The tirfnt circulation
of onjr newspaper in the
2nd, 3rd, 4th Divisions of
Alaska
“ALASKA’S HOME NEWSPAPER”
The Seward Weekly Gate
way is the beet l«-pa«o
Weekly In the Territory
of Alaska
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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 159. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 17. 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MISSION SO VITAL
TO ILL OF EUROPE
CANNOT MISCARRY
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COMMUNISTS FIRE ON POLICE;
ONE DEAD AND TWO
WOUNDED
BERLIN, July 17. (/P)—Pistol
^ots from behind communist bar
ricades in industrial Ruhr em
phasized the seriousness of the
financial situation which is speed
ing German oficials at Paris to
night from a parley with French
statesmen before going to London
for the Monday meeting.
The rioting broke out at Gelsen
kirchen and police battled with
communists for the possession of
streets. One comunists was killed
and two wounded by the gunfire.
During a brawl with socialists at
Darmstadt, 40 stores were plun
dered, windows smashed and pave
ments torn up.
In Gelsenkirchen fortification
and three thoroughfares were
thrown up and the police were
defied by bricks and bullets. Sim_
liar frays occurred in Dusseldorf
and Coblenz.
It is believed Bruening and Cur
tins plan to embark on a mission
so vital that it cannot miscarry
without disastrous repercussions
to all of Europe
Honoring the visitation of Con
gressman Robert G. Simmons of
Nebraska, who arrived in the city
yesterday from the Westward
aboard the USS Chelan, a large
number of local citizens attended
the Seward Chamber of Com
merce banquet Thursday at noon,
held in the Seward Grill.
Mrs. Simmons was also a guest as
was Chas. M. Gregg of Washing
ton, D. C., capitalist; and Chas.
H. Flory. commissioner, Depart
ment of Agriculture. Congress
man Simmons and the above, as
^ well as Mrs. C. T. Hatten, of the
Jesse Lee Home, all briefly ad
dressed the large gathering.
Accompanied by Mr. Flory, Con
gressman Simmons left later in
the day for Matanuska, Mrs. Sim_
mons and children leaving today
for Lawing wrhere Mr. Simmons
will join them this evening.
DEMAND DEPORTATION HITLER
BERLIN, July 17. (/P)—Deporta
tion of Adolph Hitler, German
Fascist leader, is being demanded
by France as one of the condi
tions of renewed French credits
r to Germany, it was stated by the
newspaper Angriff, organ of the
Nationalist-Socialist-Fascist party.
METEORITE FOUND
LEWISTON, Mont., July 17. UP)
—A meteorite, three inches in di
ameter and weighing one pound,
was still warm when it was found
here by J. Ruckman five miles
from here. It fell in his front
yard and the grass was burned
away where it fell.
A Strange Situation,
Visiting Congressmen!
vVith resources of unexampled variety and abund
uncc in the field of the Alaska Railroad, under climati*
conditions identically the same as in the corresponding
latitudes of northwestern Europe, where more than 20,
000,000 people reside, the railroad is not financially
self-supporting, the country it serves is not developing
as it should, and no serious efforts have been or are be
ing made to better the situation by responsible officials
in Washington.
Why? That is the big question you will ask your- ■
selves at every mile of your journey through Alaska.
Why? Why? Why? , . 1
Coal of every grade from lignite to anthracite is
here; abundance of it, as you will see, literally trillions
of tons of it. Best authorities in Washington, Oregon
and California say that those three States alone offer j
a tremendous annual market for Alaska’s anthra-;
cite coal. Anthracite coal is brought from Pennsylvania
jand West Virginia to San Francisco and other cities of.
I the Pacific Coast and sold .at retail prices of $20 per ton.;
Alaska anthracite can be laid down in San Francisco
and other coast cities at a net cost under $10 per ton. j
A haul of 1,000,000 tons per year 'from the anthra
cite coal fields of the Matanuska district to. Seward at
I $2 per ton would yield $2,000,000 per year in revenues
to the Alaska Railroad.
Why is it not done? Why are there no coal bunkers
at Seward to handle any coal? Why have no efforts
i been put forth to do those obvious things of prudent j
| business?
It’s a strange situation, you will readily perceive.
On the Kenai Peninsula between the Kenai moun
tains and Cook Inlet and in the Susitna valley and its
tributaries there are forests of the best qualities of cot
jtonwood, aspen and birch, hundreds of millions of board
feet of them. The cottonwood in those regions, by de
pendable cruising, exceeds 4,000,000,000 board feet. It
| averages 20 inches in diameter, is straight and clear for
30 and GO feet to the first limbs. It makes the best ve
i neer of any wood for fruit packing crates, being, light,
tough and pliable. The California fruit and vegetable
industry needs 100,000,000 square feet of it every year.
It can be supplied from these Alaska forests at lower
| prices and of better quality than the unsatisfactory ma
| terial that State now is compelled to accept. Those cot
| tonwood forests run from 10,000 to 60,000 board feet per
I acre over many thousands of acres in places along the
| Susitna river and its' tributaries, and along the Mata
■ nuska and the Talkeetna rivers.
Why are these magnificent forests not developed?
j Why are no efforts being made to have them developed?
Tough wrapping paper made from cottonwood pulp
j also is in great demand all over the United States. Why
are no efforts made to provide mills to manufacture
pulp for the manufacture of such wrapping paper?
There are no other available forests of cottonwood
on the Pacific slope. Why is this Alaska cottonwood
not put upon the market? Why? Why?
The pulp industry for news print paper, too, why
| is it not developed? The spruce and hemlock in the
Chugach National Forest surrounding Seward, 200 miles
; east and west and 100 miles north and south, and the
II spruce and hemlock of the Tanana valley for 500 miles
; i above the Alaska Railroad at Nenana, all within the
• j field of the Alaska Railroad, to be rafted to it down the
! numerous rivers that bisect the timber, cruises
, | above 20,000,000,000 board feet. It is better pulp ma
• | terial than the spruce of Oregon and Washington, giving
• j tougher and longer fibre.
[ j The 20,000,000,000 board feet or more in that vast
5 forest is enough to produce 500 tons of newsprint per
, day indefinitely without depleting the supply. Most of
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COMMITTEE PERSONNEL
Representatives F. Murphy,
Ohio; French, Idaho; Taylor,
Colorado; W. W. Hastings,
Oklahoma; D. B. Colton,
Utah; Scott Leavitt, Mon
tana; A. T. Smith, Idaho;
F. J. Bailey, Ass’t. Director,
Bureau of Budget; H. M. Al
bright, Director, National
Parks; Hon. Luce, Massachu
setts; Hon. J. Byrns, Tennes
see; Wm. A. Duvall, commit
tee clerk; Mrs. Murphy, Mrs.
Hastings, Mrs. Smith, Mrs.
Byrns and Mrs. Colton.
The above party, as far as
can be ascertained today, is
expected to arrive in Seward
tomorrow on board the USS
Tahoe.
SOCIETY DOWAGER
MRS. HENDERSON.
DIES AT CAPITAL
WIDOW ONE OF MUST COLOR- j
FUL CHARACTERS IN
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 17.
(TP)—1The death at Bar Harbor,
Maine, of Mrs. Mary F. Hender
son took from Washington social
life one of its most unusual char
acters.
The wealthy 90-year-old society
dowager was knowm as the “Em
press of 60th Street” and dwelled
for 52 years in a huge brown
stone-walled mansion known as
“Henderson Caste” on one of the
fashionable thoroughfares.
She was the widow of the late
Senator John Brook Henderson of
Missouri, a friend of Lincoln and
enoyed the friendship or personal
acquaintance of 15 presidents, 14
first ladies of the land and was
widely known in diplomatic circles
throughout the world. Her hus
band died in 1913.
SPOTLIGHT HIED
i BUDAPEST, July 17. (#>)—Focus- ;
i ing the world’s spotlight on their'
! native land with their first flight
from America to Hungary, Avia-.;
tors Magyar and Endres gave
themselves to the plaudits of their
countrymen in a forced landing
which damaged the propellor and
| one wing.
The pilots were uninjured. They
said they saw hardly any of the
ocean as it was covered with
blankets of fog. They hit a se
vere storm at midnight which
shook the plane.
They will remain a mo^th and
! return by air, crossing the' Atlantic
via Africa and South America
ORDERED TO DUTY
| WASHINGTON, D. C., July 17.
! (/P)—Captain Edward S. Jackson,
; commander of the battleship New
; York, was ordered to duty as a
I member of the General Board at
the Navy Department. Previous
orders assigning him to the Navy
Yard at Puget Sound, Wash., had
been revoked.
HUNGARIAN FLIERS
UNDER ON USE
DROP OF GASOLINE
FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC PLANK
TO REACH DEFINITE GOAL
SINCE LINDBERGH’S HOP
BUDAPEST, July 17 (jP) —Mag
yar and Endres brot the “Justice
for Hungary” down to a forced
landing 20 miles outside of the
city when they landed just as
their last drop of gasoline was
exhausted.
The plane was not damaged
and the fliers were unhurt as they
crawled out of the plane at the
end of their spectacular 3,200 mile
flight and the fliers were both
grinning broadly.
A few minutes before landing as
the plane roared over the city and
turned and circled before heading
in the direction of the airport it
seemed as if the whole city rais
ed its voice in a great roaring
cheer as the ship circled over the
the city just before coming down.
Thousands waited for hours the
arrival of the brave fliers and
were perched on roof tops, cran
ing out windows and jamming
the streets as the ship passed
over them.
Their circling the city cost the
fliers the glory of bringing their
ship down at the Matyasfoid Air
field but even so their’s was the
first flight since Lindbergh’s in
which the fliers set a definite
goal and came so close to hitting
it.
They landed at 7:30 in the af
ternoon or 10:30 Pacific time. They
averaged 135 miles an hour.
NEW YORK, July 17. (IP)—Clyde
Pangborn and Hugh Herndon nar_
rowly escaped crashing in an at
tempted takeoff of a round-the
world hop. They announced af
terward they would hop for Har
bor Grace at midnight and from
there continue to Moscow
They have ambitions of lowering
the world-girdling mark of Post
and Gatty.
They failed to get into the air
after speeding the plane a mile
down the runway. To save them
selves, they dumped fuel.
CAPITALIST DIES
DETROIT, Mich., July 17. (/P)—
Jerome Remick, widely known
music publisher, lumberman and
capitalist, died here after a pro
longed illness.
ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE
[ WESTBROOK, Mo., July 17. (A1)—
; Rudy Vallee was on the verge of
collapse following the death of
his mother Mrs. Katherine Vallee,
61, at her home here.
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FILM INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES
1 BUENOS AIRES, July 17. (IP)—
■ Moving picture films will be made
I of all official acts, industrial ac
tivities and public services under
| government supervision. The pic
tures will be exhibited abroad as
a means of diffusing knowledge
of Argentina’s official activities.