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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 86.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
RON. WM. SUIZER STRONG SUPPORTER OF
ALASKA MID COLONEL J. G. STEESE AT THE
HEARINGS OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE
APPEARS BEFORE APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE
WITH FORCEFUL PLEA TO COLONEL STEESE’S
RECOMMENDATIONS BE CARRIED OUT IN MAT
TER OF ROADS AND TRAILS IN ALASKA
ISIS MEMBERS TO STIND BEHIND THE PROSPECTORS
PAYS MARKED TRIBUTE TO HEAD OF ALASKA
ROAD COMMISSION AS A BUILDER—IS BEST
PRACTICAL ROAD BUILDER THIS GENERATION
HAS EVER PRODUCED—SULZER.
The statement of the Hon. William Sulzer, former
Governor of New York, before the recent Hearings of
the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate,
on Alaska's most vital necessity— roads and trails—is
given only in part below owing to lack of space in which
to publish the full statement. However, the extracts are
sufficient for residents of the Territory to appreciate the
knowledge the Territory and Colonel James G. Steese,
head of the Alaska Road Commission, have a strong and
staunch supporter in Washington who states his convic
tions fearlessly and faultlessly.
“In behalf of all that Colonel Steese
and others have said, I am here to
substantiate all that they have said
and more besides. The best road
builder the people ever had in Alaska
is Col. Steese. He needs no commen
dation from me or you or anyone else.
What he did in France speaks in thun
derous tones of his ability as a con
structor. He is a builder and builders
are scarce.
“He deserves the support of every
member of Congress and he deserves
the commendation of every taxpayer in
(the United States. He has done a
great work in Alaska, and if his con
structive policy had been backed up
by Congress it would have been far
better than it is today.
“We are here before the Senate ask
ing that Colonel Steese be given enuf
money to carry out in an economical
way his constructive road-building pro
gram in Alaska, and that will go fur
ther to solve the problems of Alaska
than any other single thing Congress
can do. You cannot get people to go
into that great country and spend their
. time and their mone when it costs
them practically their lives to get in
and it is very difficult to get out, and
if they find anything, what good is it
to them? Nobody will invest any
thing in any mines in that great north
country, no matter how good the mines
are, because they are inaccessible.
“All we ask is that Congress use a
little common sense regarding this
vast territory, one-fifth as large as the
entire United States. When the school
children see it on the map way up in
the corner, they have an idea that Al
* aska is about as big as the State of
Connecticut. It has more wealth in
it than all the rest of the United
States put together.
“Colonel Steese, who is a practical
road builder, the best this country has
produced in this generation, at a great
sacrifice to himself, goes up to Alaska
and works as hard as he can, day in
and day out. I have been over his
trails and over his roads, and I am
here to speak advisedly and to com
mend what he has done, and I do not
throw bouquets.
“He comes here and tells Congress
the truth. He lays out a constructive
program, and everybody says, ‘That is
fine. That is good. That will accom
plish results. We will go through with
it.’
“After he begins, Congress for some
reason that is beyond my ken, the
Budget Commission begins to curtail
^ and to interfere, and to stop the car
rying out of this program. Last year
Congress gave Colonel Steese about
$1,000,000. This year, to carry out his
program, and go on with his construc
tive work he asked for 11,750,000. Gen
eral Lord cut that down to $600,000,
an absurdity; $600,000 will not main-'
tain the roads now that are built, and
if that is all that Congress is going to
do, it is better to abandon it and do
-nothing, and save that $600,000. It is
Penny-wise and pound-foolish. The
members of Congress saw the injustice
^"^^JJpJJuoM^^OtRWOOO 4 UN3ERW00D. N. V.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankliurst, after a
long retirement has again entered Bri
tish politics following her successful
campaign of “Votes for Women” of
years ago. It is practically certain
that if Mrs. Pankhurst stands for the
House of Commons that the Labor
Party will oppose her with a woman
candidate.
of what General Lord had done, and
increased the appropriation $151,000.
“Colonel Steese has made a very
elaborate and a very sensible state
ment here today, and* he says he can
not get along and do what is neces
sary for less than $1,000,000. My
judgment is that you ought to give him
$1,500,000 this year and $1,000,000 for
the next fiscal year. The roads in Al
aska today are about as useful as a
painted ship upon a painted ocean. The
roads in Alaska must be finished.
“What good would be served the
Pennsylvania Avenue or any other
road if it began nowhere and ended
nowhere? A road to be any good must
begin somewhere and end somewhere.
That is what Col. Steese wants to do.
He wants to finish these roads. These
roads in Alaska are not only good for
the tourists and the automobile peo
ple but they are good to produce the
wealth that makes this country the
rich, great, prosperous and glorious
country it is. Where would it be, I
ask you, if it were not the mines? The
wealth in mines of Alaska is beyond
wealth in Alaskan mines is beyond the
dreams of avarice. All that is neces
sary to do is to stand behind the min
ers and the prospectors up there and
the people here who back them up
by putting their money into it. Give
them a chance to get their supplies in
and get their products out.
“Gentlemen, I sincerely hope that
you will sustain the Alaska Road Com*
MOOSE TALLOW USED
ENGINE LIMIT
IIU FAIRBANKS PLANE
AVIATOR BENNETT FAILS TO
HALT ON FLIGHT WHEN OIL
SUPPLY RUNS SHORT
PILOT MAKING FINE RECORD
Flies from Knight’s Roadhouse to Ne*
nana with tallow in Engine.
FAIRBANKS, April 17. (JP)—E. A.
Bennett, pilot for the Fairbanks air
plane Corporation, returning from Mc
Grath was forced down at Knights
roadhouse, which is midway beteen
Lake Minchumina and Nenana, when
the plane’s lubricant supply became
exhausted. With the engine running to
kep it hot, Bennett melted moose tal
low, obtained from a roadhouse keep
er, put it in the engine and continued
on to Nenana without any difficulty,
arriving at dusk. He then drained off
the tallow and refilled with refined oil.
FAIRBANKS, April 17. (JF)—Major
Lanphier wisely made a test flight
of the monoplane Detroiter. Captain
Wilkins and Lt. Eileson are expected
to arrive today from Barrow in the
Alaskan. Both machines will hop off
for Barrow next Wednesday. The De
troiter has been chosen to fly on into
the unknown out of Barrow. Both
planes will then return to Fairbanks
before the Detroiter makes its grand
final jump.
PROFESSOR OF IE
TAKES DRYS TO TASK
ABANDONING POLICY
PROHIBITION NEVER UNDER
STOOD BUT OBEYED BECAUSE
IT WAS MADE A LAW
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17. (£>)
—Profesors Irving Fisher of Yale took
the drys to task before the Senate
committee for abandoning its educa
tional policy for “the mere law in ob
servance of the program on prohibi
tion made its greatest strides when
the evils of alcohol was stressed. It
lost ground when that emphasis was
lost to the public which was not al
ready converted to prohibition, and
which never understood the solid rea
sons for it. When it was preached to
by judges and clergymen to obey the
law it is because it is a law. We
have acquired the impression and no
other reason for obeying the law as
it exists*”
SEATTLE ATTORNEY TO MAKE
SPECIAL TRIP ENGLAND TO
LOCATE THOS. GOURLEY
SEATTLE, April 17. (#>)—Attorney
J. Will Jones leaves for England short
ly in quest of Thomas Gourley, broth
who died here May’ 31, 1923, leaving
er to Sam Gourley, Alaskan sourdough
Thomas his estate of $25,000. Thom
as was last heard of in Liverpool 40
years ago. Sam joined the Eagles in
Ketchikan more than 30 years ago.
Prank Down, secretary of the Eagles
here is administrator of Sam’s money
and said the securities were left in a
bank here.
CHANGING TOW VESSELS
CORDOVA, April 17. (4>)—The S.S.'
Oity of Spokane arrived to take the
S.S. Wheatland Montana in tow reliev
ing the S.S. West Niger. The Monta
la’s position is 938 miles west of Cape
Flattery.
mission, and its able and efficient
chairman, Col. Steese, and give him all
ae asks for. You couldn’t do a bet
;er or greater or more patriotic work
for the people of the United States.”
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17. (JP)
—Treasuury surplus will reach $270,
000,000 by the end of the year. Debt
reductions amount to 750 millions.
GENEVA, April 17. (£>)—'The body
of Mine. Jurjewskja, opei|a singer,
was found frozen in the Alpine stream
under Devil’s Bridge near Andrematt.
—o—o— .
CALCUTTA, April 17. (>P)—Troops
with armored cars and riot guns are
patrolling the streets here trying to
control the fighting between the Mos
lems and the Hindus. Casualties num
ber 300.
OAKLAND, Calif., April 17. (JP)—
J. Maxwell Taft, wealthy Oakland so
ciety man and department store mag
note who played the role of Lotha
rio in “Love Nest" episode with Paula
Kern, pretty nurse was indicted here
by the Federal Grand Jury yesterday
for violation of the famous Mann Act.
He was later released after putting
up $5,000 bond.
SAN FFRANCISCO, April 17. (JP)—
A four-year hunt for a check-passing
woman ended here today when Mrs.
Hazel Ensign was arrested and con
fessed to passing more ijhan 1000
worthless checks amounting to $120,
000.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., April 17.
(JP)—The low moan of the electric
transformer as it built up death cur
rent sang high requim for two beard
less youths today who died in the elec
tric chair for the murder of Profes
sor W. C. Wright, aged school-master.
Both boys went to their death calmly,
but denying to the end that they were
guilty of the murder.
NEW YORK, April 17. (JP)—Joyce
Hawley, the girl who is alleged to have
taken a nude bath in wine on the
stage of Mr. Carroll’s party for the
Countess of Cathcart some time ago,
was declared to have lost her memory
of events at the grand jury quiz.
ALBANY, N. Y., April 17. {JP)—New
York women backed a bill to curb
beauty specialists claiming plastic sur
geons and others have ruined looks of
countless women.
PEKING, April 17. (JP)—U. S. flag
ship Huron and seven other U. S. ships
are part of the naval squadron of 19
ships lying off Tientsin as Chinese
warfare spreads.
NEW YORK,( April 17. (^—Solo
mon Noveck, aged 65, shirt manufac
turer, was fined $2000 and. sent to pri
son for 4 years after pleading guilty
to falsifying his corporation income
tax return.
SALINAS, April 17. (JP)—'The jury
trying Paul Brokaw, Princeton gradu
ate, and Simon Bube, confessed mach
ine gun operator, for murder in con
nection with rum battle at Moss Land
ing last year in which one deputy sher
iff was killed and two wounded, was
discharged yesterday after being un
able to reach a verdict. Ballots stood
6 to 6, thruout. Only feminine mem
bers of the jury voted for acquittal
thruout.
—o—o—
SAN LEANDRO, Cal., April 17. (JP)
—After 91 years under California
skies during which she saw the Span
ish go, the Mexicans reign and lan
guish, the American settlement, the
gold rush and finally the development
of a great commonweath, Mrs. Mary
Persalta Toler, oldest descendent of a
famous Spanish family, died here yes
terday.
NEW YORK, April 17. (JP)—Georg
9S Carpentier, veteran French fighter,
signed a contract to meet Sailor Ed
iie Huffman of Seattle, May 21st.
NEW YORK, April 17. (JP)—U. S.
attorneys charged that a notorious
Mew York gambler financed the ram
ring operated by Louis Itzkovitch, ar
rested here as he arrived from Paris.
DETROIT, April 17. (JP)—Heleh
Rich, sister of Arthur Rich, wealthy
routh sentenced to life imprisonment
for an attack on a co-ed during a paf
:y, said she would kill herself if she
lad to find inspiration in the type of
tvomanhood exemplified by her broth
jr’s acuser.
JAMES STILLMAN’S DAUGHTER
RETURNS FROM EUROPE
Mrs| Henry P. Davidson, of New
York City, the former Anne Still
man, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas.
Stillman of New York. Mrs. Davidson
was responsible for the marital rec
onciliation of her father and mother.
BASEBALL
National League.
Chicago, 1; Cincinnati, 2.
Boston, 6, Phila, 5.
Brooklyn, 2, New York, 3.
Pittsburgh, 2, St. Louis, 3.
American League
New York, 3, Boston, 2.
Phila., 3; Washington 4.
Cleveland, 3; Detroit, 5.
St. Louis, 1; Chicago, 5.
Pacific Coast League.
Portland, 10; Seattle, 11.
’Frisco, 3; Missions, 2.
Los Angeles, 8; Hollywood, 3.
Sacramento, 2; Oakland, 3.
YUKON SAILS WITH
RECORD LISTING OF
THE SPUING SEASON
SEATTLE, April 17. (JP)—'The S.S.
Yukon sailed from this port this morn
ing with a banner list of 340 passen
gers for Alaska. Those booked for
Seward are:
L. A. Dunphing, Peter Bolin, Dan
Welden, M. A. Beck, J. J. Brennan, C.
J. McPherson, S. Asp, and wife, Ida
Craig, Mrs. W. H. Lehman, Mrs. J. A.
Wheeler, Mrs. Ray O. Scott, Jessie An
derson, Dr. D. C. Hardy, H. Killey,
Mfs. B. A. Grier, P. A. Dunkee and
Wife, C. C. Harris, B. A. Andrews, Dan
Dumont, Gust F. Furness, James Hag
gan, J. S. Bailey, E. H. Walker, Geo.
A. Spangler, E. Seiverson, I. M. Fisher,
John Fletcher, E. S. Hemen, L. S.
Robe, T. E. Lowell and wife, O. G.
Herning and wife, Mrs. H. Stoezberg,
C. E. Zetterland, A1 Davis, Mrs. W.
H. McFarland and daughter, B. Mari
no, B. N. J. McFarland, Jas Sherlock,
John Nystrom, Ely Ako, S. Godfrey,
W. C. Hines, Nels Olson, Clyde Breh
ner, Mrs. T. Buzby and son, Mrs. J.
Durand, Mrs. A. S. Jones, Mrs. Thomas
Haines and child, Patricia McKelevey,
H. O’Brien, G. Oberg and 26 steerage.
HDElGlDEIS
RUNNING LOOSE IN
U. S.-CHICAGO JUDGE
ANGER OF AN ENRAGED PUBLIC
AWAKENING ANNOUNCES
JUDGE KAVANAGH
NEW YORK, April 17. (^—Superior
Judge Marcus Kavanagh of Chicago
said 118,000 murders are loose in the
United States and predicted “the ten
deijpess and technicality which so long
has shielded and enoouraged the crim
inal is about to meet its awakening
in the anger of an enraged public."
Reaji the ads every day.
I
I
ONTARIO’S CONDITIONS GOVERN
MENT CONTROL UNDERMIN
ING SOCIAL STRUCTURE
LARGE CANADIAN DOPE TRAFFIC
Former Attorney General Testifies
for Drys Before Senate Quiz
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17. (JP)
—William E. Raney, former attorney
general of Ontario who was called"to
testify by the drys told the Senate
Prohibition committee of Ontario’s ex
periment with the legalized sale of
non-intoxicating beer, which had not
been successful. “Beer drinkers said
four per cent beer, allowed under the
law d'id not have enough kick,” he
said. Bootlegigng continues in both
the wet and dry provinces, and said
that Webb, mayor of Winnipeg, told
him under the conditions of govern
ment control, there “was an under
ming of the whole social structure.”
Raney said “ Quebec Province has
the largest Canadian dope traffic next
to British Columbia.”
FLIGHT COMMANDER
' SPANISH PLANE FOUND
FORTY IWILES, DESERT
ESTEVEZ AND MECHANICIAN LO
CATED TWENTY-FIVE MILES
APART ON DESERT
TRACKING SKILL OF NATIVES
Captain Loriga Galfarzo Arrives and
Postpones Calcutta Flight.
CAIRO, Egypt, April 17. (£>)—'The
uncanny skill, especially of trained
natives in tracking man or beast in the
desert was called into play in a re
newed effort to find Flight Comman
der Estevez. The so-named prize track
er of the British detective force call
ed the Sherlock Holmes of Egypt, has
started out to trail the missing avia
tors. *!*;
CAIRO, April 17. (^—British Flying
Officer Coghill found Estevez, the
Spain to Manila flight commander in
the desert 40 miles from where he had
abandoned the plane last Sunday. His
mechanician was found 25 miles far
ther away. They were reported “as
being in fairly good condition.”
AGRA, April 15. (JP)—Captain Ror
iga Gallarzo, who arrived here yester
day from Karachi said the Spanish
flight has been postponed indefinite
ly. They were on their way to Cal
cutta from where they met their mis
hap.
MADRID, April 17. (JP)—A telegram
from the Spanish consul at Jerusalem
indicated two British officials lost
their lives searching for Capt. Estevez
and his mechanician.
SEAL CAM YEAR
ESTIMATED LARGEST
TWELVE CEMENT IGLOOS TO BE
BUILT FOR NATIVES ON
PRIBILOF ISLANDS
SEATTLE, April 17. (£>)—The Bu
reau of Fisheries estimated the value
of seals which will be caught this
summer in the Pribilof rookeries at
600,000, an increase of more than 21,
000 skins. The harvest is increased
ten per cent each year making the
1926 catch the largest in its history
with the one exception or before scien
tific propagation methods were em
ployed. It is estimated the Prilllof
seals now number 723,000.
It is announced supplies will be ship
ped to the islands on the U. S. S. Vegg,
in July, and will include good lum
ber and cement the latter used in
building swelve cement igloos for na
tives.