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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 266. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SUMMARY RECENT 1
REINSTATEMENT OF
THREE LI. II JEN
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TION OF CASE TO SECRE
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In the Saturday edition, November j
26, of the “Labor” published in Wash
ington, D. C., a copy of which arrived
in The Gateway office today, the fol
lowing account of the Alaska Rail
road men discharged last August acd
theeir reinstatement is given. The ar
ticle follows:
The government of the United '
States, acting thru Hubert Work, |
Secretary of the Interior, has iein-;
stated three general chairmen of j
transportation brotherhoods to their >
positions on the Alaska Railroad
The decision also restores senioiity*'
rights and grants pay for all time.
lost
The men were discharged last Aug-1
ust by General Manager Noel Smith,,
without a hearing, for displaying -
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“too much union activity.”
The award is an impressve exam
ple of the power and influence of
these great labor organizations and
of their devotion to the interests of i
their members.
The department of the Interior has
control of this government railroad
in the far North, which functions 363
days of the year, sometimes when
the thermometer registers 75 degrees
below zero. The line extends from
Seward,^on Resurrection Bay, to Fair
banks in the Interior, a distance o:
470 miles.
The general chairmen involved,
were J J. C. Moore, Older of Rail
way Conductors; Charles Balhiser,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen, and J. L. Axe, Broth
erhood of Railroad Trainmen.
Alaska Negotiations Failed
The discharged men notified the
chief executive of their organizations
of the summary action of General
Manager Smith. Vice-president Mar
ion P. Reynolds of the Order of Rail
way Conductors, and Vice-president
Fred W. Lewis of the Brotherhood or
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Avere dispatched to Anchorage, Alas
ka, operating headquarters of the
road, in an effort to adjust the mat
ter.
In September a sejies of conferen
ces were held there with General Man
ager Smith, who refused to revoke
his order of dismissal, and it became
necessary to appeal the case to Sec
ret ary Work.
Mr. Work readily agreed to give
the brotherhoods’ representatives a
hearing, with the stipulation that the
general manager be present. Pro- j
ceedings were thus delayed 10 days,
awaiting Smith’s arrival in Wash- J
ington.
Facts Presented to Secretary
Vice-president Reynolds and Lewis j
had prepared an extended brief of
the case, containing all the corre
spondence and data, including re
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GOVERNOR AL SMITH BREAKS
LONG SILENCE ON PROHIBI
TION VIEWS
ALBANY, Dec. 3. (JP)—For the first
time since he had been prominently
mentioned as a democratic presiden
tial possibility Governor A1 Smith
broke his silence on the prohibition
question by declaring that while he
stands for enforcement of all laws he
sees no reason why any group of
votes should not oppose federal pro
hibition statutes.
The Governor’s declaration was
made at the annual convention din
ner of the New York State,League of
women voters in answer to a resolu
tion adopted bv the Nassau county
branch of the League condemning or
ganized opposition of the Volstead
act and urging “respect for and obe
dience of the law.”
The Governor asked what was
wrong with that and if .there was any
good reason why the opposition
should not organize.
11UT FEATURED
ON SEATTLE PROGRAM
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SEATTLE, Dec. 3. (&)—Vilma Ba
zant noted Alaskan girl violinist from
Seward, won an ovation from the
members of the City Council lunch
eon given by the Chamber of Com
merce. The talented grl is enroute
to Europe to complete her musical
education and was fhe feature of the
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1 program.
POWER NOTICE
Power will be shut off in Seward to
morrow (Sunday) from 10 a. m. to
noon.
Seward Light & Power Co.
SEWARD SMOTHERED
IN FIRST COLLEGE
GAME; GIRLS LOSE
FRANCIS LESLIE STARS FOR'
SEWARD PLAYING IN SPEC
TACULAR FORM
(Special to The Gateway)
FAIRBANKS, Dec. 3. —In a fast
hard fought game Seward lost to the
College last night by the score of 47 i
to 19. Seward took a number of
times out to figure out change of
plays. The College men were tall and
passed over Seward's heads continu
I ally.
Francis Leslie out did himself
playing a spectacular game He was
by far the high man for Seward
making 12 of the 19 points,
j Shaw was high point man for
! the College scoring 14 points and was
| the outstanding player.
! Good team-work and a fast offense
on the part of the College featured
the game. Galloway played a hard
(game and passed well 1^30 made the
! longest and prettiest shot of the
| game.
SEWARD GIRLS LOSE
j The girls score ended 9-5 in favor
of the College. This was an excep
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: tionally good game and considering
the long train trip the Seward girls
played a remarkable fine and steady
game. Wilma Harrison was ill from
the railroad trp which hardicapp° 1
the squad.
The referees were fair hut the um
pires poor.
The College checked very closely
ond didn't give Bath a shot although
he played a hard game. Andresen
i had a few shots and made two bas
I kets.
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j Loftus and Smith played hard and
* fast, and at times very rough.
It was a much better game than
1 the ;-eore would indicate.
WAS BEST GAME
The first half was 14 to 5; Seward
I made four in a row i nthe third quar.
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SOUTHERN CROSS OFF
ENDURANCE RECORD
FORCED TO RETURN
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TAIL FLUTTERING, WINDSHIELD
IN POOR SHAPE; DUMPED
OIL, RADIOD
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3. (/P)— j
| The Southern Cros-s, renamed the
“Spirit of California” returned to its i
field this afternoon because of a tail j
flutter. A radio message from the j
plane before it landed said “bad luck. |
We dumped *>ur gas ftnd will comai
in. The tail i« a flutter and is prac
tically impossible to continue. The
windshield is coming loose. We will
do it tomorrow instea1 Everything j
else is fine and the gas ami-nil is ex-(
| cell^nt.”
AFTER NEW RECORD
SAN FRANCISCO. Den. *d. (£>)
Capt. Kingsfordsmith ir.cl Lieut. Pond j
tok off in the monop!n:.e Southern |
Cross in an attempt to establish a!
new world’s endurance record
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DELIVERING PLANE TO MANA
MA CORPS; TWO ACCOM.
PANYING HIM
MIAMI, Fla., DeDc. 3. (/P)—Major E.
H. Brainard, commander of the United
Statees Marine Corps Aviation forces,
; Sergeant M. T. Shepard, pilot; Cor
poral W. M. Winchester, the mechanic,
hopped-off on a non-stop line of duty
flight to Managua, Nicaragua, to de
' liver the monoplane, a tri-motored
I Fokker, to Marine Corps officers for
| service with the American troops.
SEWARD H. S .GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM
TIMBER ON ALASKA
COAST WILL NOT BE
EXPLOITED, STATED
MILLIONS WILL BE SPENT PULP
PAPER INDUSTRY; SECRE
TARY AGRICULTURE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. (/P)—Ua
like any other heavy timbered region
in the United States the Alaskan
coast will not 'become the scene of
temporary exploitation leading to
timber depletion but it can look for
ward to the development of perma
nent forest industries in keeping witb
the capacity of the forest lands to
sustain them, the Secretary of Agri
culture declared in his annual report
Saturday.
In bis report on the pulp paper in
dustry in Alaska he declared, "the
most notable development of the
year in the national forest adminis
tration was the initiation of two pro
jects for utilization of the timber in
1 Alaska which was by far the largest
1 sales of government timber ever
made.
“There are two national forests in
the Territory, both on the coast, the
largest and more southerly is the
Tongass; here, the pulp timber areas
covered by the present sales are lo
cated. Together they embrace more
than 8,000,000 cords of pulpwood
stumpage, The Tongass has, all told,
about 120,000,000 cords of such
stumpage and its estimated growth
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or continuous yield of pulpwood is at
least 1,000,000 cords annually. This
will permit the output of all time
of not less than 1,000,000 tons of
newsprint a year or one-fourth of the
present consumption in the United
States.
The sales nowr under way contem
plate an output within five years of
120,000 tons annually. The entrance
of the pulp and paper industry into
Alaskan regions will be almost of im
measureable importance to the Ter
| ritory in capital. The investment
| will be at least $8,000,000 or $10,000,
i 000 in connection with each of the
| two projects. Part of this invest
I ment will be for development of
.water power.
j "Power sites, like the timber, is'
public property, and in consequence
cooperated development of both re
sources in the best interests of the
Territory will be possible. The fed
eral water power commission and
this department are pursuing a joinL
policy under which pulpwood areas
and water power, necessary to make
their operation feasible, are blocked
up together and made available to
the same manufacturer after adver
tisement in competitive bidding.”
OFFICIALS DUE TONIGHT
Major Malcolm Elliott and Major
Gillette are expected to return on this
evening's train from the Interior en
route to their Juneau headquarters,
Alaska Road Commission.