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The Indianapolis times., 1930-06-20
FORD is HAILED
AS SAVIOR OF
MODERN China
Autos and Good Highways
HeraIded as Hopes of
Unified Nation.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, June 2o.-Henry
Ford and other mass. producers of
popular priced American automo-
biles may become the saviors Of
modern China.
The Celestial republic is facing
the gravest crisis of it's existence.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-06-20

ously to open the Chinese market.
simultaneously, a good roads move
mens is under way. AS soon as the
present famine in Shensi is checked.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-06-20
JUNE 20, 1880

q drive to raise sI0,oO0.90e win be
undertaken by international famine
relief organizations to build roads
into famine areas.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
Hard to Regulate

Under Washington State laws prosecution of commercial fish ing by trollers is hard to regu- late according to E. w. Ander- son, assistant attorney-general in a letter which he wrote to E. R. Pollock, state superintend ent of fisheries. The law per- :nits fish to be caught for the f1sherman's own use, Anderson pointed out, but contains no provision limiting the number Of lines and hooks that may be used.
 Pollocks' department had been bothered with fishermen trolling with six lines and twelve hooks, yet claiming they were fishing for use of their families only.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
p. A. F. Stock Holdings

Publication of the portfolio of Goldman Sachs Trading Cor poration showed an investment of more than $1,0OO,0OO in Pa cif1c American Fisheries, Inc. Pacific American Fisheries is a major factor in the Pacific Northwest salmon canning and packing industry, having packed 952,852 cases in 1929. The com pany owns steamships, shipyards can and box factories and 1,- 280 acres of cedar timber. The 1929 salmon pack of this com pany was 9.48 per cent of the worlds pack and 11.38 per cent of the pack in North America.
 Aside from doubtful market ability of the issue the stock is not a speculative favorite and is very inactive. Goldman Sachs appears to have a sound invest ment in it's holdings of Pacific American Fisheries, Inc.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
Record Sale for \ Fox peIt

A check for $4O1, being the net returns on the sale of a single silver fox pelt, was re- ceived by Mrs. R. J. Herbert, ot Seldovia, from the London fur sales.
 This is said to be the highest price paid for any single fox at the sale, the nearest competitor being 9 English pounds less.
 An odd circumstance in con- nection with this sale, points out the Seldovia Herald, was that the fox was tailless, the an imal having lost it's tail in in fancy thru some misunderstood ing with it's mother The an imal was five or six years old and was whelped, raised and pelted on Mrs. Herbert's fox farm on Entrance Island.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
BIG GAME HUNTERS ON WAY
 NORTH

H. Wendell Endicott, Boston banker is heading a party of six big game hunters-or hunters of big game, in Alaska. They are on the steamer Aleutian and plan to get off at Cordova and will go into the interior via the Copper River and Northwest ern Railroad, over the Richard son Highway to Fairbanks and from their on into the big delta country. After hunting, they will go over the Alaska Railroad to Seward.
 Gen. R. E. Wood, president of Soars, Roabuck & Company is also on the Aleutian. He plans spend two weeks fishing in the , streams along the Alaska Rail- , road.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
|Cordoua (. Of (. Condemn Articles

Sensational, unreliable, dis. torted and defamatory," articles concerning Alaska, particularly the Alaska Railroad, charging
 mismanagement, corruption ano
 waste, published in the Seattle
 Star starting July 21St, were .condemned as harmful to Alaska
 in a resolution drawn up by
 Frank Foster, and adopted re- gently by unanimous vote of the Cordova Chamber of Commerce, as follows:
 Whereas the Seattle Star on July 22nd, commenced the publi- cation of articles purported to have been written by Steve Bail ey, the first of which is entitled Millions Wasted on Alaska Rail- road" and whereas it is evident from the annuncement publish ed in said paper that it is in tended to broadcast a series of scurrilouS and overdrawn mis- statements attacking the Alaska Ra4koad Commission and the conduct of the Alaska Railway operations;
 And whereas such an attack can do no possible good at any time and is especially harmful at the present moment when a committee of the United States congress is about to make an in vestigation of the railroad situa- tion;
 Now, therefore we, the Cordo- va Chamber of Commerce of Cordova, Alaska, do hereby re- solve that we deeply resent such and ill-advised pro- paganda, the effect of which can only be detremental to the Ter ritory of Alaska, which has long c1ff0rn6 from tho ,,o,1oErolyi1oC of those who lack knowledge is only exceeded by their zeal for cheap publicity.
 It is further resolved that a copy of this resolution be sent to The Seattle Star, to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and to various Chambers of Commerce of the Territory of Alaska.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
Stripping varnish l1i
 Says Billings

Tn what is the strangeSt court chamber, five justices of the California State Supreme Court sat for five hours last Friday behind prison walls of Folsom Prison, listening to the story of Warren K. Billings. He, con- victed of participation in the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing of 1916, declares most emphatically that he knew not a thing about the bombing which killed 16 men that day and injured 40 others. He ad- mitted that he was hired that day as a saboteur in an auto mobile machinists strike and testified that he was busy spray ing varinsh remover on auto- mobiles when the explosion took place.
 Billings was unsparing of him self in admitting several of lenses and enlivened the pro- ceedings by tstifying that State Senator Edgar Hurley hired him to take a suitcase of dyna- mite from Oakland to Sacre- mento in 1913. He was arrest ed on reaching his destination with the suitcase and served a prison term for illegal trans nortation of explosives.
 Asked why he had not brot out the sabotage testimony in his original trial, Billings said he refrained because he thot it would prejudice his case.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
Fishermen Fight on
 Columbia

The gillnetters and seiners of Lower Columbia River have been battling over the Sand Spit fish ing grounds. The gillnetters un- der the Barbey Packing and Co., lumbia River Packers Associa- tion have been interfering with seining operations by sending in gillnetters and the two groups have now gone to bat in the cir cult court at South Bend, Wash. The actions charge conspiracy and seek damages in large sums and temporary restraining or ders have been granted banning gillnetters designated, from in terfering with selne operations cn the sites indicated.
 A review of the situation, pub iished in the Historian state that "the campaign was a clear con- spiracy among a group of fisher men when a group of eight gill net boats appeared on the Spit grounds in day time and anchor ed at the usual spots where the seines are put in the water. Once the seines were started out, the gill netters cast out from 25 to 50 fathoms of their nets and started drifting just ahead of the seine, driving away the fish from the vicinity of the seine land slowing up seine operations. Little pretense was made at ac- tual fishing and that the nets were hauled in when the seine site had been crossed and the DOaJS returned TOT anOCner run in the same place.
 The following day, the gill; nets were seen milling around on the seining grounds. A seine was ordered out and the gillnet- ters cut the headline with a hatchet and the drag on the tail line was dragging the horses into the water so it had to be cut The net was later picked up or
 the south jetty in a damaged
 condition. A second time the
 tail line was cut by the gillnet-
 ters but the seine was saved. The fight is really between the seiners and the packers Colum-
 bia River Packers ASsociatio
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
Convicts Held in Prison
 Disaster Inquiry

Warden Preston E. Thomas of the Ohio Penitentiary has ad- mitted that at least two prison CTS are being held secretly at the Columbus City jail, suspected of being among those respons- ible for the disastrous peniten- tiary fire April 24th in which 320 convicts lost their lives.
 Up to the present time no one has been able to tell what was the cause of that most dis astrous fire in the history of prisons.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
Fish Failure Hurts to
 Westward

The natives of the Iliamna Lake Clark and Bristol Bay dis tricts are going to have hard time getting through the coming winter, in the opinion of Jack Bailey, trader and fur buyer, who
 made a flight to the lower end of Iliamna Lake recently.
 The traders of the Iliamna and Lake Clark districts, and farther to the westward, have been car rying the natives on their books for more than a year as a result of the failure of the fur catch last winter, and now, to make matters worse, there are no fish in those districts to tide the na- tives over the coming winter. They will have to be given more credit but the traders have about reached the limit and there is the prospect that the provisions given out during the remainder of the year will be no more than absolutely necessary to keep the natives from suffer ing. The natives have not caught even enough salmon this season to feed their dogs, and the out look for the winter fur catch is rot very bright for that part of Anchorage Daily Times.
 Ed. Note: The Seward Gate way recently published an editor ial about the condition of the natives in the districts above Editor Jensen's con- tention was that what little they got was enough for an Indian and he was fortunate to have as much given" him by the gener- ous salmon corporations. He should not complain and is pret- ty much an ingrate for protest ing his small earnings.
 We cannot understand what system of economics MT. Jensen follows and care less. But com mon sense should tell him that the bigger the payroll, fisher mems earnings or whatever it may be in any community, the more prosperous that commun- ity. Which is the basic argu- ment for the fishermen and against traps.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
Little Cannery
 Spends Much

The WrangelI NarroWs Pack ing Company, with a pack of 25, ,000 cases will have paid out $4O,500 for labor and to the fishermen. At which rate the big local P. A. F. cannery would have paid out $162,000 if they had used local help and labor in proportion to put up their pack.
 The biggest portion of this money went to Petersburg and Rake fishermen who spend their money in Alaska, pay and help to pay taxes and keep business going.
 Between local business hous- es and machine shops the lit tel cannery spent about six thousand dollars.
 Contract labor from outside took only three thousand dol lars, another thousand going to l"cal helpers.
 Over fifteen thousand dollars went into material and labor for the new cannery building-vir- tually all of which come from local mills and local help.
 Total these figures and see if more such canneries are not a greater benefit to the Territory than the big corporations which hire and pay off their crews in the states.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
It Makes Elm All
 Talk

Imagine a small town loca.
 boy having a Irritation and fall
 ing in love with a movie queen
 who reciprocates fully the at l tentions of the aforesaid small 1 town chap. No wonder the
 whole town starts talking. That is the story that Simmons fram- ed up to make his daughter in
 lerested in his partner Chet Binney, whom he wants Ethel to marry. This plan works out well for a time, and then several wrenches are thrown into the machinery and there is a real crash-up. .. .. We haven't time nor space to tell the whole story, but it will be explained and very effective ly told next Tuesday and We'd nesday evenings at The Colise- um Theatre when an all-star cast Of Petersburg community players will produce the cele- brated American play, "The Whole Towns Taking"
 Much interest is being shown in this comedy production and full houses are assured for both nights. Popular prices will pre- vail, and everything possible, will be done to make the event enjoyable to all who attend this show.
 It won't be long now, so let everyone be prepared to join the crowds and enjoy two full even ings of fun and happiness. The whole town will surely be talk inr about this show for a long time to come.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
Railroaders Shou'
 Fine Spirit

In order that all of the em- ployees of the Alaska Railroad composing the local shop forces might remain on the payroll un- til normal working conditions are restored, there has been a general agreement among the men to cut their working day to seven hours. The start was made yesterday, with the day shortened one hour on the af- ternoon end, the day ending at 5 o'clock instead of four.
 It is understood that orders came from Washington recent ly to make a further reduction of working forces on the Alas ka Railroad, and when this be- came known to the shop workers it was decided by them to effect the proposed curtailment in that department by shortening tho hours of all concerned until such time as normal conditions can be restored. This means that all concerned will receive an hours less pay each day dur ing the period of curtailment, amounting in same cases to as much as $35 or more per month; but on the other hand, it will keep the force intact, whereas, otherwise, there would have been a material reduction in the number of men on the payroll. It means that a doen or more men who were slated to be laid off immediately, will have jobs throughout the winter. The ac- tion is regarded as a fine ex- ample of cooperation, meaning as it has, the sacrifice of a sub Stantial part of the pay enyel- ope by those who would not have been affected by the cur tailment.
 There are about 70 men in the shops at present and it is be- lieved that there will continue to be that number until circum- stances will permit an enlarg- ment of the forces and a restor- ation of the eight-hour day.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
Supplies Low at Barrow

With heavy ice grinding on the beaches of Point Barrow, the villagers are hopefully wait ing arrival of the schooner C. H. Holmes from Seattle with fresh supplies and mails.
 Shortage of staples has been acute among the natives fo1 months and the reserves of the whites is running very low. The landing of the Holmes is the on ly hope of relieving the food shortage this year by water.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
Fall of the Mighty

Manuel Herrick, former re- presentative in Congress from Oklahoma was arrested by pro- hibition agents in Maryland on a charge of operating a moon shine still. The officers said he was living alone in a one-room shack near the still and work ing as a boiler tender and util- ty man at a nearby mill for $15 a week. Two mn were arrested with Herrick, but a third es- capped.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
Prune Held Short

The state department of agri- culture has estimated that the Idaho, Oregon, Washington prune crop would be about 2500 carloads, compared to more than 4000 carloads last year.
 The decrease was attributed to an unfavorable winter for pollenating season, infestation of white spider mite and serious loss from hot weather, which caused excessive dropping.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
The Pack Is Not
 Normal

The salmon season for 1880 i! TOW a memory. The packers are shipping out products anc crews just as fast as it can be 1One-the products to sell ano to pay off the crews IN SEAT TILE.
 PrO-Bureau of Fisheries men declare that "this season is as near normal as can be expected. They point to the total pack of between four and a half and five million cases packed.
 BUT-the Bristol Bay area packing 322,OOO cases this year did not pack a third of the us- ual normal" pack. Six Libby cannerieS in that district pack ed 8O,000 cases; any one of the six, under normal conditions is prepared to pack half again or more than that.
 Anchorage and Cook Inlet districts had a good run as did Icy Straits. Petersburg, Wran- cell and Ketchikan districts did not run to normal though the pack was greater than it was last year. The difference, this year, was due to the salmon packed from Icy Straits dis tricts and not due to any local normal" run. Aside from a few traps, the catch in the Ketchi- kan district did not reach norm al.
 The West Coast district also was spotty-s0me canneries get ting thei, packs up and others falling shc-t The Lake Ely and BurActt Canneries fa;'el to connev1 with the salmon Lake Bay ad 9 traps that did not average a total of 1900 per day and Burnett was in the same fix. Rake cannery, with out use of seines put up over 100000 cases. The most of this pack came from Icy Straits dis trict.
 At present virtually all in land streams are overseeded. In some even the runway in mid stream are so crowded with sal mon that they can hardly turn. But the first runs have been a complete failure, evidenced by the lack of seed escapement.
 The logical regulatory meas nre for the next and following seasons is to prohibit the taking of salmon in all areas prior to the first of August. This will make sure adequate escapement of seed fish and will thereby re- build the fore part of each re- turning cycle. Then for the August season, permit continu- ous fishing from August 1 to the 10th of September. The indus try will benefit from this regu- lation and will provide for a re- eular and even distribution of salmon in each period of the seasons run.
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The Alaskan., 1930-08-22

Two St. Louis lads, c. Creight- en and Jas. B. Hargis arrived in Los Angeles this week on what is called a roun-trip, reverse gear drive. Riding backwards they made the distance from New York to the Angel City in IS days. The trip is of no com mercial value-but it does give the boys front page publicity.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22

The Lyle Whitney liquor con- spiracy case is holding the cen ter of the stage in Seattle these days with young. Hubbard. in ventOr, rum-runner, prohibition agent, sheriff, holding. the. key points of interest. The govern ment is fighting to convict its former officials and defendants are trying to prove themselves the victims of a gigantic con- spiracy. -. -.-
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
Head Of Haines
 Home Resigns

Mother" Jackson has resign ed as executive in charge of Haines Home, Haines, an insti- tuition for native orphan child ren maintained by the Presby- terian Board of National Mis- sions. =. Under direction of Mother" Jackson, this school has grown until it is recognized as being a most potent factor in the devel- opment of competent, christian citizenship. After a thorough investigation last year, the Grand Camp of the Alaska Ma tive Brotherhood gave unquali- ed endorsement of her work and efforts and further petitioned the Board of National Missions that there be no change in the administration of that school.
 Miss Jackson has been in the mission field under the Presby- terian Board of Home Missions and later the National Board, for more than 30 years. Big hearted, understanding, she has impress ed upon the characters of her charges an indelible memory. Her leaving the field and work will be met with much regret by all those who came to know her md her work.
 The position was offered to Miss Gertrude Eakin, daughter of Judge Eakin of Salem, Ore, but she felt that she could not leave her own work in the Che maya Indian School as she had launched a campaign, which if abandoned, would be unfair to that school. Personally knowing Miss Eakin We make the com ment that this is a second loss to Haines Home
 The new executive, Miss Jane Barber, the daughter of a minis ter and one of large family of missionaries comes equipped to undertake the work. SEe ha; had experience as teacher anti as an executive and las been greatly beloved where she has been, is young and enthusiastic and will prove if not a mother" at least a loving "big sister," to the little group of m1therlc<S and fatherless children in the home. :. :. It was suggested that ar tex ecutive" be appointed as head of that home. In it's resolution to the Board, the HrothCrhooG i'm dicated that it vas not ''cx"'u- tive" wanted so much IS moth CT, and it is hoi e that Mis-, Bar Der will be all that cen be hop ed for. :.
 Miss Barber leaves fC, Haines on the steame Queen, sailing from Sattle on the 2 ,t of this 
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The Alaskan., 1930-08-22

Mary w. Bible is the official court reporter in the big liquor conspiracy case in Seattle. It is said there was not enough Bible in the lives of some of the men appearing in the case. But that has nothing to do with the Bible in this case.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22

s. L. Peterson, new superin- tendent of the Anchorage pub lie schools arrived in Anchorage recently and is getting on the job early. He is a cheechako but expects to have the moss grow on his back before he
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22
AT ANCHORAGE

G. James Truitt, member of the U. s. Engineers force in Alaska is visiting with his fath- CT Judge James s. Truitt of Anchorage.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22

Condemnation proceedings in Victoria, B. C., were started against four. American fishing vessels seized for alleged illegal entry in June. The vessels are the May, Queen City, Sunrise, and Tillie o.
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22

and Barbey Packing Go. The lat ter claiming the grounds in con- trOverSy bu virtue of a lease from the Federal Government
The Alaskan., 1930-08-22

24 Minnekasota and Mort Da- kota beauties are on the Alame- da du in port today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-15
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

fore, it has been hard for q good
many OF our agents who have
been reared in the moral de-
cency Of a past generation to 1T
themselves into the role Of spies
and minor Judases necessary for
this work.
DY taking boys very early, how
y ever. we may be able to dc
something. At 5 or 6 it should be
easy to teach them to insinuate
themselves into the good graces
of the neighbors so that later they
can locate exactly the hiding
place of the family jug and re-
port it.
Thus they ought to grow into
something truly marvellous in the
way of officers. A new kind of
breed, as it we're, of moralists.
Probably we shall be able to
evolve a distinct type of worker.
Long nose, shifty eye, sort of
Uriah Heep who finally will man
age to get us al to his low level.
This new plan, if it is tried out,
presages a doubtful future for our
children. I don't know how you
feel about it, but personally I'd
rather have a pirate in the family
than a graduate of the shoppers
school
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-15
Just
EUey
Day
Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE use of small boys as
L shoppers for the shadowing
of suspected bootleggers was sug-
gested at the prohibition school
held recently for our thirty -four
federal agents. 1t shows to what
a depth of moral degradation we
have sunk since we took up our
noble experiment.
1t is obvious, after ten unsuc-
cessful years Of trying to enforce
the Volstead act, that, if we hope
to have officers able TO handle the
future situations, we shall have to
take them young and train them
down to it.
For it appears 10 go against
the grain of the average normal
man to sneak about prying on his
friends and his fellows. This is
probably because he has not been
brought up that way. Such be-
havior does not tally with the
conception of honor that was
taught him at home and in the
school room.
Doubtless his Sunday school in
structor failed to stress this par
ticular phase of goodness. There
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-15

or you would have broken away
before this. However, if you are
old enough to have such bitter re-
sentiment about the situation you
probably are old enough to have a
little responsibility.
If I were you would have frank
talk with my mother about the
whole thing. So often we let things
be ruined beyond repair by refrain
ing from talking them over. Per-
haps your mother does not realize
just what she is doing to you. She
probably loves you so dearly she is
entirely wrapped up in her own
attitude toward you, so much so
that your resentment does not reach
her at all.