The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 18, 1939, Page 1

MISSING PLANE SEARCH NOW ON LAND Come-onGal GEN.CRAIG THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8030. "PROTESTS ] v ¥ " OVERNEW FOR "SISSIFIED" CROPOF Gives Fair APPROVING - GIRL ATHLETES IN U. 5. Big Sendoff FISH LAW Regulation{fo} Coming Season Threaten fo . Tieup Industry KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 18.—At a mass meeting called Thursday night to discuss recurring shipping tieups and the Jones Act, which pre- vents Canadian vessels carrying Am- erican freight to Alaska, the subject switched to fish traps and the new regulations of the Bureau of Fish- eries. The result was that a committee of four was John Hoff to send protests to Wash- ington, D. C. and the Territorial leg- islators at Juneau. A telegram was sent yesterday af- ternoon to Richard Patterson, A tant Secretary of Commerce, s ing: “Union fishermen are threatening complete tieup if regulations as an- nounced are correct and enforced. At a largely attended mass meeting, Ketchikan citizens unanimousl condemned your regulations, as an- appointed by Chairman | JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HAIR STYLES ARE BLAMED Outlines Foreign | making sofa-dawdlers out of a gen- | _Miss Golden West, the Come-On | Malin Craig, Chief of Staff of the 84 |eration of high school and college | Girl of The Century, | o ICIeSw nounced her betrothal to the rest of | Military Affairs Committee, Presi- President, in Twin Ad-; | dresses, Serves Notice on | World of Intentions | KEY WEST, Florida, Feb. 18.— President Roosevelt today served no- tice on the world, in two speeches,) that America’s common asporation is to defend and maintain a self-gov- ernment in the way of life to lift Democracy high above the ugly truc- ulence of autocracy. The twin addresses following one another as the President made an automobile trip just before he em- nounced, as detrimental to Alaska’s parked on his Caribbean cruise to interests. : | watch the American fleet test their The message was signed by John | strength to uphold the Monroe Doc- Hoff, Joe Krause, Andrew Thompson | trine, and Harry McCain, the latter a: The President restated the Ameri- councilmen. an foregin policy in even more suc- Advices recetved by the Alaska|cinct terms than he did in a-recent Slamon Purse Seiners Union from press conference when he declared E. F. Eukow, organizing on the west against entagling alliances, peace- coast, aisd: “All towns have voted | ful preservation of political and eco- unanimously to stand pat with the nomic independence of all nations demands on the Bureau of Fish-| The president said the United eries or else strike.” | States and other American Republics Messages were also sent to Rep- | are opposed to physical force except resentatives Coffey and Smith pro- to repulse aggression. testing against Coffey's withdrawal | A of his memorial providing for 5-yea trap elimination and to Smith for hi HAB"UA[ DRUNK ! introduction of the immediate trap | [ ' BILL RUNS INTO Representative Walker has rein- | ALASKA NOT ENDORSED abolition bill. troduced Coffey’s memorial. | SENA]’E IROUB[E | the Washingion Disirios. Oounoll | Solons Squabble Over One; the Alaska Purse Seiners Union's| a' Grea' I-eng'h moves 20 per cent of the Alaska “M. M. Dunlop, Chairman of um}aftern(m\ when Senator O. D. dorsed their stand. We wish to N8 tion. |fect Senators much as the prover- 34 was no exception. Senators took No. 1, Maritime Federation of the & Pacific, said they have not endorsed | More l|quor Measure action in threatening to strike un-| less the canned salmon industry re- fish traps and sets back the fish-| Another liquor bill took a lick- ing season ten day (ing in the Senate late yesterday Seiners’ Strike Committee intimates Cochran’s habitual drunkard meas- the Maritime Federation has en- Ure staggered through second read- deny this allegation” said A. E.| Apbpearance on the floor of a Herding, Secretary of the Federa- liquor bill has never failed to af- bial red flag waved before the | proverbial bull, and Senate Bill No. FRAN(E TAKES lanother field day, which lasted un- |til well after 5 o'clock in the eve- ning. B H. LaBoyteux ex- opposition to the “it’'s the rot- By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—This is not going to please America's hair stylists but we have it on unim- peachable authority straight from the Athletic Department that these | new fangled up-do hair fixes are girls. NEW DEALS ‘San Francisco Imports Sun- | Gives Hear?y—ApprovaI fo ' shine from India fo Start | President's Sale of | Wheels Turning | Planes Abroad | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 18. WASHINGTON, Feb, 18. — Gen. today an-|Army, endorsed before the Senate | the world at the openinhg of a glit-|dent Roosevelt’s policy of selling Belle Meyers, director of ath- ; letics for girls in District of Colum- | tering ten months’ party called uy-;mmmrv planes abroad. bia (Washington, if you've forgot- | Golden Gate International Exposi- | was revealed today in testi- | ten) high schools, says it is a|tion. | mony released by the committee. | shame. | Thirteen states, 36 countr and, In the same testimony, General | “The girls simply won't do any- thing which might muss up their hair unless th are forced to,” says Miss Meye The curls cause most of the trouble, she says. “It is a lot of trouble to put curls in, and sometimes expensive. So they don't like to play. games. They don’t like to work out on the hori- zontal bars. They dislike swim- ming.” Sometimes, she says, they will stop right in the middle of a game to tuck up a stray curl, pin a spiral in place, or fix a comb. | AND IT'S TOO, TOO BAD “They won't get in and rough it up in a game the way they did when hair styles were different.” It is too bad, she mourns, for it so happens that the girls lately have adopted a style of dress that is particularly fitting to athletic types. | “Hardly any girls wear high heels to_school any more. Low heels, | Jjackets, sweaters, and practical | clothing have come in to the ex- clusion of more uncomfortable dress.” What is the remedy? There al- ways ought to be a remedy. | “I'd like to see the girls come | back to a more suitable type of hair style. The short bob was the ideal. Girls with bobbed hair played hard without fear of mussing up their hair. It always looked well. There were no curls to bother with.” Miss Meyers is a bobbed-hair her- self. Her hair is brown. She has a free swinging figure and can be described as dynamic. That seems to be true of most women athletic directors. Without being especially pretty, she has flair. THERE'LL COME A DAY And is there any hope for the girls at all? | “This style won't last. Girls will | put it aside in time. They still wear | | «Continued on Page Two) Find "Pay Dirt" In Shop Ruins | | | hundreds of commercial exhibitors Craig said at least 18 months will plus a heavy gate, bolstered the be required to produce 300 bombers lady’s romance. of the latest type, such as sold to Sponsors estimated that fully 20,-| France, by the Douglas Airplane | 000,000 people will view the spec-| Company. tacla by December 2. | Gen. Craig explained that it is The unveiling of the exposition at|sound policy for the United States | 8 o'clock this morning cost $50,000,- | to place airplane products in lor-l 000, and the Bay Region went wild | eign markets and this “would settle | | last night as thousands witnessed a |the question that has been brought | mass spectacle of modern science|up about maintaining work on a| | as photo-electric cells set in Bom- | permanent basis in our own fac- | | bay, India; 9,000 miles away, picked | tories.” | up noonday sunlight and Lhflllg«d] -ee - Angelic Bartender Buys Carnegie Hall (For a Night) to Give Girl a Send-Off PARTIESTO = MAKEHUNT " BYCHARTS Precaution Taken fo Pre- vent Scouring Same Area Twice SYSTEM PLANNED AT MEETING HELD HERE 0il Slick Investigated by Cutfer Haida - Was from Bilge Rag In an attempt to launch a thor ough systematic search of the Grand Island vicinity wherein it is believed, | the lost Lon Cope plane containing | five passengers and the pilot may be found, government, airway, and | boat officials gathered last night in | Commissioner Gray’s office to out- |line plans for future expeditions. switch on Treasure Island. As the switch was thrown, 36 searchlights turned on, each with 60,000,000 candle-power, plus hun- dreds of tubes emitting invisible rays to give the island dimensional illumination. NO NEW, HEAVY TAXES T0 COME UP, ASSERTS FOR President Assures Busi- ness, Indusiry There Is Nothing fo Be Feared KEY WEST, Florida, Feb. 18— During the President’s trip from Washington, D. C., to this city where he embarked for cruise, President Roosevelt assured business and industry they had nothing to fear in the way of new and heavier taxes or Federal spend- ing outside of the budgetary limits. The President also stated the Government has no further pro- grams for power development. The President did attack the writ- ings of civilians who have set them- selves up as quasi naval and military exprts and are feeding the people with what he called bunk, The President defended the sale of American military planes to France as 100 per cent legal. HOUSE PASSES MEASURES OF his Caribbean | Rhabo Sy lI".I'ER AIIONAI' HIGHWAY COM. PLANS MEETING Scheduled When He Re- ““furns from Caribbean | sentative Warren G. Magnuson, of |the State of Washington, and a member of the Alaska International Highway Commission, said the mem- | bers of the joint commission on the proposed 2,000-mile Seattle to Al- | aska highway, will meet with Presi- | dent Roosevelt upon his return from the Caribbean. The problem of financing the road will be discussed and recom- | mendations will be drafted for sub- mission to the Canadian members | of the commission at a meeting in | the near future. s 'WAGE AND HOU EXEMPTION FOR MINING ASKED Senator Rivers Infroduces Memorial Aiding Placer Industry A memorial asking that Alaska's iSession with Roosevelt | | WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—Repre- | | Serator C. | pressed violent | measure by saying AFRICAN ISSUE Makes FirstTvrajor Move in Dispute with lfaly Over Possessions PARIS, Feb. 17. — France has made her first major move in the dispute with Italy over East African possession of Somaliland by reoccu- pying twelve and one half miles of the coast line ceded to Italy in 1935. There is apparently no opposition because Italy has never moved troops to take over the area. |tenest bill I ever heard of” and |that under its provisions “they could get me as an habitual drunk- |ard twice a month.” One section of the bill provided that certification by a Justice of the Peace that any person had been convicted twice in his court of drunkenness would be incontes- tible evidence that the man was an habitual drunkard. This was |softened by amendment to require |that the case that a man was an | habitual drunkard would have to | be proved by evidence. Criticising the two-conviction ‘provision and asking that a time |limit be specified in which the two convictions would have to occur, | Senator Joe Hofman declared: “A man could get drunk on his wedding day and again 10 years later on the tenth birthday of his daughter and just for that he'd be an habitual drunkard under this SPAN. GOVERNMENT act.” CAPITAL IS ON MOVE PERPIGNAN, France, Feb. 18.— i Senator Hofman moved that the |habtitual drunkard proceedings be ;changed from District Court so |that &t would extend to more out- The Spanish Government is report- |Of-the-way places of the Territory, ed to be on the move again from |but the proposal was defeated four besieged Madrid to safer places. The]w four. capital has already moved four| Senator James Patterson asked,| times. "whos to convict the U. S. Com- | The Cabinet has decided to install missioners who are habitual drunk- spent in playing Chinese Checkers. | Refreshments were served during the | | | SACRAMENTO, Cal. Feb. 18.—| Two veteran prospectors have discov- | ered gold in the heart of near-by Nevada City’s Chinatown. The men, John C. Calhoun and Clarence Olson, struck “pay dirt” while rummaging through the ruins of an old Chinese gold buying store and assay office in this once thriv- ing California gold rush town. Explaining the find, which attract- |led throngs of observers for almost a month to downtown sluicing scene, Olson said: “The gold apparently seeped through the cracks of the building in the early days when the Chinese gold buyers handled millions of dol- lars of gold dust and nuggets.” \FELLOWSHIP GROUP | HOLD LIVELY MEET A large attendance marked last| night’s social gathering of the Fel- lowship Club in the Parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church, Five reels of movies were shown and a good part of the evening was latter part of the affair. UPPER BODY Five Sen a—i?legislalive Pieces Receive Unani- mous Approval Five Senate measures received House approval without a single dissenting vote this afternoon as Representatives cleaned up the cal- endar of the week before adjourn- ing until Monday afternoon. the manner of presenting claims Measures passed were: Senate| Joint Memorial No. 3¢ which wn.iagainsn the Territory and provid- ing for review of disallowed claims demns the report of the National| Resources Committee and asks re- by the Territorial Board of Admin- sumption of the study; Senate Bill |istration. 38, which makes amendment rela-| Many Marshals tive to the duration of chattel| Senate Bill No. 59, authorizing mortgage liens; Senate Joint Mem- |service and execution of process by orial 2, which asks Federal Ass{s_fany qualified person appointed by tance in killing wolves in Mount & Judge, if the cost of serving in McKinley Park; Senate Joint Mem- | the regular manner by Marshal is placer mining industry be exempt- | ed from provisions of the wages; and hours act was one of five measures dumped into the legisla- tive hopper today by Senator Vic- tor C. Rivers of Fairbanks. The memorial (S.J.M. 9), cites to Federal officials a number of rea- sons why the provisions of the fair |1abor standards act are inapplicable |to the Territory’s mining opera- tions. Other new measures by Senator Rivers are as follows: Senate Bill No. 58, prescribing before her eighteenth birthday. Donato A. Paradiso, her teacher, since she was thirteen. Louisa Corchia NEW YORK-—Louisa Corchia is only a poor Italian girl who wants to sing, but she has a bartender for an “angel” and he hired Carnegie Hall for her first concert on February 20, just three days Not only that, he persuaded Italian societies to buy up whole | blocks of seats and, winning friends by “setting them up” at the bar, he offered and sold them tickets too, at psychological moments. ‘The “angel” is Sereno Corchia, who owns @ bar-cafe. He is her father’s first cousin, and his support gratified not only Louisa but who thinks so much of the girl's future as a coloratura soprano that he has given her free lessons | | | 'HOUSE GIVEN - WAC MEASURE THIS MORNING {Many Bills fi(gd Calendar as Deadline of Ses- sion Nears Seven bills were introduced in the House of Representatives this morning as Legislators prepared to get pet measures under the closing wire February 23, next Thursday. Wednesday, Washington's Birth- day, will be a holiday, and is set as the closing date for measure introduction, but because of the holiday, the deadline is moved to Thursday. Bills presented today were as fol- lows: House Bill 87, by the Committee on Labor, Capital and Immigration, to amend the Workmen’s Compen- sation Act, will make that act com- pulsory where in the past it has been optional. The measure, 40 pages long, sets up jurisdiction of the act under the Industrial Board of the billed-for Department of Labor with a long scale of benefits, and the admin- istrative expense to be distributed pro rata among insurers of work- men and employers certified a sself- insurers. PRESIDENT ASKS FOR SUM 70 BUY ALASKA REINDEER FOR ESKIMOS AND INDIANS WASHINGTON, Feb, 18— President Roosevelt has asked Conqeu to appropriate $1,030,- 000 with which to give the Es- kimos and Indians of Alaska for the purchase and exclusive con- trol of Alaska’s reindeer busi- ness, The Government feels that if the reindeer can be turned over to the natives they will soon be on a self-sustaining basis, R SENATE REFUSES 10 PUT TOBACCO IN RUM STORES Mixers, Chewing Gum and Candy Also Verboten -long Calendar Sell cigars, cigarettes, chewing to- bacco, ginger ale, soda water, mixers, chewing gum and candy in package liquor stores? No, said the Senate today after long wrangling over Senator O. D. Cochran’s Senate bill No. 39, which in its original form would add to- bacco products and non-alcoholic beverages to the stocks of liquor stores, and which under several pro- posed amendments would put other lines of merchandise on the shelves. The Senate finally voted five to three to indefinitely postpone zhe‘ bill, as moved by Senate President orial 6, asking Territorial power to|exorbitant. Out of benefits will come certain | Norman R. Walker. Augries now are that the plane hunt will settle into an extensive detailed survey of indefinite dura= tion. Two Navy planes from Sitka were forced back by weather today while enroute to the sector. The big Con- aerial cameras and it was planned to use them to furnish portrayals of the terrain and thus allow for prolonged study of ground details. Taking off at 2:15 today Tony Schwamm 15 to deliver. to the gasboat parties aboard the Wander~ er and North Light with instructions to mark the charts showing places they have covered to prevent retrac- ing of their paths by future parties. Traveling with Schwamm in the |5 place Waco is Herbert Neff hand= ling an «erial camera. He will en- deavor to get pictures for the same purposes as planned by the Navy planes, . Conierence | At the conference held last night it ywas determined to furnish maps of | the section and block from these | plate all alstricts now covered and to be covered. Limiung their activity to the plan of Lhe wap, parties will 80 out in crews of five under & com= pass man. The method will be tanta- mount to that used cruising timber lands. In this manner it is hoped | that all possible ground will be cov- ered on foot. At the conference were Alex Hol= den, Shell 8immons, Tony Schwam, pilots; Harry G. Watson, Secretary to the Governor; Felix Gray, United States Commissioner; Lieutenant Commander R. C. Sarratt of the Haida; J. Willlams of the United States Forest Service; Kell Larsson “Kinky” Bayers, of the gashoat Wanderer; and A. B. Hayes, Traffic Manager of Marine Airways, Point Arden First section to be covered by the parties will be the stretch behind Point Arden. ' The Wanderer is already on the scene with a crew of men under “Kinky” Bayers. ! It is planned to send more boats out tomorrow but arrangements had not been completed for the coming | expeditions early this afternoon. 0il Source | The Haida docked in Juneau last | night and sailed this morning for further activity on the search front. The plane was to act as tender for the Navy planes should they come over, | Ofl found by Tony Schwamm yes- terday was investigated by motor surf boats from the cutter and after lengthy investigation it was dise | covered the source was bilge rags. Heavily soaked with oil the cloth | continued to feed the oil slick ace | counting for the continual enlarge= ment of the slick surfaces. Fly Routine solidated bombers are equipped with- tax native-owned canneries on Fed-| Senate Bill No. 60, making fail- eral Reservations and now tax ex-|ure of a party to appear for trial a empt, and Senate Bill 23, relative | “confession of the allegations of to agricultural and industrial fairs|the pleadings of the adverse party” percentage for a rehabilitation and second injury fund. House Bill 88, by Dowd and Por- ter, asks $1000 each for repairs and The same routine of plane flying in Alaska. | CAPT. GRIEVE PASSES AWAY and authorizing the entry of judg- | ment against him. Senate Bill No. 61, providing a levy under a writ of attachment or execution upon unoccupied mining | claims and other real property may ministries in Valencia and other eastern cities. e AT SR I The cultivation of the superstaple Sea Island cotton, formerly confined mainly to South Carolina, Georgia } ator Patterson which would make; and Florida has now spread to Ala-|the law apply to “any drunkard” in—!SO strong, it appeared doubtful it will bama and Louisiana. |ards,” adding that even some Dis- |trict Judges would be considered habitual drunkards were it not for their high positions. | A long list of amendments by Sen- stead of only to habitual drunkards {and which would make it apply to |drunken wives as well as to drunken husbands was defeated five to three after considerable argument, The bill finally advanced to en- grossment, but opposition to it was {ever be enacted. be made by serving notice. A bill amending the Unemploy- SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb, 18—Capt.|ment Compensation law, in part, Charles Courtney Grieve, 65, of the|to make it conform with workings Navy Medical Corps, retired, is dead |of the Railroad Retirement Board here. At one time he was in com- provisions, was introduced today by mand of the Naval Hospital at|Senator Henry Roden. The measure Sitka, is Senate Bill No. 57. l completion of landing fields at Noor- vik, Noatak, Selawik and Haycock. House Bill 89, Dowd and Porter, would direct the Territorial Board of Road Commissioners 4o spend $1,- 750 for the purpose of extending the runway and cross runway of the Kotzebue aviation field. House Bill 90, by Dowd and Por- ter, asks $5,000 for roads at Candle and $500 for airplane field repair at thav town. House Bill 91, by Gordon, declares Candy Prohibition The chewing gum and candy am- endment was offered by Senator Joe Hofman who said he expected such a move to “stop the promiscuous sale of candy to small children.” Proposed amendment was defeated four to four. Senator Victor C. Rivers defended the bill by saying “the more soft drinks these stores sell, the less hard liguor their customers will drink.” A motion by Senator LeRoy Sul- livan that by an amendment to an amendment the stores be allowed to sell “any article of merchandise” was defeated five to three after Sen- (Continued on Page Eight) (Continued on Page Eigh) went forward today. Fellow fliers of Lon Cope took to the air repeatedly. Alex Holden chief pilot of Marine Airways, flying a wheel equipped Fairchild was over the scene many hours today tracing and retracing sectors for the sixth day in the hope that something may have been miss~ ed. With him as observor was Mare tin Feist. Shell Simmons made one flight over the district this morning with William Eastham, Koith Petrich, Charles Asby, and Leslie Melvin acts ing as observors. Schwamm was on the job a goodly (Continued on Page Eight) | | |