RADIO PROGRAM
K O M O
Sunday, January 8.
7:00 Fisher Mills Program.
7:101 alk by David Lawrence
7 :30 Romances.
7:45 Sunday at Seth Parker's.
8:15 Andrew Jergens Co.
8:30 People’s Bank Program
9:00 L’nion Oil Co. Progarm.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Crazy Crystal Quartet.
10:80 Bridge to Dreamland.
11:00 Silent.
Monday, January 9.
7:00 The Alaskans.
7:30 Demi Tasse Review,NBC
8:00 Amos 'n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Old Song Contest.
8 :30 Voice of Firestone, NBC.
9:00 Gold Shield Symphony.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Dollars and Cents.
10:30 Orchestral Music.
11 :00 Ambassador Hotel Orch.
11:30 Organ Concert.
11 :35 Organ Concert, NBC.
12:00 Silent.
Tuesday, January 10
7:00 Lucky Strike Hour, NBC
8 :00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Memory Lane, NBC.
8:45 Adventures in Health.
9:00 Fisher’s Blend Hour.
9:30 Blue Ribbon Orchestra.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Ghost Story.
10:30 Mark Hopkins Orch.
11:00 Ambassador Hotel Drch.
11:30 Organ Concert, NBC.
12 :00 Silent.
Wednesday, January 11
7:00 Corn Cob Pipe Club.
7:30 Fisher Mills Program.
7:45 Fox Co., Tuneful Two.
8 :00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Hotel St. Regis Orch.
8 :30 Wesson Team Mates.
9:00 Arzen Melody Time.
9:15 Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes, NBC.
9:45 Dollars and Cents.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Washington Hour.
11:15 Ambassador Hotel Orch.
11:30 Organ Concert.
12:00 Silent
Thursday, January 12.
7 :00 Lucky Strike Hour, NBC
8 :00 Amos 'n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Standard Symphony.
9:15 Thurston, the Magician.
9:30 Montag Fireside Hour.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Ghost Story,
10:30 Mark Hopkins Orch.
11:00 Ambassador Hotel Orch.
11:30 Organ Concert.
12:00 Silent
Friday, January 13.
7 :00 Big Six of the Air, NBC.
7:30 Soloist, NBC.
7:45 Wanda Hawley Chats.
8:00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Old Song Contest.
8:30 Gilmore Circus, NBC.
9:15 Thurston, 'the Magician.
9:30 Novelettes, NBC.
9:45 Dollars and Cents.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mozart Concert Hour.
11:15 Ambassador Hotel Orch.
11:30 Organ Concert.
12:00 Silent
Saturday, January 14.
7 :00 Lucky Strike Hour, NBC
WHEN WASHINGTON
REFUSED TO BE KING
Few Americans are aware
that our country today might
be a monarchy but for an act
of nobility on the part of
George Washington on May
22, 1782. The officers of the
Revolutionary Army had im
plored Washington to assume
loyal power, place himself at
their head, and rule the count
ry as a king. On May 22, a
century and a half ago, Gener
al Washington refused in patri
)tic terms so strong that the
idea was dropped. This inter
esting information comes from
the United States George
Washington Bicentennial Com
mission.
This dramatic incident in our
history occurred while General
Washington and the Continent
al Army were encamped at
Newburgh, on the Hudson.
The surrender of Cornwallis
had virtually ended the Revo
lution, but nominally hostilities
were still in effect, and Wash
ington was determined to hold
the army together against any
surprise renewal of the war.
As usual, his soldiers were
poorly clothed and fed, and
Congress was deeply in arrears
in their pay. By then the war
had dragged on for seven long
years. The struggle had cost
many of Washington’s officers
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Reliable Information
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PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
8:00 Caswell Coffee Concert.
8:15 Bal Tabarin Orchestra.
8:15 Old World Serenaders.
9:00 Fisher Mills Program.
9:30 Spotlight Review, NBC.
11:00 Tuneful Two.
11:15 Ambassador Hotel Orch.
11:30 Hotel Hopkins Orch.
12:00 Silent
the loss of their personal for
tunes, and the entire enlisted
force faced a future of want on
being released to civil life.
Discontent rose to dangerous
intensity in all ranks. At length
Colonel Lewis Nicola, a re
spected character on friendly
terms with the Commander in
Chief, spoke for the officers as
a body when he addressed
to Washington a veiled propos
al that he take over the gov
ernment of the country, with
the army behind him, and rule
it as a king.
Washington declined Nicol
a’s offer and rebuked the man
who made it. Writing on May
22, 1782, he said: ;
“Sir,—With a mixture of
great surprise and astonish
ment, I have read with attent
ion the sentiments you have
submitted to my perusal. Be
assured, Sir, no occurrence in
the course of the war has giv
en me more painful sensations,
than your information of there
being such ideas existing in the
army, as you have expressed,
and I must view with abhor
rence and reprehend with se
verity.
“I am at a loss to conceive
what part of my conduct could
have given encouragement to
an address, which to me seems j
big with the greatest misch’efs :
that can befall my Country. If
I am not deceived in the know
ledge of myself you could not !
have found a person to whom !
your schemes are more dis
agreeable.Let me con
jure you, then, if you have any
regard for your country, con
cern for yourself or posterity,
or respect for me, to banish
these thoughts from your mind,
and never communicate, as
from yourself or any one else,
a sentiment of the like nature.”
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
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In the Commissioner’s Court; Terri
tory of Alaska: Division Number One,
Hyder Precinct. In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Daniel
Lindeborg, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned administrator of the es- !
tate of Daniel Lindeborg. deceased,
to all persons having claims against
said estate to file the same within
the time required by law. with prop
er vouchers, at my office in the town
of Hyder, Alaska.
Dated at Hyder, Alaska, this "til
day of December, 1932.
E. D. Haddon
Administrator.
Publish December 10. 17, 24, 31, 1932.
Hyder
Chamber of Commerce
Incorporated
Regular Meeting Second
Wednesday of the Month
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Rocking
Chair
By JANE OSBORN
© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service
COVERT June the ten-year graduates
of Brockton college make a special
effort to be hack at commencement
time. T.ast June it was 1022’s turn to
come back and the usual arrange
ments were made to provide for their
entertainment during the gala week.
Cynthia Burton was making prepara
tions for the Sunday ten party which
her father. Professor Burton, always
gave for the men who returned.
Saturday morning Cynthia was beat
ing up the batter for a variety of sugar
cookies for which the Burton tea par
ties had mng been famous. Ten years
ago site had helped her mother with
these dainties and since her mother's
death she had taken a loyal pride in
making them in the precise old-fash
ioned way.
Stella Alden, her cousin, sat beside
her cracking nuts that were later to
lie chopped and used with cream
cheese and other things for the filling
of the sandwiches next day. She had
stopped on her way to Cynthia's at the
railroad station on a pretext of getting
a time table and there she had seen
some of the “hoys of 1922.”
“If tlie gang isn’t nil here,” she
said, "it is almost all here. You’ve no
idea how some of them have changed.
I was talking to Harry Wallace—'mem
ber Harry? Well, he's quite gray but
terribly good looking. And Fred’s com
ing-going to put up at the inn be
cause he's brought his wife. Tim
Bruce and Granger Yates and Piggy
Brown are all back. Carrot Jones and
Spinich Smith are coming—and some
one said they had hpard in a round
about way that Rocking Chair was
coming. 'Member Rocking Chair?"
Cynthia looked up with a suspicion
of a smile. “Yes—I do. But I don’t
believe he’d come. He’s been in South
America ever since he graduated.”
“Queer fish, wasn’t he?” from Stella.
“Piggy Brown said he hadn't heard
anything about him—couldn't even re
member why they called him Rocking
Chair. Nobody could.”
Cynthia knew well enough but she
didn’t say so. In the days when the
I!)-- men were still undergraduates
Professor Burton had held open house
for students every Sunday afternoon
and there were always fifteen or twen
ty who availed themselves of his hos
pitality. Cynthia’s mother poured the
tea in the old drawing room while
Cynthia, a rather shy girl under
twenty, had brought the tea things and
the sandwiches and cookies from the
kitchen. And almost every Sunday
for two or three years a lank, rather
awkward boy hack sat at one side of
the drawing room In the old-time rock
ing chair, drinking tea, which he could
not endure, for the sake of the cookies
nnd other dainty morsels that went
with it. He continued to come because
each Sunday her mother had held his
clumsy, brawny hand in hers and made
him promise to come again the next
week, and there was a mute look of
gratitude in his deep gray eyes as
he looked down at her.
On the campus, in the dormitory—all
about the college town—the tall, awk
ward student who was working his
way through college was known as
Hocking Chair. And Rocking Chair he
had remained in the memory of class
mates. Most of them could not even
recall that his real name was Ben
Owen.
Since then, of course, rocking chairs
had gone very much out of fashion.
And Cynthia had met with no opposi
tion on the part of her father when
she wanted to carry the old rocker up
Into the attic.
Having cracked and shelled the nuts
Stella made excuses. She wanted to
dress for the ball game that afternoon.
She thought from something that Piggy
said that perhnps he might call her up.
So Cynthia went on alone with the
preparations for the next day's spread.
Sunday morning Cynthia went up
into the attic and in a dingy corner
found the old rocker so covered with
dust that it needed a thorough soap
ami wtiter scrubbing before she called
her father to help her carry it down
to the old drawing room. There were
tears in Cynthia’s eyes because the
sight of the old chair recalled so viv
idly her mother’s understanding smile
as an awkward boy itad looked wist
ALASKA NOTES
Culled From the Newspapers
Of the Territory.
The Anchorage council has
authorized a city-wide survey
of electrical equipment with a
view to silencing noises which
interfere with radio reception.
Work is progressing stead
ily at the Lucky Shot mine in
the Willow Creek district and
will continue throughout the
| winter. A seven-foot snowfall
is reported in the district.
A tunnel is being driven into
the mountain to open up fhe
ore body of the old Kempt
property on Cragie Creek.
The postmaster of one of the
small postoffices in the Second
Division was found guilty of
selling intoxicating liquor re
cently, it was made known by
the Postoffice Department.
The Fairbanks school house
was destroyed by fire in 30 be
low zero weather a few days
ago, leaving 4.50 high and
grade school pupils without
school facilities. The building,
valued between $50,000 and
$60,000 was a total loss
The body of Henry Kortlist
ky, pioneer resident of Fair
banks was found in his cabin
recently, He died while sitting
on his bed. He was a painter
and 60 years old.
Bill Falconer, Ketchikan taxi
driver, was arrested recently
for alleged complicity in start
ing an incendiary fire there a
short time ago.
The New York- Alaska Gold
Dredge Corporation closed
down on November 7 for the
winter after a highly satisfact
ory season with its dredge on
Bear Creek in the Kuskokwim
district. The dredge worked
continuously for 180 days.
fully fit her so many years
Fifty returned graduates crowded
joyously into the spacious old draw
ing room the next day and those who
could not find seats sat on cushions
on the floor. A tall distinguished man
of thirty odd sat at one side of the
room in a shabby old rocking chair. A
group of men had gathered around him
while with brief, terse responses he
told them of the railroads he had
helped to build in South America.
They had not even known that he was
in charge of the gigantic undertaking
of which they had heard so much.
Stella edging up to Cynthia as they
brought in the plates of cookies and
sandwiches whispered with awe: “It's
Hocking Chair. Isn’t he stunning—
and so distinguished!”
Hocking Chair lingered after th«
others had gone. As he took Cynthia’s
hand in his there was the old wistful
look in his clear gray eyes.
“It seems like old times,” he said.
••You are very like your mother.”
It was an eventful reunion in many
ways. For somehow as a result of it
Stella, who had let so many chances
of matrimony slip in her youth, actual
ly persuaded Piggy Brown into think
ing that it was he who had proposed.
And a week after their marriage Cyn
thia and Hocking Chair were married
in the stately old drawing room.
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