Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1935, Page 7

TALE OF ALASAN HARDSHPS TOLD Returning Transients De- scribe Privaticns and Mis- management in Colony. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, June 24.—Although Don Irwin, resident manager of the Ma- tanuska land colony, branded settlers’ criticisms as “greatly exaggerated,” transient laborers, homeward bound to California today after “helping the colonists get a start, told tales of pri- vations and hardships in the Alaskan wilderness. Murl H. Montgomery, one of the 31 single men in the party, told inter- viewers that “I only wish that we oould testify before a Senate investi- gating committee.” William Peek said three women in the colony begged him for his identi- fication tag, saying they wanted to eut their hair, don men’s clothing and get back to the States. “They wanted to get back here and work to send their families enough to break away, t00,” he said. Peek said when he wanted a bath he had to heat water in tin cans over « bonfire. Men said they went with- out & bath for three weeks until 12 showers were erected for 400 men. The valley is mosquito-ridden, the men said. An average man's menu was cata- logued as: Breakfast — Hot cakes, dough. dripping Lunch—One peanut butter, one jelly | and one meat sandwich, made une night before. No coffee. Dinner—Brown gravy, boiled po- | tatoes, canned corn, macaroni and cheese, hard tack. Walter H. Peck said the mess tent ‘was 50 close to the highway that the butter and other eatables were dust covered. s E. R. Skaggs, another returned worker, said the colony might have been developed more quickly, “but they had carpenters helping in the kitchen and kitchen workers bossing logging gangs and tractor men doing the carpenter work.” College-Bred Drifters, Preachers, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. JUNE 24, 1935. Rare Characters Among Those Building Alaskan Homesteads Print- ers, Painters, Butchers, Bakers and Trouble-Makers Among Colonists. BY ARVILLE SCHALEBEN. PALMER, Alaska, June 24 (NA. N.A).—Who's building an empire, if one is being built? Colonists from off the relief rolls of the States, yes, but also college-bred drifters, preachers and priests, trayel- ing printers and traveling painters, butchers, bakers and trouble-makers. Tested executives, yes, but also execu- tives who but a year ago were ‘“on their uppers.” In our Matanuska Valley colony of some 1,500 population there are men from every State, and from the strange corners of the earth. There is even a man named Port Said, al- though he’s never been there. Max H. Sherrod and his wife, bath registered nurses, heard about the rural rehabilitation here, loaded their daughter Janet, 3, in the family car and started for Seattle from Battle Creek, Mich. “We were lucky,” Sherrod says. Tou tAN NOWE, =) TALK TO - ' . WHEELING FaRr AFTER 7 BM. 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