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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 130.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENT'S
Brig. Gen. Steese
Prospective Governor
Alaska is forecast
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Humors which appear to have a
strong semblance of authenticity
indicate that the next Governor
of Alaska will be Brigadier General
James Gordon Steese, retired.
That something momentous is in
cubating wherein General Steese
is the pivot around which it re
volves is revealed in his present
visit to Alaska.
Naturally, General Steese has
maintained a sphinx-like silence
on the purport of his visit, but it
is a notable fact that since receiv
ing the Bachelor of Science degree
from the Alaska College he has
spent some time in making an ex- j
haustive investigation of practical- '
ly every major governmental act- J
ivity in Alaska.
These include the Alaska
Railroad the Matanuska coal fields,
the Matanuska experimental farm,
activities in McKinley park and the
Richardson Highway.
As indicated by reports from
Washington the activities of the
Alaska Road Commission are to be
transferred from the War to the
Interior Department. It is not
likely that this change would re
ceive the sanction of the War De
partment unless there was some
understanding whereby the work
initiated and carried on under the
regime of the then Colonel Steese
would be safeguarded against the
machinations of partisan politics
which may find expression in the
Interior Department, but which
cannot penetrate the War Depart
ment because of its non-partisan 1
structure.
Therefore it appears that there:
can be but one purport of this ac- j
tivity on the part of General Steese. |
It is that Washington has display- j
ed rare wisdom in calling upon one j
whose identity with Alaskan af- j
fairs has been marked with real
progress. ]and whose judgment j
brooks no impeachment when it!
comes to the needs of the Territory
and the method for securing their
recognition at Washington.
Among the fortuitous episodes
coming as an emphasis for revers- ;
mg the niggard and confusing pol
icy for the railroad following the
Howell committee assault, was the
collapse of the big snowshed at the
summit, when Colonel Ohson had
a narrow escape from death when
he wras struck and knocked down
by a falling timber. Colonel Steese I
was present on the same train and j
saw the effect of paring railroad j
funds to the bone and wrhat this is j
exerting upon the railroad struc
ture.
In McKinley park he saw the i
woeful need for rotyds and tourist!
hotels, and at- Seward the need for I
coal bunkers. On the Richardson;
Highway he ’ beheld the tragedy;
which would follow the policy of j
Congress in allowing only $354,310
for road work as against the $656,- j
000 demanded—where bridges are j
gone and must be replaced, or the |
highway abandoned.
ACCEPTS AIRWAYS POSITION
Andrew J. Hufford accompanied
by Mrs. Hufford were arrivals in
Seward Friday from Seattle and i
today departed for the Interior in
an Alaskan Airways plane. Mr.!
Hufford came North to accept a
position with the Alaskan Airways
to assist Joe Crosson as mechanic.
Mr. Hufford was chief mechanic
with the Wilkins expedition in 1926
and has already been connected
•with Alaskan Flying operations.
During recent years he has been
connected with the Bureau of Aero- j
natics at Washington, D. C.
Four person have soloed in the
Star Air Service’s training ship at j
Anchorage since that organization
started their flying school in the
Inlet City. The latest air-minded
person to take the ship up alone
was Emil Gustafsen. The other
three were W. Dunkle, interior min- <
ing man, Dr. Lawler Seeley and
John Cook.
There is but one position thru
which the work of an empire
builder could function in Alaska
and that is as Governor. Combin
ed in this office are the duties of
and those of a policy-moulder. Into
this position General Steese would
fit like a glove. Any program of
progress would receive the grave
consideration of Washington.
Possibly no man now occupying
the position of a United States ter
ritorial possession, or that of chief
executive of a state, has better
qualifications thru experience and
training than General Steese. This
experience has the range from
purely commercial and business
activities to that of one of the
most highly trained army engin
eers. He has, since relinquishing
his post in Alaska, been actively
engaged in business affairs as the
representative of large mineral in
terests in South Africa and South
America.
A canvass of sentiment respect
ing his acceptance as Governor
justifies the statement that it
would be received with huzzahs of
approval from every walk of life.
It would be heralded as the arrival j
of an hour long looked for—that of!
the arrival of an empire-builder j
whose most prized reward was the j
happiness of achievement.
Some idea of General Steese’s fit
ness for the position of “The Boss” j
of Alaska may be gained by the fol- j
lowing brief historical sketch:
Born Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., A.B.
Dickinson Coll., ’92, A M. ’06; grad.
U.S. Mil. Acad., ’07; studied U. of
Cal. ’08, grad U.S. Engr. Sch.,
Wash., ’10; Commd 2nd Lt. engrs,
’07; promoted thru grades to Col.,
’18: asst, engr. San Diego and San
Francisco bays, Calif., ’07-’08; duty
Panama Canal, ’03-T2; chf. engr.
5th (expeditionary) brigade, Texas,
13; instr. and asst. prof, engineer
ing. U.S. Mil. Acad., 13-17; organ
ized .TC. Ft. Riley, Kas., 17; asst,
engrs, U.S.A., 17-18; col. on gen
staff and chf of promotions and j
assignments, Sept,, 18-June, 20,
sped mission to Adriatic and Bal
kan countries, 19; pres. Alaska Rd.
Commn., July, ’20—also chf. engr.,
March-Aug, ’24; dist. and acting;
div. engr. for rivers and harbors, j
Alaska dist., Apr., 12; cons, engr.,
Dept. Com-, April, ’21—Ter. Alaska,
Nov., ’21-May. ’23; mem. sped
comn. to investigate Russian, Jap
anese and Am. for seal rookeries,
JunerSept., ’22; dir. public works,
Alaska, May, ’23—chm. Alaska R.R
Feb., ’23-Mar.. ’24, also chf. engr.,
Mar.-Oct., ’23; trustee Dickinson
Coll. Fellow A. Geog. Soc., Royal
George Soc.; mem. Am. Soc. C.E.,
Soc. Mil. Engrs-, A.A., A.S., Phi Be
ta Kappa, Phi Kappa Sigma, Am.
Legion. Decorated D.S.M. (U.S.);
D.S.M 2nd class < Panamaian); of
ficer later comndr of Prince Dani
lo I., and silver medal for bravery
(Montenegrin); Croix de Guerre,
2nd class (Grecian); officer Public
Instruction (French). Episcopali
an, Mason (32 deg., Shriner); Elk,
B. of S., Fairbanks Ag. Coll., Alas
ka. Clubs: Army and Navy (Wash
ington), West Point Army Mess.,
Strangers (Colon); Crotan County |
(Norfolk, Va.) Home Mt. Holly
Springs, Pa. Address, Juneau, Al
aska.
DON’T GO WEST
W. B. Regan, U. S. commissioner !
at Naknek. suggests that the move
ment of men to Bristol Bay from
Seward or elsewhere be discour
aged. He states that at the present
time there is already a large num
ber of unemployed men in that
district.
The Alaska Railroad river steam
er Jacobs departed downstream
from Fort Gibbons Friday at 4:45
p. m. The steamer Alice left Fort
Gibbons, upriver at 3:30 p. m. Fri
day.
Doris Sullivan, local school girl,
returned Friday from a week’s visit
to Anchorage, where she was the
house guest of Vivian Stoddard.
The big Standard Oil tanker
Moffett arrived in port Friday ev
ening from the south bringing sup
plies for the local headquarters
listributing plant.
201 PASSENGERS IM
SEATTLE ON SS. MON
FOR ALASKAN PORTS
SEATTLE, June 4. (£>)—The SS- j
Yukon sailed for Seward and way
ports this morning at nine o’clock
and carried a total of 201 passen-i
gers of whom 103 were cabin pas-1
sengers.
There were 43 Seward passengers
on the liner and they included Miss
Denice Coyle, Judge C. E. Bunnell,
Mrs. J. M. Soldanels, Mrs. E. A.
Austin, Mrs- Susan Taylor, O. M.
Powell, D. A. Hoffman, R. W. Con
verse, C. R. Christofferson, Miss M.
Snowdie, Mrs. W. J. Barrows, Mrs
L. V. Fernald and Jean, Mrs. Frank
Emo, Mrs. Daisy Sessions, A. E.
Place, J. R. Scott, B. R. Hart. Wm.
Melvin.
• Henry Hedberg, H. J. Bentley, C.
J. Walla, Anna Olson, Mr. and Mrs.
C. E. Farrel, Mrs. Anna Davidson,
Miss M. Cousin, Mrs. H. J. Storm,
and two sons Robert and Harold,
Christine Mullen, Agnes Smith.
Mary Muller, Jack Webster, Har
old Thayer, Mrs. John Larson, Mrs.
S. E- Mills and two sons Steven and
Stanley, Mrs. Eddy Davis, Ernest
S. Pfaff, Mrs. Shattuck, Ernie Sum
merland and 12 steerage.
DORE TAKES OFFICE
SEATLE, June 4. —Seattle’s new
ly elected mayor John F. Do re will
take over his duties at 8 o’clock
Monday morning. A number of
changes in the cities administra- j
tion will probably result.
mi ms is
MANAGER OF 'OUTS'
ACCOUNT ILL HEALTH
NEW YORK, June 4, —John J.
McGraw resigned as manager of
the New York Giants baseball
team after 30 years at the helm.
He won 10 pennants and finished
in the first division every year ex
cept one. Ill health was given as
the reason for his resignation.
He will be succeeded by ‘'Bill”
Terry, one of the greatest players
of all time
McGrawr will continue with the
Giants as vice-president and gen
eral advisor. His resignation was
unexpected but he became ill dur
ing the club’s recent Western trip
and saw his last full game on May
10. He was working on a five-year
contract -which began in 19030.
“For two years, due to ill health,
I have been contemplating the ne
cessity of turning over the man
agement of the Giants to some one
else. My doctor advised me, be
cause of sinus trouble, that it
would be inadvisable to attempt
any road trips with the club this
season,” McGraw said.
The new manager has been with
the Giants since 1932; he is 33.
COPPER BULLETS
USED BE NATIVES
The history of Alaska might have
been changed somewhat had not
Arthur McNeer gone there in 1898.
Arthur joined the flood of adven
turers on the way to the great
Klondike strike. He landed in
Valdez and organized a party of
prospectors well provisioned to
prospect up the Copper river valley
on their way to the interior. Near
what is now Copper Center they
met a band of roving Indians and
found they were using copper bul
lets. On inquiry the Indians told
them they had made them from
native copper and pointed toward
the Nabesna river as the place
where the copper had been picked
up. Two of Arthur’s prospectors
took a supply of provisions from
the main party, and, following the
Indian’s description discovered the
great Kennecott Copper Mine out
of which Guggenheims and their
associates, after building the Cop
per River Railroad, have taken out
many million dollars worth of cop
per.
MANY ARE KILLED
MEXICO CITY, June 4. (IP) —
More than three score of persons
are known to have been killed and
upwards to 100 were injured in a
series of earthquakes throughout
Mexico. Great damage was inflict
ed over a wide area and a number
of smaller towns were entirely
wiped out.
NEW BUREAU CHIEF
ARRIVES AT JUNEAU
KETCHIKAN, June 4, (/P>—Dr. P.
Gordon of Washington, D. C., the
new head for the Bureau of In
dian Affairs in Alaska, reached the
Territory aboard the M. S. North
Star from Seattle enroute to Ju
neau.
He succeeds Charles W. Hawkes
worth who has been acting in that
capacity since the activities were
transferred from the Bureau of
Education to Indian Affairs.
This is the maiden trip of the
North Star to Alaskan waters; it
will proceed to the Westward af
ter arriving at Juneau.
Percy Olton, Jr. member of the
McKinley Park climbing expedi
tion, was a departure for Seattle
on the liner Alaska this morning j
having arrived in the city on Fri
day’s train from the Interior.
NEW YORK, June 4.—Madison
Square Garden announced that
the New York milk fund would
share in the profits of the Max
Schmeling-Jack Sharkey title fight
land stadium had been reduced
on June 21, and that the price of
for the bout.
Ten thousand seats have been
reduced from $3.45 to $2.30 and
thousands from $23 to $15. This!
latter reduction leaves 10,000 seats
at $24, the highest price. No
changes were made on the other
seats.
TEilS CHAMPIONSHIP
FICHT CONTINUES FRANCE
AUTEUIL, France, June 4. — •
America’s hopes for victory in the J
French tennis championships end- !
ed when G Mangin, of Newrark, N. |
J., was defeated in the quarter fin- i
al match by H. Cochet, of France.'
Cochet will meet R. Menzil, of
Czechoslovakia, and M. Bernard of
France will meet G- Desnont of
Italy in the semi-finals today.
Mme. Rene Mathieu, of France,
will meet Mrs. Helen Wills Moody
in the finals of women’s singles.
WOMEN ON COUNCIL
DENVER, Colo., June 4—For the !
first time in the history of the :
American Presbyterian church,
women are named to the general
council in the election at the clos
ing session of the 144th general as
sembly. Fort Worth, Texas, was
chosen as the 1933 meeting place.
NO DANGER OF WAR
TOKYO, June 4. —Premier Sai
to, of the new Japanese cabinet,
expressed an opinion Friday that
there is no danger of a conflict
between Japan and Soviet Rus
sia. In a statement issued by him
he declared that the concentration
of Russian troops on the Soviet
frontier gave rise to possible trouble
but he expressed it as his opinion
that no danger of war exists.
FLOODS IN CALGARY
CALGARY, Canada, June 4. —
Heavy rains have swelled streams
throughout this section to such an j
extent that many of them are run- i
ning over their banks and flooding
adjacent property. The water was
still rising Friday and the proper
ty damage continued to mount. No
lives have, been lost so far although
for a time it appeared five mar
ooned men would perish.
NOT HEARD FROM
NEW YORK, June 4. (JP) —Since
five o’clock Friday night no word
has been heard from Stanishlaus
Hausner, of Newark, who took off
from New York for Warsaw, Poland,
at 8:46 a. m. Friday. Hausner had
no wireless on his plane. He was
reported by ships as having flown
over Halifax, then over Sydney and
then over Nova Scotia.
CURTIS PLEADS NOT
GUILTY TO CHK
FLEMINGTON, N. J. June 4. (Jf>)
—John H. Curtis, Norfolk boat
builder, who recently confessed to
hoax activities in the Lindbergh
case, entered a plea of not guilty
ta the indictmjent charging him
with obstructing the hindering in
the capture of the kidnappers and
murderers of the Lindbergh baby.
The trial of Curtis on the in
dictment charges has been set for
June 27. Curtis has been returned
to jail in lieu of bail.
CONVICT ESCAPES FROM
WALLA WALLA PRISON
WALLA WALLA, Wash., June 4
(/P)—Joseph Lander, 26, who was
serving a seven to 12-year prison
sentence imposed upon him by King
County on a robbery conviction,
escaped from the State prison to
day after overpowering a prison
guard and escaping over the pri
son wall. Landers made his escape
during the while a high wind was
blowing. He took the guard’s pistol
and shotgun and then went to
the guards tower where he ob
tained a rifle.
Lander is carrying all this artil
lery and will probably give a des
perate fight before officers of the
law retake him. The officials are
conducting a statewide search for
the escaped convict.
BATTALION OF VETERANS
WITHDRAW BEFORE POLICE
CLEVELAND, June 4. (/Pi—The
battalion of Veteran’s bonus mar
chers, who tied up all the freight
train movements of the Pennsyl
vania railroad yards here capit
ulated before a massed force of
police and withdrew to a nearby
field.
The veterans withdrew after the
police had made a call upon Gov
ernor White for troops to help
quell any disturbance which might
result.' The ex-service men with
drew without any untoward hap
penings and no disturbance.
IMELIA UflHlRT RECEIVES
HIGH FRENCH DECOill
PARIS, June 4. (/P)—Amelia Ear- :
hart Putnam received the Cross of
the Legion of Honor from former'
President Paul Painleive who is now
the Minister of French Aeronautics.
The award was made to Mrs* Put- !
nam to honor her achievement of
being the first woman to make a ;
solo flight across the Atlantic. The j
award was made at the conclusion
of a luncheon given in Mrs. Put
nam’s honor and which was attend
ed by many notables.
Five years ago Painleive decorat
ed Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
with a similar award.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 6, Brooklyn 5.
Pittsburg 6, Chicago 5.
Other games rained out
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 20, Phillies 13.
Cleveland 3, 10, Detroit 1, 7.
St. Louis 2, Chicago 1.
Washington at Boston, rain.
E. M. Polley, territorial tax col
lector, was an arrival from Juneau
on the SS Alaska.
BERLIN, June 4, —President P.
Von Hindenburg dissolved the
Reichstag by official decree. In
signing the document Hindenburg
placed the German republic under
the dictatorial rule of Chancellor
Franz von Papen’s cabinet.
The president acted under em
ergency powers never before em
ployed to avoid, temporarily a t
least, the usual democratic pro
ceedure of the Republican consti
tution, presumably on the con
viction that a new general elec
tion is the only solution to the
Reich’s political crisis. The consti
tution provides for new elections
to be held within 60 days.
The election of a new Reichstag
probably would make the Fascist
party of Adolph Hitler dominant in
the strong right wing majority.
The proceedure of von Hinden
burg in dissolving the Reichstag
was unprecedented as the cabinet
did not face the parliament for a
vote on policies. It was certain of
defeat if such a vote as the Cath
olic center, socialists and constitu
tional parties announced that they
would oppose the proceedure.
The Fascists failed to gain con
trol of the Prussian government
when the diet rejected the motion
to restore the rule under which the
premier is elected by a plurality.
The vote was 212 to 202.
REFUSED TO TESTIFY,
SAN FRANCISCO. June 4. —
Frank J. Egan, the city’s public de
fender, was suspended from office
when he refused to testify at a cor
oner’s inquest over the mysterious
death of his former friend and cli
ent, an aged woman, Mrs. Jessie
Scott Hughes.
Mrs. Hughes wras run over by an
automobile several weeks ago near
her home at night. Police believe
she was murdered. At the time of
her death Egan vanished after
telephoning the police that he had
been kidnaped. When he reap
peared he refused to give an ac
count of his movements. -
GIT POOL FORMED
STRENGTHEN MARKET
NEW YORK, June 4. —Formation
of a giant pool of New York banks
to bolster the bond market was an
nounced by Thomas U. Lamont,
member of the firm of J. P. Morgan
and Company, and spokesman for
the participating banks.
Lamont said New York City
banks already have subscribed the
sum of $100,000,000 toward the sta
bilization fund. Almost every im
portant banking institution in the
city is represented.
APPOINTED TO BENCH
OLYMPIA, Wash. June 4. —Ros
coe Smith has been appointed by
Governor Roland Hartley to succeed
Judge William Stienard on the
King County bench following the
latter’s acceptance of a position in
the State Supreme court. Stienard
was appointed to the Supreme court
following the resignation of Jus
tice Adam Beeler, who is running
for election to the U. S. Senate.
Miss Louise Beaudreau, of An
chorage. arrived in Seward on Fri
day’s train from the Inlet city and
left on the line Alaska for the Out
side.
Larry Goldspring, oldtimer from
Kanakanak, was brought to An
chorage a few days ago by Pilot
Lon Cope. Mr. Goldspring has been
in ill health for months and came
in to obtain special treatment.
Alec Little has the contract for
leveling the floor of the Seward
airport hangar. Mr. Little begins
work immediately.