VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 515.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
DELEGATE URGES j
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT!
ALASKAJESOURCES
WICKERSHAM ADDRESSES MEM
BERS CHAMBER OF COM
MERCE, TUESDAY
Necessity for co-ordination and
concentration upon development
and utilization of Alaska’s natur
al resources, especially gold min
ing, and the realization that the
Territory was signally fortunate in
having escaped the depths of de- j
pression affecting the continental
United States, were outstanding
high lights of an intensely inter
esting and instructive impromptu
address delivered b y Delegate
James Wickersham at the noonday
session of the Seward Chamber of
Commerce.
Judge Wickersham explained the
difficulty in awakening Congress
men in general to the value and
importance of Alaska as a contri
butor to the wealth of the nation:
by the single word “ignorance,” but,
, he pointed out, where facts and |
figures had been presented, such |
as were shown in his compendiumj
setting forth the trade balance in j
favor of Alaska, along with the'
steady stream of golden wealth i
which has been pouring into the
nation since 1876, it has had the
effect of revising the viewpoint held
by many that Alaska wa» an un- I
couth, wild country having little j
effect upon the remainder of the I
nation.
Stating at the outset that he did
not propose making a political:
speech, Delegate Wickersham
stressed the necessity for those
who would hasten Alaska growth
and development to organize and
put forth a program calculated to
accomplish this purpose.
Dwelling upon what Alaska had
done for the United States, Mr. j
Wickersham pointed out how the
fisheries had made millions for
residents of San Francsico, Port
land and Seattle, and depreciated i
the fact that more of this wealth ’
had not remained in the Territory.!
Howrever, be saw no occasion for
the people to feel that things were
not going ahead. He had visited!
. Willow Creek and other mining
regions and vouchsafed the predic
tion that they would become im
mensely rich gold producing cen
ters, and that there were many
other regions equally as prolific
and promising.
“The question is how best to
tap the wealth of Alaska. Norway
and Sweden support a population
of 10 or 12 millions of people on an
area less than Alaska. We can do
the same thing here. Doubtless
' we are nervous and fretful, and
complain and do not do what we
should to develop our resources.
“With respect to climatic condi
tions, I prefer that of many por
tions of Alaska to that of Wash
ington, D. C., and there is no rea
son why there should not be a big
population in the Territory.
“There are a hundred thousand
"square miles of land suitable to
agriculture and other great re
sources capable of supporting a
large population.
“Thus there is no occasion for us
to feel that things are not going
well with us. The history of all new
countries is being repeated here.
Possibly it is well that our wealth
does not come too suddenly and in
too large quantities. Our growth
is steady and safe.
“With regard to the depression
in the United States one may feel
thankful he is in Alaska. We may
not have much money in our poc
kets, but we have security, and are
suffering nothing as compared to
those in the United States. The de
pression has not hurt us one bit,
for we are going along better than
the remainder of the nation.
“What we need most,” continued
Delegate Wickersham, “is more in
itiative and energy- Here is a won
derfully rich country, and all that
is required is to get together and
realize on these resources.
“When Representative McDuffie,!
chairman of the Committee on j
Economy, attacked Alaska, he wasi
afflicted with a lack of knowledge!
of the country. He was astounded j
when I approached him with a!
compilation of the Department of
Commerce, the Fisheries Bureau
and the Department of the Inter
ior which showed that Alaska’s
balance with the United States
showed more than two billions in
her favor. This was represented in
the $400,000,000 of gold production,
$200,000,000 in copper and many
millions spread over fisheries, furs
and other products and the goods
purchased from the merchants of
the United States. Alaska cost the
United. Sattes $7,200,000. The gold
production of the Territory each
year not only repays the purchase
price each year, since the date of
purchase, but pays 25 per cent ad
ditional. Of the $150,000,000 ex
pended by the Federal government
in Alaska, the Territory has repaid
25 per cent each year.
“As I pointed out in Washing
ton, Alaska does not belong to any
particular section of the nation—
any particular set of public offi- j
cials—but to the whole people, and;
when an accounting is made it is j
to the nation, not individuals or!
any particular set of government'
officials.
“The great tragedy is that Con-,
gressmen are good men, but they
simply don’t know. It has been ne-!
cessary to get out a sort of ‘A, B, j
C\ on Alaska. This shows that!
every time the U. S. spent a dollarj
in Alaska it has received 25 cents
in return. This is pretty good in- 1
terest on public expenditures, and
it applies to the Alaska Railroad
as well as to other public expendi
tures.”
Delegate V/ickersham announc
ed that he would reserve all poli
tical reference to this evening,
Wednesday, whe nhe will speak at i
the Liberty theatre.
In introducing the Delegate,
President Leon Urbach of the Sew
ard Chamber of Commerce, first j
called on Mayor D. C. Brownell who I
pointed out that it was unfortu- j
nate that the Delegate did not j
visit Seward more frequently.
In response, Mr. Wickersham said I
that Alaska is one-fifth as large as
the United States and that it was
a problem to visit all parts of it,
save by plane. “It is like swinging
south to Alabama, up the Pacific
Coast to Washington and back to
the Missouri river and return,” said
the Delegate. “Few public officials
can make this extended trip.”
Dick Lane, who announced that
he had been away from civilization
so long that he was not sure he had
returned to normalcy, when called
upon for a few remarks, dwelt upon
the steady drain from the Territory
of money which should be dis
bursed locally to fishermen. He
said:
“A man comes up here from the
States, accumulates from $1,800 to
$2,000 in a season in wages, starts
for Seattle to be paid off, and when
the poker players aboard the boats
finish with him he has not suffi
cient money with which to pay his
grocery bill. One of the important
steps is to try to keep this money
in Alaska and spread among resi
dent fishermen.”
More than 20 members and
guests were present at the Mer
chants’ Grill for the luncheon, and
among those, in addition to the
Delegate, to make impromptu re
marks was Fr. Merrill Sulzman,
who said he welcomed the gather
ing of men of more mature minds
to improve his knowledge of af
fairs in general.
The Connors dredge in the Casa
district began operations July 15.
DEMOCRATS PARTLY
VICTORIOUS IN STATE
WASHINGTON ELECTION
SEATTLE, Sept. 14, —A summary
of state-wide election returns and
from 343 precincts in King County,
gave the following results from
Washington State election:
Gellantly is leading Hartley, in
cumbent, for governor and his elec
tion is almost certain.
For United States Senator, Bea
ver, (Rep.) 13,000; Jones, (Rep.)
14,597; Bone, (Demo) 18,299; Chad
wick, (Demo) 7,581.
Congressman from the 1st divi
sion— Miller 17,143; Horr 10,902.
State Auditor—Clauson 9,009;
Sherman 6,022.
From 4th division—Supreme
bench; Henry Herman, incumbent,
91; Bruce Blake 245.
In the 1st division race for Con
gressman Miller was gaining stead
ily over Ralph Horr.
“HUE GUILLOTINE"
CLAIMS ANOTHER HEW
PARIS, Sept., 14. —Dr. Paul Gar
geloff paid with his life, at dawn
today, for the assassination of
Prsident Paul Doumear of France
whom he killed on May 6 while the
President was attending a charity
book sale.
As is the custom of France, with
all condemned prisoners, Gargeloff
was not notified until one-half hour
before his execution that he was to
be led to “Madame Guillotine” and
beheaded.
As dawn slowly broke revealing
thousands of morbidly curious,
guards rushed Gargeloff from his
cell to the block where the great
knife hung nine feet overhead. Be
fore fie hardly knew what it was
all about, he was kneeling before
the block, the knife descended and
off dropped his head.
DIED FOR MCE
OF MEDICIL SCIENCE
LOS ANGELES, Sept., 14,—Wil
liam Olsen, one of the eight Span
ish-American war heroes who vol
untarily submitted to the bite of
a stegomla mosquito cohtracting
the dreaded yellow fever in order
that scientists could study the dis
ease, died here Tuesday.
He was the last of the diseased
ravaged comrades to die. The gov
ernment, about 20 years ago, con
ferred the Congressional Medal of
Honor upon him at the time of his
removal from the tropics to the
United States.
MUTED
ENROUTE OVER IIUNTIC
NEW YORK, Sept., 14,—Pilot Wil
liam Ulrich took-off from the
Floyd Bennett Airport early Tues
day morning on a non-stop flight
to Rome carrying two passengers,
a doctor and a nurse. The flight
is said to be made in honor and
memory of Florence Nightengale.
The SS. Winebargo wirelessed
that it had sighted a plane flying
low and eastward and believed it
to be the plane" “American Nurse”
—Ulrich’s plane—500 miles south
of Cape Race.
ADMIRAL EVANS SAILS
SEATTLE, Sept., 14, —The SS.
Admiral Evans, of the P. S. S. Co.,
sailed today for Alaska with 39
passengers. There are no passen
' gers on board for Seward.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis 9; Boston 4.
New York 9; Cleveland 3.
Chicago 4; Washington 1.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 6; St. Louis 5.
Chicago 3-2; New York 1-3.
Philadelphia 7; Cincinnati 1.
Boston 3; Pittsburgh 0.
PACIFIC COAST
Missions 14, Oakland 6.
Sacramento 7, Hollywood 8.
Los Angeles 16, Seattle 0.
San Francisco 3, Portland 5.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept.,
14,—The “Flying Hutchinson Fam
ily”, who were enroute on a flight
to Europe, were safely escounced
Tuesday in the mansion of the
Governor of Greenland with only
sniffing noses as reminders of
their narrow escape from death on
the ice-floes off the coast of Green
land.
Refusing to give up the search
for the family of four and members
of the crew of the plane, eight per
sons in all, the captain of the Brit
ish trawler Lord Talbert, sighted
the wrecked plane in a far-distant
ice field. He steamed his vessel
thru the dangerous ice-leads, made
| the rescue, then landed them safely
! at the nearest port.
It is thought that the plane may j
I be salvaged.
i POLITICAL HIGH-LIGHTS
“As Maine goes, so goes the Na-,
tion”, so they say, and at Tuesday’s j
election, Maine elected Democratic |
Brant for governor, the third time;
in the State’s history a Democratic
governor has been elected.
* * * *
i
Two of the three Congressional
seats were also captured by Demo
crats in Maine.
* * * *
Democratic enthusiasm through
out the country is in high spirits
1 today and Republicans admit their
defeat in Maine came as a great
surprise and expect the result will
cut down their vote elsewhere.
* * * *
Governor Ross Sterling of Texas,
filed suit for a recount in proteest
against “Ma” Ferguson’s vote.
* * * *
It appeared late last night that
the Democrats were victorious in
South Carolina with the leading
Demo candidate leading his Repub
lican rival by 30,000 votes.
* * * *
Governor Hunt, Democratic gov
ernor of Arizona, is expected to
win the renomination.
* * • *
President Hoover went into a
huddle Tuesday night with his
henchmen to urge party leaders to
at once set into motion all “ma
chinery” imparting to the public
the issue involved in the campaign.
* * * *
The report was current in Wash
ington Tuesday that the President
may change his mind and go on a
country-wide speaking tour as his
opponent, Governor F. D. Roosevelt
is now doing.
* * * *
On board the Roosevelt special
train Sept. 14,—Governor Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Democratic candidate
for President, who is speeding West
on a special Arain on a country
wide speaking tour, was highly
gratified and elated at the appar
ent Democratic victories in Tues
day’s elections throughout the na
tion.
E. W. Quigley, Solomon mining
man, has his hydraulic plant oper
ating full blast.
STALIN DECIDES RESIGN
MOSCOW, Sept., 14,—Convinced
that he is losing his power and
control of Soviet Russia, Joseph
Stalin is preparing to resign as
dictator of the Russians. The an
nouncement follows on the heel of
the discovery, in London, of a plot
to assassinate him.
GHEAT WATER SYSTEM
urni riiniflv in nnn
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14, —The
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion will purchase $40,000,,000 worth
of Metropolitan water system bonds
which assures completion of this
great project which will supply
certain sections of California with
water from the Colorado River.
.Construction of the system will
be started within a period of 60
days and 10,000 men, residents of
the districts embraced, will be em
ployed. It is estimated that the
project will require about six years
to complete.
The water system will be one of
the largest of its kind in the world
and will connect Southern Califor
nia with the Hoover Dam.
FEDERAL DBF (GENTS
RAID LEGIONNAIRES
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept., 14,—As
an aftermath of Tuesday’s gigan
tic American Legion parade, Feder
al prohibition agents went over the
top and into the 91st Infantry
headquarters capturing a quantity
Of liquor'and arresting the Legion
bartender.
Two other post headquarters
were raided at the same time but
the agents were repulsed without
any casualties.
At the 91st headquarters, 51 pints
of something resembling hard liq
I uor were seized, three gallons of the
beverage known as “white mule”
and a few bottles of other alleged
“likker”.
nil GOLF TITLE
STILL OPEN ME
BALTIMORE, Sept., 14, —The
American Amateur Golf champion
ship title is still open for anyone.
Jack Fisher, the Pt. Thomas,
Mich., star, qualified in Tuesday’s
game, coming in two strokes under
his nearest rival, Johnny Good
man of Omaha, Neb. Fisher tied
Bobby Jones’ record for the 18 holes
at 69.
Jimmy Johnson of St. Paul, fail
ed to qualify.
Two favorites still in the running
are Charles Seaver and Gus Mor
gan of this city.
YANKS CLINCH PENNANT
NEW YORK, Sept., 14,—The New
York “Yankees” won the coveted
1932 pennant race when they de
feated Cleveland Tuesday.
THIRD WRECK IN WEEK
TOKIO, Sept., 14,—For the third
time within a week Chinese ban
dits derailed a Manchurian train;
five Japanese soldiers were killed
and a number of passengers injur
ed, as well as robbed.
10 c ON THE DOLLAR
LONDON, Sept. 14, —European
financiers will soon offer to the
United States a cash settlement of
one billion dollars for all the Allied
debts, it was made known here on
Tuesday. Under this plan Ameri
can tax-payers who largely paid
for the World War, would receive
about 10 cents on the dollar.
LEGUMES STAKE
GREATEST PARADE EVER
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept., 14,—The
greatest parade ever witnessed in
this city passed the traditional
point of review Tuesday when
thousands of Legionnaires, attend
ing the American Legion Conven
tion here, marched for four hours.
It is estimated 500,000 people wit
nessed the great spectacle.
Seventy-five bands and 30 drum
corps were in the parade as well as
scores of Auxiliaries, Posts, floats
pf all description and hundreds of
automobiles.
The convention convened today,
after the Tuesday holiday, and it
'was expected many resolutions of
paramount importance will be pre
sented. Among theese will be the
resolution protesting the eviction
of the Bonus Army from Washing
ton and censuring President Hoover
for the order; ^and the resolution
favoring repeal of the 18th amend
j ment.
GOVERNMENT WILL
LET GANDHI SUICIDE
LONDON, Sept. 14, —Reports that
Mahatma Gandhi intended t o
starve himself to death were con
firmed by the government.
The “miracle man” of India an
nounced Monday that he would go
on a perpetual fast, beginning
September 20, onto death, unless
Great Britain changes its decision
and gives the depressed classes of
India a voice in India’s govern
ment.
This, officials say, must be de
cided by India itself and unless
India’s government decides to grant
the demands of Gandhi, well and
good; if not, Gandhi will be per
mitted to suicide.
WOMAN KILLED BY
CIS-ELECTRIC BUST
DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 14, —Mrs.
Virginia Hamilton meant to kill
herself by the gas route but in
stead, was blown up. Turning on
the gas in the apartment, after
closing all air vents, she stuck the
electric iron plug into the wall soc
ket and began ironing clothes; evi
dently figuring to continue until
overcome by gas fumes.
But an electric spark must have
been set off in the connection for
the resultant explosion killed her
and completely demolished i tjhe
apartment.
Husband and jvife had quarreled,
it was said.
THREE WILLS WERE
LEFT BT Pill BERN
HOLLYWOOD, Sept., 14,—Anoth
er mystery has been added to the
recent suicide of Paul Bern, mov
ing picture producer and husband
of Jean Harlow, when it was dis
closed three wills were left in a
safety deposit box.
Two of the wills were made pub
lic but the contents of the third
have not been divulged. One will,
d*rawn in June 1925, left a $2,500
annuity to Miss Dorothy Millette,
the mystery woman in the case;
the second will, made in 1927, left
a similar bequest.
CALEXICO, Sept. 14, —The Port
of Calexico was ordered closed at
9 o'clock at night instead of mid
J night, because of lack of necessity
for the longer hours.
Delegate Wickersham Will Address Seward
Citizens Tonight at 8 D.m. Libertv Theafpr