The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 15, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7175. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1936. MEMBE R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NORTH SEA PASSENGERS ABOARD VIC H. W. TERHUNE TRANSFERRED TO WASHINGTOND.. Game Commuission Officer Will Go to New Post Direct from Seattle DUFRESNE IS NOW ACTING EXECUTIV Juneau Mafiias Headed Alaska Wild Life Man- agement Since 1927 WASHINGTON, May 15. — Ira Gabrielson, Chief of the Biological| Survey, announced today that H. W. Terhune, Executive Officer of the Alaska Game Commission,| would be transferred to Washinx-‘ ton, D. C., in the near future. The, transfer was being made at Ter- hune’s request, Gabrielson said, due to ill health. Date of the transfer! hinges on the appointment of a successor which probably will be made in the next few days . NOW IN SEACTLE Mr. Terhune, who is now in Se- attle in connection with Game Commission matters asked for a transfer some time ago after in- terviewing doctors in the States who told him he should seek a drier climate. According to in- formation to The Empire he will go direct from Seattle to a v executive position which will have to do with general game matters in the States, later probably being assigned to a district of his own in the Southwest. Terhune first entered the Alaska game service on May 16, 1924, at Petersburg as Deputy U. S .Fu and Game Warden. On June 1, 1927, he succeeded E. P. Walker as Executive Officer of the Alaska Game Commission and represen-| tative of the Biological Survey m“ the Territory, the post he has held continuously until this time, with headquarters in Juneau. Prior to coming north, he was connected with game management in the State of Washington. M orgenthau’s Ap pearanéé to Discuss Tax Bill Has Caused Comment, Congress WASHINGTON, May 15. — The |ferent from the rough and tumble decision of Secretary Morgemlmujdehflbe which prevails in sessions Ay of the ways and means committee, to appear before the Senate tmance; Altde. Brour NoEgenthaws pers | Committee and state his views onigona) aversion to making appear- | the pending tax bill, after he had!ances before congressional commit- absented himself from Washington | tees he, probably more than any while the House Ways and Menns‘olher member of the President's committee was considering the|official family, must be the most | measure, occasioned no little com-|careful as to what he says. | ment among politicians in the capi-| As the nation’s chief finance of- | tal. ficer, every word he utters, whether Yet to those who know the Trens-l‘lt be in a carefully prepared state- (ury Secretary intimately the situa- | ment or in response to sudden ques- | tion was easy to understand. | tions popped at him, are immediate- One of Morgenthau's secret|ly. seized upon by financial and | dreads is having to appear before a |other interests — sometimes with | congressional committee in an of- | devastating effect. ficial capacity. Especialy is thls: Criticized for Absence true as regards the ways and means ‘Morgenthau's failure to appear committee when as controversial a |before the House Committee is ex- subject as new taxes is involved. | plained by insiders in various ways. Charged by the Constitution with| The explanation most generally the responsibility of originating allaccepted is that he considered the legislation affecting revenue, the 18 |bill so technical that he thought it Democrats and seven Republicans | best to leave the explanation to his who comprise that committee are|experts in the Treasury. After all, among the shrewdest and most,the bill does contain 62,000 words hardboiled men in congress. A|and covers 236 pages. member of the Cabinet or anyone There is little doubt, however, | else, for that matter, appears before , why he decided to appear before the that group at his own risk. | Senate Finance Committee. He was Senators More Dignified stung by the criticism leveled at In the senate Finance Committee | him by opponents of the measure it's a bit different. The going is not |as being “among those conspicu- so rough. There's an atmosphere | ously absent” from the House hear- of dignity there which is far dif-|ings. LA FOLLETTES Residents of Anchorage Drink, [$250,000 MAY BE OBTAINED FOR AIR MAIL HERE Copeland Will Ask It Be In- cluded in Deficiency Appropriation Bill YEAR-ROUND SERVICE JUNEAU TO INTERIOR Dimond E;(;'esses Higfi Hopes that Plan Will Meet with Approval WASHINGTON, May 15.—United States Senator Royal S. Copeland, Democrat of New York, said toda; he will urge the Senate Appropria- tion Committee, now considerin the first Deficiency Appropriatio: bill, to include $250,000 to provid for year-round air mail servic between Ketchikan, Juneau, Tan: ana Crossing and Fairbanks, wvia ‘Whitehorse. Senator Copeland said he will'gp~ pear before the committee tomor= {row and explain that if the funds are not provided, the airways rights across that section of Canada be- tween Southeast and Northern Al- aska will be lost. Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dir mond said the item in the approp- riation bill for the Post Office De= partment was stricken out by the conference committees. “I have high hopes the approps= riation included in the Deficiency Bt;rkley Tunes F amm; Voice NO DISORDER TRANSFER T0 for Second Keynote Speech| WHEN VESSEL " BE MADE SOON s RUNS AGRUUND% AS FOG LIFTS on June 23. WILL SUPPORT F. RODSEVELT Wisconsin - Senator and . Governor to Work Figures Reveal ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 15.— Residents spent $5.5¢ per capita per month during the past 8 months for liquor. City officers figured monthly expenditures average $13,- 850, based on Anchorage refunds from the Territorial excise tax col- lections. e WASHINGTON, May 15.—A stal- wart Kentuckian will deliver the Democratic answer to the Repub- lican challenge voiced by a rugged Oregonian. Two weeks after ‘erick Steiwer gives bill will be approved by the Budget Bureau and Post Office Depart~ ment,” said Delegate Dimond. The appropriation will also per= mit of the establishment of a branch Tine between Tanana Cross-, ing, Cordova, Valdez and . Anchor- age. Senator Fred- the keynote jtion in |W. Barkley will sound the Demo- |speech at the Republican conven- | Cleveland, Senator Alben | for President By HERBERT PLUMMER CLOSED SHO T0 BE BASIS WASHINGTON, May 15.—Despite claims of some of their supporters to the contrary, the La Follettes of | Wisconsin—Senator Bob and Gov- The Executive Officer is consid- €rnor Phil—are expected to support ered one of the best posted men on' President Roosevelt for re-election. | Neither has so committed him- game in the nation and has been| an authority on Alaska wild life Self. They have, however, remain- | for years. He is widely known not ©d aloof from national third party only in Alaska but throughout the discussions, although one of their States in game circles and among close followers in Wisconsin, Rep- the big game sportsmen and fish- resentative Thomas Amlie, is chair- ermen. |man of the American Common- Frank Dufresne, who has been|Wealth Federation and talks about assistant to Terhune, is now Act-!a national production-for-use tick- ing Executive Officer until the ap-| €t for 1936. : 3 pointment of a-successor. Predic-| Nathan Fine, office director of tion was made hére that he would | the organization, is convinced that be appointed to -Terhune's post, | Governor La Follette believes in a but no confirmation has been made | third party without question. OF OPERATION United Fishermen of Alaska First Industry to Reach Such Agreement ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 15.— The United Fishermen of Alaska | have reached an agreement that Al Jones, owner of the Kustatan Pack- ing Company and Henry Emard | are to operate the local canneries on DR GRUENING, PARTY VISITING SEWARD TODAY At Matanuska Tomorrow and Thence to Fairbanks by Plane Sunday SEWARD, Alaska, May 15 (Spec- ial to The Empire)—After visiting | Columbia Glacier and Valdez ves- cratic call to arms at the Phila- delphia convention, which opens June 23. A seasoned campaigner and a frequent Senate defender of the Roosevelt Administration, the sen- {ior Kentucky Senator keeps a powerful, resonant voice virtually always in tune for oratorial action. | Attacked Hoover Withdrawing as a possible favor- ite son candidate in 1932 to sup- |port the nomination of Mr. Roose- |velt, Barkley was selected as the ’tompornry chairman of the nation- |al convention at Chicago. | His keynote speech there was a blistering attack on the Hoover Ad- | ministration, and he followed it up terday, Gov. John W. Troy and Dr. with a vigorous campaign for the Ernest H. Gruening, Director of the election of Roosevelt and Garner. Division of Territories and Island - - Possessions, and party arrived here today on the steamer Alaska. Dr.| from Washingten. “The only question in his mind,” |5 closed shop basis. It is said to be says Fine, “is that of a proper|the first time any Alaska industry statement of our goal. The GOV-|has agreed to this, and this is the ernor has raised no objection only fishing section obtaining it. Gruening and the Governor are in- vestigating and listing various pro- jects recommended by the com- munities and today were guests of ICE BREAKS | whatever to the fundamental ob-| It was agreed that fish prices HENRY A, RUST, SON OF NOTED jectives of the new national politi- cal party forces.” WON’T SUPPORT BORAH? would be 55 cents for kings if | hand gear is used, and 50 cents if Inot; 11 and 10 cents respectively | for reds with or without hand gear. the Seward Chamber of Commerce | AGGRAVATING for luncheon. This afternoon the party was'! FLU SCUURGE being taken by Col. Otto F. Ohlson | over the Alaska Railroad to An- chorage and tomorrow morning will | PIONEER, DIES Executor of Father's Sev- eral Million Dollar Estate Passes Away Wednesday TACOMA, Wash., May 15.—Fun- eral services were held this after- noon for Henry Arthur Rust, 34, son of the late William Rust, pio- neer Northwest financier. Rust died of heart trouble Wednesday night. The Reverend Sidney James gave the funeral sermon this af- ternoon. Rust, who was the presiding exe- cutor of his father’s several mil- lion dollar estate which included mining interests, the Puget Sound Navigation Company and the Shaf- fer Pulp Company, was interested in the revival of the Chichagof Mining Company in Southeast Al- aska. Starting in business early in life, the younger Rust had always suffered from heart trouble. Rust is survived by his widow, Margaret, and three daughters, Bil- lie, 9, Margaret, 7, and Helen, 3. Pilot Saves Life of Stricken Man ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 15. —After an all night flight, Pilot Woodley saved the life of Gordon Bennett of Larson Bay, Kodiak. Bennett, who was stricken with acute appendicitis, was flown fo the hospital here. Political insiders, however, say| Fishermen asked a flat 55 cents for that even a Borah nomination |kings, 11 cents for reds, while op- would hardly swing the La Fol- erators offered 50 cents and 10 cents. lettes into support of a Republican . ticket this year. Although per- sonally friendly with the Idaho | Senator and sharing many of his| views, they are not likely to rorget} that Borah remained in the Repub-) lican fold in 1924, when their fa- | ther, Robert M. LaFollette Sr, | bolted the party and ran for Pres-| s L !ident as a Progressive. . Many of their followers, includ-‘wpays.comphmenls to Pueno ing some Progressives in the House| Ricans—Finds Haven ]ot Representatives, lean more to| . V . Il d | Borah than to Roosevelt | In virgin Islands BANK ON NINETEEN-FORTY 3 ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands, May Political observers believe that 15.—Congressman Marion A. Zion- by 1940 the La Follettes may be | check, of the State of Washma- | ready for a national third party.|ton, who started a small sized riot However, they see too many tech- against him in Ponce, Puerto Rico, nical difficulties now, principally| following "an auto accident, and | the mechanical propblem of getting | flew here with his bride, has found a third ticket on the ballot in all|@ “haven” on the Islands. He said the states this year. | he and his bride will remain here In February, 1934, however, when | for several days and “the people of the conference for Progressive po- | Puerto Rico may go to Hell.” litical action was flourishing little a0 oo EETLERATERE anarEMA) 1O OUT OF LEAGUE dent. Actually the convention which did nominate him met as late as July 4 in Cleveland and the ma- | chinery to put his name on lhe! ballot was so successful that the| voters had a chance to vote for him | GENEVA, May 15.—The Republic of Guatemala has resigned from Kansas has 1,180 PWA projects. |the League of Nations. A. J. Hory of Harlingen, Tex.,| League officials gave as the rea- harvested 25 tons-of cabbage from son for the resignation as “com- two acres of ground. , mercial pressure by Italy.” in all but one of the states. i S — go to Matanuska to attend the first anniversary celebration of arrival of the Colonists and a meeting Corporation of which both Dr. Gruening is much impressed with the possibilities in Alaska, commenting especially on the scen- ery and the great tourist oppor- tunities. Sunday morning the Governor and Dr. Gruening will go from An- chorage to Fairbanks by plane, others in the party going by train BT s e 000 000 e 00 . STOCK QUOTATIONS . e0ees 0000 NEW YORK, May 15—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 14, American Can| American Light and Power Anaconda 34%, Bethlehem| Steel 51%, Curtis Wright 6%, Gen- | eral Motors 63%, International Har- | vester 85%, Kennecott 37%, V.Jxmed1 States Steel 58'2, Commonwealth and Southern 2%, Cities Service 4%, Bremner bid 18 asked 25, Pound $4.96%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 151.59, rails 3531, utilities 30.19. — -ea—— 4 TRUCKS FOR B.P.R. Four trucks for the Bureau of Public Roads arrived here on the Nizina. One was dropped off at Ketchikan and another at Peters- burg, also for the BP.R. of | the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation | are | members of the Board. | 1200 Persons Stricken—Six Natives Dying at Fort Yukon FORT YUKON, Alaska, May 15.— Winnifred Dalziel, school teacher here, said the week® epidemic of 200 cases of influenza with six na- tives dying is believed to be wan- ing. Four nurses and a doctor labored over cases in the forty bed Hudson Stuck Hospital. The epidemic aggravated when the Yukon Sun- day at midnight inundating numer- ous cabins and stores, and flooding the streets with eight feet of wa- ter. There are only threc new cas- es, it was reportec today. The ice in the Porcupine river has not yet broken but the flood is sub- siding. U, S. FLEET ON was ice broke SAN PEDRO, Cal., May 15.—The United Btates Fleet is sailing down to Panama for a spring war drill The fleet will cross the equator and then begin the third phase of the secret maneuvers next week, according to announcement from the naval base here. SECRET DRILL Senator Alben W. Barkley, who sounded the successful Demo- cratic war cry in 1932 as keynoter of the national convention, will launch another campaign in the same capacity in Philadelphia Barkley, a direct scathing-style speaker, was in his teens when he began winning gold medals in ora- tory and debate. In college he was a champion debater, a prize win- ning runer and jumper, a football and baseball player. Up from the Ranks Later he studied law, learned shorthand and became a court re- porter where he made the contacts that gave him political ambitions. He was a prosecuting attorney and county judge before election to Congress in 1913. He was a member of the House continuously until 1927 when he entered the Senate. A man of pow- erful, compact physique, he handles with apparent tirel ness his work as assistant Democratic leader in the Senate and assignments on several committees. In the blue grass country, Bark- ley is known as an “iron-lunged” orator. He has delivered 10 to 12 campaign speeches in a single day. An advocate of Prohibition for years, he nevertheless as a party loyalist seconded the nomination of | Alfred E. Smith in 1928 BATTLE FORCE OF DESTROYERS COMING NORTH Will Leave San Pedro Base| for Alaska on June | Twenty-nine | SAN PEDRO, Cal., May 15.—On June 29 a battle force of destroyers' will leave here for Alaska, accord- ing to ofiicial announcement made | from the Naval Base headquarters. Nine battleships and a submar- | ine force will sail from San Fran-| cisco thence to Hawail VOTE APPROVAL | LONDON TREATY WASHINGTON, May 15. The | Senate Foreign Relations Commit- | tee has voted to report favorably on the London Naval Treaty, Sen- ator Joseph T. Robinson, Democrat- | c leader, announced the subject will be taken up next Monday. - White Trapper Shot, Killed; Aleut Is Held UNALASKA, Alaska, May 15. — Ankor Jacobsen, a white man, was shot and killed at the end of the trapping season on Atka Island Mike Crevden, an Aleut, was brought here by the Coast Guard to face trial. ‘College Professor, Aboardi | charged at Ketchikan— North Sea, Enjoying Adventure BEHAVIOR OF ALL ABOARD EXCELLENT| Juneau Freig—hT to Be Dis- North on First Steamer PASSENGERS NOW BACK ABOARD SHIP Tells of Hitting Early i"fPumps Abo:r;\/essel Re- Morning, Then Trans- fer to Lifeboats ABOARD NORTH SEA, May ported Keeping Inflow of Water Down S (By Dr. F. A. Thomson, Pres Passengers for Juneau, | dent of Montana School of Mines) aboard the North Sea, are to | —Our party of 22 seniors, only one|be transferred to the Vie- | of whom has ever been to sea be- fonia and brought to this des- | fore, are thoroughly enjoying our| , . g, adventure. |tination, arriving here proba- We have never been in the slight-|bly next Sunday afternoon. est.danger. The North Sea will go to We were awakened by the scrap- & . ing sound on the bottom of the| Ketchikan and discharge all ship followed by a blinding crash. freight there. Juneau freight I dressed at once and went out |y i i on the deck to find the bow fast will e diepatched on the first on a low rock. The time was 3:30 Steamer leaving north from a. m, an dit was agZlack as your| Ketchikan. black hat and thick as a hedge 2 The . behavior of the officers, The'North. Sea, accordlr!g crew and passengers was excellent. |10 advices this afternoon, will There was not the slightest panic. return to Seattle from Ket- The ship warped off the rocks|chikan. by the use of kedge anchors three| o hours later. Then it was found! At midforenoon today, the that the ship was making water aft| Victoria, enroute to the Nerth and as the Coast Guard -cutter| Alert had not arrived, Capt. A. W.! Nickerson ordered us to leave the I'ship in the lifeboats. | OFF AGAIN, ON AGAIN | According to several private ra- | dices recetved from the North Sea, the passengers are a contented lot.| There has never been any danger and everything has been done by| Sea at Hunter Bay, Dall Is- land, was fogbound behind Cape Chacon at the southern end of Prince of Wales Is- land. Captain Nickerson, of the North Sea, radioed he will not move from Hunter Bay until the officers to make everybody the Vietoria arrives and the comfortable. | b One radio said the passengerslpassengers e safely trange arose from their bunks when the ferred. 1 ship struck, dressed and went out| on the decks. They were told by| MOVES TO SHELTER the officers there was no apparent| The North Sea moved eight miles danger, and they returned to their| north to the shelter of Hunter Bay statercoms and completed their| during last night awaiting the ar- naps. | rival of the Victoria, of the Alaska Another radio said there was no| Steamship Company, which nosed disorder when the passengers were | Out of Ketchikan through the fog. ordered into the lifeboats. The pas-| The coast guard cutter Alert, sengers were allowed to take only| Which yesterday afternoon had bare necessities as they were told)landed 121 passengers and 40 mem- they would soon be returned as|bers of the crew of the Northland | the “moving” was precautionary.|on Dall Island, returned the pas- | The Alert “mothered” the lifeboats! sengers and crew to the North Sea | to shore. The steward’s department passed out hot coffee, sandwiches and pas- try while the “shore landing” was n. Late yesterday afternoon and early last evening the passengers returned aboard the North Sea and | the majority spent- the night as iralmly as if nothing had happened. CONVICTS WALK OUT OF WOODS WITH HANDS UP Two Prisoners Recaptured —Six Prison Breakers Are Still at Large ANTLERS, Okla., May 15. — Bill Anderson, aged 30, and Archie Her- ring, 25, two convicts who broke from the penitentiary at McAlester, were recaptured shortly after three hostages were released alive. Th two conmvicts walked out of the woods with hands up as offi- cers and bloodhounds approached Six fugitives are still at large, four believed to be in one group. One of the hostages reieased by Anderson and Herring was Tuck Cope, a guard who had been stabbed in the neck and lost much blood The other two were Victor Conn guard, and Wilbur Doaks, cowboy An airplane has been pressed in to the hunt of the uncaptured con viets. e Rural Electrification Bill Goes to Presideni WASHINGTON, May 15. — Con- gress has completed action on the Norris $410,000,000 rural electrifi cation bill and sent it to Presiden Roosevelt for his signature. during the night. The Victoria, according to early morning advices, is to pick up the 88 passengers for Wrangell, Peters- burg, Juneau ,and other northern Southeast Alaska ports and carry them to their destinations. The Vic- toria will not call again at Ketchi- kan. The 34 Ketchikan passengers on the North Sea will continue to their destination either aboard the North Sea or Alert. The gasboat Phoenix, of Ketchi- kan, has taken additional pumps from Ketchikan to the North Sea. A survey of the North Sea, made this morning, according to a radio from the Alert, showed only nom- inal damage. Last night a radio said the pumps on the North Sea were “controlling the rapid leak.” - BIG DAY IN MATANUSKA PALMER, Alaska, May 15.—Gov. John W .Troy and Dr. Ernest H. Gruening, Director of the Division of Territories and Island Posses- sions, will tomorrow help celebrate the first anniversary of what Don Irwin calls the “landing of the Pilgrims of Alaska.” There will be speeches in the fore- noon in the auditorium, barbecued beef and pork at noon, and sports in the afternoon directed by Jack Allman, Editor of the Pioneer. e lee Posl Winmae Very Modest Man ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 15.— Oscar Nielson, one of the ice pool winners, host to the Associated Members of the American Federa- tion of Government Employees, re- fused to make a speech. E. Blondie Miller, a co-winner, made a fine talk and hoped every >mployee of the Alaska Railroad would win next year .