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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 30. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
BIG SLASH ON
ALASKA RAILROAD
AWAKENS SEATTLE
WHOLESALE HOUSES GETTING
TOGETHER in effort
RAISE THE ANTE
SEATTLE. Feb., 6, (/P)—Disas
ter to the Alaska Railroad and
oss in commerce trade in the
Pacific Northwest is seen in the
$500,000 slash in the Alaska Rail
road budget now before Congress.
Organizations in Seattle, Taco
ma and Portland have started
movement to urge Congress
to increase the sum.
To this end a meeting will be
held by representatives of the
National Grocery Co., the Black
Manufacturing Co., A. V. Love
Co., West Coast Grocery, North
ern Commercial Co., and busi
ness people from Seward. Juneau,
Ketchikan, Cordova, Nome, An
chorage and others will be pre
sent with Col. O. F. Ohlson, gen
eral manager of the railroad.
The plan is to bring the mat
ter before all civic and commer
tial organizations in the North
west.
J. Howard Allen, of the Nat
ional Grocery Co., said such a j
slashing means doubling the.
-ates over the railroad and would
virtually destroy commerce.
TACOMA. Feb.. 6, (/P)—Russel,
Annabel, guide, now here, re
■ eived word from Dr. Smith, of j
'.he Alaska Bureau of Education, !
"hat miners operating the Wells
brothers placer mine on Henrj
Creek, 90 miles from Nome, un
earthed a pair of stone anchors
ach weighing 200 pounds and
r ach carved with ideographs re
sembling Chinese.
Russel sent the information -to
:.he University of Pennsylvania
Museum. The latter officials an
swered they intended to send an
expedition to investigate the'
find which may be a clue as to j
the origin of American Indians.
WIT RANKS AIRCRAFT
BM SPORTS. HAZARD
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. (/P) —
Aviation holds lower rank in the
rating of navy accident hazards
-han baseball or football.
The automobile was ranked as I
the greatest hazard, according to
admissions of cases and sick days :
fcy C. E. Briggs, surgeon-general, |
with baseball and football next'
n order.
Aircraft accidents in flight were
ranked 2 7th in the order
of frequency, while other air-!
craft accidents were rated 28th. !
MINE DEAL UNDERWAY
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.. 6, (/P)
—Unofficial reports said the
Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co.,
is negotiating with the United
States Smelting and Refining
Co., for the purchase of the
Abner Gold Mining properties
adjacent in Alaska.
ALASKA AIME
MAIL SERVICE IS.
FROWNED1 OP!
TERRITORY IS NOT GROWING
DECLARES HIGH POST
MASTER GENERAL
WASHINGTON, Feb.. 6. (/F)—
| A 900-mile belt in inland Alaska
1 with shelter huts at 30-mile in
tervals, is Postmaster General
General Brown’s idea of an air
plane star route service.
All mail delivered, he said, un
der this plan, would do in 48
hours what dog teams take six
weeks.
| The better of the two plans
! would be to shorten the route
! to Alaska, one via Seattle north
ward, and the other extension
via St. Paul, Winnipeg, and the
| Calgary route but these wrof.ld
only save a few days in speedier
delivery of mail.
Therefore, the actual delivery
of mail as first suggested is the
i more desirable, he pointed out,
mainly for the reason Alaska
is not growing.
A DARK SECRET
WASHINGTON, Feb., G, (/P)— j
Secretary Adams stated he does |
not propose to make public the
charges against General Smed
ley Butler.
WASHINGTON, Feb., 6. <£>)—'
Four hundred thousand dollars
for a new vessel for the Bureau
of Indian Affairs to operate on i
the West coast of Alaska, is in- j
eluded in the deficiency appro- j
priation bill.
The bill has been sent to the1
President for his signature.
The measure carried more
than $45,000,000 for public con
struction.
GAS DREAM FADES
AUKLAND, N. Z., Feb., 6, (JP) .
—A drug clerk made a big clean
up here when he tricked experts
into believing that he could
“brew” gasoline from sea water.
A company was formed whose
$5 shares jumped to $100. Then
the clerk fled, but he was ar- ;
rested in Australia.
PLAN AIR PROJECTS
GENEVA, Feb., 5, (/P)—a new
Swiss company, “Saguita,” work
ing with the French company,
‘ Star,” plans to provide direct
air connections with Geneva,
Paris, Lyons, Bordeaux and Tur
in.
INVESTIGATION OF
PROPOSED ROAD
BEGINS IN SPRING
PREMIER ANNOUNCES ENTIRE
PERSONNEL OF HIGHWAY
COMMITTEE
VICTORIA, B. C., Feb.. 6, (ZP)
—Premier Tolmie of British Col
umbia, announced that the In
ternational committee will con
sider the whole Alaska road pro
ject, the facts of their findings
not to be binding between the
countries.
Investigations will start in the
spring.
J. M. Warble, engineer from
DanfT, will represent the Do
minion; James McNeill of Daw
son, representing the Yukon Ter
ritory; George Napier, repce
senting British Columbia public
works; Herbert H. Rice, of De
troit, assistant to the President
of General Motors; Ernest Wal
ker Sawyer, Assistant to the Sec
retary of the Interior; and Maj
or Malcolm Elliott, president of
the Alaska Road Commission, U.
S. Army, of Juneau.
COMPROMISE IS
III TOE OFFING OVER
DfiOUGHT RELIEF
CONFERENCES RESUMED T O
AVOID POSSIBILITY EX
TRA SESSION
WASHINGTON, Feb., 6, UP)—
The solution to the relie dead
lock appeared probable as ne
gotiations were resumed in con
ferences in order to avoid an
extra session of Congress.
The proposal to increase the
drought loan appropriation from
$15,000,000 to $60,000,000 with the
provision in case of an emer
gency it can be loaned for hu
man food, is the basis of the
compromise for a $25,000,000
fund.
Senator Robinson said they
were not standing on technicali
ties. President Hoover said
nothing.
SCIENTISTS BOOK TO
PREVENT li CGL1ISK
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. (JP) —
Development of a warning sy
stem to aid in preventing col
lisions between airplanes has been
undertaken at the bureau of
standards. j
Scientists have begun prelimin
ary work on a device aimed to
give warning to a pilot of the
presence and the approximate
position of any other plane with
in a radius of three miles.
BEEN THERE FOR YEARS
CORDOVA, Feb,, 6, (/P)—Defi- !
nite proof that the immense
king or spider crab exist here
in great quantities, and through j
the Prince William Sound area, I
was brought here by a fisher
man who caught 23 in one trap.
Each crab measured four and
one-half feet from tip to tip.
SENATE INSTRUCTS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
INSTITUTE ACTION
CHAIRMAN SMITH SATISFIED
TO BEAR THE BRUNT
SENATE’S IRE
WASHINGTON, Feb., 6, (/P)—
The Senate requested District
Attorney Rover institute legal
proceedings testing the right of
Chairman Otis Smith of the
: Power commission to retain of
fice.
Smith said this action is high
ly satisfactory to him, in having
the Senate to focus on his re
call in the interest of economy
and efficiency which would be
served by having only one mem
ber of the five under fire.
Yesterday, the Senate refused
to confirm Smith but confirmed
Garsaud and Draper wrho are
standing on the Attorney Gener
al’s opinion holding that the
Senate is unauthorized to recall
a nomination for consideration
after having been confirmed and
sent to the President.
HOCKEY SCORES
PORTLAND, Feb, 6,. (^—Van
couver and Portland ice hockey
teams went to a 2-2 tie.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Fef., 6. </P>
—Captain John Widerstrorn, 62,
veteran of the wind-jammer days, j
died at his home here, yesterday, j
Captain Widerstrorn had been i
a ships’ master since he was 20!
years of age.
For 25 years he commanded
vessels for the Alaska Packers!
Assc. His last command was
the sailing ship “Star of Falk
land” which was wrecked in the
Bering Sea in 1928.
MORE SOVIET WHEAT
MOSCOW, Feb., 5, (^—Plan
ning to increase the wheat yield !
of state farms in 1931 by 15 per j
cent, the Soviet government has!
decided to grant credits of $375,- ■
000,000 for new agricultural I
machinery.
BUY RUSSIAN COTTON
LIVERPOOL, Feb., 5, (/Pi
Thirteen thousand bales of Rus
sian cotton, valued at $750,000 j
has been purchased by a Lan- j
cashire spinning-mill combine, j
Part of the cotton is here and j
the remainder will be shipped j
during the next few months.
FISHERMEN ID
boat turns m
WAR IN SEATTLE
OBJECTIONAL FEATURES IN
WORKING AGREEMENT,
IS CONTROVERSY
SEATTLE, Feb., 6, (PP)—‘The bit
terness of the fishermen’s strike
is increasing and the Deep Sea
Fishermen’s Union warned its
members that they will not
countenance violence or intimi
dation.
The following resolution was
adopted: “Be it resolved that
this Union is forced into the
present controversy after a 11
means to settle grievances be -
tween the Fishing Vessel Own
ers’ Association and the Union
were exhausted. As the mem
bers are loyal to the United
States government it intends to
conduct its efforts to protect
the rights and interests of mem
bers in a lawful and peaceful
manner.”
P. B. Gill, secretary of the
Union, said the present contro
versy resulted in attempts of the
owners to have objectional fea
tures placed in a working agree
ment. He said the Union con
strued the demands as a lock
out. The owners say the fisher
men are on a strike.
TRADERS OPPOSE
WASHINGTON. Feb. 6. </P) —
The Secty. of agriculture would
have the powers of an absolute
monarch in the futures market
under the Capper and Dickinson
bills to .regulate grain exchanges.
In the first place, no person
in the United States could hand
le or execute orders for future
delivery unless the secretary gave
him that authority.
The bills require that all com
mission merchants, brokers and
correspondents be licensed or not
allowed to trade. Any license
could be revoked for cause.
HIM INDICTED FOD
As a result of the first half
day testimony taken by the
grand jury in Fairbanks, John
Alexander, Fort Yukon Indian,
was indicted for murder in the
second degree, reports the News
Miner.
The defendant is charged with
having caused the death of J.
Frank Alexander, his nephew,
by striking him over the head
with a piece of wood.
The Seward Vounteer Fire de
partment meets tonight, begin
ining at 8, in their regular bus
iness session of the month. Inci
dentally, the “Ghost’ 'walks.
City vs Army Tomorrow Nite