The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7195. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ' JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1936. CALIFORNIA DREN MRS. BEHRENDS PASSES AWAY IN KETCHIKAN Pneumonia Fatal After Week's lllness—Many Mourn Passing | | i Mrs. B. M. Behrends, 72, pioneer | resident of Alaska and wife of the| ploneer Juneau banker and busi nessman, passed away at | o'clock last evening in the Ketchi- | kan Hospital. Death was due to pneumonia, | brought on after she was stricken | with an abscessed ear last week.| Mrs. Behrends was taken ill on the steamer Northwestern, bound frem Seattle to Juneau, and was taken to the hospital in the First City February 3. } Her husband reached Ketchikan on the Northland this morning, after a futile effort to board an earlier steamer in order to be with her in her illness. Mr. Behrends was returning from his annual trip to Chicago. He attempted to fly from Helena, Montana, to catch the Alaska in Seattle, but was de- layed by storms. heir son-in-law and daughter, Judge and Mrs. J. F. Mullen, were accompanying Mrs. Behrends at the time she was af- flicted, and were at the bedside at the passing. No funeral arrangements had been made by mid-afternoon today. At Sitka Mission Mrs. Behrends was born Virginia M. Pakle in West Virginia on April 9, 1863, and has relatives in the city of Wellsburg in that State She came to Sitka in May, 1886, as a missionary and teacher at the Sitka Training” School, later the Sheldon Jackson School, and for three and one-half years was in charge of .School Two of the Pres- byterian Mission organization. She met Mr. Behrends after he arrived at Sitka from Orange Coun- ty, California, in the spring of 1887, when he became associated with the Sitka Trading Company. In October of that year Mr. Behends was sent to Juneau to become man- ager of the trading company’s branch establishment here, which he later purchased from his em- ployers. Married in 1889 The couple were married Friday, October 25, 1889, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Brady in Sitka, the ceremony being perform- ed by the Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jack- son, assisted by the Rev. Brady. Following the wedding the young couple came to their new home in Juneau. Many Mourn Death Of Mrs. Behrends, The Sitka Weekly Alaskan wrote at the time of her marriage: “She was one of Sitka's most charming young ladies. The newly married couple carry with them to their home in Juneau the best wishes for joy and hap- piness in future life.” In her 47 years of residence in Juneau, Mrs. Behrends became known to a host of friends here and elsewhere throughout the Ter-| ritory for her gracious manner and! kindnes§ to others. Her rrequem' (Continued on Page Two) FORMER LIGHT "HOUSE KEEPER HERE IS DEAD Philip Han;:59, Keeper| at Alki Point, Dies in Seattle | | SEATTLE, February 13—Philip W. Harner, 59, Alki Point Light-| house keeper, died of a heart attack | here today. | He was stationed here three years | coming from Douglas, Alaska, where | he was a member of the Gastineaux Lodge of Masons in Douglas. A Masonic funeral is scheduled for Saturday. P. W. Harner, who was married and had two or three children, came to this section about five years ago, according to information given the Empire today by Douglas authorities. Prior to his transfer to Puget Sound, he was keeper of the Point Retreat Light House, during which time he joined Gastineaux Lodge No. 124, F. and A. M,, at Douglas, 15-OUNCE BABY — LIFE SIZE This little mite of humanity weighed only about a pound at birth, smalier cven than the Dionne quintuplets, and lost one ounce, but physicians give her a good chance of surviving. She is Nancy Anne Vogt, whose head is only 2\, inches in diameter, shown life size swathed in cotton in an incubator at the Oakland, Calif., hospital where she was born prematurely to Mrs. Anne Vogt, a nurse. (Assaci ated Press Photo) AIR MAIL WIRES |[TOURIST SEASON SENT BY C. OF C. BRIGHT FOR 1936 TO URGE ACTION WILGOX REPORTS Message from Dimond Out- Alaska Steamship Company lines Plans for Program Agent Tells Chamber Now Before Congress of Visit to-States The possibility of air mail service| Comments on the labor situation for Alaska in the near future was|and the 1935 tourist season were revealed by telegraphic correspon- |made by M. J. Wilcox, Agent for .dence read by Acting Secretary John | the Alaska Steamship Company, Keyser at the Chamber of Com-|Who recently returned from a con- merce luncheon in the Terminal Cafe | vention of company agents at the today. | Seattle office, at the Chamber of A telegram—dated February 7— |Commerce luncheon today. from Alaska Delegate Anthony J.| “The labor situation hasn't chang Dimond to the Juneau Chamber of fed much,” Mr. Wilcox said. “The Commerce stated: “I expect to offer | maritime and longshoremen’s unions and urge amendment on the floor |are having troubles of their own. for increased appropriation as ap- | The Seamen’s Union of the Pa- proved by Bureau of Budget for star | cific has been instructed by the In- route service in Alaska in order to| ternational Seamen’'s Union to g"“‘“ operation Juneau, White- | withyraw from the Maritime Fed- “?::eé::r:?:::sirflé;xgli:'fy;sl;: eration because of the radical ele- Suggest you wire Louis Ludlow. | ment in control of ',hat_oruanfza- Chairman Subcommittee on Post Of- tion. We do not anticipate any S % further trouble in the matter of fice appropriations, who is in charge | A =z " of bill on floor, as to need for this | MR1°8ding A. J. freight. service and its probable influence on Advance Bookings development Alaska. If House re- Regarding the forthcoming tour- fuses increased appropriation effort | jst season, Mr. Wilcox stated that will be made to secure amendment | advance bookings and reservations to bill in Senate. Believe it will be,indicabe more business this year well for organization and individuals | than ever before. The Matanuska in Alaska interested to write or wire | colonization project has aroused & James P. Buchanan, Chairman Com- | greqt deal of interest throughout mittee on Appropriations.” tes, h id, and almost all Telegrams To Officials i el g i o 1 | | On February 11 the Juneau Cham- ber of Commerce sent telegrams to Mr. Ludiow, and Mr. Buchanan, | which stated: | “We are vitally interested securing | increased appropriations permitting | inquiries regarding the services of- fered by his company are accom-| panied by requests for information concerning the Matanuska colony.' The schedule for the two new{ ships recently purchased by the Al-| regularly scheduled airmail Juneau |aska Steamship Company—the San-| via Whitehorse to Fairbanks, and|ts Ana and the Santa Elisa—will Tanana Crossing to Anchorage | jnclude a sufficient stopover at routes, and extension air service|geward to allow the tourists to throughout Alaska because we are | iy Matanuska and return to the convinced Alaska’s development and | ga1oc on the same steamer, | Mr. progress imperatively requires com- 'lecox sald. prehensive airmail program and service, not only to overcome disad- | Frank Parrish, f‘obes Electric vantages of vast distances between COMPany representative, who arriv- different parts of territory but also |€d from the States on the Alaska, to facilitate Government and private business and make accessible to ex- amination and development 'of Alas- ka's resources by prospective invest- ors and to greatly aid Territory’s commercial and industrial develop- | was also a speaker at the luncheon. | Mr. Parrish stated that business conditions in the States are excep- tionally good. Small Beat Report Near Complete Acting Secretary John Keyser re- MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS "~ PRICE TEN CENTS HED 7Reflpublicans Honor meoln 7 Score New De of Young G. Role Emancipator Played| in American History Told by Speakers Vivid and interesting descriptions >f Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth Pres- |ident of the United States, and the part he played in holding the union | together and freeing the slaves were | ziven last night at the Lincoln Day et of the Young Men's Repub- |lican Club of Juneau and Douglas. i Judge James Wickersham told of ! | how Lincoln’s Emancipation Procla- | mation resulted in freeing the In- | dian slaves in Alaska. Judge H. B. | LeFevre related his own recollections | of the great man and Howard D. | Stabler compared Lincoln’s policies with those of the present day. WICKERSHAM'S ADDRESS In a learned address Judge James | Wickersham, - authority on” Alaska | | history, told how Abraham Lincoln | abolished slavery in Alaska. | | “The Indians of Southeast Alaska | were the first Americans on the| | Pacific Coast to honor Abraham | | Lincoln in raising a monument to| his memory as the liberator of | slaves in American territory,” Judge ickersham said. “A great totem | | pole at the old Indian village at Tongass still stands and supports | latop its wooden pedestal a statue! !in heroic size of the martyred | President erected by them in 1870, in remembrance of their loyal ap- preciation of his proclamation abol- | ishing slavery in America. | “Before 1860, when Lincoln led | the people of his country to battle against slavery, Southeast Alaska, | from Dixon’s Entrance to Yakutat, | was slave countfy. Long before the ;Russmns established their fur trad- ing posts along its coasts, slavery was an old and fixed policy and custom among the Indian tribes in that region. These slaves were gen- erally Indians captured by great carved war cances commanded by cruel but courageous chieftains, manned by brave but brutal war- riors, descending in fierce forays upon the innocent and unsuspect- ing villagers around Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan De Fuca.” Seward Visit Judge Wickersham interestingly related incidents and court action leading up to the freeing of the | slave Indians in the Territory. | “In August, 1869, William, H ! Seward, the former Secretary of | State in Abraham Lincoln's Cab- | ilnet, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation as Secretary of State, (and who drew the treaty for the ipurchase of Alaska from Russia, | visited Alaska,” he said. “He was royally entertained by the people of Sitka, saw the total eclipse of the sun from Klukwan and paid a {special visit to and made a talk | to the Tongass Indians. The Ton- | gass village site fronts south from | the Island on which it stands, from which you may look directly into | the nearby beautiful Lincoln Chan- nel. That view and the story which |the Tongass refugees told Seward | | must have given him an hour of | deep satisfaction. Either he or the officers of the army or customs | stationed there, gave the Indians a war-time picture of Abraham Lincoln, who brought liberty to all | Alaskan slaves, and so powerfully {impressed their imagination that | f — | (Continuad ou Page Three) al at Banquet 0. P. Club Here Young Republicans on the arch, Benson Tells Overflow Audience Paying fitting homage to that great American, Abraham Lincoln, Republicans of Gastineau Channel filed the Terminal Cafe to over- flowing last night for the Lincoln Day banquet sponsored by the Young Men's Republican Club of Juneau and Douglas, and in their addresses threw down the gauntlet to Democracy, demanding a “return to constitutional government.” Sounding the keynote of the younger members of the Grand Old Party, Henry Benson, organizer of the movement, declared, “the Republicans are on the marc battle will be fought and won “We are opposed to the tyranny of the old order—economic dicta- torship of plutocrats and monep- olies,” he stated in a well delivered | address. “We are opposed to the | tyranny of the New Deal—political dictatorship of bureaus and com- missions. We maintain there is an American way out of today's dif-! ficulties and distress. The precepts| laid down by Abraham Lincoln peint the way. Along this American | way we can go forward to greater' happiness and a greater security.”| Hits New Deai HEAVY RAIN The VicoiPresident Gets. x Floc. OURTO - ~ I CONTINUE:IS g DOWNP . DOING DAMAGE iOne Movie Comonsy ke ported Marooned in Mountains | STREAMS SWOLLEN IN ALL DIRECTIONS Boats Are Swept Away in Raging Torrents— Craft Missing | SAN FRA ’0, Cal., Feb. 13.—More rain is fore- cast for California, already swept by a downpour which has caused extensive prop- erty damage. The rain has marooned cne movie company in the high Sierras. Streams are swollen in all directions and highway traffic is blocked. The Calaveras river is a raging torrent and boats are being swept from their moorings. Striking out at the present ad- ministration, Benson declared, “we | resent the efforts of this adminis- tration to regiment and order our lives. We resent this ceiling that a Brain Trust would place over our heads. We do not favor security at’ the expense of progress. We, as the people who must pay the debts incurred by the present spend-thrift regime, demand econ- omy in government. We deplore the use of relief money for political purposes. We contend that the art of statesmanship demands a sii re interest in the welfare of the whole nation and a vision of the future. Hence, we view with shame that our President uses his high office to indulge in cheap politics. We regret that the President stoops to rude jests, head tossing, comic posing, and insults to stir up broth- er against brother; catering to hatred, passions and prejudices for his own gai H. L. Faulkner, well known Ju- neau attorney, served as toast- master for the affair which found the speeches interspersed with en- tertaining vocal, instrumental num- bers and recitation. k. E. Engstrom, President of the club, welcomed the guests with well chosen re- marks and both he and Toastmaster Faulkner read messages from Re- publican leaders in the Territory and nation extending greetings to the club on the gala occasion. {Among them were telegrams from Henry Fletcher, National Republi- can Chairman; A. E. Rasmuson, of Anchorage, Republican National Committeeman; Lester O. Gore, of Ketchikan, Republican candidate for Delegate to Congress, and Har- ry G. McCain, of Ketchikan, Re- publican candidate for Attorney General. Interesting Program | A particularly appropriate dram- atic sketch was given by Mrs. L. P. Dawes and other numbers in- | (Continued on Page Two: | Contestants Are Given 'Better Business Drive | | | | Adpvice; Square Voting' As both an admonition and friend- ly advice to all candidates in the | Better Business Drive, attention is called to rule nine of the contest rules which says that the decision of the contest judges will be final in all matters. This means that any apparent ir- regularities will be thoroughly inves- tigated by the judges and if they are proven the judges will be forced to throw ot these votes, or dis- qualify the contestant. practices. The proper method is for | every candidate to turn in all bu!-‘ lots every day and avoid any possi- | ble suspicions. However, if the let- | ter and spirit of the rules are not| lived up to, complaints will be turn- | ed over to the judges and investigat- | ed. To ‘avoid any possibility of unfair practices which might lead to the, disqualification of a candidate or candidates, the Merchants Com- mittee and The Empire urge the| ‘charter still remains to be settled. | At Stockton last night two cabin cruisers were lost and ten other pleasure craft are missing. Unbalanced | ) f voTES gonTesT frer®"s Ire SOUTHERN GAL Hoover Makes.Attdek onlSix Injured, Property Dam- Registers 12—5,3725 Votes in New Deal, Lincoln | age May Exceed $100,- 24 Hours — Betty Whit- PORTLAND, Oregon Day Banquet {000, in Long Beach field Takes Sixth Place 7 M7 Former Presiden. Herbert Hoover, |their wake injury to six persons and | Bessic Powers stole the show In |charging that “loday's Budget is prov e mie (0 B BEROS FO0 balloting to noon yesterday, by reg-(the worst unbalanced in histors,” 100000, wrote a new chapter in istering 122325 votes in the Betler |launched o scathing attack on the |gouthern Gallfornia weather records Tires Drive, bringing her second |New Deal at the Lincoln Day ban- | Lt misht g g place total to almost 500,000 today.|quet I Mgt . {1ast. night, e roaring, twists. swesy 8 quet last night where he chose “flmrough Long Beach, Alnambra and Betty Whitfield turned in almost|his subject The Confused State!gouth Pasadena. unroofing houses, 100,000 to rise from tenth to sixth|of the Union. st position with a total of 350375. The | Hoover was particularly emphatic, | pioke. and Aaehihg Tiees. following girls, in their order, turned | declaring that the “unbalanced bud- | The tornado at Long Beach, In over 50,000 each, and sent Wednes- [get and unstable currency which originated over the Pacific day noon’s total to a new high, al- | tarding recovery Ocean, swept a waterspout onto the most one million votes within 24| Hoover's talk was a direct “’P‘Wbencn‘fmm. thoroughly drenching hours: Miss s, Miss Whitfield, 'to President Roosevelt's recent ad- |tne vicinity in salt water. Rosellen Mong Margaret Nelson, |dress to Cong on the state of | Ay the injured were in the Long Linda F Eleanor Gruber, Es- the Union I Biaith ‘ares. sher: Davl | Dorothy Comson, "11, was most Three Withdrawals |seriously injured. Both legs were Three withdrawals were received |fractured when she was struck by by The Daily Alaska Empire Better flying timbers from her unroofed «ditor. Helen Pusich, Douglas home. Blomeen, who is leav- orrow for a vacation in the 1d Edith Clinkingbeard, Ju- : Cream Parlor waitress, re- duced the field to 31 candidates to- day. Twenty-two of the 31 now have an individual total of over 100,000 votes. AMITY AMONG SEAMEN SEEN AS PROBABLE Withdrawal of Unions from Maritime Federation Soothes Leaders After 150 years, the Vice-President of th S 00,y nited States has a flag al T Garner is pictured above with the flag which was authorized by President Roosevelt when he heard the Vice-President had none, Flag is identical with that of President’s with exception of havipg white instead of blue as color of stars and field. i l | \ | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 12— Feb. 13— pomado, flood and fire, leaving in are re- | ness MANY BANQUETS HELD WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. All through the nation last night both |Republicans and Democrats ob- |served Lincoln’s Birthday. Republican speakers devoted most |of their addresses to criticism of the, LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 13—A 7 Deal while the Democrats held |land slide on Mount Lowe killed more to a eulogy | Miguel Valdevie, power company em- > ploye. Valdevie was working to avert A |further falls of dirt on the scenic ;HOIIOI’S Attained | railway track up the mountain and By Jonean Fire | was buried under tons of clay. Department ! | HEAVY TOLL N ing to Stat neau SLIDE OF LAND Fire Department is attested by an award of merit recently re- ceived from the National Fire Protection Association. The document, bearing the of- ficial seal of the Association and the signatures of Franklin H. Wentworth, Managing Director; J. Alfred Fleming, Chairman of Fire Prevention and -Clean-Up Week, and the Committee of Judges, reads as follows: ational Fire Protection As- tion Committee on Fire Pre- | vention and Clean Up Campaign | Hereby Certifies that the City of Juneau has been awarded Second Place in Alaska, in the Record of Merit for Educational Activities Promoted During Fire Prevention Week—October 6 to SOUTH EUROPE Ice, Snow, Wind, Take 133 Lives on Land, 350 Ships Wrecked LONDON, Feb. 13.—General icy storms, sweeping Europe and Asia iMmur. killed at least 133 persons |in the last three days. l ‘The list, compiled in the face of | disrupted communications, whieh |may bring even a higher toll, in- SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 13.— Amity between the International Seamen's Union of the Pacific Coast and the district unions seemed near- | er today although a dispute overj revocation of the Sailors’ Union| Three of our district unions have withdrawn from the Maritime Fed- | ment. ported that the work of securing “We believe Post Oifice Appro-information regarding freight ship- priation Committee report based up- | ments by small boats in the Juneau on misinformation and we submn:{‘:ues. which has been requested by Three) (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Rule 11 prohibits the distribution of votes “by any other method than according to the above rules.” The rules as interpreted by the judges do not permit contestants who remain in the contest to hold back votes and then towards the end turn them over to another candidate. ‘The contest is clearly open and fair, and it is assumed that all those participating in it will exercise fair whole-hearted cooperation of all|eration of the Pacific, in com’orm-: those participating but also warns'ity with the International Seamen's all, in the interest of fairness, that|Union convention order any doubtful cases will be thorough- | The Sailors continued to cling to ly investigated and judged without |their affiliation, pending a Supenol‘" | |cludes: Bulgaria, 68; Macedonia, |25; Thrace and Anatola, 12 frozen to death; Gulf of Salonika, 10 ‘drowned; Adriatic Sea, 18 drowned. The snowstorm which hit Thrace 12, 1935." Ketchikan was awarded first place. S S FORMAN BUYS NEWSPAPER fear or favor. Turn your votes in daily, properly signed and stamped, and avoid any possible criticism that might lead \Court hearing on the charter ar-| \and Anatola was the most severe {gument. | Joe H. Forman, former Juneau|in 125 years. Snowdrifts were re- The Marine Firemen's Union and |newspaper man, has purchased the |ported nine feet deep. Many per- Alaska Pishermen withdrew this|Anacortes (Washington) American, [SONS Were missing. 3 to disqualification and “do unto others as you would be done by.” week. Marine Cooks and Stewards|according to information received| Three hundred and fifty small withdrew two weeks ago. ships are reported wrecked at sea.