GUARANTEED CIRCULATION
COVERING
SOUTHEAST ALASKA
NEWS OF INTEREST
FROM NORTH, EAST & WEST
FOR ALL ALASKANS
VOLUME NO. VI.
NO. 51
PETERSBURG, ALASKA..
July 8, 1932
Subscription Price $4 per yeal
Marshal White
Camnitteeman
For G.O.P.
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Albert White, U. S. Marshal
tor the First Division has been
named Divisional Committee
man of the Republican Party in
Southeastern Alaska. In a re
cent interview in Petersburg, he
indicated that plans are under
way for the formation of a
strong Republican Party. With
Mr. Rasmuson as National Com
mitteeman he will work out a
plan whereby the party will be
more effective—and this will
come through absolute loyalty
to the party.
The Republican platform in
Chicago gave recognition to the
Territories of Hawaii and Alas
ka. The Democratic Party threw
all reference to Alaska out of
their platform—so much for
“home rule for Alaska.”
All patronage from the Re
publican Party will come only
through the National Commit
teeman and he will give due con
sideration to the recommenda
tion to theDivisional Commit
teeman. No appointments will
be mode unless such endorse
ments are made. “All of the
States receive this recognition
and those members of the Na
tional Committee with whom we
discussed this question agreed1
that Alaska should have the
same consideration,” declared
Mr. White.
With such an organization
functioning in Alaska, it will be
impossible for the federal office,
holders to play ducks and drakes,
with their parties as they have
in the past. The only strong or- :
ganization is that one which
gives due recognition to those
men of ability and character
whi remain true to party prin
ciple.
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Chief Deputy Marshal ;
Fined For Contempt
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Mr. Statter, Chief deputy clerk j
in the office of U. S. Marshal Al- {
bert White was fined $50 for
contempt of court and his fine
increased for appealing the case
Mr. Statter had written a let
ter to Judge Justin W. Harding
relative to payment of federal
funds during the absence of Mr.
White which the Judge held was j
in contempt. Mr. White was |
without knowledge of the case
and refused to make any com
ment.
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SYNTHETIC RUM
SOLD IN CANADA
W. F. Kennedy, liquor commis
sioner, Vancouver, B. C., said the
liquor control board has uncov
ered an amazing traffic in syn
thetic liquor, sold to unwary
British Columbians and dis
guised under counterfeit labels
and placed in bottles retrieved
from junk dealers.
Much of the liquor, he said, is
believed to come from the United
States, being imported by moon
shiners together with instruc
tions how to “age” and flavor
and color it.
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Word from Dr. Eugene J.
Wheeler is to the effect that he
plans to be in Petersburg very
soon.
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Miss Myrtle Cornelius, on Wed
nesday evening, left for a visit
with relatives in Seattle.
Judge Lester 0. Gore
To Leave For Nome
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Lester O. Gore, recently sworn
in as judge for the Second Di
vision has indicated that he will
leave Ketchikan very shortly for
Nome, his headquarters and that
he will be accompanied by Mrs.
Gore and his twi children.
He fills the vacancy created by
the resignation of Judge G. K.
Lomen. Attorney General John
Rustgard was first appointee but
his charges of “conspiracy” to
appoint him as judge at Nome
did not sit well with the Depart
ment of Justice therefore his
name was withdrawn and Gore
appointed.
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“Tex” Garner Is |
Roosevelt Mate;
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For Vice-President—John N.
Garner.
Previous to the nomination of
Garner, a group of Smith sup
porters from the New England
States pondered whether to,
nominate New Jersey’s Congress
woman, Mary Norton, but decid
ed against it. j
Iowa placed Gen. Tundley’s,
name but later withdrew it and ■
seconded the nomination of!
Garner.
Nominee Garner, who was at
Washington, slept through the
nominating and seconding
speeches, then was called over
t h e long distance telephone
from Chicago, got up and went
for a walk, without comment. !
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Juneau Man Arrested, I
May Be Deported
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Charged with illegal entry into)
the United States, John Gewal
ko, employed by W. D. Gross as
care-taker of his apartment
bouses in Juneau for several j
years, was arrested last week by
R. F. Wyatt, Immigration In-i
spector. Gewalko is being held!
in the Federal Jail pending pro
ceedings to deport him to Po
land, his native country.
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Cut Pay of Jurors
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The federal economy plan has *
struck another blow at Alaskans
—those serving as jurors and1
witnesses in federal and com
missioner’s courts and all other
federal employee swhose salaries
amount to $1,000 or more are ef
fected by the ned plan.
The pay of jurors hereafter is
reduced to $4 per day; witnesses
in commissioner’s courts from!
$3 to $2 per day and witnesses
in district courts from $4 to $3
per day. All annual leave for
full-time employees has been
suspended.
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Germany explained to France
why she cannot continue paying
reparations, and received a
sympathetic hearing.
Premier Edouard Herriot and
Chancellor Franz von Papen con
ducted the meeting, which was
attended by more than 20 French
and German ministers and ex
perts.
I Count Schwerin von Krosigk,
| German finance minister, clear
ly implied Germany is unable to
pay future reparations, even
after expiration of the tempor
ary moratorium now in effect,
but the French refused to be
pessimistic. i
Hoaxer Curtis Is
I Found Guilty
John Hughes Curtis of Flem
ington, N. J., was convicted of
aiding kidnappers and prevent
ing their capture in the Lind
bergh case. The ury recom
mended mercy.
Prosecutor called defendant
a “monumental liar.” Defense
counsel declared the charges
against Curtis were only to hide
the failure of the police to catch
the kidnappers. The court held
that Curtis’ failure to testify in
his own behalf “justifies the in
ference he cannot deny the
charges.”
Out of the trial have come
disclosures that the police have
a definite group of men under
suspicion as the kidnappers and
murderers of Baby Lindbergh.
The disclosures are said to be
made by Frank Wilson, Internal
Revenue Agent who is credited
with having put A1 Capone be
hind the bars.
Defense counsel indicate they
will appeal the case for Curtis.
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Robbers Seattle
Postoffice Make
Guilty Plea
Pleading guilty to the $28,500
robbery of the Seattle postoffice
last December, Ed A. Chitwood,
veteran assistant postoffice
cashier, and E. H. Wiley, deep
sea diver, were arraigned before
Q. S. Commissioner A. C. Bow-1
man. tsona ior eacn was set at
£25,000, which they were trying
to raise. They were bound over
to the grand jury.
Chitwood attributed his down
fall to the lure of gold, postoffice
inspectors said, confessing that
be had been taking government
funds to finance his part in the I
salvage operations to recover the
treasure trove of the Alaska gold
ship Islander, which sank near
Juneau in 1902.
The government charges that
Chitwood’s shortage is nearly
£11,000, and that the robbery*
was plotted and committed by
Chitwood and Wiley partly to'
cover up this alleged shortage
and partly to obtain new funds.
Only $17,000 was actually taken
in the holdup.
Wiley was associated with
Chitwood in the salvage opera
tions.
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Man Declares He
Assisted Kidnapping
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An unidentified man claiming
to be an American citizen, but
refusing to reveal his name, sur
rendered to police in Waag-Neu
stadtl, Czechoslovakia,, saying he
was one of seven persons who
kidnaped and murdered the
Lindbergh baby. He was arrested
by the police, who were skeptical,
however, believing his story only
an attempt to get free passage
to the United States.
The seven men, he said, went
to London after the murder.
There they received money from
America, he added, and went to
Paris, buying an automobile and
trying to reach Soviet Russia.
On the way he mysteriously lost
bis companions, the man said.
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The steamer Alaska is sched
uled for this port this afternoon
Eastern Society
To Make Survey
Of Fisheries
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Mathew K. Sniffen, Secretary
(of the Indian Rights Association,
(with headquarters in Philadel
phia, plans to be in Petersburg
about the 11th of August and
will leave this port on the mo
torship Princeton for a two
weeks tour of the First Division
during which time he plans to
make a thorough survTey of the
economic situation, fishing,
lands and citizenship among
the Natives of Southeastern
Alaska. It is very probable that
an attorney representing the
Senate Indian Investigating
Committee will accompany Mr.
Sniffen.
The Indian Rights Association
is an organization composed of
many noted writers, U. S. Army
men, religious divines, business
men and others. The effort of
the organization has been di
rected to bettering the condition
among the Indians of the sever
al states and now they are
turning their attention to the
situation in Alaska—having
heard the pleas of the Alaska
Natives t ogive assistance from
the intolerable situation in the
fisheries industry and other en
tanglements with the bureau
departments in Alaska.
It is hoped that the observa
tion§ of this delegation will be
presented to the Senate Com-)
mittee on Indian Affairs and
that their report will have the ^
effect of relieving the intoler-;
able situation and presenting to
Pminproeo a f fVirv como fimn orvmn !
of the rotten, stinking discri-!
minations practiced by the Bu- 1
reau of Fisheries.
The party will be accompanied
by F. G. Johnson, Grand Presi
dent of the Alaska Native Bro
therhood.
O'Malley Makes His
Prognostications
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A “very good” salmon run is
expected this year, according to
Henry O’Malley, commissioner of
the United States Bureau of
Fisheries, who is in Seattle pre
paratory to leaving for Alaska on
an annual inspection trip.
“Of course, with times as they
are and the number of closed
canneries, it is impossible to
forecast anything definitely,”
Mr. O’Malley said, “but it looks
like a good year.”
In normal times, he pointed
out, the average production of
the Alaska salmon run amounts
to 5,400,000 cases annually and
represents some $40,000,000.
Mr. O’Malley leaves Seattle
Thursday or Friday in the bu
reau’s patrol boat Brant for
Kodiak Island, Chiknik and the
south side of the Alaska penin
sula, and from these points work
over the rest of the territory.
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Thousands mourn the passing
of the Rev. Father Francis P.
Duffy, A. E. F. chaplain for the
69th Infantry (New York’s
“Fighting 69th”) who died at St.
Vincent’s Hospital N. Y., after a
brief illness. Father Duffy, who
was sixty-one, carried on until
bis death correspondence with
friends in many quarters of the
world. He had been awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross and
the Croix de Guerre.
Kanakanak Hospital
Gutted by Fire
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Fire of undetermined origin in
the basement of the government
hospital at Kanakanak, Alaska,
recently destroyed the hospital
and three adjoining buildings
! before it could be brought under
control.
j There were no casualties, how
jever, with the eighteen hospital
patients being removed before
| the flames reached them. One
corpse, awaiting burial, was
j cremated, having been in a
place which was in the center
of the fire and beyond removal
when the flames were discovered.
A small part of the hospital
equipment was salvaged and the
hospital patients are now being
cared for in other buildings.
The orphanage was closing
this summer and the children
already had started to move to
other institutions so it is not ex
pected that the buildings will be
reconstructed.
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Home Rule Plank
Thrown Out
Democrats
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Plunging along rapidly the
Democratic convention complet
ed approval of its platform to
turn to nominations without
roll calls.
The convention voted down the
proposed planks for immediate
payment of the soldier’s bonus,
Murray’s economic proposal,
iviL-n.uuu a piupuacti tu uuiiaiarr
methods to make safe deposits in
banks of members of the Feder
al Reserve system, but hoped to
include in the platform a
plank expressing interest of the
party in human welfare work,
particularly among children.
This plank was proposed by
Miss Caroline O’Day of New
York; several silver planks, and
proposals for home rule for
Hawaii and Alaska, and a num
ber of scattering suggestions for
economic programs, were in a
batch of proposed amendments
which the chairman threw out
of a nearby window.
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Nuka Bay Strike Holds
Out Very Rich
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Elwyn Swetmann, druggist, ar
rived in Seward from Nuka Bay,
recently and announced that he
had made a personal inspection
of the Babcock tunnel stope on
the original scene of the strike.
Swetmann said that his in
spection showed a vein six
inches wide and so rich that it
was being “moiled down on
canvas.” The richness is “un
believable,” he said.
Swetmann and others are
financing prospectors in the re
gion and acquired interests in
tne strike which was made two
hundred feet from the portal of
| the tunnel at approximately the
same depth vertically.—Seward
Gateway.
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! The funeral of the late Gabe
Sather wts held last Saturday
| and his body transported to
■ Wrangell where interment was
made. The Charles T., Marian,
I Jim and June were boats us?i to
I take the many friends to pay
[last respects to deceased.
'Prospector Tells Of
Finding Gold Nuggets
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C. R-. Clark, a recent arrival
in Fairbanks from Anchorage,
had with him nuggets which he
picked up on the surface on a
creek between the Susitna and
Shulitna last December.
He was walking along when
the glint of the sun on an ob
ject in a shale formation at
tracted his eye. He went over
and with his pocket-knife dug
| out six nuggets, all of good size.
Mr. Clark intends to go back
to the spot later. He has been
prospecting in Alaska since 1902.
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Former Alaskan
Wants Judgeship
Attorney William A. Gilmore
has announced his intention to
file for judge of the superior
court for deportment No. 6 for
! the September primary at which
j time 13 judges will be selected
for the superior court, Wash
ington.
He is a Washington pioneer
family and has been practicing
law in Seattle since 1898 except
while practicing law for 11 years
in Alaska. Gilmore has specializ
ed in trial work and has prac
ticed in nearly all of the courts
cr the Pacific Coast. With May
or Dore he fought the recall
cases successfully thru the
courts for the recallers last
spring.
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Ex-Teacher Up For
Trial on Arson Charge
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A charred plank, full of tiny
holes, was introduced as state's
evidence in its second degree
| arson charge against Horace
Caldwell, former Alaskan school
teacher, when the case -went to
trail before a jury of six women
and six men in Superior Judge
Robert Jones’ court.
Inspector Charles S. Rohr, di
vision of fire prevention and in
spection, leading a parade of
fourteen firemen to the witness
stand to testify for the state,
said that a number of match
stubs were found by him near
.the plank when he investigated
] the Caldwell fire at 335 W. 75th
St. last April 9. He also testified
, he found the burned remains of
sacks of kindling and newspapers
around the furnace in the base
ment of the house, to which,
the state charges, Caldwell set
fire.
Caldwell’s wife and the three
Indian children the couple a
dopted in Alaska sat in the front
of the court-room during testi
mony. Caldwell told Fire Depart
ment inspectors that he, his
wife and the children were at a
motion picture theatre when the
fire broke out.
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LAKE BAY CANNERY
DAMAGED BY BLAZE
Fire of unknown origin des
troyed a portion of the Lake Bay
cannery, recently, it was re
ported. All of the property was
owned by the Columbia River
Packers association of Astoria.
The loss is estimated by officials
at $25,000.
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A1 Smith will support the De
mocratic Party. Senator Borah
l.i as been asked to head a dry
ticket but tho he will not sup
port Hoover he has not yet ac
cepted.