The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1931, Page 5

By GEORGE McMANUS OoNT TALK ABOLT VT - JUDT KEEP ON PLAYINY' - ,ll\(, up F \IHER ™M GOIN' UPSTAIRS AND LET THE FAT-HEAD THAT DROPPED THE FLOWER-POT ON MY FOOT- KNOW WHAT | THINK OF Hit - B tis atts FE5 WHY -l HEAR MLSIC FROM UPSTARS 7 OH-DEAR - HE MIGHT KILL HIM = HE HADS NO CONTROL OF WIS TEMPER LATELY - 'M AFRA\D TO SAY ANYTHING TO Hin- NO ONE CAN HANDLE "M SORRY THE FLOWER: VASE SLIPPED OULT OF MY WANDS- All-Alaska News ITEMS GATHERED - INEVERY PART OF NORTHLAND Interesting Facts About Various Places and Per- sons Are Assembled Earl N. Ohmer was re-elected president of the Petersburg Com- mercial Club. T. S. Elsmore, Fred- erick Nelson, Lloyd T. Swanson and Bob Allen were chosen mem- bers of the executive committee. ‘Together with President Ohmer James Nolan, secretary, and Charle Darwell, treasurer. ! Good progress is reported in the work of clearing the site for the Indian Industrial School on Shoe- maker Bay, near Wrangell. All tim- ber on the eight-acre tract has been felled and the task of removing the ps is under way. They are| lasted. { | A Masonic Club has been organ- ized at Wrangell with C. P. Kirk-| land, president and Ernest Camp-| bell, secrctary-treasurer. Dr. Harry Racul DeWydum of Seattle, who was cne of the volun teer crew of the Dorothea, which' recently searched in Southeast Al ka waters for the lost Robin Rena han airplane party, writes to the| Ketchikan Chronicle from Seattle | will hold a meeting in the r future to appoint the other of- for the club. that he will soon leave there for Craig to practice his profession. | ‘Work of reinforcing the Ketchi- kan Cold Storage dock with pil-| ing and decking in places is 75 per cent completed. The estimated cost | of the entire improvement is $15,000. val by the Petersburg Com- was given to the pro of 1 sel Owners Association inst the proposal to vest in four mb: of an American-Canadian s Commission power to gov- n the halibut industry. The Com- reial club communicated its at- r.:ude to Delegate in Congress Dan Sutherland. Miss Lillian Larsen, who had] charge of the Kaffe Stova in the Seamen’s Home, and Arndt Bue, employed by the Miners and Mer- chants Bank, were recently married at Ketchikan. “Owing to the large 2 e number of I s, it was stated cold his interest in the Sisters FoxX jn the Ketchikan Chronicls, “every- Island near Petersburg, to Ed Jahn- body: im town was cordially invited ke, who is now 50l owner Of the '{, attend.” enterprise. | Nine thousand dollars constituted (*(,rm(“” with 45 e net profit in 1930 of the Pe- Aviation Records, tersburg Cold Storage COmpany} This is virtually the same as the| Leads Two Natwns amount of profit in 1929. Work on/! the enlargement of the plant will| start by March 15. The lmpmve-‘ T. 8. Elsmore of Petersburg has (Continued from page 1.) ments will cost $25,000. | !Amenczm achievements is the en- Fears are entertained for the|durance record of Dale Jackson safety of Al Farrow and L. C. and Forest O'Brine, who stayed Davis, trappers, who left Petersburg aloft for 647 hours, 28% minutes. in their gasboat T2079 November The performance has not been of- 15 on a trapping expedition, in-!ficially recognized for lack of com- tending to return before December 'Plete report, and in its stead is the 1. The boat, with only half its!flight of John and Kenneth Hun- gasoline supply used and apparent- ter, who flew for 553 hours, 41% ly abandoned for a long time, was | minutes. recently found adrift in Salmon| Of the five world records recog- Bay. L] [nized by the F. A. I as the best |performances in aeronautics, three Seventy-five skilled and unskilled | Were set in 1930 and two a year laborers residing in Ketchikan will | before. be employed on the Thomas Basin) These include the longest non- project near there, announced J.|stop duration flight of 67 hours C. Greeley of the Puget Sound and 13 minutes by U. Maddalena Dredging Company, which obtained jand F. Cecconi of Italy; the longest the contract for the improvement.| nonstop distance in a closed cir- “cuic of 508827 miles by the same Thomas Case, pioneer business aviators, and Lieut. Soucek’s air- man of Wrangell, who came north'plane altitude flight. in 1883, recently celebrated hxs\, The 1929 marks were set by the cighty-second anniversary with a longest nonstop distance in a dinner to 25 of his friends at his straight line, 4912799 miles, by home in Wrangell. ~Among the Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bel- guests were James Greenslate and |lonte; and the greatest speed over Jesse Crowell who with Case were a given base, 357.723 miles an hour, members of the Eleventh United by Squadron Leader A. H. Orle- States Cavalry at Fort Custer, bar, of Great Britain. Mont., in 1877. ———————— California moterists last year used The Bills Club at Wrangell has an average of 634 gallons per ve- clected Ed Lindman, president; hicle. — WHAT REGULARITY DOES A little water now and then keeps ife in a flower, but if watered regularly it abounds in living strer.gth with great- er beauty and fragrance. It is the regular additions to one’s saving fund that make it grow. First National Bank ) TRADERS OPPOSE FUTURES MARKET - uthority. —__DIGTATOR' PLAN - By FRANK 1. WELLER (A. P. Farm Editor) WASHINGTON, Jan, The Secretary of Agriculture would have the powers of an absolute monarch in the futures market under the Capper and Dickinson bills to regu- ex U place no pers United States could handle or ite orders for future delivery ess the y gave him that e e that brokers licensed or Any nse could and ondents be to trade. Approval trade, the ry's ap- |the government’s wheat stabilization .| poticy the volume of futures lm\'l-’m, whole fabric of the | Tutures on in all com- | not | in- | trading would be subjected to the personality, intelligence and te convictions of one man. have voiced objections ich control of their fortunes In defense of stabilization, Chair- man Legge of the farm board says that March and May wheat retain their value while July wheat and lation, have Legge sa; suffered deflation. he doesn’t believe the exchanges are going to close if new restrictions are added, but that elimination of short selling probably will become necessary because of the “impossibi of regulating jsuch sales satisfa y to prevent arges tha 1se of |market manipulat a vice president board of trade, says eral restrictions might he exchange closing. Un ent system exchanges Car —e— In Shanghai there are 241 Am- ican firms and more than 3,000 1ug ha Americans in business, been greatly reduced. 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