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VOLUME xxix: NUMBER 32.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MID-WEST STATES
CHICAGO. Feb. 8.—A blinding
blizzard howled across mid-Amer
ica last night as the major storm
of the winter struck with the full
fury of ice. barbed wind and freez
ing cold.
In Chicago, while a 34-mile an
hour wind whipped the snow thru
the streets. 130 snow plows chug
ged thru a six-inches fall of white
ness and temperatures sank to the
lowest levels of the year.
It was 36 degrees below zero at
Miles City, Mont. It was equallj
cold at Bismark. N. D„ and 40 be
low in a few spots in between.
Four high school students, whc
left their homes in New Kirk
Okla., to attend a movie, were be
lieved lost in the blizzard: thej
were Raney Goad. 21: Walter Tal
ley, 18: Myrel and Helen Paulson
15 and 19. They were driving an
old sedan with two windows brok
en out.
With eight dead, a score injured
and transportation demoralized
Chicago prepared to battle zero
temperatures today.
The storm that engulfed the
whole Mid-west left a foot of snow
here, schools wrere closed anc
transportation demoralized. Traini
from the East and West were run
ning from one to eight hours late
VEIL IS LIFTED SO
SUNS 1ST 1001
FOR OTHER 'WET
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 7
The mysterious mission abroad o:
William C. Bullitt was partially
cleared when the State Depart
ment received reports from fou:
American diplomatic missions de
claring his activities were unoffi
cial and offensive
Ifaris reported Bullitt held £
half-hour conference with Ex
Premier Joseph Paul Boncour bu
merely discussed the board ques
that Paul Boncour said Bullit
tion of the debt in his capacity ai
a writer and did not say he repre
sented the State Department o
President-Elect Roosevelt.
HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 8, —A mai
identified by police as Sidne;
Blackmer, 35, stage and screei
actor and husband of Lenore U1
ric, noted New York actress, wa
held in jail here on a charge o
suspicion of assaulting a 17-yea
old girl.
Blackmer claimed he knew th
girl as Patricia Morten; that “sh
was movie struck and told me sh
knew a lot of prominent film peo
pie,” police quoted him as saying.
“I learned she knew none o
them. I never took her any plac<
although I once attended a part
where she was a guest. Her accu
sation is untrue.”
WASHINGTON. Feb. 8.—Losin
no time in preparing a nation-wid
relief program, President-Elec
Roosevelt, summoned a conferenc
of all State governors at the Whit
House on March 6.
Most of the Governors will b
in Washington for the inaugurc
% ceremonies and he took the oppor
tunity to ask them to remain ovc
for the conference for the fin
meeting of his administration.
CONDITION UNCHANGED
NEW YORK, Feb. 8,—The condi
tion of James J. Corbett, former
heavyweight boxing champion, who
is seriously ill with a heart ail
| ment, was unchanged last night,
j according to his physician, Dr. G.
Willard Dickie.
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"IT TIE WHOLE"
LONG BEACH. Calif., Feb. 8, —
Marian Smith, Rockmart, Ga., girl
member of the adventure schooner
Carinas, identified William James
Guy as the mysterious “man at
the porthole” -who visited the Car
ina shortly before Capt. Walter
Wanderwell was shot to death.
It was the first positive idenfica
| tion of Guy during his trial as
i Wanderwell’s murderer.
I The identification came prema
turely, as the state was laborious
ly trying to prove his guilt.
“You had just sat down in the
lounge room, had you not?” she
i was asked by an assistant attor
j ney. “Yes, and then Mr. Guy came
[ to the port-hole,” blurted the
I young witness.
| Miss Smith then completed her
: identification by walking up to
| Guy and putting her hand on his
; I shoulder.
RECOMMEND MILLIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8, —
Appropriations of $150,000,000 more
Federal funds to aid the unemploy
ed, have been recommended to a
Senate committee by Charles A.
Miller, president of the Recon
struction Finance Corporation.
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LONDON, Feb. 7. —Sinclair Lew
is, author, who arrived here Sun
day from the continent, said in
an interview with the press that
Europe is a powder barrel which
may explode at any moment.
He said that there is much more
“dynamite” on the continent to
day than preceeding the World
War in 1914.
He also said he favored Ameri
can cancellation of the British war
debt, as a matter of friendship
rather than business, reiterating
his remark of the previous day that
America and Great Britain must
have complete unity in roder tc
maintain world peace.
VANCOUVER POLICE
CRIEE DISMISSED
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[: VANCOUVER, B. C-, Feb. 8, —
rj Chief of Police, Colonel Edwards
who assumed the position in 1931
3 and who was suspended charged
3 with inefficiency, was summarily
3 dismissed with one month’s salary
The dismissal came following a
report on crime conditions in the
1 j city.
’’ j Four police officers were sus
v I pended for 40 days; one in charge
” I of the gambling and morality de
i tail; another in charge of liquoi
»activities, and the other two. mem
i bers of the moral squad, detective
bureau.
FOUND MISSING WITNESS
DALLAS, Tex-. Feb. 8,—R. Walk
j er, missing witness in the Okla
y homa-Julian oil scandal, wa:
e I found in the Baker Hotel and ar
t! rested,
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e EXTRADITION GRANTED
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb- 8, —Ex
e tradition of Col. Luke Lew and hi;
il | son, Luke Lew, Jr., to North Car
- olina to serve prison sentences oi
r conviction of conspiracy to de
it fraud a bank, was granted by Gov
ernor Hill McMasters of Tennessee
Gateway’s Stand on
Tie Deal is Endorsed
by Seward Chamber |
Editor, Seward Gateway: ■ i
At the regular meeting of the Seward Cham
ber of Commerce, February 7, 1933, we were by |
unanimous vote instructed to express to you our
appreciation and approval of your editorial of Feb
ruary 6.
The editorial entitled “Something For Alaska
To Remember” certainly hits the spot.
Your’s truly,
Executive Committee of the Seward Chamber of .Commerce.
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Our experience in life has taught us that when- j
over it becomes necessary for anyone to have to re
sort to false statements as an alibi, their case not
only is weak but usually entirely false and wrong,
to put it mildly.
In this ca*e the statement is made that the cost
of cross-ties is 86 cents per tie in Seattle, creosoted.
We are reliably informed that the contract is
for green ties at $10 per thousand board feet and ;
$13.50 per thousand for creosoting, making a total
of $23.50 per thousand board feet and 26 ties to the
thousand feet.
The statement is also made that, the Alaska
Railroad is going to haul these ties in their own
vessel from Seattle here. The only vessels we know
of that the Alaska Railroad owns are the stern- j
wheel river steamers on the Tanana and Tukon,
and we are sure they cannot send them to Seattle
to haul ties.
We are also informed that attempts have been
I made to secure the services of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs new $300,000 M. S. North Star to haul these
ties but when the Bureau learned that these ties
were creosoted they refused to permit the use of
this boat as it would make the North Star unfit for
carrying food supplies to native institutions.
At the special rate the Alaska Railroad has on
lumber from the regular steamboat lines pH ing up
here the ties would cost $8 per thousand boaid feet
more besides insurance and wdiarf costs, making ;
these ties at least 20 per cent higher than the cost
of local ties.
A.s to the statement of disastrous experience
with local hemlock ties. Col. Otto F. Ohlson’s own
letter of duly 16,. 1931 answers that fully.
We challenge Mr. Nettleton of the Seattle lum
ber concern to quote one single accident on the Al
aska Railroad directly or indirectly caused by na
; tive hemlock ties.
In passing, we might further refer to the Cop
per River & Northwestern Railway, which, after
thorough investigation, uses only native hewn tie^
on their road notwithstanding that that road in the
past has been highly profitable for its owners and
that they own and operate the leading steamship
line to Alaska.
Signed: Special Committee,
Seward Chamber of Commerce.
THREE BRITISH IN
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LONDON, Feb. 8.—Three air
planes flew southward last nigh
piloted by airmen hoping to wii
laurels for British aviation.
Crowds stirred to high interes
by the record-seeking attempts
milled about billboards awaitinj
• bulletins on progress of the planes
'! Two headed for Capetown!, Soutl
Africa, and the third pointed fo
South America. Victor Smith, 19
year-old South African pilot, wa
believed v/ell on his way towari
Capetowm, which he hoped t
s reach in less than four days, si:
1 hours and 54 minutes—Amy John
- son Mollison’s record. Thfe youn
- man left Southampton at 7:10 £
. m. Tuesday.
j SMALL CHANGE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8, —
I The Treasury department state
i ment showed the deficiency at the
close of the first seven months of
the present fiscla year amounted
, to $1,271,721,030 compared with
' $1,512,532,529 on the corresponding
date a year ago.
defeits men
;j LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6,—C e C i 1
.i Smith of Texas, the nation’s onl}
, j nine-goal poloist, led a picked
, I team to victory over Eric Pedley’s
' | Midwick quartet by a score of 1*1
‘ | to 10.
s Smith and Elmer Boeseke Jr
i eight-goal internationalist, scored
10 of the winner’s goals betweer
them and were effective in break
c ing up the Midwick attack. Smitl
' was out for several minutes whei
g his pony wheeled and fell but h<
.. revived shortly and continued witl
a new mount.
ITALIAN IS FAVORITE
NEW YORK, Feb. 8,—The Met
ropolitan Boxing Society turned
its attention to the coming 15
round match between Primo Car
nera and Ernie Schaaf, the heavy
weights. It was the unanimous
sense of the executive committee
that Camera will win.
OEFEflTED fif LEAGUE
GENEVA, Feb. 7, —The French
plan for reduction of armaments
was defeated by the League of Na
tions disarmament commission.
The British gave the final dis
senting vote, the speech of their
delegate, Captain Anthony Eden,
definitely making it certain the
commission never would approve
the French proposals.
The French demanded security
guarantees and an international
body to control arms traffic and
debts. Both the Italian and Ger
many delegates had attacked it,
and only one delegate, Edouard
Benes, of Czecho-Slovakia, gave
the French approval.
The lack of unity on this pro
gram was taken as new evidence
the conference to limit armaments
wrould continue to delay it as it
has in the past years, finding it
futile to reach a practical program
for arms-cuts.
Delegates said the conference
faced the possibility of a re-armed
Germany if disarmament was not
soon realized.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8, —The
only man who heard the signals
of the States Line steamer Nevada
when it went aground among the
Aleutian Islands last September,
is today the possessor of a gold
medal for distinguished service.
He is Moichiro Hida, radio op
erator of the N. Y. K. Line freigh
ter Oregon Maru, which went to
the aid of the stricken Nevada and
called the Dollar Line President
Madison, resulting in the saving
of three members of the crew.
The medal was presented in be
half of the Mackay Radio & Tel
egraph Co., by Chester Dix, com
mercial representative.
STRIKE-BRra MET
IN UNEXPECTED ENG
; SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8, —Th<
body of a man identified as Ray
| mond Walker, missing Oaklanc
i taxicab driver, was found in th<
! Oakland estuary at the foot o:
Grove St., his hands and feet tiec
together and a mask over his face
Walker was involved in the tax
icab war while working as a strike
| breaker for the Yellow Cab Co.
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WASHINGTON. Feb. 7. —T h
House Judiciary committee vote
to. submit a report to the Hons
censuring Federal Judge Harol
Louderback. of San Francisco, fc
his official conduct in receivershi
affairs.
The committee voted 10 to
against impeachment, but the im
peachment might be carried d:
rectly to the floor of Congress b
Representative F. H. Laguardia (
New York.
MID-AIR COLLISION
MELBOURNE, Aus., Feb. 8Tv
l young airmen were killed here i
a mid-air collision.
ADDITIONAL UTTER
AND VIOLENT THREATS
NATION'S FARMERS
CHICAGO, Feb. 8, —From the
Midwest came three additional bit
ter and violent threats, following
that of Ohios on Monday, if speedy
relief is not granted hard-pressed
city and country dwellers.
Tuesday it jvas said there will be
need of martial law in which
“bloodshed and riots will flare in
Iowa’s lush cornfields” and a nat
ional farm strike.
An epidemic of milk strikes, pro
test meetings, demonstrations, leg
islative demands and picketing
were reported from a half-dozen
states.
In Wisconsin the Supreme Court
handed down an important decis
ion which wras counted a victory
for debtors in the widespread clash
of human rights as opposed to
property rights.
JIPMESE IMMIGRATION
OFFICEBS OFFENDED SO
DEEIYEDII. S. LINED
YOKOHAMA, Feb. 7—Passeng
ers aboard the Dollar Liner Presi
dent Jefferson, an American ves
sel, were not permtited to land
: here until the U. S. Consulate sent
, a letter of apology to Japanese Im
migration officers for failure of a
ship officer to recognize them.
The immigration officers were
not in uniform when they started
i to board the liner. A junior offi
cer, believing them civilians, re
fused to permit them to come
i aboard. Angered, the Japanese
returned to their launch. A veter
an employe of the ship recognized
them and invited them to board
the vessel.
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! MALE COMPANION
| SOUGHT BY POLICE
LOS ANGELES. Feb. 8—A fash
| ionably dressed young woman and
: four amatuer confederates were
! sought today in the recent kidnap
1 ping of Mi’s. Mary B. Skeele, 65
i year-old college professor’s wife,
who was released without paving
the ransom they demanded,
j Mrs. Skeele, returned home safe
; ly Monday night but could give
i little information. She was blind
j folded most of the time, she said,
| and only glimpsed the kidnappers,
, | a young woman and a well dressed
i man of 30.
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IJ.SJHLL SUITED
FDD HICK POSITION
MIAMI. Fla., Feb. 8—Dispatches
from the temporary headquarters
of President-Elect Roosevelt indi
cate that Justus S. Wardell, one
■ of the original Roosevelt men in
California, is slated for an import
' ant -government position at Wash
ington, D. C., in the new adminis
e j tration.
i! This confirms recent reports re
e j ceived by California Democrats. It
i j was said that Roosevelt himself
r I was personally interested in plac
E> j ing Wardell.
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NO TRIAL SPIN
DAYTONA, Fla., Feb. 8,—Despite
the fact that his racUrg car, Blue
bird. never has been tested on an
actual run and therefore is almost
as much a mystery to him as to
the layman, Sir Malcolm Campbell
plans to send the giant machine
after a speed of better than 253
miles an hour the first time the
weather makes a perfect beach.
3 K F Q D SERENADERS DANCE SATURDAY