The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1936, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1936. HAPPY BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congratula- tions and best wishes todny, their ) birthday anniversary, t~ che follow- MAY 16, 1916. il Edward Krause was placed on o trial for two alleged crimes of for- T I\:.A‘\](anlfil.‘c“rcn gery, committed in August. In his Fred A. Sorri opening statement District Attor- R v obert L. Brown ney J. J. Reagan stated that the de- Joseph J. Wilson fendant was charged with having Edwin .Hildre forged an order on the Dexter Hor- ton Trust and Savings Bank of Seattle for $203.01, and with hav-| ing forged the name of K. Yama- | moto to the order. The other in- dictment charges that Krause forg- ed an order and signed the name of Yamamoto to it directing the | | same bank to transfer to him the ! | entire bank account of K. Yama- moto. The jury selected to try the case was composed of A, J. Sprague, Ben Hersey, H. S. Worth- 3 I en, E. R. Evans, J. B. Riverburg, | Lou McDonald, Harry Starr, A. G. Q Whom should one ask to fill Schonacker, Arthur Diern, William in for a dinner party at the last Sullivan, G. G. Henry and William | minute? Cory. A. Ask only a very intimate friend, as it is a favor you are ask- Plans for observance of Memorial | ing. The true and well-bred friend Day in Juneau were underway. Ar-| Will always accept, as he never rangements included a program, knows when he may want to ask decorations and the place of ob-|¥ou to do the same thing. servance. Mrs. E. H. Kaser and| @ When introducing Charles Mrs, Josephine Valentine were | Smith to Walter Brown, is it prop- among the leaders in the further- er to say, “Mr. Smith, my friend, ance of the Memorial Day plans. ‘M‘ Brown?” A. Not if Smith is also a friend. Members of the Douglas Island This expression implies that Brown Women’s Club and the public were 0Dl is your friend. given a most interesting and in- Q@ What should be the attitude structive talk by the Rev. A. p. Oof a divorced man and woman if Kashevaroff on the subject “Nor- they should chance to meet in pub- thern Alaska Indians.” lic? ——— 1 A. A courteous bow is all neces- Miss Lucile Fox, who had been | S&YV recovering from an operation for eral department heads, or one to every ten settlers. Their first No. 1 man was Don L. Irwin, a tall, rangy, philosophic agronomist from Alaska Agricultural College. When he left, discontented farmers circulated a round- robin letter asking him to come back. Then came Samuel Richard Fuller, a rayon manu- facturer, who was sent to Matanuska to smooth things over. After him, the Marines were called in the person of Col. LeRoy P. Hunt. Matanuskans affectionately call him their “Happy Colonel.” Though a soldier, his first act was to demili- tarize the Federally-regimented colony. He kept his sense of humor, and asked for the glad hand instead of snappy salutes. Eugene (“Trouble-Shooter”) Carr from Washington found Matanuska forging ahead under the “Happy Colonel.” They are going ahead, along with spring planting, by envisaging a “Second-Year Plan.” Land will be cleared, more roads built, and a creamery and cannery erected. A modern hospital, workers' dormitory, and central grade and high schools with buses are nearing completion. If each farmer occupies forty acres, the Valley could accommodate at least 850 more families, agronomists estimate. But, they add, it means hard work. Farmers must dig to get at the soil. Alas- kan ground is covered with moss and tundra. Under that is gravel; under the gravel, the needed loam. With little or no draining in Matanuska Valley, water from melting snow and ice seeps directly into the ground, mak- ing the earth too rich for productive farm- ing. There are as many as three crops in the 130 summer days with twenty hours of sunshine. That nourishes the world’s biggest pota- toes, 400 bushels to the acre, but Alaskans don't like them, because they are wet and soggy. The world’s largest strawberries, as big as a baby's fist, are stringy and tasteless. Rhubarb-stalks, as thick as a baseball-bat, are tender, though the leaves look uncommonly like horse-blankets, Peas rival Jack's bean-stalk, eight feet tall with six-inch pods, thirty bushels to the acre. Cabbages run from fifteen to forty pounds each; carrots as long as your foot run eight tons to the acre, while turnips as big as a Horascope | PROFESSIONAL 1| Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics 307 GOLDSTEIN BLDG. M. Visiting brothers wel« Phone Office, 216 come. WALTER P, L SCOTT, Exalted Ruler. M. H. SIDES, Secretary. Fraternal Societies of Gastineau Channel Daily Alaska Empire “ Editor and Manager 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - by the EMPIRE Streets, Juneau P e PRINTING at Second and Main “The stars incline Alaska but do not compel” — L] SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1936. Benetic aspects rule today, ac- cording to astrology. The planetary influences encourage serenity and | @3- serious intellectual activity The sway stimulates even the most apathetic persons who gener- ally avoid political and economic responsibilities. - There is a good sign for both religious and politi- cal discussions. Good news for all is forecast this B week when there is a prognostica- tion of favorable decisions affecting Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter every Wednesday at 8 P, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered in carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mail. postege paid. at the following rates One vear, in advance, $12 ix months, in advance, $6.00 one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers Telephones: KENIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urged to at- — | tend. Council Cham- bers, Fifth St. JOHN F. MULLEN, DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 66 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. News Office, 602; Business Office. 374 MAY 17. John Rogers Beatrice Primavera The Associated Press is excl to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news publ herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATIO MODERN ETIQUETTE By Roberta J.ee THE MATANUSKANS Today the Matanuska colonists are celebrating the first anniversary of their arrival in the famous valley. To the blare of nation-wide publicity they were dropped into Alaska last year, and despite the unfavorable start and howl that went up in many places, the majority of them have stuck. No group of pioneers ever went any where with such a flare of publicity. Newspapers, magazines and cameramen rushed to the north to tell the world about it. Some of the reports that went out of Matanuska last year were enough to kill almost any ordinary undertaking But a year has passed and things have changed. It is interesting to note the following article on the project appearing in a recent issue of the Literary Digest. While containing some obvious errors it does on the whole, show an entirely different attitude after 12 months than that which was heard the length and breadth of the land a year ago. The Digest reports: It was raining just a year ago when 208 families from drought - parched Northern Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, sturdy Swedes and Finns in their early thirties, debouched into the Alaska Rural Rehabili- tation Corporation’s headquarters at Palmer. RTINS s SR Dr. C. P.s.lenne G. K, H. J. TURNER Secrstary. f DENTIST 7. many lin f 2 | ] ~ shou’l’d ;rzsflto industry 'armers Roonts 8 and 0 Valetine MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 14~ . Second and fourth Mon= which to make importent decisions. SR & Scottish Rite Tempk Planning is well directed by the (i —————————————% beginning at Ay stars, but there may be inclination | B ————— MARTIN 8. JORGEN: b e 4 Dr. Richard Williams 3 Uil FoR WP LAY W. LEIVERS, Sccretary. Writing is subject to good influ- OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building Phone 431 REBEKAHS ;‘Persevcrance rodge No. 2 A meets every second and fourth Wednes- day I. O. O. F. Hall. EDNA M. * BUTTS, Noble Grand; MILDRED CASHEN, Secretary. This is an auspicious rule under BIITL day of each month in to be too ambitious in outlining SEN, Worshinful Mester; JAMES DENTIST ences that are promising to per- sons of all ages. Love letters may be most successful. Benefits are indicated for those who seek to associate with men and women in exalted positions. The stars stir understanding and sympathy that may contribute im- portant assistance to careers or po- sitions in the business world. The =vening is only- mildly in- spiring to suitors. College students may be inclined to discuss philoso- phy as well as love. The sway is| TELEPRONE 863 fortunate for girls, especially those | Office Hours—9-13; 1-6 who are clever. | Dl‘. w. A. Ry;trom The Moon today is in Arlos, a DENTIST sign helpful to leaders. It encour- - S m DENTIST " Gur trucks go any piace any time. A taok for Diescl Oil Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. i and a tank for Crude Oil ) SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469 sl save burner trouble. ( PHONE 149; NIGHT 148 | RELIABLE TRANSFER | — B —_— i T .| JUNEAU-YOUNG They had come by train for thirty-five miles from Anchorage, port and railway town on Cook Inlet, where the Army transport St. Mihiel landed them For a time everything seemed to go wrong. In less than two months blistering telegrams were being sent demanding a Senatorial in- westigation, and there was sporadic wrangling on Capitol Hill. Fifty-two families returned to the “States.” Some gaps were filled by native Alaskans. The colony in the lush Matanuska Valley includes 117 homesteaders who had previously settled there. Home-sites are scattered over a ten-to twelve-mile tract stretching east and south of Palmer in the arms of the towering Chu- gach Range. The colony nestles in a valley hemmed by snow-crested peaks, and low hills green with spruce and hemlock. At first, much political ferment was dis- tilled from complaints of Matanuska malcon- tents, but, when the long arctic winter began, new colonists and older homesteaders settled down. Today, with appropriate ecivic pride. they point to their 173 spruce-log cabins and bungalows, with parlor, kitchen, bedrooms, and running water that cost Uncle Sam $3,000 each. ‘There are 123 barns, 188 wells, and eighty- two new miles of roads. A power-plant with steam boilers and Diesel-powered genera- tors heats and lights a community which, a year ago, was a cluster of Army shelter-tents lit by kerosene. They take pride in their eight good-looking school-teachers, who, like tutors, travel from house to house to instruct their young charges A thousand applications for teaching-jobs have been sent to the ARRC. A 150N-toot steel bridge spans the Knik River, and the Alaska Railroad has built the Territory's largest station. Inside a cabin, a cheery fire crackles, the appetizing aroma of good food from the com- munity store fills the air, and there’s mail- order furniture, a radio, and a mimeographed weekly newspaper. If it's Saturday, the homesteaders will be at the community dance- hall, where home-talent music serves. Then, there are snow-sports and bridge in the long evenings. If the farmers grew tired of bridge last winter, they could pick up a little more Fed- eral cash by shooting wolves. There is a $15 bounty on each wolf killed, and Alaskan wolf- packs roam the country in groups of from fifty to 200. (The wolf bounty is $20.) And money can be made catching trout, too. The Bureau of Fisheries pays 2% cents for each trout caught. All the angler has to do is produce the head, after he has eaten the fish. The reason: trout eat valuable salmon eggs in the spring when the fish ascend rivers to spawn, and salmon and halibut fishing is worth, $2,000000 a year to Alaska. Shoot an eagle, and you get $5.00. (Trout bounty is paid by the Bureau only in Bristol Bay area on Dolly Varden trout tails only.) One of the colonists’ complaints is FERA over-management. There are seventeen Fed- ican go to hell. fall. man’'s head average twenty-two tons an acre without benefit of fertilizer. Yet, for example, Matanuska lettuce and tomatoes would make a most inferior salad. There’s a reason for this rank growth with loss of flavor: Alaska's crops rot almost as rapidly as they grow. Though nature may be prolific with her fertile gifts in. the Valley, Alaskan agricul- tural engineers say more than conversion of a wilderness into a homeland is needed. The farmers can produce all the food they need, but, unless something is done, there will be no market for their surpluses. Transportation facilities are few, and freight-rates are very high. It costs as much to ship a crate of American-grown pota- toes from Seattle to Ketchikan, 664 miles, as it would to ship a crate of Alaskan-grown spuds from Ketchikan to New York. When homesteaders grow tired of vegetar- ianism, and don’t want to eat their own live stock—cattle, goats, and hogs—they might go hunting grizzly-bears, mountain-sheep, and wild goats on the near-by pedks. Moose, woodland caribou, spruce-partridges, ptarmi- gan, geese, ducks, and rabbits cram the for- ests and tarns, but new colonists must pay heavily to hunt legally, for licenses are ex- pensive for the cheechako (tenderfoot). If wild game is plentiful, out costly to shoot, fish is equally plentiful, and costs nothing to catch. Salmon follow the tides up the Matanuska River. These huge, voracious fish snap at a fly, or strike savagely at glitter- ing spinners. Customs records at Juneau (Alaskan Capital) alone show 42,290 pounds of iced trout shipped from Southeastern Al- aska in the first six months of last year. Now, there's not much time for hunting and fishing. It’s time to plant another crop, for spring has hit Alaska with a rush. When the ice broke in the Tanana River on April 30, it was Alaska’s official spring, and two syndicates of Juneau citizens holding lucky tickets split a $72,000 pot, less $18,000 taxes 1or Uncle Sam. (The Covich syndicate in Juneau received half the pool, the other half going to Anchorage.) It's the twentieth anniversary of a lottery that began at Nenana, a railway junction fifty miles south of Fairbanks, with a $500 wager on when the ice-jam would break up, Now, every sourdough who can spare a dollar takes a chance, because he knows it's on the square. Alaskans love to gamble, as every Jack London and Rex Beach fan knows. To jeer- ing prospectors, trappers, and fishermen who turn gravel, pelts, and silver salmon into gold, and tell the Matanuskans that their colony is a hopeless gamble that won't turn up a winner, the farmers reply, as they go about their spring planting: “Say that again in five years. Marion Zioncheck says the people of Puerto Rico| It's barely possible a large part of xhis constituency may tell him the same thing this appendicitis at St. Ann's Huspital.‘:f was able to return to her home in Douglas. The uniforms for the city police | had been ordered. The suits were (3 to be made of neat blue serge with double breasted coats, cut on the general order of a street car con- ductor’s uniform. Brass were to adorn the coats. B buttons Py num wort A great deal of public improve- 3 the skin ment was being done at Douglas. 4 A new bridge and a new fire hall were among the things under con- & i struction. Nineteen signed the rolls of the| 1 7o g 3. What What part of Canada? y A. C. Gordon 1. How many muscles are brought into action when a person smiles, and when one frowns? What is an ounce of platin- h? yellow? 5. What is an ohm? ANSWER mile, ! new Independent Band which was 50 muscles. | organized the previous evening at| 2 | the Fire Hall. Carl C. Johnson was 3. | elected president of the organiza- 4 | tion, C. E. Rogers, secretary and 5. | C. L. Jones the leader. The About $90 Jaundice. Pelee Island, practical unit trical resistance. | f— ——— | The Juneau baseball team was |organized and only waiting word | from Treadwell for the opening | | game to commence. Juneau’s line- up included: Frye, pitcher; King,| | catcher; McDonald, second base; Fossas, third base; Scott, short-| | stop; Cloudy, outfield; and Gran-! ger, outfield. The others had not | yet been chosen. | B, e Woman The Sons of Norway planned to celebrate their independence day| the following day. The event will| be in the nature of an anniversary | | dance and will be held in the Eag-! les Hall at Douglas. tion with, Often as 00 in Often Dr. and Mrs. P. J. Mahone were| | hosts the previous evening to three. {of the nurses of St. Ann’s Hos-< pital. They were taken for an au- tomobile ride to Mendenhall Glac- | jng one ier and return. Those making the vord: Ac Lup were Miss Jones, Miss Brady nence to; iand Miss Foreshaw with Dr. Mrs. Mahone. ent.) Synony! liasm.” Weather report: Maximum, 68; minimum, 39; partly cloudy. - | Thirty-eight per cent of K.msas | counties increased tax levies this | year for relief purposes. | | Ludwig Nelson WATCHMAKER and JEWELER Juneau, Alaska Auk Bay Inn DANCE TONIGHT MUSIC BY MUSGRAVE TRIOLIANS CHICKEN DINNER SUNDAY Make Your Reservations Early Through CHANNEL BUS LINE TYPEWRITERS RENTED $5.00 per month J. B. Burford & Co. “Our doorstep is worn by satisfied customers” times and it is yours.” |crease our vocabulary by master- | Todays'f T to give promi- (Pronounce and | first syllable ak). “T wish to accen- I&\ DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH y W. L. Gordon Words Often Misused: Do not say, | “The woman, with her three chil dren, were there.” Say, is the singular Mispronounced : too. Misspelled: ms: Let us word each day. centuate; to emphasize. VA %\\Y\i If you enjoy indoor Here’s one of the M—TB! BOWLING! BRUNSWICK BOWLING ALLEYS and Alt Heidelberg BEER ON TAP human disease turns is the most southerly 13 muscles; to frown, | in Lake Erie. hy of elec- “was ther subject. | Children is object of the preposi- Student. Pronounce the u as in unit, | Lieutenant. | Observe the ieu and the ant (not| “Use a word thre ages energy and physical endur- ance. Success in military aims and good conditions in trade affecting iron and steel are indicated. Persons whose birthdate it 1| have the augury of a year of much work, small losses and general suc- cess. Short journeys are forecast. Children born on this day prob- ably will be exceedingly careful and painstaking in whatever they do. They are likely to be studious and fond of scientific pursuits. Dr. Edward Jenner, noted phys- fcian who introduced vaccination, was born on this day 1749. Others who have celebrated it as a birth- Congressman, 1886; Seth Warner, Revolutionary War soldier, 1743; Al- fonso XIII, former King of Spain. 1886. DOG LICENSES —3t|June 1 are now available at City Clerk's office. Fee for male dogs, is | day include Loring M. Black, Jr.,|* | Dog licenses for year beginning | c - Over First National Bank { [ LOOK eand LEARN’ X-RAY L . | RAE L. CARLSON, OPT. D. | Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted | | | Hours 9 am. % 6 p.m. Even- ' ings by appointment only Of- fice in Ludwig Nelson’s Jewelry Store. o Robert Simpson, Opt. D. 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