Seward, the Alaska City of Opportunity
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 21. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
SEWARD FISHERIES HOLDS
GREAT PROMISE ASSISTING
TOWARD GROWTH OF CITY
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS DISBURSED IN SEW
ARD DURING PAST SEASON’S OPERATIONS
BY LOCAL CANNERY—RESURRECTION BAY
YIELDS RICHES WITH LAVISH HAND, AN
NUAL REPORT REVEALS.
At the close of what has appeared to be a very un
satisfactory business year, probably a survey of the
natural resources and of the small business concerns
adjacent to Seward, will be well received by those who
have their wordly goods invested in Seward as well as
those looking for a town of some merit is which to lo
The Seward Fisheries, In., an all-Alaska concern,
located in Seward, has just closed its. books for the
year, portions of the report being published herewith:
While the company, like most of the canneries, is
far from satisfied with the year’s work,, yet at the same
time they are convinced this is no time to bet short
on Alaska, and Resurrection Bay in particular, and to
this end offer the following figures, proving there was
no cassation in the bay but that the human element w'as
certainly bad.
YACHT MOM
PRESIDENTIAL VESSEL IIVD
SERVED FIVE PRESIDENTS
AMERICA
PHILADELPHIA, Jan., 26, (/Pi—
The presidential yacht Mayflow
er sank in 24 feet of water at its
pier in the Philadelphia Navy
Yard last night.
After fire had destroyed her.
.she listed and went to the bot
tom of the Delaware River.
She burned almost to the wat
er-line when fire, from an unde
termined cause, caused an ex
plosion at 10 o'clock tearing the
matches away and sending clouds
f smoke and flame sky high.
All of the fire fighting appar
atus of the navy yard was sent
to the scene and virtually every
sailor and marine in the yard
engaged in fighting the blaze.
Five sailors were overcome by
smoke fumes.
The Mayflower had been tied
ip and was undergoing repairs.
The yacht had served five pres
idents.
SENATE NOT YET
SATISFIED OUTCOME
BATTLE WITH HOOVER
WASHINGTON, Jan., 26, (/P)—
The Senate moved to carry to
the courts its battle with Presi
dent Hoover over three members
of the power commission by vot
ing 45 to 32 to send the nomi
nations back to its interstate
commerce committee.
Senator Walsh, Montana Dem
ocrat, leader of the fight to re
move the commissioners, imme
diately introduced a resolution
to direct District Attorney Rov
er to bring legal proceedings to
test the Presidents right to re
tain them.
| To begin with the company
| spent in Seward during the year
1930 over $25,000 which is not so
bad for a small concern and this
amount is subdivided as follows,
all figures, while not to the exact
cent, are relatively correct:
To fishermen for fish, $7,500.
Probably $2,500 would have been
spent if the Seward Fisheries had
not operated, as the San Juan
would have taken all the sock
eyes delivered and probably some
of the larger cohoes. Also, the
PauLsteiner Sea Food Market
would have taken what cohoes
they could have used but as their
force seemed busy all day and
most of the night, it was doubt
ful if they could have used many
more than was delivered. How
ever, it is not likely that either
' firm would have taken any pinks
or chums which would have left
most of the boats in the bay tied
up or forced to seek other fish
ing grounds.
The figures furnished also in
clude the purchase of other fish.
Using the figures of the Seward
Bay produced over $10,000 worth
of fish the past year and hard
ly without an exception all of
no doubt but that Resurrection
Fisheries as a basis there can be
this money was spent in Seward.
The next item to consider is
the kinds of fish caught, the
sockeye, the most valuable of the
salmon caught, can be disposed
of in three short lines:
J First, there were very few of
1 them.
Second, they were small.
J Third, if one did get caught
| in the net a seal was on either
! side to bite him.
As for the pinks and chums
only one bad thing can be said
about them and that is they sell
very poorly which is really too
jmuch in view of the fact that
among those who know their fish
they are considered to be by far
the best eating of the four kinds
that predominate in this bay.
They were of unusual quality and
size this year; even the fisher
men repeatedly remarked that
: they were the best they had
jever seen in the bay and also
i that there were plently of them.
The cohoes, last to come, were
| also large and plentiful; surely
•unusual fish, and it hurts, it is
(Pteaae turn to Pase Three)
I
ITEMITIOIL A!!!
111 ROUTE H. S.
ALASKA. ORIENT
BRITISH COLUMBIA PREMIER
ENERGETICALLY WORK
ING FOR ROUTE
VICTORIA, B. C., Jan., 26, <JP)
I—Premier Tolmie of British Col
jumbia is making efforts to have
! the proposed International air
mail route from the United
States via Winnipeg, Western
Canada and Alaska, and event
ually to Russia and the Orient,
laid out through Northern Brit
ish Columbia.
| It had been suggested that the
line cross the mouth of the Mac
I Kenzie River thence along the
| Northern fringe of the continent
j to Alaska.
i Tolmie opened negotiations
with Ottawa and Washington
government officials and the Pre
j mier is making representations
| to have the air route from Ed
i monton to British Columbia, fol
i lowing the route of the Prince
George-Hazelton road, or north
! west from Prince George to Tel
! egraph Creek, thence to Atlin
and Dawson and from Dawson
the route would be through Alas
• ka centers.
CALIFORNIA IS OVERLOOK
ING NO ADVERTISING
BETS
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan., 26. OP
—To make James Kolph, Jr., the
! first official flying governor of
' the United States, the Aeronau
; tical committee of the Junior
i Chamber of Commerce and local
: members of the aviation com
mittee of the assembly, will go
into a series of “huddles” next
week.
The Junior Chamber, accord
ing to Henry Einkhoff, Jr., chair
man, of the aeronautical com
I mittee, wants the State to buy
I the governor a plane so he may
| fly hither and thither on offi
cial business.
| It will not only be a great
{time saver, Einkhoff said, but it
will be a great ad for California
and California aviation.
BROPHY FORCED DOWN
fiy FOG IN CHINA
SHANGHAI, Jan., 26, {/P>—The
biplane of G. W. Brophy of Los
Angeles was forced down at
Chuchow, southern C h e k iang
province, by fog while flying
from Shanghai to Canton.
It was the first part of an ini
tial flight between China and
the Philippines. The plane was
not damaged and Brophy plans
to continue toward Canton im
mediately.
The SS Northwestern, accord
ing to a late report today, will
arrive in port tomorrow (Tues
day) afternoon from the south.
»
AMOS IS ILL
BINGHAMPTON, Jan, 26, UP) j
—Col. Amos W. Woodcock, na- j
t’onal prohibition director, is
seriously ill with a temperature |
of 102 degrees, Dr. Andrew
Fritts announced.
WOULD RATIO SEE
HER S0» IN JAIL
I
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CHICAGO, Jan., 26, UP)—Mrs.
Anna Cohen would rather see
her boy in jail than see
him develop his talent in a dan
gerous business which has no
future, that of a bank robber.
For that reason the mother
called in police and had her son
taken to jail a half hour after
he had robbed the West Side
bank here of $4,000.
upTili
1ST BE PUT SIP
TO THE VOTERS
CONGRESS MUST FIND OUT
WHAT PUBLIC THINKS OF
PRESENT ANNOYANCE
WASHINGTON. Jan.. 26. UP)—
An early move to consolidate Re
publicans with the drys is on the
proposal of the nation-wide po
litical referendum already advo
cated by th, Wickersham com
mission for law enforcement.
The forecast in congressional
quarters is that no expectations
are seen for a vote at this ses
sion of Congress but believes
a vote will be taken at the next
session.
Representative Fort. New Jer
sey dry, has been active since
last fall in an attempt to get
the probelm before the people.
He said: “We must find out what
the people think of prohibition;
its fundamental to any solution
of the present annoying condi
tion.”
Fort is a close friend of Pres
ident Hoover. He said resubmis
sion of the idea is not the Pres
ident’s suggestion.
19,000 CASES INFLUENZA
WASHINGTON, Jan., 26, (JP)—
An estimate of more than 19,000;
influneza cases in the United
States was made public by Public
Health officials on the basis of
reports showing 3,867 cases were
recorded for the week ending
January 17.
HIGHEST IN YEARS
QUEBEC, Jan., 26, (A5)— Re- j
ceipts of the Quebec liquor com
mission for the year ending May
30th, 1930, were shown to be the
highest in the nine years of the
commission’s existence. The fig
ures have just been made public.
FUND FOR FIRE j
TEARS OF RESEARCH
HONOLULU, Jan., 26, UP)—The
Hawaiian council of the insti
tute of Pacific relations, an
nounced the Rockefeller Foun
dation had granted $50,000 yearly
for five years to be administered
by the institute in developing
and international research pro
gram.
The donation must be matched
equally in countries where re
search projects are conducted.
Fill COUNT IN
ALASKA ELECT!
IS FINALLY IDE
FOSTER NOSED OUT ROACH
BY SLIGHT MARGIN OF
26 VOTES
JUNEAU, Jan., 26, (/P>—With
four precincts missing in the
entire Territory, James Wicker
sham had a majority of 248
votes over Grigsby in the Alaska
delegate to Washington race, ac
cording to the official returns
as canvassed by the Territorial
canvassing board.
The total vote was 11,183.
The First division cast almost
50 per cent of the total votes.
The Second division cast 818
The Third division cast 2,899.
The Fourth division cast 2,180
In the Third division Frank
Foster has a lead of 26 over L.
D. Roach. Three precincts in the
Third divsion are still unreport
ed.
W. K. Keller received 392 votes
over Anthony Karnes.
Cash Cole won over Thomas
Gaffney by a majority of 991.
W. G. Smith was reelected with
a majority of 1,058.
William Hesse had a 703 maj
ority over Joseph Ulmer.
Dll LEADER IS
RELEASED FBIII.
BIT WITS TO STAY
NEW DELHI, Jan,, 26, i/P>—The
unconditional release from prison
of Mahatma Gandhi and ohter
members of the national con
gress working committee, was
ordered by Viceroy Lord Irwin.
This action was the - aftermath
of Premier MacDonald’s promise
to the dominion government at
the recent all-India congress in
London.
As no time was set by the Brit
ish for his release the govern
ment may face an embarrassing
obligation in evicting Gandhi by
force since Gandhi said he pre
fers to remain a prisoner unless
all “fellow martyrs” are liberat
ed. These total 50,000.
GANDHI CHANGES
HIS MIND ABODI
5TIINGJN PHISDN
POONA, India, Jan., 26, OP)—
Mahatma Gandhi, India nation
alist leader, while awaiting re
lease from prison, told authori
ties he would go immediately to
Bombay. He refused to talk but
wrote the note that he intended
,to go to Bombay.
Police and troops are ready to
prevent a demonstration when
the prison gates were opened for
the “disobedience” leader. Crowds
of admirers had gathered about
the prison.
Gandhi had previously said he
would not leave the prison unitL
the government promise release
of 50,000 political prisoners.
Viceroy Irwin ordered his re
lease to allow Gandhi to partici
pate in the discussions of the
activities of the round-table con
ference in England.