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VOLUME XX11I. NUMBER 257. SEWARD, ALASKA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1928.
PRICE TEN GENTS
IF ELECTED HERB
TO CALL SPECIAL
HESS:
ONLY LITTLE GENERAL LEGIS
LATION IS ENACTED AT THE
SHORT SESSION
WASHINGTON, Oct., 27, (JP)—
Hoover announced that if Rep
ublicans are returned to power he
would call an extra session of Con
gress to deal with farm relief if
adequate legislation was not enact
ed at the coming session.
“The question of a special session
of Congress after March 4 in the
event the Republican party is re
turned has been under discussion
for some time. There are a num
ber of questions, particularly agri
cultural relief, which require sol
ution immediately and should not
be deylayyed o whole year.
“It is our most urgent economic
problem and I should hope that it
will be dealt with at the regular
session this fall; should this not
be accomplished I would, if elected,
not allow the matter to drift and
would of necessity call an extra
session so as to secure early con
structive action.’
UNDER THE HOOVER
plan the new Congress to be elect
ed November 6 will be summoned
to Washington, perhaps in April,
with the hope that an agricultural
measure, embodying his program
for farm relief, be enacted in time
for its operation in handling the
1929 crop. Uusually little legislation
is enacted at the short session of
Congress because of pressure in
enacting the annual supply bills.
POLICY OF NAVY BUILDING IS
TO GO SLOW, DECLARES
BALDWIN
LONDON, Oct., 27, (/P)—Baldwin
asserted Britain had no idea of
building a navy in competition
with the United States.
Speaking at a great mass meet
ing in Alberthall, celebrating the
10th anniversary of the League of
Nations, he expressed his pro
found regret at what he declared
to be only a temporary failure to
reach an agreement with the Unit
ed States on naval matters.
He said “Our policy in naval
building is to go slow. We have no
intention of competing with the
United States and we came to our
decision to go slow long before we
were asked to sign the Kellogg
Peace Pact.”
Taps Are Sounded
For Noted Soldier
CLEVELAND, Oct., 27, (/p)—Brig
adier General John R. McQuinn,
Commander of the 112th Engineers,
37th Division, during the World
War and National Commander of
the American Legion in 1925, died
at his home last night. He was 62
yyears old had been ill for over
a year.
A FATEFUL DOCUMENT
Having come in contact with the compelling
11 personality of Otto F. Ohlson, new general
manager of the Alaska Railroad, and seeing
the results of his energetic methods after less
than three months on the job, the Gateway is
strongly inclined to the opinion that his forth
coming report to the Secretary of the Interior
will be a fateful document in its bearing upon
the future of Interior Alaska and the Alaska
Railroad.
These reflections are based upon the fond
conviction that a great and significant change
is about to dawn upon the cosmic conciousness
of Alaska brought about by an awakening
among Alaskans themselves as well as a new
angle of thought directed our way by large
mining and industrial interests of the States.
In other words we believe that Alaska has
reached and passed the nadir of lethargy,
dwindling population and lack of development,
and that now the Territory is on the upgrade,
striving for articulate expression in its own
affairs; equipped with a more intelligent urn
derstanding of potentialities; ready for sound
er cooperation with the capital that will come to
reveal our riches. Likewise have we learned
not to “snicker in our sleeve’’ at the goggle
eyed tourist, as has been our superior habit,
since now we know that a free and friendly
welcome to the visitor is the best way of culti
vating a future resident among us.
We believe that Alaska is at the parting
from the old ways to the new. It is a time
fraught with great, undreamed possibilities, a
psychological period when forces may be set
afoot to bring us to a realization of the hope
so long contained within our breasts—the
building of a great and enduring Empire of
the North.
Fortunate it is, indeed, that we now have
with us a man who has already sensed these
very things 'and already stands committed to
them. And still more fortunate is it that he is
in position to swing more power for good than
any other individual in the Territory.
Therefore we opine that Mr. Ohlson’s re
port nn Alaska and the Alaska Railroad may
prove an epochal document in his expression
of the ends to be attained and the means of at
taining them. As strictly a man of action we do
not look for any long-winded rhetorical effort
but rather a vigorous statement of the require
ments of his road to get the best results for
the Territory.
We know that he has the good wishes and
moral support of all those with whom he has
come in personal contact, and it is with such
thoughts in mind that Seward wishes him God
sneed and extends the earnest admonition to
“hurry back.”
S. S. Alaska On Wiry
From Puget Sound
SEATTLE, Oct., 27, (A1)—The S
S. Alaska, of the Alaska Steamship
Co., sailed from here this morning
at 9 o’clock for Alaska with 4S
passengers on board. The Seward
list comprises Dr. H. E. Romig, S
A. Wright, John Barley, F. L. Ruath,
F. W. DeJohn, A. P. Toftakker, Mrs.
L. Wells, Miss M. Mullen, Mildred
Fisher, Dolly Fisher, Mrs. H. Teld
man, Louise Slater, Mr. and Mrs.
J. J. Ireland and baby, John Ire
land, and one steerage.
Six Killed As Auto
Plunges Over Cliff
In Headlight Glare
RICHMOND, Calif., Oct., 27, (/Pj—
Plunged over a 75 foot cliff in a
speeding automobile six person:
were Killed. The accident happen
ed while the party were driving
to a lodge meeting in Vallejo from
Berkeley, at night.
The lights of the auto coming
from another direction is believed
to have blinded the driver.
I Great Prairie Fire
Sweeps From Canada
into United States
BENGOUGH, Oct., 27, (£>)—Sas
1 katchewan has been swept dy the
most destructive prairie fire in the
history of the disti’ict. The fire
started on Wednesday and swept
across four townships nearing the
boundary. It is reported that it is
now raging toward Outlook, Mon
tana, where a much wooded coun
try faces peril. It swept across the
Bad Lands laying waste to hun
dreds of acres of ranch land.
I BUREAU RAILROADED MOTHER
i SAYS THE REPORT SPECIAL
COMMITTEE
—
j LOS ANGELES, Oct., 27, (/P;—
The removal of Chief of Police
! James Davis and se'vere condemna- 1 ]
tion of the Police Commission
for their parts in the exoneration |
of Captain Jones, charged with the
incarceration of Mrs. Christine i
Colins in the City phychopathic
' ward, was recommended to the
City Council by the Public Welfare
Committee.
The report climaxed a three
day hearing in which the commit
tee investigated the charges that
Captain Jones, head of the Police
Juvenile Bureau, had railroaded
the mother to the mental ward be
cause she refused to accept the
youthful Arthur Hutchens, of
Marion, Iowa, as her son.
The boy had posed as the miss- I
ing Walter Colins, named as a
murder victim of Northcott.
PEOPLE LABORING UNDER A
MISAPPREHENSION AS RE
GARDS NORTHLAND
TORONTO, Oct., 26, (/P)—Vilh
jalmar Stefanson told the Empire
Club that the old statement of
“Westward the course of Empire
wends its way” should be changed
to “Northward.”
Starting with the birth of civil
ization each succeeding cycle of a
thousand years has seen a North
ward trend, he said. “Just because!
the Arctic is the traditional home
of Santa Claus people imagine it
a p!ace unreal, therefore, imprac
ticable.”
He cited temperatures of 80 and 1
90 degrees in the summer and i1
large trees as proof of a livable!'
country.
| C
REDUCTION IN ORDER t
BENTONVILLE, Ark. Oct. 27. (JP) j
—A young prisoner in Benton
county jail might have succeeded j
in plans to escape but for his 44- ]
inch waistband. He became wedg- t
ed when he tried to slip thru a 7 \
by 12 inch opening. 1
MAY DIVE IDER
ICE FLOES COR
ID RHCTIC POLE
PLANS RETURNING FROM PRE
SENT EXPEDITION IN
MARCH
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oct.,
26, (/P)—Sir George Wilkins is sail
ing South on the whaler Hektoria
for his new conquest in the Polar
regions headed for Deception Is
land where he will establish his
base for exploration by air.
While these plans are upper
'most in his mind he has under
consideration the feasibility of
future exploration in the region
with a submarine.
He believes trips under the
ice fields would not necessarily
be dangerous pointing out that
during the' war submarines fre
quently navigated under ice in
Scandinavian and Finnish wat
ers.
SUCH UNDERSEA
exploration could not be under
taken for two years, he said, ■when
he hoped the British government
night come to his aid. He expects
to return from the present expe
dition in March.
FEARS HI FOR
SAFETY DHL
ImlUU
STEAMER FAILED TO BREAK
THRU ICE FIELDS TO THE
ISLAND
LAURENCE BAY, Siberia, Oct.,
26, (TP)—How to get food to five
Russians and 55 Eskimos who have
ieen cut off from the world cn
Vraneell Island since 1025, is calli
ng much worry here.
The steamer Stavropel, assigned
;o carry to the colony a three
/ear supply of food, failed to
areak through the ice and has
'eturned.
Orders have come from Premier
Rykoff that other measures will
ae necessary to reach the island
since help next spring may be to
ate. An airplane, also carrying
food, was compelled to return.
BIGGEST DEAL IN
BASEBALL TRADES
HORNSBY TO CUBS
NEW YORK, Oct., 27, (yP)—The
Sun, in a copyrighted story, says
toger Hornsby has been bought
>y the Chicago Cubs for $200,000
>lus players Heathcote . and
yfaquire. The story says Hornsby
eceived a bonus of $25,000 for
igning to play second base for
he Cubs for the next three sea
ons at a salary of $40,000.
The deal by which William Wrig
ey, Jr., obtained the right to sign
fornsby from the Braves, is hail
d as the biggest In the history of
laseball. The payment of $200,000
>reaks all records.