The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 18, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME VOL. LII, NO. 7848. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS — PRICE TEN CENTS FISHING DISPUTE AT KETCHIKAN SETTLED AVIATOR HEADS | FOR CALIFORNIA, LANDS, IRELAND | Douglas Corrigan Flies| Across Atlantic in 28 | Hours, 13 Minutes PLANE FLOWN IS OF OLD VINTAGE Leaves New York Sunday Morning—In Emerald Isle Early Today ‘ DUBLIN, Treland, July 18.—Doug- | las Corrigan, 31, American flier who took off from New York at 4:17 o'clock Sunday morning, East-| ern Standard Time, on a flight to “California,” dropped unheralded from the skies at Baldonnel, Ire- land, today. The flier made the flight in an antiquated single motored plane of the vintage of Col. Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, in 28 hours and 13 minutes. He landed at 8:30 a.m. today, Eastern Standard Time. Corrigan, last year, was refused a United States permit to attempt a trans-Atlantic flight hop to Ire- land. Nothing was heard from him in New York since he hopped off for California. He had no radio and only the barest navigating instru- ments. Seven others have hopped the Atlantic successfully, solo flights. The plane taxied across the field, ' wheezed, snorted and then stopped. The grinning pilot climbed out. | “I am Douglas Corrigan. Just got in from New York. By the way where am I?” he asked mem- gers of the gathering Irish crowd. When informed he was in Ire- land, Corrigan said: “Really, now, I thought I was heading for California. Not until I saw mountains did I realize I was not in California and wondered | SALMON RUN, BRISTOL BAY HENOMENAL | BUCHAREST, July 18—Dowager| 'DOWAGER QUEEN 'MARIE IS DEAD, SUMMER HOME pean Diplomat, Passes Away in Palace |Noted Royal Beauty, Euro- { FARLEY POINTS TODEVELOPMENT OF TERRITORY 'Postmaster General Pictures | Advances in Ketchikan | Dedication Address KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 18.— Postmaster General James A. Far- T | Queen Marie of Rumania, who KOGGIUNG, Alaska, July 18.--| the fish and get them aboard Lll.-:hflp‘)d- shape the deS_Lmy of her Libby, McNeill and Libby's cannery | vessels. country for a generation, died to- | here, also at Nakat and Libbyville,| The Nakat cannery has already |98y in her 63rd year in her palace report the heaviest red salmon run in the history of Bristol Bay Incredible tales of a profusion of swimming gold are included in | the report of fishermen. | Nets are so glutted with salmon that it is a matter of only a few| minutes when boats are loaded and many fishing craft are endangered | and near swamping because of | the sheer weight of the fish Fish have choked the nets. | Much gear has been lost when fishermen have been forced to cut away large sections of net with en- meshed salmon. Lifting gear has been unable in many cases to lift Mineral Production of Alaska Last Year Shows Big Increase; Valued at Nearly $27,000,000 OIL EXPLOSION CAUSES DAMAGE, ALSO 3 DEATHS Fifteen Mill~i0n Dollar Re-| finery in New York | Threatened | |Alaska for 1937 and, for compari- packed more than 100,000 c and| @t Sinaia, the Royal summer resi- | may be forced to close before the|dence. ; ; 3 |end of the season because of lack| Prime Minister Miron Cristea, also of “cans. Libbyville and Koggiung Patriarch of the Rumanian Qrtho— | canneries expect to put up 175,000 dox Church, celebrated mass in the cases each for new records. | Palace immediately after ¥ All canneries are working on a|Passing, having previously admin- 24-hour basis, forced to the limit|istered the extreme function as to take the fish from their boats.|death neared. g Seiners are In Bucharest all public buildings | catching more fish| d . in an hour than they formerly took “z‘l;}fllmtely displayed flags at half staff. in a full shift. annery crews are buried under alanche of red salmon. Important Role | Queen Marie attained interna-| Marie’s | |ley on his first visit to Alaska made {nis first Alaska stop here this |morning when the Aleutian docked (and he dedicated the new Post- office Building. | Accompanied from Seattle by U. |8. Marshal Willilam - T. Mahoney, | the Postmuster Geenral and Demo- ‘crnuc National Committeeman, was met here by Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, Collector of Customs James J. Connors of Juneau, Postmaster Albert Wile of Juneau, Postmistress Reinert of Ketchikan, Mayor A. H. Ziegler, Territorial Senator Nor- man R. Walker and several other | local and visiting dignitaries. Fisheries Bureau observers said|tional prominence by the importart| Following the dedication cere- | the run shows no signs of slacken-|role she played in shaping the des-|monies, the Cabinet officer and his ing. | tiny of her adopted country during|party, accompanied by the officials ———— |and after the World War. | English by birth but reigning as| consort of a Hohenzollern, she was credited with keeping Rumania | | from being drawn into the struggle| on the side of the central powers| {and ultimately bringing it into the| struggle as one of the allies. Its army was routed and the country | forced to sue for an armistice in| December, 1917, but in the end the| kingdom was materially expanded | and, as a member of thé “little en- tente,” along with Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, became a pivotal post-war Danubian Mines in Alaska produced min- erals worth $26,989,000 in 1937, as against $23,594,000 in 1936, accord- |ing to an announcement made by Ithe United States Department of | State in the |the Interior today through the Geo- Problem. 2 |logical Survey. The total’ value of | Family Affairs |the mineral output of the Territory| But while Rumania thus was in- since- 1880 is $749,211,000, or more Yolved in a changing political pic- than one hundred times the price | ture, Queen Marie had to struggle paid to Russia for the entire Ter-| With tangled family affairs. Be- ritory at the time of purchase h,;fore her husband, King Ferdinand, 1687 | died in 1927, her eldest son, Carol, The following table shows in sum- | had renounced his family and in- mary form the mineral output of Deritance to live in France with an inamorata, Magda Lupescu. he | from Juneau and Delegate Dimond, | sailed for Juneau shortly after| noon. | The Postmaster General pointed to the advances already made in‘ the development of mail facilities | in the Territory and saw bright prospects for the future. In his dedicatory address, Posi- | master General Farley said | “I am delighted to have this op—‘ portunity of meeting with the peo- | ple of Ketchikan on this, my first visit to Alaska, and I want you lo | know how much I appreciate the invitation to participate in these | ceremonies, 1 “Postal service in Alaska is al-| most as old as the Territory it- self, for s was on July 23, 1867, shortly after the purchase of Al- aska by the United States, that the first post office was established al | what is now Sitka. On July 31 of the same year the postmaster at San Francisco was authorized Lo arrange for a special steamer mail Cabinet M mber Here Tuesday James A. Farley, Postmaster General and Chairman of the Demo- cratic National Committee, will be a visitor in Juneau tomorrow, arriving here aboard the steamer Aleutian. This will be the first time a Postmaster General, member of a President’s Cabinet, will have ever visited Alaska. Maska Steamer 'RECEPTION FOR Hits Oil Tanker FARLEY PLANNED I Early Moning HERE TOMORROW Mt. McKinley Collides with National Committeeman J. Agwiworld in Forest A. Hellenthal Announces Fire Smoke Program for Day | | | SEATTLE, July 18. — Steamer Under the direction of Democratic ALL CANNERIES ARE RESUMING * PACKING TODAY 'CIO Purse Sein;rs Agree to Terms of Contract with | ‘ AFL Fishermen | |AGREEMENT REACHED AT SUNDAY MEETING 1700 AFL Sefirs and Can- nery Workers Pour in { . Ketchikan for Meeting KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 18— Settlement of the fishing dispute has been reached here and all plants resumed operations today, the CIO purse seiners going back to work on terms of the original AFL agreement, The prolonged dispute between |the packers and CIO affiliated sein- ers of the United Fishermen's Union ended at 3 am. this morning, at a |meeting attended by Federal Med- iator John O’Connor, when tele- grams were sent advising 33 South- east Alaska canneries they could operate, City Tense Sunday This town was tense yesterday and beer parlors and other like | establishments were closed as 700 AFL seiners and cannery workers opened a meeting here at which | representatives of the CIO cannery workers and seiners and AFL af- |filiated Alaska Fishermen’s Union | conferred with packers. Meantime three canneries had reopened under protection of local merchants and {employees but later their pickets were withdrawn, The CIO seiners lind objected to the price of five cenis on the fish banks and called /lcir membership |on picket duly July 10. Although the AFL unions and CIO cannery workers have signed contracts wilih the packers, no con- tracts have been sined by the CIO » where I was.” . WELLSVILLE, N. Y. July 18— (son, the production of the same | throne thereupon went to his 5-|yice to Alaska on a schedule not ’ |seiners but their representative, J, Corrigan said he had good weath- | hfig(’: .gm] explosion ;m‘vywduyimmm.m i'n 1936 | year-old son Michael under a re- |:) exchad anosa. wekk. Mt. McKinley, Seattle bound from National Committeeman J. A. Hel- |F. Jurish, siimcd the telegrams er for the entire flight and flew | ,cred the Sinclair Oil C(;mpany'.; Gold $20,373,000 318.433.0001 gency ‘!‘ five _with Queen Marie| .y cite this instance of the early ‘Alm‘sk.a pm , with 153 passengers lenthal, Junof.u was preparing to- |notifying the canneries they could above the clouds. He had no land- ¢15 000,000 refinery. Three men were Silver 384,000 369,000 | and Prince Nlchol_as, her second| .. gservice to Alaska merely Lo ebo‘nd. wirelessed that she collided |day to pay its respects to Post-|operate. Several outlying canneries ing papers. killed and 75 injured. | Copper 4,741,000 3,720,000 | SO 88 representatives of the dy-| . w that from the days of nts;’"_“‘e h}envy smoke rx-q{:x.tlxn Olym- master _Gene_ral Jnmes_ A. Farley, had not been closed. United States Minister John Cud—‘ Last night, fire sweeping through | Lead 120,400 ijgnasty. g | pioneer development there has pm.,}pin Pe'mnsulu forest ljnes, with the |who, with his party, is scheduled| This district’s pack at 12 can- | ahy sent a car to the airport for| tne plant, spread anew in two di-|Platinum | That regime lasted until June.||,.. peen no other instrumentality |tanker Agwiworld, off Ediz Hook|to arrive here at noon tomorrow neries is estimated at less than 20~ the flier as soon as he learned of rections and a storage tank, con-| metals 397,600 241,000 | 1930, when Carol, by a spectacular| ;¢ "oy national government that | Near Pm_t‘Angele-s- at 7:43 o'clock and sail for Seward about 5 pm. |000 cases thus far against 90,000 Corrigan’s arrival. taining 2,500 barrels of oil and|Tin, metallic 202,300 105,000 plane dash, returned to oust hls"hw; played such a vital role in the this morning. | Mr. Hellenthal outlined the pro-|cases by all canneries on this date ponsge: | naptha exploded shortly before day- | Coal 362700 573.700| 500 8nd reclaim the throne. The| .ony progress and later expansion| O8Pt. Arthur Rynning reported gram as follows: jInat your, v WASHINGTON, July 18. — The A few minutes later plant offi- St by i . Department. . e Was 1o ments the Aleutian will arrive here| Air Commerce Bureau officials are| cials ::;'mml-d a 50,000 bl:u_m] Lan]r: Totals ..$26989,000 $23 594000‘Lhat role for many years, for King ® B0, Dept. Alert excitement, but he dented some at noon tomorrow. Immediately| WALKER REPORTS ALL Habbirgiistad RE OREL R TRat | wneon fite K0 the SN B8 0f | pig 989 594000 | perdinand was inclined to leave| PO Dept. ACF ding | Plates of the steamer. upon arrival Postmaster General PLANTS OPERATING Bernard Mulligan, Chief of the Air|the refinery property. | *—Miscellaneous mineral products, |state affairs to his ministers and| “This fine new Federal building| = e damage to the tanker has Farley and his party will be driven Commerce Burean, said he would| Shortly afterwards a 2500 barrel| _ncluding antimony, limestone, nis queen. | which we are dedicating here t0- oy peen reported. [to the glacier, and at 3. o'clock | Senator Norman R. Walker, who postpone the question of punish- tank exploded. Flames skyrocketed quicksilver, etc. | Visits U. S. dfl?’ offers visible e\g«:rencenor Lll:f e Mr. Farley will broadcast over|Das been representing the Territory i |in all directions and shot across| In all the computations of value| Her trip to the United States in fact that the Post .ceh El’f‘d_ LEFT JUNEAU FRIDAY KINY. in the fishing dispute at Ketchikan, “It is a great day for the Irish”|the Genesse River. [the average selling prices for the|1926, ostensibly to dedicate a muse- | Ment is ever alert to meet t Ed“;’te 5| Steamer Mt McKinley left Ju-| “Immediately after the broadcast, |‘adioed Gov. John W. Troy this \ o /aatd: | About 100 firemen have been sent|ear have been used rather than|um of: fine arts built near Seattle|Of its Patrons in Alnska, f‘: % ineau last Friday afternoon at 5 at about 3:15, there will be a public| MOrning that the “purse seiners | Corrigan, it is known here, valued | to the scene. the prices actually received by the | by Samuel Hill, a former Red Ggoss|MY sincere wish that lnlm: :;“’Lu‘* o'clock, taking the following pas-|reception at the Governor’s House Strike is over and all plants are his plane At $900 & decade ago. He|, There is a 50,000 barrel tank in |Producers. Furthermore, the quan-|officer in Rumania, was credited |Of I(s facilliles you B ence.. | sengers from ere for Seattle: Mrs.to which everyone is fnvited. No OPerating.” He said the CIO fisher- | s sed the eraft for training stu. | the line of tanks that was endan- |tities mentioned in this statement | with having been a factor in bring- | center of utility and Convemlerts. [a. c. Nelson, Mrs. A. W. Sandell, |special invitations have been or will|Men had gone back fo work on the I0. . Hents, | gered at moon. This tank is filled |Telate to production and not to|ing American investments in Ru- “,‘_'i ‘SDm k::lpinlg. Wnll;c t.h;‘ ;J;_ H. C. Roettger, Mrs. Roettger, Ray |be issued to this reception. Every-|terms of the AFL agreement. He o B T S, |with highly inflamable naptha, |sales, shipments, or some other|mania up to more than $25,000,000 O A oL, Sty Fiiis’ iy Pap | Stevens, George Folta, Jr, A. Q|one in Juneau is cordially invited |TéPorted considerable of a demon- | e e e perhaps equally significant basis by | by 1930. “,{"f‘ B f‘t of. | Quist, E. W. Clock, Murray Stuart,|to attend.” stration in Ketchikan yesterday be- which the industry might be gaged.| Out of the political picture there- | ters for the housing of its post 01|y Murray Stuart, Master Stuart,| The Cabinet officer and Demo- |fore the strike was ended. after, Marie devoted herself to lit-| fices that one million, nine hun- Mrs, W. W. Burns. rafia: Natinrial: O | _ Prosperous Year erary‘ work and charity. She was es- | dred and one thousand dollars haa "0 S0t REE c.za :{ t.c‘l‘fllg:a airman was met | The tnoresss of AERES 33.400,000‘ pecially active in chfldl‘ welfare nr;d been allocated for new buildings of : . Y eogate| ARNOLD NOTIFIES | |in the value of the mineral com- =™ 5 : this type in Alaska during the past| . nthony J. Dimond, Collector of R. E. ROBERTSON | | modities produced by Alaska mines wla.s strgsmextnaBl :1 h:vlmg th; four years. The new building atRece“t v'SItnr Customs James J. Connors and : | playgrounds of Buchare: e h Haved 3 in 1937 is of itself good Indication P WETRINE OF FHEAIY IRTONNC) oitica " like the one we are dedical- | Postmaster Albert Wile, who, with| . . Arnold of Ketchikan in a that the industry enjoyed a pros- | " ; 4 ing here in Ketchikan today, has| s U. 8. Marshal William T. Mahoney | megsage to R. E. Robertson, Juneau PORTLAND, Oregon, July 18.—| s : perous year. That this high produc- | :dm %edé shet iflmeu{f:;‘s spfim 12 eady been occupled, while the who accompanied him from Seattle, | a¢torney, this morning said: is | Vea ours a day at her wri , she was s > 4 3 State P“"Tf‘"t.“fig r;g:e }]:;:t ;;Z‘Recent Ruler of Ketchikan|tion, which has been exceeded n| o s oouently at the cgpera and |bullding at Nome is now nearing| era s I e will come with the official to Ju-| «geine fish dispute settled. Union eight meonths’ fig] B th Celebrati I only four years since mining began ikt i completion. The fourth new struc- | neau. Mr. Hellenthal expects to|officials have wired all delegates when he died as the result of gun-| our elebration 1Is 1 " . ¢ ine o | Maintained a keen interest in the accompany Mr. Farley on his tri % nrilot By & wad-| Ab Northland in the Territory, was not due theater. ture under this post office building | s sy P at all canneries in Southeast that ;:Ztedw?“e:rebone Oregox}; i | oard orthlan: any temporary cause or to a com-| " g o s Garol long remained es- | ProgTam was alloted to Anchorage, | " a"a ras | eward and return. picket lines are to be wi wn ) . <o inati s th st as soon as imihedia lson shot Pyle from a|Winsome Queen Tina Dudler, who e %, Jrmier Fsingoes - Hajer ;o ‘hites o5l ) I ba(r}r‘i’z;d:) R o i s e e o o718 Clearly shown by the fact that|Greece, for Marie had been largely [Office of the Supervising Architect| Aoy ion Cadet Booth, U.S MESSAGE OF WELCOME |CIO to fish under AFL agreement | |none of the large mines that were |, ioimental in arranging that|Of the Treasury Depariment in| G e e R & without change of price or working e Jun amber of Com- after killing Andro Dalsgard. | July celebration here, is a guest cf | operating in 1937, except certain of ];the Northland Transportation Com- | pany aboard the Northland for a | match. But Rumanians saw hope of the copper mines, has given any| g, reconciliation between mother and Washington, In addition, modern | Louisville, Dies in post office buildipgs comparable to| Dive il’l River conditions. Fish run here improv- merce today radioed the following ing but moderate.” missage, signed by President Charles those in large and prosperous cities | in the continental United States were erected several years ago in| EVERETT, Wash, July 18—Av- Juneau, Seward, and Fairbanks. ‘mLion Cadet J. C. Booth, of the A message to Mr. Robertson from Lester O. Gore also stated that the strike was settled and union of- ficers had wired all canneries with- |indication of having nearly reached | gon when, in October, 1936, she |the peak of potential production.|gisseq him on the occasion of his | Then, too, adverse as well as fav-|43rq pirthday. |orable factors affected the industry Health Fails W. Carter, to Postmaster Gereral James A. Farley aboard the Aleu- tian: “We welcome you to Alaska and round ftrip to Sitka. Edna Copstead and Miss G. Stu- |art also boarded the Northland here booked for Juneau. . TWO FIREMEN U.8.8. Louisville, DIE IN CRASH Don Ameche I in such ways that their combined effects, although on the whole fav- Her health failed in 1937. An at- tack of grippe in March was com- plicated by phlebitis and an inter- lorable, were not so overwhelming $458,687 Project “As for this new Ketchikan Fed-| eral building, a total of $458,687 was was killed when| a Navy seaplane struck a high tvn-! sion power line and fell into the| Snohomish River, four miles south| extend our deep appreciation for the interest which you and your department have shown in the pro- drawing pickets. e — | sTock QuoraTions ] DENVER, Col, July 18. — Two that they made the year for from| na] hemorrhage. There was a recur-|appropriated in the Congress of the A | 4 firemen were killed and eight others | . normal. Among the adverse factors | rence of the latter in June andlUnibed States for the carrying °’T‘;:e“"plane et R W o of air mail throughout Al- injured last night when two fire| ‘may be noted the continuation of |again early in November. The third [ through of this project. In addition | (oo™ p il AV B R0 P aska. M Fpus -plans permit we trucks crashed on a run to a| pera e pn“‘lhe shipping strike that began in|was so severe that efght noted spe- | to housing the Ketchikan post of-| "o\ S ohaveq’ the plane w]“‘hha“ be pleased o entertain =y NEW YORK, July 18. — Closing Denver amusement park. the preceding October, lasted into | cialists were summoned in consulta- | fice, spage is also provided for (he| ). "o aivaged R |8t lunch in Juneau and to do|quotation of Alaska Juneau mine "The dead are Capt. G. W. Brooks| oo oo o g |the early months of 1937, and not| tion. Carol cancelled a hunting trip| United States Court, and field of-| ™ bk it “:‘y”“‘"‘ within our power to make slock foday is 10%, American O ¥ and fireman James E. Simpson. | £ . July 18— |only girectly affected transportation | to be near his ‘mother and her| fices of the War Department, Jus-| oo o Tos oL (Pleasant your Vst to our city and | 100, American Light and Power 6, ‘Don Ameche, screen star, has been (o and from Alaska during that|daughters, Queen Marie of Yugosla- | tice Department, Commerce Deparl-! o y ‘]T Ed 0otly was. aboard Irerritory. | Anaconda 36, Bethlehem Steel 61%, - 4 |operated upon for appendicitis, The | period but led to abandonment or | via and Archduchess Tleana, were|ment, Labor Department, Agricul-| the Touisylg, SEiug e Tomt =i Commonwealth and southern 1%, ! ALL TODAY | | Hollywood studlo‘ as noll 1 iS | postponing of some mining plans|summoned to Zotrozeni Castle, ture Department, Bureau of Cus-| y “-| YOLO BACK AFTER PICTURES | Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors BASEB. |wife. Ameche left recently for & |fn.i'had been in contemplation for Noted For Beauty foms @8 She United States Public 7 Joseph Yolo of Yakiwa arrived| i1’ International Harvester 64%, #—————————"*|vacation trip in Europe. the season; the general business| Noted for her Deawy, she was re- | Health Service. |FRANK M’CAFFERTY -smu‘rd‘;y from the States to co;. fifim:;":h‘m' New Yark Csnisl ne following are scores of Na-| o uncertainty and recession, which|sourceful, versatile and intellectual| “As Postmaster General, T have| e takl | 19%, Southern Pacific 17%, United tional League games playea tnis Ketchikan Fisherman made it difficult to start new enter-|to a degree perhaps unequalled by | constantly been aware of the nec-| VISITING IN JUNEAU ::;L"‘s":gr;irflmes,j; “;:;k; hd | states Steel 6014, Cities Service 9%, afternoon as received up to 2 o'-| P es Awa seaule prises or to make extensive com-|any other queen of her time. Yet|essity of improved and enlarged Prank MeCafferty, property own-|by the Biological Survey and me‘Pcound $4.92%, Northern Pacific 12. oy ass Y, ; mitments far ahead of restricted |she was democratic, friendly .and|mail services in the Territory and| =/ "o mrn;bpr pl t}l,u: Ju.| Forest Service. Yesterday he got National League _SEATTLE, July 18—Funeral Ser-|neeqs on old prospects; and the approachable and altogether one of |1 am happy to state that we have oF And;LAITHON EIPRE & il Fali = | DOW, JONES AVERAGES " | vices were held yesterday for Wil- 1 P . |neau City Council, arrived here some good “shots” of the salmon | § New York 4; Pittsburgh 7. 4 tish recently levied Territorial tax on all| the most human of sovereigns. made tremendous strides in this di-| aboard the Alaska from his home|derby and is leaving tomorrow nooa| The following are today's Dow, ' Boston 6; Chicago 7. liam L. Chapman, 54, fisherman| ining operations, with its especial-| Few royal consorts have wielded | rection during the past five years. | 4 on the Rai 5 for Tra J + ind ' ; Oh from Ketchikan, who died last Fri- |in Santa Barbara, Cal. He will re- nger § for cy Arm for| Jones averages: industrials 14039, Amgeloun. Aonghe day at the Marine Hospital (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Seven) (Continued on Page Two) lmuin in the city for several weeks, further mountain goat films. l“‘““’ 21.96, utilities 3166 No games.