The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7241. * JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1936, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS CHILD FILM ACTRESS IS THREATENED NO DRASTIC CHANGE, FISH REGULATIONS Some Adjustments May Be Made Declares Com- missioner Bell PRAISE GIVEN NEW DEAL AND DELEGATE Roosevelt, Also Dimond Certain to Be Re-elect- ed, Says Official Enroute to the States and wind- ing up a five weeks inspection, first hand study, and observation| tour of the fisheries and sealing areas of Alaska, United States Com- missioner of Fisheries Frank T. Bell, announced upon his arrival here on the U.SBJF. motorship Brant that after his studies, obser- vations and talks with hundreds of fishermen, and members of the fishing industry in Alaska, no dras- tic change in the fishing regulations for next year would be made, but that a few adjustments might be made in some localities. “The constant and consistent in- crease in salmon packs, graphi- cally and factually demonstrates that the policy of conservation used by the Bureau of Fisheries is work- ing, and insuring a perpetuation and growth of Alaska's biggest in- dustry,” Mr. Bell said today. “The run in Cook Inlet, and the south side of the Peninsula was big, and a good run and pack was experienced in Bristol Bay, even though it fell somewhat short of the record run in 1934, the Com- missioner continued. = “Practically all the other districts have had and are now experiencing a normal run, with a result that much Alaska la- bor has been employed in the fish- ing industry this year and the fish- ermen have made good money.” Commissioner Bell pointed out that no labor trouble was exper- ienced in the industry in Alaska this year and feels sure that the entire season will wind up as a prosperous one to practically all those engaged in the industry. New Deal Working “The marked and substantial im- provement in gen eral business throughout the United States under the New Deal and President Roose- velt’s administration has stabilized market conditions throughout bus- iness, including the salmon indus- try, and these benefits have na- turally in the economic process been passed along to every Alas- kan engaged in the salmon indus- try, in increased wages. This, cou- pled with good runs of fish, has added much to the prosperity of individual workers in the Territory and to the general welfare of the Territory. Gold Policy “In addition to the improved con- ditions in the fishing industry, I always like to remind Alaskans that the Administration’s gold policy which has increased the price of gold to a point where the mining industry has been so re-vitalized in Alaska developing new mines, and “‘Boondoggling" Is Described By President MONTPELIER, Vermont, Aug. 1.—President Roosevelt, refurn- ing from his one day visit to Canada, pointing to the million dollar Wrightsville Dam in the Winooski River, declared to newspapermen “that is a very excelent illustration of coopera- tion between the Government and State on boondoggling.” The President said the last flood in this region came with- in eight feet of the top of the dam which had saved Mont- pelier and other communities below. FREIGHT TRAIN ON ALASKA RR. RIPS UP TRACK Takes Fourteen Hours to Make Repairs ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 1.— north of here, two men were slight- ly injured and several hundred feet of track were torn up. The train, made up of 29 cars, including a heavy track driver, was going to Chulitna. Col. Otto F. Ohlson, General Man- ager of the Railroad, said there cident. The injured, including John Ker- jola, aged 56, of Chulitna, who is suffering from a sprained back, lacerated arm and bruised ankle, and an unidentified man, with mi- nor bruises, were brought to the Anchorage Hospital. It took 14 hours to repair the track. JOSH LEE GETS GREAT BACKING FOR ‘STICKING' Shouts for New Deal, Sup- ports New Deal and Is Given Big Acclaim WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—The de- feat of Senator Gore in the Okla- homa Democratic primary may give pause to some of those Congress- men who were a bit uncertain when they left Washington just how hard New Deal. Several told friends as they left here that they planned to stick to “home” issues as much as possible in their district campaigns and to sail around under the New Deal banner without waving it over- much. Senator Gore's conservative course brought him several times athwart New Deal policies and at times he raised his high pitched Oklahoma increasing production in regular operating mines, increasing employ- ment and creating new wealth is proving one of the greatest boons this great Territory has ever been afforded by any Administration. In commenting on the political situation, Commissioner Bell en- thusiastically stated that from his many conversations with Alaskans in all walks of life throughout the Territory he felt sure that the Ter- ritory would go strongly Democrat- ic in the elections this fall and that Delegate Anthony J. Dimond would be returned to Congress by a huge majority. Dimond Is Praised The Commissioner whose many years in Washington, D. C., both as secretary of former Senator C. C. Dill, and head of the Bureau of Fisheries, has made him thoroughly familiar with heavy duties, difficul- ties and responsibilities that fall upon a Delegate to Congress from Alaska, expressed glowing praise of Delegate Dimond’s work and ef- fectiveness, both in Congress and in the many administrative offices through which Mr. Dimond works to aid Alaska. “Tony Dimond is one of the most faithful workers in Congress that I have ever seen during my many years in the Capitol,” the Com- missioner continues. “Because much of my work in the Bureau of Fish- eries deals with Alaska, I have been (Continued on Page Four) twang in biting criticism. And who should top the field in the race for the nomination but Representative Josh Lee, one of the most ardent indorsers of New Deal performances? He was well ahead of the field, although failing to get a majority. In the runoff pri- mary against Governor Marland he won the nomination. Republicans are asserting that they have the New Deal on the run. The Oklahoma outcome indi- cated to Democratic leaders here that at least in the Oklahoma pri- maries the New Deal was not on the run. WATCHING “STRANGE FISH” New Deal strategists are wonder- ing just how many of the “strange fish” washed up by the Roosevelt tidal wave of 1932 will survive in Congress through the coming elec- tion. The term “strange fish” was used by Senator Ashurst of Arizona in a scatching attack on the late Sen- lawr Long of Louisiana. The Arizonan, unsurpassed in the Senate for administering a scholar- ly “dressing down,” used the meta- phor as describing those he felt would not have seen the light of day, politically, had the depression not churned so thoroughly into the depths. $ SOME SUBMERGED IN '34 He left the idea that some of the (Continued on rage Eight) Two Men Are Injured—| was no apparent cause for the ac-| they should blow the horn for the | CONVICTS STAGE RIOT AT SALEM:; (ORDER RESTORED | il |Seven Hundred Prisoners Make Demonstration Late Yesterday SALEM, Oregon, Aug. l—Soven; hundred convicts in Oregon's peni- | tentiary turned into a mob of! |angry men over an adverse court | decision and rioted late yesterday.| Three convicts were shot, one| fatally, when they attempted to| charge the prison yard walls. Thomas Baughn, aged 50, mur-| | derer, died within an hour after a |rifle bullet had passed through one | of his lungs. | Two other convicts, James 3. |Hamilton, aged 36, was shot| | through the back, and Joseph Du- | |prey, aged 24, was shot through |the hand. A burst of gunfire quickly re- | versed the hoarse command of the |convict ring leader, Frank Tilson, |aged 39: “Come on, guys, let's make‘ |a break for it.” | A detachment of State Troopers, | who threatened to drench the| order. | A message from Warden Lewis touched off the riot. The Warden |bruught word to Roy Lanair that ‘thc court had denied Lanair's plea | for automatic release after serving a minimum sentence, with good behavior credits deducted. PROMOTIONOF FOX FARMING '~ INALASKA AiM Dr. Lloyd Coming North to| of Furthering Industry Charles H. Flory, Regional For-! ester, and Dr. Jules B. Loftus, Ter- ritorial Veterinary, are leaving ror; | Petersburg in the morning on the |U. s. Forest Service vessel For-| |ester where Monday they will meet | Dr. W. A. Lloyd, principal Agri- culturist in charge of the Western Division of the Extension Service for the Department of Agriculture, and Lorin T. Oldroyd, Director of Extension Service at the University of Alaska. Dr. Lloyd is coming north on the Alaska to make an investiga- |tion of fox farming in the Terri-| {tory in connection with the De- partment of Agriculture's possible program for furthering the indus- try in the Territory, Mr. Flory said. The party will make survey trips ‘ln Southeast Alaska studying the fox industry and will call in Ju- neau. © NAVY PLANES FLY OVER CITY Six twin-motored United States Navy planes, in formation, flew over Juneau at 11 o'clock this fore- noon and disappeared down the channel. The planes are six of the 18 now at Sitka, enroute to the westward to study weather and fly- ing conditions and landing points. S e —— |FEDERAL COURT TO | RECONVENE MONDAY With Juage George F. Alexander |back in town from his vacation in the States, the Federal District Court will reconvene Monday morn- ing at 11 o'clock. Only routine mat- |ters are scheduled to come up. | The William Paul case, in which |his disbarment as an attorney is |asked, is scheduled to come up on | Thursday, but it is reported that a delay of trial will be asked due |to the large number of witnesses, who are to be subpoenaed for the case, being out fishing. It is ex- pected that postponement will be asked until October. - e — 1S FOG BOUND Princess Charlotte, scheduled to arrive at 1:30 o'clock this after- noon, was at 3:30 o'clock expected to arrive any time. The steamer has been fog bound. At 4 o'clock it was announced the steamer will arrive at 8 o'clock lonight. TENNIS GAME IS CAUSE OF FOUL CRIME | ety |Girl Kills Mother While Sweetheart Holds Arms of Latter - BAYONNE, New Jersey Aug. 1i— Chief of Police O'Neill announced this morning that Gladys McNight, aged 17, had confessed Killing her mother with a hatchet while her sweetheart held her mother's arms. The girl and her sweetheart, Don- ald Wightman, chorister in a ra= dio station religious hour, are book= ed on a charge of murder. Chief O'Neill said the girl admit- ted quarreling with her mother, Mrs. Helen McKnight. aged 47, over an early dinner, so she could play tennis. Wightman seized the girPs mother, who had a knife in her hand, and the girl took a hatchet from the top of an ice box amd “swung once or twice” to her moth~ er's head. Both the girl and the boy smiled Eight cars were derailed 25 miles |prison yard with tear gas, restored affectionately at each other during this afternoon when both were formally charged with the hatchet slaying. Wightmn was highly nervous, but the girl was perfectly composed. Officers, who questioned her all night, said she was so unconcerned that when the questioning ended, she ordered and ate a large break- fast of ham and eggs. MINERAL PRORE OF GLACIER 54 BEING STARTED Make Survey with Plan %Reed and Sargent, Geolog—; ical Survey Men, Leave Tomorrow on Survey To make a mineral investigation of the Glacier Bay region, which was recently opened to prospect- ing . and mining, John A. Reed, Geologist for the U. S. Geological Survey, and R. H. Sargent, Chiefl Alaska Topographer for the survey service, are leaving Juneau at noon tomorrow aboard the Alaska Game Commission vessel Grizlzy Bear for the area. Mr. Reed, who is connected with the Washington office and has spent much of this summer in Idaho, arrived on the Northwest- ern, his second trip to Alaska. “We just want to see what there is up there in the way of min- erals,” Mr. Reed said. “We expect to visit all the prospects, but, of course, due to the lateness of the season will not be able to carry on as much work as we would like to do. However, we expect to be there a month or six wekes.” Mr. Sargent, who has been com- ing to Alaska every summer for years in connection with survey work, has been here since spring carrying on mapping work in the territory adjacent to Juneau on the south. CANNERY MEN ARRIVE IN TOWN ON TENDER Nick Bez, owner of the Peril Strait Packing Company, at Todd, and Hans Floe, Superintendent of the cannery at Hawk Inlet, have arrived in Juneau on the canngry tender Uganik, Mr. Floe on business and Mr. Bez “just to see the town.” Both report business as being fair in their sections. Fishing at both places started slow but has since improved and is expected to continue improving. They will return to their can- neries tomorrow. — e CARLSON GIRLS LEAVE FOR CALIFORNIA 'HOOLS The Misses Constance and Zaida Carlson, daughters of Dr. Rae Carl- son, Juneau Optometrist, left on the Northland enroute to Berkeley, California, where they will attend school. The young ladies will stop over for a week in Ketchikan, their former home, before continuing to California. Constance is a soph- omore student at the University of California and Zaida attends grade school. kS MADRID FEARS ONSLAUGHT OF REBEL TROOPS Here is the Plaza de Casteler in the heart of historic Madrid, capital of ent regime fall of the military rightist rebellion. Formation of a “red committee” to take charge of the city if the pres- | reported in dispatches. (Associated Press Photo) | SHIRLEY TEMPLE 1S NEAR VICTIM EXTORTION PLOT [Demand Made that Twen- ty-five Thousand Dollars Be Dropped from Plane FARMER BOY PLACED UNDER ARREST TODAY Department of Justice Agents Work for Weeks on Investigation Spain and the principal objective Rebel Chicftain 'AFRENGH_MENTUV | ~ AID SPANIARDS IN GI_VII. WAR ‘Government Announces Volunteers May Fight for Republic | PARIS, Aug. 1.—France, late to- day, came to the aid of Spain’ hard pressed Goyernment by author: @ing Frenchmen to fight against the advaneing Fascists : | French citizens can fight in the | (civil war provided they carry “reg- {ular passports.” Diplomatic circles | |said this passport stipulation ef- fectively limits volunteers unless {with approval of Spain's represen- | tatives The Leftist Government volun- | teers must not carry arms on French ‘sml, is another stipulation. Gen. Emilio Mola (above) is in com+ mand of the. Northern Army of | drive_on Madrid. Mola is men- | tioned as a likely candidate for pre- mier if the rebels succeed. | } Spanish Fascists, and leads the | MADRID IS WAITING | LONDON, Aug. 1.—According to| advices received here, Madrid is digging in for the Fascist assaults which may prove the turning point | in the nation's prolonged civil war. Defenses have been strengthened | and the railitary machine has been \groomed for fresh offensives order- | | T ey |ed against rebel strongholds to the | .north and south of Madrid. Five Lives Are Ksown to] 1t s understood nere the reveis| Have Been Taken— |are planning on a grand assault on | . Wil Madtid. Ships Missing “VOLUNTEERS OF DEATH” VALPARAISO, Florida, August 1.! LONDON, Aug. 1.—A report from A tropical storm, charged with|Lisbon says & broadcast has been causing at least five deaths, blew|heard that the rebel “Volunteers itself out over Southern Alabamajof Death” have left Valencia and early today. | seville. The Coast Guard reports the tug| The same report says that rebel Minnie Lee sank in Choctowatchee|aviators are pledged to sacrifice | Bay and the crew of five is missing. | their lives in hurling explosives Lack of reports from two other(from planes into the loyal Spanish vessels caught in the hurt‘icane}slr(muholds and ultimately three caused fears the death toll may in-|Government warships. crease, 3 | Property damage is said to be| remarkably small for a hurricane. -ee - | | | ROME AND BERLIN | LONDON, Aug. 1.—It is said here |that Rome and Berlin might have |qu interests in the Spanish re- C L E AR l N G C AN N E RY i bellion and also French revolt in | | Morocco. Hitler wants more terri- CREWS FROM BR'ISTOLRZSVS,&M Il Duce has the same BAY; TYPHOID CHECKED ' ! PO TP | The Redwood, North King, Cath- erine D and Dellwood are leaving |KUBICEK HOPS OFF FOR FRANCES LAKE| Bristol Bay for the States with] cannery crews as quarantine nas Ernie Kubicek, piioting the Unit- ed Air Transport yellow Fairchild | been lifted in the typhoid fever epidemic area mear Dillingham, ac- seaplane now at the PAA float, ex-| pects to take off sometime today J : for Frances Lake, B.C, where his ‘A‘Lfe‘:‘e‘n ";a:‘;’i’;‘;l m v;"; plane is based this summer, under | Indian Bureau. Check has been made with the U. S. Public Health| charter to Tom Mitchell who is| conducting mining _operations in| authorities, Dr. Van Ackeren said,| | so that the crews will be inspected| that district. Pilot Kubicek expects | at quarantine when they reach their to make a return flight here next| week. destination in the States. Thus if| any cases have broken out among SEVEN HALIBUTERS | e e kv 1 av| . SEUAT SEATTLE e e e No further cases are reported in| SEATTLE, Aug. 1.—Halibut arriv-| the stricken region and indications|als, catches and selling price today,| are that the disease is now well un-|follows: | der control. From the western banks—Bolin- — |da 23,000 pounds, 8 cents straight. 1 From the local banks—Eastern 11,800 pounds, 8 cents straight; Thel- Akin Dobrynin, picturesque Cos- ma No. 2, 1,800 pounds; Lively 1,- sack singer, who has been in Ju- 500 pounds; Curlew 1300 pounds; neau for some months, left aboard Presho 1,800 pounds, all selling for RUSSIAN LEAVES 'POSTMASTER WILE irl, who went to Spain to study ncing and singing early this sum- mer, had to flee San Sebastian be- cause of the street fighting. She is Gloria Sileo, who, with her aunt, Mrs. A. Alvarez, is now in San- tander, Spain. | | oGl Big Welcome in | Village of Birth | his pretty little Brooklyn, N. Y., ' | WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa., Aug. 1—This town in the farm lands of western Pennsylvania, where “the Landon baby” was born in his| father-in-law’s Methodist parson- age nearly a half century ago, is awaiting eagerly a visit by the Re- publican Presidential nominee this month | “We can take care of a crowd,; up to 200,000 people,” says H. G.| Williams, secretary of the “Landon for President Club,” which he says was the first in the country. He is helping plan the celebration on the community ball grounds. Governor Landon, as guest of honor, will share the spotlight with Mrs. Mary (Aunt Mary) Boyd, bis nurse during the two weeks af- ter his birth. She has papered the walls of her parlor with picture. of “my baby" clipped from nows- papers and magazines. \ Pows 1 HAS SPECIFICATIONS FOR NOME BUlLDlNGl Postmaster Albert Wile has re- ceived plans and specifications for the Nome Federal Court House and Post Office Building and any con- tractors who desire to make bids may secure them locally. - -> - Western Gateway Is to Celebrate COUNCIL BLUFPFS, Ia., Aug. 1.— One hundred years of romantic and colorful history will pass in review as Council Bluffs observes its Cen- tennial, August 9 to 12. Known as a “Gateway to the West,” Coun- 1 Bluffs will invite all South- the Northland last night enroute 85% and 8 cents; Texas 2,000 lbs, to Seattle, 8% cents straight, l tern Iowa to join in its cele- inirp!lne near Grant. GRANT, Nebraska, Aug. 1.—Wal- rod Powell, 16-year-old farm boy, has been arrested on a Federal charge of sending a $25000 extor- tion letter to the father of Shirley Temple, child film star. Sheriff H. Bechtel, who made the arrest at the request of the Depart- ment of Justice, said the boy told him he “didn’t mean to go through with it,” but sent the letter on the impulse of the moment after seeing a motion picture featuring a ran- som plot. Powell is regarded as a good stu- dent, having finished his sophomores year in the local high school. His parents live in comfortable circum- stances. THREAT WAS RECEIVED EUREKA, Cal., Aug. 1.—George F. Temple, wife and little daughter Shirley, are vacatiing here. Temple said the child had not been told of the threat. He said he did not take the-letter seriously. It direct- ed that $25,000 be dropped from ar The letter was dated May 11 and said the "life of Shirley Temple will be en- dangered” unless the amount de¢- manded was delivered as requested. The letter was included in the fanmail of the child star. It wag traced to young Powell through: water marks in the paper, by Fed- eral operatives. STOCK MARKET 1S OFF TODAY, BRIEF SESSION Rally Takes Place During Final Half Hour But Few Gains Made NEW YORK, Aug. 1. — Stock were off balance during the greater part of the brief session today bu rallied quietly in the final hal hour. The majority of issues failed t gain any momentum on the come back and the close was irregula: Today's transers were only 550,00 shares. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 1. — Closin quotaticn of Alaska Juneau min stock today is 13%, American Ca 126. American Power and Ligh 13%, Anaconda 39%, Bethlehein Steel 56%, Calumet and Hecla 11% Commonwealth and Southern 3% Curtiss-Wright 7, General Motors 69%, International Harvesier 8 Kennecott 44'5, United States Ster G5%, United Corporation 8%, Cil- ies Service 4'a, Simmons, no sale; Columbia Gas and S. Kresge 27%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 16542, up 52; rails 53.55, up .04; utilities 34.86, down .03. ¢ . Hollywood Is Quicker than the Camera’s Eye HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. 1. — Even in hot weather movie tech- nicians solve problems. Edward Arnold has a scene in which he steps from a train and 3 greets the station master at 2 cross roads settlement. There i8 no train, actually. A big spotlight plays upon a train’s sil- houette, casting its shadow be- fore the camera. A prop mam works a smoke pot, and its black belches are fanned over the set. You won't see a train, but you'll’ have the impression you saw ome.