The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 14, 1935, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL LIBRA™ ¥ WASHINGTON, D. C. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNES DAY, AUGUST 14, | VOL. XLVI., NO. 7039. MOR ET 935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS INTERIOR MAN 1S NAMED TO . SUGCEED LOVE Member of Last Session of Territorial Legisla- ture Honored HEADQUARTERS TO BE AT ANCHORAGE Wellknown Alaskan Is to Have Charge of Land Office Affairs ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Presi- dent Roosevelt . today nominated George A. Lingo for Registrar of | the Land Office, with headquarv,ersr at Anchorage, Alaska, to succeed George K. Love, who died recently. WAS IN LEGISLATURE George A. Lingo, of Fairbanks, was a member of the House of| Representatives from the Fourth| Division, serving his second suc-| cessive term in the Territorial Leg- islature at this year's session. Born in Anaconda, Montana, on April 30, 1801, Mr. Lingo received his early schooling in that State. He came to Alaska with his family #1917, and later attended school in"'Seattle where he was graduated from Lincoln High School in 1921. In 1922 arid 1923 he studied at the| University of Washington and in| 1927 was graduated from the Alas- ka “Agricultural College and School of Mines receiving a degree in en- gineering. ,The first graduate of the Alaska College to become a member of the Territorial Legislature, Mr. Lingo is President of the Alumni Association of that. institution and a member of the Board of Regents. ~ During - his.-yenrs-of residence in Alaska he has worked in and around mines and mills at Salt uck, on Prinice’ of Wales Island, Liatouche, Kennecott and Chicka-~ Jeon. For a time he leased and operated the North Midas Gold Mine in the Copper River district. At present Mr. Lingo is Tourist Agent and Assistant Manager of the Mt. McKinley Tourist and ’Afnnsponation Company, and a director of the company. He is also President of the Farthest North Gray Line now operating at Ju- neau. He is an active , member of the Democratic Party. Mr. Lingo and Derothy Troy Morgan, the latter the daughter of Gov. John W. Troy, were mar- ried in Juneau several months ago and they are now residing for the summer in the Mount McKinley Park Lodge. COLONEL KNOX FOR PRESIDENT, IS ONE APPEAL HAMPTON BEACH, N. H, Aug. 14—Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, was as- sured the support Qf state Repub- licans for the Presidential nomina- tion by Gov. H. Styl ridges in an address before a staté party gath- eting today. Knox also addressed the gathering. ‘Prawing 30 planks from the Dem- atic "platform for six planks for e Republican platform, which he Mcl;ud represented “utter repudia- tion by Roosevelt and his adminis- tlon. of sacred promises,” Gov. idges said that, taken literally ffom the Démocratic platform, they were: “Immediate drastic reduction of government expenses; mainten- ance of national credit by Federal Budget annually balanced; sound currency; unemployment and old age insurance under State laws; en- forcement of antitrust laws to pre- vent monopoly; opposition to un- sound policy of restricting agricul- tural production.” FOREST FIRES ARE SPREADING SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 14—0Old forest fires have been whipped into new fury by winds and are report- ed raging beyond control in Mon. tana, Oregon and Northern Tdaho. ‘Thousands of fighters are trying “Part Detroit that y Girls” Are Sentenced to Life for $134 Robbery in of June 26. Judge John A. Boyne ihe ho'dup. T during the trial. Led to Slaying William Lee Ferris and three formcr burlesque show dancers, Florence and Loretta Jackson, sisters, and Jean Miller, have been convicted of a $134 holdup of Howard Carter Dickinson, attorney, and ncphew of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, on the night lifc imprisonment which is mandatory under the Michigan law, pccording to an Ascociated Press dispatch. Dickinson was killed in o three girls, called the “party girls,” are shown above with their at.orney, George Fitzgerald, sentenced the quartette today to in the courtroom, WPA SETUPIS STARTED FOR - ALASKA HERE Juneau Office Will Act as Clearing House for All FERA Work Centralization of FERA in the Territory under the Works Progress Administration with offices in Ju- neau will be undertaken immediate- ly and J. R. Elliott has arrived here from Washington to set up the ma- chinery. He is accompanied by W. 8. Newton, field representative of the” FERA. They arrived on the Aleutian Monday evening and for| the present will have temporary| desk space in the offices of E. W.' Griffin, Secretary of Alaska. 4 Blue Eagle Dead, Employers Are Cutting Wages | WASHINGTON, Aug. 11— NRA observers reported today, after an extensive survey, that some twelve to thirteen thou- sand American employers have cut wages or increased hours, or both since the old Blue Eagle died. This cut in wages is made, the report said, in view of the fact that cost of living has greatly increased. — - — SOLDIERS ARE HERE TODAY, 4 DAYS' HIKING The soldiers are in Juneau again.! Mr. Elliott, who is disbursing They arrived during the late after-! clerk in the Bureau of Disburse- noon aboard the barrack tender! ments, U. S. Treasury, said that un-| Fornance from Chilkoot Barracks der the Works Progress Admlnlstra-‘, tion setup, the Juneau office will act as disbursing agent for FERA work in the Tgritory, including the Matanuska project. Mr. Newton is an accountant with | the FERA and will assist in setting up the new system. e DEER REPORTED PLENTIFUL IN THIS DISTRICT “If You Can’t See Horns, She Hasn’t Any,” Game Officials Suggest “If you can't see the herns, she| hasn't any.” t That is the advice being passed along by the Alaska (iame Commis-| sion these days with the deer sea- son scheduled to open next ’l‘ues-l day, to remain open until November 15. The regulations, it is stressed,| allow a bag limit of three males with | horns not less than three inches above the skull. i Reports are that deer are plen- tiful this season. Jay Williams, For- | est Examiner, who has been on bear patrol on Admiralty Island, re- ports seeing lots of deer, and re- | ports of wardens and others in the field indicate a good supply. 1 Resident hunters must have a li-| | cense in this Division this year and they are available in Juneau at the Thomas and Juneau Young to stem. the blaze spreading over thousands of acres of timberland, ported so far, and will camp tonight in Evergreen | Bowl, then go on a four day march- ing hike starting tomorrow morn- ing, according to plans. The soldiers here comprise Com- pany F.’ FRESH PORK PRICES HIT SKY LIMIT CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 14—Whole- sale prices of fresh pork in the Chicago area reached a high of $29.50 per hundred pounds, more| than a 350 percent increase in two years. 3 Yesterday's jump amounted to an even dollar and brought the price $23 higher than the extreme low of $6.50 paid in 1933. Live hogs also advanced to a record high in nine years. Yester- day’s peak was $12.20 per’ hundred on the hoof. — PIONEER RESIDENTS ARE TO CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Anderson, plo- neer residents of Douglas and Ju- neau, will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary at a reception to be given at their home on Twelfth street, next Saturday, Au- gust 17. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson settled in Douglas in 1898 and have lived on the Channel since then. All their l-re invited to the reception. SIGNED TODAY BY PRESIDENT Roosevelt Gives His Im pression Concerning New Legislation WASHINGTON, August 14.— President Roosevelt has signed : the Social Security Bill. The President described the Security law as representing the “cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete.” WILL ATTEMPT TO PUT ASIDE TAX MEASURE Republicans Planning Cope —Debate Is Begun in Senate Over Bill WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—An im- mediate move by Republicans to shunt aside the tax measure until the next session of Congress con- fronted Administration leaders to- day as the Senate began the debate on the quarter of a billion dollar bill drafted by the Senate Finance Committee. STOCK PRICES TAKE ADVANCE, TRADING TODAY; New Features Are Supplied to Market Business— Close Fairly Steady NEW YORK, Aug. 14—A variety. of specialties, alcohols and farm implements shares provided the stock market with outstanding fea- tures during the trading today. Many issues went on the upside although a number of favorites in the industrial division were ham- pered by further profit taking, many |pedition. The suits are described|inside the barns eight months ‘of he original $300,000 was appropri- cnding the day with small losses. Rails and utilities were hesitant. bination of a parka and an avia-|underground ice kills tree roots pre- | The additional $100,000 will be for Today's close was fairly steady. |tion suit.” Tents have been con-| venting sufficient large growth for N constructjon of another story to CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 14——Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15%, American Can 142, American Power and Light 8%, Anaconda 18, Bethlehem Steel 35%, General Motors 43%, International Harvester 52%, Kennecott 22, Unit- ed States Steel 43%, Pound $4.98%, Schenley Distillers 33%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES Today's Dow, Jones averages are as follows: Industrials 128.27, rails 26.48, utilities 27.29. 200 MINERS AT MEETING At a meeting of the Juneau Mine Workers Association in the A. B. Hall last night, plans for a dance which will be held next Saturday night were referred to the Enter- tainment Committee. Complete ar- rangements will be announced later in the week. Vice-President Jack Finlay pre- sided in the absence of Ted Daniel- sen, and about 200 members were present. —————— BACK BROKEN Paul Ketah, 32, an Indian, whose | back was broken in a fall from the dock at Klawock, was brought to Juneau aboard the Yukon last night by L. E. Robinson, Superintendent of the school at Klawock. Ketah was taken in an ambulance from the dock to the Government hospitail. REV. HUBBARD IS TO STUDY * TWOGLACIERS Is on Tour to Westward But Returns Here Lat- er This Month “It is not extraordinary that it rained in Juneau while Will Rog-} ers was here. He is all wet any-| how, and must have felt right at home,” commented Father Bern- ard R. Hubbard, “The Glacier Priest,” who passed through Juneau | last night aboard the Yukon. “It is as tactful” he added, “to talk about rain in Alaska as about| earthquakes in Los Angeles.” Father Hubbard, accompanied by his assistants, Edgar Levin and | Ken Chisholm, geologists and for- | mer students of his, who have been | i in Alaska to begin scientific | investigation of glacier conditions At present he is.in charge of a Father Hubbard Tour Party of 86 ipeople, round-trippers on the Yu- kon and bound for an mvesnga—| tion of the Matanuska Valley col- | anization project. He expects to! réturn to Juneau August 19, and! will plunge immediately into ac-! tivities. To Determine Ice Cap “A statement has been made that / the ice cap in Greenland as well | as in the Arctic is 10,000 feet thick," said Father Hubbard. “This | odn't be true. It is against all the! laws of physics. Technical explana- ' tions are confusing, but in ordinary térms one might say that the pres- Sure of the ice would make freez- Ing at any great depth impossible. ! Pressure generates heat and heat ts ice. Our present expedition for the purpose of studying the| compressibility of ice and the ratio | temperature {and pressure as exhibited in hardness.” Ideal for Examination It is Father Hubbard's opinion, based on explorations eight years ago, that the Taku and Mendenhall | glaciers offer ideal conditions for the 'examination of crevasses. He expects to establish a camp on the top of the ice cap in the Taku section, The expedition is equipped with special suits of Grenfel cloth, |a light but exceedingly warm fab- |ric of English manufacture, popu- |larized jn the Mt. Bverest ex- |by Father Hubbard as “a com- |structed of the same material. Has Special Boat Father Hubbard plans to explore |the glaciers by air with Bob Ellis, PAA pllot at Ketchikan, who is an old friend. He will also travel by boat to the source of the Taku River. For this purpose an 18-foot 22 h.p. gasboat has been specially constructed by Melin Davit and Boat Company, manufacturers of lifeboats for transatlantic steam- ship lines. This boat, The Libby, at present aboard the Yukon, is made of Allegheny metal, similar to the “stainless steel” of commerce, and |is the first boat so to be con- |structed. It is built on lifeboat lines, with a square stern for the |use of an ouboard motor, and a |solid keel of Allegheny metal % |by 2% inches. The foreward part |is decked over and enclosed by a bulkhead, forming an air-tight |compartment in which 1000 pounds of equipment, including scientific | instruments, will be carried. Has Dog Team Four sledge dogs are included ing the present expedition. Mageik and |Wolf, old campaigners with Fath- |er’ Hubbard in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, will give Ma- gook and Margot, half-grown pups, a course of instructions in scentific motive power. Mageik is the father |of Magook and Margot. Their mother, Margie, and Katmai, two of the dogs used by Father Hub- bard on his Yukon trip seven years ago, are vacationing in Cali- fornia. Father Hubbard expects to re- main in the glacier regions until the last of September. “I expeot good weather during the entire ex- pedition,” he said. “I have hit (Continued on Page Three) Pension Benefits Restored to Vets; President Signs Measure WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—Presi- dent Roosevelt, late yesterday after- ing all pension benefits the Econ- Lomy Act took away from the veter- ans of the Spanish-American War, ' hardwares. A brisk demand is re- relatives and their many friends|noon, signed the legislation restor- |Boxer Rebellion. and Philippine In-] where it will contact the yacht pleted 31 years with the Loulsiana ¢ Which also left Hawk Inlet today, | surrection, associated with him for nine years, !/ in the Taku and ‘Mendenhall areas. the phenomeénon of 1ce‘§‘ P‘ Farleys on Tour r General James Farley and wife. JPostmaster General James A. Farley, chairman of the Democratie national committee and New Deal “right-hand man”, is shown above with his wife upon arrival in San Francisco, headed for a vacation in Hawaii. Farley obtained the *“low-down” on sentiment on his Jeisurely trip across the continent and is supposed to have relaved his information to President Roosevelt, MORE MONEY | FOR BUILDING M qtanuska Criticized by Visitor Gen;ral Sales Manager ofl Eastern Company |Additional '$100,000 Is Gives His Views Authorized for Fed- eral Construction MINNEAPOLIS, August 14.—C. T.| Vandenover, General Sales Mana-| WASHINGTOW, Aug. 14—Alaska ger for the International Milling Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said Company, criticized the Matanuska | foday an additional $100,000 has been project. He was a recent visitor to| @uthorized for construction of the the colony. new Federal Buildings at Ketchikan, | He said that mosquitoes keep cows | Pringing the total cost to $400,000 as the year; potatoes find no market; ated earlier. house construction; and that “resi- th¢ building. dents prefer vegetables and other| Delegate Dimond said he believed edibles grown in Washington and h¢ additional sum will be available Oregon and are willing to pay a (oW funds under the Second De- d premium to get produce Irom‘r"'“’"cy Bill for post offices and the United States because most of °ther Federal buildings. the root crops in Alaska are soggy I believe mosquitoes to be so bad in summer that cows will not give milk.” B, . CANNERY IS DESTROYED, 530,000 FIF RINCE RUPERT, B. C., Aug. 14 Rogers said mnobody but Post —More than $50,000 is the esti- knew when they would go elsewhere mated loss caused by a fire de-| and Post wasn't telling. stroying two bulldings of the Ocean| Rogers is trailed by a gang of kids Canners Salmon Cannery at Ocean- Most of the time he walks around ic on the Skeena River. the town “gassing.” The origin of the fire Rugers did say he was going to known. see the Matanuska colony -some- Robert Garner, aged 42, dropped | time. dead as the result of an ailment of the heart during the fire —— ey BOEING PLANE FLOWN HERE , POST, ROGERS LINGERING IN INTERIOR CITY FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 14.— Will Rogers and Wiley Post are still lingering in this interior city “bumming around” on a trip in Al- is un- ————e-———— 250 DEAD IN FLOOD, ITALY am Breaks, Homes Are Crushed, Familes Wip- The “Rover,” two-moiored Doug- las Dolphin amphibian plane owned ed Qut by Water by Wm, E. Boeing and piloted by — t Clayton Scott, visited Juneau this| TURIN, Ttaly, Aug. 14.—Provin- afternoon. The plane was supplied cial officials stated today that 250 ‘with gas at the PAA float while Len | persons were killed by floods which Pusey, mate aboard Boeing's yacht,|followed the bursting of a hydro- the Taconite, called at the office of |electric plant dam at Ovada. Sev- Dr. W. W. Council for medical!eral hundred persons were injured. treatment. Len Pusey, radio operator| Forty square miles were covered on the Taconite, was also a pas- hy water which crushed homes and senger aboard the plane. |obliteated whole families. AT KETCHIKAN PRICE TEN CENTS ROOPS ARE SENT TO AFRICA SECURITY LAW ETHIOPIANS TAKE POSITION ALONG BORDER 60,000 of Selassie’s War- riors Reported in Field Ready to Strike South APPEAL TO LEAGUE AGAINST EMBARGO British Manufacturers Con- sidering Curb on Cred- it of Italians NAPLES, Aug. 14—The water- front. at Naples hummed with ac- tivity here today as details were completed for the sailing of a | steamer carrying 2,500 Italian troops | and workmen to Africa. GO INTO POSITION ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Aug. 14. —FEthiopian troops numbering 60,000 have been dispatched to the border and have gone ipto positions behind | Ethiopia's eastern border prepara- tory to a quick southward drive into Italian Somaliland in the event Italy invades Ethiopia. Leaders an- ticipate the Ttallan advance from Eritrea toward Adua to the north of Addis Ababa. Such a movement ‘\woul:l be countered by the Ethi- opian advance south. FEARS MASSACRE GENEVA, Aug. 14—Ethiopia has appealed to the League of Nations “iagainst the arms embargo, saying she feared a massacre by Italtan troops if she was unable to defend herself. Meanwhile the neutrals, seeking peace, suggested in London ‘that Italy may be offered increased extra territorial rights in Ethiopla, per- mitting colonization of Italians INDIFFERENT TO CONFERENCE PARIS, Aug. 14.—~Italy, indiffer- ent to the tripartite conference here today continued preparations for an | African campaign by calling more men and officers to arms, it was re- ported here. MAY CURB CREDIT LONDON, Aug. 14—Italy's mount- ing debt led British manufactur- ers today to consider a curb on | credit as representatives of the three powers met in Paris to try and solve peacefully the dispute be- tween Italy and Ethiopia. Two threats hung over the con- versitions in Paris. One was war in Africa with its danger of arous- ing race hatreds throughout the world and the second Capt. Anthony Eden’s rumored intention of an- nouncing that Britain would wasy its hands of the proposed: European peace system if Italy conquers Ethi- opia, —————e—— PAUL HURSH IS GIVEN 20 YEARS Bank Robb?Arresled in Juneau, Sentenced in Seattle Court SEATTLE, Aug. 14.—Paul Hursh, aged 36, plasterer, recently arrested by the city police of Juneau, Alas- Ka, has been sentenced to 20 years in the state penitentiary at Walla Walla for robbing the People’'s Bank and Trust Company of $3,70¢ in a holdup on March 13. Hursch enter- ed a plea of guilty. Government Is Making Money, Regulating V alue WASHINGTON, August 14.— The Government is making money in a big way out of its power to issue currency and “regulate the value thereof.” Seigniorage on currency issued under the Silver Purchase Act on coins turned out by mints boosted the total “profits” on the money issuing privilege dur- ing the last vear and a half to above $3,000,000,000, including $2,800,000,000 from the revalua- tion of the dollar in gold. Nearly $150,000000 has been realized from the printing of The plane ¢ame from Hawk Inlet ———————— and went from here to Basket Bay| <Captain Victor Sandras has com- Department of Conservation, silver certificates, representing the difference between the cost of the metal and its monetary value of $129, >