VOL. 4.
PETERSBURG, ALASKA, AUGUST 16, 1929
NO. 5
Alaska Aerial Expedition Will
Stop Here Today Enroute South
The tug Gannett of the Alas
ka Aerial Expedition with its
barge in tow is expected in port
from Juneau this afternoon if
the weather permits. The outfit
is headed for southern waters
having completed their work of
making an aerial photographic
survey of the Southeastern sec
Uon of the Territory. The four
planes are also due in port to
day.
Governor George A. Parks, his
secretary Harry G. Watson anci
United States Commissioner of
Fisheries, Henry O’Malley are
coming to Petersburg today on
the Alaska Aerial Expedition
planes. Mr. Ohmer, mayor of
the town was advised by cable
of the coming o fthese officials
but no mention was made of any
plans or itinerary.
GOOD COMEDY AT THEATRE
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During the past week Harry
Willis has been entertaining the
patrons of the MacGregor Thea
tre with dancing, singing, ven
triloquism and light comedy in
a very pleasing manner. His
ventrilloquism Is the first pro
fessional act of that kind staged
in this end of the Territory that
we know of and it mystified the
little folk not a little.
Pantages Held Charge
Criminal Assault *
Alex Pantages, millionaire the
atre ownerwes arrested last
week charged by Eunice Pringle,
with assault by “force and vio
lence.”
According to the girl she went
to the theatre in search of work
and was assaulted by Pantages
in his private office. The com
plaint was issued by District At
torney after he had conferred
with Dr. Hannah Beatty of the
juvenile bureau, who had made
physical examination of the girl.
After the examination the doc
tor verified the accusations of
the girl. Pantages was placea
under $25,000 bonds and releas
ed. He denies the charges made
by the girl.
Mrs. Pantages is having troub
les of her own in Los Angeles be
ing charged with manslaughter
having filled a man by running
over him with a car.
- BUILDING UP CANADA
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Premier Ferguson, Toronto
Ontario, has announced that
railway ties to the value of $100,
000 will be purchased from set
tlers next fall and winter. Each
purchase will be limited to 500
ties in order that more may be
able to benefit from the order
and to give more opportunity to
improve their financial status
during the winter.
The top price for 500 ties will
be 80 cents each giving the set
tler an earning of $400. The
ties are ta be delivered along the
railroad where they may be
loaded on trains.
Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Hilde
brand were up from their farm
in Beeches Pass yesterday. They
planned to return home in an
open boat—in spite of the rain.
James Allen is visiting in town
these days. He is ranching on
Oreif Island.
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IT COSTS TO EDUCATE
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During the year 1928 New
York spent $147,848,700 on edu
cation. There were 971,000 pu
pils daily average in elementary
high, secondary and training
schools. The amount expended
was 40 per cent more than
France paid during the same
year on its public schools.
Wili Bring Steamer
For A. S. S. Co.
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E. M. Murphy, mechanical su
perintendent and a number of
ship officers of the Alaska
Steamship Company, left Seat
cle recently for New York to
take over the steamer Mexico
purchased from the Ward Line
July 10th. The vessel has been
plying on the East Coast.
Capt. Thomas Heraly, formerly
chief officer of the steamer Alas
ka went east to assume the
same position on the new craft.
When the vessel arrives in Se
attle it will be put on the ways
and rebuilt and reequipped with
new boilers. About next March
she will be completed and
ready for the Alaska run. She is
to be rechristened and given an
Alaskan name. The vessel is a
;teel twin-screw steamer of 6,
207 gross tons register, 418 feet
m length, 50 feet beam and a
molded depth of 30 feet.
WISCONSIN PLACES OLD AGE
PENSIONS IN COUNTY HANDS
The state of Wisconsin has
:aken another forward step in
progressive labor legislation. The
jld age pension bill, passed by
he Wisconsin legislature, has
oeen signed by the governor.
The law provides that any
iounty board, by a majority vote
nay adopt the old age pension
plan.
Senator Thomas M. Dunsan,
Socialist, from Milwaukee, pre
dicts that Milwaukee County
//ith its 700,000 population will
probably be the first large indus
trial district to put this human
itarian legislation into effect.
He is confident a majority of
ffie county board favors the
•cheme.
Is Amendment to 1925 Law
“The bill just signed by the
governor,” Mr. Duncan explain
ed to LABOR, “is really an
amendment to the old 1925 law.
“An old age pension bill was
passed in 1925, but it was ham
strung by a clause that barred
In its operation in any county
unless two-thirds of the board
members voted for it. This pro
vision made it practically im
Dossible to do anything -with old
oge pensions in this state. The
)resent law7 corrects that evil.
Bill Killed Three Times
“It was very difficult to pass
this legislation. The bill was
killed three times—once in the
Senate and twice in the House—
but the Progressives managed to
revive it each time.
“Representatives of the Rail
road Brotherhoods and the Am
erican Federation of Labor work
ed very hard to obtain passage
of the bill. Credit should also
be given to the Fraternal Order
of Eagles for its activity on be
half of the great reform.—LA
BOR.
FACING BANKRUPTCY
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If the truth were told the Public would be in
lormed that most business houses in Southeastern
Alaska are insolvent and facing bankruptcy.
The Seattle Wholesalers are worried.
Why should this condition be with Henry
O’Malley as autocrat of our fisheries.
Alaska is suffering from the ill-advised regu
lations of Henry O’Malley. He has closed our
streams and all areas where Alaskans can catch
fish. He has discovered that our fishermen can
catch fish in the straits by fastening one end of
the seine to the shore, so he has prohibited that.
And yet the fish trap is nothing but a hook
but no restriction is placed on them.
O’Malley has stopped our trollers from fishing
during January, February, March and from August
24th up to October 1st after which weather condi
tions make fishing impossible.
O’Malley still keeps the seasonal closing so the
time will come when no fish will run except during
the closed season because that is the only fish that
are protected.
Only two things are increasing in Alaska un
der O’Malley’s regime—fish traps and patrol boats.
If I had charge of our fisheries, I would in
crease the population of Alaska by 25,000 in five
years.
Under the O’Malley system, O’Malley has lost
15,000 in population.
William L. Paul.
University Oregon Initiates Summer
Session Tour of Southern Alaska
Their ’‘campus” the coast of
Southeastern Alaska, from Van
couver, B. C. to Skagway the
town ‘‘Soapy Smith” made fa
mous and even beyond this to
sleepy Sitka, old capital of
Russian regime and back to
the town that makes the shrimp,
famous, 170 summer session stu
dents of the University of Ore
gon arrived in Petersburg last
Sunday afternoon on the Queen
of the Admiral Line,
of the Admiral Line. This is the
first time in the history of Am
erican higher education that a
cruise of this kind has been j
sponsored by a university.
Courses
Students- on board are taking
courses from a faculty of 15 se
lected professors, and studies
particularly lend themselves to
such a venture have been se
lected. These include geology
and geography of Alaska, art of
Alaskan Indians, literature of
Pacific Northwest, feature writ
ing, anthropology, and others.
The steamer stopped at Wran
gell where on Sunday, those on
board heard Rev. H. P. Corser
lecture on Totemism. Mr. Cor
ser is an authority on this sub
ject. Stops will be made at Ju
neau, Sitka and Skagway with
spacial side trips to Mendenhall
Glacier, White Pass and Yukon
Railway out of Skagway, Taku
Glacier.
College Dean is Alaskan
W. G. Beattie, professor of
education at U. of O. is a former
Alaskan. He came to Alaska in
1905 as superitendent of Shel
don Jackson school, which
new buildings were constructed
under his supervision. He was
appointed Divisional Superin
tendent of the U. S. Bureau of
Education which position he
held until 1916. From 1917, for
two years he was principal in
charge at Metlakatla, where, un
der his direction was started the
first unit of an industrial school
for the First Division. Lack of
funds prevented completion of
the plan, which is discussed in
another column of this issue.
Mr. Beattie went south and
was soon teaching at Monmouth
Normal School, Oregon, later
joining the University.
Other prominent members of
the faculty include Dr. J. Dun
can Spaeth, professor of English
at Princeton, who is teaching
literature of the Pacific North
west while on the cruise; Dr. C.
N. Reynolds, professor of soci
ology at Stanford University,
who is teaching anthropology;
Karl W. Onthank, executive se
cretary of the university, direct
ing the tour; Professor Albert
Sweetser, professor of botany;
Professor Noland B. Zane, pro
fessor of art, and otheres.
Where They Come From
Many States of the Union are
represented in the cruise. One
Richard Clive Mears, hales from
Eaton, England.
| The tour ends on the 21st of
August when the students re
turn to their college campus for
' a ten days study after which ex
i animations will be given.
Campbell Church, Jr., is with
the tour and has along with
him a cub bear caught on Ad
miralty Island this spring. She
will be released to raise more
cubs to be more nuisance in the
wilds of Admiralty.
ANOTHER ALASKA AERIAL
SERVICE TO BEGIN
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A new air passenger service is
(to be maintained in the North
| according to plans of the Yukon
Airways and Exploration Com
pany, Ltd. which has purchas
ed a six-passenger Ryan brough
am to traverse the route be
tween White Horse, McKenzie
River and Telegraph Creek.
..Queen due southbound 17th.
WILL ADJUDICATE POWER
VALUATION CLAIMS
The Federal Power Commis
sion has initiated an examina
tion of valuation estimates of
hydro-electric power companies
upon water power projects thru
! out the nation.
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i Mr. and Mrs. Andy Anderson.
I Hobart Bay fox ranchers were in
| port this week. Andy reports
I very good results on his ranch
| for his efforts this lear.
Fishermen Called “Pirates”
And Then Receive Apology
H OTJLD BAN DEATH PENALTY
President Erni'io Portes Gil!
elminated the death penalty |
from the draft of a new national
penal code which the Mexican
government wiil promulgate be
lore the end of the month. He
is a staunch op poser of the ex
treme penalty.
S. A. Makes Drive
For Funds
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The local corps of the Salva- |
tion Army is making its Finan- •
cial Appeal to citizens of Peters- {
burg, this week.
The work of the Army has the j
support of every right thinking j
citizen of Alaska and elsewhere. I
The objective cf the Finance
officer and his aids, is $450. They
do not anticipate any difficulty
in raising this amount.
The Geodetic Survey Steamer
Explorer was in port yesterday
morning from vicinity of Level
island where they are sureying
and making tidal observations.
Army-Navy Pay Goes
Up For Officers
The Army-Navy military boaro
has made recommendations for
increase of pay for officers. Ma
or Generals and Rear Admirals
to receive an increase of six
thousand dollars, from eight to
fourteen thousand dollars; Brig
adier Generals now get $6000
per year and will be raised to
$12,000; colonels of the army
and captains of the navy are to
be raised from $5000 to $10,200;
lieutenant colonels of the army
and commanders of the navy
from from $4500 to $8700; ma
jors in the army and lieuten
at commanders in the navy fro
$4,000 to $6000; the “shavetail”
from the Academies jump from
$1800 to $3000.
The common garden variety
of private, the cannonfodder,
the pawns of war games , gets
his little $21 per month; the
first-class private gets an in
crease of $6—from $30 to $36.
As in every other line, the
‘buck” private was not on the
“board” nor was he consulted
as to his needs or desires.
ABERDEEN WANTS TO OWN
WATER SYSTEM
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The voters of Aberdeen, Wash,
will go to the polls on September
10th to decide whether or not
they wish to own and operate
ihe water system now in pos
session of the Grays Harbor and
Light Company. Mayor Bailey
was instructed to see the com
pany and ask it to set a price on
its distribution system to the
city.
The council authorized pay
ment of expenses of Homer T.
Bone and Bruce Shorts to con
fer with the city on matters re
lative to the purchase of the
water system.
E. A. Winkler was brought in
from Windham Bay this morn
ing, having been killed when a
scaffolding broke dropping a
heavy piece of machinery on
him.
Last Sunday Oscar Nicholson,
superintendent of the local P. A.
F. cannery along with another
official of the company, whose
name we have been unable to
ascertain, went by automobile
to Mountain Point where they
warned Mr. Haugen of the
Wrangell Narrows Packing Co.,
from purchasing “pirate fish”
from pirates Harry Benolkin
and Pat Hollywood on one boat
and Timmerman on another;
that these men were pirates and
creek robbers and to buy their
fish was to connive with their
(alleged) illegal action.( Brack
ets our own). Mr. Haugen de
nied knowledge of their illeg
al operations that they fished in
closed areas, creeks or any oth
er place; that he had sufficient
to do without being a wet nurse
to the bureau of fisheries or to
gumshoe any fishermen. The
conversation was more or less
acrimonious.
Shortly after the P. A. F. as
sistants to the O’Malley sys
tem of overlords returned to
town the fishermen happened
down Mountain Point way. They
soon learned of the charges
against them. They returned to
Petersburg and bearded the
P. A. F. men in their buildings.
A lot was said that was unprint
able but nevertheless under
standable to the fishing fra
ternity and others. Demand
was made by the fishermen that
the charge be proven or re
tracted. It looked for awhile as
if a riot call for the strong arm
of government would be neces
sary, buth matters quieted down
and the boys left for their boats.
Island where they are surveying
was unable to get any storage
for his efforts this year.
A couple of days later the re
presentatives went to Mountain
Point and retracted their charg
es and made apology for their
attack. Mr. Haugen accepted
the apology and passed it on to
the boys who somewhat appeas
ed, dropped the idea of suit for
criminal libel.
THE VARIETY
“Ginsberg the Great” will be
seen Sourday night in a cast
composd of Geo. Jessel, Audrey
postors will be Wat9 u3-a gain
Ferris ad Gertrude Astor.
Sunday and Monday “Coney
Island a fine drama and The
Last Nose of Summer, comedy
by the late H. C. Witwer.
Monte Blue presents The Brute
an Tuesday and Wednesday. It
is a rip-roaring Western epic, a
rousing romance of Oklahoma in
the oil rush days.
A “One-Mamma Man” is the
funny streak in this program.
“The Ranger” on Thursday
and Friday, is seen in The Swift
Shadow—a pulsing story of a
mighty dog who crashed thru all
prejudice and danger to defend
jthe man he loved. The seventh
! chapter of the thrilling serial
| Melting Millions is shown with
I this program. Pathe News Reel
land an Educational film also is
to b shown.
The little son of Magnus Hem
nes died Wednesday and is to be
; interred in the new cemetery,
j Oscar Nicholson is the proud
father of the first baby born in
i the renovated Petersburg Hospi
tal. It was a girl ad born yes
j terday morning.