NORTH AIRMAIL BILL
APPROVED BY PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON — Legislation was
completed by congress recently or
Alaska bills providing for additions'
airmail service in the Territory, au
thorizing the secretary of the inter
ior “to tarn back the reindeer indus
try to the natives,” empowering Ket
chikan to issue bonds not to exceed
$250,000 to finance street, water and
sewer improvements and allot funds
directing a modification in the flood
control project in connection with
Lowell creek at Seward.
The airmail bill has been signed
by the President. It authorizes Post
master James A. Farley to provide
for “difficult or emergency air mail
service in Alaska at a total annual
cost of $25,000.
The postmaster general is also em
powered to contract for the delivery
by plane for all classes of mail to,
from or within the Territory at
varying rates ranging up to 30 cents
an ounce or 15 cents half an ounce.
The reindeer bill authorizes the
secretary of the interior to purchase
reindeer now owned by white per
sons and to arrange for the transfer
of the animals to natives. Two mil
lion dollars is appropriated to carry
th; provisions of the measure into
ffe.-t. White persons are forever
from : wring reindeer.
. Ketchikan bond bill permits
i . to issue bonds for not to
_c $250,000 for street, water
no sewer improvements provided 65
' n: of the taxpayers of the city
. c the issue. Final congres
.>nal action on the bill was ta
i.en up recently by the Senate which
the r ensure had been sent back for
approval of a minor amendment
made by the House.
The Lowell creek flood control bill
on legislation was completed
Sat. is a substitute measure for
the original bill on the subject. The
substitute bill carries an appropria
tion of $179,000.
JAPANESE KEEP AN EYE
SOVIET TROOP MOVEMENTS
TOKYO—Japan, involved in actual,
if not declared, war with China, is
apprehensive of Russia. The Japan
ese news agency Domei reported to
day that high Japanese officials “are
inclined to believe” that marshal
Vassily Bluecher. commander of Rus
sia's Far Eastern armies, who is cal
led the Red Napoleon of Russia, is
enroute to Mongolia.
The Domei news agency says that
Marshal Bluecher commands a force
of 400.000 Russians in Eastern Siber
ia. and that he may take advantage
of Japan's situation resulting from
the war with China by either settling
by force to Russia’s satisfaction, the
Amur river boundary dispute be
tween Russia and the Japanese-con
trolled kingdom of Manc-hukuo, or
by giving military aid to the Chinese
in North China.
WILD GLACIER IS
DEVELOPING NEW ANTICS
The Black Rapids glacier contin
ues moving forward gradually and
may be a: the edge of the water in
the £:g Delta River by October, re
ports Mrs. Sue Revel], of the Rapids
Roadhouse, who was in Fairbanks
recently.
“The down-stream side of the front
of the glacier seems to be moving
up faster now than the opposite
side.” said Mrs. RevelL The white
ice is more prominent farther back
on the glacier, and seems to be ris
ing gradually. At times we have
heard the glacier roar of late.
“Tourists visiting our place this
season, of whom 1&ere were many,
are largely skeptical about the
movement of the glacier. They ex
pected to see it galloping along, and
were prone not to accept as fact the
inf ore,vs'ion that it has traveled sev
eral mt!_„ downstream. Their inter
est is one of little concern as com
pare i to that manifested by Alas
kans and by scientists.”
A. H. Twitchell and C. A. Fowler
left via boat for a moose hunting
trip up the Takotna river Tuesday
morning. The two planned going up
the river for approximately 100
miles and promised to bring back the
bacon. They expect to be gone four
or five days.
HEWITTS
PHOTO SHOP
ARCH0RA6E, ALASKA
Let mm do tout Phot* Finish
inpt. M-iwv film service.
DEVELOPING - PRINTING
ENLARGING
Underwood Portables end
Roval Standard Typewriters
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WIT and HUMOR
First Boy: “Your father must be!
a mear mac—him a shoemaker and
matin' you wear them old shoes.” j
Second Boy: “He's nothin' to yoarj
father—him a dentist and your babyj
got only one tooth.”
“Well, dear,” said Mr. Blair, after
tea had been cleared away, “what are
you planning to do tonight?”
Mrs. Blair shrugged her shoulders.
“Nothing special,” she replied.
I’ll probably write a letter or two,
read, listen to the “adio, and so on.”
“I see,” he replied. “When yon
come to the so on, don’t forget my
shirt buttons.”
The absent-minded professor met
his son in school one morning and
said. “Good morning, John. How's
your father?”
The two women that had never lik
ed each other, even in the old days,
met one morning by accident, shop
ping in town.
“It must be five years since I saw
you last.” said Edith. “How much
older you look. I would hardly have
recognized you.”
“Yes,” replied Margaret, “it is a
long time. If I hadn’t remembered
your hat, I wouldn’t have known you
i either.”
! Two drunks were blabbing about
; cradle days as they leaned heavily
! against the bar.
“You know.’ said one. “when I
was born I only weighed a pound
and a half and that's a fac’.”
“You dont shay,” said the other.
Did you live?”
“Did I live!” exclaimed the first,!
“Shay, man, you ought to shee me
now!”
Doctor—I don't like to mention it,
but that check you gave me
come back.
Patient—Well, that sure is a co
incidence, Doc, so did my lumbago.
One specie of deep-sea fish has a
chir. attachment 10 times the length
of its entire body.
Skeletons of sea creatures often
are found in sections of the Hima
laya mountains.
EMPLOYED BY MILLER
Perry Warner and W. Downey are
working for E. W. Miller cutting
logs for the sawmilL
MARTYR TO X-RAY DIES
AFTER 1* YEARS SUFFERING
LOS ANGELES—Hie bcmor roll of
science now lists the name rf Thom- 1
as B. Rifer, 52, electrical engineer, a
martyr to the X-Ray. He died after
10 years of suffering and £40 oper
ations.
Although he knew he was slowly
■'turning to death,” he continued his
laboratory research ur.ti he was
helpless.
Death came when the malignant
burns finally reached his brain. He
suffered the burns 10 years ago, be--,
fore the exposure to the rays was
fully known.
COURT FIGHT STILL
DIVIDES THE DEMOCRATS
WASHINGTON — Among Demo
cratic senators who opposed tie
Rooseve.t Administration's court re
form program, a quiet movement has
started to depose Senator Joseph F.
Guffey, Democrat of Pennsylvania,
from his position as chairman of the
Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee because of his demand for
the defeat of those senators who
fought the Chief Executive’s judi
ciary plans. Although those involv
ed in the movement were not ready
today, they said they would insist on
Senator Guffey’s removal from the
committee's chairmanship.
Senator Guffey issued a statement
in which he called specifically for the
defeat of Senator Edward R. Burke.
Democrat of Nebraska; Senator Jo
seph C. O'Mahoney, Democrat of I
Wyoming, and .Senator -Burton 1L
Wheeler of Montana.
Senator Wheeler said that Sena
tor Guffey did not write the state- j
ment and that he was afraid to de-1
liver it as a speech in the Senate 1
because he knew he would have to
yield to questions that would embar
rass him.
MRS. MATHIESUN ARRIVES
Mrs. A. Mathiesan and her nine
jrear-old son arrived last evening
from Flat on a Wien Airways plane.
Mr. Mathieson, who E said to be in
terested with Pat Savage in mining,
affairs, is already here, having beet
working with Mr. Savage in operat
ing the old PmtiHa dredge on Ganrs
treek. Mrs. Mathiesan is seeking a
bouse to rent in town.
EXROUTE TO GOODNEWS—
Dave Strandberg passed through
rakotra today by plane enroute to
bis property at Qoodnaws Ray.
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