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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 57. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WILL ENTER OFFICE UNEN
CUMBERED BY PROM
ISES
Don Carlos Brownell, proprietor
of the Liberty theater, announces
that he will be a candidate for
Mayor of Seward at the coming
municipal election,
Mr. Brownell says:
* “I have not been coaxed to
rim, nor have I been asked to
run, by the numerous politicians.
I enter the ‘run’ because I would
like to have the job One reason
is that I want an opportunity to
show what I can do as an execu
tive; another reason is that the
time is ripe for the entry of a
person who really will be the
servant of the majority in impor
tant matters that seem to be on
the program for settlement soon.
A third reason is that I have no
antagonisms with any of the bus
iness interests, that I am not in
competition with others nor re
lying on patronage from special
quarters, and consequently I can
meet with all voters of the town
for open discussion on any ques
tion that may arise.
“I might give other reasons
but suffice it to say that if my
fellow’ townsmen elect me Mayor
at the coming election I pledge
myself to be guided wholly by
the majority’s will, as I will
earnestly strive to learn it.”
On being asked how he could
attend Council meetings on Mon
days, Mr. Brownell stated:
“If elected Mayor I wall imme
diately change the second show
ing of Sunday’s program to eith
er Tuesday or Wednesday, or
have some one arrange ’ to run
the show for me on Monday, as
I will not let personal matters
stand in the way of my attend
ance at meetings.”
Mr. Brownell further stated,
“If elected Mayor I will enter
the office unencumbered by pro
mises to anyone, and with an
open mind to fulfill by pledge
to the majority.”
SOLICITOR SMS
HI HAS SIGHT
WASHINGTON, Mar., 16, m~
Solicitor E. C. Finney of the In
terior Department told the rein
deer committee, that Secretary
Wilbur had authority to sponsor
legally the agreement for con
trolling and regulating the in
dustry, in an opinion in
which he submitted his reply to
Delegate Wickersham of Alaska,
statement that Wilbur lacked
authority to recommend regula
tion for the industry.
To prevent further disputes
the committee has drawn regu
lations .covering Alaska reindeer
herds and these will be submitted
to Wilbur.
Kendrick said this meeting was
the final one of the session.
HOOVER IN CAROLINA
WASHINGTON, Mar., 16, (/P>—
President and Mrs. Hoover left
Washingtn for Ashville, North
Carolina, where they will spend
a week end with their sick son
Herbert Loover, Jr. Lawrence
Richey and Captain Joel Boone
accompanied the president.
i EDITOR. F. SHt
j PUSSES. SEATTLE
EDITED SEWARD GATEWAY,
ANCHORAGE TIMES, VAL
DEZ, NOME PAPERS
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| SEATTLE. Mar., 16. (&)— I.
i Frank Shaw, 56. news editor on
j the staff of the Alaska Weekly,
j died Saturday morning after an
i illness of five days,
j Editor Shaw was an Alaskan
j sourdough and wandered from
j port to paper throughout Alaska,
| then to Siberia. He came back to
! Seattle eight years ago.
' In the earlier days he was ed
itor of the Valdez Miner when
j the camp was at it’s height in
1904 and 04; ran the Nome
! Nugget for Governor Strong;
thence to Siberia.
For eight months upon his re
: turn from Siberia he was editor
j of the Seward Gateway, then of
■ the Anchorage Times. He is sur
! vived by his widow. The funeral
will take place here Tuesday.
JUNEAU, Mar., 16, (Special to
; The Gateway)—Delegates from
j Nome, Fairbanks, A n c h orage,
! Seward, Valdez, Cordova, Wran
I gell and Juneau attended the
opening meeting of the Territor
ial Chamber of Commerce at
which an effort was launched to
revive that organization
This proposition was advanced
and will be laid before the sev
eral chambers in Alaska. The
meeting then adjomed to April 3
when a final dicision wil probably
be rendered.
Nome and Seward announced
their reply suggesting to proceed
with perfecting the organization
and pay the fees established two
years ago which is $10 for each
chamber organization and $1 for
each enrolled member of the
separate chambers.
ICE PICK IS FIR
OFFSHORE, SITS PILOT
FAIRBANKS, Mar., 16, (£>)—
Pilot Joe Crosson arrived late
Saturday tired from his contin
uous flight over the most for
bidding territory in Alaska.
He said north winds have
driven the ice pack to sea and
it was not visible even from the
air
Returning from Point Hope he
stopped at Wiseman overnight.
urn BUREAU or
EDUCATION AFFAIRS
IN INDIAN SERVICE
FORMAL TRANSFER OF TER
RITORIAL ACTIVITES IS
MADE
WASHINGTON, Mar., 16, (/P)—
The educational, medical and
sanitary care of the Eskimos, the |
Aleuts and the Alaska Indian,!
passes officially today to the I
supervision of the Indian Bureau
from the office of the Bureau of
Education, Secretary of the In
terior Wilbur announced.
Part of the Interior department
plans will relieve the education
office of administrative duties;
part of the staff will be trans
ferred to work with the Indian
Bureau.
‘Secretary Wilbur said:
“This step was a result of the
action of the recent Congress in
transferring the appropriations
made for the health and educa
tion of Alaskan natives from one
of these government bureaus to
the other. These apropriations
include about $800,000 for Alas
kan natives; $320,000 for health
and $100,000 for the completion
of an industrial boarding school
for natives at Shoemaker Bay,
Alaska^ a total of about $1,200,000
“This step is in accordance
with the present policy of the
Department of the Interior with
relation to the proper function
of the Indian service and’ the
office of the Bureau of Education.
The intent of the law which
created tne office of education
was that its primary purpose
was research; that its business
was to study educational prob
lems. Tire purpose of the present
change is to relieve it of func
tions chiefly administrative and
to place those functions where
, they 'more properly belong.
“From the time Alaska was
purchased from Russia hi 1867
to 1884, the United States gov
ernment virtually ignored the ed
ucational needs in the ^area leav
ing them to missionary schools.
In 1884 CongreX made its first
1 appropriation for education in
Alaska and Henry M. Teller, then
Secretary of the Interior, assign
ed the work to the Commissioner
of Education. The development of
schools that would accomodate
a scattered population in this
wide and inaccessible area, prov
ed to be an administrave task
which led the office of education
into many strange complications.
“There was, for jnstance, the
introduction of reindeer into
Alaska in 7891 and the growth
of herds largely in the owner
ship of the native until' they
have come to number hundreds
of thousands. This work was de
veloped on the theory that the
principal chasm between bar
barism and civilization may be
bridged by converting a hunter
into a herder. The result, how
ever, was that the office of edu
cation • in Washington became
the strange guardian of vast
reindeer herds in Alaska
“It was relieved of this respon
sibility two years ago by the
transfer of the reindeer admin
istration to the governor of the
Territory just as the administra
(Pleaae torn to Pfcge Three)
VACATION TIME
WASHINGTON, Mar., 16, (/P)—
President Hoover starts His va
cation trip to Porto Rico anr the
Virgin Islands, probably Wednes
day. Present plans do not in
clude a visit to Cuba or other
Latin-American ports. Secretaries
Wilbur and Hurley are accompa
nying him. The party will be ab
sent for a week or two.
TOY on MD
MARRIAGE OFFER
A LOT OF 'HOOEY j
BETTER APPEARED TO BE PHON- j
EY FROM THE
START
FAIRBANKS, ‘Mar., 16, iff}—It
is now learned that no toy balloon I
from Omaha, Nebraska, was found
here but local newspaper men
investigating learned that a friend
of Mrs. Robert Tuneberg, who was
at the dinner, played a joke on
her. He wrote the letter himsel:
and sent it to Mrs. Roy Lund here,
who remailed it last month to!
Omaha.
The letter said that one Henry |
Prentice, Fairbanks miner, found j
the ballon and sent it back with i
a marriage proposal. Prentice was j
a fictitious character.
Mrs. Tuneberg’s announcement, of !
the receipt of the letter looker,
phoney because it said that Pren-1
tioe killed a bear in February, the j
time when all good bears are asleep
PRISONER CAPTURED
KODIAK, Mar., 26, (Special to
The Gateway)—Willie Panamar- j
ioff escaped from jail Sunday j
morning by sawing a bar with a
hack butcher knife; this occured j
about 2 a.m. In less than an hour
Marshal Boyer had him back in
jail.
25,010-FOOT PBS
NEVER YET SUED
FACING CHALLENGE
DARJEELINQ, India, Mar., 16,
(£>)—Frank S. *Cmythe, famous
English mountain climber, who
failed in an attempt to climb
Mount Kanchinjanga, is prepar
ing to scale Mount Kamet, one
of the 60 Himalayan peaks which
rear their piercing crags more
than 25,000 feet above sea level.
If he succeeds Mount Kamet
will be the highest summit in
the world ever reached by man.
Mount Kamet, with Everest,
the highest peak in the worlds
and Mount Kanchinjanga, forms
the trinity of ice-encaced domes
making the “roof of the world ” j
Smythes’ party will probably
be limited to half a dozen men.
YANKEES ALMOST HITLESS
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida. Mar.
16. OP)-The Yankees 1st a hitless
exhibition game to the Boston
for 8 innings and lost their first
Braves by a score of 9 to 7. In the
9th inning Babe Ruth singled
as did Myril Hoag and these two
blows were the only ones struck
in Yankee cause all day.
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MAYORALTY CANDIDATE AN
NOUNCES “WONT BE
LONG NOW”
“I have been negotiating with
firms in Seattle, and with Capt
A. E. Lathrop, head of th$ Em
press Theater Circuit, for the
last two months, t-o the eiid of
giving Seward people first-clast*
‘Talkies,’ and at this time I am
glad to say that I believe it won’t
be long now before we will have
them* here,” stated Don Carlo*
Brownell, owner of the Liberty
theater, in an interview with The
Gateway.
“People do not realize what a
difficult matter it is to put the
‘Talkies’ in here,” Mr. Brownell
continued. “Of course it would
be simple if we were willing to
use cheap equipment and cheap
films, but to have the best qual
ity means to use the picture;
exhibited by Captain Lathrop in
his three theaters.
“To be able to have the films
here nas required a month of
careful negotiation on the part
of Captain Lathrop with the head
offices in New York; only a few
days ago did he wire me that he
at last succeeded. In any event
the “Talkies” will be here as
quickly as we can possibly bring
them. I know this will be wel -
come news to the people of Sew -
ard and I am very happy to an
nounce this.”
TREK HOME BY ALASKANS
BEGINS IN EARNEST; 61
FOR SEWARD
SEATTLE, Mar-, 16, (/P)—The
SS Alaska, of the A. S. S. Co.,
sailed at 9 a. m. today for Alas
ka with 269 passengers of which
61 are for Seward, as follows;
Sig Ivendsen, H. J. Emard,
John Anderson, J. E- Stone, B. H.
Barndollar, Sam Boudry, Frank
Angerman, Ed Hayes, P. Thibault,
C. Engebauer, E. H. Stoecker, C.
Durant, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Sheely,
and three children, Geo. Koller,
R- A. Maspeet.
J. W. Duncan, Mrs. H. Sogn, W.
E. Dunkle, J. E. Bragaunoth, Mr.
and Mrs. C. W. Issacs, R. M. Wil
liams, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Wal
ters and son; Mrs. V. Johnson and
daughter, D. Johnson, J. Johnson.
A. Lapp!, Mr. and Mrs- Jas. O'
Brien, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wil
liams, Mrs. C. Ilbertson, A. Ol
son, A Ryming, Mr. and Mrs. N.
R- Graham, Mr. and Mrs. George
Harris, Mr. and Mrs. R. Vernon,
G. A. Ball, L. Seppalla, Pat Mur
ray, T. A. Nerland, E- Nerland. G.
W. Lavlin, C E. Carlson, M. A.
Jacobs, H C. Olson, A. Frame,
M- Cumlie, W. C. Johnson, D. A.
Drew, R. Brerton and 29 stee*
age.