Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 216.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Co-operative Fishing
and Packing Planned
lor Bristol Bay
BRISTOL BAY RESIDENT FISHERMEN COMBINE
AND WILL PACK THEIR OWN FISH ON A CO
OPERATIVE BASIS IN THE FUTURE, AN
NOUNCES A. H. BRADFORD WHO, WITH F. H.
BAILEY, HEAD THE NEW VENTURE—PLAN
MEETS WITH ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORT OF
NUSHAGAK RESIDENT FISHERMEN.
The “Associated Fishermen of Alaska” is the name
of the new operating company conceived and promoted
by Western Alaska eannerymen of many years of ex
perience in business, and is incoporated under the laws
of the Territory of Alaska. Mr. Bradford states many
Alaskans are already stockholders in the newly formed
organization.
Mr. Bradford was formerly vice president of the
Shumagin Packing Company and Mr. Bailey is presi
dent of the Alaska Fishermen’s Co-operative Packing
Company.
WILL CONSTRUCT PLANT
Mr. Bradford stated upon his
arrival here last week on the SS
-“an' from Bristol Fay that the
new company will start contsruc
tion of a plant ashore next year
and that they would operate the
floating cannery. Santa Flavia,
in the interests of the newT com
pany until the shore plant was
c mpleted.
He further stated that enough
local fishermen had subscribed
for the stock in the new company
to insure an ample supply of sal
mon for the contemplated plant
without depending upon Outside
fishermen.
He believes the plan will meet
with the approval of the Bureau
o: Fisheries since no additional
aear will be brought into Bristol
Bay next year. The new company
will can only local resident sal
mon catches.
NOT A NEW IDEA
Co-operative canning has proven
?. great success on Puget Sound,
he said, and is not a new idea but
is abreast with the times. The
Everett Packing Company pack
ed over 300,000 cases last year on
a co-operative basis and declared
a 50 per cent dividend as well as
increasing the capital stock the
following year to let in more fish
ermen.
Only gill netting is permitted
in Bristol Bay, it was pointed out,
which results in open fishing on
an equal competive basis. There
are no traps or purse seines.
Mr. Bradford stated the plan
is bound to develop favorably
for fishermen and for the up
building of the local community.
DEPARTMENTS SOLICITED
He said that he believed Pres
ident Hoover had, in the past,
signified his approval of a plan
to develop the fisheries of Alas
ka along the plan now’ being fol
lowed on the coast of Norway.
The Departments of Commerce
and Interior will be personally
solicited this fall for their co
operation in furthering the new
venture which is destined, he
added, to place at least a portion
of the wealth of the Bristol Bay
fisheries into the hands of the
local resident, white and native,
where it rightfully belongs.
LONG AFFILIATED ALASKA
Mr. Bradford has been a resi
dent of the Territory since 1909.
He acted in the capacity of U.
S. Depirv Surveyor until 1916
at which time he resigned to en
ter the canned salmon business.
He started a plant at Squaw
Harbor, Unga Island, under the
name of the Shumagin Packing
Company in 1917. in conjunction
with the Pacific American Fish
eries.
He disposed of his interests to
i the recently formed Pacific Amer
; ican Fisheries Inc., and resigned
! to enter business on an indepen
j dent basis. He then formed the
’ Alaska Fishermen Co-operative
i Company, in 1929, with his asso
ciate, F. H. Bailey. He is Secre
i tary and Treasurer of this com
: pany and President of the recent
‘ lv incorporated Associated Fish
| ermen of Alaska.
18 YEARS IN ALASKA
Mr. Bailey has had 18 years of
experience in the salmon fisher
ies of Alaska. He is President of
the Alaska Fishermen’s Co-opera
tive Packing Co., and Secretary
of the Associated Fishermen of
Alaska.
For many years he was super
intendent for the Pacific Amer
ican Fisheries and the Alaska Pa
cific Salmon Company. At present
he is in charge of operations of
the floating cannery Santa Fla
via owped by the Alaska Fisher
! men’s Co-operative Packing Co.,
! and is associated with Mr. Brad
ford in fishing enterprises in
Alaska.
FREIGHT TIN M
sum mi si? die
S. ANTHONY. Aug.. 25. CP)—
Six were killed and three injur
ed seriously when a freight train
struck an auto which was cross
jing a grade.
The dead are A. Williams, C*ne
I driver; Irene Hedinger, Mrs. John
| Beiker, Leola and Bernice Bieker,
| her grandchildren, and Theorore
[Hedinger. The injured were Mrs.
William Bedinger, John Bieker
' and Marie, another grandchild.
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LEGUIA, IS UGH
Lima, Aug. 25, (/P)-A. Leguia, one
of the ‘strong men’ of So. Amer
ica whose career as President of
Peru began with popular rejoic-;
ing following a coup-de-tat in j
1919, ended 19 years of power to- j
day when he fled toward Panama !
aboard the cruiser Grau.
| Leguia is 67 and resigned as the !
consequence of a revolt begun in |
the department of Arequipa last
week under the directorship of
Lieut. Col. Cerro. The Peruvian
government is now under the
control of the military Junta
headed by General Fernando Sar
miendo, premier.
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DALLAS, Aug., 25, OP)—'The fate
| of “Ma’’ Ferguson’s attempted
j comeback, is in the balance.
The former woman governor is
opposed by Ross Sterling, Hous
1 ton publisher and capitalist who
; was nominated for governor at the
Democratic primary run-off.
James Ferguson, ousted gover
nor, is conducting his wife’s cam
paign with the promise of “Two
governors for the price of one.”
He also promised that all impris
oned violators of the prohibition
1 act would be liberated, if Mrs.
Ferguson won.
STERLING DEFEATS
DALLAS. Tex., Aug., 25, (,/P)—
Ross S. Sterling, Houston publish
i er, running for governor on the
Democratic ticket, defeated Mrs.
Miriam Q. Ferguson by a plural
ity of 100.000 votes the biggest
vote in the history of Texas.
| The nomination is almost the
equivalent to election.
! The tabulation gave Sterling
1464.700 to “Ma’s” 371,654.
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HARTMAN HONORED
! JUNEAU, Aug., 25, (/P)— Colonel
; J. D. L. Hartman of Seattle, re
tired August 19, 1929 after several
years in charge of the Alaska
cable system, received word that
he had been raised to the rank
of Brigadier General, retired.
BROMLEY MAY ME
OFF Oil WEDNESDAY
} TOKYO, Aug., 25, (£>)—. Altho
! his plane functioned flawlessly
| during a 40 minute test flight,
| Bromley announced postponement
I of his take-off until dawn, Wed
' nesday.
The schedule called for hopping
j tomorrow morning but discourag
I ing weather reports cancelled the
plan.
j
RAIN IN INTERIOR
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 25, (IP)—Rain
.prevented sight-seeing trips the
I second day of the Senators party,
;who arrived Friday night from
| Seward. Plans are being made for
■ public hearings immediately- The
(committee will visit Mt. McKinley |
on the way south.
lllTOjOIDlS
U. S. S. DESTOYERS
WASMUTH AND PERRY
(By Sinbad the Sailor)
We learn with dismay that our
name must appear over our col
umn. We have always wanted a
by-line but are apprehensive of
this one as some of our ship
mates might a fence, gate and all,
and smack our ears down. How
ever, there it rest.
It appears that bears abide in
bountiful quantities and large
sizes among these hills. Ye scribe
and an able brother-in-arms,
Joe Berek, of the Wasmuth, had
planned all the details of having
our pictures taken holding firmly j
to the tail of a real live bear
somewhere in the wilderness. But
since making plans we have been
told a bear story and have de
ceided that such publicity would
not be doing justice to the inno
cent bear. It seems that there was
a brown bear as large as a truck
and truck-horse who chased a
hunter up a tree, bit off the tree
j at its base, and threw tree and
! hunter off a high muntain. The
t narrator, a lady who manhandles
doughnuts in a certain local eat
shop, will prove her story with an
exhibit of teeth marks on the
tree's stump. ‘Truthful’ Burns
and Patty Gwin, we’re told, claim
the hunter bit off the tree and
threw it in the bear’s face, there
by making good his escape. But
i they know nothing of Alaskan
I bears.
I Matson, the pulchrit unions ship’s
writer of the Wasmuth. a,ccom
Ipanied by Ward, the comely
storekeeper and Wones, a semi
; fresh bridegroom, enjoyed an
| hilarious Saturday afternoon
j whooping and howling among the
I deep wooded ravines of the neigh
borhood. While Duval and Mer
edith held a cracker-eating con
| test, won by Duval who whistled
i after the first two, and Savoi
mooned about the ship bemoaning
I this absence from his one month’s
bride.
We learn to our surprise that
you folks raise gardens, cows and
corn here. We were under the im
pression that all you did was
chase around with dog sledges,
wear fur-lined clothing and eat
Esquimau pies, trap, hunt and
rescue beautiful maidens who got
lost near Cincinnati. Ohio and
wandered up this way.
While coming aboard ship yes
terday, Captain Ansell—that ven
erable pilot you’ve heard about—
nearly fell on the wet deck and
broke his contract.
Ye ‘Ed's’ “Until Death Do Us
Part” and their charming daught
ers, Ernestine and Lois, were en
tertained Sunday afternoon by
Captain E. H. Quinlan, Lieutenant
Cobb and the other wardroom
tale-spinners of the Perry. These
ladies have the distinction of be
ing the first feminine guests to
grace the Perry’s wardroom * for
more than 11 years.
This Smoker idea WE started
(gentle pats on our back) is
getting hot. The destroyers have
appointed a committee the City
has appointed one (Fred Kielches
ki is a member) and all hands
are going to cooperate. The local
boxing champ, Ennis NickerofT, is
matched with one of the Navy’s
best and its going to be SOME
scrap. There will be prizes for
the sluggers and grapplers. We
would like to win some of those
prizes but the only thing we’re
good at is pie eating, and no one
will pay for that. In order to be
fair to you folks we take this op
portunity to warn you that one
of the contestants on Wednesday
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SEWARD PONIES
GALLOP AVER NOT
HOTLY CONTESTED GAME WAS
FOUGHT EVERY INCH AND
TO THE LAST SECOND
Last night, the Seward High
School five put the U. S S. WAS
MUTH’S fighting basketball team
in the rumble seat and took them
for a ride at the Dreamland Aud
itorum- It was not am easy task,
and was perhaps more good for
tune than superior playing on the
part of either team. Neither of the
teams were in the best of condition,
but, in spite of that, they put up
a fight for their lives and the game
was one of frenzical action thru
out. Dave Turner, who refereed the
game, was very efficient and able
arbitrate!*. “Iron Horse” Manthey
led his bucking Ponies in a way to
court the envy of a professional.
Drake, the captain of the Wasmuth
five, maneuvered his team on the
floor with the heroism and confi
dence of a conqueror.
The first quarter started well for
the Navy with “Dutch” Koriner
making a basket. The ball went
towards Seward’s goal, they tried
and missed. Shellhorn got the ball
and “Dutch” dived for him. For the
remainder of the game those two
made it a personal affair- After the
scramble the ball came back to
Seward. Ed Sandbeck passed it to
“Iran Horse,” who passed it to Ray
Manthey and he whizzed it thru
the hoop. The Navy made a mistake
and “Iron Horse” got a free throw
and made good. The same thing
happened again when the ball went
into play and Ray got the free
throw and made it. Then Ray
guarded from the rear and “Dutch”
got a free one and made it good.
Dcln Shellhorn started the quar
ter with a good break but was
thrown off balance by McDonald
and missed. The Navy brought the
ball back to center where Johnson
; strong-armed it through for the
basket. Ray got the ball, dived in,
under and around the Navy and
put the old wind bag through the
basket just as the Navy’s left guard
reched him. Johnson agan got the
ball aind tried to strong-arm one
from center- He missed and Dutch
Korner passed it back to him and
he made it- Time was called for
Sew7ard, and during this period Cap
tan Ansell, star promoter for the
Navy, was caught talking out of
turn and “Iron Horse” got a free
throw on a technical foul which he
sank for one point. Don Shellhom
put one thru the circular netting
just after a foul was called. Ray
got the free throw and made it.
Otto Sandbeck got one through
‘with a strong arm from away out,
“Iron Horse” evaded both teams
and laid the ball gently through
the hoop from right forward posi
tion. After a terrific struggle Ray
hung up another basket for Se
ward. The Wasmuth team began
to weaken before the ceaselss On
slaught of the Ponies and things
looked bad for the Navy.
THIRD QUARTER
The Navy was out for revenge,
got the ball from Seward by dog
ged persistence of “Dutch”, sur
rounded, sprang, tried, and miss
jed. Seward got the ball, “Dutch”
caught ther pass, tried and made
' it. Ed Sandbeck got the ball from
center, passed it to Otto- Dunn in
tercepted a pass from Otto, pas
sed it to Drake, “Iron Horse” in
tercepted Drake’s pass and tacked
i another basket onto Seward’s score.
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