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»*ne hundred thousand dWlbirs hus
been appropriated to the Alaska
Road Commission for use in McKin
ley Notional Park during the coming
year by the National Park Service,
according to information received at
Juneau recently by Major Malcolm
Elliott, president of the Alaska Road
Commission.
This is in addition to the War De
partment’s appropriation for the con
struction and maintenance of roads
and other road commission wok, and
will enable the Road Commission to
extend the oa dto McKinley Park con-1
siderably as well as construct certain!
necessary bridges.
Reports from the States show that;
there is great interest being shown
in McKinley National Park and that
bookings for tourists far the coming
season are ronsiderably .more than
last year, he said.
There is a similar increased inter
est 'being evinced in the Richardson.
highway trip, and operators for the j
transportation company on the .high
way report 800 reservations for thej
trip between Chitina .and Fairbanks;
this year, Major Elliott said.
The Alaska Road Commission is
preparing to keep the highway in ser
viceable condition, he said. Last year.
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about $450,000. was expended in main
taining the highway. But out of this
annum they were able to make con
siderable improvements, .which will
reduce the maintenance in the future.
Plans for the year .have not yet
been completed by the Road Commis
sion, but the amount of money re
leased by the reduced maintenance
costs of the .highway will he used in
other communities where people are
in need of transportation. facilities.
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By four to two the Fairbanks, city
council recently voted . to grant a
franchise for heat, light, water and
telephone service to the American
States Public Bervice.Company. The
franchises, which cover a period of 20
years, must:be placed before the vot
ers for ratification before they be
come effective.
On the verge of a breakdown and
nearly demented from the solitude of
the winter station, Frank Silvomen,
employed as a watchman by the
American Whaling Company at Port
Hebron, slashed his throat three
times with a razor, causing death.
This occurred on March ID, arid John
Saari of the same company made:.a
coffin, dressed the body for burial,
and then reported the affair to the
commissioner at .Kodiak.
After several years Of investiga
tion of timber and power resources in
Southeastern Alaska, plans for the
establishment of a pulp plant appear
to be taking definite form. B. F.
Heintzelman, who has been repre
senting the forest service in the ne
gotiations between the government
and the paper men, recently returned
to his Juneau headquarters from a
conference with the Zellerbach and
Cameron interests in the States, land
was followed by company engineers
who were sent to Alaska to make
.final preparations far the Juneau
plant, and it is thought that the pro
ject will soon take definite form.
A gray wolf, measuring.more than
six feet in length, was caught-.close
to the town of Healy recently bv
Kenneth V. Westedbarger, vtnd St is
reported that the animals are quite
numerous in that section df tbe. rail
belt.
W. J. Levy, of Ketchikan, whose
sentence by U. S. Commissioner J. W.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Notice is hereby given that all per
sons having claims against the estate
of Davie Grassman, deceased, to pre
sent them with proper vouchers at
tached to the undersigned nat-JBetheL
Al^sk^i
Dated at Bethel, Alaska, this ,16th
day of March, 1929.
Alexander mately,
Administrator.
First pubi„ April 6, 1929._
F. C. H. SPENCES
Successors to Northern Commerchil <30. At
Takotna, Alaska
Merchandise
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Kehoe, to serve six months in jail and
pay. a tine .of $750 for being intoxi
cated, caused considerable comment
because Of its severity, pleaded guilty
and was fined $250 by Judge E. Coke
Hill, to whom he appealed the sen
tence.
LETTER TELLS OF NEAR TRAG
EDY TO BYRD EXPEDITION
. ANN ARBOR, Mich.—A near trag
edy to Commander Byrd and the
members of his expedition a month
ago, when, Larry Gould pulled Byrd
out Of the icy water, was described
in a letter to Professor William,
Hobbs, of the University of Michigan.
Gould, who later was reported
fnissing with Bernt Balchen and .Har
old June, pilots of the expedition, for
warded the letter by radio to the
supply ship Elinor Boling and it was
mailed from Queensland. The letter
said in part: - “Just today we escaped
a near tragedy , wheni a piece of dee
barrier onto* which we. were , unload
ing broke ,off. and let • ose man into
the- icy w^jter. Our biggest task, was
rescuing the. rescuers. I personally
helped pull dut Commander.. Byrd.” '
UPWARD TARIFF REVISION
MIGHT REACT* Uv EUROPE
WASHINGTON.—Prediction 'that a
general revision of tariff .rates will
cause unfavorable .relations abroad
was made today by Senator . King of
Utah, Democrat.
Taking issue with1 the utterances ’of
Representative Tilson, Republican
House leader, in a recent 'speech,'in'
which he declare drevisionvwauld.be
restricted at the special session, King
said the Republican leader would be ■
unable to restrain' the- vociferous; ap-*1
petites of the American manufactur
ers. “They . are. demanding rates so:
high that a virtual embargo on for-,
eign products •will-result,’! .King said.
SAYS CAN PRODUCE ENGINE |
FUEL BY VIBRATING" WATER '
LONIK)N.—Water in; new..-guises,\
as;;an explosive and a cheap fuel to
run steam engines ,is described by Dr. j
Walter, von Hoben&u, Brazilian scien
tist.
By shbjecting water to electro
magnetic vibrations of -great fre
quency,' he: reports for ‘the proceed
ings of the wold’s fuel conference,che j
is able to release large volumes of hy-1
drogen and further to: extract; hydro-!
gen from the remaining oxygen.
The hydrogen. thu^ produced would
furnish, a fuel gas. Dr. von Hobenau
claims that the energy required to do
all. this is much smaller .than the en-:
ergy- which, the hydrogen would .pro
duce.
VANCOUVER CHAMP RUNS
60 YARDS IN 6 1-5 SECONDS
HAMILTON,' Ont.—Percy Williams,
Vancouver’si'double Olympic winner,
equaled the world’s indoor record for
60..yards in..an indoor meet , at the
91st! Regiment armory, covering the
distance in 6 and 1-5 seconds.
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