Seward daily gateway., 1932-02-27
ALASKA ITEMS IF INTEREST AT TIE
 NATIONS CAPITOL
(By W.A.S.)

4Il6 Dlll IIltIUuuC6u III t1le E1UliSE by Delegate Wickersham to repeal the Alaska Bone Dry Law, which conflicts with the Volstead Act, was given its second hearing be- fore the Committee on Territories on February 9 A few days ago previous, the attorney for Bishop Cannon prepared a statement and had it filed with the committee, giving his objections to the bill of repeal. These were replied to in detail by the Delegate at the meet ing. which was also attended by Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president of the National Woman's Christian Tenn perance Union, and who spoke in opposition to the bill, as did alsn the attorney, requiring further ex- planation and argument by the Delegate. AS some of the members of the committee could not be pres ent at the next meeting on Feb ruary g, 1t was decided to author ize the chairman to call a special meeting at an opportune time, when a vote would be taken on ap- proval or disapproval of the bill
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 There has been considerable con- troverSy over the office of post master at Fairbanks during the past year, but the general desire for the reinstatement of Wilkie T. Pinkerton has been so convincing that the Department has decided to send his name to the SenaOx, for confirmation, with the next batch of poStmaSterS.
 Ernest Walker Sawyer, represent ing the Interior Department. has about completed arrangements with the University Travel Association, for the Floating University Around the World Cruise to include Alaska in their next tour. The sailing of nearly 500 graduates and under graduates, accompanied by many professors, will be from New York in December, 1892. The following June the party will reach Dutch Harbor from Japan, and then go on to Seward, to take a short trip over the railroad to Anchorage, and re- turning, depart for Cordova, Sitk2, Juneau, Wrangeu Ketchikan and Seattle MT, Sawyer has also just received word from the San Fran cisco Chamber of Commerce that their Trade Excursion to Alaska this summer would be limited to 120 persons, and it is expected that practically every local firm inter ested in the development of trade relations between San Francisco and Alaska will be represented The party will depart on July 28 and return to the California city on August 20. Leaving Seattle, the party will travel on a steamer of the Alaska Steamship Company to Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Cor dova, Valdez and Seward. At the later city, they will board the AL aska Railroad for an eight-day trip through the Interior, with stops at Anchorage, Curry, Mt. Mckinley National Park and Fairbanks. From there they will proceed by auto mobile over the Richardson High way to Chitina, with a side trip over the Copper River & North western Railway to the Kennecott Copper Mines and return by rail to Cordova, where the steamer will again be boarded for the Outside.
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 Attending the Seventh Women's Patriotic Conference on National Defense, which ended in Washing ton on February 3, was Mrs. An drew Johnson of Petersburg, rep resenting the American Legion Auxiliary, and the only delegate present from Alaska.
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 The Delegate expects to introduce a bill in Congress to extend the provisions of the Retirement Act of May g, 1920, as amended, to employees of the Alaska Railroad, who are citizens of the United States, and whose employment has not been intermittent nor of un- certain duration. The bill would
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