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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. L., NO. 7514, ASK INJUNCTION, SEWARD POWER PLANT Petersbur DR, LOFTUS 1S T0 HAVE CHARGE OF NEW PROJECT Tentative Site Selected Ov- erlooking Wrangell Nar- rows On Forest Area CCC CREW WILL DO PRELIMINARY WORK Building Expected To Be Started Shortly After First Of July A site nine miles south of Peters-| burg, overlooking Wrangell Nar-| rows, has been tentatively selected | for the Agrcultural Expernment Fur Farm station for which the last | Legislature provided $20,000, it was| revealed today. | The site is in the Forest area, has a natural drainage and stream, and affords all the natural advantag- es for an ideal setup, officials state. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _ PRICE TEN CENTS Cet s Fur Experiment Station Twenty-four Navy Airboats To Engage In Flight Operations In Alaska, Puget Sound Sector SAN DIEGO, Cal, June 18. —-IAJaskn and Puget Sound sector Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, Com- during July and early in August. SOVIET FLIERS MASSACRE IS MAKING FLIGHT, REPORTED AT mander of the United States Fleet The tenders Langley and Sand- MOSCON TO U. S, BASQUE BASE Refugees Fleeing from Bil-| WASHINGTON, June 18.—Alas- ka Delegate Anthony J. Dimond Dimond Introduces Bill For Safeguarding Alaska Salmon; Is Aimed at Illegal Operations the recent protests against Japan- ese invasion of the North Pacific Fisheries and are backing Alaska Patrol Wing, announced that three piper will accompany the airboats squadrons of VP-79 and 12, mtnl-ion the flight operations. ing 24 airboats, will leave here July Rear Admiral King's flagship, 1 on a non-stop flight to Seattle.'the Wright, is at Mare Island for This is preparatory to engaging overhaul and will not participate in in extensive flight operations in thethe operations. NAVAL RESERVE ENJOYING TRIP, ALASKA PORTS Officers And Crew Will Be Honored At Moose Dance Tonight—Sail Tomorrow New Regulations On Liquor Stamps Are Made Public ‘ A clarifying statemens of the new | regulations in conection with Li- quor Revenue Strip Tax S.amps, of | vital importance to all retzilers and| wholesale dealing in liquor, beer and wine in the Territory, was re- leased today by Territorial Treas- urer Oscar G. Olson, to aid all deal- ;eers in complying with the law with |a minimum of inconvenience. The statement which analyzes |and explains the new regulations Naval reservists aboard U.SS.|jg published in full on page 8 of Eagle No. 57, are thoroughly and|today’s Empire. ;Expecled To Reach Oak- Three Airmen Are Attempt- ping Trip, Supposed To Be Nonstop ONE REPORT SAYS NEAR NORTH POLE! has proposed that Congress make Uncle Sam legal guardian of all salmon spawned or hatched in Al- |askan waters. | The Delegate has introduced a |bill which would set forth to Con- gress a policy protecting and preserving the salmon fisheries, also “to prevent depletion thereof by illicit fishing operations carried on in the waters adjacent to the coast of Alaska.” bao Are Mowed Down By Air Bombs, Bullets WOMEN AND CHILDREN AMONG VICTIMS ne Ship Reported Sunk! i With Loss Of Life— | Franco's Request \ | [ land Sometime Early Sunday Morning Three Soviet airmen are now on the way from Moscow, over the Dispatches from Bilbao, | IS GIVEN BACKING BAYONNE, France, June 18. —| WASHINGTON, June 18—North- beseiged | West Congressmen have followed up [n | | United States Marshals. Delegate Dimond’s proposal to make Alaska born salmon the property of the Government. The proposal introduced by Dele- gate Dimond for legislation is as follows: 1~—Declaration of Congress of a policy protecting and preserving fisheries by preventing depletion. 2.—Prohibit salmon fishing except by permit. 3. Extend United States jurisdic- tion 12 miles seaward. 4. — Enforcement placed in the ands of the Coast Guard and North Pole to Oakland, California. /Basque capital, said the battlefields Accord! to Associated Press di are strewn with dead and dying patches gu the Empire from Edmon- and cries of the wounded are heard D elegate seek' fon, the Soviet fliers took off from above the rattle of machine guns. Change, Federal Moscow at 2 a.m. Greenwich time| One hundred and fifty thousand | or 6 p.m. Thursday night, Pacific, a'¢ reported to have EVflC“atediTax’ Power le“ Coast time on the flight, scheduled Bilbao and left for Santander by to be nonstop. The information was land or sea. | WASHINGTON, June 18.—Alaska given out at Edmonton by Major J.| Refugee ships are being stopped Delegate Arthony J. Dimond has E. Genet, Officer-in-Charge of the by rebel ships and at least one has introduced a bill in Congress ask- Royal Canadian Corps of Signal been sunk with a loss of many ing for modification of the Federal DRIFT 3 DAYS ON COOK INLET IN DISABLED PLANE ‘The tentative program calls for Work |pysijly enjoying their stay in Ju- | to star probably about July 1 inipegy pLieut. R.N.S. Clark, com- getting the site into shape and it 15\ manding the ship, said today, and | Stations. He said he had been in- lves. formed of the take-off both by Di- German Air Raid rector Patterson of the Dominion According to radio advices, a tax statutes as they affect power plants in the Territory. He intro- 'duced a bill to repeal the present Pilot And One Other Re- expected preliminary work will be| done by a CCC crew. Building will | be undertaken shortly afterward | all are expressing enthusiasm over the cruise and the Juneau visit. Yesterday afternoon a delegation of Canada Meteorological Bureau in German air coitingent has bom-|law taxing power plants operating Toronto and the Soviet Agent in|barded Bilbao and attempting to|for profit $300 regardless of size. Seattle. ,stop further evacuation. The measure would fix a graduated cuperating in Hospital After Rescue and it is understood that Dr. Jules from the ship were guests at an| B. Loftus of Juneau, Territorialijnformal reception held by Gov. Veterinarian, and member of theijohn W. Troy at the Governor's - University’s extension staff, will be|goyse. placed in charge, moving from his| . piges about' the city, trips to residence out the Glacler Highway | Mendenhall Glacier, visits to the to the new station. Under the act passed by the Leg- islature, Gov. John W. Troy, Re- gional Forester B. F. Heintzleman and Frank Dufresne, Alaska - rep-| Alaska Juneau gold mine, several {fishing excursions and target prac- tice at the Mendenhall rifle range kept many of the officers and men busy yesterday evening and today. resentative of the U. 8. Biological Tonight both officers and men are Survey, were named a committee|inyited to the Moose dance in the to select the site, which they musti Moose Hall, and according to pres- do by July 1 and report to theient plans the ship will sail at 7:30 Board of Regents of the University|a. m. tomorrow for Taku Glacier, of Alaska who wilt have charge of pyy Bay and Sitka, enroute south the enterprise {o be known as Sub- t, Ketchikan and Seattle. station No. 2 under the University's Lieut. Comdr. A. J. Bryholdt, U. extension program. |S. N, in charge of the reservist The leading object and duty °f|cruise, said today that a motion the station will be to conduct orig-|picture record of the entire cruise inal researches or verify experiments|wgs being taken and the pictures on the psysiology of furbearing ani-|will be shown to civilian groups, mals, the diseases of which they are subpject, with remedies for the same the composition and digestibility of | the different kinds of food required for bur-bearing animals, and such| other researches or experiments as| bear directly upon the fur farming| industry. and that he plans to have the reels sent to various Naval Reserve inits throughout the country, affording many navy-minded men the oppor- tunity to see the scenic beauties of Southeast Alaska. Comdr. Bryholdt and the com- manding officer of the Eagle 57, Lieut. Clark, were hosts to Mr. and Sells Interest In Juneau Drug R. R. Hermann Now Sole Owner Of Store At Sew- ard And Front Streets In a business deal closed today, the partnership of R. R. Hermann and H. M. Hollmann, owners and operators of the Juneau Drug Com- pany for the past eight years, was dissolved, Mr. Hermann purchasing | the interests of Mr. Hollmann. The| Juneau Drug Company will continue business in the same location. Mr. Hollmann will open a new drug store in the near future, the| location of which will be announced later, according to a statement is- sued today. H. L. Faulkner repre- sented Mr. Hollmann and R. E. Ro- bertson represented Mr. Hermann. Previous to their long time part- nership, Hollmann and Hermann worked together for four years at the Butler-Mauro Drug Company mittee on Philippine Affairs that he Basque territory, the locauoni:’ to 6 per cent over the preceding i of their progress. ‘This afternoon an Associated' Pursuit planes are flying low over Press dispatch dated from BSan tlie city and lines of escape drop- Prancisco said, “We are three hours fiiag homhs ‘and shordes of women {from the North Pole, fiying nicely.” and children have been massacred. $100,000 annuslly.” It is said the three airmen expect Screams of terror were heard along to land in Oakland between mid- the escape avenues during the night. night Saturday and noon on Sun- The screams were from those frigh- day. |tened and those dying in pain from Information received by The Em- wounds. { pire is that the fliers are following| Torn bodies of women and chil-| a course from the North Pole over dren and scattered baggage wer:} Western Canada, Vancouver, B. C. revealed when dawn came, accord- Seattle and south. ing to eye witnesses. Unless something happens on the‘ flight, the route does not provide! for flying over the Territory of Al-| EXFLOSION, BATTLESHIP aska although all communication| VALENCIA, Spain, June 18. — systems, according to advices from The Defense Ministry announces Washington, D. C., are expected to that 18 sailors were killed and more contact the fliers and make reports than 100 wounded as the result of 'an internal explosion aboard the |Government’s battleship Jaime in 'dry dock at Cartegenas. The cause has not been determined. WARNS ABOUT PHILIPPINES , GOVERNMENT MOVES BA 'he B: 'has evacualed the Basque capital WASHINGTON, June 18.—Repre- sceording to information received sentative Crawford told the Com- here and left for another point in YONNE, France, June 18. —| asque Government at Bilbao | tax scale ranging from $10 on the |first $4,000 gross annual _income, ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 18. ~Pilot,, Littley .and_ S Todd are recuperating in a Seldovia hospital after drifting for three days and nights on Cook Inlet without fresh water, in a disabled plane. The two were enroute from Kog- | e TRADE KEEPS | INCREASING OVER NATION Most Divisions Surmount- ing Growing Handi- caps To Progress They came within ten miles of shore several times and then drifted | away. A fishing boat finally res-| cued them, Coast Guarder | i | NEW YORK, June 18—Most di- visions of trade succeeded in sur- mounting the increasing handicaps |to progress this week according |to the weekly review of Dun, Bradstreet, Inc. | The review says that business estimated the retail output from | the country as a whole to be from Here @ Patrol Vessel To Be In Port Tilli Sunday Noon—Lieut. D. D. Hesler, Commander Making a patrol cruise through | Southeast Alaska waters, the U. 8. glung to Seward when forced down, | Atalanta Comes PRIVATE 'BRINGS ACTION AGAINST PWA U. S. Agency, Officials, and City of Seward Named Defendants In Test Case: SUIT MAY HAVE EFFECT ON PUBLIC PROGRAMS “Fraudulent” Representa- tions, “Conspiracy” Charged in Court First action of its kind in the Ter+ ritory and one which may have fars reaching effect on the Federal Gov- ernment’s public works and rural electrification program has been filed in the Third Division District Cour at Valdez by the Seward Light and Power Company, demanding an injunction against the construc- tion of a municipal power plant in Seward. Plaintiffs in the action for the Seward Light and Power are John H. Graff, son of the late Samuel Graff, founder of the company; Elizabeth Graff; widow of the elder Graff, and Elizabeth Knight, a daughter. The injunction is asked against the City of Seward, Sec- Iretary of Interior Harold L. X as head of the %‘nt head of PWA in Aliska; Ross A, Gridley, PWA State Engineer-In- spector, and Mayor D. C. Brownell, (Mayor of Seward. ! Show Cause June 28 4 show cause order has been issued by District Judge Simon A. Hellenthal, returnable June 28. Dis~ trict Attorney Joseph W. Kehoe and his assistant, ‘Warren Taylor, are representing the government and L. V. Ray, of Seward, the City of |Seward. Walter H. Hodge of Sew- ard is attorney for the plaintift company. Papers in the action were filed on Engineer-Inspector Gridley when he passed through Valdez on his return to Juneau on the Aleutian after he had been in Seward last week where bids were opened on the proposed 100,000 municipal diesel power plant and contract had n let to Bennett and Taylor of Los Angeles on a bid of $92,637. ‘Conspiracy” Charged In the complaint asking the re- straining order, the plaintiff com- pany charges that in setting up the in Juneau. |“Japan is digging into the Philip-/ week and from 12 to 20 per cent|C. G. S. Atalanta arrived in port |Project as a PWA enterprise with FIVE HALIBUTLRS Mrs. Simpson MacKinnon and Mr. Mr. Hermann has been engaged pines” and urged the United smws;ol Lt o & ecrels | better than one year ago. at 2 oclock this aftérnoon, from |the aid of loan and grant from the SELL HERE TODAY)|:\d Mrs. Robert Bender aboard the in the drug business in Alaska for|to withdraw all forces as soon a5 FRANCO MAKES REQUEST | "'The gain in the Pacific Coast|Sitka. She is to sail from here 8oVernment, the City of Seward is ship at luncheon today. 24 years, he said today. violating 8 . 25-year franchise for Ketchikan Sunday noon and is iposslble to avoid ‘embassassment’ moored at the Government Dock.Which the light company holds with an- and final defeat after a tremendous! area this week is estimated at 10 to 18 per cent. A photograph of the ship and the “In the near future I will LONDON, June 18. — Francisco Five halibut sales were made at entire personnel, showing the part Pranco has asked Great Britain to Commander of the Atalanta is that city. Further, it alleges nounce some new ideas relative to|cost of dollars and men.” Juneau today. The Avona, Capt.lof the Juneau waterfront with the the operation of thc Juneau Drug| igrant his cause belligerent rights Lieut. D. D. Hesler. Ensign G. L.|Mayor Brownell of Seward Olaf Larsen, brought in 13000! Alaska Juneau mine bulldings in Company, which I hope to put in pounds, sold to the Sebastian-Stu-|the background, was taken at 8 art Fish Company at 6.80 and 5.05|¢'clock his morning by Winter and cents per pound. The Tern, Clpl.,Pond. Comdr. Byrholdt said that Andrew Rosness, with 7,000 pounds, { many copies of the picture had been sold to the Marlyn Fish Company ordered, as the reservists want it as at 6.80 at 5 cents. a souvenir of their Alaska cruise The Alaska Coast FPisheries\ang Juneau. bought the three other catches - of S IR PP s S effect soon,” Mr, Hermann said. “The present location will be main- tained and a registered druggist will be on shift at all times. In ad- dition to myself the present staff of the store includes Verne Soley, and Jackson Rice.” |left by plane last night for Boise, which would give him and his Span- ish Insurgents a standing .under the International law permitting establishment of a recognized block- Alaska Delegate Flies jn_ Spokane WASHINGTON, June 18.—Dele- gate Anthony J. Dimond, of Alaska, ‘The British Foreign Office said the petition will be considered. TENDERS CHOMLY AND MARY LOU IN Idaho, for conference of the North- west Aviation Planning Council. He plans to return to the National Capital next Mondsy. MURDER TRIAL Cannery tenders in port here to- day included the Mary Lou and the Chomly: ade of the Government of Spain,| if his navy is strong enough to do| 50. Rollins is executive officer, and |the vessel has an elisted Personnel of about 40 men. Lieut, Hesler was stationed in Alaska last year, at Corovda, aboard the cuttér Haida. He was transferred to the Atalanta the first of this year. The Atalanta, regularly based at Seattle, is relieving the patrol boat MORE WAGES OR S[TDOWN | Indian Tri—h_ Makes De- PORT HERE TODAY mands Regarding Pion- eer Day Celebration YAKIMA, Wash, June 18—The Yakima Indian tribe today ‘“went on the warpath” for $2 a day wages, free hamburger three times a day, free tobacco and 10 per cent “cut” on all souvenir postcards Alert while that vessel is under- | “fraudulent” representations in ap- plying for the loan and grant and that the Mayor, the City and gov= ernment officials allegedly entered in a “conspiracy” to build the pro- |ject in defiance of the rights of the | plaintiff company which, it is charg- |ed, would put the company out of lbuslness, The complaint also charges that going repairs at the Puget Sound under the setup proposed the pro- Navy Yard. Reapirs are expected Ject is doomed “to fail” and that to be completed on the Alert in if it was constructed it would not about one more week, when the De able to serve the emtire City of Atalanta will return to her Seattle Seward as the plaintiff company station, while the Alert comes claims it is now doing. north again to Ketchikan. The | While the contract has been let, Atalanta salled north from Seattle |!h¢ work will not proceed further June 6, when the Alert went up Until the hearing on the show cause The Mary Lou, Libby, McNeill |sales during the Pioneer Days cele- for overhaul. |order in Valdeéz on June 28, Gridley Salmon landings here today in-| exander, with 6,400 pounds of white halibut, all at 6.80 and 5 cents per ! pound. The three boats were: 30- et g oo wom 13-YEAR-OLD Former Pregident with 340 pounds; and 31-B-175, i Capt. John Hadland, withj 5800 | BOY, SUICIDE. Of Franca Is Dead cluded 15,000 pounds brought in to ’ . Sebastian-Stuart by the Fern, Capt. T ‘ John Lowell; and three trips to| RAINIER, Oregon, June 18. — AIGUES VIVES, France, June the Juneau Cold Storage; Leif II,|The authorities are seeking a motive 18—GCaston Doumergue, aged 77, Capt John_Sandnes, from the Karl/for the suicide of Kenneth Wilson, former President of France and Hansen packing plant at Port Al-|13, whose body was found hanging tWice Premier of France, is dead kings; Pelican, Capt. K. Raatikan- en, from the Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery at Taku Harbor, with 2400 pounds of whites; and the Congo, Capt. Fred Boynton, in from the grounds with 700 pounds of king salmon. Shipments south from here to Seattle on the motorship North- land today included: 35 boxes of fresh-iced king salmon by the ACF; ' and 11 boxes of fresh-iced kings and 39 tierces of mild-cured kings from Juneau Agent E. E. Engstrom to Sebastian-Stuart at Sealtle. o After hearing arguments in the equity case of Marchie B. Boyton against Mrs. K. M. Villoria over title to property on Willoughby Avenue, Federal Judge George F. Alexan- der yesterday took the case under advisement. i {With a roar and a shock that was her. ifelt in the entire district, an -ex-' by a rope in the high trees of his 2t his home here where he has mother’s farm last night. He was resided since leaving the public president of the 4-H Club. iey& i 8-foot St {Two Make Business Boiler E::ll::du; } Of Wrecking Homes Hurled 450 Feet | HousTON, Tex, June 18, —Mss. F. E. Stephenson is a professional _TACOMA, Wash., June 18, — home wrecker. Her husbzad helps It’s strictly business. Mrs. Stephenson took a course plosion catapulted an eight-foot in architecture and joined her hus- steam boiler of a bottling works band in the wrecking business through the roof and landed it shortly after their marriage 29 years 450 feet away in the middle of a 880. street. | “I take care of the sales, do all Max Gruber, working a dozen feet the drafting and drawing and help| away, walked calmly away from de- With the estimates,” Mrs. Stephen- bris but admitted his ears were SOn says. “Mr. Btephenson gives ringing, but he was otherwise un- all the orders because men don't hurt. like being bossed by a woman.” l and Libby tender, arrfved here this morning from Craig' and is to re- |turn to her station tonight. She brought Capt. Fred Swenson, gen- eral manager of Libby plants in Alaska to Taku Harbor from Craig. Captain of the Mary Lou is Ralph Erickson. Capt. Swenson recently returned to Southeast Alaska from the West- ward, and after two or three days at Taku Harbor, is to sail for the | Bering Sea district. The Chomly arrived here this morning from the Alaska Pacific Salmon Corporation cannery at Kake, to where she is to return tonight with a crew of eleven new workmen for the cannery. — e - A federal fish hatchery coveringF 108 dacres will be built at Uvalde, | 18. Showers tonght and Satur- | Tex., Vice-President Garner's home| d . 7 | town.. The hatchery will cost about -|.dly, moderate southeast winds. ./ $100,000, ENDS ABRUPTLY RIVERHEAD, N. Y., June 18— Mrs. Helen Tiernan, 28, brought/ her trial for the slaying of her daughter, aged 7, to an abrupt end by pleading guilty to second degree murder after the state rested. She slew her daughter and tried to kill her son because they crowded the small apartment' she wanted to share with her boy friend. ——,o———— | | The Weather Forecast for Juneau and vi- cinity, beginning at 4 p.m., June T | bration here from July 3 to July 5. Being the only Coast Guard|Sald today. The tribe threatens to stage a | sitdown strike instead of parading around the town and lending color at a wage scale of $1.50 a day. Chief Thunder Clap and Chief vessel now the Atalanta has among her duties | the patrolling of the whole section. | Leaving Ketchikan, she cruised to| in Southeast Alaska, |4 Sitka, from where she came here. | Kicking Horse are leading in the Making the full e | degiaby. from Seattle and return there, as guests aboard the Atalanta, are Hom And Bflg‘y John Skally, Seattle insurance man, and Stanley Dickinson, also of Days Were Best, Seattle. Mr. Skally is a friend of A”e Robert W. Bender, and plans to rts Doctor visit with Mr. and Mrs. Bender during his stay here. Three Trains Weekly COLORADO SPRINGS, Col., June 18.—Country doctors, in the horse and buggy days, were wiser in cop- ing with childbirths and child problems than the modern -medical Over Alaska Railroad men. This is according to Dr. C.! ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 18.— N. W. Gibbons in an address here, The Alaska Railroad announces a before medics. He produced figurestri-weekly service {rom,Seward to on infant fatalities to back up his|Fairbanks. This is on account of G - + ‘L STOCK QUOTATIONS ! —& NEW YORK, June 18. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 11%, American Can 93%, American Light and Power 8, Anaconda 51, Bethlehem Steel 81%, |Commonwealth and Southern 2%, | General Motors 50%, International Harvester 107%, Kennecott 55%, {New York Central 39%, Southern | Pacific 46'%, United States Steel 96, Cities Service 27, Pound $4.93%, Bremner bid 4 asked 8, Republic Steel 34%, Pure Oil 174, Holly Sug- \ar 29%, U. 8, Treasury Bonds 2%s 9724, Atchison General 4s 95'%. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dew, |Jones averages: industrials 168.79, assertion. the heavy tourist travel. ralls 53.65, utilities 26.56.