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...Alaskan Airways (pioneered by the late Carl Ben Eielson) is now also operating monthly passenger & express service between Anchorage and Bristol Bay (southern coast), weekly beI tween Anchorage and Bethel (southwest), weekly between Fairbanks and Nome, monthly between Fairbanks and Wiseman (above the Arctic Circle), weekly between Fairbanks, Fort Yukon & Dawson (Yukon). Compared to domestic U. S. airways, Alaskan fares are high ($200 between Fairbanks & Nome). But they are much cheaper than the only other means of winter travel-dogteam. The Fair-banks-Nome flight takes from 4½ to 6 hr. By dogteam the trip may take from...
...Hearstpapers, the hero of the trial, Sergeant John Leopold* of the Canadian Mounted Police (TIME, Nov. 16), signed a piece beginning: "This is the story of my betrayal to the Communist organization, and my exile to the Yukon, the Canadian Siberia. . . . Life there is one of continual hardship, fighting against blizzards and ice on unmarked trails, with nothing but the urge of duty, the code of the Mounted to carry a man through...
Seattle strongly favors municipal ownership of public utilities. It operates its own electric power and light plants, its own street railway system. For 20 years James Delmage Ross, onetime Yukon gold rusher, has served as Superintendent of City Light. A stout advocate of public ownership, he has fought many a gaudy fight with Stone & Webster's Puget Sound Power & Light Co. He has built up a political machine of his own; in fact no man or woman has within recent years been elected Mayor of Seattle without first promising the reappointment of Superintendent Ross. Frank Edwards, running...
...still making films out of Rex Beach's stories. This one, like the rest, is complicated, violent, highly naive: the nobility of the hero is 100% and so is the villainy of the villains. The theme of the picture is the struggle of opposing interests for control of the Yukon salmon fisheries. It contains a few great sequences: the beautiful silver hordes of fish whirling down the river and lifted, struggling, into the fishing boats out of the heavy nets...
Retired. Rev. John W. Chapman, D.D., 72, Episcopal missionary, explorer, ethnologist; after 43 years among Alaskan Indians at Anvik on the Yukon where he will be succeeded by his son, H. H. Chapman (first white man born on the Yukon...