The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-04-26
STATEMENT BY HEBRON

Charles E. Heron, cahuioase Aoi National Committeeman, has prepared statement which follows. One thing a person must admit. and that ia Her ron lays bare certain facts, regardless of consequences, and that much must be said of in his behalf. MT. Heron IS well known in this section of Alaska and the following statement VIII therefore perhaps be read with great deal of interest,"
 My political opponents and personal enemies have very unfairly used the business affairs of the Kachemak Can ming company, of which l am the un- fortunate president, in their strenuous campaign to defeat me for republican national committeeman. While 1t is not my policy to defend myself, as l am kept fairly busy defending my friends, will merely make state ment of facts in order to disabuse the public and give my opponents further ammunition for use in their futile bombardment.
 frankly admit that, in the same fishing boat with thousands of others, the Kachemak Canning company owes money. If this is crime, then We are guilty. There are hundreds of men ln Anchorage today who own stock in various mining, oil and even fishing companies which have gone to the wall on account of various reasons.
 Again 1 admit that the katchemak Canning company owes money, but will not go to the wall, and will pay dollar for dollar of what it owes. As president of the company have con- tracted debts all of which will be paid, not by myself, but by the comp any which l represent.
 For the benefit of the public will briefly outline the business operations of this company which, through the misstatements and underhanded me- thods used by my opponents, has be- come a by-word in the political areas of Alaska.
 The much. .talked-of fish company packed 1000 barrels of herring at .Halibut cove during the winter of l9l' -lo. The pack was shipped to Seattle for sale. We employed approximately sixty men at the Halibut cove plant, which packed the herring under the supervision of an official from the government fisheries department. Due to a marine mishap to the Admiral Evans en route north from Seattle we were delayed over thirty days in get ting the pack to the Seattle market. The shipment reached Seattle about March 1st, more than thirty days late. In the meantime the herring market had dropped to the lowest level known in year. Not only ourselves bu. numerous other herring packers were affected by the drop in price. Some were forced to sell at great loss; others held their packs in storage.
 At that time the company owed ap- proximately s45,OOO for labor and sup plies. We succeeded in mortgaging the herring pack to the Scandinavian Am erican Bank of Seattle for s35,OOO, with which we liquidated our debts as far as possible. This left the company owing about 5000, distributed among three Anchorage merchants, one Sel- dovia merchant and eight laborers liv- ing in Anchorage. This is the total indebtedness of the Kachemak Can ming company in Alaska. have per sonally paid off as much of this in- debtedness as was able to. 1 have rot received one single dollar for my time and services as president. Neith- CT have I taken advantage of the op- portunity to throw the company into the hands of a receiver and brought suit for my own money, which was perfectly justified in doing. My inten- tion all the time was, and still is, to pay off every single dollar this comp any owes. Again I repeat that the company will pay all debts, and furth- CT this will be done drought my indi- vidual efforts.
 In this respect l am in a position to authoritatively state that am, tfi' date, in receipt of a telegram from the Pittsburgh stockholders, who control the company. authorizing me to dis noca of anouoh nroperty in the way Of