The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1936, Page 1

"THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7180. “ALL THE NEWS ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1936. ALL THE TIME” MEMBER O F ASSOCIATED PRESS PR‘ICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU MAN DIES IN APARTMENT FIRE SENATE VOTES 70 OVERRIDE F.D.R. VETO Matter of Raising Some Two and One Half Billion | Dollars Facing Congress | 'VETERANS BONUS B Platform of Party of Alaska The complete platform of the Democratic Party of Alaska as adopted at the Territorial Conven- tion at Seward, on January 18, is as follows: The Democratic Party of Alaska, in convention assembled, endorses the wise, humane and courageous policies of its great leaders, Presi- Democratic | | continued misrule of those resources |by the Alaska Game Commission, |and urge that the organic act of | the Territory be amended so that |the Alaska Legislature may have complete control over these re- sources. V. We endorse tne policies of the I ) MARY JOYCE ON WAY AGAIN IN | NORTHERN TREK! Mushing from Whitehorse | to Burwash Landing— Woman Guide ILL BECOMES LAW NINE BURN TO DEATH IN HOTEL FIRE HARRY O'NEILL VICTIM HERE OF SUNDAY BLAZE |Wife and Two- Yesr-OMd Daughter Escape Injury in Fleeing Building dent Franklin Delano Roosevelt and|Roosevelt Administration which M e | Vice-President John Nance Garner, LEADERS FROWN ON gives adequate vecognition to the rights of the public, capital and; labor in matters affecting industry.| VL We urge the continuation of Fed- WHITEHORSE, Y. T, Jan. 27— | With a week’s rest for herself and her team of huskies behind her, Mary Joyce, owner of Twin Glacier Lodge on the Taku River, was mushing |who have piloted the nation INFLATION IDEAS \;mrough the shoals of depression jand restored the confidence of our o “people in democratic government. New Tax Talk Is Also| Squelched by Majority | Chiefs as Pay Voted WASHINGT! Jan. 27.—Im- | mediate payment of w.e vet- erans’ bonus by baby bonds was made law today by Congress over the President’s veto when the Senate with a big Demo- cratic majority voted, 76 to 19, to override the veto. The House passed the bill over the veto last Friday with an overwhelm- ing vote. The vote raised for President Roosevelt and his advisers the serious problem of finding funds to meet the new drain on the Treas- ury. While talk of inflation was widespread as the Government faces the task of paying the bonus bill of approximately two and one- half billion dollars, majority chiefs in both the House and Senate moved to squeleh all talk of new tax levies and apparently were hos- tile to inflation ideas. There was indication efforts would be made to tack the bonus money bill onto one of the regular appropriation measures. Three Per Cent Bonds The United States Chamber of Commerce expressed dismay at the outlook in face of the bonus.and other possible outlays. Under the measure which became Jaw :today, veterans of the ‘World War will be given baby bonds of $50 denomination in payment of their service certificates. The bonds will pay three per cent interest put will be cashable at any post office for those who want immed- jate cash. Odd amounts will be payable in cash. Bonus leaders said it was planned to have payments started by June. First Voted in 1924 The adjusted service certificates which now are to be redeemed in bonds were originally voted by Con- gress in 1924 over President Cool- idge’s veto. These certificates were to mature in 1945. In 1931, Con- gress passed the emergency com- pensation act which allowed the veterans to borrow up to half of their certificates, the average cer- (Continued on Page Five. —— WEASELS PAY FOR CROWNING OF NEW KING Fur Buyers—éEUp Pelts in Expectation of Two-Year Demand in England TACOMA, Wash,, Jan. 27.—Weas- els are going to have a tough time of it for the next couple of years, all because the new king of Great Britain will be crowned next year. So say fur buyers, who bid up pelts of the little fellows at the last fur auction here. Royal robes must be trimmed in ermine, and weasles in their winter jackets are the nearest thing to it which can be obtained in quantity, with the Alaskan product in top demand. Hyman Yewdall, Seattle veteran fur buyer atending the auction here, said he intended to bid on 10,000 pelts stored in Vancouver. He said every big coronation has meant that ermine will be in style about two years. Not only will royal personages re- quire erriine trimmings but others In the three shori years since the Roosevelt Administration took office, Alaska has made its great- est progress and has received its greatest benefits. This Adminis- tration is concerned , about the eral appropriations for road and |%rail building in Alaska and the | enlargement thereof, so that the | Territory may be speedily covered | by a complete and coordinative sys- | tem of roads and trails; liberal ap- needs and problems of the Territory | . ,iations for the improvement | and has allotted large sums fOr|,c yers and harbors of Alaska; along the northern trails today again | on her jaunt to Fairbanks. She was accompanied by Mrs. Eugene Jac- quot of Kluane, who will act as guide juntil they reach Burwash Landing |where Miss Joyce intends to get In- dians to help in trail breaking to Tanana Crossing. | BODY DISCOVERED AT TOP OF STAIRWAY | Mine Emplc;/g Believed to Have Been Overcome by Smoke in Room Harry O'Neill, 30, Juneau mine worker, lost his life in a fire which badly damaged his apart- ment Sunday morning, but his | emergency relief. Thousands of increased appropriations for ex- The intrepid girl dog team mush- men, women and children have been| . ino the work of the United|er left her lodge on Taku shortly be- furnished employment, taken ”""“smws Geological Survey, Public fore Christmas and expects to ar- charity lists, made self-sustaining, and had their self respect and con- fidence restored. Liberal gifts and loans have been made to our cities and villages, and money has been furnished to the Territory for the construction of public buildings, permanent ' streets, sewers, water supply systems, roads and high- ways, and other permanent im- provements, that could not have been achieved with our own limited resources. The monetary policies of the President have been of incalculable benefit to the mining industry; billions of dollars have been added! to the resources of the Territory, and the life of the industry in- definitely extended. Because of these beneficial acts and because of the far-seeing statesmanship and indomitable courage of the Roosevelt Adminis- tration; the Democratic Party of Alaska reaffirms its faith in popu- lar government and pledges the Administration its continued and enthusiastic support. We endorse the splendid record of our Delegate to Congress, the Honorable Anthony J. Dimond; we commend the fine administration of our Governor, the Honorable John 'W. Troy, and we endorse the liberal and progressive policies of the elective officers of the Ter- ritory, and promise them our heartiest cooperation. In keeping with the principle of representative self-government; we urge home rule for Alaska, and, to that end, we not only favor a full Territorial form of Govern= ment, but we also believe that all Federal and Territorial offices in Alaska ought to be filled through the appointment of bona fide Al- askans, and: that all such officers and their employees, except those under the Civil Service regulation, should be recognized members of the party in power. IL We believe in the fullest exer- cise of the jurisdiction now vested in the Alaska Legislature, and that all matters not of purely Federal concern should be administered by the Territory. IIL We renew our opposition to Fed- eral control of the fisheries of Al- aska, which Federal control has resulted in a short season of high- ly intensive fishing and discrimina- tion against Alaskan labor to the detriment of local fishermen, busi- ness men, and the entire population of Alaska. We urge that legislation be en-' acted by Congress amendatory to the organic act of Alaska to the end that all restrictions be removed which now prevent the Legislature of Alaska from passing laws to regulate and administer the fish- eries industry. We urge the elimination of the standing and floating fish traps in| Alaskan waters to the end that qualified resident fishermen of Al- aska may be afforded the opportun- ity of securing a just return for their labor expended as partici- pants in the great industry that has been developed from the nat- ural fishing resources of the Ter- ritery. Iv. We also reaffirm our opposition also will favor it, said one buyer, “un- to Federal control of the fur and ul the populace begins to take the game resources of Alaska, voice new king for granted.” our vigorous protest against the | Surveys, Coast and Geodetic Sur- | | veys and the Lighthouse Service m; VIL | We favor the utilization by the Government of Alaska and by all Federal bureaus and agencies in‘ “Alaska of local products and local‘ {labor whenever possible, whether |by contract or otherwise. [ VIIL | We favor liberal® appropriations | for public schools in Alaska includ- | ling those conducted by both the Territorial and Federal authorities. IX. | We believe the prosperity of the' mining industry is essential to the development of the Territory, and we favor the enactment of laws for the encouragement of prospecting, and the continuation of financial assistance to the Alaska offices of the United States Bureau of Mines. X. We urge that the net revenue accruing to the United States from the seal fisheries of Alaska should be covered into the Territorial treasury by suitable legislation by Congress to that end. XL We recommend and support the liberlization of the laws with respect to the ownership, opera- tion and development of the coal and oil lands in Alaska, in such manner that the title thereto may ultimately vest in the locator or claimant, with such restrictive regulations only as will effectively prevent monopoly. XIL In the name of humanity we urge that the Federal Government carry out its responsibility for the care and medical relief of the Indians and Eskimos of Alaska. We endorse the hospital building program of| the Alaska Division of the Office| of Indian Affairs and pledge our| party .to work for its accomplish- ment. We demand that the Office of Indian Affairs give to the Territory of Alaska the same recognition and treatment in defraying costs for the education of Indians and Es- kimos that it does to the States for similar expenditures. XIIL. We endorse the action of the Feleral Government in establishing the Matanuska colonization proj- ect, and urge that in any exten- sions of the plan into other dis- tricts or in adding members to the Palmer colony, that first con- sideration be given to bona fide residents of the Territory. | XIV. We believe, that, “e’uauz appro- priations should be’ made to pro- perly maintain the necessary agri- cultural experiment stations and technical service required to insure that the farming population of the Territory shall receive the benefit| of modern agricultural advances. XV. Communication and transporta- tion are dominant factors in the development of Alaska, and recog- nizing that commercial aviation can contripute immeasurably to these facilities, we recommend that the Federal Government and the Territory give every possible as- sistance to aerial transportation by adopting a policy whereby each sec-, tion of Alaska will receive aid ac- cording to its needs, and that avia- tion receive its .proportion of Ter- { ! ) | | | (Continued on Page Two) rive in Fairbanks in time for the ice Carnival there early in March. BATTLE LINES ARE DRAWN IN MARINE DISPUTE Lockout, Set for Toda'v Fails to Materialize-— Inquiry Is Pending SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 27.— Oposing factions in the highly charg- ed Pacific Coast maritime situation drew battle lines today pending word from Washington of a Congressional inquiry The asserted lockout of marine unions, which labor leaders predict- ed would start today, failed to ma- terialize Snip owners are silent concerning statements made by Harry Bridges, left wing laborite, that the employ- ers have deferred the lockout tem- porarily. The trouble is over overtime pay- ments and shorter shifts. Bridges today answered the State Chambers of Commerce’ attack lev- ied at the Maritime Federation of the Pacific which said the Federation through radical leadership, was con- spiring in restraint of trade. Bridges charged the employers and shipown- ers, Chambers of Commerce and al- lied interests themselves with con- sp¢ng to “destroy organized labor on the Pacific Coasf Slayer Saved from Death, Ju_ry Verdict PITTSBURGH, A Pa,, Jan. 27.—A jury has convicted Justice of che Peace James J. Bestwood for killing his wife, Martha, aged 38, mother of three children. The verdict carried a recommendation for mercy saving Westwood from a death penalty. H> will be sentenced to life imprison- ment. Nine persons were burned to death in a fire which destroyed t 'Charles | Mack Is Suicide | Dawson an:tha irbanks Pioneer Puts Bullet Through Heart FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 27.— | Charles B. Mack, aged 81 years, garly Dawson and Fairbanks pioneer, was found dead in a room in the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. Boyd Hering here, with a bullet through the heart and a .30-.30 rifle by his side. The authorities pronounced death as the result of suicide. Mack had feared blindness and deafness and had long been in fee- ble health, : Mack was once a prominent butch- er of Dawson. He was a member of the Dawson Eagles. Survivors in- clude several grand-children. HOMER MAY BE SITE OF NEW FARM COLONY AL SMITHFLAYS F.D.R. POLICIES IN LEAGUE TALK peech Labeled by Many as Repetition of G.O.P. New Deal Criticism | ? F | IS WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Alfred |E. Smith’s long-heralded speech was Idelivered at the American Liberty :L('agw? banquet here Saturday night | |and had political circles astir m-i |day. Mr. Smith criticized the New | IDeal and all its works in a bitter attack on the policies of President Roosevelt, his former friend and po- |litical ally. | The former Democratic Presiden- itial candidate declared repeatedly Ihe would not be a candidate for any Joffice himself but some doubt ex- |isted that he would remain aloof in the coming campaign. The Repub- | | lican comment on his remarks were mostly laudatory but Democrats,| where they commented at all, mostly characterized Mr. Smith as a dis-| gruntled man and his remarks 15! mere repetition of the Republican | eriticism of the New Deal. i | Robinson To Reply 1 Eenator Joseph T. Robinson of | Arkansas, majority leader and| Smith's running mate in 1928, closet- | ed himself in his Senate office Sun- | day preparing a reply to Smith which | will be broadcast over the columma‘i | Government Is Surveying Area—Matanuska-like Project Is Seen WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—A pre- liminary Survey of the Homer area, on Cook Inlet, Alaska, in connec- tion with possible development of a farm colony somewhat in the ,|manner of the Matanuska project, is reported q be underway. Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said | that at his request the Interior De- partment’s Land Office has assigned |a man to survey the Kenai Penin- 1 Broadca: tem Tuesday night! | from 10:40 to 11:15 Eastern Standard |Time (6:40 p.m. Juneau time). The White House was silent on the speech. Mr. Smith did not refer to the President by name in his ad- dress. Says Not A Candidate Declaring he was not a “candidate for any nomination by any party,” 700nt’im;di)n Page Two) Hundred-s‘ of F ishermen Are Marooned on Drifting Field of Ice;Planes Making Searc BULLETIN—Moscow, Jan. 27. —The ice field on which are 1825 fishermen marooned eleven days, has been located 150 miles out in the Caspian Sea. The ice island was located by an airplane and the pilot dropped medical sup- plies. Steamers are leaving im- mediately to rescue the men who have 1400 horses with them. ADRIFT ON ICE FIELD MOSCOW, Jan. 27.—Several air- planes returned here late Saturday with their pilots reporting failure in the search for the floating island of ice on which 1825 fishermen are | sula section near Homer. Delegate | Dimond emphasized that at present | the colony was in the “talked of” tage, and that nothing has been | decided either by Alaskans interes ,ed or by the government. delegate said that the only quéstion in his mind was the market for any | large-scale agricultural development in the Homer district, and said that Fragmentary wireless reports from | this would be settled when and if the marooned men on Friday said', highway was constructed to An- they had not sighted land for days:| chorage so as to connect with the | Parts of the icefield have broken off | rajlroad. | but none of the party was lost. There | The highway already extends half |is ample room on the icefield for|the distance, and efforts have been |all. The castaways arc keeping in made to connect the missing link of | close contact so as not to be separ- | the Homer-Anchorage road | ated. The first intimation that a col- | Wagons, beirlg used to load fish ODY might be in the offing came | from Leon Vincent, Assoclated Press |when the field started out to sea, | furnished some shelfer and it is| Correspondent at Seldovia, whose | interest. aroused the activities of | said there is sufficient wood to keep the Snaere T Vit Py e | fires go! Ithough the stock 1s - cent sai a i ot about 100 independent settlers are apidly bei depleted. | rapidly being dep now in the region, and more com- Steamers are being held in readi- ' ing. Mass. The burning building is shown here at the height of the blaze. (Associated Press Photo) | when sentence will be imposed. wife and 2-year-old daughter, Patricia, the only other occu- pants of the apartment, escaped injury. O'Neill's tragic death is the first fire fatality in Juneau in more than 12 years. The first evidence of the fire in O’'Neill's apartment on the second | floor of a building owned by J. B. | Caro at 210% Gold Street—smoke is- |suing from the front windows—was |observed by miners going to work {shortly before 6 oclock Sunday morn- |ing. The miners telephoned an alarm |to the Fire Department which re- |sponded immediately, reaching the |scene of the fire at 5:50 a.m. ! Don Gas Masks Fire Chief V. W. Mulvihill and Waino Hendrickson hastily donned gas masks and enfered the smoke i and flame filled building. O'Neill's body was discovered by the two fire- Maximum Fines Are $10,- men at the top of the stairway con- 000 ll h d Al 10 |necting the front entrance to the ach an SO building with a reception hallway on Years in Jail | the second floor. Search of the apart- ment failing to disclose any other NEW YORK. Jan. 27.—An execu- |00cupants, the firemen covered the | tive of the company which owned the | Pody with a salvage tarpaulin and at- | Morro Castle, and two officers who tacked the flames. | were in charge of the vessel when it| All other rooms in the apartment, burned off the New Jersey coast in|including the living room, bedroom, | September, 1934, with a loss of 121|Ccombined kitchen and dining room, lives, have been convicted of neg-|®nd two store rooms, open from the !ligence by a Federal jury. 1 hallway at the op of the stairs. For- They were: Acting Capt. William | tunaely the doors to the various Warms, Chief Engineer Eben S. | rooms were all closed, confining the B Abbott; Henry E. Cabaud, Vice-Pres- | fire to the reception hall. ident of the New York-Cuba Mail| Mrs. O'Neill and her small daugh- Steamship Company. ter retired early Saturday evening The conviction carries maximum |87 have no knowledge of the ori- fines of $10,000 each and prison BB of »the fire. Reconstruction of | terms of 10 years. ;the available evidence remaining in The corporation also faces a pos- | € apartment indicates that Mr. sible fine of $10,000. O'Neill returned to his home early Sunday morning, and after removing The defendants are continued on| bail of $2,500 until Tuesday morning, | M hat and coat—which were found he Van Deusen Inn at Westfield, JURY CONVICTS . neinue Page Eight There were 318 passengers and a | - i - 09 » crew of 240 aboard when the fire The castaways on the Caspian Sea. ness along the coast to sail to aid The icefield broke away from the ‘of the party as soon as planes have shore on January 16. 1lomt.ed the icefield He described the land as fertiie, J (Continued on Page Five) broke out on the ship bound from (Havana to New York. | Tt is disclosed today that damage suits aggregating three million dol- lars have been filed since the Mner | | burned. An effort will be made tomorrow 1 to stave off sentencing of those con- victed. An appeal, according to the |attorneys, is planned. — e — Senator Norbeck | Workifnr Borah Appoints Committee of 14 to Aid Idaho Man in South Dakota WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.--United States Senator Peter Norbeck, Re- publican’ of South Dakota, announc- ed after a conference with United States Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, appointment of a committee of fourteen to work in South Dakota | for Borah. Senator Norbeck pledged the dele- gation of eight to the Republican National Convention. He said the commitee to work for Borah repre- sents all factions. Neutrality Bill Given Com. 0. K. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. — The House Foreign Affairs Committee has approved the Administration’s permanent Neutrality Bill RUTH LUNDELL LEADING WITH 56,950 VOTES Second in Running Is Ida Roller—Third, Elisabeth Kaser, Better Times Cont. The official “counter-upper” mn the Daily Alaska Empire’s Better Times Drive was completely suffo- cated in a landslide of voting over the week-end, with the result that the standings of contestants pub- lished for the first time is by no means complete. At noon today, it was impossible to count all votes col- lected from the various “polls” in Juneau and Douglas, but all partici- pants will have the complete list- ings starting tomorrow. Extra ‘counter-uppers” will be used to sort and file the ballots. Leading the list of 47 candidates is pretty Ruth Lundell of Douglas, with a total at noon today of 56,950. Second in the running is Ida Roller, blonde Juneau waitress, with 47,500 votes. Elisabeth Kaser, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Kaser, ranks third, with 43,625. Other contestants rate as follows: Esther Davis, 40,100; Harriet Bar- ragar, 39,900; Gertrude Conklin, 34,- 675, Bessie Powers, 28,325; Eleanor Gruber, 23,850; Anita Garnick, 23,- 350; Charlotte Polet, 21,225; Thais Bayers, 18,550; Margaret Nelson, 18,- 550; Mildred Cashen, 17,600, Rosellen (Continued on Page Eight)