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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 168.
SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ABOLISH PIECEMEAL
PANACEAS
While every hope for success of
his plans for colonizing the Rail
road Belt accompanies General
Manager Ohlson’s efforts, the
fact remains that the departure |
is but a piecemeal panacea for the
slow growth of population, not
only here but in other portions of !
the Territory. ’
Gauged by several decades of I
history, little real progress can be {
looked for until Washington takes J
the wraps off the lines and allows
Alaska to come into her own. It j
will not be necessary to ex
tract funds from the treasury
in attracting settlers. Opportunity
will serve as a greater magnet
While there is a merit in con
servation for prosperity, the inter
rogations of “what posterity in
trudes itself. It would appear
logical to consider the youth of
Alaska as the primary element
in the general scheme, a thing
that is not apparent when iron
clad restrictions, over-regulaton,
bureaucracy in all of its malig
nant guises stalk freely in the
land.
One does not have to assure
a pessimistic attitude to picture
future of Alaska’s educated youth.
At the present writing it is not
inviting. The field is restricted
to accepting a wage from the
government bureau, overcrowding
the business field, or a wage in
the fishing industry, and finally
a day's pay job at hard labor.
Steps must be taken to create
a field for the rapidly develop
ing younger generation, where the
aits and sciences are open to
those who qaulify thereof. Ia
must not be restricted to the so
cialistic condition which bureau
cracy has saddled upon us
In other words take down the
barriers and Alaska will work out
its own salvation without help
Hoover said bureaucracy blighted
men's souls. Take it off and
R'how Alaska do develop a soul
and shell do the rest.
CAPTAIN woolverton leaves
Today, Seward loses Capt. Rob
B. Woolverton, radio Officer i
in Charge of the Second Section, (
Washington-Alaska Military Cable
and Telegraph System; and his
estimable family, for he has com- j
pleted two years detail in Alaska
and has been transferred to San j
Francisco
His efficiency as an officer in
one of the government’s most im
portant institutions is unques- j
tinned; combining enthusiasm in
hs work Captain Woolverton had
already won national recognition,
prior to his arrival here, as one
of the most competent radio
technicians in the United States
Army.
As a testimonial -of the esteem
Captain Woolverton is held by j
the men of the Second Section a i
beautiful watch, appropriately j
engraved, was presented to him. I
It is a certainty that the high
standard of the Alaska Signal
Corps System has benefited tre
mendously by his past two years
on the job. j
feo, in saying goodbye, we wish ,
him luck!
A Gloucester, Mass-, fisherman;
has made a fortune by marketing
his product sliced, wrapped in
wax paper, tied with fancy tape
and adorned with artistic stickers.,
Now it is up to halibut hounds to |
begin dolling up ther stock in I
pink pyjamas and cerise. j
HOYT DELAYED
VANDERHOFF, July 20. (/P)— j
Hoyt took off at 4 a.m. with 200
gallons of gasoline. Bad weather
north of Hazelton delayed the
flight after a forced landing had
been made yesterday. The plane
is named “New Alaska.”
BY THE SOUS
SOVIET GOVERNMENT INFORMS
ASSOCIATED PRESS, WILL
ADHERE TO PACT
MOSCOW, July 20. (/P) — Jan
Rudzutak, acting head of soviet
government told the Associated
Press that it would be unneces
sary for Secretary Stimsbn to send
a reminder to the Moscow govern
ment of its duties as signatory of
the Kellogg anti-war pact.
"Unless the Chinese commit
any warlike act v/e shall stand
loyally by the pact. Despite that
China’s present provocative at
tude in her vio 1 a t i o n of
a treaty vesting her with equal
control of the Chinese Eastern
Railway.
"If any repeated invasions
are made on the rights of the
soviet citizens we shall not take
any miltary action against her
unless China invades our terri
tory and forces us to take defen
sive measures. When we signed
I the Kellogg pact it was not just
a gesture. We believe in peace
and the Kellogg pact is one oi
the best means of enforcing it
Stimson need not remind us oi
jour adherence to it,” Rudzutak
stated to the Press correspondents
!
LIEUT. HAROLD BROMLEY AR
RIVES AT TACOMA WITH
HUGE MONOPLANE
TACOMA, July 20. (A3)—Com
pleting a non-stop flight from Los
j Angeles, Lieut. Harold Bromley
j brought his huge monoplane, the
!“City of Tacoma’’ to earth at the
Tacoma municipal airport at 6:30
Ip. m. today.
| He is scheduled to take off
within the next few days on a
non-stop flight over the Pacifc
Ocean, from Tacoma to Tokio.
! Twenty thousand people gather
ed at the field to welcome the
! flier and the National Guards
j and the police were called out
to control the throngs. Bromley’s
special Lockhead monoplane was
: built at Burbank, California.
i $ __
LONDON, July 20, OP)-The new
British submarine “Odin” will make
her maiden voyage op July 28. pre
paratory to being put into service
by the end of August.
* The “Odin” was designed by Sii
I William J. Berry, director of Nava
i Construction, and cost more thar
$2,000,000. Her tests in the Nortf
Sea wall include a 30 hour progres
sive trial, an eight hour full powei
; machinery trial, and diving anc
. gunnery tests.
EVERYTHING OKEH
SEATTLE, July 20. (/P)— Capt.
Hoyt who was forced down at
Vanderhuff, B. C., due to fuel
shortage, will refuel at that place
and proceed at dawn today. He
says “ everything is working
splendidly”
EXPAiSIOli OF
RADIO DISTRICT
ALASKA BRANCH
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MOVE IS IN LINE TO ESTABLISH
DEFINITE POLICY COVER
ING COMMUNICATION
SEATTLE, July 20. (/P) —The
department here reported that it
was contemplating the expansion
of the activities of the Seventh
radio district; the organization to
include a branch office in Alaska
in addition to the proposed branch
in Portland.
Edwin W. Lovejoy, radio in
spector here, said that the move
is in line with the efforts tc
establish a definite policy in the
covering and supervision of radic
communication in the Northerr
territory.
The Alaska office will be in the
charge of a radio inspector froir
the States and will probably be
established at Ketchikan.
The purpose is to govern 111
point to point stations and three
broadcasting stations, now in the
the Territofy. Because legislatior
governing the license grants ir
L states has never been extendec
| to solve Alaska’s radio problem:
[ it is believed that the new policy
iwll benefit Alaska greatly.
OLD ENGLAND CITY CLOSES THIRD CENTURY
The marchioness of Townsend (upper right), mayor
of King’s Lynn, England, wll help Lynn, Mass, (lower
left), celebrate its tercentenary. Braodhearth (upper
left), in Saugus Centre, near Lynn, is said to have been
the first iron works in America. At lower right is the
facade of St. Nicholas church King’s Lynn, from which
the Rev. Samuel Whiting came to Lynn Mass., in 1636.
"gol. oral
ALASKA'S HIGH
POWER SALEH"
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—
I DISTINCTIVE compliment is
PAID ALASKA RAILROAD
HEAD BY LECTURER
i EMPIRE BUILDER
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ROBERT FROTHINGHAM HAD
PLEASURE ACCOMPANYING
COLONEL ON AIR VOYAGE
Col. O. F. Ohlson, General
Manager of the Alaska Railroad,
i accompanied by Robert Frothing.
jham, the well-known writer and
'lecturer of New York, arrived in
i the city last evening from An
chorage. One of the purposes
1 for which Col. Ohlson is here is
to meet Lieut-Col. D. P. Quin
lan of the U. S. Army, special re
presentative of President Hoover,
and also special assistant to the
Chief Co-ordinator at Washing
ton, and his wife and family and
* accompanying them to Anchor
age.
Mr. Frothingham has just re.
! turned from a three-week’s trip
of inspection down the Yukon
; with Colonel Ohlson, ■which in
5, eluded Nome, from which point
’ 1 they returned to Fairbanks by
by airplane, following the same
L general route recently taken by
l Ernest W. Sawyer, Executive As
[ sistant to the Secretary of the
, ! Interior, with a view to acquir
r ing more definite information as
; to grazing facilities for reindeer
and their transportation to points
i along the Alaska Railroad. This
I in line with the proposed policy
I of the Department of Interior to
iicrease the shipments and sales
J of reindeer meat throughout the
States. Speaking of his journey
with Col. Ohlson, Mr. Frothing
ham said:
‘“Far be it from me to hand
| out any bouquets or idle compli
! ments but, I cannot imagine a
more constructive or more deeply
; interested friend of Alaska than
Col. Ohlson. Any man who tra.
1 vels with him has simply got
to keep the pace and make the
grade. As a railroad executive,
there isn’t a solitary feature or
instance of anything that con
cerns his business that gets by
that keenly appraising eye of his.
One would think to see and
hear him in action that he was
a born and bred Alaskan. He
has a hearty hail and a friendly
smile for every one with whom
he comes in contact—men, wo
men and children.
“Better yet he has an appre
ciative and an understanding ear,
and anyone who has anything
worthwhile to say finds him an
attentive listener. I gathered
more information concerning
this splendid territory while
“mushing” around with Colonel
Ohlson than I would have picked
up in a year’s ordinary journey
ing by myself. He radiates op
timism and good-fello w s h i p
wherever he goes—and incident
ally he gets what he goes after.
“He’s a dynamo of efficiency,
! with no excuse for lost motion.
1‘The shortest distance between
two points’ is his line of approach
to any subject. In brief, he’s a
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