The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 14, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” _VOL. XLVIL, NO 7I96 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1936. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRISTOL BAY OPEN FOR 1936 FISHING EARTHQUAKES, FLOODS, FIRES CAUSEDAMAGE Zero Temperatures from| Rockies East Block Rail and Highway Traffic MORE TREMORS ARE | FELT IN MONTANA Continued (fig Prevails in% Pacific Northwest— | Boat Sinking | CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 14—A new cold wave swept across the United States today to trouble the north- | ern hemisphere already suffering from earthquakes, floods, fires and frigid weather. Rainstorms brought floods on the | Pacific Coast, and landslides. | Zero temperatures moved east- ward from the Rockies to block ra‘l and highway traffic. Blizzards swept across Europe and Asia Minor causing 78 deaths in ¥ Turkey and raising the European B toll to 275, Something pretty nice in the way Slight quakes were felt in Mon- ¥leanor Whitney, native of (lev tana. tion of the film Continued cold prevailed in the symbelic Pacific Northwest. LEADERSHIP IN STOCK MARKET CHANGES TODAY Nonferrous Metals, A. T. & VESSELS IN DISTRESS NEW YORK, Fen. 4l.- —Stonm churned the Atlantic today ships from the Canadmn Cnast m Spain and sending Coast Guard cutters through blinding snow on rescue missions through heavy snow and stormy seas. Two cutters ploughed toward an unidentified schooner reported sink- ing off the Massachusetts coast' near Nantucket lightship. Off Halifax the cutter Cayauga ; wirelesod she el iaken*abeara] 1. 1503, Battle ‘with from the Canadian trawler Lem- MO‘OYS, Alrcrahs berg, eleven members of the crew| of the ing schooner Gertrude, % M. Fauci which sank Wednesday] NEW YORK, Feo. 14—Nonfer night “rous metals and American Tele- The cutter Thetis arrived in Bos- Phone and Telegraph won the lead- ton towing the fishing schooner €rship in the Stock Market today! Natalia Hammond with an injured in & seesaw tilt with motors and seaman aboard, hurt when the aircrafts. schooner collided last night with:@ Irregularity in other sections were the freighter Malton. the rule when most of the price A heavy storm is sweeping the changes were confined to fractions coast of southern and eastern either way at the close. Spain. | The Greek steamer Polymnia ran graph mounted steadily all day and aground on Balearic Island. Iended around four months higher. A small tanker is reported in dis-| tress at the entrance of Hampstead | CLOSING PRICES TODAY Harbor, Long Island. Rescue work-| NEW YORK, Feb. 14. — Closing ers and equipment have been sent quotation of Alaska Juneau mine overland in trucks from Jones |stock today is 16%, American Can Beach, Eaton's Neck and Long 119%, American Power and Light Beach coast guard stations to give 10, Anaconda 34%, Bethlehem Steel aid | 36%, Curtiss-Wright 5, Chicago, | Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific %, General Motors 59%, Interna- |tional Harvester 667%, Kennecott |35%, United States Steel 58%, Southern Railway 18%, Cities Serv- ice 57%, Pound $4.99'2, Boeing Air- T | plane 25%, United Aircraft 30%. “ DOW, JONES AVERAGES PACIFIC FLIGHT,="5sm e Jones averages: Industrials 15197, —_ | rails 48.40, utilities 3359. . B — Bad Weather and Engine' Trouble Delay Pan-Amer- ‘cnl_. DUSENBURY ican Air Hop 2 Months T NG HERE ALAMEDA, Cal,, Feb. 14.—Strong v I s I | headwinds that cut down speed far| 100 miles an hour again/ r the Pan-American china| Chilkoot Barracks Com- Clipper’s attempt to resume heri T lmfis-?:\cihc flights. i mander Amves on Originally scheduled to take off | Tender Fornance at 5 p. m. Sunday, the plane did not get under way until yesterday| The Chilkoot Barracks Army ten- afternoon. Prevailing e¢onditions| der Fornance, Capt. A. J. Smith, forced her to turn around and hemd1 commanding, arrived here at 4 o'- pback to Alameda after covering less| clock yesterday afternoon for her than 1,000 miles on the intended annual ihspection of hull and boiler hop to Honolulu, her first port of | by the Steamboat Inspection Ser- call. She had bucked headwinds| vice. of about 40 miles an hour all the Lt. Col. Ralph W. Dusenbury, way. | Staff Sgt. Hearn and Finance Sgt. The departure of the Clipper has| Hanson and Private 1. T. Thomas now been postponed over two are aboard the vessel. months, numerous delays being| The Fornance will sail on the re- caused by bad weather and some!turn trip to Chilkoot Barracks to- engine trouble. morrow morning. yan b American Telephone and Tele-| Speakmg of Unusual Valentines! of valentines is illustrated by Miss d and new tap-dancing sensa~ sting through a huge heart orsarv each Feb, 14, Japanexe Naval | Airmen Killed; | Midair Crashes TOKYO, Feb. 14.—Four Jap- anese Naval airmen were killed today when two planes colllided in midair during fleet maneuv- ers southwest of Shikoku Island. This is the third fatal accident | in the Navy's air forces in three days. Six men have been } killed and four injured in 1 three crashes. - | 'ANOTHER BOOST IS FORESEEN IN COPPER PRICE fusing Under 9v%— i Is Above Market NEW YORK, Feb. 14. — Phelps Dodge Corporation, major copper producers, is refusing to sell the metal in the domestic market for less than 9 1-2 cents a pound. The current price is 9:25 cents a pound the generally prevailing level whlch has been in effect since October e 1925 when the price was m:sed from 9 cents. The new level if generally adopt- ed would be the highest price for domestic copper since April 19, 1931 “ Initial raise m tne price of cop- | Big New York Outfit Re- COUNTERFEITERS HAVE HIDEOUTS IN SAN QUENTIN State Prison’s Engraving! Plant Houses Cache for Bogus Money Plates | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 14. —New members of a counterfeit-| ing gang, which had its base of op-! erations inside San Quentine prison, | are sought by Federal officers from fingerprints found on equipment to make bogus currency. ! Many details still remain to be| | learned, including how the money | | was smuggled from the prison, how | \ much actually was made, and how the work escaped detection i | Copper plates, bond paper, and | | other paraphernalia for making bo- | ! gus $10 Federal Reserve notes were | found in a ceiling caclie in the prison’s photo-engraving plant, af- | ter Daniel R. Wilson, paroled con- vict and alleged brains of the gang, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to possess and pass counterfeit money. Clifford L. Parr, Sacramento, Wil- son’s brother-in-law, and Thomas Bell of Los Angeles, both parole prisoners, denied similar charges. CONFLICTS T0 CONTROL AIR ROUTES NEAR European Combine to Oust U. S. from Competition Said to Be Brewing WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Warn- ing against an impending interna- tional race to control trade routes of the air is voiced by the National Ad- visory Aeronautics Committee in its annual report to President Roose- velt. The report holds that the United States’ preeminent place in scientif- ic aircraft development is being xhreatened seriously by many other | cations 1 he publxcauon of the report is al- most coincidental with word from Europe suggesting combined compe- tition against the United States for | trans-Atlantic airlines. The committee’s report says the general trend in aircraft develop- ment is toward larger airplanes, in- creased wing loadings, and engines of increased horsepower | FAVOR AIR COMBINE | | PARIS, Feb. 14—Marcel Deat, Air | Minister, today told the Chamber of Deputies he favored an agreement ,on lines among France, Germany and England. PENSION PLANS T0 BE PROBED. BY CONGRESS ‘Rep Bell Urges Appoint- ‘ | ment of 7-Man Board to | i Investigate Townsend | WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Con- These candid camera studies show, left, Oley Nelson (right) of Iowa, Commander-in-Chief of the G and Thomas H. Stritch poring ove Morgan (right), Grand Marshal, A.R. r a newspaper to keep abreast of the times, while their buddy, Col. Albert reminisces. Occasion was reception in New York tendered the twenty- two Civil War veterans who are touring country. THAIS BAYERS TAKES FOURTH PLACE IN VOTE Ruth Lundell Continues to Lead—Bessie Powers, Ida Roller Follow Over half a million votes came| in by noon yesterday in the Daily| Alaska Empire’s Better Times Drive, | resulting, however, in many decided changes in the standings of the 31 candidates. , Thais Bay 114775 to send her place with a total of 423,775 votes. She moved from tenth to fourth position since the last published report. Ruth Lundell continues to lead, 'turning in almost 47,000 votes yes- terday to total 581275 Bessie Powers and Ida Roller are| second and third with 499,050 and 440,600 votes. No big gains were reported in the lower ranks, al-| though Catherine York, yesterday | in thirteenth place, rose to eleventh by turning in 71,900 votes. | into fourth Eleven girls now have over 300.- 000 votes each, and fifteen have over 200,000. . All candidates are again urged| to cooperate and deliver their bal-| HOUSE AMENDS | BILL T0 TRAIN ARMY OFFICERS Huge Appropriations Bill Moves to Completion— Amendment Fails WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. — The |huge Army Appropriations bill moved toward passage today, when registered | 5 | - |now on is dedicated to a drastic re- | | i per was credited to the large amount ' gressional investigation of the so-|the House of Representatives adopt- used in munition manufacture, the | called rackets was urged before the|ed an amendment giving one years Italo-Ethiopian struggle giving im- House Rules Committee by Repre- | training to 1000 reserve officers an- petus to the metal. Kennecott, Al-. sentative Daniel Bell, Democrat, of | nually, 50 of the thousand reservists aska big copper producer, ovened‘Mmm |to be drawn from the Reserve Of- Move to Revamp MRS, BEHRENDS' Federal Set-Up FUNERAL HELD Hits Opposition NEXT SUNDAY WASHINGTON, i'eb. 14 The “off the record” story of what hap- pened in the Senate Rules Commit- tee on the Byrd resolution calling for reorganization and simplifica- tion of the Federal Government is illustrative of how cautious and touchy Administration leaders have come to be on this subject. Final Tribute to Be Paid Deceased in Presby- terian Church Funeral services for Mrs. B. M Behrends, who passed away Wed- The Virginia Senator, whose gov- | nesday night in Ketchikan hos- ernment philosophy is founded on | pital, “pay-as-you-go” basis, has declar- | ternoon in the Northern ed that “my senatorial career from | presbyterian Church, with ment in Evergreen Cemetery Lola Mae A soloist at the s The remains are being brought to | inter- organization and simplification of the Federal government through abolition of useless agencies and con- solidation of overlaping bureaus un- r will be the til there i< relief Juneau on the Northland, due to| His resolution looking to this end arrive here ‘:“* afternc ""I}:' -?’n“d met with stubborn opposition when Fénds and ! ”; *“"'I‘"\'l a S first called up in the rules commit- daushter, Judge and Mis. J = tee. Byrd was told frankly by one Mullen, are accompanying the bodsy prominent Democratic member of Mrs. Behrends was taken to Ket- {the comittee that from the party’s chikan Hospital February 3. while standpoint this was no time to be she was returning from Seattle to| cing of such things in view of the Juneau on the Northwestern. Death coming national campaign. was due to pneumonia, brought on Byrd countered that the purpose by an affliction with of his resolution was not to criticize, car. but that it was introduced purely as A resident of Alaska for a half a constructive move, century, her passing is mourned by Thus the matter stood. At one countless friends in Juneau and time the difference of opinion be- Ull'mlelmul the Territory. ee— came 50 pronounced that an out- right threat’ was made to refer the Byrd resolution to the Party's policy committee in the Senate where n. was almost certain to be shelved, least for the time being. A compromise finally was effect- ed. Opponents of the resolution agreed to let it be reported out of the Rules Committee provided Byrd would agree that between now and the elections in November all ses- sions of the proposed select commit- tee to be set up be closed ones and all findings be held in committee until after that time. ' The Byrd resoiution, which must be approved by the Senate vides: MOSCOW, Feb. 14.—The govern- Vice President Garner shall ap- ment newspaper, Izvestia, has ac-| point a committee of five, composed cused the Japanese of provoking a | of three Democratic and two Repub- war scare in the Far East to block SOVIET FEARS JAPAN ACTS TO BLOCK TREATY Moscow Reports War Scare in Far East Started to Halt French Pact yet pro- will be held next Sunday af-| Light | | i i an abscessed | lican Senators; The committee is authorized “to of Deputies ratification by the French (,‘lmmb«-r’ last summer after a long shutdown ' and is producing regularly now. MARTHA SOCIETY HOLDS LUNCHEON A successful Valentine's Dey luncheon, which drew a capacuy attendance, was given today by the Martha Society in the parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church, between 11:30 and 1:30 o’clock. A holiday menu, delightful dec- orations, and home made candy. characterized the luncheon as a special occasion, Mrs. M. S. Whittier, assisted by other members of the society, was in charge of arrangements. The Representative directed his| |remarks chiefly at the Tcrwnsend '0Old Age Pension movement, inj jsupport of his resolution for ap-| pointment of a seven-man board | (o investigate the Towhsend and ,similar old n.ge pension plans. \TRINITY ¢ GUI.LD TO HAVE BRIDGE PARTY Members of the Trinity Guild will entertain at a public Valentine Bridge Party tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, play to be followed by (serving of a high tea between 3:30 'lnd 5:30 o'clock. | Reservations are not necessary. Everyone interested in play is in- vited. ficers Training Corps. Graduates are to be assigned reg-| ular active duty. The House rejected the amend- ment introduced by Washington State Representative Marion. A. Zioncheck to cut the allowances of the National Guard. Zioncheck charged the Guard with being strike-breakers. .- — KARNES RETURNS Territorial Commissioner of Edu- cation A. E. Karnes returned to Juneau from Haines on the Chil- koot Barracks' tender James Forn- ance last evening. Mr. Karnes spent one day inspecting the Haines School, and was a guest of Col. of the Franco-Soviet | make a full and complete study” of mutual assistance pact. | he activities of all Federal Agen-: ‘A Soviet dispatch from Urga in| m-s to determine whether they outer Mongolia asserted that Japan- | g should be coordinated or abolished; ese and Manchoukuan troops are | The committee will make its first concentrating along the outer \1un-l report and recommendations to the |golian border preparatory to ‘“new Senate at the beginning of the 1937 land more serious provocations.” session; | Repeated incidents of skirmishes The sum of $50,000 is allowed for have occurred along that frontier in | recent months s move is nothing new in| Soviet reports said Japanese news- Congress. Repeated attempts along papers had circulated false reports the same lines have been made in (regarding Russian troop movements. both houses for years, but with little | Urges Delay success. However, in view of Byrd's| Meanwhile, in Paris, discussion of pledge to make it the one big thing lth(' Franco-Soviet treaty was begun. in his Senate career, together with Charles De Lasteyrie, former Min- the fact he had marked success ister of Finance, urged delay of rati- along the same line as governor of“lcauun and Mrs, Ralph W. Dusenbury during his brief stay. Virginia, tangible results may forthcoming. estimated at $13,800,000,000. until arrangements have | be been made to settle the Czarist loans, at Room 311, ' NEW COLD WAVE SWEEPS THE NATION NORMAL SEASON /ANNOUNGED FOR BERING SEA AREA éOp(‘ning, Closing Periods | for Alaskan Waters Told by Agent L. G. Wingard |SEVERAL SOUTHEAST TRAP SITES ARE OUT Season Lengthened by Few | Days in Some Places— Production Stabilized | SEATTLE, Feb. 14—L. G. Win- | gard, Alaska Agent for the Bureau { of Fisher the new , said here today that regulations approved at | Washington provide for re-opening | of Bristol Bay June 25 to July 25, | the same as previous years, except 11935, when the season opened July |4 and strict limitations were placed | on weekly fishing Trap sites are eliminated at Cape | Chacon, Kirk Point, Bronaugh Is- lands, Inian Islands, Point Augus- |ta and two between Limestone In- let and Point Styleman. all in Southeast Alaska. South Prince of .Wn]es Island, which was closed last | vear, re-opened. | Kuskokwim Lengthened | +The Kuskokwim season is length=- ened to August 15. Outer Icy Straits | opens June 20 and closes Auust 4 and the inner section closes Aug- ust 7. Other dates are: Western ! district July 5 to August 15; South | Prince of Wales July 15 to August 29; Prince William Sound June 20th i to August 5 The herring season in Prince | William Sound is extended, open- ing June 8. The greatest width of Dungeness crabs is increased to sev- 'n inches. The 50-foot limitation on boats operating with purse seiners is extended to include Ko- iak district and Cook Inlet and the closed period cut to 36 hours. The distance between gill nets there is shortened to 300 feet To Westward Certain portions of Turnagain and Knik Arms are opened. Tenakee Inlet is closed after July 24 and a portion ofy the western shore of Ad- miralty Island in the vicinity of Point Graham, suitable for herring fishing for bait, is apened. “The changes in general are very minor, the least in any year since | the fisheries have been controlled,” Wingard said. “The fishing situa- tion now seems stabilized, produc- |ing about the maximum with nough escapements to perpetuate runs SECRETARY OF NAVY SWANSON SERIOUSLY ILL Favorable Outiook Express- ed by Spokesman, Hos- pital Commander WASHIN(.TON Feh condition of Claude A.. Swanson, Secretary of the Navy, gravely ill of pleurisy in the Naval Hospital here, is reported much improved to- day 14— The The spokesman for the family said: “He is getting along fine.” Capt. George C. Thomas, Com- manding officer at the hospital, told the newsmen a short time later, that the Navy Chief spent a very good light and is resting comfortably. Asked if he believed Secretary Swanson had a good chance for re- overy, Capt. Thomas said: “Cer- tainly, his condition looks more fav- orable.” e S — ECONOMIST AND MILK SPECIALIST EXAMINATIONS The United Stales Civil Service has announced open competitive ex- aminations as follows: Economist, various grades, $2600 to $5,600 a year: Associate milk specialist, $3,- 200 a year, and assistant milk spec~ ialist, $2,600 a year, Public Health Service, Treasury Department. Full information may be obtained Federal and Terri- torial Building.