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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 282.
SEWARD, ALASKA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
System Strangling
Growth of Alaska
Declares L V. Ray
BEFORE MATERIAL PROGRESS CAN BE MADE
TERRITORY MUST BE GRANTED GREATER
POWERS IN SHAPING OWN DESTINIES—OF
FERS PLAN TO SOLVE TREASURY DEFICIT
Launching a program filled with progressive ideas,!
principal among which is getting at the root of Alaskan
troubles, tearing them from the soil, substituting there-!
fore a more healthy growth, L. V. Ray, candidate for the
Territorial Senate on the Republican ticket, made his po
sition and policies plain to listeners-in on KFQD, Ancho
rage, Monday evening.
This was Mr. Ray’s first appearance before the voters;
in the present campaign, and he made it clear that he did
not believe that stop-gap legislation, and a patching up
here and would suffice to meet the entire problem.
Mr. Ray believes that the solution lies in greater lati
tude in the management of Alaskan affairs by Alaskans.
With this power, he feels confident that the territory can
work out its own salvation, especially now that it has
practically been thrown back upon its own resources and
can expect little help from the federal government.
Mr. Ray, in broadcasting his speech, in part said:
“At the primary election held,
last April, in an uncontested nom
ination for territorial senator, the
voters of this division gave me a
very fine vote; for that vote I ex- !
press my thanks. It is because of j
such endorsement I think it is due j
to them that some discussion be
had of the problems confronting
us.
“It is evident the time has ar
rived when the people of this ter- j
rit'ory must step out into a more
full form of self-government; it is
evident it is with increasing re
luctance Congress is voting appro- ,
priations for both major and minor |
projects of development in the ter- j
litory; in fact, the last Congress
through some of the dominant
party leaders in a Democratic
House of Representatives, would!
have eliminated many of the usual'
appropi iations for long-establish
ed and recognized rightful expen
ditures in Alaska.
“The resources of Alaska, with j
local control over all of them thru I
30U1 legislature, are amply large
enough in amount to take care of
all territorial expenditures. The re
venues derived from the seal is
lands, the Pribilofs, in Bering sei
if returned to the territory sine
the year 1912, the date of the con
gressional enactment granting t
Alaska a legislature, even withoi
interest on the vast amount in
volved, would take care of th
Alaska Railroad for years.
“Now I suggest that the incom
ing legislature of Alaska apply for,
and I believe can easily obtain
from the R. F. C., a loan against
which could be pledged the re
sources of the territory, and sure
ly there could be no question
raised as to the moral integrity of j
the people of Alaska, for I know
they are honest, and I know such
advance would be by them consid
ered an honorable obligation to be
returned to the taxpayers of the
nation.
“As you have heard from Repre
sentative J. N. McCain, the press
informs us that Senator King of
the State of Utah, a most promi
nent and influential Democratic
senator, has served notice that at
the incoming session of Congress
he will introduce and attempt to
secure the passage of a law which
will authorize the sale or lease of
the Alaska Railroad. It is to be
fairly assumed that the Democrat
ic leader thus speaks for and binds
to his party to such a program.
“I pledge myself to you people
and to every person in any manner
connected with the government
railroad, to do everything in my
power to insure continuation of the
railroad project, to stabilize em
ployment thereunder, to safeguard
and protect those who have es
tablished business or built homes
and otherwise become a part of
this territory based and predicated
upon the continuation of and suc
cess of the railroad project. I am
of the firm belief a policy may be
worked out which will effect such
an object.
“Then, too, under the report cir
culated by the territorial auditor,
there is sounded a warning as to
the fate of our school system, of
our Pioneer’s Home, our advanced
age pension fund and other impor
tant matters.
“The sound education of our
youth must be maintained at any
cost through an efficient educa
tional system, the most essential
portion of which consists of teach
ers. Therefore, why not use the
credit to which we are entitled,
should an e mergency arise, and se
cure funds with which to take care
of the schools, the pay of our
teachers, the care of the pioneers
and of the aged by and through
loans obtained from the R. F. C.
Why not apply national finance
to territorial affairs? Give us title
to and control of our resources,
of our revenues, and we can free
ourselves from parental supervi
sion.
“After 20 years of a limited and
restricted grant of power by the
national government to the people
of the territory, it is demonstrated
that we have fully and completely
established our ability to manage
and control our own affairs with
out further supervision, parental
control and interference with and
participation in by federal appoint
ive officials.
“Having this fixed and firm
opinion and well fortified by
the existing facts, I present to you
the necessity of a full form of ter
ritorial authority and government,
the election of our governor, of our
judges and of all our officials, cho
sen fiom Alaskans. Our present
major appointments, or rather
those appointed, have and are un
der no obligation to serve the peo
ple of the territory, are not answer
able to those over whom they are
placed in charge, but answerable
only to the appointive power.
“The form of government now
tried out in Alaska, has fatal de
fects. It is narrow and arbitrary,
is not good government, is not in
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ROOSEVELT IS II
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LOS ANGELES. Oct. 23.—De- | <
scribing the Democratic presiden- ! (
tial nominee as a political siren j
and comparing Herbert Hoover
with Abraham Lincoln, Secretary
of Agriculture Arthur Hyde told his
audience here last night that Pres- [
ident Hoover was not on trial but £
that the American people were, at £
this election. j £
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt 1
and his henchmen are sneering at;
this administration which is lead- I
ing the world out of the depression, j(
Mr. Hyde asserted, adding that the
Democrats speak in generalities
only and that they have no defi
nite program for any national pro
blem.
After three and one-half years of
bloody sacrifice Abraham Lincoln j 3
was dubbed a failure by many; 1 ]
called a baboon; but what would ;
have become of “our country if Lin- ‘
coin had not been returned to the ! i
White House! And now, in 1932, j
there is talk of wanting a change. !
Are our three years of depression
worse than those three years in >
Lincoln’s time? I would rather see j
the man who has just put into mo- j(
tion the machinery for not only ! [
national but world-wide economic ]'
recovery, run it, not a stranger.” I'
ms PEOPLE
E1RER FOR EFFORTS
10 PROMOTE PERCE
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct, 28, —
In addressing the Episcopal church,
Secretary Stimson lauded the ef
forts of religious people in all ages ;
to promote peace and abolish such I
evils as slavery.
He held that world peace cannot
be achieved “without the efforts
of all nations" and said that no na
tion was so well equipped to pro-;
mote peace as the United States.
“From our secure position in the j
new hemisphere, surrounded only;
by friendly nations whose proxim- 1
ity has never given us cause for an
xiety, we have an assured base
| from which the influence of Amer
ica may be exerted, without fear
throughout the world, toward es
(tablishment of better world rela
tions.”
Stimson lauded developments in
j American foreign policy under the
: Hoover administration.
HI. SMITH MAKES
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BOSTON, Oct. 28.—Alfred E.
| Smith made his second major
! speech of the campaign in support
i of the Democratic candidate after
a tumultous welcome from 15,000
persons. The ovation equalled that
given Smith in 1928 when Massa
| chusetts cast a majority of votes
for him.
“In 1930 the country was faced
with a deficit of one billion dollars
; and not a word was said about it,”
said the speaker. “Why? Because
the administration was living in
hope that providence would make 1
things better.”
FLANE PASSENGERS
Arrivals Thursday from Anchor
age with Pilot Oscar Winchell, in
cluded Jos. Wilson, Nuka Bay; L.
Hardy, and Mr. Kelly, a Seattle in
surance man. The day previous
Winchell had breakfast at Anchor
age, dinner at Fairbanks, and sup
per at Anchorage, having made a
complete roundtrip during the day
and a stop at Nenana.
ADDED 2,053 WORKERS
NEW YORK, Oct. 28, —General £
Motors Corporation, second largest 1
ndustrial organization in the Unit- !
>d States, added 2,053 workers in 1
September, the first increase in
>mployment since the start of the
rear, the company announced.
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OPENING CONSULATE
MOSCOW, Oct. 28, —The Soviet
government agreed to permit the
»overnment of Manchukuo to open
i general consulate in Moscow i
;oon.
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GEORGE IS SIGNED UP J
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 28, —Geo. !
Godfrey, Philadelphia negro, was ]
igned to meet Stanley Pareda. Jer- 1
'ey City heavyweight, in a 10-round ]
>out here November 10.
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POLICE CHARGE JOBLESS J
GLASGOW, Scotland, Oct. 28.— . <
Police squads charged a mob of i
0,090 unemployed here Thursday 11
ifter a demonstraton against the j£
means test.” The demonstrators i i
narchea on the city hall where an :1
ludience was refused.
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WANT DEBTS DEFERRED
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PARIS, Oct. 28.—Premier Ed- ,
>uard Herriot appearing in the ;
Chamber of Deputies Thursday
isked that the question of war j:
lebts be postponed until after the !
aresidential elections in'the United '
States.
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ON THE LAST STRETCH
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ALBANY, N. Y., Oct, 28, —Gov- ;
?rnor Franklin D. Roosevelt Thurs- :
day planned his final campaign :
drive, one that will have a finish i
an the “sidewalks of New York.”
Roosevelt, with pressing State un- ,
employment relief problems set
tled temporarily, turned to arrang
ing the itinerary of his trip into j
Massachusetts during the weekend, i
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LETS CAT OUT OF BAG
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 28.— !
All bank failures cannot be blamed j
an business depression, Dr. Charles
Hardy of the Brookings Institute
reported Thursday after an in
tensive survey. He estimated in
the period, 1922-1931 there were:
8,784 bank insolvencies in this!
country, or 29 per cent of the num- j
ber of banks in operation at the i
beginning of that period.
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’TIS FALSE!
VIENNA, Oct. 28 —A spokesman
for the Roumanian government
told the pres.? that there is no truth
in reports that King Carol and his
divorced wife, Princess Helene,
have effected a reconciliation. “The
divorce is a definite thing,” he de- !
dared, “and all contrary reports |
are false.”
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FARM MORATORIUM
DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 28, —
A farmers tax and mortgage mora
torium “until the time when prices
are restored to normal” was en
dorsed Thursday by the National
Farmers Holiday Association which
backed the strike of Iowa farmers
seeking higher prices last summer.
Milo Reni, president, said no defi
nite plans for a moratorium had
been worked out.
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STOLE TONS OF COAL
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 28.— I
While Mr. and Mrs. Howard Knapp j
slept, thieves backed a truck up to
their coal bin window and shovel- j
ed out three tons and left without
being molested. Mr. Knapp is a
policeman. He said he never heard
a thing.
Capt. A. E. Lathrop, president of
the Healy River Coal Corp., accom
panied by his secretary, Miss Mar
ian Dickey, arrived on the SS Yu
kon from Cordova.
PROPOSES COMMUNISM
OXFORD, Eng., Oct. 23, — Es
tablishment of a western comrau- |
lism different than that in Rus
sia, was advocated by H. G. Wells,
:peaking before the Oxford Univer- j
;ity Club, a Communist organiza- !
ion.
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UTICA. N. Y„ Oct. 28.—The Dem
icratic .stand on pr hihlaon is
‘just one more misleading prom-1
se,” Ogden Mills told a crowd
rhursday night as he labeled the
Democratic presidential candidate
i “trimmer.”
Mills accused Franklin D. Roose
velt, of trimming each and one of
iis sails to catch each puff
)f what he considered to be pon
ilar whim of the moment. The
Democratic prohibition promise, he
:aid, is impossible of achievement,
lepublicons offered definite and
concrete action as a guarantee of
uture performance where Demo
crats set up a series of vague and
conflicting promises on scattered
ssues.
“Do not let discouragement, false
lopes, false issues deprive the na
tion of President Hoover’s leader
ship when it may well prove a na
tional calamity,” he sad.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—The estate j
)f Julius Rosenthal, philanthropist,! I
s valued at $31,750,090. An inher- ! |
tance tax approximating $400,000!
s to be paid on it. His will disclos- j
'd he had personally absorbed his
employees’ losses during the 1928
stock market crash.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 28, — 1
President Hoover warned that (
failure of world disarmament ef
forts abroad would compel the j ^
United States to build a navy 1
“equal to that of the most power- ■
ful in the world.”
Hoover, in a Navy Day state
ment, said these efforts were mak- '
ing progress. He added that their'
collapse would force this nation
to increase its navy because of dis
turbed world conditions and the
necessity of protecting American
commerce. He said the administra
tion had spared no efforts to bring
about a reduction of world arma
ments.
HUNDRED TOUT i
WINS IINDICIP E?ENT
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NEW MARKET, Eng., Oct. 28, —
Mrs. C. B. Robinson’s “Pullover,” (
paying 100 to 1, won the Cambridge !
Handicap. Lord Glanley’s “Ada I
Dear” was second, and Sir Victor 1
Sassoon’s “Pharoah” was third; 23
horses ran. «
Thousands of long odd bets were
made on the race, coupled with
the Cesarewitch Handicap run of
October 12. Only one better had the
winner and that horse was 354 to 1.
WANTED A BLONDE
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28.—Mrs. j
Eleanor Brown Lewis was granted
a divorce from her husband yester
day. She told the judge her hus
band told her he was tired of her
and wanted a blonde for a change.
B. F. Heinzleton, of the Forestry
division and who is an authority
on water-power and pulp mill tim
ber, is a brief visitor in the city
on his way to Juneau.
LONDON, Oct. 28.—Foot police
isecl truncheon unsparingly Thurs
lay on 100,000 unemployed march
rs and London hoodlums in a bat
le around the marble arch of Hyde
lark. Sixty persons were injured,
hree of them so severely they
t'ere taken to hospitals.
Bands of young ruffians dashed
iack and forth, attacking police
/ith clubs, stones and other rnis
iles. They smashed windows in
tores and automobiles. Before
lightfall the park and surround
ng streets had been cleared tho
hreats of night terrors from riot
rs led to redoubled vigilance by
he police.
Numbers of Downing street and
larliament buildings were strongly
uarded.
The battle which raged in half a
lozen sectors climaxed the march
>f 3,000 jobless men and women
rom all sections of England and
>cotland. Marchers themselves
ook little part in the rioting, most
'f the fighting being done by the
jondon unemployed and hoodlums.
The hunger marchers are pro
esting against the meagerness of
lole payments.
Officials of the national unem
tloyment workers’ movement, sup
porting the hunger march were
naking arrangements for housing
nembers of their movement.
1IH IS WILLING
TO OWE HER ARMY
PARIS, Oct. 28, —Reduction of
:he French army from 20 to 12 di
visions by cutting conscript service
is- planned if similar reductions
and security guarantees are made
by other nations, the press was in
formed.
There was a new note of opti
mism in semi-official disarmament
discussions, indicating renewed life
for the Geneva conference on arms
limitations, and hope for removal
of the most serious obstacle to real
limitations of naval forces.
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 28, —A tear
ful young mother went to jail yes
terday on charges kidnapping her
own baby, while three-year old
Nancy Irene Buchanan went back
to the home of her foster mother,
Mrs. Violet Buchanan.
Nancy Lee, object of the frantic
28 hour search begun when she was
reported kidnapped Wednesday,
watched as her mother, Ruth Bor
man, led to a cell- The child
was unharmed by a night spent in
a house where Miss Borman was
found asleep in her mother’s arms.
The Seward Library will hold its
annual Bake Sale on election day,
Nov. 8, in the library.
The library has received notice
from the Governor’s office that the
usual aid given by the Territory
to libraries will not be extended
this year on account of lack of
funds.
Therefor, as such Bake Sales are
the library’s only means of raising
money to carry on the board is
anxious to make this one a success.
Everyone will be busy on election
day so remember to purchase
home-made food breads and cakes
at the Library Bake Sale, Nov. 8.
HALLOWEEN PUBLIC DANCE OCTOBER 29