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PETERSBURG, ALASKA, DECE MBER 27, 1929
No. 27
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Invents New Type
Fish Boat
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Evert Liiasanenti, ex-fisher
man, now living in Portland, Ore.
lias patented a new type boat lor
use in commercial fisning opera
tions on the lower Columbia and
in similar districts, which he
says will revolutionize fishng.
He has taken the ordinary 24
foot fishing craft and equipped
it with an air propeller that will
give it a speed up to 60 miles
an hour. This air propeller, fur
ther does away with the necess
ity of a submerged propeller
and a submerged rudder. The
air propeller is mounted on a
bearing device that enables it to
be pointed in any direction, and
mere application of the power
will pull the craft in that desired
direction, according to the in
ventor. It is reversable.
Because it has no submerged
steering or propelling devices, it
cannot foul fishing nets, the in
ventor points out. In addition
the boat is equipped with a me
chanical net handling device.
“My type of craft will enable
one fisherman to handle all op
erations, which formerly took
the attention of two men. Fur
ther, one man in my boat can do
as much work as five could in
the old type craft,” he claims.
The boat can be used in gill net
ting, seining and deep sea troll
ing, he says.
WAS BEST DANCE OF THE
YEAR
The Christmas Ball staged by
the local Business Women’s Club,
on the 21st of the month, wat
the best social event of the year.
The hall was prettily decorated
in harmony with the spirit of the
holiday by the decorations com
mittee headed by Miss Gertie
Otness. This unanimously de
clared to be the prettiest decora
tions of the Sons of Norway Hall
As a part of the program, a
special dance was staged by Lor
etta Robinson and Elinor Stoll.
A prize was awarded to J. E.
Ames and Mrs. C. E. Swanson for
being the best waltzers in the
hall while Mr. and Mrs. A. B.
Holt took second place in the
same event.
Music was furnished by the
Hanson Orchestra and with the
peppy music got the dancers in
to a happy frame of mind so
ttiat everyone made effort +o en
joy themselves.
From all quarters was heard
naught but praise for the efforts
of the Business Women’s Club to
give a. real enjoyable evening.
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Mr. and Mrs Ben Metz were in
f^wn for the holidays from
Mountain Point.
Ed and Hans Preuschoff were
in town for a few days last week.
Bert Buchanan was a local
visitor from Level Island dueing
tbe week.
Vessel Association Elects
Officers
The Fishing Vessel Owners’
Association at their annual
meeting in Seattle, on the 14th
cleced he following officers:
Jacob H. Engdahl. Captain of
the schooner Eagle. President;
I. Hansen, of the Pioneer, Vice
President.
A. B. Einmo. of the Polaris,
Secretary.
John Hansen of the Sunset,
O. O. Hvatum of the Dorothy,
F. Sorenson of the Havana, Peter
Leiren of the Flamingo, Trustees
Over 200 members are now en
rolled in the Association.
AGAINST ‘MOONSHINE”
LIQUOR
Whereas, the Natives of Alas
ka fall an easy prey to strong
drink known as “Moonshine,”
has been a curse to our Native
jreople of the entire Alaska, and
Whereas, It causes hardship in
families, especially the younger
men and women being thrown
nto untold misery:
1st: by bringing disgrace upon
their families;
2nd: by being put in jail;
3rd: by taking away money
vhich should be spent in the
'•apport of the family;*
4th: causing hardship on their
children because of the money
;.pent for that strong drink;
5th: by lowering their health,
elf-respect and morality;
Therefore Be It Resolved That
he Grand Camp sitting in an
uial convention at Haines, Al
aska, do hereby order and direct
3ach local camp to cooperate to
the fullest extent with the pro
libition officers and other auth
nities to destroy the evil of
strong drink, and also that the
violation of this law shall be re
ported to the Grand Secretary
for proper action.
Adopted November 23, 1929, by
;he Alaska Native Brotherhood
->t Haines, Alaska.
NEW ENGLAND FISH CO. AGAN
EXPANDS
The New England Fish Com
pany purchased outright, the en
tire holdings of the Red Salmon
Packers’ Association, consisting
of floating cannery Retriever,
tender Rolfe, power gillnet boats
and gear. The motorship Wash
ington will serve the New Eng
land Fish Company’s canneries
and will be under command of
Capt. Daniel S. Wright.
PIONEERS SUPPORT HIGH
WAY
The Pioneers of Anchorage
gave their endorsement to the
Pacific-Yukon highway project
recently. The indorseemnt took
the form of the adoption of a re
solution prepared by the resolu
tions committee of Anchorage
Igloo No. 15, the action being in
line with the movement initiated
by the Pioneers of Fairbanks
i headed by Paul J. Rickert, grand
| president of the organization.
llmer After Ter.
Engineer's Job
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! Announcement has been made
I by Joe Ulmer, in the Fairbanks
News Miner, that he will be a
candidate for the office of the
Territorial highway engineer in
1930. He intends to file his pe
tition of candidacy at Juneau
within the near future. Ulmer
will run on the Republican tick
et and will seek the preferential
vote at the primary election in
the spring.
His announcement increases
the number of those who have
declared themselves to be can
didates for the office to two, R.
J. Sommers, incumbent, having
! already made known his inten
sion to run on either the demo
cratic or independent ticket.
The office of highway engineer
was made elective by the last le
gislature. Since its inception it
has been an appointing power
lying with the governor. Mr.
Sommers has been engineer ever
since the office was created.
Mr. Ulmer is one of the best
Known men in Alaska. His resi
dence in the Northland dates
back to 1897 and he has lived in
almost every section of the coun
try. By profession a civil and
and mining engineer, he has
been connected with many im
portant projects.
From 1920 to 1924 Mr. Ulmer
was in the First Division. He re
ceived the highest vote ever giv
en any candidate for the office
of divisional road commissioner.
He did a lot of engineering
i work for the city of Ketchikan
land has been in many explora
tion parties in British Columbia
and Canada. He has been over
much of the route of the propos
ed International Highway and
cruised out a wagon road from
'Telegraph Creek to Dease Lake,
1 later building a cable over the
i Stikine River at Telegraph
| Creek. Mr. Ulmer was with the
| Alaska Road Commission for
I four years. More recently he has
i been engaged in the private
i practice of mining and civil en
l gineering.
| He was engineer in charge of
|t,he construction of the Zeppe
jlin airport at Fairbanks. Mr.
| Ulmer is a grand president of the
grand igloo of the Pioneers of
Alaska.
MADE REAR ADMIRAL
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President Hoover signed the
! Congressional act raising the
| rank of Richard Evelyn Byrd to
that of rear admiral of the U. S.
! Navy.
| This is the highest possible
!rank that can be given a navy
! officer in peace times and Ad
jmiral Byrd is the youngest offic
er, 41 years of age, living to hold
that office. »
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C. H. Sundmacher, lawyer, left
I for Ketchikan last week.
! Kake Team Stings Hi
Team in Game
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Kake basketball team journey
ed to our town, measured its
strength with our high school
team and walked off with the
}ong end of a 28-27 score.
The game was fast and clean
on both sides though both sides
showed considerable room for
improvement in style of play and
team work. Frank Gordon for
Fetersburg was the outstanding
player on the floor with Aubrey
fehaquanie a close second. Hughie
Harris with a little more experi
ence and coaching should de
velop into a fast player. How
ever he is like a fish out of wa
ter in his position as center. If
Harris and Shaquanie shifted
positions, the team would be ai
lot faster playing combination
and would be able to preesnt a
stronger battle for the Cham
pionship.
With more coaching the Kake
team will develop into one of the
fast teams of the Division.
- Andrew Hanson refereed the
game to the satisfaction of all j
parties.
BASKETBALL GAMES
The high school basketbal]^
team will probably meet -the
Ketchikan Town team on the lo
cal floor about the 7th of Janu
ary. They expect to play a game
\"ith Ketchikan High some time
during the latter part of Janu
ary.
The Ketchikan Town team is
a pretty fast team this year, al
ready being credited with a win
over Metlakatla team. Unless
the local team develops latent
ability and knuckles down to
business and plays ball, it will
find itself cellar champions in
stead of All-Alaska Champions.
AN APPRECIATION
In behalf of the Presbyteria n I
Church of Petersburg, I wish to
thank the businessmen of Pe
tersburg for their generous con
tributions towaids the Christ
mas tree given ac the Church.
The following in particular j
generously gave tc ihe tree:
Tracing Uniox), Bank of Pe
tersbu g Dairy G ocery, Earl N
Ohmer, Modern Crocer, Sing Le..
Hogue and Tveten, Piggly Wig-1
iy. Sanitary Grocery and others.
All these aided materially in
bringing joy to the hearts of the
children of the community and
to many of the grown-ups. The
members of the church wish to
express their appreciation of the
kindly feeling shown to the
church and its membership.
Mrs. William Tamaree,
Lay Worker in charge of the
Presbyterian Church, Petersburg.
. . Ed Mathews received a Christ
mas package from Judge Clausen
jin the shape of one year in jail
and $500 fine—charges—posses
sion of booze.
Zep Cancels Polar Trip
To Fairbanks
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Advices from Berlin were re
ceived at Fairbanks that the big
dirigible Graf Zeppelin, sched
uled for a polar flight -to Fair
banks, has been cancelled. The
airport and tower to take care
of the big ship was completed
at Fairbanks recently.
Christmas Program
Were Good
The Christmas exercises of the
Native Presbyterian Church were
held in their building on Christ
mas Eve. The Bureau school
children, under Miss Madeleine
Koester gave a very excellent
program appropriate for the oc
casion. After the exercises, the
gifts from the tree were pre
sented to various recipients. A
very pleasant evening was en
joyed by all.
AT THE S. A. BARRACKS
The Salvation Army Corps, in
their barracks gave a very fine
program on Christmas night. A
capacity crowd was present to
enjoy a program given by the
children of the community. A
prettily decorated tree was laden
with presents for old and young.
After the program was given a
pleasant evening was spent by
the younger folk with games to
pass the time. All went home in
the wee hours of morning, tired
but happy.
AT THE LUTHERAN CHURCH
A fine program was arranged j
for the Lutheran Church and a
bounteous rememberance from
Old Santa prepared by the
Ladies of the Church. This will
be given in detail next wek.
PILOTS REACH SIBERIAN CAP
Pilots C. H. Gillam and Joe
Crosson, co-pilots of Col. Ben
Eielson reached North Cape Si
beria last week in their efforts
to locate Eielson and his mech
anician.: They will make a very
rigid search of the Sibearian
coast and will soon have the as
sistance of planes and pilots
from the States. The Coast
Guard Cutter Chelan should be
arriving at Seward very shortly
with three Fairchild planes and
six Canadian pilots.
BED OF ATLANTIC SHIFTS
That the bed of the North At
lantic has shifted as a result of
the earthquake of November 16,
was indicated this week ipi the
ieports from cable ships assign
ed to the task of repairing the
submarine breaks. Sonic sound
ings showed that the floor of
the ocean had moved and that
the fishing banks had shifted as
the result of the disturbance
Breaks in the cablesconnect
ing the Old World with the New,
have been platted over an area
1400 miles Southeast and 300
.miles Northeast of Halifax. In
some cases several breaks occur
red in the same cable over a dis
tance of 100 miles.
Evidence of U. S*
Citizenship
This office is in receipt of in
formation from the Department
ef Labor that under the new
naturalization law (act of March
2, 1925, 45 Stat. 1512), effective
July 1, 1929, all certified copies
of naturalization papers are to
be issued by the Commissioner
of Naturalization.
As the result of conferences
between officials of the Land of
fice and representatives of the
Bureau of Naturalization and of
the Department of Labor, it has
been agreed that the issuance
of certified copies of naturaliza
tion papers for land office pur
poses will be discontinued and in
lieu thereof the Bureau of Na
turalization will in appropriate
cases and on request of this of
fice furnish statements as to the
facts of the naturalization of
applicants for public lands.
In cases where it is inconven
ient or impossible for an appli
cant to furnish evidence of ci
tizenship or declaration of in
tention in the form as required
by instructions of May 1, 1925,
Circular No. 1005, 51 L. D. 134,
sworn statement may be accept
ed by the land office from appli
cant, giving facts as to his citi
zenship status, which statement
should include the date of the
alleged naturalization or decla
ration of intention, the title and
location of the court in which it
was insituted, and. when avail
able, the number of the docu
ment in question, if the proceed
ing has been had since Septem
ber 2S, 1906. In addition, in
cases of naturalization prior to
September 27, 1926, there should
be given the date and place of
the applicant’s birth and the
foreign country of which he was
a citizen or subject.
The citizenship showing may
be incorporated in any of the
forms prescribed for use in con
nection with the entry of public
lands.
ALASKAN HAS TUFF TIME
On the 23rd of this month the
steamer Santa Ana was in dis
tress at Grand Cayman in the
Caribbean Sea. She lost her
rudder while bucking a storm
and was picked up by an oil
tanker.
The Santa Ana for many years
navigated the waters of Alaska
carrying freight and passengers.
Se first came to the country in
the days of the gold rush and re
mained until a few years ago
when she was taken off the Al
jaska run and put on the South
American run.
NEW REGULATIONS ON PRES
Regultions governing the Alas
ka fisheries for 1930, have been
approved by Secretary of Com
merce Robert C. Lamont and is
now on the press. The regula
tions become effective as of the
list of January.