Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Alaska; Tourists; Visitors; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; Barrett; Burch; Fairbanks; Lombard; Pacific; Yukon; Ketchikan
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/102132

Alaska Tourist Tide Runs High ALASKA TOURIST TIDE RUNS HIGH-- Alaska's tourist tide is rapidly approaching record-breaking proportions with waiting lists for many sailings during the summer, it was learned yesterday from traffic representatives of the Alaska Steamship Company. The liner Yukon which sailed yesterday for Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska, had approximately 450 passengers including many tourists. Embarking on the vessel were Grover Jones, Mrs. Jones and son, Billy, John Burch and Miss Lucile Almack, the advance guard of a moving picture company, headed by Carole Lombard, Paramount will send to Alaska this summer to film an all-color production of Barrett Willough- by's "Spawn of the North." Many of the exterior scenes wi be made in and around Ketchikan. Mr. Jones is a writer assigned the screen play. Mining men also sailed on Yukon, including D. D. Muir, vice president and general manager of the United States Mining, Smelting & Refining Company. Mrs. R. B. Earling, the M Mary Lou. Nancy and Barbara Earling, wife and daughters of an official of the Fairbanks Exploration Company, powerful gold i ing corporation, departed on liner, bound for Fairbanks. Students Returning Home William Wickstrom, James Sulf- ridge and Arthur Steers, students are returning to their homes ir Ketchikan on the Yukon. Passengers booked for the steamship Baranof of the Alaska Steamship Company, which sails from Seattle at 9 o'clock Wednesday m ing on her first voyage to Alaska. will include a Tacoma Chamber of Commerce tour party of forty members who will debark at Seward, go over the Alaska Railroad to Fairbanks, travel over the highway in automobiles to Valdez and sail from that port July 4 for Seattle on the steamship Yukon. The party will be headed by C. C. Garland, chairman of the Alaska committee of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce.