Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-08
ALASKA ITEMS 0F
 INTEREST AT THE
 NATIONS CAPITOL
(By W.A.S.)

(By w .A.S.)
 Mrs. Max Behlke of Fairbanks is anxious to have her sister, Miss Arna Quandt, come from WiSmar, Mecklenburg, Germany, to locate ip Fairbanks and join her in the ladies furnishing and dressmaking business. But there has been some trouble about securing the neces- Sary concular visa at Hamburg, and Delegate Wickersham has been called upon to get the matter strengthened out.
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 Several communicati tiOnS have been received lately from AlaSkanS who wish to enter the Army avia- tion school at San Antonio, Texas, but the applicants have either been below or above the age limit for entering the school, which is be- tween the ages of 20 and 27. Ap- plications are also frequently re- ceived by the Delegate from young men who wish to enter either the Military Academy at West Point or the Naval Academy at Annapolis. There will be no vacancy at West Point for Alaskans until 1884, and nothing at Annapolis until 1933
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 There is a desire upon the part of some people in the Interior to take over the leasing or manage ment of the Agricultural EXperi- ment Station at Rampant. The Delegate has taken up the matter with the Secretary of Agriculture.
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 The Federal Radio Commission has granted renewal of licenses to R. R. Parish at Steamboat Bay and Chatham Cannery. The Buchan & Heinen Packing Company, and also Karl Hansen, have applied for li- censes covering construction per mitS at Port Alexander.
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 Benjamin D. Stewart, supervising engineer in charge of Alaska work for the Department of Commerce and Department of the Interior, came from his Juneau headquar- ters and is in Washington in con- nection with official duties.
 The Bureau of Indian Affairs is considering the appointment of a Chief of the Alaska division, with headquarters at Juneau, which po- sition has been temporarily filled by Charles w. Hawkesworth, who has been serving as acting Chief since the resignation of Jonathan H. Wagner, who was stationed at Seattle before the headquarters was moved to Juneau. Two of the ap- pllcants for the position will be in Washington shortly to confer with the Department. Both are very high class men and one has spent a couple of years in Alaska doing research work.
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 Ernest Walker Sawyer has re- ceived a letter from Governor Ju- lius L. Meier of Oregon stating that he was taking with the Port land Chamber of Commerce the possibility of arranging for a car avan of writers and newspapermen to drive to Hazelton, B. C., and re- turn, with a view to giving publi- city to the proposed International Highway to Fairbanks, Alaska.
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 The recent death of the great philanthropist, George Eastman, prompts the Eastern newspapers to call attention to the fact that two years ago, at the age of 75, Eastman went to Alaska on his last big game hunting trip and brought down two grizzlies, a feat of which he was very proud
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 The appointment of Ernest I. Amundsen to be postmaster at An chorage in place of Henry s. Sogn, whose commission expired January 10 and who wishes to be relieved from office on April 1, was sent to the Senate on March 18.
 Lee D. Wakefield, president of the Pacific Herring Packers Asso- ciation and who has himself op- erated in salmon canning and herring mild curing in Alaska for many years past, was a Washing ton visitor during the past week. He came at the behest of his asso- citation to confer with Commission CT of Fisheries Henry O'Malley to