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DR. EaSTEST GRUENING IS NA JD
TO BE GOVERNOR OF ALASKA
On October 15 Dr. Ernest Gruening will
assume the office of Governor of Alaska.Dr.
Gruening has been director of Territorial
and Insular affairs in the Department of
the Interior.
Governor Troy’s second term as governor
would have expired next March 15th.
The change in governors comes as no sur
prise because it is well known that follow
ing the gold tax fracas in the legislature
last winter, Governor Troy was asked or
told to resign. Harry Watson, secretary
to the governor, was his logical successor,
because he knows the ins and outs of the
executive office from A to Z and knows his
Alaska thru the some gamut of letters.
Governor Troy is the only genuine sour
dough governor Alaska has ever had. He came
to the Territory in 1897 and has lived in
Alaska since that time.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and
their party curtailed their projected hunt
ing trip in the Territory because of the
war. With them were Miss Leveson-Gower,
Miss Topazia Caetani, Mrs. Sloane Stanley,
Majjor E.G.Phillips, and Dr. Vance Macdon
ald.
Guided by Alex Bolam of Forest Acres,the
party visited Mount McKinley Park, Fair-,
banks and Circle Hot Springs.
Fred W. Hollander of New York city, big
game hunter and all around sportsman who
visited Russian River Rendezvous this sea
son and who has traveled all over Europe
and has numerous relatives and friends in
Germany, said in Fairbanks that ’’the Ger
man nation will not have the solidarity and
high morale during this v/ar,which were im
portant factors during the World war." He
stated that at least 20,000,000 people in
Germany are not in sympathy with the pres
ent imperious Nazi regime.
The German freighter Olinda with a cargc
of food stuffs and wheat was sunk in the
south Atlantic by the British cruiser,Ajax.
The crew of the Olinda was first taken off
and said they had no deBire to return to
Germany and were grateful just to be put
ashore.
Survivors of the liner Athenia insist
that the vessel not only was sunlc by a tor*
pedo but also was shelled by a submarine.
They ridiculed the Gerrian assertion that
the liner must have been struck b$ a mine.
The number df dead has not yet been deter*
mined.
SUDDEN DEATH OF BOB GALEN
IS SHOCK TO HIS MANY FRIENDS
Bob Galen of Lowing, who for several
years operated a ferry across Lake Kenai
before the completion of the highway, died
suddenly Thursday afternoon. He was
stricken with a heart malady while in a
boat on Lake Kenai with John Dryer. They
were returning from a porcupine hunt and
were nearing the pier when the attack came,
Mr. Dryer was reading aloud from a news
paper when he heard Ur, Galen's dog whining
and looked up to see Mr. Galen falling back
ward , his face contorted with pain. Mr.
Dryer quickly docked, called for help and
Mr. Galen was carried to Mrs. Lowing's house
and Dr. Armstrong summoned from Seward. Mr.
Galen did not recover from coma before his
death.
He is survived by a sister living at
Two Rivers, V/is. Wallace M. Nutter took
his body to Seward where funeral arrangement:
will be made.
Warsa#, Poland, vras evacuated early in
the week and the flight followed two raids
by German bombing planes when hyperite gas
was dropped on the civilian population and
there was brutal bombing of women and child
ren and machine gunning into crowds.
Contracts for building the Kodiak Island
and Sitka air bases have been awarded on a
cost plus a fixed fee basis to the Seims*
Spokane Corapony of Spokane* Wash#,the John
son, Drake & Riper,Inc., of Minneapolis, and
the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co. as
a joint undertaking.
Japan prepares for war with Russia as a
result of the Soviet-German non-aggression
pact freeing the hands of Japan's rivals
in Eastern Asia. The Japanese army is
rushing large forces into Manchoukuo thru
Korea and North China. Large masses of
fresh Russian troops have been mobilized in
Siberia, it is reported.
The vicinity of Tientsin, China is del
uged by the worst flood in its history.
The flood waters are 10 to 15 feet deep
in the Japanese, British and French con
cessions and American marines had to stay
on the second floor of their barracks.
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Pierce plan.to
• spend the winter in Kodiak# They will
remain in Moose Pass until the last of
September or longer.
DANCE TONIGHT AT HIELO'S ROADHOUSE.