The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 1, 1936, Page 8

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSbAY, OCT. 1, 1 8 SOMMERS FINDS " BUSINESS 600D ALL OVERU. S, Next Three Years Expected to Continue Upward, Says Builder R. J. Sommers oi the R. J. Som- mers Conmstruction Company re- turned to Juneau on the Alaska after a tw trip outside to secure the final supplies and equip- ment for the new Alaska Electric {1 Lignt and Power Company build- ¥ing which his company is -erectng “Prosperity,” said Mr. J_.nmers, “has evidently turned the corner In every line of businass it is the same story — increasing activity, optimism and the conviction that with the exception of a slight slow- ing down for winter, conditions will continue to improve. From every observation I could make, better times have arrived in the States as well as in Alaska, and it is difficult to imagine anything that will check business growth at a steady pace for at least the next three years.” Is General 1\ The improvement is apparently general throughout the Unuv(l‘ States, sccording to the local ('Un-‘ tractor | “If there were any doubt on that score,” he added, “you don’t have to| look for your evidence. There were| more than 2,500 persoms who came west from Minnesota to see the foot- | ball game against Washington last Baturday. There were- two special! trains and seven transpoit planes| chartered. Certainly it's been many | years since that much money has been spent for traveling to an inter- | sectional football game,” ,‘ Skilled Workers Scarce Mr. Sommers declared that con- struction work and factory output| is restricted to considerable extent by the difficulty in obtaining ex- perienced workers. "Business is feeling the drain of the lean years when there were few apprentices employed by industry. " he said. “There is a normal retire- ment of probably five percent among the ranks of expert craftsmen, and during that time apprentices were' not eneaged. Now the cycle has come around and the ranks are empty to that extent. Fortunately, this situation is being corrected and thousands of new apprentices are learning their trades.’ Secure Material Mr. Sommers said that all mater- ials to complete the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company build- ing have either arrived or been shipped. “The last of it is coming ' ROOSEVELT CAR DAMAGED IN The hurricane which swept up the Atlantic seaboard toppled a tree across the automobile of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of the late president, at Oyster Bay Cove, L. I., N. Y. The car was driven by his son- in-law, who was shaken up but not badly hurt. (Associated Press Photo) ESKIMO RACE ON INGREASE, SAYS GREIST Retiring Pt. Barrow Mis- sionary Says Hospital Saved Natives Declaring that, contrary to pre- dictions made by scientists twenty- five years ago, Alaska's Eskimo race has been saved from extinction, Dr. Henry Greist, reuring Presbyter- ian missionary and physician from Point Barrow, passeu chrough Ju- neau cn the Yukon today, enroute to the states “to rest for a while.” Counting as the principal fruit of his seventeen years in the Arctic, the satisfaction of having helped to ‘(rm the tide of destruction against he” Arctic natives, Dr. Greist said: “When I went to Point Barrow. records indicated the Eskimos were doomed. The death rate was far higher than the births. The natives were easy prey to every epi- demic that swept the country. Extinction Forecast “Some authorities had predicted |that within fifty years, the Eskimo |race would be so badly decimated {that only a handful would survive into another generation. | “The establishment of our hos- | pital at Point Barrow—the only in- e — HURRICANE ___ |pyifics Lively | on Pacific Coast Mahnniy Reports Democratic Trend in West- ern States—Borah, Mc- Nary Are Favorites Back from an extended trip on which he took prisoners to St. An- ington State, William T. Mahoney, returned on the Alaska, re- xion 1i2- v10 (ported the poltical comp: ly in the Statés and bus lmg along rapidly. In Butte, Mont., where 6,000 men are employed in the mines, he found of President Roosevelt, although the Republicans are putting up a real battle. Senator Borah is consid- jtion in Idaho, he reported, both Republicans and Democrats appar- ‘enlly believing he will be success- ful. The Pacific Coast States will| g0 under the Democratic banner| in the November election, the Mar- shal believes, judging from the' comment he heard. Congressman McNary in Oregon also seems destined to win, the Marshal reported, and key to the tuation seems to be that neither| The conditions in their houses are with a smile that he and Mrs. Greist almost hopeless for an invalid, where have been reading the catalogs S0 many persons are crowded into about motor trailers, and he said, one small room. “We may buy one and live in that for a while. We're going through the Southwest, to New Orleans and | possibly back to Texas and into Old Mexico. But we won’t plan our route more than one day in ad-| vance.” While looking forward to enjoy Come 500 Miles Now “As a result of our work, the Es- kimos now bring their ailing to the hospital from as far as 500 miles away. The medicine man is a thing of the past. Fully 95 per cent of the the National campaign, sticking | solely to local issues. McNary even ;f{nl(‘d to meet Col. Frank Knox ;whnn the latter appeared in Ore- | Mahoney was told in Port- | land McNary, he said, is going to| |draw a big vote from both the! Democratic and R« 936. "Little progress was Be n the Post-Intelligencer st¥ike ‘f - attle when he was there and mfinyw‘ - Now Passable to were of the opinion the P. I. would not resume publication. Seattle, he said, is split asunder politically, but the state as a whole appears Democratic. The Maritime strike may not be settled for a long time, the Mar-| shal said it appeared from conver- sations he had, but he does not an- ticipate a cessation in shipping for some time yet, not at least for sixty days. The employees whom he talked to seemed to be convinced that poli- tics had entered the dispute and blamed the ship owners for attempt- ing to use the controversy againstihighway from Dawson to thony's in Idaho, Portland, Ore., President Roosevelt, he said. Most|aska boundary. a link ‘of and Monroe Reformatory in Wash- of the men, he found do not want|jectéd 250 miles 6f Inte: to strike. e SIMMONS MAKES THREE Sheldon Simmons made three industry booming and reports gen- fl\ght_s in the AAT Bellanc_a today, erally indicating a trend in favor the first at 6 in the morning. On the first trip the passengers were: F. F. Rouse, Clarence Rands, Ralph Alasl@uumlar Ter!'itory's Link of Interna- tional Route to Cost Over Two Million DAWSON, Y. T, Oct. 1. — The the Al Highway .between here and: -Fair- banks, has beenf improved this sum- mer and ‘the work is now complet- ed, making a passable road ‘between aess mov- | LOCAL FLIGHTS TOD AY |Pawson and the boundary, officials said here today. The route is plan- ned to connect with the Yukon highway from Fairbanks. ALASKA END TENTATIVE The Alaska end of the road link Malson, and A. Jacobsen, who were/between Dawson and Fairbanks, or up Saturday. At 10 o'clock this morning, Sim- mons flew graceries and supplies to Lisianski Inlet and brought back A. M. Richmond and Art Thane, re- turning at 12, On the third trip he took W. P. Mills, Ada Penenf, John Doe, Paul Paulson and Pete Jensen to Sitka. E U RN GOING HOME Alice Brownell, wife of the Mayor States. PRSHERE e e TOUSSAINT RETURNS Bob Toussaint, of the Territorial weeks in the States. s i Lode and placer tocation netioes lered almost a certainiy for re-elec- dropped at Chichagof to be picked'180 miles from Fairbanks to the boundary line, is estimated to cost $2,250,000 as it is all new con- struction, according to Chief En- gineer Ike P. Taylor of the Alaska Road Commission, who returned on the steamer Yukon today from a trip to the Interior, and there is no immediate indication that the money will be made available by Congress for the undertaking which has long been proposed as a part of the International Highway. Borah nor McNary, both Repuh-‘oi Seward, is aboard the Alaska| Mr. Taylor reports -oad work in lican, have taken an active part in enroute home after a trip in the the Interior nearing the end for |the season, another week or 10 days winding up the summe¥ ‘activ- ity. The major work this summer was the opening of the road be- gon in behalf of his candidacy for Treasurer's office, has returned tween Anchorage and Palmer, he | Vice-Presidency on the Repub]ican:from a vacation trip of several reported, and maintenance work on other routes. Preliminary grad- ing was done on the road extension in McKinley National Park to the the zo ui{denlfig and re-surfacing was dore in the area. The Chief Engineer will be here but a few days, expecting to go south by the next boat, enroute to Washington for the annual budget hearing, where he will present Al- aska's case before the budget board. A.J.DIMOND, SON LEAVE FOR SEATTLETODAY .thl; Dimond, Injured in . Explosion on Gasboat, Now Recovered Delegate Anthony J. Dimond and son John, who has been receiving treatment at St. Ann's Hospital for third degree burns suffered in an explosion on a gashoat, are leaving on the Northwestern enroute to Se- attle and then to Washington, D. C,, their home. Young Dimond, who graduated from a preparatory school in the na- tnon’s capital last spring, has been in Juneau all summer as a mem-, ber of the Rev. Bernard Hubbard’s exploration party, which this year worked in the Taku country. About a month ago, the nine- teen year old boy was taken to the hospital for treatment for burns, and his father, notified by radio, came here at once from Ketchikan. Delegate Dimond has spent (he last several weeks in Alaska and successfully campaigned for his re- election to Congress. - MOUNTIE GUES THROUGH H. R. Hurley, Canadian Mounted police member, is aboard the Prin- cess Louise enroute from Vancou- ver to Dawson, where he will re- place the mountie who was drowns ed there recently. Caught Little Food Dr. Greiss sala that no seals and practically no fish were caught in that region this year, that the wolves had reduced the Barter Is- land herd of reindeer to 600 head of woefully weak animals, suffer- ing some hoof disease as a result of being driven into swampy lands. Since then the herd has been moved to higher ground. Permission to move an additional herd from the vi- cinity of Point Barrow to Barter Island was refused by the Reindeer Supervisor at Nome. But while he was in the Juneau office of the Bu- reau of Indian Affairs today, Dr. Greist was informed that Governor natives living along the Arctic Coast ing his motor trip, Dr. Greist sai have been converted to Christian-'that he cannot realize he is leaving ity. | Alaska without a feeling of sadness. Dr. Greist also had plenty to say, “This land is our home,} he said. concerning the storm that has raged | - e around the stories of suffering of | natives near Barter Island. He said 3 CREWS RUNNING that despite messages disputing his| first reports of privation, the inves-| SURVEYS IN INTERIOR, { ticket. tigation by Frank Daugherty of the| .t Indian Affairs School Dept. have| GEO' PARKS REPORTS shown the dire need of these peo- | ple. The Revenue cutter Northland, [Three crews are DOW SLNGEE ex- and the Bureau of Indian Affairs ‘ending rectangular surveys in the vessel North Star have since un-|Interior, according to Distriet Ca- loaded tons of food at Point Bar- dastral Engineer George A. Parks row, to be taken along the coast to Of the Public Survey office, who re- Barter Island turned here on the Yukon after a general inspection trip to the In- terior. U. 8. Cadrastal Engineer Floyd G. Getts has two crews in the Goldstream country and Sur- veyor L. M. Berlin has a crew in the lower Kuskokwim. They ex- pect to wind up work for the season n akout a month It has been an especially good ason in the Interior and West- ward, former Gov. Parke reported, and there is lots of building, es- pecially at Fairbanks and Anchor- age MINING ENGINEER LOCKE 'GOING SOUTH epublican ranks. |for sale at The Empire oftice proposed new hotel site and some All that is New and Approved for Autumn As the Season changes, so change your desires and preferences in Home-furnishings! thing” new may be inexpensively satisfied at JUNEAU-YOUNG’S. The urge for “some- {stitution of its kind in all that coun- {try—was the beginning of the fight on the Northland,” he declared. Troy had two weeks ago sent word The Juneau contyactor is plan- Preston Locke, Pasadena, Califor- agains s| 'S ruction. | to Point Barrow authorizin the ning to take next week's westwnrd1;%;::5:}\:}];&‘5:(;:: sbegsflwon is|moving of such reindeer asg were Dia, mining engineer, passed through NEW PATTERNS 4 | boat to Seward, where he will enter| cjoarly indicated in recent vital sta- | needed. Juneau on the Yukon after a trip i a bid for construction of the hydro- | tistics. Births are now running far To Take Auto Tour to the interior investigating quartz [ elect plant'for that city. Bids are ahead of deaths and disease has| Dr. Greist says he has no defin- gold claims in the Goodpaster coun- ARMSTRONG to be opened Otcober 12. |been combatted successfully for |ite plans for the future. His former try east of Fairbanks. e {onalid home is at Monticello, Indiana, but Locke was employed by the Amer- LINOLEUM GAME HUNTER HERE |" “We changed the habits of the na- (he does not intend to go there un- ican Smelting and Refining Com- —_— tives by making it a rule that any|tll next‘spring or summer. Mrs. pany of Boston, which has taken The most fascinating and F. W. Woodruff, big game hunt- |stricken person, or any woman ex- |Greist left Nome on the Baranof and an option on more than 40 claims attractive designs in charm- er of Joliet, Ill, passed through |pecting child birth, must be moved |will join him at Seattle and they in the Goodpaster section as a re- ing color combinations. Juneau aboard the Alaska enroute | to the hospital for attention. It was|plan to start a motor trip to the sult of Locke's findings. 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