VOL. 2
PETERSBURG, ALASKA MAY 4, 1928
NO. 39
Boost For Boy Scout Benefit
Show at MacGrgor’s
There are some things being plan
ned and done constantly that de
serve the continued support of the
public in general. Among such
things that have received the sup
port and interest of the townspeo
ple is the BOY SCOUTS ORGANI
ZATION. The organization is spon
sored by the American Legion Post
here, and they have seen their ef
forts awarded by jrogress in the lo
cal Troop and the individual mem
bers of the troop. The recent Court
of Honor meetings at which eighteen
boys were promoted to the rank of
Second Class Scouts and five new
Scouts admitted to the Tenderfoot
rank is encouraging.
The Forestry Department has set
aside a five acre tract of land at the
mouth of the creek coming down
from the city water dam, and the
Camp is named Camp Cornelius in
honor of L. B. Cornelius who has
taken an active part in the spons
oring of the organization from the i
start. It is a beautiful site, and
the plans are being pushed with all
vigor to get up the first cabin on
| the tract for occupancy during the
j ten day Camp which will be held
[during the month of June sometime
The ultimate plan is to have one
large Assembly cabin, a Cook and
Mess Cabin, and three Patrol cob
ins. Plans are in the making to
hold an all Alaska Territorial Camp
at inis site at Camp Cornelius dur
ing ihe summer of 1129.
When the public supports the Boy
Scouts in patronizing the benefit
shows they put on, no one is donat
ing one cent, but every one is simp
ly buying a ticket at the regular
price of a good show.
This particular show next Satur
day night at the MacGregor is a
Jim Dandy, featuring Hoot Gibson
who is the peer of them all in West
ern pictures. The picture is based
on the book of Peter B. Kyne “O
Promise Me.” Kine is easily the
outstanding writer of real cattle
ranch, Border cattle rustlers, round
ups, etc.
One night only, Saturday May
6th.
Something About
Pulp
“Sooner or later an embargo will
be placed on Canadian pulp and
nulpwood,” declared B. T. McBain,
pulp and paper specialist of Port
land, Oregon, in an address before
the Pacific Northwest regional meet
ing of the American Chemical So
ciety.
‘ The American Eastern paper mill
will then be at-the mercy of Scan
dinavian pulp mills and American
pulp mills must look to the Pacific
Coast or elsewhere for wood," Mr.
McBain said. i
Mr. McBain is a specialist in the
paper industry f the northwest and
speaks with a certain positiveness
that brooks of warning.
However, the Empire and Chron
icle have been promising us pulp and
paper mills about every election
time so that no doubt they will
stave off danger of being at the
mercy of Scandinavian pulp mills
No question about wood for pulp
i nAlaska. The question, hwever,
which strikes us as being pertinent
to the subject is When are those
pulp mills coming and when is the
Thane project going to turn out to
be other than ras hpromlses. Sev
eral leading citizens and legal satel
ites have been midwiflng the "fine
big pulp mill at Thane” for some
time. Promising project we must
say.
"Dutch Harry" Found
Dead in Boat
A telegram was recelced by the
tntted States Commissioner’s Office
reporting that Harry Marqworth,
(more generally known as “Dutch
Harry) was found dead in his boat
at Port Beauclerc. No further de
tails were given by Mrs. L. A. Wil
lard who sent the message.
A wire was sent to Mrs. Willard
requesting more information. It is
said that plans will be made to send
out a boat to bring in the remains.
Earl Ohmer stated that in event
no boat was available, it was prob
able that he would send one of his
boats to Beauclerc.
Admiral Rogers is due i nport on
May 6th from Seattle.
FEDERAL PROVISION FOR FISH
“LABORATORIES”
Chairman Wallace White, Jr.,
Maine. House of Representatives,
Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Committee, introduced a bill the
last week of April, which provides
for a five-year construction and
maintenance program for the Bu
reau of Fisheries in Alaska. This
measure will provide for additonal
fish hatcheries to replace those dis
carded by the Territory. Provision
for Alaskan laboratories is made
with an appropriation of $50,000.
The bill will further provide for in
creased appropriations in line with
the proposed work.
Election Returns
To Date
These returns for the primary
election just passed are the totais
to date as reported in Juneau:
. .For Delegate to Congress
Howard 1142
Sutherland 2480
For Attorney General
Rustgard 2748
Waller • 569
Republican National Committeeman
Albrecht .189ti
Aldrich 73 i
Lathrop 1227
Delegates Republican Convention
Caswell 1373
Chase 1500
Gelles 1 659
Prate 339
Wickersham 225:*
Alternates to Republican Convention
Grant
Gottstein
1623
1439
Senators—
Benjamin
Gardner
Hunt
For Representatives
Darwell :
I Gildea
Johnson
McCormack
Noland
1604
1264
55 2
JOlts
Paul
Wacker
Winn
Territorial
1257
1033
914
1823
1417
1517
1897
64T
2059
returns for National
X
Committeeman are:
J.athrop
/Ihrecht
2745
2636
America lirst arrived In port this
• ruing with mail from Juneau.
Seattle Trollers are
Organized
The Trolling Vessels Association
was organized late last year, and re
cently incorporated under the laws
of the state of Washington. At the
regular meeting held Jan. 21 at
Eagles Temple, Seattle, the follow
ing officers were elected for 1928:
Wood Freeman, Tacoma, president;
Bernard Thompson, Seattle, vice
president; Ray Shaffer, Tacoma, se
cretary; trustees, C. W. Ackerson
Ole Hanson, Sophis Wick, John
Eastman and Bernard Thompson. L.
C. Tanggaard, Burke building, Seat
tle, was later appointed manager.
The Eagles Temple, Seattle, has
been designated as the regular meet
ing place, and monthly meetings will
i be held the second Saturday of No
vember, December, January, Febru
ary and March. The initial mem
bership is said to include a con
siderable representation of the Cape
Ommaney district; and it is the in
tention to include Alaskan waters
as well as the districts of the lowe>
coast in the scope of the organiza
tion.—Pacific Fisherman.
Ice Pool Holds Interest
By the evening of Thursday the
holders of tickets in the great ice
pool of the Tanana River had al
most an even gamble. With water
a foot over the ice at Nenana, there
was indication that the breakup
may be expected at any time. The
overflow over the ice was reported
as getting greater. Some lucky
one or ones will be cashing in on
their luck any time now.
Washington Trap Fight
Floyd Hatfield, counsel for the
Fish Conservation League, and
Captain A. A. Paysee, member of
the League’s executive committee
recently accused fish trap owners
and federated industries of Wash
ington with publishing misleading
bulletins against the proposed re
strictions on fishing gear in that
State. The prpogandists are ac
cused of deliberately concealing
from the public the extent to which
Puget Sound salmon runs are de
pleted. According to these men re
presenting the Conservation League,
the salmon will become extinct on
the Sound within ten years unless
traps are abolished.
Alaska is used to the misrepre
sentations of these prostitutors of
the largest resource of the Terri
tory. That the deliberately give
misleading statements in Washing
ton is not surprising in view of
their actions in Alaska. It was to
be expected. Just an indifferent
reading of some of the propoganda
shows the rediculousness of some
of their statements.
New Vault Record D
Lee Barnes, University f Southern
California, recently cleared the bar
at 14 feet 1 and 3-4 inches thereby
breaking the pole vault record set
up by Carr of Yale this year at 14
feet and 1 Inch.
LATHROP GOING SOUTH
Austin E. Lathrop was reported as
being on the Admiral Evans going
South Thursday morning. A little
too early for congratulations—or
condolences.
Will A. Barrows writes that he
Is temporarily located in Chinook.
Washington, gathering up loose ends
of neglected affairs.
Sandbagging Couzens
Senator Couzens recently made a
charge before the United States Sen
ate that Andrew Mellon, Secretary
of the Treasury, tried to sandbag
him (Couzens) into silence by or
dering the reopening of the old
Ford tax case in which Couzens was
interested. This, because of the
fact that Couzens as a member of
a special committee of the Senate
uncovered evidence in the Bureau of
Internal Revenue which showed tho
I granting of enormous rebates to
I certain big 'ax payers, including a
number of orporations controlled
by Mellon.
In 1919 ( ouzens and other min
ority stockht ders in the Ford Motor
Company sol 1 their holdings to Hen
ry Ford. T e government fixed the
amount of tax whereupon Couzens
and associates paid it and consider
ed the matter closed.
Immediately after the Senate Com
mittee discovered the rebates to the
Mellon companies and after it was
discovered that Mellon had granted
a rebate to William Boyce Thomp
son, New York multimillionaire,
who acted as chairman of the com
mittee which raised the “slush
fund” in the . arding campaign, and
who was invc /ed with Will Hays in
the sale of Li »erty bonds which Sin
clair gave tt j Republican National
Comittee, Mellon ordered the de
partment to start action against
Couzens.
Attorneys for the Senator found
documents sh'owing that his case
had been investigated by 32 leading
officials of the bureau and that 63
separate and distinct reports had
approved the original assessment
All of which was before Secretary
Mellon when he ordered additional
assessment of $30,000,000 against
Couzens and associates.
Senator Caraway of Kansas stated
that “they were splitting fees four
ways on some income tax cases.''
Couzens served notice on the
Senate that he intends bringing a
lot more evidence of the machina
tions of the department under Secre
tary Mellon.
Finds Wrecked Boat
George Mason from Kake reports
finding the wreck of a gasboat north
of Hobart Bay. The boat was a
wreck beyond redemption or recog
nition and the engine would hardly
be worth salvaging according to the
report. The wheel was missing from
the equipment so it is probable that
the boat lost that in a storm which
sent the craft up on the bluff beach.
No report has been received here of
any boat being missing and there
was nothing to indicate whose boat
the craft might be.
Mystery Is Solved
Quite a rucco3 was stirred up this
week by the finding of a sack con
taining a skull and other bones.
Rumor ran rampant as to the find.
It was reported that the skull was
that of an adult and other bones
were probably those of a child, i.
was even stated that flesh was still
clinging to the bones indicating that
a crime had been committed not so
long since.
Ye ALASKAN sent its special
Hawkshaw out on the job of rim
ing an arrant criminal to justice
He found that the bones had been
collected last fall by Oscar Wick
strom from its resting place near
Saginaw Bay and brought to town
in a sack for Dr. Jones. Oscar nev
er did think to deliver the bones
and never made mention of them to
anyone. So when they were found
not a few were around solving the
great gunnysack mystery.
Lathrop Lead Challenged
Albrecht Crawling Up
Major George Albrecht of Fair
banks has cut the lead of Lathrop,
for national Republican committee
man down to a scant 213 votes. Re
turns from outstanding precincts
will further cut this lead so that at
this writing it does not look like a
3ure bet that Lathrop will be final
ly named as committeeman. The
returns stand: Lathrop, 2770; Al
brecht, 2557. Hoonah, Yakutat,
and Myers Chuck are expected to re
duce the lead so that it may be ne
cessary to have an official recount.
Several strong Sutherland precincts
were still to be counted in the Third
and Fourth Divisions. It is quite
probable that Lathrop will lose out.
Kake cut Noland’s lead so that
Olts is now assured of being fourth
man on the House ticket. Returns
from outstanding precincts assure I
Olts of a more positive victory. !
At present Winn is high man on the
ticket with 1772 votes with Paul a
close second with 1625; McCormack
(follows With 1549 and Olts the la:.',
man on the ticket has a total cl
1517.
The total territorial rote gives
Delegate Sutherland a lead of 3 to
1 against Howard. The masses
have spoken in no uncertain terms
—they want no monkey business
with the Controller Bill.
Wickersham easily demonstrated
that he is held in high esteem by
the miners, fishermen and others
for he polled a vote of over 4 316,
to Chases 2929 and Caswell’s 1999
Wickersham and Chase therefore go
to the Republican National Con
vention to vote the wish of the elec
torate of the Territory.
Rustgard had an easy victory ov
er Waller for Attorney General:
4341 for Rustgard as against 1594
for Waller. The old guard, Wick
ersham, Sutherland and Rustgard,
still hold their sway over the votes
of Alaskans. It will take more
than the subsidized press to defeat
them. i
NATIONS HONOR AVIATOR
Six nations united in honoring
Flovd Bennett, gallant aviator who
died last week as the result of pneu
monia developed while giving aid
to the stranded German plane Bre
men. Bennet was buried with all
honor in the military cemetery at
Arlington, nea rWashington. D. C.
Discontinue Meetings
The Chamber of Commerce met
for its usual midweek dinner and
business meeting at the Grand Cafe.
Attendance considerable better than
the week previous.
A letter from Charles D. Gar
field. Alaska Chamber of Commerce
Seattle, stating that he could U36
several hundred of the new folders
published by the Club. He said he
could distribute another thousand
to the delegates to the Kiwanis con
vention June 18th. It is estimated
that approximately 7500 delegates
will meet at this convention.
The additional regulations put
out by the Bureau of Fisheries were
read—calling attention to the pro
hibition of more than two spillers.
The matter of holding further
meetings of the Club was taken up
at this time. It took three motions
and a lot of “cultus wa-wa” before
a definite agreement was reached.
All regular meetings are to be dis
continued until the first Wednesday
of September.. Business in the
meantime will be in the care of the
Secretary, Executive Committee and
special business meetings.
The Club recommended that the
July Celebration arrangements be
handled as they were last year. This
to include the Queen Contest for
raising funds for the purchase of
the new Are truck. Messrs Dahl
and Ohmer were appointed to re
| present the Club in case arrange
ments were to be as last year.
The matter of ‘‘Margnita” schod
ule was brought before the Club. It
was stated that the Margnita was
going to give Petersburg service sim
ilar to, or even better, by reason cf
her size, and accommodations,, than
was given by other boats which had
the West Coast-Juneau run. The
management urged the support oi
shippers to make the venture per
manent.
John P. Chamberlain, guest at
the meeting, recently in Hawaii, said
that the earthquake felt here last
November, registered on the seis
mograph there as the most seven
yet recorded.
Lomen To Take
Reed's Place
Judge G. L. Lomen ©f Nome has
been instructed to proceed ta Juneau
to take the place of Judge T. M.
Reed who died Tuesday of this week.
Death was due to heart failure df
rectly due to gastritis from which
he had been suffering for some
time past.
Judge Reed had been in the St.
Ann Hospital under medical treat
ment and left the hospital to sit in
the Lee Donnelly perjury ca3e. He
was unable to proceed with court
matters so dimissed the jury until
the Sth of this month, and returned
to the hospital. Report of his death
was received here Tuesday noon and
the flag at the Federal building pul
at half mast in his honor.
Reed had been under fire for
some time and was serving as judge
without appointment. His name had
been presented to the Senate and
when under fire the President took
back the nomination and named no
other in his place.
Judge Lomen who takes his place
first came to Alaska in 1900, land
ing at Nome. He was district at
torney from 1918 to 1921 and was
then appointed district judge and
served until 1925. He is best known
as the “father of the lomen divi
sion” with Ralph Lomen as Its re
presentative at the last legislature.
Terhune Talks of Work
Mr. Terhune of the Alaska Game
Commission and Warden in charge
of the Biological Survey work in
Alaska was in port the fore part cf
the week. He was very optomistlc
about the trip to Alaska which Mr.
Redington will make in a short
while. Mr. Redington is in charge
of the department which has the
work in the Territory.
Mr. Terhune dwelt considerable
on the predatory game situation say
ing that reports indicated that the
wolves were getting stronger foot
hold in the territory as were also the
covote. He expected that Mr. Red
I gton would be able to get a close
iU, view of conditions in Alaska and
w '1 be able thereby to present the
mutter in such light that Congress
* Ml appropriate more money for tho
ork in Alaska. He further hoped
i( have a depredatory game hunter
!»• this end of the Territory next.