The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 13, 1936, Page 3

TONIGHT is the NIGHT VIRGINIA BRUCE ALICE BRADY Light Fantastic Going Places Land of the Eagle LAST TIMES TONIGHT COLISEUM HAS | NEW TIBBETT FILM ON BILL Mmam Hopkms Is Featur- ed in “Splendor”” Now at Capitol priucipal attraction at selum Theatre where | Tibbett is currently starring in “Metropolitan,” the bright and charming romance of a young sing- er. In the Coli- magnificant voice through- out, Tibbett reveals new possibili- ties a romantic actor in “Metro- | politan.” Virginia Bruce is charm- ing and lovely in the romantic lead | | extends exactly one calendar month lead. Alice Brady gives one of most effective comedy ever seen on the screen. Miriam Hopkins came a long way from the gambling palaces of “Bar- bary Coast” to the drawing rooms| of New. York's Fifth Avenue night when “Splendor,” the | portrayals her new- est film came to the Capitol The-| this year by one who shall here be | known as atre. NORfHWESTERN ~ COMING NORTH TTLE, AIIL Northwestern !3. Steamer sailed for Southeast Alaska ports at noon yesterday with | clothing and thihgs for the family 174 first class and 28 steerage pas- | Some start sengers aboard. There is only passenger booked for Juneau, Frank Herman. B FARMERS LOOK NORTHWARD PRINCE GEORGE Farmers in the dust bowl ®f the | IS DUE TONIGHT @ Haig & Haig’s superior excellence puts it on top! Pinch Bottle or Five Star. SOMERSET IMPORTERS, LTD. Mlogie Weeh discolrnsed A g —_— boards, and bought out all that|fishermen with nets and food. The Jack of rain zince 1981°@nd ‘the| qanaqian National steamer Prince} could be found in Naknek finish-| fishermen are paid a flat price for continual failure of crops, are alli George is due in port at 7 oclock ing with a stack of candy and silk| the fish, the rate this year being eady to move to Alaska ab the| sonight npcaiding fo & radio pennants and pocket knives and cents, which is the highest| ;,’;I;,. i { ::;“i"“ ,{n‘(l’:;ll':“‘ 'I'I’““‘: ceived by Agent H. R. Shepard Sroni | e diia ever paid in Bristol |;.u Last year is now visiting in Kansas. JOhnson | sencers aboard the ‘I’rmc:- Georee| How much of the three million| fore 9% St | reports that ywhere he goes he | byy - there are many tourists mak- | S 21ready spent is of course SRS FiehenRony. Umon i is swamped with questions regard-| ino tne trip to Southeast Alaeicy. | 1IN that could hardly be guessed,| The Outside fishermen, and now| ing the chances of making a living — - *| though it is still a minor part, for| quite a number of the residents, off the land in Alaska. Johnson DISMISSED more than two thirds of the money are members of the Alaska Fisher-| also reports that all the farmers | is earned by the Outside fishermen,| men's Union, one of the oldest| in the Middle West are “hoping| A. L. Slagle, who has been re»“.md as these pay off in Seattle and| fishermen's unions in the wuxlcl.; that Roosevelt is elected again | ceiving treatment at St. Ann's Hos- | Sah Francisco, they have in most| and one of the strongest. It is af-| ‘pital for several weeks, was dis-|CaSes not yet collected their mon-| filiated with the American Federa-| The Empire for |missed this morning to return to|€Y- That a fair percentage of| tion of Labor through the Maritime quick results. his home on the Glacier Highway.| these Outside pay-checks go the| Federation, and this spring the lat- - same way as some of the Alaska|ter organization held up the sail- residents’ earnings may be sur-!ing of some of the cannery ships | mised from the scenes around the|in San Francisco until terms were cannsry offices in San ancisco | reached with the newly formed| and Seattle. A string of automo-| Cannery Workers' Union. The Al-| biles and taxis can be seen stretch- . Fishermen’s Union had al- ]n Scotch whiskies, too... thereis a class distinction 86.8° Proof Haig & Haig BLENDED SCOTS Wlllbl‘Y + NEW YORK « CHICAGO * SAN FRANCISCO You are invited to present this coupon at the box office of the Capitol Theatre and receive tickets for your- self and a friend or relative to see “Splendor” As a paid-up subscriber of The Daily Alaska Empire Good only for current offering Your Name May Appear Tomorrow WATCH THIS SPACE Lawrence | last | to buy furniture, supplies, food The steady increase of \('(\1(‘1\‘ in Alaska has brought more and| on trips to the Old|more residents into the boats mm} one | Country. Others go in for sight-| season. This year about two-thirds| seeing rides around Alaska, by air-{ of the boats were alloted to Out- plane, boat and automobile. It de-|side fishermen, and the remainder pends ugon what merchandise is{to Alaskans. With the "exception/ handiest when the money is there[of a few dozen privately owned | to be spent. This year one man| hoats, the fleets are owned by the P | private | her By ROBERT PIERCY (Editor's Note: — Mr. Piercy | The magic of great song is the| | feel they must spend it the same | way. Probably in the forty years of Bristol Bay fishing, the all-time | off July ‘mllm away, with nothing left but | a headache has recently returned- to his Juneau home after completing a season of fishing in Bristol Bay.) With a $3,000,000 payday turned loose from Nome to San Diego, the Bristol Bay salmon fishing season of 1936, the blue ribbon event of Alaska’s annual fisheries har- vest, is rapidly passing into his- tory. It is a saga of speed from the minute the first drift is made at 6 o'clock in the morning June h until the closing day. The season 25 | closing at 6 a. m. July A few of those who make it fast, speed record for spending was made Russian | that is not his name. Pete, because He got paid| 25 with $2,000 and awoke| on the 26th at Anchorage, 350 Run For Money Most of the fishermen get a better run for their money. With a few of them it lasts only a week or two. but many others send it home Catching Most Alluring (;amblo ! tical tlu- residents actually living in that| district. How Fishing Is Done The fishing is done by drift gill nets worked from double ended centerboard sailboats about 30 feet long and packing from 1500 to 2500 fish. Motor boats are prohibited by law. There are approximately 1200 of these sail boats, all prac- tically identical in appearancee, and when the fleets from the different canneries are getting away on'the tide before the opening of the season, or before re-opening each Thursday and Monday after being closed Wednesday and Sunday, the sight something hard to equal in any part of the world. It is said that this is the largest fleet of iden- boats to be found anywhere me limited area Crew of Two Men Each bhoat has a crew men, which means there is work for! cnly 2400 men in this field, and| for a number of years now the| competition for these jobs has been growing tremendously keen. The| situation is -complicated by a fu r competition between the re: is in the s of twol! ident and the Outside fishermen. Originally practically all of the| fishermen were brought in each| Spring by the packers, as there were but few resident fishermen in Al- aska, and only a small number of natives were employed Alaskans in Boats | fishermen in Bering Sea, however. exceeded the records of all past years, although they varied for the different sections. The fishermen! ‘n the Nushagak area as stated| above, were the unfortunate ones, | mit | get got started poking holes in punch-/ canne which also furnish the |'a few canneries in the 90's, ing for three blocks Alaska Packers’ office at fornia Street in San Fran y-off” day. In these taxis and cars are the wives and; sweethearts and long-haired chums | of the fishermen, each one appar-| ently seeing to it that she keeps| eye on the pay-roll when it emerges from the office. Great Setting Bristol Bay lies just above the the 141 Cali-| around 0 on| | Alaska Peninsula at the lower part | of the Bering Sea Beginning with it rap- the prin- idly came to the front as | cipal source of America's canned red salmon, and for years has been the undisputed world leader in this field. This year's pack was ap- proximately 1,400,000 cases, which | though nearly 400,000 cases shoxt | of the 1934 pack, is still a better than average yield. Last year the district was closed except for a | limited pack to give emplo;mem to | whenever ready made its agreement with the packers at this time. It is this agreement which has been the source of considerable friction be- twen resident and outside fisher-| men. | Terms of Contract For the terms of the contract be- tween the Alaska Fishermen's Un- ion and the packers provides that the packers employ a fishermen #5t a member of their| union, the packers will pay to the| union treasury a sum representing| one-third of the earnings of such| independent fisherman. With ap- proximately 800 Alaskan or “Inde- pendent” fishermen this year, earn- ing something like $1,000,000, it| means the packers will be paying the union several hundred thou- sand dollars. Exact figures are not | possible, for it is not known how many of the residents joined the Alaska Fishermen's Union. The| packols took no hand in the ~trug» ' Behind the Scenes in Filmdom - - | This excellent photo behind the scenes in filmdom shows the casting director of a leading film company in the process of selecting chorines for a forthcoming musical comedy. the candidates pass a strict movie test showing whether they screen in the desired manner. One of the requirements is that | men waiting around { carried on through the season. | few days before the season ended, 1500 or 1,500 miles away, igle between the Qutside Union and the - resident union; known as the 'United Fisermen of Alaska. Offi- cers, of the latter organization claimy , ing that fhe Outside Union is striving to enroll as many as possible of the resident members so as to “bredk” the resident union and thus control the Bristol Bay fishing— to prevent the residents becoming strong enough to dominate the sit-| uation and gradually exclude the outsiders altogether. | Using Indians 1 Another interesting factor in the| labor situation was the experiment| this year with a number of South-| east Alaska Indian gill net fisher-| men. Through arrangements made by the Alaska Native Brotherhood,' the Bureau of Indian Affairs ob-| tained jobs for twelve Indians, four from Wrangell, four from Juneau and four from Douglas. It was planned, if the showing this year justified, to endeavor to place al| larger number next year. Unfor- tunately those from Juneau fished | at Nushagak, where this year'’s| run was exceptionally poor. The average earnings of all the not making expenses. The run there| was so poor that the Bureau of Fisheries closed the distgict when the season was half over, to per- what few fish there were to through to spawn. The “high | boat" in this area was only 7,000] fish (about $400 per man), while! the average was less than half as| much Make About $1,000 | The run in the Egigik river only fair, the fishermen making about $1,000. In the Naknek (lls-’ trict it was a little better, show-| ing about $1,250 average. The best| fishing was in the Kvichak, where| the average was above $1,500. | Individual high boat for the whole | Bering Sea again goes to Ivor Ivor-| sen and his partner, fishing the Libby cannery at Graveyard Creek. Ivo! S0 many ars that it ) Air .. is the most colorful, SIMMONS OFF, CHARTER TRIP Under Lharlcx to Mrs. E, L. Snmh. Sheldon Simmons in the Alaska Transpert Bellarca left this morhing for Taku Lodge where he left Mrs. Smith, return- at 12:30 o'clock ‘this after- noon. At 2 o'clock he took off again with Lloyd Jarman as flight mechanic for Taku Lodge to pick up Mrs. Smith and Mary Joyce for a flight to Atlin, Whitehorse and probably Dawson, returning to- MOrTow. to kill time for two or three weeks | waiting for a steamer. Big Run—Gamble Unique in every respect, the ble of a big run, or few fish, open or closed season, the thirty days to make a stake for the year or not, for the fishermen, or to lose gam- red salmon fishing in Bristol Ba: ing season in all-the world. But averaging the good years with | it continues to aid material-| lean, ly to the support of an apprec- iable part of Alaska's population, and through the *stakes” made there many have gained more sta- ble and secure livlihoods, contrib-| uting to the gradual but consist- ent growth and progress of the Territory. - eee ADMITTED John Gullikson, medical patient, was admitted to St .Ann’s Hospital yesterday evening. w:x«“’ Sy s UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR General Land Office U. S. Land Office Anchorage, Alaska July 12, 1936 Notice is hereby given that R..F. Lewis of Juneau, Alaska, has made for | application for a Soldier's Addi- tional Homestead, Serial 08160, for sen has been high for |a tract of land containing 9.48 acres is almost | situated northwest of, and adjoin~ taken for granted that he will lead|in the townsite of Juneau, Terri- the procession; piled up a this year total of nearly his boat'tory of Alaska. 48,000 bers S. 67° 51" 40” W. 41,21 chains | fish—which is a lot of fish to pull | distant from Cor. U. S. L. M. No. 3 No. 1, this survey out of a net one by one and throw, 2219. Latitude 58° 18’ 18” N., Longi- on a tally scow the same way, in the [tude 134° 24’ 45” W. 19% days actually devoted to fish ing. Tt figures close of fish Highest Average made at the Atlantic cannery at Squaw Creek Any and all persons claiming ad- to 200 tons versely any of the above mentioned {land claims or protests within the period | The highest average earnings was | of publication or 30 days thereafter, | and Pacific'in the U. S. Land Office, Anchor- The res- | age, should file their adverse Alaska, or they will be barred ident fishermen averaged 31,000 fish by the provisions of the statutes, (about $2,0000 and the Outsiders|and final proof will be accepted averaged 34,000. In this cannery and final certificate issued the sixty boats were equally divid-| GEORGE A. LINGO, ed between outside fishermen and Register. residents, so that the outsidersyPirst publication, Aug. 6, 1936. pay off with about $3,000" apiéce, Last rmbllcatlon Oct. 1, 1936. figuring the $600 to $700 thvv get| from their union for the third” earnings of the residents. Death Takes Hand | There is always a note of sad- ness, when the totals are figured up each year for Bristol Bay, for death always takes a hand. The the bunk- houses before the season starts al- ways talk of this, remembering back a dozen years ago when more than 30 men were drowned. On opening day this year a man fell off a tally scow at Coffee Creek and was drowned, and by radio and every other means of communica- tion the word had spread to every man in the fleet within 24 hours. “Starting early this year,” the men would say to each other, “I wonder who will be next.” But the remainder of the season was singu- larly free from such disasters, | though several other deaths did oc- cur, Tragic Ending H There was one veteran fisherman from Cordova who seemed too ill to fish when the season opened Despite the predictions of all who saw him, he went in his boat, and A with $1500 earned, he collapsed, | and died in the Koggiung !Io.spltal next day. Tom Wilson, one of the Douglds Indian fishermen, made an excel- lent showing for a newcomer to Bristol Bay, finished the season' with well over a-thousand dollars earned. A few days later he dis- | appeared, and his body was recov- ered only last week. The mystery of his disappearance had not been cleared, but talk of foul play is discounted by the fact that he had not drawn his money Great Problem The greatest problem of the res-| ident Bristol Bay fishermen is, transportation. When the season | ends, hundreds of fishermen with| a thousand or more dollars in their | possession find themselves all ready | to go home and no way to go. Resi- dents of Unalaska, out in the Aleu-| tion Islands, and of Sanak Island, below the Alaska Peninsula, flew in to Anchorage this year just be- cause the planes were going that way. The mail boat Starr, con- necting with their homes, left a day earlier, and would not be back ' for a month.. So these islanders,| along with many others, flew to| Anchorage, and had to spend three weeks killing time there and at Seward waliting for a boat to take them home, Sometimes the fish-| ermen bound for Alaskan homes buy the boats they have fished in, and sail them home, finding they can ar-| rive with a much larger percentage | of their pay day than if they hnvex seaplane, | or| | make a fortune by the packers, the exciting fish- | { pleted,” / dmruel C feldwin sents fRIAM HUPHIN TONIGHT Also—KEY with cast of all the old Keystone Comedians Stranger Than Fiction Jungle Waters News Mldnlghl Preview—“THE MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO” NEW DELIVERY SHED 5k i v (b b E. W. G. Morris, local conttactor, ‘M““‘-‘r started work this morning with a | crew of men to alter the rear entrance, on Second Street, of the United Food Company. “When com- Manager R. R. Brown said, “we expect to have the most mod- | ern delivery shed in Alaska. Slid- ing automatic doors will protect the wide entrance and it will be possible to drive our delivery trucks under cover and into the delivery room. This will eliminate much handling.” Zynda Ruth Young, Seattle; E. J. Rice, Chichagof; W. H. Bacon, Auk Bay; Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Garvea, Du- luth, Minnesota. Alaskan Norberg, Petersburg; DuPont; Ellis John- Mike Brandt, City. - BRENNO LEAVING FOR VISIT SOUTH Melvin Brenuc is leaving on the Princess Louise for a visit of two months in the States. He will visit with relatives in Seattle and Va- | shon, Washington, and also plans on motoring through Oregon, Cali~ Mrs. Alice Henry Museth, son, City; > > W : l AT THE HO"ELS e Frank Cameron; Mrs. F. Rainey, Fairbanks; Frank Scully, Seattle; fornia and Idaho. Alfred E. Young, Seattle; John W. —_———— Taylor, Seattle; Baxter Felch, Se- IN FROM DUPON attle; Odin Jensen; H. L. Brewer, Henry Museth is in from DuPont Oregon; L. G. Wingard, Seattle; |and is registered at the Alaskam. 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