VOLUME NO. 5.
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PETERSBURG, ALASKA, NOVEMBER 28, 1930.
NUMBER 19
“All Quiet on the
Western Front”
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The greatest crowd that ever
went to see any show since eith
er silent or talking pictures
came to Petersbrug, was the
crowd which wont to see “All
Quiet On The Western Front”
showing in the MacGregor
Theatre beginng Thursday
night. The entire balcony was
sold out and all but a few seats
on the main floor were occupi
ed. Many finding the best seats
sold out left planning to see
this greatest of war pictures to
night.
This war picture is the most
human document of the entire
great World War taken from the
most popular novel of modern
times. The scenes were mar
velous to the spectacular point
and the effects picturized by the
camera were amazing. The
story itself grips one almost like
sin as it is woven through the
real story of the worlds greatest
conflict bare of war propaganda.
The story itself is the story of
the human race with its pas
sions of hate, greed, and the
baser elements of man.
The picture without doubt is
without peer in the film world.
Every picture magazine and
many other magazines have
conceded this to be the greatest
picture of the year. Petersburg
people are fortunate in having
this early an opportunity to see
the big picture of the year and
this is not just an idle press
statement either.
Senator Promises
Fishermen Aid
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Aid to the halibut fishermen
who are protesting adoption of
a new halibut treaty between
Canada and the United States
was promised by Senator Wesley
L. Jones at a crowded meeting in
th Seattle Chamber of Com
merce auditorium,
The fishermen cited their ob
jections to clauses in the pro
posed treaty, their main opposi
tion being to any increase in the
present length of the closed sea
son for halibut fishing.
Dr. Will Thompson, director of
a committee of investigation ap
nointed by the International
Fisheries Commission, replied
to fishermen who arose in their
seats to ask questions concerning
the new treaty and the commis
sion’s iterpretation of its various
clauses.
Catch Limit Derided
His suggestion that the size of
the fish caught be restricted was
cierided by several speakers, who
declared such a thing impossible
The fishermen also objected to.
a separation of fishing areas or
to a restricted catch.
Dr. Thompson pointed out j
that it had taken the investiga- j
tion committee almost four years.
to learn many facts concerning j
ages and sex of halibut.
Henry O’Malley, United States!
Commissioner of Fisheries, de-j
dared, at the close of the meet
ing, that the halibut fishing situ-1
ation was in bad shape and that
some steps to improve it should
be taken immediately by the
commission and fishermen.
Mrs. Russell York entertained
many friends at a series of card
parties at the home of Mrs.
MacKechnie last week. The
prizes on Thursday evening go
ing to Mrs. James Allen, Mrs.
Ed. Locken and Mrs. Pedei
Lund; On Friday evening to
Mrs. Gabe Sather, Mrs. E. N
Ohmer and Mrs. Wayne Walther
Women Rally to
| Children's Cause
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Washington, D. C.—More than
1700 years ago a children’s cru
'sade brought death to nearly
j 90,000 children.
The new children’s crusade,
led by the President of the Unit
ed States and 1,100 scientific
dealists, will bring more abund
ant life to hundreds of thousands
of children when the plans for
the White House Conference on
Child Health and Protection
come to fruition.
Making surveys of child prob
lems under the direction of the
President and his aides, Secre
tary of the Interior Ray Lyman
Wilbur,chairman of the Confer
ence, and Dr. H. E. Barnard. |
director, are many pioneers in t
work for children. A number are!
women.
One Miss Julia Lathrop was
the first chief of the United
States Children’s Bureau after
its formation. She is a member
of the Planning Committee of!
the Conference held here, and j
also of the Education and Train-;
ing section.
A memorandum prepared by i
Grace Abbott .another pioneer,'
for the League of Nations in
1923 led to an investigation of:
the traffic in women and child-1
ren in the western world. Since
1921 she has been head of the
Children’s Bureau. She is a I
member of the Conference Plan
ning Comittee and of the section \
on Public Health Service and
Administration.
Miss Martha Van Rensselaer’s
name appears upon all the lists
of America’s greatest women.
She is Director of the New York
State College of Home Eco
nomics at Cornell, and a pio
neer in work for farm women j
and children. She is associate!
director of the Conference and!
member of the Training and
Education section.
Lillian D. Wald, founder of i
i he Henry Street Settlement in
New York City, and originator
af the district nursing idea, is
working with the Conference1
section on Education and Train- j
ing. I
Dictator For Cuba
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A bill granting President Ma-;
ehado the power to suspend the;
rights of all Cuba and thereby
invest himself with unqualified
dictatorship was passed by the
senate during its night session. |
The Heroldo de Cuba mean
while published a report which
said that secret police arrested
the student board of directors
of the University of Havana on
charges of sedition for its re
cent demand that President
Machado resign office.
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BOXER HEADS SOUTH
The U. S. B. E. motor ship
Boxer, after the worst season in
more than a score of years in
4 he Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean
headed south and should be in
this port most any time en
route to Seattle. Capt. S. T. L.
Whitlam, master of the 500-ton
vessel reported in to the Seattle;
headquarters that he should ar
rive in that port by the first
week of December.
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The patrol boat “Kittiwake”
of the Bureau of Fisheries has
been on Petersburg Marine Ways
this week for overhauling and
painting.
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Vice President Curtis says
prosperity is just around the
. corner but he failed ’ to point
lout which corner.
Wickersham Declares Himself Barred From
Participating In Benefits from Land Suit
During the recent convention
, of the Alaska Native Brother
hood held in Katchikan, Judge
James Wickersham appeared be
fore the convention at the re
quest of Executive Committee to
make clear the object of the
land suit and to answer the
charges raised by George Grigs
by and the Juneau Empire that
he (Wickersham) had been
charging and collecting $10
from every Indian in South
east Alaska.
Mr. Wickersham explained the
legal status of the claims of
the Indians. He used in par
ticular a decision rendered by
Chief Justice John Marshall in
a similar case by Georgia In
dians to recover payment for
lands taken from them. The
law in the case has not been
changed by any decision of the
Supreme Court of the United
States.
He further explained that suit is
not for recovery of the lands
proper and no ejectment is
sought for lands formerly own
ed and occupied by the Indians.
The erroneous idea has been
prevalent that such was the
plan of the suit. Suit is only
for payment of lands disposses-1
sed without due process of law.
That in event Congress allows
the claims to be presented be
fore the Court of Claims and
favorable decision rendered,
whatever money is paid to Al
askan Indians, be it one mil
lion or twenty millions of dol
lars would go right back into
payment of bills, homes and the
Judge Advises Fisher- ;
Men Work Together
A decision in the case of the1
Bakers Bay Fish Company,
plaintiff, against O. R. Graham
?t ai, defendants, was handed
:lown by Judge W. E. Campbell
in Pacific County Superior Court
at South Bend after several days
af testimony.
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Some forty-five fishermen were
included among the defendants,
engaged in gillnetting around
Peacock Spit at the mouth of
the Columbia River. The case
involved the right of gillnetters
and drag seiners represented by
the Bakers Bay Fish Company
and the hearing was an attQmpt
(o settle the difficulties that(
have confronted the fishermen
for some time.
The court recommended that
it is the duty of the fishermen
to give the same space to the
drag seine as they would give
i he gill-net, and declared that
the difficulties would solve them
selves if an attempt would be j
made by the fishermen to oper-j
ate amicably and extend con-j
sideration to each other.
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The root of the trouble, how
ever, in this instance is the war
with trap men—the drag-sein
ers being dragged into the
feud by the trap operators who
have been trying to get fishing
rights on this famous controver
sial Spit. This fact is known and
recognized by the gillnetters,
their war against the drag-sein
ers hired by trapmen to em
barrass the gillnetters.
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ALASKA RAILROAD MAN
SUFFERS BROKEN BACK
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Fred Johnson, Alaska railroad
official, is being taken to Seattle
I for further treatment for a
broken back. He was injured
about six weeks ago in a fall
from a tree.
[entire territory would be bene
! fitted. Very little if any, oi
ithis money would be hoarded
1 and he could not understand
| why any sane thinking citizen
should oppose the suit which
: would only be of benefit to him.
jThat in the event of ultimate
t success of the suit all proceeds
would be disbursed right here in
Southeast Alaska and every
tradesman and banker should
line up solidly in favor of it.
During his discourse on the
subject he called attention of
the convention to the charge
that he and William L. Paul
had charged and collected a
fee of $10 from every Indian as
fee for carrying on the suit.
He asked if any one in the con
vention had paid a cent to him
or to William Paul or if they
knew of any money that had
been paid over to either of them
or their benefit. Not a member
of the convention, delegate or
visitor signified any knowledge
of this have been done. He
then explained that when and
if permission to present claim
is granted by Congress then
steps would be taken by the
board of trustees appointed at
the Haines convention to col
lect. this money to defray costs
of the suit withess, printing,
etc., but that no part of it was
to be given attorneys as a'fee.
They would have to earn their
fee hv winning the case. In
event they won. they got their
lee; but but if they lost they
got noti ling and those who con
Alien Exclusion for
Redistricting Sought
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Amendment of the reappor-j
tionment law to exclude aliens,
from the 1930 census, upon*
which reapportionment of the
House of Representatives is bas
ed, will be proposed immediate-'
ly after Congress convenes by
Representative I-. J. Dickinson,
Republican, of Iowa, leader of
the House farm bloc and senator
elect.
The effect of this action, he
oeclared, would be to cut down
die prospective gain of House
members from New York, Cal
ifornia, Michigan and Texas.
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PRESBYTERIANS TO SPEND
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A budget of $12,000,000 has
oeen adopted for the benevolent
ictivities of the Presbyterian
Church beginning April 1931.
The figure, decided upon by the
Church’s general council, is the
same as for the current fiscal
year.
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SUPERIOR HIGH BOAT FOR
THE YEAR
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The halibut schooner Superior
with a crew of six men under
Capt. Nels Forde, is said to be
high boat this year operating
out of Ketchikan for halibut.
The division of the proceeds of
the earnings will reach approx
imately $2600 per man. The
The schooner Clipper earns
second place with a share ap
proximately $2400 per man and
the Zenith, Capt John Iversen,
with a crew of nine men will
share approximately $2300 per
: man. But for the fact she
! operated a larger crew than the
! other craft, the Zenith proba
bly would have been high boat
for she was only $300 per share
behind high boat with her nine
man crew against the Superior’s
i six man crew.
, tributed toward the expense of
ihe suit would be out $10 each
as cost.
The attitude of the assembly
furnishes abundant proof of the
ulterior motives of Greoge
Grigsby and the Juneau Empire
:n circulating such a statement
| without making any attempt to
ascertain the truth. It is un
fortunate that neither of them
were present so their shame
might be viewed by the dele
gates. That any political aspirant
or any news organ should thus
carelessly offend by misinform
ing their constituencies is most
amazing. So far as the Empire
i is concerned it has no reputa
tion to lose and the voters of
| Alaska will not forget this in
Idex to the character of Mr.
Grigsby.
Going further into the dis
cussion of the subject, Mr.
Wickersham declared emphati
cally that in event he was elect
ed as Delegate to Congress he
would press the bill for early
action but that he was forever
barred by law from participat-;
ing in the suit in any manner
as an attorney and that he was
forever barred from receiving |
any benefit from any proceeds
derived from the suit. That as
delegate he would work to se
cure passage of the bill and
there his services ended.
The convention ordered new
contracts drawn and entered
into between the board of
directors of this movement and
William L. Paul as attorney.
Industrial Accidents
Kill and Injure Many
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industrial accidents in tnej
United States during 1929 were
responsible for 23,000 deaths, 3,-|
000,000 injuries, and money loss-j
es totalling a billion dollars. Se
cretary of Commerce Robert P.
Lamont said in a speech broad
cast recently in a national radio
hook-up.
New York City alone sustained
a financial loss of $60,000,000, he
said.
Coincident with Mr. Lamont’s
speech, the American Standards
Association made public a state
ment by Cyril Ainsworth, safety
engineer for the association, in
which he declared that at least
1,000 deaths, 125,00 injuries and
a money loss of $40,000,000 “is
the annual toll exacted because
of needlees disagreements in the
industrial safety regulations of
the various states.”
Mr. Ainsworth advocated adop
tion of a uniform national safety
code.
Among other things, he said,
this would result in “better me
chanical guarding of hazardous
machines.
The machine tool industry,
Ainsworth asserted, is ready and
willing to equip all machines it
manufactures with safeguards as
soon as there is brought about
some degree of harmony about
regulations as to what such safe
guards should be.”—LABOR.
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LARGE SIZE OF SOCKEYES
EXPLAINED
An explanation has finally
been found for the extraordin
ary size of sockeye salmon tak
en this year in Puget Sound and
southern British Columbia wat
ers. Major Motherwell tells us
that the British Columbia hat
cheries have been feeding thir
salmon fry on whale meat!—Pa
' cif ic Fisherman.
Accident Statistics
From Interior Dept.
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Washington, D, C—If history|
repeats itself, many thousands
of children will be killed or
maimed by automobiles within
the next twelve months in the
United States.
This statement, according to
Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secre
tary of the Interior and chair
man of the White House Con
ference on Child Health and
Protection, is based upon the oc
c dent statistics of the past
year.
“When I was a boy,” said Sec
retary Wilbur, “the only thing
we feared out in the open coun
try, was a rattlesnake. But the
rattlesnake is a domestic pet
compared with the automobile
.Rattlesnakes may kill a few
thousand persons a year in this
country, but automobiles kill
thousands of children alone,
because our safety precautions
are net as modern as our mode
of travel.
“Worst of all, the automobile
is Gn’v one of the many new
modem dangers to which our;
children are exposed.
“Members of the White Houce
Conference on Child Health and
Protection which will meet in
Wfmhirmtcn at the call of Presi
i
^ent Ho ver, hove been work
in e fo^ the oast vear upon the
probiems of childhood.
“All they have discovered —
that is. every bit of scientific
knowledge relative to children
now in existence in the field of
medical service, public health,
education and training—wiU .
later be at the service of what
the President has rightly called
"’'e ‘deeply concerned parents’
of this country.”
More than 1.100 experts from
every field will gather at the
Red Cross and D. A. R. buildings j
in Washington for the Confer-!
once. Secretary Wilbur, as!
chairman, will make the closing
address. The Secretary has;
served both the American Med-'
ical Association and Standford
University as president.
Wisconsin Weeds 'em Out
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Wisconsin elected the youngest!
of the LaFollette’s as it’s gover
nor. And while so doing, they
cleaned out the legislators who
have been working in opposition
to the liberal legislators which
have been sent to make laws for
the citizens of the Badger State.
And that is the only way to!
handle legislators who refuse to i
recognize that they are but the
mouthpieces of the electorate
which sends them to make laws.
Alaska is well up in progressive
ideals but it has a lesson to learn
from the state which fathers
and mothers the LaFollettes.
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RELEASE OF COMPENSATION
IS URGED
| Release of $3,400,000,000 World
| War veterans’ adjusted compen
sation, immediately, instead of
in 1945, when it matures, was re
quested of President Hoover by
Lieut. James M. Eagleson Post
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.;
In a resolution adopted at a
meeting of that Post in Seattle,:
recently, the Post urged that re-1
lease of the money, due as ad
justed compensation certificates
in 1945 be made available now to
combat business depression and
unemployment.
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II Duce of Rome has issued aj
decree making preliminary mili
tary instruction obligatory for
all boys of 18 years before they
become liable to conscription.
The decree was approved by the
I cabinet.
Will Demonstrate
Fabco-Tuxham Engine
The new hali’outer “Saga” de
signed, built and owned by Hen
rik Henriksen of Petersburg, will
arrive here from Oakland, Cal.,
about the 15th of December and
local bojit owners are awaiting
an opportunity to see a working
demonstration of her 50 h.p. low
compression Danish motor.
Mr. Henriksen is a brother-in
law of Forrest Fryer of the Fry
er Machine Works and is well
known in Petersburg, having
been master of the halibuters
“Teton,” “Mary M. Christopher”
and “Cedric.”
Two years ago Henrik’s health
failed and the doctors advised a
milder climate, so he and his
wife took up their abode in San
Francisco. There he conceived
the idea of building a halibut
boat of his own. He was not a
boat carpenter but he knew
something about boats, and in
seventeen months of tedious ef
fort he has built with his own
hands, plank by plank, the boat
which will bring him back to the
life he loves.
Henriksen says “That Fabco
Tuxham Diesel is a poor man’s
^nginc. There is nothing to
time, it is self oiled and it takes
Lip but little space. It is n it a
ligh compression engine, wears
i long time and is very economi
cal.”
Incidentally, Fryer Machine
Works will have the sales
agency for the engine here and
have -several sales already in
arospect.
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Curtail Herring Fishing
In S.E. Alaska
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The Bureau of Fisheries has
declared to the press that it
ivill take immediate regulatory
measures to curtail the reduc
tion of herring for fertilizer and
further limit commercial fish
ing for this species of fish. Fred
erick Sound to a point above
Basket Bay and around the
same waters to Necker Islands
is closed to all fishing, including
bait, from June 1 to December
31, both dates inclusive.
Saginaw Bay to Point Crowley,
Three Mile Arm to Frederick
Sound from Cape Bendel across
to Eliza Harbor and down to
Cascade Bay west to Red Bluff
bay is another area. The areas
designated No. 5 on the chart
are closed to commercial fishing
during the year except the
month of August. In July area
7 fishing is permitted during
that month only, except for bait
and no boat over 50 feet in
length used. In the Baranoff
area fishing for bait is prohibit
ed from 12 o’clock each Saturday
till the Monday following at 12
o’clock, and by gill net from
G a. m. to 12 noon each Monday
of June to December. The fish
inf for troll bait subject to the
same gear as published in pre
vious regulations.
Curtail Traps
Henry O’Malley has indicated
that he will curtail operations
cf approximately 50 traps in
Southeast Alaska waters. It is
said that the traps affected will
be those wherein the operators
have a large number in opera
tion.
Last summer Mr. O’Malley at
te earnest request of William L.
Paul of Ketchikan promised to
give the Alaska Native Brother
hood and other resident fish
ermen a hearing in Ketchikan
next spring. He stated that he
would give from three to five
weeks notice of the date of
hearing in order that the fish
ermen might have chance to get
to the meeting.