The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 18, 1935, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire it i e Gl | The untimely death of Captain John H. Cann,| ROBERT W. BENDER - - Editor and Manager|, ., ;o regident of Alaska was a shock of sad- very eyening except Sunday by the |aess to his many friends thoughout the Territory, g b R ndand Mai | ang the Territory as a whole suffered the loss of a —_— S — e ey il Alaskan whose business ability and efforts have A e fecond Class | nsistently contributed to its development | Captein Cann, born in Louisburg, Nova Scotia| " SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25|in 1881, early in life became a lover of the sea, per month i By mail, postage paid, at the following rates which he maintained throughout his lifetime. As a ge.One vear, in advance, $1200; six months, in advance, | poy he sailed in sloop and schooner races, and ever srumu[,m.lw will confer .(n.‘ rif [Hu\' will promptly | after closely followed the various races of the United y the Business Office any failure or irreg ty + | o A e TR Bl States, Great Britain and Canada. 602; Business Office, 374 Telephomes: News Office Coming to Alaska as a young man he has lived approximately 30 years in the Territory. While here he has been engaged principally in fisheries and mining | Cordova, Valdez, Juneau, Hyder and Stewart, B. C., have at various times been the scenes of his business activities. At one time he was a partner | in the ownership of the Gastineau Hotel Captain Cann has mined and prospected in var- jous parts of Southeast and Southwest Alaska, and has been successful in the operation of the Apex-| El Nido Mine, on Lisianski Inlet, Chichagof Island, where he was when stricken last week with the throat ailment that caused his death. Graced with a charming personality, possessed of a keen analytical mind, and friendly manner, Captain Cann won hosts of friends throughout the country, and proved a true and loyal friend them. Alaska has lost a real man, and to his widow, Mrs. Jennie Bruce Cann, the understanding sympalhyf of his and her many friends is extended. | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Associated P enti use for republic tehes it or not otherw per and local news publis! 1 to the dited tc the ed hercir ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION o GOING PLACES BY AIR. Might may not be right but we wonder as we watch Japan grab another Province. indicate that a much lopment in Alaska is Reports from Washington lesser amount for airport dev being considered under the new public works pro- gram than originally proposed, but the fact that something in the way of expenditure for air trans- portation is likely to be granted is mighty good news for residents of the North country. Reads, trails and harbor facilities are all an important part of our transportation problem in the Territory but the real key to getting from one place to another is in the air, and it cannot be overlooked that we have a long way to go in Alaska. Calling on a neighboring city means spanning hundreds of miles Impiacable Critics. (New York Times.) The President's “stop-gap” plan, abandoning all attempts longer to enforce any of the provisions for werking conditions or “fair-trade“ practices former-| ly existing under the NRA codes, has had a strange| effect upon the opinions of some of his critics. Those who had lately seen the NRA only as a “tyranny,” a “nightmare,” an unmitigated obstacle to recovery, in many instances, thus the airplane has filled ai;‘mec‘:::le't':;.g“”;gi:i?‘é‘fw;‘r‘fg;"’f“li‘;;r‘; ;?:fi;‘;% niche that no other mode of transportation has yetlang it is leaving business in the lurch. Why didn't Bboen Wbl to:otfer=-speed, the President salvage every scrap and splinter of The reported amount being considered at the NRA that the Supreme Court’s decision per- present time for air field development is only $371,- |mitted him to? One can understand the bitter cry| 000, but this will mean the fixing up of many a|of Geéneral Johnson that the President’s new scheme landing field and the spotting of others that can|iS “nothing at all” but how can one comprehend be used, though perhaps they should not actually e Statement of Representative Snell, Republican \leader in the House, that it is “certainly surpris- |ing” to have the NRA “abandoned without any effort at preserving those parts of it that are ad- pose and will be the foundation on which real | mitted to be of benefit to the people and probably aviaticn is bound to develop. A semblance of an could ke taken care of within the limits of the airfield is better than no landing spot at all, so|Supreme Court decision?” it is that while funds may mean mlle{ It is doubtless true that the President has development it will follow that a great many tem- abandoned more of the NRA than the court’s de- porary fields will be staked out which will serve a ion made strictly necessary. He could have asked purpose until further iacilities can be afforded. |that NRA labor and trade-practice standards should It the Srorttn, through some 53 Still be maintained for activities which ‘directly villages and mining camps be included tu |Mfet” inferstate commeres. Bub 18 h. PEIVISOR. W airfield program much perhs coum‘vldu this were adopted, its most probable effect would % IS & S ™Y he to give rice to a deluge of lawsuits; for it would | of 600,000 square miles but a e T the aerial development of the North from which pe jmpossible to know in advance exactly what ac- is sure t0 pyities were covered by it. As the court’s decision follow. It mustn't be overlcoked that the Army and remarked, “while there is a necessary and well-| Navy are vitally interested in Alaska from an air established distinction between direct and indirect | standpoint in connection with the air defense pro- (effects” on interstate commerce, ‘the precise line gram &nd linked together—military and commer- can be drawn only as individual cases arise.” Apart cia.— frcm this uncertainty of application, it would ob- It locks as if we were going some place in Lhe}VlCusly cause inequities and confusion to compel {some firms in certain industries to abide by stand- be classed as airports, rather cow pastures gone air- minded. However, they serve a most important pur- preposed goes will in in @ air after all - oyic i ards which other firms, at least partly in compe- S AT s titicn, would not have to maintain. LEADERSHIP INTACT. Another criticism of the President’s new pro- E— |posals is that his skeleton fact-finding NRA or- As the old saying goes, give the devil his due, ganization, if retained, would function as a huge it must be admitted that the opposition to the propaganda machine—that the bulk of the statistics present Administration has developed considerable it published would be designed to show how bene-| showmanship in the last year or two with its ficial the NRA was in its lifetime, and how un- Longs, Coughlins, aye, and the Grass Rooters. Credit successful the country was managing to get along must be given for furnishing the American peoplc‘““hom 1t. These fears seem premuture, Ry witl with amusement, but when the curtain goes down (D¢ dissipated, however, only if the statistical or- on the various acts there is nothing yet presented |S2PiZation is as careful to point fo BHE e, I e shave of actiial leadership comparsble. with the consumer through the restoration of competitive i P prices as to any temporary losses to producers; | the Roosevelt touch if it is careful not to imply that the immediate | Governor Troy, who has just returned from two|results of code abandonment are the same as long- | menths in the States during which time he met 'run results; and if, in addition to reporting the | and talked to leauing men in various walks of immediate ill effects for some workers of any re-| life, said of the President on his return: |ductions in hourly wage rates or increases in hours, | All the outstanding men, in all parties, it reports also any increases in volume of employ- | concede he is the only leader in sight at this |ment which follow the restoration of a competitive | time and I predict his re-election by land- [price structure. | slide proportions. | ——— The fact is that most of the hue and cry against| President Roosevelt is not so much against the| e President’s program as it is an effort to develop| (New York Times.) | somewhere for political purposes some man who June has been paid many compliments before | can carry the opposition banner with some svmblam‘e‘““d since James Russell Lowell asked what is SDi of a popular following in the 1936 campaign. So "¢ as a day in it. And it will be paid many more far the Moses has not been found in the wilderness ©'e'Y vear, for it i the month of the year that| crystallizes sentimen’. as solidly and sweetly as rock ) | What Is So Rare? of the Grand Old Party or among the mavericks candy, and compiiments fly to it as bees to red who gambol on any or all preserves with abandon. clover. It §s the month of the bride and the girl Thus the beating of the tom toms grows ever graduate. It smells of new-mown hay in its later | louder in an effort to camouflage the actual situa- tion which outstanding men in all parties are well aware of—Roosevelt promised the leadership, has furnished it and no one has yet come along with a program which offers anything which can com- days, among them that longest when spring and summer irresponsibly meet and part. And these are only a few of the freshly per- fumed attributes of Jurie that make the month beloved of all but the coarest cynics. Even more than January, June is a month of one of the year pare. | Much has been madé 4n the way of ballyh thcgmnmgs. Hundreds of thousands of parents gulp, ! abcut expenditures of the Roos (‘\'t'll- regim ’10n“cm|gh and view mistily their male or female off-| |spring at the beginning of marriage or the begin-| Vulnerable point for attack,|ping of life, as baccalaureate speeches term it, for but the fact remains that no money has been|which in both cases a roll of parchment is the pass- by the Administration except for human;pun_ and God give them at least a third-class fare to keep men, women and children from !for the first leg of the journey. But, most of all starvat and mpt to rehabilitate them for|jand most practically, June is the month when the future. You hear the great yowl about spend-|summer vacationing commences, and those enslaved ing public funds but have you yet seen the opposi-|t0 the narrow time and space of town life swarm tion put its finger on one single item where money |OUt along the sea beaches and into the woods and was wasted? No, they talk in generalities because|MOURtains. D & BVIDIEE: TasE they know that spending in behalf of humanity| DO the extra rations of ultra-violet rays and i 3 bih st ot e joxygen accorded in June sweeten the blood and | s not only Oun-”:u L olutely .n 'LL ary. : |tempers of mankind so that, as when the quality The on call in as for leadership. Frank-|pjeet, compliments fly around altar and platform, lin D. Roosevelt stepped into the picture and sup-|and even the boss sends the first of the office help pled it. While the attack is now politically directed off for two weeks’ vacation with a paternal grin? sidering this the most ion against him, the real purpose of the opposition is! to discover another great man if they can. AII; Why despair of democracy? The representa- | thinking people + ihe Roosevelt program can|tives of the people can still prohibit things. The! stand by force of iis very purpose—the b('nermemiom" Legislature has prohibited dance marathons. |—(Chicago News.) | of humanity—and not its crucifixion as in the dark deys of Hoover that the Treasury is | Washington announces A R .t {going to need 1,000 extra extra men to get the Juneau will play host starting June 27 for Lhree‘ca‘sh out. Steam-shovelmen ought to do well— days to two navy destrpyers carrying members of | pajlas News.) the Reserve Of T ng Corps from Wash- s ington State and California. Everyone should get| To the President, bloc, lobby, back of that Chamber committee w’wh proposes 1o 'special privilage all look alike make their visit a happy one, ltcummmu Enquir demagogue and He fears none— | hero. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JUNE I8, 1935. 'HAPPY RGO | BIRTHDAY ! The Empire extends congratula- JUNS 8 | tions nnd best wishes tnday, their The centenary anniversary of|, 44 thday anntversary, o the follcw- the battle of Waterloo was recog- ‘b,:; % 7 nized by one of the severest battle: that had yet occurred in the west- | ern arena of the great war. The| fighting waged furiously along an Julius W. A. Moeller, eight mile front north of Arras.! it Yo were it the. aties, at: mgns JAY WILLIAMS ON fall, TRIP TO ADMIRALTY ‘Word had been received by M. A.. Arier 4 two weeks trips around Allen of Perseverance that Lieut.',imiralty Island in connection with Rupert F. Scrivener, formerly of ine pear program, representing the the tenichnical staff of the Perse- ... Service and the Alaska verance was with the British troops! Game Commission, Jay Wijliams, in Gallipoli. | Forest Examiner, returned to Ju- ineau Saturday and is leaving today Announcement was made of the |, 5 second expedition to the isl- engagement of Miss Agnes F. Will-) 514 liams and Lynn B. Adsit, two popu-| . lar Juneau young people. | i JUNE 18 . Waino Hendrickson. | | | Williams was accompanied by iCapt. K. C. Talmadge of the Sea| {otter and his assistant Earl Os- A daughter was born to Mr. and| o e Mrs. Isaac Johnson at St. Ann's\ (ongitions are good on Admiralty, Hpenle Mr. Willlams reports and there are lots of bear. He said there is es- pecially fine co-operation: from resi- | Jdents of the Island in carrying out Ithe conservation program. There was great excitement at! - Thane when the Perseverance mine | PARTY TRAVELS ball team beat the mill boys on| NI the new grounds by a score of 5! i and Mrs. A. H. Walker, Miss to 4. Les Thomson was the miners’ ah Ro; and Busch Voights, of Kansas, are aboard the North as round-trip passengers from L. B. Bach of Taku Harbor was| a guest at the Cain. | KANSAS Miss Alice Margrie was hostess to a group of friends at a cruise|, aboard the Teddy. Her guests were the Misses Gladys Tripp, Helen | : Smith, Mona Graves, Muriel Folsom, | Vera Mullen, Helen Troy, Cordelia Davis, Alma Sowerby, Mina Sower- by, Elizabeth Heid, Gertrude Heid, Lenore Hyde, Ada White and - R - FROM OAKLAND Mrs. L. Webster and Miss E. S. Craig are aboard the North Sea as round-trip -passengers from Se- Gladys Brooks; Messrs J.P.Momb, |2(l:® They are Oakland, Cal, L. H. Hain, H. E. Spear, C B | codents. et Cartwright, H. P. Gallagher, S.| MacKinnon, J. Johnson, Guy John- | son, Conrad Opperman, Bert Brew- ster, C. K. White, Robert Wil Malcolm Wilson, E. M. Brennan, F. L. Gibson, R. Winslow, E. C. Jones, | Reasonable Monthly Rates E. 0. DAVIS (ELEPHONE 584 | —_— % . GARBAGE HAULED | I Bert Sperr: Floyd Jardine and | Phone 4753 | Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wulgen, K —————"———"o—2=8 chaperones. = B ST R T T Weather: Moximum, 75; mini- FOSS | BT A | ' CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 2 . ESRIER T 3 FEY 0ld First National Bank Bldg. Juneau Alaska PHONE 107 ) ! \ “Temorrow’s Styles 4 PO s JUNEAU Drug Co. P. O. Substation No. 1 *Juneau’s Own Siore” FREE DELIVERY { BAILEY'S "=5te. CAFE Short Orders “WHERE YOU MEET YOUR FRIENDS” Regular Dinners o | GASTINEAU CAFE GASTINEAU HOTEL BUILDIN! I'rench-Italian Dinners Wines—Beer WINDOW CLEANING PHONE 485 ALASKA MEAT CO. FEATURING CARSTEN’S BABY BEEF—DIAMOND TC HAMS AND BACON—U. S. Government Inspected S —— et WALLIS S. GEORGE, C.P.A. Associates JAMES C. COOPER, CP.A. WALLIS S. GEORGE & CO. CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS Juneau, Alaska AUDIT =4 SYSTEM -i= TAX *e SERVICE The Greatest Business Convenience ° A Checking Account protects your cash on hand, "enables you to pay bills by mail, makes personal bookeeping easier and is a recognized basis for personal credit. In the United States, nine-tenths of all busi- ness is handled by check. The advantages of the plan are even greater here in Alaska. Let us demonstrate how valuable we can make this service to you. The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau, Alaska D e e e e DRY CLEANING ® | Soft Washing [ ] ‘ Your ALASKA | LAUNDRY PHONE 15 : | | | | i 'S. GRAVES "he Clothing Man Home of dart Schaffner and =arx Clothing | " Helene W. L. Albrecht 1 DRS.KASER & FREEBURGER | Water [ Fraternal Societies oF | Gastineau Channel J) PHYSIOTHERAPY | llassage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 B. P. 0. ELKS meets every second and fourth Wednesday at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers wel- come. M. E. Monagle, Ex- alted Ruler, M. H. Sides, Secretary DENTISTS | — Blomgren Building | NIGHTS OF COLUMPUS PHONE 56 |.| seghers Council No. - 4 Hours, 9 . toch pim, '1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urged to at- ‘Dr. C. P, Jenne < tend. Convs' Cham- DENTIST bers. Fifth St. JOHN F. MULLEA bgaesl > i i G. K., H. J. TURNER, Secretary. Building : < TG Telephone 176 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 14 Second and Fourth Mor day of each month ir Scottih Rite Temple, beginning at 7:30 p.m. HOV'*RD D. STABLER, Dr. Richard Williams | } DENTIST [l XA OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building | | Worshipful Master; JAMES W. Phone 481 IL,“YE,:,RS' Srec.ritary. ik DOUGLAS b (\)/ E AERIE é%‘ 117, F. 0. E. s | ¢ IMeets first and third Mondays, 8 Eagles’ Hall, Douglas. Visiting rothers welcome. Sante Degan, W. P, T. W. Cashea, Sccretary. DINTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. | P SEWARD RUILDING Off’>e Pucne 469 Robert Simpson Opt. D. 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Transfer t Transfer Co. ‘ TYPEWRITERS RENTED $5.00 per month | J. B. Burford & Co. “Our doorstep is worn by satisfied customers"” Formerly COLEMAN’S Pay Less—Much Less Front at Main Street BEULAH HICKEY ‘ SHOP “ELECTROL —Of Course” | McCAUL MOTOR | COMPANY | | | | Dodge and Plymouth Dealers — GARLAND BOGGAN | Hardwood Floors || Waxing Polishiag | | | B e —_— 1 MUSICIANS LOCAL NO. 1 | | | Meets Second and Fourth Sun- | days Every Month—3 P. M. DUDE HAYNES, \ Secretary i | . | BETTY MAC | BEAUTY SHOP | [ | L) In New Location at 12th anC B Streets PHONE 547 New Arctic Pabst Famous Draught Beer On Tap “JIMMY” CARLSON Cardinal Cabs HOTEL ZYNDA Large Sample Room ELEVATOR SERVICE S. ZYNDA, Prop. ] THE | i MARKET RASKET | ROSE SUAREZ Modiste from New York City Dressmaking, Remodeling, | Alterations | TELEPHONE 277 | || Provisions, Fruits, Vegetables Feldon’s House, near Moose Hall | | | Phone 342 Free Dellvery —e | ® — PHONE 3 For very prompt LIQUOR DELIVERY THE BEST TAP BEER IN TOWN! (] THE MINERS’ Recreation Parlors and Liquor Store BILL DOUGLAS D A S R S OB SHOP IN JUNEAU FIRST! «3 o h & o