The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1936, Page 1

THE VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7250. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY ALASKA EMPIR PRICE TEN CENTS - HUSKIES SPURT, WIN 1ST ROWING HEAT REPORT ESKIMOS EATING MUKLUKS ONARCTIC COAST One Native Dead and Many Others in Danger of Star- vation, Says Resident DOGS, SKINS BEING USED FOR FOOD NOW Scarcity offiales, Seals, Walrus Is Reported in Famine-Ridden Area Gov. John W. Troy today radiced J. S. Rood, Acting Gen- eral Reindeer Superintendent at Nome, to proceed by airplane to the reported stricken area on the Arctic Coast and make an investigation of conditions, both as to the needs of the people in that region and the condition of the rcindeer, particularly as to the grazing situation and the loss resulting from.wolves. Report to the Governor’s of- fice is that there is little graz- ing for reindeer in the area and that when they are forced to forage through the snow they contract a foot and mouth diseas: Acting Superintendent Rood will study conditions with the view of determining whether it is advisable to drive more rein- deer into the area east of Point Barrow where there is reported lack of food. In the meantime the Coast Guard cutter Northland is ap- proaching Point Barrow with limited supplies which the ves- sel will leave there, to be dis- patched along theé coast east- ward by two small freighters now in the area, it was re- ported to the Governor's office. Also, Capt. C. D. Pedersen of the trading vessel Patterson is at Herschel Island with a cargo of supplies which can be made available on the Captain’s re- turn trip along the coast. POINT BARROV/, Alaska, Aug. 12.—Dr. Henry Griest says 500 Arc- tic Rim Eskimos are on the verge of “actual starvation.” One native has succumbed. Natives are now eating shoes, boots and skin coverings from baats. “Tundra animals are dead long time,” said Joe Arney, a resident of this area. The dead Eskimo barely succeeded in saving his wife and children after bringing them from the interior to the coast where other Eskimos have divided their bread. Eat Sled Dogs “Many others are now exhausted from hunger and would have died long ago but for eating their sled dogs,” said Arney. The Government Reindeer Super- intendent, Frank Daugherty, said the Bureau of Indian Affairs office is doing all possible to aid the Es- kimos but “winter and spring ice conditions have made seal hunting and fishing impossible. Inroads of wolves on the reindeer herds with no supervised management for reindeer along the Arctic Rim is responsible for the scareity of their meat which is the Eskimo's main- stay,” he said. Dr. Greist noted the danger of epidemics as due to low resis- tance. PARTIAL RELIEF SEEN; SCHOONER NOW REPORTED WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Partial relief for Eskimos suffering a food shortage near Point Barrow is seen by Indian’ officials in advices that a trading!schooner is in the vic- inity. Frank Daugherty, at Point Bar- row, reported sighting the schooner this morning. Officials said the scooner is ex- pected to land some supplies. The schooners’ name is not given in Daugherty's dispatch and unless it can help the situation the officials said no relief is sighted for at least two weeks. Harbor Full of Ice The Northland and North Star are enroute to Point Barrow with food but the harbor there is not yet ice free until late this month. Officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs said it would be impractica- ble to send a plane because of the small amount of food it could carry and the hazardous flying condi- tions. The shortage of food is attributed to the upusual scarcity of whales, sedls and walrus. AGAINST REBELS .~ IN NORTH, SOUTH B Spanish Government’s| Forces Defending Two | Coasts from Fascists | | SAN SEBASTIAN IS LOCAL POINT NOW Neutrality Action Announc- ed by France — U. S. | Keeps Hands Off ! LONDON, Aug. 12—Spain’s north- ern seaboard is today the focal| point for ! the Government’s drive to crush the Fascist revoluticn in the face of a smashing rebel at- tack to break through to the sea Another drive is on in the South‘ side against the rebels, in Cordcba | and Granada. The Government, forces have already captured Ov-| iedo and the rebels are .on the re-| treat, reported concentrated at Cor- doba and Granda Seville, said to be in control of the rebels, has been without elec- tricity and water for 24 days. Women on Battle Line In the northern sector, men and| { women. In sympathy with the Gov- ernment, fighting side by side, are| defending Irun from the rebel ad-| vance. | Artillery shells are reported iallmgi in Fuenterabala, in an effort to capture that city as the stepping stone to San Sebastian. | Rebel forces are this afternoon | reported to be within three miles of Lrun but.the Government forces |, are being augmented. =7 Newspapers, sympathetic to the| Spanish Government, reported to-| day that 32 rescued sailors from Lhc‘ rebel gunboat, which was sunk ati GURB IN D | A N @ Algeciras by a government warship, have been executed. Primero Enlists the Fascists. This afternoon, an official dis- patch from Madrid states the Gov- ernment has begun a purge of al-| leged Fascist sympathizers in mili- tary and diplomatic posts. | Fighting planes have been con-| centrated at Valencia on the East| Coast. | Two rebel chieftains, convicted of Senator Declares 80 Per Cent, Alaska Natives Tu- bercular, Due Indulgence LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 12.— Legislative action to curb liquor heading the revolutionary move-| Sales to Alaska Indians is promised by United States Senator Elmer ;z‘;’a ?:vzh:ele\d s:;a:’yaf 3;::%1 Thomas, of Oklahoma, w_ho has just juich fortress. | returned from an investigation trip Gty | to the northland. | Senator Thomas said: “In one NEUTRALITE SMEIKEMUNT | northern district, 80 percent of the PARIS, Aug. 12—The French gov-| Indians are tubercular and in the ernment has set August 17 as the opinion of many, this is largely the deadline for adherence to the neu- result of indulgence.” Wity semond. Senator Thomas is here with iSenaLur Lynn J. Frazier, of North U. S. POSITION Dakota, prior to going to New WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. — The| Mexico to hold hearings on boun- State Department announces the dary disputes between the Indians United States intends to “scrupu-| and whites. lously refrain from any interfer-| G Y7 IR T ence whatsover in the unfortunate| i Spanish situation.” Mrs Zluncheck GESTPACK gy ON REGORD IN Hyghand Buried PRI WM' SOUND Collapses at Funeral Serv- 640.232 C { Salmon| '® and Then Again gepa Lares R at Graveside Put Up in Cordova Area, Setthng All Time Mark SEATTLE, aug. I.—Near col- lapse, Mrs. Rubye Nix Zioncheck, 5 larges ver recorded Who saw her Congressman husband, in T;?mz‘:rsv«'“igli::xfis:u:; and ex- Marion A. Zioncheck, plunge ‘hve ceeding the great year of 1926, is stories to his death last Friday the salmon canning report from night, - had to be removed fro!'n the Warden Olson to the U. S. Bureau Eagles Auditorium during his fu- of PFisheries here. The 1936 pack neral services late yesterday and exceeds the last big year, 1926, in again at the graveside members of the area by several thousand cases, the family had to take her to a Warden Olson reported. | curtained limousxng whgn she be- The total pack in the area this| came overcome with grief. season was 640,232 cases compared| Between 2,000 and 3,000 people with 271,179 last season and 445274 | crowded the auditorium at the fu- in 1934, another banner year. | neral services and nearly 1,000 were The final pack figures for the dis-| unable to. gain admittance. trict follow: - EER e Pringe ‘William Sound — Reds,| EMERGENCY OPERATION 12,739; kings, 402; pinks, 509,795;| Rueben Peterson, of Kenal, was chums, 23397; cohos, 3900; total, |described as “resting easny'_ in the 640,232 cases. | Anchorage Hospital following an Warden Olson reported the big emergency operation, performed 45 pink run had decreased in the last | minutes after he arrived in An- three days. Streams in the district | chorage at the close of_ a mercy are very low due to lack of rain,|flight from Kenai, l_’not Steve he said, and the escapement has|Mills brought the stricken man ) been' small. into Anchorage, Jaime Primero has arrived at| Malaga offering to enlist against | iant Blue Soviet Monoplane Arrived in Juneau This picture of the Soviet fliers and their plane ns snxppad; by ‘Phctographer Leonard Delano just as the monoplane was being made fast to the float at the Pacific Alaska Airways hangar. Vietor Levchenko, co-pilot, is seen on the wing, and Sigismund Levanevisky, Chief Pilot, had just arisen in the gqekyit to ask if any ecne omgthe float spoke Russian. l | > THOM AS WUUI_[] ‘Substratosi)herreAFi' lzght to Be Made CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 12.—The first | coast to coast airplane flight in the | substratosphere is scheduled for Sep- tember 15 by the Transcontinental Western Air Lines. The hop will be from New York to Los Angeles. | The name substratosphere was| popularized by the late Wiley Post | who made experimental flights in ALASKA GOURT GASE REVERSED ~ BY OLM. JUDGE Mrs. Neeley, Formerly of Fairbanks, Is Given Sole Custody of Daughter | OLYMPIA Wash, Aug. 12.—Su- )perior Court Judge John M. Wil- son has issued a decree that Louise Neeley, aged 7 years, be in the sole custody of her mother, Mrs. Gladys Neeley, now a state employee, and formerly of Fairbanks, Alaska. Mrs. Neeley was divorced from| Everett L. Neeley, now in Seattle, in Fairbanks, in May, 1935, and the Alaska District Court had given the custody of the child to each parent in alternate years, but the decree made here gives the child | exclusively to the mother’s custody. | Neeley, who given the privilege of having his daughter visit him at reasonable times. ITAXPAYERS CAN AIR VIEWS THIS WEEK AT CITY HALL has remarried, is Only two taxpayers appeared atl the meeting of the Board of Equal- ization last night in the City Hall in connection with assessment mat- ters and city officials emphasized today that the Board meets every | imghc through Saturday night at 8} oclock in the Council Chambers and those who are not satisfied | with their assessments should be; in wifh their complaints, as thxs’, week is the last opportunity. ) from Coast to Coast in September an area ranging from 20,000 to 30- 000 feet up instead of 6,000 to 12- 000 feet where most flights are now made. It is admitted the high- er regions however, permit of fast- er and smoother flying. The plane to be used on the sub-| stratosphere flight will cost in the | neighborhood of $350,000 on account of experimenting being necessary. OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUR FARMS SEEN IN ALASKA Dr. Lloyd Believes Experi- mental Station, Southeast, . Be of Great Value That genuine opportunities for a greatly expanded fur farming in- dustry prevails in this region of Al- aska was the opinion expressed here yesterday by Dr. W. A. Lloyd, prin- cipal "Agriculturist for the Western Division of the Extension Service,| Department of Agriculture Accompanied by iorin T. Oldroyd, Director of the extensfon service of the University of Alaska which partly supported and works with the | Department of Agriculture, and Dr. Jules B. Loftus, Territorial Veterin- INDIAN BUREAU is| 'REPORTS PLANS FOR HOSPITALS Institutions to Be Erected! | at Ketchikan, Seward | [ and Bethel WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. — Dr James G. Townsend, Indian Af-| fairs Bureau Health Director said| that the Bureau would recommend | to the next Congress a program| calling for the construction of three! new hospitals in Alaska primarily| to check the spread of tuberculosis) | among the Indians. Dr. Townsend, who recently re- turned from a tour of the Terri- tory as far north as Point Barrow,! said that at least half a million dollars are needed to provide a| start toward adequate hospitaliza- tion facilities for Alaska Eskimos. The amount would also enable the Bureau to remodel the existing na- tive hospitals. | New hospitals would be estab- lished at Ketchikan, Seward and Bethel, to cost not less than $115,- | 000 apiece. It was also announced that the | Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church had completed arrange- ments to transfer its Barrow hos- pital to the government. The Church | is donating the hospital with the understanding that it is to be en- larged and operated hereafter by | the Bureau. Townsend ¢2id that the remod- | 'SOVIET FLIERS arian, Dr. Lloyd has been visiting| eling program, designed to enlarge fur farms in Southeastern Alaska| the hospital from eight to 16 beds, including those in the Juneau area| will be started the latter part of and will leave for the Westward on the Yukon tonight. | “Through their own experiment-| ing, study and effort the Alaskan fur farmers have made good pro-{ August. It is estimated that it will cost $20,000. The furthest uorth hospital will be staffed by Dr. Raymond W. Maurer, Bureau physician formerly gress, and their animals show the| é at Metlakatla, Miss Mary E. Speen- results of this.” Dr. Lloyd said. & | burge, ni transferred from St. “However, after looking over the| - Bc: UUFSe Elizabeth's hospital in Washington, D. C, and Miss. Mildred Keaton, Bureau nurse at Kotzebue. All are now enroute to Barrow, which will be the Bureau's seventh northland hospital, Ao B TR SCOUTS MEET THURSDAY IMPORTANT SESSION situation carefully in this area and| talking with many fur farmers my| conclusion is that an adequate gov-| ernment research laboratory and| experimental station located near| the center of the industry is badly | needed.” ! Dr. Lloyd pointed out, while the individual farmer had made pro-‘f gress, alded with what limited help | Dr. Loftus and the Extension de- partment could afford, that through | a proper ; an ex:erlfneentl;fise:::;, ]:‘?‘:{f"s&“gwfl Northern Light Presbyterian church e i to bid farewell to the out-going f;se;‘i‘;u::‘!‘ydyi‘:fm‘”;b]lhem‘r’i‘::;;"u::? Scoutmaster, Harold Gallwas, and to Z0 paRe | welcome the new leader, Wayne | Young. ) Members of the NoFflitemen oBy Scout Troop and their guests will meet Thursday evening at the (CanttanefT 7nin’ ;u gl- Elufo AT FAIRBANKS INFAST TIME Officially Greeted When Land on Lake Harding —Ferried to City MANY DISTINGUISHED MEN GIVE WELCOME Flight from Juneau Made in Perfect Weather with Tail Wind FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 12.— Soviet fliers Sigismund Levanev-| isky and Victor I. Lerchenko ar- rived at Lake Harding, 50 -miles from Fairbanks at 3:10 o'ciock yes- terday afternoon (410 o'clock Ju- neau time) after taking off from| Gastineau Channel at 12 noon. The fliers were met by a big delegation of citizens headed by Ma~ yor E. B. Collins, President Robert J. McKanna, of the Fairbanks| Chamber of Commerce; Foster Mc- | Govern, manager of the Alaska De- ! partment of Seattle Chamber of | Commerce; Gen. A. D. McRae, Can- | adian Senator here on business; Aviator William Lavery and Me-| chanic Clyde Armistead, decorated | by the Soviet Government for Arc-| tic service, and Acting Manager Joe Crosson, of the Pacific Alaska Airways. Crosson went out in a light local pontoon to ferry the two Russians | on a local hop to the city. The Chgna River, in front of the city, is suitable for a light plane landing, but mot suitable for the Russian -plane with its heavy load. The fliers reported a fine trip, excellent weather with a tail wind, to Fairbanks from Juneau on the 600 mile flight, S. E. FISH PACK RUNNING AHEAD OF LAST YEAR 2,113,619 Cases Packed Thus Far Compared with 1,955,890 Last Season With reports from all Southeast Alaska districts in at the Bureau of Fisheries office here, it is revealed that this season’s pack is running more than 150,000 cases ahead of last season. The total pack through last Sat- urday in the Southeast was 2,113,- 619 cases compared with 1955890 cases at the same time last season. Icy Strait, Western district, Yaku- tat and West Coast are all yun- ning well ahead aof last season. Most of the Icy Strait district is now closed. The pack for the three Southeast districts, unreported yesterday, fol- lows: Icy Strait — Reds, 39,678; kings, 22; pinks, 179,22 chums, 96.860; cohos, 7.975; total 322,756, ccmpared to 193,346 last season. | Ketchikan—Reds, 50,054; kings, 275; pinks, 545,701; chums, 136,597; cohos, 20414; total, 753,491, com- pared with 799,502 last season West Coast—Reds, 19.811; kings, 9,976; pinks, 188,831; chums, 17- 183; cohos, 10,044; total, 2543845 compared with 157,102 lasi season| at the same time. PILOTS SIMMONS. RINEHART MAKING AIR TRIPS TODAY Three flights were made today by planes of the Alaska Air Trans- | port Company, Sheldon Simmons, piloting the Bellanca Totem, hop- ping this morning to Lake Has- selborg to pick up Herb Redman’s fishing party, and later putting Bob Welch, of the Icy Straits Sal- mon Company, at Hoonah aboard his cannery tender at Point Re- treat. Pilot Jimmy Rinehart in the Stinson Patco, flew to Hoonah and Funter with two passengers for Hoonah and one of the latter point. P LS SR, DISCHARGED Mrs. Jessie Collier Smith, sur- gical patient, was discharged from the Government Hospital today WASHINGTON U 8-ARED CREW HARD PRESSED Forced to figx Near End of Course to Overhaul and Beat Britons 25,000 SPECTATORS CHEER GREAT FINISH Crew to Be in Finals on Friday—Hume Rows Despite lllness GRUNAU, Germany, Aug. 12. —Taken unawares by the strong British challenge, the University of Washington crew, of Seattle, Wash,, U.S.A., turned Iloose power and cracked all Olympic records this afternoon and won the first heat of the eight oared rowing competition. Trailing after a slow start, the University of Washington Hus- kies flashed a sensational spurt, overhauled the British eight in the last few strokes and won by a scant half a length. The Huskies made the course in six minutes and eight-tenths seconds, smashing the course record of 6:09 set by the Hun- garians, as well as the former Olympic Standard of 6:03.2 set by California at Amsterdam in 1928, The victory today qualifies the Huskies for next Friday’s final bui the win took all of the power they had to make the grade, with stroke oar Don Hume, of Olympia, Wash- ington, underweight, as the result of a severe cold. - “Trait Fiera The Huskles started slowly and trailed the field during the early stages, The Japanese rowers, with a fan- tastically high beat, ranging bes tween 40 to 50 strokes to the min= ute, set the early pace. of ‘The British pulled into the lead after 1,000 meters and Washington, finally hitting the stride, found the Britons disinclined to come back to them., Spectators Yell Hume had set the beat to 38 in the great finishing but the drive sent the Huskies across the finish as 25,000 spectators yelled approval. Far back trailed France, Japan and Ozechoslovakia. Hume, scaling only 158 pounds, seven pounds under his best weight was “all out” after the hard finish. Ulbrickson Talks The rest of the crew waited nearly a minute after the finish to give Hume time to regain his breath before starting back to the boat house where Al Ulbrickson grcetefl them quietly with: “Swell work boys. That was a much harder race than I expect- ed. The effect on Hume is the only thing worrying us but I believe an extra day's rest will bring him around.” Hume “Sick Boy” Ulbrickson said that Hume has “been a sick boy but has been- re- covering his strength steadily and despite the fact he is still much underweight rowed the race exactly as ordered but the opposition was ougher than we looked for, (Continues 6;Page Two) SEATTLE MAN IS WINNER OF BERLIN EVENT Jack Medicz; rcromes from Behind to Overtake Athlete from Japan BERLIN, Aug. 12.—Jack Medica, of Seattle, Washington, U. S. A, won the 400 metre free style cham- pionship today in four minutes and 445 seconds. Medica came in from behind to overtake Japan's Shumpie Uto in the last 20 metres and he clipped one second from the former Olympi¢ mark that Uto held in the prelim- inary trials. Shozi Makimo, who raced Medica in a dead heat yesterday, was third and Ralph Flanagan, of Florida, was fourth. Medica holds the world record in the event with time of 4:38.7 made two years ago, AR