VOL. 4.
PETERSBURG, ALASKA, MAY 30, 1930
No. 46
Exercises At the
Cemetery Tomorrow
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The Memorial Day program is
to be held at the cemetery to
morrow under the auspices of
the American Legion and its
Auxilliary. The following pro
gram has been arranged for the
exercises:
First Call.Bugles
Invocation.
Song.“America”
“History of Memorial Day..A
Short talk.
Meaning of Memorial Day. .Talk
Star Spangled Banner
Taps.
The Auxilliary is planning to
furnish a picnic lunch for every
one coming to the cemetery.
And they also ask for lunch con
tributions to make sure that ev
ery person is cared for.
The men will turn to in an ef
fort to make a cemetery out of
the present location. It is plan
ned to make the road from the
main highway usable as at pre
sent it is only with great diffi
culty that a coffin can be taken
into the cemetery. A drainage
ditch is needed to drain off the
water from the grounds. At the
present time grave diggers must
stand on top of coffins to hold
them down and the dirt must be
thrown on immediately to make
permanent the anchors holding
the mortal remains of departed
friends and brothers in the
earth. This is work that will be
eventually paid for by the Coun
cil and the effort of the Legion is
directed to keeping the cost of
that work down to a minimum.
Three Graduate at Alaska
College This Year
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Three students of the Alaska
College and School of Mines are
to receive Bachelor of Science
in Business Administration de
grees on Commencement day
this year. They are Eugene Brice
of Ketchikan, Charles O. Thomp
son of Libby, Montana and Miss
Helen Franklin of Fairbanks.
BILL IS APPROVED
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A bill in the National House,
by Delegate Sutherland, to auth
orize the town ol Ketchikan to
issue $1,000,000 in bonds for the
acquisition of the Ketchikan
Light, Power and Water Com
pany properties was passed and
sent to the Senate.
Mr. and Mrs. Ole Husvik an
nounce the birth of a daughter
on May 22nd.
Treaty Hearings, Senate
Senator Watson, Republican
whip, called a Senate confer
ence of Republicans to determine
whether or not the Rivers and
Harbors bill and Naval Treaty
shall be disposed of at this ses
sion of Congress. , . .,
The high command. of the
Navy is peppering the treaty full
of holes. :
Senator Borah, chairman ol
the Foreign Relations Committee
announcd that hearings woulc
be continued shortly. • '
President Hoover will probab
ly call a special session of Con
gress immediately after the re
gular session if the Senate is un
able to deal with ibe treaty a
this session.
Capone Fights Miami
City Officials
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“Scarface Al” Capone through
his attorney secured warrants
j charging Mayor Reed, City Com
missioner Knight, Director of
Public Safety McCreary and
former Governor James M. Cox
of Ohio, publisher of the Miami
Daily News, with conspiracy.
The charges by Capone are the
outcome of the attempt to ban
ish the Chicago ganster from
the city. Each man is charg
ed with conspiring to accuse
Capone falsely of having violated
a city ordinance; in another
warrant McCreary is charged
with having falsely arrested Ca
pone.
..Three times was the Chicago
ganster arrested in Miama as a
part of that towns campaign to
drive him out of town. The city
officials had adopted the plan of
seizing and arrested Capone any
time they found him on the
streets.
Negro Sets New World
Record Century Dash
Eddie Tolan, Negro sprinter of
the University of Michigan, was
officially recognized as the
world’s record holder for the 100
vard dash and the first sprinter
to cover the distance in less than
9.6 in a well authenticated race
run without starting blocks.
Tolan was clocked in 9.5 in the
Western Conference champion
ship at Evanston, 111., on the
25th of May. This performance
was accepted by the Interna
tional Amateur Athletic Federa
tion as the official record.
The record of 9.4 for the cen
tury dash made by Simpson last
year was not allowed by the Fed
eration because he used starting
blocks.
Airport Contract Given
Local Bidder
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Henry Hasbrouck has received
notice from R. J. Sommers, Ter
ritorial Highway Engineer, that
his bid of $6100 for construction
of the Petersburg Airport, has
been accepted and authorizing
him to proceed with the work
immediately.
School Appropriations
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According to word received in
Seattle, Congress has approved
the appropriations for the Shoe
maker GBay Indian Industrial
School. The architect is now
designing the buildings.
.. Mr. Storey, the architect, plans
to make a trip to Wrangell with
in a month, accompanied by a
member of the engineering firm
of Hubbell and Waller. The pur
pose of their visit will be to
make a complete survey of the
tract and lay out the buildings.
Announcemnet has not yet
been made as to when bids will
be, called for.—Wrangell Sentinel
What Price Bootleggers
Governor Dan Moody of Texas
. I will offer $100 reward for con
• j viction of any bootlegger for sell
.j ing liquor to college or high
y school student, he recently an
nounced.
Flies to Bedside
Of Sick Wife
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William Strong, riverman of
Juneau chartered the plane Ta
ku of the Alaska-Washington
Airways, with Pilot Robert Ellis,
to reach the bedside of his wife
in Victoria, B. C. Mr. Strong
had received word that his wife
was in critical condition in the
hospital. He immediately char
tered the Taku and took off at
three o’clock in the morning.
With a stop for refueling in Ket
chikan, the plane made the
hop by 2 o’clock in the after
noon.
Pinchot Winner in
Penna. Primaries
Former Governor Pinchot 1 as
won the Republican primary
nomination for the Peon sylvan
ia governorship. Compilation of
returns of the election show t 'at
his total was 'i?2,000 b?.!]ots while
Francis Brown, his nearest op
ponent, polled 617,000.
James Davis, Secretary of La
bor under Presidents Harding,
Coolidge and Hoover, was easi
ly victor over Joe Grundy, sen
atorial lobbyist who was appoint
ed to fill the vacancy in Pennsyl
vania’s representation caused by
the Senate’s refusal to seat sen
ator elect Vare, for excessive ex
cessive expenditures to secure
the election.
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Offerings on Local
Halibut Exchange
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Oakleaf, 4800; Reform, 3500; S &
S 5000; Kennebec, 6500; Unimac
7400; Sunset 10500; Rambler 5000
Alpha 4500; Thelma M. 4500;
Gjoa 5500; Northpole 4000; Loon
1500; T-906, 4000, all of which
sold to the New England Fish
Co., at IO-61/2 to 10-7.10; Teddy J.
10,500, the Gertrude 500, sold to
Mundy at 10-6.80; Thora, sold
5000 to M. A. D., at IO1/2-61/2;
BGaltic, 8000 and Raider, 4800
were on .the .boards .Thursday
morning, unsold
phone picture will be at the Col
iseum, Sunday night.
“On With the Show”
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“On With the Show,” Warner
Bros., first 100 per cent natural
color, talking, dancing Vita
phone picture wil be at the Coli
seum Sunday night.
“On With the Show” beside the
glamour of back stage life—is a
play within a play—combining
, a tender heart story, with the
extravaganza which a stranded
'company of players determined
to put on, despite the fact tha
the “ghost” refused to walk.
Gorgeous costumes and set
tings are seen in their own bril
liant coloring, and the tintings
make the players all -but living.
Beside the great cast, “On With
the Show” has a chorus of daz
zling beauties, numbering over
one hundred.
.. The cast includes Betty Comp
son, Arthur Lake, Sally O’Neil
Joe E. Brown, Louise Fazenda
Ethel Waters, William Bakewell
Sam Hardy, Fairbanks Twins
Wheeler Oakman, Lee Moran anc
Tom O’Brien.
'Will Continue Surveys
In Alaska
Topographic surveys near Ket
chikan and investigations of the
newly discovered mineral lode
areas east of Juneau, are among
the principal explorations to be
conducted in Alaska this year,
under plans of the geologic sur
vey recently announced.
R. H. Sargent will conduct a
field party in the Ketchikan re
gion, to complete the topograph
ic survey of a tract of about 2,
000 square miles upon which
work has been proceeding for
several years. About 50,000 pic
tures taken from the air by Navy
photographic expeditions will be
utilized with work of the field
parties in the mapping. J. D.
Stewart, supervising mining en
gineer in charge at Juneau, will
conduct the lode investigations
in the Taku River region, to get
information as to the mineral
resources. There will also be an
intensive study of mineral de
posits in the vicinity of the Alas
ka Railroad.
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Improve Boat Service
To North
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Beginning with the Alameda
sailing from Seattle Tuesday
night there will be a sailing of
an Alaska Steamship liner every
Tuesday night for Southeastern
Alaska ports.
. .The Aleutian and Yukon will
sail for Southwestern Alaska
ports every other Saturday
morning while the Alaska, leav
ing Seattle on Thursday, May
29th, will leave Seattle every
other Thursday mroning for
Westward ports.
Premier Mine Awaits
Assay Reports
The Premier Gold Mining Co.,
owner of the Premier mine, in
the Portland Canal district of
British Columbia, reported that
1370 tons of ore had been ship
ped from their Prosperity group
of claims. It is expected that
the ore should net better than
$20 per ton.
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Touring Alaska
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A business friendship tour to
show Seattle’s appreciation of
the trade between Seattle and
Alaska began the other day when
the steamer Aleutian sailed for
Alaskan ports with forty mem
bers of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce and their wives. The
group will return to Seattle on
June. 5.
To Protect Laborer
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A bill by Senator Hawes, Dem
ocrat, to direct the Interstate
Commerce Commission to pro
tect the interests of employees
in railroad consolidations, was
| passed and sent to the House.
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I On May 23rd the Senate pass
ed and sent to the House a bill
known as the Harris Bill appro
priating $100,000 to enable the
1 public health service to collect
all information about cancer
and cancer treatments.
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The Admiral Evans and the
Rogers are due in port Friday.
Boxer Leaves For
North, June 20th
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Laden with supplies for gov
ernment schools in Alaska, the
power schooner Boxer, Capt. S.
T. L. Whitlam, commander, will
'sail from Seattle June 20th for
j Seward, according to statement
by Jonathan H. Wagner, Chief
1 of the Alaska Division of the Bu
reau of Education.
The Boxer is due to arrive in
Seward on the 23tli of June and
will return to Seattle as soon as
possible to load for the Arctic.
She is posted to sail for Point
Barrow, July 20.
Because of the delay of Con
press in approving appropriations
for the Department of the Inter
ior, the annual trip of the Boxer
to Southeastern Alaska will be
omitted this year. School sup
plies for that part of the North
will be shipped in vessels of re
gular steamship lines.
The appropriation for the
Alaska Division of the Bureau of
Education totals $1,092,451 and
is the largest ever made for this
branch of the government ser
vice. The appropriation pro
priation provides for the opera
tion of the Boxer and additional
teachers and new school building
and hospital in Alaska. It com
prises $823,690 for education and
$263,761 for medical relief in the
Territory.
Cannery Building Going
Up Rapidly
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Mr. C. P. Haugen reports that
the reconstruction of the can
nery building of the Wrangell
Narrows Packing Company at
Scow Bay is progressing satisfac
torily. The building was consid
ered practically complete two
weeks ago but through of lack
of and faulty bracing it collapsed
The building went down in such
a way that it was necessary to
take it apart completely and
draw all the nails and rebuild the
large warehouse completely. It’
is expected that the new struc
ture will be under roof in anoth
er week. This warehouse is a
two-story building 40x100 feet.
“She Goes to War”
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A picture in keeping with
Memorial Day is “She Goes to
War,” being shown at the Mac
Gregor Thursday and Friday. It
shows war honestly and without
^sentimentality and glamour,
bringing out the best or worst in
individuals. The play is from
the story of the same name by
Rupert Hughes.
.. The coastguard cutter Cygan
made a call in port on Sunday.
While on her way south from Ju
neau she bumped a log and did
considerable damage to her hull.
Itwas thought necessary at first
to put her on the grids here for
repairs but a more thorough sur
vey did not show it necessary so
she proceeded to Ketchikan.
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Capt. Harvey of the “Circle
H,” was in port Thursday morn
ing with 3,000 pounds of king
salmon which was for C. Mundy.
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It is easy enough to be shock
ed at British treatment of the
Hindus if you forget the Ameri
| can treatment of the Indians.
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Ousted Governor Files
For Senate
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Former Governor Henry S.
Johnston of Oklahoma, ousted
March 20,1029 by the State Sen
ate on a charge of incompetency,
formally applied for a place on
the primary ballet as a Demo
cratic candidate for United
States senator.
. .He was impeached after he
called out National Guardsmen
in an attempt to prevent sessions
of the Legislature.
Wet and Dry Figure
Digest’s Poll
The final result of The Liter
ary Digest's nation-wide prohibi
tion poll, which began last win
ter and attracted more votes
than any previous poll ever con
ducted by that magazine, shows
that 4,806,464 of the 20,000,000
persons to whom ballots were
sent were divided on the wet and
dry issue as follows: Thirty-one
per cent favored strict enforce
ment and continuance of the
Eighteenth Amendment and Vol
stead Act; 29 per cent favored
modification of the law to permit
the sale of light wines and beer;
40 per cent favored repeal of the
Eighteenth Amendment.
The Wets caption the poll as
follows: '’’Literary Digest’s Poll
Completed; Dries Are Outvoted
89 to 31."
.The Dries heading their ver
sion of the pools state that "Wets
Are Outvoted, 69 to 31.” Those
voting for modification are in
the Wet and the Dry column, de
pending upon who is giving the
figures.
Wets Want Candidate
To Oppose Pinchot
A movement has been started
to place candidate in the field at
the general election against Gif
ford Pinchot, who received the
Republican nomination for gov
ernor of Pennsylvania. The
movement is being made by the
Wet element.
When the Gang Breaks
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The grand jury investigation
being conducted in Seattle into
the prohibition administration
for the past several years brings
forth the fact that 92,300 cases
of liquor was landed in American
ports by the Omstead liquor
ring. The retail value of these
shipments depending on the
market prices at the time the
different lots were landed.
Senate Passes Pension
Bill Civil War Vets
The House Bill to increase the
pension of veterans who served
for the United States in the Civil
War, from $65 to $75 a month,
was passed by the Senate. The
bill, which goes back to the
House for concurrence in a min
or amendment, would grant $100
a month to veterans requiring
“regular aid and attendance
of another person.”
Washington state favors modi
fication; Oregon goes dry; the
booze goes on forever.