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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 98. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1928. PRICE TEN CENTS
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ACCORDING JUNEAU
JUNEAU RETURNS BELIEVED TO
BE FINAL IN DECIDING PRI
MARY ELECTION
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JNUEAU, April 26, (Special to
The Gateway)—Twenty, four pre
cincts out of 52 in this Division show
it was overwhelmingly carried by
Sutherland and Rustgard and insures
Wickersham’s election tysj Delegate
to the National Convention and puts
Captain Lathrop in the lead for Na
tional Committee to thfe Republican
Convention; it leaves the race be
tween Caswell and Chase in doubt
with the former leading by 200 votes.
Probably between . 500 and 600
votes are unreported mostly from In
dian precincts which is dividing even
ly between Caswell and Chase.
Indications are the Indian legisla
tive ticket will be nominated with
the possible exception of one House
npmination. Leroy Noland, Juneaii,
was high man on the anti-Indian tic
ket, was leading A. L. Olts, Ketchi
kan, the fourth man on the opposing
ticket, by 350 votes.
The nominations of Charles Ben
jamin for Senator, and Grover C.
Winn, W. L. Paul and P. C. McCor
mack, were practically assured.
The returns up to a late hour yes
terday gave Sutherland 1824, How
ard 1068, Rustgard 2176, Waller 507,
Lathrop 1161, Albrecht 887, Aldrich
623, Wickersham 1691, Caswell 1203,
Chase 1010, Gelles 630, Pratt 302.
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LATHROP'S OWN HOME TOWN
TURNS HIM DOWN FOR UN
KNOWN SOUTHEASTERNER
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ANCHORAGE, April 26, (Special
to The Gateway)—Anchorage and 10
small railroad precincts gave Howard
133, Sutherland 654, Albrecht 357,
Aldrich 98, Lathrop 311, Caswell 93,
Chase 492, Gelles 308, Pratt 106,
ler 489, Borgen 420, Goodall 263, Dean
Wickersham 517, Rustgard 334. Waller
414, Foster 250, McCain 328, Murray
259, Phinn 171, Roach 377, Seller 273,
Tarwater 590.
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ACCEPTS INVITATION
OSLO, April 26. (£>)— Capt. Wilkins
and Pilot Eielson accepted the invita*
tion of the Norwegian American S. S.
line to be its guests on the return voy
age to New York. The flyers expect
to reach New York the middle of
June.
REPUBLICAN TAX PLAN
SIUISFACTOHY MELLON
WASHINGTON, April 26. (^—Sec
retary Mellon said the adoption by
Congress of the new Republican tax
plan calling for a $210,000,000 reduc
tion will be satisfactory to the Treas
ury. Democrats want $325,000,000 re
duction.
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TOWN OF 60,000 SACKED BY BRI
GANDS, DESERTERS, NORTH
ERN, SOUTHERN ARMIES
SHANGHAI, April, 26 (JP)—While
civil war continued it was reported
bandits near here slaughtered 5,000
men, women and children at Kingmen.
An American missionary was killed
at Tsining and another has been re*
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ported killed. Bandits, comprising of
army deserters and peasant organiza
tions raided Kingmen City of 60,000
sacked the town and conducted -whole
sale murder.
Tens of thousands of Northerners
and Southerners captured Tsinan, the
capital of Shantung, but were defeat
be near Tsinan. They are trekking
back with brigandage rampant.
PRICE AT SEATTLE
RED FOX BRINGS $37; 36 OF THE
BEST LOT YESTERDAY SOLD
FOR $!58
SEATTLE, April 26. (/P)—Only two
items were offered yesterday at the
Seattle Fur Auction. Approximately
70 percent of the collection of 10,000
mink sold at an average of $16.67.
Red fox went for 85 percent of the
collection of 8,000 sold on dn average
of $37 and 36 of the best lot fetched
$58.
The auction continues today and to
morrow.
BENNETT BE BURIED IK
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
QUEBEC, April 26. (#>)—Bennett
will be buried tomorrow in Arlington
Cemetery outside of Washington close
to the grave of Admiral Peary. The
body, accompanied by his wife and be
loved chief, Lieut. Byrd, is being tak
en to Washington by special train.
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LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY
WESTWARD ISLANDS
SEEMS ASSURED
WYOMING SHEEP MEN INTEREST
ED ALASKAN RANCH EXTENT
OF SUPPLYING ANIMALS
•‘With the establishment of a perma
nent and profitable livestock industry
on the Kodiak group which now seems
i assured, and which is backed by Out
j side capitalists and stockmen, I feel
! that we' are fashioning an entering
wedge that will eventually. open the
i way for Alaska development in sev
eral directions. We are proceeding
slowly, but the results already achiev
ed, with nearly 15,000 sheep and a
number of cattle thriving and multi
plying, show that we are on the right
track. It is the fore-runner of a vast
agricultural development limited only
I to the hundreds of islands along the
Alaska Peninsula where grazing areas
! are available. The profits are not
immediately forthcoming but after
three or more years of experiment,
the sheep have demonstrated a heavy
' wool-growing facility and the increase
in lambs is comparable to Outside re
cords. It will not be long before we
have 50,000 to 100,000 head, grazing
the year around ■with wool and cold
{storage lamb shipments direct to New
York and Boston markets."
Such was the enthusiastic prognos
tication of Jack McCord/ head of the
McCord Alaskan Company of New
York and Seward, before he departed
yesterday on the S. S. Admiral Evans
for Sitkalidak Island. He goes to this
privately leased estate, off the south
-east corner of Kodiak Island, to sup
erintend the construction fa a landing
dock and prepare for the summer’s
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campaign. The McCord Alaskan Co.,
has already established itself there
with a number of cattle and sheep and
a blue fox farm. The chief business
this summer is preparation for the re
ception of 1,000 head of high grade
sheep that will be shipped from Wyo
ming the cutting of hay for a reserve
feed supply, the construction of neces
sary buildings and the laying out of
plans for the furnishing of fresh beef
and mutton for the fishing colonies
around the Kodiak group.
McCord is> largly responsible for
getting thru Congress the necessary
grazing and fur farm regulation that
will malte this development possible.
"It was while I was engaged at
Washington,” he explained, “that I
succeeded in interesting certain Wall
Street financiers in the idea of help
ing to develop America’s last frontier.
I explained that we -were now getting
back to Asia where the course of em
pire had its start and the idea appeal
ed to them. I did not promise a mil
lion dollars return over night, as we
have had the habit of doing in boost
ing our mining propositions but I did
promise an adequate return for legiti
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MICHIGAN DELEGATES
INSTRUCTED FOR HOOVER
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DETROIT, April 26. '(£>)—'The Re
publican Convention instructed its
J seven delegates-at-large to vote for
Herbert Hoover. Twenty-six delegates
elected by Michigan’s 13 Congression
al districts received instructions or
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recommendations for Hoover.
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INDEPENDENTS FILE FOR THE
HOUSE; ERWIN FOR SENATOR
GIVEN GOOD VOTE
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FAIRBANKS, April 26, (Special to
the Gateway)—The Fairbanks pre
cinct, with 412 Republicans voting,
gave Howard 157 and Sutherland 243;
Rustgard 224, Waller 124, Albrecht
92, Aldrich 30, Lathrop 275; Caswell
72, Chase 99, Gelles 69, Pratt 231,
Wickersham 215, Gottstein 227, Grant
235.
Erwin for Senator, 305;Representa
tives- Bart Buckley 248, Harry Don
nelly 261, Fred Johnston 304, H. H.
Ross 188, Rothenburg 296.
Of the Democrats only 45 voted.
Independents filing for the House
were C. I. Davison, Dan Callahan,
Paul J. Rickert, Walter Fisher and
R. E. Sheldon.
IMFIOTIMFNTSIRF
REJECTED SENATE;
I' MARINESNOII
SENATE PASSES ANNUAL NAVAL
j APPROPRIATION BILL; BILL
HELD UP FOR 10 DAYS
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WASHINGTON, April 26. (#>)— De
_ cisive majorities rejected all amend
ments designed to circumscribe the
President's* freedom of action in main
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taining marines in Nicaragua before
the Senate passed the annual Naval
appropriation bill of $363,000,000.
The decision in the Nicaragua situa
tion was in connection with expendi-’
tures. The navy’s appropriations were
held up fc” action on the bill for 10
; days.
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METLAKATLA, April 26. (Special!
to The Gateway)—Howard 33, Suther
land 22, Rustgard 31, Waller 24, Al
brecht 6, Aldrich 24, Lathrop 24, Cas
well 26, Chase 15, Gelles 14, Pratt 13,
Wickersham 34.
HEADED FOR ACCLAIM WHICH
THE WORLD IS WAITING TO
GIVE THEM
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LAKE STE AGNES, April 26. (/F)—
The three aviators who were the first
to make the Westward crossing of the
Atlantic in a plane are at last free
from the isolation of Greenly Island
and headed toward the acclaim which
the world has waited to give them.
They are expected to arrive here at
4 o’clock this afternoon. They took
off in the Ford relief plane leaving the
Bremen behind on the little island
unable to take the air because, of lack
of skiis.
Bernt Balfche^ piloted the relief
| plane. An hour later he was sighted
over Harrington; at 11 o’clock over
Natashquan, 235 miles west of Green
ly Island. His plans were to circle
the like until he observed a signal
whether the ice was strong enough for
the plane to land; if not he was to
continue on to Quebec, 80 mles away.
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DELEGATE GIVEN LARGE MAJOR
i 1TY OVER HOWARD; LATHRQP
LOST TO ALBRECHT
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f JUNEAU, April 26, (Special to The
Gateway)—The First Division includ
, ing Juneau, and Skagway, gave the
following votes to Republicans:
Sutherland 1546, Howard 1000,
Rustgard 1906, Waller 450, Lathrop
1085, Albrecht 699, Aldrich 565, Wick
ersham 1439, Caswell 944, Chase 944,
Gelles 596, Pratt 271, Gardner 1137,
Benjamin 857, Hunt 418, Winn 1257,
Noland 1225, Paul 1085, Darwell 1051,
McCormack 1032, Gildea 961, Olts
798, Johnson 735, Wacker 501.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgs, 10; Chicago, 0;
St. Louis, 4; Cincinnati, 5, 17 in
nings.
Philadelphia, 2; Brooklyn, 3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington, 4; New York, 12,
Boston 2; Philadelphia, 3.
Chicago, 2; Detroit, 3.
Cleveland, 7; St. Louis, 3.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Missions, 9; Seattle, 6.
Oakland, 4; Los Angeles, 13.
Hollywood, 3; Portland, 5.
v Sacramento, 4; San Francisco, 1.