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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 55. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
allotments appropriated
FROM THE UNEMPLOY
MENT FUND
WASHINGTON, Mar., 13, (IP)—
\n allotment of more than $52,
300,000 for rivers and harbors
work was announced by the War
riepartment.
Included among the items is j
$19,400 for Nome; $36,000 for'
Wrangell Narrows; . Ketchikan
Harbor $70,0G0; Port Alexander
$3,500; Harbor of refuge at Sew- j
ard $40,000; surveys in the Ju
neau district, $12,500.
All of the allotments for Alas
ka come from the $22,500,000 un
employment fund.
JOCK MURPHY WINS
EOICIRT DOS DERBY
OPENING OF CLASSICS
FAIRBANKS, Alar. 13. (&)—Jack
Murphy, driving Bill Corey's eight
Siberian Huskies, romped to victory
in the H. Wendell Enclicoit derby,
the opening race of the Spring dog
racing classics.
He traveled the 16 miles in one
hour. 14 minutes and 57 seconds.
The Corey entry was a darkhorsc.
Judge Clegg’s Siberian A4ala
mutes came in second. The Judge
watched from the hospud whore
he is confined with uu uefnza
Wright's bird dogs, driven by
Herbert Lawrence, who were fav*
writes came in third.
United States Attorney Hurley’s
11 Siberians were put out cf the
running when one dog slipped a
shoulder bond and had to be car
ried most of the distance on the
sled.
The heaviest wind of the winter
spoiled the time of all teams.
The Signal Corps trophy races
are to be held Saturday and Sun- j
day.
The races for women will be held
on March 22nd.
TENDER WILL BE
LAUNCHED SATURDAY
8EATTLE, Mar., 1$, </P)—The
$35,000 cannery tender Roedda,
being built here for James and
Lisle Davis of Juneau, will be
launched Saturday afternoon.
The vessel is 76 feet long and
will have a 170 horsepower Die
sel engine.
Grace Davis, 20 year-old daugh- |
ter of James Davis, will christen
the vessel.
HOCKEY SCORES
PORTLAND, Mar. 13. (/P) — Seat
tle 3, Portland 1. This game put
Seattle in first place and eliminat
ed Portland from championship
playoffs.
JUDGEMENT AWARDED
SEATTLE, Mar. 13. (JP) —Judge
ment for $2,500 for injuries receiv
ed when struck by a car driven by
J. H. Murie, of McCarthy, Alaska,
was awarded to Herold Turner, a
Seattle schoolboy.
EVERY PRECAUTION
BEING TAKEN TO
HALT DIPHTHERIA
HEALTH COMMISSIONER WIRES
THAT PRESENT FLIGHT
BE LAST
FAIRBANKS, Mar. 13. (/P) --
Five hundred thousand additional
units of anti toxin are enroute to
Point Barrow with Pilots J. Crosson
and S. E. Robbins, in two planes,
who are taking a moving pic
ture expedition to Point Hope.
If gas is available there one
plane, Crosson’s, will continue to
Point Barrow direct, and if there
Is no gas he will return to Kot
zebue and refuel and fly to Point
Barrow.
Half of the supply of anti toxin
comes from Nome and is a replace
ment for the serum lent Nome when
the diphtheria was there in 1926.
Robbins brought the serum here
! a Jfew days ago so that there would
! be no delay.
Doctor J. A. Sutherland, local
' Territorial health officer, is acting
| as intermediary between Doctor
Griest, at Barrow, and Doctor De
Vighne, health coniissioner in
! Juneau, and feels every precau
! tion should be taken to prevent a
j further spread.
DeVighne wired here that the
! present flight would be the last
j possible. He did not state wliethei
, Griest would have a sufficient
| amount of serum or that the strain
on the treasury would be too great.
; Local feeling is that the seriousness
of the situation demands a disre
; gard of the cost.
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POINT BARROW, Mar. 13. (/P)—
j Two boys herding reindeer and 4U
| miles inland are seriously ill with
: diphteria.
Effort was made to bring them
,ln and Place them under ouaran
tine. It is believed that the epi
demic was brought here through
the Wainright and Barrow herders.
Conditions compare with the
measles epidemic here 35 years ago
when 40 per cent of the village
died but then there were no hos
pitals, radios, or planes.
Two more severe cases developed
here. The anti toxin is almost ex
hausted and the weather is un
favorable.
LENDY’S HOME A PARK
ST. PAUL, Minn. Mar. 13. (JP)—
Governor Floyd Olson signed a bill
making the boyhood home on the
Lindbergh farm near Little Fails,
a state park.
INVENTS RIFLE GRENADE
NAMUR, Belgium, Mar-, 13, (/P)
—A new gun grenade, which can
be affixed to an ordinary Belgium
Mauser rifle, has been invented
by a local citizen. It has a range
of 400 yards.
AIRPLANE OFFICIAL
PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL AIR
WAYS RECEIVE TWO
NEW PLANES
Probably the most distinguish
ed group of Alaskan aviators ever
to have assembled in Seward at
one time, concentrated here
yesterday and today, coming;
from the North and South with j
three planes.
The group totaled seven, as
follows: Edward Lowe, Jr., and
Mrs. Lowe; Joe Barrows, Alonzo
Cope, Alex Holden, Harry Blunt,
W. H Barnhill. Accompanying;
Pilot Blunt were Mrs. Blunt and
daughter Maxine.
All are important parts of
the rapidly expanding Internat
ional Airways of Alaska, Inc.
And about only one is missing, |
which would make it full deck,
a hand difficult to beat. Mr.
Lowe is head of the big organi- j
zation and is assisted by Oper
ations Manager Joe Barrows
with whom Sewardites have be
come well acquainted dur
ing and since hi4 recent sojourn;
convalescent at the Seward Gen
eral Hospital
Wit h the exception of Pilots
Blunt and Holden, the others
flopped down Thursday afternoon
in one of the company’s cabin
planes, arriving from Anchorage
via Skiiak Lake, Resurrection j
River and the nearby glaciers, j
The party is here to supervise
the unloading of the two, Pair- j
child seven-passenger airplanes
which arrived from the States
on the SS Yukon, and which are j
being added to the Pacific Inter -
: national Airways fleet.
| Tomorrow, Mr. Barrows stated, j
! it is possible one of the planes!
will be flown to Valdez and Cor- j
i dova, equipped with pontoons,
! and upon returning to Seward,
the pontoons will be replaced
with skiis. The second plane,
which also has pontoons, will
also be changed over here to
skiis after which they will be
flown to the Anchorage base.
The aviators will be in the city
for the next two or three days.
When Joe Barrows left Seward
a week ago last Saturday, he
flew from Anchorage to Fair
banks- Leaving the Interior met
ropolis Tuesday night, in the
Fleetster, and with Cope and Joe
Morrison riding as passengers,
made Anchorage, about 300 miles
away, in the remarkably fast
time of one hour and 57 min
uates. Barrow flew the party
here yesterday. All are register
ed at the Van Gilder Hotel.
A perfect landing was made
on the new local field but Mr.
Lowe substantiated the state
ment made last week by Mr. Bar
rows that the field should be
lengthened as a safety factor.
A memorial of Lief Ericson, Vik
ing discoverer of North America, is
planned for Grant Park, Chicago.
HELD INCOMMUNICADO
SEATTLE, Mar., 13, (A*)—Burt
McDonald, charged with the mur
der of G- P. Marshall, near Ket
chikan, is held here incommuni
cado. He will be taken North on
the SS Alaska leaving Seattle on
Monday.
BOOTLEG TRADE
IN COSTLY GEMS
INFESTS AFRICA
JOHANNESBURG, South Afri
ca, Mar., 13, (iP)—Bootlegging in
diamonds has sprung up in
South Africa.
Illicit diamond-digging is per
haps as highly-organized as rum
running in America.
In Namaqualand, where the
South African government has
established a monopoly over dia
mond production, professional
diggers, operating in the secret
of night, delve for diamonds
along the seashore from Port
Nolloth to the mouth of the
Orange River.
Under ^protection of scouts and
sentries, who give warning of
government inspectors, the dia
mond diggers move in semi-mili
tary formation, and run to bullet
proof shelters at the first sign of
danger.
The diggers move from one
point to another over the long
beach, and in the darkness it
is almost impossible for the gov
ernment agents to spot them
NEW ORLEANS, Mar., 13, {/?)— i
New Orleans has started work j
on a $62,000,000 program of port j
improvements in preparation for i
the return of the good old days
of heavy traffic on the Mississip- j
pi.
The city foresees the dawn of
a new prosperity in announce
ment that the last link of a thru
channel from Chicago to New Or
leans will be completed by the
summer of 1933.
It is predicted completion of
the link will result in movement
of 200,000,000 tons yearly.
New Orleans is preparing for
it by spending $5,000,000 for 10
new public wharves; $26,500,000
for new rail terminals and brid
ges; $15,000,000 for steamships;
$11,500,000 for waterways and
barge line improvements; and
$4,000,000 on other miscellaneous
port facilities.
AID JOBLESS
MADRID, Mar., 13, (/P)—The
Spanish government has author
ized an appropriation of $1,065,
500 for a highway construction
and repair program to alleviate
unemployment in agricultural re
gions resulting from poor crops
and drought.
BALLYHOO STARTS
TO CLEAR THE PATH
NEXT CONGRESS
INDUSTRIAL, FINANCIAL AND
POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
IS BROKEN DOWN
WASHINGTON, Mar., 13, UP)—
The Progressives tackled the un
employment and industrial stab
ilization in an attempt to clear
the path to follow in the next
Congress.
With committees already nam
ed to carry the studies through
the next session in which the
independents have the balance of
power, Norris directed attention to
a definite program covering tar
iff, power, farms and unemploy
ment.
LaFollette opened the discus -
sion with the charge that the
“industrial, financial and politi
cal leadership has been broken
down” He offered no remedy
but called on the conference to
draft a program. He said it was
not enough to criticize.
FUR FIIHG CHUMS
ATTENTION SOW IT
ALASKA LEGISLATURE
JUNEAU, Mar. 13. (Special to the
Gateway)—Fur fanning came to
the fore in the legislature when bills
were introduced by Bragaw and
McCutcheon provided for the creat
ing of a fur commission and me
experimental farms. The bill car
ried an appropriation of $50,000
for the first farm on undetermined
site on the Alaska Railroad and
the appointment by Governor Parks
of a five man commission—one
member of each division and the
fifth member an expert veterinary
who would be executive officer of
the board,
Bragaw said there are 556 fur
farms in the Territory with a cap
ital investment of $7,000,000 and
they are entitled to the considera
tion and encouragement sought.
UNEMPLOYED UNITE
IN SENRSH FOR JOBS
BUENOS AIRES, Mar., 13, (/P)
—Several hundred Jobless Argen
tines have started collective job
hunting.
They have formed a society
known as La Cuarta, which aims
to work along constructive lines
generally in finding work for its
members. La Cuarta asks em
ployers to fill vacancies from
among its members. In return it
invites the public to patronize
co-operating employers.
The only membership require
ments are a record of good citi
zenship and temporary unem
ployment.
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