Seward, the .Alaska. City of Opportunity
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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 9.
REWARD, ALASKA MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FIGHT LOOMS
ON COWIliTl
SMOOT OF UTAH CONFIDENT
ALL SIX WILL BE CON
FIRMED
WASHINGTON, Jan., 12. (£>>—
A Hoover and Senate battle is
imminent over confirmation of
the six tariff commissioners.
Edgar Brossard of Utah, Rep
ublican, and Alfred Dennis of
Maryland, Democrat, faced the
hardest test likely. Also. Chair
man Henry Fletcher of Pennsyl
vania will be under fire.
There is no opposition to John
Coulter, Republican from North
Dakota, Thomas Page, Democrat
from Virginia, Lincoln Dixon,
Democrat from Indiana, and
Senator Harrison from Missi
sippi.
The fight over Brossard is that
he favored west sugar beet in
dustry while an economist for
the previous commission.
Senator Smoot of Utah pre
dicted all six would be confirm
ed.
The fight against Dennis re
volved about the commission
statement signed by Dennis and
which said the tariff would ben
efit agriculture. Before the bill
passed, Dennis repudiated it
saying that the statement was
changed before its release to say
brings he did not believe.
ANOTHER CLOTH
CREDITED WITH GUEST
KLONDIKE STAMPEDE
PORTLAND, Jan., 12. f/P)—R.
Henderson, the man credited with
•tarting the world’s greatest
stampede of humans—the gold
. ish to the Klondike in 1897-8 -
is still digging his ‘‘pay” out of
he northland at the age of 74.
Henderson was a recent visitor
:n Portland and ‘‘lowed as how” i
:i was about time he was payi ig
:he cify a visit. Altho his official
name is Robert Henderson, he is
/mown to thousands of friends as
Big Chief Dirty Blanket” — a
name given him by the Indians
at Calgary years ago.
His claim to fame comes as a
result of a strike made, in 1894 j
and 1895 on Quartz creek, where
he washed out $620 in gold—a
sufficient amount to convince
others that wealth was to be had !
:n the Klondike. As a result, some!
60,000 gold seekers poured thru
Chilkoot Pass in 1898 at the peak
of the gold rush.
Henderson has forsaken his old
love and is now interested in “200
miles of silver belt” on the Stew- !
art River, where he claims 10,000!
Tons of silver ore was removed last \
year.
He calls Victoria, B. C- his home,'
hut is vitally interested in the Yu- j
kon Territory and plans to return ;
to the old stamping grounds in |
t he near future. Henderson was j
born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, in I
-856.
20 MEN RESCUED
OAKLAND, Jan., 12, ,(/P)—The j
20 men entombed in the Hetch
Hetchy coast range tunnel came I
■ ut through a hole dug through !
rock and earth, steel and tim
ber, which was dug by comrades, j
The men showed little evidence!
of their 30-hour ordeal.
equal distribution
DUNCAN, Oklahoma, Jan., 12,
Five hundred unemployed have
organized a “working man’s ar-1
my" and demanded equitable j
“distribution of wealth produc
ed.”
PMUMDOPIST
ID NOTED H
PASSES BEYOND ‘
NEW YORK, Jan., 12, (/P>— j
Nathan Straus, philanthropist j
and leader of American Jewry, j
died in his sleep of heart failure
and high blood pressure, in hisj
apartment.
On January 31 he would have
been 83 years of age.
Death ended the coma into!
which he had sunk 20 hours be- ;
fore. He had been ill two weeks j
but few knew it.
THE AAGTIC OCEAN
_
PETSAMO F J O HD, Finland,
Jan., 12, UP)—Tourists soon may ‘
come here by auto—almost 350
miles north of the northermost
tip of Iceland. When a 150-mile
road is completed from here to |
Kyra, connecting there with a;
network of highways, Finland
will claim to be the first civil
ised country to extend roads
continuously to the Arctic.
The road leads to a harbor
which is free of ice at all times,
giving Finland a gateway for
shipping. Starting well above the
Arctic circle, the highway trav
erses uncultivated tracts of Lap
land, spanning terrain that var
ies from steep hills to flat mar
shes.
The project was begun in 1916.
when Russian controlled the
province of Uleaborg, which the
road spans, to obtain a free wat
erway passage and avoid the
German blockade of the Baltic.
SPACE PHETTf EfW
STARS USE FI III
MT. WILSON, Calif., Jan. 12,!
(VP)—How empty is space? Here!
is one answer:
The mean distance between
nebulae, that is, universes of
stars like the Milky Way, is es-1
timated by Dr. Edwin Hubble,
Mt. Wilson astronomer, at near
ly 2,000,000 light-years.
They are not distributed re
gularly, however, some being
one-tenth of this distance apart.
ONE OF 12 OUT OF WORK
IN AOSTRH REGION
ADELAIDE, Australia, Jan., 12,
(/P)—Pledged to borrow no more
money from abroad, South Aus-1
tralia is faced with the problem j
of keeping its unemployed men^
and their families.
Unemployment has increased j!
at a rate of 1,000 a week. One in5<
every 12 men in the state is outjj
of work.
Wages of officials have been
drastically reduced in an effort
to prevent bankruptcy. The state
already has been greatly assist- j *
ed by funds from the federal !
treasury. j<
HOOVER REFUSES
RESUBMIT HIES
TO TRE SENATE
SENATE HASN'T RIGHT TO
DICTATE APPOINTMENTS j
COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, Jan., 12, </P)— j
President Hoover refused to re- ■
submit to the Senate the nom-1
inations of Smith, Garsaud and |
Draper for the Power Commis
sion.
The Senate read the Presiden
tial statement which occupied j
one sheet of paper and 3001
words, in which he said: “In be- I
ing advised of the appointments, j
constitutionally made and with
the consent of the Senate, and I
with the return for reconsidera-;
tion by the Senate, such action
is ineffective in disturbing the}
appointees.
“This office cannot admit that!
the power of the Senate can en
croach upon executive functions
under the guise of reconsidera- j
tion of the nominations and re- j
gret I must refuse the request.”
Senator Wheeler of Montana
said he would oppose the appro- j
priation for the salaries of the
three men in an attempt to
force President Hoover to allow j
reconsideration.
Senator Walsh o f Montana,
who sponsored the recall, moved
the names be placed on the
Senate's calendar for consider
ation, which passed. Walsh said
he didn’t intend to ask to move
for formal rejection of the nom
inations bu that Hoover had not
ed that Senate had not the right
the right to try and dictate ap
pointments to the commission.
WOULD ABOLISH ALL GRAIN
EXCHANGES AND CROP
SPECULATION
WILKIE. Saskatchewan. Jan.,
12, {/?)—'The farmers of North
west Saskatchewan have sent!
a “charter of liberty” to Pre
miers MacDonald and Bennett
and asked the government to
aid them.
The farmers threatened to or
ganize for political conquest, not :
anly in the Saskatchewan, but |
in other provinces, forming a
cooperative commonwealth with-!
in the British Empire.
The charter demanded a tern-!
porary basis on the price of]
wheat to cover production cost; i
retroactive to August 19, 1930; I
abolition of all grain exchanges,1
speculation in products and crop
nsurance.
ALMOST EVERY WEEK
COMRIE. Scotland, Jan., 12, ;
/P)—This little village in Perth
shire leads a shaky life. In sev- j,
m years it has had more than!’
100 earthquakes, all caused by:
he great fault near the high-*
and border. S,
The signal corps of the U. S.jl
Irmy has begun production of Jl
;°und pictures for instructing: i
)fficers and enlisted men. I i
NO WORD OF PLANE
HORTA, Azores, Jan., 12,There
was no news of the plane Trade
wind at 11 p. m.—5 p. m. Pacific;
Coast time. Mrs. Hart and Lieut, j
MarLaren left Bermuda Satur-'
day at 11:15 a. m. Eastern time;
or 6 a. m. Pacific Coast time.
IVY COUCH RESIGNS
BUT HAS JOB ID SIGHT
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind„ Jan 12;
(/P)—William A. “Navy Bill” In
gram announced ^his resignation i
as football coach at the United I
States Naval Academy.
He said the ^ school which will
employ him will make the an
nouncement in the near future.’
Three weeks ago he denied he
was negotiating with California
where “Nibs” rice recently re
signed. j
IT'S BUSTLING BELGIUM
NOW: BUILDING EBB ON
BRUSSELS, Jan., 12, UP)—'The I
“bleeding” Belgium of 11 years
ago has become “bustling” Bel
gium.
The government’s new budget'
papers show nearly 100,000 homes,
have been rebuilt since the war,!
and nearly 270,000 acres of land
have been treated to return to
their fertility.
In addition to giving approx-'
imately $346,000,000 to civilians
who suffered through the war, <
the government has built 140
town halls, 237 churches, 392
schools, 412 other municipal
buildings, 9,300 factories, 35,000
of highways and 1,800 miles of
railways.
FINDS MASTODON RONES
TALLAHASSEE. Fla., Jan., 12,
(TP)—From the depths of Wak
ulla spring, 15 miles from here,
state geologists and Geo. Chris
tie, owner of the spring, have
found the bones of two masto
dons. Diving operations h a ve
been resorted to in recovering
the bones.
he iiilills
IN NORTH GSBOLINJ
NEW BERN, N. C„ Jan., 12, bP) j
—George Herman Ruth, the
mighty king of swat, has arriv
ed at Camp Bryan, near here,!
for his annual hunt.
The New York Yankee has
been a winter visitor here for j
several years and finds plenty1
of game to shoot at the camp
reservation.
G. A. Nicholl, assistant state
game warden, is playing host to
the Bambino during his visit this J
year.
COMMONERS MAY EAT
GAME SIT ST XING
LONDON, Jan., 12, (/P)— Diners
n London this winter may eat;
;ame shot by King George, but!
they’ll never know for sure.
Some of the game at Windsor,
vhere the king is expected to
runt may find its way into the
poultry shops.
At one time the bag from the j
ling’s shoots were privately dis
ributed among friends and hos- i
)itals, but nowadays some goes!
o the shops under strict condi- '
ions that the source will not be 1
ndicated.
SEEMS NO HE
DOUBT REGARDING
KETCHIKAN CHRONICLE AIR
PLANE PILOT DETER
MINES MEN LOST
KETCHIKAN, Jan., 12, </P)—
A bit of wood carrying a rem
nant of blue painted fabric and
attached to a tie rod from the
seaplane in which Renahan,
Clerg and Hatcher disappeared
oh October 28, was found by
Clarence Myers and Bob Miller
on the shore of Northeast Is
land in the Percy Group.
The searchers were sent by
the Ketchikan Chronicle Pilot
Anscel Eckmann and Mechanic
Prank Wadman.
It is said that the discovery
proved the machine crashed
within a few minutes afted the
take-off from Ketchikan.
The wood tapered from the
width of one foot indicating that
it had been broken.
The party wall search the vi
cinity for the bodies. Eckmann
said the wood was part of the
right fuselage housing the cock
pit.
SPECTOHSARE
HONEST TO fl DEGREE
WALLACE. Id ah, Jan. 12. //Pi—
In reviewing the life of Henry E.
Howes, pioneer merchant of Wal
lace, who recently passed to his
reward, it was stated Mr. Howes
often referred to the unfailing
honesty of prospectors in meet
ing their obligations. He sold
and packed grub and supplies
to prospectors in all parts of the
district, and Mr. Howes took great
pleasure In relating that in all
his deal ngs with prospectors, he
never lost a dollar.
Upon reading this tribute to
the honesty of prospectors, a pro
minent business man of Wallace
fully confirmed the statement of
Mr. Howes, says the Wallace Min
er. He said the experience of his
firm has been the same and is to
this day. He said the bona fide
prospector, meaning not alone the
man who is roaming about the
hills looking for a mineral-bear
ing vien, but also the man who
has made a discovery, locates
claims and is proceeding to de
velop them, always pays for his
grub, equipment and supplies.
True, the prospector does not
come through with business-like
regularity after the first of each
month, and sometimes it may be
months before coming to square
accounts. The point is, he recog
nizezs his obligation and in due
time he pays the bill. Nor does
he await the seemingly intermin
able time to obtain money for
ore shipments or to sell his mine
before meeting his payments. If
these eventualities are remote, his
sense of obligation to his creditors
impels him to seek a job and earn
the money to clean up his debts.
Honesty and sense of fairness
are the outstandnig characteris
tics of the prospector and ex
plain why his credit is always
good, concludes the Miner.
MAKES WATER BLUE
WASHINGTON, Jan., 12, (JP)_*
Richard Willstatter. G erman
chemist, says the blue of sea
ivater is due to the presence of
dissolved copper compounds.