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I THE ARCTIC CLUB I
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HOMS OF THE FISHERMEN
:j FOU. TINE OF TOBACCOS & CONFECTIONERY I
(lying
Halibut
Salmon
Sablefish
Fetcrttu g. Jtncnt si cl Ketchikan
•sr^l a
jlj? u y 1
Salmon
For Freezing, Mildewing and Shipment
Fresh at
Chatham and ftoyes island
New England
Fish Company
Ct.
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Est. 1868 |
‘"Always in the Market”
•re Departments - Oil Stations - Wire- l
less Stations at Chatham and
Noyes Island
Saturday Specia
1
Gold Shield Coffee
45c
2 for 85c
Sanitary MarKet
WE Move Anythirg Lccte On Cue End
reliable transfer
General Hauling
Phones -~ 3 and 12
> we care not. But be it right we
■ stand squarely on our own feet
I1 and tell the world; if the prin
ciple be ever so popular and it
be wrong, we will j ust as squarely
5 oppose it.
i i hough the houses be lor sale
[ cheap, principle is one thing
| chut can have no price.
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ALASKA COAL
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I The main reason for the build
* ing of the Alaska Rai.road was
\ .n order that the' Alaska coal
[ from Matanuska district might
; bo marketed. This has been done
* only in a limited way. Coal is be
; ing shipped from Canada into
Alaska and in markets which
j should be supplied by the Ma
tanuska coal fields. The coal is
good, according to the govern
ment tests. Since these fields are
now hedged in by regulation so
hat they cannot compete with
foreign coal m'no?, what is the
excuse for keeping the railroad
open. And by uns question we
do not wish it inferred that we
ore for the closing down of that
road. No, sir!
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LEGISLATORS
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It is evident that when we
secure one-half of the Legis
: !ature to stand for the interests
: of the Territory there is im
; provemnt over other years. The
; trouble with securing progress
; ive legislation in Alaska is clue
■ to the reactionary representa
' tives who are sent to the legis
: lature and who spend all the
; lime and efforts to blocking
legislation that would be of be
nefit to the territory. The vote
; which sends progressive legisla
1 tors into office turns right
! around and sends reactionaries
l in. Send the whole works—of
[ either side and be clone with it.
I Either an entire progressive
[ ticket or a ticket entirely ultra
|, conservative or reactionary.
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GAFhNEY MAKES STRONG
! SPELGIi ON CONTROLLER
Juneau Empire 19^7
Veteran Legislator Attacks
' Controllor Bill
Praises Gov. Parks’s Messeage.
‘The House today began its
I debate on the celebrated Con
itroller Bill and it was expeeted
! ihat a vote would be reached
! this afternoon. Passage of the
j measure was expected.
| “Representative Gaffney,
i Nome, had delivered the princi
pal address against the measure
at mid-afternoon. It was a
carefully prepared address, im
pressively delivered and carried
a sustained and logical argu
ment against the measure which
he scornfully termed a piece of
i ‘rainbow-chasing, job-creating
legislation.’
Ross Opens Debate
' Representative Ross, Fair
banks, opened the debate with a
j short talk approving the mea
j sure. He denied it was a radical
t departure from established
1! forms of Territorial government.
11 Heretofore, he noted, the Legis
tjlatures of Alaska have utilized
| j existing machinery- in govern
11 mental administration. In this
♦ j manner many duties have been
♦ j piled upon the Governors and
| Secretaries of the Territory.
| j many of which must perforce by
11 (be) entrusted to clerks by rea
;! j son of their multiplicity. It was
2 j not fair to overburden these
J officers, he argued, and it was
;{| right and proper for the legis
jj ‘ lature to create new offices tc
jj i take care of new duties,
it Please for Governor
:: Mr. Gaffney delivered his ad
jj1 dress from manuscript from
i|i which, however, he departed
it | upon several occasions. Once he
tlpicked up a printed copy ol
2 Gov. George A. Parks’ biennial
♦ message to the Legislature and
"* quoted passage after passage
! from it which, he asserted, con
tained the most forceful argu
i J ments possible to be uttered
! j against the measure.
[j ‘I suppose you would call him
, a bureau chief,’ he declared. ‘1
j. wish to God we had many more
I | men of his type in Alaska.’ He
] cited the Governor’s figures or
cost of governmental adminis
tration, six per cent of the total
revenues and challenged ' pro
ponents of the bill and business
men generally to lower this in
either government or business.
They never tell you in figures
liow much it costs to run their
political scheme. Ah, No! They
never touch figures in detail.
Only a mass of glittering gener
ities to blind the unthinking
public.
Points to Differences
And after reading again from
he Governor’s message, he de
clared: ‘What a distinct differ
ence between Gov. Parks and
Mr. Wickersham? Let us corn
rare the homely but logical de
letions in the message of our
Governor. Here every phase of
Alaska’s conditions are laid bare,
* every sphere of the Territory’s
ndustries are analyzed, every
problem confronting us receives
die most minute and searching
scrutiny. Solutions for the many
ntricate phases of our social,
j .Oiiiical and industrial activities
| ; re offered with a clearness ana
t vigor characteristic of the rug
ged honesty and fearlessness of
our Executive. He warns against
experimental legislation, mean
ing undoubtedly measures like
| he Controller Bill and other
measures of like ilk. His youth
mi and highly technical mind
deal not with visionary projects
but with cold realities. He sees
■ Alaska, her people and condi
tions as they are from a close
up picture, having traversed the
Territory from one end to an
other last summer. His long con
tinuous residence, his associa
tions with the ‘roughneck’ as
’.veil as the business man or
professional man, gives him the
| background on which to base his
! opinions. And like the rugged
i mountains of the country which
‘ God destined him to preside
| over, he stands unawed and un
| alterable in his sound convic
I tions by the political blizzards
j that howl around his head.’
Tribute to Wickersham
| Mr. Gattney opened his ad
dress by paying a compliment to
j the ‘master mind of Mr. Wicker
! sham’ whom he described as the
principal proponent of the mea
sure. But, he asked, ‘Is it not
\ possible he may be mistaken in
the wisdom he is see nlng to bring
about? It is not po. able that in
his political retirement he has
estranged himself fiom the in
timate knowledge of interior and
northwestern Alaska with which
be was once so close'y in touch?
Evidently his mind does not
visualize that the days of the
individual in that vast stretch
of country from Seward to
Kotzebue sound is a thing of the
past. That were it not for capi
tal, the flourishing camps he
once knew in the heydey of
their success would be as dead
as Siberia where they have so
many Control Boards they man
nge to keep that mineralized
country a wilderness. Or, pro
bably, living in the Panhandle
of. Alaska, his political vision is
circumscribed by the narrow
strip of land that extends from
Icy Strait to the Canadian bor
der. Or, it may be chafing under
the restraints of political in
activity, he again seeks the al
uiements of public life.’
Analyizes Controller Pamphlet
Mr. Gaffney disposed of the
printed pamphlets advocating
the passage of the Controller
Bill in a few biting sentences
It did not show one benefit thal
would be derived from it by the
industrial, economic, or political
life of Alaska, he declared. It
uncontained only one impress
ive subject, he asserted, ‘that oJ
creating a political superstruc
ture and add to the bureaucratic
| system which he derisively stig
matizes ‘A new litter of pups.
Clear through the pamphlet is
the specious, sugarcoated argu
ment that the bill, if it becomes
i a lav/—and I know it won’t—
1 will be a step to statehood, with
out population ail Control Bills
you might pass for the next 2C
. years would not bring you one
step nearer statehood much less
a full form of Territorial Gov
erment, which would be the first
step instead of the patchwork
this bill aims to establish.’
Close with Defi
Mr. Gaffney closed his speed
with a defiance to those who
would whip reluctant legislators
into line with threats of defeat
at future elections:
‘Will this cajolery, intimida
tion, threats of political death,
| ihe kiss of death it was called,
sway legislators from the sense
of rightousness, or what they in
wardly believe to be right? Will
it force them to drive tiie Ter
ritory into industrial darkness
while political industry will bark
in the sunshine of that offices.
T think not and I believe my
judgement will be verified when
the roll call of this House has
passed into history. For my part,
paraphrasing the words of a
great American ‘Give me liberty
of thought and action or give me
political death.’ Let the bosses
who selected me as their agent
:n this assembly—I mean the
''Oters of the Second Division
give their verdict at the polls.
I yield to their decision but
never to the autocracy of a seli
appointed political boss, or th'
swishing of a master’s whip. Mr.
Speaker with the courage of my,
conviction as a free and inde
pendent member of this legisla
ture I will record my vote in the j
,ournal of this house as opposed
to the passage of this act for the |
reasons I have stated.’
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Divisional Notes
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WRANGELL
Miss Marjorie Johnson has]
been chosen‘as a member of the j
Whitman College Giee Club fori
its November 1930 tour. She1
made her place out of a large
field of candidates.
Mrs. W. C. Waters left last
week to join her husband at the
funeral of their sen James who
was killed in an auto accident
near Palo Alto, California.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo C. Patenaude
left for the winter stay at their
home in Tacoma. A little early
fer the start but the poor health
of Mrs. Patenaude made the trip
necessary.
Dr. R. N. Scruby who purchas
ed the practice of Dr. Whaley
and is now on the job. He form
erly practiced at Kennecot Cop
per Mines in the employ of the
big copper company.
Capt. S. C. Barrington, hero
of Willoughby Barrett’s “Gentle
aian Unafraid,” published in the
American Magazine, and purser
Dar. Smith, left for Seattle. The
Barrington fleet of river craft
j s laid up for the year,
i Steps are being taken to have
.prison labor do work on the
street along the beach front, by
the Customs House.
The City Council has accepted
the ‘'Community Gymnasium”
from the Association which con
structed that building. With ac
ceptance of the building they
agree to pay off balance due on j
the hall which amounts to less j
than a thousand dollars.
JUNEAU
| The office of the American I
Express Company at Juneau, j
! Cash Cole agent, reports that an
j attempt was made last week b>
Isome one to force entrance into
I the office. The intruder was j
| reared away before getting the]
'door opened.
| H. W. Terhune, Executive Sec
i retary of the Alaska Game Com
mission left for a trip to the
Westward.
j Doc. Freeberger and J. S. Mac
Kinnon who went to Berner’s
Bay on a duck hunt and were
over due giving their friends a
scare, returned. They were de
layed on account of the weather.
i The Coast Guard vessel “Tal
lapoosa” now on the Atlantic
| Coast will start for her station
in Alaska on the first of Novem
ber. She replaces the Unalga.
Fourteen delegates, to the
Salvation Army Congress to be
held here beginning on the 23rd
of this month, arrived from Yak
utat. A number of these expect j
to attend the convention of the
Alaska Native Brotherhood at
; Ketchikan next month.
The Juneau Lumber Mills is |
closed down for the winter.
Candidates for nomination for j
federal offices in Alaska are pull- ,
ing all the political strings and
II wires possible. It is expected that;
COLISEUM
Theatre
“Where Sound Sounds Best” •
Saturday
“The Two Black Crews/’ Moran and
Mack in
“Why Bring that Up”
On account of the public meeting at The Coliseum to
night, “The Two Black Crows11 will apppear but one
night only. If you miss this big fun-maker it will be
just your hard luck,
2 Vitaphone Acts - 2 News Reels 2
And a Comedy
Canterbury Candy Nile
Sunday
The show YOU have been waiting
For:
“Tke Song of Kentucky”
A Fcx Movietone with Lois Moran and
Joseph Wagstaff
Vitaphone Acts
News Reels
And Comedies
.he rresiuent " will make liis
iiommations to tne benate as
3oon us it convenes.
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KLiiVv OCK
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John Nickerson died of a com
.licaujn of diseases at the
Neichikan General Hospital Iasi
veek. r uneral services were held
ar the baivation Army Citadel,
Japt. Marjury ur charge and as
nsied by Sergeant-Major Bob
smith, after which the Army
md its oand escorted the re
nains to die eny float where a
aoat was prepared to transport
die body to Kiawock.
KAKE DOUGH
The "Order of Mumps” a swell
mciety is still gaining new mem
bers from the younger set.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Eddie
Williams, a 7 pound baby girl,
October third. Both mother anu
, a by are getting along fine.
Miss Loutie Jackson was given
a party Thursday in honor of her
fifteenth birthday. Those at
tending were Margaret Williams,
Grace Austin, Mamie Moran,
Esther Davis, Daisy Jackson,
Nellie James, George Skeek, Ro
uen, Barney, David Joseph, Ron
a.d Bean, Lloyd Davis, Billy
Barnes, Donald Williams, Willie
Grant, the guest of honor and
her mother, Mrs. Willis Jackson
Alter an evening spent with
games and dancing, dainty re
freshments were served.
KETCHIKAN
Edward S. Stackpole, post
graduate of Roosevelt High ol
Seattle left for Annapolis where
he will enter the Naval Academy
Stackpole secured his appoint
ment through Delegate Suther
land.
Mrs. Irene Gore, during the
absence of Commissioner W. C
Arnold out on a hunting spree
has been acting U. S. Commis
sioner.
Dr. W. E. Peterson, Dr. R. V
Ellis, K. L. Steberg, C. Ferris
Nick Carter and Nick Spaulding
left last week on board the Vir
ginia, piloted by Ca.pt Louis Vig
for ther annual trip to then
hunting lodge near Petersburg
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KETCHIKAN
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Captain and Mrs. H. C. Her
mann accompanied by theii
daughter Virginia, and two sons
Donald and Jack will leave on
the Northland for the states,
Captain Hermann, commander
of the coast guard Cygan, hav
ing recently been transferred to
Port Townsend. The well wishes
of the many friends they have
made in Ketchikan will go with
Captain and Mrs. Hermann.
Emil Meldahl and Miss Emma
Haugen were united in marriage
at 8:30 o’clock Tuesday night in
the Episcopal church of St Phil
lips the Rev. Harry P. Corser of
ficiating. The ceremony was a
private one, performed in the
presence of Mrs. Auther Ander
son. sister of the bridegroom and
Mr. Anderson.
Mrs William A. Holzheimer,
who entered the hospital last
week for medical care, is greatly
improved.
Mrs. P. G. Charles, who enter
ed the hospital the fore part of
the week, was able to leave for
her home Thursday.
Mrs. T. R. Daily is a patient
at the hospital, having been ad
mitted Wednesday for medical
attention.
Mrs. C. L. Cloudy entered the
hospital Sunday, October 5, for
medical care.
C. E. Fowler, who was taken to
j the hospital a week ago sneering
j with pneumonia, is improving.
Pete Cramer, light house em
ployee from the Cope Descision
j light house station, a patient at
!1, he hospital for the past week
is getting along nicely. He was
the hospital a week ago suffering
ing with blood poison in his
; hand.
John Nickerson, native, was
iedmitted to the hospital Mon
day, October 6, and passed away
! Tuesday, following a major
; operation.
Abraham .Nelson, a Metlakatla
native, is a patient at the hospit
al having been admitted Wed
' nesday, October 8.
Arthur B. Leonard is receiving
medical care at the hospital.
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MERGERS OF POPULATIONS
ARE ASSURED
Speaking: at the International
Congress of Philosophy at Ox
| ford, Prof. W. Lutoslawski, soviet
delegate, forshadows the time
when the world will contain only
a few great nations, and draws
a picture of the national state
of the future.
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I Republican political meeting at
|th Coliseum Theatre tonight.