The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 30, 1938, Page 1

Homer Farm Colony ~erally in the Territory as. well THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 7 VOL. LIL, NO. 7885. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAVY, AUGUST 30, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS - —— ‘WAR CLOUDS HAN FRAIS SENDING ™ ™" BRIGES' CASE MAN TO ALASKA TO MAKE SURVEY Dimond Reports Represen- tative of Federal Agency Leaving Seattle Today 200 CORDOVA FAMILIES ANXIOUS FOR VENTURE Delegate Balieves Konai OF:| fers Possibilities for Expansion Aid to Alaska farmers, with spe- cial emphasis on the possibilities of establishing a farm colony at Hom- er on the Kenai Peninsula, is being considered by the Farm Rehabilita- tion Administration and H.E.Drew, representative of the FRA, is sailing from Seattle today on the steamer Baranof to make a survey in Alaska toward that end, according to Dele- gate Anthony J. Dimond. The Delegate, who arrived in Juneau this morning aboard the steamer Columbia after several weeks in the Westward and Interior regions, said he received a message this morning from Walter A. Duffy, regional director of FRA in the northwest, stating that Drew was being dispatched to Alaska to con- duct the investigation and surve; The survey will cover farming gen- the Homer proposal. Result of Mine Closing There are some 200 families at Cordova now who are considering moving to the Kenai Peninsula, the Delegate said, the result of being effected by the closing down of the Kennecott Copper Corpora- tion operations there this fall. Most of them have been working on the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad and in the mine, he ex- plained, and now are confrontec with the problem of making a live- lihood in some other way as the | railroad closes down, as now plan- ned. The Kenai district, particularly in the vieinity of Homer, offers exception possibilities for farming, the Delegate said, and if the FRA should decide to give assistance it is possible the Cordova people could be helped to a new start in that region. “These people are up against it,” the Delegate said. “They can't 2o Outside for jobs in the railroad | industry because there aren’t any jobs. They must adjust themselves as best they can. They see pos-| sibilities in the Kenai and if assist- ance can be given them' it seems to me reasonable to believe they will| make a go of it.” PWA Money to Alaska Commenting on assistance which already has been given Alaska and her people by the Roosevelt Admin- istration, Delegate Dimond pointed out that more than six million dol- lars had come into the Territory through the Public Works Admin-| istration. Many communities which were unable to get the improve- ments they so badly needed through their own efforts have, with the help of PWA, obtained permanent improvements which go a long ways toward Alaska development.” “Progress is being made by the| native people,” he said. “We have | been able to work out a hospital program which will do much toward wiping out tuberculosis. A hospital | has been built at Point Barro\v.; another is under construction mi Bethel, others are planned for Kan- akanak and Tanana.” School facilities have been im- proved, he pointed out, buildings | (Continued on Page Two) “Skagway Bil' Seriousty l - SEATTLE, Aug. 30—W. C. Fon- da, 82, “Skagway Bill” to his fellow sourdoughs, is seriously ill in the RESUMPTION IS * NOW DEMANDED [House Investigation Com- mittee Seeks Revival of Deportation, CIO Chief | WASHINGTON, Aug man Martin Dies of the House Committee investigating unAme | canism, today demanded that Se | retary of Labor Perkins resume de- portation proceedings at once inst Harry Bridges, CIO chief- ain on the Pacific Coast. | “Your file discloses a number of | depositions of witnesses who have | testified that Harry Bridges is a| member of the Communist Party,” | Martin has written to the Secre- tary of Labor after studying the La- | bor Department records. “Your files also disclose that am- ple evidence that the Communist Party in the United States advo- | cates and teaches the overthrow of | the United States Government by | force and violence,” says the let- | ter. | Postponement Unjustified | Continuing, Chairman Dies says: “We find no justification in post- poning the as delay might | place witne: out of reach; if thi 30.—Chair- Angelita Harmes The proceedings against Brid; were suspended by the Dr-])artmenvl‘; of Labor April 20, pending a Su-| preme Court ruling in the case in- of Explaining that her relations with Rudy Vallee were exclusively of a business nature, Angelita Harmes, Chicago singer, denied she was “the pashtime” of the band lepder | yolving Joseph Strecker, e i k. gk sfonér James Houtelling said the de- | cision might prevent Bridges' de- | has not already happened.” | Hot. .8 Tumored recently by colmmists. | Springs, Ark. Immigratioh Coxpmise | e -z APPLE A DAY_miss Mira you note—contributed io her success w York’s most wholesome-looking show gir! picked as * | portation | One Court’s Decision The New Orleans Circuit Court | stopped the deportation of Strecker | on the grounds the law does not | forbid aliens to belong to the “Com- | munist or any other party except one which hes the overthrow by force or violence of the Govern- ‘ment of the United States. | Dies said R. P. Bonham, Immi- gration Director at Seattle, protest- ed against the suspension of the case but has been reprimanded by Houtelling on the ground that he was imperfect in his knowledge of | the situation. SELLS BOMBERS SAN FR WAREHOUSES CLOSING DOORS Bay City’s Labor Strife Re- ported Spreading— Three Weeks Old SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 30. ‘7Appm'en\ general closing of the drygoods branch warehouse indus- |try is under way as the city's labor strife neared a crisis comparable with the 1936 maritime strike. Five of the seven member plants 'TO NATIONS, 1S of the Association of San Francisco Distributors are closed and sus-| pension of operations of other ware- | A F TE R Hls PAY houses is regarded as likely. | The listed closed warehouses now | are 75 liquor warehouses, 38 grocery | LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 30.— warehouses, 25 public warehouses, |Claiming his efforts brought about 5 drygoods warehouses, 4 hardware |the sale of 30 bombers to China, warehouses, 10 drug warehouses and |49 to Turkey and 50 to Russia, the F. W. Woolworth plant from |ywajter M. Bass seeks $80,000 in which the tieup started three weeks |commissions in a suit against the #80: | Aviation Manufacturing Company More than 2,000 warehouse WOrk- | of Downey. ers are idle and this number does | M S < a8 not include truckmen or other| . Shirking Duties JACKIE OAKIE Charged Against IS DIVORCED Soviet Farmers Mate Testifies He Just Likes' vorosmmovsk, caucasus U. S. §. R, Aug. 30. — Collective to Argue and Argue farmers near here are backsliding m HIS Home into bourgeois ways, complains the newspaper Ordjonikidze Pravda out of 300 households in the village of Druzhba, organized as a collective farm, 108 hired house- hold servants during last year. Hu bands, the paper says, neglect col- lective work in order to devole themselves to their individual vege- table gardens, while wives market the vegetables and let servanis pinch-hit for them on the collec- tive farm. At home, Jackie Oakie, film star, liked to argue. i Venita Vargen Oakie gave this testimony in support of her com- plaint for a divorce. Fadeout—Mrs. Oakie won the de- cree without a contest. BETTY MILL IS tve tarm. RETURNING HEREf McALISTER RETURNING | James K. McAlister, in the Terri- Betty Mill, daughter of Mr. and | torial Auditor’s office, is returning Mrs. Minard Mill, is a passenger |Saturday on the steamer Yukon, comm Crime Can Be Outlawed; G OVER EUROPE - o pany s Stephans-of Detroit would have in Manhattan. She was by tee that included Flagg, Arno and Barclay. Hoover Is Given a Tip; TORNADO, RAIN "HITS SECTION MEXICO LAND INine Persons Are Known | Dead — 400 Families Reported Homeless MONTEREY, Mexico, Aug. 30— | Nine persons are known to be dead and more than 400 families are homeless in northeastern Mexico, industrial center, as the aftermath of a hurricane that swept inland from the Gulf of Mexico. | The gale brought torrential rains | this area, nine inches in 36| |hours that sent rivers and creeks {on sudden rises. Eight of the known dead are | motorists who were caught in the |floods of the rivers and other | streams. e WARRING 0 - CUSS WORDS | BURGOS, Spain, Aug fl(l.—Mlnw | ister of Interior Serrano Suner has| directed provincial governors in Na-| tionalist Spain to wage campaigns | against blasphemy and slander. | The Nationalist press acclaimed | the order, which authorized civil| governors to invoke the full mea- |sure of the law against offenders | One newspaper commented: “No | country displays this ugly vice as | much as Spain. Our language, the {most beautiful and rich in the | world, is spoken by many who be- | spatter it with filthy inferjections, | taking in vain the name of God and the Saints.” | Names of persons fined for blas- King County Hospital with a rup-jon the Canadian Pucific steamer | from a month’s vacation in Seame‘phemy and slander are published in tured appendix. Fonda posed for Victor Alonzo Lewis, sculptor, for the Sourdough! monument. | | Princess Charlotte, due to arrive in | and Vancouver. Juneau this evening. She has been | e vacationing in the States for the| The gasoline tax was first adopt- past few weeks, and will enroll in/ed by Oregon in 1919, and was the newspapers. B n— Laws authorizmg programs for the care of crippled children have Fonda went to Alaska in 02 and the Juneau High School at the|taken up by all states during the been placed on the statute books remained there for 20 years, beginning of the school term., next 10 years. lof every state. t P. O. Dept. Profiteering ” | most concerned, the Director said. ! By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. — One of J. Edgar Hoover’s highly prized possessions, in addition to the bul- let proof vest of John Dillinger, is| a letter from an earnest admirer| who concluded a long dissertation | on crime by saying: “After long study, I have con-| cluded that the best way to end| crime is to outlaw it.” | Just as the Department of Jus- tice presses its campaign to out- law price-fixing and monopoly, the Postoffice Department discloses, and boasts, that it does the neatest bit of profiteering in the land For 7 cents it can manufacture a sheet of 100 three cent stamps, sell them to a stamp collector and reap a clear profit of $2.93. It could profit even more if stamp collec- tors bought whole eets of $5 stamps, which don’t cost much more to print than the three cent- ers. But stamp collectors don’t buy the costly ones wholesale. FUNNY PHILATELY So profitable is the business of selling to stamp collectors that | the Department is thinking of tak- ing a truck load on a transconti- Inental tour to drum up business. As one postman calculated, if a million people could be persuaded to start collecting stamps and in the course of time bought $100 | worth each, that would be $100,-| 000,000, almost clear long as they keep them in their collections. If they use them to send letters the profit is gone. It costs the Department all of the three cents to carry the letter. It all sounds sort of dreamy-eyed to us, but then, we don’t collect stamps. Anyway, profit — as the truck isn't going for a while. There's a hitch, Taking |Size of the market; whether there General COPPER RIVER RAILROAD MAY Dr. Gruening Sees Oppor- tunity for Development in Chitina-Kennecott Area \U. S. MAY ACQUIRE 65 MILES OF ROAD| | Lodge Now—P-la_nned in Mc- Kinley Park, Territor- ies Director Says ! | | Advisability of keeping a 65-mile |portion of the Copper River and | Northwestern Railroad open from Chitina to Kennecott, after opera- | tions of the Kennecott Copper Cor- poration are concluded this fall, is | being given consideration by the | Interior Department, according to Dr. Ernest Gruening, Director of Territories and Island Possessions, who arrived in Juneau this morning aboard the Columbia with his son, Peter, after an extended trip through* Interior Alaska. “While ii will pe necessary to wait and see what the Kennecott | company will do with the railroad ~they may take up the rails—it would seem to bé important to keep {at Jeast that section of the road in operation for mining activities which are carried on in the region and a8 & scenic attraction for tour- Mt NP Gruoning - saidro- | The official said that he knew of Ino more attractive tourist and re- creation region in the world than |that found in the Chitina-Kenne- cott area and with proper facilities it could be made a great induce- ment for bringing people into the north, The Copper River line is 196 miles {long but it is the section from Chit- |ina, where there is a highway con- I nection with the Richardson High- |way, to Kennecott with which he is Tourist Development Stressing the need for developing | the tourist business in Alaska, Dr. |Gruening said that following com- pletion of the hotel in McKinley | National Park, probably next year aj lodge will be built in the park to afford further facilities or travelers. “Accommodations are one of the| major steps in promoting tourist | travel,” he said. “If the tourists |can be brought into the Territory and hotels and like accommodations |are available Where they can stay! |a week or more real revenue can {be obtained from the tourist busi- |ness. Of course, these are develop-| | ments which must come gradually. | You can’t go out and build a large number of hotels all at once and hope to fill them up with touri: and you can't expect the steamship companies to put on a lot of boats to carry them unless they are as- sured of having the business. The | | two—transportation and hotel ac- commodations — go hand in hand and both are essential in bringing the tourist business up to what it should be.” Alaska Not Scratched Actually, the Director said, Alaska | | veloping its travel and recreational attractions, and he citec what had been done in Bermuda, Switz | While on his field trip, the Matanuska colony and reported substantial progress being made there. The colonists, he said, are {now actually getting into produc- |tion and finding out where they are |going in a farming way. Each of |the 165 farms in the colony now has 30 acres cleared and ready for cultivation. Marketing of produce is \being done in the rail belt but there is still a question about the BE KEPT OPEN | Frances Crum Much has been written of the hillbillies but little said about their first cousins, the hilljills, who chose as their queen pretty Frances Crum when they held a carnival at Durham, N. C. NAVY BUILDING ™ PROGRAM IS TO BE RUSHED NOW Department Maps Out 1939 Plans—18 Vessels to Be Built WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. — The United States Navy Department, anxious to continue the present fast pace in warship building, has begun preparations for the 1939 program. Navy officials indicate that the program will comprise the building of at least 18 fighting ships. The program will be submitted at the next session of Congress. R a— Briish Bedtime Cause of Worry “ To Broadcasters LONDON, Aug. 30.—The British Broadcasting Corporation, semi- government radio monopoly, wouldl like to have people make up their minds about going to bed. The BBC broadcast late news at 9 p.m. during the winter, but when summer came, with sunset around to 10 p.m. The protest was instant, and this winter, s Alaska Projects Will Be Surveye WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Major Julian Schley, CHief of a million dollars worth of stamps|is sufficient market to take all the Army Engineers, has directed de- across the country without an es- Produce which can be raised by the | talled surveys for proposed harbor cort seems risky. If an armed escort went along, it would eat up part of the profit. Mr. Farley hasn't solved that one yet. Incidentally, the people who buy those $5 stamps are bankers and movie companies. They plaster them on insured securities and on films being hurried about the country. farmers in the valley, he said. Farm Development Asked about the proposed farm development of Kenai, particularly in the Homer region, the Director 1said there was plenty of good land for several hundred more farmers in the Matanuska Valley where facilities have been provided by ‘Lhe government to serve them and (Continued on Page Elgh‘l.) (Continued on Page Eight) | improvements at Elfin Cove, Wran- gell harbor and Meyers Chuck har- bor. The projects all contemplate improvements for the benefit of small craft. - e NEW HOMES AT GRAEHL Many homes are being built at Graehl, the lower half being of peeled logs and the upper portion finished in lumber, GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE PREPARE FORREAL TEST Cabinets of Two Nations Approve of Actions Against Germany HITLER TOLD TO STOP HIS CAMPAIGN OF HATE |Mobilization of Industry Is Authorized—Trouble in Far East (By Associated Press) Great Britain and France today | took emergency action to prevent war in Europe but at the same time | prepared to meet the conflict if i comes. The Cabinets of Great Britain (and France went into executive sessions simultaneously today midst the heaviest war clouds since 1914. The two Cabinets gave their, gov- ernments unanimous approval of {steps already taken and Foreign Ministers. were also given approval for actions. in the Czechoslovakia crisis. Demand on Germany | Future policies were not disclosed but it is believed the British Min-~ isters decided to make a calm but firm final demand that Germany immediately halt the campaign of hate against Czechoslovakia and Czech minority problem. The French Cabinet voted to lengthen the hours of working in national defense industries of the public service for “public saefty.” At the same time the Cabinet took definite steps for virtual pow- er to mobilize all French industry if necessary at a moment’s notice. Tension Increases The tension between Germany and Czechoslovakia has been in- creased by a second German pro- test against the alleged insult of the Imperial German Army by a |Czech newspaper. Germany prevs jously protested, on Saturday, and demanded immediate action to pre- vent further “slander.” Far East Trouble Uneasiness is also felt in the Far East as the result of a state- ment made by Lieut. Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese War Minister, that more clashes between the Jap- anese and Soviet Russian forces on the Siberian frontier will “likely oceur.” | | —_—————— Planning to Buck Alas!@ Railroad ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 30.— The Goose Bay Wharf and Trading Company, owned by mine operators in the Willow Creek area, announce plans to construct a wharf on Cook Inlet, north of Anchorage, and will transport freight to Goose Bay en- tirely water-bourne. Eliminating the use of the Alaska hasn't scratched the surface in de- 10:30 o'clock, the news was changed | Rajiroad any the high freight rates is given as the cause for the move. Permission from the War Depart- rland | George Bernard Shaw led the at- ment for construction of the wharf |and other places in this connection. tack on the new “late hour. v5° has been sought and notices of con- Dr, the BBC‘ changed to 9:40 pm. With | gtryction have been posted setting Gruening spent considerable time at /& Promise to get back to 9 o'clock | geptember 6 as the deadline for ob- jections and proposals. A * STOCK QUOTATIONS | 4 i NEW YORK, Aug. 30. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10%, American Can 96, American Light and Power 5, Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel 57%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5, General Mot- ‘ou 47, International Harvester 57'%, | Keénnecott 39%, New York Central |18'%, Safeway Stores 18%, South- jern Pacific 18%, United States | Steel 58%, Pound $4.86, Bremner |asked 2. DOW, JONI AVERAGES | The following are today’s Dow, | Jones averages: industrials 138.26, up 1.20; rails 27.69, up 21; utilities 19.31, up .16,