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Hyder weekly herald., 1931-09-02

river crossings. The monuments are of two types, the larger of which is shown in the illustration at the head of this article. These are fashioned of cast bronze, 5 feet high and bear on opposite sides the words United States" and Canada" Only two of these larger monuments were install ed, each being used to mark the terminals of the boundary line One Is located on the shores of the Arctic Ocean about miles east of Demarca- tion Point in Latitude 69' 45" North, the other is situated on Eagle Point, on the edge of the Hyder townsite in Latitude 55o 39" North.
 The smaller monuments installed at intermediate points are similar in appearance but somewhat smaller, be- ing round and conical, 21a feet in height. and composed of the same material.
 From sea level on the Arctic shore, the elevation of the long line of mon- uments rises gradually to a height of nearly 5000 feet in the vicinity of Mt. St. Elias.
 The task of placing these bronze shafts in position along the 2OOfoot wide boundary line was in itself a monumental undertaking, and involv- ed labor of the most arduous type.
 During the course of their work the little band of engineers and their assistants travelled for days over Arctic wastes in which no human habitation existed for hundreds of miles around. Again their way led over wide raging rivers where a slip meant disaster, or through great areas of wilderness untrodden by man. At other times they traversed vast and treacherOus glaciers whose icy crey- asses yawned for the unwary step, or wended careful way along the slopes of mile high peaks whose crests were shrouded in fog and swept by bitter winds.
 The Alaska Canadian boundary line is also irrevocably fixed in it's proper place by means of triangulations drawn between certain fixed stars. This is so accurate that even were every boundary monument swept away by some mighty cataclysn which leveled even the mountain peaks on which they rest, surveyors would have no difficulty in redeterm- ming the exact location of the line.
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found only above this altitude. Snow above 5000 feet that are not too steep and the still higher peaks hold in their rocky sides vast ampitheaters occupied by glaciers. Waterfalls are numerous throughout the district and present many spectacular sights, es- pecially in the Texas Creek valley.
 Of especial interest to the tourist and sightseer is the fact that a majority of the scenic wonders of the district may be viewed without physical exertion. Indeed it is in no degree an exaggeration to say that in few hours of travel by automobile over some fifty miles of smooth, gov ernment-built highway one may view at ease more varied and beautiful scenes of the rugged type than In days of travel in any other section of North America.
 Journeying along the major val leys one passes from sea level to elevations ranging up to $500 feet or more, through an ever er-changing series of appealing vistas. Mile-high mount ain peaks. their skypiercing summits crowned with eternal snow, lie on every side as one moves along the deep-clefted, verdant valleys; silvery lakes in beautiful surroundings re- fleet in their glassy bosoms the pass ing panorama of craggy heights and massy, timber clothed slopes: rush. ing streams, tortured to foamy white ness by their swift descent toward the sea, fill the air with thunderous cadences that are echoed and re- echoed along the valley walls.
 So varied and wonderful are the scenic attractions that all who have seen them are unanimous In the be- lief that the Portland Canal district l Is destined to become one of the great sightseeing centers of the con tinent and summer playground for thousands when it's spectacular wond- CTS have become more widely known.
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The city possesses several churches and modern schools, a firSt-claSs theater equipped with the latest fac ilities, a central heating plant sup plying heat to the business district, q splendid electric light plant. an ex- cellent water system for use in sum- mer and numerous other up to date facilities. The stores are large, of modern type, and carry well assorted stocks of merchandise. Owing to the long distance from the supply mar kets, the local merchants find it nee essary to carry large stocks of equip ment and supplies of every character with resultant investments far be yond those usually carried by sim liar concerns in towns of the samC size in the United States. The larger establishments also maintain eXten sive cold storage facilities for neat and other perishables.
 The population of the city is over 2.000, exclusive of a large number who reside outside the city limit and on adjacent creeks. The city ie also the center of an important air transport industry, with two compap ies operating a large fleet of planes to points as far away as Nome. Ser vice is maintained both summer and winter and is tremendously beneficial ances such as Alaska.
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Travellers who have visited every outstanding scenic section of the civ ilized world concur in the view that the Portland Canal district is unriv- aled for scenic beauty. From the en- trance of the magnificent Portland Canal at DiXon's Entrance on the Pa cific shores to the heads of Bear and Salmon River and Texas Creek val leys the scenery is of a most imposing nature. Great mountains rear their snow and glacier covered pinnacles to heights of 5000 feet or more in every part of the district, many rising sheer from the waters edge. immense glaciers fill the upper val leys and gorges, forming objects of beauty and grandeur. Icy torrents rush forth from their echoing blue caverns and dash away toward the sea. lashed to milky whiteness in their passage.
 The Portland Canal is itself one of the most remarkable natural won ders of the district The great ford is some 90 miles in length. with an average width of about miles. The channel waters are deep and reflect in their mirror-like surface the pict- uresque shores. rising kke mammoth battlements to mile or more in height at times
 The scenery in the immediate vic inity of Hyder and Stewart is bold and impressive, the lofty wooded slopes rising tier on tier above both towns Overhanging glacier tips be- tween their lofty crestS glow with rich cerulean hues and further beautify the striking scenery lying on every side
 The Bitter Creek glacier, one of the most impressive in British Col umbia is a comparatively short drive from Stewart over an excellent road and, like most of the major glaciers of the district, is easily accessible An auto ride along the verdure clad reaches of Bear River valley north of Stewart reveals many beautiful noun
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-09-02

Fairbanks, situated on the Tanan1 River in the very heart of the great Territory of Alaska, would mark the end of the Golden Twilight Trail.
 Situated in charming surroundings and with the great Tanana River winding sinuously along it's borders. this metropolis of the North is known far and wide as "The Golden Heart of Alaska"
 Fairbanks is situated in a splendid agricultural country and the surround ing district is dotted with farms. St gratifying have been the results the agricultural efforts so far at tempted that there appears no reason to doubt that farming will one day become one of the most importan, industries, as we'll as a highly val uable asset of the region.
 Realizing the probability that through it's millions of acres of good farming land, Alaska may in tim not only feed it's own population bu also contribute materially to the pro duction of several products for tn United States, the Department Agriculture maintains here an agri cultural experiment station and car ries on an intensive campaign to dem enstrate the possibilities of farmin. in Alaska.
 Fairbanks during it's earlier years was the center of large placer min
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THE TWIN CITIES OF THE NORTH
 RYDER AND STEWART
BY ERNEST BLUE

* * * * * * Girt round by snow crowned mount aims,
 The temples of the God; Just a little bit of Heaven,
 Misnomered "Land of Nod" Elysian valleys, calm, serene:
 The brooks alive with trout, A broad expanse of crystal sea,
 The wealth of Ophir all about. With civic soul not born of earth,
 A fellowship that knows no odds, Fraternity immune to dearth,
 The playground of the Gods.
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Alaska enjoys excellent radio and cable communication with the Out. side world through the 32 cable and radio stations maintained at most O., the important points by the U. S Army Signal Corps.
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Almost every important town ln Alaska has a woman's Club, many of which are affiliated with national woman's organizations. The Kegoyah kozga (Woman's Cmb'D Nome. is the most northerly woman's club in the world
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-09-02

The average annual precipitation in the interior of Alaska averages only 12 to 15 inches. about one-third that at Boston, and corresponds more nearly with that of Nevada and Arizona.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-09-02

The Alaska Railroad, built by the government in 1925, at a cost of $60,- 000,000, runs from Seward to Fair banks, 470 miles, and is our farther est north railroad.
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The seventeen territorial and na- tional banks in Alaska have resources of approximately S15.000,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
TWO Mobilizes For
Signature Drive

The drive to collect $4,000 sig
natures to place the Communist
Party candidates on the ballot
will be pushed forward this Sun
day August 9th when the Inter-
national Workers Order member
ship throughout greater New
York turns out in the house to
house canvass in behalf of their
own organization and to assist the
Communist Party place its candi-
dates on the ballot. The TWO Is
the first mass organization to mo-
bilize its entire membership for
this task, and the Communist
Party District 2, looks to all other
working class organizations to fol-
low this example as quickly as
possible to fill the quota of $4,000
names which must be assured be-
fore the Party can enter its cam
didates In the Municipal Elections,
to fight for the interests Of the
working class. Vote as you strike
Against the bosses. Give your
help now in the collection of sig
natures. All workers should re-
port at the TWO.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE of the
COMMUNIST PARTY--Dist 2.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
CALL NATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON
MINERS RELIEF.
Meets In Pittsburgh on
Aug. 1929

NEW YoRK.--A call for national
conference to be held Pittsburgh on
August 18th and 18th has been sent
to all WIR sections, all the Penn
Ohio Relief Committees and all mass
organizations which have participated
in the relief campaign for the min
ers, by the Workers International
Relief, 1893 Broadway.
The Workers International Relic!
urges that approximately five dele
gates be sent to the conference from
the larger cities and at least one each
from the smaller cities. as
The following points will bofoI0nf
up at the conference: /. MlSk e
lief; 2. Textile workers yene
coordinating the relief campaigns
for miners and textile workers in
New England, New Jersey, New York
and Eastern Pennsylvania; 8. The
need for and the methods of build
ing the WIR; 4. The relationship Of
the WIR to the revolutionary unions;
5. The World Congress of the WIZ
and the selection of an American
workers delegation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
BOMB HOME OF
SYMPATHIZER IN
PA. STRIKE AREA
Threaten to Burn the
Furniture of All
Evicted Miners

PITTSBURGH, Pa, August Last
night the house of Alex Roman, NMU
picket at the Warden mine of the
Pittsburgh Coal Co., was bombed at
Blythedale. The house was destroyed
and the neighboring house of post
master Frank Vittori was burned and
blasted but not destroyed.
Vittori, was on the cornittee which
several days ago protested to the
Elizabeth Township Commissioners
against their making former coal
and iron policeman named Dalton a
special deputy.
The injured are Angelina vittori,
wife of Vittori, who was knocked I'M
conscious and probably paraysed and
Anthony .Vittori, their son, cut by
glass, and Alex Roman cut by glass.
The McKinleyTlle mine sends
word Send us thirty tents and food
and we will all strike" Fifty five
more struck at Golfers and only fiji
teen are left in the mine now.
Furniture of evicted miners at
Wellsburg was seized and stored in
the city storage at a charge of fifty
cents a day. The mayor says if it is
not paid for within month he will
order the furniture burned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
$4,000 NEGRO And WHITE TO HONOR MASSACRE VICTIMS
II. S. Engineer
Cooper Confers
With Com. Stain

MOSCOW, Aug. Col. Hugh
L. Cooper, president of the Amer
lean Russian Chamber of Com
merce, was received yesterday by
Stain with whom he conferred
for an hour.
Col. Hugh L. Cooper of the H.
L. Cooper & Co., consulting en-
gineers, is the chief consulting
engineer Of the Dnieper River hy-
droelectric power plant. COL
Cooper was the builder Of the
Muscle Shoals plant in Alabama.
The Dnieper plant in the So
Wet Union will be the largest by.
dro-electric plant in the world
with an ultimate capacity of $780,
300 hip. The cost Of the plant is
$4,000, oo0 It will serve an
area of 10000 square miles and a
population of rs million persons.
The plant is 200 miles north of
Odessa and in the midst of a
vast mining, agricultural and in
dustrial area. 1t was started in
l27 and will be finished in May,
1882, one year before the sched-
ule.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08

to wrest the gun from a high
wayman. Because the survivors
describe the hold-up man as a
Negro, the police have used
this a pretext to launch a reign
of terror against the Negro workers.
Among the scores of workers ar
rested after their homes were brok-
en- into by the Birmingham police,
are several in whose homes Com
munist literature was found. Against
these militant Negro workers the po-
lice are now concentrating all their
efforts for a frame-up in connection
with the hold-up Of the society wo-
men. The boss press is carrying on
its usual campaign of melting to
lynch terror against the arrested
workers.
The Southern district of the In
ternational Labor Defense has sent
a telegram to Chief Of Police Nc
Duff of Birmingham, vigorously pro-
testing these raids on the homes of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
4PRAVDA' SCORES
ARGENTINE RAID
Planned By Imperial
lists and White Guards

MOSCOW, Aug. Exposing the
lying statement of the Argentine po-
lice who allege that among the doc
uments siezed during the raid on
the Soviet trading company in
Buenos Aires recently, the Yuhzam-
tory, there was a document showing
that propaganda" was carried on by
the Soviet trading agency, "Pravda"
says:
The Argentine raiders, together
with their imperialist inspirers and
technical executives in the person of
the Russian white guards, fulfilled
all procedure suitable for such occa-
sions. First outrageous raids, and
arrests and ravaging, then 'docu-
ments' appear.
THE new, false documents created
in the bosom of the secret police in
Buenos Aires are neither original
nor rich in fantasy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
I'D RATHER DIE THAN SCAB-BUT
THE KIDS" STRIKING MINER SAYS
Strike Can't Be Won Without Relief; Workers!
Show Your Solidarity!

want to be scab now. know what
it means working as things are now.
You make nothing just the same.
But the children-there are so
many children and they all need eats
and shoes. The relief sends out all
it can, know, but there are so many
of us. 1 give my share to the kids,
but we need more. I've never been
a scab yet, and I'd rather die my
self-but the kids!"
When all the food is distributed
between all the strike camps, there
is enough food for three meals a
week. But the Pennsylvania Ohio
west Virginia Kentucky Striking
Miners Relief Committee is urging
workers everywhere to send more
funds and collect more food so that
one meal day can be sent to every
striking miner, every child, and
every woman.
The importance Of this relief can
not be overestimated, Ike Hawkins,
relief chairman says. Workers every
where must be rallied Immediately
so that the miners will not be starved
back to work! The battle is fierce
one, and the miners are prepared to
fight it through. And with your
help, we will fight it through" Haw-
kins says. Send all the pennies and
dollars you can gather togetherl
Every penny is so terribly necessary
to buy food and tentsl Rush what
you can to Room $50, 1893 Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
MORE FOOD SENT
TO MINE STRIKERS
Workers Int'l Relief In
Active Drive

With the delivery of a large truck
load of food to the striking textile
workers of Paterson, New Jersey, the
Workers International Relief has sw-
ung into the task of supplying re-
lief to workers on the textile strike
front.
The WI.R. has also established a
soup kitchen and relief store in
Paterson and is pushing ahead with
plans to widen relief activity in the
three districts where textile workers
are out on strike under the leader
ship of the revolutionary National
Textile Workers Industrial Union.
The children of the Paterson strik-
ers will be fed today at the soup
kitchen.
Today also the Penn-Ohio Striking
Miners Relief Committee in conjunc-
ton with the W.IR. is holding a
Tag Day in Perth Amboy for the
relief of the striking miners and tex
tile workers,
Every worker in Perth Amboy is
called on by these two organizations
to extend every effort in support of
these strikers who are now in the
front line Of the fight for better con-
ditions. Rush funds, food and cloth
ing to the Penn Ohio Striking Min
ers Relief Committee, 1893 Broadway,
Room 800, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08

SLoVAN, Pa, Aug. FROM the
1-months-old baby to the 13-year-
old boy, not one of the children OF
Jim Sabatasi, striking miner of Slo-
van, has a pair of shoes. Mrs. Saba
tasi walks the highways barefoot if
she wants to go anywhere, and so
do her ten children. One baby is
dead. There is always sickness IN
the family-if it isn't one, it's another
child. Frequently three or four are
sick at the same time.
Mrs. Sabatasi diagnoses the sick
ness as well as any doctor, and she
knows the cure-milk for the babies,
nourishing food. Mrs. Sabatasi her
self is suffering with a bad case Of
asthma.
Sabatasi was one Of the hundreds
who picketed the Langecloth mine
here Thursday morning when an at
tempt was made to reopen the mine.
Deputies and state troopers were also
on hand to smash the line and try to
keep the pickets off the highway. Not
until the reserves were called did
the police succeed in making arrests
Sabatasi said many workers were
dubbed then. Very few went into
the mine.
i've been union man for over
80 years." Sabatasi says, land I don't
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
JAIL KENTUCKY
NATIONAL MINERS
UNION LEADERS
Criminal Syndicalism
Charge Against 4
Especial to the Daily Worker. !


WALLINS, KY, Aug. 7.-Jessie
Wakefield, district organizer of the
International Labor Defense, has
been rearrested, as we're Arnold
johnson, representative of the Civil
Liberties Union; Jason Afford and
Bill Duncan, both local strike. lead
ers. All are being held on charges
of criminal syndicalism.
Thugs are still raiding the houses
of the workers and destroying and
confiScating guns and pistols used
in protection of the striking miners.
They also took shot guns, some
which were twenty years old and
had been used for squirrel shooting.
The Evarts National Miners Union
kitchen was opened on Wednesday.
1t fed four hundred on the first day
and five undred on Thursday. Help
is needed desperately to carry on this
work, as thousands in Evarts are de-
pending on this kitchen.
Rush help to the Penn Ohio West
Virginia Striking Miners Relief Com
mittee, GIL Penn Ave, Room 205,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08

NEW YORK.-At the call OF the
international Aid, millions OF work.
ers throughout the world are pre-
pairing to make Sacco-Vanzetu Day.
Aug. %, a day of worldwide pro-
test against the raging boss terror
against the working class and for
The release of the nine innocent
Scottsboro Negro boys and OF the
camp Hill troopers still held in jail
N Alabama, for the release OF Tom
Mooney and Billings and of all class
var prisoners in America and other
capitalist countries.
In the United States, conferences
nave been called by the Interna-
ional Labor Defense in scores OF
titles, to organize the Aug. % DEM
nstrations in this country. In New
FORK City the demonstration will be
held in Union Square. Ky
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
1000 DEMONSTRATE IN
WASHINGTON PARK
ON THURSDAY
PERM GRANTED
WORKERS RAISE FUNDS
FOR FUNERAL

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug.
Police permission
has been secured for
the funeral procession
which will be held on
Saturday, August 8, at 2 pm.
from Odd Fellows Hall, 1887
South State Street. The pro-
cession will march south to
47th Street, turn west at
Stewart to Railroad Station where
the bodies of Abe Grey and John
O'Neil viii be put on the train to
be shipped to their places of birth in
the states of Mississippi and Arkan-
sas respectively.
The United Front Funeral ar
rangements committee estimates
that no less than $4,000 white and
Negro workers will be in the process
sion. A stream of white and Negro
workers is constantly moving through
the large room in the Odd Fellows
Hall to pay tribute to the dead SOL
diers of the class struggle.
On Thursday night more thar
seven thousand Negro and white
workers again demonstrated in
Washington Park, cheering the
Communist Party representative and
other speakers.
Mayor Cermak called a meeting o.
his cabinet on Thursday night al
which plans have been laid down to
attack the Communist Party, threat
ening the foreign born workers with
deportation.
Socialists, Negro and white priests
business men and police held
meeting to plan methods of social
derhagogy to win the workers. Ma
thewson Of the Unemployed Council
issued a statement condemnins the
charges of the Corporation Counse
Sexton and te capitalist press that
the Unemployed Council is collect
ing dollars from the unemployed
workers. The dues in the Unem-
ployed Council is one cent. The cap
italist press report this morning that
raids have been made on the Com
munist Party headquarters. This i,
false. There were no raids on tn.
headquarters.
additional news on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
AFL Heads, Hoover Aides, Admit
More Jobless in the Coming Winter

) Silas H. Strlwn, wealthy Chi
cago lawyer, close adviser of Hoover,
frankly said that unemployment
would be much worse in the coming
winter. No relief was planned, but
Strawn said the government had the
situation well in hand"
Barnes said that the United States
Chamber of Commerce would issue a
report" on unemployment on Sep
TENDER I.
Green OF the A. F. of L. declared
the next A. F. Of L. convention in
Vancouver, B. c., Oct /, would take
up the Western Pennsylvania mine
strike and the strike. of the Pater-
son silk workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
World Wide Demonstrations
August p, Sacco-Vanzetti
Day, Against Boss Terror

AS result Of the militant fight
led by the international Labor De-
Tense, the landowners courts Of
Tallapoose County, Alabama, have
been forced to dismiss the charges
against 20 of the arrested Negro
troopers. Wholesale arrests of crop
pers were made following the land
owners and police attack on the
Share Choppers Union. In that at
tack several troopers were wounded
and their wives and children beaten
up. One cropper. Ralph Grey. was
murdered in his bed by the landown-
ers and police, who looked on him
as leader of the troopers in their
fight against starvation and land
owner robbery.
Several of the troopers are still
in Jail, with the landowners and
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