The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Herald
Building, Second Ave., Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
Sole Owner and Publisher
Entered as second-tlass matter at the
postot'fice at Hyder, Alaska, under the
act of March 3, 1871).
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Says Air Mail Outlook
For Alaska Net Promising
No immediate forthcoming
air mail system is seen for
Alaska, it was announced re
cently in Juneau by Harlee
Branch, second assistant post
master general, following an
extended survey, of air routes
as far north as Nome.
Before leaving Washington
foi his Alaska trip, Mr. Branch
was quoted in press reports as
intimating that air mail ser
vice between Alaska and the
the States wao under consider
ation and formed one of the
reasons for his visit to the Ter
ritory. He evidently was mis
quoted, as he explained in his
Juneau statement that he was
here merely “to see if wc can
t.o anything toward improving
communication.”
In explaining the pcsitifon
Mr. Branch also resorted to the
ancient official expedient of
quoting figures showing how
much more the Alaska mail
service cost the government
than the government derived
from the service. According
to his figures the postcifice de
partment spends around $750,
000 annually on the service
while the return revenue is on
ly around $152,000.
While at Nome Mr. Branch
flew across Bering Sea to Si
beiia. His trip through the
Territory was also made by
plane.
Anyway, Mr. Branch prob
ably had a nice, interesting
vacation and it is to be licked
that he found some way to im
prove something. Taxpayers
had to do a lot of hustling to
dig up the price of his trip.
Stabler Censured By Bar Assn.
Howard D. Stabler, former
United States Attorney for the
First Alaska Division, was re
cently the subject of public
criticism and censure by the
Ethic^ Committee of the Amer
ican Bar Association, accoi J
ing to news reports.
Stabler, who is now engaged
in private law practice, was
censured for improper solici
tation oif business, the reports
indicated.
Must Have License To
She at Black Bear
Under present Alaska Game
Commission regulations sholot
ing of black bear by persons
not in possesion of a trapping
license is prohibited.
The reason is that black bear
are not regarded as game ani
mals but as fur-bearers. As
Tie taking of any variety of
fur-bearing animal is illegal
unless the taker holds a trap
ping license, such a permit is
essential to the legal taking of
black bears. The cost of the
necessary license is §2.
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Many Changes In Congress
Perrcnneil Are Expected
With thirty-five states elect
ing senators this fall and the
entire membership of the
House of Representatives com
ing up for election, it is not un
likely that there will be many
new faces seen when the 74th
Congress meets in January.
According to the political
owls, a large turnover in the
lower house is assured, as a
number of the present mem
■ bers are .seeking senat orship.
i or governorships, or are rc.si
ng ficm p )litics.
Washington political observ
ers ipredict that more than for
ty new names are certain to be
on the roll. Hew many ir.or
there will be is a question that
re ts with the voters.
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Say U. S. Well Advised To
Follow Leader With Program
—
Foreign comment on the
| trend of affairs in America, is
i u ually penetrating and al
■ ways interesting. For in
j stance, the Mining World and
j Engineering Record, of Lon
don, voices the following in a
| recent issue:
“President Roosevelt is a
i man of action, and though his
| plans have been criticised, the
j feeling is that the American
; nation is well advised to follow
! a man with a program, rather
i than one who adopts the policy
| of Mrs. Dora Copperfield, viz.,
I that of ‘living anyhow.’ ”
j Which is somewhat at vari
i ence with the views of a port
j ly and somewhat obscured
| gentleman down in Palo Alto,
who contends that in fcllow
j :rg Mr. Roosevelt the country
: is likely to lo.ee its traditional
j liberty and go to the bow-wows
I generally.
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South African Mine Has
Vast Underground Workings
The Eitwatersrand geld mine
near Johannesburg, S. A., has
more than 400 mile3 of un
derground workings and em
ploys under normal conditions
approximately 190,000 work
ers in its operations.
New Head Named For
Territories Bureau
Dr. Ernest II. Gruening, not
ed former newspaper man and
specialist in Latin-American
affairs, has succeeded Major
Earl L^ndreth as head of the
newly organized Division of
Territories and Island Possess
ions cf the Department of the
Interior, according to Wash
ington advices. As announced
recently, Major Landreth was
temporarily assigned to direct
the new bureau, w’hich will be
associated to some extent in
the admini tration of federal
government affairs in Alaska.
Dr. Gruening is a Harvard
graduate, 47 years old, and un
til recently was editor of the
New York Post. He was prev
iously managing editor of The
Nation, nationally known lib
eral magazine, and of the Bos
ton Traveler.
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There is a movement on foot
to make currency more elastic.
Wish somebody would do
something to make it more ad
hesive.
Queer Music
--
I By simply manipulating his hands
in the air, Charles Stein plays music
I on the theremin In the Science the
ater at the new World's Fair in Chi.
[ cago.
I '
Fair Relic
The Mississippi, ancient locomotive
which helped to build the South 100
years ago, and is now in Wings of a
Century at the Chicago World's Fair,
provides a resting place for Mrs. M.
O. Peterson, of Des Moines, Iowa, as
Opie Read, famed author, tells some
thing of its history, \
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