The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7182. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1936 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PAUL FACING DISBARMENT CHARGES GRUENlNG SAYS Schwellenbach and Dimond [}[]VI REP[]R:[S ¢ HIS PURPOSE TO AID TERRITORY Director Enthused A bout North After Extensive Trip to Interior, Westward ALASKANS ARE PRAISED FOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS Washington—H—as No New Brand of Salvation But Only Aims to Serve “The administration and the Di- vision of Territories and Island Pos- s€ ns is not attempting to import any new brand of salvation for Al- aska from Washington, but is anx- jous to help the growth and pro- gress of Alaska. The Territory will go ahead anyway, but the major purpose of my trip here is to see how best the Federal government can facilitate this and fing out first hand what type of help can best serve Alaska’s needs." Thus did Dr. Ernest Henry Gruen- Urging Air Mail Service Between Juneau, Fairbanks Not Such a Bad 0ld World After All HEAFFORD JUNCTION, Wis- consin, May 23.—The payment of the $2,600 mortgage by rep- resentatives of the Phi Delta Theta has saved the home of Mrs. Eugene Fields, according fo an announcement made to- day by George Curtiss, mortgage attorney. Several days ago Mrs. Fields appealed to friends of her husband to save the home and the college fraternity im- mediately came forward with the required money. DEMOCRATS IN *! Whitehorse, B. C. ' WASHINGTON ON ' LIBERAL TRACK {Senator and Delegate Ap- | pear Before Senate | Appr. Subcommittee WASHINGTON, May 23.—United States Senator Lewis B. Schwellen- i bach, Democrat of Washington, and Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond, appeared before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee yes- terday afternoon and urged appro- val of an amendment to the defici- ency bill to provide $200,000 for an all-year air mail service between |Juneau and Fairbanks, Alaska, via A similar item was stricken from | the Post Office Department Appro- | priation bill recently. | Senator Schwellenbach and Dele- |gate Dimond told the committee- {men that the amount asked for was | $42,750 less than recommended by | the Budget Bureau. Following the appearance before {the Subcommittee, Delegate Di- | mond said that the members of the VSubcommmee, before taking final {action, will seek to determine | whether a new Budget recommen- Prelim MINING BOOM IN INTERIOR High Price of Gold Puts| New Energy in Industry Throughout North Distinctly pleased with the ob- | vious speeding up of all lines of business, fishing, mining, agricul- ture and building industry view= ed in the Westward and Interior parts of Alaska which he visited with Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening, | Gov. John W. Troy stated in his office this morning that he believed Alaska was entering one of the| biggest seasons of activity in its history. “When a relatively small number of men are seen in Westward and Interior towns, at this season, and | those that are in town are busy buying equipment, arranging| freighting caravans into the inter-{ ior or preparing for the fishing| season in the coastal towns it is proof positive that business is; good,” the Governor smilingly ob- served. “When mining, fishing and | | agriculture are under full sway the Preceding such around the hall at a and underlings busy Heading T ing, Director of the Division of Ter- ritories and Island Possessions, | state the purpose of his Alaska visit | this morning, returning from hls: nearly 4,000 mile trip through the | Territory with Gov. John W. Troy, | which brought them back to Juneau| ABERDEEN, Wash, May 23. — yesterday afternoon by plane from|ging County Prosecutor Warren Keynoter at State Conven- tion Sounds ‘‘Produc- tion for Use” Note ;dation is necessary. HIGH CABINET Imen are on the creeks, in the hills and the fields; they are gainfully employed and producing from Al- aska's vast resources. Throughout {my trip these conditions were ob- Iserved. In talking with business |men, miners, fishermen, mining {operators, all told of the extensive Fairbanks. Since leaving Juneau May 12, Dr. Gruening and Goy. Troy have visit- ed Yakutat, Cordova, Valdez, Sew- ard, Anchorage, Palmer, the Mat- anuska Rehabilitation Project col- cny, Wasilla, and Fairbanks. Dr Gruening also flew to Nome, stop- ping briefly at Ruby, and spent a day in McKinley Park and visit- ing the gold dredging operations in the Fairbanks area, noting the coal | Magnuson, in sounding the key- Inote at the opening of the State | Democratic convention here, urged (further liberalization of the party; |old age pensions and some form of “production for use.” “Do not be afraid to face the' ] ]pmduc(ion for use issues because |some one brands it socialism,” the !Keynoter declared. | “The unemployed have a right to | make their own living whatever the "OFFICIAL OUT UNDER STRESS " | ames H. Thomas Resigns| After British Budget Leak Sensation LONDON, May 23—James H.| production and development work | they had underway, and the heavy | shipments of freight, including trac- tors, heavy mining machinery,! dredges, and cannery supplies, and agricultural equipment as well, that I saw in transit vividly bears out the statements, New Properties Opened Up “In addition to the working of old mining properties, new ones, and agricultural activities in that program is called. Washington has!pnomas, who rose from errand boy, [and some that had been abandon- | the heritage of progressivism and I!ang engine wiper to a high position, led, are being opened up under the area, as well. Praises Alaskan Energy “Alaska is a geographic Empire, peopled by self reliant, sturdy men @ihd wemen who have already achiev- ed greatly with the resources of the claim our rightful heritage. Do not |be embarrassed by the cries that such a plan would embarrass the i National Administration.” Myron Titus of Seattle, Common- quit the British Cabinet under fire | last night, exactly one month after | |the Budget leak sensation broke | over Great Britain. Thomas held the post of Colonial stimulus of the Administration’s gold policy. These operations in- clude both placer and quartz work- ings. Among numerous others, de- velopment of a large quartz mine gountry,” Dr. Gruening comment- wealth Federation delegate, assailed ed this morning. “Probably no-|the right wingers for opposing such where else on earth has such ala plank, declaring, “we are going smail population accomplished 50!t take all but the shirt tails at the much, in such a vast territory, and convention.” it is obvious they will continue this| gState Chairman George Starr re- with the same energy, initiative, jeased various county delegations Secretary. The budget leak centered Inot far from Anchorage is being around the escape of supposedly |done in an extensive manner. In | secret news on the income tea taxes [the Fairbanks area large workings | which were being raised. The Nnews are underway on Ester Creek pre- |leak lead to a premature rush for |paratory to dredging. On Gold- |insurance against higher taxes. stream and other creeks two |dredges are working 24 hours a ! WASHINGTON, May 23. — In- volved political machinery is grind- ling away at the job of selecting more than 2,000 men and women to | represent the major political parties at their national conventions. The delegates are being chosen according to state laws, at pri-: maries, in state conventions, or by state central committees. Their| actions at the national gatherings are being determined to some ex- tent by the expressed majority will | of party members. Their numbers and the ratios al- lotted to the different states are | determined variously in the two peities. There will be 1,001 votesi cast when the Republicans meet in Cleveland June 9, and 1,100 ballots counted when the Democrats meet | at Philadelphia June 23. | Convention Length Unknown | How long the sleepless, perspir- | ing, gesticulating, speech-hoarse | men and women stay in the two cities will depend on the fights which develop. But the Republicans are expected this year to hold the longest session. Their loyalties are | divided among several candidates, | and that may mean hours of ballot- | ing before the candidate is chosen. The Democrats are expected to re- By SIGRID ARNE ‘ | | gate helps to spotlight courage and self-reliance that has characterized Alaska during the pasll generation. “The Federal Government is de- sirious of assisting the citizens of Alaska whenever possible in fields that are clearly of Federal juris- diction and concern and to extend to Alaska not only whatever assist- ance has gone to the 48 states as part of the Administration’s pol- icy, but whatever special assistance may seem to be indicated by its Territorial status and its own char- acteristics,” the Director continued. “It is obvious that with its small population Alaska cannot undertake out of its own financial resources certain projects that are desirable. Assistance from the Federal govern- ment wisely extended will tend to speed the day which seems to be approaching when Alaska will be able to depend wholly upon its own resources. Population Need “The Matanuska colony was a purposeful undertaking to increase population in Alaska and to help furnish Alaska with the particular type of population that would aid in Alaska's development and would be appropriate here both from an economic and ecivic point of view. The project was not undertaken without the full approval of Alas- kans and was carried out with their approval and counsel. Its manage- ment is in the hands of Alaskans. I have found nothing but warm ap- proval of this project in Alaska.” “It is abvious that Alaska needs more population so located as to be self-sustaining and able likewise to make a definite contribution o the economy of the region in which it is located. Thus, the Matanuska settlers will be able to supply to the residents of the Territory from Sew- ard to Fairbanks fresh milk, veg- etables, poultry and meat products which have not been obtainable there hitherto. “Alaska primarily needs better communications. It is highly de- sirable that the usefulness of avia- tion which has already proved in- valuable to Alaska, be extended. Merely from the standpoint of sav- ing life the airplane has justified itself a hundred times in enabling prospectors and others in remote sections stricken with illness to be brought to Alaska’s centers of pop- (Continued on Page Two) | from the unit rule. .. VAGRANT DIES, LEAVING ESTATE VALUED $60,000 rested 3 Times in 2 Weeks, Had Money PATTERSON, N. J., May 23. — John Phillips, aged 70, said to have |been homeless, who had been ar- rested on vagrancy charges three times during the past two weeks, died in the poor house today. It is revealed he left an estate of $60,000. Detective James Smith announc- ed that bank books on his person at the time of his arrests showed cash balances of $11,547. Mrs. Mary McCormick is named heir. LEGION JIGGS DINNER MONDAY NIGHT, 6:30 Legionnaires and their friends are looking forward to a gala event Mon- day night in the Dugout when a Jiggs dinner will be served. Jack |Elliott, Tex Leonard and George Gullufsen report everything ship- shape and that they are going to serve up rations what are rations. The hour is 6:30 and the committee reports the corned beef and cab- bage will be ready. MISS VAN DAM WILL WED ROBERT GRAHAM Miss Gertrude Van Dam, who came from Washington, D. C, to make her home in Juneau a few months ago, will become the bride of Robert L. Graham in a ceremony to be held at 7.o'clock this evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Newell at Auk Bay. The Rev. Erling K. Olafson will read the marriage VOWS. Mr. Graham is an Alaska Juneau mine employee. Seventy-Yez:Old Man, Ar-| MINISTRY SHAKEUP | The resignation of Thomas has! | raised the probability of a major | shakeup in the British Ministry, as | Prime Minister Baldwin ponders over |the question at his country resi- dence. Political sources predicted that | Sir Samuel Hoare, former Foreign | Secretary, who resigned under fire as the scapegoat in the Italio-Eth- | iopian crisis, is now hailed as al “farseeing prophet” for wanting peace and giving Italy half of Eth- | iopia and he may be returned to the | Cabinet. | Another Wants to Quit | Viscount Monsel, First Lord of the Admiralty, is reported to be anix- ious to retire. | Meanwhile the gigantic rearma- ment program has entered the pro- duction phase. The Imperial De- fense Committee, after two months’ work is now undertaking immed- iate allocation of contracts on ma- chine tools and guages needed to speed up supplies. FT. YUKON TEACHERS l ENROUTE TO STATES i { Anne Hughes and Roberta Wein- berger, school teachers from Fort Yukon, arrived here yesterday on the PAA Lockheed Electra plane from Fairbanks enroute to the States on an annual vacation trip. | Miss Hughes has been the only teacher assigned to the Territorial school at Fort Yukon for the last }five years. She will visit her home | in Texas this summer. Miss Weinberger, enroute to her {home in Lodi, Cal, is assistant teacher in the Government school | at Fort Yukon, employing two teachers. -, — | MRS. BURFORD IS | LEAVING FOR SOUTH | | Mrs. J. B. Burford, wife of the manager of J. B. Burford and Company and ticket agent for the Northland Transportation Com- pany, accompanied by her two sons, Jack, Jr., and Donnie Ben, will sail for the States on the North- {land for a vacation in Seattle and Corning, Calif,, where she will visit with Mr. Burford’s aunt, Mrs. J. B. Caro. They will return to Juneau next September. day, each handling 6000 cubic yards a day. New activity is tak- ing place in the Birch Creek area and in addition many smaller in- nominate their leader in the White House on the first ballot, Besides the official delegates more than 2,000 alternates, who attain | der inaries Crowd Political Machine, oward Convention Roll Calls . voting rights only when and if the regulars drop out, conventions. There will be political camps for the various candidates, and lobbies with representatives of various organizations buttonholing committee members with pleas for special planks in the party plat- forms National Committees Start Show Convention business actually be- gins months before the final gath- ering. It starts when the national committees, 48 men and 48 women in each party, meet to name the convention city. At a later gathering they name the temporary chairmen | to open the conventions. More pre-convention work starts when the delegates are named. Most of the delegates and alternates pay their own expenses. They like the excitement, and if they are politi- cally ambitious, serving as a dele- them in party affairs, When the convention date nears state delegations and various can- | didates open camps n hotels near | the convention hall. State delega- tions in caucus name one person | each for convention committees, of | which the most important are the committees on rules, credentials, and resolutions. The first establishes the rules un- which the convention works The second approves the delega- tions, and in cases where the pe : .3 demonstrations as this one, snapped as delegates paraded banners and placards national convention, come months of preliminaries which keep political chieftains in every State. sonnel is contested, determine the will attend the | delegates who may cast their state’s| | votes. The third writes the part: platform How First Battle Starts The convention opens with the key-note speech by the temporary chairman. Then the permanent chairman is elected by the conven- tion, and the rules and credentials committees report. Over the find- ings of the credentials committee, very often, the first hattle of the meeting develops. Protesting dele- gates are heard, and the official convention finally established. Next on the program is the re- port of the platform committee. The proposed course of the party for the next four years is read, argued, and a plan adopted Majorities Rule Then begins the real show. The balloting for candidates starts. The roll of states is called, “Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas——" and so on. Each answers, “So many votes for So-and-$o.’ The Republicans ballot until one candidate has a majority. The Democrats traditionally have gone on until some candidate receives two-thirds of the votes, but this year there is a movement afoot to adopt the simple majority rule. Final nomination of the two can- didates, for President and for vice- president, finishes the major con- vention business. dependent claims and mines are being worked. | “The new salmon cannery at Cordova is practically completed and will operate this season. The Matanuska colony is progressing in fine shape, many of the farmers are now planting crops, and are raising poultry and cattle, and hogs as well. As previously announced, rates for Alaska agricultral prod- ucts have been reduced on the Al- aska Railroad which will be a| distinct help to all farmers, old and new, in that area in the mar- | keting of their products.” | The Governor said he did not go| to Nome this trip because his/ | schedule calls for a trip there in| HUME BUUND‘ August but several Nome citizens in Fairbanks and Dr. Gruening, who made the trip, advised him| | that practically all able bodied . men in Nome were employed. "Von Hmdenburg_ C,rosses While at Palmer Governor Troy North A[lantlc n 48 attended a meeting of the Board of g the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Hours, 7 Minutes Corporation, ‘and in Fairbanks the| graduation ceremonies at the Uni-| FRANKFORT - ON - MAIN, Ger- versity of Alaska. many, May 23.—The zeppelin von RN i o S e |Hindenburg was landed here at |4:12 o'clock this morning which is CANNING CONCERNS {10:12 p.m., Eastern Standard time, PLEAD GUlLTY T completing the second round trip | between Germany and the United FOOD LAW VIOLATION states. ' The zeppelin left Lakehurst, New Attorney A. H. Ziegler of Ketchi-| Jersey, at 10:05 o'clock last Wednes- kan today entered pleas of guilty|day night and took 48 hours and in Federal court here this morning seven minutes to complete the for the Annette Island Oanning|flight. The von Hindenburg cut| Company, J. E. Berg and J. E. Berg|20% minutes from the time of the Company, all three of which were | first eastward journey and thus es-| I;resident Roosevelt to Make Swift Swing During | G. O. P. National Session ling comfortably and in a cheerful llrflch to jail here. | charged with packing fish unfit tablished a for consumption. Charges were brought under the pure food and| drug act. | Passing of sentence was deferred | by Judge George F. Alexander } - eee SAMARZICH SENTENCED | Pete Samarzich of Chichagof has | been found guilty of assault and battery in Commissioner’s couni there and sentenced to 60 days m’ the Federal jail here and forced to pay a fine of $60. A deputy marslmll will fly to Chicagof and bring Sam- J new mark for the crossing by a zeppelin of the North| Atlantic Ocean. - ROEHM TO KETCHIKAN | J.C. Roehm, Associate Mining En- gineer in the Territorial Depart-| ment of Mines, is leaving Monday for Ketchikan where he will be en-| gaged for some time in making, surveys of mining properties in that area. ; LEON ENSCH RETURNS Leon Ensch, local chiropractor, arrived on the Northland from Pet- ershurg. 'the Northland. | WASHINGTON, May 23. — A| swift swing into the Midwest and | Southwest, coinciding with the period when the Republican Na- tional Convention will be in full| blast, is mapped out by President | Roosevelt. ! This was announced last night, prior to the President’s departure for Hyde Park for a three-day visit with his mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, who injured her hip ten days ago in a fall. President Roosevelt told the re- porters he planned to leave Wash- ington June 8 on a week’s tour, re- turning to Washington June 15. MOTHER IS BETTER \ HYDE PARK, N. Y., May 23— President Roosevelt arrived here th morning and found his mother rest- mood. i Dr. Scott Lord Smith, of Pough- keepsie, sald there are no compli- cations as the result of the hip im- | pact, but she needed a complete | rest { Townsfolk met the President at the depot when he arrived on the train and a red-headed boy gave him a poppy fide e -t ENGSTROM RETURNS E. E. Engstrom, Juneau buyer for| the Sebastian Stuart Pish Company, | arrived from Wrangell aboard the Northland. Mr. Engstrom, who was called to Wrangell aboard the Al- aska Air Transport seaplane Patco several days ago by the illness of his father, reports the elder Mr. Engstrom somewhat improved in health S e MISS GLEASON ARRIVES Miss Dorothy Gleason, daughter of Joseph Gleason, arrived aboard l DILL'S DIVORCE CASE PROMISES T0 BE HOT ONE “Trivial Charges” Against Wife Remain in His Bill of Compliant SPOKANE, Wash, May 25— Superior Judge Witt today refused to eliminate from former United States Senator Clarence C. Dill's divorce suit against his wife, charges that her attorney argued were trivial, such as she embar- rassed him by burying dead dogs and garbage in the yard of their Spokane mansion, dressed careless- ly and offended labor when the Senator needed its support for re- election, refusing to serve food enough to feed guests and finally left him. Mrs. Dill was the former Rosalie Jones, The case promises to be sensa- tional when it comes up late next month. WllBl}R WESTER PLANS PARTY BEFORE DANCE Wilbur Wester will be host to a number of couples at the home of Helen Smith Cass this evening. Later the members will attend the Rainbow Girl's spring formal at the Scottish Rite Temple - McNAUGHTON ON ALEUTIAN “Gen.” James McNaughton, of the staff of the B. M. Behrends Bank, is a passenger aboard the Aleutian. Mr. McNaughton flew to San Francisco from Seattle on his vacation trip and then took the same method of returning to Seattle. ACTION FILED HERE ALLEGES WILFUL DECET District Attorney’s Office | Places Information ; Against Attorney | MISCONDUCT CLAIMED ON FIVE COUNTS Widely Known Lawyer Ac- ! cused of Questionable Practices in Cases Disbarment of William L. Paul, Juneau attorney, from practicing law in the Territory of Alaska is sought in an information filed in Federal District court today by George W. Folta, Assistant U. S. | District Attorney, charging Paul | with wilful deceit and gross mis~ | conduct in his professional capacity. Last October 29 Paul was fined $100 and suspended from practic~ ing for three months in the First Division as the result of a conver~ sation he had with W. S. Pullen, who was then serving on the Grand *| Jury. The Court held at that time | that Paul was attempting to influ- ence the deliberations of the juror | in connection with a case in which | the attorney was interested. | Five specific counts are placed | against Paul who is charged in the | information with “on diver occa- | sions been guilty of wilful deceit |and gross misconduct in his pro- fessional capacity, greatly affect- ing his character as an attorney of this court and rendering him unfit and unworthy to represent the pub- !lic in his professional capacity or to take any part as an attorney in any judicial proceedings.” 0il Company Deal | On the first count, it is charged | that Paul in December of 1930, as | attorney for the Union Oil Com- ipany of California, instituted suit |in Wrangell Justice Court against | Gordon McDonald in the course of | which property belonging to Mc- | Donald was attached and that Geo. :Colhm was employed as a watch- (man at the request of Paul. The oil company recovered on its judg- | ment $982.05 from McDonald and | Paul submitted his bill for his fee |and expenses to the company and received a third of the amount | recovered. Collins then insisted on payment of $231 for wages earned | as watchman, the complaint sets { forth, and Paul advised the com- (pany that it was not responsible | for the watchman's pay and that it should not pay the claim. Later, |in March of 1934, the attorney is alleged to have brought suit against the company in behalf of Collins .askmg $231, the amount of wages , claimed by the watchman. The suit | was settled out of court, the infor- mation recites, for $175, and that “the said Paul received said $175 for Collins but instead of remitting said amount or any part thereof to said Collins, kept and converted the entire amount to his own use and has ever refused, neglected and failed to pay any part thereof to the said Collins.” Property Charge Agaln it is charged that last spring at Limestone Inlet Paul, “under the pretext that there had been an insufficient compliance with the mining laws in the previ- ous location of certain mining claims, made a pretended reloca- tion of the claims; that the pur- pose of the pretended relocation was to lend some semblance of le- gality to the theft of property from said claims,” that Paul took from the claims certain property be- longing to A. H. Westall and Harry Jackson. The property included a Black rock crusher, one Chalmers ore feeder, a 5-stamp mill com- plete, one Pelton water wheel and 18 feet of 4-inch shafting. Paul is accused of removing the property to his mining property in Glacier Bay and “converting it to his own | use.” | Further the attorney is charged with agreeing to bring action for Fred Davis at Taylor Bay in re- claiming a concentrator and that he took possession of the concen- trator and converted it to his own use without prosecuting the lien claim involved. Building Deal Another count in the informa- tion alleges that in September of 193¢ at Ketchikan Paul sold a building at Dolomi Bay, Prince of Wales Island, to one Patrick Henry for which he received $100. When Henry arrived at Dolomi Bay he ek et (Continued on Page Five.)