The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1932, Page 2

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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE THURSDAY MARCH 31, \CONSOLIDATION OF JUDICIARY Bill Recently Introduced in House Said to Have No Significance WASHINGTON, D. C., March 31. —In December of Ju last the Depart- tice sent a bill and House at provid- the consolidation on July 2, of the Second and Fourth | al Divisions of Alaska. The {bill was accord introduced in the Senate in Dex ber and was overlooked wee and was ot awted until March 17, which has no particu- lar significence, however, as the |Senate bill has not even had a hearing. 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 Rampart. The 'Dcleg\:\:c has taken the matier up with the Sec.re)ary of Agriculture. } Several communications have been received lately from Alas- |kans who wish to enter the Army aviation school at San Antoinio. Texas, but the applicants have been either above or below the age limit for entering the school, which is between. the ages of 20 and 27. Applications are also fre- ;quem.\y received by the Delegate |from young men who wish to en- ter either the Military Academy at 'West Point or the Naval Acad- There will be no vacancy at West Point for Al- askans until 1934, and nothing at Annapolis until 1933. There has been considerable de- |lay in awarding the contract for {the construction of the, Federal Building at Fairbanks, because the lowest bidder, Wm. MacDonald and Son, of St. Louis, whose bid was ‘f\r $393,000, were in doubt as to | wih er they wanted the contrect |when they learned that ithey had | made & miscalculation on freight charges for steel material. But the MacDonalds finally decided that they would take the contract un- der their oniginal bid and not have new bids called for, which act wa under considerati Department e consid able delay \\O\lld hav d possibly the plans and changed somewhat, is just what the people of Fairbanks do not want. B. D. Stewart, Supervising En- gineer in charge of Alaska work | for the Department of Commerce rtment of the Interior, came from his Juneau headquart- ters and is in Washington in connection with official duties. The Bureau of Indian affairs is considering the appointment of |a Chief of Alaska Division, with i headquarters at Juneau, which po- n has been temporarily filled | y Charles W. Hawkesworth, who |has been serving as Acting Chief since the resignation of Jonathan H. Wagner, who was sbationed at Seattle before the headquarters was moved to Juneéau. Two of the applicants 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. Ernest Sawyer Walker has re- ceived a letter from Julius L. Meier of Oregon, stating that he was FOR FINE FOOTWEAR ARNOLD’S BOOTERY First National Bank Bldg. Front Street We Deliver PHONE 478 If you want the freshest of fruits and vegetables delivered to your door Jjust pick up the phone and give us your order. We select the items you wish with the same discrimina- tion as if you were select- ing them yourself. SPRING VEGETABLES Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Parsley, Spinach, New Cab- bage, California Asparagus, Cauliflower, Green On- ions, French Breakfast Radishes, Bunch Vegetables l?ALIFORNIA GROCERY taking up with the Portland Cham- ber of Commerce the possibility of arranging for a caravan of writers and newspaper men 4o drive to Hazelton, British Colum- bia, and réturn, with a view to giving publicity to the proposed i International Highway to Fair- banks, Alaska, NOT EXPECTED for | in the House Commiit-| | { 8. Move back . Meaningless Acted wildly Erofpund Tie yellow bugle ug) . More slender 3. Female . Large bundle . Small . Passages out . Remain . Descendants 1932 Datly Cross-u ord Puzzle bacehapats ayed the buffoon repetition deer case . Genealogical record . Learning 2. Malign 3. Female sandpipers . Metric land measures . Misery egal resjdences Burning 12 Was, solicitous ?. Obliterate Mother of. mankind Wise man 11 kS Staggers 1 DOWN 1. Matron 2. Black on a ra ground conven! Fant LT The Department of the Interior, through the Geological Survey, an- nounce the completion of a manu- Ecript report on the Valdez Creel mining district, Alaska, by OClyde, P. Ross. This is one of the re- | ports resulting from ‘the special, study of mineral resources in the area tributary to the Alaska Rail- ircad that was carried on during the field seasen of 1931. The re- port contains topographic ami geologic maps of the Valdez Creek and vicinity, This district, v«hlch lies east of the upper mlmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmumuumumuummmmummuummml 5, which have been more or less productive of the placer operations have been quantities this untouched ground can not be iently mined by such as are now in use. As ench depe ed by to that have hydraulic methods ap- have avemgs over 60 cubic yard testing of the ble ground seems war- been since 1903. Most ther small scale, and large of potential placer remain untested. Much of | ranted. There are ral gold-bearing des near Pl w these have been only smalll-scal: L T ] &~ ) | quiries ucmuy prospe,bed. One of ‘the 1s is as much as 1000 feet and several feet wide, but it ar to be of high av- There is reason &0 pockets of gold , may exist in Systematic rch n finding such pock- h »\"u'd give rich returns the usé of much equip- Just east of the present| 5 ¢f the Valdez Creek di along Clearwater Creek there ace of widespread altera- uon of limestone, schist, and oth- er rocks, with the de some pyri and oth area has re niion from of me:n.lhc 10& es. ent death of the great t George Bastman hr the Eastern newspapers tention to the fact thab 5 , af the age of 75 to Alaska on his big. game hunting trip, and | brought down two grizzlies, a feat or which he was very proud. f Scarcely a Gay passes but in- received at the office | of Delegate Wickersham as to the yrmus of a proposed bill that | would create a game sanctuary, {or bear @ Many of these inquiries come from i | Senators and Repr tives from New York, Massachusetts, and the v England States. No such bili | has been ‘introduced in Congress but there is considerable propa-’ ganda contained in various phases |of literature that is being ecircu- ted among those interested in wild game life. Among the or- ganizal s and individuals actively &nt»r»ste:i in ring a brown bear York City—Na- n of Wild Life John W. Holz- Amerjcan Bison BEdmund Seymour, pre Ca.mp Fire Club of Am ‘Albert Tilt, Com- i For- ests and Wild Life, Wm. B. Greely, chairman, A. S. Houghton. chairman, Wm. | man of ® ) aska, John B. Burnk dent; Meadowbrook Butter PHONE 39 American Forestry lon; George D. Pratt, Boone and Crockett | New | riam, president tion; €. Hart Merriam, ex- Protective Association; Seth quarters, Boston— ard, Burlingame, art Edward White, Urbana, Henry H. Ward, chairman. Les D. Wak the , Presiden Pacific Herring Packers' and who has in ed salmon canning Biological Survey; American Game don, 'Chicago— 8. B. Locke, Con- | servation director, Nationmal Head- John K. 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