The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7209. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BARKLEY POURS FIRE ON REPUBLICANS PROGRAM FOR F.DR.S ATHDRAWN UP Opening Glacier BY COMMITTEE Bayfo Mining ~ SANITY TRIAL Starting, Juneau MAYO MOTHER Additional Features Prom- President Also Approves jons Bill ZIONCHECKTO Alaska History LITTLE BIRL BE ATTORNEY, | toBe Assembled, | Cecil F. Robe Coming North (bngressman Wlll Defend 'l"his Week to Organ_ Himself When Case ise to Make Celebration One of Best in Years A tentative program which prom- ises to give Juneau one of its best Fourth of July celebrations in years Deficiency Bill, But Without Alaska Item \VASHINGT(‘)N, June 24. — The bill, minus the $200,000 Alaska aviation item which was de- | { ‘ deficiency ate Comes Up Friday ‘1 WASHINGTON, June 24. — Con- gressman Marion A. Zioncheck said | possible having to do with the his- train e will be his own attorney in his sanity hearing Friday. ize for Work Recognition of the importance of research to make available all data | tory of Alaska finds expression in A petition [an appropriation authorized by the ~ SPEEDING TO [ | | | Plane Is Held, Train Makes | Unscheduled Stop— Everything Lovely SEATTLE, June 24—A passenger | made an unscheduled stop | land an airliner » was held for ey~ M ;;’n;(’s i)vnu'p'i\' was outlined by John E. Pegues,! leted by the S was signed by chairman, and his committee yes-|President Roosevelt yesterday terday afternoon. The President also signed the Included in the day’s event will be | bill to permit prospecting for prec- field and water sports, a tug-of-|ious metals within the Glacier Bay war with some of the hard rock men | National Monument, a project that from A. J. on the rope; a Finn| long has been endorsed by Alaskans Horse event; big parade, two nights | - of dancing, fireworks, baseball games | OTHER BILLS SIGNED and band concert | WASHINGTON, June ua—Presi- Chairman Pegues has named Fire dent Roos signed the Treas- Chief V. W. Mulvihill to handle the ury and Post Office appropriation fireworks and the Chief and his|bill today for $92,524.892 and sev- fire boys promise a real display.|enteen other measures. Frank Metcalf and the American; The President killed one meas- Legion Auxiliary, headed by Mrs. ure designed to restore pensions John H. Newman, will have charge and benefits withdrawn in 1933 of the parade and Waino Hendrick-|from the Officers Reserve Corps son will supervise the water sports.|and enlisted Reserve Corps mem- Walter Hautala and Helen Web- | bers have - ster, playground supervisors, | been asked to handle the field| ‘ 1 1 Speculator Who Amassed sports, Mr. Hautala the boys’ events prizes are being hung up for the| Millions Passes Away - and Mrs. Webster the girls. Large youngsters thi ar and it is ex-| pected the Fi s Park will be packed with contestants on the big holida Two dances are planned, the nights of the Third and Fourth, and J. T. Petrich again will head the dance committee. Bud Brown and his Is- landers have been engaged to play Fred Sorri has been chosen chair- man of the committee to arrange the tug-of-war and Finn Horse recently filed in the District of Col-| Executive Committee of the Rocke- umbia Court asking that Zioncheck | feller Foundation on May 15, 1936. be interned at St. Elizabeth's Hos-|The sum of seventeen thousand dol- pital, an institution for mental and lars ($17,000) was made available to nervous cases. the University of Alaska to cover a The petition contended that Zmn-‘!\\n year period beginning July 1, check is insane and asked that a|1936. hearing be set for June 26. The application for this approp- The petition, which said that the riation was made through Dr. David District of Columbia commissioners| H. Stevens of the Division of Hu- believed Zioncheck to be “an insane | manities of the Rockefeller Founda- person with homicidal or otherwise | tion and has been under considera- dangerous tendencies” was filed un- | tion during the past two years. der the act to authorize the appre-| James Wickersham, who is the hension and detention of insane per- |author of “A Bibliography of Alas- sons in the Distirct of Columbia. an Literature,” 1724-1924 and which Mrs. Zioncheck has paid the 32i published in 1928 as Volume 1, marriage license fee that Zioncheck | Miscellaneous Publications of the Al- borrowed in Maryland so they could | aska Agricultural College and School get married. lof Mines, is giving his enthusiastic —_— support to this project. Judge ACTION CALLED OFF Wickersham’s extensive library is be- WASHINGTON, June 24.—Late|ing made available for the research today the court’s action to determine | to be undertaken. Zioncheck’s mental status was called | off as the Legislator was started on a course of treatment in a Towson, | on leave of absence for the past three Maryland, private hospital | years while doing graduate work at Doudly protesting, Zioncheck was|Yale, has been appointed director removed from the Gallinger Hos-!of this research. He is saiing from pital on a stretcher and wrapped Seattle for Juneau this week, and in a “pack” which was tightly bound | during the months of July and Au- by sheets gust will be in Juneau organizing the Final arrangements for the trans-|work. Two assistants who fer were made by the young bride.|spend most of their time in Juneau The authorities agreed to commit- | during the two year period are to ting Zioncheck to a private insti-|be appointed in the near future. One Organize Work in Juneau Former Professor Cecil F. Robe, will | events, which are expected to be highlights of the day’s entertain- ment. Ever since the pull at the bartender’s picnic several groups have expressed the belief they could the winners right through Gastineau Channel. A handsome prize will be hung up. The City of Juneau, at the request of Ralph Martin, has agreed to pur- chase some flags and will handle the street decorations for the day Schedule of the baseball games, one probably to be held in Douglas and the other here, will be handled by the Gastineau Channel Amateur Baseball League of which Chairman Pegues is Vice President and active head during the absence of Judge William A. Holzheimer in the east. The City Band under the direction of J. J. Fargher has been asked to take care of the music for the day as it has done for years. SITKA T0 GET FED, BUILDING in Chicago ARTHUR W. CUTTEN CHICAGO, Ill, June 24—Arthur W. Cutten, aged 66, who amassed millions in 30 years as a speculator |in wheat trading, is dead here as the | |{result of an attack of the heart. | cCutten balanced the world's need for foodstuffs against the world’s | tution for an indefinite period FRANCE MAKES PROPOSALS FOR EUROPE PEAGE Socialist Government Given Confidence Vote— Strike Ends PARIS, June 24.—International isolation fears are haunting France as this country is slowly emerging from the internal strike which has been waging for some time. Today the Socialist government, encourag- ed by a vote of confidence, advanced two proposals to strengthen the Eu- ropean peace position The first proposal would permit any group of League powers wheth- er grouped according to given geo- graphical situation or by a com- munity of interests, to fight an ag- gressor. will be assigned the duties of trans- | Jating Russian publications and manuscripts, the work of the other will be devoted pricincipally to re-! search in publications, documents | and manuseripts written in English Miss Hilja Reinikka of Douglas, from the University in the Class of | 1936, has been appointed Secretary | to Director Robe. | Detail Work | The undertaking involves a vast amount of details. Although the ma- jor portion of the work will be done in Juneau, the translator of books, | documents and manuscripts in Rus-' sian will probably have to spend some time in the Manuscript Di- vision and Rare Bock Section of the Library of Congress, in the archives of the Department of State, and in libraries on the Pacific Coast. | In the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress is a vast amount | of material in the form of films of | books and documents in libraries in Europe. It is interesting to know that these film records of foreign documents were made under aid from Mr. Rockefeller, Jr., and from the Rockefeller Foundation, and de- livered to the Library of Congress. | Interested in Work Already many now resident in the States, and who came to Alaska in Terri eral minutes this morning so Joyce Hartness, aged 10, could speed on| her trip from Bay View, Michigan, | to her mother’s arms in faraway Mayo, Yukon Territory. | The Vancouver airliner was due | to hop at 8:30 o'clock this morn- ing. | The train little Miss Joyce was on was not due for several minutes later. | After conferring with the air- line officials, the plane was held, | the train stopped alongside the a port, and Miss Joyce was hustl aboard the plane and was soon in the air. At Vancouver, B. C, the little | girl will board the steamer Prin- | cess Charlotte, sailing tonight for Skagway and there will take the train to Whitehorse, steamer to Dawson, then transfer to another river packet for Mayo. - STOCK PRIGES SENT UPWARD, SHARP RALLY Selected Issues Up from One to Four Points— hrysler at New High | | FRIELE TELLS ABOUT FILMING FISH PICTURE “Spawn of North” to Be Made in Colors with Kr‘lchikan Backgmund NEW YORK, June 24.—A sharp ally today on the New York Stock sxchange pushed selected stocks ahead from one to four points Chrysler hit a six-year high Today's close was firm. Transfers totaled 1,100,000 shares. NEW YORK, June 24.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 137, American Can 1337, American Power and Light 12%, Anaconda 35%, Bethlehem Steel 54%, Commonwealth and Southern 3%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 68, International Harvester 88':2, Kennecott 39%%, United States Bteel 64'z, United Corporation 7%, Cities Service Pound $5.02%. 5's, AVERAGES following are toda Dow, averages: industrials 160.57, 47.89, utilities 33.21 fic Blast DOW, JONI The Jones rails H. B. FRIELE H. B. Friele, Vice-President of the Nakat Packing Corporation, paused long enough in Juneau yesterday {on one of his trips by plane to tie Bristol section, to give some WASHINGTON, June 24. — The |previous supplies of them, calculat- Treasury Department announces the approval of three of the twen- ty-one post office and other public building projects to be financed under the sixty million dollar emer- gency construction fund authorized in the deficiency appropriation act. The three authorized projects in- clude the Sitka post office building, the amount to be expended there | being unannounced. e FRANK WASKEY GOES TO JAIL. NUSHAGAK, Alaska, June 24— Frank Waskey has been fined $50 for possession of beaver. He choose to serve out his fine in the jail at Dillingham PATCO OUT, FISH PATROL On the first fish patrol of the season, Ralph Baker, Bureau of Fisheries official, left Juneau this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock aboard the Alaska Air Transport seaplane Patco piloted by James Reinhart on a flight over the south half of Chatham Strait, in which area the salmon fishing season opens to- morrow. The flight will require about 4% hours flying time, and a few stops will be made enroute. led the result, added the wiles of an| lexpert market trader, and convert- ed the mixtures into a tremendous bank account. He did it so unerringly and so of- ten that he made himself a legend. To the unitiate in the nation’s mar- | ket places he was the personification of astuteness, a figure cloaked in mystery, an oracle who spoke sel- dom, but weightily. He had a small office across La- Salle Street from the Chicago Board of Trade. His name was not let- tered on the door. Three was noth- The second measure would allow |the “gold rush days,” have become members of the League of Nations|interested in this work and its im- the privilege of preventative meas- | Portance. As indicated by letters re-| ures if threatened by an aggressor.|Ceived, the residents of Alaska ar- |going to be of invaluable assistance |in collecting data for this research. What has been written and offered to the public in printed form is na- | turally very important, but of vital e NOTABLES AR Bay movie gossip regarding the back- |ground of the filming of | Willoughby's story, “Spawn of North." to be made Ketchikan Waterfall cannery this ‘(7:"1)](' Lombard and Joel McCrea will play the leading roles. “When Miss Willoughby came north a few years ago, she was | very much interested in the romance Kills Man, 15 Wulnjn Injured High Pressure Compressed Air Line Explodes in the near and Barret | Plans call for the picture! summer, | | SEATTLE, June 24, — Steamship ‘1mporwnce are the diaries, letters.| ! | pictures and old papers packed away | to be looked over only at rare inter-| vals and unfortunately, as it so fre- quently happens, destroyed by fir or thrown away by those who do not| of salmon fishing and packing Friele said. “She spent a good deal 4—One | Of time in Ketchikan and around N. Y: Plant BUFFALO, N. Y. June 2 | Aleutian, sailing yesterday, has a realize their importance. \man was killed and 15 women in- the cannery, and became very well ing to indicate that behind it were|party of distinguished tourists en-| Has Fireproof Vault issued orders that profoundly af- route to Juneau on the Yukon Cir- The University of Alaska is pro- fected the prices of commodities and cle Tour. They will visit Matan- vided with a fire proof vault in of stocks and, indirectly many | uska, McKinley Park and the Fair-|which all such important data can ives. banks district. be safely kept. Its department of First Job, $7 a Week | The passengers include Wulter‘h,smry has been established, and jured by the explosion of a high acquainted with the people of the pressure compressed air line in the|toWn and the salmon industry. Den- Trico Products Corporation plant. |MS Ryan, superintendent of the The blast blew out windows and Hidden Inlet cannery furnished Miss ripped partitions apart on the I””\‘Wllluughb\' with a great deal of lo- floor where the explosion centered. cal color and information, and en- Cutten's first job in Chicago paid {him $7 a week. That was on his arrival as a youth of 20, from Guelph in Ontario, Canada, where he was iborn in 1870. In 1890 he was a highly ambitious youth, freshly graduated from Guelph Collegiate Institute. Thirty-five years later he owned mere wheat than any individual ever had possessed. A few years more, at the time of the “boom” stock market, estimates on his fortune var- ied from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000, and some figures even were higher. In Broker’s Office His first job at $7 a week was merely a stop gap. Soon he occu- pied a bookkeepérs' stool in a brok- er’s office. By 1896 he had acquired a working knowledge of grain trad- ing and at least $600, for he then paid that much toward a seat on the Board of Trade. In 1906, he married Maude Boomer of Chicago, and began trading “on his own” | { " (Continued on Page Three) ) Giffordl, of New York, President of | in order to facilitate this researci | A spark, believed to have been abled her to meet a number of the American Telephone and Tele-|and do the very best job possible caused by a loose piece of metal, |Prominent Alaska residents who lat- graph Company, and his sons, Rich- ard and Sherman; Jackson E. Rey-| nolds, president of the First Na- tional Bank of New York, and di- rector of the New York Central Railroad; and William L. McCain of Los Angel COL. DUSENBURY AT | CHAMBER LUNCHEON| Col. Ralph W. Dusenbury, com- | manding officer at Chilkoot Bar- {racks, who is scheduled to arrive today aboard the barracks tender | Fornance, will be a guest at the | Chamber of Commerce luncheon at ithe Terminal Cafe tomorrow noon. | John E. Pegues, Chairman of the {Fourth of July Committee, will |present a complete program of |events arranged for the annual celebration. (Continued on Page Three) TACOMA, Wash., June 14.—Tra ped in a careening automobile tore through a ferry boat and dived into 25 feet of water in Puget Sound two elderly women were drowned at Gig Harbor across the Tacoma Nar- rows. Mrs. June Sullivan, aged 65, of Tacoma, the driver of the car, and Mrs. George Bancherel, 68, of Ap- tos, California, died in the submerg- £d machine. Steps on Accelerator Instead of Brake; Two Women Drown in Auto| |er appeared in the pages of her book The result of all this was that Miss Willoughby’s novel is one of the most |authentic stories of Alaska to reach the American public. is blamed for the explosion (Continued on Page Five) - eee OH, SHUCKS! | | Miss Estelle Shanley, 45, of Taco- ma, fought frantically with her struggling pet bull dog in the car|Hale “Big Bill” Thompson, inde- at the bottom of the water and |Pendent candidate for Governor of . 5 | T1linois, contemplates a possible al- reached the surface with only minor | "ith i Tamks: Then | lience i.r(lgjme& The bull dog was drown-| b\, candidate for President The accident occurred when Mrs,| Thompson, at a mass meeting, said Sullivan became confused and press-| the people are bewildered and have ed the accelerator instead of the|Ro confidence in lhf' Republican or brake, Democratic parties.” | CHICAGO, Ili, June 24 —William eynote Address ALBEN W. BARKLEY | Governor Troy | | | | | Wearing Lei At Convention PHILADE 24.—Gov. John W. aska was yesterday with a lei by the Hawaiian group at the Democratic National Convention, The Hawaiian group and the Alaska delegation cocupy the same row of seats in the Convefition Hall Gev oy wore the leiat ons yesterday, in the afterncon and in the evening. - THIRD PARTY JUST HANDED ANOTHER JOLT presented Townsend, Smith Confer|" | | with Lemke But Noth- ing in Merger Line { WASHINGTON, June 24 Dr.| T. E. Townsend and the Rev. Gerald | Smith emphasized at a conference| with William Lemke, candidate for President on the Union Party tick- | et, they are not committing their Old Age Pension and Share the| Wealth following to the new Union | Party until after the cide the matter. Townsend and Smith estimated their followers at 5,000,00 each ‘The Rev. Smith said that while the groups might cooperate it does not mean merging of the organiza- tions and Dr. Townsend agreed -oo ROBBED AS THEY SLEEP Bedrooms of P}ronlinent So- cial Couple Looted of Valuable Jewelry followers de-| GARDEN CITY, N. Y., June 24.— Burglars entered the bedrooms of | the socially prominent Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Coe while they were sleeping last night in their sumptuous es- tate, and escaped with jewelry the| owners said is worth more than | $400,000. Neither Coe nor his wife awaakened by the burglars. | The articles stolen included a pearl | necklace valued at $300,000 | NOME ESKIMO TURNS BURELAR SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 24 —Frank Thomas, who said he is an Eskimo and was born at Nome, Alaska, pleaded guilty before Unit- ed States Commissioner E. E. Wil- liams to burglarizing a branch post |office here of $35. were KEYNOTER HITS 6.0.P, LEADERS, SUPREME COURT Economic Re("nvery Under New Deal Stressed at Demo Convention RESOUNDING CHEERS GREET SPELL BINDER [ Declares Responsible Gov- ernment Must Enlarge to Protect Weak PHILADELPHIA, June 24. |—In a flaming keynote speech |at the National Democratic convention last night, Unit- |ed States Senator Alben W. |Barkley of Kentucky slashed out at Republican leadership and accused the Supreme ‘(‘uurl of a “tortured interpre- ‘tation of the Constitution.” The keynoter pointed to the | “astonishing economic recov- (ery under the New Deal,” and {declared: | “All responsible govern- |ment must enlarge the field ;uf supervision to protect the weak from the rapacious. If {in the future, it further should become necessary to enable the people to work out {their destiny and protect fun. {damental rights, 1 do not doubt the people would face |that duty with the same calm lintelligence which guided them in past years.” Pours Fire on G. O. P. The speech left the milling throng f delegates hoarse and cheer weary after they had listened to the Senator pour fire upen th heads of Harding, Coolidge, Hoover ard Landon. He charged that Republican nomir ; M. London of Kansas, had urged rfla n through printing press mor~y no less than three years the preser Gor Al 1 a0 hizh 1 Vice cheers with his cas oter Barkley praised with uncs President Roosevelt and President Garner and inspired igation of the (Continued on Page Two) ALASKANS JOIN DEMONSTRATION Chamberlin and Morton Carry Standards in Convention Parade PHILADELPHIA, Pa. June 24— |In the big demonstration last night in the Convention Hall when the neme of President Roosevelt was mentioned by United States Sena- tor Alben W. Barkley, of Kentucky, in the keynote speech, Art Cham- berlin, of Deering, carried one of the Alaska Standards into the par- ade and Harry Morton, formerly of Anchorage, the other standard. Robert W. Bender reported allof the members of the Alaska delega- tion are present at all convention sessions, together with the alter- nates. INT. HIGHWAY T0 BE BOOSTED Alaskan Delegation Given Support of Washington State Group PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 24.— | At the request of the Alaska dele- gation at the Democratic National Convention, the Washington State delegation unanimously went on record favoring construction of the International Highway through British Columbia, Yukon Territory and into Alaska. The request made made by Arthur Chamberlin, of Deering, and met with instant approval at the Wash- ington State caucus.