Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 95.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
RAW WORK OF WICK’S OPPO
NENTS DROVE JOHN, FRIENDS
TO SUPPORT HIM, POLLS
JUNEAU. April 26.—(Special to
the Gateway from the Juneau
Empire)—At a political rally last
night at Douglas, Rustgard spoke
as follows:
“I am informed that on Wed
nesday night in Juneau Wicker -
sham spent half of his time prais
ing his own record as a legislator
and the other half reading from
and elaborating upon my eulogy
of him in my Anchorage speech,
delivered several years ago. Let
me recount to you the circum
stances of that speech.
“In 1916 WTickersham won by a
plurality of 31 votes. That was
immediately after the great vic
tory in Congress which he de
scribes with such eloquence and
which were then fresh in the
minds of all. He would have been
ignominiously defeated had it not
been for the raw work of some
of his opponents for up to that
time I had never supported him
but the work of some of his en
emies became so odious that many
of my friends and myself were
driven to vote for him at the
next election and he won b> abou>
seven votes due to the same stup
'd campaign methods of his en
^.He knew then he was dead
politically and when he came
back from Washington he an
nounced publiclv that he would
never be a candidate again. This
emphasized frequently in pri
vate conversation.
•■When the fight was be.n
nade in the legislature foi elect
^ officials one of the arguments
presented against the scheme was
that Wickersham, himself, who
supported the measure, wanted
one of the elected Temtom of;
•lices I discus ed this situatio.
with him and he asserted it was
unfortunate the* he was brought
into the cor.tro- ersv bccao* nev
er aKain would lie be a candidate
f r 3PV offoe. We decided that
I should so ont and deliver a
spePd-h somewhere at a strategic
point in support of the measure
,TiVing us elected officials and to
convince the people that Widcer
sham was not an element ‘°
considered because politically n
life had come to an end _
“Many years before I did
we agreed upon and to thorough
ly convince the public he was
politically dead I proceeded
deliver a funeral oration over
him but behold, the effect was
just' the opposite for what it was
intended. My encomium became
SO blatantly eloquent that befor.
I had finished, the corpse com
menced to stir and soon sat up.
rubbed his eyes and looked
around.
“He read and reread what i
had said about him, then ran to
his wife with it and she read it
and reread it; finally they both
concluded that a man possessed
of such noble instincts and such
superior qualities as a public of
ficial, was indispensable to the
public and there was no doubt
that he politically was immortal.
“He now enjoys the singular
distinction of being the first man
to try to pass the pearly gates
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CROWD OUTSIDE CLUB HISS
AND BOOED AGENTS WHEN
PATRONS ARRESTED
NEW YORK. April 26. (/P)—
Eleven male patrons of the Holly
wood restaurant, popular Broad
way night club, were arrested un- i
der charges of possession of liq
uor. The night club guests will be
so charged under the federal pro
hibition law.
Before the raid a group of men
and women agents mingled with
the crowd. The club is located in
the heart of Times Square and
was singled out of 11.
The agents charged the liquor
tables upon the arrival of Maurice
Campbell, prohibition administra
tor for Eastern New York. The
crowd outside the club hissed and
booed the federals when they ar
rested the men who wrere taken
to jail in ,a patrol wagon. Ail gave
New York addresses.
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LONDON, Aprli 26, f/P>—’The diri
gible Graf Zeppelin circlued low
over the British capitol on a voy
age of friendship on its way to Car
dington, where the British dirigi- !
ble R-100 is stopped. Tens of thous- j
ands of Londoners, who once knew j
the roar of war-time zeppelins saw j
the ship which was accompanied
by six airplanes.
PARIS, April 28, OP)—Mrs. Ursula
Forhan Murphy, daughter of the
toothpaste manufacturer, will be
married to Count Enzo Durbania,
Italian nobleman, April 30.
of the national capitol by means
of his own funeral oration. Well,!
funeral orations are all the same;
they are all designed to cover up
or at least to palliate the faults, j
The good that men do lives after
them, but not so their faults.”
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BASEBALL
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Oakland 8; San Francisco 11.
Missions 1; Portland 17.
Sacramento 8; Los Angeles 4.
Hollywood 2; Seattle 5.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia 4; Washington 6.
Chicago 2; St. Louis 4.
Boston 2; New York 3. 10 innings
Detroit 4 ^Cleveland 5, 10 innings
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 5; Boston 1.
St. Louis 1; Pittsburgh 6.
Cincinnati 5; Chicago 6. 12 in
nings.
New York at Philadelphia post
poned on account of cold.
GETS DIVORCE
MIAMI. April 26. \JP)—Lewis
Luckenbach, steamship operator,
was awarded a divorce from Lillian
Luckenbach
CLAIMS WORLD RECORD
DARMSTADT. Germany, April 26
(/Py Pilot Trainer Neinebach, in a
baby biplane, flew 134 miles per
hour which was claimed as a world
recoid for planes of that class.
S2.800.000 ASST RED
NEW YORK. April 20. (P>—When
the stockholders of the Interstate
Trust Co., Equitable Trust Co., and
the Chase National Bank met, $2,
800.000 was assured.
DISMISSED AFTER 20 YEARS
NEW YORK, April 26, (P)—Frank
Hayes and William Murphy, cus
toms inspectors for more than 20
years, were dismissed from the ser
vices as a sequel to the seizure of
$200,000 worth of narcotics.
S92,000,000 INCREASE
WASHINGTON, April 26, OP)—
Loans to brokers and dealers held
by the New York Federal Reserve
member banks for the week ending
April 23rd were anounced by the
Federal Reserve Board as $4,217,
000,000 representing an increase of
$92,000,000 as compared with the
preceding week.
Rev. Kippenborch of Cordova
and Dean Rice of Juneau, passed
thru Seward on their way to
Fairbanks to attend the Episcopal j
church conference.
MCI LIB
PRESIDENT RUBBING
COLLIDES IN FOG
ONE FIREMAN MISSING FROM
COLLIER KIRKWOOD THAT
WENT TO BOTTOM
HAMBURG, April 26. (/P)—'The
American liner President Harding
inwardbound and making for the
mouth of the Elbe river, collided
in a fog off Heligoland with the
British collier Kirkland which
sank.
The Harding was proceeding to
the Kirkwood’s crew with the ex
ception of one fireman who is
missing.
The aHrding was proceeding to
Hamberg but found the fog so
dense that it was compelled to
anchor off the Elbe lightship No.
1. No one was injured on the
American boat and the damage
was slight.
NEW YORK, April 26, '(/P)—
Mayor Walker is confined to his
home with wrhat physicians de
scribe as “complete physical and
nervous exhaustion due to over
work” and directed him to stay
in bed for a week. Mayor Walker
complained lately of severe head
aches but continued to fulfill his
duties.
FREED MURDER CHARGE
MIAMI, April 26, (/P)—George U. j
Moore, alleged bootlegger, was ac- !
quitted by a jury in criminal court
here on a charge of second degree
murder growing out of the slaying
of Robert K. Moncure, prohibition
agent during a raid on Moore’s
home on January 18th last. The
jury deliberated only 25 minutes.
Up until the time of going to!
press the S. S. Yukon passenger
list had not arrived.
MANUFACTURING POSSIBILI
TIES
At the present time, while look
ing about for industries, let us
tarry and investigate the Portland
cement industry which has at
tained such size and importance
in the past 10 years. It is na
tural enough to think of this in
dustry in the form of huge gran
neries, skyscrapers and warehous
es and other large buildings that
are constructed with cement as
the matrix. It is difficult to real
ize that Portland cement is al
most, if not quite, the most mod
ern of all cementing materials
This industry is still less than a
century old, and its period of
really rapid growth did not begin
until within the past 30 years. In
the dawn of building, the an
cients used various plasters and
mortars, then the Romans used
the volcanic ash found in the
vicinity of Naples; this is called
puzzolan cement, still in use to
day. Later it was found that
certain impure limestone would
make a natural cement.
The natural cements are made
by burning a clayey limestone and
still persist today, some under the
name of Rosendale cement. Port
land cement, no-w the most im
portant of our cementing materi
als, was invented in 1825, con
temporary with the first railway
and ocean steamship. The mag
nesium or oxychloride cements
bring made first, the latter part
of the 19th century, while the
making of blast furnace slag ce
ment and alumina cements are
of very recent date.
In looking about for suitable
material for the manufacture of
this commodity we find that the
sedimentary rocks are the most
important, for they furnish all
the limestone, clay, shale and
1 gypsum used in the industry. Here
in Alaska we have vast deposits
of these materials awaiting the
| prospectors pick. There is no rea
I son why we do not have a cement
plant here in western Alaska that
can manufacture cement for use
along the Alaska Railroad and
in the towns adjacent.
The consumption of cement, ap
proximating the amount placed
on the docks at Seward, amounts
to more than 50,000 sacks per
year, this amount would be tri
pled if we made our own Alaska
Portland cement and the price
would be about halved per barrel.
Not only would it reduce the
price, but it would create a grow
ing industry that would give em
ployment to men, in the quarries
and plant, the year around. Such
a plant could be easily put up,
and the raw material transported
on the railroad to the plant. The
type of plant would depend en
tirely on the type of rock used,
whether or not it wrould be a dry
or wet mix.
In addition to manufacturing
cement; limes, plasters and vari
ous types of tiles could be made,
chimney brick and blocks, sewer
pipe tile and drainage tile, and
such other commodities as would
be demanded. Thus a large in
dustry could be developed thru
the use of some of the natural
resources that are at our door
step. This is something for the
business to consider, and a point
the Alaska Railroad might well
consider in its plan to develop
our vast northwest’ territory.