The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1939, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1939 nt KODIAK'S BOOM IMIKE SULLIVAN IS FALSE, SAYS " DIES SATURDAY JUNEAU VISITOR AT ANCHORAGE Former Waitress Here ‘Pioneer of Gold Rush Tells of Poor Fish Year Days Goes on Last -High Property Stampede Helen Hallberg, well known young Juneau woman who has worked in, a number of local restaurants, re- | turned on the Columbia from a sum- mer of work with the Washington Fish and Oyster Company at Port William. Miss Hallberg said RTMENT OF° AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) This WPA Layoff — What Does It Really Mea ‘ I New Gl;unér Girl? TREND OF UNEMPLOYMENT A Forecast for Juneau and Vicini Rain tonig and Tuesday; moderate Fore Southeast Alaska: Rain to: erate outherly win except fresh Strait atham Strait ing at fres ¥ 0 p.m., July 31: southerly winds it and Tuesday; mod- to strong over Dixon Frederick to t for fresh Clarence ND RELIEF R “ 5 UNEMPLOYMENT | g g e to Ct itrance, Sound and winds along the coast st winds tonight and strong und to Cape of the Gulf and Tuesday southeast winds, Hinchinbrook. o of Alaska: ne from Dixon probably Fresh to ntrance to ale force from C 5 o LOCAL PATA parometer Temo. Humidity Wind Velocity 29.84 53 & ENE 8 29.92 89 s 5 29.97 86 SSE E 18 RADIO REPORTS his in mornin kidney Wor Time 3:30 p.m 3:30 Weather Lt. Rain Lt. Drizzle Lt. Rain am. today today LOAD x / n ¢ TODAY 3:30am. Precip. temp 24 hours e (B e : hlso sov. John Wax gt | area has been hard hit by a poor ok . fish run, and that the ‘‘boom’’, . | in the town of Kodiak has built up: la false business peak that “will] i leave a lot of people on the beach this winter,” on the heels of a poor | fish year. Lots in Kodiak, Miss Hollberg said, are selling for as high as $5,000, |and “nobody knows from one day | to the next, what the price of prop- lerty will be.” | Jack Allman, well known pioneer | newspaper man in Alaska, and Warren Taylor, former Third Di- vision District Attorney, are report- ved to be starting a newspaper and dealing in real estate. Miss Hallberg also reported the loss of the big cannery tender Wy- | ! oming, 100-foot vessel that struck a reef a short time ago near Uganik and sank in 30 minutes with 29,000 fish aboard. The former Juneau girl will visit | Lowest temp. 53 34 42 46 3:30 am. Weather Lt. Rain ation horage Bairow Nome Bethel irbanks 1Wson 66 hours old in Alas on whi senger bc two had FTVITE AN STV TR SN TWE ANUETE SYUUTE VTS 1936 1937 1938 1939 THIS CHART shows the trend of U. S. unemployment . both total cases and WPA employ- ment, since January 1, 19 5 prepared for the Committee on Econ- omic Security. Relief case load figures are estimates of the total number of families and single persons receiving relief from federal, state and local governments, excluding 1936 drought The WPA Jine from June 28, 1939, is based on unofficial estimates of the reductions in rolls now being made. MAGNUSON FLIES SN TR TN VY AT TR YT 1933 1934 1935 Pt. Cldy utch Kodiak Cordova Junean Sitka tchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle land Francisco and rel Cloudy 3. Unemployment figures are estima Cloudy f cases. Drizzle Cloudy Clowdy Clear Drizzle Pt. Cidy Cloudy i By MORGAN M. BEATTY and the people who suffer from it | Now they probably are m R | curate with their estimates o WASHINGTON y 31 The unemployed. They figure the WPA es youve been reading] round 11,500,000, Only] about; and the layoff of 650,000 day, they reported WPA workers you soon will b these jobless are that = HIGHWAY ROUTE hearing about, mean that cautiou ilies not utterly | old Uncle Sam is trying—after That me: these 5,300,000 | e here for several days before con- desti- years—to slap a yard: on the the income of some close | Chairman 0' commiSSiOH here S e et relief problem | x side. 1 H | St s at the Gastin Hotel. Arrives at White- 16 18 84 e CARUIRL o Mary Steele ac- th total AP Feature Service Writer | New York society leaders contend that blond and pretty Mary Steele is the logical successor to Brenda Frazier as the social set’s number one “glamor girl.” Miss Steele, daughter of Mrs. Nelson Steele, is five feet ten inches in height, wears her blond hair in a long bob, and has hazel eyes. She plays the piano wel, 60 55 WEATHER SYNOPSIS area of marked iniensity pre 1 por being fr e While he wr Man ago “The type the Empire dova A storm north ed pres essure prevailed e uthwestward to latitude 40 en general along the IS ARRESIED FOR tales of the early days ,‘ cloudy to cloudy weather prev vailed this morning over c Ocean, the lowest re- High barometric to Oregon, thence t bei inche grecs. ' Precipitation has m the Aleutian Islands elsewhere over Alasta partly he tion of 18 " inchos Wrangell sc Hawaiian Islands, the wnd longitude 144 d cnastal rezions Entrance, aled six om ck tha, | MORE PROT S WILL COME | By July 1, therefore, the rt | jigsaw had fewer blank spaces. The | President. was ready to lop 1,000- | )00 persons off his estimates he average number of relief wc that uld cared for 1940 Juneau, August 1.—Sunrise, 3:50 a.m.; sunset, 8:22 p.m. the govern- the responsi- distressed citi- - ITSTIME TO CHANGE YOUR THINNED - OUT LUBRICANTS! § CONNORS MOTOR COMPANY LUBRICATION PHONE 411 e ] be iscal He dmini have comme for This form hours of I wa, reason was a goo nore am wor a pay vorkers le them from competing workers for odd jobs. That formula affected zanized fringe of WPA worker They through organized abor on the ground that the g rnment was driving down PER| HOUR wage scales. About 100,000 truck. They brought to the pub- lic's attention their own 1ma but they also brought into open any der the ested | abouat with outside L about stepp good that it “Why myself fixed ed. “I'd have all zlong FOR STOP-OVERS .. - country at —— with encugh of my days.” WEell, that's .the hvaen t the job,” Prospected had being Mike wasn't job the o he | frrr e protested I had I'd get mment- job e ¢ FIRST OFFERING IN JUNEAU discovery that you couldn’t measure 1anza distress. No known yardstick exist- ed. Nor could you measure the re sponsibilities of the various govern- ments. The lives of peeple wouldn't fit readily into neat statistical pat- terns. Private industry wouldn't be Until July 1 of this year, it wa Tadail more nearly accurate to say T TR the relief problem was taking horse Today [ Gncle "Sams measure, ik CHINESE WITH JEE this way: WHITEHORSE, Y. T., July 31— In fear-laden 1983 iy Watrah i G ]APA“ESE ARE ASS‘U“ BA“‘ERY ment acknowledged Magnuson, Chairman of the Am- i A bility of relieving erican Alaska International High- ! WA 1 IThe ideal solution was a job for the WPA | noon, said which went just a little too far, served every citizen. either work in pri a monthe| “I have viewed &, natuyal passiall seed k) | Alex Demos was arrested in Douglas by got a vate industry or work on a Fed- illed WPA |the way to Whitehorse into Al-| THINGTAO, China, July 3_1.—Re— Sunday on complaint of his son-in- job carryir Dawson | efal project. simply meons | aska.” ports from Theimo today said that|law, G. R. Isaacs who ac from Bonanza Creek. It a 1| ‘But the idea, most agreed, would et tbe| The pass, Represatative Mag-|& Ghinese force fighiitg for i, Demos of assault and battery Isaacs job for him. He was so big and so nave cost more money than Presumably it gives | nuson said, could easily be reached | Japanese had mutined and Jome‘:ls&}.“s Demos got off a bus ahead of fearless he managed it with- governmental units in the United time and keeps|by engineers in construction of the the Chinese Nationalist forces o him and forced him to fight, later protection as- States could beg. borrow, or steal proposed highway and he further Chang Kai Shek. e threatening him with a rock. Demos gist low st So government compromiséd. The stated he saw no difficulty in the| The reports states that the °"9l‘“zw released on bond. ed various units — Federal, state route. |of 4000 Chinese ha(l k\}lg(l several i - o e and local—pooled their cash anc | The country is beautiful, all of Of its Japanese oi_“fgr»; ;“)““m;*;l]’: sma: dealt it out with a quick hand the way the American Congressman | tured, several ‘others before Joining IOUR CONDU(IOR The accent was on relief—any kinc | added the Chulefe army. P of relief—not on the cost of it The party expects to leave here L MAY USE JUNEAU .Adding to the confusion was th tonight for Vancouver, provided the ' | | weather is favorable for the plz\nelM(NuIT DEFEN’DS A | flight. | | I c - | FOREIGN POLICY | the issue of whether labor can bar- J ut that hageling with government | CLEVELAND, O, July 3—Newly Reedy Plannmg fo Make APPRE('ATION OF appointed Federal Security Admin- | o the to last you replied raason Mike 0il I is tough going The Famous Air-Way prosperous at the touch of a but- ton. And meney wouldn't just ap- pear out of thin air. So the Federal government de- clded 'to take the lead in making ghbsses—guesses based on a few fadts, and some experience. The guesses crystalized into formulas LARGELY G WORK The first formula was 1935, Statisticians, social workers ecopomists, financial exper! ex- perienced politicians—almost every- body who knew something about some phase of relief took a hand ed how much the gov- how long the depression would last. (There were some bad guesses here.) Th guessed what the PFederal govern- applied in Now comes the iurmula of Con- s to prevent relief workers from ! taking now their jobs for granted. It's the law that 650,000 relief workers who've been on the job for 18 months must discharged by September 1. Three hundred thou- sand go in July, 350,000 in August More protests and more head- lines will follow. And there’s still another hurdle WPA is going to put in simplified wage scales. Pay will be based on the cost of living—not on prevail ing wage scales in the various sec- tions of the country. That will mean more protests, more head- lines T hard work whittling out a yardstick for relief. Nothing ever seems to come out even. R CAMP AND OUTING George A. Parks, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Juneau | Boy Scouts, earnest backer of the scouting movement here and the| annual encampment at Eagle River, issued the following statement to- | day: | hirty-five boys from Juneau and Douglas received two weeks | training at the annual Boy Scout Camp. The immediate results of the outing are apparent in the sun- tanned, smiling faces of the boys. The ultimate objectives — self-reli- ance, a realization o fthe responsi- bilities of citizenship, and an appre- ciation of and reverence for our institutions—will appear as the boys | take their places in the community | Capital City Focal istrator, Paul V. McNutt came fto| Abct 20 years Mike w. tthe defense today of President Roosevelt's foreign policy. | The former Philippine High Com- missioner declared before the World | Poultry Congress that the United States should cooperate with other peace-loving powers. Said McNutt: “In enacting a steady influence in favor of non- warlike powers we are not assist- ing that other country as much as we are assisting ourselves.” SPANISH REFUGEES T0 BE SENT HOME HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish frqnv tier, July 31.—French authorities began preparations today to send me! s share of the relief burden: affairs. ubstaked by J. Juneau, to pro: on Yakataga Beach nd faiih in Yakataga oil continued until his death. During the last several rs he was at Yakat: er he m ed to find for his prospect, or whe; a stake at his job as g Marshal's Office. 4] never espi interested Mike except as a me ve enough y to start p A brother, for many jailer in the King Cou iff's oifice, Seattle, h fied of Mike's death, the telegram from C The passing of Biz Mike take from the Territory one of its real pioneers. C ec Bride property { . . { Point in Alaska Frank Reedy AS, veteran Alaskan and member of the Arctic Brotherhood, whose hobby for the past 25 years has been tak- ing tours to Alaska, is stopping at the Baranof Hotel today with plans to make Juneau the stop-over city | for his tourists in the future, With Ree is his associate, J. (T. Yeargin, who will take over the Alaska end of Frank Reedy’s Amer- ican tours, The two are aiscussing with hotel manager Bob Schoettler, the possibilities of making Juneau the northern terminus of the trip where tourists will spend a week following their whims. Heretofore, the tours have been stopping at Skagway, but Reedy be- Vacuum Cleaner ——You never touch the dirt. ——No dirty bags to clean. ——Made in two models. ——Atiachments at no extra cost. s Tops in Vacuum Cleaner s HARRI MACHINE SHOP the first of fifty thousand former lieves the metropolitan attractions Republican Spanish soldiers back of Juneau will serve his tourists best. With him on a tour, alsc stop- now held in French concentration ping at the Baranof, are five other camps back to Spain at the rate of tourists, Mrs. O. B. Hallen, H. D. should be. They guessed what was best Tor the needy, what the pub.‘Ni(e wea'hef (!) lic would want—and stand for Abou' over [] The result was the work relief progigm, represenbed-in broad out- “The outing was possible because | of the general contributions re-| q celevd from public spirited indi- | % g“t“’":;iftf?faéfl;mmg S viduals and organizations. Each boy | e and the committee in charge desires Protection All ACCUSED NATIVE FAILS T0 APPEAR line by the WPA. | States and cities took one look at their treasuries and their bond is- | sues, and decided they'd better not stretch their ‘cretlit much further | So they handed out the me: role. They're still doing it. The peo- | ple left out by the Federal gover my get what cities and states will al While that went on for nea Iofifl years, experts were learning mere facts about unemployment, e prn ger s XIS ¥ | hre Bureau Predicls As if what we've been through the past 10 days hasn't been enough, the U. 8. Weather Burean 1o asts today that there spell of “bad weather” ahead A fresh strong southeast wind and rain are due to hit Southeast Alaska tonight and tomorrow. A real storm will rage, the Bureau says, in the northern part of the Gulf of Alaska. a to thank all for the assistance.” vsatsint S o iy FORDS MOVE Mr. and Mrs. Scott Ford have taken up residence with Mr. aml‘x‘ Mrs. Robert Henning at their Basin Road home. Ford will leave for Echo Cove tomorrow morning to work wihh} the engineering staff of the Echo Cove Gold Mining Company, de-| veloping the Winter and Pond gold | lede. | more than 1,000 daily. More than 300,000 refugees in all are still in France. - — MRS. HYNER GOES SOUTH Mrs, Glen A. Hyner, wife of the Alaska Steamship Company agent here, sailed south on the Columbia early this morning. Mrs. Hyner will visit relatives in the States and take in the San Francisco Fair, expecting to be gone about two months. Gurn, Joseph Hagger, Rose Hagger ‘and Mrs. J. M. Hagger. o B e Sl \Sleep on Floor Sure Burglar Menace (urh HOUSTON, Texas, July 31—The night was hot and G. Paulos could 'not sleep in his bed so he made a pallet on the floor. | Just as he fell asleep somebody stepped in his face. “Hey, what's the idea?” startled Paulos shouted. His |frightened the intruder, | jumped out a window. Police found a screen picked- and said the burglar empty-handed. - Peter Louie at freedom on his sonal recognizance following his t on a charge of manslaughter. failed to come to Juneau on the steamer Columbia which ed here today. A Deputy Marshal will be sent to Yakutat to take Louie into custody. He had been notified to appear here for the Grand Jury. Louie is accused of Killing. another native in a fight. - Eniarged, Now On Sale; $1.00. the * call who - Old Fashioned BEEF STEW with NEW VEGETABLES — tomorrow for Lunch at the BARANOF ' latch | flad | ROAD MAN OUY Clarence Burglin, Assistant Su-| | perintendent of the Fairbanks Dis- The Book ALASKA, Revised and | the Way! Insurance coverage against loss or damage to your car—cov- erage which protects you “ALL THE WAY” — is available under the “Comprehensive’” policy—together with the optional inclusion of the Collision hazard. The hazards of Fire and Theft are, of course, included. So also are many other hazards which, though perhaps less obvious, are frequent sources of loss: Windstorm, Explosion, Riot, Flood, Hail, Glass Breakage, Earthquake, Vandalism, and other risks. Office—New York Life SHATTUCK AGENCY TELEPHONE 249 TRUST BONDS $100 PAR PLUS ACCRUED INTEREST Maturity—June 1, 1946 trict of the Alaska Road Commis- | sion, flew here by PAA plane Sun- {day and went south today on the | Columbia for medical attention in - _“~ANOTHER FLYING BOAT TAKES TO AlR—with American flying and mail runs, Germany, too, introduces a new flyias #9at. This type BV-138 was built - v boats [ 3 g Atlantie on regular passenger for naval reconnoitering. | the States. He has a knee ailment. ! ) e~ BILL OF JEPTIONS District Court this afternoon al- lowed the bill of exceptions for an appeal in the Miguel Zamora case. | Mrs. Mildred Hermann is Zamora's attorney. o L SR e CORLEMAN BACK Herb Coleman, traveling | | | merchant, rcturned on the Colum- | bia from | Gastineau Yakutat. He Hotel. -ee - BUILDING PERMIT A building permit has been issued | to Andy Twieten, 354 Diston Avenue, | for installation of an oil burner by Rice and Ahlers at a cost of $300. | | is at the| | i Room 1 JAMES C. COOPER. C. P. A. Shattuck Building rrrrrrrrrerreee