GUARANTEED CIRCULATION
COVERING
SOUTHEAST ALASKA
NEWS OF INTEREST
FROM NORTH, EAST & WEST
FOR ALL ALASKANS
VOLUME NO. VII.
NO. 11
PETERSBURG, ALASKA,
SEPTEMBER 30, 1932
Subscription Price $4 per yeal
B. C. Slaughters
Many Sealions
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More than 1100 sea lions ana
pups were destroyed off the Brit
ish Columbia coast this year by
officials of the Fisheries Depart
ment of the Canadian Govern
ment. The hunt is an annual
affair and is carried on by tin
government at the Pearl and
Virgin rookeries in the Skeena
River District.
The killing of these animals is
necessary for the protection of
the salmon industry which in
normal times has as high a value
as $16,000,000 a year to the pro
vince. The sea lions, which are
particularly numerous in the
districts named, destroy huge
quantities of salmon and conse
quently the herds have to kept j
within reasonable limits. How
ever, to prevent complete exter
mination of the herds, the gov
ernment retains to itself the
privilege of killing these sea lions
and the number slaughtered is
based upon a careful estimate of
the population of the herds.
The United States by law pro
tects the sea lions and the herds
in Alaska are on the increase to
the detriment of fish and fisher
men.
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Beer Sold For
April Delivery
Leo H. Heyn, hotel proprietor,
Uniontown, Pa., has ordered fifty
barrels of beer from the Hofbrau
Haus of Wuerzburg, Germany,
for delivery on April 15, 1933. By
placing his order now, Heyn ex
plains, he saves $2 a barrel ami
is assured prompt delivery.
“In view of the promises made
both by Republicans and Demo -
crats, I feel safe in entering in
to this agreement,” he says.
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Boy Shot For
Picking up Coal
John Gawlick, 12, died from
a bullet fired from a watchman’s
gun, as the boy was surprised
picking up coal in the rear of a
lumber yard. He leaves a widow
ed mother and three brothers
and sisters who are unemployed
and being fed by the emergency
relief commission. The dignity
< f the law is upheld.—Metro
politan News.
Wall Street Odds
Favor Roosevelt
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Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt is
the financial district’s favorite
over President Hoover in the ap
proaching presidential election
according to wagers placed bj
W. H. Tuohey and Company
betting commissioners.
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- Wilbur May Resign
From Cabinel
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Possibility that Dr. Ray Lymai
Wilbur may resign his cabine
post at the end of the year am
return to active presidency o
Stnaford University was discuss
ed in university circles. Dr. Wil
bur’s leave of absence expire
December 31.
Al Capone Out
4 Habeas Corpus
Al Capone, government guest
at the Atlanta federal peniten
tiary left the prison, last week,
for the first time since his ar
rival, to appear in federal courr,
for a habeas corpus hearing filed
by his attorneys.
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Red Cross Faces
Great Emergency
The American Red Cross ad
mits it is now facing and will
continue to face this winter, “a
great emergency; demands for
its services exceed those of any
period since the World War.”
This fact was stated in a re
solution passed by the central
committee in an appeal for ad
cdtional membership in the or
ganization’s annual roll call
drive, which starts Armistice
Day.
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Deep Sea Diver
Reaches Depths
William Beebe, explorer, holds
a new record for sub-sea des- j
cent, 2200 feet, almost half a
mile, as well as a weird picture
of unknown fish with headlights.
The explorer made his venture
into unchartered ocean depths
in the “bathysphere,” an air
tight ball, with the inventor.
Otis Barton, off Bermuda. A word
picture of the feat with Beebe
describing what he saw, was
broadcast.
Peering thru a tiny window In
the “bathysphere,” Beebe report -
ed it “dark as hades” at one in -
stant, then “very brilliant” the
next. Iridescence of passing trop -
ical fish provided light by which
|be could study rare marine
specimens. Some of these even
had double lights, faintly re
sembling the headlights of an ap
proaching motor car.
Whiskey Distillers
To Take Holiday
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Scotland’s whisky distillers
say they have been licked by the
greatest slump in history, which
! they blame largely on crushing
; taxes. With their warehouses
! full of the country’s famous pro
duct and demand for it steadily
decreasing, they have decided
j not on operate their distilleries
'for a year. Thousands of em
ployees will be affected,
j Farmers are also hard hit, the
.shutdown depriving them of a
market for barley, and they have
joined with the distillers in pro
testing high taxes.
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Beer Ordered For
Early Delivery
Two breweries in St. Lou’:
have their first orders for rea
. beer—to be delivered after modi
‘fication of the prohibition law.
1! Charles Heiss, manager of twi
t; fashionable hotels ordered thirt;
i “because I want to hav
f a supply on hand immediate!:
after the law is modified.”
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Otis H. Speer who has bee:
trapping wolves brought in fiv
pelts in one week.
McKee N. Y.
Mayor Till 1934
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Tammany’s war lords planned
an immediate appeal to the high
er courts after State Supremo
Court Justice McGeehan ruled
that Joseph V. McKee shall con
tinue as mayor of New York City
until January 1, 1934.
The judge qualified McKee’s
position as that of “acting may
or” and declared the special
mayoralty election called for
November 8 illegal.
John T. Dooling, chairman of
the Tammany law committee,
said he will appear before the
appellate division to appeal from
the decision.
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Gar Wood Makes
New Speed Record
Gar Wood. America’s premier
speedboat pilot, drove his Miss)
America over a measured milej
in the St. Clair River at Algonac, j
Mich., at a speed of 124.91 miles!
an hour to recapture from Kay
Don, British pilot, the world’s I
hydroplane speed record.
Don, who failed a fortnight
ago in an attempt to take the
Harmsworthy Trophy from Wood
and his Miss America, establish
ed the record at 119.75 on Loca
Lomond, Scotland, July 18.
Wood went after the record
with little preliminary tuning up.
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Customs Seizes
Dorbandt Plane
Under circumstances shroud
ed in mystery, the airplane of
Frank Dorbandt, famous Alas
kan aviator and flyer for Father
Hubbard, “Padre of the Glaciers”
was seized by special agents of
the customs, last week.
Dorbandt, upon learning of the
seizure, hastened to the office of
Collector George D. Hubbard,
and later was questioned by cus
toms agents.
Customs officers declined to re
veal the reason for the seizure.
“They wouldn’t tell me any
thing,” Dorbandt said afterward.
The plane, a Fairchild cabin
ship, was seized at Renton Air
port, officials said.
White Whale Be
Tested for Oil
An attempt to discover the
commercial possibilities of the
white whales that are particular
ly numerous in Hudson Bay, i=
now being made. A shipment oi
seven whales has been broughl
from Churchill to Winnipeg bj
tne Canadian National Railway'
and if the oil content of these
mammals is found to be suffi
ciently high, it is probable tha1
r h refinery will be established a'
Churchill and the west will gair
a new industry. Although the
5 tanning process is rather diffi
1 cult, it is said that the skin o
these whales make good leather
The whales weigh about 150i
' pounds each.
- Dr. Alex Hrdlicka, famous an
7 thropologist, left Juneau las
week for Seattle aboard th
steamer Admiral Evans, afte
i a summer spent on Kodiak Is
° land, where he said he foun
traces of an early civilization.
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Scientists To
Study in North
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A party of scientists which in
cludes, Frank T. Davies, McGill
University; S. T. McVeigh, chem
ical engineer, Queen’s Univer
sity, Kinston, Ont.; Dr. B. W.
Currie, physicist, University of
Saskatchewan and John P. Rea,
ooservor, have proceeded to -t
Chesterfield Inlet on the north
western shore of Hudson Bay to
undertake a series of observa
tions which, it is believed, will
relieve considerably the problems
of navigators withui the mag
netic disturbance zone. The
party will remain in this isolat
ed post all winter. They have
taken in with them scientific
equipment that is valued at more
than a million dollars, the most
elaborate ever taken so far
north for the study of terres
trial magnetism, earth currents,!
aurora, meteorological and up
per air work. j
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Money Again Conies
Out of Hoarding
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Money is corning out of hoard -
ing in substantial quantities, ac -
cording to the Federal Reserve
board.
Between July 6 and August 31
‘‘the first substantial movement
in this direction since last
March occurred with $85,000,000
estimated to have returned from
circulation,” the board announc
ed.
New Altitude
Mark Credited
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A new world’s airplane altitude
record of 43,976 feet was official
ly accredited to Capt. Cyril
TJwins, crippled test pilot for the
Bristol Aviation Company, Lon
c»on, England.
The mark was made September
16 at Bristol. It is 795 feet a
fcove the former record, held by
j Lieut. Appolo Soucek, of the
United States Navy.
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G.O.P. Clbim Maine
November Election
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Gov. William Tudor Gardiner
of Maine told Republican lead
ers at campaign headquarters
that Maine would not go in Nov
I ember the way ii went in the
recent state election.
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Cutting Quits G.O.P.
i Commitee In Huff
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; | Senator Bronson Cutting re
! signed as Republican national
■; committeeman for New Mexico
; when the state convention de
.. cimed to seat the delegation
i from Santa Fe County, of whicli
i he was a member, as the full*
- accredited representation of the
t county.
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ANGRY BEES STING
LABORER TO DEATF
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Stung seventeen times by an
gry bumblebees, disturbed by hi;
scythe, W. N. Smith, 47, a labor
er, Fort Worth, Texas, died las
v/eek. Fellow workmen rescue
him from the bees and took bin
t home.
An Editorial
“Shoot And Be Damned”
Whom the Gods Would Destroy They
First Make Mad
It is not often that editors of
any paper have the opportunity
to write up their own scandais,
obituaries or front page news. A
new experience in the short life
of the editor of the Alaskan gives
him this experience. Here is the
£tory:
Recently we published «n art
icle on the effects of withdrawal
of territorial funds on the banks
in Alaska. Hon. John Rustgard,
attorney general for Alaska,
made attempt to have Auditor
Cash Cole indicted for “writing
and publishing the statement.”
But as only the word of a local
(Petersburg man) without source
of foundation, asserted that Mr.
Cole was the author of the art
icle, Cole could not be indicted.
Wanting to make a strong
showing with the Banks, because
his feet were slipping away from
the votes of the fishermen, John
Rustgard assisted by two Peters
burg men insisted that the edi
tor of the Alaskan be indicted
for editing and publishing that
article which showed the sad
state of affairs in the Territorial
treasury due to misinformation
presented the Legislature by the
Treasurer.
We may be indicted. We have
tried to break into jail several
Staff Captain Joseph Acton
left for British Columbia ports
to visit the various Citadels
where the Salvation Army work
b carried on.
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B. C. Beer Drinkers
Go On Strike
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The size of a 10-cent glass of
beer at up-island beer parlors
has been diminished until cus
tomers are so scarce and profits
| so small hotel owners and other
operators are going into a huddle
about it.
Plans are oeing laid for a con
fnence of hotel men and beer
parlor operators at Nanaimo, B.
C. next month with the im
provement of the beer market
as their object.
One operator explained that
since the wholesale price has
been raised $1 a barrel, the re
tailer has had to cut down the
quantity in the 10-cent glass
and the consumers have pro
tested by refraining from drink
ing in paying volume.
Rails Cut 20 Per
Cent in Wages
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Recommendation for a 20 pe:
cent wage cut for all employes o
the nation’s railroads was vote<
by officials representing t h <
leading systems of the country
The reduction, if it is put inti
effect, will include a 10 per cen
cut for one year which the Bro
i tiierhoods accepted last Febru
jary, and an additional 10 pe
•' cent off the basic wage scale.
51 No sooner had the action o
■ the railway heads been announ
i ed than officials of the railroa
1 j brotherhoods in Cleveland decla
i |ed that any further cut would b
{fought to the limit.
times within the past few
months and may yet succeed.
Eut we publish facts and to se
cure conviction for the publish
ing of facts that hurt the clique
tnat has controlled Alaska’s
political affairs is something not
so easy as it might sound. We
are willing to go into court at
any time—nor will we have to
hide behind any politician, clique
or organization now or at any
other time and pretend to be
a decent honest citizen.
We remember an occasion
when George Arthur Shoup, erst
v.'hile district attorney got hold
of the hot end of a poker when
pulling somebody else’s political
chestnuts out of the fire. He was
so badly scorched that he event
ually went south as counsel or
something of that sort for thf»
Southern Pacific Railroad. Those
he attempted to hurt are still in
Alaska.
Like the Irish, the writer be"
lieves that no good will be ac
complished in the political situ
ation in Alaska until somebody
is thrown into jail. When that is
done, then the situation will be
gin to clear up and Alaska will
begin to have rule of the brand
that no decent American need be
ashamed of.
Hoover Speaks Oct.
4, at Desmoines
President Hoover has won his
fight against anxious Republican
advisers who wanted him to
make a countrywide speaking
jtour. He will make the first of
[three major speeches for re
flection on October 4, at Des
! Moines, la. Dates of the other
,two have not been decided on.
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Reindeer Operations
To Begin Again
Immediate resumption of op
perations in Nome for the mar
keting of Alaska reindeer meat,
'was an announcement made ov
’Carl Lomen, recently.
Mr. Lomen said he had re
ceived unofficial vindication of
their policies of conducting rein
'deer herds in Alaska and added,
‘•While a public report has not
yet been filed on the hearing in
Nome and while we are still a
waiting announcement by the
interior secretary, we have been
informed by federal investigat
ors that nothing has been found
to reflect on our operations.
“With this assurance we can
• go ahead with the business of
: | slaughtering several thousand
l head of reindeer in Alaska.”
Unemployment in
Britian increases
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r All previous high levels of un
employment in Great Britain
f were surpassed in August, official
c figures revealed. They showed
3 [2,859,828 unemployed on August
r|22. The previous high record of
e j 2,825,772 was set In September,
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