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Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, anthropo-j
legist, passed through Peters
burg last week when the Admiral
Watson was in port. He was re- 1
turning to the Kodiak district
to make further study of the1
migrations of the inhabitants of
North America. He advances the!
theory that the migrations were
from the Asiatic and Oriental
and that the natives of Alaska
are descendants of those migra
tions. There is a second school of
anthropologists who follow the
theory of the Indian legends —
that the migrations of the abori -
ginal Americans is from South
America north, meeting at the
Bering Sea where contacts of the
two races resulted in the pro
duction of the Eskimo tribes.
Mr. Hrdlicka is carrying on the
work alone until late in the sea
son when he will be joined by
several university students.
Mr. Oberg, making a study of
the Thlinget, Haida and Tsiinp
shean tribes of Alaska, made a
\ery interesting visit with Ye
Reporter discussing the socio
logical structure of the Indian
organizations of Southeast Alas
ka. He has been carrying -on his
studies at Klukwan and Sitka
for the past several months and
will stop in Wrangell to continue
his work. He leaves early in June
for Chicago and hopes to return
later t ocontinue the work with
a larger force of investigators
and scientists.
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Grover Cleary died on Sukci
Island, Wednesday, of compnca
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influenza which he contracted
during the past # winter. Mr.
Cleary for a number of years has
been prominently identified with
the fox industry having operat
ed ranches on Straits and Sukoi
Islands. He has made Petersburg
his base of operations during
these years and is well known
and his demise is regretted oy
many.
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Amelia Earhart Putman, A-j
merican aviatrix, has made a:
flight across the Atlantic Ocean
from Harbor Grace, Newfound
land. She landed at Culmore.
Ireland, near London ferry, be
ing the first woman to span the
Atlantic alone.
She had trouble with her ex
haust manifold which burned
out. She and her plane were not
'injured when she landed.
“I’ve done it. I had to land in
a pasture. I’m not a bit hurt and
I think the plane is all right,"
the aviatrix said to press as
sociation representatives when
she alighted from her plane.
Mr. Garber, district superin
tendent of the Indian Bureau
for the Kuskckwim section, was
a passenger returning to his
home from the states on the
Admiral Watson.
Dr. Henning of Sitka, one of
the physicians in the old capital
city in the '80’s, was an interest
ed visitor in Petersburg when the
Admiral Rogers was in port. He
! planned to stop in Ketchikan
land Metlakatla before continu
I ing on his way to the states.
Frank Booth, manager of the
I Eureka Trading Company of]
Flake, arrived in Petersburg the
fore part of the week and is re
turning shortly. He states that
conditions in Kake are not of the
best and that the people of that
town are much worried as to
liow they will meet conditions of
next winter. The crew of the
Taku cannery arrived there and
are getting the Kake cannery j
ready for summer operations
employing mostly a Chinese
crew with no local seiners or re
sidents to be employed.
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Mrs. Verdier and Mr. Frank
Hermann were united in matri
mony by Commissioner C. Clau
sen in the residence of Mrs.
Magill, yesterday evening. Mr.
MacKechnie was best man for
the groom and Mrs. Magill gave
the bride away. The couple plan
to take a residence on Third
Street.
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The May 14th issue of The
War Cry, published by the Sal
vation Army has a story of the
recent inauguration of the
“North Star Guards” a group of
joung girls whose activities are
similar to the Girl Scouts but
directed by Capt. Brierly and
Lieut. Fulton.
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PROTECTION OF FISH
IN ALASKA
H. R. 6483
(Continued from last week)
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A Bad Faith Amendment
Is there any necessity for
passing section 2 of this bill to
prevent American Trollers tak
ing salmon beyond the 3-mila
limit and transporting them to
Seattle, Portland, or San Fran
cisco? Are such fish ever so
transported to those places by
American trolling vessels?
In the hearings on this bill, at
page 79, that question was pul
squarely to Commissioner O’
Malley by Mr. Gifford, a member
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of the committee,' as follows:
Mr. Gifford. Have they been
catching fish beyond the 3-mile
limit and bringing them into an
American port, or Seattle?
Mr. O’Malley. Not from the
Alaska coast. They bring troll
fish caught off of the western
coast of Alaska into Ketchikan.
Juneau, Petersburg, and Wran
gell when mild cured; but there
has been a time when there was
a good deal of discussion about
building boats with refrigerators
so as to go outside of the 3-mile
limit to catch those fish and
take them to Seattle. It has not
been done up to the present
time. That would be to take the
fish down to Seattle in a fresh
slate, and not canned.
If, then, “it has not been done
un to the present time” what is
the purpose of nassing section
2? Clearly the. " is but one hon
est answer, and it is this:
To destroy offshore fishing for
king salmon by American troll
ing vessels, so the fish will even
tually find their way into Bristol
Buy nets owned by the fish
monopoly there, and into in
shore fish traps belonging to
the same people in southeastern
Alaska.
Salmon caught by American
trollers beyond the 3-mile limit
never have been carried fresh to
Seattle or other Pacific coast
State markets: they have always
been taken into Alaska ports to
be mild cured or frozen fresh
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Mr. O’Malley says so in plain
English. Section 2 is a mis
leading “joker,” and Congress
ought not to exact it into law.
It is wholly in the interest of the
Eristol Bay Salmon Trust, as
well as the Canadian trolling
fleet out of Prince Rupert.
For these and other reasons
we pronounce this bill to be un
fair to Alaska and American
union fishermen, destructive of
a well-established Alaskan troll
ing fleet, an aid to a more dan
gerous monopoly of the greatest
natural food supply belonging to
the American people, wholly in
the interest of its further mon
opoly by the Bristol Bay Fish
Trust, and we recommend that,
it do not pass.
WLLIAM I. S1ROVICH
JAMES WICKERSHAM
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Transfer of Road
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The Alaskan,
Petersburg, Alaska
Dear Sirs:
May I bring to your attention
a subject which has already
been acted upon by your body
in supporting the retention of
the Alaska Road Commission in
charge of roads they have been
building in cooperation with the
Territory—and that is this—the
extension of the Federal High
way Act to Alaska.
There seems little doubt that
Congress, in its economy drive
and with the consent of the War
Department, will shift the road
building activities which have
been performed in the past by
the Alaska Road Commission to
some other government bureau.
It would seem an opportune
time for the Territory to step
forth and lay claim to the
management and building of
these roads which are of such j
\ital and economic importance
to the welfare of the communi
ties, particularly in the Second,
Third and Fourth Divisions.
Alaska has long been treated
as an orphan child and it is no
wonder that today, with the fed
eral government saving money
wherever possible, this Territory
should suffer more by the direct
results of Congressional action
than any part of the United j
States, because we have lived
and been governed absolutely
under the organization of bu
reaus and federal officials. We
have been satisfied to sit, one
might say, almost idly by and
permit bureaus to spring from
one-man institutions into ela
borate organizations in the
management of affairs that
should belong to the people of
Alaska, and if productive devel
opment is to be obtained, I feel
sure the passing of time has
thoroughly demonstrated that
we must lay claim with an ag
gressive effort to those things
which means so much to the
prosperous, economic condition
of this country.
Today we find Congress in a
mood to absolutely eliminate a
bureau in Alaska which has
built our roads from their be
ginning, in the year 1903—and
no alternative has been offered
of equal value. Their purpose
seems to be to give it to some
other bureau, in order that one
may be eliminated and it seems
partly agreed that that bureau
should be the Department of
Interior. Thus we find one of the
main arteries of travel to the
Interior being transferred from
an organized road building in
stitution to one absolutely un
equipped to continue the work,
and, if we might draw our con
clusions as to their attitude
from a recent publication of
communications, one unsym
pathic to the road building pro
gram in some instances, which
has existed up until the present
time.
I urge upon you the necessity
of every Alaskan supporting a
road building program whicn
will offer a factor of safety to
those persons who have heavily
invested in enterprises which de
pend wholly upon the continua
tion of our road building pro
gram. We have men in Alaska
who are successful in their dif
ferent branches of commercial
enterprise, and these same men
are well able to assist in the
management of any Territorial
undertaking which now exists.
The recognized and organized
system of federal aid to roads in
the States and in the Territory
of Hawaii is supplied through
v/hat is known as the Federal
Highway Act, and the exten
sion of this Act to Alaska, under
a properly drawn extending act,
would place in the hanas of the
people of Alaska the manage
ment and construction of their
roads with far more federal aid
and less cost to the Territory
than in the past. The original
highway act extended to Alaska
would have placed too great a
burden upon the Territory in the
construction of roads, but with
an amendment to the Act which
was passed June 24, 1930, it be
comes much more liberal so far
as the Territory is concerned.
The amendment provides that
the Secretary of Agriculture is
authorized to cooperate with the
State Highway Department—in
this instance it would be the
Territorial Road Board—in the
survey, construction, reconstruc
tion of main roads through ap
propriated or unreserved public
lands where the public lands are
more than five percentum of the
total area of the state or terri
tory; and apportion to said
states in the proportion that the
said lands in eah of said states
is to the total area of said lands
in the states eligible under the
provisions of this section and no
contribution from the states
(or Territories) should be re
quired in the expenditures
thereof.
The total area of public lands
in Alaska amounts to about 90%
--so it can readily be reasoned
that Alaska’s share should be
very little. To date we have
furnished approximately 30%
ol the moneys which have been
used in road construction by the
Alaska Road Commission and
other road building agencies,
and I again urge upon you the
beneficial results which can be
! obtained if the people or Alaska
will put their shoulder to the
wheel in securing this helpful.,
democratic legislation.
Yours very truly,
CASH COLE
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