The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 7, 1939, Page 1

"THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIT, NO. 7994, JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS BACKED FOR FISH CHIEF Solid Alaska—Evrflndorsemem‘ of Ketchikan Man s Being Formed SAUL HAAS ALSO AFTER APPOINTMENT Legislature Is Expected to,‘ Promote Walker for Bell Successor ! » | Sentiment for the appointment of | Senator Norman R. Walker of Ket- | chikan as U. S. Fisheries Commis- sioner, succeeding Frank T. Ecll.‘ who resigned yesterday, was rormA‘ ing here today, with the legislative | delegation solidly behind him and the outlook being that he wouid | receive the unqualified support of all Alaska for the position. Whether this backing would be sufficiently strong to swing the ap- pointment was debatable, it being thought here considerable outside dent’s wife, in the background, essary in addition. | The fisheries position is one of | the major ones in the National Government, the office commanding a salary of $14,000. | Walker, it is certain, would be well qualified for the post, legisla- tors here said. It is certain also he would accept the appointment. Another candidate known to be after the appointment is Saul Haas of Seattle, Collector of Customs for ‘Washington, and the Number 1 po- litical supporter of Sen. Homer T.| Bone. | COUNCIL GOING AHEAD ON BOAT HARBOR PLANS The President’s Yuletide Plea for Peace President Franklin D. Roosevelt is pictured as he pressed the button which illuminated the Christmas tree at the White H8use while his son James, and Mrs. Roosevelt looked on. Between James and the Presi~ is Harry L. Hopkins, new Secretary of Commerce. In his speech Rogsevelt renewed pledges for “peace to all the world.” . ' “L0ST TRIBE” OF APACHES RULERS; MEN SUBJECTED By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Weird as an Arabian Nights tale is a story from below the Rio Grande of the “lost, Tribe” of Apache Indians, vie- Lo tims of Ameriea’s campaign {5 make the great west safe for democracy. | Several seemingly authoritative | sources have attested that the tribe | GIANT SURF RUTSSUNNY CALIFORNIA Terrific Seas Plunge Inland| to Wreck Scores of | Homes, Stores : (FIFTEEN PASSENGERS | INJURED ON LURLINE \Waves Batter Santa Mon-| ca - Five Lives Lost | on Oregon Coast | | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 7. — {Swollen tides, stirred by ocean | | storms, have. hurled giant ground | swells against this Southern Cali- | fornia coast, causing untold dam- age. | Several houses were washed out _ | to sea and the surf battered scores lof other homes to shambled ruins. Many hundreds of homes not to-| tally wrecked were seriously dam- jaged. Streets have been undermined and stores and residences flooded with an undetermined number of estab- | lishments experiencing flooded| | flors and stocks. fteen persons were injured on| iner Lurline as that vessel en- | |countered fifty-foot waves that §slammed the ship’s passengers to ithe decks. The Lurline was just out of Gol- er. te from San Francisco, en- | | | FDR FACING 'OPPOSITION IN CONGRESS Giant WPA Fund Request of President’s Prom- 150 . SRk Yiins e passengers ares. All pa ised Heavy Slash .. i"sve. & s o oany | were injured by sliding furniture and by falling, according to radio | advices. WASHNGTON, Jan. 7.—Biparti- san sentiment has developed in It seemed likely today the legis- | lature as one of its first orders of business would pass a resolution en- dorsing Sen. Walker for the fish- eries appointment. Bell’s resignation was announced in Washington yesterday by Secre- tary of Commerce Harry Hopkins. | He will return to private business in Washington state. Resignafion Of Fish Com. Is Ecepled President Expresses Ap- preciafon at Service of Frank T. Bell WASHINGTON, Jan. T7. — The ‘White House announces President Roosevelt’s formal acceptance of the resignation of Commissioner of Fisheries Frank T. Bell, The resignation becomes effective on March 25, Commissioner Bell wrote to Pre- sident Roosevelt that he felt that Harry L. Hopkins, newly appointed Secretary of Commerce, should have the opportunity to select his own Bureau chiefs. Commissioner Bell thanked the President for the ‘“opportunity of serving under your Administration,” and promised cooperation to his successor, who as yet has not been named, President Roosevelt replied to Bell as follows: “I appreciate your atti- tude in feeling that in assuming his new duties the Secretary of Com- merce should be free to select his own immediate subordinates. May I take this occasion to thank you for your generous offer for cooperation and also express appreciation for the service you have rendered.” SHOTGUN SLAYER HOLDS POLICE AT BAY, ENDS LIFE CHESSIRE, Conn. Jan. 7-—Fred Brooks, seventy five year old board- ing house proprietor, held police at bay for two hours after slaying a patron of his boarding house with a shot gun. He fatally shot himself to avoid capture when officers prepar- ed to drive him from his baricade with tear gas. Congress to reduce the $875,000,000 The ‘highest waters of the year Bids Ordered Called On Rock Bulkhead fo Kol il Juneau’: start of work on the city |of the small boat harbdr ‘wf\cn Mayor Harry I authorized to call for bids on build- |ing a rock bulkhead at the back of the basin and w authorized {further to borrow. approximately 186,000 to cover its cost. | The bulkhead, which will consist {of 20,000 yards of rock, i to contain dredging city council called fc portion night spoils which will be pumped on the area | |to form eight acres of new building | lots. ‘ In order to obtain material dredged from the boat' basin for this fill purpose, the council pro- |poses to have the Army call for | with | |alternate bids on dredging, |the council to pay the difference between what a bucket dredge job and one by suction dredge will cost. If the dipper dredge is used the material will be taken out in the| channel and dumped. A suction ‘dxedgc on the project would cost| Qsligmly more, City Engineer Mil- {ton Lagergren predicted, but not |enough to make the cost to the |city prohibitive. City Would Sell Lots City revenue derived from sale of the three acres of new filled land which would be clear of buildings (five acres in’' the area already are occupied by structures on piling), would cover the cost of the bulkhead and fill, Lagergren said. Other proposals discussed by the from East Tenth Street to Gold Creek at a cost of $15.000 or fill- ing the flats north of the boat harbor, which would cost an esti- mated $10,000. No action was taken on either plan. Also discussed was a plan to |buy logs for the boat harbor floats land piling now, while the price is favorable. | Mayor Lucas will wire Delegate | Anthony J. Dimond to urge action on the PWA grant for the boat harhor. The city has available $48,- 400 in bonds voted by the people. Breakwater Done March 1 Army engineers expect to com- plete the present work on the breakwater by March 1 and to |commence dredging about June 1. |The city plans to have its bulk- |head built by the time dredging | starts. | The Council directed the clerk to |call for bids on a ton and a half truck chassis. and cab to replace |the present flat bed truck and lon a new two-yard dump truck. \The two vehicles now in service | Lucas was | is to be | |council were filling of the section| | (Continued on Page Three) |exists in a state of starving sav- | ry 200 miles south of Douglas, Ariz. Recently a Norwegian eth-| nologist, Helge Ingstad, presented | |such incontrovertible testimony | about the fugitive band that the Indian Bureau is seriously consid- ing steps which could be taken | to restore them in New Mexico | with other members of the tribe. Their history goes back to 1865 lwhen Geronimo led them across | the Mexican border to e pe U. 8. | soldiers. As they fled, so one story with somewhat less authenticity relates, they killed Charles McGor- | mis, New Mexican territorial judge, and his wife, and kidnaped their six-year-old son. For a score of years America’s incomparable native cavalry wan- dered along the unpoliced border area south of the Rio Grande. Then Geronimo surrendered and most of the tribe was settled on the Mes- calero reservation in ‘New Mexico. | One small band refused to surren-| | der, hiding instead in the Sierra| Madras Mountains, from where pres- ‘, ent tales of them come, and where | Ingstad reported seeing a group| of five. Four were women, one a man, the latter bedraggled and ob- viously browbeaten and abject. The | leader of the five was a woman. | | | TOO SUSPICIOUS TO TALK They were suspicious, and in spite of Apache guides Ingstad had taken from the New Mexican reservation, little was learned directly from them. Ingstad was interested in them primarily from an ethnological standpoint. During a period when | he was Danish Governor of Green- {land and Spitsbergen, he had con- | cluded that a certain tribe of Arctic | natives called caribou eaters were; akin to the Apaches. The latter he| | believed had come south cerituries earlier. Ingstad learned that an Apache woman once had told a white resi- dent that a red-headed white man with “startlingly blue eyes” roamed with the “lost Tribe” until he was slain in 1922 at about the age of | 60. Cowboys also had seen a white | man among them. Could it be pos- sible, Ingstad asked in a letter to Commissioner John Collier of the bureau, that this man was the Mc- Cormis boy kidnaped 57 years ear- lier? ONLY FOUR LEFT? Ingstad's activities stirred inter- est of other persons. Grenville Good- win of Santa Fe, a student of Indian life, wrote that there was a “perma- nent open season” on the tribesmen, with Mexican and American ranch- ers ready to “shoot them on sight” because of their thefts of cattle and IDEMOCRATS T0 flowed far inland at Manhattan Beach and struck Santa Monica, 185 feet inland for normal tide line. On the Oregon coast, five lives WPA fund asked for by President Roosevelt. Representative Taber, Republican of New York, predicted that no more than one vote will be cast in the House Appropriations Committee for were lost as the unusual surf the full amount asked. battered the exposed lower Ore- Influential House members also‘uuu shore and heach towns. forecast opposition to the President’s e e e expected request that the legal limit of the public debt be raised. HE ARI“GS ON HONOR JACKSON | WEEBE HELD WITH BANQUETS senate Committee to Look T ., Info Record of New $100Per Plate fo Be Paid Court Appoinee in Washington fo See | and Hear President o A momo ommiec s de- | cided to hold public hearings start- WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. — Thou- | ing Tuesday on the President’s nom- sands of Democrats will attend ban- ‘ ination of Felix Frankfurter to the quets in 47 states tonight in honor | Supreme Court. of Andrew Jackson to try to ease| Chairman Neely, West Virginia ‘the party out of the red and to hear | Democrat, said Frankfurter would | President Roosevelt deliver a major |be asked to attend but would be address. “given the alternative of being re- The highest priced banquet will be | presented by counsel. in Washington at $100 per plate for| Among those asking the hearing a five dollar dinner and the privi- | was George E. Sullivan, Washington lege of seeing the President. | attorney, who said he will submit | voluminous data on Frankfurter’s irecord, CAPONE HEADS |~ — === — FOR NEW HOME EX-HUSBAND OF oo sy no "V Gy fo Correctional Prison ""Moe the Gimp"” Given Up PARIS MOVIE STRIKE ENDS IN COMPROMISE PARIS, Jan. 7. — A three-day strike which closed eevry motkon‘ picture theatre in Paris, in protest| Por the transmission station of the against- new municipal amusement | Midnight Sun Broadcasting Com- taxes has been ended by a com-|pany, Capt. Austin E. Lathrop, Pre- promise agreement an dthe cinemas | sident, has obtained a site near the al San Pedro SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 7—| e Al Capone, former Chicago gang; '0 20 Years for At leader, has been transferred from Alcatraz to the Federal correctional | 'empied Murder institution on Terminal Island at| San Pedro. ! HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan. T— Capone will now serve a year there Martin, “Moe the Gimp,” Snyder, on a misdemeanor charge. | former husband of Ruth Etting, has been sentenced to a term of not more than twenty years ni San Quentin prison for the attempted | murder of Myrl Alderman, who suc- |ceeedd him as Miss Etting'’s hus- band. B — . em— BROADCAST STATION SITE (Continued on Page Five) reopened at noon today . Lathrop Building, Fairbanks. Is Freed from Prison Tom Mooney given his freedom from San Quentin Prison, Californ convicted of participation in the San Franciso Pre Parade bombing which claimed the lives of 10 persons o others in 1916. The above photo the nation’s most publeized conviet, was today Fie dness Day rd 40 to- was shows Mooney ente mobile at the gates of San Quentin when he was recently taken {o Sacramento to give his version of the bombing before the California SECRETARY'S APPOINTMENT ‘Bartlett Endorsed; Camp- bell, Connors, Brown in Running Only formally announced candi- dacy for the office of Secretary of Alaska is that of E. L. “Bob” Bart- lett of Fairbanks, Delegate Anthony J. Dimond notified the Governor’s office today. s However, it was known here that at least two other candidates are prominently in the running for the appointment. They are Former Sen- ator James R. Campbell of Anchor- age, recommended by the Tihrd Div- ision Democratic Committee, and James J. Connors of Juneau, at pre- sent , Collector of Customs. There was also the possibility of a maneuver by which Campbell would receive the Customs appoint- ment should Connors be appointed to the Secretaryship. 2 It was understood Bartlett’s can- didacy had been forwarded to Na- tional Democratic Chairman James A. Farley. Endorsement for Bartlett came today also from A. A. Shonbeck, former Secretary of the Territorial Committee, who wired from Seattle. Campbell’s endorsement came on the heels of Bartlett’s and the An- chorage man’s candidacy may be able to overtake that of Bartlétt, who was formerly Delegate Dimond’s secretary. Bartlett also was on the other offices in the Territory. He is staff of the FHA here and has held a mine operator at Miller House in the Fourth Division. Others reported in the running for the Secretaryship, with varying degrees of backing were: Herbert Brown, Mayor of Anchor- age, Joe Hofman, of Seward, Third Division Senator. Tom Price, U. 8. Commissioner at Anchorage. Ed Coffey, Anchorage, Thrid Div- ision Representative, Leo Rogge, Fairbanks, Fourth Div- ision Representative. M. E. Monagle, Juneau attorney. Victor C. Rivers, Senator from Fourth Division Fairbanks. John E. Pegues, Secretary of the Alaska Planning Council. o Sparrow hawks are more fond of GOVERNORTO OPEN ALASKA LEGISLATURE House, Senate fo Convene Monday-Parfy Caucus Set Tomorrow Gov. John W. Troy personally will open the Fourteenth Territorial Legislature Monday morning, Attor- ney General James S. Truitt an- nounced today. In the absence of the Secretary of Alaska, Edward W. Griffin, who died last week, it falls to the Gov- ernor to open the session, Truitt said. Gov. Troy said late this after- noon he would do so. Under present plans ,the House of Representatives will convene at 10 o'clock in the mo and the Senate at 11. In each Chamber the Governor will call the legislators to order, and after the roll call, administering of oaths and selection of temporary officers, will turn the gavel over to the Speaker Pro Tem in the House and the President Pro Tem of the Senate. Out of the confusion resulting from the, Secretary’s sudden death on the eve of the legislative session, it is expected the present Legislature will enact a measure providing for succcession in such cases should they arise in the future. There is 1o provision in present statutes cov- ering the situation. Organization of the Legislature is | expected to be completed at tomor- row’s caucus meetings, both to be held in the legislative chambers at | 2 o'clock. At that time party en- dorsement for Senator Norman R. Walker of the First Division to be President of the Senate and Repre- sentative’ Howard Lyng of the Sec- ond as Speaker of the House will be voted. No opposition to Walker is apparent, with Senator Henry Roden, formerly considered a can- didate for the Presidency, being one of the Ketchikan Senator’s backers. 1In the House, there is a possibility opposition to Representative Howarde Lyng may center around Represen- tative H. H. McCutcheon of Anchor- age, who is serving his fourth con- secutive term. The Third Division, hotel corridor rumor has it, will put McCutcheon forward for the posi- tion. At the caucus, final unofficial ac- tion will be taken on selection of a clerk, secretary and other employees in both houses. A committee on permanent help will be appointed grasshoppers than of sparrows. |to actaully hire the aides. 1 PRICE, TEN CENTS — TOM MOONEY IS GRANTED FULL PARDON 1S RELEASED FROMPRISON, SAN QUENTIN Culbert L. Olson, Governor of California, Acts on Campaign Promise RELEASED MAN IS 10 LOCATE, SAN FRANCISCO Parade PIan_ne;d for Sun- day Over Same Route as Takfln 1916 SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 7.—A full and unconditional |pardon has been given Tom Mooney and he has been of- ficially released from San | Quentin Prison. Culbert L. Olson, Califor« nia’s first Democratic Gover- nor in 48 years, chose the day after his inaugural ball to |fulfill in the State Capital |what amounted to a virtual promise to grant Mooney’s petition for full pardon, |which in effect exonerated Mooney of the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day hombings of which he was convicted and sentenced to death, thou subsequently |to life imprisonment on the |urgent request of President Woodrow Wilson. | Mooney's first act was to |visit Warren K. Billings, who also was convicted but be- cause of a previous felony conviction cannot be pardon- ed unless the state Supreme |Court so recommends. Leaves Prison 4 Mooney, who claimed he and 1gs were convicted on perjured imony, I San Quentin Prison at dawn h the warden for an automobile trip to the Capital City. He spent the last day in prison exuberantly receiving visitors and packing up. His wife and sister joined him. | Mooney said he would establish his residence in San Prancisco. [ Mrs. Mooney, who defended her |husband throughout the years, said: “These 22 years have been & moth-eaten life to me. They have been something like a cloak of which there is little left now but :t&"&m However, even they amount to something. I have been crying three days, not for sorrow but for Joy.” B Mellowed by Prison | Mooney is no longer the dynam- ic bettle-browed direct-actionist he was. The 22 prison years had worn him down and mellowed his philo- sophy. But his spirit’ was unbroken. Whether Mooney will be a fire- |brand in workers' ranks has been !on the minds of some of those who opposed his release. Mooney's friends plan a parade Sunday up Market Street over the same fateful route which made his- tory when the Preparedness Day bomb killed 10 and wounded 40. e Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 7. — Olosing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today’s short session is 9%, American Can 99%, American Light | and Power 6%, Bethlehem Steel 76, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright A 26, General Motors 48%, International Harvester 36%, Kennecott 41%, New York Central 20%, Northern Pacific 13%, Safeway Stores 30%, Southern Pacific 19%, | United States Steel 67, Pound $4.68%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES 2 The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages industriels 151.56, rails 3293, utiities 23.49. s | B The oldest known copkbook was written by Athenaeus, a Creek, in 228 A. D.