The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1935, Page 8

T mw CHARGES MADE BY COLONISTS NOT RECEIVED Westbrook Says Only One Complaint Received —Statement 20.—L Adminis- handlin WASHINGTON We of June Deputy rence trator the colonist lumber spite un; cabins and ¢ n better were in the from,” ¢ states where they came n- cluded West The above statement was caused by the Associated Press dispatch from Palmer, Alaska, in yesterday's Empire, which said Pa mer and Mrs. I M. San ists, who said tk others, sent comp! garding the Matanuska °t conditions and asking for an investigation The dispatch also said “It is asserted the bins are not being built, wells are not being dug and no preparations are under way for a school. There is not sufficient medical aid a lable vad not being built into the s as promised. The prices at the com- ary are higher than at thc or LITTLE SYMPATHY LANSING, Michigan, June 20 Complaints from the Matanuska Valley colonists aroused little sym- pathy at the Emergency Welfare headquarters. Roswell Carr, Director of Rural Rehabili on, who directed the enrollment and transfer of the Michigan party of colonists, said the members “went into the scheme with their eyes wide open.” | Carr said complaints are to be expected as the pioneers enter- ing a new land and facing unavoid- able hardships. He said they were told before they started they would be expected to buy their food and clothing with the Government loans, but complaints about food prices are understandable ALASKA L. A LAND WITHDRAWN Sixteen Acres at Ugashik Be Used for School Purposes WASHINGTCN, June 20.—Presi- dent Rocsevelt has issued an execu- tive order withdrawing mately 16 acres from settlement and Iocation, sale or entry, and re fng it as a site for school purpos- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1 MAP OUTLINES WEYERHAEUSER KIDNAP CHASE . Tw 0 s AWM".I.S “ | OPERATING ON MATANUSKA JOB Colonists Taking Out Logs for Homes at Rate of Some 400 Per Day Two sawmills are operating three shifts a day and taking out an | average of 125 logs per shift on the |and Cans i lers'; houses are going up is the 'word brought back ki fromaomem e e - S 4 b S g 1 e LIFORNIA - ¢ morrest, Deputy FERA Administra- for Alaska, who returned on Aleutian after having been at |the project since leaving here May {8, As an FERA executive she rep- | resented the Alaska Rural Rehab- o - L/ A Matanuska colonization project|: 935 1 signed a certain tract to care for | vest. |leased on which to grow - produce | this year until another season when {more land is cleared. Work of | clearing is being carried forward by the transient workers. Com- is summer so that the housewives will be able to can the various ber- ries and vegetables for the winter. | There is an abundance of raspber- ries and blueberries in the valley. Some of the farmers already in |the valley have applied for ad- mittance to the colonization pro- |gram and will be taken in as the program develops. Litile Dissatisfaction | There is but little dissatisfaction, Forrest reports, the few case, ean be worked out on'the project. A few families may have to be re- turned to the States due to physical shortcomings for such a venture, |one child already having been sent south for medical attention at an munity canning centers are planned i | Matanuska by Miss Gladys|Deing confined to problems that| | approxi- | Illustrated in this Associated Press map are the kidnaping near Tacoma of George Weyerhaeus an automobile containing $15,000 orthopedic hospital. Transient |workers who walked off the job A to Anchorage a short time 0 Colonists operate the mills and|y. e peen gent outside by t;f,, |they are doing a fine job of it.| o onpisation because of failure ‘to he reports. They have the en!hul:- live up to regulations and discipline iasm and determination to win, she| o po camp’ she said. found, and everything points to| B /s P | ilitation Corporation also on her | mission. 9, the abductors’ route to Spokane, where the boy was heid; his release at Issaquah; the passing of the first ranscm bill at Huntington, Ore., for a railroad ticket to Salt Lake; the arrest and confession there of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Waley; the flight of a myaterious tan car and the abandonment near Butte of of the $200,000 ransom money. CHAIN TELEGRA FAD RESULTS IN SUIT, LARGE SUM “Informer” Brings Case Against Company for Over $3,000,000 TRENTON, N. J., June 20.—The ew Jersey chain telegram fad, seized upon by its participants as a switfer road to riches than the chain idea in its humbler letter form, has brought a $3,600,000 State Supreme Court suit to the doorstep of the Western Union Telegraph Company. William F. Zwirner of Merchant- ville is suing the telegraph company as a “common informer” under a rarely invoked State gambling law. Zwirner seeks $2,000 for | each of 1,800 telegrams he alleges were sent from Camden during nine days of this month. He contends that on' eac of these telegrams transmit- ting $2 the telegraph company re- ceived 51 cents toll and money transmission charges. The Court of Errors and Appeals recently upheld provisions of the statute under which Zwirner has brought suit. The law provides that the informer 11 receive half the sum of the jud; t—the other half going to the ¢ v Zwirner alleges that the Western Unicn Telegraph Ccmpany oper- ated lott 1 sending chain tele grams. Another informer recently won a judgment of $4,000 g a dog racing track. - - The Daibutsu of Kamarkura, cne of the most famous images of Buddha in Japan, dates from 1252 es. The land withdrawn is at Pilot It is 50 feet high, wrought of Point, Ugashik, Alaska. bronze, silver and -gold. 4 Daily C 1 Puzzl oo aw’y Lross-worc uzzie ACROSS Solution of Yesterday's Puzzi. 18, Weuis 1. Instance K 22, Prophet 5. French clerlc 2 24. Waste allow- e [CIR[A[TZIP[E[C] ance 14, Greedy 26. Final 1 F e eves [RIOIPIEFARIA Briet 80 a8 o see Lid 16. Burning 20, Winged 17. Plant raised for 30. Ornamenta food buttons 19. Explosion . Brave man 20, Sea eagle nn 21, Lays in_some- Wear away thing solid 34. More raticzal 23, Seaweeds 37, Arabian gar- 24. System of ments weights 40. Catch sight ¢ 26. 014 musical 43. Historteal note periods 27. Frightened 46. Listen 3. Puts into a 47. Engulfed com scabbard pletely and 36. Cavity disastrously | 36. Diners 50. Salty 88, Anglo-Saxou 52. Comfort money of ac- 54, City in New 29, ploUnE o 8. Precious stone . DOWN poiampahire . Egg-shape . 1 Cavern 55. Brilliantly 41! Prickly seea ~P%: ASSRMeS AN AL o peclare colored mes- container ship 3. Public notice rine fish 42. Mountain range 4. Dutch city 6. Pallid in Wyoming 61. The bitter 5. Fashionable 57. In a line 44. Expose to mois- vetch 6. London police- Require ture 64, Capital of man 60. Otherwise 46. Dark spot cast France 7. Tree trunk . Engrave with by an opaque, Pleced out acl body 35 Bullmentary. = - o Tuily: coliod, Scarce 48. Interpret: 68. Unaccompanle Borne on water 63. Guideway In archale 69. Anclent slave . One who can- knitting ma: 49. Intrude 70. Land measure chine 61, One that cures 71. One who chops 65. East Indian £3. City in Scotland72. Act 12. welght b4 Sheep-killing 73, Those persons 13, Complete col- 67. Short for a parrots or things lections man’s name w TP . 25 ENEE JEEE R EENE JEEE AdNE i 7/ =l% ultimate success. MARTHA SOCIETY TO HOLD DOUBLE EVENT Pioneering Spirit “These men and women have the | pioneering spirit,” Miss Forrest, who | got to know most of the settlers| The ladies of the Martha Society personally, said. “They are de-|will hold an ice cream social and termined to go ahead and take|lunch at the Northern Light Pres- from the soil of the Matanuska a byterian Church parlors tomorrow.| livelihood. They are all working|Tke lunch will be served from II| hard and effectively. Under the!oclock until 1:30 pm. Ice cream,. guidance . of some more familiar|cake, and candy will be on sale with Alaska conditions they are until 6 p.m. Mrs. Walter Scott will| forging ahead and by winter all of 've in charge of the dining room them will be prepared.” |and Mrs. Ray Pederman will man- | The townsite of Palmer, the cmmunity center, is already laid ut and construction of the com- nis is under way. Temporary being used in the STARTS DECKING OF “Miller Goes i DOUGLAS ISL. BR[D‘GEjStrip Fishing; | Lands “Big One” W. C. Miller, President of the Cclumbia Lumber Company, who has been here for several days, went ctrip fishing. It was A Dishaw who holds the contract for decking the Douglas Island bridge, started work today. The bridge surface will be constructed of laminated 2 by 6 timbers. Mr.| Dishaw reports that only about g 1,700 pieces of native spruce in the; & ‘new sport to himy M8 ee- size required—about one fourth the | Joved It. Mo aceusiys PRER 5 R | little salmcn, about 5 to’ 7 in- quantity needed to complete the ches long, but by the time he bridge decking—are available at the | had 0l the sheby Sevemt Milkes local mill. He expacts to have ex- sl it was a 57 pounder, and he is ‘hau»ud the existing supply by ane going to stick to that story in 28 and will continue with material go.(fje. |ana Mrs. A. T. Ficken will be in | charge of the candy department. shipped from outside as soon as ic uctures are cenditions permit. The. fishing party was staged | . e A recreation hall has P last Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. -~ T. A. Morgan. 3 * | seen built where the various com- HOSPITAL NOTES T wnity affairs are held, including|amulicr—a marimba solo by C.| services. Three ministers, Catholic and Luth- eligious esbyterian, Rand, and songs by Mrs. Walter Authorities report an unsual con- | WILLIAMS RETURNS dition at St. Ann's Hospital. Only eran, are already in the fleld and|ne, accompanied by Mrs. Trevor four women patients are in the| M. D. Williams, District En- he groups alternate in the use of Davis. hospital and no new women pa- glneer for the Bureau of Public he hall for their services. PEERIT L S Roads, returned on the Aleutian from a two weeks trip to Seward and the Kenai Peninsula district the It is in this cemer that Common Council meets. The C oil is made up of a man and w tients have been admitted for two days. The number of male patients is about normal, {BARROWS ARE PROUD PARENTS, GIRL BABY| m- | B where he inspected construction|,n representative from each of the HAYES GOES SOUTH; and maintenance of roads h¢fiemporary camps where the colon-| Word has been received at PAA COMPANY BUSINESS bureau has in that part of theliss are living until their homes headquarters in Juneau that Mr.| Territory. are completed. This Council meets and Mrs. W. J. Barrows are the A. B. Hayes, Traffic Represen- B o = weekly and takes up the various proud parents of a baby girl, Mary tative for the PAA in Juneau, is| KARNES BACK and a passenger on the Aleutian this| A, E. Karnes, Commissioner, of morning for Seattle. Hayes will|Education, is again in his office return to Juneau after a week or|here, returning on the Aleufian two of work on company business after a visit to the Matanusks in the Seattle traffic office. colonization project to look ove! TR the school arrangements there for ik WANT ADS PAY! the coming school term. Joe, born on June 12 in Belling- ham, Washington. Mrs. Barrows and her baby daughter are now. in Some 400 acres are now planted, Lynden, Washington. Barrows, who| 300 in grain, mostly oats; 37 in was Acting Division Engineer Sur‘ vegetables and 35 in potatoes and the PAA stationed at Fairbanks other acreage is being seeded. Fcril.:st winter, is traveling outside onf this season, the colonists are as-'company business. problems of self-government sees that they are carried out. 400 Acres Planted DATLY emii | from which they will reap the har- LEwIS anws Certain land is also being CONFIDENCE IN CITY BY TALK President of Water Com- pany Tells Chamber of Improvements (Continuea irom Page One) adding new meéss houses.” Karnes Describes Anthony Karnes, Territorial Com- missioner of Education who return- ed today from a two-weeks' trip to the Westward, told of conditions in the Matanuska Valley, where the nation's newest colonization plan is under way. “There may be talk of discontent from Palmer, but I didn't see much evidence of it while I was there,” Karnes said. “A few disgruntied persons can stir up a lot of noise. As far as I could ascertain, the project is making progress and the Two other speakers were heard. M. J. Wilcox, newly appointed Ju- neau agent of the Alaska Steamship Company, and Judge H. B. LeFevre, wbo recently returned from a lengthy trip to California and Mex- ico, both spoke. Renort Made Business aetaus were headed by the complete report of Chairman! A. B. Phillips of the Chamber’s en- | tertainment committee for the visit| of the Reserve Officers’ Training Phillips announced the appoint-| ment of Simpson MacKinnon tol tails of a Washington-California | cadet baseball game. Tentative an- nlizted men at the Elks Hall, and ancther .for cadets and officers at the Masonic Temple, were made. ‘ Other business details included the reply of J. R. Ummel, Federal| purchasing agent in Seattle, to the | Chamber’s demand that Matanuska | Valley lumber necessities be bought in Alaska. Ummel :aid that, at this time, he could not trace the Mata- | nutka orders, but that he would make a complcte report soon. A letter from the headquarters of the | United States Navy Pacific Fleet in-| dicated that, should any vessels, come to North Pacific waters this| summer, they probably would call| at Juncau in response to a Cham-| ber invitaticn. {ern plant there and, this year, are| MATANUSKA MATTIE, KNIK TONY, STEAL SHOW ON ALEUTIAN It was a gala masquerade aboard | the Aleutian last night on her run | from Sitka to Juneau, according to ireports emanating from the vessel when it arrived here, and among the hits of the event were “Mata- |nuska Mattie” and “Knik Tony,” | the former depicted by Miss Gladys | Forrest and the latter by A. E. | Karnes, Commissioner of Edncation, |two Juneauites returning on the same vessel with the Seattle Cham- ber of Commerce Good Will party. Everyone took part in the happy | event which was declared to be one |of ‘the brightest spots in the entire | tour of the Seattle visitors. Harry {Gowman, genlal host of the Gow- man hotel in Seattle, was reported | to have been awarded the token for |the best costume in the Seattle delegation. | |TWO PASSENGERS | ARE FLOWN HERE FROM. FAIRBANKS | The PAA Lockheed Electra ar- |rived in ' Juneau from Fairbanks | colonists, as a whole, seem happy.” |3t 4 o'clock yesterddy afternoon with two passengers,. Al Shyman {and C. White. The ship was pilot- ied on the return flight from Fair- banks by 8. E, Robbins. Walt Hall ;was co-pilot. Joe Crosson, who {made the scheduled flight to Fair- {banks Tuesday, remained in Fair- banks. —— e — - EVELYN BERG HERE; SAILS FOR HAINES The freighter Evelyn Berg of the age the kitchen. Mrs. Jeannette Corps units aboard two United| Ketchikan Steamship Company, Blomgren will pour coffee and tea States Navy destroyers next week. | was berthed at Femmer’s Dock for two hours and one-half last night on her regular run from Seattle. A program from 3 to 5 pm. will| handle the details of The Empire Capt. Allan Fulmer was In charge feature Miss Jean Carlson in a Cup Race, a whaleboat crew event,|of the vessel as she arrived at 6:30 cello solo—The Legend,” by Schul-|and of Ev Nowell to handle the de.}c'clack last night to unload a large carga of freight here. At 9 o'clock she left for Haines, from where she Heisel and Mrs. Crystal Snow Jen- | nouncement of two dances, one for will sail directly southbound. A i DAILY EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY! Extrae One . drop ‘works mpj ! in a dish of cooked fruit Packed like silks..it takes patience ~and care to prepare Turkish tobacco - for Chesterfield Cigarettes Size, color, texture, comdition . . . 1 all these bave something to do with aroma and flavor | Leaf by leaf, the sun-ripened Turkish tobacco is selected or re- jected to get just the right kind for Chesterfield’s milder, better taste. And just as much care is taken to | pack the tobacco to preserve the delicate aroma during its 4000 mile " journey to this country. So important is the prepara- tion of Turkish tobacco in mak- ing Chesterfields, that Li ggett & Myers bave their own modern leaf handling plants in seven important tobacco centers of Turkey and Greece, ““Selection station”” in Turkey where 7. Turkish tabacco leaves are weighed " and classified to judge their qualitys © 1935, L16GRTT & My2RS TOBACCO Coy PN " o s g o - o T i b P e o