Among elementary school teach
ers in Alaska 91 percent are col
lege or university graduates with
the remainder from normal
schools.
ONE THOUSAND MASKS FOR
-SALE AT URBACH & VALADE.
LEGION MEETING
! The local post of the Amerian
Legion will meet tomorrow night at
8 o'clock in the Seward Grill at
which time election of officers for
the ensuing year will be held. It is ,
important that all members be1
present
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Signed: Post Commander DuMarce.!
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FINDS IN ALASKA
EVIDENCE OF OLD
IMIi CULTURE
-j WASHINGTON, Dec., 27, (yip)_
jfrozen refuse heaps and ’ ruined
hnts that once were villages on the
ishews of st Lawrence Island and
vicinity along the northern Bering
Sea coast have yielded new evidence
inf the surTyrinp-'V high degree of
.culture possessed by the Eskimos
[who lived in that desolate region
■100 to 800 years a°,o.
Thus after digging deeper than
;f yer before into the remote past
to! Eskimo life in Alaska, the Smith
sonian scientists who are conduet
,.-.rr first systematic American
inve. ; 'Option of the ethonology and
archeology of that race find them
'so!'r' ' f.be somewhat paradoxical
j situation o : being seemingly farther
|than ever from one of their objec
tives. definite knowledge of its on
jgin and spread in North America,
j Henry B. Collins, Jr„ a sistant
curator of the division of ethnology j
j the National Museum, who has J
I inducted the investigation of old1
iEskimo village sites for the last two
j years, rturned from this work with I
;more than 30 crates of skeletons,!
objects of art, ornaments, utinscas
and weapons. 1
Mi. Collins believes that they aie
,:hc mo t ancient objects yet un
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ADVANCE MAN ARRIVES
To look over the ground for in- j
i auguration of a daily air service j
i from Seattle to Ketchikan and j
'Juneau next April, Ralph Sand-!
bank, representative of Charles V.
Eakin, president and general man
jager of the Union ^ir Lines. Inc.,
arrived at Ketchikan last week.
PIONEERS MEETING
A regular meeting of the Pio
neers of Alaska, Seward Igloo,
will be held tomorrow night at 8
o’clock in the Arcade Apartment
Club rooms. All members are ask
ed to please be present.
Louis Simpson, President.
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| Sixty-two out of 63 high school
| teachers in Alaska are college or
University graduates.
earthed relating to Eskimo cultuie
in Alaska and that they link the
early Rt. Lawrence Islanders very
definitely with the Siberian Eski
mos, whose descendants still live in
that frigid part of Asia.
At the same time, he says, they
orovide an important link between
he still unknown more ancient Es
kimo culture and that of the mod
ern representatives of the race in
Alaska.
Mr. Collins was assisted on this
expedition by Harry E. Manca of|
Seattle and several crews of Eskimo !
laborers. I
ROGERS SOUTH DEC. 29
The S. S. Admiral Rogers, of the
P. S. S. Co., line, will depart from
reward for the South on December
29, following the arrival of the pas
senger train from the Interior.
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CAGE PRACTICE TONIGHT
The City and the High School
basketball teams will play a prac
tice game tonight starting at 6
o’clock.
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Dusky Stevedore With Piano
Blue Shadows (from Earl Carroll’s
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No. 21763, 10-inch
Ten Little Miles from Town
Male Trio
It Goes Like This (That Funny Melody)
California Humming Birds
No. 21706, 10-ineh
1 ou're the Cream in My Coffee
r,?.^T,r,ot ,(fLora Hold Everything)
Tt ith Vocal Refrain
Anything Your Heart Desires
T.r,ot (from Just « Minute)
8) ith Vocal Refrain
Tf.d Weems and His Orchestra
No. 21767, 10-lnch
Just a Sweetheart—Fox Trot
7’fir0n i1?6 n?°tJon picture production,
The Battle of the Sexes)
With Vocal Refrain
Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra
was It Love? —Waltz
STith Vocal Refrain Tiib Troubadours
No. 21771, 10.inch
Another Kiss—Waltz (from Faramount
P1,c‘“rt‘r Manhattan Cocktail)
r, vocal Refrain The Troibadours
LrOtta Be Good—Fox Trot (from
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HV/i Vocal Refrain
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No. 21773, lO.inch
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