OUR INTERESTS AT
THE. NATION’S- CAPITAL
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to *ha-Senate iOid.be was confirmed
on June. 23. The. nomination of Mar
shal Charles .D. Jones had been, held
up for some, time, but he was finally
confirmed for another term on April
28,. 11)32.. The ne. wappointment of
LeRoy ill. Sullivan as District Attor
ney was confirmed on Jan. 11, 1332.
The Judges.in the.Third and Fourth
div.i .ons were transferred and they
ass.i mod their new duties on July 1,
1932. As a-result. Judge Chcil. H.
C e*.., was nominated for the Third,
Oi . aldez, division, and was confirmed
on June J.O. District Attorney W. N.
Cuddy's first term will expire on June
19, 1933.. The. term. of. Marshal Har
vey feu. Li van expired on Feb. 14, 1930.
but h. .continues to serve as no other
confirmation has yet been made.
In the Fourth, or Fairbanks, divi
sion. Judge E. Coke Hill’s transfer
nomination and. confirmation occurred
in May,. 1932.... The term of District
Attorney Julien.A. Hurley will expire
on January .28, 1933. The term of
Marshal Lynn Smith, will not expire
until Jan- 9, 195.
The .House, committee on appro
prjatons will in a few days start the
Consideration of the budget estimates
for the. various supply bills of the
Government, The Interior Depart
ment bill, in., which. Alaskans have
particular- interest, will be considered
start,ng Nov. 16. In vie wof the gen
eral demand for economy it is under
stood that the allowance made for
this department,is fairly satisfactory.
Hdwaver, jus what the various sums
are will not be made known to the
public until the budget is presented to
Congress..-hy the President. Until
that time the various commitee hear
ings will he of a secre nature. The
Interior Department has summoned
to. Washington, and they will appear
here on November 15, Governor Geo.
A. Parks, head of the Alaska Road,.
Ike P- Taylor, chief engineer of the
Commission, Burton H. Barndollar,
examiner of accounts of the railroad;
Charles EL Nagel, disbursing officer of
the road and other activities in Alas
ka of the Interior Department; Geo.'
O-JMckens, general agent of the rail
road at Chicago; Paul W. Gordon, di
rector for education for Alaska; Dr.
Fellows, medical, director for Alaska.
The Governor will likely be the first
to. appear before .the committee,, and
is expected to stress he importance
of .a more liberal appropriation than
the $494,000 allowed for the present
year to. the. Alaska Road Commission.
The new Democratic administrations
through the Interior Department, will
hove control of the Alaska Road Com
mission after March 4* and it is ex
Psited that their. Democratic appro
priations. committee will deal more
gpfterously with. Alaska's roads than
the House committee last spring
. but ,$$354,000 was allowed for
the Commission, that was raised
$1^P,000 by, the Senate committee.
Hdwarrf W. Alien was recently ap
b pointed by the State Department to.
■ueceed Miller Freeman, of Seattle,
reajgned, as one.of the two American
' members of the .International Fisher
, sion of the.AInited States and Canada.
The other American member is Henry
O’Malley, Cdfcmissioner of Fisheries
j Mr. Allen is ana of the promiirant fig
ures in the Northwest, having cecent
i ty served as president of the Wash
ington State Bar Association, and. at
present the active chairman of Alas*
’ kau affairs in the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce. He has given earnest
■; studies to the Northern, fisheries ques
tion and will prove a. valued aolleague
of Commissioner O’Malley. The Ca
nadian members of the Commission
are .1. P. Babcock, chairman, of Vic-!
, toria, and W. M. Found,, of. Ottawa
The Commission, is provided for by
article ill of the convention between
. the. United States and. the’ Dominium
. o Cannada for the preservation, of
the halibut fishery of the. North Pa«
. cifie Ocean and the Bering Sea. Since
its constitution the Commission has
made excellent progress in prevent
ing the exhaustion, of the halibut, sup
ply in the North Pacific and the Ber
ing Sea.
Postmaster William Arthurs,, of
Nome, has wired the Department his
resignation because of his intended
removal to Fairhanks, where he is in>
terested in an airplane company..
Mrs. Nellie Berry,, recently reap
pointed postmistress at. Haines, is in.
some financial difficulty with the De
partment, and. Vera A. Midkiiff. has
j been installed as acting postmaster.
The Interio rDepartment has set
! aside quarters in its main building to
, lie known as “Governors’ Room.” H.
is being artistically furnished and
1 will be available for the> convenience
of the governors of Alaska and Ha
waii, and the resident commissioners
! from the Philippine Islands and.
j Puerto Rico, whent any of them come
i to Washington.
The Federal Radio am mission;. act
j ing under the Economy Act. and the
| President’s executive order providing
; for the transfer to the Federal Radio
, Commission of the Radio) Division of j
: the Department of Commerce, the
j Commission has adopted’ a plan for.
the reorganization of its field force
which will effect a. saving-of. approxi
mately $75,000 per annum, and reduce
the personnel by S3". The United
States, has been divided into 20 dis
tricts, and Alaska'is ihcliideduh the
Radio district No. 14, with headquar
ters at Seattle, where' Stacey W.
Lovejoy wil lbe- the inspector in
charge, with three inspectors and two
1 clerks. This district wifi, also include
the State of Washington and certain
counties in the States of. Idaho and
Monntana.
It may be interesting, to Alaskan
aspirasts to postmasterships, to know
that when there is-a-change of admin
istration it is customary allow a
postmaster to- serve, the term for
whic hhe was appointed.. The post
| masters of the first,, second-land third
cldss are-appointed’ by the President
and confirmed by- the Senate. The
l salaries in the first class are $2;2DO
and over, in the second; elans $2,400.
1 to $3,000, and in the third from; $1,000
to $2^00. Ih Alaska the second' and
third class offices, with salaries paid;
are as follows: Juneau, $2,800; Ket
chikan, $2,800r Anchorage, $25500;.
Fairbanks, $2,500; Cordova, $2,400;
Seward, $2^200; Nome,. $,008?- Peters
burg, $2,000; Wrangell,.$1,900;, Sitka,
$1,800; Fort Yukon; $11800; Valdez,
$1,300; Nenana,. $11,300;; Bethel, $l,r
300; Haines, $0,100;: Hyder,"}.$1,100
The fourth class, postmasters, and
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JWGRATH.. ALASK A.
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A' NEEDLE TO AN AJfKHtlKJIi
a Few Missing Links.
Obmwand Leofc Things Over..
TmUDERPOOL
PROP.
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there are a number of. them in Alaska,
are appointed! by the Postmaster Gen-..
eral and are changed at will.
The Agricultural Department, re
ports that for the last fiscal year the
amount paid to. the Territory of Alas
ka from revenues received from the i
21,344,282 acres of forest, area has!
been *10,505.30, of which $8,0.48.90
was from the Tongas and $2,456.40 i
from the Chugach reserves
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FACTS ABOUT THERMOMETER
LEFT ON MOUNT MJeKINLEY
BY ARCHEDEACON STUCK
)By D. E. Stubbs, C,. EL, McKinley
Park, Alaska,). *,
Since the Lindley expedition,-^ few
month sago, brought back the mini-,
muh registering thermometer left on
Mt. McKinley in June, 1913, by the
Stuck expedition, concerning which
reports were published, at the time,
that a reading of fro mi 106 to 115 de-j
grees below zero were shown,, many,
writers having a knowledge of Alas
kan winters have severely critcised
the accuracy of the reported readings*
Since there is nothing to indicate
that temperatures as low as a hun
dred or more below zero have ever
occurred in Alaska or anywhere near
approaching such lows, the following
facts are submitted in the interest of
historical accuracy.
When the Stuck expedition partial
ly climbed Mt. McKinley,, in 1913, a
minimum registering thermometer
was left at an unknown elevation, in a
pile of stones.
This instrument was., known as a
portable type, serial No... 11581, the
number indicating it was . manufac
tured in June J.908. This type was
probably suggested by Lieut. R. E.
Peary, wha took twelve of them on a
polar trip. Archdeacon Stuck bought
two. gave one in. 1912 to a man at
McGrath, on the Kuskakuum river.
The other is the one lie left .on Mi.
McKinley. The writer owned one. .
After seasoning and boring the.
tube receives a charge of uncolored
alcohol (not metallic mercury, as
ly reported when first brought in), AJ
small amount, of .air . below . strato
sphere pressure is admitted. Tube is
marked at two points.. generally
freezing and boiling points, Fahren
heit, and as near to a reading, of- 30.
barometer as possible. Other marks
are sometimes added, spaced at. equal j
distances, assuming the bore of,tube,
to be uniform throughout its length.
This tube is then attached to a
metal plate (and. extending below it)
which has previously been stamped,
with marks and figures aboye and
below zero, marks on the tube co-.j
inciding as near as may be with
marks on the metal scale.
In this particular instrument the]
tube, not having been firmly an-j
chored, had slid down on the scale,;
reading being inaccurate by that,
amount.
Before sealing tube a colored glass
index is inserted in the hore. The in
dex is round at top and flat at bottom'
and a rather loose fit in bore. This
type requires being placed horizontal- •
ly to insure index leaving a record■
(and differs from most minimum!
thermometers that require setting on:
an incline), and when set level will;
usually carry down the index when
alcohol contracts, leaving index at
lowest reading when it again expands.
Both reports by the Lindley party
and marks on the case indicate this
thermometer had been wrongly set at
an incline of about 2.5 degrees. So
set, earth tremors and high wind vi
brations would cause the index to
creep down into bulb, where it was
found, and leaving no minimum rec
ord at all.
Reported readings of from 106 to
115 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit,
would indicate the index reached a
point away below the scale and below
tiie tube and bulb. They were merely
imaginary and had no basis of fact
whatsoever. While the metal plats on
which tube is mounted is stamped to
read P0 degrees belo wzero, no value'
iiUAchita tt oiiny such .figure, and is
stamped there for rtKe same reason
makers of. so-called! weather glasses
place Such words as “rain,’’ “change,”
“fair,” eta...on the dial, .the soie rea
son being to.make the purchaser think
he is. buying; a .weather, glass..
This type of portable thermometer
is mounted, in-. a. shallow yellow pine
box with hinged, lid secured by, hook..
Where the case had not been protect,
„-d by stones, the wind.and snow par
ticles,, traveling at high velocity, had
worn away a. good deal, of the wood
of. thaw—
One interesting;, fast, war noted by
the. faded’.appearance .of part of some
of the words written.,on a. visiting
'"card inside the case, which . indicated
that at times the temperature, had
'risen considerably above the melting
I point, since water had run into the
case and across the writing, wash
;ing away parts of words. Where
1 water had not reached it the writing
was a good black, color..
[ Archdeacon Stuck hadi written', on
one of his engraved cards, and left
in the thermometer case, this mes
sage:
“Left 7 June, 1913. Please
read carefully & return to
ARCHDEACON STUCK
281—4th Ave., N. Y. City."
Clean Film...
Lady Drummond-Hay, the famous
air traveler* said on a. visit to New
York:
“Perhaps the best memory of air
travels, is..- a., dinner that Marion
Dawes gave me. one. nig^t.. I - had
Charlie Chaplin ,on> myjjiglit. Piiugfas
Fairbanks on my..left, and Mary .Pick
ford opposite aenissi: th& table..
“Somboedy—Charlie Chaplin, I
think—told a.stooty abbut. morals in.
Boston.: A Bosto* woman went into
; the lobby of a film .theater and said: .
I “ ‘I know this* film ; ' popular, Jbut
is it pure ? Ck'n you „u;*ca*itee that
it is pqrfectlyppure and clean!’
“‘Indeed djean, madam,’ said the
■ box office man. ‘The hero is a whte
: hope,, the heroine works in a laundry.
her. mother is m washwoman, and the
vWillaio is managH: of a Turkish bath
establishment.’ ””
Stniice- With: a Smile.
Jones had liver trouble, and was
advisedto laugh befor eeach meal.
Eating in a restaurant one day, he
broke out into the prescribed laugh.
“What are you laughing for?” an
other customer asked.
“Fm laughing for my liver,” Jones
replied.
“H’m.” murmured the stranger. “I
suppose l could try that, too. 1 or
dered mine 20 minutes ago.”-—-An
swers (London).
There are approximately 28,104,000
students registered in the public, pri
vate and paochial schools of the
United States.
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