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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 63.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SOLON INTRODUCES
INCREASED TAX
BOYLE WOULD WIPE OUT TER.
RITORIAL PRIMARY ELEC
TIONS
JUNEAU, Mar. 24. (Special to
the Gateway)—In the first taxa
tion and revenue measure intro
duced in any legislature in four
years Fred Johnston of Fair
banks proposed increases rang
ing from 67 to 100 per cent of
present rates on net incomes
from mines.
The present taxation system j
was created in 1927 and has not;
been changed since then. John-,
ston’s bill provides for one per
cent from incomes of $10,000 to
$100,000; two per cent from $100,
000 to $500,000; two and one-half
per cent from $500,000 to $1,000, :
000 and three per cent over $1,
000,000.
Boyle sponsored two bills wip-1
ing out primary elections and
election of party officers, includ
ing national committeemen and
delegates to national conventions,
which would leave party nomina-j
tions to conventions.
McCutcheon introduced a meas-j
ure limiting attorney fees for |
administration of estates to 50 J
per cent of amount allowed to j
administrators and executors, and
a second measure establishing
fee for probate judges in prepar
ing certain documents which at
torneys say are materially high
er than those now charged for
the same services.
The Senate amended the Fos
ter resolution for a legislative
probe into the conduct of Terri- j
torial offices, to require a record j
kept by probers and all evidence |
given before it and authorizing I
the expenditure of $500 for cler
ical expenses.
MODERN MICflUMS i
hi attempt LOWER I
ROUND-WORLD TIME:
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NEW YORK, Mar., 24, (J?)—
Four modern Magelians will at
tempt during the spring and
summer to stretch new wings
around the world.
Wiley Post of Oklahoma City,
accompaned by Harold Gatty, in
the same plane in which Post
won the non-stop San Diego
Chicago derby duuring the nat
ional air races; and John Henry
Mears, are out to recapture the
round-the-world record twice held
by the latter.
Vance Breese, pilot of another
plane, and Clyde E. Pangborn of
Seattle; Hugh Herndon, Jr., of
New York, and the final one, I
Bernt Balchen, will also enter. !
No dates have yet been set.
MAGIC VANISHED
DETROIT, Mar., 24, (JP)—How- j
ard Thurston, world famous mag
ician now appearing at a local
theater, suffered a broken rib
during a family row between he
and his son-in-law. His magic ap
parently deserted him at a cri
sis. WI
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BIG AliSKK INDUSTflY
FORECAST 01 LUMEN
SEATTLE, Mar., 24, (/P)—Ralph
Loraen, president of the Lomen
Reindeer Corporation, told the
Transportation Club that the mil
lion reindeer in Alaska will in
crease to five or six million head
under the present ranges.
That eventually the movements
of reindeer meats and by-pro
ducts will reach 15,000 carloads
per annum.
TER. PORTO RICO:
GREAT OVATION
MAYOR GIVES WELCOME AD
DRESS; TAKES SALUTE
FROM INFANTRY
SAN JUAN. Porto Rico, Mar.,
24, GP)—Throngs welcomed Pres
ident Hoover yesterday afternoon
upon his arrival here on board
the NSS Arizona.
The President was immediately
taken to the Governor’s palace
upon arrival stopping only long
enough to receive the salute of
the infantry regiment.
Ovations greeted the President
along the route from Ponce,
where he landed in the morning,
and rode, with Governor Roose
velt in a touring car with the
top down and replying to the ad
adress of welcome by the Mayor
of Ponce.
The Mayor said President Hoo
ver’s visit gives him the opportu
nity to learn the problems with
the view of progress and said
the visit will also mean closer
cooperation between the island
and the mainland.
HOCKEY SCORES
SEATTLE. Mar., 24, (/P;—Van
couver defeated Seattle 1-0 in
the first game of the playoff
Arnott alone making the single
score in the first_ period on a
pass from Jerwa.
GREAT IRISH RAGE
PRIZE $1,710,001
LONDON, Mar., 24, (Special)—
Among the five Americans draw
ing horses in the Irish Hospital
Sweepstakes in the Grand Nat
ional, which wll be run at Ain
tree Friday, were:
“Holmes” box 1043, of Juneau
Alaska; and “Lady Luck”, C. F.
Coates, Spokane.
The first prize in the sweep
takes amounts to approximately
$1,700,000. \
TRANSFERRING SEAT
NEW YORK, Mar., 24, (/P)—
The Stock Exchange member
ship of Chas. S. Sargent, floor
member of the banking firm of
Kidder, Peabody and Co., has
been proposed for a transfer to
Samuel Mixter, member of the
Boston banking firm of Chandler,
Hovey & Co. Amount paid was
not revealed.
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♦ DEDICATED TO ALASKANS
Aleutian History
J. N. Cannon
The following is practically a literal translation
from the Russian taken from the manuscript of Fr.
Gedeon, priest-monk of the Alexandro-Nevsky Cathe
dral, Moscow, Russia, and was written in Kodiak be
tween 1804 and 1807.
All this correspondence compiled from various sourc
es, pertaining to the history of the Aleutians and early
aboriginal life, was acquired by the Valaam Monastery
during the sixties; all the original documents are in
the safe keeping of the official archives of the Mon
astery of Valaam, St. Petersburg, in file No. 15. Some
additional excerpts were obtained from coritempora
neous sources.
As a preliminary procedure, the writer wishes to
• acknowledge and inestimable debt to the methodical
! manner in which Fr. Gedeon recorded his observations,
1 the most comprehensive and accurate history which
the writer had the pleasure of examining in many
years, and which has never appeared in print; to Efka
Pestrokoff, a great sea otter hunter and a noted auth
ority on ancient Aleutian customs who passed away
at the time of writing; to the Russian translator, the
Honorable Nicholas Gray, who courteously permitted
the use of his translation, on which he spent an entire
year; and finally, to the many Aleutian native scholars
Who kindly aided the writer in the preparation of this
i work, w'hich wrould have been very difficult to accom
! plish without the aid of a few live dictionaries.
ENROLTE TO ALASKA
The Hawaiian standard time according to solar computation is
j 157 degrees and 30 minutes, 10 hours and 30 minutes slower than
! Greenwich time. So at 10 o'clock at night June 8, 1804, with gentle
! steady N. E. wind we made 122 versts (Russian miles). Noon position,
: 23.0 latitude, 160.18 longitude, 160.10 chronometer reading.
Sailed on Phoenix from Oahu Island, Hawaii. Unalaska Island
! 467 German miles distant. At 5 a. m. we passed the Tropic of Cancer.
June 8th to 18th, we encountered fair wind and changeable wea
: ther, sometimes clear and sometimes overcast, with some rain. On
the 17th we experienced a storm which lasted until the following
; morning. During those ten days we made 2,033 versts and on the
: 18th observed the following position: 48.18 latitude, 164.5 longitude,
, 163 13 chronometer reading. On the 19th we encountered frequent fogs
and squalls, which continued the remainder of the month. And on the
26th. course N. E. we traversed 1,372 versts.
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EPIDEMIC IT BARROW
ABOUT WIPED Dili
S POINT BARROW, Mar., 24, (/P)
j —Encouraging indications are
that the diphtheria epidemic
has been stamped out as there
have been no new cases the last
| two or three days.
Dr. Greist announced if he can
maintain the present quarantine,
it is doubtful further cases will
develop and in a short time all
danger will be over.
The last winter mail arrived
Sunday; the next mail will ar
rive by boat the latter part of
July.
CUBS BEAT PIRATES
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 24, (ff)\
-—The Pittsburgh Pirates were de
feated by the Chicago Cubs in
baseball, 6 to 3.
! At 2 p. m. June 26th. we sight
ed Ukamok Island (Chirakoff Is
land), and then the Trinity group,
| later parsing Sitkinak and Gug
! idok Islands. We hove to at 12
p. m. At 2.30 a. m. 28th, Kodiak
Island wth its beautiful, snow
clad mountains appeared on the
horizon and as we neared it, we
were met and escorted by majes
tic whales. At 5 a. m. we hoisted
the Russian commercial flag and
fired the cannon. At 2 p. m. Bid
arschik Ostrogin put out to us
in a three hatch bidarca from
Three Saints Bay. He remained
with us for the rest of the voy
age to pilot us into St. Paul Har
bor, Kodiak Island.
On the 29th, there was a heavy
fog and some wind. Noon 30th,
the fog cleared and we sighted
Chiniatski Cape (English Charts
Cook’s—Cape Grenville), distant 10
Italian miles. At 5 p. m., with a top
sail breeze and having passed
aforesaid cape, we fired the can
non, loaded with ball.
(Continued tomorrow)
AGREEMENT WORKED
OUT FISHERMEN,
VESSEL OWNERS
UP FOR RATIFICATION WED
NESDAY NIGHT, ACCORD
ING TO DISPATCH
SEATTLE, Mar., 24, (IP)—E. T.
Marsh, Portland, Ore. commis
sioner of the conciliation depart
ment of labor, has worked out an
agreement with representatives
of 1,200 halibut fishermen and
vessel owners.
Marsh said there is no question
as to wages involved working
conditions; that the agreement
is of a technical nature.
Owners receded so;ne time age
to the demand for 25 per cent of
the vessels’ earnings to 20 per
cent in the past.
The agreement is subject tc
ratification by fishermen to
morrow night.
Two hundred Ketchikan fish
ermen are affected. The dispute
started January and was un
settled at the opening of the
eason, February 15.
FORMAL PROTEST
OVER U. S. ACTION
PROMISES TO LEAD TO SOME
MORE DIPLOMATIC CON
TROVERSIES
WASHINGTON, Mar., 24, (/P)—
The Canadian government in a
note through its legation to the
State department formally pro
tested against the shelling and
capture by the United States
coast guard of the Canadian
rum runner “Josephine k" off
;the New Jersey coast last Jan
uary.
It also protested against the
killing of the schooner’s captain,
William Cluett, by a one-pound
shell from the Coast Guard gun
The protest promised to lead
to a diplomatic controversy com
paring with the old case of the
| sinking of the Canadan rum run
ner'Tm Alone" by the coast guard
vessel.
The latter case is now in pro
cess of arbitration under circum
stances which may lead to im
portant interpretations of the
Ship liquor treaty between the
United States and Great Britain.
rail FOUND SIFE
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WASHINGTON, Mar., 24, (/P)—
Chief Aviation Pilot Verne Harsh
raan who has been missing since
March 17 when he disappeared
during flying exercises off the
Columbia coast, has been found
safe at Buena Venture, Colum
bia.
An extensive search for Harsh
man was made for several days
after his disappearance but fail
ed in finding any trace of him.
Four One-Act flays Thursday Nite