Seward, the Alaska City of Opportunity
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 17.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MILLIONS BE SPEKE
THIS YEAR IK II. S.
NETWORK ROADS
30-0,600 MEN EXPECTED TO BE
EMPLOYED ON BUILDING
OF ROADS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. (JP)—
New roads sufficient to circle the
globe will crisscross America this
l|ear at an estimated cost of
$896,048,923 of which the feder
al government will provide $293,
000,000.
Approximately 9,000 miles of the
20,000 miles of roadwork will be
paving; 300,000 men are expected
to be employed in the Pacific
Coast states.
A total of $78,311,500 are for the
upkeep and the improvement of
old roads and construction of new
roads which will employ 16,000
men on 2,349 miles of road in
cluding new and old roads.
POPULAR COUPLE LIE
WED IN THIS tin:
BOTH OF JUNEAU
A romance of three years cul
minated in Seward last even
ing with the marriage of Miss
Victoria S. Spalding and Mr. Ho
mer W. Jewell, popular Juneau
couple. Mrs. Jewell was an arri
val last evening on the SS Admir
al Farragut; Mr. Jewell recently
arrived from Anchorage.
Witnesses wTere Marie F. Har
wood and E. P. Harwood, Father
B. R. Hubbard. S. J., officiating.
Following the marriage a lun
cheon was served at. the resi
dence of Mr. and Mrs. Harwood.
For the last three years Mrs.
Jewell has been a member of the
Juneau office staff of the Alas
ka Game Commission. Mr. Jewell
has long been associated with
the Commission and is very well
known throughout the Territory
as an efficient and capable offi
cer.
During their stay in the city
;he newlyweds are guests at the
Hotel Van Gilder. They plan de
parting for Anchorage on the
next train but will return to Ju
neau in a few weeks, there to
make their home.
ALFRED MEN IS
ELECTED SENATOR EDOM
THE SECOND DIVISION
JUNEAU, Jan., 21, (JP)—Only
cane precinct is missing from the
Second division and Alfred Lom
en, Republican, is elected Sena
tor, reported the Territorial can
vassing board composed of Gov.
Geo. A. Parks and Collector of
Customs McBride.
They have completed the offi- j
eial count. The unofficial count;
from Council was Lomen 14 and
Anderson 11.
Senator Lomen is aboard the
3S Alameda southbound.
SET FREE
PARIS, Jan. 20. (£>) — The
Chamber of Deputies voted 270
to 258 in favor of setting free
from prison Andree Marty and |
Jean Duclos, Communist Depu
ties who were confined in 1928. |
KILLED 400
j KEWEITEH, China, Jan., 21,
(JP)—Bandits killed 400 persons
and kidnapped 1,000 south of
here. Ten thousand soldiers here
did not oppose them.
SIYS STEEL HEAD
FOREIGN COUNTRIES CON
DEMNED FOR FLOODING
U. S. FARM PRODUCTS
CHICAGO, Jan., 21, (iP)—James
'Farrell, president of the United
* States Steel Co., says the coun
I try is swinging back to normal.
In an address here he said the
Ipeak of the depression passed
130 days ago and the time has
| come for greater enterprises in
[trade for loosening of business.
“We are quite capable of do
ing more than was done in 1930,”
he said, and advised against
reduction in wages saying that
would reduce the purchasing
power of earners and would res
trict consumption.
He condemned those countries
seeking to flood the United
States with farm products when
this country had a surplus of
its own.
He said foreign fighting against
the tariff is useless; that such
countries should strive for a
market where there is no sur
plus.
Min IF !8TH
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. (JP) —
The validity of the eighteenth
amendment is at issue in the
supreme court at attorneys ar
gue over its merits and Federal
Judge William Clark’s ruling that
the amendment was illeglally a
dopted.
Solicitor General Thatcher pre
pared an argument for the case
which presented the question
which had previously been unde
cided.
Attorney’s upholding Judge
Clark’s decision prepared to argue
that the amendment was illegally
adopted and therefore invalid.
DOLLAR DVIDEND
NEW YORK, Jan. 20. (/P) —
Directors of the International
Mercantile Marine C o., voted
to pay one dollar dividend to 3,
500 holders of the non par stock
The dividend will total $600,000,
P. A. Franklin, president of the
company, announced.
Benjamin Messer, Juneau lad,
is making a fine record at the
Colorado school of mines, reports
the Empire. He received an honor
mark in one subject and A’s in
all others, at the end of the first
quarter.
BLAZES INSIDE CIRCLE
The first electric sign inside
the Arctic Circle is claimed for
Fort Yukon, as told to the News
Miner by Dr. Grafton Burke, a
recent visitor in Fairbanks. It is
on the three story building of
Michael de Alichael who runs a
cold storage plant. It reads, “Ice
Cream—Salmon”
Frank Becker, who has been on
the reportorial staff of The Gate
way at various times during the
past three years, died this morn
ing at about 8:15 from acute
heart trouble.
He had been in the Gateway
office but a few minutes before
his sudden passing and appar
jantly was in his usual good
health for he had not complain
ed of being unwell; in fact he
had never been heard to say that
he was afflicted with heart trou
ble.
A marked talent for journalism
coupled with a n exceedingly
likable disposition, created for
him a wide circle of friends. He
can be ranked as an Oldtimer of
Alaska for it was more than 20
years ago when he first arrived
in Alaska—from the States, lo
cating in the Iditarod district.
He followed newspaper work and
mining there for a couple of
years, then back to the States
where he worked on many of the
leading papers until the “Call of
the North” became too strong.
Three years ago he returned and
since then had spent his time
between Seward, Kodiak and
Sitkalidak Island. While in the
Westward region he was a cor
respondent for The * Gateway and
field representative of the Asso
ciated Press.
Frank’s alma mater was the
University o f Virginia from
which he was a graduate of
law. He seldom spoke of his per
sonal affairs but it is known he
practiced lawr in th East for a
number of years, later, changing
his vocation to the of reporter.
He had also studio:, at two oth
er colleges but for what degrees,
or length of time, i not known.
He was a versatile writer and
had a real affeetio. for Alaska;
he had intended o eventually
entering the trad in: business and
is thought to have been in cor
respondence with persons in the
Interior.
To his many friends, Frank’s
sudden passing, is a distinct
shock and especially so to the
writer who was the last to con
verse with him. Frank was about
45 years of age.
Local authorities are endeavor
ing to get in touch with relatives.
DEATH IS A DOOR
(By Nancy Byrd Turner)
Death is only an old door
Set in a garden wall.
On gentle hinges it gives, at dusk,
When the thrushes call.
Along the lintel fire green leaves,
Beyond, the light lies still.
Very willing and weary feet
Go over that sill.
There is nothing to trouble any
heart,
Nothing to hurt at all.
Death is only a quiet door
In an old wall.
ENDS SENTENCE
PLATTSBURG, New York, Jan.
20. (iP)—John “Bum” Rodgers, no
torious New York criminal serv
ing a life sentence at Danne
mora Prison, committed suicide
by hanging himself while in soli
tary confinement.
REQUESTED TO DEPART
LONDON, Jan. 20. (JP) —
A Home official refused to deny
or confirm a report that Tallulah
Bankhead, American actress, had
been virtually requested to de
part for the United States.
HAS INFLUENZA
J BERLIN, Jan. 20. (/P;-~Chan
'cellor Bruning is confined to his
b d with influenza contracted dur
ing his recent tour of east Ger
many.
TILE OF BALLOTS
I TO BE RETOLD
M COMMITTEE
RESOLUTION WOULD AUTHOR
IZE IMPOUNDING OF
BALLOTS
I
| WASHINGTON, Jan., 21, {IP)—
The inquiring eyes of Nye’s
campaign fund committee turned
to the balloting of the 1928 pres
idential election.
| Authority for broadcasting the
inquiry was given on motion of
Senator Glass of Virginia and
making it possible to study the
further activities of Bishop Jas.
Cannon.
The Bihop successfully chal
lenged the committee for auth
ority to go into his anti-Smith
activities.
Nye, at present, is concen
trating on the Alabama senator
ial election in which Heflin
charged the election was stolen.
A resolution is before the Sen
ate authorizing impounding of
the ballots.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. CP) —
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., faces
investigations by the Nye com
mittee for his anti-Smith acti
vities in Virginia and. other
Southern States in 1928, and also
by a group of elders of the Meth
odist Episcopal church in the
South
Nye attempted to question the
Bishop before on his activities
but the Bishop successfully de
fied the probe.
The elders will meet here in
an attempt to determine whether
he cannot be held for trial before
a general conference. The charg
es of the church have not been
named but it is understood to
; include political, stock market
land other activities.
LOCI, WESTBOUND
HGIIT PASSENGERS
i
I Incoming arrivals last night on
[the SS Admiral Farragutt includ
ed E. L. Winterberger from Cor
jdova, R. A. Landers from Juneau,
|Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, J. S.,
Santa Clara, Calif; H. W. Mar
tin, Seattle; Mrs. M. Benson,
Tom King, Mrs. E. Gullufson,
from Latouche. The Farragut
returns from the Westward next
Monday sailing south Tuesday
evening following the arrival of
the passenger train from, the In
terior.
Westbound passengers included
Miss Anna Lundstandt for Sel
dovia; Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wag
ner for Kodiak; Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Miller for Ouzinkie; -Mrs. R. H.
Bradford for Kodiak; Carl Almy
for Kodiak, H. Sundely for Sel
dovia; Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Wei
singer and children for Kodiak.
WICKERSHAM COMMITTEE RE
PORT SEEMS BE CROSS
WORD PUZZL1E
WASHINGTON, Jan., 21, (JP)—
The dispute over the Wickersham
report centered on two points;
that of how far the commission
can go toward recommending a
revision of the law and what
will be the effect on President
i Hoover.
Commission members w ere
; aroused over the reports that
' Hoover had intervened to fore
i stall unequivocal modification
' proposal.
Wickersham said “The state
ment in the aWshington Herald
ithat the President had. pursuad
Jed the commission to abandon
a tentative recommendation in
| favor of revision, is absolutely
untrue and without foundation.”
None of the commissioners
are willing to discuss the months
I of investigation or debate, or
1 how their decision was reached
in the combined report in the
(suggested draft of a new amend
iment which was preceded by an
. “if” and the statement that
their opinion was divided, yet six
i of the 11 declared in appended
statements that they favored
either revision or repeal, and two
| alluded to revision as if they un
derstood in full the commission
! was for it.
Until all members speak of
the report it will be internret
| wet and dry or “straddling”
; the question.
There is less dispute over the
position of Hoover for he said
it was definitely agreed that the
amendment should not be re
pealed and he didn’t want it un
derstood that he favored revi
sion.
Some wets said they consider
ed the President’s stand as an
amazing view for revision lean
ing which some declared they
! saw in the report, itself.
GLUGIEfl PfilEST
ARRIVES 1 SEWARD
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Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, S. J.,
! on a year’s leave of absence from
the University of Santa Clara,
California, arrived last night on
the Admiral Farragut.
From Seward he is beginning the
main stretch of his trek into
|the Interior where he is to take
motion pictures of the work of
the pioneer Jesuit missionaries on
the Yukon.
Father Hubbard has just com
pleted a lecture tour in the larg
er Eastern cities where capacity
audiences saw his unique and in
spiring motion pictures and heard
the Glacier Priest unfold the
wondrous beauties of Alaska. Hun
dreds of tourists are lured an
nually to Alaska from hearing
Father Hubbard’s lectures.
STILL WORKING
After operating continuously
for nearly nine months and es
tablishing a record, the Gilmore
Dredge of the Fairbanks Explor
ation Company quit last week,
says the News-Miner, but the
Cleary upper dredge is still turn
ing over.