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VOLUME 9, NUMBER 19.
HYDER, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1933.
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ANARCHIST ATTEMPTS
LIFE OF ROOSEVELT
Pieeident-elect Franklin D.
Roosevelt became the target
for an assassin's bullets Wed
nesday evening, when six shots
were fired at him Iby an Italian
anarchist. shortly after he re
turned to Miami, Florida,
from his recent yachting trip in
con them waters. The name of
the would-be assassin is Gui
seppi Gonzora, according to
radio broadcasts:
Mr. Roosevelt was uninjured
by the flying bullets but Mayor
Anton Cermak, of Chicago,
and a woman bystander were
seriously if not fatally injured
and three other persons in the
laige crowd surrounding the
presidential party wrere also in
jured by the flying bullets.
Gonzora is an acknow
ledged anarchist and avowed
enemy of kings and presidents.
He was arrested immediately
after the shooting and was held
to await the results of the in
juries to his critically wounded
victims before formal charges
are preferred.
Mr. Roosevelt appeared un
preturbed by the attack and
proceeded by train to New'
York shortly after the shooting.
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Lccal Relief By Flood
Maintenance Work Urged
To assist Representative J. K.
Green in his efforts to secure
Territorial assistance for local
labor and business by means of
maintenance work on the Sal
mon River flood protection
works installed by the Terri
tory and local interests, the
Pioneers of Alaska and Hyder
Chamber of Commerce have
addressed letters to Mr. Green
and other legislators and influ
ential citizens, asking their ass
istance toward securing a leg
islative appropriation for that
purpose.
The communications stress
the critical unemployment situ
ation resulting from the decad
ence of the district’s sole in
dustry, mining; the resulting
slow destruction of local busi
ness; the urgent necessity for
some form of assistance if the
camp is to survive the present
crisis, and points out that an
appropriation for adequate
maintenance work on the river
will not only provide employ
ment for all local labor but
will also prevent the loss of the
more than $30,000 already
expended by the Territory and
citizens for flood protection.
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Patrick Croghan, pioneer set
tler on Portland Canal, came
up from his Tombstone Bay
homestead this week.
f ANYOX LABOR STRIKE
SITUATION CLEARING
—
Compulsory deportation by
the Provincial authorities of
the disaffected labor elements
at Anyox, B. C., has cleared up
the Granby strike situation to
the extent that an early re
; sumption of both mining and
smelting activities is expected,
according to reports reaching
here this week.
During the past week-end
365 of the men who voluntar
ily walked 'out two weeks ago
were ordered out of the camp
by the police authorities, the
deportees including Thomas
Bradley, alleged professional
'abor agitator and radical, who
is charged with being the or
I ganizer of the walkout, which
involved approximately 400 of
the 1,000 men employed at
the Granby plant and of which
a major part were not in sym
j pathy with the strike.
Despite an intensive hunt by
the police, which included a
house-to-house search, Bradley
succeeded in eluding the offi
cears for two weeks by disguis
ing himself, but was finally
recognized and taken into cus
tody.
The latest reports indicate
that the company officials are
planning to resume operations
as soon as a new crew of min
ers is secured.
So assured is the resumption
cf activities that the Premier
has been advised that ore ship
j ments to the Granby smelter
can be resumed.
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Near One-fourth Ketchikan
Population on “Relief*
Nine hundred of Ketchikan’s
population of 4,000 persons
are entirely dependent on re
lief agencies at the present
time, according to a telegram
sent recently to Speaker Gar
ner of the House of Represent
atives by Ketchikan business
men in urging immediate act
ion by Congress to increase tar
iffs against fish importations
from countries with depreciat
ed currencies, meaning partic
ularly Japanese fish products,
which are underselling similar
Alaskan products in the States.
The Ketchikan appeal was
made in behalf of “many thou
sands of fishermen and em
ployees of Alaska salmon can
neries whose seasonal work
provides winter sustenance.”
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K. L. Steberg, Alaska repre
sentative of the Standard Oil
Company, arrived from the
westward Monday evening to
visit the local agency of the
company. Mr. Steberg left by
the Ketchikan mail boat Thurs
day.
BRADSTREET’S JOURNAL |
DISCUSSES SILVER ISSUE
That the silver question is
arousing ever increasing inter
est is disclosed almost daily in
articles in the public prints for
or against rehabilitation of sil
ver. And now comes no less a
staunch supporter of the single
gold standard than Brad
street’s Weekly with a discuss
ion of the question which ap
pears to indicate a dawning
idea that silver might have
some possibilities as a means
of relieving the world’s finan
cial and economic ills.
Discussing Senator Borah’s
recent remarkable argument in
Congress in favor of the remon
etization of the white metal,
the journal says;
“A week ago Wednesday,
Senator Borah took up the
standard of the legitimate in
flationists with a declaration
favoring the remonetization of
silver. The word legitimate is
used to distinguish those infla
tionists who are in favor of
breaking the commodity price
jam by resort to another metal
lic base for currency as con
trasted with those who, like
Senator Patman, would issue
bales of new fiat currency to
accomplish the double purpose
of inflation and the temporary
appeasement of the veterans.”
Here follows a discussion of
Borah’s charge that Britain
is blameable for the demone
tization of silver and the de
fense made by the British am
bassador, which has no direct
bearing on the Weekly’s state
ment regarding silver and is
omitted.
“Of greater interest than his
charge that England was re
sponsible for the distress of sil
ver,” the Weekly continues, “is
his (Borah’s) suggestion that
the white metal be remonetized
as a means of halting the de
cline in commodity prices and i
achieving that ‘reflation’ which
would lighten debts, taxes and
all forms of fixed charges.
“His case is strengthened by
the advantage which depreci
ation of currencies has given
our competitors in world mark
ets. They have adopted the
expedient of reducing the gold
equivalent of their currencies
instead of resorting to another
metal. Austria leads the pro
cession in fixing definitely t!le
amount of this devaluation
which, in the case of the shil
ling, is to be 22 per cent. It is
probably but a matter of time
before most of the other 43
nations off the gold standard
will fall in line and establish
new and lower gold equiva
lents for their currency.
“It should be noted that sil
ver has declined more or less
CHURCH NOTABLES
COMING NEXT WEEK
Advices received by Rev. F.
Bushfield this week announced
the coming next week of Rev.
George H. Wilson, D. D., Sup
erintendent of Missions in Brit
ish Columbia for the United
Church of Canada, and Capt
ain, the Reverend R. C. Scott,
of the Mission boat Thomas
Crosby, who performs mission
services along the British Col
umbia coast. The disting
uished churchmen are sched
uled to arrive here on the Cros
by Saturday, February 25, and
will remain over the week-end,
holding services in the United
Church in Stewart at 8 p. m.
Saturday evening and in Hyder
and Premier at 11 a. m. and
7:30 p. m. Sunday, February
26. There will be special sing
ing by, Capt. Scott and his
brother, who is engineer of the
Crosby. The public will be wel
comed at all of the services.
Dr. Bushfield plans to leave
here next Monday to attend the
annual presbytery meeting in
Prince Rupert and will return
with the visiting party.
“Money and the Price Level”
In response to many requests
from patrons who failed to
hear Senator Burton K. Wheel
er’s recent radio address on
“Money and the Price Level,”
the Herald presents this week
on page 3 an initial install
of that highly illuminating
statement by the nation’s for
most champion of silver rehab
ilitation.
Those who desire increased
knowledge or information re
garding the present financial
and economic situation and of
the relation of silver remonetiz
ation to currency inflation, will
find in this address of the
Montana senator much that
will interest them.
Owing to the considerable
length of the address it will be
continued throug1' several is
sues.
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John P. Freihage convicted at
Fairbanks of murdering Mrs.
Emily Big Joe, Indian woman,
was sentenced to 10 years in
McNeil’s penitentiary.
steadily during the past 40
years, while gold, on the other
hand, reveals no fixed trend
during the same period. In re
cent years the exchange value
of silver has been much more
constant than that of gold,
from which it may be argued
that silver being more stable
in value would make a better
monetary base.”
ALASKA COMMERCE AT
RECORD LOW EBB
With marked reductions in
every commodity, Alaska ex
ports to the United States last
month were the lowest on rec
ord, with a value of $338,879.
Gold and silver shipments to
taled $383,798, making the
grand total of all exports
$710,677.
The list of exported commod
ities, as shown in the monthly
statement of customs collector
J. C. McBride, follows. A re
markable feature of the state
ment is a total absence of any
exports of canned fish other
than shell-fish.
Animals . $ 1,145
Curitos . 50
Fish:
Fresh and frozen (ex
cept shell-fish
Halibut . 50,589
Salmon . 75,637
All other . 1,185
Cured or preserved (ex
cept shell-fish)
Herring . 2,535
Salmon . 278
Shell-fish:
Liams . 3,688
Crabs . 4,915
Shrimps . 8,052
Other fish products:
Oil . 1,000
Furs and fur-skins:
Blue fox .. 27,428
Silver or black fox .. 8,390
Red fox. 955
White fox. 90
Mink . 21,035
Muskrat . 71
All other . 2,277
Manufactured furs .. 300
Ore, matte, regulus:
Lead . 3,797
Trophies, specimens 625
Wood, timber, etc. 1,512
Total value of prod
ucts of Alaska . 8285,593
Products of United
States returned . 47,261
Total value of foreign
products . 25
Total value shipments
of merchandise . 8332,879
Gold . 382,339
Silver . 1,459
Grand Total.8716,677
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Mrs. Holger Johnson, who
has been severely ill for for
some weeks, left Monday even
ing for Prince Rupert to under
go hospital treatment. Mrs.
Johnson was accompanied by
Mrs. M. Lindegaard. It is un
derstood that Mr. Johnson, who
has been engaged in jury duty
in the district court at Ketchi
kan, will join Mrs. Johnson in
Prince Rupert.