The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 20, 1937, Page 1

T VOL. XLIX., NO 7463 HE AILY ALASKA EMPIRE b “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” j UNE/ AU, ALASKA, TUFSDAY APRIL 20, 1937 $450,000 F ~ PRICE TEN CENTS APPOINTMENTS ARE ANNOUNGED BY GOVERNOR Members Chosen for Aero- nautics Commission, Wel- fare and Accountancy UNEMPLOYMENT TRIO ARE NOT YET CHOSEN Simmons, Cross, Kirkpat- rick and Crosson Are to Handle Alaska Aviation Appointments to one commission and two boards created by the Leg- islature its recent session were at announced today by Gov. John W. Troy. For the Aeronautics and Com- munications Commission, which will have supervision of aviation in the Territory, the Governor named the followng: Aviation Sheldon Simmons, of the Alaska Air Transport, Juneau, to represent the First Division; John Cross, of the Wein Airways, Nome, Second Division; M. C. Kirkpatrick, Cor- dova aviator, Third Division; and Joseph A. Crosson, of the Pacific Alaska Airways, Fourth Division The Governor, under the law, se: as Chairman of this Commission. The appointments are for two yea Welfare Board The Board of Public Welfare, of which the Governor also is Chair- man, is made up of John H. Walmer, Juneau, First Division; Russell May- nard, Nome, Second Division; Mrs. Margaret Monkman, Anchorage, Third Division, and J. G. Rivers, Fairbanks, Fourth Division. = Mr. Walmer and Mrs. Monkmen are Another Roosc v clr Rom"mce? | [ | John_Roosevelt | Another romance is rumored in th that of Miss Anne Clark, popular 3 time involving John Roosevelt w] here attending the Harvard Tasty Pudding show in Washington, D. C. e offing for the "‘first family”, this hose name has been linked with Boston debutante. They are seen s | centage” | available for ECONOMY URGE MADE CONGRESS BY PRESIDENT In Message for Huge Relief Funds, He Asks Much Curtailment TAX STRUCTURE TO BE SURVEYED[ Treasury Department Issto Prepare Report on Rev- | enue Loopho]es l WASHINGTON, April 20. —Presi- ' | dent Roosevelt in asking Congress [today for one billion and one helif | dollars for next yea: relief bur-' den, indicated the pos ility of new | taxes at the next session of Con-| gress’and he also foresaw a Treas- ury deficit on June 30. President Roosevelt, in his mes- Isage to Congress, urges economy. | The President said he expected to, do this by withholding from ap-! pm tionment for expenditures so far| las practicable a “substantial per- of the funds to be made 1938 President Roosevelt said it is quite apparent that there is an “imme- diate need for a careful survey of the present tax structure.” He smd the Treasury Department will prepared in November to present to Congress information of any loop- holes in the revenue law and “sug- gesting such new or‘additional taxes as necessary to meet the defici-| encies.” | The bulk of the expenditures are for public works but this expense' is needed, the President told Con- | gress, Brothor And Sister Die In Plane Wreck Spencer Gray, Seattle attorney. airplane fell near Pasco, Wash. ill. Above is a view of the wrecked plane. MRS. ROOSEVELT WILL BE GUEST, = SEATTLE AFFAIR First Lady of of Land 1o Vit Son-in-Law, Daugh- ter This Month SEATTLE, April 20.—Mrs. Frank- 14 D. Roosevelt, First Lady of the 20.-~Mrs. Mildred Herhann of Ju-‘ness an dunion leaders joined Gov~| , and his sister, Mrs. Mary Bunker, were killed when their rented They were en route to Viola, Idaho, where their father was seriously (Associated Press Photo) Jungau Woman LABUR,GAPITAL Draws Attention GET TOGETHER at Club Sessmn AT CONFERENCE Mrs. Hermann, Mrs. Han- Buslness Men and Union| son, of Ketchikan, Are | Leaders Are Meeting, in Salt Lake City | Washington, D. C. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April WASHINGTON, April 20.—Busi- FOR ALASKA ROADS AIRPORTS ( ARC TO‘WT WORK SOON ON 19 PROJEGTS 1$100,000 Is Set Aside for " Airfield and $350,000, Road Construction 'MINING DISTRICTS TO BENEFIT FROM WORK |Bethel and Five Other Air- ports Will Be Devel- oped in Interior Allotment of $450,000 has been made under the Emer- gency Relief Act of 1936-37 to the Territory of Alaska to carry on airfield and road de- velopment, according to infor- mation received today by Chief Engineer Ike P. Taylor of the Alaska Road Commis- sion from the Interior Depart- ment. Of the amount, which is made immediately available, $100,000 is designated for air- field work and $350,000 for iroads. Preparations for the i work will be gotten under way at once, Mr. Taylor said, and the field work will start as soon as condition of the ground permits, probably not before May 15, Alrfields which “will receive Land, will be the guest of honor at neau, Alaska's only woman attor- ernment officials today in a con- tention under the allotment are Umted States Getung appointed to the two-year term and| < the Civic Auditorium on May 5, ney, here to attend the Wi rn | ference called by Secretary of La-| . | ; > G ing; Ruby, Nu- :’fé"m?‘kyfl'ééf. w;’.?d'sxu"r""fiiiismszf ul T()ug h SPOt m Oth()r PRES'DENT TU Mayor John F. Dore said today in Federation of Women's Clubs con-lbor PPerkins to bring labor and fi:;"elea‘:::: c::’: T"'..:t"nw. yie BN ol hiad SWiNEs Chidiber fooa k. L;:i:;urh e 4% e Z"‘Sufé’f“?;:hi'nfi(-l'iff?:?s"f;{‘f[“u'fff’?' e ag i :::;{Chm Wi ks, Do A DT S NN o the tan Places Canada I “t()s[, Mrs. Roosevelt Is coming to Se- the once primitive “man’s coun- lockonts. | projects. tg Dy imaschben. e8¢ yeaniorny. i) attle late this month to visit her|try” but not without a struggle. | A gr f Congressmen d’ Compleion: of ‘the uriselig - iof Accountancy | attle late this el Bl : ";a“,g SEUD - Of, (LINE UrBed e Fairbanks-Livengood road. = On the Board of Accountancy, the,™ Chief Executive appointed James By PRESTON GROVER i FOR BIG SUM 'son-in-law and daughter, Mrs. John Boeluper ‘Alaska was formerly a |country, alright,” she smiled | Mrs. H. P. Hanson of Ketchikan, enactment of a bill encouraging all| states to adopt a minimum wage and maximum hour law; also collec-| Construction of a tractor road from Manley Hot Springs to Tofty, . 3 April 20—Tt is! C. Cooper, Harley J. Turner and SEATTLE TOUR WASHINGTON, 7 i [ b5 " o a distance of 16 miles. Theodore A. Hellenthal, all of Ju-| SEiohE to the g NOY. it | ko, S m';"l‘;ll';;';“:';:;“““ harminigIs A Construction of a road from Mil- noAlL S My, LRuptiatas ihiel P rc;zll;?:lycoug:;u:m:ulxlne:m l:L mlm FRANK estate and said: “Now several wo-| ler House on the Btecee Highway up the six-year term, Mr. Turner, the! PARTY IS T 1 wp Al Porcupine Creek, distance of 10 four-year, and Mr. Hellenthal, the chg‘r‘l-‘rcn play with ;lursl s ‘Appropnahon Of OIIL n:x“l{ u‘:, Vlfli?ll:h:(ia:lrgm;:!.anl"e:mfl;h: ety e latest sample of public ir llOn and a Ha” to BC @ 5 Y S { two-year term. This board names its own President and Secretary. The appointments will become| effective as soon as the appmmc(w take their oath of office, STAY ON EARTH dignation with what is going on in' our back yard came from Toronto, where Premier Hepburn of Ontario told his people to have nothing to Sought for Relief REELECTED AS AP PRESIDENT {woman member of the Territorial| Legislature. Alaska is becoming| club conscious as shown by a mem- bership of about 700 women in four- | DODGE DEATH, Construction of a road up Mam- moth Creek, three miles. @onstruction from McKinley Na- | tional Park Boundary to Kantishna, the Gov- i { WASHINGTON, April 20—Sena-| ° gt el o ipbol ernor said. = A do with that tough from across {,. joseph T. Robi n, Democratic teen clubs.’ : M rs Are Not to Climb! p 160 | | m Three members of the Unem embers the border, John L. Lewis. lleader, said today, after a White- Ates, S s Rildad il A0 Nome District ployment Compensation Commis=- sion are yet to be chosen. CLARK GABLE FACES TRIAL, Mount McKinley on Summer Visit | SEATTLE, April 20. — Harry J. Lxek Superintendent of Mount Mc-| Kmloy National Park in Alaska has {been advised that when the Seattle | Chamber of Commetce party visits Alaska in June, none of the mem- Oshawa, seat of General Motors in Canada, is sepdrated from De-| troit by a sort of peninsula that! {juts down into the lake region and |Hepburn let it be known he thought/ that wasn't too much of a barnvn to be set up against that “an-| archistic” sitldown element in De- troit. He as much as said that what the sit-downers need in Detroit was| i house conference, President Rooset velt will ask Congress for a billion, five hundred million dollar relief appropriation, beginning July 1 of this year. | The conference was attended by | Vice-President Garner, Secretary of ithe Treasury Morgenthau, Budget | Director Bell and Senators Harri- son, Bankhead and Byrnes. Secretary of Commerce| Roper Makes Address to Directors NEW YORK, April 20. — Noyes, ‘publisher of the ton Star, President of the Associated Press, Frank | Washing- today was selected| lcourse there had been women business in Alaska almost, since its| s first settlement. o s y S g {One Killed in Explosion as T0 CALL HALT, BELLINGHAM, Wash,, April 20. —~Mine officials and J. E. Bergin, {Chief State Mine Inspector, are to- Extension of the tractor road toward the upper Kougarok from the Nome-Shelton tramway. Extension of a road from Teller to Gold Run, in the Nome district. Construction of a tractor road from Takotna to Nixon Fork, a dis~ tance of 16 miles. Construction of two branch roads to serve mining development near {the head of Willow Creek in the | | It was agreed to bend every ef- Robert McLean, publisher of the| day investigating the explosion ym- S o e ¢l > g i e I_us ANGEI—ES‘»I’“S will attempt the climb of '-“L’;‘fi;i"“l“: :‘l’]’;"’;‘;‘:w’::;g :::.iuort:l:t‘m" to limit expenditure of appro- Philadelphia Bulletin, was eclected! DISARMAMENT terday on the 900-foot level of the|Anchorage district. | mountain. priations to close the gap between First Vice-President and W. H.| ! Bellingham Coal Mines in which Extension of a road up Peters Liek recalled that when he and sort of monkey business they prob- income and outgo. Cowles, Second Vice-President. | F‘rederick Lancaster, 35, was killed. Creek, a branch of the Talkeetna z ly " s e Woman Claims He Is Fa(h- three others scaled the moumamf‘“"] :e(:‘::t ge;:smd “that the en.| Disappointing tax receipts accen- The Nation's two outstanding |/ Ch llor S The coroner believes Lancaster|road. er of Her 13-Year- five years ago, it took them SiXjy .o yecoloc or this province will|tuated the estimated deficit and needs, Secretary of Commerce Dan- erman ancellor DaysS'was killed instantly only a few| Construction of a road from Col- 0Old Daughter LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 20.— A Federal Court jury of twelve men has been completed to hear the case of Mrs. Violet Wells Norton, 47, who names Clark Gable, motion pic- weeks. He declared the air is sof rarified that the members of the party could scarcely take twelve steps without losmg their breath. COURT PROGRAM be utilized, if the occasion warrants, to prevent anything in this country |resembling that which is taking place at the present time across the line, due to failure on the part jof constituted authority to take \adequate action.” signs pointed to an unbalanced bud- get at the end of the fiscal year. Belief is expressed that a means ple to further responsibility of lu\'b" will be found without increasing taxes to bring the deficit down to a very narrow margin and proposed appropriations to be about the same. . iel. C. Roper said in addressing ”]4- annual meeting, was to awaken peo- and order and halt “deterioration of home life and common virtues; inherent therein.” ——————— No Justice Here Imhlulth before 140 miners were to !enter the shaft. Lancaster is survived by his wid- [ow, two sons and a dflughler OREGON TOWN His Army Large Enough for All Demands BERLIN, April 20. — Chancellor | | Adolf Hitler, on his 48th birthday, | believed Germany is ready to join, Im calling & halt on the world re-| orado Station on the Alaska Rail- road to mining operations on the west fork of the Chulitna River. Iliamna Project Extension of the Iliamna Bay road to reach Iliamna Lake. Surfacing and extendion of the rcad at Homer. ture star, as the father of her g | - President Roosevelt, in his Budget |armament race because the German | daughter and demanding money BunsTlNG Ml:_ *:,i:‘b&figgl:!mos‘ State Hull Message, suggested a far less army is mnow apparently large| BLAZE SWEPT wx::t::v?mdugr%wl:r.?g: from him. ¥ oo “bh to apoigive to Ganada’3moUnt than that suggested by the BUCYRUS, O— Jurisprudence is|enough to meet all demands. i bbbt S bt dingici Mrs. Norton, plump woman,| v ¢ ik United States Mayoralty conference, practically non-existant in the; The rearmament program of Ger- q spec! P squirmed and hunched herself in a chair. Gable stayed in the Fed- eral attorney's office for a time and when he did appear in the court room, found it jammed. with wo- men to greet. thele* “matinee idol.” Mrs. Norton names Gable as the father of her 13-year-old daughter Gwendoline, born of a romance in NO SUCH THING Wagner Decxsnon Aids Measure, Denied by Those in Opposition | for what Lewis is trying to do over there but the poor fellow has had| trouble enough on other scores. Only a year or so ago he had to explain to indignant Japanese that American cartoonists were only Iplaying when they drew a picture of the Emperor and Son of Heaven pulling a jinrikisha. | Barely had he got that matter held recently, which was slightly less than last year’s. - — The average housewife walks about five miles ‘daily performing her household dutles Juneau Man, Co Crawford County village of 'Tiro.| Trustees of Auburn township were unable to find a successor to Frank Dickson and Frank McConnell, Jus-| tices of the peace who died recent- nscience Fifteen of Eighteen Busi- ness Houses Razed Dur- ing Fire—Heavy Loss many forced the nation to withdraw |some raw materials for consump-! ‘xmn | FRANK LYNCH . ~ REINSTATED CANYON CITY, Oregon, April ~Fire last night destroyed fif- teen of the town’s eighteen business structures and caused a loss of placed on them in memorials at the recent session of the Legislature, PRICE OF SEAL SKINS ADVANCE England. _Gable asserts he was WASHINGTON, April 20.—Sena- jout of the way than a bumpkin con- i tlfi0,0flUv. Seven families are left lumberjacking around Portland, Nebraska, | i 1 d | SEATTLE 120 Frank homeless. The fire started in a ho- Oregon, at, the time, tor Edward R. Burke, of Nebraska, stable over in Maryland slappe Strleen Returns $25 to | A . Apri . — Frank |0 ) opposition leader of Roosevelt's handcuffs on the erudite Minister L) ¢ |Lynch, whose dismissal as photo- | SENRIEE Court bill, said today the Wagner from Persia, Ghaffar Xhan Djalal. grapher on the Seattle Post-In- ——.——— CONSUL D BACK TO MINE WITH TIMBERS Following its arrival here Satur- day with a load of concentxates from the Hirst-Chichagof mine, the|Y mine tender Consul D took aboard a load of mine timbers at the Juneau Lumber Mills yesterday and this morning sailed on her return voyage to Kimshan Cove. Mrs. A. Bloomquist, wife of the captain of the Consul D., and Wil- liam Biggs, bookkeeper at the mine, who came into Juneau aboard the vessel, returned aboard her this morning. decisions paved the way for eight or ten more votes against the bill. Senator Ashurst, leader of the cisions immensely helped the meas- uré” Attorney General Cummings, a radio address, said that unl ess the bill was approved, the Wagner whittled away, bit by bit in their application until nothing remains but an empty victory. A g Sl On the monthly menus of the Florida State Prison farm is 58,540 pounds of meat, proponents for the bill, said dc-; act and other social laws “may be, That gentleman came sputtering up to the State Department and ulti- (Contmued on Pa,ge Two) . 200 STUDENTS ARE ON STRIKE VANCOUVER, Wash., April 20.— Two hundred studenfs are striking on the second day as a protest to the School Board’s failure to rehire Principal A. C. Zellar, Washington State Dept. Some man who was kind enough, fair enough, and decent enough has returned, from Juneau, an over-pay-! ment of $25 to the State of Wash- ington, Department of Labor and Industries, according to a letter re- ceived by The Empire from E. Pat Kelly, Director of the Department with his headquarters at Olympia. Mr. Kelly, writing to The Empire, says he has received the following| letter, stamped, Juneau, Alaska, on the envelope, and dated April 11: “Enclosed find $25 that I wish to pay back, that I got for insurance that I didn’t deserve. T needed the| money then, but I don't need it now,; so will pay this back. Call this conscience money if you like, and be sure to apply it into the right fund.” The letter was anonymous, but| Mr. Kelly wants to inform the man, through The Empire, the receipt of| $25 in currency, pinned on the let- ter so that the man may be cleared, morally and in sound conscience |CANNERY BOAT CAPT. BING ARRIVES HERE FOR SUPT. TENNESON Elelligenccr started a strike lasting }lhrcc months, may return to work | tomorrow having been reinstate |by the Hearst management. ‘, American Newspaper Guild offi e cers said Lynch will return to llh[ Coming into Juneau from Tenakee lold position although he has been |to pick up the cannery superin- forfered a job in the Sheriff’s office tendent, J. T. Tenneson, who arrived |as night, dipatcher. |here from the South this moining John Boettiger, publisher of the|aboard the steamer Yukon, the ;Post -Intelligencer, has published the Superior Packing Company tender| |statement of Edward Woods, Gen-‘Cupt Bing arrived here and tied !eral Counsel for the Hearst news- up at the Juneau Lumber Mills papers, stating the management during the night. |abides by the Labor Board’s de-’ She is to sall with Mr. Tenneson cision because of the validation of |back to Tenakee at 9 o'clock this the Wagner Labor Act. evening. Over Tw;n_!;-lwo Thou- sand Sold to 50 Buy- ers in St. Louis ST. LOUIS, April 20. — The twenty fourth annual spring Gov- ernment fur sale realized more than half a million dollars when 22,500 seal skins were sold to fifty buyers here yesterday. Prices were seven percent higher than last fall. One hundred blue foxes sold for fall, prices 21 percent higher than last 5