The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 16, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY JUNE. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” AU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, | ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS - TRAP MEMORIAL (New Life Line 1936 COMMERCE IS DEFEATED IN| Throwing Gun OF ALASKA GOES ALASKAHOUSE Only Four Votes Mustered for Request to Eliminate Fish Traps in Territory RURAL SCHOOL BOARD BILL ALSO LOSES OUT Plan for Women’s Pioneer Home Endorsed Unani- mously by Members Mustering only four votes, the! Coffey memorial asking the aboli- tion of fish traps in Alaska was| defeated by the Territorial House| this morning with 12 votes against. it. Voting for the request to Con- gress were Ed Coffey of the ’I'mrd,i author of the measure, H. H. Mc- Cutcheon and Nell Scott, also of| the Third, and Speaker Joe Green| of the First. The nays were An- derson, Davis, Dan Green, Kennedy, Laiblin, Litchtenberg, Nerland, Race Rogge, Ross, Tolbert Scott and Smith. While Coffey argued strongly for the memorial, it appeared from statements of other members that one of the features against the re- quest was that it made no provis- ion for protecting native fisher- men against Outside fishermen if the traps were abolished. At a hearing in the House yes- terday, Archie Shiels, President of Pacific American Fisheries, point- ed out to the members that aboli-' tion of traps would mean an annual loss to the Territory of $334,000 annually, and with™Social Security and other appropriations needed it seemed like a poor time to slash revenue. Grover Winn was another appearing before the House. Patg_nted Now Will Throw Projectile 650 | feet Instead of 250 as at Present SEATTLE. Feb. 16.—Patents for a new type of a life line torowing gun, which will throw a line 650 feet to a vessel driven ashore, has been received by Commander M. J. Ryan, Chief of Staff of the Se- Ryan said the older guns have a range of only 250 feet. The new Lype of gun is a regu- lation rifle fitted with a line holder for a projectile, a 13-ounce conical headed bullei, which will not “tum- ble in the air.” Interest Grows, Empire’s Good w_il_l Contest Nominations Being Receiv- ed—Don’t Delay But Get Busy at Once Interest in the Daily Alaska Em- pire’s Good Will Contest and On To Mexico Tour, which is being con- ducted by the Circulation Depart- attle Divisiou of the Coast Guard.| T0 HIGHEST PEAK \Year Proves to Be Most Prosperous in History of Northland 'RECORD SHIPMENTS " OF GOLD AND SILVER Greatest Single Increase Appears in Movement of Canned Salmon With a total commerce of $115- 963.586 for 1936, Alaska enjoyed one of the most prosperous years |in its history. This amount rep- |resents an increase in trade of $30,- 412,218 over 1935, according to the | annual report issued today by ! James J. Connors, Collector of Cus- toms. | The balance of trade in favor of Alaska showed a favorable advance |and reached the sum of $37,312,144, which was higher by $16,284,490 ithan that in 1935. J Canned Salmon Increase The greatest single increase was in shipments of canned salmon. This commodity reached the high- lest peak in both pounds and value Iin the history of the fisheries of | Alaska since 1928 with a total of 1407,619,414 pounds at the declared |value of $46,173176. This repre- |sented an increase of 166,076,525 {pounds, and $22,016,782 in value | over 1935. | The grand total of all fish and PROGRAM FOR DEVELOPMENT afterncon, where he had flown with D. B. Femmer. aground early Sunday merning im & wind and snow storm. Motorship Zapora, Pu.rt;'ahy Siibrfiergori R | ! dir Mail Service Between Juneau and Fairbanks Is ests on Rocky Point | Photograph of little Alaska vessel piled upon rocks, taken by Pilot Sh eldon Simmons of the Alaska Air Transnort, at the scene yesterday The Zanora is on Racky Point, Admiralty Island on Chatham Strait, having gone CONTROVERSY ment of The Empire, co-operating fish products outbound from Al- iwith the Alaska Steamship Com-|aska during 1936 reached the sum pany, is growing following yester-iof $51,971,206 or an increase of $21,- day’s first announcement. /874,001 over 1935, Nominations Coming In { As further concrete evidence of First nominations for the free Alaska's continued commercial de- all expenses paid trips to Old Mex- velopment, the total inbound com- ico have been received and the listmerce during 1936 had a declared School Board Plan Killed of all nominations will be pub- The House defeated another old jicheq in Thursday's issue of The favorite this morning, the Mec- Empire. Cutcheon bill to re-establish rurnl{ Should Not Delay school boards. It fell by the Way-{ young ladies wishing to make side by a vote of 14 to 2. Most of this trip with the big party of Al- the members indicated they Were oy ang Northwest girls are urged well satisfied with the present set- i, get into this contest without up under the Board of Educatlon. gejay, They should call their friends Four House measures and WO png tell them of their intentions. Senate bills were approved. The priengs are usually very glad to Coffey memorial asking the Fed- pey, ang will save their votes for a eral government to pay $220,000 deserving giri. toward the education of natives in| Prizes To Be Awarded the Territory now handled through| mpe prizes to be awarded are at the Territorial Department of Edu-'jeast two wonderful all expenses cation. This is a regular procedure paiq frip to Old Mexico and re- SSCRL FORRIOR, |turn to Juneau. There will be oth- After failing to win approval two o prizes added from time to time, years ago, the House definitely ‘gy) of which will be well worth' Ambitious girls will; started toward erection of a Pion- striving for. eers’ home for women. The Nell nave the assurance of congenial Scott-Race 1esolution which pro-'companions on their trips as the vides for the setting aside of $25,-'Algska tour party will be made up! (Continued on Page Eight) | TROUBLE OVER of winners from neighboring Al- jaskan cities holding similar con- tests. When Is It Going To Start? When is it going to start? Very soon. Thureday, in fact. In the DISCHARGES TIE UP SHIPS Maritime Unions Threaten Legal Action Against Federal Orders SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 16. —Maritime Unions today threat-: ened more legal action against the| Federal order tying up American vessels whose crews do not have sailor’s discharge books by sailing time. James Engstrom, secretary of the Maritime Federation in Seattle, said that action there awaited word from San Francisco Federation of- ficials. One restraining order has already been obtained-in San Francisco for a ship in port here. Another restrainifig order has been filed at Los Angeles. The order for tie-up of ships in Seattle whose crews do not have discharge books was issued by C. W. Sanders, Washington supervis- ing officer of the Bureau of Navi- gation and Steamboat Inspection. The first ships expected to be affected by the tie-up order in Se- attle are the freighter Mexican, due to leave Seattle Thursday for Bos- ton, the Harry Luckenback, due to sail Monday and the President) Grant, due io sail for the Orient on February 27. Sanders left Seattle today for | meantime, begin to think of what girl of your acquaintance you will want to vote for. Be sure that your favorite is nominated right at do it mow, just clip the official nominating blank pub- lished in today’s paper and mail it or bring it to the Circulation Manager of The Daily Alaska Em- pire and we will start her off with 20,000 votes. ——————— HIGHWAYS ARE SNOW BLOCKED; CATTLE STARVE Southern Alberta Ranchers Facing Worst Crisis in Many Years LETHBRIDGE, Alta., Feb. 16— Drifting snow has blocked the high- ways and brought southern Alberta ranchers the worst crisis in years. The ranchers are battling the snow to take feed and water to starving herds. It is said that some cattle have not laid down for weeks, main- taining their ceaseless hunt for food and living on willow branches, brush and shrubs. More than 40 days of sub-zero temperatures ended yesterday and Portland to issue similar orders|a Chinook came up but not enough there, to melt the drifts. |value of $39,325721. This was an |large increase in inbound com- merce during 1936 represented com- {increase of $7,063864 over 19385. This modities which for the most part entered the fishing and mining in- | dustries. Record Gold, Silver Shipments of gold and silver from Alaska to the United States were |the largest since 1909 and aggre- gated $16,870,580. However, this was only an increase of $712,822 over like |shipments for 1935, and this fact {proved a disappointment to all con- cerned. The waterfront strike which ‘tled up all Pacific Coast shipping to and from Alaska after late Oc- | tober, probebly decreased produc- tion for the current year, or at least hindered shipments of gold and silver from the Territory for {the balance of the year. It is be- lleved delayed shipments will ag- gregate a million and a half dollars. Climatic Conditions The climatic conditions that af- fect certain types of mining, such as length of open season and abun- dance of water from rainfall and run-off, seem to have been unusu- ally favorable throughout most of Alaska. Several enterprises that had been started in preceding years were brought into production and many entirely new enterprises were put under way but will not begin to produce for another year or more. Copper ore production, which lay dormant for several years in the Territory. continued its recent| upward trend during 1936 with out- bound shipments of 24,671,472 pounds valued at $2,488,703, during the year. This represented an in- crease of 684,289 pounds and $11.- 965 in value over 1935. Considerable quantities of this ore, like gold, were delayed shipment from the Territory by the marine strike, otherwise a much more marked increase would have been shown. Furs Increase Shipments of furs and fur skins from Alaska during 1936 (éxclus- ive of seal skins and manufactured furs( amounted to a declared value of $1,962,543, or an increase of $414- 711 over 1935. Seal skins shipped during the year represented in furs) amounted to a declared value of $550,700. This was a decrease from 1935 of 4922 skins and $23,- 062 in value. Passenger travel from the con- tinental United States and Canada into the Territory represented a total of 33.653 persons during the year, or an increase of 4,226 per- sons over last year. e zero weather, [ Wluonbbinti Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said | the House Appropriations Commit- tee has approved the $68,692 appro- priation to establish a weekly air mail service between Juneau and Fairbanks, Alaska, via Whitehorse and Tanana Crossing. The amount is included in the Post Office Department appropria- {Conference Is Held wit President—Plans Out- lined by Three By J. J. ECKLES Secretary of Delegate Dimond WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. — Need Given Boost by Committee W}hsl{INGTON, Feb. 16.—Alaska | tion and would include a CONTINUES ON HIGHEST COURT round service, one trip weekly. j | The committee disapproved ()r?VOIunlary Retirement Su- the $72,000 item to finance a star, pl’emCJUS!ICCSat 705“8' route airmail service but Dclcgale! ! LITTLE ZAPORA HITS ROCKS ON ADMIRALTY ISLE Motorship Piles Up Early Sunday Morning During | Wind, Snow Gale PASSENGERS ARE TAKEN ASHORE IN LIFE BOATS Later Tran-szrred to An- goon and Killisnoo— First Reports Received In a severe wind and rain storm, the little motorship Zapora, of the Alaska Transportation Company, grounded at high tide at 2:40 o'~ clock Sunday morning on Rocky Point, Admiralty Island, on Chath- am Strait. When the tide dropped the hull of the craft was punctured and the engine room flooded, putting the lights and radio out of com- mission. | The seven passengers aboard the Zapora and the members of the crew left the vessel at 7 o'clock Sunday morning and sought tem- porary shelter, going ashore in life boats. Later in the day the Chief Of- ficer and four members of the crew rowed the passengers to Killisnoo and Angoon, arriving at the villages at 8:30 o'clock last' Sunday night. Capt. Alden Hansen, Chief Offi- cer Larry Parks and two seamen are now camped on the island near the scene of the wreck. The Coast Guard cutter Talla~ left Juneau last night short- {1 betoe midaight Killisnoo and will sengers to Juneau. Sails From Juneau The Zapora left Juneau last Fri- {day night at 11 o'clock enrdute to Dimond said he would attempt to| obtain passage of the star route| item through an amencment to the| bill. | for early action in putting into construction a program developed for Alaska airplane landing fields and roads and trails was taken up in a conference with the President Tuesday by Senator Schwellenbach of Washington, Dr. Ernest Gruen- ing, Director of the Division of Ter- ritories and Island Possessions, and Delegate A. J. Dimond. | The program outlined to the President calls for enlargement and g, cannery workers and 20,000 improvement of a number of air- ht, 1 Libb: fields and construction of new ones !0nS of freight, four large Ys where warranted. It also would pro- McNeill and Libby ships will make vide additional road facilities In five sailings in the spring to Al- various sections of the Territory, aska, Capt. Fred Svensson, manager supplementing the construction to of the firm’s salmon department be undertaken through the regular said. appropriations for the Alaska Road Nine canneries will be operated Commission and the Bureau of Pub- quring the 1937 season, at Ekuk, lic Roads in the Territory. Appro- gpgagik, Libbyville, Koggiung, Ke- val of a similar program has been naj, Yakutat, Taku, Craig and sought before through the use of George Inlet. Works Progress Administration Nine Alaska Canneries fo , Be Operated During Season by Libby, McNeill and Libby SEATTLE, Feb. ls.—Carrylng 2,-|April 10 for Taku, Yakutat and The cannery ship Otsego will saill funds, but colld not be worked out the work contemplated could not be efficiently undertaken in Alaska under the.restrictions as to maximum wages, hours of labor, and the use of relief labor, as pres- cribed for expenditure of such funds. terest in Alaska and his desire for its development. He expressly re- ferred to the benefits which would come to both Alaska and Canada from the construction of the Inter- national Highway. While the bud- get for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1938, has been made up, and the Ohio and Mississippi Val- ley floods have imposed an unex- pected drain on the Treasury, there is good reason to hope that some- Alaska may be worked out. INTERESTS FISHERMEN An arrangement whereby trollers and cod fishermen will be permitted to profitably dispose of their acci- dently caught halibut has appar- ently been arrived at, as indicated by the following letter from the| :creury of State, dated January “My dear Mr. Dimond: Kenai. | The Libby Maine will sail April| 14 for Craig and George Inlee The Gen. W. C. Gorgas will safl| May 5 for Bristol Bay. The Otsego will again go north on May 8 for Bristol Bay. The David W. Branch, formerly the Santa Olivia, will sail May 15, for Bristol Bay. The Santa Olivia has been re=-, named for the retired Salmon De- partment manager, whom Capt.| Svensson succeeded. i HENLEY, FOSHAY | TOBEPAROLED IS NOW FACING ‘The President expressed his in-: ON MAY SIXTH Federal Board Takes Action Following Move Made by President Feb. ‘WASHINGTON, 16.—The (Federal Board of Parole has grum-la murder charge added to that of thing substantial for the benefit of |ed paroles to Henry H. Henley and| bank {Wilbur B. Foshay, of Minneapolis, |effective May 6, Chairman Arthur held up the Security State Bank | Wood announces. The action was made possible by the recent Executive order of | President Roosevelt in reducing the sentences to five years and remit- ting the fines. Chairman Wood said the hearing lon the applications was heard at 1Leavenwonh Penitentiary on Jan- |uary 29. Henley and Foshay entered the W. H. Williams, 80, the “weather|United States and Canada should | sage” of Fairland, IlI, believes the|Permit trollers as well as black cod| Dan Noonan, representative of corn husks and lazy squirrels au-|fishermen to retain and sell hali-|Barlin and Silver, was a passenger gur an “open” winter with little|but accidently caught by them in| The receipt is acknowledged of| | your letter of January 19, 1937, Prison there on May 6, 1934, to serve in which you quote from a telegram fifteen year sentences after being received by you from the Alaskajconvlctod of using the mails to de- Trollers Association stating the de-|fraud investors. sire of the trollers that the pro-| ————— posed revisian of the Halibut Con- DAN NOONAN LEAVES ON vention now in force between the | NORTHLAND FOR SITKA (Continued on Page Five) land last night, MURDER CHARGE 3 BANK ROBBERS, Man Wounded in Hold-up| at Spokane Dies Sev- en Hours Later SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. lG.wWith‘ robbery, police pressed the search for the three gunmen who here shortly before moon yester- day. W. E. Walker, who walked into| the bank at the time of the hold- up and was shot by one of the gun- men, died in a hospital here, seven hours after he was wounded. | The loot cbtained was $4,000. The robbers’ stolen car was found stalled in a snow drift late yester- day on the outskirts of the city. | Curtiss Wright 7%, General Motors |years old, in the hope that some gested as Alternative | —_ | Seattle, via Hoonah, with the fol- WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Sena-,10%ing passengers aboard: tor Pat McCarran, Nevada, today: Mrs. A. Taroff and Miss Taroft, laid the’groundwork for the Sen- Mrs. L. W. Patrick and Joseph ate’s approval of the bill providing Akasl, for Seattle; Mr. and Mrs. voluntary retirement of Supreme J: S. Jeffrey and L. Ketcham, for Court Justices who are seventy Petersburg. Yesterday morning, after the Za- justices wouid resign and thus al- Pora had not been reported since leviate the controversy over Pres- leaving Juneau, local Agent D, B. ident Roosevelt’s plan to add six ¥emmer received advices from Win- more Justices to the Supreme Court Ston J. Jones, of Seattle, official of if those over seventy do not retire, 'h¢ Alaska Transportation Com- Senator MeCarran called togeth- Pany. to make an investigation. er the Senate Judiciary Commit-| Plane is Chartered tee to consider the bill which was Chartering the Alaska Alr Trans- passed by the House. |port Stinson seaplane, piloted by Senator Sherman Minton, In- Sheldon Simmons, Mr. Pemmer left diana, speaking for the Adminis- Juneau at 1:30 o'clock yesterday tration last night, said in a radio afternoon and followed the course address: “Five men on the Su-|Of the vessel, flying first to Hoon- preme Court have absolute veto 8h. Simmons and Femmer found power over the legislative policy of that the motorship had sailed south the people's elected representativs.” from there. Senator Carter Glass, Virginia,i Flylng down Chatham Straits, critic of the program, said that the they soon sighted the vessel lying country needed an Attorney Gen- 8mong the jagged rocks lining eral more than additional justices, Rocky Point, about fifteen miles in replying to ‘an address made South of Angoon. Landing, they Sunday night by Attorney General Homer 8. Cummings. OVER HUNDRED . DIE, BLIZZARD TOKYO, Japan, Feb. 16.—A blind- ing snow storm and blizzard in Northern Japan is believed to have killed at least 132 persons. Forty members of the crew of the steamer Otaru Maru have been |given up as lost, driven on a rocky island during the storm. A snowslide near Morioka is re- ported to have puried at least ‘sev- en men; - e —— e —— et 1 1 | STOCK QUOTATIONS | L ————— NEW YORK, Feb. 16. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 14%, American Can 107%, American Light and Power 13%, Anaconda 56%, Bethlehem Steel 87%, Calumet and Hecla 18%, Commonwealth and Southern 3%, A woman said a lone man fled| k 68%, International Harvester 106, f{"m the auto after failing to free|gponno00tt 613, New York Central b (44, Southern Pacific 48%, United —— |States Steel 105%, United Corpora- The L, F. Barr Canadian Air Ex-| i, 7. Cities Service 4%, Bremner press hangar was blown down re- pnig 31, asked 3%: Pound $4.89%, cently in the heavy wind, accord-/pepuplic Steel 34% ing to Jack Holler, transfer man, | Bt 5% who went out today and brought DOW, JONES AVERAGES Barr's tools into town. The flier is| e following _‘:,‘c ;d".s Dow inclement weather. rails 5744, utilities 35.24. |learned from the ship’s officers standing by that almost continuous, but unsuccessful efforts had been made to communicate with Juneay and other points by radio-telephone from the ship, ever since she struck. Lying Among Rocks The vessel is lying at an acute angle among the huge rocks, with her bow and cargo hold high on the beach, and her sterh, engine room and after cabins submerged. Her decks are slanted toward the shore. Since the vessel ran high on the beach at high tide, it is likely that a large portion of her cargo is sal- vagable; but it is feared that the (Continued on Page Eight) Crew Aboard Motorship When Craft Strikes The personnel of the crew aboard the motorship Zapora when that little vessel hit on the rocks, fol- lows: Alden Hansen, Captain. Larry Parks, Pirst Officer; Sid- ney Hooper, Second Officer and Gus Osmundsen, Third Officer. James Larson, Chief Engineer; Robert Gray, First Assistant En- gineer, and P. A. Simmons, Second Assistant Engineer. George Davis, Purser. Gene Hundley, Daniel Etjier, Olaf Jensen, Juan Oyarzo, Lawrence Millard, Magnus Likness, A. Firkin- stead, able seamen. Tom Collins Steward. Arthur Davis, waiter; Glen Lat- for Sitka aboard the M.S. North-'still held at Mary Joyce's at Taku by | yones averages: industrials 188.19, |ham, galleyman; Wilbert Higginson, night man; Dave Collier, oller.