The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 21, 1935, Page 1

CONGR; ESSTO! R Wice NAL LIBRARY INGTON, D, ¢, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVL, NO. 7045. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CONGRESS MOVES TO AVERT U. S. WAR WILL SUBMIT TO EXPERIMENT NYA MAY BE PERMANENT, SAYS F.D. n,g Fifty Ml“lon Dollars Pro- vided for Movement, |- Says Hopkins } 1 WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Presi-| dent Roosevelt today expressed the| belief that the National Youth Administration, set up with $50,- 000,000 of work relief funds, may| become permanent. | After Harry L. Hopkins told State directors that the organiza- tion’s aim was to provide economic security for young people, the Presi- dent said: “If the experiment is a success, there is not much doubt in my mind but that future Congreaseu will continue the work. You are!f building for the future.” Among other things, the Admin- istration seeks to create part-time f§ work for boys and girls of high { school and college. Directors came here for instructions before start- ing the task. | Hopkins told them: “To provide |# economic security for young people means a fight, because we cannot provide economic security if we do not divide the national income on Stephen Simkhovitch, 34, writer and scenarist, signing a contract with Dr. Ralph S. Willard (right), research chemist of Los Angeles, in which he agrees to be frozen solid for a period and then revived, if poanble (Associated Press Photo) a different basis than it was in __ '29. Great sectors of American op- inion are opposed to this.” ALASKATEACHER INDIA REPORTS BE([EVED DEAD INFLUENGE U.S. yEpy MuCH ALIVE SII-VER MARKET Report of Death of E. P} Crlsls ol Bombay Hpieng Stowell at Wainwright to Have Caused Unset- | Highly Efiggeraled tlement in World TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 21.—Word | indicating that her brother, whom NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—Silver ex- she mourned as dead three months | perts here believed they had the 280, is alive comes as joyous news key to unsettlement in the world !0 Mrs. Emily R. Whidden, who silver situation when they learned |lives near here. of the bankruptcy of a prominent| E- P. Stowell, Mrs | Bombay, India, operator. It was|brother, a teacher in the Indian stated here the strain of the world School at Wainwright, Alaska, was market caused the recent slump in|reported in a Seattle paper last prices after the stable period of May as dead. The Government| several months but caused a sell- buraeu in Seattle said it had re-| ing wave in London resulting in a|ceived no such report but as the| price drop. Ifamlly had not heard from the| It was not uncovered at m“:Noth they came to regard the re- time but informed quarters here|POrt as truc. attributed the Bombay crisis to the| Last week-end another brother position of Indian operators in the|in Seattle received a wireless from market which they took on belief|the supposedly dead man apologiz- Wh} Should She ‘Be‘ Her Eyes ‘thl Be Opened SEATTLE, Aug. 21. — Miss Gladys Lax, who will teach Matanuska youngsters the three R’s, isn't afraid of Alaska weather, as che was born in Maine and has spemnt. consid- erable time in Chicago. She is ready for zero weather, how- ever, being provided with a sheepskin coat, fur-lined boots, heavy gloves, and plenty of woolens. 'STENOGRAPHER KILLED; POLICE LOOK FOR MAN 34- Year-Old Naval Board Employee Shot in Long Beach, California { | | | Whidden's the United States Treasury womdklng for not writing. Stowell appar-| either |€ntly is still unaware of the erron- b’\eous report of his death as he ‘“d‘hrrv push the price higher, through heavy purchases or raising the domestic price. —,,-— MINERS' RELIEF DANCE The Alaska Mine Workers' Unlon announces a public dance at the Moose Hall at 9:30 o'clock tonight. The proceeds are to go toward re- lief of union members. ——————— Something New: Here’s Hat Without Tourist Many tourists visit Alaska without bhats; but there never has been, be- fore today, a hat to visit the Terri- | tory without a tourist. Such a hat arrived yesterday on|Dersons, three of whom were nuns,| | night. the steamer Alaska in the office of {Were killed and 20 others Railway Expressfi"-‘“’w on the highway this morn-|way, agent for Juneau. It is a badly-bat- ing when an auto and a bus col- tered hat, and has some 50 Railway lided. The bus was enroute to a |day after she had parted in San its soiled | beach with a hohday crowd. W. R. Mulvihill, Express tags stuck in crown and brim. You see, it is on a world tour, bound, eventually, its original sender hopes, to Robert Ripley, originator of “Believe It Or Not.” Some of the tags have amusing phrases written on them by in-| genious agents. Says one, watered, re-iced and embalmed at! Los Angeles.” Another writes, “Dis- infected at Oakfield, Maine.” One| more reads, “I have been beer soak- |® ed at Jack Sharkey’s Tavern, Bos-| ton, Mass.” Mulvihill isn't quite sure just what he will do with the headpiece, “Fed and | Hawryliuk, made of a rubber material and de-| signed like an African sun helmet. But he's positive he will see to it| that the hat thoroughly visits all| Alaskan points of interest before re- | neau Empire Theatires, left Seattle | turning to the States. He expressed |with his wife & hope that the Pacific Alaska Air- yesterday. They will arrive in Ju- be undertaken and it is expected {Tragedy Happens to Holi-| LONG BEACH, Cal, Aug. 21.— | Searching vainly for clues, police today want a tall, well-groom- (ed man for questioning in connec- fuon with the mystery-slaying of |Mrs. Gladys Clena Fair, 34, Naval Board stenographer. The attractive vietim was found |in her apartment. The slayer ap- parently fired a bullet at the back of her head as he sat by her /side on the arm of an overstuffed | chair. The body, clad in a simple house Bus’ AUTU HIT frock, was dragged from the living |room to the bath and draped over + |the rim of a bathtub. There was no evidence of a struggle. day Crowd Enroute to Y, Occupants of an adjoining apart- {ment said they saw an unknown Spend Day at Beach man walking in the hallway near BOWIE, Maryland Aug. 21.—Five Mrs. Fair's apartment Monday He seemed startled at their Were | appearance and fled to the stair- |not mention JL in his message. FIVE KILI.ED Death came 'to Mrs. Fair the Francisco from her husband, Evan, who planned to rejoin her as soon |as he found employment here. She had spent her vacation with him. - BRIDGE FILL WORK 'HANGED EDMONTON, Aug. 21.—William aged 43, was hanged) TO START MONDAY here today. He murdered his wlfe‘ last winter by pouring kerosene| over her and then setting her. Work on the fill at the new fire. She rushed outside the house DPouglas Island bridge will be start- and rolled in the snow to put out;ed next Monday, according to Ike |the flames and he beat her with|P- Taylor, Chief Engmeer for the| |an iron bar and left her to freeze Alasha Road Commuission. The to death. pavement on Lower Front Street el will be open by that time and trucks can start hauling rock from ithe mine to the fill. The plank- {ing i1s all down on the bridge so owner of the Ju- the trucks can cross. As soon as the fill is completed, Victoria | surfacing of the Douglas road will - SHEARER COMING NORTH B. F. Shearer, on the COLD STURAGE B‘"’"‘g Bu‘lt Army F lW" g Fortress Makes F ast BBNDED DEBT F hght from Seattle to W ri ght Field at Dayton CLEARED SOON| | Complete Liquidation by November | Announc- ed at Meeting All the bonded indebtedness of the Juneau Cold Storage Company and its subsidiary, the Alaska Coast|. liquidated on |} Fisher will be November 1, it was announced at the annual meeting of the stock- holders of both firms held last night” in the Cold Storage office. This statement was based upon & certified report of audit of the company’s operations for the past year, submitted by Wallis 8. George, President and General Manager. This report was prepared by W. (o Atwood and Company, certified public accountants of Seattle. A report of the Alaska Coast Fisheries operations showed that a total of 4,725,622 pounds of halibut and salmon were handled at its various branches. The separate branch figures follow: Sitka, 1= 802,059 pounds, Juneau, 1,663349; Ketchikan, 1,260,214. When the meeting turned to el- ection of officers, it was discovered that Oliver Drange, veteran treas- urer of the company, had filed his resignation, prompted by the sale of his entire stock holdings to Frank McCafferty. Drange was one of the original stockholders of the company, and, in his letter of resignation, stated that it was “with regret” that he felt obligated to dispose of his holdings. He gave “advance age and a desire to retire from active business respogsibilities” as his rea- sons. He sald fn his letter, “I¥ have the utmost confidence in the! future of the Cold Storage and the Alaska Coast Fisheries.” McCafferty was chosen Treasurer in his place. Other officials elected for the ensuing year include: Wal- lis 8. George, President and Gen- eral Manager; John Reck, Vice- President; John F. Maloney, Vice- President; and Harry Lucas, Sec- retary. This Board of Directors will serve for both the Cold Storage and the Aluska Coast Fisheries, CENSUS OF NORTHLAND IS LOOMING Request for Estimate Is Made—New Tabulation to Be Thorough WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. — The Bureau of the Census requested an estimate on the cost of a census survey of Hawali and Alaska, with a view of extending to the Terri- tories the proposed census of the United States under the Relief Ad- ministration. The proposal was forwarded to a meeting in the office of Dr. Ernest Gruening, Chief of the Di- vision of Islands and Territories, which Alaska Delegate Dimond at- tended. Included in the census would be a survey of population, citizenship, industry, trade, agriculture, farm populanon and employmem WASHINGTON TAX LAW 0UT OLYMPJA, Aug. 21.—The personal net income tax law was declared “wholly unconstitutional” by Su- perior Judge D. F. Wright in a ruling here today on two suits challenging the validity of the act. feat i DU MAIL IS FLOWN; PASSENGERS ARE TAKEN Joe Peloza was a passenger to. Chichagof and Gordon Wells went to Kimshan Cove this afternoon on the PAA Fairchild piloted by Alex Holden with Flight Mechanic Lloyd Jarman on the scheduled flight with mail to Hoonah, Port:river you got'? Rogers said he had |leader, ever built | N, Ohio, | Aug. 21.—Roaring out of th: West, the new Boeing flying fortress, largest plane America, landed at the nearby Wright Field at 3:47 o’clock yesterday afternoon, com- pleting a z,ufi mile non-stop flight in nine hours from Seattle, averaging 233 miles per hour and thus submitting Boeing’s entry to the held at Wright Field tomorrow. builders’ competition for Army Air Corps bombardment planes to be SENATE PASSES RESOLUTION T0 BAR MUNITIONS Mandatory E;;};argo on All Arms to Belligerent Nations Approved PRESIDENT SAID TO FAVOR PLAN Americans Would Travel on Foreign Ships at Own Risk Under Setup | WASHINGTON, August 21.—Eu- Irope’s crizis played a leading part today on Capitol Hill as Democratic leaders strove to avert a fight over Amsrican neutrality legislation, a contest that might halt Congress in It is believed by officials that the huge fou:-motored ship has shattercd all speed records for |its breathless rush to adjournment. military shij Leslie | records but were actually taking comparable in size. , Chief Pilot for the Boeing Company, said: “We weren't trying to break any speed it easy, using only 63 per cent of the engines’ horsepower.” Tower also said that the plane’s automatic pilot flew the ship most of the way. Army officers figured that of the plane’s power, a theoretical if a speed of 233 miles per hour was maintained on only 63 per cent “peed of 265 miles is possible. Despite the plane’s huge size, she landed with the aid of wing flaps at about a speed of 45 miles per hour. Tower was accompanied on the trip by Loui Waite, co-pilot; Bud Benton, mechanic, and Henry N. ]‘q, represenung the Pratt-Whitney Company, builders of the motors. FLIERS WILL - DROP FLOWERS, POST'S BURIAL First Servnces Are Held Today in Oklahoma— Final Respects Thursday OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Aug. 21.—For two hours today the public passed through the mortuary here and viewed the remains of Wiley Post before the cortege formed to go to Maysville for afternoon serv- ices in the little landmark mission- ary Baptist church. Tomorrow Post’s body will lie in state in the state capitol. Services will be held in the First Baptist Church and burial will follow while planes overhead will drop fowers. MAYSVILLE, Okla., Aug. 21.— Wiley Post came home today, with people who knew him standing mute along the single street, as the hearse bore the body to the church. Only flowers grown by housewives decorated the church. Standing on the porch of their home from which Wiley wént out to conquer the world, Mr. and Mrs. Post sent the world a message of deep appreciation for its kindness to their son in life and death. Both weeping, the aged couple re- vealed that they were in Okla- homa City yesterday in an un- noticed auto when their son ar- rived in the gleaming transport plane. “It was the most beautiful sight I ever saw,” said Mrs. Post. “It was just what Wiley would have wished — coming back in an air- plane.” Rogers Objected To Woman Being Called Oldtimer A letter from Mrs, Roy Lund of the Fairbanks News-Miner staff, written on August 14—two days be- fore Wiley Post and Will Rogers were killed in the plape crash at Point Barrow—reached friends in Juneau yesterday. In part, the letter follows— “Wiley Post and Will Rogers flew with Joe Crosson and Joe Barrows to McKinley Park today and will probably go to the Matanuska. Rog- ers came wandering into the office (Fairbanks News-Miner) Monday afternoon (Aufust 12), the afternoon they got.here. He talked to all of us oit in the shop for quite a while. Mr. Stone tried to introduce me as one of the oldtimers, but Mr. Rogers told him that he should never call a woman an oldtimer. “When he crawled out of the plane on the Chena River and onto the float he said: “Is this all the Post’s Battered Cowhide Suitcase On Funeral Ship HOMA CITY, la., Aux. 21—~The plane which brought the bedy of Wiley Post here yesterday afternoon, also brought his battered cowhide suitcase, companion on all of his Journeys, A dozen maps still damp from the Arctic waters, lay on top of the clothing, damp too. The double breasted gray suit, worn by Post and in which he will be buried, was sent to the cleaners immediately after ar- rival of the plane to be made suitable for the burial tcmorrow. ————— NATION T0 PAY FINAL TRIBUTE T0 WILL ROGERS Moment of Mourning to Be Proclaimed for California LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 21— With the expected arrival this af- ternoon of the bereaved members of the Will Rogers family, funeral sorvices are held up while the en- | tire nation prepared to pay honor | tomorrow to the “man who never met a man he didn't like.” PwA UPHELD | A statewide moment of mourn- d ing during the funeral will be pro- <.uim¢-d by Gov. Frank K. Merriam, RN a7 PRESIDENT OF Federal Government Has| Right to Make Loans ‘ to Municipalities | | | | | DENVER, Colo., Aug. 21.—-U. Circuit Court of Appeals uphrld the constitutionality of the PWA | in an opinion which said the Fed- | eral Government has a right to| make loans and grants to muni-| cipalities. Three judges of the court made the ruling in the case of the Kan-| sas Gas and Eleetric Company of Kansas City, which sought an in- junction to prevent the city of| Independence, Kansas, from erect- ing a municipal power plant wnm Federal funds. The Government's attorney sald this was the first case involving| the constitutionality of the Public Works agency, and he regarded the decision as of high importance, be- ‘ cause billions of dollars in projects now under construction in the PWA program would otherwise be| involved. | | | . ACTRESS DIES HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. 21— Marjorie White, aged 27, movie| actress, died today as the result| of injuries suffered in an auto-| mobile collision. Radical Third Party Candidate Proposed For Campaign in 36 8T. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 21.—How- House Judiciay Committee has de- . cided to shelve the Senate’s ap-| announces plans to put a proved Walsh bill to impose NRA |are as follows: ard Williams, Farmer-Labor Party !been sworn | Ecuador, dent Jose Velasco Ibarra, arrested and held a military prisoner after attempting to become a Dictator. ECUADOR HELD AS PRISONER < | Attempted to Sel Up Dic- tatorship — Military Leaders Say No QUITO, Ecuador, Aug. 21.—An- tonio Pons, former Premier, has in as President of succeeding former Presi- Army leaders repudiated Ibarra in favor of the constitution. CLIPPER SHIP N RETURNING (Makes Fllght of 1, 191| Miles in 7 Hours andl 56 Minutes MIDWAY ISLAND, Aug. 21.—The American clipper ship arrived here at 8 o'clock last night from Wake Island and made the 1,191 flight in 7 hours and 56 minutes. The ship will remain here a day or two before proceeding to Hono- lulu and the base at Alamed~, fornia. \Walsh’s NRA Measure Shelved by Committee WASHINGTON, Aug. 21— Tl’*(‘ mile | Cali- | Filibustering tactics by & Sendte greup were led by Senators Nye and Bone and forced the leaders to sring up for consideration a resolu=- tion aimed at keeping the United States neutral in case the Ethiopian trouble should develop into a ser- ous war, A seven-point resolution designed to safeguard American neutrality in the event of foreign war finally was adopted by the Senate and the House is expected to pass it. President Roosevelt is reported to favor it. The Senate was stirred to action by ominous war signs abroad and the filibuster by munitions investi- gation committee members. License Manufacture The resolution provides a manda~ tory embargo on all arms and mu- nitions 4ow.be)igerants h,.wn conflict: a scheme for licensing mu- nitions manufacture; ban against American ships carrying arms and munitions under embargo to any belligerent; authority to the Presi- dent to prohibit American from travelling on ships of belligerent na- tions except at their own risk; au- thority to‘the President to prevent ships, either foreign or American, from carrying men, munitions or supplies to belligerent vessels at sea. AUSTRIA FOR ITALY GENEVA, Aug. 21 —Ttaly was said to have gained an ally, apparently, in the Ethiopian dispute, when the official government mouthpiece of Austria, Weiner Zeitung, in a ban- ner-lined editorial placed Austria unequivocally on the Italian side. Captioned “Europe or Ethiopia,” the newspaper editorial praised the honesty and frankness of Mussolini, who, it says, is “not a aypocrite, but openly admits his hanger for land, new resources, and wealth.” SEEKS WORLD HELP LONDON, Aug. 21.--The British cabinet, in an emergency meeting tomorrow, will seek a special League sesslon to curb Italy's war drive by foonum«x on Page Two) B STOCK PRICES PUSH UPWARD, TRADING TODAY Broad Recovery Movement Stated — Steels, Ir- dustrials T: ke Lead NEW YORK, Aug. 21— Stock prices pushed upward today from fractions to more than two points in a broad recovery movement. Steels and other industrials play=- ed leading roles. Today's close was firm. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 21.— Closing quotation today of :Alaska Juneau mine stock is 15%, American Can 138, American Power and Light 8% Anaconda 19%, Bethlechem | Steel 37%, General Motors 42%, In- | ternational Harvester 53%, Kenne- |eott 23%, United States Steel 447, Pound $4.98%, Schenley Distilleries 4%, S AVERAGE Dow, Jones, DOW, JON Today's averages by ways would fly the tourist-less hat|neau Saturday on a combined busi-|the new span will be opened by Althorp, Chichagof and Kimshan been used to the Mackenzie and|radical Third Party presidential! standards on Government cm'i Industrials 127.66, rails 35.87, util- into Fairbanks, ness and pleasure trip. the last of October, Cove, Yukon rivers” candidate forward in 1936, tractors, {1tes, 27,08,