The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 7, 1938, Page 1

— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7787. JUNEAU, ALASKA, S ATURDAY . MAY 7, 1938, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NENANA ICE BREAKS MAY 6 AT 8:14 P. ). “To the First Lady of Them AU -~ Mother” WASHBURN SAYS ALASKA IS TO BE B16 SKI MECCA Party of European Skiers on Way North to Try Slab Thrills SEATTLE, May 7. — Bradford Washburn, Jr, Mount Luciano- Harvard geographer, said today that Alaska will soon become the world's most famous skiing center. “A party of noted skiiers is com- ing all the way from Europe this| summer to enjoy the sport on Al-| aska’s vast snowfields nestled in| rugged mountain ranges. “Those who know,” Washburn continued, “say facilities for snow sports in Alaska are five times bet- ter than the best offered in the Alps, India, or South America. In a few years, hundreds of enthusiasts will go to Alaska from all parts ofy the world every season to enjoy the thrilling spor Washburn to spend the summer mapping unex- plored mountain ranges. NIPPON SUPPLY enroute north BASE STORMED; MAY BE TAKEN Chinese Guerillas Fighting Madly for Vital Jap- anese City SHANGHAI, May 7—Three thou- sand guerillas are fighting reckless- ly today in the streets of Nantung- chow, threatening to annihilate the Japanese garrison of that supply base on the north bank of the Yang. tze River, 60 miles north of Shang- hai. Japanese reinforcements were rushed in to attempt to stem the guerilla advance. Loss of Nantungchow to the Chin- ese again, would cut supply and communication lines from. the coast to Japan's big army of 10,000 men. DIFFICULTIES IN WAY OF BIG HIGHWAY PLANS Pattullo Said He Hoped Obstables Would Be Surmounted VANCOUVER, B.C., May 7.—Pre- mier T. B. Pattullo today said: “There are difficulties in the way” before work can be started on the proposed Alaska-United States high- way. He said, however, that he hoped these difficulties may be overcome, but will require further negotiations. According to present proposals. construction of the road would en- tail an expenditure of five million dollars a year for five years. Pattullo declined to comment on progress made concerning the high- way while he was in Washington. “Under any circumstances,” Pat- tullo said, “British Columbia would maintain as complete a control over its section of the proposed highway as it does over existing roads.” FARMER'S ORE COOKING KILLS BABY IN FUMES BERLIN, N.H, May 7.—Efforts of Michael Bourassa to extract gold from ore found on his farm, has resulted in death for his five-month- old-son and caused illness in the rest of his family. Bourassa heated chemicals on the kitchen stove and caused fumes which were fatal to the baby. -, COURT CONVENES MONDAY Regular court session will con- vene Monday with Judge George F. Alexander presiding. No jury hllj been called for this term. } Young Chry Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., eldest son in New Ycork to Marguerite Sykes, The bride and greom are shown as sler Married of the motor magnate, was married daughter of Mrs. Walter H. Sykes. they left the chapel of St. Barthelo- riew's Church after the ceremony. Alaska Airbase Is Given Support By Gungrressman% House Committee Recom- mends Big Increase in Vast Spending Bill WASHINGTON, May 7 — With| the House Appropriations Sub- Committee in favor of increasing.| rather than decreasing the spend- | ing and lending bill, a determined block of defense minded Congress-| men are asking that the program | include five gigantic air bases to| guard Alaska and the coasts. | The Sub-Committee announced | their decision today to recommend an increase of $300,000,000 in Pub- lic Works grants over the $450,000,- | 000 that President Roosevelt has| recommended in his spending and lending program. The House group also recommend- ed loans up to $250,000,000 on local- | ly sponsored projects. | Some legislators said Secretary oi Interior Harold Ickes has assured the War Department that a part of the PWA funds will be used for army air bases, which gave rise to confi- | dence among defense-minded Con- gressmen that Alaska might receive | funds for building one or more air| bases. | e ] MUSSOLINI TO "HELP GERMANY | I CZECH LAND' INSURGENTS IN Hopkiis Says WPA v »... wo v s WIDE GAINS ON 116-ZAG FRONT General Arandas Pushing Ahead to Catch Loyal- ists Unprepared HENDAYE, May 7.—Insurgent ad. vances have been noted along a zig- zag, line from Tereul to the Med- iterranean. Franco’s forces made swift pro- Needs to Be More Than An_ticinated Administrator Is Preparing for Peak Load of Over Three Million | | WASHINGTON, May 7. — WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins to- day told Congress that the Govern- ment’s relief program may cost Rome Over Four-Pow- er Pact Project ROME, May 7.—Mussolini, ac- rding to German sources, has agreed to give Germany a free hand in Czechoslovakia, insofar as Italy is concerned 11 Duce is also said to have prom- ised to bring diplomatic pressure to bear upon the Czechs, in urging, them to be asonable” in meeting Germand demands. Conversations on Mussolini’s pet project of a four-power pact with Italy, Germany, France and Great Britain, was the chief topic of gress yesterday and today, and turn- three billions of dollars during the| conferences this morning between ed back Government lines about six miles. Heavy rains have grounded air- craft, but Insurgent general Miguil Aranda has decided to push ahead and not give the Loyalists time to build defenses SRR 5V ) Cannery Dispute Is Still Under Consideration Union Accepts 1937 Scale But Asks Employment of More Workers This Year SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 7.— Salmon packers today were consid- ering a final offer to the unions in the cannery wage dispute. Employ- ers previously had set today as the dead line for agreement, or there would be a cancellation of the 1938 season’s activities, George Woolf, CIO union leader, said 1,800 San Francisco union mem- bers are willing to accept the 1937 wage scale but ask the employment of 125 more persons than last year BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of bdse- ball games played this afternoon in the major leagues as received up to 2 o'clock: National League Boston 4; Chicago 5, ten innings. homeward bound aboard the cruiser ting records yesterday in leading Brooklyn 7; Cincinnati 4. New York 6; Pittsburgh 5. American League Cleveland 4; Philadelphia 2. Detroit 8; New York 12. St. Louis 2; Boston 7. Chicago 4; Washington 5. next fiscal year instead of one bil- lion dollars originally estimated. The Budget Bureau said Hopkins was preparing to take care of a peak load of 3,100,000 relief clients next winter( and predicted thai the num- ber of loan recipients during this summer will not drop below 2,600,000. Hopkins said the situation is un- warranted, and that “anybody be- lieving that WPA rolls can be cut” is mislead Hopkins also said the number of families getting relief of some kind | totalled more than 6,000,000, in- | cluding about 20,000,000 people. He further said that he also knew of |one time in recent months when 127,000,000 people were getting re- lief, - e — President Bound Home; Gets Best | Fishlllvqring Day IFDR Catches 20-Pound Barracuda Off West Caicos Island BULLETIN— CHARLESTON, May 6—The cruiser Philadel- phia, with President Roosevelt aboard, has arrived here from a tropical fishing trip, 450 miles | off Charleston, on Northern Ba- hamas. CHARLESTON, South Carolina, Roosevelt is | May 7.—President Philadelphia, after a fishing trip marked by good luck in the waters off West Caicos Island. | During six hours trolling, the President’s party caught 60 fish, |including a 20 pound barracuda |caught by the Chief Executive for the honors of the day. Mussolini and Hitler. LAWRIN COPS DERBY MONEY IN KENTUCKY Fighting Fox Fades in Stretch—Doesn’t Make Tomorrew is Mother's Day and in skyserapers and cottages, the Nadti rdian over their homes and their lives. to honer the faithful gua Government Spending Just Question of Looking at It From More BONDING BILL CONTENTS HERE Measure Which Passed HOUSe Of Rel)l’(fS('lllaliV(TS Is Presented in Full Copies of the “bonding bill"” which would “authorize the Territory of Alaska to incur bonded indebted- arrived in Juneau in the last mail The bill H. R. 5894, introduced in Congress by Delegate Anthony J Jimond and passed by the House of Representat follows “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of th United States of America in Con- gress assembled, that the Territory Small Change of Alaska is hereby authorized to construct, improve, extend, better, LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, May 7.— 'eDair, reconstruct, and —acquire Lawrin, not even mentioned among public works of a permanent chai- the possibles, came across the finish acter, and facilities for the same, line first today in the 64th running and to incur bonded indebledness of the $50000 added Kentucky Der- and to issue negotiable bonds 10r by. Dauber was second, Can't Wait was third, and highly favored Fighting Fox faded in the stretch to follow fourth placing Menow over the end of the course SEEDS SMACKS FOUR HOMERS; ~ HITS SIX OF SIX Newark OlIfi—;lder Makes Circuit Clouts to Set Record BUFFALO, N. Y, May 7.—Bob Seeds, Newark outfielder, set bat- the Bear victory over Buffalo. Seeds walloped out four homers in four consecutive innings. He batted in twelve runs, hit safely !six times out of six, and batted |three of his homers out of the ‘park with the count against him in balls and strikes, three and two. | i any or all of such total amount not in excess of $2 000,000 to be outstanding at any one time, exclusive of accrued in- Such public works and facil- shall include: Buildings, struc- purposes in a tures, and facilities for the Uni- versity of Alaska; public-school buildings and other public-school tacilities; public hospitals and other ippurtenant structures and faci- ities; air fields and air navigation aids and vilities; and highways, roads, trails, and bridges. Sec. 2. “No bonded indebtedness shall be incurred by the Territory of Alaska unless the amount therect be first authorized or approved by 1 majority of a Territorial board of finance, hereby established and cre- ated, and to consist ex-officio of the following officials of the Ter- ritory: The Governor, the treasurer, the auditor, the secretary, the com- oner of education, the attorney weral, the highway engineer, and ent of the University of Said board, or a majority is hereby authorized and Alaska. thereof, empowered, with the proceeds of the sale of the honds herein authorized, to undertake and construct s public works of the types herein in- (Continued on Page 6) than One Angle | WASHINGTON, May 7.—It may ease your mind to learn that the question, whether it is all right for the government to spend money for this nd that, is a matter of rela- | tivity. | Example: Administrator Hop- | | kins of WPA was testifying before | the Senate unemployment coni- mittee when Senator Lodge held up a WPA publication entitled “America Spreads Her Win It had to do with airports “That,” said Lodge is beanti fully printed. Mr. Williams tell me that this cost $10,000." Further he said, a musical recording pro- ject had cost $72000 and WPA movies $101,000, a round total of $183,000. “At $800 a year” said Lodg “that would give work to ) workers. Do you call that stration expense?” Said Hopkins: “In terms of the five or six billion dollars it would not amount to much admin- ARLEY SLIPPING Interior Department is chortling these days. The hired hands there | credit their chief with out-guessing James .A. Farley, the super-super political guesser who call he turn in 1936 right down 'p Main Vermont. The interior has it that Farley advised Presi- dent that the Kelly-Nash organi- zation had the Illinois primar in the bag.” Interior's Harold Icke however, told the President put his ickels on the of Governor Horner won and tory the to organization to win. Horner A big moment in the life of Senator is when he can have his secretary bring to the floor the Senate a huge stack of letter for him to sign in the pres other Senators and an gallery. A secretary puts the stack of letters before him and as the Senator signs each one, he pulls it off to expose a new one. Senator Vandenberg of Michi- gan does it oceasionally, but our favorite letter-signer-in-public McKellar of Tennessee. He sign “Kenneth McKellar” in great sweep- ing two-inch up and down strokes that spread the name over haif page. It is truly magnificent. ce o admiring a PRESS ADVENTURE Hanging in the White House press 's sons and daughters will pause REDRAFT LIQUOR, BEER ORDINANGE WILL BE MADE Beer Dispensaries Ask Long- er Open Hours—Shep- ard Named Assessor In an effort to correct legal errors in the existing ordinance and for the purpose of permitting beer parlors to keep open for a longer period during the summer months, the City Council at its meeting last night agreed to consider a new draft of the ordinance which will be made by Attorney M. E. Motfgle, who ap- peared before the Council last night in behalf of 14 beer dispensaries in the city It was brought ouf at the session that the existing ordinance, which provides for 1 a.m. closing and 2:30 on Saturdays and days preceding holidays, is faulty in several re-| spects, virtually to the point of being ineffective if tested for legality. The Council ed Monagle to prepare a red t in cooperation with City Attorney Grover C. Winn and the police committee, bringing in the features the beer parlors de- sire and then it will be put into the shape the Council finally de- sires, City Assessor H. R. Shepard was again named City Assessor, a ition he had held for many yea but the ap- pointment of a City Engineer was put over until the next meeting. Ap- pointment of a Radio Inspector was tabled until October on motion of Councilman Sam Feldon, who de- clared there is little an inspector can do toward improving reception in the summer months, After motion to draw up a new dog ordinance was defeated, the Council voted to enforce the exist- ing ordinance in the same manner that it has been during the last year. Councilman Henry Messer- chmidt said he was in sympathy with the leash provision of the pres- ent regulation and most of the Council expressed themselves as faverable to enforcement about as 1t present with the leash provision dead letter, Wage Proposal The Federal Labor Union present- ed articles of agreement to cover members of that union employed by the city, asking 75 cents an hour for an eight hour day, or $6 per day, for general labor. The present scale (Continued on Page Sx) | (Continued on Page Three) SIX GUESSERS HAVE TICKETS, BIGHT MINUTE Approximately Sixteen Th()llsan(] l)()”fll's B(-‘ DiS' tributed to Each Party 'TWO JUNEAU MEN ARE REPORTED ON Company, PookCollbis tions Indicate Wide Split of Total Amount BULLETIN — FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 7.—The Nenana ice guessers paid in approxi- mately $100,000 and the ad- ministrative costs are about | 810,000, leaving $90,000 for a | six-way split. The ice was cat by two streams running on two sides of the marker. A chunk of ice came down, cut the wire and stopped the clock but the mark- er did not move and remained stationary wuntil 9:20 o'clock this morning when it began to sink. There is a huge accumulation of ice still jammed in front of Nenana. | | | | | | | The ice went out in the Tanana | River at Nenana last evening, May 16, at 8:14 o'clock. Six tickets were minute. These tickets were held by C. Ner. |land and Company, Helge Johnson, |Mrs. ©. E. Mattson, John Rokas | Company, Clam Diggers Company |and Willow Creek Company. | By company, or as many call it, | pools, it means that more than one | person will enjoy the proceeds and this indicates wide distribution. John Rokas Company, is a Juneau pooi, and consists of John Rokas and Alex Boras, both muckers in the Alaska Juneau mine and they will split $16,000. C. Nerland Company, consists of Christ Nerland, carpenter at Fair- banks with the U. S. Smelting Com- |pany, and Miss Vivian Waters, a waitress. They will split approxi- mately $16,000. Mrs. Mattson is the wife of a pan. ner on a dredge of the U. S. Smelt- ing Company at Chatanika. Her husband, Matty Mattson, is famed in the interior as a former basebail pitcher. Mrs. Mattson receives ap- proximately $16,000. A radiogram from Cordova to The Empire says the Clam Diggers Pool was arranged by a party of on the exact i Cr{nflfiued 6; Eage Three) B TWO MUCKERS T0 GET SIXTH OF ICE POOL Many Small—\i’;mings Made Around Juneau in Minute Guesses One-sixth of the total ice pool, said to be around $96,000 will go to two Juneau winners, John Rokas and Alex Boras. Both men are living at the Alaska Juneau Boarding House and both are muckers in the mine. Among lucky winners in other pools about town, George T. Mathe- son won $49020 in the American Legion Pool, M. Birkland won $60 in a minute pool at the New York Tavern, as did Alton Howe, A. J. Gillis won $30 at the Min- ers' Recreation, and George Skinner won $60 in an Alaska Road Com- mission pool Amorig other small winners in the Federal Building, Pearl Peterson won the Forest Service pool, “Bud” Jenne, the Nordnes Co. pool, and Dorothy Green, the Bureau of In- dian Affairs pool. Mrs. Etta Bring- dale won the B. M. Behrends Co., Inc., pool Martin Bloxham won a total of $120 dollars in the two Imperial pools, choosing the fourteenth min- ute on both cards. “Bud” Whiteside won three min- ute pools. He won $30 and $60 in the two minute pools at the White Spot, and a $15 pool at the Top Notch Cafe. |