Governor Hurls
Charges at
Ship Owners,
■ In a live-point letter addressed j
to Seattle based carriers, the Wat- ;
erfront Employers Association, and
the Pacific American Shipowners
Association, Governor Gruening
threw full responsibility for re
sumption of service to Alaska on j
the shipowners.
In the last paragraph of the let
,ter. Governor Gruening said, “Let
4 be clearly understood that if you
remain adamant in your determina
tion not to negotiate for resump
tion of service to Alaska, the re
sponsibility will be entirely yours.”
Briefly the five points mentioned
were:
1. There is no joker in the cur
rent union offer to give full Alaska
service.
2. Contracts are already signed
and in force with longshoremen
and ship’s personnel.
3. Although they are not obliged
to negotiate with longshoremen
under the Taft-Hartley Act until
union leaders sign the non-com
munist pact, there is nothing to
prevent their doing so.
4. As long as the longshoremen
are willing to divorce Alaska from
what looks like a long and bitter
struggle, the carriers should modi
fy their strategy accordingly. Logi
cal Communist strategy would be
to weaken Alaska by a shipping
tip up at a time when relations are
strained, and when we should be
strengthening it as a buffer.
5. Since the carriers’ associations
could release the Alaskan carriers
from their pledge so far as Alaska
service is concerned, it is apparent
that the way is open for accept
ance of the offer of the Seattle
Longshoremen and for early re- j
sumption of Alaska’s shipping
service.
Shipping News . . .
Latest news about the SS Chief
Washakie from the Alaska Steam- j
ship Company is that the Washakie
is expected to arrive at Whittier,
Friday, October 22, and leave for i
Seward on Saturday, October 23. !
No late news has been received
about the ship Western Trader.
There was notice that a barge is
due about October 26. No mention
was made as to the type of cargo.
The Standard Oil tanker W. S.
Miller put in at Seward this morn
ing with a broken propeller.
LECTURE AT REGISTERED
NURSES' MEETING
A lecture, illustrated by movies,
was given last night at the month
ly meeting of the Seward Regis
tered Nurses Association. The lec
ture was delivered by Dr. Horace
Pope, of the Territorial Health De
partment, and he told of the peo-J
pie of the Aleutian Islands, |
amongst whom he traveled doing
dental work. j
Dr. Pope is doing dental work
for the patients at the Seward
Sanatorium while in this city, and
he has .become quite well known
here.
Attendance at the meeting in the j
nome of Mrs. Charles Chestnut was
particularly large. Many of the
Sanatorium nurses found it pos
sible to attend. j
The cigars will be on Ben A.
Bellamy of Homer today. A boy
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bellamy
at the Seward General Hospital
early this morning. Both mother
rnd son are doing well.
Tiny Freighter Safe
But Much Cargo Lost
ah*: iiiijr amp ouuuieusiern, a
150-ton freighter, rode jauntily into
Seward Monday, after one of the
•oughest voyages seamen have
ever lived to tell of.
By the time it reached the Port
3f Seward, the crew had all but
forgotten they had gone aground
an the coast of Vancouver Island.
Piles of eggs smashed and scram
bled about the deck, broken bags
3f potatoes and smashed crates of
produce told part of the tale on
sight.
The low tide Monday night was
just another of the impediments
the Southeastern has had to buck
sin'ce it started its tough luck voy
age from Seattle. The cargo booms
on the tiny freighter just weren't
high enough to hoist cargo to the
dock during the extreme low tide.
She had to wait for the tide to rise
again.
The tiny craft was buffeted and
beat upon by the worst storm of
the season. The ships officers, all
oldtimers in the Alaska run,
claimed it was the worst voyage
they had ever experinced.
Ed Larson, the mate, said, “A
wave would come, and you'd think
you were going straight up to
heaven on it. Then you’d start
down, and you felt you'd never
stop till you got right down into
hell.”
At 11:47 Saturay morning, at the
height of the storm, the rudder con
trols failed. Against all odds, they
managed to keep her going under
hand control while repairs were
maae. inree times me controls
failed, and three times they suc
ceeded in making necessary re
pairs.
To give an idea just how diffi
cult the repair job was. the ship’s
crew said they had no sleep nor
meals for 48 hours. They could not
get forward at all, and ten of the
some kind of shelter in the mate’s
some kond of shelter in the mate’s
cabin. The mate’s cabin would
make a phone booth look like
Grand Central Station.
The danger of being swamped
was po great that, after one call
for help the radio was secured, and
all hands bent to the task of keep
ing her afloat. It was not a ques
tion of slowly sinking, but of being
■jeat to pieces and swamped in a
moment.
to be checked as it was unloaded,
to be checks as it was unloaded,
since there was no other way of
telling just how much damage had
been done or how much deck cargo
i lost. A deck load of acetylene tanks
on the fantail was lost down to the
last tank. Tons of sacked potatoes
went over the side, and the crates
of eggs that didn’t go overboard
! still lay scrambled on the deck.
! The tiny deckhouse on the after
i deck, containing 200 cases of whis
| key. had raised completely clear of
the deck several times, but finally
decided to ride it out.
When thq stortn began, to blow
really rough other ships put in to
sheltered waters, but the tiny bath
tub-sized craft could not turn ten
degrees without immediate danger
of capsizing.
Phyllis Dangler Wins 4-H
Trip to Chicago Congress
tor tne second straight year a
.ember of the George Dangler;
family will represent Alaska at the
4-H Club Congress at Chicago. i
Phyllis Dangler. 15-year-old stu
dent at the Seward High School, j
will leave for Anchorage Novem- |
ber 22 and arrive in Chicago on ;
November 28. where she will be a :
4-H guest until December 2.
Phyllis won her award in the
Territorial clothing contest, spon
sored by the Spool and Cotton i
Company. Her entries in the con
test included many articles neces
sary to a girl's wardrobe, besides
such articles as drapes, curtains,
and furniture coverings.
Only three other 4-H’ers from the
Territory won the award this year.
Their names have not yet been an
nounced here, but the awards were
for gardening, food preparation and
poultry raising.
Miss Dangler will be accompan
ied to Chicago by Miss Marilyn
Johnson. 4-H Home Demonstration
Agent in the Territory. On arrival
in Chicago, Miss Johnson will be
gin her vacation, leaving the four
Alaska 4-H delegates in charge of
Mr. Lorin T. Oldroyd, Director of
Extension of the University of;
Alaska. j
Last year. Dick Dangler, Phyllis’
brother, won the trip to Chicago
as the award for excellence in
poultry raising. While this is the
27th Annual 4-H Congress, it is
only the second year the trip has
been offered to 4-H Club members
of the Territory.
Phvllis said she's getting a little
worried about going to such a big
town so far from home, but her
brother Dick says last year he was
so busy while he was in Chicago
that he never even had time to de
cide whether or not he even liked
Chicago. But he did have a chance
to see what a big city looked like
after two o'clock in the morning.
It was only a couple of weeks
ago that a Chicago radio station
carried,an hour’s program in which
the Seward 4-H Club was praised
to the skies. The same week an
Anchorage radio station devoted a
15-minute program to the Seward
4-H achievements.
POLICE MAKE
FOUR ARRESTS
The city police have found the
city a quiet and orderly place so
far this week, the only disturbing
events being a flurry of arrests for
drunkenness. There were four ar
rests this week for that offense.
Only one of those arrested was a
local resident.
HAL GILFILEN CALLED
TO STATES
Hal Gilfilen left this week for
the States to attend the funeral of
his father. Mr. Gilfilen’s father was
well known in Seward, having
spent an extended vacation here
'his past summer.
SEWARD REPUBLICANS
LEAD TERRITORY
With the election over and all
returns in. it was announced that
the Seward Republicans made the
best showing for their party of any
locality in the Territory. The an
nouncement came from Republican
Party Headquarters in Anchorage.
Lions Chib Will
Give Another
Scholarship
At their Friday noon meeting the
Lions Club announced that plans
were being made for an Armistice
Dance at the Service Club. A com
plete program will be announced
soon.
At the same meeting it was an
nounced that the annual $500 schol
arship has been awarded and that
another $500 will be raised by Jan
uary 1 for next year’s award.
A revolving loan fund has been
•set up by an annual donation of
$250. which the Lions Club will
administer. There are no strings
attached to the loan, no notes or
security demanded. The only re
quirements are that the student be
accepted as a student in a U.S.
college or university, and that he
or she be a graduate of Seward
High School.
The student may apply for this
loan at any lime during the year.
So far the loan has always been
repaid. It is expected that over a
period of years the $250 annual
donation will grow into a sizeable
loan fund for college students frpm
Seward.
P.-T. A. Draws
Record at Meet
With 75 people present for the
meeting and 17 new members sign
ing up. the Parent-Teachers Ass'n
of Sewj$i set a new record in at
tendance last Friday evening. Mrs.
Alice Jones, vice-president, con
ducted the meeting in the absence
of Lon Gray.
A committee was named to ar
lange a meeting with Mr. Brownell,
owner of the only theater in town.
Tl.e purpose of the committee is to
t.> to make arrangements for bet
ter seating arrangements for the
boys and girls who so faithfully
spend their money at the show
i every night. Members of the eom
! ittee are Mr. Charles Young. Mr.
Leon Lewis and Mrs. Charles
Kekoni.
. A new Seward parent asked the
reason- why children were excluded
j from the school building till ten
minutes before the school hour.
| The reasons were explained in de
! tail by one of the teachers, and
parents were requested not to send
their children to school early on
days when the weather is bad.
Few cases of physical defects
were found among the children in
the recent physical examination,
and those cases are such as may
be corrected by cooperation be
tween Mrs. Bie, Public Health
' Nurse, and the parents of the chil
| dren.
| A special vote of gratitude was
extended to the parents who gave
many days of their time to assist
the authorities in conducting the
examinations. The ladies named
were Mrs. Dangler, Mrs. Norton,
Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Gerwer, Mrs. Has
man, Mrs. Rose. Mrs. F. Davis, and
Mrs. B. Davis.
The program committee was dis
appointed by the fact that one
member of the fire department,
and a member of the police depart
ment could not be present to speak
on the subjects of projected roller
rink and junior police force.
Mr. Carlson explained city ordi
nance Number 190, which deals
; with the sales tax now in effect to
j raise money for the school.
; The minutes of the previous
' meeting were read by Secretary
Mabel Lewis. Mrs. Hnsman, tre;v
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Seward Flier
Rescues Sole
Barge Survivor
John Penrose of Seward, after re
[ peated attempts to land on the
beach in the face of a 45-mile wind*
linally succeeded in picking up the
sole survivor of the wrecked power
barge, Skarstone. The other mem
bers of the crew perished when the
lifeboat which they attempted to
launch was swamped.
Penrose and Paul Wangly had
gone to. Yakataga in Penrose’s
Stinson to hunt bear last Thursday
and had been grounded since then.
The PBY crew spotted the barge
| with the man standing beside it on
1 the beach, but could not bring the
big plane down at that point. The
Coast Guard plane then went to
Yakataga to enlist the aid of Pen
; rose.
j The one survivor, George Skarbo,
was picked up where the wooden
, barge ran aground about 22 miles
west of Cape Yakataga.
Skarbo was spotted near the
wreck by a Coast Guard PBY from
Kodiak, and matches, food and a
walkie-talkie radio were drapped.
Until the Coast Guard plane ar
' rived Skarbo had been without
: food for three days.
The barge, carrying mixed cargo
from Seattle to Anchorage, was
first reported in a sinking condition
Friday night. The owner of the
wooden vessel, F. L. Ekholm, said
ttiv trrnge .v am., •[ Bj'hTt anUSSf it
( broke up completely because it was
• built in compartments.
Penrose said his first attempt to
pick up Skarbo had been made on
Monday, and he finally succeeded
Tuesday morning. He took Skarbo
(to Yakataga in his Stinson. Skarbo
was taken in a larger plane to Cor
, dova where he transferred to a
plane headed for Seattle.
The four men who left the'
barge in the ill-fated lifeboat were
Capt. Byron P. Stone, 47, master;
Hal Imbrie. engineer; Keith Mooge,
crew member, all of Seattle, and
Jack Cunningham of Port Town
send, also a crew member.
JUDGE . AND MRS. KEHOE
VISIT SEWARD
Judge J. W. Kehoe and Mra. Ke
hoe, formerly of Seward, have been
visiting here this week. T^tey have
been traveling up the coast and
through the Islands.
Judge Kehoe is famous for his
Alaska paintings, some of which
are prized possessions of Seward
residents.
COMPENSATION PAYMZfrtfS
ARE SLOW
According to best information!
available at press time, none of the
unemployed longshoremen have re
ceived unemployment compensa
tion payments, though several have
made application.
ASKS FOR BIDS
|
1 The Fish and Wildlife Service is
asking for bids for work on two
Quonset huts. The work will in
clude concrete foundations. Bids
are open till 2 p.m., October 22.
COUNCIL MEETING
POSTPONED
The city council meeting was
postponed from Monday night till
Wednesday, October 20.
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