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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 543.
SEWARD, ALASKA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
REMARKABLE DISPLAY OF IG
NORANCE FOUND BY AL
ASKA TRAVELERS
“They display such ignorance
•Down East’ about thier own Ter
ritory of Alaska I’m wondering
what the geographies teach,” said
F. C. Schiller of Fairbanks and
points north, east, south and west
After 29 years in Alaska, he has just
completed a tour of the United
States, Central America, the West
Indies and part of Canada. Tjte
touched at the four corners of
Continental United States and
ought to know how they feel about
it. He says that they even asked
what language was spoken in Al
aska.
Mr. Schiller, who for some time
was connected with the manage
ment of the Nordale Hotel at Fair
banks and his wife have been trav
eling almost constantly since last
March- “We saw many points of
interest, but it was a hectic go, and
if you gave me a good slice of the
country, I wouldn’t live out there."
he said, “I’d rather be rigid; here
in Alaska, it's more comfortable.”
The Schillers have been in Fair
banks seven vcnrs and 18 years in
know both side
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>f the noun try.
Thev went to Seattle. San F'
ccc" t < g Angles, Tin. 7;. ■.
ieo.nnd from Los Angeles took a
Central America, San Silva dor. Ni
(■- v-mua, taking side trips into the
interior. They also took a trip in
to Columbia. South America and
then proceeded on their way to
Havana. From there they took a
boat to Key West. Florida, and
crossed the Florida keys lwr train
■ nc! thence on to New York. They
arrived at their home town. Green
held. Mass., where they found
rnanv of their old friends. Mr.
Schiller’s brother is still living
there.
T was surprised at meeting some
of the people I used to herd around
with when I was a young man and
by Gosh, I don’t think the climate
of Masachusetts agrees with them.
They ddn’t seem to have the vi
gor of our oldsters up here and
the grey hair seem to come quick
er. Maybe I’m prejudiced because
' I have become such a dyed-in-the
wool Alaskan but I believe we pre
serve better up here. I think it’s
something in th^ water, or the
sourdough, or the moonshine that
builds up the bones.”
He was given receptions by the
Spanish War Veterans at Green
field and North Hampton He had
been with the 2nd Massachusetts
in Cuba in ’98. They took an auto
trip thru the White Mountains of
New Hampshire and then went in
to Quebec, Canada where they saw
the Dirigible H-100 go overhead,
the sister ship to the ill-fated R
201 that was destroyed in France
with so many lives. They then went:
down St Lawrence bv auto and
around thru Nova Scotia and down
around the northeast corner of
Maine, thus completing the four
'-•orners of the United States. They
then came back to Greenfield, Bos- j
ton, New York, Washington and!
POWER NOTICE
Power will be shut off tomor
row from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m., if
| the weather is clear.
Seward Light and Power Co.
RESTING EASY
CHICAGO, Nov., 1, (/P)—May
or Thompson’s condition is re- j
garded as favorable and he is
resting easy today.
SEATTLE, Nov., 1, (A3)—The
SS Northwestern, of the A. S. S.
| Co., sailed for Alaska today at
9 a. m. with 58 passengers 15 of i
whom are booked for Seward.
W. J. Moran, Miss J. Preston, j
j Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Rockfeller,
I Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rockfeller,
Mrs. Edith Thoday, John Soil,
John Carlson, Eva Psardakis,
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Votilla, Mrs. j
J. Husfy and two children.
NEW YORK, November 1. l/Pl
Six survivors who drifted for C9
hours in an open boat without food
or water brought back the story
of the wreck of the steam yacht
Barbados which foundered in, a
storm early last Sunday off the
lower New Jersey coast carrying
down with her four men and a
woman.
Three of the nine members of
the crew who escaped when the
--hip sank died within the next
hours in the life boat from which
the survivors were rescued by the
Clyde liner Henry R. Malaeory off
Atlantic City last night. The dead
were buried at sea.
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A 30 per cent increase in Ant
arctic whale oil production is
forecast for the 1930-31 season
over that of the preceding year,
which itself registered a gain of1
75 per cent over the yield for
1928-29.
Both the Norwegian and Brit- j
ish fleets are being augmented {
sharply this season and it is i
said that the former will in-!
elude 39 floating factory ships,
with some 200 killers and a per
sonnel of about 10.000 men.
spent a few days in New Orleans j
"where he used to work and then
out thru Texas to Los Angeles. They j
spent a week in Hollywood and i
drove hundreds miles thru South
ern California where evrybody has ,
a car.
“I saw more drunks in the United
States than in Canada or Hava- :
na,” he said. “I saw only one in 1
Quebec and he was an American.
I didn’t see any in Cuba.” Schiller ,
is an Elk. Ona of the Herd bro- !
thers in Massachusetts asked him
how they had Elks clubs in Al
aska, “that belongs to Bri
tain doesn’t it?” he asked.
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RUSSELL MILL'S
FITE BELIEVED 10
BE NEAR SOLUTION
Finding of what is apparently
part of the wreckage of an air
plane on the beach near one of
the canneries in Cook Inlet, and
the glimpse of what appears to
be human bones leads to the
belief in Anchorage that the
fate of Russell Merrill, famed
Alaska aviator who was lost just
about a year ago, has been solv
ed.
According to the meager re
port received here the searchers
were unable to get at the wreck
d jetsam that had been thrown
up part way, because of the
waves.. A boat has been sent to
the scene and more details are
expected at any time from An
chorage.
RAVAGING WOLVES
JLINDSAY, Ont., Nov.. 1, (/P)—
Fierce wolves are terrorizing farm
ers near Stanhope township and
Haliburton. So seriously have the
wolves ravaged sheep flocks
that only one farmer continues
raise sheep. Children are now driv
en to the school house door by
parents for protection against the
beasts
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1, i—Stanley Prickett. engin
eer; and Charles Punphrey, a
fireman, were both killed when
a westbound Baltimore & Ohio
Express was wrecked today.
Prickett was killed outright;
Punphrey died from scalds after
reaching a hospital.
The accident occurred at a
curve on a detour tract. The
train was speeding, officials said,:
though instructions to engineers j
had been to slow down at that
point.
AIRPLANE IS NOT
THE MISSING ONE
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SEATTLE, Nov. 1, (/P>—’The !
plane of Pilot Renehan's, accord- ,
ing to the Vancouver, B. C. re- !
port, was sighted northeast of |
Ketchikan October 14 by hun
ters who thought it might have !
been Captain Burkes heading
southward from the Baird area.
The plane was later identified
as an Alaskan, Washington Air
ways plane piloted by Gene Mey- j
ring who was forced to take the
inland route from Juneau to
Seattle on account of fog.
TAXES DECREASE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, (/Pi—I
Jr.cle Sam’s income from taxes, cor- j
poration and individual, in 1930 will
oe approximately $2,300,000,000 it
*vas estimated. This will be a re- ;
Auction of nearly $200,000,000 as j
compared with 1929 due to a one |
per cent tax cut, the stock market j
mash and the business depression
THREE ALUMNI KILLED
Lexington, I^y. Nov. 1, (/P)Three
of five Kentucky University
alumni are dead, the result of an
automobile accident while en
route here to attend the Alaba
ma-Kentucky football game. The
dead are Wendell Smith, Hagan
Smith, cousins; and Crit Wallen.
FOB PIF5ST
REFUSES RESIGN JOB
RIO DE JANERIO, Nov., 1, (£>)
—Doctor Getulio Vargas, insur
gent leader, was greeted here
last night like °
He consulted
military chiefs
stood he will take charge or uae
government as provisional pres
ident on Monday.
Washington Luis, the deposed
head of the former government,
is held prisoner as he refuses to
resign his post.
J.OS ANOET3S, Nov. 1. UP)-Ovt
of control end blazing a path of de
struction through Ventura county
brush fire which seriously menace 1
the town of Moore Park was at
vancing coastward on tw'o front/'.;
While Moore Park lay under a
pall of dense smoke and ashes and
live cinders swirled through ti e
streets before a stiff wind its men j
and women rallied to save the
community. The latter fought to,
protect their homes with wet sacks
and garden hose which the form
er mustered from office, field and
public schools.
About a mile away the men were
fighting to halt the flames on a
six mile front with shovels and
axes and other equipment .The
walnut and tomato packing houses
and the high schools closed to per
mit the employees and students to
aid in the fight. Most of the schools
have also closed down temporarily.
CAR SKIDDED RIVER
LONDON. Nov. 1, UP)—Giving
his life to save his employer’s I
daughter, George River drowned;
on his 17th birthday when his se- i
dan motor car skidded into the >
Thames River at Runneymede- Two \
other ocupants of the ear escaped j
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AFTER FODDER SCOFF
NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 1, i/P)
—Three thousand miles across
the Atlantic tfie voices of George
Bernard Shaw and Prof. Albert
Einstein, came to the Western I
world.
Almost as distinctly as though I
they had traveled only a few |
yards they spoke at a dinneY in
honor of Einstein in London.
Shaw named Einstein as one of
the eight makers of universes;
among these eight are Aristotle,
Copernicus. Galileo and Newton
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WICKERSHAM PROUD OF IIIS
ORGANIC # ACT, TERRI
TORY OF ALASKA
JUNEAU, Nov. 1, Special to
The Gateway—In a speech to
a good sized audience here last
night, James Wickersham, Re
publican candidate for Delegate
to Congress, said the apportion
ment that gave the 2nd Division
with 600 votes the same repre
sentation as the 1st Division
with 6,000, must be corrected.
He said the leasing law which
he wrote for the salmon canners
giving them control of trap sites
ought to be passed; that it would
be a public benefit and the can
neries should have some pro
tection.
He criticized his opponent’s
personal habits (George Grigsby,
Democratic nominee) but the
audience apparently did not ap
prove his remarks.
He said he would favor turn
ing the fisheries and game over
to the Territory but did not ex
pect to get- it from Congress.
He said 'T am proud of the
A aska organic act and I should
like no better epitaph than that
I am it’s author,”
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 1. (/P)
—Flowing 60,000 barrels of oil
and 100,000,000 feet of gas daily,
a wild gusher in the city limits
threatened residences and the
business district by fire.
It created such a hazard that
schools were closed and homes
are fireless and traffic is block
aded.
The chief danger from the fire
lay in the great clouds of gas
clinging to the lowlands, south
east winds spraying residences
and the business district with
oil.
The oil well is less than one
mile from the heart of the
shopping center. The district
has been placed under extreme
police power.
$60,000,000 HEARING
INSTANBUL, Nov. 1, (7P)—A
mixed arbitrarial tribunal con
sisting of one British and one
Danish judge, will begin hearings
on the $60,000,000 claims of the f
heirs of the former Sultan Ab
dul Hamid against the British
government, next November 22.
DIFFER IN AIMS
LONDON. Nov. 1, (/P)—Coinci
dent with the arrival of Indian de
legates to the Round Table Con
ference here it was learned that
the Moslem and Hindu members
of the delegation differ on their
aims thus creating a difficult si
tuation before the conference is
started.