Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 218.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1930
PlilCE TEN CENTS
Gateway’s Figures
Height McKinley
Appear_ Correct
FOR MANY YEARS THE HEIGHT OF MOUNT MC
KINLEY HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY GIVEN AS
20,300 FEET—GATEWAY STAFF WRITER
CLAIMED THE TALLEST PEAK ON THE
NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT WAS AT|
LEAST 26,000—CLAIM APPEARS VERY WELL
FOUNDED—LOCAL PAPER SCORES SIGNAL
‘SCOOP’ OVER ALL PAPERS OF THE WORLD
THERE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN
AT LEAST ONE HONEST
MEMBER ON FORCE
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SEATTLE. Aug.. 27. UP)—-Three
government witnesses corrobor
ated graft corruption charges
by Hubbard and Olmsted against
five former prohibition officers
accused of coniving with boot
leggers then sending many of
them to the penitentiary.
The witnesses were George
Dehner, Russell Jackson, former
prohibition agents, and Mathew
9 Ryan, a former customs officer.
The witnesses were the arrest
ing officers in Woodmont Beach
raid Thanksgiving even, 1925,
when Olmsted, Hubbard and
Sherif Lee Parker, and three
Japanese, were arrested.
Behner and Jackson accused
Whitney of destroying a page in
Olmsted’s notebook which bore
:he names of Whitney, Corwin,
Thomas, Revelle, then United
* States attorney.
Behner charged Whitney had
ordered him not to seize Olmsted
liquor and that Whitney framed
him in order to get rid of him
1 as an agent.
Jackson testified that after the
alleged framing of Behner, Cor
win warned him cot to have
anything to do with Behner or
he would get into trouble.
Ryan’s testimony in the Wood
mont raid corroborated Behner’s
and Jackson’s.
INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, Aug., 27, UP)—
1 The Tariff commission ordered
an investigation of the tariff
rates on 27 schedules. Congress
issued orders for the inquiry
which will cover boots, shoes,
* ement and numerous agricul
tural tools.
A critic declares an English movie
actress to be without a peer. But
she is probably doing her best to
land o<ne.
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It would seem that The Seward
Gateway has scooped the world
in the matter of the height of
Mount McKinley. The height has
always been reported has al
ways been reported as being 20,300
feet and is so recorded in every
publication and article. Recently,
in a special article, The Gateway
stated Mount McKinley uppermost
peak was 26,000 feet.
A few days ago an airplane
flew to within 100 feet of the top
and the plane’s instrument regis
tered over 24,000.
Any educated civil engineer
will inform anyone that in going
up the needle on an instrument
of that kind drags, and a cor
rection to the instrument reading
must be added; and at that height
it would make the reading some
! thing over 25,000 feet.
The correction becomes greater
: after a heigth of 5,000 or 6,000
I is reached and continues to mount
l as they go up.
It might be added here, also
[that the original name of the
! mountain—the babtismal name—
i is “Bulshaia” an Esquimau word
| which means; “God of them all.”
RALPH IS NEAR
GOVERNORSHIP OF
STATE OF CALIF.
HAS LARGE LEAD THUS FAR
OVER HIS OPPONENT,
GOVERNOR YOUNG
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug., 27, (JP)
—The governership of Califor
nia seemed almost within the
reach of Mayor of San Francis
| co.
Returns from the primary
out of 6,600 precincts out~of 10,
000 gave Rolph 260.000 and
Young 222,000.
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PLOT FRUSTRATED
j CARO, Aug., 27, (/P)—A plot to
I assassinate Sidky Pasha, Egyp
! tian premier, was frustrated by
a detective who seized a waiter
who was acting suspiciously. The
waiter was about to bring the
Premier his breakfast and car
ried a hatchet under his robe.
I1Y OFFICERS
LUNCHEON SUESIS
SEWARD CHAMBER
HELPFUL SUGGESTION MADE
WITH VIEW MORE ALASKAN
TOURS BY NAVY VESSELS
Officers of the U. S. Navy De
stroyers Wasmuth and Perry, en
tertained at luncheon by the Sew
ard Chamber of Commerce at the
weekly business meeting of the or
ganization yesterday, responded to
the solicitation of Vicl-President
Hatton favoring the attending
members by depicting their newly
formed views of Uncle Sam’s most
northerly possession, the Territory
of Alaska.
“This has been the first look at
Alaska for myself or my officers,”
said Lieut. Comdr. L. L. Hunter,
commander of the Wasmuth, “and
we have seen things so strange and |
interesting our eyes have fairly
popped out. The scenery has been
the best I have looked at in my
career, and the people of Alaska (
have been very nice to us on all j
occasions. Sewardites are going j
out of their way in their hospitality j
to us.” Commander Hunter stated j
that as he came from the land of
the sweet potato and persimmon,
he thought he knew all about hos
pitality. “But, you can show us j
something”, he said.
Lieut. Comdr. E. H- Quinlan, com- !
manding officer of the Destroyer j
Perry, said he did not thing Alas- !
kans advertised the beauty of the
Territory sufficiently. He said that
comparatively few navy men have ;
visited Alaska, and in his opinion j
they would all be glad to do so. He j
believed request made by the Al- ,
aska Chamber of Commerce to j
Fleet commanders wouiu xe&uit m
sending at least portions of a fleet j
jto Alaska each year, and that the
| cruises would prove popular with
!the men and officers of the ships.
| “There were 42 dstroyers at our
base when word was received that
| two destroyers were wanted for this '
I mission,” he said, “and every offic- j
er wanted the job. You can imagine j
| my delight upon being informed
that my ship was one selected’’,
i Capt. Charles Ansell. navy pilot,
did not need introduction to every
I one present. Engaged merchant
shipping until recent years, the
gingery skipper was greeted by,
members of oldtimers who recog- 1
jnized him instantly. He extended
! his thanks to the people of Seward j
;for being ever ready to assist him
in forming programs for the sea
men, “his boys” as he called them.
Short addresses were also made ;
by Lieuts. Cobb and Sylvester, i
Lieut. Cobb reminded his listeners
that the destroyers were open for
inspection each afternoon after 1
o'clock and urged anyone wish
ed to do so, to come down and go
over the ships.
ALL REAPPOINTED
WARSAW, Aug.,. 27, (/P)—Gen
eral Pilsumski has reassumed the
Premiership of Poland in the
new cabinet. All other ministers
were reappointed.
FINANCIAL AID
WASHINGTON, Aug., 27, (/P)—
President Hoover will confer
with banking representatives to
iay with respect to the drought
irea and will discuss plans to
extend aid to the damaged sec
tions. Representatives from 12
states will attend.
PLAIN WILL NOT
ram UP ROftD
EXPECT TO DEVISE MEANS
TO WIPE OUT ANNUAL
DEFICIT
FAIRBANKS, Aug., 27, (/P)—
The Senatorial committee de
parted for McKinley Park yes
terday afternoon on their special
train and will probably remain
there until this afternoon then
going south.
They were entertained last
night by the Commercial Club
at a great banquet and, wihle
reiterating "the conviction that
the Alaska Railroad will not con
in ue to operate at a heavy defi
cit. the members made plain
hey had not come to Alaska as
destructionists but to devise
ways to wipe out the deficit and
to aid in the develpment of the
Territory.
Senator Kendrick spoke words
of encouragement for commer
cial aviation and said that was
one way the party could assist
the country; by getting the air
mail act extended to Alaska.
They promised all pG^sible sup
port.
TUESDAYS GAMES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 5; Chicago 7. Wilson
smashed his 44th homer for the
new National League record and
tied with Babe Ruth. This year’s
race victory put the Cubs five and
one-half games ahead of New York
who idle- Waner homered.
St. Louis 3; Cincinnati 1. St- Louis
stayed in the National League race.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 9; Philadelphia 10.
In the eighth inning Rally netted
four runs; three of them on suc
cessive homers by Cochrane, A]
Simmons. The Champs used five
pitchers. Philadelphia increased
the lead to seven and one-half
games.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Los Angeles 4; San Francisco 5;
11 innings.
Sacramento 4; Portland 10.
Oakland 5; Seattle 3
Missions 8; Hollywood 3.
CENSUS REVISED
WASHINGTON, Aug., 27, (A5)—
Revised figures on the popula
tion of New York City place the
total at 6,981,927 as of April 2
which is 23,700 more persons
than the first estimates showed
and 24.2 percent larger than in
1920.
I
(By Sinbad, the Sailor)
Observed while walking on main
street—Sloan giving us a handout,
Garnett doing the same, Dykstra
doing likewise, Maud Larsson’s
smile, the way Iron Horse grins,
Lios’ haircut, Joe, Berek, sometime
bigtime comedian and troupe, “Kid”
Ennis’ tiger walk, the huge biseps
|of “Crusher” Downs, gang getting
ready for Smoker, Ye “Ed’s” forced
smile when he sees this, (That’s the
style of O. O. McIntyre who is our
favorite columist).
The shooting yesterday after
noon, dear friends, was the Navy git
practice. Did some of you see the
.boys pointing the big guns and
'shooting the little 30 caliber? The
fellows expect to win the Gunnery
competition from all competitors
this winter. We give them a big
hand and know they’ll win
Lieutenant Sylvester and Ensign
Schumacher made four out of four
possible hits yesterday and Owen,
Williams, Dun and Fink made three
hits. The Perry’s gang are slash
ing holes in the bulls-eye this
morning.
Personal—Duguid. young hero,
who showed lady about Perry,
wants her to know that he is still
waiting for some “home cooking”.
Ben Hur, we warn you! We have
inside dope that a certain fellow,
we don’t know his name but his
initials are Coleman, has a dread
fuly dark plot to woo and win one
of the Drunken Sisters tonight.
Turning from you to our public, did
you know, folks, that' Ben Hur was
| the first man in history making
success of buggy riding? Stop a
moment and think of the buggy
rides you’ve taken. Isn’t it won
derful—the hands you’ve held and
I the smacks you’ve been smacked
on the kisser, even as I! Ben cer
tainly did a great thing for civili
zation, and politics, until Henry
Ford ruined everything—darn it!
We peeked over on another
(scribe’s desk and saw a nice write
up about the Chamber of Com
merce meeting yesterday. Let us
give you some of our wisdom, to
wit: Tell the folks down South
that spuds and squash grow up here
and that you folks don’t wear fleec
ed-lined B. V. D's. in summer, about
cheap rents and fuel, the wonder
ful fruits and berries and schools,
the good swimming and pleasure
boating, that you’re not frozen in
all winter. That’s the dope. And
Oh yes, tell them that dog teams
i are not your only beast of burden
and that cows gave milk, not ice
cream. Propose a flock of fruit and
vegetable canneries and see what
happens. Get the farmers and
goat herds, et al. We will yap about
the above on our return to the land
of asbestos shoes and bonnets.
Sinbad writes huge theatrical
'hits. Watch the head lines after
(tonight when Miss Maud Larsson
(and Bill Williams put on the act
land song written by Us last night
!after eating our dinner in the Sew
!ard Grill. Words by Sinbad and*
| music by Bill Williams, written es
pecially for your entertainment to
night. A vote of thanks to Mr.
Holben who kindly let us abuse his
costumers working out most of the
tune on the Grill piano
Chief Boatswain’s Mate Gaskey
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