Geis- man, photographer; Ben Jordan, steward; Dr. E. E. Ostrom, surgeon; Earl A. Osborn, nurse; C. R. Peck, chief mechanic; George Reuter, accountant; Charles R. Richards, | storekeeper; H. B. Stoneman, 8s- |sistant storekeeper; Eugene E. Sed- ille, labor foreman, and Albert C. Sneli, camp superintenent. In this division also are the 113 transient workers who were recruited from |every State in the Union and rep- iresent every trade, such as car- penters, plumbers, tractor opera- tors, engineers, well drillers and every other skilled mechanic need- ed in making the great project a success. In Conference Here Here the North Star is taking aboard 115,000 feet of lumber to add to her already large supply of goods being taken to the project, and she probably will be busy loading until about noon tomorrow. Mr. Irwin was in conference with the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation this afternoon, guing over the various details of .the big enterprise. - “The project is feasiblé “and should be a success,” he sald in an interview. “It is being run on a strictly business basis and the merit of the undertaking is un- questionable. While there are some details yet to be worked out, the major program is well in hand and before the summer is out, the col- onists will be all housed and the project we' under way.” Sanitation Sanitation, health conditions, policing and all the many details in connection with any communi- ties are being cared for so that the settlers should be off to a fly- ing start, he explained. Arriving at the project next week the first work will be throwing up tents for iemporary housing, the director said, in telling of the (Continuea on Page Two.) D to | \M. E. Bishop \Slanders U. S., In Address LOWELL, Mass, May 2, — Characterizing the United States as a staggering drunkem Na- tion, Bichop A. W. Lecnard, of Pittsburgh, Pa., told the New England Conference of Metho- d-ti Episcopal Church he would rather be the lowliest resident of the lowliest nation ¢n earth than be the President who sign- cd the bill repealing the Eight- eenth Amendment. The Bishep alo condemned Civorce ac married unfaithful- ness,