VOL. 3.
PETERSBURG, ALASKA, MARCH, 29, 1929
NO. 37
Rebels Make
Attack Mazatlan
Machine Guns Save City From
Capture by Rebels Who Retreat
Twelve hundred rebels, advanc
ing over open fields in the face
of raking machine gun fire, lost
their lives in a. series of assaults
which constituted a forty-eight
hour battle for possession of the
city of Mazatlan, Mexico.
The Federal troops are still in
control of the key city accord
ing to reports forwarded to Pres
ident Portes Gil. The rebel forc
es under the command of Gen
eral Cruz and Iturbe have evac
uated their positions according
to federal advices sent out by
General Carrillo. The new reb
el positions lie along the high
ways leading into Mazatlan and
in places where they are pro
tected from the federal artillery
fire. High government officials
believe that the retreat of the
rebel forces marks the end of
pf the major attack on the
pity. No report had been received
pn the federal losses in the bat
tle Tuesday but the tone of Gen.
Carrillos report indicated that
comparatively few of his men
lost their lives,
Two Killed and Many
Injured
One hundred thousand per
sons jammed and crowded their
way to pay their respects in
homage to Marshal Ferdinand
Foch, the famous soldier under;
the Arc De Triumphe, Paris.
It was a day of great solemnity
fgr France and it was marred
only by an unavoidable acident
In which an aged cobbler and a
woman lost their lives. Aitho
the police guard appeared amp
le, the crowd constantly increas
ed and for about a half hour got
out of control.
The Foch casket remained un
der the Arc De Treomphe until
eleven o’clock Sunday evening
when it was removed to Notre
Dame Cathedral,. The church
was closed all day Monday at the
request of Madam Foch and only
his intimate friends and rela
tives allowed to enter to pay
their respects.
Radio Telephone for Fish
Five vessels of the Sunny Point
fleet will be equipped with radio
telephone receiving apparatus
according to a recent announce
ment at Ketchikan. The vessels
to be so equipped are Beryl E.,
Leonine, Virginia E., Sally S., and
the Doris E. The cannery office,
also will have equipment.
Hangs For Murder
James Horace Alderman, must
hang at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,
for the murder of United States
Secret Service agent Robert K.
Webster and the wounding of
coast guardsman Victor A. Lan
dry and Sanderlen of the “C. S.
249,” The United States cir
cuit court of appeal on Monday
upheld the decision of the Unit
ed States district court in Flori
da by whic Alderman was sen
tenced to hang.
President Hoover’s first ap
pointment will be that of Mrs.
J. Louis Slade as American com
missioner to the international
prison congress to be held at
Prague.
Fisherman Orders New
Crait
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Capt. Edward E. Fiskerstrand
master mariner, and one of the
outstanding navigators and fish
erman of Alaska and Pugel
Sound for the past 15 years, is
leaving for the East to visit with
friends and relatives in St. Paul,
Minneapolis, Chicago and New
York. He will leave from the lat
ter place for Europe.
Before leaving Seattle, Capt,
Fiskerstrand will let a contract
for a new vessel to be completed
by June. Specifications and
plans completed show one of the
largest and fastest schooners in
Alaskan waters especially equip
ped with every modern conveni
ence. and equipment.
To Make Air Survey In
Alaska
Lieut. Comdr. A. W. Radford,
operations officer at the North
Island Naval Station, California,
will head a naval air expedition
which will make surveys of the
territory. It is stated that the
expedition will use 3 amphibian
planes and which willbe prepared
to leave the port of San Diego
on May 15th. They will make
their base out of Juneau and will
commence survey operations
about the 25th of that month.
Weather conditions permitting
they expect to continue until in
September. The work planned
will be a continuation of the air
mapping done in 1926.
Ralph Capone Arrested
Captain Frank Scott, head of
the Dallas, Texas vice squad or
dered the arrest of Ralph Ca
pone, brother of the famous
Chicago gangster, A1 Capone.
It is reported that Capone was
trying to influence a mayoralty
election to be held next week.
“We don’t want Capone here and
he can either get out of town or
get a first class birds eye view of
the inside of the jail,” Captain
Scott said,
German Reich Has
Raised Objections
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The German Reich has filed a
number of new objections to
the Young reparation proposals,
among them being the objection
to the annuity of 1,750,000 gold
marks, the sub-division of the
annuity into two parts and any
scale of payments extending be
yond a period of thirty seven
years.
Drys Ban Lady Astor
Because she served cham
I pagne to scholars from Rhodes
* at her dance last week, Lady As
tor has been banned from the
| temporance platforms of En
! land is an announcement given
out by E. M. Holland, President
of the British local option and
woman’s party. The tempor
ance leader charged that Lady
’ Astor had served champagne
| “in profusion” to the students
| At the Astor home it was admit
ted that champagne, along with
other beverages had been serv
ed at the reception, but it was
| denied, however, that any of the
! students had drunk to excess.
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j Do your duty—register and vote
AXilljU'l'ttS & E)tUUMK»Uli'
1 Of 300 cadets in the present
senior class at West Point Mili
tary Academy, sixty have won
’ major A’s and 31 per cent have
an athletic insignia of some
kind won in varsity sport. The
highest kind of scholastic stand
ing is required in that institu
tion.
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NEW ENGLAND FISH CO IS
EXPANDING
The George T. Myers Cannery
! at Sitkoh Bay, Chatham Striats
was recently purchased by the
New England Fish Company. It
; is a two-line cannery, with a
fleet of seine boat, fish traps and
| steam tug Philip F. Kelly and a
barge, the dismantled ship El
well. Andrew Gunderson, form
er superintendent of the Noyes
Island cannery will be in charge
of this cannery. The New Eng
land now has canneries at Ket
chikan, Noyes Island and Chath
! am.
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Senate Passes
Controller Bill
The Territorial legislature at
Juneau passed the Controller
Bill introduced by Senator
Steel. The bill was passed by a
.vote of five to three and now
Igoes to the House Committee
where it will likely be defeated
by the governor’s forces. The
campaign pledge of self-govern
ment, “full territorial form of
government,” home rule put up
by the Democratic ticket is
: turning out to be “hocus pocus
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uuiiivuiu. xiic ulai Jl t: vv
will show the value of political
pledges, who made them and how
they are kept.
MILL GRINDS ’EM OUT
The Senate has passed thirty
five bills and the House, six of
nearly a hundred introduced at
this session.
ELECTION DATE BURIED
Senator Dimond’s memorial to
hold legislative sessions in Jan
uary was referred back to the
committee where it will prob
ably be buried for the rest of the
session.
INSEPCT PIONEERS’ HOME
The Legislative Committee
will visit the Pioneers’ Home at
Sitka on April 6th.
Representative Winn has in
troduced a bill which would al
low the Governor to appoint a
boxing commission of three.
Sentiment against President
Bunnels budget for the Alaska
College is so strong that he will
reduce his estimate of $232,000
for which he asked.
I The Ways and Means Commit
; tee favorably reported appro
priations of $30,000 for predatory
animal control bill which is be
ing supported by Mr. Stewart of
the Biological Survey.
Representative Donnelly has
Introduced a bill to investigate
the advisability of income tax.
Invades Industry
' Raymond Ready, Haida Indian
lad, recently was employed as
^eypuncher on the linotype at
; the Anchorage Times office. He
“gave the local outfit some real
lessons in setting type” says the
Times and “he is a regular fel
low.” There are many other
real fellows among our Indian
population if the Times and oth
er papers and residents only look
for them instead of looking for
their faults and failings.
Cinema Shake-up Now
Expected
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A move which may sound the
death knell of silent motion pic
| tures was taken by William Fox
; in an announcement which said
that, beginning last Monday,
the Fox Corporation will pro
duce only dialogues and musical
pictures. More than two hun
dred stars of the legitimate stage
and musical comedy, including
Will Rogers, Willie Collier, and
George Jessel have been sign
ed by Fox as well as song writ
rs, stage producers and play
rights. Oscar Straus, Vienese
writer, has composed a score of
books of operettas and other
plays which will be used. The
change is regarded as a revolu
tionary move, marking a mile
post in the elimination of many
movy stars whose voices do not
register up to standard for the
talking movies.
A later announcement by Wil
iam Fox is to the effect that af
ter an expenditure of ten million
dollars is made in four of the
large Fox Studios in New York
and California, dialogue and mu
sical pictures will be produced.
Twenty-five complete new re
cording units have been put in
operation in a Fox plant cover
ing over one hundred acres at
Fox Hills, California, was a state
ment by by Fox this week.
Cumberland Is On
Rampage
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The Cumberland River broke
its bonds this week and swept
over ten blocks of Celina, Tenn.,
chiefly in the business section of
the city. It was expected to con
tinue. The flood water stood 6
feet deep in the lower sections of
the town, causing heavy damage
to properties. More than 150
families were rendered homeless
when the Cumberland overflow
ed sections of the town of Car
thage, Tenn. Cookesvflle was
isolated and nine dams on Can
ey Brook were reported to have
collapsed beneath the pressure
of the flood waters. The bodies
of three Boy Scouts who were
trapped when the flood waters
broke over their week-end camp
near Rockwood, were recovered.
This brings the list of known
dead up to six. The flood death
list for the entire section has al
ready reached eighty-eight.
AVIATORS COME AND GO
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Have Exciting Trip to Ketchikan
The airplane with the Mc
Carthy party consisting of Mr.
i and Mrs. McCarthy, Mrs. Jack
McCord, E. J. Burke and George
Lortie, crew arrived in Peters
burg arrived the harbor from Ju
neau Tuesday morning. The
stayed in port until Wednes
day owing to high winds. Af
ter taking on a little oil they hit
out for Ketchikan and found
bad going evidently for they had
to light on the water out of
Ketchikan and were picked up
by a native boat. Later the Cy
gan came along and took them
in tow.
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An official statement issued by
the U. S. Coast Guard says that
the pursuit and sinking of the
British schooner “I'm Alone” an
alleged rum runner, was in ac
cordance with a international ag
greement. The crew of the rum
runner was landed at New Or
leans under a close guard.
Editorial
We Deal in Facts
-Balance on hand April 1, 1928
Taxes collected
Dog licenses
City Clerk receipts tor light, water, etc.,
Licenses irom Clerk of the Court
Loans .
38,323.40
2,332.81
.17,000.09
079,660JO
2,719.79
078,950.14
017,000.00
144,700.00
5,000.00
05,000.00
10,479.00
02,710.70
19,101.04
192JOO
Total
Cash on hand
EXPENDITURES
Loans outstanding
Bonds outstanding
Bonds retired
License money due from Court, approximately
interest paid on bonds
Assessed valuation
0974^30.00
Thirty-eight thousand dollars of the receipts represent the
gainings from power and water. Approximately 027,000 Is the
earnings of the hydro-electric. It was planned by the adminis
tration under Ed Locken that the plant should, and would, tafce
care oi its own expense, depreciation, interest and retirement of
principal. Instead of which we find the present administration
putting in improvements when it could do so only by deducting
fro mthe original plan to retire the bonds outstanding.
We do not infer that the present council and mayor w$re In
any way dishonest, nor do we challenge their integrity. We do re
assert that they have had a misdirected extravagance in their
program at the expense of the municipally owned hydro-electrte.
BORROWED REVENUE AND CASH BALANCES
Tax revenue from assessed valuation and other resources oth
er than power and water total $21,345.68; $17,000. borrowed mon
ey is not revenue and cannot be counted as assets therefore when
moneys received of $76,669.90 is shown with an expenditure of 077*
950.00, it must be born in mind that $17,000. of resources is bor
rowed and a liability and not an asset. The actual income
shown as $62,166.69 from all sources, including water and power.
The actual revenue which the council has the right to consider lor
city expenditures is the tax receipts and licenses from the derfc
of the court; this is $24,346.40 which is not far off from our ap
proximate given last week. On this tax revenue must the council
hope to operatae on its improvements about the city; the
the waters works and power plant take care of themselves.
Vetoes Bill Legalizing
Racing and betting
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Governor Parnell vetoed a
measure to legalize horse racing
and parimutual betting in Ar
Kansas.. xne measure . pass
ing through the legislative ses
sion which closed ten days ago.
Charges of bribery in connection
with efforts to pass the measure
in the senate are being investi
gated by the prosecuting attor
ney at Little Rock.
Do your duty—register and vote.
Talk Gymnasium
At Meeting
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The entire evening, Wednes
day, was spent in a general dis
cussion as to ways and means of
constructing a gymnasium.
Mr. Ed Locken read a telegram
| from Mr. Archie Shields of the
Pacific American Fisheries, in
which that company offered to
give to the city for school pur
poses, a block of land adjoining
the school. The Location Com
mute which was working on the
matter reported favorably on
this location.
The pros and cons of a school
gymnasium and, or community
gymnasium was discussed. It
was believed that adjacent to the
school, the heating of such a
plant could be taken care of by
the school heating system, up
keep would not be upon the few
and the moral support of the
City Council could be secured to
, maintain it.
The concensus of opinion was
in favor of the building on the
school grounds. The plan will
be broached at the meeting to
morrow night.
Reception to Team
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The P. T. A. is sponsoring a re
ception to the Petersburg High
School Basketball team, Satur
day evening in the Sons of Nor
way Hall. A program is being
planned to entertain the croird*
speeches will be heard from the
fans and members of the team
and coaches, then refreshment®
will be served and a general get
together when ways and means
of getting an adequate gymnasi
um will be discussed.
As this is a community affair
everyone is welcome. The fac
tional differences burled and aQ
will bend their effort to get a
united, harmonious front for the
future welfare and development
of the whole community.
‘Tm Alone"
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Representatives contest tag the
right of the United States to ap
prehend or sink any British ves
sel suspected as a rum-runner
when outside of the 12-mile Umtt
no matter where the chase orig
inated were forecast as the re
sult of the investigation Into the
sinking of the British rum run
ner “I’m Alone” by a U. S. coast
guard cutter off the Louisans
coast. The attack was defend
ed by Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon.
FALL AND STILL UTS
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Clarence Brown, a twenty
two year old naval reserve pilot
I and John D. Purseil, aged forty
four years, a student flier, will
live to tell the tale of a fall ot
a thousand feet which they took
when their plane failed to come
out of a loop, this week. Both
men were seriously hurt.
Do your duty—register and votes.