The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 4, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LL, NO. 7656. JUNEAU, ALASKA,SATURDAY, DECEM “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” BER 4, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATEI PRICE TEN CENTS ) PRESS FRENCH, JAPANESE ARE NEAR CLASH POWER RATES GIVEN AIRING || BEFORE COUNCIL Light Compan; Makes Re-i ply to Charges that Rates | Here Are Excessive | Power centered the attention of the City Council last night as the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company presented a reply in wmwl ing to charges made at the session | two weeks previous in connection| with a petition for an adjustment | in power rates and meter deposits.| Foilowing reading of the company | communication by City Clerk H. I.| Lucas, Mayor Tom Judson permit-/ ted discussion, principal attack on the power rates being made by W. D. Gross, who charged the rates were excessive, that no interest was paid on meter deposits and that a municipal plant should be construct- ed in Juneau. Replying to the petition of the previous meeting, the company wrote in its communication to the; Council: “We should like to say that an examination of the petition shows that it contains 193 names, or which 86 do not appear upon our books as rations in the apartment of the poverty s brought supplies. QUITS UNDER FIRE “JERRY” 60SS consumers. Of the remainder, our records show that 51 have been is- oS ’i» sued disconnect notices several Lk el £ times for non-payment of bil % Many of the petitioners whose names appear on the list are long in arrears at the present time in the payment of their bills. We also note that the petition has been signed in some instances by whole families, that is to say, each mem- ber of the family has signed the pe- tition.” Referring to the charges of ex-| cessive rates, the communication e | Gerald V. Goss, “Jerry” to hun- CauipiRivs Ratey dreds of Alaskans, passed away at “In order to give the Council the 3 ge¢clock this morning in Seattle correct information, we attach here- gocording to advices received in | to schedule of rates of Petersburg, juneau this forenoon, death caused Wrangell, Ketchikan and Juneau. yy pheart trouble and dropsy from | In all of these communities 1t must which he had suffered for the past THIS MORNING Former Juneau Resident| and Wellknown Alaskan Dies in Seattle be borne in mind that the munici- severa] months. With his death, | pality owns the light plants and, gnother oldtimer of the north has | m"em'ea "ontxe.iho: ]:;‘.e"“e l‘]"” gone on the last trail. are paid. Notwithstanding this, ~ . b KA Albert Marintelli, Clerk of New Faweves, an auaiyais ot the ‘ratel, JUY” Goss {First troke intol. Sl MR EE L transportation circles after the gold | rush and was associated with the | Empire Line, which was operating | leader of the second district, butt of attack by church and civic leaders, has submitted his resignation to Gov. Lehman in the face of charges of Racket Buster Thomas E. Dewey, that he is unfit for office. Dewey asserted Marintelli a pol cal ally of racketeers, harbored a Federal fugitive and consorts with known criminals.” schedules of these towns will show that the cost of electricity to con- sumers in those towns is higher than in Juneau. In Wrangell and Peters- steamers to Alaska, especially to St. burg it is practically double what Michael and Nome. He was also at it is in Juneau, In Ketchikan the the same time with the Kosmos| municipality owns not only the light Line, both companies maintaining ; plant, but the telephone and water Jjoint offices in the Mutual Life | systems, and the overhead expense Building, Pioneer Square, Seattle.| is thereby reduced, but the rates It Was through his contact with | charged for electric current are the Empire Line, which was then higher to 95 percent of the custo- handling the bulk of the freight for mers than they are in Juneau, and the Northern Commercial Company, | the telephone and water rates are Via St. Michael, that he became higher in some instances in Ketchi- associated with Alaskan interests. | kan than in Juneau.” He resigned from the Empire Line The communication stated that a ang, came north, going to the in-| comparison taken from the com- terior and immediately took a pOan-] pany’s books with like consumers of tion of purser on one of the steam- | Former Alaskan, Supt. of Juneau Food Cf';rrnw;Too Late f;)r ()no of F amil& § : There’s food on the Troeller table in New York but William, 13, was not there to eat it. ricken family, the lad hanged himself. INEW BIDS FOR V:’\I(‘)‘viv Star W’b(fi Band Leader THREATENED AIR MAIL IN ALASKA MADE Change in Specifications Announced—Awards to Be Made Feb. 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 The Post Office Department announces it has revised the requirements for the two proposed Alaskan air mail | routes and advanced the date for receiving bids from December 15 tc February 1 The routes are from Juneau, aska, and Fairbanks, Alaska | Whitehorse. | The Post Office Department sa | none of the airports on these ronte will accommodate the types ! planes originally specified and speci- | fications are amended to permit |use of smaller planes, the types n used on the Juneau-Fairban! line D Machinists Not - Negotiating for Increase Wages FROMHUDSON " oce MG usiness Agent Makes De- RIVER F E R RY nial Regarding Alaska [ Cannery Workers tay to Tired of scanty News of the tragedy MAIL STOLEN Postal Inspectors Are Hit- ting Trail of Bandits BULLETIN — NEW Yok, Dec. 4—Postal Inspectors this a climax. with the marriage of SEATTLE, Dec. 4—Reports that the Machinists Union is negotiating a wage Increase with the Alaska| Cannery Workers is declared un- founded by 1. A. Sandvigen, business sgent of the Maelgnists Local Un- ion No. 79. recently divorced by his first wife. FISH PIRATES aftermoon estimated that the | s mail robbery loot is between s Lumber Schooner NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Postal In- PRISUN TERMS spectors are today following the trail of bandits as the result of daring robbery of a mail truck on Tieuu Threatens a Hudson River ferry. | . | Merick and Ek Get Five Years Each, Beatty and Inman Each 3 Years ing an unknown amount of money believed to be much under $2,000,-/ 000, were stolen. Some sources said they did not believe the bags were even worth the trouble to be taken. { Seven bags, containing registered mail . whith had been rifled, were recovered this afterncon from the East River. PANCHEN LAMA REPORTED DEAD Sixty Ships May Be Tied Up Following Seattle Disagreement Sharply reprimanding the defend- ents for not telling the truth, Fed- eral Judge George F. Alexander this morning passed sentence on the __ a four men convicted of fish piracy after a civil jury had brought in a Lumber Schooner fleet of sixty ships verdict for the Astoria and Puget is threatened as the Sailors Union Sound Canning Company in the ac- of the Pacific and the Marine Pire- 'ion against them to recover some men’s Union failed to heed an ul- $1,600 they received for the stolen timatum issued in San Francisco fish- that unions furnish a crew for a Alvin H. Merick and Harry Ek, SN Atimber: schbridr: two of the defendants, were given Ralph Meyers, head of the Ship- five years each in the Federal pen- owner’s Association of the Pacific itentiawy, and the other two, Elmer Coast, demanded the Unions put a Beatly and Albert Inman, were SAN PEDRO, Cal, Dec. 4. general tieup of the Pacific Coast Ancther romance between two nctables of the show Johnny Green, orchestra leader and radio favo lighting, cooking and electric heater ers of the Northren Namgauon‘ service in Ketchikan shows that the Company, plying on the Yukon sehuuls Is Dflad average monthly bill in Juneau is River. ‘ : [] $9.82 and in Ketchikan it is $11.16. The light company communica- tion stated that despite charges to the contrary, meter deposits are re- quired in Ketchikan at the rate of 60 cents monthly per meter. This (Continuet on Page Two) 7 AIR RACERS ARE KILLED ON MIAMI COURSE Planes Ou_t of Control— Crash When Going Near- ly 200 Miles an Hour MIAMI, Florida, Dec. 4—Two .of the country’s ace ait racing pilots, Rudy Kling, of Lamont, Illinois, and Rank Haines, of Detroit, cata- pulted to death in their planes within split -seconds of each other yesterday at the air show here. The double air tragedy occurred a few moments after Jacqueline Cochran tqre in from New York with a new record of 4 hours 12 min- utes and 28 seconds for the 1170 mile air line flight. The planes of Kling and Haines went out of control at the first turn of the small closed race course and hit the ground while going nearly 200 miles an hour. Both air racers died instantly. Miss Cochran is credited with an average speed of 27813 miles an hour for the distance. When a subsidiary of the White Pass and Yukon Route took over | the steamers of the Northern Navi- igation Company, Goss was appoint- ed agent at Circle for the Northern {Commercial Company, one of the in the interior. He remained at Circle for several years and then worked with other agencies of the company until he came south to Juneau about ten years ago. During his residence in Juneau, |Goss was twice connected with the |Daily Alaska Empire in an adver- |tising capacity. He conducted sev- eral tour parties to the south, one {from Juneau and the other from Fairbanks, Anchorage and also Juneau Last January his health began to fail and although at times he re- prescribed in hopes he would regain his oldtime vigor, and in August |he went south to Seattle. At various |times he was reported on the road to recovery, then suffered a relapse. Mrs. Mary Goss, his wife, left Ju- {neau for the south about two months ago and has been his con- stant companion as she was during his Alaska residence. Mr. Goss was born in Oberlin, Kansas, in 1889, and his parents later moved to Auburn, Washing- ’l.on. near Seattle, wherg he attained |manhood and then entered the |transportation business. He was 'known from Nome, through the in: | terior, down the coast to the Mexi- can border as a hail-fellow well- {met and there was never a friend in trouble who could not turn to (Continued on Page Three) |largest companies ever to operate, gainet. strength, a trip south was | | | [Thomas E. Latimer, 58, | Passes Away in Minneap- olis— Intersting Life Thomas E. Latimer, Mayor of Minneapolis from 1935 to 1937, pro- minent figure in the Farmer-La- bor party of Minnesota, and a for- imer Superintendent of Public Schools in Juneau, when Mrs. Si- mon Hellenthal was one of the in- structors and Cash Cole was a stu- dent, died recently in Minneapolis |of sleeping sickness, from which he apparently had been suffering only a few days. The story of his life, his residence not only in Juneau, but as a gold rusher and also stam- peder to Nome is most interesting. Mr. Latimer was born on a farm two miles from Hillard, Ohio, on |April 6, 1870. He was the first child of Ezekial Latimer and Anne von Schoyck Latimer, a daughter lof a Pennsylvania Dutch family |His ancenstry could be traced back to Henry VIII's Bishop of Worces- |ter Hugh Latimer. | | Year in Ataska i ! The boy attended country school and then went to high school in Hillard, after which he entered Ohio, State university at Columbus. There | he played football and finished his first term, but when his father died suddenly he had to go back to the farm to help with the work.' Next he taught at the country school he had attended as a boy. |He saved as ‘much of his earnings {as he could. (Continued on Page Seven) DURING EXILE Religious Leader in Forbid- den Land Leaves 3,000,- 000 Without Advisor SHANGHAI, Dec. have reached here via India that Panchen Lama, the only living Buddha of Tibet, died on November 30 in exile in China. 4. — Reports His death left the mysterious for-| bidden land without either of the Grand Lamas who exercised divided spiritual and temporal absolution over the mid-Asiastic country of 3,- 000,000 persons. Panchen Lama was worshipped as the reincarnation of the Buddha himself. Screen Star Hurt In Auto Accident HOLLYWOO, Cal., Dec. 4 Nancy Carroll, screen star, and two companions were injured last night as her car collided with another ——.ee Mother and Four Children Perish WhenHomeBurns LAMOTTE, Quebec, Dec. 4.—Mrs. Henri Miron and four children were burned to death early this morning when fire destroyed their home |crew on the steam schooner James given three years each. |G. Grifriths which is tied up in Se- The men were found guilty of attle because the operators refused stealing fish from the traps of the to pay a sailor for seven meals eaten Pacific American Fisheries and the |ashore. Astoria and Puket Sound. Their | - e, defense that ithey had caught the | fish themselves, was commented on by our ) pointed out tha 1 the evidence revealed they could not » caught the fish legally at g ime as they had no license to - DROWNS, TRUCK ing the civil action to recover proceeds from the stolen DOWN IN RIVER' ealed is morning, it being for the plain- IFY L 5 tiff company IMissionary in Alaska 33 v BETHEL, Alaska, Dec. 4. — The Rev. F. T. Schwalbe, 55, head of the ice in the river SEATTLE, Dec. 4—Mayor John Frank Snyder, Eskimo, the driv- F. Dore declared in an interview, | Bethel with clothes frozen in 10 de-|as some reports had him. He said he grees below zero weather and made will be back in his office on Mon- LGRS IR I missionary here for 33 years. | W E—*'f it |3 JUNEAU RESIDENTS ants Economic | BECOME U.S. CITIZENS Years, Meets Death Sgame Mayur {the Moravian Mis ion here, was ler of the truck, ecsaped by break- given while he was in bed at his the report. |day. Regulation, Near Bethel drowned when a truck fell through ling the windshield. He reached home, that he is not as seriously ill The Rev. Schwalbe had been a| Air Transports Three residents of Juneau were granted United States citizenship in MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 4—Juan Terry Federal District Court this morn- !Trippe, President of thé PAA today ing. They are: (advocated economic regulation of| Wilmar G. Georgsen, native of the air transport industry to rescue Norway; Mrs. Dagny Rasmussen, it from *“an economically bogged nhative of Norway, and Harold Ste- down condition,” | phenson, native of England. - TROUBLE PUT ~ DOWNBY L. S. Timely Intervention by Am- erican Authorities Prevent Battle JAPANESE ARMY NEARING NANKING \ationals M—a;Be Forced to Seek Refuge on Am- erican Gunboat [ANGHAI Dec. 4—The French ) ne cl 0 a bat- n Frer ) n nese Kk I nterir the nch Conc ion Finally, ion of the American officials, the Japanese were permit- ersu uto French ¢ erican Jnpanere demanded freedom the city's International nt at will but were flatly that today's incident at infring- \ be the last. settiement police, backed by n authorities, also request- X the Japanese make no more ory marches, such as yesterday, when a bomb was thrown and an attack made on the Japanese sol- diers, @ fld came o screen star, and Green, Betty Furness gave her age as 21. wi ABANDONING NANKING NANKING, Dec. 4—The United States Embassy here, the skeleton force remaining, has warned other nationals that it may be necessary to abandon the former Capital of China and take refuge aboard the American gunboat Panaya, per- haps not later than tomorrow. The Chinese admit that the Jap- : Army driving on Nanking is only about 60 miles away. The Japanese are reported to have captured Tanyanga, only 48 miles distant, Defending Chinese worked fe- verishly all during the night pre- paring for a last stand. Women and children and also old men, have been removed from vil- lages within a radius of 20 miles. BRITISH SHIP RIDDLED WITH M, 6, BULLETS ver 200 Shots Are Fired on Steamer Bent on Errand of Mercy Betty Fi rness, , was Back from Jungle Osa Johnson, widow of the famous N . “an explorer, Martin Johnson, is shown in New York after her return from NI - the jungles of Africa, where she ° . APRNSGY 0 had been making a motion picture '’ n Ingming, near of animal life. f 3l was ] n everal FOR SUDDENLY FISHING TRIF Cancellation Due to Delay- ed Healing Following Tooth Extraction - ‘RRITORY HAS OVER MILLION IN BANK DEPOSITS The Territory had its largest President amount of cash in its coffers on No- to cut three vember 30 of this year than it has and fishing had on that date in the last five MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 4 Roosevelt has declded days from his vac trip schedule and st for years, according to the report of Washington today Territorial Treasurer Oscar G. Ol- The cancellation of his vacation son submitted to Gov. John W. Troy. is described the delayed healing! The Territory had on deposit in of his gum from which an infected various banks on November 30 a tooth was extracted on November total of $1,062,190.83, the Treasurer’s 18, | report shows. Comparisons with the The President absorbed much previous four years on November 30 poison from the double pocket left|are given as follows: 1936, $640,061.~ by tk traction and one of the|59; 1935, $795633.31; 1934, $578,094.- openings is still draining 05; 1933, $451,936.26. - CHIMNEY BLA A minor chimney blaze called onl‘ the Juneau Fire Department at 8:40| yesterday evening on Willoughby ( Avenue, during the height of the wind and snow storm that swept| Gastineau Channel. The house be- longs to A. L. Knight. H. Martin l.s| i renting it