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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME, XXI, NUMBER 4V <-/ '6
SEWARD,
ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1926.
PRIC^TEN CENTS
Frank A. Aldrich
Gives Position
Statehood
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Entering the primaries as a can
didate for Delegate to Congress on
the Republican ticket is done with a
full knowledge of the responsibili
ties. Thirty-four years a resident of
Alaska, ten years a member of the
Alaska legislature, and eight years
chairman of the finance committee
in the Territorial senate, has left
me with a complete understanding
-of Alaska problems.
The vexatious technicalities of
Jong-distant bureaucratic govern
ment from our national capital is
directly or indirectly responsible for
most of the problems of non-expan
sion.
Fourteen years ago Judge James
'Wiekersham, author of the Organic
Act, speaking to a joint session of
the Alaska legistlature, at Juneau.
Alaska, stated in almost the exact
language used by the Supreme Court
of the United States when handing
down the recent decision on taxation
of the Fisheries of Alaska, namely:
The right to impose a prohibitory
tax if they deemed it necessary to
preserve the fishing industry.
This dual power vested in the Bu
reau of Fisheries on the one side and
the Territory of Alaska on the other
side is conflicting and can be reme
died in but one way—control through
Statehood.
Alaska has 4,000 miles of salt wa
terfrontage, and 30,000 miles of es
tuaries and tidelands which alone
FRANK A. T. ALDRICH
for Delegate to Congress
manent population of 250,000.
Total investment in the fisheries
of Alaska up to and for the year of
1923, $60,037,677.
Total number of people employed
| in the canning industry for the year
1923, 25,250.
Total investment in mining equip
ment in Alaska $20,000,000.
Total fur market for years 1922,
1923, 1924 and 1925, $7,094,340.
Total seal marketSor years 1922,
Superintendent of Schools . 5,000
Mining Inspector . 4,000
Federal Secretary, Clerical
and Territorial Boards .. 19,000
Superintendent of Pioneers’
Home —- 2,000
Total _$50,000
Total annual revenue now collect
ed by the Federal government which
would be applied to State govern
ment:
From seal industry, 1925 -$491,770
Alaska fund outside incorpor
ated towns .— 208,553
Grand total -$700,000
These are annual revenues to take
care of the State of Alaska now di
verted to the Federal Treasury.
What Congress needs are facts and
figures. What the people of Alaska
need is the elimination of a dual gov
ernment, and the inherited right to
govern by the consent of the povern
ed.
If elected Delegate to Congress
from Alaska, my efforts will be di
rected toward the granting of state
hood, and my services in the future
will be as they have been in the past,
ever for this Alaska, our adopted
home. .
FRANK A. T. ALDRICH.
TIGER FLOWERS
KNOCKS OUT
HARRY GREB
NEW YORK, Feb. 27. (IF)—Tiger
j Flowers, Atlanta negro, won the
world’s middleweight championship
when he outpointed Harry Greb, in a
fifteen round bout here. A crowd of
18,000 witnessed the crown change
hands.
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THE ANSWER TO “What’s the matter with Alaska
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ARCTIC OCEAN
would sustain a state. This vast
amount of tidelands under State con
trol would solve the problem of the
governed by the consent of the gov
erned.
"What the people of Alaska want
most of all are facts and figures.
Ohio became a state with a popu
lation of 4,5000; Nevada with a pop
ulation of 42,000. The population of
Alaska under the last census (1920)
was 55,036. This gives Alaska ap
proximately 10,000 more population
than Ohio and 13,000 more popula
tion than Nevada, when statehood
was granted to them.
The fallowing are some facts and
figures taken 'from the report of the
Forest Service as of January 1, 1926;
Southeastern Alaska Tongass Na
tional Forest Report—Board feet of
lumber, 80,000,000,000.
Chugach National Forest Report
Board feet of lumber, (in standing
timber), 5,000,000,000.
Total value of above, $100,000,000.
Every 1,000 feet of lumber cut
means $8 in wages.
Cutting 790,00^,000 feet annually,
as permitted under Forest Rules,
would at $8 per 1,00 feet, in wages
amount to $6,320,000.
In addition to the above Forest re
sources we have available and unde
veloped hydro-electric power estimat
ed at 500,000 horsepower. This power
when developed and in use will fur
uish employment to 80,000 persons in
the manufacture of pulp and paper
alone. In other words the timber of
Alaska is capable of supporting a per
1923, 1924, 1925, $2,536,540. 1
Total assessed valuation in 18 in- J
corporated towns, $21,283,127.
Total Alaska fund outside incor- j
porated towns, $208,553.
Total bank deposits, 1924, $10,000,
000.
Alaska commerce, 1925,
aggregated -$95,423,236 £
Outgoing shipmentjs in- i
c 1 uding merchandise, ,
gold and silver -$62,223,725 ^
Merchandise shipped in(to
Alaska -$33,199,511 (
Balance of trade in our (
favor, 1925 _$29,024,224 j
For the past ten years, the value ,
of copper mined has exceeded the ^
value of gold mined by 70 per cent.
The total gross revenue from the (
mining industry to 1926 has been ,
$553,000,000. The total gross revenue
from the fisheries industry during the
last ten years only, has been $400,
000,000, or a grand total of $953,000,
000.
The natural revenues of Alaska, as
quoted above create an income to the
residents and to the governing body
which would take care of any two
states in the Union, much less Alas1
ka. The Territory of Alaska does now
pay annually for Territorial officials
$50,000; this arrangement is working
satisfactorily. This amount would be
applied to State government in the
event of Statehood. This sum is dis
tributed as follows:
Treasurer, per annum-$ 5,000
Attorney General _ 5,000
Highway Engineer _ 4,000
FISHERIES MERGER
COMPLETED IN B. C.
VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 27. (JP)—
rhe British Columbia' Packers, Ltd.,
innounced they have purchased the
Wallace fisheries, and capitalized for
more than $2,000,000, making the mer
ger thirty fishery plants.
The completion of this merger is
declared to be the bigegst fisheries
deal in the history of British Co
lumbia. The Wallace fisheries gives
the British Columbia company addi
tional plants on Queen Charlotte
Islands, along the West coast of Van
couver Island and on the Naas and
Skeena river inlets.
BASKETBALL GAME
. AT GYM TONIGHT
Tonight, at the S. A. C. hall, the
local High School and the City Girls
basketball teams will play an exhibi
tion game. Play will start promptly
at 8 o’clock. The price of admission
has been placed at 15c for children
and 25c for adults.
John Howe, oldtimer of the Fair
banks district, who has been in the
contracting business in the Interior
for many years, was among the arriv
als this morning from the south. Mr.
Howe has been Outside for three
months.
STORMS TAKE TOLL
THRUOUT STATES;
PROPERTY DAMAGE
CHICAGO, Feb. 27. (/P)-*Eleven are
reported dead and scores injured as a
result of the terrific windstorms which
swept from out the Northwest of Tex
as and struck thruout the Middle
West. Heavy rains and snow accom
panied 'the winds which registered a
velocity of 60 miles an hour. Build
ings were destroyed, streets flooded,
telegraph and telephone lines damag
ed, and traffic delayed.
Reports from Michigan and Wiscon
| sin were to the effect snow covered
i these States a foot deep. Light thun
der storms visited eastern States, but
from Chico county, Arkansas the great
est loss of life was reported. Five
were killed there. Although the town
i of Tinsdale, Mississippi was demolish
led, but one death occured, that of a
child. A door, blown from its hinges,
struck and killed M. C. Spencer of
Ludlow Falls, Ohio. Twenty-four
square blocks in the north side of Chi
cago were flooded to a depth permit
ting the use of a boat.
SENATE REFUSED
ADOPT REPORT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 27. (#>)
—The Senate today refused by a vote
of 33 to 36 to adopt the report assail
ing the Department of Justice for the
manner in which it investigated wheth
er the Aluminum Company of America
violated the Federal court’s decree.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas, dem
ocratic leader, abandoned the resolu
tion which would have authorized the
President to employ special counsel
to prosecute for contempt proceedings
against the Company.
With but two exceptions, the Dem
ocrats stood solidly for the adoption
of the report.
PLANE SERVICE
INAUGURATED
WINNIPEG, Mau., Feb. 27. (JP)—
Jack Elliott, aviator of Hamilton, On
ario, announced yesterday he would
inaugurate Monday, an airplane serv
ice between the Hudson Bay and the
Red Lake gold strike district. He will
fly the distance with prospectors in
two hours, where formerly a musher
required eight days to make the same
journey.
Three planes have been shipped to
the Hudson Bay post from Hamilton.
They will all have skiis attached. The
tariff will be entirely by weight.
Sutherland Hands In Bill
Would Help Fishermen
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 27. (JP)
—The House and Merchant Marine
Cimmittee approved the bill of Dan
A. Sutherland, delegate from Alaska to
permit the taking of fish and shell
fish for bait in Alaska waters at any
time of the season.
Chairman Scott reported the House
“considers important the halibut fish
ing industry of the North Pacific, and
that fishermen depend largely upon
herring and shellfish in Alaska wa
ters as bait. This bait is essential
to the continuance of the halibut in
dustry, and the amount of bait used
would not appreciably diminish the
supply in Alaska waters.”
SCOUTS WIN GAME, 12 TO 8
A hotly contested game of basket
ball was won last evening in the
Jesse Lee Home gymnasium when
the Seward scouts took the game
by the close score of 12 to 8. The
Home squad is showing much im
• provement and within a couple of
weeks more, may be running the
. scout team ragged.
L —
David Ford, of Plymouth, Eng., ex
hibited ten cabbages which weighed
■ 670 pounds.
5 ——
• Ebony, a black cat, saved the liv
- es of Timothy Cullin’s five ohildrer
. by jumping on their bed and awak.
5 ening them when their home in Dub
lin caught fixe.
FASCISTI LEADER
WILL DISCLOSE
ITS WORKINGS
NICE, Feb, 28, (^—General Cesare
Rossi, formerly head of the Fascist
press bureau of Italy, arrived here.
He fled from Rome to Genoa by au
tomobile and came here by motorboat.
He said he will give to the world the
inside story of the rise of Fascism in
Italy, stating “Fascism was created
for a good cause but was prostituted
by Benito Mussolini. He said Nice
was too close to the Italian border,
and that he would go to Paris.
It was on the streets of this city
yesterday that the Fascisti, who fol
lowed him from Rome and Genoa
threatened him four time when he
said that “Musolini was responsible
for the murder of Deputy Matteotti.
The others, who will go on trial Mar.
16 are merely pawns in a chess game
which they don’t understand.”
It was stated that Mussolini “made
slaves of all of us.”
ROME, Feb. 28. (/P)—The LI Tovere,
a Fascisti paper, voiced a threat
against the Rome correspondent of
the London Daily Express unless he
leaves the Italy paper. He objected
to the report that Mussolini was ill
and forced to live on a starvation diet.
The paper said: “We, Fascists, have
no desire to seek out this correspond
ent, nor desire him to be constrained
to put him without compliments un
der the hoofs of the horse on which
the ‘duce’ takes his daily ride.”
“Duce” mean Mussolini.
MAJORITY HAS
SELFISH MOTIVES
SAYS HARTLEY
SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 27. (i?>)—
Governor Hartley launched his cam
paign today against the Majority leg
islators, and said that the “so-called
legislative majority seeks to justify
its existence with the statement that
it was organized to combat the rec
ommendations contained in my first
message. The facts are that the or
ganization was started months in ad
vance of the special session.”
He charged the majority with hav
ing organized, not to protect State in
stitutions, but to promote their own
interests.
BIG COMPANIES TO
WORK LOWER RIVER
REGION THIS YEAR
SAM DUBIN, WISEMAN BUSINESS
MAN, PREDICTS INCREASE
IN ACTIVITY.
The river steamer Teddy H, and
two barges, owned and operated on
the lower rivers of the Interior by
Sam Dubin, who passed thru Seward
the first of the week en route to Se
attle, will be brought up to Nenana
this spring where they will be loaded
with Mr. Dubin’s new general merch
andise and supplies, which will be
shipped north. In previous years, Mr.
Dubin has had his freight shipped
down river to Nulato from Nenana
via other vessels, but he is setting the
precedent this year in handling his
freight direct from the railroad to his
various trading posts.
His trip to Seattle, at this time, is
being made for the purpose of plac
i ing his bid for another mail contract
His present contract will expire ii
July. Never, for years, has the rivei
country appeared so favorable as i
. does now, Mr. Dubin said. The adven
» of a number of large companies int<
i the mining fields spells prosperity fo:
i the region in general. It is learned
> he said, that an English company wil
. enter the Wiseman district this sprinj
E to begin preparations for the installs
3 tion of a dredge. The huge areas o
$1 a yard ground found in that local
ity makes for an added incentive fo
. dredge work. Lack of water has i;
I the past hampered the operations o
smaller companies and individual mir
ing men.
Three weeks were required for Mi
a Duban to come out over the snow tra
_ on account of running into bad stormi
- He passed the snow motors at Cam]
bell and told "Sandy” Smith then, h
SOURDOUGHS JUMP
IN GLEE AS PLANES
ARE TRANSFERRED
FAIRBANKS, Feb. 27. (ff)—'The Wil
kins party felt their first Arctic chill
when they appeared today clad in
parkas and moved the two monoplanes
from the flat cars to the hangar where
assembling has been begun. The tem
perature has dropped during the last
three days and this morning register
ed forty below zero.
The fuselage and wings were trans
ferred through the streets on sleds
drawn by horses and caused much ex
citement among the oldtimers, who
are taking the venture quite serious
ly. For the first time a battery of mo
vie cameras recorded the work of the
flyers. The flight party will be guests
of the Pioneers of Alaska Monday nite
when Klondike and Alaska sourdoughs
will receive the modern argonauts.
Captain Wilkins is engaging dog
teams at Nenana to haul the radio
and other equipment to Barrow.
BEN EILESON’S
MAIL CONTRACT
GIVEN THE AIR
SEATTLE, Wn., Feb. 27. (/P)—W.
Irving Glover, second assistant post
master general, on an inspection tour
said here today that the postoffice de
partment had rejected Lieut. C. B.
Eileson’s air-mail bids on account of
being too high.
“Thi3 means that dog teams will
continue to handle the mail by con
tracts in the Interior of Alask,” declar
ed Glover, who is in charge of rail,
way, airplane, Alaska and foreign
mail service.
FOURTH DIVISION
WHOLESOME AREA
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 27. (£>)
—The Department of Justice appropri
ation for $24,960,500 was reported by
the House to provide $S1,200 for sal
aries of court officers in Alaska.
J. D. Harris, general agent of the
hearing of the bill and said, “there
seems to be a falling off of business
in Alaska courts, especially at Nome.
Last year, the Fourth Division let out
one deputy clerk and four deputy mar
shals. We are cutting down the force
but are still giving sufficient judicial
machinery with which to take care of
the business.
Bottle, With Message
Picked Up On Beach
A bottle (no liquor in it) covered
with barnacles two inches thick, was
picked up on Elizabeth Island last
week by Janies Collias, fox farmer,
and upon opening it found a message
written in Japanese. Thru the courtesy
of Harry Kawabe, Seward business
man, it wras deciphered, the text be
ing the bottle had been released off
Attu Island, a continuation of the Al
eutian chain, with instructions to the
finder that he send it back to 273 Shin
agawachoo, Hakodate City, Japan, the
date and locality the bottle was pick
. ed up. A Japanese navigator droppec
. numerous bottles into the sea for the
purpose of obtaining information re
[ garding tides and currents. The bot
* tie was found high and dry on th<
; beach at lowi tide, presumably deposit
■ ed there is a recent high tide.
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PAGE FRED NOREN
A letter, addressed to Fred Noret
1 has been received at the Brown i
r Hawkins office. Anyone knowing th
. gentleman, is asked to call his attei
t tion to this item, or if anyone know
. where Mr. Noren can be reache*
r please notify Mr. Myers, at the abov
i named store.
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Weekly Gateway—$3 per year.
*. would never reach Barrow this wii
.1 ter. Upon his return to Alaska fro:
!. the States he said, “No more trail tri]
)- for me. I am going to airplane
e back to Wiseman from Fairbanks.”