VOL. 3.
PETERSBURG, ALASKA, MAY, 31. 1929
NO. 46,
' G. N. Broadcast
Alaska Program
On June 3rd
On Monday June 3rd at 6.3C
p. m. Seattle time, which would
?1; make the time of “listening in”
a at Alaska points 5.30 p.m. Ju
neau and North to Anchorage,
at which place time changes to
4.30 p.m., tile Great Northern
Railway wiU broadcast thruout
> the Nation, a program devoted
entirely to Alaska, its resources,
development and recreational
attractions, its history and won
derful possibilities of future de
velopment.
These Monday night pro
grams, which are broadcasted
• over a network of thirty-seven
stations, located at all of the
principal cities of the United
States, have become exceedingly
popular and are looked forward
to each week by the millions of
listeners who have developed
the habit of anticipating the
Great Northern hour every
■ Monday night and thereby
learning not only the history of
the Great Northern and the Pa
, , cific Northwest, but of the oth
er attractions and history of
many of the cit!es located in the
Northwest.
The Great Korthern Railway
is the pioneer line in featuring
radio programs hi this original
manner, and Alaskans are as
r ’ sured tljat only good will come
of this exploitation thruout the
country. It will be of material
interest to prospective tourists
and investors who come to
Alaska and enjoy its hospitality
and learn of its resources thru
personal observation.
- These programs are given on
Alaska Monday, June third, over
KOMO, KGW PORTLAND and
KflQ, Spokane.
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Finish Surfacing Road
South Petersburg
The work of gravelling the
road down south Petersburg was
completed by the Seims-Carlson
, Company. They shipped their
equipment north to Seward
where they were successful bid
ders on work in that vicinity.
There bill was presented to
the Council at its special meet
ing Tuesday, okeyed and order
ed paid. The bill was in the
sum of $1750. Total cost of the
road is now approximately $10,
000 with the work not yet com
plete^.
Alaskan Woman Makes
Aviation Record
Miss Marvel Crosson driving a
- Ryan monoplane reached an al
titude of 24,000 feet at Los An
geles this week. Before she
made the flight the altimeter
was sealed on the ship and it is
being sent to the Bureau of
Standards at Washington, D. C.
Miss Crosson is a former Alas
kan and sister of Joe Crosson,
Alaska flier and an associate of
Capt. Wilkins in various flights.
V RE-LOCATES IN WRANGELL
Dr. Anna Kearsley who has
, been practicing medicine in Ju
neau the past two or three years
has relocated in Wrangell. She
practiced here also before she
located in Wrangellseveral years
back.
They Want Troll
Fisheries Data
For Records
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The Bureau of Fisheries has
F. W. Hynes of Ketchikan, tak
ing a census of trollers in Alas
ka waters. They are after ac
curate information as to the ex
act number of trollers operat
ng in Alaska, date, name and
place, name of boat, register
number and tonnage, length,
engine make and horsepower,
lame and address of owner,
number of persons on boat,
vhite or native- number of lines
)perated,hooks to line and if
joat engages in other lines of
he industry.
Memorial Day Pro
gram Given
j The following program was ,
, given at the MacGregor Theatre
under the auspices of the Am- j
erican Legion Auxiliary, yester- i
day commemorating Memorial ,
Day: j
i. America j
|2. Invocation. ,
3. Battle Hymn of the Republic- £
Comunnity Lutheran Chorus (
4. Vocal Solo, “Just Before the <
Battle Mother” Mrs. Andrew (
Johnson. i
5. Selection by Orchestra, j
7. “Columbia, The Gem of the £
Ocean” Lutheran Chorus,
o. Address by Mayor Earl N.
i
onmer.
The program was just long t
enough to remind Americans of [
their duty to those who paid the
supreme sacrifice to secure the <
principles of democracy, to pre
serve the Union, to expand the
territory and to guaranty the
right of American citizens to (
travel upon the high seas.
The Chorus sang very well
which was sung by Mrs. An- ,
considering many of the regular ;
voices were not present and <
none of the men on the stage.
“Just Before the Battle Mother” y
drew Johnson, took older citi- 5
zens back to their younger days (
and was sung in a pleasing ,
manner. Miss Lillian Swanson’s i
interpretation of “Buddy” was ,
done in a charming manner and
was well received.
Mayor Earl Ohmer was intro
duced by Mr. William Holt. Mr.
Ohmer spoke of Memorial Day
as a “memory day.” Which we
hold sacred to the memory of
those who paid the supreme sa- ■
crifice from the Revolutionary 1
Period down to the present day. i
He told the story of the founda- i
tion of the day in southern -
states by women of the Confed- j
acy and it has since become na
tional save for certain states 1
which observed another day. ;
Memorial Day is a day which <
should remind us of our duties
as citizens. We have done little
for our country in comparison
with those who paid the su
preme sacrifice to preserve na
tional entity and to preserve
peace as we have it now. We
shoud honor the noble dead and
place a wreath upon their last
resting place and continue to
uphold those great principles for
which they died.
Carl Swanson while in Seattle
visited Bessie Hanson who has
been in the Riverton Sanitarium
since last winter. She is not
getting along as well as might
be hoped and is not a little
homesick.
Wrangell Ice &
Storage Plant
Is Attached
U. S. Deputy Marshal H. D.
Campbell of Wrangell, last
week served an attachment on
che property of the Wrangell
Ice and Storage Company. The
plaintiff in the action is Mrs.
Mary D. Leet of Conneaut, Ohio.
Mrs. Leet, who is the mother of
0. D. Leet of Wrangell, is cred
itor of the company and is en
deavoring to recover money ad
vanced to the company. Mrs.
Leet claims that the amount she
ias loaned the company, to
gether with interest, amounts to
i sum in the neighborhood of
>15,000. H. L. Faulkner of Ju
leau is her attorney.
The stockholders and others!
vent to Juneau last week to at-J
end the case among whom was I
dope Mundy, local fish buyer, j
Stockholders of the company
lave been informed from time j
ntime that the company was
lot making any money, though
t began operations before the
ocal plant did and had virtually
ill the local trade in ice, bait
md market—that is of the small
t boats of the fleet. When any ,
tockholder asked for an ac-;
minting, the books were back
n Ohio and when Mr, Nick
■Jussbaumer went back to Ohio
md asked for the books, he was
nformed that they were in
Uaska,
Ugly rumors of mismanage -
nent and other things have
>een bandied back and forth by
stockholders. Through all of
vhich the management seemed
ndifferent until the stockhold
:rs went into court to get an
iccounting. Then came the ac
ion to collect money loaned the
ompany.
Petersburg evidently was not
mfortunate in its indifference
o tile proposition made by the
jeets to build a storage here.
U least the local plant is doing
'ery well without any manage
nent from Ohio in that the lo
:al plant is paying dividends
ind retiring some of its bonds
vhile the Wrangell plant is now
vorse off than before.
Making Investigation of
Herring Fisheries
George Rounsefell, Junior
Aquatic Biologist connected
vith the Bureau of Fisheries is
n the Chatham Straits section
studying herring of southeast
\laska. He will spend the sum
ner gathering information re-1
ative to history of the herring,!
vhether local or otherwise, the |
xge of the fat herring and any
other information he can gather
regarding the species,
Last year Mr. Rounsel threw
x bombshell into the camp of
;he tory cannerymen when he
set forth statements verifying
contentions of Alaskans that i
the herring fishery was being
destroyed.
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“LONE EAGLE” NO MORE
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Colonel Charles Lindborgh is
no longer the “Lone Eagle” for
on the 27th he was married to
Miss Ann Morrow, daughter of
Ambassador Morrow. His plane
tile Blue Falcon was serviced
prior to the ceremony for the
honeymoon trip after the wed
ding.
Women Be Recogniznd
The Presbytery held at St.
Paul decided that it would sub
mit to the Presbyteries three ov- \
ertures which would change the
church constitution. The first
is shall women be placed on
parity with men in respect to
molding offices as ministers and
alders; the third would entitle
women to licenses from the I
church as evangilists on ap
proval by a majority of the
Presbyteries necessary.
Gasboat Burned to
Waters tdgc
The gusuoai oea jsiiu oi Ta
vma was totally destroyed oy
ne oh uape 01 one straits on
,ne early morning of May 28tii
ahne heaaed north.
diaries Armstrong, owner
iad a thrilling experience when
ais engine backfired and caus
ed gusoiine in the bilge to ig
nite oefore he could prevent it.
ihe ulaze spread rapidly until
ae was forced to the stern of
Tie vessel when he launched his
jKitt in the dark. In the rush of
ais frantic efforts he swamped
ais skiff and was in a bad way ,
to make his escape when the'
Betty” of Petersburg came :
along and rescued him. The i
vessel was covered by insurance .
but the loss sustained will be ex- <
tra heavy because of the fact it i
comes j ust when Armstrong was
beginning fishing operations for ,
this year. I
Armstrong left on one of the
shrimp boats today for Wran- 1
gell where he makes his head- ]
quarters. i
Alaska Aerial surveyors;
Arrive This Week ;
The. U. S. S, Gannet, barge in 1
tow and the planes of the Alas
ka Aerial Photographers arriv
ed during the week and tied up ,
at the Citizen’s Wharf. A dance
was given in their honor at the
Sons of Norway Hall Wednes
day evening. This was well at
tended and was a jollification ]
affair. The music was furnish- j
ed by local talent from the four
corners of the town.
The “Flying Seal Expedition”
is in command of Lieut. A. W.
Radford under whom are U5
men. Four months will be
spent by the expedition in the
Territorial covering over 12,000
square miles of aerial photo
graphy. They have four Loen
ing amphibian planes.
Every man in the expedition
is a volunteer. Lieut. E. F.
Burkett is executive officer and
Lieut. Comdr, Alva C. Smith is
medical officer for the party.
Tile barge is used for living
quarters and photographic la-,
boratory. Each plane has a
crew of three men.
ESTABLISH FLIGHT RECORD
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Two unknown youth, with not
an overly amount of flying ex
perience and with virtually no
backing set out for an endur
ance record flight at Fort Worth
Texas this week. They remain
ed in the air for over 170 hours
in a Ryan monoplane, which
record beats the time of the
“Question Mark” by 24 hours.
Robbins and Kelly, the unknown
fliers received $15,000 from the
Fort Worth Chomber of Com
merce for the advertising theyj
gave the city.
Foshay's Man At
Meeting Makes
Overtures to City
Mr. Van Orsdell, represent
ing the Foshay interests of
Minneapolis met with the City
Council on Tuesday evening to
make a proposal of purchas of
the water system, hydro-elec
tric plant owned by the city and
the cold storage and telephone
system, botlj privately owned.
He stated that he was ready to
discuss matters of franchise
and price of utilities. Price of
which will be governed in a
iarge measure by franchise to
be granted. That is, high cap
ital investment will mean high
water and light rates; and a
lower capital investment will
mean lower basic rates for wat
er and light.
He declared that the com
pany gave Ketchikan full val
ie for the utilities of that city
vhen they paid two million dol
ars for the water, light and
mwer company properties in
cluding real estate, cold storage
• nd Northland Steamship Com
pany,
The company will have ready
!or trade covering Juneau, Pe
iersburg, Wrangell, Ketchikan
ind Seattle, a sixteen knot ves
sel this fall which will cater on
y to Alaskans and Alaska trade.
\s the business expands they
vill extend the run to other
owns.
While they are in the market
'or cold storages it is with the
dea of catering to buyers and
lot with the view to entering
he markets themselves as buy
ers. He was of the opinion that
he buyers were working togeth
»r too nicely and that more
buyers are needed to give rise
0 more competitive buying.
Appraisal of Local Utilities
He advised the council that a
irm of engineers was apprais
ng th utilities and believed he
vas now ready to give a fair and
idequate price for the hydro
electric plant and the water
;ym. He was unwilling to pay
1 price where tliere would not
le a profit to the city. In the
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Aleutian Wrecked At
Uyak Bay, Kodiak
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The Alaska Steamship Com
aanys liner Aleutian struck an
ancharted rock early Saturday
morning in Uyak Bay, Kodiak
Island and was sunk in seven
minutes. Fifteen passengers
and crew of 135 escaped in life
ooats with the loss of one of the
srew.
The vessel was under com
mand of Capt. J. A. Nord, veter
an navigator and admiral of
the Alaska Steamship Company’
fleet of vessels. Under orders
from the Seattle office the Aleu
tian proceeded into uncharted
waters under protest of Capt.
Nord. The trip called for de
livery of a small load of piling
and trap equipment. The vessel
was outward bound, about a
mile and a half offshore when
she struck, early in the morn
ing. Most of the crew escaping
in scant attire being compelled
to borrow from others to com
plete their attire. The crew and
Captain Nord were on the Ad
miral Evans southbound yester
day evening.
The vessel was insured one
million dollars, being one of the
newest of the Alaska liners.
City is Offered
Only $185,000
For Utilities
Mr. Van Orsdell, representing
the Foshay interests of Minne
apolis met with the utilities
Committee from the City Coun
cil and made an offer of $185,000
for the hydro-electric plant and
water works. A depreciation of
$33,000 was made on the works
by the engineers who made the
appraisal of the utilities.
The Committee will report back
to the Council the offer made
for consideration by that body.
The sentiment of the Com
mittee is against sale at that
price. Considerable thought is
being given the idea of selling
the utilities and some of the
council are in favor of the idea.
However, it is not expected at
this time from the sentiment
expressed that terms will be
agreed upon and the matter
brought before the voters for
consideration.
Plan to Conscript
Industry in War
The War Department is pre
paring plans for submission to
Congress of a bill to mobilize
industry in wartime on the same
basis that manpower is con
scripted.
Such a scheme was tried out
a short time back but when it
was anylized it was found to
be a real joker so it was defeat
ed.
Secretary Good speaking of
the measure says it will be one
of the first to receive consider
ation at the next regular ses
sion beginning in December. He
has already sent a bill to Con
gress authorizing the President
to conscript man-power for im
mediate military service upon
declaration of war.
The department’s plans for
emergency industrial mobiliza
tion are laid along the follow
ing lines:
Financing of contractors to
whom war contracts are allot
ted.
Prevention o f profiteering
and stabilization of prices dur
ing war time.
Provision of machinery for set
tlement of wartime industrial
disputes.
Maintenance of a constant
flow of raw materials and or
ganization of all transporta
tion systems.
Mrs. Willebrandt Will
Step Out of Office
Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille
brandt, Assistant Attorney Gen
eral in charge of Prohibition
prosecutions, will retire from
Government service on the 15th
of June. She will become Wash
ington counsel for the Aviation
Corporation at a much larger
salary than she is now getting.
Mrs. Willebrandt lias served
seven years under Presidents
Harding Coolidge and Hoover.
The Gauffin block in which
are the Jacobson Jewelry Store
and T. Goodman’s Clothing
Store, was given a new coat of
paint this week which adds to
the appearanc of Front Street.
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