VOLUME NO. 5.
PETERSBURG, ALASKA, FEBRUARY 6, 1931
NUMBER 29
Senator Sundquist
Is Now a Benedict
Amid a bower of lillies in the
beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. J. White, former Nome re
sidents, on Queen Anne Hill,
Seattle, Miss Beulah A. Eaden
of Issaquah, Washington, be
came the bride of Senator Rich
ard N. Sundquist, of Candle
‘.’reek, Alaska on Wednesday,
January 28th, at 8:30 o’clock.
The Rev. Cleveland Kleihauer
of the University Christian
Church performed the cere
mony.
After the beautiful wedding
ceremony, a delicious buffet sup
per was served, the bride cutting
the daintily decorated wedding
cake.
Alaska guests present were:
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. White, Mr.
and Mrs. Jas. White, Mr. and
Mrs. Bennie White, Mr. and Mrs.
George McKay, Miss Margaret
Young, Mr. E. F. Surber, Mr. E.
T. Wade, Mr. John Schaeffer,
Mr. and Mrs. Weinard and fam
ily, Mr. and Mrs. O. Swanson,
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Coffin and
Clement Coffin, Mr. and Mrs. A.
S. Kepner and Ottie Lou Kepner,
Mrs. E. J. Matthews, Mr. C. V.
Olson, Senator J. H. Anderson, j
Mr. Will A. Steel, Mr. William L. j
Paul. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Shea,
and Mr. Chris. Burchess.
Following the wedding Mr.
and Mrs. Sundquist left for a
short honeymoon motor trip,
destination unknown. Mr. Sund
quist who is a pioneer miniigi
man of Candle Creek is also sen
ator from the Second Division.
The couple will leave on Febru
ary 21 for Juneau, where Mr.
Sundquist will attend the com
ing session of the Legislature.—
Alaska Weekly.
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MacGregor’s Closed
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The building and equipment
of the MacGregor Theatre, in
cluding projecting machines,
screen, chairs, furnace and ven
tilating equipment are to be
sold by the U. S. Marshal at
public auction on February 28
to satisfy a judgement rendered
in the district court at Juneau
in favor of the B. M. Behrends
Bank. The R. C. A. Photophone
Company will remove the sound
equipment. Future plans havej
not been announced.
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A. F. OF L. ATTACKS DRY LAW
The American Federation of
Labor in executive council in
Miami, Fla., has started a na- j
tional campaign against the pro
hibition enforcement act: ‘"We
will conduct a campaign to au
thorize the brewing of 2.75 per.
cent beer,” Ira M. Ornburn,'
president of the International
Cigar Makers, said.
WHITE REAPPOINTED
BY HOOVER
United States Marshal Albert
White was renominated to i
serve as Marshal for the First |
Division on Monday last by j
President Hoover. His name is
now before the Senate for con
firmation.
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Capt. Svere Johanson return
ed from Seattle on the Mitkoff
this week.
Mis Myrtle Cornelius returned
from a busines trip to Juneau.
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John Enge has returned from
California and is enrolled in the
public school.
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The St. Valentine’s dance by
the Camp Fire Girls has been
indefinitely postponed on ac
count of Juneau’s new capital
building.
Tom Thumb Golf
Course Here Soon
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Arrangements have been com
'pleted whereby the building
heretofore known as the Devil’s
Thumb will be operated as a
Tom Thumb golf course. Mr.
Hugh Jones has shipped here
from Juneau complete equip
ment for a nine hole course
which is being gotten into shape
as rapidly as possible. No an
nouncement has been made as
to the exact time for the grand
opening but it is expected the
course will be ready for use
early next week, perhaps by
Monday evening. Special induc
ments will be offered to chil-j
dren after school hours and
free instruction will be given to j
ladies in the afternoons if de
sired. Ultimate plans are some-!
what indefinite as yet but it is
possible that bridge tables for
ladies may be operated in con
nection.
Mr. Jones and wife (formerly
Miss Fvangeline Swanson of!
Point Agassiz) will make their
home in one of the apartments j
in the building.
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Dealers Announce 20
Cent Decline in Fleer
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Announcement of a 20-cent|
drop in the prices of all grades
of flour has been made by thej
Albers Bros. Milling Company
for the Seattle territory., Other
Arms cn the Coast were also
quoting lower rates.
Graham flour dropped to $4.60.
a barrel; whole wheat flour to
$4.80 a barrel; rye flour to $5.60
a barrel; rye meal to $5.40 a bar
rel; family patent to $5.60 a
barrel, and pastry flour to $4.60
a barrel.
Tlie dealers declare the decline
was necessary to adjust prices
Ih keeping with the price of
grain despite the fact that the
wheat market has been stronger
recently. j
Receipts of eggs in packing
plants of the Pacific Coast con
tinue to show a moderate in
crease. the United States De
partment of Agriculture re-!
ports. Washington and Oregon
showed an increase of 1.36 per
cent over the previous week with
receipts totaling 52,276 against
51,572 last week and 45,250 the
corresponding week last year.1
The amount of increase over the
corresponding week last year
was 15.52 per cent. California!
also showed an increase with
38,866 cases reported for the last
week against 38,397 cases in the
previous week and 39,007 in the
corresponding week last year.
This is an increase of 1.22 over
the previous week and a de-i
crease of 0.36 from the corre-j
sponding week last year.
KEYES WANTS CUT,
ASKS FOR PAROLE
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Asa Keyes, former district at
torney of Los Angeles county,
sentenced to one to 14 years for
conspiracy to receive bribes,
has made application for parole
to the state board of prison di
rectors.
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Jimmie Rhodes has returned
to Petersburg from Castle Is
l lands where he has been em
j ployed on Campbell’s fox ranch.
The halibuters Augusta and
Middleton are7 on the gridways
for painting and overhauling.
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The restuarant business known
'as the Club Lunch is now being
[operated by Frank Herman.
The P. T. A. will stage a play
at The MacGregor Monday for
the benefit of the new gymna
sium building.
Anderson, Langton Believed in
Conspiracy Rob J. Marshal
Charley Anderson and Clar
'ence Langton who were brought
■in to Petersburg last week by
| Deputy Marshals W. H. Caswell
and Hans Wick from the Salm
on Bay country, Prince of Wales
Island, were bound over to the
Grand Jury on a liquor charge
and bail was set by Commission
er Clausen in the sum of $10 000.
While they are being held in
federal custody the marshals
and department of justice a e
making an intensive investiga
tion in the disappearance of L.
C. Davis and Albert Farrow.
Petersburg men and partners
of Anderson and l angton. Last
November these men left- Peters
burg to go to the Anderson
camp near Salmon Biy On the
28th of December Anderson and
Langton reported pi chine t \ e
boat T-2079 on Fire Is and, en
trance to Kashevaroff Strain,
three miles south of Salmon
Bay. They did not report their
partners missing until the 7th
of January when they appeared
before U. S. Deputy Marshal
II. D. Campbell of Wrangell to
report the finding of the boat
and their partners missing.
Nothing was done-at Wrangell
at the time. The two men then
came to Petersburg and reported
to friends and relatives of the
missing men. A search party was
immediately sent out with no
dgns of the missing men being
seen.
A letter written to Marshal1
Campbell by Mrs. Albert Far
row wno is in Dayton, Oregon,
requested that a search be made
for the men as it wras her belief
that they had met foul play. She
told that cn various occasions
Farrow and Anderson had seri
ous quarrels and considerable
gun play had taken place; that
on one or two occasions Far
row had knocked Anderson
dowrn and once had to take a
■ ixshooter away from Anderson.
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Involves Men in Marshals’ 1
Murder
She intimated that Anderson, |
Farrow and possibly others were
Implicated in the robbery and
murder of John Marshal, fish
buyer of Ketchikan last Octo
ber 20th. that the plan was dis
cussed at various times at {he
Salmon Bay camp and it was
her belief that they were direct
ly interested and probably the
cause of the murder of the old
man on his boat just inside of
I Point Higgins, near Ketchikan.
It is reported now that An-i
derson admits that he went!
down to Point Higgins, about'
the time of the murder of Mar- j
shal, for a deer hunt. He wasj
unable to explain why he should j
go over sixty miles on a deer
hunt when there were plenty of
deer to be had on Zarembo Is
land, just a half hours run from
Salmon Bay. From the reports
now current it appears that An
derson and Langton will at
tempt t > switch the murder of
Marshal on to the two missing
men Friends of Davis and Far
row are showing an airtight ali
bi by pointing to hospital re
cords in Petersburg showing
that Farrow was in Petersburg
on the day Marshal was mur
dered and that he (Farrow) had!
personally taken Mrs. Farrow to
the hospital for medical treat
ment.
Langton for the past two years
was stream watchman employed
by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries
jas fish warden at Salmon Bay.
Andersen has been a resident of
| Wrangell and Lake Bay for the
past eighteen years and has
been in various alleged combi
nations manufacturing illicit
liquor,etc.
The department of justice is
leaving nothing unturned to se
cute evidence to connect the
men with the murder of Marshal
and other mysterious disappear
ances which have never been
solved in the past couple of
years. I- is said that a receipt
belonging to Mellson, troller
who disappeared two years ago
and whose boat was found in a
bay near Point Barrie, was
found on :he boat T-2079 which .
these men own and which they
have been using. Mellson was I
said to have had considerable!
money on his person at the 1
time but when the boat was
searched, no money was found.
How the receipt made out to
Mellson could get on to the T
2079 is a question that will also
have to be answered.
From the letter written by Mrs.
Farrow to Marshal Campbell it i
appears that these men discuss
ed at various times the feasibili
ty of robbing Marshal the fish- i
buyer and it is her belief that :
they consummated their plans.
That Davis and Farrow probab- (
ly knew too much and were
therefore bumped off as dead
men tell no tales.
P. H. S. After Scalp
Of Wrangll Hi
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Two teams of hoopsters repre
senting P. H. S. will leave here
Saturday on the M. S. Mitkoff to
play Wrangell on its home floor
Saturday night.
The Petersburg first team
with a line-up consisting of
Ness, Brown, Harris, Gordon and
McGilton will meet the Wran
gell town team, while the second
team will be matched against a
team from the seventh, eighth
and ninth grades from the
Wrangell schools. Tveten, Mar
tens, Martens, C. Ness and Enge
compose the second team with
Morgan and Hanson, subs.
The boys will return home
Sunday. A reasonable fare will
be charged.
Asserting that the Chinese na
tional government has banned
religious teaching in the pri
mary grades of mission schools,
Bishop A. A. Gilman of Hankow
arrived in Seattle Friday aboard
the President Cleveland. The
bishop was a witness to the sack
ing of Changsha last July.
After spending some days in’
Petersburg the mission boat
“Princeton” left on Wednesday
for Kake where Rev. Waggoner
will look after some work in con
nection with the Presbyterian
mission.
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C. C. Mundy expects to ship
thirty thousand pounds of froz
en fish on the M. S. Bellingham
due here today.
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EXPERTS HIRED FOR SURVEY
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Prefaced by verbal tilts, the
city council passed to third read
ing last week an ordinance
providing that Carey and Har
lan, rate experts, be employed1
for $25,000 to conduct a com-1
prehensive power survey. •
Investigation will be made into
the offer of the Columbia Val
ley Power Co. to sell the city
power on what was said to be
one of the lowest rates in North
America.
The postponement of the ordi
nance was in line with Mayor
Baker’s fight to delay commit
ments by the City. The power |
issue is going strong in Portland,
j Oregon.
Salmon Sales On
Upgrade .
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Sales of canned salmon in the
past two weeks exceeded the
pace and record of the prior two
months, accciding to the experi
ence of Wiliiam Calvert, presi
dent of the San Juan Fishing
and Packing Company. Besides
accelerated sales, Calvert said
inquiries were highly encourag
ing. Prospective purchasers
want immediate shipment, indi
cating that tl.Mr present stocks
are low and that canned salmon
is moving into consumption. A
mong those pressing for quick
delivery are chain stores, jobbers
and other distributors, Calvert
said. These symptoms of increas
ing demand are timely, and even'
overdue, as soon it will be neces
sary to equip for another fishing
season and canners welcome re
duction of last year’s catch. Cal
vert, who also is chairman of
the board of the Pacific National
Bank, has been bringing in at
least a million dollars a year of
outside nioney for the past
thirty-nine years, exchanging
fish for it. He is going after fish
again this season. Its a habit.
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Petersburg Relief
Quota Easily Made
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The appeal sent out by the
National Red Cross for funds to
relieve the distress in the!
drought area in the United Stat-;
es and the proportion set for!
Petersburg by C. T. Gardner,;
chairman of the Red Cross Re-j
ief Committee, has been met;
with a few dollars to spare.
The distribution of the re- j
eeipts is as follows: By contri
bution from various citizens $25;
net from dance sponsored by
Petersburg Post American Le
gion, $57, making a total of $82
or $7 more than the quota re
quested of Petrsburg.
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Canada Shows a Big
Fur Trade
For the past year of which
the Canadian Bureau of Statis
tics has a complete record of
:urs sold from Canada, the val
ue has been placed at $24,181,
[)00. Back in 1850 when furs were
ane of the principal exports of
L.hat country, the value of those
exported was only $93,572. A
total of 5,150,326 animals gave
their pelts to the fur trade dur
ing the last year of record.
The fur out-put is largely in
creased by fur-farming. About j
x2 percent of the total fur pro-1
duction of Canada comes from
these farms.
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DEATH TOLL OF
AUTOMOBILES
Every sixteen minutes in the
year around, a person is killed
in an automobile crash some
where in America says the
American Research Foundation
of New York. Every hour of the
day and night an average of 114
people receive injuries of a ma
jor or minor character from
this cause. \
With about twenty-five au
tomobile fatilities per 100,000
population, the United States is
far ahead of the other countries
of the world. Australia with a
record of 12.1 automobile deaths
per 100,000 populations holds
second; New Zealand with an
average of 9.2 is third and Ca
nada with 9.1 per 100,000 is
fourth.”
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Lieut. G. .J (Jim) Truitt ex
pects to arrive in Petersburg
about Sunday to do some pre
liminary sounding work in the
Narrows.
“Lucky” Sales'Show a
Big Increase
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Sales of Lucky Strike cigaret
tes in November by the Ameri
can Tobacco Company increased
419,322,000 over sales in Novem
jber 1929. In October, the in
| crease in sales of this brand was
i 504,725,000 and in September the J
gain was 055,429,000. The in
crease in sales for the first 11
months of 1930 was 5,566,658 or
an annual increase of 6,000.000,
000 cigarettes. As against these
figures the November production
of small cigarettes for domestic^
consumption by all manufactur
ers decreased by 1,089,454,303
j from November 1929, or a de
crease for the year of 7,952.158,
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Protest Shipment of
Totem Poles from B.C.
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Acting on representation from
! Premier S. F Tolmie of British
Columbia ordered an investiga
tion into the removal of a car
load of totem poles shipped
from Prince Rupert for a mu
seum in the United States. The
car was not allowed out of Ca
nada pending the inquiry. The
premier, on being informed of
the shipment immediately tele
graphed Prime Minister. R. B.
Bennett, protesting on the
ground that the fast dying art
of the totem should be preserv
ed as far as possible. Mr. Ben
nett telegraphed Dr. Tolmie, as
suring him that the whole mat
ter would be the subject of a
thorough investigation.
The removal of totems fioai
Alaska to museums in the state
has been so slow and sereptiti
ously done that it has not been
noticed. It will not be many
years when the people of Alaska
will awaken to the fact tha
they have been robbed of ai as
et which can never be replaced
ty the present generation. Un
less steps are taken and taken
coon the only totem poles left
standing in Alaska will be the
frw in the parks.
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STAMP COLLECTORS
ORGANIZE
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Tlie Petersburg Junior Stamp
Collectors’ Club held its first
meeting at the Scout Hkll last
Monday evening under the di
rection of Mr. Frank Hermann.
The following officers were elec
ted: President, Bob Ohmer;
Secretary, Gertrude Stenslid;
Treasurer, Evelyn Nicholson:
Directors, Richard Colp, Oak
Otness, Joe MacKechnie; Sentry,
Roger Naze. The club was or
ganized with eighteen members.
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Secretary Favors Oil
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Secretary of. the Interior Cur
tis B. Wilbur now favors a par
tial embargo on foreign oil as a
means of relieving independent
oil producers i nOklahoma and
Kansas who are struggling to
find markets.
He endorsed bills introduced
by Senators Shortridge and Cap
per of California and Kansas
j respectively, that would restrict
[production of oil in this country
j to 16,000,000 barrels annually.
Secretary Wilbur announced his
now views in a letter to Senator
Jones of California, which was
read to the senate commerce
! committee.
The average citizen is won
dering what benefit to the
small oil producer the embargo
on foreign oil when in the same
breath the Secretary of the In
terior places a limitation on an
nual local production.
Halibut Fishermen
In Dispute
Throughout the week dis
cussions have been carried on
between the Deep Sea Fi. her
men’s Union and the Fishing
Vessel Owners Association re
garding working agreements for
the coming season. The union
fishermen want hole bills de
clared uncollectable when hole
bills are caused by a partial
wreck of the vessel -where men
are laid off temporarily await
ing repair of the vessel. While
this is an eventuality which oc
curs but seldom, the vessel own
ers have shown no inclination
to accede to the fishermen’s de
mands. To date the fishermen
have refused to sign agreements
without this provision, which
practically amounts to a strike.
Meetings have been held in Se
attle and Petersburg, as well as
in other fishing centers, but so
far no definite understanding
has been reached.
NEW GRADING RULES CN
HALIBUT
The fish buyers have served
notice to the fishermen that all
halibut weighing over seventy
pounds with the head on or
;ixty pounds with head off will
he received only at second class
price during the coming season.
Under the former grading rules
all fish between ten and eighty
uounds weight were accepted as
first class. This new rule v'ill
orove a serious cut in the m
ome of the fishermen since a
onsiderable percentage of the
fish run between sixty and eigh
v pounds weight. To date the
uen pound limit on chicken hali
but remains unchanged.
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You Just Try It
So long as wine is served only
'o members of the family and
)ona fide guests. United States
District Attorney George IUt
'ield of San Francisco said re
cently, anyone may legally make
md keep wine in his home re
mrdless of the alcoholic con
tent.
Unless a sale can be proved
die government is barred from
eizing liquor in the home, by
Section 33 of the Volstead Act,
ae said. This section, according
:o Mr. Hatfield, permits posses
ion of liquor in the home so
ong as it is for consumption of
he possessor, his family or bona
fide guests. It places the burden
if proof on the possessor, but in
is much as an affidavit of sale is
necessary before a search war
rant can issue, he said a govern
ment agent cannot enter the
home to make a search.
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DELAY TO BE EXPECTED
A hearing on the Walsh re
olution to investigate charges
i gainst the Interior Depart
ment’s administration of oil
shale laws, made by Ralph S.
Kelly, trust employee of the de
partment, was postponed. Chair
man Nye of the Senate Public
Lands Committee was unable to
when the hearing will be held
^et a quorm of the committee
present. He did not set a date
' fter the postponement.
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The last and finale of the
series of card parties given by
the American Legion Auxiliary
will be held at the legion dugcut
Saturday evening. The grand
prizes for the series will be a
warded at that time.
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The M. S. Excell arrived in
Petersburg Thursday morning
from Seattle where the vessel
has been put in first class con
dition for the years fishing. Capt
John Molver and family re
turned on the boat after several
'week’s visit in the states.