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ROOF COMPLETED
The roof of the Seward Airport i
hangar was completed yesterday by j
the contractors. Remaining work ■
now is to put corrugated iron on
the walls and some minor work•
around the hangar. A sliding door'
to be constructed for the han- j
gar. it is said, and the rails for the j
door are being awaited from the '
States at present. Because of the .
jmpassable condition of the Seward
roads workers on the hangar have
found it necessary to go out there i
on foot.
Miss Ida Kirby and Ray C. Lock- j
head joined hands in wedlock re
cently in Anchorage, reports The i
Times. Mr. Lockhead is a veteran j
of the transportation department
of the Alaska Railroad.
FLR GOODNESS SAKE
“Who is Going to do Your Laun
dry When the Chinamen go to War”
is the latest song hit sweeping the j
domain.
Gasoline, mistaken for kerosene, j
was used to start a fire in a stove \
by C. Brown in Anchorage recently, I
with the result that the house is ,
now in complete ruins from the |
fire which resulted and Brown is j
nursing several painful burns, re- 1
ports The Times.
Fear that Ed Voght, of the Ta
talinaka district, may have met j
with a mishap, has been expressed
in the Interior, says the Fairbanks
News-Miner. Pilot S. E. Robbins
recently flew over his cabin with
out finding any trace of occu- i
3ancy. |'
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22.
(/P)—The Senate passed the $125,
000,000 farm loan bill, setting aside j
$25,000,000 for moratorium on farm
mortgage interest payments.
Meanwhile, as the House conclud
ed its debate on President Hoover’s j
52.000,000,000 reconstruction finance \
corporation measure which passed !
the Senate, Representative Louis i
McPadden of Pennsylvania de- |
dared the measure was aimed to !
‘help a gang of financial looters to
cover up their tracks.”
A fire which fo» a time threat
ened to destroy the entire Fair
banks courthouse recently was ex
tinguished only after firemen had
worked for more than an hour in
the biting cold weather, reports The
News-Miner. Damage was estimat
ed at $500, exclusive of damage to
books.
Afcer having received bids for
furnishing the Alaska Railroad with
a river steamer to replace the Gen
eral Jacobs on the lower Yukon
run, it has been decided not to in-1
vest in any new equipment at the
present time, reports the Anchor
age Times.
Tonight is the last time for the
showing of the mystery melodrama,!
"Ihe Maltese Falcon,” at the Lib
pi'tv theater.
MINER MISSING
Disappearance of the tent camp*
cf Frank Buckinger at the head or
Willow Creek and failure of Buck
inger to make an appearance aU
Wasilla or elsewhere in that region,
gave encouragement to the belief
that the prospector and his camp
were caught in a slide and buried
deep beneath the snow. Buckinger
had stated that he would be in Wa
silla by Thanksgiving, or by Christ
mas at the latest, but up to the
present time no one has seen him,
reports the Anchorage Times.
Fur bearers are coming back
along the lower Yukon River and
also along the lower reaches of the
Kuskokwim, according to the An
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