OUR INTERESTS AT
THE NATION’S CAPITAL
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that the plans will include provisions
for jails, although some of. the Ket
chikan people think otherwise. Selec
ton of at. least, some of the towns
where buildings are to be constructed
are expected, to be announced any, day
now.
It is altogether probable that. the
Delegate to. ongress. from Alaska to
be elected on November 8, as well as
all congressmen, will only, serve 22
months of the term of two years for
which they will be elected. What is
known as the “lame duck” amend
ment to the Constitution provides
that congressmen shall take office on
January 3, following their, election.
To make this amendment effective 36
States must, through their legisla
tures,. ratify the. amendment. The
other day Texas recorded favorable
action, mkaing 17 States, and as
many State legislatures meet in. Jan
uary next it is now expected that
there will ba sufficient ratifications to
make th eamendment effective in
1933, so that the members eletced
this year and who take office March
4,. 1933, would retire January 3„ 1935.
'It is reported that there has been
a .drop, in the number of visitors, this
year to the McKinley National Park.
Statistics for July in all the national
parks show a decrease in attendance
of .over 10 per cent. Five of the parks
show an increase in registration, but
other parks sho wa loss for the past
year of a shigh as 41 ■ per cent. Mt.
Rainier, in Washington State and
closest to Alaska, had a. drop of 36
per cent-.
Henry O’Malley, Commissioner of
Fiisheries, who spent the summer in
Alaska, returned to, Washington a
few days ago .after an officitl visit to
Washington, Oregon and California,
tou which section he will return for a
short visit in November. Commis
sioner O’Malley expresses great de
light at th eexceedingly gratifying
catch of nearly 4,50(1,000 cases of
salmon in Alaska during the past
season, particularly when a number
ofi the. canneries were dosed down.
The pack of first-grade red salmon
was exceptionally large, with the re
sult that the tax to be turned into
the Territorial- treasury will relieve
what was feared would be a distress
ing situation when the legislature
meets to make appropriations, next
March..
The various departments of the
Federal. Government have submitted
to the Bureau of. the Budget their
estimates of expenditures for the
period from July 1, 1,33, to’ June 30,
1934. This year the Bureau elimin
ated*. submission of preliminary esti
mates and called upon the depart
ments tor : submit final estimates.
Those are no wall in but are not re
vealed or discussed publicly by the
Bureau. Cbnferences have started
and will.*continue between the Bu
reau and departmental budgetary of
ficers each morning until the budget
is ready to go before the December
session of Ghngress. Alaska is vital
ly interested t in the final conclusions
that may be reached by the Budget
and’ the final action in appropriations
hy the House and Senate. It may be
stated now that most of the depart
ment heads are agreed that the al
lowances for the next year will not
exceed those of the present year.
The Department of the Interior is
now appearing before the Budget in
justification of the appropriations
asked for. Many of these items con
cern Alaska, as may be understood
j from the appropriations passed at the
last session of Congress as follows-.
For the education of native sin Alas
ka. $650,000; for the Alaska Road
Commission, $494,000; Indian med
ical relief, $281,800; investigation of
i mineral resources in Alaska, $60,000;
Alaska Railroad, $450,000, in addition
to all amounts received hy the rail
road during the fiscal year 1933; in
sane of Alaska, $156,000; support of
reindeer stations, $34,300; offices of
Governor and Secretary of Territory,
$33,100; liquo traffic among natives,
$12;000; legislative expenses, $46,000;
etc.
Chairman Franklin W. Fort, of the
Home Loan Bank Board, is kept busy
these days in the effort to get the 12
regional banks n operation by Oct.
15. Each institution will habe 11 di
rectors, to serve until January 1, af
j ter which nine directors will be elect
ed by member institutions. Alaska is
i nth eeleventh district , that em
braces Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and Alas
ka. Their bank will be located at
Portland, with a capita lof $6,000,000.
I -
Representative John McGuffie, of
. Alabama, has been unanimously en
dorsed by the Legislature of his
State for Speaker of the House of
Representative sin thte event of the
electio nof Speaker John N. Garner
as Vice President. Mr. McDuffie is
: personally a fine gentleman, Demo
cratic whip in the House and chair
ma nof the economy committee. But
his elevation to the speakership, with
] its corresponding power and inuence,
would spell further disaster to Alas
ka. It. will be remembered that when
Delegate Wickersham moved to in
crease th eappropriation for the Alas
ka Road Commission from $354,000
to $6gO,0OO Mr. McDuffie secured the
defeat of the motion and then sought
to eliminate the appropriation en
tirey,. declaring that it was ridiculous
to appropriate all that money for
road sin Alaska when there were only
a few thousand white people to util
ize them. And his effort was only
defeated by six votes.
Capt. H. N. Goss, U. S. N., . and
note dauthority on naval affairs and
international sea power,, has written
an intereating article for the Haarst
newspapers urging the construction
of a nava L base on the Aleuttdan
Islands, Alaska. He declares it is
vital to the United States in defense
of the Pacific ocean. Captain Goss
explains how Japan, sweeping north
easterly across the Pacific, could rav
age our northwest coast with sea
planes, because of our failure to es
tablish a naval base on these islands,
the strategic point for forestalling
such attacks. He adds that “The re
strictive clauses of the Washington
Treaty which prohibit, our establish
ing a naval base on one of .our own
harbors in the Aleutian Islands! (at a
FIRE INSURANCE
j YoiTEhculd carry a liberal amount of fire insurance
*or the sake of your credit and your peace of .mind,.,
j Needless to say this insurance should be of tha.very
•• highest quality.
a That’ll the XU Written Bp
Alaska Insurance Agency
i FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
N Inqrire of Ktuko TUnee.
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cost of less than a modern cruiser)
are not required by that treaty to re
main oinger in force than the end of
1936."
The Comptroller General has been
called upon, quite frequently during
the past fe wweeks to render an offi- I
cia linterpretation of some of the
“economy” act provisions. The ques- j
tion of whether Congress intended to
take money from the funds for road j
construction in Alaska, which are de- !
posited with the Treasury? and trans-,
fer them to the Treasuy in cases j
where savings are* made, was pro
pounded to the. Comptroller General
by the Secretary of the Interior. It
was contended that th* eimpounding
of portions of these road funds would ;
have th eeffect of imposing double
taxation upon the people of Alaska.
After citing conditions., under which
the money originally was appropri-!
ated, the Comptroller eneral makes
the following statement in Ms reply;
“Accordingly, it would appear that
employes engaged upon Alaska road
work for which appropriations are,
made by the _ Congress are in fact,
paid from the Federal Treasury, and
the fact that contributions in aid of
such work are authorized to be re
ceived from outside sources does not
exempt such employes, nor the appro
priation, from the provisions of the '■
economy act and all reductions in
compensation required to be impound
ed by thht act mus the deposited in
the general fund of the Treasury and |
may not be returned to the appropri
aton.”
KOBUK MARY.
Dark the day—the sky was dim,
Raggd jth ewaters of old Kuskokwim;
From .over .the river came a shout,
"I’m coming across, everybody look
out”
In just ten .minutes, not any more,
The Tana anchored at the N. C. store, \
Important as hell to keep this date—
Cap Greenes dance was to, start at 8..
Thfe dance isson, .the music grand,
When Cap shoute “Silence” with a
shar pcommand,,
“Ladies and gentlemen,, wih. all kind,
regards,
Won’t,you please ..njune my,fine new
barge?”
The "Kuskokwim’’ was r offered' . and;
then the “Dove,”'
Thfe “Fox,” the “Lynx”—-one suggest
ed “True Lovei”
One little girl suggested, “Name, i
“Hall-Full;”
The Judge said, .“GhU i The Bull”
Oliver Anderson jiow-.tqok the floor,
Said, “Boys and: girls, you make me
sore;.:;
This here barge floats like a if airy—
I hereby christen her ‘Kobuk Mary.’. ’
Leading the Leaddr Back*.
Grover < Whaler, former official
“greeter” of New York, was talking
to a New York reporter about Russia,
f “Russa thinks she is going to lead
;the world,” he said. “Well, Russia
in the end will fare like the man in
the anecdote.
“ ‘My wife,' this man said, ‘told me
to lead the old cat off somewhere and
lose it. So I put the cat in a basket
and tramped out into the country
about eight miles.’
“ ‘Well,’ said another man, ‘did you
lose the cat?’
“‘Lose it?’ said the'first man. ‘If
I hadn’t followed it I’d never have
found my way back home.’ ”
ORDER AND NOTICE OF GEN
ERAL ELECTION
To Be Held On
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1932.
In the Commissioner’s Court at Mc
Grah, Fourth Division, Territory
of Alaokn
I, W. T. andcrp-iol, Unied States
Commissioner in and for the Mount
McKinley Recording District, Fourth
Division, Territory of Alaska, pur
suant to an Act of Congress, ap
proved May 7th,’ 1906, entitled “An
Act Providing for the Eection of a
Deegate to the House of Representa
tives from the Territory of Aaska,”
and an Act of Congress approved
August 24th, 1912, entitled “An Act
to Create a Legislative Assembly in
the Territory of Alaska, to confer
legislative powers thereon, and for
other purposes,” do hereby divide the
above-named Recording and Election
District into three voting precincts,
whirh shall be known as follows:
1. That sai(T McGrath voting pre
cinct is bounded as follows: From
Swift River to Big River and tribu
taries, except Takotna river.
And I hereby specify that certain
building known as U. S. Commis
sioner’s Office, situate at McGrath, in
said McGrath voting precinct, as the
polling place for said voting precinct.
2. That said Takotna voting pre
cinct is bounded as follows: From
the head of Moore Creek, or the Ta
kotna river, and all of its tributaries
except Nixon river.
And I hereby specify that certain
building known as Pioneer Hall, situ
ate at Takotna, in said Takotna vot
ing precinct, as the polling place for
said voting precinct.
3. That said Nixon voting precinct
is bounded as follows: From Big
River to the head of Kuskokwim
River and all its tributaries.
And I hereby specify that certain
building known as Mespelt’s Mess
House, situate at Nixon Mine, in said
Nixon voting precinct, as the polling
place for said voting precinct.
Notice is hereby given that on the
8th day of November, A. D. 1932, an
election will be held for the purpose
of electing
A Delegate to Congress;
An Attorney General for the Ter
ritory of Alaska;
An Auditor for the Territory of
Alaska;
A Commissioner of Education, for
the Territory of Alaska;
A Highway Engineer for the Ter
ritory of Alaska;
One Member of the Senate of the
Territory of Alaska (Ion gterm);
Oue Member of the Senate of the
Territory of Alaska (short term,.;
Four Members of the House of
Representatives of the Teritory of
Alaska;
Two Road Commissioners for Road
District No. .
The said election will be in the
voting precinct^ above mentioned and
at the polling places hereinabove
specified. The said polling places
will be open between the hours of 8
o’clock a. m. and 7 o’clock p. m. of
said day.
Dated at McGrath this 5th day of
Octher, 1932.
W. T. VANDERPOOL,
U. S. Commissioner for the
Territory of Alaska, Mt.
McKinley Recording Dis
arict, residing at. McGrath.
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“Oh, mummy, that nan’s bald”
“Hush, dear, r he will hear you!”
“But he knows already, doesn’t
he?”—Torono Globe.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
Notice is hereby given to F. W.
Carter, A. B. Ferguson, George C.
Friend, and E. Coke Hill, and their
heirs and assigns, that their portions
of the assessment work for the years
1924 to 1931, inclusive, done on the
Bonanza Association placer mining
claim, situated on Flat creek, tribu
tary of Otter creek, in the Otter Re
cording Precinct, Fourth Division,
Territory of Alaska, must he paid
within ninety (90) days from date
hereof, or forfeit all right and title
to said placer mining clarim.
PATRICK SAVAGE.
Dated Flat, Alaska, Jan. 16, 1932.
First publication, March 5, 1932.
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