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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 14.
SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY, January 18, 1930.
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"GOES Til BAT" FOR HIS EMPLOVEES
(Special to The Gateway)
ANCHORAGE, Jan., 18, —With more than 100
of its total enrollment of 400 members present at the
regular meeting of the Federation of Federal Em- j
ployees, held Monday evening, Jan., 13, at American
Legion Hall, it was revealed that Local No. 344 is now
a smooth-working, vigorous young branch of the great
parent organization. ____;
The membership enroll-,,
ment, scattered from Sew-1 j
ard on the south to Fair- *
banks on the north, is the
result of less than 15 months!
labor on the part of the Presi
dent, Ralph Priddy, Secretary R. i
H. Nichols, and other energetic
workers.
As Local No. 344 ripens with age
its functioning along the lines in- {
tended for it becomes smoother j
and evidence accumulates to show j.
how perfect co-ordination has iron- j
ed out many wrinkles that hitherto r
effected Federal workers in Central £
Alaska. t
The meeting Monday evening j
was presided over by President
Priddy. His enthusiasm became j
became contagious thruout the ]
rank and file resulting in a meeting j
gauging up to the best standards ,
set by older organizations. j
Among the important matters on <
the program of the evening was a i
report of Col. O. F. OhiS-dii, maiia- <
ger of The Alaska Railroad, made to
the sub-committee of the commit- i
tee on Territories at Washington.
In addition to a general outline :
of activities for the coming year, '
Col. Ohlson's report mowed that
he had “gone to bat ’ for his big
family of co-workers in securing
compensation for losses sustained
by train* crews when a caboose
burned, along with their personal
belongings. This action, along with
others where the chief of the rail
road had asked and secured a
square deal for employees, evoked
great enthusiasm among the mem- ;
bers and served to stimulate the
resolve to assist Colonel Ohlson in
achieving the aims set in bringing
the railr.a 1 ‘o a na ? t ids
Further evidences of the vigor
and perfection under which Local j
No. 344 is working was shown in the |
report of various committees.
There were matters of adjusting j
hours of certain employees—of
waitresses whose cases needed ad
justing, of discriminations against
angle girls. These matters were j
taken up and steps directed to their
amicable adjustment.
In discussing these matters cf
* adjustment, President Priddy an
nounced that there was nothing se
cret in the deliberations of Local
or in the methods employed to ad
just differences between the man
agement of the railroad and those
effected.
“The slogan must be”, said Pres
ident Priddy, “be sure you are
right, and then go ahead”.
Among other cases to come before
the local was one involving respon
sibility for*a fatal accident in the
machine shop. The committee re
ported that the engineer in charge
of the traveling crane was exoner
ated of all blame for the accident
and reinstated in his position with
out loss of time or prestige.
(Continued on Page Eight)
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ONE. SENATOR
PITTMAN. BURNS;
IS
WASHINGTON. Jan.. 18, UP)—A
ire destroyed the home of Senator
>ittman, of Nevada. It was one of
he show-places of suburban Wash
tigton. The Senator and Mrs. Pitt
nan escaped uninjured and were
ble to remove considerable furnt
ure and personal effects from the
each of flames.
The Pittman home was on an ex
ensive estate near the Maryland
ine. with beautiful grounds over
ooking the Potomac. The home
vas a two and one-half story build
ng. The upper apartments were
completely wrecked and the apart -
nents blow stairs were badly ruin
ed by water.
The loss is estimated from $50,000
.0 $75,000. Firemen encountered
handicaps in fighting the blaze by
mow falling which changed to rain,
rhe fire hydrants were considera
3le distance away from the house.
The blaze was blamed to a defec
:ive flue.
SMOOT SERVES NOTICE
WASHINGTON. Jan., 18. (TP)—
Chairman Smoot of the senate
finance commtitee served notice
in the senate that he proposes
an amendment to the tariff bill
calling for an increase in duty
on Cuban sugar from 1.76 to 2c
HO TWICE FLIERS
SEEN 3Y CHI
CIRCLED REGION
FLIGHT MADE AS RESULT RE
PORT PLANE WAS HEARD;
NOTHING DISCOVERED
NOME, Jan., 18, (/P)—AM efforts
to confirm the reported finding of
Col. Eielson and Borland near the
Anguema river, have failed. Cros
son radioed to Loman from Nanuk
that he flew over the district yes
terday, described in Mocow dis
patches, and reported finding no
trace of the men.
The flight from Nanuk is the
seventh effort made to obtain trace
of the lost fliers by air. He also
flew over Deer Camp near Ekasura,
the district previously covered by
plane and dogteams.
Young circuled the entire saw
tooth mountain range inland from
Teller, while flying on two round
trips to Nome.
The flight was made as the result
of a report received that a plane
was heard over Igloo Pilgram
Springs about midnight on Novem
ber 9tli but nothing was discovered.
I DaMN
I HELD CAUSE CP
DEATH AT L A.
LOS ANGELES, Jan., 18. </P>—
With psittacosis, the dread parrol
fever, held responsible for on<
death, four serious and two minoi
illnesse, Los Angeles county healtl
officers turned their attentions tc
scientific research into treatment
causes, and symptoms of the dis
ease.
A 60-day embargo from importa
tion from South America of anima
and bird life was put into effect ir
San Diego.
B. O. Johnson died from the fevei
and his wife and son are ill.
FINAL PREPARATIONS
NOME, Jan., 18, (IP)—Both of the
Fairchild planes expect to take-off
for Teller this morning where final j
preparations for loading with gas J
and supplies will be made for the
dash to Siberia.
GEOBGfGRiGSBY
DEMO. FILES FCB
DELEGATE ICE
| IS THE FIRST DEMOCRAT TO
CAST HIS “KELLY” INTO
ALASKA PRIMARY
I JUNEAU, Jan., 18, (/P)—Georgei
B. Grigsby, one of Alaska’s lead
ing attorney’s, filed his demo
| cratic candidacy, subject to the;
April primary, for delegate to
congress from Alaska.
His declaration is the first of
j any Territorial office by a demo
crat. Grigsby was the democra
tic nominee for delegate at the
last election and gave the pre
i sent delegate the closest race
since the incumbent has held
I the office.
Grigsby was Attorney General
j of Alaska in 1916 and served un
| til 1919 when Delegate Charles
I A. Sulzer died. Grigsby was cho
| en at the special election as Sul
| zer and serrved until near the
I end of the final session of that
I congress when, by a close vote,
| the national house of reprersen
j tafives, decided the contest of
| 1918 election in favor of James
1 Wickersham against Sulzer.
j Grigsby was the democratic
nominee for delegate in 1920 but
! was defeated by the incumbent.
SAILS FROM QUARTERS
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WELLINGTON. N. Z., Jan.. 17, (IP)
> The city of New York, the supply
. ship of Rear Admiral Richard E.
• Byrd’s antarctic expedition, has
sailed from its winter quarters in
New Zealand, heading for the Bay
[ of Whales. Her departure has been
l delayed on account of adverse con
ditions of the ice along the course
■ which the vessel has to follow' on
her southward trip.
X-RAY CATCHES HUMAN STOMACH EMOTING
Dr. T. Wingate Todd of Western Reserve Univer
sity (right) ^as taken x-ray photographs showing how
the stomach is effected by emotion. At lower left is
the stomach of a person who is frightened, in the cen
ter is a comfortable stomach, and ot lower right is one
that is nervous.
EXPRESS HAPPINESS OF HIS
MAJESTY’S RECOVERY
LONG ILLNESS
IiONDON, Jan., 18, (/P)—'The
American delegation to the five
power naval conference arrived
from Plymouth yesterday af
ternoon.
The American party, which
included Ambassador Dawes who
had gone to Plymouth to greet
the delegation aboard the S. S.
George Washington, welcomed
them. At the station they were
welcomed by a group of promi
nent officials including the First
Lord of the Admirality Sir Rob
ert Vandsittart, Foreign Secre
tary Henderson, A. V. Alexander,
and numerous others. Premier
MacDonald was represented by
the Hon. Malcolm Albert Hal
stead.
Secretary of State Stimson,
chairman and spokesman for the
U. S. delegates, told the journa
lists at Plymouth; “We are com
ing with full and high hopes
and earnest endeavor to try and
make the conference a success.
We delegates feel that we can
share in the feeling of all of our
; countrymen in saying we are
: most happy his majesty, the King,
has recovered sufficiently from
his illness that he will be able
to honor us by coming to the
opening session of the congress
! and addressing us there.”
FIT OF ME
WILL OPERATE PACIFIC COAST
AND ALASKA PORTS BE
GINNING SUMMER
—
BIRKENHEAD, England, Jan.,
18, (A3)—Ishbel MacDonald, the
daughter of the Prime Minister,
saying “I christen you the ‘Prince
Henry’ and I wish you and the
Canadian National Railways ail
the good luck in the wrld,” suc
cessfully launched the first of
the three new Canadian Nation
al Ltd., steamships.
The “Prince Henry” will go into
service this summer and will
ply between between Vancouver,
Prince Rupert and Alaska ports.
The other ~two steamships, the
“Prince Robert’ a’nd the “Prince
David” are for the Vancouver
Victoria-Seattle service and will
be launched in the near future.
TRAINMEN KILLED
PALESTINE, Texas., Jan., 18,
(/P)—Two men were killed and
two seriously injured in a coll
ision between the international
Great Northern passenger train
and a No. 4 locomotive which
was running light. The dead are
John Hall, engineer; L. J. Hughes,
express messenger.
Pliny tells us tlfat more than 20,- 9
000 slaves were employed in the
Iberian mines.