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NEWS ITEMS FROM OTHER ALASKAN TOWNS j
• Gathered From Our Territorial Exchanges •
PETTY THIEF CAUGHT—
Passing; up Governor Troy s suit
of clothes, but bundling op a good
armful of other suits and apparel,
Edwin Li."doff, 17-year-okl Hoonah
native youth, broke into the Alaska
I -iundry at Juneou recently. He was
&irested by Chief ti P bee Dan R«'
s’ on the nest morning. The theft
was discovered by Jim Andrews, who
f und the broktrr window through
v. hich the youth crawled, and notified
Ralston.
RUMORS SPIKED BY LABOR—
The following statement was re
ceived recently by tbe Juneau Daily
i rest, from t harles L. Crozier, secre
tary of the Central Labor Council of
j ieau, regarding rumors of strikes
and demands for" wage increases in
this'city: "Luiiding contemplated in
Juneau far iy”7. has slewed down to
almost a standstill in the last few
weeks. Opponents of organized labor
in Juneau hat e been spreading ru
mors of coming .ndus.rial strife,
which are as unfounded as they are
.., warranted. “ t canvas of the dif
ferent locals affiliated with the Cen
tral Labor Council of Juneau, shows
that those unions most directly con
e--n d by these rumors have equit
ab “ workim agreements with their
*s. ployers. It has been brought to
ti a:\entinr: rf the Central Labor
C ‘urc.V. a rumor to the effect, that
the car . -iters are contemplating a
wage increase, which it) turn is caus
ing a slowing down of present work.
Statements from Carpenters’ Local
t or- -btt no wage increases are
• consiq ration at this time.”
SEES BRIGHT FUTURE—
Pulp timber resources of South
eastern Alaska and possibilities of
tde pulp and paper industries in the
Territ ry are outlined in a pamphlet
iss.. *i by B. Frank Heirnkman, Alas
ka regional forester, which has been
b ‘Ught up to date. The book dis
t -es geography, topography, geo
1< -y, timber resources, speciec, silvi
, aral features, transportation, log
ting costs, and existing forest in
instrics. among other subjects.
Sporting cf the pulp and paper in
dustry possibilities. Heintzleman says:
"The extensive forest resources of
Southeastern Alaska will undoubtedly
os used chiefly for the manufacture
,f m wsprint paper because of un
usvaily favorable conditions there
f'r ’arge-scale operations that now
characterize that industry. Conditions
u-rpear to be less favorable for other
tranches of the pulp and paper in
dustry or for the extensive manufac
ture of lumber Studies by the For
est Service indicate that the forests
of this region, under a proper sys
tem oi managerne-T ;t a produce not
le's than 1.50v.t00 fit's of pulpwood
annually in perpetuity. in other
words, this amotim of timber can be
logged yearly and will be fully re
newed through tree growth. Convert
ad into newsprint, this represents a
production of 1,000.000 tons, or more
than one-fourth of the present yearly
lonsumprtion in the United States.
Tee policy of the Forest Service in
limiting the development of wood
using plants dependent on national
forest timber to the total capacity
that can he supplied indefinitely
through tree growth insures perman
ent industries for this region. It pre
vents that overdevelopment and sub
sequent collapse throu. h timber ex
haustion that has characterized tim
ber industries in many sections of
the United s tates, and is highly im
portant t • paper companies with
their heavy capital investments that
can be justified only by an assuredly
long operating life.”
SIX NEW HOMESTEADERS—
A miniatun* Jand. rush of home
steaders has resulted during the past
year into the area east of Anchorage,
through which the proposed route
runs to connect the airport-Fifth Av
enue road with the Painter Highway
near iVhitney. Six homesteaders have
made application for land in this
area wi.a the hope that the proposed
road will be built through to the Pal
mer Highway
Si IT IS DISMISSED—
he injunction against Ross L.
Gti li-i . State PM A engineer in-.
pevt t, in the suit of the Seward
Light uud Power Company to hold
up construction of the new' $92,000
municipal diesel electric power plant,
has been dismissed by Judge Simon
TIellentfaal in Valddz. according to a
recent announcement. The hearing
■n an order tp show cause, started
June 2fe in the federal district court
of the Third Division. The injunction
is sought not only against Grid.ey,.
but also against the City of Seward,
Secretary of interior H. L. Ickes,
Governor Troy and Mayor D. C.
Brownell of Seward. Plaintiffs are
John H. Graff, president of the firm;
Elizabeth Graff, widow of the late
founder Samuel Graff, and Elizabeth
Knight, daughter.
INTEREST IN OIL REVIVING—
Interest in the commercial oil pos
sibilities of Alaska is reviving as the
result of explorations to be underta
ken in that region, reputedly by the
Tidewater Associated Oil Company. A.
group of five oil experts, headed by
G. L*. Hanna of San Francisco, and
reported to represent that company,
has left Seattle to investigate the
Alaskan field, according to the Seat
tle Times. The Standard Oil Com
pany and the Kennecott Cooper Com
pany have already spent considei
abie time and money endeavoring to ,.
develop paying production from oil
deposits about Cordova, Alaska.
M embers of the San Francisco group
v would not be sf."
vised until after reaching Alaska
what explorations and other work
they were to undertake..
STAKE 21 OIL CLAIMS—
Oil comparable w'ith the -highest
grade Eastern oils will be spouting
from wells in the Yakataga country
near Icy Bay next summer if present
plans mature, it was revealed recent
ly in Juneau by Asa C. Baldwin, sur
vey engineer, who is well known in
Alaska for his work on the interna
tional survey in 1907-1". Baldwin, af
filiated with M. J. ‘'Mike’’ Sullivan,
who was the first man to stake an
oil claim in the Yakataga region in
1920 when the country was throun
open to settlement- is enroute to Icy
Bay to make final surveys of 21
claims for the Associated Oil Com
payn. A year from now it is expected
that the first well will be started. In
terested in the project and j^pfking
it financially, are C. H. B^J^pealthy
geologist, and Cecil B. DeMUIe, Hol
lywood film magnate, among others.
Seven different geological parties
haye investigated the claims and all
reported that the oil is of the East
r: United State? type—parafine base
Sullivan recalled that the creeks re
semb’e oil refineries in places where
the black gold has seeped through
the layers of rock and sand in the
open. A 16-mi!e long bay, where an
arm of the Guyot glacier has receded
wii! provid.. s good port for exporting
the oil, Baldwin said- He pointed out
that if Alaskan oil becomes available
in great quantities, it will be only a
short, time until the United States
government locates naval fueling sta
tions in the Territory.
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ASK RULING LIQUOR LAW—
A test suit of the.new Territoria
liquor law passed at Abe recent, ses
?ion of the legislature was forecas
f il owing a request of Outside bee
distributors for a nriing from the at
torney general of Alaska. The ship
p;rs contend the new law is discrim
natory and tends to restrain trad
n thii it provides a $500 tax fo
shipping malt and bevearges into th
Territory while the license tax fo
those handling Alaase Leer is onl;
1100,
SHEELY GIVES REASON'S—
Ross Sbeely, general manager o
Matanuska colony, whose resignatio:
was announced recently, was place
‘on the spot” by disgruntled Terri
torial legislators from the Third Di
vision, and his resignation had beei
expected for several months, it de
ve oped later. Sheely made the fol
owing statement: “I have resignei
because I feel my best interests cai
■:•? served by attending my farm
phere I new have 135 acres in crops
1 have been with the colony sine
inception and I think myptrsona
purchase of the valley’s largest pro
joeing farm is procf of my cenfi
ience in th? community’s agrienltura
future.” He will remain a member o
the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Cor
poration’s board of control and ai
■ificer of the new farmer’s co-opera
tive.
ALASKAN EDITOR DIES—
Word was received in Seattle re
:ently that Charles J. Fi-k. forme
news editor of the Alaska, Weekly
had died suddenly after an extendei
illness at Saeaton. Arizona. . Mar
than a year ago, Charley Fisk re
signed from the Alaska Weekly, am
together with his devoted wife, joor
neyed to Arizona, hoping that tfo
change in climate would prove benefi
cial to his health. For-.at. time*. im
provement was noted, but during th
past month, he haa been steadil;
sinking. He was born in Helena
Montana, February 16. 1867.' In 1-91
he came to Alaska where he was ed
itor of the Ketchikan Chronicle, as
sociate editor of the CordovaTime
and editor-manager of the Anchorag
Times. He returned to the States i:
1930 and was news editor on the AJ
ska Weekly, severing his connection
with that paper in September, 193c
when he went to Arizona for hi
health.
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CAGE WITH HUGE BEAR
NEW YORK—Seven-year-old Wil
liam Steimel almost lost an arm be
cause a strange woman employed him
’ as a “peanut retriever” at the Bronx
zoo. .
William, his five-year-old brother
] and an eight-year-old schoolmate j
. watched wide-eyed while the woman
t tossed peanut after peanut into the
r bear’s cage.
-1 The cage floor was littered with
-. nuts which the big animal apparent
-1 '.y had not seen.
; The wwiran suddenly stooped.' over
• picked up William and thrust him
toward the cage with instructions to
scoop op the nuts.
As the boy reached out. the bear
lunged. The woman tugged William
away, dropped him and fled.
William's right forearm was badly
mangled and an operation was per
formed to prevent blood poisomng.
Passer-by to small boy who is sit
ing patiently fishing: “How' many
bites ha'-e you had?”
Small boy: “Sis!” ,
Pass-r-by in surprise: six? WTiat
were they?”
Small boy. “Four gnats and two
mosquitoes!”
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