The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1935, Page 1

ON. ‘TON, D. C. Al AL LIBRAT" VOL. XLVX.. NO 7044. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” jUNI:AU ALASKA, TUESDAY AUGUS“I‘ 20 1935 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ITALY AGAIN HINTS TO DROP LEAGUE BRADLEY HERE 'Distinguished Flying Cross Asked for Crosson bv Dimond, T0 MAP PLANS FOR A, J. MINE Tapping of Alaska Gas- tineau Program Out- lined by President TREADWELL PROPERTY AGAIN IN LIMELIGHT Famous Mine on Douglas Island May Again Come Out as Producer P. R. Bradley, President of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- pany, arrived in Juneau this after- noon on the Alaska and plans to remain here until the latter part of September. While here, Mr. Bradley said today, he will study over the sur- veys and development work already made by the Alaska Juneau com- pany on the Alaska Gastineau prop- erties which company his company purchased last year, local management, will decide upon a lasting program as to the best’ method of attack in linking the twg properties into a permanent combined operation. A. G, Work At the present time, Mr. Brad- ley said, that in addition to other development work the Alaska Ju- neau is continuing to tunnel into! the Alaska Gastineau property on its own level. “At present we anticipate that the tonnage mined and milled will| continue at the average have been maintaining. Any in- crease is contingent upon the re- sult of a thorough investigation and development of the Alaska Gastineau properties over a period of years.” Treadwell Program Mi. Bradley made a further an- nouncement that is fraught with great potentiality for this area when he said that the Alaska Ju- neau had made an agreement wherein Mark Requa, noted min- ing engineer, now heads a group that will endeavor to bring the fa- mous Treadwell mine on Douglas Island into production. The program calls for much in- vestigation and development work on the old Treadwell properties, and if these surveys prove suf- ficient ore, milling arrangements and operations will result, under the direction of Mr. Requa. Plans Outlined While definite plans have not been made, the new group intends to drill through and considerably beneath the flooded portion of the Treadwell, and if sufficient ore bodies are found after exhaustive investigation # is assumed that they will go ahead and develop a new mine well beneath the levels worked before the famous Gas- tineau Channel property was flooded in April, 1817 For many years both as a resi- dent and frequent visitor in and i WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—A Dis- tinguished Flying Cross is asked | by Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond for Joe Crosson, veteran Alaska aviator, for flying out the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post from Point Barrow to Seattle. Delegate Dimond pointed out other outstanding flights by Cros-| son, including the discovery of | i ! i ROGERS, POST RETURNED T0* prepared for delivery in the House. Continuing his remarks, Delegate o) 108 ANGELES Joe Crosson who advised Post and E 22kt 3 Rogers not to make the trip wIBOdleS Of V“‘:hms Of A‘" Point Barrow at this time of the Crash at Po]nt Barrow Taken to Mortuary Carl Ben Eielson’s body in Siberia [self and flew there in order to |after a crash; his aid to Post when | bring back the bodies of those who the latter was circling the globe |so died. and other humanitarian flights in| “We know what a siruggle Cros- the Northland. |son had particularly from Point “Shocked and stunned as we are |Barrow to Fairbgnks. In places he at the untimely deaths of WHPV4was half blinded by fog and with {Fost and Will Rogers, may I sug-!the hazard of the Endicoil Range gest that this is a fitting time to to cross where snow was in passes pay a tribute to an airman, not so | this season, it is with a feeling of famous, but one with outstanding |relief that many of us, who under- accomplishments, one who in char- stand the conditions, learned that | and during | his ‘stay, in collaboration with the |, gait we| acter, and flying skil is probably equal to any one on earth,” Dele- gate Dimond said in his speech Crosson had arrived safely at Fair-| banks with the bodies of his friends.” REV. HUBBARD WILL EXPLORE TWO GLACIERS Arrives Here for Work— Absolute Praise for Matanuska “It is our intent to solve once and {hall and Taku, glaciers. We shall keeprat 16 until it is‘done.” “In " thése words, Father Bernard R. Hubbard, famous geologist of Santa Clara University, whose ex- |ploits in Alaskan ice-fields have won him the title of “Glacier Priest,” reiterated his intention to |disprove, by actual measurements of temperature at different levels, the present scientific theories con- icerning depths of glacial deposits. | Father Hubbard, accompanied by his aides, Ken Chisholm, Ed Levin, and George Getty, arrived on the Yukon from a short tour of the Matanuska country. A Father Hub- bard Tour, comprising 86 persons representing every state in the Union, were round-trippers on the Yukon which sailed for the south. It is Father Hubbard's intention to remain for a week in Juneau, and then to strike out for the ice-cap of Taku, where he will camp for six weeks Matanuska A Delight | Father Hubbard discussed at length his reactions to the Mata- nuska colonization project. “You can headline this ‘Enthusi- astic Over Matanuska’!” he said. “Everything was a delight to me. I' was astounded at the magnitude of the thing. My whole party was com- pletely sold on the colony.” He drew a graphic comparison between what he felt to be preval- ent view of the colony, as a “place where malcontents were getting re- lef from the government,” and the colony as he actually saw it: “‘a fine group of people, trying hard to get along and with a marvelous pioneer spirit.” “I am in a position to speak with to Juneau and Douglas, Mr. Brad-|authority on the subject now,” he ley today expressed eagerness and|said. “I was there a whole day. I enthusiasm for the opportunity his|was so excited about it that I sent prolonged stay here will afford to|out an AP dispatch expressing my renew old friendships and contacts.|delight and my appreciation of the ALASKA SALMON PACK TO REACH NEAR 5,000,000 Southe : Pack Holding Up| Beyond Expectations— Open Fall Season Early . G. Wingard, Alaska Agent, U.| ence L. Olson, warden at Ketehi- | kan, were passengers aboard the|; PAA Fairchild flowny by Murray | Stuart from Ketchikan to Juneau | last night. Stops were made at| Funter Bay, Waterfall, and Port| Walter where another Bureau of| Fisheries official left the plane. This morning Wingard and Olson returned to Ketchikan aboard the| plane. | While here Wingard said the| Southeast Alaska salmon run was| holding up beyond expectations and it was probable the total pack in Alaska this season would run close to five million cases. The Southeast districts began closing Sunday and the windup comes around the mid- | dle of next week, The Bureau is considering opening the fall season earlier than usual, he said, and Iey Straits and Lynn| Canal which have not been opened for several years probably will be| thrown open for the fall fishing. BANKING BILL PASSED, GOES T0 ROOSEVELT New Measure Gives Fed- eral Reserve Board More Authority WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—A new‘ banking bill giving the Federal Re-| serve Board the majority control| over the nation’s credit resources has been passed by both Houses of Congress. After a minor conference on agreements was effected, the bill was sent to the White House. year because of the danger in- volved but who nevertheless and JOURNEY TO “JUST SOMEWHERE” ENDED | unhesitantingly took to the air him- Silence of Arrival B{oken by Photographer in Hangar Rafters LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 20— Will Rogers and Wiley Post came back to Los Angeles last night at the end of the tragic air journey which Rogers announced at the start would be “just somewhere.” The plane, a Douglas Air Trans- port liner, piloted by William Win- ston, Texas flier, landed at 6:20 o'clock last evening, after a fast flight from Seattle. The silence which accompanied the arrival of the plane was sud- denly broken by the discovery of a photographer concealed in the ‘raners of the hangar. Several m r« | ments of confusion followed, until | police caught him and smashed his camera. Meanwhile other photog- | raphers, shooting through glass win- ‘dows outside the building, clashed | with police. Spectators jumped over the fence and joined the melee. The rumpus caused a delay of nalf an hour in transferring thi for all the mystery of the Menden- §, Burea.u of Fisheries, and Clar- | podies to two hearses, which were escorted by twenty motorcycle po- lice to the Forest Lawn Mortuary ih Glendale. Later, the body of Post is to be taken to Oklahoma for burial. Joe Crosson, famed Alaska pilot who brought the bodies from Point Barrow to Seattle, accompanied the bodies south as a passenger. Also in the California plane were Col. Clarence Young, Pan-American Afr- ways Director, and Amos Carter, of Fort Worth, Texas. LAST RITES FOR ROGERS ON THURSDAY Family Is Now Enroute to Los Angeles by Train from East i GELES, Cal, Aug. 20— The lut tribute to Will Rogers will be paid Thursday at private funeral rites, atended only by members of the family circle and cloest friends. The body will lie in |state for five hours starting at 7 o'clock Thursday morning in the grove of pine and olive trees in Forest Lawn Memorial Park at Glendale. Later Kirk O. Heather and Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher, old friends, will conduct the last service start- ing-at 2 o'clock. The body will then be placed in a crypt and at some future date the remains will be taken to Oklahoma, the State of Rogers’ birth for burial. The family, now enroute here by train from the East, is scheduledl to arrive tomorrow noon. ——————— CANNERY WORKERS TRAVEL Seventy-six cannery workers from |at Seward and took the railroad to:its up to $5,000. Southwest Alaska plants, which have closed for the season, are trav- @ling on the Yukon to Seattle. ————.————— High Honor Given To Morgan, Pt. Barrow, \BY War Secreuzry WASHINGTON, August 20— meén who had brought the colony about.” The Hubbard party disembarked Matanuska, where the party enjoyed a bus ride through the colony and into Palmer. Father Hubbard, how- ever, went directly to Palmer where! he interviewed Eugene Carr, Roy!| Hunt and other officials of the pro- Ject. Carr Good Official “Eugene Carr was ill at the time,” he said. “I saw him in his bed. ‘When one talks of Eugene Carr, superlatives are in order. He is one of the few men who can be in poli- tics without being a politician.” Father Hubbard reiterated his Associated Press statement, which appeared in yesterday's Empire con- cernifig the high qualifications of Roy Hunt. “He is a human dyna- mo,” he said. “Any project will be successful in his hands.” He also described Father Sulz- man, former pastor at Seward and now in residence at the colony, as “more representative of the pioneer spirit of Alaska than anyone I have (Continued on Page Two) Among features of the measure was one making permanent the temporary law insuring bank depos- - Mrs. Erling K., ozn(son wife of | the pastor of the Resurrection; Lutheran Church, is returning no her Juneau home after several months in the states, particularly the Northwest, visiting relatives e With Hydrants Croxson Makes Statement To Newsmen LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 20. —Before taking the air this morning for Oklahoma City, aboard the transport liner car- rying the remains of Wiley Post, veteran Alaskan flier Joe Cros- son, in a prepared statement, told the newsmen that he did not wish to discuss his personal feelings about the trip south from Point Barrow with the bodies of his two friends. Crosson asked that the “boys” Dlease respect his request, but hinted that he knew that that angle of the flight would prove a good "s!m'y" for them. DEAD FLIER IS FLOWN T0 HOME STATE Body of Wiley Post is Now in Air for Okla- homa City BULLETIN—EXTRA— Okla- homa City, Aug. 20.—Post’s body has arrived here by plane. LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 20— The Douglas Air Transport airliner, bearing the body of Wiley Post, left here for Oklahoma City shortly af- ter six o'clock this morning. Joe Crosson and the same crew that, flew the plane south from Seattle, are aboard the 51:,:12 today. Tt is estimated the flight, includ- two stops to refuel, will take about seven and one-half hours. Stops will be made at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Amarillo, Texas. Piloi William Winston, Texas fli- er, is at the controls. There were only a few specta- tors at the takeoff, which was with- out incident,. Mrs. Wiley Post and relatives are in Oklahoma City, awaiting the ar- rival of Post’s body. BODY TO LIE IN STATE OKLAHOMA OITY, Okla., Aug. 20.—The body of Wiley Post will lie in state for two hours on Thurs- day in the rotunda of the State Capitol Building before the funeral and burial in the red earth of the state which claimed the stocky little flier as one of its foremost citi- zens, Gov. E. Marland and his staff will direct the public memorial for Post at noon, corresponding to 10 o'clock, AM,, in California when the funeral services for Rogers will be held. Burial of Post will be in the Me- morial Park Cemetery. HONORARY PALLBEARERS OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Aug. 20—Gov. John W. Troy, of Alaska, and Col. George E. Kumpe, Officer in Charge of the United States Sig- nal Corps, headquarters at Seattle, are listed among the honorary pall- bearers for the funeral of VWMey Post on next Thursday. e STANDARD SERVICE, OIL TANKER, HERE Skippered by Capt. M. L. Jor- ddan, the oil tanker Standard Serv- ice berthed at the Standard Oil | Company dock this morning at 8:30 aclock The vessel came from Seattle and unloaded oil and gasoline supplies. She is expected to leave for the Westward sometime tonight. It's Not Cost— It Is the Upkeep With fire hydrants it isn't the Y, original cost—it's the upkeep. f Aff At least that is what Mayor| o ethnQ Isadore Goldstein would have the| —_— city believe. The Mayor was de-| BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, Aug. 20. spondent today. |—An Alaska red fox fur, souvenir “For the third time in two|of the land where death overtook months, some careless motorist has him, apparently was the last ex- backed an automobile into thxtfpreuion of Will Rogers' affection red hydrant at the top of Gold|for his family, Belt Avenue,” he reported mourn-‘ The fur was enclosed in a small fully. “The hydrant is loose again|package addressed to Mrs. Rogers, today. That means another $20 in|in care of her brother, J. K. Blake. repairs. The fur arrived Monday and was “You know, the city doesn’'t want postmarked Juneau, Alaska. to seem unreasonable about this| Tne address was written.in the thing, but it would be nice if the|careless rambling scrawl, typical ox person who jars our hydrant would | the comedian’s handwriting. / Juneau Fur, Last Expression Rogers’ Family fox fur for his daughter while in Juneau was disclosed by the Charles Goldstein Fur Shop today, after the receipt of such a fur, postmarked Juneau, had been reported in Holly- wood. Mr. Rogers visited the shop alone on ‘August 8, and after looking at a large number of furs, chose ome Very fine one, which he asked the shop to mail to his daughter at her Hollywood address. call us up and report the accl-[ Even that would be appre- PURCHASED HERE That Will Rogers purchased a red ‘The price paid for the fur was i ng Ready to Dle Leadmg Army King Haile Selassie, “Conquering Lion of Judah,” is promising Ethi- opians he’ll gersonally lead them into battle against Italians, and die, if need be, as did his predecessor, Theodore, in opposing invading British. He'’s seen in uniform of commander-in-chief. AIRMEN ARE HALIBUT SEASON TO ASSEMBLE, ORDERED GLOSED POST FUNERAL ON SEPTEMBER § America’s qA:Trails Will, Quota for Thlb Area, 21, All Lead to Oklahoma 700,000 Pounds, Ex- on Thursday pected by that Time Halibut fishing in Area No. 2, which extends from Cape Spencer just north of here to Willapa Har- bor in ‘Washington state, will be brought to a close on September 6 Bennett Griffin, expert in blind|after being opened since March 1, flying for the Department of Com- according to orders today from the merce, is coming here from Chicago. | International Fisheries Commission James Mattern, Griffin’s partner to the Collector of Custms here. in an attempt to break Post’s world | The catch, allowed for this area, flight record, plans to arrive Thurs-| approximately 21,700,000 pounds, will day morning. be reached by that time, it is an- Art Goebel, winner of the Dole|ticipated. Last year the season end+ flight to Hawaii, said he will be|ed on August 19. here. | Since 1930 when the International Mr. and Mrs. James Haizlip, of Fisheries Commission was created St. Louis are coming. |by the United States and Canada Amelia Earhart is reported en-|in an effort to preserve halibut in route here and Col, Charles A. Lmd»,me North FPacific, the regulations bergh may stop here ehrg\m: to the have been handled by the Commis- const, |sion which fixes the season and | approximates the catch to be al- OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Aug. 20.—Over air trails of America, fly- ing friends of Wiley Post are pre- paring to converge here on Thurs- day to attend the funeral. e ""‘ WAR TALK SEEN" AS STERN TEST FAGING PEACE Mussolini Orders 500,000 Blackshirts to Drill for Ethiopia NEGRO CHILDREN IN TRIBE TROOPS Small Pow;rT,Fearful, to Meet Sunday for Bat- tle Prevention ROME, Italy, Aug. 20—The re- mentioned possibility that Italy may withdraw from the League of Nations was the day’s feature of the Italo-Ethiopian border dispute news as governmental officials of all important European nations ad- mitted that the current trouble was a stern test for the peace agency. Premier Mussolini ordered that the Government be represented at military maneuvers of 500,000 men on the Austrian frontiers as an- other indication that Fascist Italy continues to defy the powers seek- ing a peaceful solution of the dis- pute. A high Itallan source said that 11 Duce considers the powers as attempting to interfere with his campaign to “disarm” Ethiopia. CHILDREN DRILL ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Aug. 20.—Scattered tribesmen were seen armed with antiquated rifles here teday as the Negro nation con- w{tinued suvers preparation for a re:’ed war w‘x'z‘h Italy. Many of the tribesmen are poor- {ly equipped, with cartridges fre~ quently being too large for the bore of the guns. Children are drilling, and wom- en are clamoring for permission to join the army. War preparations here are now in the open, being no longer secret as long as it was felt a chance for peace existed, SMALL POWERS WORRY GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 20. —Fearing the death of the League of Nations, several representatives of smaller member nations are !planning to convene here Sunday to consider the trouble. Planning to show a united front, Foreign Ministers of Sweden, Den- mark, and Finland are to meet Sunday. Italo - Ethiopian SITUATION GRAVE LONDON, England, Aug. 20— With preparations for an apparent war between Italy and Ethiopia progressing steadily, British Cab- inet members rushed from their in Bering Sea. lowed. Four areas are set, up, the | first being the Oregon, Californig PASSES HOUSE wnHOUTFUNDS’BROKEN PIPE DELAYS | coast, the second to Cape Spencer, | CREEK CHANNEL WORK No Appropnatlon for Con- the third to the Westward to the end of the Aleutians and the fourth 3 | A broken water pipe at the struction Okehed |Alaska Electric Light and Power Senate Must Approve |company power house not only |caused that firm some temporary WASHINGTON, August 20.— A concern today, but hampered & bill by Alaska Delegate Anthony J.|crew of city employees who are Dimond for the construction of the |repairing the rock-embanked Gold Alaska portion-of the proposed In-|Creek channel, damaged by recent ternational Highway was passed by | flood waters. the House here today. Yesterday, a deep rock and con- A bill, authorizing the work and/crete footing was lodgéd in the appropriating $2,000,000,000 for the |north’ embankment of the channel construction and $100,000 foi nego- near the Gold Creek Bridge. To-| tiations with Canada, previously had |day, workmen were prepared fo passed the Senate. /imake a similar improvement in However, the Senate and Senator the south bank when it became McNary, Republican from Oregon,|necessary for the power company who sponsored the bill, had agreed|to turn a stream of water into the to the removal of the appropria- creek. tions. | A broken pipé, which was ex- Marion Zioncheck, the Washing- pected to be repaired by late this ton representative and Democrat afternoon, would have caused dam- who brought the bill before the age at the power house, had the House said he expected no diffi- water not been turned into the culty in obtaining Senate approval|creek channel. Meanwhile, the city to the measure as passed by Lhe\cnw is hoping that threatening House. Irain will hold off long enough so | that permanent repairs may be ® 0 0 0000 00 0 00 % 04 before another siege of high ® |water is experienced. NO GAME TONIGHT i e Owing to a drizzle and a soft field, the baseball game MEIER ABOARD ALICE FOR JUNEAU homes today for an 'emergency meeting to face the gravest situa- tion since 1914, ————— CONGRESSHOPES T0 ADJOURN BY NEXT THURSDAY Democratic Leaders Guard Against Filibuster as Work Is Pushed WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.~Watchs ing warily to avert any filibuster threats, Democratis leaders strove to maintain a furious pace today which they now hope may end jin adjournment of Congress ‘early Thursday ‘night. Beside the banking bill, Ce! || also gave final approval to the road pension measure. The House oked the rivers and harbors bill and passed the Guffey coal bill which comes up in the Senate today. The new tax bill will be left to the last mifiute consideration. It is feared if it was taken up now the members would stampede for home as soon as the tax bill is acted upon. ‘The third deficiency appropriation bill is not yet introduced. The pub- de utility holdng company bill, amendments to broaden the Ten- between the Soldiers and Cardinals has been postpon- ed from tonight to 6 o'clock ,tomorrow night, @ proprietor of the Peerless Bakery, e 00 00 00 o o 0 o viiling below for several months. nessee Valley Authority scape, .the Mrs. Henry Meier, wife of ‘the|measure to create an alcohol con- trol - commission, *'and the bill ‘to ® is a passenger for Juneau aboard Prevent law against the ‘Govern- o ihe Princess Alice. She has been ment ‘gowing” out of gold clause policy, are all in conference.