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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 1"
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY S
, 1930.
MAJORITY YOUNG MEN ARE
ALASKANS WITH PRE
VIOUS EXPERIENCE
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If you arc looking for a soft
summer’s job, don’t apply to the
forestry department for a fire
guard’s, patrol or trailman’s job!
It has been said that one-half of
:he world does not know how the
other half gets by and that cer
tainly holds good for the members
comurising the foresters who each
year, in these districts, patrol the
forest area guarding against the
ravages of flaming holocausts des
troying thousands of dollars in
precious timber. Visitors at the
guard school, at Lawing, where
the 12 or 14 alert young fellows
were given individual examina
tion, as well as attending classes,
were amazed at the wide range
f subjects discussed in connection
with suppression of forest fires,
cause and effect, etc., having no
dea the task of a forest guard or
ranger involved so many diversi
fied problems.
Their tools are common sense,
practical previous instruction, a
shovel, axe. grub-hook, portable
telephone, moisture indicator, he
liograph. a good pair of eyes and
plenty of good muscle.
Each spring, prior to being sent
out to their various stations, at
Hope. Girdwood. Lawing as well as
>ther sub-stations and patrol dis
tricts. a four-day school session
_s held at headquarters—Lawing.
Today terminated this year’s
. h "g W. J McDonald, forest
supervisor of the Chugach Nation
al Forest, came over last week
ir ::i his Cordova headquarters of
fice f: r the special purpose to as
:~t Us lieu tenant, F anger Wm.
She rnsn, in lecturing and in
ns r ;
a the crow, J. A. Ramsay,
rad office department, do
ff of the interior, together
•o of his crew who guard
Pc demo iff along dm rad
ii.. y-a on hand at
•ffffr fir-a, school of this
1 y :»'a J?’itt 1 -Ik bv Mr.
McDcri ild the class was turned
>ver to Ranker Sherman. With
Mr McDonald injecting a few re
marks, Sherman then carried on
ior a period covering many hours
forcibly bringing home the vital
importance of every phase com
batting forest fires. At times both
McDonald and Sherman would
quizz individuals for answers and,
generally speaking, they received
correct answers right off the bat.
No wonder Ranger Sherman is
so enthused with his work for,
during his few years here he has
made a record in suppression of
forest fires which never before
had been attained; he is in love
with his work and with the coun
try. more so than any place he
he has previously been stationed;
and that embraces many points
throughout the United States
where, it is said, he was subject
to call at any moment due to his
remarkable success in handling
* fire which is his specialty. And
how enthusiastic he waxes over
this year's crew. And judging
from what the boys say, they look
upon him with equal regard. One
can’t beat a team like that!
OUTLINE INSTRUCTIONS
A brief summary of study of
individual guard instructions, fire
plan and fire manuals as they
pertain to this region of Alaska,
such as was given the class, fol
a ** lows:
(Continued on Fage Two)
WRANGELL, May 5, (/P)—Navi
gation on the Stikine river opened
with the sailing cl the first boat
from Wrangell Saturday afternoon.
The Hazel B., No. 3., left with a
full passenger list and a cargo of
general supplies. The passengers
leaving on the first voyage were
mostly prospectors
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LOS ANGELES, May 5, </P)—Seek
ing to effect a violent and drastic
slash in the salaries of Class A A
baseball players, Harry Williams,
president of the Pacific Coast Lea
gue, will serve as a committee of
one in a three-cornered huddle this
summer with Thomas Hickey, head
of the American Association, and
Charles Knapp, boss of the Inter
national League, it became known.
A date for the conference has
not been set, but when Williams
leaves for the meet .ng he expects
to carry with him plea of eight
Coast League Club owners
CHICAGO, May 5, (/P)—Twenty
five members of r.n allied alcohol
syndicate'. reputedly under Urn di
rection of Scarf.ice A! Capone’s
aides, were unci'T federal grand
,iury indictment here.
The indictments . charged the
yang with more than 1.0 offenses
ami 27 ov? t acts in lie.nor transac
tions which allegedly netted the
Capone interests mil’ ms of dol
Acccrding to charges the gang
has operated 10 distilleries thrumt
[••tiana. Northern Illinois and
Sout hern Wisconsin, manufactur
ing millions of gallons of whiskey,
which has been distributed si nee
January 1, 1920.
i SPOKANE, May 5, (A5)—The In
ternational Air Transport which
plans a Spokane-St- Paul air line
May 15 will apply for air mail priv
ileges, its officers said after Presi
dent Hoover signed the Waters air
mail rate bill.
The Mamer Flying Service, a,sub
sidiary of the International Trans
port, new'’ has passenger service
from Spokane to Seattle via Wen
atchee ,so the new northern air
route line would be virtually con
tinuous from the Pacific coast to
the twin cities.
GREAT f ELEBRAT’~
MOSCOW, M y 5. (Jp)- i Mos
cow and the entire So\ cl union
I celebrated May day with great pro
fessions of workmen, housewives,
;Red Army soldiers, young pioneers
and the civilian population. The
gigantic massed spectacle was
scarcely less impressive than that
which assembled on the anniver
sary of the October revolution.
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DISCOVERED COPPER MINES IN
COPPER RIVER COUNTRY;
ORGANIZED RAILROAD
SANTA MONICA, May 5, CP)—R.
F. McClellan, 63, chairman of the
Los Angeles county board of super
visors, died. He is credited with
being one of the organizers of the
Alaska’s first railroad, the Copper
i River line.
He discovered copper mines in
that district which developed into
the Kennecott which is now oper
japed by the Guggenheims. He
served on the board of supervisors
since 1906 and once ran for the
Republican nomination of Gover
nor of California.
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jI BASEBALL |
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SATURDAYS GAMES
N ATI ON AT. I,E AGUE
Boston 12; Pittsburgh 7.
Brooklyn 11; St. Louis 10.
Philadelphia 0; Chicago 1, 10 in
nings.
New York 9; Cincinnati 8.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 3; New Yor ; 5.
Detroit 5; Philadelphia 6
Cleveland 6; Boston 5.
— SU-Louis
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Hollywood 2; Portland 3.
Oakland at Los Ange’es postpon
ed on account of rain.
Missions at Seattle postponed on
account of rain.
Sacramento 9; San Francisco 7
Second game Hollywood 7; Port
land 7. Game called i 1.h inning
on account of darkness.
SUNDAY’S G '31 nS
American League
Si. Louis 8, Washington 6.
Philadelphia 7. Detroit 1.
Cievel; nd 3, Boston 7.
New York 7, Chicago 4.
National League
Cincinnati 8, New York 4.
Chicago 8, Philadelphia 7.
Brooklyn 2, 11. St. Louis 1. 10.
Coast League
Sacramento 7, 4, San Franciscc
2. 3
Los Angeles 3. 5. Oakland 2. 2.
Seattle 9, 5, Missions 6, 3.
Portland 8, 2. Hollywood 3, 9.
SURVEYOR IN PORT
The U. S. Geodetic Survey ves
sel. Surveyor, Capt. F. H. Hardy
arrived in port this morning froir
Seattle enroute to Kodiak to con
tinue charting the waters of the
Westward area. It is thought the
vessel will remain in port unti
tomorrow.
TWO YOUNGSTERS BURN
MIAMI, May 5. (/P)—Johnnj
Leavitt, 19. and Delbert Ashland
20, were burned to death wher
their plane fell into a field. Leav
itt was teaching Ashland to fly
Witnesses said the plane got oui
of control when they went into c
vertical bank.
CLIPS THE RECORD
(Somewhere in the U. S. A. Nc
location given) May 5, (/P)—Franfc
Goldsborough, with a new East
ward transcontinental record foi
junior fliers, 34 hours and three
minutes, landed at 1 p. m. yester
day. He clipped 13 hours and 51
minutes from the record held bj
Dick Jeames.
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WASHINGTON, May 5, (/P)—Con
gress will tackle the question of
'whether a woman must take an
oath to bear arms in time of war
to win American citizenship. This
was assured after the House Immi
gration Committee, yielding to de
mands of advocates of the bill of
Representatve Griffin, Democrat of
New York, decided to open formal
hearings on May 8.
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SEATTLE. May 5, i/P)— Paul Jes
sup cracked the conference shot
'discuss record and led the Univer
sity of Washington to victory in the
11th annual Washington relay car
nival.
Washington won five firsts and
Washington State four. Jessup
put the shot 49 feet seven and one
half inches; the discuss 152 feet
five and seven-eighths inches
Two of Oregon schools each won
one first.
PHILADELPHIA. May 5. (A'—
May opened with a riot cf 2.000
students at the University cf Penn
sylvania here and before the dis
turbance had been quelled 300 stu
dents were in jail and L. B. Scho
field. Philadelphia’s police system
head, had been arrested, ordered
held in $1500 bail and sent to Moy
amenhnp; prison.
The safety director refused to
abide by the nilirg of Magistrate
Tommy O'Malley, however, and his
aides threw the magistrate out of
the station house at Schofield’s
direction. Schofield, after a tirade
to the students under arrest, per
mitted them to be released pending
a hearing.
LOS ANGELES, May 5, (/P)—Be
tween $50,000 and $60,000 is the
goal of promoter Jack Doyle, in
1 staging the Armand Emauel vs.
Jim Maloney and Frankie Camp
bell vs. Les Kennedy, double main
events, on May 12th. The affaid is
to be, held in Wrigley field, Monday
L night. May 12 instead of the regu
lar Tuesday evening, in order not
to conflict with Coast League base
ball there.
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BOMBAY, May 5, (/P)-A call for
i 100.000 volunteers to aid him in liis
campaign of salt law violation was
, issued by Mahatma Gandhi, Indian
nationalist leader, from his head
quarters at Dandi, near here
The aged proponent of Indian
home rule offered to lead his cam
paign into the heart of Bombay
City if 100,000 faithful, pledged to
refrain from violance, would fol
low him.
GILL EOS
0,100 VOLUNTEERS
NINETY-FOUR PASSENGERS FOR
SEWARD ON MAIDEN VOY
AGE OF ALEUTIAN
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SEATTLE, May 5, (IP)—The S. S.
Aleutian, of the A. S. S. Co., sailed
|at 1 p. m. Saturday and carried 441
passengers of which 69 were for
Seward as follows:
| L. F. Gaynor, J. P. Durkhorn, Jan
Hansen, Mrs. P. D. Waugh, Norman
'Ervine, Christ Gunderson, Mrs. F.
Jensen, Mrs. Laura Hagan, Mr. and
Mrs. S. B. Cock, M. A. Lellwell, Mrs.
E. Watkins, Buddy Gustafson, Mrs.
A. Gustafson, Mrs. W. T. Pinkerton.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Van Etten,
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Glehard, P. N.
Covan, C. R. Brook. Otto Lieman,
Sam Estes, C. Loose, T. W. Parson,
J. L. Seeley, Sam Shucklin, Mrs.
Sam Magids, Morris Magids, Sam
Selternest, F. Anderson, C. H. Dow
ling, M. R. Hammer, F. F. Burget,
Henry Pope. Nick Mannikes.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Dawson, Dave
Dunbar, Dr. W. E. Root, E- H.
Proudman, W. R. Wright, M. Wea
ver. D. Ulm, J. A, Crowley, Mr. and
Mrs. H. O. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. F.
Snyder, Ted Olson, Malcolm Rigby,
Roy Frankhouse, Mrs. J- N. Holdo
mels, Mrs. E. A. Austin, Geo. Lingo,
Francis Leslie, Wm. Morden R.
Roeling. N. Suntequist, H. Peterson,
II. E. Lundquist, Geo. W. -H*ck Mr.
and Mrs. Lynn W. Smith:, R Ham
mer, F. W. Codd and Anna Mc
Naughton.
There are also 25 steerage on
board.
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CHICAGO, May 5, UP)— Firemen
were searching the smoldering
ruins of the Dabrol Oil Production
Corp refinery for the bodies of two
men believed to have perished
when fire, preceded by an explo
sion, wrecked the structure.
Damage was estimated at $165,
000. Besides the, two m^i who are
believed to have died, on man was
;severely injured, while three other
workmen narrowly escaped with
their lives.
The plant is located at Clearing,
a suburb.
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TENTS ST BUMS
! COLUMBUS, O.. Mav 5, UP)—
Guardsmen at the Ohio State pen
itentiary frustrated an attempt by
ithe convicts to burn tents in the
barbed wire stockade holding 60
convicts. The fire was discovered
while prisoners were being taken
to the mess halls for their evening
meals, and was extinguished after
it had burned the side of one tent.
1 Colonel Robert Hashbrich, com
j of the soldiers, who have been on
!duty at the prison since the fire
swept the prison on April 20, issued
'a warning to the convicts that no
additional tents would be supplied
| if thrpentssexconditffl.mandahowc
if the present supply is destroyed
iby fire.