VOLUME NO. VI.
PETERSBURG, ALASKA, JULY 24, 1931
NO. 1.
Fisheries Bureau Closes
Entire Bristol Bay Area
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To curtail the salmon pack in
Bristol Bay, supplementary re
gulations were issued today
which will in effect end all red
salmon packing there at the
close of the present week, ac
cording to the advices received
at local headquarters. (Week of
July 18).
Yesterday fishing was closed
down in Nushagak area owing
to the poor runs there, but re
ports from other disticts indi •
cated that fair runs were still
being experienced
However, supplementary re
gulations were issued today by
the Department of Commerce
covering all of Bristol Bay as
follows: “Commercial fishing for
salmon in all districts is prohib
ited from 6. a. nr., July 80, to G
a. m. August 3.”
This virtually ends red salm
on fishing there at the close of
the current week. Nonna by the
main runs of red fish have as
cended the spawning streams
by August 3. the date fixed for
resumption of operations.
The result of this action will
naturally reduce the red pac^j
to some extent. Just how much1
is problematical. It was said at
local headquarters of the Bureau
of Fisheries that the Bristol Bay!
pack probably would exceed 1,-j
000,000 cases but not probably by j
any large amount. The pack at
the end of last week was about
860,000 cases.—Juneau Empire.
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Ask Bids For
Two Dormitories
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N. L. Troast, architect for the
U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs in
Alaska has announced that bids
for the preet.inn of dorm.
tories at Shoemaker Bay Indus-;
ti ial School site have been called
for by the Department.
There will be one dormitory
each for boys and girls and each j
is to have accommodations forj
125 persons.
The buildings which are to bei
two stories high, 43 by 144 feet,!
will be frame and stucco and as;
much local material will be usedi
as is possible.
There will be a full concrete
basement included in the girls’!
building which will house the!
kitchen and dining rooms forj
the entire institution. The;
laundry will be on the first floor!
of the boys’ dormitory. Both
dormitories will be connected by
a covering.
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CAPT. “JOHNNY” O’BRIEN
.. Capt. Johnny O’Brien, dean of,
Alaska navigators, who has been
ill for several months in Seattle,)
was strong enough to travel to
Mora where he can view the Pa-1
cific. on which he. sailed, fori
many years in ships of various
rigs and types. Not many Alas
kans but what remember Capt.
“Johnny” for his kindly court
esies to his passengers.
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CANADA HAS USE FOR WHEAT
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Premier R. B. Bennet last
week announced that 2,000,000
bushels of wheat will be pur
chased for the benefit of per
sons in the drought area of
Western Canada. He said the
wheat would be ground into 450,
000 barrels of flour which, with
the bran and shorts remaining
will be made available at a low
price to “municipalities and
those requiring assistance.”
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A. B. Anderson of the Ander
son Bros. Boat Shop in Wrangell,
was a business visitor in Peters
burg Tuesday and Wednesday.
A. L. To Present
“Hello Hawaii
That’s the name of the enter
taining revusical of music, danc
ing, singing, comedy, noveltio
and general hilarity which wil
be presented at the Coliseum
Theatre, Friday July 31st, by the
American Legion under the pro
! fersional supervision of Mr. and
Mrs: Ray Southard.
A feature of this show is the
abolishment of the long and
terious waits characteristic cl
semi-professional entertain
ments by running a rapid-fire
program from the time the cur
tain rises at 8:15 until it is drop
ped two hours later without any
between act intermissions.
There are 40 ’ocal people in
the cast and enthusiastic re
hearsals ai*e being held every
day at the Legion Dugout and
those who have peeped through
the closed doors declare that the
show will be the finest of irs
kind ever produced in Peters
burg.
Mr. and Mrs. Southard, who
play the leading parts, have
been staging shows of this char
acter for a number of yeai’s and
are both very well pleased witn
the talent that has been pro
cured for this production. There
fore, an exceptional entertain
ment is guaranteed Petersburg
Theatre patrons
A partial list of the names of
those taking Dart, are Mr. Car
rol Clausen, Miss Cornelia Chris
tianson, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold
Wasvick. Mr. Leth Meadows, Mr.
Trygve Strom and George Strom,
Mrs. Doris Glancy, Miss Lillian
Swanson, Miss Anita Stoll, Miss
Henrietta Dahl, Mrs. Andrew
Johnson, Mr. A. B. Holt, Mrs.
Nan Lemieux, Mr. Frank Her
mann, Miss Nelle Pilcberg, Mrs.
Elsie Clausen, and the Misses
Helen Lund, Irene Runstad, Ju
lia Wasvick,Eleanor Stoll, Lor-1
etta Robinson, Alma Gribble,
Lois Devenney, Silvia Baker, Pa-1
tricia Fryer, Doris Parks, and
the Hula Hula Babies: Ruth Lar
son, Nellie Burch, Kathryn Holt,
Dorothy Larson, Louise Holt.1
Marian Sutphen, Phillis Ekrem,
Edith Mae Cunningham and
Marion Johansen.
A feature number of the show!
with special electric effects is
the “Frame Song” in which sev
eral of Petersburg’s most charm
ing young ladies will take part.
Tickets can be purchased from
members of the show
CURTIS NOT AFTER SENATE
TOGA
Vice President Charles Curtis
last week announced that l'°
had no intention of being a can
didate for the senate in Kansas
next year. “I have not indicated
my intentions to President
Hoover nor anyone else. The
matter was not discussed be
tween us at the Rapidan camp
last week-end,” declared the
Vice President.
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SEWARD MAN A SUICIDE
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A body identified as that cf
John “Timberline” Madnick, 50
years old, Alaskan pioneer who
disappeared over a month ago,
was found on the beach near
Seward last week, with his pock
ets filled with rocks which in
dicated suicide by leaping from
a boat. Madnick had made his
home at Seward and Latouche
for many years and had been in
ill health. A brother formerly
lived in Tacoma.
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ASK PARDON FOR FALL
President Hoover referred to
the Department of Justice an
appeal from New Mexico offi
cials asking executive pardon
for former secretary of the in
(terior Albert B. Fall.
Refrigerator Ship Starts
J For Northland
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On her annual trip to South
. eastern Alaska, the floating re
| rigerator ship Donna Lane o
, the Utopian Fisheries clearec
the port of Seattle for Akutar
and Port Hobrun. Commandec
by Capt. H. P. Knutson, the mo
1 torship will spend the next six
teen weeks packing herring anti
halibut.
The ship in addition to pack
ing salt herring freezes halibut
and has cold storage capacity
1 icr 2,500,000 pounds of frozen
fish.
The Donna Lane is due to
complete her season in Novem
be’’, her return being dependent
! upon fishing conditions.
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Corruption Of
U. S. Courts
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Throughout the nation scan
dal! marks the work of police,
traffic and magistrate’s courts,
the Wickersham Commission
told President Hoover in its
eighth report entitled “criminal
procedure,” issued by the White
House.
“Taking the country as a
whole there has been and con
tinues to be scandal in connec
tion with these inferior courts
in noteworthy contrast with the
almost uniformly clean record
of the superior courts during a
century of immersion in poli
tics,” the commission said.
“The atmosphere of the inferi
or criminal courts creates in tly
minds of observers a suspicion
of the whole process of law en
forcement which, no matter how
unfounded, greatly prejudices
respect for the observance of
law.”
TIip rmnmiMinn lircrprl fhnf. nil
the courts be taken out of poli-'
tics. It suggested many chang-'
es in methods cf procedure—|
particularly selec+ion of more)
competent judges and abandon-j
ment of the frequent practice of
trying to make a criminal out of
a traffic law violator.
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Deficit in Oregon
Is Reduced
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A considerable portion of the
state deficit will be eliminated
by the end of 1932, a statement
from the Oregon state treasur-|
er’s office revealed reecntly. On
July 1, this year, the general
fund of the state showed a bal
ance of more than three-quar
ters of a million of dollars as
compared to nearly a million
dollars overdraft last year. The
referendum against the appro
priations for higher educational
institutions and economies being
effected in state government are
the other contributing factors to
the conclusion of Rufus C. Hol
; man, state treasurer,
j The general fund’s balance on
I July 1, 1931, Holman reported,
1 was $781,204.84 as compared with
i an overdraft on July 1, 1930, of
, $844,512. To this balance the
state treasurer will add unre
| ceipted turn-overs of corpora
tion fees, excise taxes, intang
ibles and income taxes, amount
ing in all to more than a million
' and a quarter dollars, bringing
; the tota Ibalance to $2,153,528.
BARRYMORE TO RETURN TO
TO LEGIT.
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His recent success in the field
of modern movie production has
not weaned John Barrymore
away from the legitimate stage
for he recently announced in
Ketchikan that he is seriously
considering his return to the
stage and Shakespeare.
: Seven Cents Lb.
Wn. Humpbacks
Salmon fishing off Cape Flat
' tery is on in full blast with more
i than 150 purse seiners on the
banks. This fleet of Washington
beats fishing off Neah Bay was
expected to increase to over 200
boats.
The threatened tie-up of the
fleet has been averted accord
ing to leaders of the Fisherme t s
! Cooperative Association. The
! disagreement was over prices to
be paid for salmon by the can
on ies, which threatened to tie
up *he entire fleet.
“All is peace in the industry,”
said Capt. Berry, fisherman lead
er. ‘The difficulties have been
adjusted and the fleet has been
operating at full blast out of
Neah Bay for a week. The 150
boats soon will be increased to
200. The fishermen wanted 10
j cents a pound for humpbacks,
• but when the canneries showed
j they were unable to pay that
| price, they accepted the old
price of 7 cents a pound. The
' canneries are paying 25 cents for|
Silvers and 60 cents each for|
sockeyes.” These prices arej
f.o.b. Neah Bay.
Alaska Salmon Prices
Alaska prices for pink salmon
vary in each locality. Some of,
the canners offer 3 cents per
fish, gear furnished, including
! oil; others offer 5 cents, fisher -I
men to pay oil and boat and'
gear taking three shares; still,
others offer 31/, and 4 cents per
salmon. Reds scale from 25
1 cents to 50 cents per fish.
The humpback salmon are ex
tra large this year.
A humpback salmon on Puget
Sound running four pounds will
bring 28 cents while the same
j sized fish in Southeast Alaska
brings only from 3 to 5 cents.
, Run Poor Yet
The fishermen in the Point Ward
district, caught, up .to .25,000
fish that do not. seem. to. be
as plentiful as was hoped, for.
Reports from Icy. Straits, and
Port Althrop districts, indicate
that the canners have plenty of
worries ahead. of. them other
than selling their products. . .
The Petersburg fishermen, for
the first week, high boat deliver
ed 500 salmon.
West Coast fishermen are up
in the Chatham Straits and
Frederick Sound district chasing
According to Mr. Elfendahl,
Prices will stiffen throughout
the year and the packers will
enter the pack of 1932 with all
shelves practically bare, prices
higher and demand heavy.
Red Failure
Notwithstanding fine early re
ports, the red salmon run in the
Bristol Bay area has given the
Bureau of Fisheries so much
concern that they ordered com
plete closure of the entire dis
trict as of July 18. The run in
Bristol Bay was around 900,000
while the Nushagak district was
a complete failure.
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MEMORIAL TO HEROINE
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Charles D. Garfield, secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce,
Alaska, Bureau, was enroute to
Skagway to dedicate a bronze
memorial to Mollie Walsh famed
heroine of the gold rush days oi
'98.
Mollie Walsh ran a grub tent
when Skagway was a famous
tent city and she gave food to
thousands of gold-crazed men
The memorial, the work of Jas
A. Wehn of Seattle, was made
possible by the late “Packei
Jack” Newman.
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Dr. J. B. Loftus, Territorial
Veterinarian, is spending a few
days looking after the interest:
of the dairymen and fur farmers
of this section.
Chicago Has Worries All
Her Very Own
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| The City oi Chicago has 14,000
j teachers who haven’t been paid
for two months or more and
many of them are in desperate
straights. Some are down to the
last few dollars, many in debt
while others are in danger oi
losing their property or taxes.
The Board of Education in
the Windy City owes its 18,000
employees salaries totalling $10,
665,793 and aflmost $5,000,000 is
due contractors and other cred
itors.
Some 3,000 school board em
ployees have applied for pay
ments in script, and some such
payments have been made bui;
Chicago banks and most mer
chants have refused to accept
the participation certificates.
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Seatte Resident
Labor Problem
.Resident Citizens Not Getting.
Jobs, Employers Told
Board of Public Works Warns
Contractors to Hire Man Who
Work and Votes Here
“Contractors on all municipal
development and public im
provement work were notified
by the Board of Public Work
that they must adhere more
strictly to the policy of employ
ing United States’ citizens, and
more particularly residents of
Seattle on such contracts. Pre
ference must be given family
heads.
“The warning was issued as a
result of an investigation made
by the Board’s Committee on La
bor disputes into complaints
that non-residents of Seattle
and foreigners were being given
“much sought jobs at the tax
novoro PVnPTKP ”
“We found many instances
where the spirit of our city
charter pertaining to citizens
employment was being violated
by public works contractors.”
said City Engineer R. H. Thom -
son, chairman of the investigat
ing committee. City Building
Superintendent L. Hardy and D.
A. Boy’e, superintendent of the
Streets and Sewers Department,
served with Thomson on the
committee. “In one instance we
found a man employed who had
been in the United States for
nearly twenty years and who had
not even taken out his first ci-j
tizenship papers. Various other
less glaring infractions of the
regulations were found.”
When the shoe pinches, Seat
tle wants to kick it off and gei
I on another. The old Shoe they
throw at Alaska and “anything’s
good enough for that bunch of
j “mossbacks.”
! Former Dry Agent
In Toils of Law
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Graham Johnson, former pro
hibition agent stationed in Se
jattle, was arrested in dramatic
fashion last week as one of the
alleged operators of a large dis
tillery near Tacoma.
Three other men, including
; another ex-prohibition agent
and a former Seattle policeman
were sought. Promises of “sen
sational disclosures” by one of
I the group arrested at the still in
| return for immunity is promised.
Protection money was offered
1T. L. Chidester, agent in charge
! at Tacoma is alleged. Chidester
was formerly prohibition admin
istrator for Southeastern Alaska
and was only recently transfer
red to Wahsington.
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.. Songs,. dances,. comedy. and
i novelties to please everyone, July
31 at the Coliseum.
Congressmen Look
To Alaska Needs
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Out to see what is wrong with
Alaska and what it needs for its
development, the men of con
gress who control the purse
strings of the Lower House, ar
rived in Wrangell on the Alas
ka steamer Yukon and the U. S.
Coastguard cutter Tahoe, Mon
day night at 11. Just as the
passengers stepped ashore they
were met by Jupiter Pluvius and
officials of the city and members
of the Chamber of Commerce.
The members of Congress inter
ested in Indian Affairs were
taken by car to the industrial
school site while others were
taken into the Waters’ Curio
Store to buy or enjoy looking at
Alaskan curious.
Included in the party are Re
presentative Frank Murphy,
Ohio, chairman of the the sub
committee on Interior Depart
ment Appropriations and Mrs.
Murphy; Rep. E. T. Taylor, Colo.
Rep. W. W. Hastings, Okla., and
Mrs. Hastings; Rep. Don B. Col
ton, Utah, chairman of Public
Lands Committee, and Mrs. Col
ton; Rep. Scott Leavitt, Montana
chairman of the Indian Affairs
Committee, and Mrs. Leavitt;
Rep. Addison T. Smith, Idaho,
chairman Reclamation Com
mittee, and Mrs. Smith; Rep.
William R. Eaton, Colo, and Mrs.
Eaton; Ernest Walker Sawyer,
assistant to the Secretary of the
Interior; Horace M. Allbriht, di
1 ector of the nat ional parks ser-;
vice. Governor George A. Parks, j
met the party in Ketchikan and
returned with them to the north, j
Through the kindly assist
ance of Ernest Walker Sawyer,
the fishermen were able to pre
sent some of their woes and
problems to members of the
party and they were given kindly
consideration.
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A Busy Year In
American Desert
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Seizure by federal dry agents
of more than 1,833,000 gallons of
illicit liquor and 5,000,000 gal
lons of beer during the past fis
cal year, was announced last
week by the Brohibition Bureau.
The figures showed that from
July 1, 1930, to June 30, 1931,
there were approximately 70,000
dry law cases in which arrests
were made. From these cases
were imposed 36,650 fines aggre
gating $5,511,000. In addition
29,470 violators were sentenced
to jail or a total of more than
18,383 years.
Incidentally in the effort was
the seizure of 21,375 distilleries
and stills, more than 27,800 beer
fermenters and 8,260 automo
biles.
During the month of June,
jail sentences were imposed on
2.719 violators a«d 2,934 others
were fined.
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GERMAN REDS AND POLICE
FI ATJM3
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German police and Commun
ist rioters were entrenched
1 against each other at the end oi
' last week after a night of rioting
| in which streets were torn up
I windows smashed, stores plun
dered, volleys fired and barri
5 cades thrown up in Gelsenkir
chen?
The outbreak began shortly
before midnight and the police
heads immediately called out all
their men and sent calls to neai
by towns for help.
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Father Monroe, who has beer
here duaing the week, left fo
, Wrangell this morning on th<
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Fortune Teller Makes
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True Prediction
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Fortune telling has been aban
doned by John Kress, recent re
sident of Kamsack, Sask., for a
less lucrative and more tiring
job. Kress was sentenced to
thirty days hard labor in Regina
jail after Mrs. J. Kosmanko tes
tified in court that one of his
soothsaying forcasts had come
<rue.
She told the court Kress warn -
ed her that she was going to lose
come money to a fair-haired
man. Then' the fortune-tell >r
who is a blonde, borrowed £10
and never returned. Kreo; wv>
found guilty of extortin? money
by threatening fits, or evai in
sanity.
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N. E. F. Company
Moves to Seattle
Headquarters of the New En
gland Fish Company were re
cently moved from Boston, Mass,
to Seattle where the affairs oi
this great company will be di
rected.
This firm and its subsidiaries
last year packed 800.000 cases of
salmon; 2,000 tierces of mild
cured salmon; 6,000 tons cf fish
were frozen and shipped
8.000. 000 pounds of fresh fish
was shipped. This was exclusive
of herring and by-products and
totalled 90,000,000 pounds, or
45.000. 000 tons, taken from the
waters of the Pacific and ship
ped last year.
The New England Fish Com
pany also maintains a district
office at Vancouver, B. C., from
which the Canadian West Coast
business is handled.
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LAVERY FUNERAL
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Masonic funeral services for
Robert Lavery, 71-year-old Daw
son pioneer was recently held
j in Seattle. Lavery went to Daw
's son in 1897, and in 1905 moved
to Fairbanks, where he conduct
ed a grocery business. He was
founder of the Fairbanks Air
plane Company, which financed
the late Carl Ben F.ielson. notea
aviator, on his first air mail
flight to McGrath.
He served as a Republican na
tional committeeman and was a
Shriner and Knight Templar.
He also had been a city coun
cilman at Fairbanks.
Lavery is survived by his wife,
two sons, Robert K. and William
and a daughter, Helen Lucile La
very, all of Fairbanks. Burial
was in the Acacia Memorial
Park, Seattle.
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. .FIRST SHIPMENT OF GOLD
...... MAID OF MEXICO MINE.
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First offerings from the Maid
of Mexico mine on Duncan Can
al and incidentally the first
shipment of gold from Peters
burg for a number of years went
forward on the Northwestern
today. The shipment, consisting
of a quantity of amalgam esti
mated to be valued at $4,000, re -
presents only a few days inter
mittent operation of the new
plant. A large quantity of con
centrates remains on hand to
await the arrival o* reduction
equipment. The plant has been
hampered this spring through
lack of water but with .the in
stallation of a larger dam this
difficulty will be largely over
come. The ore is running very
high in value and additional
equipment is being installed as
rapidly as possible. A new stop
er arrived on one of the las^
l boats making it possible to re
• cover the high grade ores with
i out handling too much .rock of
J little or no value.
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