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Clipper Service Alaska Is Planned
WEYERHAUSER KIDNAPERJS NEAR BUTTE
Dynamite Blasts Fail To Reach Entombed Miners
ALASKA CLIPPER
SERVICE PLANNED
FOR SUMMER 1936;
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Chairman Washingtonians Announced
Survey Is To Be Made
J
Russian Agents
Studying Mining
Juneau, Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
Juneau, April—Three Hus
sian scientists accompanied
by a technician from New
York have been studying
modern methods of gold
production at the Alaska
Juneau mine after visiting
mining sections in the sta
tes, the Juneau Empire re
ports.
They were N. Almoian,
chemical engineer for the
Amtorg Trading Company
in New York City, who also
serves as interpreters Mair
anovsky of Moscow, mech
anical engineer, Ivan Kap
ein of Baley in Eastern Si
beria, geologist; and Vassi
ly Sokolov,Siberian mining
(Continued on Page Three)
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C By The Associated Presri
Seattle, April 18, .—Tom
Drummey, chairman of the
committee for Washington
ians Incorporated, said that
a trial flight to gain data
on the feasibility of a pro
posed Alaska Clipper ser
vice, would be made with
in sixty days.
The Washingtonians are
organized as a boosting or
ganization for this area and
are advocating the immed
iate establishment of an air
mail service to Alaska.
Drummey announced to
day that Captain W. B.
Voortmeyer, nautical advis
or and meteorologist of A1
ameda, California, will
chart the course of the pro
posed service.
He said that his organi
zation was underwriting a
fund of five thousand doll
ars to finance the flight to
be made in a stock plane.
Dr. Ernest Gruening Of Washington
To Be Speaker University of Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
Juneau, April 18, — Dr.
Ernest Gruening, director
of the Division of Territor
ies and Island Possessions,
under the department of
the Interior, has accepted
an invitation to be the Com
mencement Speaker at the
University of Alaska the
latter part of May.
He is to leave Seattle
May 9th Governor Troy
announced that he had
been advised today.
This will be the first vis
it of Dr. Gruening to Alas
ka.
Governor Troy announc
ed the appointment of Col
onel Otto F. Ohlson, Gen
eral Manager of the Alas
ka Railroad, as Inspection
Officer of the Cadet Corps
of the University of Alaska,
for the third consecutive
time.
Weather Today
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(U. S. Weather Bureau)
Cloudy and unsettled wea
ther prevailed early this
morning over western Al
aska with a mixture of rain
and snow reported thruout
the lower Yukon sections.
Maximum temperatures
were higher yesterday in
central and western Alaska
Fairbanks recorded 52
above zero. Cloudiness was
increasing in central Alas
ka while partly cloudy wea
ther prevails in 3-E^Alaska
A storm area is charted
near the end of the Aleut
ian Islands; its movement
is uncertain at present.
Modern Dredge
Machinery Dis
places old Ways
— ■
Coincidental with the in
creased activity in mining
thruout the North, Seattle
manufacturers are develop
ing some of the latest ideas
for placer mining equip
ment that is being offered
to the mining fraternity.
With the passing of the
pick and shovel era in Alas
ka, modern equipment is
fast coming into its own as
it becomes increasingly im
portant to handle greater
yardage than ever before,
and at a lesser cost per
yard.
In Alaska as in practical
ly every other part of the
placer mining world, the
gold dredge and dragline is
superseding the pick and
shovel and in many instan
ces the hydraulic pipe as a
method of recovering plac
er gold, says a recent issue
of the Alaska Weekly.
IJig Outfit
The big yard and a half
dragline outfit, Diesel pow
ered that was recently ship
ped by theWashington Iron
Works of Seattle is an ex
ample of late equipment.
This equipment was shipp
ed to the Peters Creek Min
ing Company at Talkeetna,
Alaska, and along with a
shipment of supplies and
equipment that will approx
imate 300 tons is now being
freighted in from the end
of steel to the property.
The latest type of wash
ing machine that goes with
this drag line outfit is of all
steel construction and has
been mounted on wheels to
facilitiate it in shifting. It
is a dredge type revolving
screen five by sixteen feet
in size. An extra sized tail
ing stacker that will allow
working a larger area per
set-up is a part of this mod
ern plant.
Dredge for Kougarok
Will Be Modern
Right now the Washing
ton Iron Works are rushing
construction on one of the
latest and most modern
dredges that they have so
far constructed for the Kou
garok Consolidated Placers.
This dredge, which will be
of all steel construction,
pontoon type, has a two
(Continued on Page Three)
The Washington
News-Letter
OFFICE OF A. J. DIMOND
Delegate from Alaska
(By J. J. ECKLES)
Washington, D.C., March
28—Hearings were held on
March 24th on the so-called
“Cruise” Bill by the Com
mittee on Merchant Marine
and Fisheries of the House.
The bill is one that has
been introduced in Con
gress for a number of years
and derives its name from
the fact that when first in
troduced during the prohi
bition period, it was intend
ed primarily to prevent for
eign vessels, which could
serve liquors, from carry
ing passengers from one
point to another in the Un
ited States, or on a cruise
without a destination.
I he bill provides that “No for
eign vessel shall transport passen
gers between ports or places in
the United States or its posses
sions, nor or hereafter embraced
within the coastwise laws, either
directly or by way of a foreign
port, or for any part of such
transportation, nor on a continu
ous voyage terminating at the
port of departure or at any other
port in the United States or its
aforesaid possessions, notwith
standing that said vessel enters
or touches any foreign port on
such voyage, under a penalty of
$200 for each passenger so trans
ported and landod,” From the
foregoing it is obvious that the
present purpose of the bill is to
compel American passenger traf
fic to travel by American lines.
In his statement made at the
hearing. Delegate Dimond point
ed out that while in its general
application the proposed legisla
tion has much to commend it in
promoting the idea and practice
of traveling by American lines,
its effect in Alaska would de
prive a considerable part of the
Territory of a much needed trans
portation service. The Delegate
requested that if the bill should
be reported out that it be amend
ed to except Alaska from its pro
visions. He said that passage of
the bill in its present form would
prohibit the carrying of passen
gers from Seattle by Canadian
steamer to any point in Alaska
or from any point in Alaska to
Seattle and that the service given
by the Canadian vessels is a val
uable supplement to that provid
ed by the American ships serving
(Continued on Page Two)
MAN REPORTED TO BE MAHAN
WEYERHAUSER KIDNAPING
SAID BE NEAR BUTTE
v. onian Declares Man Rohhcd Her And
Left Her Tied In Foothills
(By The Associated Press)
Butte, April 18. —Police
today worked on another
possible clue dealing with
William Dainard, alias M .
han, the Weyerhauscr kid
naping suspect.
Mrs. Annette Carlson, a
cosmetics saleswoman this
morning provided informa
tion when she told of being
abducted, robbed and left
gagged yesterday, in a
lonely mountain gully east
of here, by a man unshav
en. with bloodshot eyes and
dressed in a sweater and
overalls over a brown pair
of trousers.
She said he left her with a
jocular remark that he was
Mahan.
The woman stated she
was walking home from the
post office when the man
accosted her. He forced her
into an automobile at the
point of a gun and took her
into the foothills,
Dynamite Blasts Moose River Mine
Failed Open Up Way Release Min vs
(By The Associated Press)
Moose River, Nova Scot
ia, April 18, —Heavy dyn
amite blasts yesterday and
today opened up a deeper
gap into the Moose River
mine, but disappointed res
cue workers in their at
tempts to rescue three Tor
onto men, entombed for
nearly a week in the rock
barrier.
An unknown depth still
remained between the res
cue workers and the shaft
through which thev hoped
to reach the one hundred
and forty-first foot level.
Virtually all hope of find
ing the men alive, has been
abandoned.
U. S. Authorities
Notify Police Of
Kurland, Search
(By The Associated Press)
Paris, April 18, —Unit
ed State authorities here
announced they had inform
ed the British police, that
they sought a woman in
connection with the New
York bond theft case, say
ing she was supposed to be
in a London hotel.
The woman’s husband is
also hunted, and is still
missing, as the search was
extended across all Eur
ope.
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Spanish (»ov*l.
Is I\mmin<![ (hit
Trouble Makers
(By The Associated Press)
Madrid, April 18, — A
variety of sweeping measur
es to remove Fascist and
anti-republican elements
from Spain’s armed forces,
were carried out by the
new left republican govern
ment today, in a campaign
to solidify the republic, at
the same time that fascists
and some monarchist lead
ers were being arrested in
various parts of the coun
try.
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