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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” S ——— ] 7 VOL. LIL, NO. 7813. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1936, " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AIR MAIL TO STATES ALMOST CERT f GILLETTE HAS LONG LEAD IN IOWA PRIMARY Wearin Forces Concede De- feat on Face of Mount- ing Election Returns Towa, June 7.— Democratic Senator Guy M. Gil- lette's lead over Representative Otha D. Wearin continued to grow | as the Wearin forces conceded de- | feat early this afternoon in the | mounting returns of Towa's Smnn-‘ torial primary election. Senator Gillette is a foe of Presi- dent Roosevelt’'s Supreme Court plan nd Wearin was backed by | Harry L. Hopkins, WPA Adminis- trator. Towa is Hopkins' own state. | Former Senator Dickinson has| rolled up a heavy majority over | Representative Lloyd Thurston in| the Republican Senatorial race. The vote from 1845 precincts out | of 2447, give Gillette 63,000 and Wearin 34,000. Senator Gillette said his victory | “will give that Left Wing group, which started out to control the party nomination in 1940, a very great incident something to think over.” DES MOINES, and CCMMENT [ WASHINGTON, June T7.—Presi- dent Roosevelt, commenting on the rencmination of nator Gillette, said it was perfectly good in carry- ing out a perfectly good system of Party Government. Harry L. Hopkins, WPA Adminis- trator, who said he favored Wearin, commented that the Gillette victory showed the WPA was not playing politics. | BRAZIL, JAPAN BUY MATERIAL OF WARINU.S. Arms, Ammunition, Air- planes, Motors Pur- chased During May WASHINGTON, June 7.—Brazil was the largest importer of Am- erican arms and ammunition and implements of war in May. Brazil was followed closely by Japan, the State Department reports. Brazil purchased $1,494,000 worth of materials, principally airplane motors and Japan bought $1,334,000 worth, cheifly aircraft. e CONGRESSIONAL PARTY T0 MAKE REINDEER STUDY Committee Sails from Seat- tle June 17 on North- land for Alaska A party of seven, including a com- mittee of three from Senate and House Appropriations committee, will sail from Seattle June 17 on the Northland for Alaska to make an investigation of the reindeer in- dustry, according to a message to C. M. Hirst, Director of Education for the Indian Office, today. Here the party will take plane for Fairbanks and the Interior, according to the message from J. S. Rood, Acting Reindeer Supervisor who is now in ashington. In the Interior Department act, recently passed by Congress, the congressional committee was au- thorized to make a survey and ap- praisal of the reindeer industry in Alaska in connection with the ac- quiring of the deer for the natives An appropriation of $25,000 was made to carry on the survey. -ee MRS. BRICE HOWARD, SON EN ROUTE HOM Mrs. Brice Howard, sister of Harry | G. Watson, Secretary of the Gover- nor, and her son, Brice, Jr., are pas- sengers aboard the Yukon for their home in Fairbanks. Mrs. Howard has been at Mayo's in Rochester and | reported feeling much better after llteitmem there. [ be determined with Hopkins to Marry Ex-Actress? | RANSOM BILL { \' 1 | | | | | | | | | { | Mrs, Dorothy Hale | A New Deal is in store for Harry Hopkins, WPA administrator, who is to marry Mrs. Dorothy Hale, comely New York widow and former Broadway actress, GEOPHYSICIST TO PROSPECT OVER ALASKA Harvard Man Is to Study Gold, Quakes and Oil This Summer Author of a recent textbook on “Practical Seismology and Seismo- Prospecting,” Dr. Don Leet, of Ha vard University, arrived in Juneau on the steamer Yukon and flew to Fairbanks with PAA. With H. G. Taylor, Harvard geo- logist, Dr. Leet will be a “guest” of the Fairbanks Exploration Com- pany and will attempt to apply the principles of geophysics to placer gold prospecting for that company. Seismo - prospecting, according to Dr. Leet, involves the principle of varying speed of sound through different strata of rock and earth A’ detonation of some sort through the use of dynamite principally, is set off, and a graph recording is made of the sound path by a sen- sitive instrument. Dr. Leet said the thickness of a layer of rock can calibration, down to a small number of feet, but “of course can't tell the nature of mineral values.” It is Dr. Leet’s belief that placer gold prospecting with geophysical equipment will not necessarily be able to determine gold or other mineral values, but in placer, it can quickly tell how deep the bed- rock is. The use of such equipment has been of most value in oil prospect- ing, Dr. Leet said, but explained that he had done considerable local study in New England con- cerning minor earthquakes in that area. “That is one of the things I hope to get in a little -study on,” Dr. Leet said. “It may be that some- thing of interest can be found in the Fairbanks area concerning the quakes experienced there last spring.” Prospecting for gold and study- ing earthquakes will not occupy all of Dr. Leet’s time. He and Taylor have been closely connected with oil studies with geophysical pros- pecting equipment. Dr. Leet said he hoped to get down into the Alaska Peninsula oil country. He explained that “prospecting” for oil did not mean determining whether or not oil was present. “What we can do, however,” he o (Conunued“on Page Three) according to current rumors. CANTON AGAIN RAIDED BY JAP BOMBERS TODAY City Bombarded for Elev- enth Successive Day— 6,000 Casualties CANTON, China, June 7.—Japa- nese air raiders twice bombarded and terrorized Canton today, the eleventh successive day of aerial attacks on this congested city and its environs. The air raids have caused an timated 6,000 casualties, destroyed more than 1,000 buildings and cre- ated a dire relief problem. After an early morning foray, the Japanese bombers returned this af- ternoon and methodically bombed the Government office buildings and the railroad line to Hankow, 2 Children Die, Bamn Acnidem: FORT WORTH, Texas, June T.— Two children were killed and three adults injured when the roof of a barn, filled with 15500 bushels of oats, collapsed late yesterday on the B. F. Warren farm. | | - - o * | sTock QuoTaTions | L2 NEW YORK, June 17 quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock “today is 10, American Can 86%, American Light and Power 51;, Anaconda 23%, Bethlhem Steel /44, Commonwealth and Southern — Closing 1%, Curtiss Wright 4%, General Motors 28%, International Harvest- er Kennecott 28%, New York Central 11%, Southern Pacific 10%, United States Steel 42, Cities Serv- 'ice 8%, Pound $4.947%. | DOW, JO? s AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow, [Jones averages: industrials 113.12, | |rails 2055, utilities 18.88. . Mrs. W. E. Day, accompanied by“ her two daughters, left on the Yu-| kon for Anchorage from where she will do missionary work for the Pen- | tacostal Mission./ | tier, June 7.—The Spanish Insur-| gent Armies have launched a gen-| The Heils Spend an Evening at Home IN ABDUCTION | | CASE SPOTTED, Policemen, Hon : Vacation, Apprehended by FBI Agents, Released MIAMI, Florida, June 7. — The Miami News says this afternoon that Federal Agents have recovered a $5 bill, part of the $10,000 ran- som James Cash vainly paid for the return of his son, James Bailey | Cash, Jr., aged five, The News says the bill was spot- ted by a filling station -attendant at Jacksonville who notified the FBI agents The FBI agents took up the clue and caught the two men who pass- ed the bill on the highway be- tween Jacksonville and Tallahassee. The two men were Tennessee po- licemen returning home after a vacation in Miami. They were re- leased after questioning. Where they got the bill was not ascer- tained. % INSURGENTS LAUNCH OUT, \’Connell May:Run for NEW ATTACK Senate in Montana Now General Qfiensive Against | That He Is ‘Dear J(’rr‘y’ Val;gcll\z‘lSl;ne({ » L TR IR By l'lm.\rl';;Nwmm\'r;n e REDS WARNED | WASHINGTON, June 7. — in politics there is more than one way to butter a potato and thus- it s that friends of Representative Jerry | O'Connell of Montana believe he has received the White House nod to HENDAYE, French-Spanish Fron-| l eral offensive against Valencia along | a 50-mile front between Tereul and the Mediterranean Sea. The attack was unleashed at day- break today and 100 planes and large concentrations of heavy ar- tillery smashed along the south- east section toward the coast. Gen. Aranda’s Galicians straight south down the seaboard between the two armies of Navar- rae’s troops. Gen. Valino fanned out to cover their flanks. | The new offensive was started after five days of skirmishing. Lines remained virtually unchanged. RED SALMON STUDY MADE BY JAPANESE Ward Bower Admits Their Knowledge Ahcad of Americans WASHINGTON, June 7. — The House Appropriations Committee to- day made public a statement by ‘Ward Bower, Chief of the Fisheries Bureau's Alaska Division, that the Japanese Government “undoubted- ly” knows more than the American about red salmon, the basis of a $12,000,000 a year industry of Bristol Bay. Bower said the Bureau of Fish- eries needs $76,000 “so we can study and round out wholly inadequate information in order to be able to negotiate with others on a proper | basis” regarding offshore fishirig of red salmon. The committee included the full —4 amount in the bill when introduced today. Bower said the Japanese have made a study of fishing off the Al- aska coast for the past three years. This study is part of a three-year | program for scientific investigation in Bristol Bay and Bering Sea. The committee also approved of $25,000 for investigation of the rein- deer situation in Alaskh. DIPHTHERIA ON UNIMAK ISLAND UNALASKA, Alaska, June T7.— Ten doses of antitoxin have been administered to a native by the name of Nickolski at a village on Unimak Island after one death from diphtheria. The Coast Guard cutter Spencer reports that the victim was Andrew Chercasen. struck | Last Night Mid Forest of American Flags JERSEY CITY, June 7.—Mayor |Frank Hague looked over a vast crush of humanity, in a forest of American flags, in Journal Square last night, and above the' din of the cheering throng, shouted: “The Reds had better get the I first ship back to Russia. | Mayor Hague marched at the head of a long line of marchers |into the Plaza where several of his opponents have failed in their ef- forts to deliver speeches, principally against the city's chief executive. Mayor Hague, in his speech, said: ‘Let me say this to Communists and Reds that this demonstration is an indication of how the workers lof Jersey City feel on the subject.” REED RESIENS ~ POSITION AS -~ GAME OFFIGIAL Chairman of Commissicn to | Give Full Time to Ter- ritorial Mine Duties | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 7— | Irving McK. Reed, Chairman of the | Alaska Game Commission, has tele- | graphed his resignation to Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, ‘giving as the reason, pressure Of private business. Chairman Reed is now field rep- resentative of the Territorial De- partment of Mines and his duties n this work would not permit him ime to carry on the game work; ilso under Territorial law he could 10t hold both pesitions. He has been + member of the Commission since 1927 and its chairman for the last four years. His present four-year term under appointment from the Secretary of Agriculture would have expired on June 30. No successor has yet been named, Executive Officer Frank Dufresne of the Commission said, but several men in the Fourth Division are being considered. Other members of the Commission are Earl N. Ohmer, Petersburg, Frank P. Willlams, St. Michael, and | Andrew A, Simons, Lakeview. JERSEY CITY Mayor Addresses Throng run against Senator Wheeler in 1940. It came about this way, One of the choice pieces of Fed- eral spending in the west is Fort Peck reservoid on the Missouri River in Montana, called by scof- fers the pstliest duck pond in the world.” New towns have been built up around it, an agricultural development is in prospect and besides that it helps open the Mis- souri to navigation Early in 1937 O’Connell intro- duced a bill to authorize spending $6,000,000 to install power works at the dam. Part of the power would be used to pump irrigation water to tracts now desert. The bill made only random progress. THE WAY OF A BILL Some weeks later Senator Wheeler introduced a similar bill in the Sen- ate and it made morg rapid pro- gress. It passed the Senate and Wheeler, who has campaigned long and often and is rarely caught with his hands in his pockets, promptly sent telegrams out to Montana to announce his success in getting the bill through the Senate. These things may sound casual to the layman but to the politician such an opportun- ity is like a summer rain on his crop of votes. The bill went over to the House and O'Connell got busy. By a legis- lative maneuver as simple as crack- ing peanuts he had the Wheeler bill trimmed down until nothing much was left but the page numbers. O~ Connell’s own bill then was substi- tuted for it, revised to suit the ad- ministration and the War Depart- ment, the latter being in charge ol the reservoir building In that form is passed but Wheeler ‘h'L no grass grow under his type- writer before sending out telegrams to Montana reporting that the bill | had passed the House. Again when the President signed the bill Sena- tor Wheeler sent out telegrams and Montana was glad to know that $6,- 000,000 was a step nearer. . REMEMBER ‘DEAR ALBEN'? But Representative O'Connell has been more popular with the admin- istration than Senator Wheeler in late times, particularly since Wheel- er led the fight against the court bill. There was a time in 1936 when O'Connell was mentioned as a can- didate for the senatorial job of Sen- ator Murray but Murray also has his friends there, and back here, and O’Connell contented himself with another term in the House; waiting for a crack at Wheeler in 1940. So far Wheeler had taken all the breaks on the For Peck affair, but what should turn up but a per- sonal letter from President Roose- velt to Representative O'Connell It contained the pen with which J (Continued on Page Six) When Harry Heil, 46, of Fort Lee, N. J., plays cards, he doesn’t have to go out looking for “hands.” There are plenty right at home, and kibitzers, too. Mrs. Heil, mother of 24 children, sixteen of whom are alive and kicking, has only one complaint—“every hour they eat.” The oldest is 24 and the youngest 2 months old. The weekly budget is approximately $40, Only part of the family is shown. BILL AIMED 0 BROADEN SCOPE * OF GAME LAWS Major Feature Three-Year Residence Requirement for Trapping License WASHINGTON, June 7 The House has passed the Senate bill to broaden the scope of the Alaska game laws to define the bison and muskox as game animals and af- fording them permit protection and mamot, raccoon and pika are clas- sified as land fur bearing animals. ‘The Secretary of Agriculture will be authorized to define the black bear, and including the brown-blue color variations, as a game animal under certain conditions and he will be permitted to establish a three-year residence requirement in the Territory for issuance of trap- ping licenses, whereas a year is now required. At the present time the black bear is classified as a fur "bearer and can not be hunted as a game animal. | . Major change under the new bill y is to require the three-year resi dence before getting a trapper license, game officials here ex- plained §1,448,000 1S APPROPRIATED INDIAN OFFCE $790,000 for Education, $408,000 Medical and $250,000 Buildings A total of $1,488,000 is carried in the Interior Department bill recent- ly passed by Congress for carrying on the activities of the Office of Indian Affairs in Alaska, according to copy of the act just received here. Of this amount $790,000 is set aside for education purposes; $408,000 for the medical department; $90,000 for remodeling existing schools and quarters; $160,000 for hospitals and quarters. The Interior act also provides $202,600 for care of Alaska insane; $535,000 for roads and trails under the Alaska Road Commission; $160,- 000 for the Alaska Railroad; $75,000 for public schools; $46,000 for legis- lative expense; $25,600 for the Gov- ernor’s office; $35500 for reindeer servicee. BRIDGE PARTY GIVEN Mrs. R. C. Foulter entertained 2 small group of friends at her home in the Decker Apartment last eve- ning at a bridge party. High honors for the evening were won by Mrs. | Noble G. Ricketts and the low score i was made by Mrs. Don Able, HOUSE GROUP PUTS APPROVAL ON NEW ROUTE $100,000 Recommended by Appropriations Com- mittee to Start Service BRANCH ANTICIPATES EARLY INAUGURATION {Ultimate Plan Is to Extend | Line Up Alaskan Coast to Seward, Official Says | Delegate Anthony J. Dimond radioed Gov. John W. Troy to- day that the second deficiency appropriation bill had been re- ported to the House today con- taining authorization for air mail service from Seattle to Ju- neau. An appropriation of 100,- 000 has been recommended by the committee to inaugurate the service. WASHINGTON, June 7. — The House appropriations committee has approved establishment of a weekly round trip air mail service from Se- attle to Juneau and suggested the proposed initial appropriation of $200,000 be reduced to $100,000 on the ground that the lesser amount is enough to inaugurate and carry on the service during the next fis- cal year, starting July 1. The $100,000 item is included in the deficiency appropriation bill. The committee presented it to the | House, expressing the belief that postal revenues from the 960-mile route would never be much com- {pared with'" ‘cost of operation, The committee said that neverthe- | less the service would provide trans- portation facilities and aid greatly the development of the vast Terri- tory affected. Harllee Branch, Assistant Post- master General, told the House ap- propriations committee that unusual expense was involved because the Air Commerce Bureau “will not per- mit operation of craft over the route with less than four engines which is expensive operation,” He said he hoped to get the service going some time in the 1939 fiscal year. “Eventually, and as quickly as possible, the government plans to extend service all the way up the Alaskan coast by way of Ketchikan and Juneau to Seward,” Branch said, “then switch the service which now runs from Juneau to Fairbanks over to the coast, thence from Seward by way of Anchorage to Fairbanks. ‘The route will be flown the year around and money sought for the proposed new route already is ap- propriated for the foreign air mail service but authority is needed to apply it to Alaska. - eee - Freight Trucks Are Now Moving Richardson High. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June T7.— The first freight trucks of the year moved over the Richardson High- way today, aided by caterpillars over one washout stretch. Passengers are to start within a few days, it is said. P 33 A R JUNEAU CHAMBER TO WELCOME L.A. PARTY TOMORROW A reception committee from the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, headed by H. L. Faulkner, will wel- come the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce delegation when it ar- rives here at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon aboard the Prince Rob- ert. President Charles W. Carter of the Chamber urged today that all Chamber members turn out to greet the visitors. On the return trip from Skag- way, the party expects to be here all day Friday and a luncheon for the Juneau and Los Angeles cham- |ber members is planned aboard ship at noon. — .- GRIFFIN GOES WEST E. W. Griffin, Secretary of Al- aska, left on the Yukon for Seward, Anchorage and Fairbanks, on offic- |ial business, and will be absent for about three weeks,