The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 7, 1937, Page 8

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 7, 1937. M.E. S, BRUNELLE| HAS PROPOSALS FOR LEGISLATION Senior Senatm from Third| Division Reports Good Season at Cordova favoring a minimum | school teachers, Ter- | and the So are of espec Legislation wage law for ritorial sale of liquor cial Security Act interest to M. E. S.Brunelle, Demo- crat of Cordova, senior Senator from the Third Division, who ar- rived in Juneau on the Gen. W. C Gorgas Tuesday from his home. In legislation for a minimum for school teachers of thc ritory or Brunelle would raise pre t qualifications for teaching in Alaska Senator Brunelle's propo re- garding legislation for the coming | session are in line with his ch manship during the 5 ture of the committee tion Health, Morals, torial Offices and Institutions.|~ 0 committees of which Senator |Kennccott and the accumulated Brunelle was a member during the ore at the mine down to Chitina Jast Legislature are Fisheries, Game |before ciosing for the season. Five 1 Agriculture; Mining, Manu-|thot ns of ore are now on facturing and Labor; Engrossment /the ground at Cordova awaiting and Enrollment. {shipment south. He is President of the Territorial| The Nabesna mine has had a Chamber of Commerce. |good and is looking forward Good Season at Cordova Lo in ised production, :wcordmg In spite of strikes, Cordova has to Senator Brunelle. On Dan Creel had a good season, according to!Jack Price, former operator or Senator Brunelle. The fishing sea- [the property, is back getting ready son was the best in history. In-|for the spring season. The Eastern terest in mining has increased!corporation that had been operat- prospecting in the Copper River ing it for the past several years, section. |has given up the option. Fcod Shortage ]‘ Mrs. Brunelle in California At present Cordova suffering| Mrs. Brunelle and the three chil- from a food shortage as the result dren of the family are spending of the maritime strike. Since the |the winter in Concord, California, beginning of the strike the situa- |and will remain there until school tion there has been bad, Senator[is out—a time to which Senator Brunelle said. For three weeks the Brunelle is looking forward, as he | town was out of flour, butter, eggs has not seen the newest member and potatoes. The arrival of the of the family, Linda Jane. who was Gen. W. C. Gorgas relieved the born in California in October. situation somewhat, but the town Gretchen is another addition to now has no greens and is on a |the family since Senator Brunelle ration of six cans of milk per sale|Was in Juneau in 1935, and young | until the arrival of another ship Pat was the Brunelle’s only child. from the south which will not be|Pat is now in school and very until late this month. |proud of his two young sisters. Senator Brunelle, who is em-| Senator Brunelle is living at the ployed by the Copper River and Gastineau Hotel. Northwestern Railroad at Cordova, | | nalie: A represented Gov. John W. Troy in| JUNEAU MEN PLAN the railroad strike that lasted from | e e prasee| TO OPEN MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENT HERF, i BRI ed by the Governor for the work he accomplished in bringing the W, employers and employees together | and arranging the settlement of the strike. But of this the Senator from Cordova had little to say. It was a job given him to do, and! he is happy that he was able to accomplish it. Weather Cleced R. R. Bad luck has followed the road since the strike ended. Only four trains had run before weather |jamin tock out snow sheds and slides George H. Gombert, William B. clcsed the road. After the road Conve Thomas E. Taylor, Wil- wes open, it was closed again the liam Bale, J. V. Simon and R. B, before Thanksgiving, and there Lesher. had been no train over the route Bert Elstad is named Alaska ag- since then, when Senator Brunelle | |ent of the brewery firm which is left Cordova. A train was scheduled capitalized for $127,121. Incorpora- to leave January 4 and it was| |tors are J. F. Lanser, Harry R. hoped to continue service neces- ! Lawson, John C. Agnew, Dan Klein- to get winter supplies into berg and Cassius E. Gates. iled with the Territorial Auditor by the Alacka Mercantiie Co-op of Juneau and the Columbia Breweries, Inc., of Tacoma. Wash. The Co-op is capitalized for 525- {000 and has the following inco: rail- | porators: Robert H. Graham, Vir- gil Newell, Ronald R. Lister, Ben- Taylor, Daily Cross-word Puzzle Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle [MPISEEINIS ElSPIUIR] [TIARIA] ['JEIIIIEIE EEEN 8. Speak under the breath 9 Part of a plant 10. Poker term lé. Fi ACROSS 1. European mountaing . Self Outer garment . Copious . Corded eloth Sharpening stone . Open court . Insect . Particle ‘ruit Hurr colloq. 2L Pertaining to the roof of the mouth 23. American railways: collog. 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CONGRESS UP IN AMPLE TONNAGE, AR OVER FOR'S FOR SECOND TRIP GOURTATTITUDE OF W. C. GORGAS Admlmstlatlon Predicts Surprises in Budget Tomorrow Governor Advises Chlson —Urges Ship Weekly Southeast, West WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. — Presi- dent Roosevelt had Congress guess- ing today in regard to his out- spokenness toward the courts. Plans for wage and hour legislation are awaiting definite indication from | the President as to how far he desires to go. Party ranks are threatening to split into factions as the alternatives become plainer. | Both Houses of Congress were |in recess today, but members de- bating in their private quarters, speculated whether President Roose- velt had any specific course in mind to assure “liberal interpre- |tation” of the Constitution by the | Supreme Court. | In the President’s next message to Congress, to be given tomorrow, |he will submit the proposed budget !to the lawmakers. Administration leaders are predicting that the bua- get hgulea to be submitted will contain “surprise: and a closer wpproach to pay as you go. Giving assurance that there will | be plenty of tonnage, Gov. John W. Troy radioed Col. Otto F. Ohlson and J. R. Ummel, Alaska Railroad' representatives, advising that it is essential the motorship North Star, scheduled to sail Sunday, bring Skagway freight and deliver it at)| Skagway and also that the Gorgas |should follow the North Star wnh- in 2 week or 10 days. ‘ Supplying tonnage figures, the Governor urged that a ship a week be provided for the Westward and an additional ship be arranged for Southeast Alaska weekly. A survey being taken sy the Governor reveals that Junead has orders placed for 700 tons on the| Gorgas, Wrangell has 150 tons on| order and will need more; Ketchi- kan 750 tons on order and I,000- ton special when it can be brought | north; Petersburg, 200 tons and| need 200 tons later; Craig, 80ctons \and Haines, 40 tons. Other cities have not yet reported HOLDEN FLIES ppp passengers PAINTERS T0 ' prg Goming Here SITKA TODAY g Esteteth, Rail With Fred Wendt, proprietor of | the Ideal Paint Store, and three other painters aboard, the Marine Three Ternlorlal Represen- tatives Among Passengers Due Via Skagway | | | | Airways Fairchild seaplane, piloted | by Alex Holden, with Sonny Lund as flight mechanic, took off from | Juneau for Sitka this morning at | 10:30 o'clock. 2 5 " The four painters will remain in | After being, grounded ‘In WEGS (horse for two days, ten Juneau Sitks, for gbout three weeks, work'lbound PAA Electra passengers left ing on a job there. Holden and Lund returned to by rail. for Ekegway: this motgi, Juneau in the seaplane this Mter—‘At Skagway they will board the nom; aerivi }‘]erp a:l 2:45 o'clock. I motorship Estebeth tonight to com- 2 8 A = * | plete their trip to Juneau from the Holden carried mail both ways on 2 2 his flight to Sitka today. g‘:f:l‘;'g axlvige e re lomiEEE MINNIE DOOLEY, e VIOLINIST, MAKES horse, but is expected to return HER DEBUT HERE Miss Minnie Dooley, who arrived on the Gen. W. C. Gorgas from the Westward, made her Juneau de- but today with her violin selections when she played at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Miss Dooley has just completed a two y 's engaagement at Cordova and is now to be the leader of the “Irving String Band” at the Ter- minal Cafe, making her first ap- pearance on Saturday night and ,then at the Sunday dinner dance. The accomplished violinist was a pupil for eight years of Rudolph Vanarnium, who studied at the Leipzig Conservatory of Music,} toured Europe, and played with the Philadelphia Symphony. Abraham Lincoln Still Serving to advices received in Juneau by PAA Agent Louis A. Delebecque. Among the passengers from the Interior coming to Juneau by rail and the Estebeth are three Terri- torial Legislators, Representatives Leo Rogge and Dan Green, from the Fourth Division, and Represen- Second Division. RIOT CALL FLINT, Mich,, Jan. 7.—A riot call late this afternon sent squads of police to the Chevrolet Motor Com- pany tomorrow night owing to strikes in other plants supplying parts. - LAURIE RETURNS Ed Laurie, levelman for the Bureau of Public Roads, returned to Juneau on the Gorgas after Abraham Lincoln, as almost ey-|working on the Lawing-Moose Pass ,ery school boy knows, was in his| project the B. P. R. has underway. younger day$ before® rising to na-|L. W. Turoff, B. P. R. engineer, tional fame a postmaster. Remark-|who has charge of the work, is able thing is that Abraham Lincoln| expected to return to Juneau with !stil is a postmaster, and, inci-|his family on the next southbound dentally, at White Mountain, Alas-|trip of the Gorgas. ka. ————— This latter Lincoln, named no) GETS SUSPENDED SENTENCE doubt for the martyred President, s officiates at his postal duties at the| Charles “Chuck” Dommy charg- little postoffice away up by Nome.|ed with assault and battery in He is an Eskimo and reported to|connection with the alleged black- authorities here that he sold two|ening of the eye of Laddie Kyle duf.k stamps during the past season.|New Year’s eye, was given a sus- T e pended sentence of two months in IS OPERATED UPON the Federal Jail after a hearing Frank Krhul, from Chichagof, /before U. S. Commissioner Felix was admitted to St. Ann's Hospital | Gray yesterday afternoon. engers were killed when this all-metal German transport plane | | |James Ramsay, Jr., ‘to Fairbanks very soon, accm'ding; tative W. Leonard Smith, from the | 's plant which will be closed | RIVERS FAVORS 'LIQUOR LAWS, SECURITY ACT Sena!m from Fou\lh Con- servative as to Budget, Liberal Improvements regulations in the the Social Security | Act are m itters of interest to Sena- |tor Victor C. Rivers, Democrat, of Fairbanks, who arrived in Juneau cn the last steamer from the South |to g of the 1937 ‘Iunm al | Senator River: sgislature is in favor of local lupm,n in liquor control, especially {as regards the closing regulations. | He favors also the passs of suit- | able regulatfon to place Alaska un- |der certain provisions of the Social Security Act. The new member of the Senate !from the Fourth Division is a con- |servative as to administration bud- gets and a liberal as to Territorial | improvements, he said today. A resident of Alaska for 24 years, Scnator Rivers is a member femily promin°nt in Democratic party affairs in the Fourth Division, where his brother, Ralph Julian Riv- ers, is District Attorney. Senator Rivers went through the public scheols of Fairbanks, studied engin- eering at the University of Wash- ington and Northwestern. He is a building and mining contractor. Since arriving in Juneau, tor Rivers has been askad to repre- |sent his division, with Andrew Ner- land, at the meeting of the Terr torial Chamber of Cominerce Jan: uary 15 and February 22. Mrs. Rivers, who is recovering now from a major operation recent- ly undergone in Seattle, and Kent Victor, two and one-half year old son of the family, accompanied Sen- ator Rivers to Juneau. They are at the Decker Apartments whiie here. LAST RlTES HELD FOR JAMES RAMSA Funeral services were held this afternon for James Ramshy, prom- inent Juneau citizen and pioneer of | Alaska. He was a member of the Masons, Shrine, Odd Fellows, and | Pioneers of Alaska. The Masonic | bodies conducted the ceremony At |the Scottish Rite Temple and in | terment was in the Masonic plot of Evergreen Cemetery. His wife and three children sur- vive him, Mrs. James Ramsay, Mrs. say, of Juneau, and Mrs. Wright of Ketchikan e Lalph Lode and prace. .wcadon notices ‘or sale at The Empire office. | { CONTENTS |PINT IN 1853 CANADIANS SAID **CorBY's* last night and underwent an op- - ,eration this morning. Today's News Today—Empire. of a l | di i kan. Mr. David Ram- | ‘nec Emergency Acts fo Be Extended ~ During January Congress Plans to Lengthen Life of Money Legisla- ‘ tion to June, 1939 WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. — Con- gressional and Administration chieftains are charting plans to push three major bills through Con- gress this month. The proposed legislation will in- clude the extending for two and one-half years the life 6f the Treas- ury Department’s mongtary stabil- ion powers. It is planned that Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion extensions will also include the power to issue Federal Reserve notes 1cainst Government securities up to one hundred percent. Some other emergency agencies will likewise be prolonged. It is exepzcted to extend all these|e’ emergency acts until June 30, 1939, sion that the Pres by preclamation, could end r functions of the RFC. Republican Senators have re-elect- ed Charles L. McNary, of Oregon, s their floor leader. . < , STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Jan. 7. — Closing quotation” of Aleska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 119'2, American Light and Power 15, Anaconda 54%, Bethlehem Steel |76%, Calumet and Hecla 16%, Com- monwealth and Southern 3%, Cur- tiss-Wright 6%, General Motors 667, International Harvester 104%, Kennecott 62%, New York Central 52%, Southern Pacific 467:, United | States Steel 79, United Corpora- | tion 7%, Cities Service 42, Pound | [$4.917%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow, | SPECIAL MEETING By Sawmill Workers Union, Sat- urday, 7 pm., in Miners' Union Hall, —adv. RED REVOLT IN TWO PROVINCES OF N. W. CHINA American Woman [nflu-| ences Chang’s Manchurian Troops Jomt Communists LABOR PARTY RALLY MINERS’ HALL Friday Night January 8 Seven o'Clock EVERYBODY WELCOME! SIENFU, SdAENSi PROVINCE,| China, Jan. 7—It is reported here that a majority of Marshal Chang's former Manchurian Army has join- d with Red troops. Shensi, ann Kansu provinces are n cpen revolt against the Central Government. The insurgents plan to establish a vast Communist em- | pire in Northwest China. Reports state that a quarter mil- | licn men of Chang's old command ave joined an army of fifty thou- and Communists. Agnes Smedley, American woman, is credited with playing an important role in the re- volt, through her radio broadcasts every few hours, in which she urg- es new recruits to join the com- munist movement. Scores of surprises and pleasures await you on the ultra-modern roller- bearing NORTH COAST LIMITED Every car Air-Conditioned — no dirt can touch you. Enjoy drawing rooms, compart- Jones averages: industrials 181.77, | up 2.85; rails 54.66, up. 82; utilities | 36.40, up 1.06. .o PIONEERS MEET ‘ WITH AUXILIARY Members of Pioneer Igloo No. G nd Auxiliary held a special meet-| ing last night in the IOOF Hall to uss matters pertainng to the Grand Igloo convention at Ketchi-: The regular monthly meet- | ing in Juneau has been postponed ! until January 15. Due to the strike | representatives of the Pioneers of | Alaska have not been able to secure transportation to attend | the Grand Ig,loo meeting. ments or large berths; also baths, library, rad’o, soda fountain and spacious lounges and card rooms; luxurious reciining chair coaches, or modern tourist sleepers. REDUCED WINTER EXCURSION FARES in effect until May 14, 1936, will save you money. Let us tell you about them. Write, cable or call — KARL K. 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