The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 9, 1935, Page 1

SONGRESSTONAL LI WASHINGTON. D. C “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SENATE PASSES SOCIAL SECURITY BILL | PLAN ON GOING THROUGH TODAY T0 DAWSON CITY Will Says He'd Like to Be! in Juneau Late in Fall 1 ‘When Rain Goes Qut’ REX BEACH ON HAND TO “PUSH HER OFF” Famous Comedian Avers| He's' Really Going to Alagka on This Trip | | | | | With all tanks full of gas—260 gallons—Wiley Post and Will Rogers took off from the PAA float at 12:25 p. m. today. | Early s morning Post said, “I think e will'take off if the weather gets Okay. We may go o Skagway but we may not stop there. We are going into Dawson though. I don’t know what we will do after that.” The famous comedian, Will Rog- ers, chewed gum enthusiastically as he waited for PAA attendants to| fill reserve tanks in the red Lock- heed plane with gas at the PAA hangar this morning. Post and| POST AND Rex Beach, Famous Author, On Return Visit to North After Many Years Absence Rex Beach, famous novelist, writ- | er of stories of romance as it hap- | E TH I 0 P I A N pens in Alaska, arrived in Juneau last night aboard the Canadian | National Steamer Prince George. | Mr. Beach was met at the City | Dock by Dr. W. W. Council, an old | friend of early days in Cordova and | Valdez. “I knew Dr. Council,” Mr. | vIslT JAPAN Beach said, “when they were build- | ing the Copper River and North- western Railroad.” {Reported that Arms and & oapin Ammunition Are to Elmer Reed, who | with FERA here, met Beach at the | Be Purchased ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 9.—An of- Gastineau Hotel to renew their ac- | ficial party has left for Japan ac- quaintanceship. *“I last saw Elmer Reed in Nome in 1908,” Mr. Beach companied by an unidentified Jap- anese, on a secret mission. said. Mr. Beach is an intimate friend of Will Rogers, here with Wiley Post, and expressed the hope that - This mission, it is reported with- “Will and. I will be able to get in some fishing together.” Wrote “The Spoilers” Mr. Beach was the first author to discover the fertile literary pos- sibilitles of Alaska, and his novel, “The Spoilers,” 1908, was the first adventure novel to offer an Alaskan background. Since then he has written several novels which have permanently identified him with Al- askan literature. “The Barrier,” 1907, “The Silver Horde,” 1909, and ces, however, will be for the pur- |chase of arms and ammunition from the Japanese. gation here. ———— ROOSEVELT TO out confirmation from official sour- | ““The ‘Winds of Chance,” 1818. The TAKE FISHING ROGERS OF BELL, DIETRICH AT ANCHORAGE, MATANUSKA Commissioner E xp laining Salmon Fishing Regula- tions to Colonists ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 8.— Commissioner Frank T. Bell of the Bureau of Fisheries and “Congress- men C. Elmer Dietrich of Pennsyl- vania arrived here by plane today going to the Matanuska. Bell will investigate reports that. the colon- ists have been netting salmon near the salmon grounds. The Com- | missioner said he would explain the regulations against such procedure | and expected an adjustment would | be easy as the two canneries here most interested in spawning in that area have promised the colonists all | the canned salmon needed if they discontinue netting. | Dietrich, member of the House It is officially announced that|Territorial committee, Who is ac-| Japan is to immediately open a le- | companying the commissioner, said | he wanted first hand information | about the Matanuska. The two were accompanied by Col. Otto F. Ohlson when they left for the colony. - REDICTS R RE-ELECTION BY LARGE MAJORITY Drewey Says Questionnaire| Shows President’s Pop- ularity Unquestioned Wa » || WRANGELL, Alaska, Aug. 9. What became of Ruth Williams ear is a mystery not yet solved even with the arrest of Cleo MacDonald on a charge of biting off said ear during a fight, The physician who dressed the WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Re-elec- | tion of President Roosevelt by “(w-“ GALIFURNIAN erwhelming proportions despite any | cALLS HERE UN present slump in the party's for-| tunes” it was predicted here todnyl by Representative Drewey, Demo- ! crat from Virginia, Chairman of| the Democratic Congressional cam-' |palgn committee. 1 He based his prediction on the 50 per cent returns from a confidential | questionnaire sent to 319 House! Deinocrats, ! “Nine tenths of them report the! “populanty of the President’s sdmm-: Err Puctiy SeERs w- S One of the finest and most se {in certain rural areas Roosevelt is | {even stronger than in 1932." worthy private yachts to call here| e e jthis summer berthed at Femmer's | Dock at 7:30 o'clock last niKhl; | (from San Francisco. She is the| 1100-foot Canim, formerly owned| 100-Foot Ship Berths at Femmer's Dock with Lowe Aboard ( i lby Col. C. B. Blethen, pub]lsher‘ | | now owned by Edmund Lowe, Jr.,| retired San Francisco business man. | The Canim proved her seaworthi- | ness when she made & run from YAGHT CANIM her California port to Alaska’s In- nted-One Ear--Finder Return to Loser, Wrangell TOPRESIDENT abbreviated ear after a fight on the vaterfront, sought the missing part in the hope of sewing it on. MacDonald’s hearing in the Unit- ed States Commissioner’s Court is | set for next Tuesday. MacDonald is held in the Federal Jail here in default of $1,000 bail. STOCK PRICES JUMP UPWARD, Turnover in Months —Close Strong NEW YORK, Aug. 9. — Stocks shook off all lethargy today and leaped ahead with vigor resembling some of the old time. boom ses- slons. Merchandise, motors, steel and aircraft issues led in the upturn for the year or longer. Today's close was strong. | The session witnessed one of the | largest turnovers in several months, sales reaching 2250000 shares FAST TRADING |Session Witnesses Largest/ F FOR INTERIOR MEASURE GOES AS REQUESTED Virtually No Change Made in Form of Roosvelt's Vast Program T MINUTE FIGHT OVER AMENDMENT Administration’s Tax Plan Heading Into An- other Major Test WASHINGTON, Aug. 9—The Senate approved the social se- curity bill late this afternoon. PASSAGE FORECAST WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Senate leaders today believed President Roosevelt's vast social security pro- gram was near passage and would be delivered to the White House | virtually in the form the- President | asked for it, Only a last minute fight for an LAS of the Seattle Daily Times, and|which registered many new highs amendment to exclude private pen- slon plans stood in the way of final | approval. Meanwhile the administration tax plan headed into another . major test. As the Senate Fin Com- RAISED TODAY A slight increase in the price paid, WAR MACHINE iy Praisi e ko atter Was the last of his. movels, first hop 1 Juneau and did not.“w use an Alaskan theme. Since side Passage. And her owner prov- which sold with an advance of mittee was called behind” closed ed his love of the sea when he, one to two points. | doors to begin mlmplpg he meas- did not want to carry unnecessary weight in the tanks. This morning they de- eided “We could pile in a few 5-gallon cans,” Rogers said. a can-opener. And listen” he add- éd to Post, “‘Don't tell me that star- ter ain’t going to work. We only got one starting crank and that's too short.” On being asked if he was sur- prised when the sun shone this morning, Rogers replied, “I would be surprised if the sun did shine. I'd like to be in Juneau late in the fall that day the rain goes out. Do you have one of those guessing contests on when the rain goes out? Say, you folks seem to worry about what peoplé think about the weath- er here. What do you care if it rains or spows or anything? You got a monopoly. Everybody has to go through here whether they like it or mot.”’ ’ Rex Beach, famous author, who (Continued on Rage Eight) MRS. POST IS NOT COMING TO NORTHLAND BULLETIN — SAN FRAN- OR. 80 /day scene in Alaska, with the ex- then his settings have wandered all over the world. | He confessed, however, to an In- TRIP, WEEREND Chief E xe cative Leaves Capital City Late To- day for Relaxation i § pectation’ of getting material for another novel. | “There have been big changes in’ “And give me | the social structure and habits of |life in Alaska since the last time |T was here,” he sald. “I would be |up against it if I tried to write about Alaska now. I have several good articles 'to do and if I can find some of the old timers that can’ tell some good lies, I want to play around with them.” Interested in Aviation Mr. Beach expressed a vivid in- |terest in the aviation industry in Alaska and said he would probably write an article on the subject. o WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Seeking relaxation after a busy week of con- ferences, President Roosevelt is to put aside the affairs of state and leaves late today for a fishing trip over the weekend. GORDON, STANDARD OIL SALES MANAGER, GETS BIG KING STRIPPING]| “Alaska 1is of strategic importance Agrecing that strip fishing, when in the field of aviation,” Beach said, You catch a fish, is about as big a 1 | 18 PERFECTED BY MUSSGLINI Loss of Pl;; and Seven Lives Stirs Nation to for halibut here was noticed as two sales were recorded ' on the Cold Storage’ trading board this morn- fhe. Ones cabely-or-9,600" pounds- the Dalene sold for 5% and 4% ecents per pound, while the other shipment, 3,000 pounds from the unlike many yachismen, board the ship at Seattle, but sail- | ed with her up the Pacific Coast, As-a matter of fact, Lowe Is said to have sailed “every foot” of the Canim's log since he purchased her, CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Closing quOLALION of - AMSKS-JI AU, -mine. stock today is 15%, American Can 143'4, American Power and Light 8, Anaconda 17, Béthlehem Steel 36%, Missouri, brought 585 and 4%. Cruises ut 11 The Dalene’s catch, brought in New Activity { ROME, Aug. 9.—Italy is driving power after the loss of a plane and ! seven lives yesterday in Egypt. Var-| ious forces are being mobilized and {more troops are being dispatched to | East Africa. | i | t BRITISH PRECAUTIONS. LONDON, Aug. 9. — The British !government is taking added precau- |tions to protect nationals in Addis by Capt. 8. E. Anderson, went to the Sebastian-Stuart Fish Com- pany, while the Missouri’s was sold to the New England Fish Company. toward perfection of her military/Capt. Ole Jackson is skipper of the hour. Missouri. Both the Alaska Trollers Co-op- erative Marketing Association and the Sebastian-Stuart Company also reported purchases of mixed sal- The Canim has a water-line| measurement of 86 feet. Her beam is 18 feet, and she is powered by two Washington full diesel engines. They cruise her at 11 knots an Already this summer, the Canim has become well acquainted with Southeast Alaska waters, having visited Glacier Bay waters and in Icy Straits, since leaving Ketchi- mon and halibut catches. The Co- op agency took 12,000 pounds from kan on July 4. Boarding the Oanim here last| the Sadle, while the independent|night were three passengers off| concern obtained 6,000 pounds each{the steamer Prince George from | from the North Light and the|Vancouver, B. C. They include: Mr. “It they ever begin to fly the At- tports thrill as one can experience, lantic commercially, Alaska is go- J. S. Gordon, district sales manager ling to be the laboratory where they ©f the Standard Oil Company, Te- will work out their problems.” turned from a ivip to Shoal Point He expressed surprise that the on the.gasboat Nora last night as American government had not uti- enthusiastic about the game as he |lized airplanes in the locating of had been indifferent when he start- mineral deposits in Alaska. ed on the trip with J. 8. MacKin- “The Canadian government in non and Minard Mill Thursday af- the last few years has made great ternoon. |advances in aerial reconaissance in It was a tough battle to bring in regard to the location of mineral the 40-pound king salmon that was deposits,” he said. “By the aid of Gordon’s prize catch and it was aerial photography the geologists NeArly two hours after the-big fish can eliminate vast tracts of coun- had been hooked that Mill was able Sadie. HIGHER PRICE FOR SALMON IS REPORTED HERE An important raise in the inde- jAbada in event of war. The London press today reports i that the United States is now tal.- ling an active interest in the Italio- Ethiopian crisis. LAST RITES FOR LITTLE SIMPSON BE HELD SUNDAY Funeral services for = Clifford| Simpson, 9, who was drowned at| and Mrs. John Graves of Willows, | Cal, and David Farrell of Margate City, N. J. Dogs Aboard Bkipper of the Canim is Capt. R. H. Hunter. Her Chief Engineer | is E. C. Wingo. | Other interesting “passengers” | aboard the yacht are three Talton | Indian dogs. These frisky black and | white dogs are a half-breed strain which have been kept ‘“pure” by their Alaskan Indian breeders. The dogs have some fox blood in them | |the Upper City Float on July 31,' pendent delivered Juneau price for| The Canim was scheduled to | General Motors 44%, International Harvester 53, Kennecott 20%, Unit- ed States Steel 43%, Pound $4.96%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow- Jones averages: Industrials 127.26, rails 35.23, Util- ities 26. CORRINNE JENNE LEAVES JUNEAU TO ATTEND COLLEGE One of the most popular mem- bers of Juneau's “younger set,” Miss Corrinne Jenne, left the city this morning—bound for her first year of study at Mills College in Cali- furnia. She took passage on the Princess Alice for Vancouver, B. C. In Seattle, she will meet her mother and will visit with her for a week. Then she will join Mr. and Mrs. Lester D. Henderson at| American Lake, Wash. The Hen-| dersons were Juneau Visitors recent- | ly. Henderson was at one time superintendent of Juneau schools. Miss Jenne will accompany the! try which is barren of minerals, 0 net him. In the usual manner | will be held at the chapel in the‘ and many important gold dm.' the fish started straight for China, C. W. Carter Mortuary on Sunday, salmon affecting two large buyers|leave at noon today, perhaps for | Hendersons south to California by was announced late this after-|the Westward. However, at a late automobile to Burlingame, Calif., noon by Wallis George, President{hour this afternoom, she had not Where Henderson is now school su- | oars, took to the Nora's skiff and 1 BEAGH’ RosERs iw do to get back home. Today | stories Gordon will tell his friends about his catch arem’t fish stories. Gordon arrived in Juneau Sunday on the PAA Electra from Fair- made a trip around the boat, when | August 11, at 4 p. m. Rev. O L. (Continued on Page Two) finally Gordon, with Mill at the —————.-— were towed so far away from the | Nora that Mill had & lot of rowing | the fish is being prepared for ship- eE'I' TOGET“ER ment to Seattle to prove that the Two old friends, Rex Beach and SEATTLE, Aug. 9.—Mrs. Wiley | Will Rogers, had a long conversa- Post, wife of the flier who left|tion last night and breakfasted Juneau today for Dawson, pre- together this morning. sumably his final destination being| ‘“We met here just by chance,” Moscow, s not to rejoin him in|Rex Beach said today, “I have no Alaska and make the flight. She|schedule and neither has Will. We announced this morning she would |are very old friends. Will Rogers’ leave here sometime today for Los first movie appearance was in one Angeles and there await her hus-/ of my pictures — ‘Laughing Bill band’s return. Hyde.' I had my own company at |that time. My wife selected Will CHECKS OUT |Rogers for the, cast.” SEATTLE; Aug. 9. — Mrs. Pnsl‘ At the PAA float this afternoon checked out of the hotel here and when Rogers and Post took off, flew south but her plans were not| Rogers extended a very cordial in- announced. ‘ |vitation ‘to Rex Beach to visit Shortly after she left the hotel, Rogers’ home in California next a plane belonging to Max Fleiseh- fall. mann, of Santa Barbara, Cal., left | could not say whether Mrs. Post The ranch of Bavard Brothers, was one of the passengers. No other plane left. She had previously said she was flying to California in a|California Grocery, is to be more private plane “piloted by a friend.”|accessible. A road is now being banks after travelling through the Territory with R. D. Baker, sub- station superintendent for the Stan- dard Oil in Alaska. When told about salmon fishing around Ju- neau, he was certain that it could not compare in excitement to the Russian River trout fishing he had enjoyed at the Westward. Now he's as enthusiastic about strip fishing as everyone would be who had cap- tured 40-pound salmon on a 9- ounce rod and 10-pound leader. When Gordon and his fish ar- rived at the Gastineau Hotel last night, Rex Beach was in the lobby, and the fish and Gordon's enthus- iasm was another great sportsmen’s interest in Juneau's favorite past- time. LEAVES HOSPITAL Harry Morris, employed by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company at Sitka, who entered St. Ann's Hospital on July 29 for She refused to give any details and | built from the Eagle River Highway Kendall will officiate. | Clifford Simpson was drowned ! (when a bicycle ridden by him and Terrance McGorty plunged from the| _dock into Gastineau Channel. The McGorty boy was rescued unharmed but Clifford Simpson sank before; help could reach him. Mrs. E. Evernvik, Clifford Simp- son's grandmother, will arrive in 'Juneau on the Victoria tomorrow. WOMEN ON WAY TO NOME BY PAA PLANE The PAA Jdockheed Electra will] take off for the Interior during this| afternoon with Pilots Joe Crosson and Walter Hall at the controls.| W. C. Tillmah, PAA mechanic, and C. Anderson have engaged passage on the plane, and radio dispatches from Ketchikan stated that two wo- men passengers holding through tickets to Nome whose names were given as Klose and Kinsella, are aboard the PAA Fairchild flown by Alex Holden enroute from Ketchi- kan to Juneau this afternoon and ,will go to Fairbanks on the Elec- tra. i A R NORMAN COOK IS NOW MAKING IMPROVEMENTS Norman B. Cook will soon start neau Cold Storage Company. ‘The new price sale, which be- came effective Monday, follows: 16 cents for large salmon; 7 cents for smalls; and 6 cents for whites. A price of 4% cents is being of- fered for cohoes. ‘The scale which has been paid here recently is: 16, 6 and 4, with and General Manager of the Ju-|left her berth at Keeny's Float, to Perintendent. which she moved after first moor-, ing at Femmer's Dock. TAKE AIR PICTURES WILEY'POST TAKEOFF| As the red Lackheed low - wing| seaplane flown by Wiley Post with | | |cohoes being bought at 4 cents. Last week, the first raise was no-| Will Rogers as a passenger left ticed when the top price for large) the Water this afternoon enroute salmon was boosted from 12 to 16|!0 Dawson, the Gorst Boeing fly- cents. ing boat piloted by Frank Knight This announcement by George]followed it into the air to allow affects Oxenberg Brothers and the|Fercy Pond .of Winter and Pond, New England Fish Company, he|2Rd Mr. and Mrs. Robb, who were said. Whether other buying agencies| PASSengers in the Gorst plane, to would meet this raise, he did not i:“ ;}‘g‘:‘“’“ m?l the departure of say, although it is expected they[“'® inguished travelers. The will, i ¥Iphotographers aboard the Gorst £ DB TR DU plane also took pictures of the The PAA Lockheed Vega, flown Juneau vicinity from the air, after by Bob Ellis with Flight Mechanic|the Post-Rogers plane had gone. w Brewer, returned to Ketchi- s today. A new instrument panel | was installed in the plane yester- ROYAL AIR FORCE | day at the PAA float by W. C.| MAN TRAVELING Tillman, PAA mechanic who came — from Fairbanks last week to do the| George Kolendick, believed to be| work. Tiliman is returning to Fair-|a member of the Royal Air Force banks this afternoon on the PAA|and a resident of Prince George, Lockheed Electra. B. C, travelled from that port to All PAA planes now have uni-|Ketchikan as a passenger on the form, standard instrument pnnels,|mnm Prince George. Kolendick construction on an ice storage and She will visit with them for two or three weeks before! enrolling at Mills College on Sep-| tember 12. Miss Jenne is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. P. Jenne. She is a ure the House passed, servatives | were determined to cut some of the new higher rates from the bill. 40-HOUR-WEEK INDICATED FOR P.0. EMPLOYEES Measure Goes to President for Signature—House and Senate Agree WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — The House has accepted changes in the bill to provide a 40-hour week for postal employees. This action sent the measure to the White House for the President's signature. REPORTED DEAD It is reported In Juneau that Capt. Jerry Flynn, one of the best known ‘mariners on the Alaska route, and a veteran of the Alaska Steamship Company, has died on board his ship while in Soutleast Alaska waters. Capt. Flynn s the {master of the freighter Redondo. He has been an Alaska mariner since 1889. He kas a member of the local lodge of Elks, R SIDES BACK FROM CONSULATE CLOSING AT PRINCE RUPERT graduate of Juneau High School, where she attained a high scholar- | ship rating. She was awarded the Juneau Business and Professional Women's Club scholarship bf $50, and also won a $500 award from Mills College. Mrs. Jenne will leave Seattle for Juneau on the steamer North 3ea on August 19, - WARRACK, OTHERS ON HOP TO SITKA At 11 o'clock this morning, the Alaska Alrport Stinson seaplane flown by Sheldon Simmons, took off for Sitka with J. B. Warrack, of the Warrack Construction Co., E. Hanson, and R. D. Baker who will return with the plane. i Harry Luces, H. A. Gerstman and | Tom Morgan, who aslo will make a round-trip, have engaged passage on a later flight to Sitka tonight. T e Frank Nefsey, former deputy United States Marshal at Skagway who has been on a visit with Albert which tends to more efficient serv-|is expected ta visit Juneau later, White here for four months, left ten years ice, as the pilots are required to|although it is now known for what |for Vancouver, B, C., on the Prin- M. H. Sides, deputy Collector of Customs, returned from Prince Ru- pert last night where he went in connection with the closing of the U. 8. Consulate there. With the consulate closed the Juneau Cus- toms office will handle all business in connection with fishing and oth- er government statistical work. Prince Rupert has one of the larg- est cold storage plants in the coun- try and a great deal of fish from Alaska waters is handled through that port. It will mean a large in- crease in work for the local office. The other consulate work will now be handled by the American Consul at Vancouver. TO VISIT FORMER HOME IN SCOTLAND, BE AT ANNIVERSARY Charles Grewar will be a passen- ger on the North Sea for the south enroute to New York City. From there he will board a liner and go to Montrose, Scotland, his former home, which he has not visited for Mr. Grewar will be home in time to celebrate with his mother ‘trea.tment of an infected hand, cooling house ay his home ai Point cess Alice, said “the” friend just flew up here.[to the farm, iwm discharged today. - Loutsa, fly different ships at times. | purpose. } [ her 83rd birthday in September, .