GUARANTEED CIRCULATION
COVERING
SOUTHEAST ALASKA
\
NEWS OF INTEREST
FROM NORTH, EAST & WEST
FOR ALL ALASKANS
VOLUME NO. VII.
NO. 7
PETERSBURG, ALASKA,
SEPTEMBER 2, 1932
Subscription Price $4 per yeaf
An Editorial
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Keep Your $$$ Al
Home
Is the title of an advertise
ment in Stroller’s Weekly, paic
for by the Juneau Commercia
Association. It says:
“If you really desire to see Ju
neau prosper and grow, keep
your $$$ at home. There is nc
more reason to send Outside for
your mercantile wants than
there is for the merchant to send
Outside for his labor. Because
some few persons fudge and
patronize Outside concerns is no
reason why YOU should do so.
Individual effort is what builds
up a community. Individual dol
lars help to make that communi -
ty prosperous. If the thousands
cf dollars sent to the mail order
houses were kept at home, think
how many would come back to
you during the course of a year.
If you are proud of Juneau, her
fine buildings and paved streets,
her magnificent buildings and
splendid school system, remem
ber these improvements were
not built by one cent of the mail
order dollar. If you think it over
we believe you will BUY AT
HOME.”
We add, if you really desire to
see Juneau, Petersburg, Wran
gell, Ketchikan and every other
Alaska town prosper see to it
that industry employs local lab
or which in turn serves as a
market avenue for your goodJ.
There is no cannery in south
eastern Alaska that needs to
send outside for its workers and
fishermen. Because one or two
concerns have such a policy is
no reason why all should adopt
that policy. The individual dol
lars of the individual fishermen
and laborers help—and in fact
do, make the community pros
peous. If the residents are send
ing out to mail order houses for
supplies it is because rock bot
tom prices permit the stretch
ing of the few dollars to a great
er point than is permitted in
local markets. For instance, one
family sent out fdr shoes and
secured five pair of shoes for
what the head of the house paid
for one pair for himself.
It is a known fact that the re
sident fishermen are the best
spenders when they earn any
thing during the summer. When
they do not earn, then they send
outside for supplies. The loss of
the spending power is now being
felt. The Juneau Commercial
Club should interest itself more
in the welfare of those who pur
chase their supplies in Alaska
and see to it that instead of
fighting them through the legis
lature, through the fishing in
dustry, they should stand back
cf them and fight to secure for
them an economic freedom.
When the Commercial Clubs
adopt such a general policy then
they will not need to beg resi
dent labor to “keep its dollars
at home.” They will just do it
without any begging.
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Being popular doesn’t leave
much time for making real
friends.
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A soft answer doesn’t turn
av/ay as much wrath as a hard
look.
Lots of people think the world
owes them five or six livings.
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The hard thing about making
money last is making it first.
Law Prohibits
Salary Split
A law against salary splittin;
or subletting of jobs has beei
called up to confront congress
men who have been explaininj
to their constituents that althi
they listed wives, children, in
laws and absentees on the con.
gressional payroll, the monei
actually went to others whc
were doing the work.
Of more than 100 congress
men revealed as employing re
latives, many facing hard fights
to retain their seats have pro
tested that the family names
were listed merely as a conveni
ence and the salaries actually
paid to working clerks. Many oi
them face defeat because of this
issue.
Rep. McSwain, Democrat,
South Carolina, is being strong
ly criticized in his primary race
for carrying on his payroll a
young man who was attending
the University of South Carolina.
His answer was that while the
young man was absent at school
his work here at Washington
was done by others.
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Variety Theatre To
Open Saturday
The Variety Theatre will be
open to the theathre fans Sat
urday night with Marie Dressier
and Wallace Beery starring in
4 Min and Bill.” This is one o:
the biggest picture attractions
of the past year. The attendance
records alone would indicate the
drawing power of that old lady
who refused to be shelved be
cause she was neither young or
pretty.
Marie Dressier was at the
height of her glory and popular
ity in “Tillie’s Punctured Ro
mance when most of the present
high school generation were in
their swadling clothes—or even
before. But she faded out of the
kleig lights and got to the point
even where benefit concerts were
put on for her benefit. She fool
ed by stealing the show from
Grta Garbo in “nna Christie’
and has held front rank as a
box office attraction ever since.
The Variety has been com
pletely equipped with new sound
apparatus, re-wired and is ready
for operation following two years
without lights in the place. A
fine program of pictures is pro
mised as regular attractions.
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Jim Wicks planned to cut his
first supply of lumber at the
Scow Bay Mills. He has leveled
off the yards and will fill in with
decking to take care of such
stock as he cuts for future or
ders.
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Roy Anderson is scheduled to
wrestle with Young Zybisko in
Wrangell on Labor Day. Those
who attend this match will see
a real scrap for both of the men
have a reputation of giving of
their best.
The local wokers who spent
the summer in Scow Bay have
all returned to town but are not
making much of a splurge with
their earnings. Every little helps
during these queer days or is it
daze.
tysy-?_CyA ,t‘,lIiohiv lTnfl vli
E. Cooper, Wrangell and Pat
Hollywood are guides for the
Schilling Party of game hunters
which was in port, Monday.
Red Cross To Aid
i Clothe Need)
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r The American Red Cross wil
i initiate its cotton distributer
. program by procuring piec<
r goods to be made into clothing
) for the needy and distressed bj
. Red Cross chapters, other loca!
. production units and housewives
r A. L. Schafer, manager of the
> Pacific Area, announces.
Formation of the central cot
• ton distribution office to dispose
cf 500,000 bales of government
i cotton has been effected at
Washington, D. C., under the
; general direction of James L.
Fieser, Vice Chairman.
At the present time prints,
gmgham, muslin, outing flannel,
shirting and bird’s-eye are re
quired. Interested manufactur
ers are invited to write to the
Central Cotton Distribution Of
fice, American Red Cross at
Washington, D. C., for specifica
tions, and other information.
An official statement says
merchandise will be bought from
stock or made at prices which
repesent cost or market which
ever is lower. Payment will be
made in raw cotton, that is, ne
gotiable instruments thereof.
George S. Harris, former presi
dent of the American Cotton
Manfacturers Association, now a
director of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Atlanta, is serving as
textile expert for the Red Cross.
The Red Cross estimates that
jfully 90,000 volunteers in Chap
ters throughout the country will
be available to start production
work immediately.
In the Pacific Area, Mr. Schaf
er reports many chapters have
perfected their Production units
and now await materials on
which to begin work.
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Pinchot Demands
Davis Resign
Governor Gifford Pinchot’s de
mand that Senator James J. Da
vis resign as Republican nomin
ee for the Senate because of his
indictment on lottery charges
has developed a state party feud
that threatens to split the Re
publican party in Pennsylvania.
Gen. Edward Martin, Republi
can state chairman has received
the demand. Pinchot, ignorin
Davis personally, wrote Martin
demanding the Republican state
committee secure Davis’ resigna
tion because of the Senator’s al
leged participation in a lottery
conducted by the Loyal Order of,
Moose.
CANADIAN LINES MAY BE
JOINED
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Reports from Montreal indi
cate the possibility of a consolid
ation of the government-owned
Canadian National Railways with
the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The United Press was told that
the Royal Commission of Rail
ways is considering a proposal
along the lines of “one efficient
head for both Canadian rail
ways.” An announcement is ex
pected shortly.
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A Are on the gasboat Lincoln
Rock near the Union Oil dock,
Wrangell was the cause of hurt
ful burns which John McCollugh
is suffering. They had just pull
ed away from the dock when the
fire broke out. The vessel was
sunk by chopping a hole in her
huff.
School to Open
f Tuesday Sept 6
[ Everything is in readiness fo?
i the opening of school at 9:00 a
> m., Tuesday, Sept. 6. The schoo]
; building has been thoroughly
r cleaned throughout. The old oi]
. has been removed from the floors
, and a clean sanitary dressing
has been applied over the entire
floor surface. The heating plant
has been overhauled and other
minor repairs made throughout
the building.
With the gymnasium almost
completed a bright school year
is to begin for the young people
of Petersburg.
A text book fee of 25% of the
cost of the text books will be
charged high school students
and a laboratory and breakage
fee of $1.50 will be charged for
biology and chemistry students.
The breakage fee cf $1.00 will
be returned at the end of the
year providing no equipment is
broken. Also a fee for typing
students, the amount of which
is yet undetermined, will be
charged to help covef the cost of
the upkeep of the typewriters.
New classes that will be of
fered this year are biology, ad
vanced algebra and solid geome
try, economics, junior high
school, art and physical educa
tion.
Mr. Lloyd Vincent will be
Coach and physical education
director. Classes in physical edu
cation will be offered to students
in all grades and high school.
The teaching staff is as fol
lows:
Miss Impi Aalto, first grade;
Miss Hanna Anderson, second
grade; Miss Cornelia Christian
sen, third grade; Miss Alta Vir
ginia Peters, fourth grade; Miss
Verda Garner, fifth grade; Mr.
Thomas Winsor, sixth grade;
Mr. R. O. Warfield, Junior High
School; Mr. A. L. Boyer, Junior
High School and Manual arts;
Miss Bertha Lero, Math, and
Latin; Miss Dorothy Ruth Scott,
Science and Spanish; Miss Sarah
C Jasenhans, Commercial and
English; Mr. Lloyd Vincent, So
ial Science and Physical educa
tion; Rev. W. J. Maakestad, Or
chestra; Mr. George V. Beck,
Superintendent, Office training
and Library.
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KANAKANAK NURSE DIES
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Miss Fourney, member of the
nursing staff at the government
hospital at Kanakanak, in Bris
tol Bay, died recently following
illness of only one afternoon, is
a report from Anchorage. She
was buried the day following her
death at Kanakanak.
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The proposed Pacific Highway
from Blaine, Washington to
Fairbanks, Alaska, opening up
the interior of Alaska to both
Canadian and United States
commerce, will cost $14,300,000.
The highway will open up 370,
000,000 acres o fland along its
2,225-mile course.
POPULATION OF CANADA
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| Of the population of Canada,
46.3 are rural dwellers and 53.7
?re in urban centers. Ten year?
sgo the proportions were 50.5
per cent rural and 49.5 ueoan.
The largest proportion of 'rural
population is found in Prince
Edward Island where the coun
try residents represent 76.8 per
cent of the total population of
that province.
| Dry Faction Swings
‘ To President Hoove
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Reaffirming his indorsemen
of President Hoover and pre
dieting his re-election, Dr. Dan
iel Poling, chairman of the allies
forces for rPohibition, has madi
public a lecter he received fron
the President in which the ex
ecutive says the “are on commoi
ground in the desire to rid thi
civilization of the evils of the li.
quor traffic.”
To that statement, the Presi
dent added: “We may not al
agree on the method,” and h<
outlined the stand he had ex
pressed in his acceptance speech
for state determination of the li.
puor problem, with federal guar
antees against the return of the
stlaan and against wet invasion
of dry states.
Dr. Poling expressed the opin -
ion that President Hoover is de
cisively dry personally and po
litically, while Governor Roose
velt is dry personally but wet po
litically.
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Natives Return to
Barrow in Safety
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A score of exhausted Eskimos,
who recently went on board the
Baychimo, phantom vessel of the
Arctic,e got back after a here
battle with the elements.
The Baychimo was drifting
westward whent they last saw
her. They brought back nothing
of value The men were on the
ice for 72 hours before they were
able to reach land.
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Poll Digests to Suit
1 Either Party
Last month Manager Farley
predicted Governor Roosevelt
would beat President Hoover “by
the greatest electoral majority
ever given a Democratic nomi
nee for President in a two-party
flght.” The Roosevelt headquart
ers forecast of the 531 Electoral
College votes:
Sure Democratic—247, includ
ing Missouri, New York, Colorado
Washington.
Probably Democratic—99, in
cluding Illinois, Indiana, Kansas,
Nebraska, Wisconsin.
Doubtful—100, including Iowa,
Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio,
Connecticut.
Probably Republican—85, in
cluding California, Michigan.
Pennsylvania.
On July 30. the Kiplinger
Washington Agency, on the basis
of its own reports, “indicated
Hoover’s re-election” as follows:
Sure Hoover—131, including
Iowa, Kansas and California.
Doubtful Hoover—153, includ
ing New York, Massachusetts,
New Jersey, Ohio, Wisconsin.
Sure Roosevelt—168, including
Missouri. f *
Doubtful Roosevelt—79, in
cluding Indiana, Illinois, Wash
ington, Nebraska.
Total: Hoover—284; Roosevelt
—247.
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M. K. Sniffen, secretary of the
Indian Rights Association of
Philadelphia, 1 e ft Ketchikan
Sunday for British Columbia
points in qrder that he might
observe the workings of the Ca
nadian fisheries regulations as
compared to the Alaskan.
Fish Bayer Battle
\ Canuck Hijackers
t Three men attempted to hi
- jack the fish-buying boa of A. J.
. Entvik in the Gulf of Georgia.
1 Entvik was awakened by a flash
; light and gave battle to the in
i tiuders.
He was finally knocked out
1 with a blow from a revolver, but
5 his cries awoke two other mem
. bers of his crew who came to his
rescue as the hijackers fled from
the boat.
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: Investigate Buying
Of U. S. Salmon
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Canadian salmon fishermen
were responsible for an investi
gation of charges that British
Columbia canners are buying U.
S. salmon in Puget Sound and
selling it under British Columbia
labels to secure the benefit of
British preferene duties.
Tom Reid, member of parlia
ment, promised the objecting
fishermen that the Dominion
Government would immediately
investigate the situation.
British Columbia fishermen
are not permitted to export
lresh fish as a result of a ruling
obtained b cannerymen.
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DEER HAD 120 POINTS
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Jim (Coyote) Smith, Colusa:
California, cattleman, has found
a deer’s antlers containing 120
points. Smith found the deer’s
carcass while looking for cattle
The points on the antlers range
from one-half inch to ten inches
SHOTGUN KILLS YOUTH
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David Owen, 17 years old, thot
his gun was not loaded when he
started to clean it. Two reports
of the weapon—the lad sinks to
the ground never to know uhat
the gun was loaded.
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Not a few of Petersburg citi
zens took a squint at the solar
eclipse—something not seen of
ten during any lifetime.
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“DOC” JOHNSON RETURNS
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“Doc” Frank Johnson of came
to Petersburg last Friday noon
and returned to Kake via the
Wanderer. Frank made the swing
from Kake north to Sitka, An
goon, Hoonah and Juneau look
ing over the economic situation
among the native people of those
villages. He reports conditions in
a sad way, insofar as money
earnings and employment was
concerned, but considerble pre
jparation going on by the plant
ing of gardens, preserving of
foods, fish and berries.
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The Scow Bay cannery closed
down operations on the 29th
with a pack of 300 cases less
than 20,000. ish which were be
ing held in the Colpoyse trap
for the last day’s run, got thru
a hole made possibly by a seal.
Otherwise the 20,000 cases would
have been filled.
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JOHANSON CHILD DIES
The two-year-old daughter of
|Mr. and Mrs. Ehrling Johanson
died Wednesda in the Peters
burg Hospital following a long
illness in connection with remov
al of her appendix.
Funeral services were held
this afternoon and interment
made in the local cemetery