lUSKIN WOODS
MEET TEST FOB :
HIGH STRENGTH;
With large areas in Alaska suit- ; j
able mainly for timber produc-11
tion, a present forest utilization;'
of but a fraction of the actual j i
and potential growth, a variety | <
of species, with a large range in j
properties and an abundance of j
water power and timber resources j
which are favorable to pulpwood
development, an increasing ec
onomic forest development is pre
saged for the Territory according
to the Forest Service, United
States Department of Agriculture.
In order to make available to
the public and to those industries
interested in the use of wood
materials knowledge of the true
extent and the useful properties
of Alaskan woods, L. J. Markwardt,
Senior Forest Engineer of the For
est Products Laboratory main
tained by the Forest Service at
Madison, Wis., has prepared a re
port of the results of a series of
tests of these woods Tests show
ed that the western hemlock, Sit
ka spruce, and several other Al
askan woods are not inferior in j
strength and other mechanical j
properties to the same species in j
the Northwest States.
Forests of Alaska cover approx
imately 71.347,000 acres, an area
as large as the States of Miss
ouri, Maine and New Jersey com
bined. The bulk of the commer- j
rial timber is located within the j
Tongass and Chugach national I
forests in the coastal region, and j
which are estimated to contain
34.760.000.000 board feet of saw
timber. Under United States For
est Service management, this tim
ber will be handled as a continu
ing resource, cutting being regu
lated to assume a permanent sup
ply. In addition to the coast for
ests, there are 50,000,000 acsre
of interior woodland type for
ests of great potential value to
local industry, agriculture and min
ing. although not classed as com
mercial forests.
Mr. Markwrardt’s report has been
published as Technical Bulletin
No. 266. “The Distribution and
Mechanical Properties of Alaskan
Woods ” Copies may be obtained
by writing to the United States
Department of Agriculture. Wash
ington, D. C.
H. Malcolm, Seldovia cannery.
man. is due to arrive today from
Seattle, aboard the SS North- 1
vestern from Seattle, enroute to
;he famous Cook Inlet industrial
oor;
NEH FIS DRESSES i
LOOS USE COSTS
PARIS, Mar-, 6, (/P)—ISmart
Europeans are wearing dresses j
.ike coats—a vogue which pro
mises to continue this spring.
The new models cross in front
:n double-breasted fashion, are
fitted at the waist and may be
worn with or without a belt.
Dark colors in soft wools or
heavy silks are the most popular
shades.
TRAPS A “HOWL”
A few coytes have been howling
about Homer lately reports the
Seldovia Herald, but one howl at
least has been silenced. John Doo
dash, the well known Seldovia
trapper, trapped a howl and along
with it an oversize coyote, the
first of its kind ever taken at
Homer. The animal was of such
dimensions that some believe it
was crossed with a wolf. Rabbits
are beginning to reappear in that
section and doubtless the mar
auders are on their trail.
IF YOU HAVEN’T TRIED
HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE
CREAM YOU HAVE MISSED
SOMETHING GOOD. Sold only
at the Candy Cottage.
Among the prominent Anchorage
business men returning on North- j
western, due to arrive today from
the south, is I. Bayles, clothier I
and president of the Times Pub- !
Ushing Company.
There are a lot of familiar
Alaska names arriving on the SS
Northwestern, indicating their
winter vacation is about over
and that Spring is around the
corner.
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SEK MERE IMPORTANT i
IS GROWTH MUSES;
LA JOLLA, Calif., Mar., 6, (/P) !
—The sea becomes more impor
tant as population increases and
the demand for food and other
natural products becomes more!
exacting, says Prof. W. E- Allen!
of the Scripps Institution of j
Oceanography. I
The assistance of experts in |
handling marine products, he j
adds, is going to be needed to
“furnish the margin of safety in
estimating marine productivity
and the trend of good or bad in
fluences on marine life.”
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! SURROUNDED BY WOLVES
The Dawson Weekly News re
ports the following interesting, if
not dangerous experience of Ed
Holbrook, of the Holbrook Dred
! ing Company, who, while mushing
j with his dog team on one of the
i high and barren hills lying be
I tween Dawson and Miller creek,
was met and surrounded by a
pack of wolves, who dogged his
every step for about a mile and
a half, at times coming within
30 feet of the driver and his
dogs. Holbrook says that hunger
could not have been the reason
for the wolves following him be
cause caribou could be seen only
a short distance from the trail.
AWAY FROM GANG LIFE
The American Legion sponsors
Boy Scouting because there is no
code of good citizenship higher
than the Scout oath. The Legion
believes boys who take up Scout
work will have better character,
and become better citizens, than
the boys who loaf around gang
hangouts during their vacation
j time. In the year 1930, alone, 1,
j 500 Scout troops were organized
| or adopted by Legion posts and
I many Legionnaires contribute
I their time and energy in helping
- the boys in this work.
j Geraldine Laughlin, Seward Hi
| School graduate who has been
I in Seattle for several months
j past taking a special business
j course, is expected to arrive on
Ithe SS Northwestern from Cor
j dova where she stopped over for
1 a visit with her sisters.
C. M- Eckmann, Anchorage fur
niture dealer, is a returning pas
senger on the SS Northwestern
following a business trip to the
States. ,
Aside from the Alaskan board- ;
ing the SS Northwestern at var- j
ious ports in the Teritory, a to
tal of 44 left Seattle bound direct
for the famous international port
of Seward. 1
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CHIMED IS D1Y TOWN
REMS STATISTICS
CHICAGO, Mar., 6, (^—Con
sumption of illegal beer in Chicago
amounts to 25.000,000 pints week
ly and money available to A1 Ca
pone’s syndicate for protection is
i>2,000,000 per week, according to
figures made public by Colonel R.
Randolph, president of the Chica
go Chamber of Commerce.
“And that’s prohibition.”
FUR TAKE SMALL
The fur take in Southeast Al
aska this season has been one of
the lightest in many years, ac
cording to Frank DuFresne, Ter
ritorial game warden, who return
ed to Juneau recently after an
official trip covering the larger
part of the district. Low prices
for all species, which discouraged
the trappers, rather than any ab
normal shortage of the furbear
ers are said to be the prime fac
tors in the small take says the
Juneau Empire.
Peter Manderich, 41 years old,
suffered an injury to his leg
last month on Chichagoff Island
! and the limb had to be amputat
ed after he had been taken to
the hospital at Sitka, reports
the Juneau Empire.
'{Japan's Fishermen Use Cormorants—Birds With Rings
Round Their Necks So They Can't Swallow the Fish)
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JAPANESE I
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| JAPAN
fishermen in Various lands use all |
sorts of methods in their trade, but ]
probably the most original and inter-!
esttnjt Is that of the fresh-water
fUberfolfe of Japan, the Land of the
Mela? 8uu. These enterprising peo
ple emp’ey trained cormorants—queer.j
long-necked black birds capable of
dlrlng to great depths-sand they see
that their feathered fishers are con
Cl.'.htly hungry so that they will show
proper zeal in seeking their prey To
prevent the birds from swallowing the
fUb. thetr necks are bound by rings,
eo that only the smallest specimens
wt pass through their artificially
narrowed throats. By this means,
nothing larger than a healthy sardine
ever goes down the bird’s throat. The
fishermen go out in light boats, each
manned by a team of two men. One
handles the boat while the other looks
after the diving birds. A cormorant
tender handles up to a dozen birds by
strings attached to the birds’ necks,
precisely as a marionette artist works
his puppets. Cormorant fishing is
usually done at night, but as the fish
dislike moonlight, dark nights are
chosen, and the fishermen work oy
torchlight. The exact date of the
origin of this style of fishing is un
known. but it is believed to have ex
isted a thousand years ago.
Japan is becoming more ahcT hibre
popular with winter travelers, and fine
new steamers are constantly being
built to accommodate them. One of
the latest additions to the trans
Pacific fleet is the new 26.000-toa
Canadian Pacific liner Empress of
Japan, the largest and fastest vessel
on the Pacific, which makes the run
from Vancouver, via Honolulu, to
Yokohama, in 14 days, thence pro
ceeding to Kobe, Nagasaki and other
Oriental porta. The Empress of Japan
holds the blue ribbon of the Pacific,
recently wrested from her running
mate. the Empress of Canada, for the
fastest "a"mi* time from Yokohama to
Vac i v * > *
LIST PREHISTORIC
DEISTS WERE SEED Ot
EMIT inns
PASADENA, Calif., Mar,, 6, (/P)
—Perhaps prehistoric beasts
roamed the Rockies not so long
ago.
Their skeletons, found In' Gip
sum cave, Nevada, along with
evidences of human beings who
were their contemporaries, have
revealed this possibility
Either these early America
men lived a long time ago, says
Dr. Chester Stock of California
Institute of Technology, or else
the animals did not die out in
such remote antiquity as gen
erally believed.
The Gipsum cave deposits, Dr.
Stock says, may answer this
question. With the skeletons arq
dried fragments of cacti, and com*
parison of these remains with
the known history of plant evo
lution may provide a clue to the
I time when the cacti grew.
MUST REDUCE COSTS
| Arthur I. Ellsworth of the Far
west Fisheries, Inc., states in the
Pacific Fisherman, that prepara
tions are going forward in a nor
mal way to run the plant at An
chorage, which is in line for a
good percentage of high-grade
| fish; but he is convinced that
; costs of production will have to
I be reduced to a lower basis than
! for some years past. The only
i important points at which such
| a reduction can be effected, he
! says, are in labor and the cost
of fish; and he believes it will be
possible to adjust these items on
a fair basis.
I Arthur Fernandes, radio man
j for dhe Seward Signal Corp staff,
! accompanied by Mrs- Fernanda^,
| and son, arrive on the SS North
western.
MILD WINTER HELPS
The mild winter prevalent this
winter in Southeastern Alaska has
been highly beneficial to deer in
the entire district, Mr- Frank Du
Fresne, Territorial game warden
said in the Juneau Empire. These
animals, normally forced down
j to the beaches at this season,
! are well back in the hills, where
■ scant snow cover has left abun
; dant feed for them.
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WASHINGTON, Mar., 6, (/P>—
Japaneses women are emerging
from the fan and cherry blos
som tradition into the field of
industry and are helping run
mines and railroads.
The department of labor says
that of 4,774,047 persons employ
I ed in Japan at the end of last
June 1,534,314 were women. Less
than one-half of them are em
employed in factories. About one
tenth are engaged in transpor
tation and communication. About
one-fifth work in mines.
OPEN UP IN JUNEAU
Foster and Ellis, Cordova at
torneys will open oflfces in Jun
eau at once, it was made known
in the Juneau Empire by Frank
H. Foster, senior member of the
firm, and Third Division repre
sentative in the Legislature. Clyde
R. Ellis, formerly of Seward, the
other member of the firm was
formerly Assistant United States
Attorney for the Third Division
MILL WILL OPEN
Stocks are still complete but
they are getting low in the yard
of the Juneau Lumber Mills, and
some preparations are being made
all ready for the resumption of
sawing operations in the Spring.
Work will start abut April 1, says
the Juneau Empire
HAVE fOI) His AIM) THE NEW
*OKEH” RECORDS at SYLVIA’S?
THEY ARE WONDERFUL. •