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GETTING MASH LETTERS—
Grizzled prospectors at Platinum,
in the Goodr.cws bay district, are
g. • ting no end of mash letters these
bays. But A. C. Thane, returning
from the boom town, warns women
wh. believe the miners are fabulous
ly rich that all is not Platinum that,
glitters. Even Pete Wold, a freight
er captain, has received several pro
posals. His wife enjoys them very
much. Thane said.
TO tSK FOR FUNDS—
The Bureau of Air Commerce an
nounced early this month it will sub
mit to the budget bureau a request
for $6,000.<K0 for a congressional ap
propriation for navigation aids bo av
iation in the Hawaiian Islands and
A ska. Director Fred D. Gagg, Jr...
rep d yreat progress in the aero-'
ntv.tica! development in Alaska and
sa d he hoped for a similar program
in Hawaii. He said the $5,000,000
s ..ght would be divided in two parts,
$3,000,000 to go for airways aids in
b;th countries and $3,000,000 to be
used for airports.
ALASKA HAS NEW AUTHOR—
Mrs. Kek-r. Wilcox, wife of Howard
G. Wile.x. University of Alaska min
ing instructor now conducting a min-;
ing course in Anchorage, recently re-!
ce.ved a f enerous check for a 530*
word article contributed to “This
Week.'' ‘This Y,'c-ek” is the literary
supplement to the Sunday edit'on of
the New York Times and not only d d
the editor send a check but, also a
re ve t .or mere. “Malamute-mobile’’
is the name of the accepted manu
script and it describes the curious
mea s of transportation called the
pupir.obile, which is now being used
on Seward Peninsula. Ey this meth
od of transport, whenever dogs come
to a hi.l, they drag the speeders
used on the narrow-gauge railways
up the hills and then. climb’ng
Eb:ard. they coast downhill with the
Y .ers Mrs. 1 ileex also recently
s*’ r.n article entitl’d, “Shrimping,”
t the American Girl. The article
wiil be published in May.
PREDICTS BIG INCREASE
Y-hen the Alaska census is taken
in ' 940 by the U. S. government, the
p Tulation of the Territory may be
el se to 100.000. in the opinion of E.
W. Griffin, acting governor. The ac
tual figure will depend a good deal
cn whether the census is taken early
enough in the year to list the miners
before many of them leave for the
States. Griffin declared that evidence
of population increase is evident, but
particularly in the Interior. And
many of *he new miners are not go
ing Outside at all. but remaining the
year ’round in Alaska. “If we can
ever get prospering started on a
wide scale in Alaska, the Territory’s j
growth in population will real’y
start.” he said. The increase would.
be practically all in white people, as .
th; native population is not showing
any appreciable rise. Every year is
now showing an increased number of
persons coming to the Territory, as
compared to the number leaving. The ‘
Alaska population in 1920 was 54,-j
000; in 1930, 59.278. No attempt has
been made to take a census since
then, although it is known that there
is a steady increase in the Terri- j
tory’s numbers.
TELLS FLYING EXPERIENCE—
Glenn Day, of Iditarod and Seatt’e,1
is a slight, wily black-hairfd airplane
pilot who doesn’t like publicity, so
he didn’t have much to sty when he
arrived in Juneau recently enreute
to Seattle ir bis* small m'no^cup®
plane. That’s what be thoufht. But
he d d t'11 rbout taking off from
Iditarod’s short runway that is noth
but ice and more ice. His plane is
not'mounted on skis. It’s on pon
toons. “You don’t think about that,
though,’ he said. “You just have to
get off the ice once you’ve started be
cause the river bank is at the end of
the runway and it would be just too
bad if you didn’t make the air in
time. I just gave the ship all the
‘soup’, she had and held on.” LasV
spring, when Day flew into Iditarod
from Seattle to superintend the sev
en river boats and barges which his
company operates on the river, the
snow had melted and he had to land
on the fce with his pontoon-equipped
ship. “I hit one crack in the ice that
bounced the ship around a little,” he \
shrugged, “but that was all that hap
pened. The ship landed okay.” So i
one crack doesn’t make a crack up.
(Not if you’re a good pilot and have
plenty of nerve.) But Day doesn’t
look at it that way. “I had to land,
so there wasn’t anything- else-to do.
And this time I had to g<rto Seattle,
so I had to take off from the ice. It
vaa just like that.” He will return-to |
iMi&rod next spring.-'
GOING OUTSIDE—
B. E. Johnson, oldtirr.er who has
spent most of his 65 years in Alaska,
plans to winter in Seattle. Mr. John
son came north to Daws:n 40 years
ago, prospected with A. J. Nordale
in the early days on Bonanra creek,
and later took part in the stampede
to the Iditarod. During the summer
just past, he worked as panr.cr and
clean-up man on the Alaska Gold
Dredging Corporation boat on the
Fortymile river and Mosquito iork.
RECALLS LOOM DAYS—
Cord n -Stewart arrived in Fair
banks recently to attend the cater
pi.lar school. H: is engaged in plac
er mining operations in the Sixty
mile arcs wi h his father, Ray Stew
art, noted Yukon and Alaska pio
neer. Ray brought the first wagon
into the Yukon valley, freighting it
over Chilkoot Pass and down the Yu
kon to Circle over 40 years ago. La
ter he was am.ng the most, success
iul placer miners in the Klondike;
ond afterwards was cne of the lucky
takers in the Mayo silver-lead fields
where he sold for a good sum to the
Treadweil Yukon Company. Leaving
there he and his son Gordon entered
the Sixtymile field, where they have
operand for several years with much
success.
COMMITTED TO ASYLUM—
Robert Rrb'nson, who arrived in
Valdez several months ago, and ere
cted cuite a bit, of mining excite
ment when he bought up all the
mines and prospects about town for
which the owners would take jawbone
. or pay, left on the SS Alaska as a
. wawav and was taken off the boat
at Cordova. His actions were so p -
cullar he was examined by Dr. W. H.
Chase and found insane by a jury,
rnd ordered committed to an nsane
asylum. Dr. Chase said that while
Robinson was not violent, he was ex
tremely irrational, and had many fix
ed delusions wh'ch might lead to vio
lence. A telegram from a Washing
ton institution stated that he had
previously been confined there for
“maniacal depressive psychosis.”
While in Valdez, Rrbinson carried a
small howitzer in his hip pocket,'
which he was fond of exhibiting
when arguments did not suit him. He
bought everything he could buy on
credit, and would have soon owned
the town had he not taken a yen for
the Outside, says the Valdez Miner.
WILL BUY OWN PLANE—
En route to the States to purchase
an airplans for use in the Interior,
James M. Dodson, former South
eastern Alaska pilot with Pioneer
Airways, arrived in Juneau recently
from Fairbanks. Although he pilot-!
ed one of Noel Y> ien's tri-motored
F rd freight planes all summer,
D: dson will go into business for him- |
self when he returns with his new
plane, he said. “There's a lot of bus- j
iness for aerial freighters in the In- ;
terior now,” he explained, “so I’m
going to run my own ship. We work- i
ed hard all summer and there will be ;
a lot more flying to be done next j
year.” Dodson is wall known all over
the Territory, as he has worked in
Ketchikan, Juneau, Anchorage and j
Fairbanks, besides visiting most of
the Interior towns.
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i SPREE ENDS IN DEATH—
One man is dead and six other*
arc held in jail at Nome as an out
growth of what police said was a
nght of drunken disorder in the cabin
of John Bogan, about 45, who was
found stabbed. Eskimo witnesses told
a corcner’s jury that a “white man
stab Bogan” and later a man who
gave his name as Lou Berry, a pros
pector, was booked. He bore the
marks of a fight. Bogan was married
to an Eskimo woman and had two
children.
FINED FOR KNIFE WIELDING—
John Gleason was fined $100 re
cent.y by Commissioner T. C. Price
at Anchorage when he was tried on
charges of assault with a dargerous
weapon. The attack was alleged to
have followed Gleason’s unsuccessful
attempt to win over Tarty Dabro in
a strength testing game. After Dab
ro won several contests, Gleason was
alleged to have cut Dabro on the
wrist and slashed his clothing. John
Rokas also had his cloth ng cut
when he attempted to halt the fracas.
A woman was also cut on the hand.
Gleason was arrested by Chief Bob R.
Huttle after a day and night of
searching. The only clue the police
had was a hat bearing the initials,
“J. G.” t.
ESCAPES DEATH BY
MINUTES IN AIR CRASH
How it feels to disembark from an
airplane and have it crash shortly
after can be told by Paul Sorenson,
Superintendent of the Hirst-Chich
agoff Mining Company, in Southeas
tern Alaska, says the Juneau Em
pi’-e j
While traveling through the Rocky
Mountain country, sightseeing min
iiig regions, Sorenson had occasion
to fly wiih United Airlines in the
p’ane that crashed with 19 person?
aboard who met their deaths.
Sorenson had gotten off the plane
at Cheyenne The p>!ane crashed only
a matter of minutes after it left the
Cheyenne airport.
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