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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 39.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LOCAL COn OF
REINDEER KEYNOTE
MARKETING BASIS
ALASKAN REINDEER SITUATION
AIRED BEFORE WASH
INGTON COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, Feb, 23. m —
Plans for constructive organiza
tion of the reindeer industry in
Alaska on a cooperative marketing
basis were outlined to a com
mittee by Leonard Baldwin, of
New York, and one of the backers
of the Lomen Corporation.
The keynote of the plan is for
local control through responsible
representatives of the natives. The
corporation is furnishing boats
for the marketing of reindeer
products.
George Goshaw. Alaska fox
farmer critic of the Lomens said
that the Baldwin plan would be
beneficial if government super
vision is sufficient and the na
tives can gain the confidence that
their interests are being protect
ed. He said that it would be a
slow process because of the pre
vious friction. He also said that
the industry suffered from the
marketing of reindeer meat in a
poor condition.
Goshaw estimated that there
is not more than five or six hun
dred thousand reindeer in Alas
ka instead of the millions. He
estimated the Lomen herd to
number about 25,000 instead of
the 250,000.
Carl Lomen declared that Go
shaw' wras unfamiliar with the
business of northern Alaska and
denied the unfair dealing with
the natives which huf company
is accused of.
Lomen said the corporation re
ported to government supervisors
and the (records of all their
dealing were on file.
Goshaw said “Nobody has done
more harm to hurt the industry
than the Lomens. Senator Kend
rick. chairman of the committee,
declared that Baldwin’s plan was
the most constructive so far.
Goshaw7 charged that the Lomen
herders attempted to drive the
herd from the native ranges and
destroyed the native good will.
He held that the government was
responsible for the scattering and
the deterioration of the native
herds. The Baldwin plan divides
the Seward Peninsula Coast Ter
ritory into five natural districts
and all the herds of each dis
trict are to be handled as one,
the owners sharing ownership
and brands. «
The Alaska Livestock Packing
Company, of which Baldwin is the
president, would prepare the deer
market with Lomen as its sales
agent. Baldwin termed that crit
icisms of the Lomens was unwar
ranted and prejudiced.
Goshaw said Baldwin’s plan uTas
likely to benefit the natives but
doubted whether they would ac
cept it.
SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS
LONDON, Feb., 23, </P)-Stanley
Baldwin, conservative leader, in
his last series of radio addresses,
advocated protective tariff as a so
lution of England’s problems and
promised his listeners that his j
party would put into effect such a
program when returned to power.;
ACCIDENTLY KILLED
j SEATTLE, Feb., 23, (A5)—Mrs.
j Edith Huntington Spreckles Ken
Idirck, former wife of John D.
1 Spreckles Jr., wfas killed in an
j automobile accident near Seat
| tie.
NO RIOT NEWS? •
NEW DELHI, India, Feb., 23,
(TP)—Eighty British airplanes flew
over New Delphi in a pageant
which marked the conclusion of
a week’s celebration marking the
inauguration of the new eapitol
| of Imperial India.
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PLAY PASSES CENSOR
CHICAGO, Feb., 23, (^—Fol
lowing examination by Judge Jus
tin McCarthy, Earl Carrol’s play
“Sketch Book”, which was closed
by the police, won permission
to carry on its regular stage per
formances.
“UP TO DATE"
LIMA, Peru, Feb., 23, CP)—
Prince of Wales examined the
plant of the newspaper El Com
mercio, which is equipped with
American machinery. “Your plant
is quite .up to date,” he said, “but
' I hope the next press Commercio
buys will be English.”
FINAL HEARING
PHOENIX. Arizona, Feb., 23, (P>
—Final hearing in divorce suit
of Dallett Wilson, attorney, against
Mrs. Esther Wilson, big game
hunter and prominent society girl,
will be held in the courts of
Sonora, Mexico. Mr. Wilson an
nounced. Action is based upon
records showing Mrs. Wilson shot
her husband in 1923.
NOTHING BUT TARIFFS
LONDON. Feb.. 23. <P>—Con
servatives have nothing to offer
Britain but . tariffs which failed
in the United States and Ger
many, Premier Ramsay J. Mac
Donald writes in a letter to Mrs.
Leah Manning, Labor candidate
by election.
WILL MAKE SOLO TRIP
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb.
123. CP)-Lady Dorothy Mills, not
: ed English society woman, is mak
i ing a solo flight up the Orinoco
■ River in the interests of science.
FIGHT FOR LIFE
j BALTIMORE, Feb., 23, (/F)—
j Physicians of John Hopkins hos
| pital are striving to save the
j life of Joseph Cotton, under-se
i cretary of the state, following an
| attack of blood poisoning which
■ required an operation for the re
! moval of his right eye.
CHARGED INSUBORDINATION
| WARSAW, Feb., 23, (/Pi—Major
Kubala, famous Polish aviator,
I was sentenced to one year in pri
; son and exclusion from the Pol
| ish army on charges of insubor
dination.
TESTIMONY AND REPORTS
WASHINGTON, Feb., 23, (IP)—
the testimony concerning prohibi
tion taken by the Wickersham
commission, except that received
under pledge of secrecy, and all re
ports of its investigators on prohi
bition, were requested by the Sen
ate in a resolution adopted with:
out a roll call. The testimony and
reports will be used in drafting the
legislature.
NEW ECONOMIC
PEHN FOO EUD
SITS LOT TALK
DOCUMENT WORK OF EXPERTS
IN MANY LINES; KEEP PACE
WITH U. S. AND RUSSIA
LONDON, Feb., 23, </P)—The re
construction of the British econo
mic system from top to bottom is
proposed in a new five-year plan
for Great Britain which has just
made its appearance and which is
! expected to start a heated discus
| sion among all parties as its mi
i plications become more fully im
i derstood.
Fully as drastic as Russia’s ex
periment, the new proposal would
j transform the British economical
| system to enable it to keep pace
industrically with the United Stat
es and Russia.
The document proposing this
extraordinary realignment of the
British economic forces is publish
i ed as a supplement to the British
week-end Review and is supposed
to be the work of experts in manv
lines. It has the approval of J. B.
1 S. Haldane, Sir Oswell Moseiy, Pro
, lessor Harold Laskie, Sir Robert
j Donald and A. Duff Cooper.
T, I!, PARSONS OF
If. G. CO. OIFO AT
WHITEHORSE, THIS
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FAIRBANKS. Feb.. 23. (/Pi—T.
A. Parsons superintendent of
the Northern Commercial Com
pany. died of heart trouble last
Thursday at Whitehorse.
He became superintendent three
years ago, in Alaska, after serv
ing as agent for many years.
He came North with the Daw
son stampede and moved to Alas
ka when the Fairbanks strike
was made. He operated a mer
cantile business at Cleary City
for some years.
He leaves a widow, and a daugh
ter, a student at the University
of Washington, and three sons.
One resides in Seattle, one in
with the company at Nenana and
the other, at Fairbanks.
The body will be sent to Seat
tle for burial.
ST. G0D01RD WINS
SECOND UP DERBY
QUEBEC, Feb. 23. (JP) — Emil
St. Goddard, of Manitoba, won the
second lap of 40 and three fifth
miles in the Eastern Internation
al Dog Derby.
Brydges of Manitoba was se
cond and supplanded Leonard
Seppala of Nome for second place
for the total of two laps.
Seppalla was fifth in the se
cond lap and third in the total.
St. Goddard’s total time is se
ven hours, 57 minutes and 25 se
conds and leads Brydges by 26
minutes. Brydges leads Seppalla
by eight minutes.
The amount of coal proouceo
from Alaska fields in 1929 showed
a falling off from the nigh mark
established in 1928.
PAID UNUSUAL TRIBUTE
i LONDON, Feb., 23, (/P)—King
! George and Queen Mary paid
their cousin Queen Ena of Spain
unusual tribute by going to Vic
toria Station to bid her farewell
! when she left for Madrid to be
i with her husband King Alfonzo.
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CONFINED BED
WASHINGTON, Feb., 23, (/Pi
General John J. Pershing was
j confined to his bed in the Metro
; politan Club with a cold. The
! general’s office announced that
the cold was so severe as to
prevent his attending the fun
eral of Major General C. R. Ed
wards.
SUBS AS FIRE FIGHTERS
TOULON, France, Feb., 23, (/P)
—Submarines were used as fire
fighting units to eojnbat a blaze
in the torpedo factory of the Tou
! Ion arsenal. More than four half
| submerged submarines were able
'to approach the blaze closely and
| use their hose effectively.
REWARD FOR FIGHTING REDS
1 NANKING Feb., 23, UP)—As a
reward for suppressing communism
; here while the army was fight
! ing the northern rebels, the na
tionalist government has voted a
bonus to every man on the Nan
king police force. The cops kept
j the Chinese capitol free from reds
j by using plenty of muscle on ag
j itators.
RENEWAL, PERHAPS
BOGATA, Columbia, Feb., 23. (AP)
—The Braco Oil Concession, the
I cancellation of which by the Col
umbia government in 1928 caused
| an exchange of sharp notes be
tween the Foreign Offices at
: Washington and Bogata, is to be
I submitted to congress for eonsid
ertion, it was predicted in con
1 gressional circles here, with a
good chance for a renewal being
granted.
LIQUOR, VICE, GAMBLING
| CHICAGO, Feb., 23, (/P)— A1
j Capon, master racketeer, contri
| buted $26,000 to insure the election
| of Mayor William Halo Thompson
Hfour years ago on condition that
I he should control the liquor, vice
and gambling privileges in the
! city, acording to charges made by
) Frank Loesch, former prosecuting
attorney.
DISCONTINUES BUSINESS
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb., 23, {&)
Edward R. Gundelfinger, 35, head
of a large investment company
here, committed suicide in his
apartment at 1075 California St
He left no note, but shortly after
| ward the vice president of the E.
i R. Gundelfinger Co., 315 Mont
gomery St., announced that the
firm would immediately liquidate
its affairs and discontinue busi
ness.
FAVORS UNIT SYSTEM
WASHINGTON, Feb., 23, (/P)—
Opposition to compulsory mem
bership of all banks in the unified
federal system and to the large ex
tension of the branch banking
was expressed by Melvin Taylor,
president of the First National
Bank of Chicago, before the sub
committee of the Senate Banking
and Currency committee. Mr. Tay
lor favored the independent unit
system now in use in the United
States.
HOME OPTION IS
SOLUTION AGAIN
I SUGGESTED. AMOS
MABLE WILLI EB RAND DEFENDS
GRAPE CONCENTRATES
INDUSTRY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. (&) —
The Senate received a bewilder
ing mas* of documents, data and
testimony on liquor control from
the Wickersliam commission and
which represented the material
on which the commmission made
its report. The secret testimony
was not given.
Standing out in the material
was Amos Woodcock’s suggestion
made before his taking office that
“home option” was the solution of
and he said that the plan could
be made effective by “simple ad
ministrative policy.” The state
ment was made while he was a
special investigator for the com
mission.
Woodcock, further, said that
citizens oculd not claim the right
to buy and sell liquor but if they
possessed liquor in the home
which supported a family the pol
icy would require that they be
undisturbed. T h at punishment
would be meted out if they fail
ed the public duties and failed
to support their family or break
the peace.
The report contained recom
mendations from a virtual army
of federal agents on how to en
force the dry laws.
Mrs. Mabel Willibrandt defend
ed the grape concentrate business
by saying that it was legal and
said that it was the thought of
Congress to “lift the heavy hand
of the Volstead Act from inter
ference with family habits as far
as possible under the Eighteenth
Amendment.” She is counsel for
the California fruit industries, and
the makers of grape concentrates.
Some of the testimony in the
documents of labor leaders, law
yers, statesmen, Attorney General
Mitchell, Mellon and other officials
wras not given to Congress.
QUEBEC, Feb., 23, (>P)—Leon
ard Seppala of Nome won third
place and $400 in the Eastern
International dog derby.
| Emil St. Goddard, of The Pas,
| captured first place and the $1,
! 000 purse with the best elapsed
'time for the 120 miles.
His time was 12 hours, three
; minutes and 30 seconds,
j Earl Brydges, of Cranberry Por
jtage, Manitoba, was second win
! ning a purse of $700.
1 Girad of Quebec was fourth;
he won $300. “Shorty” Russick
of Flin Flon was fifth with $200.
DECLINED TO CONFIRM
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb., 23, (/P)
The State Board of Public Health
has declined to confirm Governor
Rolph’s appointment of Dr. George
C. Sabichi of Bakersfield as assist -
and state director of health, it was
announced here.