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IIYDER, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1932
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COMMITTEE URGES
SILVER CONFERENCE
That the silver rehabilitation
question is recognized by the
Coinage, Weights and Meas
ures committee of the House of
Representatives as one of the
Outstanding problems of the
world economic situation is dis
closed in reports from Wash
ington that the committee has
issued a call for world cooper
ation in restoring a proper rat
io between gold and silver, af
ter an extensive investigation
and study of the monetary pol
icies of the United States and
foreign countries.
Herald readers will recall
that the Coinage, Weights and
Measures committee recently
decided on its own initiative to
undertake a thorough investi
gation of the silver situation,
including the cause and effect
of the depressed value of sil
ver. The action of the com
mittee was unusual in the de
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mittees usually conduct hear
ings on specific measures,
whereas in this instance the
investigation and study was
made with a view to drafting a
bill in accordance with the
committee’s findings.
Another important develop
ment in the movement to re
store the purchasing power of
silver was indicated in a recent
Washington anouncement that
a group of western and south
ern senators had agreed to ac
cept an invitation extended by
members of the French parlia
ment for formation of an “in
formal inter-parliamentary as
sociation to restore the purch
asing power of silver money.”
This aggreement was an
nounced by Senator Pittman
after he and other senators
had conferred with Pierre du
Pacquier, French business man
and representative of a group
of members of the French par
liament.
Pittman said he believed the
agreement would “tend to
bring a common understanding
as to the best character of leg
islation.” He emphasized the
proposed association was en
tirely informal and not of an
official character.
Senator Borah, of Idaho, will
be the head of the American
group, Pittman said.
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Watson- Crawford
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Crawford,
of Stewart, announced this
week the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Helen Gertrude
Crawford, to Mx\ James Brad
ley Watson, of Premier, B. C.
The marriage was consum
mated in Bellingham, Wash
ington, on September 10, 1931,
in the presence of intimate
friends of the contracting par
ties, both of whom are among
the most widely known and
popular members of the com
munity. Mrs. Watson has re
sided in Stewart since child
hood and possesses the highest
regard of everyone. Mr. Wat
son is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. J. Watson, of Victoria, and
has been connected for some
years with the Premier Gold
Mining Company at Premier.
Hyder Flood Control Bill
Due For Early Consideration
That the War Department
j measure providing for flood
control of Salmon river at lly
der is likely to receive early
consideration by the House
committee to which the pro
ject was referred is indicated
in the following telegram re
ceived Wednesday by the Hy
der Chamber of Commerce
from Alaska Delegate James
Wiekersham:
Washington, D. C.
March 2, 1922.
Hyder Chamber
of Commerce:
Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce representative here in
quires status of Hyder dyke
project. War Department rec
ommended project cost i n g
$53,000 of which Hyder to pay
$7,000 in document not yet
printed. Matter referred to
committee on flood control and
will consider when document
reaches them, and if found fav
orable, I will introduce bill to
I auuiuu/ie me iJiujuci ii IIK3
| Chamber so desires and able to
| subscribe $7,000.
James Wickercham
Delegate
! Wickersham Proposes New
j Aid £or Forest Roads-Trails
For a long time past there
; has been a desire on the. part
of Alaskans that provision be
made for the construction of
' trails as well as roads in the
i national forests of the Terri
tory. Heretofore the annual
j appropriation for forest roads
| has been about half a million
j dollars, although this sum has
been reduced in the budget for
| next year to $350,000. In
many instances the construct
| ion of trails is necessary before
■ the building of roads, as trails
1 aie the first line of travel, says
a Washington news report.
In order that the bureau may j
i expend such sums as may seem
; advisable for trails, Delegate
| Wickersham has introduced a
: bill to allow the appropriation
! to be expended for either trails
! or roads.
! Secretary of Agriculture Hyde
| has been consulted about the
measure and he recommends it
!n the following expression:
“Such a change would be in
the interest of both efficiency
j and economy. It would result
I :n furnishing low-cost trans-!
j portation to pioneer regions
I where the uncertainty of the
I future needs do not seem as yet:
; to justify a road. Frequently
! a trail in Alaska will be all
! that is ever needed. In such j
| cases the saving between trail
j costs and road costs would be
very substantial.”
Ptarmigan Visit Town
A small flock of ptarmigan
were observed by the writer in
the forest townsite near the M. j
E. church Thursday morning, j
: The birds were resplendant in
their winter coats of glistening
white and presented a pretty
picture as they browsed on the
[surrounding foliage.
Old-timers say it has been a
long time since the birds have
been seen in town and their
presence is probably due to the
recent severe weather driving
‘them from their customary
i feeding grounds on the mount
• ain slopes.
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GOVT, TO BROADCAST
ALASKATRADE FIGURES
Arrangements have been
completed between the De
partment of Commerce and
Alaska officials for the publi
cation, monthly, in the Depart
ment’s official Commerce Re
ports of reviews of trade, eco
nomic and financial conditions
in the Territory, according to
an anouncement made in JuiP
Jean by Governor George A.
Parks. In reporting the gov
ernor’s statement, the Juneau
Empire says the reports from
the Territory will be assembled
by M. S. Whittier, secretary of
the Territorial Chamber of
Commerce, and telegraphed by
him to the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce.
Every Chamber of Commerce
in the Territory will be asked
to compile data for its district.
This information will be for
warded by telegraph to Mr.
■ Whittier. The Signal Corps, at
! the suggestion of the Governor.
will handle the messages with
j out cost.
The purpose of the movement
is to. give extensive publicity
i to the Territory’s trade possi
\ bilities. Commerce Reports is
published weekly by the De
| partment of Commerce. It con
j tains trade and other informat
f ion from all parts of the world.
It is distributed throughout the
world through commercial at
■ taches, and to manufacturers,
importers and exporters of all
classes of business.
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Chamber of Commerce
Dinner Meet Wednesday
The Hyder Chamber of Com
merce will hold their regular
monthly dinner meeting in the
small Pioneer Hall next Wed
nesday evening, March 9. The
session is being looked forward
to with considerable anticipat
ion by Chamber members, ow
ing to the fact that the dinner
will be prepared by the ladies
of the Friendship Club, which
includes in its membership
a majority of Ilvder’s most ex
pert lady culinary artists.
The meeting is scheduled to
start at 6 p. m. and will include
discussion of a number of im
ir.in.uiu ousiness mauers.
Tlie dinner meetings are all
open to the public anil every
one interested in the work of
the Chamber-or participating
in an unusually appetizing din
ner is invited. The only obli
gation involved is the payment
of the nominal dinner fee of 75
cents per plate.
All who intend to participate
are requested to notify Secre
tary H. R. Cross or Mr. E. I).
Haddon in order that adequate
service may be provided.
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There will be a special meet
ing of the board of directors of
the Hyder Chamber of Com
merce at the U. S. Commission
er’s office at 3:30 p. m. Mon
day afternoon. Business of
importance. All board mem
bers requested to attend.
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Edgar Province, proprietor of
the Provinse merchandise es
tablishment and meat market,
returned Thursday from a visit
of several weeks in Juneau and
Ketchikan, where he reports
encountering many former Hy
der residents.
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GLOBE TfiOTTER
VISITS DISTRICT
Daring the rigors of north
ern winters on what he claims
is a hiking jaunt ariound the
world, Mate Simunovich, a cit
izen of Jugo-Slovakia, arrived
here from Prince Rupert last
Thursday enroute to north
western Alaska, Siberia and j
the Orient., only to find him
self debarred from further
progress on American 'territory
by immigration restrictions |
resulting from his failure to re- i
new his permit to remain in!
the United States..
Simunovich claimed to have
started his world walking tour
from his home town, Makar
aska, Jugo-Slavia, five years
ago. During the succeeding in
terval he apparently has tra
versed a large part of Europe.
Africa, South America ,the
United States and Canada. His
sole companion on the world
girdling tour is a police dog se
cured by him in South America
someining over two years ago.
Simunovich is about 35 years
of age, speaks excellent Eng
lish, and carries a portfolio
containing a voluminous mass
of letters and autographs of
i government and other offocials
of countries he has visited, in
addition to numerous newspap
er clippings descriptive of his
wanderings. One of his souv
' enirs bears the insignia of the
presidential mansion at Wash
ington, D. C., and the purport
ed signature of President Her
bert Hoover, whom he claims
to have interviewed while in
Washington. Another testi
monial bears the signature of
a State Department official of
high lank and also the seal of
the State Department. Includ
ed among the mass of auto
graphs collected by Simuno
ovich during his travels are
those of the mayors of most of
the larger American and for
eign cities, in addition to those
of the governors’ and other
officials of foreign countries
Simunovich represents him
self to be a correspondent for
a Jugo-Slavian newspaper but
displayed no credentials of
such connection to the local im
migration representative when!
requested to do so. He also
claims to be an engineer by j
profession. On presenting him
self for entry into Alaska, Sim-!
unovich was found by immi- ;
gration inspector D. J. Mul
care to be in possession of an !
extensive list of the Slavonic j
residents of Hyder and Pre- \
mier, which he apparently ob- i
tained in Prince Rupert or |
elsewhere before his arrival;
here. He was apparently very I
y anxious to visit Premier and j
j attempted to walk to the mine
| but was unable to proceed be
yond Six-mile owing to the
road being blockaded by the
; recent heavy snowfall.
' In his statement to immigrat
! ion inspector Mulcare Simuno- j
! vich said he planned to tra- j
verse Alaska from Hyder to
Nome. From the latter point
he expected to cross Bering
Sea from Cape Prince of Wales
to East Cape, Siberia, and then
proceed down the Siberian
coast to China and Japan. It
was found, however, that his
permit to remain in the United
States as a visitor was due to
Lost Predictions Of The
Last Four Years
.
. January 1928. E. H. H. Som
j mons, president of the New
York Stock Exchange: “I can
not help but raise a dissenting
voice to the statements that we
are living in a fools’ paradse
and that prosperity in this
i country must necessarily di
minish.”
September 1928. Secretary
Mellon: “There is no cause
for worry. The high tide oi
prosperity will continue.”
j October 1928. Charles Curt
is, vice-presidential candidate:
“Stick to the full dinner pail
'You have been enjoying Re
publican prosperity. If you
want to continue the prosperity
of Calvin Coolidge, vote for
Hoover.”
Otto H. Kahn, banker:'“The
kind of prosperity which Mr.
Hoover is so earnestly seeking
to promote and perpetuate
and which through his direct
ion of the Department of Com
merce he has done so much tc
aid, is widely diffused prosper
i ny, percolating inruugn ai
sections of the country, benefit
ting the people, adding to th<
| contents not merely of then
pocketbooks, but of then
lives.”
November 1928. Irving T.
Bush, of the Bush Terminal
Co: “We are only at the begin
ning of a period that will go
down in history as the golden
age.”
December 1928. President
Coolidge: “No Congress ever
assembled has met with a more
pleasing prospect than that
which appears at the present
time. The requirements of ex
istence have passed beyond the
standard of necessity into the
region of luxury. The country
can regard the present with
satisfaction and anticipate the
future with optimism.”
Some of the lost predictions
of 1929 will appear in a later
issue. Watch for them.
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School Election Meeting
A public meeting will be held !
in the school house Tuesday !
evening, March 8, for the pur-1
pose of nominating candidates I
for the annual school board |
election to be held on March j
12 in conformity to the Terri-j
torial statutes providing that
school elections shall be held
on the second Saturday in
March unless otherwise desig
nated .by the Commissioner of
Education.
The nominations will be made
to fill the office of director for
.he one-year term, which will
become vacant with the retire
ment of Mrs. H. R. Cross,
whose term will expire when
her successor is chosen and
qualified. The nomination
meeting is scheduled to com
mence at 8 p. m.
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Record Cold Weather At Nome
Nome experienced the cold
est weather in its history on
February 15, the thermometer
sinking to 53 degrees below
zero, with a 24-mile an hour
wind blowing.
expire March 3, after which
date he could not legally re
main in the country. As a re
sult of this contingency he de
cided to return to Prince Rup
ert to arrange with the Ameri
can consul for a new permit.
KILL PROSPECT
III NEKDISTRICT
A prospecting party compris
ing Ernest Blue, local attorney,
Tom Walters, and Blackie Mc
Ritchie, will leave as soon as
weather conditions are favor
able on a prospecting trip into
the little known region sur
rounding the headwaters of
Taylor creek, a tributary of
the upper Nass river, which ex
tends northerly from the latter
stream east of the Bell-Irving
river and along the easterly
dopes of the Oweege and Stra
ta ranges The region for
which the party is heading lies
ibout 90 miles northeast of
Meziadin Lake. The indicat
ed section is understood to bo
highly mineralized and to con
tain both quartz and placer
?old. Samples of exceedingly
ich float have been brought
out by the few prospectors who
have visited the region and
ovidences of placer deposits
have also been found.
Mr. Blue and his companions
I OKlll IU LdlYC 111 cippi UA.llIl<lLCiy
900 pounds of supplies and
equipment and expect to re
main in the district until the
latter part of June or the first
part of July. Light but exceed
ingly strong sleds of the tobog
gan type will be used to trans
port the outfit
The trio plan to proceed to
the new section by way of Bear
river Pass and Meziadin Lake,
thence northeasterly to the Bell
Irving river in the vicinity of
Bowser Lake. They will then
proceed northward along the
Bell Irving to Taft creek and
up the latter stream,which pro
vides a pass into the upper Tay
lor creek watershed. On arrival
n that section, the party will
erect a cabin while awaiting
he spring break-up, which is
expected to occur around April
first. As the supplies are
calculated to last until about
luly 1, they will be dble to de
vote about three months to ex
ploring the region, after which
hey will return by way of the
Bowser Lake trail.
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Labor Protection Bill
Recommended for Passage
T he Connery bill to protect
labor an its old age and appro
priating $10,00,000 for aiding
the States and Territories in
Ihe care of aged persons under
its provisions, has been ap
proved by the House Committ
ee on Labor and favorably rec
ommended for passage, accord
ing to late Washington advices.
The bill is now on the House
calendar and efforts are be
ing made by interested organ
izations throughout the United
States to impress Congress with
the necessity for such a relief
measure. Alaska organizations
would do well to take similar
action.
If the bill passes, the govern
ment would provide to the
States and Territories one-third
of the sum paid to residents
65 years old or over when the
amount for individual relief is
not in excess of $1 per day.
Alaska was included in the
provisions of the measure at
the instance of delegate Wick
ersham, the Territories not
having been included in the
measure as originally intro
duced.