The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 4, 1935, Page 1

- v THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVL, NO. 6953 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1935. CLOSING HOUR [4pproves Measure for Use of | ALASKA ITEMS MARINE STRIKE $75,000,000 for Revival of | LIQUOR CLAUSE IS NOT PASSED Council C;w;s_ First Read- ing Okeh to Ordinance, Minus Section Liquor stores and beer and wine dispensaries in Jupeau will be sub- jected to no closing hour restric- tions whatsoever, if the City Coun- cil continues to move as it did last night at the City Hall. Acting with a swiftness that left several liquor dealers in the large audience puzzled for a few minutes ! asto what had happened, the Coun- cil passed through the first read- ing a new liquor ordinance. This ordinance, embodying no early morning or Sunday closing hours, must be passed twice more, at two week intervals, before becoming ef- fective. | A rough draft of the ordinance had been presented the councilmen at their last regular meeting two weeks ago. At that meeting a hint of opposition to the closing hour restrictions was voiced not only from | liquor men in the visitors’ gallery Mmmg Industry WASHINGTON, May 4—The House ! Mining Committee has reported fav-| orably on the Scrugham bill tof authorize the use of $75,000,000 of the work relief funds for rehabilita- tion of the metal mining industry and the relief of unemployed min- ers. The bill provides that stranded mining populations could be put to work by the Mines Bureau to de- |velop gold and silver deposits and other deficient minerals. The bill also provides for a gen- eral mine rvey to employ a large number of miners. PLANE HELD FOR FLIGHT, PT. BARROW Pilot Jones “Stands By” and noncompetitive but from the Council table. Clause Is Stricken That opposition apparently had | grown during the two-week inter- val. When City Clerk A. W. Henning read the final draft last night pre-| pared by City Attorney H. L. Faulk-, ner, the ordinance included, under| the label of “Section 16, regula-| tions which would have shut down; all liquor, beer and wine sales from 1 o'clock 7 o'clock every. morning, and from 1 o'clock Sunday morning to {7 o'clock Monday morning. \ No sooner had the City Clerk: finished reading-the bill than Coun- cilman Henry Messerschmidt mov- ed the adoption of the ordinance for first reading, providing the dis- puted “Section ' 16" be stricken. Councilman Art McKinnen gave fl! second. The vote was unanimous,| without Councilman Wallis 8., George who is in the States, absent. The large gallery sat quiet. Then, when Mayor Isadore Goldstein| asked for opinion on what the| Council had just voted, dealers arowi and began to speak in protest of| the closing clause. They did not| comprehend, until it was explained | to them, that the Council had eli- minated that clause. Douglas Will Follow In substance, the bill contains no other disputed points, except that, in accord with a recent Ter- ritorial Board of Liquor Control| regulation, the age limit of persons who may enter liquor stores and dispensaries is lowed from 21 to 18 years. However, no liquor or beer may be sold to a person who is younger than 21 years of age. Mayor Goldstein announced, be- fore the' liquor vote was taken, that Mayor A. E. Goetz of Douglas had told him that the Douglas City Council would copy its liquor regu- lations after Juneau’s. Before the liguor the liquor ques- tion was raised, councilmen were asked by Glen Sutherland, of Ta- come, to pass an ordinance licensing | ! _ | notified to get in touch with Dr. a past time, which he called ] cination,” in Juneau. Sutherland said he planned to install the dart game, which would require 15 em- ployees, in the newly ,opened “Ter- minal” at Front and Seward Streets. To Investigate Apparantly councilmen wanted to know more about the game, describ- ed by its backers as a game of skill and not p .mbling, for no action was taken other than to appoint a committee of investigation. Coun- cilman Messerschmidt was named chairman, and McKinnon and Beistline were appointed to work with him. Telegrams from Seattle and Ta- coma, were received by the Council in answer to queries about the game. The Tacoma message called Sutherland a high type business man” and said municipal authorities had received “no complaints,” al- though the Pierce County prosecut- ing attorney had succeeded in hav- ing the game, which offers mer- chandise orders on stores as prizes. closed. A considerable number of Juneau merchants have expressed them- selves in favor of the ordinance which Mr. Sutherland requests. Sutherland said that Tacoma, Spokané, Bremerton, Portland, and Eugene, Ore., all had ordinances licensing the game. Sutherland said that Tacoma, Spokane, Bremerton, Portland and (Continued on Page Eight) jTOW. at Nome Ready for Emergency Trip NOME, Alaska, May 4. Pilot Jones has been ordered to “stand by’ here in c: the influenza epi- demic gets worse at Point Barrow and Dr. Rex F. Swartz is required there to assist Dr. Henry Griest. Filot Jones a ed here enroute to Point Barrow to bring out two !polar bear hunters enroute to the States and was ordered to remain here temperarily for any emer- gency which might arise. Officials Busy Here Though the epidemic of influenza reported by Dr. Henry Greist at Point Barrow, is said to be under control, plans to send serum and { medical assistance to the stricken ccmmunity are going ahead, ac- ! cording to Charles W. Hawkesworth Assistant to the Director of the U S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, who is working in co-operation with Dr. W. W. Council, Territorial Health Officer and the Governor's office. Wires have been sent to Dr. F. B. Gillespie, Health Officer at Fair- banks and to Dr. Rex Sw Health Officer at Nome, to deter- mine the amount of influenza serum available at those stations. If either have a sufficient amount, it will be taken by plane directly to Point Barrow, together with an ad- ditional doctor to help Dr. Greist in handling the thirty cases re- ported. If there is no serum avail- able at Nome or Fairbanks, it will be sent to the latter place from Ju- neau on the PAA plane Tuesday, and from there to Point Barrow. Doctors Ready Either Dr. Swartz, of Nome, or Dr. R. Edward Smith, Indian Bu- reau doctor at Kotzebue, will ac- company the serum to Point Bar- Nurses from nearby com- munities will also be sent, if needed, Mr. Hawkesworth said. Dr. Smith now in Fairbanks and has been Gillespie to await orders. Frank Dougherty, Indian Bureau teacher at Point Barrow, wired ‘Mr. Hawkesworth yesterday that the epidemic was under control, but the serum will be sent anyway for future use, Mr. Hawkesworth said. ‘Everything possible is being done to alleviate the situation,” he said. | In the community of three hun- dred and fifty people, thirty cases of the disease have been reported with eight deaths. Seven of those who succumed were natives, A. H. Hopson, well known whaler is the only white person who has died, Dr. Greist wired. Tinged with the drama that clings to all places in the Arctic, the re- ported epidemic has attracted na-, tion wide attention and wires have seen received by the Governor's office from national news agencies, offering planes and aid to the stricken area. - MUST SERVE SENTENCE Suspended se ntence of four months for game law, violation given Willie Hanson last year was revoked by U. 8. Commissioner J. F. Mullen today when Hanson was found guilty of being drunk and disorderly. In addition to serving the four months for shooting game Aid Mi mers Ends Romance” In Murder, Then Suicide CHEHALIS, Wash., May 4.— Mrs. Evelyn Clark,aged 48, who shot and killed E. J. Nixon, business man, and for which she was charged with first de- gree murder, suicided by taking poison. Mrs. Clark was in a state of collapse all day yesterday and died last night, She told the wife of the jailer that she took poison before her arrest last Thursday in the wcods where she was found after she shot Nixon in an attempt {o break a “romance.” Mrs. Clark is survived by her husband Harry, a barber, and two daughters. STOCK PRIGES KEEP STEADY, SHORT SESSION Moderate Improvement to All Groups with Com- modities Indifferent NEW YORK, May maintained a steady pearance in all divisions at the short session today. Moderate im- provement was shown by nearly all groups, however leading commodities were indifferent. Today's close was firm. 4. — Stocks to firm ap- CLOSING PRICES TOPAY NEW YORK, May 4.— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock is 17'%, American Can 113%, American Power and Light 3%, An- aconda 14, Armour N 37, Bethle- hem Steel 25%, Calumet and Hecla 3%, General Motors 31, Internatio al Ha 3 40‘ Kennecott 17 RADIO TELEPHONE TALKS BECOMING DAILY OCCURENCES With the perfection of the radio telephone, which was installed in the U. S. Signal Corps office here a year ago, conversations with Se- attle are becoming almost a daily occurence. Yesterday afternoon, during a test hook-up, Charles E. Smith, operator in charge of the office, bert Wile to Capt. F. E. Stoner, Executive Officer of Cerps in Seattle and to Capt. Ed- wards, who recently joined the Seattle office. This morning Acting Governor E.| 'ALASKAN FLIER W. Griffin and Harry G. Watson, Secretary to the Governor, versed with Col. Capt. Stoner, Charles Murphy, Traffic Superin- tendent, over the telephone. FIVE TRAPPED, con- G. E. Kumpe, DIE IN FLAMES POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., May 4. are in hospitals, victims of a fire which trapped them in a four-story frame apartment house. The police claim the fire was started by three small boys play- ing near the outside stairway. The dead are: Herbert Seifts, his wife and two small children, and Shirley Elmore, aged seven years, e — Police Seek Youth for Chloroforming, Assault of Seven-Year-Old Girl OAKLAND, Cal, May 4. — The police are seeking a youth who lured a 7-year-old girl, name with- held, to the hills, chloroformed and then criminally assaulted ner. The girl recovered from the out of season, Hanson also was chloroform and was found stag- given a fine of $100 on the latest | gering in a dazed condition on the charge and a of six months in jail, spended sentence!railroad tracks. Her face was bad-|as a passenger on the Vancouver- 'lly burned by the chloroform, introduced Postmaster Al- | the Signal, Capt. Edwards and! |sion of the District Court for —Five persons are dead and seven | jpz ARE ENDORSED | BY NAT. R. H. C. Program Is Also ! Commended ASHINGTON, May 4—The Na- ticnal Rivers and Harbors Congress has recommended development of almost nine hundred million dollars worth of projects and commended President Roosevelt’s conservation and work relief programs. Projects endorsed by the congress include the following in Alaska: Wrangell harbor, Dry Pass, Stik- ine River, Kodiak harbor, Egegil ['R)ver. Nome harbor, Cordova har- | bor, Harbor of refuge at Seward an | Metlakatla harbor. } Washington State projects recom-; {mended include Puget Sound, Will-| |apa harbor, Columbia river canal ystem. | | (.. PETERSBURG HRBOR O. K. ‘ WASHINGTON, May 4. — The | Projects Committee which has con=} {tinued consideration of rivers and lhax‘box 'S proje announces approval the Petersburg, Alaska harbor, "md has placed it on the meritor- ious list. CONSTRUCTION OF BREWERY IS ANNOUNCEDHERE Buildingm—B;gin Soon_on| Recently Purchased Prop- | erty by Local Men i | Construction of a modern brew- ery will be started in the near| future by the Mount Juno Brewing Company, it was announced today by G. E. Krause, President of the| ccmpany. Two lots, located be- tween the Southeast Alaska Fair| Building and the Krause Construc-| ticn Company, were recently pur- chased as a site. One lot was sold Allen Shattuck and the other| IS POSSIBILITY, PACIFIC COAST President’s Erk Relie Adminislralio? Asked to! Name Presidential Ar- bitration Board Marine Unions, Pacific Coast oil have wired the ‘Washington asking the appointment fof a Presidential Arbitration Board to avert a possible general coast- wise shipping walkout. One t am charged that tank- ers are carrying explosive cargoes with incompetent crews without radio officers and forming a menace to navigation Gther tled conditions made a general tie- involved tankers in strike, acts promptly Harry Lundberg, President of the Marine PFederation of the Pacific .| with 35000 members, said the entire Imembership is awaiting Government action. LUMBER MEN WALKING OUT IN NORTHWEST Five Thousand Have AlL| ready Quit Jobs—No Strike Called Yet [ SEATTEE, May 4.—Spreading rap- [idly, the walkouts by Pacific North- \\esL lumber workers has reached 5,000 men during the past three days. A general strike is threat-| \('ncd in the entire lumber industry | in Oregon and Washington. Union heads said no strike has yet been are walking out just the same. GAME COMMISSION OFFICIALS TALK Jack Laurie, Mr. Krause said. cf the company which/ zed at $60,000, in addi by Offices is capital tion to President Krause, are Vice- President, Oscar Harri; Treasurer,| J. B. Godfrey; Secretary, Howard E. Simmocns. Only $15,000 of the stock is still unsold or subscnbed for, officers stated. An experienced brew master been engaged and much of th necessary equipment has been pur ! chased, some of which has already| It has | |arrived here, Mr. Kause said. will be the policy of the new con- jcern to use only the choicest mater- ials in the brewing of Mt. Juno beer, thereby insuring beer lovers of this vicinity the best drink pos- |sible, Mr. Krause said. DIES, PNEUMONIA FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 4. —| Frank Dorbandt, Alaskan flier, is dead here as the result of pneu- monia. He was one of the picture- sque aviators of the north and was recently in the public eye when fined $750 at the Ketchikan ses- fly- illegal furs to the south. He had joined in several searchers for had joined in several searches for own plane in this section. SN Snow Storm Gives Moisture to Vast Dust Bowl KANSAS CITY, May 4— A May snow storm appeared and breught a turn for the better in the 18,000,000 acres dust bowl of the southwest. The snow brought the first meisture of any consequence in months, - e ~ NEILSEN TO LEAVE Frank Neilsen, an employee Of the Sanitary Meat Market Com- pany, will leave here tomorrow es merning for, a trip to the S bound Princess Norah, ON RADIO PHONE H. W. Terhune, Executive Of- icer of the Alaska Game Commis- | sion arrived in Seattle last evening 'and will remain there until next | week before returning to Juneau, according to a conversation held with him over, the radio telephone m the U. S. Signal Corps office by Frank Dufresne, Assistant Ex- ecutive Officer this morning. Mr. | Terhune has been in Washington, D. C., since last January on game { commission business. Mr. Terhune said rived by plane from Washington, | D. C, last evening, after a good trip across the continent. He is vis- | iting with Mrs. Terhune and their daughter Elizabeth who have been in Seattle since last fall. Miss Terhune is attending the Univer- sity of Washington. “The radio telephone works per- fectly and it sounded much clearer than talking over a telephone. In fact, someone Dufresne in the same room,” Mr. said. - —— MAHONEY TAKES PRISONERS OUT ON NORTH SEA Five prisoners and perhaps two cthers to be picked up at Wran- gell and Petersburg will be taken outside Monday on the North Sea by U. 8. Marshal William T. Ma- honey. They include Chris Chris- tensen, who goes to McNeil Island Penitentiary to serve a two-year sentence for burglary of the New England Fish Company at Ketchi- kan; Spike Stanyar of Juneau and Bobbie Allen of Ketchikan, to St. Anthony’s referm school in Idaho as incorrigibles; R. Tolson of Ket- chikan to Morningside Hospital in Portland, and Mrs. Tabita Karstens {0 a hospital for medical treat- ment. BERG FAMILY ARRIVES Mrs. A. 8. Berg, wife of an as-| sociate of Garland Boggan, wogd floor man, returned, after a irip to Seattle, on the North Sea, | this time greeting a grouj of I Patricia | Juneau friends. She was accompanied by and Gordon Berg. SAN FRANCISCO, MAY 4.—Six| the | Administration at | telegrams said the unset-| up inevitable unless the Government officially authorized but the men | that he ar-| MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Tt ]en ’s Most Prized Picture | | \ | i it was just like speaking to|. |months ago in this famous ‘Dldn't have much To his friends Martin Itjen, Sai way “‘licet ear” es cut this, his highly prized picture taken when he visited Mae ‘West, the movie star, in Hollywood. Note the $1,000 watch chain And that mustache is no fake. has a dandy, of the cld long flowing style. made of gold nuggets. Boy, That was the way Martin Itjen of Skagway, who started out four car” to see Mae West, up last night on Norah when that vessel here en route to Skagway with {Itjen as a’ passenger. “Yes Mae is a swell little girl,” the widely heralded sourdough, “and I had a great time. From Skagway to Agua Caliente, I saw allt he sights, played the theatres, talked on the radio, told ‘em about the .gold rush days, stayed three weeks at the Ambas- sador hotel in Los Angeles and had the best time I've had in 36 years. Now I'm taking the street car back to Skagway and start telling it to the tourists for the summer. Next fall I'm going out again, this time to New York, maybe.” Itjen, who is the undertaker, Ford dealer, Standard Oil represent- ative, Goodyear Tire agent and a lot of other things up in Skaz- way, has his Ford fixed up like a street car and shows tourists the points of interest in his home town. It was his “street car” that attracted so much attention in the states, coupled with the genial Mar- tin’s wit and ready humor. “Yes sir, the reporters met me at the boat in Seattle and the next {thing T knew I was in all the papers with my street car,” Alaska's street car operator No. 1 explained. They asked me to talk at theatres and on the radio and T told 'em about the gold rush days and Alaska They seemed to like it, too.” In San Francisco with the operation of some used car dea and the theatres Martin published the one and only copy of the Klondike Musher” which was ped- dled on the streets under a big red “extra” and won warm reception In it the colorful Skagway humorist is shown with Mae West and Jean Parker, movie stars, and it is filled with stories by S8an Francisco movie writers, who didn’t overlook Mar- tin’s act at the Orpheum theatre. But it was in Los Angeles that Itjen really had his best time ‘The luxury of three weeks of the co- it was sure worth the trip. | best at the Ambassador hotel will live with' him always, he declared, and Mae West was all advance notices reported, commented the| Sage of Skagway “I've seen a lot of shining stars in the North,” he said, “Like I told Miss West, but none of 'em that shine any brighter than she does, and, you know, I think she kind ol liked that little compliment. 1 went through the movie studios and met a lot of the big shots “‘No, I didn't’ get to go the Brown Derby (Hollywood's famous movie restaurant) I had to go to the race down to Agua Caliente that day luck with the commented as the whistle ponies though,” he the Princess Norah blew hard- | for departure. Martin was out on the dock by Heading for gangplank he shouted, “come “street | when he folowed summed it | the north, the Princess side. GOV. TROY TO |a bridge and the | up honor guests, PRICE TEN CENTS VINSONMEASURE APPEARS ON WAY TOWINAPPROVAL {Harrison Ne_go.—tiablc Bond Plan Fails to Muster i Anticipated Strength |PREDICT VETO FOR | OTHER 2 PROPOSALS {Only Sudden Adjournment i Averted Victory for | Vinson Bill Today | WASHINGTON, May 4.-—Congress pears heading straight for a tonus veto with probable passage of the Vinson bill Monday, authori- | tative sources said here today. Administration leaders conceded they had virtually lost the fight {for the Harrison bond measure, | Frankly dismayed by the Senate's \x vident determination to pass either the Vinson or Patman bills de- at for the Harrison measure was believed averted only by the sud- len adjournment to Monday. It believed here that either the Vin- on or Fatman bills will meet presi- ential veto ¥ The Harrison plan failed to mus- | ter impressive strength even after cperaior pass- | Senator Pat Harrison, its author, agreed to an amendment which would cut the interest rate charged ivvwrnns on bonus loans from four to two per cent. BISHOP ROWE COMING NORTH Martin really and see me some tm 1T show you around up at Skagway.' It was the first time in 36 year the gold rush to that Ttjen had been Out- He is accompanied home by stopped Mr. and Mrs, A. V. McAllister, who made the trip with him Lhrough . California. Mrs. McAllister is a Lpiscopal Church Official former Skagway girl. She is Lhc Making Fortieth An- nual Alaska Tour SEATTLE, May 4.—Bishop Peter | Trimble Rowe, of the Episcopal | Church, has left on his fortieth an- |nual tour of Alaska, his longest | trip. Bishop Rowe will use the airplane |for his interfor itinerary which in- L]lld(“! Nome, Wainwright, Point Barrow and other points as far as the Mackenzie River. He will re- Lum south in September. daughter of A. R. Hillery, conductor on the White Pass and Yukon. Mr. McAllister is from the states. RETURN WEST, COMING WEEK WASHINGTON, May 4 — Gov. Arrives In Junesu John W. Troy in conference yes- Juneau was honored today by a terday with Secretary of the In-'yis; from the Rt. Rev. P. T. Rowe, terior Harold L. Ickes discussed mpiscopal Bishop of Alaska. The at length Alaska affairs, and out- Bishop is a passenger on the North lined in detail form the needs for | ges from Ketchikan for Sitka. Alaska and plans for future devel-| Ajthough Juneau church goers cpment of the Territory. will not have the opportunity to After the conference, when in-|paay the Bishop speak in the Trin- terviewed, the Governor reported ity cathedral here tomorrow, he 17y, vty saticet N | will speak from the local pulpit next Next week Gov. Troy has an aP- | sunday, Mother's Day. pointment with President Roose-| .. Rt Rev. Rowe will preach in velt, after which ue plans t0 fI¥|gika tomorrow and then will Tes Siectly Wenk turn to Juneau on the North Sea to pay his first officlal visit here of the year. From Juneau, in a about a week, he will go to West~ ward ports, with his ultimate des- tination being Point Hope. He was ‘welcomed here by Dean C. E. Rice. e, FISHERIES VESSEL CRANE HERE TODAY The United States Bureau of isheries boat Crane arrived at THIRD PARTY IS DISCUSSED WASHINGTON, May 4. — Liberal groups, eyeing the political situa- tion as the nation heads towards | 1936, gathered today to discuss the | advisability of forming a third party. g S the Government Dock at 9:15 President Roosevelt o'clock this morning on its annual lepring trip to Southeast Alaska on Week-End Cruise | irom seatule. """" \ While the ship's officers were WASHINGTON, May 4.—Presi- waiting telegraphic orders from dent Roosevelt boarded the yacht| washington, D. C. the Crane was Sequoia for a week end trip on lhe‘c‘(pe(ud to leave here late this Potomac. He will return Sunday afternoon for False Pass. night R e DR. AND;[ES. WCOAUNCILTI‘,'.\‘mrlion Scheme ARE HOSTS AT CARD Crumbles;: Youth PARTY THURSDAY EVE. Is Under Arrest NEW YORK, May 4.—A Ten- Dollar-A-Week butcher boy’'s dream of wealth, through an extertion scheme invelving 15 prominent men and women, Dr. and Mrs, W. W. Council en-| tertained on Thursday evening with | poker party in their apartment in honor of Mrs. Hazel | Kirmse, who arrived recently from | the south, and Mrs. I Goldstein,| crumbled after his arrest in who is leaving on the North Sea| Bridgeport, Conn. to visit in San Francisco for the| The youth is Peter Zmindak, next two and one half months. \ aged 22. Both contract and poker were! Department of Justice agents played during the evening followed| announced Zminak admitted by a delicious supper served by lh;l sending threatening letters to at midnight AlJLHve‘ five persons already with the stess juest prizes were p ted to the| intentien of sending similar thieats to many others,