The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1939, Page 3

Support the Rotary Conference————and Boost Juneau! Show Place of Juneau NOW! THEATRE ETTER T Al ;. with ENJOU ANDREA LEEDS EDGAR BERGEN Charlie:McCARTHY SHORTS BUDAPEST " LATEST NEWS OF THE DAY CALL MEETING OF PLANNING _ Home Town THE DAILY- ALASKA EMPIRE; MONDA Film Hit ~ Is Billed At Capitol Andrea Leeds, Adolphe Menjou Carry’ Leads in Feafin;e Here Fine, great dramatic situation in- |4 terspersed with hilarious comedy moments march grandly across the |/ screen of Universal’s' John M. Stahl production, “A Letter of Introduc- tion)” now at the Capitol Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds and George Murphy provide the drama. The comedy is excellently taken care of by that remarkable pair, Edgar Bergen and Charlie Mc- ¥ Carthy. Miss Leeds and Menjou carry the story of an aging actor who dis-| covers, through a letter of introduc- tion, that he is the father of a grown daughter, the role played by Miss Leeds. The actor’s ego, coupled with the fear of losing his screen- idol popularity, prompts him to conceal their true relationship from the world and to extract from his daughter a promise of secrecy. Through this deception comes a succession of events, some tragic, some dramatic, some hilarious. En- hanced by the extraordinary acting | abilities of Miss Leeds and Mr. Men- | jou, they merge to form a truly great screen offering. ATTENDANCE AT fitstice Bla&< Agplauds Singer H;zgz; Black, Associate Justice of thé ates enjoyment as he applauds the famed negro singer, at the Lincoln LLF. C. CHAIRMAN " FEARS TROUBLE IN BRISTOL BAY Allen Urges that America Extend Jurisdiction use of a ball by the Daughters of the American’ Revolution, she sang | before ‘an audience of thousands, including hundreds of capital digni- taries, and was heard by millions more over a nation-wide radio hook-up. Y, APRIL 24;1939. - {1 the O. Henry story for Bing to sing, | United Stntes"shpréme Court. radi- performance of Marian Andergon, Memorial in Washington. Refused as a hundred miles in the Gulf of Alaska. fishermen refer to this com- paratively shallow region as ‘“the banks,” The entire stretch is also called the continental shelf. Geo- graphically, it is just a narrow fringe of the continent slightly submerged but entirely distinct from the great ocean aby beyond. One hundred miles may sound like quite a dis- tance, but it is almost nothing in comparison with the width of the 'a most unlawful manner to win her '| side.” "Frank Tuttle, well eStablished 'DOCTOR RHYTHM' IS (Ol!S'E#M‘filW Wit T } f'nry, ‘who has often been d the greatest of all writers of American fiction, created. the stary | s been made into “Doctor ' the musical comedy star-| ring Bing Crosby, Beatrice Lillie) :nd Mary Carlisle, which is showing | t the Coliseum. | Ring Crosby is scen in the role| of the fashionable New York doctor who dons a policeman’s uniform for a day fo help his best friend,!| Andy Devine. Bing gets his first job as bodyguard to Miss Lillie’s social- | ite niece, Mary Carlisle, and ap- | plies the strong-arm of the law in| A & | heart. Four new tunes were written into| including "My Heart Is Taking Les- ‘'sons™ and “On The Sentimental 45 a master of musical comedy pie- tures after such successes as “Wai- kiki Wedding” and “College Holi- day,” directed it. the good sense to agree on a treaty that created the International Fish- | eries Commission, gave it power to | regulate the fishery, and this Com-| mission has brought about such a substantial restoration of the sup- ply that this region now has the hest. stocked halibut banks in the | world. | \ | New Treaty “In British Cblumbia and Alaska | the salmon stock has also been pre- !served and built up by careful regu- (lation, and in 1937 a new treaty {provided for a Commission to re- I'store the once prosperous Fraser River sockeye fishery which years ago was ten times as large as it Pacific Ocean. Iis now. | Engla | clear | | | | i " JUNEAU PUBLIC SCHOOLS GROWS Enrollment Is Now Highest in History, Both High and Grade Over Fishery Fishery difficulties in Bristol Bay are nearing a crisis and prompt ac- tion by Washington is necessary to preserve peace in the Pacific, Ed- | ward W. Allen, Chairman of the In- ternational Fisheries Jommission, | declared in an address before the | Commonwealth Club of California at “Now in the ocean we find myriads; «It is interesting to turn back his- of tiny animal and vegetable particl- | tory. That_rough, roaring, patriotic es drifting about which collectively despot, Péfer the Great, pushed his are known as plankton. And the cossacks clear across Siberia to the greatest wealth of plankton in the Pacific Coast. There they found a North Pacific is found over the con- Jittle yellow fisherman wrecked on tinental shelf. Plankton is the food | the Siberlan Coast. They sent little for the small fish which are fed up- Debne, as they called him, away on by larger fish which in turn are back to Peter. Peter became so in- eaten by still larger fish, so where terested that he ordered that an you find an accumulation of plank- expedition be sent to explore the - Grand Opera | Advisory Commiffee Litfle Theatre Gfoup in Ra- Also fo Meet leigh Puts on Good Productions | General Advisory Committee will horeshoe may not be a “diamond” meet along with the council. one and the moving scenery may stick now and then but it’s still| . grand opera. And the people whojmscuswd and plans laid for the com- hear it evidently get as much kick | 8 biennium. ; i out of the performance as the sing- District member: who will be in ers. i Juneau for the meeting include A John Farmer Cole, a muau--lmmg‘Pm” of Nome, Luther C. Hess of accountant, a few years ago present- Fairbanks and‘ W. C. Arnold of ed to the Raleigh Little Thoalrc’xp'“"k“" It is hoped also that Group the idea of giving grand|A A Shonbeck of Anchorage can opera. Since then the amateur or- | dttend. ganization has produced three op-‘ eras (in English) before packed Gov. John W. Troy, Ike P. Taylor, houses in Raleigh. | Frank A. Boyle, B. Frank Heintzle- Clerks and stenographers, sales-| Man, Frank Dufresne and B. D. men, housewives, and school girls| Stewart. 3 and boys made up the cast of II| Chairman of the Advisory Com- Trovatore, most recent production.|Mittee, Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, has| Teamwork and ingenuity, as usual,| Peen sent an invitation to attend. provided the costumes and scenery, | Other members of the commiittee are COUNCIL HERE s Makmg Hit Session Sef for May 22- A meeting of the Alaska Planning Council has been called for May 22 at Juneau, John E. Pegues, Execu- High School RALEIGH, N. C. April 2¢—Thel 'ive Secretary, announced today. The Grade School 628 Work of the current year will be Other members of the council are | An artist member of the group| E- L+ Bartlett, Oscar G. Oléon, An-| designed and water-colored the cos- | thony E. Karnes, James S. Truitt| tumes. Sewing was done in the|and William A. Hesse. hames of the singers. Male members of the cast wore| 48¥s. sults of armor fashioned from met-) 'TRAIN | al | allic_scouring cloths. Their helmets were of wood, plastered with small bits of paper and gilded. The women wore costumes made of bolt-end material bought from | nearby textile mills. | WILLIAMS, BP.R. ED DOG NOW MILWAUKEE, Appril, 24—Ruff, the dog seen daily at the Y. W. C. A, holds no blue ribbons, but he | does boast of one distinction—he’s CHIEF, LEAVING = - |".iic! mavisi:, mxceutive Secretars| of the Y. W. C. A, and Alice Car- rington report that when their pet | hears them prepare to retire at “"FOR WESTWARD M. D, Williams, District Engineer night, he bounds up the stairs, seizes | of ‘the Bureau of Public Roads, is the overlets in 'his teeth and tugs leaving for Seward tomorrow on the , them back. He never misses. Yukon on his regular spring inspec- | R S AR tion trip in that district. He will be Tty The Empire classifieds for in the Westward for seevral weeks. results, . i The meeting will last for several' TURNS DOWN BEDS At the close of the fifth six-week period of the Juneau Public Schools, a decided increase is shown. This increase since the last report but is an in- crease over a year ago for the same period. This report is the highest enrollment ever shown in the his- tory of the Juneau Schools. The| | figures follow: Last This Same Time Period Period Last Year 258 260 227 639 604 Total 886 899 831 Increases over last period: High School Grade School .. is not only an increase! 2 11 1 | Total | last | Increase over same year: | High School Grade School time 33 35 1 Total | Enrollment today . s | Highest previous enrollment 68 ....899 | -...832 Increase . 67 : Deserter Sef Free NEW YORK, April 24. — The army’s threeryear statute of limita- tions saved James Ross, father of three youngsters, who deserted in 1935 and recently came back to Governor Island to give himself up as “a matter of honor.” He was handed a deserter’s dis- charge and released from the island’s military prison. Time saved him- further imprisonment and he ferried across to the Battery and went home to his family in a sixth- floor tenement flat shadowed by Brooklyn Bridge. | Ross is twenty-eight and his brood | consists of Johnny, three; Jimmy, |one and a half, and Charlie, three | months. He gave up after confessing | his deserter’s role to his wife. Ross “went over the hill’ after nearly six years in uniform. He said he deserted rather than squeal on a fellow soldier who stole two valuable jidogs from an officer. Meeting Date Set For Chapeladies The next meeting of the Chap- eladies will be held Wednesday eve- | | ning, April 26, at the hame of Mrs. Max Mielke, all members being San Francisco recently. Allen, who is alsQ United States member of the International Pac- ific Salmon ' Fisheries Commission, said the Bristol Bay problem is one involving the interests of the whole Nation and the welfare of many nations for generations to come He spoke strongly in tavor of a form of United States control of the Bristol Bay fishery such as is embodied in a bill introduced in Congress last January by Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, which was designed to protect and pre- serve the salmon fishery of Alaska and to prevent the depletion thereof by illicit fishing of foreign nationals, Allen’s address was as follows: Testing Ground “Bristol Bay is today the testing ground for two conflicting principles of world importance: conservation and exploitation as applied to ocean fisheries. By conservation in this connection we do not mean bott- ling up. We mean making as great a use of this food resource as is con- sistent with the continued main- tenance of the supply. By exploi- tation we mean catching all the fish possible by any means possible without regard to the future. Can- ada and the United States in their management of their fisheries in the Pacific are today the exponents of conservation; Japan of unenlight- ened exploitation. Shall the great fishery supply be mantained pro- ductive for all time, or shall it be commercially destroyed by a few years of ruthless unrestricted fish- ing? That is the issue, “Using a few round numbers, let me impress upon ydu something of the importance of this fishing in- ‘dustry. During: twenty-one days of fishing in this bay alone from 1,250,- 000 to 1,500,000 cases of salmon are packed, worth in a good year, for choice red salmon $10 per case. It is estimated that the coastal fisheries employ more than 75,000 men dir- ectly, but besides tens of thousands more employed in shipyards, can factories, supply huoses, and even banks, by reason of this great in- dustry. And the value of the annual production is said to approximate $100,000,000. But more important even than these figures is the prin- | ciple of the pcrpetual maintenance of a cheap, wholesome and pala- table food supply. Clash Imminent “Unfortunately some of our friends upon the Atlantic seaboard have the idea that we.of the Paeific Coast are seeking to involve the United States in a war with Japan. Let me say right here, therefore, that our object is just the opposite, Our fish- ermen may be good fellows but they are tough individuals. They are not likely to sit and twiddle their thumbs on the shore and watch their source of livelihood destroyed by any out- siders. There is genuine danger of clashes and actual bloodshed if the | ton you will find an abundance of North Pacific. Tt was this expedi- fish. That is why the continenfal tion which discovered Alaska, shelf contains such a magnificent | “This little Japanese Tisherman wealth of food fish wrecked on the Russian Coast. is sig- . ; 5 nificant of the conflict that was to _ Richest Salmon District Some over thie Militer finkeriee e Across on the Aslatie si Y€ Treaty of Portsmonth in 1905 wound northern part of the Pac it aabdssian WaD. At is comparatively litt] J. hould have | helf, so although there No tantial fishery - therc {riat :ompare with the salr (i but, fishery, of th the World War s the Sixty percent of the At nation rant diplo~ world are found in recognition to the Soviet Gov- _BYL\'OI Bay is the s ment, The principal consideration rict. Now the salmon ~ was an agreement as to these fish- fematic but peculiar fich, Ti spawns o’ pighig. In fresh water, goes to sea in its firs “The agreement ended in‘1936, It or second year, returns to the very .. extended for two successive stream of its birth in from its se- yearc Th has not been renewed,for cond to sixth year, spawns and dies. 939 bhut now each country is is- It is in its finest condition for food suing ultimatums to the other and just as it is about to re-enter fresh |y reatened naval action. Possibly the water. It is not definitely known difficulty Japan is having with the where the salmon spends its time goviet Government over the Siber- at sea, but as that is its growing jon salmon fisheries may. be another period it is probably over the con- ‘Leason for her _looking with such tinental shelf where there is plenty longing eyes across the sea to our of food. erican su| A “In America salmon are caught i e Ruin In 10 Years for canning .n connection with plants stationed close to shore, and, “It is the gonviction of Bristol the fishing is subject to rigid res- Bay cannéry operators that should trictions to make sure that there is the Japanese’ pursue their imres- enough escapement of fish to the tricted and destructiveé method of spawning beds to maintain the sup- 'salmon fishing in Bristol Bay, it ply. On the Aslatic sid~ ‘%.c Japanese |'would probably be only ten years’ bitter Siby ernment s m than tt more ommuni ) S & very developed the use of large floating canneries, often called mother ships, which operated off the Siberian shores without any land contact and In complete disregard of any conservation methods the Russians might wish to impose. The Japanese government was not much interest- ed in censervation, but these floaters intercepted so many fish before they got ashore that they threatened ruin to the great Japanese corporation which had a monopoly upon the Japanese cannery concessions on the did step in and forced many of these floaters out of the Siberian fishery. This may be one reason for some of them showing up on the American, side. What is more nat- to Bristol Bay, the richest red sal- mon district in the world? Three-Mile Rule Invalid “Haye they a right to come? Some ay yes, that although the present! existence of these fisheries is due to Canadian and United States ex- penditures and the restrictions im- posed on our fishermen and operat- ors, nevertheless our right to pro- tect the suppy which we have built up ends three miles from shore. Some of us believe that these ywol countries having engaged in' these fisherjes exclusively from the com- mencement of their commercial de- velopment and having saved and built them up, as well as because the continental shelf is really just a part, of the continent, and hecause sal= mon in particular are actually reared Russian shores. So the government, | ural than that they should. be sent' before the fishery would be ‘utterly | Tuined. It 18’ the conviction of those' | concerned with ‘the fisheries of the whole Pacific Coast that should the] Japanese succeed in maintaining: |:their claim to, fish in Bristol Bay, it will be anly & short time bfeore they will be invading the other fisheries of | - | b i { " UUNEAU S Juneaw's Greatést 'Stiow Value BING, that Old Doc of Swing, has a rhythmic remedy that's sure easy to take! ""DOCTOR RHYTHM"' with BING CROSBY "ARLISLE—+ANDY DEVINE—BEATRICE LILLIE ALSO: Color Cartoon—Musical—News » of years ago mh*r 1ing companies of | i considered send- | refrigors ship with | shing hoats across the | wh the Panama Canal, up the Coast to British Col- umbia and Southeastern ,Alaska there to fill the ship with halibut and have her carry her load back to England. If such an operation was practical think comparatively simple it would be for Japan just to send her ships across the Pacific [ Bog To Govern Australia ing a floa a fleet of f Atlantic the how | to our Coast. The problem is not theoretical, it is practical and im-| minent. | “What, 1 hear you saying, are| we going to do about it? That is a | fair question. Several solutigns have | been suggested. Probably the matter can best be handled through diplo-| matic channels. We believe that our | Department of State is intelligently alive to the situation and sincerely desires to give {t the necessary at- tention. But Enrope is apt to loom | larger to our Atlantic Coast breth- ern_than the Pacific Coast of their own .country. .Let each one of us, therefore, do everything possible to impress upon our Washington repre- sentatives that this fishery situa-| tion involves not only the preserva tion of an invaluable food supply but also the pepce of the Pacific| and that it deserves and demands immediate attention.” Roially_}las Chicken Pox CAIRO, Egypt, Aprit 24 —Queen Farida, 17, has joined her King hus- band, 19, as a chicken pox sufferer - - Bimefallic System Is Urged by Parley RENO, April 2! A return fc bimetallic monetary system of gold and silver, with the price of silver stabilized at a figure higher than the present mined price of 64.64 c per ounce was recommended today in a resolution adopted unanimously as the concluding act in a two-day con- ference of Western governors, their representatives and mining men. : e Pictured as they visited the French embassy in London, &re the Duke and Duchess of Kent (he's a brother of King George VI). They will depart soon for. Australia, the duke having . been apppinted governor general of that dominion. the DON'T SLEEP WHEN GAS PRESSES HEART 1 you. cam't eat or sicep bBeeause was bloats you up try Adlerika. One dose usually relieves stomach gas pressing on heatt. Adleriks cleans. out BOTH upper and lower bowels. Butler-Mauro Dras €o. ~in Douglas by Guy’'s Drug Store. (May Fourteenth) MOCCASINS and other AUTHENTIC ALASKA NATIVE-MADE CURIOS ‘and ARTWORKS, bearing the U. S. GovernmentLabel. ©~ = ' ; ing off British Columbia, off the Strait of Juan de Fuca, off the Col- the Coast, before they will be fish- \umbia,. off /California. The only lu-] MR. and MRS. PETEHAMMEB triction then will be the cost of op- i ‘Adorably usesfor E jaitde blon for your Spring #ult! Crisp organdies with pleated of ruffly jabots! Lit- ses—;rll fresH' and’goy.—~amd fult of fashion news Japanese should again come over :m national streams and lakes, have | Such conflicts have occurred between | ‘\L’""m’ rights in these fisheries which !the Japanese and Russfans and\,‘_{f 2::10;,M¥]r1°mer S rios :;]vo:ld_tunduubtedly have led to wur;;d'nmr‘ee f“” "‘l’fip'ha' the so-call- |bad it not been that because of |° e rule, that a n reasons neither nat; S e and has no risk the ordeal of bl:tfél:a;l:el:;}i,e‘tg special rights beyond that distance, that the way to prevent war is to| ® neither absolute nor well founded investigate the sifuation, face the DU A0YWay has no application to facts, and take steps while there lsllN‘e J\'”;‘i';‘gm thflll prevail in the still time to solve the problem be- | NOT! c fisheries regardless of foreir some unfortunate incident mak- ‘“fl;‘;"l’;“f‘“mflel&e‘;’h:&"b oy es it acute. 2 consider the halibut. They “Extending out from the shore|ar¢ found on the continental shelf In yivid e o | urged to attend. Mrs. Jenny Pederson will assist as hostess for the. oceasion. BURDICK GOING S ON SITKA TRIP Forest Inspector Charles G. Bur- dick is leaving on the North Sea tomorrow for Sitka in connection with totem pole restoration work. — .- — RUMMAGE SALE REIAL for TURROAY i and Girl Outng Paj ion ‘ UP THE SCALE of her dmbitipn—to sing in the Melro- ‘politan opera—Louise Caselotti, a contralto, hopes to travel, and 1 od omen this congratulatory kiss from Composer ;‘:id‘:kgro'lse..s‘l;ne had just sung fer Verdi club members in New “York; ‘and Impresarfo ‘Armand ‘Bagarozy beams approval. Her In Lutheran Church Parlor, Wed- nesday. Donations appreciated. Phone 579 and they will be called from California to Bering Sea is a strip of comparatively shallow wat- er varying in width from a few miles from northern California to Bering Sea, Years ago the supply beca badly depleted by overfishing. But husband is E, Richiard Bagarozy, automiotive executive. off your California coast to as much/Canada and the United States had for. ady. l