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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 56. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
A
ALASKA DELEGATE
CHALLENGES RIGHT
OF SPONSORSHIP
PLAN MIGHT CREATE MONO
POLY, SAYS ALASKA DELE
GATE, WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, Mar., 14, VP)—
Delegate Wickersham, from Alas
Ka, challenged the authority of
Secretary of Interior Wilbur to
sponsor the plan proposed by
the Alaska Livestock Company,
to divide Alaska into five rein
deer grazing areas.
Wickersham appeared before
the Wilbur committee and said
authorization for such an agree
ment with a private company
should come from Congress.
Wilbur said the problem should
be settled and so be placed un
der the Alaska commission and
urged clarification of range rules
Wickersham said the plan
might create a monopoly favorable
to one company.
Alaska Commissioner Chas. H.
Flory urged immediate action
and said the committee had suf
ficient facts now and that there
was no need to continue the
the hearing.
WILL SPEAK BEFORE VARIED
AUDIENC ES OF UNITED
STATES
WASHINGTON, Mar. 14. (JP) —
Hoover plans eight speeches in
April, May and June, beginning
with an speech at the annual meet
ing of the American Red Cross on
April 13. Other speeches will be at
the Pan-American Union in Wash
ington on April 15, at the Interna
tional Chamber of Commerce in
Washington of May 4, the Fiftieth
Anniversary of the American Red
Cross in Washington on May 21,
Valley Forge May 30, Indiana Re
publican State Editorial Associa
tion at Indianapolis on June 15,
at the Review of the Grand Army
of the Republic at Columbus, on
June 16, the Dedication of the
Harding Memorial at Marion, Ohio,
on June 16, and the dedication at
Lincoln’s tomb, at Springfield, 111.,
on June 17th.
CREATES BIG DISTURBANCE
NEW YORK, Mar. 14. (/P) — Crav
ed by grief over the fate of his i
sister, Vivian Gordon, murdered
vice case witness, Pierre Franklin
escaped from the trained nurse
and created a disturbance in hisj
hotel until he collapsed- He was j
• transferred to the pnycn »p rthii* j
ward at Bellview hospital.
APPOINTED MINISTER
OTTAWA, Mar. 14. (JP) — William
Duncan Heridge, Ottawa barrister,
was appointed minister to the
United States by Premier Richard
noijr.cem.ent by Premier Richard
Bennett, who said King George had
approved the appointment.
PENDING MARRIAGE
PARIS, Mar. 14. (/P) —Anthony J.
Biddle, Jr., admitted he will marry
Mrs. Margaret Thompson Schulze,
daughter of the mining million
aire, the late Boyce Thompson, as
* soon as she secures a divorce for
which she already has applied. The
I ceremony will take place early this
! Spring, it is said.
DEMOCRAT LEADERS ARE OF
OPINION REPUBLICANS
WILL NOMINATE HERB
WASHINGTON, Mar. 14. (/P) —
Ambitious democrats and indepen
dent republicans are working to
ward a union of ideas with the
hope of getting the political su
prmeacy of 1932.
The underground courtship broke
out again yesterday and Norris
thinks the country needs a pro
gressive president. He said that the
only hope is through the democrats.
Senator Hull of Tennessee, agreed
that the democrats and the inde- I
pendents had the same ideas and:
both conceded that the republicans I
would nominate Hoover.
Hull did not committ himself on!
the presidential nominee but Nor-;
ris wants “another Roosevelt.”
Senator Caraway said that if the
democrats do not choose Senator
Robinson then he would favor Gov- \
ernor Roosevelt.
: JUNEAU, Mar. 14. ( Special to the
Gateway)—The Territorial Cham
ber of Commerce convened yes
terday with R. Hess, of Fairbanks,
vice-president, and with Nome,
Fairbanks, Anchorage, Seward, Val
dez and Cordova represented and
Ketchikan with an unofficial ob
server.
Juneau, Nome and Seward are
ready to affiliate but a decision was
made for the continuation of the
body.
The meeting was postponed until
the delegates can get instruction
from their several chambers. The
next meeting has been called for
April 3.
BROSIUS INTRODUCES
MUNICIPIITY BILL
JUNEAU, Mar., 14, (Special to
The Gateway)—Cal M. Brosius of
Seward introduced a bill giving
municipalities authority to sell
or lease public property not need
ed for other municipal purposes.
McCutcheon of Anchorage is
the author of fur farming meas
ures identical with the two in
troduced in the Senate Thursday
by Bragaw. The measures are
expected to be considered joint
ly by the ways and means and
Senate committees.
GREAT INTEREST IS
SEWARD BUSINESS MAN GOES
TO THE ORIENT DURING
COMING SUMMER
Announcement of the Kawabe
Investment Company’s plan to
develop a trade between Alaska
and the Orient has brought
many inquiries from different
parts of Alaska to Harry Kawabe,
the president and manager of
the company, he stated today.
These inquiries indicate to Mr.
Kawabe that considerable inter
est throughout the Territory is
being taken in the project, and
he is greatly encouraged with
the results to date. Every mail,
he says, brings him letters sug
gesting products which the writ
ers will undertake to supply. v
“It is chiefly a matter of get
ting tonnage,” Mr. Kawabe said.
“There are numerous products
which we can export from Alaska
! which will find already market
j in the Orient, but w must be able
j to supply them in sufficient
| quantities to justify a regular
j boat schedule between Seward
i and the Oriental countries.”
| He is enthusiastic over the
i great possibilities of the propos
j ed plan, but states that no im
mediate results can be expected
because a great deal of prelimin
ary work must first be done,
such as listing all possible pro- j
ducts, finding out what quan- j
tities can be obtained in Alaska j
and what amounts can be sold'
in the Orient and v/hat prices i
they will bring there- These mat- !
ters, and other details, must first -
be worked out carefully.
It will probably be many j
months, perhaps several years,;
he said, before Seward will ac- j
tually be one terminal of an!
Alaska-Orient steamship line op- j
erating on a regular schedule,:
but that his work so far ~ has j
shown him that such a trade j
route is practical and will give j
Alaska an outlet for many pro
ducts that cannot be profitably
shipped to continental United
States for sale.
Mr. Kawabe stated he has def
initely arranged for several items
that can be shipped in quantities,
and that if he can complete oth
er plans he has made he will go
to the Orient this summer and
personally arrange for a boat to
call at Seward and make a trial
trip, probably to Japan, to dem
onstrate the practibility of an
Alaska-Oriental trade.
FINNISH PAINTER DIES
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Mar.,
14, (A3)—Axel Calwen regarded as
the greatest of the Finnish mod
ern painters died at Stockholm
of pneumonia at the age of 65
PREPARING CAMPAIGN
CHICAGO, Mar., 14, (/P)—Chic
ago business men are preparing
a campaign to bring both Repub
lican and Democratic national
conventions to this city in 1932,
Colonel Robert Randelph, presi
dent of the Chicago Association
of Commerce, announced.
TUG SINKS
NEW YORK, Mar. 14. (/P)—'The
American Diamond liner Coahoma
County struck the tug Britannia
astern in the harbor. The Britannia
immediately sank. Of her crew of
seven one drowned and four are
in the hospital.
ROMANCE COMES
TO INTERIOR MID
WAS AFTER FRESH MEAT, SO
WROTE ALASKAN, WHEN
FOUND BALLOON
OMAHA, Nebraska, Mar., 14, (/P)
—A toy balloon released at a
party here list November return
ed in the form of a marriage
proposal to Mrs. Robert Tun
berg from a Fairbanks miner,
Henry H. Prentice.
Each balloon carried a card
and a name with the address of
the sender- Prentice wrote that
he found the balloon in Febru
ary in a gulch “above my claim
in the Nanook region.
“We were out of fresh meat;
and had tracked a bear up the j
canyon where we finally drop-1
ped him on a high ledge 5a feet j
up the side. It was tough get- j
ting to him but I made it. On the i
way I found the balloon.
“You don’t happen to be sin-!
gle, unattached, white, 21, willing
to cook grub for a couple of lone
some old batches way up here in
No Man’s country, do you?”
SHIP EBS
II 181 MS THE
HITESTII8 YESRSj
| WASHINGTON, Mar., 13, (£>)—
i Tonnage of merchant vessels
! launched throughout the world
! in 1930 was the greatest since
! the peak of the wartime ship
| building boom in 1921.
Launchings totaled 2,889,000
gross tons, says the department
of commence, a gain of 96,000
gross tons over 1929. The returns
showed that for the first time
the tonnage of motor ships ex
ceeded that for all other types
of vessels combined.
United States shipyards launch
ed almost double the tonnage
they did in 1929, making the
country second only to England
and Ireland in volumne of out
put. The year before it was in
fifth place.
Emil MDSES i
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SHANGHAI, Mar., 14, (^—Ad
ditional reports as to the sink
ing of the steamer Pachi indicat
ed that 262 are dead, following
the explosion off the coast.
The remainder of the 722 per
sons aboard were saved.
All who perished were Chinese
soldiers. It is said soldiers caus
ed the explosion when they
threw lighted cigaretts into the
cotton cargo.
G. 0. P. JUVD DEMO
PARTIES EVIDENTLY
WHICHEVER CAPITULATES WILL
RULE BOTH HOUSES, PRO
GRESSIVE PLANS
WASHINGTON, Mar., 14. </P)—
Confident of power five groups
of Progressives are at work on
specific legislation which they
intend to get through at the
next Congress.
Committees were named dur
ing the meeting yesterday and
will constitute the organization
which will carry on indefinitely
The Progressives have suffi
cient votes to control and hope
to play the Democrats against
the Republicans until one or the
other accedes to their demands.
Which ever capitulates will
rule both Houses under the Pro
gressive plans.
FM-FH HOUR
WEEK IS PROPOSED
TEHTOIL 'SEES’
I
JUNEAU, Mar. 14. (Special to the
Gateway)—A 44 hour week for
Territorial employes was proposed
in a measure introduced in the
I House by Winn which would give
them a half holiday every Satur
day throughout the year instead of
only in the Summer months as in
the past. This coincides with the
federal system which was recently
inaugurated providing for a 44
hour week.
McDonald introduced a bill for
old age insurance.
The commission reported favor
ably yesterday by the House Com
mitee on Territorial Institutions
Tiie commission measure was
reported on favorably by the'House
Committee on Territorial Institu
j tions but it was recommended to
the Ways and Means Committee be •
cause it carried an appropriation
clause for $10,000.
mil AIMS
IT POINT BURROW
SECOND RELIEF OOP
POINT BARROW. Mar. 14. (/P)—
Crosson arrived fjom Point Lay
where he had stopped overnight.
He left the anti toxin and started
on the return flight for Weseman
enroute to Fairbanks.
Crosson and Robbins covered 901
miles together in two planes to
Point Hope where a moving pic
ture expedition disembarked.
Crosson continued to Point Lay
and Robbins returning to Kotze
bue from Point Hope.
The fliers covered the 650 miles
from Fairbanks to Kotzebue in four
hours and 15 minutes.
HOCKEY SCORES
SEATTLE Mar. 14. (AV^Be—tie
3, Portland 1.