Seward, the Alaska City of Opportunity
—— Seward Daily .Gateway —
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 589. <EWARD, ALASKA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1930. PRICE TEN CENTS
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SUGGESTION MADE MEN OF j
WEALTH HANDLE PRE
LIMINARY WORK
SEATTLE, Dec., 30, (£>)—Dean
F. N. Patty, of the Alaska Col
lege. mining department, advo
cated before the Seattle Mining
C^ub, an exploration company
under sound busines manage
ment to investigate small min
ing properties in Alaska and de
velop the best.
He said they should be able
to offer safety and profits to in
vestors above the usual line of
investments.
Dean Patty said bankers real
i::ed that more gold bullion is
needed to support the inverted
pyramid of business structure of
the Nation and because of this
void mining in Alaska is show
ing a revival.
W. T. Perkins, the club’s presi
dent. suggested that a small group
f men of wealth organize to
handle preliminary explorations,
‘hen ask public assistance when
the most promising properties
had been selected.
WASHINGTON. Tw .. 30 '/■;>< —
S. M. Graff ,of Seward has ap
plied to the Power Commission
for a license to construct a pow
er project near S’, ward at an
estimated cost of $100,000.
He intends to develop 700
horsepower and would include
iwo small diversion dams and
ether works.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29. (/P)-~
San Francisco was the center of
the most ambitious trans-Pacific
radio broadcast ever attempted
stations in Japan, the Philippines,
and Hawaii were picked up at tne
Point Reyes short wave station of
the Radio Corporation of America
sand sent to the San Francisco
studio for rebroadcast to the en
tire United States.
The program from Manila opened
with the 349 year old Cathedral of
tiie Immaculate Conception, heard
cn the air for the first time.
FIVE MEN KILLED
NEW YORK, Dec. 29. (JP)~ Five
men were killed at Cranford Junc
tion, tfew Jersey, when they were
struck by a New Jersey Central Ex
press during a snow storm.
GIRL LEADS RED BANDITS
CANTON, China, Dec. 29. (/P) —
A 19 year old girl, reputed to oe
the leader of a Red bandit gang,
blamed for widespread depreda
tions in northen Kwangtung pro
vince, was captured and probably
will be executed.
COMMITS SUiqiDE
CHICAGO, Dec. 29. (/P)—Julius
Aschermann, 50, president of the
Illinois Athletic Club, committed
suicide in his room at the club
by shooting himself through the
head He was connected with the
New Haven Clock Company.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30. (IP) — Mrs.
Julian Dick, who never recovered
from the tragic shock of seeing her
wealthy husband accidentally shot
and killed by his best friend 10
years ago, was found dead from gas
in her home in the exclusive Murry
Hil section of the city.
Police said it was a carefully
planned suicide case. Near Mrs.
Dick’s body were two farewell notes
! addressed to Gerald Brooks, bro
ther of George Brooks, wfho killed
| Mr- Dick 10 years ago.
Mrs. Dick had dressed h
carefully in a tan ensemble and
had tied one of her wrists to a
| pipe, apparently to prevent herself
from falling when overcome by the
: gas.
nd. Dec
ABSURDITY
MANCHESTER, En
| 29- iTV To show the
i some of Lhe old laws
• r "Q p ^ ] 3 v \ \ 1 p (\
going to bo prosecute
; to Church on Sunday.
' decreed during the re
. Charles Second and tl
be a test of its validity
RESTORES CIVIL RIGHTS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. iJP) —
The pardoning by President Hoo
ver of Warren McCray, former
governor of Indiana, was announc
jed at the Justice Department. Mc
iCray was released from Atlanta
| prison in 1927 after completing
one third of his ten year term for
J using the mails to defraud. The
President’s action will restore his
civil rights.
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VODKA PRICE UP
1 MOSCOW, Dec. 29. (!?) —The
government is raising the price of
Vodka throughout Russia with the
idea of decreasing the annual
consumption by making the liquor
: difficult for the poor to obtain.
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STATUS SfTILL UNSETTLED
BUDAPEST, Dete. 29. (/P)—The
long heralded family conference of
the Rumanian royal house at which
the status of Queen Helen was to
have been settled has been post
pond and the situation has reach
ed a crisis said advices reaching
Budapest. King Alexander of Ju
goslavia, husband of King Carol’s
sister Marie, due at Bucharest for
the parley, deferred his visit.
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NO “POISON FOG”
BRUSSELS, Dec. 29 (/P)— Official
denial was issued of widely pub
lished reports of recurrence of the
“poison fog” of two weeks ago.
A government statement said that
a worker who was supposed to have
succumbed to the fog poison real
| ly died from the effects of gas ac
! cidentally inhaled.
REQUIRE It NEW
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ESTIMATED THERE ARE 26,000
ESKIMOS AND INDIANS
IN ALASKA
WASHINGTON, Dec., 30, (^)—
Transfer of the Indians and Es
kimos of Alaska from the Bureau
of Education to the Indian Bur
eau, if approved by Congress, will
result in shifting a large part
of the Alaska division of the B.
of E. to the Indian bureau and
would probably require the for
mation of a new policy.
Indian Commissioner Rhoades
said the Indian bureau will be
I entering an unknown field. As
Alaskans and wards of the gov
ernment, they have not been
kept on reservations.
“It- will probably be necessary
I to formulate a new policy in t he
handling of the 26,000 Indians
and Eskimos because of the
great difference in conditions in
Alaska and the West.” He said
:he would call on the Bureau of
! Education department for help,
j The, Interior department ap
propriation bill is pending in the
Senate. It proposes to transfer
these activities to the Bureau of
Indian Affairs. The bill calls for
| $1,000,000 for Indian bureau di
rection. education, economic sup
per;, and medical \< ,
Under ■ the Bu. <>. ’ ■ ■! Bduo i1 to i
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SLIGHT EARTHQUAKES CON
TINUE TO BE FELT; UN
SUAL HEAT
j COQUIMBA, Chile, Dec., 30
|(/P)—Green seas, reeking with an
unnatural odor, are washing the
shores of Northern Chile, the af
termath of what is believed tc
have been a tremendous seismic
| disturbance far beneath the wat
ers of the Pacific.
Inhabitants have been warned
not to bathe in the water, oi
even touch it, until an examina
tion has been completed. The
preliminary tests revealed con
siderable anima lmatter.
Apparently millions of fisb
were killed by the shock. Althc
there is little wind, the seas are
particularly high and unusua
heat prevails and slight earth
quakes continue to be felt.
SAVED BY GOVERNMENT
TULSA, Dec. 29. (/P)—More thar
10,000 small independent oil pro
ducers in Kansas and Oklahoma
who faced the prospect of bank
ruptcy because of the withdrawal
of the Prairie Oil Company as pur
chaser have been saved througl
action of the government which
according to present reports, will
compensate for loss of markel
through cooperation with the pet
'roleum industry.
NOT NECESSARY NOW
BALTIMORE, Dec. 29. (/P)—T.
Edward Hambleton, 44 year old
banker, shot and killed himself
in his home at Lutherville. His wife
had made preparations to sue him
for divorce.
HUB DETECT
CRIMES DF EU
WARRIORS HEW TODS
NEW YORK, Dec. 30. (JP) —The
i airplane established itself as an ad
junct to crime detection when four
| airmen winging low over Long Is
land Motor Parkway near Hicks
ville, Long Island, saw the body of
j a man lying limply in the fields
j near the road- They descended
| hurriedly and found the man dead
1 with five bullets in his back. He
| had apparently been shot down
! after he had been told to run from
fan automobile parked on the road.
His identity had not been estab
lished but he is believed to be a
f bootlegger.
Another man was found shot to
j death in a parked automobile in
'Brooklyn. He was identified as
]Thomas Trimontar.a. gangster with
<‘a police record,
FAIL IN LINE
; NEW YORK. Dec. 29. t/P»—Action
j of the New York Federal Reserve
Bank in. reducing the rediscount
Irate of two percent will be met
j by other banks of the Reserve Sy
' stem and by evera 1 foreign banks
well informed banking ' interests
| hero announced.
; TP.OHilE FORD PROPERTY
RIO DE JANEIRO. Dec. 29. OR
i —Trouble over labor order broke
| out in Para on the Ford Rubber
Plantation and a squadron of po
lice was rushed by airplane to the
| district to repell a raid of the
'landholders on the Ford proper
I ties.
TAKES OWN LIFE
PASADENA, Calif. Dec. 29. (TP) —
Wallace De Wolfe, once millionaire
•Chicago real estate operator but
more recently a patron of arts,
| committed suicide at his country
; home in Pasadena. California at
■ the age of 76. Ill health caused him
; to take his own life.
TANGLE WITH DEPRESSION
I PARIS, Dec. 29- (IP) —Premier
Theodore Steeg has called a spe
! cial meeting of the French cabinet
to examine the economic condition
of France and to seek means of
overcoming depression which has
tightened its' grip on the country
in the last few months.
SOAP BUBBLE
LONDON, Dec. 29. (IP)—Sir James
Jeans , famous British scientist,
startled his audience in a lecture
by likening the universe to a fra
gile soap bubble which is eternal
ly expanding.
ROBBED OF JEWLRY
NEW YORK, Dec. 29- (£>)—Mis
tress Sadie Benny, wife of Jack
Benny, comedian, was bound, rob
, bed of $10,000 in jewelry by
bandits in her apartment in Pane
Central Hotel.
OF OH REAPER
SPARKS FROM TOY ELECTRIC
ENGINE IGNITED XMAS
TREE
SEATTLE, Dec., Dec. 29, UP)—
Death stalked over the North
west over the week-end snuffing
out 15 lives.
Traffic accidents a c c ountea
for the largest number seven,
while five committed suicide. A
child was burned to death; a
man was drowned and another
died from a logging camp mis
hap.
Ewart Collins, five years of
age, died in Seattle from burns
i when sparks from a toy electric
! engine ignited the Christmas
| tree under which he and his
brother Donald were playing. The
boys’ father, Roy, was burned
i about the hands rescuing Don
Laid. The mother is probably fat
ally burned in the attempted
rescue of Ewart. The home was
S practically destroyed
WASHINGTON. Dec., 30, t/P)—
The American legation at Guat
emala City, under instructions
I from the State department,. in
formed '■ the Guain govern
ment that the United States will
not recognize the regime of
, President Crellana.
Department' o Socials refused,
to comment on the attitude tak
en excepting that the Crellana
regime came into power through
a civil coup de;:ut and not under
any constitutional provision al
lowing recognition.
MONTE CARLO. Monaco, Dec. 30.
j(/P)—Prince Louis rested in his pa
il lace at Monte Carlo defended by
j 50 members of Monaco's army of
TOO men. His military guard was
insurance against renewal of the
rioting which signalized his return
home after a long absence.
At least 20 arrests were made at
the station when citizens gathered
to greet their ruler engaged in a
pitched battle with those who
shouted “Down with the Prince!’*
and demanded that he devote more
time to running his government
and less in foreign countries.
The guards were at first over
i whelmed, but later succeeded in re
! storing order, after which the 20
|arrests were made. Most of those
j arrested were~later released.
ANTI TAX RIOTS
RANGOON, India, Dec. 23. (JP>—
At least 12 persons were killed,
many wounded in anti tax riots
in Tharawaddy and Insein districts
of upper Burma.