BERGER REFUSED
r PERMISSION TIE UP
ANCHORAGE DOCK
Considerable difticutly was ex
perienced last Tuesday at Anchor
age, when Capt. Heinie Berger,
master and owner of the MS. Dis
coverer, docked at one of the gov
ernment docks and prepared to dis
. charge his small cargo among
which was included a horse.
Captain Berger, has informed
the Gateway that empty Alaska
Railroad care were deliberately so
spotted on the dock at Anchorage
which made it impossible for him
to discharge cargo and in order for
his passengers to traverse the dock
* to terra firma they wrere compelled
squeeze their way past cars and
the warehouse. This blocking. Capt
ain Berger added, wras the after
| math of a business transaction and
action directed at the skipper.
Immediately upon tying up Cap
tain Berger was handed a letter
by a railroad employee the con
tents of which denied him docking
privileges, landing passengers and
unloading cargo because of a small
bill he owed the Railroad. However.
Berger remained tied up and his
passengers went ashore but his car
go and horse, perforce, remained
aboard.
Captain Berger was in a jack
pot. His attorney Harry F. Mor
ton. was out of towrn. Freight was
to be discharged and loaded. What
to do! What to do! Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
If he attempted to land at other
decks similar tactics would result,
he was informed.
Just beyond Emard’s cannery at
Anchorage is a high bank. Captain
Berger said nothing but at high
tide he steamed around the dock,
pulled up alongside the bank,
shoved a gangplank over and the
horse, after 20 hours on deck al
ongside of the wharf, lifted up his
tail, gave a loud snort, and leaped
ashore and was lea away to a
safety zone.
In the meantime, a large crowd
gathered: also, few railroad men.
After an hour and one-half strug
gle. these men managed to move,
with the aid of crow-bars, more
empty cars blocking egress from
the bank. Captain Berger said he
volunteered the assistance of his
crew but his offer w?as not accept
ed. When the cars were finally in
position. Captain Berger pulied the
whistle cord and left for another
beach to carry on.
Wednesday he obtained a small
scow and completed loading in
Chester Creek.
Two or three indignation meet
ings were held by business groups
in protest to the Railroad's action
in attempting to block one of the
city’s commercial arteries. It was
said that the MS. Discoverer takes
out five times more merchandise
than is brought in.. That the Dis
coverer creates more tonnage for
the Alaska Railroad because of its
Cook Inlet distribution of merchan-1
dise brought to Anchorage ovar the!
system from Seward and that prac- i
tically all of its inbound freight is
from points the Railroad could not \
enjoy in any case.
But this is not the point involv- !
f ed, according to the Railroad. Tues- |
days action against Captain Berger1
being based entirely on non-pay
ment of a bill.
Others view the subject matter
as another move by the Railroad
management to eliminate competi
tion. citing the recent inauguration
of almost prohibitive tolls over the
Richardson Highway, which auto-1
matically ruined many private:
concerns engaged in transporting |
passengers and freight from the
coast to Fairbanks and intermed-;
iary points.
Captain Berger said he expected!
the Anchorage Chamber of Com-J
FEAR KIDNAPPING
WASHINGTON, July 14. —Unit
ed States secret service agents have
; been detailed to guard the three
grandchildren -of President Roose
velt against kidnappers and are
standing guard over them. No kid
nap threats have been made but
the President felt that the abduct
ors have become increasingly bold
in recent deals and ordered a very
i strict watch be kept over them.
ITALIAN PLANES
i MAY REACH GOAL
ABOUT SATURDAY
NEW BRUNSWICK, July 14. — j
Signalling a surprise takeoff from
Cart wright, Laborador. late last
last night, General Italo Balbo led
his Italian air armada closer to the
goal of their flight—Chicago.
The air armada has now com
pleted 4.830 miles of their 7,000
' mile hop and only one more stop,
j Montreal, is between them and
I their goal the Century of Progress
gress Fair.
They expected to take off early
j this morning for Montreal. This is
! a 500-mile flight.
General Balbo said he expected to
! reach Chicago by Saturday after
noon. “It was a very good flight
1 all the way from Cartwright,” Bal
bo told newspaperment- ‘‘There was
| a little fog off Cape St. George,
\ but general fair weather. We made
jgood time and flew the-800-miles
: in five hours and 45 minutes.
ISSUING CARDS
!' SAN FRANCISCO, July 14. — To
I make identification of San Fran
jcisco bona-fide residents easier.1
this city has begun issuing cards;
to all persons who can claim a
| year’s residence in the city. The
plan is also designed to make it
easier for employers to give work
; to San Franciscans.
ROOSEVELT TRIES
BEAT OPPOSITION
WASHINGTON. July 14. — Con
tinuing his drive to speed up the
enactment of the National Industry
Recovery Association program.
President Roosevelt conferred with
officials in an attempt to over
come opposition to the codes which
has developed into threats of sev
eral court actions to test the le-j
gality of the orders.
The State Department was seek
ing trade agreements with about a
half dozen South American coun-,
tries as negotiations at the London
Economic Conference appeared to
be doomed to failure.
INCOMING LISTING
The incoming listing of passen
gers on the SS. Yukon, other than:
the Seattle listing published pre-j
v i o u s 1 y, included the following: i
Fr o m Ketchikan—J a m e s Climie.!
From Juneau—Clyde Bolyon, Jas.j
Seimi, M. H. Tallman, Mrs. M. H.'
Tallman. Peggie Tallman, Dr. F.'
S. Fellows. From Cordova—Lt. J. R.|
Noyes, Thomas Scott, Bile Rody,
Freda Rebaloff.
merce. upon the return oi Presi
dent Morton, would take the sub
ject under consideration. He feels
that he has at least the moral
support of the majority of the pub
lic. He also said a petition was be
ing signed by scores of prominent
Anchorage citizens which would be
forwarded to Washington, D. C.
Captain Berger had a number
of workaways on board for Seat
tle. A capacity cargo awaits him
there and upon his arrival off An
chorage, he figures he probably will
be compelled to discharge cargo
on the beach unless the railroad
calls on the U. S. Army to patrol
all beaches on Cook Inlet
ADOLF HITLER IS
EXPOSED, ARTICLE
VIENNA. Austria, July 14. — A
sensation was caused Thursday by
publication in the newspaper Oes
terreichistkhe Abenblatt of charges
that Adolf Hitler, Nazi chancellor,
of Germany and sworn foe of the
jews, is a Jew himself.
The charges which have long
been the subject of open gossip
actually were made public for the,
first time in the first installment
of a series of articles purporting
to substantiate them.
The paper claims to have sw'orn
documents proving that Hitler is
a member of a Jewish family, of
!that name, which has lived in this
region for generations.
Frank Case returned to Seward
from Bear Creek, Moose Pass dis
trict, on his way to Nuka Bay
where he and his partners will re
sume milling on the Alaska Hills
property. Last Fall the partners
came out with a 30-pound brick.
Howard McRae, Alaska Railroad
electrician, accompanied by Mrs.
McRae arrived in SewTard on last
evening’s train. Mr. McRae is in
Sewrard to install some local work
for the Railroad.
Seward, 64. part cloudy and calm,1
Tunnel, 50. part cloudy and calm,
Anchorage. 62. part cloudy and
calm, Curry, 65, part cloudy and
calm, Broad Pass, 52, part cloudy
and calm, Healy, 45, claer and calm,
Nenana 56, clear and calm. Fair
banks, 58. cloudy and calm.
Attorney General James S. Triutt,
who made a flight to Anchorage
following his return from the Bris
tol Bay district Tuesday, returned
this morning with Pilot Art Wood
ley. Judge Truitt leaves for hs Ju
neau headquarters on the Yukon
this evening.
Round trip passengers on the S.
S. Yukon were: C. W. Demling, M.
Fordham. Norman Neilson, Nellie
A. Rumsay. Edmund Schaefer. Mrs.
A. Schaefer. Mr. and Mrs. E. V.
Winterer.
Ed Manning, young Moose Pass
vminer and prospector, who left for
the States two weeks ago, has sent
word that he has quit the North
land for good because of ill health.
Anne Chisholm, school teacher at
Moose Pass, arrived in Seward on
Thursday’s train.
Mrs. Pete Cavanaugh, wife of the
w'ell-known railroader, was an ar
rival in Seward last evening.
Local baseball enthusiasts were to
spend some time this afternoon and
evening in preparing the newly laid
out baseball grounds at the foot of,
Third Avenue.
D. Kelley, section boss at Healy, j
arrived in Seward last evening to!
take over the duties of Frank E.
Leslie, while the latter is on a
tmporary leave of absence owing to
ill health.
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 3, Pittsburgh 8.
Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 3.
Brooklyn 1, Chicago 4.
New York 3, St. Louis 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis 0, New York 12.
Detroit 3, Boston 2.
Cleveland 6, Philadelphia 5. !
Chicago 9, Washington 6.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Missions 7, Hollywood 9.
Portland 7, Oakland 1.
Los Angeles 8, San Francisco 2.
FRIENDLY TALKS
NEW YORK, July 14. —A num
ber of incidents are paving the
way for amicable relations between
the United States and Soviet Rus
sia, it was revealed her yesterday
by the arrival of Assistant Secre
tary of State Raymond Moley, from
London. Prof. Moley revealed that
he had held several friendly talks
with Mixim Litvinoff, head of the
Soviet delegation to the London
Conference.
STOCK MARKET
SHOWS FURTHER
PRICE ADVANCES
NEW YORK, July 14. — Sensa
tional advances in the wet stocks,
a pickup in rails, rubbers, utilities
and sugars and broad advances
in special issues has placed the
stock market on substantially
higher ground.
Volume was heavy and yester
day’s sales were around 7,000,000
shares for the day. Alcohol shares
featured the early dealings. Amer
ican Alcohol touched 8OV2, up 16%
points; U. S. Industrial Alcohol was
92%, up 6%, and National Distil
lers 119, up 5. All were new highs.
Wide gains ranging from six
points were run up by other mem
bers of the wet group including
Crown Cork, Commercial Solvents,
and Owens-Elling Glass.
The leaders in the industrial div
ision made the best showing of
any recent session. United States
Steel rose to a new high since 1931
at 66%, up two points from a pre
vious close. American Telephone
made a new high for the year at
134%, up 4%.
IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, July 14. —The big U.
S. Navy ships began arriving in
Elliott Bay yesterday afternoon on
their scheduled visit to this and
Puget Sound ports.
KIDNAPPERS KEEP
IN THEIR DENS
NEW YORK .July 14. —Today’s
review of the status of recent major
kidnappings reveals that one of
the two men arrested in St. Louis
as suspects in the Alton, 111., kid
napping of banker, August Luer is
reported to have confessed to tele
phoning the authorities to stop the
police search or else the victim
would be put to death. The nego
tiations with the Luer kidnappers
remain at an apparent standstill.
Negotiations for the return of
John J. O’Connel, Jr., of Albany, N.
Y., were also at a standstill with
the family ready to pay $100,000
of the $250,000 demanded.
John Factor, Chicago speculator,
freed Wednesday night by his kid
nappers, is said to have paid $50,
000 ransom. Authorities believe that
$200,000 has been or will be paid.
FAIR IN 1940
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14. —
San Francisco Bay area leaders are
giving thought to the idea of hav
ing World’s Fair held there in 1940
to mark the completion of the Gol
den Gate bridge, which is now un
der construction.
A big amphibian plane arrived in
Anchorage late yesterday afternoon
direct from Chicago. The plane
brought several people who are in
terested in the Ophir section of
Alaska.
Mrs. H. S. Balderston returned to
Seward today on the S. S. Yukon
after several weeks in the States,
Miss Wilma Shellhorn plans to
depart for Moose Pass in the morn
ing and return to her home in Sew
ard the following day, Sunday.
SEATTLE ARTICLE
AIRS MULTITUDE
OF GRIEVANCES
EDITOR’S NOTE—The following
article is being republished al
most in its entirety from the
June, 1933, issue of the Railway
and Marine News, published at
Seattle.
By Robert C. Hill
Seattle waterfront gossip in re
cent weeks has actively concerned
itself with the transportation by
vessels of the Bureau of Indian Af
i fairs of two cargoes of creosoted
; ties from Seattle to Seward, Alas
| ka, for the Alaska Railroad. This
j has naturally revived the unsettled
I argument over the propriety of
(government vessels competing with
private tonnage on established
i routes.
The Department justifies its ac
1 tion on the ground of economy.
The opposition protests that bids
were not called for and asserts
that regular lines should at least
have the opportunity of bidding on
government business.
The situation places the Govern
ment in a contradictory position.
Federal attitude toward the im
portant shipping industry is one of
inconsistency.
Government competition to Alas
ka has aroused more opposition
| this year because private lines have
found it increasingly difficult to
obtain cargo. Alaska is suffering
j from reduced buying power, cur
tailed industrial operations and de
creased tourist travel, due to gen
eral conditions. Vessels, which in
past years were chartered by fed
eral bureaus, are unable to find
business. The regular lines are
i feeling the depression keenly and
the loss of government business is
adding to their distress. Increasing
encroachment of the government
is being severely criticized.
The shipping industry recognizes
: that the government must perform
certain functions, mainly of a hu
manitarian and disciplinary na
ture, particularly in Alaska. The
. laws must be executed, the schools
must be supplied, aids to naviga
| tion kept in condition, fishing and
I other regulations enforced, police
and patrol duties performed and
: medical attention given the na
I tives. But when government ships
! carry freight in direct competition
with regularly established lines or
: at higher cost than can be done b}'
chartered vessels owned by private
capital, waterfront opinion is that
Uncle Sam is taking an unfair ad
vantage of taxpyers who have their
money invested in the merchant
marine.
The Interior and Navy Depart
ments and the Lighthouse Service,
1 according to Seattle shipping men,
| have been the chief offenders in
competing with commercial ton
nage on Alaskan routes. The Bur
eau of Indian Affairs, the Navy
sending transports to the Pribilof
Islands and elsewhere in the North
j and the Lighthouse service using
jits tenders to carry freight from.
Seattle have taken much cargo
that commercial operators claim
they could have handled to the
government’s profit and satisfac
tion. However, some government
bureaus use commercial lines ex
clusively.
The old argument flared into a
raging controversy last month
when the Bureau of Indian Affairs
pressed the motorship Boxer into
service, dispatching her to Seward
with the second shipment of treat
ed ties for the Alaska Railroad, the
motorship North Star having pre
viously taken the first cargo. Both
voyages were made in direct com
petition with regular commercial
service and bids for freighting the
material were not invited.
Because he says the government
is thereby saving money, the use
of the North Star and the Boxer
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