The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 9, 1936, Page 1

THE VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7221. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS FOREST FIRES CLIPPER SHIP HAS ACCIDENT AT KETCHIKAN Pontoons Badly Damaged When Craft Alights in First City Harbor BULLETIN — KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 9. — The Alaska Clipper, its wing and floats damaged by hitting a landing will be flown back to Pilot Baird said. Temporary repairs in the form of canvas “gloves” are be- ramp, Seattle tomorrow, ing made to the damaged floats and permanent repairs will be made in Seattle. on the plane will be forwarded to Juneau today on the North Sea. The express KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 9.—| The inaugural flight of the Seattle- | Juneau mail, passengeer and express | service was marred late yr<t€rday[ Al 55 Earl Brow James W. nominated for munist Party ticket in Ma thousand nersons na . | Tenst Was On Schedule { The Olipper-arrived at Vancouver at 9:55 yesterday morning and took | off for Ketchikan 50 minutes later and arrived here late yesterday af-| ypw YORK, July 9.—The ten- OO, T oacert ooourY®d |sion over the drought and steel watér {labor situations lessened today and » » stock market prices rebounded for 15 A:(;’_“;SQ;h;dpmh';;“i’:;m:‘mn“rx'1' ains of fractions to more than - ; ‘_‘ three peints. ‘I’a Kr‘;‘if“‘mxr Jv“gi. g’lsd’mz;“‘;:ét The volume of trading v Ku:w Baird, all of Seattle 'pandcz? on the rally in prices to Mrs C;ldblck 15 ¢he Wife of ‘he‘arounu 1,300,000 shares, which is traffic manager of the company, | e e o Several weeks. who is also one of the organizers 5 i 4 Set Small Boat Hearing for 2 P.M. Tomorrow Session Wil—l—Convene Be- fore Col. Wild in Fed- eral Court Room phibian sustained badly damaged | y Is Anchored “indefinite” period until the pon- | § Clipper Air Express, Inc, took off terday morning for Ketchikan and | - on Over Drought and afternoon when the Alaska Clip- per, the twin-motored Sikorsky am- | pontoons as it landed here enroute| i to the Capital City. { jian will be anchored here for an toons are repaired. The return | flight had been scheduled from Ju-| neau, tomorrow. i The Alaska Clipper, of the Alaska ( TRAD'NG Guon from Seattie at 8:30 o'clock yes- | Juneau, via Vancouver, B. C Steel Labor Situation Lessening also ex- CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, July 9. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau |stock today is 137%, American Can 133%, American Power and Light 113%, Anaconda 35'%, Bethlehem Steel 49'%, Commonwealth and Southern 3%, General Motors 68, International {Harvester 81, Kennecott 39%, Unit- ed States Steel 59%, United Cor- poration 7%, Cities Service 4%, Hecla Mining 12, Pound $5.01 15/16. | | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: 157.11; rails, 49.18; Industrials, utilities, 33.55. - - Hearing on the small boat har- bor proposal for Juneau is sched- uled to be held at 2 o'clock to- morrow afternoon in the Federal District Court Room before Col. H. J. Wild, Army District En- gineer. Hearing on a similar pro- posal for Douglas will be held in nes, passed away last week in Fair- the morning in that city. ‘banks as a result of paralysi: OLNES RESIDENT DIES Mrs. Andres A. Anderson, long- time Alaskan and resident of Ol- 7(,'ommunist Standard Bearers former Kansas bookkeeper, is shown shaking hands with Ford, Negro steel worker from Alabama, after they were idert and Vice President, respectively, of the Com- son Square Garden, New York. Twenty-five ked the Garden at the Red convention, DETAILS STILL mine | Curtiss-Wright 5%,/ | operation 'SENATOR BORAH CANDIDATE FOR Will Enter Idaho State Pri- mary August 11—Has One Opponent BOISE, Idaho, July 9.—United | States Senator William E. Borah became a candidate for re-election for his sixth term late yesterday when nominating petitions for the August 11 primary were filed with the Secretary of State. The seventy-one year old states- | said that he wouldn't bolt the Re- | publican ticket and pledged his al- legiance to the platform he helped | | to frame at Cleveland | The Senator did not issue a for= | mal statement, merely saying that| the “filing speaks for itself.” Borah has one opponent in the | Repub! n primaries in Byron De-} fenback, former State Treasurer, | who claims the Townsend back=/ ing. ! Candidates for nomination are Gov powerful campaigner, Aker, Boise attorney. the Democratic C. Ben Ross, and wueslie ALREADY ON STUMP NAMPA, Idaho, July 9.—Senator Borah, in his first speech, reiter- ated the announcement made terday by his filing, of his candi- | dacy for a sixth term Senator Borah told 1,000 Idaho farmers that they cannot expect lasting prosperity” until ~ “the American market for farm pro- |ducts is protected by an adeguate tariff.” 6, G, DILL S VICTORIOUS N DIVORCE SUIT Former Senator Does Not Have ta Repay Loans UH’ YEAH! Made by Wife i SEAT Lz, July 9—A prediction SPOKANE, Wash,, July 9—Super- | that Landon will carry Nebraska jor Judge W. E. Huneke today|Oklahoma, Missouri and Colorado awarded a divorce to former United | Was made here today by Henry Ben- States Senator C. C. Dill and held | 0D, delegate from Juneau, Alaska that Dill did not have to repay the | to the G. O. P. convention. He made $40,000 that his ex-wife, the former | the prediction in a call on Gordon Rosalie Gardner Jones, gave him|Smith, State Publicity Director during the nine years of their| Benson traveled through those ribiea’ Tife states after the Cleveland session iand said: “I laughed when I read | Farley's prediction that Roosevelt would carry those states. Landon | speaks to the voters in those states ‘in their own language and they in I.AGKING FlRF { know him and understand what he ; is talking about.” ’ =y 1 BRISTOLBAY STRIKE ENDS | | MEMPHIS, ienn., July 9 The | general strike among the tenant —The fire which dsstroved the | farmers, share croppers and day la-| million dollar Bristol Bay Packing! borers in East Arkansas ended tod: any’s plant at Kvichak ves- | by declaration of the Southern Ten- . ended the season’s packing| ant Farmers' Union. there, officials of the| R A SRR compa’ said her | TOM WILCOX ILL Details of the fire are lacking| Tom Wilcox, an employee at the they said. Probably the entire pnck"’",““flu Logging Company’s camp and supplies and also the radio|Of Hecata Island, was taken to station went up in the blaze. Only|Ketchikan from @raig yesterday scant messages have been received(and placed in the Ketchikan Hu.\: from P. C. Hale, President, who is Pital where he is seriously ill with there and the Directors are await-| 2 heart ailment. This is accord- ing his report before am’louncement‘ ing to information received here is made regarding any future plnns.' today by Tom Gardner of *he 1o J ing compan, - SAN FRANCIsuUu, Cal, July 9. A Chamber of Commerce commit- | tee, headed by Allen Shattuck, has compiled a large amount of data relative to a small boat harbor here. | Owners of all small boats are re- quested to attend the hearing and if any have any special informa- tion they are asked to give it to Mr. Shattuck, H. L. Faulkner or Norman Banfield. After the hearing here, Col. Wild is returning to Seattle for a short time and then will come north again, the next time to visit the interior and the Westward where he has reports to make on several projecst. —,,——— Son Born to Mother of Quintuplets CALLANDER, Ontario, July 9. —A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Olivia Dionne early today. Mrs. Dionne is the omther of the famous quintuplets. 4 Dr. Jei Joyal officiated at | the stork ceremonies, assisted | by Mike Callander, Callander | nurse. ! Both Mrs. Dionne and the boy are described by Dr. Joyal as in “cxceptionally good con- dition.” Like the guints, the new son was born in a farmhouse. S| MPS casions. | l its first surplus since 1919. ‘BIG JIM’ As Postmaster General, James Aloysius Farley has put his super-salesmanship behind special stamp issues to com- memorate all manner of historic oc- ‘The proceeds helped the Post Office Department in fiscal 1934 cldim SELLING THE PARTY “Big Jim” has applied to the task of selling Democracy to the voters the methods that brought him success as a salesman of building materials before he entered politics. His tools: an en- gaging grin, a lusty back-slap and a genius for organization. before the “Genial to Months Convention D. Roosevelt Roosevelt, a veteran | man-attorney in a recent statement | SELLING THE BOSS the country with business-like thoroughness that amazed politicians of the old technique. With ley swapped many an idea. While he looked on too terrified to scream, 7-year: Boy, 7, Sees His Mother Slain -old James Castle of Chicage, saw a man climb through window from a fire escape and beat his mother, Mrs. Florence Castle, 25, to death. The intruder then ran- sacked the room and fled, after scrawling the words “Black Legion Game" on t SPECIAL SOIL woman's lipstick. Suspect in CONSERVATION = Slaying Case FOR NORTHLAND Announcemcnt Of Program for Act to Be Ex- pected Shortly WASHINGTON, July nouncement of the de ial 9. — An- ils of a spec- program Puerto Rico and Alas- soil conservation act Hawaii it is said 1 weu informed cir- is like within the next few for ka, cles, days. Alaska is to be grouped with the others merely for Administration purposes as the problems involved in- Alaska are entirely different from other places. REBEL LEADER REPORTED SHOT Federals and Insurgents in Fatal Clashes in Southwest Mexico MEXICO CITY, July 9 Two sharp skirmishes between troops and rebel bands in Southwest Mex- ico left 15 insurgents dead Eight rebels were killed in an en- counter with Federal soldiers at a ranch near San Sebastian, Jalisoc They were followers of rebel leader Estanislao Vasquez who is reported to be among the dead. SELLING With the tion cut and 1832 Democratic Jim” sold Franklin a the idea meeting one campaigner, Far- New Deal work of of with Senator Gu IS ReleasedI Beating to Death of Enter- Resigns as High Commis-| tainer Still Unsolved in Chicago CHICAGO, IIL, July 9. -Edward be mirror with the slain MURPHY IS TO BE CANDIDATE FOR COVERNOR sioner of Philippines to Make Run WASHINGTON, July 9—Frank 'RAVAGING TWO STATES WYOMING AND ' MONTANA ARE - BLAZING; HEAT ~ WAVE RAGING | Cattle and Wild Game Be- | lieved to Have Been Burn- ned — Thousands of Men on Fighting Line NEWCASTLE, Wyoming, July 8.— Forest fires, drought, and insects are harrassing Northwestern Wy- oming as the worst heat wave in years has sent the temperatures close to 100 degrees. ¥ Cattle and wild game are believ- ed to have been burned and thou- sands of acres of timber destroyed by the uncontrolled fires in Beat Lodge Mountains near Sudance. Two other fires in the Wyoming Black Hills have been brought un- der control by thousands of work- ers, | Other fires are reported near Sher- idan and in Montana. Scattered rains which have fallen over the Eastern Central part of the States have failed to reach the fire zones. B LARGE TURNOUT FOR CHAMBER'S LUNCHEONTODAY Col. Wild, R. F. Lewis, C. . M. Granger, Morris Star- | rett Among Speakers Reflecting revived interest in Chamber of Commerce activities Lynch, aged 31, held as a fugitive Murphy, of Detroit, has submitted |here, more than 35 members gath- for criminal prosecution in Den- his resignation as High Commis- |ered for the weekly luncheon to- ver, has been cleared of any con- sioner to the Philippines to Presi-|day in the Terminal Cafe and list- with the slaying Florence Castle, entertai: June 29. Lnch is wanted ver on a robbery charge Officials said the nection of Mrs. ner, on in Den- entertainer’s dent Roosevelt, effective at the President’s pleasure. It is indicated the resignation was submitted to | clear the way for Murphy to run as the Democratic candidate for son, aged 7, said Lynch was not the Governor in Michigan. man who beat his mother to death | with a brick. The police have no other clues. ARME PARIS, July 9.—Armed force \\'|]l‘\ ith care to ous strikers who refuse ap evacuate business places, of Interior Roger Selengro day. Salengro, move, said armed force ms licemen without bayonets guns. be used - > HOTEL WOMAN IL Mrs. William Taylor, is i1l and under special nurse at her home. AN IDEA this year's conven- dried, in so far as nomin- ating a candidate went, Farley hit upon making the Philadelphia big demonstration for the Here he discusses the plan ey of Pennsylvania e DFORCE | FOR STRIKERS t French peals to Minister said to- in explaining the eant po- on thelr proprietor of the White House in Anchorage, Ann’s this morning from the Taku ! the care of a SAM RAYBURN 1S CHAIRMAN, DEMO BUREAU WASHINGTON, July 9.—The sel- ection of Representative Sam Ray- burn, of Texas, as Chairman of the | Democratic Speaker's Bureau dur- ing the coming Presidential cam- paign, is announced by James A | Farley, Chairman of the Democrat- i ic National Committee, —— - — ! PATIENT FROM TAKU | Mrs. Steve Williams entered St. River medical ment. district for treat- FARLEY : : Super-Salesman in Politics LOOKING FOR CUSTOMERS His weather eye on the November hori- zon, crati egy paign. Jim" trade—the Chairman Farley of the Demo- c National Committee lays strat- for his second Presidential cam- As a super-salesman, “Call me is mighty proud of his stock in New Deal, 1936 model. ened to an entertaining and en- lightening program. A number of distinguished visitors from out of town were in attendance, all bring- ing interesting messages to the local group. Col. H. J. Wild, District Engineer n Seattle who arrived here yester- day, told of his visit to Southeast | Alaska ports and declared himself impressed with the vastness of the country, its scenery and marvelous fishing. Transportation, he pointed | out, was apparently the great need of the Territory at this time, and he assured the members he appreciat- jed the problems confronting them |in bettering such a condition. Col. Wild is here to hold a hear- |{ing Friday afternoon in Federal | District Court room on the Juneau | proposal to build a small boat har- bor. Similar hearing will be held in Douglas Friday morning. | Mr, Lewis Speaks | Another distinguished guest, well known to many of the older resi- dents, was R. F. Lewis, of San Fran- | cisco, President of the Juneau Wa= ter Company, who was the man o built the building which now uses the Terminal Cafe and where the Chamber holds its meetings. Mr. Lewis recounted in an entertaining manper the building of the historic structure without plans, and how, when finished, all partitions ran sort of on the bias. It was the first office building erected in Alaska. Touching on water company mat- ters, Mr. Lewls said the water main in Casey-Shattuck Addition would « completed this year as-would the work where street regrading ng place. “Our policy is to p making improvements as nec- essity demands,” he commented. In ‘he last six years, the company has (laid 24,000 feet of water pipe in Juneau, he pointed out, in explain- ing it was the purpose of his com- pany to continue its work in step with the progress of the city. Scenic Advantages The recreational and scenic ad- vantages of Alaska, referring par- ticularly to the Southeast, were (Continued on Page 'l:wo) i S P A B. C. Premier |May Be in Juneau This Evening Premier T. D. Pattullo, of Brit- ish Columbia, and Ben Hethey, his private secretary, are mak- ing a seaplane trip to Northern British Columbia points and may extend the flight to Ju- neau, arriving this evening. The plane is piloted by E. W. C. Dob- bins,