Angoon Camp No. 7
| Alaska Native Brotherhood
Regular Meeting, Monday
Visiting Brothers Welcome
Jimmie George, President
Andrew J. Davis, Secretary
Angoon - Alaska
Klukwan Camp No. 8
Alaska Native Brotherhood
Meets every Saturday
7:30 p. m.
Edward Warne, President
John Willard, Secretary
All Visitors are Welcome
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Haines Camp A. N. S. *
President, Mrs. D. Klanot
Secretary, Mrs. D. Perrin
Meets every Saturday, 1 p. m.£
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SAXMAN Camp. 16 A. N. S.
Pres. Mrs. Peter McKay
Sec. Mrs. Martha John
Meets every Monday 1 p. m.
Visiting Members Welcome
Hunter & George Co.
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ANGOON - - ALASKA
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Kake.Alaska
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Kake - - Alaska
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KAKE CAMP
Alaska Native Brotherhood
Meets Every Monday
8 p. m.
President, Peter Hanson
Secretary, Thomas Skeek
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Alaska Native Sisterhood
Meets twice a month.
Mondays, 2: o’clock
\\ Visitors are always Welcome^
& Pres. Susie Abraham
a Sec. Helen Bremner
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CAMP 13
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\ meetings and lets see whatsj
V what, where, who, when and)
^ why.
N Jack Ellis, President
^ Yakutat, Alaska
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December 20
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Advances will be
made as usual when
requested. Transfer
red b y telegraph
if desired.
' wages on the Government oper
ated railroad in Panama have
,rot been disturbed. The latest
declaration is absolutely untrue,
las the War Department, operat
ing the Panama activity, states
that the recent Congressional
Act made it mandatory that re
duction in wages be affected.
I The employees took the matter
up with the Brotherhood of Rail
road Trainmen and their at
torney submitted a letter stat
ing that in his judgement, and
under the wage agreement made
with the Government, the cut
of 10% made in the wage scale
was fair and legal. So the insi
dious rumor circulators in this
I instance are about as near cor
rect as was the' learned politi
cian who recently declared that.
“Anchorage and the rail belt is
practically solid for the Demo
► cratic ticket.”
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Although the recent Economv
Act calls for a ten per cent cut
in appropriations it was not be -
lieved that the Act would apply
to such buildings under con
| st ruction as the Fairbanks Fed
eral building. But the danger to
the Federal building program of
the Government throughout the
country was not fully averted
until Comtroller General McCarl,
on August 11, issued a far-readi
ing decision to the Secretary of
the Treasury. He held that sec
tion 320 of the economy act with
its 10% cut, “will not be held to
require reduction in appropria
tions heretofore made or auth
orized to be made when on June
30, 1932, the plans and specifi
cations for a building had been
completed and approved and a
contract let for construction of
the substructure thereof.” June
30, is the effective date of the
economy act and as the con- j
tract for the Fairbanks building
had been awarded prior to that
date there will be no reduction
in the cost of the building.
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Inquiry has been made as to
j where the Federal Home Loan
iBank, that would serve Alaska,
was to be located. Franklin W.
Fort, chairman of the new board,
states that it has not yet been
decided as to how many banks
would be established—whether
eight or up to twelve. And until
I that was done the different sec
tions of the Country would not
'be apportioned, but it was ex
pected that a bank would be es
tablished in one of the cities
the Pacific coast states, of which
Alaska would be attached.
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j The Eastern newspapers have
ihad accounts of the arrival in
^Boston harbor of the former re
■ venue cutter and Coast Guard
; “Bear of Oakland,” which con
sumed 22 days in coming from
San Francisco and arrived on
the night of August 10. Hhe Bear
and been purchased by Rear
Admiral Richard E. Byrd, who
plans a second journey into the
Antarctic, and who paid but $1,
000 for the vessel. It is auxili
ary powered, is 191 feet long and
has a displacement of 2,000 tons.
It has a 1,000-horsepower engine,
is square rigged on the foremast,
with the sails running fore and
aft in the latter two.
Until recent years the Bear
was famous for her annual trips
to Nome and the Arctic ocean.
One memorable trip was made
during the winter of 1897, when
San Francisco newspapers spon
sored an expedition for the re
lief of whalers whose ships were
ice bound among the floes of the
Arctic. The Bear pushed as far
north as possible and then a
land expedition was formed that
successfully rescued the almost
starving members of the whaling
crews. Among the officers of the
Bear were a number of men who
afterwards became prominent in
the U. S. Coast Guard service.
One of them was Lieuit. Harry
G. Hamlet, who, two months ago,
was appointed Commandant
with title of Rear Admiral, hav
1 jing headquarters at' Washington.
In accordance with petitions
received from Fortuna Lodge
and the lower Yukon river dis
trict Delegate Wickersham has
, taken up with the Post Office
Department the 'desirability of
establishing an airplane mail
service from Holy Cross to St.
Michael twice a month, instead
of the present dog team service
that is furnished from Nov. to
April. What they really want is
Jan extension of the air service
i which is now provided for the
Kuskokwim valley down to
Eethel extended so as to take in
the lower Yukon valley. It is
only 45 minutes by plane from
Bethel to Fortuna Lodge, while
the entire distance from Holy
Cross south and then north to
St. Michael could be easily cov
ered in one day.
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In answer to the inquiry as to
.how many people live on the
Aleution Islands a Washington
evening paper gives the follow
ing information: “The popula
tion is about 3,000. This group :s
j a chain of about 80 small is
lands belonging to Alaskan Ter
ritory separating the Sea of
Kamchatka from the northern
part of the Pacific Ocean, and
extending nearly 1,600 miles
from east to west. The total area
is 6,391 square miles.
One of teh most colorful and
enthusiastic public gatherings
eve held in Washington was the
notification meeting on the
right of August 11, when Presi
lent Herbert Hoover was official
ly informed of his renomina
tion by ithe Republican National
Convention. Prominent men and
women from all over the United
States were present upon this
gala occasion, while the radio
hook-up permitted millions of
listeners to hear and appreciate
the clear, forceful and courage
ous views of an able, sincere
and deeply conscientious Chief
Executive. Having been favored
with tickets the writer was en
abled to be present in the noti
fication hall and upon behalf of
Alaska to applaud the stirring
declarations of the next Presi
dent of the United States.
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Bartley Howard, president of
one of the early coal mining
companies in the Matanuska re
gion, was in Washington a few
days ago in connection with per
fecting his title to certain hold
ings along the Alaska Railroad.
These he has arranged to sell to
a syndicate of capitalists at
Fellowes, California. They con
template opening up the pro
perties on a large scale. They are
located on Moose Creek. The in
tention is to create a market
and ship coal to California ports.
There will be ample capital to
assure development on a policy
that will mean considerable re
venue to the Railroad in ship
ping the fuel to tidewater at
Seward, and make necessary the
construction of coal bunkers at
that locality.
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Nearly 350,000,000 acres of the
public domain in Alaska remain
urjsurveyed. And here lies pot
ential mineral wealth of consid
erable value, according to studi -
es made by the Geological Sur
vey.
Salmon and other fish, gold,
copper, furs and other products
shipped from Alaska to the
United States in July aggregated
$3,753,341 in value, the largest
of any month in the current
year, according to the Depart
ment of Commerce. Shipments
of merchandise to the United
States in July totaled $2,650,
1369 as compared with $1,559,167
| in June and $2,516,155 in July,
,1931. Gold shipments in July
jWere $1,005,443. as compared
with $793,835 in the same
| months last year. The goldmin
ing industry has been operating
; at about its present schedule for
several months. A slight increase
in Federal road construction also
;is reported for July with four
new contracts let on minor pro
jects. A new contract also was '
let for the construction of anew;
^Government hospital at Un- j
alaska by the Bureau of Indian |
Affairs.
It is pointed out that the red j
salmon run this year appears |
larger than ever before in the I
history of Alaskan fisheries. The j
escapement of red fish to spawn- I
,ing beds in one section alone a- I
mounted to 8,492,465 reds, ac- j
(cording to the Bureaus of Fish- I
leries count at the weirs on the I
Kivehak, Egekik, and Naknek \
rivers. Escapement figures from j
other sections are not yet a- j
vailable.
According to the preliminary j
figures reported from Juneau, j
the pack of salmon this season j
to July 30 amounted to 207,500 {
cases in Kodiak district; 199,760 I
cases at Prince William Sound j
'and Resurrection Bay; 149,471 [
I at Cook Inlet; 194,500 at Ketchi- l
kan; 128,421 at Chignik; 493,- \
346 at Alaska Peninsula north j
and south; 28,558 on the West f
Coast; 20,654 at Wrangell, and I
321,459 cases at Juneau.
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Here and There
In Alaska
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Billy Neilsen, 22, of Seldovia, j
fell from the gins of a pile driv- 1
er and died instantly recently.
He is survived by his mother, |
two sisters and five brothers. 1
Ero Walli of Staritsky, near ®
Seldovia, tangled with a big {
brown bear and came out best.
He was handy wit hhis 44 re
volver. He reports that one of s
the cubs was black with a dash
of white about its neck.
Mrs. Katherine Kane, govern
ment teacher at Alitak, Kodiak
IsJand, returned home following
a visit in Anchorage with her
neice, Mrs. Henry Emard.
The gasboat Myrtle, operated
as a cannery tender by Emil
Sandvick, owner, was wrecked
on the beach between Kenai and
Swanson Creek. Sandvick put up
his pack and was selling salm
on to other canneries when the (
accident happened.
Cordova has determined to in
vestigate the “laws, resources i
and conditions effecting Cor
dova’s two major resources,
minerals and fisheries.” We! i
promise that the Cordova Cham- I
er of Commerce will go “radical ’ J
they make a real study of the
fisheries laws of Canada anif
Alaska—the study including! 1
comparison of the same system
of laws.
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| George Anderson, piano tune?
jof Juneau has been making the
I swing through the North and In -!
jtcrtor points tuning up the mus- ‘
ic boxes.
Delegate James Wickersham, i
who is now in the interior coun- ,
try, plans to return to the First
Division in time to make a i
thorough canvess of all the pre
cincts in his fall campaign fer
re-election. i
Governor George A. Parks left 1
for Nome along with Charles W
Hawkesworth, Acting Chief of ?
the Indian Bureau for the Terri- *
tory. They will attend a meet- \
ing of the Reindeer Council. At l
present Capt. Trowbridge and *
Mr. Gilman, special investigat- ^
jors for the Indian Bureau are in \
the North separating the rein
deer herds. ;
Bradford Washburn, member
of the New York Times scientific
party attempting the ascent of
Mt. Crillion is in Juneau. His
party is said to be 8,000 feet up
the mountain.
Mrs. Nancy Acklen, for many
years a teacher at Haines, re
turned home after several weeks
in the states.
Rice & Ahlers, plumbers, is
being represented at the Wran
gell Industrial School by James
Gilkey who will take charge of
.the plumbing contract for the
jftrm at that school.
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For All Alaskans
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[ Faith Without Works Is
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We have heard lots of talk during the past three years on
the depression. We have had plenty of reason to. But we can
close our ears to pessimistic chatter and we can have faith
in the strength and ability of our country to emerge vic
torious as it surely will.
But faith without work is dead. We all should do our share
in each community to bring prosperity back. We can help
to do so by buying our goods and supplies at home; by em
ploying local labor so that it may be able to buy at home.
The business man and the laboring man have everything
in common. The hurt of one is the destruction of the other.
BE FAIR! BE KIND! BE GENEROUS! Be hopeful and work
—for “faith with out works is dead.” ,
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