The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 31, 1939, Page 8

PLAN CHANGES, HOONAH PLANT; AID EMPLOYEES Welsh and Wright Return fo Juneau - Improve- ments Considered R. A. Welsh, Jr. Vice President in charge of operations, and Frank Jr. active Manager and Superintendent of the Icy Straits Salmon Company’s plant at Hoonah have returned to Juneau after spending four days at the company's cannery at Hoonah and visiting throughout the district Besides meeting many of their old friends in Hoonah and discussing the comin: season’s prob- they eave much time serious censideration to the possible lishment of a e shop, vard and other projects to be op ed at the cannery the greater por- tion of the year in which the native people of Hoonah would be employed d after the canning season rying out these propesed prejects they would materially bene- fit the district and likewise afford the cannery the opportunity of keep- its many native employees in a useful and educational work dur- ing the time the cannery is closed shortly, however, he plans to spend a great deal of his time in Alaska ' prpklin, fcrmer wife cf Sidney this summer. Mr. Wright will re- o 5 main in Juneau and at Hoonah for "0 " some time. > - FURNITURE FOR MCKINLEY HOTEL 1S MODERNISTIC EXEMPTION IS SOUGHT, ALASKA BOAT OPERATORS| Bv 1. J. ECKLI Buyer for Alaska Railroad ;i ron s 21 caec- January 16 to exempt all vessels of Annual Show less than 200 gross ned by citizens of the Uni IV(»\“ the provisions of the Internationa! Returning a trip g 1 3 the McK N pare Labor Office Draft Convention No Hotel, D. W (e dent of ( The pa j “No per Stores for the Alaska Rai i a passenger ¢ t larar € sel to ; route to Anche P > Moderni 1 tu : amounting to $50.000 urehi mie were 8 Furnjture C cpened Ja i B 10000 furniture e ort. dén bba United Afr Lines SoUntry fo convention i S e st in o) engaged in martime Mainliner 1l between Seattle n"m senting - iiee e and Portland the Alaska Railroad 51 1 ssels, and wooden Ve rimitive ¢ and junks Since this would probably be con- executive was agreeably surprised s to find as a fellow passenger on the ship, R. J. Sommers, of Ju-| & & neau. Mr. Sommers has been oul- | .eq (o include fishing boats and side for several weeks on busine: for ¢ other small craft,. compeiling the for his firm here. | employment of these licensed offic- - o - | | ers, even on the small one-man and | WOMAN OFFICIAL OF [Dimond scied to.take advantage of he one section of the treaties that INDIAN OFFICE T0 . TRAVEL IN INTERIOR would provide relief. This section states that “National laws or regula- Two months of travel by airplane and dogsled in the Interior lie ahead tions may grant exceptions or ex- emptions in respect of vessels of less J(]mn two hundred gross registered i tonnage.” In view of the fact that for Dy Luclia King, Associate Sup. | 1h¢ application of Convention No. ervisor of Elementary Education for the Office of Indian Affairs, who is leaving this week for Fairbank: Dr. King’s trip will be for super |53 of the treaties would practically vision of school work. Her ultimate nstruction such | end the fishing industry in Alaska, {as well as top all small boat opef ions in the United States coasts | waters, it is believed that ample sup- port will be offered toward securing destitiation Js the lower Kuskokwin, | v ciment of the - | lation Egg custard is often served as al - eee - topping for soup. Mix two egg & - - yolks, two tablespoons of milk and a few grains of salt and paprika our a one-fourth inch layer into al shalow pan. Bake in a pan of hot Stock QUOTATIONS — | NEW YORK, Jan. 31 Closing water in a slow oven until the cus- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | tard sets. Cool and cut out tiny stock today is 9%, American Can | shapes with vegetable cutter. Serve 94%. American Light and Power 3 two to a cup or bowl of soup. ¢ Anaconda 29%:, Bethlehem Steel Solons’ Wives at Garner Fete | Guests at the annual luncheon given by Mrs. John Nance Garner, wife of the vice president, for members of the Senate Ladies Luncheon Club in Washington, in¢luded Mrs. Warren Barbour (left), wife of the senator from New Jersey; Mrs. Alva Adums (center), wife of the senator from LColorade; and Mrs, Millard Tydings, wife of the senator from Maryland, pabt ' B sl o ? Singing Movie Star Elopes Neleon Eddy, blend singing mcvie star and believed one of Hollywood's coalirmed bachelers, eicped to Las Vegas, Nev, with Mrs. Ann D. ranklin, motion picture producer. <he wn just after their marriage by District Judge William 674, Commonwealth and Southern 1'2, Curtiss Wright T's, Curtiss Wright A 25%, General Motors 4674, International Harvester 56'2, Ken- necott 37%. New York Central 18%. Northern Pacific 11%, Safeway Stores 367, Southern Pacific 17%, United States Steel 59'%; Bremner bid asked 1'¢, Pound $4.67 DOW, JON The following are today's Jones avel industrials rails 29.74, utilities 23.40. > o GEORGE LINGO ARRIVES HERE ON WAY EAST 1d Office at AVERAG Dow, 142.56. ed by death of n, is making he trip in the int of the Park Company with which he has been connected for a number of years. Other members of the board of the Mount McKinley Toursit an Transportation Company are Rob- ert Sheldon, who is Vice Pr de John H. Kelly, who is Secret- Treasurer; Capt. A. E. Lathrop and George W. Gasser. TRAVELING MEN ARRIVE IN CTY Presaging the advent of the buy- ing season, wh the weatherm contingent of traveling representa- tives from business houses Outside arrived today on the Baranof. In the group are Gil Rich, A. C. Block, Del Fett, Bill Douglas, Jerry Reiland and Eddie Nelson. Lyle Heb- ert also rutenrdt BBHD.-kbdoehis ert also returned to his headquart- ers here. Todav’'s Ne! h to everyone but! means spring, a;tain that the increased compensa- | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 31, 1939. ALASKA'S PEACE FEDERAL BUDGET 1S MADE PUBLIC By J. J. ECKLES Secretary of Delegate Dimond WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—(Spec- ial Correspondence)—The following tabulation showing the Budget es- timates for the fiscal yéars 1939 | and 1940 indicates the Federal Gov- ernment’s financial pians for its functions in the Terrtiory for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1939, {as compared with the similar esti- mates that were set up for the fiscal year now current, Esttmate Estimate | 1940 1939 Alaska - Canada | Boundary $ 43000 $ 41500 Care and Custody of Insane 205,840 202,600 Communications 200,000 187,600 | Contingent Expenses i (Office of Gover- ernor, etc.) 22,400 25 600 Extension Service (Through Univer- sity of Alaska) 21,418 21,418 Fisheries, Bureau of 268,200 270,000 Fishery Laboratory at Little Port Walter 10,000 Game Commission.. 130,978 130,798 Governor and Sec- retary of @laska, Salaries of 15,600 15,600 Relief of Indigents (Payments by judges) 20,000 20,000 Medical Relief for | Natives of Alaska 440,000 408,000 Geological ~Survey ‘Work 60,000 60,000 Education of Na- tives of Alaska 951,380 825,000 Agricultural Exper- iment Station Aid 25,000 23,750 Public Schools 50,000 75 090 Reindeer Service 35,500 35,500 Roads, Bridges and ails 140,000 160,000 Construction and maintenance 560,000 535,000 Road Improvement | Funds(Contribut- | ed by Territory) . 80,000 80,000 Star-route Service . 150,000 206,000 Indian Hospital and Quarters 210,000 160,000 The Budget for the fiscal year 1940 does not carry any appropria- tion out of Federal funds for the Alaska Railroad for any purpose and the only items indicating the amount of any g iation is item designated “Special A {: Alaska 2 cial Fund—-"This fund is ed from c nues of rating Alaska Rail reimbursements terials and s for various oad, ¥ epo: purposes (4 S. C. 306 decision of Comptroller General, A-35435). Estimata 1940 $2,- 625,000, Approp: d 1939 $2,300,000 Revised 1939 $2,360,000.” This means that the estimate of S income of the Alaska Railroad for the fiscal year 1940, to end with June 30, 1940, is $2,625000. It is understood that this estimate is I made by the Bureau of the Budget |and is not the estimate made by of- ficials of the Alaska Railroad, nor of | the Interior Department. However, ,even the estimates made by the Al- | saka Railroad officials indicate that the income of the railroad for this period will be sufficient to maintain the present wage scale. Accordingly, there is no occasion to ask Congres: at the present time to appropriate any money whatever to maintain the scale of wages paid to employees |of the railroad. { Beginning on July 1, 1938, the compensation of the employees of the Alaska Railroad was increased 10 per cent. In order to make cer- { tion could be paid, Congress made an appropriation of $160,000, included in the Interior Department appropria- tion bill for the fiscal year 1939, and by the report of the Senate Appro- priations Committee the amount was virtually ear-marked to take care of the increased wages. With the pre: ent outlook this will not be nec sary for the 1940 fiscal year. The Budget, as indicated above, aking Powyde! Schilling EVERY TIME WITH Schilling Piping hot biscuits taste as good as they look if you use Schilling Baking Powder. Dowble- acting — made with pure cream of tartar — BAKING POWDER never leaves any 'baking powder taste!” For over halfa century, Schilling has been relied upon for swccessful baking and true economy! ur grocee W Yo will also pay for the s, butter, flour, €1¢ YO8 have used, if you fi faule whatever with it GO MODERN with a fully-actomatic RAY OTL RURNER, that responds to every chiange in the weather. RICE & AHLERS CO. Let the Weather Stoke Your Furnace Third and Franklin Streets REC.U.5, PAT. OFF ———PHONE 34 ipplies, and spec- @ Schmeling Quizzed by Nazis Max Schmeling, former world heavyweight champion, has been subjected to questioning by Nazi officials, according to London reports. It was Zenied that his blonde actress wife, Anny, shown with him, had been 4 2 G LU b S0iey e VS Tigaxted from Cslo. wrposlad 465 wasils embraces no appropriation for ne funds for the railroad and hence BA(TERIO[OG!ST little, if anything, will be available with which to build new bridges or lEAVES 'I‘o WAR do other necessary mu.mmuuunj work. Whether Con ss will appro- priate any funds for such purposes. Frank Pauls Is Flying Info Inferior for Pneumo- coccus Typing lacking an estimate from the Bureau | Embarkine of the Budget, cannot be known at| this time, IMPRESSED OVER | i HI“ER’S VIEWS terior to set up typir | pneumenia control - | Bactericlos in the laboratc of i the Territo Department of Tells House of ComMONS| sicain nere tets by PAA plane today | for There Is Also an Agree- | | .o - | | | CHAMBERLAIN IS « rip into the In- stations for H R | typing a smaller com- ment with Mussolini |5 Gy (Continuec from Page One) | dez, and ¥ ¥ r as { Nome. He will be a |for two months. policy ar that Hitler's| "m0 o speech w a “man v had prepared to throw E crisis Chamber G um n - o ian imports of unmanufactur- of cha The Prime Mini Britain wants Hitler to back up his 8 W peaceful words with “concrete evi- | ccmpared w dence of a desire for peace before we can enter upon a final settle- | [ CALL 642 | TRIPLEX ‘Odorless’ | DRY CLEANERS | | Pickup Delivery—'Sam the Tailor’ e ] MEHERIN ON BUSINESS J. J. Meherin left on a short busi- nes trip to Petersburg nad Ketchi- kan on the steamer Mount McKin- | ley. He expects to be absent about a | week | Nothing so soothing to tired, aching fect as a pair of Muscle-Massaging Strain-Removing Nerve-Resting Arch-Supporting MASSAGIC SHOES v Voot Thrill | The exclusive AIR CUSH- ION in the MASSAGIC Foot- Massaging Shoe provides SOFT, YIELDING RESILIENCY with every step. It MASSAGES THE MUSCLES. It EXERCISES THE BONES. It PREVENTS JARS AND SHOCKS while walking. It REMOVES BODY | STRAINS. i All this unheardof FOOT EASE at a surprisingly moderate price. Letustry onapair of MAS- SAGICS. WALK ON AIR! $6.50 - , | and other ‘ Cinderella Story ALASKA RIVERS, . HARBORS WORK | RECOMMENDED By J. J. ECKLES Secretary to Delegate Dimond WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—(Spec- | ial Correspondence)—Five Alaska projects for improvement of navi- gation in rivers and harbors and | control of floods are lisied in the | Annual Report of the Chief of En- igmecrs. released early this week for work during the current year on allotments to be made or with funds already allotted, totaling ap-| proximately $525,000. Juneau—Work on the Juneau small-boat harbor is planned to commence with the ailotment of | 870,000 to cover cost of breakwater jconstruction for the period ending June 30, and $162,000 is expected to be allotted for dredging opera- tions to start after July 1. The work will provide a small- boat basin 11% acres in area north of the Douglas-Juneau Bridge, with | a depth of 12 feet at low water, by construction of two rock-mound | | breakwaters 430 feet and 1540 feet | |long and dredging of the in,sidci AImost overnight Annle MacDon- impa, ald Dodge, daughtc_r of a Cana- Seward—Flood control on Lowell| dian tugboat captain, and up to | Creek for the protection of Seward| August, 1938, a JIE-Gvpekettels is to be undertaken with an allot-| PRORe operator at Gore Bay, On- s | tario, became rich. Mrs. Dodge, ment of $197,000 now available, | ;&i‘ow of the late Daniel G. Dodge, providing local interests provide| g0, who was heir to a $20,000,000 the land, easements, and rights-of- | | motor car fortune, has been way necessary for the contemplat-| awarded $8,000,000 in a settle- ed construction. | | ment of his estate. She married The Lowell Creek project will| young Dodge last year and 11 consist of a 400-foot diversion dam | days later he was killed in a dyn- and 2,070 feet of tunnel through a|_ amite explosion. | mountain to divert flood waters| : i |used in repairing and debris away from the city °”prou-cr, ”:E' !o‘wn, Sc:m'd into chsurrccllon Bgy. Delegate Dimond said he was ome.—_Mamtemmcc,.repmr. and hopeful that allotments would be construction of the jetties at Nome | nade to take up construction on Mllh be taken up agax? this year!othor projects that he has spon- Ev. an allotment of $95,000 to besgorl.d and which have rece flt('l"d to the unexpended balance|ggongressional authorization at { an allotment previously made|eral other places during the and of which about $45,000 is be-|pent year. ideved still available, } Stikine River—Removal of snags Annie MacDonald Dodge ine dikes which - > o | FETT IN TOWN hazar to navigation Dell Fett, popular traveling paint | 5n the Stikine River will be under- Salesman, arrived on the Baranof |taken with an allotment of sgoo|from Seattle to spend a few days {made for this purpose. in the Capital City calling on hi Hyder.—Allotment of trade. ‘mmnunn(‘z‘: of :‘lo:)d con U. 8. exports of rarm products in ‘ofllnlul{ River in the vicinity of the past 16 years has averaged $1.- | Hyder is expected to be made. This | 320,000,000 annually, and since 1929 jmoney, together with $200 contrib-| have fallen 35 per cent below the uted by lccal interests, is to l)v. 16 year average. $800 for 1 on the | R Hollywood Sights And Souads By Robbin Coons HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan. 31.—The scene is a Hollywood fight stadium, and Al Romero, the pug, is climbing into the ring when “Hi ’ya, Al!” boon 'em a group movie people. Romero looks around, grins, Is, i 'ya, Meservey!” And the movie gang looks at Meservey—whom they know as Robert Preston—and they all s: “You know Romero?” “Sure,” says Meservey. “He’s one of the gang. .. " This Meservey now—this Bob Preston as you'll know him if you | don’t already—is the kid of 20 who is carrying Hollywood's big- | gest platinum spoon in his mouth. And the funny thing is, he | knows it. And he keeps knocking on wood. This is what has happened to him, since his “discovery” in the Pasadena Community Playhouse half a year azo: A 209050t test—the average testee is lucky to get 500 feet; a sfrong role in “King of Alcatraz”; leading roles in “Illegal Traffic’ and “Dis- barred”; a role in DeMille’s “Union Pacific” that is better, in sym- pathy, than Hero Joel McCrea's; next assignment: one of three leads in “Beau Geste,” with Gary Cooper and Ray Milland. Meet the kid, then. He’s a big lug, 6 feet one inch, weighs about 180. He's got the vitality, the look in his eye, that snaps into a camera lens and says Look Here. He's not handsome-not with that nose—but he’s plenty clean-cut. And he's got a deep and resonant voice to match plus a regular-guy way. It's enough, what has happened to him, to have turned an older man’s head. Bob Preston calls it all “luck.” He was born—without even a silver spoon on his tongue—in Newton Highlands, Mass., came to Los Angeles when he was two - theres more pleasure... in fact more of everthing for your money when you order one of the big, daily, plate luncheons — at | Percy’s oo ol years old. He lived on the east side, went to Lincoln high, took part in school plays and fights with about equal relish. ‘When he knew he wanted to be an actor, he joined up with Tyrone Power's mother’s Shakespearean little theatre, played all the parts, including Julius Caesar when he was 15. ‘When ‘drama failed him, he got a job at Santa Anita race track, cleaning the stands mornings, parking cars afternogns. (Remembers guiding Clark Gable to parking space‘-“mere's‘ a right guy!”) Nights he tried out for Pasadena Playhouse, worked there in old man parts, mestly for two years. Then the movies. . . , ‘And what I can’t get over is how everybody seems to take me under wirz. . . . Harold Hurley, the producer, giving me that long: test, with Robert Florey to direct it., . . Lloyd Nolan, telling people about me, showing me how to pitch my voice for pictures when I was talking like the Red Shadow . .. Carroll Naish . . . Barbara Stanwyck, in this picture, telling:me how to cheat the camera a little—so I'll take part of the screen from HER! And DeMille.. He tells me it'’s the best part he's giyen anybody in years, and if T'm nervous he'll kill me. But then he starts me with my big scene—in which I've got to be nervous! Why, everybody acts like my own mother might, taking care of me.” The Meserveys have moved to Hollywood but Bob Preston keeps going back to his old haunts on the east side. To Romero, and to Fidel LaBarba, and the “gang.” He wants to know what's what. And the “gang,” he says, knows. LY 8 Ll