MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 176.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SKIPPER OF BIG JAPANESE
STEAMER SEES INDUSTRIAL
OPPORTUNITY FOR THIS
PARTICULAR DISTRICT
After viewing the stands of
timber, Capt. J. Satow, comman
der of the Japanese steamer Tai
yu Maru which arrived in port
yesterday and will remain for
at- least a week loading Alaska
Railroad salvage material, pro
phesized a tremendous logging, or
lumber business could be esta
blished at this point direct with
the flowery kingdom of Japan.
Any kind of lumber and timber'
is in constant demand, he said,
and good prices are being paid
He also saw a possibility for a
coal business being developed be
twee the Territory and Japan.
However, when informed of the
present wholesale price, thought
that this was more than that
now being paid for the coal im
ported to his native land from
the present sources.
Of particular importance, he
theuth, was the immediate ne
cessity for the erection of a light
house near the entrance to Re
surrection Bay. and named Rug
ged Island as his preference for
such a light. The need of a light
house here was brought to his
attention when endeavoring to
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MAKING TOUR OF TERRITORY
TN INTEREST OF AGRICUL
TURAL PROJECTS
SEATTLE, July 30. (7P)—Pour
members of the House Appropria
tions Subcommittee for agricul
ture sailed for Alaska on the
Coast Guard cutter Tahoe.
In the party were Summers of
Washington, Sandlin of Louisiana,
Dickinson of Iowa who is the
chairman of the committee, and
Buchanan of Texas.
Chief Forester Stuart accom
panied them on a special tour
to study agricultural projects in
the national forests. Forest roads
and other federal projects will be
studied.
RUSSIAN SUPPLIES
KODIAK, July 30. </P) —Bouy
markers and other supplies were
landed here by the Admiral Evans
of the P. S. S. Co., for the Rus
sian-Soviet round the world fliers
who are due to take off at Mos
cow late in August. The bouys
are to be placed in St. Paul
harbor where the first Russian
dropped his anchor 160 years ago.
EVANS WORKER KILLED
KODIAK, July 30. (/P) —The
body of Herman Anderson, 24,
arrived here Sunday. Anderson
was killed while helping to un
load a cargo off the Admiral
Evans. He was the only son of
Charles Anderson, local jailer and
leaves a widow and a small baby.
I
TOSI WEATHER
RAIN BRINGS TEMPORARY RE
LIEF TO WILTING CITY
DWELLERS
I
NEW YORK, July 30. (/P) —
With the exception of the Pacific
Coast the entire country lay un
der a pall of torrid temperatures.
The highest temperature re
corded was on Monday the ther
mometer showing 98.; Baltimore,
Oklahoma City and other Okla
homa cities an dWashington, 96;
Helena 94; Detroit 92; Portland,
Maine, 92; Milwaukee, St. Louis
and Salt "Lake City 90: in contrast
with the temperatures on the
Pacific Coast—San Francisco 64;
San Diego 70; Los Angeles 78;
Seattle 83.
Thunder showers bringing tem
porary relief to the wilting city
dwellers but only aggravation to
the farmers watching crops ra
pidly succumb to drough occured
in various places in the east and
New York.
The short rain storm drove the
temperature down 10 degrees in
•slightly more than a minute.
Fourteen persons were injured
by flying glass when lightening
struck a Brooklyn street car.
STRONG’S FUNERAL
SEATTLE, July 30. (A3)—Funeral
services for former governor of
Alaska, John F. A. Strong, who
died here Saturday night sud
denly from heart attack will be
held under the auspices of the
i Rose Croix Masonic Order. Cre
j mation will follow the services.
COMPANY EXPECTS TO HAVE
SHIP IN SERVICE ABOUT
THREE WEEKS
SEATTLE, July 29, (&)—The
electric motorship W. B. Fosliay,
built at a cost of $450,000 and in
tended for Alaska service, was
launched from the Lake Wash
ington Shipyards Saturday.
The ship was built by the
Northland Transportation Co., a
| subsidiary of W. B. Foshay of
Minneapolis; the vessel is 186
feet long, contains space for 1,000
tons of perishable cargo and has
i accomodations for 52 first class
passengers.
The company expects to have
the ship in service in about
three weeks.
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SEATTLE, July 30. (JP)—John
J. Gorman, member of Gorman
and Company, pioneer salmon
packers and brokers of the Paci
fic and Northwest Alaska died
after an illness of'several months.
Gorman came to the North
west in 1890. After several bus
iness ventures in Oregon he mov
ed to Seattle. In 1901 he became
one of the largest operators of
salmon canneries on Puget Sound
and in Alaska.
I SCIENCE MOVES TO SPIKE
CHICAGO GANGLAND GUNS
The University of Chicago and Northwestern university, aroused
by gang killings, have set up “super” detective bueaus to combat
crime. Among leaders in the work will be August Vollmer of Berkeley,
Cal. (above), and Maj. Calvin Goddard (below).
IE OUR FISH
BOTTLE CRY OT
INLET CANNERY
MAGILL CANNERY AT ANCHOR
AGE, AND OTHERS, ENJOY
WONDERFUL RUN
ANCHORAGE, July 30, (Special
to the Gateway) “S. O. F!”
The call did not come from a
belabored ship at sea, but ema
nated from the cannery of the
Alaska General Fisheries, operated
by Joe Magill, at Anchorage.
Interpreted it meant “Save
Our Fish!”
With the cannery tenders daily
dumping 10 to 30,000 salmon onto
the Ocean dock, to be cared for
by a two-line plant, as yet not
passed for beyond the hand stage,
for a time the situation appeared
serious.
Then Mr. Magill broadcasted
his distress signal to the com
munity, and the community up
held Alaskan traditions regard
less of rank or success. Anyone
visiting the cannery between the
hours of 6 a- m. and 12 o’clock
midnight might have seen profes
sional and business men, their
wives and daughters, engaged in
practically every branch of the
cannery.
Office employes and other work
ers of the Alaska Railroad, fin
ished their daily tasks and put
in long night hours until the day’s
run was safely through the re
torts and the finished products
stacked ready for boxing, that
the inadequate equipment might
serve for the next “silver horde”
that would stream in on the
morning’s tide.
The spirit of response was not
so much due to the lure of 75
cents per hour, paid to all from
nimble-fingered children scarcely
as high as a crate of salmon, to
adults, as it was to help Mr. Ma
gill make ’good when opportunity
presented itself.
And thus it was that th£ Alaska
General Fisheries was able to pack
approximately 1,000 cases per day
load them upon waiting cars and
start them, along with the out
put of the Emard and Taman
plants, enroute to the markets
of the world, both of which latter
culd have had all they could
do to handle the raw material.
The bulk of the fish comprises
kings and reds, with the silvers
and humpies yet to come.
By extra careful process the pale
and medium-colored fish have
been brought up to a standard
that bids fair to exert a tremend
ous demand for this hitherto dis
criminated against article.
To handle the steady flow of
raw material at the Alaska Gen
eral Fisheries plant it was neces-,
sary to work the force upwards
50 in step shifts. This exacting
executive prowess and duty fell
on the shoulders of Superinten
dent E. Harlacher. Dividing into
classes according to nature of the
work, the raw force was created
into a smooth-working machine,
the ' broad-driven conveyor in
handling the full cases from trays
to loading.
Try standing in line tossing or
receiving a case of salmon, bear
ing to nailer and thence to the
short conveyor and piling nine
high into a boxcar!
Early morning hours found
little kiddies standing on a cor
ner awaiting the automobile that
|was o convey them to work, rub
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CLAIMS TO BE FIRST PARTY IN
VALLEY SINCE ERUPTION
KATMAI IN 1912
SAN FRANCISCO, July 29, (/P)—
The Examiner published a dis
patch from Rev. Bernard Hubbard
at Kodiak relating how he and a
party of explorers battled against
heat, severe cold, storms and hun
ger to survey Mount Katmai and
other points in the Valley of Ten
Thousand Smokes.
Hubbard reported the party was
the first to penetrate the famous
Valley since 1912 when the moun
tain was in eruption.
The explorers encountered fierce
storms in ascending the volcano
and in the valley beyond the
peak they discovered its activi
ty had greatly diminshed; that
where thousands of fumaroles were
erupting in 1912 only hundreds may
now be seen.
The wire related how Roder
ick Chisholm, former Santa Clara
football player, climbed heated
rocks until his shoes were burned
off his feet; with food gone the
party arrived back at Katmai on
the day it was supposed to return
to the Alaskan peninsula. The
boat which was to return for the
party failed to arrive. The four
explorers managed to get along
several days on a diet of seals and
eagles; the boat finally came.
WYOMING AND UTAH STOCK
MEN ARE INTERESTED
WITH N. Y .MONEY
KODIAK, July 30. (/^—Wyo
ming stockraisers are seeking to
establish new sheep raising en
terprises in Westward Alaska.
Jack McCord or the McCord
Alaska Company plans to bring
5,000 head of sheep and put
them on Sitkalidak Island off
the south end of Kodiak.
The sheepmen of Wyoming and
Utah are interested with New
York capital in a big wool grow
ing venture.
The experiment has already
been successfully conducted on
Sitkalidak Island and vicinity and
the region has proved well ad
apted for wool growing.
ALASKA FUR FARMS
KODIAK, July 30. (JP)—A. W.
Bennet, president and general
manager of the Alaska Fur Cor
poration, which company is going
to start one of the world’s largest
fur farms on Marmot and Long Is
land in this area is planning to in
troduce 1,000 pairs of muskrat and
60 pairs each of mink and racoon.
ALLEGED FRAUDS
WASHINGTON, July 29, (/P)—
John Phillips, former chairman of
the Republican State committee of
Georgia and others have been
found liable for $1,381,000 with in
terest from June 3, 1927, for alleged
frauds against the United States
;governmeift in sales of surplus lum
ber after the world war.