The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 3, 1936, Page 1

o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ALL THE TIME” “ALL THE NEWS MEMBER OF ASSOCIATl:D PRESS PRICh TEN CENTS LASKA AIR CENTE HOW BROADCAST T0 BE HANDLED One or Two Programs Each | Day from Plane with First from Juneau JOE BARROWS ON WAY HERE FROM FAIRBANKS Various Points of Interest in Territory Will Be Covered 1n Series With full equipmnet for one of the most unique radio broadcast programs ever released, including voice broadcasts from a plane in flight over Alaska over a nation- wide network in the States, Lyman S. Peck, Vice President and Gen- eral Manager of the Pacific Alas- ka Airw , and his party of radio experts arrived this morning on the Alaska from Seattle. “The National Broadcasting Com- pany, cooperating with Pacific Al- aska Airways, Inc., has arranged to Bive a special series of broadcasts featuring Alaska,” Mr. Peck said. “The broadcasts are to be made from a Pacific Alaska Airways plane which will visit various cities in the Territory. The RCA Short Wave transmitter which will broadcast the programs is the same type that was used in the China and Philippine Clippers. NBC Broadcast “The programs will be released over the NBC’s coast to coast net- work, and present plans contem- plate at least .one program.a day.| The programs are to be received at the RCA radio station at Point Reyes, near San Francisco. These will be the first broadcasts of thla kind ever attempted in Alaska and will undoubtedly include the great- est distances ever covered by voice broadcast direct from any plane in flight. “National Broadcasting Company | program executives have been en- deavoring for several years to bring to the people of the United States and Alaska programs of a distinct- | ive nature. Much of the increase in these accomplishments has been made possible by new RCA trans- | mission developments by which the broadcasts from the Normandie and the Pan American Clippers were made. Feeling that the radio au- dience would be interested in se- curing 2 more intimate acquain- tanceship with Alaska and its peo- ple, the NBC and Pacific Alaska Airways have joined forces to make possible this series of broadcasts from Alaska. Lockheed Coming Here “The Pacific Alaska Airways sent Pilot W. J. Barrows, of the controls of one of its multimotored Lockheed Electra transport planes, from Fairbanks yesterday. Pilot Barrows reached Whitehorse last night and will probably arrive here today. The radio equipment will be installed in the Electra upon its arrival here, and will be tested in flights to be made over Juneau within the next few days. As soon as the RCA Point Reyes station re- " (Continued on Page Three LE FEVRE WILL SOUND KEYNOTE OF REPUBLICANS Elton Engst:ol—n- Chosen as Temporary ‘Chairman of Douglas Session April 9 Elton E. Engstrom, President of the Young Men’s Republican Club of Juneau and Douglas, has been selected as temporary chairman of the Republican convention to be held at Douglas April 9, and Judge H. B. LeFevre of Juneau, old-time Alaskan and stalwart Republican, has been chosen as the keynote speaker, it was announced today by Albert White, chairman of the Re- publican Central Committee. Arrangements are being rapidly completed for the convention, Mr. White said. The city of Douglas will provide ample space for the sessions, and the Douglas Chamber of Commerce has appointed a com- mittee to work with the Young Men's Republican organization to co-operate in handling arrange- ments, he reported. Art proved the nemesis for Tony Salcagno (left in group), confessed rgbber of a Chicago restaurant. Artist Frank Saviatis (right in group), who was dining in the cafe, made this sketch (at right) of the rabber’s face from memory and turned it over to Policemen Eugene Spain and Sal Corsi (center in group), who arrested Calcagno. Police nld Calcagno made his con- fession n._confronted with the (Associated Press the drawnrm. Photos) CATHERINE YORK, UP FROM RANKS: Flze, But Flre Chlef Sleeps Peacefully On ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March LEAGUE OFFERS PEAGE PLAN T0 ITALY, ETHIOPIA Warring _N;ions Given Week to Reply to Gen- eva’s Proposal ARMISTICE SOUGHT TO PRECEDE TALKS Itahan Casuallles in Tem- bien 590—Negus Lose *“Thousands” GENEVA, March 3.—The League of Nations' Committee of 13, in- cluding all members nations except Italy, decided to appeal to Italy and Ethiopia for peace, and gave them a week in which to reply. | The committee will mee: again | March 10. Officials said tha® the |araft suggested negotiations ' for Icessa!lon of histilities prelimina¥y | | to peace conferences. 3 TEMPIEN LOSSES HEAVY:: ROME. March 3—Field Marshbl Pietro Badoglio estimated the It§l- jlan dead and wounded in the cur- rent offensive on the Tembient front at 590. The Ethiopian losses num- bered “many thousands.” Observers here believe Mussolini is in a receptive mood for propos- als of an “adequate” settlement. No {reply was forthcoming immediately to the League’s note, but rumors of peace talks have been heard several .times during the past M‘fk | 30,000 CRUSHED WITH THE NORTHERN T ‘NHERE DOCTOR PERFORMED MlD-AIR OPERATlON (4 This picture shows where Dr. N. Gillmor Long (inset) performed a spectacular mid-air operation at Lowell, Mass., to amputate the arm of John McCoy, crane operator, with a hacksaw. The physician had to climb 50 feet in the air and perch himself atop the ladder at the left to get at McCoy, who had been pinned to the steel girder indicated by the arrow when the crane’s cab broke loose. mained conscious throuah the ordeal. wae in a serious condition McCoy, who re- (Associated Press Photos) PAF OPERATES F.D.R.Plaming 'SECURITIES ACT SEVEN ALASKA for Re-election 'GETS PRAISE OF 3.~Fire Chief Andresen lives one black from the Fire Depart- ment Headquarters, but he did 'T0 THIRD PLAGE |IAN ARMY AT THE P‘RONT INr {ETHIOPIA, March 3.—The Italian | ;Army has crushed 30,000 Ethmplanw PLANTS IN 1936 campalgnllnva DR. W. W. COUNGIL NEW SYSTEM IS PROPOSED FOR NORTH COUNTRY Post Office Department Plans Route from Seattle to Southeast Alaska FEEDER LINES WOULD OPERATE FROM HERE New Radioj;d Weather Stations to Be Provided Under Tentative Setup WASHINGTON, March 3. —With Juneau as the pros- pective focal point for an extensive air mail and air transportation program which, according to reports, will stretch throughout the Territory of Alaska, prom- inent Legislators and Cab- inet officers in the Capital City today started a drive | for appropriations to devel- op transportation and com- munication facilities in the northern empire. Plans to help develop the vast natural resources of Alaska through immediate expansion of air mail serv- ice have heen placed before Congressional leaders by Pestal eofficers, The Empire | correspondent learned this Others Ranking Are Lun- dell, Bayers, Gruber, Powers, Kaser Saturday night at 6 o'clock, the first five girls in the Better Times Lrive ranged as Ruth Lundell 1,638,675, Thais Bayers 1,- 377,775, Catherine York 1,341,250, Eleanor Gruber 1,196,100, Bess)e' | Powers 1,181,375, And in their order, Elizabeth Ka- zer, Anita Garnick, Ida Roller and Esther Davis, were other candi- dates in the campaign to total over one million votes. The counter-upper begins to see daylight now, although a terrific | voting fever was registered between | six o'clock Saturday afternoon and noon Monday, when the ballot boxes | were emptied for the last time. Phenomenal was the rise of Cath- erine York through the ranks to third place. Ruth Lundell, No. 1/ from the start, and Thais Bayers,| in second place, still lead the pn-l rade, With nine contestants past the| million mark, that $25. cash bonus | to be awarded by W. S. Pullen of | the Alaska Electric Light & Power | Co. is still to be hoped for by several concerned. The highest | candidate will be given the award, | Mr. Pullen said. Also, the Capitol | Theatre will present a three-months pass to the girl showing the great- est percentage of increase over her total on Feb. 10. METZGAR BACK FROM BUSINESS | TRIP TO STATES L. H. Metzgar, General Superin- tendent of the Alaska Juneau Gold | Mining Company, returned to Ju- neau on the Alaska after a business | trip to San Francisco where he vmsl in conference with P. R. Bradley, { head of the Company, and other officials. It was Mr. Metzgar's an- nual visit to the San Prancisco head- | quarters, Mrs. Metzgar is remaining in Se- attle with the childre nat least un- til the spring vacation, Mr. Metzgar said. follows: EX-SUPERINTENDENT | OF LOCAL AL MINE HERE| R. L, Healy, ml.mng engineer of | Kirkland Lake, Ontario, and Charles | Bocking, mining man of Vancouver, B. C, arrived on the Alaska today. Mr. Healy formerly was a promi- nent Alaskan, and was superlnun-’ dent of the Perseverance mine for several years. The pair are on a busi- ness trip to the Territory, and are Lregistered at the Gastineau. l not hear the alarm of fire last night and slept though despite the phone efforts of his wife whe is tclephone operator. —————— R.B. ANDERSON DIES AT HOM IN WISGONSIN‘ “Father of Norse therature in America” Pass- es Away MADISON, Wis., March 3.—Ras- | | mus Bjorn Anderson, who was known (as “The Father of Norse Literature in America,” is dead here of old age | complications. He was 90 vears oid llast January 12. He combined the careers of historian, educator and editor, punctuating them with that !of diplomat when he served as Unit- ed States Minister to Denmark from 1885 to 1889. He was the first Ameri- |can of Norwegian descent to hold a | diplomatic post. On Own Resources at Eight Thrown upon his own resources at the age of eight, he left the farm in Dane county, Wis., where he had ! been born, and became a peddler and clerk in Milwaukee to help in the support of his mother and her seven other children. His father and mother, Bjorn and Abel Anderson, ' had emigrated from Stavanger, Nor- |way, but the boy while still in his 'teens developed an intense Ameri- canism, which was manifested lat- er when he refused decorations from foreign rulers. Anderson was reared in the seat jof the first Norwegian Lutheran |Churches in America, and soon was selected as a promising candidate for the ministry. Expelled From College His education at Luther College, at Decorah, Ia, was terminated abruptly as he was about to be grad- uated when he rebelled against the stern discipline. He was expelled and turned to farming, but when |only twenty he developed a strong |desire to teach. Albion Academy was his goal. This college, a pioneer educational in- stitution in the Middlewest, had a very small enroliment. Anderson contracted with the Academy to |serve as professor of Greek and modern languages without salary if he might retain the fees of the stu- dents he obtained. ‘Wrécks College ‘Within three years he swelled the attendance from forty students to 300, which was more than the at- (Continced on Page Three) |under command of Ras Imeru, Gov- | ernor of Gojja Province following a three day battle. | The Ethiopians sought to bar the tion of Lake Tana. arms, are strewn on the ground. e ITALIAN BANKS TAKEN OVER BY FASCIST RULE |Private Bankmg Abollshed in Sweeping Reform by Il Duce ROME, Italy, March 3—Private banking in Italy was abolished to- day in a sweeping bank reform passed by the Council of Ministers | at a special session, at which Pre— mier Mussolini declared a new Fas- | cism's defiance of the League of Nations sanction. gest banks in Italy declared public | banks. The strength of the Bank of Italy, reduced to capitalization scribed to by the public banks. Prominent bankers explained that the provisions of the order envis- aged absolute state control of banking operations. They said that countered many difficulties during the crisis as a result of unwise fi- nancing, and that the government had frequently gone to their aid. GLEASONS RETURN Robert J. Gleason, PAA Super- intendent of Communications, Mrs. arrrived from Seattle on the Alas- ka. The Gleasons, who left Alaska last December 1, spent a few weeks in Seattle, the home of Mr. Gleas- on's mother, Mrs. H. E. Gleason and traveled to California, where Mr. Gleason inspected new radio equipment in the PAA radio station at Alameda. Mrs. (Gleason returned to Seattle while Mr." Gleason went east to confer with communications offic- ials of his company. Mr. Gleason will assist in instal- lation of special radio broadcasting equipment in the PAA Lockheed Electra to be flown by Pilot W. J. Barrows on the scheduled tour of Alaska with L. S. Peck, Vice Pres- ident of the PAA, and NBA radio| experts, and will then go to Fair- banks with his wife and son. Italians from moving in the direc-( Dead, wounded, and abandoned] The cabinet ordered the four big- | of about $24,000,000, will be sub-' the major Italian banks had en-| HERE ON ALASKA| Gleason and infant son Robert Jr.,! {This Is i of Cab- | neries to Be Worked with Other Firms | BELLINGHAM, Wash,, March 3.— i The Pacific American Fisheries an- | nounced today that seven Alaska | canneries will be operated during | the coming season exclusive of the | joint operation with the Alaska Packers Association at Chignik, with |thc Aslom\ and Puget Sound Can- any -at Excursion Inlet | and wuh lhe Nakat Packing Com- pany at Ketchikan. President Archie W. Shields said lhe company will not operate the cannery here, the largest in the world, because of the fish trap ban lin this state. STOCK PRIGES " SOAR UPWARD 70 NEW HIGHS Autos Lead?\—&;ance Today —New Tax Program ' Causes Only Pause NEW YORK, March 3.—The Stock Market contnued to climb after a pause over the new tax program of President Roosevelt. Autos led the advance and in the final hour many |tops for the past five years were recorded. Today Transfers were shares. close was firm. about 2,700,000 CLOSING PRICES "TODAY NEW YORK, March S-Cloimg‘ quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 152, American Can 1267, American Power and Light 9%, Anaconda 35, Bethlehem Steel 59, Curtiss-Wright 6%, Milwaukee, | Chicago, St. Paul and Pacific Rail- way 2%, General Motors 62':, Inter- national Harvester 69':. Kennecou 38%, United States Steel 66';, South- ern Railway 18%, Cities Service 5%, Pound $4.99%, Blaw Knox Steel 19%, |Boeing Airplane 24%; United Air- |eraft 29, United Corporation 7' DOW, JANES AVERAGES The following "are today’s Dow. |Jones averages: industrials 156.15, rails 49.57, utilities 32.81. B ENGSTROMS GO SOUTH Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Engstrom, of Douglas, are passengers aboard the | Northland for the south for a visit of two or three weeks. Business Boommg But Un- employment and Relief Still Major Problems WASHINGTON, March 3. — The close of the third year of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House - found him smoothing New Deal dents preparatory to his re-election campaign. The third year is believed to be | the turning point for the Admin- istration. , Emergency is regarded as over and permanent laws have been en- acted, ity plan, Securities regulation and cheap power programs Business is booming compared to three years ago but unemployment | and relief are still the major prob- lems. The American Federation of La- bor estimated January unemploy- ment at 12,625,000, Building is now within a fraction of normal and the farm income has been increased by billions. TREASURY CASH MAKES ADVANCE DURING MONTH Territory'sN_et Cash Bal- ance $761,204, End of February The net cash balance of the Ter- ritorial Treasurer as of February | 20, 1936, totaled $761,204.03, accord- 'ing to the monthly report made to the Governor's office Treasurer Osear G. Olson This compares with a balance of $713,798.94 on January, 1936, and represents a gain of.$4,405.09. Receipts during the month of February amounted to $102,456.26, while disbursements were $55,051.17. e SENATOR ASKS NEWS OF MICHAEL SMITH An inquiry eoncerning the where- abouts of Michael William Smith, 45, has been received by the Gov- ernor’s Office from Senator James C. Scanlon of Massuchusetts, Smith formeriy resided at 40 Stod- dard Street, Stoughton, Mass., and was said to have been in Juneau a year ago. He is described as five feet seven inches tall, brown hair and eyes, oval face and straight nose. Senator Scanlon said it was im- portaht that the man communicate | today by , with him at once. the | including the Social Secur- | TL] I [tOl lfll (,O"l""bslon(‘l‘ 0[ Health Outlines Plans for Achvn) High praise for the Social Securi- ties Act in its possible application to Alaska, and plans for an immedi- ate survey to be launched under its provisions within the Territory, were |alike given expression today by Dr. W. W. Council, Territorial Commis- sioner of Health, who arrived on the ) Alaska after an extended visit to the | States, during which he negotiated successfully for additions to the Ter- ritorial health budget at the Nation- al Capital Mrs. Council, who accompanied Dr. Council on his cross-country | tour, ‘remained in Seattle, recuper- |ating from an emergency appendec- Itomy performed ten days ago in the | Virginia Mason Hospital. During convalescence, she will remain with {Mrs. J. H. Cann, also a post-opera- tonal inyalid, before journeying (either to North Dakota, where she | hopes to visit her parents, to to her home in Juneau. | To Provide Laboratory ‘The new Territorial helath pro- |gram, as developed during my visit in Washjngton, D. C., calls for em- ployment of two extra dogtors and a sanitary engineer, and provides for a fully equipped laboratory, run and supervised by a qualified laborator; technician, to be opened in Juneau, Dr. Council explained most important of all, crippled c¢hildren and the special needs of mothers in isolated com- munities will be met in a way that has been impossible under our pre- vious limited budget.” The complete budget, as provided by the Social Securities Act, gives the Territory approximately $54,000 at the present time. Under provis- fons of the Social Securities Act, the Territory, if it were willing to; match the government funds, could secure a considerably larger grant An appropriate personnel for the {enlarged service in Alaska is already under process of selection, with the preliminary survey of Territorial conditions to be launched mmn-m ately after its inauguration Council announced today “Sourdough Reunion” The Territorial Commissioner of Health reported Washington, D. C. to be a “hubbub of activity,” declar< ing he “was never busier in my life” than during his short visit to the capital “It fvas like attending a sourdough | reunion,” he added. “I was there during the fish trap hearing and the plac e fairly swarmed with Alas~ kans.” Roosevelt Certain That Roosevelt will be re-elected | (Continued on Page Eight) morning. | .lrllee Branch, Execu- tive As ant Postmaster General, is urging Congress for appropriations of $26,- 000 for a new air mail route radiating from Jumeau to important cities in the Ter- ritory. Big Time Saver The proposed additions would cut nearly 20 per cent of the time between Juneau and industrial centers in the United States, officials in the {Air Division of the Depart- ment of ‘Commerce estimated today. Under the tentative plans drafted by the Post Office De- partment, the projected air mail route would be from Se- attle to Ketchikan and Ju- neau with probable feeder lines running from Juneau to Fairbanks and Seward Pen- insula points. The plans re- quire establishment of new radio and weather stations nd the use of multi-motored planes. Shuttle at Ketchikan At Ketchikan the route would meet incoming steam- |ers, exchange incoming and ‘outgoing mail, express and passengers, ¢ Those cities, under the ten- tative plan, which have less than T,000 population: would “Extra clerks | will also be given employment. But, | the needs of | still use dog sleds and avail- lable means of mail transper- tation to get mail into the more populated centérs where it could go air mail to des- tination. > GARSTERS RETURN | FROM COAST TOUR Mr. and Mrs. William R. Garster {returned on the /laska from an | extended tour of Mexico, Califor- | nia, Oregon and Washington. | The Garsters have been traveling, | with occasional stops at places of particular interest, since last Oe- tober, and express themselves as “very happy to be home and set- | tled once more.” | They will be at home to friends in their Kennedy Street home. R