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PETEBSBUR£, ALASKA MAY 27. 1927
NO. 46
The Fourth of July Program, and
Parade Committees held a very in
teresting joint meeting at the home
of, Mrs. C. O. Parks on Tuesday
evening. The committees decided
that they would stage a contest for
the Fourth of July Queen to be
known as “Miss Liberty.” The
nominations for this honor are to
be made by public subscriptions at
I0<t a vote; a minimum of 10 votes
being required to nominate a can
didate and all subscriptions ap
plying towards the donors can
didate at the value of 10 per vote.
A cash prize of $50 will be award
ed the lucky lady who wins the
most votes and becomes “Miss
Liberty,” She will be crowned at
the Exercises on the morning of
July Fourth and after receiving the
Key of the City, will preside dui
ing the rest of the festivities.
The contest is open to any girl
whqm you wish to nominate after
donating your ten votes. Girls
get your managers out and get
Attorney Charges
Undue Haste In
d'Autremont Case
Attorney F. L. Smith, attorney
for Hugh d'Autremont, alleged train
wrecker in the Siskiyou mountains,
Oregon, charged Wednesday that the
State was making undue haste in
pushing the case to trial. He
stated that it is possible that
d'Autremont will have to get oth
er attorneys as Smith had other
cases pending before the court
which will not permit of his ap
pearing in this action unless it is
postponed.
Plane New York
Is Damaged
The plane New York was damag
ed when making a forced landing
at Bridgeport, Connecticut. When
landing on the water the sudden
contact sprung leaks in the plane
so that it was unable to proceed
on its journey. The crew of * two
and passengers were uninjured.
After minor repairs the plane re
sumed its Journey Thursday.
Dynamiter Not Insane
Kehoe, dynamiter of the school
near Lansing, Michigan, was declar
ed to haYe been in his sanq. mind
when he planned the destruction of
the school in which 45 children were
killed and many others injured.
These findings were made known
Thursday by a coroners jury after
hearing testimony of witnesses for
three days.
. .OURS TO KEEP THE FAITH
Memorial Day Is best celebrated
by that deep appreciation of the lay
alty, devotion and heroism which
made this a united nation and which
should Impress us with our own re
sponsibility for keeping it united
for generations that are to follow
us. —Grit*
busy. A chart showing the pro
gress of the contestants will be
posted daily, their standings being
determined by the number of
votes they turn in. The Finance
Committee expects to make this
contest one of its main sources of
revenue and hopes that subscrip
tions enough will pour in to finance
the whole celebration.
Cash prizes will also be awarded
for a number of other entries in
*he parade such as: the best de
corative baby entry. The youpg
sters will also have plenty of op
portunity to win some prizes lor
the committee is going to give a
cash prize for the be3t doll buggy
entry and the best scooter 01
licycle entry. The most original
entry will also have a place in the
cash prize list, so put your think
ing caps on and get busy on your
costumes—July 4 will soon bo
here and its going to be the biggest
celebration Petersburg has ever
known.
Capt Nord On
S. $. Aleutian
The skippers on the Alaska liners
have been shifted around so that
one has to look for his favorite
captain. Capt. Nord has been put
in command of the Aleutian, and 1
Capt. Jock Livingstone is now on
the bridge of the Northwestern
succeeding Capt. M. D. Jensen in 1
charge of the Alaska.
GARBAGE DUMP BE CHANGED
The attention of the Mayor was ]
called to. the matter of disposal of
garbage, by Mr. Williams of the Bu
reau of Public Roads. It had been
suggested that a pile construction
be built so that the dumping might
be made in deep water in thei Nar
rows. Mr. Williams stated that this
would not be permitted so that in
any event the dumping would have
to be made in Frederick Sound.
He further stated that the present
proximity of the dump to the public
road was undesirable. The matter
was discussed by several members
of the Club but no solution had been
offered to clarify the situation. It
is generally believed however, that
the only solution to the situation is
to use a scow and tow it out into
the deeper channels of Frederick
Sound where it would be dumped.
West Coast Building Up
. .A floating cannery is moored at
Hydaburg at the present time and
a new warehouse is being built by
the people of the town. ....
William Hale bas torn down the
old cannery and is building a more
modern building. The Klawock
cannery is the oldest cannery of the
lot in Alaska, being in operation for
over thirty years.
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The Peratovich and Demmert can
neries are getting ready for the sea
ons operations at Klawock also.
Miss Robinson, matron in the
Sheldon Jackson School at Sitka,
visited with Mrs. William Tammaree
while the Admiral Rogers was in
port today. Miss Robinson is go
ing to her home in the States for a
visit.
Local Club Gets
Back of Flood
Relief Fund
The loc-ti Chanib. r of I’amnirce
this week qo, *i to p it itr- sliou.*.
er to the hoe. • * 1 boov tho Mis
sissippi R**Lef Fund >hnt !« Iel:g
raised by various organizations
thruout the Territory.
Secretary Hoover has declared
that a fund of $10,000,000 would
hardly be sufficient t > meet the
needs of the stricken area. Rut if
every citien in every coatunify gives
generously, the needs will be well
taken care of.
“Isn’t this the worst spring you
ever saw” said one man to another
this week. “Yes, but how about th°
Mississippi valley” replied the oth
er. It is to be hoped that the purse
strings of this community will be
upened as widely and as big a hand
ful of local sympathy taken out for
those of the stricken area as has
been done by other Alaskan towns.
L. B. Cornelius, was appointed
as chairman of the Committee! hav
ing the mater in hand and his asso
liates are F. A. Havens and Carol
Dlausen.
STAGES COMEBACK
Mrs. May Sutton Bundy, tennis
itar several years back is staging a
icmeback. She defeated Elsie Gable
5-1 and 6-2 in a title go in Cali
ornia. She is to meet Edith Gross
>f San Francisco also this week.
Petersburg Woman Thinks She Knows
Her Husband’s Fist When She Feels It
tlr. Ernest Schoenwald on Stand to
Testify Against Alaska Cannery
man; Suit for Devorce on File.
Mrs Henrietta Archibald Schoen
vald, estranged wife of Ernest
ichoenwald wealthy head of the
Petersburg Packing Company, knows
i blow from her husband’s fist when
;he feels it she insisted before
fustice of the Peace Chester A
3atchelor. Mrs. Schoenwald, who
•esides in the Cambridge Apart
nents while Schoenwald occupies
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luarters in the Calhoun Hotel,
nade the declaration from the stand
is prosecuting witness in a third
iegree assault action brot against
ler spouse, who she charges hit her
:>n the back of the neck as a result
>f an argument with him on the
street in front of the Bowman hotel
February 19, the anniversary of
heir marriage five years ago.
“Of course it was his fist,” she
asserted with conviction. “If you
tiad been struck with it as often as
you felt it, too.”
I have, you’d recognize it_when
Her statement followed a sug
gestion from Attorney J. N. Ivey,
counsel for Schoenwald that since
she is undoubtedly without eyes in
the back of her head she might not
be sure that a fist had been used.
The argument with her husband,
f?he testified, came when she refus
ed his plea for a reconciliation.
She admitted that she had be
gun three divorce actions against
Schoenwald in the last couple of
years and that one was now pend
ing.
Schoenwald, taking the stand in
his own defense, denied any inten
tion of striking or injuring her and
insisted that she filed charges a few
days after he had refused her re-.
Marathon Flight
Now In Vogue
This Week
Captain Charles Lindbergh flew
his monoplane from New York to
Paris in 33 hours thereby success
fully made a trip for which other
concerns and fliers had made long
preparation.
Having made this long distance
trip various interests are setting
out for other records. The Pres
ident of the San Francisco Chamber
of Commerce will head a group
which plans to raise $65,000 to add
to $35,000 already promised for a
non-stop* flight from San Francisco
to Honolulu.
Capt. Lindbehrg decided this week
to make an air tour of Europe,
planning to visit Copenhagen, Ber
lin, Veina, Rome and Madrid.
Experiments being made at Kelly
Field, San Antonia, Texas has given
rise to the belief of aviators that a
non-stop world flight will be pos
sible. Probably this will be one of
the attempts of science to ovtrcome
the laws of nature and elements.
_ATTEMPTS SUICIDE BY
BURNING HAIR
Mrs. Frances Ayres, employee of
the Seattle postofflce soaked her
hair with gasoline and then set fire
to it in a third attempt to commit
suicide this week. She is in a
hospital with even chances for re
covery .
guest for $2,000 in addition to the
$4,000 he has given her since last
January. ,
Taking of further testimony has
postponed by Judge Batchelor for
one week.—Chronicle.
Pulp Mills In Alaska
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During the past two months,
much was said about the establish
ing of pulp and paper mills in Alas
ka by large capital. The press of Ju
neau and Ketchikan, however, do
not blazon in glaring headjines the
following:
“E. M. Mills of San Francisco, re
presenting the Zellerbach Paper
Co. was in Seattle Friday looking
over sites for a paper mill which
the company purposes to build
some- where on Puget Sound. Mills
Mills discussed the matter with a
committee from the Port Town
send Chamber of Commerce.
“He also talked with delegations
from several other towns and said
that no decision has been reached
as to where the plant will be locat
ed. “Nothing is certain yet," Mills
explained, “beyond the fact that
we will probably build a mill.”
Perhaps Alaska will get a pulp
mill, but it s a cinch that the Coast
•cities will get the major share of
the industry. The way to build up
Alaska is to bring in a summer or
tourist population and then lock up
all business houses for the winter
and go below. What good’s the old
“Ice Box” except for dividends?
What cares capital for mere human
life and its needs?
FLOWERS FOR MEMORIAL DAS
AT WORTH’S. .
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Capt Charles Lindberg, of the Mis
our'i National Guard set out alone
in a Ryan monoplane for Paris
from Roosevelt Field, New York and
made the distanct in thirty-three
hours, Saturday May 20. He landed
in Paris amid the cheers and shouts
of applause from the French and
other nationals.
His plane, weighted with a load
of 5,000 pounds had all it could
ao to rise clear of a fence at the
edge of the starting field and day
light just showed between his plane
and the tree tops but clearing it
he rose to about three thousand feet
and headed across the ocean for
France.
Travelling at the rate of 107 miles
Memorial Day
Services
The Petersburg American Legion
Post and Auxiliary are sponsoring
a Memorial Day Service in com
I memoration of all who died fo»
their country—not only in the
World War, but in the previous
wars in our historv. The loca
Band will play out sid^ the Var.et.
Theatre at 2:30 Monday afternoon,
after which all will co:.\ene in th?
theatre for the program of he day.
There will be musical numbers r. ■ .
patriotic readings, beside the ad
dress, which will be delivered by
Dr. Dan E. Standard. T Boy and
Girl Scouts and the Legion an 1
Auxiliary will sit in body during
the servicts.
Every one is cordiall invited to
join in the Commemoration Servk
Come and wear your • . ppy.
Club Seures Data
On Roads For
Presentment
. . Mr. Harold F. Dawes, chairman
of the committee appointed by the
local Chamber of Commerce to
gather facts and data to be submit
ted to the Bureau of Public Roads,
setting forth reasons why such a
road should be constructed to Blind
Slough, made a report to the local
Chamber. These facts will be set
forth an dpresented to the Bureau
It is anticipated that a representa
tive from the Club will be chosen
and sent to present the matter in
person.
Seal Skin Prices
Decline
Sales of fur seal skins by the
United States Government at St.'
:
Louis at the International Fur Ex-‘
change show an average decline of
25 percent in sales as compared to
sales held last year. The total de
crease thig year comes to $500,000
and is attributed to a general de
cline in all furs.
If the Bureau of Fisheries operate
barely at a profit, what is it going
to do this year at such a heavy de
cline, _
an hour he covered the distance of
3,400 miles in 33 hours. When be
alighted irom his plane he was put
on the shoulders of the admiring
crowd and carried irom the field.He
was met by official .France and the
United States Ambassador. The
Legion of Honor was pinned on his
tunic by the prime minister of
France and greeted by royalty of
tne world, it is said that his success
in rnaaing the light has brought the
two nations closer together than
any time since the late war..
Capt. Byrd and others who were
planning to make the attempt are
reported as having given up their
plans when it was learned that the
trip had been successfully made.
PlanTo Drive
Long Tunnel
J. G. Galvin, president of the
j-.ake Virginia Mining Co. arrived
from tiie east on tlie Queen Sunday
morning.
When seen by th© Sentinel re
porter, Mr. Galvin stated that Mr.
K. Carmichael, a mining engineer
of New f ork City, had arrived here
with him f rothe purpose of laying
out the season’s work. He stated
that work would begin at once on
driving a 4,000-foot tunnel. A small
crew Is being put to work this week
but a larger crew will be put to
work just as soon as weather condi
tions will permit.
The tunnel will be used both as
a working tunnel and for taking
out ore. Mr. Galvin states that
this long tunnel is being driven to
enable his company to obtain de
finite facts regarding the extent of
the ore bodies. The information
thus obtained will be used in de
termining the size and kind of re
duction mills to be installed. Nor
man C. Stinnes ’report from his own
sampling, places his lowest average
at $22.50 per ton. The ore is lead
silver and zinc.
Mr. Galvin states that he has
adequate financial backing, inas
much as the people who are financ
ing are the same outfit that are
operating the great Normanda mine
in Quebec where 50,000,000 ton*
of ore have been blocked out.
The reporter asked Mr. Galvin
what he expected to do with his
water power permit which was
granted him by the Federal Power
Commission. He replied that he
was installing a water stream
guage on Mill Creek, and that he
expected that work would be start
ed on a water power project before
the end of the season.—Wrangell
Sentinel.
MAY BE IN CONTEMPT
Lita Gray was ordered to appear
in court June 2nd to show cause
why she would not make certain de
positions in her divorce suit. Un
less she appears she will be ad
judged in contempt.
Appearing at the ofllces of the
attorneys for hei^ husband, she walk
ed out upon being asked a single
question. Her attorney Young de
fended the action because he declar
ed reporters were barred which was
illegal. The deposition is being de
layed until a decision of the court
has been rendered. The order for
ner appearance being a part of the
procedure set forth by Wright, at
torney for her famous husband.