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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 169. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LONDON CONFAB
ENDS; RENEWAL
SHORT CREDITS
MEASURES ADOPTED TO ESTAB
LISH CONFIDENCE IN
GERMANY
LONDON, July 23. (£>)—Renewal
of $100,000,000 short term credits
maturing August 16 and measures
to establish confidence in Germany
so that long terms will be possi
ble, were approved at the seven
power conference which concluded
the work of the meeting and ad
journed with a round of speeches.
Heads of delegations expressed
appreciation of the spirit of friend
liness which pervaded but there
was no disguising the gravity of
the German’s as they left.
Bruening declined to make a
statement; Curtius was officially
hopeful, while other, delegates said
Germany is only tided over for
the immediate future.
The conference recommended
that the World Bank at Basel be
invited to establish a committee
of central banks to inquire fur
ther as to needs and study the
possibility of converting short term
credits to long. The conference
commended the guarantee recently
placed at the disposal of the Ger
man Gold Sicount Bank by lead
ers of German industry.
Stimson, Mellon, Henderson and
MacDonald are preparing to go to
Berlin.
AMATEUR ASTRONOMER
DISCOVERS NEW COMET
PASADENA, Calif., July 23. (/Pj~
An apologetic telegram from an
obscure Japanese amateur astron
omer at Brawley, Cal., to Mount
Wilson Observatory authorities re
vealed the discovery by the ama
teur of a new comet.
M. N a g a t a, the astronomer,
begged pardon for wasting the
time of Mount Wilson scientists
and asked if it was possible he
had located the comet with his
small telescope.
Dr. Seth B. Nicholson of Mount
Wilson Observatory confirmed the
discovery and said the comet had
been named after Nagata as was
customary.
CONFER WITH PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 23.
&)—Ambassador Dawes and Sen
ator Morrow conferred with Presi
dent Hoover concerning the Ger
man financial situation.
HALIBUT PRICES
SEATTLE, July 23. (A5)—Halibut
from four vessels totaling 99,000
pounds sold for 4c and 9^c.
WANTS TO BE FIRST
NEW YORK, July 23. (/P)—Mrs.
Umberto Loffredo, Buffalo and
New York photographer, bought
the plane “Liberty” which Hillig
and Hoiriss flew across the At
lantic to Denmark, and hopes to
be the first woman to fly the At
lantic alone; she is hopping off
from Harbor Grace to Rome next
month.
TO HEART OF PARK
JUNEAU, July 23. (£>)—Horace
Albright, director of the National
Parks, said he will determine
future roads in Mt. McKinley Park
and the site for a large hotel
there. He will leave the Congres
sional party at the park and go
by horseback 90 miles over moun
tainous terrain to the heart of the
park with Major Malcolm Elliott
of the Alaska Road Commission,
If GET GREAT ESTATE
WASHINGTON. D. C., July 23.
(/P)_The effort of the late Mrs.
Mary F. Henderson, Capital so
ciety leader, to prevent the Hen
derson millions from going to an
adopted granddaughter, Mrs. Beat
rice H. Wholean, may result in
the latter getting the bulk of the
fortune after all.
Under the wills of the late Sen
ator from Missouri, John B. Hen
derson, Mrs. Henderson’s husband,
and his son, John B. Henderson,
Jr., much of the property went
to Mrs. Wholean.
BETTING ON
IIK GUM
BE DEED IN FILL
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23. (/P)—
Legalization betting on horse races
under a system l$nown as the
certificate method of wagering will
be sought in California. A refer
endum on providing for this meth
od of betting will be circulated at
once and the racing proposal will
be decided by the people of Cali
fornia this fall.
If Governor Rolph carries out
his plan of calling a special ses
sion for the submission of the oil
conservation and reapportionment
referendums. The racing system is
similar to the proposal placed be
fore the people in 1926 with the
exception that this method of bet
ting is of the Pari Mutuel system.
RACING PROMOTER WILL
RBILD $310,000 TRACK
| SAN FRANCISCO, July 23. (/Re
construction of a new $300,000
race track in the San Francisco
Bay area was announced by Wil
liam P. Kyne, racing promoter.
Announcement of the building
of the new track, which will prob
ably be located in Contra Costa
county, came close upon the heels
of the statement from Attorney
General Webb that he was prepar
ing the legal title for the pro
posed racing initiative measure
soon to be circulated.
The racing initiative seeks to
legalize betting on horse racing
in California, under the system
known as the certificate method
of wagering, something similar to
the Pari Mutual plan.
HOP OFF NEXT WEEK
NEW YORK. July 23. (/P»—Col.
| Charles A. Lindbergh announced
I to the Associated Press Wednesday
night that he and his wife will
begin their flight to the Orient
next week. The exact date has
not been decided.
Why These Road Gaps?
Apropos of the present time when we are enumerat
ing the various neglected resources of this portion of
Alaska it is well to bring to light a matter of supreme !
importance, construction of roads. We are prone to;
stress problems of the Alaska Railroad and resources j
'tributary thereto, overlooking the immediate necessity
of roads; roads that can be used by the present popula
tion which has stuck with Alaska through adversity
and conservation.
Since the time President Roosevelt and his friend
iPinchot (Pinch-out) clamped down the conservation lid
on the Territory, Alaska has failed to progress as was
land is her birthright.
We need roads which can be used to get products
to local markets at time of ripening, not having to wait
a week for a train to convey same; days after the pro
duce is ready for the market and then sent in a poor
condition with the resultant loss ot the farmer who lab
ored hard.
It is true there is considerable road construction
going on but look at them, roads built sporadically in
spots with no connecting links; gaps which are left year
after year while one or the other ends of roadway are
i grown over with weeds and petitions must be sent to
lhave this cleared away before traffic for those short
•distances may be traversed. There is ample evidence
I of this.
For years Valdez had such gaps in her road system
before being finally hooked up with the Richardson
Highway; Fairbanks underwent similar conditions to
her wealth-producing creeks; Seward has had for years
•a gem of such a situation in the Seward-Lake Kenai
i Highway, then a blank for 10 or 12 miles, then another
magnificent road system in the Moose Pass, Hope and
Sunrise area. Why were not these projects hooked up
years ago?
Why this handicap on the present population? What
is to be done with the homesteaders who are being
brought to this portion of this great Northern country
'who, when their crops and cattle are ready for market,
!are unable to send them in until the weekly freight de
parts? Alaskans do not like to continually howl to
•Washington about these things but it would seem that
those responsible for road construction up here would
| at least make conditions as easy on the folk living in
I the country as they possibly could, but no, it is exactly
ithe opposite.
Over m Anchorage, right now, that substantial and
one of Alaska’s most beautiful of cities, should have its
meager road system connected with the prolific Mata
nuska farming region; with the mining regions where
hundreds of men are employed. Likewise down in the
Kenai Peninsula, the inhabitants are isolated by reason
of no connecting roads between that area and the roads
dotting regions miles elsewhere. The proposed Quartz
Crek road to Lake Kenai from Moose Pass has long been
a necessity but is still among the missing.
The Cook Inlet district to the minds of most of us
merely means a place where a few canneries come in
the spring, put in fish traps along the shore and can the
fish. Some years the pack is big and in others is poor.
We read this notation in the papers in the fall and most
| of us immediately forget that such a place exists.
This same pack means considerable to the Territory
las the tax on the canned product helps defray expenses
[of the Territorial government and also the canneries
hire a great deal of their labor locally and leave a great
deal of money in the Inlet. There is no district in the
Territory where the canneries pay out as much money to
residents as they do in the Cook Inlet district. This is
due mostly to the fact that the fishing is done by traps
or set gill nets and requires experienced fishermen. The
canneries find it very profitable to be able to secure
the same hands year after year as they have the local
knowledge so necessary to a successful fishing season.
However, contrary to popular belief, the salmon
fishing is not by any means the only possible industry
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SHARKEY. WALKER
BATTLE TO DRAW
FIFTEEN ROUNDS
BAD CUT OVER WALKER'S EYE
PROVED HANDICAP IN
CLOSING ROUNDS
BROOKLYN, N. Y., July 23. {JP)
—Jack Sharkey, with a 29-pound
weight advantage, gave way before
Walker’s superior aggressiveness
and staady body punching through
the early and middle rounds but
the big heavyweight rallied strong
ly toward the close and he yam
mered Walker solidly from the
12th to the 15th rounds.
Working methodically on a gash
he had opened over Walker’s left
eye in the fifth round, the cut
widened steadily during the closing
rounds.
The only semblance to a knock
down came in the fifth when
Walker was jolted from his feet
when he was caught off balance
and floored by a right to the chin.
He came up without taking the
count.
[ Sharkey weighed 198 V2 pounds
[and Walker 169*/2
FIGHT TO A DRAW
BROOKLYN, N. Y., July 23. (A>)
—Jack Sharkey, big Boston heavy
I weight, and Little Mickey Walker,
j former middleweight champion,
! fought 15 rounds to a draw here
jlast night before 30,000. Walker’s
left eyebrow was badly cut and
his face was covered with blood
at the close.
FUMED EVANGELIST
SURVEYS ROMANCE
LOS ANGELES, July 23.
Aimee Semple McPherson, famous
evangelist, returned to Los An
geles to perform a marriage and
survey the blasted romance in
her family.
“I have never met Mr. “What a
Man” Hudson and therefore can
not pass an opinion on the sin
cerity of his love for my mother,
Mrs. Kennedy,” she said.
The blonde religious leader will
i marry her son Rolf, to Miss Lorna
Smith in Angelus Temple.
MORE LAW SUITS THAN WIVES
LOS ANGELES, July 23. (A*)—
Guy Edward Hudson, the former
“What a Man” ideal of “Ma” Ken
nedy, now has more law suits than
j wives. There are three other
! cases pending against him now.
AUTO OWNERS NOTICE
Car owners who plan to motor
the Congressional party to Lake
Kenai and return tomorrow, are
asked to be on the dock with their
autos at 9 a.m. Friday with their
cars facing town, ready to drive
straight ahead.
HOTTEST IN YEARS
MEDFORD, Ore., July 23. (A>)—
Following a day in which the tem
perature jumped to 105 degrees,
the hottest in years, two brush
fires broke out in Jackson county.
One of the blazes was in the Ap
plegate section and burned over
300.acres of heavy brush.