The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1939, Page 8

PRODUCTION ALASKA GOLD 'INVESTIGATION OF ALASKA RAILROAD IS NOW REQUESTED THE DAILY. ALASKA: EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JAN. 27, 1939. ! IN(REASING Delegate Dimond Makesl Latest Figures on Output in 1938 Shows Value of $23,345,000 The preliminary mine production of Auring the been prepared by fice of the United of ‘Mines, Department of the In- terior, and which were issued on January 18, 1939 () have been re- by the Territorjal Depart ment of Mines at Juncau, B. D Stewart, Commissioner _of Mines announced today These figures 1938 that the Denver States Burean year ceived show that the 1938 output of gold in the Territory is valued by the Bureau of Mines $23.345,000, which represents an in- over the 1937 production. of crease six percent Preliminary figures that sued on January 1, 1939, by the U. S. Geological Survey, also of the Interior Department, showed a gold production in Alaska for the same period of only $21,917,000 There is thus shown a discrep- ancy amounting to $1428000 in the preliminary figures issued by these two agencies. An examination of the final fig- ures on gold production in Alaska for the year 1 derived from the me two sources reveals a dis- crepancy ef even greater magni- ture. According the memorandum for the pr that was issued by the U. S. Geological Survey on July 14, 1938, the value of the gold out- put of Alaska in 1937 was $20,373.- 000. In the Minerals Year Book 1938, issued by the U. S. Bureau of Mines on June 24, 1939, the value cf the gold output of 1937 is placed at $21,977900. The discrepancy in this case is therefore $1,604,900, () Mineral Market Reports MM.S. 696 BABY CLIPPERS NOT SCHEDULED FOR ALASKA RUN Larger Shipfig Be Used in Seattle to Juneau Air Flights Pacific Alaska Airways awaits ap- proval by the United States Post Office Department and the Civil Aeronautics Authority before com- mencing a regular edule between Seattle gnd Juneau Eleven experimental flights on the route have been completed and the proving stage of the projected new service is now concluded. Announcement is made by Joe Crosson, Manager of Pacific Alaska Airways in Alaska, that although the test flights were made with two mortored Sikorsky Baby Clipper this ship will not be used for the regular passenger service. Larger and more powerful planes will be required to provide adequate carrying facilities over the 700 mile cne jump -leg between Ketchikan and Seattle. Pan American Airways, parent company of the Pacific Alaska Air- ways, will release for the Seattle- Juneau hop either a Sikorsky four motored ship from the Bermuda run or a four motored clipper from the acific run. The Bermuda Sikorsky plane will were is- a to No. Proposal — Terminal Change Is lssue | | WASHINGTON Jan. 27.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has asked the members of the House Ap- propriations Committee to make a al investigation of the Alaska ad The request followed Che appear ance before the committee of. C Otto F. Ohlson, General Manager who di: ed the Alaska Railroad 1939 financial needs and als the propesed removal of the terminus from Seward to Porlaze Bay Delegate Dimond said he believed the affairs of the Alaska should be “thoronghly aired The del te doubted whether a study is possible before summer Delegate Dimond said Col. Ohlson told the committee that by moving | the terminus the operating cost | would be reduced although no def- inite recommendation for the change has been made. The Delegate would not result in a loss to Seward. The inter bonds required to finance the change would more than pay for the opera- tion of the line to Seward Delegate Dimond said that if Col Ohlson formally recommended a shift, he will ask Congress to order an investigation and in the mean- time, the Delegate said, a committee should study the Al Railroad situation and this “should be suf- ficient to stop any foolish plan | such as Ohlson's Delegate Dimond has resolutions of the Seward City Council and | Maydr asking for an investigation land these will be laid before the | House and Senate Committees on Territories. The Delegate said these will be urged upon Congress “should it become necessa however I do not think the Department of Inter- ior intends to permit a change.” the change saving but a st on the said carry 20 to 25 passengers. The plane has a 118 foot wingspread and 68 foot fuselage. The Pacific Clipper is capable of transporting 40® passengers. It has a wing spread of 130 feet and a fuse- lage length of 91 feet Present plans anticipate inaugura- tion of the pasenger run early during the coming summer Included in the crew | run ‘are Gene Meyring S. E. Robbins, A crew of 5 i to operate the ships >, SITKA LIVELY TOWN, SAYS ED SHAFFER for the new y Jones, required Sitka ness is of the Juneaj at Sitka Shaffer made the round trip to | the island community on the North Coast. The Navy air base in the Sitka section is one of the big possibili- ties and the squadron will be doubled, Shaffer said he was led to believe. Japonski Island is being | limproved for the air base and CCC | crews are now busily engaged in work there | e, ‘ EPWORTH LEAGUE SOCIAL TONIGHT Tonight in the social room of the Methodist Church members of the | Epworth League will hold their weekly party, which is to start at 7:30 o'clock. Marion Pendergrass and Doug- las Keating will be host and hostess for the occasion - Try an Empire aa. ' Mother knofis is a lively place and busi- good, declares Ed Shaffer, Sanitary Meat Market in and also branch market A wise cake maker takes no chances. She insists on Fine-Spun, that remarkable cake flour milled by Fisuer’s from special wheats by the distinctive Fine-Spun process. You can’t buy a better cake flour than Fine-Spun, yet you pay no premium for it. At grocers in the 2-Ib. Handysack. < CAKE FLOUR 5! 7"2 YOUR FINEST cAnE ‘| age | Railroad lofticst swank club songstress was as successful as her hit role in “Leave It to M Mastin, Beth Leary, Brenda “Glamor Girl” Frazier, and Coruclius Vanderbi NEW ADDITION PIONEERS” HOME 1S ADVOCATED Cost of Two-Story Unit $125,000-Plan Now Before Senate A recommendation by Eiler Han- sen, Superintendent of the Pione: Home, that a new unit costing $1 000 be built adjacent to the pre- sent home at Sitka was forwarded to the Senate today by Gov. John W. Troy The separate two-story unit, which would rise between the present gar- and nurses’ quarters, would | house 57 more, men, Hansen said | This, he claimed would be enough | to relieve the present congestion take care of the waiting and still leave adequate room the needs of the next 10 years If a three-story unit were built at | Sitka, it would cost $25,000 more, but would care for that many more Pioneers, list for Economical Plan unit plan would be the nomical, Hansen reported | because the new building could be heated from the present plant and ng. The en- fed with two calling $620 per | be used solely for hous | tire enlarged institution st la cook, dishwasher, waitr | attendants and a laundres {for total salary of but | month | Total operating cost of the new | unit would not be more than $1500 per month, Hansen estimated. This |amounts to about $1 man per day per eparate institution were built a in the Interior, as has been’ suggest- | ed, the cost would be about $500,000 | | Hansen said. Governor Troy of transmittal that he was in “com- | plete agreement” with Hansen's plans for making additional room for Pioneers. -o [TODAY in the | SENATE House Joint Memorial No. 17, by Martin, urging Congress to appro- priate $2,250,000 for immediate ini- tiation of construction work on 183 miles of road representing the Al- askan end of the International Hichway. House Joint Memorial No. 18, urging Congress to make a law of | Alaska | Dimond’'s bill to salmon fisheries croachment, House Bill, No. 31, an act to appropriate $25,600 assist the City.of Craig dn construction and alteration and ad- dition to a school building at Cra House Bill, No. 30, Lande sk- ing an appropriation of $25,000 for imbursement to persons paying to the Federal Government freight tonnage over any owned road in Alaska. EEILB AL AL FOLDSTEIN RETURNS Mrs. 1. Goldstein arrived in Jun- eau aboard the Princess Norah af- ter visiting with friends and relativ- especially in California. protect from foreign en- by to the tolls for licly MRS. es, said in his letter | Walker, | pub- | singer whose debut as a n * a play. Left to right are Miss i 'COPE FLIES PARTY TO INSPECT PLANE Lon Cope took off in his wheel equipped Fairchild at 2:15 o'clock this afternoon headed for Tulse- quah with three passengers aboard, George Sinclair, “Red” Grey, and Pete Hamlin. The party will land at Polar the enxception of Cope, will com- men trek into the Sloko river to view the abandoned Waco of the Northern Airways which has been there since last January 9 Mr. Sinclair represents Lloyds of London Insurance Company which company handled the insurance pol- icy on the disabled ship. }is in the nature of an inspection trip to ascertain the extent of dam- age to the craft. The party will make the 40 mile jaunt into the region by dog team SHELL SIMMONS FLIES, CHICHAGOF AAT pilot Sheil Simmons made a routine hop to Chichagof this moming at 9 o'clock with mine sup- lent Jack Littlepe Jack Tom Seymour, Charles Rad- nd Fred Adams aboard y the return flight from th land, Mike Storms and Joe Shre: ibury from Hirst were on ship for Juncau. The plane landed here at 1:45 o'clock this forenoon. - A bumper rice croup of 3,312,000 i bags was shipped from Port Hous- ton, Texas, wharves in 1938. Offi- cials estimate the croup was worth $500,000 to rice farmers of the Gulf ! Coast The jaunt | HAIDA SCHOOL MAY DEVELOP GREAT FUTURE | Widespread Interest Is | Shown in Novel Course —Class This Evening letter from a citizen of Pet- Alaska, received by the States Coast Guard cutter | Haida, would make it a regulation {by law that government agencies | regularly conduct classes and pro- |duce booklets containing informa- relative to the navigation of craft in Territorial waters. Such messages have been pou ing in consistently to Lieut. N. G. Fulford since the day in coope tion with I. Goldstein and Harold Asse in conjunction with other of- ficers of the Haida, he conceived |the idea of a navigation class open to all comers, to be under the spon- sorship of the Haida officers. | The outside response to the new |school is reflected in attendance neted in the ¢ s rooms of the | High School here, where the unique school conducts sessions every Fri- | day night | With some 0 students tered for the instruction in weeks it 1s not improbable |the venture may turn into a per- anent program practiced in every astwise town wherein a govern- ment cutter is located. | Class will be held again tonight lat the High Sechool beginning at {7:30 o'clock. Lieutenants N. G. Ful- ford and Richard Foutter and En- A ersburg, United v | | e -Taku Mihe field and, with |signs A. F. Wayne and Glenn Por- | yntil ter will act as faculty. | SRR S | Legislators Finding Jobs "No Snap” Those lights burning in eemmit- tee rooms and chambers of the House and Senate in the Federal Building late at night do not nec- essarily indicate that janitors are hard at work, but rather give the lie to a popular belief that Legisla- tors “have a snap.” With regular Legislative procedure | for suf- | requiring that a bill in ordinary| transit through the House or Sen A(TION o“ IAP and ordinarily as many committees before passage to the upper or| lower house—and when one sees A'MES IN GYM more frightening legal pages and| G v dozens of references to existing laws, ! _— it isn't easy to be convinced that| Two high school teams cut It closely estimated that at fered at the hands of tonight's op- least 95 percent of the actual legis- 'ponents will take the floor at the |1ative work of a normal session is high school gymnasium in a double ! hours, and the number of bills that o'clock this evening. have already been passed or placed, First game will be between the m third reading by the House and'Crimson Bear sub varsity and this Fourteenth Legislature is run-|{ Wind-up contest is scheduled to ning up more expense in midnight get under way at 8:30 o'clock be- oil bills than>in often questioned {ween the Varsity Bears and the BT he High Sc¢hool club tonight will S ' I d' | {be their first of the season over | denale inaiaies graduates! quintet. - MACHINES FREED | Napoleon said an army travels S {on its stomach | So does the Alaska Senate, it BY (HIlE ORDER | Today, when at 12:15 o'clock, the o TR reading of a lengthy bill was ended | SANTIAGO. Chile, Jan. 27 A and Senators began to stir lunch-|g ward, a proposal was made by Sen- ! sewing machines and other work |ator O. D. Cochran that the ses- machines to their owners, free of sion continue until the day's cal-|charge, led to visits to ‘hundreds As this would have meant the| The government appropriated reading of six more bills before leight million pesos ($400,0000 to ccourse to food, Senator C. H. La- |redeem the machines. |he had “had his breakfast early.”{in Santiago released more than Whereupon Senator Joe Hofman,|6,000 articles free of charge, the lacting, he claimed, at the request|majority of them sewing machines. Fourth Division, moved for recess!freed in the provinces during the | 1:30 o'clock this afternoon.'first day the government order | The vote was unanimous. was in effect. ate must go through three readings| g FOR TONIGHT'S some of those bills with twenty or Legislators “have a snap. revenge over early defeats carried on outside of regular session | header contest beginning at 7:30 | senate, proves conclusively that|Krauses quintet of the City League. mileage. touted Alumni outfit. A victory for On Its Stomach PAWNED SEWING | would appear. | | vernment order tc return pawned endar was completed ‘of pawn shops yesterd: | Boyteux protested vigorously that| Government-owned pawn shops of his hungry colleague from the| Nearly as many articles were Constantly Comfortable THAT'S THE MODERN HOME THE HOME THAT'S EQUIPPED WITH THE FULLY - AUTO- DflQ{éE? g& MATIC RAY OIL BURNER . . . REG.U.S. AT, OFF RICE & AHLERS CO. 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