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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 47.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPON
DENCE REVEALS BIG SCAN
DAL; MOZEE DECLINES TURN
INDUSTRY OVER TO CORPOR
ATE INTERESTS.
REJECTS COMPROMISE
PLEDGED ANOTHER JOB WITH
RETIREMENT RIGHTS IN
RETURN ACCEPTANCE
Following his refusal to be a par
ty to surrendering to the Lomen
Reindeer Corporation, a Wall
Street organization, the interests
of the natives of the Seward Pe
ninsula and Arctic, along with
those of the people of the United
States, Ben B. Mozee, for some 15
years the obstacle intervening be
tween the consummation of the
deal, has been dismissed from the
Reindeer Service by Ray Lyman
Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior.
Mozee's eclipse comes after a se
ries of contretempts engineered
at Washington, originating with
the abolishment of such valuable
and graft-free organizations as
the Alaska Road Commission and
Bureau of Education and central
izing them into a department of
fering better opportunity for place
making, political jugglery and the
perpetuation of the program of
plunder marking the last two Re
publican administrations in Wash
ington.
AFTERMATH OF VISIT
The dismissal of Mr. Mozee is
the aftermath of the visitation of
the Howell, Thomas and Kendrick
senatorial investigating committee.
It is in line with that which has
happened to the Alaska Railroad,
including the latest unpalatable
bit of jugglery whereby the miLl
owner.s of Seattle were beneficiaries
of a $75,000 crosstie contract, fol
lowing juggling with freight and
passenger rates which brought a
virtual boycott to the railroad and
had to be annulled under pressure
of protest and public opinion, and
the dismissal of many day labor
ers that high-salaried political ap
pointees might continue to enjoy
the fruits of political pull.
Another result of this commit
tee's recommendation was the pro
mulgation of laws which give the
Department of tire Interior the
power to make toll roads of every
road built by the Alaska Road
Commission.
Turning to the events which have
transpired since these sweeping
powers were given to Ray Lyman
Wilbur, we come to the underly
ing motive as it is revealed in the
removal of an officer whose admin
istration has been patterned af
ter the principle involved in the
office.
DEER CHRONOLOGY
It is necessary to take up the
reindeer question from its inception
when the Federal government, in
1892 brought in 1,280 head from
Laoland for the purpose of pro
viding sustenance and industry for
the Eskimos.
By 1930 this herd had grown to
712,500 deer, of which some 400,000
are owned by natives, the remain
der being owned first by the Lo
man brothers, and later were
the nucleus of a corporation
formed in Wall Streeet.
While the private herds were
under the ownership and admin
istration of the Lomens there was
little friction, they being men of
the fronttier, possessed of a fron
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PNEUMONIA SETS IN, CERMAK
MIAMI. Fla., Feb. 27, —Physi
cians attending Mayor Anton J.
' Cermak of Chicago, announced
: last night that pneumonia had de
- veloped. The Mayor, victim of Guis
seppi Zangara’s attempt to assas
i sinate President-Elect Roosevelt,
had passed a day in which some
encouraging signs had been notic
ed.
HIKED BE ROBBING
MOSCOW. . S. S. R., Feb. 27, —
Dispatches from Habarowsk, in
Far Eastern Siberia, said that
Chinese bandits lately had been
robbing trains and frequently
tearing up tracks in the eastern
; partxif the Siberian railway, joint
: ly owned by China and Soviet
i Russia in Manchuria.
Officials repeatedly complained
, to the Manchukuon authorities
; and the Japanese commanding
\ the area but so far no measures
; have been taken, they reported.
I The dispatches hinted at a pos
! sibility t hat the bandit hosts were
! in contact with various Manchu
kuo and Japanese officials.
AT BRIDGE CEREMONIES
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27, —
In a monster civic celebration at
1 Crissy Field, San Francisco and
northern counties yesterday took
part in the official ground-break
ing ceremonies for the Golden
Gate bridge.
A civilian army estimated at
nearly 200,000 persons captured the
. Presidio for the day as civic, state
and military dignitaries symbol
ically transferred the S35,000.00C
project from the realm of engin
, eering blue-prints to actual con
struction operations.
N
NEW YORK, Feb. 27. —Economic
i retrenchment by the nation’s
' schools of higher education was
J urged in the 27th annual report of
the Carnegie Foundation for the
advancement of teaching.
Stressing a need for what it
termed a “deflation” in the finan
cial policies of colleges and uni
i versifies, the report stated a “day
1 of reckoning has come” for edu
! cation as well as industry.
Charges of waste, inefficiency
and lack of unified control, were
made in the case of the State of
California in a section of the re
port devoted to the findings of a
[ commission which investigated the
| “state of higher education there ”
Another oldtime newspaperman
returns to the Alaska Railroad belt
| with the arrival today from Seat
tle of David B. Tewksbury, veteran
of the North, formerly a member
of the Anchorage Times and Ju
neau Empire staffs. He goes to
Fairbanks as reporter, succeeding
Bob Bartlett who recently was ap
pointed secretary to Delegate
Elect A. J. Dimond, at Washing
ton, D. C.
Mr. Tewksbury was formerly
j connected with the Seattle Post
Intellligencer.
IILUItE MB FMLEY
MMED BY KIELT
TO CABINET POSTS
HYDE PARK. N. Y.. Feb. 27, —
President-Elect Roosevelt Sunday
formally announced that Henry
A. Wallace of Des Moines, Iowa,
would be his Secretary of Agricul
ture and that James A. Farley of
New York would be Postmaster
General.
“I think that’s all,” he smilingly
commented. ‘‘There will be more
tomorrow, however.”
| He then went to lunch with
i Homer Cummings, former Demo
I cratic National committee chair
man, of Connecticut, who is slat
ed to become Governor General of
the Philippines.
Mr. Farley is 41 years of age and
Mi*. Wallace. 44. Both anounce
ments had previously been made
public unofficially.
BANKING DIFHCUITIES
IN STATE OF OHIO
CLEVELAND. O., Feb. 27, —
Ohio’s banking difficulties spread
with hte declaration of a three
day moratorium for all banks in
the city of Dayton.
Previously bankers in Akron
placed a restriction on withdraw
als.
In Lima the First American
Trust Company decided to contin
ue a two per cent withdrawal res
triction for an indefinite period.
BALLOT BOX STOLEN
I
I
MEDFORD. Ore., Feb. 27. —The
County jail here began to fill up
last night with persons arrested
by State and City police as sus
; pects in the theft of 10.000 ballots
: held for a recount in the election
i of Sheriff Gordon Schermerliorn.
Walter Jones, Mayor of Rogue
j river and an organizer of the Good
j Government Congress, was arrest
! ed, the seventh man to be held
! in the case.
I TEXAS OEWM
MS NEW Ml) FI
WIHT OF fiONIIS
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Feb. 27, —
Rep. Wrigiit Patman, Texas Dem
ocrat, has a new bill for repay
ment of the bonus which he be
lieves will result not only in an
expansion of currency but also
of an annual expenditure of $112,
000,000.
Under his proposal the Treas
ury would issue currency in the
sum of $2,200,000,000 to pay the
bonus to the 3,500,000 soldiers.
Mr. Patman said he would insist
on passage of his bill at the im
pending special session of Con
gress.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Green, well
known residents of Tanana Hot
Springs, arrived Saturday from
Anchorage on their way to the
States where a brother of Mr.
Green died recently.
ALSO EAR MUFFS
“B'gosh, the wind certainly blew
through my whiskers last night,”
Sourdough Bill, feature reporter
on The Gateway staff, remarked
today. He suggests that a parka
be put on the locomotive leaving
for the Interior tomorrow.
AERIAL BUTTLE NEXT
BETWEEN WHITE UNO
JAPANESE AVIATOBS
CHANG CHUN, Manchuria, Feb.
27, —Japan’s military machine
pushed relentlessly on through Je
hol province yesterday. Military
observers here predicted aerial
battles between Japanese aviators
and white fliers in Chinese em
ploy would soon be added to the
savage hand to hand bayonet
fighting, the machine gun tactics,
the artillery bombardments and
airplane bombings that have
marked the conflict for possession
of Jehol.
Chinese airplanes, believed pilot
ed by Caucasians, appeared over
Shanghaikwan Sunday. They ap
parently were scouting from a
base inside the Great Wall. Japan
ese at Suichung advised that aerial
conflict was expected shortly.
ADMIRAL EVANS SAILS
SEATTLE, Feb. 27, —The Admir
al Evans, of the Pacific Steamship
Lines, Ltd., left Seattle Saturday
for Seward with Mr. and Mrs. F.
Groth and two children, Ethel and
Dot, and Arne Pederson.
repeauspopIaT
SUBJECT LEGISLATURES
CHICAGO, Feb. 27, —Prohibition
repeal has become by fax the most
popular subject of discussion in 41
State legislatures now in session.
In 18 of the 41 legislatures in
session, some action was started
toward setting up machinery for
a ratification vote.
Pari mutual betting on horse
racing was discussed in three
States. Washington passed a bill
to allow it.
'MINISTER REMAINS
TOKIO, Feb 27, —The Chinese
legation notified the press of the
Nanking's announcement that
Chang Tng Pin, Chinese minister
to Japan, would not be recalled.
A double anniversary celebration
marked the gathering at the resi
dence of young Mr. and Mrs. Wal
ter Steinauer Saturday night af
ter the evening’s dance when vis
iting members of the Anchorage
men’s City basketball team and
several localites of the younger
set helped to commemorate the
fourth wedding anniversary of the
host and hostess as well as the
birthday of Don Winterberger, vis
iting Anchorageite.
Dancing was a feature of the
“open house’’ extended to all, and
before departure of the guests in
the “wee, sma’ hours,” a buffet
lunch was served. Everyone voted
the Steinauer’s method of enter
taining a huge success.
Senator James R. Campbell of
this division arrived Saturday
from Anchorage on his way to the
Territorial legislative session at
Juneau.
Dan Keller, oldtimer from the
Interior country who has gone
blind, was an arrival Saturday en
route to the Pioneer’s Home at Sit
ka.
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Senator Tom DeVane of Ruby,
accompanied by Mrs. DeVane, ar
rived Saturday on their way to
the Juneau session of the Alaska
legislature.
THEATER BOMBED
SEATTLE, Feb. 27, —A bomb
wrecked the front of the State
theater yesterday sending guests;
of nearby hotels tumbling from
their beds. It was the second,
bombing in two weeks directed
against a chain of theaters owned
by John Danz.
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 27, —Mayor
Anton Cermak of Chicago was giv
en blood transfusions yesterday,
Dr. Frederick Tice, Chicago spe
cialist said shortly after the May
or had been place in an oxygen
tent at Jackson Memorial hospital.
Dr. R. Sam Mosley, 27, resident
physician at the hospital, was the
donar for the transfusion.
Dr. Tice said he had “far irom
given up hope that the Mayor
might pull through. He is res
ponding fine from the oxygen
treatments which are designed to
take some of the strain oft his
heart which has been weakening
rapidly.”
FROZEN TO DEATH
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Feb. 27, —
A high school student, Robert San
der, 19, was reported frozen to
death on Mt. Elden, while search
ing parties rescued two girls and
another young man, who compris
ed a hiking party and were caught
i in a blizazrd.
cieseSpm
JEHOL CIII PEIPi
PEIPIN, Feb. 27,—Chinese troops
recaptured the strategically impor
: tant city of Peipiao from Janan
| ese and Manchukucan troops
which occupied the town last Fri
day, according to reports from
; Chengtehfu, the capital of Jenol.
; The Chinese were said to be in
urgent need of ammunition and
: food.
Mrs. Frank Reed, of the An
j chorage hotel at Anchorage, was
a local arrival on the last train
j from the north.
BRAZIL IS TAKING
MEASURES PRESERVE
ORDER IN LETICIA AREA
RIO de JANEIRO, Feb. 27, —The
foreign office announced that it
communicated with Peru and Col
ombia advising them that Brazil
is “taking measures to preserve
her sovereignty” during the Let
icia incidents.
It was pointed out that neither
Peru or Colombia is technically at
| war, and for this reason, Brazil’s
| communication does not consti
I tute the usual “declaration of
neutrality,” but merely a reitera
tion of her determination to pre
vent fighting within her frontiers.
Head to come ETAOIN cmfw
Mrs. Ray Wise, wife of the star
in the feature film “Eskimo” was
an arrival Saturday enroute to the
States.
The Coast Guard Cutter Talla
poosa, Captain Dench, command
ing, is due to arrive in port this
week for oil, mail and supplies.
Today was the fifth day of
the local strong wind and, it is
[ said, has caused many oldtimers
to cuss in 16 languages.
CHINESE eon
DEFIES -JAPAN TO
CAPTURE JEHOL
CHINESE HAVE TEN SOLDIERS
TO ONE OF JAPAN; CHINA
UNITED AGAINST ENEMY
CHENG TEHFU, Jehol, Feb. 27,
—General Tang Yu Lin, Chinese
governor of Jehol province, defied
Japan to pursue its attempts to
win his province, in an exclusive
interview' with the press Sunday.
"The Japanese can have this
province,” he said, "when all the
Chinese are dead. We are unafraid;
let them come. Let them drop
bombs. Let their airplanes throw
out what they want and then fly
back to their bases. The Japanese
can kill 10 of our men and only
lose one of their’s but they are
fighting all China. Let’s see how
long they can keep that up.”
OUTLINED DEFENSE PLAN
The hospitable warrior Governor
received the correspondent seat
ed on the ceremonial throne built
200 years ago, where the Sons of
Heaven, rulers of the Dragon
throne at Peiping, sat in the Im
perial summer palace here.
The palace is a labyrinth of
beautiful pavilions, parks and
pools around which are scattered
numerous houses, once occupied
by princes and others in the lux
urious court of the Chinese Em
perors.
General Tang outlined the plan
of defense which the Chinese are
making as the Japanese push con
tinued forward in their drive for
conttrol cf embattled Jehol.
WITHDRAW WESTWARD
He predicted that the hostilities
would develop into a major war in.
Northern China.
The General, a stern visaged
man in his field gray uniform...
sat surrounded by relics of the
Imperial regime including priceless
brocades. He said during the next
few weeks the Chinese would most
probably withdraw westward from
the Eastetrn border of Jehol prov
ince.
TOKIO. Feb. 27, —The Japanese
juggernaut which began last Fri
day, continues in its general of
fensive in Jehol province, driving
back Chinese defenders and bring
ing predictions to the War office
of an early conquest in military
strategy.
One thousand Chinese were kill
ed in the capture of the important
city of Peipao, the War office an
nounced.
YOUNG INLET PACKER
ENROUTE TO SEflTTtE
To purchase supplies and ar
range other business details for
this season's salmon and clam
packing operations, A1 Jones, young
i Kustatan packer, leaves Seward on
the SS Northwestern for Seattle
where he will spend the next
month.
Mr. Jones has sold practically all
of his 1932 pack and is confident
he will have little difficulty in dis
I posing of this year’s pack, his pro
ducts having an exceptionally fine
name on the market.
Kustotan is located on the other
side—the west shore—of Cook In
let, near West Forelands.
HarOid KoslosKi, Anchorage bus
iness man, was a weekend visitor.
PUBLIC DANCE TONIGHT I. 0. 0. F. HALL