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THINKS HOOVER WILL HAVE
PLENTY OF WORK TO DO
(Anchorage Times.)
There is a lot of work piled up for
the new President of the United
States, in the opinion of Dr. J. H.
Romig, Fairbanks member of the
Alaska -Rai.road sugical staff, who
returned to Alaska on the last boat
from an extended trip through fthe
States. , There has been too much in
flation .of prices in recent years for
the economic health of the country,
the Doctor thinks, and it is going to J
. require, astute handling to restore
.. conditions to an even keel without
1 precipitating serious disturbance of
i the .nation’s industrial and business
; affairs generally.
Prices are too high, rentts are too
J highland property is held at fictitious
values. Labor is so costly in some
i branches of industry and interest
rates so excessive that it is being
. found..increasingly difficult to finance
new building projects, and everywhere
skilled labor has steady employment
the cost of living is such that it is
not.an easy matter to make both ends
meet.
Chain-stores and big national sup
ply houses, which have ample capital
to buy stocks in great quantity, have
- brought about a lowering of prices in
many localities, Dr. Romig learned,
but while helping the wage earner in
one . way, the advent of the chain
st. re, with its centralized manage
ment, has brought new and grave
problems to thousands of communi
ties which have been built up by the
v earnings of their local enterprises.
Independent merchants in large and
. small cities are finding it inereasing
. ly difficult to survive the new chain
store competition, and thoughtful
pe. pie are wondering what will be
the..result when these independents
ultimately are forced from the field,
. as many of them already have been.
There must be a readjustment of
costs ail along the line, i nthe opinion
of. Dr. Romig, to put the country on
. a sol.d footing, where it can sell more
of its products in foreign markets
and.check the inward How of foreign
products. Dr. Romig was surprised to
learn. that tomatoes grown in Italy
. are..being shipped into the United
States and sold at lower prices than 1
American grown tomatoes.
The big trouble with American
farming.. Dr. Romig learned in his ]
trip threugh the country, is that many
of the..farmers bought heir land when i
prices were abnormally high, appar- j
«. eiptly laboring under the delusion ;
that farm products would continue.
indefinitely to command war-time j
i prices. They are finding now that it
is not easy to make their highest
priced land pay dividends and there
are no buyers in the market to re
lieve them of their war-time pur-'
chases. The situation is doubly diffi
cult fcr those who obtained assistance
from the br f":s to buy their land. The
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Diamond
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Roadhouse
Takotna, Alaska
i Dick Rhodes (Diamond Dick) !
may now be found in hi:! new
quarters
Former McLean Roadhouse, j
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where he will be pleased to !
| meet- all old friends and to
set 2i>;quainted with new ones
eiti'.bd Doy Kennels
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banks were liberal t oa fault when
there was bis demand for agricul
tural products, but they want their
money now, and it is not possible
under present conditions to farm suc
cessfully under such a handicap. The
farmer who owned his land before the
war, however, or who has sufficient
money to buy land at the fictitious
value and equip it with proper ma
[ chinery without borrowing fr- m the
! banks, is a lot better off than hie
‘city neighbor, for ne can in. ±eu«c
; grow much of what he needs to sus
tain him and has a home which he can
call his own. He may fail onp year
to make his farming yield a profit,
but the succeeding year_ may bring
h.m bountiful crops and high prices
| for all he has to sell. Farmers who
' own their own land, understand
! farming and are thrifty are much
! better off than some rm mbers of
| Congress would have the people be
i iieve.
| ,'vFN APPENDDIX TAKEN
OUT BY CAI I FORMAN
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LOS ANGELES.—-It wasn’t the old
adage that to have a job well done is
to do it yourself, that caused Dr.
Robert Meals to rdmove his own, ap
pendix.
RFrom his bed in a hospital here
today the surgeon the declared the
operation was an experiment to verify
his previous conclusion that’the shock
^ patients suffer in operation was
laryely due to anaesthesia rather
than to the operation itself.
The operation was perfoi tried three
days ago, and today Meals said: “1
| feel well enough to get up and walk.
If it were safe to do so I could get
up now instead of waiting the neces
sary ten days.”
Meals took his place on the operat
ing table with only one nurse, in
ternes and Dr. Nichols present. His
back and head were propped up and
the surgeon’s gown slipped over his
shoulders. He wore the usual rubber
gloves, and with his own hands pro
ceeded exactly as though he were op
[ crating on an unconscious patient.
Dr. Nichols’ part in the operation took
half an hour. Throughout the entire
| operation the surgeon carried on a
| joking conversation. Local anaesthe
sia was applied, but Meals was under
| considerable pain because of the im
i possibility of anaesthesing the inner
' rgans.
! PAUL DEFEATED IN FIRST DI
VISION ON FAC E OF RETURNS
JUNEAU, Nov. 10.—'The Paul
j 'cket, with the exception of McCor
mack, was defeated in the balloting:
' for members of the Legislature, on
• he basis of returns received, which
I are nearly complete. Walker, Demo
j :rat, is elected to the Senate, and
Ziegler, Winn and Shattutk, Demo
■rats, and McCormack, Republican,
elected to the lower house.
The vote as received shows:
Delegate to Congress—Sutherland
261)1, Grigsby 2266.
Attorney General—Rustgard 3114,
! Truitt 1626.
! Senator—Walker 2523, Benjamin
| 2361.
Representatives—Shattuek . 2645,
I Ziegler 2640, Winn 2484, McCounack
2446, Anderson 2288, Ream 2152,
I Paul 2093, Olts 2047.
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74 LAWYERS NAMED IN NEW
YORK “CHASING”'PROBE
j NEW Y'ORK.—Disciplinary action
j against 74 attorneys is recommended
| in the report of the ambulance ehas
! ing investigation before Supreme
! Court Justice Wasservogel.
Isidor J. Kresel, chief counsel in
' the investigation, told this to the .jus
tices of the appellate division of the
! Supreme Court today in "presenting
the report to them.
The investigation, Kresel said, dis
closed a well organized group of “am
bulance” attorneys whet have in their
employ solicitors • whcf’foHow up'the
injured and obtain retainers from
them. These solicitors generally re
ceive salaries, he .said; and in many
instances have an actual interest in
the sum recovered for the claim. This,
he pointed out, is in direct violation
of the penal lawts.
One Calls for Two .
Governor Trumbull of Connecticut,
was discussing the New York sewer
scandal at a luncheon in Hartford.
“One cabs for two,” he said, “when j
you begin to break the law. It’s like
the boys and the milk.
“Two Hertford boys were carrying
home a pitcher of milk.
“ ‘Oh, gosh,’ said the younger one
as he wiped his mouth with the hack
of his hand, ‘we’ve drunk too much of
it. What’ll we do?’
“‘Do?’ said the older boy. ‘Why,
there’s only one thing to do now, of
course. We’ll bust the pitcher.’ ”
Changes.
Mrs. W. G. Spencer, vice president
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, said at a Winston-Salem
-dinner party:
“Companionate marriages and
Freudian bo'.ks and plays are chang
ing our morals. They are even
changing the meaning of words.
“A beautiful girl applied oilr a 30b
in the movies. The man said to her:
“‘Unmarried?’
“‘Yes,’ said ..the girl. ‘Seven
times.’ ”
Exact Time.
A tourist passing through a country
village found that his watch had
stopped. Seeing a little boy standing
outside of the village, shop, ho went
up to him and said.
“Can you tell me the time sonny?"
“Just 12 o’clock,” was the reply.
“Only 12,” said the tourist. “I
thought it was later than'that.”
“It’s never more in these parts,
sir,” answered the boy. “It goes up j
to 12 o’clock and then commences!
again at 1
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TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NEN AN A AND FLAT
Miles j
Nenana. 00
Tavern Roadhouse .... 17%,
Knight’s Roadhouse . 11%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse . 5b
Diamond Roadhouse. 76
Roosevelt. 80
Lake Minchumina . 116 j
| Trappers’ Cabin .. 132
Lone Star Roadhouse .' 150
Telida Roadhouse.160%
1 Slow Fork Roadhouse . 187
East Fork Roadhouse .) 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse .. 227%
Big River Roadhouse.241
! McGrath . . 263
, Takotna ..280
! Bill Goss’ Roadhouse .201
i Ophir. 300
| Mc.Cafferty . 306
! Brown Creek shelter cabin . 318
j Fritz shelter cabin . 333
I First Chance shelter cabin . 346
Schermeyer R. H. 360
i Iditarod.376
| Flat . 384
j Bonanzza sheier "cabin, 12 miles
from Flat.
I Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 10
miles from Bonanza.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
All persons having claims against!
the estate of Edgar Ryder, de
ceased, are hereby required to pre
sent the same, under oath, to the un
dersigned, administrator of the said
estate, at his residence, at Flat,
Alaska, or at the office of the Probate
Judge at Flat, Alaska, on or before
May 31, 1029.
Dated, Flat, Alaska. October 15,
1928.
HARRY DONNELLEY,
Administrator of the estate of
Edgar Ryder, deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS,
All persons having claims against
the estate of Carl Alfred Johnson, de
ceased, are hereby required to pre
sent the same, under oath, to the un
dersigned, administrator of the said '
estate, at his residence at Flat,
Alaska, or at the office of the Probate
Judge at F’at, Alaska, on or before
May 31, 1929. j'
Dated, Flaw a lfeska, October 15,
1928.
HARRY DONNELLEY,
Administrator of the estate of1
Carl Alfred Johnson,. de|
ceased. t.,j
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