VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 141.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
P;L
STMT SUIT PUST
BELL UNO BUHEMI
, P. E. Harris & Company today
* started suit against United States
Commissioner of Fisheries Frank
T. Bell, and the Bureau of Fisher
ies, to enjoin them from enforcing
the order closing their fish trap
situated at East Anchor Cove, ac
cording to Attorney L. V. Rav who i
represents the company and who
leaves Seward today with Mr. Har
iris on the cannery steamer Dell
Bwood for Valdez where the action
^will be presented. |
It is alleged that the order is;
void because it does not apply toj
other traps that take fish from,
the same neighborhood but dis
criminates against this one par-1
ticular trap.
It is also claimed that the White!
ct is void because arbitrary pow
ers are exercised under it and be- I
cause Congress has attempted to j
delegate powers to the Secretary |
of Commerce, it being claimed (
that the Constitution vests all leg- j
islative powrer in Congress and that
Congress cannot delegate this pow-;
er.
DIG DUNS RED FISH
• REPORTED TiOUGHOUT
KODIAK ISLAND AREA
Red fish are running in great
^quantities throughout the Kodiak;
Island district, reports J. J Chis
holm, Anchorage business man,
who returned this morning from
the Westward a passenger on the
MS Discovere. Cant. Heinie Ber-;
ger.
Reports from all sections of the i
island. Uganik, Kodiak proper and
Uzinkie, were the same, Mr. Chis- j
holm said, big runs of reds every- ,
where. The day he wras in Seldo
via one boat came in with 14.000
* reds.
Over at Seldovia Chambers is
on the tail end of a pack of 3,000
cases of the famous Seldovia clams.
Mr. Chisholm left today for An
chorage but returns Thursday to
meet the steamer Aleutian on
board which wll be new Dodge and,
Plymouth 1933 model automobiles!
for which he is the associate deal
er. The cars will be on exhibition
here Friday.
WANT A CLEAR IDEA
LONDON, June 17, —Temporary
stabilization of the American dollar
at a foreign trading value of about
82 1-2, cents or four dollars to the
British pound sterling awaited
final word from Washington, as
the World economic conference,
after a wreek of oratory, attempted
to get a clear idea of the vital world
problems it is commissioned to
solve.
HARVARD VARSITY WON
NEW LONDON, Conn., June 17,—
Harvard University eight defeated
Yale in the mile race on Hames
river by a length and one-half.
D. E. Stubbs, McKinley Park
silver fox rancher, accompanied by
Mrs. Stubbs, passed through Sew
ard Friday enroute to Washington,
D. C.
CANNIBALISM
SHANGHAI, June 17, —Thous-j
ands are starving to death and(
cannibalism is widespread thru-j
out Shenhi province because of!
a long drouth. Former fertile |
wheat fields have had no rain
since 1928. Wolves obtain victims
nightly from among the half
starved people.
ELIIllniriE
SHORTCUT RESTOfllTION
HU, Sffi FORD
DETROIT, June 17. —The short
est cut to restoration of economic
balance, Henry Ford said, is elim
ination of the “dole system.” And
one of the “quickest ways to elim
inate the dole,” he added, “is to
get rid of the Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation.
“Recovery can come only up
thru the people, not down thru!
financial or political schemes. We
must put to work everywhere not!
the kind of work which pays aj
dole, but work with a wrage mar-}
gin.” !
“The dole does not relieve any
body and as long as it continues
to function, we cannot look for
any lasting improvement in eco
nomic conditions.
He referred to the Industrial re-j
covery act as an experiment the
value of which remains to be!
proved.
NEW PENCE HE
RECORD SET GONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 17. —
Thru legislaton enacted at thei
special session of Congress, the fed- j
eral government will save almost!
$900,000,000 annually. Chairman;
Buchanan, Democrat, of the House1
appropriations committee, declar-,
ed.
Thus the session which set a newi
peace time record for appropria
tions also set a new all time re
cord for economics, he said. A
billion dollars annually would have j
been saved except for the compro-j
mise on veterans’ slashes.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 3, New York 1.
Chicago 9, Pittsburgh 1.
Boston at Philadelphia rain.
Only games scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland at Detroit rain.
Only game scheduled.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 5, Los Angeles 3.
Oakland 4, Hollywood 0.
Sacramento 6, Missions 5.
Seattle 12, San Francisco 5.
AWARDED $10,000
SEATTLE, June 17, —A Superior
court jury awarded Mrs. Bertha
H. Hubbard of San Diego a $10,000
judgement against the Puget
Sound Bridge & Dredging Com
pany for the death of her son,
Charles, 23.
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Dr. Rex Swartz of Nome passed
through Seward yesterday enroute
to the East and the Chicago World
Fair, via Panama Canal, on a well
earned vacation.
ROOSEVELT SIGNED
WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 17. — j
Calling for National wartime re-1
sponse, President Roosevelt signed (
all the bills on his desk, ending,
with the $3,300,000,000 Public works \
industral recovery bill.
Unsheathing the most powerful J
weapon against the depression for;
immediate action the President j
hoped thru its use to achieve first,:
jobs for 3,000,000 unemployed, withj
1,000,000 of them on the payroll by
October 1.
Second: elimination of cut throat |
competition that brings starvation i
wages and commercial ruin.
Third: better distribution of la
bor with more men doing the same
amount of equal divided and bet
ter rewarded.
Fourth: living wages for all and j
the end of hunger.
Fifth: mobilization of public o-j
pinion braced by law to terminate
unsocial trade pratices on Ameri- j
can commerce.
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SOUTHBOUND LISTING
OF PASSENGERS ON
THE LINER YUKON
Southbound passengers on the
SS Yukon Friday evening included ■
the following:
To Seattle—
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Huffoid. Mrs. j
B. James, Wm. Enatti, Mrs. Pearl
Herald, Wiliam Hammer, Mrs. Os
car Anderson, Oscar Anderson, F.
Hollendy, Miss Ruth Lindgren, L.
C. Thompson J. L. Bargmouth,
Francis Foster, Mrs. Grace Ramsey,
Sergius Golley, Mae Wilder, Mrs.
H. S Young, Juanita Anderson, R.
G. Corbett, Mrs. G. W. James, Mrs.
M. Rose, Mi's. P. S. Rose, W. A.
Castleton. P. S. Rose, Mrs. W. C.
Grandjean, Dr. R. Swartz, Ruth
Standard, S. Carney, Mr. and Mrs.
D. E. Stubbs, Norman R. Tarrill,
John Erickson, Ivan Merrick, and
W. E- Brown.
To Juneau—
F. G. Forrester, Legia R. Olson, j
R. J. Harris, Arvid Holmes, Frank j
Leben, J. J. Parker, Miss Kate Le- f
land, Fred Waller, Ewan Moses,
Ralph Culman, and Miss Betty M.
Anderson.
To Wrangell—
Edna May Bidwell.
To Valdez—
W. N. Cuddy, Judge Cecil H.
Clegg, Miss Louise Parker, C. W.
Newmarker, Robert Taylor, Harvey
Asher, Mrs. R. Romig, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Helenthal, E. M. Bren
nan, L. G. Wingail, and J. John
son.
To Cordova—
Gus Gellds, Joe Elarrow, and
Hennrietta Steward.
To Sitka—
George Herington.
HERE FOR WEEK
Robert Romig, prominent young
Anchorage businessman and for
mer Seward resident, arrived Fri
day and will remain here for at
least a week on business matters.
Mrs. Romig accompanied Bob but
continued on to Valdez where she
will spend a week or two visiting
friends.
FATE IN BALANCE
NOME, June 17. —The fate of
Jimmie Mattern, missing round-1
the-world flyer, remained conceal-!
ed last night behind fog and over- j
cast skies along the Siberian-Alas-;
. ka lap of his world flight. Since j
he took the air at Khabarovsk, J
Siberia, at 11:30 a. m. Pacific Stan- '
dard time Wednesday, he has been
urfreported.
MIlLIOIifir j
FOR $111111 RANSOM
51 PAUL ADDUCTORS I
ST. PAUL, June 17. —William!
Hamm, Jr., 39, St. Paul millionaire,!
was kidnapped Thursday and is:
being held for * $100,000 ransom,
it was made known Friday.
News of the kidnapping was
withheld by officials in an effort
to contact the abductors and bring
about their arrest.
When they became convinced
such contact could not be made
it was immediately known.
A taxi driver delivered the ran-,
som note. He is said to be Verne
Sankey who was sought for the j
kidnapping of Haskell Bohn of St.1
Paul last year, and of more re-!
cent date, in connection with the
kidnapping of Charles Boettcher,
II, of Denver.
CflPT.
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BERGER HERE
FROM KCSI ISLE
Having delivered 70 tons of Evanj
Jones coal at Kodiak from Anch-,
orage, Capt. Heinie Berger,, mas-,
ter and owner, arrived in port'
this morning. Captain Berger ex- i
pects to leave for Anchorage be
tween 6 and 7 o’clock this evening.
Incoming passengers included;
J. J. Chisholm, Mr. Chamberlain, j
a sick man from Ninilchik and
another man whose name could,
not obtained. The patient is en-,
tering the Seward Gerenal Hospi-|
tal for treatment.
Mr. Chamberlain, Los Angeles
attorney, has been visiting a sister
on Woody island, near Kodiak; he
continued on to Anchorage today.*
The voyage was a perfect one,
it is reported, with beautiful J
weather throughout.
EXTENT CONTROL
MOSCOW, June 17. —The Com
munist party tightened its grip
on Soviet agriculture by decreeing
thru its Central committee the
immediate extension of control
by its “political sections” to all
collective farms.
NAVY WANTS 290 PLANES
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 17,—
A new batch of 290 fighting planes
is wanted by the Navy in the
three-year building plan proposal.
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BACK FROM THE WEST
Pilot Art Woodley returned to
Seward this morning from Bristol
Bay where yesterday he flew in a
load of fishermen. Head-winds and
fog were encountered in the West
ward area which delayed him over
night in returning to his local base;
Mr. and Mrs. Webb and son
Jimmy were outgoing passengers
on today’s train for their summer
camp at Moose Pass.
BUSINESS CIRCLES AND
FINANCIAL AAEN COAST
TURNINC TO ALASKA
‘ The eyes of the business and
financial men of the'Pacific North
west are turned on Alaska as the
most inviting field for invest
ment,’’ said W. A. Castleton, of
Seattle, who sailed south Friday
evening on the SS Yukon, enroute
from Nome.
Mr. Castleton is interested in
gold dredges at Nome and was
once one of the owners of the
Chichagof mine.
“The average business man on
the Pacific Coast has come to ask
himself: Where can T invest mon
ey with hope of securing some re
turn? Look where you may and
you find all businesses occupied
to saturation,” cont’nued Mr. Cas
tleton. “It is for that reason that
capital is now looking to gold min
ing as the safest and best invest
ment and the only new field for
activity.
“The mining men of the nation
are asking Washington the ques
tion: Can science be marshaled
to find processes and methods for
handling 20 cent gravels? Hitherto
we have been considering one to
five dollars a yard, and must have
it in some sections.
“It is surprising to witness the
general lethargy on the part of
Alaska respecting gold mining.
Every augury points to a contin
ued search for gold. The world de
mands it. Even now a movement
is afoot to inject the subject of
revaluation of gold into the Eco
nomic Conference in session in
London, with a bright prospect
that the matter will receive con
sideration. In the event of such
revaluation one can imagine what
it would mean to Alaska, which
has more gold than has been tak
en out of it.”
Mr. Castleton is not a promoter,
but an investor, and as he pointed
out in a chat with The Gateway,
his views are shared by a large
number of men along the Pacific
Coast, who are willing to invest
money in meritorious enterprises,
preferably placers capable of be
ing dredged.
GANDHI’S SON WEDS
POONA, India, June 17, —Devi
Das Gandhi, eldest son of Mahat
ma, married the daughter of Raja
Gopal Achariar, high caste Brah
min, and former president of the
Indian nationilst congress. Before
the ceremony the groom under
went purification, virtually becom
ing a Brahmin. Mahatma Gandhi
has devoted his life to elimination
of the caste system.
TWO WEEKS VACATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 17,—
President Roosevelt left on a spe
cial train last night for Groton,
Mass., where his younger sons are
attending school. He will then,
board the schooner Amber Jack
for a second cruise off New Eng
land where most of his two weeks
vacation will be spent.
GUN BATTLE
KANSAS CITY, June 17, —Five
men were killed in a gun battle
between police and a number of
armed men at the Union Station.
Two others are reported dying,
. after efforts to release Frank
Nash, fugitive from justice. The
dead included Nash.