Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1$04
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FISHERMEN SHOULD NOT BE PENALIZED
Seward is protesting the measure introduced Satur
day by Hess of Fairbanks to the Senate in which he pro
poses a tax on all petroleum products sold in Alaska.
Such a measure, Sewardites opine, only mean
increased taxation to the individual who already has more
than he can handle with comfort; the Territory’s revenue
would be cut down, not increased, as large buyers would
purchase direct from the States; and furthermore, would
place additional hardships upon fishermen who daily
battle the elements in order to reap a livelihood.
Below are two messages sent today in protest:
Senator A. J. Dimona, Juneau, Alaska:
Your attention directed cables from Mayor of Seward
to President of Senate and Speaker of the House relative
proposed sales on gasoline and fuel oil tax. Personally ask
your active cooperation to eliminate vessels of the halibut
herring and salmon fleet using gasoline and fuel oil from
tax. These men should not be further penalized in follow
ing hazardous and dangerous occupations in Alaskan waters.
L. V. Ray
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Frank H. Foster, Territorial Representative, Juneau:
Your attention directed cables from Mayor of Seward t-o
President of the Senate and Speaker of the House relative
proposed sales on gasoline and fuel oil tax. Personally re
quest your active cooperation to eliminate from proposed
tax vessels of halibut, herring and salmon fleet using gas
oline and fuel oil to great extent. Am reliably informed
two-thirds sales gasoline Alaska per annum go to federal
and municipal activities and under Supreme Court decision
exempt from such tax. Interior of Alaska uses but little fuel
oil; suggest tax would discriminate against those hardy
men engaged in the dangerous occupation of fishing for
halibut, herring and salmon in Alaskan waters. —L. V. Ray
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ANOTHER ANSWER TO RATE INCREASE
The cooperation sought by the Alaska Railroad from
Alaskans is daily being manifested in divers ways. The
latest is the report from Cordova where it is said ar
rangements are being made to take tourists over the
Copper River Railroad, thence by auto stage to Fair
banks at a cost lower than the recently increased rates
over the Alaska Railroad. Planes will also be stationed
there: Both are factors in time-saving; two days, at the
least, it is pointed out.
Plans are also fomenting to do likewise from Val
dez.
Thus is being written the answer to the government's
plan to make “suckers” out of Alaskans.
Now that Judge James Wickersham is our Delegate,
we wonder if, by reason of similarity of nomenclature,
he will be called upon to interpret and elucidate the Wick
ersham Report concerning crime and criminals. It is
too bad Wickersham did not have the opportunity of in
terviewing Einstein prior to the latter’s departure for
Europe in order that a proper and an intelligent inter
pretation might not have been made of that abortive
report.
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Time is fleeting and the future knows no staying
hand. Recently a bootlegger was hailed before the maj
esty of the local law and upon a plea of guilty was sen
tenced to 10 days in the bowels of the bastile. In asking
to comment upon the justice of his sentnce he gave birth
to an axiomatic truth that should carry weight with all
good citizens. He said: ‘Noven partes legum possessio
est,” which, as every Irishman knows, means that nine
points of the law is possession.
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What this country now needs is a president with
“guts”—like a Roosevelt!
SIXTEEN DIE OKED
WEEK-END, CDIST:
KOTOS IE NINE
SEATTLE, Mar. 31. (/P)—Violent
deaths claimed 16 on the Pacific
Coast over the week-end.
Automobiles headed the list with
jnine, three were drowned, two sui
cides, one by airplane and one by
train.
Charles Pears, of Spokane was as
phyxiated when he was overcome
by monoxide gas as he was steer
ing a car being towed behind an
other.
George Dedler, 51, of Rio Vista,
Cal., was drowned when his motor
boat turned sharply and he struck
his head and, fell overboard.
Peter Rizzon of Oakland, Cal.,
was drowned when he fell from a
canoe and was pulled under by a
heavy artificial leg.
Boats in port this morning in
cluded the SS Northwestern, thej
SS Starr, Roy, B. F. M., and the
Bill.
NEW NEWSPAPER
The Chitina Herald is the latest
venture in the Alaska newspaper
field. The staff of the new pub
lication is Adrian Nelson, editor;
Philip Nelson, reporter and busi
ness manager; William Moore, as
sistant editor and circulatoin
manager. The new publication is ;
a 2-page paper and is filled to
the brim with live items of the
interior town, say the Valdez
Miner.
PIN MIU HD
ESTIMATED MILLIONS
—
j PANAMA CITY, Mar. 30. (/P)—
j Construction or conditioning of
Approximately 1.000 miles of high
! way will complete a road through
! Mexico and Central America, link- '
| ing the United States and the (
I Panama Canal, it was revealed at !
j the second International Highway
| Congress meeting here.
; The cost to complete this Pan- j
American highway was estimated
at $56,000,000 and the work could
be finished within five years if!
financing can be arranged.
PARTS ARE LOST
The air pressure regulator on j
the radio set at the Fairbanks
station exploded recently, hurling
parts of the radio equipment 40 I
feet, reports the News-Miner.
Since some of the parts were lost
it was thought that it would be
necessary to close the station
while they attempted to secure
some at Seward or if not from
there to await necessary repairs
from Seattle.
$50,000 ADDED FOR DERBY
CHICAGO, Mar. 30. (JP) — The
American Derby, at a mile and a 1
quarter, for three-year olds, will be I
run at Washington Park, Chicago,
June 20. It will have added value
of $50,000.
At the auction on the Juneau
Fish Exchange recently, as high
as 15.05 cents a pound first grade
and 11.05 cents a pound second
grade, 1931 rules, were paid for
fresh halibut, reports the Juneau
Empire.
HURL GAS SHELL 2,700 YARDS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 30.
(A5)—Army experts have developed a |
new 4.2 inch chemical mortar that |
will throw a gas shell 2,700 yards
as compared to 1,100 yard range of
the 4-inch wartime mortar.
E. G. Wetzler, postal inspector,
has entered the Seward General
Hospital for treatment.
„ CANVAS OR LEATHER
COME IN AND INSPECT TELE FANCIEST
LINE OF WAIST BELTS THAT EVER
CAME TO ALASKA
SEWARD LEATHER WORKS.
New assortment of beautiful Easter cards |
now on display at the Alaska Shop.
LIBERTY THEATER
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