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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 73.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Hi GENERAL
IN OUANDRY OVER
ALASKA OFFICES
DESIRES NON-DRINKERS AND
DRY SUPPORTERS FOR TER
RITORIAL APPOINTMENTS
WASHINGTON, April 1. (&)—
The opinion of Attorney General
Mitchell “as being in a quandry”
:n his attempt to appoint for
Alaskan Federal offices only non
drinkers and avowed supporters
of prohibition^ was expressed in
a statement by Dan Sutherland,
who said:
"I do not know but am of the
opinion that the Attorney Gen
eral is in a quandry regarding the
several reappointments in Alas
ka"
Sutherland said: “Some of the
candidates do not, I fear, meet
with the Attorney General's an
nounced requirements but the
good old spoils system is still in
operation and politicians are, as
isual, insistent that their men
must receive appointments."
Federal aid in reforestation and
protection of forest lands in Al
aska on the same basis now given
’he states, is in a measure intro
duced by Delegate Huston of
Hawaii.
LONDON, April 1, (/P>—'The
MacDonald government for the
second time in the 10 months of
its life suffered a minor defeat
:n the House of Commons. They
immediately rallied their forces
and succeeded in carrying the day
on a motion to adjourn the House,
out were defeated on motion for
suspensdn of the rule for the
House to adjourn at 11 p m. The
vote was 183 to 179.
The government won the sec
ond vote by 10 votes.
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BERLIN, N. H., April 1. (£>)—
A young man awaiting death in
a Canadian prison for murder
was identified by police as In
vald Anderson, better known as
'Bing'’ or Carl Anderson, who is
one of the greatest ski jumpers
the east has ever known. His
190-foot jump at Brattleboro,
Vermont, in 1925, has never been
equalled In the east.
11 SO L ESTATE
ESI S. F. AIRPORT
SAN FRANCISCO April 1. (/P)
—The permanent acquisition of
Mills Field as San Francisco’s
municipal airport became a dis
tinct probability. Ogden L. Ivlllls
secretary of the Mills Estate, as
sured Mayor James Rolph, Jr.,
and the finance and airport com
mittees of the board of supervis
ors tnat he willingly wall negoti
ate for sale of the property to the
city.
REVIVAL MEETING
Attend the services tonight at
the Community church, 8 p- m.
A revival is a time of inventory,
not of your stock and possessions,
but, of your life and daily actions.
We live in deeds not years, can
*j your’s stand God’s searchlight?
Remember, “What shall it profit
a man if he gain the whole
world and lose his own soul?”
Seward Gateway,
Dear Friends:
I have been told that in an is
sue of your paper published din
ing the last month that it car
ried as a news item somethin*
regarding Seldovia’s Comm unit:
Soup Kitchen, and that 22 per
sons were being cared for. It ii
unfortunate that news of this son
is usually exaggerated, and be
cause it is so far from the trutl
of the matter, I am writing yoi
giving the real reasons for th<
establishment of the Kitchen, anc
how it resulted^ and if within £
few days after receiving this let
ter, you have the space and in
clination to print anything con
cerning it, I would appreciate
! your presenting the real facts be
fore the public.
Our deputy marshal here hac
heard from various sources, thal
there were children who weri
hungry, also a man with a large
I family had asked to borrow monej
! because his family was without
food. After questioning the teach
ers it was decided that probablj
an acute situation did exist in a'
least four families. Having learn
ed that much, a meeting of the
women was called, and a com
itoittee of two appointed to in
i vestigate these and any othei
| cases that might come to the at
' fcention of the committee. A young
i lady and myself, both of us being
the longest in duration of time
to reside here, were appointed
We visited four, or rather five
places; we found that in one fam
ily there were eight children and
the mother needing assistance
The father became very indignant
to think that we offered them
help through a public kitchen
He nc doubt thought that if help
was to be given, that we should
re-establish his credit at the
! stores or send food stuffs t-o the
home so that he could also reap
the benefit of what we were of
| faring and that was just what
we didn’t want to do- This parti
cular father does a kind of work
| here in town that is always in de
mand, yet the greater part of the
12 months he will take the money
that he can earn, never under
$1.00 an hour, and buy liquor writh
it, and then become so intoxi
j cated that it is impossible for
| him to work at all. There is no
j family in town that ought t-o en
; joy a nicer living than his should
j but his own thirst comes before
|the needs of his family. He re
fused to have the mother or the
children come to be fed. It would
hurt his pride, so he said. A few
days later he was arrested for
being intoxicated and a long sus
' pended sentence given him, and
because he is compelled to be
sober or go to jail, he i3 doing
quite nicely fo~ his family.
The second family visited was
| the family of a man who is a
I capable gas engineer, but for two
seasons he has not been depend
able because he was bound to get
intoxicated when he was needed
the most. Their condition was
desperate. The mother looked
dreadful, and the baby was with
out milk for its bottle^ and the
four other children were in need
| of clothing and food. We explain
i ed that the Kitchen would be op
en to the mother and children,
|and milk would be provided the
baby. The father almost showed
us the door, though the mother
begged to be allowed to come, or
that he at least allow the children
j to go. He refused. He had had
j credit at the stores but his ac
: count was never reduced and
eventually it was closed after some
| $700 had been expended to him,
j and he made no effort to pa^.
The third family visited con
sisted of a wife and three chil
! dren. They did not have anything
j but the barest necessities, and
I we invited them to come, but the
i father said that they would man
j age without help.
The fourth family was one con
| sisting of a father and three
! grown boys all so lazy that they
never will work, yet there were
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Editorial
WE ADVOCATE
1. More Federal control in Alaska.
2. Less money for roads and trails.
3. Making it a felony to kill the brown bear.
4. Making it a felony to kill eagles in Alaska.
5. A prohibition agent for each 10 inhabitants.
6. More stringent coal and oil leasing laws.
7. More Federal reserves.
8. Congressional medals for members of the A. G. C.
9. Higher freight rates.
10. Abolishing formality of search warrants, Alaska.
11. Making it a felony to trap Alaska birds, animals.
12. That coast guard vessels spend more time in Cal.
13. That the light of free speech be abolished.
APRIL FOOL!
GENOA, Italy, April 1. (/P)—
Short radio waves cutting across
| the Atlantic, America and the
Pacific carried the voice of Mar
uis Guglieimo Marconi,- inventor
of wireless, from the yacht Elec
tra here to Sydney, Australia, to
open the electrical exposition
there.
j Signor Marconi spoke across 11,
000 miles to the director of the
electrical association, Fiske. He
' read a message which outlined
i what he intended doing later in
the day, transmitting a small
unit of power to Sydney to close
a circuit there and light the elec
tric lamps of the exposition.
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BROWNVTLLE, Ky„ April 1. (/P)
j—James Stround Merldeth, 42, and
| nephew.?, Isaac Duvall, 32, and
| Lloyd Duvall, 2G, were shot and
killed in the presence of bystand
ers by Curley Johnson, son-in
law of Merldeth. He arrived and
■said the Duvall brothers had shot
Merldeth. He killed the brothers,
j The dispute was said to be over
an offense committed by a son of
the elder man.
THREE SEATTLE FOLK
DIE IN AUTO CRASH
TACOMA, April 1. (/P)— Mrs.
■Doris Lindberg, about 25; Mrs.
; Tiny Cramer and L. H. Nohle,
| three Seattleites, were killed 7 j
miles north of here in a big ma- j
chine which hit a guard rail and j
veered off the road and over
turned end over end three times- '
It is said the car was speeding. I
Two others in the car injured
were Mr. and Mrs. Bert Ayres.
The S. S. Koshunmaru, which!
i went ashore off Scotch Cap Light j
; on February 20^ broke in two;
during a recent’ gale and the af- i
| ter part of the vessel has en- ;
j tirely disappeared. About one;
j storm will completely demolish |
the wreck. Some excellent pic- ■
tures of the wreck, both in calm I
and stormy weather, were ob- ,
tained by the light keepers.
J Little Mary Jane Amend un- j
derwent her second operation
yesterday at the Anchorage hos
j pital and, according to Mr.
! Amend, came through it very ’
| well. Mrs. Amend is with Mary
Jane.
The S. S. Catherine D arrived ,
i at Squaw Harbor with the ad
' vance crew of the P. A F., can- '
j nery then proceeded to King Cove
i and Ikutan where she discharged
i passengers and freight.
RETURNS TO COURTS
CANNES, France, April 1. (/P)
—Helen Jacobs, American second
ranking tennis star, returned to
the courts after 10 days illness to
win her first and second round
matches in the tournament here.
TUCSON, April 1. (£>)—Four
hundred miles in 10 hours and 40
minutes on his way to New York
from San Diago^ Captain Frank
Hawks, transcontinental glider
pilot, cut loose from his tow
p ane, piloted by J. D. Jemigan,
jr.. and landed here in darkness.
He twice landed on his way
here. Leaving San Diego in the
morning, he cut loose to refuel at
Yuma to do stunts over Phoenix.
He expects to reach El Paso to
night.
NEW YORK, April 1. (,'P)—Allyn
King, Southern beauty who be
came a Follies star, died at Bel
levue hospital Sunday from in
juries suffered Saturday when she;
jumped from the window of a 50- i
floor apartment
Miss King suffered a nervous j
breakdown, the result of? relatives:
said, continued dieting ’ to keep |
slim the figure as demanded by
the stage. j
C, 0. PriUSTlEADERS
FAIL IN AGREEING
WASHINGTON, April 1. UP)—
For the third time the House
Republican leaders failed to reach
an agreement upon the plan of
procedure for consideration of the
tariff bill before sending it to
conference. The Senate indicated
the demands of Western Republi
cans in the House to accept the
higher Senate agricultural rates,
creating some difficulty.
MAY HOP ATLANTICj
NEW YORK, April 1. (/P)~ !
The world’s largest heavier-than- !
air craft, the Domier DO-X,
which carried 169 persons into
the air over Lake Constance,
Switzerland, on October 25, last
year, and remained aloft an hour, I
is being groomed for a flight1
across the Atlantic from Germany:
to New York.
Chief radioman Westlake, late
of the Dutch Harbor radio sta- j
tion, arrived yesterday on the •
steamer Starr enroute to Bremer
ton.
Mrs. Munson of Homer camej
in yesterday on the S. S. Starr
for medical attention.
The S. S. Starr, Capt. C. E. An
derson, stopped at Uzinkie to pick
up the crew of the wrecked hal
ibut schooner Panama.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 1.
{&) — Lee Schoehhair, carrying a
pictorial record of the Byrd ex
pedition from Panama to the
Newark Airport via Miami' took
off before 8 o’clock for Belize,
British Honduras, his next stop.
He is flying “Miss Silvertown”
owned by the Goodrich Rubber
Company, and is rushing the pic
tures to the United States for the
Associated Press, The New York
Times and Paramount News.
CHICAGO, April 1. (,/p)_Win
ter whipped spring backwards be
fore a gale of snow throughout
the midwest. Swirling in from the
northwest, the blast gripped Chi
cago, blinded traffic, hampered
communication systems, and held
airplanes in their hangars. Thru
out the city snow piled into
slushy drifts, and Lake Michigan
lashed its shoreline in a fury'
akin to the winter’s worst storms.
The traffic tie-up is the worst on
record.
Five lives were lost and scores
injured. There will be no abate
ment until this morning, accord
ing to weather bureau reports.
FUTURE COURSE NAVY
CONFERENCE IN SIGHT
WASHINGTON, April 1. (£>)—
Acting Secretary of State Cotton
said he believed this week’s ne
gotiations will determine the fu
ture of the Naval conference.
Cotton didn’t go beyond thsi
brief statement and had nothing
to say as to press dispatches from
London saying Great Britain, in
discussion with France, refused to
arrange any military commitment.
MICKEY SIGNS CP
TULSA, Okla., April 1. {£>)—
Signing of Mickey Walker, world’s
middleweight champion, to fight
an unnamed opponent here April
28 was announced by Alexander
Ross, assistant to Joe C. O’Brien.
m mine ms
WORK OP RESCUERS
KETTLE ISLAND Ky., April 1. j
(A5)—The bodies of five miners,■
killed in an explosion in the Pio
neer Company mine, were discov
ered by a miner. Rescue workers,
one and one-half miles from the
entrance, were forced to leave the
bodies and return to the surface
without identifying them owing!
to the density of carbon monox
ide gas.
NEW YORK April 1. (#)_1
Two thousand million dollars to be !
spent for public improvement
during the next three years.
That’s New York City's answer to
unemployment. Comptroller Ber
ry said the money would be used
In the expansion of the water
supply system, subway construc
tion and other public improve- j
ments.
O. W. Brehmer, of the firm of
Brehmer & Clipper, King Cove
merchants and traders, arrived
on the Starr last night on a brief
business trip.
WENATCHEE, April 1. (#)__
Jealous over Lena Morris, 17, the
mother of a three-months-old
; baby, who was seeking divorce, a
| third man Delbert Brown, bought
a revolver and entered the shack
i °f his friend Walter Hornsby last
night, where he found the wo
man, and killed Hornsby, firing
four shots into his back.
He then turned the gun on the
girl; she, terrified, ran from him
and struggled and made her es
cape.
When officers arrived at the
scene they found the baby un
harmed and found Brown with a
! self-inflicted wound in his chest
! at his home. He was taken to a
! hospital here.
Physicians said there was no
chance for him to live. The wo
man is watching over him. Brown
told the story of the shooting.
LONDON, April 1. (£*)—A par
ade of the unemployed from var
ious parts of the country to Lon
don as a protest against the gov
ernment’s unemployment policy
was announced by the National
Unemployed Workers’ Movement
The first group of men will leave
Glasgow today and will pick up a
contingent of miners at the Staf
fordshire Coal Fields. It will be
April 30 before the parade reach
es London.
WASHINGTON, April 1. (/Pi
President Hoover signed the
Keyes-Elliott bill author! ing the
appropriation of $230,000,000 for
public buildings, half to be used
throughout the country end half
in the District of Columbia.
The allocations will be decided
upon by an inter-department
board of officers of the post
office and treasury departments.
MICKEY IS CHAMP
FLINT, Mich% April I. (/P)—
As far as Jack Kearns is con
cerned, Mickey Walker is light
heavyweight champion, as well as
middleweight champion of the
world. Kearns, who is Walker’s
manager, said so while his pro
tege was administering a techni
cal knockout to Charlie Arthurs
of Newark, N. J., here.
IB KILLED D<
DEPin nim ■
RICHMOND, Ky., April 1. (S’)—
Ambrose Williams, 39, a fanner,
was shot and killed by Deputy
Sheriff Lloyd Lane, while fleeing
from his home which was being
raided. Officers found a gallon
of whiskey and a still at Ows
ley Fork and said he ignored the
command to surrender.
Lane was placed under techni
cal custody pending the investi
gation.
sTihCs
VAN GILDER—H. C. Dunlop.
H. P. Sullivan, Chas. L. Cadwall
ader, Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Fos
ter.
SEWARD—V. H. Westlake, Nick
Kristensen, Mrs. O. Munson, Chas.
Ulfus, F. Henricksen, Anton Roe,
M. P. Swensont W. C. Boston.
OVERLAND—Mr. and Mrs. A.
K. Homer, Mike Constantine, O.
Brehmer, A. B. Hicks, Katie An
dre, H. Larson.