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...month stepped a short, dark-haired youngish man who introduced himself to Associate Editor David Page as Pledge Brown, a onetime newshawk on the Ketchikan (Alaska) Chronicle. Producing a letter from Editor Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum thanking him for an article on the New Deal's Matanuska Valley colony in Alaska (TIME, July 1, 1935 et ante), Pledge Brown asked if he might not do a similar piece from a new angle for Review of Reviews. Editor Page asked when he could finish it. Pledge Brown answered that he was so full of his subject that...
...Forum queried the Ketchikan Chronicle, got the following reply: ". . . Brown never saw Matanuska. He never worked for the Chronicle. He spent two or three weeks in Ketchikan, most of which time he was in jail. He has a record of petty thefts. He owes bills in Ketchikan. . . . I have written dozens of letters giving substantially the same information...
...leaving Alaska, where he was arrested for stealing a woman's purse, this extraordinary opportunist, whose full name, according to Delegate Dimond, is Wilbur Pledge Brown, worked his way across the U. S., partly by passing bad checks and thieving, but mostly by selling his stock article on Matanuska Valley to "at least a dozen newspapers." In November it was printed in the Topeka (Kansas) Capital. Topeka's Capper's Weekly also swallowed it. In December the Kansas City Journal-Post published it. By April Pledge Brown had reached Washington, where the rich and cautious Sunday Star...
Fortnight ago Post and Rogers reached Juneau in their synthetic Lockheed, flew on to Dawson, Aklavik, Fairbanks, Anchorage. They visited the Government's Matanuska Valley farm colony, were on their way to Point Barrow when they came down one evening in a river near an Eskimo camp to inquire their way. Post tinkered the motor and after dining ashore with the natives, they took off for the ten-minute flight to Point Barrow. The plane had soared about 50 ft. when the motor sputtered. Post banked steeply to the right in a desperate effort to get back...
...Other complaints filtered down from the North. The Government had promised full medical service, but there was only one doctor for some 2,000 men, women, children. All children and most adults were reported mildly sick, vastly terrified at the thought of an epidemic. Last week Death came to Matanuska Valley colonists for the first time, taking a 4-year-old ill with measles and pneumonia...