The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1939, Page 1

14TH TE - Pilot Coo - i - . b, K3 "w " [ «v THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI e “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 7995. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1939. PLANEFROM ATLINDOWN ON STREAM Juneau Bound Craft Ex-| periences Motor Diffi- | culfies This Morning | LON COPEISOFFT0 | GIVE ASSISTANCE Food and Other Supplies? Taken fo Those Maroon- | ed in Isolated Region | BULLETIN—Pilot Lon Cope was able to land his Marine Airways plane at the scene of the accident at 3 o'clock this afternoon. He will return to | Juneau with two members of the stranded party this after- neon and will bring in the cthers tomorrow. A Northern Airways plane en- route from Atlin to Juneau with four passengers aboard was forced down at 10 o'clock this morning in the isolated district two miles from the mouth of the. Inklin riv- er where it joins the Sloko river. The site is approximately half way between Tulsequah ai®d Atlin. The plane, a four place Waco wheel equipped, with Les Cook chiel pilot for the Northern Airways at the controls developed motor trouble at an altitude of 6000 feet and was brought into a skillful dead stick | landing on a small -plot of com- | paratively clear terrain. There was | no damage to the plane and passen- | gers are unharmed. Besides Les Cook the men aboard the plane are reported to be Fred| Kane, foreman of the Colpe Mine | in Atlin, and three others named | Nayart, Graham, and Lindley. | Marine Airways pilot Lon Cope took off from Juneau at 1:20 this afternoon to fly supplies and equp- | ment to the stranded party. Cope will attempt to land.on a broad ex- panse of the Taku River near the/ site and if this is feasible the men | will be picked up either this after- noon or tomorrow. Warm weather conditions however i sa hazard as ice on the river is thin. If the RELIEF CHIEF Harry L. Hop- kins got greatest fame for ver- bal scraps as he defended relief system, and as biggest employ- er in the U. 8. (hired 4,000,000 in one month). Sat with cabinet long before F.D.R. named him Se of Commerce. He's 48, has been “on relief” in Washing- ton since 1933. CRISISNEAR ASEUROPE'S ' FEARSGROW 'French-ltalian and Czech- Hungarian Situations Reported Tense By Assoriated Press Europe looked ahead today to a week crammed with turbulent pos- sibilities. Premier Neville Chamberlamn of Great Britain will go to Rome to ship and on the way there will con-J fer tomorrow with Premier Dala-; dier in Paris, Great Britain’s demo- cratic partner whose relations with | Italy have been strained by the Fascist clamor for French possess- ions. | At the same time, two great bat- | tles are raging in Spain and on the | Hungary - Czechoslovakian border | animosity is still fermenting with | ‘disturbing results in Budapest and | Prague. | The outlook for peace is daily| becoming anything but bright.| Chamberlain conferred with his key | river landing cannot be made l,h(“ five marooned men will have to| hike to Tulsequah a distance of 30 miles. Snow shoes and other equip- | ment for'this purpose is in the equip- ministers in London yesterday, with | the situation apparent that both dictatorships and democracies en-| tertain desires for peace—but each at its own price. .| ¥ French-Italian issue may | take the pulse of another dictator- | ter of the late Mrs and three sons by d wife, Hopkins occasionally takes time for play. Likes horse races, boxing, golf, poker, bridge, poe- try and baseball, which he use to play to'get money for col He was born in Towa, a Harness maker’s son. The Censors Said: “OKay!” ment being transported by the Mar-| p,5ve 5 stumbling block in attempts Ine Airwase plancd. 7 [ to iron out the troubles of the globe. The value of radio is being strong- | ly evidenced during this accident.| ,unced in Paris that Italy has pro- The French Foreign Ministry an-| INSPECTOR of public works, he frequently has gone trouble- shooting in person to get the lowdown. Thirty years’ social service gave him deep humani- tarian convictions, which some of his opponents say are “too deep” for sound economics in handling the billions of dollars of the huge relief fund. 1 CANDIDATE FOR SPENDER of billions (eight in five years—American record), lover of red galluses and hater of red tape, he's called genius of administration. Often eats (salad, rolls) on jump. Has been accused of being unsympathetic toward business, though he says he is a firm believer in private enterprise. JACKSON DAY PLEA OF PRESIDENT LIBERAL U. . PRESIDENCY Announcement Made that Campaign Headquarters | fo Be Opened Soon | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 9.— Frank McHale, Democratic National | Committeeman from Indiana, and | friend of Paul V. McNutt, Philippine High Commissioner, said 1940 Presi- dential nomination headquarters for | McNutt wil be opened here within {the next ten days. e A SRS 'U. 5. SUPREMACY IN AVIATION IS - NOW CHALLENGED {Warning Given Congress MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NEMIES LIKE SOME POINTS ABOUT MAN WHO MUST WIN SENATE'S OKAY OF CABINET JOB ILL with stomach trouble early this year, Hopkins doesn't look well but-still has plenty of fire in his eye. He's colorful talker, nervous, energetic. Opponents have often prefaced attacks with statement they think he is hon- est but that ideas on spending are wrong. Appointment must be confirmed by Senate. IS FOR BIG PARTY UNION WASHINGTON, Jan, 9. dent RooSevelt's . K ‘for a union of liberals under the Democratic banner, with a warning that party dissension would bring defeat in 1940, found the more con- servative Democrats in Congress gold and unresponsive. Many would make no comment but indicated strongly the speech had not pleased them nor contribut- ed to party harmony. Democrats more friendly toward the New Deal praised the speech enthusiastically. ‘The Washington gathering where the dinner cost $100 a plate, head- lined a series of similar parties throughout the : Nation at which thousands of dollars were raised toward Teducing the Party's deficit. “If there are nominal Democrats, who as a matter of principle, are convinced our Party should be a Conservative Party—a Democratic Tweedledum to a Republican Twee- dledee—it is on the whole better the issue should be drawn within the Party, that the fight be fought out and if the Tweedledumps be defeat- ed that they join the Tweedledees,” the President sald in his speech which combined an appeal for liber~ alism and harmony with a caustic denunciation of . the Republican Party and those Democrats whose views are similar to those of the — Presi- EPIDEMIC OF DIPHTHERIA HITS JUNEAU Quarantine Ordered on All Children by Territorial Health Officer ONE CHILD DIES; FIVE OTHER CASES Cify Receives News with Calm A diptheria epidemic, with six cas- es confirmed and one death result- ing broke out in Juneau over the weekend, lead! to the closing of schools and imposing of rigid quar- antine regulations. Richard Johnson, age five, died early this morning. Four others in the John T. John- son family, including the mother, we suffering from the disease, as was one other person, William Tref- fers, a boy with whom the Johnson youngsters had been playing. | In announcing a quarantine on 11l Juneau children, Dr. W. W. Coun- cil, Territorial Health Commissioner, Schools, Library Closej-| RRITORIAL LEGISLATURE OPENS k Forced Down With 4 Passengers HARRY HOPKINS: ®™"* 2 BRANCHES INSESSION ~ INFORENOON Gov. Troy Officiafesat Convening of Both Senate, House SEN. NORMAN R. WALKER CHOSEN AS PRESIDENT Staff Chosen for Clerical Help in House-Full Memblrships BULLETIN—At the sesssion of the House this afternoon of respect to the memory of the late E. W. Griffin. The Fourteenth Alaska Ter- ritorial Legislature is now in full swing, to continue for the next sixty days. Gov. John W. Troy officiated at the opening of the Legisla- ture, convening the House at 10 o'clock this foremoon and * today warned that “numerous con- tacts have been made by some of every parent in Juneau cooperate in the enforcement of aquarantine regulations. 1 Schools Closed | the schools, closing of | which was ordered by Superinten-| dent A, B. Phillips for an initial period of one week, which will be| ssary, the Juneau library was closed until fur-| ther notice. The Indian and Paro- | chial schools here, as well as public | schools, are closed. Dougias schools | are also closed. | Numerous club meetings are post- poned or cancelled. Quarantine Order Besides 1ed if ne Constant contact is maintained be- | tweent Cope in the Marine Airways| plane, Cook at the site of the mis- hap and KANG radio station of the Alaska Air Transport in Juneau. Before the disabled Waco plane| is removed a new motor will hnve} to be transported on skids. The plane can take off with skiis when the motor is renewed. AIRCRAFT FROM | U. . SHIPPED T0 LOYALISTS, SPAIN| Claim Made Planes Have} Been Purchased in Name | of Turkish Government ANKARA, Turkey, Jan. 9—Of- | ficials are investigating reports that |. 50 American-made fighting planes have been shipped to the Govern-| ment of Spain after they had been | purchased illegally in the name of | the Turkish Government from| manufacturers in the United States. It is also said that other planes,| alleged purchased for the Turkish| Government but in fact for the Spanish Government, were obtained | from Canadian manufacturers. | tested against alleged anti-Fascist demonstrations during Premigr Dal- adier’s visit to Algeria last week. Premier Benito Mussolini has call- | ed a meeting of the Fascist Grand Council, TItaly’s Highest executive body, for February 4. By that time, the Fascist leaders will have had the opportunity to judge Premier Chamberlain’s attitude and weigh the success of Count Ciano’s policy as Foreign Minister, of reviving Italy's mid-European influence through talks with Hungarian, Yu- goslavian, and Polish statesmen. BB Mobile Aufomatic Phone Exchange Is Starfed by P. 0. LONDON, Jan, 9. — To provide telephone facilities for people in re- mote outlying villages, the post of- fice has started a mobile automatic telephone exchange. It is moved by a tractor, and can be utilized in districts where storm or fire has disrupted the existing‘ telephone system. ol SRS GAME WARDEN ARRIVES Andrew Simons, game warden for the Alaska Game Commission, was a passenger today aboard the Bar- anof, for Juneau. He arrived from Seward. Approval of the state of New Jersey and the city of Newark were given strip-teaser De'"a Carroll after she completed this special performance at a Newark night spot. E. W. Garrett and Maurice Ash, of the public morals bureau, okayed her teasing with the provision that those fig Republicans. ——————— by National Advisory / Rain, Snow ‘ Committee | WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—The Na- tional Advisory Committee for Aero- leaves give way to brassieres. | nautics has warned Congress that __| feverish expansion of both military By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. — The 1 Bureau of Indian affairs only now |is discovering what happens when | an irresistible force meets the Nava- | jo reservation. Of all the tough pieces of Indian | diet that the bureau has to bite | off, the Navajo problem is ome of | the primest. It must be kept in mind that the Navajos are a peculiar people. lThey don’t move around much. At one time they were a wandering | people but since the Spanish- con- !quest they have been content to |live a sort of sequestered life on the deserts of Northern New Mexico. They have about 16,000,00 acres { (NDIAN BUREAU TACKLES — -5 - TOUGH PROPOSITION FOR IA;;W(HES IN PN S NGRS Eand commercial air fleets by foreign | nations 1is challenging America’s |aviation supremacy. The committee recommends the sett] up of a laboratory for ex- | | | Falling in Wheat Belt Death, D;si—rudion Also Strikes at Southwest- ern Farm Area KANSAS CITY, Jan. 9~—Much needed rain and snow has soaked the Southwestern wheat belt but the joy of the farmers has been tem- pered by death and destruction wrought by accompanying high winds. A near blizzard prevails in Texas. Three persons are reported to have died in storms in New Mexico and many have been injured. Dallas, Texas, counted at $100,000 damage as the result of the storms. Agriculturists however said that the value of the beneficial moisture will far exceed the property damage. — . —— of land assigned to them but it | wEEKEND SKIERS desert land providing scant fare| —_— even for the hungriest of sheep. A And more serious sun. 1t 1 Alpine Troops Recover, steadily being spoiled by erosion . H e H Further, the Navajo population 1sl BOdIeS Of ElgthIdImS increasing. ' Sixty years ago when| . . they took on reservation life, there) in Swflzefland were perhaps 9,000 Navajos, as the| ¢ iy | Indian Bureau records indicate. GRENOBLE, France, Jan. 9. —| Now there are 50,000 and Ethnolo- | Avalanches thundering down the gists predict that within the next slopes of the Alps, crushed eight| generation or so the number will|skiers to death during the weekend. be double or even quadruple that.| Alpine troops recovered the bodies| | of five, ELECTION TROUBLE | One Englishman was killed in] But those are only major long Eastern Switzerland by an ava-| lanchle. His body has not been re- covered, i (Continued on Page Five) A livestock census for 1938 shows Nova Scotia’s horse population at June 1 was 42540 compared to 42,- 470 at the same time in 1937. - Dr, Council’s quarantine order is as follows: “Unitl further notice, the follow- ing quarantine regulations are in force in Juneau and surrounding communities: “All children 18 years and under, whether in school or not, are not al- lowed out of their own homes or yards. “No children will be allowed to leave town, unless a permit has been granted by the Helath Department and ‘after nose and throat cultures have been made. \ “The Police Department has ins- tructions to pick up anyone under 18 years of age who does not have a certificate from the Health De- partment authorizing him or her to leave home. “These regulations do not apply to any children on their way to or from the Juneau Health Center, the Gov- ernment Hospital, or their doctor's office to be Schick tested or im- munized. For Testing “It is requested that all children whether they have' been immun- ized or not, be taken to the Juneau Health Center or the Government Hospital for Schick testing and im- munization. Children from the Gov- ernment School may go either to the Juneau Health Center, or the Gov- ernment Hospital. However, it is suggested that because the Juneau Health Center is so crowded, as many of these children as possible go to the Government Hospital. “All persons knowing of any child who complains of a headache and sore throat or any other symtoms hat may be suspicious are requested to please notify the Health Depart- ment, giving name and address of the child. These regulations will be strictly forced by the Police Department, 1 pi not complying with these regulations will have charges filed against them by the Health Department. There ar¢ six cases of diptheria in Juneau, the diagnosis of which has been confirmed, with one death, and it is certain that there have been numerous contacts made by (Continued on Page Two) | Senale to order the Senate one hour later, Senator Noj R. R s Dol - Permanent ‘President of the Senate. The Serate then ad- jowrned to 1 o'clock tomor- row forenoon. In the House, after the pre- liminaries of opening, Commit- tees on Mileage and Help were appointed and the House ad- journed and assembled at 3 o'~ clock this afterncon to receive the reports. afternoon to receive the re- ports. In The Senate Gov. Troy's gavel brought the promptly at 11 - o'clock this forenoon and the ses- sion was over within 10 minutes. After a prayer by the Rev. A. P, ashevaroff, the certificate of elec~ tion was read and roll called by Harry Watson, Secretary to the Governor. Senator Henry Roden of Juneau was elected President Pro Tem and to him Gov. Troy relinguished the gavel. Mrs. Stella Young was unanimous~ ly elected Temporary Secretary. Senator Norman R. Walker's el- ection as President of the Senate followed administering of oaths by Charles E. Naghel, Disbursing Clerk for the Treasury department. Senators Joe Hofman of Seward and Leroy Sullivan of Nome escorted the President to the rostrum after he had been chosen unanimously on Senator O. D. Cochran’s motion and the second by Senator Hofman. Out of respect for Edward W. Griffin, Secretary of Alaska who recently passed on, the Senate then adjourned until 11 o’clock tomorrow. A wreath occupled the chair in wt;ich Secretary Griffin would have sat. Today marked the first time n the history of the Territory that the Governor opened a session of the Legislature. . . Senate Roll Call Senators answering roll call were as follows: £ First Division—Norman R. Walker, Ketchikan, and Henry Roden, Ju- neau, Second Division—O. D. Cochran, Nome, and Leroy Sullivan, Nome. Third Division—James Patterson, Valdex, and Joe Hofman, Seward. Fourth Division—Vicior C. Rivers, Fairbanks, and C. H. La Boyteaux, Livengood. Though it was reported Senators ha~e agreed on a slate of employes for the session, these will not be an~ nounced until the body convenes tomorrow and apoints a committee o1 permanent help. Gov. John W. Troy ascended to the speaker’s platform this morn- ing in the chambers of the House of Representatives and pulled aside et T L N (Continued on Page Two) W