The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-02
DIMOND ARRIVES
 FOR CONFERENCE. OF PARTY HEADS.
Delegate Elect Here for Several Days, Complet-
 ing Territorial Tour

 2.500 miles by air and hundreds of additional miles by train and steamer in visiting his constitQ- ents in nearly all sections of the Territory, Delegate Elect Anthony J. Dimond arrived here yesterday evening on the steamer Alaska for stay of several days. When he concludes his stay here, he will proceed to Ketchikan for few days, then go to Washington, D. c. via Seattle and Oakland ss
 The object of his long journey, he said, was solely to visit people and places he had not been able to see during his campaign last Fall. T feel that personal con- fact with the people and a first hand acquisition of information on conditions and the needs of the several districts were essential to a proper representation of AL aska in the National Capital" the Delegate Elect declared.
 Visits Numerous Communities
 He did not confine his visita- tions to the larger communities, but stopped at many of the small Ter settlements in remote districts, places he was not able to cover in his campaign for election. He was warmly greeted everywhere.
 He talked to the residents of more than 30 towns and hamlets. Covering the entire Alaska Rail- road, the Kuskokwim Valley, low CT Yukon and Tanana Valleys and part of Seward Peninsula, he conferred with persons at Seward, Anchorage, Bethel, McGrath, Flat, Akiak, Kaltahag, Aniak, Napa- mute, Crooked Greek, Tacotna, Medfra. Lake Minchumina, Nena- na, Fairbanks, Panama, Ruby, Nu- lato, Nome, and all of the towns On the Alaska Railroad, Cordova, Haines and Skagway.
 Time Curtailed Trip
 Unable to leave as early as he had planned, MT. Dimond was not table to visit the Koyukuk, up- per Yukon and upper Seward Pen iasula districts which he had not covered in his campaign, due to the accident at Flat that cost him a broken shoulder, put him in a hospital for several days and linn tied his campaigning radius. He has completely recovered from that injury and is in the best of health.
 The Delegate Elect expressed his deep regret that he had not had time to cover the entire Territory. T need and want first-hand know ledge of the whole of Alaska, and am anxious to meet personally as many Alaskans as is possible. It is my plan to maintain the very closest of contacts with them so that the Delegates office may be made an instrument of real service to them" he declared.
 In addition to meeting as many persons as possible and studying needs and conditions, MT Dimond met and conferred with party leaders in the several sections. He found them working harmonious ly. and cooperating in working on program that is aimed to promote the Territory's material well-being and to bring to it the fullest possible measure of local elf-Government.
 He will continue those confer eIices here and at Ketchikan. He hopes to meet residents of both Petersburg and Wrangell enroute to Ketchikan and, had time per- mitted, would stop for a day or 50 here and at other Sout h. east Alaska towns. However, this was not considered as essential as his interior trip since he visited practically every Southeast Alaska community last Fall.