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Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV NUMBER 573. SEWARD, ALASKA FRIDAY DECEMBER 12, 1930. PRICE TEN CENTS
SEWARD BREAKWATER NOW
ASSURED AS SENATE PASSES
BIG EMERGENCY MEASURE
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN MILLIONS FOR
GREAT CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM INCLUD
CLUDING HARBORS AND ROADS IN FOR
ESTS AND OTHER PUBLIC DOMAIN—MAY
ALSO MEAN EARLY CONSTRUCTION OF
“MISSING LINK” AND QUARTZ CREEK ROAD.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec., 12, (/P)—The Senate
passed the House bill providing SI 10,000,000 for emer
gency public improvement work, adding $5,000,000 for
construction of roads on the public domain and Indian
Reservations. The bill continues to hold amounts speci
fied for Alaskan points.
The Senate struck from the bill the provision giv
ing President Hoover a free hand in the use of these
unds. These and other amendments require reconsid
t ration Jby the House but the final approval of the bill
s expected early next week.
Sponsors of the legislation assert it will give im
nediate employment to thousands.
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PF
tie Wednesday by steam :-r for
Seward en route to Fairbanks
where Mr. Wien will pick them
up and fly to Nome, the former
home of Mrs. Wien.
8IRLS PH? SCHOOL
COSTS IS GlIiOTS II
HOMtSTIKt MIKE
LEAD, S. D., Dec.. 11, (JF)—The
furl guides at the famous old
Komestake mine have hung up
their knickers and high boots
until another vacation releases
them from college and high
school.
The mine is the only one in
the world employing girls as
guides. The dozen or more young
women who pilot visitors through
the mine and adjacent mills are
daughters of miners who died
before their children completed
their education.
The mine company insists that
the girls must use the money
paid them for educational pur
poses. In addition to a wage of
S3 a day, the young women re
ceive an additional $3 to $5 in
tips. An average of 150 tourists
a day visited the Homestake last
rammer.
FINE BIG COAL VEINS
MOSCOW, Dec., 11, (/P)—Prof.
Korvin, surveying the Kansk coal
basin in Siberia, found 40 exten
sive beds with veins in some
places 60 feet thick and total
supplies of 40,000,000 tons.
The question whether the
Senate had added $5,000,000 or
$8,000,000 to the House bill was
cleared up today by Senator Hay
den. Democrat of Arizona, who
seed the Senate bill carried a to
tal of $118,000,000. The Arizona
Senator's amendment : carried $3.
000.000 for forest he ehwa vs. add
'd 1 > several millions winch the
House had. provided for construc
tion of secondary! lm roads
.and trails. .
This seems to make the Sew
ard breakwater an assured fact
as this appropriation of $45,000
was carried in the bill when it
was introduced in the House. It
also apparently means increased
road building in U. S. Forests
which gives every reason to hope
that funds will be available this
year for the Kenai Lake-Moose
Pass “Missing Link."
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TR1 WHALE MEAT
! SETUBAL, Portugal, Dec., 11.
(F)—The increased price of meat
has encouraged local whalers to
new attempt to sell whale
steaks to housewives. A similar
j ampaign in war time was not
! success.
STRI3BLING OR SHARKEY
i CRIES TUFFY GRIFFITHS
j CHICAGO. Dec., 11, (/P)—Tuffy
Griffiths says he is eager to
have a fling of fisticuffs with
Jack Sharkey and Young Strib
bling
! Tuffy. a person of tender years
but tough ring tactics, wants to
j battle the Boston heavyweight
in a Christmas fund show early
|this month. And, if he survives
.that, he would tangle with the
! erennially young Mr. Stribbling.
| A Stribbling-Griffths match
could have been arranged for an
indoor show here, but Jack O'
Keefe, Tuffy’s manager, objected.
He thinks it is a “natural” for
(an outdoor entertainment.
user in
TAKES REVENGE
Si KILLS SELF
ALLEGED LEADER RUM RING
GOES OUT DRAMATICAL
LY, FIRST CITY
KETCHIKAN, Dec., 12, </P)—
Facing sentence following his
conviction of conspiracy to vio
late prohibition laws, “Black”
Matt Berkovich last night killed I
Phil Doha, .formerly of Seattle, j
then turned the gun on himself |
ending his own life.
Dohn was indicted with Ber-1
kovich but turned states evidence j
and was not prosecuted.
IlfflTE GETS RIGHT
! ARGUE MIT MMA
SOT AMENDMENT HOST
WASHINGTON, Dec., 12. «,1V
I The Alaska delegate won the
right to participate in parliar;
mentary procedure ir the House
j though, he has no vote.
: While he won hi points the
j House rejected 01 > ' amendment
! tc place ad ml :.ftf: id ion of" Alas-...
1 kaj native.: |fcipc|$ jfmcltl 'the- or
ifice of edu * 1 ■ ,11 .in'llcid oJ the
1 Indian bureau. ■
CHICAGO.Dee.lt (/Pi -A high
; court refused to dismiss a petition 1
i for impounding the body of Mrs.
| Kitty Jones, 75 years old, pending
! a request for exhumation and in
i' quest.
Mrs Jones died suddenly Septem
ber 6th following a mysterious
hypodermic injection. She left
$500,000 estate to Charles Jones,
her 48 year old second husband.
STOOL PIGEON BITES
HID TUT FEEOS IT
1 NEW YORK, Dec., 12, (iP)—
i Twenty-seven members of po
| lice vice-squad were identified by
| Chile Mapocha Acuna, stool pi
jgeon. as having participated in ex
's tortion, frajneups perpetrated
'against girls and young women
I who were made to pay graft money
in order to escape imprisonment,
although very frequently they had
committed no crime.
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SPEEDWAY KING NAMED
WASHINGTON, Dec., 11, (A*)—
Billy Arnold, 25-year-old Chicago
!racer, has been formally declar
ed America’s 1930 driving cham
pion by the American Automo
bile Association. The diamond
studded medal accompanying the
honor will be presented next, year
on Memorial Day at Indianapo
lis.
ENROUTE HOME
SEATTLE, Dec., 12, (/P)—Gov. ;
George A. Parks of Alaska arriv- j
ed today aboard the SS Alameda, |
enroute to Denver where he will
spend the holidays with his par- j
ents.
SE1AT0R FDR TWENTY
SEVEN VEffii PISSES
AT WASHINGTON, B. (j
WASHINGTON, Dec., 12, (/P)—i
Senator Lee Slater Overman, De
mocrat from North Carolina, died
shortly after midnight following
a brief illness which climaxed
yesterday with a stomach hem
orrage.
Blood transfusion failed to
save his life. He is survived by
the widow and three daughters.
Senator Overman was elected
to the Senate in 1903 and served
continuously; he was 76 years
of age.
HONEYMOONING
PASADENA, Calif., Dec.. 12, (fP)
—Charlie Paddock, the world’s
fastest human, is honeymooning
here with his bride, the former
Mrs. Neva Prisk Malaby, a child
hood playmate.
■COLON, Panama, Dec, It
mind of the recent stopover of
' imne: McPherson, California four
square evangelist.
Bilgray’s cab -ret. recently visited
incognito by Mrs- McPherson, be
gan serving the “hallelujah” and
the manager announced that the
new concoction is gaining popular
ity.
CUT DEER HERDS
KALOCSA. Hungary, Dec., 12,
(JP)—Tire Hungarian ministry of
agriculture has ordered reduc
tions made in the herds of deer
hereabouts, the arch-bishop who
owns the forests having banned
all shooting and the animals
having become a nuisance to
farmers.
ARIZONA PETITIONS
COPPM PROTECTION
BISBEE, Ariz. Dec 11 — More
than 7,500 signatures have been
obtained in the Bisbee-Warren dis
trict of Arizona, to a petition urg
ing the placing of a tariff on for
eign copper entering the U. S.
jand Representative Douglas, re
casting the Arizona members of
Congress to use their influence to
ward containing this tariff inter
est in the copper tariff spread
in the Southwest during recent
months and many individuals in
this way hope to bolster up the pre
sent price of the red metal Re
commendations for tariff have
been included in the state plat
forms of both the Republican and
Democrat parties
TS HE'S II
DIRTY CROOK. ONLY
STOLE 10.0
MOST ELABORATE SPECULA
TIONS OF KIND EVER
ATTEMPTED
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec., 12,
(/Pi—Branding himself as a dirty
crook. Gilbert Beesemyer, 45,
secretary, treasurer and mana
ger of the Guaranty Building
and Loan Association, a civic and
social leader of Los Angeles, con
fessed to defalcations which may
total $8,000,000.
Besides the Building and Loam
Association, the North American
Bond and Mortgage Guarantee,
the holding corporation, is af
fected.
The financier is said to have
had at least 20,000 depositors—
victims in the building and loJin
defalcation.
The Bank of Hollywood, which
failed to open Monday, was allied
with the companies.
State Building and Loan Com
missioner Charles Whitmore said
it is the most amazing and elab
orate speculation of the kind
ever to have been attempted in
California : in ■ years
Becsemver’s ' confession
t a diree
u e of are bank.
Il!S .nife collapsed after
ling the. flews that Her h
hr<d been taken to nil. Pol
.‘used him to see his mot!
fear the mother, ■ 80 year
would not stand the shock
came
which
fau
lts band
ice re
iser for
j old,
HO niSTBIGT HEM
Sill FEU IHO PUNT
SPOKANE, Wash. Dec. 11. —The
Bunker Hill smelter at Kellogg,
Idaho, has so far this year re
ceived 10,000 tons of ore from the
Wernecke mines of the Treadwell
Yukon company on Keno Hill, Yu
kon territory.
This marks the current year as
the largest in production from the
Wernecke mines. Five hundred to
1,000 tons of ore are reported as
still being in transit.
HOCKEY SCORES
I SEATTLE, Dec., 12, (aP)—The
| Tacoma hockey team defeated
Portland 1-0.
lowliili
CHAMPIONSHIP BET
CLEVELAND Dec., 11, (JP)—
Eddie Shea, rough and ready
talian youngster from Chicago,
bounded into the front ranks of
featherweight challengers Wed.,
when he was awarded the deci
sion—10 rounds—over Fiedel La
Barba, of Los Angeles.
The decision was unpopular
with the fans but Shea carried
the fight from the fifth round
on.