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* ALASKA INTERESTS AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
- (Continued from Pace !■}
before tWe Lions Club, declared to be
one of the most interesting talks ever
made before that organization*
Among other things Mr. Holmes said:
. “The biggest surprise the citizen
from the States would get in Alaska
is its climate. It’s plenty cold in win
ter, but the summers are hot and the
* climate is ideal for farming. If Alas
ka had a market, or .could export its
products it would rank, as one of the
- greatest agricultural lauds in the
world. Cabbage,. potatoes and all
such vegetables grow in abundance in
the land of the midnight sun and. in a.
country .where the temperature some
times gets an..low*, as 50 degrees be
low zero in.winter*. .The.growing sea
son is short, but continued daylight
makes for quick growing. Far up in
Northern Alaska the. vegetation, is
dense, and if you, were there today
you might* imagine you were in. the
tropics. Its, principal industries to
• day are salmon, pnimn gand furs, in
the order named... Alaska, expects no
great increase in population for many
years, or until tha Western United.
States is developed.”.
Another postmaster has resigned in
Alaska and is urging .his release. It
is Harry Swarburg at Hot Springs.
It. is stated that the Army generaL
staff is giving continued study to. the
reorganization.of America’s coast de
fenses, with particular reference to
Alaska’s fortifications.. It, is deemed
essential that some adequate protec
tion be established in Alaska, as that
section, with the possible exception
of the Philippines, would be the.hard
est to defend.. Plans will he , kept in/
abeyance,. however, until after the
next Geneva conference, at. which,
President Hoover hopes he will be
able to reach agreements for sweep
. ing changes in. world, armaments,.
The plans in a, generaL way. contem
plate the concentration^ of' more air
craft and antiaircraft material at vul
nerable points and entirely new
scheme of. defense, employing the
other elements of the Army and.
Navy.
The many, successful flights from,
Alaska to the Asiatic mainland have
convinced the Army board of strategy
that in the event of a war with a far
western country it could base its air
planes in Alaska and from that point
fly up and down the Pacific coasts
Plans must provide for an extensive
base in Alaska, which is now totally
defenseless, it was said. This base
would consist principally of fighting
plane, as the Territory is so vast that
antiaircraft ssrfcillery. would not be of
much value.. The;Army also plans the
massing of Xfuureiantiaircraft artillery
»nd other antiaircraft weapons at the
arger cities. .
The newspapers are now telling of
;he exceptional adventure that in-,
solves 6,000 reindeer and a handful
}f hardy Laplanders and Eskimos. It
is expected that these reindeer will be
delivered next year in good condition
to the Canadian government, .at. the
delta of the Mackenzie river, after
traveling through the Endicott moun
tains and along the Arctic ocean,
where no man has ever treked before.
The herd is now far down'the region
of the Colville river valley or beyond,
and has but a few hundred miles- to
go ere its destination is reached. The
stake is nearly $200,000, which Can
ada hae contracted to pay upon deliv- ;
ery of the herd.
Slow, as the journey is—it started
from Western Alaska in November,.:
1929-—it is in purpose a race to save j
Canadian Eskimos from starvation.:
Canada will use the herd to propa
gate a food supply which will replace
the schools of whales depleted by
years of hunting. The route covers
1,000 miles of almost unimaginably
wild country through mountains that
only flyers have traversed before, and
as the herd moves only in winter over
the frozen Arctic, speed is out of the
question. Thus far the drive has
weathered .several terrible blizzards,
without being decimated. In fact, be
cause- the herd does not move in
fawning time, hirths have far exceed
ed deaths.
It is expected that. shortly after
the middle of September Charles W..
Hawkes worth, acting chief Alaskka.
division, of the Bureau of . Indian Af
fairs, will come to Washington from
his Juneau headquarters and aid in
the preparation of. the budget for his
department.. Do.. W.. A. Borland,
health officer, at Kanakanak, who is
now im Seattle receiving medical
treatment, is also expected in Wash
ington about the same time in con
nection with' matters concerning his
official work.
An important announcement has
just been made by the Secretary of
the Interior that will have beneficial
results to the natives of Alaska. Dr.
Frank Samuelson Fellows, passed as
sistant surgeon of the U. S. Public
Health Service, has been detailed to
the office of Indian Affairs to act as
district medical director for Alaska.
His headquarters will be at Juneau,
and he will sail from Seattle shortly
after October 1 for his new location.
This then will be the first time in its
history that Alaska will have a super
visor appointed by the Federal Gov
ernment to direct the program of
health work among the natives for
the entire Territory. Although the
new appointee is but 32 years of age,,
he already has had a wide experience
m.
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^ Lost Element
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which both' creates cellular energy and removes cellular poisons.
Sir Arbuthuot Lane, the'great English physician, says "Moat
disease* are i directly , traceable to bad drainage in the body"—to
[ the accumulation of clogging waste matter or poisons at vital:
organs.
For centuries the) world-has recognized the value of health
springs, and medical officers now attribut the value of the'fam
ous springs to ths natnral radio-activity of their waters. This
radio-activity is one of azure’s ways of dissolving and elimin
ating these- health-destroying poisons and building, healthy .eells
It is mw possible for everyone, sick or well, to kaveperpeta*
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Ebright, Flat; Tom DeVane, Ruby; Oliver Anderson, McGrath;
Fred Boethlisberger, Ophir; Chris Petersen, Takotaa.
in the Public Health Service, having
served at Chicago, Norfolk, New
York, Seattle and Portland.
Much of. the time of Mr. Fellows
will be spent in traveling over the
vast Northern country by airplane,
boat and sled. Among the diseases
particularly prominent among the na
tives of Alaska are tuberculosis, tra
choma and pneumonia.. Hereditary
diseases are common,, and the white
man. has also .contributed, through his
contact, certain diseases which, were
unknown to the natives, of which
there are about.. 30^)00 Thlingets.
Aleuts, Athabascans- and. Eskimos.
They live in small villages* varying
from 30 to 40 people to 400, and ase
distributed along thousands of miles
of coastal range and along the great
rivers. In this vast territory the
Government bars six hospitals, ID phy
sicians and 34 nurses.
To the natives and white men scat
tered along thousands of miles, of the
Yukon riveri a medical boat furnishes
the only means of, securing, medical
and dental relief. During the sum
mer months of each year this boa:
cruises along the river as far as the
Yukon delta with a physician* two
rnurses and a dents: on board Theit
work includes distributing medicines,
extending first aid, giving advice con
cerning the. care and feeding of chil
dren and the care of the sick, per
forming operations, and transporting
a limited number of. patients to the
hospitals at Fairbanks and Tanana.
With taryv areas in Alaska suitable
mainly for limber production, a pres
ent utilization* of but a fraction oi
the actual and potential annual forest
growth, a. variety of species with a
large range in properties, and ar
abundance oft water power and timbei
resources fiworable to pulpwood de
velopment, increasing ceotnomie forest
development is. proposed1 for the Ter
ritory, according to the, Forest Seie
vise, U, Department of Agricul
ture.
HOOVER 51 AhlNC PLANS
. TO SPEED HOME-BUILDING
WASHINGTON.—In the hope oi
giving impetus to home-building
throughout the United States as a
means of contributing to the relief of
unemployment, President Hoover has
issued a call for a conference to be
heald at the Capital, beginning De
cember 2 and continuing until Decem
ber 5.
A thousand citizens from all parts
of the country have been invited to
attend the conference, which will deal
with the whole question of home con
struction, ownership, home environ
ment, embracing financing, design
equipment, city planning, household
management and other aspects.
In addition to setting in motion s
nationwide home building program
giving employment to many workers
and placing a. large amount of readj
money in circulation, the conference
it is hoped, also will arouse more
general interest in home ownership
TABLB OF DfSTANCES BS
TWEEN NENANA AND FJLA1
Nenatut
Tavern Roadhouse
M3ei
00
1794
2894
Knight's Roadhouse
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse_68 .
Diamond Roadhouse_76
Roosevelt__88
Lake Minohumma_116
Trappers’ Cahin_ 182
Lone Star Roadhouse..168
Telida Roadheoae ...._168%
Slow Fork Roadhouse__ 187
East Fork Roadhouse_) 208
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse — 22794
Big River Roadhouse .— 281
McGrath_
Takotna
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse_291
Gphir--800
McGafferty_806
Brown Creek shelter cabin-818
Fritz shelter cabin _ 838
First Chance shelter cabin_846
Scfaermeyer R. H...360
Iditarod_376
Flat _884
Bonanzza aheler cabin, 12
from Flat.
Crooked Creek shelter
miles from Banana*
cabin. >£
WINTER SCHEDULE OF BOATS
FROM SEATTLE TO ALASKA
Under the proposed weekly steam- <«,
er sailings from Seattle to Seward p
and way ports as outlined by the Pa- l
cific Steamship Company and the
Alaska Steamship Company, the fol
lowing schedule will be inaugurated
with the sailing of the steamship
Alaska on October 6:
SS. Alaska .Oct. 6
SS. Admiral Evans .Oct. 13
SS. Alameda.Oct. 20
SS. Alaska .Oct. 27
SS. Admiral Evans .Nov. 3
SSk. Alameda .Nov. 10
SS. Northwestern .Nov. 17
SS. Admiral Evans .Nov. 24
S& Alameda .Dec. 1
SS. Northwestern .Dec. 8
SS. Admiral Evans .Dec. 15
SS>, Alameda .Dec. 22
SS. Northwestern .Dec. 29
; SS. Admiral Evans .Jan. 5
SS. Alameda .Jan. 12
i SS. Northwestern .Jan. 19
i SSi Admiral Evans .Jan. 26
! SS. Alameda. Feb. 2
SS. Northwestern .Feb. 9
SS. Admiral Evans .Feb. 16
SS.. Alameda .Feb. 23
SS. Northwestern .Mar. 1
’ SSI |Admiral Evans .Mar. 8
SS. Alameda .Mar. 15
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Sunday School Teacher: “And
when it raided forty days and forty
nights, what happened then?”
Bright Willie: “The natives said
it was very unusual.”
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Why not?
f
Frank J. Guskey
Notary Public
Takotna, Alaska
UPSETTING OLD BELIEFS.
Ridiculing women who starve and
oil” to reduce, Dr. Augustus G.
jhlman, professor of anatomy at St.
>uis University, School of Medicine,
cently described the way the laws
supply and demand operate in the
iman body.
“The human body,” he said, “is a
immunity of cells, taking in so much
:ygen and so much food, giving oir
irbon dioxide and waste material.
“It doesn’t matter how much you
it. Only as much food will be added
i the blood as the body requires. In
her words, the demand controls the
ipply.
“For this reason it is foolish to
link that diet or exercise will make
lyone slender,” the doctor stated.
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