VOTE FOR
Edward A. Rasmusson
For Republican National Committeeman
In The April Primaries
His Election Will Insure Better Development and
Party Organization For Alaska.
ANTHONY E. KARNES
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR
COMMISSIONER of EDUCATION i
SUBJECT TO TERRITORIAL PRIMARIES IN APRIL
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FRANK H. FOSTER
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ALASKA
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JAMES WICKERSHAM
Republican Candidate for re-election as
DELEGATE to CONGRESS from ALASKA
Primary Election in April—General Election in November
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Frank ,1, Peratrovich
DEMOCRA TIC CANDIDA TE FOR NOMINA TION AS
I REPRESENT A TIVE FROM THE FIRST DIVISION
VOTE FOR
Richard E, Hardcastle
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DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN
Thereby protesting the domination of our fisheries by ;
O’Malley. And help to return Alaska to Alaskans j
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Norman R. Walker
For Democratic Senator in the Territorial Legislature.
At all times and under all conditions a
Liberal with the best interests of the
Territory always at heart.
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-VOTE FOR
Adolpho H. Ziegler
Democratic Candidate
For
i DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
I appeal to all Liberal Alaskans to support
my candidacy as a direct expression of opposition
to the continued mis - ruling of Alaska through a
k combination of politicians and FEDERAL BUREAUS
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5 My record at the Legislature is my recommendation
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The Seward Chamber of Com
merce has been exercised ovei
a report that the Forest Service
may withdraw from the Chu
gach National Forest and throw
the land therein back into the
general public domain. T h e
Delegate took this matter up
with the Chief of the Forest
Service and was informed that
the only consideration was tc
exclude a part of the reserve
lying between Seward and An
chorage, and to throw it open
to settlement. However, there
was more or less opposition ta
this recommendation and it was
not approved by the Secretary
of Agriculture and has been ab
solutely side-tracked, for this
year at least, and possibly for
many years.
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As the House Committee on
Territories has made no report
on the bill to repeal the Alaska
Bone Dry Law, and probably in -
tends to allow it to die in com
mittee, the Delegate on March
22 introduced a new bill to a
mend the penalty for violation
of the Alaska law, and which
reads as follows: “That every
person hereafter convicted of
any violation of the Act of Con
gress entitled “An Act to pro
hibit the manufacture or sale of
alcoholic liquors in the Territory
of Alaska, and for other pur
poses, approved Feb. 14, 1917,
shall be punished only as pro
vided for in similar cases in the
National Prohibition Act and the
several Acts amendatory of said
National Prohibition Act.”
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oj According to information just
g made public by Commissioner
g Henry O’Malley, of the Bureau
g lof Fisheries the United States
gland Alaska produced 75 per
g cent of the world pack in 1931,
g compared with 58 per cent in
g 1930 and 66 per cent of the
g average pack in the years from
g 1926 to 1930, inclusive. According
j to the estimates, the world pack
^ of canned salmon amounted to
^ 9.018,121 standard cases of 48
^one-pound cans. The pack was
^ allocated among the producing
£ areas as follows: Alaska, 5,403,
£ 811 cases; Pacific coast States,
£.1,336,234 cases; Siberia, 1,134,
£ 702 cases; British Columbia,
£! 685,104 cases, and Japan, 458,
£ 270 cases. The world pack in
*|1931 represented a 14 per cent
J | decrease compared with the pre
[ vious year, but it was a decrease
* of only 8 per cent from the
| five-year average.
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There are a few instances in
Alaska where a resident and
business man would like to in
stall a small electric lighting
plant for his own domestic needs
and also to supply current to a
dozen or more neighbors. But to
do this would subject him to a
federal license fee of $300 or
more per annum, in accordance
with a law passed and approved
June 6, 1900. The suggestion has
been made that possibly the
Delegate might secure the pas
sage of a bill to relieve small
operators from the payment oi
this license fee.
After advising with several
labor organization representa
tives as to the most desirable
phases to include in a bill to
give retirement insurance bene
fits to employees of the Alaska
Railroad, the Delegate has intro
duced a bill extending the bene
fits of “An Act for the retirement
of employees in classified civil
service,” approved May 22, 1920
to the employees of the Alaska
Railroad. The employees of th€
Government railroad at Pana
ma are not under civil*servicf
and in the last Congress thi
above entitled Act was extendec
to cover employees of the Pana
ma Canal Railway, and it is be
lieved that Congress will extenc
the benefits of the same act t(
cover employees of the Alaskc
Railroad.
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The recent Act that extend:
the area of the wonderful re
gion of Mount McKinley Na
tional Park now includes Won
der Lake, which will prove £
great magnet for many tourist;
who are expected to largely in
crease in numbers each year.
Mount McKinley Park no
only is the farthest north of tli
national parks of the United
1 States, but also contains the
highest mountain in the North
American continent. In addition
to this distinction, Mount Mc
Kinley rises higher from its base
than any other mountain in the
world, not excluding the far
famed Himalayas. The total
height of the great peak is 20,
' 200 feet, and on its north and
west sides it rises abruptly from
a tundra-covered plateau only
2,500 to 3,000 feet above sealevel.
Mount McKinley rises 17,000
feet above timberline, and for
iwo-thirds of the way down
from its summit it is enveloped
in snow throughout the year.
The Davis bill that would for
bid the transport of passengers
on foreign vessels between ports
or places in the United States,
either directly or by way of a
foreign port, was twice on the
consent calendar of the House
and both times objected to.
Some of the opponents express
the belief that the bill cannot
become a law.
Department of Justice,
Washington D. C.
January 29, 1931
Hon. Ed. M. Irwin,
Chairman Committee on Claims,
House cf Representatives,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Chairman:
Further reference is made to
your letter of January 15, trans
mitting H. R. 15977, for the re
lief of Clyde Sheldon, to this
department for an opinion as
to its merits.
This bill proposes to direct
the Secretary of the Treasury to
pay claimant the sum of $259,
representing the amount of a
fine paid by claimant at Ketchi
kan, Alaska, on October 9, 1929,
upon a plea of guilty to the
charge of fishing in a closed
area in violation of a Federal
statute.
It appears that Mr. Sheldon,
while lawfully fishing for salm
on, came within the limits of a
certain bight which had been
posted as a closed area. Being
detected by an agent of the Bu
reau of Fisheries, he was charg
ed with violation of the Federal
statute, pleaded guilty and was
fined $250. He asserts that he
entered a plea of guilty upon
advice of the United States at
torney that by doing so he
would be able to save his boat.
It afterwards developed that the
bight was not a spawning area
for salmon and was not closed
by reason of the act of June 6,
1924 (c. 272, 43 Stat. 464), nor of
‘any regulation or determination
by the Secretary of Commerce.
The warden of the bureau re
ports the markers purporting
to close the area “were placed
by mistake by some person or
persons unknown to me and that
no record exists showing when
or by whom they were placed.”
Mr. Bowers, of the Bureau of
Fisheries, thinks that some
minor officer or employee of the
bureau placed the markers eith
er by mistake or in excess of his
authority. Mr. Sheldon claims
that he was not aware that the
area had been posted and he
had not seen the markers unti]
after his technical arrest.
Under these circumstances 1
feel that claimant is entitled tc
the return of his fine, and 3
therefore recommend the enact
ment of the measure. ,
Respectfully,
William D. Mitchell,
Attorney General
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BAR STUDENTS
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A second bus load of easterr
college students, bent on a “so
ciological” investigation” of the
southeastern Kentucky coa
fields, was turned back at tin
' state line by Bell county au
1 thorities.
The students, a part of the
delegation of which some 4(
were met at Middlesboro anc
; escorted back into Tennessee
■ were met at the Kentucky-Ten
■ nessee line by a group of offi
■ i cials headed by Walter B. Smith
i | Bell county prosecuting attorney
> at Middlesboro, telling the stu
■ dents that they would be allow
ed to remain in Bell county onlj
t if they executed $1000 peace
' bonds to assure their peaceable
The United States Geological
Survey, Department of the In
terior, announces that a report
on field studies made in the
eastern part of the Mount Mc
Kinley National Park during the
season of 1930 by S. R. Capps
and F. H. Moffit is in course of
publication. This report will be
accompanied by geologic and
and typographic maps of the
region, including parts of the
Kantishna district.
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ENJOYABLE WESTERN
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Combining action, comedy and
suspense in just the right pro
portions, “Partners,” the Tom
Keene starring Western showing
at the Coliseum Theatre, Sat
urday, provides snappy, enjoy
able entertainment. RKO Pathe
has given the cowboy star a fast
moving, human interest story
by Donald W. Lee, a strong sup
porting cast and the expert
direction of Fred Allen. Keene’s
wonder horse, Flash, is much in
evidence in the spectular riding
shots, and nature has added its
contribution in magnificient
secenery.
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MENACING MATHEW
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t When it comes to being the
menace, there is no one who
can strike more terror to a
feminine heart than Mathew
Betz. In “The Single Sin,” the
[Tiffany picture showing at the
Coliseum Theatre for the last
, time to-night, he is the meanest,
! lowest type of human rat, for he
. blackmails a woman—not for
money, but for the sole pleasure
of torturing her and wrecking
her happiness. Kay Johnson and
Bert Lytell are featured in the
j leading roles in this A. P. Young
, story, directed by William Nigh.
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BEAUCOUPS JACK
Jack Oakie is loaded with
Jack,
In his newest comedy, “June
Moon” at the Coliseum Theatre
(on Sunday and Monday, the
fieckle-faced grinster, who has
come to be known as “America's
Joy Friend,” is seen as the
young Schenectady song-writer
who takes his life-savings of
SI,200 to the big city, where the
natives take it from him by the
flattery route.
It all comes out right at the
finish, for Jack makes $2,500
from royalties on a song he
writes—and he also gets his
girl, the one who, from the be
ginning, just knew that the
“local boy” would “make good.”
KETCHIKAN
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William L. Paul returned from
i Seattle last week. A social was
J extended him by the Ketchikan
Camps of the A. N. B. and A. N.!
S. All were glad to welcome him
home. Mr. Paul and Mr. Harry
Benolkin are interested in the
Dolomi Mines, Moira Sound hav
ing made some shipment of gold
this month.
The official dedication of the,
new Presbyterian Church took!
place last week with about 300
present. Practically the entire
Presbytery was present taking
part in the exercises.
The Presbyterian mission boat
Princeton left on the 7th of the
month to attend the Presbytery
at Hydaburg.
The new council elected is
j composed of H. P. Hanson, also
republican candidate for the
legislature, Henry Ervick and
James Burgun—all sympathetic
'to the fishermen. F. R. Mitch is
j 'the new mayor. Mrs. W. C. Dib
rell, wife of the Lighthouseman,
is member of the school board.
Joe Baines, Captain of the gas
boat Bluebird arrived in port
with a load of eulichans, a tid
bit from the Naas River. A lot of
this fish went into barrels to
prepare for a lean winter.
Trollers are getting ready for
their operations—but prices still
do not promise much for the sea- '
son. |
SWINGING AROUND
THE DIVISION
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I Thomas Jefferson Case, pio
jneer of Alaska for 50 years died
last Friday of old age. Born in
Pennsylvania he came west
when 17 years old and served a ■>
a buffalo hunter in the Montana
country. He came north to Pori
Simpson, B. C. and drifted in to
Alaska by canoe. For many years
he prospected and trapped a
round the country until he en
tered the saltery and mercantile
business in Loring. He came to
Wrangell many years ago and
has lived here ever since. He is
survived by his widow Mrs. Case,
daughter Mrs. George Hatton
and four sons, Thomas, Oscar,
Lawrence and George Case.
Mrs. Madelene Dalton of Ket -
chikan died in the Juneau Gov
ernment hospital where she
went over a month ago for
treatment.
J. D. Anstey agent at Skagway
for the Admiral Line has re
turned to his duties in the Lynn
Canal city.
The Senate Judiciary Com
mittee has reported favorably
on the nomination of Charles D.
Jones for United States Marshal
of the Second Division, Nome.
Dr. G. A. Doelker and Dr. S.
Jordan of San Francisco arrived
in Juneau recently and an
nounce their permanent loca
tion there.
Peter Kostrimetinoff was
elected mayor of Sitka without
opposition. Andrew Hope, Frank
Oja, Nick Treschield and Mark
Jacobs tied for place as third
councilmen. James Quinn run
ning next with William Walton
last. L. Peterson was elected on
the school board.
Comes the plaint from Sitka
'If we do not earn any more
money this year than we did
last year, they might as well
close up the schools for we can’t
stay in town living on wind.”
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g F. J. Baranovich 2
\ Democratic Candidate for
I TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE ^
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I aa| and Old Sock have, most appropriately, passed right
■* A. into oblivion together. So can pessimism, superstition,
spinelessness, and everything that goes with them. .
This is 1932 and it’s high time to invest your Jtnoney, bank your
money, or spend it—any way to get it into circulation so that you
and the rest of the country profit thereby, this coming fall and
winter.
Idle money, stowed away in old socks, helps no one—least bf all,
its owners. Put it into action—help promote business and bring
back prosperity!