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PETERSBURG, ALASKA, MARCH 27, 1930
Building Fine
1 New Yacht
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B, M. Ball of Wrangell was a
visitor during the week and re
ports rapid progress on a new
yacht being built for him by the
Anderson Boat Shops of Wran
fjell. Mr. Anderson thought the
boat would be ready to glide
down the ways into the water
about the first week of May.
.*The little vessel will be 50 feet
ahd 2 inches in length with a
beam of 11 feet and six inches.
She is being planked with Alas
ka cedar of the best quality
while her decking and outside
work and inside cabin work will
all be finished in Teak and ma
hogany. Copper tanks with a
load capacity of 665 gallons will
furnish fuel for her twin 180
Sterling engines. She will be
equipped with pilot house con
trol, electric wenches, Edison
k&tteries, all cleats, rudder and
(feck railing will be of mangan
ese bronze while her shaft will
ire of monel alloy. She will have
t*wo dingies for life boats and
.‘bout work and will have sleep
ing accommodations for nine
persons, With her twin engines
both Mr. Ball and Mr. Anderson
dxpect the craft to hold a cruis
ihg speed of thirteen miles an
hour .and a forced speed of ap
proximately 20 statute miles an
h'our. This will be the finest
and most complete yacht built
in the Territory and will be a
credit to any yacht club.
,t!. Mr. Ball has not been in Alas
ka so very long, but he is en
thusiastic about the country and
its wonderful scenery and game
lire. A country good enough
'to live in and enjoy, according to
$Ir. Ball, is good enough to de
velop and he is helping in that
way,—using local industry in
stead of outside to build this
line craft. *’*’ * ,
Skagway
Aubrey Simmons, Canadian
Customs agent returned to his
duties after spending some time
visiting outside.
; Miss Vivian Talbot, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Talbot
tnd Mr. J. Bixler were united in
marriage recently. Mrs. Bixler’s
father has been connected with
the White Pass Railroad for a
good many years.
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Congress
A bill has been passed by the
itouse of Representatives appro
priating $1,660,000 for Alabama
flood relief. ....
..The Senate has adopted
duty on sugar.
ft the tariff bill increasing the
Jt1uty . oft sugar and cement:
WOULD BE SENATOR
.-Secretary James J. Davis will
be a candidate for the United
States Senate is an announce
ment of interest to a great many
outside of his own state.
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WOULD CALL IT MT. EIELSON
: Senator Nye of North Dakota
lias'asked thru a resolution that
Copper Mountain be renamed
and called Mr. Eielson.
• • Petition for probate of the es
tate of the late William Howard
Taft shows that the estate has
a value of about a half million
dollars. 1 i n
Judge James Wickersham
Tells Rotarians What Is
Wrong With Alaska Industry
. .“Business men too often think
they are cither too busy or toe
;mportant to attend to their
duties as citizens. How often
do we hear a merchant, a bank
er or other business man say,
‘Oh, I am too busy to vote,’ or
'to pay any attention to polities,'
or politics is too rotten for me to
give it my attention!’ That bus
iness man is not only not a good
citizen but he is not a good busi
ness man; he is too lazy or too
ignorant to inform himself upon
those conditions which surround
him and his business. Some
day he awakes to find that
another more active and fre
quently less scrupulous com
petitor, by paying attention to
such politics as apply to busi
ness, has destroyed him and
marked him a failure.
“At bottom business success
depends on the character of our
laws—both business laws and
legislative—under which you
are obliged to carry on your
trade. The most important of
these laws in Alaska are those
made by your own legislature.
The worth of laws depends pri
marily upon the kind of men
•^elected by the voters as law
makers, and when the business
man refuses to give intelligent
and active attention to the
choice of lawmakers, he not on
ly abandons his duty as a citizen
but abandons his business suc
cess to that active competitor
who elects and guides your legis
lators along the lines leading
to his success and the ruin of
vour business.
“Alaska’s coastal region once
possessed the most valuable na
tural resource of any similar
area in Amermica—the salmon
fisheries. You know the history
of their exploitation and their
present tendency toward de
struction. You know who con
trols these fisheries—who now
exploits and monopolizes them
and where the millions of an
nual profits which they produce
are invested. You know that
Seattle, Portland and San Fran
cisco now garner the entire be
nefit of that greatest resource
of Alaska while you have plenty
ot time to stand on your wharves
and see the ships go by. You
know that Alaska gets less than
one per cent of this great annual
rrop and that 99 per cent of
?t goes into the tills of outside
business men. You know that
the Indian fishermen have been
discriminated against, starved
and driven from the fishing
areas, in company with Alaska’s
resident white trollers and seine
1 men. You know these resident
fishermen have ben entirely sup
planted by outside fishermen
from Puget Sound, the Columbia
River and California, who come
into Alaska waters for the brief
season and then return to their
own fishing grounds in Wash
ington, Oregon and California
for the remainder of the year.
You know that the Alaska fish
eries are controlled and worked
exclusively by these exploiters
while your resident people stand
dly by unable to secure employ
ment. You know that these
starving and helpless resident
fishermen in Southeastern Alas
ka have been forced to appeal to
a young Indian lawyer for help,
while the business men of Alas
ka looked on and refused to as
sist them.. You know that later
even the white resident trollers
and fishermen have been oblig
ed to look to this same Indian
leader for protection. You know
know that he has fought a long
and losing fight for their right
to fish in their home waters,
against odds which no white
lawyer had the courage or the
capacity to battle. You Hnow
i bat these Alaska Indian fisher
men, out of their meager wages,
established a newspaper, for
publicity, and that the white
business men of Southeastern
Vaska refused to subscribe to or
to advertise in its pages. You
know of the heroic struggle
these Indians have made for the
protection of their right to fish
freely in the waters of Alaska
and how they and the white
fishermen have been crushed
while courageously fighting for
food for their families. You
know that all these resident
Alaska fishermen were once
.y our good customers and their
wages assisted you in building
, (he First City of Alaska. You
1 now that the wrongs heaped
i on them have now become a
wrong to you and your business
i in this city.
“And, now, what have you'
business men of Southeastern
Alaska done to assist these resi
dent fishermen—your friends
and customers—in their strug
gle to save the Alaska fisheries
for the support of a resident po
pulation of .Alaska fishermen?
Nothing! You have refused
them sympathy and assistance
during the years they have*
fought to save your business.
You have neglected to assist'
these, men—your customers—
who once gave you a bank ac
count and a successful business
“Now, however, you have dis
covered that the wrong to then
was equally wrong to you. Yor
are feeling the effect of the in
justice and injury done to then
by your cunning outside oppon
ents who have captured the en
i>re fishery wealth of Alaska
and are carrying it past youi
wharves to Seattle, Portland and
and San Francisco. What dc
you local business men get out
of all these millions of Alaska
fish? Nothing!—just what you
gave the Indian an(j white resi
dent fishermen of Alaska whc
were making your fight before
you awoke.
“Shrewd and better business
men from below who gave much
time to the consideration of
Alaska politics have outwitted
and over-reached you. They
have captured all this business
—not even leaving you the small
tvages of resident Indian and
white fishermen.
“Can anything be done to save
us? Certainly! Well, what?
The answer is a practical one,
but it requires you to attend to
vour duties as a citizen. (1)
Give your active support to the
efforts of your Indian and white
resident fishermen to secure
their fair share of work in the
fisheries in Southeastern Alas
ka at reasonable wages. (2)
Do your American duty as citi
zens of the United States and
enter into the political life of
your Alaska customers; go to
the polls and vote for men who
know what you need and have
the courage and the ability to
fight in' the legislature until
they secure it against foreign
exploiters who now have your
former business in their hands.
(3) Elect William L. Paul, the
courageous and competent lead
er of the resident fishermen of
Southeastern Alaska, to the leg
islature, with .those men who
are associated with him where
they shaf^ unitedly work to se
cure legislation for the recovery
of your business leadership. (4)
By enacting the same law in
in Washington. Oregon and
California, that no man who has
not been in Alaska for at least
one year shall fish in the waters
of this Territory. (5) By the
passage of such further laws as
will certainly protect the Alaska
fishermen and the Alaska busi
ness man from unfair labor and
trade conditions originating out
side of Alaska.”
PROHI BEING ENFORCED
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Report of the Hoover Law En
forcement Commission declares
that prohibition was being en
iV iced better than any law and
in another year it will be requir
ed to conclude the work of the
Commission.
TUNEAU BOY WINS HONORS
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Douglas Gray, Juneau boy in
his third year at Annapolis won
ihe cellegiate championship in
wrestling, 145-pound class. The
season has just ended for the
grapplers.
j One month ago, in Omaha
jlrvin Hutchinson, 19, met Core
\ Ulrich, 17, blonde and pretty.
1 Last week he proposed to her
jand was accepted. They were
to wed immediately so a license
was procured the same after
noon.
| He ran home to his parents
to tell them of the suit. “I’m
the happiest fellow in the world,’
I feel my heart. It’s thumping
like a trip-hammer. Love is a
he told his stepmother. “Oh,
wonderful thing.”
His heart was beating hard
J—too fast and too hard. He fell
to the floor and died.
DOHENY “NOT GUILTY
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Edward L. Doheny, oil magnate
who attained notoriety by his
connection with the Teapot
Dome oil scandals v/as adjudge
njt guilty of giving Secreta*Tj
rail' a bribe in connection with
oil leases. .. ..
.. A few months back, Secretary
Albert B. Fall was adjudged
guilty of receiving a bribe of s
hundred thousand dollars frorr
Doheney. Justice Hitz, sitting ir
the case charged that it was pos
sible for Fall to be guilty of re
ceiving a bribe without Dohenj
being guilty of giving the bribe
Irene Runstad Wins
Declamatory Contest
The elimination declamtory
contest in the local school was
hold in the MacGregor Theatre
on Wednesday night and first
place was one by Irene Runstad
speaking “The Death Disc.”
Other contestants were, Paul
i Tveten, “The last Days of Pom
(>e.i;” Lillian Anderson, “The
Sign of the Cross;” Doris Parks,
“The Traitor’s Deathbed.” With
the exception of Doris Parks, all
of the contestants were mem
l ers of the Senior Class and had
taken part in previous contests.
Each speaker showed the
careful study and preparation of
their pieces and all did very
well in their presentations. How
ever only ong could represent
tlie school at the final tourna
ment to be held at Ketchikan
and the concensus of opinion
supports the decision of the
judges who were Rev. Maakes
lad, Dr. Rude. Dr. Benson.
as part of the program, the
High School Chorus sang sev
eral numbers in pleasing style.
Halibut Landings
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Boat .. .... Buyer .. Price
Sunset 5000 M. A. D|. 11-7
T-236 900 Ohmer 11-6
Reform 3000 .. Ohmer 11-6 y2
Ojoa 6000 Munday 11-7
(Wrangell delivery ....
Caroline 3000 Ohmer ll-6y2
Rival 4500 M. A. D. 11-6
Pegge 5000 N. Eng. 11-6
Iiarold 4000 Was. Fish & Oys.
.11-6
Lenor 5500 M.A.D. 11-6
K ennebec M.A.D .... 1.. W
Kennebec 6000 M. A. D. .11-6
Oakleaf 6000 M. A. D. 11-6
Rambler 5000 M. A. D. 11-6
Juneau
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Len B. Adsit, commercial man,
;died of cancer in Los Angeles,
I last week. Born in Chicago in
1884, he came to Juneau when
seven years of age with his pa
rents and has made it his home
ever since. He was known and
liked all over the Territory and
respected for his kindy dispo
sition and fair dealing. He was
a member of the Juneau Lodge
of Elks and also of the Masons.
Interment will be made at San
The Juneau Commercial Club
Diego.
'expresses a sentiment against a
bill pending in Congress for the
protection—but wants a full in
vestigation of the subject be
fore going on record.
Robert Blomgren, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Gunnar Blomgren died
following an operation for re
moval of appendix. He was
thirteen years of age, member of
the Juneau Troop No. 3 Boy
Scouts and of the Presbyterian
i Sunday School. The esteem in
which he and his family are
held is evidenced in the many
beautiful wreaths presented by
sympathizing friends.
3 udge V. A. Paine, Kake fox
rancher is visiting in Juneau,
■ Mrs. Paine remaining at the is
land.
Major Malcolm Elliott of the
U S. Engineers was called to
Victoria, B. C., by the illness of
his daughter who is attending
:. school there.
Local Frye-Bruhnj
Closing Out
The Frye-Bruhn Meat Mark
discontinued operations durii
this week and will leave th
/'eld entirely. Machinery ar
equipment is being dismantle
end will be shipped back to Se
attle. The stock of meats o
1 and was taken over by th
Trading Union which will con
t;nue the Frye-Bruhn service
Modem Grocery and Piggl;
Wiggly stores also serve Frye’
‘ Delicious” smoked meats.
Mr. McReynolds, who has hac
charge of the Frye-Bruhn store
here the past several weeks wil
leave for the south in a few
days.
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Klukwan
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.. While everyone was in church,
Dan Katzeek’s house caught fire
and was well under way before
it was discovered. But the Tro
jan efforts of the men saved the
house from complete destruc
tion. Dan just recently return
ed from the Government hospi
tal where he was sent not long
since, seriously ill.
Harry Williams, the best
muskrat trapper in this vicinity,
was bit by a big rat about one
month ago and put him to no
end of misery and laid him off
trapping operations for quite a
stretch. He left for the rat sec
tion again and this time has
taken heavy gloves for self pro
tection.
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Big Cast in Play
A greater number of marvelous
iicisemen than probably ever be
fore gathered together appear
in a single motion picture, are
prominent figures in ‘Beau Geste’
which comes to the Coliseum on
Sunday.
This picture is worth the for
tune that Paramount poured in
to its filming. It is worth the
months spent by Herbert Brenon
and two thousand men among
the scorched sand dunes of the
Great American Desert.
This story of the French For
eign Legion, breathes an im
mortal flame that any director
might forfeit his life to obtain.
The action hinges on the devo
tion of three Englishmen, each
cf whom decamps from home in
order that the blame for the
theft of a famous saphire may
:>11 on him altho he believes one
of his brothers to be guilty.
By common impulse all enlist
m the Frenc h Legion and two
find themselves isolated in a Sa
hara fort Vhich must meet Arab
attack, with only 40 defenders.
TVe sheer fearlessness of these
wonderful soldiers in their piti
ably brave defense adds to the
drama of the story.
Ronald Colman as “Beau” is
seen in a portrayal which many
te ieve to be his most wonderful
work.
Rivalling Coleman are Neil
Hamilton and Ralph Forbes the
other two brothers. A magnifi
cent character is brought to life
by Noah Beery as the ‘“cruelest
man and bravest soldier” in the
Legion.
. .Few pictures in the history of
pictures have contained so many
marvelous characterization op
portunities and few have as
many stars working together in
{the came cast. ^ ^ 4
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