The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 18, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY AL VOL. XLIX., NO. 7411. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TH “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” URSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1937. MEMBER ASSOC SKA EMPIRE JATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —eeee——— HOUSE TABLES PLAN TOMAKE JOB ELECTIVE Education Commissioner to Remain Appointive, Re- sult of Today’s Action By a vote of 11 to five, the| Territorial House this afternoon tabled the bill proposing that the position of Commissioner of Edu- cation be made elective instead of appointive as at present. It prob-| ably means the end of the proposal for this session as it requires two- | thirds of the House to call it up, again for action. | The House spent today going| through a long calendar of meas- ures in second reading and sched- uled for special order at 2 p.m. to- morrow House Bills 30 and 40! which have to do with the Ter-| ritory accepting the provisions of certain Federal acts. Dr. Charles, E. Bunnell, President of the Uni-| versity of Alaska, will be asked to, appear before the House members and explain the acts which cover | extension work. { Several new measures made their appearance in the House today, running the total number of mem- orials introduced thus far to 42 and the number of bills to 63. Only | six more days remain for the intro- duction of bills, the 45th day being the final date. Today was the 39th day. Among the measures introduced today were: H. J. M. 42, by Laiblin, authoriz- ing the Board of Administration to instruct the Sitka Cold Storage not to build on Territory-owned property at Sitka. i H. J. R. 9, by Ross and Dan; Green, authorizing the Board of Administration to sell the Terri- tory-owned building at Third and Seward Streets. H. B. 59, by Laiblin, providing for an eight-hour day and a seven- day week in all industry in Alaska. H. B. 60, by Race, by request, appropriating $1,260 for purchase| of a portable x-ray machine by | the Territorial Board of Health, such sum to be matched by the Federal Government. H. B. 61, by Ross and Dan Green, appropriating $8,500 for shelter| cabins. H. B. 62, by Rogge, providing that all Territorial purchases over | $25 be made by bid and contract and that all bidders must be Am- frican citizens. > ¢ H. B. 63, by Ross and Dan Green, prohibiting the traveling or park- ing of ground vehicles on the run- ways to landing fields. AVIATION BILL " IS PROTESTED AT FAIRBANKS Three Independent Lines Against Enactment— Two Lines in Favor | { | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 18— Three independent aviation lines op- erating out of Fairbarks have ra- dioed Legislators at Juneau pro- testing to the enactment of the pending bill designed to create a Territorial Commission to regulate aviation in Alaska. They contend ‘too much author- jty will be delegateed and that Federal regulations are sufficient. Some of the protestants appeared before the Chamber of Commerce in a request for endorsement of their stand and the subject was referred to the Executive Committee to investigate and advise the Leg- islature. The management of the Pacific| Alaska Airways and Gillam Air- ways, in interviews, expressed them- selves favorable to the bill. Protest Floating Japanese Canneries Off Alaska Coast OLYMPIA, Wash,, Feb. 18—The Washington State Legislature has passed a memorial urging Congress! to prevent the Japanese from using| floating canneries off the coast of | Alaska, | TEST NEW Final tests are being made at Sa ment, which holds an option on the $300,000 ¢ miles an hour and a cruising range of 3300 mi pairs to the hull. (Associated Press 36 Nomina Africh, Rosie Bayers, Thais C. Brewis, Gladys Barrager, Harriet Bodding, Geraldine Brown, Virginia Berg, Sylvia, Cashen, Mildred Danner, Rosa Davis, Esther Fox, Lueille Fraser, Mae GREEN, NERLAND SPEAKERS AT C. C. LUNCHEON House Members Are Guests with Governor at Week- ly Meeting of Group At a special luncneon today noon 53 E the offices of the Daily Alaska Em-'gone of i denal Oble; t.he Junex:u;pn‘e and at the Douglas Office of't13in schedules would be resumed Chamber of Commerce was host t0 e Empire located at Guy Smith’s {54qy were blasted as new slides sented in the Senate today. A mem- members of the House of the Ter- ritorial Legislature and to Gov. John W. Troy and Secretary of Alaska E. W. Griffin. Both the Governor and Secretary welcomed the Legislators on behalf of Juneau and the Territory and compli- mented the 13th Legislature on the high-caliber men who had been chosen as the people’s representa- tives. Speaker Joe Green of the First Division and former Speaker An- drew Nerland of the Fourth, dean of the present session, spoke brief- ly in behalf of the lawmakers. Speaker Green introduced the var- {ious members and pointed out to the Chamber the difficult problems the lawmakers have in enacting legislation for the entire Territory. He declared the matter of personal interest entered into the various problems and that certain inter- |ests wanted certain things, but that it was the duty of the lawmakers to legislate for the whole people. He pointed to the liquor pro- posals as an example. Many re- quests relative to the liquor issue have been presented to the Legis- lature, he said, but, he added, “the Legislature cannot legislate one district dry and another wet, for example. It must either legislate all dry or all wet. It cannot say that one community can have something that another community cannot.” The Speaker said he would like to see the Legislature and the Chamber get back of the Dimond program so that at least some of the money proposed for develop- ment of Alaska would be forth- coming. Mr. Nerland gave an interesting talk, spiced with humor, on the great development of Juneau since he first stepped off a steam schoon- er here 39 years ago. At that time there was little to Juneau, he pointed out, in comparison with the leading city of the Territory that it is today. He told of a humorous experience when he came here on a ship at the time it was unlawful to bring liquor into the Territory. Mr. Nerland said" that he was thoroughly “frisked” at the gangplank to see that he wasn't carrying anything, only to his amazement, to walk up town and find the saloons running full blast. Representative Dan Kennedy of Anchorage, former Juneau resident of the early days, was introduced and other out-of-town visitors were (Continued on Page Two) SEAPLANE FOR RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT n Pedro, les. It is shown here on Phot ted, Empire’s Good Will-Mexico Tour Green, Dorothy Garnick, Anita Gruber, Eleanor Hildinger, Madge Johnson, Jennie Jensen, Birdie Jensen, Elsie Kiloh, Margaret Kneeland, Beverly Lynch, Lucille Lundell, Ruth Monagle, Rosellen I ; 1 Thus far 36 young ladies of | Juneau, Douglas and Gastineau ’Chnnnel points have been placed) in nomination by their friends in' the Daily Alaska Empire’s Cvoodi‘ Will Contest and On To Mexico| Tour, and many further nomina- tions are expected. Each of these young ladies will be credited wilh‘ 20,000 votes in the publication of the official standings early next week; each new entry will receive | the same number. Vom;g will soon start in earnest| and ballot boxes will be placed in| | Drug Store. As To Nominations Nominations can be made per- | sonally by anyone or mailed to me’ }cuculnuon Manager of the Dflil)" Alaska Empire. i Friends of the candidates for the all expenses paid trip from Juneau to Old Mexico and return should ask for votes when paying subscrip-| tion to the Daily Alaska Empire and clip and save the free vote coupon | which will appear from time mi time in the Empire. Candidates To Be Notified | Each and every candidate nom-: inated will be contacted direct by a representative of the Circulation Department of the Empire as soon| as possible, however, some time may be saved and votes gained, if can-! didates will call at the office of| the Empire and ask for the Con-| test Editor. ! Individual instruction will be given each girl as to the better way to attain maximum results in, the Empire’s Good Will Contest and | On To Mexico Tour. INVESTIGATION 1S STARTED IN BRIDGETRAGEDY Four Separa:.Probes Be- gin—One Laborer Tells of His Experience | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 18. —Four investigations have been launched into the Golden Gate Bridge scaffold tragedy of yes- terday in which ten laborers were killed when the scaffold collapsed over San Francisco Bay. State officials said the scaffold had been declared unsafe twive, One of the rescued men, E. C. Lamberg, formerly of Bellingham, Wash., said: “Suddenly I felt a stripper give a funny shudder. It lurched to one side. I shouted to |the rest of the fellows to jump into !the net. A moment later there was a noise like thunder as the strip- per ripped from the hangers. The net was torn like tissue paper and | the men were screaming. A piece | of timber hit me on the head and | I was almost unconscious but the‘1 icy water breught me to,” ) Calif., on this 14-ton Douglas seaplane for the Russian govern- raft. The ship is 100 feet long, has a speed of nearly 200 SLIDES BLOCK “stoke. ' George Bishop, New Memorial Would Protect Alaskimrkers Walker Measure Urges Con- gress to Put Up Bars Against Non-Residents Striki at’ non-resident fisher- men, Senator Norman R. Walker of Ketchikan this morning intro- duced in the Senate a memorial urg- ing that Cong include a pro- vision prohibiting seine fishing in Alaska by non-residents, in any bill introduced or enacted for the pur- e of abolishing fish traps in Al- askan waters, and to resist and fight against any such measure | which does not prohibit seine fish- ing by non-residents. | The Walker memorial cites that legislation on fish traps is being sought by non -residents of the Ter- ritory, who desire, not to improve the economic condition of the local seine fishermen or to assist in the permanent upbuilding of the Ter- ritory, but who seek the elimin: tion of fish traps for the sole pur- pose of opening the way for an in-| vasion of Alaska’s salmon fisheries by aliery and non-resident seine | fishermen, who with their large fast boats, ruthless methods and de- | | structive gear would monopolize the seining grounds, deplete the salmon | runs, discriminate against local fishermen, contribute nothing toward the permanent settlement of the Territory, and at the close | of fishing season depart from Al-| aska, leaving the local seine fish- | ermen and their families destitute | and without means of livelihood. Essential fo Territory It s absolutely essential to the yery-existence of Alaska“ resitent !fishermen and to the future welfare’ of the whole Territory, the mem- lorial states, that any bill which ‘prohib“.s the use of fish traps in| |Alaska, should also prohibit seine | ed a8 Fu rthe o SnOW fishing by means of any boat over |fifty feet in length and any seine Avalanches Reported — |over:two hundred fathoms in length VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 18— or two hundred and fifty meshes in railroad officials that depth. Four other measures were pre- the beach undergoing minor re- to) Nelson, Louise Nordness, Mary Paulson, Helvi Petersen, Lillian Pearce, Margaret Powers, Bessie Roller, Ida Sutherland, Saide Shearer, Lazette Torkelsen, Helen Winn, Barbara ‘Whitfield, Betty (Sis) Mrs. Florence Hill Rudd, 13-year-ol get marrled, thinks “it's all right f Photo) CANADIAN R, . TRACKS IN B. . Traffic Resumption Delay- Prices for Fur | * Taking Ad are reported to have choked the orial by Senator Rivers of the a "Ig va“ce’ tracks both east and near Revel- Fourth urges the Road Board to | s at“ A ctiun |construct a road connecting the| Badger, Blue Kuskokwim-Iditarod mining sec- | tions. A bill, by Senators Powers| Fox, Ermine Increase— Marten Snapped Up | Many crews have been digging out slides over the fracks between Yale and Chjna Bar, 100 miles, east of here, and were getting the rails to show when other slides were reported. Mild weather is causing slides at Nelson, in the west Kootenay coun-| try and isolated those sections. There was continued heavy snow here yesterday and last night. GEORGE BISHOP . GLACIER NOT PASSES AWAY THREATENING Son Soon Follows Father, Alaska Game Commission Formerly of Sleetmute, | Officials Make Flight— Over: Last Trail Also Report on Buffalo ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 18— FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 18.— son of the late Irving K. McReed, of the Alaska Frederick Bishop, operator of a Game Commission returned from trading post at Sleetmute died here |5 flight over the Tanana River and| yesterday. His father died here on|pig Delta areas and said the Black| and Roden, would provide for the! establishment of Territorial assay 1 offices, and a request bill offered White FOX, by Senator Walker would require | (Continued on Page Four) A RRPREERE 1420 BLACK RAPID | | SEATTLE, Feb. 16—The Fur Ex- change announces that the month- ly auction brought 20 percent bet- ter bids for 400 white fox than were offered in January. Badger, blue fox and ermine were also in better demand, selling five percent better price than one month ago. White fox prices ranged from $14 to $30. Blue fox brought from |$17 to $60 and badger ranged from $4 to $17. | Ermine Sold | Buyers took 56 percent of the 11,- 1250 ermine skins. Prices ranged from 160 cents to $1.50. | The feature of the auction was 11,650 marten skins of which 85 percent were snapped up at $16 $80. One specimen of brought $310: General ranged from $16, black grade, $150. i | silver fox offerings to December 27 and the son, who at-Rapids Glacler has two miles to! tended his father in the last ill- g5 pefore reaching the Big Delta ness, has been here since. jand he doubts if any serious dam-| Other Sales ————— a |age will result. | The best full silver mink sold |” Reed said the movement is simi-|from $12 to $32. Red fox sold from fm to those of 1912 and 1920 and|g10 to $18, beaver from $4 to $20, {the glacier is no further now than|plue fox from $16 to $60, otter from in 1820° and not as far as in 1912./$16 to $23, fisher from $10 to $145, | Reed was accompanied by Clar- muskrat from $110 to $180, lynx ence Rhode, Assistant Executive |from $24 to $52, cross fox from % |Officer of the Commission; and $40 to $60, wolves, $4 for early ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 18— Richard Perkins, in a plane pilot- catch skins to $17 for heavy pale, william E. Edwards, aged 81, is ed by Walter Hall. Montana and Canadian timber dead here as the result of a stroke.| The wild buffalo in the Big Del-|wolves from $10 to $50. Edwards came to Alaska in 1900 ta area has increased at least to| N 5 40 ARG and mined at Council. He came 100 from the herd of 20 imported here about 15 years ago where he from Montana 13 years ago. The has resided since then. He is sur- Buffalo seemed to be fat and are # vived by his widow, two daughters thriving. The party counted 40| and two sons residing in the States. moose in the same area. ; ARE RELEASED ‘o SR g —1 . . . . Crawls One Mile in Snow Fail to Get Higher Wages < —Projects Closed in with Broken Leg; Knees Seattle District . T . A F M SEATTLE, Feb. 18—Don Abel, re Frozen Making Trip |, 255 e ————— o leased 2500 striking WPA workers ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 18— Matson’s leg was broken when |and immediately part of King Nels Matson, of Iliamna, on Cook he was hit in falling a tree. County’s quota to other counties. Inlet, has been airplaned here 10 . p e Abel said 25 projecis have been the hospital. ees were ""7‘“_‘“’ the re-| osed in this county by the strike He is suffering from a broken Sult of crawling one mile through leg and also frozen knees. | the snow to secure aid. men struck for higher wages. classes In an Alameda, Calif.,, elementary school last September to Eunice Johns, 9-year-old Tennessee bride, Is “just a bab; “know anything about marriage for years and years.”” Mrs. Rudd, shown here with her husband, William, 22, Vallejo, Calif., lumber em ploye, said she expects a baby some time in April. (Associated Pres: | st ‘WE WERE A Lll 1LE YOUNG’ FIRST IN HISTORY OF TERRITORY MEETS MARCH 1 Social Security Legislation to Be Considered in 15-Day Meeting PRESENT ADJOURNMENT TO FALL ON MARCH 11 Week Between Conclusion of Regular Session and Extraordinary Term In reply to a request by the 13th Legislature for a special session in order to have time to consider So- cial Security legislation, Gov. John W. Troy today issued a proclama- tion calling an extraordinary ses- sion of the Legislature to convene March 19, or eight days after the regular session adjourns on March 11, for the specific purpose of considering legislation in conjunc- tion with the national security set- Id girl who left her seventh grade or me to be married” but believes " and won't Alaska Air Mail Extension ‘Sought by Delegate Dimond; Asks for Increase in Funds WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Alas- ka Delegate Anthony J. Dimond told the House he will offer an| amendment to the Post Office De-/ partment appropriation bill to ad | $72,735 for extension of air mail| service to the more populous sec- tions of Alaska. The proposed addition will be, made to the item of $207425 for| Alaskan Inland star route mail| service. “We need more air service in Alaska because of the short rail-| road and highway mileage. If we had railroad service, more roads and free mail delivery service, now available to the people in the! States. I would' not ask for this increase,” said the Delegate. The Budget has made provision for the extension the Alaska Dele- gate seeks. TERMINALS AT SAN PEDRO ARE PICKETED TODAY BULLETIN—San Pedro, Feb. 18.—Two hundred longshore- men, car loaders and truckers reporting for work at the Mat- son Terminals this afternoon refused to pass through the picket line of the Teamsters’ Union. This is the first ces- sation of work by the long- shoremen since the end of the shipping strike two weeks ago. up. It is the first special legislative session ever called in the Territory and it is limted by law to 15 days. The Governor's proclamation call- |ing the extraordinary session fol- lows: ‘Al’roclsm-thnbythnowm Whereas, the Senate and House of Representatives of the Thirteenth Territorial Legislative Assembly un- animously passed a Senate Joint Resolution as follows: SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION ’ NO. 3, In the Legislature of the of Alaska THIRTEENTH SESSION Be it Resolved by the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska: Whereas, the Thirteenth Regu- lar Session of the Alaska Terri- torial Legislature convened at Ju- d neau, Alaska, on the second Mon- day in January, 1937, as the law directs; and Whereas, due to the lack of trans- portation facilities' caused by the long protracted marine strike, and unfavorable weather conditions such as to forbid travel by air, many members of the Legislature were not annd could not be present for many days thereafter, thereby delaying much important legislation coming before this body; and Whereas, the most important leg- islation ever to come before the Territorial Legislature, to-wit, the consideration, adoption, and-or re- Jjection by the Legislature of cer- tain features of the Act of Con- gress approved August 14, 1935, oth~ erwise designated, pursuant to its title, as the “Social Security Act,” still remains to be considered and’ acted upon; and Whereas, the amount of neces- sary and important legislation now confronting the present session of the Legislature makes it impossi~ ble to give the same consideration to which it" is entitled within the prescribed limit of the present ses- son, to-wit, within sixty days; and Whereas, if such legislation now pending before said body, and to be presented thereto, shall receive the proper consideration, an extra session of the Legislature becomes imperative; Now, Therefore, be it resolved that His Excellency, the Governor SAN PEDRO, Cal, Feb. 18. — Three hundred Teamsters' Union| pickets were thrown around the| Norton and Lilly, also the Matson| Line Terminals, today, after trucks, carrying non-union men from a; hiring hall were taken to the ter-| minals by the Merchants and Man- ufacturers’ Association. It is as- serted they were sent to the ter- minals under police guard. Trouble is expected to spread to other ports. Secretary A. M. Giuber, of the| Central Labor Council, which has sent a telegram to President Roose- velt, states a critical situation ex- ists which might “involve the <en- tire coast unless corrected immed- iately.” Giuber also said the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association ac- tion was - threatening business which would be taken away from the drayage companies. The con- troversy is between the truck own- ers and the union and “we regret of Alaska, be requested to call an extra session of this Legislature up- on its adjournment, March 11, 1937, ifor the purpose of allowing suffic- ient time in which to properly con- sider and dispose of the afore- 'menuoned legislation, and to pro- vide funds forcarrying out the pro- visions of the Social Security Act. Whereas, I am convinced that the Resolution aforesaid sets forth the actual condition as they ex- isted at this time creating a public necessity which requires that there should be an extraordinary session of the Territorial Legislature fol- lowing the present regular session; Therefore, I, John W. Troy, Gov- ernor of Alaska by authority vested in me by Section 4, Chapter 72 of the Compiled Laws of Alaska, 1933, hereby summon the Legislature to convene in extraordinary session at Juneau on March 19, 1937, to con- sider legislation made necessary by exceedingly that this issue has cluded Giuber. the National Security Act and to and may never be reopened. The|arisen to threaten shipping” con-|provide funds that may be neces- sary (o execute said legislation, S L LG L