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Seward Daily Gateway
VOLUME XV. NMUBER 574.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
STILL CONTINUE
SENATE AND HOUSE ADJOURN
OUT OF RESPECT LATE
SOLON
WASHINGTON, Dec., 13, (/P)— j
Senate conferees considered the j
emergency unemployment relief j
bill and then at once adjourned
out of respect to the late Sen. j
Overman who died yesterday.
The Interstate commerce com
mittee questioned nominees for
ihe power committee.
Muscle Shoals conferees consid- j
ti-ed a compromise which is ex
pected. with present plans, will ;
be operated by the government.
The chief dispute now is whether
power be transmitted over gov- j
eminent supply lines or private
nes.
The House is in recess today j
but the immigration committeej
j$ still considering suspension of j
the bill
Yesterday the House passed
■ ne Interior department’s supply
bill including $15,000,000 for the !
Boulder Dam project.
The House struck out the pro-;
fusion against salary increase for.
government employees.
The House refused to act on
■he Senate's $118,000,000 public,
iworks bill.
* (Editor's Note:— A', hough the
• ispaich is somewhat confusing.
T: p pc ■>rs that the House refused
•j take action on the $118..900.000
i mergeri ey ur employment relief
mil, until House and Senate con
Vrees can agree on amendments
suggested by the Senate can be
fully formulated by a joint com
mittee. Final action is expected
Monday.
NEW YORK, Dec., 12, (£>)_Dr.
Miller Reese Hutchesjn former
Chief Engineer and per. .r.al re
presentative of Th n Fdi«m.
demonstrated a device he de
clared would eliminate th* danger
of carbon monoxide i: crowded
streets and save the co.ntry about
51,000,000,000 a year m gasokne
* bills.
He said the new device wo hd
cut gasoline consumption to one
third. Captain Frank Hawkes v, ill
test it on flight.
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CHAMPIONSHIP PUT
CALLS MANY GOLFERS
SAN FTtANCESCO, Dec., 12, (JP)
One hundred and 63 golfers will
%ee off in the qualifying round of
the $7,500 national match play
open golf championship.
One hundred and 30 profession
als, many of them nationally pro
minent, and 33 star amateurs make
up the list announced by Chas.
W. Pay of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, which is sponsoring the
* event.
TUFFY DEFEATED
CHICAGO, Dec. 13. (£>)—Young
Stribling defeated Tuffy Griffiths,
Siouz City, Iowa, heavyweight, in
a 10-round battle last night. Strib
ling won the decision of the ref
eree and the judges. There were no
knockdowns.
THREE YOUTHS 60
ELECTRIC CHAIR;
MURDER DRUGGIST
NONE APPARENTLY FALTERED
AS CAREERS CLIMAXED
ON “HOT-SEAT”
OSSINING, N. Y„ Dec., 13. </P»
j—Three cry-baby bandits who
1 cried profusely during their trial,
! were executed for slaying a Long
Island druggist.
James Butler. 20, was the first
j to go- He said nothing.
■ Italio Ferdinadi, 22, was the
|next. He said; “May God forgive:
| me. God bless mother, father and
j sweetheart.”
| James Bloger, 19. the last,
! strode into the chair room with
■his hands in his pockets. He said:
I will die like I lived, with a
smile on my face.”
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LOS ANGELES, Doc., 12, -IV -
[Tom. Mix, movie picture star, has
t orh’oped away from home again
land is not coming back, said
Mrs, Victoria Mix. in filing a di~
1 vorce suit.
She said that Tom emphasized
I the statement that he was not
coming back by twirling a load
led revolver on his trigger finger
jin true wild west fashion.
They were married in 1918 a
j year after Tom’s first wife di
j vorced him charging him with
i desertion.
The Stock Market
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Motors ..
Goldman .
Int. Tel.
Kennecott .
Lehigh .
Radio
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PAY LAST RESPECTS
WASHINGTON, Dec., 13, UP)—
President Hoover and his Cabi
net, Supreme court members and
the entire Senate paid farewell
to Senator Overman last night as
they gathered before the casket
before the body was taken to
South Carolino, his home, for
burial. The body was escorted by
a Senate committee.
Editorial
SEWARD’S CHRISTMAS PRESENT
There is cause for great rejoicing and happier con
templation of Christmas cheer for Seward in the latest
news from Congress. This time there doesn’t seem to be
and “dirty work at the cross-roads,” and we are appar
ently sitting pretty.
The emergency appropriation bill for $118,000,000
which has just passed the House and the Senate car
ries provisions for several pieces of work in Alaska, in
much-to-be-desired,
eluding that
long-hoped-for
millions for
and
breakwater at Seward. The bill carries
roads in forests and the public domain. The country
gets many things that have long been sought for the
public good. A crisis in unemployment has broken
down all political barriers and Uncle Sam’s idle money,
resting in the vaults at Washington, is to be turned
out generously for long-lasting benefit. ‘Tis a case
where the ill wind blows some good. The things that
are to be done with this $118,000,000 will bring com
pound interest on the money for many years to come.
The Westward country and all Kenai Peninsula
have cause to rejoice in the possibilities of the govern
ment works that are to be carried on here because of
the direct benefits,
With the propei
harbor facilities for small boats
in Resurrection Bay there will follow a direct shifting
in halibut and other fishing activities. Seward will be
come a supply and buying point for Westward fishing
anks. There wi.
marine-wavs for small craft, a
thing that has been sorely needed. There will be an in
ns
well
and Seat'll
instances t
here.
The K
to Prince Rupert
crease in storage facilities, bringing buyers here as
Ketchikan. Southeastern
made it known in many
ive their hones and tam
per their boats.
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ka Road Commission and the
oads, with enhanced funds may be in
dined to build that road to Kenai thus opening up to
all-year communication and transportation the Cook
Inlet country to the Alaska Railroad, permitting devel
opment of the great prospective farming, stock-raising
and fur-farming region between, thereby increasing
the tonnage over the railroad which the railroad sorely
needs. It is confidently felt that actual work on the
Kenai Lake-Moose Pass short stretch of connecting
road, will begin next spring.
This money is to be made available at once because
of its emergency character to relieve
The Alaska Road Commission, under
unemployment,
whose direction
carried for
Alaska’s rivers and harbors projects are
ward, can start the pile-driving for the breakwater
even before spring ,if they wish. It is probable that
steps will be taken shortly on preliminary work.
There is strong possibility that the railroad coal
docks will be authorized. It is known that Colonel Ohl
son desires to put in piers for north and south steamer
landings, replacing the present terminal. The Resur
rection River bridge will be built in the spring.
For all these things Seward, the Westward and
Kenai Peninsula should rejoice and hope. It means ex
penditure of public money for public good.
The possibilities for public works throughout this
area next summer bring realization that perhaps
those things will now take place which we have so long
striven for. Sewardites should hang up their stocking
this Christmas with happy heart.
LEFT ALL ALONE
BUCHAREST, Roumania, Dec. 121
(^—Princess Helen, divorced wife
of King Carol, will be absent from |
the capitol Christmas and Dow-1
ager Queen Marie will also be out
of Roumania at that time, it was;
officially learned.
SAFE IN CHINA
PEKING, China, Dec., 12, (TP)—
A telegram from a rescue party
announced the safety of Mrs H.
D. Hayward, American missionary,
and Miss E. Gomersall, her British
secretary. The women had been
captured by bandits.
NEW 1 ill
LINES if PASS
THROUGH SEWARD
RUSSIAN ACTIVITY SERIOUSLY
INTO AMERICAN COM
PETITION
OTTAWA, Dec., 13, UP)—A net
iwork of passenger and mail air
| lines joining Canada and the
| United States and spanning the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to
Europe and Asia, was outlined
las the ultimate objective of the
i plans made yesterday at the con
i' feience of Canadian and United
States postal authorities
The airline to Asia would be
an extension of the Miami-Cal
gary project and would go thru
.Fort McMurray to Alaska, thence
j to Asia.
i Officials agreed this line should
be in operation within three
•years to forestall growing avia
! t ion activity of the Russians
[which is seriously entering into
■ competition.
LOYAL TROOPS COVER H O ALL
REVOLT CENTERS. SAYS
REPORT
MADRID, Dec., 13. <£*)—A fur
ious battle near Ayerbe occured
yesterday; federal troops took at
least 100 prisoners and seized all
rebel ec lipment and drove the
revolting regiments back into the
garrison town of Jaca where the
rebellion flared yesterday.
General Berenguer, Prime Min
ister, asserted the engagement
terminated the revolt and that
federate controlled the Jaca area.
Loyal troops are continuing;
their coverage of the revolt cen
ter
Eight officers were captur
ed and were court-martialed im
mediately.
MS! SHIP TO it
OVEH 1.000 FEET LONG
j LIVERPOOL, Dec., 12, (,P)-Con
| struction of the biggest vessel
jin the world neared when the
jCunard line signed a contract for
ja 73,000 ton liner.
It will be 20 per cent bigger than
the Leviathan.
It will be 1,018 feet long and will
cost between $22,500,000 and $25,
000,000.
BOARD EX-WORKERS
MOSCOW, Dec., 12, (,P)—The
Soviet government has decreed
that independent farmers give
two weeks free board and room
to farm hands whom they dis
charge and two months’ free care
to workers who become sick
while employed on the "kulak”
farms.