MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 254. SEWARD, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1928 PRICE TEN GENTS
Mining, Tourists,
and Colonization
of Vital Concern
Railroad Head
NEW HEAD OF ALASKA RAILROAD OUTLINES fO
SEWARD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SOME OF
THINGS HE WILL ASK WHEN HE LAYS RE
PORT BEFORE SECRETARY OF THE INTER
IOR. LEAVING I OR WASHINGTON SATURDAY
ENTHUSIASTIC AS TO POSSIBILITIES OF DE
VELOPMENT AND GREAT WORK AHEAD FOR
THE RAILROAD.
Although not disclosing the contents of his forthcom- j
ing report to the Secretary of the Interior, General Mana- ;
ger Otto F. Ohlson has several important recommenda
tions which he will urge when he gets to Washington for
which city he is leaving Saturday on the S. S. Yukon, ac
companied by Mrs. Ohlson, expecting to be gone 10 weeks
or three months.
t
Mr. Ohlson spoke at the Seward
Chamber Commerce luncheon yes
terday before the largest aggrega
tion of business men that has yet
met for many months. President
Leon Urbach presided and Mayor
L. V. Ray gave a spirited address of
welcome.
DENOUNCES LEASING
The mayor vigorously denounced
the leasing law as the greatest
single factor holding back the de
velopment of Alaska and made the
suggestion that Congress be per
suaded to grant the Alaska Rail
road with power to sell and pass
title to coal, mineral and timber
lands, farm area of grazing lands.
This matter should be handled by
the railroad in Alaska and not in
Washington, the proceeds of the
sale of such lands to be used in the
conduct of the road until such time
as the road is self-sustaining.
Mr. Ohlson did not indulge in any
oratorical pyrotechnics, simply say
ing that be had a warm spot in his
heart for Seward from the day of
his arrival when he received a
friendly greeting that made him
feel at home at once.
WILL COLONIZE
He plunged immediately into dis
cussion of some of the things he
has in mind for the good of the
railroad and of Alaska, saying that
he thinks colonization is of major
importance to Alaska as a quick
means of increasing population.
“There are 2,000,000 acres of tilla
ble land in the Matanuska and
Tanan Valleys,” he said, “with
room for l',500 families and I have
been working on a colonization
scheme which I will lay before my
chief in Washington.”
He declared that he considered it
positively essential that the rail
road have immediately available at
all times expert advice of a mining
engineer to inspect mining proper
ties which might in any way prtr^
tributary to the railroad, or to look
over the country where roads or
branches might be advisable. He
opined that in this manner the
management of the railroad would
be able to get quickly that which it
might take months to secure if
waiting upon a special examination
by the geological survey or bureau
of mines.
BIG TOURIST TRAFFIC
He said that the tourist traffic
will largely take care of itself and
will increase by leaps and bounds,
if Alaskan cities wake up to the fact
that better hotel accomodations
(Continued on Fage Eight)
LONDON, Oct., 23, (fP)— Lloyd
George, war-time Premier of Great
Britain, says of the secret pact en
tered into between Great Britain
and France, “In no quarter of the
world does the Italian interest con
flict with ours and it is folly to an
tagonize her. It is madness to an
tagonize America.”
YEARS OF FIGHTING IN THE
COURTS ENDS IN VICTORY
FOR INVENTOR
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct., 23, (JP)—
The refusal of the United States
Supreme Court to review the de
cision of the Circuit Court of Ap
peals in the patent case of George
Carson, miner, was announced to
day.
Carson will become a million
aire, his attorneys said. Carson
started, litigation several years1
ago against the American Smelt
ing & Refining company alleging
they had infringed his patent in
the smelting furnaces at Tacoma.
The Court of Appeals decided
for Carson. He also won judgment
in his suit against the Anaconda
Copper. Carson is well known in
Alaska.
Zeppelin To Stall
West If All 0. K.\
LAKEHURST, Oct., 24, </P)— Hans j
Von Schiller, navigator of the
airship Graf Zeppelin, announced
the dirigible will leave for the;
Middle West tonight if the weath- '
er permits. The Zeppelin will fol
low an air-line to Chicago and
dirigible Los Angeles will escort ^
the Graf for a training flight.
ofT~for boston
ALBANY, Oct., 24, (/P)—Smith j
left Albany in a special train for ,
Boston. Stops will be made at ■
Springfield and Worcestor on the |
way.
Will Give Thanks
For Prosperity
Thursday Nov. 29
WASHINGTON, Oct., 24, (/Pi
President Coolidge has issued the
annual Thanksgiving proclamation
calling upon the people of the
United States to offer thanks on
November 29 for the prosperity
in agriculture, industry and com
merce and for the peace which
has existed in the last year. The
proclamation said the country as |
a whole has ben protected against,
pestilence and disaster and had j
ben directed in the way of Nation- j
al prosperity.
I
BACK-FIRE CAUSE OF LOSS:
COMPETED RACES PAST
FEW YEARS
JUNEAU, Oct., 24, (A3)—1T he
yacht Anna Helen, owned by Dr.
W. F. Good of Seattle, used as a
traveling dentist shop in Alaskan
waters, was destroyed by fire off
the entrance of Funter Bay.
A back-fire is said to have been
the cause. All dental equipment
was lost. Dr. Good and the engin
eer were taken from the burning
boat and brought here by the gas
bOiKu i t*
The yacht was built in Seattle
five years ago and competed in
races on the Pacific coast one of
which was to Honolulu from Seat
tle. The boat was valued at $20,000.
SOME
EX-CHAMPS ESCAPE
POVERTY
Not all of the great old champions of boxing spend their late years
in broken old age. Witness the cases of willard (lower left), Jeffries
and Tommy Ryan (upper left), Billy Papke (lower right) and others.
Jeffries, the man in tights in the upper left, at 53 is selling real estate
and besides takes an occasiional vaudeville tour.
WILL TAKE SMITH YEARS TO
LEARN WHAT HOOVER
KNOWS NOW
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Oct., 24, (/P)—
Discussing the candidates rather
than party issues former Chief Jus
tice Chas. Evans Hughes, in his
first speech of the campaign, urg
ed the election of Hoover on the
ground he is better qualified to
hold the Presidency than Smith.
Hughes declared party differenc
es are few this year and that the
paramount issue before the voters
was the choice of men containing
records and accomplishments. Of
the two men, Hughes said, when it
came to a decision who to choose
as better, he “Decidely preferred
Hoover.”
Hughes, who was once governor
of New York when Smith was a
member of the Legislature, gave
Smith “Full praise for his know
ledge in the government of State
affairs” but as to national and in
ternational affairs he declared
‘‘If Smith is elected it would take
him years to learn what Hoover
knows now.”
PRESENT SHAREHOLDERS WILL
AUTOMATICALLY SHARE
NEW COMPANY
SEATTLE, Oct., 24, <£>)—'The ex
! penditure of nearly $10,000,000
! within a period of 18 months as the
| initial move in the development
I of the Boeing Airplane company
here, was announced.
The new holding company will
control the Boeing enterprises
a substantial .interest having been
purchased by the National City
company of New York and the Pa
cific National company of Seattle.
W. E. Boeing will be president
of the new organization and old
Boeing shareholders will automat
ically become shareholders in the
new company.
NEW CHARTS WILL BE MADE
FROM DATA OBTAINED
DURING PAST YEAR
SEATTLE, Oct., 24, P)—Complet
ing a summer field work of the
United States survey vessels Sur
veyor and Explorer are heading
towards Seattle from Alaskan wat
ers and are expected to arrive the
latter part of this week.
General survey work, including
new hydrographic and topogra
phical work made near Sitka by
the Explorer and the Surveyor
which operated Westward from
Seward. New charts will be made
from the data obtained.