VOLUME NO. VI.
PETERSBURG, ALASKA, AUGUST 14, 1931
No. 4
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Alaska Second In
Sold Output
Gold and silver valued at $66,
785,629 were produced in the
United States, Alaska and the
Fhillippine Islands in 1930, with
gold accounting for $47,247,600.
Announcing these figures, the
Bureau of the Mint said that of
the total of 2,285,603 ounces of,
gold, Alaska produced 407,356
cunces. valued at $8,420,800
while California led the way in
gold production with 450,289
ounces valued at $9,308,300. S
Dakota produced 406,297 ounces
valued at $8,398,900.
The 1930 gold production was
81,596,200 more than in 1929
while silver- showed a decrease
of 10,579.741 ounces as compared
with the preceding year.
It is generally believed that
Alaska has more gold than any
state or territory and that the
Phillippines is next.
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Going Back to
Adamic Garb
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Over 150,000 men and women
members of some 1.000 “nature
culture’’ clubs have become de
votees of the German nudity
movement according to a survey
recently published by Physical
Culture Magazine.
“Nature culture camps can be
found from one end of Germany
to the other,” says Gebhard
Hirschfeld, author of the article.
“Their doors are open to all who
heed the two rules governing
membership: Decency-and nud
ity. The Federal Association for
Free Development of the Body,
in Berlin, is one of the most im
portant of the organizations
furthering the movement. Its
purpose is to establish tracts of
land where men, women and
children may follow their in
clinations undisturbed. The
membership fee is 50 cents per
month. The practice of nudity
has been leglized in Germany
in places shielded from public
view.”
Going back to the habilments
of the “old swimmin’ hole,” in
Chicago resulted in fines of $i0
and costs and 30 days in jail,
for 12 men wlio took advan
tage of the garb of Adam on a
recent sultry day. And the judge
tells ’em it will cost ’em $100 the
next time they come up on tire
same charge.
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Last Indian Survivor of
Custer’s Last Stand
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Goes-In-The-Lodge, 80-year
old Arapaho Indian medicine
man, said to have been the last
surviving Indian who participat
ed in General Custer’s Last
Stand, died last week on the
Wind River Reservation, Wyo.
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Cope Mundy is offering 5-3 for
halibut. The Prince Rupert
prices on the board Wednesday
was 5-2 for Western and 7-3 for
local halibut . And still the
men fish!
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Dr. R. G. Smith, dentist of Pe
tersburg, returned after spend
ing several weeks in Oregon and
Washington.
Senator William Britt of Ju
neau, member of the Territor
ial Pharmacy Board, spent two
days in Petersburg on official
business.
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Twenty per cent of the pack of
the local P. A. F. cannery is
made up of red salmon.
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The steamer Queen is due at
& o’clock: tonight
Opposes Use Of
Indian Labor
(From Labor)
Expectations of several hun
dred jobless workers in Ponca
City, Okla., that they would ben
efit by the federal government’s
emergency program have been
' rudely jolted.
The last Congress appropriat
ed $427,000 for the Chilocco In
dian School, of which $350,000
is available for new buildings.
About $75,000 has already been
spent. To date just eight white
men have been employed at $1
an hour as instructors to more
than GOO Indian students 14 to
20 years old who have done the
construction work.
These Indian boys, sent to
Chilocco to study farming and
stock raising were taken from
their studies and drafted into
construction. Those filling me
chanics’ jobs are paid $2. a day,
while laborers are paid only $1
Organized labor spokesmen
declare that the federal law safe
guarding wages on federal jobs
is being flagrantly violated by
the Interior Department, and
that the work done by the In
dian boys should have gone tc
jobless workers who are unable
to support their families.
NOTE: It is the custom in the
federal Indian schools to use
Indian youth from the school in
dustrial shops on local construc
tion. When all advantages of
fered by Chilocco are measured
up the pay of these men will be
found to be much more than $!
and $2 per day; clothing, food,
housing, recreation, education,
all being added to the pay for
the en'.ire year.
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Hurley For Curtis
Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary of
War, favors the renomination
of Charles Curtis as Republican
candidate for vice president in
1932.
While in Kansas, recently, Se
cretary Hurley was asked wheth
er he would consider the Repub
lican nomination for the post.
“I am for Charlie Curtis,” he
said. “I was for him for vice
president at the Cleveland con
vention in 1924 and I was for
him for vice president in the
convention here (Kansas) in
1928.”
Secretary Hurley passed thru
Seattle enroute to the Insular
possessions, recently. f
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SEND ’EM TO ALASKA
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It was announced in Moscow
lecently that 15,000 Russian
Doukhobors who sought to emi
grate to Canada as agricultural.
colonists have been denied ad-,
mittance by the Canadian Gov
ernment. They are said to be in
Siberia.
There’s plenty of room in Alas
ka and these Doukhobors would
be a lot more acceptable to tlT5l
Territory than the penal colony
which has been suggested at va
rious times.
Word was this week received
of the approaching nuptuals of
Miss Esther Martins, former Pe
tersburg teacher and Mr. Lief
Ness in Washington.
Tonsils galore being dropped
fiom now until school opens.
Gordon Nelson, .Wednesday, Her
bert Lerston, Thursday, Doris
Parks, Friday and a number of
ethers on the waiting list for
next week.
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John Johnson was discharged
from the Petersburg Hospital
Thursday after having under
gone seven operations in seven
weeks.
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CANADIANS KILL SEA LIONS
The U. S. Bureau of Fisheries has been impor
tuned time and again to permit the killing of sea
lions. The regulations permit killing of these ani
mals when they are interfering with the fishery
operations. *
Report from Vancouver dated June 24 states
that thirteen hundred and fifty-seven seals, ba
bies, mothers and dads, were slaughtered this year
by the sharpshooters and machine gunners of
the Canadian fisheries patrol steamer Givenchy,
Captain W. Redford. The seal were killed at Vir
gin and Pearl rookeries in Queen Charlotte
Sound and is a larger bag than last year. After
calling in Vancouver for food supplies the craft
left for the rookeries again.
The result of the drive of the Canadians o.i
the rookeries is that these animals are taking
more and more to American waters where they
come under the loving protection of the Bureau
of Fisheries. The American fishermen, hard put
under general conditions to eke out a living,
must be bothered by sea lions destroying salmon
that are caught on the hooks. g
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Starts to Cancel
U.S. Citizenship
Proceedings to cancel natural
ization papers of two former ali
ens who served at Camp Lewis
during the World War , were
started in Federal Court, Seattle.
In both instances the aliens were
naturalized at Camp Lewis dur
ing the war', only to return to
their native land after peace
was declared.
Under the naturalization laws
they could not leave the United
States permanently until five
years after receiving final pa
pers.
Andrew U. Rund, naturalized
in December, 1918 and has since
made his home in Alberta while
Sam Plas, naturalized in August,
1918, has removed to Patros,
Greece.
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SILENT INDIAN RESCUED
John Birch, of Philadelphia
met an Indian recently and
started a conversation. The In
dian wouldn’t have anything to
do with him so John threw the
Indian into the river. Police
took John to jail on a charge of
intoxication and put the Indian
back in front of a cigar store.
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High Price Smoke
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An inquiry will be made into
the recent increases in cigarette
prices by the Department of
Justice to determine whether
or not there has been a violation
of the anti-trust laws.
The question has been pre
sented to determine whether the
companies acted in unison in a
price-fixing move. It is claimed
that there has been an increase
of 45 cents per 1,000 by the man
ufacturers, resulting in a 1 Vr
cent boost in retail price.
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. Ships to Give Away
The United States Shipping
Board officials are attempting to
sell the S. S. Leviathan and her
sister ships because they have
not been profitable. The liners
may go to the Roosevelt-Inter
national Mercantile Marine com
bination which is understood to
be the only group interested in
an outright purchase.
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It is reported that B. F.Heint
izelmann is considering the can
cellation of the pulp timber sales
at Ketchikan and Juneau on ac
count of the delay on the part
of the pulp companies.
The Women’s Communit.j
Leauge of the Lutheran Churcl:
meets Tuesday evening.
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John Stevenson is under ar
rest charged with being intoxi
catedL t
Ex-lawmaker Is Jailed
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Col. Thomas H. Ball, active in
the Democratic party, Texas,
and former congressman from
the Houston district, was recent
ly indicted by a grand jury on a
charge of felony theft.
The charge related to a land
transaction said to have occur
red during 1927 between a com
pany of which Ball was pres
ident and the Port Commission
of Houston, of which he was le
gal counsel.
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Fox Caught in Burrow
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Three out of four fox pups
which escaped from the Albany,
N. Y., state experimental station
were recaptured after three
weeks liberty. They weer discov
ered in a woodchuck burrow
within 500 feet of the pen from
which they escaped. Officials of
the department were forced to
dig more than 18 feet into the
ground to capture them.
AN OLD FIRE STILL BURN?
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Miners digging coal in a Lans
ford operation of the Lehigh
Coal and Navigation Co., recently
uncovered anthracite that burn
ed their fingers when they tried
to handle it.
The men had uncovered the
site cf an old ruin fire which had
been believed extinguished ten
years ago.
The company, operating in Ta
maquima, Pa., plans to remove
as much coal as possible from
the path of the fire which has
defied the efforts to seal it and
shut it off from valuable coal
seams.
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DEER CALF OR COW FAWN
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A calf, which possesses unmis
takable qualities of a deer, is a
curious freak in Nen Yan, N. Y.,
and draws many persons to view
it. Altho the calf’s mother is a
graded Jersey cow, the offspring
! has sharp, furtive eyes, and can
jump a fence as easily and grace
fully as any deer. The tail, also,
is unmistakeably not that of the
cow, but deer, family.
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Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Bowman
returned to Petersburg Sunday
evening after visiting in Seattle
the past couple of months. Mv.
Bowman has received notice
from the Indian Bureau that she
has been transferred to Juneau
where she will have charge of
on of the grade in the Juneau
Indian Bureau School. Mr. Bow
man, formermly principal of the
Petersburg Schools will be prin
cipal of the Douglas Public
Schools.
Foundations are being repair
ed this week under the People’;
t>rug Store and postoffice build
tags. . MM*;:
Alaska Unwanted
Stepchild
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Declaring that the Federal
Government has been treating
Alaska like a stepchild, Repre
sentative Frank Murphy of Ohio,
chairman of the congressional
subcommittee on Interior De
partment appropriations, re
cently told members of the Se
attle Chamber of Commerce he
could not understand conditions
in Alaska.
He wanted to know why the
government had failed to place
coal bunker at tidewater at the
terminus of the Alaska railroad
sc that Alaska coal could be
easily shipped out.
Nor could he understand, he
said why the government should
raise the rates on the Alaska
Railroad and retard the efforts
of the people in developing that
section of the Territory.
And he does not understand
why the government has been
appropriating only one-third as
much for the education of Alas
ka’s white children as it has for
the Indians and Eskimos.
There is mucmh more that Re
presentative Murphy would not
be able to understand if he only
had time to go out among the
people of Alaska, unhampered
or unhindered by those who are
so solicitous of his contacts as
to make it virtually impossible
for the Alaska laborers to meet
him.
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Hoover vs. Smith
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The major political line-up
in 1932 is going to be just as it
was in 1928—Herbert Hoover
and Alfred E. Smith running for
the presidency—if the prediction
of F. Scott McBride, general su
perintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League, is correct.
Mr. McBride does not believe
the Democrats will nominate
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt
of New York.
“At the opening of the Demo- j
cratic convention, first votes willj
go to Roosevelt, but he will not'
receive sufficient support from
eastern and northern states to
secure the necessary two-thirds
majority,” McBride said. “Then,,
with the delegates weary, Smith
will be advanced and the nomi
nation will be his.”
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Capt. O’Brien on
Last Voyage
Capt. Johnny O’Brien, trim
med ship for his last voyage last (
week, leaving a last command. j
“Go up to those newspapers.!
Tell them I died as I lived,,
fighting with my boots on.”
Capt. O’Brien was born 80,
years ago in Cork, Ireland and
began sea experience as cabin
boy when 16 years old. Eight
years later he rated master's
papers.
Capt. O’Brien had many
friends in all walks of life and
was the hero of Rex Beach s
“The Iron Trail,” the story of
the building of the Copper Riv
er and Northwestern Railroad.
He furnished the material for
Jack London’s “The Sea Wolf,”
the story of a mate who travel
led shipmates on the South
and Oriental Seas.
He battled through life as he
battled through storms and he
‘made preparations for his last
voyage on the Uncharted Seas,
as calmly and as fearlessly as
he ever did in all other travels.
Capt. O’Brien, “Fighting
Johnny will long be remember
ed by Alaskans who knew him.
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The crew of the P. A. F. can
nery will be leaving on the 19th.
Canadian Pulpmill Is
To Re-open
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The Abitibi Power & Paper Co.
of Toronto will recommense op
eration of its newsprint mill at
Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., on Sep
tember 1, according to the Hon.
William Finlayson, provincial
minister of lands and forests.
Operation will be on full-time
basis. The mill gives employ
ment to about a thousand men
in the summer months and
about twelve hundred in the
winter. It has been closed for
about nine months.
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Organized Labor
Offers Good Plan
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Organized labor has stepped
into the labor situation in an ef
fort to prevent the impact of re
duced industrial earnings from
falling with undue v/eight upon
the shoulders of the employe
consumer.
The American Federation of
Labor last week came forward
with a plan which it believes
would prevent suffering next
winter due to unemployment.
This program calls for:
1. Shortening of work hours
to distribute employment.
2. Employment guarantees;
promises from management that
those now employed will be held
through the winter so that the
tear of unemployment which
tends to encourage hoarding
could be dissipated.
3. Creation of more work, pub
lic and private.
4. Collection of funds for re
lief, both municipal and private.
Executives of railroad labor or
ganizations declared railroad
wages must not be reduced in
event the railroads fail to obtain
their 15 per cent freight rate in
crease. Any attempt at reduc
tion would be “resisted,” the la
bor executives warned.
Sourdoughs Meet
Approximately 5,000 invita
tions were sent out to Sour
doughs throughout the nation
to be present at the Third An
nual Alaska Sourdough Stam
pede in Portland, August 14, 15
16 and 17, was an announce
ment sent out from Portland
last week.
Governor Gifford Pinchot of
the Key State and Governor Ju
lius Meier of Oregon indicated
that they would be present.
Caravans, stampeding from
Seattle, Vancouver, B. C., Cal
gary and other northern cities
are expected.
The Multonomah and Imperi
al Hotels and the Public Audit
orium will be the centers of in
terest and it is announced that
a big picnic and sight-seeing
trip will be made to Mount Hood.
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Cope Mundy packet 40,000
pounds of kings Wednesday. The
fish were brought in by the Sokol
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Howard B., and Almarie.
The Emma was sent to Wran
gell with 20,000 pounds of kings
Wednesday which could not be
handled here.
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Appeared in the Seattle P. I., a
nice picture of Jessie Stuck of
Petersburg who was on her way
to the Masonic Orthopedic Hos
pital, Portland. Jessie daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Stuck, re
cently started for the hospital
which it is hoped will send her
back to her parents a well and
healthy child.
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Two Filipinos were apprehend
ed Thursday night by marshals
Carlson and Wick for furnishing
booze to native girls. No charge
^preferred {
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Doctors Oppose
Free Treatment
The United States govern
ment is entering into unjust
competition with civilian hospi
tals and, the medical profession
cf the entire nation in its policy
of giving medical and hospital
benefits to war veterans with
non-service disabilities, Dr. Ar
vid E. Anderson* of Aberdeen,
Wn., said in his president’s ad
dress at the opening of the
Washington State Medical Asso
ciation convention held in Aber
deen last week.
The state society, acting with
the American Medical Associa
tion, will strive to have the gov
ernment abandon the policy, Dr.
Anderson said. A resolution to
this effect was presented the
convention for its sanction.
“We hope the solution may be
worked out and a plan made
which will be acceptable to Con
gress and to the legislative pro
gram of the American Legion,”
said Dr. Anderson.
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Burns Oats to Save Cash
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“Burn grain fields and save
money,” was the thought of
Edward Herbert as he set fire to
seventy-five acres of oats on his
farm recently. After harvesting
about five acres he found that he
could get only 11 cents a bushel
for the grain which he said cost
him 40 cents to raise. So the
rest went up in smoke to avoid
adding 4 cents a bushel more to
its cost for harvesting and
threshing.
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Skelly Portrays Familiar
Figure in Talkie Film
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Hal Skelly, popular Broadway
md screen player, brings a fa
miliar character to the talkie
screen in his latest picture, “Men
Are Like That,” the feature at
The Coliseum Theatre for Sat
urday night. This is the screen
version, broadened in thought
and scope, of the successful
stage hit by George Skelly, “The
3how-Off.
As Aubrey Piper, Skelly has a
straight-comedy role which he
handles in surprising fashion.
After his heavier dramatic work
in “The Dance of Life,” “Wo
Man Trap” and “Behind the
Make-Up,” Skelly turns to this
new field with remarkable ease.
His characterization of Aubrey
Piper is perfect.
Gusty, back-slapping, bluster
ing Aubrey Piper is a typical
American flgure-the four-flush
er. He knows everybody, butts
in everywhere, fixes everything
and by good luck and sheer
brass, climaxes the story in a
happy ending and makes good
in the end.
As a $32.50-a-week clerk, Pip
er talks of automobiles, ocean
going yacht and country es
tates until he turns the head of
lovely Doris Hill who marries
him in spite of family opposi
tion. Married life is a disallu
tion. Married life is a disallu
sionment for her but her love is
sincere. After a series of adven
tures, he tops everything, sur
prises everybody by actually
making good on his promises.
The play was built primarily
for laughs but it is a sincere
study of a real-life person and
an American family. In addi
tion to Hal Skelly and Doris Hill
the cast includes Charles Sellon,
Clara Bandick, Morgan Farley,
Helene Chadwick, William B.
Davidson, Eugene Pallette and
George Fawcett.
Hungerford Bros, have finish
ed logging the tract of tie tim
ber on Point Alexander. Their
next project will probably be in
Thomas Bay.