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

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS OR OCT. 10 PRICE TEN CENTS DIMO ND SAYS WPA NO ACTION ON NEEDED FUNDS Altar-Bound ? 3 " .FOR TERRITORY Grants, He Declares 3 MATANUSKA GETS BULK OF MONEY Delegate R;p: Authorities for Lack of Co-operation “* with Northland WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Alas- ka Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has criticized the Works Progress Administration’s selection of pro- jects on which to spend $4,800,000,- 000 in works relief appropriations, meanwhile ignoring needed public’ works in the Territory of Alaska. He characterized the allocation,of funds to artists and writers as “ugeless and wasteless.” i Dimond said the Territory was unable to obtain action on numer- ous applications for funds needed X > above), Indiana hoofer now m: fer _schools, Tonds, IXepifyls Dnend l(n his)obut in the movies, and Na- munieipal - improvements, ‘The. Del- ttfie , morganatic daughter of| cpato. pointed out. (hat® Aty Of (eand-Dike. bacl of Knssit, oo 8 re film newcomer, will wed Hollywood hears that Clifton Webb. the ' Territory's applications when she v has obtained divorce from Lucien for loans to cities not asking any ontright grants whatever. He said. lelong, Paris dressmakar. BUS DEPOT IS T0 OPEN NOW cipal public works; Petersburg $35,- Up-to-Date Confectionery 000 for street improvements, Car- dova $50,000 for street, and sewer Will Be Operated in Connection improvements, municipal wharf and | improvement to school buildings. | Only Asked Loans ) These cities, he emphasized, mere- ly asked to borrow these amounts,’ and Congress had passed laws au- thorizing them to float bonds suffi- clent to care for the loans. In ad- dition, Dimond declared the Ter- ritory has asked the Federal gov-| ernment to aid in construction of “much needed hospitals” for which | the Territorial Legislature appro-| pnother tribute to ~the city's priated 320,000 and ‘made nuMerous g ,ying cjvic pride is seen in the outright grants. It also had re-|;neping of the new Channel Bus g;:::wd schools throughout the Ter- | pepo; and Confectionery tomorrow y. Except. for about $670000 for "o oy roads in the Matanuska Valley In'ouneq by Walter Bacon, head of the Anchorage région, Alaska Was|ihe transit company, and Percy able to obtain only an insignificant Reynolds, prominent business man, amount for public works, the Dele- s ocated at Front and Main streets, b e i one block from the heart of the ke A ! city, and has been bullt to give the o government hopes | ;¢most in comfort to bus patrons to increase the population of the .4 others, z‘a‘r’i:o;'y n;muzh use of publici Tne gepot is arranged so as to unds for colonization and make it|giye the most in speed and effi- one of the outpests of defense in clency in discharging passengers, as ;:'e of{ w;r, :" should be making|, rock thoroughfare has been built it levelopment of roads and | tnrough to Willoughby Avenue to ‘Popilation oent,emmm mdu m‘: eliminate traffic congestion with the lets into the i avy " |arrival and departure of the buses e rich mining and tim- Line' Has Good a ber areas,” Dimond conclude:. ————————— The Channel Bus Line, owned and operated by Mr. Bacon for over | PASS_ES AWAY neau Chaunel as a reliable, insured Oldtime Resident of Ju- £ carrier. During that time the bus line has operated over 140,000 miles in pioneering this business, over roads that have been both good and bad. Mr. Bacon is proud of the fact that not once has any Chan- ! n 1)!5 4 o nel Bus driver missed a trip on Ca’lllh. tht DleS scheduled time in over three years. v 1§ orning New Cabs Ceming Two new deluxe cabs will arrive on the North Sea to be used in connection with the bus terminal, giving local patrons complete, su- per-service at all times, the owner said. The five-year franchise voted the line by the people of Douglas gives the Channel Bus Line an oppor- tunity to offer regular service to the island city. Tentative plans call for a complete loop route through the heart of Douglas at regular intervals. The new bus depot will open to- morrow morning and all buses will arrive and depart from the new location. Confectionery Modern Percy Reynolds, owner of the confectionery in connection with Mrs. ¥rank Edwafds was ad- | thes bus depot, Which features new mitted to St. Ann's Hospital yes-|and comfortable chairs, modernistic, terday for medical treatment. Her ipadded counter stools, new lavator- hl:qbqnd 5 employed at the.A..J. mine. ¢ Mrs. Susan M. Ptack died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ed Lane, early this morning. The re- mains are ab the C. W. Carter Mortuary. No funeral arrangements had been made this afternoon. Mrs. Ptack bad resided in the Juneau district for many years and had a wide circle of friends.' For some time before her death she lived on Coughlin Island with her daughter, Mrs. Ben Melvin. Her husband, John A. Ptack, died on October 2, 1930. Mrs. Ben Melvin entered the hos- pital on September 17 for surgical treatment and was discharged yes- terday. —————— ENTERS HOSPITAL (Continued on Page PFive) VARIED SUCGESS DUCK SHOOTING Some Get Bag Limit, Near- ly All Get Ducks— Not Plentiful It was a good morning for ducks and sportsmen coming in from Mendenhall flats and various lakes in this district in some instances had the bag limit of 10 while vir- tually all had some ducks, accord- ing to reports, although shooting | was said not to be as good as pre- vious years. Mallards prevailed al- though widgeons and teals were re- ported. Frank Dufresne, Assistant Execu- tive Officer of the Alaska Game Commission, who was in the field himself said the ducks appeared to be a local flight this morning. He bagged three on the flats while wandering around to see how the to. He reported fine co-operation from the hunters and heard but one instance of violation, that was a hunter shooting six times in rapid succession. Automatic and pump guns must be plugged to a limit of ‘three shots, and it was apparent, Dufresne said, that gun was not plugged. “We don’t wani to be mean about such things,” Dufresne said, “but ‘have topick dem- i Af they don’t keep those guhis plugged.” Th? game official had only high |prajse for the hunters as a_whole, explaining that hardly a shot was fired before the dead line of 7 o’clock. He encountered orie hunter with his watch out waiting for the ghooting hour to roll around. A few minutes before seven a fine bunch of teals came in near the hunter who was waiting patiently. At about five minutes of seven the ducks flew away and the blue smoke in the vicinity was not from the sportsman’s gun. L. E. Iverson of the Forest Serv- ice, got a bag limit at Peterson's dairy and could have gotten many more, he said. He saw as many as 300 ducks at one time. Among the unlucky hunters who returned duckless were J. B. Bur- | | The new station of the bus line,'ford of the J. B. Burford Company, prookiyn baseball player, in an air- and A. B. Hayes, Traffic Manager ‘Ior the PAA. Hayes went to the tide flats near the airport this morning but, failed to: encounter’ any _ dugk -targets. Burford, who went to Lemon Creek flat, disco ered a"large flock of ducks—at 6:30 am. At 7 am; the duéks were gone. Burford reported considerable firing in his vicinity before 7 o'clock. PAVLOFF FUNERAL'IS SATURDAY AFTERNOON Funeral services for Peter Pavo- loff, 65, will be ‘held at the chapel in the C. W. Carter Mortuary tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. In- terment will be in Evergreen Ceme- tery. Pavoloff was killed while at work reémoving barnacles from his boat on the beach at Pleasant Harbor in Seymour Canal, wheh the boat toppled over and crushed- him. At the time of the accident he was enroute from Ketchikan to Sitka, where - he intended to eénter the Pioneers’ Home -this fall. T. Berg- lund, who was asleep -in ‘a bunk aboard the boat when Pavoloff was killed, accompanied him on ‘the trip, from Ketchikan. Peter Pavoloff was born at Pav- lof Bay. He is survived by a brother in Sitka. 5 One-Year-Old Boy Sole Survivor Of Auto Plunge LETHBRIDGE, Sept. 20. i | | HUNTERS REPORT(1935 (Territory since January 1 from new regulations were being lived up! Easily the best tourist travel sea- son Alaska has experienced in five years and one which; by September 31, probably will prove'to have sur- passed the mark for 193p—that Is| the record set by 1935 upto Sep- tember 15. This fact was established " today upon release of tourist travel)sta- tistics by M. S. Whittier, ant Collector of Customs. Up to September 15—the dltf, jon which the last purely “tourist” steamer headed south from Junean —26,993 persons had visited the |United States and Canadian perts. That figure, without considering | the fact that 1935 still has more \than three months to run, betters the all-year figures from 1981. May Best, 1930 Figuring that at least 3,000 more persons will come north before De- cember 31 (Whittier estimates that that is a falr assumption), 1935 total incoming travel will amount to more than 30,000 persons. ‘The !figure for 1930, it was noted, was 30,281, giving a chance .to better that mark, too. Toulrist interest in Alaska is:con- ‘stantly growing—now that national financial 'confidence is returning— and 1935, Whittier's figures proved, is 5,120 persons. better on Septem- ber 15 than that a similar last year. . Not ' onmly. that, 1005—up 0 Septedibey 15—is SLAYING IN ' CLOUDS HELD . SELF-DEFENSE Two Fliers Exonerated in Death of Brooklyn Ball Player ISLINGTON, Ontario, Sept. 20.—: A coroner’s jury early today re- turned a verdict of self-defense in the slaying of Leonard Koenecke, i i i | plane early last Tuesday morning during a struggle with William Jo- seph Mulqueeny, pilot ,and Irwin iDavis, parachute .jumper and co- , pllot. ! The jury deliberated only a fef/ minutes. " Mulqueény subdued Koenecke with a fire extinguisher as the ball player attacked Davis. The subduing resulted in death. Prof. Josley Rigers, chemist and analyst of the University of To- jronto, said findings indicated traces of alcohol in the vital organs in such a manner that inclined to make the ball player quarrelsome and with a tendency to become vio- lent. Koenecke had been sent home by the Dodgers’ manager and he had chartered the plane to take -him from Detroit to. Buffalo. The fight took place while the flight was in progress. The fliers landed the plane here and reported the tragedy. CHARGES DISMISSED ‘TORONTO;, ept. 20 —Manslaught- er charges against Pllots Mulqueeny and Davis in the Koenecke death in an airplarie; “have been dismiss- ed by Magistrate Douglas Deith. ——————— COPPER PRICE BOES UPWARD NEW * YORK, Sept. 20—Export |copper prices went to 870 cents today, the highest in two years. The market was active all day. Ketchikan Man to Marry in Seattle TACOMA, Wash, Sept. 20—A marriage license has been issued to Y. M. Wabash, of Ketchikan, Alaska, and Aquillina Nator, of Se- / visited each tourist season by man: .\ |register therehy' giving an excel-| jout the telephone wires to prevent Proves to Be Best Alaska Tourist Travel Season for Five Years travellers better than the all-year figure of 24,000 for 1934. And it is 7,892 persons better than the all- time figure of 1933. Mrs. E. J. White, curator of the| Territorial Museum during the ab- sence of the Rev. A. P. Kashevar- off, bears out Whittier's encourag- ing information. The Museum is hundreds of travellers who sign a lent barometer of conditions. \ Museum ' Shows Gain Starting Wwith 'June, when the touyist season begins to resume rau\proportlm. and ending with Septetaber 16, Mrs, White reported that 8901 visitors had signed the register ‘as compared to 5439 over a similar period last year. This showed an'increase for the 3 1-2 month period of 3,462 tourists who . visited ' the Museum. Mrs. White's figures proved that July and August were the best months, respectively, this year. At the same 'time it was point- ed out that travellers are becoming more and more. Alaska-conscious with' the increased advertising' of the - Territory through various ag- encies. ‘Included among these are the steamship and railway lines, the variois Chambers of Com- merce and, not: thé least, The Em- pire’s annual Progress Edition, | ) Sleeping - Beauty Ends Thirteen Days of Helplessness { . ‘CHIUAGO, 1L, Sept. W.— Patricia Maguire, a modern sleeping beauty, has ended thir- teen days as a helpless victim of lethargic ebcephalitis. Her condition is not changed, ——o—— TORCH SINGER 'SAID TO HAVE “SHOT HERSELF In vestigation Continues—| { 0il Man’s Heir Gives His Testimony WEST CHESTER, Pa,, Sept. 20. ~Henry H. Rogers, 20-year-old son of the late Standard Ofl multi-mil- lionaire, will tell the story today of the death of honey-haired, blue- eyed little Evelyn Hoey, singer of torch songs to Broadway, Paris and London, at his secluded country (home ten days ago. He will be the 1ast witness at the inquest. Lawyers isald his appearance and testimony will be for the purpose of clearing his name in the tragedy. Miss Hoey, actress who was fea- tured with ‘Betty Compton (now wife of the former New York Mayor James'J. Walker) in “Fifty Mil- lion Frenchmen,” was shot at the Indian Run farmhouse owped by Rogers ‘after a violent quarrel dur- ing which ‘she expressed the desire to return to her home. Suicide Evidence She had been a guest at the ranch for about a week .Because of the circumstances under which she ion, Wil J. Kelly of Jon Oity, N. Y, “éaken into tody on a technical charge of ~murder. They were released when Dr. H. B. F. Davis, who performed the au- topsy on Miss Hoey, said that “every evidence pointed toward & suicide.” Shot Is Heard Rogers’ story, substantiated by his chauffeur, Frank Catano, and a farmer, Clyde Battin, employed by him, was that he and Miss Hoey had quarreled over her de- sire‘ to return to New York. The quarrel ended with Rogers tearing her 'ordering transportation. Miss Hoby ran upstairs. Shortly after- wontinned on Page Eight) Front Street resilence, MORE ALASKA ROADS NEEDED, DECLARES BELL Fish Commissioner Says Population Should Be Doubled, Tfebled WILL STUDY PROPOSAL E, FOREST SERVICE Prospecting, Mining, Agri- culture Shotild Be Stim- ulated at Once WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Glven proper roads to its mining and agricultural areas, Alaska could be developed in ten years sufficiently to support twice of three times its present population. This is the opinion expressed by Frank A. Bell, United States Fish Commis- sloner, on his return from the Ter- ritory. Bell said that highways in Alaska could be built at the same cost as such roads in the United States over similar regions. If the neces- sary roads are bullt to. mining fields, he sald, in all probability the intervening country will be set- tled by prospectors, farmers, and trappers. Meanwhile, Bell lm to ‘study. Pproj ‘through National Forest and public land areas. 4 He said if a portion of the $5,- 000,000 the Farest Service request- ed to bulld roads into promising areas could be spent in Alaska, it would stimulate prospecting and mining tremendously. Bell was enthusiastic about the possibilities of agricultural devel- opment in the territory. He said that many areas could produce as to elsht' tons of potatoes. He said that Matanuska has prov- ed in its short life that its fertile soll could be made to produce abundantly. INT, HGHWAY * GIVEN B00ST BY INT. DEPT. Statement Issued Saying Roadbuilding Not Diffi- cult Nor Expensive WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Citing the report of the Joint Committee named to study the feasibility of the proposed Alaska-Pacific High- way, the Dgpartment of Interior issued a statement saying the road building in the Y¥Yykon Territory would not be difficult nor expen- sive. i The chief. will be the crossing of the Yukon, Pelly and Stewart Rivers but the report said the ferries could ‘be used on these rivers until traffic made construc- tion of bridges desirable. The report spld the highway could be kept open the year around for commercial hauling and will be attractive to tourists for at least seven months of the year. - NORLD FLIERS REACH HARBIN HARBIN, Sept. 20.—World Fliers have'landed here from Khabarovsk. The next hop argund the globe will be to Tientsin. TEACHERS GUESTS OF MRS. COUNCIL Juneau tedchers are the guests this afternoon of Mrs. W..W. Council at a 4 o'clock tea in her | ALASKA TRIP Fritz Bieler and Harold Farquhar, Beauty' Winner Shuns Movies RAINY SEASON 1S RETARDING CUN BATTLING Military Observers Believe Hostilities Will Begin Early Next Month ITALY DISPATCHING MORE MEN TO AFRICA Rome to Protest British Concentration—| Chests Are Closed GENEVA, Sept. 20— The fact that the tropical rainy seasan shiil persisted in the highlands of Eri- trea and in Ethiopia is considered generally to preclude the immediate beginning of hostilities between Italy and Ethiopia. The date for the war breakout is now generally conceded to be atout October 10. There 15 an extraordinary .troop concentration in Lybia by Italy as a precautionary move against any war with Great Britain. /. ITALY TO PROTEST TO' .. LEAGUE ON BEITISHNAVY. CONCENTRATION 1IN GENEVA, Sept.. 20.—Great tration of cording to London - reports, The Admiralty Office said the - fleat precautionary, § {the light of 8 possibility of X cmbozmlwmwv‘.l‘ there i3 no threat against Italy.. . GIVEN BOOST | " BY STRINGER Declares Inside Passage Cannot Be Equalled Anywhere SEATTLE, Sept. 20— Arthur Stringer, noted magazine writer who visited the Matanuska Valley Farm Project in the interests of the Sat~ urday Evening Post, Tefused to talk about Matanuska upon- his return here, but said: “I've travelled four continent and never have I seen- anything in my life to compare with the trip through the Inside Passage. Norway has nothing to compare with it. It ought to be publicized. “McKinley Park ought to be pub- licized, too. They ought to adver- tise McKinley as a field for camera hunters,” said Stringer. Stringer s golng to write a se- ries of drticles about Matanuska which-will appear il the. Post and lelmhem K Dl SE— 'LAT RFTES HELD ! FOR JULUS TURNTIME | | ey chests to Italy. Similar woed came from other European oapl- Ready To Go Ahead . '7 ( Italian Government spokesten a3-' serted that Italy s ready to go ahead with the African “without commercial help source. ¢ 13 NEGOTIATIONS STARTED. GENEVA, 8ept. 20.—Italian quar- ters here informed the Associated Press late this afternoon that di- rect negotiations between Great Britain and Italy have already be- gun or will begin soon on what Great Britain considers the Italian menace t0 Egypt through Libia. Great Britain wants Italy to or- der the Libian armies away from. the Libian frontier and the report is Premier Mussolini will accept the proposal if Great Britain will reduce the imposing strength of the battle fleet naw in the Meditsrran- ean Sea. Funeral services for Julius Turn- time were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the chapel In_ the C. W. Carter Mortuary. Rev. John A. Glasse officiated. Interment was in Fvergreen Cemetery. 2 Julius Turntime, who died at St. Ann’s Hospital on September 16, was well known In Juneau. He op- erated the elevator in the Gold- stein Building for some time pre- vious t6 his death. —— STEINBECK ILL ! William Steinbeck, owner of the | Stelnbeck Apartments, was admit- ted to St. Ann’s Hospital this morn- ing for medical treatment. -, ——- MRS. JONES GOES HOME Mrs. Leo M Jones, wife of the IMIMW Foreman, -Bureau: of Public Roads, who entered the hos- [ pital on September 15, retiirhed to ’M,r home ‘on Glacier Highway to- day. . SEATTLE, 'Sept. 20—Eldridge Price, once a wealthy Texas ¢ man, arrested in Valdes, Alaska, a charge of 'tax income ev: arrived heré by steamer - from north and will be held pending his removal to Dallas, “ &