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Edward A. Rasma&son
For Republican National Committeeman
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His Election Will Insure Better Development and
Party Organization For Alaska.
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DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR
COMMISSIONER of EDUCATION
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Richard E. fiardcastle
FOR
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN
Thereby protesting the domination of our fisheries by
O’Malley. And help to return Alaska to Alaskans
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Norman R. Walker
For Democratic Senator in the Territorial Legislature.
At all times and under all conditions a
Liberal with the best interests of the
Territory always at heart.
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f Adolpho H. Ziegler
I Democratic Candidate
For
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
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/ appeal to all Liberal Alaskans to support
my candidacy as a direct expression of opposition
to the continued mis - ruling of Alaska through a
combination ot politicians and FEDERAL BUREAUS
My record at the Legislature is my recommendation
i Senate in December but was
overlooked in the House Com-j
mittee and was not presented
| until March 17, which has no I
I particular signiflance, however. |
as the Senate bill has not even
had a hearing.
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Fairbanks Building
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There has been considerable
delay in awarding the contract
for the construction of the Fed -
eral Building at Fairbanks, be
cause the lowest bidder. Wn\
MacDonald and Son, of St.
Louis, whose bid was for $393,
C00, were in doubt as to whether
they wanted the contract when
they learned that they had made
some miscalculation on freight
charges for steel material. But
the MacDonalds finally decided
that they would take the con-1
tract under their original bid
and not have new bids called j
for, which act was under con
sideration by the Treasury De
partment. Had this been done
considerable delay would have i
resulted and possibly the plans j
and specifications changed some|
what, which is just what the
people of Fairbanks do not want.
Delegate Wickersham interested
himself in the matter and on
March 18 appeared before Su
pervising Architect Wetmore
and his associates, with the re
sult that it was decided to re -
commend to the interdepart
mental committee that the con
tract be immediately awarded to
the MacDonald Company.
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Alaska Bills Approved
Two bills affecting Alaska
have been passed by Congress
land approved by the President
' One revises the boundary ol 1
Mount McKinley National Park
and the other appropriates $30,- i
000 to defray the expense of
participation by the Govern-1
I ment in the Second Polar Year'
Program from August 1932 to;
August 1933. Most of this money :
is to be expended in connection
v/ith erection and maintenance
of a station at Fairbanks.
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Highway Publicity
Ernest Sawyer Walker has
received a letter from Governor
Julius L. Meier, of Oregon, stat
ing that he was taking up with
1 the Portland Chamber of Com-j
I merce the possibility of arrang- |
ing for a caravan of writers and
newspaper men to drive to
Hazelton, British Columbia, and
return, with a view to giving
publicity to the proposed inter- i
! national highway to Fairbanks,!
| Alaska.
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French Ban Goods
Import restrictions affecting
exports from the United States
Pacific Coast worth approxi
mately $10,000,000 annually are
expected to be imposed soon by
the French Government.
A Senate committee approved
a bill doubling the duty on j
prunes, which is expected to
pass the Senate and become law.
The bill would almost make im
possible the importation o f
American prunes, of which $3,
000,000 are imported annually,
mostly from California.
The proposed embargo o n
apples is expected to be pro
claimed soon, putting a ban on
more than $5,000,000 worth of
American fruit annually, mostly
from the Pacific Coast.
The government has been
studying a contingent restric
tion on canned asparagus, of
v/hich California supplies 95
per cent of the imports, valued
at $500,000.
The recent quota on canned
fish reduces American imports
20 per cent, particularly affect
ing California, Oregon and
Washington, which export to
France $1,000,000 worth an
nually.
Combine Colleges
While advocating his bill to
curb injunction judges, Senator
Norris read to the Senate the
following extract from the “Es
say on Liberty,” by John Stuart
Mill, perhaps the most noted
►Jof British economists:
“In our time, as in times be
fore, creep on the insidious forc -
es that, producing inequality,
destroy liberty. On the horizon
the clouds begin to lower. Li
berty calls to us again. We must
follow her further; we must
trust her fully. Either we must
wholly accept her, or she will
not stay.
“It is not enough that men
should vote; it is not enough
that they should be theoretical
ly equal before the law.
“They must have liberty to
avail themselves of the oppor
tunities and means of life; they
must stand on equal terms with
leference to the bounty of
nature.
“Either this, or liberty with
draws her light; either this, or
darkness comes and the very
forces which progress ha;
evolved turn to powers thai
work destruction.
“This is the universal law.
This is the lesson of the cen
turies. Unless its foundations be
laid in justice, the social struc
ture cannot stand.”
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Bishop Inaccurate
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Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe cf
the Alaska Diocese of the Epis
copal Church, in Seattle recent
ly declared that widespread
bootlegging is seriously hamp
ering the missionary work in
Alaska. Last spring he declared
that the morale of Alaska In
dians had dropped considerably
because of the unrestricted dis
tribution if illicit liquor.
All respect to the Bishop of
Alaska—he is not entirely cor
rect in his assertion. The dryest
portion of Alaska is the Indian
element. There are more Indian
villages without commissioners,
judges and marshals—governed
wholly by their own government
where there are seldom ar.y
liquor cases or problems. In the
incorporated towns, perhaps the
Bishop is correct in his state
ment but the Indians in the in
corporated towns are but a very
small proportion of the total
population.
If it is drunkenness that the
Bishop wishes to find, he can
find it in all races—hampering
all missionaries. But in Alaska
the problem is a minor one—yet.
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Hrme Building
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Alaskans agree in every pari
of President Hoover’s statement
that there must be a movement
to provide new and better
homes. So as Alaskans they
tackle the problem. First: To
start any movement for new
and better homes, there must be
a wage standard back of toe
movement to establish credit.
To establish that wage standard
the industries of Alaska must
provide labor markets for resi
dent labor. This can be done by
hiring Alaskan labor, by abo
lishing the trap system and us
ing local resident fishermen.
When that is done—when Com
missioner O’ Malley does take
such steps as to insure the
following of such a program,
resident Alaskans will build
their own homes and many from
the states will do like wise in
Alaska.
Had Real Teeth
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When E. A. Robertson came
back to Seattle recently after a
prospecting trip in Alaska, he
was wearing a set of false teeih
- -and how!
The teeth were the teeth of
mountain sheep, caribou, black
j bear and fox. He had mounted
[ them in plates made by melting
up an aluminum kettle. The
teeth had been laboriously
ground down by hand until they
fitted.
Seattle dentist found the old
sourdough’s grinders to be mo
dels of ingenuity, but made him
a new set of “store teeth” and
sent the old set to the Univer
sity of California’s museum.
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DOCTOR DIES OF
PINPOINT WOUND
Dr. Arthur MacNeal, 64 year?
old, founder of the Berwyn Hos -
pital, pricked his thumb with a
safety pin five weeks age. Sever
’ai operations failed to check in
Ifection and he died.
HITS AT BUREAUS
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J. Ham. Lewis, of Ohio, aspir-i
; r. id Democratic nomination
for President of the United
States has issued a statement
against the bureau system and
its consolidation with the view
to abolish some of the bureau
offices. He attacks President
tUoover as lacking sincerity in his
desire or effort to follow out the
program.
States the Senator: “There
should come a time and now is
the time, when we should cease
deceiving the 'American public (
and quit these pretenses, for thej
truth is that there will not bej
this cutting down, there will not \
te ' these reductions, there will
be no effort to carry them out,!
lest to do so is to lessen the1
political strength that is sup
posed tc be necessary for the
coming national campaign. * * *
No limitation is going to be al
lawed upon the great official:
source that shortly is to bej
needed, with its multiplying
energies, for ballot-box uses.”
In other words, J. H. Lewis de
clares the Bureau System is the
greatest bloc voting that is to be
leckoned with in the coming
elections. And we talk of bloc
voting in Alaska—with 57 vari
eties of bureaus in Juneau.
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RAISING THE STANDARD
OF AMERICAN HOUSING
The Interior Department has
sent out circulars titled First
Part of Program to Raise Stand
ard of American Housing Of
fered to Public. The foreword by
President Hoover states that:
“The next great lift in elevating
the living conditions of the
American family must come
from a concerted and nation
wide movement to provide new
and better homes.”
We are not overly concerned
about the conditions in ttu
states at this time. There is
nothing much that Alaskans
can do to help change those con
ditions. The first worry of
Alaskans is in elevating their
own conditions.
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SCHOOL PROGRAM
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The following program was
given at the public school Wed
nesday afternoon commemorat
ing Seward’s Day:
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Song by assembly—My Alaska
Reading—Seward Day—George
Brown.
1st grade two fold dances by
! class and song Froggy—Stanley
! Otness.
Reading—Dogs o f Alaska—
i Frances Parks. 1
! Songs by 3rd and 4th.—Susie
I Little Susie—Carry Me Back to
! Old Virginia.
Coocoo—Little Black Boy.
Highlights in Sewards Life,—
! Arthur Tveten.
4th Grade—Reading My Coun
try—Vernon Heimdahl.
Songs by Girls Glee Club.
Little drops of rain—Wait till
the cows come home.
Reading by Walter Lersten—
High Lights in Alaska’s History.
Songs by boys glee club Bombay
—Chief of the Mountain High.
The Carnival starts at 7:30
Saturday night.
There will be a serpentine
this afternoon advertising the
carnival.
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\EW FISH TRAP RULING IS
MADE BY HIGH COURT
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A new ruling on fish-trap sei
zures was written by the State
Supreme Court in a decision re
versing a Skagit County Court
judgement denying the state the
right to confiscate fish im
pounded in two Deception Pass
traps at the time they were dis
covered in illegal operation.
The lower court refused to
permit the Skagit County prose
cutor to confiscate fish im
pounded in traps operated by
McMillan Bros, and F. L. Cram
er after the two operators had
I pleaded guilty to charges of op
erating their traps out of season
in violation of the law. They
paid fines of $250 each.
Both operators contended they
fished legally for several hours
I before the beginning of the
[closed season and said there was
no way to segregate the law
fully caught fish from the il
legally caught fish. The state
had confiscated all the fish and
sold them at the prevailing
market price.
“When a fish trap is being
il legally operated, this court
will indulge in the presumption
that such fish as are impounded
at the time of discovery of i>
legal operation have entere '
the trap during the time of i,
illegal operation,” the court
raid.
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SALMON PACK OF U. S.
LEADS WORLD IN 193!
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United States salmon packers
supplied 75 per cent of the
world supply of canned salmon
during 1931.
The Commerce Departmem ;
announced 9,018,121 standard
cases of forty-eight one-pound !
cans were packed, a decrease of
14 per cent as compared with!
1930.
Alaska supplied 5,403,8111
cases; Pacific Coast states, i,
336,234; Siberia, 1,134702; Brit
ish Columbia, 685,104, and Jap
an, 458,270.
In 1930 the United States
supplied 58 per cent of the total
world pack and for the years
1926 to 1930, inclusive, 66 per
cent of the average pack.
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S. F. CITY CREWS GIVE
$1 500,000 OF PAY TO NEEDY
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Municipal employes pledged
contributions from their salaries
which will provide more than j
$.1,500,000 for the relief of un-j
employed in the city during the 1
1932-33 fiscal year.
Representatives of the em
ployes, more than 10,000 in
number, agreed at a meeting to
contribute on a scale which
varies from 3 per cent on an
nual salaries of from $1,200 to
$2,000 to 12 per cent on salaries
of $10,000 or over.
The resolution to make the
contributions was in answer to
request for such action from j
Mayor Angelo Rossi.
KETCtfIKAN
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Easter Sunday was observed
by all local churches with spe
cial Easter anthems and canta
tas sung by the choirs.
The St. Elizabeth Episcopal
Church Boys’ Band, composed or
20 members ranging in age from
10 to 10, gave an open air, sacred
music serenade through the city
early Easter morning.
The Presbyterian Church is
preparing a program for the of
ficial dedication of this new
Jace of worship—the date to be
April 5th.
The C. E. Society gave a bene
fit social last week to raise funds
for the annual C. E. Convention
to he held in Hydaburg early in
April.
The Ketchikan Spruce Mills
started operations on the 28t!i
of March, giving employment to
many needy residents of the
town.
The fishing situation is still in
a very bad condition. Still the
“pioneer” fishermen are looking
forward to better days with the
oming month. Hope springs e
ternal in the hearts of Alaska’s
fishermen.
Lots of local interest being
shown in city politics. Mayor
Walker is not a candidate for
re-election. There will be a
grand old scramble for his
mantle and to secure control of
the council.
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BELIEVE IT OR NOT
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While digging clams near
Oyehut, T. Brown of Aberdeen
•ame upon a block of coal,
weighing ICO pounds and ap
parently washed up by the surf.
The coal burned nicely in
Brown’s stove, and he broke it
off as he needed it.
Near the center of the solid
block, Brown says, ho came upon
a clam, very much alive. IIqw
the clam got in there and how
it grew to maturity, inside a
block of coal remain to be ex
plained. Brown showed the curi
ousity to a number of local peo
ple, but none could offer a
solution.
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VOTE FOR
F. J. Baranovich
Democratic Candidate for
TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE
Before the April Primaries, 1932
A Resident with the interests of Residents
at heart. Your vote Will be appreciated.
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jgUT ho never did buy! He’s un-American be
cause he contributes nothing to American
commerce and industry. America is a working
nation and a buying nation, boasting the highest
standard of living in the world. Americans must
maintain this standard. We will not have—and
will not deserve—prosperity, if we continue to
pare our needs down to the level of the worthless
citizen above. *
A our neighbors still wear clothes, shoes and hats;
ihe Butcher and Grocer still receive shipments of
merchandise and their trucks are delivering it
somewhere. Must be a leak in the depression
somewhere. Visit our advertisers and see if we
are not right.
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