The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 8, 1935, Page 1

" “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - VOL. XLVI., NO. 6956 JUNEAU ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, '1935. MEMBER: OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS EARLY VETO, BONUS BILL, PREDICTED IDENTIFY BODY AS THAT OF JOE POCUS, VETERAN St - Filiein’ Believed to Have Taken Own Life—Inquest The body found near Tee Har- bor yesterday has been identified as John Pocus, 45, fisherman from Sitka. Deputy Marshals W. G. Hellan and John McCormick, who investigated, said Pocus was shot through the head with a 38-55 caliber rifle and indications were he had taken his own life. An inquest is being held this afternoon | Boulder Falls 200 Feet, Eight Miners Killed WILKESBARRE, Pa., May 8. —Falling 200 feet and hitting a cage being hoisted in a mine chaft, a large boulder killed voven miners in the colliery of the Glen Arden Coal Company today. MINE OFFICIAL ARRIVES TODAY FOR SHORT STAY Livingston Welnecke, Here hy Plane from South 'SCHOOL BOARD |13 ARE REPORTED| ELECTS THREE DEADATBARROW, ~ NEW TEACHERS ONE WAINWRIGHT Five More Must Be Named‘Grlest Calls on Health Com- | Before Next Year—Miss missioner at Nome to Easton to Leave Rush Needed Help hree of the eight new instruct- POINT BARROW, Alaska, May ors w be included in the Juneau 8—Thirteen are dead here as the result of influenza and one, death Public School system next year iwere elected last night as the|is reported at Wainwright. Scheol Board met with A. B. Phil-| There are no doctors and no lips, Superintendent of Schools. Ac- | nurses at Wainwright and Dr. | ceptance by the candidates selected | Henry Griest has called on the is the only thing necessary to the|Health Commission at N_ome to 'actual signing of 'contracts. |rush needed aid to Wainwright Originally seven places were to|and also send medical supplies | .mve been filled. This would have by dog team. The mercy which - left \e.rh the High School and Grade Fairbanks two days ago with pneu-( doctor and nurse, Griest "hoping it }mlght be sent to Wainwright, Thls; plane, Germany s Rearmamont Move Condemnvd before U. S. Commissioner J. F. . | included two new teachers, one for | Mullen. ! onCompany Business Pocus was found by Peter Da- ! School as well as five replacements monia vaccine, vid, an Indian boy, about a half Livingston Wernecke, Consulting gor instructors who are resigning|is sought by Dr. north of Tee Harbor on the spit. Geologist for the Alaska Juneaulgat the end of this school year Marshals said the dead man was Gold Mining Company and Gen-| However, when the Board mng, lying on his back shot through eral Manager of the Treadwell Yu- ast night it was faced with a re. the right side of carbine across his the head, the legs in a posi- kon Company, arrived in Juneau guest for a leave of absence for one | at noon today from Seattle in hiS|year ¢rom Miss Ann Easton, fifth| mercy plane was turned back after Dr. | not heard of the outbreak at Griest sent a message it was needed here and before he Wain- | The League of Nations council is kshown In a special session in Geneva as Foreign Minister Laval (in- dicated by arrow) of France read hif: country’s condemnation of Nazi Germany due to the rearmament ordered by Hitler, Around the huge rtable are representatives of Chile, Denmark, Argentina, Spain, Italy, Turkey, England, Russia, Czecho-Slcw/akia, Poland, Austria and Portugal. (Associated Press Photo) tion indicating he himself. However, the right arm was raised slightly off the” ground which gave cause to speculation as to whether the body may have been moved since death. Fapers found on the dead man’s boat ‘which was lying in the harbor revealed he was a war veteran, having seen service overseas with the 62nd artillery, having enlisted from Minnesota. He was a native of Russia but had become a na- turalized citizen in 1918. He also was a member of the Trollers Association and paid his last year's school tax in Ketchikan. The boat was fully stocked with ample provisions, the officers said. A nearly full box of shells for the may have shot rifle was found in his pocket and| a full box on the boat. He has a brother Paul, last known address at Tenakee, and authorities are attempting to com- municate with him. The body is at the C .W. Carter Mortua; STOCK PRICE TAKE ADVANC T0 OLD PEAKS four-passenger Bellanca plane of the company. Charles Groptis, pilot,' accompanied him north. The trip north was made in good ' time and favorable weather pre- vailed. They left Seattle yester- day and remained in Prince Rupert last night, continuing into Juneau th% morning. Mr. Wernecke will be in Juneau for about two weeks on business in conneciion with the company | properties before returning to San Franch where he makes his headquarts motored with him to Seattle, re- turned to their home in San Fran- !cisco after hLis terday. - e UPONPROPOSALS - OF 2 COMPANIE Chevrolet and Flsher Body Employees Casting Ballot —Walkout May End TOLEDO, Ohio, May 8.—Crowds Mrs. Wernecke, who| deparature yes-! STRIKERS VOTE Miss | | wright. land sixth erade instructor. ,Easton gave health as the reason | e | {for her request. Her leave wasw BELIEVE GILLESPIE THERE JUNEAU ELKS | ‘mud l‘hexeu:, making eight No word has been received by | ’ Places to fill [the authorities here today from | ‘ Shine . Rilled nose | PF F- B. Gillespie, who has been| The three present teachers w] ose‘dlspatchcd from Pairbanks = to positions were filled tentatively la.sL‘Pmm Barrow to aid in caring for night include: Miss Easton; Mrs. | influenza cases. While one report | Robert - Livie, instrumental muslcwrmm Barrow said his plane had instructor, and Miss Mildred Logg, been turned back, Charles W, ‘ High School English instructor. | Erawkesworth, Assistant td the DH Five positions still remain to be ¢ rect t0‘ e B e fong | Fector in the Bureau of Indian|Going to Petersbung | # & = Affairs, said he had information | I }Lt bl h {to this year's staff there will be |y . poo g < 1 nitiate, Establis| | replacements for: Harold E. Regele, High School science instructor and athletic coach; Miss Marietta Shaw, Grade School prineipal; and El- bridge Rector, Grade School sev-|i... mo also had a wire report- enth and eighth grade instructor. . =~ . 1 o < ¢ The addition fo the Grade School | g, V0 additional deaths at Bar staff will be elected soon along with \the others. but the High School that he was standing by at Kot- zebue to hop Gillespie to the stricken area and he thought that the doctor had probably arrived Bills' Club The officers and degree teamy of Juneau Lodge B. P .O. Elks will leave Juneau tomorrow night at 8 o'clock for Petersburg on Tom Smith's boat the Yakobi. In Pet- ersburg the Elks will initiate a large class of candidates and will dedicate and establish a “Bill's Club” while there. The officers making the Lrlpr addition not be named until Augu>l was announced last night that M1 ;s Shaw had resigned as Grade are: Exalted Ruler John H, Wal- Sc‘mcl""':{lntcépat; ;‘"’mh;i 2;:3? B Y P 0 L I c E u N mer; Esteemed Leading Knight, Lu Turoff, P. E. R.; Esteemed School next vear. A man probab- | ly will be chosen as Grade'School principal ©One Frem Denver Miss Easton. replacement—if she Loyal Knight, M. E. Monagle; Es- teemed Lecturing Knight, Martin {'S. Jorgensen, P. E. R.; Esquire, | Frank Foster; Secretary, Martin | Lavenik; Inner Guard, H. R. Shep- CAR SPEEDERS Oinnibus Banking Bill Expected to H e Passed Soon WASHINGTON, May 8.— The Administraticn’s omnibus bank- ing bill is hcaded intc a storm of amendments but Democratic leaders predict it will pass the Fouse witheut changes by Fri- day night. 'MORE WURKERS FOR MATANUSKA LEAVE SEWARD Colonists Awed by Moun- tain Scenery — Chil- dren Have Measles SEWARD, Alaska, May 8.—An- other 300 workers, arriving on the Army Transport St. Mihiel, have accepts the election—will be Miss . | % = Bl left for the Matanuska to erect Cotcthy J. Bourne of Denver, Colo. Chief Hoffman Issues Warn-|ard; Tiler, George Shaw andaj © ¢ i TSRS o erect Chaplain, J. D. Van Atta. . Miss Bourne is teaching mnow in nists. | of Chevrolet employees thronged the Denver and is a graduate of the Federal building here today to vote University of Denver, and North- on a series of company proposals western University with a degres which may possibly mean the end of Bachelor of Science in journal- of a widespread group of auto ism. She also has studied the Many Issues Are Up from| One to Four Points— Gains Mostly Held workers' strikes. six years at the Denver piang fcr Approximately 33,000 employees of Concervatory of Music. NEW YORK, May 8—Stocks ing—30 Traffic Tags Given in Two Days ALASKA COLONY FROM WIS, 1S “War” has been declared on speedsters and other violators of automobile traffic regulations by | The Minnesotans, who arrived on |the transport, strolled around the | town, awed by the mountain gran- deur. The fog, prevailing for days, was chased away by a bright sun. MISS COFFIN TOTELL C. G. OF FESTIVAL Instructor Who Went with| Students to Ketchikan Honored Tomorrow To tell members about the recent | trip of the Juncau High School singers to Ketchikan for the first lannual Southeast Alaska Musical | Festival, Miss Ruth Coffin, music instructor, will be the honored speaker at the Juneau Chamber of Commerce luncheon tomorrow noon at Bailey's Cafe. Miss Coffin accompanied the group of ten young men and women who returned here yesterday from a successful appearance in the First City. Just what may come of this Musical Festival, and what it may mean to Juneau are two topics | which Miss Coffin may choose to discuss tomorrow. A second honored guest will be Dr. Cassius Carter, newly appoint- ed physician at the Government Hospital who arrived here from the States last week. Dr. Cafter, who replaces Dr. W. J. B. McAuliffe, has Five children, quarantined aboard Peen engaged in medical work in the St. Mihiel on account of meas- Tanana for two years. Dr. McAuliffe reached out for mew peaks today in aggressive advances. A number of prominent oils and individual stocks in other groups penetrated the old 1935 high with difficulty. The majorit yended the cession around the day’s top. Today’s close was firm to strong. Bales totalled 1,250,000 shares. Many issues were up from one to four points. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, May 8. — Closing quotation of Alask,\ Juneau mine stock today is 17%,' American Can 121, American Power and Light 313, Anaconda 14%, Armour N 3%, Bethlehem Steel 25%, Calumet and Hecla 3'2, General Motors 31%, In- ternational Harvester 41%, Kenne- cott 187, Jnited States Steel 32%, Pound $4.8%, Bremner bid 64, asked 68, Nabesna Woman Fined for Drunken Driving by Ketchikan Judge KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 8— of the EPIC candidates were nam- | Corvallis on its 21-day-tour, H. L. l€r penaltv upon conviction. In the first instance of the prose- ed out of eleven councilmanic DOSts | Beard, vteran bandmaster, cution of a woman for drunken driving here, Mrs. A. H. Mehus roceived a 10-day suspended sen-|council post in Oakland was de-|and performed in excellent man-| Cause of Murder tence and a $75 fine. She was also denied permission to drive a car for one year. Mrs. Mehus| also faces a charge of driving a car without a license. ASSASSINATED HAVANA, Cuba, May 8.—Antonia Guiteras, American born, former Secretary of the Interior in the Cuban government, and a promi- | nent radical leader, was slain at Matanzas as he was trying to leave the country, according to confirmed reports this afternoon, Chevrolet and Fisher Body, who are out in several cities because of the strikes, waited for the result of the balloting. - (CANDIDATES ON EPIC TICKETS LOSE ELECTION Upton Sinclair lair Not Discour- aged by Results Mun- cipal Balloting LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 8— bid 52, asked 62‘ Apparent defeat of his EPIC candi- gp dates in the municipal election here has failed to discourage Upton Sin- clair in his plan to spread his end- poverty-in-civilization movement throughout the United States. Incomplete returns from yester- day's election indicated only three | at stake The lone EPIC candidate for the cisively defeated. | Field Tests for Television Are to Be Made Now NEW YORK, May 8.—Immediate construction of a facilities for a comprehensive field test of the high definition of television in the United States is announced by David Saranoff, President of RCA. Field tests are regarded as a pre- toward ultimate | | | | liminary step received here | broadcast or transmission of sight| prospective homestead in an out- | through space, Miss Logg will be replaced by a Police Chief Roy Hoffman. graduate of Oregon State Collegz, Evidence was ample in City Hall READY TU MU VE Miss Thelma E. Stephens. She holds | that Chief Hoffman, in truth, a Bachelor of Science degree in started his drive against reckless| { natural sciences from the Corval-|drivers Monday. In the last two| lis institution. In addition to tak-|days, a check-up showed more than | Leave for Sealtle Nexti Vi ing Miss Logg's English classes,|30 traffic violations slips have been | 4 Miss_ Stephens will be placed ln‘lssued by the Police Department. Week to Board A‘_’“‘Y rge of the High School library| “Stop the speeders” is Chief Transport St. Mihiel and the girls’ physical education|Hoffman's slogan as he instructed work. She has taught before in|his staff | MADISON, Wis, May 8—Wis- Kelso, Wash.; Wapato, Wash.; Sis-| “We'll tag violators of other Lruf-‘ consin’s Alaska colonists will leave | ters, Ore.; and Woodburn, Ore,!fic laws, too, but we're “h“'”}“next Monday or Tuesday for Se-| where she now is. interested in stopping fast d“““g,attle, bound for the Matanuska Val- Miller Chosen i within the city limits,” Chief Hoff-|jay Byron L. Miler, heard in cornet'man said “Willoughby Avenue has| concert here this winter, will suc- |become a race track. The speed | ceed Mrs. Livie as instrumental ! {limit for the corporate limits of | music teacher. Young Miller a;go‘.!uneau is 20 miles per hour. That !is a graduate of Oregon State Col-|iS meant to apply not only to lege. He is a graduate in cm]vlhe private citizen, but to taxicabs engineering, but majored in music, 2nd delivery trucks. No paruamy He is a member of the Sigma Phi | Will be shown—we're out to a»op on fraternity. speeding!” ! | With the election Apparently City Magistrate A Ww ‘ was recalled that this winter, | “Pirst of-| | de- | | had “jumped into the breach” at! in his war on speedars. the last minute to save a proposed |ienders” on traffic violations, tour of the Oregon State band ©nding on the merits of the case,| through Oregon and Washington, | 37¢ being given fines. However,| Youth Chalged with Mur) Just before the band was to leave @ “second offender” meets a heav-| der i Falher Hunted i by Authorities | BOSTON, Mass, May 8—District Attorney Warren L. Bishop said | Anthony di Stasio, aged 23 years, | has confessed that he and his fath- »cr plotted the death of an uniden- |tified man found burned in an au- tomobile at Hudson, to collect in- surance on the elder di Stasio. | The youth has been charged with | first degree murder and the au- | | thorities are searching for his fath- | er Frank, aged 50 years, The authorities said a $12,500 in- |surance on Prank di Stasio’s life Col. Clarence Tracy, WERA. pro- | curement director, said the Wiscon- sin colony will sail from Seattle| aboard the Army transport St. Mi- hiel about May 18. | of Miller, ‘it he| | Henning is backing Chief Hoffman - Baseball Is | became |1l with influenza. However, Mil- ler was selected to take his place | ner, critics said. R. E. Robertson, Grover C. Winn, |and Walter P. Scott are members ‘or the School Board. | ——————— - MISSING KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 8— Coast guard cutter Cyane has re- turned Mere after a fruitless search of the shores of Behm Canal for Rudy Blossom. of Seattle, | who is long overdue from Unuk |river where he went to view a Then Suicide ABERDEEN, Wash.,, May 3.— Pcter Vess, aged 50 years, am- | bushed his stepson, Antone Mas- | ko, aged 21, and ¢lugged him on | the head with a club as he re- turned frem a Twilight League baceball game. M2 %c died as the result of a fractured tkull half an hour after he had been slugged. | was taken out a month ago. | Voss was found dead with a | Young di Stasio denied any part bullet through his head. |in the actual killing and said he| The tragedy resulted because Voss insisted that Antone aban- don ball playing, | board stifs, car, | les, 'are dolng well, PAA FLANE OFF FOR FAIRBANKS THIS MORNING ISix Take Passage on Weekly Flight from Juneau to Interior At 11 o'clock th morning the {Pacific Alaska Airways Lockheed Port built up for Thursdays was sug-| Electra left the Junsau PAA port on its weekly trip to Fair- banks. Joseph Barrows, Acting Di- visional Engineér, is pilot of the plane and Murray Stuart is co- pnob ‘Weather permitting, the plane 15 due in Fairbanks at 4 o'clock this afternoon, with a scheduled stop at Whitehorge en route. Making the trip to the Inte: on the plane today are A. B. Ha, J. J. Haw, Miss Gladys Forrest, Don‘ mln and N. L. Troast. Don Able who had charge of construction on the Juneau airport, made the ulp’ to Whitehorse, Y. T., to spend sev- rior |eral days supervising construction | | work. The plane is due here on its| weekly southbound trip at 3 o'clock | next sunday afternoon ————— . | LUMBER MlLL TO OPERATE MONDAY Logs will be on hand by the end | of this week and operations will| nouncement made today, is being replaced so that he may devote time to private practice. Cf keen interest on the business side of the program will be the often-raised question, “Shall the meeting date be changed from Thursday to Tuesday?” When this puzzler was revived two weeks ago, indications were strong that the Chamber might reverse previous actions and vote in favor of the shift. Some members said, with the Fairbanks airplane taking promi- nent personages from the city every Tues ter to meet then, Thursday. }iowr-vcr the last meeting found I members opposed to idea, and the feeling that good sup- and attendance had been than walt until gested, last ence son. No action was taken at ihe luncheon because of the ab- D MRS. GEORGE B.GRIGSBY | HOSTESS LAST NIGHT FORMRS. 0. WIGMASTER Mrs. George B. Grigsby was ho at her home on Sixth Stree tess of President R. E. Robert- { EXPECT SENATE T0 BACK F. D. R, HOUSE IN DOUBT Effort Being Made to Re- consider in Hope of Gaining More Time BYRNS SAYS HOUSE WILL OVERRIDE Coughlm Says Political Suicide If President Fails to Sign | % | WASHINGTON, May 8.—Presi- {dent Roosevelt today indicated a | veto message of the Wright-Pat- ,man bonus bill would be sent to | Congress in a short time. Speak- er Byrns predicted the House would override the veto but that the Senate would sustain the e 'nt. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma (entered a motion as soon as the | Senate convened today to reconsider the vote by which the Patman bill ssed in order that it could not Ibe sent to the White House today and returned immediately with a veto. He explained the motion would hold up action on the bill, Attempt to Slow Up Action “Several supporters of the meas- ure are out of the city and we are |going to keep it tied up until we are ready for the next step,” he | said. It was believed his move would give the bill's supporters time. to work for extra votes needed- to pass- the bill over a veto. Though both houses have passed the Patman bill the question of | whether th: measure will finally become law .. in dispute. Roosevelt followers expected him to veto it while Administration leaders said |enough votes would be mustered to prevent passage over a veto. Bonus Spokesman Optimistic Bonus spokesmen said they could muster two thirds of the 32 nega- tive votes required to sustain the veto in the present Senate. Father Coughlin expressed con- fidence the President would sign the Patman bill. It would be politi- cal suicide for the Chief Executive to veto it, he sald. He declared Roosevelt is too clever a politician to veto the measure. “He has too much politica! sagacity,” he said. NEGOTIATING SETTLEMENT, MILL STRIKE Spokesmen a;mis!ic Over Agreement — 15,000 Men Already Out PORTLAND, Oregon, May 8— sday afternoon, it would be bet. | 0¢al agreements have sent strik- ers back to work at two mills while conferees sought to model an agree- ment to end the still-spreading the | Strike, already involving 15,000 Tum- ber workers Oregon. Spokesmen for the strikers are still optimistic over negotiations. in Washington and BE COSTLY STRIKE SEATTLE, May 8.—The lumber trike, if it lasts 30 days, will cost Washington state not less than $2,- 500,000 and Oregon at least $1,000,- 000, the West Coast Lumbermen's Association estimated, on the basis of direct payroll losses. This is only part of the possible losges, the as- ociation statement says. SHIP (l RTAILMENT PORTLAND, Oregon, May 8— last evening at a Stork Party hon- |Curtailment of ship schedules in joring Mrs. Oscar Wigmaster | were about thirty-five guests pres- ent and the evening was spent at cards and games. During the evening Miss Eleanor Blotchford played several violin se- lections for ch Mrs. G. E. Krause was accompanist well received by the guests The evening was concluded with the serving of a deliclous lunch by the hostess, The table carried out the color scheme of pink and blue |saw his. father pick up a stranger be resumed at the Juneau Lumber|with a huge cake with colored can- ion the street nnd drive away in the | Mills on Monday, according to an- dy frosting as an attractive center- | piece, that were | {will be omitted as a port call. There | the | Northwest is a certainty with tightening of the lumber strike. Operators say two coastwise ves- sels have been caught at the docks in Willapa harbor with cargo only partly loaded. Pickets prevented further loading. Some operators said Portland - LEAVE TO FISH John Edwards and M. W. Fox, originally ticketed for Juneau from Seattle on the Yukon, disembarked ai Petersburg. They will fish her- ring in Red Bluff Bay,