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VOLUME NO. VI.
PETERSBURG, ALASKA, SEPTEMBER 11, 1931
NO 8.
Motorship Boxer
Racing Elements
At Point Lay on the Arcti.
Coast, the schooner Boxer of th<
U.'S. Indian Bureau was dis
charging cargo in feverish hast;
and expected to leave for Poiiv
Barrow immediately. J
The Arctic season of naviga
tion is growing late and officers
of the Boxer hoped to get to Pt
Barrow before the wind changed
and the ice floes come in from
the north, locking the little port
until next spring. It is a race
v/ith wind, weather and the Arc
tic ice.
The Boxer will be the last of
the Arctic fleet to reach Barrow.
The United States Coast Guard
cutter Northland, the Seattle
schooner C. S. Holmes, the pow
er schooner Patterson from San
Francisco and the steamer Bay •
chimo from Vancouver, B. C.
arrived off the village a short
time ago, taking advantage of
a lead in the ice. The Boxer has
real, oil and supplies for the
government school at Point
Barrow. She was discharging a
new school house, “knocked
down and supplies at Point Lay.
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Mooney Fight Takes
A New Angle
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Thomas J. Mooney, renewing
his fight to gain freedom from
San Quentin state prison, has
filed suit in equity against the
city of San Francisco asking
that his life sentence be set a
side and a new trial granted
him.
The cases of Mooney and War
ren K. Billings, his alleged con
federate, have been almost dor
mant since the state supreme
court refused to recommend a
pardon for Billings last winter.
Both men were convicted on
charges of • bombing the San
Francisco Preparedness Parade.
The judge sitting in this case
pronounced the conviction of
these men the grossest miscarri
age of justice in the history of
merican courts. Every witness
for the prosecution being later
proved perjurors.
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Worried Over Sub
Nautilus, N. Pole
Unable to connect with Sir
V/ilkins submarine explorer Nau
tilus, the Bergen Radio Station
has been worried for several
days. It is presumed that Wil
kins has gone under the ice
pack and her signals not strong
enough for the station to pick
them up.
On the 5th of September, the
Nautilus was said to be pushing
her way out of the ice much the
worse for wear. Her forward
ice runners crumbled, drill me
chanism shattered, and leaks
caused by springing of her hull
in two places.
For one week she played hide
and seek among the ice floes
lighting her way as far north a?
possible and getting information
and plenty of thrills.
MEXICO DEPORTS CHINESI
What is revealed as a near
break in relations between Chi
na and Mexico developed witt
deportation of Chinese from So
nora by Mexican officials. Th<
Chinese have appealed to th<
United States to use its good of
flees in behalf of their people.
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Pete Behrs and W. B. Chap
man came in from South Keki
' Straits this week.
Columbia Fishmen
: In the Money
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r The 1931 summer season salrn
) on pack for the Columbia Rivei
- totaled approximately 330,00C
j full cases, an estimate compiled
• indicated. The mild cure output
totaled 1429 tierces, and the
• frozen fish output totaled 5,275
i boxes of 200 pounds each.
:lhe total wholesale value of
the pack is estimated at $5,200,
000 with 25.800,000 pounds oi
raw fish consumed.
Fishermen were paid approxi
mately $1,900,000 for their sea
son’s work, the estimate compil
ed by the Evening x^storian-Bud -
get.
The total pack was about 1
per cent less than the 1930 pack,
but the pack last year included
a high percentage of troll
caught salmon from outside the
liver which was absent this sea
son. This year’s pack of river
caught fish is actually around 20
per cent higher than last year’?.
Gillnetters caught a greater
percentage of the total this sea
son than for several seasons
past and still their earnings
were greater e’espite priees that
ranged 25 to 50 per cent lower.
It is estimated that 4,000 fish - j
ermen are engaged in their oc
cupation on the Columbia Riv-|
!er. The average earnings far
exceeds the average earnings of
Alaska’s fisheries which puts up
around four million cases as
against three hundred thousani
on the Columbia River.
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Saving Alaskans
Ketchikan business interests!
propose sending a protest to j
President Hoover relative to his
recent order prohibiting the kill-1
ing of migratory birds after 301
days of open season,
i It is pointed out that ducks do
not reach Southeastern Alaska
until October, altho the presi
dential proclamation limits the
season to the month of Septem-j
'her. Some point out that many:
| residents depend on migratory j
birds for a part of their food
supply.
Still others declare that they!
v. ill get the ducks and geese |
when they need them. That’s;
that.
The American people are law,
I abiding. There is no reason why 1
some regulations should be pro -
mulgated that will not be re
spected.
Boat Pelican Seized
By U. S. Customs
i The gasboat Pelican, Juneau
was seized by U. S. Customs of
ficials for alleged breach of the
Customs-Navigation - shipping
laws. Capt. Henry Moys, of
IJoonah, is master of the craft
and is a fish buyer in the Juneau
d’strict.
’ Tn the suit for forfeiture, dis
trict attorney Stabler alleges the
Pelican is owned by Ernest Rog
nan, an alien, and not by the
, Nordby Supply Co., of Kefchi
' kan as claimed in registry certi
■ Crate.
Capt. Moys, Chinese, saw ser
i vice in the U. S. forces, is mar
- ried to a native woman of Hoo
3 nan and is the father of several
3 ch.’dren.
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Keith Anderson will attend
the Petersburg School this win
- ’ter, making his home with the
l Norberg family in West Peters
jburg.
Puget Sound Pack
i Runs Near High
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| In a sta :ment on the Puget
j Sound salmon pack, made pub
lic by the State Department ol
Fisheries, Washington, the 1931
total on August 28 was set at
532,357 rases, exceeded by 658,
973 cases in 1929 but nearly
double the 312,895 cases in 1927.
Pink salmon runs, it is said,
held up well and several of the
streams frequented by this jhn
had great schools on their way
to the spawning grounds.
The run on the Fraser was re
ported as not being heavy but
it was expected that a later and
heavier run would develop. On
Urn average, Puget Sound waters
sockeyes have run in proportion
cl' one in ten to pinks.
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Secret of Halibut
Spawn Revealed
Discovery of the missing links
in the life history of the halibut
the whereabouts of the egg and
larvae stages, stood revealed re
cently by John P. Babcock, chair
man of the International Fish
eries Commission.
The findings came out of two
years work on the North Pacific
by the staff of the motor vessel
Dorothy, in charge of Richard
Van Cleve, a scientist, in three i
rnon hs cruising this summer.
The vessel covered more than
10.000 miles making observa
tions.
“It has been considered that
the halibut is a deep-sea spawn
er,” Babson explained, “passing
its early life over great depths.”
An extensive study of an area
vest of the Gulf of Alaska was
made by the Dorothy between
May and August.
“The mystery surrounding the
whereabouts of the eggs, larvae
and early transparent stages of
the halibut before it is large
enough to take the hook,” Mr.
Eabcock said, “has at last been
solved by the scientific staff on
the Dorothy.
“They were found this sum
mer on the banks off the sou';h
end of Kodiak to Wosnessenski,
beyond the Shumagins. Tins
early life history has up to now
been unknown, with the early
siages, up to this summer never
lecognized.
“As a result of this season's
operations, the halibut commis
sion has a complete series show
ing the early life history of the
fish. The missing links have
been found.”
The larvae were found well
off-shore, but great numbers
were taken within fifty miles of
shore and inside the edge of the
banks, he said.
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FOSIIAY SCANDAL GETS AIR
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The crash nearly two years
ago of the huge Foshay enter
prises, scattered across the con
tinent, was given an airing in
the Federal courts, Minneapolis
with the trial of Wilbur B. Fo
shay and six of his former asso
ciates, charged with using the
mails to defraud.
The government alleged Fo
shay and his associates sold
I stocks and securities of the va
rious Foshay subsidiaries thri;
the mails, representing them a?
good investments, although the
companies were said to have
been losing money.
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l Miss. Alaska Jorgenson, Mis;
- Solveig Vick and Walter Lerstei
: E,re again enrolled in P. H. S
• They attended schools in th.
] states last year.
Maroon Trapman
On Lone Island
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Every cnce in awhile pops ur
stories of the inhumanity o;
two-bit managers of fly-by nighi
canneries in Alaska; at othei
t’mes, stories are told of the
lack of sympathetic contact oi
the older cannery managers. No*
all, by any means, but enough
to keep awake fires of dissatis
faction. And then the dumb
blind operators wonder why the
people of the North fight them.
Listen to this story published
recently in a Seattle paper:
Men Says lie Was Marooned
Placed at Resolute Point With
out Food, He Alleged; Saved
By Small Boat
Charging ne had been brutal
ly treated by employees of a
salmon cannery at Nellie Juan,
Alaska, on Prince William Sound
who marooned him on a desolate
island near the cannery with
out food, matches or weapons,
Jack Ballinger, 23, was in Seat
tle Tuesday, his adventures at
an end.
Ballinger said he had been
employed as a trap tender by the
Copper River Packing Co., arid
on July 8 asked for a transfer to
duty elsewhere. His foreman, he
says, discharged him. “I hit
him and knocked him out,” Bal
1 nger said. “Then the superin
tendent came in. I tried to ex
plain. He threw a small anchor
at me and drove me off the place
with a mallet.”
Ballinger declared he was lat
er taken in a boat and “dumped”
on the beach. Abandoned to his
fate, he stayed there all night,
half frozen. A small boat final
ly took him off and placed him
aboard the steamer Lakina,
which brought him to Seattle.
His home is in Greely, Colorado.
Zelierbach Shows
Earnings Gain
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Increased earnings of thej
Crown-Zellerbach Corporation
for the three months ended
July 31 last were due to what of- i
f'cials reported as “improvement
all along the line.”
The company reported con
solidated net income of $1,270 -
559 for the three-month period
after all charges, but before de
ducting minority stockholders’
interest in subsidiaries, as
against $1,185,086 reported on
the same basis for the corres
ponding quarter of last year. A
considerable part of the increase
j reflects larger earnings of the
' Crown-Willamette Paper Co.
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Find Fossil Snail
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What is believed to be an en
ormous petrified snail was re
cently found near Homer, Cook
Inlet by Oscar Munson.
! The fossil weighed about 159
pounds, was taken to Seward by
Charles Madsen, manager of the
Kodiak Guides Association. It
was shipped to Claude H. Barr,
Illinois State Museum. The ob
ject is said to be 6 feet in length
2i/2 feet in diameter and 12 to
16 inches thick.
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FISHERMAN RESCUED AT SE.4
The crew of the Mary C. Fish
: er of Cordova were picked up bj
the steamer Starr in ShelikoJ
i Straits after having drifted foi
5 a week in an open boat. Thcj
1 stated that their craft founder
. ed in a gale on August 28th foui
; miles of Cape Cubugaki. Thej
were taken to Kanatak.
Rich Copper Strike
F Made Near Cordova
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>• Reports from McCarthy, neai
l the famous Kennecott mining
: | properties have been announced
•'Martin Radovan, a prospector u
; said to have uncovered a vein ol
; high grade copper, eleven feel
; wide, on an unnamed mountair
i near Glacier Creek. Five higl:
. grade outcroppings have beer
located on the mountain, which
is in the same geological forma
tion as Kennecott, and acces
sible to the present dopper riv
er railroad by construction oi
short spur track or tramway.
Copper quotations in the in
dustrial centers and on ’change
is 8 cents a pound. Unless the
ore is very rich, copper cannot
Le mined at a profit at present.
“Blue Tickets”
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Chief of Police Getchell of
Juneau has started to clean up
the capital of Alaska. Says he,
‘ Blue tickets are to be issued to
undesireables found in Juneau.’’
“Those who remain out of
sight in the day time, appear at
dusk and hang around certain
places all night, apparently with
cut any job and without indica
tions of desiring to secure a jcb.
are being watched. They will be
requested to move on and do so
l quickly. Fortunately v7' have
! few undesireables but what few
we have will be ir. formed their
ipresence is not wanted in Ju
| neau,” declared Getchell.
No Help Will Be
Given Filipinos
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Proposed enactments by the
Phillippine Legislature to relieve
the economic plight of Filipino
laborers on the Pacific Coast of
the United States were thrown
| out by the legislative leaders.
Leaders held that neither an
investigation commission nor a
labor commissioner could rectify
| the situation and any legislation
, would be useless.
! A Filipino sub-contractor in
the P. A. F. cannery here, made
a statement that the average
! summer’s earnings of Filipino
cannery workers was $80. It was
: thought, two years ago, that thi3
system of peon labor had reach
ed its lowest level but judging
from the statement cf this sub
contractor. in a few years the
Filipino workers in Alaska will
be paying the canners a premi
um for the privilege of working
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CALIF. LEGION DEMANDS
TEMPERANCE, MODIFICATION
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An overwhelming majority
vote of the California State De
partment of the American Le
gion voted to ask Congress tc
bring about temperance by -mod
, ifi cation of the Volstead Act. 11
, is said the convention was in ar
uproar as the resolution was
brought up.
KETCHIKAN FISHERMAN IN
SERIOUS TROUBLE
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T. Lewis, owner of the troller
Sophia of Ketchikan pulled a
g,un oh Marshals Caswell and J.
Goble who were attempting to
serve a process in admiralty on
him while he was aboard his gas
r | boat. When they left, he pulled
/lout of the harbor. The mar
shals boarded the cutter Alert
tS nd overhauling the Sophia, ar
y lested Lewis and jailed him xr
j Ketchikan on a felony charge.
Indian Fails An,
Freight Hoppei
William James, Alaska Indiar
; might know how to hop on anc
off boats but as a weary willie
i hopping freights, he was a dis
mal failure in Seattle.
He went to Seattle with hi;
wallet holding a few beans bV
skylarking about the king';
highway, his funds soon ran tc
a low ebb. He found no job anc
pretty soon a cop said to him.
‘ Been watching you. I don’1
like your looks. Get out of town
or I’ll run you in. Hop a freight
kid.”
James had been given a float
er but didn’t know it. “But, 1
don’t know how to hop a freight
he protested. “I’ve never seen a
train in my life.”
“That’s all right,” replied the
cop, “you’ll learn. If I catch
you again—.”
James went to the railroad
yards and hopped a train. The
next morning a watchman found
him, groaning in agony beside
the tracks. He had fallen be
neath the wheels of a train in
trying to catch it. He was tak
en to the City Hospital and may
lose his left arm.
Halibut Haul Sets
Record for 16 Years
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Catches of halibut landed in
| Seattle by fishing schooners
during August totaled 2,718,300
pounds valued at $158,709 and
the largest in the last sixteen
yea1 s, according to report made
public by H. E. Lokken, manager
of the Seattle Fishing Vessel
Owners’ Association.
The record month for halibut
landings in Seattle was May
1915, when 4,525,000 pounds were
i brought to port by fishing ves
sels.
During August this year, 164,
400 pounds of sable fish valued
at $4,521 and 58,250 pounds of
mixed cod valued at $1,165 were
brought to Seattle by fishing
schooners.
The average per pound, ac
cording to the figures presented
I by Mr. Lokken, indicate a price
I of six cents per pound paid.
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Fish Dealer Combine
Goes on Rocks
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The American Fishing and
Packmg Company, a consolida
tion of several fish dealers hi
smoked salmon, including Wil
liam Oxenberg and Sigmund
jEinstoos, was dissolved the lat
ter part of August. The com
pany was dissolved by resolutior
drawn up by contracting parties
Failure to agree over valuatior
of inventories of stocks on hanc
caused the dissolution.
DISTRICT JUDGE IGNORES
NEW JURY LAW
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Federal Judge Justin W. Hard -
ing of the District Court has in -
dicated that jurors in the Fed
eral Court in this Division will
be drawn under the law of 1925
J rather than under the new law
; passed by the last legislature.
After considerable fight, the
law of 1925 relative to jury ser
vice was repealed. Under the
new law a larger list- of names
was to be included for service
and it also repealed the law ol
1925.
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Sayres MacAlpine, skipper o:
the Port Tongass and Fret
Guthrie of Ketchikan were ii
port yesterday.
School Opens On
- Tuesday Morning
i Petersburg public schools op
1 ened Tuesday morning following
Labor Day. Several changes
. have been made in the teaching
staff: Mr. George V. Beck, for
< merly of the Ketchikan schools,
; replaces as principal, Conrad
; Bowman, who becomes principal
) of the Douglas schools.
[ Teachers reporting for duty
have been assigned to their re
■ spective classrooms as follows:
[ Miss Impi Aalto, 1st grade;
: Miss Hanna Anderson, 2nd; Miss
Cornelia Christensen, 3rd; Miss
. Alta Peters, 4th; Miss Verda
; Garner, 5th; Thomas K. Windsor
1 Cth; R. O. Warfield, 7th; A. R.
Boyer, 8th.
Of the high school faculty,
Miss Bertha Lero, Miss Dorothy
Ruth Scott and Mr. Beck were
here for the opening of school.
Sarah Josenhaus has been em
ployed as teacher of English and
commercial subjects in place of
Miss Walker who failed to re
port for duty or even to notify
the board. Miss Josenhaus will
arrive on the Admiral Roger?.
Rev. W. J. Maakestad will lead
the school orchestra again this
year.
There are 245 pupils enrolled
to date and a number of others
to come in later. Enrollment by
grades is as follows:
1st, 28; 2nd, 18; 3rd, 28; 4th,
13; 5th, 31; 6th, 29; 7th, 16; 8th,
17; High school, 64.
Owing to a conflict of dates,
the P. T. A. reception which was
l lanned for tonight has been put
cff until next Friday evening.
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Pure Food Law
Protects Animals
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Uncle Sam’s Pure Food and
Drug Act applies to cats, dogs
and other pets as well as to hu
mans, according to Federal
Judge Jeremiah Neterer, Seattle,
in a formal written opinion. The
case arose over seizure of 620
cases of canned tuna fish labeled
“Tuna for Pets, Not Intended for
Human Consumption.”
The government seized the
shipment under the Pure Food
Act because one-third of the cas
es contained decomposed fish.
The shippers pretested seizure
on the grounds that the Act did
not apply except insofar as the
canned goods were intended for
human consumption. The court
sustained Assistant U. S. Attor
ney Sherwood. The 620 cases
1 will be destroyed,
march back.”
ANOTHER VIEW POINT
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War time governor of Missouri
Frederick Gardner, recently de
clared in Ketchikan that the re
cent presidential proclamation
relative to ducks was saving the
birds from starving people.
Canada has done nothing so
far to follow up Hoover’s move
and there is general protest go
ing up from individuals and or
ganizations throughout the pro
vince.
Senator Jones of Washington
is entering protest for his con
stituency which is opposed to
the proclamation.
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MAN MURDERED WHILE HE
IS ASLEEP
• John Amott of Cordova was
found in his bed, shot and kill
ed while asleep. He was in the
t Chitina district. The authorities
i are said to be looking for his
t wife whom he married two years
ago in Cordova.